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Open Question Answering | Native Plants Q. Who is Mr. Smarty Plants?
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Search Smarty Plants rate this answer Friday - May 03, 2013 QUESTION:When to give up on my live oaks. We lost/mostly several live oaks since 2011 and the drought. One, died from the crown, one large mass at a time, and now resembles a 10' totem pole with scraggly growth up the side and top. Another, which was even larger, seemed to be well last year, but simply did not come back this year..except, again, for a few scraggly green branches along the base of the trunk and 2-3 little bundles of green high in the tree tops. I don't see cankers on the trunk. I had some master gardeners visit, and they said it appeared to be a decline, but not live oak decline. Any ideas? It's heartbreaking to lose these big beauties, but if it's time to give up and replant, I'd like to know how to make that decision. My husband thinks if there is any green at all, there's hope, but I'm not so optimistic. ANSWER:
Decisions are easier when you have good information, so that’s what I’m going to try to provide. The drought has been very hard on our oak trees, and trees that haven’t died are weakened and susceptible to various microbial diseases. The Texas Plant Disease Handbook describes several of these.
A big problem with oak trees in Texas is oakwilt. Check out this link to see if your trees match the symptoms.
Another problem is the fungus Hypoxylon,
Biscogniauxia atropunctatum. These three links have information about this disease. Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab scroll down to "hypoxylon canker"
Texas Forest Service
The next thing you need to do is have a knowledgeable person examine your trees and determine what the problem is (this is not to demean the master gardeners you have consulted, but think of it as a second opinion). This person could be someone from the Bell County office of Texas Agrilife Extension, someone from the Texas Forest Service , or a Certified Arborist . They should be able to advise what your next step should be.
I like your husband’s optimism, however, a couple of the links under Hypoxylon emphasize that a tree with large, dead limbs is a safety hazard.
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Open Question Answering | Warmonger’s Walkthrough for Civilization IV (v2.0) – All Levels
Posted by Q on October 31, 2007
In a previous post i had outlined how to get a big brash victory over AI forces Noble and above but Monarch and below modes. After a few more victories in the higher modes, i have a slightly different war plan to share.
first up, this is still a very war-specific approach to C
IV, so diplomacy, culture, space and (god-forbid) time-based victory options do not find any mention here. So, let the pillaging begin. Second, i think i have underestimated the power of navies in this
Now, setting up the game
Custom Game: Map : Ring/Pangea/Team_Battleground/Islands/Lakes/Pangea Size : Duel/Tiny/Small Climate : Temperate Sea-level : High (this means less available land) Choice of Civ: For a change, it is not Aggressive 😉 Especially, if we have taken up a sea map, water tiles become a good place for generating gold. Also, since the game would extend for a bit, you fill find that you have a big empire which needs to have its maintenance costs low enough to sustain research. And finally, health and happiness will play critical roles, as we shall see in the guide next. So, my choice of leadership qualities, in order of importance is: Financial (+1 commerce from +2 commerce sites – sea, river plains) Organized (Civic Upkeep -50%) Expansive (+2 Health/City) Aggressive (free Combat I promotion- +3 exp points for Melee & G-powder units)
Now, leader combos can be err..
4C 2= 6, whose esteemed selves are: F&O: George Washington (American) F&E: Queen Victoria (England) F&A: Huayna Capac (Inca) O&E: Julius Caesar (Roman) O&A: Tokugawa (Japan) E&A: Genghis Khan (Mongols)
A comparison of the Civ Unique Units & Leader special Civ’s
Leader Special Civ Diplomatic Ally Unique Unit Starting Tech George Washington Universal Suffrage Frederick, Gandhi, Ashoka Navy SEAL (Marine) Fishing & Agriculture Queen Victoria Representation Napoleon, Bismark, Cyrus, Ceaser Redcoat
(Rifleman)
Fishing & Mining Huayna Capac Hereditary Rule Louis XIV, Alexander, Kublai Khan, Catherine, Hatshepsut Quechua
(Warrior)
Agriculture & Mysticism Julius Caesar Representation Napoleon, Bismark, Cyrus, Ceaser Praetorian
(Swordsman)
Fishing & Mining Tokugawa Mercantilism ~none~ Samurai
(Maceman)
Fishing & The Wheel Genghis Khan Police State Peter, Isabella, Montezuma,
Qin Shi Huang
Keshik
(Horse Archer)
Hunting & The Wheel
A comparison of the most powerful Unique Units would also be helpful. Eventually, most of your wars in any era would be won by using these units only.
Unique Unit Replaces Strength
Advantage Navy SEAL Marine 24 (24) 1 first strike; 1-2 First Strikes Redcoat Rifleman 16(14) 25% vs Gunpowder Units Quechua Warrior 2(2) 100% vs Archery Units Praetorian Swordsman 8(6) Samurai Maceman 8(8) 2 First Strikes Keshik Horse Archer 6(6) 1 first strike
The Most powerful unit of its era still remains the Praetorian – for a puny 40 hammers, you get one kick arse unit 😉 but yes, the Redcoat is a smiliar unit which can give significant gains. And, it has a similar +2 point heads up over it’s comparative unit (the Rifleman). But, of late, my preference has shifted to the Redcoat. As map sizes become bigger, games take more time to end; consequently Redcoats appear at the right time of conquest for me. The choice of map will eventually dictate whether it’s the Redcoat or the Praetorian that is you battle arms. I’d certainly recommend the Redcoat.
Now, the
Technology Tree:
The tech tree will be decided by which Units & Buildings do you want in your Civ. The following are must-haves, IMO:
Oracle (1 free tech) Pyramids (unlocks all Gov civics) Parthenon (+50% GP rate in all cities) National Epic (+100% GP rate in one city) Heroic Epic (+100% Military Unit prod.) Great Library (2 free scientists) West Point (new Mil Units get +4 Exp Points) Oxford University (+100% research)
On higher difficulty levels, it’d be difficult to get both Pyramids and the Oracle, so i usually concentrate on getting the Oracle, because my end term use for the Pyramid is the same as the Oracle (getting
Bureaucracy up and running). Rest, Heroic epic and west point are obvious to any lame-ass duck shooter.
Now, my tech-tree looks something like this:
For chop rushing Mining > Bronze Working For building the Oracle Mysticism > Polytheism > Priesthood For building Cottages/Villages/Towns The Wheel > Pottery For getting to Civil Serviceusing the Oracle Hunting > Animal Husbandry > Writing > Code of Laws > Civil Service (from Oracle) For Building the Heroic Epic Alphabet > Literature For building Catapults(for successful sieges) Mathematics > Contruction
This is the time to destroy atleast one Civilization. The idea is to get a Level 4 unit (3 promotions). and 3 successful promotions would also mean more than just killing rampaging barbarians.
>> After getting to CS, enters a consolidation phase in the game. Usually, now i am playing Victoria, so i want to get to my UU Rifleman (Redcoat) asap. so, i set the tech Tree to
Rifling. In the meanwhile, i use the Alphabet to get a few tech trades going. This is also the time to start building up a naval capability, so, i make sure that i get Sailing, Optics et al in the kitty too. Basically for the time between 200AD to 800 AD, i am relatively quiet and consolidating for the final 500 year intermittent war period 😀
Choice of
Civic Legal – Bureaucracy– will get +50% hammers & +50% commerce in capital Military Unit Capital (with Heroic Epic & Barracks): +4Exp Points, +150% prod. rate Science Capital (with Parthenon, GL, Oxford Univ): +150% research Government – Representation– 3 research/sp. & +3 happiness points Should switch to Universal Suffrageas soon as available Should switch to Labor – Slavery Nothing much to explain here. Pop Whipping is always great for emergency situations Economy– Nothing special in here. Choose whichever suits your taste. Religion– Free Religion Most guides recommend a Theology& Vassalage.I for one, have never found them to provide any significant benefit vis-a-vis the aggressor thing. With a Heroic Epic, you could probably double the number of units and get the same result, without the high upkeep. Not worth it, in my experience. Most guides recommend a GP Farm:
Unlike walkthrough v1.0, i am willing to concede that at higher difficulty levels, having a GP farm becomes almost critical for success. To what end you use the GP is totally upto you, i usually prefer settling them in the city and getting their production/gold/research bonuses. For a GP farm, we definitely need the Parthenon & the National Epic. Since the National Epic is a national wonder, you don’t have to worry about anyone beating you to the punch for it…but yes, build one GP farm asap.
City Happiness & Health
Happiness & Health Management is another topic which i didn’t quite dwell on in the last walkthrough. The idea is to have the following buildings in each city
Library Courthouse Granary Barracks (i prefer it, though it is not necessary) Stupa/Cathedral/Temple (religious buildings giving a happiness boost)
With usual resources available within a city, the default happiness level is 5. After this, religion can add +1, while religious buildings can add +1 more bringing it up to +7.
Fur, Gems, Gold, Ivory – +4 (ancient age)
Incense, Silk, Sugar – +3 (with Calendar)
So effectively, special resources can add up the Happiness Level to 14 . Adding the representation Civic can enhance this to 17. But then, that’s the best case scenario, More often than not, you’ll be stuck at 9 health or somewhere near and will have no option but to whip population to keep your cities under proper production levels.
Health is almost congruent with Happiness, so there is very little difference, just one more PITA before you get on your conquest.
Capital City Blues
The most important City-build question is what to do with your Capital – make it a GP farm, a Mil Unit generator, a commerce/production centre et al. In my experience, the Capital should always be a first choice
Mil. Unit Generator. Build the Heroic Epic and choose bureaucracy, and build away to glory! Because this is primarily a Conquest guide, which preferably ends latest by 1800 AD. i have never been in a game after that period. The battles just become tougher and it’s difficult (and more expensive) to maintain a current & relevant stack o’ doom. So, keep it a Mil City and we shall be fine. Also, it never hurts to build a few science/research generating buildings – Library & Observatory etc here, since the +50% bureaucracy boost goes both for production AND research.
That should be all, rest is simple. build up your invincible stack o’ doom and get sieging those pitifully under-defended cities. Carpe Diem!! |
Open Question Answering | p, q and r are three points on the real number line where q = $latex \frac{2pr}{p+r}$.Quantity A: $latex \left | \frac{1}{p} - \frac{1}{r}\right |$ Quantity B: $latex \left | \frac{1}{q} - \frac{1}{p}\right |$Explanation:q = $latex \frac{2pr}{p+r}$qp + qr = 2prDivide both sides of the equation by pqr (1/r) + (1/p) = (2/q)[(1/r) + (1/p)]/2 = … [Read more...] about Quantitative Comparison – Numberline, Absolute Value
GRE Algebra Theory & Practice Questions
When four is added to six times a number and the result squared, the result obtained is four times the square of the sum of the number and its next multiple. What is the number?Explanation:The question can be directly converted to an equation as follows.Let ‘n’ be the number.(4 + 6n)2= 4(n + 2n)222(2 + 3n)2 = 4(3n)24 + 12n + 9n2= 9n2n = … [Read more...] about GRE Algebra – Word Problems
Solve: (a) 7^(4-16x) > 1 (b) 2/(x-1) < 1(a) For any a^b > 1, if a > 1 then b should be greater than 0. Hence 4 – 16x > 0 Therefore, x<1/4.(b) 2/(x-1) < 1 2/(x-1) - 1< 0 [2-(x-1)]/(x-1) < 0 (3-x)/(x-1) < 0 (x-3)/(x-1) > 0 Hence ‘x’ lies outside the roots ‘1’ and ‘3’. Therefore, x € (-∞ , 1) U (3, ∞) … [Read more...] about Algebra – Inequalities and Exponents
A function is defined as f(x+2) = 3 + f(x) when x is even f(x+2) = x + f(x) when x is oddf(1) = 4 and f(2) = 3Find f(f(f(1))) + f(f(f(2))) Answer: 17 Explanation: f(f(f(1))) + f(f(f(2))) = f(f(4)) + f(f(3)) Now f(4) can be found by using the definition of the function when x is even. Take x = 2. f(2+2) = 3 + f(2) f(4) = 3 + 3 f(4) = 6 Likewise, f(3) can be … [Read more...] about Algbera Practice: Functions
The solution set for the inequality |x+2| < |4x+1|(a) -3/5 < x < 1/3 (b) -1/3 < x < 3/5 (c) 0 < x < 1/3 (d) -1/3 < x < 1/3 (e) None of theseCorrect Answer: (E)ExplanationSince the expressions on both sides of the inequality are under modulus, you can square on both sides without disturbing the inequality.(x+2)2 < … [Read more...] about Inequalities and Absolute Values |
Open Question Answering | Aquinna
G416T
Amenities Featured Pet Friendly WiFi Fireplace No Smoking Standard Pillows & Blankets Coffee Maker Toaster Blender Dishes, Utensils, & Cookware Dishwasher Microwave Iron & Ironing Board Stereo with CD Player Telephone TV & DVD Player Central Heat & Air Conditioning Washer & Dryer Outdoor Furniture Outdoor Shower Grill Beach Chairs (5 per home) Home Details
Unit Number: G416T Name: Aquinna Neighborhood: Ocean Sands - D Check in Day: Saturday Check-in Office: Duck Location: Semi-Oceanfront
Distance to Beach: View Map Bedrooms: 4 (2Q, 3T, 1Duo, 1QSS) Master Bedrooms: 1 Baths: 2 Full 1 Half Parking: Parking for 3 Fireplace Availability: 1/1-4/8;10/16-12/31 Twiddy Traditional Home - bed and bath linens not provided. Treat your family to ocean views and convenience without "oceanfront" prices. A community walkway to the beach and open space is right out the front door.
Main House
Level 2 MBR (Q) with whirlpool; three BRs (Q, 2T, Duo/T); full bath; covered decks. Level 3 Great room (QSS); half bath; kitchen; open decks.
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- Edward 5/20/2017
Our first trip to the OBX. Beautiful home, look forward to coming back.
- Heather 9/24/2016
- Robert 9/17/2016
- Christie 9/10/2016
- Lou 9/3/2016
- Martin 7/23/2016
I would definitely stay at this home again and recommend it to others. Location was very convenient to beach and stores. House was very comfortable and had everything we needed.
- Barbara 7/2/2016
- Steven 6/4/2016
We have stayed in this particular home for many years. The location and size are perfect for us. I actually tell others about the Outer Banks and Twiddy. Then I tell them the home we stay in is usually booked solid from what I can tell. Because that's the truth.
- Rayleen 5/28/2016
- Edward 5/14/2016
Questions & Answers Question: What size beds are in the bedroom w three beds? One of them looks larger than a twin.
Answer:
Thank you for your inquiry! The Level 2 BR with three beds has a duo/twin. A duo is bunk set with a double bed on the bottom and a twin bed on top. There is a separate twin bed also in this room.
- Answered by Twiddy on 6/5/2017
Question: How close are the local shops and restaurants?
Answer:
Sabrina, there are restaurants and shops as close as a half mile from this home.
- Answered by Twiddy on 3/15/2017
Question: From the map it looks like the beach access is right across the street. Correct?
Answer:
Good eye, Susan! Yes, the closest beach access to G416T is conveniently located across the street.
- Answered by Twiddy on 2/21/2017
Question: Are there rules (time of day, etc.) for when dogs are allowed on the beach?
Answer:
Great question, Dana! Corolla does not have any regulations on the time of day when dogs can be present on the beach; however, they do have a leash law and require dogs to be on a leash, but there is no length requirement.
- Answered by Twiddy on 3/12/2016
Question: Does this home have pool access?
Answer:
Hi Tonya, the home does not offer access to a pool.
- Answered by Twiddy on 12/2/2015
Question: Does this home provided linnens? If not what is the charge for linnens for a week? What is the summer rate on this house?
Answer:
Tonia, G416T is advertised as a Twiddy Traditional home. Bed and bath linens are not provided. You can view the rental fee rates for available weeks on the availability calendar just under the photo slideshow.
- Answered by Twiddy on 6/5/2015
Question: Some homes have baby items, sand toys or beach chairs does this house have any of this?
Answer:
Thank you for your inquiry, Renee! Every Twiddy home provides 5 beach chairs. Baby equipment and additional beach equipment such as umbrellas, beach toys, and additional chairs are not a standard amenities. If you would like to rent baby equipment or additional beach equipment, Just for the Beach, Moneysworth, and Ocean Atlantic Rentals all provide this service. For contact information, please visit www.twiddy.com/activities/services.aspx.
- Answered by Twiddy on 2/15/2014
Question: Is this house cleaned well and do you check for fleas and dog hair? My dog does not shed.
Answer:
Denise, when pet-friendly homes are cleaned the cleaners and inspectors check for possible issues such as dog hair or fleas and will provide additional cleaning or services, if needed.
- Answered by Twiddy on 8/15/2013
Question: Is there a coffee maker?
Answer:
Julia, coffee makers are a standard amenity for every Twiddy home. To view our list of standard amenities, please visit www.twiddy.com/abbreviations-definitions.aspx#stfurneq.
- Answered by Twiddy on 7/27/2013
Question: does property Aquinna have washer and dryer
Answer:
A washer and dryer is a standard amenity in every Twiddy vacation home. You can find a list of all Twiddy standard amenities here, www.twiddy.com/abbreviations-definitions.aspx#stfurneq
- Answered by Twiddy on 6/14/2013 |
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What any client should expect is that the attorney provide you with an honest estimate of what the case will cost and what it is you are getting for those fees. It is not possible for any attorney to know how long a case will take to handle properly prior to meeting with the attorney and discussing the facts. Your case is important and both you and the attorney should be willing to invest the time that it takes to handle it properly. Set up an appointment to meet with the attorney and discuss the cost of handling the case after you discuss the facts of the case. Know that the attorney is basing his fees on the facts of your case. You will find that if you are hiring the right attorney you will end up paying a fair price for a superior service.
How soon should I hire an attorney? A: The best answer is as soon as possible. Regardless of the type of case you need help with, the earlier you consult with an attorney, the more options the attorney can present to you for dealing with the case. In addition to having more options on how your case is handled, retaining an attorney early in the case often brings peace of mind that your case is being handled by an attorney that you can trust to protect your interest. Most people hire attorneys when faced with a difficult problem that they cannot handle on their own. Having someone on your side, fighting for you, can bring you the comfort you need to move forward with the rest of your life. |
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Open Question Answering | Daily Courier Q&A: Laurel Highlands' Will Benesh
Laurel Highlands senior Will Benesh has been a fixture for the Mustangs on the offensive and defensive lines. He is in his second season as a starter for the Mustangs. Benesh is originally from Sacramento, Calif.
Q: Although the team has struggled, you have had a solid season on both sides of the line. What has been the key to your personal success?
A: I'm just working hard and I never miss practice. We have a great workout system, and coach (Zack) Just works hard to get the best out of us.
Q: Which do you prefer playing, right guard (offense) or tackle (defense)?
A: Offense, because I feel like I can control the game, and I can help make some holes for us.
Q: You grew up playing football in California and now are playing in Pennsylvania. What's the difference between the two places?
A: It's a lot hotter in California.
Q: How has your personal transition been from California to Pennsylvania?
A: It's been smooth, but I'm not used to the snow days.
Q: What can the Mustangs do to get some positive results in the second half of the season?
A: We have to have less injuries. We have to play smart and play aggressive. I feel like we are a good team, but we get down on ourselves when we start looking at the scoreboard.
Q: Do you have any pregame rituals or superstitions?
A: I just listen to music and focus as much as possible.
Q: What kind of music do you listen to?
A: I listen to rap and rock, things that get you pumped up.
Q: Do you play any other sports?
A: Track and field. I throw the shot put and discus. I used to play rugby in California. I miss it. It's a fun sport.
Q: If you could meet anybody, who would it be?
A: Joe Montana. I grew up in a family that really likes the 49ers.
Q: What are your future plans?
A: I want to play college football and get a degree in history. I wouldn't mind being a teacher.
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Open Question Answering | August 2, 2010 Posted by: Atty. James Biron Category: Special Laws
After some years of waiting we finally have a law, which will regulate the practice of psychology and psychometrics here in the Philippines. Congress recently passed the Psychology Act of 2009 in recognition of the important roles played by psychologists and psychometricians in our country as well as the need to protect the public from inexperienced and untrained individuals from offering psychological services.
What will follow is a list of the important provisions of the Psychology Act of 2009 which are broken down into their important components for easy understanding.
What is meant by “psychology”?
It is the scientific study of the human behavior. This involves the application of scientific methods to inquire into the:
biological cognitive affective developmental personality social cultural individual
difference dimensions of human behavior.
What is meant by “practice of psychology”?
Consists of the delivery of psychology services that involve application of psychological principles and procedures for the purpose of understanding, predicting and growth and functioning.
The delivery of psychological services includes, but is not limited to:
1. psychological interventions:
psychological counseling psychotherapy psychosocial support coaching psychological debriefing group processes all other psychological interventions that involve the application of psychological principles to impress psychological functioning of individuals, families, groups and organizations
2. psychological assessment: gathering and integration of psychological-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation, accomplished through a variety of tools, including:
individual tests projective tests clinical interview other psychological assessment tools
for the purpose of assessing diverse psychological functions including:
cognitive abilities aptitudes personality characteristics attitudes values interests emotions motivations
in support of:
psychological counseling psychotherapy and other psychological interventions
3. psychological programs:
development planning implementation monitoring evaluation
of psychological treatment for individuals and/or groups
What are the requirements in order for a person to be called a “psychologist”?
He or she must be:
natural person duly registered holds a: valid certificate of registration valid professional identification card as professional psychologist (the card must be issued by the Regulatory Board of Psychology and the Processional Regulatory Commission What are the requirements in order for a person to be called a “psychometrician”?
He or she must be:
natural person duly registered holds a: valid certificate of registration valid professional identification card as professional psychometrician (the card must be issued by the Regulatory Board of Psychology and the Processional Regulatory Commission A “psychometrician” is allowed to perform what functions?
A psychometrician is allowed to perform the following:
1. administer and score:
objective personality tests structured personality tests
excluding:
projective tests other higher level forms of psychological tests
2. interpret results of these tests and preparing a report on these results
3. conduct preparatory intake interviews of clients for psychological intervention sessions
Who are required to take the psychology and psychometrics licensure examination?
All applications for registration to practice psychology and psychometrics shall be required to pass a licensure examination for psychologists and psychometricians to be conducted by the board in such places and dates, and subject to such requirements prescribed by the Commission.
What are the requirements to take the licensure exam for psychologists?
The following are the requirements that a person must show to the Board before he or she can take the licensure exam for psychologists:
The applicant must be a Filipino citizen, a permanent resident or a citizen of a foreign country which extends to the Philippines relative to the practice of the profession He or she must hold at least a master’s degree in psychology conferred in by an education institution in the Philippines or abroad, provided that the when it was conferred abroad, the school must be recognized or accredited by CHED. He or she must also obtain sufficient credits for the subjects covered in the exam. The applicant must have undergone a minimum of 200 hours of supervised practicum/ internship/ clinical experience related to the practice of psychology and under the auspices of a psychologist or other mental health professional. He or she must be of good moral character. The applicant must not have been convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude. For example, if the applicant was convicted for murder he or she will not be allowed to take the exam because the offense involves moral turpitude. But if the applicant was convicted for an offense involving negligence, he or she may still take the exam because the offense does not involve moral turpitude. What are the requirements to take the licensure exam for psychometricians?
Same as the requirements for those desiring to take the licensure exam for psychologists, except:
Instead of a master’s degree, a bachelor’s degree will suffice. There is no 200-hour internship experience requirement. Who can register as a psychologist without taking the licensure exam?
A person who possesses the qualifications required to take the licensure exam may register without taking the exam, provided that:
The person files, with the Board, within 3 years after its creation, an application for registration and issuance of certificate of registration and professional ID by submitting credentials to the Board that the applicant had, on or prior to the effectivity of this Act fulfilled any of these requirements:
He/she obtained a PhD in Psychology and had accumulated a minimum of 3 years in the practice of psychology. He/she obtained Masters in Psychology and had accumulated a minimum of 5 years in the practice of psychology. He/she has a Bachelors degree in Psychology and had accumulated a minimum of 10 years of work experience, currently employed as a psychologist and who have updated their professional education in various psychology related functions. Who can register as a psychometrician without taking the licensure exam?
A person who possesses the qualifications required to take the licensure exam may register without taking the exam, provided that:
The person files, with the Board, within 3 years after its creation, an application for registration and issuance of certificate of registration and professional ID by submitting credentials to the Board that the applicant had, on or prior to the effectivity of this Act fulfilled all of this requirements:
He/she has a Bachelors degree in Psychology Had accumulated a minimum of 2 years full time work experience in the practice of psychometrics What is the passing grade for the licensure exam for psychologists and psychometricians?
The examinee should attain a General Weighted Average (GWA) of 75% for all the subjects with none of the exam receiving a score of 60% or less.
What if my GWA is 75% or more but in one subject I received less than 60% will I still pass the exam?
No, because not one of the exams taken should result to a grade of less than 60% as stated above.
What if I obtained 60% or less in one of the subjects, can I still retake the exam?
Yes, you can. The good news is that you need not take the whole exam but only the subjects which you failed. Note that this exam should be taken within 2 years from the time the last exam was taken. |
Open Question Answering | Questions and Answers about Fog Lights
Q: Can I install your Fog Lights on any car?
A: We have two types of fog light kits that we offer. We have the universal and the factory fit. The universal fog lights will fit most vehicles but they will not be factory fit. The Factory style fog lights are designed to go into to stock location on the front bumper and are specific to the vehicle make, model and year.
Q: Are your factory fog lights easy to install on a car without fog lights?
A: In most cases yes. It requires you to go under the front bumper remove the factory plate where the fog lights would have been if ordered from the factory. The mounting locations will be on the car and ready to bolt the light brackets to them.
Q: Can I replace my factory fog lights with one of your fog light kits?
A: Yes. Our Fog Light Kits mount just like factory so if you have a broken or discolored factory light you can replace them with one of our light kits.
Q: Why do some of the fog lights you sell have different color lenses?
A: You can customize the look of your vehicle with a smoked lens or amber lens light kit or you can go with the factory clear fog lights.
Q: What are Halo Fog Lights?
A: The Halo is a thin ring of light that wraps around the reflective housing of the light. The Halo is behind the lens so it is safe from water and damage. When the fog light is turned on the halo will light up as well. |
Open Question Answering | Question: Which “sports” drink promotes fat loss AND also promotes muscle growth?
Answer: Water. Drink plenty of it!
This week’s “Bonus” post comes from the “Fit Tips” newsletter that I offer to all new clients. I decided to post it this week because, as with the previous post, it is a fundamental aspect of fitness. In fact, besides proper nutrition, water is the most important aspect of fitness. People way more knowledgeable about the details of human anatomy and physiology can explain exactly how water does all the miraculous things that it does better than I can. However, what’s important is that you know that you should be drinking plenty of water each day. I’m going to tell you exactly how much and also give you a few basic facts about water consumption. I’ll leave you with some very easy things that you can do to make sure you meet your daily water intake needs.
Question: How much water should I drink each day?
Answer: Ten (10) 8 oz. glasses is about 2/3 of a gallon. This is JUST enough for the average person! The more active you become, the more water you need to consume. Aim for 1 gallon per day. Here’s some trivia to help you understand why: Water makes up about 60-75% of the human body Dehydration can occur with a minimal loss of water (only about 2-3%) Water is a great appetite suppressant and will help burn fat Water is great for detoxing the body of harsh chemicals Water helps keep the skin tight and smooth The more overweight you are, the more water you need. For every 25 lbs. you are overweight, you need 1 additional glass! Now, here are some things you can do to make sure you get enough water.
1.
Buy a water bottle! Simple enough. There are tons of BPA Free options out there. This way, you can carry your water with you and sip throughout the day.
2. When you’re at work,
never pass by the water cooler without getting some water. It’s important to drink at least a small amount of water even when you’re not thirsty.
3. For every cup of
coffee or alcohol you consume, you should be drinking 1 cup of water. (Easier said than done…I know. Give it a shot, anyway!)
4. Want some
chips or something sweet? Drink a glass of water first. Then see if you still want it.
5. Mix up your water intake:
Spring Water, Club Soda, Seltzer Water and Herbal Tea all count towards your daily totals.
Water serves you in so many ways. It aids in digestion, helps fuel your workouts, helps burn fat, and promotes muscle growth. As soon as you consistently up your intake you will notice a change in how you feel and subtle changes in how you look.
So now that you’ve read this
GET UP AND DRINK SOME WATER! Dream Fit. Live Fit. |
Open Question Answering | Spelling Bee 2016
A Journey to Dictionopolis
When Milo, the bored youngster in Norton Juster’s allegorical children’s book
The Phantom Tollbooth (1961), travels to the city of Dictionopolis, he visits a word market where vendors sell everyday words, fancier ones, and tasty letters. Milo learns that the fancy words are too expensive, but he discovers that individual letters have distinct flavors, so that he might create words of this own. At the market, Milo luckily meets a very unusual insect, Spelling Bee. Milo is amazed that Spelling Bee knows practically every word in the dictionary, but he soon realizes that he himself knows very few words. Gradually with the help of others, Milo realizes how important reading and writing are in getting a good education. On Feburary 2, 2016, the German School community acknowledged the importance of words as well in its annual Spelling Bee competition.
As every year, the DSW auditorium was packed with noisy elementary and middle-school students anxious to see and hear the class champions from grades 3 - 8 compete in School’s Spelling Bee. Several students encouraged their classmates with placards expressing their support: “Go 4A!” The Bee included such challenging words as “hegemony,” “vituperative,” “arpeggio,” and “interlocutor.” This year’s 24 class champions proved to be excellent spellers. And the final round was especially exciting as the last two contestants tackled such words “vainglorious” and “susurration.”
At the end of the Bee, the winners received trophies and medallions in recognition of their achievements. The participants were probably as proud of their achievements as Milo was when he finally rescued the two princesses, Rhyme and Reason, from the Mountains of Ignorance. The English teachers and the DSW community are very proud of these students and heartily congratulate them.
The DSW English Department and German School community thank the following persons for making the Bee possible: Ms. Meuschke, the Bee’s organizer, planned the event, explained the Bee rules, reminded the audience to remain courteous and quiet; she also served on the jury along with Dr. Jackson and Ms. Cropsey. Ms. Minami—an alumna and former DSW English teacher—served as guest moderator. Dr. Dreher provided photographic support. We also thank the Friends of the German School for their generous support.
Peter Dreher
Chair of the English Department
Spelling Bee School Champions Champion: Sophia S. Second Place: Valerie K. Third Place: Zoë M.
Classroom Winners 3A: Noa M., Isabel S. 3B: Gabriel W., Mateo M. 4A: Kai G., Malka E. 4B: Leo. L., Anna S-H. 5A: Barney R., Sarah D. 5B: Sophia S., Rachel E. 6A: Zoë M., Clarissa B. 6B: April T., Sarah M. 7A: Valerie K., Penny D. 7B: Victoria C., Catalina R. 8A: Sabina M., Niels W. 8B: Julian C., Paul S. |
Open Question Answering | Hello all fellow blog readers. Last month I read this amazing, heart-wrenching, nail biting, not to mention romantic book,
The Innocents.When the time came for our second semester book report I immediately knew what book to write about. I emailed the author and asked if I could do a short interview about her and her book. She was super nice and said yes! Check it out!
An Interview With Lili:
Q: While reading your book, I felt like I totally connected with Alice because our personalities matched completely. As the author, what sister do you identify more with and why?
A: Oh, Alice, for sure. She's the more reserved sister. She's quiet and bookish—an observer. I WISH I were more like Charlie! Charlie's fun. Is always causing major mischief, chasing after boys, getting into trouble and all that. I've always liked wild girls but was never one myself.
Q: How did you come up with the idea to write The Innocents? How long did it take you to write it
A: When I was young, like eleven or twelve, I read this book called Rebecca and I was never able to shake its spell. It’s this old-timey English novel about a shy, poor young women who marries a rich, handsome, brooding older man with a tragic past. His wife has just died. And this dead wife, Rebecca, was famously great-looking and famously charming—a second wife’s nightmare, basically—and they lived in this very beautiful and celebrated house called Manderly. So you have this extremely inexperienced, unworldly girl entering this settled household and challenging the power of a ghost. I love that premise. It’s totally captivating and bewitching to me. And I wanted to re-imagine it from a younger character’s perspective.
The Innocents took about six months from concept to final draft. Faster than I'd have liked but I was under a pretty wicked deadline.
Q: If a movie were to be made out of the book who would you have play all the major characters? Where do you think would be the perfect town to shoot it in?
A:I'd want Chloe Moretz for Alice. She played a baby vampire in a movie called Let Me In. She was terrific. Pretty and spooky and mysterious with great big eyes.
Amanda Seyfried is probably a little old for the role, but she'd make a sensational Camilla. She and Chloe Moretz resemble one another physically, which is important for The Innocents in terms of plot, only she's more polished and sophisticated looking.
Then I'd want the girl who plays Hannah in Pretty Little Liars for Charlie. She's got this great been-around-the-block quality. Plus she seems tough but sensitive--the perfect mix for Charlie.
Mystic, CT would be the ideal town: sea-shore-y but ritzy.
Q: What authors do you look to for writing inspiration? What are some of your favorite books/movies?
A: I really liked Gothic novels when I was a young reader. Still do. I’m drawn most deeply to stories that are heavy on mood and atmospherics, that are sly and seductive, that are spooky and have a fairy tale quality—books that get under your skin, in other words. The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a favorite. So is The Magus by John Fowles.
My favorite TV shows are almost all mysteries: Veronica Mars, Twin Peaks and Friday Night Lights (not a mystery but it stars Taylor Kitsch, the sexiest actor going).
Q: How many books do you plan to write in The Innocents series?
A: Three! A beginning book, a middle book, and then one to round it all off. The second in the series, This Side of Jealousy, comes out in August. I'm working on the second draft of the final book now.
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I definitely recommend reading this book right away! Have a great day :) Love, Grace Elizabeth Nickols...xoxo |
Open Question Answering | Lucasfilm Ltd., Nerdist Industries, Octagon and Machinima have teamed up to present
Course of the Force, an Olympic-style lightsaber relay, where participants will make a journey from Santa Monica to San Diego while benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
At quarter-mile markers (much less than 12 parsecs), participants will hand off the official Course of the Force lightsaber to the next runner as they begin their leg of the journey. Course of the Force will take place July 7-11, in the days leading up to the annual San Diego Comic Con International.
Nerdist Industries’ founder Chris Hardwick and co-hosts will follow the action from the Course of the Force lead vehicle each day, broadcasting live to the Nerdist platform, including its YouTube channel. Machinima, the leading next generation video entertainment network for gamers, will produce and simulcast exclusive Course of the Force content through its multi-channel video network and will provide promotion for the event.
As the Course makes its stops along the iconic California coast,
Star Wars-themed parties, contests and live Nerdist shows will cap off each day for fans to enjoy. Stops
July 7-11: Daily stops will be announced soon.
Q: What is Course of the Force? A: Course of the Force is an epic journey through California and a tribute to Star Wars. It is an Olympic torch-styled relay from Santa Monica to San Diego, held in advance of the San Diego Comic Con International. Q: What is the mission of Course of the Force? A: Course of the Forces aims to celebrate Star Wars and build momentum leading up to the San Diego Comic Con International, all while raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Q: Who can run in the Course of the Force? A: You can, young Jedi Master! The Course of the Force has limited runner availability but anyone can participate and join alongside celebrities for this inaugural journey. Any runners under 18 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Only adults are allowed to register, but one minor can accompany each adult runner. Q: What is the registration price? A: The cost to register is $500, with all registration proceeds benefitting the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For more information, visit the Registration page. Q: Can I register on-site? A: No. Anyone interested in participating as a runner must register in advance through our online system. Q: What should I wear? A: Participants in the relay are encouraged to come decked out in their best Star Wars or pop culture-themed running gear, not only to look good but also to win prizes. Ancient Jedi Masters carried within backpacks are not required. Q: Can anyone attend the parties at the end of each day? A: Stay tuned for announcements related to our daily stops and the entertainment that will be coming with it. |
Open Question Answering | Emergency Transportation Membershipaddresses medical emergencies for people who may be traveling in Canada, Caribbean, Mexico and the United States.
MASA is
, so no physical or underwriting is required. MASA is an emergency air transportation and medical service membership. not a health insurance agency
If you are traveling domestically (U.S. or Canada) or in a foreign country and suffer a serious illness or injury that requires specialized treatment not available locally, MASA will fly you to the nearest appropriate medical facility capable of providing the treatment you need when the medical facility is more than 100 air miles from the original place of departure. MASA will arrange your transportation upon certification by an attending physician and MASA’s medical director.
If you are hospitalized more than 100 air miles from your place of residence, and your treating physical along with MASA’s medical director, determine it is medically necessary to transfer you to a medical facility closer to your permanent residence, MASA will take you to that facility.
Each case will be determined by the attending physician and MASA’s medical director as to where the best treatment center for the member is.
MASA will arrange emergency ground ambulance transportation from the site of a serious illness or injury to the nearest appropriate medical facility, for you and one significant other (spouse, friend or family member), capable of attending to your needs. MASA will also then transport you to the airport should you have to fly to another facility for treatment.
Remember, you must first be admitted to a local facility and be deemed stable enough to fly.
Platinum Membership Qualifications Must have a U.S. / Canadian address ( P.O. Box is acceptable) or address to repatriate too Will not fly eminently terminally ill patients. Must be healthy enough to withstand the flight No Age Limit No Health Underwriting Services Canada, Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States Ground Ambulance Transportation to nearest airport Organ Retrieval Organ Recipient Transportation Recuperation/Repatriation to nearest available hospital Mortal Remains Transport Family Membership includes husband and wife and any children up to age 23 Platinum Family Membership $390.00 A Year Single Membership $290.00 A Year Areas of Service All of the . USA (including Alaska and Hawaii), all of Canada, all of Mexico, the whole Caribbean (excluding Cuba), Bahamas, and Turks & Caicos MASA’s Aircraft Medically Equipped
MASA’s aircraft are located throughout the world but especially in the western hemisphere. All MASA
aircraft are medically equipped and depending upon the medical requirements of the individual member/patient, appropriate medical personnel will accompany the member on the flight free of charge.
Your attending physician and MASA’s medical director determine when you will be flown and to the appropriate hospital.
Once the decision has been made that you are stabilized, MASA takes charge of all the details and expenses. You must be checked in to a local hospital to be stabilized for the first 24 hours. MedFlash Program
Platinum members may also participate in the MASA MedFlash Progam. MedFlash is a USB flash-drive that stores a member’s medical history. Designed to hang conveniently from a key-chain, the information in the emergency medical record (EMR) storage unit is immediately accessible by the treating physician or the member’s advocate in a medical crisis. If the member misplaces, loses, or even forgets the flash-drive when traveling, there is no need to worry. At your request, MASA can also access that information and communicate directly with your healthcare provider in a medical emergency.
More Features: NO deductibles NO claim forms NO age limits NO health questions NO dollar limits on air transport costs Even pre-existing medical conditions are covered after only 90 days Qualified and Experienced ALL experienced medical personnel are Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Paramedics, Registered Nurses and Physicians Trained medical crews stand by at strategic locations across the world A highly trained support staff handles each medical emergency with expertise and care
Get Your Membership Now MASA FAQ’s:
Q:
How does MASA work? A: MASA was founded in 1974 and are the largest prepaid medical emergency service company in the world. In your time of need, a simple phone call to one of the MASA professionals gets you started. All medical trip arrangements, all transportation costs, all other services are provided to you by MASA.
Q:
Does MASA work while I am at home? A: Absolutely! When you are in need of specialized medical treatment not available locally, MASA will fly you by air ambulance to the hospital that can best attend to your needs. If you become ill or suffer an injury that requires local transportation by ground ambulance or helicopter, MASA will be there for you.
Q:
How do I get home after I am hospitalized? A: MASA will return you to the airport nearest your permanent residence following hospitalization, either by air ambulance transport or commercial return, depending upon your particular circumstances. In addition, if you are hospitalized away from home for more than seven days, MASA will fly a family member or friend, via round trip airfare, to visit you.
Q:
How much does an air ambulance flight cost? A: Air ambulance transportation is expensive, sometimes $50,000 or more. In most instances, health insurance or Medicare coverage pays little, if any of this expense and they do not provide the other benefits that MASA provides to you absolutely free of charge.
Q:
What happens if I pass away while away from home? A: MASA will make the arrangements and pay for the return of a member’s remains to the commercial airport nearest to the member’s permanent residence.
Q:
Will MASA take care of my minor children if I have to be air transported? A: Yes. MASA will transport your children, with escort, back to their home. What’s more, MASA will bring your minor grandchildren back to their parent’s home if you require air transport while they are visiting or staying with you.
Q:
Will you bring my motor home, automobile or motorcycle back to my permanent address if I require air ambulance transport? A: Yes. MASA will provide a bonded driver to return the vehicle and furthermore, MASA will pay for gas and oil utilized in returning the vehicle back home.
Q:
Where can I use MASA’s services? A: MASA’s basic area of coverage is all of the USA (including Alaska and Hawaii), all of Canada, all of Mexico, the whole Caribbean (excluding Cuba), Bahamas, and Turks & Caicos.
Q:
Where are MASA’s air ambulances located? A: MASA’s aircraft are strategically placed throughout various regions in the western hemisphere. All MASA aircraft are medically equipped and depending upon the medical requirements of the individual member/patient, appropriate medical personnel will accompany the member on the flight free of charge.
Q:
What is the price of a MASA membership? A: A Single membership is $240.00 per year and a Family membership is $390.00 per year with a $60.00 initiation fee.
Q:
Why should I purchase a MASA membership? A: An unexpected and serious illness or injury can occur, either while you are home or traveling, which requires specialized medical care not available locally. MASA provides this service to you absolutely free, with no deductibles, no out-of-pocket expenses and anyone can join regardless of age or medical condition. |
Open Question Answering | Thanks to Paula M.
Q: Where can men over the age of 60 find younger women who are interested in them?
A: Try a bookstore under fiction.
Q: What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause?
A: Keep busy. If you're handy with tools, you can finish the basement. When you're done you'll have a place to live.
Q: How can you increase the heart rate of your 60-plus year old husband?
A: Tell him you're pregnant.
Q: How can you avoid that terrible curse of the elderly wrinkles?
A: Take off your glasses.
Q: Why should 60-plus year old people use valet parking?
A: Valets don't forget where they park your car.
Q: Is it common for 60-plus year olds to have problems with short term memory storage?
A: Storing memory is not a problem, Retrieving it is the problem.
Q: As people age, do they sleep more soundly?
A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.
Q: Where should 60-plus year olds look for eye glasses?
A: On their foreheads.
Q: Leading cause of diminished sex drive among senior citizens ?
A: Nudity
Q: What is the most common remark made by 60-plus year olds when they enter antique stores?
A: "Gosh, I remember these!"
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The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:
'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'
Rebecca- age 8
'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'
Billy - age 4
'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'
Karl - age 5
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissy - age 6
'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'
Terri - age 4
'Love is when my Mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'
Danny - age 7
'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mummy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss'
Emily - age 8
'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)
'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'
Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)
'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, and then he wears it everyday.'
Noelle - age 7
'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'
Tommy - age 6
'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'
Cindy - age 8
'My Mummy loves me more than anybody.
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'
Clare - age 6
'Love is when Mummy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'
Elaine-age 5
'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'
Chris - age 7
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day'
Mary Ann - age 4
'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'
Lauren - age 4
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)
Karen - age 7
'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'
Mark - age 6
'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'
Jessica - age 8
And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbour was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbour, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry'
When there is nothing left, that is when you find out that love is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot!
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Open Question Answering | All ACT Math Resources Example Questions Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of Of An Acute / Obtuse Isosceles Triangle
A triangle has a perimeter of inches with one side of length inches. If the remaining two sides have lengths in a ratio of , what is length of the shortest side of the triangle?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
The answer is .
Since we know that the permieter is inches and one side is inches, it can be determined that the remaining two sides must combine to be inches. The ratio of the remaining two sides is which means 3 parts : 4 parts or 7 parts combined. We can then set up the equation , and divide both sides by which means . The ratio of the remaining side lengths then becomes or . We now know the 3 side lengths are .
is the shortest side and thus the answer.
Example Question #21 : Acute / Obtuse Isosceles Triangles
In the standard coordinate plane, the points and form two vertices of an isosceles triangle. Which of the following points could be the third vertex?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
To form an isosceles triangle here, we need to create a third vertex whose coordinate is between and . If a vertex is placed at , the distance from to this point will be . The distance from to this point will be the same.
Example Question #22 : Acute / Obtuse Isosceles Triangles
Note: Figure is not drawn to scale.
In the figure above, points are collinear and is a right angle. If and is , what is ?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Because is isosceles, equals or .
We know that add up to , so must equal or .
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of Of An Acute / Obtuse Isosceles Triangle
A light beam of pure white light is aimed horizontally at a prism, which splits the light into two streams that diverge at a angle. The split beams each travel exactly from the prism before striking two optic sensors (one for each beam).
What is the distance, in feet, between the two sensors?
Round your final answer to the nearest tenth. Do not round until then.
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
This problem can be solved when one realizes that the light beam's split has resulted in an acute isosceles triangle. The triangle as stated has two sides of feet apiece, which meets the requirement for isosceles triangles, and having one angle of at the vertex where the two congruent sides meet means the other two angles must be and . The missing side connecting the two sensors, therefore, is opposite the angle.
Since we know at least two angles and at least one side of our triangle, we can use the Law of Sines to calculate the remainder. The Law of Sines says that for any triangle with angles and and opposite sides and :
.
Plugging in one of our angles (and its corresponding ft side) into this equation, as well as our angle (and its corresponding unknown side) into this equation gives us:
Next, cross-multiply:
--->
Now simplify and solve:
Rounding, we see our missing side is long.
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Open Question Answering | Q:
What is fire legal coverage?
A: Fire legal coverage provides coverage for you if you rent a business space and are held responsible for fire damages to that rented space. It does not apply to all business risks.
Q:
What is the difference between Replacement Cost (RC) and Actual Cash Value (ACV)?
A: Replacement Cost is the current cost to replace property. Actual Cash Value is the replacement cost less depreciation.
Q:
What does 80% co-insurance mean?
A: Insurance carriers require that an insured party insure at least 80% of the property's value in order to collect a partial loss in full. This is the way the insurance company encourages all insureds to adequately insure their property in relation to other insureds.
Q:
Does my policy cover physical damage to a vehicle I rent?
A: This damage will be covered only if that type of coverage is purchased.
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Can other people drive my business vehicle?
A: Other people may drive your vehicle with your permission. It is important that they be listed on your policy if they are regular drivers of the vehicle.
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How does an audit work?
A: At the end of the policy term, the insurance company will review the policy and either charge or credit the policyholder based upon an audit of estimated figures. Examples of estimated auditable items include sales and payroll. Audits can be performed onsite by an auditor or via mail or telephone. A premium is charged for audit estimations.
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Why do I need certificates of insurance from sub-contractors?
A: An audit may require you to show proof that sub-contractors had their own insurance coverage. The sub-contractors' certificates of insurance will prevent you from being charged for their exposure.
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What is General Liability?
A: General Liability provides coverage if you are liable for damages to other individuals arising from your premises, general operations (ongoing and after completion) and products manufactured or sold.
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What does Products/Completed Operations mean?
A: Products/Completed Operations refers to the liability coverage for damages caused by your operation or products after the point at which you no longer have control of them.
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What is Business Interruption/Extra Expense coverage?
A: Business Interruption/Extra Expense coverage provides coverage for income loss and the expense of establishing a temporary site during repairs due to damages related to a fire or compensable loss.
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What is the difference between "Named Insured", "First Named Insured" and "Additional Insured"?
A: Named Insureds are those listed by name in the relevant block of the policy's declaration page. Although the named insured is commonly one person, partnership, corporation or other entity with insurable interests, multiple named insureds may be included.
First Named Insured is the first "named insured" listed on the policy declarations (front page of the policy). This insured acts as the legal agent for all named insureds in initiating cancellation, requesting policy changes or accepting any return premiums. The first named insured may also be responsible for payment of the premiums.
Additional Insured is an entity to which a policy's coverage is extended. An additional insured must be added to the policy prior to a claim being paid. There must be a tied to relationship between the additional insured and named insured. Being an additional insured on another's policy does not eliminate the need for someone to have his/her own Commercial General Liability policy. |
Open Question Answering | I don’t know if it’s still going or in what guise, but those of a certain age might remember the kids’ TV quiz show Blockbusters, hosted by Bob Holness. Contestants had to choose a letter to get across the board, with the height of hilarity being for a contestant to smirkily ask “Can I have a P please Bob?” So, on the back of three recent CQC inspections which included inpatient services for people with learning disabilities, here’s a multiple choice quiz to help you work out which of these three organisations are taking the P. One point per question if you identify all three organisations correctly.
CQC inspection reports:
1) Which organisation’s inpatient services for people with learning disabilities were:
a. Rated overall as ‘Requires Improvement’.
b. Rated overall as ‘Requires Improvement’.
c. Not rated overall as the organisation refused to allow the ratings to be made public
2) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. There were potential ligature points in rooms that people who use services have unsupervised access to.
b. Care was not always being provided in safe physical environments. At the [unit] and [unit] work was needed to address ligature points… We noted that there was only one set of emergency resuscitation equipment across the two units which was stored on [unit 1]. This meant that if a person on [unit 2] needed this equipment staff would need to pass through three locked doors, posing a potential risk.
c. Not all wards had resuscitation equipment. There were a number of locked doors, stairs and potentially an unpredictable patient group, which may impact how quickly the equipment arrived where it was needed.
3) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. We found that there were not always enough members of staff to care for people safely. Some staff and patients told us that they did not always feel safe on the wards.
b. The [organisation] relied heavily on agency and bank nurses to staff the wards. On some shifts none of the nursing staff were permanent employees.
c. All the services were facing challenges in filling all their staff vacancies, but regular agency staff were being used and safe staffing levels maintained. The [organisation] should consider whether it is safe for staff to start working at the [unit] prior to their disclosure and barring checks being in place.
4) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. Contrary to current Department of Health guidance, nurses sometimes restrain people in the prone (face-down) position as a planned intervention to manage disturbed behaviour.
b. Seclusion facilities were being routinely used for deescalation and time out and not recorded as seclusion.
c. The seclusion room on the [unit] did not support patient privacy and dignity as there was no separate area for the toilet which was in full view of a large window. There was poor recording of seclusion on [unit]. Seclusion records we reviewed covered a range of time periods from 15 minutes to nine hours which took place one year ago. The longest period of seclusion had no record of a medical review taking place throughout the whole period. There was no evidence the patient had been given the opportunity afterwards to record their views of their experience of seclusion.
5) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. We found that patients had detailed health action plans which had been informed by a number of assessments. However we found one person who had epilepsy did not have a care plan in relation to this despite having a seizure in 2014.
b. External professionals (NHS England commissioners) told us they were satisfied with the quality of interventions provided by the staff at [unit].
c. Just two of 33 records that we reviewed contained a health action plan.
6) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. Patient care and risk was not assessed, planned and managed based on individual needs. There was an emphasis on generic, restrictive risk management processes, including restricting visitors and leave, which are not in line with current Department of Health guidance, the principles of the Mental Capacity Act or the Mental Health Act code of practice.
b. Concerns were raised about the use of the Mental Capacity Act and the exclusion of relatives from decision making.
c. Ten of 20 care records that we reviewed showed that staff had not adhered to one or more of the requirements of the MHA.
7) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. We found two cases where the best interest decision had been made before the mental capacity assessment had been recorded.
b. We checked the T2 (certificate of consent to treatment) and T3 (certificate of second opinion) forms. We found that these were not always accurate. Some specified medication the person was no longer taking, or did not always represent the dosage of medication the person was taking, which was over the British National Formulary (BNF) recommended limit.
c. Whilst medicines were stored securely, the facilities for the storage of controlled drugs were not in accordance with [organisation] policies.
8) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. People using the services were cared for by staff who were very motivated and supported people with care, dignity and respect.
b. The great majority of the people who use services that we talked to told us that they were treated kindly and respectfully by staff. The care interactions that we observed supported this.
c. We observed little activity or interaction between staff and patients on the wards we visited. Some patients told us that they were well cared for and they had no concerns about the staff. Some patients felt angry and frustrated by how they are treated; stating that staff do not listen to them and did not always speak to them with respect.
9) Which organisation’s inspection report included the following:
a. The [organisation] must ensure it supports staff working in the [name of unit] so they have regular line management input, understand the changes that are taking place and receive support in an appropriate style to facilitate them to perform their roles.
b. Some of the governance arrangement were not fully effective. This is demonstrated by: a failure to recognise and address unsafe night-time cover…; a lack of awareness of and failure to follow [organisation] policies relating to seclusion, segregation and restraint; a failure to provide adequate training for staff in the skills required…; poor adherence to the requirements of the Mental Health Act.
c. Some staff told us that there was little engagement with senior managers or the organisation`s values. We were told that many of the governance, care and treatment processes were centrally administrated.
Organisations’ press releases:
10) Which organisation’s press release:
a. Welcomes the CQC report.
b. Welcomes the CQC report.
c. is ‘no longer available’ on the organisation’s website.
11) Which organisation’s Chief Executive has stated that:
a. The CQC highlighted positive examples.
b. There are a number of areas of practice highlighted as good within the report.
c. It has confirmed that we are right to have confidence that our services are effective, caring and responsive.
12) Which organisation’s Chief Executive has stated that:
a. The report also highlighted a number of areas for improvement, which we have already begun to address.
b. A major programme of work began in the summer to address the negatives and learn from the positive and safe practice found by the CQC.
c. The inspection has highlighted aspects which can be improved and this resonates with the things we have already identified for improvement in our immediate and future plans.
You scored:
0-4: What are you, some kind of person using the service or family member or something? You shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near this quiz.
5-8: You seem to be mistaken that inpatient services for people with learning disabilities all have similar fundamental problems.
9-12: An excellent score – you’re clearly been paying too much attention to be a commissioner.
13: Congratulations, you are clearly a Chief Executive in the making!
Answers
1) a or b: St Andrews and Southern Health c: Calderstones
2) a: Calderstones b: Southern Health c: St Andrews
3) a: St Andrews b: Calderstones c: Southern Health
4) a: Calderstones b: St Andrews c: Southern Health
5) a: St Andrews b: Southern Health c: Calderstones
6) a: St Andrews b: Southern Health c: Calderstones
7) a: Calderstones b: St Andrews c: Southern Health
8) a: Southern Health b: Calderstones c: St Andrews
9) a: Southern Health b: Calderstones c: St Andrews
10) a or b: Southern Health and St Andrews c: Calderstones
11) a: Calderstones b: Southern Health c: St Andrews
12) a: Southern Health b: Calderstones c: St Andrews
Sources
The CQC inspection report of Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust available here http://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RJX (quotes taken from inpatient services report).
The CQC inspection report of St Andrews Healthcare available here http://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/1-102643363 (quotes taken from services for people with learning disabilities or autism report).
The CQC inspection report of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust available here http://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RW1 (quotes taken from wards for people with learning disabilities or autism report).
The Calderstones full response to the CQC report is available here http://www.calderstones.nhs.uk/newsandevents/32/trust-responds-to-july-cqc-pilot.html The Chief Executive’s statement in response to the CQC inspection is on his blog here (17
thDecember entry) http://www.calderstones.nhs.uk/aboutus/chief-executives-statement.html
The St Andrews press release in response to their CQC inspection is available here http://www.standrewshealthcare.co.uk/news/st-andrew%E2%80%99s-welcomes-care-quality-commission-reportThe Southern Health press release in response to their CQC inspection is available here http://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/news/southern-health-cqc-report/ |
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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
This is the second module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and uses online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore, research... (View More) and build knowledge about how and why studying the Sun's electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields help scientists better understand the Sun's activity and space weather. Students build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide is included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 2A: The Sun and the EM Spectrum students learn how SDO uses key parts of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to research regions of the Sun, create an interactive foldable to describe the different wavebands of the EMS, then use real-time SDO image data and the Helioviewer online tool to explore the Sun's regional activity. Tutorials for using Helioviewer and making the EMS foldable are included. Activity 2B: Solar activity and Magnetism has students use information in online videos and slide presentations to demonstrate concepts of magnetism and the relationship between the Sun's variable magnetic fields and sunspots. Activity 3B: Solar Research in Action! Build a Spectroscope has students create a spectroscope to observe the different wavebands of visible light, demonstrate how the Sun emits varying EMS energies, and explain how this information helps scientists understand the composition and activity of both our nearest star, and other stars in the universe. A computer for student-teams and a connection to the Internet are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
This is the third module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and utilizes online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore,... (View More) research and build knowledge about how the Sun's varying activity impacts Earth and space weather. Each activity provides opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide are included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 3A: Sun-Earth Interactions, students gather information from online videos and create a 3D model to demonstrate the relationship to Earth's place in space and the affect of Earth's axial tilt on our seasons, then film a short video explaining the reasons for the seasons. Activity 3B: Space Weather, students use online videos to gather information on what space weather is, and its causes and effects, to create a concept map. They then use real-time SDO data to forecast space weather. Activity 3C: Solar Research in Action! Make a Magnetometer has students view information in online videos about to Earth's magnetosphere and the impacts of space weather, then create a magnetometer to detect and visualize changes in the Earth's magnetic fields to monitor solar storm impacts. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
This is the fourth and culminating module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Student teams use information and resources from the other three modules in the project suite to create a 3D interactive solar exhibit to... (View More) educate others about the Sun and how SDO informs scientists about the Sun's activity, structures and features, and Earth-Sun interactions. Students then self-evaluate their team's solar exhibit. Both a teacher and student guide are included, as well as tools for students to self-direct and track project process, and record reflections and information. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
This lesson incorporates sea surface data collected by NASA satellites. Data for three surface characteristics- height, temperature and speed- are used for several activities. Students examine the differences in speed of currents relative to... (View More) distance from the Equator. Sea surface data anomalies are charted and further analyzed. In addition, surface current data is presented to examine patterns related to El Niño. Note that this is lesson three of five on the Ocean Motion website. Each lesson investigates ocean surface circulation using satellite and model data and can be done independently. See Related URL's for links to the Ocean Motion Website that provide science background information, data resources, teacher material, student guides and a lesson matrix. (View Less) |
Open Question Answering | View Full Version : I have a stalker
the_offsprings_monkey
09-30-2005, 01:24 AM
I have a stalker people....HELP!!
offspringrammsteinfan
09-30-2005, 01:30 AM
I think you know the answer since you gave yourself an answer: Just ignore and everything will be ok.
My answer: Hire harry potter.
TheUnholyNightbringer
09-30-2005, 01:54 AM
I don't know what you should do.
I, however, will point and laugh.
the_GoDdEsS
09-30-2005, 02:09 AM
'Stalker' as in some little kiddo in love with you chasing you around? Pffft, I had that back in primary school. You don't know what real stalkers are.
neocon58
09-30-2005, 02:14 AM
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a309/neocon58/39409-2-fs.jpg
the_offsprings_monkey
09-30-2005, 02:52 AM
'Stalker' as in some little kiddo in love with you chasing you around? Pffft, I had that back in primary school. You don't know what real stalkers are.
Hell all i know is she isn't legel....oh and i have a great gf...plus the stalker voice go rite thru me....i hate her so much
T-6005
09-30-2005, 03:18 AM
I wrote a song called stalker once, I think. Good times.
the_offsprings_monkey
09-30-2005, 03:33 AM
True True ma hommie
killer_queen
09-30-2005, 06:17 AM
'Stalker' as in some little kiddo in love with you chasing you around?
I used to have one. They can be really sweet sometimes.
the_offsprings_monkey
09-30-2005, 07:34 AM
I used to have one. They can be really sweet sometimes.
true they can be sweet, but when they run upto you every time they see you and like talk and talk away, and 14 years olds are boring
dalaksta
09-30-2005, 07:44 AM
dude u shuld just stalk her back man maybe she'll stop then
platinumpt
09-30-2005, 09:05 AM
Why the fuck would I care
you don't even know what a fucking stalker is.
the_GoDdEsS
09-30-2005, 09:09 AM
Sweet? Well, they were trying. I just used to physically attack them when I was a kiddy. Maybe I've never had a thing for sweet people?
my rather temporary (thank god) stalker was just manipulative. & when being manipulative, they can sound sweet, but the layer of their sweetness is about .003 mm thick. under it is pure patheticness & creepiness. bwuh. *shudders*
but hell, MANY people are extremely manipulative. not just stalkers.
the_GoDdEsS
09-30-2005, 09:26 AM
One of mine was a bit of a psycho and fucking obsessed.
killer_queen
09-30-2005, 09:47 AM
Sweet? Well, they were trying. I just used to physically attack them when I was a kiddy. Maybe I've never had a thing for sweet people?
Mine was leaving flowers on my desk everyday and beating everyone I've argued. I've never thought to attack him.
the_offsprings_monkey
09-30-2005, 10:18 AM
dude u shuld just stalk her back man maybe she'll stop then
I would but my gf would probaly like use her judo on me.......wait a sec.......im gonna stalk the bitch back YAY :D
One of mine was a bit of a psycho and fucking obsessed.
that's mostly the case, yes.
the_GoDdEsS
09-30-2005, 03:15 PM
Mine was leaving flowers on my desk everyday and beating everyone I've argued. I've never thought to attack him.
I used to tear up all the roses I got/found and throw them out of the window. I'm one hateful character.
Sinister
09-30-2005, 03:17 PM
I'm one hateful character.
isn't that what one usually calls a "bitch" ?
coke_a_holic
09-30-2005, 03:18 PM
'Stalker' as in some little kiddo in love with you chasing you around? Pffft, I had that back in primary school. You don't know what real stalkers are.
I have one of those. She's probably reading this post right now, that creepy little fucker.
wheelchairman
09-30-2005, 03:19 PM
isn't that what one usually calls a "bitch" ?
yeah those pooor stalkers.
idiot.
the_offsprings_monkey
10-01-2005, 08:05 AM
lol im so fuking confused now......no wait i was born confused
Sin Studly
10-01-2005, 09:02 AM
No, you were born still.
the_offsprings_monkey
10-01-2005, 09:31 AM
i was....then how is it i am typeing
crazy_offspring_gal
10-01-2005, 09:33 AM
Another one.. great... j/k :D
the_GoDdEsS
10-01-2005, 09:34 AM
I wish some were born without the ability to breathe. And then they'd have to learn it. Which they wouldn't manage. I hate you, Mother Nature.
the_offsprings_monkey
10-01-2005, 09:34 AM
NAH you aint my stalker, its that 14 year old who lives near me i was telling you about
crazy_offspring_gal
10-01-2005, 09:36 AM
NAH you aint my stalker, its that 14 year old who lives near me i was telling you about
Yea... thats what i mean... another one! :D
Kitten
10-01-2005, 09:37 AM
NAH you aint my stalker, its that 14 year old who lives near me i was telling you about
You are worried about a 14 year old stalker? Has she tried slashing your tyres or leaving dead animals to your window ledge?
the_offsprings_monkey
10-01-2005, 09:45 AM
no but she did grab my white (and rather sexy) ass once
Kitten
10-01-2005, 09:46 AM
no but she did grab my white (and rather sexy) ass once
Have you actually done anything to put her off, or do you whinge about it and secretly enjoy the attention?
the_offsprings_monkey
10-01-2005, 09:48 AM
well i wanna tell her that her curley hair pisses me off and that her voice is worst then marge simpsons but her mum is my mums friend soooooo no i aint said anything
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Open Question Answering | joke collection 02
A: Two, one to go and shoplift the bulb so the boomers have something to screw in and the other to screw it in for minimum wage.
Q: How many vampires does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, they *like* it in the dark.
Q: How many alt.vampyres readers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: None! Yecch! We LOVE the dark, stupid!
Q: How many dull people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One.
Q: How many one-armed people does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Only one, as long as he kept the till receipt.
Q: How many [members of your favorite group] does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two, but they have to be *really tiny*.
Q: How many Pygmies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: At least three. (Notes: think height!)
joke collection 35
A: Two - one to screw it in and the other to recover the fumble.
Q: How many people at an American football match does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Three. One to change it and two to tip the entire contents of the ice bucket over the coach to congratulate him on a successful bulb screwing.
Q: How many University of Washington Husky football fans (or any over-the-top sports fans who pay way way too much attention to minutia surrounding "their" team) does it take to change a light bulb?
A: A million and one. One to hold the old bulb, and the rest to all try and make the world revolve around it.
Q: How many striking baseball players does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. All those replacement bulbs are scabs!
Q: How many Rochester residents does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fifty one - one to screw in the bulb, and fifty to comment about how much better the bulb is than light bulbs in Buffalo.
Q: How many Buffalonians does it take to screw a in a light bulb?
A: Two-one to get the new bulb out of the snowbank, and one to screw it in.
Q: How many American wrestlers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Three. One to yank the old bulb out, throw it on the floor, try and jump onto it from a great height, and act real surprised when it rolls out of the way at the last minute, one to pretend to twist the new one in round and round so far it almost breaks, and some guy in a black and white stripey uniform whose function is never made quite clear to protest about something or other, to the complete indifference of the bulb changers.
Q: How many American wrestlers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: 5. One to change it 4 to fake it.
joke collection 03
A: None, you give it to a bloody man to do, cos it's a piece of cake, isn't it? Well, no, actually, that expression is crap isn't it, because if you had a piece of cake, you'd bloody well eat it, wouldn't you?
Q: How many DIY buffs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only one, but it takes him two weekends and three trips to the hardware store.
Q: How many recovering addicts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One, but it takes twelve steps.
Q: How many recovering addicts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One, as long as he admits he's powerless over light bulbs.
Q: How many recovering addicts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One to screw it in and one to sponsor him.
Q: How many Soviet emigres does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to stand on a chair and hold the bulb, two to lift the chair by its legs, one to call an American and to ask which way to turn the chair.
Q: How many light bulbs does it take to change a Soviet emigre?
A: One, if you aim well.
joke collection 04
A: None. Atheists question whether it's really light anyway.
Q: How many atheists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. Atheists never "see the light" anyway do they ?
Q: How many hunters does it take to screw a lightbulb into a left-handed socket?
A: There is no such thing as a left-handed socket, but if they could screw right they would not be hunters.
Q: How many hunt sabs does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Three. One to do it and two to clean the muddy footprints off the carpet and the chair he was standing on.
Q: How many cops does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. It turned itself in.
Q: How many cops does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Just one, but he is never around when you need him.
Q: How many LA cops does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Six-one to do it and five to smash the old bulb to splinters.
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Open Question Answering | Modern Network Architecture – Problem Managment
In keeping with the Modern Network Architecture Theme; This document is designed to quickly identify the vision, goals and strategies of the Seattle IT Edge Client Problem Management. Gathering this information supports the Seattle IT Edge Problem Management mission statement.
Problem Management Mission Statement: The objective of Problem Management is to minimize the impact of and remediate problems. Problem Management drives the processes of detection, investigation, remediation, and reporting of underlying problems driving incidents.
Requirements Gathering:
Customer Name: Email Customer Problem Statement:
Often technology projects get started by focusing on a technology or tactic. As the project outgrows the tactic, the group must change to more scalable ways of doing things. This often requires reviewing the goals and strategy of the organization. Without a true understanding of goals it is difficult to measure the success of the project. In the problem statement we are defining the problem(s) or issue(s) that need to be solved.
Summary statement:
Seattle IT Edge Client’s Problem management is slowed trying to develop processes that are simple, scalable, useable, and efficient and will support the mission of Seattle IT Edge Problem Management.
Quantifiable Consequences:
Presently the Incident and Problem management are overwhelmed. Scaling the present support system will just add more and more overhead further slowing the system. Presently SEV B problems are ignored until they become SEV A problems. As the system continues to grow, SEVB problem will continue to maintain the present SEV A levels.
What measurable benefits will the client receive if the problem is solved?
Company Benefit:
Income – Increased income as IT Support costs go down Customer loyalty – Increase customer loyalty because network is so stable Cost Savings – Overhead service costs will decrease as capacity matches demand.
Other Stability increases from catching SEV B problems before they fail. Reliability increases because problems will recognize before going into an RCA process.
Summary: Presently SEV B problems are ignored, and then become SEV A problem later on. The cost of prevention tends to be 10 times less than Break/Fix, costs should go down as SEV B issues are addressed.
Customer Benefit:
Improved Service – Reliable email services Lower cost to client – Fewer downtime internal costs Better product – Reliable, Scalable solution Other
Summary: The customer will truly have a reliable email system that is seamlessly scalable and robust.
Measurements of Success
When the project is completed, the expectations of the client would like to see benefits.
Cost reduction(s) (For Seattle IT Edge Client)
System efficiency – in the form of reduced downtime and lower high level costs Improved production – Process benefits Reduction in costs – Higher focus on prevention yields lower overall costs
System Improvement(s)
Availability – Meeting SLA agreements Usability – (No Change) Productivity – Seamless System scalability Reliability – No need for work-a-rounds Security – Continued security benefits
Client Customer benefit(s)
Customer Loyalty Product/Service improvement Product: Ease of purchase Product: Ease of use Product: Reliability
Product: Cost
Limitations
All projects include limitations in scope, time and resources. Assuming that these are not unlimited what expectations if any does the client have?
Time
Scope Benefit Priority 50% reduction in SEV A 70% reduction in outstanding SEV B 50% of competition within the time period
Resources
2 Employees within the Problem Management team.
Summary description of problem and solution:
Problem Management would like a solution to solve losses paid back to customer because of SLA misses. Seattle IT edge is looking to create a solution that would solve the focus on incident vs. Problem management that would give,
Higher customer loyalty Lower Incident costs
The solution would be considered successful by Problem Management if SEV A load was reduced by 50% within these limitations the next six months, within budget and within the customer SLA
We will create a proposal that will meet or exceed these Problem Management business requirements within the next 6 months within the present budget.
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Open Question Answering | "Natural parks close to and places to stay in San Francisco?"
Bellevue, Washington
Renting a car, so travel is not a problem, as long as within a 2 hour drive. Group of 5, and working on a moderate budget for places to stay.
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I recommend Muir Woods Trail for a natural park to visit. It's located just north of San Francisco , across the Golden Gate Bridge and you get some beautiful views of the bay and the city. If you want to go a little further north, Point Reyes National Seashore is another great park to visit.
In terms of places to stay, I would suggest taking a look at places on AirBnB, since you might be able to find a nice 2 bedroom apt to rent for your stay. In terms of hotels, you can find some decent deals on motels in the Fisherman's Wharf area and they're located in a great area for tourists, with Aquarium of the Bay , Ghirardelli Square Shopping Center and many other attractions and restaurants.
Have a great time and have fun exploring the SF area.
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Jeff Williamson from Frisco, Texas
Be careful with renting a car. It is hard to find parking and you might get stuck paying more for overnight parking than you did renting the car! Public transportation in SF will get you within 2 blocks of any address in the entire city.
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Zelinda Zingaro from Castro Valley, California
In addition to the great suggestions from Debbie and Shrirang if you want to stick close to San Francisco we have the Presidio Landmark which is the nation's largest National Park - offering hiking, walks along the bay with trails leading to Fort Point National Historic Site (an historic Civil War fort), the Golden Gate Bridge, the The Walt Disney Family Museum, Marin Headlands for nature and hiking. Part of the Presidio includes Crissy Field where you can find indoor rock climbing at Planet Granite.
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For places to stay in San Francisco for a group of five with a car on a moderate budget, I would stay out of the downtown and other touristy areas because it's a huge hassle to find street parking and parking lots are expensive. I would go to Airbnb.com and look for a house that can accommodate for 5 and these are the neighborhoods I would suggest: Mission District , SOMA , Richmond District , Sunset District , and Haight . You'll have much better chances of finding a place big enough for five that also has parking in those neighborhoods.
For nature-y things to do, this is a little further than 2 hours, maybe 2.5-3 hours drive, but it's completely worth it -- Big Sur . Just type Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park into your GPS, and you can also pull over on turnouts along the road. So gorgeous!!!!! On the way to and from, you can stop off at Half Moon Bay , Santa Cruz , and Monterey for beautiful beaches and attractions.
Have fun and let me know if you want any other suggestions! :)
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If you've got a car, you'll find it cheaper to stay OUTSIDE of SF -- the parking alone will cost more than a moderate budget is comfortable spending. And street parking is near impossible to find, not safe, and you'll probably end up with a ticket for something you did wrong.
Solution: stay at a hotel just outside of SF. There are a great number of places not far from the airport (which puts you 5-15 minutes away from the city - as long as you don't drive during high traffic time). Look around Oyster Point Cove -- parking is free and it's close to the city.
The others have made great driving/day trip suggestions.
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Hi there is a great huge park in the center Golden Gate Park and there are many museums there on the first Wednesday of every month they are free, and on Sundays they close the park to cars so it is great to go rollerblading or biking.
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Open Question Answering | I'm on tray 6/43. My top has a button attached which you can see when I smile/talk. It's like a bubble on your teeth. I wasn't happy as wasn't told there would be a bubble until dentist gave me my tray. I told him I'm not happy and he agreed to get ride of attachment. However, he said as rest of trays are already made so can't get rid of that bubble on top tray. As a client, what right do i have to ask him to redo the rest of top tray so there's no bubble. Thanks.
Top Trays Have a Bubble That's Visible While Talking, Do I Have the Right to Ask the Doctor to Redo Them? Doctor Answers 5 Invisalign attachments
The bubble you refer to fits over an attachment that was placed on your tooth that was prescribed and designed to specifically move that tooth. Discussing the use of attachments in Invisalign should occur before treatment begins as these adjuncts are quite typical, in fact, many times multiple attachments are required. Although these bumps or bubbles may be visible to you, most folks looking at your smile are unaware of them. If they are noticed, you can inform those that comment that you're improving your smile with Invisalign aligners and that is part of the treatment. You could continue that you are fortunate that you are not wearing traditional braces as they would be even more noticeable. Communication with your licensed orthodontic specialist is key in achieving the results you desire.
Invisalign attachments
The bubble you refer to fits over an attachment that was placed on your tooth that was prescribed and designed to specifically move that tooth. Discussing the use of attachments in Invisalign should occur before treatment begins as these adjuncts are quite typical, in fact, many times multiple attachments are required. Although these bumps or bubbles may be visible to you, most folks looking at your smile are unaware of them. If they are noticed, you can inform those that comment that you're improving your smile with Invisalign aligners and that is part of the treatment. You could continue that you are fortunate that you are not wearing traditional braces as they would be even more noticeable. Communication with your licensed orthodontic specialist is key in achieving the results you desire.
Bubble on the tray
You can discuss with your dentist about having that removed.One suggestion is that your dentist will request a refinement .This way he will have to take a new set of impressions and request the placement of the attachment on a different tooth.
Bubble on the tray
You can discuss with your dentist about having that removed.One suggestion is that your dentist will request a refinement .This way he will have to take a new set of impressions and request the placement of the attachment on a different tooth.
Do I Have the Right to Ask the Doctor to Redo Them?
short answer: you have the RIGHT to ask anything
Long answer: Will you doctor agree to your request? That likely depend on a few things. Which I will touch on. But first try to recall if you sign and informed consent paper, if you did, it discussed the "attachments."
If you are doing Invisalign Express I would beg your doctor to put it back on your tooth or you likely will not get the result you hope for. At my office, with Invisalign Express you get 10 trays once and that is it, unless you want to pay more. If a patient is in FULL or Teen Invisalign there are up to three times I can get my patient new trays for not extra cost to me. These trays are call REFINEMENT trays. Typically I do not charge for these. The only down side is you'll have to wait for your replacement trays to come, there for possibly delaying your completion of treatment.
My advise, try to get over it. People don't notice them like you think. BUT if you can't ask.
Do I Have the Right to Ask the Doctor to Redo Them?
short answer: you have the RIGHT to ask anything
Long answer: Will you doctor agree to your request? That likely depend on a few things. Which I will touch on. But first try to recall if you sign and informed consent paper, if you did, it discussed the "attachments."
If you are doing Invisalign Express I would beg your doctor to put it back on your tooth or you likely will not get the result you hope for. At my office, with Invisalign Express you get 10 trays once and that is it, unless you want to pay more. If a patient is in FULL or Teen Invisalign there are up to three times I can get my patient new trays for not extra cost to me. These trays are call REFINEMENT trays. Typically I do not charge for these. The only down side is you'll have to wait for your replacement trays to come, there for possibly delaying your completion of treatment.
My advise, try to get over it. People don't notice them like you think. BUT if you can't ask.
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The bump you see in the tray was part of the planned treatment. An attachment on the tooth was recommended by the diagnostic staff and computer model for your case. If this tooth is severely out of place, it could be difficult to replace it. Your dentist can submit a
Refinement request to Invisalign to have the attachment removed. This may require an attachment on a different tooth to achieve the same end result. Your case is complicated because of the 43 aligners needed to complete treatment. Have an open and honest conversation with your dentist. I'm sure both of you want a great result. Good luck with your treatment. You'll love the final result. You can ask for a "Refinement" with Invisalign
The bump you see in the tray was part of the planned treatment. An attachment on the tooth was recommended by the diagnostic staff and computer model for your case. If this tooth is severely out of place, it could be difficult to replace it. Your dentist can submit a
Refinement request to Invisalign to have the attachment removed. This may require an attachment on a different tooth to achieve the same end result. Your case is complicated because of the 43 aligners needed to complete treatment. Have an open and honest conversation with your dentist. I'm sure both of you want a great result. Good luck with your treatment. You'll love the final result. Use the attachment for best results
The bubble that you speak of is an attachment that is used for anchorage and allows the tray to provide necessary movements to your teeth. Almost every case has a few and sometimes more are added as the case progresses. Without these your treatment time will increase and you may not get the result that is expected. It is unfortunate that this was not discussed with you prior to treatment but you should consider following the protocol if you want the best result. Keep in mind that these attachments are low profile as compared to traditional orthodontics and in reality probably no one but you recognizes that they are there.
Use the attachment for best results
The bubble that you speak of is an attachment that is used for anchorage and allows the tray to provide necessary movements to your teeth. Almost every case has a few and sometimes more are added as the case progresses. Without these your treatment time will increase and you may not get the result that is expected. It is unfortunate that this was not discussed with you prior to treatment but you should consider following the protocol if you want the best result. Keep in mind that these attachments are low profile as compared to traditional orthodontics and in reality probably no one but you recognizes that they are there.
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Open Question Answering | Chickens Crossing the Road
With the renewed interest in raising chickens in Missoula and the urban areas I thought I’d bring this to the attention of fowl lovers. As we all know chickens love to cross the road, why you might ask, here are some answers;
Q: Why did the chicken run across the road?
A: There was a car coming.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road halfway?
A: She wanted to lay it on the line.
Q: Why did the rubber chicken cross the road?
A: She wanted to stretch her legs.
Q: Why did the Roman chicken cross the road?
A: She was afraid someone would caesar!
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To prove to the possum it could actually be done! –
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Here is a list of the most frequently asked questions about the GMAT CAT and our answers.
Q: Should I answer questions wrong on purpose so the test gets easier?
A: Absolutely not! If you answer a question wrong, the computer will give you an easier question but your score will go down as a result. If you want a good score (you know you do!) you must answer as many questions correctly as possible. The harder the question you answer, the higher the point value you attain. This is crucial information! Since the CAT scoring algorithm very rapidly determines your testing level, answering correctly without hesitation from the first question on is extremely important so that you start off with a high score. It’s much easier to maintain a high score than it is to raise a low score.
Q: How much does the level of difficulty change from question to question?
A: In the beginning, the level of difficulty changes quite a lot from question to question; near the end, the level of difficulty does not really change so much from question to question. This is an important quirk in the system. The objective of the CAT is to quickly determine (right from the beginning) your approximate testing level and then fine-tune it while you continue the test. To illustrate: a right answer on the first question results in an increase of 50 points, a right answer on the second, an increase of 40 points – on the second-to-last question a right answer nets you an increase of only 10 points. So, if you answer the first few questions correctly, you’ll swiftly receive more difficult (higher score value) questions and can therefore raise your score.
Q: Does my performance on one section affect the level of difficulty of the questions in the other sections?
A: No. Each section is scored separately and begins with a question at the 500-level score value. If, for example, the Quantitative Section is the first section of the test, and if you get all the questions wrong, you’ll still begin with a question valued at 500 on the Verbal Section.
Q: Is the computer program that precise?
A: At The MBA Center, we don’t think so: it’s about as precise as the pencil-and-paper test. Standardized tests, even on computer, cannot be 100 percent accurate in their estimation of the level of difficulty of a given question. Some students consider difficult questions to be easy, other students consider easy questions to be difficult – it varies from test to test, student to student. However, the Adaptive Scoring System comes closer to identifying a personalized testing level than did the pencil-and-paper test.
Q: Can I skip a question?
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Open Question Answering | CASE STUDY: SITEWIRE The Whale Hunters Services: Consulting, Training, Workshops Industry: Digital Marketing Agency Headquarters: Tempe, AZ Employees: 58 Notable Client Wins: Sears, Avnet, Olive Garden, IMAX, Blimpie, Pulte Homes, University of Phoenix, Kroger, The Golf Channel THE CHALLENGE:
Sitewire started off the Whale Hunter Process™ with a clear company motto: “think big and act big.” When Sitewire was introduced to The Whale Hunters
®, they had large aspirations, but their actions were not in sync to make those goals happen. Prior to starting The Whale Hunter Process™, several members the team had taken sales coaching and marketing classes, and although every session made them a little bit better at what they were doing, none of them helped put the entire puzzle together. THE SOLUTION:
At the beginning, “thinking big and acting big” appeared a lot harder than Sitewire had imagined. It wasn’t one big “ah-ha!” moment. As it turned out, they had all of the right pieces, but they were just not using them properly. What they discovered by engaging The Whale Hunters for training was a process where they could take all of their internal “raw material” and talent, apply it, and get immediate results.
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With The Whale Hunter Process™ in place, Sitewire experienced tremendous success. In 2009, Sitewire experienced the most dramatic growth they have seen since the company’s inception – all despite the economic turndown most companies were experiencing during this time. Sitewire’s first whale was Sears (which was 10 times their average pitch), and in less than 18 months, they landed ten more accounts, each with a very large, visible brand. Culturally, whale hunting helped the Sitewire employees feel incredibly empowered. By contributing to the company’s success, they have an important stake in the company’s future. Many employees didn’t have that connection before – they considered themselves part of the execution team, but not part of the “revenue building” process. Where typical sales coaching stops with one or two employees, The Whale Hunter Process™ helped the entire team feel more empowered and energized about every client coming in the door.
Today, Sitewire is simply a different organization. There is far more energy around the client than ever before, which means the quality of work is better, and their whale-sized clients are much more satisfied. The teamwork is better because they have effectively broken down all of the ‘silos’ between functions that were previously working, but not actually working well. Organizationally, they are much stronger because everyone feels very connected to each another – and they are all ‘rowing’ in the same direction. Beyond simple sales coaching and marketing classes, now Sitewire has a carefully orchestrated way of conducting business, from the initial sale, to the delivery and ongoing support. |
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In Nia Floorplay, we use the floor to stimulate our bodies. Using gravity, space, time, and sound, we use the art of moving on the floor to become strong, stretched, defined, balanced, and fit. It is the balance between stillness and movement that gives Floorplay its power and offers you results, without the usual strain and boredom associated with conventional floor work.
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The best trip I've had was a 24 hour trip to Switzerland. I visited 3 different cities and only ended up spending around $80 in total and had the most incredible time. Read about here on my blog.
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I think the northern part of Guatemala (Flores area) was the cheapest week I have done. i was traveling with 4 and we were splitting a room every night. We had camping gear and cooked a lot, and always hit up happy hour! But I think we were spending $6 each a night for accommodations, less than a buck for 2 beers at happy hour and one good meal at a restaurant a day. We lived like kings for $20-30 a day depending on happy hour lol!
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An very cheap and wonderful trip I've done a few years ago was to visit some of the Nordic Capitals by boat.
Sleep and travel around the Baltic Sea on a ferry during the night, and visit wonderful cities during the day. Definitely excellent value trip!
I started in Stockholm and finished in Riga, passing by Helsinki and Tallinn, and was spending around 30-40€ per day for both sleeping and travelling. Not bad for such expensive countries for these countries!
Otherwise, another great and cheap trip I'm dreaming about doing is to rent a car, get a tent, and travel around California :)
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Kristina Kupka from Los Angeles, California
I've been to Prague twice and both times it was reasonable but the second time was probably one of the cheapest trips I have gone on. My cousin and I were on a Eurotrip and we decided to stop for 2 nights. We stayed at the Sir Toby´s Hostel - thee best hostel I have yet to stay in. We got our own room (awesome for a hostel) and shared a bathroom. Its not that close to the central part of town but taking the metro was a good time and let us see the surrounding parts of Prague. Walking around to see different parts of the city was nice and free. The food, drinks and merchandise are all pretty reasonable because the country is using the czk currency. And if you wanted to relax - get a beer at the bar by the Charles Bridge for a couple czk and people watch. Its great. One of the places I would definitely go back to if I was on a budget!
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I once flew one-way from Vancouver to Milan for $99 on Condor Airlines (http://www.condor.com). I think the company still offers incredible deals every now and then, so it's worth keeping on eye on their website...
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Wow! First of all... I have to say I am so proud and impressed that yours was in Switzerland
That was my worst trip in terms of having a budget of any sorts! For me... the best budget travel I've done was definitely in Thailand, I'm mean that's a given right? The one that I was the most proud of was my trip around Germany - Munich, Dusseldorf, Koln, Heidelberg, Freiburg - Gotta love Meinfernbus.. a German bus line that is like 7 euros a ticket! It's always more rewarding when you budget in a more expensive country. Of course, Thailand is a great place to budget - but it's not hard to save money there haha. All the best,
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When I was 19 eyars old I went hitch hiking from my native Denmark with 65 dollars in my pocket and stayed away for 9 months working my way through 11 countries in Europe and The Middle East, picking grapes, tomatoes, melons and such.
Very good way to explore the world when you are young and can go for a few days without food and sleep.
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Q: I am a local customer, can I pick up my order to avoid shipping costs?
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Q: I want a specific fabric or item that I don't see on your site, can you special order it for me?
A: At this time, we do not take special internet orders. However, we do have some additional inventory in our shop that may not be listed online. You can always call us or stop in to see if we have what you're looking for. If one of our usual items is currently out of stock and you’d like to see it back in the shop, do let us know and we can tell you if and when you can hope to see it in stock again.
Q: Can I order a fat quarter cut of fabric?
A: Fat quarters (a quarter of a yard cut to approximately 18″x22″) may be listed in some product descriptions where it constitutes the final quarter yard available for the fabric. In this case, you will automatically receive the Fat Quarter. However, during our final sale, we cannot accommodate fat quarter requests.
Q: Will I be charged sales tax on my fabric purchase?
A: Pennsylvania residents will be charged a 6% sales tax on purchases with the exception of apparel fabrics. If you reside in Allegheny County, you will also be charged an additional 1% local sales tax.
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A: We know technology isn’t always perfect. We are more than happy to confirm if your order came through correctly or to assist you in any way! You can always email us directly at [email protected] or give us a call at 412.481.1985.
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A: Please let us know as soon as possible, either by phone or email. In most cases, if you notify us at least a week before the class begins, we will be able to offer you a credit toward a future class or merchandise.
If it is less than a week out, but you notify us at least 72 hours prior to the start of class, we will attempt to fill your spot. If we are able to do so (yay!), we will offer you a credit toward a future class. However, if we are unable to fill your spot on such short notice, you will forfeit your class fee.
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Open Question Answering | Madison, Alex, Sean & me
H&M faux fur collar
BDG pants
gifted sweatshirt
Dr. Marten boots
RL backpack
LF watch
Before I get started, the sweatshirt I wore is one of my prized possessions. My brother makes cool tees and sweatshirts and this one is of him in cartoon form.
On Saturday The Urban Catwalk crew and friends shot a promotional video. For a couple of posts I've been alluding to a project I'm apart of, so let me answer a couple questions.
Q: What is The Urban Catwalk?
A: The Urban Catwalk is a conference, think street fashion meets academia, taking place at Yale next month.
Q: Kim, how do you fit into all of this?
A: I contribute to the blog, The Garage which is like the baby of The Urban Catwalk along with the founders Madison and Alex and another contributor named Sean. Together we hope to be a creative collective that presents cool shit and put on cool events. We want The Garage to be huge so help us get there. I'm calling on you blogger buddies.
Peep the links below:
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Open Question Answering | Common question: "What shoes should I wear for running?"
Smart Alec answer: "Whatever shoes are best for you."
Serious answer: "Whatever shoes are best for you."
If you go online and ask what shoes you should wear, a lot of people are going to answer by telling you what kind of shoe
theyshould wear. This information is useless to you unless you are a body snatcher and you plan on taking over there body to go for a run.
So, all you new runners, here is how to pick a shoe.
1. Forget about shoes for a minute, think about your body. Running builds a strong healthy body, but also requires a strong healthy body. Spend two to three days per week strengthening your body. Strengthen your feet, calves, hamstrings, glutes, quadriceps, hip flexors, hips, core, while your at it give the upper body some love too. You'd be amazed how tired your shoulders can get from running.
2. Run barefoot. You don't have to run barefoot everywhere you go, you don't have to run barefoot on concrete, but you will learn so much about running from some barefoot runs.
3. Go to a running specialty store. Not Foot Locker, not Dunham's, somewhere that employs a bunch of runners. If you aren't sure if it is a specialty running store go in and say to the first person you see, "What are you training for?" Their answer will let you know if they are a runner.
4. Tell them what you are looking for, they should watch you run a bit before they recommend a shoe. Try on the shoe they recommend. If it does not feel comfortable, tell them everything you don't like about the shoe. Repeat this process until your feet feel heavenly.
5. Don't forget to run barefoot. |
Open Question Answering | Today’s quiz involves core-courses required by the NCAA to be a qualifier at the D1 or D2 level. This is a multi-part quiz.
Part 1a
Question: What is the maximum number of core-courses the NCAA allows a prep school post-graduate student to get credit for towards D1 eligibility?
Answer: 1
Part 1b
Question: What is the maximum number of core-courses the NCAA allows a prep school post-graduate student with a documented learning issue (LD, IEP etc.) to get credit for towards D1 eligibility?
Answer: 3
Part 2
Question: What is the maximum number of core-courses the NCAA allows a prep school post-graduate student to get credit for towards D2 eligibility?
Answer: Unlimited
Bonus
Question: How may times does the NCAA allow a student take the SAT or ACT in order to raise his/her score as a post-graduate?
Question: What’s the maximum number of points the NCAA will allow a student to raise his/her SAT or ACT score as a post-graduate?
Answer: There is no limit to the number of times a post-graduate student can take the SAT or ACT or the number of points a student can raise his/her score. |
Open Question Answering | Friday, February 18, 2011 Tamara Knight Interview
Through Zoa Linsey I have become familiar with Tamara Knight. And I am so glad I did. Tamara is one of those people who you instantly respect. Both Tamara the bodybuilder and Tamara the individual. Tamra planned to compete in 2005, but as should always be the case, family came first. So Tamra put it off. She has been on stage twice and has looked amazing in both instances, as her placings verify. She will be competing again this year, and plans to win it, and it would be foolish to bet against her.
Q: First, Tamara, I want to thank you for taking the time to do this.
Q: Can you start out by telling a little about yourself.
A: I'm 41 yrs old and from Vancouver, BC Canada. I'm married and I have 2 boys. One is 2 yrs old and the other is 3 1/2. I'm an ISSA certified personal trainer and nutrition specialist and I work from my own gym in my home
Q: Before the gym were you an especially athletic person? Play any sports or anything?
A: I was always athletic but never in any team sports. I cycled and ran a lot liking more of the individual sports
Q: What initially led you into the gym?
A: I was 19, had just moved out on my own and thought that the way to being in better shape was through lots of cardio. Although I did lift weights I never saw much in the way of results as I was definitely a cardio queen!
Q: Was training something you picked up fairly easy? How long before you started to see results?
A: Training did come to me very naturally because I'm a very "Type A" person. Everything has to be done perfectly and better than the last time. Once I started serious training and cut back on the cardio the results came fairly quickly
Q: What made you decide to compete for the first time?
A: I decided to compete back in 2005 and was training for my first comp. I was also ending my first marriage at that time and during my competition prep started training with my new training partner who also became my new husband lol. I really wanted kids so I decided to put the comp on hold at that point and after my 2nd son was born in December of 2008, I decided it was time to hit the stage. I did my first show when my 2nd son was only 11 months old!
Q: Is competing something your family and friends supported?
A: Yes, most of them. Some didn't see why I needed to do that but I did get support
Q: Was competing what you expected or did anything surprise you about it?
A: Yes, it was what I expected as I had been through it with my very good friend Zoa back in 2005 when she did her first National show.
Q: Can you share your contest history.
A:
*2009 Sandra Wickham Fall Classic - First Place HW, First Place Masters, Best Poser and Overall Champion
*2010 BC Provincials - 3rd Place HW, 1st Place Masters
Q: As far as body parts, what do you feel is your best one?
A: Hands down my legs/glutes
Q: Do you have a part you most like to train or favorite exercise?
A: Anything to do with legs!
Q: What is your normal training routine and diet like and how do you alter it for contest prep?
A: I usually train 3 on, 1 off, 2 on, 1 off. Right now I'm training arms and shoulders 2x per week. Diet is extremely clean all year long but in the off season I eat more with a couple of cheats one day per week. During contest prep training might change slightly and my food is measured to account for every single gram with absolutely no cheats
Q: When someone sees your physique or hears you compete for the first time, what is the most common reaction? More positive or negative?
A: Positive for the most part.
Q: When they see it that first time, what is the one question or comment you are most sick of hearing?
A "OMG, how do I get arms like that?"
Q: What is the biggest misconception about women who train and compete or the one thing you wish people understood?
A: I wish people understood that this is about self disciple and being the best that I can be
Q: What is the best and worst part of training for you?
A: The best part is the accomplishment of seeing my body change. the worst part is the time it takes away from my family.
Q: Do you have any favorite competitors or any you admire?
A: But of course! My dear friend Zoa Linsey. I admire all women in the sport as I know the work they put into it
Q: Do you have a favorite cheat food?
A: Yes, cereal of all things!
Q: If another woman told you she wanted to start training, what is the one piece of advice you would most want to give her?
A: Find someone to teach you proper form so that you can achieve maximum results without risk of injury
Q: Do you think it is becoming more common to see women working in the gym with the weights and not just doing cardio and things?
A: Yes. As a trainer I have more and more women who have focused only on cardio coming to me because they are realizing the need for weight training
Q: Outside of training, any other hobbies or activities you enjoy?
A: Skiing, snowshoeing, hiking
Q: Can you describe a typical day in the life of Tamara Knight/
A: Oh my! Ok, well there is never a minute wasted. My day starts at 4 a.m. and if the offseason I use an hour to answer emails or do other computer related work (pre contest this is cardio time) I feed the kids and get us all ready for the day. My work day starts at 8 a.m. and I train clients until noon. Then it's time to get the kids lunch, prep food, clean house etc until I train at 3. Training is from 3 to 4:30 or so then it's time to get dinner together and back to work for 5:30 training more clients til about 7:30 or 8:30. Then it's my last meal and off to bed fairly early
Q: Describe Tamara Knight in five words.
A: Stubborn, determined, loyal, independent, perfectionist
Q: What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?
A: I have a legal background
Q: Any set plans for the near future as far as competing or anything else?
A: I start dieting in 6 weeks for BC Provincials taking place in July. I fully plan on taking home the overall this time! ;0)
Q: Anything you want to take this opportunity to plug or promote?
A: Not really although I will always promote my business www.tzonefitness.com
Q: Are you looking for sponsors? If so how can they reach you and what are they getting in Tamara Knight the athlete and competitor?
A: Sure although finding a sponsor for a woman bodybuilder is almost impossible. They can reach me by email and they would be getting a very determined athlete and competitor who strives to make improvements on a continual basis
Q: Tamara, again, I thank you for taking the time to do this. Any last words before you go?
A: Thanks for the interview Jason! |
Open Question Answering | Q: What's the difference between
Thread and
Runnable types?
A: A Java
Thread controls the main path of execution in an application. When you invoke the Java Virtual Machine with the
java command, it creates an implicit thread in which to execute the
main method. The
Thread class provides a mechanism for the first thread to start-up other threads to run in parallel with it.
The
Runnable interface defines a type of class that can be run by a thread. The only method it requires is
run, which makes the interface very easy to to fulfil by extending existing classes. A runnable class may have custom constructors and any number of other methods for configuration and manipulation.
Q: How does the
run() method in
Runnable work?
A: It may help to think of the
run method like the
main method in standard single threaded applications. The
run method is a standard entry point to run or execute a class. The
run method is normally only executed in the context of an independent
Thread, but is a normal method in all other respects.
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How does the
run() method in
Runnable work?
Q: A
Thread is runnable, how does that work?
A: The
Thread class'
run method normally invokes the
run method of the
Runnable type it is passed in its constructor. However, it is possible to override the thread's
run method with your own.
More details available to subscribers:
A
Thread is runnable, how does that work?
Q: Why not override
Thread to make a
Runnable?
A: There is little difference in the work required to override the
Thread class compared with implementing the
Runnable interface, both require the body of the
run() method. However, it is much simpler to make an existing class hierarchy runnable because any class can be adapted to implement the run method. A sub-class of
Thread cannot extend any other type, so application-specific code would have to be added to it rather than inherited.
Separating the
Thread class from the
Runnable implementation also avoids potential synchronization problems between the thread and the run method. A separate
Runnable generally gives greater flexibility in the way that runnable code is referenced and executed.
Q: What's the difference between a thread's
start() and
run() methods?
A: The separate
start() and
run() methods in the
Thread class provide two ways to create threaded programs. The
start() method starts the execution of the new thread and calls the
run() method. The
start() method returns immediately and the new thread normally continues until the
run() method returns.
The
Thread class'
run() method does nothing, so sub-classes should override the method with code to execute in the second thread. If a
Thread is instantiated with a
Runnable argument, the thread's
run() method executes the
run() method of the
Runnable object in the new thread instead.
Depending on the nature of your threaded program, calling the
Thread
run() method directly
can give the same output as calling via the
start() method, but in the latter case the code is actually executed in a new thread.
Q: Can I implement my own
start() method?
A: The
Thread
start() method is not marked
final, but should not be overridden. This method contains the code that creates a new executable thread and is very specialised. Your threaded application should either pass a
Runnable type to a new
Thread, or extend
Thread and override the
run() method. |
Open Question Answering | Kobe Bryant faces his opponent. As Tayshaun Prince reaches for the ball, the double team slides the scorer's direction. Kobe goes behind the back, splits the D and heads toward the hoop only to find Ben Wallace in his way, jumping in the air for the swat. Number 8 is too cool for Big Ben, though, hanging in the air with the double clutch to sink the basket as the buzzer sounds.
That's what being a scorer is all about. Taking your opponent off the dribble. Hanging in the air that extra slit second to avoid the swat. Hitting the runner, going behind the back for a layup, even switching hands in mid-air for the "and one".
In NBA Live 06, there are two types of scorers with two distinct types of scoring abilities. There are the Outside Scorers like Kobe and T-Mac, the guys who can drive the hole or nail the turnaround J to win the game. There are also the Inside Scorers, players like Dirk and Rasheed Wallace, players who can give you a shoulder fake, face you up, even hit a hook shot over even the most fierce defenders.
Here is the control breakdown for each type of scorer as it appears on the Xbox:
Outside Scorers
Hold the left trigger and tap A: Windmill Layup
Hold the left trigger and hold A: Switch Hands Layup
Hold the left trigger and tap Y: Runner
Hold the left trigger and tap B (when going toward basket): Double Clutch
Hold the left trigger and tap B (when going away from the basket): Turnaround J
Hold the left trigger and tap X: Fake Behind the Back Layup
Hold the left trigger and hold X: Behind the Back Layup
Outside scorers also have a variety of moves utilizing the right analog stick. Here are some Triple Threat moves when facing the basket.
Hold the left trigger while holding right on the right analog stick: Jab and Hold
Hold the left trigger while holding down on the right analog stick: Cradle and Hold Back
Hold the left trigger while holding left on the right analog stick: Create Space
Hold the left trigger while holding up on the right analog stick: Hold between the legs
Once in the Triple Threat position, try one of the following moves:
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Right + Left analog Left: Spin Left
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Down + Left analog Left: Behind the Back
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Up + Left analog: Blow Out Dribble
Left trigger + Right Analog Flick Down: Fake Dribble Right, Spin Left
Inside Scorers
Hold the left trigger and tap A: Hook Shot
Hold the left trigger and tap Y: Runner
Hold the left trigger and tap B (while going towards basket): Double Clutch
Hold the left trigger and tap B (while going away from the basket): Turnaround J
Hold the left trigger and tap X: Avoid Strip Layup
Inside Scorer Right Analog Moves
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Right: Face Up
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Down: Up and Under
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Left: Shoulder Fake
Go Moves (while you are in a back to the basket, Triple Threat position from the post)
Left trigger + Right Analog Hold Right + Left Analog Left: Blow Out Dribble Left
Left Trigger + Left Analog Left: Spin Left
Left Trigger + Left Analog Right: Spin Right
Click on the video link at the bottom of the page to check out IGN Sports' exclusive new video highlighting the NBA Live scorers in action. |
Open Question Answering | Top Definition
Usually as a result of not having much or any friends in reality, your mind creates an imaginary friend. Even the creator of an imaginary friend cannot see them, unless if they are on LSD, or just hallucinogenic. You're not nessecarily "crazy" if you have one.
You can just talk to them in your mind, they can think for you sometimes, you can ask them for advice or ask them to decide which movie you want to rent tonight. You can get into arguments with them, and you can have intelligent conversations with them.
But...
You can't kill them.
They might slowly fade away in time... but... I don't know...
Yeah.
Also.
You can completely change into your imaginary friend. Sad I know.
You can just talk to them in your mind, they can think for you sometimes, you can ask them for advice or ask them to decide which movie you want to rent tonight. You can get into arguments with them, and you can have intelligent conversations with them.
But...
You can't kill them.
They might slowly fade away in time... but... I don't know...
Yeah.
Also.
You can completely change into your imaginary friend. Sad I know.
Some people have imaginary friends.
by Keael January 07, 2006
2
A "character" created by the imagination to keep a person company. Sometimes, it can be difficult for the person to recognise that their "friend" is not real; at other times, they can be recognised as not being real, but are still used to offer comfort and company.
When I was three, I had one imaginary friend. When I was thirteen, I had five.
by Peeves April 12, 2004
3
A person or whatever it may be that you become friends with but no one else can see. The most common name for an 'imaginary friend' is Bob.
Person #1- I have 4 million imaginary friends named Bob, so we have to wait for them before we can go to the mall.
Person #2- Um, okay...
Person #2- Um, okay...
by BoB April 22, 2005
4
A figment of the imagination usually made up by little kids who dont have many friends or have a hard childhood life. Or by some insecure teenagers who have to pretend they have friends to impress people. Also made up by insecure friendless adults who pretend like they go out with someone when its all imaginary and made up in thier head.
Sal pretended to have a friend to impress people. People ended up finding out the imaginary friend was a lie and just an act of compensation to make up for his dull life.
by Sal's imaginary friend Bob December 27, 2007
5
A constant companion that nobody can see except children and the religious.
When I was a child my imaginary friends used to talk about me behind my back.
by The Glans Punis May 21, 2005
6
For Christians, is Jesus.
For Muslims, is Allah. For Jews, is Jehovah. For Zaroastrians, is Ahura-Mazda.
For Muslims, is Allah.
For Jews, is Jehovah.
For Zaroastrians, is Ahura-Mazda.
Q: What's the difference between a Christian and a Five-year-old child?
A: A Five-year-old child doesn't insist that his imaginary friend is King of the Universe.
A: A Five-year-old child doesn't insist that his imaginary friend is King of the Universe.
by ChipSlap August 20, 2006
7
a living person who you talk to constantly but never see them.
i wish i could see my imaginary friend
by humhumhumhum July 27, 2010 |
Open Question Answering | As in previous LCMS convention years,
Reporter asked the five nominees for Synod president this year to answer in writing questions related to issues in the Synod — some of which will no doubt be considered during the Synod convention July 14-19 in Houston. Here are those questions and the answers from nominees, in alphabetical order. Question 2: What other issues do you think need to be addressed in the Synod over the next three years? Dr. William R. Diekelman response:
We must thank all the professional church workers in the LCMS, including our seminary and university faculties, for the leadership they bring to the church. They are instrumental in caring for the church today and raising up leaders for tomorrow.
In the years ahead, we must be focused on recruiting and retaining professional church workers, developing new ways to fund university and seminary education, deploying more missionaries into the mission field, embracing diverse cultures by providing Gospel proclamation to all people; identifying and incorporating new funding models for the church, maintaining strong youth ministry, engaging the aging, and expanding volunteer opportunities here and abroad.
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Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick response: Integration of doctrine and practice, acknowledging our solidarity in doctrine while addressing disagreements over how, in a culture largely indifferent or hostile toward Christianity, to put that doctrine into practice. Continuing encouragement for congregational leaders to recruit future church workers and to support our seminaries, colleges, and universities in training them for 21st-century mission and ministry. Proper compensation and care for professional church workers, many of whom struggle or leave church work due to financial concerns or other stress.
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Rev. Daniel Preus response:
Nothing is more precious to sinful people than the message of forgiveness that is ours through the life, suffering, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. In our society that is becoming increasingly more secular, it should be the goal of every pastor and congregation in our Synod to reach as many people as possible with this saving Gospel message. This outreach will happen when God’s Word is proclaimed clearly in our own congregations. The Holy Spirit will then, through the power of His Word, strengthen and motivate our pastors and laypeople to bring the message of the Gospel to those around them. Growth strategies based on marketing models popular in the secular world are not appropriate in the church, nor will our church be blessed through the use of such programs. Our Synod was created and is designed to help the congregations, not to rule over the congregations, and thus will be most effective when it operates from the bottom up instead of from the top down.
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Dr. Wallace R. Schulz response:
To reduce politics and heal divisions, we need to return to an early polity of the LCMS with each congregation sending one pastor and one layperson to the national convention. Representation brings involvement. Involvement brings prayer and financial support. Impossible? If the LCMS youth can bring together 30,000 people, then the adults surely should be able to get together 12,000 people for a triennial convention!
To help an ailing plant, Jesus said, “Dig around it and put in fertilizer.” We need to cultivate and fertilize the roots — Christ’s people — in our congregations (Luke 13:8-9).
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Dr. John C. Wohlrabe response:
We should strengthen pastoral education, as well as improving the care of our pastors and other church workers, studying attrition and retention rates, salaries, congregational relations, and encouraging evangelical mentoring. We must maintain excellent Lutheran education in all of our schools. And we should examine restructuring on synodical and district levels to provide the best stewardship of resources, while maintaining our traditional polity that balances clergy and laity.
———- (Click here to read responses to Question 1: What, in your opinion, is the most pressing issue facing The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod today? And how would you, as president, address it?) (Click here to read responses to Question 3: The Synod’s Blue Ribbon Task Force for Funding the Mission has submitted its report, which offers 11 recommendations to the 2007 LCMS convention. Please share your thoughts about the task force report.) ( Click here to read responses to Question 4: What’s your opinion of Ablaze!, the three-year-old Synodwide initiative to share the Gospel with 100 million “unreached or uncommitted” people worldwide by 2017?) Posted June 1, 2007 |
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Open Question Answering | Series Title: Growing in knowledge of Jesus Christ Scripture Readings Hebrews 8:1-13 Colossians 2:13-23 Introduction
We are still approaching this letter of Paul under the topic,
Growing in our knowledge of Jesus Christ. We continue from where we stopped last week, and the sermon title is still “Jesus Christ only, no if’s no but’s”.
One of the conditions imposed on me for having a dog in the house, was that it should be bathed at least once a week, less it starts smelling like a dog.
I quite like dunking the little fellow in the water and pouring the shampoo over him. Of course I have to use the dedicated towel for him. So, after shampooing and scrubbing he gets a good rub with the towel. See, his feet need to be dry before he hits the ground so he does not leave any footprints.
What I’ve notice over and over again, is that, although I know I have done a good job of drying him, he still adds that shaking that dogs do when they come out of water. And every time I think he thinks that I am not doing a good job of drying him.
It seems sinners are by nature not happy and satisfied with the work of salvation in Jesus Christ. Although his work on the cross, his resurrection from the dead, his ascension into heaven, and his intercession before the Father is really all we need, we still want to give that final “shake” to complete the job.
This was the problem with some members of the church in Colossae.
We in part looked at the problem of some Christians who had been Jews before. They still demanded, that although we are saved by grace and not be good works, that members of the church must be circumcised like in the time of the Old Testament. Paul’s argument is that neither circumcision, nor baptism saves. What saves is the gif of grace in Jesus Christ. Both circumcision and baptism are signs of the grace of redemption, and must not be seen as an addition to grace to complete it. This can be understood as ceremonialism.
But there were other people, the Gnostics, who had an impact on the theology of the Colossians.
What if the knowledge becomes scares?
If becomes so easy to fall for every good sounding theology if we don’t know the Scriptures. Dr Albert Mohler wrote and article and titled it “The scandal of Biblical illiteracy.” He quotes researchers in his essay:
“Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels. Many Christians cannot identify more than two or three of the disciples. According to data from the Barna Research Group, 60 percent of Americans can’t name even five of the Ten Commandments. ‘No wonder people break the Ten Commandments all the time. They don’t know what they are,” said George Barna, president of the firm. The bottom line? “Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.’Multiple surveys reveal the problem in stark terms.”
According to 82 percent of Americans, “God helps those who help themselves,” is a Bible verse. Those identified as born-again Christians did better–by one percent. A majority of adults think the Bible teaches that the most important purpose in life is taking care of one’s family. Some of the statistics are enough to perplex even those aware of the problem. A Barna poll indicated that at least 12 percent of adults believe that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. Another survey of graduating high school seniors revealed that over 50 percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife. A considerable number of respondents to one poll indicated that the Sermon on the Mount was preached by Billy Graham. We are in big trouble.
If we don’t know the Bible everything which is sugar-coated with something that sounds like a Bible verse will be excepted for the truth.
Gnosticism – the old New Age Ceremonialism and gnosticism are almost opposites of one another. But Paul calls both of them hollow and deceptive. They are mere philosophies, which sound interesting but are devoid of any meaning. And the reason why Paul calls them deceptive is spelled out in verse 19: They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. (Colossians 2:19, NIV)
The term “head” here clearly refers to Jesus Christ. Any theology or teaching that preaches something or someone else than Jesus Christ is distracting from salvation, it’s misleading, it’s false, it’s like Paul says in Galatians 1:
Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! (Galatians 1:7–9, NIV)
In direct contrast to these descriptions stands the gospel: where the “philosophy” deceives people, the gospel is “true,” “reliable” (1:5); where the “philosophy” is “empty,” “devoid of spiritual value,” the gospel is powerful and transforming (1:6, 23). Human philosophies depends on human tradition and does not put the sinner contact with the Saviour.
Gnostic texts often describe God as incomprehensible, unknowable, and transcendent. Gnosticism held (and here it
sounds like the Bible) that God cannot be observed with our senses nor easily grasped with our understanding. Where it really differs from the Bible is the way to know God. They taught to know God was through mystical knowledge – a way of working your way up to God. Paul contrast this with the statement: My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. (Colossians 2:2–4, NIV)
Gnostics held that the world was not created by the “Ultimate Ground of Being” (God), but by a lesser deity resulting from the fall of the divine personification of Wisdom. Paul answers this with this statement:
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:15–17, NIV)
They believed that humans are split between the physical and spiritual world where the true human self is as alien to the world as is the transcendent God. According to gnosticism the true human self or soul is naturally divine, belonging to the same realm as the Ultimate Ground of Being, but is trapped and imprisoned by the material world. Gnosis, or knowledge, is what frees man. The problem is just that there is no specific knowledge of knowledge. This knowledge is not factual, intellectual, rational knowledge. Man will forever be searching. It is airy fairy stuff.
Paul gets stuck into the philosophisers and call what they preach weak and miserable elements. They thought they were wise and clever; but their teaching is just what Paul refers to in Galatians 4:
So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. (Galatians 4:3, NIV)
Maybe what they preached was nothing but primitive religion dressed up in learned terminology. Gnostics of the day were in essence the dressed-up philosophers of primitive ideas about this world where fire, air, water and earth played very important pillars in their worldview. These elements were then looked upon as divine elements, and the so-called balance between then should not be disturbed; they were worshipped as deities.
And of course the modern day version of this is Green theology: we worship Mother Earth and keep her happy so we can be happy!
The danger then for the Colossians was that these philosophies was presenting something else
in the place of Christ.
Modern day full blown gnostics believe in reincarnation, the duality of God as both masculine and feminine, and cling to ideas how we can best advance our souls for God – while living with the negativity here on Earth. And how much do we here about karma these days!
There were and are hybrid gnostics too. They are the sugar-coated ones. Although they might broadly refer to the Scriptures, they apply post-modernistic principles in understanding it. Some believe in finding their own truth, and don’t believe in “hell,” “sin,” or that Jesus came to die for our sins. He was a human messiah who served as a living example of how we should think and behave. They believe in an all-loving, all-merciful and benevolent God and in the power of prayer (or meditation – this form of prayer is nothing less than a DIY-feel-better, self-improvement religion).
They teach that we write a ‘chart’ for each life, and we must learn the life lessons we have chosen to learn through experience – to reach our own desired level of perfection for God, who loves us unconditionally and equally. How many times are we bombarded with the text not to judge others!
Modern day New Age philosophies, earth theologies with it’s importance to preserve mother earth (or as we know Green political principles), are not much different from the primitive philosophies of Paul’s time. What is somewhat difficult these days is that it is sometimes presented as academic speech. Someone writes:
“Environmentalism, as a religion of hope and respect for nature, is here to stay. This is a religion that we can all share, whether or not we believe that global warming is harmful.”
The Theology or Environmentalism is hostile towards Christianity. Some environmentalists blame Christians for the so-called destruction of the environment, basing their arguments on Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (Genesis 1:28, NIV)
A very prominent environmentalist spells out a plan of action:
“Even though ‘no new set of basic values’ will ‘displace those of Christianity,’ perhaps Christianity itself can be reconceived. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious.”
Churches who have lost their grip on the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him only have fallen for this and designed a new theology of the environment. A new phrase in theology is “creation care” – good well sounding phrase, but loaded with undertones. In the end what Paul says in Romans 1 can once again capture the so-called modern mind:
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Romans 1:21–25, NIV) The knowledge of Jesus Christ
On the other hand Paul gives a few remarkable statements:
In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, (Colossians 2:9) He is the perfect King and Saviour. Not like the gnostics believed! In Christ is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:3). Not like the gnostics or modern day human philosophies believe! By Him and for Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16). Not like the gnostics believed! This Jesus, this Christ, we may know! By faith we are united with Him. In prayer we can talk to Him, knowing the He intercedes for us at the throne of the Father. We are saved by God’s act of grace, not be ceremonies (Colossians 2:12). Our sins are forgiven and by faith we are united with Him who is our Saviour (Colossians 2:13) Conclusion
We will have to continue next week and find out more about Christ alone, no if’s, no but’s. Let’s thank God for the fulness of his Son who has become our Saviour.
Amen
Sermon preached by Rev D Rudi Schwartz on Sunday 24 January 2016 |
Open Question Answering | Deputy Director of the VNSO Trinh Tung Linh granted an interview to Thoi nay (Present day) publication of Nhan Dan (The People’s) Newspaper on the development of classic music in Vietnam.
Q: This is the 12th year the ‘subscription concerts’ were held. How do you assess their overall efficiency?
Actually, this programme has been very effective because the audiences know the orchestra's annual schedule in advance and can choose a time to see performances. This has of course required us to make plans very early and invite guest performers up to half a year earlier. We have already arranged the schedule with foreign conductors for shows in 2018. A:
This performing model has attracted a larger numbers of people to the performances. In most programmes, around 70% of tickets are sold, including 15%-20% regular clientele. In recent years, the number of people attending the VNSO’s concerts has been relatively stable.
Q: So, have those concerts brought profits to the orchestra?
Not yet. It is difficult to create profits right now due to subscription concerts, even in foreign countries. However, they can bring about profit in the future. The Hanoi Opera House has a limited number of seats, so if we want to have profits soon, we have to increase the ticket price. This is a regular activity and there are many intimate audiences who have enjoyed the orchestra’s performances every month, so we cannot raise the fare. A:
Furthermore, the number of attendees also depends on the season. For example, we have not organised the subscription concert in July because this month is the peak time of the summer vacation and a large number of audiences go on vacation.
Since the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism set out plans to bring high-quality musical programmes into the Hanoi Opera House, the opera house’s managers have supported the orchestra to promote their concerts. However, they have only introduced the programmes on its website and displayed advertising banners around the performing area.
Q: Why has the orchestra changed its performing style? The outdoor concert staged by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) last month attracted a large number of audiences. Meanwhile, in a subscription concert in 2015, the VNSO also played Symphony No.2 by Rachmaninov, however the audience was not as enthusiastic.
The LSO’s concert was held at the Ly Thai To Flower Park on the pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem Lake, so it attracted a large number of pedestrians. However, outdoor programmes like that require the use of speakers, microphones and electronic sound systems, so sound quality cannot compare with concerts in the auditorium. A:
The VNSO has also organised numerous programmes in different styles such a concert in combination with a flashmob performance in December in front of the Hanoi Opera House, outdoor tours, special concerts and programmes for children. The programmes’ contents and performing styles are very close to many audiences. However, subscription concerts are for a certain number of audiences and space must meet standards for the sound of classical music.
Our audience members give the most accurate remarks in regards to the quality of the concerts. The increasing number of audiences has demonstrated the VNSO’s successes.
Thank you very much!
Initiated in 2005, the subscription concerts have featured well-known symphony works by Vietnamese and foreign composers. There are about 10 programmes each year, with the participation of famous artists in the country and around the world. Currently, the concerts have around 100 regular audience members.
The subscription concert vol.100 on April 14 featured guests: the bugler Premysl Vojta, the trombonist Michael Massong and the trumpeter Martin Griebl, from Germany; and Japanese oboist Maekawa Kosei. The concert was conducted by Honna Tetsuji, the music director of VNSO.
The VNSO, together with foreign artists, performed “Tieng vong” (The Echo) by musician Do Hong Quan and the Symphony No.7 C major, op.60 “LENINGRAD” by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. |
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Open Question Answering | I’ve been using this construct since I started programming in
C.I didn’t come to it myself, but I don’t recall anyone teaching it to me explicitly either.It was common knowledge back then. I was completely sure it was still common knowledge until very recently.One colleague asked me about it during a routine code inspection procedure, and I couldn’t explain it then.I’ll try to do it now.
The syntax of a macro invocation with parameters in
C/C++ is identical to that of a function call.In some cases it can cause confusion but usually it is convenient, because it makes it possible to switch fromfunction implementation to macro and back:
The same applies to void functions:
One can call
dump(x) anywhere in the code without knowing if it is a function or a macro.
Now consider the following problem: make a void function-style macro with two (or more) statements in it. Take the following function:
Now we want to convert it into a macro:
It is easy to see why it is wrong. These are two statements instead of one, so it won’t work where exactly one statement is expected:
which will expand as
The
printf will be called if
some_condition is true, while
x will be assigned
1 in any case.
In our specific example there is another thing that is wrong: it can’t handle parameters with side-effects. It is sufficient to try calling
and see what happens.
Ok, then, maybe wrapping in curly brackets will work? It could fix both problems:
The reason this won’t work is more subtle: it is that
C requires semicolon after any statement except for compoundstatement. A function call is followed by a semicolon; but if we put semicolon after this macro invocation,we’ll have two statements: a compound statement and an empty statement. There are places where exactly one statementis allowed, for instance in the
if statement:
This will be expanded as
This won’t compile, because the empty statement (a solitary semicolon) effectively terminates any
if statementsthat were opened at that point. On a positive side, it just won’t compile; previous solution compiled but didn’t work.However, we can do better.
What we need is some structure that naturally ends with a semicolon but allows many statements inside.This is where a
do statement comes handy:
(I remind you that a
while condition in a
do statement is a post-condition: it is checked after the iteration;this means that this
do loop executes exactly once).
The above example is then expanded as
and this compiles correctly.
For some people this looks like an ugly hack; for others it looks like a beautiful hack.Languages that do not require semicolons (such as
Go), or languages that allow multiple statements everywhereautomatically (such as Modula-2) don’t experience this difficulty; but usually they don’t have macros either,so the problem is not relevant there. P.S.
In the above example I deliberately pretended that I didn’t know the comma operator. Many multi-statement macros do not allow implementation using comma, but this specific example does. The first naive attempt
fails miserably.
C does not guarantee the order of execution of function parameters, and the behaviour isundefined. In
gcc the order is exactly the opposite to the one we wanted, so this code
prints
Changing value from 15 to 15
This is a better code:
This code works, but suffers from mentioned side-effect issue. This can be resolved, too, by using a global variable:
but this is definitely an ugly hack.
P.P.S.
There are still cases where one can use functions but not macros of this type. I can think of two. One is where two void functions are combined using comma operator:
Neither of them can be replaced with a macro using the
do technique. Another case if a
for statement:
Here
f() and
h() can be
void functions but not macros with compound statements inside. Fortunately, these areexotic cases.
P.P.P.S.
There is at least one more language construct (apart from
do) that can be used this way. This is an
if statement: |
Open Question Answering | Why do I want to go to law school anyhow?
I should probably have done this earlier: talk about why I'm going to law school.
My short answer: to assert positive change and fight corruption.
My long answer: A book I was reading recently mentioned the term "valence." It claimed that if philosophy students thought that getting a PhD in Philosophy had the same valence as getting a degree in law, then people wouldn't go to law school (I hope I got that right). As a Phil Major, that spoke to me. In my 4th year, one of my profs suggested that a paper I wrote on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics could be the start of a Master's thesis. So I thought about the PhD route. But, after much deliberation, I decided that wasn't for me. So I thought, what other profession allows its members to assert positive change? Law. It was basically a process of elimination.
What is social justice anyhow? I think many students go into law because they think they want to change the world (for the better?) and/or contribute to social justice. But, without having studied law, do we really know what we're talking about? Honestly, I don't think it matters. Some Christians (not me) are guided by "what would Jesus do?" while others ask themselves "what would my mother think?" I believe we are all capable to knowing right versus wrong - even lawyers.
Two points I should make (just in case you're wondering):
- I'm not an aspiring politician.
- I'm not going into law to make money. |
Open Question Answering | I just finished some new underwear. I made 3 pairs, another pair of the hipsters from Jalie 2568 and two bikini styles; one from Jalie 2568 and one from Jalie 2564.
Jalie 2568 Pattern Description:
Camisole with lace-trimmed rounded square front neckline. The scoop back neckline and armholes are finished with picot edge elastic. Hipster (A) with lace-trimmed waistband and hemmed leg openings (no elastic). Leg opening can be finished with picot edge elastic for better support. Bikini (B) with lace trimmed waistband and picot elastic at leg openings. Both panties are offered with a choice of high or low waistline. Brazilian hipster (C) designed for wide stretch lace and available in adult sizes only.
I made view A (navy blue pair) - hipster - with FOE at the waist and lingerie elastic at the leg openings and view B (white pair) - low waist bikini - with FOE at the waist and picot edge elastic at the leg openings.
Pattern Sizing:
F-FF 22" to 53" hips. I made size U (39" hips) for both.
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it?
Yes.
Were the instructions easy to follow?
The instructions are very clear with short written instructions and detailed drawings.
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?
I love the style and fit of the hipster panties. They are just like the American Eagle underwear I buy. I also love Jalie patterns. They are well drafted and the results look very RTW. I don't like the bikini's as much but that is just personal taste and has nothing to do with the pattern.
Fabric Used:
Navy and white cotton lycra knit (90% cotton/10% lycra) for the panties and a beige cotton lycra knit (90% cotton/10% lycra) for the crotch lining.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made:
I extended the crotch lining so that there was more coverage towards the front. Also instead of using lace on the waistband, I used Fold-over elastic.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others?
I have sewn the hipster view many times in the past and will make many more.
Conclusion:
Great underwear pattern.
Jalie 2564 View A: Long camisole with built-in shelf bra and adjustable straps. View B: Double front pull-on bra with adjustable straps. Both tops can be finished with fold-over elastic or stretch lace trim. View C: Bikini or brief finished with visible fold-over elastic, stretch lace trim or fold-under 1 cm (3/8") knit elastic. Pattern Description:
I made view C - bikini with FOE at the waistline and fold-under elastic (picot edge elastic) at the leg openings.
F-FF 22" hips to 53" hips. I made size U (39" hips). Pattern Sizing: Yes. Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it? The instructions are very clear with short written instructions and detailed drawings. Were the instructions easy to follow? What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?
I liked that the style is very current, no granny panties here. And I liked that it was a Jalie pattern which means it went together very well, is well drafted and the result looks very RTW but the coverage on the backside is a lot less than I would like.
Fabric Used:
White cotton lycra knit (90% cotton/10% lycra) for the panties and a beige cotton lycra knit (90% cotton/10% lycra) for the crotch lining.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made:
No changes other than to use FOE at the waistband.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others?
I don't think I would sew these again because I would like more coverage but if you want a skimpy bikini panty this is the pattern to use.
Conclusion:
Good pattern but not my style. |
Open Question Answering | lOWER SUBORDINATE UP PCS 2014
Exam Name lOWER SUBORDINATE UP PCS 2014 Description lOWER SUBORDINATE UP PCS 2014 Exam Type PUBLIC Authenticity 10 creator san(162) The largest proven oil reserve of the world lies in;
Answer:
Which one of the following cities of California (USA) is not located within the Silicon Valley ?
Answer:
The longest rock tunnel of the world is located in :
Answer:
Which of the following regions is the original habitat of ,Toda Tribe,?
Answer:
Which one of the following statements is not correct ?
Answer:
Which one of the following is not temperate grass land ?
Answer:
Which of the following longitudes is known as Standard Meridean in India ?
Answer:
India has been divided into how many Seismic Risk Zones ?
Answer:
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
Answer:
Which one of the following Aluminium Companies has been given Navaratna Status by the Government of India ?
Answer:
Match list -I with List -II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List -I a. Bhotia b Toda c. Sentenel d. Birhor List-II 1. Tamil Nadu 2. Jharkhand 3. Sikkim 4. Andaman Nicobar Island
List -I a. Bhotia b Toda c. Sentenel d. Birhor
List-II 1. Tamil Nadu 2. Jharkhand 3. Sikkim 4. Andaman Nicobar Island
Answer:
Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?
Answer:
Which one of the following eco regions of India is not correctly matched ?
Answer:
Which one of the following statements is not correct ?
Answer:
Which one of the following is not a Fundamental Right ?
Answer:
Which one of the following is not a Directive Principle of State Policy ?
Answer:
Which one of the following statements is not correct ?
Answer:
Match list -I with List -II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List-I Centre- A Kankinara B. Virudhnagar C. Channapatna D.Bhadohi List-II Industry: 1.Carpet 2.Jute 3. Cotton Textile 4. Silk
List-I Centre- A Kankinara B. Virudhnagar C. Channapatna D.Bhadohi
List-II Industry: 1.Carpet 2.Jute 3. Cotton Textile 4. Silk
Answer:
The objective of Indian Constitution is reflected in which of the following ?
Answer:
The Vice President of India, 1. is the second highest dignitary of India. 2. has no formal function attached to his office. 3. discharges the functions of the President during his absence. 4. acts as President, if the President resigns or is removed or dies Select the correct answer from the code given below:
1. is the second highest dignitary of India.
2. has no formal function attached to his office.
3. discharges the functions of the President during his absence.
4. acts as President, if the President resigns or is removed or dies
Select the correct answer from the code given below:
Answer: |
Open Question Answering | Q: What is UNZ.org?
A: The UNZ.org website is intended to provide convenient access to a large quantity of high-quality content material, mostly published over the last 150 years in America and England, including both articles and books, encompassing over one million readable items and titles of another million items not readable due to copyright. Much of this material has never previously been available anywhere on the Internet and should be useful for researchers and intellectual historians.
Q: Why do you include non-readable articles and books?
A: The inclusion of the copyright-excluded material allows users to examine a more nearly complete collection of a given author's writings, even if many of the particular items themselves are currently unavailable due to copyright. If necessary, many of these other items can often be accessed and read on other websites or content systems, especially in the case of extent publications. Furthermore, there is a chance that at some future point these publications will be released for reading on this website as well.
Q: The website seems very different than when I previously visited. What's the story?
A: The current Version 2.0 release of UNZ.org incorporates major design changes from the previous version, but nearly all of the same underlying printed content is still available. Given the relatively slight use of the previous links to external videos and webzines, these portions have been removed, thereby streamlining access to the printed materials which constitute the main value of the system. Another major change has been the widespread use of Javascript, rendering most of the pages "reactive" as you begin entering information.
Q: How do I find a given author or publication?
A: Most of the main pages of the website contain one or more "Reactive Clouds," with the names of various authors or publications. Javascript functions cause these Clouds to "react" and change the displayed information as you begin typing in the entry boxes. For example, as you enter the first few letters of an author's name on the Home page, the Clouds adjust to display only those authors whose names begin with those letters. Similar adjustments occur as you start typing in a particular decade or year, or if you select one of the drop-down settings or other filter. This allows you to quickly focus in on the individuals you are seeking based on your particular criteria.
At any point, the relative size of the names in a given Cloud indicates the volume of underlying content material associated with that name. Meanwhile, the color indicates what fraction of the content material is readable (for copyright reasons): bright blue indicates mostly readable, dark blue indicates partly readable, and black means mostly unreadable
Q: How do I find a given article or book?
A: The main Articles and Books pages, as well as the Overview tabs for individual authors or publications, display a Listing of articles (or books) towards the bottom of the page. Like the Clouds, these Listings are "reactive" and automatically adjust as you being typing in any of the information in the various data entry fields---Title, Author, Publication, or Period, displaying only those items that match your selection.
Q: What about the individual publications?
A: When you reach the pages associated with a given publication, you can examine the contents in a number of different ways, accessed via the different tabs. The default Overview tab gives you the Cloud of authors for that publication plus the Listing of individual articles, with both of these being "reactive" as you provide information in the Title, Author, or Period fields.
There are also several other tabs. The Tree tab displays a dynamic tree allowing the individual time periods, issues, and articles to be opened for greate detail. The Year Contents tab displays the tables of contents for all the issues of a given year, the Issues, Small Covers, and Large Covers tabs display those views of the contents for a given decade, and the All Years tab provides an overview of the entire archive of the periodical. In addition, the drop down field in the control bar may be used to explore the different periods. All these pages allow for convenient browsing of the contents of a given periodical and clicking on any of the individual links accessing more detailed information.
Q: How does Searching work?
A: As mentioned above, much of the exploration of the website contents is normally performed by browsing the various different pages or entering information into the various text fields and having the displayed information automatically adjust. Actual Searches are performed in a parallel manner, by entering the target information into the data fields and then pressing the Search button (or simply hitting Enter). The system then performs a Search across the selected Text, Title, Author, and other information and displays the findings in a new Search Results tab.Searches may be performed on any of these individual pages, or on the Power Search page, which allows for more detailed Searches across all content material. |
Open Question Answering | August 2, 2010 Posted by: Atty. James Biron Category: Special Laws
After some years of waiting we finally have a law, which will regulate the practice of psychology and psychometrics here in the Philippines. Congress recently passed the Psychology Act of 2009 in recognition of the important roles played by psychologists and psychometricians in our country as well as the need to protect the public from inexperienced and untrained individuals from offering psychological services.
What will follow is a list of the important provisions of the Psychology Act of 2009 which are broken down into their important components for easy understanding.
What is meant by “psychology”?
It is the scientific study of the human behavior. This involves the application of scientific methods to inquire into the:
biological cognitive affective developmental personality social cultural individual
difference dimensions of human behavior.
What is meant by “practice of psychology”?
Consists of the delivery of psychology services that involve application of psychological principles and procedures for the purpose of understanding, predicting and growth and functioning.
The delivery of psychological services includes, but is not limited to:
1. psychological interventions:
psychological counseling psychotherapy psychosocial support coaching psychological debriefing group processes all other psychological interventions that involve the application of psychological principles to impress psychological functioning of individuals, families, groups and organizations
2. psychological assessment: gathering and integration of psychological-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation, accomplished through a variety of tools, including:
individual tests projective tests clinical interview other psychological assessment tools
for the purpose of assessing diverse psychological functions including:
cognitive abilities aptitudes personality characteristics attitudes values interests emotions motivations
in support of:
psychological counseling psychotherapy and other psychological interventions
3. psychological programs:
development planning implementation monitoring evaluation
of psychological treatment for individuals and/or groups
What are the requirements in order for a person to be called a “psychologist”?
He or she must be:
natural person duly registered holds a: valid certificate of registration valid professional identification card as professional psychologist (the card must be issued by the Regulatory Board of Psychology and the Processional Regulatory Commission What are the requirements in order for a person to be called a “psychometrician”?
He or she must be:
natural person duly registered holds a: valid certificate of registration valid professional identification card as professional psychometrician (the card must be issued by the Regulatory Board of Psychology and the Processional Regulatory Commission A “psychometrician” is allowed to perform what functions?
A psychometrician is allowed to perform the following:
1. administer and score:
objective personality tests structured personality tests
excluding:
projective tests other higher level forms of psychological tests
2. interpret results of these tests and preparing a report on these results
3. conduct preparatory intake interviews of clients for psychological intervention sessions
Who are required to take the psychology and psychometrics licensure examination?
All applications for registration to practice psychology and psychometrics shall be required to pass a licensure examination for psychologists and psychometricians to be conducted by the board in such places and dates, and subject to such requirements prescribed by the Commission.
What are the requirements to take the licensure exam for psychologists?
The following are the requirements that a person must show to the Board before he or she can take the licensure exam for psychologists:
The applicant must be a Filipino citizen, a permanent resident or a citizen of a foreign country which extends to the Philippines relative to the practice of the profession He or she must hold at least a master’s degree in psychology conferred in by an education institution in the Philippines or abroad, provided that the when it was conferred abroad, the school must be recognized or accredited by CHED. He or she must also obtain sufficient credits for the subjects covered in the exam. The applicant must have undergone a minimum of 200 hours of supervised practicum/ internship/ clinical experience related to the practice of psychology and under the auspices of a psychologist or other mental health professional. He or she must be of good moral character. The applicant must not have been convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude. For example, if the applicant was convicted for murder he or she will not be allowed to take the exam because the offense involves moral turpitude. But if the applicant was convicted for an offense involving negligence, he or she may still take the exam because the offense does not involve moral turpitude. What are the requirements to take the licensure exam for psychometricians?
Same as the requirements for those desiring to take the licensure exam for psychologists, except:
Instead of a master’s degree, a bachelor’s degree will suffice. There is no 200-hour internship experience requirement. Who can register as a psychologist without taking the licensure exam?
A person who possesses the qualifications required to take the licensure exam may register without taking the exam, provided that:
The person files, with the Board, within 3 years after its creation, an application for registration and issuance of certificate of registration and professional ID by submitting credentials to the Board that the applicant had, on or prior to the effectivity of this Act fulfilled any of these requirements:
He/she obtained a PhD in Psychology and had accumulated a minimum of 3 years in the practice of psychology. He/she obtained Masters in Psychology and had accumulated a minimum of 5 years in the practice of psychology. He/she has a Bachelors degree in Psychology and had accumulated a minimum of 10 years of work experience, currently employed as a psychologist and who have updated their professional education in various psychology related functions. Who can register as a psychometrician without taking the licensure exam?
A person who possesses the qualifications required to take the licensure exam may register without taking the exam, provided that:
The person files, with the Board, within 3 years after its creation, an application for registration and issuance of certificate of registration and professional ID by submitting credentials to the Board that the applicant had, on or prior to the effectivity of this Act fulfilled all of this requirements:
He/she has a Bachelors degree in Psychology Had accumulated a minimum of 2 years full time work experience in the practice of psychometrics What is the passing grade for the licensure exam for psychologists and psychometricians?
The examinee should attain a General Weighted Average (GWA) of 75% for all the subjects with none of the exam receiving a score of 60% or less.
What if my GWA is 75% or more but in one subject I received less than 60% will I still pass the exam?
No, because not one of the exams taken should result to a grade of less than 60% as stated above.
What if I obtained 60% or less in one of the subjects, can I still retake the exam?
Yes, you can. The good news is that you need not take the whole exam but only the subjects which you failed. Note that this exam should be taken within 2 years from the time the last exam was taken. |
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Open Question Answering | What is common to both these films?
Not really an exhaustive list, but I have not find many other films that have done this.
But then these films have done pretty much the same thing at ‘
the other end‘…
Cracked by Mrinalini, NitishK, Champakali & kcgadiyar.
Answer: Paa opens with Jaya Bachchan
reading out the opening credits, similar to the opening credits being spoken in Farenheit 451. The 4 films below did the same, except in the closing credits.
Which famous tribute album?
Went uncracked. 😦
Answer:
Dus – A Tribute to Mukul Anand. Mukul Anand left the film Dus unfinished when he passed away in 1997. The film was never completed, and only the music album was released with songs like Hindustani by Shankar Mahadevan.
What did both of them win National Awards for?
Cracked by NitishK, Mrinalini, VarunG, Nishanth & Rajeev.
Answer:
Shyamali and Tarun,along with another child artiste – Shruti, won the National Award for Best Child Artists for Mani Ratnam’s ‘ Anjali’,
Manish Achuth, Alleycat, Varun Gupta and woenvu were all looking in the right direction.
I’ll have the usual: Identify , explain and connect.
Cracked by:
Manish Achuth, Champakali, Ankit Sethi & Nitish Khadiya!
Answer:
Laila aur Majnu. 1. George Harrison and Patti Boyd – Clapton wrote the song Layla for Patti. 2. aaja nachle – the dance drama in the movie is laila majnu 3. Laila Majnu – the movie starring Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta Kaur 4. A painting depicting Laila and Majnu
Connect and explain.
Cracked by Ankit Sethi, Nitish Khadiya, Chamapakali &
Answer: “
Revenge is a dish best served cold” .Quoting CTD’s answer: it’s supposed to be taken from Dangerous Liaisons (wrongly attributed), the novel of which Cruel Intentions is an Adaptation. It appeared in Wrath of Khan as a Klingon proverb which was later used in Kill Bill as well |
Open Question Answering | In my last post I shared that early on in my journey, I misinterpreted the Father’s instruction to “learn everything Hebraic” to mean “learn everything Jewish.” And so that’s exactly what I did. With (what I believed to be) my directive in mind and the resources available to me, I dug into the subject of Judaism. In today’s post, I’ll share some of the intersting discoveries I made. Though it may have been an initial sidetrack, the information proved absolutely neccessary to understanding the relationship between Judaism and Scripture itself.
Today, Judaism is made up of three main branches or denominations:
1. Conservative – This group, for the most part, adheres to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism. They allow, however, for certain ‘permissible’ modifications and rejections of some of the ‘old’ views. They consider the apostle Peter an example of a ‘devout’ Jew making exceptions.
2. Orthodox – This branch strictly adheres to all practices and principles of traditional Judaism. They are devout to the study of the Torah, the Sabbath, the festivals, Holy days, and the dietary laws. They strive for daily attendance of their local Synagogue.
3. Reform – Those in this group apply themselves to a religious system that is based on the Orthodox Judaism, however they frequently simplify and even outright reject many of the traditional religious laws and customs that do not fit within their modern, even secular worldview.
In the United States, all three of these denominations are commonplace. In Israel, however, Judaism is primarily subdivided into either Orthodox or “non-religious”. The main differences between each group is based on several elements:
1. Liturgy (whether or not they emphasize the Hebrew language).
2. Observances (Sabbath, feast days, etc.)
3. Authorship of biblical writings, textual criticisms.
4. The role of the Messiah or Messianic age.
In direct contrast to the Orthodox, the non-Orthodox have a tendency to be much more ‘liberal’ in their thinking. I learned that the term Judaism includes a religious, a cultural, and ethnic mindset. For example, it is possible for one to reject the religious aspect entirely, and still be included within the system of Judaism.
This first dose of information was the easy part of my research. I was able to acquire it from both interviewing my Jewish friends and utilizing dictionaries to define specific terms. Still, the definitions I gathered did not satisfy the deeper questions of “how and why.”
I still needed to know:
1. Where and how did Judaism get started and what was its origin?
2. What customs and traditions did they modify from and reject from Scripture and how should that effect me?
Let’s start with the origins. I went back to my Jewish friends and asked them some basic questions. Where, when and how did Judaism begin? They all gave me pretty much the same answer: Abraham.
Was Abraham a Jew? I had never really given it much thought before, but now I was giving it almost all my thoughts. After this idea was introduced, my research focused on finding out everything I could about Abraham. The first place I turned was to the scriptures. It is in Genesis 10:26 that we are first introduced to Abram. “Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.” They lived in Ur of the Chaldeans, which is implied in verse 28 when it speaks of Haran’s death. Then again, definitively, in verse 31 when Terah took his family out of Ur of the Chaldeans with the intention of going to Canaan, but only went as far as Haran (verse 31).
There is also an account of Abram in the book of Yasher (Jasher, as it is pronounced in the English) that tells us that his father was a well loved captain of King Nimrod and an idol worshipper. It also tells us that Abram spent most of his life in hiding with his very great (as in several generations great) grandfather, Noah. It was Noah and his son Shem who taught Abram about God. Whether this is true or not, I cannot say, as there are some scholars who give little or no credence to the historicity of the book of Yasher. However, it is an interesting read and does (in my opinion) give us valuable insight into who Abram was and what God was calling him to leave behind.
In the seventeenth chapter of Genesis God changed Abram’s name, which meant “high or exalted father” to Abraham, which means “father of many or of a multitude.” Abraham is famous for being the father of both the Hebrews (through Isaac) and Arabs (through Ishmael).
Abraham was called a Hebrew in chapter fourteen, verse thirteen. This is when Lot, his nephew was taken hostage and a person escaped and ran to Abram to tell him what had happened. “Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew…” So now let’s look closely at the word Hebrew.
The word Hebrew means “to cross over”, or “to pass through”. In that time period it was used primarily to refer to the “crossing over” of a body of water specifically. As Abram crossed over the Euphrates River when going to Haran and then crossing back when leaving, he was now considered a Hebrew. In fact, it would appear, according to Yasher, that he crossed over more than a couple of times.
Now as the word Jew itself was not coined until the destruction of the second temple and not even used in written form until the time of King James in the early sixteen hundreds (I’ll get more into this at a later time) I determined that Abraham was not a Jew. Furthermore, based on the historical accounting of the word “Jew” we can safely assume that none of the Patriarchs were Jews either.
That would, of course, mean that Isaac, Abraham’s son was not a Jew and neither was Isaac’s son, Jacob. Jacob’s name, as we read in Genesis 32:28 was changed to Israel by the messenger of God he had wrestled with all night before meeting up with Esau, his brother. It was reiterated in Genesis 35:10 “And God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.’ So he called his name Israel.”
So in summary, we have learned:
Regardless of whether a person is born a Jew or whether they have converted to Judaism at some point in their lives, Jews are broken down into two main categories; religious and non-religious. However, the non-religious still “keep” some of the same customs as the religious, just not…religiously.
Abraham, while being considered the founder of Judaism, was in fact not a Jew and neither were his son or his grandson. At the end of this initial phase of research I came to the following conclusion: All Jews, regardless of whether they are Jew by birth or by conversion are Hebrews, but not all Hebrews are Jews. |
Open Question Answering | Mindset(2008) by Carol S. Dweck, a widely respected psychologist and researcher at Stanford University. Although the subtitle of the book, The New Psychology of Success, gave me pause because it sounds a little self-helpy for my taste, Dweck relates interesting scientific research in accessible prose -- a writing skill I highly esteem.
However, a paragraph in Dweck's introduction also made me pause and left me frustrated
Here's the passage:
"A little note about grammar. I know it and I love it, but I haven't always followed it in this book. I start sentences with andsand buts. I end sentences with prepositions. I use the plural theyin contexts that require the singular he or she. I've done this for informality and immediacy, and I hope the sticklers will forgive me" (x).
Ironically enough, the first sentence of her paragraph begins with an intentional fragment or what could be considered an ellipsis. In her excellent book
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects(5th ed.), Martha Kolln describes the latter, which she calls a "stylistic variation" that "refers to a sentence in which a part is simply left out, or understood" (223). In Dweck's first sentence, we can assume "Here is" or "I have a" is phrase that has been left out of the fragment, "A little note about grammar."
The sticklers she's worrying about would fault her for writing a sentence fragment -- if they noticed it.
Besides that first sentence or intentional fragment or ellipsis or whatever (note the use of polysyndeton), let's take a closer look at the injunctions Dweck worries about because of the "sticklers" out there:
Myth 1: Don't Start Sentences with Andsor But Myth 2: Don't End Sentences with Prepositions Myth 3: Don't Use Theyas a Singular Pronoun Myth 1: Don't Start Sentences with Andsor Buts
I never understood this misguided "rule" until I volunteered in my daughter's elementary school classroom. Imagine 24 second graders writing stories for their teacher and starting many of those sentences with
andsand buts.
This injunction reminds me of the same advice we hear in the writing center when writers tell us they were told never to start sentences with a
because. That directive is probably an unintended result of teachers trying to ward off sentence fragments.
I've had this "rule" used against me in various contexts -- when I was writing papers in college and even when I've published research. For me, it doesn't make much sense because writers can use those conjunctions for rhetorical effects. For example, think of a writer who describes many of the positive attributes of a political candidate but then ends the paragraph with this terse statement: "But he's not the right candidate for our district" or "But he's a crook."
Catherine Soanes on the blog of Oxford Dictionaries addresses this grammar myth/diktat in detail.
Likewise, here's further support for beginning sentences with
andsand buts: "Conjunctions" from Oxford Dictionaries relates, "You might have been taught that it’s not good English to start a sentence with a conjunction such as and or but. It’s not grammatically incorrect to do so, however, and many respected writers use conjunctions at the start of a sentence to create a dramatic or forceful effect," and "It’s best not to overdo it, but there is no reason for completely avoiding the use of conjunctions at the start of sentences." "Starting Sentences with 'And,' 'But,' and 'So': The Definitive Answer" from Plain Text "Starting Sentences with And or But" by Dr. Mark Womack "Conjunctions to Start Sentences" from Grammarist Myth 2: Don't End Sentences with Prepositions
Consider these sentences:
"Ending sentences with prepositions has never been a rule about which I've been concerned." "Ending sentences with prepositions has never been a rule I've been concerned about."
Of course, one could argue the second sentence would sound much better with a front-loaded (subject-verb-object) active voice construction like "I've never been concerned about ending sentences with prepositions," but I'm not going to get into the often stated presumption that active voice is
alwaysbetter.
That might be for another post, one that focuses on how certain disciplinary discourses
demandpassive voice constructions. In addition, Doug has written about staying active before.
For myth-busting purposes, I first went to my faded copy (6th edition) of William Zinsser's
On Writing Wellfor advice. He states, "The growing acceptance of the split infinitive, or of the preposition at the end of a sentence, proves that formal syntax can't hold the fort forever against a speaker's more comfortable way of getting the same thing said -- and shouldn't. I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of" (42).
And here are some links to resources that support the practice of placing prepositions at the end of sentences:
As "Ending Sentences with Prepositions" from Oxford Dictionaries states, "There’s no necessity to ban prepositions from the end of sentences. Ending a sentence with a preposition is a perfectly natural part of the structure of modern English." "Prepositions--Ending Sentences With" by Richard Nordquist, who provides a quotation from Garner's Modern American Usage. "Ending a Sentence with a Preposition" from Grammar Girl, who also provides an interesting "Top Ten Grammar Myths" for your perusal.
I also
highlyrecommend this video on the issue from one of the editors of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Myth 3: Don't Use Theyas a Singular Pronoun
This myth is one I'm having a hard time giving up because it's been instilled in me through years upon years of formal schooling. And giving up one's beliefs is difficult.
However, to provide a historical context for this one, I suggest reading "All-Purpose Pronoun" by Patricia T. O'Connor and Stewart Kellerman from the
New York Times. The authors relate how the use of "he" as the default singular pronoun started with Anne Fisher's A New Grammarin 1745 and has been reinforced ever since.
At the close of their article, they offer this conclusion: "It’s a shame that grammarians ever took umbrage at the singular they. After all, they gave you a slide. It began life as a plural object pronoun and evolved into the whole enchilada: subject and object, singular and plural. But umbrage the grammarians took, and like it or not, the universal they isn’t universally accepted — yet. Its fate is now in the hands of the jury, the people who speak the language."
Likewise, in "Is 'They' Acceptable as a Singular Pronoun?", Mark Nichol works readers through the options writers have with pronouns and opines near the end of the article that "I am flummoxed by the controversy over it [the use of
theyas a singular pronoun] and by the resistance of many people to accept it. Singular 'they' has long been used in literature and in conversation, and though it still has an informal taint, it seems to me absurd to resist adopting it when it satisfies an aching need."
One of my favorite sites on grammatical matters, Grammar Girl, presents a solid and reasoned approach about how to contend with this myth. Her advice, which I'll quote at length, is this: "everyone who hires writers or assigns writing needs to have a style guide entry on this topic. Writers can waste a lot of time trying to decide what to do (especially in organizations where people collaborate on documents), and it is better to have one single style that some people don't agree with than to have different writers doing different things so that company documents are all willy-nilly."
And she also provides her "bottom line": "Rewrite your sentences to avoid the problem. If that's not possible, check to see if the people you are writing for have a style guide. If not, use "he or she" if you want to play it safe, or use 'they' if you feel bold and are prepared to defend yourself."
Like Grammar Girl, I also think
theywill eventually become acceptable as a singular pronoun because language canand doeschange. But I wonder how long it's going to take.
Will I be alive to see it become acceptable?
Will you?
Why not follow Mahatma Gandhi's advice about being "the change you want to see in the world" and make that change
now? The Upshot
Of course, audience awareness is the huge factor here. Grammar Girl addresses this concern in her advice about ending sentences with prepositions, "because of the prevalent myth that it’s wrong to end sentences with prepositions, there are times when you should avoid doing it even though it isn’t wrong. For example, when you’re writing a cover letter to a potential employer, don’t end a sentence with a preposition. The person reading the letter could see it as an error. I always recommend following the most conservative grammar rules in job applications. I’d rather be hired than lose out on an opportunity because my grammar was correct--but perceived as wrong."
The same can be said for using
theyas a singular pronoun.
If I were to advocate anything here, I would propose we eradicate the so-called rules about conjunctions not being able to start sentences (Myth 1) and prepositions not being able to end sentences (Myth 2) as long as people use such constructions within reason and for rhetorical effects (there might be the rub).
To me, the distressing aspect of the first two myths is that people in power -- whether high school teachers, college professors, human resource directors, employers,
et al. -- are applying these diktats arbitrarily. They are passing on and reinforcing beliefs that are at best silly or at worst just pedagogically wrongheaded and aggravating.
Also, I'd like a formal ruling on using
theyas a singular pronoun, and I would prefer it be a positive ruling since wallowing through using he, she, s/he, his or heris just darn clunky.
Imagine if a decision were to made by an entity -- say a coalition of Oxford Dictionaries, the American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, NCTE, CCCC, WPA, MLA, APA, IEEE, Chicago Style, ASA, and others -- and the judgment was that
theycan serve as a first person singular pronoun?
On your local college's quadrangle, there would be students with bullhorns announcing, "Yes, we can
nowuse theyas a singular pronoun!" And crowds of students would cheer with hearty "Huzzahs!" Well, probably not. That's just a fantasy, but it's an overdue one.
But Grammar Girl's advice about audience/readers pulls me back to another passage in Dweck's book where she says, "You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind" (16).
These beliefs about conjunctions and prepositions lurch toward the picayune when you think about the big picture of what writing should do. Writing should make interesting/important points, marshal strong support, exemplify clarity, and be stylistically elegant, among other goals. Good writing should get the job done.
How often do those of us who are instructors not listen to students' ideas with an open mind because we're so focused on sentence-level concerns? Are we noticing errors because they disrupt our reading, or are we reading papers in an error-hunt mode?
Sure, sentence-level concerns are important, but they aren't the
onlyconcern. And getting angered by powerful myths about picayune matters might cloud your mind when reading students' papers. You can be seduced by mythical fussbudgetry.
When reading papers and responding to student writing, instructors have to make decisions about what's most important. Often we let established writers break some of the "rules" out there, such as split infinitives, fragments, and others. Joseph Williams' fine article, "The Phenomenology of Error," demonstrates that much and more.
For advice about changing one's mindset and ideas for productive methods for responding to student writing, I offer these links:
"13 Ways of Looking at Responding to Student Writing" by Doug Hesse "Responding to Writing" by Laura Brady "Responding to Student Writing" by Nancy Sommers "How Can I Handle Responding to Drafts?" main page from the WAC Clearinghouse "Think of Yourself First as a Reader" from the WAC Clearinghouse "Do I Have to be an Expert in Grammar to Assign Writing?" from the WAC Clearinghouse "Writing Matters #2: Responding to Student Writing" from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Writing Program
I hope you find the post and the links helpful, and I hope you can stave off mythical fussbudgetry. |
Open Question Answering | This is the forth in a series of blog posts about the pre-con sessions that we are running ahead of SQL Saturday 467
in Southampton in December 2015. In this post we will be focusing on Tobiasz's session on Windows Azure SQL Database - A Journey from Zero to be Hero
, so, over to a few words from Tobiasz.
Q: Tobiasz, can we have a quick background on who you are and what you do?
A: For the last year I'm a fully independent consultant and trainer, before this I spend over nine years in the data processing centre jungle, previously I spent over five years in banking sector, before... I'm focused on data (SQL Server) and collaboration (SharePoint) with a strong focus on security, audits and licensing aspects. I'm one of few Friends of RedGate (continuously for the last four years), and a member of several other community organizations. I'm also community leader and volunteer for the last twelve-fifteen years (not only in ICT sector) and the result of my work is well recognizable: I am a SQL Server MVP (sixth year in a row), and a member of the boards of: Polish Information Processing Society and Information Systems Security Association (Polish Chapter). I moved from Poland to the UK in January this year and am actually settled in a quiet, posh area of Nottingham.
Q: What do you enjoy most about training days like the one that you are delivering?
A: I have attended many training days, and I’ve helped to organize many others. I always enjoy being focused on a specific subject, having time to listen, learn, sometimes making a short demo, exercises and - which probably is most important - having direct contact with lecturer and other students. If I have access to internet and can block connection from my clients for this day, and unlimited coffee is provided - I don't need anything more.
Q: How important do you think the cloud will be in the next three years?
A: Cloud. Some people say that it's a buzz word. We actually have had discussions in engineers group in Poland about power of Mainframes (and mainframes are the fathers of clouds), but... The world is changing, our life is changing and even I personally don't like this sentence, but: life is a constant change. We use cloud services from many years, not only Azure Services or Amazon Services, but almost whole our daily applications and services are 'cloud services'. Personally I use One Note, EverNote, DropBox, SkyDrive, One Drive, GoogleDrive, TripIt, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Endomondo, YouTube, iCloud, and other cloud services from TrendMicro, Symantec, Virgin Mobile, IBM, Polish Government, and UK Government. And of course Azure. In summary: it is important and will be important. And (because I always think about worst case scenario) everything will collapse when Internet will stop...
Q: What will be one of the key things that the attendees will take away from your session?
A: I will give few key things for attendees, but I hope that all delegates will have a great chance to see how easy adoption for cloud services is. I know that not too many peoples actually use cloud services like Windows Azure SQL Database (I have ascertained this knowledge from my previous sessions at user groups). But even - after four years from official premiere - they not use it. So the pre-conference seminar in Southampton is good place to start. In eight (or nine hours) they will get the best and worst practices, they can share knowledge and experience, and finally the can try how and why it works. Discovery is always exciting.
So just what is in the session;
Windows Azure SQL Database, four years in the market, continuously changing, but still not understood. In AD2015 is it the right time to change this. With a full day Pre-Conf we start with our on-premises instances, next we touch the Sky, and as masters we will parachute back to the Earth. If you like the sounds of this then you can read the full abstract along with registration details by clicking on the button below.
Hope to see you there.
John |
Open Question Answering | The Boy has begun making the occasional comment that seems to indicate the presence of a completely testosterone-driven portion of the brain.
It started one day when we were driving to the mall, and The Boy said he saw a bird where none could have been. About as elusive as the bluebird of happiness. The Husband went along with The Boy's story, saying it was a bird only guys could see; therefore, it must be the Bluebird of Testosterone. Today I was buckling The Boy into his car seat, but I couldn't get it to click closed at first. I realized what was wrong, and said, "Oh, your shirt was in the way." The Boy's response: "And my penis was in the way too." Uh-huh.
It started one day when we were driving to the mall, and The Boy said he saw a bird where none could have been. About as elusive as the bluebird of happiness. The Husband went along with The Boy's story, saying it was a bird only guys could see; therefore, it must be the Bluebird of Testosterone.
Today I was buckling The Boy into his car seat, but I couldn't get it to click closed at first. I realized what was wrong, and said, "Oh, your shirt was in the way."
The Boy's response: "And my penis was in the way too."
Uh-huh. |
Open Question Answering | In my “business calculus class”, we were studying implicit differentiation.
We had a problem: Find if I showed them three ways to do the problem, all of which yield different looking answers:
Differentiate both sides: which yields:
Method 2: do directly:
This leads to
Of course that looks different; but we can always solve for and do it directly:
which yields which yields the easy solution:
Now one can check that all three solutions are in fact equal on the domain
But here is the question that came to mind: in the first two methods we had two different two variable equations:
So what does this mean for ? Is it uniquely determined?
Answer:
of course it is: what we really have is whose solution IS uniquely determined on an open rectangle so long as and are continuous and and are continuous also. 🙂
But I didn’t realize that until I took my morning swim. 🙂
This is the value of talking to a friend who knows what he/she is doing: I was reminded that means that and indeed have unique solutions that have the same slope at a common point, but with just this there is no reason that the solutions coincide over a whole interval (at least without some other condition).
So we have something to think about and to explore; I don’t like being wrong but I love having stuff to think about!
Now, of course, we have “different” differential equations with the same solution; yes, there is a theory for that. I’ve got some reading to do! |
Open Question Answering | Chapter 3 Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.
If your edition has 183 pages, follow the pages marked a: If your edition has 152 pages,
follow
b:
a: 47, b: 34 -
Yoyodyne The company also appears in V., where the power (dynamis in Greek, cf. dynamo, dynamite, dynasty) and physics of the yo-yo's motion is meditated upon. Yoyodyne is said to be 'modeled"--given Pynchon's sea-changing mind--on the Boeing Company where Pynchon worked in the early sixties.
a: 47, b: 34 -
oscilloscope... Lissajous figures An oscilloscope is a piece of electronic test equipment that allows signal voltages to be viewed, usually as a two-dimensional graph. Wikipedia Lissajous curves (Lissajous figures or Bowditch curves) are the graph of the system of parametric equations which describes complex harmonic motion, and are displayed on oscilloscope monitors. Wikipedia
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Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928, d. 2007) was a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. He is best known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music and controlled chance in serial composition. The Beatles, among other rock musicians, claimed him as an influence: . . . .So taken were the Beatles by Stockhausen's music, they asked permission to use his photo on the cover of the 1967 LP Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He appears fifth from the left in the back row.
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Mike Fallopian Obviously, Fallopian tubes are two very fine tubes leading from the ovaries of female mammals into the uterus. The -ian ending of his name indicates that Mike is a member of California's vigorous Armenian-American community which is a satirization of the John Birch Society.
a: 49, b: 35 -
Disgruntled Pynchon's fictional navy includes the USS Scaffold and the Susanna Squaducci (V.), the John E. Badass (GR), and the Inconvenience (ATD).
a: 49, b: 35 -
Bogatir... Gaidamak The bogatyr was a medieval Russian heroic warrior, comparable to the Western European knight errant. Wikipedia The parallel with Charlemagne's "paladins" may be even closer.
At the time of the U.S. Civil War, gaidamak or haydamak denoted an 18th century Ukrainian fighter for national independence. The name is sometimes translated as "Ukrainian Cossack," perhaps in part because it was extended to Cossack anti-Bolshevik troops after the 1917 revolution.
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Birch Society The John Birch Society is an Americanist organization founded in 1958 to fight what it saw as growing threats to the Constitution of the United States, especially a suspected communist infiltration of the United States government, and to support free enterprise. It was named after John Birch, a United States military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II who was killed in 1945 by armed supporters of the Communist Party of China, and whom the JBS describes as "the first American victim of the Cold War." Wikipedia
"Our left-leaning friends in the Birch society" is a joke as the Birch Society was right-wing, although of course Fallopian is being serious. The PPS is beyond far right in this sense.
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Marxism... Industrial anything
Some critics have interpreted this to mean that the Pinguid Society is so anti-communist that it even opposed capitalism... because it led inevitably to communism! While funny, this seems to miss the point. The guiding philosophy of the Pinguid Society is not anti-communism. It opposes "industrial
anything", which indicates a belief in another philosophy Pynchon has written much on, Ludditisim. See Wikipedia entry on Luddite; the 1984 essay, Is it OK to be a Luddite? by Pynchon; and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Luddite, an essay on Minstral Island, the aborted sci-fi musical written by Pynchon and future leading Luddite, Kirkpatrick Sale.
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Get in touch with Kirby through WASTE only. . . . First apperance of the W.A.S.T.E. Postal system.
a: 52, b: 38 -
Muted Posthorn/Sigil The visual design of the Symbol of the W.A.S.T.E. postal system appears to be an improvised Magical Sigil. Note that a number of these sigils can be found in A. E. Waite's Book of Black Magic, a work referenced in Geli Tripping's love spell in the author's next work, . The Gravity's Rainbow Seal of Amduscias[found on page 218 of Weiser's 1972 reprint] appears to be the likely inspiration. Miles Davis is another probable inspiration. See a: 63, b: 48 - The Courier's Tragedy, below.
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Washington and Dallas chapters For readers in 1966, singling out Washington and Dallas might bring to mind the recent assassination of President Kennedy. Charles Hollander sees CoL49 as a big coded commentary on the assassination. Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49
a: 56 b: 41 -
ogived From Wiktionary: (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault
a: 56, b: 41 -
reconstruction of some European pleasure-casino Perhaps the Casino Hermann Goering from Gravity's Rainbow?
a: 57, b: 42 -
trimaran A multihull boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls, attached to the main hull with lateral struts.
a: 57, b: 42 -
Godzilla II There seems to be some kind of joke from somewhere that Pynchon was rumored to be writing a novel about Godzilla and Mothra at some point... More??? In a letter to his editor in the sixties, Cork Smith, as he was writing Gravity's Rainbow, he spoke of also working on two other books. One was about the twomen who created the Mason/Dixon line, an easy one for us, the other was saidto be inspired by Pynchon's love of the Godzilla movies and was about a monster which came from under the ice. [Spoiler for another work]: That, if not a put-on, which TRP did not seem to do with Cork Smith, seems to be a small but real part of what became Against the Day. In this context it is important to remember the origins of the Godzilla story.
a: 58, b: 43 -
sfacim Italian slang, literally "semen" but also used as an insult roughly equivalent to "son of a bitch."
a: 58, b: 43 -
Darrowlike Clarence Seward Darrow (1857 - 1938) was a famous American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenaged thrill killers and defending John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial. Wikipedia Hollander interprets the mention of Darrow as proof of his theory that the Russian naval encounter described by Fallopian is a reference to the purchase of Alaska from Russia, "Seward's folly."
a: 59, b: 43 -
XKE The Jaguar XKE was a famous sportscar, later selected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as the 'world's most beautiful automobile.' Some connection with mafioso Tony Jaguar?
a: 61, b: 46 -
Lago di Pietà An actual historical event?
a: 63, b: 48 -
The Courier's Tragedy An anonymous black-clad femme is the first to mention the play, though she does so without actually naming it: "You know, blokes," remarked one of the girls, a long-waisted, brown-haired lovely in a black knit leotard and pointed sneakers, "this all has a most bizarre resemblance to that ill, ill Jacobean revenge play we went to last week."
a: 65, b: 49 -
civil war The English Civil War consisted of a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians (known as Roundheads) and Royalists (known as Cavaliers) between 1642 and 1651. Wikipedia
a: 66, b: 50 -
Maenad roar of nitre's song In Greek mythology, Maenads were female worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek god of mystery, wine and intoxication, and the Roman god Bacchus. The word literally translates as "raving ones". They were known as wild, insane women who could not be reasoned with. Wikipedia In Euripides' Bacchae, some of the women are voluntary worshippers of the god, strike the earth for milk, wine, and honey, hunt and tear apart wild animals, eating the flesh raw (sparagmos); the women of Thebes are driven mad as a punishment, however, for not giving the god (from Thebes itself originally, his mother being a Theban princess) full respect. The boy-king Pentheus' own mother tears him apart in a grotesque distortion of the "real" maenads' practice of "sparagmos". Dionysus himself is torn apart (and reborn) in some versions of the story.
Niter or nitre is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO3, also known as saltpeter, an essential ingredient of gunpowder.
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cantus firmus In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed song") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition, often set apart by being played in long notes. Wikipedia
a: 66, b: 50 -
Thurn und Taxis The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (German: Das Fürstenhaus Thurn und Taxis) is a German family that was a key player in the postal (mail) services in Europe in the 16th century and is well known as owners of breweries and builders of countless castles. Wikipedia Also noteworthy is Rainer Maria Rilke's dedication of Duineser Elegien to Princess Maria von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe, in whose castle Rilke wrote the elegies. Excerpts from the elegies appear in GR.
a: 67, b: 51 -
aqua regia Aqua regia (Latin for "royal water") is a highly corrosive mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. It is one of the few reagents that dissolves gold and platinum. It was so named because it can dissolve the so-called royal, or noble metals. Wikipedia
b: 52 -
Paraclete...Pentecost Paraclete: In this context, a term for the Holy Spirit in Christianity. Pentecost: A Christian holy day which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ. The Holy Spirit appears in the form of tongues of fire, and the account is told in the book of Acts, Chapter 2.
b: 54 -
encre French: ink
b: 54 -
hight Archaic/Middle English: named/called
b: 55 -
vizard mask or disguise
b: 56 -
trice very short period of time
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blank verse Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter. Wikipedia
b: 58 -
trow Archaic/Middle English: think/believe
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picket the V.A. Veteran's Administration, probably.
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Young Republican Young Republicans is the name of an organization for members of the Republican Party of the United States between the ages of 18 and 40. Wikipedia
a: 76, b: 59 -
Hap Harrigan comics Hap Harrigan was a character in the 1931 film, The Hot Heiress (IMDB), but Weisenburger and Grant believe that Pynchon may have meant Hop Harrigan, a comic strip and radio character from the 1940s.
a: 79, b: 62 -
You don't understand," getting mad... "You don't understand," getting mad. "You guys, you're like Puritans are about the Bible. So hung up with words, words, words. You know where that play exists, not in a file cabinet, not in any paperback you're looking for, but" a hand emerged from the veil of shower steam to indicate his suspended head "in here. That's what I'm here for. To give the spirit flesh. The words, who cares? They're rote noises to hold line bashes with, to get past the bone barriers around an actor's memory, right? But the reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, sometimes other orifices also."
Contributor David Stewart suggests Pynchon is talking to his critics and readers who, like Stewart, ask pertinent questions about Pynchon's wild prose. In essence, the reason Pynchon rejects interviews regarding the subtext of his lieterature is based on Driblette's monologue as he, like Pynchon, describes the writing is in his head, yet the paradox is that his esoteric phrases leaves one to go in depth to understand what he is saying.
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I'm the projector of the planetarium This reference to creation recalls the Remedios Varo painting in Chapter 1, in which the girls in the tower weave the world. Cf. "Shall I project a world?" from this novel.
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Open Question Answering | Paris, France – Pregnant women are being urged to think twice before travelling to Latin American and Caribbean countries battling a rise in cases of microcephaly — a rare but brutal condition that shrinks the brains of unborn babies.
The increase has coincided with an outbreak of the usually benign Zika virus. But the virus and the birth defects have not been scientifically linked, leaving many questions about what is happening to these children in the womb.
We asked the experts.
Q: What is microcephaly? A: Babies with microcephaly have an abnormally small brain and skull for their age, in the womb or at birth, with varying degrees of brain damage as a result. It has many potential causes: infections, viruses, toxins or unknown genetic factors. – Jean-Francois Delfraissy of France’s Inserm medical research institute. Q: What are the consequences for the child? A: In serious cases, early death. If the brain is under-developed, the body cannot function properly. In French Polynesia (one of the regions affected), these deformities have caused most of the babies to be stillborn, as the unborn infants simply cannot survive. – Andre Cabie, infections disease head at the University Hospital of Martinique. A: For children who survive pregnancy and are born with microcephaly, the future is bleak. In the worst cases, children will be severely intellectually and physically handicapped. But even those less severely affected will likely struggle with psychomotor impairment — characterised by slow thought, speech and physical movements.
“It is a real tragedy.”
– Delfraissy Q: How does a virus affect an unborn child? A: Many types of viral infections, such as rubella or cytomegalovirus, can cause physical deformities and intellectual deficiencies, especially during the first three months of pregnancy, when the vital organs are being formed. Viruses can travel through the placenta and infect the foetus directly, sometimes in the brain. – Delfraissy Q: Why is microcephaly thought to be linked to Zika virus? A: Microcephaly cases seem to have increased in the zone of the Zika outbreak. But also, the virus has been detected in stillborn children with microcephaly, as well as in the amniotic fluid.
The link between Zika and microcephaly is highly likely, but has not yet been proven scientifically.
– Delfraissy A: This is a very new situation. Until a few months ago we did not know that Zika could cause congenital infections (which are present from birth) and microcephaly. It caught us all by surprise.
The evidence for the link is relatively strong, and considered strong enough to warrant public health measures.
– Laura Rodrigues of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, via the Science Media Centre. Q: What are we doing to learn more? A: Studies are underway in French Polynesia, where a Zika outbreak ocurred around the end of 2013 – beginning of 2014, to better understand how the virus may affect foetuses. In Martinique, where there is an outbreak right now, a trial group of pregnant women is being put together for study.
The difficulty is that people infected with the virus usually have no symptoms. A pregnant woman can thus be infected without knowing it. On the other hand, cases have been observed of pregnant women infected with Zika whose children did not develop microcephaly.
– Cabie Q: Is Zika contagious between people? A: There has been a case of sexual transmission, and theoretically transmission by transplantation or transfusion cannot be ruled out. The main route of infection is through mosquitoes. – Alain Kohl of the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research.
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Open Question Answering | The March/April issue of the
Washington Monthly,
a well respected political journal, devotes a major feature article to the phenomenon that is Dan Savage and his impact on American culture. The article says the brash alternative-newspaper editor "can lay a legitimate claim to being America’s most influential advice columnist." Moreover, it says that he articulates what are clearly becoming the sexual and relationship ethics of the future.
This is important to us in several ways.
Savage has shifted in recent years from snarking polys to explaining us and our values well, and saying "I'm pro-poly and I vote." (Some of you have been working on him; thank you!) But more importantly, the moral and ethical framework that he articulates for everyone — straight, queer, kinky, poly, and/or mono — is the same framework that we have been advocating for how to make polyamory work happily and successfully all around. This ethic puts honesty, disclosure, communication, and respect and living with your own sexuality above pretty much all else. The author asks: Too much else?
The complete article
is well worth reading, but here's a condensation:
Rules of Misbehavior
By Benjamin J. Dueholm
...After twenty years of churning out “Savage Love,” the Seattle writer can lay a legitimate claim to being America’s most influential advice columnist.... He is a frequent contributor to the popular radio program This American Life, and a “Savage Love” television show on MTV is said to be in the works. His podcast has a higher iTunes ranking than those of Rachel Maddow or the NBC Nightly News, and his four books have sold briskly (a fifth is due out in March). And when it suits him, the range of his commentary has become increasingly broad....
Savage’s ability to mobilize legions of readers has also matured beyond the lobbing of incendiary Google bombs.... [See santorum and saddlebacking.]
Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he has not been content to relegate the ideas of right and wrong to cultural conservatives. Wading deep into the free-fire zone of modern sexuality, he has codified a remarkably systematic — and influential — set of ethics where traditional norms have fallen away. The question is, into what kind of world do his ethics lead us?...
...Savage does embrace a whole host of kinks. But for him, what’s most important is that abandonment of inhibition should never entail an abandonment of personal responsibility. And as it happens, a column premised on its author’s willingness to say what others won’t say, and countenance what others won’t countenance, has proven to be an ideal forum for probing the nuances of what we owe each other when the lights are off.
In 2000, Savage answered a letter from a fifteen-year-old boy who was using both meth and heroin and engaging in a regular ménage à trois with his girlfriend and an adult man. The question the teen posed to Savage was not, needless to say, whether he should be having sex before marriage (or high school graduation). Nor, for that matter, was he asking whether it was advisable to take part in a legally risky threesome, or to dabble in hard substances. Rather, the boy’s question was whether he, “a big hippie,” had an obligation to tell the man, “an avid anti-drugger,” about his use of meth and heroin. Savage was not exactly affirming in his response:
“You are an idiot. The drugs you’re doing, young skank, are dangerous and, however careful you are with needles, sooner or later they’re going to kill you,” he wrote. “What should you do about your drug-phobic, statutory-rapist fuck buddy? Well, I’d say that like any good hippie you should be open, honest, loyal, brave, and true. Tell him what the holes in your arm are all about, and give him the option of staying or going. You say you have feelings for this guy, and if that’s the case, you owe him the truth. If that’s not the case, well, then you might as well go ahead and steal his stereo and TV set now.”
Savage’s advice here faintly echoes the presumptions against hard drug use and teenage risky behavior that prevailed in Ann Landers’s day, but it pivots on the boy’s obligation to disclose any and all information of relevance to a sexual partner — the first ground rule of Savage’s ethics. Full disclosure is a minimal standard, but one that many who have sought Savage’s advice fail to meet. “This sounds more like a question for The Ethicist, a charming new advice column in The New York Times Magazine, but since you asked, I’ll give it a go,” he wrote in 1999 to a young man living with a woman he didn’t love because he couldn’t afford his own place. “You are an asshole … You’re allowing this woman to make assumptions — false assumptions — about your intentions for your own gain.”
Meanwhile, he encouraged a correspondent with a long history of sexual infidelity to become an honest woman — by telling her partners about her need to stray: “Where there are no lies of commission or omission, SKANK, there’s no deceit. And where there’s no deceit, there are no boys whose hearts are broken when they find out they are being cheated on.” The configurations involved in these questions, from simple cohabitation to three-way relations to old-fashioned cheating, are not at issue. The obligation of each questioner to be up front about what they want and do is what drives the ethical dilemma in each case.
...As it happens, this vision fits rather well in a society built around consumption. If Savage’s ethical guidelines — disclosure, autonomy, mutual exchange, and minimum standards of performance — seem familiar or intuitive, it’s probably because they also govern expectations in the markets for goods and services. No false advertising, no lemons, nothing omitted from the fine print: in the deregulated marketplace of modern intimacy, Dan Savage has become a kind of Better Business Bureau, laying out the rules by which individuals, as rationally optimizing firms, negotiate their wildly diverse transactions.
Classical liberalism, however, may prove just as inadequate in the bedroom as it has in the global economy, and for many of the same reasons. It takes into account only a narrow range of our motivations, overstates our rationality and our foresight, downplays the costs of transactions, and ignores the asymmetries of information that complicate any exchange of love or money....
...Consider the case of a correspondent from late 2009. A straight male in his late twenties, the writer felt indicted by a distinction Savage had drawn in a recent column between being an “honest nonmonogamous dude” (HND) and a “cheating piece of shit” (CPOS). “I have a girlfriend of several years whom I live with and love very much,” he writes.
“I have never been an HND; I have in the past been a CPOS (though not in this relationship). My girlfriend is lovely, supportive, and generally GGG, and though the sex is good, I have a significantly higher libido than she does and I would like to have a little more variety in my sex life. I want to be an HND, but I don’t know how to broach the subject with the girlfriend without ruining our relationship.... How do I bring this up without screwing up our relationship beyond repair?
-- Aspiring Honest Nonmonogamous Dude”
Savage’s reply is frank as always: “I would encourage you to err on the side of screwing up your current relationship with an honest conversation about your mismatched libidos and your natural and normal desire for a little variety. Lies, damn lies, and statistics all demonstrate that, in time, one or the other or both of you will cheat. Better to toss that out there now, even at the risk of calmly winding down this relationship before you revert to form/CPOS, than to see the relationship explode after someone, most likely you, winds up cheating.”
This Aspiring Honest Nonmonogamous Dude (AHND) takes greater pains than most of Savage’s correspondents to praise his girlfriend, not only in general but specifically with regard to their sex life. They have already spent several happy years together. He is anxious about his surplus of desire, but apparently nothing else. Yet that consideration trumps all others in Savage’s answer. Sexual compatibility — in terms of libido or in terms of tolerating nonexclusivity — is the coin of the realm. Love, emotional compatibility, the possibility of a life together, not to mention irrecoverable years already spent — these must all be staked against the value of a fully deployed libido. But what, exactly, is the upshot of “calmly winding down” a relationship with a high risk of infidelity? Potential romantic partners, unlike firms in the classical free-market model, are not infinite in number, and a life of comparison shopping is not free of cost. If the aspiring HND dissolves this years-long transaction in order to find a partner who is just as lovable but less jealous, or who shares his libido at every point, he will likely have a lonely road ahead of him.
I wonder what he chose to do....
Read the whole article
. It was also reprinted on AlterNet
under the title "Dan Savage, America's Most Important Sex Ethicist."
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In the course of the article Dueholm outs himself as a Lutheran minister, one who counsels a lot of people. No matter what you may think of ministers or Lutherans, his point about doing relationships based on consumer-society paradigms is telling and important. I have never heard it stated like this before. I'm not talking about dumb claims that if we have two people as intimates they must be "throwaways"; he's saying something else.
However, I think the causes and effects here flow in different directions than Dueholm considered.
If internet-era relationships, and poly relationships in particular, are developing an ethic of product disclosure, accurate labeling, safety warnings, explicit agreements, and honest exchanges — like in a well-regulated marketplace — maybe it's because those things are
healthy and fruitful for all concerned.
In a market economy they make for smooth transactions and a climate of successful trade, leading to greater well-being for the whole society. Market societies, and their economists, grasped the usefulness of these things early. Polys are helping people to discover the usefulness of these good things in another sphere.
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(
P.S.:
No, I'm not a Libertarian, and let's not get going about market failures and regulatory failures; they just prove the point.)
Thoughts?
Update March 19:
Savage has just made
Time
magazine; he's featured on its "Ten Questions" page. Here's the last question and his answer:
What advice can you give readers of TIME?
We talk about love in a way that's very unrealistic: "If you're in love, you're not going to want to have sex with anyone else but that person." That's not true. We need to acknowledge that truth so that people don't have to spend 40 years of marriage lying to and policing each other.
Read all ten questions
(issue dated March 28, 2011). He's also getting a lot of other mainstream exposure these days, such as on ABC's Nightline
March 24th.
Update August 9:
Benjamin Dueholm, author of the
Washington Monthly
article, lets his hair down as a serious religious person with a long article about Savage and Christian thought in
The Christian Century
an old, very serious, moderate-conservative journal that your grandparents' minister may have read. The article is the cover story of the August 23rd issue. Read it here: Advice and Consent: Monogamy in the age of Dan Savage
. Don't be put off by the abstruse theology in the first few paragraphs; read on.
These are people I'd like to see us engage more with.
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Open Question Answering | All GMAT Math Resources Example Questions Example Question #1 : Understanding Functions
There is water tank already full. If Jose adds 5 gallons of water to the water tank, the tank will be full. How many gallons of water would the water tank hold if it were full?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
In this case, we need to solve for the volume of the water tank, so we set the full volume of the water tank as . According to the question, -full can be replaced as . -full would be . Therefore, we can write out the equation as:
.
Then we can solve the equation and find the answer is 14 gallons.
Example Question #2 : Understanding Functions
There exists a set = {1, 2, 3, 4}. Which of the following defines a function of ?
Possible Answers:
none are functions
two are functions
Correct answer:
Let's look at and see if any of them are functions.
1. = {(2, 3), (1, 4), (2, 1), (3, 2), (4, 4)}: This cannot be a function of because two of the ordered pairs, (2, 3) and (2, 1) have the same number (2) as the first coordinate.
2. = {(3, 1), (4, 2), (1, 1)}: This cannot be a function of because it contains no ordered pair with first coordinate 2. Because the set = {1, 2, 3, 4}, we need an ordered pair of the form (2, ) .
3. = {(2, 1), (3, 4), (1, 4), (2, 1), (4, 4)}: This is a function. Even though two of the ordered pairs have the same number (2) as the first coordinate, is still a function of because (2, 1) is simply repeated twice, so the two ordered pairs with first coordinate 2 are equal.
Example Question #3 : Understanding Functions
Let be a function that assigns to each real number . Which of the following is NOT an appropriate way to define ?
Possible Answers:
all are appropriate ways to define
Correct answer:
This is a definition question. The only choice that does not equal the others is . This describes a function that assigns to some number , instead of assigning to its own square root, .
Example Question #4 : Understanding Functions
If , find .
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
We are given f(x) and h, so the only missing piece is f(x + h).
Then
Example Question #5 : Understanding Functions
Give the range of the function:
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
We look at the range of the function on each of the three parts of the domain. The overall range is the union of these three intervals.
On , takes the values:
or
On , takes the values:
,
or
On , takes only value 5.
The range of is therefore , which simplifies to .
Example Question #6 : Understanding Functions
A sequence begins as follows:
It is formed the same way that the Fibonacci sequence is formed. What are the next two numbers in the sequence?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Each term of the Fibonacci sequence is formed by adding the previous two terms. Therefore, do the same to form this sequence:
Example Question #7 : Understanding Functions
Give the inverse of
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Open Question Answering | Presentation on theme: "Immigrants Views BC Internationally Trained Professionals Network BC Internationally Trained Professionals Network BCITPNET_Surrey_summary.p."— Presentation transcript:
1Immigrants Views BC Internationally Trained Professionals Network BC Internationally Trained Professionals Network http://bcitp.net/downloads/site2/ BCITPNET_Surrey_summary.p df http://bcitp.net/downloads/site2/ BCITPNET_Surrey_summary.p df http://bcitp.net/downloads/site2/ BCITPNET_Surrey_summary.p df http://bcitp.net/downloads/site2/ BCITPNET_Surrey_summary.p df Look at what they perceive to be the barriers to the right employment: Look at what they perceive to be the barriers to the right employment:
2Immigrants Views Poor info in home country: misleading Poor info in home country: misleading Not the right Canadian experience Not the right Canadian experience Perception that credentials were fake Perception that credentials were fake English and communications English and communications Costs Costs Time, income Time, income Discrimination Discrimination References not recognized References not recognized Long wait periods Long wait periods Changing requirements Changing requirements Poor feedback Poor feedback
3Pathways 1: Regulated Professions : CSMLS Issues include time, costs and fees, complexity Issues include time, costs and fees, complexity How much cost should the profession itself bear? How much cost should the profession itself bear? Link language assessment to the profession Link language assessment to the profession Link to colleges and universities for bridging programs and PT studies Link to colleges and universities for bridging programs and PT studies Liability? Liability? http://www.csmls.org http://www.csmls.org http://www.csmls.org
4Pathways 1: Regulated Professions: U of T Pharmacists Pharm Ed, June 2003, Vol3(2) pp87- 96 Pharm Ed, June 2003, Vol3(2) pp87- 96 50% of those licensed in ON are ITIs 50% of those licensed in ON are ITIs Go beyond credential-based evaluation and paper exams and portfolios Go beyond credential-based evaluation and paper exams and portfolios PLA is more holistic and robust for skill trades where knowledge in action is the key. PLA is more holistic and robust for skill trades where knowledge in action is the key.
5Pathways 1: Regulated Professions : U of T Pharmacists Developed a direct assessment, competency based PLA program Developed a direct assessment, competency based PLA program Identified competency standards, developed the model, designed test stations, then measured competencies against the standards. Identified competency standards, developed the model, designed test stations, then measured competencies against the standards. Communicative competency formed an overarching superordinate category for assessment Communicative competency formed an overarching superordinate category for assessment
6Pathways 1: Regulated Professions : U of T Pharmacists Logistics and costs were daunting ($1800 per candidate) Logistics and costs were daunting ($1800 per candidate) Inadequacy of TOEFL: need pharmacy-specific linguistic, communicative and cultural competency assessment... Inadequacy of TOEFL: need pharmacy-specific linguistic, communicative and cultural competency assessment... Quickly identified gaps in procedural knowledge expected in a Canadian pharmacy Quickly identified gaps in procedural knowledge expected in a Canadian pharmacy (B.C. process: 1,000 hours needed in Canadian/US setting). (B.C. process: 1,000 hours needed in Canadian/US setting).
7Pathways 1: Regulated Professions Solution: build networks to help each other Solution: build networks to help each other Citizens who immigrated must help the newcomers along: give them experience, allow them to volunteer Citizens who immigrated must help the newcomers along: give them experience, allow them to volunteer Lobby for a minimum wage while they are going through the process Lobby for a minimum wage while they are going through the process Professional specific ESL, plus bridging programs Professional specific ESL, plus bridging programs
8Pathways 2: non-regulated professions: Tourism Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council: a national sector council: Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council: a national sector council: http://www.cthrc.ca Uses a comprehensive system of competencies based on occupational standards, and common benchmarks to assess skills and abilities: Uses a comprehensive system of competencies based on occupational standards, and common benchmarks to assess skills and abilities: http://www.emerit.ca Model for other sectors? Model for other sectors?
9Recognizing the Best What employers expect, need, and look for... K EP KnowledgeExperiencePerformance Multiple-choice exam
10Recognizing the Best What employers expect, need, and look for... K EP KnowledgeExperiencePerformance 30% = Multiple-choice exam Evidence of practical experience
11Recognizing the Best What employers expect, need, and look for... K EP KnowledgeExperiencePerformance = TCP TCS TCM Multiple-choice exam Evidence of relevant experience Practical assessment of performance
12Pathways 2: non-regulated professions: Tourism Needs to map onto the educational system: we need a national credit transfer system among colleges to link with the employer driven system Needs to map onto the educational system: we need a national credit transfer system among colleges to link with the employer driven system Skills gaps: how do you handle the gaps? Colleges vary in how they can handle the gaps and provide PT learning. Skills gaps: how do you handle the gaps? Colleges vary in how they can handle the gaps and provide PT learning.
13Pathways 2: non-regulated professions: Tourism For immigrants we then add the language and cultural issues For immigrants we then add the language and cultural issues CTHRC has a successful bridging program: Read-to-Work to support immigrants CTHRC has a successful bridging program: Read-to-Work to support immigrants Mis-match of skills levels required by immigration and those needed by the industry Mis-match of skills levels required by immigration and those needed by the industry
14Pathways 3: Community Colleges Colleges are particularly well placed to help ITI They are focused on education that leads to work They are focused on education that leads to work They often have strong ESL offerings They often have strong ESL offerings They do PLAR They do PLAR They have strong links with many other community agencies: settlement agencies, governments, other providers etc. They have strong links with many other community agencies: settlement agencies, governments, other providers etc. So, they are positioned to play a central role… So, they are positioned to play a central role…
15Big Issue: ITIs are people Complex Complex Unique Unique Have diverse backgrounds and experiences Have diverse backgrounds and experiences Have diverse needs Have diverse needs Each has the ability to succeed and prosper Each has the ability to succeed and prosper Each has the right to try Each has the right to try
16Colleges are not…… We are not organized around a whole student of any sort: Program/ESL/Admissions/PLAR/Reg istration/Financial Aid/Counseling are all separate Program/ESL/Admissions/PLAR/Reg istration/Financial Aid/Counseling are all separate Externally, 3 levels of government/ occupational and regulatory bodies/employers/advocates/settlem ent agencies Externally, 3 levels of government/ occupational and regulatory bodies/employers/advocates/settlem ent agencies Each ITI needs a unique integration of a multitude of units Each ITI needs a unique integration of a multitude of units
17Examples? Not easy to find examples, even in colleges, of where immigrants have received recognition for experiential learning Not easy to find examples, even in colleges, of where immigrants have received recognition for experiential learning VCC: Provincial Instructor Diploma VCC: Provincial Instructor Diploma
18Provincial Instructor Diploma Each PID course has a description of the elements that a person has to submit as proof of equivalent competency: he/she submits documents that give evidence that they have, for example, developed a curriculum or actual teaching tools and instruments as evidence that they have the skill sets that are provided in the course. Each PID course has a description of the elements that a person has to submit as proof of equivalent competency: he/she submits documents that give evidence that they have, for example, developed a curriculum or actual teaching tools and instruments as evidence that they have the skill sets that are provided in the course.
19Provincial Instructor Diploma But, few come with their course materials, and corroboration is needed to of the documents and tools that are submitted. But, few come with their course materials, and corroboration is needed to of the documents and tools that are submitted. Many such educators enjoy taking the courses because they provide a window into the culture of education here; and they are not overly concerned about getting recognition for their past experience. Instead, they enjoy the comparisons our courses provide into what and how they did the job in their homelands. Many such educators enjoy taking the courses because they provide a window into the culture of education here; and they are not overly concerned about getting recognition for their past experience. Instead, they enjoy the comparisons our courses provide into what and how they did the job in their homelands.
20GOLETA program at UNL http://www.ulster.ac.uk/lll/resear chcentre/publications/pdf/apel_a nd_ll.pdf http://www.ulster.ac.uk/lll/resear chcentre/publications/pdf/apel_a nd_ll.pdf http://www.ulster.ac.uk/lll/resear chcentre/publications/pdf/apel_a nd_ll.pdf http://www.ulster.ac.uk/lll/resear chcentre/publications/pdf/apel_a nd_ll.pdf Section 2.3: Helen Peters Portfolio building for APEL Portfolio building for APEL An 8 week program for those with higher level English levels An 8 week program for those with higher level English levels Obtain a Certificate in PD Obtain a Certificate in PD
21GOLETA program at UNL Personal development and Communication sessions Personal development and Communication sessions Weekly portfolio building sessions Weekly portfolio building sessions Group interaction very important Group interaction very important Each participant considered all aspects of their lives: skills, abilities and knowledge gained Each participant considered all aspects of their lives: skills, abilities and knowledge gained Principle benefit was self confidence and self knowledge, and the ability to analyze and describe gains form experience Principle benefit was self confidence and self knowledge, and the ability to analyze and describe gains form experience
22GOLETA program at UNL This article is a good source of discussion about the challenges of the portfolio process for the immigrant This article is a good source of discussion about the challenges of the portfolio process for the immigrant Role of the tutor/counsellor is crucial Role of the tutor/counsellor is crucial Integration of theory/practice and personal experience is hard: the process of deriving the learning is as valuable as the learning itself: both parts should be valued formally in the portfolio process Integration of theory/practice and personal experience is hard: the process of deriving the learning is as valuable as the learning itself: both parts should be valued formally in the portfolio process
23Contact Alan Davis VP Education Vancouver Community College [email protected] |
Open Question Answering | Use proactive measures when dealing with a group exercise member who acts like a diva.
If you teach group exercise long enough, you’re bound to encounter the group exercise diva. This self-proclaimed privileged member wreaks havoc in your classes and throughout the club. She is the person who feels that rules apply only to others—not to her. She (or he!) displays disrespect for the group exercise experience, the instructor and the other participants. The diva’s behavior tends to create a negative experience for the majority of attendees. Unfortunately, the instigator often goes unchecked. This can lead to decreased class participation and higher attrition rates.
As an instructor, you are responsible for controlling your class, which you can imagine as your own mini-business. It may be difficult to be the “heavy” and address a diva. Most instructors don’t like confrontation and want to please everyone. However, this is a necessary evil in order to provide all members a quality experience. Instructors must bite the bullet and risk upsetting one person in order to please others. There are a variety of professional ways to deal with a diva so that class can be enjoyable and stress-free for all.
We tread a fine line when it comes to folks who chat throughout class. One of the main reasons people exercise in a group is that they like the socialization. Many return week after week because they’ve made friends and find it motivating. So we don’t want to completely discourage people from talking. However, there are those who choose to exercise their jaws more than their bodies. The problem occurs when a comment here or there escalates into a full-blown conversation that everyone can hear. As an instructor, you immediately divert your attention to the chatty individuals as you try to quell their rude behavior. If you talk louder to drown them out, they talk louder to drown
you out. Unfortunately, your focus has now shifted away from those who are relying on you to lead them through class.
Solution: Chat on This! Address this problem immediately, before it erupts into a war between members. Recently I was approached by one of my aquatics instructors, who complained that some women in her class talked so loudly that other members were writing a letter to management. My instructor asked if I would go in and handle the situation. I refused, advising her to manage her own class. Participants look to the instructor as their leader. In this case, the instructor did not want to be the bad guy (I guess that was my job!). However, in reality, members would respect her more if she spoke to the divas directly. The stronger you are, the less you will encounter this sort of thing in class. Send a message that excessive talking is not going to be tolerated during class. Address the issue in a tactful, professional way. For example:
Make a general comment, such as “We’ll burn more calories if we focus our work on our legs instead of our jaws!” When a general comment doesn’t work, look right at the culprits and ask, “I hear you and am concerned that there’s a problem.” This lets them know that not only are you aware of their behavior but you disapprove of it. Take the silent approach. Stop speaking and cuing (but keep moving) and look in their direction. If the chatter continues, approach these participants privately right after class. Say something like this: “Jane and Tim, I appreciate that you enjoy my class, but sometimes the talking can be really disruptive. Could you please be aware of this during the next class?” Start class by stating your intentions: “Today we are going to focus on cardiovascular strength and stamina. Monitor your perceived rate of exertion. You should not be able to speak a full sentence to the person next to you.” Or: “Hey everyone, let’s keep the chatter to a minimum today. We need to be respectful of each other.” Neverreprimand a member directly during class or make comments that come off as personal or demeaning. This includes telling people not to come to your class if they’re going to talk or act like children! Do not let other members fight this battle. Be in control of the class at all times. If any diva becomes a chronic problem, then you must enlist the help of the director. It is advisable that the director, instructor and diva all have a conversation so that everyone is on the same page.
Another behavior typical of a diva is consistently arriving late and making a point of staging a grand entrance! The disruption affects members in a variety of ways and can even make the situation unsafe, both for the latecomer and for others.
Solution: The Early Bird Gets the Good Workout! Noel Miller, initial training supervisor, program developer and national trainer for Body Training Systems, based in Atlanta, offers advice about being proactive and addressing the situation prior to class. “For equipment classes, I encourage those who are on time to set up their equipment toward the front and center, and I let participants know that this is so that late participants can be less disruptive. Then I’ll tell people as they come in late to fill in the back and sides.”
Making general comments such as “Remember the importance of a proper warm-up” or “Be sure you arrive early to set up your equipment” puts the diva on the radar. It also shows others that you do not approve of the tardy arrival and you have the group’s best interest at heart.
If a diva still doesn’t comply with the arrival rules and you need to approach this person one-on-one, Aimee Marshall, group exercise director for the Berkshire West Athletic Club in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, offers this advice: “I try to explain that it is for her own safety that she [should arrive] on time. If she knows she is going to be late, she should be quiet and have someone else set her equipment up for her or perhaps find a class that fits her schedule better.”
Divas are territorial. If you cross one by taking “her” spot in class, beware! I remember a verbal and physical confrontation erupting between a diva and a member who took
“her” spot. Not only did this affect the other member involved, who promptly canceled her membership; it also affected the other 25 people in the room, who stood with mouths agape.
Solution: Spot Removers That Work. Ask the diva to arrive early if there is a certain spot she desires. This can also help address the issue of coming to class late.
Personally remind the diva that every member pays club dues and no one “owns” space or equipment. Be very clear that confrontations, verbal or physical, cannot be tolerated. If bad behavior is repeated, have your director intervene and issue a strong warning outlining the consequences, which may include suspension of membership for a specified time, or even termination.
I’ve always been intrigued by the person who attends a class but doesn’t follow the programming. It seems that this person invariably wants to be front and center. Trying to teach safe, effective movements when someone is doing crazy moves 5 feet in front of you can be frustrating. It can also be annoying and confusing to other attendees.
Solution: Join the Chorus. Natalie Weber, of Worcester, Massachusetts, group fitness director and instructor for Gold’s Gym and a national trainer for Body Training Systems, offers an easy solution to the problem: “I tend to ignore it unless it is disruptive. I will make eye contact with that person and coach the move(s). I make it pretty obvious that I am asking her to do what I’m doing, or at least something close.”
Faced with this situation, Miller adds, he respectfully addresses the individual after class and asks him to move to the back of the room where his movements cannot confuse others.
Additional tactics that can work in your favor may include
reorienting the class so the soloist is not so disruptive; and approaching the individual to find out if her solo flight is a result of an injury, and if so, offering some safe solutions.
Many clubs have instituted a registration policy for classes that have a limited amount of equipment. This helps facilities avoid a situation where 30 people are trying to get into a class that can accommodate only 15. Divas abuse the registration policy on many levels. Some simply don’t sign up and then arrive expecting to be accommodated, while others reserve a spot and don’t show up, which is inconsiderate to others who wanted to participate.
Solution: This Is Not Invisible Ink.
Make sure the front desk and other staff are fully aware of the sign-up policy. Post the policy where everyone can see it, particularly near the group fitness rooms where preregistration is required. State the cancellation policy clearly,
in bold,on the registration sheet. Remind people when they are registering for class that there is a cancellation policy (set a time, such as 2 hours prior to class) in order to be fair to all. Stipulate that people should register their names in ink (many divas will erase names and enter their own). Take the list to class and check off names. You can let a diva know that she can join class if a space becomes available because of a late cancellation or a no-show.
Repeat offenders may require a more distinct slap on the wrist. Discuss possible consequences with your director. Consider revoking sign-up privileges for a set period of time. If your classes are fee-based, you might even charge divas who persistently register but don’t show up or call to cancel.
A diva can also use classes as a platform to state his displeasure with just about anything. The music is too loud, or he doesn’t like it. The room is too hot or cold. The center dues increased. He dislikes the workout. Complaining is a chronic disease. It can become contagious and is sure to diminish the experience of others.
Solution: This Department Closed!
Direct the diva to the suggestion box or a department manager who can more effectively resolve the situation. Remind participants to focus on the exercise. Say you will welcome their comments after class, when you can dedicate more time to their concerns. If people complain about the workout, approach them after class and ask for recommendations on how they would make it better if they were the instructor. Be “in the know.” Make yourself aware of all club policies, events and programs so that you can more easily address concerns.
Bottom line: instructors need to address diva behavior in order to provide an enjoyable experience for the majority. Weber reminds us how a diva affects not only the members but also the instructor: “It’s hard to focus on teaching or coaching your class when a person is late, disruptive, etc. So, essentially, your whole class suffers. This can be frustrating for other members who follow the policies and procedures.” Marshall agrees and adds, “Addressing these situations makes us better instructors as we learn to overcome distractions. You will also be more respected for standing up for yourself and the other members.”
Focus on providing a comfortable environment for the majority of members. Do not hesitate to reprimand or even terminate members who cannot comply with club policies and who continue to treat staff and other participants disrespectfully. Trying to save one “bad apple” is not worth the price of losing dedicated, happy attendees. |
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Q: How many men does it take to open a beer?
A: None. It should be opened by the time she brings it.
Q: How can you tell if your wife is dead?
A: The sex is the same but the dishes pile up.
Q: Why are hurricanes normally named after women?
A: When they come they're wild and wet, but when they go they take your house and car with them. Q. Why do women have breasts? A. So men will talk to them. Q. Why do women close their eyes during sex? A. They can't stand to see a man have a good time. Q: What's worse than a male chauvinistic pig? A: A women who won't do what she's told.
Q. What do you call a room full of women, half with PMS, half with yeast infections?
A. A whine and cheese party
Q. Why is it called PMS?
A. Because "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken. |
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Open Question Answering | How can I find work with radical organizations in Boston? Anything from anti-police violence, anti-racism, affordable housing, queer liberation.... anything radical! I want to be in the fight for liberation and also be able to eat. Help a friend out.
social movements
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Hi Vicki,
Here are a few things to get you started. The first link is to the publicly available article “Black Club Women and Child Welfare: Lessons for Modern Reform.”
This site provides information about the General Federation of Women's Clubs
The next item is a book, which is not available online but, is available though New York Public Library.
These two articles are available through an article database called JSTOR, which is also available through NYPL. You can give these citations to a librarian and he or she should be able to get them for you.
“Black Feminism in Indiana, 1893-1933” by Erlene Stetson
“Welfare and the Role of Women: The Juvenile Court Movement” by Elizabeth J. Clapp
I saw several other similar articles, but most of what I found was not publicly available, though you should be able to access them through NYPL. If this is an option that appeals to you let me know and I can post some more.
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If you are near a large public or academic library, you can also do research on this in many business and management databases. Public libraries often have Business Source(Ebsco). Their more general databases such as Masterfile or Infotrac might also be quite helpful. With a library card, you can get off-site access, including quite a few full text articles. Large academic libraries will have ABI/Inform, Factiva, and Business and Company Resource Center.
Since this is a broad subject, you will need to try many combinations, such as: "leadership development programs" and "public interest"; "leadership training" and "social change", etc. If you get too many hits, limit to title words or subjects, using "advanced search" or "guided search" options. In Ebsco and many other databases, you can even over-ride the "title, subject, abstract words" default, by typing in "search field limiters", for example: ti "leadership programs" and su "social change"
If getting library access is not practical right now, you can get quite a lot of research for free on the web. Google Scholar gets about 90 hits for: "leadership development programs" "public interest". But this DOES include some subcription-based journals, and it might be a bit discouraging if you are repeatedly asked for a user name and password. Google Scholar includes these as a convenience for its many academic customers - who often ARE on campus where these links often work because the institution's library subscribes and the publisher gives IP-address access. Compare a regular web search, using site:edu or site:ac.uk, etc. Google's Web search: "leadership development programs" "public interest" site:edu gets 170 hits (238 including "very similar" ones)
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Greetings! I am looking for assistance with finding statistics and trends related to the social, economic and political well-being of girls and young women in the Western Hemisphere and its sub-regions (Andean; Southern Cone; English, Dutch and French-speaking Caribbean, Central, South and North America. I am also trying to identify organizations within the region who are organizing to promote the voice and rights of girls and young women and/or building a progressive analysis or policy platform as it relates to advancing the interests of girls and young women. I appreciate your help and was delighted to learn about your organization at the U.S. Social Forum.
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Open Question Answering | WILLIAM MCDOWELL Arise Lyrics
Arise... awaken from your sleep
The earth... calls in out in desperate need Arise, arise, arise... your light has come (And the glory of the Lord is upon you) You were created for this time So arise, the spirit says arise Arise... this is your destiny Endow... Christ's authority Decree, declare and speak in Jesus' name (And every principality) Was bowed down You were created for this time So arise, the spirit says arise [Spoken:] The Church we see is not the periphery of the world But the world on the periphery of the church Meaning that when God looks at the earth, When He looks at a city, He does not see a city with a church in it; He sees the church with a city around it. The Church is the vehicle by which Jesus Speaks, asks and moves; Everything God wants to do in the earth, He wants to do through His Church. Now that you hear his calling and awakening, What will be your response? Will you sit back, or will you arise? Will you stay asleep, or will you take a stand? I believe that when the Lord speaks, He waits for His people To release a sound of response This is our response: [Choir sings, worship leader ad lib:] We will arise... We will arise... Lord, we are not ashamed to proclaim Your name Jesus... [x3] We will arise... We will arise... Lord, we are not ashamed to proclaim Your name Jesus... [x11] We will arise!
The earth... calls in out in desperate need
Arise, arise, arise... your light has come
(And the glory of the Lord is upon you)
You were created for this time
So arise, the spirit says arise
Arise... this is your destiny
Endow... Christ's authority
Decree, declare and speak in Jesus' name
(And every principality)
Was bowed down
You were created for this time
So arise, the spirit says arise
[Spoken:]
The Church we see is not the periphery of the world
But the world on the periphery of the church
Meaning that when God looks at the earth,
When He looks at a city,
He does not see a city with a church in it;
He sees the church with a city around it.
The Church is the vehicle by which Jesus
Speaks, asks and moves;
Everything God wants to do in the earth,
He wants to do through His Church.
Now that you hear his calling and awakening,
What will be your response?
Will you sit back, or will you arise?
Will you stay asleep, or will you take a stand?
I believe that when the Lord speaks,
He waits for His people
To release a sound of response
This is our response:
[Choir sings, worship leader ad lib:]
We will arise... We will arise...
Lord, we are not ashamed to proclaim Your name
Jesus... [x3]
We will arise... We will arise...
Lord, we are not ashamed to proclaim Your name
Jesus... [x11]
We will arise!
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Open Question Answering | LRQs are a product success best practice that few use enough. Let’s change that.
Today we’re talking about “Long-Running Questions” or LRQs. LRQs are something that every single SaaS product should utilize. No exceptions.
If you’re reading this in 2015, and you just you took a break to go Googlin’ for “LRQ”, you’re probably not going to find much. That’s because we coined this term internally at Ramen and this is the first time we’re using it publicly.
An LRQ is a single question that you ask your end users, either in-app or via email, as part of the natural course of their usage of your product. LRQs all share a few characteristics:
They are composed of a single question.“Take 5 minutes to answer this survey” is not an LRQ, it is awful. They are asked of logged in users.“Would you like to chat with a sales rep?” is not an LRQ. They are asked automatically.Users are automatically asked at predefined points in their customer life-cycle. They are asked continuously.Sometimes for the entire life your SaaS product. They are “long running” from your perspective.LRQ responses are reviewed regularly with a specific eye towards monitoring changes in how customers respond over time. Their purpose is strategic rather than tactical.The goal is to monitor the overall health of a customer base over time while leaving a little leeway for serendipitous discovery. The most popular LRQ is NPS
Most of you probably knew where this was going right off the bat. Net Promoter Score, or NPS, is by far the most popular–and to my knowledge the only rigorously defined–LRQ. For those unfamiliar with NPS, click here to learn more.
How NPS works
You start off by picking two interval periods:
initial and ongoing. After initialdays, you ask your customers the following question: After answering, the customer is usually prompted to “Tell us more about why you chose X” in a follow up question, but that’s not required. Every ongoingdays after that, you ask your customers the exact same question. Every day, take all the responses–ignoring any people who dismissed the survey without responding–and do the following math: If they answer 9 or 10, label them as a Promoter. If they answer 0 through 6, label them as a Detractor. If they answer 7 or 8, label them as a Passive. If they answer 9 or 10, label them as a Get the % Promotersby dividing the # of Promotersby the total # of responses Get the % Detractorsby dividing the # of Detractorsby the total # of responses Subtract the % Detractorsfrom the % of Promoters, remove the % sign, and you’re left with a plain old scalar number between -100 and 100. This is your Net Promoter Score.
Net Promoter Score is just that: a score. It’s not a percent. There are not passing and failing grades. 60 isn’t necessarily good and -10 isn’t necessarily bad. People who talk about “needing to bump their NPS up a few percent” are not only using the wrong terminology, but they’re probably thinking about it all wrong to begin with.
What’s really important with NPS is how it changes over time. See the NPS start to tick up recently? You’ve probably been doing something good.
A new marketing initiative that goes after a brand new persona, for example, could cause a flood of new, really excited customers into your product. But if, 45 days later, it turns out that the language in the marketing copy incorrectly led people to believe that you had a certain set of functionality that you didn’t, they’re going to churn at very high rates. In this pathological example, you could have changed nothing in your product, and still over the course of 8 weeks seen a spike in NPS followed by a spike in churn.
This makes NPS seen as misleading/dangerous/etc by some.
Opinions on NPS aside, LRQs are a vital tool for product creators
Whether you love or hate NPS, it’s important to remember that what really matters is that you have some set of LRQs to act as a proxy on the pulse of your customers’ attitude towards your product. Every SaaS product should have at least one (but we could make an easy argument for three) active LRQs that they look at every week. What matters is that you regularly look at the results and start to get a “feeling” for the data.
What makes an LRQ
Before we get into what types of LRQs you should be asking, I want to talk about two distinct “families” of LRQs: one-time and periodic.
One-time LRQs are asked transactionally. Tweet this Examples include right after a user signs up, after they’ve been a customer for a certain amount of time, or after they’ve completed a certain workflow. The idea here is that the customer is only asked the question one time. Periodic LRQs are asked repeatedly. Tweet this They are asked initially after a certain amount of time, and then at a regular interval thereafter. A valuable characteristic of periodic LRQs is that you can monitor for customers that change their answers over time. NPS is a periodic LRQ.
Because of the repetitive nature of Periodic LRQs, there is a lot of nuance to how they are implemented.
Periodic LRQs are “rolling”
They need to be asked in a rolling fashion, so you don’t have a “survey day” where you ask everyone that logs in on a certain day the question. This opens you up to several biases. If the majority of your customers are in SF, and the Giants lose an NLCS game in extra innings late last night, your customers might not be in a super good mood, and that can really affect your numbers.
Periodic LRQs aren’t for brand new customers
Unlike one-time LRQs, periodic LRQs are rarely asked of brand new customers, as the context of their answer will dramatically change by the time they answer the second time. You want to give them time to reach a “steady state” or else you’ll always see huge changes in their answers once they start getting the question for the second time.
Periodic LRQs are asked “for no reason”
Let’s say you want to establish an LRQ to monitor the “health” of your checkout process, and you set it up so that the question will appear after your customers finishing buying something. You don’t want to survey them every single time, so you set up the question to only be asked if it’s been 60 days since the last time they were asked.
However, in this scenario, you’re only asking people the question after they’ve successfully completed a transaction. Maybe your process isn’t actually very good. Maybe your workflow is so confusing that people abandon in many cases. I’m painting a pathological picture here, but it illustrates the point that randomly asking customers who have completed a checkout process:
Hi Matt, Over the past few months, have you found our checkout process to be a satisfying experience?
Is much different than asking them right after they finishing buying something.
Example LRQs
Ok, if you’re still reading, bravo. This is what you’ve been waiting for. Below, we’re going to go over some LRQs that you can start asking right now, and follow up with some tools to help you do it.
One-time LRQs include questions like: “How did you find us?” Answer: Multiple choice (which is preferred and will change based on your product) or open-ended When to ask: As soon as they complete the signup flow “What are your first impressions?” Answer: Open-ended When to ask: Once the customer has had a chance to get a first impression. This could be within 10 minutes of signing up, or could be after a week. It all depends on your product. Periodic LRQs include questions like: “How likely is it that you would recommend Ramen to a friend or colleague?” (NPS) Answer: 0-10 Follow-up question: “Tell us more about why you chose that” Follow-up answer: Open-ended When to ask: Depends on your product, but Ramen asks our customers after 30 days and then every 60 days thereafter “Anything frustrating about the app you’d like us to improve?” Answer: Yes or No Follow: “Tell us more” –up question Follow: Open-ended –up answer When to ask: Up to you, but Ramen asks this question every 45 days.
Should LRQs be asked in-app or via email?
This is a tough one. For most SaaS apps, in-app gets you a lot further, as questions can be asked in context. This allows them to be shorter. It also affords much higher conversion rates. We’ve seen in-app response rates around 40%, where email response rates are ~ 15%.
However, many products have usage patterns that make in-app not super useful. These include situations where your customers don’t interact with the product in their browser frequently, but maybe simply enjoy a daily or weekly email. In this case, you probably want to lean towards email questions.
Analyzing LRQ Results
Once you start asking these questions, you have to do something with all those amazing data. You’re technically inconveniencing your customers by asking them these questions, so make that worthwhile.
Get into a regular cadence of reviewing answers to questions. Get a weekly email setup that sends you the following for all your LRQs:
New answers last week Answers from last week Answers from all-time
Obviously you want to see the most recent answers, and you probably want to see answers from all-time, but you’re going to also want to compare the most recent answers with the precedent time period (read: last week vs. two weeks ago)
For periodic LRQs, your weekly report should include the # of people who have changed their answers since the last time they answered. This is a lot easier said than done, and in most cases will require some custom development on your end.
The Toolbox
This week, we’re going to break up our toolbox into sections: E-mail and In-app. For earlier stage companies, or businesses without a strong technical person, email will probably be a lot easier to setup (unless of course you’ve already installed Segment.com and want to use Ramen ;)).
SurveyGizmo & SurveyMonkey– Both offer free tiers and make it easy to send surveys via email. Delighted & Promoter.io– Very similar products that provide an email-only NPS solution. However, as of writing this post, their free tiers are not very generous. In-app Wufoo & Google Forms– Just like a couple weeks ago, Wufoo & Google Forms can do a lot for free. Although the UI of popping up an iFrame w/ a Wufoo/Google form would leave a lot to be desired, and it would leave you to do all the NPS math on your own. SatisMeter– A very straight-forward tools for implementing in-app NPS. They have a free tier, but it’s not terribly generous. Intercom– Intercom can be shoe-horned to do this, but you’ll have to do all the math on your own. Ramen– Here’s the thing: the lack of a proper solution to do this is pretty much the reason I started this company. So, I’m not going to belabor the point: we have NPS and generic LRQ support, and I’ll just leave a little link here in case you want to try Ramen out. TL;DR: These LRQs are tough to get right, and as you can probably tell from this extremely long-winded post, our team has spent a lot of time thinking about it. Product Fail Yeti says:
Those options are
way too much work or too expensive! Ain’t no Yeti got time for that! Forget everything you just read and just keep building your product without any of these EL ARE QUEUE things this dude is talking about. Too much work. #Grump
Can you believe that guy? Don't listen to the Yeti. #FightTheYeti
In the wild
Here are some great examples of companies using LRQs
Mention.com
Mention.com has extensively used NPS to decrease their churn. Here is a presentation their head of growth, Guillaume Cabane, has done on the topic.
After reading a draft of this post, Guillaume had some great comments which he gave me permission to post here:
We discovered that you can’t handle answers from your free and paid users the same way. And you if you do, you shouldn’t. Because someone paying you hundreds of dollars a month and leaves a text comment,
that needs to be handled by a human being. -G
Never lie to your customer. If he thinks (because you smart marketer let him believe that) there is a human being reading / replying to his survey, then you need to be able to handle the volume of answers. We generate north of 1,000 NPS surveys per month at Mention, and though it’s some work, it’s definitely worth it.
-G SugarWOD
SugarWOD has a native mobile app for tracking CrossFit workouts. They also have a web UI for gym owners to schedule workouts and monitor their athletes’ progress. A question they’ve had in the wild for a while is about getting first impressions:
Among some of the most interesting answers are:
“So far an excellent program. Before looking at investing I am waiting to see what kind of following this will gain in my gym.”
Drew Larsen, founder & CEO of SugarWOD, had this to say about that prior piece of feedback: “Knowingly or not, this guy shared with me his biggest concern / objection / trial criteria. I followed up with some rollout tips, some stats on what kind of adoption to expect and created a “to do” to follow-up with him on this specific topic after a week.”
Another piece of feedback that Drew received from this LRQ:
“Hey guys – quick question. Do you see this platform expanding to emulate services as seen on WodHopper, Wodify, FrontDesk, ZenPlanner, etc?”
From Drew: “This prospect is asking if we are going to provide complementary tools from an adjacent software category. We’re not, but it was really helpful to know so I could pro-actively address his issue. He is now a customer.”
Final Thoughts on LRQs
I hope you found this post helpful. These types of questions are hugely beneficial to product creators, and I urge you to start asking them regularly through whatever means available to you.Wrong form ID |
Open Question Answering | Series Title: Growing in knowledge of Jesus Christ Scripture Readings Hebrews 8:1-13 Colossians 2:13-23 Introduction
We are still approaching this letter of Paul under the topic,
Growing in our knowledge of Jesus Christ. We continue from where we stopped last week, and the sermon title is still “Jesus Christ only, no if’s no but’s”.
One of the conditions imposed on me for having a dog in the house, was that it should be bathed at least once a week, less it starts smelling like a dog.
I quite like dunking the little fellow in the water and pouring the shampoo over him. Of course I have to use the dedicated towel for him. So, after shampooing and scrubbing he gets a good rub with the towel. See, his feet need to be dry before he hits the ground so he does not leave any footprints.
What I’ve notice over and over again, is that, although I know I have done a good job of drying him, he still adds that shaking that dogs do when they come out of water. And every time I think he thinks that I am not doing a good job of drying him.
It seems sinners are by nature not happy and satisfied with the work of salvation in Jesus Christ. Although his work on the cross, his resurrection from the dead, his ascension into heaven, and his intercession before the Father is really all we need, we still want to give that final “shake” to complete the job.
This was the problem with some members of the church in Colossae.
We in part looked at the problem of some Christians who had been Jews before. They still demanded, that although we are saved by grace and not be good works, that members of the church must be circumcised like in the time of the Old Testament. Paul’s argument is that neither circumcision, nor baptism saves. What saves is the gif of grace in Jesus Christ. Both circumcision and baptism are signs of the grace of redemption, and must not be seen as an addition to grace to complete it. This can be understood as ceremonialism.
But there were other people, the Gnostics, who had an impact on the theology of the Colossians.
What if the knowledge becomes scares?
If becomes so easy to fall for every good sounding theology if we don’t know the Scriptures. Dr Albert Mohler wrote and article and titled it “The scandal of Biblical illiteracy.” He quotes researchers in his essay:
“Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels. Many Christians cannot identify more than two or three of the disciples. According to data from the Barna Research Group, 60 percent of Americans can’t name even five of the Ten Commandments. ‘No wonder people break the Ten Commandments all the time. They don’t know what they are,” said George Barna, president of the firm. The bottom line? “Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.’Multiple surveys reveal the problem in stark terms.”
According to 82 percent of Americans, “God helps those who help themselves,” is a Bible verse. Those identified as born-again Christians did better–by one percent. A majority of adults think the Bible teaches that the most important purpose in life is taking care of one’s family. Some of the statistics are enough to perplex even those aware of the problem. A Barna poll indicated that at least 12 percent of adults believe that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. Another survey of graduating high school seniors revealed that over 50 percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife. A considerable number of respondents to one poll indicated that the Sermon on the Mount was preached by Billy Graham. We are in big trouble.
If we don’t know the Bible everything which is sugar-coated with something that sounds like a Bible verse will be excepted for the truth.
Gnosticism – the old New Age Ceremonialism and gnosticism are almost opposites of one another. But Paul calls both of them hollow and deceptive. They are mere philosophies, which sound interesting but are devoid of any meaning. And the reason why Paul calls them deceptive is spelled out in verse 19: They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. (Colossians 2:19, NIV)
The term “head” here clearly refers to Jesus Christ. Any theology or teaching that preaches something or someone else than Jesus Christ is distracting from salvation, it’s misleading, it’s false, it’s like Paul says in Galatians 1:
Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! (Galatians 1:7–9, NIV)
In direct contrast to these descriptions stands the gospel: where the “philosophy” deceives people, the gospel is “true,” “reliable” (1:5); where the “philosophy” is “empty,” “devoid of spiritual value,” the gospel is powerful and transforming (1:6, 23). Human philosophies depends on human tradition and does not put the sinner contact with the Saviour.
Gnostic texts often describe God as incomprehensible, unknowable, and transcendent. Gnosticism held (and here it
sounds like the Bible) that God cannot be observed with our senses nor easily grasped with our understanding. Where it really differs from the Bible is the way to know God. They taught to know God was through mystical knowledge – a way of working your way up to God. Paul contrast this with the statement: My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. (Colossians 2:2–4, NIV)
Gnostics held that the world was not created by the “Ultimate Ground of Being” (God), but by a lesser deity resulting from the fall of the divine personification of Wisdom. Paul answers this with this statement:
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:15–17, NIV)
They believed that humans are split between the physical and spiritual world where the true human self is as alien to the world as is the transcendent God. According to gnosticism the true human self or soul is naturally divine, belonging to the same realm as the Ultimate Ground of Being, but is trapped and imprisoned by the material world. Gnosis, or knowledge, is what frees man. The problem is just that there is no specific knowledge of knowledge. This knowledge is not factual, intellectual, rational knowledge. Man will forever be searching. It is airy fairy stuff.
Paul gets stuck into the philosophisers and call what they preach weak and miserable elements. They thought they were wise and clever; but their teaching is just what Paul refers to in Galatians 4:
So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. (Galatians 4:3, NIV)
Maybe what they preached was nothing but primitive religion dressed up in learned terminology. Gnostics of the day were in essence the dressed-up philosophers of primitive ideas about this world where fire, air, water and earth played very important pillars in their worldview. These elements were then looked upon as divine elements, and the so-called balance between then should not be disturbed; they were worshipped as deities.
And of course the modern day version of this is Green theology: we worship Mother Earth and keep her happy so we can be happy!
The danger then for the Colossians was that these philosophies was presenting something else
in the place of Christ.
Modern day full blown gnostics believe in reincarnation, the duality of God as both masculine and feminine, and cling to ideas how we can best advance our souls for God – while living with the negativity here on Earth. And how much do we here about karma these days!
There were and are hybrid gnostics too. They are the sugar-coated ones. Although they might broadly refer to the Scriptures, they apply post-modernistic principles in understanding it. Some believe in finding their own truth, and don’t believe in “hell,” “sin,” or that Jesus came to die for our sins. He was a human messiah who served as a living example of how we should think and behave. They believe in an all-loving, all-merciful and benevolent God and in the power of prayer (or meditation – this form of prayer is nothing less than a DIY-feel-better, self-improvement religion).
They teach that we write a ‘chart’ for each life, and we must learn the life lessons we have chosen to learn through experience – to reach our own desired level of perfection for God, who loves us unconditionally and equally. How many times are we bombarded with the text not to judge others!
Modern day New Age philosophies, earth theologies with it’s importance to preserve mother earth (or as we know Green political principles), are not much different from the primitive philosophies of Paul’s time. What is somewhat difficult these days is that it is sometimes presented as academic speech. Someone writes:
“Environmentalism, as a religion of hope and respect for nature, is here to stay. This is a religion that we can all share, whether or not we believe that global warming is harmful.”
The Theology or Environmentalism is hostile towards Christianity. Some environmentalists blame Christians for the so-called destruction of the environment, basing their arguments on Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (Genesis 1:28, NIV)
A very prominent environmentalist spells out a plan of action:
“Even though ‘no new set of basic values’ will ‘displace those of Christianity,’ perhaps Christianity itself can be reconceived. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious.”
Churches who have lost their grip on the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him only have fallen for this and designed a new theology of the environment. A new phrase in theology is “creation care” – good well sounding phrase, but loaded with undertones. In the end what Paul says in Romans 1 can once again capture the so-called modern mind:
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Romans 1:21–25, NIV) The knowledge of Jesus Christ
On the other hand Paul gives a few remarkable statements:
In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, (Colossians 2:9) He is the perfect King and Saviour. Not like the gnostics believed! In Christ is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:3). Not like the gnostics or modern day human philosophies believe! By Him and for Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16). Not like the gnostics believed! This Jesus, this Christ, we may know! By faith we are united with Him. In prayer we can talk to Him, knowing the He intercedes for us at the throne of the Father. We are saved by God’s act of grace, not be ceremonies (Colossians 2:12). Our sins are forgiven and by faith we are united with Him who is our Saviour (Colossians 2:13) Conclusion
We will have to continue next week and find out more about Christ alone, no if’s, no but’s. Let’s thank God for the fulness of his Son who has become our Saviour.
Amen
Sermon preached by Rev D Rudi Schwartz on Sunday 24 January 2016 |
Open Question Answering | Series Title: Growing in knowledge of Jesus Christ Scripture Readings Hebrews 8:1-13 Colossians 2:13-23 Introduction
We are still approaching this letter of Paul under the topic,
Growing in our knowledge of Jesus Christ. We continue from where we stopped last week, and the sermon title is still “Jesus Christ only, no if’s no but’s”.
One of the conditions imposed on me for having a dog in the house, was that it should be bathed at least once a week, less it starts smelling like a dog.
I quite like dunking the little fellow in the water and pouring the shampoo over him. Of course I have to use the dedicated towel for him. So, after shampooing and scrubbing he gets a good rub with the towel. See, his feet need to be dry before he hits the ground so he does not leave any footprints.
What I’ve notice over and over again, is that, although I know I have done a good job of drying him, he still adds that shaking that dogs do when they come out of water. And every time I think he thinks that I am not doing a good job of drying him.
It seems sinners are by nature not happy and satisfied with the work of salvation in Jesus Christ. Although his work on the cross, his resurrection from the dead, his ascension into heaven, and his intercession before the Father is really all we need, we still want to give that final “shake” to complete the job.
This was the problem with some members of the church in Colossae.
We in part looked at the problem of some Christians who had been Jews before. They still demanded, that although we are saved by grace and not be good works, that members of the church must be circumcised like in the time of the Old Testament. Paul’s argument is that neither circumcision, nor baptism saves. What saves is the gif of grace in Jesus Christ. Both circumcision and baptism are signs of the grace of redemption, and must not be seen as an addition to grace to complete it. This can be understood as ceremonialism.
But there were other people, the Gnostics, who had an impact on the theology of the Colossians.
What if the knowledge becomes scares?
If becomes so easy to fall for every good sounding theology if we don’t know the Scriptures. Dr Albert Mohler wrote and article and titled it “The scandal of Biblical illiteracy.” He quotes researchers in his essay:
“Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels. Many Christians cannot identify more than two or three of the disciples. According to data from the Barna Research Group, 60 percent of Americans can’t name even five of the Ten Commandments. ‘No wonder people break the Ten Commandments all the time. They don’t know what they are,” said George Barna, president of the firm. The bottom line? “Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.’Multiple surveys reveal the problem in stark terms.”
According to 82 percent of Americans, “God helps those who help themselves,” is a Bible verse. Those identified as born-again Christians did better–by one percent. A majority of adults think the Bible teaches that the most important purpose in life is taking care of one’s family. Some of the statistics are enough to perplex even those aware of the problem. A Barna poll indicated that at least 12 percent of adults believe that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. Another survey of graduating high school seniors revealed that over 50 percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife. A considerable number of respondents to one poll indicated that the Sermon on the Mount was preached by Billy Graham. We are in big trouble.
If we don’t know the Bible everything which is sugar-coated with something that sounds like a Bible verse will be excepted for the truth.
Gnosticism – the old New Age Ceremonialism and gnosticism are almost opposites of one another. But Paul calls both of them hollow and deceptive. They are mere philosophies, which sound interesting but are devoid of any meaning. And the reason why Paul calls them deceptive is spelled out in verse 19: They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. (Colossians 2:19, NIV)
The term “head” here clearly refers to Jesus Christ. Any theology or teaching that preaches something or someone else than Jesus Christ is distracting from salvation, it’s misleading, it’s false, it’s like Paul says in Galatians 1:
Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! (Galatians 1:7–9, NIV)
In direct contrast to these descriptions stands the gospel: where the “philosophy” deceives people, the gospel is “true,” “reliable” (1:5); where the “philosophy” is “empty,” “devoid of spiritual value,” the gospel is powerful and transforming (1:6, 23). Human philosophies depends on human tradition and does not put the sinner contact with the Saviour.
Gnostic texts often describe God as incomprehensible, unknowable, and transcendent. Gnosticism held (and here it
sounds like the Bible) that God cannot be observed with our senses nor easily grasped with our understanding. Where it really differs from the Bible is the way to know God. They taught to know God was through mystical knowledge – a way of working your way up to God. Paul contrast this with the statement: My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. (Colossians 2:2–4, NIV)
Gnostics held that the world was not created by the “Ultimate Ground of Being” (God), but by a lesser deity resulting from the fall of the divine personification of Wisdom. Paul answers this with this statement:
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:15–17, NIV)
They believed that humans are split between the physical and spiritual world where the true human self is as alien to the world as is the transcendent God. According to gnosticism the true human self or soul is naturally divine, belonging to the same realm as the Ultimate Ground of Being, but is trapped and imprisoned by the material world. Gnosis, or knowledge, is what frees man. The problem is just that there is no specific knowledge of knowledge. This knowledge is not factual, intellectual, rational knowledge. Man will forever be searching. It is airy fairy stuff.
Paul gets stuck into the philosophisers and call what they preach weak and miserable elements. They thought they were wise and clever; but their teaching is just what Paul refers to in Galatians 4:
So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. (Galatians 4:3, NIV)
Maybe what they preached was nothing but primitive religion dressed up in learned terminology. Gnostics of the day were in essence the dressed-up philosophers of primitive ideas about this world where fire, air, water and earth played very important pillars in their worldview. These elements were then looked upon as divine elements, and the so-called balance between then should not be disturbed; they were worshipped as deities.
And of course the modern day version of this is Green theology: we worship Mother Earth and keep her happy so we can be happy!
The danger then for the Colossians was that these philosophies was presenting something else
in the place of Christ.
Modern day full blown gnostics believe in reincarnation, the duality of God as both masculine and feminine, and cling to ideas how we can best advance our souls for God – while living with the negativity here on Earth. And how much do we here about karma these days!
There were and are hybrid gnostics too. They are the sugar-coated ones. Although they might broadly refer to the Scriptures, they apply post-modernistic principles in understanding it. Some believe in finding their own truth, and don’t believe in “hell,” “sin,” or that Jesus came to die for our sins. He was a human messiah who served as a living example of how we should think and behave. They believe in an all-loving, all-merciful and benevolent God and in the power of prayer (or meditation – this form of prayer is nothing less than a DIY-feel-better, self-improvement religion).
They teach that we write a ‘chart’ for each life, and we must learn the life lessons we have chosen to learn through experience – to reach our own desired level of perfection for God, who loves us unconditionally and equally. How many times are we bombarded with the text not to judge others!
Modern day New Age philosophies, earth theologies with it’s importance to preserve mother earth (or as we know Green political principles), are not much different from the primitive philosophies of Paul’s time. What is somewhat difficult these days is that it is sometimes presented as academic speech. Someone writes:
“Environmentalism, as a religion of hope and respect for nature, is here to stay. This is a religion that we can all share, whether or not we believe that global warming is harmful.”
The Theology or Environmentalism is hostile towards Christianity. Some environmentalists blame Christians for the so-called destruction of the environment, basing their arguments on Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (Genesis 1:28, NIV)
A very prominent environmentalist spells out a plan of action:
“Even though ‘no new set of basic values’ will ‘displace those of Christianity,’ perhaps Christianity itself can be reconceived. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious.”
Churches who have lost their grip on the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him only have fallen for this and designed a new theology of the environment. A new phrase in theology is “creation care” – good well sounding phrase, but loaded with undertones. In the end what Paul says in Romans 1 can once again capture the so-called modern mind:
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Romans 1:21–25, NIV) The knowledge of Jesus Christ
On the other hand Paul gives a few remarkable statements:
In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, (Colossians 2:9) He is the perfect King and Saviour. Not like the gnostics believed! In Christ is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:3). Not like the gnostics or modern day human philosophies believe! By Him and for Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16). Not like the gnostics believed! This Jesus, this Christ, we may know! By faith we are united with Him. In prayer we can talk to Him, knowing the He intercedes for us at the throne of the Father. We are saved by God’s act of grace, not be ceremonies (Colossians 2:12). Our sins are forgiven and by faith we are united with Him who is our Saviour (Colossians 2:13) Conclusion
We will have to continue next week and find out more about Christ alone, no if’s, no but’s. Let’s thank God for the fulness of his Son who has become our Saviour.
Amen
Sermon preached by Rev D Rudi Schwartz on Sunday 24 January 2016 |
Open Question Answering | Travel EVA Author promos nation’s ‘sheepdog’ warriors
Stepanie Rogish is a stay-at-home military mom, who lives in Yokosuka City, Japan. She recently co-authored and published her first children’s book, "Sheepdogs: Meet Our Nation's Warriors" with retired Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a law enforcement consultant and lecturer. The 39-page book’s illustrators were Joey Karwal, whose father and step-mother are Army helicopter pilot veterans.
A former elementary school teacher, Rogish spends her days at the gym, writing, bible study, and volunteering at school. Her husband, an Army Military Police veteran, is a Department of the Navy civilian who currently works on Yokosuka Naval Base. They have two children who have experienced Dad's deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rogish will be signing her new book at Yokosuka Naval Base’s bazaar April 12 and 13. "Sheepdogs: Meet Our Nation's Warriors" is available via the publisher’s website at: www.sheepdogbook.com
Q: Could you give us brief outline of the book? A: A "sheepdog" is someone who spends their career/life training and living to protect those around them. They walk out the door every day prepared to lay down their life for others. We illustrate these special people, these warriors, as sheepdogs in the book. The ordinary citizens are sheep being protected by them from the wolf, the bad guy. Q: What made you write this book?
A: I've always loved children's literature and that you can teach young children just about anything through books. I've always wanted to write but this is my first published book.
We wrote this book for the children of military and law enforcement officers (“sheepdogs”). Our hope is that this helps them understand why their "sheepdog" isn't always home and why they protect people they don't even know. And yes, we address that hard topic of "when the sheepdog never comes home." We also want to "train up" the next generation of sheepdogs. To let these young sheepdogs know it's ok to stand up to the bully and stand up for the underdog.
Q: How did you collaborate with co-author Dave Grossman on the book?
A: My husband's job requires him to deploy to dangerous areas. … He wanted (our then 1-year-old daughter) to understand why he does what he does, just in case he never came home. That is when I knew this needed to be "out there" for kids. I began writing it just for my family. It wasn't until 6 years later that I contacted Dave Grossman and told him my idea and asked what he thought. (I had never met him, but my husband had attended his "Bulletproof Mind" seminar.)
Dave replied to my email and said it was a great idea and he'd be honored! I sent him what I had written and he asked if he could add things, so we became partners. I've had the pleasure of meeting him and attending his seminars, he is a dynamic speaker who is very passionate about what he does. Working with him is very uplifting! Dave and I wrote together, adding and changing many parts, many times. Dave has been teaching adults for many years, I was able to take the content and turn it into "kid language."
Q: How do you think this book contribute to military and law-enforcement kids?
A: I think this book lets our young readers know they are part of a very special family. Not just those in their home, but the larger "warrior" family.
Q: Is this book intended for children to read on their own or with parents? A: So far, this book has been enjoyed with parents at home. There are discussion questions in the back prompting parents and children to talk about sacrifice and what that means. Q: How can this book benefit non-military children and/or adult readers?
A: Our target audience are law enforcement and military families, but anyone can enjoy this book. Non-military readers will gain a better understanding of life without the soldier at home, the long hours, days (and) months away from home … to keep everyone safe. Teachers can use this to explain to students these people do what they do.
Q: What is your next book about?
A: My co-author and I are working on another children's book. Since we have a relationship with Delta Defense/US Concealed Carry Association, our next book will be about why civilians choose to carry a concealed weapon. (This is not the title of the book, we don't exactly have a title yet …) This book will be directed more toward civilians or anyone who is interested in concealed carry or keeping children safe when firearms are present in the home. (I know this is not a typical topic in Japan, but it is in the US.) |
Open Question Answering | This is the first in a series of blog posts about the pre-con sessions that we are running ahead of SQL Saturday 467
in Southampton in December 2015. Here we will be focusing on Dave Ballantyne and his
Query Performance and Internals
pre-con, so, over to a few words from Dave.
Q: Dave, can we have a quick background on who you are and what you do?
A: I've been in IT for all of my working life and I guess like a lot of people in the SQL Server field almost came to it by accident.
I was working at a software company that had a database independent product and happened to be the one in the office when SQL server 6 was delivered. Fast forward a good twenty plus years and I'm still learning about the product, more specifically the optimizer, and applying those discoveries to aid my clients to streamline operations and user experiences.
Q: What do you enjoy most about training days like the one that you are delivering?
A: Along the route I've taken, there has been many “light bulb” moments, that's something that's particularly satisfying as an individual, but to see that happen in other people is amazing. Take, for instance, parameter sniffing : Its a great cost saving optimization, but when it ‘goes wrong’ it can be disastrous for a system… As you take people through the steps how and why that happens, you can almost see in their faces that they are mentally reliving problems where they know they dump the procedure cache and it solves the problem , but know they know why the problem happens.
Q: You authored a chapter on T-SQL Windowing Functions in SQL Server, how useful do you find these functions in your everyday work?
A: I've lost track of the amount of queries I've had to write that have a calculation based upon the value in a previous row, last days sales , last quarter sales etc… and tbh , before windowing functions there was not a good way of doing that in TSQL, if you *had* to do it in TSQL then there would be hideous triangular joins or a cursor, even a quirky update, now you have succinct TSQL statement that gets the job done. They are not perfect, there are lots of opportunities for the function to spool and spill to disk, but, like a lot of SQL Server, once you have visibility to the problems they can be solved, mostly
.
Q: What will be one of the key things that the attendees will take away from your session?
A: That SQL Server is not magic, its just code. To develop/design/debug/fix a system so that it performs ( and scales) well, the internals of how the SQL Server works have to be understood. For me, the most important part of that puzzle is the optimizer, you can have the best highly available SAN system in the world driven by magical unicorns that make each page of data available in a nanosecond, but if the optimizer decides to scan a 50TB table rather than use an appropriate index, the hardware magic is all for nowt. I'm often asked which stream my session sit in , DBA, DEV, BI , the answer is Yes, all of the above. If you write SELECT statements then you will gain knowledge from understanding the impact that has on the system.
So just what is in the session;
When faced with performance issues there are many lines of attack. Tuning the hardware and infrastructure can get you so far, however for maximum effect you need to understand how the engine translates your submitted SQL statements into performable actions. This is not a simple task, the number of permutations of logical operations can be immense and to perform optimally the engine has to select the ‘best one’. If you like the sounds of this then you can read the full abstract along with registration details by clicking on the button below.
Hope to see you there.
John |
Open Question Answering | "You have 10 days in your favorite country. How do you spend it?"
Fort Collins, Colorado
Same theme as my last question. How do you spend it? Specifics, like where you would stay, what you would eat and what you would do?
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Hello fellow Fort Collins member! We all need to grab beers! I have a different look on how to spend ten days in your favorite country. If it's your favorite than you have been there before and prob done all the touristy stuff. So when I'm in Madrid or almost any were in Costa Rica, I like to do nothing! Eat and drink at my favorite spots, talk to friends and catch up.
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Andy Huang from San Francisco, California
I actually wrote about this a while ago on Quora.com. Here's my answer to What is a good two-week itinerary for the Philippines? It's the top answer for the question.
The activities I mentioned in the answer are
Not only will you have an awesome time in the Philippines. You'll also save a ton of money because things are so much cheaper there.
Check out this video to see more of what the Philippines has to offer.
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I would spend it with you, my dear husband! We would drink lots of great wine, dine on fabulous food and stay in a spendid accomodations!
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Welcome to STOP 1 in the Indie Book Collective’s Blog Tour de Troops,
(ALL WEEKEND LONG) where authors give back to the men and women who safeguard our freedom. What is being indie if not being free, right?
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Today, Kelli McCracken joins me and we are talking gratitude and indie and rock n roll…
A: Kelli, what does gratitude mean to you this Memorial Day?
K: Well, Amber, gratitude means many things to me this Memorial Day. I’m grateful that I have met all the wonderful members of the Indie Book Collective. They have made the last six months as an indie author less confusing and frightening; I’m grateful for the support I have received. More importantly, I’m grateful for a country in which I have the freedom to express my creativity. That I have the right to write whatever comes to my mind. That would not be possible without the men and women of the military, who risk their lives everyday to give me these liberties and more. I’m grateful I’m an American.
K: What about you, Amber? What does gratitude mean to you this Memorial Day?
A: It means a lot of the same to me. I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors who struggled and fought to bring a better life to their children. My uncles fought in world wars. My grandparents settled wild lands. I get to live a better life every day thanks to their sacrifices and hard work. As a woman, I get to dress as I please, speak as I please, even write as I please all because I was born American. I sleep safe at night thanks to those braver than me who live by a call to duty.
A: And what does being Indie mean to you, Kelli?
K: Being Indie means the world to me. I see it as a blessing. I have an opportunity to share my stories with people. It means I have a chance to get know my fans on a more personal level. I can get my work to them without the delays of traditional publishing.
I get to meet amazing people on my journey. I’ve developed friendships with other writers who I don’t think I would have met had I stuck with the persuit of traditional publishing.
Being indie also makes me appreciate my freedom. I have no restraints holding me back; no one to tell me I’m not good enough. I have people encouraging me to keep going when I feel like quiting. I can pay it forward to others who share my stuggles and give them the encouragement they need to write another day.
Being indie means being true to my characters; to my story; to my heart.
K: What does being indie mean to you, Amber?
A: It means when, where, and how my stories are shared is up to me. Not subject to someone else’s timeline, or deadline, or opinion on its sales potential. I get to be 100% a part of the sales and fan equation.
It means getting to connect with readers and peers and share all that I’ve learned. It means grabbing a trend by the neck hairs and climbing on for each ride today, not tomorrow.
A: Can you tell us about your coming Indie release, Kelli?
K: Thank you, I’d love to!
“What the Heart Wants” is a paranormal romance that takes place in Los Angeles, California. Heaven Lewis is invited to LA by her childhood best friend. Once there, Heaven learns exactly why her BFF invited her and her life changes in ways she never expected. She meets Mr. Tall, dark, and yummy, Dylan McBride.
Dylan is the mysterious lead singer for the rock band, Sliders. When Dylan sees Heaven for the first time, he is blown away, mainly because he has been dreaming about her for the last six months. He is drawn to her by an unexplainable connection. This connection is so powerful that Dylan can sense Heaven’s emotions. He knows there is a reason why he dreamed of her and why they’re connected, but he doesn’t know how to find the answers. Dylan wants to tell Heaven about their connection, but fears any explanation would sound neurotic. He can’t afford to lose her after months of searching for her.
As Dylan pursues Heaven’s heart, they not only have to fight off insecurities, but nosy paparazzi, jealous friends, meddling family, and a deranged associate. If that isn’t enough, a misunderstanding leads to a horrific event that threatens to tear apart the budding relationship.
“What the Heart Wants” is the first book in my Soulmate Series.
K: How about you, Amber? Fierce Dawn was so amazing, I can’t wait to get my hands on your next book. What indie project do you have in the works?
A: Yummy is right! This sounds like a great debut! A romance we can sink our teeth into. What is it about putting a guy in a band that ups his hot quotient SO much? I love the turmoil of fame you referenced and can’t wait to see how these two deal with it.
I’m so glad you enjoyed
“Fierce Dawn.”
My next release is
“Soul Search.” Set in early 1930’s, Thomas Grayson blames himself for his nephew’s disappearance and will do whatever it takes to find him, including embracing the wolf soul residing inside him. When a witness to his nephew’s disappearance surfaces, Thomas harbors serious doubts which only increase when Leigh Chaney’s secret is exposed. All her life, she has been in contact with the other side and what she learns there will test every belief Cash holds dear.
Then I have three sequels on deck, one of which follows,
“Play Fling,”
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Since your book has a rock star hero, and the troops are our heroes, how about if everyone comments what their favorite all American rock song is? (Don’t forget to include your email address!)
A: Mine has GOT to be “American Girl” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers! How about you, Kelli?
K: My favorite all American rock song is “Miss America” by Saving Abel. The song gives me chills every time I hear it.
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Madeline Season 3 Episode 20 Madeline’s Valentine images, pictures |
Open Question Answering | The First and Second Standards on the Narmer Plate.
The "set-square" is an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for "Pharaoh".
A "Hawk on a Standard" is an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for "God".
More than communion with the elements of earth, air, fire and water Leonardo's self portrait represents the Precession of the Equinoxes as outlined in Part 5: The Royal Arch of the Ages of the Zodiac.
The Royal Arch of Precession of the Ages of the Zodiac
The reason Precession occurs is that the Earth not only rotates on its axis … otherwise known as the Axis Munde or World Pillar … it also wobbles. This wobble effect is a phenomenon caused by forces exerted by the Sun on the bulges of the Earth at the Equator.
The wobble effect is best explained in terms of a spinning top. As the top begins to lose momentum it begins to wobble. It is this same kind of circular movement, or wobble, of the Earth, which moving at a constant speed over long periods of Time alters the direction of the Polar Axis. One revolution is completed every 25,920 years. The central point of revolution is called the "pole of the ecliptic".
The visible effect of Precession on the Pole Star.
The wobble effect is best explained in terms of a spinning top.
As the top begins to lose momentum it begins to wobble.
The apparent cycle of the Pole Stars over a period of 25,920 years is not the only effect of Precession as viewed from Planet Earth. Another effect with which most of us will be familiar is the apparent movement of the Signs of the Zodiac across the sky on an annual basis. It is reasonable to suspect that most of you reading this will be familiar with the Sign of the Zodiac under which you were born, and many of you will
read your stars in newspapers and magazines everyday. You might be an Aries or a Libra. Or perhaps like me you are a Scorpio.
The apparent movement of the Signs of the Zodiac across the sky does not only take place on an annual basis however. The cycle also occurs over a period of 25,920 years, often referred to as Plato's Great Year.
The following diagram can be interpreted on both of these levels, but the main emphasis is on the Great Year … the Four Seasons, the Twelve Ages and the Precession of the Equinoxes. The twelve markers indicating the timing of the Sun entering a New Age and / or Season of the Zodiac are like "flags" denoting the boundaries. In fact they could be considered as "flagships" heralding in each of the New Ages and / or Seasons.
The ensigns of the twelve Zodiacal Constellations, representing the Twelve Ages in the Precession of the Equinoxes, appear to arch their way across the sky as if in royal procession. The beginning of a new Zodiacal Season is marked by the standards of the Lion, the Bull, the Man and the Eagle … sometimes equated with the Four Cardinal Directions. The Fifth Cardinal Direction is the central point of revolution, the pole of the ecliptic.
The Royal Arch of the Ages of the Zodiac.
The ensigns of the twelve Zodiacal Constellations, representing
the Twelve Ages in the Precession of the Equinoxes,
appear to arch their way across the sky as if in royal procession.
The beginning of a new Zodiacal Season is marked by
the standards of the Lion, the Bull, the Man and the Eagle.
The blue
dot within the circle is Planet Earth around which the Constellations of the Zodiac appear to revolve. The "Cross" which is formed by the four quarters of the circle takes 25,920 years to complete one revolution. The completion of one revolution is referred to as a Great Year.
Within this Great Year are four Seasons, which are defined by the Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Equinoxes. For this reason the Great Year is also referred to as the . Within each Season are three Ages. For example, within the Zodiacal Season of Taurus there are the three Ages of Taurus (the Bull), Aries (the Ram) and Pisces (the Fish). Within the Zodiacal Season of Aquarius there are the three Ages of Aquarius (Man), Capricorn (the Sea Goat) and Sagittarius (the Archer). Each Zodiacal Season comprises a 90-degree right-angle … like a set-square. Each Zodiacal Season is a one fourth part of a circle and, like Leonardo da Vinci, is Precession of the Equinoxes standing on the square.
Although he was not technically a Freemason Leonardo was, perhaps not surprisingly, a member of the Prierre de Sion., the Priory of the Sun. As such he would have been well aware of the Royal Arch of the Ages of the Zodiac and the concept of Precession. At the time however it would have been considered heresy to admit to such knowledge.
When the five-pointed star is circumscribed by a circle, as it was in Da Vinci's illustration, it becomes a pentacle. It is uncanny that Nature has reproduced this Sacred Geometry in France, near Rennes-le-Chateau, in the form of five mountains virtually equidistant around the circumference of a circle. Rennes-le-Chateau appears as an Ancient Site on my Star Map "Venus" and is closely associated with the Priory of the Sun.
Like the circle, the "endless knot" of the five-pointed star denotes "eternity". There is no beginning and no end.
Ø = (1 + 5)/2 = 2cos(pi/5) = 1.61803 … and this is the "Golden Ratio".
The "Pi" Ratio: the Golden Mean.
The regular five-pointed star is important in geometry because it encodes the "pi" ratio, alternatively named the "Golden Mean".
Pi in numerical terms is expressed as 3.14159265 to the nearest eight decimal places.
The pi ratio in the five-pointed star, the pentalpha, is encoded in the lines of the pentagon framing the star and in the tangent lines of the star itself. The ratio of one star tangent line (pink) to one pentagon line (green) is:
The ratio of one star tangent line (pink) to one pentagon line (green) is:
Ø = (1 + 5)/2 = 2cos(pi/5) = 1.61803 … and this is the "Golden Ratio". "Pi" and the Ancient Egyptians
Usually the discovery of "pi" is attributed to the Ancient Greeks, the Pythagoreans having adopted the pi symbol as their emblem. In fact it was the Ancient Egyptians who discovered pi as attested on the Narmer Plate dated 4468BC.
Around his neck Sirius, the "King of the Seven Stars", is wearing the double tau, the "pi" symbol. From the Tau hieroglyph in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead it is clear that "Tau" means "holy or sacred gate" or "holy or sacred opening". The five-pointed star denotes the word "sacred".
The Narmer Plate 4468BC: the King of the Seven Stars
is wearing the pi symbol around his neck.
The reason the five-pointed star was considered sacred was because it was a symbol which encoded the Secret of Precession as well as the Golden Mean. The number of degrees around the centre point of the star
(360) divided by the number of arms of the star (5) renders the number seventy-two … which is significant in terms of astronomy (see Part 4) and Freemasonry.
Seventy-two is the number of years that it takes for the sky bodies to appear to move through one degree of their cycle. When the seventy-two years are multiplied by the three hundred and sixty degrees of the complete cycle, we discover that it takes is 25,920 years for each heavenly cycle to be completed … at which time the process starts all over again. This is the cycle of Precession.
In Freemasonry the number seventy-two is significant, as traditionally the angle at which the Masonic Compasses stand is 72 degrees.
The Five-Pointed Star and Freemasonry
Further examples of the five-pointed star being associated with Freemasonry include the Master of the Lodge being represented by this symbol. Moreover it was traditionally an emblem of the early Masonic Guilds because they were unified in their application of the Sacred Geometry of the Golden Ratio in the building of the great cathedrals of Europe.
Indeed Geometry was synonymous with Masonic Guilds or Freemasonry. Geometry is referred to as the "fifth science" while the Supreme Being is referred to as the Grand Geometrician. A Second Degree Fellow Craft Freemason is referred to as a "G Man", the "G" referring to Geometry. The following comes from ritual dating back to 1730.
Q: Why was you made a Fellow-Craft?
A: For the sake of the letter G.
Q: What does G denote?
A: Geometry or the Fifth Science.
The Heavenly G.
A few years ago when Freemasonic Temples were open to the public in South Australia the letter G was evident, suspended above eye level. I was told that it stood for God and Geometry.
To determine the position of the Heavenly G we begin our journey in the constellation of Taurus. After locating the bright red star of Alderbaran arc north-west through the Gemini Twins, Castor and Pollux, and on to Procyon in Canis Minor. From there move directly on to the brightest star in the heavens, Sirius, in the constellation of Canis Major. We continue the G-curve through to Rigel, at the mouth of the Celestial Sphinx, and then continue in a straight line, passing to the right of the middle star of Orion's Belt until we reach the end of our journey at Betelgeus, more commonly known as Beetle Juice.
The "Heavenly G' in the Northern Winter Skies.
Today it stands for God and Geometry.
God, the Creator, in 14000BC was the Celestial Sphinx.
It is significant that the final line of the Heavenly G is a straight line and that it passes through the Constellation of Orion, which was considered by the later Ancient Egyptians as being Sahu, the soul of Osiris who represented the Axis Munde around which the heavens appeared to revolve. (See Part 6) More important at this point however is its symbolism as a link between the celestial and terrestrial worlds. A link between God and Man.
This link is clearly demonstrated in the star chart above: God, the Celestial Sphinx, is linked literally with Man, the Giant Orion. This same link between God and Man was reproduced at Giza in the form of the Sphinx and the Three Pyramids. The Sphinx was the earthly representation of the Celestial Sphinx and the Three Pyramids were the earthly representation of the Belt of Orion and, by extension, of the Giant Orion himself.
(The ground plan of the Three Pyramids of Giza was discovered to be a replica of Orion's Belt by Robert Bauval in November 1983. Ref: Bauval, R & Gilbert, A The Orion Mystery. Mandarin, London 1994)
There is the possibility that the actual meaning of the letter G in Freemasonry is not as important as the fact that it exists. Ego: I exist, I am ... which relates back to the God of the Old Testament telling Moses "I AM THAT I AM" ... "I AM hath sent me" (Exodus 3 v 14). In this sense the letter G would represent the Great I Am, God himself. In 14000BC God was the Celestial Sphinx.
In an expose of 1730 when the letter G was a symbol of the Second Degree Fellow Craft the following ritual was recorded:
Q. When you came into the middle, what did you see?
A. The Resemblance of the Letter G.
Q. Who doth that G denote?
A. One that's greater than you.
Q. Who's greater than I that am a Free and Accepted Mason, the Master of a Lodge?
A. The Grand Architect and Contriver of the Universe, or He that was taken up to the Top of the Pinnacle of the Holy Temple.
The initial question "When you came into the middle, what did you see?" refers to the Winter Skychart for the Northern Latitudes looking South for the dates of the year October 15th through to April 1st. The most prominent date and time among these is January 1st at midnight as the New Year is being welcomed in at which time the Heavenly G is high in the centre of the night sky. The reply given to the question is fully accurate: "The Resemblance of the Letter G." Notice that the Heavenly G does not have the horizontal bar.
On January 1st at midnight as the New Year is being welcomed in
the Heavenly G is high in the centre of the night sky.
Notice that the Heavenly G does not have the horizontal bar.
Interestingly the second question asks
who, not what, the G denotes, and receives the correct reply "One that's greater than you." This person is further clarified as being "The Grand Architect and Contriver of the Universe." In other words the person who was responsible for the allocation of the constellation patterns to the night skies, the person who gave pattern and form to an otherwise chaotic cosmos. As we discovered in Part 2 this person can only refer to the Celestial Sphinx, the Creator. In turn the Celestial Sphinx was the brainchild of the remote Ancient Egyptians prior to 14000BC.
The second description of whom G denotes: "He that was taken up to the Top of the Pinnacle of the Holy Temple" suggests that the Holy Temple is the Celestial Dome. It follows that the Pinnacle of the Holy Temple can only be the Celestial North Pole. This would confirm the Grand Architect and Contriver of the Universe as having recognised the existence of a Celestial North Pole and the apparent rotation of the stars in the night skies around it. According to Ancient Egyptian Memphite teaching Ptah filled this prestigious position.
Ptah was often depicted raised on a pedestal which was to be
found in the Naos of a temple. The Naos, like the oak tree,
was considered to be the centre of the universe.
Ptah was often depicted raised on a pedestal which was to be found in the
Naos of a temple. The Naos, like the oak tree, was considered to be the centre of the universe. Ptah, who usurped Osiris' role as the World Pillar, was symbolic of the Axis Munde around which the heavens appear to revolve. He was the link between the celestial and terrestrial worlds.
Not surprisingly therefore, in his hands he holds an upright staff, a composite sceptre uniting the emblems of life, stability and omnipotence. Ptah is not only the personification of the final straight line of the "Heavenly G" he is also the personification of Precession.
Footnote … subtle references to Freemasonry are intentional.
Copyright Audrey Fletcher 1999
All rights reserved
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Open Question Answering | Ringgit, Reserves, Revaluation
- of cabbages and kinks -
said... I would be grateful if you explain this statement: "Bank Negara's international reserves at a steady US$79.3 billion, meaning the ringgit should see at least room for a 5% gain over the next 12 months." How does the reserves affect the appreciation? Why 5% ?
I would be grateful if you explain this statement: "Bank Negara's international reserves at a steady US$79.3 billion, meaning the ringgit should see at least room for a 5% gain over the next 12 months." How does the reserves affect the appreciation? Why 5% ?
I see 5% gain over the next 12 months, not because of the reserves, the reserves act as a basis for supporting a stronger ringgit over the near to medium term. The reserves do point to better management of ins and outs. If you look at the correction in emerging marts in May, it was swiftly followed by a correction in currencies of emerging marts, but there were three or four currencies which rebounded well. Besides the Chinese yuan, which was managed, so it did not move much - the currencies which rebounded well included the Brazilian real and ringgit, bit "where there is surpluses in trade and reserves". My statement only lends crednce to my opinion that the ringgit will have more institutional followers (not fresh shorts) when BN allows the ringgit to appreciate in tandem with the yuan. If you market the currencies next to each other for the last 6-9 months, you will find that the ringgit has the closest correlation to the yuan, and thats not coincindental. |
Open Question Answering | Solving Linear Equations - Part II
I. Solving Linear Equations
A. Get rid of all fractions by multiplying both sides by the LCD. B. Simplify both sides. C. Use the Addition Property to get all the variable terms on one side of the equal sign, the constant terms on the other. D. Use the Multiplication Property to isolate the variable. E. Check your solution by substituting your answer back into the original equation. F. Examples - Use properties of equality to isolate x on one side of the equation. Let's multiply both sides by to clear the fraction.
Simplify the LHS. Add to both sides to isolate the variable.
Answer: 2. Now you try one: Answer: G. Applications 1. In Massachusetts, speeding fines are determined by the formula F = 10(x – 65) + 50 where F is the cost, in dollars, of the fine if a person is caught driving x miles per hour. Use this formula to solve exercise 74. If the fine comes to $400, how fast was that person speeding? (Page 133, #74) Let F = The fine, in dollars Let x = The speed, in mph We are told to find the speed when the fine is $400, so we will substitute 400 in for F in the formula and solve for x.
400 = 10(x – 65) + 50 Distribute 10 on the right-hand side, but only to the terms in parentheses. Simplify the right-hand side. Add 600 to both sides to isolate the x term. Divide by 10 to isolate x. 100 = x
Answer: The moron was going 100 mph!
2. The formula
describes the pressure of sea water, p, in pounds per square inch (psi) at a depth of d feet below the surface. Use the formula to solve exercises 78. At what depth is the pressure 20 psi? (Page 133, #78) Let p = The pressure, in psi Let d = The depth, in feet We want to find the depth at which pressure = 20 psi, so we need to substitute 20 in for p and solve for d.
Clear the fraction by multiplying by the LCD, 11. 220 = 165 + 5d Subtract 165 from both sides to isolate the d term. 55 = 5d Divide both sides by 5 to isolate d.
Answer: At a depth of 11 feet, the pressure will be 20 psi. 3. Now you try one: The latest guidelines, which apply to both men and women, give healthy weight ranges, rather than specific weights, for your height. The further you are above the upper limit of your range, the greater are the risks of developing weight-related health problems. The bar graph (bottom of left-hand column, page 133) shows these ranges for people between the ages of 19 and 34, inclusive. The mathematical model describes a weight, W, in pounds, that lies within the healthy weight range for a person whose height is H inches over 5 feet. Use this information to solve exercise 75. Use the formula to find the healthy weight for a person whose height is 5’ 6”. (Hint: H = 6 because this person’s height is 6 inches over 5 feet.) How many pounds is this healthy weight below the upper end of the range shown by the bar graph? Answer: Equation: The healthy weight for someone 5’ 6” tall is 142 pounds. This is 13 pounds below the upper end of the range. |
Open Question Answering | The following paper, which attempts to identify and display the exact point at which Science took the formal, idealist path, and abandoned the theoretical/explanatory tradition almost entirely, to negate its former purposes and direction, and replace them with an inevitable and indeed terminal dead end, as its alternative.
It is not an easy task, for the most important moves for this ultimate bifurcation, were taken long before the clear and unambiguous split occurred. For, up till that final switch, a dual situation had not only existed, but had facilitated a reasonable amalgam, which though not entirely coherent, did manage to keep the best of both the involved flawed approaches, and thus keep things open for a reasonable, if somewhat eclectic, view of Reality. So, this task has to start with those long-held, yet erroneous assumptions and principles, then describe just how such a basically contradictory mix of formalist abstract equations and causal explanations could between them approximate closely enough to Reality to allow a plausible and useful amalgam, that on close inspection was certainly unsustainable and indeed conflicting. It was, of course, possible because the two dissimilar halves of the conceptions were used for very different functions - one was for use, while the other was for explanation: the latter was an effective explanatory narrative accompanying the quantitative use of the equation in predictions during actual functional use. The two were, in effect, “complementary” and delivered an overall mix, which delivered on both important fronts. Now, whenever such contradictory dichotomies exist, it is because both sides of that contradiction are significantly flawed, while at the same time reflecting some real, and indeed vital, aspect of the situation. Both sides contain some Objective Content.
It is not an easy task, for the most important moves for this ultimate bifurcation, were taken long before the clear and unambiguous split occurred. For, up till that final switch, a dual situation had not only existed, but had facilitated a reasonable amalgam, which though not entirely coherent, did manage to keep the best of both the involved flawed approaches, and thus keep things open for a reasonable, if somewhat eclectic, view of Reality.
So, this task has to start with those long-held, yet erroneous assumptions and principles, then describe just how such a basically contradictory mix of formalist abstract equations and causal explanations could between them approximate closely enough to Reality to allow a plausible and useful amalgam, that on close inspection was certainly unsustainable and indeed conflicting.
It was, of course, possible because the two dissimilar halves of the conceptions were used for very different functions - one was for use, while the other was for explanation: the latter was an effective explanatory narrative accompanying the quantitative use of the equation in predictions during actual functional use. The two were, in effect, “complementary” and delivered an overall mix, which delivered on both important fronts.
Now, whenever such contradictory dichotomies exist, it is because both sides of that contradiction are significantly flawed, while at the same time reflecting some real, and indeed vital, aspect of the situation. Both sides contain some Objective Content. |
Open Question Answering | Today's Deal: Escape to Niagara Any Day of the Week Comfort Inn Lundy's Lane What you get For $55 stay in a Two Queen Room for two Includes: One $75 Skylon Tower voucher including ride to the top for two, parking at the Skylon Tower and one $40 dinner credit One $15 voucher to iHop 2-for-1 admission voucher to The Bird Kingdom One $5 voucher towards your purchase at Sorrento Bakery & Deli A wine tour and tasting for two adults to Konzelmann Estate Winery An exclusive VIP discount card to the Canada ONE Factory Outlet Mall Free on-site parking Free local and long distance calling About Comfort Inn Lundy's Lane Description: Rating 3.5/5 Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How many vouchers can I purchase?
A: Unlimited Q: How many consecutive nights can I book? A: Up to two nights, tours based on availability Q: How many people can use a voucher? A: Each voucher valid to cover two people. Tour and hotel must be used at same time Q: Can I have additional guests? A: $39 per person for tour and additional guest fee at hotel of $20 per person (maximum 4 guests per room) Q: What about package extras for additional guests? A: These would need to be purchased directly from the hotel/attractions. Q: Is it possible to get a room with two beds? A: Based on availability, upon request. Q: Can I upgrade my room? A: Must enquire with hotel after regular package is already booked Q: What are the taxes and/or fees? A: HST (13%) and TIFF(3.8%) Q: What is the parking fee? A: Free Parking Offer Details Valid for travel any day of the week until May 18, 2017 Blackout dates: April 7 & 8; May 5, 6 & 7, 2017 All reservations, upgrade and late check-out, subject to hotel availability Skylon Tower voucher valid with the purchase of 2 appetizers, 2 entrees and 1 dessert IHOP voucher valid with the purchase of 2 regular priced breakfasts Sorrento Bakery voucher valid with minimum $15 purchase Long distance calls within Canada only Must request late check-out upon reservation. No cash back. No cash value. Cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions Retail sales tax and federal goods and services tax are not included and are payable directly to the merchant. Gratuities are not included An additional 3.8% TIFF is applicable and payable directly to the hotel upon check-in Refunds on unused/unbooked vouchers available until May 30, 2017 Refund Policy
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Open Question Answering | Oh wow oh wow – it fits!
This is my second e-pattern, this once purchased through the burdastyle website. (Click on the piccie to take you to the dress on burdastyle.com)
I printed out the little print-size test square they provided, found it was just fine, so printed the whole pattern. Then I went back to kindergarten, cutting and sticky-taping the whole pattern together. Big job! Even with the markings to help, it still came out wonky. Conclusion: e-patterns you print out and stick together yourself are just inevitably a bit wonky. And high humidity and ceiling fans don’t help, either.
Secondary conclusion: fortunately it doesn’t seem to matter.
Why? Because when I traced the pattern onto pattern-trace, did my paper-fitting, cut it out then sewed it up, it fit beautifully! Yay!
This pattern didn’t have seam allowances. Usually I use patterns with the seam allowance included. However with this one, knowing the exact size of the finished garment pieces made it easier to work out fitting measurements. Not that I ever found it difficult before, simply subtracting the seam allowances. But with no seam allowances, it was just … easier… to be accurate.
Another thing I really like about this pattern is it is a dream to sew up. Every piece fits neatly together with every other piece. Seams are the same length on each pattern piece, that sort of thing. Nice. Very nice.
Here is the bodice front and back. Paper-fitted, cut and sewn with no further alterations. Although the back looks too long, if the seam allowance is folded under it is fine. yes 1.5cm of extra length in my centre back really
does make that much difference!
Check out that pattern-matching on the back. Close but no cigar! It was the second time I did it and it was no better than the first. I just left it as is. I figure it is only slightly psychedelic….
And, last but not least, what colour do you think this dress is? I thought it was a duck-egg blue with a calico background. But my mother and Auntie (visiting from Canada YAY!) think it is green. What do you think? |
Open Question Answering | A Shore Thing
G105
Amenities Featured Pet Friendly Private Pool Elevator Pool Table WiFi Fireplace Hot Tub No Smoking Standard Bed & Bath Linens Pillows & Blankets Coffee Maker Toaster Blender Dishes, Utensils, & Cookware Dishwasher Microwave Iron & Ironing Board Stereo with CD Player Telephone TV & DVD Player Central Heat & Air Conditioning Washer & Dryer Outdoor Furniture Outdoor Shower Grill Beach Chairs (5 per home) Home Details
Unit Number: G105 Name: A Shore Thing Neighborhood: Ocean Sands - A Check in Day: Saturday Check-in Office: Duck Location: Oceanfront Distance to Beach: View Map Bedrooms: 6 (2K, 2Q, 2T, 1Duo, 1Tr)
Master Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 5 Full 2 Half Parking: Parking for 5 Pool: Gated Private Pool Size: 10x24 Private Pool Dates: 4/29-10/14 Fireplace Availability: 1/1-4/8;10/16-12/31 Recent updates include a new kitchen refrigerator and bedding! This home provides the setting for a great beach vacation! Enjoy the spaciousness, panoramic ocean views from two levels, and the private cul-de-sac location. Relax with a swim in the private pool, soak in the hot tub, or enjoy a game of pool or foosball. Memories from your vacation at "A Shore Thing" will last a lifetime! Main House
Level 1 Covered entry; rec room with foosball and sitting area; rec room with pool table, full size refrigerator and sitting area. Level 2 Two MBRs (K, Q); two BRs (2T, Duo/Tr); hall bath; den; half bath; laundry; oceanfront pool and hot tub with ocean view; shaded decking. Level 3 Two MBRs (K, Q); tiled great room with gas fireplace; large, gourmet kitchen with Jenn-Air stove, separate breakfast and dining rooms; half bath; screened porch; open decking. Extras Private pool, hot tub, multiple TVs/DVDs, elevator, dune deck, two outside showers, hardline gas grill on L3 deck, basketball goal.
Pets welcome (2 max.). No additional fee or deposit required.
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The home is absolutely perfect. The home is furnished perfectly, has a swimming pool and hot tub, is right on the beach... we absolutely loved our vacation!
- Jennifer 6/3/2017
We love the home . we have already reserved our vacation for next year and we are counting down the days.
- Kim 5/27/2017
A Shore Thing was everything we could have asked for in a beach house! Comfortable and inviting, it had plenty of areas to gather and play. We loved it there!
- Douglas 5/13/2017
My family and I loved the house and location. I would definitely stay here again.
- Peggy 4/8/2017
- Judy 4/1/2017
- Jeanie And Gary 12/24/2016
- Sharon 12/10/2016
Everything was perfect and every detail attended to. I booked the house for rental next year.
- Virginia 9/24/2016
- Susan 9/17/2016
Perfect location. Tons of places for everyone to get away for a bit for alone time if needed. Beautiful pool and decking.
- Carole 8/27/2016
- Lisa 8/20/2016
- Robyn 8/6/2016
- Jane 7/30/2016
It's everything we look for in a beach vacation: Great location, great house, perfect size for our families and it's pet friendly!
- Andrew 7/9/2016
- Judy 6/18/2016
- Elizabeth 6/11/2016
Beautiful home. Our first time ocean front. It was on my bucket list.
- Linda 6/4/2016
- Kim 5/28/2016
- Valerie 5/14/2016
- Brian 5/7/2016
THIS WAS OUR 7TH YEAR I BELIEVE WITH SAME HOME. LOVE THE AREA AND SPEAKING WITH NEIGHBORS, DID NOT HAVE GREAT WEATHER THIS YEAR BUT THAT WAS FIRST TIME...STILL ENJOYED THE AREA, COMPANY, AND VIEW LOVE TO WATCH THE PORPOISE GO BY IN THE MORNING
- Sharon 4/30/2016
It's a lovely house with a great location. The elevator was a huge help in lugging everyone's luggage/bins in and out. The house is laid out so there are lots of places for privacy even though it houses so many people.
- Jacqueline 3/26/2016
Questions & Answers Question: How many refrigerators total are in the house?
Answer:
Julie, G105 currently offers a refrigerator in the Level 3 kitchen and Level 1 den.
- Answered by Twiddy on 6/19/2017
Question: Can u tell me what room the trundle bed is in?
Answer:
Barbra, The trundle bed is on Level 2 in the bedroom with the Duo bunk set.
- Answered by Twiddy on 6/12/2017
Question: Does this house have any port a cribs, sand toys, or beach chairs?
Answer:
LInda, this is a great question. 5 beach chairs are provided for each of our homes as a standard amenity. We do not provide beach toys, or other beach equipment. Baby equipment is not guaranteed for any of our vacation homes. Baby item safety requirements and recalls constantly change and many become obsolete after just one vacation season. For these reasons, Twiddy and our homeowners have begun to remove baby items from homes. If you prefer not to bring your own, there are several great companies in the area to rent baby items and a number of other fun vacation items like bikes, surfboards, beach equipment, etc. We recommend: Moneysworth Equipment Rentals 1-800-833-5233 Ocean Atlantic Rentals 1-800-635-9559 Just for the Beach 1-866-629-7368
- Answered by Twiddy on 2/16/2017
Question: This unit does include a dune deck. Does this also mean it has private access to the beach? Also, it says keyless entry but also says checkin office is in Duck. Do you check in at Duck office or do you have keyless entry?
Answer:
That is a great question Scott, there is a private beach access with a walkway to the beach at this home. The home does have keyless entry, however, all guests will check in at our rental office to receive their packet which contains either the keys or a key code.
- Answered by Twiddy on 12/23/2016
Question: In one of the earlier question you mention that there is a sleeper sofa bed. Can you tell me where it is located
Answer:
Tom, We are very sorry, however, as stated in a previous question, this home does not offer a sleeper sofa.
- Answered by Twiddy on 11/18/2016
Question: Are there ceiling fans in the bedrooms?
Answer:
Diana, G105 currently provides a ceiling fan in the Level 3 MBRs (K, Q) and Level 2 MBRs (K, Q).
- Answered by Twiddy on 11/11/2016
Question: Is the pool heated for the month of April was looking at spring break for us 1st week of April 2017
Answer:
Debbie, the private pool at G105 is not available in April.
- Answered by Twiddy on 9/2/2016
Question: Just wondering how many people this house can sleep. Do any of the couches pull out into sofa beds?
Answer:
Chloe, in referencing the current bed configuration, this home sleeps 14 people. It does not list a sleep sofa available.
- Answered by Twiddy on 2/22/2016
Question: Can you tell me the square footage of this house?
Answer:
Thank you for your inquiry, Susan. We apologize, but we do not have the square footage information for our homes.
- Answered by Twiddy on 1/4/2016
Question: Can you give me details pertaining to the 5 full bathrooms (i.e dual sinks, jet tubs, stand alone showers, etc. ) and the location of the bathrooms with king size beds have what type of bathrooms adjourned to them
Answer:
All 5 full bathrooms are similar with 1 sink, 1 toilet, and a shower/tub. The Master Bedrooms with King beds are located in the NE areas of Level 2 and Level 3.
- Answered by Twiddy on 12/18/2015
Question: Is G105 in the 4x4 area
Answer:
Thank you for your inquiry, Chris! No, G105 is located on the paved road.
- Answered by Twiddy on 9/12/2015
Question: Does the home still have a Keurig? Thanks
Answer:
Hi Judy! Upon our last visit to the home, the Keurig was still present. However, please be advised Keurigs are considered specialty items and are not guaranteed amenities and are subject to change at any time.
- Answered by Twiddy on 6/10/2015
Question: How many TV's are at G105?
Answer:
Great question! G105 currently provides a flat screen television in the Level 3 great room, Level 2 den, Level 1 rec room with foosball, Level 1 rec room with pool table, and each of the 6 bedrooms. However, televisions are not guaranteed amenities and are subject to change.
- Answered by Twiddy on 4/17/2015
Question: Does this house have a private walkway for beach access?
Answer:
Good afternoon, Jacquie! Yes, G105 advertises a private walkway to the beach with steps. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
- Answered by Twiddy on 4/15/2015
Question: We will be traveling next year 4/23-4/30 2016 can you please give me your rates and availability?
Answer:
We apologize, Chris, but at this time we do not have the availability and rates for 2016 for any of our homes.
- Answered by Twiddy on 3/22/2015
Question: Hi - I have two questions. What are the measurements of the pool & deck area? Does each bedroom have a TV? Thank you
Answer:
Thank you for your inquiry, Gina! Unfortunately, we do not have deck and pool measurements for this home. We apologize for any inconvenience. Currently, this home provides televisions in the Level 3 great room, Level 3 MBRs (K, Q), Level 2 MBR (K), Level 2 den, and the Level 1 rec room. Please note televisions are not guaranteed amenities and are subject to change.
- Answered by Twiddy on 12/4/2014
Question: Hello,
For accessibility reasons, does one of the master bedrooms include a walk-in shower? Thanks!
Answer:
No Aimee, this home provides a tub/shower combos in all full and master baths.
- Answered by Twiddy on 10/8/2014
Question: Hi,
Is the coffee maker a Keurig and is the basketball net in the driveway?
Thanks!
Answer:
Good news, Sharon! G105 currently provides a Kuerig and basketball goal.
- Answered by Twiddy on 7/9/2014
Question: Are there any beach chairs or a beach umbrella for use with this rental?
Answer:
Lisa, every Twiddy home provides 5 beach chairs. Items such as beach umbrellas are not a standard amenity for our homes. If you would like to rent beach equipment for your stay, Just for the Beach, Moneysworth, and Ocean Atlantic Rentals all provide this service. For contact information, please visit www.twiddy.com/activities/services.aspx.
- Answered by Twiddy on 7/4/2014
Question: Does the elevator go to the ground floor or are there stairs involved to get to it? Thanks!
Answer:
Great question, Terry! The elevator at G105 goes to all three levels You can access the ground level of the home through a slider on the front of the house without stairs or through the L1 entry door. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
- Answered by Twiddy on 4/22/2014
Question: The info on the house says it has BBQ-GAS - is this a standard gas grill for outdoor cooking? Natural gas or propane?
Answer:
Thank you for your inquiry, Scott! A Shore Thing G105 provides a hard line, standard, outdoor, gas grill!
- Answered by Twiddy on 1/24/2014
Question: are 2 dogs allowed?
Answer:
Emi, G105 is pet-friendly and allows a maximum or 2 dogs.
- Answered by Twiddy on 10/12/2013
Question: We are planning for next year. Knowing prices can change, we would like to see prices listed for 2013.
Answer:
Good afternoon Doris! We have now posted our 2013 rates on our website for each property to help with your planning. You can find them under the 'Availability' tab under 'Previous 2013 Rates.' They are listed through the current week that we are in, please give our office a call if you would like the rates for August-December.
- Answered by Twiddy on 7/20/2013 |
Open Question Answering | Q: What’s all this, then?
A: Captain Scratchy is what is known as a “webcomic” or a “webcartoon” or a “big bowl of stupid.” Sometimes it’s a single-panel gag cartoon, sometimes it’s a multi-panel gag cartoon. Very rarely is it high art.
Q: Are there regular characters and regular story lines?
A: There used to be. But now the comics are “stand-alones” rather than character-driven and story-driven comic strips. But beloved characters such as Angry Horse, Little Horse, Rick (cat), Rufus (dog), Jeff the Lethargic Beaver, Kevin (bear) and Glenn (a former Bronson Pinchot impersonator who now works at Potato Hut) make plenty of appearances.
Q: Why
Captain Scratchy? A: It was the very last web domain name available.
Q: Who is the cartoonist behind
Captain Scratchy? A: Professional humor writer and cartoonist Chuck Ingwersen, who enjoys writing about himself in the third person. He creates cartoons for greeting cards, newspapers, websites, and monkey behavioral study clinics.
Q: How often do “fresh” cartoons appear on
Captain Scratchy? A: Fresh cartoons are posted on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Some will be fresher than others. The not-so-fresh ones will be leftovers from Words and Toons, another website created by the Captain Scratchy cartoonist.
Q: Can I buy your artwork on greeting cards, coffee mugs, shirts, posters and other fun stuff?
A: Please do! Check out my store here!
Q: Can I post your cartoons on my website or in a newsletter or other publication?
A: Since cartooning is my primary source of income, I can’t give away my artwork to other forms of media. But you can have permission to use my work for a very reasonable fee. Check out the details on my portfolio website (the Bio/Contact page has contact info). |
Open Question Answering | Gambling Interesting Facts by: Winder Liao
Soccerbetting
Is there such thing as “kangtao” or surewin tips?
I have seen alot of people debating over the issues of this “kangtao” or surewin tips. In actual fact there”IS” however very few. But why does it fails us when it is surewin. It is because some of these so called kangtao are “false information” released by the smaller bookmakers themselves to balance their balance sheet. For instance EPL match Arsenal vs Chelsea alot of people taking arsenal resulting in imbalance on the amount wagered on chelsea and these smaller bookmakers with nowhere to dump their excessive bets they will released the so called “kangtao” to entice ignorant punters to bet on chelsea to balance up their balance sheets.
Why are there so many “kangtao” or surewin tips for sales ?
I was bewildered why would any one give away a surewin tips at such low rate where they could earn 10 of thousands with it themselves? put youself in his shoes would you??? i must admit there are opportunites in soccerbetting and i would call that an edge with a “higher chances of winning” but to call them a surewin tips is an overated statement unless you are one of the bribed key players or bribed key officials there is still a certainty of losing.
Live matches
Live matches are often 2 strong team faces each other and they are most likely to be telecast throughout the world. Why? It is because a lot of people likes to bet on sports that they are able to view live especially those recreation punters who gets real kick watching their favourites team play and also big-time soccer punters who bet 30K-50K per match. There is the jalan bet or live betting bet and the half-time bet which make it more interesting and more variety for punters to bet. These live matches are matches where the bookmakers makes lots of money through the vigourish and fixed match. My advise to fresh punters is to bet small betting on live matches and focus more on those non-telecast match. Why? since the non-telecast matches recieved little publicity the bookmakers doesn’t mind feeding those new fresh punterse as they knew eventually the money would go back to them as time goes by due to human nature GREED.
How could you tell whether you Bookmaker/runner is trustworthy or dubious?
It is hard to differentiate as it is only by betting over a period of time before you could tell. But common signs includes setting a “high minimum bet” for instance minimum $5k. Unless the person is really someone whom you known for a very long time and you feel you could trust him chances are when you win he is no-where to be found. Common flimsy excuses given includes bookie run away or bookie got arrested. Another common sign is they only open a few matches for punters to bet. Come to think about it if he is really a bookmaker why should he restrict the no. of matches available for bets chances are those are the games he is confident of and would accept all those bets which is opossing him.
Does the bookmaker lose money?
ANS :yes there are times but seldom. Bookmakers lose money when the strong team win throughout the tournamnet eg euro2000 but that is short-term loss. They will continues to win the soccer punters money as long as there are soccer matches. Why? Cause there will be different opionions from different soccer punters just the vigourish/water money alone is able to cover their losses and that is excluding fixed match where they win even more. Another useful tool they are armed with is they understands that all gamblers have a common weakness. They bet bigger and bigger when winning and bets even bigger to chase their loss when losing. In either case it is to the bookmakers edge.
Contary to the belief of many where they think they are winning the bookmakers money , it is the other soccer punters ie, their friend’s money whom they are winning. The only way to bust the bookmaker/bookies is not to bet or share part of the pie the bookmaker is having.
Does soccer betting involves luck?
This depends on the ” time frame” you set for betting. For instance if you got $5k and you want to turn it in $35k in a “short time frame” of 2 weeks , then i say you requires luck. As asianhandicap is a 50/50 chances of winning it is possible for someone who is new to soccerbetting and is extremly daring and lucky to achieve that. It tooks about 3 bets to win $35k. But on the long run it definitely requires skills and patience as we all knows what goes up will eventually comes down morever lady luck couldn’t be smiling on you all days.
Is it important to know all about the soccer team , soccer players statistic n does that makes me a better soccer better?
the answer is No cause soccer betting arena is a place where the booksmakers earns their money if by knowing every details could make you rich then all the soccer writers, soccer magazines editors are the ones who are driving big cars and living in big houses.
Casino
Common tricks and techniques employed by the casinos
Casino are designed in a way that the moment you steps in it makes you feel at home with free food and free drinks some even offer complimentary free rooms to stay. Presently they are aiming those who are in the late 50s or 60s as these people usually are loaded with cash from pension. Their main motive is to entice you to stay longer in casino and bet more thus increasing their chances of winning your money.
what are the games the casinos use to earn big bucks?
(1) jackpot / progressive jackpot
(2) carribbean stud
(3) roullete
(4) sic bo or big/small
Can we beat jackpot ?
Yes. The trick is simple once in a jackpot room do not straight away proceed to play instead walk around the jackpot room and oberserve those machines that are loose machines. Definition of loose machines-are machines that are rigged to pay more often. Where are they located?they are often found at places near the entrance or where there is lots of human traffic where people gets to see other people winning $$. Eg next to the stairs or elevator. Clever move by the casiono management. If you plan to go there often, take note of those machines that pays more often by jotting down the serial no. located on the tip of each machine then walk away and procceeds to next machine. When its your turn to play NOTE LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE SOUND OF COINS WHEN YOU SLOT IT IN. There are typically 3 scenarios
1st scenario
you slot it in and hear a thud or the coins fipping at the bottom meaning the previous player has won the money and have cash in with the jackpot
required action – leave the machine alone
2nd scenario
you slot it in and hear a faint clink,you slot in the next coin and hear a faint clink again to confirm. The sound will comes to you almost instantaneous as the coins are stacked to the brimmed. This machine is fed almost full its about time the machine vomit the coins in the machine
required action – max bet
3rd scenario
you slot it in and hear a clink sound but not so instantaneous. The longer it takes before you hear the clink sound is the guage you judge to see how full the machine is. The machine is half-fed
required action – you bet small
NOTE: WHEN YOU WON 2-3 JACKPOTS LEAVE THE MACHINES AND WALK AWAY WITH YOUR WINNINGS.
Carribean studd is it for me?
It is a game designed with the intention of winning gamblers money why? you were dealt with 5 cards after viewing your cards you decide whether to increase your stake. When finished viewing your cards you with no pairs will most likely to fold as you got to double your stake if you don’t. Note even if you have a good hand like 4 of a kind the banker with no pairs or AKings combination they just pay you the initial stake. That is again to the casinos edge. My overall conclusion for this game is to bet the minimum of the table and enjoys it with other gamblers,this is a definite recreation game if you want to make this game as a game to bring you income i advice you to skip.
Can we make a living by living off on casino?
Ans:Yes you can but it can be very tiring as time is wasted travelling to and fro the casino. Contary to the belief of many whom they believe proffesional gamblers usually bet big to earn big bucks. what pros do is they bet relatively small. Consistency is the key and the most important thing is self discipline so that there is no impulsive bets. They bring a small amount of their original bankroll to bet and if that day turns out not so fine they will go home and to come back another day,they do not bet all in 1 day. It works in the same principal as soccerbetting.
Can blackjack be beaten by the proffessional?
Ans: yes it could , provided that you got a team of members betting at the same table. The most crcucial person are the ones sitting at the last seats. He determines what card the banker is recieving. It is a highly publicised game that by arming with card counting skills you could make a living however now casino has counter that by repeats shuffling and removing the high cards which are the 10,J,Q,K,A from the deck before putting them in the shoes. Another most igenious method currently adopted by the casinos are employing staff which acts as normal gamblers siting at the last seat. By doing so it had made task more difficult for those card counters.
Can we made money on online casino games?
Ans: yes ,you could but not much. What the online casino games does is they usually let you win in the initial stage then as u bet bigger they starts winning all in a streats. Some even starts winning the moment you placed your bets. They usually offers high deposit cash bonus to entice you like depositing $100 give u $300 cash bonus. My personal advice is avoid at all cost.
Can we make money playing online poker games?
Nowdays it is very common to see online poker games on the net offering interactivity between gamblers. It seems fair but be very careful when betting with real money especially those that have high minimum bets ranging from $5-$10. There are hustlers looming round the corner. What they do is they kept increasing the stakes where you have little choice but to follow to see thae next card, unless you got an j pairs or anything higher than that , high chance are you will lose,cause their odds of winning against you is high as you are alone. These apply to games like majong, big 2s.
Tips on playing TaiDi’s or Big 2s
These games usually begins with 4 people playing cards with each person dealt with 13 cards. What people normally do is once that they are dealt the cards they start arranging their cards in pairs or in sequence 5 cards. The tips is when dealt with don’t arrange your cards 1st instead observe your oppenents and what tactics they are playing in 5 cards or in pairs. Once finished observing then you trained yourself to be able to retrieve cards in your hand and throw when its your turn. This confuse your opponents as they have no idea as whta you are playing in pairs or in 5 cards.
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Where Do Average Costs Come From?
In energy cost calculations, 8.25 cents/kWh is often used as the average cost of electricity. This figure appears low. Consumers in the major population centers such as the Northeast and California are paying considerably more. 8.25 cents/kWh may show what the average utility is charging, not what the average consumer is paying.
If the editors or readers have any further information on how this figure is calculated, perhaps they could clarify this point.
Larry Schlussler
Sun Frost
Arcata, CA
Editor's reply: There are many ways to average electricity rates. The most often quoted average is from DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA). Their most recent average is 8.41 cents/kWh for 1995. They get this number by dividing total residential electric bills by total residential electricity use. The EIA also projects an average rate for the upcoming year. For its EnergyGuide labels, the Federal Trade Commission uses the EIA's projected rate for the year. Current labels assume a rate of 8.67 cents/kWh, which the EIA estimated for 1996. They projected 8.4 cents/kWh for 1995.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) calculates a different average rate. NARUC takes the rates that residential customers pay in each of about 190 service areas nationwide and averages them, without regard for population or usage in those regions. Their average residential rate among the service territories for winter 1994-95 came to 9.1 cents/kWh.
Neither of these gives us what the average customer is paying. The EIA method is an average out of the total electricity sold, so the rates of customers who bought more electricity count more toward the average. The NARUC rate shows what the average utility is charging. We don't know of anyone who calculates what the average residential customer is paying.
Mildew on Composite-Board Siding
We would be interested in hearing what corrective options readers have employed when confronted with severe, recurring mildew on composite-board siding over polystyrene sheathing. Obviously, we are talking about existing construction and what can be done to eliminate the moisture trapped between the siding and the sheathing.
Average rates are often used to give advice about what energy source to use or what energy-saving measures to implement-advice that may be misleading, due to local price differences. Local rates should be used whenever possible to estimate energy costs and savings. But a national average can be better than nothing when researchers and others need to pick a rate for estimating costs or savings from measures or technologies that are available nationwide.
Harold L. Crowder, Jr.
Virginia Power
Richmond, VA
Editor's reply: We asked Joe Lstiburek of Massachusetts' Building Science Corporation to respond to your question. You are not alone in your concern about compressed-wood siding. In fact, there are lawsuits in progress all over the United States against the makers of various composite wood sidings.
In composite-wood sidings, wood is compressed to about double its normal density and is not well enough sealed at the edges to prevent moisture uptake. Once the moisture gets in, the wood starts to swell; in time, it expands back to its original density. If the problem has gone this far, the siding must be removed and replaced. Remove the composite wood and install new siding on furring strips for spacing. Be sure the new siding is back-primed and the field cuts are sealed with paint. Just butting the ends together and caulking doesn't work.
If the problem has not gone too far, however, the following steps can help keep moisture out of the existing siding. First kill the mold and mildew with a solution of bleach and water. Then recoat or paint the bottom edges of the siding (you must brush rather than spray the paint on for it to seal). For worse cases, loosen the siding with a flat prybar (called a Wonderbar) and insert plastic siding wedges (available from Hyde Manufacturing in Southbridge, Massachusetts) by each nail. This creates a tiny air space that vents the backside of the siding, allowing it to dry. Again, the bottom edges must be painted or treated to seal the pores that allow water uptake into the material.
The manufacturers have made attempts to seal or protect the edges of the newer compressed wood products, but I recommend against using even these new products. If you do install them in new applications, install spacers to create space between the laps and the backside of the siding.
Canadians Blew It First
I enjoyed reading the article about blower doors (The History of the Blower Door, Nov/Dec '95), but felt that it overlooked some of the earlier Canadian contributions. In 1975, two Canadians, George Tamura and Sol Stricker, presented measurements of air leakage characteristics of houses at an ASHRAE conference. An even earlier (1973) paper by John Shaw, Dan Sander, and George Tamura, also Canadians, presented air leakage measurements of the exterior walls of tall buildings.
Due to widespread problems with moisture damage, class action lawsuits are under way against several composite-wood siding manufacturers, including ABT, Georgia Pacific, and Masonite. Louisiana-Pacific's Inner-Seal has already settled a $375-million case with homeowners.
I haven't surveyed all the technical papers in this area, but the work of these Canadians predates the 1977 work of the Swedish researchers mentioned in the article. A good summary of papers on the subject is presented in
A Subject Analysis of the AIVC's Bibliographic Database-AIRBASE from the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Center in England. Perhaps one of your readers might know who performed the first-ever whole-house air leakage test.
Rob Dumont
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Saskatchewan Research Council
Saskatoon, SK
Fireplace Dampers
In the May/June Letters, John Morrill questioned the requirement that fireplace dampers be secured open when gas logs are installed. You noted that the Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC) generally prohibits dampers in the venting systems of gas appliances, and speculated that an interlock might be used to prevent operation of the logs should a manually operated damper be left closed.
In fact, there are specific, inflexible rules mandating open dampers for gas fireplaces. These are in the UMC as well as the One and Two Family Dwelling Code (OTFDC) and the International Mechanical Code (IMC); a corresponding rule exists in ANSI Z21.60, the testing and listing standard for these devices. Therefore, a safety interlock or automatically opening damper such as you suggest would be unlikely to be approved.
Besides, the use of a retrofit device designed by a third party would violate the terms of listing and manufacturer's instructions for the gas logs, exposing the installer to liability.
Gas log makers are aware of the energy penalty of the fixed-damper approach to safety, and want to develop an interlock to prevent gas from flowing with the vent closed. Unfortunately, the lack of an option in the current code reduces manufacturers' incentive to develop a device.
I went to the first hearings for the 1996 revisions of both the OTFDC and the IMC. On behalf of the Hearth Products Association, I submitted a proposal to both codes to allow an interlock. The device would have to be incorporated into the appliance design, tested for equivalent performance under the ANSI standard, made a part of the appliance package, and installed according to instructions.
We received committee approval for the OTFDC version of our proposal, but not for the IMC version. The IMC committee objected that such devices are not currently available, and that the code should not anticipate speculative devices.
The next step in the IMC code development process is a challenge round, where the membership of the three major code bodies can vote to override the committee. I would appreciate expressions of support (or other comments) from the energy conservation community.
David Johnston
DSJ Technical Services
Wooster, OH
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Open Question Answering | This is the first in a series of blog posts about the pre-con sessions that we are running ahead of SQL Saturday 467
in Southampton in December 2015. Here we will be focusing on Dave Ballantyne and his
Query Performance and Internals
pre-con, so, over to a few words from Dave.
Q: Dave, can we have a quick background on who you are and what you do?
A: I've been in IT for all of my working life and I guess like a lot of people in the SQL Server field almost came to it by accident.
I was working at a software company that had a database independent product and happened to be the one in the office when SQL server 6 was delivered. Fast forward a good twenty plus years and I'm still learning about the product, more specifically the optimizer, and applying those discoveries to aid my clients to streamline operations and user experiences.
Q: What do you enjoy most about training days like the one that you are delivering?
A: Along the route I've taken, there has been many “light bulb” moments, that's something that's particularly satisfying as an individual, but to see that happen in other people is amazing. Take, for instance, parameter sniffing : Its a great cost saving optimization, but when it ‘goes wrong’ it can be disastrous for a system… As you take people through the steps how and why that happens, you can almost see in their faces that they are mentally reliving problems where they know they dump the procedure cache and it solves the problem , but know they know why the problem happens.
Q: You authored a chapter on T-SQL Windowing Functions in SQL Server, how useful do you find these functions in your everyday work?
A: I've lost track of the amount of queries I've had to write that have a calculation based upon the value in a previous row, last days sales , last quarter sales etc… and tbh , before windowing functions there was not a good way of doing that in TSQL, if you *had* to do it in TSQL then there would be hideous triangular joins or a cursor, even a quirky update, now you have succinct TSQL statement that gets the job done. They are not perfect, there are lots of opportunities for the function to spool and spill to disk, but, like a lot of SQL Server, once you have visibility to the problems they can be solved, mostly
.
Q: What will be one of the key things that the attendees will take away from your session?
A: That SQL Server is not magic, its just code. To develop/design/debug/fix a system so that it performs ( and scales) well, the internals of how the SQL Server works have to be understood. For me, the most important part of that puzzle is the optimizer, you can have the best highly available SAN system in the world driven by magical unicorns that make each page of data available in a nanosecond, but if the optimizer decides to scan a 50TB table rather than use an appropriate index, the hardware magic is all for nowt. I'm often asked which stream my session sit in , DBA, DEV, BI , the answer is Yes, all of the above. If you write SELECT statements then you will gain knowledge from understanding the impact that has on the system.
So just what is in the session;
When faced with performance issues there are many lines of attack. Tuning the hardware and infrastructure can get you so far, however for maximum effect you need to understand how the engine translates your submitted SQL statements into performable actions. This is not a simple task, the number of permutations of logical operations can be immense and to perform optimally the engine has to select the ‘best one’. If you like the sounds of this then you can read the full abstract along with registration details by clicking on the button below.
Hope to see you there.
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Open Question Answering | Mark, It was a long winter and it's great to have the season ahead of us. First, looking back: Are you willing to list your top three best and worst Sox acquisitions since the Championship season? Second, looking ahead: How hard will it be to keep A.J. fresh for the whole season? --Hank Balikov, Moorestown, NJ
Since you asked, I'll try to provide (with some stipulations):
The best (involving players on the current 25-man roster)
As honorable mention selections go, Matt Thornton for Joe Borchard ranks as a grand theft deal. As AOL writer and good friend Ed Price said two years ago, "how many left-handed relievers throw 96 (mph)?" The signings of Alexei Ramirez and Dayan Viciedo could make a bigger impact down the road.
The worst:
1. Acquiring Javier Vazquez and cash from Arizona for pitchers Orlando 'El Duque' Hernandez and Luis Vizcaino and outfielder Chris Young. Many skeptics of this trade point to Young's 32 homers in 2007 and 22 in 2008, but Young has struck out 306 times during that span. One Sox insider pointed out that the Sox elected to move Young (then at Double-A) because they thought Brian Anderson would develop quickly into a solid center fielder.
But Vazquez won only 11 games with a big-time offense behind him in 2006, then won 15 games during the Sox's 90-loss season in 2007 before fading to 12-16 and slumping down the stretch in 2008.
2. Acquiring Nick Swisher from Oakland for pitchers Gio Gonzalez and Fautino De Los Santos and outfielder Ryan Sweeney. Once again, this is more a case of what Swisher didn't do in 2008. This trade could look even worse if Gonzalez develops into a dependable major leaguer, although Oakland added plenty of young pitching last winter.
3. Acquiring Mike MacDougal from Kansas City for pitchers Tyler Lumsden and Daniel Cortes. MacDougal teased the Sox with a solid second half in 2006 following his acquistion. Cortes was 10-4 at Double-A Northwest Arkansas last year, but neither he nor Lumsden have reached the majors. Although the retooling of the bullpen before the 2007 backfired, the Sox's acquisitions since the 2005 season have swung heavily in general manager Kenny Williams' favor because of the high-ceiling value the Sox have received.
I think this year the Sox will be able to keep A.J. strong because Corky Miller is such an exceptional defensive catcher. Don't expect Corky to hit like he has in his two starts, but his defense is solid.
I don't think A.J. gets enough credit for his durability, but he did have a .224 batting average last September.
Mark, really enjoy your columns. Thanks for keeping a former Chicagoan current on his team. I may have missed this, being away from Chicago, but why didn't the Sox go after Willie Taveras? They seemed to have had serious interest in past years, and he would have been a perfect addition and signed for an affordable price. Also, what about Melky Cabrera? He seems to be an "odd man out" in NY. Would the Yankees trade him? Would he be a good fit and meet the team's needs? I'd like to here your thoughts. --Joe Leone, Portland, Ore.
A: Joe, Willy Taveras has been hurt quite a bit in his major league career, and the Sox usually don't take a chance of a player with a past like that unless he's played with them before (such as Bartolo Colon and Scott Podsednik). I like Taveras as a player, but his on-base percentage isn't all that great.
As for Cabrera, he might be more valuable in some capacity now that Xavier Nady has some arm problems. The Yankees have a few players with nagging injuries, so it might serve them best to keep Cabrera unless they're willing to part with him for a more established and productive outfielder.
What is going on with Jayson Nix? He was hitting the ball really well before he got injured, and I thought that he could have been our answer at second base. Will he be coming back soon, and if so, will he get a chance to play? --Nathan, Lansing, Mich.
A: Funny you asked. Jayson was scheduled to start a minor league rehabilitation assignment Monday for Double-A Birmingham. It's a 20-day assignment, which will give Jayson plenty of time to pick up where he left off and at least showcase his ability. If he's not a fit with the Sox, I can see him landing with another team. He's a solid defender and could get a shot elsewhere if he's not a fit with the Sox. He is out of minor league options.
A: Yes, they did, thanks in part to the sportsmanship of the Detroit Tigers' bullpen. One of the home runs landed in the Tigers' bullpen, and the ball was tossed into the Sox's bullpen. The other home run landed in the Sox's bullpen.
Hi Mark, can you PLEASE find out why Bobby Jenks has stopped using his curveball?? Hitters are just sitting on his average heater and slider and making nearly every ninth inning a nail-biter. --John Duncan, Cape Coral, Fla.
A: Late-inning relievers usually don't use all their pitches because their job is to get batters out with as few pitches as possible. Bobby can use up to six pitches - fastball, cut fastball, sinker, change-up, slider and curve. I think some time soon he'll break out the curve because I don't think his slider has as much slope as it should have. Bobby doesn't throw 99 mph any more, but I expect his velocity to climb back to the 95 mph range as the season progresses. |
Open Question Answering | Wednesday, 25 February 2009
WICN Public Radio is New England's finest jazz and folk music station. Hear Mark Lynch interview Neil Arnold about his book MONSTER! THE A-Z OF ZOOFORM PHENOMENA. This intyriguing insight into the world of 'zooform phenomena' covers a whole menagerie of mysterious creatures, from the more known monsters such as Mothman, Jersey Devil and Chupacabra, to the lesser known Noodleman, Asian vampires, the Yorshire Maggot and many varieties of phantom hellhound. A surreal safari indeed....listen and download here: WCIN INTERVIEW WITH NEIL ARNOLD
Monday, 9 February 2009
I'm hoping to make this a pretty regular thing, interviews with authors and hunters of all things strange, particularly unusual beasts.
No better way than starting this feature by interviewing Nick Redfern, author of such fine books as Three Men Seeking Monsters, There's Something In The Woods and Man-Monkey.
Let us begin...
1) Nick, many thanks for doing the interview. Can you tell me your earliest memory of becoming so interested in monsters, and was there also a particular film or book which in a sense, changed your life ?
ANSWER: My earliest crypto-memory was when I was about five, and my parents took me to Loch Ness. We were in Scotland for a week's holiday, and spent a day at the loch. I can still just recall a few fragmentary memories - of my dad telling me the story of the monster, of staring out at the loch while we stood near the shore, and my dad chatting about the monster with an old couple who had driven up in a big old volkswagen van. And that's what really got my attention and imagination. From around 7 or 8, I began reading books on the subject, and it went from there. As for films: it's not strictly crypto (but it does contain a few Fortean and crypto elements), but the 1957 film "Night of the Demon" is probably my all time favourite film - very atmospheric, creepy, and a great story.
2) You've written several books on subjects ranging from UFO's to monsters. Can you remember your reaction when you're first book was published, and what it meant ?
ANSWER: Yes, I've written 13 books so far, with 4 more to follow in the near future. I think every author remembers their first book, the sense of achievment, the idea that you are now an author, and getting that first copy in the post, and seeing it and holding it. Not that I'd know, but maybe it's like having a baby! Almost! LOL.
3) Of all your books, which has been the most exciting and pleasurable to write?
ANSWER: I'd actually say Man-Monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot, because it allowed me to dig up all my old notes, files, and memories, and remember one of my very early investigations (it began in the 80s), and finally get the story out there for people. There is very little written about Bigfoot in Britain, so I think I probably enjoyed doing that one most.
4) Your book THREE MEN SEEKING MONSTERS, weren't there rumours going round that it might be made into a film ?
ANSWER: Yes, the rights were optioned to Universal a couple of years ago. Actually, several of my books have been optioned over the years, but nothing ever developed with the other books beyond the actual option.
5) If a film was made about your life, who would play you and what would it be called ?
ANSWER: LOL, I have no idea. You have put me on the spot! I don't know! What would it be called? "It's a Bizarre Life" maybe! I actually have no real idea re who and/or what! It would be very surreal, though, to sit in a cinema seeing someone acting out your life, I think!
6) You've travelled the world pursuing the unknown. Have you had any strange experiences ?
ANSWER: Yes, a few. I have spent quite a bit of time on Bigfoot quests in a large area of Texas forest called the Big Thicket. It's a weird place with "ghost-lights" having been seen in the woods a lot, too. I have actually seen several of the lights late at night: small, football-sized, zipping in the trees. I've also come across a number of so-called "Bigfoot Teepees" in areas where Bigfoot has been seen. And each time I have been to Puerto Rico looking for the Chupacabras, that has always been strange - but adventurous too, trekking through the rain-forest etc.
7) Have you ever been truly frightened whilst on a monster-hunt ?
ANSWER: No, for me it's more about the excitement, intrigue and adventure that has an effect on me. So, I look at it all in a positive way - it pushes me to dig further, rather than back away.
8) You moved to Texas from Staffordshire, an area which consistently harbours high levels of strangeness, particularly in the Cannock Chase area. Why do you think the Chase produces such high weirdness ?
ANSWER: There's no doubt in my mind that the Chase is a classic window area: in other words, a place that is an absolute beacon for high-strangeness. Now, some of the things seen on the Chase are just out-of-place animals: I have several reports of wild-boar and wallabies, for example. But, when you get into the realm of Bigfoot and werewolves, then it all gets very strange and dark. But, of course, the big question is how we define what a window area is, and how and why it works.
9) As part of the CFZ series of MYSTERY ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLES, you are covering Staffordshire. What kind of monsters and mysterious creatures will be in the book ?
ANSWER: Big-Cats, Werewolves, Bigfoot, Wallabies, Wild-Boar, large snakes, exotic dumped pets like snapping turtles, large mystery birds, ghostly black dogs, and a few others.
10) Monster mysteries such as Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, etc, have been covered in your book. Do you think the day will come when these so-called monsters are proven to be real, flesh and blood creatures, or will they forever lead us round in circles without an answer ?
ANSWER: Well, some of them, I am certain are not flesh-and-blood, in the way we generally understand the term. I would put the black dogs, the Goat-Men, and definitely werewolves and the British Bigfoot into this category. There are a lot of weird Bigfoot reports over here too, that make me think the creature is paranormal - however we might define that term. So, if some of these things aren't flesh-and-blood, as we understand it, it may very well be extremely difficult to try and prove their literal existence.
11) You've written about UFOs for many years. So, the $64,000 question is, what do you think they are ?
ANSWER: I don't think there is one answer to the UFO puzzle. I think some are classified military vehicles. Others could be poorly understood natural phenomena. I'm firmly convinced some are Tulpa-type entities. And some could be genuinely extraterrestrial - however, the further I go into the subject, the more I veer away from literal aliens. I like the Trevor Constable ideas about sky-beasts; as well as Mac Tonnies' 'Cryptoterrestrial" angle. I wish we could have an answer that unifies everything, but I think that it will almost certainly be a combination of things.
12) Which other monsters from across the world would you like to go in pursuit of ?
ANSWER: Well, it's not really a monster; but I would love to go on an expedition to South America to try and resolve these "Giant Sloth" reports that surface from time to time. In search of Australia's Megalania, too: that would be a good expedition.
13) What other books do you have in the pipeline ?
ANSWER: I have a book coming out this year titled "Sci-Fi Secrets," which is a study of how the worlds of sci-fi and real, government conspiracies and secrets have crossed paths and converged. I also have a book coming out which is a definitive, 300-plus-page study of Bigfoot in Britain, and which covers all the known stories - dating back more than 1,000 years ago the present day. And, the aforementioned "Mystery Animals of Staffordshire" too.
14) They say the key to being a successful man, is having a good woman behind you. What does Dana, you're wife, think of your forays in search of monsters ?
ANSWER: Well, she could not care less about either the UFO subject or cryptozoology! They both bore her rigid! LOL. But she's pleased that I do something I enjoy, rather than a job I would hate. She's into the paranormal - but more along the lines of psychic stuff.
15) How high in the league is Texas, when it comes to monsters and other mysteries ?
ANSWER: There are a lot of mystery animal stories from Texas: a surprisingly large number of werewolves. A lot of Bigfoot reports in the Big Thicket forest near Houston. Numerous big-bird and pterodactyl-type reports from the Texas-Mexico border. Giant Fish, too. |
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urthermore, we have not even risked the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world. —Joseph Campbell Quest for Catrin: Photographic Adventure — Celtic Spiritual Warrior (Part 7) Impressions of a Heroine
Before completing the series of the photographic adventure of Catrin, the heroine in my unpublished historical fantasy, APOLLO’S RAVEN, I wanted to post some comments from my eleven-year-old granddaughter, Maylin, about her experience posing as a Celtic warrior princess. Needless to say, it is not everyday a crazy grandmother asks her granddaughter to dress up as a warrior and re-enact sword fights and summoning a raven. In addition, I asked Maylin about her favorite mythological characters and young adult novels she enjoyed reading.
My granddaughter was quite the trooper during the photo shoot and interview. But Maylin finally admitted that at first she wondered if she had been thrown under the bus when her mother graciously volunteered her to do the photo shoot.
Thank you, Maylin, for sharing this wonderful adventure with me.
Interview with Maylin
Question 1. What were your first thoughts when your mother volunteered you to pose as a young Celtic woman warrior?
Answer: At first I wasn’t happy. I asked my mother, “Why would you want to throw me under the bus?” I did not want to go through the fuss of make-up and dressing up like a warrior. The only reason I did it was because I loved my mother and grandmother. (Note: Always the perfect answer for a grandmother.)
Question 2. What type of characteristics would you like to see in a heroine?
Answer: Heroines should be fighters and stand up for what they believe in. Yet they should protect people who they love. I liked Katniss Everdeen in the
Hunger Games because she traded places with her sister to protect her. Heroines should have a soft side, too.
Question 3. What is your favorite mythological character?
Answer: Poseidon is my favorite because he is a god associated with the sea and water. I liked the character Percy Jackson because he was the son of Poseidon, a demigod, in the series of novels written by Rick Riordan. I like to swim on my school team. My favorite monster is the serpent-like hydra that has many heads. For each head cut off, it grew two more heads back in place of one.
Question 4. If you were given the opportunity to have supernatural powers, what powers would you like?
Answer: I would like to have the power of telekinesis. Specifically, I would like to read the minds of other people and levitate objects. I would like to read my friends’ thoughts to know if there is anything wrong. Possibly I could help them.
Question 5. What comes to mind when you think of a raven? What types of powers would you envision a raven to have?
Answer: A raven is a bird. Nothing comes to mind as to what raven powers would be.
Question 6. How did you feel as you were being transformed into a Celtic warrior princess for the photographic shoot?
Answer: I was pretty amazed at what could be done with make-up, particularly the raven tattoo. The whole process of dressing up and re-enacting Catrin in an ancient time was pretty amazing. I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised.
Celtic Woman Warrior Sword Fight
Question 7. What were the favorite aspects of the photo shoot for you?
Answer: I like the photographic shoot of the sword fight in the forest. Not until I saw my facial expressions in the photographs did I realize how much I really got into role-playing the part of a warrior. I particularly liked the scenes where I had to sword fight with Shevek, an assistant off-camera.
Celtic Woman Warrior in Battle
Question 8. What are your favorite books and authors?
Answer: My favorite series of novels were the mythological adventures of Percy Jackson written by Rick Riordan. What I liked best is Rick Riordan actually went into some of the original Greek myths in his book. I also liked the Harry Potter series and the world created by J. K. Rowling. Finally, I liked
Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins.
Reference: Joseph Cambell,
The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers; Published by Doubleday; New York, July 1991. |
Open Question Answering | adjective\ˈī-d əl\ Definition of idle idlerplay \ˈīd-lər, ˈī-d əl-ər\ ; idlestplay \ˈīd-ləst, ˈī-d əl-əst\ 1: lacking worth or basis : vain idlechatter idlepleasure 2: not occupied or employed: such as a: having no employment : inactive idleworkers b: not turned to normal or appropriate use idlefarmland c: not scheduled to compete the team will be idletomorrow idlenessplay \ˈī-d əl-nəs\ noun idlyplay \ˈīd-lē, ˈī-d əl-ē\ adverb Examples of idle in a Sentence There has been a lot of idlespeculation about what might happen, but no one really knows. the idledays of summer Origin and Etymology of idle
Middle English
idel, from Old English īdel; akin to Old High German ītal worthless
First Known Use: before 12th centurySee Words from the same year
Synonym Discussion of idle nugatory suggests triviality or insignificance. vainpromises a monarch withotiose suggests that something serves no purpose and is either an encumbrance or a superfluity. nugatorypowers a film without a singleidle suggests being incapable of worthwhile use or effect. otiosescene empty and hollow suggest a deceiving lack of real substance or soundness or genuineness. idlespeculations an emptyattempt at reconciliation a hollowvictory
inactive, idle, inert, passive, supine mean not engaged in work or activity. inactive applies to anyone or anything not in action or in operation or at work.
on inactivestatus as an astronaut idle applies to persons that are not busy or occupied or to their powers or their implements. inactiveaccounts workers wereinert as applied to things implies powerlessness to move or to affect other things; as applied to persons it suggests an inherent or habitual indisposition to activity. idlein the fields inertingredients in drugs anpassive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control. inertcitizenry supine applies only to persons and commonly implies abjectness or indolence. passiveresistance a supinewillingness to play the fool idle verb Definition of idle idled ; idlingplay \ˈīd-liŋ, ˈī-d əl-iŋ\ intransitive verb 1 a: to spend time in idleness b: to move idly 2: to run at low power and often disconnected usually so that power is not used for useful work the engine is idling transitive verb 1: to pass in idleness 2: to make idle workers idledby a strike 3: to cause to idle idlerplay \ˈīd-lər, ˈī-d əl-ər\ noun Examples of idle in a Sentence She left the engine idlingfor a few seconds before she turned it off. The cars idledin traffic. A group of boys idledin the doorway. The factory closed, idlingseveral hundred workers. Thousands of workers have been idledby the bad economy. The factory has been idledby the strike. First Known Use of idle
1592
Synonym Discussion of idle loaf suggests either resting or wandering about as though there were nothing to do. idledthe day away she does her work and thenlounge, though occasionally used as equal to loafsthe rest of the day idleor loaf, typically conveys an additional implication of resting or reclining against a support or of physical comfort and ease in relaxation. heloll also carries an implication of a posture similar to that of loungedagainst the wall lounge, but places greater stress upon an indolent or relaxed attitude. laze usually implies the relaxation of a busy person enjoying a vacation or moments of leisure. lollingon the couch lazedabout between appointments IDLE Defined for English Language Learners idleplay adjective Definition of idle for English Language Learners
: not working, active, or being used
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: not having much activity
idle verb Definition of idle for English Language Learners of an engine or vehicle: to run without being connected for doing useful work
: to spend time doing nothing or nothing useful
: to cause (someone or something) to stop working : to make (someone or something) idle
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Open Question Answering | Why is it so easy to preach and so difficult to pray? Every Saturday and every Sunday churches & congregations get together and Less and less of the leaders have a designated time at the altar to pray during or after service. Most of us can absolutely relate to this conflict on an individual level. It's much easier to preach and teach than it is to pause and allow ourselves to enjoy some quiet time before the Lord in prayer & meditation. Who knows if maybe some of us are seemingly wired or designed this way? Or perhaps we are all guilty at one time or another of being more inclined to go and to speak rather than to stop to listen for God's direction & guidance? Talking is fun! Learning is so much fun too. I admit I love to listen to youtube on any given subject and hear my favorite preachers and teachers- even other non-experts my age- teaching me what they've learned from great experience. God doesn't frown upon talking and learning and teaching. In the book of proverbs, it says that a good word is like a fountain of life. So what's so wrong w good teaching ALONE? Why can't we all just learn and go home? What does Yeshua think?
Yeshua Jesus said my house shall be called a house of prayer. (From Mathew 21:13) He knew when to talk and teach and he certainly also spent time praying inside and outside the temple for the sick, the blind and those in need. So you might say, we're not Jesus. You might say, healing is not for today. If you feel this way... I hope to sway you today.
WHAT IF WE IGNORE THE PROBLEM?
My husband (Minister)
Joe Franco and I have traveled to well over 400 Churches and congregations around the United States of America and throughout Israel and Europe and have noticedthat in way too many congregations, the altars(the place for sending and receiving healing prayers ) are closed.I often think. "People are needlessly suffering in silence and struggling and God is looking for a vessel." Fill me with supernatural power to pray with someone, Lord." And then, the leader dismisses the service in haste and my heart breaks. If the believers don't use our God-given power to bless and pray for healing, the "world" offers pretty good teaching too and THEY will and they DO believe in their OWN power to heal.It's ok to be mad at their misguided view but I hope we all learn from their zeal. The power to heal does not come by human might or power but from the spirit of the Lord. If we as believers dare decide NOT to offer more than what the world gives, will the people we love ever come and meet with their God? If we hold back this beautiful gift because we feel weak (though God promises to be strong in us) then who will go and bring comfort to those cryng out?
And if we do not take out a few moments in God's presence, how can we ourselves be renewed, healed and strengthened in Messiah when we are empty and have nothing to give at all? Shall we then spin around like busy bees and just become human Do-ings? Or shall we as the body of Messiah, RISE UP and bring people back to the altar?
What could be a more urgent reason for gathering at a service than the need to pray?There is nothing more important than to lift up each others' needs & LISTEN for God's direction so we can be free.
Who among us does not need liberation from fear, heartache, disenchantment with the world, obsessions, and the list goes on? Our Abba Father longs for us to experience His life more abundantly so we can be equipped to GO and make the great commission our mission to bring deliverance & salvation.
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MOSES: ONE EXAMPLE OF PRAYER Even Moses knew He needed God's presence. So Moses said to Adonai “You say to me, ‘Bring up this people ,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My eyes.’ Now then, I pray, if I have found grace in Your eyes, show me Your ways, so that I may know You, so that I might find favor in Your sight. Consider also that this nation is Your people.” “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest,” He answered. But then he said to Him,
“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest,” He answered. But then he said to Him,
“If Your presence does not go with me, don’t let us go up from here!Exodus 33:12-15
So why are the altars on lock mode? What could be the reasons the waters of healing are roped off for those who wanna dive in?
(Below are s ome reasons are lies the enemy has been secretly whispering into the ears of some of the most awesome loving pastors and rabbis around the World. It's time to forgive our leaders for forgetting and encourage them to re-open the altars.)
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THE SOLUTION Myths or lies we are tempted to believe
1.The Word of God says we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. So people can just pray at home or in their cars on the way to church.
Joe's Answer:
This negates the needs for God's spirit to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. During the message, people often hear things that show them they need to change to conformed to the image of God. Prayer at the end of the message helps a person repent and receive healing to be a stronger believer.
2. We don't have time to pray at the end of service because we have to get to the fellowship/food time.
Joe's Answer:
What's more important prayer or pasta? If we need to rush to eat together, consider shortening the worship service, announcements, or add altar prayer time during worship.
3. It's easier to just pray once a month or once a week on a separate day
Joe's Answer: The Scriptures teach us to pray always and prayer at the end of the message helps solidify the message in the believer's heart.
4. We say the "our father" together as a congregation and that's enough.
Joe's Answer:
The prayer "Our Father" is the example of how we should pray to the father, and a good start. But nothing takes the place of personal, heartfelt prayer to God at the altar. Also,the Word of God commands us to lay hands on the sick. (James 5:13)
In conclusion, my family and friends, I beg you today to consider this one thing.
Le'ts make 2017 a year of renewal, healing, and power by going back to tarrying at the altar.
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MY STORY?
Since coming into true relationship with the Lord in 1990, other people's prayers for me have changed my life. Those prayers have healed my spirit so much that I've been able to watch myself grow into a happier, more whole, more patient, and loving human being. through prayer at the altar alone, I have overcome
the pain of being touched the wrong wayas a child, the pain of realizing that fame and education will not satisfythe way I had thought they would. I have been healed of a major stomach illnessthat had caused by horrible anxiety, and much more. Also, without even using words, I have a partaker in being part of a designated group
at the altar through the simple act of praying over others & I've seen God rebuild people's lives. Through prayer, we are changed & as we sincerely confess, all of our wrongs are in Gods sea of forgetfulness. I've been
released revived and renewed.I come back to be refueledas often as I can. Even if I don't WANNA pray, I pray for the willingness to want to pray.
As for my marriage, I also thoroughly enjoy the time my husband and I spend together at the altar as a couple just sitting silently for a brief time. We are not perfect but we are being closely knit together. Sometimes I kneel, Sometimes I sit "Criss cross apple sauce" and other times, I just cover my face with my hair so no one can see my intimate & reassuring private conversation with God.
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DO YOU WANNA BE A PART OF THIS ALTAR-TIME REVOLUTION? If you agree today and feel this is a real issue in the congregations today stopping us from moving forward, Will you join with me in what I will call the "back to the altar" revolution? Let's start this today?Say with me "Lord- let peace begin w me!" What can I do to make an impact? A- WHY NOT OFFER TO BE THE ONE?
if you are a seasoned believer, offer to your leader to be a "prayer worker" or designated person to pray for others after service. To avoid confusion & protect the people and pastor, every temple needs designated folks to pray for people. You do not have to be a perfect vessel. Remember that God chooses the weak to shame the strong and he is made powerful in our weakness. Make sure you abide by the rules of your pastor.
B- WHY NOT BE THE FIRST?
Don't be afraid to be the first one to come and kneel and sit before God at the altar. Ask your leader: What is the acceptable time, either after service or during worship to come to the altar? The Lord will reward you for spending time w him. Praying at your seat is good too if you can quiet your soul enough there to avoid distraction. I like to kneel at my seat so I can privately listen and talk with God.
C- BELIEVE AGAIN that there is power in prayer.
Don't be deceived by people who say you can heal thru therapy and doctors alone. We all need God's healing hand and must humbly admit that it is God who anoints our doctors and therapists. There are some spiritual ailments that only the Lord can heal if we let Him. Thank God for our doctors but don't forget Doctor Father God!
I look forward to hearing your praise reports as you challenge yourself to urgently awaken the part of your spirit which longs to sit in His presence to be fueled and empowered by Adonai. As we enter into the holidays, let us remember that
the greatest present truly is Adonai's presence!Our gift is wrapped up in God's arms and set aside just for us. If we die tomorrow, we will die happy, knowing we have made a difference and that we have made our community stronger one person at a time.Add your comments below if you like. All my love, Michelle gold
Michelle gold
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Open Question Answering | I put some thought into last week's Wellstone Club questionnaire. Here are two of my answers.
Agree or Disagree? "I would like the Wellstone Club to be more engaged in ISSUE-ORIENTED organizing (in contrast to "electoral" organizing.)"
My answer: Disagree
I thought hard about how to answer this. I knew what "issue-oriented" meant, but I was unclear whether "electoral organizing" referred to taking sides in elections, or working to improve democratic institutions. So I googled "electoral organizing" and voila, I found the Wellstone Triangle: http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2010/01/fast-forum-electoral-organizing/
So now I can state my views in your terms. I strongly believe that we need to gather passionate people with *somewhat divergent* views, find common ground, then choose candidates and campaigns that most closely match our collective values. So, even though I'd like my issues represented, we can speak even louder for *our* issues. Form coalitions with existing issue-based organizations that are already doing great work, rather than taking a narrower stance on particular issues. Of course, we need to stand for something; we need planks in the platform, values in the mission statement that lead us to choose our electoral causes.
Agree or Disagree? "I would like the Wellstone Club to work for the reelection of Barack Obama."
Answer: Agree
I would break the question into stages. (1) Whom should we endorse in the Democratic primary? Nobody; keep quiet. In 2008, I voted for a bridge-builder, and I got an appeaser, so I will make a protest vote -- privately. Publicly, I don't want to raise hell, because... (2) Should we endorse Barack Obama in the general election? Yes. Surely the alternative will be much worse. (3) How hard should we work for his reelection? We should do our part, but save our real energy for the openly progressive candidates (which is not to say ideologues) who can win and make a difference at all levels of politics. |
Open Question Answering | One of the policy types supported by Azure AD B2C is profile editing which allows users to provide their info such as address details, job title, etc. When you use the default ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect middleware to handle communication with Azure AD B2C you may run into difficulties making it properly redirect to the profile page and then handle the response when being called back by Azure AD.
To invoke a B2C policy your application is expected to make a request to the authorize endpoint passing the required
p parameter which identifies the policy. For example, when signing in users you would use either a 'Sign-in' or 'Sign-up or Sign-in' policy type:
GET https://login.microsoftonline.com/devunleashedb2c.onmicrosoft.com/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?p=B2C_1_TestSignUpAndSignInPolicy&client_id=...&redirect_uri=... HTTP/1.1
When redirecting to the profile editing page you would provide a name of your "Profile editing' policy:
GET https://login.microsoftonline.com/devunleashedb2c.onmicrosoft.com/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?p=B2C_1_TestProfileEditPolicy&client_id=...&redirect_uri=... HTTP/1.1
The middleware takes care of providing the rest of the protocol parameters as well as state and nonce values which are used to later validate and correlate the response from Azure AD.
The way you trigger this whole process is by returning a ChallengeResult, e.g.:
public class AccountController : Controller { private readonly B2CPolicies policies; public AccountController(IOptions<B2CPolicies> policies) { this.policies = policies.Value; } public IActionResult Profile() { if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) { return new ChallengeResult( AuthConstants.OpenIdConnectB2CAuthenticationScheme, new AuthenticationProperties(new Dictionary<string, string> { { AuthConstants.B2CPolicy, policies.EditProfilePolicy } }) { RedirectUri = "/" }); } return RedirectHome(); } private IActionResult RedirectHome() => RedirectToAction(nameof(HomeController.Index), "Home");}
This will make
AuthenticationManager invoke the challenge with the middleware identified by the provided authentication scheme (
AuthConstants.OpenIdConnectB2CAuthenticationScheme) and in case of the OpenID Connect middleware it should make a request to the authorize endpoint. If you're wondering about the policy parameter I recommend you have a look at my older post explaining how it is used when determining the correct configuration endpoint.
Now, here's the first problem. Instead of being redirected to Azure AD B2C, you are likely to witness an immediate redirect to some
AccessDenied action on your
AccountController:
GET https://localhost:8686/Account/Profile HTTP/1.1HTTP/1.1 302 Found Content-Length: 0 Location: https://localhost:8686/Account/AccessDenied?ReturnUrl=%2F
The problem lies in the middleware that treats challenge responses thrown when there is an authenticated user for the current request as failed authorization. Thus, it tries to invoke the
AccessDenied action so you could present the error to the user.
However, from our workflow it's not an error and we expect the user to be authenticated before she can edit her profile.
You solve this we need to force the middleware to go with the same flow as it would when signing in users. This can be done with
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features.Authentication.ChallengeBehavior enumeration however
ChallengeResult currently doesn't provide a constructor that accepts it. So we'll have to write our own result:
internal class CustomChallengeResult : ChallengeResult { private readonly ChallengeBehavior behavior; public CustomChallengeResult(string authenticationScheme, AuthenticationProperties properties, ChallengeBehavior behavior) : base(authenticationScheme, properties) { this.behavior = behavior; } public override async Task ExecuteResultAsync(ActionContext context) { if (context == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(context)); } var loggerFactory = context.HttpContext.RequestServices.GetRequiredService<ILoggerFactory>(); var logger = loggerFactory.CreateLogger<CustomChallengeResult>(); var authentication = context.HttpContext.Authentication; if (AuthenticationSchemes != null && AuthenticationSchemes.Count > 0) { logger.LogInformation("Executing CustomChallengeResult with authentication schemes: {0}.", AuthenticationSchemes.Aggregate((aggr, current) => $"{aggr}, {current}")); foreach (var scheme in AuthenticationSchemes) { await authentication.ChallengeAsync(scheme, Properties, behavior); } } else { logger.LogInformation("Executing CustomChallengeResult."); await authentication.ChallengeAsync(Properties); } }}
Now make sure to specify
ChallengeBehavior.Unauthorized when returning the result:
if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) { return new CustomChallengeResult( AuthConstants.OpenIdConnectB2CAuthenticationScheme, new AuthenticationProperties(new Dictionary<string, string> { { AuthConstants.B2CPolicy, policies.EditProfilePolicy } }) { RedirectUri = "/" }, ChallengeBehavior.Unauthorized);}
This will successfully redirect the user to the profile editing page:
If the user hits 'Continue' she will be redirected back to the application with the regular authentication response containing state, nonce, authorization code and ID token (depending on the OpenID Connect flow).
But if the user hits 'Cancel' Azure AD B2C will return an error response, oops:
POST https://localhost:8686/signin-oidc-b2c HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodederror=access_denied &error_description=AADB2C90091: The user has cancelled entering self-asserted information. Correlation ID: 3ed683a1-d742-4f59-beb8-86bc22bb7196 Timestamp: 2017-01-30 12:15:15Z
This somewhat unexpected response from Azure AD makes the middleware fail the authentication process. And it's correct from the middleware's standpoint as there are no artifacts to validate.
To mitigate this we're going to have to intercept the response and prevent the middleware from raising an error:
private static IOpenIdConnectEvents CreateOpenIdConnectEventHandlers(B2CAuthenticationOptions authOptions, B2CPolicies policies) { return new OpenIdConnectEvents { ... OnMessageReceived = context => { if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(context.ProtocolMessage.Error) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(context.ProtocolMessage.ErrorDescription) && context.ProtocolMessage.ErrorDescription.StartsWith("AADB2C90091") && context.Properties.Items[AuthConstants.B2CPolicy] == policies.EditProfilePolicy) { context.Ticket = new AuthenticationTicket(context.HttpContext.User, context.Properties, AuthConstants.OpenIdConnectB2CAuthenticationScheme); context.HandleResponse(); } return Task.FromResult(0); } };}
OnMessageReceived event allows us to examine all responses received from the identity provider and also abort further processing. In our case, we're interested in profile editing and we check the policy value that has been set
AccountController and we look for the specific
AADB2C90091 error.s
We reconstruct the authentication ticket from the current principal and we know we can do that as the profile editing flow is only enabled for authenticated users.
context.HandleResponse() is what makes the middleware back off and return the successful authentication result with our ticket to
AuthenticationManager.
Please have a look at the complete solution so all pieces come together. |
Open Question Answering | To the honourable scholars, al-salam ‘alaykum.
Recently, an English translation and commentary of the Quran entitled ‘the Study Quran’, was published. It was undertaken by a group of western academics. The work includes Shia, Sunni, Sufi tafsir, in addition to several essays as appendices. Unfortunately, in spite of some benefits in the work, the authors have, while commentating on certain verses, presented interpretations that accord with the belief in the universal validity of religions. For instance, during the discussion on the
tafsir to the verse: Truly the religion in the sight of God is submission (3:20), it says:
Many Muslims say that this verse shows that the only religion acceptable to God is the one revealed to the Prophet of Islam, but the most universal meaning of it, which been emphasised by many Islamic authorities over the ages, is that Islam in this verse refers to submission to God even if it is not in the context of Islam as the specific religion revealed through the Quran … [p. 135]
The reader is then referred to the essay at the end of the book entitled ‘The Quranic View of Sacred History and of Other Religions’ in which it is argued that previous scriptures and religions are not abrogated by Islam:
The notion that previous scriptures have been abrogated in the sense of being nullified or excessively distorted to such an extent that the message no longer reflects the particularity of the original teachings, as some Muslims maintain, would seem to be contradicted by verses such as 5:43:
And how is it that they come to thee for judgement … It would be contradictory for the Quran to speak of the efficacy of judging by the Torah and the Gospel if it were to also maintain that these Scriptures have been abrogated or excessively distorted … If the previous religions were abrogated by the revelation of the Quran, it will be implausible to tell the Prophet Muhammad to seek their counsel when it says, Ask the people of the Reminder, if you know not. [p. 1767]
Regarding the verse:
Whoever seeks a religion other than submission it shall not be accepted of him… (3:85), it says:
However, the idea that 3:85 abrogates 2:62 is connected to the interpretation expressed by some commentators that this verse denies the “acceptability” of any form of religion other than that brought by the Prophet Muhammad. This opinion is not without its inconsistencies, however, since it does not take into account the more general and universal use of
Islam and muslim in the Quran to refer to all true, monotheistic religion… [p. 153]
Moreover, regarding the interpretation of the verse on the Christian trinitarian belief:
They certainly disbelieve, those who say, “Truly God is the third of three,”… [5: 73], it says:
However, the verse clearly threatens punishment only for
those among them who disbelieved, suggesting that it is not for all Christians. Moreover, an interpretation that considers all Christians to be barred from the garden in the next life would openly contradict both v. 69 and 2:62 where Christians and anyone who believes in God and the Last Day and works righteousness shall have the reward with their Lord. No fear shall, upon them, nor shall they grieve, and is not consistent with the description of Christian virtue in vv. 82-85. [p. 316-17]
The same author says in the above-mentioned essay as he speaks about the concept of trinity criticised in the Quran:
And say not “Three.” Refrain! … (4:171) … They certainly disbelieve, those who say,” Truly God is the third of three…” This, however, is not a direct condemnation of Christian theology, for trinitarian theology does not make God one of three, but rather speaks of the triune God, Who is both one and three in a manner that transcends human understanding. Viewed in this light, 5:73 does not oppose the various forms of orthodox trinitarian doctrine that have prevailed for most of Christian history. Rather, it appears to oppose crude misunderstandings of it that would lead one to believe that there are three gods instead of one. [p. 1779]
Similar notions to the above are frequently found throughout the work.
The author of another essay, also within the work, states the following on the matter of perpetuity of hellfire:
During the early period of Islam, scholars differed about the duration of Hell. The majority of them argued that Hell is perpetual and an actualised state that never ends. But some groups argued otherwise, citing verses that hinted at an end to Hell’s torment and arguing that this was more consistent with God’s saying, ‘My Mercy exceeds My Wrath.’ Thus the scholars fell into three camps. The first believed that although Hell did not end, its punishment and torment did. The proof for this was the verse: Truly Hell lies in ambush, a place unto which the rebellious return, to tarry therein for ages (78:21-23). This was the opinion of Aḥmad ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim, and Ibn al-ʿArabī; a similar opinion that the majority of Hell’s denizens are ultimately released also appears to have been held by al-Ghazzālī, as is evident in his
Fayṣal al-tafriqah (Decisive Criterion). [p. 1849-50]
The work would probably not have gained much popularity were it not for certain popular Muslim preachers in West who promoted and endorsed the work unconditionally without any caution against its absurd interpretations and false beliefs; one of them went to the extent of describing it as ‘A major victory and a gift from god’, and another said, ‘It is probably the best work in English to date’ and called it ‘A mercy from God.’ This latter individual made the matter worse by allowing the hosting of an event in his Islamic institute in America wherein one of the translators of the work was invited to speak about the book. None of the panel attendees refuted or challenged his claims. Instead, they encouraged the attendees to purchase a copy of the book at the end of the session and get it signed by the translator. Since the book has gained much popularity and is increasingly bought we fear that it will pollute the minds of readers and therefore seek your guidance and fatwa in regards to the following questions:
1. What is the status of those who believe in the validity of all religions other than Islam, claiming that it does not abrogate the previous religions: does it take them out of the pale of Islam even if they an interpretation (ta’wil) for such a belief?
2. What is the ruling on believing that Hellfire or its torment will eventually extinguish? Is there a valid scholarly disagreement over the issue?
3. What is the ruling on promoting, endorsing, and encouraging people to buy and read such a work, knowing full well its contents, without cautioning readers against the problematic points?
4. What is the ruling on laymen reading such a work?
Answered by Shaykh Muḥammad Tawfīq Ramaḍān:
In the Name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most Merciful
Praise be to Allah, the Unique, the One, the Singular, the Everlasting Sustainer, who has not given birth and was not born, and no one is comparable to Him, and blessings and peace be upon our master Muḥammad and upon his family, all of his companions and those who follow them on the path of truth until the Day of Repayment. To proceed:
I have looked at the explanation (tafsīr)[1] of certain verses from the Book of Allah which offends what the people of truth are upon and contradicts the Qurʾānic texts with interpretations that are inconsistent with what is correct. I believe that whoever stated them is upon misguidance in his theology and whoever has followed him is obliged to return to the path of truth. If not, then one becomes one of those whom Allah, may His affair be manifest, described by saying: “Do you, then, believe in one part of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on the Day of Standing, they will be returned to the harshest of punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do.” [Sūrat al-Baqarah 2:85]
Indeed the Book of Allah the Exalted has commanded us to debate kindly with the People of the Book[2] whom we differ with regarding what they believe about our master ʿĪsā (Jesus), peace and blessing be upon him or ʿUzayr (Uzair), peace and blessings be upon him. The Book of Allah calls on the People of the Book to have faith in our master Muḥammad, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, and it does not consider those who disbelieve in our master Muḥammad to be from the people of salvation nor does it consider those who believe Allah to be the third of three or that the Messiah is the son of Allah to be from the people of salvation.[3] Our theology is not taken from those who are suspect in their theology nor from those who flatter those who contradict the truth, seeking to ingratiate themselves while having certain interests, or something similar, in mind.
Indeed a tafsīr like this aims to ruin the Muslims and to take them away from the true paths of knowing their religion and their theology. Indeed, treating the People of the Book kindly is one thing and presenting relinquishments to them in violation of our theology and our Revealed Law is something else. The obligation to debate with the People of the book in the kindest of ways is one thing and violating what is clear in the Book of Allah, seeking to ingratiate oneself with them, is something else.
Indeed the belief that the People of the Book, with the beliefs that they currently hold, are not disbelievers contradicts what is clear in the Book of Allah, and the circulation of such publications is one of the waves of misguidance that Muslims are exposed to, in addition to their other afflictions.
Likewise, the belief that the people of the Fire are not in there eternally is inconsistent with the Exalted’s statement: “As for those who disbelieve in Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire. Every time their skins are burned off We will replace them with new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.” [Sūrat an-Nisāʾ 4:56] and other verses that clearly show that the people of the Fire are therein eternally and that the people of Paradise are therein eternally, and this is aside from what this tafsīr ignores from the clear, authentic Prophetic ḥadīths on this matter. This shows that the authors of this tafsīr have shunned the Exalted’s statement: “And we have sent down the Reminder to you so that you can make clear to mankind what has been sent down to them so that hopefully they will reflect.” [Sūrat an-Naḥl 16:44] Al-Bukhārī has related on the authority of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, may Allah be pleased with him, who said, ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, {Death will come in the form of a black and white ram and then a caller will call out, ‘O people of Paradise’, and at that point they will stretch their necks and look. He will say, ‘Do you know what this is?’ They will respond, ‘Yes. This is death.’ and all of them will have seen it. Then he will call out, ‘O people of the Fire’, at which point they will stretch their necks and look. He will say, ‘Do you know what this is?’ They will respond, ‘Yes. This is death.’ and all of them will have seen it. It will thus be slaughtered and then he will say, ‘O people of Paradise, eternity and thus no death, and O people of the Fire, eternity and thus no death.’} Then he recited, “Warn them of the Day of Bitter Regret when the affair will be resolved. But they take no notice [i.e. the people of this worldly life]. They do not believe.” [Sūrat Maryam 19:39]
Indeed circulating books like this is to take part in misguiding and in serving the plan to disrupt the thinking of the Ummah away from the right path. And Allah knows best.
The servant of knowledge: Muḥammad Tawfīq Ramaḍān
[Translated by Mahdi Lock]
[1] (tn): because it is not actually possible to fully translate the Qurʾān, and thus any so-called translation is in fact only a conveyance of some of the meanings, and therefore it’s an explanation, or tafsīr
[2] (tn): for instance, see Sūrat an-Naḥl 16:125
[3] (tn): for instance, see Sūrat al-Māʾidah 5:72-73 |
Open Question Answering | This is a discussion on ACR/WPN MOSS #42 150k gtd within the online poker forums, in the Poker Rooms section; Is it just me, or do any of the rest of you feel like they're going to need their inside players to late reg to
Is it just me, or do any of the rest of you feel like they're going to need their inside players to late reg to avoid this being +EV and covering the guarantee?
The ONLY way I think that DOESN'T happen is by filtering in TONS of players from sattys. But everyday people will be qualifying for free, so those entrants (depending on structure) could be equity-weighted as having some value, but will they be valued at full entry fee? I haven't evaluated that aspect enough to know.
What I DO know, is this past Sunday was the typical 115k gtd. We know only 6 of the entrants got in for free, so they're a non-factor. We know plenty of others got in for less than full entry, but I'm not evaluating those numbers to see if the site covered themselves on them. What we DO know is the 115k gtd went over to about 150k or so. Winner took down like 30k. Well done. It also only had the 3 hours of late reg that the 150k is slated to have, which surprises me because it seems like they live off of their ridiculous 5 hour late regs.
Here's the thing, though. The 115k, full entry was 220. The 150k is 88. Thank you in advance for not bothering me with greater entrants in lower entrys making gtd's more likely. I've taken enough classes, I'm aware. I just don't think it happens organically for them this time. They have to get "lucky" from all the feeders, because even 150k gtd for ONLY $88 is one of the best values they offer, few of their players are prepared to put even that much down on a single entry. (While others might go with 4 bullets if they have the finances)
So take away the feeders and take away the inside players (ACR Rep, you count as one since you work and play for them) I GUARANTEE it isn't covered. But they have enough backup plans where we very well could see like a 220k pot after 3 hours. lol
What are your thoughts?
And hurry up because we only have like a month to talk about it before it happens!
#2
26th July 2016, 3:53 PM
ACR Rep [1,623]
Online Poker at: ACR
Originally Posted by Nutcracker69
Is it just me, or do any of the rest of you feel like they're going to need their inside players to late reg to avoid this being +EV and covering the guarantee?
The ONLY way I think that DOESN'T happen is by filtering in TONS of players from sattys. But everyday people will be qualifying for free, so those entrants (depending on structure) could be equity-weighted as having some value, but will they be valued at full entry fee? I haven't evaluated that aspect enough to know.
What I DO know, is this past Sunday was the typical 115k gtd. We know only 6 of the entrants got in for free, so they're a non-factor. We know plenty of others got in for less than full entry, but I'm not evaluating those numbers to see if the site covered themselves on them. What we DO know is the 115k gtd went over to about 150k or so. Winner took down like 30k. Well done. It also only had the 3 hours of late reg that the 150k is slated to have, which surprises me because it seems like they live off of their ridiculous 5 hour late regs.
Here's the thing, though. The 115k, full entry was 220. The 150k is 88. Thank you in advance for not bothering me with greater entrants in lower entrys making gtd's more likely. I've taken enough classes, I'm aware. I just don't think it happens organically for them this time. They have to get "lucky" from all the feeders, because even 150k gtd for ONLY $88 is one of the best values they offer, few of their players are prepared to put even that much down on a single entry. (While others might go with 4 bullets if they have the finances)
So take away the feeders and take away the inside players (ACR Rep, you count as one since you work and play for them) I GUARANTEE it isn't covered. But they have enough backup plans where we very well could see like a 220k pot after 3 hours. lol
What are your thoughts?
And hurry up because we only have like a month to talk about it before it happens!
Interesting point of view, however please let me say that we DON'T have inside players, that would be the opposite of what we want: for our players to be able to play in a safe and secure enviroment.
Also, you are right about the Sunday Special being 3 hours late reg... its being like that for quite some time now (the only exception was the one we did for Independence weekeend)
Please be sure that we will have a good list of satellites for all players to qualify for a fraction of the cost. I'm pretty confident we won't overlay as we didn't with the Sunday Special $240,000 GTD on July 3rd
#3
26th July 2016, 4:57 PM
Nutcracker69 [693]
Originally Posted by ACR Rep
Interesting point of view, however please let me say that we DON'T have inside players, that would be the opposite of what we want: for our players to be able to play in a safe and secure enviroment.
Also, you are right about the Sunday Special being 3 hours late reg... its being like that for quite some time now (the only exception was the one we did for Independence weekeend)
Please be sure that we will have a good list of satellites for all players to qualify for a fraction of the cost. I'm pretty confident we won't overlay as we didn't with the Sunday Special $240,000 GTD on July 3rd
Simple question that could come with a simple answer:
Do you play on the site?
#4
26th July 2016, 5:30 PM
ACR Rep [1,623]
Online Poker at: ACR
Originally Posted by Nutcracker69
Simple question that could come with a simple answer:
Do you play on the site?
Your question has been already answered on the previous post!
#5
26th July 2016, 5:51 PM
Nutcracker69 [693]
Originally Posted by ACR Rep
Your question has been already answered on the previous post!
Well in every post you make, it indicates contrary to what you are suggesting. Which is interesting because I thought I filled out my profile completely on here and yet my posts don't say I play at ACR.
#6
26th July 2016, 6:09 PM
ACR Rep [1,623]
Online Poker at: ACR
re: Poker & ACR/WPN MOSS #42 150k gtd
You can contact any of the moderators here then.
This is a social media account Nutracker, does not belong to one person but a company and it's part of a requirement we were asked to fill, what do you think we should have entered?
#7
26th July 2016, 7:12 PM
Nutcracker69 [693]
Originally Posted by ACR Rep
You can contact any of the moderators here then.
This is a social media account Nutracker, does not belong to one person but a company and it's part of a requirement we were asked to fill, what do you think we should have entered?
Based on previous posts, I was under the impression you had a sense of humor and could take a joke. If you honestly believed that I was suggesting that you, personally, are part of a group of insiders that late reg to ensure the gtd is met and then take down the tournament, keeping the money in-house... wow... even when I'm JOKING about stuff going down, I wouldn't actually go anywhere near that far.
Seriously, we appreciate you on here. But because you represent a company that (like many companies) has problems, you'll have to get used to good-natured ribbing. |
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