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Games are typically played by two or more participants. Every game has defined rules and boundaries. For every game, there is a method of keeping score. Games may be a short-term, one-time process. Sports contests are typical examples of this type of game. In this type of contest, the participants focus on the particular outcome of a single contest.
This article focuses on a longer term game one that is repeated indefinitely. The goal of the long-term game is to continue to play and continue to score with increasing frequency and value. Most businesses engage in this type of strategy.
Business can be viewed as a contest where we keep score with money. We develop rules for making decisions that are used to attract new customers, retain existing customers, reduce expenses, and minimize risks. The more effective we are with making these decisions, the more we score.
In the context of customer relationship management (CRM), small businesses engage in a relatively simple contest. Many times, they have the luxury of knowing their customers personally. They can adapt their strategies and decision making based on personal feedback with a high degree of accuracy. These types of businesses adapt to the variety of individual games played between the business and its customer base. Each experience is played with the intention of winning. Most times, these games are played to create a mutually beneficial scenario.
Alternatively, large businesses must shift from this mind-set. They do not have the luxury of knowing each of their customers needs on an individual basis. They must make decisions based on group behavior. The outcome of any one interaction is relatively unimportant. The focus shifts to strategies that generate long term success based on group behavior. We shift from a position of playing the game to the position of sponsoring the game.
Most of us have gambled at one point or another, whether at a charity fundraiser, in purchasing a lottery ticket, or on a trip to a casino. The games have many consistent characteristics; we pay a price for the opportunity to receive something more than we risk. As individuals, we generally dont have accurate perceptions of the risk/reward ratios involved. We are willing to gamble a relatively small amount in hopes of becoming a big winner.
The sponsor of the game, however, fully understands the risks and rewards. The sponsor of the game generally attempts to build an interaction with a particular public appeal. They are fully aware that some individuals will walk away winners. In fact, they need those winners to maintain the game. But they also know that by playing the game consistently, with a large number of occurrences, that the probabilities guarantee that they are the true winners.
For large business, the game is only slightly modified. We are attempting to model human behavior that is highly inconsistent. The game is not played with fixed probabilities. Because these businesses cannot accurately analyze the risk/reward structure of each decision and business relationship, they must develop a strategy where the organization makes decisions that guarantee long-term success.
Some customers receive higher than anticipated value. Others may not receive the full value expected. Customers gamble that they can negotiate an arrangement that will provide them with a product or service at a fair value. But, the probability of long-term success is still with the sponsor of the game the business.
Imagine sitting in a high-stakes poker game. And in this game, you are allowed to see your cards and the cards of every other player before you decide whether to bet. For a relatively minimal cost, you are allowed to sit in and simply observe. When a situation that is beneficial to you develops, you then execute the privilege of participating.
This is the environment most large businesses enjoy. If they accurately evaluate their environment and have the discipline to only participate in probabilistically correct decision making, they are virtually guaranteed to be winners.
The experts at playing these games have an established set of decision rules for when to sit and watch, when to participate, and how to play when they do participate.
Successful large business executives create environments that guarantee success for their organizations. These contests range from sales to customer retention to loss prevention and fraud detection. All decision making is geared to selection of opportunities to increase the score or reduce the risk of loss.
Just as casinos have developed sophisticated games of chance to entertain their customers while guaranteeing their success, data mining and CRM have developed sophisticated techniques of data analysis in the business environment. And as with their gaming counterparts, the business implementation of advanced gaming technology requires an understanding of the characteristics of the tools being employed and advanced skills in decision making.
Data mining and CRM are the advanced technologies of the skilled business decision maker. It is no longer sufficient to simply review a report. With the development of advanced technology solutions in the business environment, it is necessary to increase the precision of the tactics we employ.
We can use a variety of tools to enhance our skills. Realistically, we use these tools to improve our decision making while playing the game. Our intent is to improve our position in order to achieve a higher score.
In the world of advanced technology, performance is a subjective matter. That means we must take the time to define it on our terms.
At the inception of the project, it is important to fully and completely define the metrics by which the success of a project will be evaluated. The evaluation criteria should include the realistic constraints to be expected in the delivery environment, as well as the operational metrics of performance.
The key is to develop a mathematical formula that will make a significant contribution in live decision making. By being highly precise in defining our decision rules, and by applying them consistently, we are able to adapt the rules effectively as we gain additional experience.
Failure to completely and accurately define our performance criteria appropriately often leads to the development of good solutions to the wrong contest.
It is important to keep in mind that many of the advanced technologies employed in the data mining and CRM fields attempt to optimize performance based on the criteria utilized.
There are many alternatives available from traditional statistics to various qualitative tools to the advanced technologies employed in the data mining and CRM arenas. One of the keys to success is selecting the correct technology for the situation at hand.
When we strip away all of the hype and all of mystique surrounding the advanced technologies, we are left with an array of tools. These tools perform a very simple function. They use a database of historical experience to build mathematical models intended to assist in future decision making.
Traditional statistical analysis is often of limited value. It is not that these tools are somehow flawed. Rather, it is that they are overly simplistic and, in many cases inappropriate for the task of modeling human behavior.
Traditional statistical techniques are overly simplistic as they are suitable for only the most basic support of our decision making. They typically assume that the interactions in our decision variables are independent of each other, when, in fact, we are bombarded with multiple inputs that are highly interrelated.
Additionally, these simple modeling techniques generally attempt to build linear relationships between the inputs and the desired output. It is often the case that the basic recognition of the non-linear aspects of a solution space will generate improved decision making.
Traditional statistical analysis is often an inappropriate choice because we are attempting to model human behavior. Human behavior is typically not normally distributed, it rarely has a stable mean and standard deviation and it never has inputs into a model that cause a particular type of behavior conditions that are necessary for the correct application of traditional statistical tools.
The advanced modeling tools used in data mining are not better tools. They are simply better suited to modeling the realities of human behavior.
The techniques employed in data mining are often criticized as less rigorous and more complex than traditional statistical analysis tools. Both of these criticisms should be viewed realistically.
These techniques are less rigorous from the perspective of not offering right answers. However, this is not deficiency of the tools. Rather, it is a reality of modeling human behavior that is inconsistent and constantly changing.
The tools associated with data mining are generally more complex than traditional statistics. The mathematical formulas derived are generally not simple. Again, this should not be viewed as undesirable. Our goal is to achieve more sophisticated and more accurate decision making in a highly complex environment.
One of the pitfalls often encountered in data mining and CRM project management lies in a failure to recognize the limitations of the technologies employed due to the type of environment in which these technologies are expected to perform.
The environment in which most business decision makers function is not precise. In most cases where data mining and CRM are employed, we are modeling human behavior, not physical systems.
Human decision making is subject to inconsistencies, both between and within observations. This means that given the same set of factors influencing our decisions, the answers may be very different. And these differences in responses can be expected, not only from different individuals, but from the same individual at different points in time.
The implication of the inconsistency of human behavior is that, at best, we hope to identify a set of characteristics that allow us to expect a particular type of response at a probabilistically reliable rate. Further, our expectations of a particular behavior pattern can only be expected in a group of individuals displaying a common set of characteristics. We cannot expect to predict the performance of any one individual in any other than a probabilistic fashion.
We are often tempted to look for highly precise answers to expect a solution to be right or wrong. We cannot win on every play. Human decision making is not precise. Our training in math and the physical sciences does not apply to anticipating human behavior. Our environments cannot be expected to meet our objectives in black and white terms.
Recognizing the limitations we are faced with in human behavior modeling is a first step in developing enhanced decision support mechanisms.
Traditional techniques often set out to come up with most likely outcomes ways of most accurately describing group behavior in aggregate. In doing so, annoying discrepancies in the group behavior are often assumed away or discarded completely. Observations referred to as outliers, observations more than three standard deviations from the mean, are typical examples.
The astute business analyst, as with the astute gambler, will recognize that while many situations may appear to be similar in value, those at the extremes tend to have the most impact whether positive or negative. It is in accurately and reliably identifying the extremes in the continuum that we can make the most impact.
In most cases, we are focused on one tail or the other, such as fraud detection or credit screening. In some problems, we may benefit by identifying occurrences from both tails, such as in response modeling where it is possible to increase sales and reduce expenses simultaneously.
Ultimately, we want to know the impact of our decision models on our business performance. This is the ultimate set of metrics. Our goal may be to increase sales revenue, reduce expenses, increase net profit or reduce bad loans. Whatever we decide our priorities are, these metrics become our touchstone for all future decisions. It doesnt matter how well our prospective models perform on a lift chart or how much we reduce our error metric, if we dont meet the business criteria, complete with the realities of the constraint system in which we will operate, we will not have a winning model.
Our business goals are often implemented by using analytic surrogates. Can I increase my response rate? Can I reduce my false positives in my credit scoring model?
These analytic targets can be misleading. It must be remembered that they are, at best, surrogates for our true business metrics.
Technical opportunities are what we see sitting at the table in front of the software during the model development process. The lift chart looks good. The r-squared continues to improve.
This is a good point to emphasize one of the key questions any model architect should be asking on a regular basis. So what!?! Remember, this is not an academic problem. This is real life which generally involves real dollars.
Our technical enhancements may, or may not, directly translate into additional business benefits. The only way to know for sure is to periodically test our developing models using our true business metrics.
It should be apparent to any analyst developing data mining and CRM models that, in dealing with human behavior modeling, there are no right answers there is no final solution upon which improvements cannot be made.
Instead, we hope to improve on what has been done in the past. To that end, we have to have measured our existing efforts using the same quantitative performance metrics we plan to use in the future.
Our baseline gives us a point of reference. How is this model performing? Is it significantly better/worse than the techniques we have been employing? What level of improvement is significant? At what point am I willing to terminate this development effort and field a new model?
The frustrating reality of modeling human behavior is that we are always putting ourselves at risk. We must determine how much or how little to devote to our development efforts.
There is no way to determine, in advance, what the payoff is going to be. If we knew that answer, wed have enough information to not even need the development effort.
We do know that human behaviors change over time sometimes gradually, and sometimes in very dynamic shifts. And with those changes, our existing decision models must evolve to meet new challenges as well.
What is often overlooked in data mining and CRM is that these are not projects. It is not something to be initiated and concluded. It is a dynamic game that continues over time. There is no one right answer. Our decision making and our model development is constantly evolving. It is a goal directed process and must shift with changes in corporate priority, and with experience. It must evolve to maintain value in helping us evaluate the complex realities in which we operate.
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Traditional statistical analysis is often of limited value. It is not that these tools are somehow flawed. Rather, it is that they are overly simplistic and, in many cases inappropriate for the task of modeling human behavior.
Traditional statistical techniques are overly simplistic as they are suitable for only the most basic support of our decision making. They typically assume that the interactions in our decision variables are independent of each other, when, in fact, we are bombarded with multiple inputs that are highly interrelated.
Additionally, these simple modeling techniques generally attempt to build linear relationships between the inputs and the desired output. It is often the case that the basic recognition of the non-linear aspects of a solution space will generate improved decision making.
Traditional statistical analysis is often an inappropriate choice because we are attempting to model human behavior. Human behavior is typically not normally distributed, it rarely has a stable mean and standard deviation and it never has inputs into a model that cause a particular type of behavior – conditions that are necessary for the correct application of traditional statistical tools.
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The author seems to believe that statistics is just about linear regression and basic tests of hypotheses. This is what you actually study during the first 30 hours in any basic statistics curriculum, but there's much much more than that. Follow the discussion at: http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/misconceptions-about
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When officers showed up, Hernandez was trapped in the driver's seat, according to the records.
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So here it is, my lovely cover.
This is very much a group effort. The concept is mine. I wanted a clean, minimalist look with custom art that reflected my protagonist's two great loves--pencil drawing and her dad--yet hinted at the grief-oriented content.
Thankfully I have a very talented husband who was able to create this wonderful sketch of my protagonist's father, Graham the photographer. From there, the sketch went to an actual photographer, my friend's cousin, Whitney Levin. She had a laugh about how strange it was to photograph a photographer. Very meta. The shoot was done in August with a green leaf. Deep green.
That's when the real magic happened. I turned over the photograph (purchased all rights, something I'd recommend for the most flexibility) to my designer friend Ruth. She worked in book design before becoming a homeschooling mom, a thorough pro. She was able to autumn-ize the leaf and give me wonderful typography that manages to keep minimalist from being boring.
So what's NEVER GONE about? Grief, ghosts, and God.
Here's my official product description:
Days after her father's death, fifteen-year-old Dani Deane begins seeing him all around New York — wading through discarded sketches in her room, roaming the halls at church, socializing at his post-funeral reception. Is grief making her crazy? Or could her dad really be lingering between this world and the next, trying to contact her?
Dani desperately longs for his help. Without him keeping the peace, Dani's relationship with her mother is deteriorating fast. Soon Mum ships her off to rural England with Dad's relatives for a visit that Dani fears will become a permanent stay. But she won't let her arty, urban life slip away without a fight, especially when daily phone calls with her lab partner Theo become her lifeline.
To find her way home, Dani must somehow reconnect with Mum. But as she seeks advice from relatives and insights from old letters, she uncovers family secrets that shake her to the core. Convinced that Dad's ghost alone can help her, she sets out on a dangerous journey to contact him one last time.
For ages 14+, YA edgy inspirational
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You can add it to your to-read shelf on Goodreads today. The ebook will be available in a matter of days, the paperback by my official release date, September 27.
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Marcus* was quite evasive on the phone when he rang me, but also wanted to know whether I'd ever treated his condition before, and so told me he had parcopresis. He was surprised when I knew that parcopresis is the medical term for 'shy bowel' and he arranged to come and see me.
"It started as a work thing that I did. I was really self-conscious because of other guys standing outside the stall waiting to use the toilet. I couldn't use the public ones as we're not allowed, and anyway they open straight onto the corridors, so that's just as bad.
"It might seem trivial to some people. After all there are much worse things to have wrong aren't there? But it's really beginning to affect me – not just mentally but physically."
When your stool reaches your rectum, it sends a signal letting you know that it's time to go. By continually ignoring this Marcus had had effectively trained himself to be less sensitive to the signal. The stomach cramps that he'd first noticed when he started with a shy bowel had now gone. What he had now though was constipation, as his stools dried and became more solid.
Like so many people Marcus had started a habit because he thought it would help him. But as is all too common that habit was now causing him even greater problems. I asked Marcus what advice or treatment he'd sought for the constipation and his answer was "none".
"I haven't been to the doctor about it because I'm embarrassed, and because I think they'll see it as trivial. I did try to talk to the pharmacist at the chemist, but he wanted me to see the doctor and I was back at square one. So, I've been using Ducolax tablets, and I've been using coffee to kickstart it too."
Marcus was initially disappointed when I told him that I wanted him to see the doctor too. He wasn't supposed to take the laxatives for more than five days, and it had been nearly five months. I couldn't treat him knowing that he was potentially harming himself. But there was another reason too.
When he came back after seeing the doctor the other reason became apparent to Marcus. He'd come to me asking for help about his parcoparesis, or shy bowel. Having seen the doctor he now understood that in fact he needed to recover his sensitivity to the 'time to go' signal. I promised that should he still need it at the end we'd tackle his shy bowel.
I worked with Marcus on regaining that sensitivity, and encouraged him to listen to his gut and what it was telling him about his eating and toilet habits. We also worked on reducing his apprehension about defecating, as he had come to expect it to be difficult and painful.
One practical tip that everyone can benefit from is to have your feet resting on a raised surface so that you sit in a squatting position. That immediately makes things easier, and cuts out a lot of straining or struggling.
After a couple of months, and his constipation had pretty much gone, I asked Marcus if he still wanted to work on his shy bowel. "No thanks," he told me "but since I've been listening to what my body's telling me I've not been worrying about what other people might be thinking" – which was the result he'd hoped for all along.
* Marcus' real identity has been protected, and he is happy to share his story.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Poor Mister Watkins
From the March '53 issue of Menace #1, (art by Werner Roth.)
And don't miss "One Head Too Many!" in the THOIA 2007 Archive! CLICK HERE!!
5 comments:
- Brian Barnes said...
Now here's how you write a script. The dialog is snappy and quick, and it lets the art lead with really setting up our pal Harry as the obnoxious bully that he is. Nice tie, though!
This is one of the horror stories where the "EC" ending is irrelevant. It doesn't matter what happens to Harry, just that it happens. What makes this fun is Harry's patter and the setup before he gets his just wrap-up.
Roth did some great facial expressions here! Page 1/Panel 1 of the librarians face and Page 3/Panel 2 for Harry are just perfect.
- 11/14/2018
- JBM said...
Well that was fun. Thank you Stan. Thank you Mr. K.. Those faces are people perfection. The bottom of page three is a Rudy Palaisian version of Edward Munch "Home Alone" The cover by Everett and the interior comic art fantastic. The emoting faces were everything here to me.
- 11/14/2018
- Glowworm said...
Now that was awesome! I agree with Brian, page three, panel two is a great closeup of Harry's face--his expression is perfect!
I also laughed a bit when Harry asked the new librarian why Cathy quit: "She said something about an objectionable, obnoxious,odious man annoying her!" "How do you like that? Someone else musta had his eye on her too!" Sure, Harry, keep telling yourself you're not the reason why Cathy's gone.
Harry's a downright nasty jerk, and it's fun to watch the payoff at the end where Watkins goes to town on him!
Shame though, I'm really gonna miss Harry's tie!
- 11/14/2018
- Mr. Cavin said...
Man, must be Wednesday! What a nice surprise, presto change-o, werewolf ending. And what a great splash panel, too! Looking forward to this Stan Lee tribute. There's certainly a lot to choose from, and about all of it is worth something.
- 11/14/2018
- Grant said...
Glowworm is right about Harry's little exchange with the new librarian. And there's also Harry's comeback line to the man. He speaks for anyone who's ever seen a "crush" replaced by someone else (an actress, a librarian, you name it).
Even if I didn't like it for any other reason, I'm sentimental about this story just by knowing it from one of those "Where Monsters Dwell" type reprint comics.
- 11/15/2018


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To James Madison from William Jones, 6 June 1813
From William Jones
Navy Department June 6, 1813
The enclosed report1 is prepared in consequence of a call from the Chairman of the Naval Committee of the Senate for a return of the number of Gun Boats in service and their Stations, with a view as I understood him in conversation to propose an additional special defence for Baltimore of a number of Barges or Galleys which the City of Baltimore during the late excitement built and now wish to charge them upon the general Government. I deemed it proper on this occasion to exhibit a general view of our Coast & harbour defence which I think you will believe with me is amply sufficient to absorb all the resources of the Department applicable to that branch of the Service. I have had a great deal of correspondence with Corporations and Committees from Maine to Georgia which I did not think necessary to trouble you with. It became my duty to resist their claims and I believe I have adduced arguments and reasoning which has satisfied the most of them. I consider it indispensable to resist the pretensions of local bodys who undertake to prescribe not only the extent but the nature, and manner of employing the public force.
As you have repeated applications on this subject the enclosed paper may be a useful reference. I am very respectfully your obd Servt
W Jones
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1. Jones enclosed an "Exhibit Shewing the number of Gun Boats and Vessels substituted for Gun Boats, in Service for harbour and Coast defence at the several naval stations and elsewhere in the U States" (2 pp.; printed in Dudley, Naval War of 1812, 2:145–48). The report, dated 7 June 1813, indicated that the United States had a total of 106 gunboats currently in service, of which New York had the largest allotment at thirty-one, followed by Norfolk with twenty. Baltimore, with only one, had the fewest. In addition to including comments on the situation at each specific station, Jones noted that "the residue of the Gun Boats that are fit for service are kept in ordinary ready to be put in service on any sudden emergency—those that are decayed and unfit for service are laid up."


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It is interesting to realize that the overuse and underuse of technology contribute substantially to the current problems in US health care. As a system, society is always eager to adopt the latest and greatest technological advances for diagnosis and treatment. Unfortunately, it does not take a systematic approach to determining the appropriate uses of the new technology, which often results in marginal advances at premium prices. Yet at the same time, many parties continue to debate investments in health care technology infrastructure, such as electronic medical records and practice support tools, which results in a slower-paced adoption rate in this critical area.
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|This article is about a/an episode in Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel.
Making Waves is the fourth episode of Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. It features the debut of the Sub Surfer Zord and the Sub Surfer Ninja Megazord.
When a monster threatens Summer Cove, the Ninja Steel Rangers tap into the power of a brand new Megazord!
Doomwave puts his drone in the waters of Summer Cove to flood it, but when Odius presses the button to activate the machine, nothing happens. Doomwave then says that some drone broke his machine and he fixes it.
Hayleys dad and Sarah's mom go on a date, but it goes wrong because of the girls. The parents then learn to work together.
it turns out turns out to be Aaron Fosters, Hayley's dad's, drone. The Rangers piece together the pieces of metal from the net and it makes the Galaxy Warriors symbol. The rangers find Doomwave fixing the Tsunami Machine, but the Rangers battle him.
He puts his machine in the sea and starts the tidal wave but the rangers use Aaron Fosters drone, the Custom Net Cannon to break the drone. Levi and Brody then destroy Doomwave. He gets gigantified but Mick sends them the Sub Surfer Star to destroy Doomwave with the Sub Surfer Ninja Megazord.
Victor and Monty pretend to catch a fish so that Victor can get his 50th trophy, but Captain Stan finds out that it is fake and Victor and Monty flee.
- William Shewfelt - Brody Romero (Ninja Steel Red Ranger)
- Peter Sudarso - Preston Tien (Ninja Steel Blue Ranger)
- Nico Greetham - Calvin Maxwell (Ninja Steel Yellow Ranger)
- Zoe Robins - Hayley Foster (Ninja Steel White Ranger)
- Chrysti Ane - Sarah Thompson (Ninja Steel Pink Ranger)
- Jordi Webber - Levi Weston (Ninja Steel Gold Ranger)
- Kelson Henderson - Mick Kanic
- Chris Reid - Victor Vincent
- Caleb Bendit - Monty
- Byron Coll - Redbot (voice)
- Jodie Rimmer - Jackie Thompson
- Markus Johnson - Aaron Foster
- Jacque Drew - Madame Odius (voice)
- Campbell Cooley - Cosmo Royale (voice)
- Marissa Stott - Badonna (voice)
- Adrian Smith - Doomwave (voice)
- Ross Anderson - Captain Stan
Ninja Power Stars
- Ninja Steel Red - Red Ninja (Steel Slash), Robo Red Zord, Super Ninja Steel Mode, Sub Surfer Zord
- Ninja Steel Blue - Dragon Zord, Super Ninja Steel Mode
- Ninja Steel Yellow - Nitro Zord, Super Ninja Steel Mode
- Ninja Steel White - Kodiak Zord, Super Ninja Steel Mode
- Ninja Steel Pink - Zoom Zord, Super Ninja Steel Mode
- Ninja Steel Gold - Storm (Tornado Slash), Super Ninja Steel Mode
- The creation of the Subsurfer star is not fully explained as a vison of it is not shown to the audience
- Doomwave's tsunami machine malfunctioned because it collided with the dive-a-drone's net. This actually doesn't make any sense, considering that the underwater tsunami machine was made to be underwater. The fact that it short circuited over a fish net is not logical.
- Aaron and Jackie agreed to go to dinner but later they talk about going on a picnic after they fix the dive-a-drone.
- This entire episode's plot is an error within itself, as Madame Odius and Doomwave's plan is very flawed. If they wipe Summer Cove out with a tsunami, then the Power Stars would be lost, making it harder and practically impossible for them to find.
- It also doesn't help that since Ninja Steel first aired, the only objective of the Galaxy Warriors competition was to get the Power Stars from the rangers, not harm the Earth. Harming the Earth only played a small part in their plans. This episode failed to convey that.
- Brody did not morph into the Lion Fire Mode and use the Lion Fire Megazord. This is due to the fact that this episode is mainly based off Ninninger episode 17, before the Lion Fire Mode and Lion Fire Megazord first appear.
- As of this episode, Calvin is the only ranger who's parents have never appeared in an episode as:
- Dane Ramero (Brody and Levi's dad) debuted in Return Of The Prism.
- Preston's dad debuted in The Ranger Ribbon.
- Sarah's mom debuted in Helping Hand.
- Haley's dad was introduced in this episode.
- Also in this episode, it seems all the rangers either lost a parent (Preston), or their parents divorced
- This makes Preston a lot like Justin Stewart, the first Blue ranger to not have been apart of the MMPR team, as he is stuck in a "Cat's in the Cradle" situation
- Vierra has lost both of her parents as she is Queen of the Lion Galaxy
- This would make Mick the only character who is known to have both parents to be still alive
- This is the first time the parents of rangers date
- They are also a mixed race couple, like the ranger relationship in this series
- The dating aspect could be following the two previous episodes as all 3 aired around Valentine's Day.
- When the Sub Surfer Ninja Megazord defeated Doomwave, the Power Rangers theme performed by Ron Wasserman was played with a special verse: All Together Power Rangers.
See Also
- Shinobi 17: Good Bye, StarNinger! - Super Sentai counterpart in Ninninger. See comparison page. (fight footage)


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This Super-moon Sunday, wed just like to give a brief self promotional shout-out to an astronomical success we had last weekend. Last Sunday we managed to catch the occultation of the 4th magnitude star Mu Geminorum by the waxing gibbous moon from Astroguyz HQ here in Hudson, Florida;
20.03.11: An Occultation Update.
AstroEvent: A Lunar Occultation.
Lunar occultations can be fun events to observe. As the moon continues its 27+ day long path around our planet, it sweeps out a 0.5 degree wide path and occasionally covers up a distant background star or planet. Such occasions can be fun events to observe, as the star winks out and later seems to pop back into existence from behind the lunar limb. Such an event occurs this Sunday, the night of March the 13-14th, as the waxing crescent Moon occults the semi-bright star Mu (µ) Geminorum.


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November 16, 2017
The South Burnett Regional Council approved the development of a Bunnings warehouse in Kingaroy at its monthly meeting on Wednesday.
The approval will allow the company to build a 7597sq m retail warehouse over a site at 2 and 30 Walter Road, along with a 211- bay car park which will include four disability parking bays and four trailer parking bays.
The retail warehouse will offer timber trade sales, building materials, bagged goods, an outdoor nursery and landscaping products, along with an outdoor display area and a food outlet.
The Council also gave approval for Bunnings to reconfigure its site, which will allow it to set aside 2751sq m as a vacant lot that can be used to accommodate future expansion, if required.
The approval was given subject to usual conditions, and will require the company to obtain several other approvals from Council before construction can begin.
The Council also stipulated that the new development must not reduce the amenity of nearby residential properties or distract passing motorists, and must be suitably screened and landscaped.
Property portfolio chair Cr Terry Fleischfresser said the decision by Bunnings to develop an outlet in Kingaroy demonstrated a high level of business confidence in the region.
He said other recent announcements – like AGL's Coopers Gap Wind Farm or Bega Cheese's recent announcement it intends to buy out the Peanut Company of Australia – showed real confidence in the region's future.
"This proposal will no doubt lead to wide regional economic benefits," Cr Fleischfresser said.
In an indirect reference to calls made on the Council in recent months to condition the Bunnings development so it did not become a "category killer" that simply destroyed existing local businesses to benefit an out-of-town chain, Cr Fleischfresser said one factor that needed to be considered was the amount of sales already leaking out of the region.
"How much money do we lose every weekend from locals going out of this region to do their (hardware) shopping?" Cr Fleischfresser asked.
"And I don't mean just hardware shopping, while they're doing that they're doing other shopping, too.
"We need to consider the positive impacts retaining that business will create, and I think we should look at things in that light."
Cr Fleischfresser said the store would generate many short-term jobs during its construction phase, and was estimated to generate 60 part-time and full-time jobs on completion.
The motion to approve the development was passed unanimously.
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November 2009
One year ago at this time, I had no idea that I would be as loved as I am today, or that I would know it for sure. If you had told me at last year's Thanksgiving table that by the same time next year, I would be married, I would have laughed (perhaps spewing cranberry juice in your face in the process) and asked you please to pass the green beans.
I've said it many times before, but it bears repeating: when James came into my life again just over a year ago, I had believed for some time that I was meant to live as a single person. I do not know whether this belief was the product of revelation, a personal response to my circumstances, acceptance of my state in life, or some melange of that list. Frankly, I'm not sure that it matters. I do know that it was a decision to guard my heart in a way that perhaps, I always should have been guarding it. I had been too open. I had committed many sins, many had been committed against me, and my heart bore the hurt and the memory of those things.
A celibate life was something I accepted both with resignation and enthusiasm, that I celebrated and mourned. I counted the loss this entailed, but I could also count the possibilities that might arise from such a choice.
But God ...
(My favorite stories begin with those two words)
But God had other plans. And if you've been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know what those other plans entailed. I still look at him in wonder. I see him and shake my head as though trying to shake off sleep; like waking from a dream, I'm surprised to see that all of this has not been the product of an overly fanciful imagination. I see him and know: this is not of my own doing. And I'm thankful. Grateful. Exceedingly so.
Married just over six months now, I still lose myself in wonder over it: that God could part the curtains of chaos in our universe and see me so particularly, to see me and to know what I needed for my holiness and my happiness, to see us and to know that we needed each other for those things. To see us and situate us such that His purpose and His plan were alarmingly clear, to compel us in a way that we could not deny, but at the same time, in no way limited the freedom He gives.
And it has been clear from the beginning: This is not my doing. This is not anything I've earned. This was given, gifted to us, but is not for us alone.
I am not in any way trying to quantify my gratitude. I would not say that I love and appreciate my spouse more than any wife has ever loved or appreciated her husband. I would not dare say it, because I know those cannot be quantified. An attempt to apply any form of measurement to love would be to minimize it. I am finding to be true what I've been told a hundred times by those with marriages I respect: you love much, the most you ever have, and yet it grows. And grows, and grows, and grows. You get the idea.
There are many things to be thankful for this season, but this one arises as prominent in my mind. As we go tomorrow as husband and wife to the place where I celebrated Thanksgiving last year (the same place at which we were married), I offer this particular gratitude for what has been given, for what continues to be given, and for what will be given. For the hand I hold, for the arms that embrace me, for the lips that kiss me, for the body that warms me when I am cold, for love received and given ... I am infinitely thankful and growing up into thankfulness.
It is more than my hands or my heart can hold.


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Greg Schirk campaigner Allan Boynton sent this photo along shortly after the Premier's visit to Guelph this afternoon. It's the McGuinty campaign bus sitting parked along Carden Street in front of a "Wrong Way" sign, which I suppose for the partisan is good for a laugh. It's completely out of context, and I don't know why the campaign bus was stopped there. Perhaps McGuinty was hankering for some sushi, or perhaps he wanted to stop be the Cornerstone and do a cafe tour of Guelph, or maybe something caught his attention in the window at Dis-a-Ray. Of course the notion of Dalton McGuinty doing a pop-in at Ray Mitchell's store offers plenty of comedic material in and of itself, but I digress. Here's the photo:
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Photo Bomb
Posted by Adam A. Donaldson at 3:54 PM
Labels: 2011 provincial election, bus, campaign, dalton mcguinty, guelph, liberals, premier, wrong way
2 comments:
- thrifty said...
Lookin' for the Dalton Highway? But I really think that it is Boynton who should be taking the high road, too many cute stunts like this and mis-use of Twitter etc. smacks of juvenility and can hurt their cause. It is quite possible that the local cons lost the last Fed. election because they too had a dick for a campaign manager. Schirck might be better off on his own.
- October 3, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- thrifty said...
Lookin' for the Dalton Highway? But it is perhaps Boynton who should be looking for the high road, too many cute stunts like this and ignorant comments on Twitter can cost the candidate a win, look what happened federally when the local cons picked another dick for a manger. Schirck would be better on his own.
- October 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM
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Changing lives – one smile at a time!
On Tuesday 20th November, 24 Rotarians plus their friends and guests dined at the Cae
Mor Hotel (next to Venue Cymru) prior to hearing a presentation from each of Peter Tivy-
Jones, Nanette Tivy-Jones and Anna Chambley about their organisation Northern Cleft
Foundation (NCF).
NCF exists to help bring hope to just a small fraction of the 25,000- 30,000 people a year in
India who are born with either a cleft lip, a cleft palate – or both – by sending a team of
voluntary medics and ancilliaries to India to perform life-changing operations, mainly on
The three speakers were part of an overall team of 60 who flew out to India last year, at their
own expense, to work with the Rotary Club of Nagpur West on a week-long 8am to 6pm
clinic, with double operating theatres.
This work has been going on since 2001 and full details of their impressive story appears
here http://www.northerncleftfoundation.co.uk/our-story/
Rtns. Margaret Trevette and Chris drew thanked the team for their presentation and for the
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Several weeks removed from the largest conference in sports medicine, exercise science, basic/applied science, physical activity, and public health – the ACSM Annual meeting – you always become revitalized by the number of great scientist who present their research. In addition, you also become quite aware there is more work to be done! This post, will begin a series of entries, which will affect most professionals involved in the field of exercise physiology – either teaching or practicing.
ACSM Guidelines – A new edition with several changes
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The hours listed below do not reflect the exact amount of credit for the conference. When the agenda is confirmed and hours are computed, the Credits Offered section will be updated.
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If you want to know about what these genotypes mean, feel free to message me, or read this ARTICLE.
Ty's genotype (from what I can tell) - AaBBCc(chd)ddEe
Angie's genotype (from what I know of her past litters with her previous owner) - aaBBC_DdEe
Colors we can expect from Ty x Angie -
in order - most likely to least likely. All these colors will be in solid pattern only, since Ty and Angie are solid. Confused? <---- Click on the purple link on the left. <----
These colors are pretty easy to predict because I know what Angie and Ty carry because they have had lots of litters. However, with Ty and Zuzu's upcoming litter, also due Feb 17, the only color I can be certain on is Chestnut, and possibly black. If Zuzu carries dilute like her sire did, then opal and blue are also possible. If she got more genes from her sire...well, I'll go into that on HER post! Zuzu's taking up all of Angie's post! ;)
Angie commonly delivers on day 28 so she might have her kits as early as Feb 15!!
She was bred on Jan 18, and so was Zuzu. If Zuzu ends up being a bad mom like her mom was, Angie will foster her kits. Angie's a fantastic foster mom!


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Sunday, 28 June 2015
Garter Stitch Beginner Vest
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I like this little vest and as I always buy Bendigo wool quite often have plenty left over,because of it being 200grm balls. Sooooo, how much wool does this vest take approx, as I have some Nutmeg,Colonial left and have enough scarves and hats to last a life time :)ReplyDelete
Just finished this today, for my 10 year old daughter. I used bulky yarn, since she wanted it for the wintertime and I only did 60 stitches, since you had the small size with 70. It came out great! She loves it. I'm even thinking about doing a fake fur trim to it, just to dress it up a bit :)ReplyDelete
hello fitzbirch just wondering if you can explain how to do the knitting of the first stitch into the second stitch to give it a nicer finish on the edge i am still learning about knitting as i only do the easy patterns so am only a novice knitterReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for your comment. A neater finish on the edge can be obtained by not knitting the first stitch on each row, but simply slipping that stitch onto the working needle and knitting the second stitch. It means less yarn is used on the edges so it's a bit less loopy. DebDelete
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Hi, love this and want to knit it, but will be using 90 stitches. In that case do I still knit 20, cast of remaining in middle and put last 20 on needle,or shall i knit 30 either side of neck cast off, and how much yarn do you think it will take, as I am doing 60cm lengthReplyDeleteReplies
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The number of stitches would depend on the width of your shoulders compared to your neck. Perhaps use a tap measure across your shoulders to check the proportion and then adjust the stitches that way. It may be better to divide into thirds.
The vest I made took less than 200g of wool, but I would suggest up to 300g for a longer length.
I really like this vest...can you recommend cast on stitches for medium to large vest. Beginning knitter but would like to knit this project.ReplyDelete
This looks amazing!! I'm also a novice knitter and will probably make this in a medium size. So, I'm just guessing here: I'll cast on 80 and when it comes to the "divide for neck" part: I'll knit 23, put 34 on a holder, and knit 23 (23+34+23= 80), does that make sense?? Can't wait to start AND if it turns out well, I'll make one for my granddaughter!! Thanks so much!!ReplyDelete
Im using bulky 5 yarn, 11 needles, i have 70 stitches co and it will stretch, usually im a medium but not sure if small might do, also only have 255 g of yarn, is it enoughReplyDelete
Could I use 8 ply with 5 needles I usually knit with this combinationReplyDelete
Could i print off this pattern?ReplyDelete
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Could You be the Next Mega-Winner?
Every time the mega-powerball lottery prizes get into the stratosphere, I toy with the idea of buying a ticket. It's kind of a joke because I barely know how! One Christmas, someone bought me those stocking stuffer lottery tickets, and I didn't even know how to find out if I had won anything. I've just never been much of a gambler. Actually, my heart aches for those folks who believe that their lives would be so much better if only they had a bunch of money. (I just want the winnings to build out the Oregon campus, even though our video feed is pretty sweet!).
Statistics show that lottery winners do not typically dwell in the "happily ever after" category. The tabloids show with stunning regularity that money and fame do not automatically lead to happiness or contentment. As Christ followers, we can look to our Savior, Jesus, as the source of our hope, fulfillment, and joy. When we trust him with our hopes, our needs, and our heart's desires, we can have confidence that he is all we need. He never says we will have all we want (how could we simple humans even know what that might be?), but he does offer to be our source of joy and peace when we trust in him.
Romans 15:13
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
I once heard pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie talk about an exercise he would do with high school students. He gave each of them three slips of paper and told them to write on each slip something they believed they couldn't live without. Then one by one, he told them to discard the slips of paper. The point of the exercise is that if the thing you can't live without can be taken from you—family, spouse, career, car—your life is always one slip away from insecurity. Letting go of what you cannot hold onto anyways makes room to trust Jesus.
Jesus, our Lord, has promised never to leave or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). You can never lose Him. When we place our trust in Jesus, he becomes our source of hope. He fills us with joy and peace, regardless of our circumstances.
What is your source of hope (money, career, relationships, possessions, social life, something else)?
Could you lose it? What then?
Next Steps:
Determine what (or in whom) you might be trusting besides Jesus and then decide to let go of it (them). Tell a trusted friend and ask them to help you decide what steps you should take. Ask your friend to hold you accountable as you pray for God to take care of it, and make room for trusting Jesus with those concerns.
My gracious Father, how I love that you love me! The hope that you bring fills my heart with joy and peace! You work all things together for my good, no matter how my circumstances may appear to me now. I trust you. I trust you. I trust you. Help me trust you! Amen.
This post was written by Lauri White. Lauri is one of the 25 people who God used to start CedarCreek 21 years ago, and was on staff until 2013. She and her husband Mike love to travel the country in their motor home with their kitties Jane & Mary. Lauri is passionate about prayer, and about helping women discover who they are in Christ. She doesn't tweet but you can follow her and Mike's adventures on Facebook.
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LendingTree is out with a year-long study looking at home-buying opportunities for first-time buyers in specific urban markets.
That's relevant as American homebuyers (and homeowners) gear up for the notoriously active spring U.S. residential real estate market. Increasingly, a big issue that can be a real deal maker and deal breaker is the city or region the home buyers covet.
Lending Tree pushes that narrative forward, with a close look at the nation's "best and worst" cities for newbie homebuyers, and how those rankings directly impact the "first homebuyer" demographic.
The study, which factors in average down payments, number of buyers using an FHA mortgage, average down payments, and credit health of buyers, among other issues, lists the best and worst cities for new homebuyers as follows:
Most Accessible Cities for First-Time Homebuyers:
Little Rock, Ark.
Birmingham, Ala.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Youngstown, Ohio
Winston, N.C.
Dayton, Ohio
Scranton, Pa.
Most Challenging Cities of First-Time Homebuyers:
New York City
San Francisco
Austin, Texas
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Oxnard, Calif.
Sacramento, Calif.
According to the Lending Tree report, Little Rock didn't top out on any of the criteria analysts listed, but did finish in the top 20 in all categories, giving it the best aggregate ranking. "Its best attribute is a low average down payment of just 12% or $24,896. It also scores well in the share of non-prime homebuyers at an even 50%," Lending Tree noted.
The best city for down payments was Birmingham, while Grand Rapids is the "best place" to be an FHA borrower, Lending Tree reported.
On the other side of the coin are cities where home prices and down payments are high, the FHA share is low, and home prices exceed affordability thresholds, Lending Tree notes.
"Denver is not the most challenging city in any single measure, but weak showings across the board could create obstacles for first-time buyers," the report states. "Down payments are high at $66,806, and even the FHA down payment is a considerable $22,841."
Real estate professionals warn against taking too much stock in geography as a home-buying priority.
"As a first-time homebuyer, it's critical to maintain a long-term perspective," says Shayan Jalali, a Boston, Mass.-based realtor. "It's not just about how cheap or expensive the average homes are in an area. You can find a house at a very reasonable price in some parts of the country, but the area may not provide many opportunities to get ahead."
Besides price, Jalali recommends focusing on quality-of-life factors. "A top city for first-time homebuyers should boast an educated population, diverse economy with robust job opportunities, and a business-friendly economic climate," Jalali says. "That's critical to the long-term success of an area and its housing market."
Economic factors beyond the control of new homebuyers play a big role in home purchase opportunities across the U.S.
"In some of the worst cities, the housing prices are approaching a housing bubble that is about to burst," says Joe Melendez, founder at ValueInsured.com. "In fact, recent research concludes that at least 35 of the 100 largest metropolitan housing markets are overvalued. With these inflated, sky-high values a decade after the last housing crash, many Americans cannot afford to buy. And those who can, now have to worry about buying at the top of the market."
Most financial experts believe that a healthy level for households is spending less than 30% of income on housing. However, many metro areas exceed that amount, says Alex Villacorta, executive vice president of analytics at HouseCanary, which tracks the U.S. housing market on a regular basis.
"In fact, in some of the largest metros in the country, the problem has become so acute that residents are spending well over 30% of their household income on housing," Villacorta says. "Thirteen of the top 100 metro areas passed that critical and worrisome barrier in 2017. In total, 30 of the top 100 are above 30%, five are above 50%, and some neighborhoods within these metros top 70%.
As an example, with the exception of the given outliers like San Francisco and New York, affordability plagues markets such as Denver, Las Vegas and even Fresno, Calif. with homeowners spending nearly 40% of their household income on housing in these areas, Villacorta adds.
Being priced out of a favorite market may be the worst news of all for newbie homebuyers. But that's the reality right now in the U.S. residential real estate market, and things could get worse before they get better.


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Can A House Be Sold While In Probate In Wenatchee Washington?
Probate is the legal process of transferring the property title from the owner who passes away to his beneficiaries or heirs. If a person dies, his property is left behind to his loved ones. This case usually involves the last will testament provided by the dying person, but in other cases, this process may not … Continued


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Two new Meursault singles
Throughout 2009, Meursault have gradually crept up on me, slowly overwhelming me to the point that I'm now happy to suggest that they're one of the best British bands around. I've listened to their 2008 debut album more now than any of my top 20 albums of last year. A few months ago they put out the brilliant Nothing Broke EP, and now they're revisiting some of the songs from that EP and their album, for their first ever vinyl release.
It takes the form of two seven inch singles, each with one track from Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues, and a re-recorded track from Nothing Broke. It's the latter that are the real surprises here, showing off just how versatile Meursault are - equally good stripped bare and acoustic or augmenting tracks with electric noises and strings. The real revelation is William Henry Miller Pt. 2, which sees them taking their beautifully sparse ballad and coating it with crackling electronics and a buzzing cello, turning it into something very different and equally excellent. Maybe even more excellent.
mp3: Meursault - William Henry Miller Pt. 2 (single version)
If you're reading this, feeling guilty about not having bought a present yet for that vinyl-loving music fan in your life, just pop over to Song, By Toad Records, and hey, Christmas sorted.


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I'm interested in finding out how many people manage to make time for breakfast everyday! And if you do manage to, how do you fit it in?
If you don't have it everyday, how often do you manage to have it?
And what would be your ideal breakfast?
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Posted on: 17th Apr 2015
Sarandipity says: Bow of mixed fruit - small bowl of cereal - one slice of toast (homemade marmalade) and small portion of yogurt - with a mug of tea


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Special to The Reporter
The J.M. McCroskey Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Somervell County Citizens Association will award a $1,000 college academic grant to a deserving 2010 graduating senior of Glen Rose High School who intends to enter college in the fall.
J.M. McCroskey was the superintendent of the Glen Rose ISD from 1956 to 1974. The organization will also award a $500 art scholarship to a senior student who expects to study art at the collegiate level.
Recipients will be selected on the basis of their academic performance and general citizenship. All interested students are encouraged to apply by submitting a summary of academic performance and general citizenship to the Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 828, Glen Rose, Texas 76043 before May 1.