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-=Through a Fiancé's Eyes
months and a week...he comes home the first week of January...I can't wait!!!
This is one of the many poems I have written and decided to send it to the
site!! Thank you so much for this website...it really is awesome...I know you
guys have made separations SOOO much easier!!
-=Through a Fiancé's Eyes
"Before I met you, I had no idea how happy I could be
Before I met you, my life was incomplete.
You've given me life and meaning,
You've taught me what love is
One thing I never expected to learn, was how to say goodbye.
The day you had to leave, my world collapsed.
The hardest thing I've ever had to do was watch you walk away,
and know the next six months would be torture.
The months passed by, each day slower, without knowing what the future held,
I knew only God could bring us through.
Phone calls and letters came and went, and surprisingly brought us closer.
We brought each other closer and helped keep our spirits up and positive.
Some days were harder than others, and some felt impossible to get through.
Many nights I cried myself to sleep...sometimes it made me sick to my
Not knowing if you were ok, or where you were hurt so bad...feeling that
the day you'd come back to me was so far away.
Finally that day is near, but not close enough.
The day I see your face again my soul will be brightened and my heart
filled with joy.
I will be happy again...and continue to stand by your side, no matter WHAT
comes our way.
When I said I would marry you, I made a commitment not only to you, but to
the Corps. as well.
Loving you is the easiest thing I have ever done, what's not there to love?
But nothing will prepare you for a goodbye, and with the Corps. comes many
goodbyes. I'm committed to you now and forever and will always be faithful
and waiting for you when you return.
I cherish each and every moment Gods given us together, and I cannot wait
to be with you again, forever!
I love you...Semper Fi...always!!!"
Submitted by A faithful fiancé


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DENVER—After a string of pot giveaways and public smoking following the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is trying to crack down on where people can light up.
Under an ordinance discussed by Denver's City Council on Monday, possessing, smoking or giving away marijuana would be illegal in city parks, the downtown pedestrian mall, mountain parks, including Red Rocks amphitheater, as well as cars on public streets.
If you're smoking in your yard but your neighbors can smell the smoke, you could also be found to be in violation and face up to a year in jail and a $999 fine.
The proposal comes less than three months before Denver and a handful of cities prepare to allow pot shops to open under Amendment 64. Passed by voters last fall, it allows adults 21 and older to possess and consume small amounts of pot though public use is banned. It also gives cities the right to ban recreational marijuana sales, as most in the state have done.
In a statement, Hancock said he is following through on a promise to implement the amendment in a responsible way and said the proposal respects the will of the voters while also making public spaces enjoyable for residents, families and tourists.
However, those who helped pass the amendment and the American Civil Liberties Union say it violates Amendment 64.
"It is not a question of whether the proposed ordinance is unconstitutional. Rather, it is a question of how much the city will have to spend on legal bills before the ordinance is overturned," said Brian Vicente, a Denver lawyer who helped lead the Amendment 64 campaign.
ACLU of Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein said the ordinance is unconstitutional, in part because it would make it illegal for people to simply to possess marijuana in certain places, such as the 16th Street Mall, even though Amendment 64 allows it.
In a nod to the reality that pot shops are about to become legal, there's an exception in the law for people who have pot that they just purchased at a shop along the mall.
The proposal could also cause problems at the annual pro-marijuana celebrations in Civic Center Park near the state Capitol each April 20. Even before Amendment 64 passed, police would generally stand by and watch people in the crowd smoking pot on what has become an unofficial pot holiday.
A fact sheet on the proposal says the event would still be allowed to take place but that participants will be expected to follow park rules.
Hancock's spokeswoman, Amber Miller, said the proposal wasn't aimed at the 4/20 rally and that police officers would continue to use their discretion about whether to ticket people for smoking there and elsewhere.
"It really is about protecting our families and our children in these public spaces," she said of the proposal.

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As many as 60 people, members of a south side Chicago church drum and bugle corps, say they were bitten by bugs during a several nights stay at a Cincinnati-area hotel.
Eight members of Bishop Paul Hall's Christ Universal Church said they planned on visiting an emergency room on Monday night because the bites were so severe. An adult who went on the trip said some of the bites appeared to be from bed bugs. Others may have been fire ants.
"The trip was a horrible nightmare," said Hall. "We spent $4,000 to sleep in horror, and that's a lot of money to inner city, south side children who raised that money."
The attacks were so severe chaperones said they cut the trip short, leaving the Ramada Inn in nearby Florence, Ky., a day earlier than planned.
Making matters worse: the group said they received no refund or even an apology for the experience.
"We tried to meet with the owner. She was having nothing to do with us," said Hall. "She said she would meet us at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. She never showed up."
One of the biting victims, Latoya Lewis, said hotel management insinuated that the kids brought the bugs with them.
Corps officials said they plan to complain to city and state health departments and are considering filing a lawsuit as well.
The drum and bugle corps has previously performed at the White House for Presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Hotel Bug Bite Onslaught Forces Church Group to Cut Trip Short
Bishop Paul Hall's Christ Universal Church Drum & Bugle Corps performed in Cincinnati last week
As many as 60 people, members of a south side Chicago church drum and bugle corps, say they were bitten by bugs during a several nights stay at a Cincinnati-area hotel.


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School Tours
School tours are an opportunity to enrich the learning of students and teachers. Visits to the Gallery help students develop listening, viewing and speaking skills, while engaging them in thoughtful interpretations and reflections with original art works.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is proud to offer educational tours during the school year at both our Halifax and Yarmouth locations.
Thematic tour options provide students with a cross-curricular experience based in the visual arts and are intended to introduce and/or reinforce concepts already taught in the classroom. Specific curriculum outcomes may be covered on guided tours depending on the tour guide, the grade(s), and what is on view at the time of the visit. If you wish to focus on a particular topic during the tour, please indicate when filling out the online booking form.
This year's exhibition and tour schedule promises to be dynamic and inspiring! Students and teachers also always enjoy visiting our Permanent Collection, which includes the Painted House of folk artist Maud Lewis.
$5.00 per student.
Free for Teachers and Chaperones.
Special pricing may be available to certain groups. Please inquire.
$2.50 per student.
Free for Teachers and Chaperones.
Special pricing may be available to certain groups. Please inquire.
Tour Options
- P-3 Eye Spy: Exploring the Art Gallery
- P-6 A Pigment of your imagination
- P-6 Figuratively Speaking
- P-6 Mostly Maud, Folk Art Focused
- P-6 Walk the Line
- 3–6 Art and the Land
- 3–6 Our Shared Heritage
- 4–6 Abstraction in Action
- Grades 7-12
- Self-guided tours
P-3 Eye Spy: Exploring the Art Gallery
Eye Spy is an introductory tour to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Students look at and reach understandings about art through a series of discussions and observational "Eye Spy" activities. Using a sequential approach to exploration, students reach a better personal understanding of the artworks. Throughout the tour students will be introduced to art vocabulary as well as learn specific details about art galleries and how they are run.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – Detective Eyes. Using their detective eyes students will partake in this observational drawing activity in the gallery. Remember – Detectives pay close attention to details!
- Cressy, Judith. (2002). Can You Find It?: Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 19 Works of Art. Harry N. Abrams.
- de Brunhoff, Laurnet. (2003). Babar's Museum of Art. Harry N. Abrams.
- Hooper, Meredith. (2006). Celebrity Cat: With Paintings from Art Galleries Around the World. Frances Lincoln Children's Books.
- Lehman, Barbara. (2006). Museum Trip. HMH Books for Young Readers.
- Ciao, Chessa!. (2010). 5 ways to teach your child about art.
P-6 A Pigment of your imagination
Colour galore – this tour explores the richness and intensity of colour in art! A lively description of a world without colour will set imaginations in motion and will create a feeling of excitement about learning more about the importance of colour in our lives.
Highlights of this tour include our relationship to colour, perceptions and feelings associated with colour and how artists use colour to evoke feelings, ideas and sensations through their art works. Students will view an array of artworks such landscapes, portraiture, abstraction and sculptures.
Depending on the grade, students will discuss basic scientific and theoretical aspects of colour, e.g. need for light to create colours, white light and refracted light in rainbows. The components of the colour wheel will also be introduced.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – Primary Principles. This activity will help students develop their observational skills and reinforce concepts of colour theory discussed on the tour.
- Charles, Victoria (2011). Vincent's Colors. Parkstone Press.
- Daywalt, Drew (2013). The Day the Crayons Quit. Philomel.
- Lionni, Leo (1995). Little Blue and Little Yellow. Picture Books.
- Walsh, Ellen Stoll (2001). Mouse Paint. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Room of Plastic Flowers. (2011). The Color Wheel.
- Color Matters. (2012). Basic Color Theory.
- The Art of Education. (2013, January 18). 3 Fresh New Ways to Teach About Color.
P-6 Figuratively Speaking
Portraits allow us to gain perspective in worlds very different from our own – both long ago and far away. They also allow us to meet people of the present who we might never encounter in our daily lives.Students will begin to understand the subject in the portrait first by noting the body language, facial expression, clothes, setting and any objects included in the picture.
A portrait represents a specific person, group of people, and even animals. They may also represent particular inanimate objects. Yet how an artist chooses to create their likenesses varies according to when and where the subject and the artist lived, why the portraits were created, and where they would be on view. The artist's own particular personality, background, artistic style and skills also play a part.
Students will be introduced to the art of portraits and learn to understand that a portrait may tell us more than just what that person looked like. A portrait can also tell about the life and times of the person and the artist. This tour will also create an opportunity for students to compare and contrast the various materials, techniques, styles and ideas in portraits and self-portraits through study of early traditional works, genre paintings, folk art and contemporary/abstract works.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – Face the Facts. Students will pair up with another student and learn the basics of how to sketch a portrait.
Lesson Plan:
- National Gallery of Art. (2013). Van Gogh's Self-Portraits.
- Teaching Tolerance. (n.d.). Painting Beauty: Creating Self-Portraits.
- The Museum Network: Portraits and Portraitures. (n.d.). Setting and Symbolism.
- Rohmer, Harriet. (1997). Just Like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits by Fourteen Artists. Children's Book Press.
P-6 Mostly Maud, Folk Art Focused
Our Most popular tour!
Many students and educators have heard about the Maud Lewis house, and some may in fact have older relatives that have met Maud when she was selling her art works from her home in Digby County, Nova Scotia. This tour provides an opportunity to share the story of Maud Lewis and highlight how her art brought her great satisfaction and joy despite poverty and ill health in her life. Students will explore concepts of traditional folk art, which typically meant that the "artist" had no formal training in the visual arts. Also, students will compare and contrast the practice of other folk artists with the works of professional artists in our collection.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – Draw Like Maud! Maud Lewis painted images on her home inspired by the plants, animals and activities around her. Students will explore popular images in folk art in this in-gallery activity.
- Bogart, Jo Ellen. (2011). Capturing Joy: The story of Maud Lewis. Tundra Books.
- Hamilton, Laurie. (2001). The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure. Goose Lane Editions.
- Woolaver, Lance. (1996). The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis. Nimbus Publishing.
- Woolaver, Lance. (2005). From Ben Loman to the Sea. Nimbus Publishing.
- Art Gallery Nova Scotia. (2010). Maud Lewis' Painted House.
- eaudry, Diane. (1976). Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows. National Film Board of Canada.
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. (2014). About Maud Lewis.
- Canadian Artist Database. (n.d.). Maud Lewis.
- Folk Art Canada. (2014). Maud Lewis - Painter.
P-6 Walk the Line
The artist Paul Klee once described a line as taking a dot for a walk. Lines come in unlimited sizes with many different expressive qualities. Students will discuss how the line as an element of design is used in a variety of art forms.
On this tour students will be looking at lines – how artists make lines, how they use them, where and why. The discussion of lines will begin by looking first at lines on our own bodies (hair, wrinkles, etc.). Then move on to what is in the immediate environment (desk, books, etc.), Next, the outdoor environment (buildings, trees, etc.). Finally, how artists use lines in artworks.
Lines are very important because they have special characteristics which artists use in their artwork. Students will explore various characteristics of lines during the tour and through in-gallery activities. Lines are used and organized by the artist in a specific way for specific reasons. They may be used to make an initial sketch, to create perspective, movement, texture and rhythm. Lines can direct our eye into or out of a work. Also, lines can be used to decorate, create form, and unity. Finally, lines can be combined to express moods and emotions, movement and ideas.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – Outside the Lines. Explore the infinite potential of the line! Used to create shape, form, texture and illusions of space, this activity is perfect for introducing students to this fundamental art element.
Lesson Plan:
- National Gallery of Art. (2013). The Elements of Art: Line.
- Ljungkvist, Laura. (2003). Follow the Line. Viking Juvenile.
- Reynolds , Peter. H. (2003). The Dot. Candlewick Press.
3–6 Art and the Land
This tour invites students to investigate connections between art and the environment. Students are encouraged to seek out these relationships and have ideas of their own. The rapid speed of change in our world provokes questions about the well-being of our earth. Artists highlight the interaction between people and the environment and allow us to reflect upon our treatment of the world around us.
Everyone is uniquely linked to our environment. The climate, plant and animal life, resources, architecture and landscape impact us all in different ways. The environment can affect our mood and emotions.
This tour will explore historical representations of the Atlantic region and the reasons and techniques artists represented it as they did. A contemporary look at how artists use media and techniques to manipulate, represent or distort a viewer's understanding of their surroundings will also be explored. In addition, students will participate in discussions about how artists use materials from the land to create art works and implications the use of materials has on the meaning of the art work.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – In Perspective. Students will apply the basic principles of conveying distance and space as they learn about perspective. Students will use works from the collection as their inspiration.
- Bjork, Cristina. (1987). Linnea in Monet's Garden. R & S Books.
- Blizzard, Gladys. (2005). Exploring Landscape Art with Children. Charlesbridge Publishing.
- Harrison, Ted. (2003). Oh Canada. Kids Can Press.
- Shilling, Richard. (2009). Wheel of Life. Cherry Leaf Publishing.
- Cinedigm. (2009). Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time – Trailer.
- Maximgruninart. (2009). Landscape Painting Maxim Grunin Part 2.
3–6 Our Shared Heritage
This program has been developed to introduce students to the art of Nova Scotia and other parts of the Maritimes; its sources, its imagery and what it reflects about the province and its people. They will have an increased awareness of artists of this region, both past and present and how those artists are affected by the social, political, geographical and economic climate of their time and place.
Students will gain insight into the unique genre of Nova Scotia folk art, historical works representing the Atlantic Canada region and artworks by artists of Aboriginal descent.
By the end of the tour the students will have an understanding of how artists play an important role in informing us about the past and present. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia collects, holds, preserves and exhibits a specific cultural heritage that is waiting to be explored and understood.
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – The World Around Me. Inspired by discussions about works in the collection, students will sketch from imagination and observation the world around them to connect ideas addressed on the tour.
Lesson Plan:
- Diana, K. (n.d.). Aboriginal Art.
- Syliboy, Alan and Nance Ackerman (2009). Vistas: Little Thunder. National Film Board of Canada.
- Cranmer, Ryan. (2010). Learn the Alphabet: With Northwest Coast Native Art. Garfinkel Publications
4–6 Abstraction in Action
Jump into the dynamic world of abstract art! Through a questioning strategy, this tour will help students gain the skills to explore the rich and various interpretations of abstract art.
Abstract art often implies a usually simplified or distorted rendering of complex objects, feelings or concepts in order for artists to express their ideas in their chosen medium. An appreciation of the basic art elements and principles of design will enable the students to reach a better personal understanding of what the artist is 'talking about' in an abstract artwork.
This tour aims to stimulate creative and imaginative ways of looking at the world around us, including works of art. One of these ways is to approach as experiments; trying out new ways of seeing, new ways of representing ideas, meaning, moods and techniques.
Students will see how the artist uses and is inspired by ordinary objects – recycling, reproducing and changing materials to create new meaning. They will also discover how our urban environment, other forms of media, other styles of artwork and our modern technology may have influenced many of these artists. Often they will be amazed and amused at the innovative spirit demonstrated in some of the contemporary works.
Curriculum Outcomes
Optional In-gallery Activity (Free of Charge)
Sketching in the Gallery – 1,2,3 – Abstract! This in-gallery activity introduces students to stages of abstraction from realism to the obscure.
- Goodman, David & Miller, Zoe. (2012). Faces. Tate.
- Lionni, Leo. (1995). Matthew's Dream. Dragonfly Books.
- Portis, Antoinette. (2011). Not a Box. Festival.
- Scieszka, Jon. (2005). Seen Art?. Viking Juvenile.
- Henriksen, Dani. (2011, February). Abstract Art for Kids.
- McHugh, Christine. (2010, October 10). What is Abstract Art?: 5 Solid Designs that Work.
Grades 7 - 12
Most of the tour options can be adapted for older students. If you are interested in arranging a specially designed tour related to your specific curriculum and student interests, then contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Self-guided tours: Bringing a class on your own
Teachers are welcome to bring classes to the Gallery on their own but must book in advance. For the comfort of all our visitors, it is important to control the numbers of groups visiting the Gallery at any one time.
We strongly suggest teachers bringing classes on their own visit the Gallery beforehand to familiarize themselves with the physical layout of the building and with the current exhibitions. Each group is limited to 30 students. Groups must be accompanied by one adult for every five students. Gallery visit bookings must be made a minimum of three weeks in advance.


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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 10, No. 2 Fall 1983
John K. Courtis
Abstract: Confusion as to the real nature of commercial goodwill is well-entrenched in the literature, as evidenced by accountants' attention to valuation formulae rather than the underlying assets. The paper traces conceptual clarification of business goodwill via early writers on accounting, legal opinion and etymology. These three perspectives, together with a chronology of 91 selective definitions, reveal the shift in thinking over the past century. Goodwill, from being thought of as a set of inducements which attract persistent patronage, has become sub-merged by methods of valuation based upon superior earning power concepts and by the accounting notion of a residuum.
The purpose of the paper is to illustrate how early writers on accounting, legal opinion associated with selected English case law, and etymology have contributed towards conceptual clarifi-cation of the nature of business goodwill. Many descriptions and definitions of goodwill have been presented over the past century by accountants, businessmen, judges, lawyers, economists and others; a selective and comprehensive chronology of these appear in Appendix I. Most of these quasi-definitions can be criticized for being insubstantial, too general, and especially for confusing the nature of the concept with a technique for ascertaining its value. Goodwill has been described as an impalpable,1 ethereal,2 incor-poreal,3 ephemeral,4 immaterial, abstract, shadowy and intangible asset, while it has been defined in such vague terms as advantages, benefits, factors, rights, sources and privileges possessed by a successful business. Through this diversity, a body of definitions has accumulated which are couched in legal, pragmatic, residual, facetious, and philosophical terms.
The scope of the accounting literature survey was determined by the list of references to "goodwill" in the original Accountants' Index, published in 1921, together with twenty-six succeeding sup-


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Weekly 5km walk, jog, run
September 20, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Monday, repeating indefinitely
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Walk, jog, run for your health
A free and timed 5km run at the Gaborone Golf Club. Register and come run, jog or walk every Monday. Watch your fitness progress.
Have a well deserved drink at the club afterwards.


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Transparency data
UKAEA financial transactions: March 2012
Dataset showing financial transactions by the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
The government is committed to setting new standards for transparency so the public can more easily see how and where taxpayers' money is being spent and hold politicians, government departments and public bodies to account.
This set shows monthly financial transactions made by the UK Atomic Energy Authority, as part of the government's commitment to transparency in expenditure.


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The work of art is the creation of Bryce Pettit of the Pettit Wildlife Art Studio in Monticello.
The statue may not stay for long, as it is for sale and could end up at a school or park or library around the country. A similar piece is the centerpiece of the entrance to a new library in Kentwood, MI.
The sculpture features six beautifully crafted birds bursting from a book held open by a small child. Scanning the details of the birds gives an indication of Pettit's skill in creating wildlife art. The birds seem full of life and action.
Pettit explains that the owl represents science and math; the falcon, history; the jay, literature; the meadowlark, music; the hummingbird, fantasy; and the tern stands for the arts.
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Seib & Wessel: War-Weary Voters, Congress
WSJ's Janet Hook digs into why the Syria attack authorization faces such an uphill battle in the House, where Democrats and Republicans have been getting an earful from skeptical constituents.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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When the office associate in the Biological Sciences Department took an extended medical leave, Joanna Villanueve added the department's duties to her own in the Physical Sciences—an overwhelming feat during a busy Summer Quarter leading to semester conversion.
Her hard work and dedication earned her the Staff Employee of the Month award, which was given July 5 in a surprise meeting attended by her two departments.
The ease with which she juggles two departments earned her an "A+++" from one of her nominators, teaching assistant Steve Becherer. "She leads by example, which maintains the respect she is given for somebody of her young age," said Becherer.
"Managing one department is a considerable task, but dealing with two in a time when the departments are actively engaged in staffing for summer quarter and scheduling classes several terms in advance is a truly remarkable feat," said Randy Mogg, assistant professor in Biological Sciences. "We greatly appreciate her patience in this regard!"
"She never once complained, showed any stress or frustration," said Merideth Sellars, instructor in Biological Sciences who also wrote a nomination for Villlanueve. "It just happened that this all occurred as semester conversion scheduling, paperwork and much administrative correspondence was required," she added. "Joanna never lets us down!" said assistant professor Julie Cronk. "She goes out of her way to help everyone who walks in. She reminds us all what we are here for!"
In all, Villanueve was nominated by six different members of her two departments. Professor Mike Squires and instructor Jeanette Ferguson also added their kudos to the nomination.
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Kip Mengich, the Mathematics faculty member who was injured June 18, is doing well and was released from the hospital Friday, June 22, after undergoing surgery.
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Mengich has been teaching math at Columbus State since Winter Quarter 2011. "He started out teaching Algebra 102 and 104, but has recently found his niche in the Math 135 Statistics course," said Baker. While Mengich is recovering, his classes are being covered by William Carman and Justin Jasinski. "Kip will be teaching this fall semester and he'll have a greater role at the Regional Learning Centers and be working more with high schools this fall," said Baker.
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Edited by simman, 12 February 2009 - 10:20 PM.
Change a skeptic's mind?
Posted 12 February 2009 - 10:20 PM
Posted 12 February 2009 - 10:42 PM
I think, Simman, the thing about posting on boards is that you are going to get peoples' honest opinions. But they are just that: their opinions.
I think the pictures you posted look like hair. That doesn't mean it's 100 percent definite that it's hair. I have posted, in 4 years, a little bit of everything on the 'net. Evps, pictures, orbs, and have had people say "it's nothing, and I am a person who knows exactly what I'm talking about".
I have, on the other hand, told people that I didn't think what they captured was "anything".
I at one time had evps that would scare anyone, clear, raw, evps. Put them on the net, and get "that's not anything, it's this or that". All the while, all hell was breaking loose in our home - things flyin' around, furniture moving - looked like a 3 ring circus in there!
So, dear, I know exactly where you're comin from and exactly how you feel. In the end, you just have to go with your gut, you know why? Because you're the one actually having the experience.
If someone tells you they don't think it's anything, it's not because they are being negative or nasty, they're just trying to help you figure out what's going on at your place. And if someone says, "I think it's hair in the picture", that does NOT mean that they think you're making up stories about everything else, it's just their take on ONE PICTURE. It doesn't mean they are discounting your experience at all.
I know how frustrating it can be, and I really feel for you right now.
Posted 12 February 2009 - 11:54 PM
I grew up hearing from my Dad...."don't believe anything you hear and half of what you see". As a kid, I thought that was a pretty grim view of the world. That is until I had my own children. I realised I was saying to them the same thing using different words and it finally dawned on me what my Dad's whole point was. Think for yourself!
I've been critisized (sp?) for listening to a person's story of hauntings or orbs or whatever, and I ask them "what did you FEEL about it?" When we are there, experiencing something in our house, we are the witness and only our own opinion counts. Everyone else's opinion is just that. An opinion. Especially on a message board.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 03:48 AM
Posted 13 February 2009 - 09:40 AM
First you will never convince me of anything simply from a forum. A forum post has only your opinion, I was not there to counter what you claim. Seldom should you ever take someone's word based solely on their observations simply because they say so unless you know all the conditions present at the time. And just how much of that information can be conveyed in a forum post? Unless the post is pages long, I daresay not enough. So when I call your claim into question, it's nothing personal, it's that I don't have enough information to rule out every possible alternative explanation.
Second, a skeptic is just as hard on his own evidence. If I saw something with my own eyes, I would question it. What else might it have been? And that means doubt everything. Rule out everything else. The trouble is on a forum if I started questioning someone else to that degree, they don't generally like it. They become defensive. Part of this is the ambiguity of the forum format. You can't convey your feelings by typing. So arguments break out. Skeptics have to walk on eggshells to keep from offending someone. In reality though a true skeptic is just as hard on their own evidence as they are on yours.
Third demand the same of a skeptic he demands of you. If he claims something is not paranormal he should also be able to explain why not. Simply saying the orb is dust requires also he have a reason he feels that way.He should be able to support his side as well.
Finally ask yourself the balanced question. You ask, "What does it take to change a skeptic's mind? " The skeptic might ask the same regarding any particular piece of evidence you submit, "What does it take to change YOUR mind? " If you claim it's paranormal, Why do feel so strongly it is that a skeptical approach should be ruled out?
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Posted 13 February 2009 - 10:53 AM
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:21 AM
I definitely think it would require repeated experiences to change someone's mind. But if someone is hell-bent on believing or not believing a certain thing, then there's going to be very little that will sway their opinion to the other side. Experiences, facts, etc etc can be interpreted in any number of ways to suit a person, to support their own viewpoint.
And when it comes down to that, does it really matter whether that person believes you or not? If someone is looking for the truth, they ask others. When you know the truth, it doesn't really matter if others don't believe.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:54 AM
My husband, for instance, is extremely skeptical about the existence of spirits or life after death, or anything paranormal. But it doesn't bother me because I feel very differently, and his disbelief doesn't make my feelings less strong.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 07:53 PM
Posted 14 February 2009 - 01:31 PM
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Posted 14 February 2009 - 04:41 PM
Posted 18 February 2009 - 04:54 PM
Posted 08 March 2009 - 03:27 AM
Speaking from a researchers point of view, I find infinitely more problems with a pro-paranormal belief system to that of a sceptical one, to be honest(?) In endeavouring to be impartial and objective in a research situation - for the sake of true investigation - I constantly find myself knee-deep and bogged down in unquestioning, pro-paranormal, cultural motifs...... which is infinitely more damaging / water-muddying than anything a sceptic might come out with.
At least if a true sceptic - even a cynic - reports something which might be construed as paranormal, then you think to yourself that 'hey - there might actually be something really going on here?' I've met plenty of believers who see ghosts - or believe they're experiencing the paranormal - everywhere they go, 24/7........ and I know which end of the scale I'd rather be dealing with or trying to assess 'impartially' (which is what research is really all about).
Posted 08 March 2009 - 12:55 PM
Just because people may not necessarily come to an agreement on belief vs skepticism doesn't mean the discussion can't be valuable. It's just a way of sharing viewpoints on a subject where "proof" often comes up.
Posted 10 March 2009 - 02:38 AM
Sorry.... but what I was trying to emphasise here is the simple fact that - in a subject which no one knows the first thing about (if they're honest) - there is invariably an underlying notion that sceptics are somehow 'flawed' in some way in taking a more measured and logical approach to the subject. Lol!!
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Malaysia Air: When a Transponder Gets Switched Off
WSJ has confirmed that the pilot had the ability to manually turn off the transponder on Flight MH370. Why is the transponder so significant? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... at one thirty am on March the ... Malaysia Airlines Flight three seventies transponder lost contact with brown radar sources tell the Wall Street Journal the signals sent the plane satellite communications link in the key ... people hundreds of miles with its primary tracking device known as the transponder switched off ... what is the transponder and to get the technology that broadcast the plane's position location to cloud radar ... you can also be used by the pilot to send a code to going hijacking or some other emergency dial allows the pilots are switching into standby position ... which means the place is no longer identified to controllers on the ground what happened to the transponder on the missing their Malaysian Flight what we know is that its doctrines meaning he ... bought it as U S investigators suspect the engine kept running for about four hours after that point ... I mean that played good solid additional twenty two hundred nautical miles why would transponder fail or get switched off Yellen the major catastrophe that destroys the plane like for example explosion collision to its full on board electrical failure on the plane ... read ... an equipment malfunction ... or ... the highway or someone else ... switches it to the standby position simply isn't or communicating with my radar until source as investors are pursuing a possible in the plan was ... aborted with the intention of using it for another report this ... the terrace on nine eleven turned off the transponder on three-year before hijacked aircraft ... so why would I would ever want to turn off the transponder ... on the ground it's routine procedure to put it in standby mode ... in the era ... is something that's really gonna ... that's why when transponder signal goes ... worst-case scenarios


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In November 2008, Harvard hosted a symposium to honor the 100th anniversary of Henrietta Leavitt's first presentation on her observations of the period-luminosity relationship seen in Cepheid stars.
Just a few months later, the AAS Executive Council agreed that this important relation should now be designated as the "Leavitt Law" and used widely.
I had never heard of this new phrasing until I read Dava Sobel's 2016 book The Glass Universe. I immediately changed my course and lecture notes to reflect this new language. Give credit where credit is due, is a good philosophy to have!
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 08:33 AM
Ben S. Bernanke is signaling his willingness to double down on a three-year bet that's failed to revive housing, showing the extent of the Federal Reserve chairman's effort to wrest a recovery from the deepest recession.
Since the Fed started buying $1.25 trillion of mortgage bonds in January 2009, the value of U.S. housing has fallen 4.1 percent, and is down 32 percent from its 2006 peak, according to an S&P/Case-Shiller index. The central bank is poised to buy about $200 billion this year, or more than 20 percent of new loans, as it reinvests debt that's being paid off. Some Fed officials have said they may support additional purchases that Barclays Capital estimates could total as much as $750 billion.
Even as Bernanke and fellow U.S. central bankers consider expanding their efforts, they are acknowledging their inability to turn around the housing market without help from the rest of the government. Bernanke underscored the importance of residential real estate, which represents 15 percent of the economy, in a study he sent to Congress last week that said ending the slump is necessary for a broader recovery.
"They're definitely frustrated and disappointed," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities LLC and a former Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond researcher. "I'm sure they would have anticipated they would have gotten more bang for their buck."
While the Fed has helped push mortgage rates to record lows of less than 4 percent, home-loan borrowing in 2012 is forecast to decline to the least in 15 years. Americans who might refinance and buy properties are getting shut out by stricter lending standards or avoiding transactions as values tumble amid mounting foreclosures, according to the Fed study.
Eventual Losses
Bernanke's report urged Congress and President Barack Obama's administration to consider steps with short-term costs for taxpayers, such as widening the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-supported mortgage guarantors.
At the same time, the central bank's purchases of mortgage bonds with yields at record lows is increasing the risk of eventual losses for the Fed, said Anthony B. Sanders, a professor of real-estate finance at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
So far, the Fed is reporting record profits. It said yesterday it will pay $76.9 billion to the U.S. Treasury as part of an annual dividend bolstered by its holdings. Brian Sack, the New York Fed's markets group chief, said in October 2010 its goal in buying bonds would be to stimulate the economy not to generate profits and acknowledged it's taking on some risk.
David Skidmore, a Fed spokesman in Washington, declined to comment on potential losses.
Remove Obstacles
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley, Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Fed, and Fed Governor Elizabeth Duke followed Bernanke in highlighting the need to fix housing to speed the recovery.
Dudley called on the government to remove obstacles to refinancing, saying in a Jan. 6 speech to the New Jersey Bankers Association that the Fed is no "substitute" for government measures. Rosengren said that day in Connecticut he supports buying more mortgage-backed securities. San Francisco Fed President John Williams sees a "strong case" for the move, he said yesterday.
The Fed has taken unprecedented steps to lower borrowing costs as it held short-term interest rates near zero since 2008. It acquired $1.25 trillion of government-backed mortgage securities and $172 billion of federal agency bonds from December 2008 through March 2010, as part of a process known as quantitative easing, or QE. It embarked on a second stage involving $600 billion of Treasuries through last June.
QE3 Likelihood
In October, it began recycling proceeds from the mortgage and agency debt into home-loan securities, buying $80.2 billion through Jan. 4. Reinvestment will probably total about $200 billion this year, according to Barclays, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Credit Suisse Group AG.
Dudley's comments and the Fed study signal a greater likelihood of QE3, according to Ajay Rajadhyaksha, a Barclays analyst in New York, who has estimated it could involve $500 billion to $750 billion of mortgage-bond purchases over a year.
"The investment community is almost regarding quantitative easing as a free good and if it's a free good, why not just do QE10,000," said Sanders, a former head of mortgage-bond research at Deutsche Bank AG. "If rates start going up, somebody's going to have to pay the tab, and you know who that is: John Q. Public."
Unemployment Easing
While central bankers are frustrated with the results of their record monetary stimulus, Sandra Pianalto, president of the Cleveland Fed, said yesterday after a speech in Wooster, Ohio that "on the margin" it's affecting mortgage refinancing.
Last year, refinancings totaled $858 billion, according to a Mortgage Bankers Association estimate. Average rates on typical 30-year mortgages between 3.9 percent and 4 percent since early December, based on Freddie Mac data, bolster home prices by allowing property buyers to pay more. A monthly bill of about $1,430 covers a $300,000 loan at a 4 percent rate, versus $267,500 at 5 percent.
Unemployment is also easing. A Labor Department report showed that the jobless rate fell to 8.5 percent in December, the lowest since February 2009. Unemployment peaked at 10 percent that year as the financial crisis triggered the biggest economic contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Property Slump
Monetary policy hasn't been enough to prevent house prices from continuing their more than five-year long slide, with Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Scott Simon, the bond manager's mortgage head, forecasting further declines of 6 percent to 8 percent.
An S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 cities dropped 3.4 percent in the year through October. Existing home sales remain 18 percent below their 10-year average and Dudley estimated properties seized by lenders may rise to 1.8 million this year, and the same number next year, from about 1.1 million last year and 600,000 in 2010.
Housing's share of gross domestic product, including household spending on related services like utilities and rent, declined to 15 percent in the third quarter from 18.6 percent in 2005, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
The Mortgage Bankers Association, based in Washington, estimates that home-loan originations declined last year to an 11-year low of $1.3 trillion and will fall to $968 billion this year, the least since 1997.
Protecting Taxpayers
Potential first-time buyers are particularly hurt by tightened credit, Bernanke's paper said. Lenders are avoiding making risky loans for government programs on concerns that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may force them to repurchase the debt if there's an underwriting error or delinquencies will prove costly for servicing departments.
Only about 85 percent of lenders are offering loans eligible for guarantees by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were seized by the government in 2008, to borrowers with 680 credit scores and 10 percent down payments, according to LoanSifter Inc. data cited by the study. Fewer than 50 percent are making loans in the companies' lowest credit tier, the Fed's Duke said last week.
Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's ability "to put back loans to lenders helps protect the taxpayers from losses, an open question is whether the costs of the associated contraction in credit availability outweigh the benefits" of lower losses, she said.
Borrowers Locked Out
Most troubling is that creditworthy borrowers are being locked out for minor blemishes or documentation challenges as lenders look to protect themselves, said Willie Newman, head of residential mortgage originations at Cole Taylor Bank in Chicago.
"There are people where everything about them looks good except this one little thing," he said. "But you do precisely what they tell you to do, you don't deviate, because the price of getting it wrong is too large."
Refinancing has also slowed because lower prices have left about a quarter of homeowners with mortgages owing more than their properties' values. Almost half of the more than $3.7 trillion of 30-year fixed-rate home loans in government-backed bonds have rates of about 5.5 percent or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
In December, prepayments on Fannie Mae's 5.5 percent securities, containing loans with 6 percent rates, averaged a pace that would erase 27 percent of the debt in a year. That compares with a peak of 45 percent in 2003, when loan rates reached as low as 5.21 percent, and fewer mortgages were being retired by foreclosures.
Eliminating Loan Fees
Obama's three-year-old Home Affordable Refinance Program for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans with little or no home equity is being expanded to help homeowners by cutting lender risks, lowering fees and allowing borrowers to refinance no matter how much their home's value has dropped. The changes, which started in December, followed the program reaching less than a quarter of its 4 million to 5 million target.
Bernanke's Fed study said "more might be done," including eliminating entirely the reduced fees for risky loans, "more comprehensively" cutting lenders' put-back risks; and further streamlining refinancing for other Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac borrowers. The U.S. also should consider having Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac refinance loans not already backed by the government, which would add credit risk for the companies, according to the report.
Corinne Russell, a spokeswoman at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the mortgage firms, declined to comment on the paper.
Government Limitations
The limitations of the government's Home Affordable Refinance Program meant that Karthik Narayanan, who bought a house in Gilbert, Arizona in 2007 for $300,000 that he estimates has lost $100,000 in value, gained only minimal benefits.
The software engineer refinanced under HARP in October 2009 into a 5.3 percent rate, using cash to pay off a $30,000 home equity loan that he had used to fund half of his down payment, because he was told he couldn't otherwise qualify for the program. Then he heard that HARP was being expanded and looked to cut his costs further, only to discover that loans made after May 2009 still don't qualify.
"Help the people who are responsible, who are trying to stay in their home, that's what I would say to" Bernanke and policy makers reading the Fed chief's report, Narayanan said in a telephone interview. He might pay down his mortgage faster or buy a second home to rent out with the savings, he added.
Bernanke Repercussions
Though the bigger ideas in Bernanke's report may sound good, "repercussions" would include further entangling banks and the government in housing, said Jim Vogel, a debt analyst at FTN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee. That could limit financial companies' access to capital and make it impossible for the U.S. to unwind its involvement in mortgages for decades, he said. The study said it avoided discussions of "longer-term restructuring of the housing finance market."
"They say they're not going to think about the future of the system, but that leaves such a large, empty spot in the white paper," Vogel said.
Some actions taken thus far by Congress and Obama's administration have recently added to challenges for housing.
To pay for a payroll-tax cut extension last month, Congress directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to boost their annual fees for guaranteeing mortgages bonds by at least 0.10 percentage point. The FHFA said it must further raise the charges, which lenders tack on to borrowers' rates, to better reflect the companies' risks.
'Very Low Pay-Off'
The Fed is getting "a very low pay-off for the amount of risk they're generating," said Sanders of George Mason.
The central bank is funding its portfolio mainly with cash borrowed from banks at 0.25 percent, a financing cost that will rise when it raises its benchmark for short-term rates. The central bank may lose money on the investments if it sells the securities after increases in long-term rates, or pays more on its borrowings than the yields on its holdings. The central bank would take those steps to stem inflation.
Yields on Fannie Mae 30-year mortgage bonds trading closest to face value -- the focus of the Fed's buying because they most affect loan rates -- have averaged 3.1 percent since the central bank started reinvesting in October, data compiled by Bloomberg show. That compares with 4.3 percent during its initial buying.
They'll probably "make out like bandits" for several years as interest rates that guide the Fed's funding costs remain close to zero, Sanders said.
Prints Money
While the Fed has pledged to hold short-term rates near zero through mid-2013, George Goncalves, head of interest-rate strategy at Nomura Holdings Inc. in New York, says he can envision its target rate reaching 3 percent by 2017.
"The good news" is that the Fed pays zero percent on about 40 percent of its liabilities because it can print money, said Doug Dachille, chief executive officer of First Principles Capital Management LLC in New York, which oversees $8 billion.
The projected average lives of Fannie Mae-guaranteed securities with 3.5 percent coupons, which accounted for the largest portion of the Fed's purchases last week, would extend from 5.2 years to 10.8 years if rates rose 3 percentage points, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That means the central bank could be stuck with them for longer and their value would drop more with further increases in interest rates.
'No Confusion'
"Rates go up, and you're going to see a pretty significant level of extension in terms of the duration and meaningful book losses residing on the Fed's balance sheet," said Jason Callan, head of structured products at Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, a Minneapolis-based firm overseeing $170 billion in fixed-income. "That's kind of the name of the game in mortgages."
A report by the New York Fed in March discussed how the central bank's net income can remain "sizable" even if it sells some bonds at losses, while Sack said in July that the central bank's bond portfolio will earn about $500 billion from 2009 to 2018.
"There should be no confusion, no mistake, that we've put duration risk onto the Fed's balance sheet," Sack said in 2010. "These decisions are being made to produce economic outcomes" rather than "to produce a certain return on the portfolio."
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