Contemporary evangelical theology has recently, to varying degrees, affirmed a view known as subordinationism. This is the view that, within the Godhead itself, the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father. It is the purpose of this article to look at what Scripture tells us about the relationship within the Godhead between the Father and the Son. In a subsequent article we will consider whether the subordinationist views expressed by some evangelical theologians are consistent with Scripture, the early creeds and the Protestant confessions. We will argue that they are not, and that they represent a serious departure from Scriptural orthodoxy. But first and foremost we need to consider what the Bible, God's inspired word, says about the issue.
First we will look at the Old Testament teaching in respect of the Godhead, with a particular emphasis on the first and second persons of the Trinity.
This plural appellative (Elohim) is generally put in agreement with singular verbs, pronouns and adjectives as in Gen 1:1 – Elohim created – 'creavit Dii'. This is the ordinary construction through the whole Hebrew Bible. But sometimes the apposition is made with verbs, pronouns and adjectives in the plural number likewise, and sometimes singulars and plurals are put together in the same agreement.
It is also noteworthy that although the plural noun is the usual Hebrew usage, the singular noun, Eloah, is also frequently used – Deut. 32:15 'He forsook God which made him'. The book of Job uses Eloah extensively as the word for God. Dr Pye-Smith observes – 'The fact which principally requires our attention, is the constant use of Elohim to designate the one and only God. It is not a little remarkable that, in the sacred books of a people who were separated from all other nations for this express object, viz. that they should bear a public and continual protest against polytheism – the ordinary name … of the only living and true God should be in a plural form.' Moses, in writing Genesis, is deliberately ungrammatical in his use of language in order to draw our attention to a vital truth – God is three in one, both plural and singular.
The Holy Spirit is also explicitly mentioned – 'the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters' Gen. 1:2. We further find in Genesis 3 the account of the Lord (Jehovah – Gen. 3:8) walking in the garden and speaking to Adam. We are told in Exodus 33:20 'there shall no man see me and live'. Yet here Adam and Eve see God and speak to him. And he has a body. This is clearly an instance of the preincarnate Christ. And we thus have, in the first three chapters of Genesis, the plurality and unity of the Godhead and the clear identification of the Son of God and the Holy Spirit as persons of the Godhead.
It is also worth noting that in the Genesis account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Moses describes the judgment of God in these terms – 'Then the Lord (Jehovah) rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord (Jehovah) out of heaven' Gen. 19:24. It is clear here that there was a Lord on earth who acts to implement the judgment of the Lord in heaven. Clearly the Lord in heaven is God the Father and the Lord on earth is God the Son. The singular word Jehovah is used to refer to two distinct members of the Trinity while Elohim is used to describe the Godhead. It is the plural word Elohim, together with the singular noun Jehovah, which is used in the passage in Deuteronomy affirming the unity of the Godhead – Deuteronomy 6:4-9.
Throughout the Old Testament we have mentions of the, somewhat mysterious, angel of the Lord. It is evident from the testimony of the whole of Scripture that this is the Lord Jesus Christ before his incarnation. The angel of the Lord encounters a series of Old Testament saints who always declare after their encounter that they have seen God. Jacob wrestles with the angel and says he has seen God – Gen 33:30. Moses speaks with the Lord 'face to face' Ex. 33:11. Manoah feared that he would die, saying 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God.' Judges 13:22. Isaiah cried, 'Woe is me! For I am undone . . . for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts' Is. 6:5. John's gospel tells us that Isaiah here saw Christ's glory Jn. 12:41. Scripture here clearly interprets itself to tell us that Jesus appeared to the saints of the Old Testament before his incarnation.
We conclude then that all three persons of the Trinity appear in the Old Testament. Scripture teaches that God the Son and God the Father are one God in two distinct persons, fulfilling different roles.
In the New Testament, both in the Gospels and the Epistles, we get a much fuller revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is, of course, the account of the Son of God after he has taken upon himself, permanently, human flesh. The synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, all begin with Jesus' life and birth. John's gospel begins with a unique theological statement which identifies Jesus with the Elohim who created the world in the first chapter of Genesis. Jesus the Word is coequal with God and co-eternal with God – Jn. 1:1. In Matthew, together with the other gospels, Jesus' life is clearly shown to be a fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy in respect of the Messiah. It is particularly noteworthy that Old Testament prophecies about Jehovah are shown to be fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Is. 40:3 – 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God' is fulfilled in Matthew 3:3. Isaiah predicts John the Baptist's preparatory ministry for Jesus Christ. Equally, Peter shows that Is. 8:13,14 is fulfilled in Christ – 1 Pet. 2:7,8. Christ is therefore the Lord of Hosts. Paul in Colossians says of Jesus – 'in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily' Col. 2:9. The New Testament teaches that Jesus was God. Our Lord himself teaches that he and the Father are one – Jn. 10:30. It is therefore correct to say that Jesus, as God, shares with God the Father all the attributes of Godhead.
However, this raises a problem. Jesus is both God and man. Theologians have helpfully distinguished between the communicable and incommunicable attributes of God. The communicable attributes are those qualities of God which can be communicated to us human beings. Among the former are love and holiness, which are attributes which we, as human beings, can share. However, there are attributes, like omnipotence and omniscience, which are unique to God. Only God can have such attributes because he alone is God. It is not possible for a man to have such attributes. Therefore Jesus at times acts and speaks as man, because his real human nature has all the limitations of manhood. Jesus gets tired, needs to eat and sleep and indeed grows in knowledge – Lk. 2:52. None of these things can be true of Jesus as God. They are clear expressions of the reality of his manhood. The reality of Jesus' manhood should never be used as an argument to suggest any diminution of his deity. This means that, as a man, Jesus sometimes does not know things. In Mark 5:30 he is touched by the woman who has an issue of blood and does not know who touched him. In Mark 13:32 we are told that Jesus does not know the day of his second coming. If this is taken of his Godhead it would mean either that Jesus is a lesser God, or simply not God at all! As a man Jesus is not omniscient, if he were, he would not really be a man. As God, Jesus is omniscient. If he is not omniscient, he is not God. The 19th century Anglican evangelical bishop Edward Bickersteth expresses this vital truth beautifully in his superb book on the Trinity.
Believe me we yield to none in the strength of the conviction with which we hold to the humanity of Jesus Christ. 'The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us'. We take our stand fearlessly on this. This unlocks all those texts on which Unitarians are wont to insist, asserting the inferiority and subordination of the Son of Man to the Father. We do not hide these truths. We do not gloss them over. We do not explain them away. They are essential to our faith. As combined with the revelations of his essential Godhead, they form that inimitable grace which is our salvation. The foot of the ladder must rest on earth, as the top of it reaches to heaven.
In his life on earth Jesus shared in the limitations and weaknesses of humanity. As God, he remained the omnipotent and omniscient king of the universe. His humanity is now glorified but remains real. Let us thank God that we have a great high priest who, unlike the false God of Islam, can be 'touched with the feeling of our infirmities' Heb. 4:15. He was a man who experienced all the difficulties of fallen manhood, yet without sin. 'Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need' Heb.4:16.
This leaves one final and vital text which deals with Jesus' will. It is the passage in Luke's gospel, also dealt with in Mark and Matthew, where our Lord prays in the garden of Gethsemane before the crucifixion. He asks his Father that the cup of suffering be removed from him and says 'not my will but thine be done' Lk. 22:42. How are we to understand this statement? Are we to conclude that, as God, Jesus has a different will to that of his father? This is simply impossible! The decision that the Son should suffer and die for his elect people was taken ages ago in the eternal Trinitarian counsels of God – Rev. 13:8 'the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world'. Jesus in Gethsemane is clearly speaking as a man. As a man he draws back from the prospect of his terrible death and suffering. But, let us all thank God, he submitted his human will to the divine will of his Father in heaven and secured salvation for all his believing people. Jesus, as man, submitted to the triune will of the Godhead.
The Bible teaches that God is one being in three persons. This truth is evident throughout God's revelation. All the persons of the Godhead are equally God and share all the attributes of Godhead. At the incarnation Jesus took upon himself real human nature with all its limitations. He was without sin but he experienced, in his human nature, the consequences of the fall. The most extreme example being his suffering and death on the cross as an atonement for our sins. The reality of the incarnation means that there are things which are true of Jesus as man which cannot be true of him as God. He has a divine will and a human will. But his divine will, which is an aspect of his being as God, can never differ from that of his Father. Jesus is equally and fully God with God the Father. As he himself said – 'I and the Father are one.' Jn. 10:30. As man, therefore, he is subordinate to his heavenly Father. As God, He is coequal.


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My review of the book, Pickers & Poets, posts to Elmore magazine
Troubadours and Texas music lovers will adore this collection of essays assembled and edited by Craig Clifford and Craig D. Hillis, Pickers & Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas. Several different writers pay homage to some of the veteran songwriters of the '60s and '70s who began their careers within the Lone Star State. Hillis, an author and guitarist who has toured and recorded with a few of the book's highlighted artists, provides insights about Steven Fromholz, Michael Martin Murphey, Jerry Jeff Walker and Willie Nelson. Clifford, also an author and working musician/singer/songwriter who holds a standing day gig as a professor of philosophy at Tarleton State University, adds his authoritative perspectives about Nelson, Kinky Friedman, Walt Wilkins, Hayes Carll, Ryan Bingham, and Miranda Lambert.
My personal favorite penned by Clifford, "Beyond the Rivers," portends that modern songwriters seem "caught up in the pseudo-country tropes of pickups and painted on jeans." He also claims today's mainstream country gives spotlight mostly to the young and the beautiful. Jeff Prince discusses the role of "iconic cultural happenings" or music festivals that introduce fans to lyric-driven songs too unique or obscure for radio play. Kathryn Jones, in "Roots of Steel: The Poetic Grace of Women Texas Singer-Songwriters," calls Patty Griffin, Lucinda Williams, Terri Hendrix, Nanci Griffith, Tish Hinojosa and Eliza Gilkyson "trail-blazers." She claims they refuse to be pigeonholed in "the good 'ol boys club" of influential music circles in a male-dominated industry.
Andy Wilkinson explains in a feverish stream of consciousness narrative why the Texas Panhandle, namely the Llano Estacado of Lubbock, per capita has produced so many songwriters thanks to its great expanse of land, the wind, and a culture composed of mostly friendly people. While some songwriters have had to leave the state to find their audiences, others simply have jumped into Austin's musical stew pot. This book promises a tantalizing feast to satisfy avid readers of nonfiction musical history.
Also please see my article posted on Elmore magazine's website at:
http://www.elmoremagazine.com/2017/01/reviews/books/pickers-poets-the-ruthlessly-poetic-singer-songwriters-of-texas
Tags: Andy Wilkinson, Austin, Austin music, Austin musicians, Austin songwriters, books about Texas music, Craig Clifford, Craig D. Hillis, Eliza Gilkyson, Hayes Carll, Jeff Prince, Jerry Jeff Walker, Kathryn Jones, Kinky Friedman, Llano Estacado, Lone Star State, Lubbock, Lucinda Williams, Michael Martin Murphey, Miranda Lambert, music history, Nanci Griffith, new nonfiction, nonfiction, Patty Griffin, Pickers & Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas, Ryan Bingham, Steven Fromholz, Terri Hendrix, Texas Panhandle, Texas songwriters, Tish Hinojosa, Walt Wilkins, Willie Nelson
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My review of '50 Years with Peter, Paul, and Mary' posts to Elmore
For more than half a century, the musical entity known as Peter, Paul and Mary, beginning in the early 1960s, turned the world upside down with their activism against war, nuclear energy, and inequality. The recently re-released 2014 DVD, 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary, traces their extraordinary journey far beyond "Five Hundred Miles" from where it began in Greenwich Village, NY in 1961 to a 2009 memorial for their female member in 78 minutes.
Producer/director Jim Brown juxtaposes intimate interviews with Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers, family members and friends between live action concert recordings of their most beloved songs. Brown also adds vintage film footage from historic events. Most memorable scenes include those from the 1965 Montgomery Civil Rights March in Selma, AL led by the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the 1969 March on Washington with Pete Seeger to protest the Vietnam War Draft, and the 1978 "Survival Sunday," held at the Hollywood Bowl.
Delivering a potent mix of intelligence, sexual edginess and social consciousness, the trio emotes sorrowfully: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Early Mornin' Rain," "If I Had a Hammer," "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are a Changin'" "Give Peace a Chance," "There But For Fortune, (Go You or Go I,)" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Puff The Magic Dragon" and more. Audiences of all ages participate in rare sing-alongs and testify to their enduring legacy.
These authentic and empathetic human beings sang songs and lived lives that made a real difference in American history, and, still today, they extend an invitation to join their social causes.
Please see this post on Elmore magazine's website at:
http://www.elmoremagazine.com/2017/01/reviews/albums/50-years-with-peter-paul-and-mary-dvd
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My Texas Highways article about roller derby appears in the January 2017 issue
What better way to escape the winter doldrums than to watch outrageously dressed athletes on roller-skates race around a track, shoving and hitting each other along the way?
Texas Roller Derby
The Texas Roller Derby league season starts January 24 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin. The Texas Rollergirls league seasons starts February 18 at the Austin Sports Center.
Roller derby leagues across Texas start their seasons with the new year, featuring energetic "bouts," live rock bands, food and beer, and hundreds of fans—some dressed in crazy costumes—cheering on the skaters.
More than 15 roller derby leagues—most of them made up of women—call Texas home, from Beaumont to Stephenville and Austin, where a group of women revived the sport in the early 2000s and sparked a national trend with a cult following. The thrill of watching roller-skaters compete against one another, along with gravity and speed, attracts fans to the sport.
"For me it's a lifestyle, it's a family, it's a sport," says 26-year-old Kelsie Harlow, alias "Roxxi Revolver," captain of the Hellcats in the Austin-based Texas Roller Derby league.
Texas Roller Derby bouts take place on a banked wooden track inside Austin's Palmer Events Center, just south of downtown near Lady Bird Lake. The competitors—all women from age 21 to 40—dress theatrically in fishnet tights, short shorts, skimpy tops, and bold costume makeup.
Reflecting the sport's irreverent attitude, the players compete under pseudonyms. Kate Robinson, who derived her "Hermione Danger" nickname from the Harry Potter book series, skates for the Holy Rollers in Texas Roller Derby. She took up derby after playing tennis at the University of Oklahoma.
"I thought, 'Oh, how hard can it be to hit people on roller-skates?' Little did I know that it was extremely hard," Robinson says.
Each bout consists of two 30-minute halves with a 20-minute intermission. Five skaters from each of the two teams compete against one another in short "jams" that last 60 seconds. Players start on two lines—one for the "blockers" and another for the "jammers," who score points by lapping the opposition on the track. Whether banked or flat, the oval tracks extend about 160 feet long. Eight referees assign penalties and eject aggressive rules violators.
No one wearing skates escapes bruises or rink rash during the bouts. Kate Tweedy, a retired skater also known as "Kate or Dye," still competes occasionally for all-star bouts, but says her mother has never understood her roller derby obsession. Serious injuries often occur; Tweedy once broke her humerus—the bone between the shoulder and elbow.
Roller derby traces its roots to 1935, when Portland, Oregon, resident Leo Seltzer started the Transcontinental Roller Derby, a series of grueling, 3,000-mile races on an oval track with two-person, co-ed teams that raced all day.
In 1960, Seltzer's son, Jerry Seltzer, took over the sport, which had developed into a contact sport on a banked track, and broadcast the games on TV stations across the United States and Canada. Jerry Seltzer still attends Rollercon, the annual roller-derby convention held every July in Las Vegas.
"The concept of the 'jam' came about when a skater would want to pick up distance on another skater and would suddenly break from the pack, and come around the track to gain a lap on the others," Jerry explains in a phone interview.
Roller derby had fallen off the map by the 1970s. Television shows in the 1980s and '90s attempted to revive the sport, but it didn't last. Then in 2001, a group of Austin women began practicing the sport at Austin's Skateworld, followed by bouts at Playland Skate Center.
By 2003, Austin had become known as the home of resurrected roller derby, this time as a predominately female sport. In that year, the Austin skaters split into two leagues, Texas Rollergirls and Texas Roller Derby, citing "philosophical differences." Texas Roller Derby raised funds to buy a banked track, while the Texas Rollergirls competed on a flat track. Both leagues have thrived ever since.
The Austin revival has contributed to a global count of more than 1,500 roller derby leagues and 35,000 teams in 40 countries, according to the Women's Flat Track Derby Association and the Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues. Primarily self-owned and operated, most of the leagues compete on flat tracks because it's more expensive to build and maintain a banked track.
Films, documentaries, and books have all contributed to roller derby's mystique. In 2006, A&E Network broadcast the reality TV show Rollergirls, chronicling the Texas Rollergirls league; and in 2007, former Texas Rollergirl Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan published Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track. Hollywood took notice in 2009 with the film Whip It, a fictional Texas roller derby tale directed by Drew Barrymore and starring herself, Ellen Page, and Kristen Wiig.
At the Palmer Events Center, the Texas Roller Derby league delivers the sport in a bawdy spectacle that might best be rated as "PG-13." Cross-dressing male cheerleaders called "The Flamers" cheer on the skaters, and a "penalty mistress" spins a wheel for penalized players with punishments such as "arm wrestle," "long jump," "judge's choice," "two-lap duel," and "pillow fight."
"I really pulled from drag queen culture, and some of the other girls pulled from punk rock cultures," says April Ritzenthaler, aka "La Muerta," one of the Austinites who revived the sport in 2001 and helped shape its image.
At the Texas Roller Derby league bouts, fans sit in portable bleachers and folding chairs or stand along the track's periphery. Two announcers call play-by-play over a public-address system as large monitors display the action.
Nicole Foree, aka "Mardi Brawl," a play-by-play announcer who also skates for the Holy Rollers, warns that roller derby can be habit-forming for fans and athletes alike. "Once you start skating, it's kind of addictive," she says. "It's an incredible workout, and there's so much strategy to it."
Texas is home to at least 19 roller derby leagues across the state. Here's a list:
Women's Leagues
Alamo City Roller Girls, San Antonio
Assassination City Roller Derby, Dallas
Cen Tex Roller Girls, Temple
Cowboy Capital Roller Girls, Stephenville
Dallas Derby Devils
East Texas Bombers Roller Derby, Nacogdoches
El Paso Roller Derby
Houston Roller Derby
Hurricane Alley Roller Derby, Corpus Christi
North Texas Roller Derby, Denton
Rockin City Roller Girls, Round Rock
South Texas Rolleristas, McAllen
Spindletop Roller Girls, Beaumont
Texas Rollergirls, Austin
Texas Roller Derby, Austin
West Texas Roller Dollz, Lubbock
Yellow Rose Derby Girls, Houston
Men's Leagues
Austin Anarchy Roller Derby
Texas Mens Roller Derby, Dallas
Please also see my article about Texas roller derby posted on Texas Highways magazine's website at:
https://www.texashighways.com/culture-lifestyle/item/8360-roll-and-rock-texas-roller-derby
Tags: April Ritzenthaler, Austin Skateworld, Austin Sports Center, Austin things to do, Austinites, banked track, Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, flat track, Holy Rollers, Kate Robinson, Kate Tweedy, Kelsie Harlow, Kristen Wiig, Leo Seltzer, Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan, Nicole Foree, Nicole Foree "Mardi Brawl", Palmer Events Center, Playland Skate Center, Roller Derby, Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues, roller-skates, Rollercon, Rollergirls TV show, rollerskating competitions, rollerskating sports, Texas Roller Derby, Texas Rollergirls, The Flamers, The Hellcats TXRD, Totally True Tales from the Track, Transcontinental Roller Derby, Whip It movie, Women's Contact Sports, Women's Flat Track Derby Association
Categories 2017 articles published, Features, January 2017, Texas Highways magazine

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10 Jul What Foods Are Best Avoided During a Wedding?
Planning a wedding menu that's absolutely delicious is important to you as the bride and groom. After all, it is food that brings people together – so you want to make sure everything on your wedding tables is of the highest quality.
Before you even dive into the million and one salmon variations and fancy side dishes, be sure you know what foods to avoid in your wedding menu. We have gathered some tips for you right here – so read on if you want to find out more.
Soda and fizzy drinks. Sure, you may think these are the best options for guests who don't drink alcohol. However, the truth is that sodas aren't very elegant, nor are they unique – and there are many other options MUCH more suitable for your wedding. Non-alcoholic cocktails are a more elegant and unique option. And if you want something truly healthy and really unlikely to attract any insects, try fruited water (those large jars will look absolutely amazing as part of your wedding décor!).
Foods that stain. Lobster may be absolutely amazing, but it may not be the best food to serve when everyone is all dressed up – not because they won't enjoy it or because the food isn't elegant (many comfort foods are making their way into weddings, for example), but because it can very easily turn into a staining disaster.
Raw foods. We're not talking about a raw veggie bar (which is actually a great idea if you want to accommodate your vegetarian friends too). We're talking about any kind of meat or food that's not going through a thorough cooking process. Even with the best chef on your side, a steak tartare is probably not a safe idea.
Foods that are just too complex. Look, we know an 8-course meal or a very fancy dish sound great – but in reality, most of your guests will be much happier with food they are familiar with (and food that won't keep them stuck to their seats all evening). There are a million other ways to pamper your guests' taste buds that don't involve overly complex meals – use your creativity and you will definitely create a wedding menu that's unique, delicious, and absolutely satisfying from every point of view.
Have you booked your Eastern Shore wedding venue yet? If you are still looking for something gorgeous, be sure to come and see The Oaks! Contact The Oaks Waterfront Inn and Events and schedule your tour. We guarantee you will be absolutely charmed by the beauties surrounding us here!


28 October 2013 - As of 27 October 2013, inspectors of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria completed verification activities at 21 of the 23 chemical weapons related sites declared by Syria.
The two remaining sites have not been visited due to security reasons. Efforts by the Joint Mission to ensure the conditions necessary for safe access to those sites will continue.
Syria submitted a formal declaration of its chemical weapons programme three days ahead of the 27 October deadline, together with a general plan of destruction, for consideration by the OPCW Executive Council.
The OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria was established to achieve the timely elimination of the Syrian chemical weapons programme in the safest and most secure manner possible.


1. (Ashley X) By Lindsay Piatek Use the link below.
The presentation by Lindsay Piatek is about Ashley X, who was born in 1997 with server developmental disabilities as a result of static encephalopathy from an unknown etiology. This condition affects her both physically and mentally. There is no improvement in her brain impairment, and she is unable to raise her head upright, talk and walk. She is tube fed and alert to her environment. She always remains where she is. She weighs 63 pounds with a height of 53 inches. At seven years, Ashley went through two-hour surgeries. The surgeries were conducted before the estrogen therapy since estrogen is the cause of increased chances of a tumor, difficult in control urethral bleeding and causes rapid growth of uterus and breast that make the surgery riskier. She also went through the estrogen therapy to increase mobility and reduce chances of needing scoliosis surgery. The estrogen therapy also aimed to reduce chances of bedridden induced infections. Other surgeries that she should go through are appendectomy, hysterectomy, and bilateral breast bud removal and growth attenuation through the estrogen therapy.
The obsessive-compulsive disorder is a condition that affects one person in forty within the general population. For a long time, OCD was assumed to be only for adults but it also affects children. Children have enough self-awareness and experience and can also suffer from this condition. Through this presentation, I learn about the signs of OCD in children. They, for example, engage in repetitive and bizarre rituals such as frequently washing their hands, frequent trips to the bathroom, unproductive work time and drop in grades. Children suffering from this condition are treatable with medication and behavioral therapy. They can also benefit from cognitive behavioral psychotherapy by changing the child's feelings and thoughts (Elana, 2012). The therapy also exposes the child to her fears and without having the compulsion.
Teachers can look out for signs of needing to check frequently on things, get to fear events and frequently erasing a written word or sentences. Teachers can make the accommodation by following the IEP adaptations so as to assist these students achieve their goals. They should also treat these children with dignity and respect. They can change the schedule for these children. Provide them with a private testing room, laptops for writing, extend their test time and provide buddy system (Teacher guide, 2014).
Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, M. (2012). OCD and Kids.


The popular 90s women's perfume L'Eau d'Issey from Issey Miyake, conceived as a fragrance as pure as spring water, unites the scents of waterfalls, flowers and spring forests. The original was launched in 1992 and it was followed by many editions over the years. In the spring 2016, the collection will be joined by a new variation, L'Eau d'Issey Pure. The new fragrance is announced as the second chapter in the history of L'Eau d'Issey.


The International Olympic Committee's executive board made its decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games after assessing the performance of all 26 sports at the London Games. There is a slim chance wrestling may be reinstated when the IOC meets in Buenos Aires in September to ratify its choice.
Modern pentathlon and taekwondo were thought to be the sports most at risk when the IOC committee met in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday, but wrestling was the surprise choice for the axe.
Wrestling will now compete with baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports for a place in the 2020 Games.


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Offensive Coordinator Jason Garrett
Opening Statement: Before we get started on questions, I just wanted to say one thing. They are actually doing the memorial service for Markus Paul right now, so just an acknowledgment of him and the impact he made on so many of us who were so fortunate to be around him. On a similarly sad note, a teammate of mine from college, a guy by the name of David Rose passed away a couple weeks ago from COVID. We had a memorial for him late last night over zoom as well. A really sad time to lose two special people, but really inspirational people. They will continue to have a tremendous impact on all of us who are so fortunate to know them. Thanks so much.
Q: You've coached a lot of tough running backs that fall forward and gain yards when they are about get tackled. How much do you value that in a running back and how special of a skill is it to have that?
A: I think it's a critical trait. In so many ways, your running backs can be the heartbeat of your team. I was fortunate to be on a Cowboy team in the 90's for eight years and our running back was Emmitt Smith. Every week we would play against defenses who's really number one objective was to slow him down. Somehow, some way, he still made yards. He still made an impact on the defense. A big part of that was falling forward and really controlling the tempo of the game. We had similarly good running backs in Dallas when I was coaching there. Whether it was Marion Barber, DeMarco Murray or Zeke Elliott. I really think in a lot of ways Wayne Gallman has been doing that for our football team for the last month and a half. The O-line has done an excellent job controlling the line of scrimmage. Wayne and the other backs have done a really good job kind of providing that same kind of the physicalness that you're looking for in your team. It starts up front, but it's really everywhere. Tight ends, receivers, fullback and certainly the guy who is running with the football. One of the things about Wayne that's so impressive is he's a really good athlete, quickness, speed, elusiveness. He's also demonstrating that physicalness that you're talking about. His ability to finish runs has really been apparent to us. Certainly helped us a great deal as an offense and as a team.
Q: You're looking at possibly Colt McCoy for your quarterback this weekend. As a coordinator and a play caller, what's the biggest challenge tailoring your scheme and your offense around the backup quarterback?
A: I think the biggest thing you try to do for a backup quarterback is just try to create a comfortable environment for him. That's what you're trying to do every week for your starting quarterback. Typically, your starting quarterback gets a ton of reps with the ones all throughout training camp, all throughout the week. The backup quarterback has fewer opportunities to do that. You just have to be mindful of that and understand that he is going into a game that's being played at full speed by guys who have been playing at that speed all throughout the year. He has to kind of catch up to that speed, if you will. I thought Colt did a really good job last week in the game getting comfortable and allowing us to function as an offense. I thought he handled himself really well. Depending on how this thing plays out this week, we'll try to get him some work and some reps. If he does have to play in the ball game this week, hopefully he'll be comfortable. You look for things in his past he's comfortable with. With you or with somebody else. Just so when that ball is snapped, it's all internalized in him. He's just going out there and playing football.
Q: It seemed like Daniel (Jones) had been able to turn a corner the last couple of games. He was playing at a pretty high level. If he has to miss time, how do you make sure there is no regression there? That he keeps that growth.
A: The best way to grow as a player is to have experience playing in games. Daniel has gotten more and more experience here this year as a starting quarterback in this system. I think he's really grown throughout the season. You said it, I think he's playing at a very high level. He's made a number of plays for us. He's minimized the bad plays. The best way to continue to do that is you stay out on the field and you keep growing from the experiences that you have. One thing I know about Daniel Jones is that he loves football. He's always incredibly prepared for any opportunity that he has. Whether it's a practice opportunity or a game. He'll continue to do that. Whatever his role or status is, he comes to work every day and he's ready to go. He's going to take full advantage of that opportunity. Hopefully, we'll get him back out there soon. He can continue his progression. If he's not able to play, I know he is going to be right in there with it. Trying to take advantage of the opportunity, nonetheless.
Q: As far as the run game, did you guys have to change anything once you lost Saquon? Why have you been able to find success with these other guys coming in?
A: I think they are good players. Back to the point of experience, you have a young offensive line with different guys playing. They are going to have a progression over the course of the year. I think about Andrew Thomas and not having an opportunity to play in the preseason and the first one out of the box you get Pittsburgh and Bud Dupree and (TJ) Watt. The next week you get Robert Quinn and Khalil Mack. Then you get the guys from San Francisco, guys from L.A., the guys from Dallas. That's an indoctrination for a young player like that. Some of the other guys like Nick Gates not really playing center before, the guys he had to block early on in the year. The best thing those guys did is they learned from their experiences. They got knocked around a little bit, there was some adversity. They kept learning and growing individually and collectively as a group. I think they understood more and more what we're asking them to do. They learned from their experiences, the practical experiences blocking NFL defensive linemen. I think they've grown. We all know that we're so far away from where we need to be, but there's no doubt here we've made progress in the last month and a half. Those guys have done a really good job and been a big part of that.
Q: I want to ask you about fourth and third and short situations or goal situations. You guys seem to have a high percentage of efficiency or conversion rate, especially when you have Eli Penny on the field at fullback. What is special about Eli and why are you guys converting these short yardage situations at such a high clip?
A: Well, they are hard situations, there's no doubt about that. There's those nut cutting situations in football that you have to be good at. Eli has been a really good player for us. Whatever we have asked him to do, he goes in and plays and is effective. As a blocker, as a runner, he's just a good football player. He's one of those guys that as a coaching staff you're always saying, we have to find ways to get him more opportunities. Typically, good things happen when he's out there. He had more snaps in the game the other day and again he took advantage of them. They are not easy situations. They are ones that you have to embrace and really you have to convert. I think it starts with the guys up front, and the progress they've made here over the last six or seven weeks. I think that's a big part of it. I think our quarterback has played well. Our runners have played well. Everybody has got a piece of it. Just because we made one yesterday doesn't mean we're going to make one today. They're still hard, they're still hard every week. We try to prepare for them as best we can and put our guys in the best situations we can. They've done a good job executing.
Q: With regard to Saquon, obviously you went up against him a lot. Do you feel a little deprived not to have had him to coach this season? There have been some pretty high-profile running backs that have come back from this kind of thing. Knowing Saquon as much as you do, is there any doubt that he'll be back as the guy that was before he got hurt.
A: My sadness comes from the fact that one of the great players in the league isn't playing. He's such a special person. We absolutely love him as a guy. Obviously, he's a special football player. Just for him to not have the opportunity to play this year, I'm just sad for him, beyond anything for our team. He just goes about it the right way. Like you said, when we went against him in Dallas, he was clearly the focal point of what we were trying to do, trying to stop that guy. We had a few games where we felt like we stopped him for about twenty or twenty-one carries and then they would throw him a screen and he goes 68 yards. He's that kind of a player. He gets so much attention and still is a productive guy. For us, he's such a great person and you love him and he love ball. He wants to be out there. For him to not have that opportunity this year is certainly disappointing for him and everybody who cares so much about him. In regards to him coming back, obviously it's a significant injury. I really have zero doubt in my mind that he is going to come back and play at a really high level. Just because of the kind of person he is, the kind of athlete he is. How important it is to him.
Q: I just want a bit of a clarification. You said making Colt (McCoy) feel comfortable if he plays. Does that mean scale back or cut down?
A: I don't know that it's scale back or cut down. There's nothing mentally or physically that Colt is not capable of doing. I wouldn't look at it that way. You're always trying to create an environment where your players are comfortable with what they're doing. There's a lot of plays in football. Let's run the ones that our quarterback likes to run and they're comfortable running. Let's run the ones that our linemen are good at, our runners are good at. The things our tight ends and our receivers do best. You're always trying to do that regardless of who's playing. Regardless of how many snaps they've played. You're probably a little bit more sensitive to that with a backup quarterback who hasn't had the backlog of reps that the other guys have had. I just think you're trying to customize it. I don't think you're cutting it down in any way.


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During mission 29, Spoiler:if the player shoots down the chopper that arrives after defeating the skulls, instead of the usual "Game Over" text it will change to "Time Paradox".
The same thing can happen on the first mission in the game. Spoiler:If it takes more than three days to rescue Kaz the cut-scene will be different, and the text will again change to "Time Paradox".
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During "Mission 2 - Diamond Dogs" on Mother Base, it is possible to shoot Ocelot with a tranquilizer gun. Doing so will make him say a few comments instead of knocking him out. Sometimes he will say "La Li Lu Le Lo", in reference to the Patriots from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
He will also sometimes say "Kawanishi-Noseguchi, Kinunobebashi, Takiyama, Uguisunomori, Tsuzumigataki", which is a shortened list of the names of train stations of the Myōken Line, operated by Nose Electric Railway in the Kansai region of Honshū, Japan. This is also a recurring easter egg that started in the first Metal Gear Solid.
EasterEgg, Reference
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Spoiler:The Third Child's appearance changes depending on who he's being emotionally influenced by.
- He'll have shrapnel in his head when controlled by Venom Snake.
- His sleeves will be on fire when controlled by The Man On Fire.
- His mask will change to resemble Skull Face's mask when controlled by him.
- He'll be wearing Shabani's necklace when controlled by him.
- He'll have Eli's red cloth on his shoulder when controlled by him.
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Spoiler:After the release of Patch 1.06, it is possible to recruit Quiet once again after she leaves Mother Base in "Mission 45: A Quiet Exit". By replaying "Mission 11: Cloaked in Silence" several times, the mission will be renamed "Mission 11: [Reunion] Cloaked in Silence". Beating the mission this time will have Quiet once again available as a buddy.
EasterEgg, Secret
If the player does a punch attack while sprinting, the classic "bionic strain" sound effect from the 1974 television series The Six Million Dollar Man will play. Venom Snake himself also has a bionic arm to help further cement the reference.
The Battle Gear was originally planned to be used on the actual field, as opposed to just Combat Deployment missions. According to director Hideo Kojima, the Battle Gear "disrupted the gameplay balance during test sessions", which eventually lead to its actual use being removed from the final product.
Development, EarlyIdea
The game originally had an "80's filter" during production. According to director Hideo Kojima, it was inspired by the 2013 film Rush, which itself "had very 70's texture & tone of film." As the game's story was set in 1984, the team studied and developed a filter reminiscent of the 1980's. However, once it was used in fullscreen, it ultimately demanded too much processing power, slowing the game down significantly. This ultimately caused the feature to be removed in the final product.
There was originally a final mission planned that was ultimately cut from the game, called Spoiler:Mission 51: Kingdom of the Flies. The mission would have tied the final loose-end of Eli running away with Sahelanthropus alongside the war-children and the remaining English vocal-cord parasite. A new area, an island surrounded by a salt lake located in Central Africa, was planned for the mission as well.
XOF Soldiers and Child Soldiers would be patrolling across the island until Snake finally confronts Eli inside of Sahelanthropus, resulting in a final fight that would end with Sahelanthropus being destroyed. It is revealed that Eli intentionally infected himself with the English vocal-cord parasite that the Floating-Boy gave him, and he is left behind to either take his own life or to die to incoming Napalm strikes on the island. After Snake and Diamond Dogs leave the island, the Floating Boy uses his powers to remove the parasites and takes him off the island.
Only 30% of the cutscenes were ever finished, and footage shows no facial animations on any of the characters. It is unknown how much of the island itself, or the boss fight, were ever completed.
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The game's PC retail release is simply a CD with nothing but a Steam installer file on it, making the contents take up a total of only 8.78mb and contain no data actually retaining to the game itself.
This was widely considered a grievous decision, as many players who purchased the retail copy of the game likely had unstable or restricted bandwidth on their internet connection, making the 28GB download a struggle.
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The codename of the Aerial Command Center, pequod, is named after the ship belonging to the whaling crew featured in Moby Dick.
In a hut in the Angola-Zaire Border Region, a radio can be found which if you listen to it plays the radio news broadcast from the Silent Hills demo P.T.
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Kiefer Sutherland was recommended to Kojima for the role of Snake by Avi Arad, who is producing the Metal Gear Solid movie.
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This game is named after a real medical condition. Phantom pain is pain that feels like it's coming from a body part that's no longer there. Doctors once believed this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but experts now recognize that these real sensations originate in the spinal cord and brain.
Development, Inspiration, General
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The watch used in the "MGS5 E3 2013 trailer" is a Seiko G757 5000. This watch is almost identicle to the watch also used by James Bond (Roger Moore) in the movie Octopussy, the Seiko G757 5020 Sports 100.
There are many differences between the original "Metal Gear 2: SOLID SNAKE" on MSX and the version included in "Metal Gear Solid 2: Subsistance". In the 2006 version of "Metal Gear 2: SOLID SNAKE" they changed the portraits in the "codec calls" with Yoji Shikawa's artwork, and they also added a new line in Gray Fox's speech after you defeat him:
In Japanese
その時、俺は耳も鼻もそがれ。。。ひどい状態だった
"They had cut off my ears and my nose, I looked terrible"
These new words fit perfectly with Ishmael's bandaged face in Metal Gear Solid 5.
The demo Hideo Kojima showed at GDC 2013 for The Phantom Pain starts with the words, "Okay Ahab, time to go." A bandaged man then turns and runs to Snake, saying, "You can call me Ishmael." Snake is also revealed to have a prosthetic left arm and in the actual trailer for the game you can see a large flaming whale. These are all allusions to the novel Moby Dick. The main character in Moby Dick is named Captain Ahab, the first words in the book are "You can call me Ishmael", and Ahab has a wooden leg and is hunting the whale that took it.
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David Bowie's 1974 song (and album) 'Diamond Dogs' was a musical adaption of George Orwell's famous book '1984'.
Hideo Kojima is a known David Bowie fan and in the Metal Gear Solid 5 trailer, it is stated that Big Boss has been in a coma for 9 years; 'Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker' - which precedes the events of MGS5 - was set in November 1974, placing MGS5 in late 1983 or (more probably) 1984, the year of George Orwell's novel, with Big Boss shown to be part of a new squad known as 'Diamond Dogs', a direct reference to the album.
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Together with Duncan Kenworthy, he is also the founder of DNA Films, the production company responsible for The Parole Officer (2001), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Months Later (TBA), two of which Danny Boyle directed and Alex Garland wrote. He also produced Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina.
He is the brother of Oscar-winning documentary maker Kevin Macdonald. His maternal grandparents were English actress Wendy Orme and Hungarian-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Emeric Pressburger.


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Azizulhasni Was Gold Material But Lost On Tactics – Josiah
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — It was a case of so near and yet so far in Datuk Mohd Azizulhasni Awang's pursuit of Olympic gold.
Former national track cyclist Josiah Ng felt that Mohd Azizulhasni was in the best shape to bag gold in keirin at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics yesterday but became a victim of circumstances.
Josiah said it was unfortunate for the 33-year-old Dungun-born to be stuck in a bunch and unable to chase Great Britain's Jason Kenny at the Izu Velodrome in Shizuoka.
He said Kenny was smart enough to profit from the senko (early sprint) tactic as he attacked early in the race.
"Azizul could have won the gold. He was on full gas (going all out) during the race, but it was unfortunate for us. Kenny was incredible; it is not an easy tactic but he proved he is the best, a real legend," he told Bernama when contacted today.
Australian rider Matthew Glaetzer didn't put enough effort to chase Kenny's solo breakaway and many felt that this in a way contributed to the victory of Kenny, and netizens have severely criticised Matthew for his part.
'Matthew is genuinely a good guy, but not a smart racer. I do not think it is a pre-planned tactic; it might just happen during the race," said Josiah, when describing the former world and Commonwealth Games champion.
"He might have his own reasons. He recovered from (thyroid) cancer before competing at the Olympics. In fact, his coach Nicholas Flyger is a former staff member of our National Sports Institute (ISN)," said Josiah, who competed in three Olympics.
After yesterday's triumph, Kenny became the most decorated Olympian of Great Britain with seven Olympic golds in his career, one more than the retired cyclist Sir Chris Hoy.
Mohd Azizulhasni, the 'Pocket Rocketman', has been hailed as a national hero for his amazing feat in edging world champion Harrie Lavreysen of the Netherlands to the keirin silver.
He has added to his credentials by winning the silver, after becoming the first Malaysian to win a medal in Olympics cycling when he bagged bronze in the same event at the Rio 2016 Games.
Asked if Mohd Azizulhasni can realise his golden dream at the Paris 2024 games, Josiah said it is hard to predict as anything can happen in the next three years.
"Changes in Olympics can happen very fast. A champion in one edition might not qualify for the next edition. But knowing Azizul, he is a disciplined person, he is very attentive to his health and fitness. So he might still be in shape to fight in Paris.
"Based on data, his performance has been improving since his debut at the Olympics (in keirin). He finished 10th at Beijing 2008, then improved to sixth at London 2012, bronze at Rio 2016 and now silver at Tokyo," he said.
Sources: BERNAMA
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The ecological systems theory states that children encounter many different environments throughout their life that will influence their behavior in many different degrees.
The micro system is the first layer. This layer is the closet to the child. This layer includes the child's family, friends, classmates, teachers, neighbors and other people who are in direct contact with the child. In this layer, the child has direct social interactions with other people. The theory states that we are not mere recipients of the experiences we have when socializing with these people in the micro system environment, but we are contributing to the construction of such environment.
The relationships that are involved in the child's life is part of the mesosystem. What this basically means is that the family life can also be a part of the school life. One example for the mesosystem is the connection between his/her's parents and teachers.
The exosystem is where the child has no active involvement but does feel the positive or negative impact of his/her's cultural environment. The parent's work schedule can have an impact on the child's life.
The macrosystem is the outer most layer of the system. It does not define the child but it does have a major effect on the child. This layer involves the child's cultural values, customs and laws. An example of this one to me is when a child is born into a poor living situations, he/she may work a lot harder than one that is born into a richer living situation.
437 words - 2 pages hesitation. Fortunately my parents didn't get a divorce but it still opened my eyes and brought me back to reality. That no relationship is perfect and there will be disagreements, arguments and fight but the way you handle it is what defines your relationship. So I could still have that hope and also have a new understand of the meaning of True Love.


The CNTR Greek text omits Luke 17:36 and Luke 23:17 and Luke 22:43 and 44.
This verse is found in the KJV and NKJV and in a few other Bibles. The verse is in brackets in some Bibles, including the NASB, and it is omitted completely in other Bibles, including the NIV.
The same thought is found in Matthew 24:40 anyway, and Matthew 24:40 is in the CNTR text.
Here is the Greek text of Luke 17:36 including the numeric values of the words.
... (for it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast).
This verse is in brackets in most Bibles, including the KJV and NKJV and NASB. It is omitted completely in a few other Bibles, including the NIV.
The same thought is found in Mark 15:6 anyway, and Mark 15:6 is in the CNTR text.
Here is the Greek text of Luke 23:17 including the numeric values of the words.
This thought is found nowhere else in the Bible. The verses are unique. They are in virtually all Bible translations, and they are not in brackets. However, Dr Bunning of CNTR obviously has strong reasons for excluding the two verses.
Here is the Greek text of Luke 22:43-44 including the numeric values of the words.


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In this case it's a four-cylinder BMW-sourced engine providing that extra range, exhaust peeking out just behind the front-left wheel. A four-banger doesn't sound all that impressive in a car like this, but remember it's only tasked with spinning a generator. Moving the sedan (and its healthy complement of batteries) will be an undisclosed electric powertrain. Sadly no details are being given tonight for performance or cost, but we're told it'll set you back about as much as an Audi A5. Could that mean a $40,000 starting price? That'd be less than half the cost of the $102,000 Karma, and potentially quite a revolution. Needless to say we can't wait to find out.
We weren't able to peek in the trunk, but we're told the new engine provides more space for your junk than the Karma's current arrangement. The car is said to match the A5 in terms of cargo space, which is certainly nothing to sneeze about. Now mind, this is just a concept and things are liable to change on the long road from here to production, but Fisker isn't known for tweaking much along the way. Suffice to say, this should be very close to the car that hits dealerships... eventually.
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Are Project Management Guides Useful?
As we've noted before on these pages, LinkedIn on the Internet is a great source of serious discussions on various aspects of project management. On June 21, 2013, an interesting booklet of only 50 pages was released. It is titled ISO 21500 Guidance on project management - A Pocket Guide and the cover is largely labeled "BEST PRACTICE". Actually, that means that it is one of a series of publications labeled "Best Practice".
"In my view, this 'Pocket Guide' provides an excellent introduction and justification for project management. Moreover, it charts a careful path between the excesses of professional pontification and the reality of real-world projects. I particularly like the illustration on the cover (See Figure 1) as it neatly encapsulates the project management environment as a basis for the ensuing discussion of the inherent processes.
Perhaps not unsurprisingly, this brief review elicited responses that implied comparisons with the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, better known as "PMBOK® Guide" or just "PMBOK".
So Shim Marom, PMP, asked: "Is the PMBoK a useful guide? If I asked you to take each of the process areas in the PMBoK and document them in such a manner that they would each take up one page only - would you accept this challenge as a plausible possibility? Another way to look at this question is: Is the PMBoK too large to be of practical use? Can it be shortened without impacting the quality of its content?" Later Shim added: "What I wonder is, even in the context of those attempting to prepare for the PMP, whether a cut-down version of the PMBoK would do the job. As mentioned in a number of comments, it seems like the PMBoK is just too bloated for its own good."
S. Jasim chipped in, no doubt with a smile: "Having years of experience working under PMBOK as a guide, I would say it is possible to do what you asked provided the page is A3 size or larger ... !"
Jim Ward observed that: "I feel that edition 2 was the best PMBOK Guide. Each edition becomes more bloated and less relevant to anything except passing the PMP certification exam. It is a guide, or framework, and not a standard or methodology. It definitely has its uses. There are far better general books on the topic, such as Kerzner. There are many that focus on a particular industry, such as construction, information technology, R&D, etc., that are far more relevant to our day-to-day work. I personally would not bother mapping out the PMBOK Guide processes for use in my work. Yes, you could define each process in one page, but what would you have if you did so?"
Mark Moore, PMP, rejoined: "Personally, I don't keep a copy of the PMBOK for reference. I passed back in 2002 and have seen several revisions, but unless I'm teaching a PMP class, I don't open it. Consolidated views as you suggest would be very beneficial in my opinion. They take out the 'bloat' and make a simple reference guide."
Matthew Weaver, PMP, countered with: "I think size is not an issue, content is. Consider this, 5 process groups, 7 if you consider pre- and post-project concerns, if any. Then, the 5th edition talks of 47 processes, which really might be around 100 if we were to really map out what occurs end-to-end in a project. If we break these down to intro-like pages, sure, now we've got a hundred plus pages but at such high level to be useless beyond an outline. Substance takes time and space, which is why Kerzner's book is more meaningful than the PMBOK in some circumstances. Both though, lack detail on just what a plan, for example, might actually require.
You certainly cannot give someone a copy of the PMBOK and tell him or her to go write a Project Management Plan. No, you need to direct them to ISO/IEC/IEEE 16326 (2009) and even that is a bit high-level, but it will get them on the right track, so long as they can pick and choose what is relevant. No single document has all the answers. A roadmap, yes, we should be able to create one with references to applicable standards, guidelines, and best practices."
Gary Fortune, PMP, intervened with: "I am one of the authors of PMBOK v.3, and I generated a single page with all processes and PMBOK v.4 paragraph number plus where each is used during a typical project life cycle as my 'crib sheet.' I use that just as my reference 'if/when' I need a reminder.
[By the way] I had a project to generate a Project Management Methodology as a project staffed with a multiple functions team for a large technology company. One requirement was to make it fit all major 'Methodologies.' We started with PMBOK, and its nine areas, since it is not dedicated to IT or any other industry. We laid out the topic areas, and then to create a complete methodology worked our way through IEEE, IBM RUP, Prince2, Six Sigma, CMMI, ITIL v.3, SDLC, Agile, Scrum, etc. This was to insure our detailed methodology, templates, and white papers from first client sales call through to project closeout would 'fit' all of them. Our need was to cover hardware, software, networks, consulting, outsourcing, etc.
It was labor intensive, required feedback from the PMs in about 60 nations via SharePoint to make it globally compliant, and required six of us working on it as our priority for a year. In the end it was very highly successful, continues being used today, and is formatted similar to its original PMBOK parent. Had we not used PMBOK as a "GUIDE," what else might we have used that would fit a hundred industries' projects?"
[Incidentally] In my Project Management experience, all other project team members are focused upon the technology, and only the PM is focused upon project quality, deliverables, schedule, budget, stakeholder relations, etc. The PM, Architect, Engineers all need to work as a Team. I have repaired many projects where the assigned PM was not a PM, but rather a technical person with zero interest in schedules, budgets, deliverables, and end user requirements.
It is easy to criticize PMBOK, since, by definition it is a Guide, not a Methodology, and must be generic enough for all industries and project types. My question is: if you dislike PMBOK, then what else is there to prefer?"
"The intention of this pocket guide is to provide you with a quick introduction to one of the latest developments in the project management profession: ISO 21500 'Guidance on project management' being the first really global accepted standard on project management. This guide contains a brief and straightforward introduction and high-level summary of ISO 21500, with tips for its practical application. It is therefore key knowledge for a project manager who is ready for the future."


The findings, unveiled today at the 2016 National Astronomy Meeting, are important because opals are associated with water—their structure contains up to 30 percent of the precious, life-forming substance. The discovery of the opal-laden meteorite adds further fuel for the theory that water found its way to Earth on the backs of asteroids.
According to the Royal Astronomical Society, opal had previously only been found once in a meteorite. This new little guy, called EET 83309, has pieces of different meteorites embedded within it, which suggests that its parent asteroid was pummeled by other pieces of rock. Hilary Downes, a professor of geochemistry who led the findings, suggested one of those collisions introduced water ice to the asteroid, which then led to formation of the opal.
Either way, EET 83309 now has the very sweet claim to fame of being far blingier than its meteorite cousins.


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This is a dream
Everything is real
Memory and Mnemonics
The Geneblaster Disaster
February 26, 2017 September 17, 2017 / joeltagert
"Don't mess with geneblasters," repeated the captain as they scanned the wreckage of the fuel depot, the blue light of Kiki's scanner fanning out sharply in the dust-heavy night, limning a profusion of broken struts and shattered steel-mesh platforms. "Isn't that what I always say? Kiki, what do I always say about geneblasters?"
"Don't mess with them, sir," the robot repeated dolorously.
"It's just obvious, right? You start –"
An enormous boom, felt as much as heard, the vibration actually visible as a shimmer in the dust, pounded through the darkened city, so they all three involuntarily ducked their heads. But it seemed distant enough, and after a considering pause, Hor pointed out a half-buried chunk of illuximite glowing under the scanner. "Here. Bring the dolly." Illuximite was ten times as dense as gold – and ten times as valuable. "You start altering this, shifting that, introducing whatever crazy mutagen you found at the bottom of the ocean or whatever, and suddenly shit goes crazy. Flesh bubbling up like fucking chewing gum, mouths everywhere, probably acid for blood… shit could lead anywhere."
Alger, Hor's giant yellow ape of a first mate, grunted as she heaved a piece of concrete off their prize and then glanced at her captain dubiously. "You own a geneblaster."
"Everybody owns a geneblaster. That's the problem. Here, get the hooks underneath it." The arms of the dolly squealed a bit in protest, but in a moment the iridescent column of illuximite was securely on the little antigrav platform. "The point is, you've got to use it responsibly. You know? It's serious biomedical tech, for curing diseases and creating new crops and whatnot. You have to be careful with it."
"Didn't you use it just the other day?" Alger said. As they talked they moved on to more illuximite, some jade-green dolgon, a pool of shimmering red solemury. Normally the depot would have been heavily guarded, but it seemed the current crisis had convinced the guards to seek employment elsewhere. They tread carefully around smashed load-lifters, great mounds of rubble and hissing pipes, the occasional corpse.
"What? No, I don't think so."
"Yes sir, you did," interjected Kiki.
"I think I would remember."
"You were trying to pacify the winged gogro we'd captured on Timmin Four. I believe your exact words were, 'I'm going to ride this bitch into the fucking sunset.'"
Hor laughed. "Oh, yeah. That would've been great."
The image of the captain, who looked a bit like a small, upright anklyosaur, riding the terrifying winged and tentacled bulk of a gogro passed through Alger's mind, and she gave an involuntary shudder. Like imagining a particularly reckless three-year-old behind the controls of a tank. "Didn't work, though," she observed.
"No, those gogros, you wouldn't believe how stubborn they are. Fucking obstreperous. I did manage to get some tiger stripes on it, though."
"And what then?"
"I mean, then what did you do with the –"
"DOWN ON THE GROUND!"
Together the trio raised their hands and slowly turned around, blinking in the sudden glare of a floating sentry-bot above them, and the laser sights of two security guards. "Take it easy," Hor said. "We're on your side, guys."
"Bullshit," said the one on the left, the line of the laser clearly visible in the dust, its terminus firmly on Hor's bulbous skull. "Down on your knees!"
The two were Lalamaks, local chaps with grayish skin, big three-fingered hands and an unpleasant profusion of beady black eyes. They were wearing navy-blue windbreakers emblazoned with the Lalamaki equivalent of "SECURITY."
"We're with the company," Hor explained, with just the right touch of alarm. "Just calm down, all right? They brought us in for this. Dangerous materials retrieval."
"You're looters," growled the guard. "And if you don't lie down, I'm going to turn your head into fucking vapor."
"Whoa! Hold on!" Slowly Hor came down to the thorny ridges that passed for his knees. Alger followed suit, while Kiki just lowered her round bulk on her whip-like legs until it touched the concrete. "We've got credentials, if you'll just take your finger off the trigger for second. You know what's going to happen if corporate finds out you shot the team they sent to secure this mess?"
"We're security," objected the second Lala.
"Yeah, no shit. You're security, and we're disposal. I've got proof right here on my handheld." He pointed down to a device in his belt-pouch. "Let me get it out and show you."
"Hands up!" barked Lala One. "Tonak, get the thing out for him and take a look."
Several of Tonak's eyes looked uncertainly at his partner. "You serious?"
"Yes, I'm serious! I'll cover you. The bot's got the rest."
"Shouldn't we just call corporate and –"
"There's no coms, you idiot! Whole system's knocked out."
"Oh, yeah." Tonak hoisted his gun again, raising his voice appropriately. "All right, DOWN ON THE GROUND! Hands out where I can see them!"
To Alger's surprise, Hor complied, splaying his limbs out in the dust. With an ostentatious display of caution, Tonak crept forward, pressed the gun's muzzle right against Hor's head, and fumbled at the pouch. At last he withdrew a thick tablet with a little screen. "This it?"
Tonak turned it over. "I don't see a verification."
"I have to bring it up," Hor pointed out.
"Oh, yeah. But stay down!" Again the guard flourished the gun, then pondered how Hor would operate the device in that position. Finally he knelt, setting it down on the broken concrete by Hor's head. "Okay. Show me."
It's going to electrocute him or something, thought Alger. Fire a pulse wave that will disable their weapons.
Nothing of the sort. Hor tap-tapped at the screen and handed it to the guard. With vigorous caution Tonak backed away toward his cohort, then together they looked at the screen. They exchanged glances, which is quite a process for Lalamaks. "What do you think, Meeg?" Tonak muttered.
Meeg frowned uncertainly. "I don't know. Might be real, might not. I say we go and get –"
His plan was interrupted by the universe's loudest, fiercest, most shattering scream, so loud even the robots pressed their limbs against their sensors and cowered. It was followed by the sound of a nearby skyscraper being thrown across the city. Some of it passed directly above the depot, visible through the huge holes in the roof. Turned out seeing half a building ripping through the air above you was at once more exciting but less pleasant than you'd think.
"Fuck fuck fuck," said Tonak, all eight eyes wide as could be. He scrambled to his feet, backing away rapidly. "That thing's getting closer."
Meeg was of sterner stuff. "Where do you think you're going?"
"Home! Or I don't know, the mountains? A really deep tunnel?"
"What about them?" He gestured back at the crew.
"What about them?"
"We can't just leave them."
"Yes we can. We definitely can."
"I say we scrag 'em." Meeg hefted his weapon to his shoulder purposefully. "It's the safest course of action."
"Whoa, whoa!" Hor cried. He got up to his knees again. "Okay, look, can I tell you two something?"
"What's that?" Meeg's two uppermost eyes narrowed suspiciously. The rest narrowed threateningly.
"We're not from disposal. We're interstellar salvage."
"Pirates! I knew it! See, Tonak, this is why we should just shoot anyone we don't recognize." The sentry bot made an approving beep. "Thanks for letting us know. I think I'll shoot you now."
"Wait! Do you want to live through this?"
"I mean, there's a giant space monster destroying your city!" Hor screeched. "Right now it's maybe ten blocks away, and it's coming closer. Even if you survive the next five minutes, the odds of you surviving the next month are about million to one."
As if to emphasize his point, a mid-sized hovership crashed through one of the remaining sides of the depot and exploded. Again they all ducked.
"On the other hand," Hor continued when the noise had died down, "I have a spaceship. Right around the corner. So what say you let us go, join up with us, and we'll go get drinks at a nice bar on Celicon Four?"
"I've never been to Celicon," said Tonak hopefully, looking at his partner.
"I don't know," wavered Meeg. "I have a girlfriend here."
Another ear-splitting screech, causing the very ground to tremble.
"Had, mostly likely," said Hor.
"Good point. Okay, let's go."
Outside was chaos. There was an orange haze over everything from many large fires raging. At least half the buildings were destroyed, especially south of where they stood. Even as they watched another collapsed, just a couple blocks over. There were also rather a lot of explosions, laser flashes, screams, rending metal and the like. They turned north, where things were still mostly intact.
"This way," Kiki indicated. They were all jogging at a good clip, somewhat hindered by rubble and the dolly, which they certainly weren't leaving behind. As they ran, however, the tumult seemed to follow them, immensely loud noises startlingly near, the ground vibrating, dust billowing. They all moved a little faster, turning east down a narrow alley, panting and coughing, and hurrying through a metal-slatted fence to an empty lot between a government building and a restaurant, where they'd left the ship, the Cuckoo's Claw. Hor pressed a control, and the loading ramp opened, showing the light from the cargo bay.
A huge crash, a huger scream, and the restaurant disappeared. From the corner of her eye as they ran, Alger just glimpsed an enormous barbed tentacle, four feet wide and unfathomably long, bash the sentry bot to pieces and swipe poor Meeg from the ground. "Eek," he said, continuing, "AAAH," a lamentably unquotable choice of last words.
As soon as they were on board, Hor frantically slapped the button to close the loading bay, yelling at Foomus, the pilot, to "TAKE OFF NOW! NOW!"
Foomus was only too happy to comply, and they all wobbled as the thrusters kicked in. As they felt the lift beneath them they breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Alger turned to Hor. "I saw Meeg get taken by a tentacle."
Tonak shook his head. "Poor Meeg. Well, it's how he would've wanted to go."
"There was something unusual about it, as tentacles go."
Hor shrugged, doing his best to look innocent. Innocent, it turned out, wasn't his look. "What's that?"
"Stripes. Tiger stripes."
"Huh. Weird. Who wants a –"
Suddenly they were all thrown violently sideways, tumbling into the bulkhead. "We're in trouble!" yelled Foomus from the cockpit.
A glance out a porthole told why. An orange-and-black tentacle half a mile long had snatched them out of the sky and was dragging them back to a spiky mouth the size of a large sinkhole. Foomus fired the plasma cannon at it, making the geneblasted gogro scream in pain and rage, rattling the metal sides of the ship.
All the shaking had knocked open some of the storage lockers in the cargo deck, and much equipment had spilled out, including, Alger saw, the very source of this evil, a shoulder-mounted weapon with a cheery logo on its side reading, Symtech Evo Revo: Get Blasted! Alger shouted at Hor, "What did you do, blow it out the airlock?"
Hor said defensively, "What else could I do? Thing was basically unkillable already."
"Blew it out in the atmosphere?!"
"What am I, a housemaid?"
The tip of a tentacle had found the seam of the cargo bay door, and with a rending squeal of metal it tore the door open. The whole ship turned on end, the gogro shaking it like a toy, and they all scrabbled for handholds. An enormous eye, large as the opening, swam up disconcertingly close to the door. Was the creature looking for something?
Hor fired at the eye with his little handheld laser. The gogro screamed in pain, and, Alger could have sworn, recognition.
Nearby, Tonak was wedged between two lockers, looking incredulously at Hor. As it happened, the geneblaster had slid right over to him, and now he held it loosely. "Did you cause this?" He looked wonderingly at the weapon. "What did you do, geneblast a gogro or something?"
"Kid, we all do things sometimes we regret," Hor said placatingly. "Let's just –"
Tonak fired. The bright red beam caught Hor full in the chest, and his eyes widened in surprise. "Oh, you bastard."
Then he screamed, as well he might, with his shell cracking open and his limbs arching spastically. Sounded painful, but if you want to make a monster, you've got to crack a few shells. Already his form was changing, distorting, getting larger. Incredibly, though, he had somehow retained his grip on the handle of a locker.
As if in demand, the gogro shook the ship again, and more tentacles came questing in. It definitely wanted Hor.
Alger saw what needed to be done. "Sorry, Captain. Them's the breaks." With that she seized the handle of a locker herself, swung over agilely, and with one long leg, kicked his grip free.
He fell, eyes wide, and instantly one of the tentacles whipped around him. In a flash he was gone.
The other tentacles loosened around the ship, and with a roar of engines they broke free. Cautiously, as the ship righted itself, they stood up and staggered toward the galley. "Sorry about your captain," said Tonak, not without some satisfaction. "Probably torn to pieces by now."
Alger looked out a viewscreen dubiously. "Don't be so sure. He was always a tough bastard. Now he's a tough geneblasted bastard." She tapped the screen. "Just be glad you're not down there. Nothing worse for your health than a giant mutant monster battle."
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Your dog may not be able to pilot a real plane, but he or she can feel just as cool in this leash. The strong color combination of black, gray and lime green will give your dog the confidence to leap through the air. This combination looks especially slick on black and white or tan dogs. Even on a black dog, the green provides a nice surprise.
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Updated: Man in stable condition after Queen St. stabbing
Two people arrested in connection to incident; woman charged with aggravated assault
Jan 11, 2021 2:40 PM By: Sudbury.com Staff
A 34-year-old woman was arrested and taken into police custody after a 40-year-old man was stabbed in Queen Street in the Flour Mill area. (File)
Updated Jan. 11 at 2:40 p.m.
Greater Sudbury Police arrested and charged a 34-year-old woman after a violent altercation at a residential building on Queen Street on Jan. 10.
Information provided to police was that a man could be seen outside of the building and that he appeared to be bleeding. The man could be heard yelling that he had been stabbed.
Officers quickly arrived on scene and found a woman outside of the building with a knife in her hand. Officers took the woman into custody.
During this time, officers also located a 40-year-old man outside of the building with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics transported the man to hospital with serious injuries and he remains in hospital in stable condition.
The two individuals are known to each other and this is a targeted and isolated incident.
As a result of the incident, a 34-year-old woman has been charged with aggravated assault.
Officers also arrested a 39-year-old man for four counts of breach of an undertaking.
Both individuals were held in police custody overnight and attended bail court today, Monday, Jan. 11 to answer to the charges.
A publication ban has been issued in relation to this matter and no further information can be released.
A 34-year-old woman was arrested and taken into police custody after a 40-year-old man was stabbed in Queen Street in the Flour Mill area.
The man sustained serious injuries as a result of the incident.
Police are investigating and have stated that this was an isolated incident and there is no concern for public safety at this time.
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Either change the system or risk another "Silent Spring"
Rachel Shaffer is a research assistant in our Washington, DC, office, where she works on toxicity testing and chemical policy reform.
For years, I've been inspired by Rachel Carson and motivated to follow in her footsteps by highlighting and addressing the health effects of chemical exposures. But I didn't think that I would ever be discussing issues that so closely mirror her own life's work. More than fifty years have passed since her iconic Silent Spring, yet because of our broken chemical regulatory system, we are still facing the same problems: A recently released study by the US Geological Survey (USGS) suggests that, just as in Carson's time, synthetic chemicals in the environment are interfering with reproduction in bird populations.
In her 1962 book Silent Spring, Carson described the harmful effects of synthetic pesticides and cautioned us that the indiscriminate use of these compounds could lead to a world devoid of the sweet sounds of songbirds that usually mark the arrival of springtime. She focused in particular on DDT, a long-lived pesticide that builds up, or "bioaccumulates," in the bodies of animals. Birds with high concentrations of DDT in their bodies produce weakened eggshells that often break before hatching of the offspring. Carson warned that these chemicals threatened future generations of birds and other animals, including our own species.
They say history repeats itself, and the USGS study released this fall suggests this old adage is as true as ever. Scientists have found that certain chemicals used to make common consumer products, including nonstick cookware and water-resistant clothing, are reducing the reproductive success of tree swallows. Specifically, higher levels of chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in tree swallow eggs were associated with a decreased chance of egg hatching.
A different chemical, but an eerily similar story.
So while we can applaud some successful battles to phase out particularly harmful chemicals (in the case of DDT, EDF played an important role in fighting for this ban), it seems like we are losing the war. One dangerous chemical is eliminated, but another problematic one crops up.
Furthermore, even after their production or use is banned, many toxic chemicals persist in the environment for long periods of time. Because of global concerns about exposures and effects on humans and wildlife, some members of the chemical family that are the subject of the recent USGS study have been or are being phased out of production. However, this study suggests that even chemicals no longer in use may still be interfering with ecosystem health today.
And, it's not just about birds. It's about us, too. As I highlighted in a previous post, PFASs (referred to in that post as "PFCs", an alternative name for the same group of chemicals) are also associated with numerous adverse health effects in humans, including decreased male reproductive health.
The scale of the bigger problem here is such that we cannot succeed by working case-by-case to remove harmful chemicals from the market after widespread exposure. Instead, we need a system that ensures that all chemicals in use are safe.
That's why EDF has been working for nearly 20 years to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Passed in 1976, this outdated and ineffective law fails to protect Americans from potentially harmful chemicals used in their homes and workplaces.
EDF is now working to improve and pass a bipartisan Senate bill to reform TSCA. If the needed improvements can be made, it offers our best chance in decades to improve chemicals regulation and management in this country.
Thanks Rachel for this great article, and what can I say, EDF have done such an amazing work for the last 20 years in terms of protecting birds and us from harmful chemicals and they should keep going, or we're going to be in front the silent Spring..
Thanks for your comments! Yes, EDF is working to ensure a healthy and livable future for this planet. Stay tuned for more updates about our work on the connection between chemicals and health.
We have one world only on which we may live and survive. Let's remember that in each and every decision we make.