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'OLD' IS WHEN... |
An 'all nighter' means not getting up |
to use the bathroom. |
'OLD' IS WHEN... |
You are not sure these are jokes? |
at each side. |
full minute, and then relax. |
After a couple weeks, move up to 10-lb. potato sacks. |
Then try 50-lb. potato sacks. Then eventually try to get to where you |
can lift a 100-lb. potato sack in each hand, and hold your arms straight |
for more than a full minute. |
(I'm at this level.) |
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2. pred8er |
pred8er He who eats fuzzy animals |
Whewh, :whoo: I'm not "old" yet. At least by those definitions! :laugh: |
male wanted vampire romance |
Discussion in 'THREAD ARCHIVES' started by payneblack, Jul 5, 2014. |
1. Plot: two groups of vampires are in battle. one group is trying to stop vampires from drinking human blood and go to bottled. the other group wishes nothing more than to kill all humans and drain them of blood. |
the male would be a vampire from the bottle drinking side . he would be arrogant and over protective of my female character. at first he doesnt want her around but his covern master requires him to have a day time guard. |
if interested let me know. the plot can be changed. |
2. I'd def interested :) |
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3. Cool i can get this started if you want? |
Tuesday, April 02, 2002 |
This post is in response to Jan's, below. |
I do have reasons for putting Schopenhaur to the left of Nietzsche, but you could also think of those labels as arbitrary, as unrelated to the political left and right. But I (currently) do think of Platonism as more advanced than Aristotelianism (think of it in spiral dynamics terms), and therefore more "progressive" ... |
I'm going to try to restate that whole post in plainer language. |
Plato is an idealist. (If you saw the excellent movie Iris, you saw a good example of a Platonic idealist.) When he talks about concepts like love, or justice, or goodness, he believes that these abstractions actually exist as entities in themselves. These are known as the Platonic Forms. Aristotle believes that forms ... |
Nominalism is the philosophy that Aristotle tended towards, that abstractions only exist insofar as they exist in concrete examples of these abstractions. I called Plato an essentialist, but anti-nominalist might be more accurate. |
I want to use the analogy of Plato's and Aristotle's views on the forms to describe two different ways of thinking about spirit. |
I bnelieve that Goethe inspired a generation of German thinkers to think about spirit and the world in evolutionary terms. These thinkers, the German Idealists, included Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Heine, Schopenhaur, Nietzsche, Freud, etc. |
The philosophical dogma is that these thinkers were decisively influenced by Kant. They were, but this does not explain the emphasis on evolution and development that all of these thinkers share and which I believe constitutes their genius. Kant certainly did not emphasize development in his philosophy; quite the oppos... |
But it's clear to me that these Goethean thinkers fall into two camps: nominalists of the spirit and anti-nominalists. Schopenhaur actually believed that his "Will to Live" was the fundamental force that the cosmos was composed of. He was therefore a spiritual anti-nominalist. Nietzsche criticized Schopenhaur in "The G... |
The interesting question for me is whether Goethe was closer to Schopenhaur or Nietzsche on this question. |
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Do your kids struggle with math? Are they frustrated with themselves because they just cannot seem to get the idea of math to click? No matter how hard they try, they just cannot seem to understand how math works? Do you find yourself at a loss when they ask you to help them with their math homework? If this is the... |
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Magallenes graduated from West Texas A&M University with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics. After several people asked him to help their child with math and tutor them, he came up with the idea to create an app to help students, parents and teachers with math frustrations. |
A lot of time students don't have the luxury to have one on one time with their teacher. There just isn't enough time and too many students to have more than a few minutes of one on one time with a teacher. So it makes it difficult for the teacher to sit and explain how to work through problems with each student. |
So the Easy Math App was created. Created to help these students (and parent and teachers), work through their math problems. |
So how does it work? |
Just download the Easy Math App - it's in your app store as 314 Easy Math App. |
Easy Math App |
Then a student takes a picture of their math problem and a tutor is available to work with them one on one and step by step, to explain how to do the problem. |
The app also includes a graphing calculator. If a formula is needed then the app contains a list of different formulas and how to use them. Not to mention great videos to help out with different math problems. |
The great thing about this app, is for parents you will be able to get a generated report each week to see how your student is doing. |
The app is free to download, however there is a subscription fee. You do help on two math problems for free to see if this app will be helpful for your or your student. |
The app is currently available in the Apple Store and is coming soon to Google Play. |
Just look for 314 Easy Math App. |
Meat Dog (Primarily called Nikumenken (肉面犬) in the comic) is an incorporeal jinmenken in Thunder: a Hero's Welcome and is a minor antagonist from a specific volume in the comic. He is characterized as a vengeful spirit. |
Meat Dog is a jinmenken soul without a body. He has no skin and has visible red flesh exposed. He became this way as a result of dying by being skinned while still alive. Unlike most animals who endure such cruelty, he still has his feet, but without any fur left behind. |
Meat Dog is a vengeful, misanthropic being, often blaming every human for his death despite the fact that only two people were responsible for it. This has resorted to him killing anyone he comes across in a frenzy, even killing pets who have the "audacity" to live alongside humans in harmony. He is quite hateful and h... |
Connecting with alumni |
The relationship and connections between the U of S and its alumni underwent a comprehensive review recently. |
The final report on alumni engagement at the university did not reveal any surprises, said Heather Magotiaux, vice-president of Advancement and Community Engagement. |
"We knew we had some work to do, that's why we undertook this review," she explained. "We found that our alumni outscored most other universities in terms of the percentage who would recommend the U of S to potential students as well as the number who said the university was still relevant to their lives." |
That's the good news, Magotiaux continued. "But we also found that fewer than half said they felt connected to the university today. We wanted to know what initiatives we should look at to build on the good will of our alumni." |
So a consultant—Marie Earl, who has held senior alumni relations positions at Stanford University and the University of British Columbia —was hired to investigate the situation, interview alumni and create an action plan. |
"Marie prepared one of the most comprehensive reports I have ever received," Magotiaux said, adding that the review highlighted five strategic priorities. |
"One priority is to improve our knowledge of our alumni so that we can offer (through activities) more value to them," she said. "Second, we need to build alumni engagement through communication, like the Green & White magazine, that is lively and sophisticated. That's what our alumni want." |
Magotiaux said the first two priorities send a clear message that alumni-relation activities need to be more focused on what alumni want. |
The third priority is about changing the internal culture of the U of S—and talking about the benefits engaged alumni provide to the university community. "Often people think alumni engagement means giving money. We are grateful for financial support, but there are a host of other ways alumni can be involved. They can ... |
The fourth priority stresses the importance of creating connections between alumni and students. Magotiaux said there is an opportunity for building a sense of community between students and alumni, for example in alumni mentorship of students. |
The fifth priority is better engaging alumni of influence with the university in order to engage the broader alumni community. This is an area that will require a cultural shift for the university, Magotiaux explained. |
"We tend not to boast. The reality is that we need to stop thinking of it (sharing successes) as bragging; it's sharing and telling. We need to build a culture where we share these successes for each other." |
The same culture needs to exist in the alumni community too, she continued. "Who has more of a stake in the reputation of the university than alumni?" |
Students are students for only a short time, she said, but once they graduate they are alumni for life. "It should be a bragging point for them. They earned the right to call themselves U of S alumni. We need to remind them, and us, of that." |
The report also set criteria for assessing the effectiveness of all alumni activities. "The criteria will look at how we allocate resources, engage alumni and strengthen connections. What's the call to action, what do we want them (alumni) to do? We have to apply this lens to everything and determine how it is contribu... |
The review outlined a three-phase strategy over the course of the next five years. The first phase, Magotiaux said, will take place over the next 18 months to two years, during which time the Alumni Relations team will build capacity, examine how resources are spent and implement specific tactics related to further eng... |
Another immediate action item Magotiaux mentioned is changing how alumni are referred to on campus. "We talk about faculty, staff and students as members of the campus community, and we need to include alumni as part of the internal community too." |
Alumni relations, she said, should be a campus-wide priority as it is a clear indicator of success. "I can't think of a successful university that does not have a strongly connected alumni base … We should never lose sight of the value of our alumni." |
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Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East |
Stephen G. Fritz |
Stephen G. Fritz is Professor of History at East Tennessee State University, and produces solidly written and researched history on the subjects of Germany and the Second World War. His academic and scholarly success seems to come from within, and is the result of hard work instead of patronage, devotion to a particula... |
Early on the morning of June 28, 1940, one week after the execution of the Franco-German armistice, Adolf Hitler and a small entourage that included Albert Speer and Arno Breker took a brief tour of some of the more well-known cultural sites of Paris. The Fuehrer was at his ease, surrounded by his security detail, and ... |
This little vignette, as related by Fritz in Ostkrieg, informs the reader in somewhat cryptic fashion both as to the author’s thesis and the mind of his subject. |
Concerning the mind of Adolf Hitler, even a casual student of the Second World War must face the question whether the German Fuehrer was possessed of all his faculties when he decided to launch the single largest and most violent military operation in history, thereby putting at risk all that he had already achieved. A... |
Ostkrieg is probably not for the casual reader. Its narrative runs to 500 pages, while the footnotes and bibliography (vital to some, but inexplicably of little interest to others) consume another 100 pages. And notwithstanding the author’s protestations to the contrary, Fritz did in fact generate a work based on both ... |
Stephen Fritz brought to his sources his considerable analytical skills and clarity of expression. The product is a very readable consideration of the European war’s most important front, and one that expresses a new understanding of its causes and effects. Fritz is not the first scholar to bring to the fore the comple... |
Adolf Hitler’s conviction that “international Jewry” controlled the course of human events, and aimed to eradicate Germany and the German “Volk”, was the root cause of the war that forever altered western culture. For the Fuehrer, Jewry was a contagion that must be eradicated forever, and failing that, at the very leas... |
Nevertheless the German victories of 1938-1940, both diplomatic and military, seemed in some ways to have multiplied Germany’s problems, rather than allay them. The fundamental issue, in the view of Hitler and his toadies, was that the string of victories merely added substantially to the number of Jews under German co... |
If the Jews could not be removed physically from Europe, then Germany must expand the reach of its control still further, and that could only be accomplished through the use of force, which must be applied to Ukraine and the rest of European Russia. And in this case time was of the essence, since Great Britain had chos... |
Finally, if the war went badly for Germany, as it began to do in December 1941, this could only be the result of the machinations of “international Jewry”. If the Jews of Europe therefore could not be pushed out, Nazi Germany would be forced to adopt—and this was clearly the fault of the Jews—more radical measures, and... |
The thesis set forth by Stephen Fritz in Ostkrieg is so simple and compelling that it merits consideration even by those who have studied the topic for years. |
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by Hemant B. Kaushik, K. S. Ravindra Babu |
Assam-type houses are commonly found in the northeastern states of India. Generally, it is a single storey house; however, two-storey houses are also found at some places. The main function or use of this construction type is multi-family housing. These are generally single dwelling units and do not have common walls w... |
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