Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Info Daily Bread 12/21/05 White Space
For nearly 50 years, Ann Landers dispensed advice in a daily column carried by more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide. When she died on June 22, 2002, her daughter Margo Howard wrote a farewell column. She asked the editors to leave a blank space for the last part of the column as a memorial to her Mom.
The idea came from a column written years earlier when Ann and her husband divorced after a long marriage. Ann had requested the editors to leave white space at the bottom as a memorial to a once-good marriage “that didn’t make it to the finish line.”
When somebody writes your last column, how much “blank space” will it include? When you come to life’s end, will there be important things left undone? Will that white space bear silent testimony to goals you never reached, good habits (like consistent Bible reading) you never formed, help you never gave, kind things you thought about doing but never did? Will a sizeable empty space say that you intended to develop a deeper relationship with God, but that a close intimacy remained an unfulfilled ideal? Or will others be able to say of you that you “finished the race, [and] kept the faith”? (2 Timothy 4:7)
Let’s make sure our white space is small!
--Vernon Grounds
Only the truth that in life we have spoken,
Only the seed that on earth we have sown;
These shall pass onward when we are forgotten,
Fruits of the harvest and what we have done.
--Bonar
To get the most out of life, make every moment count for Christ.
Reason by analogy
Construct an inductive argument from given premises/evidence
Assess credibility (of evidence, witness, etc.)
Identify explicit parts of an argument (conclusion, evidence, etc.)
Revise beliefs in the face of new evidence
Identify possible and probable consequences of a course of action
Evaluate relevance and adequacy of evidence provided
Formulate hypotheses to explain given data
Identify fallacious reasoning
Recognize inconsistencies/contradictions (among data, between data and theories, etc.)
Construct a deductive argument from given premises/evidence
Synthesize disparate information into coherent whole
Identify underlying assumptions/presuppositions
Construct an inductive argument from given premises/evidence
Assess credibility (of evidence, witness, etc.)
Identify explicit parts of an argument (conclusion, evidence, etc.)
Revise beliefs in the face of new evidence
Identify possible and probable consequences of a course of action
Evaluate relevance and adequacy of evidence provided
Formulate hypotheses to explain given data
Identify fallacious reasoning
Recognize inconsistencies/contradictions (among data, between data and theories, etc.)
Construct a deductive argument from given premises/evidence
Synthesize disparate information into coherent whole
Identify underlying assumptions/presuppositions
Info Credit fraud alerts
FRAUD ALERTS "Place a fraud alert on your credit reports and review your credit reports," is the first tip in the Federal Trade Commission's brochure "Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft" (downloadable from www.ftc.gov).
This is one of the most-recommended identity theft remedies, but what exactly does a fraud alert do?
"Not enough," said Kerry Smith, a consumer lawyer for the National Association of State Public Interest Groups. Mainly it means that for 90 days any potential creditor has to take precautions to verify your identity before opening new accounts in your name. Not only is 90 days a short time, the standards for verifying a consumer's identity are not clearly defined.
An "extended fraud alert," on the other hand, remains on your credit report for seven years. The extended alert requires creditors to contact you if anyone wants to open an account in your name.
That's better - and it won't derail your credit - but it's tough to procure. Consumers need to provide "a copy of an official, valid report filed by the consumer with a federal, state or local law enforcement agency," according to the F.T.C.
So when reporting data theft, don't just call your bank; contact your local police precinct and file a copy with the F.T.C. (877-438-4338 ).
This is one of the most-recommended identity theft remedies, but what exactly does a fraud alert do?
"Not enough," said Kerry Smith, a consumer lawyer for the National Association of State Public Interest Groups. Mainly it means that for 90 days any potential creditor has to take precautions to verify your identity before opening new accounts in your name. Not only is 90 days a short time, the standards for verifying a consumer's identity are not clearly defined.
An "extended fraud alert," on the other hand, remains on your credit report for seven years. The extended alert requires creditors to contact you if anyone wants to open an account in your name.
That's better - and it won't derail your credit - but it's tough to procure. Consumers need to provide "a copy of an official, valid report filed by the consumer with a federal, state or local law enforcement agency," according to the F.T.C.
So when reporting data theft, don't just call your bank; contact your local police precinct and file a copy with the F.T.C. (877-438-4338 ).
Info Conversion table
PS: In case you need a conversion table for the small-fry units still in
use down under, here's a listing that came with FactFinder 1.2 (bought in
1985, still going strong under 7.5.3):
10^15 coats = 1 petacoat
10^12 bulls = 1 terabull
10^9 lows = 1 gigalow
10^6 phones = 1 megaphone
10^3x2 mockingbirds = 2 kilo-mocking birds
10 cards = 1 decacard
10^-1 mates = 1 decimate
10^-2 mentals = 1 centimental
10^-2 pedes = 1 centipede
10^-6 scopes = 1 microscope
10^-9 goats = 1 nanogoat
10^-9 nannettes = 1 nanonannette
10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo
10^-15 fatales = 1 femtofatale
10^-18 boys = 1 atto boy
use down under, here's a listing that came with FactFinder 1.2 (bought in
1985, still going strong under 7.5.3):
10^15 coats = 1 petacoat
10^12 bulls = 1 terabull
10^9 lows = 1 gigalow
10^6 phones = 1 megaphone
10^3x2 mockingbirds = 2 kilo-mocking birds
10 cards = 1 decacard
10^-1 mates = 1 decimate
10^-2 mentals = 1 centimental
10^-2 pedes = 1 centipede
10^-6 scopes = 1 microscope
10^-9 goats = 1 nanogoat
10^-9 nannettes = 1 nanonannette
10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo
10^-15 fatales = 1 femtofatale
10^-18 boys = 1 atto boy
Info Compost Recipe
When your new plants arrive next spring, make them happy with compost from this easy recipe.
The ideal compost heap is like a layer cake:
Layer One: Straw.
Layer Two: Green (fresh kitchen wastes, grass clippings, etc.)
Layer Three: Brown (dried grass, dead leaves, etc.)
Layer Four: More green.
Layer Five: More brown or straw.
And so on…
Add an “icing” of soil on top of each green layer.
From SpringHill Nursery
The ideal compost heap is like a layer cake:
Layer One: Straw.
Layer Two: Green (fresh kitchen wastes, grass clippings, etc.)
Layer Three: Brown (dried grass, dead leaves, etc.)
Layer Four: More green.
Layer Five: More brown or straw.
And so on…
Add an “icing” of soil on top of each green layer.
From SpringHill Nursery
Info Carl Yaztrzemski
“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.” Carl Yastrzemski
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