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Northbrook Junior High School
Northbrook Junior High School in Northbrook, Illinois, reduced its energy cost per square foot by an estimated 18% and won an Energy Star rating as a result of HVAC system renovations.

K-12 Education

Northbrook Junior High School

Northbrook, IL USA

Facility Size
2 stories, 135,000 ft2 facility

Nine additions resulting in severe overheating

Two 170 Daikin Magnitude® magnetic bearing chillers

Illinois school HVAC retrofit earns an Energy Star® for 18% annual energy savings with Daikin chillers

A quiet learning environment, consistent comfort and energy efficiency topped the list of requirements at Northbrook Junior High School in selecting chillers as part of a $1.88 million life-safety improvement renovation project. The two-story, 135,000-square foot school was originally built in 1958 and now serves 650 students in grades six through eight in Northbrook, Illinois, north of Chicago. The renovation project included replacement of all heating and cooling system components. "We had a building with nine additions over the years and a severe overheating issue," says Russ Jensen, director of buildings and grounds for Northbrook School District 28.

Quiet comfort a priority

With the priorities of quiet comfort and energy efficiency in mind, the project renovation team selected the Daikin WMC magnetic bearing compressor chiller with its industry leading efficiency and ultra-quiet operation.

"The biggest selling factor for me in selecting the two 170-ton Daikin WMC chillers was the noise factor. The chiller plant is located next to three classrooms in the lower level so the equipment had to be quiet," says Jensen.

His views are echoed by John Kluber, partner with architectural engineering firm Kluber, Skahan and Associates in Batavia, Illinois. "You can't have noise and vibration in schools with classrooms so close to the chiller plant." Daikin WMC chillers have the quietest sound levels in the industry with sound pressure ratings as low as 77 dBA per AHRI Standard 575.

The right technology for the job Kluber first saw the Daikin WMC chiller technology several years ago and knew it was right for the Northbrook project because Daikin WMC chillers effectively handle variable flow.

This capability was important because the school was converting from a primary-secondary pumping scheme to a more efficient variable primary pumping system during the renovation.

"Variable primary systems can be problematic because of the limitations of typical chillers to handle the variable flow. But Daikin WMC chillers can go down to low flow as necessary."

Jensen adds, "The technology of Daikin WMC chillers and the high level of Daikin service reinforced our decision to change the system design. We were able to proceed with a primary pumping system in a two-pipe configuration." He says the former system required more pumps with each new building addition that was constructed over the years. A total of 26 pumps were removed in the renovation since the new system requires only one main pump and a backup pump.

As part of the retrofit the old natural gas direct-fired absorber was removed and replaced with the two electric Daikin chillers. The building's original boiler was replaced with two high efficiency condensing boilers. "The old system used a piping loop for the cooling system tied into the heating system at the plant. We had two sources of heat in every classroom with one source of control," Jensen says.

Energy Savings Summary

meterEnergy savings after chiller replacement
18% annually

Energy Star
gold star award

Utility rebate
5% of the total installation cost, based on energy saved

Complex control systems

The school renovation project also included the design and installation of a comprehensive building automation system which controls everything from the indoor air environment to outside parking lot lights.

"One of the most challenging parts of the project involved integrating the building's various control systems to communicate with each other," says Chad Elliott, project manager with Premier Mechanical, Inc. in Addison, Illinois. The Daikin chillers, along with the cooling tower and pumps, are part of the chiller plant controller designed to optimize efficiency at different loading scenarios. The chiller plant controller in turn communicates with the building automation system from TAC.

Jensen explains, "The chiller plant controller communicates with the chillers, boilers and pumps using Modbus® protocol. The building automation system communicates with the chiller plant controller and other building systems using either LonTalk® or BACnet® protocol."

Elliott and the entire project team credit the fine work of temperature control contractor Precision Controls of Chicago for making the control systems integration work.

In addition to the system integration, Jensen and the school custodial team also appreciate the user-friendly touch screen operator panel on each Daikin chiller that makes it easy for them to monitor chiller operating conditions at a glance.

Magnitude chillers and retrofits: winning combination

According to the Daikin representative for the project from Thermosystems, Inc., of Lombard, Illinois, the Magnitude chillers are a perfect solution for this type of retrofit project. "Not only did the Northbrook school district replace a chiller plant with an energy efficient and quiet product, but also solved a refrigerant problem," explains the Daikin representative. The Daikin Magnitude chiller uses R-134a, a refrigerant with no phase-out schedule and no ozone depletion potential.

Tight fits and tight schedules

The compact design of the Daikin Magnitude chillers was a key factor in the timely completion of the renovation. The project had a tight timeline for removal of old equipment, installation and commissioning of new equipment. "The tear-down started in late May 2007 and we worked through the summer to complete the project by the August 24, 2007, due date which was driven by the start of the school year," Elliott says.

The project required excavation through the side of the building into a 12 by 5-feet well area, alongside the building's lower level. Elliott explains the space was opened up as a permanent part of the approximate 900-square foot plant room. "The space which houses the pumps was opened to allow for the pass-through of equipment by crane. We removed a metal grating and cut a hole in the side of the building and put a new roof over the area. The equipment pass-through was tight but allowed all equipment to be delivered fully assembled."

A gold star from Energy Star

All told, the system renovations brought Northbrook Junior High an estimated 18 percent reduction in annual energy cost per square foot in both electrical and gas usage. Kluber says the specific energy performance of the entire systems including cooling tower, pumps, and chillers was 0.38 kW/ton. He adds that the school's electricity consumption actually decreased even though new electric chillers were added to the system.

In December 2008, Northbrook Junior High qualified for the U.S. EPA's Energy Star rating for K-12 schools based on the 12-month period ending October 31, 2008. To qualify for an Energy Star rating requires a rating of 75 or better for a source energy intensity of 147 kbtuh/ft2/yr. Northbrook's source energy intensity was determined to be 109 kbtuh/ ft2/yr. The school consumes 26 percent less energy when compared to others in size and location for a rating of 79, according to Kluber.

"We strive to be as efficient as possible without affecting the end user." Jensen says. He notes that the Daikin chillers brought the school the optimized efficiency it wanted without any compromise to reliability. "It's amazing to see a building that is fifty-plus years old with so many additions all maintaining a comfortable environment at any given time of day, regardless of the season."

Northbrook Junior High is already planning another addition, which the Daikin chillers are ready to handle. Jensen says the four-school district will certainly consider Daikin Magnitude chillers in future retrofit projects. "It's our priority to maintain comfort levels in the classrooms to maintain an optimal environment for students to learn," Jensen concludes.

The chiller plant is located next to three classrooms in the lower level so the equipment had to be quiet. The Daikin WMC Chiller is the quietest chiller in its size range with sound pressure levels as low as 77 dBA per AHRI Standard 575.

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No sooner had the Lafayette City Council, with three new members and a new mayor, sat down together for the first time this week than it found itself embroiled in a widening battle with the oil and gas industry over voter-approved bans on energy extraction.

Hours before the council convened Tuesday evening, the Colorado Oil & Gas Association announced that it had filed suit against Lafayette and Fort Collins challenging the legality of ballot measures passed last month that ban or limit new drilling activity.

The association, which represents oil and gas operators in Colorado, stated in a news release that the bans are "illegal since state regulations specify and the state Supreme Court has ruled that oil and gas development, which must employ hydraulic fracturing or fracking, supersedes local laws and cannot be banned."

Lafayette now finds itself in a similar situation to that of its northern neighbor, Longmont, which was sued by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association nearly a year ago after voters passed a fracking ban there.

"The state hasn't been as proactive as people want to protect against environmental impacts," Lafayette's new mayor, Christine Berg, said this week. "To me, (the ballot measure) is more about home rule and the right to determine industrial uses in our community."

Berg, who voted for the Lafayette Community Rights Act last month, said the suit is far too fresh for the city to determine how it's going to respond just yet. But she said there's no doubt that more and more people have grown fed up with drilling rigs and well pads that have moved ever closer to neighborhoods and schools in the wake of a natural gas extraction boom in the state.

As of last month, there were 51,595 active wells in Colorado, according to state data. That's twice the number of wells that were operating in the state a decade ago.

Fracking opponents claim the practice, in which a high-pressure blend of water, sand and chemicals is injected underground to help set loose elusive pockets of gas, threatens air and water quality and endangers human health. Industry advocates counter that fracking is safe, having been heavily regulated for decades, and that opponents are using scare tactics to get their message across.

But Berg said while the science of fracking can be debated, the world of oil and gas regulation in Colorado is clearly beginning to alienate an increasingly larger segment of the population. Beside Lafayette and Fort Collins, Boulder and Broomfield also passed fracking bans in November.

"The ballot measure is a strong message to the oil and gas industry that home-rule communities want a seat at the table and not have state law preclude them," the mayor said.

Longmont paved the way

But exactly what kind of a seat, if any, municipalities will get in the war over oil and gas regulation in Colorado is not yet known. The answer will likely come from the courts, where two lawsuits against Longmont's fracking restrictions are in process.

Beside litigation filed by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association last December, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission sued the city in the summer of 2012 after the Longmont City Council passed a set of regulations restricting drilling in residential areas of the city.

Gov. John Hickenlooper has spoken out against attempts by local governments to ban drilling or fracking, saying the issue should be regulated at the state level to avoid a patchwork of rules being created across multiple communities.

But Longmont Mayor Dennis Coombs said it's clear that residents in his city and other communities nearby aren't satisfied with the way the state has set up the rules. Despite a move by the commission earlier this year to increase setbacks for drilling operations from 350 feet to 500 feet, and requiring companies to further mitigate traffic, noise, fume and other drilling impacts, wariness over such an intensely industrial activity happening close to homes hasn't subsided.

Coombs wonders why cities and towns aren't being given the authority through their zoning powers to regulate oil and gas drilling like they would any other industrial activity.

"We wouldn't allow an industrial dairy farm to set up in the middle of a residential area -- why would the city allow a battery of 20 condensation tanks to locate in a neighborhood?" he asked.

Coombs said the issue has forced him and his colleagues on the council to figure out where their allegiances lie in terms of whether to give greater consideration to state law or the Longmont charter. He knows which way he leans.

"As an elected official, I'm supposed to do what my constituents are telling me to do," he said. "I'm always going to put my city over the state, being the mayor."

The Colorado Oil & Gas Association and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission both declined Wednesday to comment for this story.

Cost a consideration in fight

According to a memo sent from the city staff to the Longmont City Council in October, the city has spent a little more than $55,000 fighting the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission lawsuit and more than $28,000 combating the industry suit.

The cost to fight expected litigation was one of the considerations behind the previous Lafayette City Council's decision to pass a resolution opposing last month's Question 300, which bans any new oil and gas drilling activity in the city.

City Attorney David Williamson said he doesn't know what Lafayette's response to the lawsuit will be -- or what it might cost to fight it in court -- as he hasn't been served with a copy of the complaint yet.

Gary Wockner, Colorado program director of Washington, D.C.-based Clean Water Action, said now is the time to amend state law to give municipalities more say over what goes on inside their borders.

"Laws change as democracies evolve -- this has become an issue of basic civil rights," he said. "If ever there was a time when the state Supreme Court needed to change law, this is it."

In the meantime, Wockner said local governments should not let the fear of an expensive legal process stop them from carrying out the will of the voters. He noted that the industry far outspent the anti-fracking movement in Colorado's election last month and it netted oil and gas interests not a single victory.

This council may be more amenable to the idea of taking on the industry than the last one was -- newly elected Councilwoman Merrily Mazza and Councilman Tom Dowling ran campaigns largely based on support for Question 300.

Anti-fracking effort is 'failing'

But Simon Lomax, western director of Energy in Depth, said anti-fracking forces are "desperately" trying to score small victories in places like Lafayette and Broomfield because they have lost multiple battles at the national and state levels.

He points to the defeat earlier this year by California lawmakers of a bill that would have stopped energy companies from using hydraulic fracturing to get at underground deposits. Illinois, too, decided against a fracking ban in June, opting instead to pass a bill that places strict regulations on the practice.

"They're going local because they have to, not because they want to," he said of the anti-fracking forces.

Energy in Depth is the research arm of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

Lomax also notes that several Cabinet members in the Obama administration, including former Interior Secretary and Colorado native Ken Salazar and former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, have attested to the safety of fracking.

"Even when critics of oil and gas in the Obama administration are saying how safe fracking is, you can see how far out on the fringes this agenda is and how badly it is failing," Lomax said.

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PARIS — The Eiffel Tower will light up to honor women’s rights and promote the French equivalent of the Time’s Up movement.

The message “Maintenant On Agit” (“Now We Act”) will be displayed all Wednesday evening on the Parisian monument ahead of International Women’s Day on Thursday.

In a short ceremony, Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo are set to make a speech alongside members of women’s rights associations to support the movement.

Launched by the Foundation of Women, the movement aims to raise funds for associations helping women pursue cases before justice, “so that no woman ever again has to say #MeToo.”

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The South Dakota State men’s basketball team is bringing more to the Big Dance than just a big man with an intimidating nickname and NBA potential.

While two-time defending Summit League Player of the Year Mike “The Dauminator” Daum is the team’s centerpiece, the squad from the small Midwestern university features seven other tournament-experienced players seeking the school’s first NCAA Tournament win.

It won’t be easy — the West Region No. 12 seed takes on fifth-seed Ohio State (24-8) on Thursday in Boise, Idaho. But the Jackrabbits (28-6) have had plenty of practice. The school will be making its third straight appearance in the tournament and its fifth in the last seven seasons.

The spotlight will be on Daum, a 6-foot-9 junior who is sixth nationally in scoring and a finalist for the Karl Malone Award given annually to the nation’s top power forward. But the Jackrabbits are a diverse team, according to head coach T.J. Otzelberger.

“We’ve got a team that has depth. We’ve got a team that can go big, that can go small. We’ve got different guys that can step up,” he said. “We can beat you where Mike has 30 points, and we can beat you where seven guys are in double figures. It’s really a credit to our guys — their togetherness and unity.”

The success of the men’s program — and the SDSU women, who are making their eighth NCAA Tournament appearance in 10 years — can be credited to several factors, athletic director Justin Sell said.

When the school with an enrollment of 12,500 made the jump from Division II in 2004, it already had a history of basketball success, including a 2003 women’s national championship.

“That just carried over,” Sell said. “I really believe that group was the one that gave our university and its supporters the idea or notion that we can do this, and we can be good.”

Rather than compete with major D-1 schools that recruit in high school hotbeds such as Florida and California, SDSU has concentrated on talent regionally. Twenty of the players on this year’s men’s and women’s squads are from South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Another five hail from North Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa, with one each coming from Illinois and Washington state.

“I think it shows the talent in the region,” Sell said. “You wonder how many kids have left our state and region (in the past) to go somewhere else because they had Division I talent.”

The university attracts those athletes in part with a solid sports program — the athletic department’s operating budget has grown from about $11 million in 2009, the school’s first year of Division I postseason eligibility, to $21 million. In recent years it has built a $65 million football stadium and a $32 million multi-sport indoor practice facility it bills as the largest of its kind at the Division I level.

Fundraising by the Jackrabbit Club boosters group has grown from about $333,000 annually to more than $1.4 million since 2009, and the city of 23,000 people puts about 2,800 in the seats for every men’s home game.

“We’ve got a Big Ten or Big 12 mentality with ma-and-pa values, and I think that’s hard to find nowadays,” Sell said.

Daum, from Kimball, Nebraska, in a recent interview posted online by the NCAA said the “fantastic” atmosphere he found at the school during a recruiting visit sold him on SDSU.

“There was just a great program, and you could tell that this community had such a great feel and atmosphere to it, that it was something hard to resist,” he said.

Daum also credited players like Nate Wolters for “laying such a solid foundation for the coaching staff to bring in high-level recruits.” Wolters was an All-American for SDSU in 2013 and has gone on to play in the NBA.

David Richman, head coach of rival North Dakota State, which made NCAA Tournament appearances in 2009, 2014 and 2015, said SDSU is a tough opponent because of “the passionate fan base that they have, their history and tradition.”

SDSU’s success has progressed to the point where simply making it to the tournament is no longer the primary goal. The men want a win. For the women, who have advanced to the tournament’s second round twice and will face Villanova on Friday, the target is even loftier — the Sweet Sixteen.

“That’s how we’ve built these teams — to win games in the tournament,” Sell said.

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1.  Check their references.  Cheerleading choreographers get new jobs by word of mouth or by someone seeing examples of their work.  If you hear about a choreographer from someone that has worked with them, be sure to ask questions about the quality of work and the overall experience.  Be sure to ask for references.  There are many talented people that work as choreographers in this business.  There are far fewer that are completely responsible and work as true professionals.  Be sure to do your homework and check a choreographer’s references!

2. Check their credentials.   Up until a few years ago, it was almost impossible to be credentialed as a cheer professional.  That is not the case any longer.  Certification by the USASF and ACCAA are easily attainable for anyone professional enough to want them, and responsible enough to get them.  Be sure to ask what credentials, if any, a person has.

3. Check their familiarity with the style in which you are looking.  Success at one competition and style does not guarantee success at all competitions.  Make sure that your person is familiar with your competition schedule.

4. Make sure that they can work with your age group/skill level.  Really good cheerleading choreographers are versatile, but some have preferences for the age groups or skill levels with which they work.  There are many different kinds of coaches/choreographers, and some just don’t have the patience and temperament to work with younger cheerleaders or those with little to no experience.  It is not difficult to find many people willing to choreograph Level 5 All Stars or an extremely talented high school team.  It is much harder to find someone willing to work with a Level 1 Mini team or a brand new middle school squad.

5. Be clear about your expectations.  Make sure that you get a clear explanation of what you are getting for the money that you are paying.  Is music included?  How many hours of instruction are included?  Contracts are uncommon in this industry, but make sure that you get details of your arrangement in writing.  Also, be sure to detail everything that you expect from your cheer choreographer with regards to your routine.  Make sure that they are aware of any rules or guidelines that are specific to the competitions at which you will be competing.  Be clear  about how many 8-counts that you want.  If they are supplying your music, give them music suggestions the first day so that they will have time to incorporate them into your routine.

6. Handle as many of the responsibilities as possible. The more details that you can handle for a cheerleading choreographer, the more effective they will be.  Make sure that everything is ready – hotel, rental car, etc. - for them once they arrive. Most choreographers work many camps during the summer and live out of a suitcase. Anything that you can do to make their time with you easier will allow them to focus more on your squad and routine.

7. Keep a reasonable schedule. Have realistic expectations for your choreographer and your cheerleaders. No one does their best work after 9 hours of instruction. No cheerleader can focus effectively all day long. 6-7 hours in a single day is a long day for a choreographer or a high school cheerleader of any age. Consider the age and experience of your cheerleaders and schedule your camp hours accordingly. Schedule appropriate breaks between sessions. Remember, that your cheer choreographer will be at their best if they are well rested and have had time to decompress between practices.

8. Communicate while they are there. If you are not happy with something in your routine, communicate your concerns. Most cheer choreographers will gladly change something or inform you of why they disagree. Remember, you are paying them for their expertise, but it will ultimately be your routine. Ask them to change something that you are not comfortable with, or do not like. If they are professional, they will not have a problem with your occasional input. And most professionals will want you to be fully satisfied with all aspects of your routine. However, remember why they are there, and let them use their expertise. If you start influencing them too much then you will not allow them to fully work their “magic”.

9. Have their money ready. Getting paid for something that one loves, and would do for free if they could, is never easy. Take the pressure off of your choreographer by giving it to them as soon as they show up for camp. If you have done your homework during the “selection process”, then you should feel comfortable that the person that you have hired will deliver up to, or beyond, your expectations. Plus, paying someone up front just takes one more worry from their mind and allows them to, again, focus on your routine.

10. Keep in touch. Be sure to keep in touch with your choreographer throughout the year. Most will be interested in your team’s progress and will want to hear how you are doing. And if you were pleased with them and plan on using them the next year, it is never too early to start looking at dates for the next summer. If they did a great job for you, chances are other people will take notice and be interested in hiring them. The best cheerleading choreographers have summers that are booked solid, and if you find a good one you will want to schedule them as far in advance as possible to make sure that you can use them again.

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Eliphas (3.5e Deity)

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Symbol: A flame superimposed over a book.
Home Plane: The Nine Hells of Baator
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Portfolio: Religion, Worship, Devotion, Fear
Clergy Alignments: Any Evil
Domains: Evil, Darkness, Death, Fire, Law
Favored Weapon: A longsword named Bloodreaper.
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Eliphas dwells in Baator as the Greater God of Religion and Worship, in the terrible Black Cathedral. There dwell his Petitioners and servants, the dreaded Harbingers. He seeks only to deliver the entire world into his tyranny of evil, and is vain and egotistical, smiting his followers for the tiniest offence, then forgiving them later, and it is thought by some that he is truly mad. His Avatar is clad in the black robes of his priests, a tall, handsome man, reading from the Book of Eliphas, his most holy book, as he smites his enemies.

The Black Cathedral, his domain, is a realm of mindless worship and obedience, thousands upon thousands worshipping the dark god within its impossibly vast halls. Every prayer, every sign of worship made to him in this place increases Eliphas' power and influence in the mortal world. Sacrifices are made in great quantity, the great reek rising to the ceiling, and under the Cathedral lies the Basilica of Torment, where the souls of those that fail Eliphas are tortured for eternity. Thousands upon thousands suffer within, and the screams blend in with the chants of devotion from above, making it impossible to tell which is which. Eliphas himself sits on a throne of gold and diamond, watching as the sacrifices are made and the black hymns are sung, and laughing with mad insanity as the eternal screams of those that fail him are heard by his insane cultists.

Praise Eliphas! May he deliver us into his tyranny of worship inside the Black Cathedral! May we die gloriously for him! Praise Eliphas!

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Eliphas is the only evil god whose worship is allowed in Westhome, and even then only barely tolerated. His worshippers are hated and feared, and often defend themselves against the mob and take vengeance with human sacrifices. No sane man will see his priests for counsel, and his clerics recieve their black spells in the dead of night. The followers of Eliphas perform darker rituals in the catacombs beneath their temples, human sacrifices and diabolical summonings as well as calling their god's Harbingers to destroy their enemies.

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Improved Weapon Familiarity

You are familiar with many exotic weapons.
Prerequisite: Soldier level 1+.
Benefit: You can treat a number of exotic weapons equal to your level of soldier as martial weapons.
Normal: Without this feat, you must select the Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat to eliminate the non-proficiency penalty you take when wielding an exotic weapon with which you are not familiar.

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A pyromancer is a type of Wizard that specializes in fire spells.

Through years as a basic Wizard, Pyromancers have risen above the rest. These mages have total control over fire and love every moment of the burning. Pyromancers are all about fire, that's all. Burn it all and smile as the flames consume all.

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Arcane Implement Mastery[edit]

Whilst pyromancers may choose any arcane implement mastery, they can also take the wand of fire.

Wand of Fire[edit]

Wizards who take the wand of fire arcane implement mastery are more effective at burning things. When rolling damage for a wizard power with the Fire keyword, you can re-roll dice that show a 1 until they result in a value greater than 1.

A list can be found Pyromancer Powers (4e Power List).

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Ring of Invisibility (3.5e Equipment)

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Ring of Invisibility
Price: 15,000 gp
Body Slot: — (Held)
Caster Level: 3rd
Aura: Faint; (DC 17) Illusion
Activation: See Text

At first, this item appears to be a normal Ring of Invisibility. Upon further inspection, however, (involving a Spellcraft check against DC 27) it is revealed that, should a wearer activate the ring, they and all items on their person would become permanently invisible; even upon removal of the ring, they remain invisible not only to others but to themselves.

They retain a sense of their own location if they possess a Wisdom score of at least 11, but if not they become disoriented and effectively dazed for as long as they remain invisible.

They cannot see themselves (though they still cast a shadow) unless employing the effects of a see invisibility or true seeing spell or similar effect.

The only way for someone who activates the ring to become visible (including any items on their person that are also invisible) is by a break enchantment or similar spell or effect. Unlike other items that the wearer sets down, should the activater of the ring lose contact with said ring, the ring becomes visible once again until worn by another person, at which point it affects that person in the same manner.

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Sympatheia (3.5e Deity)

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This deity no longer exists as a living and/or worshippable entity in the Tirr setting, but has influenced a great amount of lore and may possibly influence current events, and therefore has been added for posterity.

Lesser Deity
Symbol: An angel, plummeting to earth as a meteorite
Home Plane: Material Plane
Alignment: Neutral Good
Portfolio: Sympathy, Empathy, Secrets, Angels, Divine Intervention
Clergy Alignments: LG, NG, CG, N
Domains: Secrets, Community
Favored Weapon: Spear, Short Sword
The goddess lost to time and tragedy; Her sacrifice saw the Light removed from the divine sea, and instead, hid it away in the Material Sphere, somehow even obscuring it from the gods, themselves.

The Oath is absolute, is what all the deities were told as they joined or refused the Pantheon upon its creation. All who took the oath knew this, but the mythical truespeak they used to bind themselves to it was wondrous and divine, and the true capability of its application unknown to most, with the possible exception of Mana, the scholar's and magician's goddess. It was not until the eponymous goddess of Sympathy, Sympatheia, violated the oath for the first and only time that any of the gods truly understood the gravity of its power and what they had restricted themselves to. Perhaps true to her nature, it would also have been an act of great sympathy that ultimately sealed her fate.

Despite joining the Pantheon of Tirr with little resistance, Sympatheia was never quite able to give up the cause of, or reconcile the fate of, the Aesir. She believed their banishment was unfair, and that the oath had essentially asked them to act against their own static natures and their principle ideals. Some of the other gods, notably the Great Mother and Era, whom she often consorted with, referred to this as a level of naiveté due to her relatively younger age (although it was still measured in innumerable years), as they attempted to justify the ordeal with the potential of a grave and grim future.

As was her nature, however, the Goddess of Sympathy was never fully content with the issue, and always found it troubling to speak of or contemplate. When mortals began dotting the surface of the material sphere's many planes, she looked on. She watched as they began to come into contact with the Aesir, how Bahamut and Tiamat argued over their new followers, and how Isis found for herself new purpose in caring for the fragile creatures, and wept with the serpentine goddess as she was forced to leave them to conserve her strength. It was only after she, along with the rest of the Pantheon, found out that the mortals' appearance was due to the latent power of Varglokirr, who had been torn apart and imprisoned in the planes, that she decided to act, unilaterally. She wanted to create a deterrent, so that none could simply destroy the sphere in the future, whether out of fear for Varglokirr or otherwise; the Aesir and mortal races were facing a potential dilemma that they could not hope to defend against.

Her concerns were dismissed repeatedly when she spoke from her Lesser Throne to the rest of the gods, unable to convince them of the potential danger. Although some sympathized, there was no going against the majority of opposition that was to be had among the Major Thrones; All except the Great Mother opposed her. In desperation, she took matters into her own hands; She stole the Light from the divine sea, against the will of the Pantheon, and absconded to the material sphere in the event known historically as Starfall.

Almost as immediately as she had left the divine sea with the source of divine power, the effects became clear: the cosmic seams of her very being began to slowly come apart, much as Varglokirr had done, although in a less violent manner. All she could do was fly at great speed to her destination, in hopes that she might arrive before she faded away into nothingness and her essence dispersed. This created the appearance of great meteor slowly shooting across the sky, able to be seen from every plane across the sphere, accompanied by a great wail as her existence came undone. It is often said that Bahamut witnessed the fall from beginning to end, wept and mourned for Sympatheia, and ultimately decided on his path as the caretaker and defender of the mortals based on her actions. When the meteor finally landed, the impact shuddered the entire sphere; even planes that do not have earth to quake shuddered, once.

By the time she had landed, there was nothing left... except a wish. Before any could react, the light was spirited away to parts unknown, and none could ever find a trace of it, nor the goddess, herself. The area in which she landed became the valleys of modern day Tirasus, which are extremely fertile and experience good weather, year-round. With the source of their divine power now lost to the material sphere, and unrecoverable, the Pantheon had no choice but to safeguard the planes and their inhabitants.

The effects of her undoing were felt across many of the planes and continue to shape the world, today. Having been dominated by Varglokirr's lasting evil influence, the planes were now suddenly washed in Sympatheia's good and positive essence, resulting, some centuries later, the appearance of creatures resembling her: Angels, who make their homes in the good-aligned outer planes, and combat evil.

A common depiction of the events of Starfall.

As the goddess embodying the ideal of Sympathy, it goes without saying that her existence was dedicated to compassion and assisting others, especially those less fortunate. Her ideals would align greatly with those of other good-aligned deities, especially those of the Great Mother and Bahamut.

Clergy and Temples[edit]

There are no major temples to Sympatheia, although she is referenced in many religious temples of other deities, most notably in temples to Bahamut or the other good-aligned deities, especially among the goddesses of love, and of course, in the various temples of shared worship toward the Pantheon in Silverfell.

She is often depicted in artwork as an angel of great beauty, with an appearance of youth equivalent to that of a 20-year-old human. The events of Starfall are a subject of many songs and works of art, almost all of them remembering her solemnly, singing praises to one of mortalkind's greatest protectors.

Sympatheia was largely held in good esteem with many of the gods, especially the good-aligned ones, and her relationship with most was amicable, even if sometimes not reciprocated. This is largely attributed to her sympathetic nature. Most of the gods referred to her as if she was a younger deity by several relative years, sometimes attributing to her the traits of naiveté when doing so.

She was a great friend to Bahamut, respecting him deeply. She influenced his actions after Starfall greatly.

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This WEek's BlogPoll Top 25 Ballot: LSU, Bama

The top 2 teams in the country are LSU and Alabama -- after watching Bama in person last night, I cannot fathom that any right-minded voter thinks that if they played head-to-head, Alabama wouldn't throttle Oklahoma or Wisconsin or anyone else outside of LSU, who Alabama will probably throttle anyway, en route to a national title.

The reality is that the national championship game for college football this season is Nov. 5, when LSU plays at Alabama. LSU gets their chance; everyone else is battling for the right to get crushed by Bama in the national title game. (Then again, we said the same thing this time last year, right up until Auburn derailed Bama. I just feel like Alabama is on a mission this year.)

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Arguably the most mysterious element yet to be revealed much in promotional materials for the new “Fantastic Four” reboot is that of actor Toby Kebbell’s villain Doctor Doom.

Fans were up in arms when an early interview regarding the film suggested the character had been reinvented as an angry blogger. In a new interview from last week’s San Diego Comic Con, he shoots down those rumors and clarifies some more information about the character. Kebbell tells SHH:

“There’s no conversation about [Doom’s origins] in the film. We don’t have time to talk about me- I would love it, but we don’t have real time. Yeah, he’s still from the same place, his mother is still a gypsy and done her deals, his father still perished from exposure looking after me.

He’s angry. He’s an angry dude. But now he’s in Baxter. He’s bright and he’s trying to make people proud. He found a new father in Dr. Storm, the father of Johnny and adoptive father of Sue. I kind of get adopted as well, in a fantastic performance by Reg E. Cathey.

And that’s Doom as we see him. He’s a computer technician, a computer scientist. There were rumors he was a hacker or something, but no. Victor Von Doom is who we hope he will be.”

We’ll see for ourselves in a few weeks when the film hits cinemas around much of the world on August 7th.


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It's extremely important you make the effort and also pass trough all of those privacy setting, to make certain you stay risk-free (well at the very least as safe as Facebook will allow you to be).

The Timeline Cover Picture is what makes that impression people will obtain regarding you when they see your Facebook profile. It could be component of you, of who you are or just what you do, and also there is no limit (for currently at the very least) to where you could take this.

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- Coverphotoz a wonderful choice of top quality photos to picked from. Some do have a watermark. It also provides you an alternative to "develop your own" cover. You will have to log into your Facebook account to install these cover images.

- Just what a Timeline one more rather great selection of high quality photos to pick from.

The one that captured my attention below was this set:

- MyProfileCover an extremely wonderful option of initial artwork created largely for timeline cover photos.

- Innovative Facebook Timeline Cover Photos a really large option of creative as well as intriguing timeline cover photos. You have to allow their application to set up the cover photo for you.

It all boils down to just what you like. The drawback is though you may come across other individuals with the very same cover as you have.

make your very own facebook timeline cover.

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Absolutely nothing too complex or over the top. You do not need to be some style expert or Photoshop expert' to make your personal Facebook Timeline Cover Photo.

Below are the precise dimensions you have to understand to make everything fit ideal:

* Ah, a tiny issue I encountered right here, your Facebook account picture when you include it, has to be at least 180 x 180 pixels yet on the Timeline it will be presented at 130 x 130 260 x 260 px. It's a crucial information if you intend to utilize some type of combination between the profile and the cover photo. Let's wish they will maintain the brand-new dimensions a couple a lot more months this time around!

* An additional thing to think about when making your own cover is the quality. Also if you obtain the ideal picture height and also size, Facebook will still resize your cover image on uploading. That might cause a loss of high quality. It happened for me with a previous cover. Attempt to maintain your cover pictures as basic as you could and also don't contribute to numerous elegant impacts.

* For a somewhat better quality of the uploaded cover photo, use this little trick, submit your brand-new Timeline Cover Image in one of your Facebook picture cds and also pick the premium quality upload checkbox option offered by Facebook. After this upload, pick the photo as you brand-new Timeline Cover!

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- Copyrighted product (of other individuals obviously).

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The use of consumer data for market analysis has been used since ancient times when the Mesopotamians sold shipments of olive oil and other commodities to the Ancient Grecian empire.  While the foundations of the data storage have changed dramatically from Mesopotamian clay tablets to today's modern database management systems, the goals of business intelligence and data mining remain unchanged.

The basic tenet of business intelligence is that one can predict the future by analyzing the past, and by grouping together related groups of consumers, you can develop highly sophisticated and accurate predictive models that can save billions of dollars a year in advertising expenses.  At the same time, consumers are provided with targeted marketing which is most appropriate to their needs.

Business intelligence is not limited exclusively to the area of marketing and sales. Hospitals group patients together in terms of their age and symptoms (a "cohort"), and analyze treatment regimens in order to determine the best course of treatment for their specific patient populations.

Even though the use of business intelligence saves lives, BI technology has broader social implications.  First and foremost is the issue of data privacy.  As consumer monitoring becomes more and more ubiquitous (note how your purchasing behavior is controlled at super markets via your buyers club card), we see that many privacy advocates do not want even our most innocuous behaviors recorded.

Fortunately, most consumers don't care whether you prefer peas to string beans and they allow point of sale systems to readily track purchases.  Via the use of buyers club cards, the BI expert ties individual purchases to background demographic information. When consumers apply for buyers club cards, they provide basic demographic information which is in turn analyzed with publicly available information on major life events and income (such as the purchase of a house, a divorce, the presence or absence of children).  Hence, the database has detailed information not only about what products are being purchased, but the basic demographics of the person who is purchasing the goods or services.

The issue of data storage has always been important to business intelligence because of the dynamics of changing technology.  Disk prices are falling radically each and every year.  Back in the 1980's, 1.2 gigabytes of disk storage could cost a whopping $200, 000 whereas today you can purchase the same amount of disk for less than $100.

Given our ability to store large amounts of empirical information cheaply, the goal of the business intelligence manager is to somehow be able to cleanse and manipulate this data in such a way that accurate predictive models can be built.

Let's take a closer look at the evolution of business intelligence from the perspective of the database manager, and explore how the database influences the manipulation of these vast quantities of observable data in the real world.

Data as a predictive tool

As with previously noted, people have been analyzing data for centuries in the attempt to predict consumers' future behavior, as well as the behavior of other important tasks such as medical treatment programs.  The statistical methods for analyzing predictive data have been with us for centuries, and data mining analysis allows us to predict, with relative certainty, the internal mechanisms and behaviors of groups of people in the general public.  For an interesting exploration of this concept, see the book Super Crunchers by professor Ian Ayres of Yale University.

In his book Super Crunchers, Dr. Ayres shows how data is often replacing human intuition in many areas of business intelligence.  Today, we know the top CIO's and CEO's of large corporations can earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year, largely for their human intuition.  It's been largely recognized that computers can only take care of the well structured part of any decision making task.  We generally find that these types of information systems fall into different categories:

  • Expert systems - Expert systems are systems that quantify the well structured component of a decision task and make recommendations without the input of a human expert.  These systems are typified by MYCIN, a predictive tool that quantifies the questions asked when diagnosing specific blood illnesses.  The same approach can be applied to just about every area of business management, including the database management system itself.  In the early twenty first century, Oracle database administrators can use tools such as Oracle data mining to filter through their database metadata and performance data (using Oracle's automated workload repository), and predict in advance resource consumption trends within the database management system.

  • Decision support systems (DSS) - Decisions support systems are systems where it is recognized that human intuition is an essential component of the decision making process; and DSS technology makes no claims to actually solving the problem.  Rather, a decision support system provides the decision maker with information from their problem domain and leaves the actual decision process to the human expert.  This is an important concept within information systems.

It is interesting to note that many systems which were first thought to be decision support systems turn out to be expert systems.  In one notable case, a major soup manufacturer was about to loose a long-term employee of forty years, who knew every intricacy of the tricky soup vats within the company.

Initially setting out to create a DSS, the decision analyst quizzed the employee over a period of months and discovered that what was once thought to be intuition was actually the application of a large set of well structured decision rules.  When this soup vat expert would say something like "I have a feeling that the problem is X", it appeared to be human intuition to those less knowledgeable observers.

However in reality it was the application of a long forgotten decision rule or an experiential case for which the individual had since lost conscious knowledge.  The application of the decision support system technology eventually led to an expert system.  This allowed the forty year worker to retire comfortably, with the knowledge that all of his years of decision rules had in fact been quantified, helping the soup company carry on without him making even faster and better decisions as a whole.

The application of business intelligence for predictive models

The idea of data mining allows us to do far more than predict the future behavior of a consumer.  Companies such as Amazon pioneered the idea of a "recommendation engine", which analyzed patterns of behavior amongst known consumers, extrapolated them online, and made on-point recommendations for future purchases. This type of technology has also been applied to other web-type interfaces such as NetFlix and TiVo, where consumers are directed to related entertainment that people of similar interests might have in mind.

Another good example of data mining is the role of a bank loan officer.  Traditionally, bank loan officers all have access to the same set of data, but it is undeniable that some people serve as better loan officers than others.  This could be blamed on human intuition, whereby the loan officer recognizes someone as either having a good or a bad propensity to repay the loan based on non quantifiable characteristics.

It is largely understood now that the role of an experienced bank loan officer has more to do with the subtle nuances of the applicant; and being able to recognize them.  Hence, today's bank loan officers are largely constrained by following the computer whereby an individual borrowers is compared against a cohort (the term "cohort" is the arbitrary grouping of like minded people).

In some, the rapid falling prices of disk storage technology have now made it feasible for organizations of even a modest budget to store trillions of bytes of real time information about their business processes.  The immediate challenge is how to store, organize, and extrapolate from this information in order to make valuable business decisions.

Let's take a closer look at the underlying database technology, and explore how today's database management systems help business intelligence experts to organize, collect, and make valid predictive models.

The foundation of database management for business intelligence

The storage of online data began in the 1960s as organizations began to develop the digital means to store information about stock prices, consumer trend behaviors, and so on.  Unfortunately, this information had to be stored on large volumes of magnetic tape, and simple decision support queries for correlations could take days, making it difficult for a manager to follow any 'flow' of a decision process.  It was only as disk storage began to become cheaper that this information was able to be brought online, so that the information could be indexed, pre-computed, and organized in such a fashion that the user of the business intelligence system could quickly get feedback on given questions.  This would stimulate new questions, and provide a platform for making more informed business decisions.

An early leader in the area of decision support systems and expert systems was SAS, the Cary North Carolina based company which has been a capstone of data analysis for more than forty years.  SAS had its own full programming language and rudimentary data storage platform, upon which statistical algorithms could be run to analyze just about any kind of information. But as today's corporations start collecting "raw" data from their observable world, several problems have to be undertaken:

  • Data cleansing - Data is only as good as the input to that system, and common keyboarding errors from individuals can skew the quality of the information. Today we recognize that all data must be cleaned, scrubbed, and standardized in order to get meaningful information from it.

  • Data summarization - In data summarization, we find the problem of pre-computing large scale aggregations from mammoth volumes of data in real time.  A simple question like "how many consumers of widgets are their in New York?", might require millions of data block I/Os, and a significant amount of computing power. Even with today's super fast computer systems and super cheap disk storage, the decision support system or expert system must be able to have this information available at the fingertips of the decision maker, which often requires pre-summarization and pre-aggregation of the salient data factors. Hence, today's database managers devote a significant amount of time to observing the decision patterns of their end user base, using tools such as Oracle materialized views, Oracle's star query joins; allowing the information to be accessible to the end user base in a real time fashion. We also see today's business intelligence applications supporting a drill down mechanism whereby they can take a look at the behavior of a cohort as a whole, then double click through to see the information at successive levels of usage.  Today, we see tools such as the Urchin software (now called Google Analytics) which allow website referrer stats to be organized in such a way that an SEO, or search engine optimization expert, can quickly drill through and see how customers are visiting their individual websites.

We also see a paradigm change on the Internet whereby referrer statistics can now measure not only the number of page viewed for an individual webpage but how long an individual actually spends on that page; a far better indicator of the actual popularity of a web page.  These types of technology are fostering a whole new way that we use information in order to make predictions.

For example, Ayres notes in his book "Super Crunchers" that he helped chose the title "Super Crunchers" by doing an empirical experiment using Google AdWords on the keywords "data mining".

By presenting his end user community with a choice of either "Super Crunchers" or "The End of Intuition", Ayres was able to determine that Super Crunchers was a far better title using the very type of data mining technology which he espouses within his fantastic book.  But the idea of using database management systems as the foundation for business intelligence also has applications far beyond basic predictive modeling.

 Let's take a look at some of the more sophisticated uses of these trillions of bytes of corporate information, and understand how they can be used for hypothesis testing.

Hypothesis testing in business intelligence

The aircraft industry learned in the 1960s that large-scale computers could be used to simulate the flying of a new aircraft without putting pilot's lives at risk, and we are starting to see the same application of hypothesis testing being used within the business community today. Prior to launching a 100 million dollar ad campaign, the behavior of that can be simulated using sophisticated algorithms and techniques which will model the actual advertising campaign in order for the marketing executive to see what kind of an ROI (return on investment) the marketing campaign might do.

Hypothesis testing is generally a "what if" type of question, whereby the business intelligence expert can isolate individual variables within their database and manipulate them over time based on well defined preconditions. This "ceteris paribus" approach (ceteris paribus literally means "all else being equal"), allows the decision maker to keep everything except their problem domain fixed. By fixing all but a single variable, and testing it against a well known universe, the business intelligence person can develop models which are far more sophisticated than traditional predictive analysis.  For more information on this technique see Dr. Carolyn Hamm's book "Oracle Data Mining".

The costs of business intelligence

It's often said in the information technology world that you 'can't afford not to have a data mining technique with in your organization'. It's not uncommon to hear stories of payback periods compressed into mere weeks even on data mining projects that cost tens of millions of dollars, because of the high value of the information that comes from these, and the end users savings for consumers.

The best example of this of course is within predicting consumer behavior, where organizations save hundreds of millions of dollars in broadcast advertising, replacing it instead with well-targeted advertising and a high probability of buying a specific product.  The consumers appreciate the targeted marketing, and the reduced costs allow products to be offered more cheaply; benefiting everyone.

Let's take a close look at the shift of the costs.  Back in the 1970s the major cost of any data warehousing or any data mining operation was the hardware itself which would often comprise more than 80% of the total cost.  In the early twenty-first century we see a complete reversal of this, whereby the disk storage, while significant, are minimized by the amount of work required by both the database administrator and the business intelligence analyst. A highly skilled database administrator must be put in place in order to capture the real time data and organize it in such a fashion (using tools such as Oracle partitioning) so that the information can be more easily accessed by the statistical managers.

Once the data has been collected, organized, and aggregates are pre-computed and summarized, the largest expense is that of the business analyst themselves.  These people must have very extensive backgrounds in multivariate statistics and understand in detail how all of the algorithms work, so that they can tear through all of this data in order to make statistically meaningful correlations between the data.  In some, the lion's share of today's costs of data business analysis are in the human resources arena, propelling an experienced data mining analyst into the realm of some of the most highly paid people within the information systems industry.

Conclusions about business intelligence in America

The Gartner Group  has predicted a large scale uptake of business intelligence within the IT arena for the years 2007-2015, largely based upon the industry's understanding as a whole that this information is quite valuable and has an extremely short payback period.  While disk costs continued to fall, data storage engines such as SAS, DB2, and Oracle provide the vehicle and platform for sophisticated business analysis.

We can expect to see a lot more demand for people who are highly skilled in quantitative aspects of data analyses.  These data analysts may not be fluent in Oracle Database administration or the nuances of the internal data storage, but they have the statistical acumen of an actuary, a 'super cruncher' if you will, who is someone who can take terabytes of point of sale information and glean the nuggets of golden information from that.  This is certainly an emerging area of information technology, one that requires many years of studies in statistics and understanding how to present information in a meaningful way to the decision maker.

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Are you ready for some authentic, homemade Thai food with fresh ingredients and a reasonable price? If you are, stop in at Dee Thai Express, 520 W. Sheldon St. (where Aloha Grill used to be).

This is a small brightly decorated restaurant serving delicious home-cooked Thai food made to order. There are 19 entrees on the menu, two appetizers and no desserts. They do not serve alcohol but you can bring in wine or beer. They have soft drinks, coffee and tea. They also have Thai Iced Coffee and Thai Iced Tea at $2.75 each. All entrees come with your choice of beef, chicken, pork, or tofu. All are priced at $8.99 or add shrimp for a dollar more. There are two kinds of Spring Rolls. One, fried, is served with a sweet-and-sour sauce. The fresh Spring Roll is wrapped in rice paper filled with cabbage, carrots and mint, and served with a delicious peanut sauce. Both are priced at $5.25. We really enjoyed the fresh roll.

Noodles are a specialty here so several of the dishes we sampled were noodle dishes. The Spicy Noodle (Drunken Noodle) was served with the choice of meat and flat or glass noodles, we tried both. The dish also has garlic, chili, bell peppers, mushrooms, yellow onion, carrots, baby corn, broccoli and basil. You can get it as spicy as you like on a 1-to-5 scale with 5 being very spicy. The flavors were well balanced with both the chicken and the shrimp. The subtle brown sauce was very tasty and 3 or 4 on the spice scale is perfect. The Green Curry with tofu was another selection that we sampled, with bamboo shoots, eggplant, bell peppers, peas, carrots, celery, basil and coconut milk. The coconut milk and basil adds sweetness to the dish and coupled with the Prik Nam Pla (fish sauce with chilies) it has a delightful sweet/salty flavor. We also sampled the Pad Gra Prow with tofu. This flavorful dish comes with stir-fried garlic, chilies, bell peppers, yellow onion, string beans and basil in a hearty brown sauce and, as with the Green Curry, comes with perfectly cooked rice on the side. You can also have an optional fried egg on top of the Pad Gra Prow. I did and it was excellent.

The last entrée we tried was the Pad Thai Noodle with chicken. It is a good portion of stir-fried rice noodles with bean sprouts, carrots, string beans, green onion, egg and ground peanuts in a spicy red sauce. This is a classic dish served in all Thai restaurants and this was as good as you'll find. A perfect blending of spices that coat the noodles and just the right amount of heat made this a delicious Pad Thai. All the dishes were cooked to perfection with the vegetables retaining their crunch.

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Can evolution be disproved with other theories or with religion?

  • Yes it can

    Until it is proven 100%, it can be disproved. There is no such thing as a proven theory, or else it would not be a theory. I'm not going to get into it here, but there are other possibilities. If there is a God, which i believe there is, anything is possible.

  • Easy common sense

    I believe in a One true and Only Creator of all things. I know a little bit about a lot of different things, but not to a professional degree standard. So in my way of putting certain things in an open perspective the best I can try to explain with some common knowledge. First, lets start with numbers. Every number is cannot be greater or smaller without at least 1. Second thing is a lot of scientists and theorists talk about theories and tests that try to disprove a Creator but in that occurance throughout almost every or every debate they forget that the experiment needed hands to combine the materials in the experiment or a force to combine or separate the materials and an observer to see it or hear it or even feel it happening. And one thing most debated forget about which is the most obvious proof in front of us but oversee is even the creator of the experiments with the idea and the tester who is also a part of the experiment, and without that one you couldnt test anything whether combining or separating and providing results.
    Proves that whether a creator of an experiment to prove something or a person who is defending the creator, that both can sometimes overlook what does a creator do and how does a creation be created like a creator of the debate about an idea or subject and having an audience of observers to see different sides of a subject to see what things make sense to something you cannot see but you try to see a lot of little things that you can see to make sense of this thing you don't see just like a science experime.

  • Of Course Not, There Are No Theories Near To Evolution As Far As Explaining The Diversity Of Life:

    There is nothing in human knowledge that comes close to Evolution as far as explaining how simple beginnings ended up as an extremely diverse range of species and adaptations on this planet. There are organisms that have adapted to almost every extreme on our planet, even ones that can consume waste we thought could not be broken down such as plastics.
    The range of adaptations is incredible.
    So nothing we have devised in the way of hypotheses even come close to Evolution and nothing has been verified as much as Evolution has been.
    Religion has nothing to offer as it does not even have any Scientific Theories to challenge Evolution and certainly nothing verified.
    Such a challenge is Completely Impossible.

  • No,evolutuion can not be disproved by religion or other theories.

    The reason that so much controversy exists around evolution is that it can not be either proved or disproved in an absolute manner.Religion and other types of institutions have tried to disprove evolution.The problem is that some parts of evolution have a lot of supportive evidence that shows substantive proof.

  • Evolution Is Pretty Strong

    The Evolution theory has become so strong that you will not be able to disprove it with other theories and especially not with religion. Evolution is a very strong theory and not one that really shows any need to be disproved. It has many proofs and a wide variety of evidence to support it.

  • The evidence for evolution far outweighs the evidence against it.

    Evolution cannot be disproved for the same reason that it cannot be proved. It is a scientific theory and, in science, nothing is ever actually proven, only established as a likely theory. It is, however, testable. Although it is impossible to study the effects of evolution over a long period of time. Successful research involving more short term effects of evolution have successfully established many evolution hypotheses as commonly accepted theories among the scientific community.

  • No I don't think so.

    Evolution can not be disproved with theories and religion. You can believe in evolution and believe in religion, they work well together. It never said we came to earth at our perfect form, we can still evolve and change with the environment, but have higher beings out there whatever they may be.

  • No, it is still a valid theory.

    No, evolution cannot be disproved with other theories or with religion, because there is no definitive answer on the issue of creation vs evolution. There is also the suggestion that creation and evolution are not incompatible theories. It is possible that God directed evolution to occur according to the way that he wanted it to. We simply do not know the truth on the issue.

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Button Pushers

I was having a talk with my son this morning about what happens when buttons get pushed. He's having a little trouble making the right choice in certain situations, and I was trying to explain to him the importance of having a plan when a particular button gets pushed.

"The right choice doesn't happen by accident," I told him. "You need to know in advance what you are going to do if your buttons get pushed."

Suffice it to say that he isn't interested in my advice. But it got me thinking.

We tend to be people of reaction. Right choices don't happen by accident; we go into default mode, whatever that is for us, and end up rationalizing that we can't help the way we are.

Not true.

  • "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but power, love, and self-control." 2 Timothy 1:7
  • "But the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, goodness, and self-control." Galatians 5:22-23
  • "Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Romans 12:1
We have it in us to live differently. We don't need to be hostage to our feelings and gut reactions, because while those may be what comes naturally, it doesn't always mean it's right.

Someone today will push your buttons. Make your plan now so when the time comes, your response is driven by the Spirit, not the flesh. You can't always avoid your triggers, but you do have the tools to deal with them.


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