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Giving Ourselves to God

“He who loves humanity fulfills the Law that was writ of old and is brought to the Temple now.” - Stichera of Orthros The People of Israel were commanded to offer everything from the firstfruits of their harvest to their firstborn sons to God. This is just a part of a great cycle of offering: where we give ourselves to God and God gives Himself to us. Let's take a closer look at how Jesus fulfills the Law in the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And what we can learn from the example of Saints Symeon and Anna. This week, Steve is joined by his cohosts on "3 Men and a Bible," Father Panagioti Boznos and Nick Lionas. ​ As always, we've prepared a FREE downloadable workbook to help you act on what you'll learn. https://mailchi.mp/goarch/bethebee163




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Letters: Gender bias doomed Harris | DeSantis abused power on abortion | Democrats, blame yourselves

Readers offer a variety of reasons Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris -- gender bias, the presentation of Harris' policies and Democrats' track record under Joe Biden.




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How We Express Ourselves: Making a Museum in a Box

In the last eight years, my posting habits have become pretty sparse, to say the least. Starting and running a school…it’s a lot. It keeps me busy and thoroughly exhausted. I miss it. I miss the cadence of posting regularly and interacting with my education friends virtually. I miss swapping ideas and being thoroughly steeped...




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11.11 Special: Deals the HardwareZone staff would get for ourselves (Updated)

As we count down to the 11.11 shopping extravaganza, why don't you get some shopping ideas by checking out what the HWZ writers and editors want to buy. #11.11




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Life in the stars : an exposition of the view that on some planets of some stars exist beings higher than ourselves, and on one a world-leader, the supreme embodiment of the eternal spirit which animates the whole

Location: Special Collections Hevelin Collection- BD511.Y6 1928




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Automating Ourselves Out of Existence

Time has grown more scarce after having a child, so I rarely blog anymore. Though I thought it probably made sense to make at least a quarterly(ish) post so people know I still exist.

One of the big things I have been noticing over the past year or so is an increasing level of automation in ways that are not particularly brilliant. :D

Just from this past week I've had 3 treat encounters on this front.

One marketplace closed my account after I made a bunch of big purchases, likely presuming the purchases were fraudulent based on the volume, new account & an IP address in an emerging market economy. I never asked for a refund or anything like that, but when I believe in something I usually push pretty hard, so I bought a lot. What was dumb about that is they took a person who would have been a whale client & a person they were repeatedly targeting with ads & turned them into a person who would not recommend them ... after being a paying client who spent a lot and had zero specific customer interactions or requests ... an all profit margin client who spent big and then they discarded. Dumb.

Similarly one ad network had my account automatically closed after I had not used it for a while. When I went to reactivate it the person in customer support told me it would be easier to just create a new account as reactivating it would take a half week or more. I said ok, went to set up a new account, and it was auto-banned and they did not disclose why. I asked feedback as to why and they said that they could not offer any but it was permanent and lifetime.

A few months go by and I wondered what was up with that and I logged into my inactive account & set up a subaccount and it worked right away. Weird. But then even there they offer automated suggestions and feedback on improving your account performance and some of them were just not rooted in fact. Worse yet, if they set the default targeting options to overly broad it can cause account issues in a country like Vietnam to where if you click to approve (or even auto approve!) their automated suggestions you then get notifications about how you are violating some sort of ToS or guidelines ... if they can run that logic *after* you activate *their* suggestions, why wouldn't they instead run that logic earlier? How well do they think you will trust & believe in their automated optimization tips if after you follow them you get warning pop overs?

Another big bonus recently was a client was mentioned in a stray spam email. The email wasn't from the client or me, but the fact that a random page on their site was mentioned in a stray spoofed email that got flagged as spam meant that when the ticket notification from the host sent wounded up in spam they never saw it and then the host simply took their site offline. Based on a single email sent from some other server.

Upon calling the host with a friendly WTF they explained to the customer that they had so many customers they have to automate everything. At the same time when it came time to restoring hosting that the client was paying for they suggested the client boot in secure mode, run Apache commands x and y, etc. ... even though they knew the problem was not with the server, but an overmalicious automated response to a stray mention in a singular spam email sent by some third party.

When the host tried to explain that they "have to" automate everything because they have so many customers the customer quickly cut them off with "No, that is a business choice. You could charge different prices or choose to reach out to people who have spent tens of thousands on hosting and have not had any issues in years." He also mentioned how emails can be sent to spam, or be sent to an inbox on the very web host that went offline & was then inaccessible. Then the lovely customer support person stated "I have heard that complaint before" meaning they are aware of the issue, but do not see it as an issue for them. When the customer said they should follow up any emails with an SMS for servers going offline the person said you could do it on your end & then later sent them a 14-page guide for how to integrate the Twillio API.

Nothing in the world is fair. Nothing in the world is equal. But there are smart ways to run a business & dumb ways to run a business.

If you have enough time to write a 14-page integration guide it probably makes sense to just incorporate the feature into the service so the guide is unneeded!

Businesses should treat their heavy spenders or customers with a long history of a clean account with more care than a newly opened account. I had a big hedge fund as a client who would sometimes want rush work done & would do stuff like "hey good job there, throw in an extra $10,000 for yourself as a bonus" on the calls. Whenever they called or emailed they got a quick response. :D

I sort of get that one small marketplace presuming my purchases might have been a scam based on how many I did, how new my account was, and how small they were, but the hosting companies & ad networks that are worth 9 to 12 figures should generally do a bit better. Though in many ways the market cap is a sign the entity is insulated from market pressures & can automate away customer service hoping that their existing base is big enough to offset the customer support horror stories that undermine their brand.

It works.

At least for a while.

A parallel to the above is my Facebook ad account, which was closed about a half decade or so ago due to geographic mismatch. That got removed, but then sort of only half way. If I go to run ads it says that I can't, but then if I go to request an account review to once again explain the geographic difference I can't even get the form to submit unless I edit the HTML of the page on the fly to seed the correct data into the form field as by default it says I can not request a review since I have no ad account.

The flip side of the above is if that level of automation can torch existing paid accounts you have to expect the big data search & social companies are taking a rather skeptical view of new sites or players wanting to rank freely in their organic search results or social feeds. With that being the case, it helps to seed what you can to provide many signals that may remove some of the risks of getting set in the bad pile.

I have seen loads of people have their YouTube or Facebook or whatever such account get torched & only override the automated technocratic persona non grata policies by having followers in another channel who shared their dire situation so it could get flagged for human review and restoration. If that happens to established & widely followed players who have spent years investing into a platform the odds of it happening to most newer sites & players is quite high.

You can play it safe and never say anything interesting, ensuring you are well within the Overtone Window in all aspects of life. That though also almost certainly guarantees failure as it is hard to catch up or build momentum if your defining attribute is being a conformist.

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“Sometimes We Can’t See Ourselves As What We Are”: Director Naoko Yamada On Why She Made ‘The Colors Within’

"It’s wonderful to find somebody who can show us this positive side of ourselves," Yamada says of the idea behind her new film.




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We Americans Risk Losing the Ability to Govern Ourselves. Better Civics Education Can Help

The ability to discern fact from fiction and to recognize reliable news is fundamental, writes News Literacy Project’s Charles Salter.




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Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning - "yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too"

Early reactions to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer range from frothing dislike through omnimovement hype to our own Ed Thorn's dead-eyed appraisal that it's "a good one, I think. Not a bad one. If you like Call Of Duty, you will like this. If you don't like Call Of Duty, you will not like this." I feel like we need to emergency-deploy a supply crate of smelling salts, because the sheer OK-ness of Black Ops 6 appears to have tumbled Ed into a stupor.

Perhaps it would be a different story if he'd encountered some of the spawning issues and glitches people are talking about, with players joining games and materialising right into a hail of fire. The players in question include Black Ops 6's developers, who comically note in the latest Black Ops 6 patch notes that "Yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too." The latest patch seeks to address this, naturally. As regards the campaign side of things, it also resets your safehouse currency to 5000, if you've had your single player funds stolen (or multiplied) by technical gremlins.

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Picturing ourselves : photography & autobiography [Electronic book] / Linda Haverty Rugg.

Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, [1997]




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I write to rage, and rescue ourselves from collective amnesia, says Harsh Mander, speaking on India’s Covid experience

Harsh Mander’s new book demands accountability from the state for its handling of the pandemic’s impact




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The certainty trap [electronic resource] : why we need to question ourselves more--and how we can judge others less / Ilana Redstone ; foreword by Joe Walsh.

Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2024]




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Customer sensitivity – begins with appreciation of ourselves

To be effective in a selling profession, whether it be sales or after-sales requires two distinct attributes; the skill or knowledge and the will or willingness.





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My Commute Sucks.org: Documenting how we drive ourselves crazy

Launched on national Bike to Work Day, MyCommuteSucks.org touches a mad-as-hell exposed nerve.




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Negotiation, Power, and Ourselves

Framing negotiations in terms of winning and losing w can set us up for disappointment, not only when it comes to how we negotiate with others but also how we negotiate with ourselves. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke off some other options that might...




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‘Try getting it yourselves,’ Trump tells governors seeking ventilators in coronavirus outbreak


“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” the president told governors in a conference call. The suggestion surprised some governors, who are increasingly looking to the federal government for help.




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Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s

“If the plastic speculum was the tool of choice for self-help advocates, leading women to a better understanding of their own bodies, then the popular media was Barbara Seaman’s preferred weapon in the cultural battle against medical sexism.”
— Kelly O’Donnell, in her article “Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s”

Barbara Seaman, a popular journalist in the 1960s and 70s who wrote for magazines including Brides, Ms., Ladies Home Journal, and Family Circle, was one of the first journalists to ... More

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It's Not Our "Systems," It's Ourselves




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Editorial: This could be the first worst week of many worst weeks to come. Prepare yourselves

This may well be the nation's "hardest, saddest" week yet of the coronavirus pandemic. But it may not be the last "worst" week.




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Why we're all getting to know ourselves a little better in quarantine

All this time at home has a side effect: A chance to learn more about ourselves and the people we're with. Here's how to have your a-ha moment.




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Letters: 'We are destroying ourselves, and it is needless'

Everywhere I look I see the most heinous and immoral acts.

      




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CBD News: Reconnecting ourselves to nature is sometimes easier said than done. Many of us live in cities full of concrete and use devices such as smartphones and laptops that, while connecting us to other people, often serve to disconnect us from the simp




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Diabetes Core Update: COVID-19 – Caring for Ourselves while Caring for Others, April 2019

This special issue focuses on caring for ourselves while caring for others. 

Recorded April 1, 2020.

This is a part of the American Diabetes Associations ongoing project providing resources for practicing clinicians on the care of Diabetes during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Todays discussion is an audio version of a webinar recorded on April 1, 2020.

Presented by:

Neil Skolnik, M.D.

Abington Jefferson Health

 

Aaron Sutton

Behavioral Health Consultant

Abington Jefferson Health

 




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Lost and found : memory, identity, and who we became when we're no longer ourselves / Jules Montague.

Brain -- Diseases.




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Jon Stewart Sings: "Fox News, Go Fuck Yourselves"




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How can we call ourselves civilised if we leave these poor refugee children to starve?

How desperate would you have to be to put your child onto a rubber dinghy and wave them off to the mercy of the world? It beggars belief that people are doing it but they are. Some are parents who can afford only one fare so they buy a way out for their child.




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Breathe: Caring for Students and Ourselves in the Time of Kavanaugh

So, how do we manage? What do we do when consistently engaging in the difficult discussion about rape culture is hard on our hearts, but helpful for our students?




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'Are We Going to Get Ourselves in Trouble?': Districts Struggle With Special Education

With the coronavirus pandemic pressing tens of thousands of the nation's school districts into extended closures, education administrators across the nation are wrestling with a complex and legalistic problem: how to keep services flowing for students with disabilities.




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Webinar: Navigating Lockdown and Beyond - Practical steps to support ourselves and others through a unique time

Eversheds Sutherland were delighted to partner with Women in ETFs for a one hour webinar 'Navigating Lockdown and Beyond - Practical steps to support ourselves and others through a unique time' on 30 April. The presentation was delivered by Á...




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The science of boredom can tell us how to keep ourselves amused

Boredom can be unpleasant, but we can learn from some of the world's dullest people how to keep ourselves amused, says boredom researcher James Danckert




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It's time to free ourselves from our "thrall to the metal god"

George Monbiot on how electric vehicles are not the answer.




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Jim Cramer on Moderna vaccine-sparked rally: 'Let's not get ahead of ourselves'

"This market does have a tendency to bounce between unbridled optimism and total despair — no middle ground," the "Mad Money" host said.




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Pablo Zabaleta: Man City stars were 's******g ourselves' over signing Ronaldo and Messi

The Argentine full-back was one of the last signings made by the club prior to the new owners, arriving just days before the Abu Dhabi buyout was confirmed in September 2008.




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Pablo Zabaleta: Man City stars were 's******g ourselves' over signing Ronaldo and Messi

The Argentine full-back was one of the last signings made by the club prior to the new owners, arriving just days before the Abu Dhabi buyout was confirmed in September 2008.




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Interfacing ourselves: living in the digital age / edited by Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte

Hayden Library - HM851.B636 2019




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Seeing ourselves: reclaiming humanity from god and science / Raymond Tallis

Dewey Library - BD450.T35 2020




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Theatre and aural attention : stretching ourselves / George Home-Cook

Home-Cook, George, 1975- author




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The genome factor: what the social genomics revolution reveals about ourselves, our history, and the future / Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher

Hayden Library - QH438.7.C656 2017




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A scientific search for altruism: do we care only about ourselves? / C. Daniel Batson

Hayden Library - BF637.H4 B397 2019




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Inventing ourselves: the secret life of the teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Hayden Library - QP363.5.B57 2018




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Mama's last hug: animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings by the author

Hayden Library - QL785.27.W33 2019




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Plight of the living dead: what the animal kingdom's real-life zombies reveal about nature--and ourselves / Matt Simon

Hayden Library - QL757.S48 2018




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The deep history of ourselves: the four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains / Joseph LeDoux ; illustrations by Caio da Silva Sorrentino

Hayden Library - QP411.L43 2019




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'We should not think just about ourselves'

'Every morning, when I had to step out, my wife would cry.'




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Fables and futures: biotechnology, disability, and the stories we tell ourselves / George Estreich

Barker Library - TP248.2.E83 2019




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The disordered mind: what unusual brains tell us about ourselves / Eric R. Kandel

Barker Library - RC454.K346 2018




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Coronavirus has forced us to fall back on ourselves