-- I have moved the most important excel data gathered during my «normal» research process to my checklist: although data is more or less the same, there is lot more focus now and probably in the future helps me to «get in to the core» faster — Gathering lot more data from footnotes: reading them with lot more focus — Added points where I have to write short comments
about each observation with date - > easier to backtrack thinking and mistakes.
Not exact matches
Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged
with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion
about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds
with the evidence and «inconsistent
with the
observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»
My buddy Jim Kane
with Retailer Web Services recently made an interesting
observation about public companies: He noted founders waste an embarrassing amount of shareholder cash trying to save or slowly wind down companies instead of shuttering operations when it's clear the odds have turned against them.
The mammoth research project involved sifting through more than 10,000
observations about managers and correlating these
with measures of team success.
Over the weekend I listened to Russ Roberts» interview
with Jason Zweig, who made an excellent
observation of how vast the financial markets are and how little time investors spend thinking
about this: I think if there's one overriding theme to the book, one of the things I've tried to get across in The Devil's...
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about the potential effect of the new company and analysts»
observations.
And so, his
observation, and this is looking at real data
about retirees, is that the early retiree years, so just after you retire at 65 or whenever that might be, tend to be the higher spending years in many retirees» plans; and that is because maybe they have pent up demand to do stuff
with their money — whether it's travel or other leisure activities.
The Austrian obsession
with intrinsic worth leads me to another
observation about the crypto currency faithful.
Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's
observation about life in general applies
with unusual force in the financial world: «Most men would rather die than think.
I was talking
with the editor of Breakthrough Technology Alert, Patrick Cox
about health care costs and he made some very interesting
observations from new research
about health care.
excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few other
observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated
with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial in large swaths of Indian society.
It's even been proven by Google
with its extensive analysis of over 10,000
observations about managers across over 100 variables.
Frankly, I'm
about as exhausted
with such
observations as you are.
The first is just the
observation that I bought what amounts to a 1.5 million dollar laptop screen
with bitcoin back when it was a newfangled science project, much like the million dollar pizzas one reads
about on the web.
= > this is a negative confirmation as science can only observe the natural thus even
with all the talk
about someday we will know the evidence confirms the
observation that day never has come.
Language would not exist without humanity, it is derived from human thought and meaning; while the sun would go on burning
with or without us, our
observations, or our thoughts
about it.
And even when there is substantial objective evidence to go
with the subjective
observations and interpretations of myself and others, I refrain from talking
about it unless there is a * need * for me to say something specific.
A comment that stays
with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's
observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought
about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.
It was in an article on dealing
with substance abuse and addiction, but one
observation about prayer stood out for me: «Alternate two prayers — «Help» and «Thank you.»
We create Models from those
observations and iterate towards the truth
about the PHYSICAL universe Philosophy, like metaphysics and including religion, deals
with the greater reality beyond the PHYSICAL universe.
A Facebook post, Instagram caption or series of tweets starts innocently enough, and suddenly your social media «friend» is ranting
about Starbucks cups, burning bridges
with their own family members or making problematic «
observations» while sharing a local news story.
This is an important
observation, but one that is somewhat deficient in providing positive information
about the status of the two theologies
with respect to each other.
I was just making an
observation on something I disagreed
with — you don't have to get nasty
about it....
With these
observations about the religion of the Pulayas let us move on to look at the communication of the Gospel by the missionaries.
You don't really know what you are taking
about — but sounds good — seems like you are happy
with your
observation so why the frowny face?
Science starts
with observations and tries to draw generalizations
about them.
But let me begin
with some general
observations about the case for welcoming biotechnological change — change we can and, in fact, already do believe in.
Better to say that even if it does not, such a shift to the right will happen again and again because the one good thing
about being in the
observation car is that you can see
with some clarity where you have been.
From a finite set of particular
observations one can not derive a universal generalization
with certainty (the much debated logic of induction can provide no inferential grounds for making assertions
about all cases when only a particular group of cases has been examined).
So people who make
observations about their surroundings are the problem
with society?
He was speaking to teachers
about education, but his
observation applies also to parenting — to parents who know they have an ideal for the concept of the «good» and a relation
with a gracious God.
And as
with all the future predictions that always accompany
observation there can be a justifiable certainty, especially
about the past and present, as well as provisionality, especially
about the future.
In thinking
about the public order, notes Turner, Calvin College has drawn heavily on the legacy of the Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920), but he agrees
with Mark Noll's
observation that recent evangelical political thinkers have also borrowed «from the Anabaptist heritage, from the mainline Protestantism of Reinhold Niebuhr, or from the neoconservative Catholicism of Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel.»
This discussion began
with the
observation that Peirce offered an insight into speculation
about evolution when he introduced the notion of agape as an operative principle.
The responses of RCIA participants underscore the commonsensical
observation that what the Catholic Church teaches — including what she teaches
about the importance of being in communion
with the Catholic Church — is at the heart of why these people are becoming Catholic.
Earlier, in the section on context, I drew attention to Schreuder's
observation about German congregations appreciating the sermon out of their sense of solidarity
with the preacher.
These
observations reminded me of a frustrating conversation I had
with some friends a few weeks ago
about the theory of evolution.
It's a neat way to think
about it, and also points to a collective - personality
with a memory and an interaction that takes place between individuals, almost a meta -
observation on what it means to be human, if you will.
And, as
with absolutely everything C. S. Lewis writes, the letters of C. S. Lewis are full of theological insights and poignant
observations about life, church, writing, theology, relationships, and a whole variety of other topics.
That is why a seer in the Brihadaranyaka Upanisad advised people not to meditate upon the meaning of words, why the Tao Teh Ching begins
with the
observation that the reality which can be expressed linguistically is not the Reality, and why Zen masters warn us not to trust anyone who talks
about the Buddha.
This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience
with himself as he struggles
with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his
observation of the world
about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.
That he would write
about his brush
with death was to be expected, for he wrote
about everything: in books and magazine articles» not to mention his collection of
observations and arguments published in the back of this magazine each month.
I have tried to distill my
observations about the church over the last few years into a few bullet points, both to help myself understand what I have been through and to see if any of these conclusions resonate
with anyone else.
Viladesau quotes Karl Rahner's pertinent
observation that «when listening to a Bach Oratorio... we have the impression that, not only through its text, but also through its music, we are in a special way brought into a relationship
with divine revelation
about humanity.»
What is more, he sees that to talk in the fashion in which he has done is intimately tied in
with a picture of deity that is both biblically responsible and in accordance
with what our contemporary knowledge has to tell us
about the way things appear to us through
observation and investigation.
David can critique anything
about the church institution or theology or culture — 30 years of
observations is hard to argue
with.
I'm counting on my friend Roger to bring his historical and theological insight to the conversation, which means I'll be sharing a bit more from a personal perspective, incorporating my own story
with some of your stories to make some general
observations about what I think is happening in evangelicalism and why some of it makes me excited and some of it causes concern.
It is telling that they themselves appear uneasy
about this conclusion and follow it
with an
observation that casts a fundamental doubt on it: «The procedure still introduces a third party by having someone else do the insemination.»
It's
about what you can support and reproduce
with facts, measurements,
observations.
Today I want to share
with you some
observations I've made from my own life as well as the lives of my friends
about escaping.