These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
Top 8 Signs your Significant Other is an Agent of SATAN 8> Constantly doing aerobics to "Sweatin' To The Eternal Fires of Damnation" video. 7> C'mon -- do you really think God would find a partner for a loser like you? 6> Brimstone and fire and the smell of sulfur every night, even when he hasn't had Taco Bell. 5> Claims she got that "Roast Suckling Child" recipe by watching Martha Stewart. 4> Uses a toaster to keep the bathwater hot. 3> You say, "I'd sell my soul for a good bagel in this town"; she pulls out a receipt pad. 2> The head rotating, the screaming and cursing, the pea soup vomit... and it's not even that time of the month! 1> While playing Go Fish, she asks, "Got any souls?"
Because of the large increase in the size of the air force, General Marshall suggested that Arnold select a few relatively junior air corps officers to be jumped in rank, thus preparing younger talent for effective leadership. Arnold replied that if he promoted these officers, he did not believe he could sustain the morale of the World War I flyers among the senior colonels. Many of these had been reduced from wartime rank in 1919 and had served as long as seventeen years as lieutenants. Jump-promoting "youngsters" in their thirties, he thought, would shatter the morale of the older, more experienced group. Marshall, therefore, proceeded on his own, immediately promoting Lt. Col. Laurence S. Kuter, age thirty-six, to the rank of brigadier general. Kuter had been a lieutenant colonel for only about three weeks when this promotion was made. Arnold was then instructed to place the thirty-six year old Kuter in a high position on his staff and be less concerned about the morale of the older officers and more concerned with providing incentives for the younger ones.
NOT ALL CHAOS ON THE WEATHER MAP IS EQUAL,
researchers have found, providing insights that are hoped to
improve weather forecasting. Researchers usually assume that all
spots on a weather map are equally chaotic, meaning that small
uncertainties in initial conditions grow to the point at which the
conditions become unpredictable. Now, a multidisciplinary
University of Maryland team of meteorologists, physicists, and
computer scientists (DJ Patil, 301-405-4842, dpatil@ipst.umd.edu)
has developed a technique that identifies what can be considered as
chaos "hotspots," regions in which small changes in conditions are
believed to magnify most quickly into large perturbations in the
weather. Chaos hotspots shift their location on a regular basis, but
tend to cover only about 20% of the global map at any given time.
Making more meteorological observations in hotspots can help
reduce forecasting errors, the researchers believe. Since 1992, the
National Weather Service has provided "ensemble forecasts," in
which a computer model generates a main forecast and several
slightly adjusted forecasts providing a range of possible outcomes
for the weather. The Maryland researchers look at global wind
predictions from five of these forecasts at a particular level in the
atmosphere (where the pressure is 500 millibars). Placing these
five forecasts on the map, the researchers then look at wind
vectors, which specify how each forecast deviates from the main
forecast in wind strength and direction. Analyzing 1100 km-by-
1100 km squares in a global map, they identify regions where the
vectors tend to line up with one another (see figure at
http://www.aip.org/mgr/png). The aligned wind vectors have
"low dimensionality," transforming the regions in which they
reside into chaos hotspots where good initial observations become
most crucial for reducing forecasting errors. All other points on
the map are less important for forecasting, the authors say. (Patil
et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 25 June 2001; text at
http://www.aip.org/physnews/select.)
Gibbon ... said that in Roman society all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally useful. It would be difficult to deny that this is true of some of today's "developed" societies. ... Tolerance with respect to what is not important is easy.
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