Sam Donaldson's Digits in DC Madam's Black Book

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Sam Donaldson's Digits In DC Madam's Black Book
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Buzz up!on Yahoo!Once upon a time in D.C. there was a Madam named Debra. The boys under the Dome loved her milkshakes and they formed a line in her yard. Soon a scandal erupted, and to the long list of politicos found peppered in Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone records, a certain infamously combed-over newsman from the very network that broke much of the story was included as well.

Maybe one of Sam Donaldson's phone numbers allegedly showing up in Ms. Palfrey's immense list of ungentlemanly callers was part of the reason ABC's coverage of the Madam's story was ultimately rather, uh, flaccid.

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The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N. W. O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, Bali, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and Freedom, and reinstate God's Perfect Laws of Liberty and bring the perpetrators to Justice.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

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Interface metaphor

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An Interface metaphor is a set of user interface visuals, actions and procedures that exploit specific knowledge that users already have of other domains. The purpose of the interface metaphor is to give the user instantaneous knowledge about how to interact with the user interface.

The folders and the file cabinet representation of the file system of an operating system is an example of Interface metaphor. Another example is the tree view representation of a file system, as in Windows Explorer, that helps a user to intuitively use it.

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1 Functional definition
2 Generation of metaphors
2.1 Historical contributions
2.2 Recent findings
3 Evaluation
4 References
5 See also
6 External links



[edit] Functional definition
Interface metaphors are designed to be similar to physical entities but also have their own properties (e.g., desktop metaphor and web portals).

They can be based on an activity, an object, or a combination of both. They work with users' familiar knowledge to help them understand ‘the unfamiliar.’ They conjure up the essence of the unfamiliar activity, but they put it in terms users are better able to understand.


[edit] Generation of metaphors

[edit] Historical contributions
In the mid-twentieth century, computers were extremely rare and used only by specialists. They were equipped with complicated interfaces comprehensible only to these select few. In 1968, Douglas Englebart gave a demonstration which astonished executives at Xerox. [1] They began work on what would eventually become the Xerox Alto. In 1973 Xerox completed work on the first personal computer, the Xerox Alto, which had a sophisticated graphical user interface involving windows, icons, a mouse and a pointer. (WIMP) [2]

Unfortunately, the Xerox Alto, and its successor the Xerox Star were far too expensive for the average consumer, and suffered from poor marketing. In 1984 Apple Computer launched the Apple Macintosh, which was the first affordable and commercially successful personal computer to include a graphical user interface (GUI). The Macintosh was the second Apple Computer to ship with a graphical user interface, with the Apple Lisa being the first. [3]

In 1985, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows which bore a striking resemblance to both Macintosh, and to the Alto's interface. Microsoft Windows eventually overtook Apple in the PC market to become the predominant GUI. [4]


[edit] Recent findings
Interface metaphors have come a long way since they were first used. Recently, it has been predicted that the latest metaphors will come from life sciences. Others may come from health care or other industries, as they are going to become information-dense environments. An interface for a next-generation technology might come from the gaming world, where quick visualization metaphors will be.

A downside to changing interface metaphors on a constant basis is that the owners of software with many users are reluctant to make big changes, and their interfaces tend to evolve incrementally and to keep their familiar look and familiarity.


[edit] Evaluation
Software designers attempt to make computer applications easier to use for both novice and expert users by creating concrete metaphors that resemble the users' real-world experiences. Continual technological improvement has made metaphors depict these real-world experiences more realistically to ultimately enhance interface performance.

Beginning users, however, could use a sort of help box, because the metaphor not always going to be clear enough for them to understand, no matter how much effort its programmers devote to making it resemble something the users understand.

Experts, on the other hand, understand what is going on with the technical aspects of an interface metaphor. They know what they want to do and they know how to do it—-they could just use a way to do it faster, so they could use shortcuts.

While the concept behind interface metaphors appears simple (to promote more efficient facilitation of a computer), a lack of empirical evidence exists to support these claims. Little research has actually been completed that demonstrates the benefits of implementing metaphors in computer systems as well as what makes a metaphor most effective. Therefore, it is imperative that more research be done to discover how to further improve interface metaphors so that both novice and expert computer users are able to increase their performance.

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The complexity of love/Passion Paradox

Passion Paradox
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Passion Paradox is a theory about romantic relationships created by Dean Delis in his book "Passion Paradox: Patterns of Love and Power in Intimate Relationship." The term "passion paradox" was coined by his co-author Cassandra Phillips. According to Delis, one partner is more in love – or emotionally invested in the relationship – than the other. The more love the loving partner wants from the other, the less the other feels like giving.

The more in love partner is in the one-down position, whilst the less in love partner occupies the one-up position. Men and women can occupy both positions at various times.

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1 The Relationship Balance
2 Details
3 Research
4 References



[edit] The Relationship Balance
"The author affirms that virtually everyone experiences love’s two sides in the same way (pleasure and pain). It does not matter whether your past experiences moulded you to be a particular person – no one, even the emotionally healthy person, is exempted from the pain of love when it tips out of balance. In this context, love relationships would produce a paradox: ‘one-downs’ try harder as they feel insecure and want to get back in control. They attempt to enhance their attraction power. The goal of such effort is to gain emotional control over the relationship as to avoid the nightmare of rejection (that means winning his or her love). But the catch is: if you prove too appealing to the one you want – to the point where the other person is clearly more in love with you – the relationship will fall out of balance.

When such event occurs, you have become the ‘one-up’ or, if you are frightened by your partner’s distance, you have become the ‘one-down’. It would seem that the very urge to attract someone, to bring another person under emotional control, contains the potential for upsetting the balance of the relationship. This is because the feeling of being in love is biochemically linked to the feeling of being out of control. Once you feel completely in control or sure of another person’s love, your feelings of passion begin to fade: vanishing the challenge or excitement of the relationship."[1]

Dr Dean C. Delis in his book "The Passion Trap: Where Is Your Relationship Going?" states

“ It's the catch-22 of romantic relationships: The more deeply one partner falls in love , the more distant the other becomes. This is the passion trap, an emotional dynamic that results in increasing desire and desperation in the 'one down' lover, and dissatisfaction, often mingled with guilt and withdrawal in the 'one up' ". ”
—Dr Dean Delis



[edit] Details
“ The very urge to attract someone, to bring another person under your emotional control, contains the potential for upsetting the balance of the relationship. And that is because the feeling of being in love is biochemically linked to the feeling of being out of control.
Once you feel completely in control or sure of another person's love, your feelings of passion begin to fade. Gone is the challenge, the emotional spark, the excitement.

Of course, we all know that the dizzy, delicious feelings of new love can't last forever. In a balanced relationship, after the initial passion fades, the partners move into a phase of enduring intimacy and warmth. But when one partner falls more deeply in love than the other, it can trigger harmful patterns between them.

Such was the case with Liz and Nate. As Liz's initial awe of him faded, she began to pursue other interests rather than center her life around him. So Nate began to feel his security in the relationship slip away. And that made him feel less in control of and more in love with Liz.

His very loving ways were attempts to win her love and to free himself from rejection anxiety . But his "hypercourtship behaviour" backfired by making Liz feel even more in control of the relationship, less excited by it, and eventually less loving toward him.

However, if your lover is more successful at winning your love than you are at winning his, as Doug was, you'll feel more insecure and more in love. Then you'll strive for closeness and control. But that will cause the one-up emotioanlly (to) back away from the relationship. And this reaction increases the one-down's insecurity and need for closeness and the one-up's security and feelings of discontent.

As Liz's predicament showed, passion trap dynamics can crop up anytime in the relationship. They may abort a new romance or hobble a long-term relationship. They may be caused by various sources of imbalance: attraction power, situational factors, gender role-playing, or personality-style incompatibilities.
”
—Dr Dean Delis



[edit] Research
"The passion paradox is one of the most familiar experiences in working with couples. One person wants more sex, more time talking, and more commitment than the other. A study of male-female relationships done at Yale University found that in 19% of relationships both partners were "equally involved" in the relationship in general.

In 36% of partnerships the woman was "less involved" and in 45% of partnerships the man was "less involved". This imbalance is partially due to a personality difference between people who enjoy connecting and people who enjoy being separate. The research shows that there are slightly more men who enjoy being more separate, but the difference is not huge. Whichever way the paradox runs, the result is often quite painful for both partners."[2]








A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

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Passion
Somebody somewhere
In the heat of the night
Looking pretty dangerous
Running out of patience

Tonight in the city
You won't find any pity
Hearts are being twisted
Another lover cheated, cheated

In the bars and the cafes, passion
In the streets and the alleys, passion
A lot of pretending, passion
Everybody searching, passion

Once in love you're never out of danger
One hot night spent with a stranger
All you wanted was somebody to hold on to yeah
Passion, passion
Passion, passion

New York, Moscow, passion
Hong Kong, Tokyo, passion
Paris and Bangkok, passion
A lotta people ain't got, passion

Hear it in the radio, passion
Read it in the papers, passion
Hear it in the churches, passion
See it in the school yards, passion

Once in love you're never out of danger
One hot night spent with a stranger
All you wanted was somebody to hold on to yeah
Once in love you're never out of danger
One hot night spent with a stranger
All you wanted was somebody to hold on to yeah

Alone in your bed at night, passion
It's half past midnight, passion
As you turn out your sidelight, passion
Something ain't right, passion

There's no passion, there's no passion
There's no passion, I need passion
You need passion, We need passion
Can't live without passion
Won't live without passion

Even the president needs passion
Everybody I know needs some passion
Some people die and kill for passion
Nobody admits they need passion
Some people are scared of passion
Yeah passion

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Section A - What is anarchism?

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The Purpose of God's Revelations

God reveals Himself to people in order to make religious truths available to them by availing Himself of a person through Whom He speaks to all people.

He makes Himself known to them, that is, He so discernibly expresses Himself that a person, if he is willing, can attain profound belief in a Being Which is supremely perfect, full of love, omnipotence and wisdom and Which, as creative power, is in closest connection with Its living creations.

His revelations make this perfectly clear, but it is up to the human being to believe it or not; and for this reason His revelations convey what he should believe, nevertheless it will never be proven to him such that he must believe it. It is entirely up to his will whether the knowledge conveyed to him
becomes his inner conviction, whether he thereby becomes a believer. And therefore God’s revelations are presented such that they will never signify religious compulsion.

They can certainly be recognised as divine revelations if the human being sincerely desires truth, that is, God; but they can also be made out to be human work, to be human thinking, and a person is entirely at liberty to make up his own mind. But since faith in God is imperative in order to ascend, God will time and again reveal Himself in order to give people the knowledge about
Himself, about His reign and activity. And He appeals to the human being’s intellect to process this imparted knowledge mentally and thereby arrive at the right belief. For as soon as the
person discovers correlations which harmonise with God’s nature, that is, which show God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, he will accept what is offered to him
as plausible. And then he will try to establish his own connection with this supremely perfect Being.

And this is the purpose of God’s revelations, so that people who are looking for Him will take the right path and thereby find Him. They should be able to believe as a matter of conviction and this entails that they have mentally processed the knowledge conveyed to them and subsequently acknowledge it as truth. For what God expects people to believe has to be made accessible to them in some form or other. But God Himself can never manifestly speak to them,
because it would not be spiritual freedom but coercion, which would not enable people to gain a higher degree of maturity.
Although it certainly would be convincing proof, it would nevertheless be worthless, for then the person would be forced into a God-pleasing way of life, but this has to be the result of profound love for God. For only love can
lead to higher spheres, but love has to arise from the heart in absolute freedom of will, if it is to be divine and lead to God.

Love is also the key to wisdom, that is, only a loving person recognises the truth, and this is why only
a loving person will be able to attain true faith.
But God preaches love through His Word, and everything He proclaims to people through His Word will therefore also be trustingly accepted if love is not excluded. Thus, God reveals Himself in order to educate people to love, in order to make them believe that He can come close to them with His gift of grace which intends to help them towards spiritual progress.... Amen
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