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The Promethean, Volume 06, Number 02, Spring 1998
What a glorious spring! How lucky we are to live in such delightful surroundings. The Pacific Northwest is a gardener\u27s delight, full of fertile soil and scenic beauty. Our own Concordia campus is a wonderful example of the exciting variety of blooms, blossoms, greenery, and landscaping that can be achieved here. It\u27s such a treat to walk around campus and observe the many plants, lovingly tended by our grounds crew, all wildly blooming and sweetly scented. Your eye strays from one blossom to another ...to the ivy-covered brick walls...what a great oak tree...look, there\u27s a daffodil next to a...cigarette butt? Can you believe it? Somebody just threw their cigarette right there on the groundâright next to the ashtray! In fact, the whole ground here is strewn thick with cigarette buttsâhow gross!
We have a beautiful campus hereâdon\u27t ruin it by throwing your butts or other trash on the ground. Clean up after yourself! And if you see someone littering, get right in their face and demand they clean it up. We do not have maid service at Concordia!https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cup_archives_promethean/1014/thumbnail.jp
Herald of Holiness Volume 77 Number 04 (1988)
Cover Photo Credit: Dave Kirkwood
ARTICLES
4 In Praise of Pleasure, Richard S. Taylor
5 Memories, Carlton D. Hansen
6 The Trademark of Holiness, John F. Hay
7 The Sin of Prejudice, Ross W. Hayslip
8 Reach Out and Touch, Earl G. Lee
10 I Believe In Church Planting!, Larry Mckain
12 Holiness - Rx for Happiness, Wendell Wellman
13 Sometimes Missions Comes Home, James Lee West
14 Flowers for the Living, Mark Graham
15 W. E. Sangster As I Knew Him, Reginald Mallett
16 Catacomb Christians, Jesse E. Pitts
17 A Line Is Being Drawn, Rick Savage
COLUMNS
2 What Kind Of Car Do You Drive?, General Superintendent: John A. Knight
9 Because You Gave⌠, Joy Comes To Mourners - Margaret Scott
11 Nazarene Roots: Writing With Light: Missions through the Camera\u27s Eye
18 The Editorâs Standpoint, W. E. McCumber
21 By All Means, God Answered A Motherâs Prayersâ Don Ballard
POEMS
9 The Minister\u27s Hands, Sandy Mayle
14 Our Highest Endeavor, Ethel G. Bemis
DEPARTMENTS
20 Answer Corner
20 Letters
22 In the News
33 News of Religion
35 Late Newshttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1129/thumbnail.jp
Economic and Business Responses to the Pressures of Commoditization
This paper examines the pressures of commoditization will continue to exert itself on companies and managers everywhere: the increasing impact of demographic change; the requirement to maintain a keen eye on costs in order to compete effectively within the global market; the continued advance of technology; the ability to standardize processes and eliminate major inefficiencies; the pressure to outsource and offshore business activities in order to exploit the cost advantages of cheaper labour and the opportunity for your competition to attack your markets and replicate your products and services more freely.Tackling commoditization in a fragmented or short-termist way will not allow you to understand its effects and nor will it provide the solid platform required to build an effective response. So when it comes to considering the potential impacts of commoditization you need to ask yourself the following two questions: 1. Can all or part of our business become commoditized? It is easy to believe that you are immune to the effects of commoditization and that you donât need to respond to something that may not even be on your horizon. When responding to this question the best approach is to start from the position that everything you do is capable of becoming commoditized if not now, then certainly at some point in the future. Of course you may find that not everything can be commoditized, but it is far better to come to this conclusion after completing a thorough analysis of your business than making assumptions based upon a limited perspective or worse still, gut feel 2. How should we respond to the threat of commoditization? In particular should we embrace it or avoid it? This is a crucial question to answer once you have understood the threats and opportunities commoditization poses to the organization. As with any strategic decision it is likely to have significant operational implications. In some cases you may find that you have little alternative but to become more commoditized yourself, whilst in others you may be able to adopt a more flexible approach. When considering the response, you will need to think about such things as: ⢠How can we insulate ourselves from the threat of commoditization? ⢠Given the choice what parts of our business should we allow to become commoditized? ⢠Where and in which markets should we innovate as a way of avoiding the commoditization trap? ⢠Where should we target our investments â with our customers, on our back office processes, in research and development, on acquisitions or all of the above?Commoditization, Offshoring, Talent, Technology, Competition, Inequality
Herald of Holiness Volume 77 Number 04 (1988)
Cover Photo Credit: Dave Kirkwood
ARTICLES
4 In Praise of Pleasure, Richard S. Taylor
5 Memories, Carlton D. Hansen
6 The Trademark of Holiness, John F. Hay
7 The Sin of Prejudice, Ross W. Hayslip
8 Reach Out and Touch, Earl G. Lee
10 I Believe In Church Planting!, Larry Mckain
12 Holiness - Rx for Happiness, Wendell Wellman
13 Sometimes Missions Comes Home, James Lee West
14 Flowers for the Living, Mark Graham
15 W. E. Sangster As I Knew Him, Reginald Mallett
16 Catacomb Christians, Jesse E. Pitts
17 A Line Is Being Drawn, Rick Savage
COLUMNS
2 What Kind Of Car Do You Drive?, General Superintendent: John A. Knight
9 Because You Gave⌠, Joy Comes To Mourners - Margaret Scott
11 Nazarene Roots: Writing With Light: Missions through the Camera\u27s Eye
18 The Editorâs Standpoint, W. E. McCumber
21 By All Means, God Answered A Motherâs Prayersâ Don Ballard
POEMS
9 The Minister\u27s Hands, Sandy Mayle
14 Our Highest Endeavor, Ethel G. Bemis
DEPARTMENTS
20 Answer Corner
20 Letters
22 In the News
33 News of Religion
35 Late Newshttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1129/thumbnail.jp
Justification, knowledge, and normality
There is much to like about the idea that justification should be understood in terms of normality or normic support (Smith 2016, Goodman and Salow 2018). The view does a nice job explaining why we should think that lottery beliefs differ in justificatory status from mundane perceptual or testimonial beliefs. And it seems to do that in a way that is friendly to a broadly internalist approach to justification. In spite of its attractions, we think that the normic support view faces two serious challenges. The first is that it delivers the wrong result in preface cases. These cases suggest that the view is either too sceptical or too externalist. The second is that the view struggles with certain kinds of Moorean absurdities. It turns out that these problems can easily be avoided. If we think of normality as a condition on *knowledge*, we can characterise justification in terms of its connection to knowledge and thereby avoid the difficulties discussed here. The resulting view does an equally good job explaining why we should think that our perceptual and testimonial beliefs are justified when lottery beliefs cannot be. Thus, it seems that little could be lost and much could be gained by revising the proposal and adopting a view on which it is knowledge, not justification, that depends directly upon normality
Will You Look Me in the Eye? The Embrace and Denial of Human Dignity on Marquette Campus
With a foundation in Levinas\u27 pseudo-ethical philosophy of the Phenomena of the Face, this project provided a definition of human dignity and considered whether or not the Marquette University community practices a common respect for human dignity in everyday interactions on the streets of Marquette campus -- focusing in on Wisconsin Avenue due to its constant traffic of both Marquette University students and faculty and Milwaukee community members. This project observed typical day to day interactions that occur while walking around Marquette University\u27s campus with a specific emphasis on how people affiliated with Marquette University react to other Marquette community members as well as members of the Milwaukee community on campus. Ultimately, the research sought to consider the level of awareness Marquette affiliates have upon the subject of human dignity and calls for we as a university to raise awareness about the necessity and nuances of human dignity in everyday interactions.https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_3210ur/1019/thumbnail.jp
'Islamic fatalism': life and suffering among Bangladeshi psychiatric patients and their families in London--an interview study 2
An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in eastern London demonstrated frequent appeals to God and deprecation of personal agency. This paper offers an interpretation of this apparent 'fatalism', which argues for the logical downplaying of human agency and ambition in archaic Arabia, contemporary rural Sylhet and among first generation Sylheti migrants in London
Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
Presents survey findings on Americans' religious practices such as types and frequency of services attended and types and prevalence of mystical experiences and beliefs. Analyzes data by religion, race/ethnicity, age, education, and political affiliation
Thinking about Attention in Games: Backward and Forward Induction
Behavioral economics improves economic analysis by using psychological
regularity to suggest limits on rationality and self-interest (e.g. Camerer and
Loewenstein 2003). Expressing these regularities in formal terms permits productive
theorizing, suggests new experiments, can contribute to psychology,
and can be used to shape economic policies which make normal people
better off
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