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cognizable 1: capable of being judicially heard and determined
2: capable of being known
The court determined that the plaintiff’s claim of having received an unfair grade on the exam was not a legally cognizable action.
Did you know?
It’s easy to recognize the “cogni-” in “cognizable” and in other English words that have to do with knowing: “precognition,” “incognito,” “recognition,” and “cognitive,” for example. They’re all from Latin “cognoscere” (“to know”).” “Cognizable” was formed in the 17th century from the root of “cognizance,” which means “knowledge.” “Cognizance” in turn traces to “cognoscere” by way of Anglo-French “conissance.” “Cognizable” was used in the legal sense almost from its introduction, and that’s the sense that is far and away the most common today.
The manager asked me to do the two things. One is to move an art-structure stuff to Kiva and the other is to reshuffle in the boxes. While I finished the second task and am about to start the first task, one of the help-desk workers offered his extra hands and told me that the manager wanted to bring one plasma T.V. We went to the basement together and bring one plasma to the Dean’ office. The manager asked us to bring another one and we went down to the basement again and brought the other plasma. He put these two plasmas at the end of each corner with 45 degree angel on top of the cart and covered it with a red silk cloth.
We finished it and came back to the Fast office. I told the manager about Brian’s proposal and he told me that it was ok to go there. I went to the second floor before Brian arrived and started to set up. Brian entered the door and told me that he told me that he was looking for you to come together. He started his rehearsal and I had a couple of questions but I did not specify to tell him because I did not want to make him change anything. The presentation was going well although a couple of issues rose. This is going to happen but it will cost a lot of moneys and times. I found that Dr.Lee was not there and heard that she got a surgery. I was a little concerned what kinds of surgery she got.
Thus, I emailed her I hope I can receive the mail from her as soon as possible.
I had a student who had an issue with her table. The table won’t be located on the center in Internet explorer although it is working fine in Firefox. I searched the web site and found the following the cite. Although I attempted to adopt this contents to the web site, the site did not make any change. After I used ctrl-f function key and find align=center to left and started to make step by step, I could find how I can make it. I felt like I need to learn more about CSS and this site. I decided to learn more about CSS and finally could make it.
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The world of the day for April 28, 2008 is
approbation • \ap-ruh-BAY-shun\ 
• noun
1 : an act of approving formally or officially
*2 : commendation, praise
Example Sentence:
Some movie producers care more about making a profit than winning the approbation of critics.
Did you know?
“Approbation” is similar in meaning to “approval,” and it is also very close to “approval” etymologically. Both words trace back to the Latin verb “approbare,” which means “to prove” or “to approve.” “Approbation” meant “proof” when it first appeared in English in the 14th century, and by the early 1500s it had come to mean “formal or official approval,” a sense it still retains in certain ecclesiastical contexts. Today, however, we mostly use “approbation” in the looser sense of “approval, admiration, or praise.” The related verb “approbate” means “to approve or sanction,” and the adjective “approbatory” means “expressing approval or commendation.”
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
I had a student who could not delete her document files. She wanted to delete the files because she received the email, saying that you reached your maximum account of files in your account. Please delete some of the files in your hard drive and document. After getting this message, the students attempted to erase the files to make an available space. Yet she got the following error messages. “Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and the file is not currently in use.” A student right next to her also has the same problem. While I tried to find the big chunk of files and delete them, I got the same error message. A student who sits in front of us suggested me to use shift and delete. Since she experienced the same problem a couple of hours ago, she could remember and told me. When I did that, it worked. Shift + delete is a short cut key when you want to delete the files or documents permanently.
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Avatar 1: the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)
2 a: an incarnation in human form
b: an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
3 an electronic image that represents and is manipulated by a computer user (as in a computer game)
Before they started playing the game, Aaron and Kyle customized their avatars.
did you know?
“Avatar” derives from a Sanskrit word meaning “descent,” and when it first appeared in English in the late 18th century, it referred to the descent of a deity to the earth –
typically, the incarnation in earthly form of Vishnu or another Hindu deity. It later came to refer to any incarnation in human form, and then to any embodiment (such as that of a concept or philosophy), whether or not in the form a person. In the age of technology, “avatar” has developed another sense — it can now be used for the image that a person chooses as his or her “embodiment” in an electronic medium. * indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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In the words of organization researcher Ian Mitroff (2003), spirituality is essential in the workplace – but it cannot be an object of manipulation or organization. People feel the need for spirituality and wish to be able to fully express themselves as human beings at work. (p. 34)
I believe that spirituality and work are not necessarily each other’s antitheses. Kahlil Gibran believes that they are indeed one:
Your daily life is your temple and religion.
Whenever you enter unto it take with you your all.
Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight (Gibran 1923/1996:48) p.33
Anthony de Mello (2004) speaks of freedom as something that the seekers already have and
as something they discover – then becoming enlightened.
“How shall I get liberation?”
“Find out who has bound you,” said the Master.
The disciple returned after a week and said, “No one has bound me.”
“Then why ask to be liberated?”
That was a moment of Enlightenment for the disciple, who suddenly became free. p. 32
The Buddha’s teachings pointed to understanding beginning with the abandonment of dualisms (Kornfield, 1993/ 1999). Jesus Christ’s counsel was very much the same (de Mello, 204). Similarly, the wisdom of the Chassid mystics emphasizes the need to transcend thinking in dichotomies (Buber, 1949/1989). p. 31
Awareness excludes evaluation – when we evaluate, understanding ceases. Awareness is “a view of reality free of ideas and judgements” (Watts, 1951, p.116). It is different from thinking and discerning. It is just being there, in the world – and thus finding oneself and becoming free (de Mello 2004).
Awareness is a floodlight. You’re open to anything that comes within the scope of your consciousness. When awareness is turned on, there’s never any distraction, because you’are always aware of whatever happens to be (de Mello 2004). p. 30
According to Alan W. Watts (1951) spiritual awareness is not to be confused with being aware of something. Awareness is not tied to any object outside of it. It is a way of being – permanent awareness. p. 29
Being enlightened does not necessarily mean accomplishing superhuman deeds or sittign and meditating for the best part of the day. Enlightenment is our “natural state of felt oneness with Being” (Tolle, 1999, p. 10), finding that which is fundamentally ours. It is not the ego, the mind, or the body. It is what is left when all those labels are discarded. It is a pure energy that i sus, the experiencing awareness. To be enlightened one has to rise above the thinking mind and experience the present – the now, take it just as it comes. Consciousness is the way out of pain and suffering – which is how Buddha describes enlightenment. p. 29
If you allow any idle thought to enter into the one solid uninterruptible chain of inquiries, the outcome will ruin the whole exercise. p. 28
Enlightenment is an unpredictable, unpredicted, and uncontained change – a transformation (Rohr, 1999). It is an experience that evades description but it is also a feeling: of ecstasy, transcendence of subjectivity and objectivity. De Mello (2004) depicts it in the following parable:
“There are three stages in one’s spiritual develoopment,” said the Master. “The carnal, the spiritual and the divine.”
“What is the carnal stage?” asked the eager disciples.
“That’s the stage when trees are seen as trees and mountains as mountains.”
“And the spiritual?”
“That’s when one looks more deeply into things – then trees are no longer trees and mountains no longer mountains.”
“And the divine?”
“Ah, that’s enlightenment,” said the Master with a chuckle, “when trees become trees again and mountains, mountains.”
“Sensemaking begins with a sensemaker” says Weick who quotes the mind-boggling saying which can be read as a sentence about sensemaking where as many as four personal pronouns refer to the person doing the sensemaking.
Spirituality is about seeing. It’s not about earning or achieving. It’s about relationships rather than results or requirements. Once you see, the rest follows. p. 24
In the birth of tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche named two central principles in (Greek) culture: Apollonian and Dionysian. They are each other’s opposites but both had a significant influence on how the other culture was shaped. The Apollonian principle is related to beauty, reason, and moderation and focuses on individuation. The Dionysian principle is irrational, dark, and ecstatic and is the energy that drives a person to submerge himself within a greater whole, the collective where individuality is dissolved. p. 22
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detoxify 1 a: to remove a harmful substance (as a poison or toxin) or the effect of such from
b: to render (a harmful substance) harmless
- 2. to free (as a drug user or an alcoholic) from an intoxicating or an addictive substance in the
- body or from dependence on or addiction to such a substance.
3. Neutralize.
Yi wrote her term paper on the city’s efforts to detoxify a contaminated landfill.
These days, “detoxify” can mean “to free (someone) from a substance addiction” (and yes, it is the source of detox, a more recent word that also refers to getting drugs or alcohol out of a person’s system). Originally, however, detoxification was something done to things rather than to people. In its earliest uese — from about 1905 — detoxify referred to the removal of poision, or of poisonous or damaging properties, from a harmful substance, or to the removal of poisonous or toxic substances from something contaminated (such as the bloodstream). The specific application to removing “poison” from an addict is relatively new, dating to the mid-20th century. Today, “detoxify” is also often used generally in reference to counteracting the
activity or effect of anything harmful (such as propaganda).
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The world of the day for April 12, 2008 is
asceit 1: practicing strict self-denial as a mesaure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
2. austere in appearance, manner, or attitude.
Mr. Walter’s plain, dark clothing and pulled-back hair give her an ascetic appearance, but she is actually very warm and fun-loving.
“Ascetic” comes from “asketikos,” a Greek adjective meaning “laborious,” and ultimately traces back to the Greek very “askein,” which means “exercise” or “work.” There aren’t many other English words from “askein,” but there is no dearth of synonyms for “ascetic.” “severe” and “austere,” for example, are two words that share with “ascetic” the basic abstention from pleasure, comfort, or self-indulgence as a spiritual discipline, whereas “severe” iplies standards enforced without indulgence as a spiritual discipline, whereas “severe” implies standsrds enforced withouth indulgence or laxity and may suggest harshness. “Austere” stresses absence of warmth, color, or feeling and may apply to rigorous restraint, simplicity, or self-denial (as in “living an austere life in the country”).
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This paper posits that service providers who work most directly with clients are frequently overlooked sources of knowledge regarding program delivery and outcomes. Furthermore, their knowledge is unique among stakeholders, more tacit than explict, and more experiential than theory-based. The research gathered stories from nine forster care providers in conversational interviews. (abstract)
Polkinghorne (1988) have used the term “story” to describe an account that has a plot, characters, and a sense of beginning, middle, and end.
Anecdotal story = narrative.
The invitation to participations in this research is to start with experience, describe it, reflect on it, wrestle with it, and name it. In other words, there is no assumption that experiences are fully understood and ready to be told as stories. Rather, they take some teasing out, and their meanings emerge through the act of telling. (p. 20).
Argyris and Schon (1996) have defined “organization” to mean a cooperative system in which individuals perform. P. 25
Organization learning, in its simplest conception, is the development of knowledge by individuals or groups within an organization, and the sharing of that knowledge. (p.27).
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- anhtropomorphic 1: described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes
- 2. ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things
- To encourage healthy eating habits, the children’s TV show features anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables that talk about good nutrition.
Did you know? “Anthropomorphic” comes from the Late Latin word “anthropomorphus,” which itself traces to a Greek term birthed from the roots “anthrop-” (meaning “human being”) and “-morphos” (“-morphous”). Those ancient Greek roots have given form and personality to many English words. “Anthrop-” relatives include “anthropic” Derivatives of -morphos often end in – morphism, as in polymorphism (the quality or state of existing in or assuming different forms, or – morphic, as in biomorphic (resembling the forms of living organisms).
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- Presentiment : a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition. Beth had a presentiment that something out of the ordinary was going to happen, and, sure enough, she soon got a phone call from her estranged brother.
Did you know? “‘Do you ever have presentiments, Mr.Flintwich?’ ‘I am not sure that I know what you mean by the term, sir,’ replied that gentleman. ‘Say, in this case, Mr.Flintwich, undefined anticipations of pleasure to come.’ ‘I can’t say I’m sensible of such a sensation at present,’ returned Mr.Flintwich, with the utmost gravity.” Nothing sensational said here, perhaps, but Mr.Flintwich shows a sensitivity to words that, like “presentiment,” are related to the Latin verb “sentire,” (“to feel”). He uses two of these words, and we’ve added three more. The quote is from Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, and the words are “sensible,” “sensation, “sensational,” “sensitivity,” and “sense.”
