"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." Lao Tzu
Perception
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
Respect
Therefore, respect yourself and God and the world will respect you.
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Economics: Top Ten Tips OCR
The short answer questions should be KEPT short. Yeah, they're easy but spend your extra time on the longer questions. Remember positive marking so make sure you develop and evaluate your answers.
To get an A grade (as many of you did in January) , you need to score 80% or 48/60.
Right, now to the tips (adapted from tutor2u):
1. Read the case study carefully noting any graphs or numerical data. Your answers should be written in context and use information in the case study. Fail to refer to the case study could mean you are not answering the question. And if you don't answer the question....Look for “prompts” which will help you to answer some of the questions.
2. Learn definitions: there will be two or three 2 mark questions which require a definition of a basic term. Go through the glossary in your textbook (s). Also make sure every single term in the syllabus (the one you keep in your BLUE file) can be defined. Try writing out the defintions and keep them somewhere you see every day - a table tennis bat?
3. Look at the numerical data carefully: do not confuse percentages or index numbers with units of currency or any other value. Merely describing the data will get few marks; you are likely to be asked to compare values. Make one or two points and use figures to illustrate what you are writing.
4. Diagrams: When you are asked to draw a diagram, use pencil and ruler, label both axes fully and any lines/curves you draw. Label any points clearly; you need to be able to show how and why the equilibrium changes. (Well-drawn diagrams enable you to get a lot of marks quickly.)
In the question we did in Group E today most people achieved full marks but on the second question, marks were low. Some marks are just there for the taking - especially from graphs.
5. Do not confuse micro and macro diagrams. In F581 (Markets in action) you are likely to use demand and supply diagrams. In F582 (The National and International Economy) you will almost certainly need to draw a AD/AS diagram. Practise drawing diagrams - especially the 24 we practised in April!
6. In F582, do not confuse investment and saving. An increase in output does not automatically mean that the current account of the balance of payments improves. Do not confuse a budget deficit or surplus with a current account deficit or surplus.
7. Three questions on each paper require evaluation. To get an A grade, you must do well in these questions. Look for directions like comment and discuss. Write your explanation and then add a comment about how significant a change is or how much it will affect something or what could limit the effects. (Spend about 10 minutes on 6 mark questions which require evaluation.)
8. Answer the question! Make sure that you answer the question set, not the one you wish had been set. This is very important when we look at model answers etc - don't 'learn' these simply to repeat them in the exam - it may not be the same question!
9. Structuring the longer essay: For the last, 18 mark, question you should think carefully about what is required and spend two or three minutes planning an answer. Write a short essay with an introduction, two or three paragraphs of argument and a conclusion which includes evaluation and answers the question. You should allow 38 minutes for this question.
10. Legibility rules ok!: Papers are scanned before marking. Write neatly in black ink (not PINK) in the spaces provided. If you need to use extra sheets of paper, make this clear.
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Edexcel Economics Multiple Choice
An absolute must if preparing for this exam. Test yourself with these past questions and a variety of others that will leave you ready to tackle the supported choice paper.
Ten questions
2. Does God exist?
3. Are you your brain?
4. How should we treat animals?
5. What is knowledge?
6. How do you know aliens haven't stolen your brain?
7. Could you survive a brain transplant?
8. What, ultimately, is real?
9. Where does morality come from?
10. Is everything relative?
Interesting (Economics)...
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Reverse speech
Further reading:
The Demon-Haunted Sentence A Skeptical Analysis of Reverse Speech by Tom Byrne and Matthew Normand
REVERSE SPEECH by John Shirley
Welcome to The World of Reverse Speech
Reverse Speech Analysis: Interview with David John Oates
Then...
Fresh from his first visit to Ottawa, Canada on February 19, 2009, U.S. president Barack Obama faces new challenges to any plans for disclosure by his administration of an extraterrestrial presence visiting earth or of U.S. secret human-extraterrestrial liaison programs
Canadian speech recognition expert and former CBS radio producer Jon Kelly has subjected a recording of Barack Obama’s inaugural address on the steps on the U.S. capitol on January 20, 2009 to reverse speech analysis. Kelly’s reverse speech analysis (see below), shows that Barack Obama’s inaugural address contains secret messages predicting an extraterrestrial event of global impact on the scale “of the Iraq war” to occur in Obama’s term of office. Elected in 2008, Obama may serve until January 20, 2013 or January 20, 2017, if re-elected to a second term.
Barack Obama’s inaugural address is not the first time speech recognition expert Jon Kelly has used reverse speech analysis to uncover secret messages in a U.S. president’s inaugural speech. Kelly’s reverse speech analysis of former U.S. president George W. Bush’s January 20, 2001 inaugural address publicly and accurately reported the "shock and awe" strikes that opened the Iraq War 2 years in advance of the actual U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003.
Obama’s inaugural address in reverse speech
In an exclusive release to this reporter, Kelly states, “The [Obama reverse speech] message occurs within the bracketed [text] below.”
The portion of Obama’s inaugural address Kelly is referring reads as follows:
OBAMA INAUGURAL ADDRESS: "We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort - even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin [to responsibly leave Iraq to it] s people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan."
According to Kelly, when analyzed under the methodologies of reverse speech analysis, the message of Barack Obama’s reverse speech states:
OBAMA REVERSE SPEECH: "Knows power of alien saucers"
Readers can listen to a special audio link of the reverse speech analysis of this passage of Obama’s inaugural address made available to this reporter by speech recognition expert Jon Kelly.
AUDIO LINK: Click here to listen to Obama's inaugural address reverse speech message.
Methodology of speech recognition analysis
Below is a wave graph of a sample of Barack Obama's inaugural address reverse speech:
Expert Jon Kelly states, "I would like to point out that objective feedback regarding the quality standard constraining my speech recognition documentation as well as the information produced through these efforts (as described repeatedly in this article) suggests that the quality standard is very high and that the information is very reliable."
Kelly continues, " I did report during hundreds of radio interviews key Iraq War intelligence describing the geographic coordinate and the initial military strike at that coordinate marking the launch of the Iraq War. Objective feedback first appeared through an article in the Guardian newspaper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/11/usa.iraq. The manifestation of "Shock and Awe" strikes in Baghdad as described in the messages discovered and reported in January 2001 qualified the objectivity of my observations again."
Kelly states, "The fact that these were "real events" is significant evidence that I was actually documenting 'real words'".
Kelly says that in evaluating reverse speech, "I am studying a signal demonstrating mulitiple levels of organization including mirror-oriented sets of communications. In the visual world, the pixels on my computer screen are displaying alternating patterns of dark and light yet somehow I am still able to interpret these seemingly random patterns as coherent messages as well."
What is the significance of Obama inaugural reverse speech message?
In evaluating Obama’s inaugural address reverse speech, speech recognition expert Jon Kelly has made a detailed evaluation of its significance. Kelly states, “The significance of the [Obama inaugural] message is two-fold.” Kelly continues,
“Its discovery within the inaugural address gives this message significance in light of this event's previously demonstrated ability to secretly announce historic global events such as the Iraq war described backwards in the President George W. Bush 2001 inaugural address.”
In this portion of the evaluation, Jon Kelly is referring to secret messages concerning the 2003 invasion of Iraq which were hidden in reverse speech in U.S. president’s George W. Bush’s inaugural address, which Kelly publicly revealed in radio broadcasts 2 years before actual the invasion.
Kelly then goes on to state the core analysis of his evaluation of Obama's inaugural address,
The accuracy with which speech recognition expert Jon Kelly predicted the shock and awe tactics of the 2003 Iraq invasion 2 years before it occurred by uncovering secret messages in former U.S. president George W. Bush’s 2001 inaugural address, lends credence to Kelly’s uncovering of Obama’s reverse speech message about a global extraterrestrial event of stunning magnitude.“This [Obama inaugural address] message suggests the possibility that a global event of extraterrestrial origins of an equivalent social, culture, political, military and spiritual impact as the war in Iraq will occur over the next 4 years.”
Speech recognition analysis and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter
In his evaluation of the Obama reverse speech message, speech recognition expert Jon Kelly states, “The vocabulary of the [Obama inaugural] message is also significant in that it uses identical language to the secret backwards message of President Jimmy Carter whose message described the possibility of abduction and implantation stating "Saucer. Went out naked. Going out. They'll put it in him".
Speech recognition expert Jon Kelly described his reverse speech analysis of Jimmy Carter’s statements regarding extraterrestrials at length in an exclusive 2008 radio broadcast on Exopolitics Radio that also analyzed the reverse speech statements regarding extraterrestrials of former U.S. president Bill Clinton, 2008 U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, PhD. Readers can listen to that landmark program by clicking here.
Kelly’s speech recognition research establishes that former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s reverse speech statements tend to confirm that Carter is an extraterrestrial abductee. As set out in “Is Jimmy Carter an ET/UFO Contactee?,” research shows that Carter exhibits several behavioral regularities of extraterrestrial abductees. By the available evidence, Jimmy Carter did have a close encounter of the first kind, which he reported in his own 1973 UFO sighting report. He therefore passed the threshold test as a potential UFO/ET abductee. Carter also passes the emotional and psychic bonding threshold tests of extraterrestrial abductees. Carter’s repeated and deeply emotional recollections of his close encounter of the first kind may be a triggered response to a cloaked memory of a close encounter of the fourth kind (an extraterrestrial abduction).
If in fact U.S. president Jimmy Carter was an extraterrestrial contactee, this relationship between Carter and an extraterrestrial civilization may be part of the psycho-social infrastructure developed by an extraterrestrial civilization for the “extraterrestrial event” that the Obama inaugural address is predicting via reverse speech.
This reporter was the director of the 1977 proposed Jimmy Carter White House extraterrestrial communication study, approved by Stanford Research Institute (SRI), before it was abruptly terminated by intervention of the SRI- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) liaison in Oct. 1977. The underlying purpose of the DOD termination of this study was to avoid public disclosure of top secret U.S. military-intelligence human-extraterrestrial liaison programs, which the study would have documented.
What does a future “extraterrestrial event” of the equivalent impact of the Iraq war mean?
Our investigative series of articles has now reported that speech recognition analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech reveals a hidden message of a possible extraterrestrial event in Obama’s term of office (4 or 8 years) with global impact. Speech recognition expert Jon Kelly describes this extraterrestrial event as “an equivalent social, culture, political, military and spiritual impact as the war in Iraq.”
The Iraq war itself is an illegal war of aggression in which war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide were committed, and in which depleted uranium weapons were used to spread radioactive poisoning in a silent nuclear war against Central Asia, India, the North American continent and Western Europe. As of January 2009, 1,000,000 U.S. servicemen have been permanently disabled by their service in the gulf and Afghanistan wars, including Iraq, due to ionizing radiation from depleted uranium. It is estimated that 1,000,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq by U.S. and coalition forces. One expert indicates that the world-wide impact of depleted uranium weapons on human DNA and on human health is so severe that is it part of a deliberate depopulation strategy by an international war crimes racketeering organization to eliminate up between 1/3 and 2/3 of the human population.
Will this predicted extraterrestrial event that Obama’s reverse speech inaugural address describes be for the benefit or detriment of humankind?
That is a key issue we must all address as a body politic.
This series of investigative articles on the Obama administration began with the following question:
What can we expect during the Obama administration with regard to UFOs and extraterrestrial life?
♣ Transparent disclosure of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and extraterrestrial life?
♣ An “alien false flag invasion,” carried out by black budget military-intelligence units in the same way that the reported False Flag attack of September 11, 2001 was carried out?
♣ Extraterrestrial disclosure carried out by informed citizens groups and experts in official public venues and on the media throughout the earth? The end of earth's planetary quarantine from a universe society of intelligent civilizations?
We have demonstrated in this series to date how the psycho-social infrastructure of a “UFO alien” extraterrestrial false flag invasion has been established by U.S. and Russian leaders, and how former U.S. presidents, including Ronald Reagan (“UFO alien invasion” meme) and George W. Bush (September 11, 2001 psyops), have laid the groundwork for or approved and participated in false flag operations against the U.S. homeland.
Dr. Michael Salla, Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner, has reported on past public statements by an Obama cabinet member, secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, promoting the “UFO alien” invasion meme and stereo-typing extraterrestrials as the “enemy”. Dr. Salla has also suggested that former U.S. president Ronald Reagan may have been briefed on a “UFO Alien” false flag operation, based on his frequent public use of the extraterrestrial invasion meme.
If this global “extraterrestrial event” referred to in Barack Obama’s reverse speech inaugural address materializes and is a “UFO alien” false flag invasion, this series has now published a preliminary feasibility report of how (U.S. government black budget units) and when (2009-2017) that operation will occur.
This series of investigative articles on the Obama administration, the U.N., UFOs and extraterrestrial life has also established the goal of such a false flag “extraterrestrial event” – to establish a global police state under a covert war crimes racketeering elite. A “shock and awe” methodology would be fundamental to any “UFO alien” false flag invasion, aimed at instilling fear and subjugation in the human population.
As we have demonstrated in previous articles, high-ranking U.S. official who has used the “UFO alien” invasion meme has given a scintilla of evidence for its reality. Hence, any such “invasion” would have to be a false flag operation and not an invasion by genuine hostile extraterrestrials.
The science of exopolitics shows that ethical extraterrestrials are promoting human autonomy, not planning a subjugation.
Positive realities: transparent disclosure by an extraterrestrial civilization
On objective analysis, Barack Obama’s inaugural address reverse speech message may be revealing an alternative future global “extraterrestrial event” that is more benign, and consistent with a long-term integration of human society into a larger society of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations.
The “extraterrestrial event” announced by Obama’s reverse speech in his inaugural address might be of a more positive character than a “UFO alien” invasion. The event may be a global, public display by an extraterrestrial presence, part of a transparent extraterrestrial disclosure undertaken in coordination with an ethical extraterrestrial civilization and the Obama administration and/or by transnational human authorities.
This may be a preferable option we can work toward as a body politic.
An alternative “extraterrestrial event” Obama is announcing in reverse speech may be by an ethical extraterrestrial civilization on its own, or in coordination with citizen groups, showing itself in our skies as it deems the human race to be sufficiently acclimated for such an event.
This alternative may be available to humanity regardless of the actions of the Obama administration or other governments.
Exopolitics will be monitoring the Obama administration and international and extraterrestrial reality during the next 4 to 8 years, for signs of an impending “a global event of extraterrestrial origins of an equivalent social, culture, political, military and spiritual impact as the war in Iraq.”
Future articles in this series will explore these and other alternative future “extraterrestrial events” of global impact with positive outcomes.
The scientific reliability of reverse speech analysis in predicting future events
According to one speech recognition expert, “…language is bi-level, forward and reverse. As the human brain constructs the sounds of speech, it forms those sounds in such a way that two messages are delivered simultaneously. One forwards, which is the conscious mind speaking, and the other in reverse, which is the unconscious mind speaking….On the surface level, it can act as a sort of Truth Detector as Reverse Speech will usually correct the inconsistencies of forward speech. If a lie is spoken forwards, the truth may be communicated in reverse. If pertinent facts are left out of forward speech these may also be spoken in reverse. It can reveal hidden motive and agenda and other conscious thought processes. At deeper levels, Reverse Speech can reveal thought patterns that are unconscious, including reasons behind behaviour and disease. This information can be used to greatly enhance the therapeutic and healing processes.”
According to speech recognition expert Jon Kelly, “The journal Nature reported several years ago that scientists in the UC system had researched the human ability to detect speech when it was incrementally time-sliced and rearranged backwards. The AP ran the story as "The Brain Understands Backwards Speech". A recent article in Scientific American also discusses multiple universes where time can run in reverse. Time symmetry between dimensions of reality could allow for circumstances under which it may be possible to compose and transmit a message that is time-reversed to the clock of our world.”
Besides publicly and accurately reported the "shock and awe" strikes that opened the Iraq War 2 years in advance, Canadian speech recognition expert Jon Kelly has reportedly “successfully identified the BTK Killer on Wichita morning radio 15 minutes before he confessed; and reliably disclosed Oprah's true feelings about James Frey 2 weeks before she called him out as a liar on daytime television”.
More on evaluation in Economics (from tutor2u)
What is evaluation?
Evaluation is about making critical judgements and coming to reasoned conclusions on the basis of the evidence that you have in front of you.
Strong evaluative answers use supporting evidence to justify an argument. Some of that evidence might be found in the stimulus material that accompanies a data response question.
Frequently the evidence can come from your own knowledge and awareness having studied a subject for nearly two years.
Justifying an argument carries more marks than making the argument since stating an argument is often a relatively simple task.
Examples of command words in a question that require or invite evaluation
The command words within a question that definitely require evaluation include the following:
Evaluate – e.g. compare a number of possible views about an economic problem or an issue and come to a reasoned conclusion about which view holds most weight
E.g. evaluate the record of the Bank of England since it was made independent of government in May 1997.
Assess - analyse an economic issue and then weigh up the relative importance of different strands E.g. assess the possible effects of a rise in the external value of the pound against the currencies of our major trading partners
Do you think – a question that invites a personal response to a question but where the highest marks are awarded for good analysis backed up with reasoned argument and supporting evidence.
E.g. do you think that a national system of road pricing should be introduced for
Discuss – a question that prompts you to provide and then compare a range of possible views about an issue or a problem.
E.g. discuss the advantages and disadvantages of introducing a national minimum wage into the
Criticise analyse the problems facing
To what extent – again a question that invites quite a broad analysis and discussion and in particular a judgement on the relative importance of something or the relative merits / de-merits of a policy
E.g. to what extent should the government run a high budget deficit as a way of stimulating economic growth
You want some evaluation questions? - Try these!
MARKETING
Advantages / disadvantages of targeting a niche market segment (compared with alternative of targeting a larger mass market)
Usefulness and limitations of using the Boston Matrix or Product Life Cycle model to make marketing decisions
Whether an extension strategy should be implemented for a mature product
The merits and demerits of making changes to individual elements of the marketing mix
Whether the business has sufficient information (market research) to make reasoned marketing decisions
Application of price elasticity of demand to a business decision
The effect of the competitive structure of a market on a business’ ability to make marketing decisions (e.g. control over pricing for a business with a very small market share)
Whether a marketing decision helps a business differentiate itself against competitors
Factors that will determine the success or otherwise of a new product
The relative merits and demerits of different promotional strategies and tactics for a given marketing problem
Relative importance of factors (including price) that will affect the demand for a product
Evaluating the effect of a marketing decision (e.g. a price cut to boost demand) on operations (e.g. is capacity sufficient?)
Evaluating the extent to which a business has control over its marketing mix
Assessing the importance of non-marketing activities on competitiveness – particularly the importance of customer service, quality and productivity
The likely competitor response to a marketing decision (e.g. lower price, new product development)
FINANCE
The usefulness of budgets in controlling and allocation resources
The relative significance and implications of budget variances
Whether the benefits of budgeting outweigh the disadvantages
The main causes of cash flow problems
Merits and demerits of using bank finance to address cash flow issues
Discussing the importance of improving profit as a way of increasing cash flow
Discussing the implications of rapid growth on cash flow and operations
Assessing the merits and demerits of short-term measures to improve cash flow (e.g. encouraging cash sales, reducing customer payment terms, extending supplier payment periods)
Evaluating the implications of cost-cutting as a means of improving net profit margin
PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Judgement of the appropriate structure of an organisational hierarchyAssessing the implications of the span of control for decision-making
Relative advantages and disadvantages of different methods of motivation
Evaluating the importance of non-financial methods of motivation compared with financial methods in a given situation
Merits and demerits of measures to assess employ productivity
Assessment of the role of delegation as a business grows in size and complexity
Evaluation of the role of empowerment in improving employee motivation
Relevance and effectiveness of different methods of recruitment
Advantages and disadvantages of on-the-job and off-the-job training
Evaluating the importance of training to delivering the right level of customer service
Assessment of the link between training and product quality for a given business
Evaluation of the potential impact of delayering on improved business performance and employee motivation
Discussing the importance of labour productivity for the competitiveness of a business
Assessing the impact of high rates of absenteeism or labour turnover on business performance (e.g. quality, customer service)
Advantages and disadvantages of
OPERATIONS
The advantages and disadvantages of operating at full capacity / with spare capacity, given the circumstances of the business
Evaluating the relative merits of ways to increase capacity
Assessing the problems of operating a very high capacity utilisation compared with the benefits of lower unit costs
The relative merits and demerits of different approaches to managing quality (particularly quality control v quality assurance)
Discussing whether an improvement in quality will enable a business to become more competitive
Examining the link between improved quality and better customer service – is it worth the cost or investment?
Evaluating the role of employee training in achieving customer service improvements
Assessing how better management of supplier relationships can result in improved business competitiveness
Discussing the merits and demerits of working with a smaller number of key suppliers
Evaluating the importance of suppliers to a business compared with other stakeholders, including customers and employees
Discussing the link between increased use of technology and better productivity
Evaluating the impact of technology on customer service or employee management
Business Studies and the Credit Crunch
The guidance from Malcolm is quite clear:
“There have been no changes in the way in which the papers are marked under the new specification. Thus any relevant answer will receive credit. This includes relevant arguments relating to the credit crunch.”
That’s really positive news. The current editions of AQA Business textbooks might have been made obsolete by recent economic developments, but here is positive confirmation that students can use their understanding of the Credit Crunch where relevant in an exam answer.
