When is it pool weather in Jo burg, South Africa? What month can people start and stop swimming by?
What month can you start swimming in Johannesburg, South Africa? When is it pool weather or when is it hot enough to swim?
When does the hot pool weather end? What month do people usually stop swimming, because it’s too cold or windy?
Growing up in Johannesburg, I remember we would always want to swim by early September, but my dad would say we could only swim "after the first spring rains", which is typically late September/early October.
Many people venture into the water by September, but honestly it is still cold and I wouldn’t particularly want to until October. November-January are the best months for swimming, though you might still have some good swimming days in February/March. By April, I would say it is too cold.
However, our weather patterns have been far less consistent over the past few years, so it is actually a bit difficult to tell for sure.
What is a good religion to compare and contrast Catholicism with?
I am writing a Report on Catholicism. Part of the report is to compare and contrast my religion of choice with another religion.
What I want to know is what religion is going to effectively compare and contrast with Catholicism? Any ideas are welcome!
(Thanks!)
Protestants. The Protestants were originally Roman Catholice, but in the 1500’s, Martin Luther, a Catholic monk, led a sort of revolt against the Catholic Church, and nailed 95 theses in the door of the Catholic Church in Wittenburg, Germany. These were to protest the wickednesses in the Catholic Church. Those who followed him came to be called Lutherans. Martin Luther’s break from the Catholic Church was not his idea, it was the church who excommunicated him. His ‘reformation’ changed the entire world, as his teachings spread like wildfire. Prior to the Reformation, the world was in the ‘dark ages’. People could not read or write. Martin translated the Bible into German, and he opened schools to teach people to read and write. The world came out of the dark ages. This would be a very interesting topic for you. If you Google ‘Reformation’ you will find much interesting, additional information. Best wishes.
"Since man is made of clay, he can never be completely pure. Since clay is.." Your opinion? Who said that?
"Since man is made of clay, he can never be completely pure. Since clay is basically foul, how can humans escape their basic nature? Purity does not lie in rituals, nor can human nature be changed by effort. Those who love God and remain conscious only of their Beloved attain purity."
I like this statement, seems reasonable enough. I agree.
This statement comes from the Al-Hujwiri, "The Kashf al-Mahjub".
What is it like to take a politics class at a university in the deep south?
I go to school at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and I’d imagine that political discussions at my university are much different than those in the deep south? Do you know anything about politics classes/ university political discussions in the deep south?
I’m from Texas and I can tell you UT Austin is one plenty liberal university. It seems to me universities and college towns everywhere, even in the deep South, are bastions of liberalism.
That being said, I majored in engineering and we didn’t discuss politics. For the one government class I had, the professor was pretty easy going and open minded. I’m guessing he was liberal. For my Texas government class, I had this mean old professor always blaming Clinton for something. I’m seriously not kidding.
What defines a military target from a civilian target in the following example?
If a group of 100 people are considered either military enemies or hostile civilians, how many of them have to be armed (by estimation) in order for the group to be considered a legitimate military target?
"Legitimate" is not the right way to approach this situation. "Law" is not the framework for which we operate in this context. Hell, if 100 out of 100 have weapons on them and are clearly hostile…we still might not engage them if we think it will set our war-fighting effort back. Bad guys have families too, and when we kill an enemy, we are killing someone’s son, someone’s brother, etc. Their family turns against us, even if the killing was totally ‘legitimate.’
The two doctrinal words that are appropriate are "proportionality" and "distinction."
"Distinction" basically means that we will strictly scrutinize our targets from things we do not want to destroy. Let’s use your example: if only 1 of that 100 people is an ‘enemy’, then I will do my damnedest not to harm the other 99. Perhaps I’d use a sniper, or a SOF direct action operation, etc. If all I had were air weapons and I had to take out that 1 guy right now, I’d use a tiny bomb instead of a massive one. I’m ‘distinguishing’ between enemy and ‘other.’
"Proportionality" refers to the cost/benefit analysis. I have to weigh the big-picture cost of killing innocents against the big-picture cost of killing bad guys. For example, if I put a bomb in Hitler’s car in 1938, it might save 52 million lives, at the cost of Eva Braun and Blondi, his dog. Two innocents die, but WWII is averted. That’s an easy decision, right? Well, what if it were 100 innocents – I have to bomb a political meeting? What if it were 1000 innocents? 10,000? 1 million?
There is no numerical solution to this problem. This is the reason officers (Marines, at least) get a lot of formal ethics training. We have to make this kind of decision for real, but on smaller scales. I’ve had to make them several times, and it keeps me up at night some times. I don’t lose any sleep over killing dudes who were trying to kill me, no way. But the thought that I might have hurt an innocent bystander – that sucks in a big way.
…And the bad guys know it. One of their routines is to take a family hostage, and shoot at us from the house. They know we don’t want to kill innocents, so they are protected. If we do bomb their position, the locals pull their dead, innocent neighbors from the rubble, and the headlines read "US AIRSTRIKE KILLS 6 CIVILIANS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG THEM." Of course, the ‘guests’ in their house aren’t mentioned. I have seen this entire process with my own eyes, many times.
What explanation does general relativity provide for gravity?
What explanation does general relativity provide for gravity?
Gravity is a result of curved spacetime.
Gravity is directly proportional to mass.
Gravity is inversely proportional to radius.
All of these are correct.
In GR, gravity is a result of the curvature of space-time. Unaccelerated objects moving through flat space-time move in straight lines, but in curved space-time they move in curves.
Pick up "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler for some relatively accessible explanations of this.
How is the environmental quality of a watershed related to surface water supply?
How is the environmental quality of a watershed related to surface water supply? Please explain a bit.
Water shed off a field or pasture may have dirt and weed seeds floating in it, but this is easily cleaned by sedimentation, allowing the water to sit and the sediment fall to the bottom of a pond.
Water shed off of city streets takes more to clean, i.e. make drinkable. All the oils from cars and trucks as well as dog droppings, dead birds, the ooz from trash containers are all washed into the water supply and have to be cleaned before we can use it.
A field may have a lot of dirt, but it is easier to make clean drinkable water from, were a city area will have to deal with heavy metals, oils and other chemicals that need to be clean out of it as well as bacteria.
How do I keep others energy from interfering with my own?
I’m a hairdresser and am in very close proximity with many different people every day. I’m also very sensitive to other people’s energies. I’ve noticed that this has began to effect me in a negative way because I bring all of this extra energy home with me and now I’m beginning to have problems sleeping and many other things that are effecting my every day life. SO my question is how can I keep others energies from interfering with my own energy, or how can I release this energy once I’m done with work?
I hear tinfoil hats work wonders.
What theories can economics draw upon to evaluate Health care reforms?
Hi, I am a stduent studying Health Economics.
I am just wondering what kind of economic theories we can use when evaluating the health care system reform such as NHS reform.
Please let me know if you have any idea and thanks for reading!
New economic anomalie – Benign deflation (falling prices due to falling percentage of fixed costs to actual end price. Constant demand for a product gives the producer of the product the ability to produce it in greater quantity while keeping fixed overhead prices the same. Thus, the producer can offer the product at a lower price.) could be your economic principle at work in the future.
As it applies to healthcare, the competition of government subsidized healthcare at reduced cost would drive most customers to the least expensive care. giving more HC professionals the incentive to join the govt. program. This lowers the cost to the govt. to attract these professionals which lets them reduce costs further which attracts more customers from the private sector which makes it more difficult for the private HC providers to make a profit which drives them into the arms of the govt. which drops costs further which attracts more customers and so on and so forth until it becomes commonplace for people to use govt. HC and it pretty much becomes a part of our society except for the very wealthy. Govt HC will be better quality and the need for private insurance will be next no nil, thus reducing it’s cost and it can better focus it’s resources on quality of care.
How can you tell if a crime reported in a newspaper is done by a illegal?
Like a hit and run accident or other crimes? What does one look for in newspaper articles with crime and illegals? Are there any key words to look out for?
How about having no driver’s license and no insurance either?
You can’t. Why would anyone want to?