4-fold Meaning

[Irmgard Rossie]

Beingin education, summer tends to be the time for reflection (an ending), a little rest (neutral zone), and starting to reflect forward (a beginning). You might recognize the parentheses as the William Bridges model of transitions.

I am grateful for the time I spent learning from Angeles Arrien. Even though she has passed her influence on my personal and professional life has been profound. Her four tenets remain a central core of leadership to create learning cultures in schools and organizations. As a cultural anthropologist she draws from multiple indigenous cultures for direction.

When asked for the most important leadership books I have read and learned from, I proudly say the Four-Fold Way is in my top three. Below are some excerpts from the book. I recommend reading the whole book.

Angeles identified the need to take of the environment. Indigenous cultures have known respect for the environment is critical for our long-term survival. I remember team teaching about ecology in the 70s with a colleague named Warren Kaari, a social studies teacher. Yes, a science teacher and social teacher did collaborate to teach high school students from the science and social points of view. We had the same goal. Preserve the environment.

The Four-Fold Way basic tenets:

1.Show up or choose to be present. Being present allows us to access the human resources of power, presence, and communication. This is the way of the Warrior.

2.Pay attention to what has heart and meaning. Paying attention opens us to the human resources of love, gratitude, acknowledgment, and validation. This is the way of the Healer.

3.Tell the truth without blame or judgment. Nonjudgmental truthfulness maintains our authenticity and develops our inner vision and intuition. This is the way of the Visionary.

4.Be open to outcome, not attached to outcome. Openness and non-attachment helps us recover the human resources of wisdom and objectivity. This is the way of the Teacher.

In our society we express the way of the Warrior in our leadership ability. We express the way of the Healer through our attitudes toward maintaining our own health and the health of our environment. We express the way of the Visionary through our personal creativity, and through our ability to bring our life dreams and visions into the world. We express the way of the Teacher through our constructive communication and informational skills.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the Warrior is the ability to extend honor and respect. Honor is the capacity to confer respect to another individual. It is the willingness to look again. We must be willing to look at our real abilities rather than fixate on just one or two parts of who we think we are. Successful leaders are able to appreciate the diversity within themselves and others. The skillful Warrior values the art and craft of communication. The effective leader is consistent in words and action.

I try to remember that my communication is not as much what I say as it is what is heard.

There are two causes for all misunderstandings:

1.not saying what we mean

2.not doing what we say

When we say what we mean and do what we say, we become trustworthy. Many indigenous societies recognize that a lack of alignment between word and action always results in a loss of power and effectiveness.

I have been fortunate to work with Jane Stevenson on several administrative teams. Her background in Special Education helped me by reminding me to use the least restrictive alternatives first. The challenge of every Warrior and leader is the right use of power.

The Way of the Healer

Pay attention to what has heart and meaning. Healers recognize that the power of love is the most potent healing force available to all human beings. Effective healers from any culture are those who extend the arms of love: acknowledgment, acceptance, recognition, validation, and gratitude.

Activity: Practices to develop the inner visionary:

1.15 minutes each day in walking meditation.

2.Spend some time honoring your dreams by recording them in a dream journal.

3.Make a commitment to practice truth-telling on a daily basis.

Discernment is the ability to respect appropriate context, timing, and content. When we are attached to something, we often lose our objectivity about it. It is important to remember that wisdom is always flexible and seldom rigid.

Some background to the problem. Patients have their baseline antigen

level recorded, they are then given a dose of a vaccine, and have their

antigen level recorded 4 weeks later.My thinking is if a patient has a baseline level of 5, and a

post-baseline level of 20 then this is a an example of a 4-fold

increase (5x4=20, or 20/5=4).However, it has been pointed out to me that if the same patient has a

post-baseline level of 5 then this (under my definition) is a 1-fold

increase (5x1=5, or 5/5=1)?How can a 1-fold increase, not be an increase at all? And is a 0.5-fold

increase a decrease (5x0.5=2.5, or 2.5/5=0.5)????I have used this definition of a 4-fold increase before, but cannot

find a definition anywhere. Does anybody know where I might find a

definition of a 4(or any)-fold increase?Many thanksDave

On this site, we have an extensive library of articles covering just about every type of multiple bet there is. That includes the most simple accumulators of them all, doubles and trebles, as well as more complex wagers like the Super Heinz, the Lucky 63 and the Goliath (as well as many more). Here though we are swimming very much towards the shallow end of things and will take a closer look at the 4 fold (you may also see this written as fourfold, 4-fold, four-fold or four fold, and we will use these terms interchangeably). We will explain what a fourfold is, what you can place it on, how it works and other related options.

A 4 fold is, quite simply, an accumulator, or acca, with four separate legs. In the order of accas, we have a double, a treble, then the 4 fold, the 5 fold and so on. Because much of the information about this is already covered in our piece on doubles (and many of the other articles we have mentioned), we will keep this 4 fold feature relatively short and you can refer back to those others for more thorough information.

As with any acca, there is one stake for the entire bet and all of the legs must win for you to see any return. So if, for example, the first three sides win 4-0 but Man United only draw, you lose your stake. On the other hand, if all four win 1-0 thanks to stoppage time penalties, you win the entire bet.

You can add more or less any selection you want into your 4 fold acca. That means you can use virtually any market, in any sport, at any odds and you can pick bets from the same sport or a range of different ones and the same applies to the markets you use.

In general, many punters tend to create an acca from the same sport, as in the case of our Premier League bet detailed above, or perhaps a fourfold covering four consecutive horse races at a particular track. However, if you want, you could make your own weekend fourfold acca covering a range of sports you intended to watch. You might start with the big Saturday race and the evening kick off, then follow that up with Six Nations rugby clash and some F1 on the Sunday.

When two markets are related in terms of their outcome or the chances of them happening, they are said, in bookmaker parlance, to be related contingencies. We look at this in more detail in the doubles article but it is often the case that markets on the same game or match, or involving the same player, cannot be combined into an acca.

However, this was not a valid double because if Radacanu was to win the tournament, she would clearly have to had beaten Bancic. The 15/2 for her to win outright effectively already included and accounted for the 6/5 for the individual match and, as such, these legs did not form a legitimate double.

We can view the starting point for this bet as a 10 wager on Liverpool. If that bet wins at evens you win 10, which is added to the initial stake, and you then have 20 at evens on Everton. The Toffees win, meaning you win 20 and have 40 on the next game and so on. As such, if all four legs win, your total return is 160 for a net win of 150. Working out your winnings is easy enough but there are many online tools that make calculating your returns from a 4 fold, or any acca, a real doddle. In addition, with a straightforward accumulator like a 4-fold, which is all or nothing, your online betting slip will also show you your potential winnings when you make the bet.

Last but not least, it is also worth noting that calculating your winnings is also very easy if you have placed the bets using decimal odds, or even just understand how this pricing format works. In decimal odds, evens is 2.0, and to work out the overall odds (and thus potential return) for an acca, you simply multiply the odds of each selection. Thus, our 4 fold above is (2x2x2x2) 16 in decimal odds, or 15/1 as fractional odds, quickly showing that you stand to make a net win of 150 if all four legs win.

As we have seen, you can make fourfold bets in virtually anything and you can also place them as win bets, or as each way. Each way fourfolds are most likely to be made on horse racing, though you can place them on any sport where each way betting is offered. An example of a non-racing 4 fold might be making an ante post (yes, 4 folds can be ante post too) bet on the top goalscorer in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga.

The main thing to note with an each way fourfold is that, as with any each way accumulator, it is the entire bet that is each way. You cannot pick just some of the legs to be each way, the entire wager must be. So as with any each way bet, you have two bets really, in this case a win fourfold and a place fourfold and the two are independent of each other.

To land both bets, all selections must win. If one selection fails to place, all bets lose. If all four legs place, or some place and some win, then the each way part of the bet wins. Once again, this is something we explain in more detail in our article on doubles betting.

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