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The parade will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, in Downtown Benton.
This year's theme is "Blue Jeans and Country Dreams."
"If you are interested in participating as a school group, marching band, horse and rider, church group, civic group, classic car, old tractor or politician, you are encouraged to do so and help make this the best parade ever," said Mollie Wright, a member of the board.
Bauxite Superintendent Matt Donaghy has been served with a temporary order of protection by his wife for alleged domestic abuse.
The order was served Monday and will remain in effect until the matter is addressed in court. A hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 8.
Judge Christopher Palmer of Pulaski County signed the order.
Matt Donaghy was married to Misty Donaghy on July 17, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nev., and the two separated on July 15, 2014.
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John G. Geiger talks about the recent headline-making find of one Sir John Franklin's lost ships in the context of the broader Franklin story.
The talk will take place here at the Schoolhouse on November 24th.
The evening is a fund-raiser benefiting our near neighbour, Toronto's First Post Office Museum and it is being presented by the Town of York Historical Society.
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With his 2005 film Caché Michael Haneke established himself as the most viciously insightful critic of the liberal educated class and he identified the demons that lurk beneath the surface of even the most enlightened and attractive among them. Seeing as his movies play to a pretty discerning worldwide audience it seems that the kind of people who love Haneke might also be guilty of having a serious masochistic streak. He does not soften the blow. Instead, he refuses, almost sadistically so, to cater to the expectations of the audience by following conventional genre ideas about how to construct a psychological thriller. Haneke is more interested in the deconstruction of why we feel it so necessary to have our impulses for "entertainment" rewarded. With the disorienting glitches that he throws into his film throughout —such as scenes that improbably begin to rewind out of nowhere—it's as if he's surgically removing the audience's comfort zone one layer at a time until you are left with what he considers to be the truth of the matter. His films have a dry, suffocating, almost clinical feel that can give them the ambience of an extended lecture. He is a provocateur but he has his reasons.
Caché is a politically charged thriller but it might make sense to forget about what "politically charged thriller" typically means. This is not the Manchurian Candidate. Caché is about a well-to-do Parisian couple with seemingly perfect lives. The husband Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) are the toast of the Parisian literati. They live in a townhouse. They have a teenage son on the swim team.Continue Reading
While there are about a hundred reasons why this is one of my top five favorite films, it is one of those underground gems that might never be discovered. For this reason alone, it is difficult to choose which aspects of it to praise. So instead of simply stating why you should hunt down this particular movie, I'd like to cross-reference other Brazilian films from the same time. Hopefully this will inspire others to get a glimpse of a few rarities that are amazing, but unfortunately only on VHS or very hard to come by. Surely the most popular films from Brazil, made with much better technology, are Elite Squad and City of God. While these still attract a lot of attention, their popularity has not unearthed any sort of general fascination with the cinema of Brazil's past.
Brazilian films, in general, have always fascinated me. Many of them deal with poverty, violence, political exposure and, oddly enough, satires. Bye Bye Brazil is another from the '80s that is definitely worth seeing. When I think of these two films, the style of them can be compared to a blend of Jordorowsky (particularly Santa Sangre), Fellini (La Strada) and David Lynch, more so in the line of haunting characters and the use of color. The early cinema of Brazil suffered from financial setbacks and were made on the lowest of budgets. Yet, the aforementioned films were made in the peak of Brazil's cinematic exploration. The financial crisis of the nation explains the lack of archives and preservation of films done decades earlier. Brazil also imports a large amount of films from America and other countries, which blows most of the low budget ones out of the water—assuming they even make it into the theater.Continue Reading
Masculin Féminin
Playing with sound and image, image without sound and sound without image. White text over black. Questions answered by the opposite sex in the form of questions. French New Wave icons. Gunshots and the symbolic separation of fifteen acts. In classic Godard narrative form, the film searches for the line between the male and female and proposes a parallel of these relationships to social problems in contemporary times.
Godard has the ability to make a conversation half a film. That's not exactly the case here, but I'm not far off. Sometimes scenes like that may seem long and tedious but here, somehow, it's never dull and never without style. Meet Paul and Madeleine. Hardly ever in contemporary film can we observe and study characters in such casualty. Yet even in casualness their interaction bridges on the topic of more tangible matters – Bob Dylan, her reaction to his approach, a play on words... Later, Paul's interrogation towards other women explore heavy topics – from sex to birth control, to views towards Capitalist America, to the concerns of Vietnam War. We may not agree with Paul's views or the female's answers, but Godard's antics do leave something to be desired. Society is reviewed in a brutally honest form in this modern time and still to this day I can relate.Continue Reading
Merci Pour le Chocolat (a.k.a. Nightcap)
I must admit this is the first Chabrol film that I have seen, and what a delight it is! Browsing the racks of the Foreign DVDs I couldn't help but notice how many of his films star the charming Isabelle Huppert (8 to be exact), whose performance as the Yin to Dustin Hoffman's Yang in I Heart Huckabees took me aback. Coupled with Mark Wahlberg's role, this was the most enjoyable factor of said film. Back to Merci...
I'm not going to delve too deeply into the plot logistics, so I'll try and make a good assessment of the main themes. Primarily this film's story is about trust, deceit, and the malleability of the family unit. It doesn't tackle these topics with too much severity and, in conjunction with its beautiful locations, soft colors, and hazy look, the whole thing goes down very smoothly, like a warm cup of hot chocolate. I need to hand it to Chabrol for portraying such heavy topics in a light manner, which is a rare feat to pull off.Continue Reading
The 4th Man
Castration, murder, bisexuality, a man posed suggestively on a crucifix, and the line of dialogue, "Through Mary to Jesus," during an orgasm are just a few highlights from what I think might be one of the most devoutly Catholic films I have ever seen: Paul Verhoeven's The 4th Man. Actually, the film might just be trying to make some sort of statement about the "artist as Christ." I can't be too sure. Either way, and more importantly, it's a richly atmospheric thriller that's as unforgettably funny as it is horrific.
Jeroen Krabbe stars as Gerard Reve, an alcoholic, Catholic novelist from Holland who has risen to considerable fame for being an artist who "lies the truth." After an egotistical Q&A celebrating his work in Vlissingen, he is seduced by Christine Halsslag (Renee Soutendijk) who insists that he spend the night at her hotel/hair salon before returning home. While drawn to Christine ("You have the body of a young boy"), Gerard immediately receives both symbolic and blatantly grotesque warnings of danger through his dreams and encounters with some of the town's people. He chooses to ignore them; however, when he finds out that Christine is also involved with a man named Herman (Thom Hoffman), the writer decides he must have Herman even if it kills him. While sort of playing Christine to get closer to Herman, Gerard stumbles onto some information about the woman's past that might unveil a more terrifying reality than any of his fantasies.Continue Reading
Code Unknown
Few directors choose to take risks within cinema, and when they do, they reveal ideas in the most intriguing and significant ways. Michael Haneke, in his film Code Unknown, definitely gives his viewers something to take home, long after they've watched it. Like a string of Venn-diagrams, the film is a series of segments loosely tied by the intersection of characters in Paris, France, and the subtext goes far beyond just that. The scenes allude to the missed communication within a society blinded by tension caused by differences in race, age, class, and backgrounds in a disheveled European nation. Here is the rare portrayal of Paris as an intellectual discourse, and while less violent compared to Funny Games or Caché, the film is still pointedly bold, high-minded, and socially aware.
What does "code unknown" really mean? We find out a glimpse of this answer in the beginning scene, set in a school of deaf children. A girl is acting out a scene in front of her classmates. They guess what she is attempting to convey: "Alone?" "Hiding in place?" She shakes her head at each conjecture. The simplicity combined with mystery of this scene is an appropriate overture for the rest of the film.Continue Reading
Blood of a Poet
Jean Cocteau, one of the great multi-talented artists of the 20th century is given free reign in his first film. His approach is whimsical and free improvisational; a childlike freedom hangs in the air of this film, even as it addresses rather dark subject matter. The result is a series of powerful images that still seem fresh nearly 80 years later.
Experimental and surrealistic in nature, Blood of a Poet is not a film for individuals who seek clear and definite story lines, to say the least. Rather this is a film that should be considered as a work of art, and not as a traditional movie. That is not to say that these are a series of meaningless images - this is essentially a poem in the form of a film. A series of Cocteau's own reflections...as Cocteau puts it ,"a descent into oneself, a way of using the mechanism of the dream without sleeping, a crooked candle, often mysteriously blown out, carried about in the night of the human body."Continue Reading
The Mirror
The Mirror is absolutely the most poetic film I've seen. Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia's famous director, sewed the film together like fragments, creating a loose, non-linear, autobiographical tale full of childhood memories. The film contains newsreel footage and poems by Tarkovsy's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. It is a personal, unique film, now highly regarded as one of Tarkovsky's best works and masterpieces. His work, often a struggle with the Soviet authorities, is well-realized and committed – he has only made seven feature films out of his 27 years as a filmmaker, and each one of them is finely crafted and boldly uncompromised. Here is one of my favorites.
The film begins with Alexei's son Ignat. The film revolves around his thoughts and his world, and the narrator reads poems reminiscent of a man's relationships with his mother, ex-wife, and son. The mother, Maria, is a proofreader in a printing press. She is first shown in the countryside during pre-World War II. The rural countryside is one of Tarkovsky's landscapes – the homes and the land featured in the film are gorgeously drenched in nature, yet also contain an element of isolation. Tarkovsky's use of nature refers to his childhood memory of war that caused many to evacuate Moscow to the countryside.Continue Reading
Cries and Whispers
"In the screenplay, it says that red represents for me the interior of the soul. When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke....But inside the dragon, everything was red." -- Ingmar Bergman
For most of Ingmar Bergman's career, the decision to shoot in black and white, both before and after Cries and Whispers, has been one of choice and trust. The delight of seeing his vision in color is not simply based on color itself but of his use of it in the film. Like a poet, Bergman decided to look past what color can mean for the eyes alone, to its purpose to help us understand and appreciate life, death, and the soul.Continue Reading
Fat Girl
Doctor: " What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." Cecilia: "Obviously, doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl." -- Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides Rarely can one witness the gift of a film that has the gut and the power to deliver a story of the complex and trying "coming of age" which we all had to endure. Even more scarce is work surrounding the female perspectives of such experience. To shy away from female sexuality and experimental thought is an exercise used to the point of exhaustion in modern cinema. Catherine Breillat, on the other hand, has made a point of idolizing masters in the art of capturing the human condition and therefore has made many films doing just the opposite of her counterparts. Out of these, which include A Real Young Girl and 36 Fillette, Fat Girl dominates as a bold and provocative juxtaposition between two sisters, spiraling through two very different types of disgrace.
Anaïs Pingot and her sister, Elena, are on holiday with their mother. Typical of any vacation-town, spouts of ennui and a lack of familiarity cause these two sisters to roam aimlessly through the town in search of some kind of amusement. While dining at a local restaurant they meet Fernando, an Italian college-age man who is automatically drawn to the beauty and flirtatiousness of the 16-year old Elena, while the overweight 12-year old, Anaïs, simply stands by and allows her sister to soak up his affection. But as the vacation proceeds so does their sibling rivalry and the hastened and inappropriate relationship between Elena and Fernando. Here we gaze and experience, through the point-of-view of Anaïs, the desire to be wanted and the helplessness of seeing the innocence of a loved one shattered.Continue Reading


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Chloe and Jake just finished their degrees. They both accepted jobs at the same company. They're working in the same field, in the same job, for exactly the same hours every week. So why is Jake earning $55,000 a year, while Chloe is only pocketing $50,000?
The example above is simplistic, but in far too many cases it rings true. The sad, shocking truth is that in 2014, in Australia, female university graduates can expect to earn on average $5000 less than their male counterparts*. If that made your mind boggle, then consider this: when the stats are broken down by industry, it's even more depressing. Male dentistry graduates earned $14,000 more than females, while architecture and building grads took home $9000 more if they had a penis. Plus, while the median male graduate salary increased by $3000 between 2011 and 2012, the median salary for women remained the same. What the hell is going on?
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At times, the wage gap between men and women can actually be explained, reveals Bruce Guthrie from Graduate Careers Australia, who compiled the survey and its findings.
"When you take into account all of the mitigating factors (such as the type, size and location of different employers, which can affect job title, salary, and work performed), the difference between men and women's average starting salaries is only 1.5 to 2 per cent," he says.
One of the biggest reasons men will likely be paid more is that they are overrepresented in higher-paying fields, while women are in jobs that typically pay less, like education. But it's not as simple as saying, "Oh, that's OK, as women want to be teachers and men want to be bankers," says Yolanda Beattie, from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
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"These choices are drummed into us from a very young age. The pay gap highlights gender stereotypes that still exist."
For example, in 2009, 21.6 per cent of male graduates surveyed by the GCA had studied engineering, compared to 2.3 per cent of women. It is a field that pays higher than, say, education, from which 14.3 per cent of all women graduated that year (and 5.7 per cent of all men). Then there is the fact that, even within some industries, women are more likely to hold lower-paid positions.
As Marian Baird, director of the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney, points out, female lawyers often work in areas of law that pay less, such as social work. There's nothing wrong with studying teaching or taking a job in social work, but these "choices" are subtly reinforced to women all the time. That means we begin on the back foot – and once we have kids and possibly work part-time, the gap widens.
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"It's discriminatory that we value 'female' work less," says federal sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.
"A mechanic and a childcare worker do similar amounts of training to get their qualifications. Why is one paid significantly more than the other?"
Even if we take into account these mitigating factors, and the problem of women being in lower-paid industries, the fact remains there's a gap. Which is simply not fair.
"Women being clustered into lower-paid jobs is a problem, but it doesn't explain the totality of the issue," says Broderick.
"There's still a gap that can't be explained by anything but discrimination."
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Without more women in leadership roles, and without more men committed to change, we will continue to be paid unfairly. Like Beyoncé (yep, Beyoncé!) said, "Unless men and women both say this is unacceptable, things won't change." So, look for the men and women who do – and work for them.
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Lucy Pinder is a lingerie model.
So the fact that she's gone topless in a magazine shouldn't be shocking.
Unlike fellow British beauty, Keeley Hazell, however, Pinder hasn't shown off her bare body in public too often.
That's why we were so surprised to come across these photos in Nuts magazine.
Almost as surprised as we were to discover that there actually is a Nuts magazine.
For an actress, model or singer, of course, showing off your giant boobs in a publication is nothing new.
Eva Mendes has done it recently.
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I am not surprised Atari went this route with the game, they have a history of just wanting to push out products dispite poor design or ideas. I really had high hopes for this as consoles just about always get screwed when it comes to D&D products, we tend to get treated like idiots when it comes to what might sell and what wont. "Oh if its not a simple hack & slash dungeon crawl it won't sell more than 10,000 units.{ Well maybe it wont if you don't challenge the audience every once and awhile and put out the good word that despite its level of challenge a game thats true to its table top origins can be very fun.
I'm not saying im not going to give Daggerdale a try, I'm saying i wanted more than they are intending to give. I don't have a gaming pc, in fact all i have is this laptop, so when that new Neverwinter comes out, I doubt I'll have a chance to play it. I can only hope however that its what i wished for with Daggerdale. A true to origin 4E game that incorporates the rules of 4E in a 3D environment.
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LONDON Aug 17 (Reuters) - Qatar was the top sovereign wealth buyer of European property in the last 12 months, spending 3.5 billion euros ($4.3 billion) on eight deals including the London Olympic athlete's village and a mall on Paris' Champs Elysees, data from a research firm showed.
For Qatar, the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), that spending during the year to mid-August equals only about six weeks of revenue from its LNG exports, according to Reuters calculations.
Sovereign wealth funds view top-quality property in the best locations as a safe bet in the global financial crisis.
"For sovereign wealth funds like the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), property deals are about wealth preservation, not returns," said Joseph Kelly, director of market analysis at Real Capital Analytics (RCA).
"They have a lot of money to spend, so deals tend to be big and in the cities they know well."
Gas market traders estimate that Qatar, with a native population of about 250,000, earned $36 billion in LNG revenue in 2011, though an exact figure is hard to obtain from available data.
Qatar was beaten into second place as the biggest overall property investor in Europe by private equity giant Blackstone , which spent 4 billion euros on 19 deals, which included office blocks and industrial units, the RCA data showed.
The QIA, the most active Middle East sovereign wealth fund in recent years, has spent 5.7 billion euros on real estate since 2007, almost 80 percent of it in London and Paris, RCA said.
Qatar funded development of the European Union's tallest skyscraper, the Shard, which opened in London last month.
It also owns Harrods department store and a 27 percent stake in Songbird Estates, the majority owner of London's Canary Wharf financial district.
The QIA also has bought stakes in companies ranging from German sports car maker Porsche, Barclays and luxury goods house LVMH as it has sought to diversify economic risk.
It has more than $30 billion to spend on investments this year alone and its spending strategy has been opportunistic, an executive board member said in April.
"We have no asset allocation or geographic allocation. After the financial crisis, all that went in the garbage." Hussain al-Abdulla said. Asked whether the fund had assets worth $100 billion, he said, "much more".
The sovereign funds of Malaysia and Norway were among those also active in European real estate. The latter owns half of famous London shopping strip Regent Street and is nearing a $1.7 billion-plus deal for a majority stake in the Meadowhall shopping centre in north England.
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So, I bought this exact lamp at another site since it was out of stock on O by the time I wanted it - it is the exact one though. The lamp shade had to be replace 2 times due to being severely cracked. The third still came cracked, but not so much as the others so I just lived with it.The stand is very very cheap. Looks good but is wobbly, doesn't fit the shade very well and the bolt to screw on the shade is too high, exposing the bulbs from below. This is easily fixable though by going to a lamp or hardware store and getting the standard lamp bolts in the desired hieght. I have had the lamp just shy of a year now and one of the chain for light bulb fixtures inside is jammed so that side will not turn on anymore. I also bought the table lamp in the same style and absolutely love it - not too sure why they can't make this one better. The stands do not match between the two either - the shade is all they have in common in terms of style.
The lamp base is nicer than expected with the long stem made of metal which has a ribbed look. The shade is neutral color and very pretty lit and unlit. Glad I chose this lamp.
This product has a welded lampshade that will break with the smallest amount of movement. If it is not hanging stright you should not try to make it stright.
I thought about this lamp for weeks. After seeing less impressive lamps with much less detail going for the same price at discounted retail stores - I ran home and bought this pronto! I am so happy. It fits beautifully in my living room and the light it gives off is perfect. The option to turn on one or two lights with this lamp is great. I put in lower watt energy efficient bulbs because the higher watt bulb burned too bright for my liking. A more muted light lets you appreciate the details of the lamp shade. It is beautiful and I really believe it's a piece that I will have for many years. I also bought the table lamp to place on my end table by the couch - it is beautiful as well!
I bought a pair of these and I'm very pleased with them! I had no problem assembling them-you just screw together the the base and pole, then the glass shade. Voila! Beautiful lighting! My husband even commented on how attractive they are-unusual response. The base is heavy enough to stabilize the lamp; this is necessary because of the weight of the glass shade. I'm glad I bought these lamps.
For a lamp that is definitely in a budget price range, and very easy to put together, this Tiffany-style Jeweled Floor Lamp is an excellent addition to any room. Lights a room very well, and has an antique feel to it; the light through the jeweled glass shade makes it truly unique.
There were a couple of negative reviews here when I was shopping this lamp but mostly good ones so I took a chance and ordered it and it is so cool!! Buy it. It made my living room. It's so gorgeous I just ordered the table lamp.
This lamp has an ornate and substantial base. The shade is tones of cream and white with clear "jewels" of glass. The overall look of the lamp is lovely and the price for the lamp was good in comparison to other similar lamps on your website. The lamp could go well in any type of decor from craftsman to modern. The pull chain on/off switch is much more convenient than having to turn a tiny switch on my previous torchere lamp. First impression is that it was a lot shorter than I thought it would be. It would be great if it were at least 6 inches taller. Second thing is that the post of the shade is so long that the bottom of the shade barely covered the light bulbs. We had to go get a shorter post so the lightbulbs wouldn't show and cast a glare. Good thing I have someone who knows their way around the hardware store to fix this. Third, please clearly state in your description and in the instructions that lightbulbs ARE NOT included. This isn't a big deal but it is nice to have that information in advance so we could be prepared with the bulbs. Shipment was incredibly fast and the product was packed well with no broken pieces.
The idea and style is very chic, but I wish I had known: 1) The shades are white. They aren't yellow like the picture. 2) the whiteness of the shades has spots of yellow. So it looks dirty and not uniform. the good thing is that it takes two light bulbs and they are glass and sturdy. I was just disappointed because for the price and reviews I thought it would be a nicer lamp. but the studs in the middle make it cheap and the quality/dirtiness of the glass would have stopped me from buying this.
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47% of US employment is highly susceptible to automation within the next twenty years. In other words, almost half of current jobs in America will, quite soon, no longer exist. This is especially true of low-skill, low-income positions, which are highly correlated with susceptibility to automation. Thus, jobs requiring higher education are considered the "safest" for the next few decades.
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This is all due to the useless expansion of the state apparatus. Every generation, atleast since 1913, have seen their freedoms and simple means of happiness removed by the state.
I'm pretty sure that some from the Great Depression and WW-II era would've seen the Baby boomer generation as pussies. It's all subjective.
A great deal of things happened during the boomers generation - post-war population boom, JFK, the petro-dollar and the rise of suburbia. I am not sure about other distortion of cultural values especially about children listening to parents.
This current generation are not pussies. Yes we are often afraid of the state, have to get their permission to even grow a plant. But we are also doing our bit against the statists in ways and means that are possible in addition to our jobs and family time.
Don't worry, with the destruction of American prosperity by the TPTB and the sheeple, people will go back to the older simpler ways such as not having car-seats, come out of the (anti-microbial) cleanliness paranoia and stop relying on stupidity (a.k.a statist laws) from cradle to grave.
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Animal rights group finds butterfly release at kindness rally kind of cruel
According to the North American Butterfly Association, large-scale commercial operations could spread diseases that could devastate the native population.
The International Butterfly Breeders Association says its members raise butterflies in sterile staging areas, shipping them with proper permits, and that there is no basis in fact to support statements that these butterflies are harmful to the ones in the wild.
"I choose to believe the experts at the North American Butterfly Association who work to protect butterflies and believe butterfly releases to be harmful," said Linda Dionne, president of the New Hampshire Animal Rights League (NHARL).
NHARL is asking its supporters to ask the organizers of the Be Kind Fest in Mount Washington Valley to halt the Hope Takes Flight Monarch butterfly release on May 18 in Schouler Park in North Conway Village. The release is part of the three-day Kindness Weekend, a free event that includes musical performances, flatbread pizza, hugs, tai chi instruction, arts and crafts for kids, a Kindness Rally and more. Funds raised through sponsorships and donations help support the Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice of Carroll County and the Evergreen Wellness Institute.
"We did a lot of research," said Sandy Ruka, executive director of the hospice. "We do share the concerns. We really feel we were thoughtful."
The organization also sent a letter to NHARL, saying they were open to "finding less controversial ways to assist and honor our clients and their families," but this year's event would go on.
The butterflies are not free. Sponsorship for each butterfly is $25, which goes to the hospice program. The butterfly release is a way to honor and remember loved ones who have passed on.
"Butterflies have long been a symbol of hope and healing," said Ruka. The nonprofit provides long-term care at home, skilled home care, home hospice care and palliative care, along with facilitating support groups, including a loss and recovery group.
Ruka said that the community has been "hugely supportive" of the butterfly release.
Dionne does not think that the actual release lives up to it symbolism.
"Butterflies die in transporting them long distances; in this case, they will be coming from California," she said. "Others will die when released to an unknown and possibly harmful environment.
"Transporting delicate butterflies thousands of miles and then releasing them into a foreign environment where they may die unnecessarily seems very unkind, and certainly not something a Kindness Festival should be doing."
Ruka said they weighed the pros and cons as they researched the issue, concluding that the release was safe for the butterflies and the environment. "Studies do demonstrate they are able to breed and migrate."
Visiting Nurses is buying the butterflies from Swallowtail Farms in California, a member of the International Butterfly Breeders Association.
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SIDON, Lebanon: A statue of a Phoenician priest has been uncovered at an excavation site in the southern city of Sidon, along with other antiquities, the most unique find for Lebanon in decades, the British Museum team announced Monday.
The priest, 115 centimeters high and dating back to the sixth century B.C., was found at the Freres College site, which has been under excavation for the last 16 years, the head of the excavation, Claude Doumit Serhal, announced at a press conference at the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities.
"Nothing comparable has been found in Lebanon since the early 1960s, and only three other examples originating from Sidon, Umm al-Ahmed and Tyre are housed in the Beirut National Museum," the statement said.
The figurine is that of a male wearing a pleated kilt, known as "shenti," with a pendant flap from the waist to the kilt's hem. The left hand is in a closed fist and holding an unknown object, "probably a scroll or a handkerchief," according to the statement.
Archeologists found the statue lying on its front, as it was re-used by the Romans and placed under a marble pavement in that position.
Three new rooms were also found in a third millennium B.C. public building, along with a 200-kilogram deposit of charred wheat called einkorn, 160 kilograms of broad bean and 20 burials belonging to both adults and infants from the second millennium B.C.
This year's excavation has been extended over six months, having started in January, in order to prepare for the building of an on-site museum, the statement added.
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I'm in Singapore this week, giving a talk at ISMVL, and then visiting Greg in Melbourne next week. Regularly scheduled programming--such as it's been--will resume June 1.
A few more upcoming conferences marking Gödel's 100th birthday:
I was talking to a friend of mine who works at the Technisches Museum Vienna the other day about Enigma and Colossus, since I had just heard Jack Copeland's talk at the Gödel Centennial about the history of Colossus. So I did some Googling and found some interesting books which I should get: Action This Day, edited by Michael Smith and Ralph Erskine (2001), about code breaking at Bletchley Park; and the new Colossus. The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers, edited by Jack Copeland (2006).
Other things which Google spat out:
On Saturday, I unfortunately missed Ulrich Kohlenbach's talk, since the banquet the night before went a little long and I overslept. That was a pity, since I really like and admire his work. The second talk was by Harvey Friedman, "My 40 Years on His Shoulders". He as the title suggests, he gave a survey of his work on finding mathematically "natural" or "interesting" statements which are independent of strong theories. The three areas he focussed on was the theory of well quasi-orders (Kruskal's theorem, the graph minor theorem), Borel selection theory, and Boolean relation theory. If you've followed Harvey's posts on FOM, this was familiar territory. It was too bad that there wasn't more of a Friedman-MacIntyre discussion at the end. Then came the session on set theory: first, Paul Cohen reminisced about how he proved the independence of CH and his relationship to Gödel. He related how his interest in number theory as a graduate student at Chicago led him to think about developing a decision procedure for Diophantine equations. His colleagues there mentioned that what he tried to do onflicted with results of a certain Gödel--and this was confirmed by Kleene, when he gave a talk at Chicago during that time. This led Cohen to read Gödel's paper. He mentioned the story that circulates about how he [Cohen] allegedly asked Hartley Rogers in Princeton around 1958 what the hardest open problem in logic was, and that Rogers said it was the independence of CH--which Cohen then set to prove. Cohen said it rings a dim bell, but even if it hadn't happend the way it's been told, it would still continue to be told that way, because it's a good story. In any case, he attempted to read the Princeton monograph on the consistency of CH, but said he didn't understand it. He also said that he once asked Gödel if he had proved the independence of AC, and that Gödel had said, yes. Asked by what method, Gödel replied, "Well, it was somewhat similar to yours." At that time, Cohen reported, Gödel already seemed quite exhausted, and never wanted to talk about details of proofs. Cohen did want to debunk one claim made about him: that he at one point attempted to show that arithmetic was inconsistent (claimed, e.g., by Anil Nerode here)--he tried to find a decision procedure for Diophantine equations, which there isn't (see above). Dana Scott was up next. He gave an explanation for why Gödel's Princeton monograph is so hard to read: According to Kreisel, Gödel began the lectures upon which the monograph was based with a longish introduction where he explained the idea of the proof--but the notetaker though it was just chit chat and didn't write it down! Scott's talk was technical, on parametric sets and geometry, and I didn't quite follow it, I must admit. The third talk in the set theory session was Hugh Woodin on the large cardinal program. That was exciting and interesting, but I don't trust my notes enough to confidently report what he said. I think I've heard him give something like it at Berkeley already, so maybe there's a written version of it somewhere? In any case, here's a way to get a job in the Berkeley math department: Hugh bet that in the next 10,000 years no-one will prove ZFC + "there are infinitely many Woodin cardinals" inconsistent. If he loses, he will resign his job and insist that whever finds the contradiction be appointed in his place. In the afternoon, Avi Wigderson gave a talk on complexity, randomness, and game theory. It's up at his website. The last event of the meeting was Roger Penrose's public lecture at City Hall. The place was packed--probably 600 people or more. Since it was aimed at a general audience, there wasn't much detail. As far as I could tell, there wasn't that much new, either. Funnily enough, he seemed not to remember his own argument against strong AI using Gödel's theorems. Penrose's talk was followed by a screening of Jimmy Schimanovich and Peter Weibel's movie about Gödel's life and work, "Kurt Gödel--Ein mathematischer Mythos." The End.
Four interesting papers by Phillip Wadler:
available on his history of logic and programming languages page. (Hat tip: Lambda the Ultimate)
The first two people to email me their address get a postcard with a special Gödel Centennial stamp.
Day 2, Friday, was Gödel's birthday. I showed up for the panel discussion on unknowability, which wasn't particularly enlightening. Then Piergiorgio Odifreddi gave a very entertaining talk, in which he speculated on what philosophical writings may have served as inspiration for Gödel's results. He focussed on three figures: Aristotle, Kant, and Leibniz and drew some vague analogies between things Aristotle wrote in the Metaphysics and intuitionistic logic, between the antinomies of reason in Kant's first Critique and incompleteness, and Leibniz's calculus universalis and Gödel numbering. The latter was the most specific and interesting, I thought. Odifreddi reported that Sacks once told him that he heard Gödel say that he got the idea of arithmetization from Leibniz. Odifreddi went back to Leibniz' papers to see what was in there and said that the coding Leibniz used doesn't work -- the code of a string is just the product of the codes of the symbols in it. So this is an answer to the question prompted by Coffa I mentioned a while back, but at some point I should really figure out to what extent exactly Gödel coding was anticipated by Leibniz. Then Petr Hájek gave a survey of Gödel's ontological proof for the existence of God and the literature surrounding it. Hilary Putnam's talk was a follow-up to his paper "Reflexive Reflections" (Erkenntnis 22, 1985, 143-154). In that paper, he gave an argument that, if human language and scientific competence can be represented by a Turing machine, we can never know that this is so. It required an assumption, viz., that no mathematical falsehood can be justified by empirical evidence, and in this talk he attempted to get rid of that assumption.
I skipped the second panel discussion to get ready for the gala dinner that night in the Belvedere's Marble Hall. It was a very opulent affair. Here's a picture of the place setting, so you can see just how opulent:
The galleries were open, cocktails were served, Gary Kasparov spoke, we ate, then the Young Investigator Awards were presented:
After dessert, the string quartet performed the Barcarole from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, which was Gödel's favorite piece of music, and Paul Cohen gave an emotional closing speech which ended with everyone singing Happy Birthday.
Thanks, Peter, for telling me about your blog. Not.
Watch Logic Matters! And thanks (seriously) to Martijn Vermaat.
Here's where I channel Brian Leiter:
Distinguished logician and computer scientist Georg Gottlob, former chair of the Department of Information Systems at the University of Technology, Vienna, moves to Oxford University. This is a great loss for the TU Wien and the Viennese logic community. It is to be hoped that Gottlob will continue to be affiliated with the TU in some form or another.
(Georg was one of my teachers as an undergraduate -- why don't I hear about this sooner, I ask? Hello? Is noone in Vienna reading my blog?)
A new logic blog, from Ole Hjortland, St. Andrews: Nothing of Consequence.
(I collect logic blogs. If you have one and it's not on my blogroll, tell me!)
Gödel would have turned 100 years old today. Happy Birthday, Kurtele! Merry Gödelmas, everyone else! I'm going to report on today's sessions (well, on Hajek's and Putnam's) at the Gödel Centennial conference tomorrow, since I have to get ready now for the fancy Gala Dinner at the Belvedere Palace. ("Black Tie Optional". I guess I'll wear a black tie, since I still don't own a tux.)
Dana Scott just told this joke, which he heard from Ray Smullyan:
Two professors at a math conference stand in front of a blackboard, on which is written the sentence "Only an idiot would believe a sentence like this!" The first professor asks the second, "Do you believe that?" The second answers, "Of course not! Only an idiot would believe a sentence like this!"
I'm in Vienna for the Gödel Centennial conference, Horizons of Truth. Day 1 featured talks by:
I forgot to write down all the good comments made by Dana Scott in discussion, sorry.
I skipped the last talk, but went back for the Young Scholars Competition, where the 10 finalists for the 20,000 EUR prize each gave super-stressful 10-minute talks. The finalists are: Lorenzo Carlucci, Andrey Bovykin, Lutz Strassburger, Laurentiu Leustean, Mark van Atten, Hannes Leitgeb, Itay Neeman, Justin Moore, Eli Ben-Sasson, and Russell O'Connor. They were all excellent! I'm rooting for Mark and Hannes, but if I had to place a bet, I guess I would go with Itay. We'll know tonight who the lucky winners are.
The February issue of Synthese is a special issue on proof-theoretic semantics, edited by Reinhard Kahle and Peter Schröder-Heister. It's papers from a conference in Tübingen in 1999.
Call for Papers:
Uncertainty: Reasoning about probability and vagueness
September 5 to 8, Prague
Uncertainty is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday life, but it is also a topic of fundamental significance to many scientific disciplines. Uncertainty taken here in a broad sense, has many facets - among them probability and vagueness, including possibility, confidence, fuzziness etc. These are captured by different theories which often seem to be conceptually and technically incompatible. Therefore there is no universally accepted theory covering all this area and there are many reasons why we shall neither expect nor want to have one. On the other hand there have been attempts to cross the borders - there are theories trying to bridge gaps between rival approaches and looking for their common background.
The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for an open discussion between proponents of the main theories of uncertainty and vagueness on the market. Special attention shall be paid to the comparison of theories, analyzing differences and similarities of the respective concepts of uncertainty. Of particular interest are logical aspects and formal models of reasoning about vague information.
The scope of interest contains, but is not limited to the following topics:
The invited speakers of the colloquium: Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews), Rosanna Keefe (Sheffield), Peter Milne (Edinburgh), Richard Zach (Calgary).
The colloquium uses an abstract processing service kindly provided by Atlas Conferences Inc. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract at http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/casu-01. Your submission will be confirmed automatically on the e-mail address you provide. The accepted abstracts will be available on-line after the final decision of the program committee. If you have any problems to submit an abstract, please contact us at colloquium@ flu.cas.cz.
The deadline for contributions is 6 June 2006, the notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent until 30 June 2006.
Programme committee: Didier Dubois, Christian Fermüller, Ondrej Majer, Peter Milne, Richard Zach.
The conference fee is EUR 150, it covers conference materials, coffee breaks and the banquet at Villa Lanna. Participants unable to pay the conference fee are encouraged to apply for a reduction. Those who wish to apply for the reduction should explicitly state this when submitting their abstract, which should be extended to 2-4 pages. The official language of the symposium is English.
The authors will be offered to submit the papers presented at the colloquium to a special issue of Studia Logica on vagueness and uncertainty (their publication will be subject to the journal's regular refereeing process). Details on the special issue will be distributed at a later point by its editors.
The workshop starts one day after the Studia Logica International Conference Towards Mathematical Philosophy in Torun; the participants can consider taking part in both conferences (the journey to Prague from Torun takes less than one day).
The Prague International Colloquium continues the series of annual international meetings on topics in logic, epistemology and analytic philosophy organized in Prague by the Department of Logic of the Instituteof Philosophy (see previous colloquia).
The official web page of the colloquium is http://www.flu.cas.cz/Logica/konf/col2006.html. All correspondence should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com .
Ondrej Majer*, Libor B?hounek°, Petr Cintula°
Organising Committee
*Institute of Philosophy, °Institute of Computer Science,Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Sad news: Torkel Franzén has died yesterday. I've known Torkel since my undergraduate days, when he was tirelessly setting people straight on logical and philosophical matters in the newsgroup sci.logic. He wrote two wonderful books, a technical book on incompleteness (Inexhaustibility: A Non-Exhaustive Treatment) and one on misconceptions and misuses of Gödel's Theorems. He will be missed.
Torkel Franzén, well known for his many Usenet posts, died of skeleton cancer at Wednesday, April 19, at the age of 56.
Torkel Franzén worked as a university lecturer at the department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. He taught programming courses, mostly using Java and Prolog. He earned his PhD in 2004. His thesis (in philosophy) was titled "Provability and Truth". He also wrote books, such as "Gödel's Theorem. An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse", which appeared in 2005.
Gödel's Theorem was indeed one of his major interests. He wrote many Usenet posts on this and related subjects, but he did also write posts on many other subjects.
Torkel's too early death is a great loss for his family, colleagues,and Usenet friends.
Erland GaddeDepartment of MathematicsLuleå University of TechnologySweden
Torkel Franzén worked as a university lecturer at the department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. He taught programming courses, mostly using Java and Prolog. He earned his PhD in 2004. His thesis (in philosophy) was titled "Provability and Truth". He also wrote books, such as "Gödel's Theorem. An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse", which appeared in 2005.
Gödel's Theorem was indeed one of his major interests. He wrote many Usenet posts on this and related subjects, but he did also write posts on many other subjects.
Torkel's too early death is a great loss for his family, colleagues,and Usenet friends.
Erland GaddeDepartment of MathematicsLuleå University of TechnologySweden
See also Sol Feferman's post on FOM.
One of the corollaries that easily follow from Gödel's first incompleteness theorem for arithmetic is the incompleteness of second-order logic: there can be no proof system that generates all and only the validities of second-order logic. It follows from the incompleteness of arithmetic because for any sentences ? of first-order arithmetic, there is a sentence of second-order logic ?? which is valid iff ? is true in the standard model. So if second-order logic was recursively enumerable (r.e.) then true arithmetic (the sentences true in the standard model) would be r.e. Now you may ask (and students regularly do ask): but what if Gödel's theorem had been false? What if arithmetic were complete? Would second-order logic then be complete, too? This question is usually not answered in the usual textbooks (at least I wasn't able to find it covered in the ones I looked). Now a conditional with a necessarily false antecedent is true, so "if arithmetic were complete, second-order logic would still be incomplete" is trivially true. But there's of course a way to give a non-trivial answer: There is no Turing machine that churns out all the valid sentences of second-order logic, even if that machine has access to an oracle which answers "yes" or "no" according to whether any given sentence of arithmetic is true in the standard model. (The function of such an oracle, of course, cannot itself be performed by a Turing machine, since the set of Gödel numbers of true arithmetic sentences is undecidable, and not even r.e.) That this is so is most easily seen by thinking of computability in terms of definability.
A set V of numbers is ?01-definable if there is a ?01 formula ?(x) of arithmetic (one existential quantifier, then only bounded quantifiers) with a free variable x so that ?(n) is true in the standard model iff n ? V. V is r.e. iff it is ?01-definable. (In one direction: ?(x) says "there is a number k which codes a computation of a Turing machine started on input l ? k and with output n.") If W is a set of numbers, we say that V is ?01(W)-definable if there is a formula ?(x, Y) with a second-order variable Y so that n ? V iff ?(n, Y) is true in the standard model when Y is interpreted as the set W. V is enumerable by a Turing machine with access to an oracle for W iff it is ?01(W)-definable.
If we let TA be the set of Gödel numbers of the true sentences of arithmetic and Val2 the set of Gödel numbers of valid sentences of second-order logic, our question:
Is Val2 enumerable by a Turing machine with an oracle for TA?
can be restated as:
Is Val2 ?01(TA)-definable?
It isn't: the class {TA} is definable in arithmetic, that is, there is an arithmetical formula ?(Y) with a free second-order variable Y so that ?(Y) is true iff Y = TA (see Theorem 23.2 in Boolos, Burgess, Jeffrey, Computability and Logic, 4th ed.). So if Val2 were ?01(TA)-definable by some formula ?(n, Y), it would then also be definable in second-order arithmetic by the formula ? Y(?(Y) ? ?(n, Y)). And if Val2 were definable in second-order arithmetic, then TA2, the set of Gödel numbers of true sentences of second-order arithmetic would be definable in second-order arithmetic, since the Gödel number of a sentence ? of second-order arithmetical sentence is in TA2 iff the Gödel number of PII ? ? is in Val2 (where PII is the conjunction of the the second-order Peano axioms, as in Example 22.6 of BBJ). But by Tarski's Theorem, TA2 is not definable in second-order arithmetic (see Theorem 41C of Enderton's A Mathematical Introduction to Logic).
A whole bunch of conference announcements came in over the Proof Theory and FOM lists the other day:
Logic Colloquium. July 27-August 2, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Submission deadline: April 17.
Workshop on Hybrid Logics. August 11, Seattle (part of FLoC). Submission deadline: May 26.
Computer Science Logic. September 25-29, Szeged, Hungary. Submission deadline: abstracts April 24, full papers May 1.
Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic. September 26-30, Salamanca, Spain. Submission deadline: May 15.
Conference on Logic, Navya-Nyaya, and Pallications. January 3-7, 2007, Calcutta, India. Submission deadline: August 31.
Thomas Dolby has a blog. And so do the UConn philosophy grad students.
Amazon.de emailed me today, suggesting that I preorder Kurt Gödel: The Album. There's not that much info on the amazon.de page, nor on the Vieweg page, but it's the book to accompany the exhibition the editors (Karl Sigmund, John Dawson and Kurt Mühlberger) are putting on for the Gödel Centenary in Vienna.
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