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Good morning all. I have an easy 6 miler on schedule and a 45 minute drive to work afterward, so should get moving.
QOTD: What are the temperature extremes you've dealt with in running, and then racing? Cold in races, cold in training, heat in races, heat in training?
QOTD EDIT after seeing Marco's post >> Have you done a race in rain, snow, sleet, or other odd conditions?
For me, no race has been too cold... probably a Boston at 40 was the coldest other than a 5k in which I've dealt with a January 1 race at about 25 degrees. Cold training has gone down to 9 degrees. Hot races was Boston 2012 at 87 or so. Hot in training has been around 100.
EGeary - That is interesting that your running podiatrist said to stay off the elliptical. Maybe someone knows why one might recommend that.
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Good morning,
Mark--Hope work goes smooth for you.
After work DW has Zumba class. I don't know if she realizes what she's getting herself into. I will do a LR while she's busy with that.
QOTD--for marathons, the warmest might be in the 60s and the coolest in the low 40s with a little rain. I have never had a race entirely in the rain.
Training is a different story. -2 is my coldest. Mid 90s is warmest. One time I went on an 8 miler after working the midnight shift. It was in the mid 80s. I took it slow but with a mile to go, I just couldn't run any more. I walked the last mile and drove home. After cooling down, I started to go to the shower and suddenly got very tired. I sat there on the bathroom floor for about 10 minutes, just too tired to get to my feet. I took my BP and it was something like 80/50. The feeling went away, but that was scary. I don't know if it was some kind of heat stroke or what.
RUN DONE: Easy sushi
Marco - Thanks. I'm doing recruiting/interviewing which I enjoy. So it should be nice. I could just do without the long-ish drive. Many have to do more than that every day so I should not complain.
For the QOTD - I already answered but Marco brought up an interesting point re rain, so I'm going to add that to the QOTD. I've had some rain in a race, but not a lot. No snow yet.
Good Morning Everyone,
I am very tired today bc last evening I had issues with insomnia. Grrr, today it is dreary adding insult to my injury but onward we go. Coffee will be my friend today.
I participated in Gettysburg North/South Marathon Sunday and paced a friend to a sub 3:20. It was a nice day for me to run without any pressure and also I really liked the feeling I got from encouraging her. She is my new friend, met at the start. Marco: it was a lovely course, you would have liked it although it was hilly.
MarkRice: enjoy your 6 miles and hope work is quiet for you.
Marco: my sister in law zumba's and she swears by it. Hope your wife has a nice time.
QOTD: my first marathon, back the in early 80's was 11 degrees and windy. I wore a parka with the fur hood and finished in 3:50. I had no clue about running or what to wear, only it was cold and i wore the warmest thing I had. My mother and future husband drove around and gave me plain water and fig newtons. It was love at first sight for both my husband and the marathoning
Have a super day.
"Impossible is Nothing"
Coffee time before the morning workout. Today will be easy five followed by core training with my buff Korean friend. Last week, she strapped a weighted vest on me, tethered me to the garage door, and made me run in place holding weights (under resistance from the tether). Id better have glutes after all of this!
QOTD: I am a cold weather wimp and will find any excuse not to go out in it. I like it for racing and that's about it. I think the coldest Ive raced is about 35-40. I have much more experience racing in heat. Boston 2012 was hottest marathon for me but I think the humidity gets to me more than the heat.
EGeary - +1 to water running. I did it last year while rehabbing a broken heel bone. It did well for maintaining fitness. I could not do elliptical because it still required weight-bearing. Perhaps doc wants you to reduce weight-bearing forces on the feet?
jbc - You may have a definitive answer in 3 weeks. There is an approximate 2 weeks lag time in what is seen on xray and reality when it comes to fractures. You have plenty of time to heal for a fall marathon cycle and now is probably the best time to rest. Maybe try water running? It is boring, but very effective. I followed a modified pfitz water running plan last year (did all water running until last 6 weeks before Boston). I did LR with 10 min water run = 1 mile. If you do it correctly, you will sweat and get a great workout.
Hi my Super PeepsI've only had time to lurk and even got behind doing that. Finally got caught up on break at work. Love the race reports as they have slowly come in. It may take six months to write DH's and my story. Standing at the finish line as the bombs went off...I will never forget.Wanted to let you know I am almost always lurking and continuing to train hard for Ojai in 3 1/2 weeks. This weekend is the Diva run with matching pink outfits and socks, bows and shoelaces. The silliness of it all is going to make the weekend special. Love my running Divas <3
QOTD- Will re post this....coldest video. Rain fest LA Marathon. Rain and wind can drop your core temp fast
Maureen- Awesome PR. You add speed to your training and you will be cracking 3:40 soon. I would give you 22 elephants and bananas for your new PR but my fellow formites might get annoyed...so you get..
One row full
Map-It would be great to have you at the Diva run with me. We could shop tell we dropthen run the 1/2 marathon in our matching outfits with tiaras...lol!!
Techchick-You are going to BQ soon....you seem like the fighting kind so just keep up the hard work and the break through will come.
"Hardwork beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."
Morning, fellow freaks. This calf niggle doesn't want to go away. I iced it some when I got up this morning and that helped some. May try to get a run in today, if only to get over 250 miles for the month. I do not need to be missing any significant training time, I know that. If I start running and the calf is complaining, I may shut it down after 1.4 (which would get me to 250).
Marco, a good friend (who is hyper as hell anyway) is a Zumba instructor. Another hot fitness thing around here that several runners participate in is G-Fit, which I'm not quite sure what it entails but it sounds tough.
Weather? Hmm. Peeps around the Casa are convinced I'm crazy because I'll pretty much run in anything. Heavy snow, 115-degree heat (but not for long). I try to avoid thunderstorms, because I don't like the thought of the stainless steel in my back serving as a lightning rod, but I ran my 10K PR in a thunderstorm and the first half of Top of Utah was in a thunderstorm with hail, and I didn't get charbroiled. I think the coldest race I've run in was about 20 F; it just doesn't get that cold here much.
Now after OKC, people around here are lining up trying to get me to pace them in marathons. Mostly women, but one guy has mentioned it too.
Trisha, can't imagine you as a Diva
DrBart, I'm with ya on humidity. I hate heat too, but around here they tend to go together.
Lap'd, must be nice to take it easy and run sub-3:20. Right now I'd trade significant body parts for sub-3:30.
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Morning all! Feel pretty good today, so will probably attempt a few easy miles and maybe do the bike trainer a bit. DW seems to have bounced back pretty well, she even asked me what I thought about the Cleveland course (which is in 3 weeks). You can't keep a runner down for long!
For the QOTD - Living in northern Ohio we can get some pretty brutal winters. Probably the coldest I've run was when it was in the low single digits. Last winter I bought some running mittens and if you stick heat packs in them, your hands are totally fine, which is the only thing that really ever gets cold on me. Did a Blizzard Breakfast run with the family and people got lost on the snowy course because a snowplow knocked over a turn marker. That was fun. haha
I've also made the mistake of running down in Mexico in August during the middle of the day, being in the 90's and humid was not fun at all. Quickly learned to get up before 6:00am down there to get my run in!
Mark - Funny to see everyone posting about running easier now.
Marco - Not going to take the class with her?
Lap'd - Nice job pacing!
DrBart - You sure that is exercise? Maybe its torture and you just don't know it yet!
trisha - Wow, I didn't realize you were that close to the bombs. Glad you were far enough away from the blast.
dkggpeters - Same here, with the cold you can layer up. When its hot out, even running shirtless you are still hot.
jbc - Hope it isn't too bad and you recover fast. Being injured is about the worst thing that can happen to a runner. When I threw out my back and was off for a week, I was about as miserable as can be. But honestly think the forced break was good for me. And I was *really* thrilled to get back to running when I could! Best of luck!
Spider - I've run in thunderstorms, outside of being a bit afraid of that whole getting zapped thing, its a great run to do.
Dang, watching the white posting gears on the orange background, and it taking a long time, reminds landrunner of the saying that the gears of God grind slowly, but finely......
Good morning, I ran 10 miles this morning at pretty much my cruising along pace. I was either going uphill or down, there was no flat at all today. It was 74 at the start and 77 at the finish. Yesterday it was 104 here. I had to coach #3's track workout because the coach did not show. I made them do 200, 400, 600, 800, 600, 400, 200, with the second half faster. I was really kind of clueless as to what to have them do. It had cooled off to 98 by the time they finished. I then had to help coach #2's softball game on the other side of town and pick up # 1 from swim. I hate Mondays.
My record is 6 miles at 116 for heat. 12 miles at 14 for cold. Racing heat was Boston last year followed by Chicago in 2010. For cold it was Vegas in 2009, I think it was 27 at the start and wet because it had rained earlier in the evening before getting cold. I really like it to be about 48 when racing. I will not run in lightning.
Hackker: l say let her go for Cleveland.
Bart: Your post made me laugh imagining you doing that workout.
Trish: Nice to see you again.
Marco: That Zumba or aerobic stuff wears me right out.
Spider: You still ran 26 regardless of your pace. It is okay to have a couple easy days and probably smarter.
Lapd: I ran once in full camo rain gear during a heavy rain. I overheated fast and even though the stuff was gortex it still weighed me down.
DKG: I do not like running in the heat either. I am pretty much stuck when it comes to that though. I do everything to avoid the sun, which makes it 10 times worse.
Mark: I am a big fan of walk downstairs to work. I just get my driving in later.
Land: you need to run with a tornado off in the distance.
Almost Afternoon here!
Hip is sore so will rest. Took DS2 to my running doc and DrBart's diagnosis was correct. It was not the Achilles but growth plate with some bumps and spurs and tendons irritating it. He had the "joy" of his first massage and had some temporary inserts to fix his pronation. The physical therapist showed him how to stretch his tight calves, which unfortunately, he inherited from me.
Trisha: I want to be a diva with you! Next year...??
QOTD: My limit is about 5 degrees, but depends on the windchill. My coldest marathon was my first and fastest in Huntsville, Ala, where it rained and sleeted. Ran both hot Bostons of 2004 and 2012 and the Nor'easter. Coldest race was probably a half in March that was 25ish this year, last year was 80 (in Chicagoland in March). The year before that, it stormed near the end and I've also run it in snow and sleet. It is aptly named March Madness. I would take 25 over 80 any day, but still like 45-50 and overcast!
Hi Super Peeps
I posted the FE picture from Boston. I got home and there is a fellow formite I do not recognize. I want to make sure I put a name with a live face. Who is standing behind CVB and Smoke?
Hi Smokey- Hope to visit with you a little at Ojai. Maybe a Post Boston Beer toast because I never got to have one with you or my fellow formites post race....or at least a hug. 3:02 is an amazing time...especially with the foot issues you've had. Is the DH & DD's coming with you?
Forgot to mention that my DH keeps requesting to attend the Diva run in S.F. with my girlfriends. I keep telling him "no" Girls only. He says he will be the official "water boy"...lol!!!
Off to bed...
Know that my fellow formites are ALL in my thoughts and prayers
I did 6 miles yesterday on my sore quads, heading to the track tonight for 4, doubt I will do much speedwork with the crew. It's funny that my quads are so sore when I walk around, but running they feel fine.
Reading Spider's and Lap'd "how I started" story made me think of a QOTD, what was your first run ever. That would be interesting. Before you were famous!
QOTD - I have the distinct pleasure of having a temperature range of 55 - 65 I'd say on all my races. One race did hit 70 by the time I was done, but I was really just about done at that point. I don't want to jinx it but I've had tremendous luck on all my races to date, and that's a total of around 20 in all. Training is not quite so good, mostly on the high end. Down into the teens for a cold run, up to 90 with 90% humidity last summer on the hot runs. I couldn't get up early enough on the east coast to beat the heat. Even night time temps were high.
Marco - that heat stuff is no joke. I had a similar experience in a Palm Springs century bike ride. It scared me how I couldn't snap out of it.
Mark - My brother does a lot of recruiting. He always enjoys it up to a point, when the applicants start to get a little false or suck-uppity (that's a real word)
Lap'd - I can really slug down the coffee on those days, I'm like a sponge.
DrBart - I'm thinking of pounding down hills for quads. Mine sure are sore after Sunday, that must be a good quad workout.
Trisha - would love to read your story when you are ready. I still have a hard time talking about it. I hate that I will start to tear up, I feel like I make everyone in the room uncomfortable. So I avoid talking about Boston in groups of people.
Dkggpeters - I'm still amazed by your mileage, you must be an animal! My legs are just not up for that yet.
Spider - You can always just do 2 miles.
Hackker - I'd vote yes to another course in 3 weeks. It's very personal obviously, but after that first week my legs have felt completely recovered. This way she wouldn't have to go through another training cycle.
Land - we get a lot of "sonic boom" explanations here in So. Cali. They are always saying that it wasn't an earthquake. Do you get sonic booms in OKC?
Smoke - you sound like a natural coach, wonder if the workout was harder than they were used to.
Hackker--You would never catch me doing that, and besides I have to get in one LR before the marathon on the 12th.
Did my 2 miles and a few more after that, and the calf niggle feels much better. I might even go out later for 4 more to get to 260 for the month. After starting out very slowly, I was under 10:00 pace for the last three miles. Don't know if I'l be ready to run a fast 10K Saturday, but at least I can quit worrying about the calf for now.
I am auctioning off my 2013 medal with all proceeds going to the Red Cross directly via EBAY. I am making a matching donation of the first $250 to the Boston One Fund. If you or anyone you know is interested they can find it listed in EBAY this week. I've got a bid now at $305 which is fantastic.
Trisha - the shirt your DD and you created has become my favorite short sleeve shirt. Thanks again. That's Ric... (is it Ric-G?) behond Smoke and CVB.
dkgg - Wow, that IS cold. I run year-round... it's just... TN and now AL don't get that extreme... Now HUMID... I have to deal with that a lot... 100% this AM. Good 8 to you my friend.
Spider - Yeah, I avoid lightening and ice... anything else, I'm there.
Hackker - Yes, easy is in for this month, and likely next for several. I hope to increase intensity in bursts... had two faster days so far, then an 11 (which was easy).
Land - triple... ouch!
Smoke - Ah, to walk downstairs for work... awesome! My job won't, so I don't. I was looking for your post re the temps. Hot where you live, then the CIM??? last year? Ouch! both would be miserable. I did NOT expect 104 for YESTERDAY. Wow. I'll bet your coaching turned out just as good. ;-)... even if not within a plan. Great job!
Map - Those are brutal temps in your racing career.... hat's off to you!
Maureen - Oh yes, I deal with a lot of "suck-up" type comments. But they're usually easy to spot. The problem is not the suck-up... but the REAL info that they camouflage; if I don't get the real comments, it's a no. Funny re the quads doing well running, but sore walking.
crocrunner - Very noble. I've debated on auctioning my medal for the One Fund. I can't yet get myself to do it. I'm not concerned about losing the going rate for these things... I just want the medal. I suppose I'm a bit selfish on this... I've debated on creating a paper version (with a scanner) and displaying that even more proudly... and contribute all results to the One Fund. The battle rages in my head frequently. Hat's off to you though! Awesome!
Hello All,
Took yesterday off from running and it's amazing what a well-timed RD can do for the legs. Will do 6-7 after work, hopefully before it starts raining. The QOTD is appropriate given that they're now forecasting up to a foot of snow here by tomorrow afternoon (yes, May 1)--enough already! It was 75 yesterday.
QOTD: Coldest race was around 5--fortunately a 5K so warmed up fast. Coldest marathon was probably around 28 at the start. Coldest training run -1 without the windchill. Lots of runs around here in the single digits. Warmest race was Boston last year, just thankful it wasn't humid too. A few years ago I was in Veracruz, Mexico (next to the Gulf) and running at sunrise it was 84 with a dewpoint of 81. Only ran 5 miles but I looked like someone dumped a couple of gallons of water on me when I was done.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. --George Bernard Shaw
Trish-who is in the center of the pic (dark hair and last years shirt)? though it was myself on first glance!
Mel - That's CVB. Behind her is Ric (I think the complete handle is Ric-G).
To the left are these faces: Sharpie, ShreveRunner, Trisha, DrBart, Sina, Marco
To the right are these: CVB, Ric-G, Smoke, MillStreet, MarkRice, RedRunner
I can provide these pics and more... just message me.
I had to add this one... with the divas...
CVB, Maureen, Trisha, Sina and DrBart
Hey peeps. Forgot to mention that I came out of the OKC expo with a new pair of shoes; Newton Distance was on sale from a local running store. Wore them tonight for my 4-miler to cap off the double, the month and the first third of 2013. I'm hoping they will turn out to be my race shoe for Bayshore, but we'll see. Totals: 4 miles on the Newtons, 260 for April, 750 for 2013.
Lunch non-date with the massage therapist tomorrow, possibly a run on Thursday and a massage on Friday. Works for me...
Nice pix from Boston, MR. In some ways, I think the informal FE at the expo was the best one we had my year. Easiest one to carry on a conversation for certain. Also looks like many of our denizens of the dailies, X chromosome division, will be looking down on the Pig next year. Which is OK.
You are only allowed to post the cute pictures of us gals...we have to keep up our reputation as the Forum Girls you know We look very confused in that pic...lol!!!
If anyone has more from beerworks....please post. I'm so sad I never met Hackker and the lovely techchick, or 26.2....who still owes me my bacon bits, and jcb . I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
We will be Back in 2014...no stopping us now
Long day at work followed by long run of 20.26. It felt very easy.


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All over the world, crafts and craftsmanship is dying out in the wake of the industrial revolution. Japan is one country with a plethora of crafts, and designers like Elena Galli Giallini are trying hard to keep them alive. One of the most beautiful of the Japanese crafts is urushi, traditional Japanese lacquer, and Galli Giallini uses it to perfection in her new collection of furniture called Deinde for the Japanese furniture company, Morishige.
Born in Rhodesia (Zambia), this Italian designer has lived all over the world before settling in Japan in 1995. Her diverse and multidisciplinary background is undoubtedly one of the major strengths in her design. Deinde, a Latin word meaning "next" or "from now on", melds superb craftsmanship with a restrained modern aesthetic to create new design classics. As the word implies, Deinde is a new view for the future, while still retaining what is important from the past. Urushi is combined with natural oak finishes and metal to create pieces, which are exercises in proportion and geometry. While the range includes sofa and coffee tables, we are particularly taken by the cabinets. Beautiful urushi sits comfortably with the oak finishes in a restrained manner so quintessentially Japanese. Tops and doors open to reveal more Urushi surprises on the interior. The linear proportions of the pieces make them pleasant on the eye and draw attention to their delicate beauty.
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Nkandla: 'new evidence Zuma misled MPs'Comment on this story
Cape Town - The DA says it has found "new evidence" that President Jacob Zuma misled Parliament on the security upgrades at his Nkandla residence.
The evidence, according to the party, is contained in parliamentary replies that imply Zuma was aware of the details of the upgrades.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said in her report she had found Zuma had not intentionally misled Parliament.
But the DA says the new evidence gives it more grounds to call for Zuma's removal as president over the R245 million in upgrades.
DA caucus chairman Wilmot James said the new evidence suggests that Zuma may have "deliberately" misled Parliament and "violated the constitution and the law".
He said this warranted a full parliamentary investigation.
"Today, we are presenting further evidence that we will be submitting to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Max Sisulu, at the first available opportunity to support the removal of President Zuma."
DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said she had asked Zuma a question in Parliament on Nkandla on November 13, 2012.
In his response, Zuma said: "I have never asked government to build a home for me, and it has not done so. The government has not built a home for me. What government did, given its own considerations of security, was to build other houses beyond my home for the security personnel. These are not shown on television and these are really the government's houses, but I do not know how much they cost."
In a separate oral response, Zuma discusses the improvements to his Nkandla residence.
"Actually, I was informed that improvements needed to be made at the family residence to enhance the security of the head of state.
"The nature and form of improvement were decided upon by the relevant officials through their departments. As already indicated, such information would not include details on the specifics about what would be done by whom and at what cost."
Mazibuko said this response was the most "revealing", because it provided an insight into whether the president was willing to put on record that he was aware of the details of the project. "(He) made two key points during his reply. The first acknowledged that he was fully aware of the difference between his involvement in his personal renovations to his home, and those being organised by the state."
Luzuko Jacobs, spokesman for Parliament, said this week that Sisulu's letter to the DA had been misinterpreted as saying he would consider setting up an ad hoc committee.
Sisulu had said merely that he was considering Mazibuko's request for a notice of a motion to establish an ad hoc committee and would come back to her about this, Jacobs added. It had been "mischievous" to interpret Sisulu's statement as saying a "first step would be taken towards impeachment proceedings against Mr Zuma".
"Mr Sisulu's intentions will be made clear when he responds, as indicated in his preliminary reply."
Mazibuko said: "The parliamentary spokesman is splitting hairs. If the prima facie evidence is substantial enough, they then have an opportunity to defend themselves before an ad hoc committee that is put together on a proportional basis. That is an impeachment."
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Newly insured will be met with shortage of care providers
As Pennsylvanians begin to shop on Tuesday for government-subsidized insurance, health care providers question whether they can accommodate the anticipated influx of patients.
"We're going to be inundated with patients," said Dr. Jeannette South-Paul, a family doctor at UPMC's Matilda Theiss Health Center in Oakland and chair of the department of family medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "There really aren't enough of us (doctors)."
More than 200,000 uninsured people live in Western Pennsylvania, an estimated three-quarters of them adults in Allegheny County alone, industry experts say.
The newly insured will head to doctors' offices and hospitals at a time when Pennsylvania's physician workforce of about 32,000 cannot meet existing demand. Most counties, especially those in rural areas, report shortages of doctors, according to the Pennsylvania Medical Society.
"We won't have the providers to meet the demands," said Dr. William Minor, director of a Morgantown, W.Va.-based family residency program that is training four physician residents at Cornerstone Care Mt. Morris Health Center in Greene County. "If a person trains in a rural setting, they're more likely to stay here."
Predicting how quickly new patients might seek care is impossible, said Dr. Richard Schott, a suburban Philadelphia cardiologist and president of the state medical society.
The sign-up period that begins Tuesday for health insurance in online marketplaces runs for six months, though government officials hope many people will enroll by Dec. 15. Coverage begins in 2014.
Last week, Oregon, Colorado and the District of Columbia said their online exchanges — among 51 set up — experienced information technology problems that could affect some functions and lead to a slow start.
"It's very unlikely that 30 million people are going to instantly appear on the doorsteps of physicians across the country as of Jan. 1," Schott said. "Historically, people in this country and in this state have had access to care. It's an exaggeration to say these people haven't had care or haven't had access to care."
The potential onslaught of patients prompted health care workers such as nurse practitioners to seek more independence. State Sen. Pat Vance, R-York, this year introduced a bill that would let nurse practitioners practice independently of doctors in some clinical settings.
"We think that's not safe," Schott said. "There's a vast difference in training. There's a concern about the liability and delay to getting patients to appropriate care."
Most physicians instead support a team approach to delivering care, much in the way it's done at Matilda Theiss Health Center in Oakland. Health care professionals there treat patients with a mix of insurance coverage. A third of the patients are uninsured.
Under a model known as the patient-centered medical home, a primary care doctor manages a patient's care but patients can consult pharmacists, nurses, social workers and other medical specialists under the doctor's direction.
"Physicians must be in the mix," South-Paul said. She pointed to research showing that patients in areas with a higher number of primary care doctors tend to have better outcomes, and fewer die.
The region's hospitals are trying to recruit primary care doctors. At UPMC, the largest health care provider with 20 hospitals and 400 outpatient sites, officials recently hired 20 primary care doctors and expect to hire about 30 next year from Pitt's School of Medicine.
"We are adding primary care doctors as quickly as we can," said Dr. Steven Shapiro, UPMC's chief medical and scientific officer.
Very sick patients come to hospitals with or without insurance, Shapiro said.
"I'm not sure we're expecting too much of a difference in admissions," he said. "We've got many extra hospital beds in this town."
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The eighth annual NOMAD Music Experience will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Victorian Village Resort, 279 Victorian Village Drive.
NOMAD stands for New Original Music And Dance. Doors open at 7 p.m., with music starting at 8:30 p.m.
Half of the proceeds from the silent auction will be donated to the local, nonprofit Sustainable Living Group. Some of the silent auction items include a hand-painted acoustic guitar from Steve Bossler, oil paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley from Jason Prigge, and a bicycle.
The performance schedule is as follows: The Mustache from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. (www.reverbnation.com/themustachefunk); Bowser & Friends from 9:30 to 11 p.m. (www.bowserband.com); Roster McCabe from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. (rostermccabe.com); and Steed from 12:30 a.m. to close (www.creepfunk.com).
Also, artists will be painting alongside the musicians as they perform. Sometimes, artists create one large painting for the whole evening, or other times they may create four to five smaller paintings.
Admission is $15 at the door. Attendees must be at least 21 years old.
Osthoff Resort holds Old World Christmas Market
The 15th annual Old World Christmas Market will start Nov. 30 and continue through Dec. 9 at The Osthoff Resort, 101 Osthoff Ave., Elkhart Lake.
The market, described as being reminiscent of the centuries-old Christkindlesmarkt of Nüremberg, Germany, will have timber booths featuring the wares of juried regional and international artisans, German food delicacies, fresh pine trees and thousands of twinkling white lights.
The event is staged inside a heated tent the size of a football field. The market is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and admission is $6 for adults (children 14 and younger are admitted free with an adult ticketholder). Discounted ticket prices for groups of 10 or more are available.
For more information, visit www.christmasmarketatosthoff.com.
Z-Spot announces musical lineup
Z-Spot Espresso and Coffee, 1024 Indiana Ave., Sheboygan, announced its musical lineup for this weekend.
The Joel Kuether Trio will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, and Karl Weinberger will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The shows are free. For more information, call 920-457-6690 or visit www.zspotespresso.com.
Artists to conduct workshop
Artists John Shimon and Julie Lindemann will conduct a hands-on workshop altering ready-made postcards and, in the process, critique popular conceptions and misconceptions about "place."
The workshops will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 13 and Dec. 15 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York Ave., Sheboygan. Attendees also can learn manipulation techniques using a variety of media.
Postcards created in the workshop will be included in the "Wisconsin Confidential" exhibit, which continues through Feb. 3. A video will document participants' thoughts about their postcards.
To register by Dec. 5, call 920-458-6144.
SVA preparing for Holiday Art Sale
The Sheboygan Visual Artists will hold their Holiday Art Sale from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 1 at EBCO Artworks, 1201 Erie Ave., Sheboygan.
Hundreds of original, new and locally produced works of art in the form of paintings, jewelry, ceramics, photography and more will be for sale. Twenty percent of the proceeds will go to support the SVA and its mission.
Admission is free, but donations of non-perishable food items will be distributed by the United Way to local food banks.
The SVA also announced that it will host extended gallery hours on Dec. 2, 8, 9, 15 and 16.
For more information, visit http://sheboyganvisualartists.com.
Acoustic Jam event planned for Friday
The Plymouth Arts Center, 520 E. Mill St., Plymouth, will host its annual Christmas Acoustic Jam and Open Mic from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday. The event is free and open to the public.
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Labelling schemes designed to shift consumer preferences towards more ecologically-friendly goods have had a limited effectiveness and need to be used in combination with other measures, according to panellists who debated the issue during a recent EBS workshop in Brussels, moderated by EurActiv.
To date, there has been little spillover from niche markets for more environmentally-friendly goods into the wider retail sector, according to Jim Murray, former director of the European Consumers' Organisation BEUC.
Murray, who addressed the issue along with other panelists during a 22 February debate at the European Business Summit (EBS) in Brussels, said that schemes like the EU's eco label have been "disappointing" in terms of their impact on purchasing patterns.
Consumers are also being confused by a proliferation of environmental claims that have become "meaningless", he said.
Concerns over excessive use of different labels were also echoed by Roland Vaxelaire of the Carrefour Group. Vaxelaire argued that companies need more support in order to reduce prices for greener goods, and that while labels are important, customers should not be confused and made to feel guilty.
The EU should also "avoid the experience we had with nutrition," he said, in reference to an ongoing controversy about new EU food labelling rules (EurActiv 31/01/08).
The Commission is currently planning a revision and possible expansion of the eco label scheme as part of a new action plan on sustainable consumption and production (SCP), expected in mid-April (see also EurActiv 21/02/08).
Gianni Ciserani of Procter & Gamble told the audience that "consumers want it all," and that greener consumption patterns will not become possible until products can simultaneously provide superior performance, fair value, a 'memorable experience' and sustainability.
"If we continue to offer a compromise, we will not see the change in consumer behaviour we want to see," he said.
All the panellists agreed that labels can be useful as long as they are based on consistent and easy-to-understand criteria, and are used in combination with other measures. Differing views emerged on fiscal incentives, however.
Murray noted that tax breaks have not been as successful as expected, citing a 2006 study by the UK's Sustainable Development Commission.
Erika Mink of Tetra Pak urged "caution" on the use of taxation, while former EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler spoke in favour of higher taxation on resource use, offset by decreased taxes on income. Fischler also argued that the market should play a greater role in creating incentives for cleaner consumption patterns.
During a separate debate at the EBS, EU Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günther Verheugen indicated his support for incentive-based rather than prescriptive measures to stimulate more sustainable industrial production. The Commission will present an action plan on sustainable industrial policy (SIP) alongside the SCP action plan.
Further reading
European Union
- UK Sustainable Development Commission (SDC):If you will I will - towards sustainable consumption(May 2006)
- Blogactiv:Controversy on sustainable consumption(includes video links)
- Blogactiv:Tetra Pak on sustainable consumption
- Blogactiv:Sustainable consumption - what incentives?(Briefing for sustainable consumption workshop)
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The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003 - History - 275 pages
The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics examines the political, social, and cultural dimensions of Zionism and Bundism, the two major political movements among East European Jews during the first half of the twentieth century.
While Zionism achieved its primary aim—the founding of a Jewish state—the Jewish Labor Bund has not only practically disappeared, but its ideals of socialism and secular Jewishness based in the diaspora seem to have failed. Yet, as Zvi Gitelman and the various contributors argue, it was the Bund that more profoundly changed the structure of Jewish society, politics, and culture.
In thirteen essays, prominent historians, political scientists, and professors of literature discuss the cultural and political contexts of these movements, their impact on Jewish life, and the reasons for the Bund's demise, and they question whether ethnic minorities are best served by highly ideological or solidly pragmatic movements.
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Why do mathematicians always agree?
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Question: How can you spot an extrovert mathematician?
Answer: He looks at YOUR shoes when he talks to you.
Is mathematics "less social" than other academic disciplines? Some support for a 'yes' answer can be found in a recent piece of news. A famous mathematician, Nelson, had claimed to give a proof of a rather surprising proposition: "Peano Arithmetic is inconsistent." Two other famous mathematicians, Tao and Tausk, said the proof included one specific mistake, which they spelled out. Nelson's reaction was: "Ah, you're right. So I have not proven that Peano Arithmetics is inconsistent". End of the story. No fight, no disagreement, no formation of alternative schools of thoughts, no playing with how to interpret this or that claim. Just plain boring consensus.
(These are the axioms that Nelson claimed were inconsistent. They are supposed to express central propositions true of our system of natural numbers with addition. They are used to prove things about an object that is central in many cultures.)
Mathematics is full of that: easily achieved consensus. Everybody agrees. No debate, and yet, the consensus is not socially induced in any standard way.
In a recent blog post, The (in)consistency of PA and consensus in mathematics, Catarina Novaes takes this as a nice illustration of some points made by philosopher Jody Azzouni, who argues that mathematics is unique as a social practice.
How cultural is cultural epidemiology? 2- Cultural embedding
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This is the second part of Christophe's series of posts on what culture does to culture (the first post is here).
Most cultural phenomena are embedded in other cultural phenomena. For one thing, any cultural phenomenon takes place within a community that already has many traditions, cultural practices, rituals and beliefs of its own. The important point, however, is that the embedding cultural phenomena are likely to have some effects on the embedded cultural phenomenon and to partially determine its evolution and the content of its constitutive representations. Religious beliefs can have effects on economic practices; economic practices can have effects on kinship relations; etc.
Let us call "cultural embedding" this aspect of cultural evolution. Cultural embedding is certainly what motivated some cultural anthropologists to have a holistic view of culture: every aspect of one culture will be related, more or less directly, to other aspects of the same culture.
Cultural epidemiology on promiscuous causality
For cultural epidemiology, cultural phenomena result from social cognitive causal chains that go from mental processes to social interactions (e.g. communication, imitation, the production of artefacts) to mental processes again. Some of these chains involve many members of a community, last through time and eventually have the effect of stabilising the distribution of cultural items in that community.
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How cultural is cultural epidemiology? The case of enculturation
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When discussing about cultural epidemiology with informed colleagues, I often come to think that they tend to underplay the extent to which cultural epidemiological accounts can integrate enculturation and other cultural phenomena that are generative of culture.
Here is a key claim of cultural epidemiology: understanding, learning and memorising what others communicate or transmit are micro-cognitive processes at the basis of cultural phenomena, and these cognitive processes are strongly constrained by the properties of the mind. Cultural epidemiologists have especially worked on specifying the consequences of universal properties of the mind for culture: naive theories and the memorisation of religious beliefs for instance; or face recognition and the success of masks as cultural artefacts. However, what is understood, learned and memorised is also dependent on those properties of the mind caused by previous enculturation. This is nearly a truism: one can learn better to read if one already knows the alphabet, one processes differently a sentence in French if one knows the language that if one does not, and, more controversially, and can more easily learn how to build a canoe, if one already knows what each part is made for. True, most of the time these things are learned in concert - but transmitted information is nonetheless processed sequentially, and the order of the elements in the sequence is sure to matter.
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In Mean Genes, Burnham and Phelan provide a list of tricks that could help people to have a healthy diet. Most of them consist in changing their environment. It is not groundbreaking science (it does not claim to be so) but it points to an important trend: the use of psychological research on behaviour departing from some rational norm for policy making and individual decision making. One important idea is that one can change the environment so that known psychological mechanisms lead to decisions that are advantageous to the individual or to the community.
Picture: "Manger Bouger": the French city of Nîme's advertisement campaign on the benefits of a healthy diet.
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The adaptedness of cognitive processes is characterised by a fit between the process and the environment. The fit means that the processes reliably lead to positive outcomes or tend to maximise results. The processes, however, do not lead to beneficial results because they perform a comprehensive analysis of the situation and an evaluation of the each possible output. In fact, such processes work, and can be considered rational, only in a specified environment. They make the most of properties (esp. statistical properties) of specific environments. They are, as Simon and Gigerenzer put it, "ecologically rational".
There is a puzzle that comes with the above assertions: if our cognitive apparatus is best adapted to the Pleistocene environment and if our modern environment depart more and more from this original environment of evolutionary adaptedness, then we should be less and less adapted, less and less ecologically rational, ... dumber and dumber. But this does not really seem to be the case.


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I might be the only syndicated columnist in the country who was raised by the state. So when lawmakers and public pontificators discuss the welfare of unaccompanied minors who've been dropped on our proverbial doorstep, I should probably speak up.
I was a ward of the court starting at 13 until I aged out after graduating high school at 17. (In retrospect, I should have been put in foster care much earlier.) My birth parents were not able to take care of me; I was handed over to an entity that would: The Government.
Actually the group home I grew up in is now a facility that houses refugee children from all over the world ... because America does that type of thing.
Now when I've told people I was raised by the state, sometimes I'll get pushback. They'll say, "Tina, you were raised by people." And yes, both statements are true. My adolescence was paid for by taxpayers, funded by legislators and organized by administrators. They, like corporations, are people.
And those people took great interest and care in my emotional and intellectual wellbeing. And those people made sure I was safe. And those people didn't feel the need to punish me for the shortcomings of my parents.
There's an old English law referred to as "corruption of blood." Essentially if the father committed treason, they'd also punish his children. North Korea, the bastion of human rights, has a similar philosophy. They will lock up the entire family of anyone who commits a crime and also the next two generations will be born in gulags for that crime. But we don't do that in the U.S. The framers were so appalled by this practice that they put into the Constitution, Article III, Section III "…but no attainder of treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted."
Meaning, in this country you're not tainted for the sins of your parents. You don't inherit their debt, you don't serve time for their crimes and you're not held accountable for them shipping you away from The Murder Capital of the World.
But that was before the Grand Old Party made "empathy" into a bad word. That was before they deemed "amnesty" to be the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse of the Republic. That was before Republicans in the House had a single goal which crushes out all common decency: Foil Obama.
It's the only reasonable explanation as to why when a flood of what are essentially orphans end up at our border because of a 2008 bipartisan law signed by George W. Bush, Republican lawmakers and their echosphere support team feel obligated to call it Obama's Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest natural disaster in this country in nearly 100 years. The comparison is an affront to all 1,833 Americans who lost their lives while Bush was celebrating John McCain's birthday.
Children are not illegal. Refugees are not illegal. Actually, because of the law Bush signed these kids at the border are here legally. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, gives protections to children here alone and not from Mexico or Canada. One protection is not sending them back to their country of origin immediately—instead giving them access to an immigration hearing with an advocate and counsel.
These are not criminals. It's irrelevant who their parents are or how they got here.
These children are an expected consequence of a law to shelter children from unspeakable situations.
We are not this. We are better than this.
Tina Dupuy is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist, investigative journalist, award-winning writer, stand-up comic and on-air commentator. Tina can be reached at email@example.com.


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Brandon Darr, a member of SEAT (Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee) and Sex Week spray paints the rock on the UT campus to promote Sex Week 2013. / File / Knoxville News Sentinel
Tennessee lawmakers are, once again, taking a stand that makes them look plain silly.
The University of Tennessee in Knoxville is holding Sex Week, a time set aside for seminars and workshops that deal with all manners of sex and sexuality. Its paid for by fees the students are required to pay, amounting in this case to about 21 cents a student.
Legislators hear the word sex and immediately imagine a scene with campus orgies in dorm rooms, a spread of pornography, and how-to guides.
In fact, UTs Sex Week is full of mature discussion and information that could very well prevent a scene similar to what happened to a Vanderbilt student. Four former football players were arrested and charged with raping her while she was unconscious.
Among the sessions to be held during Sex Week: Dont Blame It on the Alcohol: Communication, Consent & Sexual Assault Prevention. Its terrific that college students will hear the key phrase in preventing rape: No means no. There are also programs on abstinence, politics and policy in Tennessee, Middle East and sexuality, and a poetry event. Students will hear the dangers of binge drinking.
In other words, Sex Week is a time when UT students, if they choose, will hear messages promoting safe sex and abstinence, thinking about the consequences of your actions, and the trouble that drugs and alcohol can bring about. How on earth can lawmakers think those are bad messages?
The state House already has passed a nonbinding resolution, 69 -17, that condemns Sex Week. The representatives say it sends the wrong message about UT and the state.
Au contraire. The legislature is already sending the wrong message about the state when lawmakers dip into UTs Kool-Aid. Meanwhile, over at the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, officials are trying to explain why there were 611 documented cases of abuse, neglect or exploitation of people with intellectual disabilities receiving state-funded care in 2013.
Legislators havent discussed that. No legislation has been filed to make changes to improve that departments record. The system has problems when any disabled adult is beaten, as one video shows. Let alone 600 cases.
But legislators arent asking questions about that. They havent called for a hearing to investigate DIDD and the high number of abused people. They havent questioned whether the staff is sufficient.
No, theyre too busy worrying about whether college students are thinking about sex.
Trust me on this. They are. Sex Week will not change that, but it might help students to make healthy choices. Its only as big a deal as lawmakers want to make it.
Gail Kerrs column runs on Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Reach her at 615-259-8085.


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Well I was sitting listening to a podcast and the woman is talking about fabric dyeing. I have resisted this so far as I really don't have the room or place to do it. Then I started thinking of how great it would be to make you own fabric. I don't need anymore sewing addictions. Has anyone seriously tried it? Did you like it? Is it very messy? Off to do some internet research.
"I am a degenerate art supply junkie" - Jane Davenport
I forgot to mention there's a Craftsy class with Jane Dunnewold called The Art of Cloth Dyeing. Also Marjie McWilliams teaches dyeing at Quilt University and her beginning class is coming up starting April 5 Quilters Palette
I've been doing some research this morning. I've found some of the sites you mentioned. But realized I don't have the room indoors for this. I'm thinking it might have to be a summer activity outside. I saw where you can get kits to get you started. But then I start thinking would I like this enough for all the time it would take, that I could be spending quilting. The the money could be spent on fabric.
IKWYM, I take up the house when I dye! I only do it when DH is out of town, I take over the kitchen and the spare bath. I mix dyes in the kitchen and do the actual dyeing in the bathroom (to make sure powdered dye doesn't find it's way to the PFD fabric making little unexpected specks). Gasp! I can hear some of my dyeing instructors panicking that I mix dye in the kitchen, but I cover my surface and clean up well afterwards.
One of the reasons this works for me is that the flooring in both my kitchen and spare bath needs replaced, so I wouldn't care if I ruined it. Not that I've ever spilled dye on the floor, but ya know I will as soon as the flooring is new
Working outside could be doable, but it really helps to have not just running water but warm running water. Also the powdered dye floats away easily, so the measuring would have to be done out of the wind somehow.
If you want to get creative, fabric paints are almost as versatile and much less invasive (and can be done outside). Pebeo Setacoloris a translucent fabric paint that can give dye-like effects. It's also great for sun printing.
I've got lots of money invested in dyeing supplies, especially fiber reactive (Procion) and the 'acid' dyes for silk and nylon. And lots of various paints/pigment dyes.
I've had some problems using the fiber reactive dyes because our water is so alkaline that even our water softener set on it's highest setting isn't enough to get to the pH needed. My most recent idea is to do low-water dyeing with water from my home water distiller. But I'm just getting started on that....
I'm not one to do super-accurate measuring/weighing of dyes so I can reproduce them later. I rather like the serendipity of odd things happening on the fabric. But I DO insist on dyes that are color-fast; that's why I'm considering changing my methods.
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I love to dye, I can get distracted and dye so much faster than I can quilt!
My recommendation for dabbling with the idea is to buy a T-shirt tie-dye kit from JoAnns or Micheals (with a coupon) and start playing. The advantage of starting with a kit - all the chemicals are right there with simple instructions. I tie-dyed shirts for my kids one summer, then hated to waste the extra dye.....and a monster was created! If you decide that dying is not for you, you won't have much invested or wasted.
I generally dye a large batch outside in the spring and fall. I have a plastic laundry tub/sink that gives me running water (garden hose attaches) at a comfortable height to work. I set up an old card table and use the lids from Rubbermaid tubs as trays. I mix my dye colors in 12oz sport water bottles, then squirt, squeeze, and play until I like the look I have. Throw it in a plastic grocery bag and let it "marinate" overnight, then rinse everything and send it through the washer. Oh and ah as it comes out of the dryer!
Now, I am not interested in graduated colors, fat eighths, or solids. I work with large 30x44ish chunks that I will later cut up for art quilts. I make no effort to have repeatable anything. Every piece is different!
I will work with larger pieces for quilt backs, as much as a queen size sheet. (Dying a seamed quilt back will just about make the seam invisible.) For a large piece, I might hang it, add colors to sections, then let (force) them to blend as they meet, then stuff the whole mess in a light dye bath in a 5 gallon bucket. Anybody's guess what the final look will be!
I have been thinking of dyeing some fabric. I took the Craftsy class on Sewing with Knits and she dyes all her fabric. She uses purchased organic cotton knit fabric in white, she lists sources,then dyes with products from Dharma. Her method seems doable in a small space with minimal equipment. I love the colors she uses and think it would be neat to try.
------"Let's make the most of this day"
I live in an apartment in a high-rise building, and do a lot of dyeing of both fabric and fiber. Fabric usually gets dyed in the bathtub in buckets or containers, fiber needs to be heated, so it goes on the stove, in the oven, or the microwave.
If you don't have a lot of space, look into "low water immersion" dyeing. You can easily dye fabrics in small containers this way, especially if you are working with things like t-shirts or smaller pieces of quilting fabrics. Solid colors can be done in the washing machine, works for large yardages too (this is easier with a top loader but doable with a front loader if you have manual control of the cycle).
A few things are toxic (discharging, which gives off really bad fumes) or very messy (natural dyeing large yardages), so these I will do outside. I have a friend who has "craft weekends" of sort on his farm, so I save the messy projects for that.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Definitional Mereotopology
(1) xPx
-> definitions are basic definitional parts of themselves
(2) xPy & yPz -> xPz
-> if x is a basic definitional part of y, and y is a basic definitional part of z, then x is also a basic definitional part of z.
(3) xPy & yPx -> x=y
-> if x and y are both basic definitional parts of each other, then they are the same definition, at least for any relevant purposes
So suppose our definition is that human beings are rational animals. Then we can say that rationality is a basic definitional part of the concept of humanity, and so is animality. It's also true (by (1)), that rational-animality is a basic definitional part (it's the basic definitional part that happens to be the whole thing). If part of the definition of 'rationality' is (just for example) 'capable in principle of grasping abstract universal concepts', this is a basic definitional part of rationality, and it is also (by (2)) a basic definitional part of anything of which rationality is a basic definitional part. And if rational-animality is a basic definitional part of animal-rationality and vice versa, then they can (by (3)) be treated as simply the same thing.
But we often use 'part' in a narrower sense, in which wholes are not counted as parts in the relevant sense. Let's call this a strict definitional part of the concept defined, and give it the abbreviation PP. Strict definitional parts are related to basic definitional parts in the following way:
(4) xPPy <-> xPy & ~yPx
-> that is, x is a strict definitional part of y when it is a basic definitional part of y, but y is not a definitional part of it
-> or, in other words: strict definitional parts are basic definitional parts that are not equal to the whole
It's also clear that definitions can overlap. Basic definitional overlap, which we can abbrevaite as O, is easily defined: it occurs when there is something that is a basic definitional part of both definitions. (We could also define a strict definitional overlap using strict definitional parts.) Examples of definitional overlap between the definition of humanity and the definition of doghood would include things like animality, mammality, vertebratehood, and so forth.
We can also see that things can be relevant to definitions in various ways. Let's say we have basic definitional relevance, given the abbreviation C, whenever something is relevant to a definition in a way that meets the following conditions:
(5) xCx
-> definitions are definitionally relevant to themselves.
(6) xCy -> yCx
-> whenever x is definitionally relevant to y, the reverse is also true.
It is clear from this that if x definitionally overlaps with y, they are definitionally relevant to each other. Likewise, it is clear from this that all basic definitional parts and all strict definitional parts are definitionally relevant to the concepts for which they are parts.
We can get more specific by uniting our two concepts. Let something be internally relevant to the definition, abbreviated IP, if it meets the following condition:
(7) xIPy <-> (xPy & (zCx -> zOy))
-> x is internally relevant to the definition of y when x is part of y and when something, call it z,is definitionally relevant to x it is so in such a way that z definitionally overlaps with y.
And we can likewise let something be externally relevant to the definition (EC), when it is definitionally relevant to it but not so as to overlap with it: for instance, if definitions are indirectly relevant to each other without actually sharing any parts. (It's actually quite an interesting question whether this is possible, and, if so, the conditions under which it is.)
All of these, of course, are just some of the simpler possible mereotopological concepts applied to definitions of concepts; thus mereotopology can provide a rigorous vocabulary for talking about definitions.
2 comments:
- John Donne6:25 AM
Thanks for this. I find basic property #2 especially interesting, for it points me in a direction to think of those phenomena to which it does not or need not apply, and to mull over how such things differ from "definitions".ReplyDelete
I think I'll ponder it for a couple of days, at least.
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