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That's what I'm wondering, is if you can eliminate, at least partially,some of your worry and anxiety over food and your gut, if it'll start fixing itself. Stress does weird things to the body.
Dress si gorgeous. Too bad you couldn't get it. :(
That's what I'm wondering, is if you can eliminate, at least partially,some of your worry and anxiety over food and your gut, if it'll start fixing itself. Stress does weird things to the body.
Dress si gorgeous. Too bad you couldn't get it. :(
Available in black, but I wanted a color. I think the color would suit me, if not my hair :D.
Hulky is pretty set on me having purple hair for the wedding, I think. I'll need to talk to Liz about when would be the best time to do the prep (lightening and coloring before the wedding), assuming I can keep it au naturel for the next 17 months! My hair is turning weird colors right now, but I'm enjoying not dealing with dripping colors so I won't be dyeing it anytime soon.
Hulky is up and out of bed. I reminded him to take the Dayquil to work, grab the Excedrin from under the sink, and to email his professor. He pinky-promised! He had better do it! I'm just going to make him do it tonight if he doesn't, anyway!
Yesterday, I did not meet my water goal, but I felt well-hydrated. I'm behind on my goal for today, but going to shoot for two full bottles while at work anyway.
I forgot to report that I did eat breakfast this morning. 3 eggs scrambled & 3 sausage links. I did not prepare a lunch, but I brought the last sweet potato. I think there's some real butter in the fridge, too! I get to be slightly lazy with dinner tonight because we have leftover fries from dinner last night. Convenient, considering it's laundry night.
TMI: After not taking Vitamin C for a few days (the bottle at home ran out, and the avocados seemed to be taking care of things for me over the weekend), I had a much needed bathroom trip. I feel better (less pressure) and worse (pain in my lower abdomen). I expect there will be more catching up this afternoon. Also, after bleeding for 2+ weeks, my period finally seems to be coming to an end. Of course, now I have no idea when to expect it again! My best guess is the 3rd full week of March, but it could be the week before that =\.
Cute dress!!!
Had to pick Hulky up from work, which meant I left an hour early from mine. His migraine had progressed to being unable to read. I finally got him to take some Excedrin and he's improving.
I think he has a bad head cold or something. Sore throat, congested. I made him some green tea (all I have left) and poured a bunch of honey in it. He said it was tasty and I'm tempted to dump a ton more down his throat to see if it will help!
You gave me such a nice compliment in Pebbles journal. It made me blush. Thank you.
I'm part of a jury panel! I really did not expect that. When I got called 5 years ago, I sat in a room for 5 hrs and then they sent us all home.
My work will comp my salary, I guess. I'm not sure how it works for hourly employees. My schedule should have me out by 1PM most days. The trial is expected to wrap up sometime between March 4th and 8th. I'm not sure if I'm going to have to go in for a half day of work in order to get a full day's worth of pay. I hope not, I could really use this time to clean up around the apartment, bake a little, get groceries, and generally relax. I deserve it! :p
I also will have to figure out some kind of snack thing. I can bring in water, have hot beverages in the jury room, and a snack for the mid-day break. No refrigeration or microwaving, so I really have no idea what would be good. Might just get some Larabars and tough it out, or pick up some nuts at Trader Joe's.
Calling work soon to let supervisor & boss know and find out about my schedule.
Funny - the last thing I want is jury duty! I had to serve on the Grand Jury for 2 weeks about 3 years ago - and I hated every stinking moment of it! Talk about being drowned in all the low-life scum of our society! UGH! I was relieved last month when I got summoned for regular jury duty, but my number didn't get called. :) Yeah for really HIGH numbers!
Well, as it turns out, I have to go to work for 1/2 days while I am also serving on the jury. I'm going to look forward to those full court days because this driving back and forth is going to drive me nuts. It's not that far from work, but it's still more of a trek than I'm used to in the AM. I think it will be fun to have such a change of schedule for a couple of weeks. It also means I won't be able to go to therapy for another couple of weeks, which will put me at over a month since my last appointment! Crazy :D.
Hulky got so sick he puked last night. His stomach has been hurting very badly for a couple of days. He has been sipping green tea with honey today, water, and had one green bean. After the green bean, his stomach felt really bad again, so I don't think he's ready to eat! He keeps wanting to. He ate some friggin' cookies this morning and they obviously came back up. This guy should not be alone when dehydrated ><. The Excedrin is helping (we tried regular Acetaminophen and that didn't work, so it must be the caffeine). I think I need to get some Kill Everything makings for both of us, because I'm bordering on a migraine from sinus pressure. Stomach is okay, at least.
Working the rest of today from home (another 1/2 hr or so), then I'm running out for groceries. Not in the mood to make a soup so I will probably just pick up the best canned/boxed option for him. Maybe just a chicken stock to heat up. Maybe I'll get something easy for myself too.
Silver lining: Jury duty seems really interesting so far. The whole process is very intriguing. I'm generally a pretty quiet patriot, but I do take a lot of pride in being able to do things like this, as a citizen. I'm legally bound to keep quiet about the case, and can't do any research about it on my own, but I'll share what I can with you when it's over :).
Also, my mom bought me some gluten-free flour mixes. I think it's some Bob's Red Mill mixes, for pancakes, cake, and pizza crust! How nice :). We will definitely try those out at some point. Maybe I'll make something to bring up to Maine in 2 weekends (we're keeping it a surprise, but my aunt will be up there at the same time and she knows). My aunt is vegetarian now, after getting blood tests after my dad's heart attack in 2011 and finding that her cholesterol was very high as well, so we'll probably make some kind of fish for dinner while we're up there. I haven't made fish in a while, but when I did, I doused it in butter. They might not go for that...
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-Was fairly anxious this morning, about jury duty and from lack of sleep (Hulky kept me awake for a while, I passed out sometime around 1AM after he started puking). Did a lot of mental beratement and started to compose a journal entry in my head while driving. It pissed me off so I channel surfed the radio until I could distract myself. That worked well, I felt fine once the route changed and I felt more engaged by driving. Aside from nerves
-I think I will get some almond butter to have an apple or banana with almond butter while I'm at the court, or I'll get a bag of macadamias (haven't had them on their own before). I might have to stick with "snacks" instead of lunches for the next couple of weeks, unless I can make something big-ish, and leave it in the fridge at work to re-heat once I get in during the afternoon. A stew would probably be best. I'll work on that this weekend.


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3 Parks near Chicken, Alaska
Chicken, Alaska (map) | (520) 413-1480
Sites: 25 | Latest Rate: $1.00 | 15 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $1.00
Basically gravel parking lot with 20A elec hook-up. Water cost $16 to fill fresh water tank. Dump grey water for free. Dump black water was $10. Everything has to be hauled in. Chicken has 3 campground / cafe / shop businesses - period. Did not see restrooms or showers - they charge for them too. Basically a stop to give your vehicle a break from the Top of the World / Taylor Highways.
ADMIN NOTE: Owner of campground states that there are no fees charged for water or dumping, and the actual overnight rate is available on their website. - Beauble
Jun 2015 - $36.00
The 30 amp pull-through sites require a reservation. Plenty of 20 amp sites were available during our 2 day stay. The pull-through site we were in was just wide enough to put our slides out and that was it. Power was good but the dump station was locked when we needed it and the office closed so no dump for us! Given the location in remote Alaska, the overall impression of the facilities was good. The outhouse arrangement was good and spotless. Lots of folks panning, others just watching the RVs coming off of the Top of the World Highway. The choices are limited in Chicken but I would chose this campground on the next visit. - Beech35p
Aug 2014 - $25.00
Electric only park (diesel generator) pit toilets and coin showers. Single hose for water near office. Grey dump station and black dump station. 4 pull-through 30 amp sites with some tree separation. A bit narrow with awnings and slides but not bad. Other sites are 15 amp in a dirt parking lot. Bac-kin sites have trees in rear. Park is basically a dirt lot. Nice office/café. Chicken is out there in nowhere, so having reliable electric power was nice. - sheltieRV
Chicken, Alaska (map) | (907) 505-0231
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Jul 2015 - $36.00
Our site was a gravel back-in separated by adjacent sites by old pieces of mining water pipe. The RV park is part of the "Town of Chicken" which has gift shops, restaurant, and cabins. There is even a fancy suspension bridge across Chicken Creek to the cabins. Water is available for freshwater tanks as well as a dump station. Being in the middle of nowhere there is no TV or radio. Wi-Fi worked well enough for e-mail or browsing. As there was water and showers available I would stay here again if in the area. - Onemoretrail
Jul 2014 - $36.00
Friendly staff, large camp store, fuel at campground. I'd definitely stay again when in the area. - Tranquilty1
Aug 2013 - $36.00
Big gravel spaces. No water, no sewer, no wi-fi, no cable. Expensive for what you get, but the other park in Chicken is the same. If you're going over the Top of the World Highway, leave early in the morning because the border doesn't open until 8:00 and there will be no oncoming traffic on the American side. The Canadian side is paved and easier to drive. - outoftown
Chicken, Alaska (map) | (907) 474-2200
Sites: 18 | Latest Rate: $5.00 | 2 Reviews
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Jun 2013 - $5.00
Rate was half price with senior access pass. A BLM campground with no services beyond pit toilets. It was a pretty campground with nice, level sites, but only two seemed big enough for our 36 ft class A. It was on the "40 Mile River" but we could not see it for the dense vegetation. The mosquitoes in early June were almost as dense as the vegetation; we stayed inside mostly. But after coming across the scary, dusty, rough Top of the World highway from Dawson, it was a welcome relief. We had thought we would make it to Chicken, but enough was enough, and this was a good stop. - Citellus
Jul 2010 - $5.00
Rate is for a no hookup, pull through site with 50% Senior Pass discount for this BLM campground. Have both pull through and back in sites. Can accommodate big rigs, we fit with no problem. Roads are narrow, gravel/dirt, but sites are wide. Pit toilets and potable water are available, and the long time hosts, ten years and running, are a joy. Even gave us tips on collecting wild mushrooms. After a hard drive over the Top of the World and Taylor Highways, this is a welcome respite. Fire pits and free fire wood add to the pleasure. While not everyone's cup of tea, especially if you require hookups, this is one of those special places for those that enjoy the simple things. Yes, the entrance road is potholed, and the mosquitoes can be bad, but it is a great first taste of Alaska if you are coming from Dawson. - Big Moose

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VIDEO: Captured Bear Released Back Into WildWildlife officials captured the moment when a bear was released back into the wild.
Human-Bear Incidents Reach Record Low In YosemiteThe bears in Yosemite National Park are behaving better than they have in 40 years.
Drought-Caused Food Shortage Drawing Bears Into California TownTourists and animal lovers hoping to see a bear in Sequoia National Park this fall probably stand a better chance of spotting one in this tiny town at the park's entrance.
3rd 'Problem' Bear From Same Mom's Litter Euthanized At Lake TahoeAre some bears just born to be bad? Or do they learn from other bears that raid garbage cans, break into cars and homes and eventually have to be killed because they've lost their fear of humans?
2nd Bear In A Week Euthanized At Lake TahoeFor the second time in a week, Nevada wildlife officials say they've been forced to euthanize a dangerous bear at Lake Tahoe.
Midpines Man Says He Fought Off Bear From PorchA 67-year-old man fought off a black bear that attacked him on his porch Thursday as the state sees an uptick in encounters, likely a result of California's relentless drought that's sending bears into populated areas to forage for food, officials said.
Neighbors Wonder Why Auburn Man Resorted To Killing BearWhat would you do if you found a bear in your front yard?
Cinder, Bear Cub Badly Burned In Wildfire, Back In The WildA bear cub found badly burned last summer in the largest wildfire in Washington state history has endured a long recovery but is now back in the wild.
Colfax Couple Gets Unwelcome Dinner Guest: A BearMichele and Don Machholz were doing what they do every day, working side-by-side in their living room, when an unexpected weekday visitor showed up for dinner.
Former State Senator Claims Bear League Harassing Him Over Trap In TahoeA former Nevada state senator says a bear continues to damage his home and wants to trap it, but the Bear League learned of his plans, and he claims they harassed him and camped outside his property.
Debate Heats Up Again Over Lake Tahoe BearsA Las Vegas man will ask a judge for a protective order against bear advocates at Lake Tahoe, saying they harassed him after he initiated efforts to trap a bear that damaged his vacation home.
Bear Cub Found Badly Burned To Return HomeA black bear cub being treated by a Lake Tahoe nonprofit after it was found badly burned will soon be on its way home.


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- 1. How valuable could a material object be? (with J. Rasmussen) [abstract]
- 2. You are an animal [abstract]
- 3. Composition and the cases [abstract]
- 4. Animalism [abstract]
- 5. The priority principle [abstract]
- 6. You needn't be simple [abstract]
- 7. The elimination argument [abstract]
- 8. Incompatibilism and the past [abstract]
- 9. No bare particulars [abstract]
- 10. The incompatibility of composition as identity, priority pluralism, and irreflexive grounding [abstract]
- 11. No pairing problem (with J. Rasmussen and L. Van Horn) [abstract]
- 12. Warrant is unique [abstract]
Arguments for substance dualism -- the theory that we are at least partly non-material beings -- abound. Many of them begin with our capacity to engage in conscious thought and end with dualism. Such are familiar. But there is another kind of argument for dualism. It begins with our moral value and ends with dualism. In this article, we develop and assess the prospects for this new style of argument for dualism. We show that, though one extant version of the argument does not succeed, there may yet be a deep problem for many standard physical accounts of our nature.
In this paper, I argue that you are an animal (and indeed, that human persons in general are animals).
I here offer a new way of handling a host of problematic cases that have gripped philosophers of mind over the past several decades. Attending to composition, I argue, can aid in charting a path through these murky waters.
An (extremely!) opinionated survey of animalism, the doctrine that we are animals. Includes a semi-novel argument for animalism and a few non-standard routes for animalists to take in reply to standard objections.
I introduce and argue for a Priority Principle, according to which we exemplify certain of our mental properties in the primary or non-derivative sense. I then apply this principle to several debates in the metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
Here's an interesting question: what are we? David Barnett has claimed that reflection on consciousness suggests an answer: we are simple. Barnett argues that the mereological simplicity of conscious beings best explains the Datum: that no pair of persons can itself be conscious. In this paper, I offer two alternative explanations of the Datum. If either is correct, Barnett's argument fails. First, there aren't any such things as pairs of persons. Second, consciousness is maximal; no conscious thing is a proper part of another conscious thing. I conclude by showing how both moves comport with materialist theories of what we are and then apply them to another anti-materialist argument.
Animalism is the view that we are animals: living, breathing, wholly material beings. Despite its considerable appeal, animalism has come under fire. Other philosophers have had much to say about objections to animalism that stem from reflection on personal identity over time. But one promising objection ("The Elimination Argument") has been overlooked. In this paper, I remedy this situation and examine the Elimination Argument in some detail. I contend that the Elimination Argument is both unsound and unmotivated.
There is a new objection to the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism. I argue that the objection is more wide-ranging than originally thought. In particular: if it tells against the Consequence Argument, it tells against other arguments for incompatibilism too. I survey a few ways of dealing with this objection and show the costs of each. I then present an argument for incompatibilism that is immune to the objection and that enjoys other advantages.
There are predicates and subjects. It is thus tempting to think that there are properties on the one hand, and things that have them on the other. I have no quarrel with this thought; it is a fine place to begin a theory of properties and property-having. But in this paper, I argue that one such theory—bare particularism—is false. I pose a dilemma. Either bare particulars instantiate the properties of their host substances or they do not. If they do not, then bare particularism is both unmotivated and false. If they do, then the view faces a problematic—and, I shall argue, false—crowding consequence.
Some have it that wholes are, somehow, identical to their parts. This doctrine is as alluring as it is puzzling. But in this paper, I show that the doctrine is incompatible with two widely accepted theses. Something has to go.
Many have thought that there is a problem with causal commerce between immaterial souls and material bodies. In Physicalism or Something Near Enough, Jaegwon Kim attempts to spell out that problem. Rather than merely posing a question or raising a mystery for defenders of substance dualism to answer or address, he offers a compelling argument for the conclusion that immaterial souls cannot causally interact with material bodies. We offer a reconstruction of that argument that hinges on two premises: Kim's Dictum and the Nowhere Man principle. Kim's Dictum says that causation requires a spatial relation. Nowhere Man says that souls can't be in space. By our lights, both premises can be called into question. We'll begin our evaluation of the argument by pointing out some consequences of Kim's Dictum. For some, these will be costs. We will then present two defeaters for Kim's Dictum and a critical analysis of Kim's case for Nowhere Man. The upshot is that Kim's argument against substance dualism fails.
Warrant is what fills the gap between mere true belief and knowledge. But a problem arises. Is there just one condition that satisfies this description? Suppose there isn't: can anything interesting be said about warrant after all? Call this the uniqueness problem. In this paper, I solve the problem. I examine one plausible argument that there is no one condition filling the gap between mere true belief and knowledge. I then motivate and formulate revisions of the standard analysis of warrant. Given these revisions, I argue that there is, after all, exactly one warrant condition
Reviews and Reference
- 13. "Objects" (with B. Rettler), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (invited)
- 14. "Contemporary Hylomorphism" (with S. Wilkins, invited).
- 15. Review of The Feeling Body (Giovanna Colombetti)
- 16. Review of Persons, Animals, Ourselves (P. Snowdon)
- 17. "Pairing problem" (with J. Rasmussen), Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
- 18. Review of Hard Luck (N. Levy)
- 19. Review of The Waning of Materialism (R. Koons and G. Bealer, eds.)
In Progress
- 1. Person and Animal (book MS) [abstract]
- 2. Our animal interests [abstract]
- 3. One god composed of three persons [abstract]
- 4. The puppet argument (with J. Rasmussen) [abstract]
A book-length treatment of some questions about human nature. Central theses include animalism (the doctrine that we are animals), materialism (the thesis that we are wholly material beings -- but only contingently so!), and a non-biological theory of personal identity according to which we can outlast our own deaths.
Animalism is at once a bold metaphysical theory and a pedestrian biological observation. For according to animalists, human persons are organisms; we are members of a certain biological species. In this article, I introduce some heretofore unnoticed data concerning the interlocking interests of human persons and human organisms. I then show that the data support animalism. The result is a novel and powerful argument for animalism. Bold or pedestrian, animalism is true.
The doctrine of the Trinity says that though there are three divine persons, there is exactly one god. In this paper, I develop and defend a mereological account of that doctrine.
In this paper, we introduce and motive an argument ("the puppet argument") that purports to show that if we are wholly material beings, then we are mere puppets of our parts and thus not morally responsible. This argument, we suggest, is a puzzle. The best solutions to this puzzle imply that either (a) materialism about human persons is false, (b) "top-down" determination is possible, or (c) we are not, after all, responsible for anything. Many philosophers are deeply committed to the denial of (a) and (c); such philosophers will find in this paper an argument for a special kind of "top-down" determination--determination from whole to parts. Those who are unwilling to endorse top-down determination may face a tougher choice.
- AP Papers (in progress) [description]
- DKL Papers (in progress) [description]
- JMF Papers [description]
- PvI Papers [description]
An online repository of papers by Alvin Plantinga.
An online repository of papers by David K. Lewis.
An online repository of papers by John Martin Fischer.
An online repository of papers by Peter van Inwagen.
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Parisian Art Market Faces Uncertain Future: A Sour Economy and Lack of Private Funding Affect French Galleries and Artists
Hanson, Doug, Art Business News
Following World War II, Paris lost its title as the modern-art capitol of the world to New York City. But recently, Parisians--and the French in general--have struggled to keep up, not just with Americans, but with the Germans, Swiss, English and Italians as well.
Private funding for French contemporary art has never been strong by American standards, and some claim that the French tendency to value only government-supported artists has prevented deserving new artists from finding mainstream audiences. Moreover, a shaky economy a weak American dollar and declining tourism are hurting sales at some of Paris's fabled art galleries. Even more damaging is the fact that French artists are being under-represented at the world's most influential art fairs.
Though Paris may be down, it is certainly not out. A series of new private initiatives, including two new arts foundations supporting contemporary art, may be a sign that things are looking brighter in the City of Light.
A Storied Past
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Paris attracted some of the world's best artists, including Picasso, Chagall, Man Ray and Modigliani. Moreover, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism all had their origins in France.
"But in 1964, when Robert Rauschenberg won the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale, the Paris art world underwent a trauma from which it still hasn't bounced back entirely," said Henry Bellet, who writes about art for Le Monde, France's leading newspaper.
Since then, Paris has reacted to more modern-art trends than it has instigated, and today's top artists are just as likely to head for New York, London or Berlin since, these days, they can live almost anywhere and still tap into the international art market.
The Fair Rewards
France, like other countries, faces an accelerating globalization of the contemporary art market thanks to a proliferation of art fairs, festivals and biennales that take place around the globe.
Such events aren't new, but in the last decade their influence has grown. Today's fair and biennale selection committees are like itinerant academies that greatly influence which galleries and artists come to the forefront.
Indeed, they've helped solidify the international reputations of French artists such as Daniel Buren, Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, among others.
While Switzerland's Art Basel is a powerhouse among contemporary art fairs, Paris's International Fair of Contemporary Art has slipped into a more regional role, showcasing French and Italian galleries but few important American ones.
Figures from 2003 give an idea of France's second-echelon participation in two of the world's leading art fairs.
Of 260 galleries at Art Basel, 58 were from Germany, 53 were from the United States, 38 were from Switzerland but just 24 were from France (Great Britain had 22). At New York's Armory Show, non-U.S. galleries included 22 German galleries, 15 British but only 10 French galleries.
Still, being a Parisian artist does not present any disadvantages in the art world. "When an artist is strong, word gets out fast--no matter where they're from," said Yvon Lambert, who has galleries in Paris and New York. "There's no longer a Paris School or a New York School. None of that exists any longer. You have different generations of artists, that's all."
But Alain Quemin, a French sociologist, disagrees. "Which artistic styles come to the fore is a function of where the money is," he said. "The globalization of art is the globalization of American art, and to a lesser extent, German art."
Strain On the Middle
Since many of Paris's mid-sized galleries cannot afford to play the fair circuit, they depend on French collectors and foreign visitors who buy art in France. But a falloff in both groups during the last couple of years is straining many galleries. …


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By Karen Kaplan
Los Angeles Times
Books are like medicine, and pediatricians should prescribe their daily use to build up the brains of their youngest patients, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Parents should read aloud to their infants every day and continue to do so at least until their children enter kindergarten, the academy's Council on Early Childhood advised on Tuesday.
Pediatricians should emphasize the importance of daily reading during routine health checkups and dispense books to their patients, especially those from low-income families, the experts said.
Asking pediatricians to act a little more like librarians may sound strange, but many studies have documented that literacy has lifelong benefits for health. For instance, adults who have trouble with reading are less likely to get preventive health care, are not as good at managing chronic diseases, are more likely to wind up in the hospital and are more likely to die prematurely, the policy statement noted.
A daily reading habit can reduce all of those risks, the experts said, and it's never too early to start.
"Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development," the academy's report said. That, in turn, "builds language, literacy and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime."
And yet, only one-third of young children in poverty are read to every day, according to data from the 2011-12 National Survey of Children's Health. Even among kids whose family incomes are four times greater than the federal poverty level, 40 percent don't get a daily dose of reading, the survey found.
The authors of the report acknowledged that finding time for daily reading sessions can be a challenge for families all along the economic spectrum. Many parents aren't aware that reading out loud to their kids every day is crucial. But pediatricians can change that, the experts wrote.
All of this may sound like a tall order, but there's already a program that does most of these things, the policy statement noted. It's called Reach Out and Read, and studies have shown that it does make parents more likely to read to their kids. Even better, more than 5,000 pediatric practices are already using it, as are more than half of pediatric residency programs.
The new policy statement has won the backing of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who announced Tuesday that children's book publisher Scholastic would donate more than half a million books toward the effort.
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COMMUNITY COLLEGES: New rules for fee waivers OK'd
Changes in California community colleges' financial aid eligibility and registration priorities are part of the Student Success Initiative intended to get students to graduate in two years. -- FILE PHOTO
The California Community Colleges Board of Governors approved new regulations Monday, Jan. 13, for students to remain eligible for financial assistance, such as fee waivers. Students will have to meet minimum academic and progress standards once the policy takes effect in fall 2016.
The new policy is part of the Student Success Initiative changing community college enrollment priorities statewide to encourage students to complete their associate's degrees, university transfer requirements or vocational certificates� sooner.
The new regulations will work with statewide enrollment programs that go into effect in fall 2015 to encourage students to focus on their classes and seek help when they need it, the state chancellor's office said in a news release.
Under the new regulations, students would lose eligibility for the Board of Governors Fee Waiver if they are on probation for not maintaining a 2.0 GPA for two consecutive terms or not successfully completing half the class units they attempted in those terms.
Districts are required to notify students of support services. Foster youth are exempted, and the Board of Governors did agree to study possible additional exemptions in the future.
Districts also must create an appeals processes for students with extenuating circumstances.


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Case study: Is the Procurement Department finally ready for social media?
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Over the past five months I have been fortunate to be immersed in a fascinating customer research project to determine how social media technologies can be applied to the supply chain. There has been a lot of buzz on this idea — how do we use social-based platforms for demand sensing, supply chain monitoring, and improved problem-solving and collaboration.
Despite all the clamor, we found little evidence that anything was actually happening in this space until we happened upon a fellow in Montreal named Tony Martins who has provided a glimpse of what a social supply chain can look like.
The future of supply chain?
Tony had been around a number of different companies in engineering and IT jobs but he found his true passion in Procurement and the opportunity to improve the supply chain. His social media journey began in 2005 when he discovered 500 batches of incoming material stuck in his pharmaceutical company's supply chain because operators on the floor couldn't solve anomalies discovered with an incoming inspection. They simply pushed the problematic batches aside because the people who could solve their problem were too far away.
Tony studied this problem and realized that 2/3 of the waste among knowledge workers comes from trying to find the information and people who can help resolve unexpected issues. He calculated that the average time to solve unexpected problems in his organization was four months. The working capital tied up in material sitting on the floor was just the tip of the ice berg! The real opportunity to streamline the supply chain was to keep unexpected problems from becoming a chronic burden on the organization.
Tony started doing experiments to allow the operators to expose their problems by posting them on an internal Sharepoint site. A live meeting was still required to actually solve the issues but quickly exposing the issues was the first step toward greater efficiency. Eventually he institutionalized an Enterprise Social Network to provide:
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When I mention the term Enterprise Social Network, I'm not talking about blogs or Twitter. This is a private and secure Facebook-like system. Some of the leading companies in the space include Yammer, Chatter, Connections and Jive.
During the weekly problem-solving meetings, Tony emphasized that the issues had to be addressed NOW — before they left the room. Eventually his management team became so adept at solving problems quickly, the problems were addressed as soon as they were posted on the internal network — they no longer needed any live meetings at all.
The employees eagerly adopted this new technology because they saw rapid response from the management team, making everyone's job easier and more productive.
The impact on the organization was dramatic as employees began to spontaneously associate with each other based on problems that needed to be solved instead of roles on an organizational chart.
Eventually Tony implemented systems to solve day-to-day communications problems in addition to the production exceptions, expanded the network to include outside suppliers, and developed advanced organizational thinking to scale his initiative across multiple plant locations when his company was acquired.
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Significant accomplishments included:
- Raised service level (fulfillment) from 80 percent to 95 percent.
- Cycle time reduced by more than 30 percent in the first six months
- Supplier lead times dropped by 25 percent or more as months of "conversation waste" started disappearing.
- He implemented a new SAP ERP system without any meetings after the first kick-off week. Every problem was solved through the Enterprise Social Network without a live meeting.
Tony's journey is just beginning. He is testing new organizational ideas to enable the spontanous association that is the key to rapid problem solving. He is even thinking about models that could predict where interactions should be occurring in the supply chain and then mapping out where they are actually occurring. This could expose personality and political hurdles as well as best practices of the people who are making this work in the very best way.
This case study is exciting to me because it connects the dots between theory, technology, and the human dynamics needed to successfully apply social networks to a complex supply chain.
Will more companies follow suit? Is the supply chain the next field of progress for social media?
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The Purchasing Department: The Next Frontier for Social Media?
Feb 3rd
Almost all of the attention on social media has come from the sales and marketing department, and deservedly so. That is certainly where the low-hanging fruit appears to be and there is an urgent need to respond to customer demands and communication preferences.
I have also written about enterprise applications of social media, where large companies are implementing internal versions of social networks to improve communications, creativity and collaboration across a far-flung base of employees. Studies show that this may return the biggest financial gains of social media to companies and I agree.
But there's also a new area of buzz right now — application to the purchasing department and the complex supply chain. The topic is starting to pop up in conferences and there are no fewer than four new LinkedIn Groups dedicated to the topic. At first blush, this might seem a little far-fetched but let's dig a little deeper into the opportunity.
There are three primary areas of relevance in this area for social technologies:
1) Supplier connection, collaboration, problem-solving
Every company has their own administrative systems and entrenched way of doing business through their own software systems. And systems across companies rarely talk to each other in reliable ways without some enormous IT efforts. That is not always practical.
What if we could apply a new layer of private social technologies that everyone can use to communicate and collaborate? Even your very smallest vendors could sign on and contribute searchable information or learn of new short-term supply needs and opportunities. It could significantly speed up knowledge transfer and problem-solving.
2) Supply chain monitoring
Let's say two key strategic components for your company are sourced through companies in The Philippines and in Philadelphia. Without warning, an earthquake hits Manila and traffic in Philadelphia is disrupted by a trucker's strike. Real-time monitoring of events in those areas could give you the edge to respond and react in time to find alternatives and perhaps keep your company out of serious trouble. Adjusting and finding an emergency supply with an early warning system could provide a significant competitive advantage.
3) Demand sensing
There is nothing more challenging (or aggravating) than trying to predict demand. That's why many companies are eager to look at social media signals for leading indicators of patterns and conversations that may translate into demand signals. Look at this example of a brand I am working with and some conversation patterns revealed by the social research company Appinions:
This example shows that both the volume of conversation and the sentiment of that conversation changed dramatically within just a few days (a scan of more than 5 million online data sources). Is this in response to our advertising and promotions? Or is there something more organic going on here that would indicate a spike in sales? Could this even portend a new long-term sales trend? By clicking on these individual daily data points, we can dive down into the specific conversations to discover whether we need to react or let it ride.
At this point, applying social media to the purchasing process is still in the very early stages but certainly the potential is there for some exciting applications to some age-old supply chain problems.
What do you think? Is there a potential application in your company? Already experimenting? Any opportunity I've missed?
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Cheaney returns to his alma mater after spending the last two seasons working with the NBA's Golden State Warriors. Coach Tom Crean made the announcement Saturday during his father/son basketball camp.
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I—Kant's'I'in'I Ought To'and Freud's Superego
Version of Record online: 15 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2012.00206.x
© 2012 The Aristotelian Society
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
Volume 86, Issue 1, pages 19–39, June 2012
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Longuenesse, B. (2012), I—Kant's'I'in'I Ought To'and Freud's Superego. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 86: 19–39. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2012.00206.x
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There are striking structural similarities between Freud's ego and Kant's transcendental unity of apperception, which for Kant grounds our use of 'I' in 'I think'. There are also striking similarities between Freud's superego and Kant's account of the mental structure that grounds our use of 'I' in the moral 'I ought to'. The paper explores these similarities on three main points: the conflict of motivations internal to the mind, the relation between discursive and pre-discursive representation of moral motivation, and the unconscious character of moral motivation. The suggestion is that Freud offers resources for a naturalized account (an account in terms of the causal development of empirical human beings) of just those features of our moral motivation that, according to Kant, seem to make it least amenable to a naturalistic explanation. How much of a revision of Kant's analysis of moral justification is thereby entailed is beyond the purview of the paper.


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I'm not sure whether this is the best place to ask this, but is the XOR binary operator a combination of AND+NOT operators?
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Yes. In fact, any logical operation can be built from the NAND operator, where
See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_logic, which gives
Digression: There is a story about certain military devices being designed using only NAND gates, so that only one part needs to be certified, stocked as spares, etc. I don't know whether it's actually true.
Meanwhile, let me add the fact that XOR is not expressible by any expression whose operations use only AND, OR, IMPLIES, ConverseImplies and IFF.
To see this, observe merely that True XOR True is False, but the other operations always take True input to True output, a feature that would be inductively preserved in complex expressions.
Here are two similar but different versions derived using
$\{AND, NOT\}$ is a complete set of operators, i.e. you can express any boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ using them:
$$f(x_1,\cdots,x_n) = \lnot \bigwedge_{w\in f^{-1}(1)} \lnot \big(\bigwedge_{w_i=1}x_i \land \bigwedge_{w_i=0}\lnot x_i \big)$$
In words, XOR means "one or the other but not both." So if I specify that I want to get a pet who is either furry or affectionate, but not both, I could say, symbolically, that I require (furry XOR affectionate) to be true.
Another way of stating this is that the two truth values put into the XOR have to be different. If both are true or both are false, their XOR is false. Only if one is true and the other false is their XOR true.


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