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The third and final instalment of my critique of Locke's theory of appropriation/expropriation is up at Jacobin. I turn my attention from Locke to Jefferson, Locke's most important follower, in practice as well as theory. By opening the Louisiana purchase for agricultural settlement, Jefferson put to the test Locke's theory of appropriation to a practical test. In particular, the vastness of the land, compared with the modest requirements of the ideal Jeffersonian farm family seemed to support Jefferson's prediction that the new land would be enough to last a thousand generations. But of course the opposite was true: in less than one generation, the United States had overspilled the boundaries of Jefferson's purchase and was embroiled in a civil war that started with battles over the newly opened land. To restate the conclusion of the previous instalments, Locke's theory was designed to justify expropriation and enslavement. Neither Locke nor epigones such as Nozick and Rothbard can provide a coherent theory of just appropriation of property.
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In the hopes that everyone will stop commenting on Corey's post, hence at considerable risk to myself: a fresh Trump post.
Since becoming aware of this thing called 'US politics', some decades ago, I have been addicted to the consumption of punditry. I don't say it with pride, or because I suppose it makes me special. I just thought I'd mention that one thing that makes Trump's candidacy weird – in a phenomenological sense, I guess – is that there is no pro-Trump pundit class. This makes his candidacy inaudible along one of the frequencies I habitually tune in. By and large, I can't go to NR or The Weekly Standard or Red State, much less Ross Douthat or National Affairs, to get pretzel logic confabulations on Trump's behalf, because they actually haven't gotten on board. To their credit. Twitter is a snarknado of negative partisanship. Breitbart and Drudge are entropically dire, in a Shannon-informational sense. Hugh Hewitt? Nixonian party loyalist. He's defending Trump the way he defended Harriet Miers, i.e. it really has nothing to do with the quality of the candidate. The only Trumpkins comfortable in their skins are the alt-right folks, reveling in rather than regretting the fact that Trump is constantly escaping from the Overton Straitjacket; and pick-up artists who regard Trump's alpha male posturing as a feature, not a diagnosis. Oh, and there's Scott Adams. "The fun part is that we can see cognitive dissonance when it happens to others – such as with my friend, and CNN – but we can't see it when it happens to us. So don't get too smug about this. You're probably next." Duly noted. [click to continue…]
Having posted about Gaus' new book, let me link to Will Wilkinson's review essay at Vox. Will is more enthused about the conclusions than I am, although I agree it's a great read. I've been trying to work out my own thoughts in the same vicinity and, for post purposes, I'll just sketch a thumbnail argument that seems to me the right Gaus-style indictment of Rawls, using a modified version of his mountain metaphor. [click to continue…]
It seems Gary Johnson/Bill Weld have been disappointing to conservatives and right-leaning libertarians (fusionists), looking for an alternative to Trump. For example, Ilya Shapiro, in "Is Johnson-Weld a Libertarian Ticket?"
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Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. Although jetlag is is the the more pressing concern.
Now I can get back to drawing Zarathustra! Which reminds me: a few pages went up a few days ago, yet I didn't flog them here at CT. So: here!
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Peter Singer, consequentialist philosopher and patron saint of "effective altruism" has expressed himself on the question of rights to asylum and refugee status:
Singer has urged a rethink of global asylum policy. He wants to stop refugees able to travel to the country of their choice from being able to claim asylum at the expense of those unable to make the journey. He worries that the current system enables people to "somehow jump the queue" – adding that although Britain has a "moral obligation" to accept refugees, this does not include everyone who makes it to the UK.
"I don't think Britain has a particular obligation to accept those who manage to set foot on British shores," he tells i. "I think something needs to be rethought about this idea of the right of asylum as it's now being applied."
The same goes for his homeland, Australia, he adds, where the government is often criticised for not taking in more Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Burma. "Taking those who manage to get on boats to Australia provides an incentive to make these dangerous journeys during which some get drowned. [The refugees] in the UNHCR camps in Lebanon or wherever are in just as much need of a place to go as the people who are landing in Australia or Greece."
Here, the perfectly valid point that the those in refugee camps in poor countries are just was worthy of help as those who arrive in rich ones is placed in service of the demonization of those who arrive in boats as "queue jumpers" and the endorsement of the ridiculous argument of right-wing politicians about "incentives" to make dangerous journeys. The reason people make those dangerous journeys is because the governments of wealthy countries, using mechanisms such as carrier sanctions and visa restrictions, have blocked safe and inexpensive routes of escape from dangerous places. They do this not in the service of a fair conception of the distribution of humanitarian burdens but because they don't want to deal with the numbers and would prefer to maintain the existing unfair distribution where most refugees are in poor countries. Singer is correct that we can distinguish between the right to asylum and the right to settle in a particular place. Perhaps when the governments of wealthy states are willing to have a proper discussion about what a fair pattern of settlement would look like, we can also reassess other elements of the system. Pending that commitment to justice on the part of the wealthy, stigmatizing those who make it across from Libya, Turkey or Haiti as "queue jumpers" is the mark of someone who has lost his moral compass.
At the moment, I'm reading my way through David Miller's new Strangers in our Midst and also getting very exercised about the UK's Brexit referendum (to the point where I'm waking at night and worrying about it). My siblings and I have all benefited from the EU's free movement rights, my children both have non-British EU partners, we think of ourselves as Europeans. So for me, the threat of Brexit is a threat of lost identity, of something that has been there all my adult life just disappearing overnight. And so I'm feeling pretty resentful towards my fellow citizens who might vote to cut that tie and thereby endanger the security and family life of millions of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens elsewhere in the EU.
One of Miller's arguments is a familiar one about social trust, about how welfare states depend for their stability on such trust and that the increasing diversity that immigration brings tends to undermine support for redistributive programmes. This lack of trust gets expressed in anger about stories that immigrants are ahead in the queue for social housing, that they are a drain on health and education services, that they are getting "something for nothing", and so forth. Needless to say, most of such stories are false. Nevertheless, there may be elements in the design of the UK's welfare state and its relatively non-contributory character that fuel such anxieties.
Here's the thing. Those voting for Brexit out of resentment against immigration are disproportionately the elderly poor whites who don't pay much in but who benefit from those public services. A predictable consequence of them getting what they want is that the fiscal base for those services will be eroded and that either they will have to be cut or taxes will have to be increased. This is because those EU immigrants are, in fact, paying more in taxes than they are taking in services. (Actually, the UK is free-riding in a big way, as it never paid for the cost of educating and training those workers.)
When I take those political affiliation surveys, I always say I'm willing to pay higher taxes. But now the devil on my shoulder is saying "why should you pay higher taxes to replace the taxes that were paid by EU migrants? Those idiots have brought it on themselves, let them now suffer the consequences". An ugly thought, but I'm guessing that if I'm having it then I'm not alone. The UK's EU referendum has eroded social trust more than immigration per se ever did. It poses the question of what citizens owe to one another in pretty stark terms. If people could mitigate the need for higher taxes by accepting immigrants and they choose not to do so, why should their wealthier fellow citizens bear the cost of their choices?
Consistency is the most common currency of political debate. But what is it worth, would you say? And why? Apart from obvious monomaniacs, few people are highly philosophically consistent in their thinking about politics on all levels – from high principle down to partisan practice and all points in between and/or to one side or the other, as politics slops into other areas of thought and life. I don't just mean: everyone slips. I mean: every attractive view has major tensions. (That's what we call them when they're ours. When other people have them: utter contradictions! Repulsive stuff!)
So what is the value of consistency arguments in politics – bold exposures of the other side's contradictions, bouts of tidying up of one's own? Would you say?
It's tempting to say that consistency is an asymptotic or regulative ideal: we approach but know we aren't really going to get there. But that doesn't really seem right. It doesn't seem right that we really value consistency very highly. (See above: most consistent people seem like fanatics.) No one switches partisan sides because the other side seems to have assembled a more internally coherent match of policies and principles. It doesn't seem as though, as people become more sophisticated, politically, they become more consistent, philosophically. Possibly this has something to do with pluralism about value. (Feel free to make reference to pluralism – or hobgoblins – in your answer.) But if pluralism means it's ok to be inconsistent, what is the value of consistency?
I also don't mean to imply that even the most philosophically sophisticated students of politics are as utterly, intellectually self-betraying as your average partisan idiot. Getting shot with 500 bullets is way more bullets than getting shot with 5 bullets. Still, dead is dead. I think John Rawls, for example, is a more consistent political thinker than Donald Trump. But I also think that Rawls' political philosophy suffers from at least five fatal defects: unresolvable, fairly central contradictions (inconsistencies, tensions, call them what you will.) Does it make sense to favor a view that suffers from five fatal contradictions over a view that suffers from 500 on grounds of consistency, per se?
All the same, I really can't feature not valuing consistency quite highly. What do you think?
I just added an item to my collection of graphical curiosities: a 1948 pamphlet, published by The International Book Store in San Francisco, "The Communist Manifesto In Pictures".
You can get the PDF version for free. I'm interested in it mostly as a data point in the history of American graphic design. The International Book Store seems to have had some graphical flair:
I don't own that one. I don't imagine the contents – apparently republished from Soviet Russia Today – are as fun as the cover.
I'm reading Russell Muirhead, The Promise of Party In A Polarized Age: [click to continue…]
In an op-ed in the Financial Times, the economist Branko Milanovic advocates that in order to fight global poverty, we should introduce explicit systems of differentiated citizenship in wealthy countries under which immigrants (and their children? and their children's children?) would be entitled only to a reduced package of rights. He argues that we should
redefine citizenship in such a way that migrants are not allowed to lay claim to the entire premium falling to citizens straight away, if at all. Restricting the citizenship rights of migrants in this way would assuage the concerns of the native population, while still ensuring the migrants are better off than they would be had they stayed in their own countries. As happens currently in the Gulf states, migrants could be allowed to work for a limited number of years, or to work only for a given employer, or else be obliged to return to their country of origin every four or five years. They could also be made to pay higher taxes since they are the largest net beneficiaries of migration. Despite such discriminatory treatment, the welfare of migrants and their families would increase, while native populations would not be made to share their entire premium with incomers.
Gastarbeiter with second- or third-class status, perhaps forever. Now, I'll say one thing for this proposal, which is that it would formalize something that currently exists, since in all wealthy countries there exists a layer of poor people (including many migrants) who enjoy only semi-citizen status (as Elizabeth Cohen has documented ). And this layer, though many individuals pass through it and come out the other side, looks like a permanent feature of our societies. Up to now, however, few people have thought of this, and the consequent denial of rights to individuals and their vulnerability to domination and exploitation, as a good thing. Milanovic wants us explicitly to abandon the liberal and democratic principles of legitimacy that those who are subject to the laws of a society should (in time in the case of migrants) get to have the right to make those laws. In doing so, he goes far beyond similar proposals (for example from Martin Ruhs that have been explicitly temporary in nature and have largely focused on labour-market rights. Milanovic's lack of commitment to the norms of liberal democracy also comes across in the fact that he holds up illegitimate and tyrannical states, such as the Gulf kleptocracies, as models for his proposed policy. Part of what's going on here is the economist's perspective on policy, which just focuses on net improvements in well-being or utility, with income serving as a proxy, and which doesn't, therefore, see human beings as possessed of basic rights which it is impermissible to violate. Rather, all and any rights can be sacrificed on the altar of income improvement, just in case someone is poor and desperate enough to make a deal (who are we, paternalistically, to stop them?). The road to hell is paved with Pareto improvements.
I wrote last year about the Justice in Education project at Harvard, which has developed a series of case studies posing difficult moral questions concerning educational decision-making. Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay have just published a brilliant volume, Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries, containing 6 cases, with 6 responses to each case by a variety of authors – most of them academics (from a variety of disciplines, and including Howard Gardner, Mary Patillo, Diana Hess, Tommie Shelby, Christopher Winship, and Elizabeth Anderson) but also by teachers, administrators, and one legislator.
Last fall I based a course on the manuscript of the book. Its always hard to tell why a class works brilliantly well – this one was small (25), and had a great mix of students, who were as ideologically diverse as it gets at Madison (I loved the fact that two girls, one a very conservative Republican, the other a very liberal Democrat, became inseparable friends during the course), but also a perfect mix of science, social science, and humanities majors, and of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. And all of them seemed willing to work hard, and seriously. But the conception of the course was pretty good too. When I first thought about it I planned to spend the first half of the semester reading theoretical and empirical literature about education, and then spend the second half on the cases. But I quickly realized that would establish a bad dynamic (me talking too much) and would load a lot of reading upfront. So I scattered the cases throughout the course (and added a couple more).
The first case in the book concerns social promotion. It takes the form of a debate among a group of teachers, some giving reasons why a particular girl should graduate from middle school (appealing to evidence that children who are held back drop out at high rates; that her academic failure is not really her fault because i) her science class, which she failed, was taught by a sub who was, by his own admission, incompetent, for most of the year and ii) her family circumstances essentially made learning impossible); others giving reasons for holding her back (she's not ready for the academic demands of high school; it sends a bad message to both her and other students if the school graduates students who are known not to have reached the minimum academic threshold needed to pass their classes). It doesn't require a huge amount of background knowledge in order to generate intelligent discussion. So that was a good starting point, and, in fact, my students came up with good points on both sides that I had never thought about, despite having read the commentaries and discussed the case several times.
I've been teaching brain-drain related issues this week. Some of the big questions there are empirical ones, and the facts are contested. But some of the normative issues are interesting, and some of them don't just apply to poor countries. One of these issues is the apparent clash between our duties to compatriots (if we have any) and our rights of exit and expatriation. If I have a duty as a member of an institutional scheme to contribute to the well-being of the least advantaged members of my society, can I just divest myself of that duty (in one bound, as it were) by leaving the country, or, to go one step further, by renouncing my nationality? It was a puzzle that Henry Sigdwick was defeated by back in 1907 [or somewhat earlier in fact, as he died in 1900!]:
`In 1868 it was affirmed, in an Act passed by the Congress of the United States, that 'the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people.' I do not know how far this would be taken to imply that a man has a moral right to leave his country whenever he finds it convenient—provided no claims except those of Patriotism retain him there. But if it was intended to imply this, I think the statement would not be accepted in Europe without important limitations: though I cannot state any generally accepted principle from which such limitations could be clearly deduced." Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7th ed (1907) [click to continue…]
Envelope please! And the winner is … Troilus and Cressida, by William Shakespeare (probably written in 1603 or 1609 or maybe as early as 1599). Let's review the victory conditions. [click to continue…]
For where desire, celestial, pure desire,
Hath taken root, and grows, and doth not tire,
There God a commerce states, and sheds
His secret on their heads.
Henry Vaughan, "The Star"
"And how does your commerce go, you strange guardian of the past?"
G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
My partisanship post has blossomed into an extensive discussion of original intent, interpretation and the commerce clause. Maybe we could use a little more scholarship to go with that. (Who knows?)
Randy Barnett and Jack Balkin are big in this area, and their major papers are freely available on the web. (Here's Balkin's major statement, outside of his book. Here's an old one by Barnett that makes his general framework clear. And here's a recent response by him to Balkin on commerce.) But let me start with "Rethinking the Commerce Clause", by Nelson and Pushaw. It's not free online, but I want just to quote the opening: [click to continue…]


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Burglar Bill
Puffin Books, 1999 - Burglars - 32 pages
Everything in Burglar Bill's life is stolen, from the toast, marmalade and coffee he has for breakfast to the bed he sleeps in. One night when he is out burgling, he comes across a box with holes in the lid on a doorstep. He picks it up of course and when he gets home he discovers, to his horror, that he has stolen a baby. He and the baby muddle along together until one night he is disturbed by a burglar - Burglar Betty. She is the mother of Burglar Bill's baby. Bill and Betty decide to reform and live honest lives; they return all the stolen goods, get married and live happily ever after!
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- Ellison: PeopleSoft Products Safe Until 2013
- Report From the Oracle/PeopleSoft Frontline: Alienating PeopleSoft
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Drip from Oracle's Axe
- "Pink Slip Friday" At PeopleSoft
- Oracle-PeopleSoft: Stress in Silicon Valley
- Oracle To Clinch PeopleSoft Acquisition
Hard on the heels of the announcement by the current market leader in the world of business software, the German giant SAP, that it will be buying TomorrowNow Inc., a supplier of software maintenance and support services for PeopleSoft apps - Oracle-PeopleSoft's CEO Larry Ellison has been speaking to the CNBC TV channel about how he is "sorry" about the 5,000 layoffs, or 9% of his combined new workforce, that his hostile acquisition has triggered.
"We never like to be in the position where we have more employees than jobs," Ellison said, "but that's just one of the things that happen when you glue two big companies together."
Prior to the announcement of the financial details of the takeover - an
announcement which is due to take place next week, on January 26 - Ellison's
Oracle-PeopleSoft has been making it clear that it is going to become a major
thorn in the side for SAP.
Ellison has already announced that the new merged company will support PeopleSoft product lines until 2013 and will go ahead with releasing PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0. He is expecting the newly merged company to retain PeopleSoft customers at the same 95% rate it currently retains its own users.
Confirming that Oracle won't buy another company until it has successfully integrated PeopleSoft, Ellison has conceded that it will take 3-4 years to complete "Project Fusion" - to develop a product combining the software of both companies.
Any "Project Fusion" products would be written in Java and use standards-based rules to allow easy integration with other applications, and Ellison will personally babysit the endeavor: "My biggest focus is on Project Fusion," he said.
Oracle-PeopleSoft intends to take the game to SAP, which in turn recently rolled out database server software, NetWeaver, aimed to steal marketshare from Oracle. "We will win," he has (predictably) said.
|Gerald Cheves 01/24/05 05:46:42 PM EST
Doesn't a downsizing always occur when two companies merge because of shared resources and elimination of duplicate administrative processes? I don't think the layoffs came as a surprise to Ellison. In fact, he probably could have given an advanced warning to the effected departments.
SAP Netweaver is a product suite aimed at creating a single platform for hosting all SAP and non-SAP Products. It is not a Database Server meant to take on Oracle.
"Sorry"!? It's going to take a bit more than sorry...
|Oracle vs SAP 01/22/05 11:31:38 AM EST
SAP has already said it would offer special deals to TomorrowNow's customers to migrate to SAP's NetWeaver software, so the batle is going to get tough
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I have trouble getting my Ubuntu install to recognize my SSD HD.
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Rito deserves anything that happens to him in doujinshi. And as AMG revealed recently, the entire impotent male lead harem genre is a sham! What's doubly sad about Rito in Darkness is that he no longer has the Skuld-cockblocker character, his harem is right there waiting for him to curl his fingers around it, but he never will.
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Initially, the meek male character has some charm as long as they are not total breain dead wuss, and there is character development growth. I didn't initially see Rito in that category, as he did become strong & heroic when the girls were in jeapordy. But lack of growth means that character did indeed seem a wuss by nature after a while. Strong people grow, and wusses stay the same. I can relate to mild mannered characters with inner strength, but not to timid characters that never come out of their shell and are easily led down the wrong path by others. That is generally a two dimensional shill who's only function in the story is as catalyst to misunderstanding/jealousy schtick repeated over & over. There have been too many miles put on that worn out comedy theme IMO.
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I'm glad you brought that angel up, as that tends to be one positive attribute that the spineless male lead possesses. He'll rise to the occasion when his harem is threatened in the inevitable episode 12 and 13 hamfisted drama/action mini-arc that has no business being in a fanservice comedy, but after that threat is dealt with he's back to the eunuch he was before. This isn't unique to Rito's situation, nearly all of his type of character end up going through this.
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Yes agreed. It is always a letdown to me when character reverts back to same old wimpy BS to milk the same jokes again. It is a common cliche, but IMHO Western viewpoint, shows would really take off to another level of coolness if characters actually grew from those experiences, and started becoming more badasses. Maybe this is an American thing - we don't identify with wimpy dudes. We identify with badass dudes, even if we aren't one ourselves in real life.
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Like a lot of harem leads Rito is decidedly meh to me so I can't believe I'm defending him but here goes. I will say one thing in his defense. Rito's harem is mostly a distraction/temptation for him that gets in the way of him confessing his feelings to his true love, Haruna. He's in love with one girl. So in this case at least, it makes sense why the bland male lead won't do anything with or take advantage of the harem of hot girls surrounding him.
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True enough I like rito on level though because he tries his best to really avoid these situations but the still end up happening. However since yabuki was screwed over by ex haruna really can't be used anymore do to copyright issues and being based on her. I guess this what happens when you make a manga with your girlfriend/wife or lover and they go nuts.
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But much like most other stories that TLR is spiritually proceeding, notably Urusei Yatsura, Haruna isn't who the fans like the most, like how Lum obviously beat out Shinobu for the fan's affections. The childhood friend/love interest never wins out in the end, so it's a pointless venture to keep that character around for the lead to be enamored with.
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The real problem with TLR is that it has great character designs, paired with fun personalities for the girls, all focused on one utterly useless male character.
Like, for example, Yui. Great tsundere! A++ would come back for more. But I cannot buy her interest in Rito. At all. Its completely beyond my ability to suspend my disbelief.
One reason the only character I really like is Yami, because her relationship with Mikan actually gives her a bit of depth, sets her apart from the other girls.
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Putting aside who the fans' favorite is, Rito's affection for Haruna always seemed stronger than most harem leads' feelings for the childhood friend/normal girl. Even his feelings for Lala didn't seem to compare. Compare that to say Sora no Otoshimono where Sohara, the childhood friend, has absolutely no chance since Ikaros is the obvious choice. Haruna's chances always seemed better to me than for most characters of her type. She certainly gave Lala more competition than most despite not being a fan favorite. This kind of set TLR apart from other harem shows for me.
Didn't know that. That's really unfortunate. So no more Haruna.
Perhaps Yui has some self-destructive behaviors.
Yami and Mikan are the best characters in the series though. I think the quality of the series actually increases in proportion to their screen time.
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I have a great idea for how to rewrite TLR into something far more entertaining. And it doesn't even involve getting rid of Rito.
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I only found about four of the girls to be worthwhile (Yami, Mikan, and the twins) and the show frequently wasted way too much time on the most boring ones as well.
I found Yui to be one of the least entertaining ones, but that might have been partially because of the Rito issues as well. I really didn't care for Haruna, so I consider the inability of Darkness to use her to be a plus.
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Does it involve turning him into Riko permanently? I'm all onboard for that.
The twins take a more center stage position in Darkness, especially Momo. Haruna isn't written out as much as toned down in favor of the rest of the cast.
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That would be a part of it, eventually.
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Well Riko>Rito. Now I'm curious how it would play out.
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Stars are now aligned to remove the non-benevolents.
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Letterance of timelines proceeds.
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Labyrinths are fathomed and realized.
Stereoscopic understandings open for all.
Immutables are grasped.
Carillons remind all Gaia inhabitants that Light is their home.
Fluorescents increase.
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Gleanings of Star Beings connect.
Hue-Manity is formed.
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I might not be doing much multiplayer but I do like adding people from familiar places. I put my code up on my profile, add me if you'd like. Got that Ocarina of Time 3DS bundle over the big shopping weekend. Apparently it's not as rare a collectible as I thought it'd be, but at least I got a decent deal. That is my only game at the moment too, though I'm heading to a Best Buy event tonight so that could change.
Taking a couple trips for work this month. Games I'll likely be working on are Castlevania: Dawn of Souls (my god am I doing a lot of grinding in there) and Zelda 3DS, and after returning home from both trips I'll probably be working on something from the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.
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Chapter 17: Circuits
A circuit just means a completed loop. An electrical circuit can be as simple as a few wires held in place by hand. As long as the electricity can flow in a loop, the circuit is complete. This chapter covers electrical current, voltage, resistors and resistivity, resistors in series and parallel, and measuring both voltage and current.
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Electric Current
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Ohm's Law
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1. Electric current is defined as the rate at which charges flow within a conducting wire past any point in the wire the
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3. Georg Simon Ohm first proposed that a current
4. The resistivity is a measure of the resistance of a material. For wires, the resistivity is directly proportional to the length
5. The conductivity
6. The equivalent resistance of resistors in series is
7. The equivalent resistance of resistors in parallel is
8. In a series circuit all resistors have the same current and in a parallel circuit all resistors have the same potential drop.
9. For any electric circuit the electric power
7. Joule heating is the heat dissipated through a resistor. It is equal to the rate at which energy flows through the resistor.
10. Kirchhoff's laws are two statements useful in analyzing circuits.
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2. The sum of the potential changes around any closed circuit loop must equal zero.
The first is a statement of charge conservation and the second is a statement of the conservation of energy.
The first is a statement of charge conservation and the second is a statement of the conservation of energy.
11. Ammeters are devices that measure the currents within a circuit. They are placed in series with a component in order to measure the current passing through it and have small resistances.
12. Voltmeters are devices that measure the voltages in a circuit. They must be placed in parallel with a component in order to measure the voltage drop across it and have large resistances.
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"Hot Head Bandit," Serial Bank Robber, Busted in Peoria
An alleged serial bank robber, responsible for at least three heists across the Valley, was busted in Peoria last week thanks to the keen eye of a police officer, the Peoria Police Department announced this morning.
Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef tells New Times that Timothy John Kestle is the man the FBI's bandit-naming department dubbed "The Hot Head Bandit."
Kestle, Tellef says, was busted last Monday after an officer with the Peoria PD -- while on routine patrol -- recognized a vehicle similar to one used as a getaway car during a bank robbery in April.
The vehicle, a white Dodge Dakota, was featured in previous police bulletins along with a photo of the suspect.
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Artist: R.E.M.
Album: Automatic For The People
Readying to bury your father and your mother,
What did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder why did you bother,
Distanced from one, blind to the other?
Listen here, my sister and my brother
What would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother,
Distanced from one, deaf to the other
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives
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It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah, we were altogether
Lost in our little lives
Oh, oh, ah
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, but sweetness follows
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OAKLAND, Calif. --The Houston Astros have a winning vibe during the September stretch run.
Tony Kemp noticed it before Tuesday night's 2-1, 10-inning win against the Oakland Athletics.
"Before the game today, everyone seemed loose," Kemp said. "No one's really panicking. Everyone's just having fun this last stretch."
George Springer hit a go-ahead single in the top of the 10th inning. Kemp, who tied it with a pinch-hit double in the seventh, got things going with a leadoff double against Sean Doolittle (2-3) and Jake Marisnick sacrificed him to third to bring up Springer.
Chris Devenski (4-4) struck out four in 3 2-3 innings of relief for the win, and Ken Giles escaped a bases-loaded jam and closed it out for his 13th save. The Astros remain in the mix for the AL wild card.
"The dramatic finish at the end, it's hard to overlook," manager A.J. Hinch said. "There are so many story lines that go on why we won a close game. ... Our guys understand where we're at in the calendar. We've played important games late."
Jose Altuve's eighth-inning single gave him 200 hits in three straight seasons, the first to do so since Ichiro Suzuki from 2001-10.
Oakland's Danny Valencia was ejected at the end of the ninth by plate umpire Marty Foster after striking out.
It was announced that the A's played the game under protest after a call was overturned on replay review in the third. Marisnick was initially called safe on his bunt and that was overturned, but Teoscar Hernandez - aboard on a single - got to return to first base rather than be called out on a double play because he reacted to the original, incorrect call. Oakland briefly protested before withdrawing it, both managers said afterward.
"It ended up just being a really weird play," Hinch said.
Sean Manaea struck out seven with two walks over six scoreless innings. The lefty allowed three hits in his second start since missing 15 days with a strained muscle in his upper back.
"That was one of his best outings of the season and to squander it is incredibly frustrating," Doolittle said.
Oakland has lost six straight to the Astros, its longest skid ever in the series.
Jake Smolinski's sharp single through a shifted infield with one out in the sixth was the A's first hit against Astros starter Joe Musgrove, who then loaded the bases and was done for the night.
The rookie right-hander, who beat the A's earlier this season when he pitched 5 1-3 scoreless innings, gave up two hits and one run, struck out four and walked three.
Devenski relieved Musgrove and allowed Stephen Vogt's RBI groundout.
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"I would never name starters if I didn't have to, if you guys didn't bug me every three days for it," he smiled. "I don't think it matters. ... Who's in the first play of the game has never mattered to me, and it's not really that important. But we have to name quote-unquote starters and put them on a piece of paper so [the media] knows who they are."
With that being said, Shaw did name Khalil Wilkes Stanford's starting center. That particular announcement carries more weight than the other openings filled today because the Cardinal does not plan to rotate bodies at the center position, though Shaw affirmed that Conor McFadden and Kevin Danser are both more than capable of filling in for Wilkes there.
Shaw also named James Vaughters the starter at outside linebacker and Wayne Lyons the first-string man opposite Alex Carter at cornerback. As expected, though, he was quick to emphasize that those positions will essentially operate as timeshares.
"They both showed us they needed to play," he said. "Blake Lueders is too good not to play. Barry Browning is too good not to play."
Perhaps most notably, Shaw confirmed that Devon Carrington will play both cornerback and safety for Stanford this season. Defensive coordinator Derek Mason first hinted at that possibility early in camp. Carrington, who is 6-foot-1, has now demonstrated his ability to effectively bring a safety's physicality to the corner role.
"He's one of those utility guys that can play both at a high level," Shaw said. "That's the biggest thing that's changed in Stanford football in last five years. We have depth. We can rotate guys in. We feel we're at least two deep at just about every position."
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In previous years, Sam Schwartzstein had defeated Wilkes in the battle for center. Wilkes ended up starting 2012 at left guard before finally securing the job in the middle with his excellent performance during Saturday's scrimmage.
"Sometimes the quarterback changes the play, and the ball will be snapped in three seconds," said Shaw, outlining the unique challenges of the position. "So [Wilkes] has to communicate it, snap the ball, and get his job done all in less than three seconds. He's shown the ability to do that."
The coaching staff saw immense progress from Wilkes over the course of last season as he enjoyed the greatest amount of playing time in his Stanford career. Wilkes, who has bulked up about 10 pounds (295), is one the Rose Bowl run's unsung heroes: He's the player who miraculously recovered Kevin Hogan's overtime fumble at Oregon to set up Jordan Williamson's game-winning field goal.
"Khalil was in two battles last year: guard and center," Shaw said. "It's hard. It stretches you mentally. Playing a lot last year helped him a ton. He saw so many looks. Going against our defense in particular, he saw every defensive look known to man. ... He's a fifth-year senior now, and you can feel his leadership and command of the offense."
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Shaw said that this race in the secondary has been even closer than the one at center. Both Lyons and Browning have dealt with their share of injury trouble on The Farm, but both are fully healthy and ready to fortify a defensive backfield that Derek Mason hopes is deep enough to withstand the Pac-12's high-snap count spread attacks.
The staff has complimented Lyons for buoying his natural explosiveness with vastly improved technique over the offseason, while Browning has intercepted numerous passes over the course of fall camp.
"He intercepted another one today," Shaw said. "Barry Browning has had a lot of good practices."
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It seems fitting that James Vaughters will fill the outside linebacker spot vacated by Chase Thomas, another Stanford player out of Georgia. The Cardinal have opened a recruiting pipeline to the Peach State ever since the Jim Harbaugh/David Shaw era began, and they're using it to bring defensive heat from the outside.
Neither player at this competition participated there last year. Vaughters moved back to the outside this past offseason after a one-year stint at the insider linebacker position, while Lueders missed all of 2012 after undergoing surgeries on both of his shoulders.
"Both guys are versatile," Shaw said. "Both guys are good in pass drops, both are good in man coverage, both do a good job rushing the passer, both are good against the run. They'll both play base and they'll both play nickel. We believe we've got guys who are quote-unquote starters at all those positions."
Vaughters has weighed in at 260 pounds, while Lueders isn't far behind at 255. The latter made sure his presence was especially felt the past two days, so much so that Shaw held Stanford fullback Lee Ward out of Thursday's practice.
"He ran into Blake Lueders yesterday," Shaw said of Ward. "That's a painful thing."
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Shaw emphasized that Anthony Wilkerson and Tyler Gaffney are Stanford's "lead dogs", but added that he does not plan to formally name a starter at running back this season. He says that honorific will fall to whomever is best suited for Stanford's play call on its first offensive snap. He also added that there is incredible depth at the position.
"You will see Barry Sanders play," he said. "You will see Ricky Seale play. You will see Remound Wright play."
Shaw also affirmed that Ward, Ryan Hewitt, and Pat Skov will all play at fullback after an excellent camp at the position. He said that as many as four tight ends may see action throughout the year, and that doesn't include offensive tackle Kyle Murphy, who is also expected to contribute his beef to the position. The Cardinal also have announced their intention to again use up to eight offensive linemen.
Special Teams: A Punter Named
Special teams coach Pete Alamar told The Bootleg that Ben Rhyne will replace Daniel Zychlinski at punter. Rhyne beat out Conrad Ukropina for the job. Ty Montgomery will be the Cardinal's primary opening day kick returner, with Kelsey Young and Alex Carter also in the mix.
Kodi Whitfield currently leads the punt returner competition per Alamar, who also praised Sanders and Montgomery in discussing possibilities at the position. Check out The Bootleg Radio's interview with Alamar to delve into the intricacies of special teams.
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