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Some Students Allowed to Opt Out of Class to Get More Sleep
Hundreds of Fairfax County high school seniors have dropped their first classes of the day so they can stay in bed a bit longer this school year, part of a decades-long effort pushing for later school start times.
Hundreds of Fairfax County high school seniors have dropped their first classes of the day so they can stay in bed a bit longer this school year, part of a decades-long effort pushing for later school start times.
About 650 students — 5 percent of the Class of 2014 — are participating this fall, with numbers steadily growing. Nearly 19 percent of the seniors at Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, for example, are coming to school late after they dropped early morning courses.
To start school late, students must be on track to graduate and get permission from their principal and parents. The seniors can drop as many as two first-period classes so long as they do not need the credits to graduate. And they need to find their own way to school without relying on buses.
Some school administrators, parents and students question whether the new program is fair to the 11,000 other teens who must still stumble to bus stops in the pre-dawn darkness. These include students who do not own a car or can't rely on parents who have day jobs.
The first classes of the day begin at 7:20 a.m. in Fairfax, among the earliest in the Washington region. Neighboring jurisdictions have later start times, including Loudoun County, which begins classes at 9 a.m.
Fairfax's "opt-out" program — unique in the Washington area — is a first step toward giving county teenagers additional rest. Parents and advocates for later start times have been arguing for years that early school starts are detrimental to teen health and that even an extra hour or two of sleep could make a real difference. Critics have said that changing the schools' schedules would be expensive and a logistical nightmare, requiring more buses and more time spent battling traffic on the country's most congested roads.
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The communities department spent more than £9.3m on consultants and £2m on agency staff in three months earlier this year, according to government figures that also reveal one watchdog has spent £13,000 on corporate functions at London zoo.
The figures for every item of spending by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) above £500 reveal thousands spent on corporate events at leisure centres including bowling lanes and hotels close to the department's offices in Victoria.
The coalition has promised to publish figures on spending above £25,000 across its departments to improve transparency; the DCLG has lowered that to £500 to match a commitment that all local authorities publish data at that threshold. Today's data is backdated to 2008-09 for the first time and covers the first three months of this financial year, April to June.
It reveals that local government spending watchdog the Audit Commission spent £13,470 on corporate functions at London zoo while the department spent £22,000 at a hotel round the corner from its Victoria offices in 2008-09.
In April this year DCLG also spent £1,285.80 at a bowling alley called All Star Lanes.
The figures reveal that £9.35m was spent on consultancy services ranging from IT to legal, management and human resources. Just under £2m was paid in fees to employment agencies for other staff.
Grant Shapps, the local government minister, expressed concerns at the use of the public money, highlighting money spent by the department before the election and by the Audit Commission, which is being scrapped.
"It's amazing what Labour ministers got up to behind closed doors. If they weren't living it up in lavish hotels they were spending millions on PR agencies and vanity opinion polls to work out why they were so unpopular. The mantra was buy now, pay later and let the taxpayer foot the bill."
Unions urged caution at the use of consultants and agency staff in the department, saying the first are overpaid and the second vulnerable to losing their jobs.
The Tories in opposition said they planned to cull a third of Whitehall jobs. Measures for cuts in every department – as well as a reorganisation of Whitehall itself – are expected in the spending review next month.
A spokesman for the PCS union, which represents civil servants, said: "The government appears all too ready to hire consultants on inflated contracts and bring in agency staff on temporary contracts, which leaves them vulnerable to losing their jobs. They should be putting proper resources into a sustainable workforce."

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Are simonton 5500 series windows a good quality replacment window.
I like um. Even installed them in my own home I liked them so much.
Never once had a call back for fogged up glass on any I've installed.
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Israel Police arrested seven Bedouin men and charged them on Wednesday with stealing millions of shekels of ammunition from an army base in the Negev.
A joint investigation conducted by the Shin Bet security service, Israel Police, and Military Police found that the suspects stole over 3,000 tank shells and an unspecified amount of sub-machine gun ammo over six months. The total value of the missing weaponry is estimated at NIS 23 million, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
According to the charge sheet filed at the Beersheba District Court, the accused repeatedly broke into the base by cutting wire fencing and pilfered ammunition. The stolen goods were then sold for scrap metal.
An IDF source said that the stolen shells are low-grade explosives typically used in training exercises.
Attorney David Yiftach, legal counsel for one of the accused, said, "The IDF is the guilty party. We are talking about millions of shekels of metal scattered around the Negev with no one taking responsibility for it."


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Given that the Batmobiles in question are working replicas, I'll have to say that the following drag race between a 1960s Batmobile and a 1989 Batmobile isn't exactly definitive. However, it is a lot of fun to watch (the race itself starts at 7:45).
Check it out after the break.
Honestly though, I would love to see these cars go around a track. I have a feeling that the '60s Batmobile might have an easier time in the corners—until the '89 Batmobile took it out with its superior firepower. Of course, that's when the Tumbler would fly over the wall and mow over the Burtonmobile like a monster truck.
On that note, this is the first episode in a new Machinima series called Super Power Beat Down that pits two legends against one another. The next episode will pit Gandalf against Darth Vader.
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$20,000,000 Given Northwestern Under Will of Walter P. Murphy; Fund Will Go for Permanent Endowment and Expansion of Technology Institute Under Cooperation With Industries
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CHICAGO, Dec. 30 -- A gift of more than $20,000,000 to Northwestern University by the will of Walter Patton Murphy was announced today by Dr. Franklyn Bliss Snyder, president of the University. The gift, one of the largest in recent years to any institution and the largest educational bequest ever left by a Chicagoan was made known after a special meeting of the university board.
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Everyone has heard that it takes a village to raise a child, but I can't think of anywhere else where this old saying plays itself out quite as well as in the classroom. Teachers can mean so much to the students they spend time with. They instruct, they inspire—they give their kids a growing understanding of the world around them in a supportive environment.
It's no surprise that people will often cite a former teacher as the most influential or inspirational person they knew growing up.
As you and your little ones gear up for the first day of school, there are several ways to set the expectation for a fun and productive year. Here's a list of ideas for your back-to-school prep straight from the people who know best—teachers!
- Stock up on supplies. Many teachers send home lists of supplies on the first day of school, but you can beat the shopping rush by stocking up on essentials like notebooks, paper, pencils, a grade-appropriate calculator and other supplies. Help ease your little ones' stress by having these things on hand, and you'll give them a leg up on their first homework assignment.
- Set their sleeping schedule. Waking up early isn't fun for anyone, but you can help ease your kids back into it by setting a new sleeping schedule now. Wake your kids up at the time they will be expected to wake up for school, and then take them somewhere fun—to the park, the beach, the mall or even on a walk around the neighborhood. Just make sure your kids are awake and ready by the time they will need to leave for school.
- Have a heart-to-heart. Ask your kids how they feel about the start of the new year. Find out if they are feeling anxious about anything, and then brainstorm ideas together for how they can ease that tension, from finding a buddy to eat lunch with to explaining to the teacher that they need extra help with math problems. Then be sure to follow through with a discussion of how things went after the first day of school.
- Introduce yourself to teachers. Teacher cards and stationery make great back-to-school gifts, but you can also volunteer in the classroom, stop by with muffins for everyone or introduce yourself at a back to school event. It's important to stay active in your child's education to help do your part in encouraging them to succeed.


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Jeremy Maclin, Percy Harvin, Malcom Floyd, Jordy Nelson, Danario Alexander. Wide receivers have been dropping like flies since training camps opened, and many held their breath last night with the possibility that Falcons wideout Roddy White would also need an extended absence. Fortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case.
White turned his ankle in the second quarter of Friday's preseason game and has been diagnosed with a low-ankle sprain. According to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, White would be able to play if we were in the regular season.
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This is good news since low-ankle sprains take mere days to heal. Conversely, the dreaded high-ankle sprain takes weeks. White has played eight seasons in the NFL and has yet to miss a game. He doesn't need many reps in August to be prepared for the season, so don't be surprised if the Falcons play it safe with Roddy. However, he should be fine soon. White is a low-end WR1. He doesn't have the upside of Julio Jones, but White puts up consistently solid numbers.


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Hi all!
Wow, this is quite a milestone. . . 2000 posts! Can't believe I've rambled on that much here on good ol' TDH. :lol
I wonder if anyone could figure out a good way to celebrate. Here are some ways I thought of:
If I drank 2,000 ounces of beer in 12 ounce cans, that would be 166 and 2/3 cans!
If I ate 2,000 pounds of hamburgers, that would be 500 Quarter Pounders!
If I gathered up some loose change and made a stack of 2,000 quarters, it would be a stack 11 and 1/2 feet high!
Any other cool 2,000-related things I could do? (Of course, I'm going to do all of the above later tonight! ;) :lol :cheers :thumbsup)


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Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
Equal Rights Amendment
Adopted by the CCAR at the 90th Annual Convention of
The Reform Movement in Germany, and in the USA and Canada. has consistently espoused
the concept of the equality of women: The 1845 Frankfurt-am-Main decision to count
women in the minyan
; the 1846 Breslau concern for total religious equality of women; the 1893 USA clarification
that women have an equal congregational vote; the 1922 decision of the CCAR to support
the ordination of women; and the 1975 CCAR resolution which encourages egalitarian textbooks, life cycle ceremonies, the election of women as rabbis and cantors,
and the election of women to boards of Reform organizations.
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Phoenix, Arizona, March 26-29, 1979
In 1975 the CCAR resolved to "urge speedy ratification of ERA" and "pledged efforts in the various states to work for its ratification " This support of the ERA has also been echoed by the other major organizations of Reform Judaism, including the UAHC, the NFTS, and the NATE.
Resolved , therefore, that the CCAR will convene future conventions only in ratified states until the question of ERA is decided. The members of the CCAR will also work to further the passage of ERA in their states and will seriously assume the leadership and educational role necessary to upgrade the status of women in Reform Jewish Communities.


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Hi, and thank you for joining us today for Part four of the "Understanding and Addressing Challenging Behaviors of Individuals with Complex Needs" webinar series. My name is Wendy Szakacs and I am the Regional Coach for Autism and Low Incidence at OCALI in the northeast and eastern parts of Ohio.
And I am Chris Filler, the coordinator of the Lifespan Transition Center at OCALI, the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence. We serve families, educators and professionals working with individuals with autism, low incidence disabilities, and complex needs.
This series will teach you a systematic process for addressing and changing challenging behaviors. We will be building your knowledge step by step through each of the webinars in this 5 part series. Today we will be focusing on using strengths to help change challenging behaviors.
If you chose to work through the process with your own individual, since the last webinar, you completed the extensive FBA form with setting events, triggers, reinforcement, and your hypothesis.
And you updated section one of the Interventions form with new information and filled in section two summarizing your triggers, setting events, and hypothesis.
In this next part of the presentation, we will look at areas of strength to help complete the iceberg. It will also set us up to talk about completing the positive behavior support plan.
Strengths need to be the foundation of building new skills. To identify strengths, we can focus on the interests and positive attributes about an individual. What is s/he like when working? When calm? While socializing? When engaged? When passionate about an activity? Sometimes when we are dealing with challenging behaviors, it is more difficult to think about the strengths and positive interests a person exhibits. Having conversation with school staff, family members, peers, and caregivers about interests and strengths can help develop a comprehensive list.
These are areas we can consider when thinking about strengths. To support the positive behavior plan, we want to build from positive strengths, habits, skills, and interests.
Here is an example of strengths for this boy, Cesar. In the communication area he is able to make choices; in academics he loves math; physically he's a great runner; personality-wise he is liked by most of his peers; in self care he has some dressing skills; and in the sensory area he knows when he needs a break; as a motivator he loves music; and in social competence he works well with two of his peers.
Remember Molly? Here is her strengths profile. She is cute, has large motor skills, finds a way to get her point across, likes hands-on math activities, can be engaging, loves music and playground time, can work alone sometimes, knows when she is overwhelmed, is persistent, and can interact best one on one. At this time, we are not sure about her coping skills. You may not be able to think about something for each area and that's okay. Also, when you look at the blank strengths form in your downloadable file, you will notice we left some spaces without titles for adding your own categories and strengths. Again, this can be part of the ongoing thought process that you can keep adding to about your individual. Why do we take the time in this functional behavior assessment process to consider strengths and skills? How is this going to help Molly? If we discover what intrinsically motivates Molly, what makes her excited, what gets her interest bubbling, then we can use that information within the interventions and strategies we choose to support changing her challenging behavior. This can work for your individual too.
On this slide, you can see that the next step on the Interventions form is to fill in section three with a summary of strengths and skills under these categories. This form shows a summary of Molly's strengths in section three. For instance, she learns best if music is incorporated and she likes being able to make a choice. This information will help us support her in a positive way with matching strategies. More on that shortly. Also, section four is where we start to think about what additional skills are needed to improve the behavior. In looking back at the person's challenges and underlying contributors, what skills need to be taught? In Molly's case, we listed some skills that might help her improve the target behavior: she needs to learn coping skills to support her sensory, social, and environmental challenges; she also needs to learn some different communication skills for expressing her emotions and that allow her to ask for a break when she starts to feel anxious or upset; she needs to continue to develop academic skills so she can be more comfortable at circle time; and she needs to learn how to interact with peers successfully.
In this part, we will start thinking about how to tie in the appropriate interventions to support the target behavior and what we have discovered about the individual's challenges and strengths so far.
Just to review, we started the interventions form by summarizing the underlying challenges and contributing factors in sections one and two. Then, we summarized strengths and skills in section three, and started thinking about what skill could improve the behavior in section four. We are now going to start making the connection of interventions to all of this information.
On this slide, section six now has some interventions listed for Molly. We want to show you how they evolved from what we know about Molly's strengths. This section is going to require you to think deeper because it is about what is happening under the surface of the iceberg. This is where you are being asked to make the connections between what you have figured out so far about the person, and how it ties in to the interventions and strategies you are using, or are going to be using, every day. So, let's look at Molly. In the category Improving Learning and Development, the interventions tie back to strengths in learning and skill development, sensory/biological preferences, and motivations and interests. For example, we learned that Molly likes music and needs space, so that is built into the interventions. The next category, Modification to Achieve Environmental Matches, shows that Molly can benefit from use of a visual schedule and timers, as well as sitting at the end of a table. In the next interventions category of Sensory/Biological Adaptations and Interventions, the ideas go back to strengths in the environmental matches and sensory/biological preferences area. This shows that structure and personal space came into play as the interventions were chosen. The thoughts under Social, Emotional, and Communication Support and Instruction come from Molly's strengths in the successful social and communication and the motivations and interests areas: she needs structure, space, and enjoys music. And the last category, Ways to Add Motivation and Reinforcement, includes Music and choices on a schedule that come from the learning and skill development, successful social and communication, and motivations and interests strengths areas. You can see there is not a one to one correspondence between the categories in sections three and six. Interventions in the categories in section six should evolve from any and all categories in section three to support the challenges in section one. We are going to delve further into intervention selection in the next webinar.
As we move into our discussion about interventions, we want to address the areas of data collection and reinforcement systems.
First of all, collecting and using data for behavior is a good thing. Keeping data about a target behavior gives a baseline of how often and/or how much the behavior is occurring. Continuing the collection of data during implementations gives ongoing monitoring of changes in the behavior and shows if the intervention is working. Because we are all humans who have good and bad days, keeping concrete data takes guesswork, impressions, and emotions out of the process. Also, data collection is required for the IEP and for legal purposes that sometimes arise.
These are some methods of data collection. We are going to discuss each of them briefly.
One method is frequency recording. For this method, you tally the number of times the target behavior occurs within a given period of time. As you continue tracking during interventions, the number of times a behavior occurs will decrease if the intervention is effective.
The rate of behavior tells how often a behavior occurs during a given period of time. With an intervention that is working, the rate would decrease.
When we measure duration of a targeted behavior, this shows how long the behavior is lasting. As an intervention is implemented, we hope to see the duration decrease.
With interval recording, we mark if a behavior occurred during certain time periods of the day. This might show specific times of day when the behavior is present or absent, and then you can examine what is happening at those times. Sometimes it is difficult to collect data ALL DAY, so this is a way to record "snapshots" of when it is occurring.
Using graphs to show data collection results makes the tally marks or numbers on daily charts into a visual picture of progress, or sometimes lack of progress. This example shows measuring to see if a medicine change affected behavior. Each day is broken into four quarters; the red line is the person's ideal state of functioning that meant attentive and working and quiet, but able to be verbal.
This graph demonstrates that this intervention did not show consistent progress.
This graphing example shows data about a student who grabs food from other student's trays at lunchtime. The first section is the baseline. The space shows when the first intervention was implemented. As shown by the data illustration on Thursday of the intervention week, you can sometimes experience a spike in the target behavior when an intervention is implemented and then the occurrence may decrease. Being able to see the progress or lack of progress on graphs can support making decisions about interventions.
You don't have to collect data on everything. Determine the when, where, and why about the data to help decide about what to track.
It is very important that everyone involved understands how to collect the data. It should be easy enough to collect so that anyone could do it.
We want to collect data across environments to help us determine if skills are being generalized from environment to environment through the use of the interventions that are being implemented. If data shows differently, then the team revisits environments, interventions, whether data is being collected consistently, changes in the student, and other factors that might be affecting progress. If data is collected but not analyzed and used in decision-making, it is useless. And data analysis truly is the only way to tell if an intervention being used is actually working.
We are going to think through data and Molly's targeted screaming behavior. What would we measure? Probably the number and maybe the duration of interruptions. How would we track the data? On a data sheet. Who's going to make the sheet, track the data, and graph the data? In Molly's situation, the teacher or psychologist or behavior specialist would create the sheet; teacher and parapros could track data; teacher, psychologist or behavior specialist would graph the data. When would the team meet to review the data and make decisions about interventions? They decided to meet weekly the first month and then bi weekly and then monthly to monitor progress.
Reinforcement systems are the next topic that impacts interventions. Reinforcement follows the behavior or skill we want to increase.
We talked about reinforcement during the FBA process. Just as a reminder, reinforcement increases or maintains a behavior; it may be purposeful or unintentional; and it needs to be understood by the individual.
Here are a few things to remember. Reinforcement MUST be individualized. Think about this: it would be like you being given a cup of coffee every time you take out the trash, but you hate coffee. Not much motivation to take out the trash, is it? We know if the reinforcement is working if the behavior changes in the way we expect. For individuals who have complex needs, learning a new skill will require a lot of reinforcement at first and then you can lessen the frequency. You want to know that everyone who is interacting with the person understands exactly what behavior or skill is being reinforced and that the reinforcement needs to happen immediately at the decided frequency.
These are types of reinforcement systems that might be utilized. Let's talk about each one briefly.
Natural reinforcers come from the behavior. If the behavior is fun for the individual, it is more likely to continue occurring.
Social reinforcers show approval and praise. For individuals with complex needs, this may not be strong enough by itself, but good when paired with another type. So it's good to pair a high five with a verbal "you did it" for a kid who loves tactile interactions.
Tangible reinforcers are physical objects used as rewards. These would need to be valued by the individual and although powerful, may only give a short term result. Think about pairing with social and how to fade them. You might decrease the amount given, increase the amount of time or expected behavior, and/or try to move to a non-tangible. For example, if the tangible is a little model car at first, try switching to earning time to play with the cars or playing a computer racing game.
A token system can be structured in a variety of ways. An individual may receive a token after every behavior or after a certain number of responses. Whatever schedule is used, the token must be awarded immediately after the desired behavior. Don't take away tokens once they are earned. Making the tokens themselves look like a desired item can also be helpful.
Here are some special interest areas of individuals with complex needs that practitioners have shared with us. As decisions are made about reinforcement systems, keep the special interest areas of the individual in mind. We all are more likely to work for what we do like. Considering when to reinforce is part of setting up the system. At first, it might be 1 to 1. Variable ratio mixes up how many times the reinforcer is earned. Fixed interval is at regular time periods. Variable interval is mixed time periods.
It's important to have a variety of desired reinforcers. If you use one thing too often or give too much, it loses its effectiveness. Keep an eye out for what the individual is showing interest in or wanting to spend time doing so you can add it to his/her reinforcement inventory list.
Reinforcement also needs to be considered in light of what other people in the situation are doing. Are adults, peers, or co-workers behaving in such a way that they are making the behavior more likely to occur? Is anyone doing something that raises the anxiety or stress levels of the individual? What actions or reactions might need to change? Making a difference in challenging behaviors involves examining the person exhibiting the behavior, but we also need to examine the actions of those who are present when the behavior occurs. Think about this: if a positive behavior plan only expects changes of the individual with complex needs, and not the environment or the other people in it, then we are asking the person with the most challenges to make all of the adjustments. Doesn't it make more sense to expect others to make changes, adjustments, and to support the individual with the complex needs?
As we discussed in the previous webinars, if you have chosen to practice this process with the forms included in the downloadable file, you will complete the Strengths form. And then you can summarize the strengths in section three of the Interventions form and start listing what additional skills might be needed. You also can think about what data collection system is needed for the targeted behavior. And start making decisions about a reinforcement system before the next webinar.
Thank you for attending today. See you soon for the final webinar.


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A contribution from Tara Constructions and Development would have been "willingly provided". He did not know why Hutchinson Builders made a donation on August 21 last year.
Mr Ferguson had also contributed, giving director's fees he received from sitting on boards and committees to the union fund. He received $50,000 from a defamation action against Channel 9 and gave $25,000 of it to his union and the rest to the Maritime Union of Australia "to fight the Federal Government".
A total of $24,410 from receipts for the Honest Unionism Fund was collected by the NSW branch but transferred to the three signatories of that fund, the CFMEU construction and general division national secretary, John Sutton, and union veterans Stan Sharkey and Tom McDonald.
The money was receipted but he did not know what was done with it after that.
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I used a 5th generation 30GB iPod video. Its dedicated to the car, and I don't need to worry about a charging adapter for the newer iPods
After many frustrating years with various forms of the IceLink, Dice, Dice Silverline, and Neo, I finally gave up with those products and decided to step up and get a legit, reliable iPod solution for my wifes 2004 325xi. Her car has factory Nav and Bluetooth, which makes the Dice just about unusable. There is enough info on this forum about the Dices shortcomings that I dont need to rehash it herebasically the same complaints everyone else has: popping noises, alternator feedback, having to constantly disconnect the battery for 10 minutes to reset the thing, the inability to browse by artist on the older modules, freezing text on newer modules, and of course, ridiculous shipping charges for warranty repairs. Basically, Ive had enough
A few years ago, Id first discovered the Intravee II (IV2 for the rest of this review) and had anxiously awaited its release. By the time it came out, I had already invested too much into the DICE that I didnt want to incur additional expenses of a whole new setup. In hindsight, I would have saved a ton of money had I just invested in the IV2 then.
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The Library sponsored an all-day symposium celebrating the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln. Lucas E. Morel presented "Lincoln on Race, Equality and the Spirit of '76." Morel is the Garwood Visiting Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and the author of "Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government."
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Re: Functions of Arrays
you should really define your function on lists, of which arrays are a
special case. Lists are the data structure most used in Mathematica, and it
has many functions to conveniently work with lists - using them, you can
make your programs brief and efficient.
If you simply want your function to take a list (array) and return a sum of
here are some ways:
sumsq1[x_List] := Total[x^2];
sumsq2[x_List] := x.x;
With the following test array (list):
In[1] = test = Range[10]
Out[1] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
You get:
In[2] = sumsq1[test]
Out[2] = 385
In[3] = sumsq2[test]
Out[3] = 385
If you plan to use Mathematica often, it is a good idea to read some simple
account on
basic Mathematica programming with lists. Mathematica book and online
documentation are both
pretty good. A very good book is by Paul Wellin et al. Also, I have
devoted a chapter to this
topic in my book:
It is free, you may want to check it out.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, zak <u.gotzes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Functions can be defined via
> f[x1_, x2_] := x1^2 + x2^2
> in Mathematica.
> But how can I manage it to define a function depending on an array?
> I would like to do something like
> Array[x,2]
> f[x[1]_,x[2]_]:=x[1]^2+x[2]^2
> because the length of the array varies in my application.


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So remember back in JUNE when I said Madison was working on a post for my site about her grade 8 graduation? Well, she decided not to do it, basically because she's lazy. I'm lazy too and can no longer recall the particulars so I'll just post the pics instead:
Madison and my mom.
I know this pic looks staged, but it honestly wasn't.
I forget what they were laughing about.
Recreating MY grade 8 grad pics.
Look closely…
My babies.
A closer look at Madison's hair, done by our friend Jen.
Blake and Madison.
Madison getting into the limo.
Her corsage.
Getting her diploma.
She reminds me so much of my brother in this pic.
It's just her facial expression that's exactly like him.
She's just like "yup, we're doing this".
Wardrobe change!
Dress #2 (long story…)
Note the Docs, which were her graduation present from us.
(Hey Kara! Note the collar! That's the same one you gave her when she was 3!)
I like this pic. :o)
Father/Daughter dance.
Her first "dip"!
Me looking fat & gross & not wanting to be photographed.
For the record, I am now 20 lbs lighter than I was in this picture!
To see ALL the pics (or at least the ones I could put online, I didn't put up all the ones with her friends because I didn't have permission from their parents), click here!
Like I said months ago, grade 8 graduation is a BIG DEAL where we live. Limos and fancy dresses are the norm, a corsage is a must, the event is catered (lightly) and the ceremony long. I've never heard of a girl having two dresses though and that was not my doing. If you want to scream "privilege" at me, feel free, but what happened was a mix up when ordering dresses so she ended up with two. She liked the second one, so she decided to wear them both. I didn't get a picture of the back of the black dress but it was laced up the back with a giant bow at the bottom, like on her butt.
So that was grade 8 graduation.
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The product was months late, hitting the market just before U.S. Thanksgiving in 2008. Many customers hated it. The touchscreen, RIM's first, was awkward to manipulate. The product ran on a single processor and was slow and buggy. Mr. Balsillie put on a brave face, declaring the launch to be "an overwhelming success," but sales lagged the iPhone and customer returns were high.
The Storm campaign didn't seem so disastrous at the time: RIM was in the midst of a torrid global expansion. In August, 2009, Fortune crowned it the world's fastest-growing company. A year after the Storm launch, market research firm comScore reported that four of the top five smartphones U.S. customers intended to buy in the next three months were BlackBerrys.
But the Storm had failed to give Verizon Wireless the Apple-killer it coveted, and RIM soon abandoned the product. So the carrier turned to Google Inc. and its new operating system, Android, and built a massive marketing campaign around Motorola's Droid phone in 2009 – at the expense of marketing dollars to support BlackBerry products. Verizon's "iDon't" campaign highlighted all the shortcomings of the iPhone that Android addressed with its consumer-friendly user interface.
Rather than hurt Apple, the Droid and other Android-powered phones began to steal share first from Palm and Microsoft, and then RIM. By December, 2010, Android's market share in the U.S. had grown to 23.5 per cent from 5.2 per cent a year earlier, as RIM's dropped by 10 points, to 31.6 per cent, according to comScore. By late 2011, Android commanded 47.3 per cent of the U.S. market, while RIM had just 16 per cent.
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This post-iPhone period was an era of strategic confusion for RIM. The overall state of the industry "was a bit schizophrenic," said Patrick Spence, RIM's former executive vice-president of global sales, who left in 2012. "There was a time when the [wireless] carriers tried to keep data usage predictable. Then it shifted to a period of trying to drive much more usage in different packages, when the iPhone became compelling."
If there were new rules of the game, RIM would require new tools. The summer after the Storm launched, Mr. Lazaridis bought Torch Mobile, a software development firm that created Internet browsers for mobile phones.
But the process of moving, or "porting," the Torch browser onto RIM's highly-customized system proved complex and time-consuming. RIM's technology was based on Java computer code and an operating system built in the 1990s, while the Apple and Android systems used newer software platforms and standards that made it easier to build friendlier user interfaces. "This really meant we were not positioned for the future," Mr. Lazaridis said. In order to survive, RIM would have to change its DNA.
RIM executives figured they had time to reinvent the company. For years they had successfully fended off a host of challengers. Apple's aggressive negotiating tactics had alienated many carriers, and the iPhone didn't seem like a threat to RIM's most loyal base of customers – businesses and governments. They would sustain RIM while it fixed its technology issues.
But smartphone users were rapidly shifting their focus to software applications, rather than choosing devices based solely on hardware. RIM found it difficult to make the transition, said Neeraj Monga, director of research with Veritas Investment Research Corp. The company's engineering culture had served it well when it delivered efficient, low-power devices to enterprise customers. But features that suited corporate chief information officers weren't what appealed to the general public.
"The problem wasn't that we stopped listening to customers," said one former RIM insider. "We believed we knew better what customers needed long term than they did. Consumers would say, 'I want a faster browser.' We might say, 'You might think you want a faster browser, but you don't want to pay overage on your bill.' 'Well, I want a super big very responsive touchscreen.' 'Well, you might think you want that, but you don't want your phone to die at 2 p.m.' "We would say, 'We know better, and they'll eventually figure it out.' "
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Love it. I would love to work for the ad agency that created this gem.
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The only disservice I see in this video is the lack of a Glock. Four times through and I still can't find it.
Funny commercials with some good advertising . Anyone that takes it for anything else has lost to many brain cells.
Geez...its a commercial. Take it for what its worth. If you want to sell off your Glocks, go for it.
It's just an ad, I think the point they are trying to get across is that all encounters do not have to end with someone pulling the trigger and taking a life. With everything that has been in the news lately it's just a way to try to take the edge off. If this ad turns the hard core Glock fans off I can help you out. Just send me a PM and I will be happy to take all your unwanted Glocks off your hands. I think I can make some room in the safe for them .


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I wear a 3/4 Bell around town, but my main helmet that I use is a Shoei RF1100. It is one badass lid. You can find good deals on them, I think I paid $150 for mine.
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A Horse Chesnut Tree - Poem by Marilyn Shepperson
The stump of a horse chesnut tree
Sits in the long grass beside a path
That has simply been made
By countless numbers of passing feet
Having long worn the grass away
Once it stood tall and proud
Outside of the wood, where it's brothers stood
And some still stand to this day
In May it's white candles danced
To the tune of spring breezes
While in autumn, it's shiny fruit
Gave local children much pleasure
But one day men came with saws
To cut the tree down as far as they could
The wood of the tree was taken away
To a far off industrial town
Now it sits in a few rich houses
Made into good looking furniture
But that lovely furniture can never be
As beautiful as once was that tree.
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Patricia Grantham (10/9/2013 9:16:00 AM)
A beautiful write about the Chestnut Tree. I for one have never seen one
but have heard about it. The horses knows about it more than I do. Trees
are important to the ecology. When they are destroyed without reason
and for human enjoyment then it becomes a travesty. Plant a tree.
Enjoyed. (Report) Reply
Raul Castelan (6/7/2007 7:06:00 PM)
You put it quite so well in this poem what a tree goes through. Why, I do say, that this poem of yours is very good, indeed. I shall keep on reading more of yours. (Report) Reply
Alison Cassidy (10/4/2006 10:21:00 PM)
Your lovely descriptive piece tells a sad story that has been and still is repeated over and over again throughout the world. The irony is the years it takes for the tree to grow and the minutes man needs to destroy it. However beautiful is the furniture into which it is made, you're right, nothing can replace the majesty of the tree. love, Allie xxxxxxxxxxx (Report) Reply
Lynda Robson (9/22/2006 5:31:00 AM)
Very descriptive Marilyn, what a story it could tell well written Love Lynda xx (Report) Reply
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Submitted to: Agronomy Society of America, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America Meeting
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/29/2005
Publication Date: 5/15/2007
Citation: Buchleiter, G.W. 2007. Irrigation system automation. Agronomy Society of America, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America Meeting.In: Lascano, R.J. and R.E. Sojka (eds). Irrigation of Agricultural Crops. Am. Soc. of Agronomy Monograph #30, 2nd Ed. Am. Soc. Agronomy, Madison, WI. 181-194 Interpretive Summary: Interpretive summary: Features, evaluation criteria, and levels of implementation for automated irrigation systems are described but specific criteria and methods for actual design are not included. A brief history of research and implementation of systems for automated canal deliveries and surface irrigation, illustrates the difficulties in improving water application efficiencies when the infiltration rate is greatly affected by individual soil and slope conditions. Current automation practices use sprinkler or drip systems to achieve significant water and labor savings.
Technical Abstract: Technical abstract: Research and implementation of automated surface irrigation and canal delivery systems are described briefly. Although surge irrigation and cablegation demonstrated significant water and labor savings, significant adoption has not occurred because the irrigation industry does not have reasonably priced product that integrates the particular soil, slope, and water flow conditions to achieve improved system performance. Adoption of automated sprinkler and drip systems is occurring because the uniformity and efficiency of irrigations are not affected by the natural variations in soil and slope. Specialized application systems which moderate the aerial environment surrounding high value crops, reduce production losses due to frost damage and heat stress.


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Mount Baker Climber's Log
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|Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: September 10-11, 1988
|Partners: David Morgan, Hubertus Guenther, Joe Nappi, Erich Guenther.
|Posted Jul 22, 2003 9:02 pm
|Route Climbed: Coleman/Deming Date Climbed: June 15, 2003
|Baker can be done in one day as an option. Leave cars from Heliotrope Ridge trailhead about 1:00AM, summit by 9:30AM and back to car by 3:00PM. We have done it the last two years as a warm up for other climbs. Just an option, but the packs are sure lighter.
|Posted Jul 17, 2003 10:46 pm
|Route Climbed: Coleman/Deming Date Climbed: 6/19/03
|Glacial Core Samping
|Posted Jul 17, 2003 3:26 pm
|Route Climbed: Coleman/Deming Date Climbed: June 18, 2003
|Great trip! Had the route mostly to ourselves. Spent a few hours on the summit collecting glacial core samples with some WWU friends.
|Posted Jul 15, 2003 8:59 pm
|Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: July 4, 2003
|Reached the secondary summit before electing to turn back due to lenticular clouds blowing in. The descent turned into a complete whiteout. Read my trip report for a full description. It was a great climb with gorgeous views of the north cascades. Hardly any body there also . . . I will return to bag the true summit.
|Posted Jul 8, 2003 3:51 pm
|Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: May 26-27, 2003
|Started early in a perfect weather. By 1pm reached the ice-climb on the ridge. After the leaders reached the top of the ridge, some of the climbers had difficulties ascending the ropes. Weather deteriorated. As a result - unplanned bivy in a snow cave dug on the top of the ridge. Next morning everyone reached the summit.
|Posted Jun 6, 2003 12:08 pm
|Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming Date Climbed: May 25, 2003
|Started late, around 11am from the low camp. 5:35pm - summit. 8:30pm - back in the camp.
|Posted Jun 6, 2003 12:04 pm
|Route Climbed: Coleman-upper Deming Date Climbed: August 1998
|We camped surrounded by flowers below the snow. Next day on the summit I surprised my wife with a gold and onyx ring to commemorate the summit. Our third member, Jim, fell and slid down a slope on the descent dragging my wife Melody into a crevasse. I found her lodged upside down, feet wiggling furiously in the air only an arms reach deep into the chasm. She got quite an adrenaline rush but was unhurt. Moving slowly, we didn't reach our tent until after dark.
Also climbed the North Ridge back in (I think) 1995. Spent one night at base of route and the next day climbed it and returned to car. Mostly it's pretty much a snow climb but there were 2 or 3 pitches that were cool. We had fun regardless.
|Posted Mar 19, 2003 10:15 pm
|Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: May 1998
|Climbed the North Ridge car to car in 12 hours in very good conditions including 2 pitches of steep, excellent ice. Snowed up road forced a longer approach and a white out on the summit partly explain our slow time. Dehydration was also a factor.
|Posted Jan 30, 2003 7:21 am
|Route Climbed: Coleman Headwall Date Climbed: June 2000
|Climbed Coleman Headwall in 10 hours car to car under very good conditions. A fit person could reasonably climb this route much faster.
|Posted Jan 30, 2003 7:19 am
|Route Climbed: Coleman Glacier headwall Date Climbed: September 1984
|The late Bob Harvey and I climbed the beautiful Coleman Glacier via it's Headwall in the fall of 1984. This was another of the unforgetable NW volcano climbs. Great trip!
|Posted Nov 16, 2002 6:58 pm
|Route Climbed: Easton Glacier, South Face direct Date Climbed: 9/05/02
|Spent six days on the mountain, some horrible weather during the first leg of the tri p. clearing skies and light winds on our summit day. beautiful conditions leaving camp at 4 am. very nice crevasses leading up to the Roman Wall. two rope teams, one lost water bottle into a crevasse. we managed to pass every other team on the mountain that morning, summiting in light clouds and fifteen mph winds. nice view to the east of Shuksan that lasted about a minute. Good climb, not very difficult and very asthetically pleasing, a beautiful mountain. Can't wait to try it in the winter with a snowboard.
|Posted Nov 8, 2002 1:53 pm
|Ascending Path
|Route Climbed: Easton, North Ridge, Date Climbed: 97,00,01,02
|We have climbed and guided this peak many times.
Drop us a line for info.
|Posted Oct 31, 2002 2:18 pm
|Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: AUGUST 30, 2002
|I climbed with Alpine Ascents International, as part of their 6 Day Mountaineering Course.
Our Guides were Todd and Winslow Passey, and this husband and wife guiding team REALLY know what they are doing! They are nice folks, excellent teachers, and I highly recommend them to any, and all!
|Posted Oct 29, 2002 6:01 pm
|Route Climbed: Colemane-Deming Glacier Date Climbed: Sept. 28, 2002
|Climbed with Steve Rankin. Started at trailhead at 4:30am, summited at 11:45am. Glacier in good shape, some route finding. Beautiful day to climb. Made it back to trailhead at 4pm, a nice 11.5 hour day. More satisfying to do the whole mountain in one day rather than camp at bottom of or on glacier.
|Posted Oct 27, 2002 6:22 pm
|Route Climbed: Coleman Glacier Date Climbed: August 20, 1988
|Opted for Coleman-Deming route due to low viz. Climbed with Randall Cooner and Marco Johnson.
|Posted Oct 18, 2002 9:00 am
|Route Climbed: Easton and Coleman Date Climbed: March 98 and Summer 99
|My friend Nick and I snowshoed all the way to the Summit in March 98. 3 days round trip.
We went back in 99 with girlfriends and did a variation of the Coleman.
Back again with a group of Starbucks Mountaineers.
Did the Coleman Car to Summit in 7.5 hours, great climb/conditions/weather
|Posted Sep 10, 2002 10:29 am
|Rich Park
|Route Climbed: Coleman/Denning Date Climbed: June 4 2002
|Took the AAI six day cascade course. we had perfect
weather the for our entire stay. the descent from the
summit was kind of a PITA because the snow was
soft we were postholing up to our knees.
|Posted Aug 8, 2002 2:48 am
|Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: August 3, 2002
|Matt and I went car to car in just over 12 hours. Weather was cool, cloudy and snow conditions were ideal. Easton Glacier is opening up with crevasses but all snow bridges were in good shape. Routefinding would be tricky on this route in the event of a whiteout. Chris
|Posted Aug 5, 2002 9:17 am
|Route Climbed: Coleman - Upper Deming Date Climbed: June 1, 2002
|We did it in a single push. If you are the type that learns from others' mistakes, then either do it in 2 days so you can summit before 9 AM, or carry skis so you can ski down in the soft afternoon snow.
|Posted Aug 2, 2002 2:37 pm


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"I ain't scared," said the Hawaiian-born singer, who will be joined on stage at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey by the longtime alternative rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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"Spectacle-wise, I don't do trapeze and all that stuff," Mars told reporters this week, an apparent reference to the 2012 halftime performance, which featured Madonna and acrobats from Cirque du Soleil. "I hope to get people dancing and get people smiling. If you ever come to one of my shows, it's just us up there with our music and our instruments and I'm hoping that's enough."
Mars, whose album "Unorthodox Jukebox" was named best pop vocal album at the 2014 Grammys, said he is ready for the rigors of performing at the first outdoor cold-weather Super Bowl, joking that his trademark pompadour hairstyle will be held firmly in place by "three gallons of hair spray."
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RE: simple questions about splinefit
Hi Long,
> i used splinefit function to fit some data and get a
> funtion i name it "spline1".but i can not figure out the
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> can anyone give me some suggestions?
It's explained in the online help. SplineFit[] returns a parametisation
of your data.
data = {#, Sin[2 Pi #/64]} & /@ Range[0., 32.]
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There is a lot of confusion in our business world about what is or is not personal which seems, to this observer, designed to misplace our sympathies. A deliberate legal fiction that a corporation be treated like a person, so that it gain some benefit thereby, has been accepted as fact. Glib sales talk, intended to make a high price for a house more palatable, is taken as the gospel truth. But beyond the initial trickery is the molding of our minds and hearts to endorse, in the same breath, compassion for the dear, old corporation in dire straits who may be left out in the proverbial cold without a few, small billions of dollars and callous disregard for real people who will be left out in the real cold because their home is in a house for which some investments have soured.
To be sure, the patent absurdity of both situations becomes briefly apparent to even the talking heads on television. But then the corporation and the home dweller are colored in the tones of hero and villain, respectively, so that the public compassion, which believes everything it sees and hears on television, can continue to be misplaced. The corporation is an industrial giant with millions of employees who will lose their jobs and, it is assumed, all chance for future income if it fails. Or the corporation is a financial conglomerate which will lose the pensions of millions of widows and orphans if their investments sour, of course through no fault of their own. These true-blue American multinational conglomerates are neighbors in need of our help. At the other end of the melodramatic chasm lies the evil homeowner who has greedily bought a million dollar home, which we assume is more spacious and luxurious than a two bedroom condo. This sinister foreigner, whose family illegally entered the country in 1848, does not have the income to support his extravagant lifestyle. Certainly, he has misrepresented his finances and fabricated documents to support his perjury because the loan officer would not have otherwise extended a mortgage to someone so manifestly unqualified. So our beloved television news, minions to the financial-political complex, breathe a sigh of relief as trillions of tax dollars are given to personified companies while dehumanized people are victimized by those same companies.
These things ought not to be. More hopefully, we can make sure that they no longer happen by striking at their hearts with the stake of truth. Both falsehoods should be stricken down, but I have already addressed the second in a previous article somewhat by advocating Adjustable Equity Mortgages so that the purchase of a house to serve as a home does not become a tool of speculation. For the rest we will focus on the first fiction.
A corporation is a government, not a person. Consider the operation of a corporation compared to that of a government on one hand and a person on the other. A corporation has laws, which they call "bylaws". A government has laws, but a person does not. A corporation is owned by stockholders who vote on various matters and sometimes for leaders, such as board members. A government is owned by its citizens who vote on various matters and sometimes for leaders, such as members of a legislative council. Persons are just themselves and if they have to take a vote to decide matters we admit them to a psychiatric hospital. A corporation has paid servants, who are called "employees" who do the business of the corporation. A government has civil servants who do the business of government. A person may hire a domestic, if they are wealthy enough, but the domestic is doing the other stuff that gets in the way of the person doing their business. A corporation can continue well beyond the life of any one officer, stockholder or employee. A government can continue well beyond the life of any one officer, citizen or civil servant. A person continues just as far as their life, no more, no less. It should be fairly clear from the foregoing that a corporation is indeed a government and not a person.
Since a corporation is a government, it is necessarily in conflict with other governments, both other corporations as well as the governments of the people. As Adam Smith pointed out in "The Wealth of Nations", companies should be in conflict with each other:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
— Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations", Book I, Chapter X
However, as a corporation grows in size it engages in such conversations regularly within itself. And as it grows in scope beyond that of a public government, it is able to implement those conspiracies with impunity. It must be pointed out that the nature of contrivances is a bit broader than Smith described. The goal, after all, is profits and the price of the product sold is only half of the equation. The other half is the price of the resources used to manufacture that product. It is that other half that has been used by large corporations whose scope extends beyond the jurisdiction of public governments to eliminate competing companies with more limited scope. For example, cheap labor in another state or another country can be used to drive out local competition with prices that would leave no profit for any company using only local labor. Because the multi-state company is not under the jurisdiction of a single state, it is able to play one state off of another in offering employment and income to its people and thus become a government more powerful than the governments elected by the people. As such, they pose a threat to the people and their liberty and power much greater than that posed by their state government. The popular capitalist, in seeking power to the people first and then, as necessary, to smaller, local governments more under their control, opposes these multi-state corporations as a usurpation of power.
Many have pointed out a similar problem with multinational corporations and have railed against them for decades. However, their attempts to curb those greater powers have been in vain. It seems clear to me that their failure is in attempting to control multinational governments with national governments. Similarly, attempts to control multi-state governments with state governments will come to naught. The best tactic is not to control them, but to exclude them. Rather than placing regulations on all companies doing business in the state or require certain benefits or impose additional taxes to ensure that the multi-state corporations are "good citizens" — and thus fall into the personification trap – we should only allow corporations which are registered in the state to operate within the state. If the products of an out-of-state corporation are so superior or so inexpensive to produce, they will remain so as imports, but they will not be assured of a lack of competition in the state. And with respect to retailers, whom we used to call "merchants", we have no use for out-of-state corporations. Many a capitalist entrepreneur has started as a merchant who saw an opportunity in a new idea or product. That is the type of capitalist we would like every citizen to become or ally themselves with as a capitalist investing in their new venture. Not from the national big-box, but from the local corner store comes the popular capitalists.


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If, as I have argued elsewhere, consequentialism is not fundamentally concerned with such staples of moral theory as rightness, duty, obligation, moral requirements, goodness (as applied to actions), and harm, what, if anything, does it have to say about such notions? While such notions have no part to play at the deepest level of the theory, they may nonetheless be of practical significance. By way of explanation I provide a linguistic contextualist account of these notions. A contextualist approach to all these notions makes room for them in ordinary moral discourse, but it also illustrates why there is no room for them at the level of fundamental moral theory. If the truth value of a judgment that an action is right or good varies according to the context in which it is made, then rightness or goodness can no more be properties of actions themselves than thisness or hereness can be properties of things or locations themselves.