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Everyone is welcome to attend our talks. Refreshments are available before the talks, so come early, get acquainted, and have a bite to eat! The talks are 50 minutes in length, followed by a short break and then 30 minutes of Q&A. Unless otherwise specified, talks are held at 5:00 pm in B316 Tribble Hall.
Please call (336) 758-5359 if you will require special assistance.
Spring 2017
February 16 Michelle Mason, Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Brown University and Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
(Note: This talk will begin at 5:30 p.m.)
Resenting a colleague's unfair treatment of you, experiencing contempt for another's egregious cruelty, or shame at one's own – these attitudes respond to the wrong and the bad in human action and character. They are joined by a more attractive group attentive to the right and the good: gratitude for a friend's loyalty and pride in remaining steadfast in the face of temptation, for example. Arguably, all of these attitudes belong to the class that P. F. Strawson famously dubbed the 'reactive attitudes.' The most prominent contemporary interpretations, however, restrict the class of moral reactive attitudes to resentment, indignation, and guilt as modes of holding persons accountable to each other for meeting distinctively moral obligations (e.g., Wallace 1996, Darwall 2006).
In this talk, I argue that the modality of the reactive attitudes is not invariably deontic nor is their mood invariably imperative. In contrast, I investigate what I dub the "aretaic, appellative" nature of reactive shame, contempt, love, and pride as modes of regarding persons as responsible for flouting, complying with, or exceeding normative expectations pertaining to certain non-jural ideals of character.
This event will be held in Tribble Hall DeTamble Auditorium
March 17 John Betz, Associate Professor of Theology at University of Notre Dame
Paper Title: "Analogy and Theo-Foundational Epistemology: The Problem, Possibility, and Reality of Theological Knowledge"
In his recent book Theology's Epistemological Dilemma (2014), Kevin Diller addresses epistemic problems in theology and the philosophy of religion by constructively uniting Karl Barth's theology of revelation with Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of Christian belief. In this paper it is argued that, in uniting a theologian who vehemently rejected natural theology (Barth) with a philosopher of religion who is positively disposed toward it (Plantinga), Diller not only opens lines of communication between Reformed theology and contemporary analytic philosophy, but also opens the door to a new and potentially fruitful ecumenical synthesis of Catholic and Protestant views of theological knowledge. The aim of this paper is to show that just as Barth's theology of revelation need not exclude Plantinga's epistemology of warranted belief, neither need it exclude the analogical metaphysics of his chief Catholic interlocutor, Erich Przywara; indeed, once misunderstandings are cleared up, it is to show that they go together, and that a proper account of the way to theological knowledge needs both.
March 30 Roger Ariew, Professor of Philosophy at University of South Florida
Paper Title: "What Descartes Read: His Intellectual Contents"
I argue that Descartes' knowledge of his predecessors and contemporaries is not like ours. He cannot just pull a book off the shelf or download a file from a computer. In a sense, almost anything contemporary or prior to him is part of his context and, at the same time, few specific things can be affirmed with certainty as constituting his context. We can assume that Descartes has read and considered much of the works of his predecessors and contemporaries, but we cannot assume that he knows it in great detail, that he has access to it in the way we do. With these provisos in mind I examine more specifically what Descartes himself reveals directly or indirectly to be the intellectual settings of his primary works: the Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.
April 20 Rusty Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard
Paper Title: "The Real Challenge of Plato's Republic"
At the beginning of Book 2 of Plato's Republic, Glaucon and Adeimantus challenge Socrates' conviction that the just person is always happier than the unjust. They argue for the opposite extreme: Injustice is always good, at least for the person who has really mastered it. Socrates' task in the rest of the Republic is thus to defend the thesis that justice is always good, in much the same way that Glaucon and Adeimantus defend injustice. This is not the way the passage is ordinarily read, for reasons I describe. But once this reading is in view, quite a few puzzling features of the Republic begin to fall into place.
This event will be held in Tribble Hall DeTamble Auditorium at 4:00 p.m. with reception in Tribble Hall B316
April 25 Christian Miller, A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University
Paper Title: "The Neglected Virtue of Honesty: Is Anyone Honest These Days, and What Does 'Honesty' Even Mean?"
Honesty and dishonesty are clearly big topics today, with stories about politicians from both parties lying to the media, students cheating on exams, and athletes using banned substances. But what is honesty? And how honest are people in general? In the first half of the presentation, we will focus on the philosophical question of what makes someone an honest person. In the second half, we will turn to the latest studies in psychology on cheating. The emerging picture calls into question whether most people are indeed honest. But it also, surprisingly, suggests that dishonesty is rare too. For most of us, we are somewhere in the middle.
Fall 2016
October 13 Marija Jankovic, Assistant Professor of Davidson College
Paper Title: "Knowledge and Linguistic Communication"
Here is common view about communication. For a speaker and an audience to successfully communicate, it is not enough for the audience to have a true belief about what the speaker means. For example, if Berit says in German "Ich bin eine Krankenschwester", and I simply guess (without knowing any German) that she said that she is a female nurse, though I do get things right, I do not understand Berit. Understanding requires something more than just guessing what people mean. This additional element is sometimes thought to be common knowledge of what the speaker means (and, therefore, of her intentions). But a view that postulates such strong knowledge requirements seems to quickly run into trouble. For it may seem implausible that we should need to know of subtle internal states of speakers in order to successfully communicate with them.
My goal in this paper is to argue against a strong knowledge requirement on communicative success. I agree that something more than just getting things right is required for successful communication. But I claim that this additional element is not to be found in the domain of belief or knowledge. Instead, we should look for it in the domain of intention. I propose that communication is a collective intentional action type — a type of action that, like dancing the tango or playing basketball, has to be performed by a group of agents acting together intentionally. For that to happen, intentions of the agents have to be connected in the right way. This interlocking, I will suggest, is what is required for success in communication in addition to getting the correct message across.
October 15
"North Carolina House Bill 2: Privacy or Discrimination?" Public Forum
1:45-3:15 p.m. in Carswell 111 Annenberg Forum
AMINTAPHIL (American Section of the International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) will host a public forum. Panelists are: Leslie Francis (Philosophy and Law, University of Utah and AMINTAPHIL), Kristina Gupta (WGS, Wake Forest), Harold Lloyd (Law, Wake Forest), and Win-chiat Lee (Philosophy, Wake Forest, and AMINTAPHIL).
October 27 Samuel Freeman, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Three Liberalisms: Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism & the High Liberal Tradition"
Liberalism is the reigning political philosophy of Western democratic societies. Freedom and equality are the fundamental liberal values. The major political parties and their members, including conservatives, endorse freedom and equality, and the institutions that support them: constitutional rights and liberties, equality of opportunity, private property, a free market economy, and government's role in providing public goods. But political parties interpret these values and institutions differently. This colloquium compares the three different traditions of liberal thought that inform our understanding of basic liberal values and institutions.
November 10 Gary Rosenkrantz, Professor and Department Head of Philosophy at University of North Carolina – Greensboro
According to our folk-ontology, natural beings like carbon-based living organisms and compound solids are substantial individuals. Some philosophers deny the reality of compound substances other than living organisms on the ground that they lack the requisite compositional unity. I defend the ontological thesis that compound solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas are substantial individuals. As part of this defense, I elucidate the relations that unite the parts of compound particulars of the foregoing sorts. In my view, the relations in question are causal or lawful in nature.
Spring 2016
February 11 Kate Withy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University
"The Self-Concealing of Being"
Martin Heidegger says a lot of mysterious things about being – and in particular about being's mysteriousness. Readers of his work tend to stick with Heidegger's own vocabulary, saying that being is intrinsically self-concealing, but they do not generally try to say what this really means or why it should be so. I will remedy this by explaining what it means to say that being conceals itself, and I will offer a reason for thinking that being does indeed conceal itself.
February 25 L. A. Paul, Professor of Philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill
Paper Title: "Preference Capture"
Big life decisions are naturally framed using the first personal point of view, where we mentally model or imaginatively project different future lived experiences. Such decisions are often understood as depending on judgments about what these subjective futures will be like for us and for those around us. I will explore the way that making transformative decisions from this perspective can put us in the position of regarding our future selves as irrational, or at least, as epistemically and psychologically alien to our current perspective.
March 3 Marc Lange, Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill
Paper Title: "What is Explanation in Mathematics?"
There has long appeared to be a distinction in mathematical practice between proofs that explain why some theorem holds and proofs that merely prove some theorem without giving any reason why it holds. No one really understands the grounds of this (apparent) distinction! I will offer some examples and try to make some progress toward understanding it. No background (mathematical, philosophical, or otherwise) will be presupposed; the talk will give us an opportunity to brainstorm together. Topics that will arise include unification in mathematics, simplicity, mathematically natural properties, and mathematical coincidences.
March 24 Kwong-Loi Shun, Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley
Paper Title: "Ethics without Forgiveness"
In the Confucian ethical tradition, there is no concept of forgiveness, understood as a process of overcoming resentment or other forms of first personal anger through active efforts directed to altering the way one views and feels about the offender, the agent of wrongful injury of which one is the victim. What is it like to have an ethical view that does not work with a concept of forgiveness, and what are the grounds for such an ethical view?
The paper begins by arguing against ethical views that idealize forgiveness in the sense of regarding the readiness to forgive, in general or only under certain conditions, as a virtue. It then presents an ethical view that does not idealize forgiveness and that is grounded in certain ideas central to Confucian thought. On this ethical view, the virtuous person is above resentment and has no need to forgive; for someone less than virtuous and subject to sentiments of resentment, such sentiments are more appropriately addressed through a process of psychological inner-management than through forgiveness. While the main body of the discussion will be based primarily on philosophical considerations, the paper will conclude with a discussion of the Confucian roots of its main ideas.
April 7 T.M. Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University
Paper Title: "Tolerance and Immigration"
Professor T. M. Scanlon is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is one of the most important contemporary philosophers working in the areas of moral and political philosophy. In additional to the contractualist moral theory expounded in his major work, What We Owe to Each Other, Professor Scanlon is also well-known for his work in a wide range of topics including freedom of expression, the nature of rights, conceptions of welfare, theories of justice, tolerance, contract, responsibility and realism about reasons. Professor Scanlon has lectured at many universities all over the world. He delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 2010. In 1993 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (popularly known as "the Genius Grant").
April 19 Robert Audi, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame University
"Toward a Theory of Deep Disagreement: Structure, Elements, and Paths to Resolution"
Disagreement is not necessarily a bad thing, but in the contemporary world it is frequently bitter and too often has bad consequences. Political and religious disagreements—though not the only important kinds—are pervasive and often violent. The kind of disagreement we most often find is more than a manifestation of pluralism. Some of the deep disagreements found in the contemporary world often bespeak not just difference in outlook and commitment but also fragmentation. What might philosophical reflection contribute to finding a way to reduce disagreement where it threatens civic harmony? This paper attempts to make such a contribution, particularly for cases in which disagreement concerns religion in relation to law-making. It does this by clarifying the nature of disagreement itself, identifying the main elements determining depth of disagreement, presenting a sharable moral framework as potential common ground in disagreements, and articulating a principle of tolerance for cases in which disagreement cannot be resolved.
Fall 2015
October 8 Win-chiat Lee, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Wake Forest University
"Anarchy, World State and International Criminal Law"
International criminal law (ICL) is enforced through the exercise of jurisdiction that lacks political authority. In that sense it is anarchic. However, it does not follow that ICL is illegitimate. The legitimacy of the universal jurisdiction exercised in ICL is based on the legitimacy of vigilantism where there is no relevant legitimate political authority to address problems of impunity. Nor is ICL necessarily anarchic in the sense of being disorderly. Legitimate vigilantism is subject to ethical constraints that explain certain orderly features of international criminal law. Vigilantism, even when practiced within ethical bounds, still creates problems of injustice. That is what justifies the existence of the state and its exercise of political authority to begin with. However, we cannot overcome the problems of possible injustice associated with ICL by entering into a world state that has political authority over all of the states and all of humanity.
October 22 Agnes Callard, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago
"Can You Choose Who To Be?"
How do we acquire our deepest commitments, values, and ideals? On the one hand, it seems we cannot rationally choose our new values. For what could be the basis for such a choice? If the answer is that we had a prior commitment to a value entailing the new one, then the question simply gets pushed back: how did we acquire that commitment? If the choice has no rational basis, then it does not seem that the acquisition of the value is truly an expression of our agency. And this is equivalent to saying that our values are something that happen to us rather than the products of anything that we do. In this talk, I defend the view that we do indeed have a hand in answering the question as to what things in the world are important to us; and that our answers need not be, and typically are not, arbitrary or random. I will show this can be done without inviting a regress as to how we arrived at the materials for generating the answers we give.
November 5 Amie Thomasson, Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami
"What Can We Do, When We Do Metaphysics?"
November 12 Sharon Street, Associate Professor of Philosophy at New York University
"Constructivism in Ethics and the Problem of Attachment and Loss"
Spring 2015
February 12 Ann Cudd, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas
"What is Equality in Higher Education?" — CANCELLED
March 26 Jon Garthoff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee
"Animal Punishment"
An account of punishment must confront the fact that we punish creatures, such as dogs and one-year-old children, who lack the capacities of reflection and critical reason. These are ordinary instances of punishment, not deviant cases or mere metaphors. In this essay I distinguish three categories of animals by their respective mental capacities and I discuss the different types of punishment appropriate for animals of each category.
This exercise has multiple purposes. One is to illuminate the punishment of animals, a neglected domain of ethics. A second purpose is to illuminate each type of punishment through comparison and contrast with the others. This forestalls the overintellectualization of punishment in general due to viewing humans as the only paradigm and forestalls the underintellectualization of human punishment due to making no essential reference to their critically rational capacities. A third purpose is to argue that these observations support a unified account of human punishment, an account where the three traditional justifications for punishment – retribution, deterrence, and rehabilitation – are united by a single overarching purpose.
April 9 Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
"Salience Norms" – CANCELLED
We evaluate newspapers according to two dimensions: whether their stories are well-researched and accurate (did the reporter check their facts?), and which stories they choose to print in the first place (are the stories relevant to the public? newsworthy? important?). Could an analogous distinction apply to the representational states in an individual's mind? We use epistemic norms to evaluate beliefs according to whether they are true and well-founded.
But discussions of which thoughts should populate the mind in the first place are far less common in epistemology. I discuss whether there are norms of salience that apply to the mind, and if so, what kinds of norms these might be.
April 23 Nicholas Smith, Instructor in Philosophy, Wake Forest University
"Rightness as Overall Virtuousness"
The target-centered account of right action, a creation of Christine Swanton, is, for at least three reasons, a highly promising candidate for the most plausible virtue-ethical account of right action. The target-centered account claims that an action is right just in case it is overall virtuous and that an action's hitting the target of a virtue contributes to its being overall virtuous while an action's missing the target of a virtue contributes to its being non-overall-virtuous. In this paper, I focus on the target-centered account's claim that an action is right just in case it is overall virtuous – the claim that makes the target-centered account a virtue-ethical account of right action but that can be consistently denied by virtue ethicists. I argue that this claim is attractive by showing both that it is well-motivated and that it can be successfully defended from important objections.
Fall 2014
- September 25: Stavroula Glezakos – Associate Professor/Associate Chair of Philosophy, Wake Forest University
"Harmful Words"
In this talk, I will argue that, contrary to the well-known saying, words can sometimes hurt us. Moreover, a word can harm even if its user does not intend any harm in using it. My aim will be to explain why this is the case, to show that the class of harmful words is, unfortunately, wider than we perhaps recognize, and to consider what options might be available to those who wish to avoid causing such harm.
- October 15: Christine Swanton – Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
'Dwelling Love'
What has been called by Julian Young Heidegger's 'ethics of dwelling' has been deployed in the service of environmental ethics. In the analytic tradition environmental ethics is characteristically understood as a species of applied ethics, but Heidegger's views on dwelling are fundamental to his philosophy as a whole, since for him, the essence of human beings is to dwell. If we do not properly dwell, realize our essence as dwellers, we have a fundamentally wrong orientation or attunement to the world as a whole. This paper explores this attunement: "dwelling love."
- October 30: Alison Denham – Associate Professor, Tulane University
"Representing Ethical Estrangement: Pictures, Poetry & Epistemic Value"
Contemporary meta-ethics has developed under the spectre of moral nihilism: scepticism about the very existence of moral values. However, it has seldom addressed the experience of such scepticism – the first-personal loss of, or estrangement from, our most fundamental evaluative commitments. That task has typically been left to the arts. I examine how certain artworks exploit strategies of 'experiencing-as' and 'experience-taking' to convey the phenemenological dimensions of evaluative thought. I introduce the phenomenon of ethical estrangement as it is articulated by the essayist and survivor, Jean Amery. I then turn to a work of visual art by Anselm Kiefer, the installation Chevirat Ha Kelim and a related poem by Paul Celan, Psalm. I argue that the epistemic value of these works turns in part on their use of aesthetic form to reorient the spectator's first-personal perceptual and affective responses.
- December 4: Rebecca Copenhaver – Professor of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College
Spring 2014
- January 23: Our first talk of the semester, "An Argument for Open Borders," will be presented by Professor Chris Freiman of William and Mary. Professor Freiman will be a guest of our Philosophy Club, who chose him as their speaker of the year. An event not to be missed!
Abstract: I argue that, all else equal, immigration restriction and deportation are prima facie wrongs of the same magnitude and for the same reason. Consequently, there is an equal presumption against both. I then argue that many of the principles invoked to defeat this presumption and thus to justify immigration restriction also justify the deportation of at least some citizens and nationals. Given that deporting these citizens and nationals on the basis of the proposed principles is intuitively impermissible, we should reject the principles and, in turn, immigration restriction.
- February 6: Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown University. "Medicalization, 'Normal Function', and the Definition of Health"
Abstract: The concept of health is surprisingly difficult to define in a rigorous and satisfying way. I argue that biologically based 'normal function' accounts and thoroughgoing social constructionist accounts of health are both deeply unsatisfying, particularly if we want the concept of health to play a substantial role in policy and social justice projects. I propose what I call an 'institutional' definition of health, and argue that it retains the objectivity that is appealing in biological accounts, along with the social constructionists' important insight that health and disease are partially constituted by social context and by contingent, historical processes of medicalization.
- February 20: Steve Nadler, University of Wisconsin. "Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?"
Abstract: In July of 1656, the twenty-three year old Baruch de Spinoza received the harshest writ of herem (excommunication) ever issued by the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish congregation. Full of vitriol and curses, the ban was final; Spinoza never reconciled with his community. But why was Spinoza punished with such extreme prejudice? The ban document mentions only his "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds", without telling us what exactly they are. Spinoza had not yet published anything. So there is a bit of a mystery here. On the other hand, for anyone familiar with his mature philosophical treatises, there really can be no mystery as to why one of history's most original and radical thinkers was ostracized by Amsterdam's rabbis and the Jewish community's lay leaders. In this talk, we will look at some of the main theses of Spinoza's philosophy, in order to get a better sense of what so troubled his contemporaries.
- March 20: Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame. "Aesthetics as a Foil for Ethics: Generality and Justification in Moral and Aesthetic Judgment"
Abstract: Moral properties such as being wrong or being obligatory are not brute; they are based on other kinds of properties, such as (for acts) being a lie or being promised. Aesthetic properties such as being graceful or being beautiful are similar to moral properties in being based on other kinds of properties, but they are different in that, for aesthetic cases, it may be impossible to specify just what these grounding properties are. Does any single property ground poetic beauty in the way promising to do something grounds obligation to do it?
If aesthetic properties do differ from moral properties in this way, may we conclude that, although ethics is like aesthetics in being a realm of intuitive and perceptual knowledge–or at least intuitive and perceptual sensitivity–it is unlike aesthetics in being a realm of rules and guiding principles that connect grounding properties with aesthetic properties? Are there any such generalities in aesthetics, or even aesthetic generalities connecting aesthetic properties with other aesthetic properties? If there are, how much like or unlike rules and principles in ethics are they?
This presentation will explore all these questions in the light of examples from the arts, with poetry as the main case study.
- March 27: Kieran Setiya, University of Pittsburgh. "Does Moral Theory Corrupt Youth?"
Abstract: Moral theory corrupts the youth. The epistemic assumptions of moral theory deprive us of resources needed to resist the challenge of moral disagreement, which its practice at the same time makes vivid. The talk concludes by sketching a kind of epistemology that could respond to disagreement without skepticism: one in which the fundamental standards of justification for moral belief are biased towards the truth.
- April 3: Steve Grimm, Fordham University. "What Is Wisdom?"
Abstract: What is it that makes someone wise, or one person wiser than another? I try to explain what it is that the wise person knows in a way that sheds light on these questions. I also try to explain why contemporary philosophers have had so little to say about wisdom, in contrast to their ancient and medieval predecessors.
- April 10: Edward Knippers, http://www.edwardknippers.com
Description: Knippers is a well known representational artist who often paints Biblical scenes. His work has sometimes been controversial because these scenes regularly depict the biblical characters in the nude. Indeed, his work has been called sacrilegious by some religious observers. On the other hand, many critics find the depiction of traditional Christian themes outdated or otherwise objectionable. In this discussion, we will talk with Mr. Knippers about art, sacrilege, modernism, interpretation, and other ideas central to both art and philosophy.
- April 25: The talk by Professor Verity Harte of Yale University, has been canceled.
Fall 2013
- October 17: Kit Wellman, Washington University in St. Louis. "Procedural Rights"
I will argue that, absent special circumstances, there are no moral, judicial procedural rights. I divide this essay into four main sections. First I argue that there is no general moral right against double jeopardy. Next I explain why punishing a criminal without first establishing her guilt via a fair trial does not necessarily violate her rights. In the third section I respond to a number of possible objections. Finally, (if time permits) I consider the implications of my arguments for the human right to due process.
- November 1: Kevin Schilbrack, Western Carolina University. "Religious Disagreement as a Process." Co-sponsored with Department of Religion. Please note that this talk will be held at 3:30 pm in Wingate 302.
Abstract: Given the cultural and ideological divisions of the present day, disagreement has become an important topic among philosophers. In this paper, I propose that philosophers study disagreement not simply as a static conflict between those who hold contradictory views, but also as a navigable process of cognitive dissonance and its resolution. Doing so lets us see that important philosophical questions about disagreement arise not only when the disagreement is between epistemic peers, but also earlier in the process before one has assessed the other's evidence or logic. In this paper, I argue that even before one has assessed the other's reasons, the mere fact of disagreement usually ought to move a person to reduce confidence in one's belief. I defend this claim and show its implications for religious disagreements.
- November 7: Sarah Robins, University of Kansas. "Remembering, Relearning, and (Temporarily) Forgetting"
What does remembering require? It is common to think that remembering requires not only an accurate representation of a past event, but also a representation that is brought about in the right way. According to the Causal Theory of Memory (CTM), the right way involves a memory trace. But what are memory traces? Recently, Bernecker (2010) has proposed that memory traces are mental states that form an uninterrupted causal chain between learning and remembering. I argue that this view cannot distinguish remembering from relearning, or tell the difference between temporarily and permanently forgetting something. I conclude by presenting an alternative view of memory traces as capacities.
- November 14: Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota. "Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: an Argument for Well-being Holism"
In this talk I present an overview of a theory of well-being that takes values rather than desires or preferences to be the key to well-being. According to the value fulfillment theory, a person's life goes well to the extent that she pursues and fulfills or realizes things that she values where those values are emotionally suitable and seen by the person to make her life go well. This theory is holistic in the sense that it takes the contribution of individual moments of fulfillment to well-being to be determined by their role in an overall "value-full" life. I argue for holism on the grounds that a holistic theory provides us with the right critical perspective on our current desires and values.


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Joseph Smith spied aged Joseph Knight hobbling down a Nauvoo street. He quickly overtook his longtime friend from New York and handed the elderly man his cane, insisting that Brother Knight keep it and pass it on to a descendant named Joseph. 1 Their friendship had lasted nearly twenty years, dating to before the time Joseph Smith had received the Book of Mormon plates.
After the Smiths, the Joseph and Polly Knight family may be the second family of the Restoration. The Knights knew Joseph Smith and accepted his claims before Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, or David Whitmer knew him. The Knights also stood by Joseph Smith more steadfastly than did the Three and the Eight Witnesses and even some of the Smiths. They became a special type of witness, a family witness of Joseph Smith's prophetic work.
Joseph Smith's friendship with the Knights began when he was twenty years old. In late 1826, Joseph Smith became a hired hand for Joseph Knight, Sr., and others in the Colesville, New York, area—115 miles southeast of Palmyra by dirt road. Young Joseph did farm work and probably helped at the Knights' sawmill. He had experienced the First Vision six years before and had been meeting with Moroni for three years.
While helping the Knights, he bunked with Joseph Knight, Jr., who wrote that in November 1826 Joseph Smith "made known to us that he had seen a vision, that a personage had appeared to him, and told him where there was a gold book of ancient date buried, and that if he would follow the direction of the Angel, he could get it. We were told this in secret." 2
Another son, Newel Knight, wrote that Joseph Smith visited them often and that they "were very deeply impressed with the truthfulness of his statements concerning the Plates of the Book of Mormon which had been shown him by an Angel of the Lord." 3
Joseph Smith was then courting Emma Hale, a romance Father Knight assisted: "I paid him the money and I furnished him with a horse and cutter [sled] to go and see his girl." 4 Joseph and Emma married shortly after that, on 18 January 1827, and moved to the Smith home near Palmyra.
When the time came for Joseph Smith to obtain the plates, Father Knight traveled to the Smith home, where the Prophet used his wagon to retrieve the plates. Late that night, after Joseph Smith had returned from his mission, he said to Brother Knight, "It is ten times better than I expected." According to Father Knight, the Prophet described the plates, though he "seemed to think more of the glasses or urim and thummim than he did of the plates. 'For' says he, 'I can see any thing. They are marvelous.'"
By early 1828, Joseph and Emma had moved to Emma's father's property, about thirty miles from the Knights. Joseph Smith found it impossible to both earn a living and translate the plates. The Smiths asked Father Knight for help. Although the Knights were "not in easy circumstances," Joseph Knight, Sr., gave the young man some goods: "some few things out of the store, a pair of shoes, and three dollars." A few days later, Father Knight visited the couple and gave them some money to buy paper for the translation. Joseph Knight, Jr., recalled that, prior to Oliver Cowdery's arrival, "Father and I often went to see him and carry him something to live upon."
Mrs. Knight was not yet a believer, so in March 1828 her husband took her by sled to visit the Smiths. He wrote, "Joseph talked with us about his translating and some revelations he had received. And from that time my wife began to believe."
In early 1828, when Oliver Cowdery became Joseph Smith's scribe, the two visited Father Knight, seeking provisions. Father Knight paid for and delivered a barrel of mackerel, about ten bushels of grain and six of potatoes, a pound of tea, and some lined paper for writing. The two rejoiced at the food and paper, and "then they went to work, and had provisions enough to last till the translation was done."
Years later, Joseph Smith praised Father Knight for these items: they "enabled us to continue the work when otherwise we must have relinquished it for a season." 5 Joseph Knight, Sr., helped the world receive the Book of Mormon sooner. If the Prophet had had to work full-time to support his family, the translation might have taken years to complete.
In May 1829, Joseph Knight, Sr., desired to know what he should do regarding the divine work then unfolding. The Prophet inquired of the Lord and received a revelation instructing Father Knight to "seek to bring forth and establish the cause of Zion" (D&C 12:6) and to give heed with all his might to God's word. This was the first of many revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants directed to the Knights. 6
In early June 1829, Joseph and Oliver finished the work of translation on the Book of Mormon, and the Three Witnesses and then the Eight Witnesses were allowed to see the plates. Sadly, none were Knights, who lived quite a distance away. But on the day the Church was organized, one-third of the sixty people there were Knight relatives from Colesville.
Shortly thereafter, Joseph Smith went to Colesville to preach and hold meetings, probably because he knew that the Knights were ready to receive the gospel. While there, he challenged Newel Knight to pray vocally. In the attempt, Newel was attacked by an evil spirit that lifted him from the floor "and tossed him about most fearfully." Neighbors gathered and then saw the Prophet command the devil in the name of Jesus Christ to depart. Newel felt great relief and gladly accepted baptism. (This exorcism was the first miracle performed in the restored church.) 7 He became the first of more than sixty of the Knight clan to join the Church.
At the Church's first conference on 9 June 1830 at the Whitmer's, those attending experienced spiritual outpourings similar to those on the Day of Pentecost. Newel was one. He beheld a vision much like the one Stephen the Martyr saw: "I saw the heavens opened, I beheld the Lord Jesus Christ seated at the right hand of the Majesty on High, and it was made plain to my understanding that the time would come when I would be admitted into His presence, to enjoy His society for ever and ever."
Despite local harassment, many Knight relatives were baptized on 28 June 1830. They included Father and Mother Knight, son Joseph, Newel's wife Sally, daughter Esther and her husband William Stringham, and daughter Polly (named after her mother). Mother Knight was a Peck, and among the Peck relatives baptized were her brother Hezekiah and his wife Martha and her sister Esther and her husband Aaron Culver. 8
Angry neighbors prevented the converts from being confirmed, and a constable arrested Joseph Smith. Father Knight, indignant, hired James Davidson and John Reid, neighboring farmers well versed in the law, to defend his friend. They did, and Joseph Smith was acquitted the following midnight. 9
Joseph Knight, Jr., said that feelings in the neighborhood became heated: "That night our wagons were turned over and wood piled on them, and some sunk in the water, rails were piled against our doors, and chains sunk in the stream and a great deal of mischief done."
Within hours after his acquittal, Joseph Smith was arrested again and tried in Colesville. Father Knight's lawyer friends felt too fatigued to help, but his pleadings won them over. Mr. Reid said that Father Knight was "like the old patriarchs that followed the ark of God to the city of David." Newel, called upon to testify, told the court that no, Joseph Smith had not cast a devil out of him, but that Joseph by God's power had cast it out. Mr. Davidson and Mr. Reid picked apart the prosecution's case and Joseph Smith was freed. 10
In September 1830, Newel Knight and his sister Anna's husband, Freeborn DeMille, attended the Church's second conference, held at Fayette, New York. 11 Newel was ordained a priest, and Freeborn was baptized.
At Fayette, Newel Knight became the young prophet's confidant during a crisis caused by Hyrum Page's claim of receiving revelations for the Church through a peepstone. Newel wrote that Hyrum Page carried "quite a roll of papers full of these revelations," which led many astray. Joseph Smith "was perplexed and scarcely knew how to meet this new exigency." Sharing the same room, the two friends spent the greater part of the night in prayer. In response, Joseph received a revelation (see D&C 28) that spelled out the proper channels for revelation to reach the Church. Newel reported, "Brother Page and all … present renounced the stone, … much to our joy and satisfaction."
After the meetings, Hyrum Smith was appointed to preside over the Colesville Branch. He and Jerusha lived with and became good friends with Newel and Sally Knight. Later, Newel replaced Hyrum as branch president.
In December 1830, the Church was commanded to "assemble together at the Ohio." (D&C 37:3.) Newel Knight said that this entailed the sacrifice of their property. Newel sold 60 acres, Freeborn DeMille 61 acres, Aaron Culver 100 acres, and Father Knight 140 acres, with "two Dwelling Houses, a good barn, and a fine orchard." Led by Newel, sixty-two Knight kin moved to Ohio as part of the first gathering. Unlike other Church units, the Colesville Branch remained intact.
The family settled on Leman Copley's land near Painesville, Ohio, and became the first people in the Church in this dispensation to try to live an economic cooperative order. (See D&C 48; D&C 51.) But Leman Copley soon withdrew his land and ordered the Saints off. Father Knight wrote, "We sold out what we Could But Copley took the advantage of us and we Could not git any thing for what we had done." Newel Knight asked the Prophet for counsel, and in response Joseph Smith received a revelation directing the Knight clan to move once again, this time to Missouri. (See D&C 54.)
On 25 July 1832, Joseph Smith welcomed his Colesville friends to Missouri and directed them to settle twelve miles west of Independence. "We found the country to be Butiful rich and plesent and we made our selves as Comfortable as we Could," Father Knight wrote.
The Knights eagerly pitched in to establish the area as a center place for Zion and for a great temple. When twelve men laid the first log as a foundation of Zion, five were Knight relatives. Newel Knight was one of seven who dedicated the Jackson County temple site. For the Knight clan, such ceremonies stirred hope of a great future, despite the tragedies among them. Mother Knight had been so sick on the trip from Ohio that Newel brought along lumber for her coffin. Her "greatest desire," he wrote, was "to set her feet upon the land of Zion and to have her body interred" there. She became the first Saint buried in Missouri. That year, death claimed two more Knights—one of them Newel's sister Esther, the other his uncle, Aaron Culver.
This outpost colony of the Church saw a busy year of building, fencing, and establishing homes while consecrating its properties to live cooperatively. When the Church formed a council of high priests to govern the stake in Missouri, Newel Knight became one of the council. He continued to be president of what was still called the Colesville Branch. Six Knight men also made labor pledges as part of plans to build the Independence Temple.
Father Knight remarried, to Phoebe Crosby Peck, his first wife's widowed sister-in-law. Phoebe had four children of her own, and the couple had two more. Counting Phoebe's four, they were the parents and stepparents of thirteen children.
In the last half of 1833, Missourians drove the Saints, including the Knight clan, from Jackson County. Mobbers shot Philo Dibble, whom Newel Knight saved from death through a remarkable priesthood blessing. 12 Fearing for their lives, the Knights braved the cold weather and rushed to the Missouri River ferries. Joseph Knight, Jr., told of women and children walking with bare feet on frozen ground. The Knights lost all their property, including a gristmill. Of that awful winter, Sally Knight's sister, Emily Colburn Slade, recalled, "We lived in tents until winter set in, and did our cooking out in the wind and storms." 13
Suffering from poor food and shelter, many Saints became victims of fever and what was called ague (probably malaria). Sally was one of them. She gave birth to a son, who died, and then she died herself. "Truly she has fallen a martyr to the gospel," her husband, Newel, eulogized.
In 1835, Newel traveled to Ohio to help build the temple and to receive temple blessings. At Kirtland, he boarded with his good friends Hyrum and Jerusha Smith. There he met and fell in love with Lydia Goldthwaite Bailey, whose belief in Joseph Smith was equal to his.
A few years previous, Lydia's husband had deserted her, and both of her children had died, so her family sent her to Canada for a change of scenery. In late 1833, while staying with the Nickerson family, she heard Joseph Smith preach and saw his face "become white and a shining glow seemed to beam from every feature." 14 This witness of the Spirit converted her. She then moved to Kirtland. On 24 November 1835, Joseph Smith performed Newel and Lydia's wedding at Hyrum Smith's home. The ceremony was the first marriage performed by the Prophet. 15
Newel took Lydia to Missouri—just in time to join the Mormon exodus from Clay County to Far West. When Joseph Smith also moved to Far West in 1838, Newel rejoiced to again hear the Prophet preach: "His words were meat and drink for us."
Unfortunately, the strife that had beset the Church did not abate. The Knights in Far West were saddened to see several leading elders forsake the Church. The high council Newel Knight served on had to cut off the entire Missouri stake presidency, including David and John Witmer, two Book of Mormon witnesses. Oliver Cowdery also veered away. 16 Missourians were also clashing again with the Saints, and once more in winter 1838–39, Church members surrendered homes and lands and became refugees. The Knight clan struggled across Missouri to Illinois.
Within a few months, the Knight and Peck families had moved to where Nauvoo would rise. They now included at least eleven family units—four headed by members of Father Knight's generation, seven by Newel's generation. They had passed the tests of loyalty the troubles at Kirtland and Missouri had thrown at them. Since converting nine years before, they had moved to five settlements, including the present one. (Notably, between 1831 and 1846, the Knights helped to pioneer no less than ten LDS settlements in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. 18 ) Unlike the Three Witnesses and other prominent leaders of the Church, their knees had not buckled. Despite suffering great losses of property, they did not turn against their religion. The family's bill of damages for losses in Missouri alone reached $16,000, or more than $500,000 today. 17
In Illinois, Newel Knight eagerly greeted the Prophet shortly after he arrived from his long incarceration in Missouri prisons. Newel described that meeting thus: "As soon as I could I went to see him, but I can never describe my feelings on meeting with him, and shaking hands with one whom I had so long and so dearly loved, his worth and his sufferings filled my heart with mingled emotions, while I beheld him and reflected upon the past, and yet saw him standing before me, in the full dignity of his holy calling, I could but raise my heart in silent but ardent prayer that he and his family and his aged parents may never be torn apart in like manner again."
Once more, the Knights went to work building up the Church and a new city—Nauvoo, the "City of Joseph." Newel served on the high council. He and Joseph Knight, Jr., built several gristmills. About the time the Prophet gave Father Knight the cane, the city council voted to give him a lot and built him a house. Still in use today, Knight Street memorializes Joseph Smith's esteem for the Knights.
One day in January 1842, the Prophet listed in the Book of the Law of the Lord the names of those "faithful few" who had stood by him since the beginning of his ministry—"pure and holy friends, who are faithful, just, and true, and whose hearts fail not." He included Father Knight: "My aged and beloved brother, Joseph Knight, Sen., who was among the number of the first to administer to my necessities, while I was laboring in the commencement of the bringing forth of the work of the Lord. … For fifteen years he has been faithful and true, and even-handed and exemplary, and virtuous and kind, never deviating to the right hand or to the left. Behold he is a righteous man, may God Almighty lengthen out the old man's days. … And it shall be said of him, by the sons of Zion, while there is one of them remaining, that this man was a faithful man in Israel; therefore his name shall never be forgotten."
The Prophet also recalled Father Knight's sons, "Newel Knight and Joseph Knight, Jun., whose names I record … with unspeakable delight, for they are my friends." 19
In Nauvoo, the Knight group faced and passed another great test of faith. The Prophet introduced several doctrines relating to the temple including the temple ceremonies and plural marriage, which some could not accept. 20 But the Knights received the teachings. They helped to finish the temple and then performed baptisms for the dead. By early 1846, more than twenty adults in the Knight families had received their temple endowments and sealings. Four of Father and Polly Knight's children entered into plural marriage.
When Joseph and Hyrum Smith died, few mourned their passing more than the Knights. Newel's heart broke, and he vented his sorrow in his journal: "O how I loved those men, and rejoiced under their teachings! it seems as if all is gone, and as if my very heart strings will break, and were it not for my beloved wife and dear children I feel as if I have nothing to live for. … I pray God my Father that I may be reconciled to my lot, and live and die a faithful follower of the teachings of our Murdered Prophet and Patriarch."
Following the martyrdom, the Knights passed still another severe test of loyalty. Unlike a number of others, they did not forsake the faith and follow false successors. They chose to follow the Quorum of the Twelve. All the relatives in Nauvoo (except perhaps Nahum, for whom we lack records) left the city to go westward. When ready to depart, Newel Knight "once more had the satisfaction of walking through the streets of the City of Joseph, and beholding the great works, he had so nobly reared before his martyrdom." Once across the Mississippi River, Newel looked back a last time at the city: "My heart swelled, for I beheld at a glance, from the eminences where I stood, the noble works of Joseph the Prophet and Seer, and Hyrum his patriarch, with whom I had been acquainted, even from their boyhood, I knew their worth, and mourned their loss."
While moving west with the exiled Saints, Newel died of exposure in northern Nebraska in January 1847. Father Knight died at Mount Pisgah, Iowa, a month later. The family, from the Church's second year to its fourteenth, sacrificed some of its best blood for the gospel's sake. Of Father Knight's thirteen children and their spouses, six individuals died, one couple remains unaccounted for, and the remaining seventeen reached Utah.
The Knights are not silent witnesses of Joseph Smith and the restored gospel. Lydia wrote her life story. Newel kept an invaluable journal. Father Knight and Joseph, Jr., both penned their recollections. All four authors revered Joseph Smith.
The Knight families knew Joseph Smith in the earliest days, when he was accused of gold-digging and using peep stones. If Joseph Smith were a charlatan or disreputable money grubber as detractors charged, the large Knight clan would not have felt such deep trust in him. Their loyalty to him was based on firsthand, intimate knowledge, which stands today as a solid witness that the Prophet's character, from when he was twenty to his death at thirty-eight, was righteous and good.
Critics of Joseph Smith have questioned his motives, truthfulness, and divine claims. Defenders have argued that God used him to restore the true church to the earth. The debate and discussion should not ignore the faithful and solid Knight family, who remained loyal to the prophet longer than any other family. The Knights bear a powerful, persistent testimony that Joseph Smith was what he claimed to be.
The cane that Joseph Smith gave to Father Knight in Nauvoo continues to pass down the generations of Knights from one Joseph to another. It is just one memorial of the friendship and mutual faith Joseph Smith and the Joseph Knight family shared.
Family Chart
Children of Joseph Knight, Sr., and first wife, Polly Peck:
Nahum Knight (md. Thankfull)
Esther Knight (md. William Stringham)
Newel Knight (md. Sally Colburn and Lydia Goldthwaite)
Anna Knight (md. Freeborn Demille)
Joseph Knight, Jr. (md. Betsey Covert, Adeline Johnson, Abba Welden, and Mary Woolerton)
Polly Knight (md. William Stringham)
Elizabeth Knight (md. Joseph W. Johnson)
Children of Joseph Knight, Sr., and second wife, Phoebe Crosby Peck:
Hezekiah Peck (md. Jemima Smoot)
Samantha Peck (md. Hosea Stout)
Henrietta Peck (md. Thomas R. Rich)
Sarah Jane Peck (md. Charles C. Rich)
Ether Knight (md. Jane Terry)
Charles C. Knight (died as a child)
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This article is adapted from the author's "They Are My Friends": A History of the Joseph Knight Family, 1825–1850 (Provo, Utah: Grandin Book Company, 1986). The cane story is on page three.
In this article, all quotations from Joseph Knight, Jr., are from his "Incidents of History," LDS Church Archives. The original spelling and punctuation from this and other sources cited have been retained.
In this article, all quotations from Newel Knight are from his unpublished journal, LDS Church Archives.
In this article, all quotations from Joseph Knight, Sr., are from his history as published in Dean C. Jessee, ed., "Joseph Knight's Recollections of Early Mormon History," Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Autumn 1976):26–39.
History of the Church, 1:47.
See D&C 12, D&C 23, D&C 37, D&C 52, D&C 54, D&C 56, D&C 58, D&C 124.
History of the Church, 1:82–83.
Ibid., 1:87–88.
Ibid., 1:88–91, 95.
Ibid., 1:91–96.
Another account of the conference is in History of the Church, 1:109–20.
See Clare B. Christensen, Before and After Mt. Pisgah (Salt Lake City: privately published, 1979), p. 79.
Emily M. Austin, Mormonism; or, Life among the Mormons (Madison, Wis: M. J. Cantwell, 1882), p. 72.
"Homespun" (pseudonym for Lydia Knight and Susan Young Gates), Lydia Knight's History (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883), p. 18.
See Lydia Knight's History, pp. 29–31; History of the Church, 2:320.
For high council proceedings, see 1837 and 1838 entries in Donald Q. Cannon and Lyndon W. Cook, eds., Far West Record: Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1844 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1983).
The settlements are the settlement near Painesville, Ohio; Kaw Township, Clay County, and Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; Mt. Pisgah, Garden Grove, and Council Bluffs, Iowa; and Winter Quarters and Ponca, Nebraska Territory.
"Missouri Petitions for Redress," LDS Church Archives.
History of the Church, 5:107, 124–25.
For doctrines introduced at Nauvoo, see T. Edgar Lyon, "Historical Highlights of the Saints in Illinois," The First Annual Church Educational System Religious Educators Symposium, 19–20 August 1977, transcript of addresses and abstracts of presentations, pp. 69–71.


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A zine about mental health, of all kinds.
Accepting art, illustrations, writing, short stories, poems photographs, mini comics, anything you want to send!!
Please send to email@example.com with the subject as "not so crazy submission"
hello, i just made my first zine..very exciting.
Hey everyone, new to the site and wanted to share my comic Immaterial.
You can read it all for free online here
And like the facebook page here
With the exception of Ex-Libris (check my page for info), its all online now, but upcoming issues will be printed and will be featured in our upcoming Panoptic Presents sampler.
Here are some pics
Hello you! The first issue of my zine called BlackEye Magazine will be published soon. Every issue will feature an artist of a different area. The first one is all about the Berlin tattooer Chaim Machlev.
I hope you have time to step by on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackeyemagazine
Have a nice day!
@ Kay- if you'd like to start a discussion use the forums! It's easier to keep all the conversation in one place per topic. @Tim- zine looks really good visually and sounds like it has awesome and thoughtful content
I'm posting this here because it's my first zine in EIGHT YEARS!!! Been working on this for months and am very happy with how it turned out, so I hope you'll all give it a look.
Here's the description from Etsy....
Some Notes on Film, Vol. 1
Debut issue! Eight essays on various films and on film, filmmaking, and art in general. Features original illustrations as well as film stills.
I started Some Notes on Film as a way of encouraging myself to articulate my free floating thoughts about the films I watch. Instead of writing reviews, I try burrowing into specifics: particular themes, motifs, aesthetic choices. I'm writing from the perspective of a filmmaker, and so the observations I make are usually somehow related to me thinking through my own practice.
Topics for this issue include:
- Steve Martin's goofy tenderness in The Jerk
- Josh Safdie's microbudget indie The Pleasure of Being Robbed (as seen on the cover)
- Brian Eno's idea of art as a "trigger for experience" (and why I don't like it)
- Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel
- Ain't Them Bodies Saints compared to Terrence Malick's Badlands
- Billy Wilder's The Apartment and physicality in screenwriting
- the difficulty of portraying digital life in movies
- plus a lengthy intro essay on the differences between zines and blogs
56 pages
Black and white
Card-stock cover
Saddle-stitched (stapled)
I'm new here, and a bit perplexed to how quiet everything is.
But I have a question, should I post it here or the discussion forum for this group?
Before I read a novel about zines a week ago, I had never heard of them before. I'm very interested in getting something started and am eager to get advice. I would really appreciate it.


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Always looking for the ideal concealed carry handgun, I recently added an inexpensive CW45 to my P9 and CW40.
To my surprise, the CW45 was MUCH MORE comfortable to shoot than the CW40, with probably 50% less perceived recoil. The accuracy was excellent!
The factors I use for picking the most ideal concealed weapon are: mag capacity, caliber, size, ease of use, and reliability. The CW45 certainly has beaten the two former front runners for near perfect....the Glock 27 and 36.
I have ordered a 7-shot mag, which will give the CW45 a repectable eight shots, the .45 ACP is certainly the best caliber one can use, the slimness and weight make the little Kahr a pleasure to wear, the only controls is a slide release with a "safer than Glock" long, light DB trigger pull, and the reliability seems to be on a par with Glock and Sig.
The CW45 is almost small enough for a pocket pistol, and certainly ideal for Smart Carry. With an inexpensive Don Hume IWB holster it is suitable for summer wear, as well as under a suit coat.
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Hello everyone, just wanted to introduce myself and our new puppy. My name is Brian, and my wife and I just got a GS pup. Her name is Lucy. We're loving her very much. She's grown well attached to us so far, and sometimes likes to sit in our lap. I will be lurking around to see some of the past advice. Seems to be a great forum!
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What a great looking pup.
I'm guessing you won't be posting in a month or three about ear issues....those ears are awesome for such a young pup.
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what a sweet face.
Thanks for the welcome guys. She's 11 weeks now. Her ears were already up when we got her at 8 weeks. Only issue is she likes to mouth us a lot. We tell her ouch and move away, or try to give her a toy. I think she is slowly catching on, but I guess it takes time...
Pretty girl. Welcome and congratulations!!
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bathroom tiling
I had a new tub installed and new tiling done in my bathroom. The tub and the green board did not meet, the tub was about 1/2 inch away from the wall/green board. The contractor tiled the wall and the first row of tiles on the tub are very cooked and angled so there is more that 1/4 inch slant on the first row of tiles. I need to retile and set the tiles straight so I may install my shower doors. Question - what do I need to do, after removing the tiles, so my tiles are straight and I may install myshower doors?
Could you post some pictures?
Sounds to me like the contractor did a horrible job.
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Thank you for responding. I attached a few pictures which show the tiles around the tub area. The slanted tiles also do not allow my diverter/spout to sit flatly against the wall. Yes, this was a poor job and I have several other areas I need to redo.
From what I see, the only solution would be to cancel the check you gave the contractor, get him back in there to fix that mess. The backer board should have been shimmed to meet the tub flush, I can't think of any easy fix for that, and by the looks of it, you have a leak waiting to happen there.
Wow, that's horrible. I don't know how any "professional" could sign-off on that.
I don't know what your legal recourse is, but if it were my bathroom I'd certainly be pursuing something in that direction.
You mentioned he tiled to greenboard. If it is greenboard (or any drywall type product), and there is a shower above the tub, this is also a potential problem.
Sorry about your bathroom.......that is real bad.:yes:
Let me guess..... You hired a handyman who did the tub, plumbing and tile work. You wanted cheap...you got it. :whistling2: But, it's not the end.
I'll also bet the person who did the work is not licensed for any of the types of work done. You need to first write him a letter demanding he remove everything and make necessary corrections. You'll most likely have to resort to small-claims court though.
As mentioned, there are other things done wrong aside from what you can see.
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Did You Know That You Are Already An Expert?
|Posted on August 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Did you know that you are already an expert?
Every one of us has had experiences that are worth sharing with others. Everyone has tips and tricks that they've "learned the hard way" through raw experience, and everyone can teach those tips to others. There is not a mother in the world who doesn't have a story of what it was like for them through their pregnancy and their first year of being a mother. There is not one single military man or woman who does not have a host of experiences that they could share. And certainly, there is not one single teacher out there who, despite how little time they may have been on the job, does not have experiences to relate that could potentially be helpful to other teachers.
Building a Wall
Back in my days as a direct marketer, someone on my team told me this story:
Imagine you were hired to work as a contractor on a construction site. You have absolutely no experience with construction and don't know which end of a hammer to hold. The foreman of the building team takes an hour to teach you how to use cement, bricks, a trowel, and other tools to make a brick wall. You build your wall, which turns out to be a bit sloppy around the edges, but functional. The foreman checks in and makes suggestions. You build another wall, which turns out as structurally sound and aesthetically pleasing as the original wall your teacher taught you with.
Now, the foreman introduces you to 6 new employees - these folks were hired just now, only four hours after you were hired. He charges you with teaching each of them how to build the very same brick wall that you just learned how to build. And just like that, you are now a "wall building expert"!! You may not have all the answers, and are certainly not capable of taking your new students on to any other kind of project, but you have enough knowledge and experience to help others improve.
Don't Be A "Stuart Smalley"
Back in the 80's, Al Franken had a recurring character on Saturday Night Live called Stuart Smalley. He was the host of a parody self-help talk show called "Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley". In trying to help others, Smalley only amplified his own self-loathing and broken self-esteem with his famous catch phrase (usually uttered by the end of the sketch through pathetic tears) "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."
Most teachers share their "war stories" in the faculty lounge of how their students are driving them nuts. Imagine what would happen instead of feeling sorry for themselves (and sharing it with people who agree with them and commiserate), teachers shared things that they are doing in the classroom that actually DO work! The best professional development available is the self-directed kind where you collaborate and share with other teachers. Even if this fall will be your first time in a classroom, you will undoubtedly have a fresh perspective on some common challenges on teaching, and even the most grizzled veteran could benefit from your experience.
A Great Example of Sharing What You Know
Earlier today, middle school band director Keith Ozsvath blogged about his practices for the first day of school in The First Day: Setting the Stage for (Non) Musical Success. It is a perfect example of a teacher sharing valuable tips from their own experience. Many of the things he suggests are things I do myself, and having validation that what I do works for someone else is always gratifying. These are simple concepts that Keith most likely has discovered simply by being "on the job" and "learning the hard way". Imagine how many headaches he could save a new music teacher at the beginning of their career by sharing this information! Imagine how his ideas could revitalize a veteran teacher who is stuck in a routine that just doesn't work anymore!
Ways You Can Share Your Expertise in the 21st Century
Today's technology makes it easier than ever to share what you know. Here is a list of ways you can help out your fellow teachers:
- Talk shop with other teachers in your school: Instead of complaining about the students, the parents, and the administration over lunch, engage colleagues in conversations about what you are doing that works. You will soon find that the teachers who want to have a "bitch session" will move to a different table, and the ones who have great classrooms will start talking to you.
- Start a blog: One of the easiest ways to share tips is to occasionally write a few paragraphs in a blog. It's searchable online, and with very little time and effort you can get it seen by teachers from all over the world. A great way to share your blog with a lot of people is to submit your tips to blog carnivals that share the same topic. Music Education has its own blog carnival that is currently taking articles for the September issue.
- Join Facebook and LinkedIn: If you're already on Facebook, there are great places to talk shop. For example, there is new daily content on the Facebook Band Directors group, the Online Music Education group, and the #EdChat group. Most Facebook groups are not very active at all, but when you do find a vibrant community, the things you can learn and share there can be great.
- Open a Twitter account: When my geeky tech friends introduced me to Twitter way back before it caught on big, my first reaction was "what a phenominal waste of time!" I joined Twitter a year ago, and quite literally Twitter has put my professional development, my ability to connect with other music teachers, and my personal website on overdrive! All you have to do is open an accoun and start talking about your own teacher tips, and you will very quickly be followed by people who are interested in the same thing. Twitter also is the host of a rather long and impressive list of #hashtag chats. See Jerry Blumengarten's list of hashtag chats for details.
- Talk it up in some forums: There are great forums for posting topics in teaching. The ones I frequent are MENC and MakeMusic. There are tons of others.
- Join a Professional Learning Network (PLN): The granddaddy of them all is The Educator's PLN. There is an incredibly vibrant PLN for music teachers that just opened this summer.
- Write an article: Your state's music education association is always looking for good articles. MENC takes submissions. In-Tune Monthly and SoundTree are currently looking for people to submit lesson plans. Remember, you're already an expert!
- Present at a conference: If you really want to become an expert, create a presentation for the next in-service day at your school, your county-wide in-service, or your state educator's conference. When you present even a simple topic at a conference, people listen.
Stop Being So Greedy!
You have valubale experiences that can really help out your fellow teachers. You already know how to "build a brick wall" - now go out and teach others how to do the same.
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John Francis O'Keefe, 60, a 23-year resident of Dutchess County, formerly of Mahopac and Yorktown Heights, died Friday, March 26, 2010, at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
For his entire adult life, John worked as an Electrician for the I.B.E.W. Local #80. He was also an avid golfer.
Born in the Bronx on September 30, 1949, he was son of the late Patrick and Mary Kostrna O'Keefe. In 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served during the Vietnam War until he was honorably discharged as a Sergeant in 1971.
On September 7, 1985, John married Robin Rudolph in Putnam Lake. Mrs. O'Keefe survives at home. Additional survivors include his children, Ivan O'Keefe of Florida, Erika Duncan & her husband Don of Georgia, Jennifer Harvey & her companion Clint of Florida, Casey O'Keefe & her fiancé Joe of Hopewell Junction, Amy Carollo of Pawling, and Adam Carollo & his wife Melissa of North Carolina; his grandchildren, Tiffany O'Keefe, Miranda O'Keefe, Amber Duncan, D.J. Duncan, Jennifer Duncan, Kaitlyn Green, Hayden McElreath, Kaitlin See, Jared Miller, and Noah Carollo; his siblings, Ann Barra & her husband Paul of Hopewell Junction, Maureen Magley & her husband Larry of Jefferson Valley, James O'Keefe & his wife Pam of Connecticut, Joseph O'Keefe of New Jersey, and Peggy Givens & her husband Tom of Arizona; his sister-in-law, Dorothy O'Keefe of Mahopac; also many nieces and nephews. John was predeceased by his parents and his brother, Patrick O'Keefe.
The funeral service was held on Tuesday, March 30, and was followed by interment with military honors at St. Denis Cemetery in Hopewell Junction. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Jimmy McDonough Foundation, 72 Lockwood Lane, Mahopac, NY 10541. For online condolences, please visit mchoulfuneralhome.com.


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It's Christmas time in Illinois, so some local KKK idiots decided to celebrate the birth of Christ by burning a cross on the lawn of a member of the United States air force. A neighbor reported the crime because the airman was off doing his duty serving the United States. The words, "KKK" and "white power" were written on the cross. Burning a five foot cross on the lawn of a member of the military is not the most serious crime committed by those who harbor hatred in their heart at a time of the year when supposedly one is filled with joy and love. It is a relatively minor incident and will soon be forgotten by all concerned. The real tragedy is that people who hide in the darkness of night most probably during daytime are vigorous supporters of fighting wars– ones they will talk about but never engage in. The only fighting they can handle is fighting at night when no one can see their faces and then slithering away before confronting the object of their hate.
I am certain the perpetrators of this cross burning hate al-Qaeda. Unfortunately, their actions are just what al-Qaeda seeks in allies.


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Greece Votes to Bail on the Bailout?
posted at 9:23 pm on May 6, 2012 by Mike Rathbone
I'm sure Ed will comment on this, but because I have no girlfriend and a meager social life, I can keep abreast of current world events (when I'm not watching NCIS reruns). It appears that Greece held its parliamentary election and according to exit polls, the two pro-austerity parties in the coalition government have suffered major reversals at the polls. Needless to say, this has the potential to have major ramifications, not just for Greece, but Europe and possibly America as well. If the pro-austerity parties can't form a government, then all bets are off.
Greece's continued access to bailout funds from the IMF, EU, and European Central Bank, could be in danger, if the austerity measures currently in place in Greece do not continue. As of right now (7:55 CST on May 6th), the Nikkei is down over 2% on the news of the election results. Needless to say, if the Eurozone starts to feel rumbles due to Greek instability, how long before any of that instability spreads to the U.S.?
As I'm sure many of you are aware, the current economic situation in the United States, is far from peachy. It probably wouldn't take a lot to knock the U.S. back into recession. If I'm at the White House, I would probably start taking some Tums right about now. President Bush still tends to get more blame for our economic condition than president Obama, but if we enter a new recession, how long do you think those numbers will remain that way?
At least the White House can always look at the bright side, if a recession hits, gas prices will drop… probably.
P.S.-Instead of austerity measures, couldn't the EU demand in return for bailout funds, that all copies of My Big Fat Greek Wedding be burned and that Maria Menounos be betrothed to me? Just an idea.