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Billy the Kid
by Michael Morpurgo, Adapted by Tony Graham
Michael Morpurgo's heart warming story of a champion Chelsea footballer set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
One day Billy, you could play for Chelsea. All you've got to do is work at it.
The only thing Billy ever wanted to do was play for Chelsea and his dream came true when he was signed by the club to become a champion striker for the first team. But that was 1939 and with the outbreak of the Second World War, Billy's life changed forever.
The Unicorn Theatre presents Michael Morpurgo's story of a champion Chelsea footballer set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Billy the Kid.
Voted the Best Children's Show of 2007 by Time Out, the production features much-loved British actor Dudley Sutton as Billy and Sam Donovan as Sam.
Dudley's long career, which began in the 1950s, includes many roles for theatre, film and television – but he is perhaps best-known for his role as Tinker in the long-running BBC series, Lovejoy. Sam Donovan's theatre credits include Room on the Broom (Tall Stories) and Salome (Headlong).
I am delighted that the Unicorn's production of Billy The Kid is now available to wider international audiences, and especially thrilled to be involved in Digital Theatre's first downloadable production aimed at a younger audience. I am excited that children, their families and readers of the book from all over the world will now have access to this wonderful production.
Michael Morpurgo, Author
I am thrilled with Digital Theatre's filming of Billy The Kid. Last year I re-staged this production with the original cast as my final show as Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre after 14 years at the helm. What I love about the screen version is how it has managed to preserve its integrity which is a credit to the enthusiasm, professionalism and commitment of the Digital team. Being able to watch actors close-up, while performing live in front of a theatre audience, is a real test of their authenticity. We see things in this realisation that, frankly, no-one saw in the theatre version – it's the same as the stage show, yet it also feels profoundly different.
Tony Graham, Adaptor and Director
An absorbingly emotional yarn, rooted by Graham in feisty dialogue.
Time Out
Two wonderfully fresh performances from Sam Donovan as the youngster and Dudley Sutton as the grumpy old codger whose ears still ring with the roar of the crowd.
Children's Show
Time Out 2007
Captured live at the Unicorn Theatre, London in October 2011.
Production photography © Alistair Muir.
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Sue Lawrence, who grew up in Mountain View, died in Sunnyvale on March 14.
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Federer announces the baby news in a Twitter post, saying that his twin daughters 'will be big sisters in 2014!' and wishing everyone happy holidays.
Roger Federer and his wife Miroslava Vavrinec a.k.a. Mirka are going to welcome another addition to the family. The tennis champion announced in a Twitter post on Tuesday, December 24 that he and Mirka were expecting their third child together.
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The meeting, attended by foreign ministers from Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as an Egyptian foreign ministry official, was the realisation of a personal vision for Mr Erbakan. His Welfare Party came to power in a coalition with the True Path Party last June. Already, Mr Erbakan is on the way to forming a club which represents 740 million people, from eight of the world's largest Muslim nations.
The D8 reflects Mr Erbakan's preferences. Short on potentially fractious Arabs (Egypt is the only Arab member), a smooth-working D8 will, Mr Erbakan hopes, constitute a developing world equivalent to the G7, the Western club of industrialised nations. The aim of the new club, according to Mr Erbakan, is nothing less than "refashioning the world order".
Mr Erbakan has his work cut out. Average per capita income in G7 countries is $27,000 (pounds 16,000). In the D8, it is just $1,500. While trade volumes between D8 members are expected to increase as a result of the grouping's formation, Turkey's own dependence on trade with the West is illustrated by the fact that 64 per cent of foreign firms active in Turkey are from European Union countries, and just 4 per cent from Muslim ones. The D8's most dynamic economies - Indonesia and Malaysia - have not succeeded by turning their backs on the West.
Nevertheless, the organisation's exclusively Muslim membership has prompted fears that it has been formed to indulge Mr Erbakan's well-known distrust of the Christian West. Since coming to power, Mr Erbakan has assiduously courted the Muslim world, conspicuously failing to set foot inside the EU, with whom Turkey signed a customs union agreement in 1995. Tansu Ciller, the True Path leader and Mr Erbakan's Foreign Minister, says the D8's Muslim composition is incidental. Few believe her, especially since she began sharpening her criticism of the EU's "Christian" nature.
Europhile Turks say Iran's membership of the D8 will only reinforce the perception that Turkey is ditching the West in favour of unpredictable Middle Eastern friends. In August, Mr Erbakan signed a $23bn natural gas deal with Iran. This - and a visit to Turkey last month by Iran's President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - upset the US, which wants to isolate Iran internationally. Yesterday, Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, confirmed that Mr Erbakan had suggested "wide-ranging defence co-operation" between Turkey and Iran.
Few expect such co-operation to take place. When Mr Rafsanjani was in Turkey, the secular military made it clear that the Iranian President would be denied access to sensitive sites.
While he was in opposition, Mr Erbakan bitterly attacked a defence co- operation agreement which Turkey had signed with Israel, and which had elicited criticism from Turkey's Arab neighbours. Once in office, he was obliged to put his signature to another, earning accusations of betrayal from the same sources which had welcomed his rise to power. Even now an enduring US military presence in Turkey testifies to Mr Erbakan's grim- faced genuflection to his generals' demands.
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Toadies are about to release the first of two new EPs in May. The band has announced that the first EP, titled 'PLAY.ROCK.MUSIC.', will feature six new tracks and a collaboration with members of The Honeybear Horns.
Frontman Vaden Todd Lewis says, "It was fun experimenting with some new sounds and variations for this EP. This is some of the strangest and catchiest stuff I've ever written."
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Arts and Crafts Era Antiques
The Arts and Crafts movement that swept the United States and Great Britain from roughly 1880 to 1920 was a response to the industrialization of the late 19th century. It was a call on the part of thinkers, poets, artists, and designers to return to a handmade aesthetic, in which craftsmanship was paramount, design was nature-inspired , and construction methods were straightforward, simple, and undisguised.
English art critic John Ruskin had actually articulated the movement's founding principles several decades earlier. He considered the prevailing Victorian aesthetic decadent and argued for working conditions that considered the happiness of craftsmen. Pattern designer William Morris put Ruskin's theories into practice when he established Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861 to create everything from furniture to wallpaper to fabrics to tapestries.
Another craftsman to put the ideals of Arts and Crafts into action was Charles Robert Ashbee, who established his Guild of Handicraft in 1888 in the slums of London's East End. The goal was to produce furniture, metalware, and jewelry in an atmosphere of fair wages, good working conditions, and cooperation.
Most British artists of the day did not take the movement's social side that far. Instead, they contented themselves to producing furniture, ceramics, metalwork, and jewelry that hued to the visual principles of the movement, which got its formal name of Arts and Crafts in 1888.
Liberty & Co. in London brought the movement to the masses with chairs, plant stands, bookcases, and buffets, mostly in oak and mahogany. Individual designers of the day included William De Morgan, whose earthenware vases often suggested Persian influences.
Scotsman Charles Rennie Mackintosh, also considered a practitioner of Art Nouveau (which ran concurrently with the Arts and Crafts period), was another leader. From his Glasgow workshop, he produced handsome desks and other pieces of furniture. His high-backed chairs, especially the ones with trellis backs, are considered his signature.
Robert "Mouseman" Thompson arrived on the scene a little later. His charming gimmick was to adorn a carved mouse on the side of every piece of furniture he made...
In the United States, the Arts and Crafts movement was warmly embraced. Gustav Stickley published a highly influential magazine called The Craftsman from 1901 to 1916. Through his Craftsman Workshops in Syracuse, New York, he also produced furniture and metalwork.
Two of Stickley's brothers, John George and Albert, established their own firm, Stickley Bros. Co., in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1891. After John George left to start yet another Stickley company with yet another brother (L. & J. G. Stickley in Fayetteville, New York with brother Leopold), Albert carried on at Stickley Bros., eventually labeling his pieces with a tag that read "Quaint Furniture."
Leopold and John George produced pieces for one of the 20th century's greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright. Today Wright is more closely associated with what we now call the Prairie School, a type of architecture that emphasized horizontal lines and eschewed ornamentation. But at the turn of the 20th century, he was considered one of the leading practitioners of Arts and Crafts. Importantly, Leopold and John George were not above using mechanical techniques to produce their pieces. Thus, they embraced the aesthetic of Arts and Crafts if not its social and philosophical underpinnings.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was perhaps even more famous than Stickley, although like Macintosh, his style straddled Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Some of the finest examples of the former are his lamps with ceramic bases by Grueby Faience Company of Massachusetts.
Speaking of ceramics, the oldest pottery in the United States, Fulper Pottery Company, also became a proponent of Arts and Crafts with its 1909 Vasecraft line. Rookwood Pottery was a breeding ground for numerous Arts and Crafts ceramists — at one time or another, Artus Van Briggle, Matthew A. Daly William P. MacDonald, Albert Valentien, and John D. Wareham were all on staff.
More difficult to categorize was George Ohr, the so-called "Mad Potter of Biloxi, Mississippi," whose deformed and pinched vases fairly drip with candy-colored glazes. Newcomb College pottery from New Orleans went the other way, promoting simply-shaped vases and plates, usually with floral decorations in soft, pastel glazes.
Regions developed their own specialties. New York was the home of Roycroft, which excelled in copper objects for the home, handmade books, and fine wooden furniture. In Northern California, Arequipa Pottery of Fairfax imported future Fiesta visionary Frederick H. Rhead to design its pieces. Dirk Van Erp was another San Francisco Bay Area artisan of renown: His metal vases featured his trademark "warty" surface produced by hand-hammering.
In Southern California, Pasadena was the center for Arts and Crafts. In 1908, architects Charles Sumner and Henry Matthew Greene designed what many consider to be the movement's architectural masterpiece for David and Mary Gamble. A year later, tilemaker Ernest T. Batchelder established a school devoted to the movement.
Meanwhile, in Chicago and Boston, jewelry in the Arts and Crafts style was very popular. The Kalo Shop opened in Chicago in 1900. And in Boston, Frank Gardner Hale and Edward E. Oakes were among that city's leading jewelry designers.
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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Ancestry World Tree Project Surprise
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:40:51 EDT
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I did a limited amount of research through an attorney, and was told that,
you wrote the information, and can prove it is a copy of your original
information, then they have stolen your copyright. If that is the case, then
Ancestry.com could potentially be sued for printing information they have no
copyright too.
Copyrights do not neccessarily have to be sent to a copyright office to be a
There is a list at RootsWeb called COPYRIGHT-L which is a much better place
to discuss copyright issues (you and Pat will get more informed and complete
answers there) however, as a rule the data included in family trees isn't
copyrightable because it only includes FACTS and facts and other public domain
information such as names, dates, and places are not copyrightable. Primarily
this is true because you don't CREATE facts--you may be the the one who
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About the only part of a family tree that can be copyrighted are your
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Energy grants boost research, from new fuels to batteries
Tobacco as a source of fuel? Batteries to power a car for 500 miles on a single charge? A wave disk engine — the size of a cooking pot — that boosts a vehicle's fuel efficiency?
These ideas are a few of the dozens being funded by the Obama administration as part of a little-known program that encourages "high risk, high value" energy innovation that swings for the fences.
They were spotlighted in a recent, gee-whiz showcase, complete with high-powered lasers and microscopic transmitters, hosted near Washington, D.C., by the Department of Energy's ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy). The program is modeled after the Defense Department's larger, decades-old DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which says it invented the Internet.
Yet the third annual Energy Innovation Summit came amid debate about the federal government's role in funding clean technology. Critics, including many Republicans, cite the DOE's half-billion-dollar loan guarantee to bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra and its $10 million L Prize last August to Philips Lighting for developing an "affordable," efficient, made-in-America LED light bulb — that costs $50.
"The government does not have a good track record of funding research for commercial development," says David Kreutzer, an energy economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. He says it should fund only basic research and leave more commercial ideas to venture capitalists. If something is promising enough, such as advanced batteries, he says, the marketplace will take it.
Not necessarily so, ARPA-E's supporters say. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the program, established by a bipartisan 2007 law, gives small, two- to three-year grants so researchers can get over the development hump and attract private funding.
ARPA-E, which received $400 million in Recovery Act funds and $275 million in fiscal 2012, acts as a sort of matchmaker by introducing scientists to investors and manufacturers. It's separate from the loan guarantee program that funded Solyndra.
Citing the rise in gasoline prices, Chu says innovation is essential for weaning the USA off its dependence on fossil fuels. He says it's also vital for mitigating climate change.
"We're looking at America's sweet spot," Chu told reporters, citing the nation's strengths in innovation and manufacturing. He touted ARPA-E's innovations:
•Lithium batteries. California-based Envia Systems, which received a $4 million grant in March 2010, announced last month that its lithium-ion battery has broken the world's record for energy density at 400 watt-hours per kilogram — more than double today's batteries.
Atul Kapadia, the company's CEO, says Envia has raised $28 million from General Motors and other major automakers to commercialize its product within the next few years. He expects its battery will cost 50% less than those in today's electric vehicles.
ARPA-E is funding research on other types of lithium batteries, including a metal-air version by Berkeley, Calif.-based PolyPlus Battery that aims to run a car for 500 miles on a single charge — five times that of the all-electric Nissan Leaf.
•Tobacco fuel. The DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received in January a $4.9 million, three-year grant to re-engineer tobacco plants so they use energy from sunlight to produce fuel molecules in their leaves, which are then crushed so the fuel can be extracted.
"Just imagine, if they're successful, you'd have Big Oil and Big Tobacco coming together to save the world," ARPA-E's director Arun Majumdar quipped at the summit.
•Electrofuels. Boulder, Colo.-based OPX Biotechnologies, which received a $6 million grant in 2010, is engineering bacteria to produce liquid fuel by diverting energy and carbon from its own growth. It says its process is 10 times more efficient than photosynthesis, which is used to produce most existing biofuels.
•Grid-scale energy storage. Since wind and solar are intermittent sources of energy, the New York City-based CUNY Energy Institute received a $3 million grant in 2010 to develop a low-cost battery that can store the power until it's needed. The institute plans to spin off a startup to commercialize its room-size, zinc-manganese oxide batteries.
•Fuel efficiency.Michigan State University is using a $2.5 million grant received in October 2009, to develop a wave disk engine that uses a shock wave to compress fuel and dramatically boost the efficiency of a hybrid vehicle. It says the engine is lighter, cheaper and cleaner.
•Laser drilling. Colorado-based Foro Energy Inc. received $9.1 million to develop lasers that could drill through volcanic rock to access geothermal energy. "There's a lot of interest in what we're doing," says Brian Faircloth, adding Foro has contracts with U.S. and foreign oil companies to begin drilling this year.
Microsoft's Bill Gates, speaking at the summit, said the U.S. should double its spending on energy research even though he expects about 90% of the ideas will fail.
"We need to be willing to take risks," said Gates, who's invested in a start-up to create safer, smaller and more efficient nuclear power plants. He said TerraPower, which he chairs, is looking to build a demonstration plant and "China is one possible place."
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This is a wonderful book. It does what many stories try to do: it simply tells a person's life, a snippet of time in the grand scheme of things, and in the process touches on some larger truth. Something that helps a reader with a new perspective, a new thing to think about.
Many stories try to do this. Most fail to do it thoroughly.
But Animal Dreams does it. It is pierced through with sorrow and love and loss and growth, all wrapped up in one special town that most see as a place to move from. Many have left Grace; few return.
And yet Codi comes back, the prodigal daughter, suitcase heavy with fear, alienation, loneliness, and aimlessness. She is un-rooted, and tugged by memories she can and cannot remember. This is a story of finding oneself, of coming together inside your own skin. Of becoming.
Codi holds most of the pages, but some of the most devastating passages are from the few chapters told from her father's point of view. He is how she could be. How we all can be, if we feel but don't let it out, if we hide behind histories long past but still capable of wounding.
My favorite paragraph: "...people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
I'll be reading more Kingsolver.
Codi returns to her hometown and has all the usual emotions and realizations. And she meets a hot Native American man who guides her spirit and has hot sex with her. And I believe she solves some sort of environmental mystery. Wish-fullfillment drek cloaked in "magical realism". Why was this assigned in high school?
good @ everything can't be your fault, Remembrance a reflection of the truth not it's twin
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life.
Codi Nolina has returned to Grace, AZ to teach high school biology and keep an eye on her strong-willed father, Homer Nolina. Codi has spent her life drifting along, seeking a place to belong. She finished medical school, but not her internship. She has moved at the whim of her lover Carlo. And she has come to Grace expecting to leave in a year when her teaching contract has expired. Hallie, her sister, has just left for Nicaragua to work helping poor farmers with more efficient farming. Hallie is energized by life and lives it to the fullest. And Codi feels even more adrift due to the physical distance between herself and her sister. What Codi did not expect was to reconnect with her high school lover Loyd, a railroad man and half Apache/half Navaho.
Normally I am not a person who re-reads books. But this is the third time I have read this one and each time I feel it is new to me. I am drawn to Codi who feels she has no place to call home. I am drawn to Loyd and his close connection to the land. And I am drawn to the inhabitants of Grace, AZ. Probably I will read it again sometime. I feel the book is not finished with me.
Short stories from one of my favorite authors. I didn't like this as well as her novels.
Barbara Kingsolver is one of an increasing number of American novelists who are trying to rewrite the political, cultural and spiritual relationships between our country's private and public spheres.
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"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
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In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering with his work as a physician, and attempts to save the town from the evil Black Mountain Mining Company, which is poisoning the river and threatening the region's future. In alternating chapters, Kingsolver gives us Codi and her father, Homer, adroitly melding two viewpoints of one history. The book's southwestern setting proves particularly evocative: lush hot springs, dramatic vistas, and ancient pueblos are ideal envelopes for characters in deep introspection or loving embrace. The mixed Anglo and native American culture is equally colorful and unusually well developed. It's hard to find fault with this book--it manages to push all our emotional buttons without sacrificing fine craftsmanship.… (more)
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Spring semester enrollment at Kansas University set another record, with 17,430 enrolled as classes began for the new term. About 400 more were expected by the end of the week. The 17,430 represented a gain of 768 students over the comparable total from the year before. That had been the previous record.
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As I was looking through channels to find something on T.V and I happened to come across something interesting on CNN. Apparently Monday July 9th anyone whos computer has been affected by "Alureon/ DNS Changer bot" virus will lose all access to the internet.
Quote can be found here.Internet users across the world have been warned that if they have the "Alureon/ DNS Changer bot" virus on their computers, they will lose their Internet connections July 9.
The virus "spoofs" popular websites in an attempt to steal personal information.
The software found its way into thousands of computers worldwide last year. It redirect users away from trusted websites, towards spoof websites in a bid to steal financial and personal information.
When the attack was noticed, the FBI routed infected machines through its server to stop the attacks. But the servers will be taken down July 9. When this happens, computers still infected are likely to lose their internet connection without warning.
Multiple websites have been setup to check if your computer is infected. One of them is DNS Changer Check-Up (for list of other websites click here). Simply visit the website and if you see green colour, your computer is clean.
If you see red colour instead, your computer may be infected. You should visit this page for instructions on how to fix your computer.
If you prefer to manually check your system, detailed instructions for Windows XP, Window 7 and Mac OS X are provided as well. Again, use this page to look for a fix should your PC turn out be infected.
But remember, you should do this check immediately, because if your PC is infected, you won't be able to access any websites after 9th July


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Words are, Bardem has officially nailed a lead role of Roland Deschain in the Ron Howard-directed movie.
Javier Bardem has signed up to star in "The Dark Tower". New York Post recently reported that the Academy Award-winning actor has officially taken the lead role of Roland Deschain in the big screen version of Stephen King's book series.
"The Dark Tower" is planned to be made into three films with the TV series filling the gap between each movie. Ron Howard will direct the first film and the first season of a tie-in television series, with Akiva Goldsman writing both. The first big screen installment is expected to come out on May 17, 2013 in the U.S.
Bardem is the first Spaniard to be named nominee at Academy Awards. In 2000, he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Before Night Falls". He also played in "No Country for Old Men". Through his role in the movie, he won a series of awards, including 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was recently nominated in 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in film "Biutiful".


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Even after GOP leaders backed off accusation, Parker claims Pelosi's speech on bailout bill was responsible for losing GOP votes
Research ››› ››› DIANNA PARKER
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker asserted that Republicans "responded" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's speech before the vote on the financial bailout plan "by voting against the bill," even after House Minority Whip Roy Blunt backed off a claim that a dozen Republicans who might have supported the bill were alienated by Pelosi's speech and several Republicans denied that Pelosi's speech swayed any votes.
In an October 1 column, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker asserted that "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a partisan speech, blaming the credit crisis on the Bush administration. ... Republicans responded by voting against" the financial bailout bill. Parker did not name any Republicans who changed their vote because of Pelosi's speech, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), after accusing Pelosi at a press conference of alienating a dozen Republicans who might have supported the bill, later backed off his claim. In a clip that aired on the September 29 edition of ABC's Nightline, Blunt said that Pelosi's speech may have cost one or two votes: "We clearly had some members that were there but were precariously there. And one or two [votes] may have been affected by the speaker's speech." Moreover, several Republicans denied that Pelosi's speech swayed any votes.
Sixty-five Republicans and 140 Democrats ultimately voted for the bill -- 12 votes short of the number needed for passage.
Additionally, ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper reported in his blog, Political Punch, that Blunt also said, "That one speech was not helpful, but I think you don't want to give too much blame to that speech."
Further, The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman reported September 30 that, while Republican leaders "initially blamed Pelosi," they "backed away within hours, conceding they never had the votes they had promised." Another September 30 front-page Post article said: "Republicans initially lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), accusing her of delivering a partisan speech before the vote and costing them a dozen votes. But later, in interviews after tempers cooled, GOP leaders said they had been fighting an uphill battle from the start -- too many conservatives rejected the idea of a large, taxpayer-funded intervention, and too many moderates came from swing districts where constituents were up in arms over the bailout."
As Media Matters for America has noted, since the vote, several Republicans, including Rep. Darrell Issa (CA), Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN), and Rep. John Shadegg (AZ), dismissed the notion that Republicans voted "no" because of Pelosi's speech. Issa told Politico's blog The Crypt "that the idea that her speech shifted votes is 'nonsense.' " Shadegg said: "I don't know a single person who changed their vote on the basis of that, or would've." Furthermore, Fox News senior House producer Chad Pergram reported nearly an hour before Pelosi's speech that he was "hearing from the Republican side of the aisle, they may only have 40 to 60 of their members" supporting the bill, a number that Pergram noted, "leaves us very short there."
From the September 29 edition of ABC's Nightline:
TAPPER: At 2:07, Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher of California gaveled the bill dead. A nail in its coffin. Sixty percent of the Democrats voted for the bill. Sixty-six percent of the Republicans voted against it. Only 65 Republicans came on board, short of their goal of 80. What went wrong? Republicans immediately blamed House Speaker Pelosi's partisan speech for chasing away a dozen Republicans.
REP. ERIC CANTOR [R-VA]: Right here is the reason, I believe, why this vote failed. And this is Speaker Nancy Pelosi's speech that, frankly, struck the tone of partisanship that, frankly, was inappropriate in this discussion.
TAPPER: That excuse seemed laughable to Democrats, who pointed out that the Republicans never had the votes.
REP. BARNEY FRANK [D-MA]: Somebody hurt my feelings, so I will punish the country. I mean, that's hardly plausible. And there were 12 Republican members who were ready to stand up for the economic interests of America, but not if anybody insulted them. I'll make -- I'll make an offer. Give me those 12 people's names, and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them.
TAPPER: And in an interview with Nightline, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt backed off the assertion.
REP. ROY BLUNT [R-MO]: We clearly had some members that were there but were precariously there. And one or two of them may have been affected by the speaker's speech.
From Parker's October 1 column:
That we have become a partisan nation is no secret. This week has provided a vivid example of where rabid partisanship leads with the failure of Congress to pass a bailout bill vitally needed to keep our economy from unraveling.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a partisan speech, blaming the credit crisis on the Bush administration (omitting the Clinton administration's role in launching the subprime lending debacle). Republicans responded by voting against the bill.
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I have not attended the Noisebridge space in awhile and have been following Noisebridge news via forum posts for quite awhile.

I think it is kind of ridiculous for members to banter on forum posts about sleeping at Noisebridge, stealing donation funds, criticizing other members, etc. ĀThat is what weekly meetings are for - or better yet, just meet with said person or people to discuss the appropriate issues.

I always thought the forum posts were to figure out when the next soldering session was going to happen, who is making what for Maker's Faire, what awesomely crazy kitchen/kombucha experiments are happening but now my inbox is filled with junk because people are not able to confront other people like civilized adults and instead, use the forum posts to poke at others from afar behind the safety of their computers.

Grow up.

If the forum posts continue at this rate, I will, sadly, have to unsubscribe. ĀI know there are a lot of amazing people and projects at Noisebridge. ĀFor the sake of Noisebridge, please keep it that way.

Cristina

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 I don't think this is a constructive comment. I am OK with Patrick, as
 are several others.

 I am often at NB during the day, and can vouch for most of what
 Patrick says regarding his actions (sleep, rides, money into locked
 jars). I have no knowledge of the incident regarding Robert.

 Also, do we have it clear that the main issue is *residential* use of
 Noisebridge, not sleep per se? Lots of people take naps at NB.

 On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Hephaestus <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
 > Patrick,
 >
 > You're un-excellent. You're a total douchenugget. Nobody likes you.
 > I'm still kicking you out of the space the next time I see you.
 >
 > --
 > Heph
 >
 > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Patrick Keys <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
 >> Sleeping:
 >> I have never slept here longer than a short nap. Ever. Any time I am
 >> here at night or early in the morning. ĀYou can ask anybody that's here
 >> during that time (Isky, Robert, Benny, etc.). ĀMy usual routine when I
 >> am here late at night has been to drive Benny home in my car so he
 >> doesn't have to walk.
 >>
 >> Stealing:
 >> I have no need to steal. ĀPlus, a lot of food that's brought in here is
 >> food that I pay for myself. ĀThe alleged stealing is gossip that Robert
 >> started two nights ago while he was, ahem, sleeping here overnight at
 >> Noisebridge. ĀHe also put up a curtain over the tea room and slept here
 >> all last night. ĀHe and I were the only two people here two nights ago.
 >> ĀHe awoke in the middle of sleeping in the Turing classroom, ran out of
 >> the room for some bizarre reason, and then claimed to have heard a
 >> noise. ĀHe then blamed was my dog. ĀThe next day, with no rhyme or
 >> reason, without even discussing it with me, he began telling his buddy
 >> Fabian behind my back that he was going to start personal private
 >> investigations into me.
 >>
 >> On several occasions, I have - with witnesses watching - taken money
 >> from the glass donation jar in the kitchen and moved it to the locked
 >> jar specifically to prevent theft. ĀI also update the drink money page
 >> whenever I take money from there. ĀWhen tastebridge money has been
 >> spent, I've also provided a receipt for any expenses.
 >>
 >> I'm not a gossip, but a few nights ago a $20 bill mysteriously got
 >> stolen from the drink donation box. ĀI counted the money before I left
 >> at 4am to see how much money we had. ĀThe next day, when it came time to
 >> buy drinks, the $20 was missing.
 >>
 >> This is all ridiculously childish.
 >>
 >> Andy, it is unexcellent to accuse people of stealing, particularly when
 >> it is not even you doing the accusing. ĀInstead, it's an "anonymous"
 >> gossip that you're relaying.
 >>
 >> Gossip is un-excellent.
 >>
 >>
 >> Patrick
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> On 1/3/2011 11:37 AM, Alex Handy wrote:
 >>> In the spirit of the openness that Patrick Keys has postulated, demanded, and yammered on about incessantly, I thought it only fair to air the accusations I was just made aware of:
 >>>
 >>> It is alleged that Patrick Keys has been seen taking money out of the donation boxes. This accusation was leveled by a fellow who claimed to see this take place at 3 AM while the witness was gaming at NB. I've been told others have seen him do this on other occasions, but rather than do things in the dark behind closed doors, I thought I'd ask the list if anyone else can corroborate. Maybe we can set up some sort of formal process for dealing with thieves Āin the process!
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 >>> Anyone want to chime in?
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Wright State led by 10 with just under seven minutes to go, but had to hold on down the stretch before defeating IUPUI 75-71 in the women's basketball home opener Wednesday night at WSU's Nutter Center.
Neither team had more than a four-point lead in the first half until a Kayla Lamotte three from the top of the key put WSU up 28-23 with 6:09 remaining. Another Raider triple, this time by Breanna Stucke, kept the margin at five, but the Jaguars tied it at 33 on a Dawn Luster layup and a Jordan Barton three.
The Raiders, however, took a 37-33 lead into the halftime break on four foul shots in the final 34 seconds, two each from KC Elkins and Lamotte.
Wright State shot 44 percent from the field in the first half, including four of eight from three-point range, and was 11 of 16 at the foul line compared to IUPUI shooting 39 percent, four of 15 from behind the arc, and three of four at the stripe.
Mylan Woods gave WSU a 48-41 advantage with a three in the left corner at the 16:30 mark of the second half and the lead gradually grew to 65-55 following a Stucke putback with 6:44 left. The Jaguars, though, rallied back and only trailed 73-71 on a DeAirra Goss layup at the 5.8-second mark.
Kim Demmings, however, sealed the victory for the Raiders as she hit two foul shots with 4.2 seconds to go for the final margin.
Both teams shot 39 percent for the game and IUPUI led 34-22 in points in the paint, 26-21 in points off of turnovers and 19-13 in second chance, but the game ultimately came down to the foul line as Wright State hit 25 of 38 comapred to 13 of 20 for the Jaguars.
Five WSU players scored in double figures, led by Demmings with 16 points, all but two coming in the second half, while Stucke scored a career-high 15 points and nearly had a double-double with nine rebounds. Lamotte tied a career-high as she added 15 points of bench, 13 in the first half, Woods had a career-best 11 points off the bench and Elkins chipped in 10. Tayler Stanton gathered in nine boards.
Goss paced all scorers with 22 points for IUPUI (1-1), but no other Jaguar managed more than nine.
Wright State (1-1) will host Buffalo on Sunday, November 18, at 3:00.


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Gaah, only 3 days! If anyone can help, I need a simple, easy-to-do wart for the side of Jiraiya's nose. (I know, seems pointless, but its my first cosplay and I want it to be detailed) Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking of making a little ball of elmers for that skin-like texture, but I had forgotten I need to get it on my face. :\


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The minutes of the Fed's January meeting do not suggest that QE3 is about to stop – indeed they reaffirm ongoing asset purchases – but they do make it hard to believe that buying at a pace of $85bn a month really is open-ended.
Compared with the December minutes, which had people wanting to continue QE3 until the end of 2013 or stop well before then, January reads like a deliberate attempt to be less clear about when asset purchases will end. The December discussion came from voting members, January is just participants; December referred to dates, January does not. Read more


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The supposed acting comeback from the late singer shows the glamor life of Motown singers and their struggle.
"Sparkle", Whitney Houston's last movie before she died on February 11 this year, has released its first sneak peek. The clip, which was debuted on "Today", did not include a footage of Houston singing but enough of her. '"Keep dancing like that and you'll bring home some kids you can't feed," she joked in one scene.
Houston plays a single mom to three girls, played by Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter, who are eager to form a Motown group. "I always knew you had the gift," she is heard telling her daughters after their performance.
The three Williams sisters begin singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group. Their sudden rise unravels their personal lives. The pic, which is aimed for August 2012 release, was directed by Salim Akil and co-produced by Houston.
"It was definitely her baby," said Sparks in an interview with EW. "You could see the pride on her face when we wrapped. She was so excited that this was finally happening. Even before she passed I wanted to be able to represent this movie in a way that would honor her and respect her, because she worked so hard on it."


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If I do not have symptoms can I get treated for worms? I was just in Peru and Argentina, and I am afraid I may have contracted worms. I know there are lots of different kinds, but could I just treat for all of them? I was researching on line, and they are SO common....
It is rare for travelers to become infected with worms unless they have been in high risk environments for six months or longer. Testing stool samples, even in asymptomatic people with high risk exposures, could be done if it has been at least 6 - 12 weeks since the exposure. It can take at least that long for adult worms to develop and shed eggs. Medications generally work best on adult worms. Most species of worms also are cleared from an infected person without treatment if there is not continued high risk exposure.
It would be a good idea to get help assessing your risk and concerns from a doctor experienced with travel diseases. If you are a registered student at WWU, you can make an appointment for this by calling 650-3400.
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Try put a broken cable to differnt switch and do some ping tests...
Propably it wasnt problem of network ports, just cable....
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Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] 10% packet loss when pinging m0n0wall
> Try a longer cable or a different switch port.
Well, I made a new cable *and* tried a different switch port and my
packet loss is now zero over several hundred pings so it looks like
this problem is solved. Thanks for the advice :). Incidentally, is
there any way to stress test a switch (we have a 24 port D-Link
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Whew, I'm so happy you decided to stop by. Wish I could offer you a refreshment, but it's a bit difficult to make that happen with the influx of cyberspace between us. However, I can give you a tour of my site.
In here, you'll find the latest information about my books along with some extra info you'll only find here about my books. I have also included upcoming projects, a bit about my personal crazy life, and sometimes I post about other amazing authors.
I hope that through this site we can find a way to communicate by:
Thank you for stopping by and I hope we will build a great friendship together.


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Naomi Campbell won TV personality of the year and Paloma Faith scooped the solo artist prize.
She was mostly Spiggoty and half Indian, and her name was Paloma.
Just sat in-doors jabbering with Paloma and helping with the chores.
Her name was Paloma (Dove), and to escape shame, the mother threw her and her other daughters and then herself into the waves.
I doubt if she had ever crossed the threshold of the Paloma before.
Recollect, Harry, that the better element in Paloma won't stand much nonsense.
In those days Paloma was a new town on the line of the Southern Pacific.
Then you learned that the real Arizona people over in Paloma don't find any fault with what I did?
"The men of Paloma will do all the hurting," Mr. Beasley announced grimly.
It was certain that Paloma real estate would rise to three or four times its present value.


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Mother: Mary Shore b: 11 MAR 1784 in Huntingdon Co., PA
Marriage 1 Ann Heeter b: 3 APR 1821 in Union Township, Huntingdon Co. PA
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The Western culture remained for the most part inactive during the so called the Medieval Ages particularly in philosophy. Viewed from the global perspective, China and her sister civilizations were in peaks of the world civilization. By saying this, we do not necessarily contend that we shall be able to write a world history. In every genre of arts, it simply is ascertained, China and her sister civilizations were excelled. To be sure, the great Romanesque arts both in sculpture and building were developed. The grandeur of the Gothic building started in 12th century in Chartre. In this respect, it may not be possible for any other culture to equal in its accomplishments. They may be considered exceptions to the rules.
The Spiritual Liberation and The Paradigm Shift in Understanding Reality
The 15th century in the West is a certain kind of spiritual liberation. How great the cultural
heritages the Medieval churches were, it would not change the fact that churches and monasteries
monopolized knowledge and its pursuit. The majority of the people were kept in the darkness of
ignorance. The clergies were considered to prophesy and indoctrinate the masses. Even the so
called the university which was very unique institutions in the world were established for the
church and clergymen. People were able to start learning and inquiry. It was the time of discovery.
Instead of God and the Bibles with blind faith in them, people started first re-discovering the
Ancient Civilization which was long forgotten. It was the attitude of mind in which the human
being was encouraged to search for knowledge and discover truth for its own sake by one's own
abilities rather than to be told what is truth and what is not truth by the church. They also started
discovering for example how advanced and useful the Ancient laws were to the society of the time.
Warfare among feudal lords also helped to understand (as Machiavelli clearly expressed himself)
how powerful knowledge was. Intellectuals did not defy the authority of the church necessarily,
but they discovered an enormous directions and activities in the pursuit of knowledge and they
were excited with such pursuit.
The secular life of merchant classes became more and more powerful and important. They became patrons for arts, literature, music and theatres. The church was still powerful enough to support some of the greatest minds of Renaissance (Michelangelo for example). Secular paintings, secular sculptures, secular buildings and secular activities such as festivals, theatres, music concerts and writing and reading poetry found more audiences among these newly arisen merchants and their families. Their wealth allowed them to learn how to read and write and spent a great deal of their time for "recreations."
The paradigm of the God centered universe and its knowledge was quickly taken over by the paradigm of the human-centered universe. This does not mean that immediately, the human reason started to deify itself, but it was the intellectual movements which, on the one hand, discovered the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations through influences from the Arab world and which, on the other hand, the human=being discovered itself as something unique, something exciting, something extremely real and something to be understood for its own sake.
The power of knowledge which was discovered both for its own sake and for some particular usefulness and did not gain such an articulation between them was overwhelming to the extent that as far as the universe which our experience reached must be understood on its own account, while many people believed that there would be the other "universe" where our experience and rational knowledge never reached must be left taken care of by the church and religion and faith. Nevertheless, the authority as the center of all activities in a culture was no longer with the church and was shifted to the knowledge of secular scientific inquiries and the monumental achievements of unparalleled artistic activities.
Humanitas as the Educational Ideal of Renaissance
Now the crucial questions were raised in the minds of the Renaissance people regarding
how to educate children. To what ideal were their children supposed to be educated? In the past, it
was always the church which had such a function. The newly rising class of merchants did not
find the teaching of the Bibles enough for their children to be trained. They were not only
interested in how skillful and how much in command in a special ability (accounting, negotiation,
navigation, etc.) their children would be trained, but they were more interested in to educate their
children how better human-beings they would become by such education. They found that the
church failed to fulfill such tasks. Now suddenly, they found in the Ancient culture in which the
ancient aristocrats and the wealthy educated their children. This educational ideal, in a one word,
the people of Renaissance called "humanitas." The Greek original word was "paideia."
In this sense, Renaissance was the very unique period of transition from the church to the secular activities, that of transition from the faith to knowledge, that of transition of authority from the dogmatic faith to exploratory search for knowledge.
Philosophy of Consciousness
Philosophy of Contemporary Period may be best characterized best as the philosophy of
consciousness. As Hegel properly said, "as long as the contemporary philosophy made the
thinking as the principle of its philosophical inquiry, Descartes was the founder of the
Contemporary philosophy." It may be necessary to comprehend why and how such a new
approach and the choice of its principle took place.
When we talk about the universe, we always mean to comprehend that which may be intelligible to us in some way or other by the concept of the universe. Normally, when we had apparently no way to extend the scope of our knowledge, what we knew was that which was known by immediate experience. (To be continued).
The renaissance was a drastic change for the Western world.
Till then during the Middle Ages, the Western wold had been completely controlled by Christianity, the religion. So-called scientific inquiries occurred from time to time after 13th century, particularly under the influences of Islamic scientific pursuit, but they were generally considered dangerous to and heretic against Christianity.
The calling of priest had been considered to be much higher than any other profession and the priests were those for whom the rest of the humans had existed (Picture the Egyptian priests and the majority of the populace! There was no difference between Europe in the Middle Ages and Egypt in the Ancient Times.) The main concern had been the well-being of the soul in its after life.
Suddenly in Renaissance, the concern of the people was of this life, the secular activities, their profession, possession, well-being and this world (Nature, the world, the Humans and their society. Martin Luther's new affirmation of the secular professions to be equally important against the theological calling for example).
In the past, the tradition had been always the prime concern.
The new breakthroughs and originality were considered far more important in Renaissance (new scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs).
In the Middle ages, communal life and thinking had been considered of cardinal importance.
In Renaissance, on the contrary, the individuality and uniqueness was encouraged (the artists started signing their names on the works of art).
In the Medieval Time, philosophy, generally speaking, philosophy had been merely considered as ancilla theologiae (the maid servant for theology).
Then, philosophy as search for knowledge and truth for its own sake declared its own independence from theology and religion. The power of knowledge which was sought for its own sake was more strongly re-affirmed in Renaissance than even the Ancient Greece and Roman period.
While through the emphasis of tradition (as any religion was and is so), the religious, unquestionable, unquestioned authority of the absolute God was honored in the Middle Ages, freedom of the individual, the independent mind's search for truth, the human reason and rationality took its place in Renaissance and thereafter.
Philosophy of Renaissance
We talk about Renaissance, but there are many different kinds of Renaissance. In this context, it is only important to note that there are two kinds of aspects of Renaissance.
A) Reproductive Renaissance Attempts to reproduce the culture and the values of the Ancient World
B) Productive Renaissance Unintended byproducts of them, namely various values and cultural phenomena which are very original, unique to 15th and 16th Century Europe.
A) Reproductive Renaissance = renaiscantia romantitatis
Humanism = The most important value that was endeavored to reproduce
The world, Humanism and Humanity were created in Renaissance.
Humanitas in the sense of "homo humanum" in Renaissance was placed in opposition to"homo barbarus" of the gothic scholasticism of the Middle Ages, too.
Therefore, "humanism" or "humanity" goes back to a peculiar civilization of the late Greek and early Roman culture as it origin.
From the above two elements,
1) "humanism" referred to the revival and study of the Classic Greek and Roman texts (of philosophies and literature).
2) Humanism meant to be "human-centered," in opposition to the authoritarianism of Church and State
3) the revival of classical Latin
In distinction from the Medieval Latin, the classical Latin became an important part of the civilized people's culture (what we understand today as General Education)
4) The revival of Classical theatre, "music, " and drama.
4) The revival of the Classical philosophies
Platonism = the revival of Academy in Firenze in 1440 by the Medici
which is much more neo-Platonistic, viewed from today.
Plethon 1355-1450 (the Founder)
Bessarion 1403-1472
Ficino 1433-1499
Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494 Theosophy, Neo-platonism and Cabala's mysticism
Aristotelianism = the controversies in Padva concerning whether the soul (reason within it) is eternal or not.
Those who denied that reason of the human soul is eternal were
Alexandros von Aphroaisias around 200 A.D.
Pietro Pomponazzi 1462-1525
The Arabic Aristotelian who affirmed the eternity of reason were
Averöes Ý1198
Stoicism = Justus Lipsius 1547-1606 in Belgium influenced René Descartes and
Spinoza's Ethics.
Epicurianism = Lorenzo Valla 1406-1457
de voluptate (on Pleasure)
influenced Gassendi 1592-1655
Skepticism = philosophers who influenced Montagne
Neo-Platonism = together with the revival of Platonism in Florence
Pythagoreanism = Kepler and Galilei
Atomism = the revival with Epicurianism
5) The revival of the principle of knowledge being power
Knowledge during the Middle Ages was the monopoly of the priests. Nobody else
could read the Bibles, nor read anything else.
As a result, the priests were most powerful in monopolizing knowledge.
In Renaissance, not only through Reformation (1517), but Martin Luther in
particular, translated the Bibles into the German (the dialect of Hannover).
Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing, and
printed and published Luther's translation of the Bibles.
For the first time, the secular people were able to read the Bibles and understood what it meant by themselves, i.e., without the priest's interpretation or mediation.
Knowledge was understood as power, was revived and pursued as such by non-priests as well as priests as the source of power and power itself.
Philosophy, besides the knowledge as a powerful instrument,
regained the original meaning and its task, namely the pursuit of knowledge and for its own sake. The intellectuals were fascinated with new knowledge that they started discovering. This will lead us to the so-called Productive Renaissance.
From the original meaning of humanitas, it is quite natural to derive the meaning of today's
notion of humanism in the sense that we view reality in terms of the humanity and look at
the humans as the center of reality and the universe.
This notion of humanism became popular for the first time in the 19th century in Europe, and in Germany in particular. (Galileo, Montaigne, Machiavelli, in particular)
B) Productive Renaissance
In distinction form the Reproductive Renaissance, there were new movements inspired by the Reproductive Renaissance. There were also some misunderstandings of the Reproductive Renaissance, which produced an ingenious creative activities (the operas and ballets are prime examples of these).
In the field of philosophy, the revival and the re-cognition of the value of mathematical knowledge and its application to the understanding of Nature, the significance of empirical knowledge, i.e. the knowledge from experience were urgent agenda for those philosophers. Those problems could not be mere results of "returning to the Ancient philosophies."
A) Nicholas cusanus 1401-1464
Cusanus was borne in a little town on the Mosel, called Bernkastel-Cues in Germany (which was not so far from Trier where Karl Marx was born).
Cusanus thought was unauthodox at best, but being very close to the Pope at the time, Cusanus was not prosecuted.
Concordantia oppositorum
(to be worked out)
B) Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535)
Spiritus mundi = the power or principle conceived by a psychic, i.e., spiritual
C) Paracelsus 1493-1541
D) Jacob Böhme 1575-1624
The central problem of his philosophy = the problem of Evil
Galileo has been the well-known figure to us by many episodes in high school textbooks.
He was born in Pisa, Italy
Both Galilei and Kepler attempted to synthesize induction and deduction
experience and mathematics in sciences
Galileo did not invent the telescope which was primarily invented for military use (in 1608),
but he discovered its use in the sciences.
He was the first one to direct the telescope to the celestial bodies, made many discoveries.
Galilei observed that the moon is not a plate but a globe with many craters.
Galilei discovered that 4 planets of Jupiter and saw the same relationships between them of Copernicus' heliocentric hypothesis.
Galilei discovered that Saturn has a ring
Galilei discovered that Venus has many craters.
Galileo published Dialogo supra idue massioni sistemi del monds: Tolemaico e Copernicano in 1632
He was tried in 1633
and from 1642 till his death in confinement
Galileo published Discorsi in 1638
Galileo discovered the law of inertia against Aristotle's physics
in 159, Galilei was supposed to have an experiment of the law of a falling body.
Greatest contribution of Galileo's philosophy consists in the fact that Galileo recognized the significance of mathematics and his contention that laws of nature is expressed by mathematical terms, which made the revolutionary impacts on the further development of natural sciences and philosophy of the modern era (particularly through Descartes).
His words, "Nature (as a book) is written by the mathematical symbols..." emphasized the significance of experience and experiment as well as the inevitable application of mathematics to the natural sciences
Scientific method
a) metodo rosolutivo = Analysis into simple elements
simplify the perceived whole into its simple elements
b) metodo compositivo = Synthesis by theory and experiment
1. synthesize these simple elements by mathematics
2. check the results by experiment (by simplified conditions)
Bacon was born in London, studied at Cambridge, went to France for two years (Descartes was not yet born!).
Bacon was influenced by Montaigne.
Bacon as a bureaucrat served under Queen Elizabeth and James I but he was later dismissed by a bribery charge.
The Advancement of Learning 1605
De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum (the Latin translation of the above) 1622
Novum organum 1620
which was first published under the title of
Cogitate et visa in 1612
Essays 1597, and 1625
The whole purpose of Bacon's philosophy was to revolutionize the sciences (philosophy as well as other sciences) against the scholastic philosophy and in consequence against Aristotelian philosophy and sciences.
In Instauratio magna ( the Preface to Novum organum), Bacon states 6 plans for that revolution of
sciences, but
he was able to actualize two of them.
1. partitiones scientiarum (classification of sciences)
This was actualized in his The Advancement of Learning.
2. Novum organum (the methodology of science)
This was actualized in his Novum organum.
3. Historia naturalis
The History of Nature
4. Scala intellectus
The steps of knowledge, explication of the method of proofs and examples.
5. Anticipationes philosophiae secundae
The anticipation of the second philosophy (the sciences)
6. Philosophia secunda sive scientia scientiarum
The Second Philosophy or the knowledge of sciences
The Classification of Sciences
The sphere of knowledge = globus inellectualis
organ memory imagination reason
area history poesy philosophy
history of nature
history of humankind
reason----------philosophy (= the sciences)
revealed theology
natural theology
speculative philosophy of nature (theoretical)
physics (investigate causa materialis and
causa efficiens)
metaphysics (investigate causa formalis and
causa finalis
operative philosophy of nature
mechanics = practical physics
magic = practical metaphysics
natural magic such as hypnosis, & e.s.p.
human philosophy (treated as separate)=anthropology
political philosophy (treated as being in a society)
Bacon recognized the necessity of reforming the traditional Aristotelian sciences, because they were making no progress. They were not certain, nor unpractical. They failed to expand our knowledge of the universe and the history
2) establish the new ideal of science, i.e., to obtain the knowledge of nature to control nature
(scientia potentia est = knowledge is power)
"Leave the words!" and
"Get to fact itself!"
invention = to follow nature and control it!
3) reveal the method for knowledge of nature
Use the empirical method,
Obtain new knowledge from experience.
As to Inquiry, there are 2 kinds of imperatives
negative imperatives (= the theory of idols)
positive imperatives (=experiences as the sources of knowledge)
Negative Imperative
= the destruction of the Idols (= prejudices), there 4 kinds
1) idola theatri (the idol of theater)
reliance on authority and tradition and general acceptance
2) idola fori (the idol of market place)
result from the use of the language, the language does not correspond the fact, but it is arbitrary
3) idola species (the idol of the cave)
arise from human's temperament, education, and others which shape the human as an individual
4) idola tribus (the tribal idol)
prejudices derived form the nature of humankind, e.g., sense deception, anthromorphism, confusions of causa efficiens (efficient cause) and causa finalis (final cause or purpose).
try to comprehend nature without teleology (which implies cause finalis and causa formalis), mechanically, i.e., purely by means of cause efficiens
Positive Imperative, having getting rid of those bias mentioned above,
Our attention and inquiry must be directed to Experience Itself!
Inductive method = an inquiry or an inference from the given phenomena to the
systematic ---- facts are to be gathered by observation and experiment
cause and laws to be discovered
In order to systematically collect instances,
there are 3 instances
a) positive instances = tabula praesentiae
b) negative instances = tabula absentiae
c) comparative instances = tabula graduum.
e.g. increasing or decreasing heat
d) prerogative instances which are to supplement other instances
The Form of Nature = the Laws of Nature
Summary of his thought
1. rejection of Aristotle's logic (syllogism) as the method of inquiry into nature and his philosophy of nature
2. revival of Democritus' philosophy of nature = atomistic, quantitative understanding of nature
3. did not understand the significance of mathematics
in understanding of nature.
The most important political philosopher in Renaissance (the forerunner of Hobbes in arguing for the autocracy and the most significant realistic theory of politics until John Locke proposed the Democratic Theory of Government on the basis of the natural rights)
1) Being a man of Renaissance, he clearly recognize the significance of KNOWLEDGE AS
POWER in contrast to physical power.
Machiavelli proposed a very practical theory of ruling.
2) The end justifies the Means
3) the aim of the political jurisprudence and ruling = the maintenance & development of the state (= the autocrat and his ruling)
4) the emphasis on the rational calculation in stead of emotive mercy and sympathy.
5) Only the appearance of moral values, not the moral values themselves, is important.
6) The independence of the state from the church
the author of the book "The Utopia"
By this book, Moore baldly proposes an ideal condition of society and state. Moore is in this sense the first envisioner for the reform of the society, which would be sceeded by Jean-Jacques Rousseau a century later, those so-called uptopian socialists and Karl Marx in the 19th century.
One of his early insight into the further developemnt of political philosophy may be found in his fierce insistence on the independence of the state from the church and visa verse.
According to Thomas Moore, the genuine ideal of the state starts with two conditions: 1) the
elimination of the inequality of possession, and 2) the abolishment of class
The concept of UTOPIA was a creation of Moore and signifies a) eu-topos = the good place and
b) ou-topos = the no place at the same time, both of which were implied by the concept.
Even today, His "The Utopia" is widely read not only for political philolsophy, but also for his unique, innovative concepts.
Hobbes studied the scholastic philosophy at Oxford and was eight years older than Descartes.
Hobbes went to Paris many times, got acquainted with Gassendi and Mersenne and Descartes.
Hobbes was greatly influenced by Galileo and Descartes.
In England, Cromwell's revolution took place and It was the republics from 1649-1660 and Hobbes was supportive of the absolute monarchy due to that political turmoil.
Hobbes was a materialist and a skeptic.
Hobbes attacked the Scholastic philosophy
which, according to Hobbes, is a meaningless play with meaningless words.
1) Leviathan 1651
2) Elementa philosophiae
a) de corpore (1655)
b) de homine (1658)
c) de cive (1642,1654)
3) elements of Law natural and politie (1640)
4) Liberty and Necessityl (1646, 1654)
Defined from the method, according to Hobbes,
Philosophy is the cognition either of the effect from its cause (=deduction)
or of the cause from its effects (=induction)
by the proper employment of reason
The center of Hobbes' mertaphysics (=the doctrine of being) is the concept of BODY
Defined from its object,
Philosophy is the science of Body and its motion.
Any being is a body and
any phenomenon is motion.
Anything real which is a body (=material entity) applies even to a point or a line.
Spirit is a matter too fine to the senses.
or it is considered a motion of a certain portion of an organism. so is feeling and emotion.
If the body and its motion are the proper objects of philosophy,
The only correct method of philosophy must be the mathematical.
Hobbes recognized the significance of mathematics and corrected Bacon's weakness.
The human-being is the most perfect body and it is a element of the body called the state.
Hobbes' metaphysics is a clear statement of materialism.
The most primary in the process of knowledge is our impression given to the sense.
The impression is caused by the external motion and will reach the heart and will create a reaction.
The sensation thus caused in us is purely subjective, exists only in our mind and does not correspond to (is not a copy of) the external cause.
Hobbes distinguished the secondary qualities
the primary qualities which are to be inferred from those impressions.
Hobbes was a nominalist.
Nominalism is the philosophical position such that the universals such as being, justice, number, etc. do not exist, but only words.
The universals are created by the humans.
According to Hobbes,
Words have meanings only when they are associated, directly or indirectly, with qualities of sense or feeling.
The qualities of sense or feeling are produced by the motions of bodies acting on our body:
These motions leave traces, and associations are made.
This engenders memory and imagination, which is "nothing but decaying sense."
Memory is the sensation to have sensed something.
Experience is something such that the totality of perceptions retained in memory is connected to the foresight which predicts a future event. The animals also possess the same ability.
the human-being being capable of the pursuit of knowledge (sciences) is due to our linguistic ability.
The humans have the ability and learn to attach names to their imaginations and
to use signs
Hobbes developed the theory of mind only the basis of the facts of memory and imagination
Reasoning is mere calculation, = the manipulation of signs
reasoning is said to be correct if the same signs are constantly attached to the same image.
imagination = an image or an idea, according to Hobbes.
Mathematics is the model of all knowledge.
Moral Philosophy
Hobbes took the position of Determinism (the doctrine which holds that our will does not have freedom, but is totally causally determined by the preceding conditions).
There are two different kinds of reaction that the human heart has upon the impression of an object.
The one which is a logical reaction is called sensation
The other which are practical reactions are called feelings of pleasure and pain.
Deliberation is the name for the interchanges of different desires.
Will is the name which is given to the strongest, the most winning desire
Freedom means that without any external hindrance an action is made from the will.
therefore, the action is necessarily resulted from the winning desire.
All motion is a consequence of the totality of the preceding motions.
Good is that which is desired.
Evil is that which is hated.
Therefore, nothing is either good or evil in itself.
What is good or evil is relative to a particular person, in a particular place, in a particular time and in the particular circumstances.
The standard of Good and Evil exists, therefore, only in a given society, in a given state.
What the law permits is good,
What the law prohibits is evil.
Good is in general profitable.
In the State of Nature where there is no (positive=man-made) law and nothing is prohibited,
Nature gave everyone the right to everything.
In other words,
The scope of one's right was the scope of one's power.
The transition from the State of Nature to the Civil State the State of War.
By Nature, the human being is not a social animal as Aristotle held.
The human being is Selfish.
In the State of War, we are fighting each other over the each one's rights and try to deprive others of their rights by destroying their lives.
The strongest would win and would subjugate others to slavery or even to their death.
the Fear and the Calculation of the people lead people to move to the Civil State or to form a Civil Government.
The political organization is the artificial human product of the Fear of Death and Calculation of one's benefit.
The highest Good is Self Preservation.
Such goods as friendship, wealth, wisdom, science or power is secondarily and is valuable as long as it is beneficial to Self Preservation.
In the State of Nature, Preservation of One's Life and Health is lacking.
The State of Nature immediately moves to the State of War (bellum omnium contra omnes).
Everyone is fighting for one's own happiness by killing each other.
In this State of War, even the strongest among them may not be safe.
Reason of People dictates to seek Peace and establish an Ordered Society.
The Preconditions for Peace is The Law of Nature, but in itself is not sufficient to guarantee the actual Peace. The Law of Nature actualizes itself by supplemented by the Positive Laws such that everyone in the given society is giving up all the other Natural Rights than the Right to Life for the sake of Protection of Life.
The Civil State comes into existence by the Covenant.
This Covenant is possible 1) by giving up all the other rights and freedom
2) by transferring all those rights and Subordination to One Will which by representing the rest of the subject will act for the Protection of the subject's Life.
This is the Absolute Monarchy.
The evils resulted from the Absolute Monarchy is better than\
the evils in the State of War.
The Absolute Monarch determines what is good or evil by Laws and Teachings
and what to believe.
The Religion which is not approved by the State is Superstition.
The Monarch is the highest Priest, while the other priests are his subordinates.
the community which consists of the humans is called a State,
the community which consists of the Christians is called a Church.
The Subject should not question of whether or not the doctrines established by laws are true.


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Sugary of the day from Belle Waring slamming down Megan McArdle's arguments in favor of giving rich exhibitionists in hotels the benefit of the doubt:
She elides the fact that you, as a woman, know when you're being flashed vs. when you accidentally walk in on someone who hasn't heard your knock. Really. Big difference. A man showing you his penis on purpose has a certain way about him, let's just say. Do I really have to go there? He is likely (thought not certain) to be visibly sexually aroused. And sauntering around looking at you weird, with his penis in his hand as often as not. This is not the behavior of the startled guest who shouts—"wait—don't come in!" and begins pulling the sheets around himself in a fit of embarrassment. I honestly would have thought, here is a class of rich people whom not even Megan McArdle would defend! I begin to suspect the null set is involved.
I always find it fascinating that more often than not it is women making unbelievable arguments in sexual harassment and sex crime cases. To me, that fact show how icky and hard, it is to identify with the victim of a sex act no matter how believable she is because nobody wants to believe that not only shit happens, to put it bluntly, that it can be sexual and can place in the woman in a position where she is possessed/touched/harassed without having caused the situation.
In short, women are tougher on women victimized sexually because it is both empowering and reassuring.