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Ballet Chicago is an internationally recognized professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers and people. Ballet Chicago believes every aspiring artist deserves the opportunity to explore his or her full potential, and strives to make classical ballet training accessible to all talented students who have the desire to dance.
Ballet Chicago is dedicated to rigorous technical training in a culture that fosters personal growth. and by teaching impeccable technique as well as fundamental life skills, their students go on to find success in dance and life.
Ballet Chicago founders and professional ballet dancers Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair create a powerhouse of talent. Mr. Duell is one of the world's finest ballet artistic directors, and was a long-time student of George Balanchine - an artist who revolutionized classical ballet and is regarded as one of the most influential choreographers in the world of ballet. Husband and wife team, Mr. Duell and Ms. Blair are committed to carrying on Balanchine's legacy by providing one of the highest caliber curriculums in the nation that is based on his technique.
Through a special arrangement with the George Balanchine Trust, Ballet Chicago gives students the ability to perform a repertoire often reserved for professional companies. Ballet Chicago perpetuates the art form by bringing opportunities to experience classical ballet to Chicago through their Spring Repertory, The Nutcracker and out reach programs. Through master teachers, Ballet Chicago fosters technical, creative and performing excellence, and produces professional dancers that can be found in companies around the world.
Ballet 6: This level offers a comprehensive curriculum of classes that incorporates daily technique classes as well as classes in pointe work, variations and pas de deux. Supplemental classes in yoga, Pilates and body conditioning are periodically offered throughout the year. Special seminars in nutrition and injury prevention are also offered.
Ballet 7: Level 7 is a continuation of the Level 6 curriculum. At this level, students continue to hone their artistic and technical skills as they begin preparation for the annual audition process that professional dance companies conduct in search of new talent. Students at this level perform extensively throughout the year. Weekly class schedules will vary throughout the year to accommodate rehearsals and performances.
Men's Class: This curriculum is designed to focus specifically on the physicality, strength and bravura that are hallmarks of the male dancer. In addition to the daily technique classes, classes are offered regularly in Men's technique, Men's variations, pas de deux and weight training.


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One World
One might conclude that the 19th Century "victory" in British Geology of the Uniformitarians over the Catastrophists,[1] represents the emergence of a merely Eurocentric consensus with respect to the nature of time and causality. The 19th century Catastrophists were the intellectual descendants of the 18th century "Neptunists," who had taken the account of creation in the biblical book of Genesis of receding waters to be an historical description of how geological features were created. The Catastrophists embraced the biblical paradigm that believed the earth to be 6,000 years old and the geological record (for example, of sea fossils on mountain tops) to be the product of supernatural causal interference in the natural order (hence, the name "Catastrophist" in light of the biblical example with its account of a universal deluge at the time of Noah, which was taken to be historical). The Uniformitarians, in contrast, were the intellectual descendants of the 18th century "Vulcanists," who had proposed that the biblical account of receding waters was subject to grave perplexities (for example, what happened to all of the water?) and as an alternative proposed that the geological record was the product of volcanic activity (that is, the earth rose rather than any waters receding). The even more "naturalist" Uniformitarians argued that there is every reason to believe that the earth was of an indefinite age and that the causal order that we experience today has been "uniform" throughout all time. Although the controversy between the Catastrophists and the Uniformitarians appears to be limited to Britain, the conclusion with respect to the earth's ancient age and causal uniformity throughout time was embraced everywhere in Europe in the 19th century, and it is the commonplace judgment with respect to the age of the earth and causality in the western world today.
However, if we acknowledge with David Hume that causal explanations are by no means absolute because we have access in sense perception only to effects, not to causes, we might be tempted to conclude that the world (and cosmos) could be accounted for by an alternative understanding of time and causality. This would mean not only that cosmologies are culturally relative but also that there would be legitimate reason to doubt our very ability to give causal accounts of events. Pushed to an extreme, it would undermine the enterprise of the natural sciences because we could not be confident that there is a coherent causal order to be discerned. Given the absence of absolute, causal explanations, why would we believe that the physical universe is governed by a uniform causal system throughout unlimited time? The answer is NOT because "It is scientific?" The answer can only be because "With this set of assumptions, our understanding of the world is coherently expanding!"
In short, we believe that there is "one world" because that belief is confirmed by our success in understanding it. When an event occurs that we don't understand, we may be tempted to throw the baby out with the bath water to conclude that the physical laws of nature are superseded by a super-natural causal agency. However, if we do so, then not only do we call into question our own ability to explain phenomena, but we also introduce a capriciousness into events that makes the effort to understand meaningless. Rather than default to a super-natural agency, our own efforts at understanding require that we conclude that this is an event for which we have not yet discerned the appropriate physical law. In other words, were we to embrace supernatural causality, then we would undermine the very epistemological conditions necessary for us to seek a physical law because we would be asserting that the system of physical laws is not a system of law but a mere aggregation of contingent laws.
What distinguishes this conclusion from blind "scientism" is that it acknowledges what in German is called the Fürwahrhalten ("as if") character of understanding. For us to gain understanding, we must approach the world "as if" it was a coherent totality governed by physical laws that apply in the same way, to all events, and at all times. We conclude that "the world is a single whole" because it is a necessary assumption that empowers our ever-expanding understanding of nature although we are incapable of proving this to be the case.
Why wouldn't we argue that the "facts" confirm the reality of our confidence in the world as a single totality? We can't invoke this argument based upon "facts" simply because of epistemological skepticism — as old as the Classical World and nothing new with Descartes (i.e., that facts are accessed only through the senses and we can doubt our senses). Rather than invoke skepticism to rein in epistemological arrogance, we can't invoke this argument that our knowledge is based upon our access to facts because even in the natural sciences it is not sense data that establishes the validity of objective explanations with respect to the facts. If that were the case, then we would have no choice but to assert that the sun is moving around the earth.
Objective explanations must be compatible, to be sure, with sense perception somehow, but any and all explanations we construct for the phenomena are grounded in a coherent symbol system, not in direct sense perception of the "facts." We know that the sun is not moving around the earth and we are moving at some 1,000 miles/hour not because we factually perceive it but because we can construct a mathematically based model (a symbolic representation) that accounts for the sense data by denying them!
In short, our confidence in the world (and cosmos) as a single totality (in other words, our confidence that there is one world/cosmos) is driven not by the facts but by epistemological necessity. We cannot not believe in one world because, were we to reject this assumption, we completely undermine our ability to understand anything whatsoever.
One Reason
The necessity of our having to assume one world with one time and constituting a coherent totality because of uniform causality already involves the necessity that reason must be a set of capacities and conditions that are also universally the same for all. This is not a claim that these universal capacities and conditions are applied and developed the same by everyone. Although the causal explanations can be, and surely are, very different, everyone must necessarily supply a causal explanation to the appearances that are the focus of her concern – although no proponent can empirically prove the correctness of her/his explanation. The causes are not provided with the appearances. Reason must always supply its account of those causes. That we must all add a causal explanation to the appearances/effects both accounts for and allows that causal explanations are not the same for everyone — although if we believe that we are able to understand events, the causes themselves must be the same at all times and everywhere.
As we have seen, however, although there is no way to prove (or disprove) our causal explanation, if we are to understand the world as an open-ended process of ever more coherent understanding, it is necessary that we assume that the world is a coherent totality that conforms to physical laws of causal explanation. Nonetheless, reason is restricted when it comes to which system of causal explanation is going to be adaptable to an ever-expanding world of experience. It is restricted by the assumption of a unified temporality and unified physical causality.
Yet there is more to the notion of "one" reason than the necessary assumption of physical laws for understanding the natural world.[2] Among those capacities and conditions that we all must add to our experience of a world of appearances is the capacity of creativity. Every human being regardless of physical or mental condition can introduce into her/his physical world elements that could not be present in that physical world were that individual not to exist. In short, we are talking here about the uniqueness of conscious (i.e., intentional), creative agency. Even if there was to be a consciousness right next to you over your entire life, it cannot be the same consciousness as yours. This is because already with our mental processes each of us is constantly adding elements (e.g., symbol systems and concepts) to the particular set of appearances that is our individual experience, our constructed patterns of understanding, and our causal explanations. To be sure, it helps to have others around who agree with us, but agreement alone (even across generations) is no proof of accuracy as the history of our species (tragically) confirms.
In addition to this general capacity of adding things to the world of appearances that can't be there without each of us adding them to our experience, we all to some degree (granted for some more than others because of physical and mental abilities) are capable of initiating a sequence of physical events that physical nature on its own could never do. Although all that we are adding to the appearances of our world (e.g., symbols and concepts) are a symptom of this creativity, creativity is manifest in the strict sense when what we create changes the physical environment in some fashion (for example, when we create a work of art, perform music, construct a house, administer a business, serve in the government, etc.).
We are unlike other species, then, not only because we insert a symbol system into the stimulus/response structure of consciousness[3] that is shared with all other conscious beings. Other species function within this stimulus/response structure although primarily instinctually even though some species at least at a rudimentary level and/or restricted sense employ symbols in their conscious processes as far as we can tell. However, our creativity occurs within the framework of conscious selection of our goals and the achievement of those goals based upon the acquisition of skills, knowledge of materials, and grasp of the necessary sequence for accomplishing those goals. The complexity of this process as well as the degree of sophistication it can reach are truly astonishing.
In short, the imperceptible dimension of our experience that consists of capacities and conditions that make it possible for us to add things to the world that otherwise couldn't be there constitute a supersensible (i.e., imperceptible) dimension of reason that possesses its own kind of efficient causality. In other words, reason is more than an instrumental tool (like a hammer). Whereas nature's efficient causality is a blind process of sequential steps that bring about consequences, humanity possesses its own efficient causality (creativity) that is a conscious process of sequential steps that bring about its own consequences – without question in a manner complementary to natural causality.
As with all conscious explanation, however, we can neither prove nor disprove that we possess this unique kind of efficient causality. Again, causes are incapable of proof or disproof in the senses because only their effects are appearances. It may be that what we take to be an efficient causality unique to us is in fact only the consequence of blind, mechanical, physical causality (e.g., electrical charges jumping across synapses or chemical processes in the brain). However, one can unequivocally say that we will never be able to prove or disprove that our actions are exclusively the product of such material processes.[4] Just as was the case with the necessary assumption that the physical world is a unified totality that conforms to the same physical laws at all times and in all places, so too, it is a necessary assumption for us to be the species that we take ourselves to be that we possess a unique kind of efficient causality that is irreducible to (but never separate from) physical causality.
There are several issues here that cannot be fully addressed. One is the apparent dualism that this set of necessary assumptions implies. Given, though, that any and all kinds of causal explanation are applied to a common world of appearances, there is no contradiction to our assuming the uniformity of causes in all events — any more than the presence of multiple physical causes (e.g., magnetic, mechanical) requires us to give up our assumption that there is one material world that conforms to a unified system of causes. This is not a plaidoyer in defense of a supernatural causality that can ignore the unified causal totality of the world because our creative freedom is limited by the world's physical laws. We can change and destroy nature,[5] but we cannot ignore its laws.
Another issue is raised by John Searle in his lectures on freedom and neurobiology.[6] He maintains that there can be only one form of causal explanation and that any sense we have of free choice is the product of a "causal gap" that exists between what we know about physical causes and what we experience as free will. Leaving aside whether the notion of "free will" is adequate for encompassing what is meant here by creative freedom, Searle is defending a version of what Otfried Höffe calls dogmatic determinism in contrast to methodological determinism.[7] Dogmatic determinism asserts that way reality must be, whereas methodological determinism assumes that there must be a coherent causal system that governs the phenomena under consideration.
Given that we only experience whatever creative freedom we possess under the material conditions of a unified, singular world, methodological determinism maintains that we should always seek a mechanical, material cause for phenomena first[8] and as exhaustively as possible before turning to any other causal explanation, including creative freedom. However, methodological determinism recognizes that causal explanations are additions to appearances, that is, they are not capable of verification by appearances, so that methodological determinism leaves the possibility open[9] that we possess a creative efficient causality that conforms entirely to, but is equally irreducible to, blind physical, efficient causality.[10]
Under the assumption that we do possess a unique form of creative, efficient causality, we are confronted with the need for our assumption of responsibility for our unique actions – not a demand that we must assume responsibility. There is no responsibility so long as we are mere material beings driven by the blind, mechanical efficient causality of nature. We don't hold animals morally responsible for their behavior. However, we can hold ourselves (and any other "rational" being) morally responsible for our actions so long as we are not physically incapacitated (e.g., by mental illness or addictions).
One Religion
With the theme of moral responsibility, we cross a threshold from nature to religion. This is not because we find ourselves trapped in Augustinian original sin incapable of moral goodness. To be sure, radical evil must be a constituent element of our capacity for creative freedom, but the temporal sequence between them makes all the difference. It is not that radical evil precedes creative freedom but that creative freedom precedes radical evil.[11] If we were not first creatively free, then we could not choose between a good or evil principle as the moral ground of our action. Furthermore though, if the alternative option of evil principles were not live options, then we also would not be free. Hence, there is no escaping the radical condition of always having an evil principle as an option.
If religion isn't manifest by the moral corruption of original sin, what makes us speak here of religion? Kant suggests that our circumstance raises three questions (Critique of Pure Reason B 832-833[12]).: 1) What can we know (answered by theoretical reason's understanding)? 2) What must we do (answered by practical reason's moral philosophy)? 3) What can we hope for (answered by religion)? The first question is addressed within the framework of "one world." The second within the framework of "one reason's" creativity and moral responsibility. The third question has to do with the conditions of possibility for a moral order and personal moral transformation.
What leads us to believe that there is an absolute moral order that governs our creativity? Rather than provide an objective list of absolute moral principles that the individual may or may not have encountered in experience (much less, that would be subject to fudging and manipulation), Kant reminds us that we never act (unless physically desperate or having had the capacity trained out of us) without giving ourselves "permission" by applying some kind of moral principle to our action. This principle serves as the should that governs our action. Because we cannot not act, we cannot not apply moral principles to our action.
However, the necessity to act based on moral principles is no guarantee that there is an absolute moral order. What would lead us to such a conclusion when experience so strongly suggests that moral principles are culturally relative?
An initial step toward answering this question must be that we can neither prove nor disprove that there are absolute moral principles any more than we can prove or disprove absolute laws of nature. Is our confidence in un-known physical laws less valid because we are incapable of providing a list of physical laws? As with the physical laws, a few moral principles (e.g., we shouldn't lie, we shouldn't commit suicide out of desperation in full health and the prime of life, we should develop our talents, and we should respond to the suffering of others[13]) are sufficient to confirm that such principles govern all of our actions.[14] A second step is that we examine the differences between being awake and dreaming.[15] The clear difference is not the clarity and distinctness of the appearances but that the waking world is and the dreaming world is not governed by a causal system governed by rules. This suggests that where there is a causal system, there is a set of rules that govern that causal system. Hence, we are justified in concluding that the efficient causality of creative freedom has its rules just as the efficient causality of the physical world has its rules. As with the necessary assumption that nature is a unified totality that conforms to physical laws, so with the necessary assumption that creative freedom ought to conform to moral laws.: neither is nothing capable of proof or disproof, but it makes all the difference in the world to our understanding and to our actions if we assume the necessity of such rules.
The fact that we cannot know whether the laws of nature are absolute is no hindrance to our acting as if they are. The same is true of moral principles – although this is not justification for our declaring that our private interest is a universal moral principle. Acting as if a moral principle is absolute when it merely serves a relative, cultural or particular, personal interest would be a violation of the notion of an absolute, moral principle. Hence, Kant proposed three criteria for evaluating the principles on which we act:[16] 1) Act on the basis of a principle that you would want to be universal as if it were a law of nature; 2) act on the basis of a principle that treats the other and oneself as an ends and not as a mere means; and 3) recognize that all human beings are free, self-legislating moral beings.
This shift to identifying the conditions for the application of a moral principle rather than provide an objective list of moral principles is precisely what the Copernican Turn in Kant's moral theory means. Although we cannot be certain in advance whether the moral principle is absolute, we can be certain that satisfaction of these three criteria will keep us from acting based on relative, personal interest. This likelihood is enhanced when we invoke what Kant calls the three maxims of the understanding found in the third critique:[17] 1) think for oneself; 2) think from the perspective of the other (not merely in the altruistic sense but precisely out of the assumption that there is such a thing as what Kant called "common sense" in a non-pragmatic sense[18]); and 3) be consistent with one's highest capacities.[19]
Nonetheless, the conviction that there are absolute moral principles does not yet get us to the deepest sense of hope in the sense of religion. To be sure, both theoretical and practical reason involve the conviction that there is a God as the ultimate condition of possibility for there to be a unified cosmos whatsoever (and for whom we probably cannot escape anthropomorphic language, but we should recognize that any anthropomorphic language is figurative[20]). Yet even with this claim for a deity, we still are lacking a ground for hope.
In his Religion within the Boundaries of mere Reason, Kant suggests that the hope of religion is not in divine assistance in aid of our moral efforts, which would completely undermine the moral condition, but that no matter how much we have developed habits of moral reproof, the good condition of our moral effort always places every new action under the always original condition of selecting an appropriate moral principle. In other words, religious hope consists in our confidence, incapable of proof or disproof, that we have the capacity of creative freedom (the Anlage) that makes for a new beginning over against our inclinations (the Hang) toward a good in contrast to an evil maxim to govern our actions. In short, religious hope consists in confidence in the conditions of possibility of moral transformation.[21]
Religion has to do with our highest capacity of creative freedom and its conditions of possibility that constitute a life of moral effort and moral improvement under the encouragement of an invisible community of ends (moral principles and persons) whose communal character is expressed by a "culture of the will" in contrast to a "culture of skill.[22]" Such a culture of the will is not a heteronomous culture that tells us what we should do, but it is that culture that encourages us to "do the right thing because it is right and not because it serves our personal interest." Here we take a step beyond cultural relativism because what is culturally relative is what is generated by the "culture of skills." Different cultures have developed the technical imperatives that govern what Rousseau called "second nature," what humanity places on top of physical nature. However, Kant is not interested in this second nature per se. He is interested in that community that encourages the individual to exercise her/his highest capacity in a fashion appropriate to humanity's being "the end of creation.[23]"
Having transcended the culture of skills with the conception of religion as constituting the hope in the moral improvement of humanity, Kant's understanding of religion also transcends all historically conditioned manifestations of what he calls "historical", religious faith. This allows him to make what appears to be this politically incorrect claim that there is only "one religion.[24]" The claim here is not that all religions are equal "paths to God" or that all religions manifest themselves in the some common set of doctrines, rituals, or institutional structure. The claim here is that the religious hope of humanity as the end of creation is shared universally as a set of capacities and conditions that constitutes the universal "unity of religion"[25].
Religious Studies in an Age of Pluralism
No doubt politically correct in our day is the notion that we should embrace pluralism. It is facilely expressed by the bumper sticker constructed out of symbols from multiple religious traditions that says "Co-Exist." As laudable as the sentiment that this bumper sticker expresses is, it has a moral dark side that we cannot ignore. That dark side is that there is exploitation, persecution, and oppression in every religious tradition, and the mere insistence that we should tolerate all traditions too easily conceals our responsibility to condemn any context or situation in which the dignity of anyone is violated.
Let me be clear.: the dignity of human beings does not rest upon the claim of any particular religious tradition, for example, on the claim in the Abrahamic traditions that human beings are created in the image of God. Given our Copernican Turn in religion, we must now say that it is because each individual is an end of creation because of her/his creative capacity that we must speak of human dignity. In short, any violation of the capacities and conditions of creativity is a violation of the dignity of a human being.
Our "one" religion, then, has an antidote to the moral dark side of pluralistic tolerance. We can acknowledge the truth of the pure religion of moral improvement in every historical religion, but we must also respond to the suffering caused in any and all traditions when the conditions of pure religion are violated.
Where the material conditions of life are not met, we cannot expect morality, that is, there can be no religion. We have a moral and religious obligation , then, to work for a world in which hunger and poverty, persecution and oppression, despair and debilitating disease are obliterated and in which the realization of the end of creation as an open-ended process of the moral improvement of the human species can occur.
Excursus.: The Nihilism of Meaning and Pure Religion
Although the economization of our world seems complete, Aristotle already pointed out in the Nicomachean Ethics (Book I) that when it comes to identifying the goals of life (eventually he votes for εὐδαιμονία, satisfaction), money doesn't have a place in the discussion because money is only a means to ends, not an end in itself. However, when Aristotle comes to discuss (Book X) the highest activity of humanity that brings the greatest εὐδαιμονία because it is an activity shared with the gods, he elevates contemplation of invariable things as the level of divinity to which humanity ought to aspire.[26] Between the rejection of money as the key to life in Book I and the call to embrace the eternal as the highest achievement of humanity in Book X, we have the Charybdis and Scylla of the human condition. To be fair to Aristotle, he acknowledges several times that there can be no contemplation of the invariable (what he calls intellectual virtue or excellence) without first having one's basic material necessities met, and he maintained that the excellence that comes from our experience of calculable variables (between those things of which we can have excess and defect) in life (what Aristotle calls moral virtue and distributive and rectificatory justice) are by no means eliminated by the pursuit of intellectual virtue. It is difficult to imagine, then, that Aristotle would have found a Simeon Styllites anything but an individual pursuing a maximum of excess to the detriment of εὐδαιμονία).
Certainly, by the time we get to Plotinus and the Neoplatonists,[27] we find both the notion of the "Good" as well as the understanding that the goal of life have to do with the pursuit of the unchanging elements in life. This is what allowed Augustine of Hippo to propose that the suffering of children is meant to instruct the parents[28] of the highest goals in life because the good doesn't love things that can be lost.[29]"
The introduction in the 12th and 13th centuries of the writings of Aristotle into the west (before the west had the writings of Plato to any extent) eventually brought about the revolution[30] that we know as the emergence of the mathematical sciences. For our purposes, this revolution interests us for its leading to the distinction between "natural" and "revealed" theology and the via moderna that long before the 18th century Deists had pushed God outside of history because divine things are eternal (concerned with Aristotle's invariables) and the world is a play of chimeras. The study of nature in itself was valuable as "natural" theology only because "science" consisted of identifying the invariables in nature, which "obviously" reflected divine (intellectual) wisdom that is more prized than practical wisdom.
Considering this Charybdis and Scylla, 20th century Neo-Orthodoxy is by no means either an anomaly or a revolution. Neo-Orthodoxy maintains that the natural sciences and rigorous, historical, biblical scholarship have an open season and neither were nor could be a threat to Christian theology because God is outside of history and even the Christ event is not an historical event.[31] One has a strong echo here of that other grand meta-narrative of history proposed by Hegel where history is viewed as the preparatory conditions for the Absolute One reaching that point where it is able to experience itself in the second negation of the Concept — now thought by the individual (as the Divine/Man in the subjective sense, not just as a representation in the Christ).
Given the rejection of Rationalism and the "end of metaphysics" that marks the Post-Modern world, the alternative has been to pull humanity so far down into history that we ignore any differences between ourselves and the animal/vegetative world. If there is meaning in life, one talks about a phenomenological "making sense" of experiences that embraces the ephemeral and subjective qualities of meaning. Ayn Rand has made a virtue out of the pursuit of subjective self-interest[32] that has so pervaded our economized society that it was a major factor in contributing to the sub-prime mortgage financial meltdown in 2007/2008. Economization with its rampant self-interest triumphs, and we have embraced a means as if it were the ultimate end to life.: the pursuit of financial success with its crass consumption. Meaning as "making sense" of phenomena and as subjective consumption turns the world into a meaning-less dimension that has significance only in the subject's acknowledgement of it. The world and others are mere toys.
The consequence of the metaphysics of Neo-Orthodoxy and Hegelianism as well as the merely phenomenological and crass consumerism can be called "meaning nihilism." The former two eliminate any meaning to history in favor of a meta-narrative that privileges the transcendent whereas the latter two make meaning so susceptible to the arbitrariness of one's ever-changing "tastes" (what Kant calls in the Critique of the Power of Judgment the arbitrariness of the "agreeable" in contrast to the aesthetic taste of beauty), material circumstances, and/or one's honor and status in the eyes of others that any real meaning is snuffed by fate and capriciousness.
This project proposes a "third way" that acknowledges with Aristotle the necessity of establishing a material basis for existence before one can think of morals and that maintains that there are invariables (e.g., concepts, physical laws, and moral principles) that govern experience without deprecation of our action in the world. In fact, we could not experience a world as we do without these invariables although these invariables don't require our turning our backs on the world. The claim is that humanity as the end of creation possesses a capacity of autonomous (autonomy from the blind necessity of nature), creative freedom that not only provides the condition for us to be moral beings but also provides an irreplaceable meaning to life that comes with our knowing that we have made our best efforts and acted on the basis of a moral principle because it is right and not merely because it serves our selfish interests. The εὐδαιμονία that accompanies such effort is irreplaceable by anything material as well as be any acquired honor and status in the eyes of others. Εὐδαιμονία occurs without succumbing to the meaning nihilism either of Neo-Orthodoxy and Hegel or of the merely phenomen-ological and crass consumption because it is grounded in that over which we have control.
In Book I of Plato's Republic, the wealthy Cephalus observes that old age brings at least the advantage of liberation from the blinding, physical passions, and he advises young people not to do things that will come back to haunt them later in life. These are key lessons that inform the moral life, but it is our capacities and conditions that both distinguish humanity from other species and call us to seek our moral improvement throughout life. The hope that those capacities and conditions in fact make such an effort possible is the core of pure religion. It is a religious life that is facilitated by a community that encourages us to pursue the invisible, invariable ends of moral principles that respect the dignity of all persons.
[1]For an account of this controversy, see Neal C. Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
[2] Kant speaks of "one reason", "one philosophy", and "one virtue" in the Metaphysics of Morals AA VI: 207.
[3] On the significance of humanity's capacity to insert a symbol system into the Merknetz and Werknetz (stimulus and response) structure of consciousness, see Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962), 24.
[4] Kant wrote in the preface to the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (AA VII: 119): "A lesson systematically grasped by human knowledge […] can be either physiological or pragmatic. – Physiological human knowledge is grounded in research with respect to a person's grasp of nature; pragmatic human knowledge is concerned with a person as a free-acting being with respect to what s/he makes or can and should make [to serve her/his personal welfare]. – One who muses over natural causality (upon which, for example, the capacity of memory fancies to rest), can waver back and forth (as Descartes) with respect to what remains as traces in the brain of impressions, which the incurred perceptions leave behind. However, s/he must admit, given s/he neither knows the brain nerves and fibers nor the connection to her/his intentions, that s/he must be a mere observer in this game with representations, and s/he must let nature generate [the impressions] given with the consequence that all reflections of theoretical reason are entirely lost. – However, were s/he to employ perceptions with respect to what is hindering to or encouraging of memory in order to expand or to make them versatile [for achieving one's welfare] and, to that end employed human knowledge, that would involve a part of the anthropology in pragmatic purpose, and it is precisely that with which we are here concerned."
[5]. Already in 1775, Kant saw that our creative freedom in principle gives us the capacity to destroy the world. See Vorlesung zur Moralphilosophie, (1774/1775), ed. Werner Stark and Manfred Kühn (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), 177.
[6] See John R. Searle, Freedom & Neurobiology.: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
[7] See chapter 18 of Otfried Höffe, Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality, trans. Douglas R. McGaughey (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2010).
[8] See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment AA V: 387-388, 418, especially.415, and 429.
[9] Although creative freedom is one of the ideas of pure reason, which means that it can never be manifest in appearances, Kant refers to it as the closest that we can come to a "fact of reason" because it is so necessary in order for us to make sense of our experience in the world. See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason AA V: 30-31, 105.
[10] Whereas methodological determinism allows for creative freedom, the supersensible causality of creative freedom is not anything like a divine supernatural causality that could violate the laws of nature.
[11] In Kant's technical language, creative freedom is an a priori synthetic judgment whereas the moral order to which it is to conform (that includes the option between good and evil principles to govern creative freedom) is an analytic judgment.
On the capacity (Anlage) of autonomous freedom (Wille) as the condition of possibility for the inclination (Hang) for a choice (Willkür) between evil and good moral maxims/laws, see Religion (AA VI: 44-46); on the distinction between Wille and Willkür, see Metaphysics of Morals (AA VI. 213).
[12] In his Logic Kant adds a fourth question.: 4) What is a human being (answered by "anthropology" or life wisdom)? See Immanuel Kant, Logic AA IX: 25..
[13] See Section II of Kant's Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals AA IV: 421-423.
[14] Kant distinguishes between wide, categorical imperatives of practical reason that arise solely internally on the ground of our autonomous freedom and more narrow, hypothetical imperatives that are governed by external demands. On the distinction between categorical and hypothetical imperatives, see Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (AA IV: 414-421). On the distinction between wide and narrow imperatives, see the Metaphysics of Morals (AA VI: 390-391).
[15] Kant raises this theme in the Critique of Pure Reason B520-521, in Prolegommena to any Future Metaphysics AA IV: 290; and Metaphysik Mrongovius (XXIX): 860, 885, and 927.
[16] See Section II of Kant, Groundwork.
[17] See Critique of Judgment AA V: 293..
[18] See Critique of the Power of Judgment AA V: 238-240, 293-296.
[19] That Kant means by "be consistent" here means to be consistent with one's highest capacity of creative freedom is suggested by his lectures on morality in 1775. See Vorlesung zur Moralphilosophie, 180; see 175-176 and 182, as well.
[20] See Critique of Pure Reason B 724-725, B 728; Prolegomena AA III: 356-357; and Vorlesungen über die philosophische Religionslehre (Leipzig: Bei Carl Friedrich Franz, 1817).
[21] Kant speaks in Religion (AA XX VI: 44) of the lapsing "into [… the absolutely first beginning of all evil] through temptation, hence not as corrupted fundamentally (in his very first capacity [Anlage] but, on the contrary, as still capable of improvement […] And so for the human being, who despite a corrupted heart yet always possesses a good will [Anlage], there still remains hope of a return to the good will [Wille, not Willkür] from which he has strayed." Furthermore, Kant speaks of religious hope not in terms of receiving assistance but in terms of maintaining our moral attitude. (AA VI: 68-69) Kant speaks, as well, (AA VI: 101) of the hope/desire "that the commonweal of God come, that His will be done on earth".
He suggests, furthermore, in the first preface to Religion that our hope can only be that there is a connection between the categorical and the contingent, and that it is precisely this connection, which, among other elements, requires belief in (but no proof of!) God (AA IV: 6*).
[22] For this distinction, see Critique of Judgment AA V: 431-432.
[23] See Critique of Judgment AA V: 426, 429-431.
[24] See Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason AA VI: 3*, 101, 104, 107-108, 115; Toward Perpetual Peace AA VIII: 367*; Conflict of the Faculties AA VII: 36; 48, and On Pedagogy AA IX: 496.
[25] See On Pedagogy AA IX: 496.
[26] Here Aristotle is in agreement with his teacher, Plato, who had said in the Theatetus (176b) that humanity should become "as divine as it possibly can."
[27] Although the principle of the pursuit of invariable, eternal things is well in the saddle with the Stoics and in Philo of Alexandria. See Theo Kobusch, "Die Kultur des Humanen. Zur Idee der Freiheit," in Humanismus: Sein kritisches Potential für Gegenwart und Zukunft, ed. Adrian Holderegger (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2011).
[28] See Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will, trans. Anna S. Benjamin, trans & introd by L. H. Hackstaff, The Library of Liberal Arts (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1964), 116.
[29] See Ibid., 7, 8, 22-23, 26, 33, 50-51, 53, 55-57, 60, 101, 106.
[30] For an account of this revolution that is not a simplistic substitution of Aristotelian thought for the Platonism that dominated Christian theology in the 13th century, see Alexander Koyré, "Galileo and Plato," Journal of the History of Ideas IV (1943): 400–28.
[31] See Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man, Douglas Horton (trans) (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1978).
[32] See Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (New York: Random House, 1957).
Kant's works are cited according to the Akademie Ausgabe (AA) [Academy Edition] of the Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaft [Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. The exception is the Critique of Pure Reason, which is cited according to the pagination of its two editions.: the 1781 First Edition (A) and the 1787 Second Edition (B). An example.: Kant, The Critique of Judgment AA V: 431-432 refers to the Academy Edition Volume V: page #s 431-432. Translations into English of Kant's works often have the AA pagination in the columns. Unless otherwise indicated, translations of Kant's works come from the Cambridge University Press (CUP) edition.
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______. On Pedagogy AA IX: 439-99. 1803.
______. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics AA IV: 255-383. 1783.
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A couple of days ago Marc Andressen said in a Business Insider interview that in the new economy "even low-paid jobs — is an improvement". Here is the entire quote.
"The old farming jobs were f–king terrible jobs. I mean, farmers wake up at 6 in the morning and work 14-hour days. Industrial jobs — people would get killed in these factories all the time. Coal miners — people are trying to protect coal-mining jobs. They're terrible, terrible jobs … In developing countries, everybody's dying to get into modern factory jobs, because the alternative is far worse."
Back in the 1980s and 1990s I worked at a chemical plant near Houston. During my 15+ years at the plan we had one on the job injury. Our safety record was good enough that we applied and was accepted as an OSHA Star site. I know. I was on the committee. I know the slogans and I really do believe that companies really mean it when they say "we like you just the way you are!" A safe workplace is good for the company's bottom line and both management and the employees are happy! While I was on the committee I knew the injury statistics for various industries. In the 1980s chemical workers and coal miners were not on the top ten list. Since it has been a few years since I looked at the numbers, I did a little research to see if anything had changed. Here is the list from a recent Forbes article, America's 10 Deadliest Jobs.
1. Logging workers
2. Fishers and related fishing workers
3. Aircraft pilot and flight engineers
4. Roofers
5. Structural iron and steel workers
6. Refuse and recyclable material collectors
7. Electrical power-line installers and repairers
8. Drivers/sales workers and truck drivers
9. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers
10. Construction laborers
Yup, the list is pretty much as I remember. Industrial jobs did not make the list either. Mr. Andressen was 0 for 2 in job safety predictions. Our country learned a lot of bitter lessons improving mine safety since 1900s and the unions and coal companies are proud of their progress. The same can be said for industrial jobs, too.
I am kind of surprised Mr. Andressen did not crank up his favorite browser and check the safety and salary information for coal mining before he spoke. If he did he would find that the average coal miner salary in 2013 was $82,058 while the average U.S. worker got $49,700. According to the Glassdoor the average hourly wage for a Starbucks Barista is $9.32 per hour or about $18,640 a year if they work full time for 50 weeks. When you look at the safety record and the salary, I think it is pretty obvious why coal miners want to hold on to their jobs. These "new economy" jobs are jobs you take while you are look for a real job.


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Zelle Attorneys Named Among 2017 Northern California "Super Lawyers" and "Rising Stars"July 10, 2017
Super Lawyers has released its list of outstanding attorneys for 2017 and Zelle attorneys have been named among the best in Northern California.
Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.
Zelle attorneys listed as 2017 Northern California Super Lawyers include:
- Qianwei Fu – Antitrust Litigation, Business Litigation, and International
- Christopher Micheletti – Antitrust Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Business Litigation
- Judith Zahid – Antitrust Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts, and Business Litigation
Judith Zahid was also named among the Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers and the Top 50 Women Northern California Super Lawyers for 2017.
- Eric Buetzow was listed among Rising Stars 2017 – Antitrust Litigation, Intellectual Property, Class Action/Mass Torts, and Business Litigation
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I am obsessed with this drop waist ruffle cotton dress! This Summer I have been all about the effortless and comfortable dresses. Bobeau makes the most comfortable dresses and this is my new favorite. I absolutely love the flouncy tiers and the airy sleeves. You can pair this dress with heels for a cute date night look or throw this on over your bathing suit for a cute outfit to walk the boardwalk. Either way, this dress is not only comfortable but it's versatile. You can also easily transition this dress into Fall by layering a jean jacket over it or an oversized cardigan with boots.


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Our spray resins can be mixed in a number of ways. If you want to achieve consistency in the colour you are spraying we recommend mixing the pigments using the mixing shelves – these agitate the pigments and they are then weighed using the precision scales. However for complete and consistent colour matching we recommend using the Automatic Dispenser and the small shaker.
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The new Creative Resins Distribution Spectrometer matches any colour swatch, painted wall or even coloured fabric to a recipe on our specially written software. The spectrometer can be taken around to customers to match to their chosen swatches. The sales team can then add notes to the spectrometer or voice notes to make quoting easier.
The spectrometer ensures quick production as it saves having to sort through swatch after swatch trying to match a colour for a customer.
The Vortex Shaker is an easy clamping machine with a vortex rotation. It has a 30° dip angle to ensure mixing performance. The Vortex Shaker has a mixing range of 5L- 1L -Sample Paint pot. We highly recommend the shaker is purchased with the automatic dispenser to ensure all colours are mixed together.
For one off panels you just need to have a spray booth, a spray gun and you can purchase some pre mix spray resin – this will be pre mixed to whatever colour you require.
For regular spraying the mixing shelves are ideal – these agitate the colour pigments to ensure the same colours are always mixed. The mixing shelves come with precision scales to weigh each colour recipe out.
For regular spraying and quicker production times, the automatic dispenser combined with the vortex shaker is the most accurate recipe mixer of all of our machines. The automatic dispenser works with the spectrometer – you can match virtually any colour swatch just by holding the spectrometer over it – uploading the data to the automatic dispenser and letting the dispenser do the work for you.
No we recommend the Devilbiss FLG 5 gun which is relatively inexpensive and works really well with our spray resins and special effects.
All of our machines detailed on this page operate from regular power.
We recommend that machines are housed outside of the spray booth however we do also sell ATEX approved mixing shelves.
All training on machines is offered free of charge at our premises in Kent, England. If you have purchased through an agent they will arrange a training program with you. Either way we ensure that full training is given on all of our machinery.
Any colour swatch can be matched just by holding the spectrometer over the colour. The spectrometer is easy to carry around to customers and as you can type notes or add voice notes to each colour match, it makes quoting more streamlined. Once back at the factory, all of the colour matches can be uploaded to the software and then mixed by hand or by the mixing shelves, or automatically mixed using the Colour Dispenser and shaker.


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Paralympic champion retains his world T44 long jump title on the second day of IPC Athletics World Championships action
Germany's Markus Rehm smashed his own world T44 long jump record on Friday, leaping 8.40m to win his third successive title at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha.
The London 2012 Paralympic champion had jumped his previous best of 8.29m in May but added 11cm to that mark in Doha for a leap that would have won Olympic gold in the British capital three years ago. The distance is also just 1cm off Greg Rutherford's winning jump from the IAAF World Championships in Beijing in August and saw Rehm secure victory by over a metre from Netherlands' Ronald Hertog with 7.26m.
"When I had the world record at 8.29m I thought that it might be difficult to beat it, but to then go on and get 8.40m was really special," said the 27-year-old single-leg amputee, who competes wearing a carbon fibre blade prosthesis following a wakeboarding accident when he was a teenager.
"As I said, the conditions were really good, I felt in terrific shape and I woke up feeling that it was going to be my day. Thankfully it all worked out for me."
Earlier this year, Rehm spoke with AW at the London Anniversary Games where the TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen athlete explained how he had been denied a second national title despite recording the longest jump at the German Championships for the second year in a row.
The decision followed questions about whether Rehm's blade gives him an advantage when competing against able-bodied athletes, with the situation requiring consideration because of the distances he is achieving.
"I do understand the discussion," he told AW at the time. "We have to find out and maybe we can make some measurements and find out if there is an advantage or maybe a disadvantage as well."
Britain's Tony Mills finished eighth with a best leap of 6.20m and said of Rehm: "He is on another planet; a true professional and an incredible athlete."
He added: "I'm chuffed to make the final eight and be competitive, that was the main goal. But I didn't do myself justice today. It's my first experience of a major and I've enjoyed every single second of it."
Co-captain of the GB team, Paul Blake, added another medal to the haul of seven claimed by the British team on the first day of the championships, securing T36 400m silver when he ran 54.58 behind Russia's Evgenii Shvetcov with a 53.70 championship record.
Cuba's Omara Durand clocked 53.05 to break an 11-year-old world T12 400m record, while China's Cuiqing Liu beat Brazil's defending champion and world record-holder Terezinha Guilhermina in the T11 400m, clocking a 56.68 Asian record.
Six-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir safely progressed through to Saturday's T54 1500m final, finishing second in the first heat, while there was a big crash in the third heat and five athletes did not finish the race.
Britain's Sabrina Fortune placed fourth in the F20 shot put with a PB of 12.27m, Holly Neill finished fifth in the F41 discus with a throw of 22.68m and Polly Maton placed eighth in the T47 long jump with a 5.19m PB. Their team-mates Isaac Towers and Ben Rowlings both booked their spots in the T34 400m final, while Maria Lyle made it through to the T35 200m final and Samantha Kinghorn the T53 100m final after her 200m bronze won on Thursday.
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Rundus Funeral Home & Crematory Building Getting a Facelift
For many years, families have been coming to Rundus Funeral & Crematory during some of their most difficult moments. Within our walls, they have found comfort, kindness, compassion, and the most excellent funeral and cremation services. For decades to come, we want Broomfield families to come through the doors here and instantly feel at home – as if our facility was designed with their needs and wishes in mind.
So, what goes into making sure that happens? First and foremost, it's the people on our team – they are some of the most caring, experienced funeral and cremation service professionals you will ever meet.
The second part is, obviously, our facility . . . The visitation room, chapel, lobby, arrangement office, and reception room – they have to offer the conveniences and options you need to tell the story of your loved one's life, while making sure your guests are cared for properly. This is as important to us as it is to you. So much so, that we have recently begun a major renovation to our already beautiful building. We are so excited about the positive changes that are coming!
Work is already underway, and the renovations are scheduled to be completed shortly after the new year. We want you to know that Rundus Funeral Home will remain open and fully operational while all of the work is being completed, and we will do all that we can to make sure it does not impact any service.
We've already had the excitement of "demo day" (or days . . . ), and we plan to keep you posted with the changes being made each week. Expect to see improvements like upgraded audio and visual equipment, new paint and flooring, updated lighting and décor – and even more.
The look and feel of our facility says so much about who we are as a funeral home, and we are excited about how these changes are going to increase the options and excellent service we already provide to every family who comes to us.
As always, you can contact us anytime with your funeral and preplanning needs – or questions about the renovation. Be sure to stay tuned for blog and photo updates showing our progress!


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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Pimpin and Spirituality
by Marvin X, Prime Minister of Poetry
I am not a pimp. I am a hustler, sometimes a trick. A hustler waits for no one to bring his money, he gets his own. It is beneath his dignity to wait or depend on a woman or anyone to get his hustle going. All he needs is product, almost anything will do, even a roll of toilet paper he can hustle. But the pimp's thing is women, he considers himself their manager and they consider him the same, usually by mutual agreement, often by torture, kidnapping and exploitation, including mind control, deprivation of sleep, food and isolation.
Having never been a pimp, I cannot speak with total authority, although I have been around pimps off and on my entire life, from growing up on 7th Street in Oakland to hanging with pimps in New York. My brother's claim to fame is pimping. He never desired anything else in life but pimping, as a result his life has been pimping and prison, nothing else. I have been deprived of his brotherly love because of his pimping and prison life.
Many of my friends were pimps, including some of my Muslim brothers who said they made their ho's make salat or prayer before they went out on the stroll. I was around Muslim pimps on the east coast who had their women selling bean pies and whoring to buy Crack.
More recently I had the pleasure of meeting several pimps-in-recovery at my theatre in San Francisco's Tenderloin district when we produced the Black Radical Book Fair in 2004. The pimps included Fillmore Slim, Gansta Brown, Jimmy Starr and Rosebud Bitterdose. They claim to have given up pimpin and have indeed written books and films on the gospel of the game.
In the case of Fillmore Slim, he is still greatly respected as the godfather of pimpin, especially on the West coast. He hooked up with me to see if I could help him get the message to young people that pimpin ain't easy and there's a price to be in the game. If you willing to pay the price, then go for it, but just know you are going to pay. Fillmore paid with several prison terms.
He says these young brothers call themselves pimpin but ain't hardly pimpin, ain't doing nothing but messin up the game. Don't have no style, no class. If you saw the BET awards last night, Prince was the only artist with class, the others looked like bums and derelicts, especially the hip hop brothers. As Fillmore said about young pimps, they don't know how to dress. And he said they most certainly don't know how to treat a lady. They want to beat women. He said they don't understand if they don't beat her, she might come back. They want to kill another nigguh if she runs off with him. This ain't part of the game. Don't be killing people, he said, like you own the woman. You don't own nobody. When she choose you, she with you, when she choose somebody else, let her go. Fillmore said these young nigguhs act like they in love. And keep a night job, he says, because pimpin ain't easy.
Young brothers so close up on the ho a trick can't get to her. And the nigguh look more like a woman than the woman. You don't know who to turn a date with, the pimp or the ho. He got earrings in both ears, blond hair and pants hangin off his behind, living at his mama's house, pimpin on a bicycle. Nigguh please.
Pimp like Bush. Get you a real ho like Condi Rice that can ho all over the world, that can serve presidents, prime ministers, generals. Dr. Bey used to say, "If you going to do something, do it in a big way." Some would say Dr. Bey did right and wrong in a big way (may he rest in peace). And my daddy said, "If you gonna be something, be the best."
The white man is the world's greatest pimp: he pimpin you and yo woman, but you don't have a clue. On BET last night he pimped some of our greatest artists, had them parading as nothing but naked whores.
Nigguh pimps got babies on the street, eleven, twelve and thirteen. What they know about ho'in? They don't know how to put a rubber on a nigguh, let alone give head. They need to be in school. Get their GED. And the pimp needs to go with them to get his. Imagine the social consequences of over a million children dropping out of school each year, over 50% of them. Society, including the school, the religious community and the politicians are responsible for children choosing the pimp life, especially when our nation needs scientists and engineers if we are to have a future beyond pimpin and whoring.
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|Radio Microphone
The Radio Microphone is a component in The Last Stand: Dead Zone.
Improvised audio input for radio system.
Radios that broadcast and transmit audio across the airwaves require an input in order to work. In the case of broadcasting voices, a microphone is typically used. Sound is processed by the microphone and converted into electrical energy. This electrical energy is sent to a transmitter, where it is converted into electromagnetic radio waves that move away from the transmitter at the speed of light. Condenser microphones are generally favored for radio communication due to their higher quality, which is important considering that radio waves can and do get garbled as it travels, and transmitting an already low quality sound may result in unrecognizable messages on the other end. In the case of two-way radios, a "Push-to-Talk" button may be located on the transmitter or the microphone itself; the button must be pushed in order for the microphone to work. In order to listen to incoming messages, the button must be released. Therefore, two-way radios can be used to speak and to listen, but not simultaneously.[1]
Can be purchased directly from a two-way radio manufacturer and are often used by the military, law enforcement, and rescue teams, although civilian versions do exist.
Used forEdit
- Compound Structures
Recycling productsEdit
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- Electronic Scrap x 2
- Copper Wire x 1
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- 5 Copper Wires
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Video no demand
There's a letter missing from Blockbuster Entertainment's video-on-demand efforts. It's "P," as in "Paramount."
For all its intimate relationships with movie studios and its willingness to bludgeon them into submission, the video retailer was unable to secure film rights from fellow Viacom subsidiary Paramount Pictures.
The absence of Paramount films from the slate of available titles not only helped doom Blockbuster's Internet-based VOD venture with power company Enron but also highlights the problem everyone is having with VOD: Studios worried about their relationships with video retailers are hesitant to grant favorable windows to Blockbuster, cable operators or anyone else.
But media executives and analysts say the end of the Blockbuster/Enron venture doesn't necessarily signal that cable's VOD plans are headed for a similar train wreck. "This wasn't a very smart deal to begin with," said Sanford Bernstein media analyst Tom Wolzien. "Nobody has a network to the consumer here, and Blockbuster couldn't get the movies."
Cable's VOD plans are a direct threat to Blockbuster's core video-rental and -sales business. The company is trying to recast itself as a media distributor rather than merely a retailer.
Blockbuster and Enron initiated a "20-year partnership" last July, saying that they would create a central platform to sell movies on demand over high-speed Internet systems. Blockbuster had the brand name and relationships with studios dependent on the chain to move home video. Enron had a high-speed backbone and could set up servers. Local DSL providers would connect customers to a special set-top box that would decrypt the movies.
Plans called for the exclusive arrangement to offer consumers the ability to choose from among 400 to 500 movies and have the movie delivered to a set-top box on their television via DSL. At the time the deal was announced, Steve Pantelick, Blockbuster senior vice president of strategic planning, said talks with studios for content were under way. "We've spent some time with the studios, and they see the merits of what we're doing," he explained, "so it's just a matter of wrapping up discussions."
Since then, though, the deals that were made have left Enron feeling somewhat less than satisfied. It was time to see other people. "From Enron's standpoint, the main reason for discontinuing the relationship had to do with content," said Enron spokeswoman Shelly Mansfield. "We just felt that, through the exclusive relationship, we weren't able to attract the quality or quantity of movies that is necessary to really make this service thrive."
There were studios signed on: Universal, MGM, Artisan, Columbia TriStar and Lions Gate. "But most of the movies were not new releases," Mansfield added. "They were older, and there wasn't a wide selection available." Blockbuster could not even use family connections to bring Paramount on board for windows even long after the titles hit the video store. And to get rights for Vivendi/Universal titles, Blockbuster CEO John Antioco bragged last month, he threatened to keep one of Universal's teen movies, Bring It On, off Blockbuster's shelves.
Enron is still moving forward with trials of the service in Portland, Ore.; Seattle; New York; and Salt Lake City, said Mansfield. DSL providers Verizon, Reflex and Switchpoint Networks are involved in the trials, which will be completed by the end of the month and are going well, according to Mansfield.
"Enron is committed to this venture," she said, "and we're going to expand the entertainment-on-demand service, seeking additional content providers and other relationships. We're in talks with the studios directly."
Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Lydia Loizides said she isn't surprised at what happened with the deal: Hammering out deals with studios is moving from a technical issue to one of money. "How much is the consumer willing to bear in terms of cost?" she asked. "If it costs a content owner or aggregator millions of dollars to license this content in order to distribute it, where will those costs be recouped, and how long will it take? I can't go from charging $4.99 to $9.99 because that takes me into a PPV model, and that's not compelling enough."
Studios may still be dubious about the security of technologies like broadband, she adds. "How they control streamed video in terms of different boxes that have hard drives is an issue. CNET.com has a hacker site that will tell you how to open the second tuner on your TiVo box."
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Sensor fusion works mainly on software that intelligently combines data from several sensors in order to improve application and system performance. The principle requirement for sensor fusion are global positioning system and inertial navigation system. Increasing demand for different end use application segments such as automotive, consumer electronics, home automation, healthcare, industrial and military among others has boosted the demand of sensor fusion to a great extent in the global market. Across the globe, the market for sensor fusion is highly competitive as the market is dominated by major players in sensor fusion market. The sensor fusion implementation common example is smart phone. However, the rising usages of sensor fusion in smart wearable device at a rapid pace which is also triggering the demand for the market of sensor fusion. Thus, the global sensor fusion market is anticipated to witness a steady growth during the forecast period from 2017 to 2025.
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When she knew she was going to Florida, Patty sprang into action. And by action I mean she signed up for all the Florida bird alerts she could.
And eBird noted that this species was being found regularly in the area.
The Florida Scrub Jay.
We drove to the area. Which was the same area we had visited in the morning in our unsuccessful first attempt to find Burrowing Owls (we did not yet know to look for the white PVC pipes marking the burrows).
We spent a lot of time driving back and forth about Cape Coral.
And we were not successful spotting the scrub jay at first. But then another couple, from Ohio but wintering in Florida, drove up and confirmed we were in the right place. So of course I immediately spotted the bird. And then another. And another. And soon we had five flying about.
The birds were eating acorns so we picked some. And, as you can see, the birds would feed out of your hand.
I had seen these jays several years ago on the other side of Florida. And those birds were quite wary of humans.
Obviously, these had no such concerns. And after getting the Burrowing Owls at the ballfields, we stopped one last time to see the jays. And we met another couple looking for the jays, who despite us being twenty or so meters away feeding the birds, couldn't locate any. We kindly pointed them out and explained the acorn trick. And as we drove away they were happily snapping photos with their phones, birds in hand.
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Thiago Monteiro reflects on 2018 campaign and reveals goals for 2019 season
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Brazilian tennis star Thiago Monteiro hopes to be a more consistent player in 2019. The 24-year-old reached his maiden ATP semi-final in Quito in February before he lost to eventual runner-up Albert Ramos-Vinolas. The Brazilian made the quarter-final at the ATP 500 event in Hamburg as a qualifier in July.
After a good Hamburg campaign, Monteiro disappointingly spent the rest of the season on the Challenger Tour as he didn't qualify for another ATP event. Per Site Tenis News, Monteiro said that "it was a year of ups and downs."
However, Monteiro isn't discouraged as he has revealed his goals for the 2019 season.
Monteiro, ranked at No. 123 in the world, is in Buenos Aires -- where he is preparing for the upcoming season. "I want to play again in the main draw of a Grand Slam. I would also like to win a Challenger again and return to the top 100," Monteiro said.
Monteiro will start his season 2019 campaign in Pune -- where he reached the round-of-16 as a qualifier in January. The Brazilian will then try to make the Australian Open main draw through the qualifying event. The 24-year-old's last Challenger title came in Aix-en-Provence in 2016.
Monteiro hasn't played in the main draw of a Grand Slam event since the 2017 US Open. Monteiro, who achieved his career-high ranking of No. 74 in the world in January 2017, hasn't been ranked inside the top-100 since July 2017.
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Author Shana Burton with Actress/Author Victoria Rowell
Author and High School Teacher Shana Burton joins NY Times Bestsellers, GA Writers Hall of Fame, & Pulitzer Prize Winners this weekend at the 12th annual Georgia Literary Festival.
Northeast High school English Teacher Shana Burton, who is also a 2008 and 2009 Georgia Book of the Year Nominee meets her fans this weekend in Statesboro, Georgia, at the Georgia Literary Festival. On October 23, 2010 The Georgia Literary festival will feature 25 writers including special appearances by popular author Ferrol Sams, former U.S. Senator Max Cleland, Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey, Hall of Fame author Philip Lee Williams, bestselling novelist Tina Ansa, cookbook author Damon Lee Fowler, gardening expert Walter Reeve and Poet Laureate David Bottoms.
Shana Burton is high school teacher at Northeast High School in Macon, Ga. She is also a published author of Suddenly Single(GA Book of the Year Nomination,) First Comes Love and Flaws and All under Kensington Publishing, Flaws & All released August, 2010, has been selected as a BlackExpressions Book Club Pick. She will also host the Peach County Public Library Fall Literary Trunk Show in Fort Valley, Georiga November 6, 2010.
Chocolate City Magazine calls Flaws & All a "Sex and the City meets Waiting to Exhale meets Christ. Flaws and All is a tell-it-like-it-is saga of redemption, sisterhood, and unconditional love."
- Read an excerpt of Ms. Burton's Flaws & All visit http://shanajburton.blogspot.com/
- Learn more about the Georgia Literary Festival by visiting http://www.georgialiteraryfestival2010.org