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Chuck Horvarth, the unofficial head of the "Recall Amante" grassroots group, has filed a complaint with the City of Tustin's Human Resources Department over an email he received shortly after setting up an email address for email@example.com. The email appeared to come from a personal Gmail account belonging to Lisa Woolery, who handles PR for the city council and city manager's office.
The email asks Horvarth about his progress on the Recall the Mayor effort and it's signed "Marie." But in the "from field" the nondescript email address has Woolery's name as the sender.
Here's the email. Lisa Woolery Email
Horvarth's Letter is below.
April 16, 2011
Ms. Kristine Recchia
Human Resources Director
City of Tustin
300 Centennial Way
Tustin CA 92780
RE: Lisa Woolery
Dear Ms Recchia:
Over the course of the past month, since instituting the Recall Jerry Amante initiative, I have been
inundated with e-mail and telephone correspondence pertaining to this subject. We have formed
sub-committees in various areas and during this process, an e-mail was brought to my attention
which has caused serious concern on the part of a number of our members and myself, hence this
formal complaint.
It is my understanding that Lisa Woolery is an employee of the City of Tustin, working full time
as the Communications Manager. Per public record available on the City of Tustin's website, her
2010 annual salary can reach $105,804.85. That is a very nice salary for this full time position.
Please note that Lisa Woolery has contacted me via e-mail on March 16, 2011 at 9:18 am with
reference this specific issue of Amante's Recall. The attached copy of the e-mail was sent during
normal City of Tustin business hours from a personal e-mail address. We do not feel that Lisa
Woolery should be working on specific issues for Mayor Amante during normal or non-business
hours nor should she be on her personal e-mail account during business hours especially when it
concerns a subject that is not relevant to her job description.
Ms. Woolery is an employee of the City of Tustin not Jerry Amante. This very inappropriate
behavior should be dealt with firmly. The Tustin taxpayer's dollars should be spent on "city
specific" matters and not on collecting espionage for Jerry Amante.
Please let me know what form of disciplinary action is being taken regarding this complaint. I
would also like to request an explanation of what initiated Lisa Woolery's action. Your prompt
response is appreciated.
Charles J. Horvath
cc: City Manager
City Council Members
Now a city employee can't engage in what's considered political activity especially during the business day. We're written Ms. Woolery to ask if this is her email address and if this is her email, and she has not responded.
If this is, in fact, her personal email, I have one question: "who's Marie?"
In realted news, there's a new Facebook page for the grassroots group seeking Amante's recall; go here and click "Like." W're told the group seeking Amate's recall has grown so large, they can no longer meeting in one place at one time and the group in breaking into smaller, more neighborhood focused teams to better accommodate everyone's schedule.

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I know why I have failed at losing fat before. I am not going to lie to you….it is a lot of work! It isn't easy. I think right now that it is worth it, I hope I still think that in another week.
I have just spent the last hour trying to figure out what I should eat before I work out and what I should eat for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants after I work out. Luckily, they put the nutrition info on their website so I can click and make my virtual dish and see what the NF are. I am meeting my friend/personal trainer for dinner, and will have finished 2 hours of working out so I know I will be hungry. I realize this is a science….and it is damn time consuming!!! It is a good thing I don't have any other hobbies.
Now that I have ranted, I want to give props to Moe's Southwest Grill for their awesome Nutrition Calculator that allows me to add ingredients and see how it affects my meal. It is one of the better restaurant websites I have found. Interactive, not just a PDF with the NF. However, I will take what I can get. Also, props to Sparkpeople for the FREE calorie counter. Without their help, this would be even harder.
Now, off to Zumba and BodyPump to work up a sweat!!! I wonder how many calories that will be?


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atalar suzu
یازار : ay han+0 به یه ن
English Azeri (Atalar Sozleri)
Ag gun adami agardar.
He lives long that lives well.
Her qush oz yuvasinin agasidir.
Every dog is a lion at home.
Agil agildan ustundur.
Four eyes see more than two.
Agil yashda deyil bashdadir.
Wisdom is not attained with years but by ability.
Agilli basha dash deymez.
A close mouth catches no flies.
Aglamayan ushaga sud vermezler.
A child that does not cry is not nursed.
Yalan ayaq tutar yerimez.
Lies have short legs.
Aman deyene qilinc qalxmaz.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
Arife bir ishare besdir.
A word is enough to the wise.
Armud agacdan uzaga dushmez.
As the tree so the fruit.
Artiq tamah bash yarar.
Grasp all,lose all.
Asta geden,chox geder.
More haste,less speed.
Uz verirsen astarini da isteyir.
If you give him an inch he will take an ell.
Yaxshi at budremez.
It is a good horse that never stumbles.
Bey veren atin dishine baxmazlar.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Yaxshi atadan pis ogul.
Many a good father hath but a bad son.
Ac toyuq yuxuda dari gorer.
The hungry hen dreams she is in the barley barn.
Baga baxarsan bag olar,baxmazsan dag olar.
Success depends upon effort.
Baliq bashindan iylener.
The fish begins to stinks at the head.
Yixilana balta vurmazlar.
Never hit a man when he is down.
Besh barmagin beshi de bir deyil.
All the fingers are not alike.
Bu gunun ishini sabaha qoyma.
Dont put off till tomorrow what can be done today.
Tenbele ish buyur,sene agil oyretsin.
Offer work to a lazy one, let him give you good advice.
Ushaga buyur,dalinca yuyur.
If want a thing well done do it yourself.
Gezmeye qerib olke,olmeye veten yaxshi.
East or west,home is the best.
Qismetinde olan,qashigina chixar.
You get what fate brings you.
Dag-daga qovushmaz,adam adama qovushar.
Men may meet,but mountains never.
Bir qoyundan iki deri soyulmaz.
You cannot flay the same ox twice.
Ozgeye quyu qazan ozu dusher.
He that mischief hatches,mischief catches.
Yerin de qulagi var.
Walls have ears.
Qurddan qorxan mesheye girmez.
He that fears every bush must never go a birding.
Alici qush dimdiyinden biliner.
A bird may be known by its song.
Az danish,chox eshit.
Give every man thine ear,but few thy voice.
Dilini saxlayan salamat olar.
A still tongue makes a wise head.
No pains,no gains.
Yaxshi dost qara gunde melum olar.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Ne ekersen,onu bichersen.
As you saw you shall mow.
Hem ziyaret,hem ticaret.
Combine a visit with business.
Bir chichekle yaz olmaz.
One swallow does not make a spring.
Agil yashda deyil,bashdadir.
Age is no guarantee of wisdom.
Ayagini yorganina gore uzat.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Gozden uzaq,konulden iraq.
Out of sight,out of mind.
Gozellik ondur,doqquzu dondur.
Fine feathears make fine birds.
Gorduyunu qoyub,eshitdiyine inanma.
Seeing in believing.
El gucu,sel gucu.
Many hands make work light.
Guneshde de leke var.
Nothing is perfect.
Ot oz koku ustunde biter.
Like father,like son.
Saxla samani,geler zamani.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Konul seven goychek olar.
Tastes differ.Love is in beholder`s eyes.
Sirke tund olsa oz qabini chatladar.
A man of evil temper harms himself.
Telesen terse dusher.
Haste makes waste.
Tek elden ses chixmaz.
One man,no man.
Toydan sonra nagara.
After death doctor.
Ne tokersen ashina, o chixar qashigina.
As you brew, so must you drink.
Hech kes ayranina tursh demez.
No one runs his own wares.
Insan tupurduyunu yalamaz.
Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
Od olmasa tustu chixmaz.
There is no smoke without a fire.
Kishi fehledir,arvad benna.
Men make houses,women make homes.


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The core of the show is made by members of the RSPP but every year about 100 pieces are selected from open submission. This year I have entered a painting and a monotype and they were both selected.
I was very excited that the small (10x10cm) monotype "Study for the Queen of Sheba" was chosen. Monotypes are a fairly recent endeavour of mine and although I have been showing them already at art fairs this is the first time that they are included in an important show.
This small portrait of Fre' is one of about twelve monotypes I made of the same subject and size, and the only one that did not end up in the bin. Although the execution of a monotype is rather quick, the risk of failure is high, particularly in such small works. Not that this one is perfect but it's the best I could do.
I like making monotypes based on my own paintings, it takes the pressure off "finding a subject" and viewing the work at a different scale and in reverse helps me understand much more about the painting itself.
The oil painting that will be on display is from a "portrade": I sat for Daniel Shadbolt for a few sessions last January and in turn he came to my studio three times. He just sat as he was, with his jacket still on.
Half way through the sittings I decided to include in the background one of his paintings which I own and love, an urban garden with a lonely chair and a shed ( that " looks back", in Daniel's words).
A few weeks ago at the National Gallery I spotted this painting by Moroni that I had always overlooked: an uncanny resemblance !
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual show is open from the 8th to the 23rd of May at Mall Galleries.


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Ah, Thanksgiving. I got nothing for today, which is the way it should be. Sit back, digest and take a sip from the 40 of Thanks.
It's that time of year again, when folks put a little Christmas spring in their step, gifts get bought, cookies get baked and downtown becomes a freakishly decorated North Pole of Hell. But, hey, at least we've got The Nutcracker to look forward to. Once again, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and the San Diego Ballet present Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet at the Pikes Peak Center (190 S. Cascade Ave.). Fully staged, fully costumed and fully awesome with a full symphony, the 'Cracker no doubt will inspire you to hum "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" for weeks to come. Your spouse will be so pleased! It's going on tonight at 8, tomorrow at 2:30 and 8, and Sunday at 2:30. Tickets are $20-$40, and are available by calling 520-SHOW (7469) or by visiting ticketswest.com.
Local puppeteer David Simpich is a certified institution. His original holiday performance, The Puppet Maker: A Story of Christmas, now has run for seven years, which is kind of amazing, considering it's a show of carved wood and string. But hey, puppets is as puppets does, I guess. With that in mind, The Puppet Maker is taking place tonight at 7 at Mount St. Francis Auditorium (7665 Assisi Heights), with shows Fridays, Saturdays and select Sundays and weekdays until Dec. 28. Tickets are $11 in advance or $13.50 at the door. To get yours, call 636-3272 or visit simpich.com.
Give it up for the godfathers of alternative music at the Gothic Theatre (3263 S. Broadway, Englewood), where legendary geeks Echo and the Bunnymen are cranking out some jizzams, man. They're touring on their new album, Siberia, which neatly encapsulates 20 years of alt-rock experience, goofy haircuts and sweaters -- always sweaters. Advance tickets for the 8 p.m., 18-plus show are $22.50, and available at ticketweb.com or by calling 866/468-7621.
Treat your li'l 'uns to a show at the Pikes Peak Center (190 S. Cascade Ave.), where music, laughter and lessons abound in Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not NOT Going to Move! Adapted from Judith Viorst's similarly titled mega-selling children's book, the musical is the story of a young lad who tries to avoid moving away with his family. Rest assured that his plans are foiled and everyone goes home happy. Or do they? (Yes, they do.) Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $10. Get yours by calling 520-SHOW (7469).
30 Wednesday
It's icon night at the Boulder Theater (2032 14th St., Boulder), where '60s and '70s poster-boy Donovan is rocking gently, lest he break a rib. He's calling his tour The Hurdy Gurdy Tour, which I can't even begin to explain or understand, but might be the first sign that ol' Donovan's edging into senility. Seriously, Hurdy Gurdy? What does that mean? He'll next be singing about how coyotes stole his bathrobe. I urge you to pay $35-$45 to see him on the off chance that he'll explain the meaning of this. Get your tickets for the 8 p.m. show at 303/786-7030, or at bouldertheater.com.
It's neither fun nor funny, but it's important. Today is World AIDS Day, and the Contact Southern Colorado AIDS Project is holding a candlelight vigil and procession at the Pioneers Museum (215 S. Tejon St.) at 5:30 p.m. A "Stop AIDS" lecture also will be happening at CC's Bemis Hall (920 N. Cascade Ave.) at 7, and all week long, you can check out AIDS quilt panels on display at CC and Pueblo Metropolitan Community Church. For more info, check s-cap.org or call 578-9092.
-- Aaron Retka
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I often frequent the public library. Before anyone thinks of me as an avid reader let me come out clean that I go there with the sole purpose of renting out the movie dvds. Public libraries do have a limited collection of movies, mostly Hollywood movies and few Indian and other international movies as well. So, I find these libraries a good source to catch up on titles which I missed when they released in theater or Redbox.
So, on one such occasion, there I was standing with my held tilted to the right like a tower with its roof knocked off. If you are wondering why - the dvds are arranged in the shelf vertically and the titles written lengthwise on the edge - hence the stretched head to read them.
It's just a trivial detail, let's move on…
I was standing in the middle of the aisle glancing through the list of English movies and did not notice the person who was standing behind me trying to check out the movies. As soon as I saw him, I excused myself for blocking him and moved 2 steps aside so that we could as well check out the dvds.
"Find anything good here?" he asked.
Let me tell you all something – I am all for chitchatting with strangers even if it's a library and silence is golden. I am not one who would walk away from anyone who initiates a conversation. Well, most of the days that's true, but not that day. Not because of the fact that he was shabbily dressed and looked tired/drunk/sleep deprived, but just because I was in a hurry to get back home and was not in a mood to give him my one word review of the movies stacked there.
"No". I kept my reply as short as possible (if he was looking at me, I would have shaken my head and avoided the verbal reply).
I recently saw this Indian movie, it was really good". He might have figured that I was from India and just assumed that I was there to check out only the Hindi movie dvds.
"Here we go, another American who is smitten by Slumdog Millionaire and things that how we do things in India" I thought to myself.
While I was having this mental argument whether to just ignore what he said and just leave it as a closed end sentence or educate him that (1) it's not how things are in India and (2) it's not an Indian movie, he continued.
"It was about this Indian guy. His father named him after a Russian guy or so and he names his son a weird name. And the guy who acted as the son is the Kumar from Harold and Kumars (Referring to Kal Penn). You know which one I am talking about?"
I immediately recognized the movie he was talking about. I was pleasantly surprised - he was not talking about Slumdog and impressed – by his taste of movies.
"It is The Namesake, I haven't seen it" I lied to him as I didn't want to set myself up for a conversation.
""Yessss, that's the one. Very nice movie. That Indian actor was really good in it". I understood he was referring to Irfan Khan, but I decided to keep mum.
No response from my end was not a deterrent for him and he was in a mood to give a synopsis of that movie "The son hates the name his father gave. So they end up fighting and he leaves the house…."
He continued "……so, he goes away in this ship which had a lot of zoo animals and then there was a storm and the whole ship sinks. And this guy ends up in a small boat with himself, a monkey and a tiger".
I believe the readers have realized what happened here. That guy ended up combining the stories of Namesake and Life of Pi!!. What he was telling with at most confidence about a movie he saw "recently" and was "really good" was actually two movies.
I didn't know how to react. I went through a myriad of emotions hearing this - I was befuddled, amused, charmed - all at the same time. I played along and nodded by head as if to be in compliance with what he was saying totally agreeing with the fantastic story arc.
On the way back, I was chuckling all by myself and decided to tell this to my wife as soon as I reached home. I was certain this would make an excellent anecdote to tell my friends and family at the next get-together and laugh about the story and the story teller. But as I thought about it on the way back home, what I thought was absurdity actually started making a bit sense to me. If you think about it the way that guy narrated it, doesn't it make complete sense? With a little tweak her and there, The Namesake would make a good prequel to Life of Pi. Matter of fact, both these movies even had the same lead actor in them!
I ended up narrating this incident to all my near and dear and every time I do, it makes me wonder if that person I met was just confused or a man of great vision who is yet to realize his greatness.


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|Yüce, Birol (2005): Cannabinoid-1 Rezeptoren (CB1) beeinflussen die Motilität des Dünndarms von Maus und Ratte: Untersuchungen zum peristaltischen Reflex und Dünndarmtransit. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
Background: CB-1 receptors are involved in neurotransmission of the GI-tract and thus motility phenomena. The effect of intestinal propulsion might partially be due to CB-1 receptor mediated effects on neuronal circuits like the peristaltic reflex. Aim: Aim of the study was to further characterize the influence of CB-1 receptors on small intestinal motility by using antagonists and the agonists in established in vivo and in vitro models. Methods: Segments of isolated rat ileum were studied in a chambered organ bath. The reflex was initiated by electrical stimulation, force and timing of the ascending reflex pathways of the myenteric part of the peristaltic reflex (ARPPR) of ileum were recorded. Chambers were separated by a baffle, allowing the ileum to pass, separating the stimulation and recording sites. The intestinal transit was evaluated in vivo in CB-1 receptor knockout (CB-1 -/-) and wildtype mice. Additionally electrophysiological properties of neuromuscular interaction were evaluated using standard intracellular recording techniques in both genotypes. Results: CB-1 deficient mice displayed an 40% accelerated transit compared to control mice. When applied into the recording chamber AEA significantly inhibited the ARPPR in a concentration dependent manner (10-9M 2,3±3,7%; 10-8M:-1,0±4,6%; 10-7M: 3,8±7,1%; 10-6M:13,1±5,8%; 10-5M:32,7±7,8%) in a CB-1 sensitive manner. Neither AM251 nor AEA had an influence on the timing regardless the chamber it was applied. AM251 significantly stimulated the force of the ARPPR in concentration dependent manner (AM251: 10-8M:11,8±9,5%; 10-7M:23,7±10,0%; 10-6M: 29,4±11,5%; 10-5M: 49,9±9,4%) Resting membrane potentials and neuronally induced inhibitory junction potentials in CB-1 KO mice are unchanged compared to wildtype littermates, however, the electrophysiological slow waves are more sensitive to blockade of Ca2+ channels in CB-1 -/- mice. Conclusions: The results indicate that antagonism at the CB-1 receptors exhibited a strong enhancement of the ARPPR whereas agonism at the CB-1 receptor reduces the ARPPR. The concept holds true since in CB-1 -/- mice small intestinal transit is significantly increased, suggesting the CB-1 receptor as a promising target for the treatment of motility disorders.
|Dissertation (Dissertation, LMU München)
|anandamide, cannabinoid-1 receptor, peristaltic reflex, intestinal propulsion, enteric nervous system
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|Datum der mündlichen Prüfung:
|13. Oktober 2005
|1. Berichterstatter/in:
|Göke, Burkhard
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Saint Jovite Youngblood
- Monrovia CA, US
- [email protected]
An experienced business executive, "Kota" Saint Jovite Youngblood earned his bachelor of arts from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, with a grade point average of 3.7. He has served tenures as a finance director at RAS in Van Nuys, California and as a general manager of Miracle Mile Coin in San Marino, California. Since 2010, Saint Jovite Youngblood has overseen the purchase of collectable coins and antiques as president of Youngblood Metals Mining in Monrovia, California. In addition to his expertise in pre-Victorian jewelry and vintage toys, he holds memberships in the Professional Coin Grading Service, the Professional Numismatic Guild, and the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.
Outside of the professional environment, Mr. Youngblood is an amateur guitar player who particularly loves his Gibson six-string and a practitioner of American kendo who is currently pursuing his black belt. He also enjoys jet skiing and snowboarding with his wife and children.


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This Week CP Survey -- As Apt to Current Day Chennai (India) IT Environment
This week's 'The CodeProject' survey on Have you written a program for a friend or relative, and would you again? with the underlying thought like "Whether you've written something for free to help a mate, or done some consulting work for your significant other's significant other - would you do it again or should friends and work not mix?" seems to be applying perfectly for these Chennai (Tamil Nadu) IT circle environment at least with a number of people that I have met.
At least in this part of India, we can see people trying to derive maximum advantage of you, sucking blood as much they can by paying you peanuts (or even trying to avoid that to the maximum). The interesting part is that they would try visiting you again shamelessly time and again for the same benefit. I just thought I can share a few honorary circles that befit this bill and some of the good treatments/retaliations that either me and/or my friends have given them whenever they confront.
At first I just thought I would try suppressing the names but then I just thought I should narrate it diplomatically so that many other people can be saved from such miscreants trapping them.
- Problem: There was a guy called 'Syed Albeez' who was trying to bug and pester me and a lot of friends circle harvesting the phone numbers from the job sites. He wanted us to give free software development for his organization. When my friend scheduled a visit to his office about a couple of years back, he was offering full time employment and the salary he was willing to pay was like 84 USD per month.
Workaround: My friend challenged him for a business deal and he just escaped into the wild and no say from him or no email replies from thereon.
- Problem: One of the person from my previous organization called Francis**, who worked there in the Human Resources department resigned there around 2003. I admit that he was instrumental in me joining during the 2001 recession but at the same time there is a limit to the gratitude and the help he can expect from me.
- About three years back he was asking me some loan guarantor signature for about ten lakhs because he was starting up a new business. Till then, there was no email communication. A well-wisher strongly objected and he told not to venture such deals with him since he sounds more or less like an esoterically hysteric character and there are more chances of he running away amuck. Without being in touch with so long and contacting some one only for the sake of benefit is kind of sounding a very selfish attitude and sounds to be opportunistic. The person who guided me against helping him was perfectly true in his speculation. He didn't seem to venture into any business.
- About an year later, he was again calling a number of guys since he was working in some US call center night shift and it to recruit .NET programmers.
Workaround: Again, when we took the help of the same well-wisher, he just asked us to 'brush him off'.
- About a week back, he wrote me a big message in the subject of email 'This is Francis. Can you give your contact number?'. When I wrote him back 'Why?', he was replying that he is working in some company called 'Trenchant Financial Technologies' and recruiting .NET developers again. He wanted me to do some free advertising in forums ("crop dusting forums with dirty crap about job posting for his shabby shack).
Workaround: This time we thought we would have some summer cool fun with him besides to test whether he has some social sense. I asked him whether he can donate funds for philanthropic causes. I am associated with a few animal welfare organizations and Sri Ramakrishna Mutt. I just thought I would try to make him contribute there too. He replied furiously "What donations? I give donations to church. My father gives donations". The interesting part is that his English is so much broken. I am just trying to think, if I can gather all the entire set of conversations into a single PDF with Zoho entitled as 'Fun with Francis' and put it on Scribd so that at least readers can have some fun time reading it besides getting a social enlightenment on such crooked people.
[**Name truncated or might have been changed to preserve the privacy of the person. The purpose of the post is to serve as an eye-opener for the community to be wary of bad apples and not to crib/complaint against any person.]
I hence thought I would share this topic on my technical weblog for the benefit of IT fraternity to be wary of such underworld people spread amongst us.


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If you were to change your vote for or against Obama would you?
After nearly two years, are you happy with the President
He has not been agressive enough. He wasted too much time trying to work with the the party of no.
by H C Palting 6 years ago
Is a vote for Gary Johnson a wasted vote?
by rhamson 23 months ago
With Kerry and Netanyahu arguing the US vote in abstentia effectively condemning Israel for continued new settlements on the West Bank one has to wonder why all the remaining votes went to condemn Israel without notice or discussion. Is it that the US blocking such votes make it any less important...
by Faith Reaper 2 years ago
Just curious. Who would you trust to defend our country against our enemies- Hillary or Trump?I am conducting my own little poll here of sorts, as I am just curious who would you trust to defend our country against our enemies and why - Hillary or Trump?
by Rod Martin Jr 5 years ago
A recent YouTube News report by WXIX Fox19's Ben Swann reveals something you're not like to find out about on the evening news. Obama is ignoring a federal court order regarding his actions under the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjXHjkzMD4I supported...
by Man from Modesto 6 years ago
Do you research candidates before voting? How could anyone vote for Romney or Obama?I wrote articles about a local Modesto mayoral election in 2012. Though I was on the first Google results page for the biggest search phrases on Google (and there weren't too many!), only a few dozen read the...
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her? Why? Why not? Ms. Clinton seem to have the best qualifications for president. She also has political experience and is a quite savvy person?
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- Court Of Appeal Upholds Trial Judge's Finding of No Use of the Registered Design Mark
- June 6, 2017 | Authors: Jillian Brenner; Adrian J. Howard; Beverley Moore; Chantal Saunders
- Law Firm: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP - Ottawa Office
- Trademark Tools Inc. v. Miller Thomson LLP, 2017 FCA 98
This was an appeal of the Federal Court's decision (2016 FC 971) dealing with an appeal from the Registrar of Trademarks in a section 45 proceeding. The Federal Court had decided the question of use during the relevant period at first instance. The Federal Court concluded that the use of the registered design mark had not been shown because the goods with which the design mark was used were not within the goods described in the registration.
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Local Teen Charged As Adult, Pleads Guilty To Church Arson
Jean-Claude Bridges Admits To Burning Church
DANVILLE, VIRGINIA -- A now 18-year-old resident of Henry County, Virginia, pleaded guilty this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Danville to charges related to a fire deliberately set at a church.
Jean-Claude Bridges, 18, of Henry County, Va., waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty to a one count Information charging him with destroying a religious property by fire. Prior to pleading guilty this morning, the Court granted the government's motion to transfer Bridges to adult status for criminal prosecution. The defendant was 17-years-old when the criminal conduct occurred.
"Mr. Bridges' racial bias led him to commit the dangerous crime of arson," United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy said today. "When he set fire to the New Holy Deliverance Outreach Ministry, he endangered neighbors and first responders. This act of prejudice offended the entire community. This office will protect the civil rights of everyone and vigorously prosecute crimes like that committed by Mr. Bridges. Racism has no place in Axton or anywhere else in the Western District of Virginia."
According to filings in the case, on May 20, 2012 at approximately 1:20 a.m., Bridges, and another juvenile, intentionally set fire to New Holy Deliverance Outreach Ministry, a church with a predominantly African American congregation, located in Axton, Va. In pleading guilty to this offense, Bridges admitted that he burned down New Holy Deliverance Outreach Ministry because of the race, color, and ethnic characteristics of its congregants.
At sentencing, the defendant faces a maximum possible penalty of up to 20 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $250,000.
The investigation of the case was conducted by the Henry County Department of Public Safety, the Henry County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Assistant United States Attorney Thomas Cullen, assisted by Trial Attorney Christopher Lomax of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, will prosecute the case for the United States.


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I love that as a part of my ongoing professional development I have to flip through design blogs and magazines! Life is so good! Happy Friday Everyone!
Nicodemus Green - Drink Cheap Wine ( Image Above)
*This print just spoke to me! You know when something just makes you stop in your tracks and you're just like... "Ah! I wish i thought of that first!"... well this is it! Such a clear and strong statement. It's something i would declare while pouring another glass of some cheep and cheerful new bottle that i discovered. Adding this one to the xmas wish list!
Royal T Designs - love it or leave it, yellow?
*Always in awe of designing with yellow. Royal T Designs curated a fantastic set of images with yellow at the main design feature. So bright and beautiful!
The Bedlam of Beefy - Polly Wreford Weekend
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Fede Galizia (1578 – 1630) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a pioneer of the still life genre. Known as Galizia, she was born in Milan. Her father, artist Nunzio Galizia, also a painter of miniatures, had moved to Milan from Trento.
Fede Galizia (Italian painter, 1578-1630), Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Fede learned to paint from her father. By the age of 12, she was sufficiently accomplished as an artist to be mentioned by Gian Paolo Lomazzo, a painter & art theorist friend of her father, who wrote, "This girl dedicates herself to imitate our most extraordinary art."
Fede Galizia (Italian painter, 1578-1630), Still Life
Although she reportedly composed other versions of "Judith with the Head of Holofernes," Galizia is best-known today for her pioneering still-life paintings — simple, elegant compositions featuring form and color rather than showy displays of wealth. Some of the most highly skilled practitioners of still-life painting in Italy during this period were women, whose gender usually excluded them from painting grander subjects, such as histories & allegories.
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Nice day today but with a plane out of action from the fleet my nax ex was cancelled and I was back in the circuit in G-BNIV. I was on runway 20 (right hand circuit) and the wind was 270/8.
This means of course upon landing I was to have a slight crosswind and no headwind component. On the downwind leg I was obviously to be forced inwards reducing the circuit.
I did several circuits with my instructor but I was not very good. My general circuit handling was rusty. Downwind leg a couple of times my altitude needed addressing.
I didnt need reminding on the carb heat and the radio comms was fine, as was the take-off. Speed was generally there on landing. However, the general approach though I didn't nail (the feeling you get when its flying itself in balance).
In talking afterwards..I need to not rush it, and flare better. Wash the airspeed off earlier, and keep the nose up on landing. I was too flat.
The last landing was good according to my instructor which was a flapless landing. This followed a full flap landing which was not good. This was a clever move by my instructor because going from one extreme to the other was done so to make me appreciate the attitude better. Clever instructor.
Rudder on landing needed to be a little left. Was OK but I needed to keep it on a little longer as the wind was from the right although not strong.
One other observation was the landings just 'sounded' hard. There must be something with G-BNIV as it sounds hard. My instructor said its fine but also said as its just come back from its annual. With this, the tires are probably fully inflated which also makes a difference on a bumpy grass circuit.
Maybe flying is like Golf which is renowed for being frustrating. You know you are better than your performance. Apparently this is a well known cycle in the journey of learning to fly.
When all said and done... I was flying today which makes it a great day. Another lesson next week! I only wish it was tomorrow morning.


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Although the weather was cold and damp at Cowdray Park, it did not deter 72 ladies and gents playing in the Christmas mixed competition.
The format was 18 holes greensomes, with the spirits being raised by mulled wine and mince pies. The raffle raised £215 for Macmillan.
The winners were Phil Morris and Jane Holden with 37 points, ahead of Dave Gaff and Joyce Fanshawe with 36. Third were Cliff Davis and Lil Cummins with 35, fourth Mike Holden and Sue Brown, also on 35, while fifth were Mike Hughes and Marnie Evans with 34.
Cowdray Park entertained Puttenham in their second home match of the new season of the Surrey and West Sussex Winter League, hoping for better fortune than in the first match, which they lost 3-1 to Bramley. This time they recorded a 2½-1½ to get the season off and running.
The first match out ended in a half for Cowdray pair of Derek Smith and Terry Jasper before Puttenham recorded their sole victory of the day. Two wins followed for the home side courtesy of John Doran and John Newman and team captain Dave Balfour and Harvey Terry to give the home side the points.
Results (Cowdray names first): Derek Smith & Terry Jasper halved with Barry Mackay & Alan Marshall; Nick Austin & Peter Hallt lost to Norman Brown & Roy Wyeth 2&1; John Doran & John Newman beat David Deacon & Malcolm Holland 5&4; David Balfour & Harvey Terry beat Neil Willis & Martin Williams 1 up.
In weather which, at best, was unpleasant, Cowdray Park seniors played their December Stableford, which signified the start of the new season for their Eclectic and Carter Trophy standings.
Thanks to the efforts of head greenkeeper Jonathan Smith and his staff, who devised paths around the wettest parts of the course for buggies, all the players who needed a buggy were able to participate.
One man who defied the worst of the weather was big-hitting Phil Harrison, showing the benefit of a recent holiday to win the day with an excellent score of 38 points. Not far behind, with 35, was David Gaff, who found his high-trajectory suited to the windless conditions.
Second place in division one with 36 points was another early starter in the shape of treasurer Rob Doney, who held his place on countback from Roger Poat, Mick Colban and a resurgent Cliff Davis.
In division two, Alan Robinson held the lead with 36 points before Mike Holden poached the lead, again on countback, with John Lee also on 36 points, alongside consistent Jim Booth, clocking up yet another top-ten finish.
Immediately behind, with 35 and his best score since joining the seniors earlier in the year, came John Renwick, who was the real winner on the day when he was the only division-two player to score a two and thus scooped the rollover pot of £128.
The division-one twos rollover had to be spread among four players: Peter Hardcastle, who scored two, Rob Doney, Mike King and Paul Owen, who produced the shot of the day to hole his second shot on the par-four 15th for a two following an enormous drive off the tee.
The raffle raised a further £168 for Prostate Cancer Relie.
There are no further seniors' competitions in December as the coming weeks are taken up with the seniors' Christmas party and prize-giving and the annual meeting before January heralds the start of the Captain's Prize, weather permitting.
Leading scores (on countback): Div 1 - 38 points, Phil Harrison; 36 - Rob Doney, Roger Poat, Mick Colban and Cliff Davis; 35 - David Gaff, Terry Jasper, Brian Brockhurst, Peter Hallt and Ken Marjoram; Div 2- 36 Mike Holden, Alan Robinson, John Lee and Jim Booth; 35 John Renwick; 34 Tony Castley and Maurice Watts.
Bognor seniors travelled to Petersfield for their second winter-season game. On a very wet and windy day, Petersfield's home advantage told and they ran out 5½-2½ winners.
The remaining games between Bognor, Petersfield, Rowlands Castle and Waterlooville will all be played in February, when hopefully the weather will be a bit kinder than the previous two winters.
This was the last match in charge for Alan Fitzgerald, Bognor's seniors' captain for 2014, and members have expressed their thanks for his leadership this year.
Results: Alan Fitzgerald & Allan Delves lost 5&4, Tony Wells & Vic Ward lost 1 down, Chris HIckling & Frank Hodder won 4&3, Hugh Diaper & Gary Steventon lost 3&2, Clive Millett & Andy Isitt halved, David Turner & Dave Hollis lost 8&6, Roger Selway & Brian Madgwick lost 4&3, Ken Catt & Alastair MacDonald won 3&2.
Nearly 50 Bognor men turned out on a bitterly cold and miserable day for a midweek turkey Stableford. Despite the cold there were some excellent scores.
Winner with 42 points was Ian Hendry, second with 38 was Ian Kracke and third was Gary Steventon with 37.
Taking part in the Turkey compeition were 40 seniors from the Sainsbury's roll-up group and all thoroughly enjoyed a Christmas dinner afterwards with some karoke singing to follow. Ian Kracke won the days's competition.
Winner of the 2014 Sainsbury's aggregate roll-up competition was Roger Leverton, second John Harnett and third Paul Archer. There were many thanks to Ian Simpson for organising the day and for organising the group three times a week every week of the year.
Thanks also go to club captain Ron Stevens for presenting the prizes and Cliff Willis for administering the Sainsbury's yearly roll-up aggregate competition.
Before a superb Christmas lunch , Bognor ladies went out in teams of four to play to play ten holes, three scores to count.
Winners were Nicola Holton, Sian Southerton, Teresa Byrn and Sophie James with 62 points, with Edwina Beresford, Marge Fenwick, Jackie Herbert and Sue Davis second on 61.
Third were Dora Vaughan, Denise Pratt, Carol Adams and Gill Twyford with 60 points; fourth Sue Redmond, Jane Russell, Ann Bushell, and Lynn Miller, also on 60.
England Golf run a competition in which the best four medal scores are counted over a year. Sophie James' best four came to seven under par and she will represent the club at the regional medal final in April.


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South appears determined to defuse this crisis
South Korea and North Korea to hold working-level talks on Jan. 15 | Reuters | Jan 13 2018
Heres a link
Its called Tourist Season. So why can't we shoot them?
I look at that poll and see 'Strategic Patience' is leading. How long is this patience to go on
What is the time frame where North korea will be able to credibly threaten the US and say if you intervene you decide whether San Francisco or New York goes up or trade Seoul & Tokyo in exchange
Accepting Nk as a nuclear state because it is inevitable seems to be the constant refrain i hear from local commentators.
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North Korean shipping may be blockaded:
This would fall into the Strategic Patience category.
drilling jointly to defend from an unspecified source
Chinese border province publishing full page article on what to do in case of a nuke attack. When people get alarmed, they are reminded its for public education
Hawaii has been testing their missile alert system since a month and had a false alarm a few days back
The GT "between now and March" op-ed a month ago saying China should be psychologically prepared
Don't trust China and prepare for war says NK
Training to fight in tunnels
The pressure is building up
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The sub-surface training is indeed gaining more attention. The Army published a new manual on just the same this fall.
Just breaking now:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/asia/...ntl/index.htmlKim Jong Un meeting South Korean officials in Pyongyang, Seoul says
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is meeting with a high-ranking South Korean delegation in Pyongyang Monday, according to a South Korean government official.
It's believed to be the first time the young leader has spoken face-to-face with officials from the South since he took power in 2011. Among those Kim is meeting with are South Korea's National Security Chief, Chung Eui-yong, and the country's spy chief, Suh Hoon.
Their trip north is part of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's attempt to broker a diplomatic solution to North Korea's nuclear weapons program in the wake of the thaw brought about by North Korea's attendance at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics last month.
An interesting piece in the Economist from January. I took note of the argument that the Norks do not need nukes for continued survival, as they have not needed them, to date, for survival. Indeed, their pursuit of nukes seems to me something that will only accelerate their demise.
It's being reported now that Trump will meet with Kim Jong-Un in May to discuss de-nuclearizaton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...815_story.htmlNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited President Trump to a meeting
TOKYO — North Korea's belligerent leader, Kim Jong Un, has asked President Trump for talks and Trump has agreed to meet him "by May," South Korea's national security adviser said at the White House Thursday after delivering the invitation to the American president.
Kim has also committed to stopping nuclear and missile testing, even during joint military drills in South Korea next month, Chung Eui-yong told reporters in Washington.
The bad side: You can't trust the Norks to keep any promises they make.
Plus: Things will probably stay peaceful until May-June, and John Bolton is probably throwing a rage fit right now.
I would personally advise against Trumkin meeting the Kim dictator. Firstly I very much doubt the North Koreans have any intention of "denuclearising"; what assurances of this are there? None. He had supper with some South Koreans... was apparently polite and self depreciating but that is not an assurance and still less a guarantee. Sure the Chinese have cut some trade but tin pot Dictators do not give a damn about their people - they kill them anyway when they have a paranoia fit. So no I cannot believe he is sincere in his 'denuclearisation'; just the same as his Father wasn't when he did a deal with the Clinton administration and Clinton proclaimed a version of "Peace in our time" that proved as worthless as Chamberlains.
Trump, it is said, is known for his ability to 'make deals'. This honestly is BS. Trump is a publicist - a self publicist mostly because he is a narcissistic egotist. That is all he is good at; making headlines on the basis that 'all publicity is good publicity' and because it feeds his egotistical need for attention. He has only broken deals others made since he became President - TPP etc - and by imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum forced other deals to be broken. Most of 'his hotels' are mere licensing agreements and quite a few of them funded with dirty money; in short he is a self publicising enabler for those who wish launder dirty money. Not some 'great negotiator' which takes a broad strategy at the outset then much patience and attention to detail. Negotiating a complicated deal would frankly be beyond the man-child so though he may think he is 'so great' and all that BS and that Kim will just fall over and they will get on soo well - and doubtless he will claim they did - he is never going to charm or negotiate with Kim to 'denuclearise'.
That means it is all win for Kim - and a bad example for others such as Iran. Kim gets to showboat "international statesman" and legitimise his illegitimate dictatorship with all it's torture and murder and do sod all about his nuclear weapons. It is like offering Moscow a free 'reset'. The North Koreans must be laughing as I know the Moskals were then.
I really do hope I am wrong but to me no US President should even consider meeting Kim; send someone fine but you do not legitimise (or compliment Chinese 'President's for life') tin pot dictators and murderers by meeting them personally and causing a major news splash for their benefit - which is probably all Trumpkin wants. If they want to talk fine; speak to my guy Joe Bloggs. I predict absolutely zilch comes of this.
Honestly, Trump taking the meeting is the least worst of a herd of very bad options.
A worrying sign though, is that apparently Mattis, Tillerson et al were only informed a few hours (at most) of the decision to take a meeting (no sitting President has ever meet with the Kims before).
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1 QUALIA: What it is like to have an experience Qualia include the ways things look, sound and smell, the way it feels to have a pain, and more generally, what it's like to have experiential mental states. ( Qualia is the plural of quale.) Qualia are experiential properties of sensations, feelings, perceptions and, more controversially, thoughts and desires as well. But, so defined, who could deny that qualia exist? Although the existence of subjective experience is not (or anyway should not be) controversial, quale which is more clearly a technical term than subjective experience is more often used by those who are inclined to reject the common-sense conception of subjective experience. Here is a first approximation to a statement of what is controversial: whether the phenomenology of experience can be exhaustively analyzed in intentional, functional or purely cognitive terms. Opponents of qualia think that the phenomenology of an experience can be exhaustively analyzed in terms of its representational or intentional content ( representationism ); or that the phenomenology of experience can be exhaustively analyzed in terms of its causal role ( functionalism ), or that having a subjective experiential state can be exhaustively analyzed in terms of having a state that is cognitively monitored in a certain way or accompanied by a thought to the effect that I have that state. If we include in the definition of qualia the idea that the phenomenology of experience outruns such intentional, functional and cognitive analyses, then it is controversial whether there are qualia. This definition of `qualia' is controversial in a respect that is familiar in philosophy. A technical term is often a locus of disagreement, and the warring parties will often disagree about what the important parameters of disagreement are. Dennett (1988), for example, assumes that it is of the essence of qualia to be intrinsic (in the sense of atomic, unanalyzable and non-relational), private (in the sense that any objective test would miss the target), incorrigible (to believe one has one is to have one) and non-physical. Dennett says there are no qualia. Hence the title of his paper, Quining Qualia. (To Quine, according to the Philosophical Lexicon, is to deny resolutely the existence of importance of something real or significant.) Of course, Dennett is free to use qualia as he likes, but a defender of a scientific approach to qualia (the point of view of the author of this entry) will prefer a definition of qualia that allows that science can investigate qualia, that qualia may turn out to be physical, and even that we may discover aspects of introspective beliefs about one s qualia can be mistaken. Indeed, I don t see that a scientific approach can rule out in advance that we could discover, empirically, that qualia are intentional, functional or cognitive. So I prefer to define quale as an aspect of subjective experience that cannot be shown by a priori or other armchair means to be intentional, functional or cognitive. This is an epistemic rather than a metaphysical conception of a quale. (See Block, 2002.) Importantly, there is nothing in the conception of qualia that I am advocating that is incompatible with the claim that a quale is a physical state, just as heat is molecular kinetic energy and light is electromagnetic radiation. An empirical reductionist thesis about qualia is legitimate what is not 1
2 legitimate is an armchair reductive analysis of qualia (e.g. in functional, representational or cognitive terms). ABSENT QUALIA Qualia are often discussed with respect to certain thought experiments that purport to demonstrate the falsity of representationism, functionalism and cognitivist approaches. One of these thought experiments involves absent qualia. If human beings can be described computationally, as is assumed by the research program of cognitive science, a robot could in principle be built that was computationally identical to a human. But would there be anything it was like to be that robot? Would it have qualia? (See Block, 2002, Shoemaker, 1975, 1981, and White, 1986.) If it had no qualia, the claim that the nature of qualia is to be found in their computational or functional role is mistaken, and functionalism is false. Further, if a zombie robot could have states that represent the properties of the world that our experiences represent (shape, size, color, etc.) then representationism is false. (Representationism is the view that the qualitative character of an experience is identical to its representational content). Some thought experiments (Block, 1978) have appealed to oddball realizations of our functional organization, e.g. by the economy of a country. If an economy can share our functional organization, then our functional organization cannot be sufficient for qualia. Many critics simply bite the bullet at this point, saying that the oddball realizations do have qualia. Lycan (1996) suggests thinking of these roles as requiring evolution and as involving the details of human physiology. Economies don't have states with the right sort of evolutionary "purpose", and their states are not physiological. But the evolution stipulation is incompatible with the very plausible doctrine that qualia supervene on the brain: that is, no difference in qualia without a neural difference. If we are ever able to manufacture a brain like ours, it will also lack evolutionary purpose, but to the extent that it is physically just like our brains, it will serve as the neural basis of similar experience. On the idea of including physiological roles in our functional characterization of mental states, note that this will make the definitions so specific to humans that they won't apply to other creatures that have mental states. (Block, 1978 calls this the chauvinism problem.) Further, this idea violates the spirit of the functionalist proposal, which, being based on the computer analogy, abstracts from hardware realization. THE INVERTED SPECTRUM Imagine that we could invert color processing in the visual system in one of two twins at birth. (See Palmer, 1999, for a discussion of a variety of kinds of inversion, some of which are more likely to be possible than others.) If the twins grow up using color terms normally, we might hypothesize that things they both call "red" look to one the way things they both call "green" look to other, even though they are functionally (and therefore behaviorally) identical. This inverted spectrum hypothesis would be further confirmed if the brain state that one twin has on seeing red things is the same as the brain state that the other has on seeing green things, and conversely--assuming supervenience of qualia on the physiological properties of the brain. The relevance of this version of the inverted spectrum hypothesis to qualia is that a physicalist view of qualia can be used to challenge 2
3 functionalism (qualia are causal roles) and representationism (qualia are representational contents). For when one twin is looking at a red thing and the other is looking at a green thing, they can have two states that are physically and qualitatively the same, but are functionally and representationally different, one representing red and the other green. And if both twins are looking at the same object, they may have states that are functionally and representationally the same but qualitatively different. There is a natural reply. Notice that it is not possible that the brain state that I get when I see things we both call "red" is exactly the same as the brain state that you get when you see things we both call "green". At least, the total brain states can't be the same, since mine causes me to say "Its red", and to classify what I'm seeing as the same color as blood and fire hydrants, whereas yours causes you to say "Its green", and to classify what you are seeing with grass and Granny Smith apples. Suppose that the brain state that I get when I see red and that you get when you see green is X-oscillations in brain area V4, whereas what I get when I see green and you get when you see red are Y oscillations in area V4. The functionalist says that phenomenal properties should not be linked to brain states quite so "localized" as X-oscillations or Y-oscillations, but rather with more holistic brain states that include tendencies to classify objects together as the same color. Thus the functionalist will want to say that my holistic brain state that includes X- oscillations and your holistic brain state that includes Y-oscillations are just alternative realizations of the same experiential state. So the fact that red things give me X- oscillations but they give you Y-oscillations doesn't show that our experiences are inverted. The defender of the claim that inverted spectra are possible can point out that when something looks red to me, I get X-oscillations, whereas when something looks green to me, I get Y-oscillations, and so the difference in the phenomenal aspect of experience corresponds to a local brain state difference. But the functionalist can parry by pointing out that this difference has only been demonstrated intra-personally, keeping the larger brain state that specifies the roles of X-oscillations in classifying things constant. He can insist on typing brain states for inter-personal comparisons holistically. And most friends of the inverted spectrum are in a poor position to insist on typing experiential states locally rather than holistically, given that they normally emphasize the "explanatory gap" (Levine, 1993), the fact that no one has the faintest idea how to explain why the neural basis of an experience is the neural basis of that experience rather than some other experience or no experience at all. So the friend of the inverted spectrum is in no position to insist on local physiological individuation of qualia. At this stage, the defender of the inverted spectrum is stymied. One move the defender of the possibility of the inverted spectrum can make is to move to an intra-personal inverted spectrum example. Think of this as a four stage process. (1) You have normal color vision. (2) You have color signal inverting devices inserted in your retinas or in the lateral geniculate nucleus, the first way-station behind the retina, and red things look the way green things used to look, blue things look the way yellow things used to look, etc. (3) You have adapted, so that you naturally and spontaneously call red things `red', etc., but when reminded, you recall the days long ago 3
4 when ripe tomatoes looked to you, colorwise, the way Granny Smith apples do now. (4). You get amnesia about the days before the lenses were inserted. Stage 1 is functionally equivalent to Stage 4 in the relevant respects, but they are arguably qualia-inverted. And we can add that the subject starts off with X-oscillations when he sees green but the shift induced by the inverters makes green things produce Y-oscillations. So we have an inverted spectrum over time. The advantages of this thought experiment are two. First, the argument profits from the force of the subject's testimony at stages 2 and 3 for qualia inversion. The critic of the inter-subjective inverted spectrum says X-oscillations and Y- oscillations are alternative realizations of the same quale, but that is a less plausible move here, since the subject himself says at stage 3 that the state he has now when he sees grass (Y-oscillations) is quite different from the state he used to have on seeing grass (Xoscillations), and there is no reason to suppose this changes at stage 4. Second, the fourstage setup forces the opponents say what stage is the one where the inversionist argument goes wrong. (See Shoemaker, 1981, Block, 1990.) Rey (1993) attacks stage (3), White (1995) attacks stage (4). Nida-Rümelin (1996) notes that in one kind of genetic color-blindness, the pigment of the long-wave sensitive cones (L-cones) replaces the normal pigment of the medium wave sensitive cones (M-cones). Another kind of color-blindness is the converse: the normal M pigment replaces the L pigment. If a person were to have both kinds of genetic abnormality, they would have the M pigment in the L cones and the L pigment in the M cones. (No such person has been found, but we can predict that there are 14 such persons for every 10,000 males.) Nida-Rümelin argues that such a person might be a natural case of spectrum inversion. Why, an opponent might ask, is the inverted qualia argument against functionalism any more powerful than a corresponding inverted qualia argument against physicalism? After all, it might be said, one can imagine particle for particle duplicates who have spectra that are inverted with respect to one another (Chalmers, 1996). But though physical duplicates with inverted spectra are in some sense imaginable, they are ruled out by a highly plausible principle that any materialist should accept: that qualia supervene on physical constitution. By contrast, the physicalistically acceptable form of the inverted spectrum hypothesis that I have been describing is physicalistically acceptable and also has the advantage that facilitates imagining how people might some day produce such cases. INVERTED EARTH In discussing the inverted spectrum, I emphasized its relevance to functionalism. There is an interesting variant that is more relevant to representationism. The variant depends on a thought experiment, Inverted Earth (Harman, 1982; Block, 1990). Inverted Earth is a planet that differs from Earth in two relevant ways. First, everything is the complementary color of the corresponding earth thing. The sky is yellow, the grass-like stuff is red, etc. (To avoid impossibility, we could imagine, instead, two people raised in rooms in which everything in one room is the complementary color of the corresponding item in the other room.) Second, people on Inverted Earth speak an inverted language. They use `red' to mean green, `blue' to mean yellow, etc. If you order paint from Inverted Earth, and you 4
5 want yellow paint, you FAX an order for `Blue paint'. The effect of both inversions is that if you are drugged and kidnapped in the middle of the night, and color inverters are inserted behind your eyes (and your body pigments are changed), you will notice no difference if you are switched with your counterpart on Inverted Earth. Now consider the comparison between you and your counterpart on Inverted Earth. We could run the story with the counterpart being your identical twin who was fitted with an inverter at birth and raised on Inverted Earth, or we could think of the counterpart as you after you've been fitted with the inverter and switched with your twin and have been living there for a long while. Imagine you and your counterpart gazing at your respective skies, saying How blue!. Your brains can be stipulated to be molecular duplicates, not just locally speaking but holistically speaking. You are looking at different colors, but because of the inverter you have the same overall brain state. So very plausibly, your experiences are exactly the same. And this is plausible independently, since as the story goes, you notice no difference when you are fitted with the inverter and placed in a niche on Inverted Earth. But the representational content of those experiences is different: your experience represents blue, the color of the Earth sky, whereas your counterpart s experience represents yellow, the color of the Inverted Earth sky, the color that they all call blue, (meaning yellow). Same qualia but different representational content. And the same setup argues for the converse case as well. If you are looking at the blue sky on earth while your counterpart is looking at an Inverted Earth lemon (which, you will recall, is actually blue), you will have experiences that represent the same color, viz., blue, but are phenomenally different. Same representational content, different qualia. And both cases are challenges for representationism. There are two major advantages of this case over the inverted spectrum thought experiment: (1) the twins brains are total replicas (when they gaze at their respective skies), so there is no potential conflict of holism vs localism, (2) in the version in which your twin is just you after emigration, there is no need for the adaptation that was required in the intra-subjective inverted spectrum thought experiment. However, there is a compensating difficulty that derives from the fact that there is a kind of adaptation in the environment rather than in the head. Let me explain. Consider the intrasubjective case. The strength of the intrasubjective inverted spectrum case lies in the personal testimony in stage 3 that grass looks the way blood used to look colorwise. The weakness lies in the fact that the subject has undergone a strange adaptation process that perhaps impugns his judgments. In the case of the subject being moved from Earth to a niche on Inverted Earth, when the subject says things look the same now as they always did, he is believable because he undergoes no phenomenal adaptation process. However, we can reasonably wonder whether his experience on Inverted Earth really does represent the sky as yellow. We can agree that the natives all around him represent the sky as it really is, that is, as yellow, but our subject after all grew up (and evolved) using that very experience to represent blue. This is one of the objections made in Tye (2000). 5
6 One response is that the representational content of experience is not fixed by evolution or early experience. If we find out that your grandparents were swamp-people who came together from particles in the swamp and didn t evolve at all, we would not thereby have shown that your experience does not have the normal representational and qualitative content. Also, if I come to develop a Bush recognitional capacity but then move to a place where Bush s twin brother is the President, I don t misrecognize twin Bush forever. Eventually, my recognitional capacity readjusts. My visual experience represents Bush as Bush. So why should we suppose that the color represented by the subject s early experience on Earth makes it forever misrepresent the color of the sky on Inverted Earth? (I have only been able to touch on issues that are discussed in much more detail in Lycan (1996) and Tye (2000).). THE KNOWLEDGE ARGUMENT The inverted spectrum, inverted earth and absent qualia arguments are critiques of functionalist and representationist views of qualia. The final thought experiment to be discussed here is directed as much at physicalism as functionalism. Jackson's (1986) Mary is raised in a black and white environment in which she learns all the functional and physical facts about color vision. Nonetheless, when she ventures outside for the first time, she learns a new fact: what it is like to see red. So, the argument goes, what it is like to see red cannot be a functional or physical fact. Dennett (1991) objects that perhaps she could have figured out which things are red; but that is beside the point for two reasons. The question is whether she knows what it is like to see red, not which things are red. And does she know it simply in virtue of knowing all the functional and physical facts about color vision? A natural objection is that physicalism isn t concerned with what Mary knows, but rather what qualia are, what their metaphysical nature is. Someone could know all the physical facts about molecular kinetic energy changes but not know about heat changes if the person does not know that heat is molecular kinetic energy. But the analogy doesn t apply, since we can suppose that Mary does know that what it is like to see red is something physical and even exactly what state of the brain it is. That won t keep her from learning a new fact when she learns what it is like to see red. Lewis (1990) denies that Mary acquires any new knowledge-that, insisting that she only acquires knowledge-how, abilities to imagine and recognize. But others have emphasized that what Mary learns seems very propositional: she could even express it as: What I learned is that this is what it is like to see red. Further, as Loar (1990) points out, the knowledge she acquires can be expressed in embedded contexts. For example, she may reason that if this is what it is like to see red, then what it is like to see red is more enjoyable than then what it is like to be slapped in the belly with a wet fish.. Here is a different (and in my view more successful) objection to Jackson (Horgan, 1984b; Peacocke, 1989; Loar, 1990; Papineau, 1993; Perry, 2001; Sturgeon, 1994; van Gulick, 1993): What Mary acquires when she sees red for the first time is a new phenomenal concept. This new phenomenal concept is a constituent of genuinely new 6
7 knowledge--knowledge of what it is like to see red. But the new phenomenal concept picks out old properties, properties picked out by physical or functional concepts that she already had in the black and white room. So the new knowledge is just a new way of knowing old facts. Before leaving the room, she knew what it is like to see red in a third person way; after leaving the room, she acquires a new way of knowing the same fact. If so, what she acquires does not rule out any possible worlds that were not already ruled out by the facts that she already knew, and the thought-experiment poses no danger to physicalism. THE FUNCTION OF QUALIA It is often supposed that qualitative character has all sorts of wonderful functions, promoting flexibility, creativity, and even making recursive models. Block (1995) suggests that the main function of qualitative character is promoting access to mechanisms of short term memory, perceptual categorization, reasoning and decision-making. Qualia are red flags that representations wave at intelligent processors. The intelligent processing that results is a product of three things: the pre-conscious mechanisms that determine what representations are to acquire qualitative character, the post-conscious mechanisms that actually do the intelligent processing, and finally, the qualitative character that helps to make the representations accessible to the intelligent mechanisms. To give the qualitative character itself the credit for creativity, flexibility, etc., is like giving the printing press the credit for the ideas that are printed. Bibliography Block, N. (1978) Troubles with functionalism. Reprinted in (N. Block, ed.) `Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol 1. Harvard University Press, 1980 Block, N. (1990) Inverted earth. In Philosophical Perspectives 4, ed J. Tomberlin. Ridgeview Block, N. (1995) On a Confusion about the Function of Consciousness, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18, Block, N. (2002) The Harder Problem of Consciousness, The Journal of Philosophy XCIX, No. 8, August 2002, 1-35 Byrne, A., (2001) "Intentionalism Defended", Philosophical Review 110, Chalmers, David, The Conscious Mind. Oxford University Press: New York Dennett, D. (1988) `Quining Qualia.' In A. Marcel & E. Bisiach (eds) Consciousness in Contemporary Society. Oxford University Press: Oxford 7
8 Dennett, D. (1991) Consciousness Explained. Little Brown: New York Harman, G. (1982) Conceptual Role Semantics The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23, 2, p. 250 Horgan, T. (1984) `Jackson on physical information and qualia'. Philosophical Quarterly 34 Jackson, F. (1986) `What Mary didn't know.' Journal of Philosophy 83: Jackson, F. (1993) `Armchair metaphysics'. In J. O'Leary-Hawthorne and M. Michael (eds) Philosophy in Mind. Kluwer Levine, J. (1993) `On leaving out what it is like.' In Davies and Humphreys (1993a) Lewis, D What experience teaches. In (W. Lycan, ed) Mind and Cognition. Blackwell Loar, B. (1990) `Phenomenal properties.' In J. Tomberlin (ed) Philosophical Perspectives: Action Theory and Philosophy of Mind. Ridgeview. Lycan, W. (1996) Consciousness and Experience MIT Press: Cambridge McGinn, C. (1991) The Problem of Consciousness. Blackwell Nida-Rümelin, M Pseudonormal vision: An actual case of qualia inversion? Philosophical Studies 82: Palmer, S Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (6), Papineau, D. (2002) Thinking about Consciousness, Oxford University Press: Oxford Peacocke, C. (1989) `No resting place: a critical notice of The View from Nowhere', The Philosophical Review 98, Perry, J. (2001), Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness, MIT Press: Cambridge Rey, G. (1993) `Sensational Sentences Switched'. Philosophical Studies 70, 1: Shoemaker, S. (1975) `Functionalism and qualia.' Philosophical Studies 27: Shoemaker, S. (1981) `Absent qualia are impossible--a reply to Block'. The Philosophical Review 90,4:
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