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Cheap Thrills (Exp)
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Tony | Bronx, NY United States | 07/30/2010
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"sitting here listening to cheap thrills. its 40 something years since this album came out. my first impression all those years ago was that it was one of the greatest rock/blues albums of all time. i thought the band wasn't the best musicians i ever heard and janis wasn't the best singer i ever heard but the music and the vocals were the best "combination of the two" i had heard. sometimes the total is greater than the sum of its parts. i'm sitting here with chills as i hear the opening notes of ball and chain, hearing that voice make pure magic, the band so raw, so young, so pure in its energy. this album is simply one of the greatest of all times. i'm 63 and feel like i did when i first heard it, young and alive"
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D. D. Driscoll | Goshen, CT USA | 01/27/2010
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I saw Big Brother with Janice on their farewell tour in Seattle. That fifth of Southern Comfort made her pipes all the better. This CD brings back the memories of that era."


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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Protest is one thing. Song is another
Taking measures to quiet any group of people when singing, strikes at heart strings as a sacrilege against all that is human. The police can be sent in with shields and gas to stop the protest, the march, the occupation and find many sympathizers, but this is not true of a protest arising out of people joined in song.
Who can sympathize with the Grinch as he complains:
Sing, sing sing sing now I'll never get no sleep
I'm screaming out the window but it don't do no good
They sing and sing and sing
All through the neighborhood, sing sing sing
They take their little break and then
They do it all again
Now we have a Governor Grinch whose whose dread of song can be best described in the words of Dr. Seuss, in 3 words "Stink, Stank, Stonk"!
Every weekday,for nearly two years, as the clock strikes noon, dozens of demonstrators pass out songbooks inside the Wisconsin Capitol. Office workers who know what's coming scramble to close their doors, and several police officers take up watch from a distance.Huffington Post
102 citations have been issued since new Capitol Police Chief, former Marine and body guard to GovernEr Scott Walker, David Erwin took over. These citations are "valued" at $200.50 and up. The total charged against singers is now more than $24,000!
There is a power and spirit in song that sustains the human spirit with an eternal foundation more enduring than the earth itself.
David Erwin has embarked on a mission impossible. He has cast himself in a role that has been the doom of many a predecessor as fantastical as the Grinch who stole Christmas and historically psychotic as Stalin and Hitler. Yet, out of ignorance or a self righteous zeal for power and purpose this mere mortal has taken aim at the power of angels and stands on the ashes of those villains of history who have failed in the silencing of song.
David is the new chief of the Wisconsin Capitol Police who is already shuffling along trying to fill the huge shoes of Chief Tubbs. He is bringing a new approach to law enforcement in the Capitol which includes striking a harsh E flat Major in the silencing of song.
I've heard there was a secret chord
Chief David Erwin (pictured above) is not the David who played but seems to be a David who really doesn't care for music, or singing in the Capitol Rotunda. What is it about song that raises the hackles of Chief David? The answer is simple and goes back to the birth of song itself – song flies on the wings of angels and cannot be clubbed or cuffed into submission. Song is the maker of fools and leaves those who attempt to subdue it, as ridiculous as the boy who would attempt to collect the ocean in his little plastic pail.
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You are contributing to the same spirit of song that has endured in Estonia's long fight for independence. The Estonian people endured with a revolution filled with smiles and song.
In their own way and in their own time, and using their voices alone, the people of Estonia fought for their independence. Estonian activist Heinz Valk called it "the Singing Revolution." He says of that time, "Until now, revolutions have been filled with destruction, burning, killing and hate, but we started our revolution with a smile and a song."
When their capitol was secure, activist Marju Lauristin stood out on the balcony of the building and thanked the people. "We were sure that if you came to help us that you would do it in the way you did. With your intelligence, your songs, your heart. That is when we are at our strongest. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." And the people of Estonia raised their clasped hands to the sky above, and sang.


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Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX) reported a fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.3 and revenue of $5.9 billion, beating by $0.01 and $0.02 billion, respectively. The company's services business increased revenue by 7% while revenue from the document technology business fell 8%. "Strong growth in services and the consistent profitability of our document technology business generated significant operating cash flow and contributed to fourth-quarter earnings that met our expectations," said Ursula Burns, Xerox chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Our fourth-quarter results reflect steady progress. We increased our services segment margin by 0.9 points while growing business process outsourcing revenue by 8 percent, IT outsourcing by 15 percent and document outsourcing by 2 percent. In document technology, our fourth-quarter segment margin of 12.3 percent improved, reflecting effective execution in reducing our cost base and maximizing profitability." For the first quarter in 2013, the company expects adjusted EPS of $0.23 to $0.25 per share and for the year as a whole, adjusted EPS of $1.09-$1.15.
Will Xerox Corp.'s shareholders increase their holdings? They reported owning a total of 20.431 million shares on 12/31/2012. The shares closed at $6.82 on 12/31/2012.
Here are the ten largest positions in Xerox Corp. at the end of December 31st, 2012.
California Public Employees Retirement System held 3,797,276 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $25,897,423. This brought the portfolio total to 0.06%.
MizuhO Trust & Banking Co. Ltd. held 2,121,815 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $14,470,779. This brought the portfolio total to 0.06%.
Oxford Asset Management held 2,003,305 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $13,662,540. This brought the portfolio total to 0.2%.
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In a bid to quell violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo late Monday on two armed groups accused of rape and mass killings.
The decision came just before Rwanda, which has been accused of backing the rebels, temporarily joined the powerful council. The country has fervently denied involvement in the Congo crisis, but U.N. experts and human rights groups say its fingerprints are evident in the recent bloodshed.
The new sanctions target the M23 rebels, who are suspected of being funded and armed by Rwanda, and the FDLR, an armed Rwandan group linked to Hutu fighters who fled their homeland after its devastating genocide in 1994, during which hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and sympathetic Hutus were slain.
The Security Council also slapped a travel ban and financial freeze on the M23 president and one of its military commanders, expanding the list of rebels under targeted sanctions.


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Caffeine - sometimes there just aren't enough ways to wedge it into your day (and night). From the frothy to the velvety, and from Flat White Russians to Chai Latte Martinis, gathered up here are the best coffee cocktails in London. Drink with caution, or you'll be ricocheting off the walls all night long...
The Expresso Martini at Martini Bar
Bitter espresso, small-batch vodka, brutalist architecture and high art. It's like the Barbican martini bar has taken all the most urbane tropes they could think of and fused them into this rich, black and strong night-owl martini.
The Mestizo Black Mexican
Tequila isn't as obvious a match for coffee as the sweetness of rum or the smokiness of bourbon. But this Euston restaurant's cocktail menu might make you rethink. The Black Mexican is a double-tequila twist on a White Russian, a mix of Patron XO Tequila Coffee Liqueur, Patron Blanco Tequila and condensed milk on the rocks.Deliveroo now from Euston
The Masala Chai Martini at Imperial Durbar
Coffee shop by day, cocktail-pushers by night, the design and drinks at this Tooting bar are 'a taste of India with a twist'. We like the way warm and tropical-fragranced ingredients creep into the classics, like this twist on espresso martini with a mix of chai latte, Kahlua and vodka.
The Irish Coffee at the Sun Tavern
Where would you trust more with an Irish coffee than this Bethnal Green bar, specialists in Irish whiskey? They make theirs with Powers' Gold Label Whiskey, espresso, dark sugar, nutmeg and stout cream - turning what can just be splashing a shot in your coffee mug and calling it a digestivo into a legitimate cocktail experience...
The hard shakes at Heddon Street Kitchen
Alcohol, caffeine, ice cream - there's a lot going on in a coffee hard shake. This is dessert course, after-dinner coffee and nightcap in one swoop. The Heddon Street Kitchen version of that hat-trick is their Lucky Number 7, balancing the bourbon and coffee with the softness of vanilla ice cream and banana.
The Spiked Iced Coffee at Dirty Bones
This one's only available as part of the brunch menu - £19 a head and ordering a main course gets you the 'boozy brunch flight', which is up to four drinks from a selection. Be warned that ordering four Spiked Iced Coffees after each other means you'll get a total of 12 espresso shots with extra cognac, Mozart Dry Chocolate spirit and cream. A lot of cream.Deliveroo now from Soho
The Nitro Martini at Fox Bar
They do an Espresso Martini on tap at this Brixton basement bar from the Soho House people. The nitrogen creates microbubbles and a creamy texture, and the pressurised storage gives it a silkiness when poured - this is a velvety glass of sleeplessness.
The Espresso Old Fashioned at Exmouth Market Grind
If you know the Grind coffeeshops, you might understand why they're a good place to search out a coffee cocktail. Often open until midnight and as much a bar as a caffeine merchant, they're as serious about their cocktails as their cappucino.
Their outpost on Exmouth Market does an Espresso Martini, but also the more interesting Espresso Old Fashioned, a smoky marriage of coffee bean and bourbon. Single origin infused bourbon, sugar syrup and bitters come with a twist of orange peel and tasting slightly caramelised. Subtle and startling at the same time. But if you want something that feels closer to a coffee, they also do a Flat White Russian - espresso, vodka, Kahlua and milk.


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Paul Thompson won't tolerate further lapses of discipline as Sheffield Steelers get back into Champions Hockey League action this evening.
"Individuals took it upon themselves to take selfish penalties and that hurt the team" he said, adding: "They can't keep doing that or they won't play, it's as simple as that.
"Fatigue may have had a lot to do with the chopping and hooking that was going on when we were under the cosh - we had talked about that, but it still happened. We took four or five pointless penalties and paid a price for it."
So how will Steelers re-build tonight, after flying to Finland to face JYP Jyväskylä?
"We have to look at the positives; for 40 minutes we were strong against Frölunda before we fell apart. Our energy levels dropped 40 per cent in the later stages and that is exploited when you spend so long killing penalties for 24 minutes, that alone saps you.
"In Finland, we have to stay out the box and show some of the battling qualities we possess."
Thompson said the effort shown was frequently in the wrong areas.
But he said everybody was disappointed by the size of the scoreline. "The guys were devastated, they thought they had let the club down. But we shouldn't be ashamed by this, Frolunda do this to teams in their own league. I hope it will be a good learning tool. Now I want to see a real positive response against JYP."
The Sheffield coach also said he'd never seen players throw the puck over the (lower) plexi glass as often as his side did. The least the club can get out of the CHL experience is match fitness - Elite League will certainly not be as fast when the domestic rivals start.
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Acer have just unveiled their latest 3D monitor the GN245HQ, the world's first 3D monitor to support the HDMI 3D solution from NVIDIA allowing user to fully support all the possibilities brought to 3D and stereoscopic technology.
The new Acer display combines Full HD 3D imagery via HDMI 3D or DVI-DL (dual link) connectivity with NVIDIA 3D vision and comes complete with a pair of NVIDIA 3D glasses, featuring advanced active shutter 3D technology.
The Acer GN245HQ has a 100 million:1 contrast ratio, Full HD resolution 1920 x 1080 perfect for 1080p Full HD applications and a 16:9 aspect ratio, together with a 120Hz refresh rate, essential for creating the 3D effect and a 2ms response time.
There is no official word on a US release just yet, but it will be arriving in the UK around the middle of March for £419.99 around $675.
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Today I left Tennessee making my way to Little Rock, where I am spending the night in a hotel. When I realized that I would be driving through Memphis, I decided that I must stop by Graceland. So I hung out with Elvis for a little bit. It was fascinating to see the house (you don't get to go upstairs; only the main level and downstairs). It's like being in a time warp, with it's '70's decor. Elvis paid $100,000 for Graceland, which has 13 acres.
this is Elvis's living room, where he spent quite a lot of time.
the stairs to Elvis's private lair. The tour doesn't go up there as we were told, it was a private area in during his life and remains private in his death.
Elvis's tv room. Supposedly he wanted 3 tv's after hearing that President Lyndon Johnson had three sets to keep up with all the major network newscasts at the same time. There were other cool rooms such as the billiard room and the jungle room. you can read more about Elvis's interesting decorating style here.
this is Elvis's trophy room and it was huge! it housed all his gold records, awards, movie costumes, show costumes and all kinds of cool memorabilia.
Elvis was originally buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis but after someone attempted to steal his remains, his father, Vernon, petitioned to have his body moved to Graceland. He was reburied in one of his most beloved areas on the property called, The Mediation Garden, along side his mother, his grandmother and then eventually his father. (Elvis died in 1977 and his father died in 1979). Read everything you didn't know about Elvis here!


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We've received several common questions regarding Nolan's Walk for Williams.
1. How do we donate to the walk since we can't attend?
Go to www.walk4williams.org. In bold, there will be 2 options to either "register to walk" or "donate to a walk." Once you've selected "donate to a walk," you will be given a list of all the walks around the USA that are happening this year. Select the Indiana: Plainfield one, and you will be able to donate to the walk that way.
2. How much of the money will go to Nolan?
Brandon and I aren't having this walk to raise money for Nolan. ALL money will go to the Williams Syndrome Association in honor of Nolan. Our purpose is to raise money for the WSA and to raise awareness about Williams Syndrome. Of course some have been adamant at other points in Nolan's life about giving to him to help with medical expenses, and we appreciate that, however, at this point the money goes to the WSA.
3. How do we go about getting sponsors? or How far is the walk?
This is NOT a walk a thon. However, if you are a registered walker who wants to get sponsors, please email us a firstname.lastname@example.com for a sponsor form. Those who register to walk do not need to get sponsors, but you can if you would like. The walk will be a relatively short (approx. 1 mile) route where we will gather and walk together to raise awareness. After the organized short walk, people are more than welcome to continue to walk for as long as they would like. Our setup will have a relatively flexible schedule as we want people to come and enjoy themselves and with their families.


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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Hey, Where We At--Which Union Square?
Union Square, Manahattan
Union Square, San Francisco
Union Square, Seattle
Most writers are admirably clear about time, but too often unclear about place. Even in a story that has been set in Seattle, we need sometimes to reinforce the reader's sense of bearings. One mention of the city's name may not enough for a reader to place store names like Macy's or Bloomingdales in Seattle, not Manhattan. Furthermore, some landmarks may not be as well-known as we think: e.g., New York's Herald Square or Seattle's Pioneer Square.
Occasional reminders can be placed discreetly: The downtown Macy's is only blocks from 3rd and Pike, the crossing known as The Scourge of Seattle. Or: New York's flagship Macy's, located at Herald Square...
If this seems over-finicky, remember that anything causing a reader to stop and wonder where s/he is will slow down the momentum we've worked so hard to create.
The problem grows more pressing, if our hero--born in New York, now residing in Seattle and just back from San Francisco--finds himself thinking about Union Square.
Even in fantasy novels, I often need more grounding: how far away from 'the city' is the countryside now being shown?
We don't have to choose, as writers, between speed and clarity. Take the time to add the necessary telling detail. The clearer we are, the more quickly and happily readers will read.
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Readers who enjoyed the steadfast characters, plotting and romance of Unearthly (2010) can expect more of the same in this equally satisfying sequel.
Picking up after the fire in which she rescued rodeo star Tucker, discovered that Christian (the boy from her dreams) is an angel like her and failed to fully realize her "purpose" as an angel, Clara Gardner faces her senior year with a new set of problems. She's started having a different set of dreams, which reveal that someone close to her is about to die. As she tries to piece together clues and a new purpose from the dreams, she must also be on constant watch for the evil fallen angel (known as a Black Wing) Samjeeza. Although it's clear which direction Clara's increasingly petulant younger brother, Jeffrey, is heading, occasional literary and pop references ("First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club") keep the first-person narration snappy. As in the first novel, unexpected twists lead to surprising revelations (this time helping Clara learn more about the lives of angels and her own special angel qualities), and the incessant conflict between destiny and free will drives Clara's actions—and heart.While it's readers' fate to wait for a third book in the series, they'll do so willingly to discover the answers to lingering secrets. (Paranormal romance. 13-17)


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Anyone happen to see the latest issue of 7x7, the newish city magazine? The lead food feature is billed as a ``hard look'' at San Francisco as a restaurant town. It opens with a provocative poll from Food & Wine magazine, which asked 500,000 people to name America's best food city. New York came in No. 1, no surprise there, while San Francisco was -- gasp! -- No. 4 and out of the money. (Place and show went to Chicago and New Orleans.) A half million is a large sample, but it's still hard to say what, if anything, this means (beyond that Food & Wine, and 7x7, were looking to sell magazines). One wonders just who those 500,000 people are and what they think they know.
As it turns out, the poll is beside the point. What the writer, Sara Deseran, is really interested in is the state of our restaurants. She says the world-famous ``California cuisine'' -- French and Italian roots, the best ingredients in season, simple preparations, etc. -- so dominates Bay Area dining that few restaurateurs dare to try anything different. Meanwhile, in New York and elsewhere, chefs are taking chances. Deseran mentions the Nuevo Latino wave, which broke nearly a decade ago back east but, she says, has barely made a ripple here (Alma is cited as a rare local success for this style).
Of course, evidence of a livelier Bay Area scene -- more diverse food, more adventurous diners -- abounds on this board. But the writer's focus is the upper end, where she says the ``well-traveled foodie'' crowd is content to stick with the familiar. Bruce Hill, who did East-West fusion at the Waterfront and Oritalia, calls this ``whatever-Mediterranean food.''
Not that anyone has to gag this stuff down. The now-canonical regional style remains ``by and large terrific,'' says Gourmet critic (and former Angeleno) Jonathan Gold. Yet he admits that a certain sameness has set in, and Deseran checks off a list of local menu cliches: seared ahi, ``Zuni-style'' roast chicken, goat cheese and beet salads, to name a few. By now these are national menu cliches as well, but San Francisco, she argues, should be ahead of the curve. She closes with a call for Bay Area restaurants to step out of the shadow of Chez Panisse, which she says still defines the regional dining scene even after three decades.
The case is not entirely convincing. Deseran does acknowledge, in passing, the Asian influence, but I think she understates its importance here. It's also worth remembering that there is creativity and there is mere trendiness, and there's something to be said for resisting the latter. That said, much of the article rings true, and it is more measured and thoughtful than its packaging might suggest (cover line: ``SF vs. NYC -- Why *They* Have Better Restaurants''). I'm curious about what others thought of it.
Elsewhere in the same magazine, in a column of food briefs, is a plug for the Chowhound Passport. And why not? Buy a bunch, and pass them out like breath mints to your food-loving friends who need it. You know the ones, their faces smeared with beet juice and goat cheese.


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- Breakfast at Das Essenhaus. You'll probably drink some coffee and may have some sausage gravy. I'll have some coffee too. Adam and Matthew will have pancakes. Matthew will eat 52 pancakes and then barf in the parking lot. Mom will be pretty grossed out.
- Because we're suspending space and time, after breakfast we'll hop in the kayaks and zip down to the bridge and back. The sun will be shining and it will be warm, like it was a couple of years ago at Thanksgiving. We're just going to pretend it's not January!
- We'll putter around then change clothes and head for the lake. We'll put the Thistle in the water without any hollering. Matthew won't mess anything up and we'll win all the races by huge margins. Dick Otter will be eating our wake. I'm pretty sure we'll win a few trophies.
- We'll stop by a brew pub for a few brewskies and some snacks. But, we can't stay long because we have to get home for german chocolate cake and presents.
- We'll still make you grill your own dinner because you're good at it. We'll have a beer while we're waiting. It's always happy hour somewhere.
- After cake and singing and pretending the years aren't really passing, we'll watch some basketball.
A great day indeed. I hope it was happy and sorry this is a few days late! Love you lots, always and forever. A gal couldn't ask for a better Dad.


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[Correspondence] Should doctors strike?
I understand junior doctors' frustration with the proposed changes to their contracts. I understand that many consultants want to support their junior colleagues, especially when imminent amendments to their own contracts will probably be equally unpopular. I share the frustration with the increasing feeling within the National Health Service that clinicians are commodities whose value is eroding and perhaps even being deliberately eroded? Genuine grievances need to be listened to and addressed.


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2018 Melges 24 European Sailing Series: Inconsistent Breeze Makes Altea Consistent in Punta Ala
24 March 2018
Altea ITA722 by Andrea Racchelli scores 1-1-2 today. Photo (c) Zerogradinord / IM24CA
March 24, 2018 - Punta Ala, Italy - The Gulf of Follonica keeps satisfying the dynamic Melges 24 Fleet racing this weekend in the first act of the 2018 Melges 24 European Sailing Series. Also today, fifteen participating teams from six countries concluded three regattas, despite the massive wind shift that forced the Race Committee to replace the race course after race number one of the day.
The races of today brought remarkable changes into the provisional ranking, also because of the discard that has come into play after the conclusion of the fifth race of the series. Altea (ITA722, 1-1-2 today) by Andrea Racchelli, third after the races of yesterday, scores two great first places and a second and, discarding a sixth, climbs on top of the preliminary podium, followed in the ranking by FGF Sailing Team (HUN728, 2-5-10) with Robert Bakoczy in helm that discards a tenth as worst result of the series so far.
The Corinthian, reigning World Champion crew, onboard Marco Zammarchi's Taki 4 (ITA778, 3-4-3) having Niccolo Bertola in helm with the good results of today conquers the provisional third place on the podium, affirming itself also as a leader of the Corinthian ranking. The English entry Gill Race Team of Miles Quinton (GBR694, 7-2-4) with Geoff Carveth in helm follows the Italian crew at short distance, occupying the fourth place in overall and second in Corinthian with a gap of 5 points over the forerunners on Taki 4.
It has been a good day also for the Corinthian Hungarian entry Seven_Five_Nine (HUN759, 14-3-1) of Akos Csolto that concludes the series with a sparkling first place and climbs up, from the last position occupied yesterday, up to the seventh place in overall ranking, third among the Corinthian.
The first act of the 2018 Melges 24 European Sailing Series is coming to conclusion tomorrow on Sunday: with wind conditions that are forecasted as light and probably shifty, the Race Committee will call the fleet on the water at 10.00, being in the summer time then already, with the intention of adding three more races to the six already sailed until today.
Media coverage of the event is provided by the media partner of the International Melges 24 Class, Zerogradinord with Mauro Melandri and Silvia Gallegatti, and Melges Europe is in Punta Ala to support and serve the teams.
The photos of Day Two by Zerogradinord/IM24CA
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FGF Sailing Team HUN728 helmed by Robert Bakoczy, scores 2-5-10 today. Photo (c) Zerogradinord/IM24CA
Taki 4 ITA778 with Niccolo Bertola in helm, scores 3-4-3 and climbs to the third position today. Photo (c) Zerogradinord / IM24CA
Gill Race Team of Miles Quinton GBR694 with Geoff Carveth in helm scores 7-2-4 today. Photo (c) Zerogradinord / IM24CA
A good day for the Corinthian Hungarian entry Seven_Five_Nine HUN759 of Akos Csolto scoring 14th, 3rd and 1st place today. (c) Zerogradinord / IM24CA


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ProFILE Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
McPherson, AC, McAdam, L, Keenan, S, Schwellnus, H, Biddiss, E, DeFinney, A, English, K. (Accepted) A feasibility study using solution-focused coaching for health promotion in children and young people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Developmental Neurorehabilitation.
Ballantyne, M, Orava, T, Bernardo, S, McPherson, AC, Church, P, Fehlings, D. (Accepted) Parents' early healthcare transition experiences with preterm and acutely ill infants: A scoping review. Child Care, Health and Development.
McPherson, AC, Hamilton, J, Kingsnorth, S, Knibbe, TJ, Peters, M, Swift, JA, Krog, K, Chen, L, Steinberg, A, Ball, GDC. Talking with children and families about obesity and weight-related topics: A scoping review of best practices. Obesity Reviews 18 (2) 164-182 (early online 26 Nov 2016).
McPherson, AC, King, G, Rudzik, A, Kingsnorth, S, Gorter, JW and the Ontario Independence Program Research (OIPR) team (2016). Optimizing life success through residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: Study protocol of a mixed-methods, prospective, comparative cohort study. BMC Pediatrics. 16:153.
Shen, QA, Doyle-Thomas, KAR, Beesley, L, Karmali, A, Williams, L, Tanel, N, McPherson, AC. (2016) How should we engage parents as co-researchers in health research? A scoping review of current practices. Health Expectations (early online 12 August 2016).
Knibbe, TJ, Biddiss, E, Gladstone, B, McPherson, AC. (2016) Characterizing socially supportive environments relating to physical activity participation for young people with physical disabilities. Developmental Neurorehabilitation (early online 11 August 2016).
Heller, M, Gambino, S, Church, P, Lindsay, S, Kaufman, M, McPherson, AC. (2016) Sex, Romance & Spina Bifida: A qualitative study exploring sexuality and relationships in young people with spina bifida and their partners. Journal of Adolescent Health 59 (2), 182–188. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.03.037 (early online 21 May 2016).
Lindsay, S, Fellin, M, Cruickshank, H, McPherson, A, Maxwell, J. (2016) Youth and parents' experiences of a new inter-agency transition model for spina bifida compared to youth who did not take part in the model. Disability and Health Journal 9 (4), 705-712. (early online 27 May 2016).
Rivera, J, McPherson, A, Hamilton, J, Birken, C, Coons, M, Iyer, S, Agarwal, A, Lalloo, C, Stinson, J. (2016) Mobile Applications for Weight Management: A Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 4 (3) Jul-Sept.
King, G, Kingsnorth, S, McPherson, AC, Jones-Galley, K, Pinto, M, Fellin, M, Timbrell, N Savage, D. (2016) Residential Immersive Life Skills Programs for Youth with Physical Disabilities: A Pilot Study of Program Opportunities, Provider Strategies, and Youth Experiences. Research in Developmental Disabilities 55, 242–255.
McPherson, AC, Swift, JA, Peters, M, Lyons, J, Knibbe, TJ, Church, P, Chen, L, Farrell, R, Gorter, JW. (2016) Communicating about obesity and weight-related topics with children with a physical disability and their families: spina bifida as an example. Disability and Rehabilitation 39 (8), 791-797. (early online 25 March 2016).
McPherson, AC, Rudzik, A, Kingsnorth, S, King, G, Gorter, JW, Morrison, A. (2016) "Ready to take on the world": Experiences and understandings of independence after attending residential immersive life skills programs for youth with physical disabilities. Developmental Neurorehabilitation. DOI: 10.3109/17518423.2016.1141254 (early online 22 March 2016).
McPherson, AC, Ball, GDC, Maltais, DB, Swift, JA, Cairney, J, Knibbe, TJ, Krog, K. (2016) A Call to Action: Setting The Research Agenda For Addressing Weight-Related Topics In Children With Physical Disabilities. Childhood Obesity (early online 30 Dec 2015).
Lindsay, S, McPherson, AC, Maxwell, J. (2016) School-work transitions among youth with spina bifida: Perspectives from youth, their parents, and health care providers. Disability and Rehabilitation. Early online (17 March 2016) DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2016.1153161.
Lindsay S, Cruickshank H, McPherson A, Maxwell J. (2016) Implementation of an inter-agency transition model for youth with spina bifida. Child: Care, Health & Development 42(2):203-12 (early online 17 Nov 2015).
Fischer, N, Church, P, Lyons, J, McPherson, AC. (2015) A qualitative exploration of the experiences of children with spina bifida and their parents around incontinence and social participation Child: Care, Health and Development, 41(6):954–962 (Early online 23 May 2015). DOI: 10.1111/cch.12257.
King G, McPherson AC, Kingsnorth S, et al. (2015) Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: Service providers' perceptions of change processes. Disability and Rehabilitation 37(11):971-80 (Early online 1 May). DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2015.1031285.
Kingsnorth, S., King, G., McPherson, A. & Jones-Galley, K. (2015) A retrospective study of past graduates of a residential life skills program for youth with physical disabilities. Child: Care, Health and Development 41(3) 374-383. doi:10.1111/cch.12196 (early online 23 Sep 2014).
McPherson, AC, Leo, J, Lyons, J, Church, P, Chen, L, Swift, JA. (2014) An environmental scan of weight assessment and management practices in paediatric spina bifida clinics across Canada. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 7(3):207-17. doi: 10.3233/PRM-140290.
King, G, McPherson, AC, Kingsnorth, S, Stewart, D, Glencross-Eimantas, T, Gorter, JW, Jones-Galley, K, Morrison, A, Isihi, AM (2014) Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: Service providers' perceptions of experiential benefits and key program features. Disability and Rehabilitation 37 (11): 971-980 (Early Online 19 August 2014).
Biddiss, E, Knibbe, TJ, McPherson, AC. (2014). The effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing anxiety in healthcare waiting spaces: a systematic review of randomized and non-randomized trials. Anesthesia & Analgesia 119 (2):433-448.
McPherson, AC, Gofine, M, Stinson, J. (2014) Seeing is believing? A mixed methods study exploring the quality and perceived trustworthiness of online information about chronic conditions aimed at children and young people. Health Communication 29 (5) 473-482. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2013.768325.
McPherson, AC, Keith, R, Swift, JA. (2014) Obesity prevention for children with physical disabilities: a scoping review of physical activity and nutrition interventions. Disability and Rehabilitation. 36(19):1573-87. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2013.863391.
Keenan, S, King, G, Curran, CJ, McPherson, AC (2014) Effectiveness of an Experiential Life Skills Intervention for Youth with a Disability. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 34 (2), 119-131. doi:10.3109/01942638.2013.842200.
Patton, I & McPherson, AC (2013) Anthropometric measurements in Canadian children: A scoping review. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 104(5):e369-e374.
Wells, F, Ritchie, D, McPherson, AC. (2013) "It is life threatening but I don't mind". A qualitative study using Photo Elicitation Interviews to explore young people's experiences of renal replacement therapies. Child: Care, Health & Development 39 (4), 602–612.
McPherson, AC, Swift, JA, Yung, E, Lyons, J, Church, P. (2013) The assessment of weight status in children and young people attending a spina bifida outpatient clinic: a retrospective medical record review. Disability and Rehabilitation. Vol. 35 (25), 2123-2131.
Biddiss, E, McPherson, A, Shea, G, McKeever, P. (2013) The design and testing of interactive hospital spaces to meet the needs of waiting children. Health Environments Research & Design Journal 6(3), 49-68.
Price KJ, Wales J, Eiser C, Knowles, J, Heller, S, Freeman, J Brennan, A, McPherson, A, Wellington, J (2013) Does an intensive self-management structured education course improve outcomes for children and young people with type 1 diabetes? The Kids In Control OF Food (KICk-OFF) cluster randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ Open;3: e002429. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002429.
King, G, Curran, CJ, McPherson, AC. (2013) A Four-Part Ecological Model of Community-focused Therapeutic Recreation and Life Skills Services to Support the Participation of Children with Disabilities. Child: Care, Health & Development 39 (3), 325-336. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2012.01390.x.
McPherson, AC & Lindsay, S. (2012) How do children with disabilities view 'healthy living'? A pilot study. Disability & Health Journal 5 (3) 201-209.
Lindsay S, McPherson AC, Aslam H, McKeever P, Wright V (2012) Exploring children's perceptions of two school-based social inclusion programs: A pilot. Child and Youth Forum. DOI: 10.1007/s10566-012-9183-9.
Lindsay, SL & McPherson, AC. (2011) Experiences of social exclusion and bullying at school among children and youth with cerebral palsy. Disability & Rehabilitation. DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2011.587086.
Lindsay, S & McPherson, AC (2011) Strategies for improving disability awareness and social inclusion: Listening to the voices of children with cerebral palsy Child: Care, Health & Development 38 (6) 809-816. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01308.x.
McPherson, AC & Redsell, SA (2009) Factors affecting children's involvement in asthma consultations: a questionnaire survey of general practitioners and primary care asthma nurses. Primary Care Respiratory Journal 18(1), 15-20.
Glazebrook, C, McPherson, AC, Macdonald, IA, Swift, JA, Ramsay, C, Newbould, R. & Smyth, A (2006) Asthma as a barrier to children's physical activity: implications for body mass index and mental health. Pediatrics 118(6), 2443-2449.
McPherson, AC, Glazebrook, C, Forster, D, James, C & Smyth, A. (2006) A Randomised, Controlled Trial to evaluate an interactive educational computer package for children with Asthma. Pediatrics 117,1046-1054.
ProFILE Selected Abstracts
Volfson, Z, McPherson, A, Tomasone, J, Faulkner, G, Arbour-Nicitopoulos, K (2016) Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport 48 (1), 236.
McPherson, AC, Ball, G, Swift, JA, Knibbe, TJ, Peters, M, Byrne, C, Chen, L, Krog, K, Steinberg, A, Kingsnorth, S, Philpott, J, Browne, N and Hamilton, J. How should we talk with children and families about obesity and weight-related topics: A scoping review to establish best practices. Obesity Reviews T5:S32:43.
McPherson, AC, Jones-Galley, K, Gorter, JW (on behalf of the OIPR team) (2015) Essential ingredients of life-skills programs aiming to enhance transitions to adulthood for youth with disabilities: A breakfast symposium. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 57, Supp 5.
McPherson, AC, Fellin, M, Maxwell, J, Hartman, L (2015) Development and Implementation of an Inter-Agency Transition Model for Youth with Spina Bifida. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 96 (10), e41.
Heller, M, Gambino, S, Church, P, Lindsay, S, Kaufman, M, McPherson, AC (2015) Let's Talk About Sex…And My Spina Bifida: A qualitative exploration about how young people with spina bifida discuss sex and disability with partners. Journal of Adolescent Health 56, S125–S126.
McPherson, AC, Swift, JA, Chen, L#, Forhan, M (2015) Clinical dilemmas and research priorities in an "underserved population": Obesity in young people with physical disabilities. Canadian Journal of Diabetes 39, S12.
Patton, IT and McPherson, A (2015) Beyond Weight: The Development of a Health Screening Tool for Children and Youth. Canadian Journal of Diabetes, Vol. 39, S44.
McPherson, AC, Keith, R, Swift, J (2013) Obesity-related health promotion interventions for children and young people with physical disabilities: state of the evidence. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 55 (Supp 3), 68.
McPherson, AC, Swift, J, Lyons, J, Church, P, Chen, L. (2013) Why should we be concerned about obesity in children with disabilities? Canadian Journal of Diabetes; 37 (Supp 2), 239-240.
ProFILE Selected Media
October 11 2016: A heavy discussion: how to talk to your kids about their weight. Today's Parent
February 10 2016: 'A Call to Action'
January 6 2016: 'A Call To Action: Obesity In Children With Physical Disabilities', Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes
November 2015: 'The Hard Road to Good Health' http://www.canadianliving.com/health/fitness/staying_fit_when_disabled.php
Fall 2015: 'Let's Talk about Sex: What do young people living with spina bifida think?' Current: The magazine of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Ontario (not available online)
May 2015: 'Expert Advice: How to help your child with a physical disability stay active'
Spring/Summer 2014: 'An accident waiting to happen: the stigma of incontinence'. Current: The magazine of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Ontario (not available online)
Jan 21 2014 'Medical websites for kids lacking' http://issuu.com/hollandbloorview/docs/bloom_winter_2014_-_web/1?e=1952047/6413530
Dec 12, 2013: 'The Challenge of Obesity In Children With Physical Disabilities'
July 2013: 'The Bloorview Research Institute is starting the conversation: Obesity in children with disabilities'
June 2013: 'Clinicians need to step-up education to combat obesity'
May 2013: 'The assessment of weight status in children and young people attending a spina bifida outpatient clinic: a retrospective medical record review'
Oct 25 2012 (and Winter print copy of 'Bloom'): Findings from: "A qualitative exploration of the experiences of children with spina bifida and their parents around incontinence and social participation".http://bloom-parentingkidswithdisabilities.blogspot.ca/2012/10/a-toileting-taboo-kids-and-incontinence.html


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[wingide-users] A few MacOS X issuesLuc Bourhis Luc_J_Bourhis at mac.com
Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:01:08 +0100
Hi, Wing IDE works great on my MacOS X 10.2.5 (Apple X11 beta 3) save a few minor glitches: 1) Wing does not remember the position or size of its windows although 2) Wing does not honour gui.work-area-rect 3) When I click a button or menu in another window, that widget does not receive the click event: its window comes to the front but I have to click the widget again. Thanks for any help. Here is my configuration file: # This is your Wing IDE preferences file # edit.personality='normal' edit.tab-size=4 edit.indent-style='tabs-only' proj.save-without-asking=true edit.print-paper='A4' gui.work-area-rect=(0,10,1280,820) gui.auto-save-before-action=true gui.one-view-per-window=true gui.show-toolbar-in-browser=false gui.embed-command-bar=false gui.keymap='/Users/luc/.wingide/keymap.mine' gui.file-display-cmds={'*':["open '%s'",],} #main.auto-reopen-last-project=false -- Dr. Luc Bourhis Chemical Crystallography Laboratory University of Durham England
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Here's a translation of a tutorial I wrote in the Autumn of 2015. One may want to compare my "The West. A Straussian Metanarrative."
1. Introduction.
What is political philosophy? The usual conception is: as philosophy is the love of wisdom, so political philosophy is the love of political wisdom. But one can also conceive it differently: not as the love of political wisdom, but as the political love of wisdom...
What does this mean? It means that the love of wisdom, philosophy, has become political--not so much in the narrower sense, of "being in politics"--although Francis Bacon for example was Lord Chancellor--, as in the broadest sense, of political activity in general--for example the publication of a political manifesto. Political-philosophical writings are basically manifestos for the benefit of philosophy, written by philosophers who felt they had to rise up for philosophy. Or rather, descend. Thus the first word of Plato's Republic is katebên, "I went down". Political philosophers are philosophers who, at least now and then, leave their height in order to involve themselves personally with its foundations.
But why then is the usual meaning of the term "political philosophy" the love of political wisdom, and not the political love of wisdom? This is itself an effect, indeed a success, of political philosophy. For Plato, the first Westerner who undisputably practiced political philosophy, ostensibly lets his Socrates go among the people in order to determine what is political wisdom--but the latter really does so only in order with his feigned naivety and objectivity to actualise the implications of his own political wisdom!
His own political wisdom? Was Socrates then wise? How can a philosopher be a wise man or vice versa? How can someone at the same time possess and desire one and the same thing?--Instead of answering this question, we should rather make the following distinction here. Philosophy basically seeks natural revelation--although it would not spurn divine revelation, either. But until the essence of things has revealed its true nature, i.e. until we possess true wisdom, true knowledge of existence, the most rational thing we can do is: search for true wisdom. And given this, that a life in the service of philosophy is the best life, at least until we possess true knowledge of the best life, one can certainly reason out what is the best political order: namely that political order which makes philosophy prosper the most.
But with this, we're still missing a second premise. The first is that a life in the service of philosophy is the best life. But one can only draw a conclusion regarding the concretely best political order if one also knows in what sort of social conditions one lives. These are dependent on time and place. This is the reason why, in broad lines, I distinguish not one, but four political philosophies in the history of the West.
2. Homer.
The first political philosophy I distinguish is the Homeric. The culture whose first literary works are ascribed to Homer was the culture in which Western philosophy arose: the natural philosopher Thales of Miletus is usually considered the first Western philosopher. But in his forelast book, How Philosophy Became Socratic, Laurence Lampert already refers repeatedly to the work of Seth Benardete, a student of Leo Strauss's: he suggests that Homer's Odysseus is more or less to Homer himself as Plato's Socrates is to Plato himself--and one could add to this: "and as Nietzsche's Zarathustra is to Nietzsche himself." And in his latest book, The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss, he devotes an entire chapter to Benardete's The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey. That chapter is titled: "Extending the History of Philosophy Back to Homer: Seth Benardete's Odyssey". It starts with a quote from one of Strauss's letters to Benardete:
"Some day my belief that Homer started it all and that there was a continuous tradition from Homer until the end of the 18th century will be vindicated."
Now I've read Benardete's book, and it's one of the most difficult books I've read, which is certainly saying something. To give an idea of how Benardete reads the Odyssey, I'll quote a partially paraphrased passage from it. It concerns the episode in which Odysseus and his men are trapped in the cyclops Polyphemus's cave.
"[Polyphemus] asks Odysseus where he moored his ship. [... Odysseus lies] that Poseidon smashed his ship. [...] Polyphemus does not reply to Odysseus's lie; instead, he eats two of his comrades. [... It does not] occur to Odysseus that if Polyphemus believes they cannot get away they have to be disposed of in some way if the order of his cave is not to be disturbed. There is no room here for the permanent stranger. Cannibalism is the strict consequence of Cyclopean tidiness: Polyphemus cuts up the men neatly and leaves not a scrap behind. Nothing in the narrative suggests that cannibalism is anything but a one-time supplement to Polyphemus's [vegetarian] diet."
Benardete goes on to interpret this as the Homeric lesson that order, for example a juridical order, does not yet amount to justice. And cannibalism is in his reading a very important and hence often recurring subject in Homer. It seems that the Homeric political turn was among other things aimed at eradicating cannibalism.
This quotation only gives a glimpse of how dense the greatest part of Benardete's book is, by the way.
Anyway, whatever may have been the exact social conditions that drove Homer to effect his political turn, that turn was aimed at guaranteeing a certain minimum of civilisation--a minimum on which, whether this was intended or not, even philosophy could prosper. If I've understood Benardete en Homer well enough, the mechanism by means of which this was effected was the following. First another quotation from Benardete's book:
"Homer [...] gives the impression that the Sun punished Odysseus's men; but we are later told that the Sun cannot punish individual men; he can withdraw his light from gods and men equally, but he needs Zeus to carry out what alone would satisfy him. Homer does not mention Zeus.[!] If we may distinguish between cosmic gods like the Sun—gods whose possible existence is manifest to sight—and Olympian gods, about whom there is only hearsay, then Homer begins [the Odyssey] with a cosmic god who punishes human folly, but he is at once corrected as soon as the Muse takes over and introduces Homer and us to Poseidon, Zeus, and Athena."
What Homer did with regard to the gods was this: he promoted the Olympian gods to the highest rank and demoted the cosmic gods to a lower rank. With this, the invisible gods became the most important gods. (By "invisible" I do not mean that they weren't depicted or even enacted, by the way; just that one couldn't see them in their true form.) This was crucial in order to civilise man, as the next short quotation may serve to illustrate:
"Hades distinguishes man from everything else. Men go to Hades, all other animals just die. This distinctiveness of man, whether exaggerated or not, imposes on man certain constraints. The prohibition against cannibalism takes the form of a general prohibition, whether it be through inhumation or cremation, against man being consumed by any wild beast."
A man who eats another man is of course a wild beast in a sense. The Greek name for Hades, by the way, is Aïdes, originally Avides, "the Unseen one", "the Invisible one".
What Homer introduced was the notion of invisible gods who saw all your shameful deeds and punished you for them in Hades, if not already here on earth. Thus Benardete writes:
"The [sacrificial] cow, [Homer] says, came from the field, Telemachus' comrades came, the blacksmith came, and Athena came. Athena came in just the way the cow did. That the men of Pylos see the one and not the other makes no difference."
Considering the context in which he writes this, and after pondering it a lot, my conclusion is really very simple: a juicy piece of beef suggests the nearness, indeed, the favour of the goddess! But because everyone can see that shameful people often enough have plenty to eat whereas honourable people do not, there was still need of belief in a Hades in order to impel people to live honourably.
Contrary to Christian culture, which is a guilt culture, the Homeric culture was a shame culture. As a rule, punishment in Hades was no corporal punishment, like in the fires of Hell, but a spiritual punishment: the pain of knowing that people didn't respect you. Except for those who directly harmed or tried to harm the gods, the Homeric reward was honour and the Homeric punishment was dishonour. The recipient par excellence of the Homeric reward was Achilles. Thus Benardete writes:
"[I]t is [Achilles'] tomb that makes him conspicuous both now and in the future. Achilles dies but not his name. Hades is needed in order that Achilles may enjoy, if only counterfactually, the reality of his name."
Upon his death, the soul of Achilles went to Hades, where the recently deceased and the occasional visitor to Hades would inform him of the fact that he was still considered the greatest warrior here on earth, that his impressive tomb site was still swarming with pilgrims every day and his feats were still the stuff of legend. In this way, people were encouraged to behave according to a moral code--a code of honour.
3. Plato.
In my introduction, I said that Plato's Socrates goes among the people solely "in order with his feigned naivety and objectivity to actualise the implications of his own political wisdom". But this basically only goes for the older, the wiser Socrates. The younger Socrates does go among the people in order to determine what is political wisdom, so without knowing it in advance. For originally, Socrates was no political philosopher but a natural philosopher, like Thales of Miletus. This is the Socrates who is sharply criticised by the oldest of our three direct sources, the great comic poet Aristophanes. In his comedy, The Clouds, Aristophanes depicts Socrates as a sophist, a scientist of the Greek enlightenment. About this enlightenment, Lampert writes (in his forelast book): "it actively schooled the best Athenian young in a lightly veiled skepticism about the gods while mocking ancestral or paternal submission to them and counseling its students on just how to make the best use of the piety of others." This is precisely Aristophanes' reproach of Socrates, and in fact Socrates, from that time on, begins his so-called "second sailing". His first sailing was his journey into the clouds, that is to say, his quest for the true nature, or true cause, of natural phenomena. His second sailing is his return journey, his return to the earth, to the world of men. On Socrates as he's described by the second of our three direct sources, the historian Xenophon, Lampert writes (in his latest book):
"Socrates' turn to the human taught him that the humans in charge, the males in charge, judge nature to act unbearably toward humans, like a sea always in motion, always threatening humans and human constructs with destruction, always failing to distinguish worthy from unworthy. Xenophon's images bring to light Socrates' insight into the male need to master feared and hated nature, to conquer nature. They show Socrates, the student of nature and human nature, learning that he will have to persuade ruling males of what he learned they would dearly want to believe, that nature is not what she seems but wholly otherwise, end-directed for human benefit by caring gods who ensure that the worthy benefit and the unworthy suffer. Socrates has no quarrel with nature, but he teaches a fiction to make it appear that the male quarrel with nature misunderstands nature."
I repeat: "end-directed for human benefit by caring gods who ensure that the worthy benefit and the unworthy suffer". This is what Lampert calls Socrates' "teleotheology": a teleological theology, that is to say a theology which teaches that the ways of God may be unfathomable, but that there absolutely is a plan behind them--a master plan whose succes is guaranteed: the good will be rewarded and the wicked be punished, perhaps not yet in this life, but certainly in the hereafter. And the rewards and punishments will not consist in the knowledge that one has a good or a bad name in this world, but in direct experience of the enjoyments of heaven or the horrors of hell, respectively. I'm putting it in Christian terms, and indeed, Platonism is proto-Christian. Thus Nietzsche called Christianity "Platonism for the people."
Platonism for the people is simplified Platonism. For example, Christianity has a single deity whereas Platonism, just like the Homeric religion, has many. The difference from the Homeric religion in this respect is in the following. The Homeric gods often disagreed with each other: thus in the Iliad they are divided between the Greeks and the Trojans. According to Platonism, on the other hand, the gods are wholly of one mind, because they are all wise and therefore cannot disagree with each other.
It doesn't really matter if there be a single deity, or multiple deities who are wholly of one mind. But Plato had to stick with polytheism, because his intended audience happened to be used to that. Thus Lampert, in his forelast book, writes:
"[S]peaking as a theologian, [Socrates] promulgates laws for gods who resemble the gods Adeimantus already knows from Homer and Hesiod but are moral models fit for human imitation. Socrates uses Adeimantus's beliefs about the gods to instill the old gods with new virtue."
Platonism, then, sticks to the invisibility of the most important gods, but changes their norms and values, and thereby the idea of Hades. Now Hades no longer in the first place serves to enable one to hear whether one's good or bad name lives on on earth, but to enable one to enjoy or suffer from things within Hades itself. This change is accompanied by the transformation of a shame culture into a guilt culture.
But even within a guilt culture there are people for whom shame and honour are more important than guilt and a good conscience. Plato flatters these people with the notion that they are philosophical because they love what they know and hate what they don't know. For, seeing as such loyal and vigilant dogs constitute the axis around which society turns, and are for that reason highly esteemed by the people, philosophy acquires a better name if they call themselves philosophers.
4. Machiavelli and Nietzsche
In the third political philosophy I discern, Machiavellian political philosophy, such people once again have a key role. With this I jump to the Machiavellian age, since I can best explain the key role they fulfill in the Platonic age by comparing it to their later role.
In the Middle Ages, as in classical antiquity after Plato, political philosophy basically remained Platonic. But although Christianity--and Judaism and Islam, likewise--was a form of Platonism, this only applied to the spiritual world. As regards the physical world, not Plato but Aristotle was in the right, according to the Church. Thus in the Middle Ages, Christian theology got almost inextricably tangled up with Aristotelian natural science. And when, after the high point of the Renaissance, philosophy was acutely endangered by religious zeal--religious wars, the Inquisition, the persecution of Galilei, the burning of Giordano Bruno--, then Machiavelli got the brilliant idea to use that entanglement against the Church. Yet the unworkability of Aristotelian natural science was only an assumption on the part of Machiavelli, and it wasn't until Descartes that that science was vanquished by the scientific revolution made possible by the latter's mathematised natural science. Enter Francis Bacon. As Lampert writes in his latest book:
"Bacon introduced an experimental science that, granted time, would make the implied cosmology of the Bible as evidently untrue as the cosmology of Aristotle. To gain time, the new science had to equip itself with what Bacon knew to be rhetoric: he transformed the Bible's promise of paradise forever in the next life into the promise of paradise forever in the human future through work in the world now and for generations--his truly Napoleonic strategy. By converting minds like Descartes's and influencing the minds of many, to establish the Royal Society for instance, Bacon advanced [...] natural science."
In his New Atlantis, which was the direct inspiration for the founding of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, Bacon advertises a social order in which scientists and inventors are praised and rewarded for enhancing the people's well-being. The scientists and inventors are the people for whom shame and honour are more important than guilt and a good conscience. And even as in Baconism, which is basically scientific Platonism, a lover of wisdom took care that lovers of honour voluntarily took to serving the lovers of ease, by making discoveries and inventions for them, so did in religious Platonism a lover of wisdom take care that lovers of honour voluntarily took to serving the lovers of ease by teaching a gospel which they themselves lived--to which belongs the myth that the philosopher has a mind's eye for the Ideas, that the priest has a mind's ear for the word of God...
The purpose of Platonism was to allow philosophy to continue to flourish in the shadow of religion. But under Christianity, philosophy became the handmaiden of the religion. According to the Medieval philosopher Alfarabi, such an absorption was inevitable unless there was always at least one philosopher among the high priests. By seeing to that, the life-cycle of the society would remain at its high point instead of coming to an end. But after this, too, had failed in the Middle Ages, at least in the Christian world, if not in the Islamic and the Jewish world as well, then Machiavelli thought of a new way to avert that fate. He realised that the fact that such life-cycles naturally come to an end could be undone by virtue of a "conquest of nature". This conquest would specifically not be natural-scientific so much as politicological in nature: Machiavelli did not regard the last possible phases, but the middle phase of such a natural life-cycle as the high point: according to him, the high point of the whole cycle was not a scientific or philosophical high point, but a political high point. Science was to be put in the service of politics, and philosophy as metaphysics was to be completely abolished. It was with this, and really only with this, that philosophy became science, modern science, and as such the new religion. In Lampert's words:
"The Machiavellian strategy succeeded in its one great aim ["to crush Christianity's spiritual tyranny"]; but by adopting its enemy's means and conscripting science into the service of propaganda, it caused philosophy to fall prey to a new tyranny, the tyranny of supposed enlightenment via science." (Lampert, Leo Strauss and Nietzsche.)
The Baconian scheme, in which science serves the common good, was so successful that the unreasonableness of such utilitarianism was almost completely obscured by it; today, virtually everyone considers democracy's absolute superiority a self-evident fact (though not everyone may find things are sufficiently socialist or anarchist yet). Near the end of 2012, I saw a nice example of how much people regard certain moral values as self-evident, and science as the vehicle of those values. It's an imaginary postcard sent to religion by science, in the week that skydiver and BASE-jumper Felix Baumgartner jumped from the stratosphere in a stunt sponsored by Red Bull.
Dear Religion,
This week I safely dropped a
human being from space while
you shot a 14 year old girl in the
head for wanting to go to
I kinda feel like you need a
better hobby....
I won't say much about this other than that the idea behind it seems to me to be the following: "We over here in the West are, thanks to our scientific enlightenment, already able to employ science for the purpose of excitement and sensation, whereas you over there in the Middle East haven't even used it to guarantee peace and security!" For these, I think, are the two value sets which are met by the Machiavellian strategy. A student of Leo Strauss whom I haven't yet mentioned, Harry Neumann, may express the truth behind this even better than Lampert and Strauss. Thus he writes:
"Sometimes I ask students if any real restraints, limits set by something like nature or gods, exist to curb scientific experimentation. Can science, for example, make men immortal or transform them into eagles? Most students deny that anything is intrinsically impossible. They acknowledge that some things probably will not happen tomorrow or even in a century, but, in principle, nothing prevents anything imaginable from happening at any time. Like good liberal democrats, these same students usually cling to a groundless faith that science's uncurbed experimentation ought to be used for liberal democratic goals--to promote freedom rather than slavery, peace rather than war. As if that made any difference in the nihilist world revealed by science! The faith that science's omnipotence can be restrained in the name of some non-arbitrary moral obligation is unscientific. It is relapse into the philosophic illusion from which science liberates itself. Interpreted scientifically, any such relapse, any moral-political commitment, springs from the tyrannic decision to have it so: all moral-political demands are efforts to tyrannise over reality, to replace nature or truth with the propaganda dearest to one's heart." (Neumann, Liberalism.)
"The philosophic illusion from which science liberates itself" is the illusion of "a universe in which [the philosopher] and what is good for him exist as something more than nihilist experience" (Neumann, ibid.). So not only are the said value sets valuable only insofar as people insist on their being valuable, but man himself only exists insofar as he insists that he exists... The latter idea, that beings exist only insofar as they value themselves, is of the essence of value ontology. But since we're talking about political philosophy, not about metaphysics, I won't go into that too deeply. Suffice it to say the following. Democracy exists owing to the fact that the people who want it to exist together are more powerful than the people who do not want that. These, however, are people with relatively weak wills: hence they must be with a great majority. That their individual wills are weak may be appreciated from the fact that most of them at least cannot acknowledge the aforesaid; they have to believe that their values are universal, that they are not driven by will to power but by moral sense. Nietzsche's philosophy, on the other hand, indeed, all esoteric, that is to say actual philosophy, is scientific: it is the most spiritual will to power, the tyrannical drive to the creation of the world... Thus Nietzsche wants the world to be will to power and nothing besides, and therewith as hierarchical, not egalitarian. Thus Neumann writes:
"Although the past was responsible for the present egalitarianism detested by Nietzsche, for the most part it was characterised by the inequalities dear to him. However, lack of awareness of nihilism's threat formerly led men to take those inequalities for granted, to interpret them as necessary consequences of natural or divine justice. Modern thinkers culminating in Nietzsche made men aware that human creativity or technology was not limited by anything. Nietzsche feared that contemporary egalitarians would employ this unlimited power to create a world of universal peace and equality. He yearned for a superman whose will to overpower nihilism and egalitarianism would use modernity's immense power to create the eternal return of the past's inequality and wars. Then there would be no wars to end all wars." (ibid.)
Allow me to explain. Inequality was dear to Nietzsche because it leads to spiritual growth into the heights; likewise crises like war, because suffering and danger bring out the best, namely the strongest, in people. With the aid of science, however, we could arrange the world in such a way as to no longer be able to be struck by natural disasters or diseases, and we could even alter human neurochemistry and genetics in such a way that we would no longer be capable of suffering and aggression! This is exactly what certain prominent transhumanists advocate.
Nietzsche's superhumanism wants the opposite thereof: the eternal recurrence of all inequality and all suffering. For with that, at least in the enormously distant future there will be inequality and suffering again. But it's well-nigh inconceivable that, if time is not yet a circle, we could so to say bend it into a circle; let alone that we could ever know that we'd succeeded. And indeed, this is not the principal meaning of the eternal recurrence. The eternal recurrence is the ideal of a man who values his life and everything that preceded it so much that he wants it all to return; but this also means that he would strongly prefer the time between the present and for instance the return of the Big Bang to not be essentially different. With the eternal recurrence, then, he also wants historical recurrence: to speak with Mark Twain, not just that history repeats itself, but also that it rhymes.
It's highly improbable that man could ever cause a new Big Bang; but a new Great Flood is already much more probable... Lampert suggests that, even as Nietzsche had Machiavelli as his predecessor, and Machiavelli had Plato, and Plato had Homer, so Homer, too, had a similar predecessor: Tiresias. But contrary to Homer, Plato, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, Tiresias is someone we know nothing about, content-wise; there's a break in the tradition immediately before Homer. Therefore, couldn't we bring about another such a break? After which a new Homer might appear, and a new Plato, a new Machiavelli and a new Nietzsche? The Machiavellian and Platonic turns, and possibly the Homeric turn as well, were aimed at preventing such a break from occurring; but whereas the Homeric and Platonic turns sooner or later led to the threat of a new break, the Machiavellian turn, conversely, has led to the threat of stagnation: the stagnation of man in the single ideal--"the last man".
Yet although the Nietzschean turn stimulates precisely such a break, it can paradoxically lead to continuity. For, besides stagnation and interruption, there is yet another alternative: a spiral. This would mean that, at the end of this Machiavellian age, an even more advanced age should dawn, but one which as regards its value system will correspond to the pre-Homeric age--which must have been an animistic age. Upon this, in turn, a new Homeric age could then follow, that is to say one which as regards its value system will correspond to the Homeric age, but which will be even much more advanced than ours. I regard Fixed Cross and myself at least as pioneers of the coming age.


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So far, no skeletal steel towers march across the landscape, but proposals to erect them keep cropping up. And it's difficult to envision buyers flocking to luxury homes whose neighborhood features hulking transmission structures. The right-of-way made the 11,000 acres in the corridor essentially worthless, the development company told county tax officials in recent years.
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Adding to the wide collection of artifacts from Tomb Raider: Legend is the pendant of Lara's mother, Amelia Croft. As Lara's makes her way through a passage in a secret structure hidden behind a waterfall in Ghana, Africa, a glint catches her eye:
While the cut scene tells us that the pendant is Amelia's, the actual pendant tells quite a different story. the inscription on the back of the pendant actually reads:
To my dearest Lara,
I shall always have you
no matter where
you are.
Keep dreaming.
-Your mother
I guess that the designers originally intended for the pendant to be to Lara from her mother, but changed what it meant later in development. Cool huh?
P.S.- yes, I know you guys want more Lara models, but WHAT ELSE!?
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Amelia's Pendant
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Oh wow. the designer thing is very interesting :O
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Weather kicking a high 89 degree a beverage and my favorite snack were in order for Friday night.
The boys ran their scooters to death, I sat in a chair and enjoyed the warmth.
Saturday morning rolled around and a Target trip was calling my name.
I decided to roll with spooky socks-why not?!
Our peach tree was in full bloom, and the sky…well that was amazing too
Ended the day with great friends, red wine and a fire. Perfection!
A lazy Sunday morning, just what the Doc ordered. Puzzle, PJ's, coffee and House of Cards.
Monday was spent with some steak on the grill, yum.
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A woman's body was found inside a car that burned on the side of S.C. 46 in greater Bluffton early Tuesday.
A Honda Civic was engulfed in flames near the highway's intersection with Big Bluff Road when firefighters arrived at about 2:30 a.m., Bluffton Township Fire District Battalion Chief Todd Harvey said.
The woman's body was found in the driver's seat after the fire was extinguished, Harvey said.
Beaufort County Deputy Coroner David Ott said the woman's identity will not be released until an autopsy is performed today at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. "We're going to hold it until she has been positively identified," Ott said.
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Officials do not know if the woman died as a result of the fire or before it ignited. Harvey also said they have no clues about what started the blaze.
"The car was just totally destroyed," Harvey said.
The fire district is responsible for determining the cause of the fire, Harvey said.
The car did not appear to have been involved in a wreck, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
The discovery of the woman's body occurred the day after Bluffton firefighters found a man's body inside a camper, which also was destroyed by fire, on All Joy Road. The Sheriff's Office had no updates Tuesday on the investigation of 55-year-old John Porzio's death. Harvey said the fire district, along with S.C. Law Enforcement Division investigators, have not determined the cause or origin of the fire Monday that consumed the camper, however, they do not believe it was suspicious.
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