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There were only two trades on Thursday night, but the activity picked up significantly last night. Let's go through all the trades through the first three rounds of the 2015 draft.
1) San Francisco trades the 15th pick to San Diego for the 17th and 117th (4th) picks, and a 2016 5th round selection
The Chargers traded up for Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon, while the 49ers took Oregon's Arik Armstead, a 3-4 defensive end, two slots later. According to my chart, San Francisco picked up 136 cents on the dollar on my calculator (using the 150th overall pick as a proxy for the 2016 5th), while the trade was essentially even on the traditional calculator, with the 49ers getting 99 cents on the dollar.
2) Detroit trades the 23rd pick to Denver for the 28th and 143rd (5th) picks in the 2015 draft, a 2016 5th round pick, and guard Manny Ramirez
The Broncos traded up for Missouri pass rusher Shane Ray, who led the SEC in sacks (14.5) and tackles for loss (22) last year; meanwhile, while Detroit settled for Duke guard Laken Tomlinson five slots later. Detroit received a whopping 133 cents on the dollar (assuming the 2016 pick is the same as the 2015 pick) on my calculator, and that's without counting Ramirez. On the traditional calculator, the Lions picked up 96 cents before valuing the veteran addition. Ray, like Gordon, was one of those players that were probably all over draft boards. I'm sure San Diego and Denver were very high on those players, and were more than happy to "overpay" once they started slipping.
3) Tennessee trades the 33rd pick to the Giants for the 40th, 108th (4th), and 245th (7th) picks
As you would suspect, the Titans cleaned up on my chart, picking up 130 cents on the dollar. But on the traditional chart, this trade was perfectly even, with each team giving up 580 points of value. New York was desperate at safety, so one can imagine the team was overjoyed to see Alabama safety Landon Collins still around at the top of the second round. But it was Tennessee who pulled off the sexiest pick of the second day, taking former number one high school prospect Dorial Green-Beckham with the 40th selection. DGB is an unbelievable athlete, and could wind up being the favorite target of the team's new quarterback, Marcus Mariota.
4) St. Louis trades the 41st pick to Carolina for the 57th, 89th (3rd), and 201st (6th) picks
The Rams picked up a whopping 143 cents on the dollar by trading down, and grabbed Wisconsin right tackle Rob Havenstein sixteen picks later. The Panthers traded up to select Michigan wide receiver Devin Funchess, and according to the traditional chart, Carolina actually won this trade by a hair (St. Louis received 99 cents on the dollar).
5) Cleveland trades the 43rd pick and 229th (7th) picks to Houston for the 51st, 116th (4th), and 195th (6th) picks
According to my chart, the Browns killed it, gaining 140 cents on the dollar. On the traditional chart, it was basically an even trade, with Cleveland getting 99 cents on the dollar.
Houston sent those picks to move up for Mississippi State linebacker Benardrick McKinney, while the Browns drafted Utah's Nate Orchard (18.5 sacks last year) eight picks later.
6) Miami trades the 47th and 191st (6th) picks to Philadelphia for the 52nd, 145th (5th), and 146th (5th) picks
On my chart, the Dolphins picked up 136 cents on the dollar by trading down; according to the traditional chart, it was a perfectly even deal.
The Eagles were not willing to wait any longer for another Pac-12 player — this time, Utah defensive back Eric Rowe — while Miami drafted Oklahoma defensive tackle Jordan Phillips five picks later.
7) Arizona traded the 55th pick to Baltimore for the 58th and 158th (5th) picks
The Cardinals received 122 cents on the dollar on my chart, and 99 cents on the dollar on the traditional chart. Baltimore was trading up to grab Minnesota TE Maxx Williams (perhaps ahead of the rival Steelrs) while the Cardinals took Missouri edge rusher Markus Golden three picks later. And yes, Missouri sure does seem to have a lot of those.
8) Indianapolis trades the 61st and 128th (4th) picks to Tampa Bay for the 65th and 109th (4th) picks
The Colts won this trade, but just barely, on my chart, gaining 105 cents on the dollar. The same is true on the traditional chart, where the Colts picked up 101 cents. The Bucs were trading up to grab Division III offensive lineman Ali Marpet, while the Colts took FAU defensive back D'Joun Smith four picks later
9) Washington traded the 69th pick to Seattle for the 95th (3rd), 112th (4th), 167th (5th), and 181st (6th) picks
According to my chart, Washington picked up an absurd 180 cents on the dollar; yet on the traditional chart, Washington actually lost the trade, gaining just 95 cents. That said, I don't hate the trade for Seattle, who went all in to get Tyler Lockett, a wide receiver who could be one of the steals of the draft. Given the depth of the Seahawks, they are one of the few teams that can trade up, knowing the likelihood of getting one of these late picks into their starting lineup is pretty low. Washington, in desperate need of picks, still hit a home run on this deal, though.
10) Jets trade the 70th pick to Houston for the 82nd, 152nd (5th), and 229th (7th) picks, and wide receiver Devier Posey
Even ignoring the veteran acquisition, New York picked up 122 cents on the dollar here according to my chart; meanwhile, the Jets got just 88 cents on the dollar (while not considering Posey, which is probably wise) on the traditional chart. Houston traded up to take Arizona State wide receiver Jaelen Strong, while New York took 3-4 outside linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin (Louisville) 12 picks later.
11) Minnesota trades the 76th pick to Kansas City for the 80th and 193rd (6th) picks
The Vikings picked up 110 cents on the dollar on my chart, compared to just 97 cents on the traditional chart. Kansas City traded up for Georgia Chris Conley, while Minnesota chose to trade down some more. Conley, you may recall, posted the 2nd best scores in the vertical jump, 3rd best in the broad jump, and the 7th best adjusted time in the 40.
12) Minnesota trades the 80th pick to Detroit for the 88th and 143rd (5th) picks
My draft chart loves this trade for the Vikings, who gain 136 cents on the dollar; combined with the earlier trade, and Minnesota picked up 146 cents on the dollar by trading down from 76. The traditional chart didn't love this deal, tho, giving Minnesota just 97 cents on the dollar.
The Lions traded up for Stanford cornerback Alex Carter. Minnesota, after dropping from 76 to 80 to 88, ended with Danielle Hunter, the defensive end out of LSU.
13) New England trades the 96th pick and 219th pick (7th) to Cleveland for the for the 111th (4th), 147th (5th), and 202nd (6th) picks
You won't be surprised to learn that the Patriots cleaned up, getting 143 cents on the dollar in my calculator. However, the traditional chart was less impressed, suggesting that New England received only 96 cents on the dollar. Cleveland traded up for Washington State defensive tackle Xavier Cooper.


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Kant is known for his work the 'The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' (or just the 'Groundwork') and his Categorical Imperative (CI). He sets out by analysing our general ideas and presuppositions of morality with the aim of showing that the foundations of morality are based on autonomous reason. Moreover, he thinks that we must first analyse and understand the concepts of a 'good will' and 'duty' (etc) and their relationships to one-another to further understand ethics.
He first says that ethics is material knowledge (concerned with some object) as opposed to formal knowledge (concerned with the form of understanding or reason itself) and that the laws of ethics are determined by material knowledge. In other words, ethics has to be based on laws of freedom and not on laws of nature (facts about the world) – if ethics were just based on facts about the world, we wouldn't have control over it and hence there would be no value in acting morally.
But ethics is not empirical, it must be founded on entirely a priori principles; i.e. principles that based on reason, not on experience:
"Everyone must admit that if a law is to be morally valid, i.e., is to be valid as a ground of obligation, then it must carry with it absolute necessity … [and] that the ground of obligation here must therefore be sought not in the nature of man nor in the circumstances of the world in which he is placed, but must be sought a priori solely in the concepts of pure reason' (G389, p894)."
For example, if we were to say that 'One should not lie' is a moral principle, it would have to hold true for all people and not depend on the circumstances of the situation. We likely get such ideas based on our experience at first however, and indeed, in order to effect our will we need a sharpened experience and good knowledge of the world in order to do so. But for our ideas to be moral laws, they must pass through our reason and judgement and not merely be based on our experience. In analysing ideas such as 'one should not lie', we are using our reason (a priori knowledge). Therefore he also thinks that ethics itself is also an a priori matter, because we must consider rationally what principles are absolute and true for everyone.
Another reason Kant feels it necessary to proceed by saying that morality must be pursued a priori is that a posteriori (experience-based) methods of investigation do not seem to tell us what we necessarily ought to do; they only seem to tell us the descriptive situation about the action we actually do perform. Kant thought that a posteriori observations could only only help us think about the conclusions of our behaviour – how satisfying our actions were and what effects they brought about. They do not help us to consider what actions are necessary and those which we are obliged to do. (For example, 'I don't lie because it allows people to trust me and I can have lots of friends' would be an example of a posteriori analysis and thus Kant would not agree with it. It does not grant that I follow the principle of 'not lying' necessarily, because I am only doing it for some other end – to have friends or gain trust).
It is important to note that Kant is still working on ethics as a conditional until Groundwork III. He thinks that we must analyse what the supreme principle of morality is before vindicating it later. So let's begin:
The Good Will
"There is no possibility of thinking of anything at all … which can be regarded as good without qualification, except a good will (G393, p896)." So says Kant at the start of Groundwork I. There can be other things which are good, such as courage and generosity, but unless they are grounded in a good will, they are worthless – consider the courage of a bank robber holding up a bank with a gun or the generosity of a paedophile trying lure in young children. In a similar vein, moderation of one's passions and desires, while good, is not morally praiseworthy without a good will to back it up (consider the coolness of a villain). "The idea of a good will is supposed to be the idea of one who only makes decisions that she holds to be morally worthy, taking moral considerations in themselves to be conclusive reasons for guiding her behaviour". (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Furthermore, a good will is only good in itself and not because of its fitness to produce some proposed end. It "is good only through its willing, i.e., it is good in itself (G393, p896)" and, although other gifts of talent and fortune (including happiness) are valuable, they will lack value if no sustained by a person with a good will. To elaborate more, consider Snow White and the evil stepmother. Say Snow White is a person with a pure and good will, but through the actions of her wicked sisters and stepmother, she is never allowed to actualise her good will and perform the moral deeds she desires to. Even then, according to Kant, the good will would "like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has full value in itself (G393, p897)". Again, this is showing Kant's valuing the intrinsic worth and necessity of something (the deontology) over considering its ends (consequentialism). It is helpful to note that this idea of possessing a good will is similar to Aristotle's claim that we need to build a beautiful character by cultivating the virtues within ourselves.
Kant says that reason's "true function must be to produce a will which is not merely good as a means to produce some further end, but is good in itself…While such a will may not indeed be the sole and complete good, it must, nevertheless, be the highest good and the condition of all the rest, even of the desire for happiness (G393, p897-8)". As further support for needing reason to produce the good will at the crux of our being, we might consider what would happen if our purpose in life was mere happiness. Kant says that if it were so, instinct alone would drive us to be happy and fulfilled in a way much better than reason could. But we see reason as meddling with the purpose of nature; it tries in vain to find out what would make us most happy and think of a plan for attaining it. Therefore, reason's function in us cannot just be to enable us to attain a happy and simple life. Kant supposes its function is to develop the good will, to understand morality and lead us to act from duty to fulfil our moral obligations. (This is similar to what Nagel says about reason allowing us to transcend our basic metabolic functions and act of living and our reason for thinking contemplation is a human being's most prized goal).
Three propositions
Kant proposes 3 things:
(1) An action must be performed from duty in order to have moral worth.
Kant goes on to say that duty brings about the best in a good will. We must act from duty and not according to duty. This means that we are doing the right action because it is the right action (and abstaining from doing wrong actions because they are wrong). If we were only acting according to duty we could do actions that, although they follow the same path as morally worthy actions, are not actually morally worthy in themselves.
To elaborate on this, consider people who act out of self-interest or people who are benevolent and good-natured towards other people. Kant would say that their actions do not have moral worth. The self-interested person acts in accordance with duty, but for himself and is clearly not a good basis for a moral law. The 'friend of mankind', while his actions are also in accordance with duty, are not from duty. Suppose one day that he becomes depressed and his mind clouded with sorrow and he no longer feels the desire to be benevolent and kind to people. He actions would stop and the moral obligation to do certain things would go unfulfilled. This is why Kant says it is necessary to act from duty, because our feelings, desires and passions are transient and not a solid basis on which to form a moral law. But if the 'friend of mankind', while remaining truly good-natured and benevolent, did he actions because he thought it his duty to do so, then his actions have moral worth, for he is not basing his decisions on such changeable things as feelings. It is also useful to consider apathetic people, who have no innate emotional responses to situations. If we follow Hume's idea that passions are the basis for morality, these people who do not have the desires to do things, but nevertheless do them out of duty, would not have moral worth. Under Kant's philosophy, they would because they act from duty.
It seems, however, that our desires conflict with what Kant is defining as a good will and need to act from duty. We feel constrained when we are told we must follow a moral law and it goes against our desires and passions in some cases. Kant says that this is what is essential to acting out of duty. If we consider a holy being, such a being would not have the desires we do and would be motivated by thoughts independent or morality. It is because we have these desires that could cause us to act without regard for morality that we have the need for a good will and a necessity to act from duty. We need to keep them in check to maintain order.
(2) An action done from duty has moral worth only in the maxim according to which the action is determined.
"An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which the action is determined" (G399, p900).
Continuing from the first proposition, Kant makes it clear that any action must be done for it's own sake and not for the sake of any other end. The moral worth of some action is to be found in the maxim itself rather than the effects it produces. This is the distinction between deontology and consequentialism, as consequentialists would say that the moral worth of an action is to be found in the results it brings about. If we Kant didn't make this distinction, the difference between 'acting from duty' and 'acting according to duty' would hold no weight. By looking only at the ends of our actions we would not be able to distinguish between people who act because they reason it is their duty to do so and people who act because they desire some other end – we could all act for self-interested or even benevolent reasons because we desire some outcome. Kant says that such actions cannot have true moral worth.
(3) "Duty is the necessity of an action done out of respect for the law" (G400, p900).
Further clarifying the need for actions to be done out of adherence to the law, Kant says that "only the law itself can be an object of respect and hence can be a command" (G400, p900). This is as noted, that if I think about the effects of my actions, I am showing that I am considering other causes reasons in my analysis of a particular situation. Therefore my actions will become tainted and I will not have acted purely from duty. As such, I have to deprive "the will of every impulse that might arise for it from obeying any particular law, [such that] there is nothing left to serve the will as a principle except the universal conformity of its actions to law as such" (G402, p901). Particular laws are decided according to the ends that they realise, but by doing this we are violating Kant's idea of adhering strictly to duty and fail to sustain the vital distinction between acting from duty and acting merely according to duty.
The above three propositions lead us to the:
Formula of the Universal Law
"I should never act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law". (G402, p901)
This is what is known as the Categorical Imperative. It rest on pure reason alone and not on experience and is a command to exercise our will in a certain way.
Quite simply, whenever considering what actions to perform, we must whether or not we can make our action into a universal law that everyone would follow. Take lying for example. I can will lying as an action, but if I try to do so as a universal law, it would necessarily destroy itself. People would not trust one another and there would be no such thing as promises, so clearly it could not become a universal law in an ordered society.
But things aren't quite so simple. Kant goes on to distinguish between hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives. Imperatives are 'ought' statements (I ought to do some action). A hypothetical imperative applies to situations only conditionally, as a means to some other end. For example, 'if you want to get stronger, you should go to the gym'. Therefore hypothetical imperatives are not justified in themselves but only as means to other ends.Categorical imperatives, by contrast, are unconditional and ends in themselves. They are not dependent on anything else for their justification.
Wikipedia offers a very good explanation of hypothetical imperatives, so I will include it as is: "Kant divides hypothetical imperatives into two subcategories: the rules of skill and the councils of prudence. The rules of skill are conditional and are specific to each and every person to which the skill is mandated by. The councils of prudence (or rules of prudence) are attained a priori (unlike the rules of skill which are attained via experience, or a posteriori) and have universal goals such as happiness. Thus, almost any moral "rule" about how to act is hypothetical, because it assumes that your goal is to be moral, or to be happy, or to please God, etc. The only non-hypothetical imperatives are ones which tell you to do something no matter who you are or what you want, because the thing is good in itself."
So, to be categorical, an imperative must be good in itself and necessary to a will led by reason. But even categorical imperatives (such as 'one must not lie') have ends, or reasons for following them, despite being willed for their own sake and not for other ends. But what 'end' is this? What is the reason 'one must not lie'? We might speak of a special, 'The End' – the ultimate aim of categorical imperatives leading to The Categorical Imperative.
Formula of Humanity
We have our will guiding us, led by reason. But what makes our good will objective? Why think that we can determine The Categorical Imperative by following our will and thinking a priori? There must be an end to which the will aims to justify itself. We might think of it like this:
Firstly, we are led by reason, and do not base our judgements on experience. Secondly, if we are aiming towards such an end, it must be equally valid for all human beings. Thirdly, this end must be objective (not dependent on our contingent inclinations and fourthly, it must be an end of absolute worth; worthy of being an end in itself and capable of grounding laws. Kant concludes that the end we are searching for is us, human beings, or more accurately, autonomous human beings. Human beings manifest rational nature itself: "I say that man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself and not merely as a means to be arbitrarily used by this or that will" (G437, p915).
This is our freedom, our free will. To deny someone the freedom to make their own rational decisions is to treat them as a mere means to an end and undermines reason and ultimately Kant says, The Categorical Imperative. Of course, we use people as a means to an end everyday, such as taking a taxi or ordering food at a restaurant. The important thing is to not use people as a mere means to an end; to take away their own autonomy. The autonomous will is the source of moral action and decision-making, so we must always treat other people as ends in themselves. To not do so, for example by killing or maiming another person or enslaving them, is to harm their rational nature and thereby treat it as a means. In other words, we would take undermine the 'categorical' part of things; we would violate the will and reason on which The Categorical Imperative is based, and thus violate The Categorical Imperative. (Note this also rules out suicide because you would be violating your own rationality and will). This is known as the Formula of Humanity:
"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never merely as a means to an end" (G429, p915).
Formula of the Kingdom of Ends
As the second formulation stated, we need an autonomous will and must allow others this privilege too. But in order to universalise this law (the Formula of Humanity), we must think of the laws as binding us to others or else they would not be laws about how to conduct ourselves in society at all. Therefore Kant gives us the hypothetical notion of a 'Kingdom of Ends' of which all people are members:
"All maxims proceeding from [an agent's] own legislation ought to harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends as a kingdom of nature" (G436, p919).
We ought to act only on laws which would harmonise with other people in a possible kingdom of ends. We ought to act only by maxims which would harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends. By 'Kingdom', Kant means: "a systematic union of different rational beings through common laws" (G422, p917). So we must not act on maxims which will create incoherent, unstable or undesirable states of affairs and only universalise those which promote harmony among people.
Applying The Categorical Imperative
Kant tries to illustrate how the Categorical Imperative would work with regards to four different situations:
(1) a suicidal person
(2) a deceitful person intending to borrow money and not repay it
(3) a person planning to neglect their talents in order to pursue pleasure
(4) a person avoiding harming others but withholding help and assistance from them
(1) and (2) are said to generate contradictions in conception and (3) and (4) are said to generate contradictions in the will when we try to universalise them. Contradictions in conception are often 'but not exclusively) thought of as logical contradictions; i.e., there is already an error in the conception of such a possible maxim. In the suicide example, it would probably lie in the taking of one's own life and undermining reason and the will. In the example of the person not intending to return money, it is because they are lying from the outset when they borrow the money. Contradictions in the will seem to be rules we can universalise, but fail to be acceptable to rational agents. It does not seem to merely be a logical contradiction with them as they seem to violate 'wide duties' that affect our general ability to pursue our ends. Such a contradiction might be labelled a 'Practical Contradiction' as, when universalised, such maxims would not be practical to the living of a fulfilled life.
There is much more to this debate however, including other proposed contradictions like the 'Teleological Contradiction'. For more information, see this site: University of Victoria – Philosophy
Another complaint against the Categorical Imperative is the Triviality Charge. Some people hold that we can create universalised maxims for just about anything if we are specific enough. For example, if we say 'I, Charlie Brown, born on 17th June 1767 can do whatever I want all the time' or something to that effect. This is known as the problem of false positives because it passes the universalisability test (it is so specific) but it is still morally wrong. Another problem of false negatives can be illustrated by something like 'I will go to the park on Sunday because it is quiet'. This fails the universalisability test (if everybody went to the park, it would not be quiet), but even though it fails the universalisability test, it is not a morally wrong action.
What can be said about such problems? We might say that the Categorical Imperative is not an algorithm. It cannot be effectively applied without a person's sensitivity to something like 'rules of moral salience' or common sense. In the case of false negatives, we might say that the action is not deep enough to universalise and thus it lacks moral content. In the case of false positives, we might respond by saying that it is not an actual maxim because the detail involved doesn't have anything to do with the actual situation. I.e. the person being Charlie Brown and born on a certain date does not have anything to do with the real matter at hand, which is the contradictory and non-universalisable maxim of doing anything one wants.
Another charge against the Categorical Imperative is Hegel's famous 'Empty Formalism Charge'. Hegel accuses Kant of relying on 'social institutions'. For example, Kant would say that we cannot universalise the maxim 'always steal' because it would lead to to the breakdown of trust and erosion of society. But Hegel says that if we didn't have the notion of private property as an institution, we would not object to stealing in society. Similarly, universalising 'give money to the poor', would cause us to become poor ourselves and is thus not universalisable, but Kant seems to hold that we would want to universalise such as action. We might respond to this by saying the maxim in question can be re-formulated to something like 'give money to those who need it' and can be consistently held in a world where no-one requires help. With the stealing example too, it might be re-formulated to say something like 'do not claim ownership of items which are viewed as property or in a way which would cause grief to other people' to avoid the problems in societies where there is no notion of private property.
Some further problems for the Categorical Imperative might be as follows: Cases of the Runaway trolley – a trolley heads towards 10 people and will kill them, but you can divert it, but thereby killing one person – or Rescue – on a sinking boat, you can only save one person – do you save a family member, a doctor with the cure for cancer or a pregnant woman? Or what about organ donation – is this treating people as a means to an end (etc)?
Briefly, I will mention some of the things Kant talks about in Groundwork III:
Kant says that Freedom must be presupposed (this is what Kant calls a negative characterisation of freedom). For example, I must decide to act on my desire to do something; it won't just happen. This is the freedom to make choices. If we do not consider that we are free, we may lapse into apathy thinking are lives are controlled or fated anyway.
Argument from Spontaneity
The positive characterisation of freedom is that a will must act for reasons, or on a principle or maxim. If it does not do because of some maxim or law, it fundamentally contradicts the idea of a will. We must find a principle for the will to act on – this is known as the 'spontaneity of the will' because it must choose a law for itself. It must necessarily eliminate all possibilities except the Categorical Imperative. Other principles, such as self-love, fail because they compromise the will's spontaneity and take things for granted (i.e. freedom). The will must be autonomous because it chooses the law to itself.
But how does the argument from spontaneity prove that the will has freedom? Just thinking that morality itself is imponderable if we aren't free doesn't solve the metaphysical standpoint of freedom itself.
Transcendental Idealism
Kant thinks that the phenomenal world (the world of sense) is causally determined and so cannot be the basis for genuine human freedom. He thinks that the phenomenal world that we interact with and affects us only shows us representations of objects and products of our own mental organisation. That is, we see them from the standpoint of human beings. What the objects are in themselves in the intelligible (the noumenal) world is forever unknown to us. This is known as transcendental idealism: that there is another world behind the world of appearances that we interact with. We have to see the noumenal world in order to understand the necessity of laws of nature, but we cannot do this directly. We can only conclude that the things we see in the phenomenal world exemplify laws of nature in the noumenal world.
In other words, we are necessarily ignorant of the true laws of nature, but, through reason, we can have a principled reason for knowing of the noumenal world and things in themselves. The fact that we can never know facts about the noumenal world and of objects in themselves is grounding enough for us to say that we must take it for granted that we have freedom. We can never have true theoretical knowledge of freedom, but, living in the phenomenal world where we need practical freedom in order to live our lives properly and conduct ourselves in moral situations, we must postulate that we have actual freedom.
Problems for Kant
Some more problems for Kant are briefed below:
Kant says that it is reason and not passion, that is both our motive for doing moral actions and the source of our moral obligations. Hume, in direct contrast, says that it is passion that is the source and motive of our moral requirements. But Kant is arguing that common sense dictates that our moral ideas cannot be based on our passions and desires alone. We are morally bound to perform certain actions regardless of whether or not we have the relevant desire to do some action. Having the desire to do it is good, but for an action to be morally praiseworthy, it must be done on the basis of reason and duty alone. This is what distinguishes Kant from Hume's ideas of morality, as well as Aristotle's focus on virtues and Mill's focus on the consequences of one's actions. But does Hume not have a point in saying that we are always motivated to action by a passion or desire? Doesn't our duty spring out of a motivation to develop such an objective system such as the Formula of the Universal Law at first? Or is the reason we do so entirely based on reason?
Kant seems to show a distrust towards sympathy and emotions. Does he assume that human sentiments are intrinsically selfish (psychological egoism)? Perhaps not, as he describes amiable people as 'friends of mankind'. Kant also seems to think the emotions are unreliable, but perhaps some emotions can be stable and enduring? Why can we assume that the motive of duty is reliable and constant?
Kant could be called cold for dismissing the importance sentiment holds in our day-to-day actions. He seems too focussed on the creating of rules and sacrifices human warmth which we highly value in society. An agent only acting out of duty and not because they possess a kind heart seems somewhat scary and disagreeable. It seems that we want emotional responses and passions, such as love and friendship to feature in our moral decision making. But Kant's defenders have argued that what is crucial is that the motivational structure of the person to consider duty over other interests. It is not to say that we can disregard emotional responses; only that, when responding to situations, we need to put acting from duty as our highest priority over more transient emotions, but having the correct emotional warmth is preferable. Perhaps in developing a 'good will' to start with such emotional warmth is taken as a given when responding to situations.
Sources: Lecture handouts written by my lecturer Dr. Gerald Lang, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and 'Classics of Moral and Political Philosophy' (2005) by Michael Morgan


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Micro Cornucopia was a 1980s microcomputer magazine for hobbyists and enthusiasts, published in Bend, Oregon by David J. Thompson, a former Tektronix engineer.
The magazine, originally conceived as a newsletter for users of the Ferguson Big Board (a single-board CP/M computer), was published bi-monthly beginning in July 1981. It soon expanded its coverage to other board-level computers, the Kaypro computer, and general hobbyist/experimental computing, with special interest areas being robotics, interfacing, embedded systems and programming languages.
The magazine carried articles on a wide range of subjects, some system-specific and newsletter-like, but also covering (then) off-mainstream topics, e.g. 3D graphics, artificial intelligence, or the special needs of handicapped users. They published a 32-page catalog of CP/M and MS-DOS software, cover date Fall/Winter 1986, describing it as the second, the first having been the Spring issue.
"Micro C", as the magazine was known to its fiercely loyal readership, routinely published circuit diagrams and source code. The magazine was shut down after more than 50 issues in 1990, reportedly due to the editor's change of interests.
The publishers of Micro C organized an annual user conference dubbed "SOG" (Semi-Official Gathering) in Oregon, which was free except for travel and accommodation cost.
- Publisher: David J. Thompson
- Technical Editor: Larry Fogg
- Regular contributors:
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- Micro Cornucopia on the Internet Archive
- Issue 12, June 1983 (page images)
- Source code from the magazine, Files issue-30.zip through issue-51.zip
- Demise of Micro Cornucopia--What happened?
- MICRO CORNUCOPIA The single board SYSTEM JOURNAL - June 1983 - No 12
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I have learned so much thus far, I am excited to continue on for the next 9 weeks, and to see what all is in store for me, as I learn to eat healthier, and workout more evenly.
Today before my workout I mixed some whole wheat oats, with a little peanut butter, this was so my muscles were able to preform to the best of their ability.
Each time I work out, it seems like it's getting a bit easier. Don't get me wrong the workouts are still killer, but I am able to complete them for the full minute. I am not a fan of working the triceps, because I can feel the burn, and it hurts like hell afterwards, but I know this is all needed to start seeing results, I am tired of the flab hanging from my arms.
I am so ready to find that hot body, hiding under the layers of fat.
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Traveling Luck for Bear Creek Cabin, Washington, United States
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The timezone in Bear Creek Cabin is America/Whitehorse
Sunrise at 07:43 and Sunset at 16:52. It's light
Latitude. 47.3419°, Longitude. -121.5450°
Weather near Bear Creek Cabin; Report from Stampede Pass, WA 19.6km away
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- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Bear Creek (0.2km)
- Seattle Creek (2.6km)
- Viola Creek (2.6km)
- Goat Creek (3.1km)
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- South Fork Cedar River (4.2km)
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- Roaring Creek (5.1km)
- Hansen Creek (6.4km)
- Carter Creek (6.6km)
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- Pine Creek (7.2km)
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- Harris Creek (8.2km)
- Rock Creek (9km)
- Humpback Creek (9.1km)
- Olallie Creek (9.7km)
- Lindsay Creek (9.9km)
- Mason Creek (10.2km)
- Alice Creek (10.5km)
- lake;
- a large inland body of standing water.
- Bear Lake (4.3km)
- Findley Lake (4.5km)
- Scout Lake (4.8km)
- Sutton Lake (6km)
- Annette Lake (6.6km)
- Abiel Lake (7.3km)
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- Alice Lakes (9.1km)
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- Twilight Lake (9.8km)
- Cottonwood Lake (9.9km)
- Island Lake (10km)
- Mason Lake (10.4km)
- Rainbow Lake (10.6km)
- mountain;
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Gardner, Mount (3.9km)
- Humpback Mountain (5.9km)
- Goat Mountain (7.6km)
- Silver Peak (7.7km)
- Tinkham Peak (8.4km)
- Abiel Peak (8.4km)
- Kent, Mount (8.7km)
- Bandera Mountain (9.4km)
- Meadow Mountain (10km)
- Local Feature;
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- City Cabin (4.2km)
- Camp Joy (6.7km)
- Pratt Creek Trailhead (8.9km)
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- trail;
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- Gardner Mountain Trail (2.7km)
- Hansen Creek Trail (3.6km)
- Annette Lake Trail (7.3km)
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- flat;
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- area;
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- airport;
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- Bandera State Airport (6.9km)
- gap;
- a low place in a ridge, not used for transportation.
- Yakima Pass (9.8km)
- park;
- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Fort Tilton Historical Marker (5.6km)
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Carleton University has removed the weight scales from the school gym after certain students (how many is not known) complained that — well — they didn't like the scales. Instead, they wanted their fitness holistically delivered by the elaborate measuring of their bodies in many places. One student tweeted that scales could trigger persons prone to eating disorders to go off their food. Yikes. As it turns out, the removal of the scales has caused a vigorous backlash from many kids who are demanding an end to the ministrations of these Workout Nazis (our term). They accuse the school of kowtowing to a small group of gym users who are easily offended. "Next it will be the mirrors. #bringbackthescale," wrote one Carleton student on Facebook. Yes, or the weights. Proof again that the young often confuse their inheritance of the future with ownership of the truth.
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Hey Carleton University gym – if you don't want your weigh scales, I'll take one. Honestly, that's the dumbest thing that I've ever heard. The scales are not the villan here – people's eating habits are the problem. It's a case of shooting the messenger. It's ridiculous to be afraid of the scales.
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Traveling Luck for Skaroholman, Nordland, Norway
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Also known as Skarvholmene
The timezone in Skaroholman is Europe/Oslo
Sunrise at 10:14 and Sunset at 14:26. It's Dark
Latitude. 68.1833°, Longitude. 13.1500°
Weather near Skaroholman; Report from Bodo Vi, 117.9km away
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- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
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- Sand (9.6km)
- Korshamn (9.8km)
- Vareid (11.5km)
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- reef(s);
- a surface-navigation hazard composed of consolidated material.
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- Ofsan (8.1km)
- Olgrunnen (13.9km)
- peak;
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- Hustind (10.8km)
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- Andophesten (13.9km)
- Kitind (15.6km)
- island;
- a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Hæssholmen (13.8km)
- Flakstadøya (14.5km)
- Straumøy (17.2km)
- point;
- a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water, less prominent than a cape.
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- Ulvsneset (14.6km)
- Skolmneset (17.4km)
- fjord;
- a long, narrow, steep-walled, deep-water arm of the sea at high latitudes, usually along mountainous coasts.
- Selfjorden (10km)
- Flakstadpollen (10.5km)
- Steinsfjorden (16.5km)
- administrative division;
- an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- Flakstad Herad (12.3km)
- Buksnes Herad (17.2km)
- islands;
- tracts of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Skaroholman (0km)
- Hæssholman (13.4km)
- rock;
- a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.
- Strandflesa (5.2km)
- church;
- a building for public Christian worship.
- Flakstad (11.8km)
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- bay;
- a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
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- lake;
- a large inland body of standing water.
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- headland;
- a high projection of land extending into a large body of water beyond the line of the coast.
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Inventis Limited Sells Gregory Commercial Furniture NZ and Restructures its Australian Operations
Inventis Limited [ASX: IVT]: Brian Hermann's award winning Crater Lake Developments Limited is the successful buyer of the New Zealand business of Gregory Commercial Furniture. The new owner will maintain the existing Damba and Gregory brands with the new company entity to be known as Damba Gregory Commercial Furniture Limited.
As previously reported, Inventis has been implementing strategies to simplify the structure of the business across its Australian operations aimed at delivering improved operational effectiveness, faster decision-making and sharper commercial execution. This process is now complete with the appointment of an experienced and dynamic new senior management team with a clear focus on customer service, quality and profitability.
Inventis Limited Executive Chairman, Tony Noun, is in New Zealand at present for the handover of those operations to Mr Hermann. When asked about the benefit of the sale and the restructure, Mr Noun said:
"In addition to the benefits arising from this transaction for New Zealand stakeholders including customers, staff and suppliers, the sale has positive flow on effects for the Australian operations.
The bringing together of the senior management team will simplify the way we do business. Although at first glance it may not seem like it, but in fact the entities are very similar in many ways, including the marketplace we work within. The only variation is the products and services we offer, otherwise, there is little difference. There are many synergies to be had from this business integration, including the unique people skills, on all sides.
The consolidation of the Australian operations will also involve the relocation of the two core manufacturing facilities under single roof. This will enable the new management team to drive further revenue and efficiencies, and unlock the potential of all the brands.
Importantly, for both the divested business in New Zealand and for the continuing Australian operations, our commitment to quality and great products will not change."
About Inventis:
Inventis Limited is a diversified company involved in the design, manufacture, sales and marketing of products and services whose foundation is 'inspiration' and 'innovation'.
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Karina Santolin
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Inventis Limited
Inventis is a diversified company involved in sales, marketing, design and manufacture of products and services whose foundation is 'inspiration' and 'innovation'.
The Australian operations consist of two divisions: Gregory Commercial Furniture (www.gcfau.com.au) and Inventis Technology (www.inventistechnology.com.au)
While outwardly very different, each division is aligned through the underlying characteristics of:
• creating inspired designs
• delivering innovative products, and
• owning the intellectual property we create
From electronic control solutions that help other Australian electronics and whitegoods manufacturers lead the way in features, innovation, reliability and safety; to safety systems that make roads safer for drivers and pedestrians alike; to rugged portable computers that take desktop applications into the field and keep them there; to ergonomic office seating solutions that improve quality of life and look stylish to boot; Inventis group companies continue to create inspired solutions for local and export markets.
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By Cliff Corcoran
The ugly brawl (sequence starts around 55-second mark in the video linked here) between Canada and Mexico in their first-round World Baseball Classic game Saturday afternoon wouldn't have happened in the 2009 WBC.
The brawl was the result of Mexico's objection to Canada attempting to run up the score in the ninth inning of a game the latter was already leading 9-3. Canada's catcher, Chris Robinson, bunted up the third-base line for a single to start the inning, after which Mexico's third baseman, Luis Cruz, clearly gestured for pitcher Arnold Leon to hit the next batter, outfielder Rene Tosoni. Leon complied but missed Tosoni with his first two attempts, allowing home plate umpire Brian Gorman to warn both benches. Leon then hit Tosoni in the back with his third pitch, inciting the brawl.
That sequence conformed to a certain old-school concept of "how the game is supposed to be played." You don't run up the score on your opponent, and if another team does, you settle it on the field. Setting aside the absurdity of that mentality (in a game with no clock, no lead is ever safe, and the risk of injury from a beanball or brawl is far greater than the significance of the perceived insult), running up the score is exactly how the WBC has been designed to work in both this and the inaugural 2006 tournament.
The first round of the tournament is a round robin, with each team playing just three games, one against each intra-pool opponent. Ties are broken, more often than not, by something called "Team Quality Balance," which is effectively margin of victory. Head-to-head victories are the only tie-breaker that ranks ahead of TQB, but the round-robin format and three-game schedule results in a high likelihood of a three-way tie at 2-1 or 1-2 with Team A having beaten Team B but lost to Team C.
So, Canada, who was 0-1 coming into this game and will face the favored USA team Sunday, needed to score as many runs as possible in this game to maximize their chances of advancing to the second round. However, Cruz, Leon, and who knows who else on Team Mexico either failed to realize that or didn't think that trumped those old unwritten rules. Thus the overt attempt to hit Tosoni and the rare baseball fight that included actual fighting, evidence of just how invested these players are in this tournament.
The fight didn't need to happen because these grown men didn't have to act like ill-behaved preschoolers, but it also didn't need to happen because, in 2009, the WBC used a different format that produced clear and immediate on-field results. The first round in that year's tournament was a double-elimination format. Two games are played between the four teams in a pool. The losers of those games play with that loser being eliminated. The winners of those games play with the winner advancing. The two 1-1 teams then play to determine the second team to advance. No fuss, no muss, no tiebreakers, no misunderstandings, no hurt feelings. You win, you keep playing. You lose, you're out.


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Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2016 - June 7)
eARC (272 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Reading Challenges: Read 2016
The woods were insane in the dark, terrifying and magical at the same time. But best of all were the stars, which trumpeted their light into the misty dark.
Castella Cresswell and her five siblings—Hannan, Caspar, Mortimer, Delvive, and Jerusalem—know what it's like to be different. For years, their world has been confined to their ramshackle family home deep in the woods of upstate New York. They abide by the strict rule of God, whose messages come directly from their father.
Slowly, Castley and her siblings start to test the boundaries of the laws that bind them. But, at school, they're still the freaks they've always been to the outside world. Marked by their plain clothing. Unexplained bruising. Utter isolation from their classmates. That is, until Castley is forced to partner with the totally irritating, totally normal George Gray, who offers her a glimpse of a life filled with freedom and choice.
Castley's world rapidly expands beyond the woods she knows so well and the beliefs she once thought were the only truths. There is a future waiting for her if she can escape her father's grasp, but Castley refuses to leave her siblings behind. Just as she begins to form a plan, her father makes a chilling announcement: the Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven. With time running out on all of their lives, Castley must expose the depth of her father's lies. The forest has buried the truth in darkness for far too long. Castley might be their last hope for salvation.
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My Review
The Cresswell Plot is a very unique book and definitely quite different from what I usually read. This is contemporary focusing on what is, basically, a cult.
Castely's father believes he hears the voice of God. He believes that his family is the last of the pure humanity. In a twisted way, he seems to truly believe he is protecting his family and following God's will by isolating his family and keeping them separate from society.
Castely has never known a regular life. She is part of a set of triplets where her brother, Hannan, is a football player and her sister, Delvive, is a stickler for the rules. Then there is another brother, Mortimer, who is a rebel and one, Caspar, who is the best of them all. Then, there is Castely's youngest sister, Jerusalem, who no longer speaks.
This is such an odd family. Apparently their father has had a vision in which it was revealed that each of the siblings would have to marry one of their own siblings. This is, apparently, because the Cresswells are the last pure family on earth to follow God's will.
You can kind of see where the story is heading from the beginning. The synopsis says, "her father makes a chilling announcement: the Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven." You can see where this plot is going to end, but how it gets to that point is interesting.
There were parts of this novel where I was reading as fast as I could to see what happened next. Then, there were parts that seemed to drag. It was as if there was a pacing issue. Sure, the more boring bits gave some context but it wasn't super interesting all the time.
Then, there was the ending. It worked, but I wanted more. It was as if there was a chapter missing that would answer how exactly we got to that ending.
While I did enjoy parts of The Cresswell Plot and it was interesting, I didn't love it. There were parts that seemed unnecessary and the ending definitely needed more, in my opinion.
I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley for
review consideration. This in no way affects my opinion of the title
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DCTC is proud to have strengthened tourism & commerce in the region by achieving the below:
Listed here are the Discovery Coast Tourism & Commerce's achievements over the last 11 years (since 2005). Some of these achievements were accomplished by the previous committee and some by the new. Each of these accomplishments were achieved to further the benefits of the local community and businesses.
- DCTC coordinated exposure of our area at the annual Burnett Promotional Night at Qld Parliament. An excellent prize package was collated with at least 3 member businesses and several props like images, brochures and a surfboard to display were provided for Stephen Bennett's event.
- Successful staging of the 2016 Agnes Blues, Roots & Rock Festival and the Captain Cook 1770 Festival.
- Successful application for a Grant to fund the construction of a permanent stage at the SES grounds in 1770, a new community facility for all to utilise.
- Granting of $600,000+ in funding from 3 levels of Govt for upgrades to Fingerboard Rd.
- Reintroduction of the Town of 1770 – Agnes Water merchandise line.
- Re-skinning of our Bruce Highway billboard near Childers.
- Maintaining digital portals for tourism promotion ( www.townof1770-agneswater.com.au )
- Marketing through TV, the Qantas Link Magazine and the Super Savers coupon booklet, cementing the brand "Town of 1770 – Agnes Water, Southern Great Barrier Reef".
- Supporting Tourism and Events Queensland's "Where Great Begins" SGBR campaigns.
- Hosting a number of functions and workshops for business development and promotion, including a visit to the Town of 1770 and Agnes Water by Hon Jann Stuckey, Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games.
- In 2005, local businesses supported a DCTC proposal to establish a long-term destination marketing program of our region by contributing a total of $32,000 to the campaign. These funds permitted the development of a destination logo (Town of 1770/Agnes Water – Southern Great Barrier Reef) of which DCTC holds copyright. In addition there was limited TV advertising of the region, merchandise was developed, a website was established, a tourist sign put up in town and billboards north of Miriam Vale and south of Childers on the Bruce Highway advertise the area. DCTC also purchased the copyright for, and now produces the local tourist map.
- In 2005, DCTC agreed to become the umbrella organization thus providing public liability insurance for a steering committee, which was established to bring a Community Bank to Agnes Water.
- The DCTC has successfully staged the Captain Cook 1770 Festival since 2005.
- In 2007, the former Miriam Vale Shire Council rejected a $495,000 State grant to redevelop the 1770 foreshore because the majority of Councillors did not want to contribute an equal amount of Council funds to the project. The DCTC executive was able to arrange a special meeting of Council to be called, which resulted in overturning the original Council decision. As a result over a million dollars from State Government Q150 Grants and accumulated reserves from past profits of the 1770 Camping Ground, was spent by Gladstone Regional Council to redevelop and upgrade the 1770 foreshore, which included a new toilet block opposite Elliot Street and redevelopment all the way to the Council-owned 1770 Camping Ground. There is no doubt that the redeveloped 1770 foreshore was so beautifully and tastefully done that it enhances the visual beauty of 1770 and helps provide a memorable experience for visitors.


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Does the future mirror the past?
Doug Welchman apparently thinks so, in his science fiction fantasy, Psi' Ops and the Battle of Minds. (XLibris) Militarism, dictatorship versus free will, sex, romance, shaky attempts at unity among governments, racial bias and slavery, ego and other enticing elements are woven into the tale of a few favored folks who as psi' ops are able to read others' minds, and if they find anything in them can plan military and political strategy. (As if they were preparing for an upcoming Presidential debate?) There is some early talk about developing a pill that will make one more open-minded, but psi' ops in the plot are born with the skill.
Threads of the past, what might be or what might have been are a strong part of the fabric of the book. That approach might entice reluctant readers who ordinarily believe that the sci-fi fantasy genre is a bit like devouring abalone or cucumbers—a matter of acquired taste.
Welchman's background seems to have prepared him for different definitions of reality and how to operate within the psi' ops militaristic framework. He reports that his first career was driving semis, perhaps, like on the often unexplored roads taken by his book characters.
"After that, I wanted to fly for the Navy," Welchman said, explaining his life experience further. "I ended up flying an F-14 Tomcat for three years." After his discharge, Welchman worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (NASA), which many may describe as his having blended reality and fantasy for decades.
As good and bad guys in the book engage in interstellar warfare, the reader is introduced to universal human emotions even within futuristic concepts such as scientific regeneration of lovers killed in battle. Tension among and misreading of various ethnic groups exist but so does development of value systems no matter what time frame. The attempts by the League of Planets to end "racial cleansing" are rather reminiscent of the League of Nations or United Nations.
Welchman's book is riddled with the typographical or grammatical errors too often found in self-published books. But those barriers do not erase a good creative framework leading to the end and a new beginning for Rijil and his regenerated, passionate wife Keke. He was a lucky guy. He survived Ascension Day when all gifted 21 year olds are supposed to be killed. He became a fighter pilot, not unlike author Welchman. Rijil met the love of his life, and they apparently will literally live happily ever after.
Welchman seems to say that both the inner and outer worlds are worth exploring and caring about, and one must know and respect history to survive in the future.
Title: Psi' Ops And The Battle of Minds
Author: Doug Welchman
Publisher: Xlibris (June 11, 2015)
Paperback: 246 pages/Kindle: 696 KB
Editor's note: A game in which players use the main character's foggy but developing access to various psychic powers in order to combat the enemy was released in mid 2004. This video game was called Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and then Psi-Ops: Psychic Operation. Nick Scryer is an operative like Rijil. His mind has been wiped but he regains his PSI powers with the help of Sara, a double agent. The game is only available on the secondary market for those who prefer immersive multimedia to reading books or tablets.
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It's Thursday and the weekend planning should have already begun. There's not much fun to be had outside unless there's a snowcovered hill nearby. Otherwise, it's more of the same. Four football playoff games, movie rentals or the History Channel, whichever suits your fancy. Ensure you have an ample supply of craft beverages at hand. Carry out the empties just to keep peace within the household.
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Trish has a very cool, easy-going personality and it's just simply fun to be around her. Love this girl! She's a nurse working in LA (though she was originally from the Bay Area) so she tried to squeeze in her appointments with vendors each trip back to the Bay. This time, she scheduled a trial with me plus planning an E-session after with Tyler Vu, a pretty known photographer in the area.
Trish doesn't wear a lot of makeup daily, but she told her she wouldn't mind wearing more for her wedding. A moderate glam-up look would be something she's after. So, for makeup, I gave her brown smoky eyes, face contouring, thicken her brows a little to match with the rest of her features, and natural lip color for her very cute full lips. Good contouring work is key here and so for the hair.
I gave her wavy curls with lots of volume (a lot of teasing!) to frame her face. I had to do her hair a little bit more curly at the beginning because I know her fine hair wouldn't hold curls very well and San Francisco winds will knock all those curls off in 30m. Because this was a trial so I just tried my best to work with what I have, but I told Trish we'd need hair extensions on her day-of -which she'll provide me. With hair extensions, I will make this look many times better. She'll rock a volumous wavy curls and all down hair style with 2 sides pin back like this to frame her face… Can't wait until I see her again this August!
I forgot my memory card so I couldn't use my Canon DSLR camera for Trish. Photos below were taken using my 4S iPhone:
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There is no where else quite like California. This is one of the places, or maybe the only place on earth, where you can go surfing, skiing, and riding a dunes buggy in the desert in one day. The only thing that California doesn't have is…actually, we cannot think of any because it has everything. Although we do complain about the horrible traffic, smog, and occasional earthquakes, we have to admit that California is pretty awesome.
With this Saturday's
California Love Concert
coming up, I thought I would like a list of what I think are the 10 best things about California.
1. 840 miles of beautiful coastline
Pacific Coast Highway is rated as one of the most beautiful drives in the world. This read that runs from North to South of California should be on everyone's road trip list. California coastline is extremely diverse and will take you through 3 great cities, LA, San Francisco, and San Diego. No one in California lives too far away from the beach!
2. It's mostly sunny in California
If there's one stereotype that is quite true about California, it has to be the weather. It is almost always sunny and beautiful even during the winter. As we watch other states suffer heavy rain or snow storm in January, many of us are out hitting the beach or hiking the mountains.
3. Home of the applications and most of your movie collections
Yes, we are the home of world's largest search engine and number one social media. Yelp, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and many other tech companies are located in Northern California. What causes such a big concentration of awesome companies that make cool apps in one state? Well, beside the fact that California is awesome, we also have great universities that graduate talented people every year. From USC, UCLA, Standford, Berkeley, and Chapman, some of the best talents and entrepreneurs are already in California.
We already talked about weather, but the reason why most movies are shot in Southern California is because of the predictable weather and constant sunshine.
4. The great outdoors
Los Angeles may be one of the most populous cities in the country, but with millions of acres of wilderness, California also has plenty of green spaces. Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Redwoods, Death Valley, and Yosemite are some of the most visited national parks in the country. One of the best thing about living in California is how easily access these amazing wilderness places is. Within a couple of hours drive from big cities like LA, San Francisco, and San Diego, you will find yourself surrounded by big trees and tall mountains.
5. So many strange things
We're not sure why California is not listed as the weirdest state on the Guinness Book of World Records. There are hundreds of abandoned mines, a Bunny Museum in LA, a Banana Museum near San Diego, Dragon Sculptures on the desert, a Bottle Tree Ranch on Route 66, and endless of off beat places for you to visit.
6. Who said it doesn't snow in California?
Yes, we are not covered in 50 feet of snow in January and our fountains don't turn into iceskating rink, but there's plenty of snow in California. Californias are made fun of for not getting the full winter experience. Well, we say who wants to dig themselves out of their home and jump start their cars every morning? We have the convenience of not having to carry tire chains everywhere. However, if we ever want to play in the snow, the nearest mountain is an hour away!
7. We have the entire world here… literally
San Francisco, Vallejo-Fairfield, and Stockton are the top 3 most diverse cities in the country, and they are all in California. LA is the home to the largest Thai Town, Little Toyko, Little Ethiopia, and San Francisco has the biggest China Town. This beautiful state may be one of the only few places where you never have to leave to experience every other culture.
8. One new dish every day
The biggest perk of living in a very diverse place definitely has to be the sheer variety of restaurants. You can have one new dish every single day for the rest of your life. There is nothing like grabbing warm bread from a French Bakery for breakfast, eat delicious Thai food for lunch, and finish off the day with Korean BBQ before hitting an Italian desert place on the way home!
9. In-N-Out
Although we can indulge our tummy with great delicious food everyday, sometimes, Californians just want juicy and cheesy burgers! In-N-Out is not just a burger joint. It's a culture. Although the burger chain has most of its stores in California and a few in Nevada and other nearby states, its popularity is global and some may even consider In-N-Out a tourist attraction on the same level as the Hollywood Sign or Griffith Park! If there's one thing that every Californian agrees on its the fact that In-N-Out is awesome.
10. Great local bands
With great weather, beautiful beaches, delicious food, and amazing places to travel and get inspired, California is the birthplace of many awesome bands like the Beach Boys, Red Hot Chili peppers, No Doubt, Cold War Kids, and Sublime. These bands have toured to many countries and expanded their love for California around the globe.
Great music is one inspiration to bring the best California concert to Chapman. University Program Board is putting on
California Love Concert
on Saturday, Feb. 23 at a world famous California venue – The Grove of Anaheim. The concert features an all-California lineup of bands including Best Coast, the Expendables, and Hindu Pirates. If you love California as much as we do, you won't miss out on this awesome experience. You can get
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Peace and prosperity [videorecording] / National Geographic ; National Geographic Entertainment ; National Geographic Television ; senior producer, John Aldrich ; producer, Sarah Teale ; producers, Bob Kelty, Val LoCascio, Mollie Rodriguez, Nicholas Vreeland ; producer & director, Sian Edwards.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
Current holds
0 current holds with 1 total copy.
|Call Number / Copy Notes
|Shelving Location
|Due Date
|Starke Co PL - Schricker Main Library (Knox)
|158.1 HIS (Text)
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008]
Content descriptions
|General Note:
| Title from container.
Originally released in 2007.
Special features: Interview with Richard Gere; interview with Nicholas Vreeland of The Tibet Center; photographs by Richard Gere with music by Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso; "Diamond in your mind" by Tom Waits and the Kronos Quartet with photographs from National Geographic archive; Congressional Medal of Honor presentation to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
|Participant or Performer Note:
| His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama.
|Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
| Recorded in 2007 at Radio City Music Hall.
|Summary, etc.:
| The Dalai Lama discusses ways in which individuals can cultivate virtuous qualities within themselves to bring about peace and prosperity in today's world. He further expands upon his desire to promote religious harmony and tolerance among all the countries and peoples of the world. Includes a question and answer session. Offers insight to those seeking peace and contentment in their everyday lives.
|System Details Note:
| DVD, region 1, widescreen (matted, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital.
|Language Note:
| Closed-captioned.
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|Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
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Peace of mind.
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Whitelaw Ainslie
Sir Whitelaw Ainslie FRSE (1767–1837) was a British surgeon and writer on materia medica, best known for his work in India.
He was born in Duns, Berwickshire on 17 February 1767.[1]
He became assistant surgeon in the East India Company's service on 17 June 1788, and on his arrival in India was appointed garrison surgeon of Chingleput. On 17 October 1794 he was promoted to the grade of surgeon, having been two years previously transferred to Ganjam. In 1810 he was appointed superintending surgeon, the court of directors having approved his motives in drawing up a scheme to improve the health of the troops in India, whilst rejecting the plan proposed. He was named superintending surgeon of the southern division of the army (Madras) in 1814, and two years later the sum of six hundred guineas was awarded to him as a mark of the estimation in which his services were held by the court of directors.
In 1815 he resigned, having served twenty-seven years apparently without any furlough, and returned to England in the autumn of that year. During his residence in India he seems to have published the joint report mentioned below, a 'Treatise upon Edible Vegetables,' and the 'Materia Medica of Hindostan.' After his return he occupied himself by launching out into different branches of literature, as shown by the appended list of works. In 1835 he refers to himself as being in the 'vale of years,' the book being dedicated to his wife.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1829.
He was knighted in 1835.
He died in London on 29 April 1837.
He published the following works:
- Materia Medica of Hindostan, Madras, 1813.
- Materia Indica; or Some Account of those Articles which are employed by the Hindoos and other Eastern Nations in their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture, London, 1826, 2 vols. (an amended edition of the above.)
- Clemenza, or the Tuscan Orphan; a tragic drama in five acts, Bath, 1822, 2nd edition, 1823.
- Observations on the Cholera Morbus of India, London, 1825. (A rejoinder to this tract was published by James Morison, the hygeist, in the same year.)
- Medical Observations, forming pp. 353–367 of vol. iii. of Hugh Murray's Historical and Descriptive Account of British India 1832, (vols. vi.–viii. in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library); new edition in 1844,
- An Historical Sketch of the Introduction of Christianity into India, Edinburgh, 1835, with A. Smith and M. Christy.
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EU Signs Off On $5B Liberty-Unitymedia Merger
The European Commission said Monday that it had examined the potential impact of the deal on the markets for licensing of broadcasting rights and pay TV channels in German-speaking countries, as well as the markets for pay TV, voice telephony, broadband Internet access and bundled services in Germany.
While both LGE and Unitymedia license TV content in...
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