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Can calling 911 get you evicted?
That was almost the case for Gloria Wehrspann and her son Logan Flesch, who said they were just trying to do the right thing by reporting a disturbance in their neighborhood.
On Jan. 13, Wehrspann and Flesch called 911 to report a vicious fight they heard going on somewhere near their duplex at 209 East 22nd Street in Dubuque. The dispatcher asked for their address, which Wehrspann provided in order to help the police locate the disturbance.
"It sounds like someone was being seriously injured," Wehrspann said. "I've always tried to keep my area, my community and my neighbors safe. If I see anything I'm going to call 911."
The mother and son saw police cars arrive shortly after that, but no officer contacted them for more information, Flesch said. They thought that was the end of that.
Little did they know, however, that the Dubuque Police Department's automated Landlord Notification System generated a letter to their landlord Kathy Bauerly, stating an officer responded to their address for a call nature of "Assault Fight Active Weapon."
Here's why.
In the city of Dubuque, when a caller gives his or her address to a 911 dispatcher, if the address is flagged as a rental property in the city's licensed landlord database and if the nature of the call threatens what police call "quality of life" - an assault or burglary, for example - then that tenant's landlord gets notification that police responded to one of their properties.
This automated Landlord Notification System has been around for three years.
"The system is not perfect," assistant Dubuque police chief Terry Tobin said, adding, "I think it's better than having no system at all."
The system, he said, is designed to alert landlords to the truly problematic and crime-committing tenants by connecting calls for service to rental properties and alerting the respective landlords. However, the system can fail people like Wehrspann: tenants who call 911 to report a crime and give their address but have nothing to do with the incident.
In this case, Tobin said, after the automated Landlord Notification System sent Bauerly the letter, the landlord should have sought more information before starting the eviction process.
"Had [Wehrspann's] landlord taken the time to look a little further into that letter that she received, sought out some additional information from our department as to what the circumstances that had occurred, I don't think this situation would have come about," Tobin said.
Bauerly, however, said the system is rife with problems. She said an automated notification like that paints the picture that both the tenant and the property are somehow flawed. She said it's not her job to "play secretary" and call the police department to determine whether the letter she received was factual.
"The police department should not be putting in writing something that didn't happen on that property," Bauerly said Thursday in a phone conversation.
She acted on the letter she received and put on Wehrspann the burden to prove she and her son were not involved with the incident.
Since receiving notification of pending eviction, Wehrspann made persistent calls to and had conversations with Bauerly and Dubuque's housing and police departments. Eventually, Tobin wrote a letter of clarification to both Bauerly and Dubuque's housing department, stating Wehrspann, Flesch and 209 East 22nd Street had nothing to do with the disturbance except for the 911 call.
Tobin's letter went out on Thursday. That same day, Bauerly dropped the process of evicting Wehrspann and her son.
Bauerly isn't the only person who sees problems with the system.
"For somebody to call 911, you're trying to save lives out there. I thought that was important," Wehrspann said. "But if they're going to take it out of context and they're going to turn around and get you evicted for that reason, then, no...I went through too much."
She said it's likely she won't call 911 again after facing eviction for reporting a crime.
Tobin said the system arose out of Dubuque's Safe Community Task Force and its recommendation that the city work more closely with landlords.
He said the system is automated because dispatch sees about 60 calls for service per week that match with a property on the licensed landlord database. That's too many calls, he said, to comb through the details of each one. After all, he said, the system is designed to catch truly problematic tenants, and in that regard it works.
Tobin said any Dubuque landlord who receives one of these automated notices should call the department for more information before taking any legal action against a tenant.
For information on Dubuque's Landlord Notification System, click HERE.


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Ken Griffey Jr. — great guy, right? Not according to Gregg Doyel, who's both a friend and a frequent contributor to these Buzz festivities. On CBSsports.com, Doyel tears into Griffey, calling him "unlikable" and "full of crap" for choosing to play in Seattle, which is 3,000 miles from the family on which Griffey claims to dote. Doyel also accuses Griffey of throwing a water bottle at him in the Reds' clubhouse. (Griffey missed, prompting the eloquent Mr. D to write, "Gold Glove, my ass.")
You're free to agree or disagree with Mr. D's opinion of Griffey, but I think we can all agree: As rips go, this one's world-class.
As for Griffey the player … well, he's not so hot, either. So writes Keith Law of Scouts, Inc. (I don't know Mr. Law, but seeing as how I've linked to his stuff a half-dozen times now, I feel as if he lives next door. So, if you're reading this, Keith: Howdy, neighbor!) Law believe Griffey has little left and thinks the Mariners' move to re-sign him was "a cynical, insulting ploy to try to get fans into the park." Whoa, Nellie!
So now you're asking: Does anyone have sympathy for Junior? Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports does, in a wistful sort of way. He hopes Griffey as a Mariner won't turn into Willie Mays as a Met, the memory of which remains among baseball's saddest.
For all the teeth-gnashing Wren-bashing that has gone on this winter, you'd think the Braves have become the worst team in the history of baseball. I was beginning to think I was alone in my contrarian view, and then I came across a host of postings on FoxSports.com, which always does a nice job on baseball.
Ken Rosenthal was at Disney on Tuesday, and he left thinking the Braves look pretty darn good. In the pre-Grapefruit League power rankings, Fox rates the Braves No. 8 — no, not in the NL East, but in all of baseball. And yet another Fox nugget credits general manager Frank Wren as having had the fourth-best offseason — again, in all of baseball. And these assessments were written before the Braves signed Garret Anderson, which seems a much sounder acquisition than Junior Griffey would have been.
And now, for a contra-contrarian take, Ted Keith of SI.com quotes an unnamed scout as saying of the Braves, "I don't think they're that good a club." But it should be noted that Mr. Keith — not to be confused with Keith Law, or Keith Richards, or Keith Moon — gives the Braves a "B" for their offseason moves.
On ESPN.com, Eric Karabell poses the $3.3 million question: Will Jeff Francoeur have a bounceback season? Karabell says yes, projecting Francoeur to hit .266 with 18 homers and 90 RBIs, but then he writes, "I wouldn't be at all surprised if he tops those numbers."
Me, either. As I tried to write last week, Francouer's new stance looks pretty spiffy.
Glad you asked. According to Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports, the quarterback/felon has commanded little interest as a trade target. A subsequent Associated Press story by Cliff Brunt suggested the 49ers and Vikings might be in the market, but esteemed AJC college D. Orlando Ledbetter — D-Led to those of us in the know — knocked down the San Fran half of that.
Knowshon Moreno might just be the first running back drafted after all. Tony Pauline of TFYdraft.com lists Moreno among those who improved their stock in Indianapolis, and Clifton Brown of the Sporting News has Mike Mayock of NFL.com calling Moreno his No. tailback.
Meanwhile, Don Banks of SI.com claims this year's top quarterbacks — Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez — don't quite compare to Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco because Stafford and Sanchez are leaving college early. But, as I recall, nobody was saying, "Matty Ice is a sure thing because he completed his eligibility" last spring. As I recall, some folks were saying the Falcons should have drafted Glenn Dorsey.
The new Mouth of the South hasn't had much to say in the past 24 hours, but that didn't stop an enterprising satirist on 3rd Saturday in Blogtober from posting this (fictional) account of the Tennessee coach dining with AD Mike Hamilton at the Sevierville Waffle House. If you've followed the exploits of young Kiffy — and who among us hasn't? — you'll appreciate this.
February 23rd, 2009
10:29 am
As always, great job, Mark. Easily my favorite on AJC.
I will play the contrarian role, however, with the LF signing. The Braves want Matt Diaz to play vs. lefties as he mashes them about as well as anyone. They needed someone that did the same vs. righties. Say what you want about Griff's overall stats but his splits vs. righthanders show that he still pounds the ball in that situation….the situation he would've played in had he come to Atlanta.
Anderson is an alright signing…just not as good as Griff would've been.
February 23rd, 2009
10:44 am
Mike Mayock must not have much game tape on Michael Johnson (at the bottom of the D. Led article).
And I'd rather have Garret Anderson that Griffey anyway. Have fun in cold, rainy Seattle, thousands of miles away from your family, Junior. I promise I won't be thinking about you when I watch, from the Turner Field bleachers on a 90-degree June day, Anderson hit one over the right-field fence.
February 23rd, 2009
10:50 am
Doyel's column was vicious and unprofessional. First, a reporter should keep what happens in the locker room to himself. It was his issue between Griffey and him, not our's. By writing the events from his perspective in his column, he used his professional status to grind a personal axe. An abuse of his position.
Everyone knew why Griffey chose Seattle. He chose Seattle because of the fan connection he developed there. I don't begrudge the man that whatsoever. Further, it is for Griffey to determine what is best for his family and not some scribe who frankly doesn't care one iota about Griffey's family! He's just using the situation as a further effort to trash the man.
A water bottle? Frankly, Doyel should consider himself lucky! Next time, after that personal trash, perhaps a 90-mph fastball in the small of his back will send the right message!
And yes, Bradley, to a limited extent, shame on you for referencing that diatribe in your own column. You'd have been better served to keep yourself as far away as possible from classless journalists like Greg Doyel. You're better than that, my man!
February 23rd, 2009
10:53 am
TommyP, Anderson hit 21 points higher than Griffey against right-handers (0.293 to 0.272), and he hit 88 points higher against lefties (0.290 to 0.202). Anderson also had a higher at-bat-per-RBI ratio against righties (6.28 AB/RBI to Griffey's 6.81). Griffey did walk more and hit homers at a better clip (barely) than Anderson. I take Anderson based on his age in relation to Griffey, his ability to hit lefties and his lower likelihood of injury.
February 23rd, 2009
10:58 am
Nice to see thet UT is still on everyone's mind. I have a feeling that's not going to change anytime soon.
February 23rd, 2009
11:00 am
February 23rd, 2009
11:03 am
I meant, "LOWER at-bat-per-RBI ratio." HIGHER doesn't really help my case at all.
February 23rd, 2009
11:15 am
Doyel's your friend?
Damn, I don't believe I'd a told that one.
Everybody and his cousin hates Doyel.
February 23rd, 2009
11:23 am
Losing out on Ken Griffey is a lot like finding out your annual PSA exam is all clear; It's a good thing. Even at his age and decline, he would not have accepted a platoon situation quietly.
No team in their right mind would trade for Michael Vick and assume that hideous contract and it's gonna cost the Falcons dearly if they release him so I propose the Falcons keep him. Every team needs someone to pick up the jocks and dirty towels from the locker room floor. Anyone know if he picked up some experience with a floor buffing machine while incarcerated? I would say he could be a practice arm for the receivers but they are finally used to having the ball thrown reasonably close to them. I know he's a bit pricey for a strong back and a weak mind but he could still be useful to the team.
February 23rd, 2009
11:35 am
Griffey wasn't worth the pricetag. I hope Anderson pans out. No team in their right mind would pay mega-bucks for Vick…he was overrated in his "prime" & will be subpar (at best) upon release from the pen!
February 23rd, 2009
11:36 am
Great Job Mark. I'm will to give Wren a little slack and see what happens coming out of S T. Really hope Josh Anderson wins CF positin and gets a chance to prove he can play. Shafer (sp) needs another year in AAA as he's only played half year in AA and has options. I don't care for Frenchy at all, can't stand to watch him but I'm a Braves Fan from 1961, so I hope he does well .
The above **One of them seems nice!** Man, Layla is beautiful! Good eye Mark…she looks PG?
Agree with Tommy P, Your are my favorite at AJC. Keep up good work.
Tommy P are you from Thomaston,Ga? I know a TP from there buts its been 20 years since I've heard from him.
February 23rd, 2009
11:38 am
Kiffin stays up nights worrying about Bradley.
February 23rd, 2009
11:57 am
With all the new working parts, I believe the BRAVES will have an early shaky shake-down cruise then begin to settle into the BRAVES club we all grew to know and love starting in 1991. By next year this time, we'll all be wondering if the WORLD SERIES is within our grasp and not simply a play-off berth.
February 23rd, 2009
12:09 pm
DREAM ON fire WREN
February 23rd, 2009
12:12 pm
February 23rd, 2009
12:13 pm
PoorBrave: Not me, my friend.
Tron: You quoted how Anderson is better vs. lefties than Griff. Again, the Braves weren't signing Griff as an everyday LF but a platoon LF. (and Anderson's slugging vs. lefties goes way down…he's basically a singles hitter vs. lefties)
OPS vs. righthanders over the past 4 years:
Griffey: .841, .943, .869, .975.
Garret: .774, .834, .796, .719.
Garret's best year is Griffey's worst year.
Not saying Anderson isn't any good by any means. Just saying that Griffey was the better guy for the situation.
February 23rd, 2009
12:18 pm
l missed your original column on Jeff but I had to laugh when he stated "In this day and age, it's, 'What have you done for me lately?" He's 24, what other "day and age" does he know? To quote from 'It's A Wonderful Life' "Youth is wasted on the wrong people!"
February 23rd, 2009
12:26 pm
WREN lost SMOTZ played with around PEAVY FURCAL and GRIFFY then overpaid for LOWE traded for asub 500 pitcher VAZQUEZ signed a unknown JAPNISE pitcher it goes on and on fire WREN now
February 23rd, 2009
12:46 pm
Is it Lane Kiffen or Lame Kitten?
February 23rd, 2009
12:48 pm
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February 23rd, 2009
1:03 pm
Whoops! Got a little excited on your lead picture of Mrs. Kiffin, and my finger got away from me! Sorry.
Right on re GA; I agree with you MB that he is a far better fit than KG would have been, especially since the "What has he done lately?" stats are far better than KG's. Did not think KG handled that very professionally, and that, his professionalism, was supposed to be one of his long suits. I must also agree that in my opinion Wren has done a more than adequate job of improving a team that really just needs a little more 'age' on it to be really competitive. Just because he didn't ink some really'big' names' is no cause to get on his case. For goodness sakes, let 'em play before you start with the hate mail!
Good column. We're having a heat wave here- going to 24 or 25 above today. Want to trade places MB? Oh, and how much DO you pay them?
February 23rd, 2009
1:27 pm
People…stop looking at their overall numbers and look at the splits when comparing Anderson and Griffey.
Matt Diaz is going to hit the lefties….
February 23rd, 2009
1:46 pm
It's funny that Gregg Doyle writes about someone being "unlikeable", he is the pure definition of the word. I haven't read a column of his in years and will never again. Doyle is simply Bush League. Oh, and if Griffey missed him with the water bottle, it's his arm in question not his glove.
February 23rd, 2009
1:54 pm
Dear Mr. MB–what were the other two? Your pal, Leland
February 23rd, 2009
2:17 pm
I think M. Vick should be release to sign with another teams, he have learn a important lesson about friends and family. He will do good with a second chance. The brave should let some of it young talent play ball as seatte played KG when he was younger, might have a diamond in the rough.
February 23rd, 2009
2:47 pm
Enough about all of the above. How about some Kentucky Basketball!
February 23rd, 2009
3:00 pm
Dear Mr. MB–one out of three ain't bad. Your pal, Leland
February 23rd, 2009
3:10 pm
Add the name "Realist" to the list of people who refuse to even click on a link to a story by Gregg Doyell. The guy is pure trash. If he dumps on Griffey, then Griffey is OK in my book.
February 23rd, 2009
3:16 pm
what "Buzz" about Stafford on the combine. Doesn't one of to participate at the combine to have a true "Buzz" at the combine? Hate to say it, but Matthew Stafford strikes me as the bust in waiting. Once again, all the tools, yes, but all the signs are buyer beware.
This guy has proven over and over again he doesn't have the "it" factor when it comes to winning the big games against good teams; FL, AL, SC, TN, (GT last year)…
Beats up on Hawaii, Kentucky, Georgia Southern, etc. etc.
But when the stakes are on the line…in the games his team needs…he folds more often than delivers. Contrary to his own self-assessment, There is NO, ZERO, NADA, NOTHIN, in a comparison of this guy to someone like Ryan or Flacco; Both 5th year SENIORS who chose to return to college, pass up draft, money, hype, money, popularity, money, avoid injury risk, money….etc. etc. All of which Mr. Stafford is all too "good" to bother with, (except for the money). Please.
Both Ryan and Flacco , both being high on QB draft radars also, chose to work out in ALL Combine drills….and chose also to work out in additional Pro Days.
I may be wrong…who knows, maybe this kid is the next Dan Marino, but all signs are pointing to this guy being the next Alex Smith. No, I'm sorry, Alex Smith is a pretty decent guy, I meant the next Ryan Leaf. NO way I draft this guy, even if I'm picking for Detroit, or the Chiefs. I go Sanchez. NFL qb'ing is all about guts and the will to win, sprinkled with a necessity of the physical capabilties.
Sanchez is showing the "it" factor that Stafford is so transparently trying to cover up.
February 23rd, 2009
4:03 pm
Mark: Doyel has some interesting observations, but he'd be wise to avoid advocating such iron-clad opinions about motives — without intimate knowledge. As for the water bottle (non)incident, if Griffey didn't hit Doyel, he likely wasn't aiming at him.
p.s. The Linda Ronstadt/Ann Savoy cover of 'Walk Away Renee' is strikingly good. And I'm not one for covers.
February 23rd, 2009
4:08 pm
The Four Tops' version is also tremendous, and Rickie Lee Jones did a nice slow burn on a 10″ LP named "Girl at the Volcano."
February 23rd, 2009
4:44 pm
I normally only post about that absurdity (AKA Benny the Beaver, AKA Jeffrey "The Gesthapo" Schultz), but the photo that I saw from the Rocky Top introduction of Lane Kiffin shows he at least knows how to pick a wife…. And she's not a toothless SEC hag!!!
February 23rd, 2009
5:09 pm
Walk Away Renee? I love that song. But anyway, to my point, Lame Kitten's wife is way hot, which makes me hate him even more. I cherish my petty jealousies.
February 23rd, 2009
6:55 pm
I've said it before and I'll say it again — nobody is going to trade for Vick, because a) everyone knows the Falcons will just release him if they don't trade him, and b) nobody has any clue whether Roger Goodell will reinstate him. Not to mention nobody is going to give a straight answer about him at this point in time to avoid violating NFL tampering rules.
Once he's a reinstated free agent, there are at least 8 or 9 NFL teams that would be foolish not to consider bringing him in to play quarterback.
Gregg Doyel is an embarrassment.
This Buzz column is getting better every week. Props.
February 23rd, 2009
7:01 pm
Mark, I'll take your word for it. I can only evaluate what I read from the man. But that was one of the worst pieces of journalism I've seen in sports. It crossed every line. We wonder why athletes are often withdrawn. A lot of it comes from people treating them less than human.
Frankly, they are humans. And being professional athletes doesn't justify anyone probing negatively into their family life. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate someone doing to your family as so many in your profession do to the athletes.
February 23rd, 2009
8:45 pm
Vick is still the man and the best qb in Atlanta, hope he does well with the 49er. I hope he get's #7 with the 49er. alot of fans still love you vick here in atlanta .
I loved being a season ticket holder when you played. we can't wait to see you play . When you do come back we will be there to cheer you on bank that mr. Blanks!!!
February 23rd, 2009
8:50 pm
Very nice, Mark….thanks.
And I don't remember reading your defending Frank Wren, but at times it felt like I was the only one who didn't think he was a moron. I don't know what people expected him to do. Maybe….
-Guarantee more than $5 million for a 42 year old pitcher coming off arm surgery who won't pitch until June?
-Offer more than $80 million for 4 years of an injury-prone pitcher?
-Shoot an extra prospect out of his butt while bending over for Towers?
I think given the budget and the many unfortunate circumstances he's done a fine job.
February 23rd, 2009
10:23 pm
I'm thankful for the ability to read this blog/article while able to skim past the link to yet another Greg Doyel screed. I have no opinion whatsoever on Griffey's character, but why should we read crap by somebody who just makes a living cynically ripping people up, usually either because he has some prior hidden beef or is just craving attention. Any jerk on an internet blog can conjure up hack hater pieces, no reason to click and waste time with this stuff just cause Mark Bradley is his "friend." Other than that Mark, appreciate the blogs (minus legitimizing Doyel), articles have been solid lately.
February 24th, 2009
9:04 am
Regarding Ken Griffey, I won't bad-mouth the man for making the decision he made. In the end, he had to do what was right for him. He is one of the greatest players of all time. I hope he closes out his career in Seattle in a style worthy of a future Hall of Famer.
Yes, I do agree that Garret Anderson is a much better acquisition for the Braves at this time than Junior would have been. The former Angel probably has more productivity left in him than the injury-prone Griffey. Look for big contributions from Anderson.
Regarding the lack of interest in Vick, perhaps now his few diehard fans who have continued to post irrelevant comments of support for him on these blogs will now begin to see what the rest of us have been saying all along. Most NFL teams will not have any interest in signing a convicted felon with so much baggage. What little talent he'd have left after not playing for at least two full seasons would be overshadowed by all the negative attention he would draw. A pure public relations nightmare.
Of course, as a lifelong Falcons fan, I was hoping that some other team would be foolish enough to want his services so that the Birds can get something–anything–for him. But it now looks like that might not be the case. What a huge disappointment and waste of resources Vick turned out to be for my beloved team.
Regarding Lane Kiffin, the photograph of the lovely Layla that you included shows that the man is doing all right for himself.
February 24th, 2009
9:29 am
I'll agree with Layla if only for Duane Allman's guitar.


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The benefits of a fat bike may surprise you. A fat bike is just that; it's fat. With the added width and girth you'll immediately feel more stable. That stability translates into trail confidence. After all, you won't have a great time if the front end feels twitchy or squirrely. Once you get going, you'll notice something else: it's easier to get off the ground. It's like pumping your legs on a giant bike trampoline and landing on a big, soft cushy pillow. You won't get great height, mind you. You'll just pogo along if and when you choose like you've been getting off the ground since you were born. You might not think that a fat bike would climb well, because more weight does not usually translate into better climbing efficiency, but with such a large front wheel footprint, thanks to a lower tire pressure and 4" wide tires, the Chinook effortlessly claws up a hill without having to move around the saddle. It helps that the Chinook has a more forgiving triple crankset configuration as well. Plus, that lower tire pressure is a thing of wonder. Try cornering or riding a berm on the Chinook and you'll stick to it like white on rice. Additionally, the fat bike really made a name for itself where other bikes perform poorly: the snow and sand. That stability and wide footprint will make anything from sand dunes to billowy snow easy to navigate.
Finally, fat bikes are just plain cool. If you want a bike for dorking around on the trails and having a great time, then the Access Chinook is your ticket.
- Custom butted chromoly frame and fork are strong
- SRAM X5 shifters and derailleurs setup promises smooth shifting
- Hussefelt Howitzer crankset is light, but beefy
- Huge tires run very low pressure and are perfect on mud, sand and snow
Access Chinook Fat Bike - 2014
- bottom bracket:
- Howitzer TM, 100/66 External
- brakes:
- Hayes MX-5, 160mm rotors
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- front derailleur:
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- grips/tape:
- Kraton Rubber
- handlebar:
- Alloy no-rise
- headset:
- FSA Intellaset 1 1/8"
- levers:
- Avid
- pedals:
- Platform Resin
- rear derailleur:
- SRAM X5 9-Speed, LONG CAGE
- rear shock:
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- saddle:
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- seatpost:
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- shifters:
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- stem:
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- tires:
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One man is dead after officials say he fell off of a truck bed.
Tucson Electric Power says the storm is affecting at least 200 customers, down from the original 9,000 Friday.
Power poles are down in the area of Irvington and Campbell and Park and Fair. TEP plans to work throughout the night and report that most customers are expected to have their power restored by Saturday morning.
Residents reported a lot of damage such as downed trees and stop signs.
"I was scared to get off the car and run in because I do know the ground is wet and we could've gotten electrocuted," said Diane Ellis.
TEP crews say they'll be repairing and replacing the downed poles for the next few days.
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By Sarah White, Jesús Aguado and Guillermo Parra-Bernal
MADRID/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Banco Santander SA
Under the proposed deal, minority investors in Banco Santander Brasil SA
Santander, which is emerging from Europe's worst economic crisis in decades while still facing a weak Brazilian economy, hopes the buyout will help cut costs, boost returns and lure clients to Santander Brasil. Investors are undervaluing the potential of Santander Brasil, executives said.
"It's a take-it-or-leave-it offer to gain exposure to Santander's better momentum in Europe as we all recognize that much heavy lifting has to be done in Brazil," said Mohammed Mourabet, who oversees $900 million in assets for Victoire Brasil Investimentos in São Paulo.
Santander Brasil shares soared 21 percent on Tuesday, their biggest intraday gain since the lender went public in October 2009, underscoring the potential success of the deal. The buyout, announced the same day Santander reported an 8 percent rise in first-quarter profit, is an exception to its strategy of listing foreign units whenever possible to raise cash.
"The offer price seems reasonable given that it is well above what we consider to be Santander Brasil's stand-alone fair value," said Saúl Martínez, a senior banking industry analyst with JPMorgan Securities in New York.
Santander Brasil shares have lost nearly half their value since the IPO because the bank failed to deploy capital in profitable activities, outperform competitors and gain scale.
"We can do better, and this is a first step to begin charting a new course," Jesús Zabalza, chief executive of Santander Brasil, told investors on a call.
The buyout also reflects Santander's confidence in its finances ahead of Europe's toughest banking stress tests yet.
The plan would help group profits grow 7 percent in 2015 and in 2016, equivalent to a boost of 560 million euros in 2016.
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Most analysts expect the deal, which executives hope to conclude by October, to succeed.
Faltering growth in Brazil is weighing on profitability at Santander's Latin America division as Spain slowly emerges from one of its worst economic crisis ever. In the first quarter, Europe provided just over half of Santander's net income, which rose to 1.3 billion euros. Profit in continental Europe rose 64 percent quarter on quarter and 53 percent on the year.
Its UK unit, where revenue in pounds rose 13 percent from the first quarter of 2013 on a sharp rise in margins and an improving economy, was now on par with Brazil in providing a fifth of total profits, Santander said.
Santander CEO Javier Marin said in January that a long-expected public offering of its UK unit would not take place in 2014, but occur in the "mid-term.
In Brazil, Santander's profit dropped 27 percent from a year ago, while it rose 20.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2013, taking into account currency fluctuations.
Profits at the parent company missed forecasts slightly. Non-performing loans in Spain and Brazil edged up slightly at the end of March from end December, even if at a group level the ratio dipped to 5.52 percent from 6.61 percent.
A buyout of minority shareholders of Santander's listed units in Mexico and Chile looks "unlikely at this point, simply because doing so doesn't appear to make the same kind of financial sense as it does in Brazil," JPMorgan's Martínez said.
($1 = 2.24 Brazilian reais)
(Additional reporting by Tomas Cobos and Steve Slater in London, and Aluísio Alves in São Paulo; Editing by Julien Toyer, Sophie Walker, John Stonestreet; Chizu Nomiyama and Steve Orlofsky)


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Acts 9:1-6, (7-20); Psalm 30; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19
John 21:1-19
I love Don Juel's description of Jesus as a "master of surprise." The ways Jesus reveals himself to his followers in the post-resurrection stories testify to his delight in surprising those who love him, and whom he loves.
Jesus' moments of self-revelation are not only world-shaking but intimate, relational, invitational and even clever.
John 21:1–19 (ESV)
One of my favorite lines in Hamlet is the prince's reminder to Horatio, who is uncertain what to make of a ghost, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." I've spent much of my life among academics, Christian and otherwise, many of whom are skittish about references to mystical moments, prescient dreams, "thin space," telepathy, visio
Inmates as apostles
Gangs excel at finding the lost, adopting them and sending them out. Therefore, gang youth can be recruited for apostolic ministry.
Saul, you thug who once draggedbelievers through the streets,flinging them from their beds so hardtheir arms popped from their sockets,how like a dying child you look,your stomach caved in from fasting,lips blistered with fevered prayer.You reach into the darkness, tremblingfrom the exhaustion of relivingthe scene: The light shot out of the sky—no, it flared from the stones—no,Jesus, your hair was on fire—God spoke to me, too, which is whyI stand at your bedside now and beseechthe Spirit to enter. He loves to appearin the lonely, dank rooms of the faithful:Noah, Mary, Abraham, all sweating outtheir dreams of God. You will learnhow hard belief can be. You will singwhile the guards whip you to the bone,touch an enemy's shoulder with gracewhile the avenging knife burns at your hip.One day you will wish for your sickbed again,this woolen blanket of blindness.But I do as I am told. I lay my fingertipson your lids, and your eyes rumblelike stones rolling from the grave. Your lidscreak open, and the light burns through.This healing is not easy. Something silveris falling from your eyes. Brother, somethinglike the scales of a struggling fishis scattering at my feet.
Sometimes the news of the world can take the hope of Easter
right out of you. Sometimes it's hard to believe in the resurrection.
And yet, this is how it happens: a woman, 38 years old, is
diagnosed with breast cancer and has to have a total mastectomy. Two years
later the cancer comes back, and her doctor schedules her for another
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New federal data shows autism rates are booming. Local researchers are finding industrial chemicals may play a role
Published: May 2, 2012
On the short list for problem chemicals are such known neurotoxins as lead, methylmercury, organophosphate insecticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, as well as arsenic, manganese, and ethyl alcohol, Landigan writes. "This short list of chemicals … may be only the currently visible tip of a potentially much larger problem," he continues. "Children today are at risk of exposure to 3,000 synthetic chemicals produced in quantities of more than 1 million pounds per year."
Children and developing fetuses are not only the most at risk from such exposures, but researchers have also found that babies are sometimes exposed to hundreds of such chemicals before they are even born.
These are the "high-production-volume chemicals" that frequently appear in consumer goods, including cosmetics and building materials, and are routinely found in air, food, and drinking water. Landrigan has found about 100 of those high-production chemicals to be neurotoxic to adult brains. Most of these chemicals are newly created substances, entering the human environment for the first time in the decades since World War II.
Palmer's interest was inspired by his own son's autism diagnosis. He chose mercury because it represented the "low-hanging fruit." Not only is it one of the most neurotoxic substances in the world, but among such it's also one of the most ubiquitous. While state and federal warnings about mercury in fish hinges on methylmercury, which is more readily absorbed by the body, the raw "elemental" version belched by power plants and absorbed by breathing it in, is also hazardous, remaining in the tissue longer, in fact, than methmercury.
Armed with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data on ambient air quality at the city-block level, his team found in a paper published last year in the Reviews on Environmental Health that the areas of highest exposure to airborne mercury corresponded closely with the actual incidence of autism in Bexar County as tracked by the Texas Education Association. The group used data from the EPA's 2002 Toxic Release Inventory showing CPS Energy's coal plants were discharging an estimated 600 pounds of mercury into the air at Calaveras Lake. Though that number declined for a few years, it shot up to 684 pounds in 2010 when the new Spruce Two coal plant was fired up. Other sources of mercury tracked included a pair of coal-fired cement plants farther north that were releasing 25 and 11 pounds per site, according to TRI data. The team's results were duplicated with a different point source when they turned their attention to Santa Clara County, California.
Though such a statistical study doesn't provide a definitive link to mercury (these facilities put out a range of potentially harmful chemicals, not just mercury, that could play a role), it does suggest a correlation between toxic exposure and illness more generally. "It just makes sense that the environment interacts with genes," said Palmer. "Even the CDC says that virtually all disease is a function of both genetics and the environment. We just don't know which environmental trigger. It's not just mercury, it's not just nickel, pesticides. We just don't know."
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The University of Notre Dame is getting ready to fight cancer this weekend.
Starting Friday, Notre Dame will hold its Relay for Life event. It begins with Opening Ceremonies at 6:30 p.m. and will run through Saturday morning.
Notre Dame alum Mark Burdell and student Teresa Kennedy are both cancer survivors. They will serve as the honorary chairs for the event.
The South Bend Medical Foundation will also have its mobile blood unit on site from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ahead of the event.
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"That picture was taken during the Sikh day parade. He was one of the first people I photographed. He's a computer IT specialist. He travels a lot. Sikhs at the time were being randomly selected for security. I wish people would just say "you have that thing on your hand and we aren't sure what it is" instead telling someone they are randomly selected. One time he wore the shirt through security and the guard chuckled. It's a way of loading off steam at the reality that people have to face.
When the tragedy first happened, my heart sunk. A time frame is a time frame. The pictures have been out there. I wasn't thinking that people need to see this. When I was speaking to the Sikh Coalition, I was thinking this is the perfect time for people to see them because they wouldn't just see the suffering but see the positive things. I had this vision of how I wanted these pictures to look. I'm not creating a false environment; I want to portray the positive images not in crisis and in mourning. Those types of pictures are important. But I want people to understand the vibrancy of this community."
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Travel from charmingly chaotic Cairo to coastal Antalya
Be captivated by the spirit of ancient civilisations and surreal natural beauty on this tour from Egypt's energetic capital to dazzling Antalya on Turkey's south-west coast. Stare up in wonder at the pyramids, befriend locals in Aswan, explore the magnificent Karnak Temple, discover the rose-coloured rock temples of Petra, drive through the desert landscape of Wadi Rum and feel the ghosts of the past on the Gallipoli Peninsula. This is a journey abounding in unforgettable history, incredible landscapes, stunning scenery, extraordinary landmarks and cultures that continue to endure through the ages.
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Days 1-2 Cairo
Wonderfully chaotic and always colourful, Cairo's dazzling array of museums, mosques and markets are a fascinating mixture of modern city and ancient wonders.
Days 3-4 Aswan
Situated on the banks of the Nile, the Nubian city of Aswan has been Egypt's southern gateway to Africa and an important trading centre since ancient times.
Day 5 Nile Felucca
Once the lifeblood of an ancient civilisation, cruise the iconic Nile on a traditional felucca and spend a night sleeping on deck under the stars.
Days 6-7 Luxor
From the spectacular temple complex of Karnak to the extraordinary hieroglyphs of the Valley of the Kings, Luxor is full of wonderfully preserved reminders of the Pharaohs.
Day 8 Cairo
With such iconic sights as the Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx to explore, Cairo offers a visual masterclass of ancient Egyptian architecture.
Day 9 Dahab
Slow things down in the former beachside hippy hangout of Dahab, on the edge of the Sinai desert. Or perhaps speed things up by making the most of its spectacular diving and trekking opportunities.
Days 10-11 Red Sea Beach Camp
Set on a magical stretch of the Red Sea, our beach camp is a hidden gem of fine golden sand and beautiful underwater reefs.
Day 12 Aqaba
Blessed with idyllic beaches and world-class dive spots, the resort town of Aqaba is Jordan's seaside playground and a fun place to chill out.
Day 13 Wadi Rum
Full of weird and beautiful lunar-like rock formations, Wadi Rum is home to some of the most sublime desert landscape on the planet.
Days 14-15 Petra
Hewn out of the rose-coloured rock face, the ancient city of Petra is one of the Middle East's most spectacular destinations.
Days 16-17 Madaba
Famous for its Ottoman-style houses and beautiful Byzantine-era mosaics, the historical town of Madaba has a friendly village atmosphere.
Days 18-19 Istanbul
Adorned with treasure from all periods of human history, Istanbul is not only one of the world's most fascinating places, it's also one of its most mesmerising.
Day 20 Gallipoli Peninsula
The Gallipoli Peninsula, a place of devastation and tragedy during World War I, is a place of great beauty and a memorial to all soldiers that fell there.
Days 21-22 Ayvalik (May-September)
With a picturesque harbour facing the Aegean Sea, relaxed waterside cafes, hills of olive groves and nearby idyllic islands, Ayvalik exudes Turkish charm.
Days 23-24 Selcuk
The arresting cascade of travertines and nearby hot springs have attracted visitors to Pamukkale since ancient times.
Days 25-27 Antalya
With cobblestone streets and beautifully preserved Ottoman-style buildings, Antalya's Old Town lies along Turkey's Mediterranean coast and looks on to picturesque mountains.
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Tyrese Gibson, who is currently in Dubai, deals with the loss of his late friend and co-star
Tyrese Gibson is "finding it hard" to move on with his life since the death of Paul Walker.
The 'Fast & Furious 6' actor is still grieving for his friend and co-star and although he knows Paul - who died in a car accident at the age of just 40 last November - would want him to be happy he's finding it tough to deal with his loss.
Tyrese told United Arab Emirates newspaper 7DAYS: "He was one of my best friends ever. I find it hard to enjoy life because he's not here ... but knowing him, he'd want us to keep smiling and having fun."
Tyrese also described his late pal as a joyful person who he never saw "sad" or "crying".
Paul and the rest of the cast were on a break from shooting 'Fast & Furious 7' when he was killed in the crash in Santa Clarita, California, on November 30 along with his close friend and the vehicle's driver Roger Rodas.
Paul's passing initially put the future of the action sequel in jeopardy but the film will be released on April 10, 2015, according to the franchise's star Vin Diesel.
Tyrese believes Paul - who played Brian O'Conner in the movie series - would have wanted them to finish making the movie and to keep the heist and street racing franchise going.
The 35-year-old singer-and-actor said: "It's a multi-cultural film that has impacted around the world - he would want us to keep doing this on his behalf."
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- Fast & Furious back on track, cast heads back to Abu Dhabi this April
- With Fast & Furious 7 filming now in Abu Dhabi, Paul Walker's brothers are announced to fill in small gaps
- "Fast & Furious 7" cast and crew zoom into Abu Dhabi as the bittersweet filming begins
- The late Fast & Furious star, who never made it to UAE-shoot, leaves estate to daughter
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31 January 2005 - A little over one month after the tsunami hit Southeast Asia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is publishing a detailed report of its emergency relief activities to assist the victims of the disaster. Since the beginning of the crisis, over 200 international MSF volunteers and 2,000 metric tons of supplies have been sent to the region. Today, 127 international volunteers are helping in Aceh, Indonesia, 36 in Sri Lanka, and 6 in India, working side by side with national staff.More >
Brussels/Jakarta, January 3, 2005 — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Greenpeace are working together to bring desperately needed medical aid to survivors of last week's earthquake. The Greenpeace ship 'Rainbow Warrior' and its crew of 19 will transport equipment, food, fuel, medical supplies, and MSF medical staff to Aceh, northern Sumatra; an area which has proven difficult to access for aid organizations. The ship departed from Singapore yesterday and is scheduled to arrive in the port of Medan tomorrow morning, where it will load supplies before heading to Banda Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra.More >
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- Tyler Barron
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High School Student,
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What exactly is or defines the self-aware, subjective, and phenomenal experience we call consciousness?
I am a senior in high school and and doing a 100-hour research project on consciousness. I am currently reading the book Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio, but have yet to find clear answers as to something i can label as consciousness. Maybe the problem is that i am trying to label something that inherently cannot be defined or something that is greater than any definition seeing as any form of language or any concept of defining an object results from what we know to be consciousness. I know that Buddhism and Hinduism touch upon the concept of non-self and many-sidedness, and in a sense get at the concept of consciousness but in the physics realm, consciousness becomes something entirely new under the pretexts of general relativity and quantum mechanics. I'm not sure whether these ideas are applicable to the conscious experience in which they were created but maybe they point to some greater truths about what our self-awareness truly is. In my search for discovering consciousness, i have found that it very much overlaps with the idea of 'free will' and 'existential relative liberties,' however, i dont know if these are the same as consciousness or just a product of it. I have also come across the idea of the 'soul,' if it exists, what realm or dimension does it exist in and when or how is it formed? I suppose religion and philosophy try to answer these questions but i am unsure whether or not modern neuroscience will ever be able to get at a concrete answer. Maybe my original question is unanswerable and will only lead to dead ends, but i am curious to see what these dead ends will be. I would greatly appreciate any input on the topic! Thanks!
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Mar 2 2012: Tyler,
In regards to consciousness and thinking, one might say that thinking is being acted out on the stage of our consciousness. Our thoughts manifest themselves on this stage.. willingly and unwillingly. Thoughts most often just flows along with our sense impressions. But, when we think about our own thinking, we discover that our own thoughts can become the object of our perceptions.
So thinking is really the key to our free will. The more we give in to our impulses, desires, whims, etc. the less free we are. The more we are steered by our un-conscious mind the less free we are. To speak of the "free will" one could say that the will is the least free part of our being. We are most free in our thinking. We are less free in our feeling. We are least free in our will.
Again, differentiation brings us closer to the true nature of things, it's a bit lazy to say that "all is consciousness" or the "cosmic consciousness" "we are all one" ... No....We must differentiate as to how consciousness expresses itself in the diverse phenomena in the real world. It is always within my own power to become free, but it is a constant struggle. Generally speaking I just go and get that ice cream because I really like ice cream... But "I" the thinker, "I" the self consciousness says to myself ... no, you don't really need all those calories now do you..I choose not to have that ice cream. As apposed to the animal which is a slave to his desires.
The real important thing is here is that through our THINKING we can observe BOTH the subject and the object. The whole thought construction of what we call the "subject / object relationship" EXISTS at the mercy of thinking ! I can examine not only the object in view ... but also my own thoughts and observations of how that object works upon me ...myself... the once subject becomes myself the object... Think about it..!! Our self consciousness and its tool thinking, create the "possibility" for us to become truly FREE !!
Mar 6 2012: Thank you so much for your response. I greatly appreciate the input. I think that the idea of differentiating between different types of consciousness help to clear up what i am trying to answer. It is interesting to think that thinking is the key to exploring and discovering our consciousness but I suppose my main struggle lies in this process in which there is a unification of thoughts and connections to identify the self. Would you say that the process of though alone builds the foundation of the stage of consciousness or is there some missing link between this metaphysical construction and our thoughts?
I also really like the concept that humans are more conscious than animals because they dont give in to their instinctual desires. we maintain the capacity to revise and edit our thoughts to produce the most desirable outcome.
As my previous question broadly reflects, i guess that i am still unsure of whether the idea you present, which seems to be that consciousness is dependent on our thought capacity and will arise out of our being as an emergent property, can explain something so powerful as sentience or even explain a need for sentience. Maybe my intuition is leading me in the wrong direction, and maybe i am placing too much importance on conscious but i can't help but be intrigued by the idea of qualia of the concept of philosophical zombies. Do you think either of these ideas present valid arguments or do you think they lead down the path of a 'hard problem' that can't be answered by saying that there is something more basic to life than just matter?
Mar 7 2012: Tyler,
You ask some difficult and slippery questions! I'll try the best I can to help to gain an approach of attack. When we look at the phenomenon of consciousness in man, we can see that something very special occurs at the age of 2.5-3 years. Around this age, generally speaking, we "wake up" to the fact that "I" am also an "I" We start saying "I want a candy." instead of "Tyler wants a candy." This is the awakening of the "self-conscious" Not many of us can remember back to this moment, but some people can. The little child is of course conscious and in fact very conscious. If we can again think in degrees of awareness, we might say that the child's experience of taste is much much more sensitive than a person who is much older. That which we call consciousness is more confined to the head in the grown up human being, while the child you might say tastes with his whole body. The sentience in the child is much more amplified. This you can also observe, just give a baby a lemon to suck on...:-)
I would prefer not to call consciousness a metaphysical "construction", because it gives the impression of not being "real" or something thinking has in itself produced .... It's not simply due to our thinking that we have consciousness. It's not an emergent property. Thinking in and of itself is a real force in the world.... as is consciousness. They are existing entities in the world. Self sustaining entities that we "take part in" to different degrees through the course of the day and night. All to his or her own degree of awareness and degree of the amount of "will" that we apply in our thinking.
As to the basics in life, we are undoubtedly much much more than just simply matter. As consciousness is often referred to as the "hard problem" .. well it is really only hard if you only operate with materialistic concepts. It's like trying to study a shoe without recognizing that it must fit on a foot. You can only get so far....
Mar 20 2012: This inner realm that we have access to allows for the continuity of consciousness that we experiences. Although we fall asleep at night and consciousness is "broken" or at least seems to be cut off from our daily experiences, we are still able to pick up the thread from where we left off the day before.
Science cannot gain an explanation for this without moving away from its strictly physical model of explanation.
The quantum physics and OOR theory seem to be getting deeper and deeper into this material explanation.The map they are studying is getting more and more down to the pixels that represent the bigger picture. Although the pixels are a part of the whole map, they are still not able to give us the bigger picture of.... where are we actually going here anyway.?
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Should quantum theory ever think it has come so far as to be able to point its finger at a physical explanation or event of what consciousness is... and say "HERE!" ... here is consciousness!. again, this cannot be consciousness "in and of itself" What may apparently provide for the manifestation of consciousness is by no means consciousness itself. Therefor, at least the way I see it, regardless of how down to the bone quantum theory gets it will never achieve the task. It may however come to the realization of that which I will call the "next level" of our existence which is the level of life. The "life force" if you will. This next level is what I was telling about in an earlier comment. This I believe quantum physics seems to be zeroing in on... and its "discovery" will also be a major shift of the paradigm that is slowly leading us further down the road in the direction of understanding the true spiritual nature of the human being.
I see you still have 9 days left on your discussion. Perhaps we can continue to explore some of these questions ..
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Mar 20 2012: Do you believe that these materialist view points will ever yield a reasonable explanation or do you think they will continue to encounter the same problems?
It feels natural that if you put all of the pieces of the puzzle together, defining and explaining the functional properties that are thought to apply to consciousness, then you will be at the limit of what you are calling consciousness. Regardless of what people see in the outcome (the solved puzzle) it seems like this should be a sufficient explanation. I feel as though this is the approach that has been taken with explaining the processes of life and to this point it has been accepted as an explanation. Maybe this jigsaw puzzle metaphor is flawed, and I understand that even when the puzzle is solved there will always seem to be the missing piece of why these pieces produce an experience but I feel as though it creates a worthy, if not complete, representation of consciousness. But maybe that is just it, all we can ever obtain is a 'representation' or a correlation between what we think is consciousness and what we think creates it. I myself don't like the underlying pessimism of this reasoning and don't want to agree with the Dennet deflationary explanation. However, the concept of this 'life force' seems very appealing but in saying that I worry that it is appealing to me because I want to think my conscious experience is something greater than the millions of connections in my brain. In the book I am reading called Explaining consciousness-the hard problem there is an essay by Richard Warner that talks about the incorrigibility of humans and how we must guard against subjective distorting influences in order to produce some sense of objectivity and I feel that in this search for an 'appealing' answer that we may be succumbing to this distorting influences. It's hard to ignore the fact that consciousness requires a subjective element so maybe the fact that we are accustomed to looking at science through an
Mar 20 2012: ...objective lense once again distorts our image. It does seem a little backwards to distrust the only lense that we have to see the world, but at the same time it seems somewhat natural based on our observations....do you think a person who has always been alone would have a concept of consciousness unless there was someone there to prove they were in fact conscious?
Mar 6 2012: In response to what you said about free will, are you saying that our free will is what dictates the unconscious mind or that is it what allows for the conscious awareness of thought? Would you say that 'full' consciousness, if it is to exists, lies in our ability to uncover the entirety of our unconscious mind? Also, i can not help but wonder where the line between the unconscious and conscious are, and what controls the passage of our thoughts across these planes of consciousness. What are your thoughts on this?
Mar 7 2012: The degree that thinking can illuminate the unconsciousness motives for what we do determines the degree in which we are free beings. We are not free if we are driven through life by unconscious motivations. Egoism is perhaps a very common unconscious motivation. The need for love is another. The need for respect is very strong... especially in some cultures. We are at all times pulsating with different conscious and unconscious motivations for what we do. To draw a "line" between the two would be like trying to paint a painting on the surface of the ocean. Our thoughts though are amazing things. We have within our power to search our own soul for these impulses that can take control of us. We do however need to take a strong and decisive step in the direction of gaining control over our own being. Think about the following example
If you lay a 2x4 down on the ground and try to walk over it, it would not be so difficult would it? You could almost do it blindfolded. But now take the very same 2x4 and elevate it 10 meters and then try to walk across it... it would suddenly become very difficult. Your movements become stiff and stakkato. Why does this happen? You might answer well ... the fear of falling down of course... but isn't it rather the fear that is creating an "over-awareness" of your feet on the board. Consciousness becomes "awake" in your feet ... where it should be "sleeping" ... if you had to think about every step you take it wouldn't be so easy to walk .. would it?
These are explanations that I'm sure you have never heard before and perhaps are getting a little too esoteric for a comment on TED. But when we try to understand these questions in this way, we can find clues as to what consciousness really is.
Thinking can be compared to being awake
Feeling can be compared to dreaming.
Willing can be compared to being asleep.
To operate and function in daily life there must be a harmony in these three elements.
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Mar 21 2012: Hi Tyler,
The strictly material viewpoint will only take science so far. Sooner or later it will have to look itself in the eyes and say "There is something more here" we with our physical tools have now reached the very bottom of material existence and still that which we call consciousness slips past our fingers. That is the point where science will perhaps choose to step across the line into the metaphysical or the non-material aspect of existence. There is really no real reason that science cannot allow itself to make this step. It stands in complete lack of methodology of course. Perhaps by studying such phenomena as NDE's and OBE's can at least give a sort of direction towards the recognition of the immaterial world. I thinks this is not so very far off in the future of this type of study.
Back to the nature of consciousness. As something experiential, it is not so easy to "define" is it? I mean, if I ask you to define the taste of a cheeseburger. You can use a million adjectives and still you wont be able to convey to me just how the taste of the cheeseburger really is. Word cannot convey it. Even the simplest things like sweet. What is sweetness? So the word Consciousness becomes an enormous hurdle to explain in words alone. The phenomena must be observed and compared, observed and compared, and possibly even use the good old scientific method and reproduce experiments where we can study how the mystery of consciousness reveals itself. Consciousness in many cases leaves its footprint in the material world.
We must also trust our Thinking. We must trust the scientific method. I'm in support of the "method" But it can be broadened to also encompass the bigger picture that would include the immaterial world. Thinking is of course quite immaterial. So are feeling. There is no physical correlate for them. No one will ever be able to point at the neuron that gives us this or that thought.
The trust in both our thinking as well as our observations ... cont
Mar 22 2012: Hmm, I had never realized the impact of thought in consciousness before. It seems like a hard thing to overlook now but when it comes down to it, it is our only tool to make any realizations. I had also not thought of thinking as the thing which divides subjectivity and objectivity, but it definitely makes sense. It sort of seems like consciousness could be some illusion created by our thoughts.
Would you say there Descartes was in a way correct based on the nonphysical nature of thoughts and consciousness? If there is physical and nonphysical then to some degree his dualist approach was right
I do have one question, and you can choose to answer it or not because it sort of drifts away from the whole conversation, but if you were to break consciousness, as a topic, into various parts, what would those parts be? After looking back through the conversation, I'm still sort of struggling to figure out how I should break up the presentation I need to give and was wondering what aspects of consciousness you think are more important or whether there are obvious divides you see in the topic
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