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May 23--Let's rewind for the moment, back to the '70s. In the early years of the "Me Decade," a music festival was launched called the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee.
Around that same time, a small shop called Skip's Music had opened at 24th Street and Florin Road. It was stocked with guitars, drums and all the other tools for local musicians with dreams of rock stardom.
Now, in its 40th year, the Jazz Jubilee has morphed into the Sacramento Music Festival. Skip's Music has long since moved from south Sacramento and now calls Auburn Boulevard its home base, with additional stores in Elk Grove and Modesto.
For the past few years, Skip's Music has provided sound and production support for this festival. On Saturday, it'll be time to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Skip's Music. An all-star gathering of musicians from Sacramento and beyond will crank up their amplifiers at the Sacramento Music Festival's Firehouse Lot stage and pay homage to this local music institution.
The lineup features Frank Hannon of Tesla, Night Ranger co-founder and former Sacramento Bee delivery boy Jeff Watson, Brad Lang of Y&T, Kai Kln's Gene Smith and many others.
Also included in this all-star jam is Pablo Cruise, the superstars of 1970s "yacht rock" whose drummer, Steve Price, lives in Sacramento. And what do you know: Pablo Cruise was also founded in 1973.
"Everyone's turning 40 this year," said Skip Maggiora, founder of Skip's Music. "But it's not my 40th anniversary as much it is a salute to the talent that came out of this town in the last few decades."
A stop at Skip's Music has been just about mandatory for many local rock musicians, whether it's to pick up a set of strings or ogle the shiny new electric guitars on the walls. Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter even gave a shoutout to the store in the liner notes of "Adrenaline," the Sacramento band's major-label debut.
Plenty of music stores have come and gone over the decades, and a major competitor entered the local market when Guitar Center set up shop on Alta Arden Way in 2000. The national chain store also runs a large catalog and Internet business with competitive pricing.
But for Smith of Kai Kln, Skip's Music has remained a go-to shop for nearly 30 years.
"That's where I first got a taste of music and wanting to play," Smith said. "You'd go in and play for a minute and they never treated you like, 'Hey kid, are you going to buy it?' They treated you good, even for a young guy, and they continue to do that."
Coupled with retailer competition, the rise of electronic dance music has turned some musicians away from guitars and drums and toward computer software and drum machines. While Skip's Music sells some electronic equipment as well, the shop still emphasizes the time-honored guitar/ bass/ drums instrumentation of rock bands, along with hands-on music lessons.
"The world has changed, and young people are looking more for instant gratification," Maggiora said. "It takes time to learn to play guitar, but we teach over 1,000 people through all our stores. The return is well worth it."
Skip's Music has also nurtured local musicians through its long-running Stairway to Stardom and Weekend Warriors programs.
With Weekend Warriors, hobbyist musicians get a break from their cubicles to form bands and rock out through a series of jams and concerts.
Stairway to Stardom, which is entering its 33rd year, is one of the most successful youth programs of its kind. Musicians from the ages of 11 to 18 participate in an eight-week school of rock where they form bands, get coached by professional staff and participate in a battle of the bands finale.
Alumni include former Smash Mouth drummer Michael Urbano, while Eagles bassist and former Sacramentan Timothy B. Schmit has previously spoken at Stairway to Stardom about realizing dreams in the music business.
Randy Jackson of "American Idol" also served as a judge at Stairway to Stardom's battle of the bands in the early 1980s, when he played bass for the San Francisco supergroup Journey.
"He loved the program and said, 'Geez, we should do something like this nationally,' " said Maggiora, with a chuckle. "Unfortunately, I didn't listen to him well enough."
All of these good times from the past 40 years will be summed up through song and some storytelling on Saturday. The show will be hosted by a trio of radio personalities: KFBK's Kitty O'Neal, Charlie Thomas of KSEG "The Eagle" and KHLX's Tom Romano. The concert itself will run in a loose format, but expect plenty of musical fireworks and fretboard shredding.
"It's almost like a variety show," Maggiora said. "Everyone's excited about getting together and playing a more spontaneous show than a rehearsed one. It's going to culminate with a heck of a lot of singers and guitarists in the finale."
Call The Bee's Chris Macias, (916) 321-1253. On Twitter @chris_macias.
SKIP'S 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Featuring members of Tesla, Oleander, Steel Breeze, Pablo Cruise, Kai Kln and many more.
What: Sacramento Music Festival
When: 5 p.m. Saturday (festival runs through Monday)
Where: Firehouse Lot, Front and L streets, Old Sacramento
Cost: $20-$39; $110 all event festival pass
Info: (916) 444-2004, sacmusicfest.com
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Fergus Cullen: For casino backers, any argument will do
So it is with the casino lobby in New Hampshire. No matter what your problem, expanded gambling is the product for you.
When Pease Air Force Base closed in the early 1990s, the gambling lobby suggested a casino in Newington could fill the void. When the feds cut Medicaid enhancement funds a few years later, video gaming would plug the Mediscam budget hole.
Never let a crisis go to waste. For backers of casino gambling, any argument will do.
When the state moved toward universal mandatory kindergarten, allowing video poker at dying dog tracks in Belmont, Seabrook and Hinsdale could pay for it. After the Claremont court decision in 1997, then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen backed "slots for tots" as a means of increasing state aid for education.
A decade ago, one gambling plan earmarked revenue to fund prescription drugs for seniors. With unemployment high during the ongoing recession, longtime pro-casino state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro called his gambling bill a jobs bill.
Now Gov. Maggie Hassan says licensing a casino is the only way for the state to restore cuts to the University of New Hampshire and, capitalizing on Newtown, to pay for mental health programs. Pass casinos or risk a mass school shooting.
They're miracle products, those casinos. They're like Ginsu knives sold on late-night television. After providing enough money to fund schools and employ thousands, they can cut through a tin can and still cleanly slice a tomato - without social costs!
Legislators should be wary of casino lobbyists who act like guys in a singles bar as closing time approaches, using whatever come-on line fits the moment in their effort to take you home.
Watching the deep-pocketed gambling lobby in action has prompted longtime observers to worry that a future casino industrial complex would dominate New Hampshire's volunteer Legislature in short order. These opponents see corruption and crime as intrinsic to gambling, based on the experience of other states. They worry about social costs, which even the governor acknowledges will increase as a result of her plan. She's OK with that, but legislators may be less cavalier about collateral damage.
I describe myself as pro-choice on gambling. If you like to gamble or see it as just another form of entertainment, I'm not going to prevent you from visiting Vegas or Foxwoods. I think buying lottery tickets is for people who are bad at math, so I don't buy them. You can do what you like.
But one can be pro-choice on gambling and still think it's a bad idea to open a casino in New Hampshire.
Allowing one casino, as Gov. Hassan has proposed, is like watching one ant walk across your kitchen counter. That ant is a scout, and there won't be just one ant for long. Were one casino to open, pressure would build immediately for more, either because the first casino is making money or because it isn't making enough. The first gambling addict will be state government, which will be hooked on the money even as returns diminish.
So allowing one casino is to expect slot machines all over the state. One past proposal would have allowed 100 slot machines at any hotel with more than 100 beds. That would fundamentally alter New Hampshire's brand as a family-friendly place to vacation.
"Casinos provide very few high-skill, living-wage jobs and no exportable or value-added product or service. As an economic strategy, casinos take our state in precisely the wrong direction," former state Sen. Jim Rubens told me this week. Rubens leads the volunteer-driven Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling. The only ones who get rich from casinos are the owners. It's the first rule of gambling: The house always wins.
"It's called gambling because it's a gamble," former Gov. Steve Merrill, a gambling opponent, used to say. Gov. Hassan is finding that out for herself.
Fergus Cullen, a freelance columnist, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Osho continues:
"Life is not divided, but we look at it as if it is divided. That 'as if' is a fiction.
"A man is not only a father; he is also a husband, he is also a son, he is also an uncle, he is also a brother. He is so many things! You cannot define him by labeling him as father, as son, as brother. That will be absolutely unjustified and absurd. A man has a multi-dimensional being.
"Religion, in fact, is not one-dimensional. Religion is a very comprehensive view of the whole of life.
"I am not a politician, and I am sticking to my pursuit – but religion is multi-dimensional, religion has to be all-inclusive. A politician may not be able to make any statement about religion, because he is working in a one-dimensional pursuit. Politics is one-dimensional, science is one-dimensional, art is one-dimensional, philosophy is one-dimensional. That is where religion is totally different from all pursuits. It is not one of the pursuits, it is a vision that includes all. Hence a religious man has to be aware about the whole.
"That is why sometimes I make statements about art, about science, about politics and about so many things. But up to now religious people have also thought that their pursuit is one-dimensional. After me they will have to redefine religion! I don't believe in that definition. And I would like to say that I am strictly sticking to my pursuit, but my pursuit is not one of the pursuits – it includes all.
"Religion is like a bird's-eye view: the hills, the rivers, the trees, the people – all are included. That is the beauty of religion: it is not a specialized field. And that is why there is great hope that religion will have to be revived to its true nature, resurrected, because now sciences, philosophy, politics, they have all become so fragmentary that nobody knows what is actually happening. The physicist is not aware of what the chemist is doing, the chemist is not aware of what the mathematician is doing, the mathematician is not aware of what the politician is doing. That is how the atom bomb happened: the physicists went on pursuing, and they were doing right as far as they were concerned."
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
respect… curiosity… breathe… condemned… meditator… insight… meditation… delgado… desai… manu
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Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit will supply integrated navigation systems for two new large amphibious ships to be built for the Australian Navy under an $8.4 million contract. Sperry Marine will provide a state-of-the-art suite of navigation systems and sensors for two new Canberra-class LHDs. The contract also includes engineering and technical support for configuration, installation, commissioning, a land-based test site and sea trials.
Raytheon Company has received a $13.7 million, firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement. The delivery order is for the procurement of AN/ALR-67(V)3 enhanced integrated antenna detector radar warning receivers, AN/ALP-67(V)3 enhanced antenna detector radar warning receiver systems and integrated microwave integrated circuits. The contract combines purchases for the Canadian and Swiss governments under the foreign military sales program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
Nammo Talley Incorporated has received a $51.76 million, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the system development and demonstration and low-rate initial production of the shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon (SMAW II) launchers and fire from enclosure assault rounds and associated data rights. The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
Alliant Techsystems Incorporated has been awarded a $96.8 million, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the design, development, integration and test of the multi-stage supersonic target (MSST). The MSST will provide threat representation for the developmental and operational testing of a major weapon system. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
DRS Technologies has received contracts from various customers with a combined value of approximately $47 million to provide man-portable surveillance and target acquisition radar (MSTAR) systems, accessories and/or support. The systems will support the U.S. Defense Department in a variety of surveillance and security applications.
General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded a $32 million contract by the U.S. Army to provide information technology engineering and professional services within the 1st Theater Sustainment Command's area of responsibility. Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide services to support inventory procurement, management and related supply-chain operations. It will also perform standard Army retail supply system logistics analysis and financial reporting.
Under the HELLFIRE Services Limited Liability Company, Lockheed Martin will produce additional combat-proven HELLFIRE II precision-strike, laser-guided, air-to-ground missiles for U.S. and international armed forces under a $357 million U.S. Army contract.
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Base-X has received a $17,573,144, firm-fixed-price delivery order for an ultra light camouflage net system (ULCANS). ULCANS will aid in the concealment of military ground equipment when tactically deployed and will provide visual, electro-optical, radar and infrared signature reduction characteristics. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
CA Incorporated's CA Labs has been awarded an $815,000 research award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate to drive innovation in network traffic flow analysis. CA Labs and its research partner, Dalhousie University of Halifax, Canada, will explore new methods for visualizing massive quantities of network data, enabling the extraction of vital information from network traffic patterns that can accelerate the identification of potential security threats.


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J.P.Morgan: Some Improvements Seen in Bizjet Market
"Demand for business jets is far from robust, but at the margin some developments suggest improvement," J.P.Morgan aerospace analysts said in their latest business jet monthly update, released on Tuesday.
Among these positive developments, U.S. flight operations climbed 4.7 percent year-over-year in July, which the investment firm said is the best result since May 2011 and the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year growth. "It has been hard to imagine a broad-based recovery without U.S. operators flying more, and recent data shows an important step in this direction," wrote J.P.Morgan aerospace analyst Joseph Nadol III.
In addition, J.P.Morgan estimates that the material downtick in the proportion of young aircraft for sale (five years old or less), which it noted in last month's report, "remained steady in August." Finally, Directional Aviation Capital's firm order for 85 Bombardier business jets "suggests some confidence in the outlook–including for light and midsize jets–from a knowledgeable industry player."
However, J.P.Morgan is concerned about pre-owned aircraft pricing, a "key indicator that continues moving in the wrong direction…[and] has yet to bottom this cycle and registered another sequential decline in August." While drawing firm conclusions from available pricing data is difficult, "We believe the average price trend over time for a range of jets is meaningful and in recent years it has been an accurate indicator that demand remains weak, despite signs of life elsewhere."
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The Relativity of Truth - a brief résumé
Protagoras: Truth is relative. It is only a matter of opinion.
Socrates: You mean that truth is mere subjective opinion?
Protagoras: Exactly. What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me, is true for me. Truth is subjective.
Socrates: Do you really mean that? That my opinion is true by virtue of its being my opinion?
Protagoras: Indeed I do.
Socrates: My opinion is: Truth is absolute, not opinion, and that you, Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is my opinion, then you must grant that it is true according to your philosophy.
Protagoras: You are quite correct, Socrates. (Plato's dialogue Protagoras)
"The choice between competing theories is arbitrary, since there is no such thing as objective truth." (Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol. II (London, 1963), p. 369f.)
"There is no unique truth, no unique objective reality" (Ernest Gellner, Relativism and the Social Sciences (Cambridge, 1985), p. 84.)
"There is no substantive overarching framework in which radically different and alternative schemes are commensurable" (Richard Bernstein, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (Philadelphia, 1985), pp. 11-12.)
Sherwood Anderson on "true"
"In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful. (…)
There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. Hundreds and hundreds were the truths and they were all beautiful.
And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them.
It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood."
— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Parable of the blind men and elephant (the manifold nature of truth)
"A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: "We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable". So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. In the case of the first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said "This being is like a drain pipe".
For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, "I perceive the shape of the elephant to be like a pillar". And in the case of the one who placed his hand upon its back said, "Indeed, this elephant is like a throne".
Now, each of these presented a true aspect when he related what he had gained from experiencing the elephant. None of them had strayed from the true description of the elephant. Yet they fell short of fathoming the true appearance of the elephant."
Two of the many references to this parable are found in Tattvarthaslokavatika of Vidyanandi (9th century) and Syādvādamanjari of Ācārya Mallisena (13th century). Mallisena uses the parable to argue that immature people deny various aspects of truth; deluded by the aspects they do understand, they deny the aspects they don't understand. "Due to extreme delusion produced on account of a partial viewpoint, the immature deny one aspect and try to establish another. This is the maxim of the blind (men) and the elephant." Mallisena also cites the parable when noting the importance of considering all viewpoints in obtaining a full picture of reality. "It is impossible to properly understand an entity consisting of infinite properties without the method of modal description consisting of all viewpoints, since it will otherwise lead to a situation of seizing mere sprouts (i.e., a superficial, inadequate cognition), on the maxim of the blind (men) and the elephant."
— (The ancient Jain texts) ☞ See also: Anekantavada
"In response to the confusion, one group of philosophers concluded that there is not just one truth but many. In fact, they believed that anything is true if you can convince someone that it is true. Nothing, they said, is inherently right or wrong, but believing makes it so. These philosophers were called Sophists. The Sophists were profesional teachers of rhetoric and logic who believed that effective communication determined whether an idea was considered relative, and therefore no single truth was thought to exist. This belief marked a major shift in philosophy. The question was no longer, What is the universe made of? but, what can humans know and how can they know it? In other words, there was a shift towards epistemological questions." (…)
Protagoras (ca. 485-410 B.C.), the first and best known Sophist, summarized the Sophists' position with his famous statement: "Man is the measure of all things - of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not". This statement is pregnant with meaning. First, truth depends on the perceiver rather than on physical reality. Second, because perceptions vary with the previous experiences of the perceiver, they will vary from person to person. Third, what is considered to be true will be, in part, culturally determined because one's culture influences once's experiences. Fourth, to understand why a person believes as he or she does, one must understand the person. According to Protagoras, therefore, each of the preceding philosophers was presenting his subjective viewpoint rather than the objective "truth" about physical repality. Paraphrasing Heraclitus's famous statement, Protagoras said, "Man never steps into the same river once," becasue the river is different for each individual to begin with. Protagoras emphasized the importance of rhetorical skills in getting one's point of view considered and, perhaps, to prevail. (…)
Gorgias (ca. 485-380 B.C.) Protagoras concluded that, because each person's experience furnishes him or her with what seems to be true, "all things are equally true." Gorgias, however, regarded the fact that knowledge is subjective and relative as proof that "all things are equally false." Furthermore, because the individual can know only his or her private perceptions, there can be no objective basis for determining truth." (…)
— (B. R. Hergenhahn, An Introduction to the History of Psychology, Cengage Learning, 2008, p.41-42.)
"Socrates observes that if someone, x, believes Protagoras' doctrine, they must agree that no one ever makes a false judgment. This, in itself, is said to be incredible, though Protagoras would not have conceded this. (No person makes ajudgment that is false for themself; but they may make a judgment that is false for x.) The main argument comes when the observation is applied to Protagoras' view itself (171a5-c7):
The argument is an attempt to establish that Protagoras' view is true for no one, including himself (whilst the same is not true of the views of his opponents). They key part of it is that where Socrates attempts to show that Protagoras' views are false by his own lights." - (Plato's Theaetetus (dialogue) cited in Graham Priest, Beyond the limits of thought, CUP Archive, 1995, p. 54-55.)
Aristotle: "The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed." — (Aristotle, Metaphysics (translated by W. D. Ross))
"According to Michael Krausz [American philosopher and artist], "Relativism is a theory of logic rather than epistemology, though in particular discussions, are clear-cut distinction is not easily drawn." He offers the theory of Nelson Goodman, who characterizes "his position as 'radical relativist with restraints.'" as an example:
"Since no "world" independent of our symbol systems is accessible, it cannot function in our cognitive judgments. So, "truth," for Goodman, turns out to be a feature of the internal relations within symbol system, a feature explicable after the epistemic limits have been drawn."
(…) It is consistent with John Dewey's definition of truth as "warranted assertibility," and it seems to be the necessary outcome of any adequate recognition of the limitations of human knowing. If we are not aware of, if we have no access to the "world" independent of our symbol systems," then it seems necessary to conclude that truth may be defined only in terms of the relations of those symbol systems of which we are aware." — (Christopher Stephen Lutz, Tradition in the ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: relativism, Thomism, and philosophy, Lexington Books, 2004. p. 67-68.)
Donald Davidson in On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme (pdf):
"It would be wrong to summarize by saying we have shown how communication is possible between people who have different schemes, a way that works without need of what there cannot be, namely a neutral ground, or a common coordinate system. For we have found not intelligible basis on which it can be said that schemes are different. It would be equally wrong to announce the glorious news that all mankind - all speakers of language, at least - share a common scheme and ontology. For if we cannot intelligibly say that schemes are different, neither can we intelligibly say that they are one.
In giving up dependence on the concept of an uninterpreted reality, something outside all schemes and science, we do not relinquish the notion of objective truth - quite the contrary. Given the dogma of dualism of scheme and reality, we get conceptual relativity, and truth relative to a scheme. Without the dogma, this kind of relativity goes by the board. Of course truth of sentences remains relative to language, but that is as objective as can be. In giving up the dualism of scheme and world, we do not give up the world, but reestablish unmediated touch with the familar objects whose antics make our senteces and opinions true or false."
— (Donald Davidson in On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme cited in Richard J. Bernstein, Beyond objectivism and relativism: science, hermeneutics, and praxis, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983, p.76.)
"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins." — Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)
A. S. Eddington in 'Space time and Gravitation':
"Here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensional being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing." — H. G. Wells, English author (1866-1946), The Time Machine cited in A. S. Eddington, Space time and Gravitation (pdf), Cambridge University Press, 1920, p.41.
"Let us compare two well-known books, which might be described as elementary treatises on relativity, Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels. Alice was continually changing size, sometimes growing, sometimes on the point of vanishing altogether. Gulliver remained the same size, but on one occasion he encountered a race of men of minute size with everything in proportion, and on another voyage a land where everything was gigantic. It does not require much reflection to see that both authors are describing the same phenomenon - a relative change of scale of observer and observed. Lewis Carroll took what is probably the ordinary scientific view, that the observer had changed, rather than that a simultaneous change had occurred to all her surroundings. But it would never have appeared like that to Alice; she could not have "stepped outside and looked at herself," picturing herself as a giant filling the room. She would have said that the room had unaccountably shrunk. Dean Swift took the truer wiev of the human mind when he made Gulliver attribute his own changes to the things around him; it never occurred to Gulliver that his own size had altered; and, if he had thought of the explanation, he could scarcely have accustomed himself to that way of thinking. But both points of view are legitimate. The size of a thing can only be imagined as relative to something else; and there is no means of assigning the change to one end of the relation rather that to other."
— (A. S. Eddington, Space time and Gravitation (pdf), Cambridge Unviersity Press, 1920,p. 29.)
"None of us perceives the world as it exists fundamentally. We do not observe the tiniest bits of matter, nor the forces that move them, individually through our senses. We evolved to experience the world in bulk, our faculties registering the net effect of trillions upon trillions of particles or atoms moving in concert. We are crude measurers. So divorced are we from the activity beneath our experience that physicists became relatively assured of the existence of atoms only about a century ago.
Physicists attribute a fundamental reality to what they do not directly perceive. Particles and atoms have observable effects that are well described by theories like quantum mechanics. Single atoms have been "seen" in measurements and presumably exist whether or not we observe them individually. The properties that define particles—mass, spin, etc.—are also thought to exist before we measure them. In physics this is how reality is defined; particles and atoms have measurable properties that exist prior to measurement. This is nothing stranger than your blue couch."
"In the history of physics, we have learned that there are distinctions that we really should not make, such as between space and time… It could very well be that the distinction we make between information and reality is wrong. This is not saying that everything is just information. But it is saying that we need a new concept that encompasses or includes both." — Anton Zeilinger
— (Joshua Roebke, author and a Visiting Scholar at UC, Berkeley in The Office for History of Science and Technology, The Reality Tests. Do we create the world just by looking at it?, SEED Magazine, June 4, 2008.)
Martin Heidegger on truth
"Heidegger's way of understanding the originary phenomenon of truth is to "make clear the mode of being of the cognition itself." His starting point is a proposition that is not based on intuition. Someone says with his or her back to the wall: this picture hangs askew. The proposition embodies the claim to have discovered the picture (as a being) in the "how" (the mode) of its being. The proposition displays this "how" of being in language. In the attempt to verify the proposition by sensuous experience, the recognition, according to Heidegger, is directed only to the intended being (the picture) and not to the proposition. It is directed to the being itself (which is to be verified by perception) in its mode of uncoveredness (Entdeckt-heir), i.e., in its showing-itself. Confirmation (Bewährung) means this showing-itself of the being in the same way in which it is intended in the proposition.
A true proposition shows the being in its mode of uncoveredness. The phenomenon of "originary truth" does not have the character of correspondence. It is the ground of the concept of truth in the sense of correspondence and propositional truth. By unfolding the meaning of alétheia Heidegger shows us a more originary sense of truth as unconcealment (Unverborgenheit). He wants to show that this concept coincides with the first and originary concept of truth in Greek thinking. In this primary sense only the discovering human Dasein can be "true" while it is Being-discovering (Entdeckend-Sein). On the other hand, beings (Seiendes) that we can find in the world can only "be" in a secondary mode, i.e., as being-discovered (Entdecktsein). They can only make a claim to uncoveredness. Their fundament is the Being-discovering of the human Dasein. The being-true of a discovered being is only possible as being discovered by human Dasein as being-in-the-world.
The authentic Being of Dasein, the being-in-the truth, presupposes disclosedness (Erschlossenheit) of the world in states-of-mind (Befindlichkeiten), understanding, and discourse, i.e., the constitution of the being (Seinsverfassung) of human Dasein as thrownness (Geworfenheit) and project (Entwurf). The mode of being of Dasein is characterized equiprimordially (gleichursprünglich) by the possibility of both authenticity (being-in-the-truth) and the deficient mode (Verfallsform) of inauthenticity. In the mode of the "they" (das Man), of obstruction (Verstelltheit), of gossip (Gerede), Dasein is in untruth. Thus the being-in-the-world of human Dasein is determined at the same time by truth and untruth. We must always fight anew for the truth of Dasein (Being-discovering). Following Heidegger, the negative expression "a-létheia" expresses the fact that hiding itself is a main characteristic of Being. In the hiding-itself of Being, human Dasein is hidden for itself in the mode of untruth.
Heidegger wants to make evident how the transition from the originary concept of truth as alétheia to "correspondence" came about. He wants to make clear that correspondence is only a derived form of truth: in a proposition Being should be displayed in the mode of its uncoveredness. In the inauthentic forms of mere reproducing and hearsay, the proposition becomes itself something ready-to-hand (Zuhandenes). Thus we have to engage in the demonstration of the uncoveredness that is preserved in the proposition. In this way the relation between proposition and discovered being then itself becomes something present-at-hand (Vorhandenes) and can be understood as a correspondence of proposition and being (intellectus and res). The fact that we are used to disregarding the originary dimension of truth is an aspect of our forgetfulness of Being (Seinsvergessenheit).
The originary dimension of truth in human Dasein "is given" (gibt es) only as long as there is Dasein. All truth is relative to the being of Dasein. Thus the claim that there could be "eternal truth" seems to Heidegger to be "fantastic." Against the background of this relativity of truth to the being of Dasein, Heidegger asks anew: why must we presuppose that truth "is given"? His answer is that the possibility of truth (authenticity) and untruth (inauthenticity) belongs to the facticity of human Dasein. From the point of view of existential ontology, the being of human Dasein (its disclosedness) and truth are synonims."
— Dieter Lohmar, Truth - in: Lester Embree et alii (eds.) - Encyclopedia of phenomenology - Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1997, pp. 711-712.
"Though in Gandhi's philosophy relativity of truth is important, this relativity has an ultimate aim, that is, to achieve the absolute truth. This relativity of truth is essential to realise absoluteness of truth. Differences are fundamental and cannot be avoided. Relativity is universal and cannot be ignored. Particularity is natural and it must not be overlooked. The beauty of unity lies in diversity. We must accept this universal truth that all that happen in this phenomenal world are highly relative in nature. They have different causes. And every cause produces further cause; thus they are relative in nature. (…) But Gandhi never speaks about complete relativism or subjectivism. Instead, he says that no one knows truth absolutely. No one knows non-violence absolutely. It means in Gandhi relativity or particularity or difference is valued, but not relativism or particularism, which absolutises it. The only access to the absolute is through the relative approach. Relativity is a means to achieve the Absolute end."
— (Upasana Pandey, Mahatma Gandhi and Modern Civilisation, Mainstream, Oct 2, 2010.)
Buckminster Fuller:
"That is what you want to know - the truth about everything - and then the truth about combinations of things. Some combinations have such logic and integrity that they can work coherently despite non-working elements embraced by their system.
Whenever you come to a word with which you are not familiar, find it in the dictionary and write a sentence which uses that new word. Words are tools - and once you have learned how to use a tool you will never forget it. Just looking for the meaning of the word is not enough. If your vocabulary is comprehensive, you can comprehend both fine and large patterns of experience."
— Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist (1895-1983), from Critical Path (1981), St Martin's Press, NY
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See also:
☞ Cognition, relativity tag on Lapidarium
☞ Cognition, perception, relativity tag on Lapidarium notes
☞ Relativism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Pluralist Theories of Truth, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Relativism, The Proceedings of the Friesian School
☞ Objectivity, IEP
☞ Map–territory relation - a brief résumé, Lapidarium
☞ Qualia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Qualia: The Knowledge Argument, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ The Correspondence Theory of Truth, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Relativism - The Cognitive Construction of Reality , Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Susan Haack, The Unity of Truth and The Plurality of Truths (pdf), University of Miami
☞ Gila Sher, What is Tarski's Theory of Truth? (pdf)
☞ Panu Raatikainen, More on Putnam and Tarski (pdf)
☞ Michael Glanzberg, Semantics and Truth Relative to a World (pdf), University of California, Davis
☞ Overview: Simplicity, Possible Worlds Semantics, and Relativism (pdf)
☞ Arianna Betti, Sempiternal Truth. The Bolzano-Twardowski-Leśniewski Axis (pdf), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte
☞ Richard Baker, Science and truth
☞ Peter Fristedt, Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Relativity of Truth and Meaning, International Journal of Philosophical Studies
☞ Jeff Malpas–Tasmania, Truth, Politics, and Democracy – Arendt, Orwell, and Camus
☞ Martin Heidegger on Aletheia (Truth) as Unconcealment
☞ Isaac Asimov on The Relativity of Wrong, Lapidarium
☞ Werner Herzog, On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth, Boston University
☞ John Shotter on encounters with 'Other' - from inner mental representation to dialogical social practices, Lapidarium
☞ Daniel Kahneman: The Marvels and the Flaws of Intuitive Thinking
☞ The Difference Between Online Knowledge and Truly Open Knowledge. In the era of the Internet facts are not bricks but networks


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We are going to keep giving that booty the attention it deserves, thats the reason she bought it for.
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It's a shame that women that beautiful have to get fake asses when the one that they had before probably was just as big! Black women most of them have big asses anyway, so what's the point?
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The jury that found a former "Price Is Right" model was fired because she got knocked up just gave the beauty a huge parting gift ... $7 MILLION in punitive damages.
Brandi Cochran sued the show for allegedly harassing her and ultimately giving her the boot when she got pregnant. She claimed she was called names including "wide load."
Earlier this week the jury awarded Brandi $775,000 in damages, but then heard testimony about possible punitive damages, which serve as punishment for intentional wrongdoing.
Let's just say ... the jury found PLENTY of wrongdoing, because it just smacked the show with punitives to the tune of $7,763,440.
Maybe they'll change the end of the show and say, "Remember to spay and neuter your models."
PIR Executive Producer Mike Richards released a statement on the show's website, calling yesterday "a tough day for The Price Is Right and its staff."
In the show's defense, Mike describes one model who went through two pregnancies on the show -- and writes, "If we don't like pregnant models, we sure have a funny way of showing it."
Amazing! Serves them right. Just shows you can't get away with firing someone for having a baby! A completly natural thing! Idiots.
Good! Since when is it okay to fire someone for being pregnant? Would it really be a big deal to see a pregnant model on the show? No one would think twice about it!
this should be illegal. 7 MILLION DOLLARS EXTRA?! on top of her damages? juries like this are the reason everyone's insurance is so high
One business that is not affected by the recession is the lawyer business ....all I ever hear nowadays is somebody suing...nobody is tough enough to say FU and keep going..
even the ol' horn dog Bob Barker didn't cost the production that much when he had that little "indiscretion" with Dianne Parkinson...
omfg why won't you guys fix this damn website? i haven't been able to "like" something for a week now....
WOW $7 million huh? Bet the Price is Right crew will never utter the words "wide load" again on set.
Shouldn't celebrate yet. The network will surley file endless legal appeals to stall payment and amount might be lowered substantially.
This woman would sue her own mother and child. Scanless bimbo just does not want to work. She got away with this but I think she will be like those lottery winners whose life goes out of control. In fact she is a lottery winner. She does not deserve over 7 million dollars for this. She is probably banging the judge.
Humm, not totally surprising. But I thought The Price was a little beyond this by now. Since the 1950's they have been in a perpetual, but kind of endearing time warp with Bob Barker, up until he retired recently. The models were kind of like home kitchen in fantasy land of what every housewife wanted to look like and what every husband wanted to come home to. It worked for a long, long time. But not now. Gotta pay up. Times have changed.
That's a bulls^t decision. I hope they do not pay her a penny.
What ? Was the entire jury pregnant. I hope she never receives a dime of this award. I really hope the Price Is Right appeals this verdict and overturns the punitive damages amount. I have seen people paralyzed by drunk drivers receive no monetary awards from the courts. And because someone called her a name she deserves this !!! Damn jury , you stupid.
could care less about firing 7 million dollars is absurd. this country sucks when we allow stuff like this to happen on a regular basis. she should be compisated you know maybe to the tune of unemployment check like the rest of the world
This seems really messed up on so many levels it's hard to sort out. Why would the show care that much about a pregnant model? By the way, this is a job where she was ONLY hired for her looks so I can appreciate their concern......BUT it's a temporary thing. Why care so much? BUT how in the h*ll is this worth $7mm??? Come on, that is a ridiculous amount!! The world is literally upside down......
7 million dollars wow. this country sucks when crap like this happens.. i agree she should be compisated with a unemployment check like the rest of the world.


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As we are on the subject of AA Michael I like to share with you my experiences with this Angel.
When my son who is also named Michael was about 18 (he is now 35) he had many friends who were not the best influence on him.
I went to a meditation and that evening AA Michael was channelling. After meditation I asked Angel to help my son and remove his friend from coming to my home.
Than in my vision I saw AA Michael as he stood in front of me, he put his sward across my legs as I was seating in a chair and his right had he placed on my right shoulder and said to me: 'You can do it".
Soon after that meditation my son moved out to live with my mother to study at Uni and many years latter went to Police academy. Now is working as computer analyst with Police. And the patron of Police is AA Michael as is celebrated on 29 September Michaels name day.
I had many great visions of AA Michael and I like this picture that my boyfriend Christian drew after he saw AA Michael in meditation at my home.
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When Christian drew this picture angel was not holding a shield. Few days latter in another meditation AA Michael come again and showed to Christian the red shield and Christian had to add that shield later on that picture.
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Amazon is now shipping the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader to consumers who pre-purchased the device.
Amazon said on Monday that it is now shipping both versions of the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader. The company says they're the most advanced e-reader ever built, offering 62-percent more pixels, a 25-percent higher contrast, and a patented built-in front light. The design is even sleeker and slimmer than previous Kindle models.
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The Kindle Paperwhite's screen features three components: a 0.5-mm Light Guide, the capacitive touch screen layer, and the Paperwhite display itself. "We worked on Kindle Paperwhite for over two years to perfect the uniformity of the built-in light, flattening out a fiber optic cable into a sheet, and nanoimprinting to ensure perfectly even distribution of light," Amazon states on the product page. "Our design uses nanoscale optical diffractive patterns to enable tight control over the direction of the light."
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0house70 , October 1, 2012 7:43 PM... and still no external SD card support.
I have a 4+ GB books collection that I can not put on this, because it's only 2GB.
DRM paranoia getting in the way of a (otherwise) perfect device.
4phate , October 1, 2012 8:03 PMI know I always need to have 4GB of books on my device all at once. Who knows when I'll need the entire library of congress in my backpocket.
-1DSpider , October 1, 2012 8:19 PMAnd still no ePub support. No, thank you!
Stubborn candy-a** Amazon POS. Learn2openstandards!
-1commandersozo , October 1, 2012 9:41 PMhouse70... and still no external SD card support. I have a 4+ GB books collection that I can not put on this, because it's only 2GB. DRM paranoia getting in the way of a (otherwise) perfect device.
Dem torrents...
0sisypheanlanai61 , October 1, 2012 11:45 PMhttp://goo.gl/inbnz
3Andy Chow , October 2, 2012 1:40 AMI'd LOVE to get this. I use my Sony reader daily, but Amazon's new screen look so much better, and I have no doubt it is a better device technically.
But, can't afford to be vendor locked in. Open format or nothing. drm penalizes the good guys. As an honest buyer, demand an honest product, not one which burdens you by refusing to work on other devices.
0quotas47 , October 2, 2012 2:57 AMI technically preordered. I placed my order on the 28th...
When they mean they're shipping preorders, I'm guessing they meant before that by some margin. Any idea what the official cutoff for the preorders were stated to be?
1freggo , October 2, 2012 5:15 AMphateI know I always need to have 4GB of books on my device all at once. Who knows when I'll need the entire library of congress in my backpocket./sarcasm
"640 books is enough for anyone" :-)
0assasin32 , October 2, 2012 5:34 AMI've seen a older kindle in person I will admit I like the screen and the way the text pops out. Just wish all my school books were on the kindle store or something instead of them doing their each half ass ebooks websites and apps which are so full of drm and restrictions it's useless. I can tell you I wouldn't mind ditching 20+lbs of books for a kindle, i do it in a heartbeat if I could.


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Let's get down to numbers 2 and 1 of the Jets offseason checklist….
2.) Sign Safety TJ Ward.
Fallback option- Ed Reed
Besides Byrd of the Bills, TJ Ward is the most talented (young) Safety of the free agents. He could be pricey, but the Jets have a lot of money to spend. Ward should be the Jets main priority when free agency begins. If the Jets cannot land Ward or Byrd at a decent price, they can opt to resign Ed Reed for another year. He is a nice fall-back option, if all else fails. His leadership on and off the field has been really beneficial to the young defensive backs like Dee Milliner and Antonio Allen.
1.) Draft tight end Eric Ebron + another weapon for Geno
Jimmy Graham is likely to receive the franchise tag or resign with New Orleans, and Dennis Pitta could cost a bunch. So why not draft a tight end to help build around Geno Smith? This is an excellent class to be drafting a tight end or wide receiver. As for Ebron… size, speed, and athleticism come to mind. If Ebron does not slip to the Jets at 18, and the Jets don't trade up for Sammy Watkins (unlikely), the likes of (WR) Marqise Lee, (WR) Mike Evans, and (TE) Jace Amaro should be available — one of which the Jets would be happily take…. I would think.
Here are some highlights of NC's tight end Eric Ebron….
Without going through rounds one through seven, I'd like to focus on one particular wide receiver. While studying Sammy Watkins of Clemson, I was able to study the receiver who plays opposite of Watkins; Martavis Bryant. At 6'5, Bryant is a big target. The way he runs in open space (and the way he uses the stiff-arm) reminds me of Santonio Homes…. but obviously bigger. He is projected to go anywhere between rounds three through six, so the Jets will have multiple opportunities to snag the talented wideout. Bryant would provide depth to a position of need in wide receiver, and help the Jets offense become more explosive and effective in the red zone.
Here are some of his highlights….
If the Jets can go through this checklist and execute these transactions, gang green will be a team to be reckoned with. The Jets could have some money left over if spent properly. We should trust Idzik to do just that, after he fixed the cap situation when he arrived last year. Assuming Mark Sanchez and Santonio Holmes are cut, the Jets should have plenty of money to play with.
Anyway, the new depth chart would look like this….
Depth Chart: Offense
QB – Geno Smith, Matt Simms
RB – Chris Ivory, Bilal Powell, Mike Goodson
WR – *Denario Alexander, Jeremy Kerley, David Nelson, Martavis Bryant (must draft before 6th round)
TE – **Eric Ebron (1st round pick), Jeff Cumberland (resign)
*Denario Alexander, Hakeem Nicks, James Jones, Eric Decker, Jeremy Maclin, and Anquan Boldin are all options here.
**Assuming Jets draft Ebron over Marqise Lee
LT – D'Brickashaw Ferguson
LG – Brian Winters
C – Nick Mangold
RG- Willie Colon (resign)
RT – Austin Howard (resign)
Depth Chart: Defense
DT – Damon Harrison, Kenrick Ellis
DE – Muhammad Wilkerson, Sheldon Richardson, and Jared Allen or Shawn Phillips
OLB – *Calvin Pace, Antwan Barnes, Garrett McIntyre
MLB – David Harris, Demario Davis
CB – Antonio Cromartie, Dee Milliner, Kyle Wilson, rest to be determined
FS – TJ Ward or Ed Reed, and Antonio Allen
SS – Dawan Landry, Josh Bush
*Jets likely to resign Pace via ESPN New York.
Special Teams
KR/PR – Pick one: Cribbs, McCluster, Hester, Ginn, or Jacoby Jones/Ford.
*Also resign kicker Nick Folk.
That's all from Jetserious and The Jet Press.
Thanks for reading!
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