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The Abstraction Engine
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- The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way through the various facets of abstraction, the book attempts to clarify – and relate – the often confusing meanings of the word 'abstract' that one may encounter even within the same discipline. The unusual synoptic approach, which draws upon research in psychology, neural network theory, child language acquisition, philosophy and consciousness studies, as well as a variety of linguistic disciplines, cannot be compared directly to other books on the market that touch upon just one particular aspect of abstraction. It is aimed at a wide readership – anyone interested in the nature of abstraction and the cognitive processing and purpose behind it. (series A)
The Aconceptual Mind
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- According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face Heidegger's critique of naturalistic thinking habits. The author develops a holistic and antirealistic version of naturalism. This 'holistic naturalism' does not approach nature as a set of entities or things which can be used for technological purposes. Instead, nature is approached as human experience which originally lacks conceptual structure and which can therefore not be fully controlled by a rational subject. (Series A)
Advances in Consciousness Research
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AICR provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series includes (but is not limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, brain science, philosophy and linguistics. The orientation of the series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual in society. From 1999 the Series consists of two subseries that cover the most important types of contributions to consciousness studies: Series A: Theory and Method. Contributions to the development of theory and method in the study of consciousness; Series B: Research in Progress. Experimental, descriptive and clinical research in consciousness.
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
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- Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction.
The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an "anima", so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)
Attention and Implicit Learning
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- Attention and Implicit Learning provides a comprehensive overview of the research conducted in this area. The book is conceived as a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the question of whether implicit learning may be depicted as a process that runs independently of attention. The volume also deals with the complementary question of whether implicit learning affects the dynamics of attention, and it addresses these questions from perspectives that range from functional to neuroscientific and computational approaches. The view of implicit learning that arises from these pages is not that of a mysterious faculty, but rather that of an elementary ability of the cognitive systems to extract the structure of their environment as it appears directly through experience, and regardless of any intention to do so. Implicit learning, thus, is taken to be a process that may shape not only our behavior, but also our representations of the world, our attentional functions, and even our conscious experience. (Series B)
Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development
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- Sleep and wakefulness undergo important changes with age. Awakening, a crucial event in the sleep-wake rhythm, is a transition implying complex physiological mechanisms. Its involvement in sleep disturbances is also well known. This collective volume is the first attempt to systematically approach awakening across development.A methodological section considers criteria to define awakening in a developmental perspective. Theoretical considerations on development of wakefulness and on its relation to consciousness are included and provide a vigorous impulse to go beyond present criteria and classifications.
Age changes are the core of studies on development: a section of the book examines old and new data from preterm to infants up to children, underscoring the main turning points along this developmental path. As for other aspects of development, awakening and the sleep-wake cycle are also influenced by external factors, both physical and human. Several contributions deal with this topic, in particular focusing on the parent-infant interaction and the influences of culture.
Clinical contexts offer an opportunity to show both quantitative and qualitative changes of awakening and arousals in different pathological conditions. Either partial changes of one physiological variable or global and massive changes can be observed. (Series B)
Becoming Human
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- What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others' false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement – a second mental centre within the subject. This redefinition of the simulationism is extended in the present book in two directions. Firstly, mirror-neurons and, likewise, animal abilities connected with the visual field of their fellows, although they certainly constitute important landmarks, would not require this second mental centre. Secondly, others' beliefs would have given rise not only to predicative communicative function but also to pre-grammatical syntax. The inquiry about the evolutionary-historic origin of language focuses on the cognitive requirements on it as a faculty (but not to the indirect causes such as environmental changes or greater co-operation), pays attention to children, and covers other human peculiarities as well, e.g., symbolic play, protodeclaratives, self-conscious emotions, and interactional or four-hand tasks.
Being in Time
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- Given that a representational system's phenomenal experience must be intrinsic to it and must therefore arise from its own temporal dynamics, consciousness is best understood — indeed, can only be understood — as being in time. Despite that, it is still acceptable for theories of consciousness to be summarily exempted from addressing the temporality of phenomenal experience. The chapters comprising this book represent a collective attempt on the part of their authors to redress this aberration. The diverse treatments of phenomenal consciousness range in their methodology from philosophy, through surveys and synthesis of behavioral and neuroscientific findings, to computational analysis. This collection's broad scope and integrative approach, characterized by the view of the brain as a dynamical system that computes the mind's representation space, will be of interest to researchers, instructors, and students in the cognitive sciences wishing to acquaint themselves with the current thinking in consciousness research. Series B.
Beyond Dissociation
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- Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as consciousness will not succeed without a more global consideration of the ways the mind-brain works. This implies that synthesis rather than analysis should be applied to the brain. The present book offers a collection of contributions ranging from sensory and motor cognitive neuroscience to mood management and thought, which all focus on the dissociation between conscious (explicit) and nonconscious (implicit) processing in different cognitive situations. The contributions in this book clearly demonstrate that conscious and nonconscious processes typically interact in complex ways. The central message of this collection of papers is: In order to understand how the brain operates as one integrated whole that generates cognition and behaviour, we need to reassemble the brain and mind and put all the conscious and nonconscious pieces back together again. (Series B)

Beyond Physicalism
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- Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience. In particular, it argues that the subjectivity of experience cannot be understood in representationalist terms. This is important, for it is because many philosophers fail to come to terms with subjectivity that they are at a loss to provide a convincing solution to the mind-body problem. In this light the metaphysical problem is revealed to be a product of the misguided attempt to incorporate consciousness within an object-based schema, inspired by physicalism. A similar problem arises in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and this gives us further reason to look beyond physicalism, in matters metaphysical. Thus the virtues of absolute idealism are re-examined, as are the wider consequences of adopting its understanding of truth within the philosophy of science.
This book complements the arguments and investigations of The Presence of Mind, which it partners. (Series A)
Body Image and Body Schema
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- The body, as the common ground for objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, is a phenomenon with a perplexing plurality of registers. Therefore, this innovative volume offers an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of neuroscience, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The concepts of body image and body schema have a firm tradition in each of these disciplines and make up the conceptual anchors of this volume.
Challenged by neuropathological phenomena, neuroscience has dealt with body image and body schema since the beginning of the twentieth century. Halfway through the twentieth century, phenomenology was inspired by child development and elaborated a specifically phenomenological account of body image and schema. Starting from the mirror stage, this source of inspiration is shared with psychoanalysis which develops the concept of body image in interaction with the clinic of the singular subject. In this volume, the creative encounter of these three perspectives on the body opens up present-day paths for conceptualisation, research and (clinical) practice. (Series B)
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement
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- Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate phenomenology, conceptual metaphor theory, and embodiment approaches from the cognitive sciences for the development of appropriate empirical methods to address body memory. Part three inquires into the forms and effects of therapeutic work with body memory, based on the integration of theory, empirical findings, and clinical applications. It focuses on trauma treatment and the healing power of movement. The book also contributes to metaphor theory, application and research, and therefore addresses metaphor researchers and linguists interested in the embodied grounds of metaphor. Thus, it is of particular interest for researchers from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, and humanities as well as clinical practitioners.
Brain and Being
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- This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to "think together" in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have suffered conceptual estrangement but now are ripe for rapprochement, if academic parochialism is put aside. A prevalent theme of the book is a moving away from individual elements and individual actors acting upon each other, toward a coordinate hermeneutic dynamics that manifests as a coherent totality. Among the topics covered are image in photography and in neuroscience; language; time; brain and mathematics; quantum brain dynamics and quantum communication.
Caging the Beast
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- A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory Consciousness offers to explain what these conscious sensory states have in common, by virtue of being conscious as opposed to unconscious states. After arguing against accounts of consciousness in terms of higher-order representation of mental states, the theory claims that sensory consciousness is a special way we have of representing the world. The book also introduces a way of thinking about subjectivity as separate and more fundamental than consciousness, and considers how this foundational notion can be developed into more elaborate varieties. An appendix reviews the connection between consciousness and attention with an eye toward providing a neuropsychological instantiation of the proposed theory. (Series A)
The Caldron of Consciousness
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These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from unconscious information processing hinges on the role of motivating emotions in all conscious modalities, and how emotional brain processes interact with those traditionally associated with cognitive function. Computationally registering/processing sensory signals (e.g. in the occipital lobe or area V4) by itself does not result in perceptual consciousness, which requires subcortical structures such as amygdala, hypothalamus, and brain stem. This interdisciplinary anthology attempts to understand the complexity of emotional intentionality; why the role of motivation in self-organizing processes is crucial in distinguishing conscious from unconscious processes; how emotions account for 'agency'; and how an adequate approach to emotion-motivation can address the traditional mind-body problem through a holistic understanding of the conscious, behaving organism.
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Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect
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One of the most important theoretical and empirical issues in the scholarly study of emotion is whether there is a correct list of "basic" types of affect or whether all affective states are better modeled as a combination of locations on shared underlying dimensions. Many thinkers have written on this topic, yet the views of two scientists in particular are dominant. The first is Jaak Panksepp, the father of Affective Neuroscience. Panksepp conceptualizes affect as a set of distinct categories. The leading proponent of the dimensional approach in scientific psychology is James Russell. According to Russell all affect can be decomposed into two underlying dimensions, pleasure versus displeasure and low arousal versus high arousal.
In this volume Panksepp and Russell each articulate their positions on eleven fundamental questions about the nature of affect followed by a discussion of these target papers by noted emotion theorists and researchers. Russell and Panksepp respond both to each other and to the commentators. The discussion leads to some stark contrasts, with formidable arguments on both sides, and some interesting convergences between the two streams of work.
Close Engagements with Artificial Companions
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- What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners – since we know that people became emotionally dependent even on simple devices like the Tamagotchi? How much social life might they have in contacting each other? The contributors to this book discuss the possibility and desirability of some form of long-term computer Companions now being a certainty in the coming years. It is a good moment to consider, from a set of wide interdisciplinary perspectives, both how we shall construct them technically as well as their personal philosophical and social consequences. By Companions we mean conversationalists or confidants – not robots – but rather computer software agents whose function will be to get to know their owners over a long period. Those may well be elderly or lonely, and the contributions in the book focus not only on assistance via the internet (contacts, travel, doctors etc.) but also on providing company and Companionship, by offering aspects of real personalization.
Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind
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- What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example:
• One can rationally accept self-contradictory propositions (e.g.
Smith is a composer and Smith is not a composer). • Psychological states are causally inert: beliefs and desires do nothing.
 • The mind cannot be understood in terms of folk-psychological concepts (e.g. belief, desire, intention).
 • One can have a single concept without having any others: an otherwise conceptless creature could grasp the concept of justice or of the number seven.
 • Thoughts are sentence-tokens, and thought-processes are driven by the syntactic, not the semantic, properties of those tokens.

In the first half of Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind, John-Michael Kuczynski argues that these implausible but widely held views are direct consequences of a popular doctrine known as content-externalism, this being the view that the contents of one's mental states are constitutively dependent on facts about the external world. Kuczynski shows that content-externalism involves a failure to distinguish between, on the one hand, what is literally meant by linguistic expressions and, on the other hand, the information that one must work through to compute the literal meanings of such expressions.
The second half of the present work concerns the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Underlying CTM is an acceptance of conceptual atomism – the view that a creature can have a single concept without having any others – and also an acceptance of the view that concepts are not descriptive (i.e. that one can have a concept of a thing without knowing of any description that is satisfied by that thing). Kuczynski shows that both views are false, one reason being that they presuppose the truth of content-externalism, another being that they are incompatible with the epistemological anti-foundationalism proven correct by Wilfred Sellars and Laurence Bonjour. Kuczynski also shows that CTM involves a misunderstanding of terms such as "computation", "syntax", "algorithm" and "formal truth"; and he provides novel analyses of the concepts expressed by these terms. (Series A)
Consciousness & Emotion
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The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational activity, for the purpose of maintaining a dynamical continuity of pattern across changes of subserving micro-constituents and environmental conditions, making use of multiple shunt mechanisms, feedback loops, and other complex dynamical features. Self-organizational structure is used to distinguish between action and mere reaction. Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues:
I. Emotional influences on perception and thought
II. Agency and choice
III. Agency and moral value
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When I first stumbled across the photographs of Bobbie Hanvey, I thought I had found an undiscovered master — perhaps another sort of Vivian Maier. My heart skipped a beat. But when I dug a little deeper, I realized that he was quite well-known in Northern Ireland, where he has been documenting the culture in photos and audio for more than 35 years. Only recently, however, has his work become available to a wider audience.
Bringing Bobbie's photographs to America is part of the mission of his son, Steafán Hanvey, a singer/songwriter on tour with a new album, called Nuclear Family, as well as a multimedia presentation showcasing original music alongside his father's work.
When I spoke with him recently, Bobbie Hanvey was quick to say, "I'm not an artist," although the mind-boggling scope of his archive says otherwise.
Since 1977, he's recorded over 1,000 interviews for his radio program, The Ramblin' Man, which airs on Downtown Radio. And Boston College Libraries recently acquired more than 75,000 of his photographs, which capture the political and cultural life of Northern Ireland since the 1970s.
When I called Dr. Robert O'Neill, Burns librarian at Boston College, to talk more about Bobbie Hanvey, he couldn't have been more excited. He first met Bobbie in 2000, and was so impressed with his work that he set about acquiring a vast majority of his archive. Thousands of Hanvey's images are now hosted in the Burns Library collection on Flickr.
"Bobbie Hanvey is extraordinarily talented. He just has an insatiable appetite for photographing" he said. "He put himself at great risk throughout The Troubles covering individuals and scenes that were oftentimes still in the midst of happenings — bombs, explosions, meetings with both sides — he had an incredible ability to win the confidence of everyone from Ian Paisley to the toughest paramilitiaries."
Bobbie Hanvey was born in Northern Ireland in 1945, and his father, a lumberjack, was known for going everywhere with a camera. In 1962, his father gave him his own camera and a microphone, setting the course of Bobbie's life as an award-winning photojournalist and radio interviewer.
Hanvey quit school at 15, because he "thought life was more exciting," and eventually took a job as a psychiatric nurse at Downshire Hospital in Downpatrick. It was there that he taught himself photography and began recording patients as they sung traditional songs. He also traveled and recorded as a folk musician during the 1970s and '80s.
"What's different about him from other photographers is that he seems to have amazing access to people of different classes," said Dr. Pauline Prior, a lecturer in social policy at Queen's University, Belfast, in Northern Ireland.
"He's eccentric, sociable — something you and I would see as ordinary, and he would take a picture and make it extraordinary. You know how artists are," she said.
Arguably, Hanvey's photographic work rivals that of great American photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and even the spot news artist Weegee. He's covered everything and everybody who was significant in Northern Irish life — from ordinary people to police, paramilitaries, poets, playwrights and musicians. He also obsessively covered The Troubles — a time of violent conflict between Loyalists (mostly Protestant) and Republicans (mainly Catholic) between the 1960s and 1988.
Steafán Hanvey was born in the midst of this melee, a few months after Bloody Sunday in 1972. And he grew up in a nontraditional household, where his father both held jam sessions with all types of musicians, and also leaped out of bed at night to photograph explosions and bombings.
"I would hear my dad getting up and running down the stairs, and sometimes he would say, 'Come on with me here,' and he would be on the way to the aftermath of a fire, or a bomb, or an explosion," he said. "Then I would get up the next morning and go to school, and while all my peers had been fast asleep, I'd been out on this adventure. It was very exciting for a young boy to have been exposed to that kind of life."
Steafán started a rock band in the 1980s, has degrees in American studies and international politics, and has since recorded two albums of personal, soulful music. And, bringing the family's creative endeavors full circle, he's now touring America and Canada with his songs and a multimedia presentation called "Look Behind You."
We had long conversations over Skype, email and from a radio studio about the artist's role in society — especially a modern society defined by conflict. Steafán is thoughtful, intelligent and reflective about the culture and family that shaped him, as well as how it has influenced and defined his recent album.
"I'm investigating the notion that art gives order and logic to chaos," he said. "I guess I recently thought of explaining Nuclear Family as it's someone trying to make sense of what surrounding chaos sounds like."
The role of an artist in society can be complicated; and when society itself is complicated — as it has been in Northern Ireland for many years — then the artist's role can be even harder to define. Steafán is looking back at his father's legacy, and examining how creating art in a time of conflict influences both the art and the artist.
"I'm very proud of him ... I think he's very good," said Bobbie. "I think he's carrying on the torch. If he was in the Olympics he'd be carrying the torch for me."
"My dad says, 'Nobody ever leaves Northern Ireland,' and it's true," said Steafán. "It's what's made us who we are. It's made me what I am, and you can leave it, but you are always wanting to go back."
In honor of Father's Day, we have the story of Bobbie and Steafan Hanvey, a father and son from Northern Ireland. Bobbie is a well-known news photographer and broadcaster there, the longtime host of "The Ramblin' Man" radio program.
For over 30 years, in photographs and radio interviews, Bobbie Hanvey has documented life in Northern Ireland. He's captured the faces of poets and priests, inventors and distillers, scholars and Ireland's gypsies - even the homes of Irish ghosts.
WERTHEIMER: His subjects also include some of the turbulent events and polarizing figures of The Troubles: the period of violent upheaval in Northern Ireland's recent past.
MONTAGNE: As a young boy, Steafan Hanvey tagged along with his father to early-morning scenes of violence - the aftermath of bus-bombings and arson-attacks - as well as marches, protests and funerals.
WERTHEIMER: The son is now grown up and an accomplished musician. Ahead of Father's Day, both men spoke to NPR's Coburn Dukehart. With music from Steafan Hanvey, here is their story.
STEAFAN HANVEY: Everybody used to ask me, you know, do you want to be like your daddy when you grow up? From a very early age, I got the impression that, you know, this was somebody very important. My name is Steafan Hanvey. I'm from Down Patrick in County Down, Northern Ireland.
: Bobbie Hanvey, Down Patrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. Living through Northern Ireland in The Troubles was a very nervous time. The fact that I was taking photographs of The Troubles and recording the people involved in The Troubles, it did keep me sane because it gave me something else to think about other than myself.
: I used to listen to the radio all the time. I had a scanner, and I used to end up in places before the police even got there.
STEAFAN HANVEY: I would hear my dad getting up and running down the stairs. And sometimes, you know, if I heard him, I would meet him in the stairs and he'd say, come on with me here. He'd be out on the way to the aftermath of a fire or a bomb - you know, an explosion that had gone off.
STEAFAN HANVEY: It was exciting, you know. And then I would get up the next morning and go to school. And while all my peers had been sound asleep dreaming, I'd been out on this adventure, you know?
STEAFAN HANVEY: He's an accomplished photographer, radio celebrity, character, eccentric and...
: I'm not eccentric.
STEAFAN HANVEY: I was being polite.
STEAFAN HANVEY: I think you're chosen, really, by whatever it is that drives you. In my father's case, his mode of expression was the microphone and the camera. And mine is through singing and writing songs. There's a catharsis involved, of course, in creating all of those things.
STEAFAN HANVEY: I think he is an artist.
: No, I'm not an artist. No.
STEAFAN HANVEY: It's my turn.
: Art is something that is - it's a repackaging thing and a sanitizing thing, a part of history that wasn't very nice. And it makes it more acceptable to people later on. You know, I just think that they're just photographs of a time that happened, and I was there. I was - if you like, it was like being a sniper. You look through the camera the same way as a sniper looks through a gun. You press the shutter, he presses the trigger, and you hope to get something. You know, I don't think there's much else involved to it. I think it's mainly mechanical. There's no way I could call it art.
: Steafan has come through it all right. He's learned the guitar. He can sing great. He can write good songs. I think he's carrying on the torch. If he was in the Olympics, he'd be carrying the torch for me. You live as long as you have to live, and I reckon that I've got five to seven years left. But I really had a great time here in Northern Ireland.
WERTHEIMER: Photographer and radio host Bobbie Hanvey, with his son, Steafan.
MONTAGNE: Steafan Hanvey is now touring the U.S. with his father's work, a show called "Look Behind You: A Father and Son's Impression of Northern Ireland through Photograph and Song." You can see them together, discussing their work, at NPR.org.
THE CORRIB FOLK: (singing) I am a ramblin' Irish man. And Ulster I was born in, and many's a happy hours I spent... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Few plants can liven up a winter day like the amaryllis. The large pink, white, red, orange, and variegated flowers are truly spectacular.
A member of the lily family, the amaryllis rises from a large bulb. The growth habit makes it well suited for blooming during the colder months of the year.
That special someone you are looking to meet up with under the mistletoe this holiday season apparently is not the only thing out there waiting for a "kiss."
An insect called a "kissing bug" has made local news stories over the past couple of weeks that may have made the thought of kissing a little unsettling. Thank you to those who have shared the stories with me. Let us take a moment to learn a little more about kissing bugs.
Kentucky 4-H is one of the most important and influential youth programs in our state and our county. Across Kentucky over 238,000 youth ages 9 to 19 learn about leadership, citizenship and life skills in "learn-by-doing" experiences such as communications and public speaking,through agriculture projects like livestock judging, science projects with robotics, 4-H camp, Teen Conference, and many other 4-H programs and activities.
Developing ideas for creative holiday gifts or making them is an enjoyable, economical way to remember friends and family members during the upcoming season.
A babysitting gift certificate may be one of the best gifts a young mother receives, especially if she has infants and very young children. Several hours of babysitting will enable her to enjoy some free time.
If there's a handyman or gardener in your household, give elderly friends and relatives certificates for home repairs and yard work they may be unable to do.
Holidays can bring joy and fun especially to children. Children always look forward to receiving presents, often times costly and unnecessary ones. Sometimes our children are more concerned about the presents they want to get and forget the true meaning of the holidays — shared time and enriching experiences.
Here are a few tips for parents to help their children look beyond all of the seasonal product-driven marketing:
Applications are now available for the 2015 Carroll County Agricultural Investment Program (CAIP) at the Carroll County Conservation District Office, 1804 Highland Avenue, Carrollton or the Carroll County Extension Office.
All applications must be into the Conservation District Office by Dec. 18 at 4:30 p.m.
Office hours for the Conservation District are as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday– 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Wednesday – 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The holidays are quickly approaching, and with them, the season of great eating. Soon, you'll have more turkey and dressing than you'll know what to do with.
It's a great idea to save your Thanksgiving leftovers, as it stretches your holiday food dollars and provides quick meals for your family. Leftovers must be stored and reheated safely to prevent foodborne illnesses. Follow these tips to ensure your leftovers are safe to eat:
As you walk into my office, you may notice my little farm animal figurines on the shelf. I have just about every species of farm animal covered: beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, goats, donkeys, alpacas, poultry, rabbit, and the list goes on. These little guys come in real handy when I am not able to bring in the real thing, especially to a classroom.
They are the easiest animals to take care of because they barely eat a thing and manure management is a breeze (wink, wink).
It is that time of year again to get ready for the 4-H country ham project. By Dec. 1, those interested in the 4-H Country Ham project must let me know so that the number can be sent to the University of Kentucky.
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While my pizza was my barbecue team's best showing at a grilling competition a couple weekends ago, our pecan-stuffed apples also got us a call in ninth place in the apple dessert category. While I watched other teams turn in elaborate apple tarts and cakes done on the grill, I thought we wouldn't break the top ten, so our placing was a bit of surprise—one that I credit a lot this incredible caramel sauce.
In considering what to do for a grilled apple dessert, I wanted to showcase the apples in a simple fashion, but also play up the dish to appease the sweet teeth of the judges. The brown-sugar and pecan stuffing primarily did this, but I thought adding a little extra something couldn't hurt, and hunted down a nice looking caramel sauce recipe to accomplish that goal.
Not being adept at candy making, I thought this recipe sounded simple, delicious, and relatively foolproof, all which were proven correct as I assembled the sauce with ease by boiling sugar to a deep amber, then adding in heavy cream, butter, and vanilla.
A rich and sugary treat, this caramel sauce was the perfect addition for our stuffed apples—but better yet, I still have half a jar left to dress ice cream, cakes, and any other sweet my heart desires to make even better.


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Eileen Klosterman Herman, 92
Eileen Klosterman Herman, 92, of 304 N. Wayne St., St. Marys, died at 1:20 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, at her residence.
She was born on Feb. 12, 1919, in Montezuma, to Frank and Adelaide (Borgert) Klosterman, and they preceded her in death.
On Nov. 29, 1945, she married Eugene T. Herman of Celina, after his safe return from Europe and World War II. Eugene preceded her in death in 2002.
She is survived by nine children, Jeralyn (Jack) Howley of Dallas, Texas, Jacquelyn (Steve) Guy of Englewood, Jane Miars of St. Marys, Robert (Mary) Herman of Englewood, Craig (Arlene) Herman of Traverse City, Mich., Jonathan Herman of St. Marys, Judith Gillespie of Sugarland, Texas, Jill (Greg) Pfenning of Martin, Tenn., and Julie (Lino) Bovenzi of Dayton; 23 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a brother, Lester (Lee) Klosterman of Greenville; two brothers-in-law, George Lucas of Ogelsby, Ill., and Paul Herman of Celina; two sisters-in-law, Eileen Wooles of Kettering and Joanne Straubinger of Tallahassee, Fla.
She was preceded in death by three children, Jyneen Folck, Thomas Herman and Janet Herman; a grandson, Ian Howley; her sister, Rita Lucas; three brothers, Ivo Klosterman, Elmer (Irene) Klosterman and Gene (Illa) Klosterman.
Eileen graduated from Coldwater High School in 1937. She went to Dayton's Good Samaritan Nursing School and graduated as a registered nurse in 1940.
She worked as an RN for approximately one year out of Montezuma, taking care of relatives. Then she worked for Gibbons Hospital in Celina for one year.
She then took a job for three years for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company during World War II as a plant nurse. Eileen worked part-time as an RN for 19 years for the Valley nursing home and then retired.
Eileen was a very busy homemaker with the 12 children through the years. She was an accomplished cook and seamstress, making many of the girls' clothes. For a time she enjoyed quilting and making rag rugs. She would play her piano to relax when she could find the time until her arthritis worsened in her 80's.
Eileen was a gentle soul who always put everyone's needs above her own. In later years, she became a nurse again in her home, taking care of her husband who became ill after suffering a series of strokes.
She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, where all of her kids went to school before going on to high school at Memorial High School.
Eileen enjoyed her family and loved watching the grandchildren grow up. She enjoyed fishing at Grand Lake St. Marys and at Lake Erie or any lake where the fish were biting. She especially liked gardening and working in the yard.
In recent years, Eileen was homebound and enjoyed watching EWTN to fulfill her need to be an active Catholic and good example to her family.
Eileen was very saddened by the deteriorating condition of Grand Lake St. Marys and hoped that things would change for the better so that her kids and grandchildren could continue to enjoy the lake.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, with the Rev. Tony Cutcher officiating.
Burial rites will follow at Gethsemane Cemetery in St. Marys.
Friends and family may call from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Miller-Long and Folk Funeral Home, 314 High St., St. Marys. A vigil service will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be directed to Holy Rosary Catholic School or to Grand Lake Hospice.


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Tributes to Cambridgeshire police officer killed in five vehicle collision on the A141
PUBLISHED: 10:09 09 June 2014
A woman killed in a collision at Wyton on Friday was a serving police officer with Cambridgeshire Police
Detective Constable Sharon Garrett, 48, died after the Renault Clio she was driving was involved in a collision with two other cars and two lorries on the A141 at 4.35pm.
The driver of one of the lorries, a 26-year-old man from King's Lynn, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He was interviewed and has been bailed pending further enquiries.
DC Garrett joined Cambridgeshire Constabulary in 1991 and served in a number of roles across the force, most recently investigating complex fraud offences in the Economic Crime Unit.
She leaves her husband, Adrian, who is also a serving Cambridgeshire police officer and their two children.
Chief Constable Simon Parr said: "Detective Constable Sharon Garrett was an exceptional police officer and will be truly missed by all of the many friends and colleagues who she had within the constabulary.
"The death of Sharon in such tragic circumstances is so incredibly sad. My condolences and heartfelt sympathy go to her husband, children and immediate family but also to the many friends and colleagues who will feel the loss of such an exceptional person."
PC James Thorne, investigating, said: "I would appeal to anyone who witnessed the collision, or who saw any of the vehicles prior to it, to call police."
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adrianus wrote:Hi Boban
I am wondering if these sentences are your school homework, by any chance, which will be marked by a teacher? Are they?
Salve Boban
Demiror an forsitan hae sententiae pensum tuum domesticum scholâ est, quod à magistro notabitur? Estne?
Boban wrote: ??? - if someone can tell me Latin translation for word "all"
petitor wrote:Salve Boban,Boban wrote: ??? - if someone can tell me Latin translation for word "all"
"omnium", as in "omnium marium"
must be in plural genitive to agree with "marium"
adrianus wrote:Apologies, Boban. I left school many years ago, too, and I too am learning Latin from schoolbooks (mainly 17th century ones but more recent ones as well).
Well, I can only admire how patiently and carefully you work, Boban. What motivates you to learn Latin?
You know, Boban, of course, that Latin once had a locative case that it keeps only for a few words. By the way, tell me, Boban, does Serbian have diacritics for long vowels like Lithuanian, and under what circumstances do you stress a final syllable in Serbian (if at all)?Boban wrote:Serbian has 7 cases as opposed to 6 Latin cases, only difference is that ablative is divided in Serbian to two cases, instrumental and locative
adrianus wrote:and the stress of a final syllable in Serbian?
et vis Serbicè syllabae ultimae?
adrianus wrote:That's the bit that interests me, Boban.
adrianus wrote:That's the bit that interests me, Boban. Ecce quod mihi interest.Boban wrote:it's more complicated than that
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(Nick Offerman's Great Moments in Moustache History, via Made Man)
For most of you, Movember needs no introduction. For the rest of you, listen up: Every November (henceforth referred to as "Movember"), millions of men around the world grow out their moustaches in order to raise awareness for men's health issues including prostate and testicular cancer, as well as mental health issues. These mo'd men — along with the female "Mo Sistas" in their lives — act as advocates and fundraisers, and have raised $446 million since the annual event's inception in 2003. You can learn more about the cause at us.movember.com.
In the past, CagePotato has done its part to spread the word and collect cash. This year, we're supporting our friends at Made Man, who are going all-friggin'-out for Movember awareness with a month's worth of high-quality moustache-related content, including a grooming guide, a high-stakes man-cation contest, and live events. Swing by Made Man's Movember HQ page today to check out their latest updates, and donate a few bucks to the Mo'ed Men fundraising team right here.
If you want to join the fight this year, register at us.movember.com, be sure to shave your grubby face on November 1st, tell your friends/family/co-workers why you're doing it, and if you're feeling really ambitious, start your own mo'nation team to collect funds for Movember. (What up, Karma!) Thanks for listening.


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Socket.Receive Method (Generic IList, SocketFlags)
Assembly: System (in system.dll)
[CLSCompliantAttribute(false)] public int Receive ( IList<ArraySegment<byte>> buffers, SocketFlags socketFlags )
/** @attribute CLSCompliantAttribute(false) */ public int Receive ( IList<ArraySegment<byte>> buffers, SocketFlags socketFlags )
CLSCompliantAttribute(false) public function Receive ( buffers : IList<ArraySegment<byte>>, socketFlags : SocketFlags ) : int
- buffers
A list of ArraySegments of type Byte that contains the received data.
- socketFlags
A bitwise combination of the SocketFlags values.
Return ValueThe number of bytes received.
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buffers is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
buffers.Count is zero.
An error occurred while attempting to access the socket. See the Remarks section for more information.
The Socket has been closed.
This method reads data into the buffers parameter and returns the number of bytes successfully read. You can call from both connection-oriented and connectionless sockets.
This overload requires you to provide one or more receive buffers. The SocketFlags value defaults to None.
If you are using a connection-oriented protocol, you must either call Connect to establish a remote host connection, or Accept to accept an incoming connection prior to calling Receive. The Receive method will only read data that arrives from the remote host connection established in the Connect or Accept method. If you are using a connectionless protocol, you can also use the ReceiveFrom method. ReceiveFrom will allow you to receive data arriving from any host.
If no data is available for reading, the Receive method will block until data is available, unless a time-out value was set by using Socket.ReceiveTimeout. If the time-out value was exceeded, the Receive call throws a SocketException. If you are in non-blocking mode, and there is no data available in the in the protocol stack buffer, the Receive method will complete immediately and throw a SocketException. You can use the Available property to determine if data is available for reading. When Available is non-zero, retry the receive operation.
If you are using a connection-oriented Socket, the Receive method will read as much data as is available, up to the size of the buffer. If the remote host shuts down the Socket connection with the Shutdown method, and all available data has been received, the Receive method will complete immediately and return zero bytes.
If you are using a connectionless Socket, Receive will read the first enqueued datagram from the destination address you specify in the Connect method. If the datagram you receive is larger than the size of the buffers parameter, buffers gets filled with the first part of the message, the excess data is lost and a SocketException is thrown.
If you receive a SocketException, use the SocketException.ErrorCode property to obtain the specific error code. After you have obtained this code, refer to the Windows Sockets version 2 API error code documentation in the MSDN library for a detailed description of the error.
This member outputs trace information when you enable network tracing in your application. For more information, see Network Tracing.
The following code example demonstrates how to receive data on a connected Socket.
// Build the buffers for the receive. List<ArraySegment<byte>> recvBuffers = new List<ArraySegment<byte>>(2); byte[] bigBuffer = new byte[1024]; // Specify the first buffer segment (2 bytes, starting // at the 4th element of bigBuffer) recvBuffers.Add(new ArraySegment<byte> (bigBuffer, 4, 2)); // Specify the second buffer segment (500 bytes, starting // at the 20th element of bigBuffer) recvBuffers.Add(new ArraySegment<byte> (bigBuffer, 20, 500)); int bytesReceived = mySocket.Receive(recvBuffers); Console.WriteLine("{0}", ASCII.GetString(bigBuffer));
- SocketPermission for accepting connections from the network. Associated enumeration: Accept.
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
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Short Interest Rises On Brokers Amid Libor Scandal
The percentage of ICAP and GFI Groupes on loan rose this week as the role of unnamed interdealer brokers in alleged attempts to manipulate the London interbank offered rate or "Libor" came into focus. Such measures are used as a way to gauge how much investors are seeking to short sell a stock, or bet on a decline.
UBS settled with key regulators for $1.5 billion Wednesday in a settlement that cited communications with certain unnamed brokers that regulators said were involved in attempts to fix Libor. In settlement documents, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said a "senior yen trader used at least three manipulative strategies" including "wrongfully [inducing] at least five interdealer brokers to assist with his manipulative scheme."
The percentage of ICAP's shares on loan is now 5%, up from 4.8% last week, according to Markit Securities Finance, while shares of GFI on loan now stand at 1.7%, up from 1.3% last week. The average percentage of shares on loan for the financial sector is 3.3%, according to the Markit unit.
"A very plausible reason for the rising short interest in [brokers] is the downside risk associated with the Libor investigation, and specifically the allegations arising out of the UBS revelations," said Craig Pirrong, professor of finance at the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.
Neither broker was named in the regulatory probes. Spokespeople for ICAP and GFI declined comment.
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The union told the School Department in a letter that it was "dismayed" the department would impose the new system on Sept. 4 without the union's consent and said it may pursue the matter with the state Department of Labor Relations.
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Nathalie Normandeau came prepared. Appearing relaxed and confident, Quebec's former deputy premier and minister of municipal affairs began her testimony before the Charbonneau Commission on Wednesday morning, and it was clear that she had done her homework.
Nathalie Normandeau unflinching in defence of her decisions during Charbonneau questioning
MONTREAL — She knew her chief of staff was friends with an executive at a powerful engineering firm that did business with the province, but not that the two were "like family."
She knew the Quebec Liberal Party engaged in sectoral financing — approaching engineering firms and asking for donations from their employees — but not that the companies were illegally reimbursing those donations.
She knew executives from those same engineering firms attended her political fundraisers in hopes of earning favours down the line, but she never gave them what they wanted.
In the end, the highly anticipated testimony of former deputy-premier Nathalie Normandeau on Wednesday boiled down to series of half-admissions. After three years out of the spotlight, Normandeau appeared to have lost none of her political savvy — strongly denouncing the alleged wrongdoing that went on under her watch but stopping short of admitting that she was involved in that wrongdoing.
Appearing relaxed and confident, Normandeau came armed with plenty of notes and was unflinching in her defence of the decisions she made during her time in the Liberal cabinet. She confirmed that she increased provincial subsidies on 32 municipal projects against the advice of her staff, but noted that the 32 files represented just a small fraction of the 708 subsidized projects that she signed off on during her time as municipal affairs minister.
Every one of those subsidies was justified, the former MNA for Bonaventure said, adding that in certain situations her discretionary power to increase provincial funding was the only thing that allowed a municipality to complete a project.
That power was "a counterbalance to the power of civil servants," she explained, "and it needs to be used with discretion, judgment and common sense."
Asked if she ever pressured her staff to move a project ahead more quickly, Normandeau said she may have spoken to them about certain files "with the expectation of a positive response."
"I don't call that pressure. I call that doing my job as minister."
By 11 a.m., Normandeau had barely broken a sweat on the stand. But as the day wore on, the questions got tougher.
Initially very calm, the witness became increasingly animated — even indignant — as inquiry chief counsel Sonia LeBel began asking her about fundraising activities and her former chief of staff, Bruno Lortie.
Normandeau said she placed enormous trust in Lortie, and that she always believed him to be "rigorous, competent, and hardworking." But testimony heard in recent weeks at the inquiry has cast doubt on her view of her former right-hand man, she noted, and it has become clear that he had a close relationship with former MNA-turned engineering firm consultant Marc-Yvan Côté.
"I knew they were close. I did not know they were that close," Normandeau told the commissioners, adding that if Lortie was funnelling information to Côté's employer, Roche, then it was "inexcusable."
"I would have fired him on the spot. … I hope Mr. Lortie did not betray my trust."
Normandeau described the use of straw-man donors to circumvent Quebec's political financing rules as "revolting" and "a perversion."
While sectoral financing was a common practice in provincial politics, Normandeau testified, she had no reason to suspect the money flowing in from individual donors was actually coming from the companies that employed them. Between 1998 and 2011, employees of the four largest engineering firms in the Gaspé region contributed over $76,000 to Normandeau's local riding association. Roche's employees were by far the most generous, the inquiry heard, and became more generous after she was named minister of municipal affairs in 2005.
Confronted with the numbers, the witness called them "troubling," but maintained that she never granted favours or subsidies in exchange for political donations.
"I always built a wall between my role as a Liberal party member and my duties as a minister," Normandeau said repeatedly. She denied that she had any kind of relationship with construction boss Lino Zambito (who famously sent her 40 roses on her 40th birthday) and acknowledged that should not have accepted tickets to a Céline Dion concert from Zambito in 2008.
Before being dismissed, the former deputy-premier thanked Justice France Charbonneau for giving her the opportunity to address the inquiry.
"For two years, my honesty and integrity have been questioned," Normandeau said, adding that she was happy to provide her version of the facts.
Officials at the Charbonneau Commission have not released the name of the next witness.
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Keep Your Subsidies off My Ovaries
The pro-choice argument against health care reform.
This week, the Senate finance committee is considering amendments that would bar coverage of abortions under federally subsidized health insurance. Pro-choice groups are up in arms. After all, says NARAL Pro-Choice America, "In the current insurance marketplace, private plans can choose whether to cover abortion care—and most do." If Congress enacts subsidies that exclude abortion, "women could lose coverage for abortion care, even if their private health-insurance plan already covers it!" The organization urges lawmakers to "vote against any plan that takes coverage for abortion away from women who already have it in their private insurance plans."
At the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the message is the same: Pro-life meddlers "will not stop until access to abortion is completely eliminated—even in private insurance plans, the vast majority of which currently cover abortion." The fund concludes, "If we don't act now, women may find themselves worse off after health care reform passes than they are now." Ditto from the Center for Reproductive Rights: "Today, most private insurers offer abortion coverage, and it is critical that no healthcare bill backslide from the current state of affairs." If plans that cover abortion can't be subsidized, the center warns, "millions of women would … lose the benefits they already have."
The argument these groups make is perfectly logical: If you standardize health insurance through federal subsidies and coverage requirements, people might lose benefits they used to enjoy in the private sector. But that's more than an argument against excluding abortion. It's an argument against health care reform altogether.
The nuances of the abortion-coverage fight can be tricky, but the core of the problem is simple. Each side is willing to accept a compromise in which no federal tax dollars fund abortion. Pro-choicers have one definition of what this means: Federal money can subsidize any insurance plan, as long as the insurer doesn't use these subsidies to directly cover abortions. Pro-lifers have a more strenuous definition: Federal money can't subsidize any plan that covers abortions, since the insurer would simply take the money with one hand while writing abortion checks with the other. In a private insurance market, each side could stick to its own principles and interpretations. But a socialized market throws them together. To get what they consider neutrality, pro-choicers have to make pro-lifers pay indirectly for abortions. And to keep what they consider clean hands, pro-lifers have to make abortion coverage federally unsupportable and therefore, in a subsidy-dependent system, commercially nonviable.
So the left's argument against abortion exclusion is the right's argument against socialization. And this is no fluke. For 25 years, the central message of the abortion rights movement has been libertarian. In Arkansas, where the message was originally refined for conservative voters, it was explicitly linked to guns and desegregation: "The government is threatening to take away our right to own a gun and telling us where to send our children to school, and now they want to say that women can't have abortions—even if they're raped."
Does this left-right linkage matter today? To put it concretely: Will the uprising against government meddling in abortion coverage strengthen the uprising against government meddling in health insurance? We already know the answer, because we've seen this movie before. In 1993, President Clinton tried to subsidize and standardize health insurance. The proposal was different, but the same fight erupted over abortion coverage, and pro-choice groups made the same libertarian argument. "Politicians and strangers do not have the right to choose any woman's coverage for her," said a NARAL official. Planned Parenthood's president said Congress shouldn't be allowed to "pick and choose the services that are best for American women." But Clinton's plan was predicated on lawmakers and regulators choosing medical services for which everyone would be insured. The only way to avert this was to kill the whole plan.
And that's what happened. The famous Harry and Louise ads, sponsored by the Health Insurance Association of America, were carbon copies of the pro-choice message on abortion. "The government may force us to pick from a few health care plans designed by government bureaucrats," said one ad. "If we let the government choose, we lose."
What happened to Clinton is now happening to President Obama. "We don't want to turn health care over to a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington, who then will determine what kind of health care we have," says Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. An ad from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation declares, "Government should never come between your family and your doctor." Another ad, aired by the Campaign for Responsible Health Care Reform, concludes, "Expanded government control over your health. Tell Congress: Let's slow down." A third ad, sponsored by Conservatives for Patients' Rights, shows a bow-tied bureaucrat armed with a folder labeled "Federal Health Police." As he steps between a woman and her physician, wagging a scolding finger, the female narrator says:
Today, you make the medical decisions that are best for you, without government interference. But if Congress passes a government-run health plan, you could end up with government bureaucrats taking away your choices, getting in between you and your doctor and your personal medical decisions. It's not too late to put patients first. Say no to government-run health care.
When Clinton launched his health care initiative in September 1993, 38 percent of respondents in an ABC/Washington Post poll said the plan would create too much government involvement in the health care system. That was twice the number who said it wouldn't do enough. By March 1994, the percentage who said the plan entailed too much government involvement was up to 47 percent, triple the number who said it wouldn't do enough. Today, the percentage who say Obama's plan would usher in too much government involvement stands at 45. Just 12 percent say it wouldn't do enough.
The good news, if you're a pro-choice progressive, is that freedom-loving Americans will protect your private abortion coverage. The bad news is that they'll do it by killing health care reform.


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MRI Program Mission & Goals
The mission of the program is to educate MRI students in the knowledge, skills and attitude to become qualified practitioners who provide quality service and care to the community and to prepare students for the changing needs of the profession. Kent State University prepares students for responsible citizenship, broadens intellectual perspectives and fosters ethical and humanitarian values in responding to diverse populations.
Goals of the MRI Program
- Students will successfully complete all academic requirements for the application of knowledge to the practice of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Students will effectively utilize critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills in the practice of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Students will effectively communicate in oral and written form with patients, customers, and all members of the health care team.
- Students will successfully perform Magnetic Resonance Imaging procedures and attain results of high diagnostic value, while providing quality patient care.
- Students will exhibit personal and professional attributes and values relevant to the practice of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.


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AS A SENIOR IN 2007-08: Won the San Francisco Invitational on 9/1 with a time of 17:58 in the 5k ... Placed 7th in the Sundodger Invitational on 9/15 and set a new Santa Clara women's 6k record time with 21:25 ... Placed 9th in the Notre Dame Invitational with a time of 18:09 in the 5k on 9/28 ...
AS A JUNIOR IN 2006-07: Placed 39th in San Francisco Invitational on 9/2 with a 5k time of 19:49.50...Placed 110th in Sundodger Invitational on 9/16 with a 6k time of 23:35...Placed 143rd in Notre Dame Invitational on 9/29 with a 5k time of 20:36...Placed 63rd in Santa Clara Bronco Invitational on 10/14 with a 5k time of 19:04.0...Placed 31st in Shoreline Invitational on 10/21 with a 3.17 mi. time of 19:29.4.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2005-06: Raced in team-leading seven competitions (tied, Shannon Bell) during the season...Best finish was a 13th place showing at Gator Invitational on 10/1 with a 6k time of 24:11...Clocked season-best 6k time of 23:31.1 in 152nd place finish at NCAA West Regional Championships on 11/12...Season-best 5k time of 18:56 came in 32nd place finish at Santa Clara Invitational on 10/15, her best finish at that distance...Finished 35th at WCC Championships on 10/29 with a 5k time of 20:17.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2004-05: Raced in seven competitions during the season... best finish was an 11th-place showing at the Bronco Invitational in a time of 20:08... clocked a 5k time of 19:26 at the Fresno State Invitational... ran a season-best time 19:05 at the Willamette Invitational... finished 16th at the West Coast Conference Championships with a time of 19:15...placed 143rd at the NCAA West Regional with a time of 23:45. Click here to view her track results.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2004 graduate of Cleveland High School in Portland, Ore... coached by Kent Siebold... helped lead team to its first ever state championship appearance... two-time team captain and most improved... also two-time All-League selection... also member of the track team... recorded personal bests of 5:02 in the 1,500-meters, 11:12 in the 3,000-meters and 19:08 in the 5K... given school's scholar athlete award three times.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Dennis and Kay Puetz, who both attended Portland State... enjoys camping, laughing and hanging out with friends... major is undeclared.


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In June 2000, the British Library launched the Guilford Project to produce a modern catalogue of the whole Guilford collection held in the Department of Manuscripts. The new catalogue will make the contents of the collection far more accessible to scholars than ever before: it will be available in print and on a website, and its publication will be accompanied by a series of lectures and seminars.
Statue of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, Corfu. (by permission of the Corfu Information Centre).
Project Scope
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford was the third and youngest son of Lord North, Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782. An enthusiastic and eccentric devotee of Greek and Italian culture - like his contemporary, Lord Byron - he unexpectedly inherited the earldom in 1817, following the early deaths of his two elder brothers. In his youth, North studied at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and from 1792 to 1794 he represented Banbury in the House of Commons, but he lived much of his life abroad. Owing to ill health, he spent most of his childhood in continental health resorts and as an adult he travelled widely in Europe and the Near East. He was also Secretary of State to the Viceroy of Corsica (1795-96) and Governor-General of Ceylon (1798-1805). From 1815, Guilford ardently promoted his scheme for the foundation of an Ionian university and in 1824 he became the first chancellor when the university was inaugurated on Corfu. He remained a very generous patron of the university until his death in 1827, at the age of 61.
Throughout his life, Guilford devoted much energy to his large collection of printed books and manuscripts, which reflected his fascination with Greek and Italian culture. After his death, the library was broken up and sold in seven sales between 1828 and 1835. At the sale in 1835 the British Museum bought 627 modern Greek printed books and 43 oriental manuscripts, supplementing its purchase of many thousands of items at the main auction of Guilford's manuscripts in December 1830. These manuscript volumes - some of which include considerable numbers of printed items (no. 7) - are now Add. MSS 8220-8823. They form by far the largest surviving single group of Guilford's manuscripts, a group augmented by significant subsequent acquisitions. The core of the collection is a large number of early modern manuscripts relating to Italian history and European diplomacy, with particular emphasis on Venice and the Papacy (no. 6). The collection also includes medieval and Greek manuscripts (nos. 2-4), as well as groups of manuscripts relating to science (no. 4) and the arts, especially Italian poetry (no. 5).
The volumes were listed very briefly in only 14 pages of the Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts 6666-10018. The Guilford Project will describe and index all the manuscripts in the collection in line with modern standards, making their contents fully accessible for the first time. 60% of the manuscripts will be catalogued by the externally-funded Project Officer. The remainder will be divided between curators in the Department of Manuscripts and two Italian specialists from Early Printed Collections who will catalogue all the volumes containing printed items.


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Global Views
Share cultural experiences with Penn State students and faculty participating in our global programs, through their eyes and camera lenses. Our programs draw students from all over the world, and international enrollment continues to increase.
The 2012 Global Perspectives Photography Contest, sponsored by the University Office of Global Programs, invited Penn State students, faculty, and staff to submit photos taken abroad, and the results are in! The winning photographs ranged from landscapes of red dunes in the Namib Desert to snapshots of the crowded Chengdu East Railway Station to Arctic wildlife roaming icebergs. Photographs were judged according to four categories: "People," "Places," "Culture," and "Me Abroad," along with an overall "Best of Show" category. For each category, the judges recognized an American student, an international student, and a faculty/staff member's photograph. Congratulations to all winners and all who participated!
The photos you see here are examples of the global experiences Penn State offers. We are ranked 12th in the nation for its international student enrollment, the University's highest ranking ever, contributing to a national all-time high in international educational exchange, according to the Institute of International Education's annual Open Doors report released November 12, 2012.
A total of 6,075 international students were enrolled in 2012 at University Park and 6,621 University-wide, accounting for more than $187 million in economic impact on Pennsylvania in tuition, fees and living expenses, according to NASFA: Association of International Educators, annual Economic Impact Statement. Penn State edged out the University of Pennsylvania for the first time and leads the state in attracting international students.
"It is exciting to see that the collective efforts of our faculty and staff, aimed at expanding our global reach is yielding positive results," said Michael Adewumi, vice provost for Global Programs. "We continue to register significant increases in number of international students on our campuses, earning us recognition as a national leader in attracting the best and brightest students from many countries to Penn State."
Penn State also ranked 11th in the nation for the number of students participating in Education Abroad opportunities.
"We are pleased to see the number of Education Abroad participants at University Park hold steady, but we sent a total of 2,677 students from across the state abroad during the 2010-11 academic year," said Barbara Rowe, executive director of Education Abroad for the University Office of Global Programs. "We offer more than 200 opportunities around the world for a variety of costs and duration to help more students gain a global experience."
Photo at top of page: Penn State student Jane Hargrave, who studied in Istanbul, Turkey, helps to guide a herd of goats to pasture during a two‐week farm stay in the village of Yakakoy, located in Turkey's Aegean region. Winner, Me Abroad category, Education Abroad
Photographer: Cem Aybek


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Press release 195/2013
13 September 2013
Donor countries and international organisations are meeting in Brussels on Monday,16 September 2013 for a high-level Somalia conference. The conference is due to announce a joint set of principles specifying the key priorities and goals for the delivery of aid to Somalia over the next three years. Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala will tell the conference that as of 2014, Finland will be doubling its aid to Somalia.
Somalia has seen important advances in its political development, but the security situation in the country remains highly fragile. The aim of the meeting will be to improve cooperation between the Somalian government and donor agencies and to find ways of ensuring that the aid reaches its intended recipients and that is has a tangible benefit to the country's development. Key issues on the conference agenda include Somalia's political development, the country's social and economic reconstruction as well as its rule of law development and security situation.
Finnish assistance to Somalia has amounted to some nine million euros a year, consisting of humanitarian aid, bilateral projects and support for NGOs. Finland has now decided to almost double its aid to Somalia as of 2014. If reliable international funding channels can be set up as planned, Finland can move to increase its aim volume very quickly.
Minister Hautala visited Somalia in April 2013 together with Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja. As well as providing first hand information about the situation in Somalia, this visit offered an excellent opportunity to support the Somalian government in its efforts to push forward with its development plans.
In connection with the conference Minister Hautala will hold bilateral talks with Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Additional information: Milma Kettunen, Press Attaché to Minister Hautala, tel. + 358 40 522 9869


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The US Patent & Trademark Office held its hearing on Creating Transparency in Ownership of Patents & Patent Applications today at UC Hastings.
Testimony provided by Robin Feldman, Professor of Law & Director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings is reprinted here and highlights of key points are summarized below:
"To put it simply," writes Feldman, "shell games and hide-and-seek rarely make for an efficiently functioning market."
Commending the USPTO for its revised proposals and noting that they are "a much needed effort to strike at the heart of transparency problems," Professor Feldman suggested tightening three areas of the proposed rules that could allow patent holders to evade the regulation. (The full testimony provides examples of current patent owners and how the rules might fail.)
"In short, patents are imbued with public interest by virtue of the fact that they are a government grant, bestowed only for purposes enshrined in the Constitution itself. As with the trading of public securities, the trading of an asset imbued with the public interest must be sufficiently regulated to ensure proper functioning of that trading market."
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Fia Cold Weather Grille Cover & Bug Screen WF921-12
Winter Cold Front: Promotes better fuel economy, faster engine warm-up, and interior heat. This keeps engines at optimum operating temperatures. All weather heavy-duty quilted vinyl. This has adjustable air flow doors.
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Before the Flyers even acquired goaltender Steve Mason from Columbus before last Wednesday's trade deadline, general manager Paul Holmgren had already contacted Mason's agent about a contract extension.
It didn't take long to finalize one.
The Flyers officially agreed to a 1-year, $1.5 million extension for Mason, who was due to become a restricted free agent this summer.
It's a significant pay cut for Mason, 24, who was due a minimum $3.2 million qualifying offer in the summer. Mason is in the final season of a 2-year, $5.8 million deal. He voluntarily took less with the Flyers, with the hopes of rejuvenating his career and earning back what he is losing.
As Mason hinted, it's no guarantee that the Flyers would have retained his rights at the $3.2 million price. At that point, he would have become an unrestricted free agent and probably signed for somewhere near what he did now. Hence, Mason said he was comfortable "not waiting for it."
"Whether that would have been given to me remains to be seen," Mason said of the non-guaranteed qualifying offer. "My goal is to be the best goaltender that I can be, and in my opinion, that is a No. 1 goaltender. I know that's going to take a lot of work. It's something I'm prepared to do."
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text: Two Detectives. No Clue. "Get A Clue" is a quick-witted comedy/mystery web series that aims to bring together hilarious comedy and story-driven content! Written by & Starring Peter Berube & Jill Slattery "Get A Clue" follows the story of Jack Stone and Lindy Langley, a unlikely pair of private detectives. Jack Stone is a hot-tempered, overly suspicious police academy fail-out with a checkered past. Lindy Langley is an upbeat, childlike girl with a penchant for baking and children's music. Together, Jack & Lindy form "Get A Clue", a detective agency with a knack for attracting offbeat cases and quirky characters.