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This sentence is not from one of the readings but from an exercise
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ἐάν τὰ αὐτά αὖθις ὑπίσχηται, μὴ πιστεύσῃς τῷ ῥέτορι.
the meaning must be "if he again these things promise you will not trust the orator.
However, I would have expected it in the form
ἐάν + subjunctive - future indicative.
but the subjunctive, πιστεύσῃς, is instead in the apodosis. Or maybe things are more flexible that the textbooks have led me to believe?
Finally I can't make out what tense ὑπίσχηται is (clearly it is a 2nd person singular). It looks as if it might be some kind to perfect though Taylor doesn't introduce the perfect until the next chapter.
So what am I missing?


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OREGON HIRES RON AIKEN AS NEW DEFENSIVE LINE COACH; Aiken Arrives In Eugene From Arizona Cardinals
Ron Aiken, who spent the past six years among the most respected defensive line mentors in the NFL while accumulating 23 years of experience as a defensive assistant at the Division I and professional levels, has been named defensive line coach at the University of Oregon, according to the Ducks' head football coach Mark Helfrich.
The 57-year-old South Carolina native replaces Jerry Azzinaro, who left the program to pursue other coaching opportunities.
Aiken joins the Ducks following six seasons as defensive line coach with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (2007-12) and eight years tutoring the defensive line at the University of Iowa (1999-2006).
"Ron Aiken is an icon in the defensive line community," Helfrich said. "His vast experience – coaching in all phases at the high school, college and pro level – will complement our current staff.
"When speaking with former colleagues and players he coached, three words came up every time: fundamentals, respect and character. We are excited to welcome Ron and his wife, Sheryl, into the Oregon family."
During his NFL tenure, he played a role in the development of three-time All-Pro defensive tackle Darnell Dockett, who led the league's interior linemen in quarterback sacks in 2007 (9) and 2009 (7), and tied the franchise record for most sacks in a single season by a defensive tackle the former year.
Aiken also aided in the emergence of defensive end Calais Campbell, who led or shared the team lead in QB takedowns in 2011 (8), 2010 (6) and 2009 (7) before pacing all Arizona linemen in 2012 (6.5).
The Cardinals tied for 11th in the NFL with 38 sacks and were 12th in total defense (337.8 avg.) this past season. They ranked in the upper half of the league in quarterback sacks in five of his six campaigns in Phoenix, including sixth and seventh in the NFL in 2009 (43) and 2011 (42), respectively.
In Aiken's first year at Arizona, it finished ninth in the NFL in rushing defense (97.9 avg.) in 2007 after ranking 16th the previous year.
"This is a great opportunity for me to be at the University of Oregon and to assist with the continuation of the success they have enjoyed here," Aiken said. "Wherever I have coached, my goal has always been to do what I can to help win football games. I love teaching the fundamentals of the game as well as coming up with the schemes that will contribute to the development of young men."
At Iowa, Aiken was honored as the Division I Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association in 2002, helping the Hawkeyes to six straight post-season appearances from 2001-06.
The program ranked among the nation's top eight teams against the run from 2002-04, allowing opponents fewer than 100 yards per game rushing each year, and rated among the top three programs in the Big Ten Conference in rushing defense from 2001-2005.
Iowa ranked fifth in the country in rushing defense in 2002 (81.9 avg.) and 2004 (92.5 avg.), along with seventh in scoring defense (16.2 avg.) and 16th in total defense (314.5 avg.) in 2003, and 11th in total defense (293.8 avg.) and 16th in scoring defense (17.6 avg.) in '04.
During his Iowa City stint he tutored a quintet of future NFL players, including two-time (2006-07) Pro Bowl pick Aaron Kampman (Green Bay) and Jonathan Babineaux, who ranked second in the country in tackles for loss (25) as a collegian in 2004. In addition, he coached one All-American and seven first-team Big Ten all-conference selections in his eight seasons there.
Prior to joining the Hawkeyes, Aiken coached linebackers at San Diego State in 1998, where all three of his linebackers earned all-conference accolades; tutored the defensive tackles at Texas in 1997; worked with the defensive line at Vanderbilt in 1995 and '96; and oversaw the linebackers and defensive ends at New Mexico from 1990-94.
The 1977 graduate of North Carolina A&T broke into the profession as an offensive line coach at Boiling Springs (S.C.) High School that fall before becoming head coach at Greensville County (Va.) High School in 1979.
He migrated to the collegiate ranks as offensive line and special teams coach at Bethany College (Kan.) in 1980 prior to becoming the offensive coordinator at Tarkio (Mo.) College in 1982, spent one season as special team's coordinator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (N.Y.) in 1985, and then served as head coach at Langston (OK) University from 1986-89.
Aiken was an all-conference offensive lineman and 1976 team captain at North Carolina A&T, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history, before receiving a masters in secondary education from The Citadel in 1982.
He and his wife, Sheryl, have three sons – Matthew, Stephen and Joshua.
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The Humane Society of the United States says it's under attack by a new group that's trying to starve it of funding by urging donors to send money to local animal shelters instead.
The society has long been a thorn in the side of some in agriculture with its undercover investigations and campaigns against animal cruelty. It claims the new group is the brainchild of conservative public relations executive Rick Berman, who spearheaded an earlier campaign against it, and that it's supported by big agricultural interests.
Berman won't say who's funding the Humane Society for Shelter Pets.
The new group announced itself two weeks ago with full-page ads in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and New York Times. They show a sad-eyed dog and ask, "Please help shelter pets by donating locally, not to HSUS," and direct people to HumaneForPets.com, where they can find links to local shelters and more information.
Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the HSUS, said he's certain that agribusiness concerns are behind the campaign because he's heard that Berman made the rounds of major trade groups seeking support for it.
"We consider it the highest compliment because it demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're the most effective organization in the field of animal protection, and one that industries that have something to hide are most worried about," Pacelle said.
The HSUS has long campaigned for more humane conditions for farm animals, opposing the use of cramped cages for pregnant sows and egg-laying hens and the slaughter of horses for food. It lobbies Congress and state legislatures and frequently launches ballot initiatives to achieve its goals.
Jeff Douglas, co-director of the Humane Society for Shelter Pets, said his organization was formed simply to educate people who want to donate money to shelters. He said about 650 shelters have expressed support for his group.
"People think that when they give to national organizations like the Humane Society of the United States that the money is being returned to localities, but the reality is only about a penny of every dollar raised by the Humane Society of the United States is returned (to local shelters)," Douglas said.
Pacelle said that's misleading because shelters aren't his group's main mission _ it's an animal welfare advocacy group. But he also said the society has given $43 million in grants to other animal welfare groups over the past four years alone, helps rescue thousands of animals every year and provides training and services to local shelters and rescue groups. HSUS donors understand its role, he said.
It's easy to confuse animal protection groups and shelters because their names often contain the terms "humane society" or "society for the prevention of cruelty." Usually, they're independent.
Although Douglas said his group only wants to help shelters, the dispute highlights the deep rift between HSUS and those who contend its long-term goal is to reduce meat consumption.
Pacelle denies his group is anti-meat, saying it includes everyone from livestock producers to vegetarians. He said HSUS has a history of working with industry, pointing to its efforts leading to last week's announcement by Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer, that it will stop confining pregnant sows in small metal crates by 2017.
Kay Johnson Smith, CEO of the Animal Agriculture Alliance, a nonprofit backed by livestock, poultry and other industry groups, said HSUS has "the same radical agenda" as groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which opposes eating animals. The difference, she said, is that HSUS wants to work incrementally to reach its goal of raising the prices of meat, milk and eggs so they're out of reach to most Americans.
Berman owns the Washington-based public relations firm Berman and Co., which runs the Center for Consumer Freedom. That group operates HumaneWatch, which has kept up a steady stream of attacks on HSUS since it launched early in 2010.
Berman insists the idea for the new effort came from others but said his firm has donated more than 1,000 hours of work to help it get off the ground and is providing free public relations and other services.
Pacelle, however, contends the Human Society for Shelter Pets has been Berman's idea from the start. He provided The Associated Press with a memo he said was leaked by "a source in an animal-use industry" he declined to name. In the memo to big donors, Berman lamented the difficulties he was having in recruiting a suitable leader for a project then called the Humane Society for America's Pets.
But Berman also told them HumaneWatch had been "far more successful than I anticipated in re-branding and re-positioning HSUS among a wide variety of Americans. ... HumaneWatch is having the intended effect of chilling some of the donation stream that HSUS would have expected prior to our campaign."
Berman confirmed he wrote the memo but said Humane Society for America's Pets was a different project that never got off the ground. He said that idea came from supporters of HumaneWatch's message, while HSSP was a later initiative by different people, though he used the same corporate shell.
He also said he refunded donations for the first project to contributors who wanted them back, but others agreed to let their money be used for similar purposes.
Neither Berman nor Douglas would disclose who's funding HSSP. Its IRS filing for 2010, prepared by a Berman accountant, lists donations of more than $1.2 million, including 11 of $50,000, one of $100,000 and one of $300,000. Berman said he wasn't one of them. Douglas said the money came from "foundations and organizations that are involved in the pet industry." He said he didn't know if any were involved in agriculture.
"We never tell anyone who contributes to any of the organizations that I'm connected with," Berman said. "Just as the Humane Society does not disclose its donors."
Pacelle said Berman's efforts are backfiring.
"I'm happy to say that our budget has grown substantially during the period of Berman's campaign," he said.
Humane Society for Shelter Pets: http://www.humaneforpets.com
Humane Society of the United States: http://www.humanesociety.org
HumaneWatch: http://humanewatch.org
Berman Exposed: http://www.bermanexposed.org


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BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – In their first dual match of the season, the King University turned in a road victory over Bluefield State College. The Tornado won all three doubles matches before taking the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 6 singles matches for their first victory of the year.
Freshmen Katya Cerny and Ashley Salazar turned in an 8-5 win at No. 1 doubles to get the day started. Naomi Reyes and partner Alyssa Salazar followed suit with an 8-6 win at the No. 2 flight while Claudia Morris and Haley Maloney made it clean sweep with an 8-4 win at No. 3 doubles.
In singles play, Ashley Salazar won the first set 6-1 over Marijana Giorgievska at No. 1 singles, before dropping the second set 6-4. However, she rebounded to take the final set 10-3 for the victory. Reyes posted a straight sets win at No. 2 singles, topping Isabella Cubillos 6-1, 6-2. Maloney took King's final win of the day at No. 6 singles, defeating her opponent 6-0, 6-1 to give the Tornado the 6-3 win.
King will be in action again on Friday when they travel to Johnson City to face East Tennessee State University and Tusculum College. The Tornado will face ETSU at 8:00 a.m., and Tusculum at 3:30 p.m.


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Mar. 18, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures slumped Monday after the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus proposed a hefty levy on bank deposits as a condition for a national bailout. The proposal roiled international markets,
The measures being proposed in Cyprus are stoking fears of bank runs in the other 16 nations that use the euro, though economists saw little chance of similar policies taking effect elsewhere, or even being approved in Cyprus.
Dow Jones industrial futures fell 77 points to 14,356. The broader S&P futures gave up 13.4 points to 1,540. Nasdaq futures shed 21 points to 2,769.50.
Lawmakers in Cyprus postponed the vote Monday on a deposit tax of 6.75 percent on accounts of up to €100,000 ($131,000) and 9.9 percent over that amount.
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Markets in Asia slid between 2 percent and close to 3 percent.
U.S. markets are already trading at or near record levels and many investors have been trying to determine when the market will peak.
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The D610 uses the same sensor and offers the same features as the D600 but there have been a few enhancements in addition to the faster frame rate. For one, Nikon has updated the white balance algorithm for improved AWB performance. Although the D600 has a quiet mode, the D610 now has a quiet continuous mode, which will help wedding photographers, for example, stay on the good side of the officiate, as well as the bride and groom. We think the quiet continuous mode will also be useful when photographing performances and other events where you need some speed but want to maintain a low noise profile.
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Meeting for a workshop involving two other European ventures, the partners in the EU project came together in Turin on 25 and 26 June 2014 to exchange information on their research.
The storage material absorbs hydrogen like a sponge
The modular hydrogen tank consists of individual tubes placed side by side. They are filled with two different solids – black metallic alloys, whose consistency is comparable to that of flour. These storage materials absorb the gaseous hydrogen like a sponge to which it is then bound. This property enables storage of the gas in a small volume under a pressure of 70 bar and normal outside temperature, which is substantially better than a conventional tank that requires the hydrogen to be kept under a pressure of 700 bar.
Inga Bürger, Project Manager at the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics mentions another advantage:
The use of solid materials in the tank means that hydrogen can be stored very safely; even if there is a leak, the strong bond between the gas and the storage materials ensures that hydrogen escapes at such a slow rate that there is no risk of explosion.
The DLR researchers have succeeded in developing an innovative, combined tank equipped with new materials that exhibit a far greater storage capacity.
As part of the project, the researchers connected the tank with solid materials up to a high-temperature fuel cell for the first time, delivering electricity and the heat required to release the hydrogen from the storage materials. The entire system was fitted to an Iveco Daily van as an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). Equipped with an additional fuelling port, the vehicle can be refuelled at a hydrogen filling station. The tank has a volume of 10 litres and offers a storage capacity of 1400 litres of hydrogen, sufficient to provide the van's APU with one kilowatt of electrical energy for two hours.
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The University of Turin (UNITO, Italy) coordinated the EU research project SSH2S. EU-wide, it involved seven research centres and companies: DLR, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE, Norway), Tecnodelta s.r.l. (Italy), Serenergy A/S (Denmark), Fiat Research Centre (Italy) and Joint Research Centre of European Commission (JRC, Netherlands). KIT, IFE, JRC and UNITO lead the development of the storage materials. DLR cooperated with its partners, Technodelta and the Fiat Research Centre, to create the combined tank and the fuel cell coupling, and also their integration within the vehicle. The European Union provided €1.6 million in funding.
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By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence community leaders warned on Wednesday that the government shutdown, now in its second day, is an "insidious" threat to national security that will increase the longer thousands of workers are off the job.
"I've been in the intelligence business for about 50 years. I've never seen anything like this," James Clapper, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, said at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the eavesdropping programs.
"This (the shutdown) affects our global capability to support the military, to support diplomacy and foreign policy matters. The danger here is that this will accumulate over time. The damage will be insidious, so each day that goes by the jeopardy increases," he said.
Congress' inability to agree on budget legislation caused a partial government shutdown that was in its second day on Wednesday, with no end in sight. The last time the government was closed to this extent was in 1995 and 1996.
Clapper and General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security, spoke at a hearing in a Senate office building left quiet with thousands of workers furloughed because the government was largely closed down.
Intelligence agencies are already facing an outcry over the extent of the government's eavesdropping on Americans' telephone and Internet communications.
Clapper said 70 percent of civilian intelligence workers had to be furloughed this week because they were not deemed to be addressing an imminent threat to life or property, although that number would be adjusted if the shutdown continues.
"We will make adjustments depending on what we see as the potential threats to life and property, to quote the law," he said at the hearing on oversight of the intelligence agencies' collection of communications data.
Clapper said the law forced the extensive furloughs, and that the agencies were focused on the most severe threats and supporting troops in Afghanistan and other operations overseas.
U.S. intelligence agencies have been under scrutiny - with the public and lawmakers' demanding changes, since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked information starting in June that the government collects far more Internet and telephone data than previously known.
Alexander, the NSA director, said furloughs related to the shutdown were hurting morale and that his agency risked losing thousands of Ph.Ds, computer scientists and mathematicians forced off the job by the shutdown.
"Our nation needs people like this and the way we treat them is to tell them, 'you need to go home because we can't afford to pay you,'" he said.
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SAP NEWSBYTE — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools"* 2014 report. The report evaluated data integration products from SAP and recognized it as a leading provider based on its "ability to execute" and "completeness of vision". The evaluation marks the company's seventh consecutive year as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.
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According to Gartner "the demand for data integration tools emphasizes broad applicable use, a well-integrated portfolio and interoperability with information and application infrastructures. Flexible deployment and scalability are still expected, while interest in business-facing and platform-as-a-service models grows."
For more information on the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, read the full Gartner report.
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Politics and Religion
Politics and Religion
I just listened to the podcast http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thethinking...d-politics
by thethinkingatheist.
Now, what I what to pick up is:
Would a global system, without borders etc. work, if you have no laws?
Well, it may be strange, cause we actually have smth. like this in Somalia. But I was impressed by the point of the first "guest". He said that government is, at all, like a religion. You have someone who watches you, gives you laws, who'll punish you if brake these laws etc.
As we atheist know, the "absence" of god don't make us criminal. The opposite is true. Theist are statistical more criminal than non-believers. Why can't it be the same with the government? We'd still have society, and if you steal/kill/rape... you know, you won't have a lot of friends after Isn't that the origin of moral/ethics? I think it's an evolutionary point at all, no governmental.
What do you think?
21-08-2011, 08:26 AM (This post was last modified: 21-08-2011 08:31 AM by Lilith Pride.)
RE: Politics and Religion
The issue is that we would need groups capable of suppressing power. There would need to be skilled people who joined forces in a vigilante sort of way. Those who wish to cause harm can easily gain power over others. It's not that everyone would go crazy, but that the ones who would might have free reign. Now of course there would be some who stood up to protect others, but how well they unified without a leader would be the question. If we cannot agree to a government in any way then our way of life demands we have no leaders. The issue with this is that people are not as capable of unifying without an agreed upon lead. Nothing can keep power from existing within the world, and there will always be those pursuing it, so we could never completely disestablish the hierarchy. It would lead to the rise of a new one.
Not all aggressive people worry about being part of the group. Some could care less if they get shunned.
If you're asking just about morals and ethics? Those would stay pretty much the same occasionally changing. The government didn't really create them in the first place it just suggests that it is enforcing them. Whatever system exists the morals and ethics that allow it to thrive will eventually win out. There is no case where randomly killing people can be an accepted ethic, unless those people are not your own. If the whole world is one big group, then that would mean the moral would not seek killing other humans. Whether they feel those who betray society are their own though is a completely different hurdle.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: Politics and Religion
I can't imagine a global system without border - not with this species. Look what happened to the United nations in only 50 years.
Look at Yugoslavia: a little federation of tiny states, under a charismatic leader, in the shadow of the USSR, doing better than any other east bloc country. As soon as Tito is gone, the federation falls to squabbling and breaks up.
So does the USSR. The USA managed less than a century of uneasy federation before major carnage - and they had Mexico, Canada and all kinds of First nations to fight both before and after.
I'm just saying: people don't maintain large-scale civilizations for very long; societies tend to reconfigure in smaller groups with common roots or at least common interest. Tribes, in effect, if not in fact. That arrangement has worked better than any other tried in human history - far and away better, if you include pre-history. That's probably how it will play out in post-history.
In every case, and through every transition, there are short periods of lawlessness (really, the tough guys vying for leadership and territory; gang warfare, if you like), just as there are pockets of lawlessness even in nations with stable governments. But most of the time, in every viable community, there is some kind of generally acknowledged moral code and legal system.
It's the breaking down of artificial political entities, like federations and unions and even many nations that will cause most havoc and bloodshed. (See Africa)
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RE: Politics and Religion
(21-08-2011 07:54 AM)darksky Wrote: As we atheist know, the "absence" of god don't make us criminal. The opposite is true. Theist are statistical more criminal than non-believers. Why can't it be the same with the government?
There's a lot of Libertarians out there who think that abolishing government would be best for everybody. They haven't stopped for a second to think about how governments arose in the first place. As Lilith already indirectly pointed out, it was through violence.
When you keep thinking about it a little longer, you'll realize that our current governments (in the developed world) are on a leash and wear a muzzle. Our first and foremost duty as citizens is to ensure that they keep wearing both because governments will use any excuse to try to get rid of them. Be it terrorism, be it copyright enforcement, be it child pornography or anything else.
Quote:We'd still have society, and if you steal/kill/rape... you know, you won't have a lot of friends after Isn't that the origin of moral/ethics? I think it's an evolutionary point at all, no governmental.
Actually, morals stopped being evolutionary somewhere around the time when our language developed just enough to talk about it. From that point on, it's mostly driven by consensus and conscious feeling of empathy.
RE: Politics and Religion
Morality would have a small alteration if we changed our way of life as dramatically as disestablishing the leaders while still not living in the "jungle". We've grown using forms of government to keep natural order from affecting us. If we were to abolish them we would need to come up with ways to exist within our now unnatural world (humans have kind of killed a large portion of the natural world off for resources).
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: Politics and Religion
The jungle isn't a chaotic mess: there are all kinds of rules and constraints within every community of every social species.
Yes, our (humans') efforts have been directed to thwarting and cheating nature, but that's only over the last 30,000 or so years - not long enough to evolve out of pre-civilized behaviour, just long enough to reject it. We wrestle with it, try to regulate it; exhort, threaten, seduce, punish and bribe our children and dogs to forsake it; build enforcement and failsafe systems into social structures; depict ourselves as entirely other - yet never get very far from the ape.
It wouldn't take much for us to revert to savagery. But 'savage' societies have order, rules, hierarchy, structure. It's the period of disintegration, when men* are liberated - stripped, cast out, set adrift - from their place and function in a tribe, that brings out lawless, destructive behaviour.
(*yes, chiefly men)
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RE: Politics and Religion
I'm not saying that the jungle is a chaotic mess, just using "jungle" as the phrase for the old system before government. Savage is an odd term because it doesn't really describe anything outside of living being. For something to be savage that means it kills and destroys without consideration of its actions. Extremely common among the current society. Just look at animal farms. To live it's imperative that you be "savage" life in general is just savage.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: Politics and Religion
Yes, i get that.
Only, people usually don't understand much about primate, or even mammalian social organization, so they use "jungle" quite inaccurately. I should not have lumped your statement in with those. Sorry.
It's hard to imagine humans before government. I don't now whether there is an identifiable moment when leadership of - and responsibility for - the clan morphed into government in something like our present forms. We can't see how the early versions worked, because they didn't build cities or keep records. Group behaviour in the distant past can only be inferred from the few non-civilized tribes that survived into the 20th century, and we have no idea how many other arrangements were tried.
If you pray to anything, you're prey to anything.
RE: Politics and Religion
It's also highly dependent on how you describe government, as many non-humans have governing rules. Often times even having arbitrary rules that really don't help them in any way.
As a social animal there has always been the need for a directing force. What really makes the break? Is a government laws that govern tribes outside of the group?
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
25-08-2011, 03:20 PM (This post was last modified: 25-08-2011 03:26 PM by Peterkin.)
RE: Politics and Religion
No, i don't think so, unless outside means laws relating to the entire species, of which each separate group of that species partakes. But even then, i wouldn't call it government, exactly. Overarching principles? Moral base-line?
I think of government as the individual(s) steering a given group. It may have the power of arbitrary life and death by the leader's or leaders' own hand or by lethal enforcers, and no grumbling allowed. Or it may just be a toothless granny they all ask for advice. Any amount of power along that line. It may legislate, arbitrate, regulate, interpret old text or invent new; it may be dependent on the vagaries of popularity or on blood ties; it may be for a brief interval or life. But one thing i'm pretty sure of is that the governing person or committee rises up out of the group, by the will - or at least consent - of the group. Why the governor sent by a victorious foreign power is never considered legitimate, and is borne by the subject people only through force of superior arms - even if the occupying nations's laws are far more enlightened, fair and benevolent than their defeated leaders' were. A people may - often does! - depose a bad leader, but it's a prerogative of which they tend to be jealous. Often, they will put up with a bad leader, rather than accept foreign rule.
Humans, that is. I'm not sure how other pack, flock and herd animals are about this. Be interesting to find out. (Back to Konrad Lorenz!)
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Pudgie Parakeet
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A real piece of history!I was looking for this footage since long time!
"Can you help out a fellow American whose down on his luck?" Loved that little Bogart reference.
That is one politically incorrect conclusion. Classic! Did Williams do the voices to the characters too?
Yes, Robin Williams also did the voices. (In the movie, his character gets fired because he rewrites the cartoon on the fly so that the bird is reluctant to smoke the cigarette.)
Nice Tex Avery reference, too.
Great post, thanks! Shame that the auio and visuals don't quite match up, could this be fixed perhaps?
I have the Doubtfire DVD and there is an interview with Chuck. When director Chris Columbus asked for a Sylvester & Tweety spoof, Chuck was reluctant to spoof his own studios' creations (note how I said "own Studio's creations, in recognition thet S&T were creations of Friz Freleing, not Chuck Jones), and told Columbus he might as well ask Disney to sopoof Mickey Mouse! But Jones, being the willing trooper he is, decided to give it a go in the end.
BTW: The cat's name is "Grunge."
Pudgie (with IE, not to be confused with Betty Boop's dog, Pudgy with Y) is one of my favourite one-shot wonders, luckily I made him my GAC forum avatar!
With a planned "Patch Adams vs. Mrs Doubtfire" crossover coming soon, I wonder if they'll get a chance to get off the "one-shot wonders" list! Obviously, Chuck can't direct this "sequel," but if FOX gets enough convincing, it will happen. If Robin can't repriese his roles, I suggest Rob Paulsen as Pudgie (slightly sped up a bit) and Maurice LaMarche as Grunge!


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China's manufacturing is shrinking at a faster pace this month, adding to stresses in the economy and financial system after interbank borrowing costs surged to the highest in seven years.
The preliminary reading of 48.3 for a Purchasing Managers' Index released today by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics compares with the 49.1 median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 15 economists. May's final reading of 49.2 was the first below 50 since October, indicating contraction.
Manufacturing weakness, along with the money-market cash crunch, will further test how far Premier Li Keqiang is willing to go in sacrificing short-term expansion for more-sustainable long-term growth. After record credit in the first four months of the year failed to stoke growth, China's State Council, led by Li, said last night that the financial system needs to do a better job of supporting the economy.
"If market rates remain at such high levels, the only scenario for the Chinese economy is a hard landing," said Xu Gao, chief economist with Everbright Securities Co. in Beijing. "That possibility is growing now -- it seems the leadership is deliberately taking a wait-and-see stance to see how low China growth can be."
China's one-year interest-rate swap rose yesterday by the most in five years as the central bank refrained from adding funds to thefinancial system, causing demand to fall at a government debt auction. The seven-day repurchase rate, a gauge of interbank funding availability, touched 12 percent today, the highest since at least 2006.
Financial Risks
Authorities will boost credit support for industries the government has defined as strategic and those that are labor- intensive, the State Council said yesterday after a meeting led by Li, without identifying specific sectors. The nation must also more firmly guard againstfinancial risks, and bank lending for projects in industries with overcapacity must be banned, the State Council said.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.8 percent as of 10:08 a.m. local time.
If confirmed July 1 in the final PMI reading, today's level would be the lowest since September. The National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing will release their own PMI survey, with a bigger sample size, the same day. The official PMI in May was 50.8, up from 50.6 in April.
The preliminary, or flash PMI, from HSBC is based on about 85 percent to 90 percent of responses from more than 420 manufacturers.
Factory Production
Industrial production rose a less-than-forecast 9.2 percent from a year earlier and factory-gate prices fell for a 15th month in May, while export gains were at a 10-month low and imports dropped.
At the same time, new-home prices rose at the fastest pace in more than two years in major cities last month, constraining the ability of policy makers to ease credit in response to weakening economic growth.
"Beijing prefers to use reforms rather than stimulus to sustain growth," Qu Hongbin, HSBC's Hong Kong-based chief China economist, said in a statement. "While reforms can boost long- term growth prospects, they will have a limited impact in the short term. As such we expect slightly weaker growth" this quarter, he said.
Yingli Energy (China) Co., a unit of the world's largest solar-panel maker, said June 13 that it will slow investments to clear debt after facing anti-dumping duties in Europe.
Growth Estimates
Investment banks from Morgan Stanley to UBS AG this month cut their estimates for China's growth in 2013, and Barclays Plc is estimating that expansion will slow to 7.4 percent, below the government's full-year target of 7.5 percent.
Economists forecast China's gross domestic product will expand 7.6 percent in the April-June period from a year earlier, the median estimate of 35 respondents to a Bloomberg News survey conducted from June 14 to 19. That compares with a 7.8 percent median projection in last month's survey and first-quarter growth of 7.7 percent.
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December 08. 2013 5:07PM
Patriots stun Cleveland in another wild comeback
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Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes in the final 61 seconds and finished with 418 yards as host New England overcame its third double-digit, second-half deficit in as many weeks to stun Cleveland.
Brady hit Julian Edelman with a 2-yard touchdown pass with 1:01 left before the Patriots (10-3) recovered an onside kick. The Browns were called for pass interference in the end zone two plays later, and Brady hit Danny Amendola with the go-ahead touchdown pass on the next play to give the Patriots their first lead of the game with 31 seconds left.
Billy Cundiff came up short on a last-second 58-yard field-goal attempt as Cleveland (4-9) suffered its fourth straight loss. Jason Campbell passed for 391 yards and three touchdowns and Josh Gordon caught seven passes for 151 yards for the Browns, who have not won in New England since Bill Belichick was Cleveland's coach in 1992
The Patriots finally got on the board with a field goal with 1:37 left in the third but Gordon took off on the next play, catching a short pass and beating Aqib Talib down the field for an 80-yard score and a 19-3 cushion. New England cut it to 19-11 on Shane Vereen's 6-yard TD run and the ensuing two-point conversion, and tacked on a field goal with 5:43 left but Campbell's 4-yard TD pass to Jordan Cameron with 2:39 left appeared to put the game away.
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski made a tough catch over the middle for a first down with 8:10 left in the third quarter but was hit low by linebacker T.J. Ward on the right knee, which appeared to buckle inward and left the star tight end down on the field for several minutes before he was taken off on a stretcher. The Browns had taken a 12-0 lead on Gary Barnidge's 40-yard TD catch on the previous drive.
Gordon is the first receiver in Browns history to record at least 100 yards in four straight games. … Patriots RB Stevan Ridley, who was inactive last week after fumbling three games in a row, was active and gained 35 yards on eight carries without a turnover. … Brady improved to 43-6 in December since becoming the starter.


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We seek to dispel the notion that science, religion, and humanistic values are incompatible. In Yeshiva University's tradition of Torah Umadda—the partnership of Torah study and secular learning—we invite thinkers steeped in Jewish tradition to participate on equal terms with other scholars in discussions of ethics and public policy. Issues new and old are examined with insights from a rich textual tradition that is alive and vital here at the University. We are committed to taking advantage of all that this rich and diverse community offers.
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BPC should always be on. IF it isn't needed, nothing happens. If it's needed, something good happens (the black compensation is applied). Now if you have a profile that doesn't need this, having it off will be OK, but having it on and sticky makes more sense.
Andrew, I'm not sure you are correct about BPC never does any harm.
Mark, yes, I have been following the explanations. Suppose I just print out of Photoshop, using Relative Colorimetric and Black Point Compensation, and forgo the "stickiness" of the settings in the plug-in? Doesn't that solve it? (when I want that combination) --Barbara
If I print from Photoshop, is my file being printed as an 8-bit file, while if I printed from the Canon plug-in, it would be read as a 16-bit file?
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Arlington County prosecutors plan to keep jurisdiction in their sexual battery case against an airman who led the branch's sexual assault response unit, even though the Air Force asked to have the case moved to the military justice system.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in General District Court on a misdemeanor sexual battery charge. He is accused of groping a woman in a parking lot early Sunday in the county's Crystal City section.
Krusinski had been in charge of the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program but was removed from the position after the Air Force learned of his arrest.
Krusinski's arrest comes as the military continues to wrestle with how best to handle reports of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct. A new Pentagon report showed sexual assaults in the military are a growing epidemic, and legislation is under consideration in Congress to force the military to deal with the issue more strictly.
Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney Theo Stamos said Wednesday her office routinely prosecutes military members and that a state prosecution does not preclude a military court martial.
An Air Force spokeswoman confirmed the Air Force can bring its own case regardless of what Arlington County does, but said the Secretary of the Air Force must approve a dual prosecution and cannot do so until after the Virginia case concludes.
Krusinski's attorney, Sheryl Shane, declined to discuss the case in detail Wednesday. But she said it was unfair for Krusinski alone to bear the scrutiny he has faced in the wake of broader concerns about how the Air Force and the military respond to sexual assaults.
"He is an individual," she said. "I'm not saying he didn't have a position of responsibility, but he can't be responsible for everything everybody's done."
President Barack Obama was asked about Krusinski's case and other Air Force cases where generals set aside convictions in military court. He responded Tuesday that he has "no tolerance" for sexual assaults and has directed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to "step up our game exponentially."
Krusinski had initially requested a court-appointed attorney. In an affidavit, Krusinski told the court that he earns $132,000 annually. Shane was privately retained.


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17 Things We Learned From Gucci Mane's Timeline… So Far
VIBE's Monday editorial meeting was rudely disturbed by Gucci Mane, whose f-cks were nowhere to be found on Twitter this afternoon. While talking reckless is practically embedded in Gwap's e-DNA, there was no shot spared when the Atlanta rapper decided to unload on timelines like everybody's business. Here are 17 things we learned about ol' boy.


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Woodstock officials help residents who are customers of Fred FullerBy TIM BUCKLAND
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January 10. 2014 1:21AM
WOODSTOCK — Town officials on Thursday facilitated the delivery of two trucks full of home heating oil to residents of Fred Fuller Oil and Propane who said they were out of oil, Town Selectman James Fadden said.
Fuller, one of the state's largest oil companies, has been dogged by statewide delays in oil deliveries in the last week that were compounded by what company officials have said was a company wide telephone outage that saw customers unable to contact the company. The company's attorney said the delivery delays and phone outage amounted to "a perfect storm" of problems, and company officials have said the problems were not because of supplies or company finances and that deliveries should be back to normal by today.
Fadden said more than a dozen town residents came to town offices to complain.
"We just really became aware on Tuesday what a crisis this is becoming in our town," he said.
Gov. Maggie Hassan earlier this week set up a special hotline to help homeowners get oil deliveries. Fadden said town residents knew about the hotline, "but when you learn that you're number 719 on that list, it doesn't make you feel good when your oil barrel is empty."
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Book Review
Boy Wonder
How We Are Hungry
In the past decade, Dave Eggers has created two literary journals, a nonprofit writing center, a publishing company and a daily humor website, not to mention a pirate supply storefront in San Francisco—a Dickensian swirl of activity which might explain why some people have forgotten Dave Eggers is also a writer.
The publication of How We Are Hungry, his collection of 15 new stories, will certainly change that. Ranging in setting from Tanzania to Ireland, from Egypt to a long, lonely stretch of I-5, these tales reinvigorate that staid old form, the short story, with a jittery sense of adventure. All of Eggers' characters are seekers; most of them are confused about what exactly they're seeking.
In this sense, Eggers is beginning to resemble this generation's Jack Kerouac. He adores motion, but it's impossible for him to write about movement without examining its moral component. How do Americans travel without importing the injustice of our wealth to other regions? It's a question Eggers pondered in his debut novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, the tale of two young men trying to give away $32,000 in a week.
How We Are Hungry comes out of a similar anxiety about generosity. In "Another," a man gets on a plane and flies to Egypt for vacation shortly after the American government has told him it's not safe to be there. He spends the rest of the trip touring the country on a horse, taking what seems to be a ritualistic pounding in the saddle. "I needed to prove to this Egyptian lunatic ... I could be punished," he says, "that I expected the punishment and could withstand it."
What really seems to irk Eggers is that what one calls generosity in this country is considered empathy in other parts of the world. As one reads deeper, however, Eggers makes a deft transition from exploring global empathy—which can seem so theoretical, especially when the fighting is Over There—to exploring relations between the sexes, which often feel agonizingly tangible.
In "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water," a woman flies down to Costa Rica to figure out whether her friend Hand (who reappears from Velocity) is a lover or merely a friend. It's a heartbreaking little story because—if you're the kind of person that takes time seriously—it reminds you how many near misses you have when searching for the One. What do you do with all those moments, so indelibly remembered?
And here is where Eggers takes his writing to a whole new level. While A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius fried Eggers' grief over his parents' death in a vat of irony—a necessary tick, no doubt, in desanctifying the memoir—these stories do not have their guard up. They are raw, unfiltered and have the same quivering texture of lived experience. A sentence Eggers uses to describe surfing in the book aptly describes his characters' emotional bona fides: "Everyone was an amateur, everyone pretending at grace."
Couples make out awkwardly, hungrily and, once, a little too forcefully. They say inappropriate things. Indeed, the challenge of connection is what animates Eggers' best writing, and he's set the bar quite high for himself. God, clouds, horses, sheep, a very happy dog and the ocean all have speaking parts in this collection.
It's a shame it has taken me this long to mention how fun it is to read Eggers' prose, even when he is twisting a knife in your heart. Reading these stories you get the sense that he really likes words, that he might be thinking to himself "wheeeeeee!" as he types. For example, on her trip to Costa Rica, the heroine of "The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water" laments that she went to Costa Rica instead of Nicaragua.
"Nicaragua sounded dangerous," she thinks to herself. "It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table—Nicaragua!"
Following Dave Eggers' talent as it tap dances across continents and genres is a bit like watching a spider walk sideways up a wall. He does things which should be impossible, and he does them gracefully. And all the while his web gets bigger and bigger.


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April 23, 2013
New York Senate Passes Bill to End Cruel and Unsustainable Shark Fin Trade
Assembly urged to take action to protect sharks and oceans
Fourteen major animal welfare, environmental and conservation organizations applaud the New York Senate for unanimously passing S.1711b/A.1769b to end New York's contribution to the dire collapse of shark populations worldwide. If Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs the bill, New York will join six states and all three Pacific U.S territories in passing similar laws to provide critical protection to sharks and preserve the health of the world's ocean ecosystems by banning the possession, sale, trade and distribution of shark fins.
Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-Buffalo, said: "I am proud to be the Senate sponsor of A.1769b/S.1711b, prohibiting the possession, sale, and trade of shark fin in New York. The decimation of the shark population is a serious concern as it has a detrimental trickle-down effect for the entire marine food chain. With some shark populations in serious peril, and other countries and states passing legislation to protect sharks, New York should be a leader in extending protection to these magnificent animals."
Patrick Kwan, director of grassroots organizing for The Humane Society of the United States said: "We commend the humane leadership of Senator Mark Grisanti and Senate Majority Coalition Leaders Senators Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein for taking critical action today to end the cruel and unsustainable shark fin trade. The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a similar bill last year, and we trust they will act again to stop this illicit trade that thrives off the cruelty of shark finning."
The bipartisan state legislation is championed by Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-Buffalo, and Assemblymembers Alan Maisel, D-Brooklyn, and Linda B. Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, with the sponsorship support of more than 65 state legislators, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, D-Queens, in addition to more than a dozen New York City Councilmembers through a resolution by Councilmember Margaret Chin, D-Lower Manhattan. It also has the support of every Chinese American legislator in the Empire State.
Similar legislation recently passed in Maryland and is awaiting Gov. Martin O'Malley's signature. Lawmakers in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands have passed similar laws in recent years. The trade is spurred by the demand for shark fin soup, an expensive Chinese delicacy and status symbol commonly served at banquets and other celebrations.
- The fins from up to 73 million sharks are used to make shark fin soup each year.
- Conservation, fisheries enforcement and a shark finning ban in the U.S. alone are not enough to conserve sharks. A ban on shark fin products, such as A.1769b/S.1711b, is the most effective way to eliminate the demand for shark fins and to eradicate shark finning around the world.
- In March 2013, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species listed certain shark species on Appendix II – the first time shark species with high commercial value have been granted such protections in the 40-year history of the convention.
- Shark fin soup is often the most expensive item on restaurant menus and typically served simply as a symbol of status. It has no nutritional value and is the main driver of the multi-billion dollar international shark fin trade. The dish is highly controversial because of the manner in which shark fins are harvested outside of the U.S. and the precarious status of many shark populations.
- In 2011, President Obama signed the Shark Conservation Act to strengthen the federal law against shark finning at sea and require that sharks be landed with their fins still attached.
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