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Thanks to a fast-fashion based industry model, coupled with consumer desire to pay the least possible price for product, we have been left to deal with over-consumption, waste, and a plethora of "Frankenstein" fabrics.These low-grade, synthetic and petroleum based textiles are on the rise with stores like H&M and Forever 21 knocking off larger design houses as well as indie designers.
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Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion says even the used clothing market is getting junked up with these creepy clothes from fast fashion venues. This is driving up the price of vintage clothes, because there's hardly any "good" clothing made of natural materials being made today.
"Wool, which used to be the dominant fiber, is now hard to find in a mainstream store and is almost considered a luxury textile. My generation and the one behind me is not familiar with the feel and?inherent beauty of many natural fibers, including linen, silk, wool, and high-grade cashmere."
Cline adds that because this cheap fashion is mostly made of polyester and its cousins, fast fashion is environmentally unsustainable on a shocking number of levels.
"It's poorly made and designed to fall apart, it's largely made from non-biodegradable petroleum-based fabrics and lastly, a lot of it can't be recycled. It's really not a flattering combination."
But by recycling and combining natural and synthetic, there's hope for continued reuse.
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With the textile fiber of post-consumer garments oftentimes wasted and worn, Dutch consortium Textiles 4 Textiles says recycling them often poses challenges.
Marc Fredriksz, Textiles 4 Textiles' Project Manager for Recycling says after the textile has gone through their textile pulling line, and "re-fibered," a test often shows the fiber is sometimes too short to spin into a yarn, while woven fabrics are harder to pull and re-fiber, than knitted fabric.
"Garments are not always made from only one material. In jeans we see more and more elastane, lycra and polyester in the jeans fabric. The contamination can't be separated, after re-fibering and this contamination will give problems with the rotor during the spinning of the yarn process," says Fredriksz.
While many of these fibers can be remade clothing, inferior fabric blends can be used for other sustainable purposes such as textile reinforced plastics or composites for wall panels, clothing hangers, street name signs as well as sound or temperature isolation for housing or automotive industry.
Pickering International, a sustainable textile supplier in San Francisco says the afterlife of fabrics they sell begin with salvaging scrap fabrics from cutting rooms, collections of off-grade materials from other fabric mills and sewing factories. Once the fabrics are gathered, they are sorted out by fiber categories, then shredded and processed to the fiber form, spun into yarns again and made to be recycled fabrics.
"We pretty much have to do blends from the very beginning as fabric scraps almost always come in many blended forms in their previous life," says Dawn Pickering, owner of Pickering International, on modern-day fabric non-homogeneity.
"However, some recycled yarns might not be as strong as new yarns, we have to blend some new fibers to improve overall performance though," she adds.
Entering the fashion stream from a different start point is Nin Castle, founder of London based fashion line Goodone, Castle has been working with upcycled fabrics since the launch of her line in 2006. In addition to designing from a very mature place with the blended fabrics, Castle offers up a useful fact: If every Briton purchased one item made from recycled wool a year, it would save 371 million gallons of water, 480 tons of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an average family's electricity needs.
"Our aim is to use as much reclaimed fabric as possible in every garment but it has to always compliment the design. Somebody once said as a company we are informed by the reuse of textiles and not restrained by them, which I liked very much."
Castle is son to start working with a local mill and friend Daniel Harris at the London Cloth Company making new fabric from discontinued dead-stock yarns.
Castle says when she first started designing she made 100% up-cycled garments but just couldn't keep the quality and standardize it enough for shops wanting to buy the same color combinations in a good size break down.
"Now we mix sustainable fabrics with locally made fabrics and reclaimed textiles…its always our aim to use as much reclaimed fabric as possible as to us it is the greenest fiber around. There is no additional strain on the environment or use of chemicals to make it as it already exists."


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On Monday I described the horrible side effects of Christmas cookies, and posted an Excel Weight Loss Tracker workbook. Now, here is an Excel Calorie Counter to add to your tool kit.
Weight Loss Tracker
As Dick Kusleika pointed out in the comments for the Weight Loss Tracker, simply downloading the workbook doesn't have any effect on your weight. Apparently it takes a bit of effort, including dietary changes and maybe some <gasp> exercise. Can't Microsoft invent something to make weight loss easier? I don't even care if it has menus or a Ribbon!
Excel Calorie Counter Food Data
Bill Gates isn't answering my phone calls, so I created an Excel Calorie Counter that I can use in the meantime. As soon as Bill sends me something better, I'll let you know.
To start, I copied some food data from the Health Canada website. I created a list of foods in an Excel workbook, with categories, food items, measurements and calorie counts.
You can add items to the list, and sort the list by category when you're finished adding food items.
Metric Measurements
The measurements are metric, so I added an approximate conversion list too, in case you don't speak metric. There's also a table where you can do your own conversions, by typing a number in the green cells. The CONVERT function calculates the amount in the adjacent white cell.
Add More Columns to the Food Lookup Table
The food lookup table in the sample file only has calories list. If you want to add more columns to the lookup table, such as fat or carbs, you'll also need to change the named range for the lookup table.
- In Excel 2007, click the Formulas tab, and click Name Manager (In Excel 2003, click Insert | Name | Define)
- In the list of names, click on FoodLookup
- In the Refers To box, at the bottom, change the number of columns, from 3, to the number of columns in your revised table.
- Click the check mark at the left, to confirm the change, and click Close
Also, see below, for adding more columns to the Daily Calorie Counter
The Daily Calorie Counter
In the main sheet, named FoodEntry, you can enter the date, your target calorie count, and all the foods that you eat. There are only 22 rows for data entry, so that should help limit your food intake!
In the green data entry cells, there are drop down lists, created with Excel's data validation. The Meal/Snack and Category source lists are stored in named ranges on the Lists sheet.
There's a dependent data validation drop down list in the Food Item column, based on the Category that you select. This list comes from the FoodList sheet, so it's important to keep the FoodList sheet sorted by category. Otherwise, the wrong items might appear in the Food Item drop down list.
Add the Quantity
After you select a food item, its measurement appears, and you can enter the quantity that you ate, based on that measurement. For example, if the measurement is 125mL, and you ate 250mL, type 2 as the quantity.
Once the quantity is entered, the total calories for that food item are calculated.
NOTE: If you can't find a specific food, just type it in the cell, and enter the calorie count manually. Or, add the food item to the lookup table on the FoodList worksheet.
Add More Columns to the Daily Calorie Counter
The Daily Calorie Counter in the sample file only has calories listed. If you added more columns to the lookup table, such as fat or carbs, you'll also need to add those columns to the Daily Calorie Counter sheet.
- On the FoodEntry sheet, insert extra columns to the right of column G
- Select cells G4:G26, and drag to the right, creating an extra column for each of your new columns
- The heading cells should automatically fill in, based on the headings on the Food Lookup table.
- Select cell G5, and change the formula, so it includes the heading cells for all the columns in your food lookup table. In the sample file, the headings are in $B$1:$D$1. With one additional column, you would change that to $B$1:$E$1
- Copy the revised formula down to the last row, and right, to the last column.
Also, see below, for adding more columns to the Calorie Counter Data.
Storing the Calorie Counter Data
After you've finished eating for the day, or at the start of the next day, you can move all the data to the Calorie Counter database. Just click the "Save Daily Data and Clear" button at the top of the FoodEntry sheet.
The daily data is copied, as values, to the DailyRecord worksheet, and stamped with the date that you entered on the FoodEntry sheet.
Add More Columns to the Calorie Counter Data
The Calorie Counter Data in the sample file only has calories listed. If you added more columns to the lookup table, such as fat or carbs, you'll also need to add those columns to the Calorie Counter Data sheet.
- On the DailyRecord sheet, type the same new column headings, in the same order, that you added to the food lookup table,
Tweak the Save Daily Data Macro
When you click the "Save Daily Data" button on the Daily Calorie Counter sheet, all the data is copied to the Calorie Counter Data sheet. You'll tweak the macro that button runs, so it copies your new columns too.
- Right-click the "Save Daily Data" button, and click Assign Macro
- Click the Edit button
- In the following line of code, increase the 2 to include all your new columns. Currently, only 2 columns, F:G, will be updated in the macro.
- Set rCalc = rEntry.Offset(0, 4).Resize(rEntry.Rows.Count - 1, 2)
- Find the following line of code, and change its the heading reference, to match the revised formula in cell G4:
- rCalc.Columns(2).Formula = _
- rCalc.Columns(2).Formula = _
- Copy the line of code (above) that you just modified, and paste in another copy of the code, for each new column. For example, if you added one additional column, you would copy and paste that code once.
- Revise each copied line of code, so it shows the next column number, and the cell reference for the heading in that column. For example, if there is one new column (H), and the lookup table headings are B1:E1, here is the revised copied code:
- rCalc.Columns(3).Formula = _
- rCalc.Columns(3).Formula = _
Summarizing the Calorie Counter Data
The stored data is in a dynamic range named FoodRecord, and there's a pivot table based on that named range. When you click the button to save your daily records, the pivot table is automatically updated.
I've add a few fields to the pivot table, to get you started on a report. You can add more fields, or rearrange things, to get the report structure that you'd like.
Download the Sample Excel Calorie Counter
You can download the latest version of the calorie counter on my Contextures website. It is in the Excel Sample Files page, in the User Forms section: UF0016 - Excel Calorie Counter With Recipe Calculator. For instructions on how to use the latest version, see this blog post: Excel Recipe Nutrients Calculator
PLEASE NOTE: As I mentioned on Monday, I'm not a medical professional, so use this workbook for entertainment purposes only. The calorie counts are from Health Canada, so the ingredients and calorie counts might be different where you live. Check the product labels for accurate numbers.
And some of the calorie counts might be incorrect – I'm pretty sure the actual calories for wine and cookies are much lower than the Health Canada estimates. 😉

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What would any of us do without our ancestors? Sometimes I think most of what I learned that was really important, I learned from parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles. Sometimes, they were even great grands … Knowledge comes from a good many sources. I have come to realize a large portion of information comes from the elders.
Most cultures have great respect for elders. I'm not so sure that is the case in the U.S., though. I was reading in a local Sunday paper about the attorney who was asked to leave his partnership and practice after turning 70 years old. He had been a major force in the law practice, but was asked to leave, it seems because of his age. He went into practice with a younger attorney and they are doing great.
This article brought to mind how much of the collective knowledge of elders is wasted. When I was a young child, I loved to here the older folks talk about things. I suppose I heard a few things I shouldn't have, but the fact is, I learned a great deal from those conversations. For example, I learned an awful lot about country music, Gabriel Heatter and the war in Germany. I also learned a few choice bits of gossip, but that's neither here nor there. I became aware at an early age that not everyone's life was as protected as mine.
I heard stories about older cousins who were off to war. I learned about domestic situations that were troublesome. I learned that the world was a big place and there were a lot of cultures, languages and customs. I was encouraged to study the globe and find the different countries of the people I met. I met a lot of them. My mother worked in a hotel in Evanston that housed students from all over Europe and Asia who came to study at Northwestern University. On Sunday afternoons, my mother would cook large pots of spaghetti and meatballs and invite people over who felt homesick and wanted a home cooked meal. I met police officers from China, Hawaii, Germany, Italy and India. Was it interesting? You bet!
All of them, almost without exception, were elders. I learned geography through their stories, and I learned culture through their behavior. Best of all though, they treated me like I was hungry for information and a student of their customs. It really was an exciting time in my life.
Over the years I have enjoyed having guests from other countries. Communication without language is an interesting experience. As I have said before, I know about three words in Russian. Yet Don and I entertained a federal judge from Russia for a week. This visit gave me the insight that Russians have the same worries as you and I. I learned what it means to live 200 miles from the Arctic Circle. You have constant permafrost. This is interesting when you go to build a house or roads.
It's true my formal education happened in the various schools I attended. However, the added information gained from social interaction is what really cemented the learning. Our elders are where we learn about the Social mores so crucial to success in the world. It is the role modeling, the social poise, the behaviors of our Elders that really impacts who we are.
So my recommendation is this: If you have a chance to learn from an elder, take advantage of it. If you are an elder, take a chance to get to know the young ones. It's a great education for both groups.


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Two "Pokemon Go" gamers who were attacked by armed robbers in Lakewood, California, earlier this month have started a fundraiser to buy pepper spray for players on the hunt to catch 'em all.
The two men, who asked to be identified only by the first names, Josh and Sean, were walking home after playing the popular game on their cellphones about 2:30 a.m. on July 13 when a tan vehicle pulled alongside them.
A man with a gun got out of the vehicle and demanded their belongings, according to the victims and a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department news release.
Sean, a Marine veteran, pulled out a knife and lunged at the man before he was attacked.
"It's either fight or flight, and I chose fight," said Sean.
Sean suffered a broken nose and busted lip during the altercation. The man with the gun eventually ran back to the vehicle and attempted to run over the victims but did not hit them, deputies said.
Since the attack, Sean and Josh have started a GoFundMe campaign for Project Protect Go!, hoping to raise $500. The two friends hope to pass out pepper spray to fellow gamers who, like them, have been swept by the highly popular augmented reality app that's drawn some criticism for posing possible danger.
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For thousands of years, sheep have been able to adapt to even the harshest of environments, as their wool protects them through hot, cold, damp and dry seasons. In this time, man has also used wool for this very protective property and for the many other benefits offered by the material. Because of their crimped nature, when wool fibres are packed together, they form millions of tiny air pockets which trap air, and in turn serves to keep warmth in during winter and out in the summer.
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Revised Edition of Black Minqua Available
Just completed a revision of my third book, Black Minqua The Life and Times of Henry Green. It is available on the at a 20% Discount through December. Included is a chapter titled, Along the Great Minqua Path. This was a Path traversed by Natives for thousands of years from Philadelphia into the interior of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. The other use for the Path was the Underground Railroad, a means of escape for slaves escaping north. The Narrative of the Underground Railroad took place in my back yard as I am from Chester County PA. In Black Minqua the story of William Parker and my ancestor Henry Green, is detailed. Henry was tried for Treason in 1851, in the death of a white slave holder. His story is in Pieces of the Quilt and Black Minqua The Life and Times of Henry Green. He and thirty-eight other free blacks from his community acquitted by an all white jury. If anyone has seen the Movie, Lincoln, then the name Thaddeus Stevens should ring familiar. This esteemed White Attorney handled the defense of the black men from Lancaster County. They were all acquitted of the charges.
William Parker, who escaped to Lancaster County seeking freedom, found himself on the Underground Railroad on 9/11/1851. He was skirted out of town by people in the community like my ancestor Henry Green. He and his family settled in Bruxton Parish Ontario Canada, where their descendants continue to live.
You will not find the characters in my book, featured in any history book. That is why this is a must read, for African Americans, Genealogists, Historians, and Students.


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Submitted to: Reproduction of Domestic Animals
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/1/2008
Publication Date: 7/15/2008
Citation: Whitlock, B.K., Daniel, J.A., Wilborn, R.R., Elsasser, T.H., Carroll, J.A., Sartin, J.L. 2008. Comparative aspects of the endotoxin- and cytokine-induced endocrine cascade influencing neuroendocrine control of growth and reproduction in farm mammals. Reproduction of Domestic Animals. 43(Suppl. 2):317-323.
Interpretive Summary: Many diseases common to farm and production animals are the product of infections with Gram-negative bacteria. The consequences of these infections are a result of the liberation of endotoxin/LPS from the bacteria and the reaction of the immune system/inflammatory cells. Cytokine (e.g. IL-I and TNF-alpha) production by inflammatory cells in response to LPS is a normal and necessary function of the immune system to protect animals from and alleviate infections. However, the inflammatory cytokines can also initiate a cascade of events that impair hormonal and metabolic homeostatic processes regulating growth, metabolism, and reproduction. This review article highlights these interactions and proposes that the purpose for impairing these functions is most likely a consequence of the lofty nutrient/metabolic demands for the immune system's response to infections. In an attempt to redirect or conserve nutrients for immune functions, growth is impaired by direct or indirect actions of cytokines on the somatotropic axis. In adult animals, nutrients may be conserved by inhibiting energetically risky behavior [i.e., reproduction (estrus, pregnancy, lactation)] through manipulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis at any point. More work is needed to completely understand the mechanisms behind the effects of the stress of disease on growth, metabolism, and reproduction. While previous data on severe proinflammatory mediated dysfunction was associated with stark pathology, the nitration concept follows closely with perturbations associated with low-level responses to immune challenge that don't culminate in death. By understanding the intricacies of LPS-induced cytokine release and how cytokines affect farm animal production, we can target more precisely the strategies needed to combat infectious agents as well as stabilize host responses to infection in order to speed recovery and improve animal welfare.
Technical Abstract: Disease in animals is a well-known inhibitor of growth and reproduction. Earlier studies were initiated to determine the effects of endotoxin on pituitary hormone secretion. These studies found that in sheep, growth hormone (GH) concentration was elevated, whereas insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) was inhibited, as was luteinizing hormone (LH). Examination of the site of action of endotoxin in sheep determined that somatotropes expressed the endotoxin receptor (CD14) and that both endotoxin and interleukin-I-beta activated GH secretion directly from the pituitary. In the face of elevated GH, there is a reduction of IGF-I in all species examined. Since GH cannot activate IGF-I release during disease, there appears to be a downregulation of GH signaling at the liver, perhaps related to altered nitration of janus kinase (JAK). In contrast to GH downregulation, LH release is inhibited at the level of the hypothalamus. New insights have been gained in determining the mechanisms by which disease perturbs growth and reproduction, particularly with regard to nitration of critical control pathways and perhaps serving as a new mechanism central to LPS suppression of all signaling pathways. This pathway based analysis is critical to developing novel strategies to reverse the detrimental effect of disease on animal production.


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by Matt Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
CARROLLTON, Ga. – The No. 30 Georgia College women's tennis team (9-8) made quick work of the University of West Georgia (1-9) Tuesday afternoon, taking down the Wolves by a final score of 9-0.
Georgia College got things going with an impressive doubles showing winning all three of their matches.
The top tandem of Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) and Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio (Paris) defeated Raven Pugh and Amanda Stewart 8-0, while Ivana Marevic (Rottweil, Germany) and Leah Pridegon (Lawrenceville, Ga.) equaled that performance with an identical 8-0 win over Kelly Arsenault and Aubrey Biddle at the second slot.
Sara Roberts (Kennesaw, Ga.) and Anna Hicks (Brunswick, Ga.) topped Molly Olsen and Caroline Brown 8-1 at the third position.
The Bobcats quickly continued their dominance in singles action, with No. 20 Setyon-Ortenzio knocking off Olsen in a straight-set shutout at the top position, followed by another blanking from Barksdale over Arsenault at the second slot.
Roberts and Hicks would match the score of their teammates defeating Biddle and Brown 6-0, 6-0, respectively.
At the third position, Marevic took down Pugh 6-1, 6-0, while Pridegon rounded out the scoring for the 'Cats with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Stewart at the fourth spot.
GC remains unbeaten against unranked teams this season, improving to 9-0 in that category.
The Bobcat women will have a quick turnaround as they host Brenau University tomorrow at 2 p.m. from the Centennial Center Tennis Facility.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Can Rain Have a Major Effect on a Playoff Series? — Sports Survey of the Day
It was a wet night in the central United States. Both games in the NLCS and ALCS saw rain spoil their games, but does that have a big effect on play?In Detroit, the Tigers are leading the New York Yankees 3-0. They are on the brink of a sweep and heading to the World Series. It could have been all over Wednesday night, if not for rain postponing the game. It remains to be seen whether this will have a big effect on Detroit's chances of finishing the job or the Yankees' hope of a miracle comeback.
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The Milwaukee Bucks didn't make the playoffs last season, but their offseason has already been a success. Sources confirmed a report on the basketball Web site HoopsHype Sunday afternoon that the club was close to a deal that would keep forward Ersan Ilyasova in Milwaukee on a five-year, $45 million deal.
Ilyasova was one of the top free agents on the market at power forward, a "stretch four" who finished tied for second in the league in three-point percentage last season (.455) with Warriors guard Stephen Curry. But he also averaged 8.8 rebounds to go with his 13 points per game, posting 20 double-doubles for the Bucks and finishing second to Orlando's Ryan Anderson in voting for Most Improved Player.
The Nets had significant interest in signing Ilyasova, particularly if they were unable to make a trade for Magic center Dwight Howard. But one source said Sunday that Milwaukee had never been very concerned about Brooklyn, surmising that the Nets couldn't create enough cap room to make an offer that Ilyasova would have to seriously consider. The Raptors also were reportedly interested, and Ilyasova had offers to play in Europe as well.
Milwaukee has already bolstered its frontcourt, acquiring shot-blocking center Samuel Dalembert from Houston in a trade just before the Draft that moved the Bucks back two spots in the first round. But the Bucks were still able to take a promising talent in North Carolina forward John Henson with the 14th pick and got sharpshooter Doron Lamb from Kentucky in the second round, making it unlikely they'll retain Carlos Delfino.


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Westside Community Center plans Feb. 12 event, seeks gardeners
40 spaces remain at Westside Community Center garden
Indoor activities for middle and high school students are planned for the initial "Second Saturday Sensations" Feb. 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Westside
Community Center.
There is no charge, and lunch will be included. Reservations are not needed. All activities will be in the westernmost building at the center, 1628 W. Bijou St.
According to Westside Center director Dick Siever, the program will offer sports in the gym - dodgeball, indoor soccer, hockey and bucketball (a game similar to basketball). "We'll rotate stuff," Siever said. "It won't be real regimented."
In addition, separate rooms will be set up for kids who want to try bingo, karaoke or a T-shirt design contest.
Center staff and volunteers will oversee the activities to make sure that all participants "will have a good time," Siever said.
The Feb. 12 "Sensations" will be the first in a series of four, continuing through the spring. The others will be the second Saturdays in March, April and May.
Coming up later in February at the center will be another new monthly activity - one that's intended for families. Its called Fourth Saturday Family Fusion. Details are still being finalized.
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Mike Henderson Band with Michael Rhodes and Kevin McKendree, $15
Mike Henderson. Talented singer, songwriter (If The Jukebox Took Teardrops, Harder Cards), multi-instrumentalist and multi band member. Is there anything he can't do? It would seem, based on the aforementioned evidence, that the answer to that question is simply "no." Plus, he obviously fronts the Mike Henderson Band (hence the name) and they play some of the best blues this side of the Mississippi.We do not take reservations for this show. Seats are first come, first served.
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Before you go back to school or just exchange those flip-flops for leather loafers, there's one long weekend left for lazing about. If you're planning on making the most of the weather and dining al fresco, we've found some grilling gadgets that will help with some of the work.
Purists might say a backyard barbecue requires nothing more than an open flame and a hunk of meat, but who cares what purists say? Technology has its place at every step of your grilling events, whether you're dining en famille or hosting a shindig. Planning out a menu, selecting cuts of meat, setting up, and keeping drinks cold and food hot are things you can (mostly) outsource with just a few items.
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Sand Sharks edge Dayton on links
Senior Luke McClellan shot even-par 70 to earn medalist honors and help the University of South Carolina Beaufort eke out a three-shot victory over the University of Dayton in a dual meet Friday at Chechessee Creek Club.
McClellan edged junior teammate Travis Cashion by two shots for the day's best score, as the duo led USCB to a team total of 296, just good enough to top the NCAA Division I Flyers.
Sophomore Coley Davis (76), senior Mark Phillips (78) and senior Tyler Jacobs (81) rounded out the lineup. Junior Dylan Mixon shot an 83, but his score did not count toward the Sand Sharks' team total.
The Sand Sharks have nearly a month off before their next action, a dual meet against Wittenberg (Ohio) on March 8 at the Golf Club at Indigo Run on Hilton Head Island.
Track squad sets
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The University of South Carolina Beaufort track and field team set four school records and claimed eight top-10 finishes in the Embry-Riddle Last Chance meet Saturday in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The Sand Sharks' men's 4x400 relay record fell for the second time in two chances this season, as the team of Cory Yeager, Anthony Vecchio, Frank Tinsley and Avery Singleton finished seventh with a time of 3 minutes, 31.46 seconds. That shaved a little more than a second off the mark set by Yeager, Singleton, Tinsley and Shannon Anderson on the same track three weeks ago.
Prashant Robinson set a school record in the shot put with a throw of 37 feet, 1 1-4 inches, which also was good for seventh place. The previous school mark was 35 feet, 6 1-4 inches by Rashad White at last year's Palmetto Invitational. White was 10th Saturday with a throw of 34 feet, 4 3-4 inches.
John Stanas ran the 1,000 meters in 2:46.14 to set a school record and finish seventh, and Tommy Reeves set a school mark in the one-mile run with a time of 4:35.37, good for ninth.
Vecchio finished sixth in the 800 meters with a time of 2:00.93. Yeager wasn't far behind, coming in 10th in 2:08.62.
Singleton also claimed a sixth-place finish in the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 4 1-4 inches.
Cook, Pastre perfect back-to-back
Perfection turned out to be commonplace Monday night at Richard Gray Sports Complex in Hardeeville.
After watching University of South Carolina Beaufort freshman Kristy Cook strike out 12 in a five-inning perfect game in the opening game of a doubleheader against Fisher College, sophomore Caroline Pastre went one better in the finale — she struck out 13 of the 15 batters she faced, giving the Sand Sharks back-to-back perfect games as they swept the Falcons 19-0 and 34-0.
"Obviously our pitchers and defense are really working well together right now," USCB coach Ty Rietkovich said. "When a pitcher can go to the mound and have confidence in the people she has behind her, it makes everything better."
The Sand Sharks (4-0) certainly thrived at the plate, as well. Mariah Sanborn was the hitting star of the first game with three hits, including a home run, and four RBIs. Maddie Byrd added a homer and two RBIs.
In the second game, Kalin Martin had three hits, including an inside-the-park home run, and four RBIs, Taylor Triplett had a home run and three RBIs, Paige Adams had three hits and drove in four runs, and Sam Boland and Erin Wilson each drove in three runs.
"A double perfect game is just not something you expect to see," Rietkovich said. "But I'm proud of the way Kristy and Caroline pitched. It was a special night."
Sand Sharks notch
8th straight win
The University of South Carolina Beaufort baseball team rallied late to beat Fisher College 9-6 on Monday, the Sand Sharks' fourth consecutive win overall and their eighth in a row at Richard Gray Sports Complex.
Sophomore Erik Armstrong had another monster day at the plate with four hits — three of them doubles, which ties a single-game school record — and two RBIs. Armstrong raised his average to .486 and has nine doubles and 15 RBIs, both team-high totals.
The Sand Sharks (9-2) broke open a tied game with three runs in the seventh, as Dylan Nasiatka and R.J. Neal drew bases-loaded walks and Conald Mansfield plated another run with a groundout.
USCB added two more in the eighth on Nasiatka's two-run single.
Leadoff man Ty Main drew four walks — also tying a single-game school record — and scored three runs. Armstrong and David O'Neil also scored three runs apiece.
The late rally made a winner of sophomore left-hander Alex Graham (3-1), who allowed one hit and one unearned run in two innings of relief. Graham has allowed one earned run and four hits in 12 2-3 innings this season.


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by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Enisha Donley (Loganviile, Ga.) of the Georgia College women's basketball team earned her first Bobcat Athlete of the Week honor while leading her team to an undefeated 4-0 start to the 2013-14 season for the Bobcats.
Donley was the only double-digit scorer in the team's 72-51 home-opening win against Clark Atlanta University Tuesday, Nov. 26. In that contest she shot 5-of-7 from the floor and 3-of-4 from the charity stripe.
Donley is the only Bobcat player to lead the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in any category to date with a 63.4 field-goal percentage.
The Georgia College women's basketball team will be back in action Saturday, Dec. 7 at Georgia Southwestern State University for a 1:30 p.m. PBC tilt.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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This made me blind because I stared at it for so long. I love a challenge. Read this first in case you don't know what hue is. Cant. Stop. Seeing. Spots. Worth it? I'm not sure, I only got a 40. ••••
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The Hue Test
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Not to brag, but I have perfect color vision. A+!
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Hhhmmm, I want a redo. I only got 37 but I think the type of monitor you use must affect this and seeing as I'm on a busted old Dell I would like to retest! I shall, on my Mac...xoxo H
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The Orange County Breakers will begin their quest for this year's World Team Tennis King Trophy against the defending champions.
The Washington Kastles, the 2011 WTT champs who were the first team in league history to go 16-0, will visit UC Irvine for the Breakers' home opener July 9. It was one of seven Breakers home dates at Bren Events Center announced Wednesday by World Team Tennis.
Former world No. 1 Lindsay Davenport, a Laguna Beach resident, is expected to play in all seven home matches for the Breakers. They continue through the home finale July 28 against the Philadelphia Freedoms. The match against the Freedoms will feature the lone scheduled marquee player to visit the Breakers, former Australian star Mark Philippoussis.
Other home dates include July 11 against Kansas City, July 14 against Sacramento, July 23 against Springfield, July 25 against Sacramento and July 27 against Boston. All matches are scheduled for 7 p.m.
The Breakers are planning several themed promotions to celebrate their 10th anniversary season. Among the theme nights are a celebration of Olympians. It will include Davenport, who won the gold medal in women's singles at the 1996 Olympic Games.
The Breakers will again be coached by Trevor Kronemann, in his sixth year at the helm. They will fill out their roster at the WTT Roster Player Draft on Tuesday.
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How can I calculate the cost of piping something (at least approximately)?
For example.. I am using following command:
time gzip -kfc1 file.tar | ssh armend@xeon-server "cat > /dev/null"
It compresses a file on one computer and sends it to another over wireless connection (16Mbps). Entire command finishes in about 15 seconds.
I am would like to know the time it takes to do "gzip -kfc1 file.tar" and "ssh armend@xeon-server "cat > /dev/null" " portions.. or compression and wireless transfer portions?
How can I separate those two part? I guess I can estimate the cost of wireless transfer based on network transfer speeds, but I am would like to do know if this would somehow cut into real execution time of first task.
Running two task separately adds extra overhead since I am writing output of first tast to drive and then use cat (with pipe) to send it over wireless network.
You can't really separate them, since ssh may begin working on the first part of the stream before gzip is done with the last part. The commands are run and the pipes are set up simultaneously, so if ssh appears to wait for gzip to finish, it's only because the pipe is buffered.
If you did run and time them separately, the results would (probably) add up to more than the total time of the piped operation.
Right. I tried to run the separately and execution times were greater...
I used my linux web browser to find the cost of piping in linux.
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i would expect to see little/no cost to piping, since all it should be doing is setting the stdout file handle in the sending program to be the stdin file handle in the receiving program
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If I run command: time gzip -fc1 file.tar | ssh armend@server "cat > /dev/null" -- it finishes in 15.9 seconds.
If I run two parts separately, as: time gzip -fc1 file.tar > new; time cat new | ssh armend@server "cat > /dev/null"....
My time of execution ~9 seconds to compress and 15.5 seconds to send.
Right. gzip and ssh run concurrently, so the time for the whole thing to complete is basically just the time it takes for the slower command (ssh, in your case). Naively, you might say the "cost" of piping is at most 400 milliseconds (ignoring (1) the seek time of your hard drive when reading from a file, (2) the difference in the setup times of gzip and ssh (when ssh may be trying to read but blocks instead), and (3) any slowing effects caused by running two CPU-intensive processes concurrently).
However, I doubt your network speed is consistent enough to read much into the difference between 15.9 seconds and 15.5. If you're curious, run it a few dozen times and see how much it varies. I suspect you'll find this variation makes it impossible to measure any pipe overhead. Even ignoring that variable, the difference between times will still be dominated by the issues mentioned parenthetically in the previous paragraph.
I'm not really sure what you're looking for. What kind of measurement could be considered a "cost" of piping? Difference in setup time perhaps? You might measure that with a homebrew script and a carefully constructed command line, but what good would it do you?
tl;dr - your question is not well defined.


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Star Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick now has even more to showboat about.
President Obama lavished praise on the record-breaking QB who traded his jail jumpsuit for a No. 7 Eagles jersey after serving time in prison for running a dog fighting ring and said Vick deserved his second chance, according to Sports Illustrated.
"The president wanted to talk about two things, but the first was Michael," Eagles owner Jeff Lurie told SI's Peter King about his recent phone conversation with the commander in chief about alternative energy use at the team's stadium.
"He said, 'So many people who serve time never get a fair second chance. He was ... passionate about it. He said it's never a level playing field for prisoners when they get out of jail. And he was happy that we did something on such a national stage that showed our faith in giving someone a second chance after such a major downfall."
The White House confirmed Obama has spoken with Lurie and offered his backing of Vick.
"The president did place a call to Mr. Lurie to discuss plans for the use of alternative energy at Lincoln Financial Field, during which they spoke about that issue and others," Bill Burton, deputy White House press secretary, said in a statement to Politico.
"He, of course, condemns the crimes that Michael Vick was convicted of but, as he's said previously, he does think that individuals who have paid for their crimes should have an opportunity to contribute to society again."
Vick pleaded guilty to running a dog-fighting ring in 2007 and served nearly two years in prison. He was signed by the Eagles in 2009.


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Western philosophy
Western philosophy, history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present.
This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate philosophical ideas and movements to their historical background and to the cultural history of their time, and (3) to trace the changing conception of the definition, the function, and the task of philosophy.
The nature of Western philosophy
The Western tradition
It would be difficult if not impossible to find two philosophers who would define philosophy in exactly the same way. Throughout its long and varied history in the West, philosophy has meant many different things. Some of these have been a search for wisdom (the meaning closest to the Latin philosophia, itself derived from the Greek philosoph, "lover of wisdom"); an attempt to understand the universe as a whole; an examination of humankind's moral responsibilities and social obligations; an effort to fathom the divine intentions and the place of human beings with reference to them; an effort to ground the enterprise of natural science; a rigorous examination of the origin, extent, and validity of human ideas; an exploration of the place of will or consciousness in the universe; an examination of the values of truth, goodness, and beauty; and an effort to codify the rules of human thought in order to promote rationality and the extension of clear thinking. Even these do not exhaust the meanings that have been attached to the philosophical enterprise, but they give some idea of its extreme complexity and many-sidedness.
It is difficult to determine whether any common element can be found within this diversity and whether any core meaning can serve as a universal and all-inclusive definition. But a first attempt in this direction might be to define philosophy either as "a reflection upon the varieties of human experience" or as "the rational, methodical, and systematic consideration of those topics that are of greatest concern to humankind." Vague and indefinite as such definitions are, they do suggest two important facts about philosophizing: (1) that it is a reflective, or meditative, activity and (2) that it has no explicitly designated subject matter of its own but is a method or type of mental operation (like science or history) that can take any area or subject matter or type of experience as its object. Thus, although there are a few single-term divisions of philosophy of long standing—such as logic, ethics, epistemology, or metaphysics—its divisions are probably best expressed by phrases that contain the preposition of—such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of law, and philosophy of art (aesthetics).
Part of what makes it difficult to find a consensus among philosophers about the definition of their discipline is precisely that they have frequently come to it from different fields, with different interests and concerns, and that they therefore have different areas of experience upon which they find it especially necessary or meaningful to reflect. St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224–75), a Dominican friar, George Berkeley (1685–1753), a bishop of the Irish Church, and Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55), a Danish divinity student, all saw philosophy as a means to assert the truths of religion and to dispel the materialistic or rationalistic errors that, in their opinion, had led to its decline. Pythagoras (c. 580–c. 500 bc) in southern Italy, René Descartes (1596–1650) in France, and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) in England were primarily mathematicians whose views of the universe and of human knowledge were vastly influenced by the concept of number and by the method of deductive thinking. Some philosophers, such as Plato (c. 428–c. 348 bc), Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Stuart Mill (1806–73), were obsessed by problems of political arrangement and social living, so that whatever they have done in philosophy has been stimulated by a desire to understand and, ultimately, to change the social and political behaviour of human beings. And still others—such as the Milesians (the first philosophers of Greece, from the ancient Anatolian city of Miletus), Francis Bacon (1561–1626), an Elizabethan philosopher, and Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), an English metaphysician—began with an interest in the physical composition of the natural world, so that their philosophies resemble more closely the generalizations of physical science than those of religion or sociology.
The history of Western philosophy reveals in detail the concentrated activity of a multitude of serious and able thinkers reflecting upon, reasoning about, and considering deeply the nature of their experience. But throughout this diversity certain characteristic oppositions continually recur, such as those between monism, dualism, and pluralism in metaphysics (see pluralism and monism); between materialism and idealism in cosmological theory; between nominalism and realism in the theory of signification; between rationalism and empiricism in epistemology; between utilitarianism and deontological ethics in moral theory; and between partisans of logic and partisans of emotion in the search for a responsible guide to the wisdom of life.
Many of these fundamental oppositions among philosophers will be treated in the article that follows. But if any single opposition is taken as central throughout the history of Western philosophy at every level and in every field, it is probably that between the critical and the speculative impulses. These two divergent motivations tend to express themselves in two divergent methods: analysis and synthesis, respectively. Plato's Republic is an example of the second; the Principia Ethica (1903) of G.E. Moore (1873–1958), a founder of analytic philosophy, is an example of the first. Beginning with a simple question about justice, the Republic in its discursiveness slowly but progressively brings more and more areas into the discussion: first ethics, then politics, then educational theory, then epistemology, and finally metaphysics. Starting with one specific question, Plato finally managed to make his discussion as broad as the world. Principia Ethica does just the opposite. Beginning with a general question—What is good?—it progressively breaks up this question into a whole series of subordinate questions, analyzing meanings ever more minutely, growing narrower and narrower but always with the utmost modesty and sincerity, striving for increasing simplicity and exactitude.
The analytic, or critical, impulse treats any subject matter or topic by concentrating upon the part, by taking it apart in the service of clarity and precision. It was essentially the method of Aristotle (384–322 bc) and of Peter Abelard (1079–1142), a French Scholastic; of David Hume (1711–76), a Scottish skeptic, and of Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), a German American logical positivist; and of Russell and Moore. The synthetic, or speculative, impulse operates by seeking to comprehend the whole, by putting it all together in the service of unity and completeness. It is essentially the method of Parmenides, a Sophist, and of Plato; of Aquinas and of Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77), a Dutch Jewish rationalist; and of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), a German idealist, and of Whitehead. Throughout philosophy's history, each of the two traditions has made its insistent claim.
There is one philosophical tradition—that of logical positivism—that sees philosophy as originating in the obscure mists of religion and coming finally to rest in the pure sunshine of scientific clarity. This represents a necessary progress because logical positivism considers it a scandal when philosophers speak in statements that are not in principle "verifiable" (see verifiability principle); it holds that bold and adventuresome philosophical speculation is at best mere self-indulgence, a passing state occurring when philosophical problems are raised prematurely—that is, at a time when philosophy does not possess the means to solve them.
Although logical positivism represents a partisan view, it does express indirectly a basic truth—that the philosophical enterprise has always hovered uncertainly between the lure of religious devotion and that of scientific exactitude. In the teachings of the earliest philosophers of Greece, it is impossible to separate ideas of divinity and the human soul from ideas about the mystery of being and the genesis of material change, and in the Middle Ages philosophy was acknowledged to be the "handmaiden of theology." But the increased secularization of modern culture has largely reversed this trend, and the Enlightenment's emphasis upon the separation of nature from its divine creator has increasingly placed philosophical resources at the disposal of those interested in creating a philosophy of science.
Yet philosophy's continuing search for philosophical truth leads it to hope, but at the same time to profoundly doubt, that its problems are objectively solvable. With respect to a total description of Being or a definitive account of the nature of values, only individual solutions now seem possible; and the optimistic hope for objective answers that secure universal agreement must be given up.
In this respect, philosophy seems less like science than like art and philosophers more like artists than like scientists, for their philosophical solutions bear the stamp of their own personalities, and their choice of arguments reveals as much about themselves as their chosen problem. As a work of art is a portion of the world seen through a temperament, so a philosophical system is a vision of the world subjectively assembled. Plato and Descartes, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), a German idealist, and John Dewey (1859–1952), an American pragmatist, have given to their systems many of the quaint trappings of their own personalities.
But if philosophy is not true in the same sense as science, it is not false in the same sense either; and this gives to the history of philosophy a living significance that the history of science does not enjoy. In science, the present confronts the past as truth confronts error; thus, for science, the past, even when important at all, is important only out of historical interest. In philosophy it is different. Philosophical systems are never definitively proved false; they are simply discarded or put aside for future use. And this means that the history of philosophy consists not simply of dead museum pieces but of ever-living classics—comprising a permanent repository of ideas, doctrines, and arguments and a continuing source of philosophical inspiration and suggestiveness to those who philosophize in any succeeding age. It is for this reason that any attempt to separate philosophizing from the history of philosophy is both a provincial act and an unnecessary impoverishment of its rich natural resources.
General considerations
Ways of ordering the history
The writing of the history of philosophy is controlled by a variety of cultural habits and conventions.
The ensuing article on the history of Western philosophy is divided into five sections—ancient, medieval, Renaissance, modern, and contemporary. A threefold distinction between ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy was prevalent until recent times and is only as old as the end of the 17th century. This distinction slowly spread to historical writing in all fields and was given definitive influence in philosophical writing through the series of lectures on the history of philosophy that Hegel delivered first at Jena, then at Heidelberg, and finally at Berlin between 1805 and 1830. In the century after Hegel, it was taken for granted as standard practice, though a host of cultural assumptions is implied by its use.
Treatment of the total field of the history of philosophy has been traditionally subject to two types of ordering, according to whether it was conceived primarily as (1) a history of ideas or (2) a history of the intellectual products of human beings. In the first ordering, certain ideas, or concepts, are viewed as archetypal (such as matter or mind or doubt), and the condensations occurring within the flow of thought tend to consist of basic types, or schools. This ordering has characterized works such as The History of Materialism (1866) by Friedrich Lange (1828–75), The Idealist Tradition: From Berkeley to Blanshard (1957) by A.C. Ewing (1899–1973), and The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (1960) by Richard H. Popkin (1923–2005). In the second type of ordering, the historian, impressed by the producers of ideas as much as by the ideas themselves—that is, with philosophers as agents—reviews the succession of great philosophical personalities in their rational achievements. This ordering has produced the more customary histories, such as A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell and The Great Philosophers (1957) by Karl Jaspers (1883–1969).
These two different types of ordering depend for their validity upon an appeal to two different principles about the nature of ideas, but their incidental use may also be influenced by social or cultural factors. Thus, the biographers and compilers of late antiquity (among them Plutarch [46–c. 119], Sextus Empiricus [flourished 3rd century ad], Philostratus [170–c. 245], and Clement of Alexandria [150–c. 211]), impressed by the religious pluralism of the age in which they lived, thought of philosophers, too, as falling into different sects and wrote histories of the Sophists, the Skeptics, the Epicureans, and other such schools; whereas, almost 2,000 years later, Hegel—living in a period of Romantic historiography dominated by the concept of the great man in history—deliberately described the history of philosophy as "a succession of noble minds, a gallery of heroes of thought."
Moving between these two ordering principles, the article below will be eclectic (as has come to be the custom), devoting chief attention to outstanding major figures while joining more-minor figures, wherever possible, into the schools or tendencies that they exemplify.
Factors in writing the history
The type of ordering suggested above also has some relationship to the more general problems of method in the writing of the history of philosophy. Here there are at least three factors that must be taken into account: (1) that any philosopher's doctrines depend (at least in part) upon those of his predecessors, (2) that a philosopher's thought occurs at a certain point in history and thus expresses the effects of certain social and cultural circumstances, and (3) that a philosopher's thought stems (at least in part) from his own personality and situation in life. This is only to say that the history of philosophy, to be at all comprehensive and adequate, must deal with the mutual interplay of ideas, of cultural contexts, and of agents.
The first factor may be called logical because a given philosophy is, in part, the intellectual response to the doctrines of its forerunners, taking as central the problems given by the current climate of controversy. Thus, many of the details of Aristotle's ethical, political, and metaphysical systems arise in arguments directed against statements and principles of Plato; much of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) by the English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704), an initiator of the Enlightenment, is directed against contemporary Cartesian presuppositions; and the New Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1704) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), a broadly learned German rationalist, is, in turn, specifically directed against Locke.
The second factor may be called sociological because it considers philosophy, at least in part, as a direct form of social expression, arising at a certain moment in history, dated and marked by the peculiar problems and crises of the society in which it flourishes. From this perspective, the philosophy of Plato may be viewed as the response of an aristocratic elitism to the immediate threat of democracy and the leveling of values in 5th-century Athens—its social theory and even its metaphysics serving the movement toward an aristocratic restoration in the Greek world. Thus, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas may be viewed as an effort toward doctrinal clarification in support of the institution of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, as the saint spent his life obediently fulfilling the philosophical tasks set for him by his superiors in the church and the Dominican order. Thus, the philosophy of Kant, with all of its technical vocabulary and rigid systematization, may be viewed as an expression of the new professionalism in philosophy, a clear product of the rebirth of the German universities during the 18th-century Enlightenment.
The third factor may be called biographical, or individual, because, with Hegel, it recognizes that philosophies are generally produced by people of unusual or independent personality, whose systems usually bear the mark of their creators. And what is meant here by the individuality of the philosopher lies less in the facts of his biography (such as his wealth or poverty) than in the essential form and style of his philosophizing. The cool intensity of Spinoza's geometric search for wisdom, the unswerving (if opaque) discursiveness of Hegel's quest for completeness or totality, the relentless and minute analytic search for distinctions and shades of meaning that marks Moore's master passion ("to be accurate—to get everything exactly right")—these qualities mark the philosophical writings of Spinoza, Hegel, and Moore with an unmistakably individual and original character.
Shifts in the focus and concern of Western philosophy
Any adequate treatment of individual figures in the history of philosophy tries to utilize this threefold division of logical, sociological, and individual factors; but in a synoptic view of the history of philosophy in the West, one is particularly aware of the various shifts of focus and concern that philosophy has sustained and, indeed, of the often profound differences in the way that it defines itself or visualizes its task from age to age or from generation to generation.
Philosophy among the Greeks slowly emerged out of religious awe into wonder about the principles and elements of the natural world. But as the Greek populations more and more left the land to become concentrated in their cities, interest shifted from nature to social living; questions of law and convention and civic values became paramount. Cosmological speculation partly gave way to moral and political theorizing, and the preliminary and somewhat fragmentary questionings of Socrates and the Sophists turned into the great positive constructions of Plato and Aristotle. With the political and social fragmentation of the succeeding centuries, however, philosophizing once again shifted from the norm of civic involvement to problems of salvation and survival in a chaotic world.
The dawn of Christianity brought to philosophy new tasks. St. Augustine (354–430)—the philosophical bishop of Hippo—and the Church Fathers used such resources of the Greek tradition as remained (chiefly Platonism) to deal with problems of creation, of faith and reason, and of truth. New translations in the 12th century made much of Aristotle's philosophy available and prepared the way for the great theological constructions of the 13th century, chiefly those of the Scholastic philosophers St. Bonaventure (c. 1217–74), St. Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–80), St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon (c. 1220–92), and John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). The end of the Middle Ages saw a new flowering of the opposite tendencies in the nominalism of William of Ockham (c. 1285–c. 1347) and the mysticism of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1327).
The Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance. Universalism was replaced by nationalism. Philosophy became secularized. The great new theme was that of the mystery and immensity of the natural world. The best philosophical minds of the 17th century turned to the task of exploring the foundations of physical science, and the symbol of their success—the great system of physics constructed by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)—turned the philosophers of the Enlightenment to epistemology and to the examination of the human mind that had produced so brilliant a scientific creation. The 19th century, a time of great philosophical diversity, discovered the irrational, and in so doing prepared the way for the 20th-century oppositions between logical atomism and phenomenology and between logical positivism and existentialism.
Although the foregoing capsule presentation of the history of philosophy in the West follows a strict chronology, it does not do justice to the constant occurrence and recurrence of dominant strands in the history of thought. It would also be possible to write the philosophical history of the Middle Ages simply by noting the complicated occurrence of Platonic and Aristotelian doctrines, of the Renaissance according to the reappearance of ancient materialism, Stoicism, and skepticism, and of the 18th century in terms of the competing claims of rationalist and empiricist principles. Thus, chronology and the interweaving of philosophical systems cooperate in a history of philosophy.Albert William Levi


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Michigan hasn't been to the Final Four in 20 years and when we dropped the ball this kid probably took it the hardest!
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The Buffett and Gates families, as well as onlookers, were beaming as the so-called Oracle of Omaha officially made his benevolence a reality.
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