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Dolphin House Serviced Apartments are part of the Dolphin Square complex and are situated around 3 and a half acres of idyllic landscaped gardens in the heart of Westminster. Located in a tranquil residential area, Dolphin House is within 5 minutes walk from Pimlico Underground Station with links to Central London and only a short taxi ride from both Victoria Station and Waterloo International, whilst nearby Westminster Millennium Pier provides regular riverboat transport to the City of London and Canary Wharf. Dolphin House offers a range of contemporary non-smoking serviced apartments for stays from 1 to 89 nights.
Our spacious and sophisticated apartments provide all the comforts of home and feature a wide range of facilities and services including a brand new Moroccan Spa. The Spa in Dolphin Square is London's only Spa offering the benefits of combined authentic Moroccan Hammam, Rhassoul, and Salt Infused Steam Room experience. Whether you are staying in London for just one night or for several months - Dolphin House is the ideal haven for you. Please note that bookings of 7 nights and over will now receive a twice weekly apartment service and linen change. All our rates include complementary use of our newly refurbished gym and swimming pool. We also offer squash and tennis with a small charge. Dolphin Square has now opened the doors to its fantastic new Moroccan Spa, opened in November 2011. Please note though that the pool is extremely popular and as such, it has been necessary to restrict the opening times for children. These times have been reviewed and have been extended as follows: Monday – Friday 10am – 12pm and 2pm – 5pm. On Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays, there are no restrictions for children to swim. Dolphin House Serviced Apartments are delighted to announce that we have introduced Luxury Alpaca pillows & duvets. The new products will replace our current Duck & Goose down duvets and pillows. The new pillows & duvets in our Dolphin House serviced Apartments are 100% Alpaca fibre, all of which are all lovingly handmade in Nottinghamshire. As an added benefit, the products work with your internal thermostat to keep you at a comfortable temperature all night. Our supplier are supporters of the British rural economy and only use natural materials sourced within the UK.
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Michael Gilliland, the former Sunflower Farmers Markets CEO accused of soliciting sex from a woman he believed to be a minor, was sentenced today in a Phoenix courtroom to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempted pandering.
As part of his plea agreement, Gilliland also will serve one year of supervised probation, said Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
Gilliland also was granted a furlough arrangement in which he'll serve two 15-day terms and be released for one week in between to run his businesses, Cobb said.
Gilliland's term started Tuesday.
Gilliland told the court that he regretted his mistake and the damage caused, according to an Associated Press report.
Gilliland, a founder and former CEO of Boulder-bred natural grocers Wild Oats Markets and Sunflower Farmers Markets, was arrested in February 2011 following a prostitution sting by undercover Phoenix Police Department officers.
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Kelsey Grammer regrets appearing on his ex-wife Camille's show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill" before the breakdown of their marriage, insisting the cameo was "ill advised."
Camille Grammer was filmed visiting star during his stint on Broadway for the first series of the U.S. reality show in 2010, but their meeting, which came after they had not seen each other for weeks, appeared awkward to viewers.
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Luongo and Canucks shut down Oilersby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver Canucks pledged not to look past the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night and ahead to a Stanley Cup rematch with the Boston Bruins 24 hours later.
They lived up to that promise.
Vancouver dominated the tired Oilers from start to finish, breaking open a 1-0 game when Zack Kassian and Chris Higgins scored 3:41 apart early in the third period. Dale Weise added his first career power-play goal with 34.8 seconds left, and Roberto Luongo made 19 saves in a 4-0 victory at Rogers Arena.
"We didn't talk too much about Xs and Os. We really cut our meetings short as far as talking about that stuff," coach John Tortorella said of his preparation. "It was basically about being ready to play the right way. We talked about a mindset from yesterday at practice right on until the drop of the puck here, about being ready to play."
Daniel Sedin opened the scoring on a rare power-play slap shot from the left point 8:41 into the second period, and defenseman Jason Garrison added a career-best three assists as Vancouver (19-10-5) extended its season-long winning streak to six games.
"The past three games we've had spurts, but today we brought it right from the start," said forward Ryan Kesler, who had two assists. "We didn't give them much and it was a complete effort by everybody."
Luongo wasn't busy, but made several highlight saves while the outcome was in doubt to earn his third shutout this season.
"They had some opportunities, a couple breakaways, Lu stood on his head," Kesler said. "We had some Grade-A chances and finally the floodgates opened and we started scoring."
After a lot of talk all week about the Bruins visiting Vancouver for the first time since winning Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final here almost exactly 2 1/2 years ago - and a lot of refusals to talk about it with the Oilers in town first - the Canucks came out flying. They had three great chances on the opening shift, outshooting the Oilers 6-0 in the opening six minutes and 14-4 in the first period.
"That first shift, that sets the tempo," Tortorella said.
They didn't open the scoring until almost midway through the second period, however. With twin brother Henrik in the penalty box and the Canucks on a 4-on-3 power play, Daniel's shot 8:41 into the second period hit the leg of defenseman Nick Schultz as he battled Higgins in the slot and bounced between the legs of goalie Devan Dubnyk.
Kassian scored in similar fashion 2:26 into the third, deflecting a long shot by David Booth through Dubnyk's legs, and Higgins snapped a wrist shot off a drop pass by Kesler under Dubnyk at 6:07.
"It's always nice to get a lead like that," said Luongo, whose 65th career shutout moved him within one of Patrick Roy for 14th place on the all-time list. "We had a great start. We didn't score, but we really got the momentum early in that game with great forechecking and created some chances. We really played a 60-minute game."
They still needed some big saves from Luongo on 2-on-1 rushes. He made a diving a poke check to deny Ales Hemsky after a strong move in tight late in the first period, then flashed the glove on David Perron from inside the left faceoff dot with 6:25 left in the second.
"It had a magnet on it tonight," Luongo said of a glove he also used to rob defenseman Justin Schultz midway through the third period.
Dubnyk was back in goal one night after being pulled 20 minutes into a 4-2 loss to the Boston Bruins. He matched Luongo for the first two periods and kept the Oilers in the game while they were being outshot 26-10 through 40 minutes, but things unraveled in the third.
"If you spend that much time in your own zone, bad things are going to happen," said coach Dallas Eakins, who credited his Canucks counterpart. "I thought we expended a lot last night in that game and I give John Tortorella and his group great credit. They were able to prepare for us. They were sitting around waiting for this game, so they were able to key on us. He had that team ready to go. … That's as good as I've seen the Canucks play in a while."
Dubnyk finished with 36 saves as the Oilers, last in the Western Conference with a record of 11-20-3, lost consecutive games for the first time since mid-November.
"That's the most frustrating part of the whole year," Dubnyk said. "We've shown that we're capable and we know what to do. There are going to be nights when things aren't working but we need to find a way when it's not going perfectly to hang in and grease out a win."
Edmonton got forward Boyd Gordon back after missing six games with a shoulder injury, and shook up the lineup, dropping Sam Gagner down to the fourth line to start the game.
It didn't do much to spark the Oilers, who were starting a four-game road trip. Edmonton did get odd-man rushes, but Perron failed to get a shot early in the first period, and Jordan Eberle did the same with another odd-man rush right after Vancouver opened the scoring.
"[Dubnyk] kept us in it and gave us a chance to try and find a way to tie the game out there, but we were just flat," Eberle said. "I'm sick of trying to find excuses for why we're losing. It's just frustrating."
Kassian finally broke it open with his first point in nine games, tipping the puck through a surprised Dubnyk after Booth, who also snapped a five-game pointless skid, cut into the middle and threw the puck at the net while falling to the ice. After Higgins converted a nice pass from Kesler, the Canucks were able to play their bottom lines more, resting their top players for the showdown with Boston.
Fourth-liner Weise banged in a rebound during a last-minute power play. Minutes later, the Canucks were trying to downplay the Bruins game.
"It's been a few years now and I think we have all moved on," said Luongo, who confirmed he is starting. "That being said there is a history there and those are the type of games you want to play."


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Feast of Dedication: Hanukkah/Chanukah
The Feast of Dedication [Chanukah; the Festival of Lights] to GOD and to His Temple must be honored by the Church of God (COG), just as Christ did [John 10:22-28]: [G] our dedication to God our Father, [O] our dedication to Others, through the body of Christ, [D] our dedication to the destruction of the works of the Devil [his systemic], by growing in grace and knowledge through God's Holy Spirit !! -- the continued use of the world's systemic by the COG is a validation of that which is and the inability to commit to that which ought to be, and we affirm a different vision of strength - God's strength [the application of His word] is dependent on our ability to create a world of love and caring, a world of peace and justice, a world in which every human being is treated as an embodiment of the Spirit of God [the community of God]; ** the works that we do in our Father's name, bear *witness* of us **.
Chislev 25 Festival of Lights or Dedication - beginning of the Jewish eight-day celebration in memory of the dedication of the altar in 164 B.C. after it had been defiled by Antiochus IV on the same date in 167 B.C. (Dan. 11:31; see also John 10:22).
Lexicon G1456 egkainia; AV - feast of dedication 1) dedication, consecration; in particular the annual feast celebrated eight days beginning in the 25th of Chislev, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus [B.C. 164] in memory of the cleansing of the temple from the pollution of Antiochus Epiphanes.
Chislev XXV The Feast of Dedication, viz. of the temple, profaned by the order of Antiochus Epiphanes, and repaired and purified by the care of Judas Maccabeus ["the hammer" or Maccabee]. This festival Christ honored with his presence at Jerusalem. It is likewise called the Feast of Lights because, during the time of its celebration, the people used to illuminate their houses, by setting up candles at every one's door; I Mac. iv. 52., II Mac. ii. 16., John x. 22.
John 10:22. And it was at Jerusalem the ** feast of the dedication **, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: *the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me*. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand. 30 I and [my] Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ** Ye are gods? ** 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, ** believe the works **: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father [is] in me, and I in him.
The spiritual message of who, and what we are, our responsibilities [John 10:34; the Family of God, our self-awareness], and of the "spiritual warfare" that we are engaged in [one definition (occurrence) of evil is our lack of awareness, the absence of *ourselves* (we are a part of God, and our absence is an absence of God's presence) both within and without the COG] - the COG is rededicated by keeping the Feast of Dedication on Chislev 25 for eight days [one day's oil burned for eight days symbolizing the miracle of the Holy Spirit; circumcision (physical) on the eight day (spiritually of the heart); Mary impregnated by the Holy Spirit most likely at this time, Christ was "conceived" at the time of the winter solstice when the night and darkness are longest; the "light" of the world] - a candle is lit each evening [using a Menorah], with each day of celebration focused on a different aspect of God's community [our "agape" relationship with God and with each other] - Chanukah celebrates the world's first recorded national liberation struggle; a message to the COG that we must not worship at the altar of this world's economic, political and cultural "reality," that we must overthrow all bondage [secular as-well-as religious], that we must rededicate God's Temple [which is *each-and-every one of us*] to God !! [preceding paragraphs outlined on Tikkun Magazine, Nov/Dec.2000]
The *will* to define our existence must be *God's Will* !! - we are *all* inspired and backed by God [the common fellowship] - we are to give of our gifts, to make a contribution, to the body of Christ, including the body of knowledge and wisdom [the application of that knowledge; the power of God] - we must promote the advancement of knowledge and dialogue, honestly seeking understanding of any resultant conflicts, we must build on the foundation, the existing truths [the template], all-the-while realizing that knowledge without wisdom is like faith without works - we must utilize *all* that God gives us [faith, reason, revelation, etc.] and realize that blind rejection [without due recourse] is *not* protection of belief [we can easily be the source of each other's negation] - many different attitudes, approaches, methods and conclusions will be represented [we are the human face of God], a substantial exchange of views, all-the-while trusting God to bring the harmony !! -- this *community of mind*, a complete and authentic presence of individual, begotten human beings, one to another, inspiring each other with the courage to take the risk of being the source of each other's completion, in the full faith of Jesus Christ, reverencing the animating Spirit that dwells within and among us - that which links us is what *ennobles* us and we must be cognizant of this because *holocaust*, the horror of our monstrous *failure of connection* in the COG, will be the tragic result if we don't !!
Our fellowship must have the *possession of God's mind*, must be fully prepared to show by words or teaching, to do justice to, to protect and defend, the truth of God, and must be ready to refute and to destroy [to cast out and to cast down], *all* decisions, reasoning's and judgments, that are opposed to, or against, the knowledge of God [and the application of that knowledge (worship and power and wisdom); the spiritual gifts], including the underlying consciousness and systemic structures [the "high things", the "higher powers" of hierarchy both secular and religious]; THOSE SELF-EXALTED AGAINST GOD utilizing the suppression of spontaneity, the enacting of roles, the pervasive imposition of "acceptable" behavior, the ensuing artificiality and stress, and, finally, the collective experience that simultaneously divides a group of people by an infinite distance and unites them in the false communion of being-other-than-themselves together !!
The *perfected and gifted fellowship* must *STILL* the enemy within and without the COG, and the avenger [the curse, the Tribulation holocaust] by the *power of God*, the strength ordained !! -- there is simply no depth of evil to which a church/society cannot sink once it abandons love as its governing principle, and the test of love's authenticity is that in its presence nobody gets harmed !! - therefore the "imaginary and false community" that purports to satisfy our need for connectedness and recognition always reveals its duplicity by having to generate an *unworthy class of non-members* to outwardly personify the "haunting inner demon" of personal alienation - true "agape love" realizes itself through the *affirmation of the other*; we are, to varying degrees and in the aggregate, *blind*, and in our blindness we injure ourselves and our world; we become *lame* - we must examine with righteous perseverance the symptoms and causes of alienation wherever they manifest themselves; we must be *healed* !! [preceding paragraphs outlined on Tikkun, Jan/Feb.2001, pp.66-67]


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Shakira expecting second child
Singer SHAKIRA is pregnant with her second child.
The Hips Don't Lie hitmaker is expecting another baby with boyfriend Gerard Pique.
Shakira and the football star are already parents to 18-month-old Milan.
The 37-year-old singer has confirmed the happy news in the upcoming Mexican issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, stating, "Yes, I'm pregnant."


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Continental philosophy
Continental philosophy, series of Western philosophical schools and movements associated primarily with the countries of the western European continent, especially Germany and France. The term continental philosophy was adopted by professional philosophers in England after World War II to describe the various schools and movements then prominent in continental Europe and to distinguish them from a set of loosely related approaches, commonly known as analytic philosophy, that had been prevalent from the early 20th century in England and later in the United States and other English-speaking countries.
German idealism and the defense of reason
Modern continental philosophy emerged in response to the skeptical challenges posed by the philosophies of the British empiricists, especially George Berkeley (1685–1753) and David Hume (1711–76). Berkeley argued ingeniously that esse est percipi (aut percipere), "to be is to be perceived (or to perceive)"—everything real is either an idea or a mind (see idealism). Hume, in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), rejected the reality of cause and effect as ordinarily conceived, arguing that belief in particular causal connections could not be justified rationally but could be explained psychologically as the product of mere "habit" and the "association of ideas." In so doing he potentially undermined the rational foundations not only of beliefs about things not immediately present in space or time but of all scientific knowledge (see induction, problem of). Both philosophers questioned the commonplace assumptions that there is a "reality" distinct from the ideas or perceptions given in experience and that it is within the power of human reason to discern that reality's true nature. The forceful skepticism to which they contributed, which became one of the most powerful philosophical currents of the Enlightenment, treated the scope of human knowledge as severely limited and the powers traditionally attributed to human reason—especially during the era of great metaphysical system building in the 17th century—as little more than dogmatic pretensions.
The philosophy of German idealism arose to challenge the Enlightenment's skeptical, materialist, empiricist, and antimetaphysical worldview. German idealist philosophers sought thereby to restore reason to its former preeminence and grandeur as the universal tool through which human understanding of reality is possible.
Hume's skepticism was the explicit point of departure for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), who acknowledged that it was Hume who had awakened him from his "dogmatic slumber." Although Kant's subsequent "critical" philosophy emphasized the limitations of human reason, it did so in a manner that ultimately vindicated the claims to knowledge that more-traditional philosophers had made on its behalf.
Following the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596–1650), Kant insisted that any investigation of the scope of human knowledge must begin with an examination of the cognitive faculties through which it is acquired. This general approach became characteristic of later German idealism and has exerted an enormous influence on continental philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. In his Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787), Kant presciently observed that "the critical path alone is open," meaning that any approach to the problem of knowledge that failed to respect the limitations that he had laid down risked falling into the metaphysical dogmatism of old.
The problem of knowledge, according to Kant, is to explain how some judgments about the world can be necessarily true and therefore knowable "a priori," or independently of experience (see a posteriori knowledge). Until Kant's time, all empirical judgments were regarded as vulnerable to skeptical doubt, because human experience is inherently fallible. On the other hand, all a priori judgments, such as "All bachelors are unmarried," were regarded as empty of content, because they did not present any information that was not already contained in the concepts with which they were composed (being unmarried is part of what it is to be a bachelor). If human knowledge of the world was to be possible, therefore, there would have to be judgments that were both empirical and a priori.
The genius and originality of Kant's philosophy lay in the means by which he made room for such judgments. In what he described, in the preface to the second edition (1787) of the Critique of Pure Reason, as his "Copernican" revolution, he proposed that knowledge should not depend on the conformity of a judgment to an object in experience; rather, the existence of an object in experience should depend on its conformity to human knowledge.
Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects. But all attempts to extend our knowledge of objects by establishing something in regard to them a priori, by means of concepts, have, on this assumption, ended in failure. We must therefore make trial whether we may not have more success in the tasks of metaphysics, if we suppose that objects must conform to our knowledge.
That is to say, a thing can be an "object of possible experience" for human beings only if it conforms to human knowledge in certain respects. This is because the faculty of intuition—which receives the appearances ("phenomena") of experience—is structured by the concepts of space and time, and because the faculty of understanding—which orders the phenomena received through intuition—is structured by concepts grouped under the general headings of quantity, quality, relation, and modality. The fact that space and time are forms of possible experience, rather than generalizations derived from experience, explains how the judgments of geometry, for example, can be both empirical (about experience) and knowable a priori. Similarly, a judgment such as "Every event has a cause," is both empirical and a priori, because causality (under the heading "relation") is one of the concepts imposed on experience by the understanding, not a generalization derived by the understanding from experience.
Behind the phenomena of experience, according to Kant, there is a realm of "noumena," e.g., "things in themselves," that is in principle unknowable. The mistake of traditional philosophers had been to assume that reason could use a priori principles to derive metaphysical knowledge of things outside or beyond any possible experience. In this respect the skeptical philosophers had been right to criticize the traditional proofs of the existence of God or of the immortality of the soul as so much empty dogmatism.
Not surprisingly, neither of Kant's chief philosophical antagonists was satisfied with the new critical philosophy. For the skeptics, Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena was redolent of earlier metaphysics. If knowledge of the noumenal realm is impossible, on what basis could Kant claim that it exists? Why refer to it at all? For the dogmatists, conversely, Kant's supposed defense of the powers of reason ceded far too much ground to the antimetaphysical camp.
Kant's moral philosophy, as elaborated in the Critique of Practical Reason (1788) and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), also proved extremely influential. In these works his central concern was human freedom, or the autonomy of the will, just as the autonomy of reason had been the focus of the first critique (see free will). The immediate problem for Kant was to reconcile the idea of freedom with the evident causal determinism operative in the phenomenal world, a determinism that the first critique itself had endorsed.
Against the champions of determinism, Kant insisted on the autonomous capacities of the human will: by universalizing one's maxims (or reasons) for action in accordance with the categorical imperative—"Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"—one acts freely, or autonomously. By following universal imperatives, the will escapes the contingencies and determinism of the phenomenal or empirical realm. Thereby, its actions obtain an ethical dignity or moral purity that approximates the sublimity of what Kant called the "kingdom of ends": a noumenal realm of pure morality, unaffected by the vagaries of experience. In Kant's ethical theory, the kingdom of ends possesses the sublimity of an idea of pure reason, inasmuch as it is free of empirical taint. Kant's formula for autonomy is thus opposed to utilitarianism, the view that actions are right or wrong by virtue of their consequences. Whereas utilitarian moral theories suggest that morally right actions are properly motivated by desires or interests—e.g., to maximize consequences that are good, such as pleasure or happiness—Kant's brand of moral rigorism is predicated on reason alone.
Yet, Kant openly admitted that, according to the letter of his approach, human freedom possesses a merely "formal" or "noumenal" character. Once one tries to act freely in a phenomenal world dominated by the principle of causality, or to act morally in a world in which human action is always motivated by interests, "rational" or "free" outcomes cannot be guaranteed. Thus, Kant's practical philosophy is beset by the antinomy (contradiction) between freedom and necessity: human beings are inwardly free but outwardly subject to the laws of causality. This Pyrrhic vindication of freedom left many of Kant's heirs dissatisfied and striving vigorously to transcend the oppositions and limitations his philosophy had bequeathed.
One such successor was the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814). Taking Kant's second critique as his starting point, Fichte declared that all being is posited by the ego, which posits itself. As Fichte states in The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge (1794), "That whose being (essence) consists merely in the fact that it posits itself as existent is the ego as absolute subject. As it posits itself, so it is; and as it is, so it posits itself." In Fichte's view, if the ego is in reality the basis of all experience, then it qualifies as "unconditioned": it is free of empirical taint; it is no longer subject to the limitations of causality emanating from the external world. In this way, Kant's antithesis or opposition between the noumenal and phenomenal realms disappears.
Fichte gave a practical or voluntarist cast to the formula cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), which Descartes had proposed as the bedrock of certainty on which the edifice of human knowledge could be constructed. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would remark, in a Fichtean spirit, in Faust (1808): "In the beginning was the deed." However, on the whole Fichte's heirs remained unsatisfied with his voluntaristic resolution of the tension between subject and object, will and experience. They perceived his claims as little more than an abstract declaration rather than a substantive resolution or authentic working through of the problem. Subsequent thinkers also wondered whether his elevation of the subject to the position of an absolute did not result in an impoverishment of experience.
Kant's most important successor, G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831), attempted to transcend systematically all the antinomies of Kantian thought—noumenon and phenomenon, freedom and necessity, subject and object. Whereas Kant had claimed that humans could aspire only to knowledge of phenomena, Hegel set out to prove that, as in the metaphysics of old, reason was in fact capable of an "absolute knowledge" that penetrated into essences, or things-in-themselves. For Kant the ideas of pure reason possessed merely a noumenal status: they could serve as regulative ideals for human thought or achievement, yet, insofar as they transcended the bounds of experience, they could never be verified or redeemed by the understanding.
In Hegel's thought the limitations to knowledge repeatedly stressed by Kant had become nothing less than a scandal to Reason. As Hegel declared polemically in the Science of Logic (1812; 1816): "The Kantian philosophy becomes a pillow for intellectual sloth, which soothes itself with the idea that everything has been already proved and done with." Hegel's major works, including, in addition to the Science of Logic, the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and the Philosophy of Right (1821), all contain detailed and powerful rejoinders to Kantian conceptions of knowledge, truth, and freedom.
For Hegel the challenge was to articulate a philosophy that went beyond Kant without regressing behind him, without relapsing into dogmatic metaphysics. In the Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel undertook a genuinely novel approach to the problem of knowledge, tracing the immanent movement of the "shapes of consciousness"—the different historical conceptions of knowledge—from "sense certainty" through "perception," "force," "consciousness," "self-consciousness," "reason," "spirit," and finally "absolute knowing." At the final stage, "otherness" has been eliminated, and consciousness has reached the plane of unconditional truth. At this point a conception of knowledge is obtained—which Hegel called the Begriff, or idea—that is free of the aforementioned Kantian oppositions and thus suitable for producing a "first philosophy": a doctrine of essences that accurately captures the rational structure of reality. No longer limited, as with Kant, to knowledge of appearances, consciousness is at last able to obtain genuine knowledge of the way things truly are.
Announcing his philosophical program in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel declared that "substance must become subject." This terse formula characterized one of his main philosophical goals: to reconcile classical and modern philosophy. In Hegel's view, Greek philosophy had attained an adequate notion of substance yet for historical reasons had fallen short of the modern concept of subjectivity. Conversely, modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes, appreciated the value of subjectivity as a philosophical starting point but failed to develop an adequate notion of objective truth. Hegel's philosophy sought to combine the virtues of both approaches by linking ontology (the philosophical study of being, or existence) and epistemology (the philosophical study of knowledge).
At the same time, Hegel believed that by embracing subjectivity Kant and other modern philosophers had prematurely abandoned the claims of ontology. By making truth inordinately dependent on the standpoint of the knowing subject, they failed to give "essence," or the intrinsic nature of objective reality, its due. Consequently, their philosophies were tainted by "subjectivism." In Kant's case, this defect was evident not only in his conclusion that phenomena are the only possible objects of knowledge but also in the solipsistic implications of his moral doctrine, which posited mutually isolated subjects who formulate universal laws valid for all moral agents. The Kantian moral subject, which prized autonomy above all else, radically devalued habit, custom, and tradition—what Hegel described as substantial ethical life, or Sittlichkeit. In Hegel's view, these modern approaches placed a burden on the idea of subjectivity that was more than the concept could bear. In this regard as well, Hegel sought a compromise between modernity's extreme devaluation of tradition and the elements of rootedness and continuity that it could provide, thereby preventing the autonomous subject from spinning out of control as it were.
Hegel thought that he discerned the disastrous consequences of such willfulness in the rise of bourgeois society—which he perceived, following Thomas Hobbes, as a competitive "war of all against all"—and in the despotic outcome of the French Revolution. Because bourgeois society, whose doctrine of "rights" had elevated the modern subject to a virtual absolute, gave unfettered rein to individual liberty, it invited anarchy, with tyranny as the only stopgap. Hegel held Kant's philosophy to be the consummate expression of this modern standpoint, with all its debilities and risks. Consequently, in his political philosophy Hegel argued that substantial ethical life resided in the state. In his view, the state alone was capable of reconciling the antagonisms and contradictions of bourgeois society. The quietistic (if not reactionary) implications of his political thought were epitomized by his famous declaration in the Philosophy of Right that "what is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational."
Moreover, it became increasingly difficult for Hegel's followers to defend his later philosophy against the charge of having regressed to a pre-Kantian metaphysical dogmatism. In the Science of Logic, Hegel presumptuously claimed that his treatise contained "the thoughts of God before He created the world." Later critics would strongly object to his "pan-logism"—his a priori assumption that the categories of reason necessarily underlay the whole of reality, or being. Although Hegel optimistically proclaimed that history demonstrated "progress in the consciousness of freedom," his doctrine of the "cunning of reason"— according to which the aims of the World Spirit are willy-nilly realized behind the backs of individual actors—appeared to justify misery and injustice in the world as part of a larger plan visible only to Hegel himself (see evil, problem of). "History," he observed unapologetically, is "the slaughter-bench on which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of states, and the virtue of individuals have been sacrificed."
Following Hegel's death in 1831, disenchantment with his philosophy, as well as with the speculative orientation of German philosophy as a whole, was rapid and widespread. F.W.J. Schelling (1775–1854), Hegel's successor at the University of Berlin, emphatically rejected the idea that reason was capable of grasping reality. He insisted that thought and being belonged to two entirely separate ontological categories. In the System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), an early work that was profoundly influenced by Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790) as well as by the aesthetic writings of Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Schelling recommended that philosophy "flow back…into the universal ocean of poetry." He simultaneously prophesied the advent of "a new mythology…which shall be the creation, not of some individual author, but of a new race." Schelling's summons, and his insistence on the superiority of the aesthetic faculty to cognition or intellection, found a sympathetic reception among his German romantic contemporaries. In Schelling's view, knowledge could not be obtained by recourse to logic. Instead, it was an affair of a quasi-mystical "intellectual intuition"—only thereby could one grasp the absolute, or the ultimate reality of things, as the primordial "one" or "world-soul." The retreat from reason was in full swing.
The retreat from reason
A young Dane named Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) attended Schelling's lectures during the 1830s. He was soon disappointed by what he considered the residual Hegelianism of Schelling's absolute idealism. For Kierkegaard, speculative philosophy remained at odds with the demands of "existence"—the particular qualities and requirements of an individual life. It was this dimension of individuality, Kierkegaard argued, that remained alien to the generalizing character of abstract thought. Kierkegaard found Hegel's influence in particular to be baneful and irresponsible; it seemed characteristic of German idealism in its Hegelian form to care more about perfecting lifeless and convoluted ideational systems than about the details of human existence. Renouncing the metaphysical quest for certainty or Hegelian absolute knowledge, Kierkegaard became a self-avowed advocate of subjectivity. As he remarked in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)—whose very title is a jibe at the Hegelian ideal of philosophy as science—"The task of the subjective thinker is to transform himself into that which clearly and definitely expresses in existence whatever is essentially human."
Kierkegaard frequently wrote pseudonymously and ironically, self-consciously adopted a literary rather than a scientific idiom, and, in works such as Attack upon Christendom (1854–55), mercilessly indicted his contemporaries for their faithlessness and ethical conformity. As a Protestant thinker, Kierkegaard believed that he was returning to the concerns of Pauline Christianity, and he viewed the Confessions of St. Augustine (354–430) as an important literary precedent. Only by probing the recesses of his own inner self or subjectivity can the individual accede to truth. In one of his best-known works, Fear and Trembling (1843), he reconstructed the biblical tale of Abraham, praising the protagonist's "teleological suspension of the ethical" for his willingness to sacrifice his only son on the basis of his unshakable faith. Kierkegaard's stress on the forlornness of the human condition, as well as on the absence of certainty concerning the possibility of salvation, made him an important forerunner of 20th-century existentialism.
A further example of the revolt against the rationalist ethos of German idealism was the "philosophy of will" developed by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860). Schopenhauer, too, felt that Hegel had prematurely proclaimed the finality of his own system, and, like Schelling, he believed that life's most important truths defied comprehension by reason.
Schopenhauer's philosophy returned to the Kantian distinction between appearances and things-in-themselves, or between phenomena and noumena, in order to stress the limitations of reason. In his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation (1819), Schopenhauer reiterated Kant's claim that, given the structure of human cognition, knowledge of things as they really are is impossible; the best that can be obtained are comparatively superficial representations of things.
But the most influential aspect of Schopenhauer's philosophy was his recasting of the concept of the will. He viewed the will as a quasi-mystical life force that underlay all of reality: "This word [will] indicates that which is the being-in-itself of everything in the world, and is the sole kernel of every phenomenon." Although the will remained inaccessible to ideas or concepts, its nature could be fathomed or glimpsed through nonrational aesthetic experience—an insight that was clearly indebted to Schelling's philosophy as well as to the romantic concept of "genius."
Although The World as Will and Representation had little impact when it was first published, Schopenhauer's pessimism—his devaluation of the capacities of the intellect and his corresponding conviction that reality is ultimately unknowable—became a virtual credo for a subsequent generation of European intellectuals whose hopes for democratic reform across the continent were dashed by the failure of the Revolutions of 1848. His belief in the ability of art, particularly music, to afford metaphysical insight profoundly influenced the aesthetic theories of the German composer Richard Wagner. And his philosophy of the will, as well as his stark view of reason as incapable of grasping the true nature of reality, had a considerable impact on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.


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'Central Park Five' a lesson in injustice
Of all the cruelties on display in "The Central Park Five,'' one of the cruelest is set in a classroom. The film — a scrupulous, singeing documentary by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah, and her husband, David McMahon — reconstructs the notorious series of events that occurred in the spring of 1989 after a young investment banker was beaten and raped while running one night in Central Park. The New York Police Department managed to round up a handful of teenage suspects from Harlem — four black and one Puerto Rican; the victim was a white woman — and pin the crime on them.
The moment in the classroom involves one of the suspects, Korey Wise. By the time it arrives, we know that each of the boys has confessed to the crime and that the confessions were made under duress and were false. We know this because the suspects, now men in their 30s, have separately relived the whole experience for us. We know this because the manner in which the film revives the case leaves little doubt of their innocence, at least in the rape case. They each were in the park that night, in a group of 30 or so boys, some of whom were troublemakers. But they were in an area of the park some distance from where Trisha Meili, the runner, was assaulted. We know this because the man who actually committed the crime came forward a few years ago; and DNA testing confirmed his claim.
The eldest of the five suspects is Wise. At 16, with his hair cut into a high-top fade, he sits at a desk in the front row of a functioning classroom. The district attorney's office is videotaping its interrogation of him. He's been given a can of Pepsi and is the only person in the frame. On the other side of the camera sits one of the lead attorneys, a woman named Elizabeth Lederer, who informs him of his rights and eventually hands him a photograph of the victim. Initially, it's unclear what part of the body he's being shown (I had to see the film twice to make out that it was her severely bruised head).
Wise holds the photo, looks it over, and resumes affirming Lederer's line of inquiry (Is this the woman you saw? Is that how she looked when you saw her?). Between yeses, something terrible happens. Wise leans in toward the picture and gives it a serious stare. He then produces the most adult exhalation I've heard a 16-year-old expel. This is what he'd confessed to doing that night in the park? This? It's an awful enough image when the perpetrator is someone else. It's a living nightmare when you've led authorities to believe that one of the perpetrators is you.
Wise and three of the five others said that they had been doing all that yessing because they thought it would get them out of trouble. But holding proof of their alleged brutality takes Wise's breath away. For the remainder of the interrogation, even though he's still saying yes — kind of — the words issue from him garbled and half-formed. All that you imagine he's thinking is "No, no, no, no.''
The full scope of a social tragedy — the rape and assault; the railroading of five innocent suspects; the media's failure to ask harder questions of the police department and justice system — crystallizes in his reaction to that picture. An adult Wise tells the filmmakers that he felt 12 in that moment. But it also feels like a young man's last adolescent breath.
For about 70 minutes, this is bravura moviemaking. McMahon and the Burnses conjure the only-in-New York cultural and socioeconomic climate that could produce a perfect storm of a scandal: rampant crime, the AIDS and crack epidemics, racial tensions, urban decay, vast disenfranchisement, the local hot air of Donald Trump and Al Sharpton, hip-hop's quiet drift from housing projects to mainstream America, the fear and endangerment of black men. The filmmakers — along with the reporters, sociologists, and community leaders who sit before the filmmakers' cameras — explain the city at the end of the 1980s and how that specific urban climate evokes, say, the Jim Crow South.
The so-called Central Park Five — Wise, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusuf Salaam, and Antron McCray (McCray is heard but declined to appear on camera) — became self-conscripted scapegoats for the epic dysfunction of a city in particular and a country in general. Four of the five were done in by their taped false confessions.
What's amazing about listening to them speak now, often through tears, is the absence of bitterness. How they came to be exonerated in 2002 sounds like something out of Alexandre Dumas or Victor Hugo. The dramatic thriller fashioned from this tinderbox and its wealth of tender memories is morally proportioned. The filmmakers never lose site of either set of victims — neither the young men nor the jogger — and leave you no choice but to hold in contempt the media, the district attorney's office, and the NYPD.
If the second hour or so isn't as strong as the first, it's because the filmmaking fails to rise to the injustice that's befallen its subjects since their exoneration. It can't, really. The circumstances of the crime — each of the crimes — are appalling. But they're appalling in the ways that have provided the makings for many great books and movies.
Wise, Santana, Richardson, Salaam, and McCray filed a federal lawsuit against the City of New York in 2003. In the height of irony, lawyers for the city have recently subpoenaed the Burnses' and McMahon's unused interviews and footage. (The detectives and prosecutors involved with the case declined to participate in the film.) What's currently happening with the five men doesn't play to Ken Burns's strengths as an architect of the past. (Sarah Burns documented the story in a 2011 nonfiction book.)
The Burnses and McMahon turn the first part of the movie into a grand tragedy. Ken Burns is a dryly dramatic historian and in that history is veiled advocacy — for the ecology, for equality, for a popular resurrection of jazz. He is an archive detective. He's not a lobbyist, editorialist, or persecutor of the errant and the venal. He's not Errol Morris.
You're left just as desperate for a movie about the five's nine-year wait for a civil trial or settlement. Building a film from the details of how this particular injustice was executed requires rigorousness. It's not an easy achievement, but perhaps it's simpler than documenting the pursuit of justice as it happens. In this case, it's untidy, uncertain, and seemingly unattainable. It'd be a lifelong pursuit.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's women's lacrosse team's late push fell short, resulting in an 18-14 defeat at the hands of the Plymouth State Panthers in the 2009 Little East Conference opener for both teams at Cressy Field Saturday afternoon.
The Corsairs outscored the Panthers 6-2 over the game's final 20 minutes, but it was not enough to erase an eight-goal deficit. With the Corsairs trailing by 16-8 midway through the second half, junior attacker Gillian Carey (Waltham, MA/Waltham High/UMass Amherst) swung the momentum with consecutive goals the latter of which cut the deficit to 16-10 with 16:52 to play. The goals were Carey's third and fourth of the afternoon, all of which came in the second half.
The Panthers started the game on a roll, taking leads of 4-1 and 8-3 with 19:16 and 11:21 remaining, respectively. The early effort was bolstered by local Panther junior Taylor Cambal (West Yarmouth, MA/Tabor Academy), who scored two of the first eight Plymouth goals. Cambal later picked up three assists to go along with the two goals.
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The Corsairs outscored the Panthers 8-7 in the second half after trailing 11-6 at the intermission. Despite the loss, UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Jerry Jennings was satisfied with the team's overall performance. "Our team finally showed the level of ability we actually have," Jennings said. "We played well as a team. I was pleased with our effort, and we just ran out of time."
Saturday's game marked the debut of junior Liz Miller (Littleton, MA/Westford Academy/New Hampshire), who started her first game in goal for the Corsairs. "Liz made the step up to playing better and better today," said Jennings. Miller had six saves on the afternoon.
Sophomore attacker Samantha Wonson (Lowell, MA/Lowell HS) had a season high three goals. Carey, Carlucci, and Wonson accounted for 11 of the 14 Corsair tallies. "All the scorers had seasonal bests today," Jennings said.
The Corsairs dropped to 0-5 with the defeat, while the Panthers improved to 1-4 with the victory. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they host Worcester State Thursday evening. PSU will host Eastern Connecticut next Saturday.


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Melanie Powell and Ronald Larry Hydrick were killed after Taylor Powell chased and ran them off the road early Sunday morning, according to authorities.
The woman killed in what investigators are calling a double murder-suicide had filed for divorce from her husband just three days before.
Melanie Powell and Ronald Hydrick were killed after Taylor Powell chased and ran them off the road early Sunday morning, according to authorities. The former Sheriff's deputy then shot himself in the head, they said.
Court records indicate that Melanie Powell had filed for a divorce from her husband of more than 24 years on Thursday.
Taylor Powell, 52, went to Ronald Hydrick's home on Cypress Road just after midnight Sunday. Powell's wife, Melanie Powell, 51, and Hydrick, 53, were sitting outside when the three were involved in a confrontation, said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit Commander Sgt. Dale Phillips.
While investigators can't be sure about what transpired since all parties are deceased, they believe Taylor Powell chased his wife and Hydrick for about a mile and a half before Hydrick crashed his Ford pickup truck at the bottom of a wooded ravine off Sylvan Loop Road.
"The vehicle went into a roll and slammed into a tree at a high rate of speed causing tremendous damage," Phillips said.
Taylor Powell looked down and saw that they were dead before shooting himself in the head with his revolver, Phillips said.
Investigators were originally called to the scene after receiving a 911 from a passing motorist about an apparent traffic accident. None of the parties involved called 911 at any point.
Taylor Powell worked as a Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's deputy from the late 1980s until leaving for a job at Mercedes in 1997. Powell worked in the department's patrol division for most of his law enforcement career, and left on good terms, Phillips said.
Some of the department veterans remained friends with Taylor Powell.
"They're all in shock that he would do something like this," Phillips said.
Phillips doesn't believe that Taylor Powell knew Hydrick.
The Powells had two grown daughters and children from other relationships. Hydrick, who was not married, also had children, Phillips said.
Investigators waited to disclose the identities of the suspect and victims until Monday so they could notify the extended families.
Investigators with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences were conducting tests Monday morning to determine whether alcohol was involved. All three had likely been drinking Saturday night, Phillips said, but he isn't sure to what extent or if it was a factor.
"There's no way to say whether he intended to harm these people," Phillips said. "His actions did indicate that it was more than just 'I'm going to follow them and see where they're going.' I believe that his actions were violent in nature. They were reckless, which would have been reason to charge him with murder had he lived."
Investigators believe Taylor Powell fired at least two shots at Hydrick's truck during the pursuit, which lasted less than five minutes. One bullet hole was discovered in the passenger door and investigators believe that shot was fired as both drivers made a U-turn in a church parking lot. Taylor Powell is believed to have fired a second shot shortly before the crash.
Investigators will likely search both trucks on Tuesday, Phillips said. They will turn the results of their investigation over to the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney's Office.
It's an unusual case, Phillips said, because investigators aren't pressured to make an arrest or find out information before leads dry up.
"We're just trying to help these families as much as possible," he said. "There are a lot of questions, and we're working to answer those questions.
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Tony Van Houten, physical plant event manager at Hope College, has been named recipient of the college's 10th annual "Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund" award for strong, positive impact on students.
Tony Van Houten, physical plant event manager at Hope College, has been named recipient of the college's 10th annual "Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund" award for strong, positive impact on students.
The award recognizes and supports the efforts of Hope faculty and staff who make extraordinary contributions to the lives of students. Van Houten will be honored during a dinner on Thursday, April 30, held in conjunction with the spring meeting of the college's Board of Trustees.
"Tony gives selflessly in all of his work, brings joy, offers encouragement, provides fellowship to everyone he encounters, has a positive impact on everyone he meets, and goes beyond what is expected," said Dr. Richard Frost, vice president and dean of students at Hope, whose office coordinates the award, which is presented based on nominations from the campus community. "Hope is a better place because of his many contributions. He sets a standard for all of us to emulate."
Van Houten's responsibilities include helping to coordinate events on campus, developing computer-aided design drawings for events, and setting up events in the DeWitt Center, Maas Center and Phelps Hall. He notes that he finds connecting with students especially rewarding.
"I love being part of the HopeCollege family, having a part in the lives of students whether it be planning an event or having student employees," he said. "There are things that can be taught in a work environment that they take with them into their own career after college. I feel it very important to put others' needs before your own, and make sure everyone that I come into contact with has the best experience they can have with Hope College, and that we should try to do it all with a smile and servant attitude."
Van Houten has spent most of his life connected to Hope. His father, Adrian Van Houten, was a member of the physical plant staff from 1974 to 1994, and in June of 1976, Tony at age 15 took a summer job with the college's grounds department, continuing with the department into the summer of 1978.
He notes that he particularly enjoyed rainy days, when he couldn't work outside and would instead be reassigned to work with his father, whose responsibilities included maintaining the bowling alleys that the college had in the DeWitt Center at the time.
"Of course after cleaning and oiling they had to be tested," he said.
More seriously, he credits his father for his work ethic. "He is the one that taught me the importance of going over and above in your job, and putting others' needs first before your own," he said.
After graduating from Holland High School in 1979, Tony started working full-time with the college's grounds department. After five years away, he returned in 1993 to become a custodian in the DeWitt Center, with subsequent promotions to coordinating set-ups in the east-central portion of campus, to building services manager and to a combination of building services manager and set-up coordinator before taking his present position.
Beyond his involvement with Hope, he was in music ministry for 20 years with his parents, Sharon and Adrian Van Houten, and is on the Board of Directors of Van Houten Ministries. He is a member of Parkside Bible Church, where he is a former elder and deacon, and is on the Parkside Bible technical team. His activities also include the West Michigan Airsoft team and acting with Avalon School of the Arts.
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