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Representation of statistical sound properties in human auditory cortex.
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The work carried out in this doctoral thesis investigated the representation of statistical sound properties in human auditory cortex. It addressed four key aspects in auditory neuroscience: the representation of different analysis time windows in auditory cortex; mechanisms for the analysis and segregation of auditory objects; information-theoretic constraints on pitch sequence processing; and the analysis of local and global pitch patterns. The majority of the studies employed a parametric design in which the statistical properties of a single acoustic parameter were altered along a continuum, while keeping other sound properties fixed. The thesis is divided into four parts. Part I (Chapter 1) examines principles of anatomical and functional organisation that constrain the problems addressed. Part II (Chapter 2) introduces approaches to digital stimulus design, principles of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and the analysis of fMRI data. Part III (Chapters 3-6) reports five experimental studies. Study 1 controlled the spectrotemporal correlation in complex acoustic spectra and showed that activity in auditory association cortex increases as a function of spectrotemporal correlation. Study 2 demonstrated a functional hierarchy of the representation of auditory object boundaries and object salience. Studies 3 and 4 investigated cortical mechanisms for encoding entropy in pitch sequences and showed that the planum temporale acts as a computational hub, requiring more computational resources for sequences with high entropy than for those with high redundancy. Study 5 provided evidence for a hierarchical organisation of local and global pitch pattern processing in neurologically normal participants. Finally, Part IV (Chapter 7) concludes with a general discussion of the results and future perspectives.
Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
Title: | Representation of statistical sound properties in human auditory cortex |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Language: | English |
UCL classification: | UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience |
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04 Aug 2010
This week's ESPN column finds a home for the best veteran free agents left on the market.
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I think "slim pickings" defines the content this column. (Don't feel bad, Mr. Macey, you didn't have much with which to work.) If your team still needs something, you'd better hope for a miracle or some UDFA to play like a first-round draft pick--or, in other words, a different miracle.
Maybe if Revis holds out long enough, the Jets will sign his mentor (and one-time Jet),Ty Law. And just to make Revis angry, they'll let Law wear his old #24.
Wouldn't either Harper or Law still be good enough to start for the Lions?
Then again, even this season, unemployment may be better than that particular job.
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Given the historical success of undrafted quarterbacks in the NFL, Tony Romo might as well be a national treasure. We look at the impact of developmental leagues on undrafted quarterbacks, and just how many players have tried to break through in a recent season.

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Business as usual in the Suez…for now
Analysts note that the Suez is a vital cargo thoroughfare for goods transiting from Asia to Europe, North America and Western Africa. Egypt's Red Sea and Mediterranean ports are growing in regional significance.
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Cargo Connections Conference to draw industry leaders to New Orleans Meet the 2017 Modern Show Daily team 2017 Air Cargo Roundtable: Positive Outlook Driven by New Demand European Logistics Update: The Glass is Half Full Environmental executive order poses questions for supply chain and logistics green efforts More NewsAs news reports continue to track the transit of two Iranian warships through the Suez Canal, global shippers may also be ready to rethink their supply chain strategies.
"So far, we have yet to learn of any disruption in the Canal," said Anne Marie Kappel ?Vice President ?World Shipping Council in Washington. "Container vessel operators continue to deploy shipments and it's business as usual."
According to Kappel, the Egyptian government has the authority to permit the warships to complete their journey to Syria, and Council constituents have not voice their concern over Israeli interference…yet.
"Obviously, everyone is monitoring the situation, but we don't see any immediate reaction among shipping companies."
Last week, however, A.P. Moller-Maersk closed its Suez container terminal for two days and DP World suspended operations near Cairo as mass protests continued to rock Egypt's capital. Furthermore, Hanjin Shipping began re-routing vessels last week from Port Said and Alexandria.
Analysts note that the Suez is a vital cargo thoroughfare for goods transiting from Asia to Europe, North America and Western Africa. Egypt's Red Sea and Mediterranean ports are growing in regional significance.
Even before Israel raised the threat of an armed reaction to the news, analysts told LM that a potential closure of the Suez caused by civil unrest in Egypt would have a serious impact on container shipping.
Although a closure of the Suez canal is improbable, the risk of a disruption of vessel traffic in the canal cannot be totally excluded, said Alphaliner, a Paris-based consultancy.
This would have a huge impact on container shipping which represents the largest vessel segment currently transiting the canal, analysts added.
Containerships currently account for 55 percent of the net tonnage and for 38 percent of the total number of vessels transiting the Suez Canal. The high tonnage share of the containership transit is due to the larger size of container vessels that pass the canal compared to other vessel types.
Currently there are at least 56 affected containership strings. By far the majority of these are weekly services. Out of the total, 46 strings concern Far East-Europe services. In other words, about seven or eight containerships transit the canal every day in each direction.
Should the situation worsen, the most obvious alternative would be to re-route ships via the Cape of Good Hope. This would mean a much longer journey and such a decision might be weighed against the prospects of seeing the canal reopen soon.
Alphaliner noted that the distance between Singapore and Rotterdam, for example, stands at 11,800 nautical miles via Cape of Good Hope against 8,300 nautical miles via the Suez.
Analysts also that additional seven days of 20 knots steaming (one way) and a much higher fuel bill, would be the likely consequence for shippers.
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Wanna know a secret? Turns out Jon Gosselin– not Kate Gosselin or their eight adorable children — was the real star of "Jon & Kate Plus 8." Who knew?
"The show is based on female demographics," Mark Heller explains to RadarOnline.com. "You have housewives watching. They want to see what Jon Gosselin is going to do next. They don't care about Kate that much. She is not the ratings draw. He is."
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The community is yet again embroiled in another dispute (although some would say that term is an understatement). This time the potential stakes are higher, the potential losses will be more deeply felt, and the feud potentially more bitter. Yes, even more than THAT.
Some faces are familar, some are new, but the enemy remains a constant. Guard your hearts and your minds my friends. Sometimes in our arrogance that our faith and prayers protect us well against the devil's plots and keep our intentions pure, we don't realize that it is in that arrogance that he finds his way in.
Everything I've said above is the extent of what I have to say on this. The emails/documents are below, I'll leave you all to discern for yourselves.
And so, with a heavy, heavy heart, here we go again:
First, a look at how this situation may have been instigated. The following are emails from GK leadership starting from November 3, 2009.
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One of the emails contained above is from Jose Mari Oquiñena, dated January 12, 2010 and entitled "WHERE SHOULD BE OUR LOYALTY?". Zeny Gimenez responds:
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Lastly for this entry, the IC statement dated January 15, 2010.
IC Statement - Preserving the Cfc Way of Life
Download this document HERE.
Some faces are familar, some are new, all are friends. All share a bond that has tied us together as family, through thick and thin. Let's not forget what brought us together, let's not forget that in our community, the thread the binds us together is much, much stronger than the temporary thorns that threaten to tear us apart.
I start my journey of discernment again, and I am inviting you to join me.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Aug. 27 Crown Center panel discussion: What's Up in the Middle East
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies will host a panel discussion on Thursday, Aug. 27 about some of the current issues in the Middle East: Will the "Obama factor" increase the chances of peace in the region? What are the political and economic implications of the post-election upheavals in Iran?
The discussion will begin at 3 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall of Goldfarb Library.
- Prof. Shai Feldman, the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center
- Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi, Assistant Director for Research, Crown Center
- Prof. Asher Susser, Senior Fellow on the Myra and Robert Kraft Chair for Arab Politics
- Prof. Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East
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It has been revealed that YG Entertainment's first 'mystery girl' Jenny Kim will be featured as the female lead in G-Dragon's new music video titled "That XX".
Since April, YG Entertainment has been revealing 'mystery girls' through their official YG-Life Blog and building up the anticipation for their new girl group this year. Jenny Kim, who was the first 'mystery girl' to be revealed by YG, was able to successfully film for G-Dragon's upcoming MV for "That XX", which will be released on September 1st.
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A glimpse from HTC of what their third-generation Google/Android smartphone will look like. This model, the Hero, is designed for European customers. A version (or versions) of this phone, especially designed for the U.S. market, is said to be in the works for release by the end of 2009.
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No other business laptop offers a better combination of comfort, performance, durability and battery life.. The 14-inch ThinkPad T460 really stands out with its hot-swappable battery, which provides over 13 hours of endurance. Other reasons to invest include an excellent keyboard and a MIL-SPEC 810G-tested chassis that can take a beating.
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Lenovo ThinkPad 13 | Best Small Business Laptop | 4.5 out of 5 |
HP EliteBook Folio G1 | Most-Portable Business Laptop | 4 out of 5 |
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga | Best 2-in-1 Hybrid | 4 out of 5 |
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Lenovo's ThinkPad 13 has all the features a large enterprise customer could want at a price even family businesses will love. Lenovo's laptop provides a full HD display, an SSD, a world-class keyboard, more than 9 hours of endurance and MIL-SPEC-tested durability for just over $600.
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Bombardier, Embraer Seen Vying for SkyWest on MRJ Delay
Caroline ChenEmbraer SA and Bombardier Inc. may stand to gain business after SkyWest Inc., a commuter partner for carriers including United Airlines, voiced frustration with delays for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s new regional jet.
The tardy debut for the plane known as the MRJ creates opportunities for both Bombardier and Embraer, which already supply aircraft to SkyWest, said Chris Murray, an analyst at AltaCorp Capital Inc. in Toronto. Last year, St. George, Utah-based SkyWest ordered 100 Mitsubishi jets, a competitor to Bombardier and Embraer models.
"The longer it takes to get to market, the greater the likelihood that they'll go with another maker," said Helane Becker, an analyst at New York-based Cowen & Co LLC in a telephone interview.
SkyWest's comments yesterday about the second postponement for the 78- to 92-seat MRJ signal the risk of a cancellation, said Robert Stallard, an RBC Capital Markets analyst. Mitsubishi said in August that deliveries would be deferred about 15 months to 2017's second quarter, which probably pushes SkyWest's first jet into 2018, Stallard wrote in a note to clients.
"The folks at Mitsubishi have to deliver all the airplane as advertised and they need to do it in a time frame that makes sense for us," SkyWest President Bradford Rich told analysts on a conference call. While SkyWest remains committed to the MRJ, "if that doesn't happen, then of course, we have no financial obligations or commitments to take the type."
Delivery 2018
Chief Executive Officer Jerry Atkin, speaking on a conference call today, said SkyWest's MRJ delivery slots would start in 2018 without giving a month.
Skywest slid 7.5 percent to close at $15.36 in New York today, the largest decline in 7 months. Bombardier fell 1.1 percent to C$4.61 in Toronto, while Embraer rose 3.5 percent to close at 17.29 reais in Sao Paolo. Mitsubishi Heavy fell 1.9 percent to close at 625 yen in Tokyo trading yesterday.
Jessica Bowers, a SkyWest spokeswoman, said she couldn't immediately respond to questions on whether the airline was considering modifying the MRJ contract, or whether the carrier was speaking to other planemakers.
Hirofumi Takahashi, a U.S. spokesman for the aviation unit of Tokyo-based Mitsubishi, said he couldn't immediately comment.
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The MRJ is Mitsubishi's effort to challenge the dominance of regional-jet builders Embraer and Bombardier, which started producing the planes in the 1990s. In 2012, Mitsubishi said the first flight was late while it confirmed manufacturing processes and finished technical studies.
Besides Skywest, commuter carrier Trans States Holdings, based in St. Louis, also has an order for the MRJs. In 2009, the closely-held airline agreed to purchase 50 Mitsubishi jets. Emails to Trans States requesting comment were not immediately returned.
Bombardier had long been SkyWest's chief aircraft supplier. Last year, the airline ordered the MRJs, and this year, it agreed to buy 100 of Embraer's upgraded E175 jets, with options for 100 more. SkyWest also flies Embraer turboprops.
If Skywest were interested in buying a current-generation plane as an MRJ alternative, Montreal-based Bombardier would be very interested, said David Tyerman, analyst at Canaccord Genuity in Toronto who has a buy recommendation on the Canadian planemaker.
"Skywest has always been a valued customer of ours," said Bombardier spokeswoman Marianella de la Barrera in a telephone interview today. "We'd welcome opportunities that open up." While growth markets overseas have been very robust, Bombardier remains "very keen on traditional markets," she said.
Phone messages left for comment about SkyWest with Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil-based Embraer weren't immediately returned.
"If they want to go next-gen then I'd believe Embraer would be in the driver's seat," Tyerman said.
Mitsubishi's jets were attractive to SkyWest because they use newer engine technology, making them more fuel efficient, said Tyerman. Bombardier doesn't have an upgraded jet of the same size.


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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.29 / 5.00 4,222 ViewsJoaquim- An ordinary crow, discovers that the scarecrow is a dummy, he tries to spread the news with the crew, and no one believes him.
Enter our website for more animations, original music, sketches, concept art and more! (Crows Life Episode 2 in English coming soon!)(Sound: Spanish, Captions: English).
This is the first animation as Toonimated.com, this is the result of joining Quimera (FF: mixed in balamb, Crows Life, Lost in a Dream) and Krankzinnig Studio (Super Mario Reloaded, etc).
Not bad...for being in spanish
It wasn't half bad. I figured the time you have to make this before you get deported might be a factor of why no one in the video could speak english...and even translated rather bad into english in some parts. I noticed a lot of your characters...probably all of them were from either anime, video games or movies. None which are in spanish so its hard to take in these characters in that language and probably would of got a lot more comical appeal out of it if they were in english. That and its hard to decide whether your creative and being funny or not that creative using these characters and not having your own.
Probably the best part was when he gets kicked out for being a trader and he starts acting crazy. That parody was definetly from ren and stimpy...multiple episodes where ren starts going crazy, even the comment of his dirty feet where you show still screens of disgustingly detailed feet was part of it haha. Overal for a spanish flash its good enough to pass but would of been a 100x better in english.
Fantastic first movie with your new crew!
Very well done guys. I am wondering how many people are actually involved with Toonimated now. This whole movie was even more impressive than the previous Crows' Life installment. This could easily be the best submission the old Quimera has ever produced, realistically. Everything clearly had an amazing amount of effort put into it, this was most easily seen with the incredible visuals. This could indeed be the start to another very successful group. Here is my review.
The visuals were definitely my favourite aspect of this flash. They were just as good if not better than in the previous one. I guess to startm the backgrounds were very nicely done, with completely animated corn stalks for example, which were drawn as if they were in the foreground along with the characters. The colours were excellent as well, i have no complaints or anything here. The detail in everything else looked fantastic, i was amazed with some things. When you zoomed into a part of the crows' body the detail was intricate, these instances reminded me of Ren & Stimpy a little bit. The animation along with the multiple facial expressions were always great too. The style was awesome, but there were a few small things that maybe could have been done a little differently. The first of which is the animating style, which was great and seemed well refined, but just not too original. Also the basic idea of crows trying to take down a scarecrow type thing because they think he is real is a really interesting and creative idea. However in this episode i felt as though the writing could have been a little better and more organized in a way. But other than that the style was basically perfect. The characters were all varied and each one had nicely developped personalities. The sound was excellent too, i was close to giving it a perfect 10, but then i thought of how some pieces of music didnt quite fit in with the rest of the movie as they could. The voices were great, again all very unique and distinct from one another. Most pieces of music were really well used and the sound effects were quite good as well. The game at the beginning was a good little addition.
So Overall this was another fantastic movie by Quimera, even though you have joined up with some one else. I have a feeling you guys will be making many awesome flash in the near future. Try not to dissapoint!
-Standing Ovation 5/5
Muy bien si
Una ocpcion para quitar los subtitulos noe staria mal pero ya veo k la seria noe stava preparada apra llevarlos.
La verdad me gusta la musica pero hay momentos en que no pega con la escena creo yo.
Aunke la ida de olla del que se disfraza de espantapajaros... muy a cuento no viene XD nos e crei k iva a hacerlo mover entero..
da= me gusto lo de Toguro y Snake (unos de mis personajes subculturales favoritos ; ) )
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| Intels Dual-Core Xeon First Look More processing power has long been the focus of the processor giants, but times are changing. Performance per Watt is the focus for both AMD & Intel for the foreseeable future. In October of this year, Intel invited AnandTech to its Jones Farm Campus in Portland Oregon. The purpose of the visit was to get a detailed overview of their roadmap for the next year, and to take a close look at the Bensley platform. Bensley is the code name for Intel's new Xeon platform, which will support both Dempsey and Woodcrest processors and a new chipset, code-named Blackford. Demspey is going to take us well into Q2 of next year, and Woodcrest will appear sometime in the second half of next year. Woodcrest will be a lower wattage part that is focused on performance per Watt. Dempsey is the processor that we're going to take a look at in this article. What we'll be showing benchmarks on is a pre-production Bensley platform. Performance may differ once the platform reaches production status. The key features of Dempsey are: dual-core support, 65nm fabrication and an Independent L2 2MB Cache (2x2MB). Intel will release three variations of the Dempsey processor: a 1066 MHz FSB (130W) version that is the "Performance" version, a 1066 MHz FSB (95W) version that is a rack-optimized part (perf/power for rack density) and a 667 MHz FSB (95W) value version. The Blackford chipset is all new for Xeon, and addresses one of the main bottlenecks that we've seen in previous Xeon chipsets, front side-bus. Blackford uses a dual independent bus architecture operating at 1066MHz. Memory is now FBD-DDR2 (Fully Buffered DIMM) running at 533MHz, which offers up to 17GB/s of memory bandwidth. http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2644
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PROSITE documentation PDOC00082 |
Copper/Zinc superoxide dismutase (EC 18.104.22.168) (SODC) [1] is one of the three forms of an enzyme that catalyzes the dismutation of superoxide radicals. SODC binds one atom each of zinc and copper. Various forms of SODC are known: a cytoplasmic form in eukaryotes, an additional chloroplast form in plants, an extracellular form in some eukaryotes, and a periplasmic form in prokaryotes. The metal binding sites are conserved in all the known SODC sequences [2].
We derived two signature patterns for this family of enzymes: the first one contains two histidine residues that bind the copper atom; the second one is located in the C-terminal section of SODC and contains a cysteine which is involved in a disulfide bond.
Note:These patterns will not detect proteins related to SODC, but which have lost their catalytic activity, such as Vaccinia virus protein A45.
Last update:April 2006 / Patterns revised.
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1 | Authors | Bannister J.V., Bannister W.H., Rotilio G. |
Title | Aspects of the structure, function, and applications of superoxide dismutase. | |
Source | CRC Crit. Rev. Biochem. 22:111-180(1987). | |
PubMed ID | 3315461 |
2 | Authors | Smith M.W., Doolittle R.F. |
Title | A comparison of evolutionary rates of the two major kinds of superoxide dismutase. | |
Source | J. Mol. Evol. 34:175-184(1992). | |
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Lymphocyte Re-infusion During Immune Suppression to Treat Metastatic Melanoma
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First Received Date ICMJE | November 3, 1999 | |||
Last Updated Date | December 19, 2012 | |||
Start Date ICMJE | August 1999 | |||
Primary Completion Date | May 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) | |||
Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE |
Clinical Response [ Time Frame: Every three to four weeks after the treatment, for up to 5 years. ] Complete response (CR) is defined as the disappearance of all clinical evidence of disease. Partial response (PR) is a 50% or greater decrease in the sum of the products of perpendicular diameters of all measurable lesions for at least one month. No new lesions may appear, and none may increase. Minor response (MR) is a 25-49% decrease in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameters of all measurable lesions. Appearance of new lesions following a PR or CR are considered relapses. Patients with progressive disease (PD) and no evidence of stable disease will be taken off study after receiving IL-2. |
Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
Change History | Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00001832 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site | |||
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Number of Participants With Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 10.5 months ] Here is the number of participants with adverse events. For a detailed list of adverse events see the adverse event module. |
Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
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Brief Title ICMJE | Lymphocyte Re-infusion During Immune Suppression to Treat Metastatic Melanoma | |||
Official Title ICMJE | Treatment of Patients With Metastatic Melanoma Using Cloned Lymphocytes Following the Administration of a Non-Myeloablative But Lymphocyte Depleting Regimen | |||
Brief Summary | This experiment will test the safety and effectiveness of a treatment for melanoma in which certain lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) are taken from the patient, grown in the laboratory, and returned after the patient's immune system has been weakened with immune-suppressing drugs. Some patients will also receive interleukin-2 (IL-2), a drug that may enhance the activity of the re-infused lymphocytes. Patients with metastatic melanoma (melanoma whose tumor has spread) who have been treated unsuccessfully with gp100 vaccination may participate in this study. They will undergo apheresis or a tumor biopsy, or both, to collect lymphocytes. In apheresis, whole blood is drawn through a needle in the arm. A machine separates the blood components and removes the white cells. The rest of the blood is returned to the donor through a needle in the other arm. A biopsy is a surgical procedure to remove a small piece of tumor tissue. Several weeks before the lymphocytes are collected, patients will receive injections of growth colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) every day for five days. This drug stimulates white cell production, permitting as many cells as possible to be obtained during collection. The lymphocytes will then be grown in larger numbers in the laboratory. Seven days before the cells are re-infused, the patient is admitted to the hospital and a catheter (small tube) is placed in a large vein in the chest or neck. Two drugs, cyclophosphamide and fludarabine, are given through the tube. These drugs suppress the immune system so that it will not interfere with the work of the reinfused lymphocytes. The lymphocytes are then injected through the catheter over a 30-minute period. After the infusion, patients who receive IL-2 will be given the drug in a high dose over a 15-minute period every eight hours for up to five days. Patients whose condition does not permit high-dose IL-2, such as those with a heart condition or lung problem, may receive a low-dose regimen, with the drug given as a shot under the skin of the thigh or abdomen for five days followed by a 2-day break, continuing for a total of six weeks. These patients receive a higher dose the first week and then half that dose the next five weeks. Blood and tissue samples will be taken before and during the study to evaluate the size of the tumor and assess treatment. If, 3-5 weeks after therapy is completed, the patient's tumor has stabilized or shrunk, the entire treatment, except for chemotherapy, may be repeated two more times. |
Detailed Description | Patients with metastatic melanoma who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Hepatitis B negative and who have previously progressed after receiving standard therapy will receive a nonmyeloablative but lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine and then will be treated by the adoptive transfer of lymphocytes reactive with shared antigens on their tumors. This study will evaluate the toxicity, immunologic effects and potential therapeutic role of this treatment. | |||
Study Type ICMJE | Interventional | |||
Study Phase | Phase 2 | |||
Study Design ICMJE | Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
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Recruitment Status ICMJE | Completed | |||
Enrollment ICMJE | 170 | |||
Completion Date | May 2010 | |||
Primary Completion Date | May 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) | |||
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Ages | 7 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior) | |||
Accepts Healthy Volunteers | Yes | |||
Contacts ICMJE | Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects | |||
Listed Location Countries ICMJE | United States | |||
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NCT Number ICMJE | NCT00001832 | |||
Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE | 990158 99-C-0158 |
Has Data Monitoring Committee | Yes | |||
U.S. FDA-regulated Product | Not Provided | |||
Plan to Share Data | Not Provided | |||
IPD Description | Not Provided | |||
Responsible Party | Steven Rosenberg, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) | |||
Study Sponsor ICMJE | National Cancer Institute (NCI) | |||
Collaborators ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
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Verification Date | December 2012 | |||
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Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind Summarized
Dear INTERNET philosophers,
For over 180 years students have complained that Hegel's best-known book of philosophy, the PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND (alias PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT), is too difficult to read.
A few have tried to summarize Hegel's book, and often their summaries were longer than the original, and just as difficult to read. Today, right here on the INTERNET, I give to you a twelve page summary of this famous book, a book that inspired generations of European philosophers since it first appeared in 1807.
This summary is meant for the beginner in phenomenological philosophy, to encourage more students to struggle with the book for themselves. This book has a colorful history, and is well praised by thinkers as David Strauss, Bruno Bauer, Marx, Engels, Ortega y Gasset, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Lacan, Camus, and many more.
I hope some will try again to read this masterpiece. If you do, please find the translation by Miller (1971) and avoid the translation by Baillie (1907).
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Summary of Hegel's PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND (Revision 2)
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1. 'Phenomenon' is a word which refers to appearances. It's a Greek word used by Plato to distinguish mere temporal appearances from the eternal Noumena of the Ideal Realm. The student of philosophy should recall Plato's parable of the shadows in the cave, where appearances were taken for realities. Phenomena are appearances. Where is the reality? In Hegel's view, probably unique in Western Philosophy, we can only know Reality when we have completely mastered the appearances, since the appearances (phenomena) partially hide and partially reveal Reality (noumena, Geist) in a peculiar manner.
2. There are degrees of reality within various phenomena. This is the origin of Hegel's idea that there can be degrees of truth in propositions. There are material phenomena and there are mental phenomena. Phenomena of mind also partially hide and partially reveal the truth. The study of phenomena is called, phenomenology, and Hegel focuses on mental phenomena, hence the title, PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND.
The PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND is a study of appearances, images and illusions throughout the history of human consciousness. More specifically, Hegel presents the evolution of consciousness.
2. This is not a chronological history. This is not an account of the evolution of life. The phenomena of mind begins when homo sapiens begins to think.
3. Consciousness goes through many stages. This is a little like the Buddhist theory of the levels of spiritual attainment, from lower forms of consciousness to higher forms of consciousness, but in Classic European format. We don't expect many European philosophers to map a spiritual path, but the detail and rational attitude of Hegel makes his work vastly different from Buddha's. Decide for yourself if Hegel has something important to say.
1. Hegel traces the evolution of consciousness from savage and barbaric forms. The first form of consciousness is SENSORY (infantile) CONSCIOUSNESS, a simple 'you seen one thing you seen 'em all' consciousness. Reality impacts the infant, teaching it that different things have different values, and a knowledge of these differences becomes the most valuable possession of all.
2. Experience forces Sensory Consciousness to evolve into PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Here Aristotle is the guiding light. All things, all animals, all minerals, all places, are carefully recorded and observed and classified in an orderly system of Natural Science. When we look, we now Perceive the natural relationships between objects. We come to grasp cause and effect relations. But there is a gnawing feeling that Natural Science isn't enough. One dimension of Reality continually escapes us, our own minds. How do we classify a mind? How is it constructed, in and for itself?
3. Increased Science transcends Perception and evolves into UNDERSTANDING CONSCIOUSNESS. Here Kant is the guiding light. Kant's theory of the Pure Understanding is the key to this moment. Kant outlined the basic parameters of the human mind, and showed to consciousness its own image of itself. Hegel commemorated Kant's achievement by making it into its own moment in his system. The Understanding Consciousness sees itself as a great unifying principle, where the multiplicity of the world's myriad things are unified under the singleness of the Greater Self (transcendental apperception). The key to logic was uncovered, and it is entirely a mystery why more AI theoreticians don't realize that much of their work was already completed 200 years ago.
1. In any case, the Understanding Consciousness also has its limitations. Despite the theory of the Self, Kant's theory remained impersonal, since this Self had no personality. This misses the mark of realism, Hegel thought, and so he traced evolution up one more step, this time to SELF CONSCIOUSNESS. Self Consciousness, beyond mere consciousness of the mind, but attaining Consciousness of a real person, evolved in sub-moments.
2. Here Hegel moves backwards from Kant into ancient times. Self Consciousness evolved long ago within the domain of politics. Beginning with the DESIRING SELF CONSCIOUSNESS, primitive humans felt strongly only about fulfilling their needs and the needs of their families. Other people were enemies. Fights broke out. In self- interest, people banded in larger groups. Wars broke out. After many centuries, consciousness evolved into two main categories of Self consciousness, MASTERY SELF CONSCIOUSNESS and SERVANT SELF CONSCIOUSNESS.
3. MASTERY SELF CONSCIOUSNESS, the mindframe of the Ruler, brings the demand and the fear to daily life, as a stimulus for progress. But the Master does not progress, otherwise, he wouldn't be the Master! His job is to fight and retain Mastery, never thanking anyone, never deferring to anyone, just retaining this Mastery, without any further development. So, all development belongs to the Servant Class.
4. SERVANT SELF CONSCIOUSNESS not only evolves new technologies and sciences to serve the Master, but also endures its own private hells and torments, so that philosophy itself ferments, and not just technology. The Servant has all the ideas and inventions in the workplace, but at home in his or her hearth, the Servant comes up with philosophical justifications for his or her position.
5. One of the first philosophies the Servant develops is STOIC SELF CONSCIOUSNESS, which is the ideal of honest work and virtue. But reality teaches the children of the Stoic that good is not always rewarded and wickedness not always punished, and hard work is often merely exploited. They develop the SKEPTIC SELF CONSCIOUSNESS, which finds relief only in disbelief, cynicism, resignation to the hard life of a Servant, and a mockery of the tender-hearted.
6. But this cynical view makes life impossible for the children of the Skeptics, yet the temporary truth of skepticism is undeniable. So they take skepticism one step further, and reject the world not only in word but in deed. They develop the UNHAPPY SELF CONSCIOUSNESS, which is Hegel's term for a complex of attitudes. They first retreat from the world entirely, like a monk or an ascetic. They abandon the whole world for prayer, if they believe, or for desperate meditation, if they don't. In any case, the reward is the same. If they attain nothing else from years of ascetic exercise, they attain the joy of having developed their will into an iron will. They attain the truth of Free Will, and see it clearer than anyone else.
7. Free Will suggests the power of the mind and ideas, so IDEALIST CONSCIOUSNESS emerges. Idealism, in contrast to mastery, servitude and asceticism, which all reduce the world to a specific idea, makes ideas themselves, all ideas, into the real.
8. However, Idealism excludes the non-ideal half of reality, so misses the mark of all-inclusiveness. Aiming toward all- inclusiveness with his faith in substance and Nature, Schelling's Transcendental Idealism gave us not a little of our modern scientific faith. This is the beginning of RATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
9. For Schelling, Idealism had to come to terms with Nature, the great Other. The tool for this correction is EMPIRICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, which denies that reason is in the subject, reflected out to the world. It believes reason is entirely in the object, only dimly reflected by the inner mind. By Empirical observation, we should arrive at the ultimate in reason, so it is claimed.
10. With Empirical consciousness, thought systematically controls itself using experimentation and statistics. Even life itself becomes an object of science within biology. Empirical Psychology is provided to study the human mind.
11. But Psychology is always more or less stuck at the level of animal psychology. Because Empirical consciousness seeks absolute objectivity, for that very reason the study of the subjective Self is considered beyond scientific investigation. Empirical psychology is thus just as one-sided as the subjectivism it avoids. When the mind is studied by this method, it is studied as a mind-as-object, as bodily behavior, as brain tissue, or (as in Hegel's day) as bumps on the skull.
12. A Self consciousness which views itself as a deterministic knee-jerk of animal reflexes necessarily negates its own Self certainty, since it sees its own reality outside itself.
13. Do behaviorists understand their own behavior of analysing the behavior of others? Do they really only experience themselves as reflexes of limbs and tongue? This is the phenomenological reply to B F Skinner's challenge to the dignity of self consciousness.
14. This doesn't mean that the existentialist is right, that we are totally free, and all our choices are arbitrary. It will not do to abandon one extreme for the other. We are not mere bone and mere conditioned reflexes. But neither are we mere subjectivity, unrelated to natural conditions. We are supine to a certain degree (accent 'degree') of conditionability and determinism. Half of our truth is freedom, the other half is that our 'reality is a bone.'
15. Discovering the natural limits of Empirical consciousness, we arrive at a more holistic vision. We break out of the passivity of mere observation. Our subjectivity is just as valid as our objectivity, so Empirical psychology is not the final understanding of people.
16. When we objectify our subjectivity, then we transform theory into practice. As objective subjects we are no longer isolated individuals. As concrete selves in a concrete society, we share ideas. We already knew that, since we have always shared local morality since infancy. So, we rise from the chaos and boredom of Empirical Self Consciousness towards ETHICAL SELF CONSCIOUSNESS.
16a. Ethical consciousness begins with the immediate fact of a family, without which a Self does not exist. A child leaves home and often marries, where male and female, both antithetic, join in synthetic union, and produce offspring to carry on the family estate. Where the female is the domain of Divine Law and the male is the domain of Human Law, the synthesis is a practical ethic which expands to include the whole community. A family participates in the social economy, where honesty, thrift and reliability are highly valued virtues.
17. In this realm, the literature of heroism best portrays our self image. Practical affairs are easily exaggerated in literature, so the good guy is entirely good and the bad guy is entirely bad, making choices simple and partisanship palatable. But conscience can become arrested at the level of fiction.
18. People of conscience strive for social harmony, sometimes to the extreme of puritanism. They are often highly valued, but sometimes they go too far and try to guide the world towards pettiness. Virtue should also be aware of the ways of the world, and live comfortably within the world with tolerance and forgiveness.
19. The weakness of Ethical Consciousness is that it sometimes opposes worldliness to the extreme of moral arrogance. It harshly judges the joyful person who interacts with the world, who engages the world in a game of skill and competence which gives meaning to the world. It turns its back on the heroic soldier because of minor infractions.
20. Law is the institution which regulates our impositions upon each other. Even people of conscience sometimes have to learn that others have rights, too. So we arrive at LEGAL SELF CONSCIOUSNESS.
21. The Law is necessary, and whoever sees that sees that it is not arbitrary nor imposed from above person is more at home in society. The rationale of Law lies in its social, Objective will, its relative universality, that is, on natural Democracy.
22. Those who don't see this imagine that Laws were invented at some point by powerful men who invented the Law for their own convenience. This is naive, since there has never been a time, from prehistoric days to the present, when Law did not exist.
23. By understanding the System of Law, the social person with desire on one hand and respect on the other arrives at a SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS, that is, understands Spirit is Objective.
24. With objective spirt we arrive at explicit self-consciousness. Before this, we experience only a greater or lesser implicit self- consciousness. Now the individual realizes self-consciousness is not merely individual, but social, and with this realization achieves awareness of social responsibility.
1. Objective spirit is another word for my local culture. In Hegel's words, it is the 'I that is a We, and the We that is an I.'
2. Individuals in a system of economic relations presuppose a culture, an objective spirit. When I open my infant eyes, I see my people already moving in some social relation to productivity and industry, as owners or employees. I am born in a social relation.
3. My local culture begins with my natal family. My first lesson is a tragedy. I want to be loyal, but there are conflicting claims on my loyalty. Feminine values and masculine values often clash, and the hearth can clash with the worldly call. This is TRAGIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Tragedy implies both duty and guilt, and has no age limit. Should we testify against our family members? A soldier who dutifully goes to war betrays his sick old mother at home, but the son who remains to care for her knows he betrays his comrades in arms. There can be no victory in tragedy.
4. Tragedy is first crystallized in literature in ancient Roman culture. The legal person of the Roman legal system evolved into the hero of Roman literature. Freed from tradition, the legal person is a liberation which rests upon sharing the freedom of the Head of State.
5. The Head of State is surrounded by courtiers and cultured elite. To be invited into this company requires the utmost discipline in courtesy, education and achievement. Only self sacrifice, strenuous effort, in Hegel's word, alienation, can become cultured. Only a few can attain ALIENATION CONSCIOUSNESS.
6. Obviously, Hegel's definition of alienation is different from Marx' definition, the alienation of the worker from the means of production. For Hegel, alienation is the extra work needed to raise an average person to a high level of culture. But culture, to the average person, seems remote and unreachable, hovering over and humiliating the average person.
7. Those who pass through the fire of alienation rise to the cultured class, as opposed to the average class. A new class rises to bridge the gap between the two classes, the professional class of advisors, doctors, educators and so on, to meet the average class half way.
8. Given this stratification, language develops in two broad directions, up and down. Flattery, a talking up to people of presumably more culture, and arrogance, a talking down to people of presumably less, develop to the level of arts.
9. Those who are neither average nor part of the cultural elite develop their own realm, the LACERATED CONSCIOUSNESS of the bohemian. These social critics, these talented drop-outs, possess a wit which sometimes achieves art. The bohemian poet uses the tools of culture against culture. Where the state is rational, the bohemian toys with the irrational. Where the state is irrational, the bohemian is quick to be rational. Joining domestic morality and working class morality, the bohemian reminds the State of its evident failures.
10. The bohemian, the irreverent rationalist, violently argues with the pious conservative. Alienation and guilt are too expensive, claims the bohemian, who then brings on the Age of Enlightenment, the struggle between faith and intellect, well represented by the French Revolution.
11. The Enlightenment demands freedom of reason, freedom to disbelieve in ghosts and goblins, freedom from foolishness and even State foolishness. All else is superstition and should be rejected for the good of all. Its goal is revolutionary, that human reason must win dominance over all nature and all worldly power.
12. In the optimistic utopia of the Enlightenment, people are basically perfect, but the systems of church and state frustrate our basic perfection. Destruction of the state and the achievement of anarchy should result in utopia, because our presumed basic goodness would be free to emerge.
13. The French Revolution won. The church and state were destroyed by force and guillotine. Anarchy prevailed. But utopia did not come, rather, organized crime emerged like a wildfire, murder spread across the city and terrorism ruled the countryside. There was a Reign of Terror. What was the miscalculation? The Enlightenment was naive in thinking that mere Utilitarianism, combined with a social contract would bring Utopia. It didn't work. Something unforeseen was lost when the Institutions were razed to the ground.
14. In retrospect, it is now clear that religion is far more complicated, far richer in history, far deeper in psychology than a mere trick of priests. Guilt goes far deeper than the doctrine of original sin, since we never fulfill our full potential, so a certain degree of existential guilt is inevitable, irregardless of priestcraft. Also, social stratification is far more complex and profound than a mere trick of rulers to attain wealth and power. The Reign of Terror taught the Enlightenment a costly lesson.
15. Thousands of years of human history lay behind the Institutions of Church and State, and instead of trying to understand the real reasons for their existence, their real nature, the Enlightenment opted for the easy, flippant answer. The literature of church and state does not include a literature of depth psychology and sociology. They themselves do not know why they exist, and they are honest enough to call their existence a great mystery. A truly scientific mind would begin here.
16. Napoleon brought the Reformation, resolved the Terror and calmed the Enlightenment. A compromise was struck which remains with us today. Religion will survive, but it must now take into account the claims of the Enlightenment. Religion must acknowledge theological critique, textual analysis, historical method and archeological reason. In return, the Enlightenment must recognize the important role religion can play in sociological research, analysis of the human condition and social programs.
17. Ultimately, religion and Enlightenment do agree on at least one axiom, that DUTY CONSCIOUSNESS is vital to human affairs in any dimension. The post-Enlightenment joins hands with religion to celebrate Duty consciousness. With the idea of duty we first attain complete self certainty, because real duty is never alien to me, but is a perfect mirror of my own inner face.
18. My self certainty and sense of duty are joined by my free will, and combine to support my FREEDOM CONSCIOUSNESS. I will stake my own life on the politics of freedom for me and my community. But Duty can clash with Freedom. Duty would control everything if it could. Freedom does not want to be controlled. There is spirit and there is flesh. They are both in me, and it is a tragedy that they should war within my breast.
19. If I achieve a balance between freedom and social responsibility, this is a great victory. It is greatest for the most responsible individual within the freest State. This person often becomes the leader of the State. In this person, Duty and Freedom become open to all, the cultured elite and the average person. With a liberal Church and a free Republic, we define the inalienable rights of all in a sacred Bill of Rights.
20. Even with all this, all is not perfect. The problem of evil, crime, never goes away. After centuries of attempts, our most successful adaptation to the dark side of our own human nature is finally, ultimately, a FORGIVING CONSCIOUSNESS. In Forgiveness, duty and nature can coexist on almost any level.
21. All morality, ethics, law and politics finally come to this, that we established a Republic of Freedom and a Bill of Rights, and then victoriously returned to a life of Forgiving consciousness, realizing that we can reasonably do little more than improve upon these basics that we have won with so much struggle.
1. With this discovery, obviously, we have deduced the RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS. At this point, Hegel again takes us backwards in history to fully develop this theme. Even though humanity arrives at our common Religious Consciousness as late as the Middle Ages, still, there were pockets of advanced thinking long before the Middle Ages. Hegel goes back to very ancient times to begin.
2. He begins his analysis with NATURAL RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS, meaning the first stirrings of religiosity within minds which saw Nature as God, or as a series of gods. Ancient people worshipped Nature as the sun, the moon, the stars, the volcanoes, the animals, and so on. There are today many religions which still insist upon a minimum reverence to certain animals and/or elements in their rites.
3. As people evolve, however, humans are found more wonderful than animals, and the Sun is found to be more indifferent to human affairs than was hoped. Piety moves on. What is truly sacred, it was concluded, are sacred people and their sacred activities. Religion was sought in great works of human hands, especially the Temple itself, and in the science of architecture which created it. Also, the Temple arts, like sculpture and painting (idolatry), music, dance, theater and amazing culinary delights; these became the seeds of a new development, the ARTISTIC RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS. Those who are familiar with the history of art know that Art and the Church coincide in many points.
4. For Hegel, as for Aristotle, there is a hierarchy of the Arts, where music and literature play the highest roles, because of their close resemblance with consciousness itself. Literature reveals the Word itself, the thought, the idea, exquisitely, subtly, over the long period of time of reading. Not just ideas, but clear ideas, personalities, relationships, conflicts, and even sacred conflicts and sacred ideas, over the medium of literature. It is through this medium, sacred literature, that humanity discovers the highest religious consciousness, the REVEALED RELIGION CONSCIOUSNESS. In this moment of consciousness, beyond natural religion, beyond artistic religion, the Word is uppermost, Morality is uppermost, Love is uppermost, with its promise of harmony, resolution, synthesis, cooperation and a positive feeling far beyond peaceful coexistence.
1. With this last stage in evolution, one might think Hegel would complete his study, since Christianity, the apex of Revealed Religion by its own self-opinion, has been deduced and that is that.
2. But this is the point where Hegel confused his followers, and split them into Left and Right wings. Hegel saw an even higher consciousness than Revealed Religion Consciousness, and so, to some extent, transcended religion, which convinced some novices that he was an atheist, and convinced others that he had a higher vision of Christ than the average minister.
3. This is how it goes. Religion seeks the Highest of the High, but its methods are not the highest. Religion is burdened by its method which it retains from the Arts, namely, imagery.
4. Religion is steeped in imagery, in images, in pictures, and so works very well with mythology, portraits and theater. This is helpful in reaching the masses, the young and the old, but it is not as precise as concrete thinking.
5. When one seeks the precision and clarity of concrete ideas, one transcends the methodology of religion, and so on attains to the SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS, or perhaps, GEIST CONSCIOUSNESS.
6. SPIRIT in this context is not mystical or religious in the Sunday School sense. We talk freely of School Spirit, or Community Spirit, or Team Spirit, and that is all that Hegel means by this term. Spirit is an invisible reality which is all-important in social organizations, and is probably best represented by the leader of the social group. It is very subjective, even intra-subjective, but it is also objective, precisely because it is shared by many. It is the synthesis of the subjective and the objective, the self-contained resolution of both, and so is closer to any definition of the absolute than we have yet approached.
7. Now, to become aware of Spirit is to have climbed the heights of human consciousness, to have achieved the philosophy of virtue, asceticism and reason, to have become a leader in one's society on the basis of virtue, to have achieved morality, that is, love of society and a willingness to serve (all the things Ayn Rand would call altruism and would condemn), and to appreciate the power of this invisible force called Community Spirit.
8. But it is one thing to have community spirit, and quite another thing to be excellent at it. To be excellent, one must be able to communicate to others the details of one's consciousness, and explain to children the reasons for State decisions. One has to be more than an example at this level. To be a superior social leader one must also be able to explain one's actions and motives and visions in detail, yet in simple terms. To do this one must once again rise to a higher level of consciousness, the PHILOSOPHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
9. One may object that the Stoic and the Skeptic were also philosophers, and they are set much lower on his list. Hegel's answer is that the Stoics and Skeptics were mainly interested in explaining their own self consciousness. The religious consciousness is higher precisely because it focuses on the entire society with a certain tenderness and wisdom, tolerance and social understanding. Philosophical consciousness builds upon this social leadership only by providing its intellectual component. And when the love of the religious consciousness joins the analysis of the philosophical consciousness, the highest consciousness, ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS, is the shining result.
10. With Absolute Consciousness one may approach heaven. Love, Harmony, Wisdom, Social responsibility, experience, all converge in one consciousness, where one can glimpse the End of Time, meaning, the dimension beyond mere appearances, the dimension beyond phenomena. The goal of the Phenomenology is reached, then, in the transcendence of phenomena and the attainment of Noumena, Geist, Spirit, the Absolute. And what is that Absolute? It's conscious Love.
11. How is it experienced? As the End of Time. Well, then, does the person who experiences the End of Time simply die? No. The vision involves turning around and looking again at all the phenomena of human history, there in front of one's eyes, and witnessing humanity coming up behind one, rising toward the same vision, this one closer, this one farther away, all converging toward one vision, the vision of God, of Universal Harmony, of the Absolute, the highest possible satisfaction. Then one sees the absolute truth–the world of phenomena doesn't disappear when one transcends it, but it keeps right on going.
12. Absolute Consciousness does not negate phenomena, rather, it *assimilates* phenomena, and so co-exists peacefully with it. It only brings to its members the social responsibility that comes with Wisdom. One must now learn to love the entire world, and to help each person one meets along to their next stage of consciousness.
Best regards,
–Paul Trejo, M.A.
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Hanging In There For A Moment
Miscellaneous by: NellyNel
My lips are sealed as lock away memory My soul has left my body and me alone Theres no one else there, no body that roams Just an old wind and an old melody
No one else to bring me back The phone sits quiet in my heavy sack The air remains with me in minor solitude And my thoughts have floated away to high altitude
I need help and nobody is here Words haunt my mind and teaches it to fear Care to be my heavy thought? Because today i cry like a lonely sot
I see it in the wind, that plain cold reason The sun is still in this mourning season Let my depressive thoughts not be a killing burden But let it be a card burning in a fire in December
I see others as they walk away And they should as there is nothing left to say The flowers bloom in the summer And i sit down and become a pity bummer
Im still breathing my treasoning venom Blocking out the crowds noise and This poets own phenom Everything matters but the sight of me It hurts sometimes to be part of a past and not a memory
In my soul i begin to understand not only The steps of those around me As my heart reassembles all i see I can never be proud of this acoustic poetry
Let these words not depress But merely open eyes that have been oppressed There are some things we cant change And there are some we cant see because its too late
I got to change this saddening mood i carry And talk about beauty and those people that are starry Yes I'm still sad as the sea may go on But the sea has many waters that sing the same old song
Where love has gone is a mystery But where it is becomes a great company Readers we are young and we need it all But when everything is gone remember not to fall
We walk tall as we must go forward Our eyes follow our dreams straightforward But we cant let it all be pretty as a rose Because whats beauty to you is the great and gross Not everything is real some of it all is fake But the reality hides in every moment that we take
Hey don't say maybe There is not lie in this baby Sounds like faker lies But my words are real once we all realize
Hope is a kiss form our mama We need it to live and even to be strong Be you and always remain true so go on Just delete the sadness kill the drama Remember to believe As if it were meant to be
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**This post is dedicated to Charlotte Bacon, age 6, a victim of the Connecticut shootings.**
This is an update to this morning's original blizzard post, which can be found by clicking here.
This update concerns the new models from the 12z suite, and not so much for teleconnections, which were covered in the morning post. Also, I have now established the two 'camps' for the models. The 'North Camp' involves models that take the system into north Illinois at Hour 96, and the South Camp has the system in central/southern Illinois at Hour 96.
We start with the GFS model, known as one of the better forecasting models that is out there today. The GFS is forecasting the storm system to be in north Indiana on the morning of December 20th. The solid blue line is the rain/snow line- any precipitation to the north of this line is theoretically snow, and precipitation to the south is rain. The storm system has a central minimum pressure of 994 millibars, meaning it is fairly strong. The forecast calls for snow to be ongoing in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, with a potential severe weather situation ongoing in Kentucky and Tennessee. I will not make an assumption on if the GFS is right of wrong until I review the other models below. Needless to say, the GFS is in the North Camp.
This is the European's ECMWF model forecast, once again valid for the morning of December 20th. The ECMWF is widely regarded as the best forecasting model used for daily weather forecasting, like this. The model predicts that the storm system will actually be in south Illinois at this time, thus being further south and slower than the GFS. The central minimum pressure is down to 995 millibars, roughly the same strength as the GFS. The ECMWF solution has shifted south from recent forecasts, not a surprising thing to happen in the winter. I am cautiously optimistic with this forecast, as I think the teleconnections fit in nicely here, but models are notorious for shifting south in this time period, only to shift back north later on. The ECMWF is in the South Camp at this time.
This is the forecast from the ECMWF Ensembles, also called the ECMWF EPS. The ECMWF EPS can be thought of 51 separate ECMWF model forecasts, each with slightly different starting parameters. This forecast, once again valid for the morning of December 20th, has the storm system in southern Illinois, actually a tad farther south than the ECMWF model itself. The minimum strength is at 1002 millibars, meaning it is fairly weak. However, there is something slightly more significant. The fact that an average of 51 different forecasts, all originally based off of the best forecasting model known to man, came up with such a solid solution is very supportive at this point for the South Camp.
The current overview of the models is this:
North Camp: GFS, GFS ENS (2 models)
South Camp: ECMWF, ECMWF EPS (2 models)
We now move to the Canadian's GGEM model. It shows the storm system in central Illinois with a central pressure of 1000 millibars. The blue rain/snow line remains in North Illinois, but far enough south for cities like Des Moines, Chicago and Milwaukee to get snow at this point. Considering the GGEM is taking a cold solution to the mentioned cities, I feel like it belongs in the South Camp.
This is the forecast for precipitation, 850mb temperatures and the freezing line from the GGEM Ensembles (GGEM ENS). Although the Canadian model is not the best, ensembles are always better than models. The GGEM ENS believe that a solution not all that different from the ECMWF will evolve, with the storm system taking a path through south Illinois and snow given to the previously mentioned cities. Heavy rain in TN/KY suggests a possible linear storm event could be ongoing. This is indeed a South Camp storm.
Another model overview at this point in time tells us the following:
North Camp: GFS, GFS ENS (2 models)
South Camp: ECMWF, ECMWF EPS, GGEM, GGEM ENS. (4 models)
This is the image of the GFS Ensembles. Yes, I know the ensembles were already listed in the North Camp, this is just for you all to see what it says. The GFS Ensembles (GFS ENS or GEFS) shows a major snow event in much of the Midwest after the storm system blows through. Rain is ongoing in southeast Michigan, and again that linear storm threat appears with the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Here's the final total after reviewing some other models:
North Camp: GFS, GFS ENS, JMA NOGAPS ENS, (4 models)
South Camp: ECMWF, ECMWF EPS, GGEM, GGEM ENS, FIM. (5 models)
Analysis: This is not as difficult as you may think. Despite the input of 9 models and ensembles, only a select few are worth making note of. The GFS/GFS ENS should be watched carefully, as should the ECMWF/ECMWF EPS. The JMA and NOGAPS ENS are worthless; I threw them in there for some diversity. As for the FIM, it has historically verified slightly better than the GFS, so it can be taken note of. I would watch the Canadian model and ensemble set, but not as closely as the American and European sets.
Forecast Preference: ECMWF/ECMWF EPS
Confidence: 60%
Snow amounts, totals and eventual track will need to be determined at later dates, so please do not ask me for snow totals for your city, because I just don't know yet.


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