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Another feature that the GlassFish Server provides is the read-only bean, an EJB 2.1 entity bean that is never modified by an EJB client. Read-only beans avoid database updates completely.
Read-only beans are specific to the GlassFish Server and are not part of the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v2.1. Use of this feature for an EJB 2.1 bean results in a non-portable application.
To make an EJB 3.0 entity read-only, use @Column annotations to mark its columns insertable=false and updatable=false.
A read-only bean can be used to cache a database entry that is frequently accessed but rarely updated (externally by other beans). When the data that is cached by a read-only bean is updated by another bean, the read-only bean can be notified to refresh its cached data.
The GlassFish Server provides a number of ways by which a read-only bean's state can be refreshed. By setting the refresh-period-in-seconds element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file and the trans-attribute element (or @TransactionAttribute annotation) in the ejb-jar.xml file, it is easy to configure a read-only bean that is one of the following:
Always refreshed
Periodically refreshed
Never refreshed
Programmatically refreshed
Read-only beans are best suited for situations where the underlying data never changes, or changes infrequently. For further information and usage guidelines, see Using Read-Only Beans.


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Garden Club Meets
The next meeting of the Laguna Beach Garden Club will also include a Valentine's silent auction and an exchange session for gardening secrets, where members and guests can discuss their successes in the garden. The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. in Tankersley Hall of the Laguna Presbyterian Church, 415 Forest Ave. For more information, visit http://www.lagunabeachgardenclub.org.
St. Francis Business Meeting
The congregation at St. Francis By the Sea Chapel will hold its business meeting at 10 a.m. to elect new congregational officers and an interim bishop. If you can't attend but would like to vote, call (949) 357-0404 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. The meeting will be at 303 Broadway, Suite 107.
Shap Show
The Class of 2012 at Laguna Beach High School will present the 24th annual Shap Show, "No Suits Allowed," at 7:30 p.m. at the Artists' Theatre. A pre-dinner will be at Asada. Proceeds from the concert and dinner will benefit the class's Safe and Sober Grad Night. Tickets on sale the day of the event for $10 for students and $15 for adults. For more information, email Kerry Rubel at email@example.com.
Garage Sale For Glennwood
A garage sale to benefit the Glennwood House of Laguna Beach will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 375 Heather Place. All profits will go to help open the facility, which will house young adults with disabilities. For more information, call Lynn at (949) 497-2086.
For the Love of Wine
A wine tasting fundraiser in support of Ebell Club Philanthropies will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Lumberyard Restaurant, 384 Forest Ave. Tickets are $30 and include the tasting and a variety of appetizers. If you stay for dinner, the Lumberyard will donate 20% of the check to the club. To buy tickets, call Amy Altieri at (949) 637-1903 or email email@example.com.
Swing Dance
A Valentine's Swing Dance will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann's Drive. Music will be provided by 16-piece band South Coast Swing, while dance instructor Alec Marken teaches some standard swing dance moves. Tickets are $10 pre-sale, or $15 at the door. Call Elizabeth at (949) 494-8061 or Jane at (949) 497-4568 to reserve a spot.
Follow-Up Breakfast
Transition Laguna will hold a follow-up Action Breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at La Sirena Grill – South Laguna to discuss how to put its ideas into action. Breakfast is just $5, courtesy of La Sirena, 30862 S. Coast Hwy.
Kids Can Cook
Parents and children ages 5 to 9 will learn how to make sugar-free Valentine's Day treats in a cooking class from 1 to 3 p.m. taught by Chef Linda from The Basement Table. The cost is $35 and takes place at Anneliese Schools' Willowbrook Campus, 20062 Laguna Canyon Road. For more information, call SEEDS at (949) 322-9597.
DimeStories Open Mic
Come read three minutes of your original writing to share at DimeStories Open Mic at 5 p.m. at Salt Fine Art Gallery, 1492 S. Coast Hwy. Unit 3. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Feeding Somalia
Laguna Nursery is hosting the Feeding Somalia — One Dime at a Time fundraiser from 5 to 7 p.m. The cost is $35. There will be food, wine tasting a raffle and an auction. Laguna Nursery is at 1370 S. Coast Hwy.
Fall In Love With Yoga
YogaWorks is offering free classes for Valentine's Day, from 3 to 8 p.m. The classes are 60 minutes long. YogaWorks is at 30818 Coast Hwy. For more information, call Kelly Farawell at (212) 415-0375.
Discussion Group Meets
The Great Decisions discussion group will meet at 1:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 429 Cypress. The topic will be "Exit From Iraq and Afghanistan," led by Bill Callison.
Business Club Meeting
The Laguna Beach Business Club will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Hotel Laguna, 425 S. Coast Hwy. The cost is $25 for guests. Mayor Jane Egly will be the guest speaker. RSVP to Bart Zandbergen at (949) 455-0300 or email@example.com.
'Open For Business'
The city is hosting an "Open for Business" workshop from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Laguna Beach Community Center, 380 Third St. The workshop is for those interested in opening or expanding business in Laguna Beach. For more information, call Monica Tuchscher at (94) 497-0745 or email email@example.com.
French Film
The Laguna Beach Film Society will screen the French romantic comedy "Le Reine des Pommes" at 7 p.m. at the South Coast Cinema. Tickets are $15 at the door or $10 for students with ID. For $20, enjoy food and wine before the film at 6 p.m. at the Laguna Art Museum. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Develop A Healthier Lifestyle
Attend a free Wellness and Health Workshop with Dr. Gyzel Tabrizi at 1:30 p.m. at the Laguna Beach Library, 363 Glenneyre St. RSVP to (949) 497-1733.
Feb. 17
Swing Band Performs
The 18-member SwingSet will perform from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Laguna Presbyterian Church, 415 Forest Ave. They play musical favorites from Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and more.
Chamber Seminar
The Chamber of Commerce is hosting a free seminar on how businesses can use a new mobile directory marketing tool through QR Interactive Solutions. The event is from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Community Center, 380 Third St. RSVP by Feb. 15 to Ethan at (949) 322-4318 or email@example.com.
Feb. 18
Chieftains 50th Anniversary Tour
Six-time Grammy winners the Chieftains will make their only Southern California stop on their 50th anniversary tour at 8 p.m. at the Soka Performing Arts Center in Aliso Viejo. The Chieftains are a popular traditional Irish music group. The show is general admission, with all tickets $48. For more information, visit http://www.performingarts.soka.edu.
Feb. 20
Education And Encouragement
Hope, a monthly support group for families dealing with kids struggling with addiction, meets from 7 to 9 p.m. at Laguna Beach Net-Works, 303 Broadway, Suite 107. For more information, call Don Sciortino at (949) 328-7230.
Celebrating Creativity
Laguna Beach artists are encouraged to attend "Spark," a meeting where "spirituality and art come together," from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Laguna Beach Net-Works, 303 Broadway, Suite 107. For more information, call (949) 328-7230.
Feb. 25
'Do It For Love'
Animal Kinship is hosting an event to support local animal rescue organizations from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Aliso Creek inn, 31106 S. Coast Hwy. There will be a buffet dinner, entertainment, wine tasting, raffles and a silent auction. Tickets are $50 in advance, $60 at the door. For tickets or more information, call (949) 633-1056.
Feb. 27
Blood Drive
Hearts of Montage is sponsoring an American Red Cross Blood Drive from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Montage Laguna Beach's Grand Ballroom III. Sign up for an appointment at http://www.redcrossblood.org using sponsor code MontageLB.
March 9
Legacy Ball
Laguna Beach Seniors will be giving its 2012 Legacy Award to Mary Fegraus at its sixth annual Legacy Ball at The Resort at Pelican Hill, 22701 Pelican Hill Road, Newport Beach.
March 24
Hortense Miller Garden Open House
The Hortense Miller Garden will hold its annual open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free shuttle service to the gardens will take off from the parking lot of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, 635 High Drive. The event will feature tours of the house and garden, musical entertainment, art exhibits and more. Donations will be accepted. For more information, visit http://www.hortensemillergarden.org.
April 5 to 15
Laguna Dance Festival
Tickets are on sale now for the Laguna Dance Festival. For more information, visit http://www.lagunadancefestival.org or call (949) 497-2787.
April 21
St. Mary's Gala 2012
St. Mary's School in Aliso Viejo is hosting its 17th annual gala at 6 p.m. at Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa, 25135 Park Lantern, Dana Point. For more information, visit http://www.smaa.org/gala.
May 16
Author Lecture
Best-selling author Richard Louv will speak at 7 p.m. at Anneliese Schools' Willowbrook Campus, 20062 Laguna Canyon Road. The cost is $25. Louv wrote "Last Child in the Woods" and "The Nature Principle." Register to attend at http://www.seedsed.org/richard-louv-lecture.


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Yesterday's class field trip took us deep into the Sandhills, within the confines of Clemson University's "Sandhill Research and Education Center", not so far from downtown Columbia. Up and down we plodded through a variety of habitats, which included xeric wooded slopes, and a wetland at the margin of a pond.
Such wetlands are typically dominated by shrubby vegetation, and often end up being called "pocosins" by the naturalists. Now, the word "pocosin" has become a word that means, amongst scientists, a wetland, frequently on slopes or hillsides, and dominated by a variety of shrubs, especially members of the blueberry family (the family Ericaceae), such as various species of dog-hobble, huckleberry, and of course, blueberries. Other prominent residents of a well-developed pocosin are a variety of native hollies, mountain laurel, horse-sugar, ti-ti, and an assortment of prickly catbriers. Pocosins are characterized, at least under natural circumstances, by relatively frequent wildfires. These fires have a variety of effects on pocosins, but the most easily understood is probably that of inducing abundant resprouting and branching of the shrubs present, all of which are adapted to frequent fires. As you might expect, a stroll through such a dense habitat is not performed without considerable effort, and most outdoor visitors are likely to steer clear of these crowded, inhospitable places, and preferring to remain on a nearby and commodious path. In the Southeast, the best examples of these pocosins are surely those near the Atlantic Coast, especially within a stretch from the central coast of South Carolina north through Virginia. Here is a little shrub that frequents such habitats.
It is a slender plant, as shrubs go, rarely getting to be "small-tree" sized. Its blooms appear early in the spring, on clusters at the ends of the branches, just as the leaves are starting to unfold. The leaves are very finely and delicately toothed, and each of the individual teeth has a tiny purplish gland at the tip. The flowers are fragrant (to me they smell like honey), with five prominent white petals, and plenty of stamens, each with a little pink anther. The flowers resemble those of various kinds of native hawthorns, and they also resemble those of the cultivated pyracantha and pear trees. (Well, that makes some sense, because all of these plants are somewhat related, and members of the rose family.) This species is fairly common through most of the Southeast, occurring as far north as Newfoundland, and even getting as far west as the mountains of Kentucky.
Probably the most attractive thing about this little plant are the gorgeous fruits it produces in the fall. The ovary of each flower eventually swells up and makes a brilliant, shiny red fruit, much like a miniature apple. We didn't see any of the fruits on our field trip: maybe the critters ate them all up during the winter.
[Answer: "Red chokeberry," Aronia arbutifolia]
John Nelson is the curator of the A. C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina, in the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia SC 29208. As a public service, the Herbarium offers free plant identifications. For more information, visit www.herbarium.org or call 803-777-8196, or email email@example.com.


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File systems are covered separately.
Per MS KB2727880, when Windows 7 is installed on a system with an SSD drive, automatic defragmentation and SuperFetch/prefetching are disabled.
Further, this TechNet post states: Since ReadyBoost will not provide a performance gain when the primary disk is an SSD, Windows 7 disables ReadyBoost when reading from an SSD drive.
Jump Lists
Jump Lists are Task Bar artifacts first introduced on Windows 7 (and also available on Windows 8).
The Windows_Registry remains a central component of the Windows 7 operating system.


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- In mixing bowl, add butter and brown sugar until combined. Stir in flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix in the peanut butter. Slowly stir in oats and cereal. Press dough onto a large parchment paper lined cookie sheet (mine was 15x10inch). Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until browned. Allow to cool in pan completely.
- To finish, spread melted chocolate over top of cookie bark. Immediately sprinkle with m&m candies. Allow to set (about 20 minutes). Cut into triangular pieces and serve! ENJOY!
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Although the concept of emergence has become very popular in the last few decades in connection with the development of chaos and complexity theories, it is actually a very old idea, dating at least to the nineteenth century, with some hints of it in ancient and medieval philosophy.
The basic idea of emergence is that there are properties - perhaps even "laws" - at the upper hierarchical levels of nature that are not derivable from or reducible to the properties and laws of the lower levels. Thus chemistry has properties not derivable from physics, biology properties not derivable from chemistry, and psychology properties not derivable from biology.
Reductionism, by contrast, argues that everything can be explained by (reduced to) the basic laws of physics. The world is said to be "causally closed." "Physicalism" is the idea that everything that is caused has a physical cause.
Usually this is taken to mean that deterministic physical laws will eventually be found that explain everything. Though even if there were an indeterministic "uncaused" cause (a causa sui), it would still be a physical cause.
How Information Philosophy Explains Emergence
Information is neither matter nor energy, although it needs matter to be embodied and energy to be communicated.
Matter and energy are conserved. There is just the same total amount of matter and energy today as there was at the universe origin. See the cosmic creation process.
But information is not conserved. It has been increasing since the beginning of time. Everything emergent is new information. What idealist, holists, and gestaltists think they see is actually this increase of immaterial information.
Living things are dynamic and growing information structures, forms through which matter and energy continuously flow. As they grow, their information increases, new capabilities emerge.
And information in living things (ideas, thoughts, intentions, purposes) can exert causal control over material things. This is the solution to the mind-body problem and the free will problem, which depends on the possibility of choosing between different actions.
Information is the fundamental metaphysical connection between idealism and materialism. Information philosophy replaces the metaphysical necessity of reductionist naturalism and eliminative materialism with genuine metaphysical possibility.
Determinist reductionists and eliminative materialists assume that causal control works "bottom-up." The motions and forces between the physical particles determine everything chemical, biological, and psychological. Mental causation is then redundant, rendering mental events epiphenomenal or non-existent, just an illusion.
Emergence of new properties at the higher biological and psychological levels, on the other hand, requires that upper levels can exert "top-down" causal control on the motions of particles in lower levels - or at least that "bottom-up" causes can somehow be blocked.
Can we defend "top-down" causation" and at the same time deny "bottom-up" causation?
The idea of emergence was implicit in the work of John Stuart Mill and explicit in
Information philosophy explores how information emerges at all these fundamental levels - matter, life, and mind - material information, biological information, and mental information.
John Stuart Mill discusses the Laws of Nature in his System of Logic, Book III, chapter IV and describes the Law of Universal Causation in chapter V ("The truth that every fact which has a beginning has a cause"). Then, in chapter VI, Mill explores the "Composition of Causes" in mechanics where the parallelogram of two vector forces explains the resultant force. However, this simple principle from dynamics, says Mill, does not apply to materialist chemistry nor to more complex biological life.
Although Mill did not use the term "emergent," he makes the concept clear enough:
This principle [of simple composition], however, by no means prevails in all departments of the field of nature. The chemical combination of two substances produces, as is well known, a third substance with properties different from those of either of the two substances separately, or of both of them taken together. Not a trace of the properties of hydrogen or of oxygen is observable in those of their compound, water. The taste of sugar of lead is not the sum of the tastes of its component elements, acetic acid and lead or its oxide; nor is the colour blue vitriol a mixture of the colours of sulphuric acid and copper. This explains why mechanics is a deductive or demonstrative science, and chemistry not. In the one, we can compute the effects of m combinations of causes, whether real or hypothetical, from the laws which we know to govern those causes when acting separately; because they continue to observe the same laws when in combination which they observed when separate: whatever could have happened in consequence of each cause taken by itself, happens when they are together, and we have only to "cast up" the results. Not so in the phenomena which are the peculiar subject of the science of chemistry. There, most of the uniformities to which the causes conformed when separate cease altogether when they are conjoined; and we are not, at least in the present state of our knowledge, able to foresee what result will follow from any new combination, until we have tried the specific experiment.
Brian McLaughlin, who dubbed all these thinkers the "British Emergentists, calls Mill "the father of British Emergentism."
George Henry Lewes also used Mill's example of the properties of water not being reducible to those of oxygen and hydrogen. If all effects are only the consequences of their components, everything would be completely determined by mathematical laws, he said, and then coined the term "emergent":
Although each effect is the resultant of its components, the product of its factors, we cannot always trace the steps of the process, so as to see in the product the mode of operation of each factor. In the latter case, I propose to call the effect an emergent. It arises out of the combined agencies, but in a form which does not display the agents in action.
In his 1912 book Instinct and Experience, C. Lloyd Morgan revived the term "emergent".
In his 1920 book Space, Time, and Deity Samuel Alexander initially cited Lloyd Morgan as the source of emergentism, but Lloyd Morgan reminded Alexander about Lewes' 1875 work. Alexander wrote:
much of what I have to say has been already said by Mr. Lloyd Morgan in the concluding chapter of his work on Instinct and Experience. The argument is that mind has certain specific characters to which there is or even can be no neural counterpart. It is not enough to say that there is no mechanical counterpart, for the neural structure is not mechanical but physiological and has life. Mind is, according to our interpretation of the facts, an 'emergent' from life, and life an emergent from a lower physico-chemical level of existence. It may well be that, as some think, life itself implies some independent entity and is indeed only mind in a lower form. But this is a different question, which does not concern us yet. If life is mind, and is a non-physical entity, arguments derived from the conscious features of mind are at best only corroborative, and it is an inconvenience in these discussions that the two sets of arguments are sometimes combined. Accordingly. I may neglect such considerations as the selectiveness of mind which it shares with all vital structures.
Later, in his 1922 Gifford Lectures and 1923 book Emergent Evolution, Lloyd Morgan defined emergent evolution and introduced the related "top-down" concept of hierarchical supervenience:
...in the physical world emergence is no less exemplified in the advent of each new kind of atom, and of each new kind of molecule. It is beyond the wit of man to number the instances of emergence. But if nothing new emerge - if there be only regrouping of pre-existing events and nothing more - then there is no emergent evolution.But Lloyd Morgan's idea of emergent novelty may have been an epistemic rather than an ontological claim. The laws of nature may still Run Huarache 818061 Blue Jacquard Ultra Air white 001 red Nike WMNS Zt1Fn all the higher-level properties, though our understanding of the laws may not be enough to allow us to predict the higher levels:
May we bring emergence itself under the rubric of causation?...Is emergent evolution itself the expression of an orderly and progressive development? If so (and such is my contention), then emergence itself takes rank, as Mill and Lewes also contended, among the "laws of nature." We may be unable to predict the probable nature of a character that is emergently new. We could not have foretold on the basis of physico-chemical events only what the nature of life would be. But that is due to our ignorance before the event of the law of its emergence. May we then, say:...That such novelty is for us unpredictable owing to our partial knowledge of the plan of emergence up to date, and our necessary ignorance of what the further development of that plan will be.
Vitalists like Henri Bergson and 70 schwarz Ankle Women schwarz black Boots 801 73 Gabor q14F0wBK may not have used the term emergence, but they strongly supported the idea of teleological (purposeful), likely non-physical causes, without which they thought that life and mind could not have emerged from physical matter.
C. D. Broad's view of the mind was emergentist and vitalist.
But Broad distinguished between what he called "Substantial Vitalism" (a dualist theory of an immaterial substance as a vital force, for example, Bergson's élan vital) and what Broad called "Emergent Vitalism" (some kind of non-reductive materialism, in which the vital property emerges from the body, and in the case of mind, from the highest bodily level - the brain).
Broad says he borrowed the adjective "emergent" from C. Lloyd Morgan and Samuel Alexander.
Broad contrasted the two forms of Substantial and Emergent Vitalism with what he called "Biological Mechanism," which is essentially a reduction of biology to physics and chemistry. All the emergentists were of course also anti-mechanists or anti-reductionists.
Broad also mentioned Hans Driesch, another anti-mechanist who developed a sophisticated form of vitalism that he called "neovitalism."
Driesch saw clear evidence of a kind of teleology in the ability of lower organisms to rebuild their lost limbs and other vital parts. He used Leather Style 2017 Loafers Women's Slip Moonwalker Moccasins New On Yellow S84qxB's term "entelechy" (loosely translated as "having the final cause in") to describe the organism's capacity to rebuild. Driesch said this disproved the theory of preformation from an original cell. Driesch studied the original cells of a sea urchin, after they had divided into two cells, then four, then eight. At each of these stages, Driesch separated out single cells and found that the separated cells went on to develop into complete organisms. This is regarded as the first example of biological cloning.
Broad rejected Driesch's idea of entelechy as a non-material, non-spatial agent that is neither energy nor a material substance of a special kind, but we should note that it well describes the information content of any cell that lets it develop into a complete organism. Driesch himself maintained that his entelechy theory was something very different from the substance dualism of older vitalisms. So what was Broad's criticism of Driesch? Neither thinker could produce a clear description of their vital element.
Broad was sophisticated in his discussion of emergence. He saw that the kind of emergence that leads to water and its unique chemical properties, when compared to the properties of its molecular components hydrogen and oxygen, has no element of purpose or teleology. The emergence of life (and mind) from physics and chemistry, however, clearly introduces a kind of design or purpose. Modern biologists call it teleonomyFloral Peep Pump 418 Decorative 4 ELLIE 5" Heel Pink TORI Vintage Women's Fabric Toe 4qygA7, to distinguish it from a metaphysical telos that pre-exists the organism. "The goal of every cell is to become two cells."
It seems likely that both Driesch and Broad were trying to grasp this teleonomy.
Emergence supports the idea of mental causation in particular and the more general problem of downward causation, for example the downward control of the motions of a cell's atoms and molecules by supervening on biological macromolecules. Is the molecular biology of a cell reducible to the laws governing the motions of its component molecules, or are there emergent laws governing motions at the cellular level, the organ level, the organism level, and so on up to the mental level?
The locus classicus of recent discussions of mental causation is Donald Davidson's 1970 essay "Mental Events," which was revisited in his 1993 essay, "Thinking Causes," published together with 15 critical essays on Davidson's work in the 1993 book Mental Causation, edited by John Heil and Alfred Mele.
Davidson claimed three things:
Davidson's goal is to deny the reducibility of mental events to physical events in the lower levels, even to deny the physicist's claim that the motions of the atoms and molecules at the lowest level are causally determinative of everything that happens at higher levels.
Information is neither matter nor energy. It is sometimes embodied in matter and sometimes is communicated as pure energy. It is the scientific basis for an immaterial, yet physical mind that can affect the material world. Information is the modern spirit.Jaegwon Kim says that Davidson's goal of "non-reductive physicalism" is simply not possible. The physical world is "causally closed," says Kim:
what options are there if we set aside the physicalist picture? Leaving physicalism behind is to abandon ontological physicalism, the view that bits of matter and their aggregates in space-time exhaust the contents of the world. This means that one would be embracing an ontology that posits entities other than material substances — that is, immaterial minds, or souls, outside physical space, with immaterial, nonphysical properties.
Kim diagrams Davidson's view of mental events supervening on physical events, to illustrate Kim's claim that having both mental and physical causes would be "overdetermination" and thus one is redundant and must be excluded.
This view of the physical and biological world as made up of isolatable and discrete events is most simplistic. An "event" is singled out by a human observer. Its "cause" is arbitrarily abstracted from complex processes with enormous numbers of possible causes.
Emergence DeniedProminent philosophers of science - committed to the ability of physical science to explain everything as "unified science" - were confident that "emergence" would go the way of "holism" and "vitalism."
For example, the former member of the Vienna Circle and leading reductionist Herbert Feigl wrote in 1958:
Inseparably connected with holism and the Gestalt philosophy is the doctrine of emergence. The old slogan "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" has of course no very clear meaning. Much of its obscurity is due to the lack of a definition of the phrase "the sum of the parts". Recent analyses of the still controversial significance of "organic wholeness" and of "emergent novelty" have contributed a great deal to the clarification of the issues. There is no imperative need for us to enter into details here. It will be sufficient for our concerns to realize that in modern natural science no sharp distinction can be made between resultants (as in the composition, i.e. vectorial addition of forces or velocities) and emergents. In the explanation of the properties and the behavior of complexes and wholes we always need laws of composition—be they as simple as the straightforward arithmetical addition of volumes, masses, electric charges, etc., or slightly more complicated as is vector addition, (or just a trifle more involved as is the relativistic "addition" formula for velocities), or extremely complex as are the so far not fully formulated composition laws which would be required for the prediction of the behavior of organisms on the basis of a complete knowledge of their microstructure and the dynamic laws interrelating their component micro-constituents.
The Three Kinds of Information EmergenceNote there are three distinct kinds of emergence, at the material, biological, and mental levels:
Information philosophy claims that everything created since the origin of the universe over thirteen billion years ago has involved just two fundamental physical processes that combine to form the core of all creative processes at all three levels.
This two-step core creative process underlies the formation of microscopic objects like atoms and molecules, as well as macroscopic objects like galaxies, stars, and planets. (Note that the formation of self-organizing physical systems in conditions far from equilibrium that are the subjects of chaos and complexity theories are this basic, non-teleonomic form of emergence.)
With the emergence of teleonomic (purposive) information in self-replicating systems, the same core process underlies all biological creation. But now some random changes in information structures are rejected by natural selection, while others reproduce successfully.
Finally, with the emergence of self-aware organisms and the creation of extra-biological information stored in the environment, the same information-generating core process underlies communication, consciousness, free will, and creativity.
The two physical processes in the core creative process are quantum cooperative phenomena (involving the mysterious "collapse" of the wave function necessary for the appearance of particles) and thermodynamics, which requires the transfer of entropy away from newly emergent information structures to ensure their stability.
The Emergence of (the Idea of) DeterminismWhen small numbers of atoms and molecules interact, their motions and behaviors are indeterministic, governed by the rules of quantum mechanics.
Werner Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy (mistakenly called "uncertainty," as if the problem is epistemic/subjective and not ontological/objective) gives us the minimum error in simultaneous measurements of position x and momentum p,
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When large numbers of microscopic particles get together in massive aggregates
Determinism is an emergent property.
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So determinism "emerges" today from microscopic quantum systems as they become a part of larger and more classical systems. But we can says that determinism also emerged in time. In the earliest years of the universe, large massive objects did not yet exist. All matter was microscopic and quantal.
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The early universe was filled with positive ions and negatively charge electrons. The electrons scattered light photons, preventing them from traveling very far. The universe was effectively opaque past very short distances. Then the charged particles combined to form neutral atoms (hydrogen and helium) the photons suddenly could "see" (travel) to enormous distances. The universe first had the transparent sky that we take for granted today (on cloudless nights).
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Knitting Excitement!
And I have marvelous yarn from Carol Jean¶ - 50/50 wool/alpaca, light green subtly dappled with grey-blue. And a wonderful natural Araucania wool alpaca grey twist. But I don't know what to make with either, so I fondle them nightly and continue kniting miles of garter stitch.
I finished the infamous# Later Gator Sweater,†† but, y'know... camera... upload... we'll get there.
I also knitted lumps of coal for the Family Christmas Party, but I took no pictures, so I don't even have the "too lazy to upload" excuse.
[SUMMARY: Why bother talking about knitting?]
Despite all this waffling, there is some upcoming knitting about which I'm very excited.
Excited to the point of frantic.‡‡
I will be knitting - *whisper* - for myself.
[SUMMARY: That's why.§§]
Then possibly sweaters.
[SUMMARY: I'm not committing to any long-term contract here.]
I plan to knit this sweater%:
Basic Black Cardigan by Glenna C.
Using these needles¶¶:
Kollage Square Circular
In at *least* the green## of this yarn:
Colourmart 2/6NM dk wt 5/95 cashmere/merino bulky wool in pistacho,††† fuscia and azul mel
Finishing with these buttons@ on the respective colours‡‡‡.
from As Cute as a Button
[SUMMARY: A plan! I have a *plan*!]
The yarn should arrive any day. Until then, I sit at my post box§§§...
*open open open*
†FOOTNOTE (crossed): "Of course," because the alpaca is always fluffier on the other side of the fence.
‡FOOTNOTE (double-crossed): Though I have dubbed it the Gay Pride Baby Blanket, so at least it has that going for it.
§FOOTNOTE (swerved): And even less thrilled now that I've left my state of denial and realised what I've knit so far is the right width for a bookmark and, at this rate, the blanket will be 16" x 12".
¶FOOTNOTE (paragraphed): Yes, we are on a first-name basis. When she's not looking.
#FOOTNOTE (pounded): Possibly only among the immediate family. Mostly with Dr. Doom, who has been dying for the sweater since he didn't get it on Christmas.
††FOOTNOTE (ddouble-ccrossed): So named because it was a very, very late Christmas present. And because it is in the shape of an alligator.
‡‡FOOTNOTE (doubble-crossssed): Because it has to come through my post office.
§§FOOTNOTE (here's where I turn on you): So there.
%FOOTNOTE (percented): My decision to knit this sweater has NOTHING to do with the fact that Glenna and I have roughly the same hair.
¶¶FOOTNOTE (let me beat this into you): OMG OMG OMG! I *love* these needles! They're comfy and pretty and the cable is OMG soft as chiffon and it doesn't kink or coil and they warm in your hands like wood and they're just a little grippy without being sticky and OMG did I mention copper and size printed right on the needle and OMG!
##FOOTNOTE (#Cassandra #Juno): A hard-won green, found at last by Cassandra who, while she didn't push me to buy three colours of yarn, did point me to the blue and thoroughly enjoyed shopping with my money.
†††FOOTNOTE (knitting cross - coming soon to an Olympic competition near you): [sic] Apparently, that's how you say "pistachio" and "fuschia" in Spanish.
@FOOTNOTE (atted): It won't surprise you to know I did a search for skull buttons in specific. I looked at every single button on the ACAAB website and kept stopping at this cord lock because it looks so much like a friendly, Hello Kitty-esque skull:
‡‡‡FOOTNOTE (sew buttons): OK, maybe I'll switch the skulls and the pink glass. It's better to be wishy-washy in the footnotes and sound like you know what you're talking about in the blogpost proper. You might also notice I switched from "at least this one colour" to "I have buttons for all the colours." I'm sneaky that way.
§§§FOOTNOTE (boo*hisss*): Which mocks me with its tardy, black, yarnless emptiness.
10 comments:
- ~Donna~ said...
I absolutely LOVE my square circular needles. They're like butta!
- Marin (AntiM) said...
I *know*! I can't believe I lived this long without them! And I feel, somehow, that they will help me live longer and be healthier.
- Sarah said...
Square needles? Where have I been?
Can I ask a question? Well, I'm gonna. Why are you planning (kudos on the plan!) to knit the same sweater in three colors? Just wondering. 'Cause I have like 50 billion sweater patterns and there is only maybe one that I've ever considered knitting more than once, and that was after I knit it.
I love the pink glass buttons. Sooo pretty and girly.
- Marin (AntiM) said...
Knitter's Review apparently reviewed the square needles ages ago. Apparently, I dismissed them. Or forgot. But then Addi changed their cables (hate them) and I asked at my LYS if I could get the nice red cords again and they pointed me to the square needles.
Did I mention I love the square needles?
Of *course* you can ask. I'll even answer.
Years ago, someone told me it's smart when shopping to buy more than one of something, in different colours, if you really like it and it fits you. See, if you love something and six months into your love affair it starts to fray at the hem, chances are good it will no longer be available.
When it comes to basics, I still tend to go that direction.
So now that I'm planning on knitting a basic sweater, if I like it a lot, I'd like to have more than one. Still, I reserve the right to turn the other colours into different sweaters if I don't want to knit more than one.
This falls under the category of "knowing way more about Marin than you ever needed to know."
- Yvette said...
Hey! I know Glenna. She is a knitting friend. How cool to see her on your blog. Ain't the interweb grand?
Also, I LOVE that middle button.
- Marin (AntiM) said...
Very cool! Glenna was very nice when I asked her for permission to post her picture on my blog. You are officially my brush with greatness for the day, Yvette.
I love that middle button too. I kinda want to put it on all the sweaters.
- Teresa C said...
Did you get your square circular needles locally?
I live in Ft Collins, and traveling to Shuutles on Saturday, and wondered if anyone in the surrounding area carried the circulars. My Sister Knits in Ft Collins has the DPNs but not the circulars.
- Marin (AntiM) said...
I did! Showers of Flowers on West Colfax has them. If you make it all the way to Denver, you can find a good selection there.
That's a terrific sweater! I wonder how it would look in sparkly, sequined silk yarn . . . ;)
- Marin (AntiM) said...
A charmingly basic sweater. Terrific would be if it were made out of sparkly, sequined silk yarn.
Which, by the way, I'm still knitting on occasionally. I feel I'm not doing it justice. There just has to be a stitch pattern SOMEWHERE that will be perfect.
Hmmm... maybe a grey cardi with a sparkly silk collar...?


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So I had the pleasure of leading a group of 5th graders from Emerson today on a Wetlands 201 fieldtrip. It was a first for both us, as this was one of the fieldtrips that we re-vamped over the summer, and my first time trying it out on live victims.
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Surprisingly, it was the first time some of them had heard the terms "producer, consumer, & decomposer", or if they'd heard them, they're understanding was fuzzy. It gave me something to think about on my bike ride home this afternoon.
Recently, one of my veteran garden guides asked me, "why so much emphasis on producers, consumers, & decomposers?" (the concept has been added to pretty much every program we do). My immediate response was something like, "b/c I'm an ecologist at heart, a big-picture kind of guy, and these are the essential ingredients of the big picture…that, and P,C,D's were pounded into my head at Islandwood".
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"If you look deep, deep into nature, you will understand everything." Einstein said that, and Einstein was a smart dude.
If we can get kids to understand the basic concept of a food web – that producers make food that consumers consume and decomposers decompose so that producers can make more food, then kids will grow up to understand how this world works, and by extension, how to best live in it.
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DEBORAH MADISON, the founding chef of San Francisco's popular Greens restaurant, is the author of nine cookbooks, including The Greens Cookbook, her first, and most recently, Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen. The Savory Way, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors have all received James Beard Foundation Awards, and the first two were also named the Julia Child Cookbook of the Year by the IACP. A cooking teacher for two decades, a contributor to many magazines, and long involved in the local food and farming movement, Madison is the recipient of many other awards, including the MFK Fisher Mid-Career Award and the Flyaway Productions 10 Women Campaign Award. She lives in New Mexico with painter Patrick McFarlin.


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Brussels, 28 February 2013
'Smart borders': enhancing mobility and security
The EU is moving towards a more modern and efficient border management by using state-of-the-art technology. Today, the Commission proposed a 'smart border package' to speed-up, facilitate and reinforce border check procedures for foreigners travelling to the EU. The package consists of a Registered Traveller Programme (RTP) and an Entry/Exit System (EES) that will simplify life for frequent third country travellers at the Schengen external borders and enhance EU border security.
"The use of new technologies will enable smoother and speedier border crossing for third country citizens who want to come to the EU. Our aim is to facilitate the access of foreign travellers to the EU. This will not only be in the interest of the travellers but also the European economy. It has been estimated that in 2011 alone foreign travellers made a €271 billion contribution to our economy. Modernising our systems will also lead to a higher level of security by preventing irregular border crossings and detecting those who overstay'', said Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs.
Regulation on an EU Registered Traveller Programme (RTP)
Regulation on an EU Entry/Exit system
Today's proposals follow a 2011 Communication (IP/11/1234), in which a discussion was launched between EU institutions and authorities about the implementation of new systems, in light of their added value, their technological and data protection implications, and their costs.
The proposals are part of the initiative to strengthen the overall governance of the Schengen area, as announced in the Communication on Migration adopted on 4 May 2011 (IP/11/532 and MEMO/11/273).
Next steps
Negotiations with the European Parliament and the Council on the RTP and the EES legislative proposals will now start. After adoption of the legal texts by the co-legislators, the establishment of the systems will take place with a view to start operations in 2017 or 2018.
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Rockin' Moroccan Stew
Makes 6 to 8 servings
1 large red onion, chopped
4 large carrots, peeled and cut in one inch slices
4 small (or 3 large) russet potatoes, peeled and cut in 1 inch cubes
1 small cauliflower, cut in florets
1 medium eggplant, peeled and cut in one inch cubes
1 can (15 ounces) chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or less to taste)
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
2 1/2 cups vegetable broth or vegetable boullion, plus more as needed
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Put onion, carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, eggplant, chickpeas, crushed tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne and sea salt in a large mixing bowl. Toss to combine.
Put the vegetable mixture into a 5 to 6 quart casserole. Pour the vegetable broth over the top. Cover and bake for 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft. As the stew cooks, check it every ½ hour. If stew becomes dry, add ¼ to cup more vegetable broth, or more, as needed.
Remove stew from oven. Serve with brown rice or quinoa, crusty bread and a baby green salad.
Luscious Apple Tart with Blueberry Glaze
Makes 6 servings
3 small (or 2 large) apples, peeled, cored and sliced thinly
1 tablespoon vegan margarine spread
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon maple sugar or brown sugar
1 large whole grain tortilla or brown rice tortilla
2 tablespoons blueberry preserves
1 teaspoon water, plus more as needed
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper.
Put the margarine in a small saucepan over low heat and allow it to melt. Put the melted margarine and maple syrup in a small mixing bowl and stir together to incorporate. Brush ½ tablespoon of the maple mixture on each side of the tortilla.
Sprinkle ½ tablespoon of the sugar on the prepared parchment sheet. Place the tortilla on the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle ½ tablespoon of the sugar evenly over the top of the tortilla.
Put the apples, remaining maple syrup mixture and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl. Toss well to coat.
Arrange the apples on the tortilla in a spiral fashion, slightly overlapping them. Cover the entire top of the tortilla with the apples in this fashion. Bake for 25 minutes to ½ hour, or until the apples are soft and edges of tortilla are golden. Transfer to a pretty plate.
Meanwhile, put the blueberry preserves and water into a small mixing bowl and whisk together to combine. Add more water, one teaspoon at a time, if preserves seems too thick to spread over the tart. Using a pastry brush or small spoon, spread the preserves mixture over top of the tart while it is still hot.
Let the tart cool at least 20 minutes. transfer it to a cutting board. Cut in wedges and serve. May be served warm or room temperature.
Fig, Kale, and Tomato Salad
Although the combination in this salad may sound unusual, crunchy kale, juicy tomatoes, and sweet figs come together to make a delectable and filling salad. This is an innovative dish that works well as a light luncheon entrée or as an impressive first course.
3 to 4 cups chopped romaine lettuce
1 ripe tomato, chopped
2 cups finely chopped kale
4 large dried figs, stemmed and very thinly sliced
2 tablespoons unsalted roasted sunflower seeds
2 to 4 tablespoons Sweet Balsamic Dressing (see recipe below)
Put the kale into a medium size bowl. Pour 1 tablespoon of the dressing on top of the kale. With clean hands, massage the dressing in to the kale. (This will help to break down the tough fibers in the kale, tenderizing it for your salad). Let the kale marinate in the dressing for about 20 minutes.
Put the lettuce, tomato, figs, and sunflower seeds into a large salad bowl. Right before serving, add the kale and more dressing to taste and toss until the greens are evenly coated. Serve at room temperature.
NOTE Kale varieties with thinner leaves, such as red russian (also called lacinato or tuscan kale), are best suited for this recipe.
Sweet Balsamic Salad Dressing
1⁄4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 teaspoons brown sugar or maple sugar
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
To make the dressing, put the oil, vinegar, brown sugar, and mustard in a small bowl and briskly whisk until smooth and emulsified. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
NOTE: The dressing makes more than you'll need for this salad, but it's a great basic dressing to have on hand and is used in other recipes in this book. Stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator, leftover dressing will keep for about 1 week. Just whisk it briskly before using.
NOTE: For a simple alternative dressing, whisk together 1 tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil and 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice in a small bowl. Season with sea salt to taste.
Quick Quinoa
Makes 3 to 4 cups
1 cup quinoa, rinsed very well and drained
2 cups filtered or spring water
Sea salt, to taste
Place all of the ingredients in a medium saucepan. Cover. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Turn the heat down to medium-low and continue to simmer for 15 to 17 minutes or until the liquid is absorbed. Fluff with a fork. Cover again and remove from heat. Let the quinoa sit for 5 to 7 minutes and serve!


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Bylsma has a quote yesterday that was PERFECT. We are "punting" the ball whenever we get it. The Penguins are punting the puck when we finally get it out of our zone. When we get the puck, we send it back into their zone as if to say "phew, we survived, here's the puck...try to score again I dare ya!" Typically you get he puck and say "OK, now it's our turn to score." There simply hasn't been enough of that in this series. We get the puck and the fact that we finally retrieved it...finally got it away from them....that we have a sense of accomplishment.
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Emmanuel College and Richmont Graduate University in Atlanta are partnering to offer Richmont's "3+2" program to students majoring in psychology at Emmanuel.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The U.S. coal industry has undergone some major transformations in the past half century. Each decade had its own issues from oil embargos and pollution control to the safety and productivity of the workforce. On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Joseph Hirschi's will present "The Role of Research in the Coal Mining Industry: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward," which will explore how research has evolved from a proactive, industry-driven effort to a reactive, government-funded enterprise. His presentation is part of the EMS Energy Institute's Energy Exchange Seminar Series.
Hirschi, a project manager for the Illinois Clean Coal Institute, has a doctorate in engineering science and currently oversees sponsored research in the areas of coal miner health and safety, advanced coal mining technologies and coal preparation.
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For specific dates, speaker bios and seminar abstracts.
The EMS Energy Institute's Energy Exchange Seminar Series lineup focuses on highly relevant energy topics in areas such as biofuels, petroleum and natural gas, and clean coal. For more information on speakers, visit www.energy.psu.edu/energyoutreach/energyXchange.