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Are biological "Functions" and "Doings" real in the universe? According to most scientists, "no." They are mistaken manners of speaking. You see, in all of physics, there are only "Happenings," not Functions in the biological sense, in which the function of the heart is to pump blood. Nor are there Doings. Balls rolling down hills are not doing anything at all.
What is the function of your heart? Darwin would answer that it is to pump blood. But your heart makes heart sounds. Why are these causal consequences of beating hearts not the function of your heart? Darwin would answer that you have a heart because it was selectively advantageous for your ancestors to have a heart that pumped blood. Hence the function of your heart is to pump blood, not make heart sounds.
Three points are crucial here: i) The function of your heart is a subset of its causal consequences, here pumping blood, not making heart sounds. ii) A Kantian whole is an organized being in which the parts exist for and by means of the whole and the whole exists for and by means of the parts. You are a Kantian whole, as is a bacterium. iii) You and the bacteria are at a level of complexity where most complex things will never exist in the non-ergodic universe above the level of atoms.
Thus, when Darwin tells us that the function of your heart is to pump blood, he is also telling us why hearts and you exist in the non-ergodic universe.
This last paragraph is the central truth I wish to point to: Once a complex Kantian whole exists in the non-ergodic universe above the level of atoms, we can legitimately discriminate the causal consequences of the parts that help sustain the Kantian whole from causal consequences of the same parts that are mere side effects.
The former causal consequences, here the heart pumping blood, are the legitimate Functions of the parts, and are no longer mere Happenings. Functions of parts help explain why complex Kantian wholes exist in the universe above the level of atoms.
Physics has only Happenings. Why in biology are Doings not just Happenings?
I think the right answer is that Doings are causal consequences of Kantian wholes, like a bacterium swimming up a glucose gradient "for food," that are therefore functional behaviors that help sustain the complex Kantian whole.
But there is a further step. In classical physics one has both causal closure, i.e., all events have sufficient causes, and in physics in general, what "happens" is entailed by laws.
But as Giuseppe Longo, Mael Montevil and I argue in a paper now on ArXiv, entitled "No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere," evolution is not entailed. There are, if we are right, no entailing laws for the becoming of organisms in the biosphere. Thus there are no entailing laws for the evolutionary emergence of causal consequences which help sustain complex Kantian wholes in the non-ergodic universe. Hence, those causal consequences, now Functions, arise beyond entailing law.
Once the heart has emerged in evolution, there may or may not be a lawful reductive account of how it "works." But no law entails the coming into evolutionary existence of the Function, the heart pumping blood, as a new function.
Functions and Doings, arising beyond entailing laws, are legitimate aspects of the living world.


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Innocent Shumba, Partner, Ernst & Young, San Jose - Innocent Shumba is a member of EY's Assurance practice and has diverse accounting and auditing experience. He is involved in several organizations, including the EY Black Professional Network, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Certified Fraud Examiners, Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Black Accountants.
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Ndeye Makalou, Commercial Director, Roche - Ndeye Makalou is a highly motivated, courageous global transformational leader with 20+years' experience in the biopharma industry, with expertise in project management, quality control, clinical and commercial operations in developed and emerging markets. Makalou uses her expertise in effectively leading complex programs from late-stage discovery to commercialization and my skills in building and managing effective multidisciplinary teams.
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Almaz Negash, Founder of ADN & Executive Director - Almaz began ADN in 2010 to inform and engage Africans in the Diaspora and facilitate direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders to invest in Africa. Negash has sought to improve the quality of life of our communities through both local and global partnerships. Almaz Negash Bio - 2017
Daniel Hartz, Envoy, Inc. - Dan is a Product Specialist at Envoy, Inc. He is a founding board member of African Diaspora Network and former Director of Finance and Operations. He now helps to develop and implement strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Envoy, Dan was senior manager of Golden Mean Capital Partners, a group focused on economic development in African agriculture.
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Duncan Goldie-Scot, Musoni Kenya Ltd. - Duncan is the Chairman of Musoni Kenya, Ltd. As an entrepreneur and investo, he has been investing in startup companies in Africa for more than ten years and pioneered the use of mobile payments in micro-finance institutions (MFIs). He co-founded the first 100% cashless MFI and created a company to create credit profiles using mobile data.
Dr. Ade Freeman, World Bank - Ade is the Lead Specialist in Trade and Competitiveness, Global Practice at the World Bank, where he is responsible for lending operations, analytical and advisory activities, and policy dialogue on issues related to private sector and SME development, value chains, and spatial strategies such as growth poles, growth corridors, and special economic zones.
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Radhika Shah, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs - Radhika is an Angel & Impact investor from Silicon Valley and Co-President at Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs a community of over 1100 entrepreneurial Stanford students, faculty and alumni. She has been an advisor, mentor, co-convener & judge at Innovation Accelerators Startx & Skydeck Labs, US SBA and UN Solutions Summit.
Abbey Omokhodion, Senior Finance Director IOTG, Intel Corporation - Abbey Omokhodion runs a multi-billion dollar portfolio of P&Ls within the Internet of Things division at Intel, partnering with operations leaders to drive strategy, grow the business profitably, scale solutions, and activate new markets.
Serge Ouedraogo, Director of Special Projects - Serge is a seasoned financial analyst who advises business executives on strategic investments that maximize financial returns. He brings an extensive background in financial modeling and best practices for budgeting and financial reporting.
Jenna O'Brien, Watson Institute - Jenna serves as the Vice President/Director of Programs at Watson Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a new learning model tailored for next-generation innovators, leaders, and social entrepreneurs. Before joining Watson, Jenna served as a Project Manager for IDP Foundation, focusing on the development and implementation of their social enterprise strategy.
Hugh Molotsi, Investor; Founder and CEO, Ujama - Hugh Molotsiis the founder and CEO ofUjama, a mobile platform to help parents form communities to help each other. Hugh also advises and invests in startups and is an active practitioner and teacher of Lean Startup Methodologies. In 2015, Hugh concluded a 22-year career at Intuit as Engineering Fellow and Vice President of Innovation.
Dr. Liesl Riddle, Associate Professor of Int'l Business and Int'l Affairs, George Washington University - Leisl is also the co-director of GWSB's OntheBoard program, a fellowship program designed to promote women on corporate boards. Dr. Riddle has written extensively about diasporas and development, international entrepreneurship, and trade and investment promotion.
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Prof. Mammo Muchie, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria - Professor Muchie holds a DPhil in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Development (STI4D) from the University of Sussex. He is currently a DST/NRF Research Professor of Innovation Studies at Tshwane University of Technology.
Chris Folayan, Founder MallforAfrica & MallfortheWorld - Chris runs an award-winning global e-commerce company that enables Africans and people in emerging markets purchase billions of products from over 200 of the best US and UK online retailers. Folayan also sits on several boards globally and previously served as Chairman of the Board of the African Diaspora Network from 2016-2018.
Laura Hubbard, PhD, Center for African Studies, Stanford University - Laura is an anthropologist of youth, media and popular culture. She has lived and worked in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa focusing on questions of aesthetics and politics, temporality and youth culture, the links of longing and belonging among southern African cities, and the nexus of media and development.
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Mississippi man jailed for transgender killing
A Mississippi man has been sentenced for killing a transgender woman in the first US federal prosecution of a hate crime based on gender identity.
Joshua Vallum was given 49 years in prison for the murder of his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend Mercedes Williamson.
Vallum pleaded guilty to stabbing and bludgeoning Mercedes after friends learned of their relationship.
Transgender-rights advocates say there is an "epidemic of violence" against the minority community.
"Today's sentencing reflects the importance of holding individuals accountable when they commit violent acts against transgender individuals," US Attorney General Sessions said in a written statement.
"The Justice Department will continue its efforts to vindicate the rights of those individuals who are affected by bias motivated crimes," the former Alabama congressman added.
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In 2009 Congress expanded the federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's sexual orientation.
This case, which began under the Obama administration, is the first federal hate crime prosecution based on a victim's gender identity.
The 29-year-old member of the Latin Gangs street gang had secretly been romantically involved with Mercedes during the summer of 2014, he admitted to prosecutors.
He knew that she was transitioning from male to female at the time, despite initially telling officers that he "blacked out" and killed her after seeing her penis.
Experts refer to this legal technique as the "gay panic" or "trans panic" defence.
After their relationship had ended, Vallum made the decision kill Mercedes fearing retribution from other gang members who had discovered their past.
He lured her to his father's home, where he shocked her with a stun gun, then stabbed her and struck her with a hammer as she tried to flee.
- Mapping safe toilets for transgender Americans
- Transgender child: The boy putting his female puberty on hold
During sentencing, Vallum pleaded for forgiveness from Mercedes' family, although none of them were in court.
"Every day, I live with the guilt and regret of my actions," Vallum said.
"If I could bring back Mercedes by giving up my life, I would gladly do so."
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Lecture by Jo-Jo Koo, Department of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, USA.
Standard existentialist interpretations of Heidegger's Being and Time discern, understandably, only two specific modes of human existence: "inauthenticity" (Uneigentlichkeit) and "authenticity" (Eigentlichkeit). Furthermore, they invariably identify the everyday existence of human beings (Dasein) as "inauthentic" and conceive the potential of human beings for "authentic" existence with the extent to which human beings break away or deviate from the "inauthenticity" of everyday life. I argue in this talk that such interpretations overlook to their detriment the presence and import of the third specific mode of human existence that is implicitly described in Being and Time: namely, undistinguishedness (Indifferenz). More specifically, I offer an interpretation of the distinctiveness of undistinguishedness from the other two specific modes of human existence, reply to a few likely objections to this interpretation, and end the talk by briefly sketching the significance of undistinguishedness for questions in social philosophy that trace back to how we should conceive the relation of self and others.


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Prince Harry hails Invictus Games silver medal 'Superman' who lost three limbs after kneeling on Afghanistan bomb
Mark Ormrod took second place in the indoor rowing event for injured servicemen in Toronto, Canada
A ROYAL Marine who lost three limbs after kneeling on a bomb in Afghanistan was praised by Prince Harry last night after picking up sliver at the Invictus Games.
Mark Ormrod came second in the indoor rowing event in Toronto and received a handshake from the Royal as he was presented with his medal.
The pair first met nine years ago when Harry visited the armed forces Surrey based rehab centre Headly court in 2008.
Kensington Palace's official Twitter feed posted a message saying it was the Prince's "honour" to present the award to the "incredible" ex-marine.
The former 40-commando joked that he looked "drunk" in his winning pictures because he was so exhausted.
He also received a hug from his children, Evie and Mason,
Mark, 32, lost three limbs in Afghanistan when he stepped on an IED in Helmond on Christmas Eve 2007.
He became the UK's first triple amputee from Afghanistan after losing his legs and right arm and admits he considered suicide shortly after being discharged from hospital.
Last year, trying to raise awareness about suicide amongst ex-servicemen he said: "The military put my family up in a flat opposite and when I was discharged I went across to the flat.
"The wheelchair wouldn't fit in the lounge where people were eating and chatting so I had to have my dinner on my lap in the hallway.
"That night I was getting ready for bed when I saw myself for the first time in a full-length mirror and I just had a fleeting thought of 'I don't want to live like this'.
"That's as far as it went but I've known other people who have committed suicide."
The Invictus Games are a multi-sport event for wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel.
It was created by Prince Harry and Invictus stands for "unconquered" or "undefeated" in Latin.
The week-long event will see 550 competitors from 17 nations competing against one another in 12 different sports.
Sporting events at the Games include wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and indoor rowing, and the events tend to attract a crowd packed with politicians and Royals.
The first ever Invictus Games took place in March 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, United Kingdom.
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The Appropriations (spending) bill for the fiscal year 2020 has begun.
There will be a series of hearings where you can help create the impact we must have to stop the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act from being gutted.
Please call your Representative and Senators today at 202-225-3121. They will direct you to your Representative. Tell them:
SIMPLE: We need a freeze to maintain a "status quo" on the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program. No changes to budget, authorities or methods until a real investigation is done into the corruption of BLM and the "Path Forward" special interest document the current bill is based on.
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Reject the document presented by Chris Stewart of Utah as an "agreement" in any debate on spending or changes to BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program. The document is titled "The Path Forward For BLMs Wild Horse and Burro Program" and is not a data based discussion, but an industry back door deal.
The document is being incorporated into the BLM Report to Congress and has been given an unethical "green light" as Interior avoids scrutiny by utilizing the Deputy Director system and failing to have Congress vet a Director of BLM. The Report to Congress is due the last week of August.
Brian Steed, (now former) BLM Deputy Director, was Chris Stewarts Chief of Staff as this document was authored from 2016-2018. There are multiple conflicts and ethical questions among the corporate interests in the "agreement" and Brian Steed.
There are ethical questions involving John Ruhs, Deputy Director before Steed, and many interests involved in this "agreement" including making investigations into illegal activity on the range "vanish" without the mandatory penalties.
There is now an investigation into the new BLM Deputy Director William Perry Pendley on ethics violations.
Congress must freeze the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program and make no changes to spending, protocol or the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
Congress must do an investigation into BLMs Report on Wild Horses and Burros.
Multiple big money interests are being placed above science, the law and transparent public process.
Congress must protect the public interest and protect the public resource.
Only after an investigation is done into ethical violations by the BLM can Congress consider any change in practice, spending or the law.
Only after a review of the BLM Report to Congress, now 3 months late under Pendley, can any discussion on the budget move forward.
Remember to be polite. Ask for an email to send a follow up letter.
The end of the intention of Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act is at stake.
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- Trespass Livestock on the Range; what you should know.
- The Deputy Director Game; avoid scrutiny and play games with the law
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The Devils are in the Details (what is coming in the next BLM Report to Congress) The same dirty hands hold both National Monuments and wild horses
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Basic Copywriting for Service Pages
I often recommend adding additional, specific service pages as a technique for improving your search engine rankings. If you have the time, I highly recommend writing your own copy (incorporating suggestions we've discussed) so it is in your own "voice." However, another option is to hire me to create your initial text for the page. You will then have the ability to go through and edit the text to make it sound more like you. All copy (text) I write will be written with SEO and your chosen keywords in mind.
When you have Jessica write a service page, the following is included:
- Pages are written with the intent of speaking to your ideal client. The sections included are typicallY:
- They will begin by demonstrating that you understand the reasons the client is seeking therapy. Usually this is done by asking a series of questions and then 1-2 paragraphs describing the pain you've said your client is feeling.
- We then have a section describing signs or symptoms a person with those pain points might want to seek therapy.
- The next section describes how therapy will help your client.
- The final section is always a call to action encouraging them to contact your counseling clinic to begin services.
- Each page will be at least 500 words long (typically significantly longer)
- Keywords that we've discussed are distributed throughout the page to help your page rank well on search engines from the day it's published.
- Subheadings and headings are optimized for SEO.
- A suggested meta description for the new page.
- All content is unique to your site. I do not reuse content from another site.
- If you have a Word Press Site, the copy writing fee will also include publishing the page on your website.
You will be asked to provide:
- A detailed description of your ideal client including what pain points are bringing them into counseling. Why are they looking for help on the internet today?
- A detailed description of the services you provide. For instance, instead of just "depression counseling" you will describe how you use CBT techniques to address core beliefs that developed when a person was a young child. It's my job to help translate that into text that's easier for a client to understand.
- 4 pictures that can be used on the page. If you have a Word Press site, I will optimize these when I add them to the page.
*I only offer this service to other mental health counselors, because this I am personally a mental health professional and group counseling practice owner. I feel like it is important to have a copy writer familiar with your field. If you are in another wellness related field I will likely encourage you to write your own copy or find another person in your field to help.
Backlink Research
Backlinks are a powerful way to improve SEO for your private practice website. When other websites link to yours it's like a "vote" in a popularity contest. With this service, I'll look for local directories in your area, websites that are linking to your biggest competitors and local news stations that might be willing to report on (and interview you for) mental health topics. You will, however, have to reach out and contact these sites on your own to "earn" the backlink.
Guest Blogging SEO Service Discount
If you subscribe to one of our packages, you can receive $25 off your SEO services for the following month by
submitting one guest blog post on a relevant mental health topic. Your guest blog post will be featured on www.AspireCounselingMO.com/blog. Each post should contain at least 700 words and include a short bio.
Jessica will edit the post to add internal/external links, keywords, shorten sentences, subheadings or whatever is needed to optimize your mental health blog post for SEO. The text of the bio at the bottom will include a backlink to your site!
Begin Maintenance or Alumni SEO Service Packages for Therapists
If you want SEO services but our standard packages don't seem to meet your needs you don't have to settle. Sometimes individualized services can help you meet your goals more effectively when it comes to cost or time. You don't have to pay for monthly services if this doesn't seem to suit your needs, individual services are available. Our Skilled SEO specialists can provide individual consulting sessions, backlinks and copywriting services that can help you increase your rankings. Simplified SEO Consulting offers À la carte services to meet specific needs and make it easier for potential clients to find and navigate your site. If you would like to start one of our individualized services or have questions, please contact us or schedule a free consultation . You can join the many therapists who, with our SEO services, have seen great improvements in their private practice rankings!
Other Services Offered by Simplified SEO Consulting
In addition to our individualized SEO services, we also offer many other SEO services including done for you services, alumni & maintenance packages, and SEO training services. If you aren't sure whether SEO is for you, feel free to check-out some of our other resources or blogs. We also offer a 7-day email series where you can start to learn SEO for free!


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Wendy Elia works in series which explore the social and broader contexts of our times. In her portrait work she confronts our voyeurism and asks questions about the female gaze and painting's relationship to authenticity and illusion. Elia moves from the personal to the political not only in the range of content and form in the various series, but also within individual paintings: using a range of pictorial symbols and signifiers to extend the meaning/narrative of the works.
Wendy Elia trained at St Martins School of Art, London and has exhibited widely being a finalist in a number of national and international competitions which include 4 times at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as The Sovereign European Art Prize, and The Threadneedle Prize. Her work is also held in a number of public permanent art collections across the country.
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