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Open guest lecture: Tara Smith
While people routinely debate the demands of justice in the legal and political arenas, we tend to overlook the role that justice plays – or should play – in everyday life. This lecture aims to remedy that neglect, to clarify the essential character of justice, to highlight the demands of objectivity and the appropriate conditions for making judgments.
Second, prof. Smith will explain why a person should be just – why is this virtuous? What, if any, is its practical benefit? Who benefits from acts of justice: the judge, or the person judged?
Finally, prof. Smith will explore some of the unconventional implications of this account, stressing the emphatic need to judge other people, the fact that forgiveness is not always appropriate, and (tying it back to larger social issues) the incompatibility between justice and egalitarianism.
Tara Smith - Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Ayn Rand Institute


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Or my manuscript. Both editing and exercising were left out of today's equation. Not intentionally from the start, but as I started doing other things, that's what happened.
The banana was for scale; the closest thing around was a fruit bowl. I'm putting it away before I'm tempted to knit away a day like I did yesterday.
Terttu said she wanted one of my paper necklaces but I only had half of one and half of another. Then I figured out I could combine.
I was half-heartedly practicing shading and forgot I was supposed to be testing my new homemade baren until I cleaned up. I fooled around on textured hanji and on scrap calligraphy paper. Last night after class, I forgot to bring my blocks home because I wanted to carve more this weekend. This was because I was brain dead and tired from all the printing.
And then I made a full panel comic on the rest of the textured hanji using the prints. That was fun, and well worth everything I didn't do today. Maybe my body is sensing that I want to have more artwork with the "2011" label and that's why it's all pumping out now. I'm not complaining; it just means I have to schedule a photo shoot soon.

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I have an uninterrogated belief that all language is accessible to the dead. I have trouble conceiving of the afterlife, but of this I am sure: either retroactively or in their present state, the dead receive our transmissions. And though I ought to have written this letter earlier, it's only now that I know what it contains. Dear John, last winter walking through the crowded AWP bookfair, I bumped into a writer I hadn't seen in twenty years. In your fall 1996 poetry workshop, C and I sat across the table from each other. I remember C in ironic polo shirts, maybe a club vibe. I leaned thrift store and was bad at parties (I went to them, I acted weird). Here we were in 2017 looking like the middle-aged Gen X parents we are. We knew each other immediately and smiled. We're friends on social media, of course, and I follow his writing, but I'd like to think we really remember each other from your heavy wooden seminar table in Olin Hall. We hugged, caught up. Mostly, we talked about you. How we channel you in our teaching, how we try to model your patience. You were so patient with us! As kids, we hadn't read Moore or Bishop. Do you remember that? You didn't judge us, unkempt readers, but the following week brought copious photocopies. My introduction to "The Fish." Somehow I got it in my head that Moore and Bishop were buried in our little graveyard on the dirt road shortcut that connected North and South campus. Over time, I'd come to picture them holding hands. I imagined you'd told us that, until I one day said it aloud. My memory righted itself. You'd simply described the complex friendship that led me to imagine such an internment! You brought us translations and hoaxes and the first literary journals I'd ever held. When a student submitted a snide caricature of teen mothers at the mall, you weren't unkind to her, but to my great relief duly firm in your critique. I would file away your articulate expressions—how to hold one's gaze softly on a student or class, which, though generally beloved, has surprised even your seasoned self with something blunt and foolish. How to communicate happier surprise, lights flipping on behind the brow. How to simultaneously contain and communicate delight in the corners of one's mouth. You were often delighted.
In my end-of-semester crit, you said "There is something almost Plath-like in the intensity she brings to poetry." It was a warm ingot, your approval not just of me, but of her before she was de rigueur in the classroom. You might remember handing me a newspaper clipping, detail from a painting by de Kooning that you'd found in the Times. It reminded you of one of my poems. I've moved a dozen times since then, but I carry that with me. I carry the issue of our little campus journal Sui Generis to which you generously contributed. I carry that crit with your signature and the odd edges where your typewriter ribbon faltered.
Not unlike you—though I'd never imagine my memory quite so vast or precise—not unlike you, I remember everything. I remember my plaid flannel skirt the day I rushed in almost late having had lunch with my ex whom I still wasn't over, but loving poetry more than enough to ditch him in the parking lot outside South Hall. I remember R's poem that would get published in APR, the sestina including Mozart, breasts, elephants. I remember he was a Rhodes Scholar and I said something very naive in a conversation with him about Can Xue, which I'd still like to amend. I remember A whose hair reminded me of a rooster's comb wrote a poem called Arcadia, and one about February I quite liked, or was that Z the Marxist who would pretend to have married the glamorous D senior year, but they were just having us on? I remember there were a lot of young straight white men in that class who admired you and sought your favor, but it neither softened nor hardened you toward them. I remember you were the advisor of a brilliant young woman whose gorgeous poems were nothing like yours. She wrote you a faintly psychedelic homage. I remember I trusted you to read us, read to us, and guide us. I remember how well I deserved that A-, too. A little minus for the half-semester it took me to gain purchase. Hard-won you said of my advances, and they were. I remember you had startling bright eyes, you know that, everyone knows that, and your voice was agile. You liked a good joke, you told a good joke. I would see you while I was in the city, I'd meet visual artists you worked with, and have teachers who studied you. I'd think of you as I walked past O'Hara's residence. Later you would say of me, Danielle Pafunda, I remember her. And that would strike me very fine praise. I don't talk a lot about having studied with you. I don't know if it's apparent in my work—certainly no one ever says so. What I do know is that when I later took my comprehensive exams, reading 300 books that year, writing off-the-cuff 9-page exams in 3-hours, speaking in a 3-hour blur for orals, coming out bruised and grinning and sure I could feel my brain's neural pathways bloom, that was how it felt to read your work when I was young, and how it remains now that I'm middle.
Too many of my professors have passed out of the world, particularly too many from Bard, a strange and precious home. I took this one hard. I cried because the slippage of retrospect in which I know that without you I'd have been some other poet. So might every poet I know be some other poet. I cried wishing I'd stayed near home and spent more hours with you. I cried because you'd been the teacher of my teachers and my teachers themselves were grieving. I cried because I was so glad to cry over something warm and rich and wonderful when these past many months have been pulling from us quick, lean, salted sobs. My heart was inside out. My head, too, unfurled. Anyhow, thank you for everything, for every single thing you gave me, and the things you gave my friends and admireds. Thank you for writing poems I can reread until the end of poems which is never, and read aloud to my gentle 8-year-old who favors Schuyler and O'Hara, and now you, he says, hmmm that's a very good poem, it's calming and interesting. I wish you gentle passage, I send my love, I'll hope to apprehend you when I'm too gone home to the light or whatever is next.
Danielle Pafunda is the author of eight books, including The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books 2017), Natural History Rape Museum (Bloof Books 2013), and the forthcoming Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan (Dusie Press Books).


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Hope your all having a good week….here is what we have today:
This word has two related meanings: a passion or compulsion for certain words or names and their supposed significance, but also the intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word or to name a thing.
Now, how many times has the word you want been on the tip of your tongue, but you just cannot remember it! I think it is fair to say we have all experienced Onomatomania at some stage!


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We are a musical family and many musicians come to stay with us. Duncan plays uilleann pipes and low whistle, Susan plays button accordion and Catriona, our eldest daughter, plays clarsach and whistles. We are in the Ceilidh Band RedCuillin. You can hear some of our music on the RedCuillin website.
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The day after Thanksgiving was 55 and sunny, so I thought it would be a good day to visit my favorite city for the last time before we move. Nothing specific to do, just visit our old house and favorite places in the neighborhood. I will miss it so much!
Winter sun and trees make a striking landscape. You can see the art museum behind the trees. The "wings" open up daily and have a 218 foot wingspan!
It seemed much colder here with the wind whipping off the lake!
Must climb trees! Hohn bridge in background.
Surfers in Lake Michigan in November!
St. Mary's and Water Tower. The old hospital on the right, with the new Columbia-St. Mary's behind it.
The pavilion at Bradford beach. This reminds me of the pavilions in South Beach, except they are not made of brick!
Looking north on Bradford Beach. No one wanted to walk with me. Look at those white caps!
We ate at the Comet Cafe on Farwell. Love this place - makes both me and the Carnivore happy. I had the seitan Philly steak with a vegan nacho cheese sauce. Why can't my seitan taste like that? No cardboard here. In the foreground is the mashed potatoes with beer gravy. Only in Milwaukee!
This was the only good thing at my Thanksgiving dinner. It is a cranberry marinated and pan fried tofu. For some reason none of the side dishes were good! Don't know why - I have made them all before.
Had these for dinner the other night. They are really tasty. No nasty soy after taste. Yes, I know they are processed, but I just don't always want to eat beans!


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A patient with hemophilia was treated in Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)
The World Hemophilia Day 2015 was marked in Hanoi on April 11 following a meeting organised by the Vietnam Hemophilia Association (VHA) in collaboration with the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.
The World Hemophilia Day 2015 was organised to raise awareness about bleeding disorder and the need to build a family of support for those living with it.
According to Nguyen Anh Tri, VHA Chairman, people living with hemophilia can have a stable life and make contributions to society if they are diagnosed and treated early along with the help from the community.
Vietnam currently have around 6,000 hemophilia patients and only 40 percent of them are discovered and treated on a regular basis, Tri said.
There is significant progress in treating the hemophilia in Vietnam thanks to improved diagnose and treatment quality, he added.-VNA
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We have crossed the just noticeable difference (JNdiff) in the threshold of signal: noise when serendipity has been compromised.
The noise out there can be infuriating. Too much clutter; no sense of what goes with what; what's a "need to know" vs. a "nice to know" vs. a "never wanted to know."
I often find myself talking clients off the ledge as they attempt to prioritize social media efforts, given inexplicable differences in results across listening platforms, varying calculations of influence, and the age-old question of "what's good" when it comes to buzz and sentiment. Further, knowing 'how well' you're doing in social media has only become more problematic with the increasing shift in interest from amassing eyeballs to mobilizing and rewarding them.
As an industry, we're plagued by inefficient categorizations, unstable rankings of authority, and unpredictable, black box algorithms guessing what matters most.
Perhaps as a result, we see more organizations shifting in the same way that we, as people, do as we go through adolescence-- from giving disproportionate weight to what others say about us, to being more concerned with our own actions. That which we can control.
Being in control of our actions requires a different type of measurement and management. To help organizations in said efforts, we're announcing today our public launch of the Social Business Index (SBI), the first application on our Social Business Intelligence as a Service (SBIaaS) data services platform.
Having worked in social media analysis for seven years, it's become clear to me, the trick to finding meaning in social media is to be intimate with your dataset (for context), and to monitor relative comparisons to yield meaning. We've thoroughly taken this to heart with the SBI.
Our dataset includes the social accounts of thousands of companies, their subsidiaries, and brands, in addition to the social accounts of their engaged market (e.g. anyone who interacts with a given account). Using natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, powered by our own strategists, we identify specific activities that are being executed by a given brand -- emanating from their social accounts. This is a critical distinction from the way things are being measured today. We're not exclusively monitoring reactions, or buzz in response to a real or perceived tactic. Instead, we're starting with the action per se. We're measuring what you, as marketers, are doing-- in addition to the way your market responds.
We've captured specific behaviors correlated with outcomes such as Brand Awareness, Brand Love, Brand Mindshare, and Advocacy. In aggregate, this gives us a company's Social Business Index Score-- a ranking, analysis, and benchmarking of Social Business adoption and performance.
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This post also appears on the Dachis Group Collaboratory, where you can find my colleagues' related posts as well.


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Real short little piece on a few things that I personally have changed that have in general improved my nutrition in various capacities.
1. As a nutritional coach realised that if I cut through all of the c*** that is 'dietary systems' there is actually something positive to take from most things. Understanding why things don't work is VERY valuable as to understanding how things do.
2. I started using a decent dose of high quality fish oils a few years gone by and the difference it made was huge.
3. Stopped being so obsessed with portions and stopped weighing my food as much. Doing things too rigidly is something that long term just isn't do-able if you have other things to do in life.
4. Off the back of that one of the best investments I have made in the past few years is a 'sixpackbag' why? As if I have it I 'know' I have stuff in order. It's big and I have to lug it about but it comes with me and my body fat is probably consistently 2-3% lower throughout the year because of this. It reminds me to prep my food and leave carrying it. I have spare supps, nuts etc incase i get caught on the hop. I don't just grab what I can anymore when caught unaware as I have it with me.
4. I stopped eating carbs for breakfast. I embraced the Meat and Nut breakfast and hats off to Mr Poliquin on this one. This neurally has impacted me hugely and again I believe I am consistently leaner because of it. I use this with a LOT of my clients now and have nothing but great reports.
5. I prioritise vegetables hugely!!! I eat probably 75% of my protein from red meat and my digestion has never been better, I do cook it rare which helps and the quality of it is always high.
6. Glutamine am and pm in 15-20g dosage. I also use a hefty amount during my longer workouts to the tone of 100+g.
7. Only use powders as food pre/during and post workout. A treat for me is a little chocolate pudding I make from Whey.
8. I drink alcohol only when an 'occasion' justifies it, weddings, Xmas etc. Not because society, my friends or my peers feel I should.
9. I take between 30-40 BCAA capsules during my workout.
10. Stopped 'ok' foods. If I feel I even utter the 'it'll be ok' or 'only this once' I tend to say no. I'm not a fitness model or a bodybuilder so my career doesn't hinge on me being in shape but I perform, feel and as a bonus look better when my diet is in check. I wrote a piece called 'The Little Things' which is well worth a read.
11. I went wild. Over 60% of what I consume now in the way of protein comes from wild meats. I eat, Bison, Wildebeest, Kangaroo, springbok, Ostrich all on a regular basis. I honestly feel this has impacted my wellbeing and performance positively. I also rotate my protein sources. Remember that the more we eat of specific foods the more we utilise unethical farming methods (supply and demand right) and also things become unsustainable due to this.


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Mortimer Adler
Rogers Albritton
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Samuel Alexander
William Alston
Louise Antony
Thomas Aquinas
David Armstrong
Harald Atmanspacher
Robert Audi
Alexander Bain
Mark Balaguer
Jeffrey Barrett
William Belsham
Henri Bergson
George Berkeley
Isaiah Berlin
Richard J. Bernstein
Bernard Berofsky
Robert Bishop
Max Black
Susanne Bobzien
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Hilary Bok
Laurence BonJour
George Boole
Émile Boutroux
Michael Burke
Joseph Keim Campbell
Rudolf Carnap
Ernst Cassirer
David Chalmers
Roderick Chisholm
Randolph Clarke
Samuel Clarke
Anthony Collins
Antonella Corradini
Diodorus Cronus
Jonathan Dancy
Donald Davidson
Mario De Caro
Daniel Dennett
Jacques Derrida
René Descartes
Richard Double
Fred Dretske
John Dupré
John Earman
Laura Waddell Ekstrom
Herbert Feigl
John Martin Fischer
Owen Flanagan
Luciano Floridi
Philippa Foot
Alfred Fouilleé
Harry Frankfurt
Richard L. Franklin
Michael Frede
Gottlob Frege
Peter Geach
Edmund Gettier
Carl Ginet
Alvin Goldman
Nicholas St. John Green
H.Paul Grice
Ian Hacking
Ishtiyaque Haji
Stuart Hampshire
Sam Harris
William Hasker
Georg W.F. Hegel
Martin Heidegger
Thomas Hobbes
David Hodgson
Shadsworth Hodgson
Baron d'Holbach
Ted Honderich
Pamela Huby
David Hume
Ferenc Huoranszki
William James
Lord Kames
Robert Kane
Immanuel Kant
Tomis Kapitan
Jaegwon Kim
William King
Hilary Kornblith
Christine Korsgaard
Saul Kripke
Andrea Lavazza
Keith Lehrer
Gottfried Leibniz
Michael Levin
George Henry Lewes
David Lewis
Peter Lipton
C. Lloyd Morgan
John Locke
Michael Lockwood
E. Jonathan Lowe
John R. Lucas
Alasdair MacIntyre
Ruth Barcan Marcus
James Martineau
Storrs McCall
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Colin McGinn
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Robert Nozick
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Eleonore Stump
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Roy Weatherford
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Max Born
Satyendra Nath Bose
Walther Bothe
Hans Briegel
Leon Brillouin
Stephen Brush
Henry Thomas Buckle
S. H. Burbury
Donald Campbell
Anthony Cashmore
Eric Chaisson
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Arthur Holly Compton
John Conway
John Cramer
E. P. Culverwell
Charles Darwin
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Abraham de Moivre
Paul Dirac
Hans Driesch
John Eccles
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Paul Ehrenfest
Albert Einstein
Hugh Everett, III
Franz Exner
Richard Feynman
R. A. Fisher
Joseph Fourier
Philipp Frank
Lila Gatlin
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GianCarlo Ghirardi
J. Willard Gibbs
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Paul Glimcher
Thomas Gold
Brian Goodwin
Joshua Greene
Jacques Hadamard
Patrick Haggard
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Augustin Hamon
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Donald Hebb
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Werner Heisenberg
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Art Hobson
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Roman Jakobson
Pascual Jordan
Ruth E. Kastner
Stuart Kauffman
Martin J. Klein
Simon Kochen
Hans Kornhuber
Stephen Kosslyn
Ladislav Kovàč
Rolf Landauer
Alfred Landé
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Benjamin Libet
Seth Lloyd
Hendrik Lorentz
Josef Loschmidt
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James Clerk Maxwell
Ernst Mayr
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Ulrich Mohrhoff
Jacques Monod
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Howard Pattee
Wolfgang Pauli
Massimo Pauri
Roger Penrose
Steven Pinker
Colin Pittendrigh
Max Planck
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Henri Poincaré
Daniel Pollen
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Hans Primas
Adolphe Quételet
Juan Roederer
Jerome Rothstein
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Erwin Schrödinger
Aaron Schurger
Claude Shannon
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Herbert Simon
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B. F. Skinner
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John Stachel
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Leo Szilard
Max Tegmark
William Thomson (Kelvin)
Peter Tse
Vlatko Vedral
Heinz von Foerster
John von Neumann
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Daniel Wegner
Steven Weinberg
Paul A. Weiss
John Wheeler
Wilhelm Wien
Norbert Wiener
Eugene Wigner
E. O. Wilson
H. Dieter Zeh
Ernst Zermelo
Wojciech Zurek
Fritz Zwicky
Free Will
Mental Causation
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Dion and TheonThe puzzle of Dion and Theon was invented by the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus (c. 280 - 206 BCE). Some philosophers say that we have no clear idea of Chrysippus' purpose, but we can guess from Stoic views on existence and subsistence that Chrysippus was probably contrasting his Stoic view with the Academic Skeptic view of what constitutes "growing." There are actually two Growing Arguments. The Skeptics said entities cannot survive material change. Stoics say that the immaterial, peculiarly qualified individual (ἰδίος ποιὸν) does survive material change of the individual's body or substrate (ὑποκείμενον). The only description of Chrysippus' Dion and Theon comes from an opponent, a later Academic Skeptic, Philo of Alexandria (c. 30 BCE.- 45 CE), who is here criticizing the Stoics as claiming two things can be in the same place at the same time (coinciding objects).
(1) Chrysippus, the most distinguished member of their school, in his work On the Growing [Argument], creates a freak of the following kind. (2) Having first established that it is impossible for two peculiarly qualified individuals to occupy the same substance jointly, (3) he says: 'For the sake of argument, let one individual be thought of as whole-limbed, the other as minus one foot. Let the whole-limbed one be called Dion, the defective one Theon. Then let one of Dion's feet be amputated. (4)The question arises which one of them has perished, and his [Chrysippus'] claim is that Theon is the stronger candidate. (5) These are the words of a paradox-monger rather than a speaker of truth. For how can it be that Theon, who has had no part chopped off, has been snatched away, while Dion, whose foot has been amputated, has not perished? (6) 'Necessarily', says Chrysippus. 'For Dion, the one whose foot has been cut off, has collapsed into the defective substance of Theon. And two peculiarly qualified individuals cannot occupy the same substrate. Therefore it is necessary that Dion remains while Theon has perished'
What Chrysippus May Have Been DoingIn his article Chrysippus' Puzzle About Identity, John Bowin (2003) agreed with David Sedley (1982) that Chrysippus' argument was a reductio ad absurdum of the Skeptical version of the Growing Argument. We can agree and present the reductio in seven simple steps:
S*: No two things of the same kind (that is, no two things which satisfy the same sortal or substance concept) can occupy exactly the same volume at exactly the same time. This, I think, is a sort of necessary truth... A final test for the soundness of S* or, if you wish, for Leibniz' Law, is provided by a puzzle contrived by Geach out of a discussion in William of Sherwood.Wiggins sees that "one cannot define into existence a cat" or a cat-part at the same place and time as part of another cat. But the Tibbles version has left out what Chrysippus wanted to achieve with his explanation of growing, that an individual can survive material loss. This was his whole point in cutting off a foot, generally not appreciated by modern accounts. In their great 1987 compilation of Hellenistic thought, A. A. Long and D. N. Sedley described Tibbles as an example of "two peculiarly qualified individuals coming to occupy one substance," something the Stoics explicitly denied. Long and Sedley clearly are following Wiggins's Tibbles, but they suggest that Chrysippus has given us an example of Dion surviving a diminution in his material without losing his identity, as opposed to what the Academic Skeptics claimed.
The key is to recognize this as the ancestor of a puzzle which has featured in recent discussions of place and identity. Take a cat, Tibbies, and assign the name Tib to that portion of her which excludes her tail. Tibbies is a cat with a tail, Tib is a cat without a tail. Then amputate the tail. The result is that Tibbies, now tailless, occupies precisely the same space as Tib. Yet they are two distinct cats, because their histories are different. The conclusion is unacceptable, and the philosophical interest lies in pin-pointing the false step. That Chrysippus' puzzle works along similar lines is made clear by Philo's later comments, in which he takes Theon to be related to Dion as part to whole. Dion corresponds to Tibbies, Theon to Tib, and Dion's foot to Tibbies' tail. The differences are twofold. First, the problem is about occupying the same substance, not the same place. Second, Chrysippus assumes both the validity of the opening steps of the argument and the truth of the principle that two peculiarly qualified individuals cannot occupy the same substance at the same Time. He therefore concludes that one of the two must have perished, and his problem is to see why it should be one rather than the other. Philo's elliptical summary leaves unclear his reason for selecting Theon for this honour (P 6), but it is probably that if we are asked whose foot has been amputated we can only answer 'Dion's'. Theon cannot have lost a foot which he never had. The title of Chrysippus' work shows that this puzzle was developed in connexion with the Growing Argument. But to what purpose? The following is a guess. According to the Growing Argument, matter is the sole principle of individuation, so that a change of matter constitutes a change of identity. Hence Socrates is a different person from the same individual with one extra particle of matter added. Now these two individuals are related as part to whole — just as Theon and Dion in the amputation paradox are related. Thus the paradox's presupposition that Dion and Theon start out as distinct individuals is not one that Chrysippus need endorse; it is a premise attributed for dialectical purposes to the Academic opponents, who cannot deny it without giving up the Growing Argument. But once they have accepted it, the Growing Argument is doomed anyhow. For whereas the Growing Argument holds that any material diminution constitutes a loss of identity. Chrysippus has presented them with a case, based on their own premises, where material diminution is the necessary condition of enduring identity: it is the diminished Dion who survives, the ^undiminished Theon who perishes.
An Information Philosophy AnalysisThe problems of Dion and Theon and Tibbles, the Cat both begin with denying that two objects can coincide and then immediatley assuming that two objects are in the same place at the same time. This is not a puzzle or a paradox. It is a contradiction that Chrysippus set up for dialectical purposes. What were his purposes?
ReferencesBowin, J. (2003). "Chrysippus' Puzzle About Identity." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24: 239-251
Burke, M. B. (1994a). "Preserving the principle of one object to a place: A novel account of the relations among objects, sorts, sortals, and persistence conditions." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54(3), 591-624.
Burke, M. B. (1994b). "Dion and Theon: An essentialist solution to an ancient puzzle." The Journal of Philosophy, 91(3), 129-139.
Burke, M. B. (1996). Tibbles the cat: A Modern "Sophisma". Philosophical Studies, 84(1), 63-74.
Burke, M. B. (1997). Coinciding objects: reply to Lowe and Denkel. Analysis, 57(1), 11-18.
Burke, M. B. (2004). Dion, Theon, and the many-thinkers problem. Analysis, 64(3), 242-250.
Chisholm, R. M. (1973). Parts as essential to their wholes. The Review of Metaphysics, 581-603.
Long, A. and D. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers
Lowe, E. J. (1995). Coinciding objects: in defence of the 'standard account'. Analysis, 55(3), 171-178.
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Van Inwagen, P. (1981). "The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 62, 123-137.
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Don't get your hopes up yet, but people outside of the US might be getting a real treat soon. If the Chromecast app is taken as an indicator, Google's streaming dongle might be available in the UK and Canada in the near future.
Aside from a few services such as Hulu Plus and Netflix announcing support for the device, it has been quite a while since we've received any news or rumor about Google's Chromecast dongle. The last software update was a good month ago and contained nothing really new. And while the device was put back in stock in September, the hype and furor around it has seemingly settled down.
It remains to be seen if this new speculation will revive interest to previous levels, but it's still some welcome news, at least if it all pans out. Apparently, the Chromecast app for Android and iOS has recently become available for installation in the UK and Canada. Of course, it might not be a telltale sign, but it gives a sliver of hope that the Chromecast device would soon be expanding its scope to countries outside the US.
It's all speculation, with a pinch of wishful thinking, for now. It would definitely be nice to have Chromecast officially available to more territories, but Google has so far been silent, if not vague, on its plans. Perhaps we'll get a glimpse of what it has in mind at the mysterious Google Play event scheduled on October 24.
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The Miracle Morning is truly a miracle. This book has brought me to life like I never really thought anything could do.
Off and on for several years, I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I've worried myself sick at times over things that were happening in my life, and I've stressed out about things that were clearly beyond my control. My list could go on and on.
What is The Miracle Morning?
Hal Elrod has created The Miracle Morning community. The book is the first one of several he has now written himself or partnered with someone else. He sets up the book telling about a car accident he was in several years before. He said he needed to get his life back on track, and creating a morning routine was what he did. He calls the morning routine his Life SAVERS. Each letter of SAVERS stands for something in the routine — Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing.
Using this method, Hal created his miracle morning. He did get his life back on track. By starting his day out doing this routine, he had more energy throughout the day, and his productivity increased.
The Miracle Morning is an easy-to-read book. Hal has divided the chapters in a way that you can understand. In the early chapters, he explains why he started this routine. He explains his way of getting out of bed so you can get rolling into the SAVERS. He spends a great deal of time describing the SAVERS and how you can incorporate them into whatever your schedule is.
Hal not only gives great examples, but he backs up what he says with research. The book gives me energy just reading it. That's how great it is.
My thoughts on the book
Another author had mentioned The Miracle Morning from another author, and I had heard of the book even before that. Being on Amazon Prime has its privileges. I could download and read The Miracle Morning for Writers for free so I did. This book gives a brief introduction to the SAVERS and the background of it and goes into detail about making the most of your writing time. The information is as helpful in that book as the original book.
On Facebook, Hal has a group for those doing The Miracle Morning so I joined the group. I soon learned the original book was a must-read, too, so thanks again to Amazon Prime, I borrowed the original book and have read it not but once now. Yes, it's that great.
When I say this book is life-changing, I am not kidding. Since October I had been exercising every day and had started reading in the mornings in the last few months. I had noticed a change in my attitude even doing those two things. Of course, leaving a stressful job had helped, too, but I was losing weight and feeling great about myself for the first time in a long time.
Since I was already exercising and reading, it wasn't hard to add in the other parts of the SAVERS. I had already been trying to figure out a way to add the writing part because I had chatted with other writers who write in the mornings. They had told me how much better it is to write in the mornings.
Some days I struggle with writing later in the day, and now with this morning routine, I'm no longer stressing about getting at least a little bit of writing in — although I almost always write at least 300 to 400 words, if not the 500 I want as my daily word count.
My recommendation
I'm only a couple of weeks into doing the SAVERS, but I can tell you I am more productive and energetic than I have ever been. I am able to deal with things easier than I used to. That's not to say I don't get upset. I do. But I bounce back much faster than I used to.
The Miracle Morning is truly a miracle. It's helping me create a life I didn't think was possible after what I've been through — truly life changing. If you're wanting to change your life, then this book is for you!


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The Ny2LA Sports Summer Jam rolled on Friday and once again there were some high level performances from big names and unknowns alike. Here's a quick look at a handful that stood out in Wisconsin on day 3…
Patrick Cartier – 2018 – PF/C – WI Swish
Though the Swish dropped an opening round playoff game to Mac Irvin Elite, the 6'8 Brookfield East (WI) post was awesome scoring the ball in the paint and at the free throw line. Cartier finished with 30 points behind a slew of nice moves and finishes with both hands.
Everett Cartier – 2018 – SF – WI Swish
The 6'3 Cartier poured in 27 points against Mac Irvin Elite. He canned three trey balls, and also scored on some nice pull-up jumpers and drives. A solid sleeper with skill and instincts, Cartier was impressive on Friday.
Christian Harvey – 2018 – PG – George Hill Rising Stars
The 6' floor general single handedly turned the tide of his squad's opening playoff game Friday against Kessel Heat Maestranzi. Harvey (Richmond HS; Richmond, IN) was an absolute terror defensively on the ball and in the passing lanes, and created several turnovers which led to buckets for himself or teammates on the other end to give George Hill Rising Stars some breathing room. Harvey can fill it up offensively in a variety of ways, and could catch plenty of coaches eyes the remainder of the tournament.
Aaron Henry – 2018 – SG/SF – Team Harris
Henry has started to pick up high major offers from the likes of Indiana, Butler and Xavier, and the 6'6 wing from Ben Davis High (Indianapolis, IN) put his full arsenal on display Friday in a high level game against Dreamvision. Henry showed how versatile he can be as a defender thanks to his great athleticism and instincts, and also was very effective as a slasher offensively. If the lefty can improve the consistency on his mid and long range shooting, he could see his list of high major suitors grow exponentially.
Donald Lee – 2018 – SG – Team Harris
Though Aaron Henry and Eric Hunter grab most of the attention for Team Harris, Lee (6'4; North Central HS; Indianapolis) is a major contributor offensively thanks to his versatility scoring the ball. Against Dreamvision, Lee hurt his opponents from the west coast from long range, drives and dunks and a couple of mid range jumpers sprinkled in. Lee also played with a level of toughness and wasn't afraid to mix it up with the bigs in the paint going up for rebounds.
Josh Nickelberry – 2019 – SG – Game Elite 2019
Friday marked the Summer Jam debut of the super-talented Game Elite 2019 squad playing up a division in 17U, and the 6'4 shooting guard from Eastover, North Carolina put on a show from three-point land as well as above the rim. Nickelberry finished with 24 points, including a stretch where he drilled three three-pointers on consecutive possessions. Against the Wisconsin Jets in the first round of the playoffs, Nickelberry provided his submission for poster of the tournament which was captured by Movement Hoops and featured online. Already with a host of high major offers, Nickelberry figures to have plenty of programs in the bleachers at Homestead throughout the rest of the Summer Jam.
Kevin Osawe – 2017 – F – Peoples Basketball
Osawe, a class of 2017 Ontario native, led his squad to a tough win over the Northern Kings by patrolling the paint for his team's zone defense and helping out on the glass. Offensively he stood out with 24 points, including buckets from all three levels on the court Friday. As Peoples Basketball moves on in the Platinum Bracket, Osawe will have another chance to prove himself to the college coaches on the sidelines.
Hunter Plamann – 2018 – PG – Wisconsin Swing Litscher NY2LA
The 6' point guard from Xavier HS (Appleton, WI) set the tone for the Swing's 8.a.m victory over the Northern Kings Friday at the Summer Jam. Plamann's handle, quickness and speed make him a tough guy to keep in front of you and did a good job getting his teammates rolling early. As he did throughout NY2LA Association play, he was also effective at time scoring on drives as well as the perimeter.
Jonathan Salazar – 2019 – F – Dreamvision
Don't let Salazar's football player build fool you, he's got plenty of bounce and uses his 6'6 height and big frame well for positioning on the glass. The Las Vegas native (Trinity HS) was dominant against Rockford Five-O Wynn Friday morning. Aside from his board work, Salazar also finished just about every opportunity around or above the rim. Look for Division I programs to continue tracking Salazar's play throughout the remainder of the Summer Jam.
Alton Thompson – 2018 – G – Mac Irvin Elite
The 6'5 St. Patrick (Chicago, IL) wing impressed in an opening round playoff win over the Wisconsin Swish with his pogo-stick leaping ability and versatility defensively. Thompson's long wingspan gives him an advantage on the defensive end and also helps him play bigger than his height on the glass. Thompson scored an efficient 12 points in the win. Upside is the name of the game with him as a prospect.
Jordan Walton – 2018 – G – Yanders Law
Over the course of the last two NY2LA Associations, Walton's resume as a premier three-point assassin is as strong as anyone's in the Association. The 6' Glendale High (MO) product has continued his hot shooting in the Summer Jam. Friday night against MBA Select, Walton buried six triples on his way to 22 points.


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And To All A Goodnight…
Pomp and Circumstance will be signing of until the New Year. When we come back there will be lots to share- Miss Pomp is getting settled into her new house (so a house tour will be in order), there are lots to share from Christmas (Santa brought some awesome loot), and I have a few fun things that I have been working on in my house to show you. I hope you guys all had a wonderful Christmas time.
Sweet Paul
I found a new online magazine called Sweet Paul. It's a shelter AND food magazine. Hello!! Here are a couple of fun things from their holiday issue
How brilliant/ simple/ clever/ way-cheaper-than-those-crazy-expensive-cage-lights is this?!
This girl makes these by hand from balsa wood and wood veneer. That is some crazy DIYing. I'm thinking maybe I should try it. I'm into that dot one, but that looks like it takes about 100 hours. I've seen super large light fixtures made from the metal rings around wine barrels, that are used together to make a big orb thing. As I have shared before, I heart large light fixtures, and that one sounds pretty easy. That's always the last thought though, then next thing you know a few weeks and many dollars later you have a pair of jacked up lamps that you bought for super cheap cause you liked the shape and thought it would be easy to spray paint the color you wanted but every time you do it cracks and chips and crackles like Keith Richards face and so you stick it in your garage with your eight other half done gone-awry DIY's. Pheww. Ok….I'm back.
And now to the food
"Hey Mom, You're String Thing Looks Like An Egg Now."
It's All About The Height
I have always stayed away from tall vases cause I never felt I knew what to put in them and have them look good, but I love these vases in this picture. The arranging is very clever and unique. Such pretty little tablescapes. Whatever the brown flowers are in the tall white vase reminds of all the nasty dried flower arrangements my mom had hanging everywhere when I was kid, yet, somehow, I really like it. I don't know why.
I'll be doing big tall sweepy things now.
Christmas is coming!! At the top of my 3 year olds list is an ambulance and "red" (your guess is as good as mine as to what that means), and my 7 year old wants a pogo stick, a ridiculous amount of Star Wars super specific paraphernalia, and footed pajamas. It's a hard time of year to keep up the blogging, also because my husband has been hogging the laptop for school homework. What's that?? It's HIS laptop?? I ignore you
All I Want For Christmas Is You….And You, And You, And You.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately guys. Between moving, still not having the internet at mi casa, and Christmas, my life has been ca-to-the-razy!!
Here are some items I've been drooling over online, and most definitely wouldn't mind finding under my tree come Christmas morn – Hint, hint…
West Elm Zigzag Rug
Eames Rocker in white – Not pregnant, just want one
Equipment Signature Blouse in Nature White
And, ladies and gentlemen, the gift of all gifts, coming in at a whopping $2,310…
The Givenchy Nightingale Bag in Black
What's on your Christmas Wishlist?
A Hodge-Podge of Online Goodness
Here are some highlights from a few current issues of online magazines
Super cute Christmas packaging
I'm tempted to print this out and make them into actual paper dolls with clothes. Though I neither play with paper dolls, nor have kids who are girls who play with paper dolls.
If I were setting a fancy table, I'd make it look like that
Fun use of colors and patterns
Images from Covet Garden, Adore, Lonny Mag
Zat You, Santa Claus
We do pretty traditional trees around our house, but I always love ideas for out-of-the-box decorating, including Christmas trees. I'm a "trees need to have white lights on them, of course" kind of girl. It seriously pains me to put colored lights on trees. My son has been BEGGING me to put big colored lights on the tree, but I just can't do it. I finally gave in to the colored lights outside this year, but I draw the line at the tree (at least for this year:-).
This is still pretty traditional, but with a bit of a twist
No secret that I have a thing for sticks
Both of these pics are from Pure Green Design, which gave me an idea for what to do with these-
which I saw on the ground at the Christmas tree lot and thought "oooooo, something cool needs to be done with these!". And as the guy stared at me blankly as I asked him if I could have the bottoms of the trees that they cut off that were scattered about, I thought, "I am so my mother!!".
Miss Pomp moves next week, so we've been plotting away at how to make the new house "them". And aren't y'all a bit bored of beige? This is the inspiration board we put together for her living room-
It's just the bigger pieces, and doesn't include the throw pillows and do-dads that make a room feel homey. It will look something like that, with some slight variation. How much do you love that little shiny silver side table from West Elm?? So in their new house is a cute little office with wood floors, a sliding glass door (read- good amount of light), and some great built-in book shelves and desk (architectural elements. They make a house). And isn't an office a great place to do something a little different and not so run-of-the-mill? I was poking around Design Sponge last week and came across this-
I think it is such a cool color! Pale peach-pinky-salmony. And how great would it look with this rug by Nate Berkus-
Kind of an unusual color combo, right?! But I think it could be cool and unique and worth a go. Let's put them all together shall we?
You've Been A Bad Little Blogger…
That's the text I received from Miss Circumstance last night, and it's true. There is no denying it. Between Thanksgiving holiday, Christmas shopping, and MOVING IN A WEEK, I have been MIA on the blog scene.
Sincerest apologies.
Today, I fell completely in love with the most recent Shopbop lookbook, Haute Rebellion, whilst realizing at the same time that I am nowhere NEAR cool enough to sport any of these looks.
A girl can dream…
I gotta get me some biker boots and a black fringy purse!
Check out the entire lookbook here.


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So, it's the beginning of the season, and we all know what that means: It's once again time for a cascade of "First Impressions" articles all across the anime blogging community. People are giving their initial reactions to the first episodes of the various anime that are starting to air.
Every season, part of me wants to join in, but I don't.


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Renaming of Ricoh lenses
14 Jan 2014
We have already informed you about the changes in the Pentax Security Systems Division, which deals with the distribution of lenses for security and surveillance technology as well as machine vision and which has been part of the Ricoh group for some time. Our partner has now decided to change the article names and numbers of their products. We will adopt these changes shortly for our product listings. As an example, the product name of the compact general purpose lens RICOH B2528-UV will be FL-BC2528-VGUV.
In order to give you the best support in finding your perfect lens, we are providing the document Renaming of Pentax lenses in Ricoh" which is available for download. This will detail the previous and amended product names of all lenses that are affected by the change.
We apologize on behalf of our partner Ricoh for any inconvenience due to these changes. Please refer questions to our vision experts!
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Green Jersey appears in Web Designer magazine
Green Jersey's new DSA website has been featured in this month's Web Designer magazine, in an article about website accessibility.20 Dec, 2008
Urban Rider's striking e-commerce site goes live
Green Jersey has just launched a striking e-commerce website for streetbike & scooter boutique Urban Rider, packed with innovation & design detail.19 Dec, 2008
Transport Heritage – new national database
Transport Heritage, our new website & database commemorating Britain's transport legacy, has just gone live.16 Dec, 2008
Green Jersey to sponsor new UK cycle racing team
Green Jersey is proud to be sponsoring BMC UK Racing Team for 2009. The new team will compete in top national events as well as selected European races.17 Nov, 2008
Latest highly customised SellerDeck site goes live
Our new e-commerce website for Eteaket, a retailer of specialist tea, is one of our most sophisticated Actinic sites, with an integrated WordPress blog too.12 Nov, 2008
Down's Syndrome Association launched
Our new website for the Down's Syndrome Association has been launched. It's one of our most extensive and comprehensive websites yet.20 Oct, 2008
New Ant Graphics website
Our new website for Ant Graphics has gone live. The business produces graphics for everything from racing cars to vehicle livery to shop signage.17 Oct, 2008
Future World Models goes live
Our new SellerDeck e-commerce site for Future World Models has been launched, selling products online & promoting the physical shop.04 Oct, 2008
Green Jersey shortlisted for Retail Systems Awards
Our Actinic e-commerce website for Plain Lazy has been shortlisted in the "Retail Website of the Year" category at the Retail Systems Awards.07 Sep, 2008
Speaking at E-commerce Expo
Green Jersey has a close partnership with Actinic, so we're delighted to be speaking alongside them at this year's E-commerce Expo exhibition.18 Aug, 2008
e-commerce contract with Fun Learning
Green Jersey has signed a contract with Fun Learning Ltd, leading retailer of educational toys & games, to produce a new e-commerce website.07 Aug, 2008
Green Jersey in Computer Arts Projects magazine
Our flagship e-commerce website for Plain Lazy has been featured in the July 2008 edition of Computer Arts Projects magazine.18 Jun, 2008


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from Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler, translated by William Weaver
You fling the book on the floor, you would hurl it out of the window, even out of the closed window, through the slats of the Venetian blinds; let them shred its incongruous quires, let sentences, words, morphemes, phonemes gush forth, beyond recomposition into discourse; through the panes, and if they are of unbreakable glass so much the better, hurl the book and reduce it to photons, undulatory vibrations, polarized spectra; through the wall, let the book crumble into molecules and atoms passing between atom and atom of the reinforced concrete, breaking up into electrons, neutrons, neutrinos, elementary particles more and more minute, through the telephone wires, let it be reduced to electronic impulses, into the flow of information, shaken by redundancies and noises, and let it be degraded into a swirling entropy. You would like to throw it out of the house, out of the block, beyond the neighborhood, beyond the city limits, beyond the state confines, beyond the regional administration, beyond the national community, beyond the Common Market, beyond Western culture, beyond the continental shelf, beyond the atmosphere, the biosphere, the stratosphere, the field of gravity, the solar system, the galaxy, the cumulus of galaxies, to succeed in hurling it beyond the point the galaxies have reached in their expansion, where space-time has not yet arrived, where it would be received by nonbeing, or, rather, the not-being which has never been and will never be to be lost in the most absolutely guaranteed undeniable negativity. Merely what it deserves, neither more, nor less.


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The electricity was just never there for Anderson Cooper and his afternoon audience. Unlike Ellen his persona was too analytical and unlike Oprah too introverted.
No surprise, the powers that be are pulling the plug on the show after two seasons. Cooper will hold onto his primetime spot "360."
We hate to witness a decent guy have a setback.


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Make this forum the new collab.
It's not the same, but song exchange seems to have come into its own as a place to share completed tracks. This could be a dedicated area for people wishing to collaborate on ideas.
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After two years as a Barca player, the 22-year-old has completed a permanent switch to the Serie A side
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Sassuolo have signed Brazilian defender Marlon from Barcelona for a fee potentially rising to €12 million (£10.7m/$13.6m).
The 22-year-old found opportunities limited at Camp Nou and was recalled halfway through a two-season loan spell with Nice in order to be moved on.
Though he made just two La Liga appearances, Barca have included a buy-back option in the deal for the former Fluminense man.
Sassuolo have paid an initial €6m with the amount to be doubled if Marlon, who reportedly attracted interest from West Ham earlier in pre-season, plays 50 games for his new club.
The Blaugrana will receive 50 per cent of any future fee if he does not reach that mark.
The versatile ex-Brazil Under-20 international could make his Serie A debut at home to Inter this Sunday.


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Hadassah welcomes the long awaited release of Jonathan Pollard after three decades of imprisonment in the United States. Hadassah has long urged the United States to grant him clemency—especially for health and humanitarian concerns. Over the years, Pollard has expressed remorse for his actions and we are grateful to the United States for finally permitting his release. We wish him good health and happiness as he reunites with his loved ones.
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A town of eastern Lebanon northeast of Beirut. It is the site of an ancient Phoenician city probably devoted to the worship of Baal and is now noted for its extensive Roman ruins.
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An attorney representing former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros in her suit against the network and its former chieftan Roger Ailes told a New York court on Wednesday that Fox was being investigated by federal authorities.
Judd Burstein said at a court hearing that he "was told by the U.S. Attorney's office there is an ongoing criminal investigation, relating to these allegations, all of these allegations," according to the New York Daily News. He said that one of his other clients received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury.
Tantaros filed a sexual harassment suit against Ailes and Fox in August.
Burstein also claimed outside the courtroom that there was "compelling evidence" Fox conducted electronic surveillance against her, according to NPR's David Folkenflik. 21st Century Fox executives, according to NPR, privately noted that the claim was made six months after Tarantos' lawsuit was filed and was timed to hit the company at a vulnerable time.
A spokeswoman for Fox News noted that at the hearing, the court granted Fox News' motion to send Tantaros' case to arbitration, "where it always belonged, and rejected her counsel Judd Burstein's histrionics."
"Apparently one of Mr. Burstein's other clients has received a subpoena," the spokeswoman said. "Neither Fox News nor [21st Century Fox] has received a subpoena, but we have been in communication with the U.S. Attorney's office for months — we have and will continue to cooperate on all inquiries with any interested authorities."
Burstein declined further comment, but said through a representative that press accounts of Wednesday's hearing were accurate.
According to the Daily News, Burstein said at the hearing that the U.S. Attorney's securities unit was leading the investigation, suggested that it centered on Fox News' settlement offers in arbitration to employees who were making claims of sexual harassment, and whether those had to be disclosed in Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
In her lawsuit, she alleges that senior executives at the network retaliated against her after she complained about being inappropriate remarks made to her by Ailes. The suit seeks as much as $23 million, as well as $26 million in punitive damages and reimbursement of attorney fees.
Fox News and Ailes have denied wrongdoing. Ailes, the former chairman and chief executive of the network, stepped down in July, weeks after another on-air personality, Gretchen Carlson, filed a lawsuit against him and the network. In legal filings, lawyers for Fox News said Tantaros "is not a victim; she is an opportunist," and indicated her claims against the network could not be substantiated. The network's parent company had instigated an internal review after Carlson's allegations were made, leading to Ailes' ouster.


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When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth's Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for a global adventure
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
– John 1:1
Books, Chapters, Verses, and Words of the Bible
Authors: over 40 individuals
Translations: over 1,200 languages
Books: 66 in Protestant Bible, 73 in Catholic Bible, 81 in Eastern Orhodox Bible
Verses: 31,071
Words: 783,137
Letters: 3,566,480
Longest Book: Psalms (150 chapters)
Longest Chapter: Psalm 119 (176 verses)
Longest Verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)
Shortest Book: 3 John
Shortest Chapter (by number of words): Psalm 117 (by number of words)
Shortest Verse: John 11:35 is 2 words- 'Jesus wept'
Middle Books: Micah and Nahum
Middle Chapter: Psalm 117
Middle Verse: Psalm 118:8
The word 'God': appears 3,358 times
The word 'LORD': appears: 7,736 times
Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.
– St. Jerome, Author of the Latin Vulgate Bible
Facts and Figures of the Bible
~ The Bible was compiled over the course of some 1,500 years (from 1400 B.C to A.D. 100), spanning 40 generations, and includes the writings of over 40 different individual authors.
~ In terms of exact numbers, the Bible represents the work at least 40 different authors, in about 20 occupations, living in 10 countries spanning about 6,000 miles.
~ In terms of content, the Bible features 'a cast of 2,930 different characters,' while the number of different locations include at least '1,551 geographical sites mentioned as scenes of the action.'
~ The Bible contains every conceivable subject included in every literary form (poetry, prose, romance, mystery, biography, science, history, etc).
~ One source summarizes the Biblical authors as a group of God-fearing men 'from many walks of life (kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars), in different places (wilderness, dungeon, palaces), at different times (war, peace), in different moods (heights of joy, depths of despair), on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe), in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)'
~ The Bible has been translated into at least 1,000 languages, along with many more partial translations.
~ The English translation of the Bible contains around 3,566,480 letters, 773,746 words, 31,102 verses 1,189 chapters, and 66 books.
~ The contents of the Bible has remained basically unchanged since the earliest days of the Christian Church. The Old Testameny continues to be based upon the older version of Scriptures, called the Hebrew Bible, which has been used by Judaism for over 4,000 years. Here are the exact words of one of the earliest Church councils naming the exact contents of the Biblical Old Testament by name:
(It has been decided) that nothing except the canonical Scriptures should be read in the Church under the name of the divine Scriptures. But the canonical Scriptures are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, four books of Kings, Paralipomenon, two books, Job, the Psalter of David, five books of Solomon [Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach), twelve books of the Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Tobit, Judith, Esther, two books of Esdras, two books of the Maccabees.
* The Council of Carthage, III, canon 47 (A.D. 397)
~ Other Ancient Church Lists of the same 46 Old Testament Books and Additions include: Augustine, Christian Instruction 2:8:13 (A.D. 397), Pope Innocent I, Letters 7 (A.D. 408), The African Code, canon 24 (A.D. 419) and the Council of Hippo, canon 36 (A.D. 33)
~ In addition, the Christian New Testament contains the exact same number of books (27) and contents (4 Gospels, 2 Books, and 21 Letters) regardless of Christian denomination.
The Bible is more than a Book. It is a living being with an action, a power which invades everything that opposes its extension.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Numbers and Statistics of the Bible
~ Starting somewhere aroud 1,400 B.C., it took over 40 individuals writing over the course of 40 different generations (1,500 years) to complete the Bible.
~ The standard Judeo-Christian Old Testament contains 17 books of history, 5 books of poetry, and 17 books of prophecy.
~ In the original languages which they were written, the Judeo-Christian Bible uses over 8,674 different Hebrew words and 5,624 different Greek words.
~ The basic 66 books of the Judeo-Christian Bible contain 1189 chapters composed of 31,071 different verses with a total of 783,137 words.
~ The most popular English-language version of the Judeo-Christian Bible, known as the King James Version, contains 12,143 different English words
~ The Judeo-Christian Bible has been translated into over 2,000 languages
~ The longest Book is the Book of Psalms (Old Testament) and the shortest is 2 John (New Testament)
~ The longest Biblical verse is Esther 8:9 and the shortest is John 11:35
~ The longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8:9 and the shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35
~ The longest Biblical chapter is Psalm 119 and the shortest is Psalm 117
~ The Judeo-Christian Bible has over 1,189 chapters with 929 Old Testament Chapters and 260 New Testament chapters
~ The word 'God' is mentioned 3,358 different times, while the word 'LORD' is used on 7,736 separate occasions
~ It has been estimated that the Judeo-Christian Bible can be read out loud in just 70 hours time.
~ The Bible was the first book to ever be printed in the year 1454
~ Miles Coverdale published the first English translation of the entire Bible in 1535
~ Neither the Book of Solomon or the Book is Esther contains a single reference to either God or the LORD God
The Bible is a Book in comparison with which all others in my eyes are of minor importance; and in all my perplexities and distresses has never failed to give me light and strength.
– Robert E. Lee
Versions and Translations of the Bible
~ The Bible is the most translated book in the world. It has been translated into more different languages and dialects than any other book that has been written.
~ There are now more than 80,000 versions of the Bible. New versions of the Bible continue to be added or updated.
~ The Bible, in whole or in part, is now available in more than 1,100 different languages and dialects.
~ The first attempted translations of the Bible took place in the 7th Century. The translations weren't precise, more paraphrases of the original texts.
~ Translations such as the King James Version are derived from existing copies of ancient manuscripts such as the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Old Testament) and the Greek Textus Receptus (New Testament), and are not translations of texts translated from other interpretations.
~ Bible translations have been made into 2,454 languages, with various portions of the Bible in 848 languages, one of the two Testaments in 1,168 languages, and the full Bible in 438 languages
~ According to a recent U.B.S. report, Bible portions are available in 2,123 languages, the complete Bible, in 349 languages, and the New Testament in 841 languages. In 1995, they distributed 565 million Bibles and Bible portions to 200 countries.
~ The Holy Bible has been translated into 2,018 languages, with countless more partial translations, and audio translations (for unwritten languages).
~ How many Versions of the Bible are there? There are more than 80,000 versions of the Bible. New versions of the Bible continue to be added or updated. Popular English versions include the American Standard, Jerusalem and King James versions.
It's impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
– George Washington, Former President of the United States (1789-1797)
Publishing and Sales of the Bible
~ The Bible is the worlds best seller ever, and the most widely distributed book in the world. Its influence on history and culture, including literature and the other arts, is incalculable.
~ The estimated number of total Bibles ever sold equal 2.5 Billion to 6 Billion copies
~ The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. The United Bible Societies (UBS) estimate they have distributed nearly 9 billion Bibles, whole or in part, since 1947.
~ The Bible is not only the best selling book of all time but the best selling book each year.
~ About 50 Bibles are sold every minute.
~ The record for the world's slowest selling book belongs to David Wilkin's translation of the New Testament into Coptic. Since it was first published in 1791 it has never sold more than 2 copies a year.
~ In 1989, the American Bible Societies (ABS) distributed more than 106,387,551 Scripture portions in the United States alone. During the same year, a worldwide partnership of Bible Societies distributed well over 650 million Scripture portions and about 15.5 million Bibles.
~ According to a recent U.B.S. report, Bible portions are available in 2,123 languages, the complete Bible, in 349 languages, and the New Testament in 841 languages. In 1995, they distributed 565 million Bibles and Bible portions to 200 countries.
~ The Bible is, some calculate, a $200 million-a-year retail market in the United States. According to a recent national survey concluded in US, the average American home had four bibles and almost all U.S. homes had at least one or more. Most Americans still prefer the King James Version (KJV).
~ According to statistics gathered from Wycliffe International, the Society of Gideons, and the International Bible Society, the number of new Bibles that are sold, given away, or otherwise distributed in the United States is about 168,000 per day.
Believe me, Sir, never a night goes by be I ever so tired but I read the word of God before I go to bed.
– Gen. Douglas MacArthur
History and Language of the Bible
~ The Vulgate Bible, the Latin Bible for the Catholic Church, is an early 5th-century Latin version of the Bible, largely the result of the labors of St. Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of old Latin translations. It became the definitive and officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church for many centuries.
~ Some common Catholic translations, which are still read and published even today, are the Douay-Rheims, Catholic Confraternity Version, New American and Revised Standard Version Bibles. Of these, the Douay-Rheims is the earliest, translated from Latin in 1609. Each type also has one or more editions.
~ The first attempted translations of the Bible took place in the 7th Century. The translations weren't precise, more paraphrases of the original texts. The copies were known as 'Manuscript Bibles' and few have survived. It wasn't until the 13th Century, that John Wycliffe first translated the Bible more accurately into easy English.
~ The first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced in the 1380's by John Wycliffe, an Oxford professor and theologian. Wycliffe, with the help of his followers, called the Lollards, and his assistant Purvey, and many other faithful scribes, managed to produce dozens of English language manuscript copies of the scriptures. They were translated out of the Latin Vulgate, which was the only source text available to Wycliffe. The Pope was so infuriated by his teachings and his translation of the Bible into English, that 44 years after Wycliffe had died, he ordered the bones to be dug-up, crushed, and scattered in the river.
~ The Bible was the world's first printed book, and was first reprinted in 1450.
~ The Gutenberg Bible is the official name of the first book that Johannes Gutenberg printed in 1454. It is thought that he printed about 180 copies, known as the 42-line Bible, of which significant parts of 48 copies still survive. Gutenberg did not make any printing errors.
~ One English translator of the Bible named Tyndale was actually strangled and burned at the stake in 1536 by order of the Catholic Church. The authorities opposed the translation of the Bible because they feared loss of power but also because they thought that ordinary people would not be able to cope with the apparent contradictions.
~ The 'Placemakers' Bible was the second edition of the Geneva Bible, published in 1562. It has been given the name the 'Placemakers' Bible because it printed: 'Blessed are the placemakers' instead of 'peacemakers' in Matthew 5:9.
~ In the year 1603, James IV of Scotland then became King James I of England. He initiated a series of procedures aimed at creating peace between the hostile English religious faction. One of them was to commission the creation of a high-quality English language Bible.
~ The King James Version of the Bible was first published in 1611. Even today, it is considered to be the best Bible avoilable in the English language.
~ The 'Wicked' Bible refers to a 1631 edition of the King James Bible. In Exodus 20 verse 14, the word 'not' was left out. This changed the 7th commandment to read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.' Most of the copies were recalled immediately and destroyed on the orders of Charles I. But there are 11 copies still remaining. They are known as the 'Wicked' Bible. The Bible museum in Branson, Missouri, has one copy of the 'Wicked Bible. Needless to say, the printer was fined heavily for his mistake.
~ In 1663, the first Bible was printed in North America, even though it happened to be written in a native Algonquin Indian Language which had been specially translated and published by John Eliot, the 'Apostle to the Indians'.
~ The Thumb Bible, printed in 1670, was one inch square and half an inch thick. It could be read only with a magnifying glass.
~ The 'Sin On' Bible refers to a famous mistake in the 1716 King James Version. Apparently, John 8:11 should have read: 'Go, and sin no more.' However, the printer accidentally inverted the "n' and the 'o' in the word 'on,' so it read, 'Go and sin on more.'
~ The 'Fool' Bible is a term for a mistake in the printing of the 1763 King James Version. The publisher responsible for the error was ordered to pay £3,000 for his inadvertent printer's mistake which he made in Psalm 14:1. There he printed: 'the fool hath said in his heart there is a God,' instead of: 'the fool hath said in his heart there is no God.' As soon as this error was spotted all copies of this Bible were suppressed.
~ The first English language Bible printed in the United States occurred in 1782.
~ The record for the world's slowest selling book belongs to David Wilkin's translation of the New Testament into Coptic. Since it was first published in 1791 it has never sold more than 2 copies a year.
~ The first translation of the Bible created in America was printed in 1808 by a man name Charles Thomson.
~ Little known to most people, Noah Webster. famous author and editor of 'Webster's Dictionary' and the 'Blue-Back Speller' also wrote a translation of the Bible first published in 1833.
~ The Revised Version of the whole Bible was issued in 1885.
~ The American Standard Version was first published in 1901.
The Bible is the word of God. It is the most valuable gift God ever given to mankind. The Bible is my best friend and my best partner.
– Mother Theresa
Some Interesting Facts about the Bible
~ No other book in the world has been attacked more frequently and more fiercely than the Bible, yet no other book has printed more copies, in more languages, and endured for so long, with great popularity, than the Bible.
~ The Bible has been translated in whole or in part into more than 2,000 language.
~ The Bible contains 773,746 words, 31,173 verses, 1,189 chapters and 66 books.
~ In terms of length, the average word of the Bible contains fewer than five letters.
~ The longest book in the Bible is Psalms and the shortest is 2 John, while the Longest Biblical name is spelled Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1)
~ In total, the Bible describes 1,260 promises being made, 6,468 commands being given, and 3,294 questions being asked.
~ The Bible lists over 8,000 predictions, with 3,268 verses of fulfilled prophecies and 3,140 verses of unfulfilled prophecies.
~ The system of chapters was introduced in A.D. 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro, while the verse numberings were added in 1551 by Robertus Stephanus, after the invention of modern printing.
~ The Bible was formally divided into chapters by Cardinal Hugo in 1250. The New Testament was divided into verses by Sir Robert Stephens in 1551.
~ In the earliest days of English Christianity the only Bible available for study was the Latin Vulgate, written by Jerome between 383 and 405 A.D. Because it was written in Latin, rather than English, this version of the Bible could only be read by the Catholic clergy.
~ The first copy of the Guttenberg Bible (printed on a printing press) took 3 years of constant printing to produce, being finished in 1445. Printed in 2 volumes, and totalling 1,284 pages, the final results included Nearly 200 originals being completely printed and remarkably perfect. 48 of these original printings still exist today.
~ The Holy Bible has been translated into 2,018 languages…In comparison, Shakespeare, considered by many to be the master writer of the English language, has only been translated into 50 languages.
~ The Bible has been recorded with at least 10 different media from papyrus to rocks, pen to chisel, leather to clay.
~ The average person can read the entire Bible in about seventy hours reading time. If one reads three chapters per day and five on Sundays, they will finish the whole Bible in about one year. About fourteen chapters per day will usually result in reading the entire Bible in three months.
~ The average time it takes to read the following books is as follows: Revelation = 34 minutes, Luke = 85 minutes and Philemon = just 1 minute.
~ The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
~ The longest intercontinental telegram ever sent was the entire text of the New International Version of the Bible which was sent from Geneva, Switzerland, where it was translated, to New York for printing.
~ A Bible located at the University of Gottingen is written on 2,470 palm leaves.
~ In 1988, on the 1,000th anniversary of the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kiev, the Soviet Union, in an agreement with the UBS (United Bible Society), received hundreds of thousands of Bibles.
Until people see the Bible as a practical guidebook for their everyday existence, it will probably continue to remain on the shelf.
– George Barna
May the LORD God bless you in the name of the Judeo-Christian Tradition


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Conservative Dentistry Department
Welcome to the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics. Since Dental caries and pulpal disease are the commonest problems suffered by the human population in India, being Endodontists and specialists in conservative dentistry, we should be proud to alleviate these problems by providing the necessary treatment. To provide this, one should have necessary knowledge, skill, desire and attitudes. It is my pleasure and honor to mention a few words about the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics of this esteemed college.
Dr. Balaram Naik, Prof & Head
Vice Principal (Administration)
Dr. Balaram Naik has been associated with the department since 2002. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics. He has the credit of having produced many Post Graduate students who have been serving in well-established institutions in India.
Dr Mahima Tilakchand
Dr. Mahantesh M Yeli
Dr. Priya Horatti
Dr. Amit Pachalag
Dr. Geeta Hiremath
Dr Sharmila M Tapashetti
Dr Raghavendra Ainapur
Activities of this department comprise the following.
- To train undergraduates from II BDS to internship.
- To train the post graduates. The undergraduates are trained to diagnose simple conditions and treat any kind of simple dental defects like dental caries, discolouration of teeth and the basic endodontic procedures.
Academics- Macrocurriculum
- The undergraduate training programme commences from 2nd BDS with lectures and practical exercises and only the practical examinations in this year.
- The lecture programme and clinical posting continue in 3rd year of BDS.
- In Final BDS the students are posted in the Clinics and the lecture programmes continue.
- The students give their clinical examination in this year.
- During Internship, the students are posted for 8 weeks and they are expected to diagnose and treat some of the simple conditions.
Postgraduate Curriculum
- Postdoctoral Endodontics offers two distinct programs for advanced education in this field. The primary objective of both programs is to produce a scientifically oriented and clinically proficient individual.
- The department of conservative dentistry and Endodontics includes a postgraduate section. Every year 6 students are admitted to the postgraduate course. The duration of the course is 3 years.
- The training is aimed at bringing out the good specialists in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics who can handle any kind of dental problems of the patients with the presently available materials, techniques and other technological gadgets in the field.
- The Post Graduate training programme is of three year duration starting with pre-clinical work for 6 months where the students perform all the exercises on extracted and typhodont teeth, which they are supposed to do on patients later in their clinical postings. During this period, they also learn to handle the laboratory techniques and equipments. This is followed by their clinical posting where in they are given opportunity to handle all types of clinical conditions in the department and the use of various modern equipments. The trainees are guided to present seminars, library dissertations, and journal clubs.
- The trainees are encouraged to attend various conferences and participate in the deliberations. The P.G. Students are required to prepare a dissertation as a partial fulfillment of MDS requirements.
- Every week the PG students will present one seminar and attend one journal club.
- Every month they participate in interdepartmental discussions related to interesting dental cases.
- Each PG student has to present one paper at National level (either specialty conference or IDA) and one poster at a PG convention
- The PG student should fulfill the university requirements by submitting a dissertation.
- Each student has to submit library dissertation to the department
- Mock examination, that follow the university exam pattern are held 2 months prior to the final examination.