We Are Tennessee is a new exhibit in progress that will demonstrate our state's many cultural identities and explore what it means to be a Tennessean. Ginny Togrye is Murfreesboro's painter laureate this year and she is undertaking this project. Her vision is to create a mural using artists' concepts of identity. Each depiction of a Tennessean will be woven into a universal tapestry to celebrates the traditions, identity, and culture of Tennessee.
We are still accepting artwork for this project, so read through the call to artists and follow the link to submit your own artwork (or forward this to an artist!) for consideration.
Artists of all ages and mediums from Tennessee are invited to submit their work exploring the theme through representations of the people of Tennessee.
Visual artists may approach this call through any medium; however, only a hi-resolution print of visual art (produced at the cost of the Discovery Center) will be displayed for the exhibit. Written work and multimedia files will be accepted.
Click here for artwork guidelines and submission form.


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Journal of the History of Philosophy
The Commerce of Sympathy: Adam Smith on the Emergence of Morals
Eugene Heath
Volume 33, Number 3, July 1995
10.1353/hph.1995.0049
The Commerce of Sympathy: Adam Smith on the Emergence of Morals EUGENE HEATH IN RECENT YEARS, there have been several attempts to show how normative constraints can function so as to counteract the effects of limited altruism, selfdefeating rationality, and scarce resources. In some accounts the discussion also focuses on whether or how norms could evolve without a centralized agency to implement them.' Although this aspect of the discussion usually takes place within the contemporary confines of game theory, the issue itself has an intellectual pedigree extending back to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. In one form or another, the English Common Lawyers, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, and Adam Smith, postulate the gradual evolution of social and moral practices. Of the eighteenth-century moral thinkers, Smith adumbrates the most explicit and complex theory of the evolution of moral conduct. In The Theory ofMoral Sentiments, 2 Smith not only delineates a normative ethical theory but also proffers a descriptive psychology to account for the origins of our patterns of moral behavior: Like twentieth-century game theoreRussell Hardin, CollectiveAction (Baltimore:Johns Hopkins, 1982); Robert Sugden, The Economicsof Rights, Co-operation,and Welfare (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986);Edna Ullmann-Margalit, The Emergenceof Norms (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977);and Viktor Vanberg, "Spontaneous Market and SocialRules:A CriticalExaminationof F. A. Hayek'sTheory of Cultural Evolution,"Economics and Philosophy 2 (1986): 75-1oo. See also the earlier workby David Lewis,Convention (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard, 1969),83-1 a1. ' Citationsfrom the Moral Sentimentswillbe indicatedin the text usingthe paragraph numbers from the followingedition: The Theoryof Moral Sentiments, ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie (Oxford: Oxford, 1976). sOccupyingmuch of his attention, the latter inquiry leadsSmithto exclaimat one point: "the present inquiry is not concerning a matter of right.., but concerninga matter of fact.Weare not at present examining upon what principles a perfect being would approve of the punishment of bad actions;but upon what principlessoweakand imperfect a creature asman actuallyand in fact approves of it" (II.i.5.1o). One might also consider Smith's distinction, in The Wealth of Nations, [447] 448 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY or PHILOSOPHY 33:3 JULY 1995 ticians, Smith endeavors to discover whether a common set of other-regarding principles can arise out of a situation in which in~lividuals--motivated only by self-interest and limited benevolence--are not constrained by moral demands. In order to provide a motive by which individuals will arrive at an interindividual agreement on standards of moral approval, Smith appeals to the pleasure which accrues to each individual whose sentiments correspond to (or are similar to) those of another individual. This correspondence of sentiments is what Smith refers to as "sympathy.'4 Together the capacity for sympathy and the ability to place oneself imaginatively in the situation of another function in such a way that "even the ordinary commerce of the world is capable of adjusting our active principles to some degree of propriety" (III.3.7).5 Although some of the ablest commentators recognize that Smith has a theory of the emergence of morals, 6 there has been no attempt to elucidate the difficulties inherent in the psychology which Smith employs to account for the emergence of a uniform standard for moral judgments. I hope to show how this psychology leaves underdetermined the conditions by which such a uniform agreement could emerge. In the first place, although Smith's account hinges on the pleasurable emotion of sympathy, such sympathy is pleasurable only under certain conditions. Moreover, even if pleasure did arise from every act of sympathy, it is not obvious that sympathetic pleasure is a sufficient motive for engaging the sympathetic imagination. Finally, even when a spectator engages the sympathetic imagination the pleasure of sympathy may not be strong enough to motivate the spectator to assume imaginatively whatever facts or values are necessary to achieve sympathy. Despite these problems, between the rules that emerge in common life and the systematicordering and arrangement of these rules by moral philosophers. An Inquiry into theNature and Causesof the Wealth ofNatiom, ed. R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner (Oxford: Oxford, 1976), II, 768-69. 4Thus, it is not sympathy which is the motive for such agreement but the...

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Q: Best way to convert two single WordPress sites into Multisite network with shared user base I have two WordPress sites, One is ecommerce site with WooCommerce and other is private login only site for customers of the ecommerce site.
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Get to know the "Tarbut Foundation": striving to preserve the heritage and memory of the Jews of Maramures (Romania)
USA (10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET)
UK 6:30 pm / France 7:30 pm / Israel 8:30 pm
The talk will last approximately 60 minutes
Tarbut Foundation Sighet (FTS) was established in 2014 following the 70ᵗʰ commemoration to the Jewish deportations from Maramures. Due to the tremendous success of that first gathering, we founded FTS with the intention to keep alive the memory of the 40,000 Maramures Jews that lived in the region before the Holocaust.
We strive to preserve the Jewish heritage of Maramures through art, culture and education.
Apart from continuing to organise the yearly gathering of commemoration, FTS is committed to the following objectives:
Educating students about the Jewish community of pre-WWII Sighet, the Holocaust and Human Rights
Organizing conferences, art workshops, contests and other events regarding Jewish history and culture
Providing genealogical services
Publishing memoirs and novels, and translating from Hebrew and English to Romanian
Restoring and preserving pre-Holocaust Jewish sites in the city and its vicinity
Observing the International Holocaust Day, Yom Ha'Shoah, Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day and other European Jewish Days
About Peninah
Peninah Zilberman was born in Israel to survivor parents from Sighet Maramures and Bucharest, Romania. She served the Toronto Jewish Community for over 40 years; principal at Jewish Schools, Holocaust Museum Director and Adath Israel Synagogue Sisterhood President. Ms. Zilberman is presently the Heritage Adviser & PR Consultant for Beverley Jane Stewart, a UK Artist for "Romanian Heritage: A Journey In Time" exhibit touring London, Tel Aviv and Romania. In 2014 Peninah initiated the "70th Anniversary Commemoration to the Sighet Deportations" followed by "All Generations Gatherings" in 2015, 2017 and 2019 attracting 1000 participants, from all over the world. She is the Founder & CEO of "Fundatia Tarbut Sighet- Cultura si Educatie Iudaica" (FTS) established in 2014. FTS mission is to assist "All Generations" with their genealogy research and organizing "Family Roots Journeys"; at the same time FTS provides cultural Holocaust programs to the high schools across Romania. FTS is an active member of AEPJ, a European Jewish organization for "Perpetuating the Jewish European Heritage". Peninah initiated Intergenerational Heritage Journeys to Poland, Prague, Vienna and Budapest, starting in the early 1990's following the lifting of the Eastern European Block. Ms. Zilberman is an active participant and speaker at all programs sponsored by JDC and the Jewish Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities.
Past and Present of Jewish Romania on October 10
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Nissan gets new batteries, Tesla lawsuit, Canadian sales, Twitter poll: Today's Car News
2013 Nissan Leaf electric car tested as taxi in New York City, April 2013
Nissan announced Friday that it sold its in-house battery division in a business deal that has been a long time in the making. Electric car sales drop off in Canada after purchase incentives were canceled in Ontario. We look at how Tesla's lawsuit in Michigan could open its ability to sell cars nationwide—eventually. And our latest Twitter poll asks how often electric-car drivers encounter public chargers that are out of order. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
By selling its in-house battery division, Nissan put the final nail in the coffin of business vertical integration for electric cars. The company had developed and built its own batteries since the 1990s, and stuck with a small cadre of other automakers who saw supplying power as a core mission for any automaker. Now it will join the ranks of automakers who buy their battery cells from specialists.
After electric-car purchase incentives were canceled in Ontario, Canada, sales of electric cars dropped off in the country's most populous province. Other regions may pick up the slack, but it's too early to tell for sure.
Tesla won a key battle in its lawsuit against Michigan to sell electric cars in the state, and the decision could reverberate in other states—once the suit winds its way to conclusion.
Our latest Twitter poll tries to quantify how often electric car drivers try to use public chargers only to find them out of order.
Volkswagen may be developing a sporty R variant of its upcoming ID electric hatchback.
Finally, the New York City council plans a vote this week to cap the number of ride-sharing Uber and Lyft vehicles in the city, and both online ride-sharing drivers and traditional hacks support the measure.
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More to the point, no one seems to think tiwce about a God, a God who fights for good over evil, have a baby sacrificed in his name. Is that not evil?
You know, now that I think about it, I really should have done a comic based around Dracula's day planner. That coulda been funny.


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Scripts, 1944-1986 (continued)
Television scripts.
Arranged numerically by episode number.
BOX-FOLDER 471/1-5 Episode #1 - Episode #5
BOX-FOLDER 473/1-3 Episode #10 - Episode #12
Film scripts for all Kaye films except A Song is Born; many are housed in their original embossed leather binders and include production stills. Additional production stills are found in the Photographs series.
Arranged alphabetically by title. LC Record #s provide links to the full catalog record for each title.
BOX-FOLDER 474/1 The Court Jester, November 15, 1954
Leather bound; contains 16 black and white production stills
Revised final version.
LC Record #95501393
BOX-FOLDER 474/2 The Five Pennies, October 3, 1958
Revised "White" version.
BOX-FOLDER 474/3 Hans Christian Andersen, December 20, 1951
Leather bound; personalized; contains 35 black and white production stills
Final version.
BOX-FOLDER 475/1 Happy Times, August 7, 1958
Leather bound; contains 6 production stills
Released title: The Inspector General
BOX-FOLDER 475/2 Intermission, 1954-1957
Released title: The Five Pennies
BOX-FOLDER 475/3 The Kid from Brooklyn, June 1, 1945
BOX-FOLDER 475/4 Knock on Wood, May 19, 1953
Final "White" version.
BOX-FOLDER 476/1-2 The Madwoman of Chaillot, February 21, 1968
BOX-FOLDER 476/3 The Man from the Diner's Club, May 31, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 476/4 Me and the Colonel, October 7, 1957
Revised final draft.
BOX-FOLDER 477/1 Merry Andrew, July 1, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 477/2 On the Double, November 1960
BOX-FOLDER 477/3 On the Riviera, September 13, 1950
Final shooting version.
BOX-FOLDER 478/1 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 1946
BOX-FOLDER 478/2-3 Up in Arms, June 1943
Leather bound; copy 1 contains 4 photographs, copy 2, personalized, contains 18 photographs
Revised, final version.
BOX-FOLDER 479/1 White Christmas, September 14, 1953
2nd revision, final version.
BOX-FOLDER 479/2 Wonder Man, 1944-1945
Scripts for various stand-alone television programs in which Danny Kaye appeared.
Arranged alphabetically by program title.
BOX-FOLDER 480/1 Cock-a-doodle-doo!, 1961
BOX-FOLDER 480/2 The Cosby Show, #0216-16: "The Dentist," 1986
BOX-FOLDER 480/3-4 Danny Kaye's "Look-In" at the Met, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 180/5 The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 480/6 Epcot Center Opening Celebration, 1982
BOX-FOLDER 480/7 An Evening with John Denver, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 480/8 Here Comes Peter Cottontail, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 481/1 Peter Pan, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 481/2-3 Pinocchio, February 18, 1976
BOX-FOLDER 481/4 Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, January 1979
BOX-FOLDER 481/5 Defend to the Death, September 15, 1980
Released title: Skokie
BOX-FOLDER 481/6-7 Skokie, October 18, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 482/1 The Twilight Zone: "Paladin of the Lost Hour," 1985
BOX-FOLDER 482/2 The Flowering Plum, 1954
BOX-FOLDER 482/3 Two by Two, Revisions, 1970
BOX 483-500, 624 Correspondence, 1940s-1991
Typed and handwritten letters, greeting cards, and telegrams to both Danny Kaye and/or Sylvia Fine. Enclosures include photographs, clippings, and other items. Birthday, Christmas, condolence, and get-well messages comprise the bulk of this material. Congratulatory notes found here supplement those interspersed throughout the collection.
Arranged alphabetically by surname of sender or topic.
BOX-FOLDER 483/1 Albert Hall performance, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 483/2 Allen, Steve, 1986, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 483/3 Astor, Brooke, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 483/4 "A" Miscellaneous, 1959-1988
Correspondents include Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, Rupert Allan, and Anna Bing Arnold.
BOX-FOLDER 483/5 Ben Franklin School, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 483/6 Benny, Jack, 1952-1953
BOX-FOLDER 483/7 Birthday Greetings – Kaye, Danny, 1964, 1966-1968
Correspondents include Sylvia Fine, Holly Hitzing, Johnny Kan, Victoria Meyerink, Carroll Richter, and Mary Roebling.
BOX-FOLDER 483/8 Birthday Greetings – Kaye, Danny, 1969, 1970
Correspondents include Sylvia Fine, Johnny Green, Wayne Newton, Mary Roebling, and Victoria Meyerink.
Correspondents include Sylvia Fine, Holly Hitzing, Johnny Green, and Mary Roebling.
BOX-FOLDER 483/10 Birthday Greetings – Kaye, Danny, 1977
Correspondents include Johnny Green, Irv Kupcinet, and Paige Rence.
Correspondents include Sylvia Fine, Dena Kaye, James Levine, Stavros Niachos, Mary Roebling, Harold I. Silverman.
Correspondents include Roberto Goizueta, Holly Hitzing, Dena Kaye, Teddy Kollek, Queen Beatrix of Holland, Anton Mosiman. and Mary Roebling.
Correspondents include Olive Behrendt, Sylvia Fine, Roberto Goizueta, Vi Marriott, Roddy McDowall, Anton Mosiman, the Muppets, Ronald Reagan, Harold I. Silverman.
BOX-FOLDER 484/1 Birthday Greetings – Kaye, Danny, 1985
Correspondents include Holly Hitzing, Roddy McDowall, Anton Moseman, Peter and Annette O'Malley, and Carroll Richter.
Correspondents include Holly Hitzing, Anton Mosiman, and Peter and Annette O'Malley.
Correspondents include Holly Hitzing, Harvey Korman, the Muppets, Harold I. Silverman, and Catarina Valenti.


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Obama's Brother joins Hamas, says 'Jerusalem is ours; We are Coming'
Malik Obama, the president's Kenyan half brother, was photographed in 2010 at a public event in Yemen wearing a 'keffiyeh' – a special scarf – bearing two anti-Israel slogans of the terror group Hamas, it emerged today.
'Jerusalem is ours – WE ARE COMING,' reads one saying. 'From the river to the sea,' says the other statement.
That rallying cry refers to Palestinian militants' belief that the territory representing Israel, with the Jordan River to the east and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, rightfully belongs to them – and Israel should not exist.
The photo appears on the website of the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a group that Malik founded and manages, despite its lack of a connection with he U.S. president. The name in the organization's title refers to the president's father, the parent whom the two men share in common.
Malik Obama also serves as the executive secretary of the Islamic Da'wa Organization, a group created by the government of Sudan.
While the White House has sought to distance President Obama from Malik and his other relations, the Kenyan told GQ in July 2013 that the two speak regularly.
'Of course we're close!' he said. 'I'm the one who brought him here to Kogelo in 1988! I thought it was important for him to come home and see from whence his family came – you know, his roots.'
Malik told MailOnline in March 2013 that his more famous half-brother is 'always at the end of a phone line if I want to talk. I last saw him on November 19 last year, shortly after the U.S. election. I went to the White House and offered him my congratulations'.
The Barack H. Obama foundation made news in 2013 after the IRS was accused of delaying the tax-exemption applications of tea party groups and other conservative organizations because of their political beliefs in 2010 and 2011.
But the Barack H. Obama Foundation saw its application approved in just 28 days. The final determination letter was signed by Lois Lerner, the former official forced to resign over the tea party scandal.
Malik is a practicing Muslim, but his embrace of militant Islam, including Hamas – a U.S.-designated terrorist organization – is curious because he has expressed a desire to run for president in Kenya, a predominantly Christian nation.
His first foray into politics ended badly when he was trounced in a regional governorship election in 2013, despite using a photograph of him and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office as his political calling card.


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TasWater says: 'We're working harder so you can take us for granted'
By TasWater
TasWater is set to embark on a new era, today launching a statewide public awareness campaign to reflect the positive change happening within the organisation in becoming more responsive to the needs of its customers.
The campaign has been developed in direct response to extensive, independent research commissioned by TasWater, to understand the perceptions and expectations of its employees, stakeholders, customers and the wider Tasmanian community.
The research identified four common community expectations:
1. Water will come out of the tap
2. Sewerage will be taken care of
3. Tap water will be safe to drink and will taste good; and
4. Someone will provide help when I have a problem.
TasWater General Manager Corporate and Community Relations, Juliet Mercer, said the campaign was self-effacing, acknowledging the reality that what the community genuinely wants is for TasWater to simply do its job and do it well.
"The research revealed minimal community awareness about what TasWater does and consequently, there is a level of discontent among customers with our water and sewerage services and rates," Ms Mercer said.
"TasWater plays a critical role in the day-to-day lives of all Tasmanians, through the wonderful work of our near 850 employees – from our highly qualified scientists to our emergency response crews on the ground.
"Yet to date, the work we do has not always been understood, which we acknowledge reflects a gap in our communication with our customers.
"As an organisation, we are now turning a corner by being more responsive to our customers, thanks to the hard work of our dedicated employees.
"When the community understands the work we do, they will see our greatest asset is not our infrastructure but our people."
TasWater is responsible for managing and maintaining:
▪ 208,219 water connections
▪ 182,289 sewerage connections
▪ 6,685km of water mains
▪ 4,764 km of sewer mains
▪ 995 water and sewerage pump stations
▪ 298 water distribution storage facilities; and
▪ 112 sewerage treatment plants.
The campaign – 'We're working harder so you can take us for granted' – launches tonight with the first TVCs going to air on local commercial television stations. It will then run statewide across mainstream and regional television, radio, press, social media and on the sides of buses.
The campaign will be supported by direct communication with TasWater customers through a range of initiatives, including ongoing community engagement, regional media and education programs.
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Journalist, MP (1966-1968), MLA (1969-1973), MLA (1973-1977), MLA (1977-1981), MLA (1982-1984).
Born at Quebec City on 24 December 1926, son of Louis Ralph Sherman and Caroline Zerelda Gillmor, he attended Strathcona Boys' School and Central High School in Calgary, Alberta. After moving to Winnipeg, he attended Kelvin High School and the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1949 from the latter with a BA degree. He worked for the Canadian Press and spent the next 11 years at Halifax, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver. In the late 1950s, he was Bureau Chief and Western Canada Manager for United Press International, in Vancouver, returning to Winnipeg in late 1957. In 1960 he moved into television journalism and became Director of News and Public Affair, on-air anchorman, and host of a public affairs program on CJAY, the CTV affiliate in Winnipeg.
On 28 December 1955, he married Elizabeth Ann Beaton. Elected to the House of Commons for Winnipeg South in the 1965 general election, he served a single term. Defeated in the 1968 general election, he moved into provincial politics in 1969, representing the Fort Garry constituency, and was re-elected in 1973, 1977, and 1981. He served the Progressive Conservative party as Whip, Chairman, Minister of Health and Social Development (1977-1979), Minister of Health (1979-1981), Deputy House Leader, Deputy Premier (1981-1984), Minister for Corrections and Rehabilitation (1977-1979), and Minister for Amateur Sport. He resigned his seat in 1984 to run in the federal election that fall but was defeated. In 1985, he was appointed as a Commissioner of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), based in Hull, Quebec. He was Vice-Chair Telecommunications from 1987 until his retirement in 1995. He chaired a federal-provincial task force on telecommunications in 1987 and 1988.
He died at Winnipeg on 9 January 2015.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 January 2015.


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Q: "Fixing" GRUB2? Machine becomes unresponsive When I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, every so often the computer will become unresponsive:

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*SSH server does not receive connections.

*When I physically sit down in front of the computer, it's still running but the screen is dark and machine appears to be unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.

*Reboot is the only way I can access the machine again.

I have been made to believe this may be a problem with GRUB2 because I am able to run Ubuntu 9.10 with GRUB 1.97 Beta and this problem does not occur. There are many pages about fixing GRUB2 after installing Windows, but in my case I do have a dual-boot system but the installation involves upgrading the Ubuntu on the Linux-side only.
Could this really be the problem, and if so, is there a fix? Thanks community.


The survey found that 78% of students nationally have access to a computing device for a good portion of the school day or the full school day. It also forecasts that district spending on hardware, networks, and major system software will see a slight increase in 2017, rising to $16.2 billion.
2) Chromebooks have had the most significant gain in popularity, a trend that is likely to continue; and 3) there is no agreement among schools about the best device based on the age of the student.
Further, even though schools cite 79–91% network coverage in classrooms and common areas, it's not enough to support the burgeoning use of digital curriculum. The networks are considered "unreliable" by most teachers.
The Survey found that 86% of schools and districts expect to be spending more on digital curriculum in the new year. 56% of respondents say teachers already use 50-75% paid resources over free open-education resources for their digital learning objects. However, billions in spending on curriculum overall has yet to move from paper textbooks into digital: 80% of respondents said district curriculum budgets still haven't shifted from paper-based resources.
2016 was also the highest year on record for digital curriculum spending. A 25% jump was due to years of non-adoption of textbooks in several states, causing more digital acquisitions at the same time that the market reached an inflection point of saturation of devices.
Out of $9 billion in total K-12 digital curriculum spending, the market "flipped" by an estimated $2 billion to be weighted more in organizational spending than individual teacher spending for the first time. This is one of many signs the market is maturing.
LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and publisher of the Learning Counsel, said that the survey was developed as a tool to evaluate national trends in how digital transitions are happening, particularly from the view of software sophistication and its impact on device and network infrastructure. "Beyond providing all of education with that national view, it is an invaluable tool for every school and district to use to self-assess," Cauthen said.
The Learning Counsel Community would also like to thank SoftChalk for its sponsorship of the awards ceremony for specially recognized participants in the survey.
The Learning Counsel is a mission-based organization focused on helping education professionals in the K-12 sector gain research and context on the shift to digital curriculum. For more information, please visit TheLearningCounsel.com.
Thanks for the post. Good survey and the results will help shape district policies in 2017.


103.9fm signed on June 1, 1974.
Studios located on LaGrange Road, Crawfordsville, IN 47933 (Telephone: 317.362.2700). Beautiful music format. Also aired a country music format.
On April 1, 2005, WIMC changed formats to Classic Hits, as "Thunder 103.9."


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Categories: American immigrants to Canada > Sportspeople from Toronto > People from Toronto > People from Chicago, Illinois > Northwestern University alumni > Canadian Jews > Canadian Football League executives > Living people > 1966 births
Mark Steven Cohon (born March 16, 1966) is the Canadian Football League's 12th Commissioner. The son of McDonald's of Canada founder George Cohon, he was appointed in 2007 succeeding Tom Wright.
Cohon was born in Chicago , Illinois , and moved to Toronto , Ontario when he was two years old.
He is a graduate of Northwestern University with a Bachelors of Science majoring in communication studies and was a business consultant to environmental and youth organizations in Toronto before becoming President and chief executive officer of AudienceView Ticketing, a company which sells ticketing systems and services to sports, arts and entertainment events.
In 2002, Cohon married Suzanne Elizabeth Lucido.
In 2003, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre and then named Chair in 2006.
CFL.ca blog page
Q and A with CBC Sports
Mark Cohon, first interview on "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos
Mark Cohon, second interview on "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos
"Why the CFL Matters" (a blog by Mark Cohon on NationalPost.com)


We came an impressive joint third in the world for careers services as part of the International Student Barometer – the largest survey of international students in higher education, with over 90,000 students taking part worldwide.
Read more about careers for international students.
"The interest in the UWE Bristol Graduate Internship Scheme has been phenomenal and has enabled the University to partner up with and develop relationships with many new businesses and organisations."
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Read more about our Graduate Internship Scheme.
In 2010 we had the return of the annual 'Meet the Employers' fair. The event was a huge success with 135 exhibitors and nearly 4,000 visitors across all faculties.
Read more about the Meet the Employers Fair.
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Fulfilling the 'core mission'
New program at Scruggs Center allows students to visit for free
Elise Franco efranco@shelbystar.com
A new program at the Earl Scruggs Center will give students in Cleveland County the opportunity to visit the museum for free.
Emily Epley, Earl Scruggs Center executive director, said she began developing the Adopt a Bus program about six months ago. The sponsorship program covers the educational programming and admission for students through tax deductible gifts, while supporting students in public, charter and private schools in Cleveland County.
Gifts may be designated to a specific school or schools or to the program's general scholarship fund, which allows individual students the opportunity to experience the history, culture and hands-on engagement of a learning experience at the Earl Scruggs Center, Epley said.
"The scholarship fund allows schools to apply for admission for a number of students or an entire class," she said. "Once funded, the scholarship fund will have a simple application process where teachers can apply for a class or on behalf of [individual] students. Awards will be made on a first come, first serve basis dependent upon available funds."
Epley said, while she was developing the program, she turned to Dr. Will Plaster, of Plaster Family Dentistry in Shelby, for feedback and ideas. Plaster, who has been a supporter of other student-centric programs at the center, jumped at the chance to become the program's first sponsor.
Plaster, who has three children attending Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, adopted a bus there, as well as a bus at Marion Elementary School. Both schools are scheduled to take their field trips in May.
"A field trip to the Earl Scruggs Center ... allows students to engage intellectually, socially and physically with exhibits and interactive displays at the center. I feel that my children learn best through an approach of seeing, hearing and touching. Our community has a outstanding museum/center that allows each student to receive an authentic learning experience," Plaster said. "My hope for the Adopt a Bus program is that all children in our community can visit the Earl Scruggs Center with local business support."
Epley said with 63 percent of the students who attend the Cleveland County Schools qualifying for free or reduced lunch, the sponsorship program was a need the center wanted to fill. Her hope is that the program catches on, gaining enough sponsors to allow any student the opportunity to experience the center.
"The core of our mission is education, and the people who live here have a great resource for their kids," she said. "This program opens up the opportunity for kids in school who may not be able to afford to come otherwise."
To learn more about the Adopt a Bus program, or to sponsor a school or donate to the scholarship fund, contact Emily Epley at 704-487-6233 or emily@earlscruggscenter.org.
Donation levels:
Adopt a Bus allows students to participate in an interactive learning experience at the Earl Scruggs Center. Each visit includes a program related to the current course of study for the visiting class and tours through the state of the art Earl Scruggs Center's permanent and special exhibits.
$250 allows up to 50 students (one bus)
$500 allows up to 100 students (two buses)
$1000 allows up to 200 students (four buses)


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The Magisterium Series is a five-book children's fantasy series written by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare; it is their first collaboration. The series was acquired by Scholastic in April 2012. The first book, The Iron Trial, was published on September 9, 2014, and hit third on the New York Times Middle Grade Bestseller List. The series is set in an underground school where mages train apprentices to control the elements. The books are illustrated by Scott Fischer. The final book, The Golden Tower, was published on September 11, 2018.

The Iron Trial

The protagonist of the series is twelve-year-old Callum Hunt, or Call, who was raised by his father and former mage - Alastair Hunt. Alastair rejected the world of magic after the death of his wife Sarah at the Cold Massacre during the Third Mage War. 'The Enemy of Death', Constantine Madden, was responsible for her death. In the prologue The Enemy of Death places his soul into the infant Callum Hunts body. With her dying breath she warns her husband with her knife by carving a message on the walls and cripples her son by shattering the bones in his leg in hopes of killing him.

In the first book, 'The Iron Trial', Call participates in a series of tests to see whether he has sufficient magic to attend training at the Magisterium in which he attempts to fail due to pressure from his father and is selected by master Rufus due to this. At the Magisterium apprentices are trained to be mages using the four elements of fire, air, water, and earth.   Master Rufus decides to take him on as an apprentice.  He also selects Tamara Rajavi and Aaron Stewart -  the top-ranked students.

During the book, after doing countless seemingly pointless and boring exercises such as sorting sand by shade, the three apprentices become friends after a frigid start and Call starts to decide to stay on at the Magisterium after his Iron year to receive more tutelage and go against his father's wishes. After an exercise in the caverns Call, Tamara, and Aaron are confronted by a fire Devoured who tells them their fates. 'One will die, one will fail, another is already dead.' Call at dinner mentions this to the other students, one of whom, Drew, says the prophecy is complete babble. When Call walks out of the Cafeteria, Drew asks for a moment to talk to him and says that it wasn't a good idea to tell everyone about the prophecy, but Call gets confused about what Drew means. At this Drew realizes something important and that night runs away leaving a note behind. When his note is found Call and the other apprentices and Masters go to look for him. After finding him Call, Aaron, Tamara, a bronze year student Alex Strike, and Drew are confronted by a pack of chaos-ridden wolves. Chaos is the fifth element and only Makars can wield it. When confronted Aaron ends up saving their lives by sending the wolves to the void using chaos magic and in doing so reveals himself to be a Makar, astonishing everyone. On the way back to the Magisterium, Jasper DeWinter, someone whom Call dislikes and vice versa, tells everyone the story of Constantine Madden the chaos mage, and why he started the third mage war. While Jasper is telling this story Call finds a chaos-ridden wolf pup in the snow and decides to take the wolf, later named Havoc, into the Magisterium with him without telling anyone. Later afterward, an incident where Call foolishly decides to participate in an activity that he could not accomplish because of his bad leg that was smashed when he was a baby, Aaron is kidnapped by the Enemy's minions when taking Havoc for a walk. As neither Tamara nor Call wanted to leave Aaron they decided to save him without telling anyone. Walking in the forest outside the mission gate and the magisterium they come to a bowling alley where they find Aaron tied up and being dangled on top of a chaos elemental by their classmate Drew who works for the Enemy. Tamara releases Aaron and Call tries to leave too, but Drew stops him by releasing the chaos elemental, which kills Drew after he calls the elemental a coward. Chased into another room, Call is confronted by the Enemy of Death who, while being briefly angry about his son Drew's death, takes off his mask and tells Call that Call is Constantine Madden, The Enemy of Death and that he is Master Joseph who taught Constantine/Call. Callum and Master Joseph have a conversation where Joseph explains that during the Cold Massacre Constantine had been mortally wounded and was dying, so he placed his soul into the body of a baby. That baby was Callum. Call also finds out that his father suspects he is The Enemy of Death as during the massacre after Constantine's soul had entered Call's body, Call's mother had written the words, 'Kill the Child' on the ice where she lay almost dead. Alastair had also sent a letter to Master Rufus earlier that year asking him to bind Callum's magic, sending Master Rufus a wristband that later turned out to be Constantine's. Then, Tamara and Aaron accidentally broke the roof with the bowling alley sign. Master Joseph disappeared and Call was rescued. Later, Call was back at the Infirmary after passing out. There he has a conversation with Master Rufus about what happened in the bowling alley. Call doesn't tell him though, about Master Joseph and their conversation. After that, Master Rufus gives him permission to contact his father. When Call is out of the Infirmary, he and his friends pass through the First Gate.

The Copper Gauntlet

In the book two, 'The Copper Gauntlet', Call finds that his father may be trying to destroy both him and Havoc and runs away from home to go back to the magical world.  When he leaves his house he notices a design of what appears to be a copper gauntlet.  He meets up with his friends Aaron and Tamara at Tamara's house.  There, he meets Alex Strike, the boyfriend of Tamara's sister, Kimiya.  Call finds out from Tamara's parents that his dad used to be an exceptional metal mage.  They go back to the Magisterium when they find out that an attack was made on a dangerous weapon called the Alkahest.  They research the Alkahest and discover that it's the copper gauntlet that Call's dad, Alastair was researching.  The Alkahest is a weapon that can only harm a Makar and can be used to rip out the Makar's soul.  Call predicts that his dad faked an attack on the Alkahest so that they'd move the Alkahest to a more secure vault made of metal.  He concludes that Alastair wants to use the Alkahest on Call to destroy Constantine's soul and potentially kill Call.  He tells Tamara about his dad potentially trying to steal the Alkahest.  Tamara misunderstands Call's concerns and thinks that Alastair wants to use the Alkahest to kill Aaron.  She tells Master Rufus this and later, it is confirmed that the Alkahest is missing.  Alex Strike tells Call that the mages will not hesitate to kill his dad to protect the Makar, Aaron, so Call decides to set out to find and warn his dad.  Tamara and Aaron agree to go with him, and because Jasper catches them, they force Jasper to come along with them.  They stop at a junkyard where they think Calls father may have been and they find letters from Master Joseph, to his father that describe his location using coordinate points.  That night, they wake up to find a metal elemental named, Automotones.  Automotones was controlled by the school, and after defeating it they decide that they can not return to the Magisterium.  They are found by the Masters on the highway, and the Masters use air elementals to take control of their car and carry them away.  Call and the others escape the car and hide out and rest in a cave, made by Aaron.  The next day they are surrounded by Chaos-ridden.  Instead of killing them, the Chaos-ridden kneel in front of Call and Call is forced to explain his identity to everyone there.  They are escorted by the army to the coordinate points which turns out to be a tomb.  In the tomb, it is revealed that Constantine's body is still intact and that Joseph plans to transfer the soul from Call's body to Constantine's body. His plans are quickly foiled though, as Alastair quickly steals the Alkahest and destroys Constantine Madden's body, therefore foiling the plan to transfer the souls. Because of Constantine's death, Call receives the chaos magic in Constantine's body and becomes a Makar. They quickly escape, and bring along Constantine's head as proof they killed the "Enemy", but his soul was still living inside Call. When they get back, they are praised as heroes, but a shocking fact is revealed. Nobody from the Assembly sent the elementals.

The Bronze Key

In the third book, 'The Bronze Key', the action starts shortly after the ending of the second as Call, Aaron and Tamara are beginning their third or bronze year at the Magisterium. The book picks up the story with a death among the students and a spy on the loose threatening Call. The group is invited to a party in their honor, where two tragic incidents occur. First, Call is almost killed by a falling chandelier when he is invited to a room by Celia with a note, but it is not as it seems. A few minutes later, he sees Jennifer, the person who delivered the note, dead in the water. This throws the party into chaos, and everybody starts to evacuate. Call's dad takes the children to the Magisterium, where he believes they will be safe. Tamara and Aaron both believe that the spy, who they think tried to kill Call, is from the Magisterium, so they both keep an eye on Call 24/7. But that night, when Call comes to bed he is attacked by an elemental and almost killed if Aaron didn't step in and send the elemental to the void using his Makar or chaos powers. They started to investigate themselves and wanted to go down to the prison where they held the elementals. But to do that, they would have to break into Anastasia Tarquin's room, Alex's stepmother. Upon entering Anastasia's room, they discover that the key they look for is hidden inside a voice-activated safe. After multiple faulty attempts, Call comes to a realization and enunciates the word that opens the safe: Jericho. Jericho is the name of Constantine's twin brother, killed in an accident while they were students. Constantine was driven to find a method of "curing death" because of the loss of his brother. After retrieving the key, the trio enter it in the elemental gate, and as the gates disappear, they rush inside with a purpose. No information is retrieved from the elementals. Master Rufus surprises them by announcing that Alma, the leader of the Order of Disorder, will be teaching Aaron and Call.  Aaron and Call make a deal with Alma to help her free the Chaos-ridden animals if she helps them communicate with the first victim, Jennifer.  Later, Callum and Aaron help free the Chaos-ridden, assisted by Anastasia Tarquin and Alex Strike.  Call passes out in a truck.  When he wakes up, Aaron goes with him to visit Alma.  Alma teaches them how to communicate with the dead.  Callum interrogates Jennifer and finds out that she was killed by a "boy she liked" and Jennifer starts screaming for Kimiya to stay away. While trying to figure out more information, Callum accidentally raises her from the dead and Alma becomes suspicious of him.  Call runs back to the hospital to find out that Tamara has left.  They head back to their rooms when Alex rushes through the gates and alerts them that Tamara was kidnapped by the spy, and Havoc ran off into the woods surrounding the Magisterium. After running with Alex for a while, Call asks Alex to take off his hoodie. Upon seeing two blue stripes up his sleeve, (which Call recognizes from a photograph of Constantine and Master Joseph) Call realizes that Alex is indeed the spy in the Magisterium, working for the Enemy of Death. Alex drags the pair to his hideout in the woods and extracts the Chaos from Aaron's body using the Alkahest, killing him in the process. After subduing Call and Tamara, Alex escapes with wounds inflicted by Havoc. The masters arrive, and in Call's desperation rant about how he didn't do it, he mentions that he is the Enemy of Death, and the Masters "clap him in chains" He is taken to the Panopticon, the prison, and as the book ends, Anastasia Tarquin is at Call's cell door, telling him she shall free him, and that he is her "son" as she was Constantine's mother.

The Silver Mask

The fourth book begins in The Panopticon, where Call stands in the last half of the year. Jasper is visiting him, but Tamara and Anastasia Tarquin help Call to go off The Prison at the same time. Master Joseph then forces Call to bring Aaron back from the dead, but he ends up being a skewed and different version of Aaron. Jasper and Tamara escape the clutches of Master Joseph and alert the Magisterium as to the whereabouts of Call. Preparing for the Fourth Mage War.

Reception
The first book in the series, The Iron Trial, was well received. Kirkus Reviews praised the setting and "refreshingly nuanced" characters, and a Publishers Weekly starred review predicted that the "string of ominous revelations" would leave readers wanting more. Though Kirkus noted that the similarities to Harry Potter can be distracting, a reviewer at The Daily Telegraph wrote that the book "moves deftly into the gap" left by the JK Rowling series.

In 2012, Constantin Film acquired the production rights. Black and Clare will adapt the script themselves, and serve as executive producers. Constantin is one of the production companies behind another adaptation of Clare's, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones as well as the production company for its TV adaptation Shadowhunters on Freeform.

References

Book series introduced in 2014
Series of children's books
Fantasy novel series
Collaborative book series
Works by Holly Black

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Alexander Zverev turns to David Ferrer as he adds Spaniard to his coaching team on a trial run
Former world No 3 David Ferrer has been handed a trial run as Alexander Zverev's coach with a report claiming the German hopes to add him to his team on a full-time basis.
Zverev made a nightmare start to the 2019 campaign on the back of winning the ATP Finals in November 2018 and he decided to part ways with former world No 1 Ivan Lendl in July last year.
Although he showed encouraging signs of returning to form during the latter half of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, his last trophy success came at the Geneva Open in May 2019.
The German, who is currently being coached by his father Alexander Sr, is determined to turn things around and Spanish paper Marca reports the 23-year-old has asked Ferrer to join his coaching set-up.
Ferrer, who retired from professional tennis in 2019, has reportedly travelled to Monte Carlo for a 15-day trial period "to get to know each other better and to discuss expectations".
Alexander Zverev David Ferrer
Roberto Bautista Agut slams quarantine restrictions saying 'it's like being in jail, but with WiFi'
"These people have no idea," says Roberto Bautista Agut.
Victoria Azarenka pens thoughtful letter to tennis community urging them to 'accept, adapt'
Victoria Azarenka calls for calm.
Nick Kyrgios brands Novak Djokovic a 'tool' following Australian Open quarantine squabble
Nick Kyrgios again unimpressed by Novak Djokovic.


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Q: Connect PowerBI to Postgres on Heroku (not via ODBC) How can I connect PowerBI Desktop (latest version) to Postgres running on Heroku without using ODBC.
I've been researching for hours, and can't get to the bottom of it. When I type all my credentials in I get the following error:

Has anyone ever managed this?
I tried the suggestion here, but that didn't do anything, I still get the error.
I am on a regular Heroku account, so I don't have access to Heroku Private Spaces ...etc.


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require File.expand_path("../../../base", __FILE__)

require "vagrant/registry"

describe Vagrant::Config::Loader do
  include_context "unit"

  # This is the current version of configuration for the tests.
  let(:current_version) { version_order.last }

  # This is just a dummy implementation of a configuraiton loader which
  # simply acts on hashes.
  let(:test_loader) do
    Class.new(Vagrant::Config::VersionBase) do
      def self.init
        {}
      end

      def self.load(proc)
        init.tap do |obj|
          proc.call(obj)
        end
      end

      def self.merge(old, new)
        old.merge(new)
      end
    end
  end

  let(:versions) do
    Vagrant::Registry.new.tap do |r|
      r.register("1") { test_loader }
    end
  end

  let(:version_order) { ["1"] }

  let(:instance) { described_class.new(versions, version_order) }

  describe "basic loading" do
    it "should ignore non-existent load order keys" do
      instance.load([:foo])
    end

    it "should load and return the configuration" do
      proc = Proc.new do |config|
        config[:foo] = "yep"
      end

      instance.set(:proc, [[current_version, proc]])
      config, warnings, errors = instance.load([:proc])

      expect(config[:foo]).to eq("yep")
      expect(warnings).to eq([])
      expect(errors).to eq([])
    end
  end

  describe "finalization" do
    it "should finalize the configuration" do
      # Create the finalize method on our loader
      def test_loader.finalize(obj)
        obj[:finalized] = true
        obj
      end

      # Basic configuration proc
      proc = lambda do |config|
        config[:foo] = "yep"
      end

      # Run the actual configuration and assert that we get the proper result
      instance.set(:proc, [[current_version, proc]])
      config, _ = instance.load([:proc])
      expect(config[:foo]).to eq("yep")
      expect(config[:finalized]).to eq(true)
    end
  end

  describe "upgrading" do
    it "should do an upgrade to the latest version" do
      test_loader_v2 = Class.new(test_loader) do
        def self.upgrade(old)
          new = old.dup
          new[:v2] = true

          [new, [], []]
        end
      end

      versions.register("2") { test_loader_v2 }
      version_order << "2"

      # Load a version 1 proc, and verify it is upgraded to version 2
      proc = lambda { |config| config[:foo] = "yep" }
      instance.set(:proc, [["1", proc]])
      config, _ = instance.load([:proc])
      expect(config[:foo]).to eq("yep")
      expect(config[:v2]).to eq(true)
    end

    it "should keep track of warnings and errors" do
      test_loader_v2 = Class.new(test_loader) do
        def self.upgrade(old)
          new = old.dup
          new[:v2] = true

          [new, ["foo!"], ["bar!"]]
        end
      end

      versions.register("2") { test_loader_v2 }
      version_order << "2"

      # Load a version 1 proc, and verify it is upgraded to version 2
      proc = lambda { |config| config[:foo] = "yep" }
      instance.set(:proc, [["1", proc]])
      config, warnings, errors = instance.load([:proc])
      expect(config[:foo]).to eq("yep")
      expect(config[:v2]).to eq(true)
      expect(warnings).to eq(["foo!"])
      expect(errors).to eq(["bar!"])
    end
  end

  describe "loading edge cases" do
    it "should only run the same proc once" do
      count = 0
      proc = Proc.new do |config|
        config[:foo] = "yep"
        count += 1
      end

      instance.set(:proc, [[current_version, proc]])

      5.times do
        result, _ = instance.load([:proc])

        # Verify the config result
        expect(result[:foo]).to eq("yep")

        # Verify the count is only one
        expect(count).to eq(1)
      end
    end

    it "should only load configuration files once" do
      $_config_data = 0

      # We test both setting a file multiple times as well as multiple
      # loads, since both should not cache the data.
      file = temporary_file("$_config_data += 1")
      5.times { instance.set(:file, file) }
      5.times { instance.load([:file]) }

      expect($_config_data).to eq(1)
    end

    it "should not clear the cache if setting to the same value multiple times" do
      $_config_data = 0

      file = temporary_file("$_config_data += 1")

      instance.set(:proc, file)
      5.times { instance.load([:proc]) }

      instance.set(:proc, file)
      5.times { instance.load([:proc]) }

      expect($_config_data).to eq(1)
    end

    it "should raise proper error if there is a syntax error in a Vagrantfile" do
      expect { instance.set(:file, temporary_file("Vagrant:^Config")) }.
        to raise_exception(Vagrant::Errors::VagrantfileSyntaxError)
    end

    it "should raise a proper error if there is a problem with the Vagrantfile" do
      expect { instance.set(:file, temporary_file("foo")) }.
        to raise_exception(Vagrant::Errors::VagrantfileLoadError)
    end
  end
end

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package org.hablapps.bigbrothapp

import language.reflectiveCalls

import org.hablapps.{updatable,react,speech}
import updatable._
import react._

object Contestant {

  trait State { self: speech.Program with BigBrothappProgram =>

    trait Contestant extends Agent {
      type This = Contestant
      type Context = BigBrothapp
      type RoleCol[x] = Set[x]
      type Role = Housemate
      type Perform = LeaveHousemate
    }

    implicit val Contestant = builder[Contestant]
  }
}


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The Beauty Of Analytic Philosophy
(forthcoming in Think)
If anything at all comes to your mind when you think of analytic philosophy, it's probably not the word 'beauty'. Yet analytic philosophy has its own kind of beauty, akin to the beauty one finds in some poetry. Or so I shall attempt to argue.
Philosophy has always trafficked in beauty. The Platonic vision of the third realm of forms and the memorable cave analogy used to illustrate it; Spinoza's austere deterministic God-cum-Nature and Hegel's ever striving onward Geist are, among other things, aesthetically attractive pictures of the world. They capture our imagination; we behold them with the wonder Socrates said was the foundation of philosophy.
You would be forgiven for thinking that philosophy has abandoned the aim of appealing to our sense of beauty. If you've tried to read some recent analytic work, and you don't have the appropriate academic background, you probably came away disappointed, thinking that dryness and technical hair-splitting has replaced the sweeping visions of the great thinkers of the past. More than likely though, you just haven't tried; analytic philosophy isn't a vital cultural force today. It's not the sort of thing that non-specialists read.
While perhaps understandable, this is a shame. The very best contemporary work in philosophy ranks, in its imaginative sweep, with the very best work of all time. We have philosophers today who have the systematic and original visions of reality of the sort we associate with Plato, or with Spinoza, or with Hegel. My goal is to give a couple of examples of such visions, as well as to provide an explanation of wherein their aesthetic value lies.
You probably haven't heard of Oxford philosopher Timothy Williamson. The holder of the most prestigious philosophy professorship in the UK, he would come near the top of most working philosophers' lists of greatest living philosopher. He has written books on language, metaphysics, and epistemology, as well as hundreds of articles in the best journals. He is famous for being sharp as well as generous in discussion. His work abounds with formal logic and is written with great precision in a sombre, austere (OK, dull) prose style. And the vision of reality that emerges from his work is, I'll argue, aesthetically on a par with the all-time greats.
He argues for extremely surprising conclusions. For example, consider his views on vagueness. Obama is 56. Is he old? What do you think? It seems kind of unclear. His 16 year old daughter Sasha is definitely not old. And his companion in the former presidents' club George H.W. Bush, at 93, is definitely old. But Obama? We don't want to say either that he's old or that he's not. And we don't want to say it because we don't think it's true that he's either old or not.
Examples of this sort abound. How many hairs must one have on one's head to be bald? How many kilograms must I weight to be thin? There just don't seem to be answers to these questions; language is vague in the sense sometimes it's neither true nor false that something is a certain way.
But Williamson denies this: he thinks there are answers to these questions. Obama is either old or not old. There's a certain number n of hairs such that if you have n+1 hairs you are not bald, but if you have n, you are bald. Ditto kilograms and weight.
It's worth just pausing to think how weird this is. Oldness, baldness, and thinness seem to be gradual phenomena. They're not things that just happens to a person. It seems absurd to ask exactly when Obama got old. It seems absurd to say he went to bed one night not old and woke up old. It's equally absurd to ask at exactly what precise time Homer Simpson became bald, or what sad microsecond it was I ceased to be thin. But for Williamson these questions have precise answers.
Here's another weird feature of Williamson's theory of reality. Gandhi and Marilyn Monroe could have had a child together. That's possible: unlikely, certainly, but it definitely possible. But that putative kid doesn't exist, surely. No such child is to be found: if we make a list of all existing things, we'll put me, this table, the sun, and so on, but no child. Williamson disagrees. An object exists which is possibly the child of that unlikely couple. If you tot up all the world's furniture, you have to count it.
Why does Williamson think these weird things? He does so, at least in part, because his preferred theories of formal logic enjoin him to think them. I'll explain what I mean by logic in a second, but we can think of it, preliminarily, as a formal mathematical theory. So he thinks formal mathematical theories underlie our all too human concerns about our age, or our weight, or what-could-have-been.
This, I'll claim, is a poetic way of viewing the world. A school of poetry, as I'll show (the so- and aptly- called 'metaphysical' poets and those whom they influenced) relied on yoking together ideas violently to achieve its effects. Thus T.S. Eliot, famously, began a poem by comparing surgery and the night sky:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table
(T.S. Eliot, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufcock)
We should understand analytic philosophy in the same way. It also yokes together ideas of different sorts — the precise world of mathematical logic on the one hand, and the messily human realm of language use and what-could-have-beens that guide how we speak and think about the world — and it has, when seen this way, the same sort of beauty.
Analytic philosophy was born, more or less, with the development of new tools for logical analysis. Let me try to briefly explain what that means. We use language for many different purposes: to gossip, to persuade, to offend, to impress. And different languages are more or less good for different purposes. For example, English is a very good language for poetry, because it has a large vocabulary that permits a great deal of playfulness. It has a richness which, to use some stock examples, lets Shakespeare's Macbeth, at that point guilt-laden from having murdered Malcolm, express the thought that he couldn't wash the blood from his hands in the sea. Instead, his hands would turn the sea red:
My hands will rather…
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
(Macbeth Act 2, Scene 2, 58–60)
Where 'incarnadine' is a word which Shakespeare verbed from an Italian adjective meaning flesh-coloured, and the bumpy latinate 'multitudinous' suggests crashing waves. Or again:
Light thickens
And the crow makes wing to the rooky wood
(Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 2, 52–53)
Where 'rooky' is just plain old Anglo-Saxon 'rook' with a plain old Anglo-Saxon 'y' chucked on the end of it. Later writers, such as James Joyce, would exploit English's poetic richness to and perhaps beyond breaking point in Ulysses and then Finnegans Wake.
But we don't always want such expressive power. Joyce's fellow Irish writer Samuel Beckett, for example, struggled with English. He wanted a simpler, less rich language, in which it would be easier to write, as he said, 'without style'. French, he thought, was perfect for that, and that's why Waiting For Godot was originally En Attendant Godot.
At the turn of the century, philosophers turned their minds to the development of a language good neither for expansive verbal fireworks, or the cramped dialogues of tramps, but for reasoning. Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell wanted to make a language apt for talking about and pursuing research in maths and science.
Natural languages, like English and French, aren't perfect for this. The expressive richness that Shakespeare exploited holds them back. While being able to say the same thing in a bunch of ways is good for the poet, it's confusing for the logician. Consider:
Obama is married
The former president is a married man
He (pointing at Obama) married.
All these sentences say pretty much the same thing, but they do so in such a variety of ways that it takes time to recognise this fact. The variety of English hinders our ability to discern when two sentences say the same thing, and this is a disadvantage for a precise scientific language.
But if English is sometimes too rich, it's also sometimes too poor. Sometimes, a sentence has more than one meaning. Consider:
Every girl in the bar asked a guy to dance
This has two readings. On one, there's one very popular guy who is the object of all the girls' affections. On the other, there can be more than one guy: Alexandra can ask Zebediah to dance, Beth can ask Yuri to dance, and so on. Things can get confusing if we don't attend to these ambiguities.
In light of these deficiencies, Frege and his followers tried to make an ideal language apt for reasoning, without the flaws of English or other natural languages. As we just saw, English has a bewildering array of expressions you can use to talk about objects like Obama, the differences between which are irrelevant. So in our ideal language, we abstract from that difference, and just have one type of expression that stand for objects, namely single roman letters. In our language, for example, we might have the following assignment of meaning to expressions, which is essentially (a part of) its dictionary:
'a' stands for Obama
'b' stands for Bush
'c' stands for Carter
Similarly, in English there's a bewildering array of expressions you can use to say that an object is a certain way (married, in the above example). Again, these differences are irrelevant for scientific purposes, so again let's get rid of them, and have just one type of expression that stands for ways things can be:
'F' picks out the things that are married
'G' picks out the things from Georgia
'H' picks out the things from Hawaii
So now note that all of the English ways of saying 'Obama is married' ('the former president got married', 'He is a married man' 'Obama married someone' and so on) now receive the nice clean translation 'Fa'. Similarly, 'Carter is from Georgia' is simply 'Gc'. Isn't that much neater?
We can do the same thing for other parts of language. Take conjunctions like 'and' and 'or', modifiers like 'not', and conditionals ('If blah then bloop'). We can introduce new symbols for them whose meaning you can work out from the below examples:
AND: Fa ∧ Gc = Obama is married and Carter is from Georgia
OR: Fa ∨ Gc = Obama is married or Carter is from Georgia
NOT: ¬Fa = Obama is not married
IF-THEN: Fa →Gc = If Obama is married, then Carter is from Georgia
We can introduce, moreover, ways to talk generally: not only about what Obama or Carter does, but about what everybody does, or some indefinite person does, as so:
SOME: ∃xFx= Someone is married
ALL: ∀xFx= Everyone is married
(Strictly speaking, these mean respectively some thing is married and every thing is married, but we can ignore that subtlety.) With this in mind, we can disambiguate our sentence about the possibly popular guy into these two different sentences (not bothering, strictly speaking, to translate 'Girl', 'Boy', and 'Ask' all the way down to a single letter, as would be proper):
∀x∃y Girl(x)→ Boy(y)∧ Ask(x,y)
∃x∀y Girl(x)∧ Boy(y)∧ Ask(x,y)
That's helpful. We now have, more or less, the language known as the predicate calculus or logic, a clear, unambiguous language which can, as should be evident from the above, say quite a lot of things.
That's not the end of the story, though. We're concerned with reasoning — with getting new knowledge from stuff we already know. Now, putting your newly won knowledge to use, let's introduce a new predicate 'I' which stands for the things which are from America, and consider these two arguments. On the left of 'so' we have the premise, and on the right, the conclusion:
Ha∧Gc so Ha
Gc so Ic
If you do the simple translation you should see the following: the sentence after 'so' follows from the sentences before the dot. Given the former, you can conclude the latter. But you might notice they do so in different ways. No matter what meaning we assign to H, G, a, and c, Gc will follow from Ha∧Gc. This doesn't hold for the lower example. If we reassigned 'I' to stand for the things from Ireland, for example, it would no longer follow.
The mere form of the top inference guarantees its truth; not so for the latter. We can collect up all those inferences that are allowable merely in virtue of their form and from them figure out a series of rules of reasoning. Our first rule is that from an 'and' sentence like Ha∧Gc, one may conclude the left conjunct, and there are a series of other well understood rules governing the other expressions.
Now, as it so happens, from a very plausible looking set of such rules, which we can call classical logic, we can deduce the following, for any sentence p:
p∨¬p
Known as the law of excluded middle, it says that either Obama is tall or Obama is not tall, and Nairobi is in Kenya or Nairobi is not in Keyna, and …well, hopefully you see the pattern. Whatever you plug in for p, you get a truth, according to this law.
But now think about Obama and his age. While George HW Bush is old, Obama isn't old. But nor Obama is not old, unlike, say, his daughter Sasha. So it seems we have to deny
Obama is old or Obama is not old
But that means that vagueness and our set of logical rules, classical logic, clash. The imprecision of the use of language and the precision of the logical realm are out of sync. Something has to give. Classical logic is simple, well-studied, and powerful. Our use of language, that there are vague terms, that seems hard to deny: it seems just like an obvious fact that there's no fact of the matter about Obama's oldness or not. What to do?
Williamson's audacious move is to side with logic. No matter how weird it may seem, we should stick with classical logic. We should maintain Obama is old or Obama is not old is true. Either he is or he isn't.
Again, take a moment to realise how counterintuitive this is. When we say of a person that he's old, there is, for Williamson, some precise number of years that person must be. It might be 71 or it might be 80 or, maybe, it might be 65. But there is some number: before you're that age you're not old, and as soon as the clock rolls round suddenly you're old.
And the reason he thinks this is because if we didn't think it, we would be forced to give up classical logic. Classical logic, an imposing abstract mathematical structure, towers over and determines what we say when we reassure our father awk sure you're not too old to run a marathon.
Or take his argument for the existence of the possible child of Monroe and Gandhi. It goes, roughly, the same way. In order to have a language apt for talking about possibility, we need to add some expressions to our language that perform this function. Without going into the details, we introduce some new symbols whose meanings you can infer from the below. For any p:
◇p=it is possibly the case that p
□p = it is necessarily the case that p
And then we need to add some rules. And as it so happens, the simplest set of rules yields the following. For any F:
◇∃xFx→∃x◇Fx
In English, if possibly something is F (say, the child of Gandhi and Monroe) then there is something which is possibly an F. Now, it's definitely possible that something is a child of Gandhi and Monroe; so, the above tells us, there is something that is possibly that child. Among the world's furniture we may find a being that possesses that property.
Although the details would take us too far afield, one of the reason for holding this, known as the Barcan formula, is just that it gives us a simple logic. Again, Williamson boldly opts for simple logic, damn the counterintuitive consequences.
Before going on I should say that in each case, Williamson bolsters his case in great detail, with many other arguments for his position and against his opponents'. But a taste for simple logic is undeniably a central motivator for him.
Here's the way to see the Williamsonian view. On the one hand, we have the mathematical, precise languages of formal logic, and on the other we have the messy imprecision of the world we as humans inhabit, with its vagueness and impermanence. Most don't think they're connected. He does. And that's what makes him a poet.
(Update: this piece periodically gets spikes in traffic so I figure I may as well link some other things on this topic I've written, notably this and references at the start. I also made my own attempt at meshing philosophy and art in my philosophical novel, a big chunk of which is available for free here, and the rest of which is … out there online, if you know where to look; I don't mind — indeed, am happy — if people read my work, no matter how they get their hands on it.)
Keats famously said that truth is beauty and beauty truth. That may be, but for the purposes of this essay I want to separate them. I don't care so much about the truth of Williamson's world-view; I want to talk about its beauty. I will argue that we should view his philosophy in the same way as we view poetry.
Ben Johnson spoke of poets known, by a happy coincidence, as 'metaphysical' that in their work 'the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked together by force'. Consider thus the following. John Donne, the courtier-cum-poet-cum-cleric, is writing about his and his girlfriend's souls:
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home
(from A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning)
There are three ideas here tightly bound up: first, there's the souls of the lovers. From that, we move to the figure of the compass, which conveys how in sync the souls are: just as the foot of a compass may rotate around and around without ever moving any distance from the other centred foot, so no matter where his girlfriend moves, he is there with her. But this closeness of soul is itself then linked up to the body ('erect' is not an accident) and so we come to have this very vivid, strange, geometrical image of stiff linked souls. Or think about:
Our hands were firmly cemented
With a fast balme, which thence did spring,
Our eye-beames twisted, and did thred
Our eyes, upon one double string
(from The Ecstasy)
How odd this is! Literally petrifying; think of the warmth of a hand and then think of cement (moreover, there's apparently some allusions to alchemy here, which wasn't quite as discredited when Donne was writing). And as for the last two lines — if you think they are completely bizarre, and almost horrible-comical, you're right. But it works — it really breathes fresh, if ambiguous, light into this old romantic set piece.
T.S. Eliot, famously, was much taken with these metaphysical poets, and it shows in his own work, such as the line from Prufrock I quoted at the beginning. He proposed an explanation for what the metaphysical poets were up to, and what was unique about them:
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility. When a poet's mind is perfectly well equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or read Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes
(from "The Metaphysical Poets")
So our poets: when Donne falls in love, he sees it via alchemy and trigonometry and weird body horror avant la lettre; when Eliot looks at a sky, he thinks of surgery.
And so, and here is my claim, our analytic philosophers. When Williamson thinks of the many possibilities neglected (of which a Gandhi Marilyn affair is admittedly an outré example), or the chaotic mess of language use, and again when he thinks of classical and modal logic, these don't, as for most of us, have "nothing to do with each other", but rather form a new whole. He sees our day to day affairs through the prism of logic, and it's this weird vantage point which yields for us his bizarre but wonder-inspiring world of possible beings and precise moments at which one ages. He's a poet even if he doesn't know it (it's amusing to note that his recent book Modal Logic As Metaphysics even has a simile for a title).
Similarly, I think, for the range of contemporary analytic philosophers. In trying to understand the vagaries of language use or of morals or of reality itself, analytic philosophers frequently produce these sort of creative juxtapositions of ideas the mere contemplation of which should appeal to anyone with a taste for bold visions of reality. So next time you have a yen for philosophy, but are put off by turgid prose and numbered premises, think about persevering, in the hope that you might find, with Keats, both truth and beauty.
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Middle of the Football Field, Under a Meteor Shower
What country and/or city do you live in? Salt Lake
What's your occupation? Musician
What's your current relationship status? Engaged/Married (monogamous)
How religious are you? Very
How many sexual partners have you had in your life (including oral sex)? 4
How long ago did this hookup happen? 6 years ago
What was your relationship status at the time? Dating casually
How would you best classify this hookup? Friends-with-benefits
Tell us about your PARTNER(S). What did they look like? How well did you know them, had you hooked up before? How/Where did you meet them? How did you feel about them before the hookup? She was quite a bit shorter than my 6'3″, with dark, bushy hair. She had an athletic build, and is hard to describe without using the word "stocky" but I can't figure out how to make that sound feminine and flattering, but for her it was. We had a few close mutual friends, so we'd hung out together a lot and had spent a lot of time together in the couple months we'd known each other, but this was the first time we were ever anything close to paired off.
How/where did the hookup BEGIN? What led to it? Was planning involved? Who instigated it? She asked me to go with her and two other friends (a couple), to watch a meteor shower, so that was planned, but the actual hooking up wasn't. The four of us were lying under the stars out in a football field waiting for the meteors shower to start and the other couple excused themselves to get a more romantic view. It was getting cold and we were lying next to each other under several blankets, but it was still too cold. She was worried about how cold her hands were. I knew that the easiest way to warm up your hands is to press them against your body, skin on skin. I suggested she use my chest, under my shirt, as a hand warmer.
What happened DURING the hookup? What sexual behaviors took place (e.g., oral, vaginal, anal, kinky stuff)? How did you feel during it? How did they behave toward you? Were they a good lover? What did you talk about? How did it end? At first she just held her cold hands against me, but as they warmed up, she started to move them, over my body. After a few minutes, she offered to let me "warm up my hands" as well. I began to touch her body, and finally, climbed on top of her and began to kiss her, missing most of the fireworks, but thoroughly enjoying myself nonetheless. It was too cold to take anything off, but we explored each others bodies as far as our hands could reach and kissed each other's lips and necks. Finally, we settled down for a moment and watched the stars again, still being a little hands-y and held each other much more closely than before.
She went with me back to my apartment afterwards, since it was within walking distance of the university. Still feeling the effects of the cold, I offered for her to take a hot shower to feel better. She did, but left the shower door open a little. I stepped in and asked if she needed anything. She said she could use some company, so I stripped down and joined her. I fingered her as the water ran over our bodies and then she wrapped one leg around my waist, I lifted her up and she slid me inside of her and we both moved on each other until I had to pull out. We made out a little more and she spent the night with me in a pair of my shorts and a t-shirt and left for work the next morning.
Did your partner have an orgasm? I don't know
What happened AFTER the hookup? How did you feel about it the next day? What are/were your expectations/hopes for the future with this person? How do you feel about them now? I loved the experience at the time, but she seemed to be inclined to start a relationship, and I was still enjoying my singlehood. Once I finally got a steady girlfriend, she still kissed me once to try to win me back. We still remained good friends, but I always wondered if she was still hung up on me until she got married later.
What precautions did you take to prevent STIs and pregnancy? (Check all that apply) Withdrawal, Discussed STI testing history, I don't know if my partner was on any (other) method
What were your motives for this hookup? Fun, pleasure, horniness, Emotional intimacy, closeness, connection
How wanted was this hookup for you at the time? A little bit
Did you consent to this hookup at the time? I didn't give a clear 'yes', but I didn't give a 'no'
How wanted was this hookup for your partner at the time? I don't know / I'm not sure
Did your partner(s) consent to this hookup? They didn't give a clear 'yes', but didn't give a 'no'
Did you get emotionally hurt as a result of this hookup? A little bit
Did your partner get emotionally hurt as a result of this hookup? Somewhat
Do you regret this hookup? A little bit
Why do you regret this hookup? My views of where it would lead did not match hers, and it was uncomfortable for our friendship for a while.
What was the BEST thing about this hookup? It took place in a setting (middle of a football field under a sky full of shooting stars) that still excites me.
What was the WORST thing about this hookup? Regrets, strained friendship afterwards.
Has this hookup changed the way you think about casual sex, sexuality, or yourself in general? It made me more comfortable hooking up over all, but it also made me want to be less comfortable. I felt like it wasn't the best thing I could have done, and I wanted to be more rational with my sexuality.
All things considered, how POSITIVE was this experience? Somewhat positive
All things considered, how NEGATIVE was this experience? Somewhat negative
What are your thoughts on casual sex more generally, the role it has played in your life, and/or its role in society? What would you like to see changed in that regard? I feel like casual sex is portrayed in the media as being WAY more common than it is I the real world, and as having significantly fewer repercussions to relationships.
What do you think about the Casual Sex Project? It's interesting, and kind of fun.
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Morbid Angel announce tour with Watain & Incantation
Andrew Sacher Published: August 26, 2019
Death metal legends Morbid Angel have announced a whopper of a fall North American tour with support from Swedish black metallers Watain and fellow US death metal vets Incantation. Morbid Angel's Steve Tucker says, "We are really stoked to be doing this tour together with our brothers in Watain and Incantation! This is a relentless lineup of pure evil and uncompromised dark art! We look forward to melting the faces off of all of you seeking the comfort of the dark!"
The tour begins in Houston on 11/21, wraps up in Morbid Angel's home stage of Florida a month later, and hits many other cities in between including Brooklyn's Warsaw on December 14. Tickets for that show go on sale Thursday (8/29) at 10 AM with various presales beforehand. All dates are listed below.
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Morbid Angel / Watain / Incantation -- 2019 Tour Dates
11/21/2019 Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
11/22/2019 Gas Monkey Bar 'N' Grill - Dallas, TX
11/23/2019 Come And Take It Live- Austin, TX
11/25/2019 Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM
11/26/2019 Club Red - Phoenix, AZ
11/27/2019 The Observatory - Santa Ana, CA
11/29/2019 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
11/30/2019 The Ritz - San Jose, CA
12/01/2019 Hawthorn Theatre - Portland, OR
12/02/2019 El Corazon - Seattle, WA
12/04/2019 The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT
12/05/2019 Oriental Theater - Denver, CO
12/06/2019 The Waiting Room - Omaha, NE
12/07/2019 Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN
12/08/2019 The Forge - Joliet, IL
12/10/2019 The Majestic - Detroit, MI
12/11/2019 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA
12/12/2019 Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
12/13/2019 Webster Theater - Hartford, CT
12/14/2019 The Warsaw - New York, NY
12/15/2019 Reverb - Reading, PA
12/16/2019 The Broadberry - Richmond, VA
12/18/2019 The Underground - Charlotte, NC
12/19/2019 Buckhead Theatre - Atlanta, GA
12/20/2019 The Orpheum - Tampa, FL
12/21/2019 Revolution Live - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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