One of the most common functions found in industrial automation processes is Pick and Place. The term refers to systems used in industries to place electrical components on PCB's during assembling of parts.
These servo drives are capable of producing synchronised motion of the motor. The precision of the servo drive allows the system to operate along with the conveyer belt in a synchronised manner. The components on the belt move without having to be stopped.
The Pick and place servo drives are very precise in converting the received signals sent by the motor and transmitting the signals in to current to produce motion that is almost exactly proportional to the motor signal sent. This produces almost accurate movements of the torque. It is this feature of the servo drive that controls and synchronises the speed of the rotor and also the component on the conveyer belt. The system remains attached with a shaft encoder that regulates the motor's rotation. All these features provide accurate placement of the components on the rotor on the main parts placed on the conveyer belt.
The Pick and Place Servo drives offer numerous applications. They can be used in combination with other machines to produce the desired results.
The servo drives remain tuned with the servo motors to give the system a compact size with low inertia and high speed movement. This compact size of the motor allows the Pick and place system to be used for different purposes in coordination with other industrial applications.
The servo drives allow the operators to keep and eye on the production parameters and induce changes when and where required.
The Pick and Place servo drive systems can also be used to transfer parts to different locations. This is done by activating digital inputs into the servo drive by using a programmed logic controller.
It ensures high speed control over the pick and place system from start up to the end of the process including start up and movement of he system at the required speed. This considerably reduces the net process time as the positioning time gets shortened increasing the productivity of the machine.


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buckangel - Fan Question: with you being such handsome man, how did all this transformation change your life for the better. your wife must be a wonderful person and what was her reaction when you told her?
Thank you. The transformation completely changed my life in so many amazing ways. You should try to come see me speak sometime and then you will get the whole story.
My wife is a beautiful soul. She already knew about me before we met.
It possible to request a date with you? Not a hook-up but an old-fashioned, get to know you dinner date? I saw you were in LA this weekend so thought I'd ask. I've always admired your spirit.


The Climate of the United Arabian Emirates can be described as subtropical dry, hot desert climate with low annual rainfall, very high temperatures in summer and a big difference between maximum and minimum temperatures, especially in the inland areas. The coastal areas are sligfhtly influenced by the waters of the Red Sea, and have lower maximum, but higher minimum temperatures and a higher moisture percentage in the air.
A hot, dust-laden wind, the Shamal, blows in the spring and summer-period, from March till August. sometimes these winds can be very strong, and cause Sandstorms, that can occur throughout the year. Most rain falls during the winter months in sudden, short but heavy cloudbursts and thunderstorms.
the climate of the United Arabian Emirates can be classified as BWh climate; a hot, dry desert climate with the annual average Temperature above 18°C.


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Zoo In the News
March 19, 2009 American burying beetles try out tiny radio transmitters St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 7, 2008 The real Madagascar: a threatened island paradise
By Zoo President Dr. Jeffrey Bonner St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 2, 2008 Baby Siberian tigers are orphan dad's legacy
October 4, 2008 It's a snail-eat-snail world out there
Sept. 7, 2008 Reptilian invasion in the Mariana Islands
August 3, 2008 America Burying Beetle: We Couldn't Live Without Them
July 6, 2008 Zoo is Home to Extremely Rare Horned Guan
June 1, 2008 What's the Zoo to do with its Somali wild ass problem?
May 4, 2008 Endangered game are making a comeback in North Africa
April 6, 2008 Frogs on the Brink of Extinction
March 2, 2008 Problems in Paradise, Galapagos Islands
February 3, 2008 Sperm and Salamanders
Missouri hellbender populations are declining.
January 13, 2008 Rainforest Rescue, Conservation work in Nicaragua
February 6, 2007 Learn to like anchovies and you could help penguins
Zoo conservation work with Humboldt penguins in Punta San Juan Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis
January 31, 2007 Horned guans make debut at Saint Louis Zoo Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis
December 3, 2006 Are we as compassionate as we are smart?
Commentary by Zoo President Dr. Jeffrey Bonner St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 31, 2006 What's killing the goblin ferns of the northern U.S.?
August 25, 2006 Zoo's new toddler charms thousands St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 14, 2006 What do we lose if we lose the frogs?
August 8, 2006 Week-old elephant meets her Zoo family St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 3, 2006 A 341-pound baby - with no epidural St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 15, 2006 It's not all happening at the zoo
Sailing with Noah, a new book by Zoo President Dr. Jeffrey Bonner St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 19,2005 Zoo's outreach extends to Kenya St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 2, 2005 Zoo prepares for pitter-patter of little elephant feet St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 27, 2005 PETA isn't as animal-friendly as you think
March 30, 2005 Beetle Mania at the Zoo St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 22, 2004 A Little Bird Comes Under Attack
November 19, 2004 Raja May Be a Dad for the Second Time St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 8, 2004 Saving Salamanders St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 24, 2004 Scientists Seek to Save Once-thriving Hellbender St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 12, 2004 Endangered Beetle Gets Help From Zoo St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 7, 2004 Zoo Plays High-Stakes Mating Game, With Future of Species at Stake St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 16, 2004 Zoo Funds Low Cost Conservation Projects Wall Street Journal
May 19, 2004 Great Expectations
Zoo's popular Asian elephant, Raja, is going to be a father. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 5, 2004 St. Louis Zoo Goes Global
Zoo announces new WildCare Institute St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 5, 2004 Bonner Envisions Zoo as Champion for Wildlife
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May 5, 2004 Zoo Starts Global Conservation Effort
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Zoo's popular bull Asian elephant has a girlfriend(s) St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Stenus (Tesnus) heeri – gatunek chrząszcza z rodziny kusakowatych i podrodziny myśliczków (Steninae).

Taksonomia
Gatunek ten został opisany w 1854 roku przez Thomasa Vernona Wollastona w jego Insecta maderensia. Lokalizację typową stanowi Cruzinhas.

Opis
Odległość od przedniej krawędzi labrum do wierzchołka pokryw wynosi od 1,4 do 1,6 mm, długość szwu pokryw od 148 do 185 чm, a rozmiar edeagusa od 445 do 535 чm. Środkowy płat edeagusa z krótkim żeberkiem po stronie brzusznej. Ciało bardziej błyszczące niż u S. ruivomontis.

Ekologia
Myśliczek ten szczególnie często odławiany jest na stanowiskach wrzośca drzewiastego, Vaccinum padifolium i kolcolistu zachodniego. W niektórych miejscach współwystępuje ze Stenus ossium.

Rozprzestrzenienie
Gatunek endemiczny dla portugalskiej Madery. Spotykany w północno-zachodniej, północnej i północno-wschodniej części wyspy.

Przypisy

Kusakowate
Chrząszcze Makaronezji
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1854 roku

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Eggleston is Commended for 10 Years as HLC Peer Reviewer
She Evaluates Higher Education Institutions for Accrediting Organization
(LEBANON, Ill., May 12, 2020) — Dr. Tami Eggleston, associate provost for institutional effectiveness and professor of psychology at McKendree University, recently completed her 10th year of service as a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The HLC is an independent corporation founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the U.S. It accredits degree-granting post-secondary educational institutions in the 19-state North Central region.
The commission relies on the work of approximately 1,600 volunteer peer reviewers for its accrediting activities. Like Eggleston, most are full-time faculty and administrators from HLC member institutions who serve as agents of HLC in its evaluation and decision-making processes. Peer reviewers share their knowledge and experience to assuring that institutions comply with HLC accreditation criteria. They also help institutions improve their academic quality and advance their mission. Peer reviews range from on-site team visits to online panel evaluations.
"I have learned so much from being an HLC peer reviewer," said Eggleston, who has been a McKendree faculty member since 1996. "As associate provost for institutional effectiveness, I try to ensure that McKendree University is meeting the HLC criteria and operating with best practices related to mission, integrity, teaching effectiveness, assessment, and planning."
The HLC thanked her for bringing her "time, intellect and experience" to the core values of its organization and awarded her a Certificate of Excellence for 10 years of outstanding service.


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Son of Hexadecimal Kid
A parable in eight virtual pages by Richard Forsyth
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From PRACTICAL COMPUTING, November 1980
Cleo has escaped from the downfall of the System with Johnny McNull and Piltdown 2. They have arrived at Sprocket's Hole where her sister Lambda - who has been cybernated, unlike Cleo - has survived gigosis only to fall victim to acute data starvation. Their attempts to revive Lambda have failed, and Cleo is worried that the System Crash may have corrupted her loader routine - rendering her unable to re-boot her brain.
Suddenly, Lambda opened her eyes and blinked. Then, she yawned a yawn of which Rip Van Winkle would have been proud. She looked straight at Cleo, but registered no recognition.
"Ready for input", she declared. "Please enter program header".
"Program header"? queried Cleo. "What do you mean"?
Lambda merely answered in a matter-of-fact tone: "Question malformed. Collateral ambiguity detected. Remove axiomatic inconsistency before re-submission".
"Get away with you", expostulated Cleo.
Lambda responded blandly: "Improper punctuation, missing keyword or delimiter. Statement fails to compile".
"If that's all you can say by way of thanks, you had better shut up", said Cleo angrily, "or else I'll switch you off again".
"Unrecognised Boolean operator", replied her sister. "Invalid conditional clause. Syntax error".
This rebuff was too much for Cleo. She reached forward to turn Lambda off.
"That is the END", she stormed.
Lambda heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank Wirth that's over. I was doing a Pascal compilation when the System went down. I thought I'd be stuck in the compiler for ever. I couldn't get out until someone said END. Sorry I was a bit off-hand".
"So much for progress", commented Cleo. "Anyway, how are you"?
"Well, I've a headache that feels like 6,502 steam hammers all pounding away at once, but otherwise, I guess I'm all right".
"You're one of the lucky ones actually. You realise the System has been destroyed completely"?
"I figured it wasn't just an ordinary crash. Do you know what caused it"?
"Hex claimed it was his mechanised hound Ascii who carried gigosis into the heart of the Network".
"Hex, eh"? mused her sister. "Where is he now"?
"He's dead".
"Oh. Well at least he achieved his ambition".
"I suppose he did", said Cleo, almost to herself. Her mind drifted back to Sam Synapse, the Hexadecimal Kid - to give him his full title - ace programmer, android adventurer, wrecker of the System and now, if she was to believe Dr Rose's diagnosis, posthumous father to her unborn child. She wondered if this was the moment to break that piece of news to Lambda.
A groan from the vicinity of Piltdown 2's shoulders interrupted her thoughts. Bill Bootstrap appeared to be regaining consciousness. Piltdown 2 had been standing placidly outside in the sun with the injured android on his back, quite content to await her instructions; but the heat had affected Bootstrap.
"Hey", exclaimed Lambda. "He looks just like Piltdown".
"It's his clone", Cleo explained. "They were both conceived in the same test-tube - one of Mike Rose's little experiments. I think he's going to be very useful: Rose commanded him to look after me. He'll do anything I say. The trouble is I can't speak Esperanto, so it's difficult to put the message across. Do you think you could ask him to take the casualty indoors and lay him down"?
"Mi petas: metu la korpon en la domon", pronounced Lambda.
Piltdown 2 didn't budge.
"You say it", Lambda told her sister. "I don't think he'll listen to me".
"Metu la korpon en la domon", repeated Cleo hesitantly.
This time the beast complied. They all followed him in. As soon as he put Bootstrap down, Lamda recognised who it was.
"What's the idea of bringing that criminal here"? she demanded.
"He needed help", Cleo replied. "Why shouldn't I"?
"I'll show you why not", answered Lambda indignantly. She led her sister by the sleeve to the smaller hut.
The stench made Cleo recoil when they entered but, trying not to inhale deeply, she forced herself inside.
"Look", said Lambda, stabbing her forefinger at one of the two iron bedsteads. On it, already in an advanced state of decomposition, was a recumbent form. It was the corpse of Zap Zapper, the rebel android who had been Lambda's boyfriend.
"Bootstrap is responsible for that", said Lambda icily. "The pair of them were sniffing Gallium Arsenide one night and got as high as two kites - idiots. They wouldn't listen to my warnings. Some kind of argument developed and they started to fight.
They just threw me to the ground when I tried to part them. Then Bootstrap pushed Zap into a tank full of syllogistic acid - that vat at the back he used for ilicit home-brewing - and ran off. Zap was half drowned and stoned out of his RAM by the time I managed to fish him out. He never stood a chance when the Crash came".
"Poor Zap", was Cleo's reply. "At least he died happily".
Lambda scowled. "Bootstrap is a killer. If you don't get rid of him, I will".
"All right", agreed Cleo. "When he has recovered, we'll send him packing".
"It gives me the creeps having him around".
"Don't worry. He's no match for Piltdown 2".
So Cleo settled down to nurse Bootstrap back to health, to take charge of her oddly-assorted household and to prepare as best she could to become a mother at an unwantedly early age.
Meanwhile, far out in the unimaginable vastness of deep space, the starship Green Tangerine, with its crew of 32 mutant cybernoids and one ship's parrot was plotting a course which would take it within 15 light-minutes of our own planet. The Green Tangerine, a class-four bulk carrier, plied the lucrative trade route between Omega Solaris in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud and Zargon 7 in the third spiral arm of the main galaxy carrying a cargo of large prime numbers on the outward trip and returning with a hold full of 30 million unused disposable nappies as ballast.
Using Factorial Drive, which propelled the ship by calculating the factorials of very large integers and shooting out all the zeros at the rear, she could complete the tour in a little under 13 earth weeks - including docking at both ends and a refuelling stop at Arcturus - which for a ship of her size was good speed.
Though her voyages frequently took her close enough to our sun to pass within the orbit of Saturn, the Earth was not marked on any of the stellar charts in her control room. Its presence was acknowledged only in a few bytes of her navigational computer's backing store.
Nor had any being on Earth witnessed her regular comings and goings, except for an eccentric amateur astronomer in the days before the System who spotted a dissolving vapour trail of zeroes in the sky through a 9in. refractor and spent the rest of the night trying to polish them off his lens.
Is the Green Tangerine a red herring?
Why are disposable nappies prized so highly in the region of Omega Solaris?
Find out more in our next, incredibly colourful, episode.
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In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Elvis, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
Elvis was born into poverty in North Mississippi, a place where opportunities were a rare thing to see. Still, he felt that someday, somehow, something amazing would happen. When he sang in a school talent show, he realized that singing was all he wanted to do with his life.
He had just finished high school when he plucked up the courage and walked through the doors of Sun Studios, ready to record his first song. After this came hit after hit, and he popularized a new genre of music that mixed all kinds of different styles. That genre was Rock 'n' Roll, and it would take the world by storm!
All the great artists that came after him still look up to little Elvis, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, the unique and irreplaceable artist who changed the course of music history. This inspiring book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the music legend's life.
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Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!
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Ana Albero was born in Alicante, Spain. She studied Visual Communication at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and illustration at the University of the Arts Berlin. She is now based in Berlin, where she works primarily in graphite and colored pencil creating vibrant textured images inspired by old pictures and movies. She is the illustrator of Coco Chanel, and David Bowie—both from the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series—as well as The People Awards.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Series: Little People, BIG DREAMS
Minimum Grade Level: P
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Do you offer static IP's?..and can the changes be made via TR69 feature?..assuming the Cellpipe supports it.
1 x Static IP is standard for all our connections.
The changes would be in the router off the back of the cellpipe ,so for instance in the router config you would have had authenticate via PPPOE and popped your details in there. You would have to change to Static, or DHCP depending on how you wanted it set up.
Well static IP's would go some way to resolving a RAS issue which has killed RipWiRE in the past.
Is LittleBigOne offering static IP's as standard too?
Ya know, I switched to using Google's public DNS so long ago I'd forgotten about the DNS issues.
If PPPoE is possible to ditch, then that'd be the way for me and static IP's would be a blessing - I gave one up moving to Ripwire, it wasn't a major issue, but it did wrankle a bit.
Changing the auth/connection method/settings wouldn't cause me any problem.
I'm putting two and two together that the drop off in download speed and Ripwire ceasing are linked, since they happened virtually simultaneously - interestingly, my upload rate has remained fairly static at around 8 meg.
My Ripwire speeds have been pretty steady for a year, until this last week where I have noticed them fluctuating since last weekend.
SpencerUK: I didn't have to pay any fees to move to Origin. I originally contacted them about moving in early January and was told £15 to cover admin. I was then told yesterday that I could move without this admin charge.
@Smokinloads: I'm going to say that once you leave Ripwire your disconnections will more or less stop unless you have other issues. What you need to find out is if your VDSL has ever dropped when you get disconnected. Mine never did and Ripwire would not admit they had any problems, but since leaving them I've not had any of the disconnections I was experiencing with them every week (at one stage it was every other day or so).
If we didn't have a powercut last Sunday my connection would have been active for 19 days and if I hadn't reconfigured the router it would have been active since install. I never went more than a week with Ripwire without being disconnected and that's with the same router.
Also Ripwire did provide static ip's - as i asked for one due to the constant disconnections and ras issues where I couldn't re-obtain an address. If you were one of the early adopters (like me i was their first consumer customer from what they told me) they would have given you it for free.
I was an early adpoter too - originally was set up with an IP from their test range, then had a static for a while - they bumped me across to the dynamic PPPoE stuff when they shifted and I guess I didn't kick up enough fuss about the disconnects.
yeh, that's how i found i was having problems due to online gaming constantly disconnecting - it cost me nearly £300 in proving to them it was not my line or equipment - they were just grasping at straws as didn't want to acknowledge it was them with the problems and made the customer out to be that they didn't know what they were talking about.
That's what made it worse for them to accept it as nobody would kick up a fuss about, except for me - from what they told me over 33% of tickets they handled were mine because of the issues i had experienced. I even gave them evidence from multiple parties but that never worked either.
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Today I had the pleasure of seeing Disney's Beauty and the Beast Jr., a Broadway on the Hudson production, at the Riverside Y. With a cast and company of more than 40 talented kids, ranging in age from six to fourteen, this delightful musical provided me with a wonderful afternoon's entertainment.
I was somewhat surprised to see Joseph Lieberman, the Independent-Democratic Senator from Connecticut and former candidate for Vice President of the United States, in the audience, suggesting that this theatrical production was important enough to justify his taking time off from his Congressional responsibilities. But then I realized that of course it was, since he had come to kvell over the performance of his granddaughter, Eden – just as I had come to kvell over the performance of my granddaughter, Naomi Hornik.
And kvell I did, and justifiably so, because Naomi's performance as the Hat Seller was (if I do say so myself with grandfatherly pride) just perfect! Congratulations, Naomi, on a terrific performance and congratulations, too, to all the other members of the cast and company who made this such a memorable experience. I look forward to seeing your next show in 2011.
Last night, we saw Come Fly Away at the Marquis Theatre, and it was wonderful. Conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp and with recorded vocals by Frank Sinatra, it is a music, song and dance extravaganza paying homage to Ol' Blue Eyes with some amazing choreography by Twyla Tharp.
The show consists of more than thirty musical numbers, all set in a 1940s style bar-nightclub and danced to the recorded music of many of Frank Sinatra's classic songs including "Body and Soul," "I've Got You Under My Skin,""Witchcraft," "Makin' Whoopee," "Just Friends," "One For My Baby," and dozens more, culminating, as you might have guessed, with "My Way" and "New York, New York." Sinatra's recorded vocals are also supplemented by wonderful live musical renditions of some of his tunes by Hilary Gardner, the evening's Featured Vocalist, sometimes as solos and sometimes as duets with Sinatra. Ms. Tharp's genius is reflected in the manner in which she has seamlessly married Sinatra's recorded music and Ms. Gardner's live renditions and then integrated those vocals equally seamlessly with her dances.
The Come Fly Away Band, conducted by Russ Kassoff, is also deserving of considerable praise. Several of the brass soloists were truly outstanding.
One caveat: despite everything I've said, not everyone will be as enthusiastic about this show as I am. The show has no plot, no real structure and no dialogue and those who insist that a "Broadway Musical" must have those attributes may be disappointed and feel shortchanged. But if you go to this show not expecting a traditional "Broadway Musical" but rather an exciting musical event, a great song and dance entertainment, if you will, then I think you'll agree that this is simply one fine show. And that goes for everyone, "seniors" and "juniors" alike - although if you are of an age to recall "Ol' Blue Eyes," you will probably enjoy the experience even more.
Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain, now playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at 10 West 64th Street left me with a disappointing sense of déjà vu. Some months ago, I saw The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis at the Westside Theatre and commented then that although the acting, set design and language of that play were impressive, the play itself "vastly disappointed me on two levels: first, because it is not really a play at all but rather a Christian apologia…[with] little dramatic interaction…[and] second …[because] the substance of the play itself…[is]…rather superficial, glib and sophomoric" (see my post of May 26, 2010).
Much the same thing now can be said, I think, about Freud's Last Session which, like The Screwtape Letters, is based in large part on the Christian philosophical-theological ideas of C. S. Lewis, in this case counterposed to the atheistic ideas of Sigmund Freud. The acting in this play by Mark H. Dodd (as C.S. Lewis) and Martin Raynor (as Sigmund Freud) is also first rate. The set is also handsome. And the language is also sharp and clever.
And yet, in the final analysis, this play, centering on an imagined meeting between Freud and Lewis shortly before Freud's death, suffers from the same shortcomings as did The Screwtape Letters: there is little dramatic impact and the ideas expressed come across as more of what you'd be likely to hear at a college sophomore bull session than in a conversation between two men considered to have been intellectual giants.
This has been a great weekend for us for Off Off Broadway theatre. Yesterday we saw The Shape of Things which I thoroughly enjoyed (see my last post). And today we saw In God's Hat which I enjoyed just as much.
In God's Hat is an intellectually satisfying, powerful and menacing drama involving the interrelated themes of strained familial relations, child abuse, sexual predation, racial supremacy, violence and murder and the philosophical-theological concepts of nihilism, atheism and free will.
In the play, Mitch (Rhett Rossi) has just completed a ten years sentence for child molestation, during which time he has not once been visited or even contacted by his brother Roy (Tom Pelphrey). Why then has Roy just traveled 1500 miles to meet him upon his release from prison with the intention of returning him to a home he has no desire to revisit? And when Arthur Cruter (Dennis Flanagan), the white supremacist skinhead who viciously attacked Mitch in prison before his release, is himself released shortly thereafter, only to appear at the very motel that Mitch and Roy are at, the mystery deepens further and the sense of menace becomes palpable.
Confrontations among Mitch, Roy and Arthur appear inevitable and do, in fact, occur. Violence begets more violence and the squeamish might find some of the theatrics disturbing. But the violence and gore is not gratuitous, is necessary to move the story along, and is tinged with considerable humor, making it all quite worthwhile.
Tom Pelphrey, Rhett Rossi and Dennis Flanagan are all superb in their roles, as is Gary Francis Hope, who plays the part of Early Boyle, another white supremacist skinhead. The play itself, which is being produced by Apothecary Theatre Company and is having its world premiere at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, is very well written and structured by Richard Taylor, reminding me of some of the work of Martin McDonagh. The director, Kevin Kittle, who has worked with Richard Taylor for a decade, can also take considerable pride in this production.
Variations Theatre Group (VTG) was founded by Rich Ferraioli and Kirk Gostkowski less than a year ago and has achieved a great success with its first production, Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things. Originally launched by VTG in April of this year in Long Island City, I missed it when it first opened there but, fortunately, VTG has now brought this production to the Access Theatre in Manhattan and this time I made sure to see it.
Wow! This is a very professional production of an excellent play. Originally staged in 2001 with Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Moi and Frederick Weller in the roles of four college students in a small college town and directed by Neil LaBute himself, the play was turned into a motion picture two years later with the same cast. The play has been reprised several times since and this latest incarnation starring Deven Andersen (Philip), Alice Bahlke (Evelyn), Kirk Gostkowski (Adam) and Melissa Haley Smith (Jenny) and directed by Rich Ferraioli is just about as good as it gets.
I won't disclose the plot because I don't want to deprive you of the pleasure I think you'll get from the very well-crafted surprise ending. Suffice it to say that the play provides intriguing allusions to such classical themes as those depicted in Shaw's Pygmalion, Shelley's Frankenstein and Kafka's Metamorphosis, the direction and acting are first-rate across-the-board, and the set design is more than serviceable.
This production augurs well for the VTG. It is a terrific multi-layered exploration of the limits of art, the development and manipulation of a young malleable personality, sociopathy, sexual obsession, loyalty and betrayal, reality and fantasy, objectivity and subjectivity. Try to get to see it if you can.


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Freda Dudley Ward (* 28. Juli 1894 in Nottinghamshire als Winifred May Birkin; † 16. März 1983 in London) war eine britische High-Society Lady und Mätresse des Prince of Wales und späteren Königs Eduard VIII.

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Winifred May Birkin war die älteste Tochter von vier Kindern des wohlhabenden Textilfabrikanten und Colonels Charles Wilfred Birkin (1865–1932) und seiner amerikanischen Ehefrau Claire Lloyd Howe († 1934). Zusammen mit ihren Geschwistern, Violet Hilda Margaret (1899–1953), Vera Lilian Margaret (1903–1970) und Charles Lloyd (1907–1985), verbrachte Freda – wie sie innerhalb der Familie gerufen wurde – die Sommermonate in Nottinghamshire und in Biarritz. Sie wurde von Privatlehrern sowie im exklusiven Mädcheninternat Les Ruches in Fontainebleau erzogen.

Am 9. Juli 1913 heiratete sie in der St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, den Parlamentsabgeordneten William Dudley Ward (1877–1946), Sohn von William Humble Ward und Eugenie Violet Adele Brett. Aus der Ehe, die 1931 geschieden wurde, gingen zwei Töchter hervor:
 Penelope Dudley-Ward (1914–1982)
 ⚭ 1939–1944 Harry Anthony Compton Pelissier
 ⚭ 1948 Sir Carol Reed
 Clare Angela Louise (1916–1999)
⚭ 1935 Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Laycock

Im Februar 1918 war Mrs. Dudley Ward mit einer Freundin unterwegs, als ein Bombenalarm sie zwang, in einem Hauseingang am Belgrave Square Schutz zu suchen. Die Hausherrin, die gerade eine Party gab, bat die beiden Frauen in den sicheren Keller zu kommen. Hier lernte Freda den britischen Thronfolger Eduard, genannt David (1894–1972) kennen und blieb später auf der Party. In den nächsten fünf Jahren war Fredie, wie er sie nannte, seine ständige Begleiterin bei Dinners, Gartenpartys und Festen in der höheren Gesellschaft, in der die Liaison allgemein bekannt war, auch Fredas Gatte wusste davon. 1929 wurde Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness, die Ehefrau eines Schiffsmagnaten, die neue Favoritin des Prinzen. Freda Dudley Ward blieb nach wie vor seine engste Vertraute bis 1934, bis zum Beginn seiner Beziehung mit der zweimal geschiedenen Wallis Simpson.

Am 20. Oktober 1937 heiratete Freda in zweiter Ehe den Aristokraten Pedro Jose Isidro Manuel Ricardo Mones Maury, Marques de Casa Maury († 1968). Die Ehe wurde 1954 geschieden. Später lebte sie zurückgezogen in ihrem Londoner Stadthaus.

Name in verschiedenen Lebensphasen
 1894–1913 Winifred May Birkin
 1913–1931 (annulliert) Winifred May Dudley Ward
 1937–1954 (annulliert) Winifred May Mones, Marquesa de Casa Maury

Erwähnenswertes
 In den Memoiren des Duke of Windsor wird Freda, die große Liebe seiner Jugend, mit keinem einzigen Wort erwähnt. Es wird vermutet, dass seine Witwe Wallis Simpson die Passagen aus dem Manuskript herausgenommen hat.
 Freda Dudley Ward war die Großtante der Schauspielerin Jane Birkin.
 Siehe auch: Liste der Mätressen der Könige von England

Literatur
 Rupert Godfrey (Hrsg.): Letters From a Prince: Edward to Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward 1918–1921. Little, Brown & Co., 1998 ISBN 0-7515-2590-1.
 Tom Levine: Die Windsors: Glanz und Tragik einer fast normalen Familie. Campus Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-593-37763-2 ().

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In O'Laughlin v. Thirteen01 Restaurant Group (MiLW No. 08-99893, 6 pages), the appeals court determined that a culpability exception to the wrongful-conduct statute did not apply.
"The key to the case was showing that the plaintiff was the cause of his own problems under the wrongful conduct rule," said defense attorney Scott L. Feuer of the Law Offices of Scott L. Feuer PC in Troy.
The appeals panel that heard the case included Chief Judge Christopher M. Murray, Judge Michael F. Gadola and Judge Jonathan Tukel.
Around 11 p.m. May 25, 2016, at Standby Bar in Detroit, bartender Marlowe Johnson refused to serve alcohol to the plaintiff, Matthew O'Laughlin.
According to the COA's unpublished opinion, the plaintiff was acting disorderly and touching other bar patrons inappropriately while also using racial slurs to other customers.
Johnson sought the help of another bar customer, Justice Akuezue, to assist in getting the plaintiff out of the bar. The plaintiff held a pillar and refused to let go before Johnson and Akuezue were able to remove him.
Akuezue followed the plaintiff to the door as Johnson returned to the bar. Akuezue and the plaintiff walked through an initial set of doors to a vestibule area that led to a set of exit doors.
Inside the vestibule area, Akuezue and the plaintiff got into a physical altercation.
The plaintiff claimed that he was slammed onto the ground. Akuezue claimed that O'Laughlin became irate and aggressive when they made it into the vestibule area and that is why he resorted to physical force to keep the plaintiff from harming him.
The plaintiff did not seek medical treatment that night but went to an emergency room the next day with elbow pain. The COA opinion stated that the plaintiff told hospital personnel that he was drunk and used cocaine, and that his arm was injured when he fell during a bar fight.
The plaintiff filed a personal injury action and claimed he was injured when assaulted by an employee of the defendant. He alleged that the defendant was vicariously liable for Akuezue's conduct and was also liable under theories of negligent hiring, training and supervision.
At the trial court level, a motion for summary disposition by the defendant was denied because it determined that questions of fact existed regarding whether Akuezue was an agent of the bar.
The panel opened its analysis by stating that it agrees with the defendant's claim that it was entitled to summary disposition based on the wrongful-conduct rule.
The court cited previous cases to state that the wrongful-conduct rule precludes a plaintiff from recovering when his claim is based in whole or in part on his own wrongful conduct.
In reviewing the evidence and testimony of the incident, the court goes on to conclude that the plaintiff's actions set in motion the chain of events that led to his removal.
"Knowing that plaintiff was being abusive toward others, had the bartender not taken steps to have plaintiff removed from the bar, the bar may well have been liable to customers for plaintiff's continued offensive and criminal conduct," the court wrote.
The plaintiff argued at the appeals level that there was a question of fact as to whether the culpability exception to the wrongful-conduct rule was applicable to preclude summary disposition.
Feuer said this is the first time a court has ruled the way in which the appeals court has.
On the issue of Akuezue helping Johnson, Feuer said the situation of a non-employee assisting bar workers is common, but that doesn't make them an agent of the bar.
Feuer added that the panel adopted one of his side's arguments regarding the bar being held liable for injuries to other patrons if the bar doesn't remove an unruly customer.
"You're putting the bar in a tough place where the bar employee or owner has to make that choice. They should be able to rely on other customers to assist them," Feuer said.
Plaintiff's attorney Thomas Stroble did not respond to a request for comment on this case.
If you would like to comment on this story, email Thomas Franz at tfranz@mi.lawyersweekly.com.


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package de.cosmocode.commons.converter;

import de.cosmocode.junit.UnitProvider;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter}.
 *
 * @author Oliver Lorenz
 */
public class LocaleLanguageIsoConverterTest implements UnitProvider<LocaleLanguageIsoConverter> {

    private static final Map<String, String> A3_TO_A2;

    static {
        // just a few test languages
        A3_TO_A2 = new HashMap<String, String>();
        A3_TO_A2.put("chu", "cu");
        A3_TO_A2.put("deu", "de");
        A3_TO_A2.put("jpn", "ja");
        A3_TO_A2.put("lav", "lv");
        A3_TO_A2.put("zho", "zh");
        A3_TO_A2.put("epo", "eo");
    }

    @Override
    public LocaleLanguageIsoConverter unit() {
        return new LocaleLanguageIsoConverter();
    }

    /**
     * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter#toThreeLetter(String)}.
     */
    @Test
    public void toThreeLetter() {
        for (final String alpha2 : Locale.getISOLanguages()) {
            final String expected = new Locale(alpha2).getISO3Language();
            final String actual = unit().toThreeLetter(alpha2);
            Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter#toThreeLetter(String)} with a three-letter code.
     */
    @Test
    public void toThreeLetterOfThreeLetter() {
        final String expected = "deu";
        final String actual = unit().toThreeLetter(expected);
        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    /**
     * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter#toThreeLetter(String)} with a blank String.
     */
    @Test
    public void toThreeLetterOfBlank() {
        final String expected = "";
        final String actual = unit().toThreeLetter("   ");
        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    /**
     * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter#toTwoLetter(String)}.
     */
    @Test
    public void toTwoLetter() {
        for (final String alpha3 : A3_TO_A2.keySet()) {
            final String expected = A3_TO_A2.get(alpha3);
            final String actual = unit().toTwoLetter(alpha3);
            Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter#toTwoLetter(String)} with a two-letter code.
     */
    @Test
    public void toTwoLetterOfTwoLetter() {
        final String expected = Locale.GERMAN.getLanguage();
        final String actual = unit().toTwoLetter(expected);
        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    /**
     * Tests {@link LocaleLanguageIsoConverter#toTwoLetter(String)} with a blank String.
     */
    @Test
    public void toTwoLetterOfBlank() {
        final String expected = "";
        final String actual = unit().toTwoLetter("  ");
        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

}

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Adventists believe with other Christians in the Triune God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God created by divine fiat and has acted through Jesus to save humanity from the sin of Adam. Jesus will return not only in spirit, but in person to save the world.
Adventists have a holistic view of human nature, in that body, mind, and soul are created together and are inseparable. Humans are also by nature mortal, but can receive immortality through God's grace and Christ's atonement.
Adventists look to the future with hope, but are pessimistic about the present. The present age is hopelessly evil, and Christ sits in judgment, as described in Revelation 14:7. Only God's direct action can bring redemption.
The dead are in an unconscious state until Christ returns on the last day. Then the whole person--body, mind, soul--is resurrected and judged. The righteous will receive immortality and live forever in the abode of Christ's new earth.


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The investigation could be simplified if the management were to use activity based costing. In trying to identify which operational processes are responsible for increasing costs, it is useful to look at the different departmental processes.
At Microcel, there are six departments: system design, programming, testing, multimedia development and graphics design, marketing and sales, administration. The company is using two network printers and all six departments are sharing those printers.
Printing costs have been rising in the last 1 year. Therefore the management has to find out if there is any one particular department which is responsible for increasing costs.
Once that department has been identified, necessary cost controls could be initiated. In apportioning costs of the printers to each of the departments, it is necessary to apply activity based costing. In this case the resource is the printer.
The resource driver could be the amount of ink used by the department in a particular time period which could be one month. The activity could be the printing while the activity driver would be the number of pages printed. The cost object in this illustration is each of the six departments.
Therefore, if the printers run out of ink twice a month, then the cartridges have to be changed 24 times in a year. Activity based costing would enable the management the assign total yearly costs of changing cartridges to each of the departments as below.
Assuming that it takes $29 to change one cartridge, the total cost of changing cartridges in a year is $696. The next phase of the calculations is to determine how many pages have been printed in a year and of that total number of pages, how many were printed by each of the departments.
If there were a total of 7200 pages printed in a year and of those 7200 pages, 1200 were printed by the programming department, then this department has incurred the yearly printing cost of $116 (($696/7200)*1200). In this manner, the remaining portions of the $696 dollars could be assigned to each of the departments and the department which has been experiencing rising costs could be identified.
Costs in shared stationary have also been rising. Under the heading of stationary, many items are included. The principal items are printing paper, pens, pencils and markers. There are six departments which are using these categories of stationary.
Depending on the level of detail required in the investigation, activity based costing could be applied to each category of stationary as applicable to each department or, if that level of detail is not required, activity based costing could be applied to the stationary category as a whole as applicable to each department.
Assuming that activity based costing is applied to the category of stationary as a whole as applicable to each department, Then stationary as a whole would be regarded as the resource.
Resource drivers would be the pens, pencils, markers and printing paper. Activities may be the number of requisitions for stationary submitted by the departments. Activity drivers would be the number of requisitions submitted in the given time period. The cost object is each of the departments.
For illustration purposes, the programming department consumes four pens, four pencils, four markers and hundred pages of printing paper in each month. Assuming prices of pens, pencils, markers and printing paper to be $1, $.5, $1.2 and $.01 respectively, cost of stationary applicable to the programming department is $110.8 in each month. In a year, the total cost comes to $1329.6.
If the total cost of all stationary purchased in a year is $10000 then the programming department accounts for 13% of that cost. Therefore if the total cost of processing requisitions from all six departments in a year is $8000, then the amount of costs to be assigned to the programming department is $1040 (8000*13%).
In the case of transportation expenses, the resource would be the company car. Resource driver would be the amount of gasoline expended on the car.
Activities would be requisitions for refueling and the activity driver the number of requisitions submitted. If the programming department has spent $1000 in a year in gasoline expenses and the total amount expended for all departments is $8000, then the programming department is responsible for 12% of the cost.
If the total cost of processing transportation requisitions is $10000 in a year, the cost to be assigned to the programming department is 12% of $10000 = $1200.
The three illustrations above demonstrate how activity based costing could be applied to Microcel.
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Part 3 — The Great Divide — The Enlightenment
March 19, 2015 January 11, 2017 by jrcowles
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If you had to describe the world that emerged – gradually, over a period of centuries – from the pre-Reformation world as it had existed from the time of St. Augustine and the final dissolution of the Roman Empire to the time of the last great religious wars (the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648) and the rise of science and exploration, you could do no better than to choose words like "horizontal" … or even "flat". Ultimately, the right word would turn out to be "secular", though that would not be evident until fairly late in the process. This is not to deny that religion continued to play a prominent role in human affairs. Many of the greatest scientists and philosophers of this period -- Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, to name just three -- were devout Christians. But the nature of religion's role had changed dramatically. For example, regicide had occurred before in human history, but as a crime, as an aberration. But when the English beheaded King Charles I in 1649 as an official act of Parliament, that act itself – which would have been either unthinkable or outright treasonous a century before – was iconic of how the conception of the origin and sacredness of political power had changed, a development further reinforced by the Glorious Revolution a generation or so later and the irreversible assertion of parliamentary, not royal, sovereignty. Not only politically, but also philosophically, psychologically, epistemologically, and culturally, the world had gone from being "vertical" to "horizontal". People of great and undisputed brilliance – Halley, Faraday, et al. – did often still carry a belief in "verticality" with them privately, but in terms of public life, public ideology, and public policies, the public ideology was increasingly "horizontal". Beginning in the middle 1600s, and private belief notwithstanding, the "public square" was just that: a square, two-dimensional, horizontal, and flat. This "flatness" of the Enlightenment world-view would have several important implications – called "Principles" below -- for the eventual development of the principles undergirding the US Constitution.
As was explained at some length in the last section on St. Augustine, the controlling philosophical context for pre-Reformation and pre-scientific European civilization was overwhelmingly Platonic and neo-Platonic. The entire universe, physically, politically, and religiously, was a vast hierarchy – in fact, a vast hierarchy of hierarchies – extending from ordinary human beings at the very bottom upward to feudal lords to great nobles to the monarch at the very top. The Church comprised a similar hierarchy extending from ordinary layfolk to the parish priest to the bishop to the cardinal archbishop to the Pope to an sub-hierarchy comprising the angels to Almighty God at the very top. The physical universe encompassed "prime matter" (the unformed "stuff" from which all other matter was made) to plants to animals to human beings to the planets to the "fixed" stars, all in ascending order of sublimity and perfection. This universe, the Augustinian, pre-Reformation, pre-scientific universe, was Platonic with a vengeance.
But beginning with the Crusades and even somewhat earlier with Muslim, primarily Arab, commerce with the Byzantine Empire – remember: the eastern Roman Empire, centered in Byzantium / Constantinople, was still standing – and western Christian Europe, an alternative and competing scheme began to be infused into the thinking of the West: Aristotelianism. Much of that commerce with the Muslim world consisted of a very brisk traffic in ancient manuscripts, including manuscripts of philosophers' works from the Hellenic world of Plato and Aristotle. It was in this way that works by Aristotle like the Metaphysics, the Nicomachean Ethics, the Physics, and the Politics were preserved in the Muslim world and rediscovered by the West. Just as the various Protestant sects emerging from the Reformation provided formidable competition to what had been the more or less monolithic Catholic monopoly on ecclesiology, so also the nascent Aristotelianism of the early 13th century began to provide analogous competition to the previously monolithic Platonic consensus on theology. (Aristotle's hard-headedly empirical, this-worldly approach, in the Politics, to evaluating the virtues and hazards of various political systems nurtured the nascent contractarian movement in political theory.) After Luther, Catholicism was no longer "the only game in town". After Aristotle, neither was Platonism / neo-Platonism.
Compared to Platonism, Aristotelianism was very "horizontal", very "this-worldly". Aristotle, too, believed in ideals, but only with a lower-case "I", because, for Aristotle, ideals were mental generalizations arrived at, not by sheer philosophic contemplation, but by empirical observation of actual existing objects. Aristotelian ideals exist only between the ears of the person doing the generalizing. So I observe trees, and after many observations, I arrive at a general idea (ideal) of what the essence of "tree-ness" is: a vertical trunk, branches, leaves, bark, etc. But the real trees are the tall, branchy things I attach my hammock to on a summer afternoon, not the Platonically ideal Tree-with-a-capital-"T". How many branches the tree has, the shape of its leaves, etc., are all incidental – accidentia, in the Latin translations of Aristotle – and the essential attributes – bark, branches, roots, etc. – are the essence (essentia, in Latin) of trees. But even accidentia and essentia are still just mental constructs. This is why, in Raphael's great painting The School of Athens, Plato and Aristotle are seen entering the school with Plato pointing upward to the sky, toward the rarefied heights of his Ideal World, and Aristotle is pointing downward, toward the immanent, concretely particularized world that comprises reality as Aristotle conceived it. Epistemologically, Plato and Aristotle also differed. For Plato, the workings of the world could be discovered by introspection, abstract contemplation through Reason, and recollection of what one had learned in previous incarnations. Aristotle's world similarly emphasized Reason, but with Aristotle, knowledge was acquired by Reason working on the this-worldly, immanent, empirically perceptible raw materials of actual experience. Aristotle's epistemology contained the seeds from which the scientific method would germinate. Reason was fallible. But Reason was effective.
One of the areas in which Reason was judged effective -- an area that was one of the more explosively revolutionary areas of the Enlightenment -- was the attitude that came to be adopted toward the Bible, both Testaments. Beginning in the first half of the 1700s, scholars like Hermann Reimarus, Gotthold Lessing, and Baron D'Holbach -- I mention only the ones who were active and writing during the time of the Founding and the Framing -- applied techniques of what later came to be known as redaction and source criticism, and in the process discovered that, e.g., the Gospels were compilations from earlier sources that resulted from collaborations on the part of editors whose names are lost to history, and that the compilation process did not even begin until at least a couple of generations after Jesus. A century later, Julius Wellhausen would similarly apply source-critical methods to demonstrate and to account for the multiple authorship of the Pentateuch -- the so-called "documentary" or "source" or "JEDP" or "Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis". There is not nearly enough space in a brief blog post to even synopsize these methodologies and theories, much less do justice to them. So suffice to say that the application of various techniques of secularistic analysis of the biblical text was considered audacious for the time: the "Holy Bible" came to be viewed as less ... well ... holy. In particular, the "quest for the historical Jesus" of Reimarus, Gotthold, and D'Holbach was behind Thomas Jefferson's personal redaction of the Gospels in the form of the "Jefferson Bible", as well as Thomas Paine's skepticism about religion in general and Christianity in particular. So (what came to be) the general and prevailing skepticism as to the origin and provenance of the biblical text was one of the elements of the European world-view that ended up being "flattened out", as well.
This "flattening out" can be expressed as several salient principles of the entire Enlightenment project:
"School of Athens" by Raphael (detail)
Principle 1: Aristotelianism was concerned predominantly with this world and encouraged a very "horizontal" outlook on that world, in terms of politics, knowledge, and ethics.
So it is difficult to see how science and exploration could ever have developed if Western culture had remained Platonic / neo-Platonic. But with the Aristotelian world-view in place, the development of science and the age of exploration, at least in retrospect, seem almost inevitable. The very "flatness", the very "matter-of-fact-ness" of Aristotelianism constitutes its great virtue as the guiding ideology of science in the 1500s and 1600s. To its credit, Aristotelianism, like the culture in which it was developing, was radically "horizontal", not "vertical". For with the Aristotelian outlook, one could "proactively", as it were, go out, interrogate the world, observe, record, gather data, catalog one's experience, observe regularities. Using one's reason, one could then formulate hypotheses, go out again, gather more data, compile further experiences, undertake additional observations, and assess if and to what degree one's hypotheses conformed to this additional experience. This did not happen all at once, of course. It took practice … years, decades, generations, even centuries of practice. But the point is that, however long it took, the fact that the Aristotelian perspective was bound to the actual experience of human beings so that it could be reasoned about had two long-term effects: (1) it underwrote the efforts of the early explorers and circumnavigators to explore the planet and (2) ultimately resulted in a renewed, rejuvenated, and exuberant confidence in the effectiveness of Reason as a means of comprehending the world – and, eventually, of controlling it. Aristotelianism made the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries possible.
Principle 2: The renewal of confidence in Reason, which had lain dormant since the time of St. Augustine in the mid-4th century CE, also renewed confidence in humans' ability to employ Reason in investigating and reflecting on the physical world, on the origin of political systems, and even on theological matters. Reason was not infallible, but Reason was universally effective.
Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
Nowhere was this renewed confidence in the powers of Reason more desperately needed than in the area of resolving the religious wars that had laid waste to entire countries in Europe for at least 200 years – the 1500s and 1600s – and that, if left unchecked, could have resulted in Europe reverting to a Bronze Age culture. As noted in the last session, the pre-Reformation Augustinian consensus works only as long as there is no competition. In that context, with only one source of theological and ethical truth available – the Bible as interpreted by the leadership of the Church – it arguably makes apparent sense to rely on that authoritative source for truth about God and morals. But then the Reformation came and, with relative suddenness, there seemed to be dozens, eventually hundreds, of interpretations of the Bible, and therefore moral and theological principles. Truth was no longer One. Disagreements eventually led to war and bloodshed on a scale that would not be equaled until the First World War. The rediscovery of Reason provided an authoritative standard for judging truth, and for settling disputes about what was true. Because of Reason, Europeans began to learn the critical art of agreeing to disagree, because – so said Reason – a continuation of the religious wars would only mean the annihilation of everyone, thereby rendering the question of who was "right" and who was "wrong", who was "saved" and who was "damned" tragically moot. This insight is embodied in two documents that, taken together, settled the religious wars of Europe: the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, and the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648. The strategy of agreeing to disagree was arrestingly simple: the principle of cuius regio, eius religio (literally, "his rule, his religion"), by which the religion of a kingdom's sovereign was the official religion of her or his realm.
Peace of Augsburg, 1555
Principle 3: Thanks to the rediscovery of Reason, Europeans began to learn how to agree to disagree and thereby how to tolerate a plurality of religious and moral principles within the same geographical space.
The revival of confidence in Reason had far more consequences than we can even summarize in a brief blog post. But two are important enough to mention explicitly:
One of the subjects human beings can reason about is what might loosely be described as "political and social morality", i.e., the kinds of things that are good for human beings, and the characteristics of political systems and social structures that further these goods. Previously, before the Reformation and the rejuvenation of Reason and science, the question "What is good for human beings" could be answered very tersely from Ecclesiastes 12:13: "Fear God and keep [God's] commandments" – understood as obeying, in this order, God, the Church, the King, and one's liege lord. This order of obedience resulted from the Divinely ordained hierarchy of society – which was not open to interrogation by Reason. But after the Reformation and the rejuvenation of Reason and science, "contractarian" philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Condorcet, and Rousseau rejected the authority of the Church and began to reflect autonomously on the nature of political power, the nature of human beings, the optimal way to organize society, and the best way to structure and to distribute political power within a given state so as to maximize the good of citizens. Hence works like Hobbes' Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise on Government, Rousseau's The Social Contract, Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, Condorcet's Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (note the exuberance of the title of Condorcet's great work – typical Enlightenment optimism), etc., etc. Human beings were reasoning about the kinds of political systems and power arrangements that further the welfare of human beings – an activity that no one had undertaken since Aristotle wrote his Politics in the fourth century BCE. The implications of this activity are far too extensive to even summarize. But perhaps the most significant implication is just that: human beings are reasoning autonomously about the optimal arrangement of social structures and political power in society. That they are reasoning autonomously about such subjects, without first asking the leave of Pope, Council, or Church, means that they can reason about them – and have confidence in their ability to do so. That this seems less than revolutionary to us is only because we have been doing it routinely for roughly 400 years, i.e., at least since the time of Hobbes.
"Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes
Principle 4: Human beings are capable of rationally considering the issue of the optimal social structures and arrangement / distribution of political power in a given society so as to further human well-being.
The rediscovery of Reason and experience as instruments for learning about the world also meant that philosophers could take a step or two back and look at human beings, human potentialities, and human abilities with a more or less impartial and objective eye. At least they could be "impartial and objective" in the sense that they could view human beings and assess human potentialities without any preconceptions being "baked into" their conclusions by religious dogma. In Europe as it existed prior to the Enlightenment, the belief was virtually uncontested that God had ordained society in such a way that certain people were of more intrinsic worth than others, not by virtue of their achievements or potentialities, but because of the Divine sanction of their position in the social hierarchy. But when the philosophers of the Enlightenment looked at human beings and stripped away Aristotelian accidentia like considerations of wealth, social position, and political eminence, they made a revolutionary discovery: people differed greatly in terms of innate gifts and talents, but (a) these had no necessary connection to wealth, power or social position, and (b) whatever rights human beings have vis a vis their government are – or, anyway, should be – equal before the law. There was no rational, empirically justifiable basis for the belief that some people are intrinsically worth more than others merely because of accidents of birth, position, and wealth. In the contractarians' "state of nature" before governments are formed and the accretion of encrustations of social privilege and station, all persons are equal. Rousseau meditated on this at length in The Social Contract, and came to the conclusion that, on the whole, civilization is a net liability to human beings because civilization suppresses whatever innate talents one may possess while exalting one purely on the basis of wealth and social prestige. In 1826, Thomas Jefferson, by then old and in failing health, replied to his friend Roger Weightman's invitation to come to Washington, DC, to decline participation in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of American independence. (Mr. Jefferson was prescient in declining the invitation: he died at his estate of Monticello precisely on 4 July 1826.) Mr. Jefferson's letter could almost serve as a kind of Enlightenment "owner's manual" (italics and boldface added):
[M]ay [the American Revolution] be to the world, what I believe it will be,(to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. that form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. all eyes are opened,or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god.
"Thomas Jefferson" by Rembrandt Peale, 1800
Principle 5: Human beings are intrinsically equal before the law, possessing equal rights and equal dignity, and no government conducive to the welfare of human beings recognizes inequality based, not on intrinsic talent and potentiality, but on mere wealth and social prestige.
By the middle 1700s, certainly by the time of the Revolution, the Founding, and the Framing of the US Constitution, the original Augustinian consensus of pre-Reformation and late-Roman times had been superseded – "repudiated" would not be too strong a word – by the more fluid, more this-worldly, more Aristotelian, more confident, more optimistic, less rigid, less hierarchical, less religiously oriented worldview of the European Enlightenment. This should not be taken as a blanket value judgment, however. The world of St. Augustine and of the consensus of his time was useful, even healthy, much as a cast is useful and healthy for a broken limb. A broken leg needs to be encased in a rigid, constricting cast while the bone heals. But once the bone heals, the cast can be removed and the newly healed leg can be moved and exercised in ways that would have been harmful, even fatal, for the leg in its broken state. Of course, Western civilization was still far from perfect. This civilization still practiced slave-trading, for example. But it had healed to the point that it was mature enough to accommodate a plurality of religions in the nations it comprised, and would eventually mature to the point that those nations could accommodate a plurality of religions among their individual citizens. Nor would it be mere flag-waving jingoism to argue that the most profound, most august expression of this newfound confidence in human beings and their capacity for rationality, tolerance, and self-governance found expression in the American Constitution.
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Great stuff. I've sometimes wondered whether the Platonic or Aristotelian approaches absolutely required those two particular philosophers, or whether those two approaches simply occur in the human mind — waiting to be found out in every era. Most challenging read of my life was probably the Aquinas/Aristotelian Bernard Lonergan's "Insight" and I never did get too far with it. But his "Method in Theology" was more accessible and was truly transforming for me. I would recommend that book to anyone.
I dunno about the Aristotle / Plato question. But i do think it's deliciously ironic that, while science is done in an Aristotelian spirit, most mathematicians — I have MAs in math & physics — are actually "closet Platonists" & some, like the late Kurt Goedel, freely admit to being OUT of the "closet". I.e., they think of mathematical objects, not as just purely subjective entities with no existence other than between their ears, but as things that exist just as much as, but in a different sense than, say, the Grand Canyon. I can understand that very well: spend enough time doing math, and mathematical entities assume that kind of reality.
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6 Swiss bands to watch out for in 2014
What comes to mind when you think Swiss music? If it's Alphorns or DJ Bobo, you will need a serious reality check! Especially this year, as there are a number of cool Swiss bands and solo acts who could make it big in 2014...
So, get that yodeling stereotype right out of your head and give these hand picked, up-and-coming Swiss bands a listen!
Baba Shrimps
Four guys from Zürich form indie pop band Baba Shrimps. There is no denial that this band has much appeal among a broad audience. As for the name, I am left wondering whether it is a love child of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company?
The songs of Baba Shrimps feel liberating: At times, their tunes delve into darkness. But then, they are lifted right back up, seeping of optimism. If there is ever a rainy day this year and you put on their latest album "Europe" (or "Angel", my favorite tune), you can be sure that the sun is due out soon!
Kadebostany
I had a huge WOW moment when I first heard the music of Kadebostany! I must have lived under a proverbial rock, but this Geneva based duo combines orchestra music with a folklore twist, then throws in that smoky voice of singer Amina - just to come up with the whackiest yet stickiest music in a long time!
That whacky nature appears to be part of their schtick, as is apparent in their Borat-esque photo albums on Facebook! I can't wait to hear (and see) more from the Republic of Kadebostany!
Pablo Nouvelle
This one man show from Bern is making a name with his soulful electronic melodies. In fact, listen closely because each track is a clever combination of vintage samples and new beats!
In the blink of an eye, Fabio Friedli a.k.a. Pablo Nouvelle has made it across the pond, and his music has even caught The Guardian's eye: "He takes soul back to the future."
Rumor is that there is going to be a new album released in 2014... But in the meantime, sit back, slow down and soak in "You Do Me Wrong":
We Invented Paris is a collective of mostly Swiss (and some German) photographers, videographers, graphic designers and musicians. Their alternative tunes are beautiful, catchy and harmonic. Perfect to listen to over and over again...
We Invented Paris has much potential to invent not just the French capital (figuratively speaking), but to invent a new way of delivering music. Thanks to the collaborative approach, their talents are being pooled and the resulting creativity reaches eager ears more directly.
In 2010, the band gained a following as part of their infamous CouchSurfing Tour. In line with their philosophy, they went as far as delivering music in people's living rooms!
Prader & knecht
Although no longer newcomers in Switzerland's music scene, Prader & knecht have just released their third album, "Millions Of Pieces"!
If there is a perfect soundtrack to slow down, this is it. But here is one of their earlier pieces (one of my favorites):
THE ANIMEN
If it were not for their website, Geneva rock band THE ANIMEN could be mistaken as time travelers from the 1960's (because bands didn't have websites back then)! Their vintage rock 'n' roll reminds of greats from decades gone. But then there's soul, and blues... Their tunes are a unique and eclectic mix - an understatement, really. Because this young band appears as smooth on stage as a seasoned gig would.
While THE ANIMEN have received accolades for their body of work last year, 2014 is gearing up to be bigger yet: THE ANIMEN have already played several concerts in the Netherlands, with more gigs on the horizon in Germany...
Without further ado, here is "My Pretty Ballerina" from their debut album "Hi!":
(Inspired by an article in 20 Minuten; photographs copyright by baba shrimps, THE ANIMEN copyright by Julien de Preux, Pablo Nouvelle copyright by Janosch Abel, We Invented Paris, Kadebostany, Prader & knecht)
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Swiss Missus says:
This article is great. Because of it we went to hear Prader & Knecht in a tiny venue which was like being in someone's lounge room. It was wonderful. Can you write an updated version to let us know what other great Swiss music is around at the moment? Please, pretty please?!
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Thanks so much for the kudos! Have just asked the team to come up with a refresher for 2017… ^Dimitri
Excellent! Thanks, I'll look forward to reading that.
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