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Police Capture Prison Escapee David Sweat, Ending Weeks-Long Manhunt
By Scott Neuman,
New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico (left) speaks during a news conference Sunday evening as Gov. Andrew Cuomo looks on. At the press conference, both men detailed the capture of fugitive David Sweat earlier that day in Malone, N.Y.
David Sweat, one of two inmates who escaped from a prison in upstate New York earlier this month, has been shot but taken alive just days after his accomplice, Richard Matt, was killed by police.
After three weeks on the run, Sweat was captured Sunday afternoon near the town of Constable, N.Y., about a mile and a half from the Canadian border. The capture came after a confrontation with a police sergeant who saw the escapee walking along the side of the road.
Speaking at a press conference Sunday evening, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said that Sgt. Jay Cook first ordered Sweat to stop, but that Sweat then tried to flee on foot.
"At some point, running across a field, he realized that Sweat was going to make it to a tree line and possibly could have disappeared," D'Amico said, "and [Cook] fired two shots from his service weapon, his handgun."
The shots hit the unarmed escapee in the torso, according to authorities. D'Amico said that Cook had been alone on a routine patrol at the time of the confrontation.
"The nightmare is finally over," said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking at the same press conference. Cuomo lauded the efforts of law enforcement, adding: "Today ends with good news. These were really dangerous, dangerous men."
On June 6, Matt, 49, and Sweat, 35, used power tools and tunneled through a wall in their cell, climbed a catwalk, crawled through a steam pipe and emerged on the outside of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., in an extraordinary escape. It later emerged that the pair also had inside help.
The hunt for the escaped convicts involved hundreds of local, state and federal officials who scoured dense forests dotted with hunting cabins, where the pair apparently sought shelter while on the run.
Matt was shot and killed near Malone, N.Y., on Friday after officials say he was "verbally challenged" but failed to put up his hands as ordered.
Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill says Sweat was transported to a medical center in Malone. Sweat is described as being in stable condition.

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Pro-Trump Demonstrators Swarm Capitals Across US
Trump supporters gather on the steps of the Idaho Statehouse in Boise Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 to protest the presidential election results. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP)
Pro-Trump demonstrators have massed outside statehouses across the country, forcing evacuations in at least two states. In St. Paul, Minnesota, cheers rang out from demonstrators in reaction to the news that supporters of President Donald Trump had stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Hundreds of mostly unmasked people people gathered outside capitols on Wednesday with Trump flags and "Stop the Steal" signs. In Georgia and Oklahoma, some demonstrators carried guns.
New Mexico state police evacuated staff from a statehouse building that includes the governor's and secretary of state's offices as a precaution shortly after hundreds of flag-waving supporters arrived in a vehicle caravan and on horseback. A spokesperson for the governor´s office says there was no indication of threats at the statehouse.
The staff of Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was sent home as several hundred pro-Trump demonstrators rallied outside the Capitol, though the demonstration remained relatively calm. A brief scuffle between pro-Trump demonstrators, who included members of the Proud Boys, and counterprotesters broke out in Columbus, Ohio, but there was no immediate threat to the Capitol.
WASHINGTON — Facing stark criticism from civil rights leaders, senators return to Capitol Hill under intense pressure to change their rules and break a Republican filibuster that has hopelessly stalled voting legislation.
Blinken to Visit Ukraine, Meet Russia's FM as Tensions Flare
Before Pullout, Watchdog Warned of Afghan Air Force Collapse


CNE President Tibisay Lucena announced the results with 92.6 percent reporting and said the turnout was 46.1 percent, Deutsche Welle reported.
In his speech, the Venezuelan president said he felt legitimized by the vote, saying there would be no more elections in the next two years. Maduro expressed a willingness to sit down with his opponents, openly reached out to them and speaking about his government's wish for peace.


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It Must Be Now! Terri Lyne Carrington, Braxton Cook, and Sean Jones: renowned jazz artists on composing with a social justice lens
Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 5:00pm
Three Thursday conversations with renowned jazz artists on composing with a
social justice lens
IAP 2021: It Must Be Now!— Advancing social justice actions through music and media
January 13, 20, and 27: 5:00-6:30pm
Attend individual conversations or the full series as a whole: these events are remote and will be live-streamed on Zoom. This event was previously scheduled for the Lewis Library but will now be a virtual event, register for event link.
Join Terri Lyne Carrington, Braxton Cook, and Sean Jones, the composers for It Must Be Now! (IMBN!) as they each discuss their process for composing new music on themes of racial and social injustice.
IMBN! is a multi-year project culminating in a large-scale work for MIT musicians on May 7th, 2022. These conversations over IAP aim to provide an opportunity for the composers to share the behind-the-scenes of their creative process, and for the MIT/Greater Boston community to engage in open dialogue about how these themes take hold across the MIT campus and beyond.
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Between the Light and the Dark
Thursday, January 13th — 5:00-6:30pm
Braxton Cook's composition dives into the juxtaposition between the light and the dark as he questions where we find ourselves as a society facing the collective trauma of the pandemic and police brutality while attempting to adjust our perspective to emphasize what we have instead of what we've lost. The audience conversation will be facilitated by Tracie D. Jones, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The Resilience of Black Women
Terri Lyne Carrington's composition investigates the common struggles, inherent truths and sheer resilience of Black women, born into a world of injustice and tasked with navigating the overt and subliminal burdens placed on them while claiming the right to be free and whole. Carrington's piece reflects on the legacy of creativity and invention of enslaved Africans and their descendants and aims to find a path forward to abolition, self-determination, and justice.
What if we were all connected?
Sean Jones' composition explores the concept of Pangea (an ancient supercontinent) as an Afrofuturism vehicle, probing the question of whether a more geographically linked world would still cause such deep rifts and misunderstandings of who we are as human beings?
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Pat Larkin Stats
Pat Larkin was born on Tuesday, June 14, 1960, in Arcadia, California. Larkin was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 16, 1983, with the San Francisco Giants. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Pat Larkin baseball stats page.
Pat Larkin
Patrick Clibborn Larkin
06-14-1960 (Gemini)
Arcadia, California
Still Living ( 100 Oldest Living )
Still Living
Arcadia High School (Arcadia, CA)
University of Santa Clara
Undrafted Free Agent
Pat Larkin Pitching Stats
1983 23 Giants 5 0 4 0 0 .000 4.35 0 0 0 10.1 48 13 5 6 1 3 1 6 0 2 2 -
1 Year 5 0 4 0 0 .000 4.35 0 0 0 10.1 48 13 5 6 1 3 1 6 0 2 2 -
Pat Larkin Hitting Stats
1983 23 Giants 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
1 Year 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Pat Larkin Fielding Stats
1983 Giants P 5 0 31 3 0.6 2 0 2 1 0 n/a n/a n/a .667 1.74
P Totals 5 0 31 3 0.6 2 0 2 1 0 n/a n/a n/a .667 1.74
1 Year 5 0 31 3 0.6 2 0 2 1 0 n/a n/a n/a .667 1.74
Pat Larkin Miscellaneous Stats
1983 Giants 0 0 .000 0 0 n/a 0.0 1.0 0.0 2.00 5.23 2.61
1 Year 0 0 .000 0 0 n/a 0.0 1.0 0.0 2.00 5.23 2.61
Pat Larkin Miscellaneous Items of Interest
1983 San Francisco Giants 25 $35,000.00 - -
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Did you know that you can compare Pat Larkin to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1983 National League season ?
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Despite speculation in Russian media, Poles did not ask to participate in the agreement that gives Gazprom more access to the Nord Stream pipeline in Germany. PGNiG wants the decision process to be transparent. The German regulator replies with a sophisticated slap in the face.
In accordance with what BiznesAlert.pl reported, the RIA Novosti information that PGNiG and Ukrainian Naftogaz applied for access to the OPAL pipeline (Nord Stream's branch in Germany), turned out to be false. Both companies asked the German regulator Bundesnetzagentur to make the administrative process transparent and requested document access.
On the basis of a settlement between the European Commission and Gazprom from 28 October, as of 1 January 2017, the Russian company will increase its OPAL access use from 50 to 90%. This will allow it to transfer up to 20 bcm of gas a year more than today across the Baltic Sea. This is a threat to Ukraine's position as a transit state and forces the CEE to cement Gazprom's rank as the main supplier in the region. Despite the significance of this decision, a formal document has not been released yet.
Poland is racing against time, because if it fails to question the judgment before 1 January, it will enter into force. This would be a blatant breach of transparency when it comes to German and EU law, which is why PGNiG's German subsidiary Supply and Trading GmbH (PST) filed a lawsuit against the settlement to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Still, Poles want access to the official document, which will allow them to question it in an administrative case in Germany and, if not block, at least delay the entering into force of the new regulations.
Therefore, PGNiG requested the Bundesnetzagentur (BnetzA) for information. BiznesAlert.pl obtained the response, which does not have any formal infringements, but is in fact a deliberate slap in the face.
PGNiG requested the information on 25 November, on the basis of the German act on information access and received the reply on 6 December. PST specifically asked for EC's full decision on increasing Gazprom's OPAL access to be revealed. The Commission has not yet published it, even though it will enter into force very soon, which means PGNiG has to dispute it in a haphazard way.
The agency's reply was surprising. First of all, it claimed that the PST application was unclear because the office couldn't decide if it requested information about the CE's decision or 'any further details', i.e. BnetzA documents. The German office questioned the point of releasing the information because it claimed that since PGNiG was commenting on and disputing Brussels' decision, the company had to know its content. In this way German clerks mocked Poles who are fighting for information that may decide about their fate, but for an unknown reason remains secret.
The Germans also said that since the Commission would soon release the decision, PST can wait until that time. The problem is, the law says that in such a situation Poles should receive time to question the regulations that will enter into force in a mere three weeks.
BnetzA continued the flogging of Poles by stressing authoritatively that the participation of a 'third party' in the proceedings will be justifiable provided that its interests will be threatened and this can happen if the party does not have access to the necessary information. Thus, the office simply admits that "a long duration of the proceedings should be taken into account". This way, Germans are already saying that if there is basis to release the EC's decision to PST, the procedure may take long, even after New Year's when the OPAL settlement will enter into force.
There is justified concern that the German BnetzA is deliberately protecting the interests of German companies and Gazprom, that are engaged in trading Russian gas via OPAL. Lawyers should check if BnetzA is blocking information access on purpose in order to make it impossible for Poles to question EC's decision that is hurting their interests.
The resistance in Germany (to be specific in Bonn where BnetzA has its seat) should make the European Commission publish the OPAL decision as quickly as possible, allowing Poles (and also Ukrainians) to dispute it in accordance with the law. Warsaw and Brussels should cooperate to protect the legal foundations of the European Union and work against arrangements that benefit the gas monopolist in CEE.


Today, the New York Post and Andrea Peyser Got it Right | Buzin Law, P.C.
This week we posted a response to an opinion piece in the New York Post that we deemed to be factually deficient, mean spirited, and ill-advised.
We really can't say it much better than Ms. Peyser did, and we hope that Ms. Peyser's colleague who wrote the opinion piece last Sunday learns something from her.


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Summary Against Modern Thought: The immortality of the soul, Part I
By Briggs on March 26, 2017 • ( 10 Comments )
This may be proved in three ways. The first…
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT.
Previous post.
We're finally at the immortality of the soul! Well, the start of the proof, anyway. This week is long, but it's surprisingly easy given what we'd done thus far.
Chapter 79 That the human soul does not perish when the body is corrupted (alternate translation) We're still using the alternate translation.
1 From what has been said, therefore, it can be clearly shown that the human soul is not corrupted when the body is corrupted.
2 For it was proved above that every intellectual substance is incorruptible. But man's soul is an intellectual substance, as was shown. It therefore follows that the human soul is incorruptible.
Notes Where this incorruptible soul reposits is not here proved: like many metaphysical arguments, this one is a proof of existence; it is not a constructive proof. You cannot make your own soul! But you procreate new ones. (Forgive me).
3 Again, no thing is corrupted with respect to that wherein its perfection consists, for mutations in regard to perfection and corruption are contrary to one another. The perfection of the human soul, however, consists in a certain abstraction from the body. For the soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue, and it is perfected in knowledge the more it considers immaterial things, the perfection of virtue consisting in man's not submitting to the passions of the body, but moderating and controlling them in accordance with reason. Consequently, the soul is not corrupted by being separated from the body.
Notes The soul "is perfected in knowledge the more it considers immaterial things". Get your mind out of the gutter! This kind of perfection used to be well known in (what used to be called) higher education.
4 Now, it may be said that the soul's perfection lies in its operational separation from the body, and its corruption in its existential separation therefrom. Such an argument misses the mark, for a thing's operation manifests its substance and its being, since a thing operates according as it is a being, and its proper operation follows upon its proper nature. The operation of a thing, therefore, can be perfected only so far as its substance is perfected. Thus, if the soul, in leaving the body, is perfected operationally, its incorporeal substance will not fail in its being through separation from the body.
Notes But you lose the chance to further perfect your soul when you hand in your dinner pail. Plan accordingly.
5 Likewise, that which properly perfects the soul of man is something incorruptible; for the proper operation of man, as man, is understanding, since it is in this that he differs from brutes, plants, and inanimate things. Now, it properly pertains to this act to apprehend objects universal and incorruptible as such. But perfections must be proportionate to things perfectible. Therefore, the human soul is incorruptible.
6 Moreover, it is impossible that natural appetite should be in vain. But man naturally desires to exist forever.
This is evidenced by the fact that being is that which all desire; and man by his intellect apprehends being not merely in the present, as brute animals do, but unqualifiedly.
Therefore, man attains perpetual existence as regards his soul, whereby he apprehends being unqualifiedly and in respect of every time.
7 Also, the reception of one thing in another accords with the recipient's manner of being. But the forms of things are received in the possible intellect according as they are actually intelligible; and they are actually intelligible according as they are immaterial, universal, and consequently incorruptible. Therefore, the possible intellect is incorruptible. The possible intellect, however, is part of the human soul, as we proved above. Hence, the human soul is incorruptible.
8 Then, too, intelligible being is more permanent than sensible being. But in sensible things that which has the role of first recipient, namely, prime matter, is incorruptible in its substance; much more so, therefore, is the possible intellect, which is receptive of intelligible forms. Therefore, the human soul, of which the possible intellect is a part, is also incorruptible.
9 Moreover, the maker is superior to the thing made, as Aristotle says. But the agent intellect actualizes intelligibles, as was shown above. Therefore, since intelligibles in act, as such, are incorruptible, much more will the agent intellect be incorruptible. So, too, then, is the human soul, whose light is the agent intellect, as we have previously made clear.
10 Again, a form is corrupted by three things only: the action of its contrary, the corruption of its subject, the failure of its cause; by the action of a contrary, as when heat is destroyed by the action of cold; by the corruption of its subject, as when the power of sight is destroyed through the destruction of the eye; by the failure of its cause, as when the air's illumination fails through the failure of its cause, the sun, to be present.
But the human soul cannot be corrupted by the action of a contrary, for nothing is contrary to it; since, through the possible intellect, it is cognizant and receptive of all contraries. Nor can the human soul be destroyed through the corruption of its subject, for we have already shown that it is a form independent of the body in its being. Nor, again, can the soul be destroyed through the failure of its cause, since it can have no cause except an eternal one, as we shall prove later on. Therefore, in no way can the human soul be corrupted.
Notes The "it can have no cause except an eternal one" is the constructive part of the proof.
11 Furthermore, if the soul perishes as the result of the body's corruption, then its being must be weakened through the debility of the body.
But if a power of the soul is weakened for that reason, this occurs only by accident, namely, in so far as that power has need of a bodily organ.
Thus, the power of sight is debilitated through the weakening of its organ—accidentally, however.
The following considerations will make this point clear. If some weakness were attached to the power through itself, it would never be restored as the result of the organ's being restored; yet it is a fact of observation that, however much the power of sight may seem to be weakened, if the organ is restored, then the power is restored. That is why Aristotle says, in De anima I [4], "that if an old man were to recover the eye of a youth, he would see just as well as the youth does."
Since, then, the intellect is a power of the soul that needs no organ—as we proved above—it is not weakened, either through itself or accidentally, by old age or any other bodily weakness. Now, if in the operation of the intellect fatigue occurs, or some impediment because of a bodily infirmity, this is due not to any weakness on the part of the intellect itself, but to the weakness of the powers which the intellect needs, namely, of the imagination, the memory, and the cogitative power. Clearly, therefore, the intellect is incorruptible. And since it is an intellective substance, the human soul likewise is incorruptible.
Notes And the "imagination, the memory, and the cogitative power" are, as all known, often corrupted.
12 This conclusion also comes to light through the authority of Aristotle. For he says in De anima I [4] that the intellect is evidently a substance and is incapable of being destroyed. And it can be inferred from what has been said already that remark of Aristotle's cannot apply to a separate substance that is either the possible or the agent intellect.
13 The same conclusion also follows from what Aristotle says in Metaphysics XI [3], speaking against Plato, namely, "that moving causes exist prior to their effects, whereas formal causes are simultaneous with their effects; thus when a man is healed, then health exists," and not before—Plato's position, that the forms of things exist prior to the things themselves, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Having said this, Aristotle adds: But we must examine whether anything also survives afterwards. "For in some cases there is nothing to prevent this—the soul, for example, may be of this sort, not every soul, but the intellect." Since Aristotle is speaking of forms, he clearly means that the intellect, which is the form of man, remains after the matter, which is the body.
14 It is also clear from these texts of Aristotle that, while he maintains that the soul is a form, he does not say it is non-subsistent and therefore corruptible—an interpretation which Gregory of Nyssa attributes to him. For Aristotle excludes the intellective soul from the generality of other forms, in saying that it remains after the body, and is a certain substance.
Notes The next paragraphs all rely on the Bible and may be skipped by heathens and heretics.
15 The doctrine of the Catholic faith is in agreement on these matters. For in the work On the Teachings of the Church there is this statement: "We believe that man alone is possessed of a subsistent soul, which continues to live even after divesting itself of the body, and is the animating principle of the senses and powers; nor does the soul die with the body, as the Arabian asserts, nor after a short period of time, as Zeno would have it, because it is a living substance."
16 This eliminates the error of the ungodly, in whose person Solomon says: "We are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been" (Wis. 2:2); and in whose person again Solomon says: "The death of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dies, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man has nothing more than beast" (Eccle. 3:19). For
Solomon clearly is not speaking in his own person but in that of the godless, since at the end of the book he adds in a decisive manner: "Before the dusts return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit returns to Him Who gave it" (Eccle. 17:6-7).
17 Furthermore, there are myriad passages of sacred Scripture which proclaim the immortality of the soul.
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DG says:
I agree with Aquinas that the soul or mind survives bodily death – we already have plenty of evidence for that from near death experiences. However, I am inclined to think that his mixture of Aristotle's hylomorphism with the Christian view of the immortality of the soul is not something that can be reconciled or at least is very problematic at best. For one, Aristotle does make statements in the De Anima suggesting that the soul dies along with the body as he states "Hence…the soul cannot be without a body, while it cannot be a body; it is not a body but something relative to a body…From all this follows that the soul is an actuality or formulable essence of something that possesses a potentiality of being ensouled" De Anima, Bk 2, Chapt. 2: 19-29. It's not clear that Aristotle believed in an afterlife and many statements of his about the soul seem to imply that the soul is not immortal. After all, Aristotle often describes the unity of body and soul as a unity of ONE substance and not TWO substances.
Moreover, how do you account for the Aristotlian view that the soul is individualized by the body? And even Aquinas says the body gives the soul its unique individuality. If there is an afterlife what continues to individualize the soul when the body is no longer there? Doesn't hylomorphism require that the body individulize the soul as its form? If so, then how is an afterlife possible with hylomorphism?
I would advocate some form of substance dualism and not some confused hylomorphist view, to account for the immortality of the soul.
I am sorry, but this is conjecture, not proof.
Ye Olde Statistician says:
DG: Keep in mind that for Aristotle, the soul was not restricted to the rational soul alone. It included the vegetative and sensitive souls as well. And Aquinas gladly agreed that these powers also perished when the human perished: there was no marrying or giving in marriage in the afterlife because the reproductive power belongs properly to the vegetative powers of the soul, not to the rational powers and are tied inextricably to material organs. You know which organs they are. But the intellect and will are not tied to any organ. There is no organ that "senses" dog, only organs that sense this dog or that dog (i.e., particulars). Thus, there is no reason to suppose that the power of abstraction of universals must perish when the material organs perish.
But this is somewhat like the 'stub' of a human being, and that may be why the Church has always taught the "resurrection of the body," i.e., that the rational soul will at some point be re-united with a new, somehow 'glorified' body. Some people think this glorified body will be a computer into which their mind has been downloaded, but… everyone to his own eschatology.
@ Statistician:
Glad somebody responded! For a while I thought no one was going to respond to my comment.
Ok, well of course Aristotle clearly thought that every living thing has a "soul" because the soul for him is the form of a living body or abstract state of being alive that's individuated by the body and so every living thing, by his definition, would have a soul.
My point is that if hylomorphic principles of matter and form are used to describe the relationship between body and soul then an afterlife becomes problematic because if the soul is treated as a "form" or abstract condition of being alive that has to be made an INDIVIDUAL SOUL BY THE BODY then this seems to imply that the soul would die along with the body. Because forms in the world can only exist and be instantiated when you have some material to instantiate them given the hylomorphist paradigm. These abstract "forms" of chairness, dogness, triangleness, for instance, need some material to be made into individual chairs, dogs, and triangles etc. So if the body is needed to individuate the soul as Aristotle and Aquinas held, then the soul should cease to exist once the body dies out because then you longer have any material to individualize or instantiate your "form" viz., the soul.
And we can argue whether Aristotle really believed in an afterlife – I tend to think that he didn't but that's beside the point. The point is that hylomorphism fails to consistently account for an afterlife whether Aristotle personally believed it or not. And because hylomorphism makes an afterlife or disembodied consciousness impossible then I have sufficient reason to reject it as a philosophical account of the soul.
I would endorse substance dualism or at least some philosophical theory that says that mind or the conscious self is an immaterial substance distinct from the body and brain if you want to have adequate support for an afterlife. After all, if there's afterlife then that implies that the mind can exist apart from the brain thus entailing that the mind is a substance or conscious subject in its own right.
Substance dualism, a la Descartes, brings up the interaction problem. How is it that when the res extensa turns right at the corner, the mens rea turns right with it?
#79 is only the first paragraph of a fair number in series:
http://www.dhspriory.org/thomas/ContraGentiles2.htm
I think Dr. Briggs should have taken entire series of paragraphs from Contra gentiles and boiled them together rather than to have taken them a paragraph at a time with a week in between. Too many trees for the forest. It's too easy to lose the thread of an argument that way. We have already seen here several commentators falling back reflexively to stock objections that were answered months ago(!) either because they have forgotten, failed to understand, or never bothered to read the earlier posts.
These same matters are addressed in a more concise form in the Summa theologica, a digest written for theology students, organized somewhat differently from the Summa contra gentiles. There is a very nice boiled-together explanation of the ST (curiously also done by a (bio)statistician) with the parallel Quaestion found here: readingthesumma.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/question-75-essence-of-human-soul.html
The common teaching of the time was that the soul is the form of the body; therefore it seems to make no sense to speak of the soul as being subsistent, a this-something (hoc aliquid), since it is the form-matter composite that is the this-something, not the soul on its own. Aquinas answers that we can think of something like a hand as a subsistent thing, a this-something, that is a part of something that is a complete subsistent thing. The human soul is subsistent in the sense that the hand is subsistent as a distinguishable part of some greater whole; but it is not subsistent in the sense of being complete in itself. Likewise, when we think of how the operations of a part of the body (such the eye seeing) relate to the operations of the whole we should think in terms of the whole operating by means of the operations of the parts. The human sees by means of the eye; the human understands by means of his soul.
The blogger also does a good job of reminding the readers about terms that had different meanings back then compared to their modern descendents.
And also here:
same url but …2014/01/question-89-separated-souls-cognition.html
St. Thomas' Commentary in his tract on I Corinthians writes 15 (lecture 2, para. 924) "…but the soul, since it is part of man's body, is not an entire man, and my soul is not I,"
as discussed in an essay here: perennis.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/my-soul-is-not-i%E2%80%A6/ also relevant to your question.
Hi there Statistician!
Well, I am not a cartesian dualist since I depart from several premises in Descartes' perspective of the soul, but I do think that the human being is a unity of two substances of body and mind as any substance dualist would say.
I also find it odd that a Thomist would make that interaction objection to Descartes considering that if an immaterial substance cannot interact with a physical substance, then this would seem to imply that God cannot interact with the material world. God is an immaterial entity like the human soul so if it's impossible for a soul to interact with a body then shouldn't it be impossible for other immaterial beings like God to interact with the material world? Moreover, Aquinas implies that the mind or at least certain aspects of the mind are a distinct substance apart from the body when admits of an afterlife. How is the interaction problem only a problem for Descartes but not for this "subsistent form" or hylomorphic intellectual substance in Aquinas?
But besides all this, I have yet to see why if the soul is the form of the body in the sense that Aristotle talks about then how is an afterlife possible with hylomorphism? I'm sorry but I don't find Aquinas' hand analogy helpful considering that if you cut off your hand then the hand eventually dies. So the soul is a part of the full human being but what is going to prevent it from dying out like that separated hand when one part of the individual -the body- dies out?
The other thing is that there seems to be a confusion of terms when defining the soul in Thomistic hylomorphism. For one, when Aquinas admits that the soul is capable of surviving bodily death, the soul then is treated as an immaterial substance of mind like in Descartes. But when he speaks of soul being instantiated by the body, he treats the soul as an abstract form or abstract condition of being alive that's individuated by the body – which he inherits from Aristotle. Well, is the soul only a form, presumably an abstract form of being alive that's instantiated by some material or is the soul a mental substance added on par to the body? And if the soul is a mental substance then how is a physical object going to "individuate" the soul? Are souls immediately created by the Deity anyway? Maybe you can clarify some of this for me.
How can a soul think without a brain, see without eyes, and hear without ears?
"Think" is too generic. There is more than one kind of thinking. Some of it may require time. A living body is embedded in time and uses its brain for some kinds of thinking, such as imagination. Other kinds of thinking, such as intellection do not appear to require a material organ since there is no material object that corresponds to the object of conception and therefore no "thing" to be sensed.
Souls cannot "see" or "hear" without "eyes" or "ears," as Aquinas noted a long time ago. (Also "eye" and "ear" must be understood in the extended sense to include the entire train of nerves and neurons involved in sight and hearing.) However, intellective beings supervene intellectively on that which they sense, so there is an intellective component even to sensed objects. That is, we not only see black marks on the screen, but we also understand the meanings of those black marks, which exist nowhere in the sensed object. For example, the black lines that comprise the sign H can mean different things to an English-reader, a Russian-reader, or a Cherokee-reader. Or for that matter to a reader of street signs or chemical formulae. No matter how carefully you measure the lengths and widths of the lines, the thickness of the strokes, the candlepower of their brightness, or their resistance to the electrical fluid, no materialistic measurement will reveal their meaning.
DG: this would seem to imply that God cannot interact with the material world.
God does not inter-act with the material world. He acts on the material world. Interaction ain't in it. In fact, the interaction "problem" is also a problem for naturalists. How does a falling rock interact with gravity? How does energy interact with the bodies it moves?
"How does an armadillo interact with modus tollens, or a cornfield interact with a paint? Still, there are arguments that turn on affirming there are armadillos, and paintings inspired by cornfields. Causality is not interaction."
Some discussions are here:
https://thomism.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/13207/
thomism.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/the-interaction-problem-4/
thomism.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/interaction-and-the-spear-thrower/
thomism.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/aristotles-interaction-problem/
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Іван Дмитрович Петухов (; 14 серпня 1919, Слобода — 22 серпня 1965) — радянський офіцер, учасник радянсько-фінської і німецько-радянської воєн, Герой Радянського Союзу (1944).

Біографія
Народився 14 серпня 1919 року в селі Слободі (нині Краснинського району Смоленської області) в сім'ї селянина. Росіянин. Закінчив неповну середню школу, працював у своєму колгоспі. У 1936 році переїхав в село Губіно (нині Гагарінського району), закінчив школу механізаторів. Працював трактористом на Вороб'ївській МТС.

У 1939 році був призваний в Червону армію. Служив у бронетанкових військах механіком-водієм танка. Учасник радянсько-фінської війни 1939–1940 років.

Німецько-радянська війна
З серпня 1941 року брав участь у німецько-радянській війні. У 1942 році закінчив Калинковицьке військове піхотне училище, евакуйоване в місто Вишній Волочок. У тому ж 1942 році вступив у ВКП(б). З травня 1942 знову брав участь у боях.

Батальйон 78-го гвардійського стрілецького полку (25-а гвардійська стрілецька дивізія, 6-а армія, 3-й Український фронт) під командуванням гвардії капітана Петухова разом з іншими підрозділами полку в ніч на 26 вересня 1943 року форсував Дніпро в районі села Військового (Солонянський район Дніпропетровської області) і оволодів плацдармом. У боях за розширення плацдарму за три доби безперервних боїв батальйон відбив більше 20 контратак ворога, а сам командир батальйону
особистим прикладом надихав бійців і командирів на виконання бойового завдання, водив бійців в контратаки, брав участь у рукопашних сутичках.

23 жовтня радянські війська перейшли в наступ. Після потужної артилерійської підготовки оборона противника була прорвана, і батальйон Петухова став стрімко просуватися вперед. Обходячи ворожі вузли опору і знищуючи їх атаками з тилу, гвардійці з боями пройшли десятки кілометрів, знищивши до 400 солдатів і офіцерів, захопивши 15 гармат, 12 мінометів і склад із зерном.

Указом Президії Верховної Ради СРСР від 22 лютого 1944 року за зразкове виконання завдань командування в боротьбі проти німецько-фашистських загарбників і проявлені при цьому мужність і героїзм Петухову Івану Дмитровичу було присвоєно звання Героя Радянського Союзу з врученням ордена Леніна і медалі «Золота Зірка» (№ 2 508).

Перебував на фронті до останнього дня війни. За чотири роки отримав шість поранень, але всякий раз повертався в стрій.

Повоєнні роки

У 1945 році закінчив курси «Постріл». З 1961 року полковник Петухов — в запасі. Жив у місті Кременчуці Полтавської області. Помер 22 серпня 1965 року. Похований в Севастополі на Братському кладовищі радянських воїнів.

Нагороди
Нагороджений орденами Леніна, Червоного Прапора, Богдана Хмельницького 2-го ступеня, Олександра Невського, Червоної Зірки, медалями.

Література
 Марченко А. Д. «Герои-широнинцы». — Видання друге, доповнене. — Харків: «Прапор», 1974. — стор 122.
 Воробйов М. В., Тітов В. Е., Храпченков А. К. Смоляне — Герои Советского Союза. 3-є видання, доповнене. Москва, 1982. / стор.428—429;
 Днепр — река героев. Київ, 1983. / стор. 334;
 Герои Советского Союза. Краткий биографический словарь. Том 2. — Москва, 1988.

Уродженці Краснинського району Смоленської області
Учасники радянсько-фінської війни
Радянські військовики Другої світової війни
Члени КПРС
Учасники Битви за Дніпро
Персоналії:Кременчук
Поховані на Братському кладовищі радянських воїнів в Севастополі

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Ahead of 5G iPhone 12, Verizon leads w/ ~500Mbps, T-Mobile wins availability
Michael Potuck
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Ahead of the iPhone 12 lineup debuting this fall with 5G support, Opensignal is out with a report on the major US carriers' 5G performance. Leading by a big margin for average 5G speed is Verizon, but T-Mobile handily won 1st place for availability. Read on for a break down of where US carriers are at with rolling out 5G.
Deploying 5G service in the US is definitely still in the early stages but all of the major US carriers have begun the process in select cities.
The important thing to keep in mind is that Verizon so far has been rolling out mmWave 5G while AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint have been using mostly low and mid-spectrum band 5G. What that means is Verizon 5G is much faster at the moment but the range and availability are really limited. Conversely, T-Mobile and AT&T's 5G average speeds on the low and mid-band frequencies are more similar to good 4G connections but have better range and availability.
The results below came from 2.4 million devices and almost 16 billion measurements between March and June of this year.
With that in mind, here's how things shook out in Opensignal's testing:
This is the average speed each carrier offered for specifically 5G connections. Verizon gave an impressive 494.7 Mbps average while T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint offered on average just 10% of that.
However, here's the flipside…
T-Mobile's 5G availability was much better than any other carrier with 5G users able to actually use a 5G connection 22.5% of the time. Coming in last, Verizon 5G users were able to use the new connection less than 0.5% of the time.
With that in mind, Opensignal put together a helpful metric that paints a more clear picture of what actual daily performance is like. This metric considers the average speeds based on 3G/4G/5G connections since 5G availability is mostly rare at this point.
So while Verizon's almost 500Mbps average 5G speeds sound impressive, they're available so little of the time that Verizon's average ends up tying (just below) AT&T at 41 and 42.6 Mbps, respectively. T-Mobile came in third with an average of 33.7Mbps.
Are you looking forward to picking up an iPhone 12 with 5G support? Or are you not convinced it will matter a whole lot until carriers expand their coverage for the next-gen connection? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
The iPhone 12 includes 5G speed, an A14 Bionic chip, an edge-to-edge OLED display, and it comes in multiple color options starting at $699.
Michael is an editor for 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Electrek, and DroneDJ. You'll find most of his writing on 9to5Mac where he covers news, reviews, how-tos, and more.
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Thank You Mama Earth For Holding Space For Us All In 2020
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With Strong Roots, Learners Gain Wings to Fly!
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children, One of these is roots, the other, wings."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oh what a wondrous finale to our Forest School season: this was our last week of class together for the fall and we had quite...
What Could Be More Natural Than Children Making Art Outside?
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."- Margaret J. Wheatley When among the trees, it's natural to understand the web of connection and community. The connection of its leaves, the mini beasts to the deadwood, the birds...
To Feel Joy, We Will Practice Gratitude
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We Are Bouncers Against Those That Rush Childhood
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"To listen with an open heart and ask questions to better help us understand the other person is a spiritual exercise, in the truest sense of the word."- Harriet Lerner Last week our learners encountered a very interesting group socio-emotional experience. Our wise...
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If you like Taylor Swift and need something for on the wall then you should check out this 2019 Taylor Swift wall calendar.
The wall calendar will make you stare at Taylor Swift for a whole year long because there will be a nice new photo of Taylor.
And the 2019 Taylor Swift wall calendar is a 16 month calendar so it even starts in 2018.
Like any good calendar this has a great calendar grid for writing important dates for you like birthday's and maybe doctor's appointments. And on the Taylor Swift calendar you will find the major holidays already find out so you can check when they holidays are.
We all need to organize some loose papers and that is why there are pocket folders and now there is this Taylor Swift pocket folder that looks amazing and is just perfect for the true fans.
The Taylor Swift portfolio shows a real nice photo of Taylor on the front as she stands against a really cool dark wall that has her name on it. The pocket folder is 11.5 x 9.31 inches and that makes it perfect for storing those papers that you have lying around.
Pocket folders like these are great for at school, the office, and at home and would make great as part of you back to school set.
Now there is a pop art Taylor Swift wall clock that is just perfect for on a wall in your home so that you always know what time it is.
The wall clock is available with a black, white, or wood edge and on the clock, you can see a portrait of Taylor Swift in a pop art style.
The Taylor Swift clock has a 10-inch diameter and runs on 1 AA battery (not included). And the wall clock has 3 hands so that you can even count the seconds while watching the face of Taylor.
2017 is the year that will bring Taylor Swift to you home thanks to this Taylor Swift wall calendar.
The calendar offers amazing photo's of Taylor while she is performing. Each month a new image to look at. And like any good calendar, this one too has lots or room to write on and even includes all the major holidays which makes it so much easier to find out at what day 2017 starts.
And you can start using the calendar of Taylor Swift already in 2016 as it offers a planning page that covers July – December.
If you ever wonder how Taylor Swift comes up with these amazing songs then just look at this iPhone case that shows Taylor laying down in the grass thinking up new songs.
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Yes we all have that feeling sometimes, especially when you got too much homework to do.
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The STEAM Academy will open in August at the old Johnson Elementary School building on East Sixth Street. But the district intends to permanently move STEAM to the former Winn-Dixie store on South Broadway next year after the building has been renovated.
Shelton said Wednesday, however, that no purchase deal has been reached and that the district is still negotiating with KTRS.
Shelton said he hopes to submit a purchase contract to the Fayette County Board of Education to consider at its July meeting. The Kentucky Board of Education also would have to approve the site.
The STEAM Academy (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) is a joint effort by the school district and the University of Kentucky, intended to allow students to take college courses while in high school. It ultimately will have 600 students in grades 9-12.
Online criticism of the Winn-Dixie plan began building last weekend. It's unclear who or how many critics there are because they haven't made their names public.
The "Anony Mous" email sent Tuesday apparently went to about 150 families with children who will be attending STEAM this fall. According to the school district, the writer apparently used the Fayette Schools' email distribution list to send the message.
In addition to the suggestion of a lawsuit, Tuesday's email included a link to the Fayette County Public Schools Action Committee's website. The committee says on its website that it is composed of "parent advocates" who have an "adversarial relationship" with the school district and are engaged in "advocacy and oversight."
The former Winn-Dixie building is located in a strip mall near South Broadway and Virginia Avenue. The retirement system acquired it as an investment in the 1990s, but it has been vacant for about five years, KTRS executive secretary Gary Harbin said.
Shelton said in an interview Wednesday that the building will offer several advantages as a STEAM site once it is updated.
"We needed a place right on, or adjacent to, the UK campus, and that shopping center is right across the street from some of UK's programs," he said. "It's right down Virginia Avenue from the College of Pharmacy. It's on the UK shuttle route. The location fits our needs and criteria."
Shelton also said that locating STEAM in an existing building would be cheaper and quicker than building a new building, which would require extensive plans and state approvals.
"If we worked toward constructing a building, completion would be a minimum of three to five years out, no matter where it's located," Shelton said.
Shelton said the school district intends to extensively renovate the 44,000-square-foot supermarket building before STEAM moves in. Academy students will help plan the improvements, school district officials say.
When the Fayette Schools unveiled plans for the STEAM Academy last year, officials said it would be on or near UK's campus so students could more easily attend university classes. UK's new master plan in April showed the STEAM Academy possibly being built on campus behind the Taylor Education Building on Scott Street.
The anonymous email sent to parents Tuesday argued that the Scott Street location would have offered good campus access. In contrast, it described the Winn-Dixie building as a "windowless, one story ex-grocery chain building" surrounded by "asphalt, concrete, a microbrewery and a few fast-food restaurants."
Jack Hayes, the Fayette Schools' student achievement director, emailed a response to parents later Tuesday countering many of the arguments in the anonymous message.
Hayes asserted that using the existing building "saves the taxpayers many, many dollars" that would have been required for a new building.
Meanwhile, Shelton insisted in an interview Wednesday that the proposed academy site behind the UK education building always was intended as a "backup" in case a suitable existing building couldn't be found. Mary John O'Hair, dean of the UK College of Education, agreed.
Shelton said school district officials looked at various potential sites for STEAM before settling on the Winn-Dixie building. At one point, they considered the Lexington Theological Seminary, across Nicholasville Road from UK, before learning that the university was buying it, he said.
Shelton said that although he's on the Kentucky Teacher Retirement Board, he didn't learn that KTRS owned the former supermarket building until the school system began seriously considering it in late winter or early spring.
KTRS owns almost $20 billion worth of investment property, and many individual parcels are unknown to him, he said.
On its website, the Fayette County Public Schools Action Committee points to Shelton's positions on the KTRS board and investment committee, suggesting he "might fairly be considered the decision-maker for both the seller and buyer in this deal."
Harbin, the KTRS executive director, said Wednesday that neither KTRS trustees nor investment committee members vote on buying or selling KTRS investment properties. Those decisions are made by in-house staff or external property managers, he said.
According to Harbin, Bellwether Real Estate Capital manages the Winn-Dixie property for KTRS.
Asked about possible conflicts of interest in negotiations for the building, Harbin said both KTRS and the Fayette Schools are taking steps to avoid problems.
He said KTRS directed its management firm to do an outside appraisal of the building's value "just so there wouldn't be any kind of conflict of interest should the two parties come to an agreement on the property."
Shelton said the Fayette district has done its own separate appraisal on the building, as it routinely does when it buys or sells property.
"When we learned that the teacher retirement system owned it, we wanted to make sure it was an arms-length transaction with no conflicts of interest," he said.
Shelton said both appraisals came up under the $4 million value the Fayette County PVA has placed on the property. He said he couldn't disclose the amounts of the appraisals because negotiations for the property are ongoing.


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Here are the slides from my talk 'Patronage and people: Paul's perspective in Philippians' at the 'Engaging with Poverty in the Early Church and Today' conference at St Mary's University, Twickenham today, saved in pdf format. This was an enjoyable talk to work on, and allowed me to draw on and develop the thinking inPatronage and people slides my earlier essay, 'Paul, Patronage and Pay: What Do We Know about the Apostle's Financial Support?' Pages 220-33 in Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice. Edited by Trevor J. Burke and Brian S. Rosner. LNTS 420. London: T. & T. Clark, 2011—you can find more of the technical details there.
I appreciated the thoughtful and impassioned 'partner' talk by Helen Hekel of Tearfund from the modern angle, drawing on her experience as an aid worker in Darfur and other places. She gave us some very helpful angles on patronage today, and (encouragingly for me, at least) ended up in a very similar place to my paper—focusing on the importance of partnership between those who give and those who receive.
More on the conference to follow…it's day two tomorrow.


The Cannes Film Festival is usually known for opulent gowns and extravagance, but this year the black and white trend took over and made the entire event feel more simplistic. Everyone from Rooney Mara and Jennifer Lawrence in Dior to Emma Watson in Chanel and a slew of other stars went with the trend. There are two ways to approach the trend: either go classic with a red lip and classic jewels or minimalist with barely there make-up and jewelery for a more modern feel. This trend is one that can easily be recreated at home and can be adjusted to suit anyone's lifestyle and budget. Just remember, less really is more!


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French activists use Macron portraits to urge climate action
Sunday, Dec 8th 2019 (07:21 PM)
French environmental activists brandished stolen portraits of President Emmanuel Macron at a protest Sunday near the Eiffel Tower to try to push the government to do more to fight climate change.
The protest is part of an unusual climate movement that has taken root around France this year, in which activists have stolen more than 130 portraits of Macron from town halls from the Alps to the Atlantic.
They feel the centrist, business-friendly Macron isn't doing enough to reduce France's emissions, even though he portrays himself on the global stage as Mr. Climate.
A hundred activists hold portraits of President Emmanuel Macron to urge France to take action during the U.N. COP 25 climate talks in Madrid, during a gathering at Place du Trocadero facing the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. Environmental activists around France have removed President Emmanuel Macron's official portrait from town halls around the country in an unusual protest movement aimed at pushing him to do more to slow climate change. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)
The activists brought the portraits to Sunday's protest — carrying them upside down to show what they consider Macron's hypocrisy — to call for bolder government action at the U.N. COP25 climate talks currently underway in Madrid.
Pauline Boyer from climate group ANV COP21 said the demonstration is aimed at showing "that Emmanuel Macron uses doublespeak, by presenting himself as a climate champion while he is not enforcing a true policy in France that could tackle the environment challenge."
Activists are notably angry that France has lagged on its international commitments to increase use of solar and wind energy and reduce emissions. France remains well behind its European neighbors in its use of renewable energy.
Macron has stood up to U.S. President Donald Trump on the need for countries and corporations to cooperate to cut emissions. However, Macron backed down on a fuel tax last year meant to help wean France off fossil fuels, because the tax triggered the yellow vest protest movement against economic injustice.
The activists at Sunday's protest held 100 portraits, to mark 100 days until France's municipal elections to replace mayors in town halls across the country. They want to urge future mayors to take local climate action, and some held a banner reading: "Local elections — D-day minus 100, let's reveal Macron's real face."
Activists are facing trials around France for the thefts, with some acquitted and some hit with fines.
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This Spaniel portrait of a dog called Poppy was commissioned as a Christmas present for the owner. The ladies daughter was able (with some help from her five year old son) to take a photo of Poppy without her mum's knowing, making it a great surprise.
Portraits of pets can be painted on a small 20 x 20cm canvas, where only the face is included or, as in this case, on larger frames that allow more of the animal to be included. Prices vary according to the size, number of pets and whether you would like the background included.
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Q: FindBugs new Formula I often do this kind of mistake, instead of:
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i do this:
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I think, this should be detectable with FindBugs (or any other static analysis utility), which I currently use with Eclipse.
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*static call

*we don't save the returned value

Message similar to:

You apparently forgot to save returned value of call, or you're missing .show() call on returned Toast variable

This message is strictly localized to this type of mistake, but it could contain more conditions or this can be some common mistake.
But what I do miss, is some tutorial, how can we add new recipes to FindBugs database. Can you please point me to place I haven't found in my search or offer me another solution for finding this kind of problem?

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*FindBugs, Part 2: Writing custom detectors

*Adding Detectors from FindBugs sources

The former qualifies as a tutorial, I guess.

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On the way to Florida (READ POST) we stopped for the night in Ringgold,Georgia. There was just enough daylight for a quick tour of The Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Park.
In 1890, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was the first such site created by Congress.
The purpose of this post is to be a quick visual "walkabout" of the area with a few facts (that I wasn't aware of) thrown in.
Many years before the Civil War battle, the Cherokee Indians, after many battles, had named the stream that runs thru the battlefield "The River of Death" or Chickamauga.
During the Spanish American War, more American soldiers died during training on the Chickamauga Battlefield than during all the fighting in Cuba and the Caribbean during that four month war in 1898.
With his brigades deployed in column, Brig. Gen. Henry Clayton's was the first to hit three Federal brigades around the Brotherton Farm. They fired until their ammunition was gone.
Today the Battlefield is home to some wild turkeys. They even have a Wild Turkey 5 Mile Run.
A great place for some jogging. As a matter of fact the The Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon, in its 33rd year, is run through the nation's oldest military park. Known as the "most family-friendly" marathon, the runner-up for "most scenic" marathon, and third for best overall marathon.
The "Soldier" below spent about eight hours in the car driving from Lancaster,Ohio (Home town of General Sherman) and then a few hours walking/driving around the battlefield.
It was time to take this "Trooper" for some chow and a good nights rest at the Ringgold Hampton Inn on Battlefield Parkway(thumbs up)……We appreciated the hospitality..
Old Lady & The Farmer For Funny Monday.
A farmer stopped by the local mechanics' shop to have his truck fixed.
They couldn't do it while he waited, so he said he didn't live far and would just walk home.
On the way home, he stopped at the hardware store and bought a bucket and a gallon of paint.
picked up a couple of chickens and a goose. However, struggling outside the store, he now had a problem, how to carry all his purchases home.
'Why, thank you very much,' he said and proceeded to walk the old girl home.
On the way, he said 'Let's take my short cut and go down this alley. We'll be there in no time.' The little old lady looked him over cautiously and then said, 'I am a lonely widow without a husband to protect me. How do I know that when we get in the alley you won't hold me up against the wall pull up my skirt, and have your way with me?
The old lady replied, 'Set the goose down, cover him with the bucket, put the paint on top of the bucket, and I'll hold the chickens.
Andersonville Prison: National Prisoner of War Museum: Andersonville National Cemetery. For the purpose of this post we will concentrate on Andersonville Prison & Cemetery.
On our way to Florida we took a side trip to Andersonville National Historic Site and I am so glad we did. During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison, and of these 12,913 died. When you are standing in the middle of the prison (basically an open field) this is a very sobering thought.
The prison, which opened in February 1864,originally covered about 16.5 acres of land enclosed by a 15-foot (4.6 m) high stockade. In June 1864 it was enlarged to 26.5 acres . The stockade was in the shape of a rectangle 1,620 feet by 779 feet . There were two entrances on the west side of the stockade, known as "north entrance" and "south entrance.
This shows the low ground in the middle of the prison and the creek running thru it.
The DEADLINE represents the inner row. If a prisoner touched or crossed the DEADLINE they were killed by the sentries located in the pigeon roosts.
Many prisoners were without shelter and constructed crude dwellings known as "shebangs," made from various items including cloth, mud bricks, tree limbs, and brush.
August 13, the great cloud appeared.
Suddenly, there came a thunderous, deafening roar. From men who knew the sound all too well, it was said to be like the explosion of a thousand cannon.
Read about The "RAIDERS" & "REGULATORS" inside the prison CLICK…I had not heard this story. Another post will be dedicated to the National Prisoner of War Museum.


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The rapid evolution of modern photonic devices in digital photographic and detection systems creates a need for physically-based simulation of charge collection and transfer. In this article we show the linearity, spatial sensitivity, and spectral response of a generalized silicon pixel structure using the Luminous module of the ATLAS device simulator. The Luminous module is used to simulate net charge generation due to incident light energy, and the S-Pisces module is used to simulate charge transport and generation-recombination mechanisms using the standard drift-diffusion transport equations coupled with Shockley-Read-Hall, Auger, and optical generation-recombination models.
The charge collection structure modeled here is typical of imaging applications, where charge is formed by electron-hole pair generation due to light incident on the silicon substrate. The charge is kept confined laterally by a transfer channel stop, shown in Figure 1 as a thick field oxide outside the active charge transfer region, and a lower concentration of phosphorus under the gate region. Generally, the charge transfer in pixel and charge-coupled devices is due to diffusion, drift due to the electric field, and fringing electric field effects. Free charge-transfer is used to simulate these mechanisms by modeling only the free electrons in the conduction band.
Figure 1 shows a generalized phosphorus-doped, polysilicon-gated pixel structure that is used to model linearity, spatial sensitivity, and spectral response of charge collection and transfer mechanisms. The structure was created in the ATHENA process module, and the solution grid was then modified for device simulation using the DevEdit device editor. The n-well pixel on the left side of the structure is coupled to the n-well drain on the right side by the polysilcon reset gate. The aluminum drain contact is isolated from the reset gate contact by silicon dioxide. As shown in Figure 1, the oxide retains charge from the implant process. Oxide charge is not modeled in this simulation, however, trapped and mobile oxide charge can be simulated using the ORCHID module.
Figure 1. The n-well charge collection and transfer structure.
To set up the charge collection and transport condition, the drain contact is biased to the 5V steady-state condition with the gate and substrate contacts grounded, as shown in Figure 2. This bias condition drops the drain well potential while keeping the drain isolated from the pixel. The reset gate is then biased to 5V, which lowers the potential under the gate and creates a region of high electron concentration in the n-well, as shown in Figure 3. The gate is then reset to 0V and the structure solution is immediately saved before illumination, as shown in Figure 4.
the metallurgical junction and depletion region edges.
Figure 3. The pixel structure with the reset gate biased at 5V.
Figure 4. The pixel structure with the gate contact reset to 0V, ready for illumination.
From the setup condition in Figure 4, the transient electrical behavior of the structure is simulated under a sequence of spot powers and frequencies for a duration of 10 ms (ramped from zero to peak intensity over 1ns), to model the linearity, spatial, and spectral response of the pixel. Response curves are extracted from the voltage change just under the surface of the pixel center.
For the transient response of the n-well, consider that as the free electron charge density in the pixel region increases due to irradiated energy, the surface and bulk potential decrease. This change is associated with the filling of the potential well with electrons. For a fixed gate voltage, the surface potential decreases linearly to first order as electron concentration increases. Thus we expect a linear potential and charge collection response in a constant-flux irradiation condition.
Figure 5 shows the linearity of device response with beam intensity at 500nm, corrected for dark current during the transient. Saturation occurs near 60 mW/cm , and the sensitivity of potential and charge is nearly linear at lower intensities, as expected from the discussion above.
Figure 6 shows the spatial response across the entire test structure at 500nm and 10 mW/cm spot power calculated as the change in potential under the pixel surface center after 10 ms, corrected for leakage current during the transient.
illumination for 10 ms at 10 mW/cm spot power.
The spectral response of the pixel structure is shown in Figure 7 for wavelengths of 200-1200 nm at 10 mW/cm2 spot power during the 10 ms transient, corrected for leakage current. The peak sensitivity occurs near 500 nm, and drops to 50% of the peak sensitivity near 600nm and 350 nm.
power at 500 nm illumination for 10 ms.
It is important to consider the effect of dark current in the characterization of charge transport for this test structure. Dark current is a result of carrier generation in the depletion region, diffusion current at the depletion region edge, and the surface generation current. All these mechanisms are primarily dependent on the minority carrier lifetime, the diffusion constant, the diffusion length, and the surface recombination rate. For the structure considered here, the surface recombination rate is a negligible term compared to lifetimes and diffusion parameters, since the larger area of the pixel storage surface is free of charge coupling effects with a surface oxide or electrode which may cause nearly equal electron and hole concentrations, resulting in a large surface recombination rate and surface generation-recombination current. The other components of dark current, depletion region generation and diffusion current, are normalized in this analysis by subtracting the change in potential due to dark current (to first order) by extracting a dark 10 ms transient potential change.
The step illumination response of a biased pixel structure is modeled using drift diffusion, generation-recombination, and optical models in ATLAS and Luminous, in the free charge-transfer model, which considers only free electrons in the conduction band. The transition of conduction band electrons to bound states and midgap states, such as interface traps, is typically considered at medium to low frequencies in surface and buried CCDs. Also, trapped and mobile oxide charge under steady-state and transient bias conditions may be optionally modeled in ORCHID for devices which exhibit surface effects typically associated with oxide charge.
Spatial sensitivity and spectral response are simulated in the linear range of potential sensitivity to illumination intensity at 10 mW/cm2. The peak frequency sensitivity occurs near 500nm, and the n-well charge collection region is the most sensitive part of the structure, as expected. We also note that charge integration in the n-well pixel (calculations from the TonyPlot 'Extract' statement, not shown) gives nearly the same results as change in potential, which is the expected result.
S.M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1981.


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Brett Carter leads Dean's Office in bolstering UNCG's culture of care
April 18, 2017 by Michael D Harris
In his office, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Brett Carter has a wall of thank you notes from students. They're thanking him for the support they needed to finish a successful semester, or for help in reaching graduation and in completing their college degrees. He'll likely get another flood of them in May, as his work continues and the Dean of Students Office considers the past year and looks toward the next.
"Our philosophy here in the Dean of Students Office, as well as throughout the rest of the campus, is creating the culture of care," he said. "So, we look at our successes—what has helped students fulfill their academic and individual goals and graduate and advance. Then we think about the incoming class and about what we can do to enhance that culture of care."
Carter grew up in a family of nine, and when he became one of only two siblings in his family to go to college, he was struck by the care he experienced on a college campus. After majoring in human relations at High Point University, he thought he'd work for a nonprofit agency, but then he said to a friend, "Man, I don't ever want to leave college. I want to stay in college."
The friend told him about how he could get a graduate degree in higher education, so he came to UNCG to earn his Ph.D in higher education administration. As a UNCG staff member, he started in the Department of Housing and Residence Life, as an area director, and then the assistant director. In 2010 he became the dean of students and was named associate vice chancellor in 2016. Sometimes people ask him how he can work at the same place for 21 years.
"I love what I do," he answers. "I love the UNCG environment, and there are just so many things UNCG has to offer. This is where I want to be."
Carter envisions the Dean of Students Office as a hub of support, for students who are new to campus or for any students who are seeking support resources. The staff works collaboratively with a number of departments on the first-year experience, university policy, judicial affairs, student safety concerns, student advocacy, academic integrity and crisis management. More than anything, they want to help students locate and navigate support resources on campus.
"We want you to know that here at UNCG, we care. We care about your success. And success can have different definitions." Carter cites successful moving-in experiences for freshmen, successful first semesters acclimating to the college environment or students successfully managing wellness—all essential for academic success.
The Dean of Students Office manages several unique programs for helping students feel connected to support and resources. One of those is UNCG Cares. It's a program for faculty and staff that trains them to recognize students in distress and to connect them to support resources for further help. When a faculty or staff member completes the training, they are given a UNCG Cares sticker to place on their office door, to let students know they can come to that office for support. The program has received national recognition and Carter has shared it with other campuses, such as UNC Chapel Hill.
Another program is Dining with the Deans, which the office hosts four or five times each semester. At those events, students are invited to have lunch with the Dean of Students Office, to learn about the office and listen to presentations by speakers from a variety of campus departments. Carter says students leave the lunches knowing more about support resources on campus, and recognizing that the Dean of Students Office is somewhere they can go for help.
Recently, Carter spoke to the Class of 1967 at their 50th reunion celebration (see visual). He spoke about something that is very important to him: students who face temporary homelessness or food insecurity.
"It has always been a dream of mine to provide support for students in an emergency," he said. "Their ability to access resources may determine whether they can stay in school, and it might be the thing that keeps them in school."
The Class of 1967 raised approximately $12,000 for the Student Assistance Fund for Emergencies. With that gift, students who experience an emergency that causes them to lose their housing or ability to buy food will have the resources they need to remain enrolled at UNCG. Helping bolster the health and success of the UNCG student population is a collaborative effort, as Carter points out. Many departments and individuals take part.
"One of the things that I really like about UNCG and the culture here is that people genuinely want to help students," he said. "I love being able to work in an environment where everybody has the same goal in mind—we all want to see our students succeed."
By Susan Kirby-Smith
Photography by Martin W. Kane
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Euclosiana guinotae is een krabbensoort uit de familie van de Leucosiidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2010 door Galil & Ng.

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29 Years Ago: Brooks & Dunn's 'Brand New Man' Goes Triple Platinum
The Boot Staff Updated: June 23, 2017
Twenty-nine years ago today (June 23, 1993) was a record-breaking day for Brooks & Dunn -- and for country music. It was on that date that B&D's debut album, Brand New Man, was certified triple platinum, making them the first country music duo to sell 3 million copies of an album.
Brand New Man, which was released on Aug. 13, 1991, includes four consecutive No. 1 hits: the title track, "My Next Broken Heart," "Neon Moon" and "Boot Scootin' Boogie." Produced by Don Cook and Scott Hendricks, the record features 10 songs, all of which were written by either Kix Brooks or Ronnie Dunn; the two men co-wrote four of the tracks together.
Brand New Man has sold more than 6 million copies to date, and it won an ACM trophy for Album of the Year, with "Boot Scootin' Boogie" also taking home an ACM for Single of the Year. The guys were both surprised by their instant success, but one country music legend knew that they had something magical with their freshman record.
Brooks and Dunn Brand New Man album cover
"I remember Bill Anderson was doing a radio show at Opryland when we first got started," Brooks recalls to CMT. ""Brand New Man" had really taken off. He said, 'Boys, do you know what it means to have your career song as your very first single?' We looked at each other. 'It's over?! Dang, Bill!' He just put a period on our career with our first dang song."
While eight of Brooks & Dunn's 10 studio albums have been certified at least platinum, none of their subsequent records met the same sales success of Brand New Man. But thankfully, the duo had many more "career songs": They charted 50 singles, including 20 that went all the way to No. 1.
Brooks & Dunn reunited for a Las Vegas residency with Reba McEntire in 2015. The Reba, Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas shows went so well that the concert collaboration has continued. In 2019, they released Reboot, an album of hits re-imagined as collaborations with some of today's big country stars.
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FRAC (Formula Regional Asian Championship) is one of the two winter series, the other being F4 UAE, that take place in the Middle East as a precursor to the main season in the feeder series calendar. It starts today (January 21st) and will last for five weeks until the end of February. By Tyler Foster... Continue Reading →
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Whatsapping with Gabriele Mini: 'I sometimes wasn't happy with my pace'
It's fair to say Gabriele Minì is one of Italian brightest stars in feeder series. After taking the Italian F4 title for his maiden single-seater season in 2020, he then stepped up to the very competitive Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine (FRECA) with ART Grand Prix last year. By Perceval Wolff The 16-year-old driver... Continue Reading →
Colombo Praises Team After First F3 Win: 'We're Analysing The Data Properly'
In classic Spa-Francorchamps fashion, the weather threw another double six on Saturday morning as the first Formula 3 race of the weekend was affected by a tremendous downpour that delayed the start by over an hour. But when the shortened race finally got underway amidst slightly calming rain, it was Campos Racing's Lorenzo Columbo that... Continue Reading →
From being too young to compete to driving two series in one year, 2021 has been a year of extremes for Jak Crawford. And that show in his results. Where the Red Bull Junior has shone in Euroformula Open, he had a tougher time in FIA Formula 3. By Floris Visman Red Bull and Jak... Continue Reading →
Why Austria Was Crawford's Best and Worst Weekend
A single 8th place finish, that's all Jak Crawford got out of the third round at the Red Bull Ring. For the young American Austria was a case of what could have been as he was on course for maybe even a pole and a win. Jak Crawford is the youngest driver in the FIA... Continue Reading →
Lawson 'Disappointed' With Messy Baku Weekend: 'It's Not At All What We Wanted'
Baku started great for Liam Lawson with pole position for the Feature Race. But from there on everything went downhill for the Hitech GP driver. "It's very disappointing to be one of the fastest on track all weekend and not come away with more." If everything went his way, Red Bull junior Liam Lawson could... Continue Reading →


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