Last week, I had the privilege of attending the runDisney Disneyland half meet up. It was my first west coast meet up, and I was stoked to participate…as you can see by the below photo.
Bloggers Meghann, Carissa and myself snagged a photo with Ali before we had to walk over to the meet up.
On the walk over, I took advantage of the small group of us and got some photos and even a fun video of Joey. He cracks me up.
After introductions were made, we had a good form mini running "clinic" from New Balance. It was a fun way to start the morning, making sure we are all running correctly!
Before we headed out on our run I got to see Joe from The Marathon Show. He ran the half, maybe you saw him on the course?
Also, I finally got to meet some bloggers I have "known" for a long time online, like Monica! (With funny girl Carissa photo bombing us of course).
Also, I finally got to hang with Linzie for a bit.
We were split into two groups: the Galloway group and the straight run group. I headed out with the straight run group for a humid run through the parks. Having never participated in a west coast meet up, I found it really fun to run through empty Disneyland!
I was so excited when I saw the castle with no one in front of it. Not a shot you see often.
We ran through the castle into Fantasyland where we were greeted by Alice! We took some photos then went for a spin on the teacups.
I don't know why but the below photo cracks me up.
I got to hang out a lot with my buddy Cindy from runningskirts.com, and last year's Disneyland half champ! Skirt buddies for the win!
We picked back up on our run and headed into California Adventure park and through Cars Land which was a lot of fun.
As we headed over to grab some grub, I caught up with Sean Astin who is the king of funny faces.
When it was time to take a photo with the mad hatter, he insisted we stand facing the stage. Ok, sure thing!
It was time to eat and get ready for the program, yum yum, I was starving.
Since my earlier Joey photo was so dark, I had to get another and chat about the New Orleans concert I went to as a teen. Same convo from January. Maybe he remembered me? Wishful thinking I believe.
The program began, and I was super excited to learn more from Amy Roth of ABC about the new show airing this fall: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. I am a HUGE Once Upon a Time fan, so I am interested to see this spin off. We got to watch an extended preview of the show, so fun!
We also heard from Tara, runDisney's nutritionist, about eating strategies: "just because you run 14 miles does NOT mean you can eat whatever you want." Darn.
We also heard from one of the coolest dudes around, Jeff Galloway. He is always so encouraging and gives great race day tips.
The always inspiring Ali Vincent also took the stage and said she is running Dopey in January!
Sean Astin also talked about running, but with his daughter. He loves making it a family affair.
Joey Fatone broke our hearts when he said NSYNC was not getting back together. Sad. He did a little Bye Bye Bye dance for us though. More! More!
As the reigning female champ, Cindy got up and spoke about the race last year, and how important it was for her at that point in her life. She was also excited to run it again!
There was also a special surprise I was not expecting: the unveiling of some new runDisney medals by Faron Kelley! If you follow me on instagram you saw my feed blow up with individual photos of each medal. So pretty! My favorite is next year's Goofy.
At the end of the program, we took a group photo. Can you spot me?
We were given gift bags as we left, so generous of runDisney and some of the Disney sponsors!
It was a fun morning, and different from the east coast meet up's I have done. I loved getting to ride the teacups all by ourselves, and having meet and greets with some different characters was a blast. The meet up got me geared up and ready to run dumbo the following day! A huge thanks to runDisney for hosting such a fabulous event.
QOTD: Who is your favorite character from Alice in Wonderland? Do you like to ride the teacups?
Disclosure: I attended this event as media invited by runDisney, however all opinions are my own.
Can I just tell you– so jealous of your life. I would've died if I would've spent that much time with Joey Fatone… ahhh– my 90's heart was beating so fast reading this haha!
trust me mine was beating fast too lol!
The Queen of Hearts! Yes I ride the tea cups.
Love the medals! My favorite is the Mad Hatter. Not a teacups fan, haha.
I was so jealous when I read the meet up would include a OUATiW preview. I'm also a huge fan of OUAT so I can't wait to see what this one has in store.
Thanks for the great medal photos, btw. rD still hasn't released anything official so I'm using your photos, well photo of the Donald, as motivation.
I can't wait to see the show. GL with training!
Heather, great post and with some pretty awesome pics. I really love following along on your RunDisney adventures!
I love all of your pictures Heather! That picture of Alice made me chuckle as well. Too cute! Looks like you had a blast-I can't wait to read all of your posts about the weekend. One of these days I'm dreaming of running at Disneyland and getting that gorgeous Coast to Coast medal!
it's a heavy medal! hope you get one!
Looks like SO much FUN!! I would love to be able to go to a meet-up someday!
Looks like fun! Love the empty parks! Btw, I would have had to skip on the teacups….my tummy wouldn't have agreed! Great recap!!
I was nervous about that so I told whoever was going to ride with me that there would be NO extra spinning with the wheel!
That meet-up was super fun! Mad Hatter is my favorite, and I was definitely excited for a spin on the teacups. Love the DL version of the teacups, where they have all those lanterns overhead!!
Can you believe I've never rode the Teacups???
Looks like a great time at the meet up. I couldn't see the medals very clearly, but are any of them medals for the GSC in 2014?
We have that same Disney tote bag. It's super cute isn't it?
Thanks for documenting this event and sharing it with us!
When I rode the teacups we didn't do any extra spinning with the wheel, so I was ok!
So fun!!!!! I LOVE the pics and videos! Thanks for sharing your experience with us! I normally don't ride the tea cups…I get too dizzy on that one. Give me a roller coaster any day but not something that goes round and round over and over lol!
too funny, I don't do big coasters!
Looks like fun! I'll make it in one of these years.
The Queen is awesome.. Great blog Heather and of course awesome pictures and video with JOEY!!
Joey seems like the coolest guy ever!!!
Looks like such a fun meet-up! I'm loving the new blue shirts.
How fun. Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy the recaps. Don't stop!
The Mad Hatter is definitely my favorite Alice character. I like the teacups too.
It looks like you guys had a blast! Love the pic of you and Sean Astin! He seems like such a cool, down to earth guy!


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YJ-18 (鹰击-18, букв. «Удар орла-18», обозначение НАТО — CH-SS-NX-13) — китайское семейство крылатых ракет, предназначенных для уничтожения надводных кораблей и наземных целей

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По данным Министерства обороны США ракета YJ-18 по характеристикам похожа на российскую 3М-54 «Клаб» с дозвуковом крейсерским и сверхзвуковым терминальным режимом; дальность стрельбы составляет 540 км. Некоторые западные аналитики считают, что в YJ-18 — это копия 3М-54Э с дальностью стрельбы 180 км при скорости М=0,8 и 40 км при скорости М=2,5...3,0; другие источники утверждают, что в варианте с подводным базированием ракета имеет дальность 500 км, скорость на терминальном участке траектории М=2 и высоту полёта меньшую, чем у российской ракеты «Калибр»/«Клаб».

Ракета может быть запущена из системы вертикального пуска, и, возможно, из торпедных аппаратов подводной лодки. Китайские СМИ утверждают, что ракета имеет инерциальную систему наведения с использованием навигационной спутниковой системы BeiDou и несёт осколочно-фугасную боевую часть весом 300 кг или противорадиолокационную боеголовку, для уничтожения электронных средств на короткой дистанции.

YJ-18 размещается на эсминцах типа 052D и в перспективе на эсминцах типа 055. Ракету могут нести атомные подводные лодки типа SHANG-II, оснащённые системой вертикального пуска. Ожидается, что ракета заменит устаревшую YJ-82 с дальностью 37 км на подводных лодках типа YUAN (проект 041) с воздухонезависимой энергетической установкой, дизель-электрических подводных лодках типа SONG (проект 039) и, вероятно, на подводных лодках типа 095, а также на подводных лодках проекта 877. Наземный вариант может заменить дозвуковую ракету YJ-62 с дальностью 400 км, предназначенную для береговых ракетных батарей.

Тактико-технические характеристики(предположительно)
 Дальность стрельбы: 220-540 км
 Скорость полёта:
 Маршевый участок — М=0,8
 Терминальный участок — М=2,5...3,0
 Система управления:
 Спутниковая навигационная система Бэйдоу
 Бортовая поисковая РЛС
 Боевая часть:
 Масса — 140-300 кг

Модификации

 YJ-18: исходная модификация корабль–земля.
 YJ-18А: противокорабельный вариант для установок вертикального пуска, предназначен для эсминцев проектов 052D и 055.
 YJ-8B: вариант для размещения на подводных лодках.
 Мобильный береговой вариант: обозначение неизвестно, запускается с транспортёра 12×12; возможно, оснащены более мощным стартовым ускорителем для увеличения дальности.

См. также
Похожие проекты

 YJ-12

Ракеты сходного типа

 3М-54 «Клаб»
 «Брамос»
 П-800 «Оникс»
 «Персей»

Ссылки

 Библиография
Ракетное оружие КНР

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Duration: Three years full-time or six years part-time
Applicants must have three A-levels at grades CCC or above including a science subject or Psychology, BTEC triple grades MMM or above, an Access diploma at 39-45 and GCSE English Language and Maths or Science at grade C or above.
This forensic criminology degree readies students to apply science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) to crime scene investigation. You'll understand how forensic science is employed within the criminal justice system and learn how to control, preserve, record, and recover evidence from a crime scene or other incident. You'll learn how to ask the questions relevant to investigating a crime, how to examine CCTV footage and photographs and how to produce and present evidence in court.
We merge the study of crime from a social perspective with the science of gathering and testing physical evidence from crime scenes; bringing you a blended criminology and forensic science degree.
Northumbria University's forensic science courses have been officially accredited by the leading professional body for forensic practice.
The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences is the only international professional body for forensic scientists and works to drive forward global standards in scientific investigation.
Northumbria's undergraduate and Master's courses in Forensic Science and the undergraduate course Criminology & Forensic Science have met the criteria required for the three component standards of this accreditation which cover laboratory analysis; the interpretation, evaluation and presentation of evidence; and crime scene investigation.
Northumbria's forensic science courses are taught by former practitioners who have worked on high-profile cases including the Stephen Lawrence, Joanna Yeates and PC Ian Broadhurst murders and the Ipswich serial killer case in which five women were murdered over a ten-day period in 2006.
Students learn in the University's on-site crime scene house and court room which helps to prepare them in assessing crime scenes and giving evidence in court cases. They gain hands-on experience in all relevant forensic fields including body fluid and DNA analysis, trace analysis, blood pattern interpretation and analytical chemistry in drugs and toxicology.
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Le Petit Grain is the latest fragrance to join the Nouvelle Edition collection at Miller Harris.
Incorporating every element of the orange tree from the oil from the peel of the fruit, to the flowers, to the leaves and the twigs, Le Petit Grain celebrates the great tradition of the cologne family and can be worn and enjoyed by the whole family.
With Le Petit Grain, Lyn [Harris] has created a careful fusion between each material. The sweet orange sets the tone and is enhanced by angelica racine, eau de brouts absolute (extraction from the leaves), bergamot from Italy and Sicilian lemon.
Additional notes include rosemary, red thyme, French tarragon, lavender, Tunisian neroli, oak moss, vetiver and patchouli leaves.
This sounds like all kinds of yum.
I adore petitgrain, so looking forward to trying this! It does sound great.
This immediately brought to mind Hermes Orange Verte, but the additional notes sound like they would add a good bit of depth and complexity. I think I need to explore this line — it looks really nice and I like the packaging too. Just realize that they make the "Geranium Bourbon" that recently caught my eye. I think I'll be getting a few samples (Citron Citron and Terre de Bois also jump out at me).
Had to laugh a little at the bit about "enjoyed by the whole family." Makes it sound like a Disney movie.
Terre de Bois is nice – that's the one Lyn Harris created to smell like "a gorgeous Frenchman". I think she's done a pretty good job!
There is something about the MH aesthetic that just doesn't agree w/ me. There are only 2 I really like: Jasmin Vert & Fleur du Matin. But this one does sound like it might be something I'd like!
I liked Fleur de Matin too, but the others I sampled left me sort of cold. Being a citrus freak, I will have to give this one a try – I love petitgrain in fragrance.


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Research Article|January 01 2019
Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies
Paul A. Kottman
The New School for Social Research, New York, New York
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 113-135.
https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-7279660
Paul A. Kottman; Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1 January 2019; 49 (1): 113–135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-7279660
Shakespeare's career moves from an explicit concern with theatrical drama to an increasing concern with what John Vyvyan called "the science of life." This article argues that this increased concern with ethics led Shakespeare to stop writing tragedies. Shakespeare's plays indeed point to the pastness of tragedy — the pastness of the hope that formal embodiments of ethical traumas can be directed at a beholding audience in the hope of rectifying them. That is, Shakespeare thought that the formal representation of social and ethical crisis, before an audience — the work of tragedy — could no longer, as such, hope to ameliorate it. Shakespeare understood that tragedy was not historically immune to the social- ethical crises it presented, and this recognition led to Shakespeare's more radical presentation of the pastness of art in his late plays, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
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The Fortunes of Tragedy
Adorno's Hamlet
Judith Shakespeare's Brother
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Fragile Connections
Introduction Competing Responsibilities: Reckoning Personal Responsibility, Care for the Other, and the Social Contract in Contemporary Life


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SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - long-term point-frame (percent basal cover) dataset following nutrient enrichment stress on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1982-2011, ARS Study Number 3
This data package was produced by researchers working on the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) Project, administered at Colorado State University. Long-term datasets and background information (proposals, reports, photographs, etc.) on the SGS-LTER project are contained in a comprehensive project collection within the Digital Collections of Colorado (http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/R/?func=collections&collection_id=...). The data table and associated metadata document, which is generated in Ecological Metadata Language, may be available through other repositories serving the ecological research community and represent components of the larger SGS-LTER project collection. Water, nitrogen, and water-plus-nitrogen at levels beyond the range normally experience by shortgrass steppe communities were applied from 1971 through 1975, plant densities were sampled through 1977, and then sampling resumed in 1982, with sampling frequencies changing from annually to every other year. The initial sampling from 1970 to 1974 showed that the water and water plus nitrogen treatments had the strongest effect on plant community structure, both treatments increased biomass, and exotic weed species were noted on the water plus nitrogen treatment. Later sampling from 1982 to 1991 showed a ten-fold increase in exotic weed species on the water plus nitrogen plots as compared to the controls (Milchunas and Lauenroth 1995), a community change that has persisted on this site due to a chronic elevation of soil nitrogen caused by a plant tissue/soil organic matter feedback mechanism (Vinton and Burke 1995). In 1998, Six new treatments were superimposed on the historic study site. The six new treatments were: control, sugar, lignin, sawdust, lignin and sugar, and sawdust and sugar.In 2010, plots will be sampled every 5 years. Our objective in this study is to examine how plant communities change through time and explore implications of these changes for monitoring potentially stressed ecosystems. Additional information and referenced materials can be found: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83317.
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Description Mouse monoclonal antibody IgG fraction (clone 7F5/F6) obtained by immunizing mice with five Chilean isolates of Yersinia ruckeri (whole bacterial cells). The IgG fraction was purified using Protein G-Sepharose.
Biological Activity This antibody can be used in ELISA (1: 4,000 dilution), Western blot (1: 8,000 dilution), and indirect immunoflurescence (1: 1,000 dilution) assays. Y. ruckeri is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that shows a variable motility due to the presence of flagella. These flagella are not always observed. It is the causative agent of enteric redmouth disease (ERM) which is characterized by a chronic or acute enterosepticemia with high morbidity and mortality rates in salmonids and non-salmonids species. Six serovars have been described according to whole-cell serological typing.


Last summer I took the Conscious Dying Institute Doula Certificate Training in Asheville. I don't know why I took it. I didn't really plan on changing careers and I have no previous experience working with dying people. I just felt drawn to understand death better in a deep, personal, and positive way. I knew that I wanted to be prepared for the deaths of my 80 year old parents and aging friends and family members.
At that time, we were seeing signs of my father's Alzheimer's, but we were all surprised by the speed with which it progressed. One day he's arguing politics over dinner and the next he doesn't remember the name of his favorite (and only) daughter. In between my mother, brothers and I make decisions about moving him into and then rapidly out of an assisted living facility, transitioning to their winter home, medications to calm his hostile anxiety, outside care assistance, and today, what to do now that he's becoming incontinent.
One of the most useful concepts that came from the training is that I can't "fix" death. I can ease or honor it, but I can't stop it from happening. My role is only to love him and experience the fullness of that love while I'm with him.
My father gets agitated, experiencing the need to understand or control something that he no longer has the capacity to control or understand. His agitation unsettles me and I become anxious, worrying about how I can save my father from this humiliation and frustration he is facing. I suspect that beneath that, the ultimate cause of both of our anxiety is his impending death death. Then I remember Gregg saying in the training Everything I've identified as healing is release.
I don't remember ever hearing my father take peace in the present moment before. This was new and it was utterly beautiful that I got to share it with him. I'm learning to release my tension about this whole mess and help him release it too. I figured out that I can just look at him and smile that "Daddy, I love you smile" and he relaxes. We are healed by the calm that we both feel in that moment.
In counterbalance to the notion that I don't have to fix anything is one of the my favorite principles of the Conscious Dying Institute: increase the dying person's beauty, pleasure and contentment. I feel certain that within that rapid succession of decisions to be made and problems to be solved, I would have neglected to adhere to this obvious human desire if it hadn't been pointed out to me in the training. I might have busied myself with forms, complaining and doctor's visits and forgotten to enjoy this time with my father and allow him to enjoy his time with me.
Initially I was confused when he started losing his ability to articulate his wishes accurately. With Alzheimer's, it's tricky. Do we respond to what he's asking for now or what he wanted pre-Alzheimer's? But then I realized that my family knows exactly what my father wanted with his final days, weeks and months. We know what he valued (love) and what he cared about most (family). The training emboldened me to initiate conversations not only about Dad's care but about his death. And this delicate teasing out of who my father was and what he wanted is another point of grace this disease is providing. I've never felt closer to my brothers and my mother as I do now. Another win for Dad.
Generally, I've been able to navigate the different situations that arise along the way because I have a pretty clear understanding of my role: to help my father execute his wishes and to bring him beauty, pleasure, contentment and peace. When we get lost trying to solve the problem of his demise, I can bring us back to those core principles and remind us all to enjoy the time we have with him.
Sara Bensman is a mediator and consultant specializing in conflict resolution. She supports individuals, couples and groups moving through conflict with dignity and grace. Her reflections on divorce, co-parenting and effective communication can be found at www.sarabensman.com/blog/.


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12 Best Red Headed Anime Girl Characters That You Should Watching Update 01/2023
Posted on November 21, 2021 by [email protected]
A top ten list of the best female anime characters with red hair is finally ready. Several lists have been compiled in which the best female anime characters are ranked according to the color of their hair. Read on to see whether any of your preferences made the cut. So, here is a list of the best red-haired anime characters.
12. Shirayuki, Akagami no Shirayukihime (2015)
The main character of the anime 'Akagami no Shirayukihime' is Shirayuki. Named after a genuine white snowflake. She's a gifted young lady with knowledge in botany and medicine. When she's not making herbal remedies, you may find her working as an apothecary. Her striking good looks aren't the only thing drawing attention to her; her lusciously long red hair is an added bonus. Prince Raji, her country's prince, takes an interest in her right away. A concubine is what he seeks from her. She knows she can't deny the prince, so she flees to the adjacent nation, where she meets prince Zen, and falls in love with him instantly. Shirayuki applies for and is hired as a palace pharmacist in that country after they become friends. As a strong female lead with a wide range of skills and knowledge, Shirayuki stands out from the crowd.
11. Ranma Saotome, Ranma ½ (1989)
While compiling this list, I almost forgot about Ranma Saotome. I mean, I don't know. Ranma was a bit of a conundrum for me to include in this list. In the martial arts-themed anime series "Ranma 12," Ranma is actually the male protagonist. Let me clear up any misconceptions you may have regarding Ranma's gender identity before you start lecturing me about gender equality. As it turns out, while practicing in China with his father, he and Ranma fell into a cursed spring, changing the course of his life forever. A cold splash of water causes him to transform into a female. He needs to be sprayed with hot water to get his clothes back on (As much as I would have loved to, I did not make that up, see the series for yourself). You can see where I'm at now, can't you? In any case, I've decided to throw caution to the wind and include Ranma here.
10. Shana, Shakugan no Shana (2005)
The protagonist of the anime series "Shakugan no Shana" is coming up next. Flame Haze, extraordinary hunters that battle cruel murders known as Crimson Denizens, have immortality because of their training. Immortality prevents her body from aging, giving her the appearance of a young child. Her hair is a fiery red and her eyes are brown; she has a fair skin tone. Shana's hair is actually black, despite the fact that I mentioned she had blood red hair that qualifies her for the list. The color of her hair and pupils turn to crimson when she enters her power mode. Shana excels in both academics and physical education, making her an excellent student.
9. Youko Nakajima, The Twelve Kingdoms (2002)
The anime series 'The Twelve Kingdoms' features Youko Nakajima as its protagonist. She initially appears to be a typical 16-year-old. On top of all that, she's the class president and puts in a lot of effort in her schoolwork. Youko is a kind and generous student who is always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need among her peers. Despite all of this, she still doesn't feel like she belongs. The reason for this is due of her red hair. I mean, come on! In my book, that's equivalent to being named Miss Universe, because of her fiery red locks. A man enters the classroom and salutes her, and her life is forever changed. The fact that she is a princess and the heir apparent to the kingdom of Kei was revealed to her later on.
8. Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto: Shippuuden (2007)
Kushina Uzumaki, the mother of popular anime character Naruto, is next on the list. Kushina was born in the Land of Whirpool, despite the fact that she departed the Leaf Village. Although she appears to be a tomboy as a child, with violet eyes and long red hair, she matures into a stunning woman.. He is the Leaf village's fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. They have a son, whom they have named Naruto. It was originally intended that Kushina serve as the fox's Jinchuriki. In her final moments, she and her husband were attempting to save their son from the nine-tailed fox.
7. Chiyo Sakura, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun (2014)
In the anime series 'Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun,' Chiyo Sakura is the primary character and protagonist. She is a nice and outgoing young woman who is also bright and cheery. She has a tendency to get riled up fast, and she might be a little too ready to judge. She is easily swayed because of her kind temperament. To get along with other students, Chiyo has a pleasant personality. It turns out that Umetarou Nozaki is a manga author, and she's smitten with him. He's a shoujo mangaka who goes by the pseudonym Sakiko Yumeno for his work. Umetarou Nozaki asks Chiyo to be his manga helper after a series of mishaps. Despite her affections for Nozaki, she finds it difficult to express them to him.
6. Yoko Littner, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann (2007)
She is the protagonist of the anime series 'Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann,' and she is the only female character. She joins Simon and Kamina on their journey to the surface. There is an underground city in which both Simon and Kamina were born and brought up. As it turns out, facts and stories concerning the Earth's surface are regarded as fables by many people. Kamina, on the other hand, is more reserved and doesn't really have any aspirations. A key to an ancient armor, which they name Lagann, is discovered by the group. In conjunction with the assistance of Yoko Littner, they are able to defend themselves against an onslaught from the surface. A powerful and huge gun is Yoko's weapon of choice, and she wears a bikini most of the time. A skull-shaped headgear adorns her attire.
5. Maki Nishikino, Love Live! School Idol Project (2013)
Love Live! School Idol Project's Maki Nishikino is a prominent female character. One of Honoka's muse group, the Idols, she is one of the members. Honoka is working round the clock to keep her school open. As a second-year student, she makes it her mission to make her university famous. Having a School Idol group would allow her school to compete in a competition and become well-known. In the band, Maki plays the piano. She also composes for the band and serves as the group's voice instructor. Throughout the course of the series, we observe a dramatic shift in her personality as she grows more accepting of her emotions.
4. Erza Scarlet, Fairy Tail (2009)
'Fairy Tail's' Erza Scarlet is the next character we'll be looking at. In the Fairy Tail guild, she is a formidable S-class mage and one of the guild's strongest female members. A stunning brunette with long, crimson locks, she is sure to turn heads. Erza wears a coat of armor most of the time, which makes her appear ready for fight. The good news is that when it comes to fanservice episodes, she can easily switch into her bathing costume because to the Requip magic she possesses. Makarov's faithful follower Ezra is a highly skilled member of the guild. She strives to keep the group in order by being a strict disciplinarian.
3. Akane Sakurada, Joukamachi no Dandelion (2015)
Joukamachi no Dandelion's Akane Sakurada is one of the nine Sakurada siblings featured in the series. In order to protect her and her siblings, the King has installed roughly 2000 cameras throughout the realm to keep an eye on them and ensure their safety. In contrast to the others, Akane Sakurada is the most introverted. She, like her siblings, has a set of powers that are unique. Akane is capable of defying the laws of physics. A steady stream of cameras observing her isn't something she enjoys. When the cameras are removed, Akane must convince everyone that she's right for the throne.
2. Lilith Asami, Trinity Seven (2014)
'Trinity Seven' anime series character Lilith Asami is prominent. Arata Kasuga's town was destroyed by the Breakdown phenomenon, which she was dispatched to investigate. Arata manages to survive, but his town and the people that lived there are long gone. Lilith discovers that Arata has artificially rebuilt his community. She undoes Arata's spell and tells him to give up his grimoire or perish. In the end, though, she introduces him to the magical world. To assist him adapt to his new surroundings, her presence also serves as a companion to him. Lilith is a beautiful woman with red hair.
1. Rias Gremory, High School DxD (2012)
When I started collecting this list, Rias Gremory was one of the first female anime characters that sprang to mind. Just take a peek at her, please. Despite her undeniable attractiveness, she yet manages to maintain a sweet demeanor thanks in part to her stunning red hair. In the anime series High School DxD, Rias is a demon. She is a descendant of one of the most illustrious and virtuous devil clans. Issei is saved by her as the fallen angel tries to kill him. Rias, the most beautiful and talented girl in the school, has a bright future ahead of her. Issei has a special place in her heart, and she cares a great deal about him.
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Lackey selected as Mayor Pro Tem
by The AV Times Staff • January 22, 2013
Tom Lackey
PALMDALE – The Palmdale City Council has selected Councilmember Tom Lackey to serve as Mayor Pro Tem for the City. Lackey's term began on Jan. 9 and will run until the Council selects a new Mayor Pro Tem at the Jan. 2014 meeting.
The Mayor Pro Tem assumes the responsibilities of the Mayor in his or her absence.
Lackey was elected to his first term as councilmember for the City of Palmdale on Nov. 8, 2005. He was re-elected to a second term on Nov. 3, 2009 and served as Mayor Pro Tem from December 2, 2009 to January 5, 2011.
Lackey is a sergeant with the California Highway Patrol (CHP). Since beginning his career with the CHP in 1985, Lackey has worked in Los Angeles, El Cajon, Baldwin Park and the Antelope Valley. Prior to his employment with the CHP, Lackey was an elementary special education teacher in Rexburg, Idaho.
Raised in Boron, Lackey graduated from Boron High School, where he was active in student government in both junior high and high school and was named "Who's Who Among American High School Students." He was awarded the rank of "Eagle Scout" from the Boy Scouts of America in 1976.
Prior to completing his associate of arts degree, Lackey served a two-year mission for his church. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in special education from Utah State University.
Lackey represents the City Council as a delegate of the California State Prison – Los Angeles County, Citizens Advisory Committee and as a delegate for the Antelope Valley Transit Authority. Lackey also serves as the 2nd Delegate for the Los Angeles County Sanitation District Number 20, and was appointed by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich to serve as a Director on the Metrolink Southern California Regional Rail Authority.
Lackey is an active member in a number of Antelope Valley civic organizations, including the Antelope Valley Crime Task Force, Antelope Valley Human Relations Task Force and Antelope Valley Republican Assembly. He was elected to the Republican Central Committee in November 2008. Lackey was an executive council member of the Antelope Valley School Boards Association and was also a governing board member for the Palmdale School District prior to his election to the City Council.
Lackey and his wife, Theresa, have lived in Palmdale since 1995 along with their children, Justin and Jani.
Filed Under: Palmdale, Politics
6 comments for "Lackey selected as Mayor Pro Tem"
Good Man says
Tom Lackey is a good man. On an issue or two, he and I may find ourselves on opposite sides, but I think I can say with absolute and total confidence that Tom will always state what he believes, and that he comes by his positions honestly: through thought and conversations with his constituents. Personally, I hope he does run in 2014. I think the presence of an honest man in Sacramento would probably confound many there, but maybe, just maybe, he might be able to change some things. I know, I'm a crazy dreamer, but…..it costs nothing. Congratulations on your new position Tom.
ed says
I'm sure Tom knows what the blue curtain is Any law enforcement officer knows.
Mike N. says
so you have an anti-cop attitude basically? what a surprise.
Congratulations Tom. Now please part the Blue Curtain and remember that you now represent ALL the people. It's no longer us against them.
Palmdale_Steve says
"Blue" Curtain, I've heard of the "Cactus" Curtain which separates TRex land from the rest of the AV, but "Blue" Curtain is a new one…please elaborate.
Run Tom Run…See Tom Run…
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About RoSE
The specification of the RoSE scenarios is based on three key dimensions: (1) underlying assumptions on future socio-economic development determined by population and economic growth; (2) reference assumptions on long-term fossil fuel availability, with a focus on variations of coal, oil, and gas; and (3) stringency and timing of climate protection targets and framework of international climate policy. The variation of the first two dimensions provided 12 baseline projections that were adopted by the global models in order to explore the sensitivity of systems transformations to the underlying socio-economic and fossil resource assumptions. These baseline assumptions were then combined with climate target scenarios in order to provide insights into the costs and feasibility of mitigation options under alternative futures. The full RoSE scenario matrix can be seen below. Each column corresponds to a combination of socio-economic and fossil resource drivers, and each row is linked to a climate policy regime.
Population and GDP: Models were harmonized to the medium population projection from the 2008 Revision of the UN World Population Prospects (peaking at 9.4 billion in 2070). The GDP scenarios build on the population projections and encompass assumptions regarding both the speed of economic growth (slow – medium – fast) and the convergence characteristics between 26 aggregate world regions (slow and fast convergence). The study also included a slow growth – slow convergence GDP scenario that was based on the high population projection of the UN 2008 Revisions (going up to 14 billion in 2100).
Fossil fuel availability: Fossil fuel availability was characterized in terms of supply curves describing extraction costs as a function of cumulative extraction. First, data on the estimated total size of the fossil resource base have been assembled. Oil, gas and coal have been treated separately, with an additional division into conventional and non-conventional resources. In a second stage, historical data for recovery rates have been examined and then extrapolated, under varying assumptions about technological progress, towards future resources. Finally, the costs of extraction for different grades of each of the resources have been estimated. The output of this process consists of three extraction cost curves, assuming 'low', 'medium', and 'high' resource availability, for each of the three fossil resources. The assumptions on the availability of oil, gas, and coal, have then been combined into concrete scenarios (see scenario matrix below). The figures below depict the low, medium, and high extraction cost curves for oil, gas, and coal (from left to right) as established in the study. The extraction cost curves estimated by Rogner (1997) are shown for comparison.
Climate Policy: Finally, the policy dimension includes six different policy cases representing different levels of ambition and timing of climate policy action:
Baseline: the baseline represents a no climate-policy case;
450ppm: this corresponds to a 450ppm CO2 equivalent concentration stabilization target allowing for overshoot and with full when-where-what flexibility of emissions reductions after 2010. It accounts for the radiative forcing of all radiative substances including Non-Kyoto gases and aerosols;
550ppm: this scenario is similar to the previous one, with the exception that the concentration stabilization target is set to 550ppm and that no overshoot is allowed;
Weak Policy: the weak policy scenario describes a situation where world regions take only moderate and uncoordinated action. It follows the lower end of the Copenhagen commitment until 2020 and retains that level of ambition throughout the 21st century;
450ppm in 2020: in this case the weak policy scenario is followed until 2020 and then a 450ppm long term stabilization target, allowing for overshoot, is adopted;
450ppm in 2030: this is identical to the previous scenario, only that the 450ppm stabilization target is adopted at 2030.
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This agreement (the "Agreement") between Official Payments Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and Michael P. Presto (the "Employee"), is entered into as of this 18th day of July, 2002. This Agreement shall be effective as of August 1, 2002 (the "Effective Date"). The term of this Agreement is for the period from the Effective Date to January 15, 2003, unless sooner terminated. This Agreement supercedes all previous agreements.
A. EMPLOYEE POLICY. As of the Effective Date, the Company will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Tier Technologies, Inc., a California Corporation ("Tier") and as an affiliated company will be subject to Tier's employee policies.
B. AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT. The Company employs Employee from and after the Effective Date in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer, Official Payments Corporation, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer of Tier, or his designee. Employee will be based initially in Stamford, CT, but Tier reserves the right to move designated offices to an area within reasonable proximity within the tri-state area, including Manhattan, NY. Employee agrees to perform such services as are customary to such office and as shall from time to time be assigned to him by the Company. Employee agrees to undertake business travel as is customary to such capacity, and as shall from time to time be requested of him by the Company or Tier. The parties agree that employment at the Company is at will and may be terminated by either the Company or Employee at any time with or without cause and, except as provided in Section 2.1(a)(i), with or without notice. Employee acknowledges that Employee has no right to be employed for a specific term and no right to insist on specific grounds for termination. Employee acknowledges and agrees that the at-will nature of this Agreement extends to all employment decisions and that any change in the terms and conditions of employment, including without limitation work assignments, production standards, job responsibilities, compensation and promotions, shall be at the Company's sole discretion.
1.1 Base Salary. In consideration of and as compensation for the services to be performed by Employee hereunder, the Company shall pay Employee a base salary (the "Base Salary") of not less than $350,000 per year, payable semi-monthly in arrears in accordance with Tier's regular payroll practices.
employed by the Company as of January 15, 2003, or having been terminated by the Company for any reason other than "for cause," as defined in Section 2.1(a) (including, without limitation, by reason of Employee's death or disability), prior to January 15, 2003. Employee will not be eligible for such bonus if he resigns or if the Company terminates his employment for cause prior to January 15, 2003.
1.3 Participation in Benefit Plans. Employee shall be entitled to participate in any pension plans, profit-sharing plans and group insurance, medical, hospitalization, disability and other benefit plans maintained by Tier from time to time, as such are generally applicable to employees of Tier and to the extent Employee is eligible under the general provisions thereof.
1.4 Car Allowance. Employee shall be entitled to an automobile allowance equal to $551 per month.
1.5 Reimbursement of Expenses. The Company shall reimburse Employee for all business expenses, including, without limitation, travel, entertainment and similar expenses, incurred by Employee on behalf of the Company if such expenses are ordinary and necessary business expenses incurred on behalf of the Company pursuant to the Tier's standard expense reimbursement policy. Employee shall provide the Company with such itemized accounts, receipts or documentation for such expenses as are required under Tier's policy regarding the reimbursement of such expenses.
1.6 Vacation and Personal Leave. Employee shall be entitled to carry forward any earned but untaken vacation immediately prior to the Effective Date and to accrue four (4) weeks' paid vacation per year for post-Effective Date periods (pro-rated for post-Effective Date service shorter than one (1) year). Employee shall also be entitled to other paid personal leave in accordance with Tier's policy.
(b) Termination Without Cause. The Company may terminate Employee's employment under this Agreement without cause or notice at any time.
2.2 Severance Payment. For avoidance of doubt, Company and Employee agree that Employee, due to previous change in control provisions, has vested in Employee's original severance ("Severance Payment") in the amount of $250,000. Upon termination of employment for any reason, whether such termination is by the Company, by Employee or because of Employee's death or disability, and upon the Employee's furnishing to the Company an executed waiver and release of claims, in the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A, the Employee shall receive ratable payment of the $250,000 over a period of twelve (12) months (the "Severance Period"), subject to standard deductions and withholdings. In addition, the Company shall pay Employee a lump sum payment of $6,000 in cash within fourteen (14) days after termination of his employment, in exchange for Employee's agreement not to participate in the Company's medical and dental coverage at any time during the period of employment and to waive any right to continue medical and dental coverage under the provisions of COBRA. Further, Employee shall be entitled to a lump sum in cash of $2,500, such payment to be made within fourteen (14) days after termination of employment, in lieu of participation during the Severance Period in all other Company benefit plans in which the Employee participated as of the date of termination. Employee shall be entitled to the Employee's Base Salary and accrued and unused vacation earned through the date of termination, subject to standard deductions and withholdings. Employee shall not be entitled to any other severance benefits.
3.1 Non-Competition. During the Severance Period, Employee shall not, either individually or as a partner, joint venturer, consultant, shareholder, member or Representative of another Person or otherwise, directly or indirectly, participate in, engage in, or have a financial or management interest in, promote, or assist any other Person in any business operation or any enterprise if such business operation or enterprise engages, or would engage, in a Restricted Business in a Restricted Area; provided, however, that Employee may own up to one percent of the outstanding equity securities of any Person.
3.2 Non-Solicitation. For a period of one (1) year after the termination of Employee's employment, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly (i) employ or seek to employ any Person who at the date of such termination, or within the twelve (12)-month period preceding the date of such termination, was an employee, contractor or consultant of the Company or Tier, or otherwise solicit, encourage, cause or induce any such employee, contractor or consultant to terminate such relationship with the Company or Tier, or (ii) take any willful action that would interfere with the relationship of the Company or Tier with its respective clients or vendors.
(iv) upon termination of Employee's employment with the Company or at any other time the Company may in writing so request, to promptly deliver to the Company all materials constituting Confidential Information (including all copies thereof) that are in Employee's possession or under Employee's control. Further, the Employee undertakes that, if requested by the Company, Employee shall return any Confidential Information pursuant to this subsection and shall not make or retain any copy of or extract from such materials.
3.4 For purposes of this Agreement, "Person" means an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, a division or operating group of any of the foregoing, a government or any department or agency thereof or any other entity. "Representative" means any officer, director, principal, agent, employee, consultant or other representative of a Person. "Restricted Business" means any business involved in the electronic processing of payments to government or commercial entities or any other business in which Company is actively engaged on the date of the termination of Employee's employment. "Restricted Area" means any country in which Company conducts a Restricted Business on the date of the termination of Employee's employment with Company. "Confidential Information" means any and all information developed by or for the Company or Tier of which the Employee gained knowledge by reason of Employee's employment with the Company or Tier under this Agreement that is not generally known in the industry in which the Company or Tier is or may become engaged. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, any and all information developed by or for the Company or Tier or customers of the Company or Tier, concerning plans, marketing and sales methods, materials, processes, business forms, procedures, devices used by the Company or Tier or contractors or customers with which the Company or Tier has dealt during the period of employment, plans for development of new products, services and expansion into new areas or markets, internal operations and any trade secrets and proprietary information of any type owned by the Company or Tier together with all written, graphic and other materials relating to all or any part of the same.
(a) Injunctive Relief. Employee acknowledges and agrees that the covenants and obligations contained in Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 hereof relate to special, unique and extraordinary matters and that a violation of any of the terms of said Sections will cause the Company irreparable injury for which adequate remedy at law is not available. Therefore, Employee agrees that the Company shall be entitled to an injunction, restraining order, or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction, restraining the Employee from committing any violation of such covenants and obligations.
4.1 Notices. Any written notice, required or permitted under this Agreement, shall be deemed sufficiently given if either hand delivered or by fax (with written confirmation of receipt) or nationally recognized overnight courier. Written notices must be delivered to the receiving party at its address or facsimile number on the signature page of this Agreement. The parties may change the address or facsimile number at which written notices are to be received in accordance with this Section.
4.2 Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify Employee (including his heirs, executors and administrators) to the fullest extent permitted by law for any and all costs, liabilities, judgments, damages and expenses incurred by Employee that arise out of, are in connection with or are related to Employee's actions or inactions in his performance of his duties hereunder as an employee, director or committee member or fiduciary of the Company or any subsidiary or benefit plan thereof and his service prior to the Effective Date as an employee, director or committee member or fiduciary of the Company or any subsidiary or benefit plan thereof, that are not covered or actually paid by the Company's directors' and officers' liability insurance policies. The Company shall, within ten (10) days of presentation of invoices, reimburse Employee (including his heirs, executors and administrators, as applicable) for all legal fees and disbursements incurred by the Employee in connection with any potentially indemnifiable matter. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall, upon the request of Employee, advance to Employee such amounts as necessary to cover expenses, including without limitation legal fees and expenses, incurred by the Employee in connection with any suit or proceeding in which Employee may be involved by reason of his being or having been a director or officer of the Company or of any subsidiary thereof.
4.3 Arbitration. All parties agree that to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all controversies between them, including whether any termination is with or without cause shall be submitted for resolution to binding arbitration. This means that all parties agree that arbitration shall be their exclusive forum for resolving disputes between them. All parties expressly waive their entitlement, if any, to have controversies between them decided by a court or jury.
prevailing in such proceeding shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs, in addition to any other relief that may be granted.
4.5 Assignment. The Employee may not assign, transfer or delegate his rights or obligations hereunder, and any attempt to do so shall be void. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure the benefit of the Company and its successors and assigns.
4.6 Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and all other prior agreements, written or oral, are hereby merged herein and are of no further force or effect. This Agreement may be modified or amended only by a written agreement that is signed by the Company and the Employee. No waiver of any section or provision of this Agreement shall be valid unless such waiver is in writing and signed by the party against whom enforcement of the waiver is sought. The waiver by the Company of any section of provision of this Agreement shall not apply to any subsequent breach of this Agreement. Captions to the various Sections of this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but together they shall constitute one and the same instrument.
4.7 Severability. The provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed severable, and if any part of any provision is held illegal, void or invalid under applicable law, such provision may be changed to the extent reasonably necessary to make the provision, as so changed, legal valid and binding. If any provision of this Agreement is held illegal, void or invalid in its entirety, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired but shall remain binding in accordance with their terms.
4.8 Continuing Obligations. The provisions contained in Sections 2.2, 3, 4.2, 4.3, 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 of this Agreement shall continue and survive the termination of this Agreement.
4.9 Applicable Law. This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the Company and the Employee hereunder shall be governed by and construed and enforced under the laws of Connecticut, without reference to any principles of conflict of laws.
In consideration of the payments and other benefits set forth in Section 2.2 of the Employment Agreement dated August 1, 2002, to which this form is attached, I, Michael P. Presto, hereby furnish Official Payments Corporation and Tier Technologies, Inc (collectively "the Companies"), with the following release and waiver (the "Release and Waiver").
I hereby release, and forever discharge the Companies, its officers, directors, agents, employees, stockholders, successors, assigns, affiliates, parent, subsidiaries, and benefit plans, of and from any and all claims, liabilities, demands, causes of action, costs, expenses, attorneys' fees, damages, indemnities and obligations of every kind and nature, in law, equity, or otherwise, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising at any time prior to and including my employment termination date with respect to any claims, including but not limited to those claims relating to my employment and the termination of my employment; including, but not limited to, claims pursuant to any federal, state or local law relating to employment, including, but not limited to, discrimination claims, claims under any local statute governing discrimination, and the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended ("ADEA"), or claims for wrongful termination, breach of the covenant of good faith, contract claims, tort claims and wage or benefit claims, including, but not limited to, claims for salary, bonuses, commissions, stock, stock options, vacation pay, fringe benefits, severance pay or any form of compensation.
I also acknowledge that I have read and understand Section 1542 of the California Civil Code or any comparable statute under any other state, which reads as follows: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor." I hereby expressly waive and relinquish all rights and benefits under that section and any law of any jurisdiction of similar effect with respect to any claims I may have against the Companies.
I acknowledge that, among other rights, I am waiving and releasing any rights I may have under ADEA, and that this Release and Waiver is knowing and voluntary. I further acknowledge that I have been advised, as required by the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, that: (a) the Release and Waiver granted herein does not relate to claims which may arise after this Release and Waiver is executed; (b) I have the right to consult with an attorney prior to executing this Release and Waiver (although I may choose voluntarily not to do so); and if I am over 40 years of age upon execution of this Release and Waiver: (c) I have twenty-one (21) days from the date of termination of my employment with the Company in which to consider this Release and Waiver (although I may choose voluntarily to execute this Release and Waiver earlier); (d) I have seven (7) days following the execution of this Release and Waiver to revoke my consent to this Release and Waiver; and (e) this Release and Waiver shall not be effective until the seven (7) day revocation period has expired.


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Psychology > History Of Psychology > History Of Psychology During Renaissance Through The Enlightenment > The Rise Of Psychology
The Rise Of Psychology
Understanding the place of mind and body in nature gave rise to several schools of thought.
Examining Mind
Several intertwined questions arose from the new scientific, Cartesian, view of mind and its place in nature. Some are philosophical. If I am locked up in the subjective world of consciousness, how can I know anything about the world with any confidence? Asking this question created a degree of paranoia in subsequent philosophy. Descartes began his quest for a foundation upon which to erect science by suspecting the truth of every belief he had. Eventually he came upon the apparently unassailable assertion that "I think, therefore I am." But Descartes's method placed everything else in doubt, including the existence of God and the world. Related to the philosophical questions are psychological ones. How and why does consciousness work as it does? Why do we experience the world as we do, rather than some other way? Because the answers to the philosophical questions depend on the answers to the psychological ones, examining the mind—doing psychology—became the central preoccupation of philosophy. Several philosophical-psychological traditions ensued, the empiricist, realist, idealist, and historical-cultural traditions.
The Empiricist Tradition
The empiricist tradition is the most important for the history of psychology in Britain and America. Notwithstanding the subjectivity of consciousness, empiricism began with John Locke (1632-1794) by accepting consciousness at face value, trusting it as a good, if imperfect, reflection of the world. In many respects, Locke was similar to Descartes. He trained in medicine, worked in science (he was a friend of Newton's), and aimed for a new philosophy consistent with the new science. However, Locke was less entangled in metaphysical issues than Descartes, and his thought had a more practical, commonsense cast, perhaps because he was an educator and politician, writing for the general public, not philosophers.
Locke concisely summarized the central thrust of empiricism, "We should not judge of things by men's opinions, but of opinions by things," striving to know "the things themselves." Locke's picture of cognition is essentially that of Descartes. We are acquainted not with objects, but with ideas that represent them. Locke differed from Descartes in denying that any of the mind's ideas are innate. Descartes had said that some ideas (such as the idea of God) cannot be found in experience, but are inborn, awaiting activation by appropriate experiences. Locke said that the mind was empty of ideas at birth, being a tabula rasa (blank slate) upon which experience writes. However, Locke's view is not too different from Descartes's view because he held that the mind is furnished with numerous mental abilities, or faculties, which tend automatically to produce certain ideas (such as the idea of God) from the raw material of experience. Locke distinguished two sources of experience, sensation and reflection: sensation reveals the outside world, whereas reflection reveals the operations of our minds.
Later empiricists took the "way of ideas" further, creating deep and unresolved questions about human knowledge. The Irish Anglican bishop and philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753) began to reveal startling implications of the way of ideas. Berkeley's work is an outstanding example of how the new Cartesian conception of consciousness invited psychological investigation of beliefs heretofore taken for granted. The way of ideas assumes with common sense that there is a world outside consciousness. However, through a penetrating analysis of visual perception, Berkeley challenged that assumption. The world of consciousness is three-dimensional, possessing height, width, and depth. However, Berkeley pointed out, visual perception begins with a flat, two-dimensional image on the retina, having only height and width. Thus, as someone leaves us, we experience him or her as getting farther away, while on the retina (the screen of the Cartesian theater) there is only an image getting smaller and smaller.
Berkeley argued that the third dimension of depth was a secondary sense property. We infer the distance of objects from information on the visual screen (such as linear perspective) and from bodily feedback about the operations of our eyes. Painters use the first kind of cues on canvases to create illusions of depth. So far, Berkeley acted as a psychologist proposing a theory about visual perception. However, he went on to develop a striking philosophical position termed immaterialism. Depth is not only an illusion when it's on canvas, it's an illusion on the retina, too. Visual experience is, in fact, two-dimensional, and the third dimension is a psychological construction out of bits and pieces of experience assembled by us into the familiar three-dimensional world of consciousness. Belief in an external world depends upon belief in three-dimensional space, and Berkeley reached the breathtaking conclusion that there is no world of physical objects at all, only the world of ideas. Breathtaking as Berkeley's conclusion may be, but it rested on hardheaded reasoning. Our belief that objects exist independently of our experience of them—that my car continues to exist when I'm indoors—is an act of faith. This act of faith is regularly confirmed, but, Berkeley said, we have no knockdown proof that the world exists outside the Cartesian theater. We see here the paranoid tendency of modern thought: the tendency to be skeptical about every belief. no matter how innocent (true) it may seem, and in Berkeley we see how this tendency depends upon psychological notions about the mind.
Skepticism was developed further by David Hume (1711-1776), one of the most important modern thinkers, and his skeptical philosophy began with psychology: "All the sciences have a relation … to human nature," and the only foundation "upon which they can stand" is the "science of human nature." Hume drew out the skeptical implications of the way of ideas by relentlessly applying empiricism to every common sense belief. The world with which we are acquainted is the world of ideas, and ideas are held together by the mental force of association. In the world of ideas we may conceive of things that do not actually exist, but are combinations of simpler ideas that the mind combines on its own. Thus, the chimerical unicorn is only an idea, being a combination of two other ideas that do correspond to objects: the idea of a horse and the idea of a horn. Likewise, God is a chimerical idea, composed from ideas about omniscience, omnipotence, and paternal love. The self, too, dissolves in Hume's inquiry. He went looking for the self and could find in consciousness nothing that was not a sensation of the world or the body. A good empiricist, Hume thus concluded that because it cannot be observed, the self is a sort of psychological chimera, though he remained uncertain how it was constructed. Hume expunged the soul in the Cartesian theater, leaving its screen as the only psychological reality.
Humean psychology seemed to make scientific knowledge unjustifiable. Our idea of causality—a basic tenet of science—is chimerical. We do not see causes themselves, only regular sequences of events, to which we add a subjective feeling, the feeling of a necessary connection between an effect and its cause. More generally, any universal assertion, such as "All swans are white," cannot be proved, because they have only been confirmed by experience so far. We might one day find that some swans are black (they live in New Zealand). Hume appeared to reach the alarming conclusion that we can know nothing for certain beyond the immediate content of our conscious sensations. Science, religion, and morality were all thrown in doubt, because all assert theses or depend on assumptions going beyond experience, which may, therefore, some day prove erroneous. Hume was untroubled by this conclusion, anticipating the later post-evolutionary pragmatism of C. S. Peirce and William James. Beliefs formed by the human mind are not provable by rational argument, Hume said, but they are reasonable and useful, aiding us mightily in everyday life. Other thinkers, however, were convinced that philosophy had taken a wrong turn.
The Realist Tradition
Hume's fellow Scottish philosophers, led by Thomas Reid (1710-1796), offered one diagnosis and remedy. Berkeley and Hume challenged common sense, suggesting that external objects do not exist, or, if they do, we cannot know them or causal relationships among them with any certainty. Reid defended common sense against philosophy, arguing that the way of ideas had led philosophers into a sort of madness. Reid reasserted and reworked the older realist tradition. We see objects themselves, not inner representations of them. Because we perceive the world directly, we may dismiss Berkeley's immaterialism and Hume's skepticism as absurd consequences of a mistaken notion, the way of ideas. Reid also defended a form of negativism. God made us, endowing us with mental powers (faculties) upon which we can rely to deliver accurate information about the outside world and its operations.
Scottish realism contained a hidden challenge to the first scientific psychology. The psychology of consciousness was predicated upon the way of ideas. Natural scientists studied the physical objects of the world machine, and psychologists studied the mental objects of the world of consciousness. However, according to realism, the world of consciousness does not exist, because we perceive objects, not ideas. What appears to be introspection of an inner world of consciousness is, in fact, direct perception of the world itself. In the twentieth century, psychologists such as E. C. Tolman and B. F. Skinner used realist arguments to attack introspective psychology in support of behaviorism. Instead of studying mythical ideas, psychologists should study the relationship between the behavior of organisms and the world in which they act.
The Idealist Tradition
Another diagnosis and remedy was offered in Germany by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), who, like Reid, found Hume's ideas intolerable because they made genuine knowledge unreachable. Reid located Hume's error in the way of ideas, abandoning it for a realist analysis of cognition. Kant, on the other hand, located Hume's error in empiricism and elaborated a new version of the way of ideas that located truth inside the mind. Empiricists taught that ideas reflect, in Locke's phrase, "things themselves," the mind conforming itself to objects that impress (Hume's term) themselves upon it. But for Kant, skepticism deconstructed empiricism. The assumption that mind reflects reality is but an assumption, and once this assumption is revealed—as Berkeley and Hume did—the ground of true knowledge disappears.
Kant upended the empiricist assumption that the mind conforms itself to objects, declaring that objects conform themselves to the mind, which imposes a universal, logically necessary structure upon experience. Things in themselves (noumena) are unknowable, but things as they appear in consciousness (phenomena) are organized by the mind in such a way that we can make absolutely true statements about them. Take, for example, the problem addressed by Berkeley, the perception of depth. Things in themselves may or may not be arranged in Euclidean three-dimensional space; indeed, modern physics says that space is non-Euclidean. However, the human mind imposes Euclidean three-dimensional space on its experience of the world, so we can say truly that phenomena are necessarily arrayed in three-dimensional space. Similarly, the mind imposes other categories of experience on noumena to construct the phenomenal world of human experience.
A science fiction example may clarify Kant's point. Imagine the citizens of Oz, the Emerald City, in whose eyes are implanted at birth contact lenses making everything a shade of green. Ozzites will make the natural assumption that things seem green because things are green. However, Ozzites' phenomena are green because of the contact lenses, not because things in themselves are green. Nevertheless, the Ozzites can assert as an absolute and irrefutable truth that every phenomenon is green. Kant argued that the categories of experience are logically necessary preconditions of any experience whatsoever by all sentient beings. Therefore, because science is about the world of phenomena, we can have genuine, irrefutable, absolute knowledge of that world, and should give up inquires into Locke's "things themselves."
Kantian idealism produced a radically expansive view of the self. Instead of concluding with Hume that it is a construction out of bits and pieces of experience, Kant said that it exists prior to experience and imposes order on experience. Kant distinguished between the empirical ego (the fleeting contents of consciousness) and the transcendental ego. The transcendental ego is the same in all minds and imposes the categories of understanding on experience. The self is not a construction from experience, it is the active constructor of experience. In empiricism the self vanished; in idealism it became the only reality.
Idealism influenced early German psychology. Because the transcendental ego creates consciousness, it cannot enter into consciousness. Psychology, idealists held, did not deserve the name of science because the most important part of the mind, the self, could not be observed. As a young man psychology's founder, Wilhelm Wundt sided with Locke saying that introspection could fathom thought. Later, he sided with Kant, restricting experimental psychology to the study of immediate experience, proposing to study the higher mental processes by other methods. One of psychology's early disputes—the imageless thought controversy— was created by arguments over the scope of introspection. The dispute helped pave the way for behaviorism by throwing doubt on the value of all introspection. The degree to which people know the causes of their behavior remains controversial.
The Historical-Cultural Tradition
Our final tradition opposed the tendencies of the scientific revolution by denying that the human sciences could or should be natural sciences. This dissenting viewpoint was articulated first in obscurity by the Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), and more influentially by the German writer Johann Herder (1744-1803), who stated its motto: "We live in a world we ourselves create." Human beings are not solely natural objects (machines) because we live social lives in human cultures constructed by the process of history. Therefore, there can be no science encompassing all human beings. Humans live in different cultures, have lived in different ones in the past, and will construct new ones in the future. The spatiotemporal universality of natural science (gravity and matter are the same in all times and places) does not hold in the human world. Some of human nature has physical roots, but much, perhaps most, has social roots. Whereas part of psychology can emulate physics (studying the human mind as related to its brain), much should emulate history (studying the human mind as related to its culture). The historical-cultural tradition became important in the nineteenth-century German psychology.
Examining Mind and Body
So far we have discussed issues created by the Cartesian separation of consciousness from the world. Descartes also made problematical the nature of the connection between soul and body. It seems obvious that the soul gets information about the world through the body and controls its actions. Descartes taught that soul and body interact through the pineal gland, the screen of the Cartesian theater. By pushing it around, Descartes thought, the soul could control the operations of the nerves. However, Cartesian interactive dualism quickly came under attack. One of Descartes's correspondents, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1615-1680), asked the key question: "How can body be pushed by something immaterial?" Descartes could give no good answer.
The problem persisted through the eighteenth century, although most early psychologists adopted a variation on dualism: the thesis of psychophysical parallelism proposed by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716). He said that mind and body are separate, that every mental event has a physical event corresponding to it, but that the latter does not actually cause the former. Although this position was convenient, making psychology separate from physiology, it left its own mysteries such as why mind and body seem to interact, or if they do not, of what use is studying an impotent mind? Leibniz's parallelism gave rise to the first experimental research in psychology, Gustav Fechner's psychophysics, which tried to precisely measure the correlation of stimulus and sensation.
Idealism (including immaterialism) is a monist answer to the mind-body problem, claiming that only mind exists, matter being an illusion. Another radical— even socially dangerous—monistic answer to the mind-body problem was materialism: the claim that only matter exists, the mind being the illusion. The banner of materialism was first publicly hoisted in 1748 by a physician. Julien-Offray de la Mettrie (1709-1751) in his book L'Homme machine (The man-machine). La Mettrie took the step Descartes would not, could not, or feared to, take, and proposed that thought was a brain process. Discarding the soul was a bold and dangerous step. It threatened Christian belief in the reality and immortality of the soul; it suggested that if human beings are machines, then there is no free will, and moral responsibility is an illusion. For many people, materialism was and is a profound threat to their conception of themselves, society, and their eternal hopes.
Examining Other Minds
In severing the mind from the world and from the body, Descartes made the existence of other minds problematical. In the Cartesian view, mind is private consciousness. But how do I know if other beings have minds? Descartes answered that I know within myself that I think, and that I express my thoughts in language. Therefore, any creature possessing language also possesses a thinking soul. Since only humans have language, only humans have souls.
The problem of other minds did not become important until after the acceptance of evolution in the nineteenth century. Evolution suggested that contrary to Descartes, animals have minds, albeit simpler ones than ours. Modern controversies over other minds were foreshadowed in L'Homme machine, when La Mettrie tackled the problem of other minds from his materialist perspective. He proposed teaching language to apes, as if they were deaf children. If apes can learn language, Descartes would be refuted and the existence of the soul thrown in doubt. In the twentieth century, when Noam Chomsky revived Descartes's thesis that language is a species-specific human ability, some psychologists put La Mettrie's hypothesis to the test. In reaching a Cartesian conclusion, the computer scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) said we would know computers were intelligent when they used language as well as humans do.
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<?php

use Didww\API2\Mapping\IAX;
use Didww\API2\Order;

class OrderTest extends \BaseTest
{

    /**
     * @link http://open.didww.com/index.php/5._Order_Create
     */
    public function testCreateNumber()
    {
        $this->startVCR('order_create_number');

        $order = new Order();
        $order->setUniqHash('f688de8622ea6379029690b9580520be'); // fixtures/order_create_number
        $order->setMapData(new IAX("localhost", "username"));
        $order->setCustomerId(81);
        $order->setCountryIso("US");
        $order->setCityId(1537);
        $order->setPeriod(1);

        $response = $order->createNumber();

        $this->assertInstanceOf('Didww\API2\Order', $response);
        $this->assertInstanceOf('Didww\API2\DIDNumber', $response->getNumber());
        $this->assertInstanceOf('Didww\API2\Mapping\IAX', $response->getMapData());

        $this->assertFalse($response->hasPBXwwMapping());
        $this->assertEquals(1537, $response->getCityId());
        $this->assertEquals(0, $response->getPrepaidFunds());
        $this->assertEquals(1, $response->getPeriod());
        $this->assertEquals(0, $response->getCityPrefix());
        $this->assertEquals("US", $response->getCountryIso());
        $this->assertEquals(81, $response->getCustomerId());

        $this->stopVCR();
    }

}

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How can we usefully make judgments about science?
By Don Aitkin - posted Tuesday, 19 August 2014 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
Some of these essays get republished elsewhere, most frequently on On Line Opinion, and whenever the topic is 'climate change' the orthodox machine-gunners assemble to attack. Their ammunition consists usually of charges that I know nothing, or that since I am not a scientist I would be incapable of understanding an article in a journal, or that I only read sceptical material, or that anything I say has been thoroughly 'debunked' elsewhere, or that 97 per cent of scientists agree.
I tend not to respond to such attacks, but it occurred to me that it might be worth devoting an essay or two to the business of judging science, or more accurately of judging requests for money to do with scientific research. I begin with the assertion that very few scientists, at least in my experience, are in any real sense across 'science' as a whole. Science has become so large, and research so specialised, that there are millions of experts, but they are expert only in a minuscule part of a small section of what were, a hundred years ago, the main scientific disciplines.
Assertion two is that no responsible Minister can make sensible judgments about science proposals, and each has to rely on the advice of others. In most developed countries there is a highly-developed system for creating that advice, and it's much the same whatever country you are talking about, save for the USA, which is so large, and politically so special, that it really has no national system.
These advice systems are built on peer review and common-sense: you ask those in the know in that area what they think of this proposal or that one, and then you sit around and make a judgment on everything in front of you. Not all proposals are about a research topic. Some are about the need for facilities, or networks, or bringing people together, as in the Co-operative Research Centres, an idea we borrowed from Canada. Some are about getting access to the Minister. But, in one form or another, they are all finally about spending public money. The Minister's final decision may on occasion be made without much reference to your advice.
There are things that are impractical for Australians to do, like building a huge optical telescope in our country, because we don't have high enough mountains. There are things that are too expensive for us to do, like building a manned space station, or setting up a rival to CERN. There are also things that we really don't have the skilled manpower for. So Australia does what it can by sending people to the big facilities, and buying time on them, and supplying special parts for them. And we are good at it, too.
I was involved in the business of judging research proposals and research policy propositions in Australia, from about 1980 to 2000, and then in Canada from about 2000 to 2010. (You can find out more here.) In all, I must have examined about two thousand requests for money, or for a facility, or for a new policy, over those thirty years. It was a wonderful experience, and it pushed me into reading science for interest, which is what university students did until the age of the teaching laboratory, in the early 1900s. I should add that had I gone down the science path at age 15 I would probably have become a geophysicist. I find geology the most interesting science of all, but that is probably because my core interest is history, and geology is the study of the history of the planet.
How could someone like me provide useful advice? Well, everyone is a novice at the start. I first had to learn the trade, through being an apprentice, and saw what my elders and betters did, and imitated that. I learned a few really central questions. Who will cheer if you are funded? What bad things will happen if you are not funded? Are you sure that some of this has not been done somewhere else already? Where will all the scientific staff come from? How many graduate students will be involved with this facility/machine/dig/enterprise? I learned over time how to assess the answers.
Everyone who wants money writes a proposal. It is not really hard, once you have read a dozen or so (I read and pondered on 451 in 1981, my first year, on the Australian Research Grants Committee) to see where a researcher is on top of the game, and where he or she is drawing the long bow. The best researchers write simple, modest, well-written and persuasive proposals which make questioning relatively straightforward. They still have to be questioned, and the questioners have to know what they are doing. It helps if they come from a range of disciplinary areas, as was the case with ASTEC, and indeed most of the panels I have sat on or chaired.
I served on ASTEC, the Australian Science and Technology Council, for two terms and was asked at the end would I be prepared to serve as the Chairman. I declined, in part because I had become a vice-chancellor, and had one of those 24/7 jobs. But I loved the work, and think that today's Commonwealth Government could benefit through re-inventing ASTEC.
The core element in all this is that while I would not be able to work as a bench scientist, setting up experiments in the laboratory (my knowledge of any experimental area in any natural science was and remains pretty sketchy), I could usually read and make sense of the journal articles that came from the experimental work - if it was important to the question.
If the proposal came from particle physics I would defer to the physicists about the standing of the researcher and his or her science, but if the need was for money for a facility, a machine, or whatever, the old central questions would come to the fore quickly, and I could ask them, and gather at least a decent understanding of the issue. The rest of us on the judging panels did the same.
This article was first published on Don Aitkin.
Don Aitkin has been an academic and vice-chancellor. His latest book, Hugh Flavus, Knight was published in 2020.
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In the second half of the fourteenth century, Augustinian nuns erected a church in the district of Cannareggio in Venice and dedicated the sacristy and a confraternity to St Jerome. They ambitiously decorated their headquarter with paintings depicting episodes from the life of the titular saint. Bastiani's contribution to the cycle consisted of two huge canvases, the Communion of St Jerome, and the Funeral of St Jerome.
In the Communion of St Jerome, the saint is kneeling in his cell, as is confirmed by his bed, the open book, the crucifix, and the scourge. He is supported by his friend and disciple Eusebius and surrounded by the brethren. A pillar defines another scene. In the cloister of the monastery in Jerusalem, Jerome faces a person in eastern attire while he walks in the garden with another individual dressed in the Greek style, which may allude to his battle against heresy. The huge tree in the foreground is a symbol of salvation and life, while in the background, the hills, the battlements, and the well, although drawn from real life, are Marian symbols designed to inspire the devout to meditation and silent prayer. On the right, the quail represent the church, and the lion, the usual attribute of the saint, also belongs to St Mark and thus to the Venetian Republic.


I love Mondays because I get to email with my cute daughter. She is on her mission in Seattle and I am so proud of her.
Seriously, she is a nut!
She is Spanish speaking and I guess she eats Mexican food every meal it seems.
This is a little photo shoot of Taylor & Travis. The wedding is less than 3 weeks now. It will be a very low key wedding and reception in Taylor's dads backyard.
Okay, I had to add another photo of McKay.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing these girls who are all serving other people. I can't wait to HUG this girl.
Obviously, you can tell I miss her right?
he is still at the hospital.
Tyler has not engrafted and he is at day 12 after the transplant. They don't really know when he will engraft. The doctors said it is normal to see the average patient engraft on day nineteen. He has had two platelet transfusions this past week. His ANC counts are still at 0. Yesterday he had this last methotrexate treatment. He really hated the chewing the ice that is important with this treatment. So thankful that part is over.
I wanted to announce the blog for the Teresa Collins Inspiration Unlimited blog. If you are going or want to go, make sure you check out the blog for the up to date information. You can find the blog at inspirationunlimitedevent.blogspot.com.
After booking our wedding for October 2013, Jeff worked endlessly to ensure we had the type of wedding we wanted; an amazing menu, and every last detail that made it feel like "our" special day.


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An Episcopal Church with a proud past, a joy-filled present, and an exciting future!
+ and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
We are a family of faith, growing in Christ through worship, learning and service, who strive to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves.


This one's for the Pupils & Teachers in Glenbeigh, Curraheen & Boheeshil National Schools, our future players and their coaches.
We live in a small village on the South West (Atlantic) coast of Ireland called GLENBEIGH, the other half of our community is on the other side of the mountain it is called GLENCAR.
This weekend has been momentous for our tiny community.
As reigning County U15 champions, @Cromane_LGFC is honoured to nominate Cora Joy as @kerryladiesfoot U16 captain for 2017.
Sarah Houlihan (Kerry Senior Ladies), Joint Captains Cromane Ladies Under 15 County Champions: Shannon Foley & Gillian O'Toole and Darran O'Sullivan (Kerry Senior Mens) at the medal presentation on Saturday in Ashes Bar, Glenbeigh.
We've just had news from Councillor Michael Cahill about the Public Toilet facilities at Rossbeigh Beach.