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One of our favorite things about summer has arrived — Summer Trunk Shows! This year we're keeping it simple and local, featuring Rebecca Lankford July 22 and Mirta Tummino on Aug. 5, both from 12 to 4 p.m.
Locally-renowned Houston artist Rebecca Lankford uses hand-cast metals, fine leathers, and a casual take on precious and semi-precious gems to create effortlessly stylish jewels. Her delicate styles are perfect alone and for layering and stacking.
Rebecca has also created an exclusive museum collection for HMNS using gems hand-picked by our buyers. Each piece is one-of-a-kind or limited in production.
Leaving corporate America behind, native Texan Mirta Tummino realized her true calling when she began designing jewelry. With an eye for color, Mirta combines unusual gemstones to create her signature wire-wrapped designs.
1. Locally-made, handcrafted jewelry. Handmade pieces make unique gifts for others or yourself, all while supporting local artists.
2. A chance to meet the designer and team. Learn all about the gems, materials, and the creative process directly from the artist. Rebecca and Mirta are both inspired by the museum's gem and mineral collection.
3. Jewelry with savings! Shop with a 20 percent discount in addition to your membership discount. Feel good about looking great knowing that 100 percent of museum store and trunk show proceeds benefits HMNS's educational programs.


Autumn is a beautiful time to explore Devon. Whether you want wind swept beaches, quieter now after the summer rush, or to enjoy the spectacular autumn colours in Devon's woodlands, there are plenty of places to explore outdoors.
Why not visit one of Devon's Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty or our National Parks. Autumn is a good time to see deer rutting on Exmoor or to enjoy a magical misty morning walk on Dartmoor.


Bagni & piastrelle is Cose di Casa's guide, attached to the October issue of the magazine.
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This is the artbook for the BL visual novel Chess of Blades!
See some of the behind-the-scenes work, drafts, and revisions that went into designing Chess of Blades! The artbook features 50 pages showing the process of designing and creating the art assets as well as some audio bloopers from the voice actors.
Bloopers only properly play in Adobe Reader or a similar PDF reader!


General Arthur Cotton's exhortation in the 19th century to inter-link Indian rivers to streamline export of raw material from India to Britain (and officially, to mitigate the water crisis in South India) was in 1960 re-iterated by Dr. KL Rao and Captain Dastur, although with diametrically opposite ends in mind. Thereafter, the concept of inter-linking the major rivers of India has not escaped the imagination of the political fraternity, from Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi. The project has captured the intrigue of the judiciary too, with the Supreme Court in In re Networking of Rivers directing the executive to implement the project at the earliest.The recent controversy surrounding the Ken-Betwa river linking, a template for similar projects in the future, has catapulted the question of the ILR Project to the centre of public discourse and the Court's role thereby assumes greater significance.
Conceptualized as a national water grid, the inter-linking of rivers project (hereinafter ILR Project) seeks to transfer 'surplus' water from one basin to a basin facing a water 'deficit' to control floods and prevent droughts. The project has however been confined to theoretical musing and largely, for the better. While concerns relating to implementation; land acquisition, environmental degradation, displacement of people amongst others have been raised, this post shall go on to demonstrate how first, the Supreme Court's direction to implement the ILR project, and second, its implementation itself erodes two founding principles of the Constitution: federalism and the separation of powers.
The Supreme Court has time and again emphasized the importance of the doctrine of separation of powers (though possibly not in its purest form) in the Indian constitutional framework. Fascinatingly, in In re Networking of Rivers, the Court bypassed the elements of restraint embedded in the principle of separation of powers to extend the notion of 'checks and balances' to govern not only excesses of state power, but also state inaction. Grounding this extension in a contemporary understanding of positive rights, the seemingly laudable activist, rights-centric role of the Court however diluted the principle of separation of powers under the cloak of judicially reviewing executive inaction. While the Court recognizes that it should abstain from entering the realm of policy (on inter-linking of rivers), in the very same judgment it does the exact opposite. Confronted with the temptations of populism underlying the ILR project, the Court directed (and not merely recommended) "the Union of India and particularly the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, to forthwith constitute a Committee to be called a `Special Committee for Inter-linking of Rivers.
Though the Court may justifiably seek to remedy the water scarcity in the country and order the Executive to consider the ILR project, it cannot specify the process through which the right to water ought to be realized. What the Court should do henceforth is withdraw its order passed in 2012 and seek a clarification on the Centre's stand on the matter at hand, on the efficacy and socio-economic imperatives of the ILR project and its viability. What it cannot do is direct implementation of the project, for that would only blur the dividing lines between the 3 organs of Government and invite conflict between the Executive and the Judiciary, ultimately eroding notions of constitutionalism. Preserving the distinction between ordering the Executive to consider the project, as opposed to implementing it will only aid in protecting the principle of separation of powers.
Now we must turn our attention to the more 'politico-legal' question of legislative competence, political conflict and Centre-State relations. The primary entry in the Constitution pertaining to water is Entry 17 of List II (the State list). However, Entry 17 is subject to Entry 56 of List I (the Union list), which empowers the Centre to legislate (regulate and develop) on inter-state rivers if it is imperative in public interest to do so. Any subsequent attempts to launch the ILR project must be tested against the touchstone of federalism for the project would effectively nationalize water.
The Centre and the Court must be careful in preserving the status of the Constitution as a compromise document according to which agrarian States sought to retain their power to regulate 'water' as a resource and not vest it in the Centre. The ILR project rebels against the idea of states being quasi-federal units representing the unity of a diverse group of people joined together by the freedom struggle. Instead, it reduces states to a position subservient to the Centre. Allowing the Centre to source its power from Entry 56 to implement the ILR Project (or indeed shift 'water' to the Concurrent List) is anti-thetical to the prevalent trend towards de-centralization of power and 'enhanced federalism'. History has shown us that the Centre has rarely made use of Entry 56, and perhaps for the better, in the interest of maintaining harmony between the Centre and the States, and the States, inter-se. Whether Entry 56 itself should be amended is probably a question best left for further discussion and judicial deliberation. The Centre has however brought about a degree of supervision over State-utilisation of river water. By virtue of Entry 20 of List III 1 ('economic and social planning'), clearance by the Central government for projects pertaining to flood control, irrigation and hydel-power has almost been made mandatory. While States continue to question the necessity of such Central clearance, the same has shown no signs of relaxation.
A project of such magnitude which strives to nationalize rivers, devoid of consent of the concerned States ignores that we have not even reached that initial stage of co-operative federalism where states located within one basin can be effectively persuaded to share river water. While examples of two states sharing basin waters may be cited, the ILR project would require mutual agreement of multiple states, which is difficult to imagine in the current political environment of India. The tussle between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, over sharing of the Kaveri waters is possibly symptomatic of the scale of disagreement that may arise between States. Consequently, in the absence of constitutional mechanisms to facilitate the hydraulic inter-connection of States bringing water from distant basins represents the apotheosis of impossibility. This centralization of water can only damage the federal schema of power sharing and with the Centre seeking to avoid State conflict; we are unlikely to witness the first effective usage of Entry 56.
The Modi Government's $87 billion-dollar plan to inter-link 60 rivers of India does not bode well for our federal scheme. This centralization of water is bound to be ensnared in the quagmire of Centre-State conflict and one hopes that the Centre considers other avenues to solve India's water scarcity, whether it be water conservation projects, expanded rainwater harvesting or even the National Waterways Project ('NWP') which utilizes only surplus flood water that flows unused into the sea. Recently, in 2017, AC Kamraj, head of the National Waterways Development Technology project, proposed the idea of an alternative method of linking rivers, referring to it as the Smart Waterways (under the ambit of the National Waterways Project). A Smart Waterway, entails development of a mechanism wherein inter-linking of rivers is facilitated through a water way built on an even plane, thus facilitating a two-way flow between the rivers so linked. The potential benefits of the NWP also far outweigh that of the ILR Project, with the NWP being able to irrigate greater amounts of land and generate 76% more power than the ILR. It is imperative that constitutional caution be exercised before the ILR Project is implemented.
Rudresh Mandal is a 4th year student of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He takes a keen interest in the intersection of environmental law and human rights.
The Constitution of India, List III, Entry 20.


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South Korea's HHI Launched the Final KSS-2 Type 214 Submarine for ROK Navy
Posted On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 12:02
Naval Industry News - South Korea
South Korea has launched its ninth and final KSS-2 submarine, manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), at Ulsan Shipyards on September 7th. The Son Won-il class submarine was named Sin Dol Seok, after a Korean admiral who led the country's fight against Japanese aggression in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
South Korean Navy ninth and final KSS-2 submarine Sin Dol Seok.
The submarine is a German (TKMS/HDW) Type 214 design displacing 1,800 tons and incorporating diesel AIP (Air-Independent) propulsion. Hyundai Heavy Industries has built a total of six submarines in the class, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) having built the other 3 submarines in the class. Sin Dol Seok will be officially handed over to the Republic of Korea Navy (ROK Navy) in July 2019 given the successful completion of dock and sea trials.
South Korea ordered the first batch of three Type 214 submarines in 2000. A second order was placed in 2009 for an additional six units, which feature improvements in the autonomy provided by the AIP system.
RoK MoD video
The KSS-2 / Type 214 submarines of the RoKN have a length of 65 m., a beam of 6.3 m, a draught of 6 m. and are capable of reaching a depth of 400 m. Their crew is comprised of 40 people. Their weapons include mines and White Shard torpedoes which are launched from eight 533 mm. tubes. South Korea's news agency Yonhap reported that Sin Dol Seok is "Equipped with South Korea's indigenous 1,000-kilometer-range cruise missile".
The ROK Navy will begin to introduce the follow on 3,000-tons submarine class KSS-III in 2020.

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Warning and Disclaimer: Make sure that the firearm is unloaded before going further. Also, be aware that if you modify firearms from factory stock, you are likely voiding your warranty. If you can't afford to try this project as a learning experience, DON'T ATTEMPT IT.
Important: NEVER, EVER HAVE LIVE AMMO of the caliber of the firearm you are working on IN THE SAME ROOM. Only inert "Dummy" rounds, "Action Proving" rounds or "Snap-Caps" should be allowed in your work area. Be SAFE, not sorry.
Many owners find the trigger pull on the P-11/P-40 KelTec pistols both heavy and creepy. Often there is a good 3/16" overtravel once the trigger does break. Due to the searless nature of the firing system and the hammer spring design, you can't lighten spring weight or smooth the hammer/sear as you would in many pistols. There are two simple modifications that can be done that make a WORLD of difference in the smoothness and perceived feel of the pull. One is the installation of a trigger overtravel stop (shown in round inset below) and the other is polishing and proper lubrication of the trigger drawbar.
The Trigger Overtravel Stop instructions herein should be attempted on the KelTec P-11/P-40 pistols only. They are not intended for the P-32 KelTec or any pistols similar in design to the P-11, such as the Taurus PT111. The pins holding the receiver block to the plastic grip on the Taurus pistol are specifically made to buckle in the middle and bind if removal is attempted by the owner. The sale of replacement pins by Taurus is restricted to factory authorized repair shops to keep owners from modifying the PT111.
10) Long 3/32" hex wrench.
Not Shown: Loctite #242 and needle-nosed pliers.
Tools 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10 could be available locally at a hardware store. The tap wrench is a Hanson from Home Depot, size O-1/4 and cost under five dollars. The long hex wrench is from one of the specialty suppliers I got the extended drill and tap from, but many good hardware stores have long sets. For this application, the ball-end style is not the best, although over the years I have found a need for both styles. The Sears store near me had both a complete set of pin punches and also a box of individual punches, so you could buy just the 5/32", 1/8" and prick punch. You will always need a good set of punches working on firearms.
Brownells has many sets and individual punches available at reasonable cost through mail order. They are the largest supplier of specialized gunsmith tools and supplies in the world. GET THEIR CATALOG, they have a book section alone that can teach you a wealth of gunsmithing tricks and lore! Tools 5 and 6, which are specialized gunsmithing tools you will use for every project, come from them.
Brownells' phone number is 641/623-4000. The 8 oz. Grace Brass Hammer is #354-001-008 for around $14.00. The Nylon Bench Block is #928-100-000 and costs about $16.00. It is a small (2 1/2" across) model, and they also carry a 4" that costs a little less (it's made of polyethylene) #498-100-100 for under $13.00.
The brass hammer is a necessity for this type of work. It won't mar finishes as bad as a steel hammer and I try to avoid hitting steel punches with a steel hammer. Why? Shattered steel from hardened punches; sparks and chips to damage hands and eyes. And most steel hammers are way too heavy for gunwork. An 8 oz. brass hammer is best, and a 4 oz. is okay for light work. A two dollar pair of safety glasses anytime you use impact tools is standard as well.
The nylon bench block is one of those items you don't have to have right away, but once you use one you'll wonder how you did without. An acceptable substitute is a eight inch block of 2 x 4 board, sanded, with a 1/4" hole drilled in its center. For driving out the plastic pins on a KelTec, you could probably lay the frame across two hardback books that are the same thickness, spaced an inch apart.
Tools 7 and 9 (the 6" drill bit and tap) are more specialized, and are available from two industrial supply houses. The part numbers I list are the least expensive version of an item they have, which usually means an imported tool. If you want to buy American, ask the phone rep to look up the part number, but it will cost a good bit more. Ask for a catalog with your order.
MSC Industrial Supply - 800/645-7270 - They have a catalog of over 4500 pages weighing eight pounds. By far the most in-depth product line, once you order you will get sale catalogs that have some good bargains. Do yourself (and your back) a favor and request the CD-ROM version of the catalog be included in your order. If you have a Mac, ask if the CD version is compatible. 6" #26 Aircraft Extension Drill Bit - #01008267 -$1.53 6" Extension Tap 10-24 - #04708251 - $10.13. Prices are subject to change of course.
Airgas/Rutland Tool - 800/289-4787 - their catalog is a "mere" 1100 pages. 6" #26 Aircraft Extension Bit - #8032 6026 - $3.08 and the 6" Extension Tap - # 7117 4016 - $21.04. Their higher prices are due to these parts being made in the USA instead of imported.
The above companies have websites, but call the first time as you have to set yourself up as a customer, request a catalog with your order etc. I always like to know if the items are in stock right now. If they are out of stock, try the other guy.
By far, the Nylon 10-24 x 1/4" Set Screw (4) is the single hardest item to find. A METAL SET SCREW IS NOT PREFERRED FOR THIS JOB. Metal screws need permanent Loctite or glue to stay in place and then still tend to back out. Under impact of the trigger the metal ones will eat at the plastic frame threads more, making it get even looser. I tracked the nylon ones down at a specialty electronics supply on the web, but you have to buy a minimum of 1000 of the little buggers. Even when I found them at a couple of suppliers, the price range ran from three cents each to thirty-six cents each. Quite a difference in markup.
So here's the deal: if you can't find them locally, email a request to the email address on my CONTACT page, include your address and I will send you a couple for free when I can, while they last.
DO NOT SEND ME YOUR GUN! I DO NOT have an FFL and I sadly must decline to do this modification for you. All it would take is ONE person not removing the serial numbered frame from the grip before sending the grip in and they become a felon. This is my hobby, I am not in business as a working gunsmith.
I did find the Nylon 10-24 screw shown at the right at several local hardware stores in various lengths. You could clamp it in a vise, cut it off with a fine-bladed saw or cutoff wheel to 1/4", then slot the cut end with a file or saw. Installation would be easy, but adjustment once the Loctite dries might require using a screw extractor and making a new one.
And as I have said, you don't HAVE to get all these tools for this job, especially if you don't plan on doing a lot of this Gun Tinkerin' stuff. Heck, you could use a icepick, compass or even a long nail you sand a good point on in place of the prick punch, since this first project is on a plastic frame. But I managed to accumulate a fairly large stash of proper tools by sending a $40.00 money order to Brownells every paycheck. In six months I had enough cool stuff to notice an increase in both quality and ease of my projects. The extended tap and drill bit are pretty much necessary to this job though. Check the length of any drill bits (#26) or taps (10-24) you may have. They must have at least 4 inches outside the chuck to install the overtravel stop.


Sub:- Pay Revision 2014 —Payment of salary arrears -detailed instructions/guidelines — issued.
Ref:- G.0.(P) 7/2016/Fin dated 20/01/2016.
1. All Drawing and Disbursing Officers should calculate month wise arrears of pay revision including surrender of earned leave of all employees for the period from 01.07.2014 to 31.01.2016 with interest from 01/02/2016 at the rate applicable to General Provident Fund as directed at para 46 of the GO read above in the proforma attached with this circular before 30.06.2016. Every employee will be served a copy of the statement of arrears due to him. The DDO should furnish a consolidated statement of pay revision arrears specifying the amount due on each instalment and the head of account from which salary is drawn before 31/07/2016 under his control to the head of the department.
2. In the case of employees who are on deputation to foreign service/Government of India for any period between 01.07.2014 to 31.01.2016 or as the case may be, their arrears should be credited to the Government account.
3. The foreign employer should remit the total amount of arrear in lump for the period from 01.07.2014 to 31.01.2016 or upto the period they have worked on deputation along with interest at the rate 8.7% per annum for the period from 01.02.2016 to the date of remittance, before 31.03.2017. The details of remittance to Government account along with the copy of Pay-in-slip should be forwarded to the Drawing and Disbursing Officer concerned in the parent department.
4. All Heads of Departments should consolidate the arrear amount payable and include the same in the budget proposal for the respective financial year in which the payment will be made.
5. First, second, third and fourth instalments of the arrear amount thus calculated will be paid along with salary for 03/2017,09/2017,03/2018 and 09/2018 respectively.
6. In the case of employees (including those who were on deputation) who retired on or after 01.07.2014 the arrear amonut will be drawn and disbursed by the Drawing and Disbursing Officer of the respective office of the parent department where the employee last worked.
7. In the case of an employee who expired/expires, the entire balance arrear amount along with interest accrued as on the date of death will be paid to the legal heir(s) of the employee.
8. In case where an employee will be on leave without allowance or under suspension as on the date of payment of arrears, arrear will be disbursed along with the first salary after rejoining duty. In such cases government will not be liable to pay interest for the period during which payment is deferred.
9. In case where an employee will be on deputation as on the date of payment of arrears the arrear amount will be drawn and disbursed by the Drawing and Disbursing Officer of the respective office of the parent department where the employee last worked.
10. No employee will be given relaxation on any point's in the above directions and the Heads of Department should not entertain such request under any circumstances.
11. Proforma and illustration for calculation and payment of arrears are appended with this circular. All Drawing and Disbursing Officer should scrupulously follow the instructions in the circular.


The current total local sales tax rate in Short Hills, NJ is 6.625%. The December 2018 total local sales tax rate was 6.875%.
Short Hills, NJ is in Essex County. Short Hills is in the following zip codes: 07078.


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Week 4 (February 18 – February 24, 2013)
This week saw two groups opened for excavation and almost finished by week's end. The first was named Tortilla and is located immediately south of Bimbo atop a large hill. Although the plaza is large – and flat – only two structures are visible, one on the west and one on the north. Three excavations were made into Tortilla: axial excavations on both the north and west structures and a vacant terrain excavation on the eastern side of the plaza. At week's end, both the eastern and western excavations had been dug to bedrock. The northern excavation produced evidence of an earlier building phase and, although bedrock was hit in the front and back of the building, still more excavation was needed in the core of the structure.
A second group was opened for excavation to the east of Galletas (which was completed last week). The new group was named Migas and consists of four elevated structures on a raised platform. One of the two northern buildings was axially penetrated and the eastern construction was also axially dug. At week's end, both excavations were down to bedrock. The eastern excavation produced three Late Classic vessels that were probably associated with two burials, but the soil is so acidic that most of the bone is completely gone; only small fragments were found. Two caches were also found in the eastern building, a finger bowl and a face cache.
In Dulce, the collapsed area at the base of the eastern structure was excavated and turned into a collapsed tomb that had been dug into bedrock. The collapsed tomb had been in-filled during the Late Classic Period when the basal stair was reset. At least three individuals had once occupied this chamber and more than eleven vessels have been recovered in association with the chamber floor; these all date to the transition between the Early and Late Classic Period. A finger cache and a face cache were found beneath the reset lower step on axis with the tomb. Also in Dulce, excavations continued in two other buildings. The northern building has produced a series of successive facings and floors; this is a similar situation to what was found in the southern building. The southern building was excavated to bedrock through the majority of the trench by the week's end.
In Bimbo, the tomb in the central eastern building was excavated all week. The southern part of the chamber is filled with stacked vessels and bone. Some of the vessels still have their decoration in fairly good condition; one dish exhibits a painted bat. The vessels in this chamber are all Late Classic in date. Also in Bimbo, excavations continued in the northern, southern, and western buildings. A collapsed chultun was located in front of the western building and evidence of an earlier building was found within the northern construction.
On Saturday, the clean-up crew arrived by plane in Belize City to help with the last three weeks of the project. Once the excavations are finished, we have a lot of drawing to do…
Bat Dish in Bimbo Tomb
Migas East Building
Dulce Excavations N&E
Lucas in Lower Dulce Tomb
Johnny North Building Migas
Chultun in West Building Bimbo
North Building Tortilla
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maria fernanda escobar says:
Juanita, te extrañamos y queremos enviarte un saludo por este medio, ya que no hay otro, esperamos que todo te salga muy bien.
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Criminal Underworld December 18, 2021 <December 27, 2021
The BMF Story: An American Dream
BMF stands for Black Mafia Family, and at its core, the true BMF story is about the nature of the American dream.
Big Meech, BMF's charismatic leader said it best:
'Everyone wants to live like they sell dope…Its the American Dream'.
From this perspective, the true BMF story boils down to how everyone wants to live the American Dream symbolised by the opulent life of a drug dealer, but without any of the risks and problems that come with the Drug Dealer lifestyle.
Big Meech and the BMF story can therefore be viewed as a modern Gangsta epic with all the elements of tragedy and ambition that come with the pursuit of the American Dream that made The Godfather and Scarface resonate.
BMF Rise & Fall
The story of BMF began when BMF was formed as a drug cartel headed by brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" and Terry Flenory in the late 1980s.
BMF started in Detroit, Michigan, and in Ten years the BMF organization had grown into a Multi-Million dollar nationwide operation reportedly pulling in at least US$270 Million dollars at the peak of BMF's activities.
After achieving success on the streets, BMF then sought to expand into legitimate business via the Music industry which led to the formation of a Record Label, BMF Entertainment.
The BMF story and legend grew further as the BMF Record Label was quite successful as seen by the BMF's label collaboration with popular Mainstream Hip Hop Artists like Young Jeezy and Fabulous.
However, in the early 2000s, an FBI Raid would bring an abrupt end to the BMF story as the FBI uncovered evidence on BMF that would see Meech, his brother and leading members of the BMF organisation charged and convicted for running a criminal enterprise with both brothers receiving Sentences of at least 30 years in Prison.
Big Meech & BMF Legacy
The impact of Big Meech and the legacy of the BMF story can be understood in terms of how the BMF story is a visceral portrayal of Big Meech's relentless pursuit of the American Dream.
In the TV Series BMF, Big Meech is portrayed as a combination of the narcisstic Tony Montana and benevolent young Godfather in the making.
Big Meech's motivation was to demonstrate through the success of the BMF story what an independent, determined and disempowered young Black Man from the fringes of American Society could accomplish.
Through drug dealing, Big Meech sought in his view, not only to make money, but to also inspire, using the power and wealth that came from BMF's illegal activities to uplift his community from within.
The BMF story shows that in Big Meech's mind, the criminal lifestyle was a means to carrying out a bigger Social agenda where one starts out from a disadvantaged position in life.
This aspect of the BMF story is emphasised further by the fact the BMF TV Series occurs against the backdrop of deindustrialisation of the City of Detroit.
In essence, the decline of the once illustrious Motor City and the accompanying dissapearance of the American Dream it once supported is replaced by the American Dream or more accurately Amrican nightmare that arrives with the Drug dealing associated with Big Meech and the BMF story.
American Industrial decline is the Historical landscape in which the BMF Story unfolds, and we are left to consider whether Big Meech and the BMF story would have existed at all without the Industrial Decline of America most evident in Cities like Detroit from the 70s onwards.
In the end, the source of Meech's wealth and power was drug dealing and as a consequence, Meech's American Dream was always going to be dependent on whether the long arm of the Law would catch up with him before he had time to fully execute his vision through the activities of BMF.
In these Prison interviews courtesy of Don Diva Magazine, Meech reflects on his life and the impact of BMF particularly in Atlanta where Meech believes he helped advance and influence ideas on what a young Black Man could achieve in the City.
Ultimately, Big Meech was not able to see his 'Benevolent Gangsta' vision come to fruition through the BMF story, and we'll never know if Big Meech's vision of the American Dream would have come to pass had Meech not been arrested bringing an abrupt to the BMF story.
Nevertheless, Big Meech's legend continues to grow, and through portrayals of the BMF story seen in popular Culture, most notably the TV Series BMF, its also clear that Big Meech's legacy as well that of the BMF story, represent a Historic moment in which one man created and pursued his own new American Dream in the face of American De-indsutrialisation and the death of the old American dream.
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A massage movement consisting in striking with the side of the hand, usually with partly flexed fingers.
/ta·pote·ment/ (tah-pōt-maw´) [Fr.] a tapping or percussing movement in massage.
a type of massage in which the body is tapped in a rhythmic manner with the tips of the fingers or the sides of the hands, using short, rapid, repetitive movements. The procedure is often used on the chest wall of patients with bronchitis to help loosen the mucus in the air passages. See also massage.
A massage technique that consists of chopping and drumming by the sides of the hand to "fleshy" tissues (e.g., the back, buttocks and thighs).
A group of massage movements that involve the repetitive, regular, rhythmic striking of the tissue with some part of the hand; includes beating, hacking, cupping, and tapping.
n massage technique that invigorates tissue by quickly and percussively tapping, cupping, hacking, slapping, or beating. Used most often during maintenance and relaxation massage.
a technique used in massage therapy in which gentle percussion is used to stimulate sensory nerves and vasodilate capillaries. Called also cupping.
Oil was applied as with the other two interventions, although not normally required for tapotement technique.
The purpose of this study was to determine if petrissage and tapotement forms of massage would influence the flexibility of the plantar flexors and muscle power.
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I work at a fundraising agency that does all types of direct response fundraising with Canadian charities. Here at Good Works, we often receive Requests for Proposals (or RFPs as they're known in the trade) that invite us to bid on consulting work with a potential new client.
When we receive an RFP, we're asked to put together a plan to move the charity toward its objectives.
Let's take a direct mail RFP as an example. We recently received one from a charity stating that their primary objective is to double their donor population within the next five years. Now, I'm sure that any fundraiser reading this would LOVE to have twice as many donors – not to mention the new revenue that would go with them.
The direct mail marketplace has been slowly shrinking for years now. I would estimate that the number of direct mail donors in Canada is eroding by about 2% per year.
The direct mail marketplace is already TOTALLY saturated with charities. There is no question that the number of charities and solicitations far exceeds the number of donors and gifts to meet them.
In this case, the charity issuing the RFP has probably not taken a critical step in the strategist's best practice. They have not 'learned the landscape' before deciding on their objective.
Let me present this idea very briefly. Great military strategists, from Alexander the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte always surveyed the landscape before mapping out their battle plans. They would take advantage of sloping ground, weather, rivers, forests and any number of topographical features in decided how they would deploy their troops.
Just as the general needs to know the physical landscape, the marketing strategist needs to understand the landscape of the MARKETPLACE. So this charity, for example, would want to know what kinds of people give through the mail. Are they male and/or female? Young or old? Well-educated or not-so-much? Religious, spiritual or neither?
For years, I've been a big fan of American demographer and fundraiser Judith Nichols (if you haven't read her book 'Global Demographics' you should check it out!). I remember seeing Judith speak at a conference about fifteen years ago – and for the first time I heard a fundraiser say "in the future, we need to go deep more than wide".
Judith was describing the pyramid of giving. In the heyday of direct mail (the 1970s to 1990s), it wasn't hard to grow a donor file. Trade your donor list for new prospects. Send out pretty good donor acquisition packages. And, in come the new donors.
Today, that charity that issued the RFP probably would have been much wiser to say that their objective is to 'double net revenue from a constant donor population'.
How might they do that?
Increase their donor retention rate by 10%.
Convert 10% of their single-gift direct mail donors to monthly giving.
Convert 3% of their 'everyday' direct mail donors to intermediate or leadership giving.
Over time, persuade about 5% of their donors to make bequests to the charity.
If this charity was able to accomplish these four tasks, they would MORE THAN DOUBLE their net revenues without having to grow their donor population.
So, the next time your finance or fundraising committee is making a strategic fundraising plan, make sure to survey the philanthropic landscape first. Then, like a smart general, take advantage of that landscape to earn lots of new money.


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The baptizing Christ washes us clean from all sin in the waters of the Jordan. He also restores the primitive order that was abolished by sin and creates a new person: "Put on the new nature of God's creating, which shows itself in the just and devout life called for by the truth" (Eph 4:24). The Fathers of the Church agree, and teach that the Lord Jesus ~ the New Adam ~ restores us to the state of integrity possessed by the first Adam before his fall.
This work of recreation is expressed in the Holy Mystery of Baptism by the anointing with the "oil of gladness" before the rite of the water. It is not yet baptism, but a necessary preparation for it. Only a restored, recreated person can be united to Christ.
The anointing with the oil of gladness means that we sinners are first restored into the state of original integrity; now we can be incorporated into Christ in the baptismal water. This anointing differs from the Chrismation anointing which, after the rite of the mystery of baptism, communicates Pentecostal grace.
The oil of gladness is not chrism, it has, nevertheless, its own special effects. "It purifies the traces of sin by burning them," St. Cyrill of Jerusalem says.
The servant of God is anointed with the oil of gladness.
Six parts of the body are anointed with the oil of gladness.
~ to open the mind to understand and accept the mystery of faith and to know the truth.
~ for the healing of soul and body, and that we may love the Lord God with all our heart, our whole soul and whole mind, and our neighbor as ourselves.
~ that we may eagerly take Christ's gentle yoke and joyfully carry his burden and renounce all carnal desires.
~ that we may hear the faith and accept the divine teachings of the Gospels.
~ that we may raise our hands without blame toward the sanctuary and always do what is right and just and bless the Lord.
~ that we may walk in the footsteps of Christ's Commandments.
Through the anointing of our senses our whole body is made holy and we find favor with God. Our senses make us aware of our world and all of life so that we may grow to appreciate God who created us and all the beauty that surrounds us.
Love is a personal relationship and commitment; it cannot be imposed but only offered. Salvation is a process for leading us to the fulfillment of life in Christ; it is the perfect acceptance of the Fatherhood of God. Baptism is therefore the reorientation of the soul, the reconstruction of the likeness which flows from our insertion into the Resurrection of Christ. We must learn to trust and believe and allow God to win us over. Without this belief no love is possible. Knowing another person in love reaches to the depth of the self of the other person. In that depth there is communication and identification. For this reason we are asked during the liturgy of baptism: "Do you believe in Christ?" And we answer: "I believe in Him as King and God." And we are invited to recite the Creed. This saying of the Creed is not a mere recital of a list of truths. Rather it is a plunging into that "river of flowing water" which is the life of the Trinity. We plunge into the life of the Father; we give ourselves up to the life of the Son who died for our salvation; we surrender to the life and action of the Holy Spirit who will fill everything and make us rise to the eternal life to come. The Creed, therefore, is recited solemnly and with conviction. Such a proclamation involves a change in our whole being; in our consciousness and awareness of God and others. Baptism is called "newness of life." Since life is a process, we commit ourselves to keep moving into the "mind of Christ." The "old life" was a disorientation where we found ourselves wandering away from God in isolation and self-centeredness. New life is "putting on Christ" with whom we are in the Father. God brings forth His Son anew and breathes His Spirit into us.
Now let me speak to you of the mysteries themselves and the contract which will be made between yourselves and the Master.
In worldly affairs, whenever someone wishes to entrust their business to another, a written contract must be completed between the trustee and the client.
The same thing holds true now, when the Master is going to entrust to you not mortal things which are subject to destruction and death, but spiritual things which belong to eternity. Wherefore, this contract is also called faith, since it possesses nothing visible but all things which can be seen by the eyes of the spirit.
There must be an agreement between the contracting parties. However, this is not on paper nor written in ink; it is in God and written by the Spirit. The words which you utter here are registered in heaven, and the agreement you make by your tongue abides indelibly with the Master.
For three hundred years the voice of prophecy had been silent in Israel. "There is no longer any prophet," lamented the Psalmist (74:9). Was God silent? Was He not to speak to His people any more?
After three hundred years God finally breaks His silence. He sends another prophet: John the Baptizer.
In John, God spoke again through "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," and the people recognized the voice and commands of a prophet. So they came and listened. "There went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem." He came as the last and the greatest of the Old Testament prophets.
John came to point out Him whom all Israel expected: the Messiah, the Savior, the Light of the World. Of all the prophets to proclaim the Messiah, John was the only one privileged to point to Him and say: "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." The icon of John the Baptist generally depicts him as pointing because that is his privileged place in history; he points out Christ as the expected Savior.
John was the "voice of one crying in the wilderness." A wilderness is a place where everything and everyone is lost. When a person is lost in the wilderness, the greatest good that can happen to them is to hear a voice that can lead them out. Such was and is the voice of John, calling to us who are lost in the wilderness of sin, and saying: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world."
Grandma told the following story to us often because she believed it held a most important lesson.
A wealthy merchant was traveling in a train compartment with a poor old man. The merchant treated the elderly man with disrespect, rudeness and disdain. When they reached their common destination, the merchant found the station thronged with people waiting to greet a holy teacher.
The wealthy merchant learned to his chagrin that the old man in his compartment was that saintly teacher.
Embarrassed at his disgraceful behavior and distraught that he had missed a golden opportunity to speak in private to a wise and holy man, the merchant pushed his way through the crowd to find the old man.
When he reached the holy teacher, he begged the teacher's forgiveness and asked for his blessing. The teacher looked at him and replied: "I cannot forgive you. For forgiveness, you yourself must go out and beg it from every old, poor person in the world."
An important factor involved in true repentance is a changed direction. This change of mind and heart in repentance is so thorough that it leads to a changed direction in life. The Jewish word for repentance means "to turn."
The Greek word for repentance literally means "a change of mind." This is exactly what true repentance is: a turning away from evil and a turning towards God.
One day a man who was lost asked someone how far it was to the city he sought. He was told: "If you keep going the way you are going it is about 25,000 miles. But, if you turn back and go this way, it is only about three miles." A U-turn may not be allowed on our streets because it can tie up traffic and cause accidents, but it is often the only thing we can do in life especially when we are headed in the wrong direction.
St. Paul made a "U-turn" on the Damascus Road. If repentance is anything, it is a U-turn, a reversing of the direction of our life so that we face God. Because we have taken one step down a wrong road is no reason, we should take another.
Genuine Christianity is based not on knowing about Jesus but knowing the Christ. Eastern Fathers of the Church, like St. Gregory of Nazianum, devoted some of their studies to identify our Lord Jesus through the various titles ascribed to Christ in the holy Scriptures. Gregory mentions some fifty titles. St. John Chrysostom gives about twenty-five images in the Divine Liturgy. Each of the Fathers attempts to grasp an intimate, dynamic aspect of Christ and our union with Him.
We all love a mystery. Every title of Christ can be called a mystery. One of the most intriguing titles, that is indeed a profound Christological mystery, is the "Body of Christ" or Mystical Body of Christ."
St. Paul originated this image when he wrote: "Have you forgotten that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus we were baptized into his death? By baptism we are buried with him, and lay dead, in order that, as Christ was raised from the dead in the splendor of the Father, so also we might set our feet upon a new path of life" (Rom 6: 3-4).
Entering into the waters of baptism, we join Christ in His death as we die to sin, to evil and to all that keeps us from union with God. We enter into new life as we are joined to the resurrected Christ. The new white garment we receive, a royal robe, signifies that we have "put on Christ," meaning we have died in Christ and are now resurrected in Him.
The mystery is resolved when the newly baptized enters not only into Christ's resurrection, but also into the body of Christ, His Church or Kingdom. The newly baptized has received divine life thus entering into a dynamic union with Christ. He or she receives the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
St. John Chrysostom, in one of his homilies, puts it this way: "Human beings were formerly captives of sin but now they are free, holy, just, son and daughters of Christ; heirs, members temples and instruments of the Spirit."
In the great mystery of baptism we die in Christ and we resurrect in Christ and we become members of His Church. We belong to the body of Christ. Each Sunday and holyday, as God's people, we gather around the One who loves us. We come to Him to Whom we belong. We gather in the place where we belong: in church.
If we do not come to church, we are acknowledging that we do not belong to God. We may belong to money, to golf, to football, to TV, to shopping. We may belong to the world, but not to God.
We come to church to acknowledge whose we are and where we belong. Just as at the end of our work day, we go to where we belong -home- so on the Lord's Day we go to where we belong - the Church. This is why Jesus said that at the Resurrection there will be a separation of the lambs from the goats (Mt 25: 31-46), i.e., people will gravitate to where they have always belonged, either toward the presence of God or away from the presence of God; either toward heaven or hell.


Day after day, week after week – truckloads of fresh produce, meats, cheeses, and just about every other type of ingredient imaginable flow into the Goodfood production facility. With barely a moment's rest, they're systematically transformed into meal kits at lightning speed, ready to be enjoyed by tens of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast. But behind every well-oiled machine is a shrewd and diligent engineer. At Goodfood, Maxime Lavoie, Director of Operations fills that role with an abundance of dedication and enthusiasm.
Max is rare specimen; while touting a disciplined engineering acumen, he also has proud agricultural roots, allowing him to look at operations with a unique and insightful point of view.
In university, Max studied process optimization, production planning, and logistics. However, the lesson he stresses as being the most important is the structured approach to problem solving. After graduating, Max put these learnings to use as a management consultant at Deloitte, helping Fortune 500 companies implement strategies and optimize their businesses. Once landed at Goodfood under the guidance of President & Co-founder, Neil Cuggy, Max got to work applying many of the best practices he picked up while consulting. In a constantly evolving environment growing at an explosive pace, Max doesn't bat an eyelash and takes on every challenge with a smile.
While intensively process-oriented, data-driven and analytical, Max is still very much in touch with the foundation on which Goodfood is built – its people. With hundreds of employees, thousands of members, and gigabytes of data, he somehow maintains a balancing act between left and right brain that would make most people's heads spin. Efficiency is certainly a priority, but Max asserts that he'll never replace a person with a machine, choosing rather to grow into automations and optimizations.
At the end of the day however, Max's main obsession is quality which he monitors fanatically, day-in and day-out.
At its core, engineering is about creating change – and Max has an appetite like no one else – both literally and figuratively (just ask our Test Kitchen!).
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Cops Say They Accidentally Turned Over Undocumented Immigrant Who Made 911 Call
by Alberto Luperon | 11:39 am, February 16th, 2018
Cops in Tukwila, Washington admit they shouldn't have turned over undocumented immigrant Wilson Rodriguez-Macarreno to ICE, according to KOMO. In fact, doing it went against their own rules.
"It has always been our policy that we will not inquire about someone's immigration status," Deputy Chief Rick Mitchell said at a community meeting.
But why do it? Rodriguez-Macarreno, a 32-year-old father who is from Honduras, made a 911 call last week about a possible prowler outside his home. Police did find a suspect, and, per their policy, ran background checks on both that person and the victim, according to KOMO. They discovered an ICE administration warrant on Rodriguez-Macarreno. Police claim they thought it was a criminal issue, and turned him over to federal authorities.
It has the community shaken.
"We no longer trust the Tukwila police department and we are living in fear," said a student from Foster High School. The outlet didn't identify them because of a request from school officials.
Rodriguez-Macarreno is scheduled to be deported next week, according to Newsweek.
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Description: This disc of sacred and secular works is split 60-40 in favor of the sacred, but with Hakim, that never means anything stodgily Germanic. Using every possible color (it seems) on this brand-new organ in Copenhagen's new concert hall, he paints bright and joyful pictures whether he's basing his music on chorales or hymns or on Danish or Lebanese folk music. His descriptions of the sacred pieces are not unlike those Messiaen wrote for some of his - the joyous splendor of Christian belief is hard to dismiss - but the music is far more immediately approachable (at times running the gamut from hurdy-gurdy and cartoon soundtrack to more traditional processionals and marches in less than traditional styles). Naji Hakim (van den Heuvel organ of the Danish Radio).


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Our research in the Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research and the Centre for Research in Biodetection Technology also brings practical benefits in climate modelling, measurements of airborne pollution and bio-particle detection. In November 2018 we officially opened the University of Hertfordshire LIDAR within our Atmospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory. This new laser facility is a key part of the European infrastructure for remote sensing. It has recently been selected as a ground station in support of the European Space Agency's AEOLUS Earth Observation satellite.
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E.V.I.dently Today Blog
Key Takeaways From an ISPOR Panel on Creative Financing Proposals
By Michael Ciarametaro and Taruja Karmarkar
We are on the cusp of many groundbreaking therapies that promise significant benefits to patients; some are curative, while others can greatly improve quality of life. Although these therapies provide high value, they often come at a high upfront cost. Examples of these therapies include direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C (HCV) and chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapies for certain cancers. The transformative nature of these therapies creates many challenges for payers, including payment timing, performance uncertainty and actuarial uncertainty (e.g. how many patients).
An expert panel was convened at the 2019 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) annual meeting in New Orleans, La., to discuss the need for novel payment approaches to address the challenges that accompany transformative therapies. Given the large upfront payment, the multiple layers and players of the payment ecosystem, including self-insured employers and payers and reinsurers, need to be considered. One-size-fits all payment approaches will no longer work. Instead, there is a need for "precision financing" approaches (performance annuities, milestone contracts, and orphan benefit reinsurer manger) that are tailored to each situation, such as the type of payer, therapy, population size or disease burden. The State of Louisiana's approach to treating people with hepatitis C provides an illustrative example of how these new approaches can meet the needs of the both the purchaser (Louisiana) and the manufacturer.
HCV has been curable on an individual level since 2013; however, this was not an achievable goal at the population level due to the high costs and side effect profile. Patients experienced flu-like symptoms for roughly one year due to weekly interferon injections. That changed with the FDA's approval of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), new types of medicines with a significantly improved treatment profile that made curing HCV at a population level an attainable goal. The potential for public health success generated a significant amount of pressure on payers like state Medicaid programs to treat; however, treating 90% of the HCV population—a level required to eradicate disease--was challenging as the costs of treating some 39,000 people in Louisiana approached $780,000. Given its limited budget, Louisiana had to determine how to allocate resources not only for health care, but for higher education and other important state priorities as well.
These factors led Louisiana to create a customized approach for hepatitis C using a subscription-like model for Medicaid beneficiaries and the prison population. The subscription model is a good approach to achieve this goal in Louisiana because the market for DAA treatments has significantly matured. Increased competition has put gradual downward pressure on costs. Under this approach, treatment expenses would be handled as a flat fee for unlimited use, enabling Louisiana to reach its clinical goal of eliminating hepatitis C while staying within its budget constraints.
This new arrangement is beneficial for all stakeholders involved. Manufacturers benefit from increased certainty in their business model over the five-year period of the proposed arrangement. The health system benefits from both knowledge and public health spillover effects. Providers seeing Medicaid patients can develop their expertise with the new products and apply that expertise when making treatment decisions for their commercially insured patients. Perhaps the most significant benefit of this model is the ability to treat more HCV patients at earlier stages of the disease. By linking patients to treatment sooner, the system can prevent the long-term complications, and associated costs, of HCV. Treating such a large proportion of the prevalent population also can potentially limit the spread of this infectious disease.
This proposed approach is not without its challenges. These types of arrangements were not envisioned when Medicare regulations were developed, nor was the science. Medical innovation has surpassed the existing regulations. As a result, Louisiana had to be creative in implementing the arrangement through the use of Medicaid supplemental rebates. Additionally, given the complexity of outcomes-based contracts, the current arrangement does not include tracking or linking outcomes to payment. In general, the best candidates for these outcomes-based contracts will have well-defined patient populations with outcome metrics that are easy to measure. While HCV has relatively clearly defined outcomes, it is important to remember that there are costs and numerous operational challenges associated with the inclusion of outcomes-based contracts in new payment mechanisms. Despite these limitations, the Louisiana subscription-like model is an important step forward as it provides expanded access to an important medication that will improve patients' lives. Given state budget limitations, this type of access is only possible because of this new innovative payment approach.


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Mattias Björnmalm BSc MSc PhD AMRSC is a Research Fellow in the Department of Materials and the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. He leads the EU-funded project qBionano.
He has over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals and his research is focused on materials science, biomedical engineering, and bio-nanoscience. In 2017, he was awarded a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission; during this process, he was selected as 1 of 30 "highly promising researchers" out of the 8,916 funding proposals submitted.
Mattias completed his PhD under the supervision of CBNS CI and Deputy Director Professor Frank Caruso, and his current mentor is Professor Molly M. Stevens.
Mattias is an Associate Editor for the science and policy journal Angle, a Member of EuroScience, and a Member of the Policy Working Group of the Brussels-based Marie Curie Alumni Association.
Mattias is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (AMRSC), an Honorary Research Fellow of the Bionics Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne.
How diseases can be targeted using nanotechnology – and why it's difficult 2017 Professor Frank Caruso, Dr Mattias Björnmalm


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Q: search through all lenses Currently I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with some additional lenses.
Is it possible to search though all lenses at the same time?
For example when I type "Tom" it looks for all calendar events (through Calendar events lenses), all Empathy contacts and all music titles contains this string.
Please advice me, how to do that?

A: It is possible, but there would need to be an extra bit of code to bind together the background services which search in various pots of data and the lens front end you'd like these delivered to.
This would be an 'all in one' lens. And you can learn about making them here: http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/lenses-and-scopes/
The alternative method is to hack the existing lens definitions so they all appear in the home menu when you search there. There is work here though, so look for someone else who might have done with job for you already. (and post it here!)

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Theories of the Real and Practice of the Ideal, Jamming, 24/02/2015
One of my regular commenters on the blog is a colleague from the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Thomas Basbøll, a writing coach in Denmark. He and I have philosophical disagreements about pretty much everything we talk about. Probably our most profound disagreement is over the nature of reality; you don't get much more profound than that.
Thomas retired his own blog last year (at least for now), but on one of my posts last week about the nature of objectivity and the ethics of journalism and communication, he wrote a few things about the nature of society and social existence. He distinguishes between things and people. Things are the subject matter of objective knowledge and material processes. People are the subject matter of subjective processes, including the social institutions that people create to manage their societies at large scales.
Distinguishing a human ideal from a material real
all too often blinds us to the material causal power
of human technology and civilization, material which
embodies and expresses thought.
It's a dualism that I'm not really cool with, in my own perspective. Mostly, that's because of my thorough materialism: I'm not comfortable with making strong distinctions on the basis of substance, particularly when humanity slots into a category of its own. I'm not going to give solid arguments as to why this is the case and more essentialist dualisms are wrong. I don't think metaphysical facts are of this kind. We can't definitively say which are true and which are false by empirical investigation or deduction.
I can describe a particular broad set of metaphysical concepts that constitute a general perspective on how to understand existence, and argue pragmatically for why it is better for us to make sense of ourselves and the world along these lines rather than others. This is basically what Ecology, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity does with ecocentrism, metaphysically, ethically, and morally.
Given our current situation, a philosophical approach to humanity's world that follows the general pattern of humanism, taking humanity to have an essence that makes it of a substantially different kind than the rest of nature conditions maladaptive behaviour. A metaphysics of our continuity with nature conditions more sustainable activity.
Thomas' metaphysical distinction of things and people defines action as something different from the real, though I doubt that it is kosher to put them in a hierarchy of more or less reality, as has sometimes been done in philosophical history. He writes that "only materiality constitutes the objective reality." Social institutions, being the creations of humans, exist as subjective (or perhaps intersubjective) idealities. Action in the context of a society (the only action possible) has a dynamic of obedience. But institutions don't give orders that individuals follow.
Instead, think of institutions as establishing the frameworks and conditions for social and political action. A social institution is an ideal entity that we understand, and what constitutes our understanding is our practice (or should I say praxis?), moving according to the possibilities for action that their frameworks structure.
A very intense Ian Hacking.
Thomas cites Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality as a key philosophical touchstone in this conception, that what is socially constructed is other than real. But I'd stand on the shoulders of another landmark sociologist philosopher as a touchstone for my developing my own view: Ian Hacking, who wrote that what was socially constructed was just as real as anything else, because human actions and relations are themselves real, material processes.
I worry that Thomas downplays the reality of emergent entities, entities that are constituted through relations. Because relations constitute all bodies, structures, and matter. I find it very retrograde to regard entities constituted through human action as somehow less real than entities constituted through other kinds of relations.
Thomas also has some fascinating ideas in some older entries about the nature of language that flow from his distinction of the material real and the human/social ideal. Our languages and our ways of knowing the world, under this distinction, are traditions of action and understanding, a notion that he evokes Borges to explore.
For one thing, the correspondence conception of truth as the assertion of facts is pretty inadequate in this model. But because traditions are ideal entities in Thomas' thinking, so they guide and determine our actions, moving us to think in particular ways. And he may be right about the character of language and knowledge paradigms as traditions, but his distinction of real and ideal may encourage us to think that our models of knowledge are somehow disconnected from reality.
Think about this implication of that disconnect: If we our traditions of methods to know the world are ideal in a sense that they're distinct from reality, schiz between the ideal and the real becomes inevitable, almost a matter of definition. Being so deeply situated in our traditions as we are, the ideal becomes a prison cutting us off from the real. We lose the conception of our knowledge and social action as causal.
He slips and slides away from easy definition. Borges.
Thomas refers to Borges' story "The Approach to al-Mu'tasim." It's the story of different ways that a particular story is interpreted. The subject of our contemplation is the narrative of a young man searching for an ideally good and holy man, and each of the protagonist's encounters brings him to characters progressively approaching this ideal. The story ends with only a brief glimpse of the mysterious al-Mu'tasim.
Borges describes this fictional book as having two separate editions. In the first, al-Mu'tasim is described in superlative terms, but has particular idiosyncratic traits, clearly a person with his own life who has achieved much ethical progress. This al-Mu'tasim is barely glimpsed in the story, but we know that he is a real person in the narrative, with a singular history and identity, from whom we could learn.
The al-Mu'tasim of the second edition is a pure idea. Each person the protagonist speaks with about him describes him as a reflection of themselves. This al-Mu'tasim is an image of perfection to which we can only approach while it remains equally distant. Such is the flaw of the unreal.
This is one of the main reasons I'm glad that I take part in the SERRC. Adam Writes Everything will participate over the next month or so in a new experiment in book review writing, which I'm really quire excited about. I hope to promote it beyond just the circle of SERRC, spreading it to wider academic publications and forums.
Beyond these experiments, SERRC is also a gathering place for people with remarkably diverse philosophical approaches, perspectives, and ideas to work on common problems. Our diversity cuts off unfortunate tendencies to philosophical groupthink that all-too-often emerge in communities based solely in university institutions and content-restricted journals. SERRC is the kind of community that I think will make genuine philosophical progress over the next century.
Labels: Emergence, Jamming, Jorge Luis Borges, Knowledge, Materialism, Ontology
Thomas February 24, 2015 at 7:54 AM
Interesting stuff, Adam. The best place to begin, I think, is with your sense that my constructivism is somehow "retrograde". I am, in fact, pretty old-school about lots of things, so this wouldn't be surprising. But I don't actually think that "entities constituted through human action [are] somehow less real than entities constituted through other kinds of relations." Let me try to explain.
Actions are not relations, but actions may establish relations. So too may events, i.e., happenings that are not actions, that have no agency. In so far as those relations are "material", i.e., relation between things, i.e., facts, then they are (on my view) "real". But if the relations remain social, i.e., between people, then they are not real. It's not important to how the relation came about but what kind of relation it is.
Texts are great examples. They are a material reality, a distribution of black marks on white pages (or white on black as with your blog). But when we read them we experience them as the meaningful behaviour of another person. And here we do the text (and its author) an injustice by reducing its meaning to an objective fact. The meaning of the text qua social relation is always "ideal", not "real".
So a book (paper and ink and glue) is not "less real" than a rock. But the meaning of the words in the book is not real at all. Reality doesn't even enter into it. (Borges says somewhere that book inserts an ideal plane into the real one. Something like that.)
Also, I don't think the social, personal, and ideal is reserved for anything traditionally "human". It's only a question of agency and subjectivity. Toasters lack subjectivity, but cats and even flowers might be slightly more "ideal" than that. They are also real, of course. Bodies are not either real or ideal. They are both. "This is my body" is sometimes an assertion (a statement to understand), and sometimes an injunction (a command to obey.)
Adam Riggio February 24, 2015 at 4:58 PM
Texts make for a really good illustration of your concept, Thomas. Although they also make an excellent illustration of my own approach to materialist metaphysics where relations are primary and reduction is laughable.
You describe how we experience a text, as the meaningful behaviour of another person. Its singularity would appear to be a central feature of ideal relations and bodies. To explain them in terms of an objective fact, a set of propositions that exhausts all there is to know about them, is an injustice, and epistemically improper anyway.
But that's only one aspect of what a text is, when we consider it as the expression of an author. Even as an object, cut off from this circuit of communication between an author and a single reader, its possibilities overflow its existence. Its possibilities of meaning vary with each individual reader, and the particular context of their own narratives, contingent articulations of each time, place, and history. Those possibilities are not themselves a function of the author of the text, or the reader, but the text itself as an object whose own complexity generates this constant explosion of novel possibility. It, itself, can act in the world in so many ways, exhausting even the power of its author to bestow its meaning.
But that's the lesson of Pierre Menard, isn't it?
The kicker of my own materialist realism (and the central perspective of Ecology, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity) is that this is true of all bodies. Everything can exist for us in terms of its factuality alone, or as an imperative demanding our response.
Thomas February 25, 2015 at 12:05 AM
I'm not quite sure what we're disagreeing about, so I may be making needless trouble, but I assume that rocks and flowers also have possibilities that "overflow their existence". What we need (from you) is some examples of those "possibilities" that are both objective ("real") and social. I have a feeling that I would disagree with you about what we can count as a feature of "the text itself as an object". Certainly, a text's being "fiction", or even "in English", for example, is not such a feature, in my opinion.
Glad I finally get time to respond. Apologies for having taken so long. What we're disagreeing about is literally the words we use to describe similar distinctions. You're comfortable using the words 'real' and 'ideal' to talk about the aspects of the world that emerge from social relations, and objects that are described only as objects (without participating in generating social meaningfulness). What I've read of your work at the SERRC tells me that you concentrate on problems that arise in this ideal domain.
But I was raised in a philosophical environment that considered 'real' and 'ideal' very loaded words, where having a materialist outlook on the world necessarily meant you were very reductionist about what matter could do. This idea that humans have to have a mind or a soul (conceived as a separate and different substance from matter) to do what they do is a popular attitude throughout North America. So one of my philosophical priorities is articulating a materialist philosophical vocabulary of metaphysics and mind that is not reductive to some diminished notion of what humanity could do.
Because of how my history, and the philosophical priorities that emerged from my understanding that history, shapes the way I think, and primed me to misunderstand what you meant by your distinction of real and ideal.
But I do still think that phrasing your distinction in those terms could lead to genuine misunderstandings in how others receive your work. I've met a lot of philosophers of mind, for instance, who think emergence is just a way to hand-wave away talk of the mind as a separate substance or soul, that emergence couldn't be a genuinely materialist process all the way down. The old dualisms of our religious and metaphysical traditions have haunted us for a long time, and they haunt our society still.
Thomas February 25, 2015 at 10:51 PM
Yes, it seems as thought you want encompass all of experience in your conception of materiality. By contrast, I see materiality as one half of experience, to be distinguished from sociality.
I suppose it'll always be up to the individual philosopher whether to cultivate a dualism, or some sort of enriched (non reductive) monism or, I guess, a indeterminately pluralistic approach to "substance". My dualism is anchored in the common sense distinction between people and things, or even between doing and seeing. It may interest you to know that I sort "mind" on the same side as materiality. It's the heart that belongs to the social.
Adam Riggio February 26, 2015 at 3:13 AM
I guess you could call my own approach an instance of that last one you describe. Instead of an "interderminately pluralistic approach to 'substance,'" maybe call it a notion that being can become quite a lot, and it'll take a whole lot of time and a whole lot of complex situations to explore fully the limits of its powers to become. I sort of draw a line of primary influence through the history of philosophy of Spinoza, through Bergson, through Deleuze, and I'm carrying on that tradition, an ordinary Canadian with some ambitious hopes for long-term book sales.
"It's the heart that belongs to the social." That's a nicely beautiful phrase right there.
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