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'American Idol' CJ Harris Dies at 31
Bhoomika Lal
CJ Harris, a former "American Idol" contestant, who came in sixth place on season 13 of American Idol, died at the tender age of 31.
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According to a family member, Harris appeared to have had a heart attack on Sunday night in Jasper, Alabama. He was taken to the hospital right away, but he did not make it.
Harris competed in "American Idol" in 2014, reaching the Top 6. He then became friends with Darius Rucker, who served as his mentor.
Harris had the opportunity to perform with Darius Rucker on the "American Idol" season finale. They reunited for a performance at the Grand Ole Opry following the show.
Harris's Journey to American Idol
Harris initially tried out for The Voice and The X-Factor but was unsuccessful. That is when he decided to focus on American Idol, where he had a significant impact during the show's 13th season in 2014.
Judge Keith Urban remarked to CJ after hearing him sing the Allman Brothers Band song "Soulshine" during his audition, "You sing 'cause you have to sing, not 'cause you want to sing. And I mean that in the deepest way. And that's why it's so believable and real."
Harris revealed to The Hollywood Reporter in 2014 that he decided to try out for American Idol on a whim. He said, "I saw they were performing the bus tour and they were going to be down the road from me."
He continued, 'I said, "You know what? I'm going to give it another chance. I've gotten so much better, my voice has matured and my playing has gotten so much better. I'm 23, before you know it I'll be 33 and I want to give it another chance ' he claimed.
Harris went all the way to 6th position. He continued to have success after Idol, moving to Nashville and performing with Darius Rucker at the Grand Ole Opry.
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Wouldn't it be awesome if you could just drop a PDF in a folder and it would automatically show up on your Kindle? Or if imported photos automatically scaled themselves down to a smaller size? Or if your PDF documents automatically signed themselves? These are just a couple of examples of what Wappwolf can do along with your Dropbox or Google Drive account. Here's how to make the magic happen.
Wappwolf works by connecting to your Dropbox or Google Drive account and watching folders of your choice for types of files that you specify. When it sees anything that matches the criteria you laid out, it then performs an action of your choice. For example, if a folder called "New Photos" that contains all the new photos imported into your Dropbox/Google Drive has new JPEG files added to it, Wappwolf can notice this and then scale them down, add text, and do a bunch of other things automatically. It'll then create a processed folder containing the new images, place it in your Dropbox/Google Drive, and contain all the processed JPEG images you want without any effort on your part. There are plenty of other things you can do with JPEGs and other types of files, which is what we'll be looking at in this post. First we'll get everything set up and create a sample action, then look at a few cool actions you might want to try out for yourself.
Before we get started, you'll need to sign up for an account—which is pretty easy to do. You just visit wappwolf.com and sign in with your Dropbox or Google Drive account. If you're hesitant about allowing full access, you can grant Wappwolf single-folder permissions to keep it from seeing everything in your account. In the event you have any trouble signing up, just follow these instructions for Dropbox or Google Drive. Once you've got that out of the way, Wappwolf will create a sample automation for you that downsizes images and adds some text to them. Since we're going to be looking at a bunch of other options and creating automations ourselves, you can choose to delete this and then move on to the next step.
When you have no active Wappwolf actions, signing in will take you directly to the Choose a Folder step. If you already have an action (which, presumably, you do not since you're new to this) you'll just need to click the "Create a new automation" button. This will present you with a list of all the folders in your Dropbox/Google Drive. You can select one, or click on its name to go inside of it and select one of its folders instead. Once you've selected the folder you want, click the radio button next to its name and click the "Next" button at the bottom of the page.
After you've chosen a folder, Wappwolf will present you with a list of actions that are sorted by file type. Before you can choose an action you'll need to decide what type of file you're going to work with. Feel free to pick whatever you'd like, but if you'd like to follow along for practice let's set up a Document-based action. Let's convert any document dropped into this folder to a PDF. You can do this by clicking the radio button next to the "Convert it to PDF" option. When you do, a big list will appear of supported file formats so you know what you can and can't use. Most standard file formats from Word to Rich Text to HTML will work fine, but you won't be able to use documents created in less-widely used apps like Apple's Pages, for example. Make sure you take note of the supported formats before you start saving unsupported documents in this folder. They'll just be ignored. If this all looks good, go ahead and click the "Add Action" button underneath the supported file formats list.
Now that you've finished adding your action(s), Wappwolf will display the active action on your main account page. To test it out, go into the Dropbox/Google Drive folder you set up in the previous steps and add a supported file. That file will first need to sync up with Dropbox/Google Drive. Once it does, Wappwolf will see it within the next minute and start turning it into a PDF. You'll see a processed folder appear, and your original file will be moved into it. This might scare you at first because it seems like your original file was deleted, but it just moved. After the move takes place a PDF file will show up in the primary folder containing the contents of the original text file. This whole process won't happen instantly, but generally you can expect results to begin to appear after a few seconds.
It's pretty easy to explore the many actions Wappwolf has available, but there are a couple you should definitely know about because they're especially useful. Here are my five favorites.
By far, my favorite automation on Wappwolf is audio conversion. While it isn't exactly difficult to convert an audio file every time you need to, it takes time to figure out the settings (or remove the old copy if you're converting within a music player like iTunes). It's much easier to just drop a file in a folder and let Wappwolf do the work for you. What's really great is that you can use any of the following formats: MP3, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, OGG, WAV, or WMA. You can let Wappwolf pick the settings for you, or you can click on an "Advanced Settings" link to set the bit rate, frequency, number of channels, and other settings. This action is really useful if you need to automatically convert a lossless file to one you can easily share online or batch convert a bunch of lossless audio files you have lying around to a lossy format for your MP3 player. Perhaps you just need to use this just one time to convert a ton of audio files to another format and you don't want to deal with it manually. With the audio conversion action, you can make this all happen automatically while you're away from the computer.
Although it's not hard to send files to your Kindle via email, and have Amazon automatically perform the conversion for you, Wappwolf makes it as simple as just dropping a file in a folder and waiting for it to show up on your device. All you have to do is enter the address you want to send the document from, the Kindle email address that will receive the file, if you want to send it over Wi-Fi only or pay the $0.15 to send it via 3G, and whether or not you want the file converted to Kindle format before it gets sent. You can send any format supported by Kindle, but if you want to send a format that Kindle doesn't support but Wappwolf does, you can use the Convert to PDF action (which we detailed earlier in this post) to ensure it will be in the proper format every time.
Chances are you don't use every photo sharing site on the web, but you do use more than one. For example, I post all my photos on Flickr but I like them to go to Facebook as well. With Wappwolf, you can create an automation with multiple actions that takes your photos and uploads them to services like Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa. You can even have Wappwolf downscale the images before posting and add text or a watermark. However you go about it, you can save yourself the time of uploading to multiple services by just configuring a folder to do it all for you.
Although it is perhaps the coolest of the actions—as you can actually just dump a PDF file in a folder and a signed copy will be returned to you in a few seconds—it's a tedious process to set up and you have to use another third-party service called Xyzmo. Getting started requires filling out a form and providing quite a bit of information to Xyzmo, so you may not want to set this up. Once you get through the long-ish setup process, however, you can have your documents signed for you. You also should note that this is an electronic signature and not a pasted handwritten signature, so that might be a deterrent as well. If you're cool with the drawbacks, however, this is definitely an action worth looking at.
Sometimes you need to deliver files to the same location or person on a regular basis, and that involves zipping them up and uploading them or sending them in an email. With these actions, you can automate the whole process by just dumping those files in a folder and letting Wappwolf deliver them to a destination of your choice. Assuming you want to zip the files first, just add a zip file action, and then choose the destination you want—whether it's and FTP server, someone's email address, or one of the other many destinations Wappwolf offers. Wappwolf will take care of it for you and you won't have to do anything at all. This can save a bunch of time at work or even when you need to email photos to your parents on a regular basis.
If you get started with Wappwolf and set up any cool actions, be sure to share them in the comments!


The former treasurer of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Kimball has pleaded no contest to embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the church.
48-year old Nancy Novotny of Bushnell had been charged in June with Class-3 felony theft, but the plea bargain reduced the count to a Class-4 felony. She will be sentenced December 15th in Kimball County District Court.
As part of the agreement, special prosecutor Paul Schaub agreed to recommend probation and not seek any additional criminal charges related to any thefts from the church or related organization. Novotny in turn agreed to pay a little over $21,000 restitutuion.
Trinity UMC pastor Roger Gillming contacted the Nebraska State Patrol in April, telling investigators that Novotny had confessed to a church committee that she'd been taking money from church accounts since June 2006.
Pastor Gillming said Novotny explained she'd been having "some hardships" but had repaid most of the money. Investigators determined she'd actually stolen much more than she'd indicated…with the reaching nearly $33,000.


A friend of mine sent me a link about the variety of dialects found in Pennsylvania, it's a pretty cool read. The article basically argues that because of the number of dialects, 5 in total, Pennsylvania is one of the most interesting states in the US for linguists. It reminded me of whenever I first moved to the Netherlands. I made a few friends and they were always making fun of the Limburgians because Limburgese sounds really funny. It's has a mixture of Dutch, German, Spanish, and other stuff, plus they say the Dutch words really funny. So I decided to play them a PIttsburghese song, they couldn't understand a word in the song. They actually asked me if it was English.
Which brings me to my next point, the Netherlands, which is roughly half the size of PA, has 2 languages at least 5 dialects (Limburgese is on it's way to being a third language). Sure the country has a lot more people 18 million vs. 12 million, but there's a lot more diversity in their language than in PA. Which is pretty interesting – especially considering that they've kept this variety whenever they also know somewhere between 3-5 languages (Dutch, English, German, Spanish, French for example). One of the concerns of the Slate article about PA is that the folks that leave decide to lose their accents which isn't the case in the Netherlands.
These are all part of the local culture and language is one of the best representations of a culture. The words that people use to describe things really influences the way they want to live. For example the Dutch word "Gezellig" (link explains how to say the word) doesn't really have an English translation the closest being "warm and cozy" for a room, but can be used in many different contexts (most beyond my understanding of the application). This word kind of represents a goal of a gathering, house, or anything. I think it strongly influences who the Dutch are and who they want to be their friends. It's embedded in their culture.
I'm currently reading a book called "People's Platform" which has a huge emphasis on culture and the cultural enablers of the internet. The internet is both the best thing and worst thing that has ever happened to our culture. It's fantastic because I can still find out about awesome bands from friends all over the world, but it's also extremely isolating because of algorithms that shape how we find content from 3rd parties. It's one of the reasons why I've heard people express the thoughts that people are the best at recommending a new band compared to Pandora.
We have the opportunity to expand our culture a little bit if we put forth the effort. However, that's a lot of effort. It's hard to find people you have things in common with on some platforms and it's easier to just find the popular people and follow them. I've made the effort to keep Dutch connects on my twitter feed because I loved living there. I have intentionally followed many women because I want to see their opinions as well as a few minorities. However, for the most part they are fairly under represented. It's tough, because you want things that interest you on your twitter feed and a lot of people are into very different things than I am.
Which begs the question, how do we ensure a robust culture in an environment where we and our algorithms are actively trying to homogenize the cultural goods we interact with? This isn't an easy problem to answer especially since we like free goods on the internet. I stream Pandora for free (ads on my phone), I haven't bought an actual song or album in years. I want to support bands, but I know so little goes to the actual band these days. For Twitch I support 2 people (kbmod and nipnops) because I know the money goes to them to help produce the content I love. However, even with all the people paying, it's not enough to allow nipnops to live solely on this income.
I think that we should seriously consider a living wage for artists and entertainers. I believe there is a need to support content I don't like because we need to make sure that people see it. If the Dutch don't understand all aspects of Americans (they'd never heard of Pittsburghese) how can we ever hope to understand other cultures if we don't help enable them to reach us?
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I actually decided to start learning about the Scandinavian countries and Norway seems really cool. I've learned some basic vocab but rosetta stone doesn't offer a norwegian course yet. I did find a site by one of the Norwegian Uni's and it seems okay for a free online program. From what I've read its the easiest of the Scandinavian Languages to learn.
That's really cool man. Norwegian is a super hard language. Finnish is a touch harder with all the R's they use. There are some overlaps between the scandanavian languages and Dutch. They have some root words that are Germanic. Keep it up man.


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Nobel Prize winner Denis Mukwege says the capacity of the women he treats to recover gives him hope
More than 400,000 women are raped in the DRC every year, many by the militias that operate in the country
19 October 2018 - 14:13 Inna Lazareva
Denis Mukwege, a gynaecologist treating victims of sexual violence, addresses a news conference at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu Province on October 5 2018. Picture: REUTERS/Crispin Kyalangalilwa
Yaounde — The Congolese doctor who was the joint winner of the 2018 Nobel peace prize has called on the world to end rape as a weapon of war, saying a "system of impunity" still prevails in many of the worst-affected countries.
Denis Mukwege, who shared the prize with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, urged the world to "draw a clear red line" on sexual violence in conflict.
"Today we can see that unfortunately there is a system of impunity, which reigns supreme in many conflict zones concerning many of those who commit sexual violence crimes," he said.
"I think the world has the power to draw this line, to ensure that the use of rape as a weapon of war is completely prohibited," he said in an interview from Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in 1999 to help women and girls who had been raped during the conflict in eastern DRC. He has performed surgery on scores of women after they had been raped by armed men, and campaigned to highlight their plight. He also provides HIV/AIDS treatment as well as free maternal care.
Rape has been a war crime since 1919, but it was not prosecuted until 1997, when small-town Rwandan mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu went on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for his role in the 1994 genocide.
The International Criminal Court issued its first rape conviction in 2016 when it held the DRC's Jean-Pierre Bemba responsible for a campaign of rape and murder in the Central African Republic.
In June 2018, the ICC overturned the conviction on appeal.
Mukwege said the Congolese military justice system had improved, but the government was still failing to help victims of sexual violence and to protect the wider population.
"We live in an area that is in a state of permanent conflict," he said of eastern DRC, where more than 100 armed groups operate.
"These groups use the weapon of rape, destruction, abuse of children, of little girls. We as citizens demand that the government steps up to its responsibility protect its citizens in these zones controlled by armed groups," he said.
Although the Second Congo War, which killed more than five-million people, formally ended in 2003, violence remains rampant, with militias frequently targeting civilians. More than 400,000 women are raped in the DRC every year, and much of the sexual violence is considered to be a by-product of years of fighting.
Experts say Congo has made some progress in combating sexual violence. Several high-level militia and army commanders have been prosecuted in recent years, but the problem remains pervasive.
Mukwege's Panzi Hospital has been the target of threats, and in 2012 his home was invaded by armed men who held his daughters at gunpoint, shot at him and killed his bodyguard. Mukwege said he still received death threats, sometimes several a week.
"What really gives us hope, it is above all the capacity of the women we treat to recover," he said. "Without the strength of these women, it would be practically impossible to continue, because when I see their strength, they encourage me.
"All this gives me hope because there you feel that the future of this country belongs to these women."
US economists Romer and Nordhaus share Nobel economics prize
Two fighting sexual violence share the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

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3rd Damien McKenna (+1) Foyle G.c. 75 b.o.t.
The alliance had depleted numbers today as many members were in Portugal enjoying the sun. They will be disappointed to hear that the weather here was just perfect for playing golf .
The Gross saw Brian McElhinney who birdied the 4 par 5's in his round of 72 leaving him 3 ahead of the rest of the field. Brian has now won the first two competitions in the Gross.
In the Net the worthy winner was new member Patrick McCloskey from Moyola Park Golf Club .He was just a point ahead of Local Clive Davison. Patrick birdied the 18th to take himself into first place .
In the Golfer of the year Odran McGettigan is ahead in the Net with 13 points while Brian McElhinney is on 20 points in the Gross category.
The next competition will be held in North West Golf Club on Saturday 6th October 2018 .


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Implicate and explicate order
Ontological concepts for quantum theory
Implicate order and explicate order are ontological concepts for quantum theory coined by theoretical physicist David Bohm during the early 1980s. They are used to describe two different frameworks for understanding the same phenomenon or aspect of reality. In particular, the concepts were developed in order to explain the bizarre behaviors of subatomic particles which quantum physics describes and predicts with elegant precision but struggles to explain. [1]
In Bohm's Wholeness and the Implicate Order, he used these notions to describe how the appearance of such phenomena might appear differently, or might be characterized by, varying principal factors, depending on contexts such as scales.[2] The implicate (also referred to as the "enfolded") order is seen as a deeper and more fundamental order of reality. In contrast, the explicate or "unfolded" order includes the abstractions that humans normally perceive. As he wrote:
In the enfolded [or implicate] order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the "explicate" or "unfolded" order, which is a special and distinguished form contained within the general totality of all the implicate orders (Bohm 1980, p. xv).
1.1 The implicate order as an algebra
1.2 The explicate order and quantum entanglement
1.3 A common grounding for consciousness and matter
2 Analogies
2.1 Ink droplet analogy
2.2 Holograms and implicate order
2.3 Implicate order in art
3 Challenges to some generally prevailing views
3.1 Quantum theory and relativity theory
3.2 Hidden variable theory
Overview[edit]
The notion of implicate and explicate orders emphasizes the primacy of structure and process over individual objects. The latter are seen as mere approximations of an underlying process. In this approach, quantum particles and other objects are understood to have only a limited degree of stability and autonomy.[3]
Bohm believed that the weirdness of the behavior of quantum particles is caused by unobserved forces, maintaining that space and time might actually be derived from an even deeper level of objective reality. In the words of F. David Peat, Bohm considered that what we take for reality are "surface phenomena, explicate forms that have temporarily unfolded out of an underlying implicate order." That is, the implicate order is the ground from which reality emerges.[4]
The implicate order as an algebra[edit]
Bohm, his co-worker Basil Hiley, and other physicists of Birkbeck College worked toward a model of quantum physics in which the implicate order is represented in the form of an appropriate algebra or other pregeometry. They considered spacetime itself as part of an explicate order that is connected to an implicate order that they called pre-space. The spacetime manifold and the properties of locality and nonlocality all arise from an order in such pre-space. A. M. Frescura and Hiley suggested that an implicate order could be carried by an algebra, with the explicate order being contained in the various representations of this algebra.[5] (See also: Work by Bohm and Hiley on implicate orders, pre-space and algebraic structures.)
In analogy to Alfred North Whitehead's notion of "actual occasion,"[6] Bohm considered the notion of moment – a moment being a not entirely localizable event, with events being allowed to overlap [7] and being connected in an overall implicate order:[8]
I propose that each moment of time is a projection from the total implicate order. The term projection is a particularly happy choice here, not only because its common meaning is suitable for what is needed, but also because its mathematical meaning as a projection operation, P, is just what is required for working out these notions in terms of the quantum theory.
Bohm emphasized the primary role of the implicate order's structure:[9]
My attitude is that the mathematics of the quantum theory deals primarily with the structure of the implicate pre-space and with how an explicate order of space and time emerges from it, rather than with movements of physical entities, such as particles and fields. (This is a kind of extension of what is done in general relativity, which deals primarily with geometry and only secondarily with the entities that are described within this geometry.)
The explicate order and quantum entanglement[edit]
Central to Bohm's schema are correlations between observables of entities which seem separated by great distances in the explicate order (such as a particular electron here on earth and an alpha particle in one of the stars in the Abell 1835 galaxy, then a possible candidate for farthest galaxy from Earth known to humans), manifestations of the implicate order. Within quantum theory, there is entanglement of such objects.
This view of order necessarily departs from any notion which entails signalling, and therefore causality. The correlation of observables does not imply a causal influence, and in Bohm's schema, the latter represents 'relatively' independent events in spacetime; and therefore explicate order.
A common grounding for consciousness and matter[edit]
Karl H. Pribram's research suggests that memories may not be localized in specific regions of brains
The implicate order represents the proposal of a general metaphysical concept in terms of which it is claimed that matter and consciousness might both be understood, in the sense that it is proposed that both matter and consciousness: (i) enfold the structure of the whole within each region, and (ii) involve continuous processes of enfoldment and unfoldment. For example, in the case of matter, entities such as atoms may represent continuous enfoldment and unfoldment which manifests as a relatively stable and autonomous entity that can be observed to follow a relatively well-defined path in spacetime. In the case of consciousness, Bohm pointed toward evidence presented by Karl Pribram that memories may be enfolded within every region of the brain rather than being localized (for example, in particular regions of the brain, cells, or atoms).
Bohm went on to say:
As in our discussion of matter in general, it is now necessary to go into the question of how in consciousness the explicate order is what is manifest ... the manifest content of consciousness is based essentially on memory, which is what allows such content to be held in a fairly constant form. Of course, to make possible such constancy it is also necessary that this content be organized, not only through relatively fixed association but also with the aid of the rules of logic, and of our basic categories of space, time, causality, universality, etc. ... there will be a strong background of recurrent, stable, and separable features, against which the transitory and changing aspects of the unbroken flow of experience will be seen as fleeting impressions that tend to be arranged and ordered mainly in terms of the vast totality of the relatively static and fragmented content of [memories].[10]
Bohm also claimed that "as with consciousness, each moment has a certain explicate order, and in addition it enfolds all the others, though in its own way. So the relationship of each moment in the whole to all the others is implied by its total content: the way in which it 'holds' all the others enfolded within it." Bohm characterises consciousness as a process in which at each moment, content that was previously implicate is presently explicate, and content which was previously explicate has become implicate.
One may indeed say that our memory is a special case of the process described above, for all that is recorded is held enfolded within the brain cells and these are part of matter in general. The recurrence and stability of our own memory as a relatively independent sub-totality is thus brought about as part of the very same process that sustains the recurrence and stability in the manifest order of matter in general. It follows, then, that the explicate and manifest order of consciousness is not ultimately distinct from that of matter in general.[11]
Analogies[edit]
Ink droplet analogy[edit]
Bohm also used the term unfoldment to characterise processes in which the explicate order becomes relevant (or "relevated"). Bohm likens unfoldment also to the decoding of a television signal to produce a sensible image on a screen. The signal, screen, and television electronics in this analogy represent the implicate order, while the image produced represents the explicate order. He also uses an example in which an ink droplet can be introduced into a highly viscous substance (such as glycerine), and the substance rotated very slowly, such that there is negligible diffusion of the substance. In this example, the droplet becomes a thread, which in turn eventually becomes invisible. However, by rotating the substance in the reverse direction, the droplet can essentially reform. When it is invisible, according to Bohm, the order of the ink droplet as a pattern can be said to be implicate within the substance.
In another analogy, Bohm asks us to consider a pattern produced by making small cuts in a folded piece of paper and then, literally, unfolding it. Widely separated elements of the pattern are, in actuality, produced by the same original cut in the folded piece of paper. Here, the cuts in the folded paper represent the implicate order, and the unfolded pattern represents the explicate order.
Holograms and implicate order[edit]
See also: Holographic principle and Holographic paradigm
In a holographic reconstruction, each region of a photographic plate contains the whole image
Bohm employed the hologram as a means of characterising implicate order, noting that each region of a photographic plate in which a hologram is observable contains within it the whole three-dimensional image, which can be viewed from a range of perspectives. That is, each region contains a whole and undivided image. In Bohm's words:
There is the germ of a new notion of order here. This order is not to be understood solely in terms of a regular arrangement of objects (e.g., in rows) or as a regular arrangement of events (e.g., in a series). Rather, a total order is contained, in some implicit sense, in each region of space and time. Now, the word 'implicit' is based on the verb 'to implicate'. This means 'to fold inward' ... so we may be led to explore the notion that in some sense each region contains a total structure 'enfolded' within it".[12]
Bohm noted that, although the hologram conveys undivided wholeness, it is nevertheless static.
In this view of order, laws represent invariant relationships between explicate entities and structures, and thus Bohm maintained that, in physics, the explicate order generally reveals itself within well-constructed experimental contexts as, for example, in the sensibly observable results of instruments. With respect to implicate order, however, Bohm asked us to consider the possibility instead "that physical law should refer primarily to an order of undivided wholeness of the content of description similar to that indicated by the hologram rather than to an order of analysis of such content into separate parts...".[13]
Implicate order in art[edit]
In the work Science, Order, and Creativity (Bohm and Peat, 1987), examples of implicate orders in science are laid out, as well as implicate orders which relate to painting, poetry and music.
Bohm and Peat emphasize the role of orders of varying complexity, which influence the perception of a work of art as a whole. They note that implicate orders are accessible to human experience. They refer, for instance, to earlier notes which reverberate when listening to music, or various resonances of words and images which are perceived when reading or hearing poetry.
Christopher Alexander discussed his work in person with Bohm, and pointed out connections among his work and Bohm's notion of an implicate order in The Nature of Order.[14]
Bohm features as a fictional character in the novel The Wave by British author Lochlan Bloom. The novel includes multiple narratives and explores many of the concepts of Bohm's work on implicate and explicate orders.[15]
Challenges to some generally prevailing views[edit]
In proposing this new notion of order, Bohm explicitly challenged a number of tenets that he believed are fundamental to much scientific work:
that phenomena are reducible to fundamental particles and laws describing the behaviour of particles, or more generally to any static (i.e., unchanging) entities, whether separate events in spacetime, quantum states, or static entities of some other nature;
related to (1), that human knowledge is most fundamentally concerned with mathematical prediction of statistical aggregates of particles;
that an analysis or description of any aspect of reality (e.g., quantum theory, the speed of light) can be unlimited in its domain of relevance;
that the Cartesian coordinate system, or its extension to a curvilinear system, is the deepest conception of underlying order as a basis for analysis and description of the world;
that there is ultimately a sustainable distinction between reality and thought, and that there is a corresponding distinction between the observer and observed in an experiment or any other situation (other than a distinction between relatively separate entities valid in the sense of explicate order); and
that it is, in principle, possible to formulate a final notion concerning the nature of reality, i.e., a Theory of Everything.
A hydrogen atom and its constituent particles: an example of an over-simplified way of looking at a small collection of posited building blocks of the universe
Bohm's proposals have at times been dismissed largely on the basis of such tenets. His paradigm is generally opposed to reductionism, and some view it as a form of ontological holism. On this, Bohm noted of prevailing views among physicists that "the world is assumed to be constituted of a set of separately existent, indivisible, and unchangeable 'elementary particles', which are the fundamental 'building blocks' of the entire universe ... there seems to be an unshakable faith among physicists that either such particles, or some other kind yet to be discovered, will eventually make possible a complete and coherent explanation of everything" (Bohm 1980, p. 173).
In Bohm's conception of order, primacy is given to the undivided whole, and the implicate order inherent within the whole, rather than to parts of the whole, such as particles, quantum states, and continua. This whole encompasses all things, structures, abstractions, and processes, including processes that result in (relatively) stable structures as well as those that involve a metamorphosis of structures or things. In this view, parts may be entities normally regarded as physical, such as atoms or subatomic particles, but they may also be abstract entities, such as quantum states. Whatever their nature and character, according to Bohm, these parts are considered in terms of the whole, and in such terms, they constitute relatively separate and independent "sub-totalities." The implication of the view is, therefore, that nothing is fundamentally separate or independent.
Bohm 1980, p. 11, said: "The new form of insight can perhaps best be called Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement. This view implies that flow is in some sense prior to that of the 'things' that can be seen to form and dissolve in this flow." According to Bohm, a vivid image of this sense of analysis of the whole is afforded by vortex structures in a flowing stream. Such vortices can be relatively stable patterns within a continuous flow, but such an analysis does not imply that the flow patterns have any sharp division, or that they are literally separate and independently existent entities; rather, they are most fundamentally undivided. Thus, according to Bohm's view, the whole is in continuous flux, and hence is referred to as the holomovement (movement of the whole).
Quantum theory and relativity theory[edit]
A key motivation for Bohm in proposing a new notion of order was the well-known incompatibility of quantum theory with relativity theory. Bohm 1980, p. xv summarised the state of affairs he perceived to exist:
...in relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well-defined. Each theory is committed to its own notions of essentially static and fragmentary modes of existence (relativity to that of separate events connectible by signals, and quantum mechanics to a well-defined quantum state). One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails is unbroken wholeness.
Bohm maintained that relativity and quantum theories are in basic contradiction in these essential respects, and that a new concept of order should begin with that toward which both theories point: undivided wholeness. This should not be taken to mean that he advocated such powerful theories be discarded. He argued that each was relevant in a certain context—i.e., a set of interrelated conditions within the explicate order—rather than having unlimited scope, and that apparent contradictions stem from attempts to overgeneralize by superposing the theories on one another, implying greater generality or broader relevance than is ultimately warranted. Thus, Bohm 1980, pp. 156–167 argued: "... in sufficiently broad contexts such analytic descriptions cease to be adequate ... 'the law of the whole' will generally include the possibility of describing the 'loosening' of aspects from each other, so that they will be relatively autonomous in limited contexts ... however, any form of relative autonomy (and heteronomy) is ultimately limited by holonomy, so that in a broad enough context such forms are seen to be merely aspects, relevated in the holomovement, rather than disjoint and separately existent things in interaction."
Hidden variable theory[edit]
Before developing his implicit order approach, Bohm had proposed a hidden variable theory of quantum physics (see Bohm interpretation). According to Bohm, a key motivation for doing so had been purely to show the possibility of such theories. On this, Bohm 1980, p. 81 said, "... it should be kept in mind that before this proposal was made there had existed the widespread impression that no conception of any hidden variable at all, not even if it were abstract and hypothetical, could possibly be consistent with the quantum theory." Bohm 1980, p. 110 also claimed that "the demonstration of the possibility of theories of hidden variables may serve in a more general philosophical sense to remind us of the unreliability of conclusions based on the assumption of the complete universality of certain features of a given theory, however general their domain of validity seems to be." Another aspect of Bohm's motivation had been to point out a confusion he perceived to exist in quantum theory. On the dominant approaches in quantum theory, he said: "...we wish merely to point out that this whole line of approach re-establishes at the abstract level of statistical potentialities the same kind of analysis into separate and autonomous components in interaction that is denied at the more concrete level of individual objects" (Bohm 1980, p. 174).
Brahman
Direct realism
Herbertsmithite
Hermeticism
Holographic principle
Implicature
Interpretations of quantum mechanics
Mereology
Neutral monism
Noumenon
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Quantum mind
Representative realism
String-net
Topological order
Transcendental idealism
Monadology
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^ David Bohm: Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Routledge, 1980 (ISBN 0-203-99515-5).
^ P. Pylkkänen, B. J. Hiley, I. Pättiniemi: Bohm's approach and Individuality, arXiv:1405.4772v3, version 3 of 28 November 2014
^ F. David Peat, Non-locality in nature and cognition, pp. 297–311. In: M.E. Carvallo (7 March 2013). Nature, Cognition and System II: Current Systems-Scientific Research on Natural and Cognitive Systems Volume 2: On Complementarity and Beyond. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 304. ISBN 978-94-011-2779-0.
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^ Bohm 1980, p. 205
^ Christopher Alexander: The Nature of Order, Book 4 – The Luminous Ground: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Center for Environmental Structure, ISBN 978-0-9726529-4-0, Footnotes 19 and 20 on p. 336, cited on p. 323
^ The Short Story Interview: Lochlan Bloom
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The David Bohm Society
Interview with David Bohm – An interview with Bohm concerning this particular subject matter conducted by F. David Peat.
Excerpt from The Holographic Universe – Parallels some of the experiences of 18th century Swedish mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg, with David Bohm's ideas.
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Meeting Information: Saturday, January 28th, from 9 am to Noon
Herm Ross and Al Geller: Tool Making
At Levi Mize Woodcraftsman's Shop
162 Aviador Street #17+18, Camarillo, CA 93010
Aviador Street is N. of the Camarillo Airport and is reached from the Central Ave. exit off of US 101: go S. and turn left on Ventura Blvd. then right on Aviador St. About three-quarters of the way to the dead end, on the left is a long building. Levi's shop is the last two doors on the left on the S. side of the building. Please park directly in front of or behind his shop or against the curb on the N. side of the building and not in front of other shops.
BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR OR SIT ON THE FLOOR
The January 28th meeting will feature two of our own members. They will demonstrate how it is possible to make your own tools for less than it would cost to purchase them. Herm Ross will discuss the different types of tool steels he uses to make woodturning tools- i.e.: M-2, air, oil and water hardened steels, etc. and where they can be purchased. And Al Geller will show how to make a beading tool from a wood chisel (or carving tool) similar to Sorby's beading tool. Al also has prepared a hollow vessel measuring gauge kit from aluminum (similar to Paul Fennell's gauge) so you can make your own measuring guide. The kit contains an aluminum block, thumb screws, etc. The cost is $5.00. Contact Al by January 15 if you want the kit.
This is Tom Etchart holding the brass and rosewood gauge Martha received in the gift exchange. It is the same design that Al will be making from aluminum.
All members of Channel Islands Woodturners are encouraged to join the AAW by January 15th. Dues are $35 and benefits include the quarterly Journal in color with excellent articles on woodturning, information about instruction courses and sources of tools and supplies, and most importantly to us, group insurance for our meetings and coverage of members when they demonstrate at sanctioned events such as the Ventura County Fair.
Jim Rinde will take care of entering the Club's Trebuchet from the 2003 AAW annual symposium into the Edward-Dean Museum's woodturning show in March (The museum is in Cherry Valley of of I-10 in Riverside). All items must be for sale and we have set the price at $800. It has been signed by the eight members who actually worked on the project. The proceeds will go into the club treasury. We have shown the trebuchet at the county fair the past 3 years and have decided that it has served our purposes well. Now we need to come up with a new idea for entering into a future AAW symposium club challenge.
The 3rd annual holiday social at the Geller's was again a great success. Our photographers Ron Lindsay and Art Waldinger submitted over 150 photos to your editor. Only a few have been chosen to highlight the event. If you are interested in seeing the others let the editor know.
Montage 1 of everyone who attended
Montage 2
Out going president Al Geller holding huge block of cocobolo presented to him by incoming president Martha
Joe Levy holding the Pecan bowl he received in the gift exchange. It was made by Bruce Purvine.
Seth MacArthur with his gift from Al Geller made of Calif. Olive
Bob Pettitt with his Show-N-Tell [SNT] chip carved turning
Martha holding Russ Babbitt's SNT orange dyed maple bowl
Lynn Geller admiring the special pen set given to her by Russ and all of the painted tops that Russ had made for the ladies.
Jim Rinde with his SNT epoxy and rosewood bowl with "cat eyes". Martha is holding another one.
David with his SNT church collection basket made from antique walnut
Martha with her SNT olive bowl. The tree was cut by the city in her front street strip.
Sam Turner with SNT hollow-form made from mahogany and laminated maple
Al Geller with his SNT square bowl from yellow heart
Ron Lindsay holding a signed copy of print showing Bonnie Klein tops.
Our hosts taking a moment to relax and enjoy the evening


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Teenagers lobby on bottle bill
Nearly a dozen teenagers from Mason City were at the capital Wednesday to call for an expansion to the state's bottle deposit law. Junior Taylor Johnson says she was glad to speak out on the issue because it relates directly to kids her age.
"Many kids in high school are involved in athletics," Johnson said, "and if you go to sporting events, you're going to notice that all the athletes drink sports drinks or bottled water. And if you look in the bleachers, you're going to find (more bottles) and if they're not left behind, they're just thrown in the trash on the way out the door." Johnson held a water bottle as she spoke.
"This bottle can be recycled in states like California and a few others, so I don't understand why we can't do that in Iowa also," Johnson said. Johnson also believes expanding the bill would provide her and other teens with more spending cash.
Johnson says if lawmakers would put a deposit on those kinds of bottles, kids would redeem them for extra cash. The Mason City teens were invited to the statehouse by Governor Chet Culver. It's the third time the governor has arranged for an outside group to speak on behalf of one of his legislative priorities. In January, Culver called for doubling the state's nickel deposit – but now says he'd settle for expanding the law to include water, tea, juice and sports drink containers. Legislation that does that was approved by a house committee earlier this week, but it's future is uncertain.
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This is What an Entire Movie Looks Like as One Image
By Evan Dashevsky on March 16, 2011 at 4:15 pm
You know what the best part about movies are? The colors. Reds, blues, whites, oranges. They're all good! Unfortunately, movies nowadays also feel the need fit in a bunch of yappin' and plot development in addition to the steady parade of colors and shapes. Thankfully, one cinematic scientist has found a way to distill all the visuals of an entire movie into one single image, thus bypassing all that character-driven gabbada-gook.
The aptly-named Moviebarcode tumblr takes every frame from selected films, stretches them out like a strand of Play-Doh, and sets it in sequential order creating what is in effect a multi-hued barcode. In one artful representation, you can see every moment from a full-length film transformed into one Technicolor smudge.
For example, here we see The Wizard of Oz as it transforms from Dorothy's sepia-toned Kansas on the left into the surreal rave of Oz and then back to the rusty heartland at the end:
Compare that to the vivid Easter-hued fog of Disney's Dumbo:
Sometimes, you can pick out specific moments of films based on specific parts in the barcode. For example, The Matrix is mostly painted in dreamy duotone world of black and surreal blue-green. However, you can see two bright strands of bright white about a quarter of the way through. This is the scene where Morpheus and Neo explore the blindingly white "Construct" part of The Matrix:
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Piper is a bit more adventuresome than Pierre and I think of her as the party-starter.
Piper is a very special and sweet little dove in her own right and I am extremely grateful that she has befriended Pierre so warmly. While they are fostered and eventually adopted, they will be kept together and, when Pierre has had his corrective surgery and can stand and walk and perch, I think they will have many even more exciting adventures together.
Click here to see lots of updates about Piper and her life with Pierre.


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Feeling that God hates you and overcoming a very difficult life experience – Question from Insight Into Overcoming Real World Challenges – You Have Chosen to Remember Book 2 by author James Blanchard Cisneros.
Strategies to overcome the loss of a loved one and move through the grief, pain and suffering – Question and answer from Insight Into Overcoming Real World Challenges – You Have Chosen to Remember Book 2 by author James Blanchard Cisneros.


This is the 6th painting in my 9 piece painting series of 2018 entitled L I G H T S P E E D.
It has been a work in progress for the last 3 years and is a piece that has gone along and changed with me throughout that time. Parts of the painting have a texture that adds a special depth which speaks to it's history and progress over those years.
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Every painting is created with love and is one of a kind. I will never sell a duplicate or a print as I believe each piece of art holds within it a sacred part of the moment in which it was created.


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Essay: Hart
William M. Hart
27 in x 34 ⅞ in (68.58 cm x 88.58 cm);22 ⅛ in x 30 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 76.52 cm);27 in x 34 ⅞ in x 1 ⅜ in (68.58 cm x 88.58 cm x 3.49 cm)
The Hudson River School operated during the middle of the nineteenth century in and around New York City. Though the name "Hudson River School" was most likely not applied to the group until the 1870s, the members had already defined themselves as a distinctive unit around 1825. The school did not paint exclusively in the New York metropolitan area; as is evident in Hart's work, they worked up and down the Catskills and even in the Adirondacks in search of glimpses of divinity in nature. These painters, the foundation of the school, used their paintings as a way to make young America appear as if it were a modern-day Eden.
It was as a result of westward expansion and the American mantra of Manifest Destiny that American landscape painting became the dominant genre in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. With the annexation of Texas in 1845, Oregon in 1846, and the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the self-consuming desire to expand augmented. But this philosophy did not consider the ethical implications of stealing land from indigenous peoples who had lived there for thousands of years.
Hart's Adirondacks exemplifies many of the ideals upheld by the Hudson River School. The planar composition is carefully organized and easily accessible to the viewer. The scene is framed by the horizontal fallen log and the vertical trees. The middle ground, which includes the water and the shrubbery that grows along its edge, is both literally and figuratively a reflection on the beauty of nature. It also serves as a peaceful place for the viewer to focus his or her eye. Finally, the mountains and clouds that roll along in the background provide a pleasant, yet distant, cap on the entire scene.
Hart's delicate hand has rendered brushstrokes practically invisible in this piece. The focus is not on the technique, but instead on the purity and beauty of the subject matter. The style is clearly hyperrealistic: the viewer can imagine the feeling of touching the clouds. Also notable is the focus on the effect of light. This differentiates the work from the European artistic conventions that were prominent at the time.
The dead tree in the foreground is a common convention in many Hudson River paintings. The blasted trunk might represent destruction in the Edenic scene, functioning as a memento mori. The solitary figure overlooking the water is an indigenous person, whose way of life has been disrupted by early settlers in the Hudson River Valley.
William M. Hart was born in 1823 in Kilmarnock, Ayreshire, Scotland. At eighteen, he came to the United States with his family, including his younger brother James, who also became a landscape painter. They grew up in upstate New York in Albany. Hart began his career in the arts as a designer, painting the curtains and interiors of wealthy citizens' carriages for the Eaton and Gilbert Company coachmakers in Troy, New York, a position that may have had an influence on his later work as a landscape artist. His job was to create scenery that would accompany travelers on their journeys along the roads of upstate New York.
In his late teens, Hart began working in portraiture, earning five dollars for each painting he made. By 1845, he had exhausted his fondness of painting likenesses and returned to landscapes. Like many Hudson River School painters, he examined the environment with a keen eye and attention to detail. Hart was a member of numerous prestigious institutions like the Brooklyn Academy of Design and the Society Painters in Watercolors. He was clearly a member of the establishment.
Hart exemplified his time's propensity to look to the land as a reflection of the American spirit an ideal. What this failed to acknowledge however was the rights and humanity of the indigenous people who already were living there.
Themes and Ideas for Teaching
What details of The Adirondacks might indicate the excitement of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny? How does the painting emit a feeling of energetic nationalism?
As an institution, the Hudson River School was both celebrated and criticized for its idealized depictions of the United States. Keeping in mind that this was one of the first "American" movements, what might this say about the role of the arts during America's formative years?
Andrus, Lisa Fellows "Design and Measurement in Luminist Art." In American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850 – 1875, Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, edited by John Wilmerding, 31 – 56. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1980.
Avery, Kevin J. "A Historiography of the Hudson River School." In American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School edited by John K. Howat, 3 – 20. New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.
Burke, Doreen Bolger & Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover "The Hudson River School in Eclipse." In American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School edited by John K. Howat, 71 – 89. New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.
Driscoll, John. All That is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Kelly, Franklin. "Hudson River School" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 14 February 2008, http://www.groveart.com.
Novak, Barbara "On Defining Luminism." In American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850 – 1875, Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, edited by John Wilmerding, 23 – 29. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1980.
Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez "The Exaltation of American Landscape Painting." In American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School edited by John K. Howat, 21 – 48. New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History, 2nd ed. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 2002.
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Three Cambridge shows to visit in April
1. Amazing prints by Albrecht Altdorfer.
Image © Fitzwilliam Museum.
The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Altdorfer made truly remarkable prints. Altdorfer painted the first pure landscapes. You can see the detailed attention he lavished on the natural world in the print above. I love the filigree delicacy of the tree's branches and foliage, and the almost Chinese undulations of the hill behind.
If you love Altdorfer, peek at his extraordinary painting of a Forest Interior with St George (1510, Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
What: Nature and Artifice in Altdorfer's Prints.
Where: Fitzwilliam Museum (Charrington Print Room.)
When: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5. Ends Sun 5 May 2013.
All welcome. Free.
2. Issam Kourbaj in King Street
Issam Kourbaj is one of Cambridge's most respected artists. Do you remember the amazing wooden puzzle of Cambridge through the ages he made specially for the 800-year anniversary of Cambridge University? Kourbaj is Syrian by birth and this exhibition is in aid of the Oxfam Syria Crisis Appeal. The exhibition leaflet promises: "He will present his haunting installation, which amalgamates X-ray images of the human body and of familiar animals with aerial photographs of British landscapes."
What: Excavating the Present.
Who: Issam Kourbaj, artist-in-residence of Christ's College.
Where: Changing Spaces pop-up gallery, 6-16 King Street, CB1 1LN.
When: 22 March - 2 April 2013. Daily, 11 am - 6 pm.
3. Ceramics and paintings on West Road
Two new exhibitions will open on the same April evening at the Alison Richard Building on West Road: ceramicist Jane Perryman and painter Helena Greene. The ARB is quite a nice building to wander around in (and while you're there, check out the Edmund de Waal installations outside in the front courtyard and on the wall inside).
What: Jane Perryman and Helena Greene.
Where: Alison Richard Building (home of CRASSH - Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), West Road. (map)
When: From 30 April (evening) to June (exact end date to be confirmed).
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• Last month's events and exhibitions to attend (in March -- some of these continue into April).
• Two more shows in April (Melanie Max and the Marmite Prize).
What will you see in April?
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The Swan businesses endured operation into the mid-twentieth century. John Clay performed an enormous position of their operation, and he figures prominently of their tale. Alex Swan and the Swan businesses is a vital portrait of the interior workings of the western farm animals and its leaders.
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Reply to Liberman and López Olmedo's "Psychological Meaning of 'Coauthorship' among Scientists", Javier Zavala Rayas
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Author Information: Javier Zavala Rayas, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México, jzavala@uaz.edu.mx
Rayas, Javier Zavala. "Reply to Liberman and López Olmedo's 'Psychological Meaning of "Coauthorship" among Scientists'." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 9 (2017): 70-72.
The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3KF
Liberman, Sofia and Roberto López Olmedo. "Psychological Meaning of 'Coauthorship' Among Scientists Using the Natural Semantic Networks Technique." Social Epistemology 31, no. 2 (2017): 152-164.
Henriksen, Dorte. "Reply to Liberman and López Olmedo's 'Psychological Meaning of "Coauthorship" Among Scientists'." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 7 (2017): 20-22.
Image credit: Novartis AG, via flickr
To examine scientists, and science itself, from a social sciences perspective helps us reach partial agreements. Although one may agree neither with the methodology used, nor the outcome, such research invites discussion and diverse positions that enrich the dialogue and, ideally, open avenues for future research. Research on coauthorship—the object of Liberman and López Olmedo's (2017) work with scientists from different areas—helps develop a perspective not only on its meaning, but also links other aspects of the study of scientists from diverse areas such as psychology and sociology.
Scientific communication lends a fundamental and useful process from which to analyze science. Scientific communication possesses many different aspects, processes and cycles—it may start casually, starting with conversations face-to-face, exchanging ideas and points of view through email—that may establish a permanent interaction leading to a scientific article published by coauthors. Through their interactions the participants' lives, in one way or another, are impacted. Given these interactions, and given that both the concepts of 'collaboration' and 'coauthorship' are used in different ways in scientific communication, Lieberman and López Olmedo's research is especially relevant.
Science leads to social progress, yet it seems difficult to speculate how much farther it can advance. Despite these advancements, we find certain words less frequently used by scientists at the beginning of their investigations. Advancing science requires consensus in a particular scientific field. Lieberman and López Olmedo used the method of natural semantic networks in order to describe the results from the psychological meaning of a word, words or terms, used as stimulus—in this case asking what 'co-author' means in four scientific knowledge areas.
Lieberman and López Olmedo note that 'teamwork' and 'collaboration' appear as the first two words that define 'coauthor' in three of the four groups (except chemistry) of researchers studied. On one hand, it is important to see the contribution the professional role of 'scientist' plays in defining these concepts. On the other hand, it is evident there are social and personal features in defining words. For example, in three disciplines appears, among the 15 reported words, 'friendship' (except in the biological sciences). It would be interesting to know if the word appears in chemistry even if it is not part of the first 15 words—perhaps that data should be requested from López Olmedo. There are few articles that describe friendship as a defining factor in the formation of groups, or research teams, and their day-to-day activities; besides, chemists consider 'comprehension' as a defining term. However, it is unknown if the term relates to the comprehension of people, or to knowledge in a research area particular to chemistry.
'Active participation' is another term describing a coauthor. The term appears in physics, mathematics, and in the biological sciences, but not in chemistry. Perhaps this outcome reflects specific characteristics of the interactions in these knowledge areas. Further analyzing the results, the term 'common interests' appears in third place among physicists and mathematicians and in the penultimate place within biological sciences, but it does not appear with the chemists. A certain uniformity exists in mathematics and physics. We find the word 'discussion' in fourth place within physicists, sixth place within mathematicians and biological sciences, but it was not found among the chemists.
'Trust' and 'honesty' are defining words found only among chemists. We often link them to characteristics established from the ethics and morals that are a part of scientific progress. The defining word 'work' appears in the four disciplines—as an activity to complete in order for an investigation to progress. The defining word 'commitment' is found in biological sciences and chemistry. However, we should not dismiss 'commitment' as something not part of physicists or mathematicians. But because 'commitment' does not appear as a defining word, it invites future research into the concept of commitment (perhaps using Lieberman and López Olmedo's work as a model).
'Human resources training' appears as a defining term with physicists and mathematicians, possibly as result to a low demand from students for those disciplines (at least in Mexico). It is considered important to promote an increase in researchers in physics and mathematics to continue contributing scientific knowledge and advancements.
A relevant aspect of the "inner cycle" of scientific communication is the description of informal processes. Such communication can happen in the hallway, such as a chance encounter, and is part of the skills developed for each researcher to interact with peers that allows future collaborations or research developments. We also have the "outer cycle" of scientific communication —the result of a process completed by the coauthors in the form of a scientific article. Notably, coauthorship can get difficult when assigning the order of the coauthors (except for the first author) given the relevance or importance of contributions to the final product. In many cases, this discussion leads to conflict. Such conflict can be an object of study extended out from the dynamics of scientific coauthorship.
Lieberman and López Olmedo's findings open the possibility for further studies. For example, to know what 'coauthor' means in an area of specialization, such as high energy physics, given the likely differences in the nature of specialist work (as opposed to physics as a whole), the differences among research teams, and group dynamics. In the chemists' research group, for example, some discrepancies were found regarding how the defining words used by Lieberman and López Olmedo were understood. These discrepancies invite us to do more research about chemists—into defining words in particular—perhaps starting with organic and inorganic chemists (as two general classifications) to find out more about their conception of the scientific work. Hopefully, we will get pleasant surprises
The idea of publish or perish becomes a dynamic in the exchange of theoretic positions about topics of investigation, and the exposure and advancement of scientific knowledge. This idea became present in Liberman and Lopez Olmedo's examination into the defining word 'productivity'. Such work, in Mexico, could result in public policies on science. For example, in looking at collaboration as a tool of 'high production' and 'rewards'—sometimes not knowing the content of published articles, productivity and other publications—such words are common in all areas of research. We want to assume that the primary interest is to contribute knowledge in respective disciplines, support scientific growth and its impact on ordinary social life.
The absence of notes and references in my reply comes as I wanted to reflect my work sessions and discussions with my mentor, Dr. Sofia Liberman. These sessions lead to a beautiful friendship. Thank you, Sofi, for your lessons of life. I would like to offer a public posthumous acknowledgment of Dr. Sofia Liberman's work as both a great scientist, and as an originator of studies about science and scientists.
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Colin Powell Slams Trump, Endorses Clinton
The Republican told New York business and political leaders that Trump is unqualified for the Oval Office.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell might as well switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. After endorsing President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Powell announced on Tuesday at a New York luncheon that he will vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, CNN reports.
Speaking to an audience of more than 1,000 political and business leaders in Woodbury, Long Island, Powell cited Clinton's experience and stamina as reasons that she's better qualified than Trump for the White House, according to Newsday.
Boom. Colin Powell says he will vote for Hillary Clinton. Says will serve w/ distinction and cites experience and stamina
— Robert Brodsky (@BrodskyRobert) October 25, 2016
Powell said Trump is "not qualified" to lead the military and has sold the nation a "bill of goods" that he's incapable of producing, reported Newsday.
The retired four-star general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs continued: "He has insulted America in one way almost every day. He has insulted Latino Americans. He has insulted African-Americans. He has insulted women. He has insulted his own party. He has insulted our allies around the world one by one-by-one. He has insulted veterans."
It's no surprise that Powell slammed the GOP candidate. The Washington Post reported that Powell's hacked emails, released in September, showed that he called the businessman "a national disgrace and an international pariah."
His emails revealed that he also has issues with Clinton. They show that Powell denied reports, stemming from Clinton's interview with FBI investigators, that he advised her to use a private email server as secretary of state.
In his hacked email, Powell stated that "everything [she] touches she kind of screws up with hubris." Powell also said he would "rather not have to vote for" Clinton, but that "she is a friend I respect."
Other members of President George W. Bush's administration have also endorsed Clinton, including former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
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AB1745 will likely result in banks implementing a dual tracking system to prevent foreclosing upon homeowners with whom they have already negotiated a short sale.
The court's decision sent shockwaves through Bank of Cyprus which last year announced its intention to start foreclosing properties based on the foreclosure legislation, which Cyprus modernised as part of its bailout terms in 2014 and came into force in August 2015.
In total, there are now 252 properties registered and bonded in accordance with the Vacant and Foreclosing Property Ordinance, and nearly $1.
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The Lenders are foreclosing for lack of payment on a 1st Deed of Trust and also on a 2nd Deed of Trust.
The new laws aim to crack down on loan modification scams, extend the number of days banks are required to give notice before foreclosing on a home and demand that banks provide upkeep on foreclosed homes to avoid degradation of property values.
In general, credit unions appear to be foreclosing on a smaller percentage of their mortgage loans than other financial institutions and are usually taking longer to do it, according to credit union executives and NCUA data.
She stated that a foreclosing party must join all parties with subordinate interests as "necessary parties" to the foreclosure action, including every party having an estate or interest in the property as a tenant.


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