She sat by her family's couch in the dark, a bottle of alcohol in hand .She caught glimpse of the new cupboard and went into a reverie of what happened that day ,a day she would never forget.
Her father , police officer came back drunk and angry kicking the door open. Stella and her two siblings scattered for safety knowing well what was to come .She still didn't understand how her mother had withstood all this pain and agony from this man she loathed with every fibre of her being.
."You stupid whore you are cheating on me !!I know you are and I'll make you pay.
Stella didn't see the point of arguing with a drunk but she was in no place to interfere. Sounds of crashing glass and porcelain became rampant for a while with her mother's crying went on . Even after twenty three years of marriage Annie couldn't understand what had gone wrong with her marriage her husband had become more paranoid , her moves monitored and analyzed it was tiring.
The sound of a cocking gun was heard, Stella clutched her siblings closer who were crying as she tried to silence them but in the act a tear fell from her left eye making her feel more weak. A gunshot was heard and another Stella thought her mother was dead but her scream made Stella relax ."Stella bring the medical kit . She stood up and her father's body came to view lying on the floor her mind and heart rejoiced at last pain was over ,her mother pushed past her and got the kit but it was too late John was dead. Annie picked up the gun and looked at it then at her children .Beneath her lay the man she had always loved "I'm sorry take care of your siblings "Stella watched her mother point the gun to her head and fired blood spat on the wall and the floor .Now Stella hated both her parents why did she have to go she could have been strong for them but she chose death .Police officers came into the room and took charge of the situation that was the last moment she had shared with her parents .
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today (14 December) praised Londoners for donating to homelessness charities, as the amount raised by his winter rough sleeping campaign topped £78,000 in just two weeks.
Sadiq's comments followed his visit, last night, to his new 'staging post' for rough sleepers in Southwark, where he met outreach workers and those who had benefitted from the service. The service – part of the "No Second Night Out" programme and funded by extra money the Mayor has secured from national Government – offers rough sleepers short-term accommodation and in-depth support to help them stay off the streets.
Sadiq launched his winter rough sleeping campaign a fortnight ago with 35 new 'TAP London' contactless donation points across the capital. Since then, another 18 points have been put in place, and Londoners have already used them 2,581 times, alongside donations on the campaign's GoFundMe page, to donate to the London Homeless Charities Group – a coalition of 22 charities tackling homelessness in the capital.
Londoners have also responded to Sadiq's call to help connect those sleeping rough with outreach workers and vital services by using the StreetLink app and website. 1,474 referrals have already been made to StreetLink in the last fortnight.
In addition, Londoners are stepping up to volunteer and help this vital cause in any way they can, with over 450 expressing an interest in opportunities via the Team London website since Sadiq launched his campaign. Team London is the Mayor's volunteering programme, offering Londoners a range of volunteering opportunities across the capital, from one-off events to longer-term commitments.
The campaign is part of Sadiq's efforts to boost rough sleeping services in the capital, including through using funding he has secured from national Government to double the size of City Hall's street outreach team. The Mayor has also agreed with London councils that severe weather shelters will now open London-wide if the temperature is predicted to drop below zero anywhere in the capital. Previously, shelters were opened on a borough-by-borough basis, leading to patchy provision.
Last night (Thursday), the new policy came into action as the Mayor opened emergency weather shelters across London for the first time this year, with temperatures dropping to zero or below in several boroughs across the capital. Sadiq has also worked with boroughs to sign up to the 'In For Good' principle - a promise that, when a rough sleeper goes to an emergency shelter, they will be accommodated there until a support plan is put in place to help them off the streets for good.
Petra Salva, Director of Rough Sleeper, Offender and Migrants Services at St Mungo's, said: "This was a welcome opportunity to introduce the Mayor to clients and staff at the Staging Post and tell him more about the service and how it links in with others across London. It is vital to support people new to rough sleeping indoors as soon as possible, especially as the weather gets colder, and we'd encourage people to keep using the StreetLink web and app referral service if they are concerned about someone sleeping rough. These referrals mean that our and other outreach teams can connect people quickly into places such as NSNO and the Staging Post.
The Mayor invests almost £3.7 million every year into the No Second Night Out Service, which is run by St Mungo's. This year, Sadiq is also investing an additional £1.54 million of Government funding to expand the service, developing two new staging posts and a 'floating hub' which moves around London targeting rough sleeping hot spots with intensive, immediate support. This is just one of the many services run by the Mayor, funded from his £8.5 million a year rough sleeping budget and by the millions of pounds of additional funding he has secured from the Government. Last year the Mayor's teams helped 5,000 rough sleepers and former rough sleepers, and 86 per cent of those people were not seen on the streets again.
TAP London are set to roll out further contactless donation points across the capital, with more than 90 to be put in place throughout the winter.
£7,743 has been donated through the TAP London contactless donation points. £23,576 has also been raised through donations on the London Homeless Charities Group's online GoFundMe page, as well as a direct donation to the Group of £47,500 from The Berkeley Foundation.
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TAP London received funding from the Mayor's Rough Sleeping Innovation Fund, Berkeley Foundation and Heart of London Business Alliance. The technology is provided and developed by GoodBox.
The funds raised from the GoFundMe page and TAP London locations will feed into a single fund, which will be split equally between the 22 members of the London Homeless Charities Group and spent on services to tackle or prevent rough sleeping.
TAP London is a non-profit organisation that seeks to tackle homelessness by using technology in new and innovative ways. Visit www.taplondon.org. Donations are processed in less than half a second, donor's details are encrypted, and 100% of every donation made goes to the charities in the London Homeless Charities Group.
The Mayor's Rough Sleeping Innovation Fund aims to stimulate new and innovative approaches to tackling rough sleeping in the capital. It offers grant funding to local authorities and organisations tackling rough sleeping, to pilot new ideas and develop new services in the sector.
If you are concerned about someone you have seen sleeping rough you can use the StreetLink website (https://www.streetlink.org.uk/) or app to send an alert.
The details you provide are sent to the local authority or outreach service for the area in which you have seen the person, to help them find the individual and connect them to support.
Applications for Chair and membership of the new London Housing Panel are now invited.


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Aboriginal Settlement in Bridgeport Prehistory Through 1842
The area contained within the present limits of the City of Bridgeport possessed remarkable qualities that made it attractive for settlement by indigenous peoples in the millennia prior to European colonization. It included areas of level, almost stone-free soil in glacial outwash plains that supported agricultural production. The protected estuary of the Pequonnock and smaller nearby rivers sheltered an abundance of waterfowl and marine life. And, unusual for the north shore of Long Island Sound, there were relatively few marshy areas to serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other bothersome insects.
Accordingly, the population of this region was substantial in the precolonial period (indeed, the lands within the margin of Long Island Sound are said to have sustained the largest population density in North America). The Native American name "Pequonnock" signified "cleared land" or "broken ground", an indication of the prevailingly agricultural nature of the territory. Prior to the mid-17th century epidemics and displacements at least 10 semi permanent villages were extant within the city and its immediate environs. These were mostly large encampments with 50 to 100 wigwams, and were usually situated on bodies of fresh or salt water with one or more bluffs surrounding to afford protection from attack. Light, alluvial soils were a requirement for the production of maize, beans, squash, Jerusalem artichokes, gourds and tobacco. Fish and shellfish were an important component of the local diet, along with deer and wildfowl obtained by hunting; white oak, chestnut, and shagbark hickory, common in the coastal woodland, provided a protein supplement.
The intensive use of Bridgeport's lands by native people precluded European incursion until a relatively late date and left something of a written record of the settlement pattern. Additionally, the considerable portion of the city's area
that is built up has caused the disturbance of numerous graves and artifacts over the last two centuries. These finds frequently created enough interest that they were recorded in newspapers and volumes of local history, cumulatively resulting in a fairly thorough knowledge of the sites occupied by Native American settlements, burial grounds and ceremonial sites. Following is a discussion of the known locations:
Deacon's Point was located on the easterly shore of Yellow Mill Pond, approximately between the present Barnum Avenue and Deacon Street. It derives its name from a 17th-century proprietor, a ruling elder of the Stratford church. The site was a long, narrow peninsula jutting into shallow salt water that was notable for scallop and duck populations (the salt creek on the east side was filled at the end of the last century for industrial development). Shell middens were noted at the foot of Holly Street at the time housing development commenced there at the close of the Civil War, and a burial ground was uncovered in 1891 as basements were dug for houses on Barnum Avenue opposite Mill Hill Avenue.
Perhaps most significant, however, and indicative of the reverence native people felt for this location was the stone medicine wheel--a veritable North American Stonehenge--that was built on the banks of the creek. The medicine wheel consisted of round granite posts about seven feet in height, arranged In concentric circles. It remained in place until 1846, when the New York and New Haven Railroad ran its track line through the site of the megalith. "We dug out loads and loads of these posts and threw them into the mill pond (with) brush and limbs and heaped dirt upon them," recalled one of the construction laborers in Orcutt's 1884 History of Stratford and Bridgeport. A Mr. Tuttle of Stratford heard about the mysterious relics being disposed� of and had one of the posts hauled to his front yard and set up as a curiosity. It remains there to this day at 753 Stratford Avenue, near Bond's Dock.
Golden Hill apparently existed as a village location long prior to the establishment of an 80-acre reservation here in 1659. The village is thought to have been at the base of the hill on its south flank, near the present-day intersection of Fairfield Avenue and Harrison Street. This was the location of a powerful spring, the outlet of an underground river that flows through a porous seam of limestone from the vicinity of New Milford. The spring flowed out to a lake, long since filled, that extended from Broad to Courtland Streets and from Fairfield Avenue almost to State Street. Burial grounds associated with this community were unearthed when Prospect School (site of the present Sears store) was expanded in 1870, and when the Sydney Bishop residence (site of L'Ambience Plaza) was constructed in May, 1883.
Harbor Bluff was a site about which but little is known. It fronted on Bridgeport Harbor at the foot of a small hill that was leveled in the 19th century. It was located to the east of the present Main Street and was bisected by the former Drouve Street, or immediately to the south of the Connecticut Turnpike. Graves were disturbed when houses were constructed here in the 1830s and '40s.
Indian Island was a village location in active use into the 19th century. Situated on the Pequonnock River where East Washington Avenue crosses at the present time, the location at the narrows of a tidal inlet provided excellent opportunities for fish and turtle harvesting and was readily defensible as well. The island (a marshy creek separating it from the mainland was filled in the 1830s) was the site of another significant fresh-water spring. Known in its later years as the "Nimrod Lot" after a 17th-century individual Pocummuc (nicknamed by European settlers after Genesis 10:8 --"Wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord."). This site was sold off by the Golden Hill tribe in 1802. A burial ground with numerous elaborate graves was "greatly disturbed" during construction of the Housatonic Railroad (1836-8).

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Women's Basketball drops first two games of season
Billy Heyen, Staff Reporter|November 20, 2015
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Women's Basketball dropped both opening games but looks to rebound this week in Mt. Union.
The Case Western Reserve University women's basketball team got their season underway this past weekend.
The Spartans made the trip to Denison University to face off against the Big Red. Denison is an experienced team with a lot of talent, including a d3hoops.com preseason All-American in Jordan Holmes. Holmes lived up to that billing as she led the Big Red to a 63-57 win over the Spartans. Holmes put up a monster double-double, contributing 30 points and 21 rebounds, to go along with a strong defensive presence with six blocks.
It is tough to overcome that sort of effort by an opposing player, and CWRU Coach Jennifer Reimer agrees, saying "It's easy to see why she has been selected as a preseason All-American."
A quickly noticed statistic about the Spartans' play is a tough shooting performance, as CWRU shot just 30.9 percent from the floor and 27.3 percent from three. Some of that had to do with the imposing inside presence of Holmes, and Reimer is not worried, saying, "We see great progress each day and know those shots are going to fall."
Early in the season, it is not uncommon to see shooting performances like this as a team works to get in the rhythm of their offense.
Reimer was not worried about shot selection, so these numbers should go up as players settle into new roles in the rotation. She did emphasize that, "We have a young team that … will continue to grow. Our first-year players are going to get game experience now that will pay off when we reach conference play in January."
As new players are worked into the rotation there will be growing pains, but the key is to be in sync by the start of conference play, and with multiple first-year students playing big minutes in game number one, including Hillary Hellmann, who led the team with 36 minutes, they certainly will be given every opportunity to contribute.
Fourth-year student and guard Emily Young came on strong for the Spartans in scoring 13 points as one of the leaders of the team, and second-year student and forward Kara Hageman was able to double up with 11 and 11. As these returners lead the way and the new players follow suit, the ladies should be in good shape for having a good season. Heading into their game on Nov. 17 against Baldwin Wallace University Coach Reimer stresses the importance of defense. She said, "Our team's focus is defense. We are working to put together a solid pressure defense that will turn ball pressure into points on the offensive end."
While defense was the goal, the Spartans struggled in their execution as they dropped their second game of the season. The Spartans played solid defense early keeping Baldwin Wallace to a mere 29 points in the first half. However they were slow out of the gate offensively, only scoring nine points in the first quarter and only 13 in the second. The two sides kicked on the offensive power in the second half, as Kara Hageman led the Spartans, dropping a career high 26 points. However she didn't get as much help as she needed, as only two of the other four starters were able to score. Jageman, Jessica McCoy, who finished with 16 points, and Hillary Hellmann who had 12,contributed most of the scoring for the Spartans. As a result the Spartans lost by a score of 72 to 63.
As the Spartans continue their season, with defense being stressed and young players becoming comfortable in the team, they will definitely find success. A loss in game one is no worry, as it is a long and hopefully successful season to go for CWRU Women's Basketball. Their next game is Friday, Nov. 20 vs. Waynesburg University as part of the University of Mount Union Tournament. Action starts at 5 p.m.
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Yip. I finally got of my arse and integrated a more flexible audio playback library ("nAudio") into the app.
This will be optional - by default the app will continue to use the same playback method it's always used. Once you switch the app to use nAudio, you'll be able to select any of the available audio playback devices to play the app's sounds - not just the default. A happy side-effect of this is that the app's volume should be significantly louder too.
Still some testing and bug-fixing to do, but it should be available fairly soon.
This is the best news evar! Keep up the good work Mr_Belowski !!!
Is there a preliminary ETA on this?
Enable nAudio playback in the device options. It should allow you to use the windows mixer volume and the app volume together to get it significantly louder.
Superb! Its loud enuff for me, I've just always needed to use my onboard sound, and not my SoundBlaster ! You rocks! Thanks!
A bit late but just wanted to say thank you for this feature. It's amazing having the crewchief set to to VIVEs internal audio (headphone) and the ingame sound on my 5.1. That's really cool!


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Science and Sustainability. Impacts of Scientific Knowledge and Technology on Human Society and its Environment
Evolving Concepts of Nature
Complexity and Analogy in Science
The Scientific Legacy
Scientific Insights into the Evolution of the Universe and of Life
Predictability in Science: Accuracy and Limitations
Paths of Discovery
The 400th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Raccolta di studi scientifici
Resoconto della Sessione Plenaria, XIII anno accademico
Tornata inaugurale e prima Tornata ordinaria, XII anno accademico
Tornata inaugurale e 2 Tornate ordinarie, VII anno accademico
Tornata inaugurale e 3 Tornate ordinarie, VI anno accademico
Prima e seconda Tornata privata, V anno accademico
Tornata inaugurale, Commemorazione di S.S. Pio XI, 3 Tornate ordinarie, IV anno accademico
Tornata inaugurale e 3 Tornate Ordinarie, III anno accademico
Tornata inaugurale e 2 Tornate ordinarie, II anno accademico
Seduta inaugurale e prima Tornata, I anno accademico
The Concept of Nature – from Plato's World to Einstein's World
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Plenary Session on Evolving Concepts of Nature
Casina Pio IV, Vatican City
Nature is not a simple concept – for at least three reasons. First of all, nature, meaning the physical universe, is in itself an evolving nature. It is neither fixed nor always the same. There is biological evolution (genetic diversity and variation) and – derivatively (though the concept is problematical) – cosmic evolution, e.g. stellar evolution. Therefore, concepts of nature follow nature in its evolution or ought to follow it. Second, nature has, at least in a historical perspective, different meanings in different cultures. For example, the Greek tradition distinguishes between creative nature (natura naturans) and created nature (natura naturata), the Indian tradition identifies nature and earth and speaks of the Goddess Earth. Today, under the influence of the modern sciences, historically divergent concepts of nature have lost their scientific significance. Nature is now what is governed by universal laws, although, as we know now, a universal determinism is limited in many ways by the occurrence of probabilities, i.e. by probabilistic laws. Third, though initially nature was just that part of the world that man had not made, it has now, to a great extent, become part of an artificial world built by science and technology. This makes it difficult to distinguish clearly between what is natural and what is not. For example, what is the exact meaning of the concept of nature for the particle physicist, who, so to speak, 'creates' his objects in big machines, or for the molecular biologist, who rearranges genomes? Is it still nature that scientists investigate and humanists reflect on when they speak about nature and culture and the cultural impact of science and technology on nature? It is not only that different cultures have generated different concepts of nature, but also that science interferes with nature in a way that makes it often difficult, even with respect to the concept of universal laws of nature or probabilistic laws, to give a determinate definition of what nature is. The old duality between nature and culture as well as the duality between universalism or determinism and probabilism has been superseded by a plurality of new dualities, among which is again also the duality between a creative or evolving nature and a created nature (now in a scientific framework).
Closely connected with changing concepts of nature are world views or world pictures. World pictures are models of the reality, depending on particular concepts, like the concept of nature, beliefs about how the reality functions, and programmes, like scientific programmes. It is not only mythical cultures which create world pictures; science, too, generates them. It provides the world with a picture in which it appears as what it ostensibly is 'in itself', as 'nature', as 'evolution', as 'creation', regardless of how we transfer the conception of a 'world outside us' to 'our' world, the world in which we live. To an understanding of science also belongs an understanding of its power to constitute the world and to generate world pictures, particularly with respect to nature. In the following, some examples are given of how science pictures nature and the world – from Plato's and Aristotle's world to Einstein's and Heisenberg's world.[1]
With Plato's world, i.e. with Plato's cosmological concept, the idea of a philosophical as well as a scientific cosmology is born. Here, in Plato's dialogue Timaios, a powerful craftsman creates the world according to a perfect model, namely the 'cosmos' of the Platonic ideas. Like a perfect living being, the cosmos turns out to be an animated rational being, as a visible god in the form of a perfect sphere. Its soul, the 'world soul', has an astronomical nature: it is formed by the mathematical order of the trajectories of the planets. At the same time the planets function as 'tools of time'; time (καιρός), arising with the heavens, is an image of eternity (αἰών). The planets are visible and created gods, the earth the 'most venerable goddess in the heavens'. Man in the cosmos, which consists of purely godlike entities and is itself a living god, is compared with a plant, which roots 'not in the earth but in the heavens'; he connects the earth with the heavens related to him. Later on, in Christian thought, i.e. in Christian Platonism, the world of Platonic ideas to which the craftsman refers as a perfect model, becomes the realm of thoughts of God creating the world.
Unlike a Plato world, which, apart from the mythical language in which it is presented, is governed by mathematical (geometrical) and astronomical laws, Aristotle's world is a world of natural things that consist of matter and form and have within themselves a source of motion. Motions caused by such a 'natural' source are 'teleological' motions, i.e. they make a thing into what, according to its own nature, it really is, or they lead it, in the form of a 'natural' local motion, to its 'natural' place. A theory of natural positions, incorporated in a theory of elements, corresponds in this sense to a theory of simple (natural) bodies (bodies that have a source of motion in themselves) and simple motion (the motion of simple bodies). In the cosmological dimension, an Aristotle world consists of eleven spheres grouped around the central body, earth. Each such sphere is constituted by two concentric spherical surfaces: the three inner spheres housing the elements and the eight outer spheres housing the then known planets and the system of fixed stars (with a daily rotation about the axis of the heavens). The geocentrism of the Aristotle world is a result of the Aristotelian theory of elements or the theory of natural positions. That a heavy body falls to the earth is a result of the centre of the cosmos' being the natural position for this body, i.e. the motion of heavy bodies is not toward the earth (this is only per accidens), but toward the centre of the cosmos (per essentiam).
In opposition to the atomistic conception of the constant movement of atoms, the Aristotle world is characterized by the notion that every movement requires a mover. Thus, not only the change of motion, but also the uniform motion of a body requires a causal force. This force must either reside in the moving body itself (in the form of a motivating 'soul' or as a natural movement) or exist in direct contact with it; action at a distance is not permitted. The place of atoms in atomistic conceptions is filled by so-called minima naturalia, i.e. the smallest particles of matter that place a natural limit on its divisibility without altering its substantial form. Correspondingly, all matter has quantitative minima that possess the characteristics of macrobodies made from it. These minima also possess a characteristic size, though their geometric form is not predetermined. In chemical processes, minima in immediate proximity to each other constitute a qualitas media, which is the basis for the forma mixti of matter which possesses a particular substantival form. (According to atomistic conceptions, all that changes in chemical processes is the configuration of the smallest particles, which lack qualitative characteristics and whose geometric form is constant.)
The Aristotle world is thus characterized by a high degree of experiential evidence. The scientific propositions describing this world are confirmed by the experience acquired in everyday life, or are derived through generalizations made on the basis of experience. Examples of this are (1) the Aristotelian law of gravitation, according to which the velocity of a falling body is proportional to its weight and inversely proportional to the density of the medium, (2) the above-mentioned Aristotelian 'law of inertia', which states that all things moved have a mover, and (3) the Aristotelian theory of elements with its familiar concepts derived from the experience of daily life, for example, 'above', 'below', 'natural', and 'unnatural' (as in the case of violent movements that run counter to natural movements). The Aristotle world, moreover, is always in the process of becoming a natural order, embedded in the inner teleology of this world or the teleological nature of all things. This natural order never appears as a perfect state, but it is constantly present in the form of an astronomically ordered, supralunary world. In other words, disorder as well as the tendency to order is the normal state of the (sublunary) world. It is the world of experience and hence – despite physics and natural philosophy which seek to interpret it – a very human world.
As opposed to the Aristotle world, a hermetic world – by which is meant the world of alchemy, astrology, and parts of natural philosophy in the Renaissance – is a world of mysterious interactions. Occult powers and living substances take the place of the simple bodies characteristic of the Aristotle world. Nature consists of different combinations of primary substances that originated in undifferentiated primordial matter. At the same time, these combinations are conceived of as developmental processes that man can accelerate or retard, though always with methods that 'imitate nature', for example, by 'refining' metals and other substances (transmutatio). Inorganic processes are viewed analogously to organic processes. Explanations of the world take the shape of allegorical interpretations: coming into being and passing away as birth and death, separation and unity as the polarity of the sexes (the conjunctio as sexual union or the hermaphrodite as the overcoming of sexual differences).[2]
This conception finds its cosmological expression in the correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm which interprets the world in antiquity and in the hermetic tradition as a great organism mirrored in the microcosm, particularly in man: "what is below is like what is above; what is above is like what is below: both reveal the miracle of the one".[3] The influence of the macrocosm on the microcosm corresponds to the ever-present assumption in magical thought that it is possible to effect a change in the macrocosm through changes in the microcosm. This conception, as the 'sympathetic' relationship between all of the parts of the world, is still at work within the context of natural philosophy in the Romantic period: man as a microcosm "in which the universe looks at itself".[4]
In a Hermes world everything becomes a riddle or a key to solving its secrets. The familiarity of the Aristotle world gives way to a demonic world that is only accessible through ritual and mystical forms of knowledge. The scientist becomes in this way the mediator between two worlds, a life-world and a hermetic world, and at the same time the real 'addressee' of his own hermetic knowledge. The alchemical separatio reproduces itself as the separatio of the material and mystical body (the 'diamond body') in the scientist. It constitutes the actual magisterium, i.e. the 'great work', the self-development or spiritualization of man. Thus the hermetic world stands not only in opposition to the familiarity of the Aristotle world, but also in opposition to the mechanistic world that in the modern age begins to supplant both the Aristotle world, as well as Aristotelian physics.
The foundation for this mechanistic world picture is Newton's world. In this world it is only (gravitational) mass that moves in absolute time, through absolute space. Matter and space are the real elements of this world. The smallest particles of matter, hence the actual atoms, combine to build complex formations or second-degree particles. Several of these combine in turn to become third degree particles and so forth. The inner structure of matter is thus characterized by a complex hierarchy of particle formations. These formations are not massive corpuscles, but contain empty space. As the order of the particle hierarchy expands, the amount of empty space in them increases while the extent of solid matter decreases correspondingly. Matter in the world is thus only seemingly solid. In fact, the world is a vacuum for the most part. The actual amount of solid matter in the universe could fit into a nutshell (atomistic nutshell theory).
Characteristic of the Newton world, moreover, is the assumption that a fundamental dualism exists between passive matter and active immaterial principles. According to this notion, which can be traced back to Cambridge Platonism and hence to hermetic conceptions of the world, matter can be the origin only of mechanical effects, that is, effects mediated by pressure and impulse. Matter itself does not exert force, but only withstands the effects of forces (through its own inertia). Gravitational pull, in particular, is not a trait of matter. Gravitation has more the status of an active principle and finds its origin in a non-material ether that exerts an effect on matter. Matter, 'inanimate and brute', is not able to guarantee even halfway stable processes of development through its essential characteristics. Since in this world a general principle for the conservation of energy does not hold, mechanical interactions lead to a steady loss of movement, which cannot be fully compensated for by the active principles that bring forth new movement. All the regularly functioning causes (material or immaterial) taken together would not be able to impede the movement of the world toward disorder and chaos. The stability of the world, i.e. compensation for the energy loss, is a matter only for God or an occasional divine intervention in this world.
The nutshell theory of matter on which this world is based corresponds, as regards its concept of space, to a container or arena theory. The space of the Newton world is not formed by spatial relations of material bodies (concept of relational space), but exists 'in and of itself' as an ontological entity on the same level as matter. Space is independent of matter. In proving the existence of inertial forces, Newton attempts to endow the related concept of absolute space, i.e. the conception of a stationary system of coordinates that differs from the mere relative state of rest between bodies, with experimental content. He himself tried to show that the centrifugal forces generated by rotational movement cannot be traced back to relative rotations of whatever type, i.e. they have to be conceived of as 'true' rotations, as rotations against an absolutely stationary space. This absolute space is analogous to the sensorium Dei, i.e. the omnipresence of God put into law (following here the Cambridge Platonists as well). Just as the mind of man can receive sense impressions through its presence in his brain, so God perceives the processes in the universe through his presence in absolute space.
The 'mechanism' of the Newton world, expressed in a mechanics of gravitational movement, in Newtonianism not only determines how inorganic nature is understood but also proliferates itself in the organic, psychic, and social cosmos. In the theological aspects it still retains, this mechanism documents their fundamental dispensability. The criticism of the effects of occult powers (qualities) in a hermetic world also applies to Newton's theological legitimations. The Newton world, the quintessential 'mechanization of the world picture', becomes a 'world of machines' – with God as a retired engineer.[5]
In contrast to the concept of absolute space in the Newton world, a concept of relational space is dominant in Einstein's world. Here space is constituted only by matter, with energy also being matter. In order to do justice to the special effects of rotation discovered by Newton, Einstein refers to 'Mach's principle', which considers the centrifugal forces not as the result of true rotation (rotation against absolute space) but as the effect of rotation relative to distant masses (that is, the centre of gravity in the universe). Einstein's general theory of relativity attempts to give Mach's programmatic idea a physical dimension in order to establish the validity of a theory of relational space in terms of epistemology as well as physics.
Particularly relevant philosophically is the idea of a geometricization of nature. In the general theory of relativity, gravitation (with certain restrictions) is no longer conceived of as a force that diverts bodies from their natural trajectory, but as an entity that is inseparably bound up with the structure of space and time. If one examines the trajectory of a body in the field of gravitation from an adequate standpoint, one would recognize that this body actually follows the most linear trajectory. Later Einstein also tried to apply this idea to electromagnetic forces in order to achieve a unified theory of gravitation and electrodynamics. The central idea was that all interactions between particles can be traced back to space-time structure. This means that a particle has an effect on space-time, which in turn has an effect on a second particle and in this way mediates the interaction between the two.
Matter itself, however, is not included in the unification. Particles are singularities of the fields, i.e. particles are not themselves solutions to the field equations. Where particles are, the field equations are not valid. Both ponderable matter as well as fields can be viewed as matter in a broader sense. Both possess physical reality in the same sense. Since the field of gravitation in particular is of this type and at the same time is identified through the general theory of relativity with the space-time structure, matter is everywhere where space is. The Einstein world is not virtually empty like the Newton world, but full like a Cartesian world. Like the Newton world, however, it is subject to deterministic considerations in the form of a unified theory of interactions. Thus, in the Einstein world there are no essentially accidental elements; everything is predetermined from the beginning and takes place necessarily. God does not throw dice.
It is characteristic of the special as well as the general theory of relativity that the essential geometric quantity is a four-dimensional metric interval. This can be divided into a spatial and a temporal component, and yet this division is dependent on the system of coordinates used. Einstein draws the conclusion from this situation that the 'transient now' (the idea of a shifting present) possesses no objective meaning. He draws the same conclusion from the symmetry of equations in mechanics and quantum mechanics against time reversal. In all elementary processes there is no difference between past and future. Such a difference is a mere illusion. In reality there is no development, no actual change. All that is real is a static, four-dimension- al state of being. In this sense the Einstein world is neither Aristotelian nor hermetic nor Newtonian, but Parmenidean.
The examples cited here demonstrate the power of science to constitute worlds and generate world pictures. There can be no doubt that it fulfils this role. But the brief discussion of the Plato, the Aristotle, the Hermes, the Newton, and the Einstein world demonstrate even more. In the final analysis, these examples reveal not only that science makes worlds, but there is also a certain relativity of scientific worlds. Each of these worlds, with respect to the scientific (or philosophical) view of things on which they are based, has its own plausibility, and each is somehow consistent. What they show – quite apart from the fact that nobody today, in a scientific world as well as in the life world, wants to go back to an Aristotelian or an hermetic world – is a growing loss of perceptibility and an increasing distance to what is understood by nature. There is no room left for perceptibility in an Einstein world, let alone the world of quantum mechanics, a Planck or Heisenberg world, in which particles no longer move on trajectories like in classical physics and the law of causality no longer holds. The same is true with the concept of nature. Newton's concept of nature is different from that of Aristotle, and Einstein's concept of nature (if there is one) is different from that of Newton. Physics, as it appears, has lost the concept of nature; it is biology which may bring it back.
1. This is a short and revised version of an earlier contribution which also dealt with questions of the history and philosophy of science: J. Mittelstrass, "World Pictures: The World of the History and Philosophy of Science", in: J.R. Brown, J. Mittelstrass (Eds.), An Intimate Relation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Presented to Robert E. Butts on His 60th Birthday, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116), pp. 319-341, particularly pp. 322-330 (2. The World of Science).
2. See Chr. Thiel, "Alchemie", in: J. Mittelstrass (Ed.), Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, vol. I, 2nd ed., Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2005, pp. 75-83.
3. The first sentence of an apocryphal text attributed to Hermes Trismegistos. See Chr. Thiel, "Makrokosmos", in: J. Mittelstrass (Ed.), Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, vol. V, 2nd ed., Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2013, pp. 186-189.
4. J.J. Wagner, System der Idealphilosophie, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel 1804, p. LIII.
5. E.J. Dijksterhuis, De Mechanisering van het Wereldbeeld, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 1950, p. 539.
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Romania - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture by Debbie Stowe, 2008-02-05
Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania by Denise Roman, 2007-04-16
National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania (Societies and Culture in East-Central Europe) by Katherine Verdery, 1995-09-14
Romanian Rhapsody: An Overlooked Corner of Europe by Dominique Fernandez, Ferrante Ferranti, 2000-07-02
SURVIVAL THROUGH CULTURE IN A SURREAL, ROMANIA.: An article from: East European Quarterly by Carmen Firan, 2000-06-22
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, and Working-Class Culture (New Anthropologies of Europe) by David A. Kideckel, 2008-02-06
Magyar Culture in Socialist Romania by Radu R. Florescu, 1976-03
Romania: Its hesychast tradition and culture by Seraphim JoantaÌ, 1992
Romania (Cultures of the World) by Sean Sheehan, 2005-07-31
ROMANIA: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Countries and Their Cultures</i> by ELEANOR STANFORD, 2001
Romanians: Vlachs, Moldovans, Culture of Romania, Romanian Language, Demographic History of Romania, Dacians, Decebalus, Roman Empire, Trajan, Dacia, Thraco-Roman
Romania, Culture, and Nationalism by Paul D. Quinlan, Anthony R. DeLuca, 1998-09-15
Titu Maiorescu: Culture of Romania, Conservative Party (Romania, 1880- 1918), Treaty of Bucharest, 1913, Balkan Wars
The development of education, science, and culture in Romania (The Socio-political thinking of Romania's President) by Nicolae Ceaușescu, 1979
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Kayleigh is a talented teenager whose life should be full of promise. Instead, she finds herself in a cycle of domestic abuse from which there seems no escape until Aunty Jan helps her find a way out, after twenty long years of 'put up and shut up'.
Based on a true story, together with the combined true life experiences shared by other women, the play explores the complex nature of domestic abuse, ranging from coercion in its many forms to women's deaths at the hands of abusive partners.
Rock and A Hard Place also reveals the impact of funding cuts on the refuge system and on support available for women like Kayleigh and is an appeal to all of us to both recognise and highlight this major human rights issue in our own communities.
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Red, White, Blue and Fabulous
June 29, 2015 at 5:37pm by Marlise Schoeny
1976 Cotton/Polyester Leisure Suit
1985 Arnold Scaasi sequined dress
In celebration of the Fourth of July, we would like to highlight two ensembles from the collection that feature the iconic red, white and blue seen everywhere in the US on this date of the country's anniversary of Independence Day. These three colors are not without meaning. The colors of the flag were chosen to represent particular American ideals. Red symbolizes hardiness and valor while white represents purity and innocence. Finally, blue symbolizes vigilance, perseverance and justice. The first official flag was adopted by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The current version of the flag was approved with the addition of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1960. While it is common for Americans to wear the colors of the flag in celebration of Independence Day, it was particularly popular in 1976 as the U.S. celebrated its bicentennial.
President Gerald Ford appointed the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission to coordinate events to celebrate the nation's 200th birthday. The President stated, in his official Bicentennial message, that "for two centuries our Nation has grown, changed and flourished. A diverse people, drawn from all corners of the Earth, have joined together to fulfill the Promise of Democracy… The Bicentennial offers each of us the Opportunity to join with our fellow Citizens in honoring the Past and preparing for the Future in Communities across the Nation."
Leisure suit, c. 1976
This suit exemplifies the craze for patriotic fashion during 1976. As America celebrated its 200th anniversary, many people chose to express their patriotism through a marriage of red, white and blue with popular fashion. This leisure suit is a cotton/polyester blend paired with a navy blue polyester shirt, white belt and white/black patent leather loafers. This style was also known as the "Full Cleveland". The "Full Cleveland" was a man's leisure suit paired with a white belt and shoes.
1976 Simplicity pattern
If you preferred to wear a patriotic but historically inaccurate costume for the Bicentennial there were commercial patterns, such as this one from Simplicity, available for the home sewer.
This strapless sequin dress was produced in 1985 and donated to thecollection by the designer, Arnold Scaasi, himself. While not designed in direct reference to Independence Day, it certainly utilizes the patriotic color scheme of the U.S. flag. Arnold Scaasi is considered an American designer, and was a favorite of first ladies Barbara and Laura Bush as well as Mamie Eisenhower and Ladybird Johnson. You can't get more patriotic than that!
Detail of 1985 Arnold Scaasi Dress
Scaasi's is an interesting story. His surname would indicate he is perhaps Italian, but Arnold Scaasi was born in Canada and not with that surname. In 1954 Robert Denning, a friend working on the General Motors advertising campaign which featured models wearing gowns designed by Scaasi, told him they had reversed his name in the caption because it had an Italian flavor and Italian fashions were all the rage that year. Look magazine considered him "one of America's promising young designers" in 1955, and in 1958 he won the Coty American Fashion Critics Award and was compared to Dior. The popularity of his designs in the 1980s stemmed largely from a fashion revival of voluminous 1950s style gowns, a form at which he excelled.
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China Focus: Xi inspects PLA garrison in Hong Kong
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspects Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, south China, June 30, 2017, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
HONG KONG, June 30 (Xinhua) -- President Xi Jinping on Friday inspected the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), ordering the troops to "firmly safeguard Hong Kong's prosperity and stability."
Xi, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission, reviewed the troops at Shek Kong barracks in the company of Tan Benhong, commander of the PLA Garrison in the HKSAR.
Riding in an open-top camouflage jeep, Xi repeated praises of "Salute to you, comrades!" and "Comrades, thanks for your hard work!" as he rode by each of the 20 troop formations.
The troops responded in unison; "Hail to you, Chairman!" "Serve the people!"
Altogether, over 3,100 officers and soldiers took part in Friday's review.
More than 100 pieces of military equipment, including air defense missiles, wheeled armored vehicles and military helicopters, were arrayed behind the troops.
About 4,000 flag-waving spectators from all walks of life in Hong Kong were also present during the review. ( Xi ordered the troops to firmly implement the principle of "one country, two systems," the Basic Law of the HKSAR and the HKSAR Garrison Law of the People's Republic of China.
The troops must resolutely protect national sovereignty, security and development interests, and firmly safeguard Hong Kong's prosperity and stability, he said.
After the review, Xi was briefed on the work of the PLA Garrison in the HKSAR.
"The garrison is an important embodiment of national sovereignty, an important force to safeguard 'one country, two systems,' and an important cornerstone of Hong Kong's prosperity and stability," Xi said.
Xi ordered the troops to improve the awareness of political integrity, state power and the overall situation, and firm up the responsibility for and commitment to safeguarding "one country, two systems."
He urged the garrison to make efforts to enhance "combat readiness" so as to fulfill its role as a powerful stabilizing force.
Xi spoke highly of the garrison, saying it has steadfastly carried out decisions and instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, and conscientiously implemented the principle of "one country, two systems," the Basic Law and the Garrison Law over the past 20 years.
"The garrison has done an excellent job in fulfilling all defense-centered tasks, demonstrating the PLA's image as a mighty and civilized force and winning wide praise from Hong Kong compatriots," he said.
Xi called for efforts to build a highly centralized and unified military force, and run the military in accordance with law to forge a strong force with ironclad belief, faith, discipline and responsibility.
Xi's inspection at Shek Kong barracks came on the second day of his three-day trip in Hong Kong. He will also attend celebrations marking Hong Kong's 20th return anniversary and the inauguration of the HKSAR's fifth-term government.
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Notice is hereby given that City of York Council (the Council), in exercise of powers under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (the Act), made an Order on the 20th day of October 2017 in respect of the location numbered (1). Additionally, the Council, not less than 7 days from the publication of this Notice, intends to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Act in respect of each of the locations numbered (2) and (3).
(1) MILLFIELD LANE, NETHER POPPLETON This Order prohibits vehicles from proceeding through the Nether Poppleton Level Crossing, Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton (closed road) during the period when track maintenance works are being undertaken thereon that period commencing at 2300hrs on the 1st day of November 2017 and ending at 0600hrs on the 2nd day of November 2017 or at a time when the works have been completed whichever is the earlier. This is to ensure that the said works can be carried out safely. The prohibition on traffic (other than local buses) at the junction of Millfield Lane and Low Poppleton Lane will be suspended during the periods when the prohibition at the crossing is put into effect. An alternative route for diverted traffic will be available via Low Poppleton Lane, A59 Boroughbridge Road, A1237 York Outer Ring Road, Link Road between the A1237 and Millfield Lane and vice versa.
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This Order will prohibit vehicles from proceeding and waiting in (i) Tanner Row, York between its junctions with Rougier Street and Tanner Street (closed road) and (ii) the north east bound traffic lane (inbound) of Tanner Row, York between its junctions with the NCP Car Park Access Road and Rougier Street (closed traffic lane) during the period commencing at 0001hrs on the 6th day of November 2017 and ending at 2400hrs on the 23rd day of November 2017 (works period) or at a time when traffic signal improvement works being undertaken nearby have been completed whichever is the earlier. This is to ensure that the said works can be carried out safely. Additionally, the 'ONE WAY' direction of traffic flow in Tanner Row is suspended during the period of physical closure in the closed road to allow two-way traffic flow in the said road during the works period. An alternative route for diverted traffic will be signed during the works period.
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Vancouver entrepreneur, philanthropist and film festival founder Leonard Schein turns 65 and retires as president of Festival Cinemas. Baba Brinkman researches his life story and asks his friends about his character, and performs a rap tribute/roast at the gala celebration in his honour.
The Brisbane Writer's Festival organized a special speech to thank the sponsors who funded the festival. They compiled a list of all 80 contributors and commissioned Vancouver rap artist Baba Brinkman to write them all into a rap poem.
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La Brea Tar Pits
What You Can Find on Display at the Page Museum
By Betsy Malloy
Christian Hundley / © TripSavvy
The La Brea Tar Pits are one of LA's weirder sights. In the area near Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, natural asphalt (tar) has been seeping to the earth's surface for tens of thousands of years. It forms sticky pools that look like something from an old horror movie, with methane gas bubbling up through the inky, black surface.
Don't get the wrong idea, though. You don't go to the La Brea Tar Pits just to look at a black, gooey, stinky pond. What's interesting about the tar pits is the animals that have gotten trapped in them, more than 10,000 individual creatures stuck and preserved over about 30,000 years.
Today's scientists excavate the tar and remove the tar from the bones of some pretty exciting Ice Age animals. They are on display in the George C. Page Museum which is next to the tar pits. Among them are mammoths, giant sloths, dire wolves, and saber-toothed cats.
Reasons to Visit the La Brea Tar Pits
You can see the skeletons of giant sloths that are bigger than a Saint Bernard, fearsome sabre-toothed cats, gigantic wooly mammoths - and even a prehistoric giraffe.
At the local natural history museum, you'll see just a single animal or two from each species. At the Page Museum, the thousands of tar pit finds give a rich picture of the Ice Age that is much more interesting than looking at just one skeleton.
The tar pits are unique and one of the world's best places to learn about the Ice Age.
Reasons to Skip the La Brea Tar Pits
If you're looking for dinosaurs, you won't find them here. They became extinct 65 million years before the Ice Age began.
If animals and natural history don't interest you, you'll have more fun somewhere else.
Tips for Visiting the La Brea Tar Pits
If you plan to go on a busy day, avoid standing in a long line by buying your tickets online before you go.
If you have a membership at another science museum, check to see if they accept it. It might save you some money.
Tar sometimes oozes up through cracks in the sidewalk in the neighborhood. It's a mess if you get it on your shoes, making this one of those few times when it's good to keep looking down to see what you're stepping in.
It's fun to watch people cleaning and sorting fossils in the fishbowl lab at the museum, but you can only do that during the week.
Don't just stop at the small lake out front and conclude that there's nothing to see. Drop into the Museum to get their guide map and take a walk around the surrounding grounds to see all the pits and excavations.
It might be obvious to you, but some people don't expect the tarry/petroleum smell that comes from the pits.
What You Can See in the George Page Museum
Inside the George Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, you'll find specimens from more than 1 million fossils recovered from the area. They include a wood fragment about 40,000 years old and skeletons of dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, mammoths, short-faced bears, giant sloths and ancient buffalo, as well as many birds and other creatures.
Besides the exhibits, you can watch one of their feature films. Kids especially like the "What It's Like to be Trapped in Tar" exhibit. Catch the live stage show "Ice Age Encounter," featuring a life-size Saber-tooth cat puppet. When a docent is on duty, the kids can go hunting for "fossils" and get a certificate to prove they did it.
What You Can See Outside the Museum
The museum charges admission, but you can see the La Brea Tar Pits outside for free.
The lake near Wilshire Boulevard was formed when the La Brea Tar Pits were excavated for asphalt in the nineteenth century. Today, it's full of water, covered with an oil slick. Methane gas bubbles up to its surface. On its south shore, you'll find a recreated scene of a mammoth trapped in the sticky tar.
A stroll around the grounds outside the museum has more to see. You'll find several pits of oozing black stuff to peer into on the grounds. The Pit 91 viewing area is open to the public. Nearby, you can peer through the fences that surround Project 23, a new experiment in removing fossils from the tar. Sometimes, the scientists working on the project are there and will answer your questions.
What You Need to Know About the La Brea Tar Pits
The museum is open daily except for some holidays. They charge an admission fee. Check their current hours and prices at the La Brea Tar Pits Website.
Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
The Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits are on Wilshire Blvd in the "Museum Row" area. It's near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Petersen Automotive Museum.
The official parking lot is behind the museum. Parking there costs almost as much as one adult admission. You can usually find street parking on Sixth Street within an easy walk. Even if you park on the south side of Sixth which has parking meters, you'll save money, but if you can find a spot on the north side, there are none.
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TN Govt. warehouses to have UV traps to prevent pest – RECOGNITION 3
Press Trust of India | Chennai
As part of efforts aimed at preventing pest infestation of food grains, godowns under the State- run Tamil Nadu Warehousing Corporation would have Ultra violet light traps, Food Minister R Kamaraj told the State Assembly today.
"On the orders of Chief Minister Puratchi Thalaivi Amma to store food grains free of pest infestation, in the first phase, in 54 godowns, 162 ultra violet light traps would be set up, he said".
The godowns are run by Tamil Nadu Warehousing Corporation and food grains, sugar, dairy products, fertiliser, Indian Made Foreign Liquor, are among the commodities that are stored, he said.
He said the Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority selected three (Arani, Avinashi and Rajapalayam) warehouses of TN Warehousing Corporation for awards recognising their good performance.
Referring to vacancies in the corporation, he said a total of 189 vacanices at various levels would be filled up through direct appointment.
Reference: Business Standard; Date: Sat, 5 Sep, 2015; 22:16:45.