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Mark Wrathall
Professor of Philosophy • University of Oxford
Study Philosophy at Oxford
1. "Our Fragilized World and the Immanent Frame," in Charles Taylor: A Secular Age, ed. Michael Kühnlein, Klassiker Auslegen, Vol. 59, ed. Otfried Höffe (Berlin: de Gruyer Verlag, 2017).
2. "Individuation and Heidegger's Ontological 'Intuitionism'," in Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political, ed. Pavlos Kontos & Véronique Fóti, eds. (Springer, 2017)
3. "Background Practices and Understandings of Being," in Background Practices and the Understanding of Being (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017).
4. "Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity)," in Ondřej Švec & Jakub Čapek, Eds., Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology (New York: Routledge, 2017).
5. "Who is the Self of Everyday Existence?" in From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity. Heidegger's Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory, edited by Hans Bernhard Schmid and Gerhard Thonhauser (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016).
6. "'Demanding Authenticity of Ourselves': Heidegger on Authenticity as an Extra-Moral Ideal," in Horizons of Authenticity in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Moral Psychology, edited by Megan Altman and Hans Pedersen (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2015).
7. "Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Self," in Heidegger, Authenticity, and the Self, edited by Denis McManus (Routledge, 2015).
8. "Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenology of Human Intelligence," in Skillful Coping: Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
9. "Seinsgeschichte," in Heidegger-Handbuch, edited by Dieter Thomä (Metzler, 2013), 328-335.
10. "Heidegger on Human Understanding," in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 177-200.
11. "An Overview of Being and Time" (With Max Murphey) in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 1-53.
12. "The Phenomenological Relevance of Art," in Art and Phenomenology, edited by Joseph Parry (New York: Routledge, 2010).
13. "On the 'Existential Positivity of our Ability to Be Deceived'" in The Philosophy of Deception, edited by Clancy Martin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 67-81.
14. "Truth and the Essence of Truth in Heidegger's Thought," in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, 2d edition, edited by Charles Guignon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 241-267.
15. "Existential Phenomenology," in A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Oxford: Blackwell 2006), pp. 31-47.
16. "A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism" (with Hubert Dreyfus), in A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Oxford: Blackwell 2006), pp. 1-6.
17. "Staring at the Sun: U2 and the Experience of Kierkegaardian Despair" (with Hubert Dreyfus), in U2 and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), pp. 15-24.
• Portuguese translation: "'Olhando Fixamente para o Sol': U2 e a Experiencia do Desespero Kierkegaardiano"
• German translation: "Die die Sonne Anstarren: U2 und die Erfahrung Kierkegaardscher Verzweiflung"
18. "'If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel": Existential Christianity in U2," in U2 and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), pp. 25-42.
• Portuguese translation: "'Se Voce Quisar Beijar o Ceu, e Melhor Aprender a se Ajoelhar': Cristianismo Existencial no U2"
• German translation: "'If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel': Existentialistisches Christentum bei U2."
19. "Unconcealment'" in A Companion to Heidegger (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 337-57.
20. "Martin Heidegger: An Introduction to His Thought, Work, and Life" (with Hubert Dreyfus), in A Companion to Heidegger (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 1-16.
21. "Motives, Reasons, and Causes," in The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, edited by Taylor Carman and Mark B. N. Hansen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 111-28.
22. "'The purpose of life is to end': Schopenhauerian Pessimism, Nihilism, and Nietzschean Will to Power," in More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded, edited by William Irwin (Open Court, 2005), pp. 50-66.
23. "Seeing the World Made New: Depictions of The Passion and Christian Life," in: Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy: The Cross, the Questions, The Controversy, edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia (Open Court, 2004), pp. 9-24.
• Portuguese translation: A Paixăo de Cristo (Sao Paolo: Madras, 2007), pp. 39-56.
24. "Between the Earth and the Sky: Heidegger on Life After the Death of God," in Religion After Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 69-87.
25. "Non-Rational Grounds and Mind-Transcendent Objects," in From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, ed. Jeff Malpas (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 197-209.
26. "Philosophers, Thinkers, and Heidegger's Place in the History of Being," in Appropriating Heidegger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
27. "Background Capacities, Practices, and Heideggerian Disclosure," in Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).
Background Practices: Essays on the Understanding of Being
This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition. One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical canon of philosophy comes from his recognition that great philosophers help us to understand the "background practices" of a culture - the practices that shape and embody our most basic understanding of ourselves and the things and situations we encounter in our world. Background practices are all too often overlooked completely, or else their importance is misunderstood. Each chapter in this volume shows in one way or another how a broad range of philosophical topics can only be properly understood when we recognize how they are grounded in the background practices that shape our lives and give meaning to our activities, our tasks, our normative commitments, our aims and our goals.
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1. Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language and History (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
2. How to Read Heidegger (London: Granta, 2005; U.S. edition published by W. W. Norton, March 2006; Korean translation published by Woongjin Publishing, 2009; Chinese translation published by China Citic Press, 2015; Farsi translation published by Adine Books, 2013).
1. Background Practices and the Understanding of Being (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
2. Skillful Coping: The Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
3. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
4. The Secular and the Sacred (with Morganna Lambert), guest editor for Special Issue of Inquiry volume 54, number 2 (March 2011).
5. Guest editor for Philosophical Studies, volume 144, number 1 (2009).
6. A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (with Hubert Dreyfus) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). Portuguese translation: Fenomenologie E Existencialismo (Loyola 2012).
7. U2 and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2006). Translated into Portuguese: U2 ea Filosofia (Madras, 2008), and German: Die Philosophy bei U2 (Weinheim: Wiley, 2009).
8. A Companion to Heidegger (with Hubert Dreyfus) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
9. Religion After Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
10. Heidegger Reexamined (with Hubert Dreyfus) (New York: Routledge, 2002).
Vol. 1: Phenomenology, Dasein, and Truth
Vol. 2: Authenticity, Death, and the History of Being
Vol. 3: Art, Poetry, and Technology
Vol. 4: Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy
11. The Intersection of Continental and Analytic Philosophy (with Hubert Dreyfus), Philosophical Topics 27 (Fall, 1999).
12. Appropriating Heidegger (with James Faulconer) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
13. Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 1 (with Jeff Malpas) (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).
14. Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 2 (with Jeff Malpas) (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).
Trivial Tasks that Consume a Lifetime
Kierkegaard argued that our highest task as humans is to realize an "intensified'' or ''developed'' form of subjectivity—his name for self-responsible agency. A self-responsible agent is not only responsible for her actions. She also bears responsibility for the individual that she is. In this paper, I review Kierkegaard's account of the role that our capacity for reflective self-evaluation plays in making us responsible for ourselves. It is in the exercise of this capacity that we can go from being subjective in a degraded sense—merely being an idiosyncratic jumble of accidental and arbitrary attitudes and affects—to being a subject in the ideal or eminent sense. The latter requires the exercise of my capacity for reflective self-evaluation, since it involves recognizing, identifying with, and reinforcing those aspects of my overall make-up that allow me to express successfully a coherent way of being in the world. Kierkegaard argues that taking immortality seriously is one way to achieve the right kind of reflective stance on one's own character or personality. Thus, Kierkegaard argues that immortality as a theoretical posit can contribute to one's effort to own or assume responsibility for being the person one is.
Published in Journal of Ethics, vol. 19, no. 3-4 (2015)
1. "'I' 'here' and 'you' 'there': Heidegger on existential spatiality and the 'volatilized' self," Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2 (2017).
2. "Trivial Tasks that Consume a Lifetime: Kierkegaard on Immortality and Becoming Subjective," Journal of Ethics 19: 3-4 (December 2015): 419-441.
3. "Toward a phenomenology of deception," Journal of Ideas and Culture 12 (Dec. 2012): 78—93
4. "Ambiguity, Opacity, and Sartrean Bad Faith," Humana Mente, Issue 20 (February 2012): 265-91.
5. "Heidegger's Last God" (with Morganna Lambeth), Inquiry 54:2 (2011): 160-182.
6. "We still need an education in thinking': Heidegger on Education in a Technological Age" (in Chinese), Journal of Educational Studies, 7:1 (2011): 3-14.
7. "'Inappropriate Thoughts': On Visker's The Inhuman Condition," Inquiry 50, nr. 4 (August 2007): 424-39.
8. "The Revealed Word and World Disclosure: Heidegger and Pascal on the Phenomenology of Religious Faith," The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 37, nr. 1 (January 2006): 75-88.
9. "Non-rational Grounds and Non-conceptual Content," Synthesis Philosophica 40, nr. 2 (2005): 265-278.
• Croatian translation: "Ne-racionalni temelji I ne-konceptualni sadržaj," Filozofska Istraživanja 102 (2006): 283-296.
10. "The Phenomenology of Social Rules," Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 67, nr. 1 (2005): 123-47; reprinted in Reading Merleau-Ponty:On the Phenomenology of Perception, ed. Thomas Baldwin (London: Routledge, 2007).
11. "Heidegger on Plato, Truth, and Unconcealment: The 1931-32 Lecture on The Essence of Truth," Inquiry 47 (2004): 443-63.
12. "Heidegger, Truth, and Reference," Inquiry 45 (2002): 217-228.
13. "Social Constraints on Conversational Content: Heidegger on Rede and Gerede," Philosophical Topics 27 (Fall 1999); reprinted in Heidegger Reexamined, vol. 2: Authenticity, Death, and the History of Being (New York: Routledge, 2002).
14. "The Conditions of Truth in Heidegger and Davidson," Monist 82 (1999): 304-23; reprinted in Heidegger Reexamined, vol. 4: Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2002).
15. "Practical Incommensurability and the Phenomenological Basis of Robust Realism," Inquiry 42 (1999): 79-88.
16. "Heidegger and Truth as Correspondence," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7 (1999): 69-88; reprinted in Heidegger Reexamined, vol. 1: Phenomenology, Dasein, and Truth (New York: Routledge, 2002).
17. "Intentionality without Representation: Heidegger's Account of Perception," Philosophy Today 42 (1999): 182-89.
18. "Socratic Elenchus in Plato's Lysis–More than just Consistency Testing," International Plato Studies 13 (2000): 194-203.
Heidegger and Unconcealment
This book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Martin Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language, and history. Unconcealment is the idea that what entities are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger's work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world; and second, worlds themselves are disclosed. The unconcealment or disclosure of a world is the most important historical event, and Heidegger believes there have been a number of quite distinct worlds that have emerged and disappeared in history. Heidegger's thought as a whole can profitably be seen as working out the implications of the original understanding of unconcealment.
Future Speaking Engagements
"Hegel and Temporal Individuality," Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, January 19, 2017.
1. "Transience and the Constancy of Existence," 'Ephemera': On the search for permanence in a transitory world, Annual meeting of the Alpine Fellowship, Cini Foundation. Venice, Italy, August 27, 2016.
2. "Human Agency, Immanence, and the Life of the Spirit," Virtue Theory and the Medio-Passive Agent, University of London. London, UK, June 18, 2016.
3. "'I' 'here' and 'you' 'there': Heidegger on existential spatiality and the 'volatilized' self," Embodiment. Phenomenology East / West, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2016.
4. "The Task of Thinking in a Technological Age", Heidegger on Technology, University of Sussex. Brighton, UK, May 3, 2016.
5. "The Temporality of Decay," The Bombay Beach Biennale. Bombay Beach, California, April 23, 2016.
6. "Rescuing the Future from the Ordinary: Ruptured Time and the Experience of the Sacred," The Phenomenology of Religious Life. Oxford, UK, April 14, 2016.
7. "Who is the Self of Everyday Existence?", American Society of Existential Phenomenology, Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 9, 2016.
8. "Trivial tasks that consume a lifetime: Existentialist Approaches to Death and Immortality," Keynote Address, San Diego State University Student Philosophy Conference. San Diego, California, October 17, 2015.
9. "'We all still need an education in thinking': Heidegger on Pedagogy in a Technological Age," Philosophy of Education Seminar, Institute of Education, University College London. London, UK, June 17, 2015.
10. "Death and Immortality as Temporal Horizons," The Immortality Project Capstone Conference. Riverside, California, May 29, 2015.
11. "Die Angst bei Heidegger und Kierkegaard," Workshop, Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Dresden. Dresden, Germany, April 30, 2015.
12. "Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity)", Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany, April 29, 2015.
13. "Anxious Times: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Selfhood," Kierkegaard: Irony and Related Themes, Meeting of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of the UK. Oxford, UK, April 17, 2015.
14. "Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the limits of practical familiarity)," Keynote Address, Delimiting Limits, 8th Annual University of South Florida Graduate Student Conference. St. Petersburg, Florida, March 14, 2015.
15. "'Always already more than a practitioner': sense making and the limits of practical familiarity," Keynote Address, Pragmatic Perspectives on Phenomenology, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University. Prague, Czech Republic, February 6, 2015.
16. "Who is the Self of Everyday Existence?", Keynote Address, Conventionalism: Heidegger's 'Anyone' and Contemporary Social Theory, Universität Wien. Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2014.
17. "Heidegger on the Self of Everyday Existence," Post-Kantian Seminar, Oxford University. Oxford, UK, December 2, 2014.
18. "Heidegger on Authenticity as an Extra-Moral Ideal," Heidegger Circle, University of South Florida. St. Petersburg, Florida, May 10, 2014.
19. "Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Being a Self," Workshop on Existential Phenomenology, Wake Forest University. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 27, 2014.
20. "Anxiety and the Self in Heidegger and Kierkegaard," Spring Speaker Series, Philosophy Department, Claremont Graduate University. Claremont, California, April 10, 2014.
21. "Heidegger on Authenticity as an Extra-Moral Ideal," Griffith Lecture, George Washington University. Washington, D.C., March 21, 2014.
22. "Anxious Times: Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Becoming an Individual," Kierkegaard and the Present Age: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, November 14, 2013.
23. "Heideggerian Authenticity and the Phenomenology of Moral Agency," Institutskolloquium, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam. Potsdam, Germany, October 15, 2013.
24. "Anxious Times: Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Becoming an Individual," School of Philosophy and Art History Seminar, University of Essex. Colchester, UK, October 10, 2013.
25. "Heidegger on Authenticity and Morality," Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar, Warwick University. Coventry, UK, October 8, 2013.
26. "Authenticity and Morality," Philosophy Colloquium Series, California State University Northridge. Los Angeles, California, September 18, 2013.
27. "Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Self," Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series, Deakin University. Melbourne, Australia, June 26, 2013.
28. "Heidegger on Human Understanding," Keynote Address, Heidegger Workshop, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, June 23, 2013.
29. "Heidegger's Meta-Ontology," part of the Lecture Series: "Later Heidegger," Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, June 24, 2013.
30. "The History of Being," part of the Lecture Series: "Later Heidegger," Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, June 25, 2013
31. "Art, Language, and the 'Worlding of the World'," part of the Lecture Series: "Later Heidegger," Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, June 26, 2013
32. "Our Technological Age," part of the Lecture Series: "Later Heidegger," Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, June 27, 2013
33. "New Beginnings – Learning to Dwell in a Post-Metaphysical World," part of the Lecture Series: "Later Heidegger," Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia, June 28, 2013
34. "Heidegger on Time and Temporality," presentation to the "Big Ideas" seminar on Time, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, California, May 2, 2013
35. "Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenology of Human Intelligence", American Society for Existential Phenomenology, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, California, April 1, 2013.
36. "Autonomy, Authenticity and the Self," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. San Francisco, CA, March 27-31, 2013.
37. "Autonomy, Authenticity and the Self," Rice University. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2013.
38. "'Ein vielleicht notwendigen Schein von Gründung': Heidegger on the Un-grund," Ungründe. Perspektiven prekärer Fundierung, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany, January 31 - February 2, 2013.
39. "Demanding Authenticity of Ourselves," American Society for Existential Phenomenology, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 1, 2012.
40. "The Temporality of Sacred Space," Sharing Sacred Space: Protection of Cultural Heritage, The University of St. Thomas Aquinas. Rome, Italy, Dec. 14-15, 2011.
41. "Demanding Authenticity of Ourselves," Seminar on Selfhood, Authenticity and Method in Heidegger's Being and Time, Division Two, sponsored by the British Academy, Nov. 16, 2011.
42. "The Phenomenology of Religious Faith," Oxford Forum for European Philosophy, Oxford University. Oxford, UK, Nov. 14, 2011.
43. "Heidegger on Human Understanding: Rethinking the 'Pragmatist' Interpretation of Being and Time," The Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar, Oxford University. Oxford, UK, November 2, 2011.
44. "Heidegger on Resisting the Demands of Technology," Space, Place, and the McLuhan Legacy, the 12th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, June 25, 2011.
45. "Being in the World," film presentation followed by Question and Answer session, presented at Space, Place, and the McLuhan Legacy, the 12th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, June 24, 2011.
46. "Being in the World," film presentation followed by Question and Answer session, presented at Philosophy Club, University of California Riverside. Riverside, California, May 6, 2011
47. "Being in the World," film presentation followed by Question and Answer session, presented at University of San Francisco. San Francisco, California, September 27, 2010
48. "Being in the World," film presentation followed by Question and Answer session, presented at Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, September 17, 2010
49. "Being in the World," film presentation followed by Question and Answer session, presented at Utah Valley University. Orem, Utah, September 16, 2010
50. "Commemoration," Roundtable on Memory and the Sacred, 2nd Annual Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy. Denver, Colorado, May 30, 2011.
51. "Bad Faith, Opacity, and Ambiguity," Keynote Address, 2nd Annual Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy. Denver, Colorado, May 28, 2011.
52. "Inauthenticity, Ambiguity, and Opacity," American Society for Existential Phenomenology, Goodenough College. London, UK, March 16, 2011.
53. "Sex, Love, and God: Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguity, Opacity, and the Motivated Failure to See," History of Philosophy Workshop, Humanities Research Center, Rice University. Houston, Texas, January 21, 2011.
54. "Toward a phenomenology of deception", Simian Lectureship in the Humanities, the Simian Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Eastern China Normal University. Shanghai, China, October 22, 2011.
55. "'We all still need an education in thinking': Heidegger on Pedagogy in a Technological Age," Keynote Address, Second International Conference on Phenomenology and Pedagogy, Capital Normal University. Beijing, China, Oct. 16, 2010.
56. "Understanding and Learning," Workshop at Capital Normal University. Beijing, China, Oct. 14,
57. "An Education in Thinking: Heidegger on Learning to Resist Technology," Utah Valley University. Orem, Utah, September 17, 2010.
58. "Heidegger, Nietzsche and the Metaphysics of Truth," Brigham Young University Philosophy Club, Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, September 16, 2010.
59. "Heidegger's Structural-Functional Account of Understanding and Interpretation," American Society for Existential Phenomenology. Oxford, UK, June 28, 2010.
60. "Senses of Self," Mormon Scholars in the Humanities, Claremont Graduate University. Claremont, California, May 21, 2010.
61. "Responding to Rorty: Heidegger's 'Academic Parochialism' and the Technological Age," Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't: In Memory of Richard Rorty, University of California, Irvine. Irvine, California, May 14, 2010.
62. "Guilt and the Individual," Claremont Graduate University. Claremont, California, March 4, 2010.
63. "Heidegger's Relational Ontology," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. New York City, December 27-30, 2009.
64. "Guilt and the Individual," Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 9, 2009.
65. "Heidegger's translations of Logos: Rede, Sprache, Sage," California Phenomenology Circle. Irvine, California, May 2, 2009.
66. "Language: Rede, Sprache, Sage," American Society for Existential Phenomenology, Barnard College, Columbia University. New York City, New York, March 22, 2009.
67. "Heidegger and the Hidden History of the West," University of California - Berkeley. Berkeley, California, December 10, 2008
68. "Heidegger, Language, and the 'House of Being'," Philosophy Department Lecture Series, Georgetown University. Washington, D.C., October 17, 2008
69. "Heidegger on the Last God," International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Asilomar, California, July 16-21, 2008
70. "Law and Rule Governed Behavior," Keynote Address, Pre-Professional Conference, Brigham Young University - Idaho. Rexburg, Idaho, November 15, 2007.
71. "On the 'Existential Positivity of our Ability to Be Deceived'," Philosophy Club, Brigham Young University - Idaho, Rexburg, Idaho, November 15, 2007.
72. "Coming into its own and Fitting: Heidegger on Ereignis," International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Asilomar, California, July 13 - 17, 2007.
73. "Martin Heidegger's Engagement with Transcendental Philosophy," University of Warwick. Coventry, UK, February 19, 2007.
74. "Some clues for understanding Heidegger's hints about language," Essex University. Colchester, UK, February 14,
75. "Deception as a Mode of Perception," Society for Existential Phenomenology. Berkeley, California, January 12-15, 2007
76. "America the Metaphysical? Heidegger on the History of our Age," Department of Sociology and Philosophy Colloquium Series, University of Exeter. Exeter, UK, October 23, 2006.
77. "Art as Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and Klee on the Role of the Body in Motivating Perception," Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki University. Helsinki, Finland, June 20, 2006.
78. "Heidegger on the Future of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking," Colloquium on Contemporary European Philosophy, Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe, Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, December 2, 2005.
79. "Existential phenomenology versus transcendental and empiricist approaches to philosophy," part of a lecture series "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," sponsored by the Taiwan National Science Council and Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 2005.
80. "'A Third Dimension': motives as non-rational grounds," part of a lecture series "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," sponsored by the Taiwan National Science Council and Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 2005.
81. "The body as the vehicle of being-in-the-world," part of a lecture series "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," sponsored by the Taiwan National Science Council and Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan, November 5, 2005.
82. "The world as the correlate of the body," part of a lecture series "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," sponsored by the Taiwan National Science Council and Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan, November 5, 2005.
83. "Phenomenology and the structure of the social world," part of a lecture series "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," sponsored by the Taiwan National Science Council and Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan, November 12, 2005.
84. "Phenomenology and art," part of a lecture series "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," sponsored by the Taiwan National Science Council and Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan, November 12, 2005.
85. "Heidegger on the Role Language Plays in Opening Up the World," National Sun Yat-Sen University. Kaoshiung, Taiwan, November 7, 2005.
86. "What is Existential Phenomenology?" National Chung Cheng University. Minxiong, Taiwan, November 9, 2005.
87. "'Transcendental philosophy must die': Heidegger's task of thinking and his critique of transcendental philosophy", Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism Project, Essex University. Colchester, UK, October 20, 2005.
88. "Paul Klee and the Role of the Body in Motivating Perception," International Symposium on Body & Cognition, National Taiwan University, sponsored by the Center for Humanities Research of the National Science Council in Taiwan. Taipei, Taiwan, June 4-5, 2005.
89. "Art as Phenomenology," University of Tokyo International Colloquium, Center for Philosophy, University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan, June 2, 2005.
90. "Hanging Out or Dwelling? How to Respond to the 'Hidden History of the West'," Heidegger - le danger et la promesse, Parlement des Philosophes, Colloque International à l'Université de Strasbourg, organized and sponsored by the French ministry of national education. Strasbourg, France, December 4, 2004.
91. "The Phenomenology of Social Rules," Philosophy Colloquium, Utah Valley State College. Orem, Utah, October 27, 2004.
92. "What does Phenomenology Have to Offer Religion?" The Leonard Lecture in Philosophy, University of Nevada - Reno. Reno, Nevada, September 24, 2004.
93. "Heidegger on Language and Essences," Third World Conference of Phenomenology, Oxford University. Oxford, UK, August 20, 2004.
94. "Is Heidegger a Linguistic Constitutionalist?", International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Asilomar, California, July 16, 2004.
95. "Paul Klee and the Role of the Body in Motivating Perception", The Depictive Space of Perception: A Conference on Visual Thought, sponsored by The Mitteleuropa Foundation. Bolzano, Italy, June 7-9, 2004.
96. "'Er hat die Metaphysik der vollendeten Subjektivität zur Sprache gebracht': Heidegger on Nietzsche, Truth, and Language in the Technological Age," Heidegger und Nietzsche, 2nd Meeting of the Martin-Heidegger-Forschungsgruppe. Meßkirch, Germany, May 26-29, 2004.
97. "The Phenomenology of Social Rules," The Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, the Centrum voor Ethiek, Politieke en Sociale Filosofie, Katholiek Universität. Leuven, Belgium, May 10, 2004.
98. "The Experience of Death," House of Learning Lecture, Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, March 25, 2004.
99. "Heidegger and the Essence of Language," Workshop, Claremont Graduate School. Claremont, California, December 19, 2003.
100. "Heidegger on Language and Essences," the University of Montana - Missoula. Missoula, Montana, November 25, 2003.
101. "Is Heidegger a Linguistic Constitutionalist?" Graduate Workshop, the University of Essex. Colchester, UK, October 13, 2003.
102. "Heidegger on Truth as Robbery," International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Asilomar, California, July 25 - 29, 2003.
103. "The Revealed Word and World Disclosure: Heidegger and Pascal on the Phenomenology of Religious Faith," Questioning Religion, The British Society for Phenomenology Summer Conference, University of Greenwich. London, UK, July 11 - 13 2003.
104. "Non-Rational Grounds and Non-Conceptual Content," Brain, Mind, and World, a conference sponsored by the Institute of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 24 27, 2002.
105. "Between the Earth and the Sky: Heidegger on Life after the Death of God," Philosophy Forum at the University of Montana - Missoula. Missoula, Montana, March 5, 2002.
106. "Heidegger on the Essence of Truth: Language, Reference, and Realism," Södertorn University. Huddinge, Sweden, October 19, 2001.
107. "Between the Earth and the Sky: Heidegger on Life after the Death of God," Religion After Onto-Theology, a conference sponsored by Brigham Young University. Sundance, Utah, July 23-28, 2001.
108. "Heidegger, Truth and Language," International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Asilomar, California, June 13-17, 2001.
109. "Between the Earth and Sky: Heidegger and Nietzsche on Life After the Death of God," American Comparative Literature Association. Denver, Colorado, April 20-22, 2001.
110. "Experience and Ontic Transcendence," International Society for Phenomenological Studies, Asilomar, California, July 25, 2000.
111. "On Not Knowing What You're Talking About," International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Asilomar, California, July 19-23, 1999.
112. "Heidegger's Non-representational Phenomenology of Perception," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting. Washington, D.C., December 28, 1998.
113. "Intentionality without Representation: Heidegger's Account of Perception," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Denver, Colorado, October 10, 1998.
114. "Toward Recuperating the Contemporary Relevance of Socratic Dialectic," Symposium Platonicum. Toronto, Canada, August 22, 1998.
115. "Practical Incommensurability and the Phenomenological Basis of Robust Realism," International Phenomenological Symposium. Urbino, Italy, July 29, 1998.
116. "Legal Professionalization as Foucauldian Dispersal of Power" (with Paul Edwards), Law and Society. Aspen, Colorado, June 5, 1998.
117. "Heideggerian Phenomenology and the Sciences of Man," International Phenomenological Symposium. Urbino, Italy, July 27-August 3, 1997.
March 21-22, 2017, Christ Church, Oxford University
The story of the secularization of the West is the story of an intermeshed set of profound changes in our practices for organizing society and ordering our day to day lives. These changes have not just undermined traditional forms of religious existence. They've also altered in general the way we think about the relationship between faith and the other aspects of our lives. Contemporary culture is shaped by a widely-shared sense that rationality stands in a kind of necessary opposition to faith. In this conference, we will explore this purported opposition with a particular concern for the way faith appears in the context of the practical setting of modern forms of life. Participants include Judith Wolfe (University of St. Andrews), Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew University/NYU), Rachel Fraser (University of Cambridge), Mark Wynn (University of Leeds), Dan Watts (University of Essex), Jim Faulconer (Brigham Young University), Sophie Grace Chappell (The Open University), Paul Lodge (University of Oxford), and Mark Wrathall (University of California, Riverside).
Participation is free but registration is required. A limited number of places at lunch and dinner on March 22nd are available gratis to participants. To reserve a place, please contact Mark Wrathall at mark.wrathall@ucr.edu
Paul Lodge (Oxford)
Mark Wrathall (UCR)
Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's "Being and Time" contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be of interest to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this seminal work. The final chapter situates Being and Time in the context of Heidegger's later work. The remaining chapters examine the core issues of Being and Time, including the question of being, the phenomenology of space, the nature of human being (our relation to others, the importance of moods, the nature of human understanding, language), Heidegger's views on idealism and realism and his position on skepticism and truth, Heidegger's account of authenticity (with a focus on his views on freedom, being toward death, and resoluteness), and the nature of temporality and human historicality.
More information available from Cambridge University Press
Time and Selfhood (book manuscrip)
"'The Knot of the World': Schopenhauer on the identity of the willing subject and the cognizing subject"
"The Task of Thinking in a Technological Age"
The Sense of the World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time
Professor of Philosophy, University of California - Riverside, 2009 - present
Associate Professor, University of California - Riverside, 2007 - 2009
Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 2002 - 2007
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Lecturer in Law, Stanford University, 1994 - 1996
Winter Term 2017
PHIL 282: Reason and Unreason in 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 121T: Heidegger
PHIL 1: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 281: Heidegger's Being and Time
PHIL 3: Ethics and the Meaning of Life
PHIL 282: Kierkegaard
PHIL 151: Existentialism
Fall Term 2012
PHIL 30k: 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 282: Heidegger on Temporality
How to Read Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark Wrathall unpacks Heidegger's dense prose and guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence, to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to our ability to live worthwhile lives.
Wrathall pays particular attention to Heidegger's revolutionary analysis of human existence as inextricably shaped by a shared world. This leads to an exploration of Heidegger's views on the banality of public life and the possibility of authentic anticipation of death as a response to that banality. Wrathall reviews Heidegger's scandalous involvement with National Socialism, situating it in the context of Heidegger's views about the movement of world history. He also explains Heidegger's important accounts of truth, art, and language.
Extracts are taken from Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, as well as a variety of his best-known essays and lectures.
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Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley, Philosophy, 1996 • Dissertation: "Unconcealment and Truth"
J.D. Harvard University, 1991 (magna cum laude)
M.A. Boston College, Philosophy, 1991
B.A. Brigham Young University, Philosophy, 1988 (University Honors, magna cum laude)
Bombay Beach Biennale
The ruin is a sign that's no longer absorbed in its significance. It can no longer be used. At best, it sketches out the trajectory of its use. What it afforded in the past has been stripped away, leaving a fragment of signification still tenuously clinging to a moldering existence. We encounter a ruin as a past future – a future that at some point in the past was a genuine possibility. But we stand now in a future different than the one awaited by the users of the ruin in the past. We experience the ruin, in other words, as a memorial to ruptured time – as the past and foundation of a future that was broken off from it.
Being in the world
Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, or, might they still be around, in the form of modern day masters, in fields like sports, music, craft and cooking. Are these masters able to inspire us and bring back a sense of wonder, possibly even of the sacred?
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Address: Corpus Christi College • Merton Street • Oxford OX1 4JF
E-mail: mark.wrathall@philosophy.ox.ac.uk


The World Surf League 2018 has just kicked off with its first even that takes place at Gold Coast in Australia. The championship will then move on the other surfing hot spots in the world. At online casinos players can complement the action on the waves with wagering on a fantastic surfing themed video slot. It is appropriately titled Big Break. The interesting twist is that monkeys are the surfers and not people.
The online slot loads with an introductory clip that has five monkeys head to the beach with their surf boards. The high paying symbols are the five monkeys. The surfing win animations are simply mind blowing. The low paying symbols are exotic fruits that monkeys love instead of the usual playing card icons. Big Break online slot has two wild symbols. The Big Break logo substitutes for the high paying monkey symbols only. The Lucky Break logo is a wild symbol with a 2x multiplier but appears only on reel 5. The Munky Wax is the scatter symbol. It awards payouts multiplied by the total bet. The Munky Wax symbol also triggers the free spins round. In this feature the monkey symbols also pay as scatter symbols. You will be awarded 15 free spins that can be triggered in the usual manner.
Big Break also includes the Surf's Up bonus feature on the second screen. It is triggered when five different monkeys appear on five different reels in the same spin. The screen displays all the five monkeys holding their surfboards. You click the start button to set a light flashing on each monkey in turn. You then click the stop a button. The light will remain on a particular monkey that will reveal the bonus credit awarded. The bonus credits are proportional to the total bet, so larger bets will lead to larger bonus credits.
Big Break is a 5 reels and 3 reels online slot game with 15 selectable paylines. You can wager up to 10 coins per payline with the coin denomination ranging from $0.01 to $0.50. The maximum total bet per spin is $75, which will bring in a fair number of high rollers. The highest line payout is 1,000 coins, which indicates that the slot game has low variance. Big Break can be played at all Microgaming online casinos. All Slots, Jackpot City and Roxy Palace are highly recommended.


These tools are focused on helping you create and write a novel. They all allow you to organize your work into chapters, and some of them allow you to organize characters and places as well. These are all very helpful if you decide to rearrange portions of your story, since you can do it by dragging and dropping chapters, instead of by cutting and pasting like you would have to in Word or Google Docs.
Sure, I'm biased, but True Novelist has a lot to offer. It allows you to organize your novel like the popular offline Scrivener software, with scenes, characters, and places all organized in a familiar drag and drop folder structure. It also provides a wide range of statistics on your writing to keep you motivated as you go.
Your writing is saved automatically every few seconds, and is securely stored on our servers. You can also export your data at any time.
Yarny is a great piece of software. You can organize scenes in your novel by chapter or by tagging them, and can set overall novel word counts. You get automated snapshots, but have no control over when they are taken. One thing Yarny does not provide are statistics about your writing.
Novlr has a very clean interface and covers the basics. You an create multiple chapters and rearrange them, but you can't organize into folders. The only statistics at the moment are word count, but for something very simple this would work well.
Litlift is some older online software that is a gives you some nice generators (characters, names, etc) and provides some guidance about how a story is generally structured (protagonist, antagonist, etc).
It also allows you to save scenes and characters, but I think more recent online software like Yarny and Novlr handle the writing flow better.
Looking for something more collaborative? Draft allows you to share easily with other writers, and also to see changes between versions of your document in a simple manner.
Hiveword is another older writing tool. It provides all the basics (organize your book by scenes, characters, etc.), but like LitLift feels a little dated.
All novels require a bit of background information, and it is handy to have that organized so you can get to it easily. Most of the novel writing tools provide this functionality, but if you are looking for something just to use for storing research these might come in hand.
A simple site to gather all your writing research in one place and take notes on it.
Evernote is great for research, you can store notes and photos and sync them seamlessly from your desktop to your phone and back.
There will always be days where the words just don't seem to come. From generating character names for you to forcing you to write, these tools can all help you get some words down on the page.
Write or Die 2 lets you set a writing goal to reach in a set amount of time. It is perfect for writers who are easily distracted, since it can motivate you with flashing lights and alerts when you pause too long.
If you are feeling particularly brave, you can choose 'Kamikaze' mode, which will actually start deleting sentences you have written if you delay.
750 words is a great tool for motivating yourself to write every day. You get badges for writing "streaks" when you write a certain number of days in a row. The goal is to write something every day, regardless of what it is.
This is a bit of an odd one - like write or die, the goal is to get you to write without editing or worrying about anything other than typing. Ilys accomplishes this by just showing you one letter at a time, and letting you edit later. Since there is nothing on the screen, there is nothing to edit, and it is all about getting the words down.
Not much to say about this. Having trouble thinking up names? Give this a shot.
This has some more realistic names than the Fantasy Name Generator above.
If you don't need the organizational tools of novel writing software, then a standard word processor will do all you need.
Google docs is one of the best offerings out there for general word processing and formatting. If you just want a place to write, Google Docs has you covered.
Does too much on the screen get you out of the zone? If so, you may want to try one of these "distraction free" writers, which don't have much more than a cursor on the blank screen, waiting for your imagination to fill it.
Simple, distraction free writing with a light and dark format.
Having someone read over your work can make you a better writer. At 2am when no one is available, try these instead! They will catch most of your basic grammar mistakes, and offer helpful suggestions to make your writing more concise.
You can try this for free on their site. Give it a shot with a writing sample and see if the corrections are helpful for you.
You can also try this for free, plus they have a chrome extension so you can use Grammarly on any website.
Reddit Writing is a fantastic online community whose members are always happy to answer your questions or offer suggestions if you are stuck. If you are feeling down about your novel or are completely stumped about where to go next, ask for some advice here!
Some tricks of the trade for writing fiction. This is a collection of "tropes", which are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. Worth checking out.
I'm sure I didn't get every great online tool here. If you know of a tool that you think I should add, let me know what it is and why it should be on this list in the comments below!


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Natural Bond Ent.
Natural Bond Entertainment
Natural Bond Entertainment is a Jamaican record label, currently based in Manchester, Jamaica. The company is driven with the purpose of promoting the freshest, best, and most exciting music out there. Natural Bond Entertainment has accomplished so much in the industry with incredible synergy coupled with a vision to take yet another incredible step in furthering in the quest of supporting new artists and sharing quality music with the world, highlighting some of the most talented artists to come out of the Jamaican music scene and beyond.
The record company is owned by many international shareholders, who specialize in various genres. The label focuses on reggae, dancehall, Lovers Rock, and bass music, while keeping an open mind on what's happening in the music scene.
Natural Bond Entertainment is now managing artists such as Lybran (Rum Boss), Kyng Sameer, and more. Throughout the years, the label also worked with influential acts like Movado, Alkaline, Jahmeil, Young Gunz and more.
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7 Destinations including Hamilton. Flying North to Kaitaia first stop then down East Coast of North island with stops at Whangarei, Tauranga, Whakatane. From there to Rangiora, Taieri and then home to Hamilton.


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Bethnal Green shoemakers up for £20,000 FedEx grant
Luke Acton
Published: 7:00 AM January 25, 2019 Updated: 8:54 AM October 14, 2020
Juta Shoes employees help customers make their own sustainable footwear. Picture: Kanahaya Alam. - Credit: Kanahaya Alam
A business based in Bethnal Green that helps women overcome barriers to work has been shortlisted for a £20,000 FedEx grant.
Juta Shoes allows people to make thier own footwear with sustainable materials. Picture: Kanahaya Alam. - Credit: Kanahaya Alam
Juta Shoes employs disadvantaged women above the London living wage to make handmade footwear from offcuts and up-cycled materials.
The social enterprise was chosen by the shipping giant in December. The winner will be announced January 24 and awarded £20,000.
Joanna Hamer cofounded the business in 2016: "We wanted to create a company that provided work that was flexible, supportive, really well-paid, creative and came with the community."
The Bermuda native, 28, was on a social enterprise fellowship and about to start at a Boston University Medical School when she decided to stay and grow the business.
Juta Shoes hames its footwear with leather offcuts and recycled materials. Picture: Kanahaya Alam. - Credit: Kanahaya Alam
She said, laughing: "A couple of months before I was supposed to start, I was like, 'Oh no, I'd rather stay here and make shoes instead of becoming a doctor.'"
Her partner, Sabeha Miah, 44, has been working in the community for 12 years as the women's project coordinator at St Hilda's East Community Centre.
The women Juta Shoes helps come from mostly Bengali backgrounds and often face obstacles to getting into work.
Many of them are migrants or refugees and can face issues from a lack of English to little education.
The coufounders of Juta Shoes, Joanna Hamer (top left) and Sabeha Miah (bottom right). Picture: Juta Shoes. - Credit: Juta Shoes
The skills offered to them include lessons on the tax and benefits systems, as well as how to make shoes and give shoemaking workshops to customers.
But the strong crafts background that many of the women bring to the job means making the shoes hasn't been the problem, it's getting the word out.
"We had an amazing December, where we were featured in The Guardian as the best sustainable Christmas present and in that week we had a 400 per cent increase in sales.
"We were sitting there, being like: 'Ah, okay so the problem is just that we are not very good at reaching a lot of people who want to buy from us.'
If they win the £20,000 grant, Joanna and Sabeha are going to put it towards hiring someone to make sure that everyone who wants Juta Shoes, knows about it.


In the third place, we must always try to see new possibilities for communicating. The pool cleaner simply repeated his statement to the effect that he had come to collect payment for services. I attempted to explain that management of the facility had instructed me to keep the portico area clear for customers who wish to park there while booking. I explained that, I was under pressure from management to enforce this rule because money was involved. The pool cleaner said that in this case money was involved, namely, the money he had come to collect. This is the decoding phase. Break down occurred here. The problem can be described as arising from "noise." Noise is anything that interferes with the communication. If there is noise then decoding and feedback is interrupted. In this case there was noise. I did not understand that the pool cleaner believed that he did not have to park in the service bay. He did not understand that I am required to keep the portico space open for customers. The noise drowned out the communication. In the fourth place, we must attempt to discover what has prevented decoding the message. I asked the pool cleaner why he did not want to park in the usual spot. He replied that he did not have to unload equipment and supplies. He only needed to talk to the bookkeeper about his check. I told the pool cleaner that I could not proceed unless employment rules were observed. I can be criticized here for not coding the message in some other way. He can be criticized for not trying to decode my message and my explanations. We were still at a standoff. In the fifth place, some kind of understanding must be reached in those cases in which the communication has failed. I recoded my message as follows. I told the man to return at 8AM, when the owner would be present to take care of the problem. This message was clear. The man walked out without a further word. In the sixth place, an action must follow. I wrote a note to the owner saying that the pool man was presenting a demand for payment at 8AM the following day.Conclusion- The miscommunication was caused by noise that built up around the purpose of the pool cleaner's visit and the conflict with the rules in force. The problem was not resolved during the time period described.


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Pakistan's patience to be tested
Pakistan urged to pull up their socks as the Asian Games begin
Three killed in rocket attack near Peshawar
Chief of local peace lashkar says the assault by Taliban targeted his house
Express November 12, 2010
PESHAWAR: At least three person, including a woman and a child, were killed and two others were injured on Thursday after a rocket landed on a house during a clash between militants and volunteers of a local lashkar in Adezai village on the outskirts of the city.
The area where this clash occurred is situated some 25 kilometres south of the provincial capital and is close to the semi-tribal Darra Adamkhel region of Kohat.
An official of Mattani police station told The Express Tribune that two person were killed and two others were injured when a rocket landed on the house of a local named Raj Wali. Mattani Lashkar chief Dilawar Khan said that a large number of suspected militants attacked the village and clashed with local volunteers.
Dilawar said that Taliban militants had fired four rockets at his house, one of which hit a house of a local tribesman Raj Wali. As a result, three members of Wali's family, including his wife, were killed and two others were injured. He said that the rest of those who died were children of the same family.
He said that three other rockets hit another house and two landed on clear ground and did not cause any damage. Dilawar claimed that the militants had attacked the village from Darra Adamkhel, Bara and Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar.
The suicide attack that killed more than 70 people and injured around 80 after a Friday prayers congregation in the Darra Adamkhel region was reportedly aimed at an anti-Taliban lashkar in the area, where the military drove out militants after an operation in early 2008.
Former chief of Adezai lashkar Haji Abdul Malik was also killed in a suicide attack on November 8, 2009, when a bomber blew himself up in a local market. Taliban militants belonging to Darra Adamkhel claimed responsibility for his killing.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2010.
Emmon Khan | 12 years ago | Reply Pukhtunkhwa has become the ultimate bloody battefield for the monsters of death and destruction that were created by our own brave generals and our security establishment in tandem with our silly, hypocritical mullahs who are more loyal to international Jihad and mullayiat than to the land of Pakistan or the Pukhtunkhwa. Our intelligence agencies and our 'mujahid' generals still seem to be reluctant to come hard on this 'strategic asset for they look on them as lever to rule Afghanistan by proxy. Unfortunately that will never be case. In case of a triumph in Afghanistan against the giant powers such as the Americans, and the rest of the civilized world, these barbarians will swallow Pakistan like a fly. Our brave generals will then have to live in caves with their Taliban friends instead of the posh villas in the heart of every city in Pakistan. They will also have to send their children to the Taliban blessed madrassas instead of Cadet colleges and Burn Halls! God bless our generals, our agencies and our security establishment, they are really bend on estbalishing an Islamic emirat...Ziayee spirit zindabad!
Asmat Jamal | 12 years ago | Reply Killings in Pakhtunkhwa has become so common that people do not comment on it any more. It is taken as a "Calamity" bestowed through the "chosen ones". Mind you they were chosen by no one other than our own country men, agencies and dictators like Zia Ul Haq. They imposed their wrath to punish the educated, enlightened and well versed people of Pakhtun khwa for difference of opinion. Today the genies have grown into full grown devil. Zia is buried under tons of sludge, however his creation is bent on destroying the creation of GOD.
Explosion in Peshawar: 1 killed, 3 injured
Blast in Peshawar school, no casualties
Secondary school attacked outside Peshawar
Militants blow up 2 schools in Peshawar


Just because you live on a boat doesn't mean you can't have an allotment garden. This community of barge boat residents solved the problem by starting a vegetable allotment garden on an abandoned and derelict barge.
It's a story of community and dedication. CHUG, Canals in Hackney Users Group, is a 25 year old community marina with about 20 boats. The floating allotment was created in 2009 on a converted hopper barge that they acquired through charitable organizations.
It wasn't easy to transform. The barge had to be filled with 4 feet of gravel to stabilize it and act as a filter, then earth was added but it was dense clay and builders' rubble. However canal water is apparently an excellent fertilizer and as it drained through the dense soil it added nutrients and fertiliser. As did the endless compost that was added.
Since they are feeding for a large community they focus on vegetables and produce that grow quickly and repeatedly. That means lots of salad leaves, spinach and raspberries, brussel sprouts and broccoli.
The vegetables are grown in raised beds now, with a central path down the middle so that they can be reached, and watered more easily. The water comes from the canal and irrigates back into it.
It's nature so not everything always works as planned. The gardeners tried zucchinis in large grow bags along the towpath, but they fried and died in the sun.
It's a close-knit community, as it must be. The marina is self managed, with everyone doing some sort of work. Resident barge dwellers include architects, journalists, a chef and hypnotherapist.
The boats are privately owned. The age of the boats ranges from iron boats from 1900 to new steel boats just 4 years old.
The area is changing rapidly, just in the past 5 years. What used to be derelict old store houses have now become condominiums. Not all are sensitive to the location.
Part of their goal has been to make their part of the Hackney canal become a natural habitat for insects, birds, bats, and fish. So they are spreading the gardening out beyond the boat. They have applied to a charity for 150 trees to plant along the shore so that they can create an edible hedgerow along the towpath.
There was a duck pen, with ten happy ducks supplying eggs to the community. Sadly a fox got into the pen and that was the end of that. Hopefully next year they will try again.
It's an allotment garden on an abandoned barge, and it feeds the boating community.


Passing people in the streets, it's nearly impossible to not notice the ways they put themselves together to head out into the world. Dressing fashionably every single day isn't easy, especially if you're just running to the store. However, street fashion is the perfect blend of a fashionable and relaxed look that is perfect for doing exactly what it says; hitting the streets.
While street fashion looks effortless and casual, it is anything but. To properly execute the perfect street look, there are some key elements that must be used. Street fashion doesn't follow the rules. It is style-fluid, meaning that it is casual, edgy at times, sometimes athletic, and often urban. Combining all of these different styles for a cohesive look sounds daunting, but in reality, it has a pretty simple formula, at least at the most basic level.
What is really cool about street fashion is that it is so versatile that if you're partial to only some specific styles, you can use them and combine them and it still works. Working with different styles can be challenging, but at the end of the day odds are you'll look like a celebrity caught by the paparazzi, even if you're just heading out for an hour.
Some key fundamentals to street style include denim jackets, bomber or leather jackets, hooded sweatshirts, joggers, jeans and sunglasses. The purpose is to look put-together by the process of throwing together and layering multiple clothing items. It should look as if you woke up and were running late, but managed to balance looking perfectly disheveled.
The most important rule of street fashion is to not overdo it. Stay far far away from loud colors and patterns. Neutrals are your best friends, and even a monochromatic look will assist you in the end. Street fashion is understated and refined. Also, using a neutral color scheme will help keep your outfit consistent.
A good rule of thumb for street style is to start with basics. Start with jeans or joggers in basic colors. A dark wash denim and a white t-shirt are a good start. The cool part about street style is you can make it your own, and by starting with a basic, dressed-down look, dressing up only becomes easier.
After figuring out which basic look works, this is how you will decide if you want to go for a more urban or athletic look, or for a preppier, classic look. Classier looks favor jeans, while urban or athletic looks tend to work really well with joggers. Remember that it is your personal preference in the end.
Next, depending on if you went jeans or joggers, you're going to need another layer over your shirt. A lot of men use the basic gray hoodie as a tool for staying warm and neutral. At this point you're still extremely casual, and the sweatshirt is what keeps it that way. Try to stay away from wearing a "groutfit" if you're in joggers. Gray on gray rarely works well, unless you're in your eighth grade PE class. Thermals are also a great tool for layering, but get creative with your choice of secondary layer, it might be better than what's suggested.
Shoe choice is the more tricky part of this look. Sneakers pair really well with joggers. For a trendier look, try converse or a shoe that doesn't check the typical sneaker box. Converse, or even a nice casual boot will work well with jeans too, so they're nice to have regardless. The boots can dress up a look without looking mismatched or too fancy. Try tucking the jeans into the boots or even cuffing them at the start of the boot.
Now what really pulls the ensemble together is the choice of jacket. This choice varies on the style of the man, but denim works really well with any of these pairings, and bomber jackets, leather jackets, or peacoats also work. Denim can be dressed up or down, so depending on the other elements you chose, odds are a denim jacket will look great.
Bomber jackets and leather jackets can also be dressed up or down, but tend to look less urban, depending on the way the jacket looks. If you're wearing a hoodie, it's important to note that the hood should be pulled over the outermost layer/jacket and be visible. If you're wearing denim, pull the hoodie sleeves so they're visible beneath the jacket and then the look will seem unified.
Once you've picked out your outfit, there are a few extras that you might want to add. Scarves are a great added touch depending on the weather, but again stick to basic colors and patterns. Another great touch are sunglasses. Sunglasses give people the impression that you are out and about doing your business. You look like a movie star, and you're letting people know that whether they see you or not, you don't really care.
Again, the point of street style is to mix and match styles, look effortlessly put together, and to most importantly feel comfortable. Really anything can work as street style, so experiment with what you have and most importantly have fun, and odds are you'll put together something really great. No matter if you're walking to the store, or down Rodeo Drive, you'll turn heads with your amazing sense of street style.


A group of left-wing demonstrators chanting "racist scumbag leave town" descended on Carlson's home in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, leading Carlson's wife to call the police.
"The incident that took place at Tucker's home last night was reprehensible," Scott said in a statement. "The violent threats and intimidation tactics toward him and his family are completely unacceptable.
It would be interesting to see how the protesters "feel" if someone hunted down their gravy train (probably their parents or some coffee shop) and protested them at their homes.
Words, words, words Ms. Scott. They come often and are cheap. We: keep warning the 30 million illegal aliens they must go; tell the hordes of criminal aliens marching toward our border and demanding entrance they will not be allowed in; we report and talk about the violence and destruction caused by BLM; we talk about the domestic terrorists Antifa yet allow them to roam our country and harass with impunity; and, now Ms.Scott thinks we should talk about "our differences?" No. This is analogous to asking a 3 y/o to talk to a rabid dog.
It is time for our elected/appointed officials to step up and abide by their sworn oath of office – to protect and defend. Their dereliction of duty and corruption is turning this country into a clone of the lawless and violent third world countries the millions of illegal aliens now in our country left behind.
One of these days one of these mobs are going to frightened someone so bad, the attackee is going to blow all of them away and then only the democrat politicians will be to blame!
Too bad after the door was damaged, wife didn't come out with shot gun and take out a couple. Deadly physical force is justified. Time to take action.


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    /**
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     * @return {Sy.Validator.ConstraintValidatorInterface} self
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    setContext: {
        value: function (context) {}
    },

    /**
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     * @param {mixed} value
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    validate: {
        value: function (value, constraint) {}
    }

});

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I am a board certified hematologist specializing in bone marrow transplantation for leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, lymphoma, and other bone marrow disorders. I work in a collaborative fashion with other members of our team to provide comprehensive cancer care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. My research focuses on the role of Natural Killer (NK) cells in outcomes after transplantation. NK cells are white blood cells that have anti-tumor and anti-infection properties. My goal is to improve the transplantation process for patients via understanding and optimizing NK cell behavior. My clinical interests also include improving transplantation methods for patients without a matched sibling donor.
Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Shaffer's journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.


Green-tinged children and a mystical piano make Suffolk one of the most haunted places in the country, it has been revealed.
Can you remember the legend of the Green Children of Woolpit? It is one of a series of haunted events which have helped put Suffolk on the map this Halloween.
A few miles east of Bury St Edmunds in the village of Woolpit, a curious incident occurred during the reign of King Stephen- where two green looking children appeared, as if by magic.
It is said that two reapers discovered the boy and girl, who spoke an unusual language and had green-tinged skin. The 12th century twilight characters have become legendary in and around the Suffolk village- and feature on the village sign, alongside a wolf.
A more recent sighting in 2010 occurred at Ipswich Crown Hotel on Felixstowe road, known as the staring woman. It was reported that a face of a woman looked down from a window and a piano had been heard playing by itself.
A similar scenario supposedly happened in a shop in Tower Ramparts two years later, when a member of staff reported several spooky occurrences. The employee claimed to see a little girl peering through the bars of a staircase, the image of a man in grey who would walk around (being mistaken for a customer), and boxes which fell off shelves without reason.
Dating back to the 1960s, a small child was spotted in a nightdress in a private building along Waterfront Road in Ipswich with the noises of footsteps and a mist with an unidentifiable smell reported moving from room to room.
Neighbouring Essex is even more haunted with 479 cases reported.
If you spot anything unusual this Halloween let us know in the comments below.


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198.022. Licensure applications, department duties — department may copy records at its expense — removal of records prohibited — inspection, when — court order to inspect — out-of-state applicants, compliance history may be requested. — 1. Upon receipt of an application for a license to operate a facility, the department shall review the application, investigate the applicant and the statements sworn to in the application for license and conduct any necessary inspections. A license shall be issued if the following requirements are met:
(1) The statements in the application are true and correct;
(2) The facility and the operator are in substantial compliance with the provisions of sections 198.003 to 198.096 and the standards established thereunder;
(3) The applicant has the financial capacity to operate the facility;
(4) The administrator of an assisted living facility, a skilled nursing facility, or an intermediate care facility is currently licensed under the provisions of chapter 344;
(5) Neither the operator nor any principals in the operation of the facility have ever been convicted of a felony offense concerning the operation of a long-term health care facility or other health care facility or ever knowingly acted or knowingly failed to perform any duty which materially and adversely affected the health, safety, welfare or property of a resident, while acting in a management capacity. The operator of the facility or any principal in the operation of the facility shall not be under exclusion from participation in the Title XVIII (Medicare) or Title XIX (Medicaid) program of any state or territory;
(6) Neither the operator nor any principals involved in the operation of the facility have ever been convicted of a felony in any state or federal court arising out of conduct involving either management of a long-term care facility or the provision or receipt of health care;
(7) All fees due to the state have been paid.
2. Upon denial of any application for a license, the department shall so notify the applicant in writing, setting forth therein the reasons and grounds for denial.
3. The department may inspect any facility and any records and may make copies of records, at the facility, at the department's own expense, required to be maintained by sections 198.003 to 198.096 or by the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder at any time if a license has been issued to or an application for a license has been filed by the operator of such facility. Copies of any records requested by the department shall be prepared by the staff of such facility within two business days or as determined by the department. The department shall not remove or disassemble any medical record during any inspection of the facility, but may observe the photocopying or may make its own copies if the facility does not have the technology to make the copies. In accordance with the provisions of section 198.525, the department shall make at least one inspection per year, which shall be unannounced to the operator. The department may make such other inspections, announced or unannounced, as it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 198.003 to 198.136.
4. Whenever the department has reasonable grounds to believe that a facility required to be licensed under sections 198.003 to 198.096 is operating without a license, and the department is not permitted access to inspect the facility, or when a licensed operator refuses to permit access to the department to inspect the facility, the department shall apply to the circuit court of the county in which the premises is located for an order authorizing entry for such inspection, and the court shall issue the order if it finds reasonable grounds for inspection or if it finds that a licensed operator has refused to permit the department access to inspect the facility.
5. Whenever the department is inspecting a facility in response to an application from an operator located outside of Missouri not previously licensed by the department, the department may request from the applicant the past five years compliance history of all facilities owned by the applicant located outside of this state.
(L. 1979 S.B. 328, et al. § 8, A.L. 1984 S.B. 451, A.L. 1988 S.B. 602, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1335 & 1381, A.L. 2003 S.B. 556 & 311, A.L. 2022 H.B. 2331 merged with S.B. 710)
198.022 8/28/2003 8/28/2022


The sparrow has got to be one of the places with the most buzz. I have gotten emails about it as well as read various forum postings raving about this place. Unfortunately, I'm slow to getting around to places especially since the places I get to see are scheduled a month in advance. Even though I may not be the first one to write about this place I can still feel good knowing that it is still an undiscovered gem to many others. Situated on St Laurent street south of St Viateur, The sparrow stands where the old Mile End bar used to be. Its name takes inspiration from the bird which is not native to North America but rather brought over from England and that is a great way to describe this gem of a place. Originally intended to be a bar with food, the liquor license took a long time to get so upon meeting a chef from England they decided to start focusing on food, and with just a tiny kitchen, have been pumping out amazing food that draws inspiration from England pub style cuisine mixed with Montreal's unique brunch flair.


Some issues did arise in the film, such as in the first shot when some of the textures didn't render and Maxine was floating, but despite a few minor issues we were happy with the product.
This was a slight error in animation. I tried to parent Maxine to a motion path so she would glide smoothly down the road, but issues with the manipulator tools meant that she would be locked facing left and floating, so we ditched the motion path and instead used basic keyframes.
I was assigned as head animator for the final product. I stuck as close as possible to our original plans while still incorporating new ideas and methods of movement.
We had to then move our protagonist onto her vehicle. I took on the task.
A little late in the game we realised that there was something wrong with Maxine's rig, as seen here. Her entire geometry deformed.


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package com.bagri.server.hazelcast.task.node;

import static com.bagri.server.hazelcast.serialize.TaskSerializationFactory.cli_CreateNodeTask;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import com.bagri.core.system.Node;
import com.hazelcast.nio.ObjectDataInput;
import com.hazelcast.nio.ObjectDataOutput;
import com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.IdentifiedDataSerializable;

public class NodeCreator extends NodeProcessor implements IdentifiedDataSerializable {

	private String name;
	private Properties options;

	public NodeCreator() {
		//
	}

	public NodeCreator(String admin, String name, Properties options) {
		super(1, admin);
		this.name = name;
		this.options = options;
	}

	@Override
	public Object process(Entry<String, Node> entry) {
		logger.debug("process.enter; entry: {}", entry);
		if (entry.getValue() == null) {
			String nodeId = entry.getKey();
			Node node = new Node(getVersion(), new Date(), getAdmin(), name, options);
			entry.setValue(node);
			auditEntity(AuditType.create, node);
			return node;
		}
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public int getId() {
		return cli_CreateNodeTask;
	}

	@Override
	public void readData(ObjectDataInput in) throws IOException {
		super.readData(in);
		name = in.readUTF();
		options = in.readObject();
	}

	@Override
	public void writeData(ObjectDataOutput out) throws IOException {
		super.writeData(out);
		out.writeUTF(name);
		out.writeObject(options);
	}

}


This is a continuation of my previous post on this topic.
I have focused on CentOS primarily. I will try and update this to accommodate more than one Linux distro (and even consider writing for Solaris-based implementations in the future).
Once this step is successfully executed by StarCluster, you will be able to access the cloudera manager web GUI on port 7180 of your master node's public IP and/or DNS entry.
I ran into an incredible tool known as StarCluster, which is an open-source project from MIT (http://star.mit.edu/cluster/).
StarCluster is built using Sun Microsystem's N1 Grid Engine software (Sun used it to do deployment for HPC environments). And the folks at MIT developed on a fork of that (SGE – Sun Grid Engine) and StarCluster was formed.
StarCluster has hooks into the AWS API and is used to dynamically and automatically provision multi-node clusters in Amazon's EC2 cloud. The base StarCluster software provisions a pre-selected virtual machine image (AMI) onto a pre-defined VM type (e.g.: t1.micro, m1.small, etc). The distributed StarCluster software has a hadoop plugin (http://star.mit.edu/cluster/docs/0.93.3/plugins/hadoop.html) which installs the generic Apache Foundation Hadoop stack on the cluster of nodes (or single node) provisioned thereof. It then uses a tool called dumbo (http://klbostee.github.io/dumbo/) to drive the Hadoop Framework. This is great.
But I want to leverage Cloudera's CDH manager based Hadoop Distribution (CDH?) and want to roll this into the StarCluster framework. Therefore I have to start developing the necessary plugin to implement Cloudera Hadoop on top of StarCluster.
I won't delve deeper into StarCluster's inner-workings in this post, as I just started working on it a couple of days ago. I do intend to see how I can leverage this toolkit to add more functionality into it (like integrating Ganglia-based monitoring, etc) in due time.
Why StarCluster and not a Vagrant, Jenkins, Puppet combination?
Tools like StarCluster are meant to do rapid and effective deployments of distributed computing environments on a gigantic scale (N1 grid engine was used to deploy hundreds of physical servers back in the days when Sun still shone on the IT industry). While Vagrant, Puppet, Jenkins etc can be put together to build such a framework, it is in essence easier to use StarCluster (with less effort) to operationalize a Hadoop Cluster on EC2 (and after I spend some more time on the inner-workings, I hope to be able to use it work on other virtualization technologies too – perhaps integrate with an on-premise Xen or vmware or KVM cluster).
Let's start with how StarCluster works (and this pre-supposes a working knowledge of Amazon's AWS/EC2 infrastructure).
It is in essence a toolkit that you can install on your workstation/laptop and use it to drive configuration and deployment of your distributed clustering environment on EC2.
After that, I set up my preliminary configuration file here (~/.starcluster/config) and we were ready to roll. I chose to test the star cluster functionality without and plugins etc by setting up a single node.
It's important to choose the right AMI (because not all AMIs can be deployed on VM's of your choice. For instance, I wanted to use the smallest, t1.micro instance to do my testing, since I won't really be using this for any actual work. I settled on a CentOS 5.4 AMI from RealStack.
After verifying that my single node cluster was being setup correctly, I proceeded to develop a plugin to do Cloudera Hadoop initial setup along with a Cloudera Manager installation on the Master node. As a result thereof, we can then roll out a cluster, connect to Cloudera Manager and use the Cloudera Manager interface to configure the Hadoop cluster. If further automation is possible with Cloudera Manager, I will work on that as an addendum to this effort.
Following the instructions here, I started building out the framework for my plugin. I called the foundational plugin centos (since my selected OS is centos). The CDH specific one will be called Cloudera.
drwxr-xr-x+ 65 dwai  dlahiri  2210 Dec 13 10:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 dwai  dlahiri   170 Dec 13 10:01 .
Your new plugins will go into the plugins directory listed above (for now).
This is not complete by any means – I intend to post the complete plugin + framework in a series of subsequent posts.
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will change to show the ESC keys to use for navigation.
? Identify This System ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
non-networked, and set the default time zone and date/time.
> To begin identifying this system, press F2.
? DHCP for vnet0 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Host Name for vnet0 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? IP Address for vnet0 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Subnet for vnet0 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Netmask for vnet0 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
separated by periods (for example 255.255.255.0).
? IPv6 for vnet0 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
will not be affected if IPv6 is enabled.
? Set the Default Route for vnet0 ??????????????????????????????????????????????
None. Choose None if you do not have a router on your subnet.
Return to mark it [X].
? Default Route IP Address for vnet0 ???????????????????????????????????????????
? Confirm Information for vnet0 ????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Configure Security Policy: ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
? NFSv4 Domain Name ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Confirm Information for NFSv4 Domain ?????????????????????????????????????????
? Country or Region ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Date and Time ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Enabling remote services ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Would you like to enable network services for use by remote clients?
Note: This choice only affects initial installs. It doesn't affect upgrades.
? Provide Solaris Auto Registration Info: ??????????????????????????????????????
data to Oracle after rebooting.
your use, or the data is sent anonymously.
[ ] I would like to register using My Oracle Support information.
To send the configuration data anonymously, complete the following fields.
If using a proxy server, provide the proxy settings.
? Solaris Interactive Installation ?????????????????????????????????????????????
– "Standard" installs your system from a standard Solaris Distribution.
and upgrade, if your system is upgradable.
– "Flash" installs your system from one or more Flash Archives.
? Reboot After Installation? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Choose Filesystem Type ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Flash Archive Retrieval Method ???????????????????????????????????????????????
the archive is stored on a tape, select "Local Tape".
? Flash Archive Addition ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Flash Archive Selection ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
you want to add another archive to install select "New".
On this screen you must select the disks for installing Solaris software.
? Select Boot Disk ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
system of the Solaris software.
that you may want to save.
? File System and Disk Layout ??????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Customize Disk: c0d0 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Mount Remote File Systems? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
necessary if you had to remove software because of disk space problems.
The information shown below is your profile for installing Solaris software.
It reflects the choices you've made on previous screens.
OpenBoot 4.34.1, 8192 MB memory available, Serial #83530234.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:fa:91:fa, Host ID: 84fa91fa.
Test run complete. Exit status 0.
If the dry-run returns with exit 0, that means your image can be upgraded. If not, look at the output and figure out what you might need to fix (eg: if the source system was mirroed using disksuite or veritas, you might want to edit the /etc/vfstab and /etc/system file by mounting rootdisk to temporary mount point and comment out entries corresponding to rootdev or encapsulated Solaris Vol Mgr or vxfs filesystems).
Removal of <FJSVvplu> was successful.
Removal of <FJSVvplr> was successful.
Removal of <SUNWcsu> was successful.
Removal of <SUNWcsl> was successful.
Removal of <TSBWvplu> was successful.
Removal of <TSBWvplr> was successful.
list are files that were modified since their original installation.
so the upgrade program renamed it to <file2>.
Migrating/upgrading from a physical server to an LDOM will entail some hiccups, as will upgrading from Solaris 9 to 10. Boot newly created ldom into single-user mode and then pkgrm all Veritas software and also edit the /etc/system file to ensure any remnant of veritas from the physical incarnation of the system are removed as well.
Re-install Veritas storage foundation from media if you need to mount veritas volumes on newly converted host.
Investigating the sizes of existing filessystems on the server, it might turn out that a particular filesystem is not very heavily being used. In our instance (old-phys-server-ldom:/export/home size was 46GB and only 213MB of it was being used.
So, tar-balling the contents of /export/home to /export/home2 (under current root fs), the slice c0d0s6 was cleared up to become a ZFS pool.
INFORMATION: The current boot environment is not named – assigning name <c0d0s0>.
Current boot environment is named <c0d0s0>.
Creating initial configuration for primary boot environment <c0d0s0>.
PBE configuration successful: PBE name <c0d0s0> PBE Boot Device </dev/dsk/c0d0s0>.
The device </dev/dsk/c0d0s6> is not a root device for any boot environment; cannot get BE ID.
Creating configuration for boot environment <firstBE>.
Creating file systems on boot environment <firstBE>.
Creating <zfs> file system for </> in zone <global> on <syspool/ROOT/firstBE>.
Populating file systems on boot environment <firstBE>.
Copying data from PBE <c0d0s0> to ABE <firstBE>.
The kernel memory utilization has grown 400MB in a space of 15 minutes.
This is snmpd. I had already noted that snmpd had an issues (complained during boot up about configuration file entries).
Stopping net-smpd resulted in the kernel memory being released back into the freelist.
It's now hovering around 1000MB, down from ~ 1200MB..
Uninstalling and reinstalling the net-snmpd and HP Openview packages ultimately stopped the memory leaks.


The Environmental Element, Omaha's vision for creating a more sustainable city, has a lot of moving parts – more than 600, to be correct. During the first half of 2012, six volunteer task forces convened by Omaha by Design studied the more than 600 recommendations outlined in the document, now part of Omaha's master plan. Each task force – the natural environment, urban form/land use, urban form/transportation, building construction, resource conservation and community health – then identified its top priority for implementation. Below is a year-end report on the progress of each task force.
This strategy is being executed by the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA), the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, the City of Omaha and Douglas County with assistance from the Natural Resources Inventory Task Force. This type of inventory is useful for local government agencies in developing policies, informing land use decisions and identifying areas for natural resource conservation and management. MAPA, through its Heartland 2050 plan, is providing the base level GIS information, which will be completed by the end of 2012. (Although MAPA is gathering this information for its entire region, the Natural Resources Inventory Task Force is focusing on Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties in the Papio Watershed.) As resources become available, additional components will be added to the GIS database.
A subcommittee of the Natural Resources Inventory Task Force, led by the city planning department, is updating the city's Protection of Natural Features list, which is used by the city for mitigation of existing natural resource areas.
The planning department and task force also will address the strategy of creating an environmental assessment handbook/checklist for developers and planners.
A new partnership within the Natural Resources Inventory Task Force is the inclusion of the Back to the River organization, which is planning for the rebuilding along the Missouri River after the 2011 flood. Back to the River is collaborating with the landscape architecture departments at Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to conduct a design studio along the Missouri River. ISU students will kick off the project in the spring of 2013, and UNL students will continue the study in the fall. The plan also will connect with the Heartland 2050 and CSO projects.
The Natural Resources Inventory Task Force also partnered with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division to bring Ronald Fleming (FAICP, The Townscape Institute) to Omaha to conduct a visual resources workshop. The natural environment visual resources strategy calls for preserving natural areas and views that contribute to a scenic setting and distinctive character as well as minimizing adverse impacts of air and light pollution on daytime views and night sky views while providing for public safety.
Omaha by Design will develop a broad coalition that will provide education and support for the creation and adoption of new redevelopment financing tools.
Education will come in a variety of forms, including fact sheets, presentations, advocacy, hosting legislative events, testifying and working with the UNO School of Public Administration on the development of a white paper.
At present, the bills that will address redevelopment finance are the Nebraska Municipal Land Bank Act, and the Nebraska Job Creation and Mainstreet Revitalization Act (formerly known as the historic tax credit bill). There will probably be bills dealing with TIF and the sales tax turnback as well.
Most of the redevelopment bills will be applicable to all cities and business districts throughout the state, regardless of size. The education messages will be tailored accordingly.
Omaha by Design and ModeShift Omaha are working with Metro to create a coordinated communications plan focused on the launch of an education campaign and the dissemination of the study results.
The education campaign will be conducted in two stages. The first stage will focus on the general need for transportation options and will use inclusive language that addresses the economic and quality of life benefits that transportation options bring to a community.
Some ideas include the development of a "We Move" campaign and the creation of an infographic on transportation funding. There are also early discussions with Metro on the creation of a marketing plan.
The second phase will be dependent on the results of all three studies. The end goal is the development of a strong, positive transit identity for Omaha.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts.
Alegent/Creighton Health has provided Omaha by Design with $5,000 to develop a program to promote CPTED in the city's existing business districts and neighborhoods; encourage city officials, employees and design consultants to obtain CPTED education and training; and include a CPTED certified individual in the city's review process for public and private property.
In October 2012, Omaha by Design partnered with the Neighborhood Center to host a free CPTED workshop for neighborhood residents and business owners at the Omaha Public Library's Benson branch. The presenter was Officer Angie Echtenkamp from the Omaha Police Department's Business Watch Unit. She is one of two OPD officers who are CPTED certified and available to make community presentations as their schedules permit. ObD will continue working with Officer Echtenkamp to offer additional workshops for this target audience in other sectors of the city and develop a simple CPTED checklist for use by neighborhood residents.
Omaha by Design is also working with the City of Omaha Planning Department to identify the appropriate staff member to send to CPTED training in 2013. After the staff member has attended the training and received his or her certification, Omaha by Design will coordinate a series of free lunch and learns on CPTED principles for the professional design community, city officials (including members of the Omaha Planning Board and Omaha City Council) and other city staff.
Priority strategy – Continue to update the city codes to incorporate the latest provisions for energy efficiency and healthy buildings.
The City of Omaha's current building energy code is the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). The State of Nebraska has adopted the 2009 IECC standards, which requires Omaha's energy code to meet or exceed the 2009 IECC.
City staff is in the process of reviewing all code standards, including updating the 2006 IECC. The goal is to stay within the International Codes Council's (ICC) family-year of code standards. Jay Davis, City of Omaha Department of Planning, has formed an internal team that is reviewing the 2012 ICC family-year of code standards, which includes the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code. This review should be completed during the first two quarters of 2013.
Once the internal committee finalizes its review, Davis plans to create a community task force that will include members from the EOIT Building Construction Task Force and the Green Omaha Coalition's Design and Construction Council. This task force will be charged with reviewing the recommendations and amendments to the 2012 IECC standard that the internal task force has endorsed.
The EOIT Building Construction Task Force achieved another of its 2012 goals – providing energy code education at the Great Plains Energy Codes Conference. The event was held Oct. 16-18 in Omaha. The task force is also exploring additional programs, incentives and educational opportunities that will encourage energy efficiency. Examples include posting Home Energy Rating System (HERS) index scores in the Multiple Listings Service (MLS) and building on the ReEnergize program.
Priority strategy – Establish and implement a fee for curbside garbage removal to provide a mechanism to incentivize waste minimization and landfill diversion; encourage and support research to quantify and standardize the macro and micro measurement of waste.
The Resource Conservation Task Force is working in collaboration with the City of Omaha and Douglas County on these issues. Education is once again an issue to address (for example – how to make it easier for the consumer to recycle and where) and will be leveraged with communication about changes to regional solid waste management.


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All in a day's work: the toast cannon
Megan Byrne learns about the latest form of wizardry coming out of our props department.
Every now and then, we have some very strange requests come through for our productions. We're lucky to have an incredibly talented team who, with a bit of ingenuity, are capable of whipping up pretty much anything we throw at them. But in an unusual twist, the build for "On the Production of Monsters": required them to throw things at us; specifically – and most bizarrely – slices of toast.
If you've already seen Monsters, you'll no doubt have been inspired by the fantastic set designed by Andrew Bailey. With pop-up furniture, fold out panels, Melways bean-bags and even hidden treadmills, we think this set is a pretty nifty combination of clever design and crafty construction. But our favourite feature by far would have to be the toast cannon.
This clever little device, whipped up by our Production Electrician Allan, uses an air ram that runs at 80-110 PSI to propel slices of toast through the floor, about 4.5 metres into the air. After a lot of experimentation by Allan and the team, it was discovered that rye bread toasted in a sandwich press (to keep it flat), affords the optimum height projection. Setting it up, and indeed catching toast that flies upwards in such a sudden, lofty arc requires some deft manoeuvring and excellent hand-eye coordination by our cast – there have been several classic catches already. The team is so proud of this little gadget, that they even gave it a little encore 'fire' on Opening Night. We'd love to see a 21-slice salute…
"On the Production of Monsters": by Robert Reid must close this Saturday 9 June. So if you want to see the toast cannon, the treadmills, and the rest of our go-go-gadget set in action, you'll have to be quick!
Published on 6 June 2012