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Clause 2: Restrictions on Disposal (18 Mar 1997)
Mr Raymond Robertson: Although the issues have had a good airing at the Grand Committee in Montrose, on Second Reading, in Committee and tonight, it is only right that I should respond to some of the points that have been raised. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) talked of the success of the crofting trusts at Assynt and Borve. Their success, with that of Annishadder, has demonstrated...
Mr Raymond Robertson: I understand where the hon. Gentleman is coming from, but, as he says, it is difficult to legislate for something that may or may not happen. It is unlikely that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State would allow any trust to go forward that had not proved itself financially viable not only in the short and medium term but in the long term. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is reassured by...
Orders of the Day — New clause 1 (18 Mar 1997)
Mr Raymond Robertson: It is a sign of the times that the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) cannot even speak on a Bill that has all-party support without an hon. Member from his leader's office sitting by his side reminding him what to say. The new clause is unnecessary. Both I and my noble Friend in another place have made it clear that the Secretary of State would transfer those maintenance and repair...
Mr Raymond Robertson: That assurance was given to the Committee, but I recognise that the hon. Gentleman was not a member of it. I reiterate the other reassurances that the Government have given: there is no intention to transfer the responsibility for community assets to crofting trusts, nor is there any intention to burden trusts in such a way as to jeopardise their financial viability. I have made it clear that...
Clause 1: Disposal of Crofting Property (18 Mar 1997)
Mr Raymond Robertson: As the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) said, the Bill gives the Government the flexibility to address the circumstances of each proposal for a trust on a case-by-case basis. Surely that is right. Ownership of sporting rights runs with the land, although it may be let to other parties. Sporting rights will therefore be transferred automatically. The Bill would not prevent the Secretary...
Mr Raymond Robertson: We believe that the amendment may risk jeopardising the ability of some crofters to establish crofting trusts. I know that that is not what the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) would wish. Any requirement that a crofting trust represent a community may be interpreted to require that a community be shown to exist on the relevant property. Decisions of the Scottish land court have found...
Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Wild Salmon (5 Mar 1997)
Mr Raymond Robertson: The recent excellent report produced by Lord Nickson's task force on Scotland's salmon fisheries, subject to consultation, will form the basis of future Government policy in this important sector.
Mr Raymond Robertson: My noble Friend's task force has approached the matter head on but, as my hon. Friend will know, its findings are out for consultation, and I think it only right to wait until the end of that consultation before presenting specific proposals.
Mr Raymond Robertson: My noble Friend's task force was not asked specifically to look at the impact of red dye on salmon in the Clyde, but I am sure that, were its members to do so, they would be appalled—as are most people in Scotland—that Glasgow city council is considering spending up to half a million pounds of council tax payers' money on a ridiculous stunt.
Mr Raymond Robertson: The hon. Gentleman has obviously not looked at the membership of the task force. There were no landowning hereditary peers on it. It represented all those in Scotland—and, indeed, beyond—who regularly fish for salmon and support the salmon industry.
Mr Raymond Robertson: "Spiteful" and "irrational" are not adjectives that I would use to describe my noble Friend's task force report, but I would use them to describe the hon. Gentleman. Once again, he has shown complete disregard for a proud industry that brings in thousands of jobs, tourists, other visitors and money to the most rural parts of Scotland, some of which are very fragile and depend on the very...
Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Teachers (Appraisal) (5 Mar 1997)
Mr Raymond Robertson: Appraisal should be the basis for assuring teaching standards in Scottish schools. The present voluntary arrangements have resulted in too few teachers being appraised. My right hon. Friend and I have therefore decided that appraisal should be put on a statutory basis. Consultation on the draft regulations has begun and will be operational by the start of the new school session.
Mr Raymond Robertson: My hon. Friend is right. Our approach to appraisal of teaching, and testing in S1 and S2 in secondary schools, is part of our continuing drive to push up even further standards in Scottish schools. That contrasts sharply with the attitude of Labour Members, whose answer to all this seems to be to close bad schools.
Mr Raymond Robertson: As I understand it, those people were demonstrating not against the Government's policy but against the spending decisions and expected spending decisions of local authorities. Every teacher on that march and every parent of every child in Scotland's schools should know that every local authority in Scotland has more money to spend next year on education than last year. We expect those local...
Mr Raymond Robertson: Every parent in Scotland of a pre-school child should know what the Labour party intends to do this year, next year and the year after. It would snatch back the vouchers, worth £1,100, which we are issuing and allow parents to choose, for the first time, whether to send their child to a nursery in the private or local authority sector. We are empowering parents by giving them that money and...
Mr Raymond Robertson: The hon. Member who should be condemned is the hon. Lady who, two weeks ago, was briefing the press that the Government intended to privatise HMI. That was absolutely untrue. As always, the hon. Lady seeks to hector and lecture all involved in Scottish education with the attitude that granny knows best. That is why granny wants to snatch back £1,100 from the hands of parents in Scotland.
Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Secondary Education (5 Mar 1997)
Mr Raymond Robertson: Current expenditure per secondary pupil in 1994–95 was £2,874. That is 37 per cent. higher in real terms than in 1979.
Mr Raymond Robertson: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are putting more money in and our standards are rising. As we made clear in our White Paper "Raising the Standard", which we published a month ago, in the next Parliament we will continue that work.
Mr Raymond Robertson: Every teacher marching in Glasgow will want to know what Glasgow city council has been doing with the additional £3.5 million, compared with last year, for education that it has received for next year. They will want to know why that city council is saying that it must cut front-line education services while it has managed to find money to send councillors to a symposium on cultural policies...
Mr Raymond Robertson: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. His local authority has received almost £2 million more than last year to spend on education next year. The Scottish National party-controlled council in the constituency of the hon. Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh) will have £250,000 more to spend next year in comparison with last year. Teachers, parents and pupils should ask those councils what they...
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Conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 2010
I have submitted the following...
Contribution to the 8th annual conference of
(Nordisk Selskab for Fænomenologi)
under the general theme
NEW ORIENTATIONS: IN PHENOMENOLOGY
to be arranged at Södertörn University College
in Stockholm, April 22-24, 2010
Individual presentation
by Morten Tønnessen
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu
Vindmøllegangen 1, 4631 Kristiansand, NORWAY
Kuu 39-64, 50 104 Tartu, ESTONIA
Academic homepage: http://utopianrealism.blogspot.com/
Suggested title:
Semiotics of Being and Uexküllian Phenomenology
German-Baltic biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) did not regard himself as a phenomenologist. Neither did he conceive of himself as a semiotician. Nevertheless, his Umwelt terminology has of late been utilized and further developed within the framework of semiotics and various other disciplines - and, as I will argue, essential points in his work can fruitfully be taken to represent a distinctive Uexküllian phenomenology, characterized not least by an assumption of the (in the realm of life) universal existence of a genuine first person perspective, i.e., of experienced worlds.
In the course of the presentation, I will briefly relate Uexküllian phenomenology to
a) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),
b) the eco-existentialism of Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899-1990)
c) eco-phenomenology (including David Abram and Ted Toadvine),
d) and semiotics of nature (biosemiotics, ecosemiotics, zoosemiotics)
Posted by Morten Tønnessen at 08:40 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: eco-existentialism, existence, experience, experienced world, phenomenal world, phenomenology, semiotics, semiotics of being, Uexküll, Uexküllian phenomenology, Zapffe
Contribution on Lotman to Norwegian-Estonian Festschrift
I have agreed to contribute with a short (2 pp) article to the planned Festschrift of the Norwegian-Estonian Association (Norsk-Estisk Forening), at the occasion of its 25 year anniversary. My article will be written in Norwegian, and deal with the (pretty recent) history of Tartu semiotics, with special emphasis on Juri Lotman and his connection to Norway (not least the 1986 conference in Bergen, where - for the first and last time - Thomas Sebeok met Juri Lotman).
This short article should be finished by December 20th. The Festschrift will be published in 2010, at the occasion of the independence day of the Republic of Estonia (February 24th).
New colleagues
Two more researchers have joined the research project "The Cultural Heritage of Environmental Spaces. A Comparative Analysis Between Estonia and Norway" (the first replacing Peder Anker as the Norwegian collaborator in a study of Estonian peat bogs etc.), in which I take part with my Ph.D. work as a "main researcher". First, Finn Arne Jørgensen, NTNU, who's involved in environmental history (and trying to establish a Norwegian network within that field). I met him at the first world congress of environmental history in Copenhagen in August. Second, Renata Sõukand - who happens to be one of the contributors to the special issue of Biosemiotics for which I am one of two guest-editors ('Semiotics of perception').
Labels: comparative analysis, Cultual heritage, Estonia, Norway, peat bogs
Titles - books I would like to have written (or read)
Some of these are good titles (others contain but one word of special interest). Others are good, or reputed, authors, or concern topics that interest me. Most of them will never be read by me. Some, perhaps, will – maybe even be influential in my thinking. Time will (perhaps) tell.
Ahonen, Pertti. 1989. The meaning of money: Comparing a Peircean and Saussurean perspective. In Kevelson, R., ed., 13-29.
Albone, Eric S. 1984. Mammalian Semiochemistry. Chichester: Wiley.
Anderson, Myrdene & Floyd Merrell, eds. 1991. On Semiotic Modeling. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Aschenberg, Heidi. 1978. Phänomenologische Philosophie und Sprache. Tübingen: Narr.
Balat, Michel & Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, eds. 1992. Signs of Humanity. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bär, Eugen 1981. Die Zeichenlehre von Thomas A. Sebeok. In Krampen, M., et al., eds., 281-321.
Barnlund, Dean 1981. Toward an ecology of communication. In Mott, C. W. & J. H. Weakland, eds., 87-126.
Baudrillard, Jean. 1972. Pour une critique de l'économie politique du signe. Paris: Gallimard. – Port. s.d. Para uma crítica da economia política do signo. Lisboa: Martins Fontes.
———. 1976. L'échange symbolique et la mort. Paris: Gallimard.
Beck, Cave. 1657. The Universal Character, by Which All the Nations in the World May Understand One Another's Conceptions. London.
Bentley, Arthur F. 1947. The new "semiotic". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8.1: 107-31.
Bernard-Donals, Michael F. 1994. Mikhail Bakhtin Between Phenomenology and Marxism. Cambridge: Univ. Press.
Bierman, Arthur K. 1962. That there are no iconic signs. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 23: 243-49.
Bonner, John Tyler. 1980. The Evolution of Culture in Animals. Princeton: Univ. Press.
Borsche, Tilman & Werner Stegmaier, eds. 1992. Zur Philosophie des Zeichens. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Böttner, Margueritte. 1980. Zeichensysteme der Tiere: Ein Versuch angewandter Semiotik. Stuttgart: Diss. Phil.
Bouissac, Paul. 1989. What is a human? Ecological semiotics and the new animism. Semiotica 77: 497-516.
Bright, Michael. 1984. Animal Language. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press.
Brown, Jerram L. & Gordon H. Orians. 1970. Spacing patterns in mobile animals. Annual Review of Ecological Systems 1: 239-62.
Buczyńska-Garewicz, Hanna. 1984. The degenerate sign. In Borbé, T., ed., vol. 1, 43-50.
Bunn, James H. 1981. The Dimensionality of Signs, Tools, and Models. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
Burkhardt, Dietrich, et al., eds. 1966. Signale der Tierwelt. München: Moos.
Busnel, René-Guy & André Classe. 1976. Whistled Languages. Berlin: Springer.
Carnap, Rudolf. (1928) 1961. Der logische Aufbau der Welt. Hamburg: Meiner.
Carterette, Edward C. & Morton P. Friedman, eds. 1976. Handbook of Perception. New York: Academic Press.
Castañeda, Hector-Neri. 1990. Indicators: The semiotics of experience. In Jacobi, K. & H. Pape, 57-93.
Cheney, Dorothy & Robert M. Seyfarth. 1982. Recognition of individuals within and between groups of free-ranging vervet monkeys. American Zoologist 22: 519-529.
Classen, Constance, David Howes & Anthony Synnott. 1994. Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. London: Routledge.
Coker, Wilson. 1972. Music and Meaning. New York: Free Press.
Colapietro, Vincent M. 1989. Peirce's Approach to the Self. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press.
Costadeau, Alphonse. (1717) 1983. Traité des signes, vol. 1, ed. Le Guern-Forel, O. Bern: Lang.
Crystal, David 1980. Introduction to Language Pathology. London: Arnold.
Dascal, Marcelo. 1978. La sémiologie de Leibniz. Paris: Aubier-Montaigne.
Davidson, Donald 1978. What metaphors mean. Critical Inquiry 5: 31-47.
Dawkins, Richard & John R. Krebs. 1978. Animal signals: Information or manipulation. In Krebs, J. R. & N. B. Davies, eds., 282-309.
Deely, John N. 1974. The two approaches to language... Jean Poinsot's semiotic. The Thomist 38: 856-907.
Dirven, René. 1993. Metonymy and metaphor. Leuvense Bijdragen 82: 1-28.
Dressler, Wolfgang U. 1989. Semiotische Parameter einer textlinguistischen Natürlichkeitstheorie. Wien: Österr. Akad. der Wiss. (=Ö. A. d. W., Phil.-Hist. Kl., Sitzungsber., vol. 529).
Dutz, Klaus D. 1985. Historiographia Semioticae (= papmaks 18). Münster: MAkS.
Ebert, Theodor. 1987. The origin of the Stoic theory of signs in Sextus Empiricus. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 5: 83-126.
Eco, Umberto 1984b. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
———. 1985a. How culture conditions the colors we see. In Blonsky, M., ed., 157-75.
———. 1986. Travels in Hyperreality. New York: Harcourt.
Eimermacher, Karl, comp. 1974. Arbeiten sowjetischer Semiotiker der Moskauer und Tartuer Schule (Auswahlbibliographie). Kronberg: Scriptor.
Ekman, Paul, ed. 1973. Darwin and Facial Expression. New York: Academic Press.
Emanuele, Pietro. 1982. Präsemiotik und Semiotik in Heidegger. Semiosis 25/26: 140-44.
Fill, Alwin. 1993. Ökolinguistik. Tübingen: Narr.
Finlay, Marike. 1988. The Romantic Irony of Semiotics: Friedrich Schlegel and the Crisis of Representation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Fleischer, Michael. 1987. Hund und Mensch: Eine semiotische Analyse ihrer Kommunikation. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Fraasen, Bas C. van. 1985. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.
Garvin, Harry R., ed. 1976. Phenomenology, Structuralism, Semiology (= Bucknell Review, April 1976). Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press.
Gibson, James J. 1966. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Boston: Mifflin.
———. 1979. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Mifflin.
Glidden, David. 1983. Skeptic semiotics. Phronesis 28: 213-55.
Harrison, P. A. 1983. Behaving Brazilian: A Comparison of Brazilian and North Anmerican Social Behavior. Rowley: Newbury House.
Havelock, Eric A. 1963. Preface to Plato. Oxford: Blackwell.
Holenstein, Elmar. 1975. Roman Jakobsons phänomenologischer Strukturalismus. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp. – Port. 1978. Introdução ao pensamento de Roman Jakobson. Rio de Janeiro: J. Zahar.
Jones, Roger S. 1982. Physics as Metaphor. New York: Meridian.
Kalinowski, Georges. 1985. Sémiotique et philosophie. Paris, Amsterdam: Hadès-Benjamins.
Katz, David. (1925) 1969. Der Aufbau der Tastwelt. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft.
Kelemen, János 1991. Kant's semiotics. In Sebeok, T. A. & J. Umiker-Sebeok, eds., 201-18.
Kiefer, Georg R. 1970. Zur Semiotisierung der Umwelt. Stuttgart: Diss. Phil.
Klaus, Georg. (1963) 1973. Semiotik und Erkenntnistheorie. München: Fink:
Klinck, Dennis. 1993. The semiotics of money. In Kevelson, R., ed., 229-250.
Koch, Walter A. 1986c. Philosophie der Philologie und Semiotik. Literatur und Welt: Versuche zur Interdisziplinarität der Philologie. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
———. 1989. The Well of Tears: A Biosemiotic Essay on the Roots of Horror, Comic, and Pathos. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
———. 1991b. Language in the Upper Pleistocene. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
———. 1992. Ecogenesis und echogenesis. In Sebeok, T. A. & J. Umiker-Sebeok, eds., 171-211.
Koch, Walter A., ed. 1982. Semiogenesis. Frankfurt/Main: Lang.
———. 1990d. Semiotics in the Individual Sciences. 2 vols. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
———. 1990f. Wissenschaftstheorie und Semiotik. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
Komar, Gerhard 1991. Geldzeichen. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 13: 345-365.
Krampen, Martin, et al., eds. 1981. Die Welt als Zeichen: Klassiker der modernen Semiotik. Berlin: Severin & Siedler.
Kruse, Felicia 1990. Nature and semiosis. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 26.2: 211-224.
Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Lanigan, Richard L. 1977. Speech Act Phenomenology. The Hague: Nijhoff.
Larsen, Hanne Hartvig, et al., eds. 1991. Marketing and Semiotics. Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolen Forlag.
Lewis, Philip E. 1974. Revolutionary semiotics. Diacritics 4 (Fall): 28-32.
Lindgren, J. Ralph. 1993. The emergence of signs: The seminal convention of money. In Kevelson, R., ed., 283-297.
Manning, Peter K. 1987. Semiotics and Fieldwork. Newbury Park: Sage.
Meier-Oeser, Stephan 1997a. Die Spur des Zeichens: Das Zeichen und seine Funktion in der Philosophie des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Merrell, Floyd 1996. Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes. Toronto: Univ. Press.
Mick, David G. 1999. A global review of semiotic consumer research (= Working Paper, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business).
Montagu, Ashley. 1971. Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.
Oehler, Klaus, ed. 1984. Zeichen und Realität. 3 vols. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Pittenger, Robert E., Charles F. Hockett & John J. Danehy. 1960. The First Five Minutes. Ithaca, N.Y.: P. Martineau.
Pogorzelski, H. A. & W. J. Ryan. 1982. Foundations of Semiological Theory of Numbers. Orono: Univ. of Maine Press.
Presnell, Michael. 1983. Sign, Image, and Desire: Semiotic Phenomenology and the Film Image. Ann Arbor: Univ. Microfilms Int.
Preziosi, Donald. 1979b. The Semiotics of the Built Environment. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
Reis, Carlos. 1993. Towards a Semiotics of Ideology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Romeo, Luigi. 1979d. Ecce Homo: A Lexicon of Man. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Rosenthal, Sandra B. 1998. Phenomenological semiotics. In Posner, R., et al., eds., vol. 2, 2096-2112.
Salthe, Stanley. 1998. Naturalizing semiotics. Semiotica 120: 381-394.
Santaella, Lucia. 1996c. Semiosphere: The growth of signs. Semiotica 109: 173-186.
Schiff, William & Emerson Foulke, eds. 1982. Tactual Perception: A Sourcebook. Cambridge: Univ. Press.
Simmel, Georg. (1900) 1922. Philosophie des Geldes. München: Duncker & Humblot.
Tembrock, Günter. 1971. Biokommunikation. 2 vols. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Thom, René. (1988) 1990. Esquisse d'une sémiophysique. – Ingl. 1990. Semiophysics: A Sketch. Redwood City, Cal.: Addision-Wesley.
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Trevarthen, Colwyn. 1994. Infant semiosis. In Nöth, W., ed., 219-252.
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Walther, Fritz R. 1984. Communication and Expression in Hooved Mammals. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
Wescott, Roger W. 1984. Semiogenesis and paleogenesis. Semiotica 48: 181-85.
Yaguello, Marina. 1991. Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary Languages and their Inventors. London: Athlone.
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Labels: bibliography, books, semiotics, tidsklemma, titles
Course work on Uexküll - meetings at UiA - the philosophy business
I'm following the TÜ course "Readings of Juri Lotman and Jakob von Uexküll", and the first half, considering the work of Uexküll, has now finished. A couple of days ago I submitted the (first) term paper, "An Uexküllian Theory of Evolution?" (7 pp). I have further - since I literarily take the course as a reading course, from a distance - submitted 6 c3 pp papers with Q&As, covering the reading material.
"Uexküll and evolution" for many sounds like a topic that spells out a contradiction in terms. That, I believe, does not necessarily have to be the case. Whereas some biosemioticians (e.g. Stjernfelt 2001) have asserted that Uexküll was anti-evolution, others (e.g. Salthe 2001; Kull 2004) have concluded that he was anti-Darwinian, but not hostile to the idea of evolution as such. Here I must agree with the latter group, as I hope will shine through in the rest of this exposition. And not only do I think Uexküll was not anti-evolution (though, as I explain in Tønnessen 2009, he was programmatically not historically-minded) – more than that; I believe that an Uexküllian perspective might actually prove to be enriching within the field of evolutionary theory. There's proof that Uexküll did not only have negative, but also positive, thought about evolution in his dictum (1928: 198) that "each new appearing functional cycle verifies [the appearance of] a new animal species" (my translation).
Meanwhile, the committee for the UiA Philosophy Forum has held its first meeting (this Monday).
So has - today - UiA's "Fagfilosofisk seksjon" (Academic philosophical section), consisting of the philosophers at Department of religion, philosophy and history. The topic, which has been discussed at one previous meeting as well and will be discussed further at the institute level in December, concerns establishing new (more advanced) courses in philosophy as part of a revised bachelor degree (which is today a bachelor in religion). One day, some say, we might offer a master in philosophy. That would truly be of great value for the philosophy milieu at UiA, and its attraction for students and scholars alike. Today only a one-year studium is offered (apart from the broader introductory course, Examen Philosophicum).
Meanwhile ... I have finished (yesterday) a catalogue, or leaflet (4 pp), presenting the paid services offered by my one-man company, SPØR FILOSOFEN (Ask the philosopher) - ranging from lectures and courses via writing and editing to consultancy activities. You'll find it on Scribd.
And thus the world advances...
Labels: bachelor, course, evolution, Lotman, philosophy, philosophy business, SPØR FILOSOFEN, TÜ biosemiotics, Uexküll, UiA, University of Agder, University of Tartu
The committee for the University of Agder Philosophy Forum (styringsgruppa for Filosofisk Forum) now seems to be in place, counting the following members:
Håvard Løkke
Olav Andreas Opedal
Hege Stensland
Ralph Henk Vaags
The first meeting of the committee is likely to be arranged this Monday. The first Forum in this round will likely take place in January.
Labels: forum, philosophy, styringsgruppa for Filosofisk forum, UiA, University of Agder
Philosophy in Stavanger (siddisfilosofi)
This term - starting November 27th or so - I will take part in the marking at Examen Philosophicum at the University of Stavanger (the university of the town where I was born, on the West coast of Norway), as an external examiner. Written exam is the genre, 3,000 words the approximate length of the apparently 160 exam papers.
I am thus for the moment connected to no less than three universities - University of Stavanger (as an external examiner), University of Agder (as a lecturer, research assistant, and involved in philosophy forums) and University of Tartu (as a Ph.D. student, and participant in research projects etc.).
Philosophy in Kristiansand
Today I met with Ralph Henk Vaags at UiA. We have agreed to restart 'Filosofisk fagforum' [Forum for academic philosophy], as well as 'Filosofisk forskerforum' [Philosophical research forum] at the University of Agder (in both cases it's the first time I'm partaking). For now the plan for the former is to arrange monthly 2-hrs seminars next spring. The two of us expect to form the responsible committee, along with a student representative.
Independently of these activities, the town of Kristiansand also features a near-monthly 'philosophical café', Kristiansand Filosofikafé, dating back to 2001.
Not bad for a mid-size Norwegian town whose biggest celebrity is a chimpanzee called Julius (who happens to be one of the town's best painters, as well).
Labels: forum, Julius, Kristiansand, Kristiansand Filosofikafé, philosophy of biology, UiA, University of Agder
"An ageing giant" - Arne Næss in memory
I have just come across the newsletter wherein my brief text "An ageing giant" appears (p13).
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Volume 20, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2009
Morten Tønnessen, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Estonia:
An Ageing Giant
It is hard to summarize what Arne Næss has meant to me—first of all because he has been so decisive in forming me as a practicing philosopher. For years I had difficulties seeing where, at all, I would disagree with him (a problem I have now to some extent overcome). I was early on inspired by his interpretation of Gandhi's political ethics—that's how I made the leap from activist to student of philosophy. As is the case for so many Norwegians, it was his work that introduced me to philosophy. A course in deep ecology at Åkerøya in Norway in the late 1990s was central in giving me a more solid basis for eco-philosophical reasoning (a couple years later Knut Olav Fossestøl, another course participant, and I founded the "Eco-philosophical colloquium" at the University of Oslo). By then Arne was already a familiar face for me as a philosophy student—30 years after he retired as professor, he was still around offering public lectures. In 2001 and 2003, I arranged public events with him myself. By 2003, however, it was clear that this brilliant mind struggled to remain intellectually alert and coherent. A request to partake in a proposal (concerning the Norwegian Petro-fund) from the Green Party of Norway, for which I was the national secretary at the time, was therefore revoked.
I interviewed him a couple of times. After the Åkerøya seminar I sent him my first booklong philosophical manuscript, Dialog. He had agreed to comment it, but now I got it returned, with an exact explanation: "372 pages!" I never knew whether to call him Arne or Næss. Despite having met him around a dozen times, he never appeared—with certainty—to recognize me (I wish he had). Today I have the fortune of being in contact with some of his closest colleagues at the eco-scene. The last time I was in contact with him (through Kit-Fai) was in 2006, when I was conducting a survey of attitudes in the Norwegian environmentalist establishment—partly inspired by his own little survey on attitudes to nature among Norwegian bureaucrats and others carried out a generation or so earlier. As I heard the news of his death, I pondered home to our house in Magé, Brazil, where we were at the time, and stepped into our outdoor swimming pool, as the day darkened. A couple of bats joined me. I retreated to a corner, offering the two nocturnal creatures (ecological!) space enough to rejoice undisturbed in their playful bath.
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A motorist stops at the local service station and appears suspicious to police who are also at the service station. The police stop the motorist and conduct a search of the vehicle. Police locate a flick knife, a small quantity of marijuana, a machete and an ATM card in another person's name. Sound far-fetched? It's not a rare occurrence, like you may think.
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Section 433 Criminal Code deals with the offence of receiving stolen property. To prove that the motorist in the above example, possesses stolen property (namely the ATM card), the police must prove:-
That the motorist received the property, that is, has it in his or her possession, or knowingly has it in another place under his or her control or has aided in concealing or disposing of it.
That the property was obtained by means of an unlawful act, such as stolen form the owner, with the intention to permanently deprive the owner of it.
At the time that the motorist received the ATM card he or she had reason to believe that it was stolen.
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The two-day meet of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (apec) countries ended on September 9, 2007, in Sydney, Australia, amidst much opposition and protests. The key outcome of the meet was a decision to push the Doha trade talks forward and support a post-Kyoto pact.
apec members pledged to show "political will, flexibility and ambition" to push the Doha round of World Trade Organization talks to a conclusion. The step, experts say, might be significant, with apec member-countries like China, Japan, Russia and the us accounting for nearly half of global trade.
apec members agreed to check global warming by improving energy use and support a post-2012 climate change pact. China agreed to the pact but reiterated that developed nations shoulder the burden for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Also discussed were issues like food safety, health and terrorism.
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Buck Showalter Waited Too Long For A Lead That Never Came
Oct. 5, 2016 , at 1:40 PM
By Neil Paine
Filed under MLB Playoffs
Protect the tie.
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The Baltimore Orioles are headed for an early offseason after losing the American League wild card game in Toronto on Tuesday night, and baseball Twitter had a field day over one of the biggest reasons why:
Never used.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) October 5, 2016
"You have to save Britton for a save situation because what if you can't protect a lead and lose?"
"But you lost."
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) October 5, 2016
WELL, ZACH BRITTON WILL BE FRESH FOR 2017.
— NOT BUSTER OLNEY (@TRIPPINGOLNEY) October 5, 2016
As the game went deeper into the night, eventually requiring extra frames, O's manager Buck Showalter asked for bullpen innings from the second-, third-, eighth-, 10th-, 12th- and 16th-most valuable relievers on his active roster (according to their regular-season wins above replacement). Meanwhile, Zach Britton, far and away his top reliever by WAR, went unused even as the leverage index of the game — and, by extension, Baltimore's season — reached absurdly high levels. Instead of focusing on how Britton could preserve the tie, Showalter kept waiting for a lead that his closer could protect, and in doing so illustrated a bullpen-management trap that too many skippers still fall into.
In the bottom of the ninth, Showalter used setup man Brad Brach (after already having had him pitch the eighth) to strike out Jose Bautista, with runners on first and second and nobody out — a moment that carried a leverage of 3.3 (i.e., 3.3 times as influential on the game's outcome as the typical situation). He then brought in Darren O'Day — who notched a mere 0.1 WAR during the regular season — to face the next batter, Russell Martin, with a massive leverage index of 4.3. Mercifully for Baltimore, the Orioles escaped that situation after Martin grounded into a double play.
They also survived having O'Day pitch the 10th, which began with a leverage of 2.3. (He got three quick outs.) But in the 11th, Showalter started the inning with Brian Duensing, a league-average reliever, in another 2.3 leverage-index situation, then brought slightly-below-average starter Ubaldo Jimenez in to face Devon Travis — who promptly singled to bring the game's leverage up to 2.9. Showalter let Jimenez continue against Josh Donaldson, who stroked another single, and then left Jimenez in against Edwin Encarnacion even as the leverage skyrocketed to a staggering 5.3, with runners on the corners with 1 out.
(All of this happened despite Britton being "available".)
That's when Encarnacion finally put Showalter and the Orioles out of their misery:
After the game, Showalter offered a few explanations, including the idea that Jimenez had the hot hand and that being tied on the road meant he should save his closer. (More on this later.) Although, as Yahoo's Jeff Passan wrote this morning, Showalter's justifications amounted to little more than the personification of a shrug emoji.
The common thread in all of the situations above was just how high Showalter allowed the game's leverage index to get while still refusing to break the "in case of emergency" glass Britton was patiently waiting behind. Here's every Toronto plate appearance from the ninth inning onward, along with its leverage index and the percentage of this year's regular-season plays in the ninth inning (or later) that had a lower leverage index, according to Baseball-Reference.com's data:
INN.
HITTER
LEVERAGE PERCENTILE
9th Brach Donaldson 0 — Double 2.3 74
Brach Encarnacion 0 -2- Intentional walk 2.6 81
Brach Bautista 0 12- Strikeout 3.3 88
O'Day Martin 1 12- Double play 4.3 93
10th O'Day Tulowitzki 0 — Foul out 2.3 74
O'Day Smoak 1 — Strikeout 1.8 67
O'Day Pillar 2 — Flyout 1.4 60
11th Duensing Carrera 0 — Strikeout 2.3 74
Jimenez Travis 1 — Single 1.8 67
Jimenez Donaldson 1 1– Single, runner to 3B 2.9 85
Jimenez Encarnacion 1 1-3 3-run Home Run 5.3 97
Leverage of each play in the last three innings of the Oct. 4 Toronto vs. Baltimore game.
Leverage percentile is amongst plays in the 9th inning or later in 2016. Leverage percentile measures the percentage of plays in the 9th inning or later in 2016 that had a lower leverage index than the play in question.
Source: FanGraphs.com, Baseball-Reference.com
Eight of the 11 plays occurred in moments that ranked among the top 26 percent of all pressure-packed scenarios; five were in the top 20 percent and two were in the top 10 percent. In the most basic sense, these are the moments in which you probably want your best reliever on the mound instead of cycling through warmups and cooldowns in the bullpen.
But in fairness to Showalter, recognizing the threshold of the game's most important moment isn't always easy in an extra-inning game. You might think a situation like the one O'Day faced in the bottom of the ninth — runners on first and second, 1 out — would have been likely to be the most important remaining moment of the ballgame, based on what we knew to that point. But in the ninth inning or later in 2016, the odds of a 4.3-leverage moment being the most crucial remaining moment were only about 42 percent:
LEVERAGE RANGE
NO. PLAYS
AVG. LEVERAGE
CHANCE OF BEING HIGHEST LEVERAGE FOR REST OF GAME
0.50 – 0.99 1,848 0.73 53.1%
1.00 – 1.49 1,598 1.30 41.2
2.50 – 2.99 975 2.77 45.1
3.00- 3.49 962 3.30 30.1
Chance of a play being the highest-leverage moment in the rest of a game for all plays in the 9th or later innings of all 2016 regular-season games
Source: Baseball-Reference.com
In actuality, there's a complicated dynamic between a game's current situation and its odds of eventually being the defining moment of the contest. The relationship isn't constant — a low-leverage situation in the ninth inning (below a leverage index of 1.0) might be likelier to contain the game's most crucial remaining moment than a medium-to-high leverage one (say, a leverage of 2.0) because the former can more easily taper down to a leverage of zero — and game's end — while the latter means the game is already in a high-leverage state, and may continue to be so after a given play.
After dipping at leverages between 2.0 and 3.5, a trend does form between higher leverages and a higher likelihood of being the game's most important remaining moment. But you have to approach a leverage of 4.7 or so to get around a 50-50 chance of the current play being the most important one left in the ballgame. Only about 5 percent of all plays in the ninth inning or later carry such weight, though they tend to come up often in nail-biters like the one Toronto and Baltimore played Tuesday.
Of course, many of these kinds of plays flow from one another, so you could potentially bring in your relief ace for a comparatively less-tense play and still eventually get to the Big Moment. Even more ideally, you could bring him in early enough to snuff out said Moment before it can ever happen. Seamheads are always complaining that teams don't use closers before the ninth inning; Britton could have even come in before the ninth, and nobody would be tearing Showalter to shreds right now, even if the game's eventual outcome was exactly the same.
Besides, Showalter probably wasn't going through mental calculations anywhere near so involved. For one thing, it wasn't a save situation, so the idea of using his closer there probably met some level of resistance in back of the manager's mind. (It's worth noting that Showalter ranked a mediocre 31st out of 45 qualified managers in Rob Arthur and Rian Watt's measurement of bullpen-managing acumen.) And managers often refuse to bring their closers into tie games on the road anyway, under the theory that they should be saved in order to hold an eventual lead rather than be burned protecting a tie. (Never mind that said lead often never comes because an inferior reliever has already blown the tie.) A lot of orthodoxy played into Showalter's decision to keep Britton on ice.
That choice will probably haunt Showalter forever, and it gave a truckload of ammunition to the internet's never-ending horde of second-guessers. (Criticizing skippers for managing to the save and other forms of bullpen bungling will never get old.) Tough as it can be to manage a bullpen in the extra innings of an elimination game, though, the disparity between Britton's numbers and those of the pitchers Showalter used — coupled with the game's ever-escalating leverage index — make the criticisms fair. Losing is ultimately a team effort, but Showalter's bullpen strategy didn't do the Orioles any favors Tuesday night.
CORRECTION (Oct. 5, 3:40 p.m.): An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the chart showing the leverage of each play in the last three innings of Tuesday's game. The last column of the chart shows the percentage of this year's regular-season plays in the ninth inning (or later) that had a lower leverage index, not a higher leverage index.
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Lady Gaga Celebrates New Album With More Coronavirus Relief Aid
By Katherine Biek
The pop superstar teamed up with the delivery app Postmates to donate up to $100,000 to World Central Kitchen.
I'd rather be dry, but at least I'm alive
Rain on me, rain, rain
Lady Gaga is celebrating the release of her new album "Chromatica" by donating to charity.
The pop superstar teamed up with the delivery app Postmates to donate up to $100,000 to World Central Kitchen, which has been feeding communities hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.
Founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, the organization is distributing 250,000 fresh meals each day to Americans in dozens of cities. It's also been purchasing meals from local restaurants to help those businesses stay afloat during the pandemic.
Gaga and Postmates will donate $1 for every order placed on the app from Friday through Sunday. They'll max out at $100,000.
Gaga worked with Global Citizen and the World Health Organization back in April to put on a virtual benefit concert that raised almost $128 million for health care workers and other COVID-19 relief efforts.


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Pipeline route revised to avoid Lancaster County nature preserves
June 11, 2014 | 11:17 PM
In response to public criticism, a company seeking to build a new natural gas pipeline through parts of north and central Pennsylvania has proposed changes to part of the route to avoid several nature preserves in Lancaster County.
More than 1,000 people turned out to Millersville University Wednesday night for a public meeting hosted by Oklahoma-based Williams Partners. The company is seeking to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to markets along the Eastern Seaboard as part of its $3 billion Atlantic Sunrise expansion project.
It's part of a larger effort to rearrange the flow of gas pipeline systems southward to accommodate the rapid growth of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.
Williams operates the Transco system which has over 10,000 miles of existing pipeline moving gas to other businesses like utility companies and power plants.
Spokesman Chris Stockton says Williams is revising its plans to keep off the Lancaster County Conservancy's Tucquan Glen and Shenk's Ferry preserves.
"We've actually developed a route that avoids those areas now," he says. "It is a direct result of the feedback we've heard so far."
The new proposed route would still cut through a portion of Steinman Run Preserve, according to Conservancy and county officials.
Over the past few weeks, nearly 1,000 people have attended Williams' nine other public meetings in communities affected by the project– including Lycoming, Clinton, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Northumberland, Columbia, Schuylkill and Lebanon counties.
The pipeline has faced its fiercest opposition in Lancaster County.
Several dozen protesters briefly disrupted the meeting, by staging a sit-in and chanting "Go home Williams!"
Other residents criticized the format of the meeting. There was no formal presentation from Williams, but the company had employees on hand with maps answering questions.
"I thought it was going to more of a question-and-answer format," says Adrienne Boulliane of West Lancaster Township. "I thought Williams would present their case, someone could oppose it, and we'd hear differing views."
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is charged with siting the placement of interstate pipelines.
FERC is planning to hold public meetings on the Atlantic Sunrise project later this summer, but has not announced dates yet. If approved, the pipeline could be operational by 2017.
See the proposed changes in Lancaster County (note: original route is green; new route is pink).
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Share this Story: Doug Ford says 'let's see the video' as Rob Ford's lawyer calls on Bill Blair to testify under oath
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Doug Ford says 'let's see the video' as Rob Ford's lawyer calls on Bill Blair to testify under oath
Dennis Morris told AM640 that people ask the mayor to resign 'without having had that opportunity to view the video...that's wrong'
National Post Staff
Nov 01, 2013 • January 25, 2015 • 6 minute read
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The embattled Toronto mayor's brother is calling for the release of a video allegedly showing Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.
Councillor Doug Ford told AM640's The John Oakley show that "I'd like to see this video and let the people judge for themselves."
Doug Ford says 'let's see the video' as Rob Ford's lawyer calls on Bill Blair to testify under oath Back to video
"Let's see the video," Doug Ford said. "The chief said there's a video and I believe the chief, but again when you're the mayor and people are taking tens of thousands of video shots of you and pictures, and if it happens a year ago, a year and a half ago, if I said Johnny you were there June the 25th, a year and a half ago, do you remember the video that you took?
Listen to AM640's interview with Doug Ford
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Doug Ford also said Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair "stepped over the line" by making " his personal opinions known to the public."
"Well, you know something, like we all have, Johnny, over the years, we use bad judgment sometimes and yes Rob's probably used bad judgment sometimes, but I'm just concerned politics are playing a big part in this, you listen to all the councilors that despise Rob they're out there holier than thou, which…I question that," Doug Ford said.
Doug Ford was asked by the show's host: "do you think there's another shoe that might drop, is there anything looming on the horizon for which he might have concern?"
"Well, no, not that I'm aware of, Johnny, but again, I'm not 100% sure," Doug Ford replied.
Asked if it was time for Rob Ford to "take a knee…for Rob to, maybe, withdraw…and try to reset maybe in 2014," Doug Ford said "I can't comment on that right now, Johnny. We're going to sit down and have a chat, but anyway, we'll see how it goes, and we're going to continue working hard for the taxpayers of Toronto."
Rob Ford's lawyer also asked Blair to release the infamous video.
Dennis Morris told AM640 that "we see every minute of the day someone asking the mayor to resign without having had that opportunity to view the video, and so that's wrong."
Listen to Dennis Morris's interview below
Morris asked Blair "to indicate under oath that he's seen the mayor smoking crack cocaine and I don't think he could."
"I'm saying when it's seen publicly there won't be a case against Mr. Ford," Morris said.
Morris questioned the timing of Blair's statement, hours after the release of police documents showing a connection between the mayor and Sandro Lisi, accused of extortion and drug dealing.
National Post files / Peter Redman
"It just seemed to be fortuitous…. Chief Blair just happened to be having a press conference. Very simply, they could have done this in my view, if they located a video with the appearance of the mayor smoking crack cocaine that could have been released, the public could judge what they saw – a picture is worth a thousand words — and they could have charged Mr. Lisi a week or two later," Morris said.
Morris said that Blair's statement — that "as a citizen of Toronto I'm disappointed" — was at odds with the chief's "duty to report news in a dispassionate fashion…. Who appointed him judge, jury and executioner? No one. He's been appointed in 2005 as chief of police, and with respect he should stick to that position."
Morris pointed to the resources spent on Ford's investigation, saying that despite the police's use of a Cessna and numerous other means of surveillance "they wound up, I think, with empty liquor bottles."
Morris said he believed the alleged seller of the video had a financial interest in saying Ford smoked crack cocaine: "How much money can you get if someone said I'm smoking marijuana or cigarettes as opposed to smoking crack cocaine."
In May, the Toronto Star and Gawker first reported that reporters saw video of the mayor appearing to smoke crack cocaine and making a homophobic slur about Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. The mayor has refused to address in any detail the allegations beyond a statement made about a week later that he does not smoke crack cocaine and "cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist."
Police believe the video was recorded at 15 Windsor Road, an alleged crack house that was also the backdrop for an infamous photo of Ford posing with Anthony Smith, an alleged gang member who was gunned down in March, and two other alleged members of the Dixon City Bloods.
The mayor, who screamed at and shoved photographers and television cameras off his driveway Thursday morning, held a brief news conference before a mob of media outside his office. His brother Councillor Doug Ford, earlier appearing ashen-faced as he watched the chief's announcement on television, stood by his side.
"I think everybody has seen the allegations against me today. I wish I could come out and defend myself, unfortunately I can't, because it's before the court and that's all I can say right now," Ford said.
Several city councillors called on the mayor to step down, but Ford told reporters: "I have no reason to resign, I'm going to go back and return my phone calls, going to be out doing what the people elected me to do and that's save taxpayers money and run a great government."
He slipped back into his office amid a barrage of questions and left city hall almost immediately.
Lisi, 35, who is appealing a conviction for threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend, was taken into custody on Thursday, and granted $5,000 bail. Lisi was barred from visiting a home police have described as a "crack house" in documents related to the case.
Police have been watching Ford and Lisi carefully for months, as outlined in detail in a nearly 500-page "information to obtain," a search warrant document that was partially released on Thursday. The evidence gathered led to the arrest of Lisi and Jamshid Bahrami, the owner of a dry cleaning business in Etobicoke, in October. Investigators allege the pair, both charged with drug trafficking and other offences, were working together to sell marijuana out of the dry cleaners.
Chief Blair said the video "forms part of the evidence in support of" the extortion charge against Lisi and that it all will be presented before the court. He said police retrieved several video files on Tuesday, including a second one that the chief would only describe as "relevant" to the investigation.
The chief said there is nothing to suggest the video with the mayor was doctored in any way. "It appears to be what it is," he said, adding that nothing depicted in the video could result in a criminal charge.
Police did not contact Ford after Tuesday's discovery of the video.
Investigators have yet to interview the mayor, Blair said, noting that police tried to interview a number of people but not all attempts were successful. A warrant to search the mayor's house has never been issued, he said.
"We've done our job here," said Blair. He stressed the probe, led by seasoned Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux, was not focused on an individual, but on alleged "criminal behaviour involving several people and we investigated that, we followed up on that information. That's our responsibility, without fear and without favour."
He added later: "No one has been treated differently because of who they are or the position they hold."
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Matthew grabs piece of history
A FORMER Whitby High School pupil was on hand to snatch a piece of history when revolution flared in part of the old Soviet Union.
Teacher Matthew O'Rourke was in the capital Tbilisi when opponents forced the resignation of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze.
And, ignoring all warnings, he made his way to City Hall and made off with the ultimate souvenir - a chunk of the deposed leader's chair.
Matthew, a former West Cheshire College lecturer, works for the British Council teaching English to peace-keepers in Armenia.
Georgia's bloodless 'velvet revolution' blew up as he was attending a conference in Tbilisi at a venue just 10 minutes walk from the parliament buildings.
Matthew, who also used to work part-time as a reporter for the Pioneer in the 1990s, said: 'We knew before we went to Tbilisi there had been demonstrations, but no one was really sure how serious they were until we got there.
'All day long there were anti-Shevardnadze speeches and programmes on TV. They drove him out of the parliament while we were still in the hotel. We had been warned by the embassy that things might get violent and to keep away from the parliament.'
He added: 'I bumped into a couple of friends who had decided against advice they would go down to the parliament and they invited me to go with them. Shevardnadze had already fled by this time but there was still a large crowd outside the parliament.
'We decided to go to City Hall. As we arrived the protesters were breaking in. As we were waiting outside we saw someone at the window of Shev's office, then his chair flew out of the window and the crowd started to tear it apart.
'One of my friends ran in and came back with two pieces of it, one for me and one for himself.'
Describing events as 'very exciting', Matthew said: 'I have lived in the Caucasus for three years and have seen the level of governmental corruption.
'I understand how frustrated people feel.'


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See the beauty of the lush tea plantation and learn about the tea growing process from the beginning. Get hands-on as you learn how to pluck tea leaves from resident tea pluckers. Watch how the leaves are processed in a traditional way and enjoy a cup of tea and traditional Thai snack.
After that, our resident plucker will lead you to the tea bushes where she will show you how to pluck tea leaves. You are welcome to join her (We will give you a bamboo basket to carry during the tea plucking activity).
At the roasting station, we will demonstrate the art of making tea by hand from kneading to roasting tea leaves. When the roasting is done, enjoy a cup of tea with delicious Thai snack.
Itinerary may be subject to change or cancellation according to local weather conditions. In the event of bad weather, tours will be postponed until suitable conditions arise.
Araksa is about 1 hour 20 drive from Chiang Mai city. You can hire a car from Chiang Mai city or Chiang Mai airport.


McGraw-Hill and CME Group have agreed a deal to pool their S&P and Dow Jones index businesses in a new joint venture.
CME Group struck a deal last year to take control of the Dow Jones stock index business through a joint venture in which it controls 90% and previous owner News Corp 10%.
It has reached an agreement to contribute that joint venture to a new one with McGraw-Hill, which will put in its S&P Indices business.
This will create S&P/Dow Jones Indices, a business with annual revenue of more than $400 million. McGraw-Hill will own 73% of the JV, CME Group 24.4% through its affiliates, and Dow Jones 2.6%.
S&P/Dow Jones Indices is expected to be operational in the first half of 2012 - subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions - and will become part of the new McGraw-Hill Markets company.
As part of the deal, S&P/Dow Jones Indices will enter into a new license agreement whereby CME Group will pay S&P Indices a share of the profits of its equity product complex, which is its trading and clearing business for futures, swaps and options on futures.
In addition, the new agreement expands the products covered under the license to include swaps and extends CME Group's existing exclusive rights to the E-mini and other S&P indexed futures.
Alexander Matturri, executive managing director of S&P Indices, will be chief executive officer of the new firm and Lou Eccleston, president of McGraw-Hill Financial, will chair a seven-member board including five directors designated by McGraw-Hill and two by CME Group.
Says Matturri: "Those who rely on indices worldwide - from product issuers to exchanges to investors - will benefit from a deeper lineup of indices as well as a business model focused on innovation, performance and impact. Combining S&P Indices' institutional strength with CME Group's global exchange partnerships and Dow Jones Indexes' retail focus will optimise our ability to respond to the changing global environment with increased speed and efficiency."


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"Under the Banner of Heaven" Review | Powerful Performances in a Heartbreaking Investigation
Andrew Garfield shines as a detective in Utah trying to solve a devastating crime.
Based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven takes a look at the fictionalized version of the real-life double murder committed by the brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, both fundamentalists in the Mormon church. Starring an ensemble cast of talent, the series is led by Andrew Garfield (fresh off his return as Peter-Three in No Way Home) who plays Detective Joe Pyre. Unlike some other cases which might have the detectives as outsiders looking in on an insular community, the murder of Brenda Lafferty (a fantastic Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her infant daughter happens within Pyre's own community: the Mormon community of Salt Lake City.
Under the Banner of Heaven is at its most successful when it perfectly blends Pyre and his partner Bill Taba's (a compelling and snarky Gil Birmingham) back and forth with the flashbacks to the beginnings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The series, helmed by Dustin Lance Black (the scribe behind Milk), dares to dive deep into the history of the LDS Church, from its bloody beginnings to the fundamental schism in the religion when it came to polygamy. Employing Andrew Burnap as the actual Joseph Smith and Tyner Rushing as Emma Smith, viewers who might not be familiar with LDS are given a riveting lesson in the truth and fiction behind some of the seminal moments in the creation of the sect.
Credit: FX
On the other side of the field are Pyre and Taba's suspects: the entire Lafferty family, an influential family dubbed the "Mormon Kennedys." The family, as you might suspect, is bountiful, but the key players are Ron (Sam Worthington doing his best with an American accent), Dan (Wyatt Russell in an even more hateable role than discount Captain America), and their wives Dianna (an absolutely incandescent Denise Gough) and Matilda (Chloe Pirrie). As Pyre learns more and more about what is rotten at the core of the Lafferty family through both his own research and through the mouth of Brenda's husband Allen (Billy Howle), so too is the audience exposed to all the different facets of Mormonism.
Depending on what you've been exposed to, the fundamentalist side of the LDS Church (known as the FLDS) might be all that you're familiar with. These are made up of groups of men obsessed with collecting as many wives as possible, including child brides. These are the people who the general public would call polygamists and some might call pedophiles. But, Under the Banner of Heaven is quick to show that it isn't all just pedophiles and fundamentalists. Pyre himself is a highly devout member of the LDS Church, but one who doesn't shy away from seeking out the truth even when the religious leadership caution him against it. Brenda's family is also Mormon, though it is clear her Idaho-based family and her bishop father are far more liberal with their teachings, not simply happy to marry their daughter off to an influential family.
Brenda herself is devout but questions the system that she was born and raised into, as does Pyre as he delves deeper into the case and looks at the teachings that he is passing on to his own daughters. What Under the Banner of Heaven doesn't do is sugarcoat the LDS Church. It is very much condemning the church for its conservative approach, especially toward how women are viewed. When Brenda questions why she must give up her career and her passions for her husband, his family is surprised, what more can a woman want other than to be a mother and wife?
The case shakes the faith of Pyre, especially when prodded by his partner Taba, who is a Paiute Indian and looks at the very white LDS Church with a wary eye. He grounds Pyre and Garfield and Birmingham's chemistry is off the charts. Pyre is soft where Taba is hard, one is spiritual while the other is not. While we see good Mormon Pyre with everyone else, with Taba, he feels safe to question the religion he was raised under, even to doubt it.
Garfield is at his peak in this series, more so than any other recent performance, and his castmates aren't far behind him. Edgar-Jones is earnest and emotional, often caught in difficult situations, Brenda is forced to try and see the bright side of things and Edgar-Jones plays her with such a sad sweetness. Gough's Dianna is similarly compelling, as a mother of an entire brood of children, her journey tests not only her faith but her endurance. Gough is simply amazing in the final stretch of the story, giving a gut-wrenching performance.
The series is a slow burn, if you're searching for a mid-season arrest and charge, you'll be waiting for a while. Jumping back and forward through time, by the time you get to the final episode, you might feel as worn out as Pyre and Taba feel at the end of the case. It's emotionally taxing, but that just makes it that much more worth it. Enlightening and harrowing, Under the Banner of Heaven doesn't flinch away from the darkest and strangest corners of fundamentalism as searches for justice in the supposed promised land.
This spoiler-free review was based on screeners of the entire series of Under the Banner of Heaven.
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Buying and Product Development (4 credits)
Fashion Entrepreneurship and Luxury Brand Management (3 credits)
Garment Technology and Ethics (2 credits)
Visual Merchandising (2 credits)
Trend Forecasting (2 credits)
Fashion Drawing (2 credits)
Taste is not definable. It is elusive but also instinctive. Such intuition does not come from thin air, it constantly evolves as awareness of the world increases and the skills to process and prioritise this knowledge heighten.
The three mandatory units are constructed to analyse a broad range of social, cultural, historic and behavioural factors. The premise is that an understanding of the past informs a discerning interpretation of the present and fuels an intelligent anticipation of what is to come.
This class is delivered in different locations around the London every week. You will participate in a series of lectures and guided visits to key collections, fashion districts, exhibitions in museums and art galleries.
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)
Fashion is continually changing. This is clearly seen in London where history and traditions are without doubt major catalysts that influence this change. Knowledge of the past allows for a considered understanding of why things are the way they are NOW, which in turn informs an intuition with which to predict the future.
The unit will focus on how change occurs by examining fashion from sociological and cultural perspectives.
Research into a wide cross section of relevant fields acts as the backbone of this unit.
You will have access to a variety of fashion and cultural influences, some traditional and some unexpected. This research will allow you to further develop and underpin an understanding of what fashion means to you.
You will continually reflect upon, critically examine, and develop your individual interests in fashion history and artefact through note taking and sketching in a journal. Further self-directed research will culminate in a PechaKucha visual presentation.
This research will allow you to establish connections, contextualise and define what fashion means to you.
Unit: Mandatory
Level: All levels
Tutor: Fifi Russell
Materials:Please provide a pencil, pen, portable sketching materials and camera. You will be provided with a journal on arrival.


An upscale Quaker college on the outskirts of Philadelphia became the scene of a mini-brouhaha on Sunday, when a commencement speaker admonished campus radicals for their intolerance and arrogance.
Former president of Princeton University, William G. Bowen, told a Haverford College commencement audience that the letter 40 plus radical students and three professors sent to another invited speaker, former UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, was "immature" and "arrogant," the Phildelphia Inquirer reported.
The left-wing students and three Berkeley alumni professors had castigated Birgeneau for his use of force in putting down campus protests in 2011 and demanded – demanded – that he publicly apologize, offer reparations to the victims, write a letter of explanation to Haverford and include "what he learned from" the protesters, and six other requirements.
Bowen came to his colleague's defense.
His remarks drew a standing ovation but were not without their critics.
One of the offended teachers, Associate Professor of English Maud McInerney, complained, "It was an ambush. It is really unfair to shame students at their graduation. It's a captive audience. That's an abuse of power," reported the Inquirer.
While Christine LeGarde, Condoleeza Rice, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and other commencement invitees have withdrawn recently due to leftist protestors, the veteran ex-Princeton president told his listeners better outcomes were possible.


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Daredevil by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee Collection
Collects Daredevil #1-10 and 10.1 and Amazing Spider-Man #677.
THE DEVIL IS REBORN. RENEWED. RESSURECTED. With new enemies, new friends and that same old "grinnin' in the face of hell" attitude, the Man Without Fear is back and leading with his face! Mark Waid (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Irredeemable, RUSE) joins neo-legendary artists Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin for a new, Eisner Award-winning spin on Daredevil that will leave you gasping for air. Having turned his world upside over the past several years, Matt Murdock realizes justice may not be blind to his past — and villains may not be the only ones looking for answers. Klaw, master of sound. The Megacrime cartel. Mole Man. The Black Cat. Bring it on! If Matt Murdock could see what he was doing...he'd be terrified.
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Daredevil by Mark Waid Vol. 1 Collection
Daredevil by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee Vol. 4 Collection
Daredevil (1998-2011)
It's the end of an era. The end of the Eisner-Award winning Bendis/Maleev run is here, and you'll have to see it to believe it! The team that outed Matt Murdock will leave you awestruck with a major change in the life of the Man Without Fear. A major, major change. 'Nuff said! Guest-starring everyone!
Immortal Iron Fist (2006-2009)
Two words, punks...BATTLE ROYALE! All the losers in the tournament in the Heart of Heaven get a chance to redeem themselves and obtain the ultimate victory...Danny Rand included! But if Danny couldn't win mano a mano, what hope does he have in a no-holds-barred kung-fu free-for-all of violence and carnage? And meanwhile, on Earth, the sinister Xao launches an attack almost a century in the making,
Black Widow (2016-2017)
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Most Wanted! The Eisner Award-winning team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee are taking Black Widow on the lam! Natasha has spent years gathering secrets, and when some of the darkest ones begin mysteriously going public, no one is safe. With her betrayed former confederates at S.H.I.E.L.D. on her heels and a lifetime of training and ingenuity at her disposal, Natasha's out for answers
New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: The Complete Collection
Collects Avengers (1998) #500-503 and #500 Director's Cut, Avengers Finale, New Avengers (2004) #1-10 and #1 Director's Cut, and New Avengers: Most Wanted Files. Award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis transforms Earth's Mightiest Heroes! But before he can build his New Avengers, he must disassemble the old ones! In the team's darkest day, one of their own tears them apart - seemingly forever


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11 Days of Wonder: A Digital Soul Journey Experience
Our first 11-Day Soul Journey went so well we're doing it again! Join us for this very special digital soul journey happening daily on What's App from January 1-11. Each day consists of a 20-30 minute video including a guided meditation & journal activity led by some of the wisest yoga & meditation teachers on Mother Earth.
Recorded Message, Meditation & Journal Exercise Delivered Daily via What's App
Sianna Sherman
Masood Ali Khan
Yogrishi Vishvketu
Lorin Roche
Peter Sterios
Ashley Melin
Together we Rock. Together we Rise. Together our collective intention will create a positive vibration around the globe.
Wonder (n.): a feeling of astonishment caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.
Have you ever wondered?
How to gracefully transcend the daunting challenges of 2020?
How to unlock the doors to our greatest potential?
How to manifest the life we were born to live?
Now more than ever we are being called to wonder. In this deep dive exploration of our November theme "Wonder" we will explore the feeling when the mind lets go and the heart takes over. We will look at how the feeling of wonder has the power to turn feelings of fear, doubt and anger into a positive vibration.
Once registered, you'll be added to our What's App group. Each evening from 11.1 - 11.11 you will receive a recorded video featuring a brief message, a guided 15-minute meditation and 1 journal question to be completed in your journal. The goal is to complete the task the following day but if you miss a day, it's ok to double up. This will be done on your time! When you have completed the task, you'll simply reply with the Day + an emoji letting the rest of the group know you've completed the activity. We believe when we are held accountable and supported by fellow SoulJours, we are more likely to participate!
Benefits of this Experience
Explore the mind. Surrender to Source. Ask for guidance from a higher power.
Begin to establish a daily meditation & journal practice (crucial components to self discovery & mastery of the mind)
Envision a state of wonder, where new doors open and we are able to manifest the life we were born to live
Connect with SoulJours around the world
A daily recording will be sent at 5pm PST via What's App. We encourage you to complete the task within 24 hours but this is your experience to be done at your own pace.
Day 1-2: Yogrishi Vishvketu
Day3-4: Peter Sterios
Day 5: Lorin Roche
Day 6: Jeanne Heileman
Day 7: Ashley Melin
Day 8: Sianna Sherman
Day 9: Masood Ali Khan
Day 10: Ashley Melin
Day 11: Surprise Activity
The number 1 represents independence, optimism, motivation, and inspiration. The number 1 is the number of a trailblazer, a leader. 1 repeated means we're paving a new path as SoulJours. That something profoundly new is around the bend...let's pray for a fresh start!
Repetition of the concept instill these values in our psyche. When we see the number 1 repeated it means it's time to take the first step, take action & SoulJour on...
The butterfly represents transformation, rebirth, renewal, impermanence of the mind. Butterflies teach us to recognize change as it arrives – to welcome it vs. fear it. They represent courage and remind us to trust the process of moving through the phases of life with our newfound wings – and fly!
For the remainder of 2020, we've partnered with TreeSisters – an organization we believe is doing great things in the world! TreeSisters works to empower local communities in remote areas,by contributing to the reforestation of tropical areas decimated by fires and clearcutting.
TreeSisters exists to elicit collective responsibility for planetary restoration at the grass roots level with a focus on women and tropical reforestation. They channel 80% of member donations to exemplary existing reforestation organizations in the tropics with whom they partner to restore ecosystems. The remaining 20% funds our behavior change and consciousness shift work with women to reinstate feminine leadership, and normalize collective ownership of planetary restoration.
A portion of all proceeds and 100% of all donations will go towards planting our SoulJour Forest!
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Ashley Melin, founder of SoulJour
Ashley has been a freelance graphic designer for nearly 20 years. Her current clients include Nike, Columbia, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Starbucks, and HEMA Amsterdam. Taking her first yoga class in 1992, she has been a daily practitioner of yoga/meditation ever since, having studied with the best teachers all over the world. She began taking groups to India in 2007, with the goal being to get people out of their comfort zone and to practice living life off the mat that only India will do. As an avid mountain biker, skier, 10 time marathon runner, and big mountain climber (climbing over 25 peaks above 14,000 feet ), she has an intimate understanding of pushing limits – physical, emotional, mental – in order to create change. This concept became the most real when 5 years ago, Ashley experienced a radical shift and divorced the man she'd been with half her life. It was during this most challenging time of her life that the idea for SoulJour was born and she was able to turn her biggest challenge into her greatest gift.
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Sianna Sherman (she/her) is an international yoga teacher, training tens of thousands of students and teachers, for nearly three decades. As the visionary of the Rasa Yoga, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL, Sianna shares her voice in the way of community and collaboration. She is a gifted storyteller and awakens the imagination through the language of the soul. Dedicated to embodied wisdom, social justice activism, anti-racism, unpacking her own white privilege, shadow work, mantra, ritual, and Tantric yoga philosophy, Sianna brings a genuine presence to every offering with humility, devotion, and deep care for the collective. In addition, she has extensive training in bodywork, functional anatomy, wildcrafting, and earth-based wisdom. She leads Rasa Yoga teacher trainings, alchemical arts for sacred sisterhood, pilgrimages to sacred sites, and is the co-host of the Fearless Heart Activation series with her beloved, Masood Ali Khan, to inspire courageous conversations and brave space for real transformation in these times.
Deobrat Mishra is one of the most energetic and innovative Sitar artists in India. Refinement, melodic and rhythmic complexity are some of the features of his lively style of playing. Born in 1976, he represents the 11th generation of the Benares Gharana tradition. When he was a child, he studied Tabla with his mother, Pramila Mishra, granddaughter of the well-known Tabla player Pandit Baiju Mishra. He started to study vocal music with his father at the age of five and began his Sitar training a year later. That same year, after only six months of practice, he performed on stage for the first time. Five years later, he played for All India Radio. In 1994, he began touring internationally and the Best Young Sitar Player of India Award. Currently he conducts workshops, solo performances for radio and television, international annual tours, as well as world music concerts with Indian, American and European artists. He is the co-founder of Academy of Indian Classical Music alongside his father, Pandit Shivnath Mishra.
Himalayan Yoga Master and founder of Akhanda Yoga, Yogrishi Vishvketu (Yogrishi) is known for his infectious laughter and stories. His holistic approach brings forward ancient wisdom for a modern age. A yogi at heart, he has studied and practiced Yoga for over 40 years and holds a PhD in Yoga Philosophy. For the last 25 years, he has been sharing this unique blend of practical experience and knowledge of wisdom texts at workshops and conferences internationally. Yogrishi has trained thousands of teachers through his Yoga Teacher Trainings at Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh, India, where he lives half of the year. His deepest aim is to inspire people to connect to their true nature, which is joyful, fearless, expansive and playful. He is the author of Yogasana: The Encyclopedia of Yoga Poses and collaborated on the Business Casual Yogi.
Dr. Lorin Roche was lucky enough to begin practicing asana, pranayama, and meditation in 1968, and he still feels like a beginner – every day. He has been practicing, researching, and teaching meditation for 50+ years. Lorin is a pioneer in developing personalized meditation practices, designing the techniques around an individual's inner nature. He is the founder of two related meditation systems: The Radiance Sutras®, which utilizes the richness of the Sanskrit language and is oriented toward the yoga community, and Instinctive Meditation™, an approach that uses common sense language and is designed to match one's individual nature. Lorin has a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, where he has done extensive research on meditation and meditative experiences. His books on meditation are treasured by meditation practitioners across the globe and have been widely recognized as a "must-read". Dr. Roche also teaches and consults worldwide with individuals (private coaching), businesses, and universities to create custom meditation programs that suit their needs and cultures. Lorin lives in Marina del Rey, California with his yogini shaktini wife, Camille Maurine.
Jeanne Heileman has been practicing and studying yoga for 27 years and teaching for 17 years. She received her teacher trainings in Los Angeles, California through Center for Yoga, YogaWorks and Rod Stryker's ParaYoga, where she is Certified as a Level II instructor. Jeanne has spent years studying with the finest yoga leaders in a variety of styles, developing a skill for alignment, theraputics and meditation techniques. She has traveled to India numerous times, studying with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait and Shiva Rea. Jeanne teaches classes in a flow style with clear instruction, a sense of humor and a devotional spirit. She is registered at the E-500 Hour level with Yoga Alliance and teaches trainings and workshops internationally when she is not teaching her regular schedule in Los Angeles.
Peter Sterios is an internationally recognized author, yoga teacher (ERYT-500), and architect based in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. He is the founder of LEVITYoGA™, MANDUKA™, and creator of the popular yoga DVD series "Gravity & Grace" which is one of YOGA JOURNAL's "top 15 yoga DVDs of all time". For three years (2011-2013) Peter taught yoga at the White House for Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiatives. In 2018, he was invited to the Pentagon to share his ideas about yoga's therapeutic effects for the US Marine Corps. He also co-founded KarmaNICA, a charitable organization for underprivileged children in rural Nicaragua. Peter's first book Gravity & Grace: How to Awaken Your Subtle Body and the Healing Power of Yoga published by Sounds True is now available.
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A seeker, sage, warrior. A peacemaker. A rule breaker. A fearless force of nature. Transcender of darkness to light, a daily practitioner of radical kindness, compassion, and full-belly laughter. A quietly confident soul in service to Source – living the life meant to be lived.
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