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Hockey nationals from July 4th
KPS Gill backed IHF has decided to hold nationals from 4th July in Madhya Pradesh. I guess we owe it to MP government who in recent times have helped Indian hockey. During the recent meeting of IHF, it was MP government who asked for the permission and they got the permission to hold the elections.
Nationals which is supposed to be conducted every year was last conducted in 2005 by Andhra Pradesh. It was nearly two years before IHF was disbanded. In its two years Hockey India has not held a national tournament. Now the nationals will be conducted from 4th of July to 18th of July which will help boost the domestic national scene.
IHF had sent letters to all the state units inviting them for the national tournaments and it is expected that most of the states will send their teams for the tournament. Many states have been facing problem to get membership under HI and this till help IHF to strengthen their place as the body running Indian hockey. Even Sports Association of India is alsp going to participate in the nationals.
The move of the Madhya Pradesh government to organize the long over due Nationals is also a slap on the face of Hockey India, which gave permission to organize a women tournament in Bhopal recently, and then backstabbed them by not allowing the national team members – who were ironically in a camp in the same city -- to take part.
Meanwhile the president of Hockey India, Vidya Stokes has warned all the states not to participate in the on coming nationals and is they participate a strict disciplinary actions will be taken against those teams. She said,"We have learnt that the Government of Madhya Pradesh is planning to conduct the men's National Championship at Bhopal from July 4 to 18, 2010."
"Strict disciplinary action and penalisation as deemed fit would be taken against all those teams and players who participate in such kind of unauthorised tournaments,"
She laid an emphasis that Hockey India and not the Indian Hockey Federation is the sole administrator for the sport in the country. Hockey India is in danger of losing its position as the administrator of Indian hockey after the dismantled IHF came back after court ruled out their ban.
Hockey India is now facing a rejuvenated and determined Indian Hockey Federation who have started taking initiatives to help and improve hockey(at least in the domestic stage).
KPS Gill also made his point and did not pay heed to the warning. He quoted to Hindustan Times,"There are a lot of aspiring hockey players in the country. We don't care about the warnings and despite it, I am sure that we will enjoy good participation,".
While Hockey India is considering at holding their own nationals in November or December this year. But with the track record of missing deadlines, we will have to wait and watch if they are even able to conduct the nationals, because they have not still conducted their elections.


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U-7 Girls
Pairings & Results
Rounds 1 to 11
Cross Table
Side Stadium
Phaselis Stadium
Olympos Stadium
Aspendos Stadium
Kemer Stadium
2011 European School Chess Championship's closing ceremony was held in Kemer – Antalya on 18th of October. The President of Kemer Municipality Mr. Mustafa Gül, officials, players and guests attended the closing ceremony. It started with Turkish national anthem and ECU anthem. The board member of Turkish Chess Federation Mr. Ahmet Arda Kılıç delivered his speech before awarding ceremony. He also presented the appreciation plaquette to the chief arbiter Mr. Unal for the memory of the championship. Turkey became the first one among countries which took part in the event – Turkish players won the biggest amount of medals although Turkish National Anthem rang out for the second time. Azerbaijan placed second, while Russia is on the third place. Please check our report about awarding ceremony below.
Day 7 Round 9
The decisive round of the European Chess School Championship started at 10 o'clock in the morning and finished about 3.15 p.m. Organizers presented to all players special certificates, which prove their participation in European School Chess Championship 2011. Melek Ismayil lost today the only game in the tournament but remained on the first place in U-7 age group among girls. The decisive game between twin sisters finished with drawish result and the standings remained the same – Irina Baraeva is on the first place while Marina Baraeva placed second half a point behind of Irina. Both Turkish players Cemil Can Ali Marandi and Sanal Vahap won their games today and share the first place in U-13 category. Other results you can check in the final standing on the official webpage.
In the most of the tournaments the eighth round started at 4.30 p.m. but girls from U-13 age group had to play one more extra game in the morning. One round to go the tension became very high and the last round will decide the winners in age groups. There are some exceptions and some players occupied the first places before the last round. Among them there is a player from Azerbaijan Melek Ismayil, who won all 8 games and fixed her victory in U-7 age group among girls. Turkish player Ayca Aksoy also won the tournament among girls U-11 before the last round. The last game will start tomorrow 18th of October at 10 a.m. and the closing ceremony will be at 5 p.m. Please follow our report below.
N.EZGİ MENZİ Became 1st Among 1,097,503!
Ezgi Menzi plays in U-13 age group among girls here and after seventh rounds she shares the third place (4 points in 7 games). She became famous as a Turkish 13-years-old chess talent and successful student at Mersin TED High School. This year she got the highest score in Turkish National Scolastic Test (called as SBS). It is obligatory test which should be passed by students after finishing the 7th grade. Ezgi Menzi was among the best students who scored the absolute result (500 out of 500). This year 1,097,503 students have participated in this exam and 503 of them succeeded to make a full score. Ezgi Menzi became first due to the new Turkish Law which allows the medallists of the European or World events receive 10 extra points. Such a great success shows that doing well chess player can be successful in education and opposite is also possible. Many doors of different colleges are opened to Ezgi Menzi and she can still combine her studies with favourite hobby.
On 16 of October there was double round, although the seventh round started at 4.30 p.m. and finished about 10 p.m. Among important games we can name few of them in different age groups. In U-13 age category two best rated Turkish players Vahap Sanal and Cemil Can Ali Marandi met over the board. After the long struggle the game drawn and as a result both of them continue leading. Only two games remained till the end of the European School Chess Championship and the last rounds suppose to be the decisive ones. Please check our report below:
Opening ceremony of the European Chess School Championship.
We welcome all participants of European School Championship 2011!
European Individual Schools Chess Championships 2011
Turkish Chess Federation © 2011

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Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed (born 1969) is an Australian and British Pakistani academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism.
Sara Ahmed was born in Salford, England. She has a Pakistani father and English mother. She emigrated to Adelaide, Australia with her family in 1973. Key themes in her work relating to migration, orientation, difference, strangerness, and mixed identities relate directly to some of these early experiences. She completed a BA (hons) in English and History at Adelaide University from 1987–1990, and then undertook doctoral research at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University from 1991-1994. Sara Ahmed was based at the Centre for Women's Studies (later the Institute for Women's Studies) at Lancaster University from 1994–2004, and was Co-Director and then Director of the Institute from 2000-2003. Appointed to the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2004, she is now Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. She has been an Executive Member of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK and Ireland), and has also acted as Co-Chair of this Association as well as Editor of its Newsletter. In the Spring semester of 2009, she was the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies at Rutgers University and has previously held visiting appointments in Gender Studies at Sydney University (2003-4) and Adelaide University (1999). Sara Ahmed was the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies in the Spring term of 2013. Sara Ahmed is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Cultural Studies, and is also on the editorial boards of 16 other academic journals and book series, including New Formations, European Journal of Women's Studies, GLQ and Sexualities.
Sara Ahmed has published 7 single-authored books: Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998);Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality(2000).; The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004); Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006);The Promise of Happiness.(2010), which was awarded the FWSA book prize in 2011 for "ingenuity and scholarship in the fields of feminism, gender or women's studies"; On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012). and Willful Subjects. She has also edited or co-edited 7 books and journals, and has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters. One reviewer of her work has commented: "Few academic writers working in the UK context today can match Sara Ahmed in her prolific output, and fewer still can maintain the consistently high level of her theoretical explorations."
While much of the history of moral philosophy from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill has described "happiness as the ultimate object of our desires," Sara Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness (2010) "takes on the long-standing philosophical affinity for happiness in exposing ways in which the concept of happiness functions to justify oppression and to recast social norms and human goods." As one reviewer writes, quoting Ahmed's 2010 monograph, "Ahmed is not concerned with what happiness 'is' but with the kinds of cultural, phenomenological, and political work it does. She historicizes the concept, attending to the 'happiness turn' at work in popular culture and in science, arguing that 'by finding happiness in certain places, [the science of happiness] generates those places as being good, as being what should be promoted as goods' (6)—or as 'happiness objects,' which orient us or compel us to turn toward them to generate "accumulative positive affective value as social good' (21)."
Sara Ahmed's essay published in 2010, "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)" which reclaims the figure of the feminist killjoy as a site of political potential, has circulated widely. She has since begun a blog on feminist killjoys .
(2007). Salla Tuori and Salla Peltonen, "Feminist Politics: An Interview with Sara Ahmed," Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Volume 15, Issue 4 2007, pages 257–264.
(2009). Ward, Amanda and Ahmed, Sara. "Global Emotion", The Adelaide Review, Issue 356.
(2012). Kate Sang and Sara Ahmed. "Interview with Book Prize Winner," FWSA Newsletter, March, pages 7–9.
(2013). Antwi, Phaneul; Brophy, Sarah; Strauss, Helene; Troeung, Y-Dang; and Ahmed, Sara. "Not Without Ambivalence," Interventions 15:1, pages 110–126.


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Microsoft-Yahoo! deal really, seriously dead this time
Just because Microsoft publicly gave up a few weeks back doesn't mean that …
John Timmer - Jun 12, 2008 8:17 pm UTC
Microsoft's attempts to buy Yahoo! outright came to an end about a month ago, when Yahoo! management rejected a final offer of $33 a share. But there were many indications that the deal was simply pining for the fjords, as financier Carl Icahn attempted to replace Yahoo! management with executives who would take the money and run, and rumors circulated of a more limited agreement between the companies. Now, Yahoo! is stating that its talks with Microsoft have broken down entirely.
The statement says that Microsoft's final offer for Yahoo! was taken off the table on June 8. An alternate deal, which would see Yahoo! selling its search business to Redmond, was rejected by Yahoo! as not fitting into its corporate vision, even though Microsoft is still reportedly interested in such a deal. Rumors of the collapse of all talks between the companies have sent Yahoo!'s stock down over 10 percent on a day when the stock market has seen a small and gradual decline.
Microsoft confirms that it has no interest in buying Yahoo! in its entirety, but says it's still open to carving off a piece of the company. "In the weeks since Microsoft withdrew its offer to acquire Yahoo!, the two companies have continued to discuss an alternative transaction that Microsoft believes would have delivered in excess of $33 per share to the Yahoo! shareholders," the company said in a statement. "Our alternative transaction remains available for discussion."
The end of the talks has freed Yahoo! to sign a display deal with Google, which Yahoo says will add about $800 million to its bankroll annually. As a result of the deal, some Google Ads will now appear on Yahoo! search pages. The Justice Department is looking closely at the deal; the companies have agreed to delay the ad rollout for three months until a DoJ review is complete.
The Google-Yahoo! deal will leave a few of the other interested parties in awkward positions. The shareholder lawsuit that targeted Yahoo! argued, in part, that its consideration of a deal with Google was primarily a defensive measure, meant to make any deal with Microsoft unpalatable on antitrust grounds. If Yahoo! goes through with the deal even after Microsoft is out of the picture, then that argument may not hold any water. Worse still, it's possible that, by the time any trial starts, Yahoo! could come to it with financial data showing that the deal with Google actually worked.
Carl Icahn may be left in a similar, awkward position. His proxy fight for control of the Yahoo! board was based on the premise that the existing Yahoo! management should be doing one of two things: negotiating in good faith with Microsoft, or cutting a deal with Google. Now, it appears that there's nothing a new board could do along those lines that would make a difference—Microsoft is not interested, and a deal with Google is in the works. Icahn may come up with other reasons to replace the Yahoo! board, but it will clearly be an ad hoc response to current events.
Whatever else Microsoft may have wanted to accomplish by making its desire to buy Yahoo! public, it seems unlikely that forcing a deal with Google was on the list.
John Timmer John became Ars Technica's science editor in 2007 after spending 15 years doing biology research at places like Berkeley and Cornell.
Email jtimmer@arstechnica.com // Twitter @j_timmer


The 17th of August is 'Get Smart About Credit Day'. I know we've already discussed the advantages and disadvantages of cash vs. credit, and covered the basic rules of paying back what you borrow, not borrowing more than you can afford, and ensuring you get the best credit card for you. Today though, I want to cover the importance of really understanding your personal finances, and how to educate yourself further in order to ensure that you are getting the best out of what is being offered to you, and that you fully understand the choices.
Because, if you're really honest with yourself, are you REALLY educated about credit?
Hotcourses is a good place to compare the different personal finance courses you can take across the UK, including distance learning courses. They very in price, length, and availability and start for as little as £49.
The Open University also has a good personal finance course that you can complete via distance learning. By educating yourself you're taking back control. It may seem a little drastic to take an official course, but honestly, the more you understand the easier it is to make informed decisions. You will have a better understanding of how to manage your own finances, and will gain a financial skill set that will set you up for good choices in the future. No one will be able to pull the financial wool over your eyes again!
This is a genuinely helpful suggestion that was given to me a few months ago (albeit about learning Italian, not getting credit advice). Youtube is a mine of information, as we're all aware, and there are loads of professional channels and presenters out there who give online seminars and talks on every single topic you can think of. They're free, informative, and you can watch them numerous times. You are also able to search for the exact thing you are looking for, as opposed to more traditional seminars which are more likely to cover broader more generalised topics as they need to serve as a 'catchall' for everyone attending.
Genuinely, high street banks are now getting much better at issuing credit advice and offering constructive assistance if you get in contact with them asking for help. For example, HSBC have contact numbers you can phone in order to set up a face to face meeting with one of their experts, as well as links to independent experts such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, and the StepChange Debt Charity.
Lloyds Bank also offer assistance with budgeting, guidance for students, as well as listing contact numbers you can call in order to set up meetings with one of their financial experts if you are experiencing trouble and need advice.
Check to see what your bank can offer you as one of their customers. It's in their interest for you to be financially savvy and sound. Therefore they are usually very happy to assist you in any way they can if you turn to them for advice, as it ensures your continued investment in their services.
Also, bear in mind that they are a bank – they're kind of the experts!
Martin Lewis founded this website in 2003. It is a great place to go for any general financial advice you can think of! It provides a mix of information and articles that enable people to save money. The money saving expert is a very clear and easy to use website. It also contains thorough, comprehensive, information on a range of things from reputable sources.
If you need help with things such as; choosing credit cards, how to avoid debt, and the best way to manage your credit and debt, then this is a really good place to go and start educating yourself on the subject.
These are all good places to start in educating yourself about credit.
By getting smart you're getting control.


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Former journalist and current Ukrainian MP Mustafa Nayyem about the mistakes the authorities and the West are making.
Why is it that no tangible reforms have been carried out over the past two post-Maidan years? I see three factors that are thwarting our efforts: our oligarchic past, populism, and Russia.
Those radical reforms we had expected to achieve over the past two years have not been achieved and it is not because we lack the staff or the expertise. We have been unable to succeed because the politicians who came to power are in one way or another connected to the oligarchs.
Two years ago when a new government was being negotiated instead of inviting people who had participated in the Maidan movement, the same old oligarchs or their representatives were invited to sit at the table to discuss the formation of the new government. At that time the chief concern was to stabilize the situation but in the end what has happened is that the oligarchs are the ones who have the final word on government policies. The president had declared as a guiding principle the stripping of powerfrom the oligarchs but Kolomoiskyi, Firtash, and Akhmetov have continued to wield their power. Their representatives still affect decision-making both in the parliament and through the media.
Two years ago civic society had furnished the government with a power telescope and now the government is trying to use that telescope to hammer in the nails. This leads to despair and loss of confidence.
The ineffectiveness of government institutions has encouraged populism to gain momentum. Politicians who have never been involved in the reform movement, who have never been responsible for making important, hard choices are taking advantage of whatever they can simply to gain popularity, including the war, the people's despair, the lack of determination on the part of the government to fight the oligarchs – all of it is fair game. Those politicians are collaborating with the oligarchs no matter how you look at it. They are the ones resisting reforms in the judiciary, the courts, and the energy sector.
In addition, everything that we see happening in Ukraine is an aftereffect of the war, and not the repercussions of the Maidan. As a reminder: the Maidan had ended in March, 2014, and the Russian invasion began right at that time, first in Crimea and then in the Donbas. National defense, and not reforms, was the priority. The toppling of the Maidan objectives is Putin's greatest crime.
The people who wanted change and reform have failed in bringing their representatives to power and now we have what we have. The reforms in the justice system, in law enforcement and in the energy sector have stalled due to the lack of resources, the lion's share of which goes to the war effort.
In 1994 under security guarantees from the United States, Great Britain and Russia Ukraine agreed to destroy its nuclear arsenal. When the war in eastern Ukraine began, our security guarantors declined to provide us with any kind of weapons.
It is very difficult to explain to our electorate why NATO declinesto provide us with military aid. And if you compare the aid the European Union has granted other countries, what we would receive would be a pittance.None of the Eastern European countries had gone through such reforms as we have, and with a war going on.
We are grateful for the aid we have received. But now we are faced with a problem that could reduce all our efforts to nothing:the fulfillment of the Minsk Agreements. Any efforts to push through the parliament amendments to the Constitution will end in clashes in which the populists, the oligarchs, and the military establishment will participate. Most of the deputies in parliament will not agree to grant any kind of special status to Donbas.In spite of everything, we feel the international community applying an immense pressure on us.
What are the possible outcomes of a snap election? Those people who had financed the rise and the election of Yanukovich, who had supported him, are gaining in popularity. They stress that the West will never provide the financial aid Ukraine needs, and that in the long run Ukraine will be unable to secure its independence, or withstand Russia's never-ending aggression.
If elections were to be held in two years we risk losing a pro-European parliament, and a pro-European government. And all of it would be the consequence of the pressurebeing applied on us by our European partners.
We understand that the Minsk Agreement is a sequence of negotiations. My brother is currently serving on the front line in Avdiivka and every day he sees soldiers dying. Official data does not mention the hundreds of wounded and killed at the front. But eventually, the fighting soldiers will return home. How will we be able to explain to them the granting of an amnesty to the aggressor, how will we be able to explain to them some kind of autonomy for Donbas, or elections in Donbas?
It is not discussions about reforming the medical, judicial, or economic sectors that take up the most time in parliament these days, it is discussions about the Minsk Agreements, the elections in Donbas, and the escalation of the war.
Any kind of pressure on the president, on the parliament, on the government will lead to destabilization. There is no script that Ukraine will agree to in order to allow elections on territory not under the control of the government. I do understand that looking from the outside it would seem like a compromise, but from our point of view, for us, who live here, it does not seem like a compromise at all.
There is no ceasefire. Since the Minsk Agreement was signed not a single day, I repeat, not a single day has passed without shots being fired. These days we hear that the liberation of Savchenko, Soloshenko, and Afanasiev could serve as a basisfor easing the sanctions imposed on Russia. We're not on the market to be traded or sold. Why would the liberation of our citizens, who had been kidnapped from our territory serve as a trade-off for sanctions? How does their liberation affect the sanctions that had been imposed on Russia after the occupation of Crimea and after the invasion of eastern Ukraine? And after a war in eastern Ukraine was ignited?
Why Americans are so vulnerable to Russian propaganda?
Why the World is disappointed by Aivaras Abromavicius resignation?
Reaction to a resignation statement moved by Aivaras Abromavicius Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine on February 3, 2016.
Ukraine would have been better off after Maidan if they simply fired every civil service employee/judge/cop/officer in the nation and put in their place the entire national class of university graduates from that year. They might have been inexperienced, but they would have had idealism, energy, ideas and no connections with anti-democratic elements like oligarchs and political parties.


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PianoNews - November/December 2008 - Written by Hans-Dieter Grünefeld
A Subtle Beethoven Interpreter and a film concept with aesthetic justification
A concert is a concert. Quintessential for our judgement is, what, how and by whom we hear it. In a film, however, the visual presentation additionally guides our attention. Therefore, the Direction for the live concert "Jerome Rose plays Beethoven Sonatas" came up with something inventive.
The spatial variability of camera positions was very restricted in the small hall of Yamaha Artists Services in New York. In order not to stay in a dull atmosphere of bleak documentation, four standard perspectives – frontal, sideways from the pianist, as well as sideways and from above the stage - are used in fast, smooth cuts. That's why Jerome Rose appears quite relaxed while playing the Sonata Op. 101; his interpretation is guided by inner composure. Especially concerning the sound, the dissonances have, as in Sonata Op. 109, a clear function, and they are not retouched by him.
He brings the emotional build-up of 'innigster Empfindung' back to calmness by an almost seamless reduction of dynamics. One realizes and sees that Rose has been familiar with these sonatas since his youth, as he explains in the "Notes on Beethoven".
The optic presentation changes for the Adagio of the Sonata Op. 110 as the picture is cut into four simultaneous images. That way, one isn't drawn into the music so much, but rather has a certain distance to Jerome Rose's introverted emotional facets through the movement of one's eyes. Since such splitting of images is just one option of the camera direction and used often, the perception of Sonata Op. 111 with its dark "appassionato" becomes a more relaxed viewing pleasure.
So this production shows both Jerome Rose as a subtle Beethoven interpreter, and also a film concept by which the listening/viewing of piano music gets an aesthetic justification.


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Smoking ban with kids in car now a go
Drivers face $250 fine for smoking in their cars with children under new law launched on Weedless Wednesday.
By Rob FergusonQueen's Park Bureau
Thu., Jan. 22, 2009timer2 min. read
As a smoker and a father, Mike Crockett applauds as common sense Ontario's new law that bans people from smoking while in cars with children under 16.
"I see people doing that on the highway and it drives me crazy," Crockett, a fire safety expert, said between puffs outside a University Ave. office building yesterday, as the law, with fines of up to $250, took effect.
"But like my grandfather said, if common sense was so common everybody would have it."
The law, passed last year to protect children from the ill effects of second-hand smoke, was timed to take effect on "Weedless Wednesday," a day when smokers are encouraged to beat the addiction to tobacco.
Despite her concerns that people are smoking in cars with children present, Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best said there are no plans to ban smoking in homes with children in them.
"We want to strike a balance between people's health and liberties," she told a news conference at a Queen's Park day-care centre.
"While it is aimed at cars only, it will raise the awareness among parents about the dangers associated with cigarette smoking."
Studies suggest cigarette smoking in cars can expose children to concentrations of toxins that are 27 times stronger than in the home, said Best, a non-smoker who added that she always took efforts to shield her three children from second-hand fumes that can cause respiratory infections and ear problems and can aggravate asthma.
The Ontario Medical Association said that even with windows open and ventilation fans on, smoking makes air in the small cabin of a car at least 13 times dirtier than the air outside.
As well, smoking concentrations in a car can be 20 times worse than in a smoky bar in the days before that was outlawed.
Anti-smoking activist Michael Perley, of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco, said the problem of people smoking in their homes with children is shrinking as more smokers quit or take their habit outside.
The latest tobacco-use survey by Statistics Canada shows just 5 per cent of children aged 11 to 19 in Ontario report being exposed to smoke in the home – the lowest rate of any province save for British Columbia, which is at 4 per cent.
"We've made some serious strides," said Perley, who wants the government to take action on smoking in multi-unit residential buildings where smoke can seep through walls and ventilation systems.
Ontario Provincial Police said it will be a few days before statistics are collected on how many motorists are charged under the law, part of a wider smoking ban in the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, because officers do not submit reports daily.
But police patrols will be keeping an eye out for the telltale glow of a cigarette in cars with children in them, said Sgt. Dave Woodford.
"There's a lot of things we look for as officers, like seat belts," he said. "This will be another thing."
Read more on the parentcentral.ca editor's blog.


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Legal support of the shareholders of a large construction company in the gas sector in Russia and abroad while selling a controlling share for the amount of 150 billion US dollars;
Representation of oil company shareholders in commercial courts of all instances in a lawsuit for invalidation of share issue. Several years of court proceedings ended up in success at the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation;
Legal advice on implementation of a development project for construction of commercial real estate under participation of several regions of Russia;
Representation of tenants in commercial litigation involving a lawsuit by the Moscow Municipal Property Department for eviction from non-residential premises and recovery of unreasonable gains;
Representation of small businesses before the Commercial court of Moscow in the lawsuit for invalidation of the auction for the right to conclude a real estate lease contract, whereby such auction was held in breach of the Federal Competition Law;
Legal protection of a large company distributing cell phones on the Russian market in a case involving a claim by the former participant for his right on a share in the company registered capital;
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Muscle Growth and Inflammation: How Much Is Too Much?
Supplements, Nutrition
One of the most complex biological processes that human biology is privy to is inflammation. Given how important muscle is for our health, wellbeing, longevity, and quality of life, it's impressive that inflammation was initially a background concern for people in the health, nutrition, and bodybuilding industry.
This is changing now, as many veteran athletes and coaches have begun to develop a holistic, fact-based understanding of their bodies, as well as of the underlying physiological processes that enable muscle growth. In the past, people even tried to "treat" it by taking anti-inflammatory medicine, but now we know better, as this can actually prevent the natural development of lean tissue.
The amount of available literature on the topic is enough to draw several important conclusions that will help you in your quest to attain your much-desired figure. Without a doubt, medical research has uncovered and tested enough of the inner-workings of inflammation to help coaches give sound advice to their clients.
However, particularly with veteran athletes, inflammation can become a source of concern. As you may already know, there are two types of inflammation, acute and chronic. The first is good, while the second is bad.1 It's more than bad; it's downright dangerous, but more on that later.
What most of us don't know is what each of the two kinds of inflammation does to the body, how to tell the difference between them, as well as what to do to manage the first and prevent the second.
Inflammation Is Necessary for Muscle Growth
Pain, redness, swelling, heat, and loss of function are the hallmarks of the inflammatory process. As an immune response, inflammation is supposed to protect us from hostile microorganisms, while enabling our body to heal and repair damaged tissue. First, let's take a look at how this process is helping us stay in good shape.
Acute inflammation, the good kind, is generally short lived. It comes on in a flash and its first job is to destroy any foreign bodies. Once this is achieved, the antibodies switch gears and start carrying away any residue, while repairing damaged cells.
Depending on several factors, including the size and gravity of the lesion and whether the damage is purely physical or an immune response is also necessary, this beneficial cycle of cleansing and mending can take minutes, hours or, at most, several days. You've doubtless experienced this sort of inflammation when you accidentally cut yourself, bruised a part of your body, were stung by an insect, but also after a hard workout. For me, supersets trigger acute inflammation like nothing else does.
Three main processes occur in acute inflammation. These are increased blood flow, increased permeability, and the migration of neutrophils and macrophages. The amplified blood flow happens due to to the dilatation of the blood vessels, the smallest of which also become more permeable so as to allow blood fluid and vital proteins to move into the interstitial space. The latter, which is also referred to as the interstitial compartment, is like a bath where your tissue cells are permanently immersed. According to their needs, the cells can exchange water and nutrients with the space around them.
Together, the larger categories of neutrophils and macrophages represent the intervention team responsible for the protection and rejuvenation of the broken tissue. The squad arrives at the site of inflammation both through blood, as well as from fibers that are adjacent to the broken ones. This is the place where your body decides whether to enter an anabolic or catabolic state.
As a trainer, this is the part that has attracted my undivided attention, particularly from the point of view of what I can do to prevent the latter process and encourage the former. I've come to the conclusion that, in general, building muscle in a healthy, sustainable, and evidence-based way is the coaching of the future.
At a molecular level, it seems that anabolic signals during inflammation are activated by hormones such as insulin, IGF-1, human growth hormone, and various androgens,1 which tell the muscle to start using myosatellite cells (stem cells) in order to regenerate. The process is also referred to as myogenesis.
The field of molecular biology has focused a good deal of its research potential on reverting muscular dystrophy and combatting chronic muscle diseases by means of stem cell therapy. In addition, this is the reason why taking hormones helps build muscle mass very fast, as it drives your anabolic state in overdrive.
However, as I am sure you already know, the introduction of outside hormones for the sole purpose of building mass can have a serious and substantial health impact on human physiology.
Too Much Inflammation Is Bad
Chronic inflammation, on the other hand, leads to muscle breakdown. Although it starts in the same way as its better half, instead of switching gears to regeneration and then gradually shutting down, it morphs into an enduring state.
Chronic inflammation, also called chronic systemic inflammation (SI) or low-grade inflammation, can persist for months and even years on end without an appropriate immune response to shut it down or when the source that triggered it in the first place is not dealt with appropriately. As a result, the white blood cells that flood the area (the neutrophils and macrophages we discussed earlier) eventually end up attacking good, friendly tissue.
Chronic inflammation was found to be a significant contributor to a variety of diseases,3 including asthma, sarcopenia, Alzheimer's, arthritis, peptic ulcer, Crohn's disease, some cancers, and many others.
In recent times, an increasing number of elderly people are trying to address sarcopenia, which is the loss of muscle mass, quality, and strength associated with aging, by paying more attention to their physical activity. We know that, for instance, physical activity can actually help the body manage inflammation better,4 whereas obesity, smoking, and a sedentary lifestyle tend to exacerbate it.
At the opposite end of the spectrum from IGF-1, which is the main regulator of muscle hypertrophy, we have myostatin. Also known as growth differentiation factor 8 (GDF-8), myostatin is a protein whose main role is to inhibit myogenesis. In humans, when someone is born with a defect in the myostatin-producing gene, their muscle mass is considerably bigger and stronger than that of their peers.5
Currently, there's no research to indicate the long-term effect that myostatin inhibitors would have on healthy subjects or on people suffering from muscular dystrophy. However, several myostatin drugs are being developed, and one has been commercially available for at least three years. The fact that the latter has only four reviews does not inspire confidence to me, however.
A not-so-clinical observational study on recreational gym goers found that the group on the commercially available myostatin blocker did increase their lean mass as compared to the control group (almost three times more),6 but the authors acknowledged that the neural adaptation might have played a significant part in this result. They effectively did not keep track of a host of variables that apply to recreational training, and not accounting for the initial adaptation (newbie gains as we refer to them) was a big drawback of their research.
A more potent clinical trial performed on mice found enough evidence to suggest that the anabolic impact of myostatin inhibition can actually lead to more muscle damage in healthy subjects. Despite this, the adverse effects of myostatin inhibition in subjects that suffered from any form muscle dystrophy were not as great.6
This suggests that myostatin blockers will likely be recommended for those who suffer from muscle diseases that gradually weakens and breaks down their lean tissue. As is the case with hormones, messing with our physiology to such an extent without good reason is likely to have a bad outcome in the long run.
One interesting finding that I've come across is that creatine supplementation is actually a healthy, albeit not as effective (when compared to drugs that are designed for this purpose alone) way to decrease myostatin levels.7 Unlike myostatin blockers, creatine is not banned by WADA or other anti-doping agencies, which speaks volumes for its safety.
Stay Away from NSAIDs and Other Anti-Inflammatories
Ibuprofen, naproxen, acetaminophen, and even aspirin can be lifesavers for professional bodybuilders and athletes alike. They don't usually resort to them just for muscle soreness, but also for other big culprits like elbow, knee, or shoulder pain. In my experience with heavy lifters and veteran bodybuilders, these pains can be as common as a sneeze.
Some don't mind giving up on a week's worth of training, but most people would rather take a pill and get their work done. While this may be necessary in remote cases, research shows that NSAIDs (non-steroidal inflammatory drugs that include the ones I've previously mentioned) actually prevent muscle synthesis.8
The main purpose of NSAIDs is to reduce the production of inflammatory and pain-signaling cells. As you may have already surmised from knowing that inflammation is a double-edged sword, these drugs work to cancel out both the good and the bad.
Some studies of elderly populations showed that these OTC medications were beneficial towards preventing muscle loss. Luckily, however, the former study performed by the Karolinska Institutet also dealt with this hypothesis.
Their conclusion was that, in cases of chronic inflammation, NSAIDs will quite often prevent age-related muscle loss, since the latter mainly happens due to inflammation gone haywire. This will not be the case when chronic inflammation is not present, though. Some even take anti-inflams prior to exercise. Needless to say that this practice is very dangerous.
When chronic SI is not present, taking pills often means inhibiting the very means that will help you achieve lean tissue growth. NSAIDs are actually cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. Some of them are quite long-lasting, with effects lingering for up to 12 hours from just one dose. The problem is that COX enzymes are conductive to muscle growth, so much so that administration of COX inhibitors is detrimental to myofiber rehabilitation even after atrophy.9
These recent findings have determined many physicians to re-examine patients' post-intervention treatment. The fact is that, if you can work through the pain and the latter is not chronic, there's a good chance that you should do so despite the discomfort.
More importantly for all of you athletes and go-getters, using these medications to train through the pain will worsen your condition.10
And you don't even need to be a doctor to realize what's going on—you take a pill and push to get through whatever it is that you're doing, but the very drug you're taking for a short-term benefit is stopping the process that's supposed to heal the damaged tissue. At the end of the day, instead of being able to recover in a few days, the aggravated injury will bench you for a week or more.
Opiods (such as codeine, morphine, fentanyl, methadone, oxycodone, etc.), albeit unconnected to any of the drawbacks that are associated with lack of good inflammation, can be much worse. Excessive use of the latter is significantly linked to addiction, which tends to happen in 2 out of 3 cases, as was shown by a survey of over 600 former NFL players.11
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't risk my physical and mental health on 30% odds, not if I have anything to say in the decision at hand.
Treat Inflammation Naturally
Body pain, constant fatigue and insomnia, weight gain, frequent infections, and gastrointestinal problems such as acid reflux and diarrhoea are common signs of chronic inflammation. If you have these symptoms, it may be a good idea to undergo some blood tests to see if you can get a better picture of what's going on.
Although there are no highly effective lab measures for chronic SI, there are two relatively inexpensive blood markers that will show some signs if this is the case. These are high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and fibrinogen. Another common examination you can perform is serum protein electrophoresis (SPE), which is still affordable.
You can try to detect specific pro-inflammatory cytokines, like IL-6, IL-8, TNF-alpha and IL-1bet, but these are not standardized and they won't come cheap. Still, if you're suffering from chronic inflammation, they might be worth it as the cytokines will give your more specific information about what's causing the inflammation.
For me, the best part about inflammation is that it can be managed and reversed with diet and lifestyle changes. A meta-analysis of 40 case-controls, clinical trials, and cross-sectional studies has definitively confirmed that dietary patterns are intrinsically linked to inflammatory biomarkers.12
The foods that were found to elicit inflammation responses from our bodies are meat, dairy, eggs, alcohol, and processed, fried foods. Generally, it was those foods that had high amounts of sugar, fat, and salt that were positively associated with inflammation. On the other hand, diets that were rich in fruits and vegetables considerably reduced oxidative stress and low-grade inflammation markers.
The Mediterranean eating pattern, the DASH (dietary approach to stop hypertension) eating regime, as well as the whole-foods, plant based (WFPB) diet were the most successful at combating inflammation. This is a major reason why many athletes have switched to plant-based diets, as they were shown even by the most rigorous studies to significantly reduce systemic inflammation.13
There's enough evidence to warrant each and every one of us to give the WFPB a try, as it has been linked to improved mood, overall health, training, recovery, and even athletic performance for a number of professional athletes.14
Do What's Best for You
Throughout this article, we've uncovered some of the more complex aspects of inflammation and its crucial role in muscle building. We've seen how it helps to have it, how it can be detrimental to continue having it after a certain amount of time, as well as what you can do to deal with persistent, low-grade inflammation in a healthy and effective way.
An often exaggerated aspect of medicine is to treat symptomatically, an approach which continues to be prevalent in many medical systems. This means that, if something hurts, you'll most likely take something to get you through the pain.
What we haven't really been paying attention to and has been recently proven right is that some pain is instrumental towards proper healing. This is not to be confused with medical advice, although I do believe it is not only healthy, but necessary to question why we take certain medications in the same way I often question why we eat certain things because we think it helps with building lean tissue.
At the end of the day, it seems that some of the diet and lifestyle changes can go a long way towards dealing with the feared inflammation biomarkers, while enabling us to train better overall.
1. "Understanding Inflammation, Harvard Medical School Guides"
2. "Role of Inflammation in Muscle Homeostasis and Myogenesis"
3. "The inflammation theory of disease. The growing realization that chronic inflammation is crucial in many diseases opens new avenues for treatment"
4. "Strength Training Decreases Inflammation and Increases Cognition and Physical Fitness in Older Women with Cognitive Impairment"
5. "A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against Diseases"
6. "Muscle hypertrophy induced by myostatin inhibition accelerates degeneration in dysferlinopathy"
7. "Effects of oral creatine and resistance training on serum myostatin and GASP-1"
8. "Anti-inflammatory drugs can inhibit muscle growth"
9. "The COX-2 pathway regulates growth of atrophied muscle via multiple mechanisms"
10. "Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for athletes: An update"
11. "Injury, pain, and prescription opioid use among former National Football League (NFL) players"
12. "Dietary Pattern and Macronutrients Profile on the Variation of Inflammatory Biomarkers: Scientific Update"
13. "Anti-inflammatory Effect of Whole-Food Plant-Based Vegan Diet vs the American Heart Association - Recommended Diet in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: The Randomized EVADE CAD Trial"
14. "Six Reasons Athletes Are Running Toward a Vegan Diet"
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YAKIMA, WA – December 5, 2021 – Keller Williams Yakima Valley (KWYV) has been named 'Best Real Estate Office' by Yakima Valley Business Times. With a readership that spans over 20,000 people, the publication tasks their local community of readers to nominate their most beloved local businesses each year for the 'Best of the Valley' list. This recognition came as a complete surprise and honor to the hardworking team at KWYV, and means so much more knowing it came from people right here in their neighborhood.
Additionally, last month Expertise.com released their own list naming the 'Top 14 Real Estate Agents in Yakima, WA'. Three of those limited spots went to none other than KWYV. Amy Maib, Joanne Melton, and Ryan Beckett made it to the top based on carefully crafted criteria, which factors in more than 25 variables across five categories: availability, qualifications, reputation, experience, and professionalism.
Keller Williams Yakima Valley Leadership
"Despite being a small office, our agents build big businesses, big lives, and do so with big hearts," said Molly McDowell, CFO and Market Center Administrator of KWYV. "We are truly a family, striving to foster an environment where agents feel appreciated and really want to spend their time."
Don't be fooled! This small but mighty office has been hitting the ground running since they were first established in 2017. In just four short years, they've channeled their motivation for impacting the lives of clients, welcoming over 50 agents into their family and counting. Currently, 33% of KWYV agents are designated as "cappers", a Keller Williams term defined as an individual who produces sufficient Gross Commission Incomes and contributes enough Company Dollar to the Market Center to satisfy their annual commission Cap requirement.
Beyond the numbers, KWYV prides themselves on prioritizing culture above all else, especially with their new Operating Principal Tracy Rohr leading the charge. Rohr, a member of the Keller Williams family since 2015, will tackle her new role in addition to her current position as Operations Manager for the entire Northwest Region. "It's the agents that makes the Yakima Valley market center so special. Their dedication to helping others reflects the Keller Williams values every day," said Rohr. "I'm proud to be a part of it."
With these qualities, it is no wonder KWYV has earned the title of 'Best Real Estate Office'!
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I'll echo what James said under part 2 and once again marvel at the lucidity and usefulness of your prolific posts. Thanks for existing!
Echoes of thanks from me also - this post is inspired.
I have to say, I love the fact that you started here with an ongoing problem (inciting incidents) and found a daring opportunity to solve them... The only thing missing is the conflict, since everyone seems so enamoured by it!
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ZIP code 11568 is located in southeast New York and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a slightly less than average population density.
The people living in ZIP code 11568 are primarily white. The number of young adults is extremely large while the number of people in their late 20s to early 40s is extremely small. There are also an extremely large number of families and an extremely small number of single adults. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 11568 ZIP code is small compared to other areas of the country.
ZIP code 11568 has a small percentage of vacancies. The Census also indicates that there are one or more universities nearby.
The majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 11568 were primarily built in the 1980s or the 1960s. Looking at 11568 real estate data, the median home value of $1,000,001 is extremely high compared to the rest of the country. It is also extremely high compared to nearby ZIP codes. So you are less likely to find inexpensive homes in 11568. Rentals in 11568 are most commonly 3+ bedrooms. The rent for 3+ bedrooms is normally $1,000+/month including utilities. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 11568 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
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In this Unit, we learned about different kinds of chemical reactions. You will demonstrate your understanding of these concepts by performing an experiment that focuses on chemical reactions between different substances.
Before you begin, review the concepts behind chemical reactions found in your textbook. You will be using these concepts to carry out your experiment.
First, formulate your hypothesis (Scientists pride themselves on being able to prove themselves wrong. So don't worry if your hypothesis turns out to be incorrect!) What do you think the reactions will be between the different kinds of candies when they are placed into the different kinds of soda? Record your predictions. Remember to record a hypothesis for each separate type of candy, combined with each different type of soda.
Then, carry out the experiment. Make sure you are wearing your safety equipment, and that you are carrying out the experiment in a box or aquarium that will prevent a mess. Place each different type of candy into each different kind of soda and record the reaction that takes place. Be careful, because this may or may not cause a violent chemical reaction that could result in an overflow of soda.
Finally, you are going to compare the predictions you made in your hypothesis to the results you got when you conducted your experiment. Did the experiment go like you planned? If not, why do you think the results were different from your predictions? Why do you think the experiment turned out the way it did? Were there any additional factors that might have influenced the results of the experiment? If you did the experiment again is there anything you would have done differently?
You will complete a lab report to turn in to report your findings. If you need a review on how to prepare a lab report, return to your Unit 1 Project for guidance.
Your lab report will be made up of four sections. Each section will be between two and five paragraphs. These should be labelled with individual headers: Question and Hypothesis, Experimental Process, Summary, and Analysis.
You will be graded on each section individually. You will be assessed on understanding of the scientific process, the content of your experiment, and the thoughtful development of your ideas. Notice that the Analysis section is weighted heavier than the others - the Analysis section should discuss what your your results mean, and this is the most important part of your experiment.
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I'm currently using
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.0'

with gradle version 4.4.
I tried using
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'

but AndroidStudio warns about compatibility with gradle version 4.4, even when it's already set to 4.4. I tried using gradle 4.6, 4.10, but the warning keeps popping up. Is this a bug in AndroidStudio 3.0?
I'm asking this question because I'm trying to use androidx.databinding on AndroidStudio 3.0, and there hasn't been many results when googling this topic. Would appreciate any comments about this issue.
Thanks.

A: I have an Android project which is successfully building. I'm using the latest version of Android Studio (3.2.1), Gradle 4.7 and Gradle build tools 3.2.1. All working well.
build.gradle (buildscript subsection):
dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties:
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.7-all.zip

So maybe your issue is that you need to upgrade your Gradle wrapper to download Gradle 4.7 instead?

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Statement at 11th Session of UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
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Speaker: Anna Chabiera, Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland.
Madam Chair, Distinguished Delegates,
First let me thank you for the opportunity to address you on behalf of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland and on behalf of group of 51 stakeholders, including 14 national human rights institutions and 37 civil society organizations from many different parts of the globe.
Our institutions and organizations are of the firm view that a comprehensive, binding international instrument would provide the strongest protection for the rights of older persons.
Following discussions at the previous sessions of the UN OEWGA, the decision to invite relevant stakeholders to submit normative content on the thematic areas discussed, has increased understanding of how human rights apply in older age. However, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older persons worldwide has made it clear that we need to accelerate our efforts to strengthen the international framework for the protection of human rights in older age. We endorse the UN Secretary General's call to
"Build stronger legal frameworks at both national and international levels to protect the human rights of older persons, including by accelerating the efforts of the General Assembly's working group to develop proposals for an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons".1
Building on the voluminous material that has already been presented to the UN OEWGA, we believe it is time for the OEWGA to formally decide to commence the drafting of a new international instrument which should be elaborated as a binding convention on the human rights of older persons.
We wish to highlight the importance of referring in the new instrument to the dignity, autonomy and independence of older persons, equality and participation in society. These principles should be affirmed in the preamble and in the text of the new convention that should also identify the necessary steps to ensure the protection from ageism, the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by older persons.
Moreover, a new convention should satisfy the following conditions:
a) Not lower the highest existing international human rights standards.
b) Stress the positive potential of older persons and guarantee their enjoyment of capabilities and human rights on an equal basis with others, without discrimination.
c) State that the rights holders are older persons, who constitute a heterogeneous group of persons of various capabilities and needs, who may also play multiple roles in the society. It should take into account the necessity of an intersectional approach as well as the perspectives of the most vulnerable groups.
d) Indicate that the changing technologies and climate change affect the lives of older persons and ageing societies and it should frame them in the context of human rights.
The list of Signatories:
National Human Rights Institutions of A Status
Croatia – Ombudswoman
El Salvador – Procuraduría Para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos
Georgia – Public Defender of Georgia
Germany – German Institute for Human Rights
Netherlands – The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
Philippines – Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
Poland – Commissioner for Human Rights
Serbia – Protector of Citizens of the Republic of Serbia
Slovenia – the Human Rights Ombudsman
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Albert Ádám (Budapest, 1990. október 16. –) magyar labdarúgó, jelenleg a Dorogi FC játékosa.

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Első mérkőzését a magyar labdarúgó bajnokság első osztályában 2012. július 27-én, a Szombathelyi Haladás ellen játszotta.

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Aquinas versus Newton?
Does Newton's law of inertia undermine Aquinas's First Way? The short answer is No. I gave a longer answer at pp. 76-79 of Aquinas. I give a much longer answer still in my paper "The Medieval Principle of Motion and the Modern Principle of Inertia," which I presented last year at the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting in St. Louis and which is now available online in Volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. Follow the link to read the paper, which is followed by a response from Michael Rota and my rejoinder to Mike.
Trabbic on TLS
Philosopher Joseph Trabbic kindly reviews The Last Superstition in the latest issue of the Saint Austin Review. From the review:
[This] is no ordinary book of apologetics. Edward Feser is a professional philosopher of an analytic bent whose main body of work is in the fields of philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and economic theory. Thus, alongside a number of scholarly articles, Feser has published introductory volumes to contemporary philosophy of mind, John Locke, Robert Nozick, and, most recently, Thomas Aquinas. He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Hayek (the Austro-British economist and philosopher) as well. Feser's qualifications allow him to prosecute his case with a philosophical sophistication that is not found in many apologetic treatises. One might say that as a Christian apologist Feser is overqualified…
Nagel and his critics, Part VI
We've been looking at the critics of Thomas Nagel's recent book Mind and Cosmos. Having examined the objections raised by Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg, Elliott Sober, Alva Noë, and John Dupré, I want to turn now to some interesting remarks made by Eric Schliesser in a series of posts on Nagel over at the New APPS blog. Schliesser's comments concern, first, the way the scientific revolution is portrayed by Nagel's critics, and second, the role the Principle of Sufficient Reason plays in Nagel's book. Most recently, in response to my own series of posts, Schliesser has also commented on the status of naturalism in contemporary philosophy. Let's look at each of these sets of remarks in turn.
Claremont Christmas Reading
The Claremont Institute has posted its annual recommended Christmas reading list, to which I've contributed. You can read my recommendations here.
Nagel and his critics, Part V
Our look at the critics of Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos brings us now to philosopher of science John Dupré, whose review of the book appeared in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. The review is pretty harsh. At his kindest Dupré says he found the book "frustrating and unconvincing." Less kind is the remark that "as far as an attack that might concern evolutionists, they will feel, to borrow the fine phrase of former British minister, Dennis Healey, as if they had been savaged by a sheep."
The remark is not only unkind but unjust. At the beginning of his review, Dupré gives the impression that Nagel is attacking neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology per se. Dupré writes:
Darwinism, neo- or otherwise, is an account of the relations between living things past and present and of their ultimate origins, full of fascinating problems in detail, but beyond any serious doubt in general outline. This lack of doubt derives not, as Nagel sometimes insinuates, from a prior commitment to a metaphysical view -- there are theistic Darwinists as well as atheistic, naturalists and supernaturalists -- but from overwhelming evidence from a variety of sources: biogeography, the fossil record, comparative physiology and genomics, and so on. Nagel offers no arguments against any of this, and indeed states explicitly that he is not competent to do so. His complaint is that there are some explanatory tasks that he thinks evolution should perform that he thinks it can't.
Review of Gazzaniga
My review of Michael Gazzaniga's recent book Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain appears in the Fall 2012 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
Haldane on Aquinas, Anscombe, and much else
3:AM Magazine has posted a long and highly substantive interview with Analytical Thomist philosopher John Haldane. Lots of interesting stuff in it, so give it a read. (The discussion of idealism in the second part of the interview recapitulates some important points Haldane has made about Berkeley elsewhere, and which I commented on in the course of my talk at Franciscan University of Steubenville last year.)
The interviewer characterizes John as "the P Daddy of the philosophy of religion" -- and here we all thought he was a Madness fan!
Gonzaga lectures online
Back in February of 2011, I gave a pair of lectures at the Faith and Reason Institute at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. I had no idea until just the other day that the lectures are available on YouTube and apparently have been for some time. (I thank the anonymous reader who called this to my attention.) You can view them here:
"From Natural Science to Philosophy of Nature"
"From Philosophy of Nature to Natural Theology"


Aptly named 'Trends Unlocked with Ella&Jade', this award winning and talented duo will focus on current and future trends and translate them into techniques that everybody can adapt to suit their clientele in salon, whilst giving you tips on how to introduce new trends to your clients.
A collaboration of colour and cutting techniques, William will demonstrate one of 2018's hottest haircuts, the modern shag, providing variations to edge it up or make it more salon friendly. You will learn fringe techniques, personalisation techniques and client suitability techniques from Will, who is the current Hair Expo Queensland Hairdresser of the Year.
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The longer Apple Watch exists, the more companion apps will become available. Many apps are simply notification related, which will help you stay connected with your iPhone, even while it stays in your pocket.
Lifeline… is a text-based game where players interact with a stranded space traveler. Playing it on Apple Watch will make you feel like you are living in some kind of sci-fi future in the past, like Lost in Space.
This game plays out in real time. That is, the real time of the protagonist. Taylor, the space traveler that has been stranded alone with a busted ship, has a life to live. With your help, he can survive his ordeal, but your help has to be on his own time. If he is resting, or busy doing something, you must wait until he is ready to contact you before you can continue.
While this may sound like a pay-as-you-go style of game, it isn't. Players pay once up front with no in-app purchases. However, strangely, you must still wait for Taylor. No, you can't speed up time with a few hundred gems. You must be patient.
When in communication with you, Taylor will ask you for advice, request direction, and reminisce about his life with you. Some of the choices you make when helping Taylor will have a direct impact on his life. Some decisions will cause his death.
You can play the story out to the end to see what his fate is, or rewind the clock and go back in time to a previous decision and make a different choice, just to see what happens.
You can play out the conversations with Taylor on your iPhone, but if you are one of the lucky few to have Apple Watch sitting on your wrist right now, you can also communicate with the lonely space traveler without having to look at your iPhone screen. Instead, your chats will appear on Apple Watch. Just like getting a text message from a friend, you'll get a tap on your wrist, letting you know that Taylor wants to talk to you. Sometimes, he is just looking for someone to talk to. Other times, he needs your help if he is going to make it out alive.
Lifeline… is available on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch for $2.99. Download it in the App Store today.
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How Insomniac hopes to make Spider-Man on PS4 the next great superhero game
Ratchet and Clank creators on how they hope to make a game worthy of a superhero icon.
By Tom Regan
June 21, 2017 16:00 BST
Every Spider-Man game since 2004's Spider-Man 2 has lived in the shadow of that open world classic, each failing to capture the perfect balance of play and understanding of the character future Call of Duty developers Treyarch struck with its movie tie-in.
Known for swinging through Manhattan's iconic skyline, his immeasurable love for his home city, his web-slinging abilities and penchant for dropping in on baddies unannounced, Spidey is clearly the perfect protagonist for an open-world game.
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It now falls to Insomniac Games, the developers behind Ratchet and Clank and Sunset Overdrive, to give fans the Spider-Man game they've long dreamed of.
Following a brief announcement trailer last year, at this year's E3 trade show the game was revealed in full with ten minutes of exhilarating gameplay that almost single-handedly saved Sony's conference.
Eager to see more, I made my way to the showfloor and sat down with Insomniac's community director James Stevenson. Instead of the new look at the game however, I was instead talked through a live playthrough of the aforementioned demo.
While I was initially disappointed not to see something new, watching the construction site capers play out in real-time revealed a game that is far less scripted than I had expected. Instead of combat that boils down to a set of animations that do all the work for you, players can in fact choose how they want to approach each enemy encounter.
Taking control of Spidey, you can opt to use your webs to sling various parts of the environment at your foes, choose to hang upside down and lure unsuspecting goons into devious web traps, or simply just swing towards them and start a good old-fashioned scrap.
No matter your preference, it's a relief to see that players have the tools to neutralise Manhattan's thugs how they want.
Speaking of Manhattan, importantly the city is just as much the star as Parker himself. "You can free-roam around all of Manhattan," confirms Stevenson. "The easiest way for us to think of it – in terms of size - is that [the city] is four to six times larger than Sunset Overdrive's map."
While Sunset Overdrive didn't exactly have the biggest game map in the world, this still suggests that players will have a reasonably large playground to swing through.
And swinging will be crucial to the game's success. Players fondly remember Spider-Man 2 because it was such a pleasure to swing through its version New York. This was thanks to perfectly-pitched mechanics that conveyed the momentum and adrenaline surge of a typical Peter Parker commute.
Peter Parker's Spider-Man striking a pose. Sony
Encouragingly, Stevenson emphasises the team's focus on traversal, confirming that all the web-slinging in the game is physics-based. Throughout our demo, we see the player select exactly where they want Spidey to swing to, zipping from perch to perch with pinpoint precision.
In a bid to make it feel like players are always moving, the Spidey in our demo was guided straight into the side of a skyscraper. Expecting a splat, instead our hero effortlessly runs straight up the side of the building.
Web-slinging also comes into play in combat. "Peter's web-shooters are mechanical." explains Stevenson. "He's a genius, so of course he will create new gadgets - he even built his own suit. He can build lots of different things, and depending on what he builds, they will drain the web meter different amounts."
After showing off the wall-crawler encasing thugs in a variety of elaborate webbing combos, the demo heads towards the same grand finale from the trailer... a finale which had some viewers groaning in frustration.
After defeating all the goons in his way, Spidey finds the main villain – Mister Negative - escaping in a helicopter. The ensuing chase sees Spidey attempting to slow down the aircraft and save terrified citizens below its trail of carnage.
With sweeping camera angles and impressive feats, in order for this all to flow seamlessly, players are tasked with hitting a series of button prompts that appear on screen. In other words, players lose full control, only interacting with the game through divisive quick time events (QTEs).
Asking him how many times we can expect to see player's lose full control of Spidey, Stevenson is quick to assure me that QTEs are very much the exception in Insomniac's Spider-Man, and not the rule.
Spider-Man's combat mechanic has been likened by many to that of Rocksteady's Batman Arkham games. Sony
"This is a huge set piece so you have a couple of [QTES] here, but honestly, this is a ten minute plus demo and there's only 20/25 seconds of QTEs in the whole thing. You'll see set pieces and we'll only use [QTEs] for those really cinematic moments. They're there, but there aren't a lot of them. For most battles, you're the one in control."
Stevenson also revealed a few juicy details about the game's story. Divorced entirely from the comics or movies, he confirmed that Insomniac's Spider-Man isn't an origin story. "Peter's graduated college and has a job working in a laboratory," Stevenson explains.
Players are put into the shoes of a fully capable 23-year-old Peter Parker and will have to deal with everything from fighting crime to dealing with his love life. But the question is, will we actually get to control Peter out of his costume? Stevenson's evasive answer certainly suggests that is a possibility. "We think the best Spider-Man stories are the ones where Peter's and Spider-Man's worlds collide."
Stevenson pauses, fidgeting uncomfortably. "Peter's story is very important to us... that's all I'm going to say."
While previous games have seen Spidey face off against classic villains like Rhino, the demo's roles for Mister Negative and Wilson 'Kingpin' Fisk display a more niche selection of supervillains for our web-slinging hero.
"Kingpin and Mister Negative aren't the only two villains you'll see in this game, but we really like Mister Negative." says Stevenson, with a smile. "Fans seem to love him and we think he's a fresh choice. There are a lot of aspects of his story that tie into the rest of the story that we want to tell. It's a massive story and we've worked really hard on it. There's a reason we chose him specifically... but I don't want to spoil it."
While he certainly doesn't spoil it, Stevenson does drop a hint about how Mister Negative's dual identities embody the difficult collision of Peter and Spider-Man's separate worlds. "Peter discovers that Martin Li, AKA Mister Negative, is running this gang, which is troublesome because Martin Li also runs all the peace shelters in the city... and Aunt May works in a peace shelter."
We came away impressed with what Insomniac is working on, so now we'll just cross our web-shooters that next year's PS4 exclusive delivers the virtual Spidey experience that we've all been dreaming of.
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Indiana passes bill to bring computer science to every school!
On Thursday, the Indiana legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ensure every school in the state offers computer science and would fund professional learning for teachers.
The bill next moves to Governor Eric Holcomb who is expected to sign the bill into law.
Gov. Holcomb has been a fervent supporter of computer science and made his commitment to computer science official in his January State of the State address.
About the passage of SEA 172, Gov. Holcomb said, "We know that computer science skills are in high demand for today's jobs — and they will be critical for future generations. That's why this bill is so important. Making sure every Indiana school offers computer science aligns our workforce need with educational opportunities."
The legislation would require every school to include computer science education for students from Kindergarten through 12th grade, beginning in the 2021–22 school year.
Technology has become an integral part of our lives and economy, and it is crucial that computer science is taught as foundational learning in our K-12 education system. No matter a student's path, we need to give every student the tools they need to succeed in the 21st-century.
Congrats, Indiana!
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The Wonders of our territory
Posted by Manus Hopkins | Oct 6, 2021 | Music | 0 |
British folk-noir duo Wonders of the Yukon take inspiration from the scenery and peacefulness of the Yukon
Wonders of the Yukon frontman Andy Campbell lifts up his guitar to his webcam to display a pin of the ubiquitous Klondike miner seen on the license plates of Yukoners, and many more places, on his guitar strap.
"I just got that off the internet," he says with a chuckle.
Though his band is from West Yorkshire, England, and has never been to the Yukon, a shared fascination with the territory's mystical aura—the "nature, wilderness and rugged beauty"—between he and his bandmate Dave Langdale led the two to land on the name Wonders of the Yukon, after learning the band name Yukon Territory was already taken.
"I kind of knew vaguely that it was a place in the states—or in Canada, sorry," he says, adding that the name Wonders of the Yukon sounds sort of science-fiction, like something out of Flash Gordon, and that he could picture himself opening a magazine and seeing "Wonders of the Yukon" scrawled across the page as a headline.
"We both agreed that it would make a great name, so that was the story behind it," he says. "Dave and I would both love to come. It's definitely our kind of place since we're both into nature."
Campbell says at a certain point in their lives, he and Langdale had become "disillusioned" and quit music altogether, before meeting through their wives and building a friendship. When they decided to write together, and went on to perform and record, things were different, and the overall feel was more fun and less risky, in that they were no longer trying to make a career out of it.
As Campbell entered middle age, he came to a reflective, existential point of his life, and found himself reflecting on the fact that he'd lived more life than he had in front of him. The idea of a peaceful, tranquil spot where time can seem to stand still was an image that helped keep him grounded, which is where part of his fascination with the Yukon came from.
"That beauty and that wilderness just really seems to fit with the music we make."
While he hasn't made it up quite this far yet, Campbell did visit Canada with his wife around 12 years ago when they did a road trip across the Alberta Rockies from Calgary to Jasper.
"It was fabulous," he says.
Campbell was surprised to have media from the Yukon reach out to his band, and didn't get what he was expecting when he was quizzed about the territory in a radio interview. He thought he would be talking about the band's recently released single, and was completely caught off-guard, though he admits it was quite funny.
In March, Wonders of the Yukon released a new single titled "Rachel (And All The Goofs And The Stars)," a song that shows a slight departure from the band's usual sound, incorporating more upbeat melodies and pop elements. Campbell was pleased with how people reacted to the change of pace, and while he doesn't want to jinx it, there are a few reasons he'd like the single to push Wonders of the Yukon forward.
"If lockdown ends and we become a bit more successful and we could come and play a date in the Yukon, how great would that be?"
To keep up with Wonders of the Yukon, head over to their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/wondersoftheyukon/.
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