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This weekend I started what I hope will become a 4th of July tradition. I watched Rocky 4, which is of course the one where Rocky wins the Cold War by beating a giant Russian. It is one of the most American movies of all time and the last true Rocky movie. Not that Rocky Balboa was bad, but it came out so far after that it feels more like strange coda than part of the series. Rocky 5 never happened. Nevertheless, Rocky 4 should have probably been the last movie in the series. There was nowhere to go but down. Even Rocky cannot top winning the Cold War.
Rocky 4 is smarter than most people give it credit. Not that it that smart, or subtle at all, but there is more there than blind patriotism and propaganda. It is about growing old and how to face that. There is no one who grows old faster or more publicly than professional athletes do. All sports fans have seen a favorite player hang on past their prime, winced at the struggles of those who used to be great. For some, like Bret Favre, while their skills have obviously diminished there are still enough flashes and moments of the player, we used to know and love to make us believe that he still has something left. Too often, it is just gone and is painful for both players and spectators. Rocky and now friend Apollo Creed are both dealing with this. Apollo cannot let go, despite the advice of all those close to him. Rocky, not quite as old as Apollo, still has something left, but he can see the writing on the wall. Due to his inability to accept the changes that time has, wrought Apollo pays the ultimate price. There is also Rocky's guilt because he did not throw in the towel. Like Rocky told Mickey in the first movie, Apollo told him not to throw the towel and Rocky let it go. He did what he would have wanted Creed to do foe him in the same situation, but he say why people do throw in the towel.
On top of the aging issue is the comparison of the USA and USSR. Apollo is part of America. He is loud, boisterous and arrogant. He is also capable and honest, but even the honesty hurts the loud and arrogant part. Drago is stoic and cold. He is also just as selfish as Creed. In their fight, he doesn't care that it is an exhibition or that he is clearly the better fighter he still is relentless. Because a resounding victory is helps him and his groups agenda, sportsmanship be damned. The biggest contrast is in Rocky and Drago's pre-fight training methods. Drago has a committee that cares nothing for him and with the most advanced technology available. Rocky has a few close friends and uses simple training methods. While Rocky 4 is about as fair as a mid-80ies movie can be, they show the American methods to be better than the Russian ones. Like what actually happened, America wins in the end.
However, while there is this veneer of real issues, Rocky 4 is still a 90-minute movie with about 35 minutes of music montages. It is still a movie that has Rocky win the Cold War by punching out a giant Russian. It is not as good as the first two Rockys, but it is possibly the most entertaining movie in the series for repeated viewings. In the end, Drago turns on his uncaring trainers and the crowd turns on him. Rocky draws strength from his friends and from the crowd. Because everybody loves Rocky.
***, Rocky
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HomeCHICAGOEntertainmentLifeline Theater's Frankenstein Play Review – A Halloween Treat World Premiere
Lifeline Theater's Frankenstein Play Review – A Halloween Treat World Premiere
October 29, 2018 Jennifer Lunz Entertainment 0
Lifeline Theatre presents Frankenstein, adapted by Lifeline Theatre ensemble member Robert Kauzlaric and directed by Lifeline Theatre ensemble member Paul S. Holmquist. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, you are invited to enter a world of psychological suspense.
Victoria Frankenstein (Anne Sonneville)
After an unexpected death shatters her family, Victoria retreats into the darkest recesses of her psyche in search of a way forward. To find meaning in an impossible loss, she brings a terrible creation to life – one whose existence threatens all hopes for the future. Haunted and hunted at every turn, Victoria must endure a nightmare journey of the soul in a quest for survival. Just in time for the Halloween season, come and grapple with the demons of grief and denial in this world premiere adaptation of the 1818 thriller by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley!
Lifeline Theater's world premiere adaptation of Frankenstein is brilliant in its simplistic, yet ingenious utilization of the small, intimate staging. When my friend and I arrived and took our seats with the rest of the audience, Ann Sonneville, who plays the role of Victoria Frankenstein, is already in character, lying on her stomach on the stage floor and sketching in a large notebook. I thought this was a nice, subtle approach to getting the story started for the audience and setting the mood.
The set design is consistent throughout the production: an old, wooden and creaky attic room, complete with old, nostalgic items collected over time and stored by Victoria. In the middle of the stage floor was a trap door, that provided quite a variety of purposes during the show, such as a grave during funerals of the deceased among other creative uses. (I do not want to spoil the fun!) Kudos also to the production's masterminds for tech, music, sound, and special effects, which all successfully added to the plays' emotional, ominous and suspenseful thematics.
Frankenstein ensemble
Another clever and interesting detail of this adaptation of Frankenstein was the monster's creator, which is usually a man (Victor), who was portrayed by a woman named Victoria (Ann Sonneville's character). It was refreshing to see Mary Shelley 's original story feature a strong, feminist take on the famous tale of creation and trying to play God. Bonneville is the female version of Dr. Frankenstein, whose beautifully haunting performance guides the audience through her grieving process, as she fights an internal struggle with immortality, morality and, and giving into her grotesque, frightening creation: a reincarnated monster that is supposed to be her recently dearly departed father (Alphonse Hainsworth).
The creature itself is a lifelike rod puppet, designed by the talented Cynthia Van Orthal, which was interpreted (and performed also by Hainsworth).
The supporting cast also gave a strong and impressively diverse performance(gender, age, ethnicity). Actors included Risha Tanae as Caroline (Victoria's grief stricken mother), Rasika Ranganathan is Victoria's loyal friend, Helena (Henry in the novel), Ty Carter as Victoria's lover, Erich, Emily Eyre (the unfortunately doomed sister), and Trent Davis as Victoria's innocent younger brother, William.
Each of the performers also portrays the demon spirits haunting Victoria, as she first seeks to build the creature, and then refuses to acknowledge or accept it, while finally seeking to escape and destroy it.
I believe the best part of the play was the connection that Victoria had with her monster. The creature was meant to be her father brought back to life, yet it was reserrected as a disfigured, monstrous demon. It was also her son, a symbol of grief, that only feels lonely and wants acceptance for its creator. When Victoria refuses, the creature does whatever it takes to become "one" with Victoria, by whatever means necessary.
This newly adapted stage version of Frankenstein also delves deeply into various metaphors and themes of Shelley's original novel. The script, adapted by Lifeline ensemble member, Robert Kauzlaric, interpreted Frankenstein's monster as a "walking, talking personification of Grief, and how it haunts our lives…and it demands more from us than it feels like we can give…I imagined it growing in strength and power…as it consumed more and more of its creator's psyche…an emotional journey rather than a literal one."
Overall, the production of Lifeline Theater's Frankenstein is a spoof, mesmerizing Halloween that will make you look and think twice about Mary Shelley's original novel. Celebrate the story's continuing intrigue and influence on our inner psyche, just in time for its bicentennial anniversary! Ms. Shelley would be proud.
Photos: Suzanne Plunkett
Frankenstein runs September 7 – November 11 at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave.
(free parking and shuttle; see below).
Regular performance times (September 20 – October 28):
Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4 and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 4 p.m.
Ticket prices are $40 for regular single tickets, $30 for active and retired military personnel (with ID), $30 for seniors, $20 for students (with ID), $20 for rush tickets (available half hour before show time, subject to availability), and $20 for previews. Group rate for 12 or more is available upon request. Tickets may be purchased at the Lifeline Theatre Box Office, 773.761.4477, or by visiting the theater website.
Accessable Performances: The Saturday, Sep. 22, 4 p.m. performance and the Friday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. performance will feature open captioning for patrons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
The Sunday, Oct. 7, 4 p.m. performance will feature a pre-show touch tour of the set at 2:30 p.m. and live audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision.
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Moon Knight #19
Writer: Mike Benson	Artist: Mark Texeira Publisher: Marvel Comics Release Date: June 11, 2008 Critic Reviews: 2 User Reviews: 1
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"GOD AND COUNTRY," CONCLUSION
The execution will be televised! Black Spectre's ingenious plan to destroy Moon Knight enters its final phase. As the whole world watches on high-def TV, Moon Knight faces a no-win situation. He's already the poster child for super hero recklessness, but after this, he'll either be dead, or Public Enemy Number One.
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Moon Knight is Marvel's "unsung title." Since Benson took the reins, it has become one of the best written books that is on the shelves today. Benson knows these characters, and it really seems as though he is a natural when it comes to writing comics. This story-arc has been nothing short of phenomenal. While I love his work on Moon Knight, I really hope he gets the opportunity to work with other characters in the Marvel Universe. However, he won't be taking any breathers as Moon Knight goes up again Werewolf by Night next issue, followed by a six-part battle with the Thunderbolts. Seriously, if you aren't reading this book, start doing so and get the back issues, it's well worth the money. This is my advance Pick of the Week. Read Full Review
Still, it must be said that Moon Knight is in a better place than it was prior to this arc. Benson is well-suited to the series, channeling Charlie Huston's noir-flavored dialogue without its sillier aspects. And the art from Mark Texeira and Javier Saltares has grown on me with each issue. Though the series really should have fallen into its groove by now, I think the potential is still there. One of these days we'll find out for sure. Read Full Review
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This Component refers to the HITSP 2008 work cycle. It expands upon the prior version of the specification for a consumer's registration/medication history information to include content to support the consumer's access to clinical information, medication management activities and supportive information for quality of care assessment.
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Who Pays for Judicial Races? The Politics of Judicial Elections 2015-16
Who Pays for Judicial Races? The Politics of Judicial Elections 2015–16
Alicia Bannon
Under the constitution, our courts are obliged to provide equal justice regardless of wealth, status, or political connections. But in a new report, the latest in the series The Politics of Judicial Elections, we found that the integrity of our state supreme courts is increasingly under threat from a torrent of special interest money, often from secret sources. Using data from every state supreme court election in the most recent 2015–16 cycle, the report is the only comprehensive analysis of these and other trends, and includes examples of what big spenders hope to achieve, the kinds of ads the fund, and the threats they pose to the appearance and reality of evenhanded justice.
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It's no secret that the proliferation of big money in politics, abetted by 2010's Citizens United Supreme Court decision, has upended American elections from the smallest mayoral races to the most high-profile U.S. Senate battles. What has received far less attention, however, is that influence-seeking money has also made tremendous inroads into our courts — institutions that are constitutionally obliged to provide equal justice regardless of wealth, status, or political connections. Thirty-eight states conduct elections for their state supreme courts, powerful entities that are generally the final word on interpreting state law. This report, the most recent edition in a series that has tracked and analyzed state supreme court elections since 2000, looks at the 2015–16 supreme court election cycle. We identified several disturbing new developments that sharpen questions about partisan and special interest pressures in judicial races and about the capacity of impacted courts to deliver evenhanded justice.
For the first time, we undertook an in-depth analysis of donor transparency among interest groups and found that "dark money" spending, by groups whose funding sources are concealed from the public, is booming in state supreme court elections. Outside spending by interest groups also broke records again, while there were more high-cost races than ever before. Recognizing that expensive and politicized supreme court elections are now a fixture in many states, this year we also changed the report's title, dropping the word "New" from The New Politics of Judicial Elections.
➢Outside spending by interest groups shattered records. Rather than contributing to candidates or political parties, wealthy interests are increasingly relying on outside spending by groups as a way to influence state supreme court elections, mirroring the trend in elections for political offices since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC. During the 2015–16 supreme court election cycle, political action committees, social welfare organizations, and other non-party groups engaged in a record $27.8 million outside spending spree, making up an unprecedented 40 percent of overall supreme court election spending (as compared with only 29 percent in 2013–14). Funneling spending through outside groups may be attractive to donors because it often allows them to avoid campaign contribution limits and disclosure requirements.
➢Supreme court elections saw an influx of secret money. The growth of outside spending by interest groups has brought with it a stunning lack of transparency. For the first time, this report quantified the amount of money in state supreme court elections coming from sources concealed from the public. We found that only 18 percent of interest groups' outside expenditures during 2015–16 could be easily traced to transparent donors. With respect to the remaining expenditures, donors were either undisclosed (54 percent), a type of spending known as "dark money," or buried behind donations from one group to another (28 percent), making it difficult or impossible to discern the ultimate funding source, a type of spending known as "gray money." Such secrecy risks leaving voters uninformed about who is seeking to shape state high courts, and leaves litigants (and often even judges) without the tools to identify potential conflicts of interest.
➢There were more million-dollar supreme court races than ever before. Twenty-seven justices were elected in $1 million-plus races in 2015–16, compared with the previous high of 19 justices in 2007–08. Pennsylvania also set an all-time national record for its 2015 election, attracting a total of $21.4 million in spending for three open seats. A greater number of justices elected in high-dollar races means more potential conflicts of interest and heightened pressure on all judges to curry favor with wealthy interests who can subsidize the increasingly high cost of a future election
➢ More than half of all states with elected high courts are now impacted by big-money elections. By the start of 2017, 20 states had at least one sitting justice who had been involved in a $1 million race during his or her tenure. By contrast, in 1999, the number was only seven. As of January 2017, one-third of all elected justices sitting on the bench had run in at least one $1 million-plus election. These figures highlight that across the country, politicized state supreme court elections are no longer the exception, but the rule.
➢ Campaign ads targeted judicial decisions, often in misleading ways. More than half of all negative television ads aired during the 2015–16 election cycle criticized judges for their rulings on the bench, often in a misleading way designed to stoke emotion and anger. Targeting judicial decisions poses worrying threats to judicial independence, and there is both anecdotal and empirical evidence that such election pressures impact how judges rule in cases.
Courts are powerful. Their rulings impact our health, our freedom, and our bank accounts — leaving behind winners and losers. Our system can only work if judges decide cases, in good faith, based on their understanding of what the law requires — and if the public believes that they are doing so. As powerful interests increasingly see the courts as an effective vehicle for furthering their political, ideological, or financial agendas, this promise of both the appearance and reality of evenhanded justice is at risk.
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Downgraded A-level and GCSE results to be axed in major government U-turn following public backlash
Students will now receive the grades predicted by their teachers
Oliver Milne
Elliot HawkinsContent Editor
Downgraded A-level and GCSE results will be axed following a major public backlash.
The government downgraded the results of around 40 per cent of all A-level students last week with the grades calculated by a specific algorithm.
Now, following huge protests from the public, the exam regulator Ofqual has confirmed that all A-level and GCSE students will be given the grade predicted for them by their teacher.
There was outcry from parents last week when some students missed out on their first choice universities after their results were downgraded by one or even two grades.
But today (Monday, August 17) Ofqual Chair Roger Taylor announced the U-turn and apologised for the "real anguish" experienced by pupils, Mirror Online reports.
It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to call into a meeting with his Education Secretary Gavin Williamson as the crisis threatened to spin out of control.
But the PM has not apologised, and will not end his holiday in Scotland to take personal responsibility for the issue.
Labour leader Keir Starmer said the "screeching U-turn" was a "victory for the thousands of young people who have powerfully made their voices heard this past week".
Earlier today pupils in Wales were told that they would get their predicted grades for their A-Level results.
GCSE students in Northern Ireland will also get the results picked for them by their school.
In the wake of the government's failure to get a grip on the issue parents, pupils and teachers called on the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to resign.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson called a crisis talk with PM Boris Johnson (Image: PA)
More than a dozen backbench Tory MPs are also understood to have demanded the government u-turn as they face furious voters in their constituencies.
Last Thursday, 39% of all A-level grades in England were downgraded from what teachers originally predicted - including 25,000 by two or more grades - to "standardise" results and stop them inflating.
Official figures show students in the poorest areas were marked down by 10.4% while those in the richest were marked down by 8.3%.
And a pledge that pupils would be allowed to rely on mock results or predicted grades was plunged into chaos after the Department for Education was contradicted by exam regulator Ofqual.
On Thursday the debacle risked repeating itself as hundreds of thousands of young people are due to get their GCSE results.
In a statement Roger Taylor who chairs Ofqual said he understood that it has been a "distressing time" for pupils.
"The pandemic has created circumstances no one could have ever imagined or wished for.
"We want to now take steps to remove as much stress and uncertainty for young people as possible - and to free up heads and teachers to work towards the important task of getting all schools open in two weeks.
"After reflection, we have decided that the best way to do this is to award grades on the basis of what teachers submitted.
"The switch to centre assessment grades will apply to both AS and A levels and to the GCSE results which students will receive later this week."
Students will now receive their predicted grades (Image: Getty Images)
He added that there was "no easy solution" to the problem of awarding grades when there had been no exams.
But Mr Taylor admitted that the approach had caused "real anguish and damaged public confidence".
He went on: "Expecting schools to submit appeals where grades were incorrect placed a burden on teachers when they need to be preparing for the new term and has created uncertainty and anxiety for students.
"For all of that, we are extremely sorry."
The path forward we now plan to implement will provide urgent clarity. We are already working with the Department for Education, universities and everyone else affected by this issue.
Just hours before the announcement Labour had demanded that pupils get to use their centre assessed grades ("CAGs"), the grades that were predicted for them by their teachers, to bring the exams fiasco to an end.
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Kate Green MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, said: "The injustice and chaos surrounding A Level and GCSE results must come to an end.
"We gave the government days, not weeks, to end the crisis but they have still failed to take action.
"Enough is enough. The government have failed young people and their families on A Levels and are threatening to do the same with GCSEs.
"The government must now allow young people to use the grades their teachers predicted at both A Level and GCSE."
Last Tuesday the Scottish Government, facing public fury, confirmed that the 124,000 Scottish students whose exam results were downgraded were told they would have their teachers' predicted grades reinstated.
But asked about this move, Mr Williamson said similar action in England would "degrade every single exam result".
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Barely five days after Zodiak Broadcasting Station,(ZBS) successfully holding its final debate on presidential running mate of four major political parties at Comesa Hall in Blantyre, Federation for Disability Organization in Malawi, (Fedoma) has disclosed that it will on Wednesday evening hold a debate for four General Secretary(GS) for major political parties in the country at the same venue.
The debate will focus on the issues affecting people who are physically challenged and it will be held under the theme 'Disability beyond 2014'.
"The main aim is to get to understand what political parties have in store for persons with disabilities. We have a Disability Act and other provisions such as Disability Fund that the incoming government should commit to fulfill", said Fedoma acting Executive Director, Action Amos.
He further said Fedoma decided to come up with the debate to allow political parties to unveil their plans on the challenges people who are physical challenged face in regards to accessibility of physical infrastructure, access to services and information among others.
The grouping also said that,besides holding the debate it will also carry out a national wide voter civic education.
Meanwhile it is yet to be established if Peoples Party will attend the debate.


Information for parents and carers of children starting full-time school for the first time, and moving on to full time school from a playgroup or nursery starting in autumn 2019.
Please note all applications made after midnight on Tuesday 15 January 2019 for starting school in autumn 2019 will be treated as a late application.
If you wish to apply for a school place starting now then please complete an in-year admission application.
This guide will help answer all the questions you may have and help you towards choosing the right school. When choosing a school you should consider how popular the school is and your child's chances of getting a place there.
If you are applying for a voluntary aided school, academy or a free school, you must complete the schools' own supplementary information form as well as applying to Leicester City Council. You must return the supplementary form directly to the school by the closing date of Tuesday 15 January 2019.
The deadline for applying for a school place to start school in autumn 2019 is Tuesday 15 January 2019. Please note applications made after this date will be treated as a late application.
All applications received after this date will be treated as late and will be dealt with after those received on time and you are less likely to be offered a place at your preferred schools.
For on-time applications you will be sent an email (or a letter) informing you which school has been allocated on Tuesday 16 April 2019.
A formal decision has now been made to keep Slater Primary open beyond its proposed closing date of August 2019. Therefore, parents can still select Slater Primary School as an option for their child's future schooling. Fosse Primary School will continue to operate in the same way as it is currently.


Enflick, the developer who created free text messaging app TextNow and IM application PingChat has raised over $1 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Capital, with the Menlo Ventures Talent Fund and Lady Gaga's talent manager Troy Carter and Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun participating in the round.
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When one of Sheldon's favorite TV shows is canceled, Amy helps him work through his compulsive need for closure. Meanwhile, Raj finds his girlfriend's blog, and Penny searches for something she's passionate about.
The title refers to Amy trying to help Sheldon get over his need for closure following the cancelation of one of his favorite TV shows.
Howard: People change names on blogs to protect their privacy. Roger is Raj.
Raj: Oh, I always thought if I had a white name it would be Gavin.
Sheldon: Well, that stinks. No wonder you got cancelled. Bye.
Raj: I do have a pretty balls-to-the-wall moisturizing regimen.
Sheldon: You don't know what it's like to feel completely frustrated. To have a desire build up within you and be denied any opportunity for release.
Amy: Yeah, sounds like a drag.
Leonard: If they didn't want to be yelled at by crazy nerds they shouldn't have started the Syfy channel.
As Sheldon clears through his DVR, Leonard informs him that the TV series Alphas has been canceled and there won't be a conclusion to the season finale's cliffhanger. Sheldon is angered by the SyFy network's decision and decides to call them to complain. Meanwhile, after Howard sets up a video camera for Raj so he can watch over Cinnamon while he's at work, Raj reveals that he found Lucy's blog. Raj is shocked to learn she has been dating an Indian astrophysicist named Roger, though Howard points out she probably just changed Raj's name for privacy reasons.
Leonard goes over to Penny's to implore her to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He thinks the series' mix of action, jokes, romance and hot vampires would make the perfect show for them to watch together. Elsewhere, after Sheldon calls the SyFy network, Amy offers to help Sheldon with his problem with closure. When Howard stops by Raj's office to pick him up for lunch, Raj asks Howard if he thinks of him as feminine, as Lucy mentioned on her blog that he was a little feminine. Howard tells Raj he should use the information on her blog to his advantage to be the person Lucy wants.
After watching an episode of Buffy, Leonard is excited to hear how much Penny loved the show. Penny describes it as cute, disappointing Leonard who expected an enthusiastic response. Elsewhere, Amy has devised a series of experiments for Sheldon to overcome his compulsive need for closure. Amy and Sheldon play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe which she cuts short, frustrating Sheldon. After watching Buffy again, Penny seeks Bernadette's advice to figure out why Leonard likes the show so much. Penny wonders why she doesn't feel the same enthusiasm for things that Leonard does. Bernadette suggests Penny find something she can be passionate about.
Before a date with Lucy in his apartment, Raj videochats with Howard for some date night advice. Raj wants to know whether he should wear a hockey jersey or a football jersey to appear more manly for Lucy. Back at the apartment, Amy works Sheldon through a series of frustrating exercises to rob him of his desire for closure. Sheldon sings the National Anthem before being cut off. Sheldon creates an impressive pattern of dominoes, only to be told to pack them back up. Sheldon winds up a jack-in-the-box which Amy grabs before the end of the tune. Finally, Sheldon blows out candles on the cake, except for one which Amy shielded, meaning his wish can't come true.
Lucy wonders why Raj is acting so weird on their date. Raj explains that he found her blog and read what she said about him being feminine. Lucy tells him she never said that was a bad thing and that she likes how sweet and thoughtful he is. Elsewhere, Penny tells Leonard how she's realized she does have things in her life she's passionate about, namely him and her friends. Elsewhere, Sheldon thanks Amy for a transformitive evening. When Amy leaves, however, Sheldon goes back to complete all her exercises. As Sheldon writhes on the floor in pleasure after finishing the tasks, Penny comes over to say that she loves having him in her life. Later, Sheldon phones the Alphas creator to ask how he planned to conclude the cliffhanger.


Lovell is a pleasant little town located in western Maine near the New Hampshire border and just a couple of miles from Kezar Lake. In the late 1800s, the village of Lovell became a summer resort area when city dwellers began building cottages near the lake for their vacation homes. The natural beauty of the area and the peacefulness of the town of Lovell attracted those looking to escape the fast pace of the cities. Today, it remains a safe, picturesque, rural resort town. There are many beautiful lakes, streams and woodlands in the area, but Kezar Lake is, by far, the jewel in the crown of the Lovell area. Ringed by the beautiful White Mountains, Kezar Lake has been called "one of the three most beautiful lakes in the world" by National Geographic Magazine. It remains unspoiled and pristine, even after a century of tourism. Known for its' superb salmon, trout and bass fishing, Kezar Lake is both a warm and cold water lake, with unique stream feeders that provide a wide variety of wildlife. A wide array of other activities are available around the lake, as well, such as swimming, canoeing, water skiing, hiking, biking, horseback riding, picnicking and birdwatching. New England's largest nighttime ski facility, Shawnee Peak, is also just a short drive from Lovell.
The closest airports in the area are the Portland International Jetport airport (PWM) located about 44 miles southeast of Lovell in Portland, Maine, the Sanford Regional airport (SFM) located approximately 51 miles south of Lovell in Sanford, Maine, the Concord Municipal airport (CON) located roughly 70 miles southwest of Lovell in Concord, New Hampshire, and finally the Pease International Tradeport airport (PSM) located around 72 miles south of Lovell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Top Hong Kong official resigns over birthday party during Covid-19 surge
A top Hong Kong official has resigned after attending a birthday party with about 200 guests in early January as the city was battling a coronavirus surge.
Secretary of home affairs Caspar Tsui was among several officials ordered to quarantine after the party, which was held for Witman Hung, a delegate to China's legislature.
At least one guest later tested positive.
Mr Tsui said he had not "set the best example during the recent outbreak".
At the time, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and health officials had urged the public to avoid large
gatherings to prevent the spread of the virus.
Mr Tsui said: "I made the wrong decision to attend a banquet on January 3 and behaved in an inappropriate manner when all efforts should have been devoted to controlling the spread of the virus.
"I will take responsibility for my actions, and I have therefore decided to resign from the position of secretary for home affairs."
Mr Tsui's announcement came hours ahead of a planned news conference by Ms Lam, who is widely expected to announce the results of a disciplinary investigation into officials who had attended the party.
Ms Lam expressed disappointment at the behaviour of the officials and legislators who attended, and ordered those in quarantine to be suspended from their duties.


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'How football failed Nobby Stiles' Family of 1966 World Cup hero reveal dementia struggle
Nobby was struck down by Alzheimer's and vascular dementia 15 years ago
The former Manchester United star, who also has prostate cancer, was struck down by Alzheimer's and vascular dementia 15 years ago.
Yesterday his family said there had been "virtually no communication" from United since Stiles left the club.
It was claimed that when Stiles, 74, asked for match tickets for his granddaughter Caitlin's birthday in 2009, he was told he would have to pay full price for them.
His heartbroken son Rob said: "One of the very few other times we remember them getting in touch was when they wanted dad to do a dinner for them for free. The pleasure that dad brought for so many doesn't seem to count for anything now."
The pleasure that dad brought for so many doesn't seem to count for anything now
Rob Stiles
Last summer Stiles was too ill to attend celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of England's victory over West Germany in the World Cup final.
It has emerged that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney sent the family a hand-written card saying how much he enjoyed watching footage of Stiles and how sorry he was to hear he was struggling.
Last year the Daily Express campaigned for Stiles and his 1966 England team-mates to be knighted before it is too late.
The crusade was launched after revelations that he, along with teammates Ray Wilson and Martin Peters, had had dementia diagnosed.
Nobby Stiles was in the winning squad which saw through the 1966 World Cup
Jack Charlton also revealed that he suffers from severe memory loss.
Former team-mate Sir Bobby Charlton and the rest of the World Cup squad are among the few people involved in the game who remained supportive over the years.
In 2010 Stiles, who still lives near Old Trafford, suffered a mini-stroke before announcing he was selling his medals and football memorabilia to raise money for his family.
Stiles's family also criticised the Professional Footballers' Association, saying the organisation contacted the family for the first time "in years" after last year's anniversary.
The PFA wrote to Stiles's wife Kay to say they had become aware a number of Sir Alf Ramsey's team were not well and they wanted to help.
Boys of 1966: England World Cup winning squad
To celebrate 50 years since England lifted the World Cup in 1966, we take a look at previously unseen candid pictures from the squad's journey to the final. (The Boys of '66: The Unseen Story Behind England's World Cup Glory, by John Rowlinson)
The winning England squad's path to Wembley
Mrs Stiles was then told that there was a means-tested scheme, if she wished to apply. She declined.
It is 15 years since the FA and PFA pledged to undertake a joint study into a possible link between dementia and football after the death of former West Bromwich Albion star Jeff Astle at the age of 59 after suffering a degenerative brain disease.
Rob Stiles added: "Dad's illness hadn't even become obvious to us when the FA and PFA first promised to look at the possible link between the game and the illness.
"We thought there would be some understanding in his lifetime. We are talking about football's equivalent of industrial disease."
Manchester United and PFA have so far failed to respond to requests for comment about the family's claims.
Yesterday the revelations prompted an angry backlash on social media.
One fan wrote: "State of football when an agent gets paid £20million for a deal and a footballing hero like Nobby Stiles has to sell medals and struggle alone."
Another said: "Sad to see this, Man Utd should be doing more for Nobby Stiles. Like to think football look after their own."
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Omar Estevez
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Rotowire Jun 29, 2020
Estevez was added to the Dodgers' 60-man player pool Sunday.
Estevez had been tabbed to open the campaign at Triple-A before play was suspended in March, but the modified roster rules for the 2020 campaign will allow the infielder to be part of the Dodgers' expanded roster instead. Although Estevez impressed at the Double-A level last season, the Dodgers have so much depth that it is unlikely he gets much, if any, MLB playing time this season.
Dodgers' Omar Estevez: Likely to open season at Triple-A
Rotowire Apr 29, 2020
Estevez is expected to open the 2020 campaign with Triple-A Oklahoma City, Howard Cole of Sports Illustrated reports.
Estevez showed well in his first stop at Double-A last season, slashing .291/.352/.431 with six home runs in 336 plate appearances. His defense remains a work in progress and he has notched double-digit home runs in only one minor-league campaign thus far, but the 22-year-old has shown a solid enough bat to justify a promotion to the next level. Estevez collected two hits -- including a solo home run -- in 15 Cactus League at-bats before he was reassigned to minor-league camp.
Dodgers' Omar Estevez: Sent to minors camp
Rotowire Mar 9, 2020
Estevez was reassigned to minor-league camp Monday, Eric Stephen of TrueBlueLA.com reports.
Estevez appeared in 11 contests while in big-league camp, going 2-for-15 with a solo home run and a walk. He spent the majority of his 2019 season at Double-A Tulsa, putting together a .291/.352/.431 slash line with six long balls and 36 RBI over 83 contests.
Dodgers' Omar Estevez: Returns to action Thursday
Estevez (shoulder) went 0-for-1 in Thursday's Cactus League game against Oakland.
Estevez had been slowed by a shoulder issue at the start of the week, but he felt well enough to log a spring at-bat Thursday. The 22-year-old is likely to open the season at the Triple-A level after hitting .291 in 299 at-bats with Double-A Tulsa last season.
Dodgers' Omar Estevez: Slowed by sore shoulder
Estevez is dealing with a sore right shoulder, Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports.
The severity of the issue and when Estevez is expected to return to the field are not yet known. The second baseman played 83 games for Double-A Tulsa last season, hitting .291/.352/.431.
Dodgers' Omar Estevez: Selected for Arizona Fall League
Rotowire Aug 29, 2019
Estevez will play with Glendale in the Arizona Fall League, Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports.
In his first stint at the Double-A level, Estevez has hit .294 with six homers and 35 RBI in 279 at-bats this season. He will now have the opportunity to test his skills against many of baseball's best prospects in the AFL.
Dodgers' Omar Estevez: Hitting well in Double-A
Rotowire May 16, 2019
Estevez is slashing .333/.412/.456 through 114 at-bats for Double-A Tulsa.
The 21-year-old infielder got off to a blistering start with a .385/.449/.546 slash line over his first month, and while he's cooled a little bit since then, he's still sporting a .868 OPS to go along with two homers and 12 RBI. This is on the heels of a solid campaign for High-A Rancho Cucamonga last year, when he hit .278 with 15 homers and 84 RBI in 515 at-bats. Estevez is also showing vastly improved plate discipline this season, as he boasts a 16:24 K:BB. He's currently on the 7-day injured list with an undisclosed leg injury, but if he can continue to produce when he gets back, he could garner himself a look for a move to Triple-A Oklahoma City.
HT/WT: 5-10, 168 lbs
Birthplace: Matanzas, Cuba
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Sounds like the trans went out. Lots of stuff in there, so I am not sure what it could be.
Possibly the ring / pinion went out on it.
I would check all the shift linkage and make sure it is all connected. Check all the CV joints.
IF you find nothing there, then it is time to pull the trans and have it looked at.
When you say will not go in gear, do you mean you can not shift the car or that it will not move once you put it into a gear?
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Here's what $18.8 million gets you: Jason Kidd's former Paradise Valley home
A 21-seat theater, two detached guest houses and a tennis court with a viewing deck is what $18.8 million could buy in a Paradise Valley home.
Author: Ariana Taylor
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — Located at the base of Camelback Mountain in Paradise Valley is a long, gated drive that leads to a secluded, Spanish colonial estate that's selling for a whopping $18.8 million.
The entire home was updated in the past year and includes two detached guest houses, a club room with a bar and a 21-seat movie theater.
Perhaps the most interesting fact about the house, besides it being one of the most expensive in the neighborhood, is that it was previously owned by former Phoenix Suns player and NBA coach, Jason Kidd.
Kidd, who played point guard for the Suns from 1996 to 2001, purchased the home in 2009 and sold it in 2013 for $5 million. Today's multi-million dollar listing price is a 276% increase from what Kidd sold the mansion for 8 years ago.
The listing was provided by 72 SOLD on behalf of Local Board Real Estate in Phoenix. Here are more specs of the mansion.
12 bathrooms
12,935 approximate square feet
Includes a 1,156-square-foot detached guest house and a 767-square-foot guest house, and a separate 875-square-foot building for a gym or studio.
Full tennis and basketball court with a viewing deck
Outdoor, heated spa pool and jacuzzi
The move-in ready home boasts his and hers bathrooms, closets, offices and outdoor showers. To emphasize cozy aesthetics, three fireplaces are stationed throughout the home. Vaulted ceilings set off the wood finish of the mansion and as an added touch, water softener and filtering systems are built in.
Huge Houses: Look into this $18.8 million Paradise Valley home
Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service/ Local Board Real Estate
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"Consider your own call," the Apostle Paul writes to the fledgling disciples of the Church in Corinth. Now of course Paul knows that every disciple's call comes from Christ alone, that they are each and all chosen to serve and to be glorified in the one Lord. Yet Paul says, "Consider your own call." From his own transformative encounter with the risen Christ, Paul also knows that each disciple's vocation is unique. For just as each person is an image and likeness of the one God unlike any other, so too the circumstances, gifts, and mission of each disciple called into Christ's mystical Body have a personally peculiar manifestation in each one. Paul says, "Consider your own call," reminding us that each woman or man's call will be transformed by God into a strikingly particular life of love and self-offering in Christ.
On this day, the Church's calendar celebrates one such gloriously peculiar call of Christ. In the clerestory above us on the south side of this chapel, a stained glass window depicts a balding and bearded priest wearing the surplice and stole of a pastor. This uniquely called disciple is St. Vincent de Paul who was born in 1580 to a French peasant family. Though he later achieved fame for his dedication to the poor, his early life was spent in a determined struggle to escape and hide his humble roots. His family shared this ambition, hoping that his career in the priesthood would better their fortune. Vincent was trained and ordained at the remarkably young age of nineteen. In his early days of ordained life, Vincent applied himself to securing well-paid positions as a chaplain and tutor with wealthy patrons among the nobility. His innate charm and social skills gained him entry into the highest levels of society.
At Vincent's funeral, the preacher declared that Vincent had just about "transformed the face of the Church." "The Apostle of Charity," so named even in his own lifetime, breathed his last in Paris, on September 27, 1660, at the age of eighty.
Our gathering for Eucharist this morning includes disciples seeking rest and refreshment on retreat, disciple brothers seeking sustenance for faithful living in community, and disciples seeking strength for the daily praying of their lives. Each of us is being peculiarly and gloriously transformed for service. And together we may pray with blessed Monsieur Vincent, "Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance." Amen.


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Exploding the Manifest and Scientific Images of Man
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. –Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
What I would like to do is show how Sellars' manifest and scientific images of humanity are best understood in terms of shallow cognitive ecologies and deep information environments. Expressed in Sellars' own terms, you could say the primary problem with his characterization is that it is a manifest, rather than scientific, understanding of the distinction. It generates the problems it does (for example, in Brassier or Dennett) because it inherits the very cognitive limitations it purports to explain. At best, Sellars take is too granular, and ultimately too deceptive to function as much more than a stop-sign when it comes to questions regarding the constitution and interrelation of different human cognitive modes. Far from a way to categorize and escape the conundrums of traditional philosophy, it provides yet one more way to bake them in.
Cognitive Images
Things begin, for Sellars, in the original image, our prehistorical self-understanding. The manifest image consists in the 'correlational and categorial refinement' of this self-understanding. And the scientific image consists in everything discovered about man beyond the limits of correlational and categorial refinement (while relying on these refinements all the same). The manifest image, in other words, is an attenuation of the original image, whereas the scientific image is an addition to the manifest image (that problematizes the manifest image). Importantly, all three are understood as kinds of 'conceptual frameworks' (though he sometime refers to the original image as 'preconceptual.'
The original framework, Sellars tells us, conceptualizes all objects as ways of being persons—it personalizes its environments. The manifest image, then, can be seen as "the modification of an image in which all the objects are capable of the full range of personal activity" (12). The correlational and categorial refinement consists in 'pruning' the degree to which they are personalized. The accumulation of correlational inductions (patterns of appearance) undermined the plausibility of environmental agencies and so drove categorial innovation, creating a nature consisting of 'truncated persons,' a world that was habitual as opposed to mechanical. This new image of man, Sellars claims, is "the framework in terms of which man came to be aware of himself as man-in-the-world" (6). As such, the manifest image is the image interrogated by the philosophical tradition, which given the limited correlational and categorial resources available to it, remained blind to the communicative—social—conditions of conceptual frameworks, and so, the manifest image of man. Apprehending this would require the scientific image, the conceptual complex "derived from the fruits of postulational theory construction," yet still turning on the conceptual resources of the manifest image.
For Sellars, the distinction between the two images turns not so much on what we commonly regard to be 'scientific' or not (which is why he thinks the manifest image is scientific in certain respects), but on the primary cognitive strategies utilized. "The contrast I have in mind," he writes, "is not that between an unscientific conception of man-in-the-world and a scientific one, but between that conception which limits itself to what correlational techniques can tell us about perceptible and introspectable events and that which postulates imperceptible objects and events for the purpose of explaining correlations among perceptibles" (19). This distinction, as it turns out, only captures part of what we typically think of as 'scientific.' A great deal of scientific work is correlational, bent on describing patterns in sets of perceptibles as opposed to postulating imperceptibles to explain those sets. This is why he suggests that terming the scientific image the 'theoretical image' might prove more accurate, if less rhetorically satisfying. The scientific image is postulational because it posits what isn't manifest—what wasn't available to our historical or prehistorical ancestors, namely, knowledge of man as "a complex physical system" (25).
The key to overcoming the antipathy between the two images, Sellars thinks, lies in the indispensability of the communally grounded conceptual framework of the manifest image to both images. The reason we should yield ontological priority to the scientific image derives from the conceptual priority of the manifest image. Their domains need not overlap. "[T]he conceptual framework of persons," he writes, "is not something that needs to be reconciled with the scientific image, but rather something to be joined to it" (40). To do this, we need to "directly relate the world as conceived by scientific theory to our purposes and make it our world and no longer an alien appendage to the world in which we do our living" (40).
Being in the 'logical space of reasons,' or playing the 'game of giving and asking for reasons,' requires social competence, which requires sensitivity to norms and purposes. The entities and relations populating Sellars normative metaphysics exist only in social contexts, only so far as they discharge pragmatic functions. The reliance of the scientific image on these pragmatic functions renders them indispensable, forcing us to adopt 'stereoscopic vision,' to acknowledge the conceptual priority of the manifest even as we yield ontological priority to the scientific.
Cognitive Ecologies
The interactional sum of organisms and their environments constitutes an ecology. A 'cognitive ecology,' then, can be understood as the interactional sum of organisms and their environments as it pertains to the selection of behaviours.
A deep information environment is simply the sum of difference-making differences available for possible human cognition. We could, given the proper neurobiology, perceive radio waves, but we don't. We could, given the proper neurobiology, hear dog whistles, but we don't. We could, given the proper neurobiology, see paramecia, but we don't. Of course, we now possess instrumentation allowing us to do all these things, but this just testifies to the way science accesses deep information environments. As finite, our cognitive ecology, though embedded in deep information environments, engages only select fractions of it. As biologically finite, in other words, human cognitive ecology is insensitive to most all deep information. When a magician tricks you, for instance, they're exploiting your neglect-structure, 'forcing' your attention toward ephemera while they manipulate behind the scenes.
Given the complexity of biology, the structure of our cognitive ecology lies outside the capacity of our cognitive ecology. Human cognitive ecology cannot but neglect the high dimensional facts of human cognitive ecology. Our intractability imposes inscrutability. This means that human metacognition and sociocognition are radically heuristic, systems adapted to solving systems they otherwise neglect.
Human cognition possesses two basic modes, one that is source-insensitive, or heuristic, relying on cues to predict behaviour, and one that is source-sensitive, or mechanical, relying on causal contexts to predict behaviour. The radical economies provided by the former is offset by narrow ranges of applicability and dependence on background regularities. The general applicability of the latter is offset by its cost. Human cognitive ecology can be said to be shallow to the extent it turns on source-insensitive modes of cognition, and deep to the extent it turns on source-sensitive modes. Given the radical intractability of human cognition, we should expect metacognition and sociocognition to be radically shallow, utterly dependent on cues and contexts. Not only are we blind to the enabling dimension of experience and cognition, we are blind to this blindness. We suffer medial neglect.
This provides a parsimonious alternative to understanding the structure and development of human self-understanding. We began in an age of what might be called 'medial innocence,' when our cognitive ecologies were almost exclusively shallow, incorporating causal determinations only to cognize local events. Given their ignorance of nature, our ancestors could not but cognize it via source-insensitive modes. They did not so much 'personalize' the world, as Sellars claims, as use source-insensitive modes opportunistically. They understood each other and themselves as far as they needed to resolve practical issues. They understood argument as far as they needed to troubleshoot their reports. Aside from these specialized ways of surmounting their intractability, they were utterly ignorant of their nature.
Our ancestral medial innocence began eroding as soon as humanity began gaming various heuristic systems out of school, spoofing their visual and auditory systems, knapping them into cultural inheritances, slowly expanding and multiplying potential problem-ecologies within the constraints of oral culture. Writing, as a cognitive technology, had a tremendous impact on human cognitive ecology. Literacy allowed speech to be visually frozen and carved up for interrogation. The gaming of our heuristics began in earnest, the knapping of countless cognitive tools. As did the questions. Our ancient medial innocence bloomed into a myriad of medial confusions.
Confusions. Not, as Sellars would have it, a manifest image. Sellars calls it 'manifest' because it's correlational, source-insensitive, bound to the information available. The fact that it's manifest means that it's available—nothing more. Given medial innocence, that availability was geared to practical ancestral applications. The shallowness of our cognitive ecology was adapted to the specificity of the problems faced by our ancestors. Retasking those shallow resources to solve for their own nature, not surprisingly, generated endless disputation. Combined with the efficiencies provided by coinage and domestication during the 'axial age,' literacy did not so much trigger 'man's encounter with man,' as Sellars suggests, as occasion humanity's encounter with the question of humanity, and the kinds cognitive illusions secondary to the application of metacognitive and sociocognitive heuristics to the theoretical question of experience and cognition.
The birth of philosophy is the birth of discursive crash space. We have no problem reflecting on thoughts or experiences, but as soon as we reflect on the nature of thoughts and experiences, we find ourselves stymied, piling guesses upon guesses. Despite our genius for metacognitive innovation, what's manifest in our shallow cognitive ecologies is woefully incapable of solving for the nature of human cognitive ecology. Precisely because reflecting on the nature of thoughts and experiences is a metacognitive innovation, something without evolutionary precedent, we neglect the insufficiency of the resources available. Artifacts of the lack of information are systematically mistaken for positive features. The systematicity of these crashes licenses the intuition that some common structure lurks 'beneath' the disputation—that for all their disagreements, the disputants are 'onto something.' The neglect-structure belonging to human metacognitive ecology gradually forms the ontological canon of the 'first-person' (see "On Alien Philosophy" for a more full-blooded account). And so, we persisted, generation after generation, insisting on the sufficiency of those resources. Since sociocognitive terms cue sociocognitive modes of cognition, the application of these modes to the theoretical problem of human experience and cognition struck us as intuitive. Since the specialization of these modes renders them incompatible with source-sensitive modes, some, like Wittgenstein and Sellars, went so far as to insist on the exclusive applicability of those resources to the problem of human experience and cognition.
Despite the profundity of metacognitive traps like these, the development of our source–sensitive cognitive modes continued reckoning more and more of our deep environment. At first this process was informal, but as time passed and the optimal form and application of these modes resolved from the folk clutter, we began cognizing more and more of the world in deep environmental terms. The collective behavioural nexuses of science took shape. Time and again, traditions funded by source-insensitive speculation on the nature of some domain found themselves outcompeted and ultimately displaced. The world was 'disenchanted'; more and more of the grand machinery of the natural universe was revealed. But as powerful as these individual and collective source-sensitive modes of cognition proved, the complexity of human cognitive ecology insured that we would, for the interim, remain beyond their reach. Though an artifactual consequence of shallow ecological neglect-structures, the 'first-person' retained cognitive legitimacy. Despite the paradoxes, the conundrums, the interminable disputation, the immediacy of our faulty metacognitive intuitions convinced us that we alone were exempt, that we were the lone exception in the desert landscape of the real. So long as science lacked the resources to reveal the deep environmental facts of our nature, we could continue rationalizing our conceit.
Ecology versus Image
As should be clear, Sellars' characterization of the images of man falls squarely within this tradition of rationalization, the attempt to explain away our exceptionalism. One of the stranger claims Sellars makes in this celebrated essay involves the scientific status of his own discursive exposition of the images and their interrelation. The problem, he writes, is that the social sources of the manifest image are not themselves manifest. As a result, the manifest image lacks the resources to explain its own structure and dynamics: "It is in the scientific image of man in the world that we begin to see the main outlines of the way in which man came to have an image of himself-in-the-world" (17). Understanding our self-understanding requires reaching beyond the manifest and postulating the social axis of human conceptuality, something, he implies, that only becomes available when we can see group phenomena as 'evolutionary developments.'
Remember Sellars' caveats regarding 'correlational science' and the sense in which the manifest image can be construed as scientific? (7) Here, we see how that leaky demarcation of the manifest (as correlational) and the scientific (as theoretical) serves his downstream equivocation of his manifest discourse with scientific discourse. If science is correlational, as he admits, then philosophy is also postulational—as he well knows. But if each image helps itself to the cognitive modes belonging to the other, then Sellars assertion that the distinction lies between a conception limited to 'correlational techniques' and one committed to the 'postulation of imperceptibles' (19) is either mistaken or incomplete. Traditional philosophy is nothing if not theoretical, which is to say, in the business of postulating ontologies.
Suppressing this fact allows him to pose his own traditional philosophical posits as (somehow) belonging to the scientific image of man-in-the-world. What are 'spaces of reasons' or 'conceptual frameworks' if not postulates used to explain the manifest phenomena of cognition? But then how do these posits contribute to the image of man as a 'complex physical system'? Sellars understands the difficulty here "as long as the ultimate constituents of the scientific image are particles forming ever more complex systems of particles" (37). This is what ultimately motivates the structure of his 'stereoscopic view,' where ontological precedence is conceded to the scientific image, while cognition itself remains safely in the humanistic hands of the manifest image…
Which is to say, lost to crash space.
Are human neuroheuristic systems welded into 'conceptual frameworks' forming an 'irreducible' and 'autonomous' inferential regime? Obviously not. But we can now see why, given the confounds secondary to metacognitive neglect, they might report as such in philosophical reflection. Our ancestors bickered. In other words, our capacity to collectively resolve communicative and behavioural discrepancies belongs to our medial innocence: intentional idioms antedate our attempts to theoretically understand intentionality. Uttering them, not surprisingly, activates intentional cognitive systems, because, ancestrally speaking, intentional idioms always belonged to problem-ecologies requiring these systems to solve. It was all but inevitable that questioning the nature of intentional idioms would trigger the theoretical application of intentional cognition. Given the degree to which intentional cognition turns on neglect, our millennial inability to collectively make sense of ourselves, medial confusion, was all but inevitable as well. Intentional cognition cannot explain the nature of anything, insofar as natures are general, and the problem ecology of intentional cognition is specific. This is why, far from decisively resolving our cognitive straits, Sellars' normative metaphysics merely complicates it, using the same overdetermined posits to make new(ish) guesses that can only serve as grist for more disputation.
But if his approach is ultimately hopeless, how is he able to track the development in human self-understanding at all? For one, he understands the centrality of behaviour. But rather than understand behaviour naturalistically, in terms of systems of dispositions and regularities, he understands it intentionally, via modes adapted to neglect physical super-complexities. Guesses regarding hidden systems of physically inexplicable efficacies—'conceptual frameworks'—are offered as basic explanations of human behaviour construed as 'action.'
He also understands that distinct cognitive modes are at play. But rather than see this distinction biologically, as the difference between complex physical systems, he conceives it conceptually, which is to say, via source-insensitive systems incapable of charting, let alone explaining our cognitive complexity. Thus, his confounding reliance on what might be called manifest postulation, deep environmental explanation via shallow ecological (intentional) posits.
And he understands the centrality of information availability. But rather than see this availability biologically, as the play of physically interdependent capacities and resources, he conceives it, once again, conceptually. All differences make differences somehow. Information consists of differences selected (neurally or evolutionarily) by the production of prior behaviours. Information consists in those differences prone to make select systematic differences, which is to say, feed the function of various complex physical systems. Medial neglect assures that the general interdependence of information and cognitive system appears nowhere in experience or cognition. Once humanity began retasking its metacognitive capacities, it was bound to hallucinate a countless array of 'givens.' Sellars is at pains to stress the medial (enabling) dimension of experience and cognition, the inability of manifest deliverances to account for the form of thought (16). Suffering medial neglect, cued to misapply heuristics belonging to intentional cognition, he posits 'conceptual frameworks' as a means of accommodating the general interdependence of information and cognitive system. The naturalistic inscrutability of conceptual frameworks renders them local cognitive prime movers (after all, source-insensitive posits can only come first), assuring the 'conceptual priority' of the manifest image.
The issue of information availability, for him, is always conceptual, which is to say, always heuristically conditioned, which is to say, always bound to systematically distort what is the case. Where the enabling dimension of cognition belongs to the deep environments on a cognitive ecological account, it belongs to communities on Sellars' inferentialist account. As result, he has no clear way of seeing how the increasingly technologically mediated accumulation of ancestrally unavailable information drives the development of human self-understanding.
The contrast between shallow (source-insensitive) cognitive ecologies and deep information environments opens the question of the development of human self-understanding to the high-dimensional messiness of life. The long migratory path from the medial innocence of our preliterate past to the medial chaos of our ongoing cognitive technological revolution has nothing to do with the "projection of man-in-the-world on the human understanding" (5) given the development of 'conceptual frameworks.' It has to do with blind medial adaptation to transforming cognitive ecologies. What complicates this adaptation, what delivers us from medial innocence to chaos, is the heuristic nature of source-insensitive cognitive modes. Their specificity, their inscrutability, not to mention their hypersensitivity (the ease with which problems outside their ability cue their application) all but doomed us to perpetual, discursive disarray.
Images. Games. Conceptual frameworks. None of these shallow ecological posits are required to make sense of our path from ancestral ignorance to present conundrum. And we must discard them, if we hope to finally turn and face our future, gaze upon the universe with the universe's own eyes.
Tags: eliminativism : Heuristic Neglect Theory : Intentionalism : manifest image : progress : Sellars
11 Comments to "Exploding the Manifest and Scientific Images of Man"
John Robie says:
But I say, the whale has no face
Doesn't it all come down to this?
If you restrict the number of pockets to one, and populate the beach with billions…
I enjoyed this as usual Scott! Bring to the fore the blind alley of Idealism ('conceptualism') in Sellars and his followers, as compared to the cognitive ecological approach of more naturalist materialism based mode seems appropriate. Over and over the whole gamut of philosophical speculation from Kant to now has fallen within this circle of ancestral neglect, believing it is solving things when all it is doing is working within a nested Matryoshka doll of error and confusion blind to the all those infinite ingresses hidden within its own neglect.
Pointing out the specificity of the problem is central to any future way out of this mess. Piling more and more speculation will only create a vase accumulation much like Benjamin's Angel. Do you think we will ever resolve this, or are we doomed? Don't answer that… it's just a guess between two irreconcilable systems: to answer is to fail and fall back into the same error prone neglect we've all been tangled in for all too long. 🙂
Thanks Craig. You should have linked your far more accessible (and artful) commentary on the problematic, though!
As for the future? You're right in that we're doomed to reinscribe ourselves somehow, but never the same way twice. There's a horizon here, a fundamental one, and as such the best we can do is throw bullshit at it, SF and Theory, to see how it appears. We're reduced to reading subatomic scatter plots–minus any equations.
That makes me ask: I know you've done your life's work in fantasy, but what about SF? Do you plan to move into that realm of 'what if…'? I'm not agreeable in many ways with Richard K. Morgan's politics, but his genre hopping is fun and entertaining. I keep think with your knowledge of various sciences that a great SciFi epic tale might be in the making, one that projects many of the scenarios of which you speak here on TPB. What you say? 🙂
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/03/magic-illusions-and-zombies-an-exchange/
Cool. I read Strawsons criticisms for my three-parter on Dennett's BBB, and I felt what Dennett expresses. He goes so far to appease these guys and yet he gets lumped in with the likes of me anyway.
I'm kind of surprised at the inclusion of games there? I'd almost think the falsity of games are a necessity – it seems the history of philosophy is one of people insisting they have discarded all and see clearly now, only to be running into games they weren't aware are concepts/images/games, so they get called fact.
My intuition (heh, what a word, eh?) is we can't help but see in terms of games. It's just a question of whether we see the game as a game. Seeing the breaks in broken games is as close as we come to seeing raw. One might even say the place where broken games crash. We (as in life) are a derivative process – and it's just a game to call it by that. Without that final game, what have you got – a disgustingly massive spreadsheet, its cells changing numbers and those changes begetting other changes in other cells – over and over, in a way we are compelled to think the changes must be going somewhere (I'm not saying they don't, necessarily, but the compulsion aught be noted). How do we, the derivative, gaze upon our source without the aid of any derivation? How do we gaze without ourselves?
I'm hoping the answer involves dragons, because that'd be sweet!
landzek says:
You know, It's funny up to this point it just Dondonde me what you were saying about a crash space: I thought you were talking about a place that people go kick back and smoke some weed. Lol
Like through all this theory and all this reflection on stuff we get to a point where we just got to go in the room and take a bong hit. 😝
I myself don't smoke weed anymore but I did and it kind of sounds like the universe in side of a fingernail of some gigantic monster that we can't conceive.
Joking aside; Mary bottle is that it sounds like a kind of atheism, like the way 80 is them tries to rebut theism. Because I would ask you what the content of a crash space is, And I would suppose that you would indicate that there is no content of a crash space it is the result of a situation, or something of that sort.
But I shouldn't presume; I read a couple of your things talking about the crash space and I don't think I've come across what could be the content of this crash space. does it have content?
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Hebron Mourns
By Buckeye Lake Beacon | on June 08, 2013
By Scott Rawdon and Charles Prince
HEBRON – The Lakewood High School auditorium had countless visitors Tuesday morning and afternoon as hundreds of family, friends, and community members honored and celebrated the life of 16-year-old Jenae' McNichols, who passed away May 31 from injuries sustained from a single-car crash Memorial Day afternoon on Hirst Road. She was wearing a seat belt and was not using her cell phone at the time of the accident.
"We were happy we could help the family in any way we could," said Lakewood Superintendent Jay Gault, who said the McNichols family asked to have the memorial service in the auditorium.
Monday evening, friends and family held a candlelight service in Hebron's Canal Park. "Her family is an amazing family," said Hebron Mayor Clifford L. Mason. "They are a strong family. Thank you for your love and support for their family."
"She had a passion for life," her older sister Jana said. "She will be with you. She will live in your hearts."
Her father, Thomas, said her kidneys and liver have been transplanted. Her corneas are available and tissue donations could help up to 50 people. "Janae' will live on," he said.
Earlier, the McNichols family issued the following statement, "The family of Jenae' McNichols would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers, expressions of love, and support you all have shared since Jenae's accident. Unfortunately, the injuries she sustained have proven too difficult for the medical staff to correct. We have decided to honor Jenae's wishes and donate her organs to others in need, Jenae' will live on for many years in others. We sincerely hope you will continue to pray for our family and for the families of those who need love at this time. The family respectfully request that you also consider their feelings right now, we want and need your prayers but we need a little space to process this situation."
Jenae' was cur rently a sophomore at Lakewood High School and was active in drama, band/drumline, student council, Lu nch Budd ies, Nat ional Honor Society and choir. She gave up her study hall to be an office worker. She was also a dance assistant with Garrett Dance Arts Studio as well as a competition dancer. She won many awards with dance, most recently a scholarship to a Jazz Intensive in New Orleans and she was an active Jr. Member of Ohio Dance Masters. Jenae' was a student who truly excelled as this coming school year, her junior year, she was given the honor to be the varsity captain for the cheerleading squad and was accepted as a Post Secondary Option Student. Jenae' was also a member of Hebron Christian Church, where she was active in the youth group and served as secretary.
Jenea's passion for life and art was illustrated in a message that friends had placed along the Lakewood Schools fence line that simply said, "Dance in heaven, Jenae'."
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