Its 70-minute length is both its saving grace and its biggest weakness.
The promotional material for Memory Lane called down the thunder by comparing itself to the likes of Primer and Memento. It's no secret that I thoroughly enjoyed Primer. Memento I've seen a couple of times now, and it's always a crazy ride even though I know what happens. The former had a budget of $7,000 and the latter $9M. Writer/director Shawn Holmes must have been trying to set a record with a budget of $300. There's just one problem...it feels like a $300 movie.
That's not to say that expensive effects or elaborate locations or A-list talent are needed for more cerebral movies like this -- quite the opposite. In fact, the available acting and sets and props and effects were sufficiently adequate to tell Memory Lane's story. The problem is the story itself. If nothing else, about 10% of the dialogue in the movie is about how cold something is -- the weather, a bathtub full of ice, standing outside in wet clothes in the winter, and so on. Lots of "tell me" rather than "show me." Tsk tsk.
The back of the DVD case suggests that the story is about PTSD-laden Afghan war veteran Nick Boxer (Michael Guy Allen) returning home to find his fiancée Kayla (Meg Braden) has committed suicide in his absence. In a moment of overwhelming grief, Nick takes his own life, spurring near-death visions and memories highlighting details that imply Kayla's death might not have been a suicide, but rather a murder. From there, Nick is resuscitated, then chooses to kill himself several more times to induce further visions and attempt to solve his fiancée's murder. Sounds pretty good. I was certainly hooked by this premise.
What we get is a bit different, best as I could tell. The movie opens with Nick distraught over flashbacks to someone who died in combat. The limited flashback info here points to it being a comrade, and that Nick had to talk to the guy's family about what happened. Later, we find out the plainclothes character featured in this flashback was referred to as a "bad guy" was of questionable value to the troops and couldn't be understood without an interpreter. They kept him alive maybe as a prisoner? It's not clear. Nick ends up suffocating him and taking his locket. So maybe the people he had to talk to were the family of the interpreter squadmate who got wounded or died, but he is only elaborated on much later in the film. At this point, it's still confusing. Back in the intro scene, we see a woman. We don't know who she is (we find out later it's Nick's sister, not his fiancée), but she tries to calm Nick down. No mention of a dead fiancée at this point. He ends up wandering down the hall and electrocuting himself in a bathtub full of water using a radio.
This triggers the first flashback to Nick returning home from the war. Soon after he bumps into Kayla in a situation where he thinks she might be about to kill herself. She proves to be utterly nuts, but he falls for her anyway. He gives her the locket he took from the dead foreigner during the war, buys her an engagement ring without even knowing her last name, buys her a house, and eventually finds her in a bathtub, electrocuted and with her wrists slit wide open. Nobody in the movie bothers asking why she killed herself two different ways, since this could/should have been an indication that something more was going on. Now we get to the part where Nick tries to shock himself to death in a bathtub, distraught over his girl dying (the "Nick Suicide" count is up to two already). It is during this near-death sequence that we get the first flashback with some obscure clue that there might be an unknown third party involved in Kayla's death.
After Nick's friends save his life, he insists on shocking his heart to death again to get more clues. Despite everyone's objections, they ultimately help him. The visions that follow are obtusely vague at best, and provide no specific information about the identity of the killer, yet Nick seems to know exactly who to start stalking back in reality.
At some point, Nick has a flashback to Kayla's nose bleeds (similar to his own, a symptom of "going under"), finds out her parents were murdered, and assumes she was shocking herself to go back and remember them as well, maybe to try to solve their murder, but none of this is developed or built upon, which seems like the place the movie should have gone. This was the biggest missed opportunity aside from there being something mysterious or significant about the locket, and that maybe the guy who wore it in Afghanistan was also shocking himself to remember things or something -- literally any of these would have been more interesting than the non-story that develops out of it.
The suspect turns out to be a false positive, so Nick turns on and accuses his friends of conspiring in Kayla's murder with evidence that's sketchy at best. Nick's sanity continues to unravel almost as quickly as the plot, and eventually we find him waking up back in the original bathtub with his sister to whom he apologizes. He never convincingly solves the murder. We get no closure. Roll credits.
Once I finished it, I went back and skimmed through most of the scenes to see if I missed something to explain this mess. Pulling apart the scenes and arranging them chronologically, Nick comes home from war, meets Kayla, they dig each other, get engaged, she offs herself, Nick goes through the entire rest of the movie, then the few minutes at the very beginning and end happen where he's talking about visiting the family of someone lost in the war, kills himself, then wakes up with his sister. Without the added Inception-esque storytelling meta-layer, it's even less satisfying because you realize the dissatisfaction stems not from the viewer's inability to sort out the chronology, but rather because the story just isn't complete or detailed enough in the right places. The randomly loud/soft audio was no help, nor was the out-of-place soundtrack, lovely as it was. All of the nothing happening on screen wasn't deserving of the emotional, sweeping New Age-sounding string section performances in the background. If you find more to like here than I did, stick around for the extra features, including three deleted scenes, director commentary, short films, screen tests, and promotional videos.
They tried their hand at telling an jumbled-sequence story, but at its core, while the story has some good ideas (even if many were done before and better in Flatliners, and yet again in The Lazarus Effect), none of them were capitalized on in any meaningful way, the story is more confusing than interesting, the characters are rather flat, the acting isn't anything special (but acceptable considering the all amateur cast), and it just failed to draw me in. Post-viewing, the promotional comparisons to Primer and Memento feel like they're riding the click-bait coattails of those much better movies to get some free press.


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Q: Is there a list of graphics cards ordered by relative performance? I'm struggling to make sense of graphics card manufacturers' cryptic names and codes for their products.
For example, some cards with a higher number or code in the name are actually less powerful than those with a lower number. Then there are the prefixes and suffixes, and the fact that NVIDIA has an entirely different naming scheme to AMD.
Is there a big list of graphics card models ordered by relative performance? It doesn't have to be a precise benchmark, just an overview so I can get some idea of what is more powerful than what.

A: If you want an ongoing list of video card performance figures then Passmark's Videocard Benchmarks site lists just about every video card out there with an easy ordered list where you can see their relative performance.

A: Yes, you are looking for this list
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
Specifically
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
There is a new version every 1-2 months

A: For mobile graphics cards, check out notebookcheck.net's Comparison of Laptop Graphics Cards.
They also have two complementary lists which give more details, about benchmark results and game performance, respectively. Both can also be configured to list desktop cards, which are hidden by default.

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OMC OMC OMC!! Rumbles is ALWAYS doing that, and let me tell you, it is not at ALL funny!!
MOL! We have a nom thief in our house too...Maya!
Haha ~ cats are funny!
What a smart kitty. We just stick our whole heads in and push the other guy to the side. That cat has it all figured out. Good video.
Now I would say that's pretty darn clever!


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Q: Using a Grails "g:sortableColumn" to sort by the size of a "hasMany" (many to one) property? is it possible to use the Grails "g:sortableColumn" tag to sort by a domain class "hasMany" property count?
class Book { hasMany = [authors: User]}

I want to sort all Books by the number of authors with a "g:sortableColumn" tag in my view, but how? Realy not possible?
Thanks and best regards...

A: not the best solution, but one
http://www.pubbs.net/200904/grails/65695-grails-user-sort-by-one-to-many-count-with-gorm-or-criteria.html
I thought there was a way to do it with criteriaBuilder but I cannot seem to make it work without changing your domain object


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Hardy Pfanz (* 1956 in Dinkelsbühl) ist Professor für Angewandte Botanik und Vulkanbiologie an der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte bilden ökophysiologische Untersuchungen sowie die Erforschung von Phytopathologien (Erkrankungen bei Pflanzen), speziell des Erregers Phytophthora alni.

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Pfanz studierte Biologie und Geographie an der Universität Würzburg, wo er schließlich auch bei U. Heber promoviert und bei O. L. Lange habilitiert wurde. Von 1993 bis 1996 war er als Assistenz-Professor an der TU Dresden tätig. Seit 1996 ist er Professor an der Universität Duisburg-Essen und dort Lehrstuhlinhaber der Angewandten Botanik und Vulkanbiologie sowie Direktor des Botanischen Gartens in Essen.

Im Bereich Ökophysiologie beschäftigt sich Pfanz vor allem mit Lebensräumen, die maßgeblich von Mofetten geprägt sind und den Anpassungen, die verschiedene an diesen Extremstandorten vorkommende Organismen entwickelt haben. Im Rahmen seiner Forschungen wurden zahlreiche Lokalitäten in Europa, Nordamerika und Ostasien untersucht.

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 Hardy Pfanz in der Liste der Mitarbeiter der Abteilung für Angewandte Botanik der Universität Duisburg-Essen
 Profil von Hardy Pfanz auf videolectures.net

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Botaniker (21. Jahrhundert)
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Felix Larsson
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics: Felix Mühlhölzer in Conversation with Sebastian Grève.Felix Mühlhölzer - 2014 - Nordic Wittgenstein Review 3 (2):151-180.details
Sebastian Grève interviews Felix Mühlhölzer on his work on the philosophy of mathematics.
Philosophy of Mathematics, General Works in Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Mathematics, Misc in Philosophy of Mathematics
Interview: Felix Guattari.Mark D. Seem & Felix Guattari - 1974 - Diacritics 4 (3):38.details
Kuberka, Felix. Kants Lehre von der Sinnlichkeit. [REVIEW]Felix Kuberka - 1905 - Kant-Studien 10 (1-3).details
Kant: Ethics in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Kant: Philosophy of Mind in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Grounding as a Side‐Effect of Grounding.Staffan Larsson - 2018 - Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (2):389-408.details
In relation to semantics, "grounding" has two relevant meanings. "Symbol grounding" is the process of connecting symbols to perception and the world. "Communicative grounding" is the process of interactively adding to common ground in dialog. Strategies for grounding in human communication include, crucially, strategies for resolving troubles caused by various kinds of miscommunication. As it happens, these two processes of grounding are closely related. As a side-effect of grounding an utterance, dialog participants may adjust the meanings they assign to linguistic (...) expressions, in a process of semantic coordination. Meanings of at least some expressions include perceptual aspects which enable DPs to classify entities as falling under the expression or not based on their perception of those entities. We show how perceptual grounding of symbols can be achieved in a process of interactively adding to common ground. This requires that perceptual aspects of meaning can be updated as a result of participating in linguistic interaction, thereby enabling fine-grained semantic coordination of perceptually grounded linguistic meanings. A formal semantics for low-level perceptual aspects of meaning is presented, tying these together with the logical-inferential aspects of meaning traditionally studied in formal semantics. The key idea is to model perceptual meanings as classifiers of perceptual input. This requires a framework where intensions are represented independently of extensions, and structured objects which can be modified as a result of learning. We use Type Theory with Records, a formal semantics framework which starts from the idea that information and meaning are founded on our ability to perceive and classify the world, that is, to perceive objects and situations as being of types. As an example of our approach, we show how a simple classifier of spatial information based on the Perceptron can be cast in TTR. (shrink)
Utility Theory: Axioms Versus 'Paradoxes'.Kenneth R. MacCrimmon & Stig Larsson - 1979 - In Maurice Allais & Ole Hagen (eds.), Expected Utility Hypotheses and the Allais Paradox. D. Reidel. pp. 333--409.details
Utility in Philosophy of Action
Transdisciplinarity Must Become Transversality.Félix Guattari - 2015 - Theory, Culture and Society 32 (5-6):131-137.details
Gilles Deleuze in Continental Philosophy
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld.Paul Felix Lazarsfeld - 2004 - In Gisela Riescher (ed.), Politische Theorie der Gegenwart in Einzeldarstellungen. Von Adorno Bis Young. Alfred Kröner Verlag. pp. 275.details
French Philosophy in European Philosophy
What If I Cannot Make a Difference (and Know It).Felix Pinkert - 2015 - Ethics 125 (4):971-998.details
When several agents together produce suboptimal outcomes, yet no individual could have made a difference for the better, Act Consequentialism counterintuitively judges that all involved agents act rightly. I address this problem by supplementing Act Consequentialism with a requirement of modal robustness: Agents not only ought to produce best consequences in the actual world, but they also ought to be such that they would act optimally in certain counterfactual scenarios. I interpret this Modally Robust Act Consequentialism as Act Consequentialism plus (...) a requirement of moral virtue, namely, to reliably act rightly and to act rightly for the right reasons. (shrink)
Control and Responsibility in Meta-Ethics
Varieties of Consequentialism, Misc in Normative Ethics
Schizoanalytic Cartographies.Félix Guattari - 2012 - Continuum.details
Schizoanalytic Cartographies represents Félix Guattari's most important later work and the most systematic and detailed account of his theoretical position and his therapeutic ideas. Guattari sets out to provide a complete account of the conditions of 'enunciation' - autonomous speech and self-expression - for subjects in the contemporary world. Over the course of eight closely argued chapters, he presents a breathtakingly new reformulation of the structures of individual and collective subjectivity. Based on research into information theory and new technologies, Guattari (...) articulates a vision of a humanity finally reconciled with its relationship to machines. Schizoanalytic Cartographies is a visionary yet highly concrete work, providing a powerful vantage point on the upheavals of our present epoch, powerfully imagining a future 'post-media' era of technological development. This long overdue translation of this substantial work offers English-speaking readers the opportunity finally to fully assess Guattari's contribution to European thought. (shrink)
Guattari: Schizoanalytic Cartographies in Continental Philosophy
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
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The Three Ecologies.Félix Guattari - 2000 - Continuum.details
A critique of capitalism and a manifesto for a new way of thinking, this book is also an introduction to the work of one of Europe's most radical thinkers. This edition includes a chronology of Guattari's life and work, introductions to both his general philosophy and to the work itself and extended notes to the original text.
Ecology and Conservation Biology in Philosophy of Biology
Guattari: Philosophy of Ecology in Continental Philosophy
Guattari: Works in Continental Philosophy
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Freedom, Power, and Political Morality: Essays for Felix Oppenheim.Felix E. Oppenheim, Ian Carter & Mario Ricciardi (eds.) - 2001 - Palgrave.details
This collection of original essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of "freedom", "power", and "interests", whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.
Freedom and Liberty in Social and Political Philosophy
Subjective Embodiment During the Rubber Hand Illusion Predicts Severity of Premonitory Sensations and Tics in Tourette Syndrome.Charlotte L. Rae, Dennis E. O. Larsson, Jessica A. Eccles, Jamie Ward & Hugo D. Critchley - 2018 - Consciousness and Cognition 65:368-377.details
Consciousness and Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Other Disorders and Syndromes in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Sourcing in an Increasingly Expensive China: Four Swedish Cases. [REVIEW]Tony Fang, Caroline Gunterberg & Emma Larsson - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 97 (1):119 - 138.details
China has long enjoyed its position as the world's cheapest production country. However, this position is being shaken due to the increasingly rising costs in China in pace with China's rapid economic development. China's New Labour Contract Law which took effect from 1 January 2008 has further pushed the labour costs in China in general. The purpose of this article is to arrive at an in-depth understanding of why foreign firms conduct sourcing in China where sourcing is becoming increasingly expensive. (...) The experiences of four Swedish companies in the textile and clothing industry (TCI) conducting sourcing in China are presented. Our findings show that sourcing in China is becoming both cost-and strategy-driven. Companies purely chasing the cheapest production would most probably consider leaving China, whereas companies with a long-term strategic intent and a high level of business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices will retain all or most of their sourcing activities on the Chinese soil despite the rising costs. (shrink)
What We Together Can (Be Required to) Do.Felix Pinkert - 2014 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 38 (1):187-202.details
In moral and political philosophy, collective obligations are promising "gap-stoppers" when we find that we need to assert some obligation, but can not plausibly ascribe this obligation to individual agents. Most notably, Bill Wringe and Jesse Tomalty discuss whether the obligations that correspond to socio-economic human rights are held by states or even by humankind at large. The present paper aims to provide a missing piece for these discussions, namely an account of the conditions under which obligations can apply to (...) loose collections of agents that do not qualify as collective agents in their own right. I first explain the notion of joint obligations of loose collections of agents as opposed to collective obligations of collections of agents that are collective agents in their own right, and argue that the conditions under which agents can jointly have obligations are the conditions under which they are jointly able to do what is required. I then build on Virginia Held's seminal work on the moral responsibility of "random collections" to develop such conditions for joint ability. My discussion shows that collections of individuals can more easily be subject to moral obligations than previously assumed. It also shows that putative joint obligations need to be carefully time-indexed, and that it is largely an empirical question whether a given collection can be subject to a moral obligation to perform a given joint action at a particular time. (shrink)
La psicología de las emociones: Félix García Moriyón entrevista a Roberto Colom.Félix García Moriyón - 2005 - Diálogo Filosófico 62:223-256.details
La psicología y los psicólogos han dedicado bastante esfuerzo para conseguir una comprensión mejor y más profundea de las emociones y los sentimientos. Roberto Colom con sus respuestas nos ofrece una visión de primera mano de todas esas aportaciones así como el punto de vista de un psicólogo sobre el valos y la importancia de las emociones, los sntimientos y la vida afectiva en general para la personalidad humana.
Polarity Judgments: An Empirical View.Paul Dedecker, Erik Larsson & Andrea Martin - manuscriptdetails
An electronic poster from "Polarity from Different Perspectives," New York University, 2005. The authors present an experiment that investigated to what extent six negative polarity items (slept a wink, in ages, ever, much, at all, and yet) are licensed by 9 potential licensers.
Negation in Philosophy of Language
Semantic Phenomena, Misc in Philosophy of Language
Varieties of Altruism in Children and Chimpanzees.Felix Warneken & Michael Tomasello - 2009 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (9):397-402.details
Anaesthesia Care of Older Patients as Experienced by Nurse Anaesthetists.Annika Larsson Mauleon, Liisa Palo-Bengtsson & Sirkka-Liisa Ekman - 2005 - Nursing Ethics 12 (3):263-272.details
This article analyses problem situations in the context of anaesthesia care. It considers what it means for nurse anaesthetists to be in problematic situations in the anaesthesia care of older patients. Benner's interpretive phenomenological approach proved useful for this purpose. Paradigm cases are used to aid the analysis of individual nurses' experiences. Thirty narrated problematic anaesthesia care situations derived from seven interviews were studied. These show that experienced nurse anaesthetists perceive anaesthesia care as problematic and highly demanding when involving older (...) patients. To be in problematic anaesthesia care situations means becoming morally distressed, which arises from the experience or from being prevented from acting according to one's legal and moral duty of care. An important issue that emerged from this study was the need for an ethical forum to discuss and articulate moral issues, so that moral stress of the kind experienced by these nurse anaesthetists can be dealt with and hopefully reduced. (shrink)
Nursing Ethics in Applied Ethics
Technocracy, Governmentality, and Post-Structuralism.Oscar L. Larsson - 2020 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 32 (1-3):103-123.details
ABSTRACT The technocratic dimension of government—its reliance upon knowledge claims, usually in scientific guise—is of great importance if we wish to understand modern power and governance. In Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy, Jeffrey Friedman investigates the often-overlooked question of the relationship between technocratic knowledge/power and ideas. Friedman's contribution to our understanding of technocracy can therefore be read as a contribution to governmentality studies, one that introduces the possibility of adding normative solutions to this critical tradition.
Hans Larsson.Alf Nyman - 1944 - Theoria 10 (1):1-6.details
Hans-Georg Gadamer in Continental Philosophy
To Lie or to Mislead?Felix Timmermann & Emanuel Viebahn - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 178 (5):1481-1501.details
The aim of this paper is to argue that lying differs from mere misleading in a way that can be morally relevant: liars commit themselves to something they believe to be false, while misleaders avoid such commitment, and this difference can make a moral difference. Even holding all else fixed, a lie can therefore be morally worse than a corresponding misleading utterance. But, we argue, there are also cases in which the difference in commitment makes lying morally better than misleading, (...) as well as cases in which the difference is not morally relevant. This view conflicts with the two main positions philosophers have defended in the ethics of lying and misleading, which entail either that lying is in virtue of its nature worse than misleading or that there is no morally relevant difference between lying and misleading. (shrink)
Speech Acts in Philosophy of Language
The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis.Félix Guattari - 2010 - Semiotext(E).details
Guattari: Chaosmosis in Continental Philosophy
Guattari: Psychoanalysis and Transversality in Continental Philosophy
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Short Proofs of Normalization for the Simply- Typed Λ-Calculus, Permutative Conversions and Gödel's T.Felix Joachimski & Ralph Matthes - 2003 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 42 (1):59-87.details
Inductive characterizations of the sets of terms, the subset of strongly normalizing terms and normal forms are studied in order to reprove weak and strong normalization for the simply-typed λ-calculus and for an extension by sum types with permutative conversions. The analogous treatment of a new system with generalized applications inspired by generalized elimination rules in natural deduction, advocated by von Plato, shows the flexibility of the approach which does not use the strong computability/candidate style à la Tait and Girard. (...) It is also shown that the extension of the system with permutative conversions by η-rules is still strongly normalizing, and likewise for an extension of the system of generalized applications by a rule of ``immediate simplification''. By introducing an infinitely branching inductive rule the method even extends to Gödel's T. (shrink)
The Anti-ŒDipus Papers.Félix Guattari - 2006 - Semiotext(E).details
Félix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction.Gary Genosko - 2002 - Continuum.details
This is the first detailed assessment of the life and work of Felix Guattari--"Mr. Anti" as the French press labelled him--the friend of and collaborator with..
20th Century French Philosophy in European Philosophy
Guattari, Misc in Continental Philosophy
Using Post-Structuralism to Explore The Full Impact of Ideas on Politics.Oscar L. Larsson - 2015 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 27 (2):174-197.details
ABSTRACTColin Hay's constructivist institutionalism and Vivien A. Schmidt's discursive institutionalism are two recent attempts to theorize ideas as potential explanations of institutional change. This new attention to the causal role of ideas is welcome, but Hay and Schmidt do not take into consideration the constitutive and structural aspects of ideas. Instead they reduce ideas to properties of individual conscious minds, scanting the respects in which ideas are intersubjectively baked into the practices shared by individuals. This aspect of ideas—arguably, the institutional (...) side of ideas—is developed in post-structuralist thought, which therefore demands a place in ideational research. (shrink)
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Aging.Jorge Felix & Andrzej Klimczuk - 2021 - In Danan Gu & Matthew E. Dupre (eds.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 4558–4565.details
Social entrepreneurship is usually understood as an economic activity which focuses at social values, goals, and investments that generates surpluses for social entrepreneurs as individuals, groups, and startups who are working for the benefit of communities, instead of strictly focusing mainly at the financial profit, economic values, and the benefit generated for shareholders or owners. Social entrepreneurship combines the production of goods, services, and knowledge in order to achieve both social and economic goals and allow for solidarity building. From a (...) broader perspective, entities that are focused on social entrepreneurship are identified as parts of the social and solidarity economy. These are, for example, social enterprises, cooperatives, mutual organizations, self-help groups, charities, unions, fair trade companies, community enterprises, and time banks. Social innovation is a key element of social entrepreneurship. Social innovation is usually understood as new strategies, concepts, products, services, and organizational forms that allow for the satisfaction of needs. Such innovations are created in particular in the contact areas of various sectors of the social system. For example, these are spaces between the public sector, the private sector, and civil society. These innovations not only allow the solving of problems but also extend possibilities for public action. (shrink)
Economics in Social Sciences
Philosophy of Economics in Philosophy of Social Science
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Olfactory LOVER: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Odor Memory.Maria Larsson, Johan Willander, Kristina Karlsson & Artin Arshamian - 2014 - Frontiers in Psychology 5.details
Felix Culpa: Luck in Ethics and Epistemology.Guy Axtell - 2003 - Metaphilosophy 34 (3):331--352.details
Luck threatens in similar ways our conceptions of both moral and epistemic evaluation. This essay examines the problem of luck as a metaphilosophical problem spanning the division between subfields in philosophy. I first explore the analogies between ethical and epistemic luck by comparing influential attempts to expunge luck from our conceptions of agency in these two subfields. I then focus upon Duncan Pritchard's challenge to the motivations underlying virtue epistemology, based specifically on its handling of the problem of epistemic luck. (...) I argue that (1) consideration of the multifold nature of the problem of epistemic luck to an adequate account of human knowledge drives us to a mixed externalist epistemology; and (2) the virtue-theoretical approach presents a particularly advantageous way of framing and developing a mixed externalist epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Metaphilosophy is the property of Blackwell Publishing Limited and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts). (shrink)
Epistemic Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology
Epistemic Luck in Epistemology
Reliabilism about Knowledge in Epistemology
The Concept of Knowledge in Epistemology
The Gettier Problem in Epistemology
Virtue Epistemology in Epistemology
The Governmentality of Network Governance: Collaboration as a New Facet of the Liberal Art of Governing.Oscar L. Larsson - 2020 - Constellations 27 (1):111-126.details
Government in Social and Political Philosophy
Liberalism in Social and Political Philosophy
Political Authority in Social and Political Philosophy
Political Power in Social and Political Philosophy
Political Views, Misc in Social and Political Philosophy
On Felix Adler's "The Freedom of Ethical Fellowship".Piers Norris Turner - 2014 - Ethics 125 (1):208-210,.details
From its inception in 1890, the journal Ethics declared that it was "Devoted to the Advancement of Ethical Knowledge and Practice." Although the latter concern may seem anachronistic, the extensive practical work of the Journal's founders was inspired by an aim shared by many of today's liberals: establishing a public morality that respects well-intentioned individuals holding a diversity of philosophical and religious commitments. Felix Adler, the guiding force behind the journal and the founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, (...) argued that shared ethical values can be explored, and can have social authority, independent of the truth of any controversial philosophical foundations. In doing so, Adler anticipated Rawls in applying "the principle of toleration to philosophy itself" at the same time that he pursued this idea in practice. (shrink)
Education in Professional Areas
Liberalism and Value in Social and Political Philosophy
Normative Ethics, Misc in Normative Ethics
"A Mathematical Proof Must Be Surveyable" What Wittgenstein Meant by This and What It Implies.Felix Mühlhölzer - 2006 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 71 (1):57-86.details
In Part III of his Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics Wittgenstein deals with what he calls the surveyability of proofs. By this he means that mathematical proofs can be reproduced with certainty and in the manner in which we reproduce pictures. There are remarkable similarities between Wittgenstein's view of proofs and Hilbert's, but Wittgenstein, unlike Hilbert, uses his view mainly in critical intent. He tries to undermine foundational systems in mathematics, like logicist or set theoretic ones, by stressing the (...) unsurveyability of the proof-patterns occurring in them. Wittgenstein presents two main arguments against foundational endeavours of this sort. First, he shows that there are problems with the criteria of identity for the unsurveyable proof-patterns, and second, he points out that by making these patterns surveyable, we rely on concepts and procedures which go beyond the foundational frameworks. When we take these concepts and procedures seriously, mathematics does not appear as a uniform system, but as a mixture of different techniques. (shrink)
Mathematical Proof in Philosophy of Mathematics
Use of Outcome Measures Improved After a Tailored Implementation in Primary Care Physiotherapy: A Prospective, Controlled Study.Ingela Käll, Maria E. H. Larsson & Susanne Bernhardsson - 2016 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 22 (5):668-676.details
Methodology of the Social Sciences.Felix Kaufmann - 1944 - Journal of Philosophy 41 (22):604-612.details
Philosophy of Social Science, General Works in Philosophy of Social Science
It's (Not) All Greek to Me: Boundaries of the Foreign Language Effect.Alexandra S. Dylman & Marie-France Champoux-Larsson - 2020 - Cognition 196:104148.details
The Structure of the Literary Process Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodicka.P. Steiner, M. Cervenka, Felix Vodicka & R. Vroon - 1982details
What is a Question?Felix S. Cohen - 1929 - The Monist 39 (3):350-364.details
Erotetic Logic in Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Questions in Philosophy of Language
The Dilemma of Openness in Social Robots.Felix Tun Han Lo - 2019 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 23 (3):342-365.details
This paper conducts a philosophical inquiry into past empirical research that reveals emotional coupling and category confusion between the human and the social robot. It examines whether emotional coupling and category confusion would increase or diminish the reification of human emotion and the human milieu by examining whether they fulfill the ideal of openness in technology. The important theories of openness, from the respective proposals of open industrial machines by Gérard-Joseph Christian and Karl Marx, to Umberto Eco's critique of open (...) art and Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of open technology, are in agreement that openness is the condition for realizing the potentiality for transcending the existing aesthetic, technical, or social structure, and that the realization of potentiality would diminish the reification of the human milieu. The therapeutic effect of emotional coupling with social robots seems to fulfill this ideal of open technology, whereas category confusion seems to increase rather than diminish reification. If people confuse the robot with the human, they risk losing sight of the unpredictability of other human beings that is essential to human development. This paper concludes that it is possible to avoid category confusion by building social robots without giving them a human-like appearance. (shrink)
Informed Consent for HPV Vaccination: A Relational Approach. [REVIEW]Maria Gottvall, Tanja Tydén, Margareta Larsson, Christina Stenhammar & Anna T. Höglund - 2013 - Health Care Analysis (1):1-13.details
The aim of this study was to explore the relational aspects of the consent process for HPV vaccination as experienced by school nurses, based on the assumption that individuals have interests related to persons close to them, which is not necessarily to be apprehended as a restriction of autonomy; rather as a voluntary and emotionally preferred involvement of their close ones. Thirty Swedish school nurses were interviewed in five focus groups, before the school based vaccination program had started in Sweden. (...) The empirical results were discussed in light of theories on relational autonomy. The school nurses were convinced that parental consent was needed for HPV vaccination of 11-year-old girls, but problems identified were the difficulty to judge when a young person is to be regarded as autonomous and what to do when children and parents do not agree on the decision. A solution suggested was that obtaining informed consent in school nursing is to be seen as a deliberative process, including the child, the parents and the nurse. The nurses described how they were willing strive for a dialogue with the parents and negotiate with them in the consent process. Seeing autonomy as relational might allow for a more dialogical approach towards how consent is obtained in school based vaccination programs. Through such an approach, conflicts of interests can be made visible and become possible to deal with in a negotiating dialogue. If the school nurses do not focus exclusively on accepting the individual parent's choice, but strive to engage in a process of communication and deliberation, the autonomy of the child might increase and power inequalities might be reduced. (shrink)
Autonomy in Applied Ethics in Applied Ethics
Informed Consent in Medicine in Applied Ethics
Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography.Franco Berardi - 2008 - Palgrave-Macmillan.details
Introduction: Cartographies in becoming -- The happy depression -- Integrated world capitalism -- Planetary psychopathia -- Postmediatic affect -- User's manual-- Deleuze and the rhizomatic machine -- Why is anti-Oedipus the book of the '68 movement? -- Kafka, hypertext, and assemblages -- The tantric egg -- Chaosmosis -- The provisional eternity of friendship.
Copy Me Happy: The Metaphoric Expansion of Copyright in a Digital Society. [REVIEW]Stefan Larsson - 2013 - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 26 (3):615-634.details
The article uses conceptual metaphor theory to analyse how the concept of "copy" in copyright law is expanding in a digital society to cover more phenomena than originally intended. For this purpose, the legally accepted model for valuing media files in the case against The Pirate Bay (TPB) is used in the analysis. When four men behind TPB were convicted in the District Court of Stockholm, Sweden, on 17 April 2009, to many, it marked a victory over online piracy for (...) the American and Swedish media corporations. The convicted men were jointly liable for the damages of roughly EUR 3.5 million. But how do you calculate damages of file sharing? For example, what is the value of a copy? The article uses a model for valuating files in monetary numbers, suggested by the American plaintiffs and sanctioned by the District Court in the case against the BitTorrent site TPB, in order to calculate the total value of an entire, and in this anonymous other, BitTorrent site. These calculated hypothetical figures are huge—EUR 53 billion—and grow click by click which, on its face, questions some of the key assumptions in the copy-by-copy valuation that are sprung from analogue conceptions of reality, and transferred into a digital context. This signals a (legal) conceptual expansion of the meaning of "copy" in copyright that does not seem to fit with how the phenomenon is conceptualised by the younger generation of media consumers. (shrink)
Making Power Visible: Codifications, Infrastructures, and Representations of Energy.Felix Frey & Jonas Schädler - 2021 - Centaurus 63 (4):621-630.details
Proposal for a Model for the Elaboration of Ethical Codes Based on Discourse Ethics.Felix Lozano - 2001 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 10 (2):157–162.details
This article presents a model for the procedure of elaboration of an effective ethical code. Taking as the starting point the concept of business ethics as critical hermeneutics, we describe a process which will lead to the creation of a document that is truly ethical and efficient. We believe the elaboration of an ethical code should follow a definite procedure, and that the process is as important as the result, but we also add that in order for the process to (...) be a truly rational dialogue it is necessary to make efforts to ensure the participation of truly valid interlocutors who can represent their interests in conditions that are as close as possible to an ideal community of dialogue. Our model for the elaboration of an ethical code attempts to break with the conventional distinction between processes of elaboration and application in order to develop a truly integrative ethics, while also giving attention to the concrete conditions in which the ethical code is developed. In our view the contribution made by this model is the emphasis it places on the transformation of the will of the participants in the dialogue. (shrink)
Young Children Proactively Remedy Unnoticed Accidents.Felix Warneken - 2013 - Cognition 126 (1):101-108.details
Philosophy of Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
A Naturalistic Perspective on Knowledge How : Grasping Truths in a Practical Way.Cathrine V. Felix & Andreas Stephens - 2020 - Philosophies 5 (1):5-0.details
For quite some time, cognitive science has offered philosophy an opportunity to address central problems with an arsenal of relevant theories and empirical data. However, even among those naturalistically inclined, it has been hard to find a universally accepted way to do so. In this article, we offer a case study of how cognitive-science input can elucidate an epistemological issue that has caused extensive debate. We explore Jason Stanley's idea of the practical grasp of a propositional truth and present naturalistic (...) arguments against his reductive approach to knowledge. We argue that a plausible interpretation of cognitive-science input concerning knowledge—even if one accepts that knowledge how is partly propositional—must involve an element of knowing how to act correctly upon the proposition; and this element of knowing how to act correctly cannot itself be propositional. (shrink)
Game Ethics-Homo Ludens as a Computer Game Designer and Consumer.Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic & Thomas Larsson - 2005 - International Review of Information Ethics 4 (12):19-23.details
Play and games are among the basic means of expression in intelligent communication, influenced by the relevant cultural environment. Games have found a natural expression in the contemporary computer era in which communications are increasingly mediated by computing technology. The widespread use of e-games results in conceptual and policy vacuums that must be examined and understood. Humans involved in design-ing, administering, selling, playing etc. computer games encounter new situations in which good and bad, right and wrong, are not defined by (...) the experience of previous generations. This article gives an account of the historical necessity of games, the development of e-games, their pros- and cons, threats and promises, focusing on the ethical awareness and attitudes of game developers. (shrink)
Computer Ethics, Misc in Applied Ethics
Normative Ethics, Miscellaneous in Normative Ethics
Enfranchising the Disenfranchised: Should Refugees Receive Political Rights in Liberal Democracies?Felix Bender - forthcoming - Citizenship Studies.details
Should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies? I argue that they should. Refugees are special – at least when it comes to claims towards democratic inclusion. They lack exit options and are significantly impacted by decisions made in liberal democracies. Enfranchisement is a matter of urgency to them and should occur on a national level. But what justifies the democratic inclusion of refugees? I draw on the all-subjected principle in arguing that all those subjected to rule in a political (...) unit should have a say in such rule. I show that refugees cannot be denied democratic inclusion based on the argument that transients should be excluded from participation. Refugees are not transients. Finally, I show that naturalization is not a prerequisite for enfranchisement. Political rights and citizenship can be had independently of each other. Refugees, then, should be nationally enfranchised as soon as they receive refugee status. (shrink)
Citizenship in Social and Political Philosophy
Democracy in Social and Political Philosophy
Immigration in Social and Political Philosophy
Immigration Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
Refugees: The Politically Oppressed.Felix Bender - 2020 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 47 (5):615-633.details
Who should be recognized as a refugee? This article seeks to uncover the normative arguments at the core of legal and philosophical conceptions of refugeehood. It identifies three analytically distinct approaches grounding the right to refugee status and argues that all three are normatively inadequate. Refugee status should neither be grounded in individual persecution for specific reasons (classical approach) nor in individual persecution for any discriminatory reasons (human rights approach). It should also not be based solely on harm (humanitarian approach). (...) Rather, this article argues, it should be based on political oppression – on persons lacking public autonomy, formally expressed as a lack of legal–political status. The normative foundation for a claim to refugee status lies in the inability of a person to control, amend and seek recourse to the specific situation she faces. It lies in the lack of public autonomy expressed as a lack of legal–political rights. What matters for a claim to refugee status is thus the legal–political disenfranchisement of a person, ultimately leaving her with no recourse to the particular situation she faces other than flight. Refugees, then, are not only those who fear harm or persecution, but those who are politically oppressed. (shrink)
Global Justice in Social and Political Philosophy
Human Rights and Democracy in Social and Political Philosophy
Human Rights and International Law in Social and Political Philosophy
International Ethics in Applied Ethics
A Framework for Modeling the Interaction of Syntactic Processing and Eye Movement Control.Felix Engelmann, Shravan Vasishth, Ralf Engbert & Reinhold Kliegl - 2013 - Topics in Cognitive Science 5 (3):452-474.details
We explore the interaction between oculomotor control and language comprehension on the sentence level using two well-tested computational accounts of parsing difficulty. Previous work (Boston, Hale, Vasishth, & Kliegl, 2011) has shown that surprisal (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and cue-based memory retrieval (Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) are significant and complementary predictors of reading time in an eyetracking corpus. It remains an open question how the sentence processor interacts with oculomotor control. Using a simple linking hypothesis proposed in Reichle, Warren, and (...) McConnell (2009), we integrated both measures with the eye movement model EMMA (Salvucci, 2001) inside the cognitive architecture ACT-R (Anderson et al., 2004). We built a reading model that could initiate short "Time Out regressions" (Mitchell, Shen, Green, & Hodgson, 2008) that compensate for slow postlexical processing. This simple interaction enabled the model to predict the re-reading of words based on parsing difficulty. The model was evaluated in different configurations on the prediction of frequency effects on the Potsdam Sentence Corpus. The extension of EMMA with postlexical processing improved its predictions and reproduced re-reading rates and durations with a reasonable fit to the data. This demonstration, based on simple and independently motivated assumptions, serves as a foundational step toward a precise investigation of the interaction between high-level language processing and eye movement control. (shrink)
Science of Visual Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Magical Spaces: Sex as Art.Felix Ruckert - 2020 - World Futures 76 (5-7):434-445.details
For the last 40 years I am trying to make Magic. First as a dancer and choreographer, creating performances and dance pieces, then using the skills I acquired in the theater and applying them to se...

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'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' comes back to true form after the misstep of last week, with a great episode that has action, nostalgia, exposition, more Avengers references, and some cool reveals. Flashing back to the events that affected S.H.I.E.L.D. directly after the story of 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', Episode 15 titled 'One Door Closes' shows us exactly how the Edward James Olmos' Gonzalez came to head up the real S.H.I.E.L.D., how they were formed and why exactly they disagree with Coulson's methods. The episode also takes Skye deeper into her Inhuman origins with drastic changes to the overall status of the show thus far.
Greetings once again, true believers! This week's episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is about to give you more heroes than you can handle. We have not one, not two, not even a mere three superheroes. Get ready for Seven Little Superheroes.


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Vote For Your Favorite Car At The 2021-2022 Auto Focus People's Choice Awards
The 2021-2022 Auto Focus People's Choice Awards voting polls are now open, so be sure to vote for your favorite car that you wish to win.
Just over 5 months ago, the Toyota Hilux and Alphard were officially proclaimed as the major winners of the 2020-2021 Auto Focus People's Choice Awards (AFPCA) last December 17, 2020. The Toyota pickup and luxury van models bagged the coveted Auto Focus Automobile of the Year Award in the Standard and Premium/Luxury classifications respectively. And now, the 17th annual edition of the AFPCA is off and running with the opening of the online public poll beginning June 1, 2021.
Organized by Sunshine Television (STV) and led by its Chairman/CEO and motoring media personality, Ray Butch Gamboa, the AFPCA is STV's premier motoring industry merit program that seeks to determine the Philippines' most popular automobile brands and models via an annual public poll. The awards program features Model and Automobile of the Year honors for sedans, SUV/Crossovers, sports cars, vans/MPVs and pickups in separate Standard and Premium/Luxury classes. 2021 marked the 17th annual undertaking of this unique poll, the only one of its kind in the country.
"Thankfully, this year's edition of the AFPCA has launched without the uncertainties and challenges that faced us in March last year with the onset of the present COVID pandemic and strict lockdown conditions about to be imposed throughout the Philippines." STV's Gamboa exclaimed.
"Looking back at that point in time, we actually considered putting the program on hold. The business prognosis for the motoring industry in the forthcoming months appeared grim, and no one knew how and when the worsening crisis would end. So, the most important question STV and the organizing committee had to tackle was: Would the AFPCA continue to benefit the car industry and its customers during the period? The group saw this in positive light and we went for the green light. I can now openly declare, without any doubt whatsoever that I'm happy the AFPCA streak remained intact, and that the 2020 experience subsequently gave us new and valuable insights that are being applied this year."
A new development pertinent to the AFPCA Rules and Guidelines will come into play this year. Gerry Aquino, Chairman of the AFPCA Awards Committee, and Gamboa reviewed in more depth the essence and value of being enshrined in the AFPCA Hall of Fame. As Aquino pointed out: "Under the present Rules and Guidelines, 5-time Model and 3-time Automobile of the Year awardees are accorded the distinct honor of being entered into the Hall of Fame."
Over the past 16 years, only a handful of models have gained such elite status. Among the chosen few are the Isuzu Crosswind; Hyundai Grand Starex; Toyota Camry; Toyota Innova; Mitsubishi Montero Sport; Toyota Hiace; Toyota Fortuner; Toyota Hilux; Nissan Navara; Lexus IS350; Lexus RS350; and Toyota Alphard in the Model of the Year Hall of Fame. The Automobile of the Year Hall of Fame counts two honorees: the Toyota Vios and the Toyota Fortuner.
Aquino further mentioned: "The rules imply that this rare, hard-to-attain award of excellence has elevated winners to the pinnacle of their respective model categories, and therefore, further recognition is no longer unnecessary. Well and good, perhaps, but several factors now require us to re-think this particular rule."
The key considerations were: One, most of the Hall of Fame models are still concurrent, which is testimony to their continuing popularity. Two, the AFPCA is based on people's choices and votes, and therefore, why will a model the public still prefers be excluded from the Official Entry List simply by virtue of its Hall of Fame status? Three, if a model truly deserves to win, why deprive it of this privilege when it's still out there in the market competing with other contenders? And lastly, the more complete the Official AFPCA Entry List is, the more credible the voting results and scores will become.
With these in mind, the organizers opted to return all Hall of Fame models into voting circulation and again become eligible for Model and Automobile of the Year awards. "I believe that this will in no way diminish the prestige of the elite status these models have already earned, and that lofty position can only be embellished by further honors that may they may attain." Gamboa said.
The public may participate in the online poll of the 2021-2022 Auto Focus People's Choice Awards. To vote, please click onto this link https://autofocus.com.ph/afpca2021/ that will direct you to the AFPCA Voting Page. Participants may vote every day and can register as many as 5 daily choices each in the separate Standard and Premium/Luxury categories from June 1 – November 30, 2021.
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Six months ago, researchers at UCLA published a study that showed using a specific type of yoga to engage in a brief, simple daily meditation reduced the stress levels of people who care for those stricken by Alzheimer's and dementia. Now they know why.
As previously reported, practicing a certain form of chanting yogic meditation for just 12 minutes daily for eight weeks led to a reduction in the biological mechanisms responsible for an increase in the immune system's inflammation response. Inflammation, if constantly activated, can contribute to a multitude of chronic health problems.
Caregivers are the unsung heroes for their yeoman's work in taking care of loved ones that have been stricken with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, said Lavretsky, who also directs UCLA's Late-Life Depression, Stress and Wellness Research Program. But caring for a frail or demented family member can be a significant life stressor. Older adult caregivers report higher levels of stress and depression and lower levels of satisfaction, vigor and life in general. Moreover, caregivers show higher levels of the biological markers of inflammation. Family members in particular are often considered to be at risk of stress-related disease and general health decline.
"This is encouraging news. Caregivers often don't have the time, energy, or contacts that could bring them a little relief from the stress of taking care of a loved one with dementia, so practicing a brief form of yogic meditation, which is easy to learn, is a useful too."
Lavretsky is a member of UCLA's recently launched Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program, which provides comprehensive, coordinated care as well as resources and support to patients and their caregivers. Lavretsky has incorporated yoga practice into the caregiver program.
Funding for the study was provided by the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation in Tucson, Ariz. Other authors of the study included David S. Black, Steve Cole, Michael R. Irwin, Elizabeth Breen, Natalie M. St. Cyr, Nora Nazarian, all of UCLA, and Dharma S. Khalsa, medical director for the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation in Tucson. The authors report no conflict of interest.


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Maintaining a healthy diet is an important part of staying well. We recognize how difficult it is to eat healthfully with busy schedules and all the food choices out there. Below are some great recipes for tasty and simple healthy meals that have been featured in our care.exchange magazine.
Rinse fish and pat dry with paper towels. Put fish in airtight plastic bag. Combine marinade ingredients and pour over fish, turning to coat fish evenly. Seal and refrigerate for 15 minutes to 1 hour, turning bag occasionally. Preheat grill to medium-high or preheat broiler.
Lightly spray grill or broiler pan and rack with vegetable oil spray.
Remove fish from marinade. Grill fish or broil it 4 to 5 inches from heat. Cook 5-7 minutes, turn, and cook another 5-7 minutes, or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
Rinse scallops and pat dry with paper towels. Cut in quarters if large. Set aside. In large saucepan, whisk together clam juice, wine, flour and pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; boil for 4 to 5 minutes or until mixture is thickened, stirring occasionally. Set aside. Cut asparagus diagonally into 1-inch pieces. Steam fresh asparagus about 2 minutes or until tender-crisp, and set aside (don't cook frozen asparagus). In a small nonstick skillet, heat margarine over medium-high heat, swirling to coat bottom. Sauté shallots until translucent, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir shallots and scallops into clam sauce. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Don't let the mixture come to a boil. Add asparagus, parsley and lemon juice. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until scallops are opaque and mixture is heated. Be careful not to overcook.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Lightly spray a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with vegetable oil spray. Rinse fish and pat dry with paper towels. Combine buttermilk, salt and hot-pepper sauce in a small shallow dish. Put cracker crumbs on a plate. Dip fillets in buttermilk mixture, then in crumbs, coating fish evenly. Put fillets in baking dish. Drizzle with margarine and lightly spray with vegetable oil spray. Bake, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. To serve, sprinkle fish with parsley and garnish with lemon wedges.
This mouth-watering sweet bread packs nutrition and flavor with a nutty crunch. Enjoy it with a meal or as a satisfying snack.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray three 8- x 4-inch loaf pans with cooking spray. Combine flours, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl; mix well. Combine egg substitute and egg whites in a medium bowl; beat with electric mixer until frothy. Pour egg mixture into flour mixture. Add pineapple, sugars and vanilla extract; mix well. Fold in zucchini, apple and walnuts. Divide batter among loaf pans. Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centers of loaves comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove bread from loaf pans and cool completely before cutting each loaf into 8 slices. Bread can be frozen whole or sliced.
Per serving (1/8 of loaf): 210 calories, 5 g protein, 45 g carbohydrates, 2.2 g fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 2 g fiber, 106 mg sodium.
Rinse turkey with cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Set aside. In a large, nonreactive bowl (plastic, glass or stainless steel), combine yogurt, garlic, vinegar, pepper, cumin, rosemary, ginger and cinnamon. Add turkey and turn to coat evenly. Cover and refrigerate overnight, turning the meat occasionally.
While turkey is marinating, combine cranberries, apples, orange rind and orange juice in a food processor or blender. Process until finely chopped but not pureed. Transfer mixture to a medium saucepan. Add the apple butter and maple syrup. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes.
Transfer to serving bowl and allow to cool. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.
To roast turkey, remove from marinade and place in an oven cooking bag. Discard marinade. Roast turkey according to manufacturer's directions or until internal temperature reaches 170°. Start checking internal temperature after 1 hour.
Remove turkey from cooking bag and let stand for 10 minutes before slicing and serving. Serve with cranberry sauce.
Preheat oven to 400°. Cut the squash into 1/2-inch thick rings. Remove and discard seeds. Coat a large nonstick jelly-roll pan with nonstick spray. Place squash in a single layer on the prepared pan. Pour orange juice over squash. Cover with foil. Bake for 10 minutes, or until squash is almost tender when pierced with a fork.
Place potatoes in large saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 10 to 15 minutes, or until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Drain well.
Return potatoes to pan or transfer to a large bowl. Add margarine and butter-flavored sprinkles. Using a potato masher or electric mixer, mash thoroughly. Beat in milk and sour cream, 1/4 cup at a time, until desired consistency is reached. Beat in salt, pepper and paprika.
Add 1 pound carrots, turnips, parsnips or rutabagas, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces, to saucepan along with potatoes. Increase cooking time to 20 minutes, or until vegetables are tender when pierced with a fork. When mashing vegetables, add enough reserved cooking liquid to achieve desired texture.
In a large bowl, stir together the tea, brown sugar, lemon juice, salt and hot-pepper sauce. Stir in remaining ingredients except the vegetable oil spray.
on four skewers. Thread the brussels sprouts on two skewers, leaving about 1/8 inch between the sprouts. Put the corn and the skewers in the pan or on the grill. Cook the corn and the brussels sprouts for about 3 minutes on each side, or until a few kernels of corn on each side turn golden and the sprouts give when squeezed and have some grill marks, turning occasionally. Cook the steak skewers for about 2 minutes on each side, turning after each side browns, for between medium-rare and medium. For medium, add an extra minute on each side, and an extra 1 1/2 minutes on each side for medium-well.
To serve, slide all the ingredients from one mixed skewer and half the brussels sprouts from a sprouts skewer onto each plate.
In a large bowl, stir together the marinade ingredients to mix well. Add the chicken to the marinade, turning to coat thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, turning occasionally.
Prepare the grill on high. Lightly spray the grill rack with vegetable oil spray. Grill the chicken for 30 to 45 minutes, or until no longer pink in the center, brushing the pieces with marinade and turning them frequently.
Spray the grill rack with vegetable oil spray. Preheat the grill on medium-high.
If desired, scrape out and discard the gills on the undersides of the mushroom caps. If the eggplants are long, cut crosswise in half. Trim the ends and cut the eggplants lengthwise into 1/4- to 1/3-inch slices. Cut the bell peppers lengthwise in half; discard the stems and seeds. Lightly brush the dressing over both sides of the vegetables and bread.
Grill the vegetables, covered, for 5 minutes. Turn the vegetables over. Arrange the bread around the edges. Grill, covered, for 2 minutes. Turn the bread over. Grill, covered, for 2 to 3 minutes more, or until the vegetables are tender and the bread is golden brown.
To assemble the sandwiches, place vegetables, goat cheese and arugula on 4 slices of bread. Top with the remaining bread.
Preheat the oven to 400° F. Lightly spray a standard 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable oil spray. In a large bowl, combine flours, wheat germ, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg, stirring well. In a small bowl, mash banana. Add the remaining ingredients, except blueberries. Whisk until well blended. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour banana mixture into the well and stir just until moistened; mixture should be lumpy. With rubber scraper, carefully fold blueberries into batter. Pour batter into muffin cups. Bake for 15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean.
Preheat the oven to 375° F. Lightly spray a standard 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable oil spray. In a large bowl, combine flours, wheat germ, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and cloves, stirring well. In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour milk mixture into the well and stir just enough to moisten flour; batter should be lumpy. Pour batter evenly into muffin cups. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until muffins are firm. Remove from the oven and let muffins rest for a few minutes in pan before serving.
Preheat oven to 425° F. Lightly spray eight cups in a standard muffin tin with vegetable oil spray.* Combine flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt in a large bowl, stirring well. Beat remaining ingredients in a small bowl. Make a well in the cornmeal mixture. Pour milk mixture into the well, stirring just until moistened. Fill muffin cups two-thirds full with batter. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
* To prevent pan warping, put 2 tablespoons of water in each muffin cup you aren't filling with batter.
Dried beans and salt-free tomato products keep sodium at bay in this delightful minestrone.
Simmer kidney beans and chickpeas in stock, adding water as needed, until tender (at least one hour). Add remaining ingredients except mushrooms, zucchini, cabbage and pasta. Simmer until carrots are tender. Before serving, add remaining vegetables and simmer about 10 minutes, until pasta is al dente.
This recipe makes enough stock for two pots of soup and serves as the basis for other recipes featured here. If desired, freeze stock in 5-cup batches for later use.
Place all ingredients in large, deep stockpot. Simmer until carrots are tender, about three hours. Strain before serving.
Add 1 cup cooked chicken to this vegetable-shrimp gumbo for a meatier soup.
Simmer black-eyed peas and brown rice in stock with chili peppers, green onions, cilantro, parsley, red pepper, black pepper and cumin until peas are tender (about one hour). Add remaining ingredients. Cook about 30 minutes, until vegetables are tender.


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Video Production Music: How to Choose & Work With the Music for Your Film or Video Project
Digital Video, Multimedia
Composition or Selection
Format and Mixing
Mood and Sound
A properly produced video is one that is a concert between different elements. Video images, titles, motion graphics, sound design, and music all play together to create a final story, mood, and, finally, film. Out of these elements, the video production music is one that works much differently than the rest. The music can often stand on its own and is produced, or selected, usually when the project is either finished being edited or at least well along in the post-production process. It is a difficult negotiation because the music should add to your project, draw out memories and experiences from your audience, and definitely not be so obvious that it becomes the main focus for the viewer rather than working together with the other media elements that make up the final film. Here are some tips for selecting the appropriate video production music for your project.
In general, most filmmakers would love video production music that was made exclusively for their film. It is more direct to their project, they have more control over it, and it will be unique to the project itself. This is not, however, always feasible or even preferential for your specific project. For those on a tight budget, a composer is usually going to be out of the question. They have to be paid for original work, but there are so many independent musicians around that would be interested in contributing existing music as it does not require extra work and may get their music to a larger audience.
No matter what, when you have the music, whether composition or selection, it has to fit for your project correctly. Even the most beautifully arranged original score will take away from your project if it does not match it perfectly. Likewise, the wrong pop song can completely kill your scene, both because of its character and because of the audience association.
No matter what, you are going to need the highest quality music file you can get for your project. This means that MP3s are out of the question, and you will need to get the highest quality music file you can get. An uncompressed file, such as a .wav or a lossless AAC, will work
well and give you the sound that you want. In general, you want to limit the audio compression for your video production music that is done on the file before it goes into the sound mix.
Once you get the right video production music into the sound mixing project, in a program like Pro Tools, you can then begin to alter it by lowering or raising the sound, editing it into segments, and matching it against the rest of the audio landscape. You will need to fully mix the audio with the music in it rather than bringing the music in once the final mix is done. You will not know how your sound effects work until you have actually brought in the music tracks to work in concert with them. You are going to need a full service software like Pro Tools, though some people tend to get away with implementing Soundtrack Pro when working in the Final Cut Studio.
The video production music that you choose will not be heard clearly or on its own merits, so remember that during composition or selection. For example, the lyrics will not be able to be made out and if they compete with the dialogue then the track should be removed entirely. Likewise, if the song has competing emotional themes in it they may not be clear enough when actually put against the scenes during post-production. You have to remember that the music is meant to give clues to the emotion of the scene, but not act overbearing to the viewer.
Source: author's own experience.
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'Boko Haram slit throats of 26 civilians' in Chad
By Al Jazeera
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed 26 people in night attacks on two villages on Lake Chad over the weekend, Chadian officials have said.
"The two villages were attacked by surprise on Saturday and Sunday night. There were 13 dead in each attack," a Chadian official, who declined to be named, said on Wednesday.
Boko Haram have stepped up assaults in recent weeks across the region in what appears to be a fight back against an offensive mounted by soldiers from Nigeria and its neighbours, Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
Merom village was attacked on Saturday by armed men who slit the throats of their victims and burned houses before fleeing, the official said. Other local officials gave similar accounts.
Fighters also attacked a group of camel herders at the village of Tiskra, cutting 13 people's throats before fleeing when guards of the village chief opened fire, the source said.
Boko Haram has launched a string of cross border raids, last week, more than 200 people died in a string of attacks inside Nigeria, piling pressure on new President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ramadan call
The spate of incidents follow a directive from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for fighters to increase attacks during Ramadan.
Boko Haram this year became ISIL's West African franchise.
The Nigerian group, whose birthplace is Maiduguri, often defiles mosques where it believes imams espouse too moderate a form of Islam.
An estimated 13,000 people killed in the six-year-old insurgency.
Amnesty International puts the toll at 17,000 dead. Another 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes.
Source:: Al Jazeera
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Considering the links between dementia and everyday living, occupational therapists are called upon to make recommendations regarding appropriate living arrangements for persons with dementia. Re-framed as occupational competence, this is often accomplished by an evaluation of cognitive competence. Within the context of an aging population, a key question is how to best inform decisions regarding occupational competence, using cognitive competence as an indicator. The Cognitive Competency Test (CCT) is a tool used to evaluate cognitive competence and inform judgments about occupational competence in individuals with dementia. This thesis incorporates two studies that identified cognitive components that predict occupational competence in individuals with dementia, and examined the construct validity of the CCT, using a framework developed by Samuel Messick. A Delphi study, conducted amongst Canadian occupational therapists with experience in dementia care, generated a consensus regarding the components of cognitive competence essential to predict occupational competence in persons with dementia. A second study employed a retrospective chart review and examined the dimensional structure of the CCT and its relationship with other clinical measures typically used in dementia care. Occupational therapists identified ten cognitive components essential to predict occupational competence in individuals with dementia. The structure of the CCT is a unitary factor that demonstrates correlations to some clinical measures commonly used in dementia care. These findings give some support to the validity of the CCT and have implications for development of new measures and education regarding cognitive competence, pointing to the need to address other factors identified in the Delphi.
Zur, Briana M., "Assessment of Occupational Competence in Dementia: Identifying Key Components of Cognitive Competence and Examining Validity of the Cognitive Competency Test" (2011). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 114.


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On health-care hearing's last day, Supreme Court weighs Medicaid expansion
By Robert Barnes and
Robert Barnes
Reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court
N.C. Aizenman
The Supreme Court closed an extraordinary three-day review of President Obama's health-care law Wednesday, with its conservative majority signaling that it may be on the brink of a redefinition of the federal government's power.
Justices on the right of the deeply divided court appear at least open to declaring the heart of the overhaul unconstitutional, voiding the rest of the 2,700-page law and questioning the underpinnings of Medicaid, a federal-state partnership that has existed for nearly 50 years.
Much can happen between now and the expected ruling this summer, and a far more moderate tone may emerge. Broad statements come more easily in the court's intense oral arguments than in majority opinions. Between now and the decision, supporters and foes of the law will be able to point to evidence that their side will prevail.
But the rhetoric of the past three days led Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. to make an unusual and emotional plea to the justices for restraint. He asked them to respect Congress's judgment rather than insert themselves into a partisan battle that has roiled the political landscape since the law was passed in 2010.
"The Congress struggled with the issue of how to deal with this profound problem of 40 million people without health care for many years, and it made a judgment," Verrilli told the justices.
"Maybe they were right, maybe they weren't, but this is something about which the people of the United States can deliberate and they can vote, and if they think it needs to be changed, they can change it."
Verrilli made a direct appeal to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, considered pivotal in the case because he is the conservative most often willing to side with the court's liberal bloc. On Tuesday, Kennedy said he worried that the law's mandate that almost every American either secure health insurance or pay a penalty undermines personal liberty and carries a "heavy burden of justification" under the Constitution.
Verrilli spoke about "millions of people with chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease" who would be "unshackled" from their conditions and about families who would be freed from financial harm caused by high medical costs. The law will help ensure that they "have the opportunity to enjoy the blessings of liberty," he said.
Paul D. Clement, representing Florida and 25 other states objecting to the health-care law, responded that "it's a very funny conception of liberty that forces somebody to purchase an insurance policy whether they want it or not."
The examination of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was unlike any the court has conducted in decades. It has been nearly 50 years since the justices have devoted so much time to a subject.
Before this week's arguments, many lawyers who practice before the court said privately that they thought the court's precedents indicated that the Obama administration would emerge the victor. And the court's four liberal justices showed themselves to be comfortable with the assertion of federal power in the law.
But there was deep skepticism among the conservatives. At times, Verrilli seemed shaken by the intensity of the questions. When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. decided Wednesday that more time was needed to consider the constitutionality of expanding Medicaid, he told Verrilli that he would receive an extra 15 minutes.
"Lucky me," Verrilli replied, evoking laughter in the crowded courtroom.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had wondered earlier in the day whether her colleagues were on a "wrecking operation" or a "salvage job" as they were deciding what to do about the rest of the law should the individual mandate be declared unconstitutional.
The court's divisions were on vivid display Wednesday during a discussion of the law's Medicaid expansion, which gives states more federal money if they agree to enroll more of the poor. States can refuse, but only if they pull out of the program altogether.
The states challenging the legislation say that is not an option. The Medicaid program has grown so large that it is impossible to forgo federal funding and still provide medical care to the poor, they say.
The question before the Supreme Court is whether the law violates limits the court has set in the past: that the federal government cannot impose conditions "so coercive as to pass the point at which pressure turns into compulsion."
Liberal justices clearly thought the states' argument lacked merit.
"Why is a big gift by the federal government a matter of coercion?" asked Justice Elena Kagan, saying the government is giving the states a "boatload of money."
Justice Stephen G. Breyer said that under Clement's theory, any expansion of Medicaid that comes with conditions would be unconstitutional. Ginsburg pointed out that "we have never had, in the history of this country or the court, any federal program struck down because it was so good that it becomes coercive to be in it."
But Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that in passing the health-care legislation, Congress operated on the assumption that the Medicaid program had become so large and essential that no state could turn down the government's offer. "When that's the case, how can that not be coercion?" he asked Verilli.
Kennedy added that states had "no real choice."
Earlier, the court considered whether the entire law should be scrapped should the individual mandate be declared unconstitutional. Even though there are many elements in the legislation that have no connection to the mandate, including funding for ongoing federal programs, Clement said the entire law should fall.
"Let's just give Congress a clean slate," he said.
The government argued that only two provisions of the law — a prohibition against insurers discriminating against people with preexisting conditions and a limitation on how insurers set rates — depend on the mandate. The rest of the law should stand, it said.
Again, the justices seemed to split along ideological lines.
It was in a discussion about what Congress would prefer if the mandate fell — all of the law minus the mandate, most of the law or none of the law — that the court began to discuss the political dimensions of its decision and the partisan climate in which it operates.
Clement was greeted with laughter when he said that if the entire law were struck down, it should take Congress only a few days to pass the parts on which members overwhelmingly agreed.
Later in the day, as Clement presented the arguments of the states he represented against the Medicaid provision, Ginsburg reminded him that other states had filed a brief with the court saying they want the federal expansion.
Scalia asked: "Mr. Clement, I didn't take the time to figure this out, but maybe you did. Is there any chance at all that 26 states opposing it have Republican governors and all of the states supporting it have Democratic governors? Is that possible?"
"There's a correlation, Justice Scalia," Clement replied.
Robert Barnes Robert Barnes has been a Washington Post reporter and editor since 1987. He joined The Post to cover Maryland politics, and he has served in various editing positions, including metropolitan editor and national political editor. He has covered the Supreme Court since November 2006. Follow


Men Grill Restaurant will open its 9th location at Arnot Mall.
According to Arnot Mall representatives, construction is expected to begin in their newly occupied location on the West end of the mall, between Bon Ton and Ruby Tuesday, in the next few weeks.
The new location is expected to open in late summer.
Representatives from the mall are also excited about the addition.
"We couldn't be happier to welcome Mooney's to Arnot Mall," Arnot Mall Marketing Director Meghann Reed said. "Mooney's is well known for being a family friendly restaurant with great employees, a welcoming atmosphere and of course, amazing food. The addition of Mooney's to the mall is one of many announcements we will be making in the coming weeks, and an exciting part of our transformative 50th year!
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Tourism News September 2014
Himalaya Airlines to Begin International Flights from 28th October
Himalaya Airlines Pvt Ltd, formerly known as Yeti Airlines International, is starting its international operation in Nepal from October 28. The airline is promoted by Yeti World Investment Pvt Ltd and HIF Aviation Investment Company Pvt Ltd from Nepal and Tibet Airlines from the People´s Republic of China.
The Airline is set up with an investment of 2.4 billion rupees. Tibet Airlines holds 49 per cent stake of the Airline and 52 per cent stake is jointly owned by HIF Aviation Investment and Yeti World Investment. The Airline has claimed that this is the largest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the aviation sector of Nepal till date.
Chairman of HIF Aviation Investment Company Prithivi Bahadur Pande, Chairman of Yeti World Investment Ang Tshiring Sherpa and Chairman of Tibet Airlines and Cheng Yiru signed the joint venture agreement on 19th August in Kathmandu.
HIF Aviation Investment is a company promoted by local entrepreneurs involved in finance, tourism and hydropower sectors. Similarly, Yeti World Investment is an affiliate of Yeti Airlines Group of Companies and Tibet Airlines' majority shares are jointly held by Air China and Tibet Provincial Government.
Himalayan Airlines plans to operate in Asian routes with a fleet of Airbus 320 series aircrafts. The Airline currently has permit to fly 14 international destinations and will provide services with at least three Airbus 320 series in the first year. In the second year, it plans to expand the fleet to a minimum of five aircrafts. The Airline aims to increase the fleet to a minimum of fifteen aircrafts within five years. Also, the company has plans to increase its total investment to more than 1 billion USD at the end of the fifth year.
China Southern Commences New Direct Service to NYC
China Southern Airlines has started direct service between Guangzhou and New York City from 6th August. The Airlines' new direct service is the first flight from Southern China to America's East Coast and operates each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, arriving at JFK International Airport's on the same day.
"On the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and America, we take great pride in launching our direct service from Guangzhou to New York City, which is our second destination in the US and the third one in North America," said Si Xianmin, Chairman, China Southern Airlines.
The route is being operated with a four-class Boeing 777-300ER aircraft offering a total of 309 seats-four in First Class, 34 in Business Class, 44 in Premium Economy Class and 227 in Economy Class. The new service makes New York City China Southern's third North American destination after Los Angles and Vancouver.
Cathay Pacific's Special Fare Promotion
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced a special fare promotion for the Hong Kong public as part of its celebration after being named 'World's Best Airline' in the 2014 Skytrax World Airline Awards. To celebrate the 2014 award, Cathay Pacific is offering 2,014 return tickets to 11 destinations travelling in either Business Class or Premium Economy Class.
The fare for each ticket is HKD100. The destinations on offer are Bangkok, Cebu, Kuala Lumpur, Nagoya, Osaka and Taipei on Business Class and Chicago, London, Maldives, New York and Sydney on Premium Economy class. Each customer can book a maximum of two return tickets per transaction. The offer has been available from 26 August.
Turkish Airlines Records 398 Million TRY Net Profit in Q2
Turkish Airlines has presented its consolidated financial statements of 2014 first half to Borsa Istanbul., The Airlines' sales revenue increased by 37 per cent compared to the same period of 2013 reaching 11.3 billion TRY. The Airlines recorded an operating profit of 495 million TRY and net profit of 398 million TRY in the second quarter of 2014, completing the first half year with 312 million TRY operating profit and 172 million TRY net profit.
During the first half of 2014, The Airline carried 26 million passengers in the first half of 2014 which is a 17 per cent increase in passenger traffic. Similarly, Available Seat Kilometres (ASK) and Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPK) of the Airline increased by 19 per cent in the second quarter.


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Turnbull, Maria Ann (1850–1939)
from Windsor & Richmond Gazette (NSW)
As briefly announced in our last issue, there passed away on Tuesday evening of last week, at Wilberforce, one of the oldest and most highly-esteemed identities of the Hawkesbury, in the person of Mrs. Maria Ann Turnbull, at the age of 89 years, the end coming after a rather long illness, and bringing to a close a very full and useful life spent in the service of the community.
A daughter of the late Mr. and Mr John Dunston, the late Mrs Turnbull was born at "Woodside," Wilberforce, the present home of Miss S. M. Dunston, and resided in the district throughout her whole life. In her younger days she always lent her support to all local affairs which had as their objective the advancement of the area in which she resided, and the district generally. The deceased was always a very enthusiastic and untiring church worker and a regular church attendant, until advancing years and illness obliged her to curtail her activities. Throughout her life deceased was keenly interested in all charitable movements but, being of a retiring disposition, even her many friends knew little of many of her charitable and Christian actions, and of the many wayfarers who blessed her for her hospitality and her cheerful, comforting and encouraging words, which enabled them to continue their journey with a better outlook on life. During her rather long illness deceased was devotedly nursed by the two daughters who resided with her.
The late Mrs. Turnbull is survived by seven daughters, Amy (Mrs. F. Greentree, Wollongong), Edith (Wilberforce), Fanny (Mrs. McGregor, Strathfield), Jessie (Mrs. Poidevin, Wollongong), Minnie (Mrs. Bootle, Pitt Town), Gladys (Wilberforce), and Dulcie (Mrs. Hall, Wilberforce), and one son, Willie (Wilberforce). Her husband, the late Mr. Ralph Turnbull, predeceased her some four years ago.
The funeral, which was largely attended, took place on the following Wednesday, the remains being interred in the Church of England cemetery, Wilberforce, the Rev. K. F. Saunders officiating at the graveside. A feature was the profusion of beautiful wreaths which were evidence of the re pect of old friends in all parts of the district.
Mr. Chandler, of Windsor, had charge of the funeral arrangements
Windsor & Richmond Gazette (NSW), 21 April 1939, p 4	(view original)
Other Obituaries for Maria Ann Turnbull
Windsor & Richmond Gazette (NSW), 21 April 1939, p 4, by Flora A. Timms
Turnbull, Ralph (husband)
Dunstan, Elizabeth (mother)
Dunstan, John (father)
Turnbull, Ralph (father-in-law)
Robinson, Mary Ann (sister)
Tuckerman, Grace (sister)
Dunstan, Elizabeth (sister)
Smith, Blanche Selina (sister)
Beveridge, Elizabeth (sister)
Dunstan, Christina (sister)
Edwards, Emma (sister)
Dunstan, Harriet (sister)
Dunstan, Amy Amelia (sister)
Dunstan, John William (brother)
Dunstan, Stephen John (brother)
Dunstan, Ralph (brother)
Dunstan, Sarah Hannah (sister-in-law)
Turnbull, Phoebe Martha (sister-in-law)
Smith, John Thomas (brother-in-law)
Robinson, Alfred (brother-in-law)
Turnbull, John (brother-in-law)
Beveridge, Peter (brother-in-law)
Dunstan, John (brother-in-law)
Dunstan, Henry (brother-in-law)
Gow, Maria (aunt)
Gurney, Mary Ann (aunt)
Cox, Ann (aunt)
Hordern, Eliza Mary (aunt)
Wallace, Jane Isabella (aunt)
Bullivant, Sarah (aunt)
Dunstan, David James (uncle)
Dunstan, Richard William (uncle)
Dunstan, Stephen (uncle)
Dunstan, James (uncle)
Turnbull, Ralph (uncle)
Turnbull, John (uncle)
Turnbull, Andrew Warr (uncle)
Dunstan, Maria (aunt by marriage)
Dyer, Elizabeth (aunt by marriage)
Reynolds, Ann (aunt by marriage)
Sibrey, Sarah (aunt by marriage)
Turnbull, Elizabeth (aunt by marriage)
Jones, Elizabeth (aunt by marriage)
Reynolds, Hannah (aunt by marriage)
Turnbull, Maria (aunt by marriage)
Turnbull, Martha (aunt by marriage)
Turnbull, Isabella (aunt by marriage)
Cox, Richard (uncle by marriage)
Sibrey, Joseph (uncle by marriage)
Sibrey, Reuben (uncle by marriage)
Bullivant, Charles James (uncle by marriage)
Bullivant, Gerard Noel (uncle by marriage)
Hordern, Thomas Gilbert (uncle by marriage)
Dunstan, Mary (grandmother)
Turnbull, Grace (grandmother)
Dunstan, David (grandfather)
Turnbull, Ralph (grandfather)
Dunstan, Tristram (cousin)
Fleming, Charlotte (cousin)
Caddan, Harriet (cousin)
Dunstan, William (cousin)
Gow, Richard Terry (cousin)
Dunstan, John (cousin)
Dunstan, Benjamin (cousin)
Holden, Ann (cousin)
Gow, Stephen John (cousin)
Everingham, Mary Ann (cousin)
Dunstan, Andrew (cousin)
Dunstan, Richard (cousin)
Dunstan, Robert (cousin)
Gow, William James (cousin)
Dunstan, Henry (cousin)
Dunstan, Maria (cousin)
Gow, John (cousin)
Gow, Thomas (cousin)
Goldspink, Elizabeth Maria (cousin)
Dunstan, Elizabeth (cousin)
Gow, David William (cousin)
Cavanough, Mary Ann (cousin)
Gow, James (cousin)
Gosper, Grace Turnbull (cousin)
Gow, Charles (cousin)
Dunstan, David William (cousin)
Cox, John (cousin)
Powell, Maria Mary (cousin)
Dunstan, James Stephen (cousin)
Paull, Mary Ann (cousin)
Gow, William (cousin)
Paull, Louisa (cousin)
Turnbull, William (cousin)
Turnbull, John (cousin)
Turnbull, James Benjamin (cousin)
Bullivant, Ralph Gerard (cousin)
Turnbull, Edward (cousin)
Dawson, Mary Ann (acquaintance)
'Turnbull, Maria Ann (1850–1939)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/turnbull-maria-ann-17218/text29006, accessed 22 January 2020.
Dunstan, Maria Ann
Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia