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Twitter and Facebook finally found the 'courage' to stand up to Trump? Congratulations
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
Twitter, Donald Trump's preferred method of communication, suspended the president's account permanently Friday.
"After close review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the Twitter Safety account tweeted.
It's the latest social-media indignity for the outgoing president, for all the good it will do. The damage, after all, is done.
Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that Facebook and Instagram were blocking President Donald Trump for at least the next two weeks, until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated.
On Wednesday, Twitter locked Trump's account for 12 hours.
Well, look who found their courage.
Way too little, way too late.
"The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden," Zuckerberg said in a post.
Last 24 hours? How about the last four years?
Lately, Trump has done little but make false claims about the election being fraudulent. Time after time and on every platform available to him, Trump has carried on with the dangerous fantasy that somehow the election was stolen from him. Social media, as well as some in TV news — looking at you Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Lou Dobbs — have done little to try to stop him.
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Why the sudden change of heart? Oh, right, insurrection
So why the sudden change of heart?
Well, there's the matter of Trump inciting an angry mob that marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol, stormed the building, breached security and made its way inside. And following that with a bizarre video he posted on social media — after Biden addressed the nation in a speech that could only be characterized as presidential — in which Trump not only refused to discredit the mob's actions, but told its members they were special and he loved them. After again claiming the election was stolen, of course.
News organizations aired the video immediately, though some couched it, saying at least it included a call for the mob to go home. CNBC's Shepard Smith stopped it in the middle, saying, "That is not true, and we are not airing it." Others removed it after Twitter took it down.
A few more lie-filled tweets and finally Twitter had had enough, locking Trump's account for 12 hours and threatening to do so permanently if he continued to violate its "Civic Integrity Policy."
What a joke. More than any other media platform, even television, Trump has used Twitter as a vehicle to spread repeated lies, not just about the election but about the spread of COVID-19 and his lack of response to it and so much more.
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It's true that Twitter for a while put labels on Trump's misleading tweets about the election. As if that made a difference. Once the fox has eaten all the chickens it's a little late to ban him from the henhouse.
After the disgraceful events of Wednesday, people are jumping off the Trump train like it had caught fire. In a way it had. Sen. Lindsey Graham's "enough is enough" floor speech late Wednesday in which he finally stood up to the president was a remarkably weird bit of TV, watching someone who had gone out of his way to praise Trump at every turn seemingly come to his senses. Not a Frank Capra movie moment, but it'll do.
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Now media are finding their courage, way too late
Remember the quaint days when media fought about whether they should call Trump's lies just that — lies? It seems like some are finally getting the message. Brian Kilmeade, a co-host of "Fox & Friends," for years a welcome haven for Trump to call in and spread lies without fear of pushback, on Thursday morning's show said, "Since Nov. 3, or when we got the verdict by Nov. 5, the president's behavior has been terrible."
Right. Since Nov. 3. Or Nov. 5. Wake up, pal. His behavior has been terrible for a long time. He telegraphed every action that took place Wednesday, and has for a long time.
Don't start with censorship claims or how this is a First Amendment issue. When you sign up for Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, you agree to a set of standards. If you don't follow them, you get punished. It's a pretty simple equation.
Yes, the platforms are notoriously inconsistent in how they apply those standards and to whom they apply them. That can be maddening.
It's also the only reason Trump didn't get his account locked before now. It's a tragedy it took such a violent, deadly insurrection to finally make it happen.
Reach Goodykoontz at bill.goodykoontz@arizonarepublic.com. Facebook: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm. Twitter: @goodyk.
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Mwelu, a Western Lowland Gorilla, is particularly fond of his new plastic castle, while the Macaques are having a blast with their new cars.
As the Curator of Large Mammals for the Memphis Zoo, Courtney Janney is tasked with the herculean task of making sure her residents get plenty of mental and physical stimulation each day. No small feat when your wards include 500 pound gorillas and 20-foot giraffes.
"It's not about just giving toys to the animals," noted Janney. "It's about changing up their environment. That's not just physical stimulation; it's mental stimulation as well."
A mother of two, Janney came up with the brilliant idea of asking the Memphis community to donate used toys as enrichment for the zoo's primates. "I'm part of a Facebook group where I donate or sell my kids' stuff," Janney explained in a Facebook-produced video. "It's always been in the back of my mind that if I asked for donations to the zoo, people might donate."
And donate they did. Jennifer Brown, a regular zoo patron, donated the plastic fort that's transfixed Mwelu, a Western Lowland Gorilla, and his three female companions.
"I chuckle because I think, 'that was in our backyard. Now, primates are playing on our castle,'" Brown said in the video.
Several toy cars (a favorite of the Macaques) as well as slides, basketball hoops, sand tables and water tables were also donated. The animals are having a blast with the new toys.
"It was amazing to me because people could have very easily looked to sell them," Janney noted. "But I posted a picture of a monkey with one of those Cozy Coupe cars, and people just went nuts over it."
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The relationship between human behaviour and dog behaviour in animal shelters
Australia has one of the highest incidences of dog ownership in the world and, every year, thousands of stray and surrendered pet dogs are admitted to animal shelters and council pounds. In some Australian states, shelters are required to house dogs in quarantine kennels for eight days post vaccination before being health and temperament tested. This kennel environment is often restricted in size and complexity, dogs are housed singly to limit disease transmission and aggressive encounters between unfamiliar dogs and direct contact with humans is often very limited. These factors can contribute to the novelty and unpredictability of the environment, which can magnify the impact of aversive stimuli and may have negative consequences for dog welfare.
Research in the livestock industries has demonstrated that frequent aversive stockperson behaviours, such as slapping, shouting and rapid, unpredictable movement, can result in farm animals becoming highly fearful of humans. Negative handling of dogs may also invoke generalised fear responses towards humans. Fear typically manifests in dogs as either avoidance behaviour or defensive aggression both of which may become problematic in a shelter environment where the behavioural responses of a dog towards humans in a temperament test may determine whether the dog is adopted or euthanased. Although factors such as genetic predisposition, negative previous experiences and inappropriate owner responses can all contribute to fearful behaviour, it is also possible that the period of time spent in the shelter may affect the dog's subsequent responses to humans.
Sally Haynes from the University of Melbourne's Animal Welfare Science Centre led a study which examined the relationship between handler behaviour and dog behaviour for 32 handlers and 918 individually housed dogs at four animal shelters during routine pen cleaning. The data showed that dogs become less fearful of humans over time in the shelter. Therefore, the dogs may have habituated to the handlers and the novel environment and/or receive sufficient positive interactions from some handlers to the extent that their fear of humans declined over time. In addition, handlers spent more time in the pen with dogs that displayed more fear behaviours including more initial avoidance. It is possible that handlers choose to spend more time with fearful dogs and/or it takes longer to clean pens when dogs are fearful. Furthermore, increased dog interactions with the handler were associated with increased positive behaviour by the handler.
These correlations, although not conclusive evidence of causal relationships, indicate that opportunities through research may exist to improve dog behaviour and welfare through changes in handler behaviour. Even short periods of positive contact with humans may make dogs more sociable and less fearful towards familiar and unfamiliar humans and this, in turn, may affect ease of handling, potential for adoption, euthanasia decisions and even shelter employee turnover.
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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: Florida passes 950,000 cases; St. Johns County sets case record
Ty Hinton
Florida surpassed another milestone, this time reaching 950,000 cases. St. Johns County has also set a new record for cases in a day.
The Florida Department of Health reported Florida's new confirmed COVID-19 cases were up 8,555 to 953,300 in Tuesday's report.
The state's seven-day average of new cases, which has been rising, is 7,996, up from 7,840. The average was 6,450 a week ago and 3,703 four weeks ago. The state added 55,977 cases in the past week. St. Johns County added 561 cases in the past seven days.
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Florida added 72 new deaths to reach 18,157. The state reported that 2% of all cases resulted in death.
With 513 deaths in the past week, the seven-day average stayed at 73, down from 75 a week ago. St. Johns County had three new deaths in the past seven days.
There have been 226 additional nonresident deaths.
St. Johns County set a new record with 123 coronavirus cases to reach 8,205. The previous county record for cases was 115 in the July 9 report.
There was one additional death for a total of 92.
St. Johns County ran 1,277 new tests with 9.48% positive, up from 6.15% the day before.
St. Johns County's seven-day average increase for new cases is 80, up from 79, It was 68 a week ago. The county's cases per 100,000 people is 3,484.
Florida's percent positivity for new patients is 7.45%, down from 7.47%. Florida reported 108,546 new tests in Tuesday's report.
Statewide cumulative hospitalizations is up 328 to 53,827. The seven-day average increase is 214. The state reported that 6% of all cases result in hospitalization.
The number of patients currently hospitalized for COVID-19 is 3,780, up from 3,754. It was 3,369 a week ago. The state has 1,347 available ICU beds, or 21.82% open. It was down from 1,478.
Flagler Hospital has 11 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in its 335-bed facility. Flagler Hospital has 25 adult ICU beds available out of 44.
As of the latest data available, the coronavirus is most prominent in the 32259 ZIP code with 1,592 cases, 32084 with 1,236, 32092 has 1,204 and 32086 with 1,055.
Northeast Florida cases totaled 64,842, up 833.
Latest available numbers
(As of Tuesday's report)
Northeast Florida cases
St. Johns: 8,205 (+123)
Duval: 41,415 (+517)
Clay: 7,585 (+112)
Nassau: 2,995 (+55)
Putnam: 2,663 (+10)
Baker: 1,979 (+16)
• Total Cases: 8,205 (+123 / +561 in past week)
• Positivity of new tests: 9.48% (was 6.15%)
• Deaths: 92 (+1 / +3 in past week)
• Age Range: 0-101
• Median Age: 41
• Hospitalizations: 381 (5% of all cases)
• New tests: 1,277
By ZIP Code in St. Johns County
32033: 121 (+3)
32081: 592 (+14)
32082: 1,048 (+16)
32086: 1,055 (+7)
• Total Cases: 41,415 (+517)
• Positivity of new cases: 8.43% (was 7.38%)
• Deaths: 570
• Hospitalizations: 1,357 (3% of all cases)
• Total Cases: 7,585 (+112)
• Positivity of new cases: 12.93% (was 10.84%)
• New tests: 905
• Total Cases: 2,995 (+55)
• Positivity of new cases: 16.03% (was 5.85%)
• Deaths: 55
• Positivity of new cases: 3.65% (was 9.2%)
• Hospitalizations: 283 (11% of all cases)
Cases: 953,300 (+8,555 / +55,977 in past week)
Positivity of new cases: 7.45% (was 7.01%)
Florida residents: 938,830 (+8,102 / +54,205 in past week)
Hospitalizations: 53,827 (+328 / +1,498 in past week)
Florida resident deaths: 18,085 (+72 / +513 in past week)
Death rate: 2%
New tests: 108,546
As of 4 p.m. Tuesday
Cases: 12,501,643 (+152,200)
Deaths: 258,665 (+1,593)
Deaths: 1,403,513 (+10,106)
New cases by day
Date;St. Johns;Fla.
Nov. 24: 123; 8,555
Nov. 23: 52; 6,331
Nov. 15: 108; 10,105
COVID hospitalizations
Nov. 24: 11, 3,780
Nov. 20:
Nov. 15: 6, 3,118
Nov. 9:
Nov. 8: 5, 2,783
Nov. 1: 10, 2,357
New deaths by day
Nov. 24: 1, 72
Nov. 20: 0 (90-90), 79 (17,889-17,810)
Nov. 9: 0 (88-88), 58 (17,179-17,121)
Florida case milestones
50,000: May 25
100,000: June 22
200,000: July 4
250,000: July 10
500,000: Aug. 4
550,000: Aug. 11
650,000: Sept. 8
700,000: Sept. 26
750,000: Oct. 16
850,000: Nov. 9
900,000: Nov. 17
St. Johns County new cases by day
Nov. 24: 123
Nov. 23: 52
Nov. 9: 37
Oct. 31: 35
Oct. 10: No report
Oct. 9: 22
Oct. 5: 8
Sept. 30: 27
Sept. 9: 30
Aug. 31: 11
Aug. 24: 7
Aug. 9: 42
July 31: 48
July 20: 110
Florida new cases by day
Nov. 24: 8,555
Nov. 15: 10,105
Nov. 9: 3,924
Oct. 31: 2,331
Oct. 9: 2,908
Sept. 30: 1,948
Sept. 28: 738
Sept. 9: 2,056
Aug. 31: 1,885
Aug. 9: 6,229
July 30: 9,956
July 25: 12,199
Coronavirus Test Collection Sites in St. Johns County are as follows:
Flagler Health+, Parking Lot B
Flagler Health+ 400 Healthpark Blvd., St. Augustine, FL 32086. Outdoors at tent. Website: www.flaglerhospital.org.
The site will be open from 7 to 11 a.m., or until the maximum number of daily tests are collected Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
• Testing is available at no charge.
• Testing is available for all ages, and patients do not need to exhibit symptoms, possess a doctor's note, or make an appointment. A parent or guardian must be present for children under 18 to be tested.
• Must have photo Identification and insurance card.
CareFast+ at Flagler Hospital campus
CareFast+, 110 Health Park Blvd, St. Augustine, FL 32086. Phone: 904.823.3401.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
CareFast+ at MuraBella
CareFast+ at MuraBella, 70 Turin Terrace, Suite 110, St. Augustine, FL 32092. Phone: 904-819-7200.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday and Sunday.
Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County
Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County (DOH-SJC) – St. Johns County Health & Human Services Building, 200 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, FL 32084. Phone 904-209-3250.
As part of disease control investigations, DOH-SJC is collecting specimens for COVID-19 laboratory testing. As part of disease investigations, specimen collection is by appointment-only for those individuals who meet the CDC criteria for testing. For information about COVID-19 and testing, the Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County's COVID-19 Call Center is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week. Calls received outside of standard business hours will be redirected to a DOH-SJC Public Health Nurse.
Avencia Medical, Julington Creek
Avencia Medical - Julington Creek Branch, 1633 Race Track Road, St. Johns, FL 32259. Phone: 904-230-6988. Website: www.avecina.com/our-services/urgent-care.
The COVID-19 collection site is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The collection facility has a tent prepared outside and have requested that visitors wait in their cars for paperwork to be brought to them. Collection is being treated as an urgent care doctor's visit. It is $255 total including the office visit for the antibody testing. Some insurances will cover costs. Individuals can walk-in without an appointment but can't have symptoms. It is not required but helpful to bring a copy of test results to show you have previously tested positive for the virus.
The Med One Urgent Care, St. Augustine
The Med One Urgent Care – St. Augustine, 841 S Ponce De Leon Blvd Suite 4, St. Augustine, FL 32084. Phone: 904-436-1553. Website: https://medoneatsaintaugustine.com.
The COVID-19 collection site is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Collection may be billed as a doctor's visit and/or lab test. The collection facility has signage and has requested that visitors follow the signs as instructed for parking.
CareSpot – St. Augustine - 2095 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, FL 32086, 904-429-0001
CareSpot – Nocatee - 151 Pine Lake Drive, Ste B, Ponte Vedra, FL 32081, 904-543-3677
CareSpot – Durbin Park, 70 Durbin Pavilion Drive, Ste 101, St. Johns, FL 32259, 904-295-0038
The COVID-19 collection site is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week. May be a walk-in, but preferred to call ahead for an appointment time. Must be symptomatic, healthcare worker, healthcare provider or first responder.
CVS Pharmacy in St. Johns County
CVS Pharmacy, 2703 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd, St. Augustine 32084. Phone: 904-824-2838. Website: https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic.
CVS Pharmacy, 120 St. Johns Commons Road, St. Johns, 32259. Phone: 904-824-9177. Website: https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic.
CVS Pharmacy, 430 State Road 13, St. Johns, FL 32259. Phone: 904-287-6369. Website: https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic.
• Testing is available at no out-of-pocket cost. Insurance is accepted. If no insurance, will use a Social Security Number, a driver's license or state ID.
CVS Health is conducting drive-up COVID-19 testing. Appointments can be made online. Patients must be 18 years of age or older. Patients being tested are required to stay in their vehicles, no walk-up testing.
Ascension St. Vincent's Health Center, St. Johns
Ascension St. Vincent's Health Center - St. Johns, 2001 County Road 210, St. Augustine, FL 32092. Phone: 904-450-8120. Website: https://healthcare.ascension.org/COVID-19.
COVID-19 Test Collection Site at Regency Square Mall – SEARS, 9501 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville
• Open to St. Johns County residents and anyone that would like to be tested.
• Must have photo Identification.
This site will operate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, for as long as supplies last. While a doctor's order and appointment are not required at this location, clients will be evaluated by a medical professional on site.


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The Locks still contribute over $1.2 Billion/yr. to the Seattle economy and are the Nation's busiest. However, no fees are charged and funding comes from the Federal Government (not Seattle).
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Q: How to get columns from a datarow? I have a row collection (DataRow[] rows). And I want to import all rows to another DataTable (DataTable dt).
But how?
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A: If your DataRows is from a  Data Table with Columns defined in it,
DataRow[] rows;

DataTable table = new DataTable();
var columns = rows[0].Table.Columns;

table.Columns.AddRange(columns.Cast<DataColumn>().ToArray());

foreach (var row in rows)
{
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A: Assuming the rows all have the same structure, the easiest option is to clone the old table, omitting the data:
DataTable dt = drs[0].Table.Clone();

Alternatively, something like:
foreach(DataColumn col in drs[0].Table.Columns)
{
    dt.Columns.Add(col.ColumnName, col.DataType, col.Expression);
}

A: How about
DataTable dt = new DataTable;
foreach(DataRow dr in drs)
{
    dt.ImportRow(dr);
}

Note this only works if drs is a DataRowCollection. Detached rows (not in a DataRowCollection are ignored).
Don't forget to call AcceptChanges.

A: Try this:
// Assuming you have a DataRow object named row:
foreach(DataColumn col in row.Table.Columns)
{
    // Do whatever you need to with these columns
}

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I had great difficulty finding a poem for this Friday. I pulled out Kay Ryan, WS Merwin, Robert Pinsky, John Ashbery—but, again, returned to Ali.
Haiti on my mind, I guess, although wrongly so: I was thinking of water, not earth; flood, not quake.
Still, the notion that these sorrows will repeat pulled me to the ghazal and its repetitions. Again, however, it is not strictly the same: each moment demands its own attention.
And so it is this time, with this people.
*Note: Mirza Ghalib was a 19th-century Sufi, and ghazal poet; his poems remain popular among Urdu readers today.
til my eyes are lamps lit for love's darkest places.
I am stunned by ghazals and besotted with Ali.
Read everything by him you can.
That first line makes me think of that photo from Haiti, early on – a woman, covered in dust, with blotches of blood on her face.
The poems are written in English, by Ali. He grew up in India, so I wouldn't be surprised if English wasn't among his first languages. He also lived in the US for a couple of decades.
I say that the poems were 'written in English', tho' I don't know for sure that they weren't written in another language and then translated by Ali himself. Given the rigors of the ghazal rhyme scheme, however, I'd guess that they were, in fact, written first in English.
As for that photo of the woman, yeah, that flashed across my mind as I read this poem. That was a big part of why I picked it.


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The study was published in the journal Energy Storage Materials (impact factor 13): "Surface structure inhibited lithiation of crystalline silicon probed with operando neutron reflectivity". Arne Ronneburg, Marcus Trapp, Robert Cubitt , Luca Silvi, Sébastien Cap, Matthias Ballauff, Sebastian Risse.


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Twentieth century philosophy
Name: Imre Lakatos
Birth: November 9, 1922
Death: February 2, 1974
School/tradition: Critic of Falsificationism
Main interests
Philosophy of science, Epistemology, Philosophy of mathematics, Politics
Notable ideas
Method of proofs and refutations, methodology of scientific research programmes
George Pólya, Paul Feyerabend, Karl Popper Paul Feyerabend
Imre Lakatos (November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) was a philosopher of mathematics and science. Born in Hungary and initially educated there and in the Soviet Union, he was a Communist for a time during and after World War II, but he eventually became disenchanted with Communist bureaucracy and ideology. Eventually, at the time of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, he fled from Hungary to Vienna, and then to England. He received a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1961. In 1960, Lakatos was appointed to the London School of Economics and he taught there for fourteen years, until his death. It is for this work in England that he is known today.
2 Work
3 Proofs and refutations
4 Research programs
5 Lakatos' Break with Karl Popper
7 Major Works
9.1 General philosophy sources
Lakatos was one of the most important philosophers of science in the twentieth century, together with Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, and Paul Feyerabend.
Lakatos was born Imre Lipschitz to a Jewish family in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1922. He received a degree in mathematics, physics, and philosophy from the University of Debrecen in 1944. He avoided Nazi persecution of Jews by changing his name to Imre Molnár. His mother and grandmother died in Auschwitz. During the Second World War he became an active communist. He changed his last name once again to Lakatos (Locksmith) to reflect communist values and in honor of Géza Lakatos. After the war, he continued his education in Budapest (under György Lukács, among others). He also studied at the Moscow State University under the supervision of Sofya Yanovskaya. When he returned, he worked as a senior official in the Hungarian ministry of education. However, he found himself on the losing side of internal arguments within the Hungarian communist party and was imprisoned on charges of revisionism from 1950 to 1953. More of Lakatos' activities in Hungary after World War II have recently become known.
After his release, Lakatos returned to academic life, doing mathematical research and translating George Pólya's How to Solve It into Hungarian. Still nominally a communist, his political views had shifted markedly and he was involved with at least one dissident student group in the lead-up to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
After the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in November 1956, Lakatos fled to Vienna, and later reached England. He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1961 from the University of Cambridge. The book, Proofs and Refutations, published after his death, is based on this work.
Lakatos never obtained British citizenship, in effect remaining a stateless person.
In 1960, he was appointed to a position in the London School of Economics, where he wrote on the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science. The LSE philosophy of science department at that time included Karl Popper and John Watkins.
According to Ernst Gellner and others, Lakatos lectured on difficult and abstract subjects full of technicalities, but he did it in a way that was intelligible, fascinating, dramatic, and amusing, to a crowded lecture hall in an electric atmosphere, where gales of laughter would often erupt.
With co-editor Alan Musgrave, he edited the highly-cited Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965. Published in 1970, the 1965 Colloquium included well-known speakers delivering papers in response to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Lakatos remained at the London School of Economics until his sudden death in 1974, aged just 51.
The work of Lakatos was heavily influenced by Popper and by Pólya. His doctoral thesis, "Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery," was submitted to Cambridge in 1961. The theme of his thesis, done at the suggestion of Pólya, was the history of the Euler-Descartes formula V - E + F = 2.
Lakatos published Proofs and Refutations in 1963-64, in four parts in the British Journal for Philosophy of Science. This work was based on his doctoral thesis and expounds his view of the progress of mathematics. It is structured as a series of Socratic dialogues between a teacher and a group of students. A central theme is that definitions are not carved in stone, but often have to be patched up in the light of later insights, in particular failed proofs. This gives mathematics a somewhat experimental flavor. According to John Worrall, "… as well as having great philosophical and historical value, [this paper] was circulated in offprint form in enormous numbers."
During his lifetime, Lakatos refused to publish the work as a book, since he intended to improve it. However, in 1976, two years after his death, the work did appear as a book, I. Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery, edited by J. Worrall and E. G. Zahar.
Worrall describes the work:
The thesis of Proofs and Refutations is that the development of mathematics does not consist (as conventional philosophy of mathematics tells us it does) in the steady accumulation of eternal truths. Mathematics develops, according to Lakatos, in a much more dramatic and exciting way—by a process of conjecture, followed by attempts to "prove" the conjecture (i.e. to reduce it to other conjectures) followed by criticism via attempts to produce counter-examples both to the conjectured theorem and to the various steps in the proof ("Imre Lakatos (1922-1974): Philosopher of Mathematics and Philosopher of Science").
Hersh says that Proofs and Refutations is:
… an overwhelming work. The effect of its polemical brilliance, its complexity of argument and self-conscious sophistication, its sheer weight of historical learning, is to dazzle the reader ("Introducing Imre Lakatos").
Lakatos wrote a number of papers on the philosophy of mathematics before moving on to write more generally on the philosophy of science. However, like his doctoral thesis, he often used historical case studies to illustrate his arguments. His article, "Cauchy and the Continuum: The Significance of Non-Standard Analysis for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics," is a notable example.
Hersh explains the point of the approach to history that Lakatos uses in this article:
The point is not merely to rethink the reasoning of Cauchy, not merely to use the mathematical insight available from Robinson's non-standard analysis to re-evaluate our attitude towards the whole history of the calculus and the notion of the infinitesimal. The point is to lay bare the inner workings of mathematical growth and change as a historical process, as a process with its own laws and its own "logic," one which is best understood in its rational reconstruction, of which the actual history is perhaps only a parody (Hersh, op. cit.).
Lakatos was extremely effective as a research supervisor to students. He inspired a group of young scholars to do original research, and he would often spend days with them perfecting their manuscripts for publication. At the time of his death, he was highly productive, with many plans to publish new work, reply to his critics, and apply his ideas in new fields.
Worrall claims that the achievement of which Lakatos would have been most proud was leaving
… a thriving research program manned, at the London School of Economics and elsewhere, by young scholars engaged in developing and criticizing his stimulating ideas and applying them to new areas (Worrall, op. cit.).
Lakatos' character is described this way:
With his sharp tongue and strong opinions he sometimes seemed authoritarian; but he was "Imre" to everyone; and he invited searching criticism of his ideas, and his writings over which he took endless trouble before they were finally allowed to appear in print (Worrall, op. cit.).
Proofs and refutations
Lakatos' philosophy of mathematics was inspired by both Hegel's and Marx's dialectic, Karl Popper's theory of knowledge, and the work of mathematician George Polya.
Proofs and Refutations is largely taken up by a fictional dialogue set in a mathematics class. The students are attempting to prove the formula for the Euler characteristic in algebraic topology, which is a theorem about the properties of polyhedra. The dialogue is meant to represent the actual series of attempted proofs which mathematicians historically offered for the conjecture, only to be repeatedly refuted by counterexamples. Often the students "quote" famous mathematicians such as Cauchy.
What Lakatos tried to establish was that no theorem of informal mathematics is final or perfect. This means that one should not think that a theorem is ultimately true, only that no counterexample has yet been found. Once a counterexample, that is, an entity contradicting/not explained by the theorem is found, we adjust the theorem, possibly extending the domain of its validity. This is a continuous way knowledge accumulates, through the logic and process of proofs and refutations.
If axioms are given for a branch of mathematics, however, Lakatos claimed that proofs from those axioms were tautological, i.e. logically true.
Lakatos proposed an account of mathematical knowledge based on the idea of heuristics. In Proofs and Refutations the concept of "heuristic" was not well developed, although Lakatos gave several basic rules for finding proofs and counterexamples to conjectures. He thought that mathematical "thought experiments" are a valid way to discover mathematical conjectures and proofs, and sometimes called his philosophy quasi-empiricism.
However, he also conceived of the mathematical community as carrying on a kind of dialectic to decide which mathematical proofs are valid and which are not. Therefore he fundamentally disagreed with the formalist conception of proof which prevailed in Gottlob Frege's and Bertrand Russell's logicism, which defines proof simply in terms of formal validity.
On its publication in 1976, Proofs and Refutations became highly influential on new work in the philosophy of mathematics, although few agreed with Lakatos' strong disapproval of formal proof. Before his death he had been planning to return to the philosophy of mathematics and apply his theory of research programs to it. One of the major problems perceived by critics is that the pattern of mathematical research depicted in Proofs and Refutations does not faithfully represent most of the actual activity of contemporary mathematicians.
Lakatos' contribution to the philosophy of science was an attempt to resolve the perceived conflict between Karl Popper's "falsificationism" and the revolutionary structure of science described by Thomas S. Kuhn. Popper's theory implied that scientists should give up a theory as soon as they encounter any falsifying evidence, immediately replacing it with increasingly "bold and powerful" new hypotheses. However, Kuhn described science as consisting of periods of normal science in which scientists continue to hold their theories in the face of anomalies, interspersed with periods of great conceptual change.
Lakatos sought a methodology that would harmonize these apparently contradictory points of view, a methodology that could provide a rational account of scientific progress, consistent with the historical record, and thus preserve the rationality of science in the face of the failure or Popperian falsificationism and Kuhn's irrationalism.
For Lakatos, what we think of as "theories" are actually groups of slightly different theories that share some common idea, or what Lakatos called their "hard core." Lakatos called these groups "Research Programmes" [British spelling]. Those scientists involved in the program will shield the theoretical core from falsification attempts behind a protective belt of auxiliary hypotheses. Whereas Popper generally disparaged such measures as "ad hoc," Lakatos wanted to show that adjusting and developing a protective belt is not necessarily a bad thing for a research program. Instead of asking whether a hypothesis is true or false, Lakatos wanted us to ask whether a research program is progressive or degenerative. A progressive research program is marked by its growth, along with the discovery of stunning novel facts. A degenerative research program is marked by lack of growth, or growth of the protective belt that does not lead to novel facts.
Lakatos was following Willard Van Orman Quine's idea that one can always protect a cherished belief from hostile evidence by redirecting the criticism toward other things that are believed. This difficulty with falsificationism had been acknowledged by Popper.
Falsificationism, Karl Popper's theory, proposed that scientists put forward theories and that nature "shouts NO" in the form of an inconsistent observation. According to Popper, it is irrational for scientists to maintain their theories in the face of Natures rejection, yet this is what Kuhn had described them as doing. But for Lakatos, "It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO rather we propose a maze of theories and nature may shout INCONSISTENT." This inconsistency can be resolved without abandoning our research program by leaving the hard core alone and altering the auxiliary hypotheses.
One example given is Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. Within the Newtonian system (research program) these are not open to falsification as they form the program's hard core. This research program provides a framework within which research can be undertaken with constant reference to presumed first principles which are shared by those involved in the research program, and without continually defending these first principles. In this regard it is similar to Kuhn's notion of a paradigm.
Lakatos also believed that a research program contained "methodological rules," some that instruct on what paths of research to avoid (he called this the "negative heuristic") and some that instruct on what paths to pursue (he called this the "positive heuristic").
Lakatos claimed that not all changes of the auxiliary hypotheses within research programs (Lakatos calls them "problem shifts") are equally as acceptable. He believed that these "problem shifts" can be evaluated both by their ability to explain apparent refutations and by their ability to produce new facts. If it can do this then, Lakatos claims, they are progressive. However if they do not, if they are just "ad-hoc" changes that do not lead to the prediction of new facts, then he labels them as degenerate.
Lakatos believed that if a research program is progressive, then it is rational for scientists to keep changing the auxiliary hypotheses in order to hold on to it in the face of anomalies. However, if a research program is degenerate, then it faces danger from its competitors; it can be "falsified" by being superseded by a better (i.e. more progressive) research program. This is what he believed is happening in the historical periods Kuhn described as revolutions and what makes them rational as opposed to mere leaps of faith (as he believed Kuhn took them to be).
Lakatos' Break with Karl Popper
Lakatos was at first a close follower and defender of Karl Popper and Popperian falsificationism. However, eventually he and Popper broke with each other, so much so that Popper denounced Lakatos somewhat bitterly and claimed that Lakatos misunderstood and misrepresented him (in The Philosophy of Karl Popper 999-1013). W.W. Bartley, III, a Popperian and editor of some of Popper's works, also wrote critically about Lakatos.
In turn, Lakatos—along with his friend and colleague Paul Feyerabend, another lapsed Popperian—came to minimize the importance of Popper and Popper's work.
Lakatos is regarded as one of the one of the most important philosophers of science in the twentieth century. His contributions include his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and his introduction of the concept of the "Research Programmes" (or research programs) which include "methodological rules" that guide the direction of scientific research.
Lakatos and Feyerabend planned to produce a joint work in which Lakatos would develop a rationalist description of science and Feyerabend would attack it. The correspondence between Lakatos and Feyerabend, where the two discussed the project, has since been reproduced, entitled For and Against Method, edited by Matteo Motterlini.
The Lakatos Award, endowed by the Latsis Foundation in memory of Imre Lakatos, is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science.
Lakatos, Imre, ed. 1968. The Problem of Inductive Logic. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co.
Lakatos, Imre and Alan Musgrave, eds. 1970. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521078261
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Professor Mahbubani's $50k homes are only a quick fix
In the midst of the controversy over the NLB it slipped my mind that I'd wanted to respond to Professor Mahbubani's Big Idea on Saturday. But I came across a takedown of his article earlier today and that reminded me to write. The citations on that piece are excellent and I don't have much data to add; instead, I wanted to focus on two things in Professor Mahbubani's piece which may have slipped by a little less noticed.
The first is something on which we agree. There is no way Singapore will be as successful in the next 50 years as it's been over the last 50. And although he exaggerates how special Singapore's record is relative to other countries—and even though our median per-individual household income ($2247 monthly) is a far sight from our GDP per capita ($6710 monthly, according to his piece)—it's true that living standards have improved. This progress is unlikely to be matched because the low-hanging policy fruit has already been harvested, so to speak—we've cleared our backlog of people to house, kids to educate and vaccinate, jobs to provide, sanitation to improve, and so on. This sort of unambiguously-good public policy is a thing of the past, and we'll start to see more trade-offs appearing. Policies will have distributional consequences, favouring some segments of society over others (rich over poor, young over old, and so on). We'll also begin to disagree on the desirability of policy outcomes (is having more people good or bad?) Because of this, there's no way our public policies can attract the same sort of public consensus that they have had in the past. And if that's the case, I believe it to be an argument for greater democratic contestation in Singapore.
The second is something I absolutely disagree with. Professor Mahbubani suggests that Singaporean property developers build cheap housing (homes priced at $50k) in neighbouring countries so that Singaporean families can enjoy space in their living arrangements. Nazi parallels aside (Lebensraum?), here's why I think it's a terrible idea:
Posted in Singapore and tagged development, economy, post-industrial society, society on July 15, 2014 by mcpeanuts. 3 Comments
As nobody in particular, I object to Dominic Foo's so-called arguments
Jaxe Pan's Facebook note here. Dominic Foo's response here. This piece responds more or less point-by-point to Dominic Foo's piece, so read it before coming back here. Better yet, read them side by side, since that's how I wrote this piece.
Background: as you know, last week the NLB withdrew and destroyed some children's books for homosexual and non-pro-family themes. I've been looking desperately for some intelligent defence of the NLB's actions so I can engage meaningfully with people who disagree. I thought Dominic Foo's piece might be charitably read to be such a defence. I believe that in a pluralist society, dialogue is important, and I have sought to keep this post civil. Where it does degenerate (in the last paragraph), it does so because I ran out of patience reading convoluted arguments that didn't add up. I'm publishing this piece not because it's good writing, but because I spent 6 hours on it and found some interesting evidence on adoption and gay parenting—and evidence is always good.
Posted in Fighting the echo chamber, Singapore and tagged LGBT, morality, pluralism, society on July 13, 2014 by mcpeanuts. 5 Comments
'Censorship' at the NLB
Update (10 Jul 2014 4:30pm): the books will be pulped, so apparently they won't even be anywhere in the library.
A few days ago, the National Library Board withdrew two books (And Tango Makes Three, and The White Swan Express) from the library system. The news broke on Facebook on 8 July 2014. According to Kirsten Han, "And Tango Makes Three is about two male penguins who paired up and nursed an egg, while The White Swan Express is a story about children being adopted not just by straight, white families but by gay parents, mixed race parents and even a single mother." I see two particular areas of concern: whether NLB is indeed "censoring" books or if its actions are limited to withdrawing these two titles from children's sections, and the lack of availability of books that show children positive portrayals of unconventional family models.
First, the NLB needs to clarify immediately if the books have been withdrawn entirely or just from children's sections. The overwhelming impression, and the plain meaning of the email from the NLB's chief librarian (quoted here as part of a Facebook post), seems to be the former. If true, this demonstrates two inconsistencies. Many books with far more "disturbing" content are in our libraries and on our school syllabi. And removing these two books entirely is clearly inconsistent with the libraries' mission of educating the public. Leaving them available for adult lending only, while a regrettable situation, is a compromise which still allows parents to make choices for their children's reading. On the other hand, removing them entirely is censorship. Besides, removing the books disregards the views of that segment of Singaporean society which is positive or ambivalent towards non-traditional family structures. Page 42 on this document, which reports results from the Institute of Policy Studies' Survey on Race, Religion and Language, shows that 24.2% of respondents think that gay adoption is "not wrong at all" or "not wrong most of the time". This is after being asked, in preceding survey questions, to reflect on their religious views, which I think would tend to bias most respondents towards conservative views. Clearly, if the NLB has withdrawn the books entirely, it is taking sides in a debate that isn't settled yet.
Second, the NLB should not be passing judgement on what constitutes a family unit. Referring to a reductive notion of a father-mother couple as a "strong pro-family stand" is objectionable because there are and always have been different types of families—biological, adoptive, single-parent, grandparent-headed, even gay. None of these is necessarily better or worse (this article summarises the current state of our understanding of gay parenting). However, the normative judgement embedded in the NLB's "pro-family" stance has at least two consequences. It stigmatises other family structures, and even the practice of adoption. Moreover, it harms the children who are too young to understand why society disapproves of their parents. These children particularly need positive portrayals of their family structures. Instead, the NLB's purported "pro-family" stance hurts actual children in real families in the service of an imagined ideal. Let's think, for a second, about the real harm that might be caused from these books being available to children: A child picks up a book about a cute penguin family (And Tango Makes Three). This child brings the book to their parent, and asks to borrow it. The parent (let's say) is socially conservative, and scandalised that such a book is available for lending. The parent has to explain why their child can't read that book—essentially, expose their moral reasoning to an innocent child's questioning. They have to tell the child why certain kinds of families are unacceptable by their own standards, and justify to them why they think these families can't be allowed. By removing books like these from the sight of children, all the NLB is helping to do is prevent (or delay) those awkward moments that result when a sanitised, reductive, simplistic moral universe comes into contact with a gritty reality it can't deal with. The social conservatives are not engaged in a crusade to remove smut from shelves, as they would have you believe. Rather, they are acting to preserve their own worldview and remove anything that might cause them discomfort. Incidentally, I think those people who oppose this move on grounds of censorship are barking down the wrong alley. Censorship does not rouse Singaporeans to anger. What the social conservatives are really working towards is twofold: insulating their worldview from coming into contact with any other, and imposing it on the rest of society. Withdrawing And Tango Makes Three and The White Swan Express from the libraries is much more than just thought-policing. Louis CK has a hilarious joke about talking to children about gay people (warning: it's Louis CK): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb-JZSyhWSc&t=1m04s
Posted in Singapore and tagged LGBT, morality, pluralism, society on July 10, 2014 by mcpeanuts. Leave a comment
Thoughts on Pink Dot 2014
I was at Pink Dot 2014, on June 28th; I think it was my fourth—2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014. The organisers have claimed that 26,000 people showed up at Hong Lim Park. The numbers certainly keep increasing every year. But after six Pink Dots, it feels like the event hasn't changed much since the first one I attended (I think that was in 2010; I've been to four of them). There are a few speeches and song-and-dance items, and everyone chills out casually till it's time to turn on the pink (corporate-sponsored) torchlights and point them upwards for the camera drone.
Posted in Singapore and tagged LGBT, personal reflections, society on July 1, 2014 by mcpeanuts. Leave a comment
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Andrea McGrath, Saumya Shruti and Shaily Acharya
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When Diana Samarasan set out to create the Disability Rights Fund in 2008, she had limited experience in grantmaking and funding. As an activist for the disability community, Diana had spent years putting the community at the forefront of her advocacy efforts. Yet, when venturing into the philanthropic grant-making ecosystem, Diana did not see her activist background as an impediment to breaking into the space; rather, she leaned on her instincts about empowering community members to create a fund that allowed disabled people to lead on grantmaking decisions.
Over a decade later, Diana has created one of the most successful global participatory grantmaking organizations, that empowers the disability community at every level, from its funding efforts to its organizational design and leadership
Diana's story highlights an alternative approach to grantmaking and impact investing that reimagines funding models from a power shifting lens. As America grapples with recovery from a global health pandemic and a declining economy, models like these highlight a new way forward that provide hope for a more equitable future.
America sits at one of the most consequential crossroads in its history today. The disparate impacts of the COVID pandemic and recent protests demanding racial and criminal justice are bringing renewed focus to the gaping difference between the two Americas and our persistent structural inequalities. Communities have become marginalised in their own decision-making abilities as policies, markets, and capital become less democratically controlled and less representative of the communities they aim to serve.
For too long, the capital flowing into local communities has been determined by 'outside' philanthropists and impact investors. While these investment decisions have ranged from arbitrary to well informed, they often have not aligned with the interests of the communities where the funding is going, and they continue to uphold the outdated hierarchy between a small elite group of funders and the rest of society.
Today's 'perfect storm' of challenges has unintentionally created an opportunity for a better way forward. For America to move beyond its pre-pandemic "normal" to a more just society, it is clear we need more representative voices in designing our policies and investments in ways that help to fundamentally shift more power to those who have been marginalised or excluded.
Fortunately, there are a number of pioneering funding models like the Disability Rights Fund that are demonstrating how to bring more voices into decision-making processes and design funding strategies with and not for communities of colour. Broadly, these types of approaches are called "participatory" funding models, and they have taken a variety of manifestations over time. In the 1970s, the participatory grantmaking movement gained traction globally as community organising developed momentum, and activist-led organisations began to develop across different industries — including grantmaking. Over time, the number of funders adopting these approaches has grown in size and across focus areas, and many are still led by activists and community organisers. Indeed, one of the more impactful aspects of these grantmaking groups is that their community organising roots have ensured broad based community participation in their funding approaches. Select examples include the India Foundation for the Arts, which supports practice, research and education in the arts and culture in India, and Thousand Currents, which funds grassroots groups and movements led by women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples in the Global South.
While there is not one 'standard' definition of participatory funding models, at their core, these approaches allow more representative voices from historically disenfranchised and marginalised groups into a wide range of processes, decision-making, and leadership. Looking at the broader landscape, the two main types of funders include smaller, grassroots groups and larger, private foundations. In general, the more grassroots movements take a deliberative, "bottom-up" approach that focuses on empowering community members as decision makers and funders, while foundations may work with community and philanthropic partners to determine how they can 'shift' their institutional processes and decision making to include more local community members and voices.
Participatory funding approaches can vary widely on the ways they invite community members to participate in their investment or grant-giving decision-making processes. These can range from simple feedback loops on planned decisions, to engaging the community to vote on grant selections, to the more ambitious models that look to embed the values of community participation throughout the entire organisation — including their board, investment committee and leadership, as well as their processes and funding.
Participatory funding approaches can provide more insights on community issues by including the voices of those who stand to be the most affected by grants and investments. Despite good intentions, traditional funding approaches often focus on investors or donor wishes, needs or strategies, which can distance funders and investors from the communities they wish to serve.
Participatory funding approaches can also help illuminate the diversity of actors in a community and highlight intersectional identities, which are crucial to understanding how policy and finance may impact community members. Issues of race, gender, environment, housing, and education don't exist in silos, and participatory models are often better equipped to highlight the overlap of different societal issues, and reveal the multi-dimensionality of community finance — a perspective that is lacking in traditional structures.
While participatory funding models have typically deployed grant funding, we are seeing models emerge that are applying these approaches to drive community investments. This includes groups like the Buen Vivir Fund, the Boston Ujima Project, the REAL People's Fund, Village Capital, and the Runway Project. The Buen Vivir Fund provides a great example of how participatory grant funds can evolve their strategies more broadly.
Thousand Currents, the parent organisation of the Buen Vivir Fund, has been involved in a grassroots, grantmaking process for the last 30 years. In 2014, they explored adapting an investment strategy that would challenge existing power structures similar to its grantmaking. After several years of research and experimenting, the Buen Vivir Fund officially launched in 2018. Its guiding principle is to lean on the wisdom of the community to determine the investment capital and other support needed. Another key aspect of the fund is its Member Assembly, composed of 10 grassroots groups and eight investor groups, which gets the final say in any investment decision-making. Fund managers facilitate the decision-making process at Assembly meetings but they are not voting members. The Buen Vivir Fund is an innovator, exploring not only how to apply community driven investments in the grey space between grants and profit-only investments, but how to apply this approach on an international scale.
While the trailblazing work of participatory models like the Disabilities Rights Fund and the Buen Vivir Fund is inspiring, it is important to note they remain the exceptions. Most participatory funding models are smaller, place-based organisations with limited capacity to grow their operations. The time consuming processes of convening community and selecting investments, the obstacles for existing funders to adapt their processes and organisations, and the lack of capital supporting these models limit the ability of these participatory approaches to grow. More broadly, there is a lack of standard definitions and approaches to participatory funding and limited data on their effectiveness and impact. Taken all together, these challenges deter more traditional funders from either supporting these models directly or exploring how they might adapt some of these practices internally.
Despite these challenges, we believe these participatory funding models are pioneers in demonstrating new paths forward towards rebalancing the long standing power structures that have favoured the few over the many. By reimagining how grants and investments can be directed by and for communities, they are demonstrating how capital can become more democratically oriented and can enable the transformation of power structures into more equitable and just systems.
Participatory funding is an idea whose time has come. Now is the time to grow these models beyond the pioneering, grassroots efforts and move to the mainstream. But what will it take to get there?
This article was first published by the Beeck Center for Social Innovation. It is the first piece in a three-part series about participatory funding models. Part II is available here.
Andrea McGrath is a strategic and entrepreneurial leader with deep, cross-sector experience helping individuals and organisations to catalyse ideas into action. Saumya Shruti works on reimagining community investing at the Beeck Center, as well as at the Centre for Public Impact. And Shaily Acharya is a student analyst on fair finance at the Beeck Center.
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Please join us on Tuesday, January 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the lower level of the church as we make sandwiches for Central Presbyterian Night Shelter. We will socialize and assemble sandwiches and hygiene kits from 7:00-8:15 p.m. From 8:15-9:00 p.m, we will have Lisa Olwine, from Birthright of Atlanta speak about the mission and needs of this pregnancy crisis center. Feel free to bring wine and snacks to share.
On Wednesday evening, February 1 a team of 10 women will serve dinner and assemble breakfast and lunch sacks at the shelter, which is located near the Georgia Capitol downtown. We need many volunteers, especially food donors, to make this evening a success. Food donations that do not require refrigeration can be dropped off on Tuesday night at the meeting or on Wednesday at several drop-off points near IHM. To sign-up, visit https://goo.gl/Ezonis.
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Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by MikaelaArsenault, Oct 11, 2018.
mtvgeneration and c-eling like this.
The Residents, "Broccoli and Saxophone"
Again, a piece of music and not a song.
So sue me. Haven't you noticed the other non-vocal tracks on this thread? There's a lot of them. Is "The Drum Thing" by John Coltrane a song or a piece of music? "Musette" by Can? "Second Fiddle" by Tommy McCook. Und so weiter.
I was gonna say that! Delighted someone else knew it.
I'll add Red Guitar by Loudon Wainwright III from Album III. Photo of burnt, charred remains on rear cover.
Of course. I like Rupert Holmes' "Widescreen" debut album, his best album in my opinion. He is an underrated songwriter and performer and most people here think his only song is "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)."
CBS 65780 and plentyofjamjars67 like this.
AudiophilePhil and CBS 65780 like this.
Two for the price of one. Wire, "Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars)".
The Birthday Party, "Mr. Clarinet"


To select a starting point for the core CIMI reference model. It is anticipated that the selected reference model will then be modified, as required, to better meet the CIMI reference model requirements.
Based on the votes received, the option with the fewest points was eliminated. Round 2 votes were then determined by reallocating the points (from 5 to 2) for the remaining 4 options, in the original order of preference. This process of elimination and reallocation of points was repeated, until 2 options remained. The option with the highest number of points was then selected.
The openEHR reference model has been selected as the starting point for the CIMI reference model (by 6 of the 9 members of the taskforce).
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Jean and the Calico Doll is a 1910 short film directed by Laurence Trimble for Vitagraph Studios. It is the first film starring his own dog Jean, a female tri-color collie soon to be famous as the Vitagraph Dog. The drama marks the film debut of Helen Hayes, the first of two films she made with the famous dog in 1910.

Plot
At his home, Mr. Doyle meets with a visitor and is paid a large sum of money, in cash. Doyle's children are there during their discussion—his son sitting at the window, and his young daughter playing on the floor with her collie, Jean. The cash is left on the table while Doyle sees his visitor out. The son leaves the room, and the young girl sees the money and thinks of it only as paper she can play with. She takes the bundle out into the garden, puts it into a cradle with her calico doll, and cuts paper dolls from one or two of the bills.

The room is empty when Doyle returns, and he is alarmed to find the money missing. When his wife tells him she knows nothing about it, he accuses his son of stealing it. Deeply offended, the son leaves home. He has been gone only a short time when the young daughter comes inside to show her mother the paper dolls she has made from the pretty paper. Jean the collie follows along with a bundle of money the child has dropped. Her mother calls to her husband, and the little girl explains that she thought the paper was just something she could play with, and she is deeply upset that her brother has gone away.

The child sets out with her calico doll to find her brother, with Jean close behind her. Wandering in the woods and fields, the child falls down a steep embankment, injures her ankle and lies unconscious. Unable to rouse the child, Jean runs home to alert the parents but is unable to make them understand. Jean goes back and retrieves the calico doll as proof that the child is missing and in danger.

Brought back home out of devotion to his sister, the son returns to his distraught parents. When he sees Jean with the calico doll, he follows the dog to the scene of the accident and rescues the little girl.

Production
Laurence Trimble joined Vitagraph Studios in early 1910 and became one of Vitagraph's leading directors.
As well as directing many of the films starring Florence Turner and John Bunny, Trimble was responsible for all of the films starring his dog Jean, the first canine to have a leading role in motion pictures. Jean and the Calico Doll was the first in a series of pictures that put her in the ranks of Vitagraph's top stars.

Jean and the Calico Doll features the first screen performance of actress Helen Hayes, who remembered making two films with Jean that year. "I had long curls and they let me play the juvenile lead in two pictures in support of Jean, the collie," Hayes recalled in 1931. "Jean was the most famous dog of the day and I was very thrilled."

In her 1968 memoir, On Reflection, Hayes wrote that Frederick A. Thomson, her director when she appeared with the Columbia Players in Washington, D.C., persuaded her mother to let her perform in a film for Vitagraph Studios, where he had begun working. The Brooklyn-based troupe traveled by ferry to Fort Lee, New Jersey, to film Jean and the Calico Doll. Maurice Costello and Florence Turner, who starred as the parents, "joined everyone else, including camera and prop-men, and sat on those long slatted benches drinking hot coffee at dawn. Nobody was very fancy in those days", Hayes remembered.

Making pictures was a lark and the most vagabond existence. We'd all get into a long line of automobiles with tripods, cameras, props, and lunches. Then we'd drive until we saw a lovely estate that might serve as a setting for the company. If the house and surrounding land seemed right, an official hand would wave the caravan to stop and out we'd jump, to steal the view as a background to our plot. We would hurriedly play a scene on the velvety lawn and in and out of the sycamore trees and hydrangea bushes, and then run before a window was opened and a threatening voice would send us packing. We always ran faster than the owners or their servants, who sometimes came out to chase us off their property. The audacity of us—it was marvelous!

Reception
The Moving Picture World called the film "a dog story which has much interest, as all such stories do. The intelligence of animals makes a good picture at any time, and when it is utilized in rescuing life, as this one is, the interest is measurably increased. Apart from the virtual rescue of the injured child by the dog the film contains no striking characteristics. The misplaced money, the false accusation and the child wandering away to find her brother are all interesting features, but they are in reality but incidents upon which to base the intelligence of the dog."

Preservation status
No print of Jean and the Calico Doll is known to exist.

See also
 List of American films of 1910

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