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You will need to fill out our sponsorship form on the website and submit it the the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department. Our Sponsorship Coordinator will process the form once the fees have been received.
1. What facilities do we use?
We play at Cheryl Woods-Flowers (Patriots Point), Moultrie Middle School, Park West and Carolina Park.
2. How do I sponsor a team?
3. What if I want to play Elite Soccer?
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We are fast approaching our first year, its been an amazing ride. We are just startying to get group booking, have a radio promotion coming out, a article in Heritage matters and lots of exciting future plans and we continue to grow. Lots of positive comments by all. Some people enjoy it so much they give more than expect. We thank all that have attended and hope that we can continue to grow both in attendence and for your viewing pleasure.
Kevin Murray said "An amazing visit to the museum"
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It’s windy today. I’m sitting at a dock in Eastern Finland listening to the sound of waves crashing into the pier. My hair is flying in the wind. There’s something about standing on the shore facing a brisk wind. It clears your mind. It makes room for new ideas. It gives new direction.
These past months of blog silence have been filled with what I call holy frustration. The life of an artist is rarely smooth sailing. It’s highs and lows, moments of success followed by frustration. It’s balancing inner struggles of finding your voice and then losing it again. It’s acknowledging that it’s all been said before, yet not by you. It’s all that and more – but we love it.
In the midst of all this turmoil I was actually looking forward to writing again. One famous photo editor said it’s good to write about your work. I believe this applies no matter what your artistry or line of business is. Writing forces you to think (and rethink) about your work, makes you see your work from new angles, and just makes you see things more clearly. It’s so easy to lose focus and become a jack of all trades.
For me frustration works as a tool. It tells me that I’m ready to grow in some area of my artistry. Photography is a language. We communicate with our images. In order to grow we need new words so that we can communicate more meaningfully, in more detail, in more depth what we want to express. Our greatest enemy is being too complacent in our work. We need to face the wind and take new direction.
I hear the first sounds of thunder on the horizon. Time to wrap things up at the dock. To my fellow artists: don’t let frustration crush you. Ride it like a surfer rides a wave. It feels like flying, doesn’t it? | 2019-04-20T22:11:20Z | https://mariamalmi.com/food-for-thought/holy-frustration/ |
NEW THIS YEAR, ASTRA has created the New Players Park pavilion for smaller, manufacturing companies who have never exhibited with ASTRA before and are looking to introduce their products to key decision makers in the independent retailing community. Eligible companies have the unique opportunity to rent a booth in this featured area and gain additional exposure in this special space on the trade show floor. Simplify your planning with a New Players Park booth package that includes carpeting and basic booth furnishings - no need to opt in.
Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. New Players Park is highlighted in green on the floor plan here.
*Corner Booths cost an additional $300. These are defined as a booth located at the end of a row of adjoined booths with no neighbor on one side. The 3' high side drape will not be placed on the open side.
Booth packages do NOT include lighting, electrical power, internet, etc but these may be brought and/or purchased through designated providers.
Booth space in New Players Park is limited. Interested companies must complete this special application and meet the criteria below. Applications will be reviewed by ASTRA staff and space will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Once approved, a booth will be held in the pavilion and the submitted contact will be sent a link to complete the contract and 50% booth deposit within 5 business days. Balance payments are due no later than January 31, 2019. Full payment must accompany any applications submitted after January 31, 2019. For any questions, email exhibit@astratoy.org or call (312) 955-9001. | 2019-04-22T01:59:41Z | http://marketplaceandacademy.org/trade-show/exhibit/new-players |
Any beer company with a monkey as its mascot and a healthy sense of parody in its advertising has to be good, and our very own Nimbus Brewing Company lives up to the expectations. Nimbus' varied beers are tasty and memorably named: You may forget what you did after downing a couple of pints of Old Monkeyshine, but you won't forget that you were drinking Old Monkeyshine. And in proper Tucson fashion, Nimbus' Dirty Guera is an international melting pot of flavor: Bisbee killer-bee honey gives a Southwestern edge to those German hops. Even the boringly named Red Ale and Brown Ale are delicious. We raise our Nimbus pint glasses full of brew and paraphrase the words of Benjamin Franklin: There will be good living where there is good drinking. | 2019-04-18T14:32:06Z | https://m.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/best-tasting-local-brew/BestOf?oid=1361398 |
Which has a higher real poverty rate – Mississippi or California? SURPRISE!
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Getting rid of old carpeting might not be as easy as placing the materials by the side of the road. Many areas consider carpeting to be bulk waste, and a separate visit may be required for picking up large items such as carpeting.
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The need for squirrel removal attic Houston has now arrived, call Masters Services (713) 723-4854.
It may seem a little early but the breeding season for squirrels has been in full swing for about 3 weeks. If you have noticed the sounds of something in your attic, walls or chimney, most likely you have become the unknowing host of one or more squirrels. Squirrel removal attic Houston is the most successful way to rid yourself of the annoyance and keep your home safe from the potential damage squirrels can cause.
Squirrels have teeth which do not have roots. This means that in order to keep their teeth from growing out of control they must chew on things to keep them filed down. During this time of year squirrels are looking for safe havens to breed and raise their young. Unfortunately, your home could not be more perfect of a location for them. It protects them from the rain and sun along with keeping them safe from other animals and predators. Squirrel removal attic Houston is needed as soon as you have a suspicion that something may be in your attic. This will help to prevent massive amounts of damage being done.
We have had a client who called in because they had a full power outage in their home. This was odd as the entire block still had power, every home except theirs. They called out their electrician and were told that the main power cable to the house had been chewed through. When our technician came out they saw that squirrel removal attic Houston services was needed. There had been much more damage though out the attic from the animal as it had been there for a while. Beams with large areas gnawed out were also there. This creates a dangerous situation for the homeowner in that the house is now not fully intact.
In this situation we sealed the entry points and placed a one-way-door in the last entry point. Within two days the squirrel was gone; we came back out, removed the trap and sealed the final hole. Had we been able to place the trap earlier, all of this mess could have been avoided. The key is, if you think something is going on don’t hesitate, call for squirrel removal attic Houston right away.
Masters Services was started by Chad and Christa Murray in 1996 and has always been a family owned and run business. The company was added to with other friends and family and expanded into the Houston area adding Chad’s best friend Brian as a Co-Owner. All of our technicians have been trained and had many hours of hands on experience with handling squirrels and other nuisance wildlife animals. We handle all trapping humanely and strive to ensure your experience of squirrel removal attic Houston is one that is convenient for you and price effective. We offer free evaluations on animal removal from your home. Call us today to set up an appointment. | 2019-04-24T16:43:13Z | https://mastersservices.com/wildlife-removal-old/squirrel-removal-attic-houston/ |
Maybe, maybe not. I know a number of people who have gone from iOS to Android or the reverse and they’ve all eventually been comfortable with their new environment.
My experience with iPhones is limited to briefly using those belonging to friends to take a photo or check a web page or something. My sense of it is that, aside from the obvious OS differences, they’re pretty similar to my various Samsung Galaxy S-whatevers of the same generation over the years. At one time I was a Motorola fan, but after getting a bad one I switched to Samsung – and when Samsung inevitably does something I dislike I expect I’ll move on to something else. For me, that freedom to change hardware is more important that the actual OS.
I guess I’ll have to decide based on “practical loss” vs “the principle of the thing.” I will say, though, that while I was thinking of upgrading my three year old MacBook Pro, I don’t feel like giving more money to Apple anymore until they resolve this. | 2019-04-21T00:11:59Z | http://lerner.net/more-on-the-iphone-7-plus-screen-dimness-issue-disappointed-with-apples-false-advertising-but-what-can-i-do/ |
Sikandra Palace Houseboat accommodation in the beautiful vale offers a unique and unforgettable experience. Located Dal Lake, Nehru Park, Srinagar Kashmir.
Sikandra Palace - 12 rooms, surrounded by thousands of flowering lotus, are truly made for emperors. Each is approximately 50 yards long. One end contains three/four bedrooms fit for royalty - each with bathroom and dressing room and all the conveniences necessary for private matters and elegant dressing.
Each room has a hand-crafted ceiling and hand-carved cedar panelled walls. The floors and corridor are thickly covered with traditional and colourful Kashmir rugs and carpets. At the other end of the "palace" there is a huge living room and dining room with similar proportions. Each of these is again totally panelled with hand-carved cedar�this time with ornate designs backed by coloured lights providing dramatic effects with the main lights turned off.
Both rooms are furnished with beautifully carved Victorian furniture. All rooms have movable walls sliding open to reveal an exquisitely beautiful composition of lake, lotus, shikaras, diving kingfishers and wheeling eagles in the foreground; lake, swimming boat, houses among the stretching poplars, and titanic Chinnar trees in the mid-ground; ridges and snow-capped mountains so close and dominating they can hardly be described as taking up the background.
We will truly treat you, your family and friends like British Governors !
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International Journal of Solids and Structures , 39(8), 2109-2128.
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"Buckling strength of the cylindrical shell and tank subjected to axially compressive loads."
Thin-Walled Structures, Elsevier Science, 40(4), 329-353.
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"Shaking table tests of two-story unbraced Steel Frame."
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where exactly is the "external reserve" in an U-boat? I think it must not be outside the hull. Then where?
It is indeed outside the sub if you are talking about the external reserve of torpedoes. Both the type vi an ix had external canisters under the decking in which extra torpedoes were stored. In order to load these topedoes the submarine had to surface, erect a small block and pully system then lower the torpedo into a small hatch into the respective topedo rooms. This had to be done in calm seas.
1) After May 1943, Doenitz ordered all external torpedo canisters removed except for a few IXs that were designated for distant patrols. So the game shouldn't show any extra torpedoes on board after that date, but it does.
2) In reality U boat crews could float a torpedo from a rear canister position to the front torpedo room. The game does not allow that.
Hmm, aren't torpedoes' engines started by contact with seawater? Would floating a torpedo mean it could star up and go?
No torpedos wouldn't start up with contact to see water otherwise when the tubes were flooded the torpedos would instantly start going when loaded and primed in the tube, they are ejected by compressed air i believe.
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here's celeon's pic of a torpedo being loaded. it was a very dangerous operation, but these men were well trained.
Blue, that's actually a shot of the men floating a torpedo from the rear canister to the front of the boat. You can tell by the fact they are floating it with the life preservers. | 2019-04-23T08:09:56Z | https://forums.ubi.com/archive/index.php/t-227821.html?s=a256c40023fd0da58ce2ccce6deb6185 |
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Handwashing with proper soap (bars not pump bottles!) Popular with shavers?
What do we think about this rise of plastic pump bottled soap, rather than proper bars of soap? There is a big rise towards being environmentally friendly yet people still insist on buying these rubbish pump bottles now, a real shame in my eyes. Doesn't last as long, more expensive, worse for the environment (the bottles have to be re-cycled, heavier to transport etc).
How many of you guys prefer proper bars of soap? I do, and I have bars of carbolic next to the bathroom sink and the kitchen sink, but my Mrs insists on her pump soaps no matter how much I object haha! Just wondered what you guys like. I might be on my own here, but I was thinking that because we are into grooming and shaving that we might look for the products best for our skin.
I prefer handmade bars of soap. The natural glycerin content is good for skin, the stuff is soap rather than synthetic detergent, and the tactile experience of a bar of soap in your hands matters to me.
Yardley on American store shelves is great for the price and a dramatic improvement over detergent bars or liquid "soaps," but I prefer handmade bars that I make or from small-scale artisan producers. I keep homemade liquid soap - true soap, not detergent - in the kitchen because it's easier when my hands have been handling raw chicken to pump the soap with an elbow than to try to pick up a bar of soap without also contaminating the dish and the area around the dish.
I much prefer bars to bottles. Disregarding the waste of the bottle, bars are less expensive and last longer. And I have a miserable time regulating the amount delivered by the pump. Plus there is a much broader selection of scents.
For showering, I primarily use artisan bar soaps.
I'm the only one in our family who uses a bar soap, wife and kids prefer bottles. As OP mentioned, I've also noticed seeing less bar soaps in the aisle, less choices.
Ime a soap bar tends to be more drying than liquid soap, and foams are prefered. Not all of them are good.
I use a dedicated foam bottle and buy sulphate free liquid soap by the gallon.
Soap bar in the shower for sure. Liquid for travel.
Some liquid soaps are better than others, but 99% of them give me an allergic reaction - little blisters all over my hands.
(05-24-2018, 01:10 AM)Goatywoaty Wrote: What do we think about this rise of plastic pump bottled soap, rather than proper bars of soap?
How many of you guys prefer proper bars of soap?
My bride and I are with you all the way. However, we do have to have a pump in the shower and one in the downstairs powder room for our son and his wife, who regard bars of soap the way they regard CRT computer monitors or telephones that have lines attached. Their two sons probably never have seen soap in bar form except in our home.
For ourselves, we regard any sink (other than the sink in which we wash pots in the kitchen) that lacks a bar of Mystic Water Goat Milk “facial” soap alongside it to be naked and unpresentable to the civilized public.
(begin off-topic ramble containing further off-topic tangents) Recently, we discovered a nice shower soap bar that bears a familiar brand: the brand is well-known by many readers of this board as an affordable but excellent shave stick, but LaToja is also a brand of excellent bar soaps. The LaToja Magno bar comes out of the wrapper pitch black, but after a few uses settles down to a very very dark green, similar to the famous Brunswick Green (10 gallons of black and a quart of green) used on the legendary Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 locomotives. (How many other vehicles in history have been so associated with a color as to make the color famous?) However, the LaToja Magno bar lathers up to a very white and creamy lather that rinses off completely when you want it to do so.
I prefer bottles (liquid soap) - hand and body wash.
I am also happy with certain brands - scent & performance.
i use straight castile soap for my face and the shower. however, i have switched my kitchen to a glycerin foaming soap with no chemicals.
We have a pump in the kitchen with a neutral soap (0% colourants, 0% perfume, 0% parabens), for when the hands are to dirty or too greasy to deal with a bar or a non-pump bottle. In the bathrooms we use Dr Bronner in liquid form, but without a pump. Bars are for the shower or tub.
Aesop has "Reverence Aromatique Hand Wash" bottle with finely milled Pumice. I use during the "cold and flu season" (exfoliates the germs away ?) and extra dirty hands. My "other bottle" in the bathroom. Aesop also has matching scent hand balms.
Bar soaps for me unless I travel. Stirling has great soaps and I use often but currently use Yardley due to ease of obtaining and price. They are also surprisingly good soaps and very affordable.
Bar soap for shower duty, pumps for the kitchen and bathroom sinks. We have refillable pump bottles that take 2/1 water to soap and make foam, so they last a bit longer than a single use bottle. These are much friendlier to guests than a bar soap.
I'll continue the semi-off topic ramble with a big thumbs up for La Toja bar soap. I have a stash in inventory that I rotate in and love the stuff.
SWMBO and I have his n hers niches in the shower. I am anti-pump/anti plastic and have my shampoo bar and body bar perched on wood racks that I scrub every so often to keep the soap build up off.
Either she has more hair so she needs more stuff or I am just naturally handsome and get by with a bare minimum. Or I have a bare minimum of hair so any more potions won't really help anyway.
(07-03-2018, 10:04 AM)BrentS Wrote: I'll continue the semi-off topic ramble with a big thumbs up for La Toja bar soap. I have a stash in inventory that I rotate in and love the stuff.
Brent, somehow I missed your excellent contribution to this thread now more than seven weeks ago. Those innocents who have not encountered La Toja Magno bar soap don’t know what they are missing. It is a unique toiletry that has no counterpart.
But — more — I wish to compliment you on your shower architecture. It is stunning and (to use the proper Japanese adjective that unfortunately has no direct cognate in English) it exudes しぶい。 (Depending in the romanization system, しぶい usually gets transliterated as shibui or sibui; the adjective denotes restrained in an almost ascetic sense of understatement that reveals inner elegance and grace. しぶい is always used as a compliment: there is no badしぶい.) Did you do the tile work yourself?
Since learning about high quality ingredients / high quality shave soaps, I’ve become more interested in using bar soaps rather than liquid from a pump. I’ve been using Dr. Bronner’s (their toothpaste is aces, btw) bar soaps and have been very pleased. I also tried Stirling soap bars, but found they don’t last as long as Dr. Bronner’s soaps. I just received an order from Shannon and will be trying her Plain Jane soap later today. Quite looking forward to trying this, as her shave soap is top shelf.
I use bar soaps in the shower, but for the most part am still forced to use the liquid stuff for the sinks. Not my decision per se.
(08-27-2018, 07:21 AM)WetShavingProducts Wrote: I use bar soaps in the shower, but for the most part am still forced to use the liquid stuff for the sinks. Not my decision per se.
Buy bar of soap, place on sink, use Job done!
I'm all about the bars. Much prefer than pumps. They don't last nearly as long as shave soaps so it gives me plenty of opportunity to explore many different types over the year.
Just this past weekend bought an artisan vegetable based bath soap at our open air market. Not the best but very gentle and had a nice scent, Tobacco and Bay Leaf.
Some of the Portuguese soaps have been good as well. Oh and Mitchell Wool fat. Man that is nice soap in the winter months. | 2019-04-19T14:56:06Z | http://shavenook.com/showthread.php?tid=53899 |
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This spreadsheet is a compilation of thermal spring temperature observations compiled by the Maryland Geological Survey, published as a Web feature service for the National Geothermal Data System. The document contains 7 worksheets, including information about the template, instructions on using the template, notes related to revisions of the template, Resource provider information, the data, a field list (data mapping view) and a worksheet with vocabularies for use in populating the spreadsheet (data valid terms). Data from 1 spring is included. Fields in the data table include ThermalSpringURI, Name, Label, OtherName, OtherIdentifier, Description, Source, SourceURI, FeatureType, LandLeaseOwner, OtherLocationName, County, State, PLSS_Meridians, Township, Range, Section, SectionPart, Parcel, UTM_E, UTM_N, UTMDatumZone, LatDegree, LongDegree, SRS, LocationUncertaintyStatement, ObservationURI, Temperature, TemperatureUnits, TempMeasurementProcedure, TempMeasurementDateTime, Flow, FlowUnits, FlowMeasurementProcedure, FlowMeasurementDateTime, MeasurementSource, FlowContinuity, Classification, RelatedWaterChemistry, DataEntrySource, RelatedResources and Remarks.
Zipped 2007 Excel spreadsheet containing Maryland Thermal Spring data.
This spreadsheet is a compilation of thermal springs compiled by the Maryland Geological Survey, published as a Web feature service for the National Geothermal Data System. The document contains 7 worksheets, including information about the template, notes related to revisions of the template, Resource provider information, the data, a field list (data mapping view) and a worksheet with vocabularies for use in populating the spreadsheet (data valid terms). Data from 1 spring is included. Fields in the data table include ThermalSpringURI, Name, Label, OtherName, OtherIdentifier, Description, Source, SourceURI, FeatureType, LandLeaseOwner, OtherLocationName, County, State, PLSS_Meridians, Township, Range, Section, SectionPart, Parcel, UTM_E, UTM_N, UTMDatumZone, LatDegree, LongDegree, SRS, LocationUncertaintyStatement, ObservationURI, Temperature, TemperatureUnits, TempMeasurementProcedure, TempMeasurementDateTime, Flow, FlowUnits, FlowMeasurementProcedure, FlowMeasurementDateTime, MeasurementSource, FlowContinuity, Classification, RelatedWaterChemistry, DataEntrySource, RelatedResources, Remarks.
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Are you a social change activist with any of these problems or struggles? Is this Manual For You?
These are some of the common difficulties faced by many of you who describe yourselves as social change activists. This manual is for you.
This brief “how to do it” manual is offered to people who are dedicated to long-term social change and who are looking for ways to sustain themselves in that work. We can imagine support groups of the type described here being used in a variety of settings, but this manual is oriented towards activists.
This is a “working” manual. If you are not already part of an activist support group, we hope you will use it to form one.
If your group is underway we hope the manual will give you fresh ideas or help you prevent or solve problems that may arise.
In future versions of this manual we would like to include stories of how support groups have worked for a variety of people. We would love to hear of your experiences. Email info@interhelpnetwork.org with any stories or suggestions.
CHAPTER 1: Why Support Groups?
CHAPTER 4: What Makes Groups Work?
CHAPTER ONE: WHY SUPPORT GROUPS?
These are not easy times for people committed to fundamental change within our society and throughout the world – for those who want to help make the world just, safe, and peaceful. For many of us this work represents a life-long commitment. How do we sustain ourselves through the inevitable hard times? We are working against powerful and wealthy forces &dash how can we hold onto our faith and resolution? Where do we recharge and renew our commitment?
Many people have managed to continue activist work without a structured support group. However, few people who devote their lives to such work do it without some regular source of reflection, challenge, and affirmation – necessary ingredients for sustained and effective efforts for change. Too often we are confronted with feelings of isolation – even from those with whom we work closely.
Support groups are one way to give regular attention to each person’s social change work – to reflect on directions, goals, effectiveness, rough places and growing points, to challenge each other – taking into account all dimensions of our lives.
One common myth about support is that it only means giving unquestioning affirmation. However, effective support is often in the form of loving challenge based on seeing a person and her life clearly and thinking carefully. This kind of thinking is more helpful than cheers or criticism. Most of us have to relearn how to give and receive support effectively since it is not taught to us.
We like to imagine a time when giving and receiving this kind of loving attention to each other will be a natural part of our lives, something for which we do not need a special time and place. But for the moment, we have found that we do need to give regular and somewhat structured form to learning and practicing the caring art of support.
What is an Activist Support Group?
An activist support group is a small group of people who meet regularly to give and receive reflections on each other’s lives and work. For the purposes of this manual, we are discussing groups formed specifically to assist people to work more effectively for social change. We are convinced, however, that personal relationships, family life, jobs, and explicitly political work are all part of social change work.
As we engage in social change work, personal growth, including the pain involved, is an important part of that work, and is intimately intertwined with it. As many have discovered, having an understanding of the larger picture expands the context in which personal growth takes place. Issues which you thought were your own personal craziness become another signpost on the road to social change.
Sometimes people need help to deal with the issues from the personal growth end. At other times they need assistance with the “action” end of it. It is quite common for someone to ask for help dealing with the feelings about the actions needed. Sometimes they need help with actual skills. These are all parts of the process of social change and should be integrated. Our lives are already too fragmented.
Therefore, support groups do not look at only one dimension of a person’s life, but give attention to the emotional, the political, the spiritual – and sometimes the material! Most support groups focus on one or more of three basic elements: emotional support, support for action, and educational support.
The kind of emotional support involved here is not therapy although it may include some therapeutic methods of listening and drawing out feelings. The group may focus particularly on feelings and difficulties that get in the way of effective social change work, or feelings which arise as a natural part of such work, such as fear, anger, frustration, or joy. Emotional issues regarding personal relationships, family life, or jobs are dealt with as they affect a person’s social change work. Of course, personal lives have a strong impact on social change work and cannot and should not be separated from it. For the activist support group, however, the emphasis is on work for change.
Ellen came to her support group with a problem she had experienced in her work with a local nuclear disarmament group. She felt that others in the group did not appreciate the skills and experience she was offering. Her support group was able to see that a similar pattern was going on in her family. Ellen had recently expressed ambivalence about a trip to see her borthers and sisters whom she had not seen for over a year. As the oldest of seven and with her parents dead, she had slipped into a role of “taking care” of her siblings without being asked – so she felt unappreciated in that arena also. The support group helped her figure out strategies for new behavior. After the support group meeting, she not only had a more relaxed trip home, but was able to participate more effectively in her political work.
A support group can help a person clarify goals, set directions, and take action. It can also help solve problems on specific difficult situations. It can encourage people to look at longer range strategy questions. It can focus on areas of skill and leadership development for each individual. The group might also decide to undertake action projects together.
Nancy had recently started working with a Central America action group. They were in the process of planning for a major direct action, including the possibility of large numbers of people commiting civil disobedience. The police in the city had a reputation for treating people very roughly. Nancy was concerned that the action group was not providing any training or preparation activities for people planning to take part in the civil disobedience. She had been a nonviolence trainer years before, but felt rusty and shaky about putting herself forward to initiate training workshops for the action. Her support group helped her identify other trainers with whom she could work. They also helped her devise a strategy for gaining approval in the action group for the training work.
Some support groups encourage learning as a primary focus.
The group might attend workshops or seminars together, read and discuss a book or books together, or ask members of the group to share special knowledge or expertise. Many people have come out of the educational ·system with little sense of personal power regarding learning. Support for gaining information and understanding of an increasingly complex and technically dominated world can be a crucial element of support group life.
The members of the “Bridge” support group were all interested in anti-racism work. They started by each reading a novel or book by a person of another race, coming to support group meetings ready to share their new insights. Occasionally they all read the same book and discussed it. Once or twice they went to cultural events by black artists. Later, they began to think together about strategies for working on white racism and then took steps to put these strategies into action.
What Is the Role of Support Group Members?
These are skills involved in the loose and over-used term “support.” Over time, support group members learn how to balance appreciation and encouragement with clear and clean challenging. But 75% of the role is listening and encouraging a person to think for herself about her life – supporting the self-directed process of growth, learning, and change in which we are each engaged.
How are Support Groups Different from Other Types of Groups?
In the past fifteen years there has been a proliferation of groups for many purposes. For instance, women’s groups have proven useful for helping women understand how society is structured. and that they are not alone in feeling inadequate or angry. The success of small groups for other purposes has led us to see how they might be helpful to social change activists. But how are activist support groups different from consciousness raising groups, therapy groups, and affinity groups?
Consciousness-raising groups assist a better understanding of elements of the world we live in – and how certain groups (for example, women and men) interact. While such groups develop a personal sense of social relationships and the dynamics of oppression, they are not necessarily organized to support the actions of individuals for social change.
Most therapy groups are oriented towards individual change and usually deal with feelings as an individual matter, not as part of a social system that needs change. Some schools of therapy (notably feminist therapy) do promote an analysis of oppression as part of the therapeutic process.
Affinity groups are most often formed among people who are planning nonviolent direct action (sometimes including civil disobedience). They are a way to organize subunits within a large action. They provide a structure for decision-making and a “home base” in which to deal with feelings of fear or other concerns that arise in a potentially alienating large group situation. While they certainly have an action and social change orientation, they are rarely structured to give regular, ongoing attention to each individual’s work and growth.
In a support group, on the other hand, someone says, “This is my life, this is the change I am trying to effect, this is my personal struggle in that work – help me to think about those elements and how they all fit together.” A support group lasts at least for a few months, preferrably longer, allowing group members to get to know each other well and to watch the fascinating process of change.
Accountability is another special element of a support group that is not always available elsewhere (especially for those of us who do social change work as volunteers). The support group is in a good position not only to encourage and challenge, but also to keep checking back on the goals people set in the group. The support group takes the goals and the individual seriously.
Unlike most other settings, a support group can combine and connect our spiritual, psychological and political selves – in the combination or emphasis that is exactly right for the members of the group.
So you want to start a group. What do you do? This chapter will take you through the steps, from deciding you want to start a group to a sample agenda for the first meeting.
The first step in forming a support group is to decide who you want in it. This is an opportunity to build on old friendships or turn some acquaintances into allies.
When looking for people you would like in your group, be sure that they share your political perspectives and activism; that you like them; and that you respect their thinking (especially their ability to think about you and the others in the group – see #4 below).
Go after what you want. The best way to guarantee a support group you feel good about is to take initiative to form. it. On the other hand, don’t ask people to be in the group because you feel you “ought” to.
Form a group with some element that holds it together – a common interest, common values, a common experience, a common political outlook, even a common oppression. Once the group gets going, this will become less important, but at first there needs to be some explicit bond among people.
Choose people who are able to think clearly about each other – to be insightful about the struggles of each person. Over the long haul each person must be able to pull their weight as a thinker/listener, even though we all have periods of difficulty. One way to ensure this is to look for “peerness” – the sense of relative equality among you. Groups with very unequal skills or experience may not always work well.
Look for people with the same basic goals, expectations, or needs for the group. Check these at the start and periodically throughout the group’s life. If goals and expectations get out of kilter, the group will not survive long.
Abby: I’m glad you could have lunch with me, Sara. I wanted to talk with you about an idea I have.
Sara: Great! I always enjoy your ideas.
Abby: I’ve enjoyed working with Martinville Peace Action, but sometimes I feel lost. We always meet in in big groups, and we’re so busy organizing rallies and benefits that we rarely have time to discuss how we personally feel about this work.
Sara: I know exactly what you mean. It’s busy, busy, busy all the time! I’ve worked with some of those people for years and still feel like I don’t know them, or they me.
Abby: Sometimes I feel discouraged and confused about what directions the peace movement should go in – or where I could best put my time and energy. I feel I need a place to talk about more personal things with other activists. Do you know what I mean?
Sara: Sort of. Tell me more.
Abby: Well, I was thinking that a small group of us could meet regularly to help each other think about our political lives. Would you be interested in trying this kind of group?
If the first person you ask is not interested, think of another person and ask her. Keep asking until there are two of you excited about forming a group. Then think together about a few other people to invite. Activist Support Groups have succeeded with as few as three or four people. Some groups are as large as ten to fifteen. We find that three to five people is best, because attention to each individual is so important.
Group formation can be a tricky business because people often have difficult feelings about being chosen or left out of groups. Sometimes people feel hurt or angry when they hear that a group is forming, but they are not being invited to join. We have found that it pays to be honest and forthright from the start. Do not invite people out of guilt – you will only pay for it later. It will help to be clear with yourself why you are not choosing someone to be in your group. Often your reasons hold good information for the person – that you can find a constructive way to share if necessary. (See Appendix A on “Giving Feedback”). If you wish, you can help someone form their own group.
Clarify the purpose of the activist support group.
Share each person’s goals and expectations for the group.
Agree to a process that will meet people’s needs.
We suggest the following agenda outline for a first meeting.
First meeting (About two to three hours for 4 to 5 people).
Introductions – (About two minutes each). Share how you know each other, where you live and the work you do.
Agenda Review – The person who planned the meeting should explain the plan, get agreement to it. Write the agenda on a large sheet of paper, so that everyone can see what’s planned and more easily give input to the process.
Why an Activist Support Group (About 10 minutes each) – Each person says what she would like from the group. Have you been in a similar group before? What is hard for you lately in your activist life, that you might want to discuss with the group in future sessions?
Brainstorm – (Five to ten minutes) – While one person writes on a big sheet of paper, other people say their fantasies or ideas or wishes for what the group might do together. Be a little wild – this is just to get ideas going, not to make a plan. You do not need to agree.
[In brainstorming, the object is to generate as many ideas as possible in a stated period. To avoid the usual censoring or judging that interrupts creative thinking, the rule is that no one comments on ideas offered during the brainstorm. You can evaluate the ideas later].
Agreements – (Discuss for fifteen to thirty minutes).
to meet (anything from once a week to once a month is common).
for each session (One and a half to four hours is common. A potluck meal can be added).
to meet. Some groups take turns hosting to share the burdens of transport and hosting. Others prefer to always meet in the same place, if it’s more convenient.
in group meetings. How many people will get individual time in each meeting and for how long? (See Chapter Three for different format ideas).
Set a trial period after which the group can evaluate and people can leave gracefully if they choose to. For example, the group might decide to meet every other Wednesday from 7-10pm, for five meetings, and then have an evaluation session.
One person (or more) may realize in this first discussion that this group is not right for them, for any one of a number of reasons. For instance, Monica wanted a study group, not a place to share feelings. Or Jorge wanted to meet weekly and everyone else wanted to meet monthly. Or there is someone in the group who annoys Jan terribly. Every person should feel free to say no. It is important to start out with a sense of excitement and common goals. As people agree to a trial period, ask them to make a commitment to stick with it, and to take responsibility for speaking up for their own needs.
Choose a place, time, and someone to plan and facilitate the next meeting. (See Chapter Three for description of facilitation and other roles in groups). Exchange names and phone numbers.
: (About ten minutes – leave ample time) How did this session go for people? What did people enjoy? What could be better for next time?
Now your Activist Support Group is launched!
(About ten minutes) Each person tells a highlight of the weeks since the last meeting, and/or something about her day and how she is feeling now.
The person who planned the meeting has done some thinking ahead of time about issues for the group to address. She presents a suggested agenda to the group, asks for additions or changes, incorporates them into the agenda, and gets agreement from the group to proceed.
Each person takes about ten minutes to talk about significant events in her life as an activist, including her family background, when she first began to be aware of and to care about political issues, when she felt effective, and a few key successes and failures in her activist work.
Working with the list generated at the first meeting about what the group might do together, the group chooses a focus or a format for the next several meetings. (See the “Meeting Format Smorgasbord” in Chapter Three).
For example, the group might decide to focus on learning about the global climate disruption for the next several meetings, to spend half an hour each time sharing information from reading or other sources, and then to give each person time to deal with feelings about the situation.
Or, the group might choose to divide the time equally among members for the next few meetings, in order to help each person set goals for their political work for the next six months.
Choose a time, place, and facilitator.
What was most useful about the meeting? Least useful? What would they change and how?
Do some activity to reaffirm the sense of connection in the group, such as sing a song or take a few minutes of silence.
We have already discussed the purpose of support groups and given some notions about how to get them started. This chapter will offer some ideas about the structure and content of support group meetings.
Most support groups we know of include several basic ingredients in their meetings: time for group business (time and place of next meeting, facilitators, evaluation, etc.); time focused on individuals in the group; and time for group discussion of an issue or topic.
Throughout the rest of this chapter we will refer to “individual time” or “focus time.” Both of these terms refer to time set aside in the meeting to give attention to the life and work of one group member.
We’ ve all heard that “what you get out is what you put in.” We find that the focused time and attention available through support groups is rare and precious. It is most effective if careful thought is given to how to use the time well.
In preparing for a support group meeting, think about what issue or problem will fit the time you can expect at the next support group meeting. Choose an area of your life and work that is of real concern to you at the moment. In our experience, if you can focus on a specific question, rather than a broad or vague topic, the time will be more satisfying. For instance, you might choose to focus on how you exercise leadership in a particular direct action campaign, rather than on your broader leadership questions. If the support group feels there are broader questions that should be addressed, they will bring them up!
Think for at least a few minutes about how to present the issue – so that precious time is not wasted figuring out what to say. If you have a lot of information to present, write it up ahead of time and provide copies, or write it on large sheets of paper with felt tip pens.
At one meeting of a support group Anne asked the group to help her devise a strategy for getting a satisfying job with political content. She presented her long term goals for political work and the specific aspects of a job that she wished for. The group gave her feedback on her strengths and growth areas and helped her set realistic goals for a job.
Nancy was dealing with a difficult situation at her job.
Cindy asked the group to think with her about her tendency to isolate herself in groups where she is taking visible leadership. The group listened to her describe what happens, then helped identify the feelings and behavior that were consistently gettihg in the way. Finally, they worked with her to figure out a new approach and how she could get support for trying it.
Peter used the group to help him work out a strategy for building a coalition among groups working on South Africa and on Central America. He shared some of his fears about reaching out to new people who are different from him. The group made suggestions for first steps and made a commitment to check back with Peter at later meetings to see how the work was coming.
Individual or focus time in a support group is at the crossroads of the personal and the activist realms.
We have suggested throughout this manual that support groups are devoted to each person’s struggle to be effective in their activism. In this context, personal issues are particularly important as they further activist work.
1. Solve problems that arise in activist work.
2. Set long-term goals as a social change agent.
3. Identify personal difficulties that get in the way of the most effective work possible. What would it take for you to act powerfully all the time?
4. Assess skills and knowledge and set learning goals.
5. Evaluate your leadership abilities – strengths and weaknesses. Set goals for leadership development.
6. Explore issues that are key problems for many people, such as money, families, particular oppressions (as experienced by women, people of color, gays, working class people, etc.).
Outlined below are several different formats for Support Group meetings. They are quite varied in their flavor, timing, and style. Pick and choose among them, invent your own, take elements of several and try a new format. It’s your group!
Using this format, a group gets together and quickly checks on how each person is feeling to help people bring their attention to the group and away from other things. They then divide the remainder of the time for the meeting equally among the group members.
In this format almost all of the “focus” time of each meeting is devoted to one individual. This allows the group to look at a variety of factors in that person’s life and explore issues deeply. Each of the other group members do a brief update with particular attention to any agreements, homework, or commitments made at previous meetings.
This group uses no pre-set agenda or time strucure, but responds to the need of the group members at the time they meet. They start with a quick check on how people are doing and what their concerns or needs are from the group. They then work together to build an agenda that will get most of the needs met. [Note: while this format may work for some groups, there is a danger that those who are more articulate about their needs or who have deeper “problems” will get more of the group’s attention. If you use this format, be aware of the balance of who gets time].
Another common format for support groups is to choose a topic of common interest to all group members – an issue that each confronts in her work – and devote the meeting to a discussion of it. The group usually provides time for each person to reflect on her own personal experience and/or visions (models) on the subject. Common topics: leadership, class dynamics, sexism, other oppressions, strategy in social change efforts.
Did you ever have a group of friends with whom you studied, in high school or college? Perhaps you helped each other understand concepts and discussed exciting new ideas. Some support groups are formed around learning together. They often start with one topic for several months (U.S. policy in Central America, for instance) – and then shift to other topics of interest or move on to action. In a variation, at the end of each meeting the group chooses a topic for the next meeting, asking each member to read something on the topic to share.
We have heard of a group which uses a variation of “Shorts and Longs” above. The group formed around a common work interest. They spend time in each meeting to do a “clinic” on one or two specific problems that group members have encountered. One person lays out the problem and the others offer suggestions, first brainstorming alternative ways to handle the problem, then discussing them. If appropriate, the group might then do roleplays to tryout some of the suggestions.
For example, a support group of trainers focused on the considerations when training people of a different race, ethnic, or class background from the trainer. First the group brainstormed all the possible “wrong moves,” and then went on to generate appropriate strategies and attitudes.
Finally, they did a series of roleplays with members of the group taking on the roles of trainer and training group participants.
We have heard of support groups with as many as fifteen people (although most successful groups we know of have four to eight). Since some attention to individuals is a crucial element of the support group, most of the larger groups spend at least part of their meeting time in smaller groups of three to five (or even in pairs).
d) the group gets back together, divides the time equally and goes as deep as time allows on each person’s issue.
We know of a group that gets together every three months and takes two days to worship together, meditate, search for guidance, and take time to look at each group member’s journey as a spiritual and political person. The members of the group live at some distance from each other, but all have similar jobs within religious institutions – they find a lot of common themes to discuss.
CHAPTER FOUR: WHAT MAKES GROUPS WORK?
Groups need clear goal and structure, an atmosphere of trust, and good facilitation in order to be effective. These issues are referred to as “group process.” This chapter outlines some key elements of group process, and includes a section on how to deal with some common difficulties in groups.
* How frequently and for how long your group meets.
* How to deal with lateness.
* Whether and when to add members.
* What the content of meetings will be.
* How decisions will be made.
Some of these issues need to be addressed in the first meeting (see The First Meeting in Chapter Two). Others can wait until later. Take time to discuss differences and reach clear agreements about these issues; you will learn more about one another’s wishes, needs and boundaries. This process also helps you clarify what to expect of one another and learn to negotiate.
Take time in your group to choose which method or methods you want to use.
Trust grows in a group as people get to know one another more deeply, learn to deal with differences and resolve conflicts, and respect decisions that the group has made. In early meetings, leave time for people to tell their stories in some kind of structured way (for example, each person takes ten minutes to tell her history as an activist, or to talk about what makes her afraid, or a time when she felt powerful).
In every meeting it helps to take time at the beginning to “check in,” to say something about how each person is feeling that day.
Trust may be eroded unless group members feel assured that personal things they say will not be repeated outside the group. Such an agreement to “confidentiality” is important to establish early in the life of the group.
Differences may develop into conflicts unless they are stated and addressed. It helps to develop an expectation in the group that feedback will be given with respect, and in a balanced way (see Appendix A, “Giving and Receiving Feedback”).
Say what you think and feel about the issues being discussed.
Avoid generalizations and jargon. Be specific and use examples.
Build in a moment of silence after each person speaks. This can cut down on interruptions and allow people to take in fully what each person says. It helps people to really listen rather than compete for time to talk, prepare what they will say, or look for openings.
People have different ways of expressing their thoughts and feelings. Respect each person’s style.
For instance, some people require time to think before speaking. In a group where other people operate at a fast pace, a more deliberate person would begin to feel lost and unheard.
No one receives enough appreciation, especially in political work. Almost everyone suffers from feeling that she is not doing enough. Be sure each person receives specific, verbal, appreciation for whatever she is doing. Each person may also need a challenge to take the next step or try something new.
Talking about current difficulties may bring up old feelings about family, work, and past successes and failures, including feelings which seem unrelated to the current situation. The group may take time to talk about these feelings, or help members decide how those feelings can get dealt with outside the group. We help each other become more effective activists by dealing with feelings, both past and present.
When you think that a discussion is going off on a tangent, say so, and remind others of the topic you were discussing.
If you have agreed about how much time your group will spend on various agenda items, each group member can take some responsibility for paying attention to time, and not leaving it solely to the facilitator to keep things moving.
We have found that a group functions well when someone is thinking systematically about what the members of the groups need, what is happening in the group (interactions among members), and what steps need to be taken to move things along. This role can be shared by everyone in the group, but it is also useful to designate particular roles for specific meetings. If you rotate the roles among all group members, each person gets practice taking responsibility for the group’s life and health.
Some of the roles that can be played by group members are described below. Not all of them are necessary at all meetings, but if the group is having difficulties, they may become more crucial.
The facilitator plans the agenda, either before the meeting or with the group at the beginning of the meeting; pays attention to each group member during the meeting, noting when people are withdrawn, or disruptive, or inattentive; keeps the meeting moving; and plans a closing. Since this is a lot for one person to do, the group may want to designate a “vibes watcher,” and a timekeeper.
The group may also wish to have a note taker for parts of the meeting.
Most people can develop the skills needed to facilitate a meeting. Each group will need to decide whether facilitation will be rotated, done by the same person each time, or whether the group will function without a designated facilitator. If someone is new to facilitation, or weak in certain skills, have her co-facilitate with someone who has more experience or complementary skills.
The job of the vibes watcher is to notice what is going on; decide whether to bring it to the group’s attention; describe to the group what is happening; ask what they want to do about it; or give attention to specific people.
When Chris was vibes watcher, he noticed that Joan, who was facilitating the meeting, had gotten engrossed in a discussion with Mary, and was losing her focus on the whole group. The other two members of the group looked sleepy and restless. After Chris mentioned it, the group decided to go on with the discussion, but suggested that Joan ask someone else to facilitate for that part of the meeting.
The timekeeper lets the group know when the time allowed for a topic is nearly over, and when the alloted time has been used up. The group can then decide to move on to the next topic, or it may choose to stay longer with the first topic.
Groups may get off to a good start and then fall apart.
Difficulties often arise in these areas: goals, boundaries, differences not dealt with, individual styles, and interpersonal conflicts or sub-groups.
The group may flounder without a purpose or diverge from its stated purposes. It may no longer be meeting the needs of the participants. The best remedy is to take time to clarify the purpose of the group at the beginning, and any time later on when it becomes fuzzy. It may be helpful to plan to do this at regular intervals, such as every six months.
People may want to leave the group, or join the group once it is underway. Some members may be erratic in their attendance. When someone wants to leave, or does leave, take the time to deal with it, leave time for goodbyes, and talk about the person’s contributions to the group. A member’s departure is a loss to the group, and may bring up feelings.
When considering the addition of new members to the group, think about such things as the optimum size of your group and what qualities a new person could bring to the group that might balance those of people in the group. Surface and deal with any reservations people have. Come to consensus as a group so that you can truly welcome a new person.
Erratic attendance may be a sign of low commitment to the group. Your group may want to have as one of its shared agreements an understanding about attendance, how many meetings a member may miss, and whether someone will phone absent members.
One person may talk too much or ramble. Another person may have difficulty expressing feelings, and always say “everything is fine.” Someone else may be seriously depressed. If any of these behaviors bothers you, talk about it in the group, with care and respect.
In early meetings of his support group, Jeremy noticed that Larry joked every time someone in the group expressed strong feelings, and invariably drew the attention of the group to himself. Jeremy became increasingly annoyed with Larry and decided to bring it up in the group. When he did, he found that others were also irritated, and that they were also concerned about Larry. Larry disclosed that he had recently learned that his father needed surgery, and that his worries kept him from listening to others in the group. Jeremy encouraged him to take time in the group to talk about his situation. Larry’s behavior changed!
Sub-groups may emerge when two or more members have an intense personal relationship (they may be lovers or ex-lovers, or have a long history), when several members of a group share other activities or friends, or have something else in common.
In one group of three, two of the women were lesbians and the third was married and heterosexual. She felt uncomfortable talking about her relationship with her husband, thinking that the lesbians wouldn’t be interested or sympathetic. When she was able to discuss this with the others, it enabled the three women to talk about their differences and their liking and appreciation for one another.
When interpersonal conflicts arise in your group, acknowledge them. If you cannot resolve them, you may want to invite someone from outside your group to facilitate one or two meetings to help the group deal with the conflict (see Appendix B, “Resource Manual”).
Food is a wonderful community builder. Many support groups include meals in the meeting times, as potlucks, or prepared by a few members.
Birthdays or the anniversary of the group itself are great opportunities for taking time out for more frivolous activities. Have fun!
The hardworking members of your support group are committed to difficult long term struggles for social change. Use the group to acknowledge how you are each making a difference.
Be specific. If some special event takes place (a campaign has a success, someone gets that perfect job) have a celebration. In general, we need ongoing ways to affirm the real steps forward we make, even if the journey is a very long one.
Even the best of support groups may come to a point of ending. Group members may encounter changes in their lives. People move away. The group may also serve well for a time and then become less relevant to its members. Or the group may decide to disband because of internal conflicts that cannot be resolved.
No matter what the cause for a group’s ending, there is a lot to be gained from a careful evaluation. Schedule a special meeting to wrap up. It can include time for people to reflect on what they have learned from the group, and to share some of the ways the group has been helpful to them. Look also at ways the group did not function well and why, in order to carry learning rather than bad feelings into other groups and situations. Take time to appreciate each other.
This manual was written by people involved in the Interhelp Network and in Movement for a New Society (see Appendix C for brief descriptions of both). Both of these groups have been using support groups as a basic organizing structure.
This manual is also a revision of an earlier work called “Starting a Nuclear Support Group,” compiled in January 1984 for Newton Action for Nuclear Disarmament by Sarah Conn, Tova Green, Nancy Moorehead, and Anne Slepian. That original manual received enthusiastic response from activists in the United States, Canada amd the United Kingdom, prompting the authors to work on a more thorough version. Meanwhile, Movement for a New Society had been experimenting with models for activist support groups. Peter Woodrow joined the other authors to add reflections on experience in MNS.
We appreciate the many suggestions and experiences of our colleagues in the Interhelp Network and in Movement for a New Society. Some of those who gave us specific feedback and suggestions are: Matt Becker, Carol Bragg, Shepherd Bliss, Barbara Cohen, Pamela Haines, Joe Havens, Mona Nelson, Fran Peavey, Carol Pertofsky, Sarah Pirtle, Betsy Raasch-Gilman, and Mary Watkins.
In writing this manual, we used a support group model. We scheduled meetings with clear agendas, and always began with a “check-in.” When interpersonal conflicts arose, we dealt with them. We respected our differences in time available for this project, and our differences in writing styles. Peter worked better alone. Tova was able to write more easily when she scheduled time with Anne to write in the same room. We have finished the project appreciating each other for the work we have done.
Most differences between people in a group can be resolved if they are dealt with openly, rather than avoided. This short appendix describes the skills involved in giving feedback clearly and constructively.
Be specific and direct. Report exact behavior rather than general impressions.
The above example also illustrates that it helps to include what you observed, how you felt about it, and what you would like the other person to do differently.
Express caring. Affirm that you are giving feedback because you care about the other person, want to work with them more effectively and improve the relationship.
Be immediate. Give feedback as soon after something happens as possible. Later it is harder to recall and does not have the same impact.
Deal with one issue at a time. Even if there are many things you want this person to change, people get overwhelmed and defensive if you give them a big list of problems. Avoid pulling out all of the times in the past that the person did a particular irksome thing, or all of the other ways that they have annoyed you in the past.
After giving your feedback, be prepared to empathize with the feelings of the other person, even if she states those feelings in an angry or defensive manner. Often people misunderstand even well-expressed feedback. Ask her to try to repeat back to you what she heard you say. You may have to go through several rounds of listening and restating before you understand each other.
Concentrate on listening. You do not have to respond.
Repeat the gist of what was said out loud and ask for clarification.
If you choose to respond, do it in a non-defensive way. This can include what you feel, why you feel it, and what you want from the person giving you feedback (as in #2 and #3 above under “Giving Feedback”).
Empathize with the concerns the person expressed.
Even if you don’t agree with some of what the person is telling you, see if there are “grains of truth” you can agree with. Try to work out some action steps together, things both parties can do to change or support the other’s changes.
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and the Movement for a New Society Wikipedia page.
Sarah A. Conn is a clinical psychologist, a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, a committed activist, and most importantly, wife, mother, sister and friend.
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(JTA) — What do you think of when you think of Italy?
Maybe you picture beautiful works of art set against rolling Tuscan hills. Maybe a steaming plate of spaghetti topped with marinara sauce served with a deep red wine.
Now what do you think of when you think of Israel?
If you’re like most Americans, you picture walls of concrete enclosing an austere and strict country. The men wear black hats, the women long skirts. Everyone looks pretty serious.
That’s what Brand Israel Group, a group of former advertising professionals who set out to sell Israel to Americans, found in a series of focus groups beginning in 2005. The group has since commissioned two surveys of the American public — in 2010 and 2016 — and didn’t like what it found.
According to the surveys, Israel has pretty broad backing among American citizens, but is losing support among a range of growing demographics. As pro-Israel advocates tout “shared values” between the United States and Israel, fewer and fewer Americans actually think they believe the same things as Israelis.
The survey was conducted online last September and October by the polling firm Global Strategy Group, and sampled 2,600 Americans among a range of demographic groups.
Knowledge of Israel has gone up — but favorability is down.
More people say they know more about Israel now than they did in 2010. While only 23 percent of Americans said they knew at least a fair amount about Israel in 2010, the number rose to 37 percent in 2016. Knowledge of Israel grew among every demographic group except college students, where it fell precipitously — from 50 percent to just 34 percent, a number on par with the national average.
But it appears that the more Americans learn about Israel, the less they like it. In 2010, 76 percent of Americans viewed Israel favorably. In 2016, the number had fallen to 62 percent. Levels of support have dropped as well. In 2010, the study found that 22 percent of Americans were “core” supporters of Israel, which dropped to 15 percent by 2016.
Israel is losing out among a range of growing demographics, from Latinos to millennials.
The groups with relatively high levels of favorability toward Israel, according to the study, included men, Republicans and older Americans. The groups that like Israel less are the mirror image: women, Democrats and millennials, along with African-Americans and Latinos. And those population groups are all growing.
A majority of all these groups still sees Israel favorably, but the numbers are falling. Favorability among Democrats dropped 13 points, from 73 percent to 60 percent. Among women, it dropped from 74 percent to 57 percent.
Most college students hardly hear about Israel at all.
Colleges are hotbeds of anti-Israel fervor, right? Not so much. The study found declining results for Israel among college students, but a majority still view Israel favorably. Moreover, contrary to what some advocacy groups might shrei, most college students hardly encounter the Israel debate at all.
Favorability toward Israel fell 17 points among college students between 2010 and last year, but still stands at 54 percent. Nearly all Jewish college students used to view Israel favorably, but even after a 13-point drop, the favorability stat still stands at 82 percent.
Still, Oppenheim noted a shifting picture among Jewish college kids. While 84 percent of Jewish college students leaned toward the Israeli side of the conflict in 2010, only 57 percent do now. Support for the Palestinian side, meanwhile, grew more than sixfold, from 2 percent to 13 percent.
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Americans see Israel as ultra-religious and war-torn.
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Until his revival which was kick-started by the release of the Joe Henry produced Don’t Give Up On Me album in 2002, Solomon Burke was very largely a forgotten man other than to a few diehards like yours truly. In the US, most critics, with certain honourable exceptions like Peter Guralnick, used to categorise him as just another southern soul shouter, in spite of the fact that, from 1961 to 1965 he had a stream of lowish to medium level hits which largely enabled the Atlantic label to keep its head above water. In the UK things were somewhat different. The Stones covered Everybody Needs Somebody To Love on their second album and Cry To Me on Out Of Their Heads, the Zombies covered Can’t Nobody Love You, and so on. I was sold from the first few bars of Just Out Of Reach in 1961, and Cry To Me and Down In The Valley just deepened that infatuation. Maybe infatuation isn’t the right word but my attention did move around a tad as other artists appeared and Solomon got less radio plays. But over the next few years I did pick up LPs, sometimes secondhand, including the eleven track Best Of Solomon Burke (which got played to death even during the psych years), Rock ‘n’ Soul, plus the late period Atlantic one, I Wish I Knew. I even managed to locate some of those albums issued during what are sometimes thought of as Solomon’s wilderness years, Proud Mary on Bell, Electronic Magnetism on MGM and the gospel one, I Have A Dream on ABC/Dunhill. Right from my first acquaintance with Solomon, I regarded him as the finest of all the black singers whose vocal performances were based on a solid grounding in gospel, topped by a combination of inventiveness and intelligence that was demonstrated by few other artists either within or outside the soul genre.
Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms) was one of four songs which were recorded by Solomon at his first session for the Atlantic label held in December 1960, though it didn’t see release till Summer ’61; his first release which consisted of a couple of other numbers from that session is largely forgotten now. The song was of the type that’s often labelled a country tearjerker and it had been a minor hit for Faron Young way back in 1953. Reportedly Solomon was not wildly enthusiastic about taking on such a number. However the Atlantic management – Jerry Wexler et al – did have some form in this area. They’d recorded blues man Ivory Joe Hunter singing Empty Arms in 1957 and it did very nicely in the R&B chart. Ironically, although the song was of the sort that could have been heard on any country jukebox in the fifties, and indeed it went on to be a hit in the Country chart via a cover from Sonny James, it had actually been written by Ivory Joe himself. In spite of any qualms, Solomon’s performance on Just Out Of Reach turned out to be magnificent – that deep voice soaring to the high notes was something to behold. Wexler added Floyd Cramer-ish piano plus saccharine soaked strings but it was Burke that the buyers fell in love with. It went on to be one of the man’s biggest hits, selling a million discs and reaching #24 in the US chart. Not only that, it introduced the world to a whole new genre, Country Soul, and that at a time when most of us hadn’t really got to know soul music in any form. Just Out Of Reach may not have been the best of Solomon’s country soul outings – there are several vying for that title – but it was the first, so it very much deserves inclusion here.
If Cry To Me reminded us strongly of Solomon’s gospel roots, then his next single Down In The Valley rammed that point home even harder. Perhaps more than any of his records so far, this was one to influence soul dance records to come. A fruity brass section responded to Solomon’s emoting with a combination of urgency and empathy. Reportedly (see Wiki) Solomon had asked for tuba and trombone just like he had in his church at home. The song was originally a traditional one with versions from a host of people including Leadbelly. His version, which has the alternative title Birmingham Jail, is worth a listen.
Flip Down In The Valley and you get I’m Hanging Up My Heart For You, another country-oriented ballad with a more restrained and subtle arrangement than Just Out Of Reach – little more than piano and organ – and the song itself is an improvement. This was the sort of effort that made the term ‘deep soul’ come into fashion, and it’s one that very nearly made my list.
He was born, James Solomon McDonald, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1940. He began preaching from the age of 7. In high school he led a quartet named the Gospel Cavaliers. He won a talent competition at the age of 15 and was signed by Apollo Records of New York. The label was largely known for R&B and Doo Wop but in the early years they also issued a stream of Gospel records from some of the giants of the genre including Mahalia Jackson, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Alex Bradford Singers and more. Solomon recorded 11 singles plus a few for some much smaller indie labels, but without much in the way of success. After a somewhat troubled period with Apollo, Solomon was dropped and he started branching out onto alternative career paths such as undertaking (in UK terminology) in order to support a new family. As an aside I would add that Solomon’s sales and entrepreneurial skills continued to flourish alongside his musical and episcopal careers. As a second aside I’d add that Sol was married 4 times, fathered at least 14 children (including at least 2 outside marriages), had 7 stepchildren, 90 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren at the time of his death.
Back to the music. He was signed by Atlantic in November 1960. Which brings us roughly up to date. For me, the body of music that Solomon Burke created at Atlantic in the years 1961 to 1968 was at least as good as, if not better than, that produced by his peers, and in that grouping I’d include names like Cooke, Charles, Bland, Brown, Redding, Carr, Alexander and Pickett. That work was so good that a Toppermost Ten could very easily have come from Solomon’s Atlantic phase alone and I have to admit that I was tempted. However, in order to give at least a flavour of his long non-Atlantic period I’m going for a 50/50 split between Atlantic and Sol’s later work. Which leaves me with two more from Atlantic.
Perhaps as trite an opening as you could imagine. Who else but Sol (abetted perhaps by Bert) would have dared open a record with it – and that tuba is parping away in the background again. Our man is in full testifying/sermonising mode and he stays that way, working the crowd for just short of a minute before the song actually starts – and that crowd is there too I should add, making themselves heard with a vengeance. I couldn’t possibly have ignored Everybody Needs Somebody To Love. Even if the name of Solomon Burke is unfamiliar it’s unlikely you won’t have heard this song. The Stones covered it on their second album which was released in ’65. There were several more covers but the one that most people will be aware of is the version in the 1980 Blues Brothers film.
Can’t Nobody Love You is different again. It opens with what sounds like a twelve string guitar, possibly played by Berns himself, and then settles down to be a late night lounge ballad of the sort that might be sung by a Sinatra or Dean Martin, barring a bit of call-and-response with a female chorus. The words aren’t anything special; just Solomon declaring his love for his baby with far less pleading than usual. It’s charming and it works. I first came across it on Rock ‘n’ Soul which also contains an even more Dean Martin oriented performance and song in You Can’t Love Them All. There’s also a Woody Guthrie song, Hard, Ain’t It Hard, in the set, which makes one wonder if the powers that be at Atlantic were attempting to fit Sol into an all-round entertainer and/or song chameleon a la Ray Charles or Bobby Darin, both of whom had left Atlantic shortly before Solomon signed for the label.
Solomon’s heyday at Atlantic was from the early to mid part of the decade. In the second half many of the punters moved elsewhere, in part, probably, to Stax and Motown. However before closing off my coverage of this timeframe I’d make a couple of comments. Firstly, that there was no serious quality drop from ’66 to ’68. I find myself in total disagreement with AllMusic in their review of Sol’s third and final Atlantic album, I Wish I Knew. Their reviewer saw this LP as “a desperate mix of R&B oldies, sappy contemporary tunes and a scurrying search for style in the storm”. I would agree that it’s not all super fantastic but there are a couple of stunners in there – the Joe Tex cover, Meet Me In Church, which very nearly crept into my list – plus a great reading of Ivory Joe’s Since I Met You Baby. Secondly, to remark that there were so many great performances by Burke (and his producers) in the overall Atlantic period that my top five goodies could well differ partially or even completely from someone else’s. Just to list some of those songs: If You Need Me, Home In Your Heart, You Can Make It If You Try, You’re Good For Me, He’ll Have To Go (yes, the Jim Reeves one and a great version), The Price, Got To Get You Off My Mind, Tonight’s The Night, etc. etc. And he did record a Bob song – Maggie’s Farm – even if opinions are mixed about it.
Solomon left Atlantic at the tail end of 1968 and signed with Bell where he delivered 5 singles and an album. He achieved a minor hit with his version of CCR’s Proud Mary and that was about it. But there was quality in his Bell performances and they’re worth searching out. I’ve selected a couple from this period. That Lucky Old Sun is proof, if it were needed, that Solomon really could sing the phonebook, as the saying goes. After the second verse, he’s lifting us up to paradise and a brass section that sounds remarkably like the Memphis Horns appears from nowhere: “That lucky old son-of-a-gun ain’t got nothing to do y’all but roll around heaven, roll around heaven all day.” Solomon may actually have invented the fadeout that sounds like they’re all off to a party. This is another great example.
Song #2 from Bell is Please Send Me Someone To Love, originally from shadowy, but important, bluesman, Percy Mayfield, and the arrangement reflects the more uptown blues-oriented style of the song. It’s along the lines of those great backdrops that Joe Scott used to wrap around Bobby Bland on his later Duke records. Solomon gives it one of those intros which both sets himself up and almost sends himself up, but, of course, he’s equal to the challenge and turns in a magnificent vocal; just listen to that second “pleeeeeease”. Before leaving his Bell output, I should also mention an excellent version of Chuck Willis’ classic pre-soul number What Am I Living For with minimal (almost organ only backing) plus Proud Mary itself which is up there with Fogerty’s original in my estimation.
After Bell it was MGM, where I’m going to make a stop and shine the light on one that I consider to be a bit of a gem from this period, (Let Me Light Up Your Life And) Together We’ll Light Up The World. It’s one that seems to span the gospel and secular divide. He gives it a whacking minute and a half preachifying intro before launching into the song which is part sing-a-long, part Solomon solo. The tune, to me anyway, evokes something Austrian and vaguely Victorian era. Whatever, it’s damnably catchy. Once this one gets into your mind it just sticks. The arranger helps to build the overall celebratory mood by having a key change or the addition of more backing singers or extra instrumentation at the start of each verse. A very satisfying performance.
After MGM it was ABC/Dunhill, after ABC/Dunhill it was Chess (who tried to turn him into Barry White), after Chess it was Savoy, after Savoy it was Rounder (who saw him more as a bluesman) and so on and so on. Solomon kept making records right through that long so-called fallow period, and, don’t get me wrong, there’s some good stuff hidden away in there. I’ve by no means sampled all of it and, given the man’s phonebook propensity which I’ve just mentioned, he could often rise above poor arrangements and/or material.
One album that definitely deserves attention is the concert set from Rounder, Soul Alive. AllMusic commented, “Recorded in 1983 in Washington, D.C., the set proves Burke had lost little from his ’60s heyday; he works through nearly all of his hits, spurring on the concert-goers as though they were the ones performing instead of him – in fact, some of the women are heard screaming so often they should’ve been credited”. The YouTube audio-only clip gives a good flavour; a near seven minute monologue from the master with sympathetic backing including occasional punctuation, then it’s into Joe Tex’s Hold What You Got and a near triumphal He’ll Have To Go.
The work that Joe Henry did with Solomon on Don’t Give Up On Me, which was released in 2002, is comparable to the effort Rick Rubin put in on the American series with Johnny Cash. That’s not the first time that statement’s been made and it probably won’t be the last. Not only did Henry give Burke the best production and arrangements that he’d received in decades, he also solicited new songs from artists far and wide, whose only common denominator was that they were all Burke fans.
If you have any knowledge of Solomon at all you’ll be aware of this album. It was the one that informed the world that the erstwhile King of Rock ‘n’ Soul was back. AllMusic called it “nothing short of revelatory” and went on to state that Solomon, at the age of 66, “had lost none of the power, force, or dramatic intensity of his glory days”. Several of the songs and arrangements in the set take Solomon on to pastures new, giving him totally fresh challenges to meet. My sole pick from the album, Flesh And Blood (written by Joe Henry himself), is just such a song. I don’t know how to describe the performance; it has aspects of blues and soul but is missing the usual tropes you associate with such genres. Much of it is a slow two chord minor key riff accompanied by little more than organ, alto sax (or something that sounds like it) and guitar. Solomon is in conversational mode occasionally breaking into song for a few notes. By the third verse the resignation has been transformed to ecstasy and by the end hope has entered. A stunner.
A couple of others tempted me on this album: Elvis Costello’s dramatic, The Judgement, and the title track which is a more traditional soul ballad of the kind you could imagine Otis singing.
2005 saw the release of the Don Was produced Make Do With What You Got. Unlike Don’t Give Up On Me this was much more of an attempt to replicate the Jerry Wexler/Bert Berns production with updated technology. Verdict – not bad at all but almost anything following Don’t Give Up would have been a disappointment. It did include a few interesting songs like the little-known Hank Williams, Wealth Won’t Save Your Soul which allowed Solomon to get up in that pulpit again. My favourite is the Stones’ I Got The Blues. It’s fascinating to hear the real Burke rather than the ersatz one. I suspect that something like 90% of Stones’ fans are unaware of how much of a debt Mick owed to the King. This is another one which almost made it.
The following year saw yet another release from Solomon as if to make up for lost time. It was different again. Nashville, produced by alt-country man Buddy Miller, took Sol right back to country music. But it wasn’t chock full of tearjerkers a la early Atlantic, instead it contained a range of interesting and often unexpected songs many of which had considerably more lyrical depth than the average country weepie. But the latter wasn’t ignored completely. Don Williams’ Atta Way To Go gets dangerously close to Nashville schmaltz but, oh so predictably, Solomon saves it from dropping into mundanity.
My selection from this one is the song written by Buddy and Julie Miller themselves, Does My Ring Burn Your Finger. I tried an interesting experiment with this song. First I played the version released by Lee Ann Womack which made the US Country chart. Billboard refer to this as a “haunting hillbilly treatise on the pain of betrayal and loss” and to Lee Ann’s delivery as “achingly beautiful” (my source for both comments was Wiki). I wouldn’t dispute either of those statements; both song and delivery hit me, and within that delivery I wouldn’t ignore the part played by a lonesome fiddle. I then played the version by Buddy and Julie themselves wherein Buddy takes the lead vocal, his mountain twang resonating over a much tougher arrangement. Instead of a solitary fiddle there’s a bank of them and they’re fierce. As one might expect on the Burke version, the arrangement from Buddy is not unlike his own take on the song. Those violins get to open the track and by the second verse they’re on steroids. The big man’s voice is at once more gruff, more fragile and more expressive altogether than Buddy’s. I like all three versions but I think you know which one my vote – as in Eurovision – goes to. Play this one loud.
I’m going to sneak in another clip from Nashville here although it doesn’t make my Toppermost list, purely on numbers. When I bought the album I was expecting Valley Of Tears to be the countryish number from Fats Domino which is better known via the Buddy Holly version. It’s not. The song was written by Gillian Welch, and she and Dave Rawlings get to accompany Solomon on the track. What’s great to see on the live cut is the manifest joy that emanates from all three participants.
In late 2006, Solomon Burke took part in some concert appearances by Jerry Lee Lewis as part of the latter’s Last Man Standing Live or, effectively, Last Man Standing Part 2 (which was released in 2007). Below you’ll see Jerry and Sol taking on Charlie Rich’s Who Will The Next Fool Be, a song that Jerry had recorded (and made a good fist of) quite a few years before. Not, perhaps, the greatest of duets but Solomon was in good voice even if Jerry was showing that those years of braggadocio were catching up with him. And yes, that is Ronnie Wood.
Nashville was followed by Like A Fire which was worthy but, dare I say, a bit dull, though you couldn’t blame Solomon for that.
The albums kept coming. Nothing’s Impossible, released in 2010 was another triumph and I feel somewhat on the mean side for not making a selection from it. Reportedly Willie Mitchell, famed producer of Al Green and Ann Peebles, had wanted to work with Sol for years. It was to turn out to be the last real work that Mitchell did before he died. It was good, so good that I feel it’s rather more a Mitchell album than a Burke one. Couple that with the fact that none of the songs could be called outstanding and you might understand my selection problems. I should add though, that I do own the album and I enjoy it.
Solomon died in October 2010. There was one more studio album – he did get through a lot of work in the years when most people would be slowing down – and it was made with Dutch band De Dijk. That might not sound a very promising combination but it’s worth investigation.
All my research came from online sources. However, if I could have found it – my copy is temporarily mislaid – I would have dug into, and probably quoted from, “Sweet Soul Music” by Peter Guralnick. This book tells you everything about southern soul music.
The first 5 tracks on this toppermost can be found on the 2CD set Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke.
Tremendous. Soul Alive is so good I’d recommend it as a starting point for folks who don’t really know Solomon. I’ve worn the vinyl flat. Totally backs up Wexler’s comment about who’s the best soul singer.
Many thanks Keith. I stuck with Sol during the lean years when most people had either forgotten him or just never heard of him. I’m just so grateful that Joe Henry and Jools Holland helped in a massive way to get the man some recognition in his more mature years. And he responded by giving them and us even more of that great music. And, I fully agree, more people should be aware of Soul Alive.
Thanks Andrew. You dug deeper than me. I found a Solomon version of “Gotta Travel On” last night but it wouldn’t play in the UK. Yours does. And it’s further proof, if proof were needed, that he could sing anything.
Really enjoyed reading your essay and great selections in your Toppermost list. I play ‘Home In Your Heart’ and some of the later albums regularly. ‘Make Do With What You Got’ is a favourite album and I would select something from this, perhaps Dylan’s ‘What Good Am I?’ I was lucky to see Sol at Massey Hall in Toronto about 2006 – a great performance. Solomon sat at the front of the stage on his throne singing so beautifully and relaxed, but you could see clearly who was in charge of the band, using gestures to bring the sound down at times. A great band, and I would give a special mention to the rhythm and lead guitarists. A great night with some of the audience dancing on the stage at the end. I’ll always remember this concert. Thanks for all your work – a great effort, David.
Thanks for your kind comments Colin, and I’m exceedingly envious that you saw the King. I was lucky enough to get to see several of my heroes from the 50’s and 60’s, and that included Otis and the Stax Volt show but no Solomon. I’m not sure I did justice to all of the man’s output above; I still feel there was so much really great stuff I didn’t even mention..
Another excellent article,Dave,your research is,as always, tremendous. Two of my fav tracks by Solomon are “Stupidity” (covered by Dr Feelgood among others) and particularly “(Won’t you give me) One More Chance” which I have on an EP. A beautiful production and performance, and well worthy of a listen by Toppermostreaders. | 2019-04-20T16:44:44Z | http://www.toppermost.co.uk/solomon-burke/ |
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Another week, another Activity Spotlight! We hope you’ve had the chance to check out some of the 20+ new activities we’ve added to our free online Activities Database. Last week, we explored time management and decision making with Tick Tock. This week, we use a simple energizer activity, I Am A Tree, to have influential discussions about group dynamics and inclusion and involvement.
Think on your feet to complete the scene!
I Am A Tree is a popular improv game that can be used either as a fun energizer or as a meaningful teambuilding activity. By their nature and structure, improv games challenge participants to take initiative, practice awareness, be flexible and adaptable, and to problem solve. In many ways, these types of activities challenge our group members by asking them to step outside of their comfort zones in unexpected ways. These experiences open opportunities to have incredibly courageous conversations about our group dynamics, inclusion and involvement, and trust.
Turn to a partner and tell them how you feel about this activity – are your excited, intimidated, anxious, indifferent?
Why is this activity easy or difficult?
What do we notice about how our group is participating in this activity?
How do we see those dynamics play out in our daily work together?
How can we better include and involve our entire group in this experience?
Turn to a partner and tell them how you felt during those rounds. What is similar or different to before?
What did we notice about the activity and our group dynamic this time around?
Why are these changes significant?
What are some ground rules that we can agree on as a group that will help us to work better together after this activity?
If you were in our session at CADA, this is another great example of a way that an energizer or game, like This Game is Really Fun, can be turned into an impactful learning experience for our groups. If you weren’t at our session and would like more information please reach out to us at info@leadershipinspirations.com. | 2019-04-20T15:08:10Z | https://leadershipinspirations.com/2019/03/18/activity-spotlight-i-am-a-tree/ |
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After rounding off his second ever GP3 weekend in Jerez with a P4 finish and winning the extremely prestigious Macau Grand Prix just last Sunday, Dan Ticktum impressed once more in the final round of the GP3 Series in Abu Dhabi as he completed his last race in the 2017 season.
The weekend got off to a good start with the Red Bull Junior Team driver consistently topping the time sheets in practice and qualifying. His strong pace finally led Dan to qualify in P4.
Starting Race 1 from P4, Dan lost position to Arjun Maini at the start. He recovered throughout the race, fighting his way past Dorian Boccolacci in an intense duel, which saw the pair banging wheels going into Turn 12. He brought the car home in P4, equaling his best GP3 race to date.
Race 2 saw a reverse grid start with Dan starting the race from P5. He immediately put the pressure on Alessio Lorandi and passed him on Lap 7. Looking for more, Dan tried to replicate the move on Steijn Schothorst soon after but picked up a 5-second time penalty in the process. He fought his way hard through the field to overturn his penalty and ultimately crossed the finish line in second position but due to his time penalty, he was pushed down to third overall, claiming his first ever place on the GP3 podium and marking DAMS’ best result in 2017.
Dan Ticktum: “It was pretty exciting, I would say! It all went quite well until I got a penalty which I didn’t agree with so that put a bit of a downer on the podium but I’m still happy with everything else. It’s a great result for the team and I in their final round of the championship.
With no more races left to be decided this year, Dan can next be seen at the Autosport Awards on Sunday 3 December as a finalist for the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award.
Keep an eye on Dan’s social media and website to find out more about Dan’s 2018 race calendar. | 2019-04-25T14:05:45Z | https://danticktum.com/gp3-abu-dhabi-race-report/ |
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Data is very important when it comes to official or personal hence keeping it safe becomes one of the priorities. The data lost will impact on the company productivity or can cause further complications. Now that there is the presence of iCloud and other options for storage, external storage is not at all required. This will help the data recovery to be done automatically in case of loss and you wouldn’t have to hire some expert to do it for you. The redundant array of independent disks will help to put together a larger number of hard drives which one drive usually does. This all depends on the configuration that you have done on these disks. It will also enhance the speed of the computer to a great extent and increase the reliability even a crash may occur; you will have a back up of sorts even when there is a hard drive crash. click here to seek professional help.
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In another kind of arrangement of the recovery drives, here the two drives will be mirroring each other and will, therefore, contain the same data if there is any crash of even one drive, the other will still have the data secured. But other things such as virus and other factors such as fire can destroy both the drives and you will not be able to recover the data.
here the drives are divided into various arrays which hold the data in various sections of the drives. But of the drives is kept to parity for saving information of the other drives that are holding the data. If one of the drives that were working as the parity drive ceases to exist, the working drives can also act as back up for recovery of the data lost in the parity drive. But during the recovery, there a lot of work to collect the data from all the sections and getting it back will consume a lot of time in the process.
It has to be known that this recovery drive system is put together to enhance performance or even provide fault tolerance. These drives are now built into the motherboards, but now with the advancement in technology, these drives are faster and cheaper than they used to be a few years back. They work with the best of the configurations and work well with most of the devices which need to have storage and back up.
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Successfully complete the game in under five hours and save the game. Then, start a new game from the saved game file to receive all weapons including the ray gun, which is not available in any shop or vending-machine. The ray gun fires four heat-seeking lasers.
Successfully complete the game in between five to seven hours and save the game. Then, start a new game from the saved game file to receive the homing ray weapon.
1. Save the shuttle worker by stopping the shuttle from falling down A-Shaft.
2. Save Devlin by bringing him the Docksin heart medication within the allotted time.
3. Give Sandy the Big Gaily stuffed animal.
4. Talk to the female work (Aisha) in the Medical Room of the Kimra Xenobiological Laboratory.
Then, start a new game from the saved game file to have 200 Hassy Drinks (100 small and 100 large) in the inventory. This should allow the game to be played with near-invincibility, and the additional bonus of not having to buy any other health items. Additionally, any money left from the last game will also be available in the new game.
Successfully complete the game three times or more, and on the third time or higher through the game, complete the four requirements for the "200 Hassy Drinks" code, and save the game. Then, start a new game from the saved game file. The phrase "Mad Mode" will appear next to the health bar. In this mode, 200 Hassy Drinks, infinite ammunition, all weapons (including the ray gun) will be available and automatically reload and rapid fire.
Successfully complete the game three times or more, and on the third time or higher through the game, complete zero to three of the four requirements for the "200 Hassy Drinks" code. Have Eliot drink at least five cups of the "Free Water" that is found in the Shower Operation Room of the Kimra Xenobiological Laboratory, then complete and save the game. In this mode, the characters normal clothes will be replaced by swimsuits and holding B will cause Eliot to swim.
Successfully complete the game on the "Hard" difficulty setting. In this mode, the characters will have big eyes and a big lip, and the weapon they are carrying will be visible.
Obtain the Lab card from Rat's Place, then return to Janean. Eliot will give Janean the Lab card and she will ask for the passcode, enter "0513" as the passcode. | 2019-04-26T09:39:03Z | https://www.cheatcc.com/dc/bs.html |
The brief, of (among others) 34 California DA’s, 8 Nevada DA’s, three Western sheriffs (two from California and one from Arizona), and a couple of California police officers’ groups, is here. It was interesting for me to note that it include DAs from all the Southern California counties except Los Angeles and Riverside, and including major ones such as Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
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Lauz got to have a yarn with guitarist Tim Brown and drummer Adam Brown from Edmonton shredders Striker (CAN)when they were in Calgary for their album release earlier this month. It was loads of fun! Have a listen to the chat and also listen to some of the tunes from Striker’s new album, Play to Win! Also a few of faves from previous records. The show also features tunes from TURBO VIXEN Hazzerd and MUTANK 100% Canadian tunes! | 2019-04-23T14:02:00Z | https://ashermediarelations.com/2018/12/19/rock-bottom-cjsw-90-9fm-episode-93-the-striker-edition/ |
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well seeing has there's 2 thief guides I would guess one of them would've gotten a spot over a second general or archer guide at least.
Initially we were going to choose, one Guide from each category. However, due to some incomplete entries, WarpPortal team decided to pick the 6 best guides, and have you all pick the BEST overall guide.
I assume the fact that each category had its own winner was the reason you allowed people to submit multiple entries in separate categories. But by removing this categorization, how was this contest different from the other contests in which multiple entries were not allowed? If people are competing for the same prize, why should multiple entries be allowed?
It just seems like the one winner per category was a necessary aspect of the rules to ensure overall fairness because multiple entries were allowed (not that many people even submitted more than one entry, but this still should be important just principle-wise). The reason for not following through with this rule does not seem entirely applicable since, again, every section had a completed guide.
Edited by ImDiene, 09 June 2011 - 04:57 PM.
I def. checked for thoroughness. I then checked to make sure the guide didn't take forever to load and was easy to find what I wanted with extreme ease vs waiting on an image to load and then have to read through a wall of text in the image to find the one thing I needed.
There was 1 guide. The incomplete one does not qualify.
Aside from those reasons, which none of them apply, I really do not see why there would be a need to break the guideline of one winner per category. In addition, there were only 2 archer guides, and both of them were chosen. I don't see how it why the amount of guides submitted per category would matter, because it clearly doesn't.
Edited by Yurai, 09 June 2011 - 04:53 PM.
Yurai, you are being a terribly poor sport about this contest. I have already asked you nicely to please let it go and discontinue posting on the matter, clearly my request has gone unheeded. So i will now escalate it to a warning, LET IT GO, if you wish to post in this thread, please be about your choices in the vote, or encouraging words about those chosen. If you have trouble complying, i will be removing your posts from the topic completely. Better luck next time.
Clearly you know nothing of photoshop...lol Text layers can be easily editted if you have the psd file which i do for each... and if you knew me while I was making the guide, you'd know that I editted each one like 5 times because of typos or information.
I wasn't really attacking o.O that first line was obviously a joke with the lol at the end. I was just trying to clear things up since you claimed that I (or Dennis lol) can't update our images if new content were to come. And I know you also have a deviantart so I'm pretty sure you use ps or gimp or w/e...which is why I'm not even sure why you made such a comment when you KNOW it's easy to edit text layers with a simple click.
Thanks everyone who are and is voting for me! Please leave your in game down so i can put it in the credits section!
I too, voted for Camei!
Best wishes to the other contestants.
Yurai i pity u. How come your so 'wonderful' guide hasn't been selected?
because there wasn't a second thief guide and WP didn't want people to auto win finalist spots.
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The silver coin is wild and it will replace all others to help form winning combos except for the One-Eyed Willy skeleton scatter symbol.
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Bezahltes überdachter Parkplätze beim Hotel. | 2019-04-20T18:21:46Z | http://www.bookyourhotel.org/view-hotel/de/Aguilas/1414/Hotel_Puerto_Juan_Montiel/5625.html |
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Also like Rescue Me, the characters are weird but personable, so they still seem normal. The characters are more than caricatures. I can relate each one's quirkiness to someone I know in real life. As a whole, the characters also represents a good cross-section of the population in terms of age, race, gender, creed, religion- you name it. Even the one-episode characters meet that criteria. I look forward to spending a half hour with this show.
Kevin Bigely was the first of the main three characters cast.
In season 1 Johnny is 28. In season 2 he's 33. | 2019-04-24T09:00:03Z | https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2484950/?ref_=m_tt_rec_tti |
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The Discussion Draft on Broadband Infrastructure was favorably forwarded to the full Committee by a voice vote.
H.R. 1641, “Federal Spectrum Incentive Act of 2015,” was favorably forwarded to the full Committee by a voice vote. | 2019-04-22T02:19:45Z | https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/markups/markup-of-hr-1641-federal-spectrum-incentive-act-of-2015-and-discussion |
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The police hope to soon get a vital lead in the killing of senior BJP leader Anil Parihar and his brother Ajeet Parihar. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is zeroing in on some suspects to crack the highly sensitive case.
The SIT headed by Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kishtwar, was constituted on November 2 by the police to investigate the killings.
“We are corroborating clinching evidences collected so far to arrive at a conclusion in this sensational case and will get a get a vital lead within a day or two,” a senior police officer, who wished not to be quoted, told The Tribune.
“Over a dozen suspects have been picked up by the police for questioning,” the police officer said.
BJP state secretary Anil Parihar, 52, and his brother Ajeet Parihar, 55, were killed in a militant attack on Thursday night when they were returning home after closing their stationery shop in Kishtwar.
On Monday, Governor Satya Pal Malik had announced that the attackers involved in the killings of Parihar brothers had been identified and would be brought before the people soon.
Meanwhile, BB Vyas, Adviser to the Governor, visited the residence of Parihar brothers. He interacted with the bereaved family members and assured them of all help from the government. | 2019-04-18T14:57:21Z | http://images.tribuneindia.com/news/jammu-kashmir/police-hope-to-crack-bjp-leader-s-murder-case-soon/679771.html |
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Hi there- I got my Ooma today and hooked it up- after an hour and a half, I still have a flashing red flower and 4 blue lights (1 / 2 / trash / mail)... I am still waiting on the phone for support to answer the phone... what do I need to do?
Details, please, What is your setup? What devices are attaché to it, and in what orde? DSL or cable? C"mon, my crystal ball is low on charge right now.
Do I just need to leave it alone for a while?
... and how do I get it to ring through my regular number until I port it?
If ooma assigned a new/temp number, you shouldn't have anything connected to the wall port of the ooma. Plug your home phone to the phone port and you should have service via the new/temp number. Your regular line should not be impacted by your ooma setup.
You got phones connected to your regular line?
do I need to run a split at the back of my cordless to have both the Ooma and the line from the wall connected?
If you got a new number or a temp number from ooma, you don't want to connect the wall port to your wall jack.
Phone connected to your ooma device will ring if someone calls your new/temp number and phone connected to your wall jack will ring if someone calls your regular number.
If you want to just use the phone connected to ooma, you can forward your regular number to your new/temp number.
Given you have this feature with your regular line, call fowarding usually works like this: *72 + your temp number including the area code. | 2019-04-19T20:23:22Z | https://www.ooma.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9190 |
This final stanza of “Love One Another” (Song 394 in the “Sacred Selections” hymnal) is a sad reality many have experienced. Just as it takes years to grow a forest a single match can destroy, a friendship taking years to build can be lost forever by a few angry words.
Can't be unsaid. After such words leave our tongue, we long to unsay them, to call them back into our heart and keep them hidden until the feelings that forged them dissipate. But words cannot be unsaid. They may not have been meant, an exaggeration or even an untruth, but once spoken may imprison our friend in bitterness. “A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle” (Pr 18:19). The link is broken and the friend is now out of reach. It would be easier to break through the bars of a castle than to restore that relationship. Part of the reason for this is “the beginning of strife is like releasing water; therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.” (Pr 17:14). Such angry words are as a small breach in a dam. In a few moments such a small gap becomes a chasm that cannot be easily mended.
Compassion needed from others. Words spoken in anger unleash powerful emotions ripping through loyalty, friendship and trust, and they can’t be mended. Unless ... our friend has a heart filled with mercy and compassion.
Compassion offered to others. As children in his image and after his likeness we need to take this same compassion and freely offer it to any who offend us. If we are a “brother offended,” we must let ourselves be “won.” We must remove those bars of anger, bitterness and pain, and not just once or twice. Such forgiveness is offered “up to seventy times seven,” or “seven times in a day” (Mt 18:21-22; Lk 17:3-4).
Conclusion. With remorse and repentance from the offender and compassion and forgiveness from the one offended, no link will every be broken. So “whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses. (Mk 11:25-26).
The mercy we seek from God is the same mercy we freely give those who offend us. Just as we long to receive the peace and joy of forgiveness after offending God, we should long to give such peace and joy to others. When this becomes a natural part of us, we have truly “put on the new man.” “And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you” (Col 3:12-13). | 2019-04-18T12:41:29Z | http://www.biblequestions.org/bqar510.html |
EPD ranks 18th in the Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies – 3rd Year in a Row on List – 3rd Time's the Charm | European Paving Designs, Inc.
Don’t misunderstand – we feel very lucky to be on the list of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies, but it isn’t by luck that we are growing. We believe growth accelerates with integrity and innovation. This year has been a culmination of goals for EPD both internally and externally.
We have been consistently aggressive in our approach to adopting technology – as marked by more than a decade using cloud-based business solutions, paperless business operations and an early adoption of mobile technology – which allows us to focus on our core competency – our craftsmanship.
Speaking of our craftsmanship, the sheer volume of construction has certainly contributed to our growth. However we focus on the entire life of projects – their ‘sustainable performance’. By being focused on sustainable performance (idea conception through ongoing use), we focus on the life of the project and increasing the ROI for our customers. All that to say we appreciate our current growth, but we value the legacy our craftsmanship.
Thank you to our talented Crew and Collaborators we get the privilege to work with every day. We are honored to be one of the Silicon Valley’s Top Fastest Growing Private Companies. | 2019-04-24T10:47:58Z | http://europeanpavingdesigns.com/epd-ranks-18th-in-the-top-50-fastest-growing-private-companies-3rd-year-in-a-row-on-list-3rd-times-the-charm/ |
Maybe we should rethink our “No Child Left Behind” program. If we eliminate all expectations for achievement and behavior, we may actually be able to recapture our economic and moral supremacy, and be number one in the world. Sounds counterintuitive, I know, but there is a precedent for this kind of thinking.
Finally, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for print magazines. A new strategy has emerged thanks to The Industry Standard, the high priest of the Internet that folded after that bubble burst. Now, the magazine is back on line, but this time people are betting on it to win—literally. Yes, the Standard is now the OTB of the magazine world, taking bets on whether or not Yahoo will accept Microsoft’s offer, or whether Google will support Open ID. Register to bet and you’re given 100,000 virtual dollars to play with. The odds change, of course, and there are cut-off dates. But what's at stake is more than play money. The results of this kind of virtual betting, which are often right on the money, could determine a company’s stock price or whether or not that V.C. investment goes through. | 2019-04-20T19:03:52Z | http://www.jackieleo.com/2008/02/ |
Ocean School’s overarching goal is simple: to create a generation of ocean-literate citizens. A generation who will better understand our impact on the ocean and the ocean’s impact on us. Dr. Boris Worm (Dalhousie University) and producer Paul McNeill (National Film Board), the initiators of the project, looked out at the ocean in Duncan’s Cove, Nova Scotia, and dreamt of a dynamic educational experience that would inspire young minds and transform their relationship with the ocean and its many inhabitants. The Ocean School team works at the intersection of science, education and storytelling. Given the calibre of the people involved and the strength of their commitment, that intersection is a pretty exciting place to be. A sincere thanks to all involved...our journey is just beginning!
Dalhousie University: Martha Crago; Alice Aiken; Sara Daniels; Peter Fardy; Chris Moore; Sandra Walde; Paul Bentzen; Catherine Yuill; Hilary Harron; Holly O'Leary; Dan Jackson; Maureen Keough; Michele Charlton. Ocean Frontier Institute: Wendy Watson-Wright; Patti Lewis. Oceana Canada: Robert Rangeley; Alexandra Vance. Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development: Christine Christensen; Jennifer Burke. Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Tara Donaghy, Jennifer Vollrath, Stephen Virc. Ingenium: Christina Tessier; Jason Armstrong. Students on Ice Foundation. OceanWise. Educators: Bryan Mrezar; Terri Howell; Meghan Delagran. Indigenous Voices Producer: Tanya Leary. Educational Technology Intern: Erin Pinkley. | 2019-04-23T10:47:23Z | https://oceanschool.nfb.ca/credits |
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Awesome! I just googled him, he has a vid of himself front squatting 505! and made it look easy, why isn't he on IS?!!
Just watched as a pre-workout for my return to the gym after 10 days out.
Hope you're all collecting vids for 2016!
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Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti celebrated the Golden Jubilee College Day and Felicitation to the Former Staff members at 10 a.m. on 19th March 2018. Dr.K.T.Tamilmani, Dean of Academic Affairs welcomed the gathering . College Principal, Dr.A.R.Ponperiasamy presented the annual report which highlighted the Activities of the various departments and individual achievements done during the academic year 2017-18.
Prof. M.Ponnambalam, Chairman, Governing Body felicitated the former Principals, Teaching and Non- Staff members for their exemplary contribution to the College. He presented a memento and a gift to each one of them. The Chief Guest Dr.K.Nirmala Prasad, Former Principal, MOP Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai delivered the College day address. In her address, She appreciated the achievements of faculty in Research and Extra Curricular activities. She stressed upon the students to be economically independent. She also emphasized the students about the need to develop the personality traits, the need to improve their communication skills, the need to face challenges and how to take individual responsibility.
Further she advised the students to choose their job depending upon their hobby and passion. She highlighted that they can use the IT resources for their professional development. She also illustrated the career opportunities available for the students. Students should put hard work to do business. They may choose a career which either related or unrelated to the subject.
Er.Pon.Balasubramanian, President, College Committee, congratulated the achievements of the faculty & students and offered felicitations to the former staff members. Shri.Pon.Ravichandran, Secretary, College Committee felicitated the staff and students and encouraged them to do more in the coming years. T.Jayaprakasam, Former Principal highlighted the contributions of the Teaching and Non-Teaching staff to the development of the college. Students showcased their talents in the form of cultural events. The Chief Guest presented certificates and prizes to the winners and runners. Tmt.Pon.Sivaneswari, Thiru.Aru.Loganathan, Tmt.Thenmozhi Thangaraj, Tmt.Mala Balasubramanian Members of College Committee, Thiru.A.Ramadas, Parents Association were also present on the occasion. | 2019-04-18T13:32:29Z | http://nmc.ac.in/nehru-media-currentevents-collegeday.php |
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Logical argumentation is to metaphysics and philosophy what mathematical theorems are to theoretical physics and cosmology. For instance, in the field of quantum mechanics, we have very little hard “evidence” for what we believe to be true, and we may never have observable evidence, yet we do have theorems that prove it to be true, and the science works because of the theorems.
Somewhat similarly, we cannot see the invisible world yet we have logically deductive reasoning to demonstrate the need for its existence. So, to dismiss logical evidence for “God” because we have no physical evidence is tantamount to dismissing the very methodological process we use for a lot of our scientific advancement.
Furthermore, as classical theists have argued, we must have a coherent ontology before we can develop a coherent theology. So, while this subject is a bit technical, it’s important for theists, if not just to understand that we do have a solid logical foundation for what we believe.
This very simplistic attempt to explain the classical theist argument from motion is based on deductive reasoning. And unlike other forms of reasoning, deductive reasoning contains a series of premises which reach a logically certain conclusion. If the premises are valid, the conclusion must necessarily be true.
In part one, we looked at Thomas Aquinas’s argument from motion. Here are the summary statements. You can read the explanation of each in part one.
It is evident to experience that some things are in motion (actualization of a potential).
Nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality except by something in a state of actuality; whatever is in motion must be put into motion by another (causation).
An essentially ordered series of movers (in the here and now) cannot regress infinitely.
Therefore, there must be an unmoved mover (First Cause/Prime Mover).
“Motion” in this argument does not refer to change in spatial location or change in time; it means change in potency to actualization in any member of a causal chain in the here and now.
Remember our guitar music analogy (part one). The music is made up of fluctuating sound waves, which are “actualized” by the vibrations of the strings of the guitar, which is actualized by the musician plucking the strings. If any part of this causal chain is inhibited, the music ceases to exist.
And if the thing that put something into motion is not itself in motion, we have arrived at the unmoved mover (First Cause, Prime Mover).
Because the Prime Mover is the most fundamental source it cannot have any unactualized potentials.
Because it must be purely actual, it must be immutable or unchangeable.
Because matter exists in space and time, the Pure Act must be eternal (outside of time) and not made of matter (outside of space).
One, not many: the singular, ultimate source of all motion (simplicity).
“Because God [Prime Mover] cannot be dependent on other things which would include things that would be ingredient to its nature if he were composite. It would create a principle of unity, which would be a higher ontological principle than the God, because whatever allows for the disparate unity between disparate things is itself a more encompassing reality” (from Hart video interview here).
We see constant states of change (from potential to actual) in nature which is an undeniable aspect of our everyday experience.
There must be a Prime Mover. This is a logical certainty. We cannot have a causal series that creates an infinite regress. This is because nothing can be reduced from “potentiality” (what something can be) to “actuality” (what something is in reality) except by something already in a state of actuality. Otherwise, we would create a situation where everything in the causal chain would cease to exist.
Next time we will look closer at the Argument from Being and Essence.
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No. Science works because it *is* true, everywhere and every time. A theorem simply describes this truth. It is secondary to the material truth.
As to the crux of the post: You seem quite determined to say philosophy proves the existence of a god.
If this were true then one would EXPECT the majority of philosophers to be theists, in one shape, form, or another.
The overwhelming majority of philosophers are atheists (72.8%).
Your claim of it being “irrefutable” is simply fallacious.
Indeed, the fact that nearly 73% of people who actually study this stuff as a matter of professional expertise REJECT IT demonstrates just how weak the logic is.
And you should read the context. You are talking about the world of empirical science where something can be observed and tested. But, if you noticed, I was talking about theoretical physics and cosmology, not science in general. These work in theories that are proven by mathematical theorems, not empirically proven evidence.
Not necessarily true at all. Scientists and navigators followed Ptolemy’s geocentric system for 1,300 years and they were all wrong. It depends on a lot of other things besides the strength of the argument. Most philosophers do not study religious philosophy or classical philosophy. A classical example of this ignorance is Bertrand Russell who totally missed the point of Thomistic philosophy. There’s also many other factors that have nothing to do with the strength of the argument that I don’t want to go into here.
But you can demonstrate the weakness of the argument itself if you wish, but saying a majority believes something is not a legitimate refutation. History has shown the majority to be wrong about most things.
These work in theories that are proven by mathematical theorems, not empirically proven evidence.
Again, not exactly true. All theoretical work is based on something first, such as the nature of black holes, which themselves were first predicted by general relativity (1915), which itself was only proven correct by Eddington in 1923. In this example, it was theorised that there would be the radiation leaking out of these gravity wells. This was proven true. It’s now called Hawking Radiation.
The word games you’re presenting here start with imagination and never leave it. They rest on presuppositions.
It depends on a lot of other things besides the strength of the argument.
Your post is stating the argument is so strong it’s irrefutable. And I repeat, if this were the case then the majority of people who actually study this stuff in a professional capacity would, quite naturally, be theists.
I said that it’s a logically deductive argument. If the premises are true, then the conclusion necessarily follows.
You can refute it instead of going on and on about what everybody else thinks.
*If* the premises are true.
Well, off you go, move those enormous presuppositions from the “Presupposition File” into the “Factually Demonstrable File”.
You can prove the premises wrong instead of making unsubstantiated dismissals.
You want me to prove YOUR presuppositions wrong?
The argument is the burden of proof. The only thing you can do is argue against the premises.
The argument is the burden of proof.
A word game that rests on Special Pleading and outlandish presuppositions is “proof”?
My apologies, but I must have missed the part where you proved the universe *is* artificial, and the part where you proved the universe *isn’t* aseitic.
14.6%. That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of an arguments strength, is it?
So what. What was the percentage of scientists who believed in Ptolemaic Geocentricism for 1,300 years? Not exactly a ringing endorsement for proving something by majority opinion.
People have been playing with your presented word games for, as you have pointed out, for over 2,500 years.
No discovery has made them more logically reasonable. In fact, the movement has been in the opposite direction.
Word games? Whatever… Let me know when you have something relevant to say.
Let me know when you have something relevant to say.
Good grief. Deductive reasoning has led me to conclude that 73% of atheists are paranoid, bombastic, incapable of logic, and have an inflated sense of self. Just saying. Feel free to prove me wrong at any time.
I liked this. “Constant states of change” sounds a bit like an oxymoron. More Eastern philosophies and religions would call this “impermanence.” Something I am always amazed by, our very bodies are in a constant state of change, every cell being replaced continuously. About every 7 yrs or so,we are a completely new creature, in a literal sense. The moment blood flow stops in some part of the body, death follows, cells are unable to regenerate. We are in a constant state of change, set in perpetual motion, like a river, and the moment you take away that mysterious Prime Mover, decay begins.
LOL! I would never base anything I believe on what the majority believes!
And great comments, IB. Thanks for actually getting it. The premises of this argument are based on what we actually can observe everywhere we look. We’re just taking it to its logical conclusion.
If the logic is “irrefutable,” as Mel claims it is, then perhaps you can give me a rational explanation as to why 73% of people who look at this stuff as a matter of professional expertise fail to see the irrefutable logic of it?
Sheesh Zande, you sure put a lot of faith in “statistics” and people’s “alleged professional expertise.” I can’t think of two less reliable things to depend on when it comes to discerning the truth. There are “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” And second, professional expertise is often available for 3 easy payments of 19.95.
Also, the subject of this post is classical theology. It is based on the deductive reasoning of rational people who had professional expertise in this area. At least 73% of us agree with it. So you are violating your own rules with your disagreement and your argument is incoherent.
IB, incoherence and irrelevance has never stopped Zande before. And when you can’t argue with the logic, you quote statistics. And I would venture to guess that almost 100% of those 73% are also committed materialists. Their position is not based on the strength of the argument but on the strength of their prior commitment to a dogma. It’s also not politically correct in the academic world to be a theist or believe in anything that goes back 2,300 years.
Their position is not based on the strength of the argument but on the strength of their prior commitment to a dogma. It’s also not politically correct in the academic world to be a theist or believe in anything that goes back 2,300 years.
Yes Mel, I’m sure you’re right… It’s all one enormous “academic” conspiracy.
I’m glad, though, that you mentioned the 2,300/2,500 years. It’s important as it frames this position of yours rather well.
Imagine, if you will, a bright young chap proposing an intriguing hypothesis for something. It doesn’t really matter what. What’s important is that it was a hypothesis that, at least on paper, sounded quite compelling.
So, an Abstract was written, and following the Abstract some justifications for the probable truth of the Abstract were published… and with that, efforts to prove this hypothesis began in earnest.
Now imagine 2,500 years elapsing since the proposal was first suggested, and in those 2,500 years absolutely NOTHING was discovered to even remotely suggest the hypothesis was, in fact, true.
This is not to say the hypothesis had lain dormant. It hadn’t. Generation after generation of bright people embraced the hypothesis and dedicated their entire lives to proving it true.
However, despite every effort, after 2,500 years the only progress that could be shown was that from time to time someone had reviewed the Abstract and had changed the odd word or two here and there.
100 generations of ardent work, and the needle had not been moved a single millimetre.
Given this, why after 2,500 years of complete failure should anyone still suspect the hypothesis held merit?
Then I am sure you can easily disprove the logic of the argument.
It starts with a presupposition.
Or did I miss the part where you proved the universe *is* artificial, and the part where you proved the universe *isn’t* aseitic?
Presupposition? You mean like God doesn’t exist?
As per the usual, you are not addressing the points of the argument. Let me know when you have something relevant to say.
Ah, so you have nothing but an enormous presupposition and 2,500 years of utter failure in trying to demonstrate it as even vaguely plausible.
So, right back at you: Do please let me know when you have something relevant to say.
It’s a logical argument, John Z. 2 +2 was 4 2,300 years ago, it still is. You can always refute the argument if you want.
And utter failure? Right. So then, why is about 73% of the world population theists? And Pew Research said that number will go up by 2050. Shall we call that the atheist’s utter failure then? You see, I can make irrelevant and fallacious comebacks, too.
Yes, utter failure. Or can you demonstrate that the universe is artificial?
So, are you going to address the actual question put to you?
Unbelievable that you make this comparison, the invisible world in science uses more than deductive reasoning, it will only accept some measurable evidence that something exists. Scientists are not in the habit of claiming something exists without having some way of providing scientifically accepted reactions and processes as evidence from what is appears as an invisible entity.
First, I said it was “somewhat” similar. But there is a lot in advanced science that we have absolutely no empirical proof for. For instance, what is the multiverse hypothesis based on? Evidence? No, it’s based on math (and it’s not even based in deductive reasoning). We have no real idea if multiverses actually exist, but some cosmologists and theoretical physicists talk like they do exist.
Second, your comparison is invalid. I wasn’t comparing science to science. I was comparing theoretical science to philosophical argumentation. Science can only deal with material phenomenon, it cannot not even address ontology or metaphysics for methodological reasons. So, “accepting measurable evidence” or “providing scientifically accepted reactions and processes” is not a valid comparison. It’s a category mistake. If you are making logical deductions about a non-material reality, you won’t ever be testing for it in a science lab.
Third, logic is logic, and it’s a valid form of “evidence.” For instance, we know 2 + 2 = 4, even though it’s an abstraction by itself. But this same abstraction can help us develop theories and arguments that cannot be proven by natural science.
We have no real idea if multiverses actually exist, but some cosmologists and theoretical physicists talk like they do exist.
We have no real idea if a supernatural god/creator actually exists, but some theologians and philosophy talk like it does exist.
Well, unlike with multiverses, we can logically deduce that God does exist, even though we can’t see Him or prove Him with natural science.
Logically deduce??? C’mon Mel. There may be no actual evidence for multiverses … but neither is there actual evidence for a god. If you’re going to “logically deduce” one, then there’s no valid reason for a person not to do the same with the other.
No matter how many posts you write and how much “evidence” you throw out to support your belief in a god, there will always be those who dispute it.
Logically deduce??? C’mon Mel. There may be no actual evidence for multiverses … but neither is there actual evidence for a god.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with logical deduction. While we cannot see an immaterial “God,” we can see changes or things in motion in our everyday experience, as described in this post. It’s simply a matter of logical deduction to conclude that there must be a “prime mover.” You cannot say the same with the multiverse hypothesis. That was my point.
And “actual evidence?” You seem to be implying scientific or physical evidence. But logical evidence is just as valid, especially when we’re talking about something that natural science cannot prove either way.
Of course, I totally agree. People will believe what they want to believe in the end. Believing or not believing in God, ultimately, has little to do with logic or evidence. Evidence and logic can only provide a framework for making a faith-based decision either way. Whether a person believes, or decides not to believe, is a heart issue. Again, science will never prove it either way.
No. It’s not a matter of logical deduction. It’s a matter of faith. And no, I don’t have “faith” in science, so you can take that off the table. Although I admit that what science has presented about this world and the universe make more sense to me, this doesn’t mean it’s the end-all, be-all answer to life.
No. It’s not a matter of logical deduction. It’s a matter of faith.
Care to explain to me how this argument from motion is a matter of faith and not a logical deduction?
OK, so now you’re pushing philosophical perspectives. This is not a discussion I choose to undertake as I fully admit my knowledge in such is limited. My beef was strictly related to your use of words (this is my specialty. 😉) when you claim logical deduction to support your position but deny it in other cases.
I am claiming logical deduction here, Nan. Not with every position I take. Your beef is incoherent to me. Philosophy aside, either something is logical or it isn’t. You don’t need to be a mathematician in order to use math everyday of your normal life. It just seems silly to me to not have a reason for “being” (ontology). That’s why it’s important. Everything else we believe about our existence rests on its foundation.
either something is logical or it isn’t. … which means it’s either based on known statements, events or conditions … or it’s not.
Let’s let it go at that, OK? 🙂 Have a good weekend.
Sure, we can let it go. I have no problem with that. But you haven’t told me how this argument is faith-based and not logically deductive. The premises are based on everyday conditions we know to be true in our common experience.
Mel, I feel I made myself clear related to faith and logic. It you are unable to see the connection, there is obviously no point in continuing. Which is why I “signed off.” in my last comment. I’m not one to hash and rehash just to try and prove a point. We simply see things through different lenses.
No, you haven’t made yourself clear at all. You have not told me how this argument is faith-based. But you are free to believe whatever you want. We’ll let it go. Talk to you later.
No wonder she wants to “let it go”. She’s got no clue how logic works.
Exactly, which is probably why she thinks she made herself clear. But Nan’s not alone in this. It seems to be the normal M.O. of atheists who come here. Like in this instance, they don’t actually refute the argument at hand but engage in red herring fallacies, referring instead to some other point made in a different post that they feel more confident in addressing. Then they conflate the two…and voila! So, then they make incoherent statements thinking they are making a logical refutation. I see this a lot.
The statement “let it go” is equivalent to “agree to disagree”. It’s what people say when they’ve got nothing of substance to offer. You can’t “disagree” with someone who hasn’t made an argument. Atheists want to “let it go” as if they’ve made some profound, irrefutable thesis that we’re just too stupid to understand. Nan’s description of “logical” is profoundly ignorant. What’s worse is that she’ll assume my assessment of her comments is a personal attack on her which justifies dismissing me as hateful.
Mel, if you have something to say about my participation on your blog, I would prefer that you do it directly rather than discuss it in your comments with others.
I do not care — nor am I qualified — to discuss “theological” matters with you. My point was strictly confined to your use of the term “logically deduce.” I thought I made that clear.
Further, I am not an “atheist” and would request not to be referenced as same. My personal viewpoint on life is just that … my personal viewpoint.
I was answering John B.s comments and making an observation in general that seems to be common with this thread. But, again, you have neither refuted any point of the argument nor have you explained how this argument is not logically deductive. As you said, that was your assertion. So, if you’re going to make these kinds of statements you need to be able to defend them. Otherwise, don’t make them. So, again, your point was not clear.
From time to time I check up on our atheist (or whatever they are) friends on their various blogs.
You will not be surprised to learn that you are their favorite topic of conversation.
You might have also noticed that the frequency of their comments has diminished of late. From what I surmise, I may be negatively impacting their participation in the comment section here. They’ve banished me from their blogs and it annoys them that I continue to speak freely here. You are much more polite than I am. My unpleasant demeanor rankles the ATHEISTS (or whatever they are). I do not mean to be contentious and I apologize if anything I’ve said is “out of bounds” from your perspective.
I’m glad I can give their blogs meaning and purpose.
My unpleasant demeanor rankles the ATHEISTS (or whatever they are).
Well, some who have come here have not only been unpleasant but combative, obstinate, making their snide comments, and it doesn’t rankle me at all. As I told them when they complain, I can see why some believers that have a history with them are curt with them. I try to stay civil and argue the points, but some of these “atheists”(identity unknown) have called me a liar, dishonest, disingenuous, etc. They have no problem with their personal attacks but think I’m attacking them when I point out their incoherent position.
Nan, if you have something to say about my participation on Mel’s blog, I would prefer that you do it directly rather than discuss it in your comments with others.
Further, if you are not an “atheist” and would request not to be referenced as same. Please indicate your preferred title and I’ll reference you as same.
Finally, it’s dumb to throw your opinions into the comment section and then say, “My personal viewpoint on life is just that … my personal viewpoint.” You made your personal viewpoint public when you commented.
Prediction: This question will go unanswered.
Atheism and humanism hates logic because it only shows how untenable naturalism is as a worldview.
Kind of fascinating to me, long before science understood germ theory, Jewish laws around cleanliness inadvertently embraced what has taken science so long to understand. We didn’t have microscopes to see the invisible world or the dangers of mishandling blood or anyway of understanding why something was considered unclean. For centuries many had to operate on faith alone and it actually made Jewish doctors more popular on account of the fact that they killed far less patients.
I was just pondering the idea of refusing to wash my hands because I’ve yet to see any scientific evidence of these so called invisible germs y’all are talking about. Tragically that is exactly what people did for centuries and disease spread rapidly. Ironically, Jesus being born in a stable may well have been the safest way to ensure His survival as an infant. I don’t know what the statistics were, but we’ll just say about 73% of the professionals and their medical expertise turned out to be plain wrong.
On the other hand, I guess as you are there dying of dysentery, you can always celebrate the fact that you stayed true to your own understanding and didn’t get any of that weird religious stuff on you.
And, as I already pointed out, 100% of scientists were absolutely wrong who embraced Ptolemaic Geocentricism for over 1,300 years. Of course, someone committed to the presupposition of materialism will do anything to avoid dealing with the strength of the argument itself. They will just quote statistics!
So did anyone besides CliffsOfInsanity engage with the actual content of the post?
Welcome to the party! Did they engage with the content? Not really. Some complained that I said it was logically deductive, and my use of logic in general, but never actually refuted that either.
agree. But there’s the rub. You have to actually be able to refute the argument. So, yes, you’re probably asking too much.
Been done a thousand times across numerous posts. Saying otherwise is, at best, being disingenuous.
First, it commits the fallacy of composition. What’s true for a member of a group is not necessarily true for the group as a whole. This takes on particular relevance as you are making a statement about the behaviour/capacity of a set (our universe) of which we presently only understand 4.6%… which is to say, the baryonic stuff ONLY.
Second, the special pleading associated to the (allegedly) unbreakable rules of causality (which you break immediately) evaporate at Inflation.
Third, time is relative, not absolute, and causes and effects can happen simultaneously. Quantum entanglement proves this without violating the second law of thermodynamics.
Fourth, the entire argument rests on an ENORMOUS PRESUPPOSITION that the universe is contingent; that it is artificial. Prove it.
Fifth, and most pertinently, you have in the first instant annihilated the central premise of the argument by agreeing that there was never nothing; there was always something; there was, therefore, always motion. If there was never nothing, always something, always motion then it is NOT a question of why is there something rather than nothing for that is thoroughly meaningless, but rather what is aseitic: an unseen supernatural creator (who deliberately created an artificial world for reasons unknown), or the universe itself?
As we have evidence the universe exists, and absolutely no evidence of magic anywhere, at any time, it is only logical to assume the universe is a brute fact.
To spontaneously propose magic, when no evidence of magic exists anywhere, at any time, is a massive violation of Occam’s razor, and overkill as a fundamental basis of reality. It is, therefore, not only illogical, but comprehensibly irrational.
And you’ve refuted the Argument from Motion how?
What premises have you proven false? Try to explain yourself without blathering on with all kinds of irrelevant and unrelated things you think are important (called a red herring fallacy, btw). You have never actually addressed the argument in the post.
I asked the Windbag to link me to some contemporary philosophers who agree with him that the universe is a brute fact. Do you want to hazard a guess about how that worked out?
Why am I not surprised that you simply pretend it hasn’t been refuted?
Okay, enlighten me. How did you refute it?
If there was never nothing then there was always something. The universe is a brute fact. You cannot have “nothing.” It is an imaginary state. It has never existed. “Nothing” is unstable (therefore already in motion), which makes the null situation a failed premise.
Try understanding the argument for once. If you ever bothered to understand you would know that an eternal universe has nothing to do with it. The universe is still something obviously in changing states (in motion) so it logically cannot be the prime mover.
Mel, this argument is just another word salad of the first cause argument. Motion simply replaces Cause.
No motion is not the default.
If you can’t understand that then that’s your problem, not mine.
No rebuttal for dogmatically asserted faith statements. Keep it up!
If it helps, trying reading these words extra slowly: There was never no motion because there was never nothing.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is actually what you believe, right?
Don’t get distracted by trying to be rational, JZ. Just stick to faith statements. Your faith doesn’t need to be justified. Logic and reason are no match for bias and presupposition.
Carry on! I’m rooting for you!
No, John Z, sorry, it’s your problem.
Ontological motion is a logical deduction based on actual evidence from nature in the here and now (not time related or based on beginnings or no beginnings). Dismissing it as a word salad just shows your ignorance of the argument. Whatever is in motion (going from potential to actual) must either have a cause or itself be fully actualized. This is a logical certainty. As Hart said, it has to be something entirely unconditioned, that is not composite, not dissoluble into parts upon which it’s dependent, not a being among beings and therefore dependent upon some larger sphere of actuality, not temporal…as soon as you begin removing the attributes that make for contingency, you’re left with the question of the absolute that doesn’t make room anymore for things like matter.
Laws and quantum events cannot be the prime mover either. They exist within realities that are themselves by the same logical calculus, contingent. Quantum events (or inflation, gravity, etc.) don’t happen in nothingness in the ontological sense. It just means you’re dealing with a prior physical state that is as of yet unarticulated (not actualized). But that physical state is not a logical necessary reality…it’s not a reality that can be considered an absolute.
So, no, it’s entirely your problem. You have embraced an incoherent ontology.
There was never no motion because there was never nothing.
If you wish to refute this, then please demonstrate that there was once nothing.
Shifting the burden of proof to Mel is an excellent strategy!
You are conducting a clinic on fundamentalist debate tactics!
Yes, Zande is quite the dogmatic religious (scientism) fundamentalist. This is his favorite M.O. Don’t actually answer the question and then pose your own question and then claim victory.
Seriously, I’m wondering if he’ll ever actually understand the argument. I won’t hold my breath.
And that is a total faith-based statement based on ZERO evidence, besides being totally irrelevant to the argument. You are making time-based argument, not an ontological one, which is itself contingent. It doesn’t matter how things began or didn’t begin. You have to refute the argument from motion in the here and now. So prove to me that the cosmos itself is nonmaterial, not composite and fully actualized in every way possible (not in motion).
Evidence is the universe itself.
Tell me again what evidence you have for the Middle Eastern god of the Pentateuch, Yhwh?
Yes, and we can prove that the universe is composite, material, and in a constant state of motion. Try again.
And, btw, I will ignore your red herrings.
Exactly. There was never no motion.
Yes! Assign your original thesis to Mel as if he actually said it!
Drop the mic, JZ! You win!
Congratulations. You’ve just made the cosmos cease to exist! If there was never no motion, then we’re talking about an infinite regress. You cannot have an infinite regress of motion because everything is essentially ordered (causally dependent on a more fundamental source). To say that such a series regresses infinitely is to say that things in motion ultimately don’t derive their motive power from anything (because everything else is itself in motion). And if it doesn’t derive its power from anything then the whole causal chain collapses and everything ceases to exist.
Even if the series could regress infinitely (which is logically impossible), something outside the series would still have to supply motive power. So, no, you have not refuted the argument, you only described a condition where nothing could continue to exist.
There is no infinite regress in the universe as a brute fact. Don’t try and smuggle in false arguments.
There was never no motion because there was never nothing. The argument is categorically meaningless.
Of course, you could always refute this by demonstrating 1) that there was once nothing, and 2) that this world is artificial.
And you can prove this how? Again, prove this “brute fact,” John Z. All you give me are faith statements. IF things are in motion, then you must find a more fundamental cause, otherwise, you end up with infinite regress. So, show me how the universe itself is not in motion. I don’t accept your faith statements.
IF things are in motion, then you must find a more fundamental cause.
OK then, so what is the fundamental cause of the Middle Eastern god of the Pentateuch, Yhwh?
Here we go…red herrings. Sorry, John Z. Stick with the subject at hand.
You said, IF things are in motion, then you must find a more fundamental cause.
If it’s absolutely required, then please answer the question: What is the fundamental cause of the Middle Eastern god of the Pentateuch, Yhwh?
Tell him the Pentateuch was fiction!
Since Taboo isn’t here right now, I’ll say it for him: Bravo, sir!
Now, you’re stooping to the confusion of Dawkins and his ilk. The question of who moved the “unmoved mover” is a rather fatuous question to ask since it’s asking, what moved that thing which cannot be moved.
Oh, so it’s not actually required (as you asserted) because there was always something, never nothing.
Now tell him the Pentateuch is fiction!
Also, tell him about protozoa.
Then, just to make sure, tell him you help Ph.D. students write papers.
Of course, there must be a “prime mover.” But you cannot prove that the universe is that prime mover and essentially necessary (this has nothing to do with time or if the universe had a beginning or not).
What I said is that you cannot prove that the universe is not in motion. For it to be a prime mover, logically, it must be fully “pure act” or fully actualized in every way (immutable), it must be simple (no composite parts), eternal (transcends time), incorporeal and immaterial (existing outside of matter, space since they are contingent), for the reasons explained in the post itself. If you can prove that the universe meets all these logical conditions, you have an argument for your “god” (prime mover).
This is a patently absurd statement as NO prime mover is required. None. Your argument is categorically meaningless. Please stop repeating it.
There. Was. Never. No. Motion.
Then we’re forced back to infinite regress and, therefore, nonexistence. And around the merry-go-round of incoherency we go. Sorry, no cigar. You are just making faith statements.
Oh, so you believe there must be a fundamental cause for EVERYTHING?
OK, perhaps then you’ll address this question now: What is the fundamental cause of the Middle Eastern god of the Pentateuch, Yhwh?
No, I said there must be cause for everything that is in motion. And you cannot go into infinite regress or the whole causal chain would cease to exist (in the here and now). Again, the question of who moved the “prime mover” is a rather fatuous question to ask since it’s asking, what moved that thing which cannot be moved.
Again, a categorically meaningless comment.
There. Is. No. Prime. Mover. As. There. Was. Never. No. Motion.
And your statement is a meaningless comment with absolutely no logic or proof.
Are you saying a causeless thing is illogical?
No, I’m saying that when you say there is “No. Prime. Mover. As. There. Was. Never. No. Motion.” You’re making a nonsensical and incoherent statement that is meaningless. You are actually arguing for nonexistence. Of course, if you can prove that your “god” (the universe) is fully actualized, not composed of parts, immutable, immaterial, and existing outside of space and time, you may have a coherent argument. Otherwise, you’re just wasting my time.
So a causeless thing *is* logical.
Yes, if you can logically show that it is what’s been called a “prime mover.” But to just state that the universe is that prime mover is meaningless.
Of course it’s meaningless… That’s also what I’ve been saying. There was no prime mover. There was never nothing. There was never *no motion*.
No, John Z. You don’t get it at all. To say there is no “prime mover” in the here and now, as defined, is incoherent nonsense. You are just arguing for an infinite regress which logically means we cease to exist.
To say there is no “prime mover” in the here and now, as defined, is incoherent nonsense.
Ah, so what then is the fundamental cause of the Middle Eastern god of the Pentateuch, Yhwh?
Yes, of course. You cannot have infinite regress and have the cosmos continue to exist. The “prime mover” is what we theists would call “God.” As I said in the post, this is not an argument for a particular God, only for the existence of what we would call God (prime mover). To say what caused the “prime mover” is a fatuous question, only showing that you don’t understand the argument. You are asking what moved that which cannot be moved.
I’m not going to keep going round this merry-go-round with you. You obviously don’t wish to understand the argument.
You cannot have infinite regress and have the cosmos continue to exist.
Lucky for us then that there is no infinite regress in the universe as a brute fact.
Okay, believe whatever faith-based statement you want. You’re getting boringly obstinate now.
No faith required in knowing the universe exists.
No faith is required to know the universe exists, but that’s never been the point. Which is why your point is irrelevant.
It takes BLIND FAITH to believe that the universe continues to be the prime mover which holds all existence together. And THAT is a faith statement.
Of course, if I were to take your faith statement as is, then you would be admitting that the universe is immaterial, immutable, not composite, and not in space and time. Then, of course, we descend into the ontological incoherency of atheism.
And you can’t prove it’s the fundamental force by which all things continue to exist.
I don’t have to. It is only logical to assume the universe is a brute fact.
You, on the other hand, haven’t even gotten up to the starting line without first demonstrating that this universe is artificial.
There was no prime mover. There was never nothing. There was never *no motion*.
Whenever you say, “There never was” in your statement it only shows that you don’t understand the argument because you’re not even talking about the same thing. What you are arguing for, technically speaking, something “accidentally ordered” (chronological, in the past), which is not the same thing as the argument from motion, which is an essentially ordered (fundamental, in the here and now) argument. This is why your statements are meaningless and irrelevant (besides being incoherent).
No, I’m not arguing for anything being “accidentally ordered.” Please don’t invent arguments and assign them to me.
I’m saying the universe is a brute fact. Any allusion to a prime mover is categorically meaningless.
Yes, you are. By appealing to time in the past you are, by definition, making an accidently ordered argument. This is not the argument for motion which is essentially ordered.
I’m saying the universe is a brute fact.
Yes, but that says nothing whatsoever to explain its continuing existence. Furthermore, you cannot prove that it’s the most fundamental cause of our continuing existence. That is, unless you wish to concede that it’s immaterial, immutable, not made of composite parts, and not in time and space. Otherwise, it needs a more fundamental cause in order to continue to exist.
See, I can be childish, too, but I will just leave you to your incoherent faith.
There was never no motion because there was never nothing. Your argument is categorically meaningless in the face of the universe as a brute fact.
Again, you are making an “accidentally ordered” argument (“never was” statement). Totally irrelevant. You obviously don’t get it (or want to get it). See you later.
Mirror, meet Melvin Wild. Melvin Wild, this is Mirror.
I’ve given you logical argumentation. You have just given me your “just so” statements that are irrelevant to the argument. So, no, it’s not a mirror.
Again, let me know when you have something relevant to say.
And you be sure to let me know when you’re starting with something that’s not an outlandish presupposition.
Presupposition? You mean like what you are insisting on? That the universe is the fundamental source of our continuing existence, fully actualized, immaterial, not composite, and outside of time and space? Haha…whatever. Have fun with your incoherence.
The universe (of which we only really understand 4.6% of) existing is a presupposition?
Totally irrelevant, again, (sigh) Good-bye.
The fact of the universe existing is irrelevant?
Yes, John, you’re just being obtuse now. It’s never been about whether the universe exists or not and you know it. So, yes, irrelevant to the argument.
The only question that’s relevant is whether or not the universe that currently exists is ontologically in motion (which it obviously is), so it cannot be the Prime Mover, unless you’re willing to concede that it’s fully actualized, not composite, immaterial, and outside of time and space. Otherwise, go away. You’re just wasting my time.
You see, this is how you waste people’s time with your fallacious rabbit trails.
Actually Mel, it is about the universe existing, and as it is a brute fact then there was never no motion.
Stop trying to force a magical pantomime on reality.
No, it’s logically coherent. You cannot have “nothing.” “Nothing” is an imaginary state. It has never existed. “Nothing” is unstable (therefore already in motion), which makes the null situation a failed premise.
It’s really quite simple, and eloquent.
Again, the only coherent thing you can argue for is a prime mover. But if the universe is that prime mover, you’re saying it’s fully actualized, not made of composite parts, immaterial, and outside of time and space. THAT is neither eloquent nor elegant, it’s totally nonsensical.
Otherwise, if it’s already in motion, as you say by faith, then it cannot be the prime mover because it is not fully actualized (which means, NOT in motion), but simply a distal member of the causal chain. That’s the brute facts. Deal with it.
How many times do you want me to repeat this? Your prime mover is categorically meaningless in a non-contingent universe. You cannot have “nothing.” “Nothing” is an imaginary state. It has never existed. “Nothing” is unstable (therefore already in motion), which makes the null situation a failed premise.
Your ENTIRE argument rests on the null hypothesis.
How many times do you want me to repeat this? Your prime mover is categorically meaningless in a non-contingent universe.
LOL! No wonder you’re an atheist. Again, this is your ignorance showing. Your statement is totally incoherent! If you have no fundamental cause you have no universe at all. It ceases to exist, John Z. Got it? And besides, your entire argument rests on BLIND FAITH. You cannot prove anything you said and cannot even explain your own continuing existence.
Oh, I will move on. I don’t like to go on and on with complete imbecility. But thanks for showing everyone how incoherent your argument is.
The non-contingent universe does not need a cause. It is aseitic. This is true as there cannot be nothing.
BTW, how are you going proving this universe is artificial?
Prove that the universe is not in ontological motion, not composite, immaterial, and outside of time and space. Otherwise, it’s contingent.
The universe exists. I have no reason to believe it is artificial.
If you wish to claim it is artificial then you better get busy trying to demonstrate that.
The argument was never about “nothing from nothing,” so that’s a bogus response.
There was never nothing, so you’re right. It was never about that, and neither was I ever arguining that.
No, you are wrong. You keep repeating an argument no one is making. No one is saying there was nothing from nothing. That is NOT the argument. There always IS a prime mover, otherwise, there is nothing existing at all, now or at any other time. The fact that you don’t get this is fascinating.
No one is saying there was nothing from nothing.
Exactly. There was never nothing. The universe is a brute fact.
And so you’re saying the universe is fully actualized (not in motion), not made of parts, immaterial, and outside of time and space? Right…Good bye.
The universe is what it is.
You didn’t say there is “a cause for EVERYTHING”.
Don’t let Zande get away with that bogus assertion.
Exactly. He must be reading Dawkins and his ilk. These people never understood the argument.
I’ve never been a fan of the “unmoved mover” label because it seems paradoxical (I guess because it is).
I understand. It is a paradoxical term. As you probably know, it’s just a way of explaining that there must be a most fundamental cause that cannot be reduced further to some outside motive force. So, to say there is no fundamental cause would be like saying there is no fundamental source for existence itself. Without this fundamental source the whole causal chain must collapse into nonexistence. This is a logical certainty, regardless of what we may think about it.
Reassert the premise even after it’s been demonstrated logically incoherent.
Classic! I’m taking notes, JZ.
Do you think this would be a good time to talk about the 13 billion-year-old protozoa or would it be better to insist that Exodus didn’t happen?
Prediction: You will now have to “prove” your statement.
I’m gonna side with JZ on this one, Mel.
You’re still trying to use logic and reason. These are no match for fundamentalist dogmas.
Indeed. I especially like when the line of thoughtful argument collapses into a revert to atheistic dogma as @JohnBranyon points out. Popcorn?
Trying to make certain I understand this.
I am trying to understand this statement. As near as I can figure out, the reason an infinitely long causal chain cannot work is because at every point in the chain there is a probability greater than zero of breaking the chain. If the chain breaks at any one point, then it ceases to exist. In an infinite chain, the probably that the chain breaks is 100 percent.
I am trying to understand this statement. As near as I can figure out, the reason an infinitely long causal chain cannot work is because at every point in the chain there is a probability greater than zero of breaking the chain. If the chain breaks at any one point, then it ceases to exist.
Tom, you’re right. If any part of the chain breaks you have no chain. The easiest way to look at it is if every member in the chain were to be dependent on a more fundamental cause, you end up with an infinite regress, which would be non-existence. There must be at the base of the chain a member who does not receive its motive power from anything but itself. Otherwise, every part of the chain collapses. The analogy of the guitar player in part two illustrates what I mean.
And this fails because it commits the fallacy of composition. What’s true for a member of a group is not necessarily true for the group as a whole. For example: No atoms are alive, therefore nothing made of atoms is alive.
It also fails because time is not absolute, and it has no direction.
And your comment fails relevancy, as per the usual. This argument has absolutely nothing to do with time or whether something is alive or not. You keep arguing for things “ordered accidently” (having to do with chronology or sequence in time), whereas this is ordered essentially (being, fundamental causation).
If there are atoms, we must ask what gives the atom its motive force, not whether it’s alive or not.
To repeat, your position fails because it commits the fallacy of composition. It fails also because time is not absolute, which your causal argument relies on. Quantum entanglement also ruins the ‘chain’ argument.
To repeat, your assertion is absolutely irrelevant. This argument has nothing whatsoever to do with time. Why don’t you try understanding the argument before making such ignorant comments.
It does, actually, rely on time, Mel… and any reason why you’re not addressing the fallacy of composition which your argument commits?
Tell me how it relies on time then. Why don’t you explain the argument to me since you think it’s fallacious.
The arrow of time: event A predates event B. Quantum entanglement proves this wrong.
Naïve 13th Century thinking belongs in the 13th Century, not the 21st.
And why are you ignoring the fallacy of composition your argument commits?
Irrelevant. You are making an accidently ordered argument (time related). Try again. You still haven’t demonstrated to me that you understand the argument at all.
Priceless. Heads up, Mel, it is YOU, you dolt, who’re making the time-ordered argument. I’m telling you it’s fallacious.
Okay, explain to me how this argument is time-related.
So, let me get this straight: you’re *not* actually arguing that a causal chain is regulated by what goes first?
No. Not at all. It has nothing to do with sequential order in time. It has to do with what is more essential to its motive power. This argument works outside of time as well as in it.
Yes, face palm yourself, John Z. Because you don’t get the obvious point of this argument. You are the one who’s looking quite foolish here.
Let’s remove time from the picture. Let’s say we have a quark in some dimension outside of time and space. We still must ask, what is the motive power behind this quark? Because it is obviously not fully actualized, it cannot move itself from potential to actuality without a motive force.
So, while the argument works in time, it has absolutely nothing to with something sequentially ordered in time.
Okay, now you’re wasting my time. I tried to explain it to you respectfully, but I see you are just being an obstinate fool. So, believe whatever idiotic thing you want, just don’t think for a minute (in time) that you understand the argument. | 2019-04-22T10:37:53Z | https://melwild.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/the-classical-arguments-for-god-part-two/ |
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Long Island Elite National Football Teams will host a media day on Saturday December 8 before departing for the National Championship in Richmond, Virginia.
Melville NY (December 5, 2018) – Long Island Elite Football will host a special “Media Day” for press reporters and fans to attend the last practice of “Red Week”.
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Why Valley Of Flowers And Kedarnath Can’t Be In The Same Itinerary?
Valley of Flowers is an Indian national park located in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand. It is also a UNESCO world heritage site which has a variety of flora and flourishes with endemic alpine flowers. Valley of Flowers is one of the most beautiful national park, situated at 3352 to 3658 meters above sea level. From the east, it is complemented by the untamed Nanda Devi National Park and Hemkund valley runs parallel in the south. However, these are not the only places that can form part of your Valley of Flowers itinerary. Badrinath and Kedarnath, two of the most important Hindu Pilgrimages, also aren’t very far from the valley of flowers.
Phlomis in Valley of flowers, peak flowering time is July and August.
In other words, the Valley of Flowers can be a multi-day trip from a few day trips. It entirely depends on the time when you are visiting the valley. For instance, Hemkund is accessible from May to September whereas, the best time to visit Valley of Flowers is July and August. In June, snow starts melting and all you will find there are seeds. Therefore, if you wish to take one tour for both, Hemkund and Valley of Flowers, July and August is the best time. However, both months are not compatible for Kedarnath.
Kedarnath has a cold climate for most part of the year. Best time to visit it is from May to June and September & October. July and August are the seasons of monsoon. It’s the time of rainfall, landslides, and hindrances. Trekking to Kedarnath is risky, if not impossible, during this time. Another mode to reach the pilgrimage is a helicopter. However, that service is not rendered during monsoon. On the other hand, if you choose to visit Kedarnath during its peak time, you will not be able to enjoy the Valley of Flowers.
Badrinath and Valley of Flowers can be kept in one basket. They both share common point from where journey should be started. The last motor-able point, Govindghat, is at equidistant from both the places. It is 20km away from Badrinath. Once you are back to Govindghat from Valley of Flowers, you can complete the Badrinath trip (to and from) in one day. Unlike Govindghat to Valley of Flowers route, the road to Badrinath is motor-able. You can take a bus or taxi as per your convenience.
Are you wondering, isn’t monsoon time unsuitable for Badrinath same as Kedarnath? Well, chances of heavy rain and landslide are equally there for Badrinath. However, this trip can be completed in a single day. You can leave early morning and come down before sunset. Like Kedarnath, you have to hardly walk.
All in all, Valley of Flowers and Badrinath come together in one package but not Kedarnath and the Valley of flowers ! | 2019-04-18T11:13:02Z | https://valleyofflowers.info/can-i-combine-kedarnath-with-valley-of-flowers-tour/ |
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By the time the Venn reached the homeland the next year, Rajnir’s physical recovery matched his resumption of authority.
He kept the promises he had made to Valda and to Halvir Durasnir. The promise to Valda was first: he declared the end of birth-thralldom. This stunning change in Venn culture was not altogether welcome, including by some thralls, who found themselves thrust into a situation they were ill equipped to handle: earning a living. Most of that generation remained as servants, and some even wore their iron torcs as badges of loyalty, which created another strange eddy in the flow of Venn history.
Rajnir regained friends, and made new ones. He had lovers, though he refused to marry: he appointed Brun Durasnir to oversee the queen’s former duties.
Though he deeply valued, and was valued by, his small circle, he was never a popular king. His reign became synonymous with Rainorec, Venn Doom, shadowed by memories of defeat, humiliation, and summary change. He knew it, and resented the weight of authority, which he felt as an invisible torc nearly as insufferable as the magical control Erkric had once exerted over him. So when Halvir Durasnir reached the age of thirty–the old year of kingship–Rajnir abdicated on his behalf.
The uproar this created was mostly at the top, as Halvir had been given increasing responsibility from the time he turned twenty. He was bright, handsome, respected, so the uproar was mostly a gesture on the part of the other Houses who had hoped eventually to gain ascendance. They resented this promotion of Durasnir House over all, so Halvir adopted the name of his beloved wife–Tadara Sofar–and thus created the dynasty that remained in place for 800 years. In pledging marriage, he gave to Tamara one of the Durasnir family’s most precious ornaments, the Durasnir Dragoneye, a stone from the mysterious selenseh redian, now named the Sofar Dragoneye.
Tadara was Signi’s daughter, born in Sartor during the time the Mage Council held sessions determining whether or not to accept the gift offered. Mistress Resvaes of the Sartoran Magic Council, perhaps regretting an over-swift decision she had made years before, became Signi’s champion. Signi remained in Sartor for a couple of years, teaching the navigation, and establishing magical connections with the Venn nodes of measure.
Then Signi traveled home at last. She had a very few years left with her mother, healing the long breach; her father had died in Goerael. Signi had nothing but the clothes that she stood in and a pack of books, so she had warned her small daughter not to expect much. She was considerably surprised, and somewhat dismayed, to be accepted as a Seer. At first she tried to explain that she had only had one vision, and memory had reduced it to an untrustworthy memory. She may as well have spoken into the wind. Her mother left nothing–hel dancers’ property belonged to the group in those days. Signi was welcomed to live with the Durasnirs, where Tadara grew up. Tadara was not much to look at. She was short and square and brown, contrasting with her tall, blond friends and relations, but she and Halvir were fast friends by the end of their first meeting, the stronger because both felt like outsiders. As they got older their friendship deepened to a lifelong bond.
The prospect of Tadara as a new kind of queen resigned the Houses to the elevation of a Durasnir to king. The two reigned well, but peace did not outlast them. Erkric’s magic had indeed been hoarded by a secret cabal. When Valda’s vigilant dags at last died off, the cabal made a try for control of the kingdom; after Halvir’s death, they tried again, teaming with some of the old houses who wanted to expand in order to recover old glory. The result was the Venn were defeated by an alliance of neighboring lands, and the first item on the treaty was that they had to give up all magic, except the domestic spells, which would be overseen by the Mage Council.
As a sign of agreement and surrender, the king gave to the alliance the most precious of recent Venn treasures, the Sofar Dragoneye. The alliance carried it away, and with it, Venn greatness, or so the Venn felt. The mages saw the end of their dominance, and turned inward, eventually utterly reorganizing their methods of teaching. They became what later were called the Eyes of the Crown.
Meanwhile, the Venn largely vanished from the history of the rest of the world, except as a vague and dire legend. They continued to be unvague and very dire in the north for centuries to come, eventually causing the northern kingdoms to form a defensive federation at Bereth Ferian, but that, as they say, is another story.
The Fox Banner Fleet metamorphosed into a Marlovan navy. As newcomers were recruited, Marlovans and Iascans, the old guard slipped eastward, most to Freedom. Though Toaran in origin, the Swifts remained at the core of the navy. Eflis and Sparrow, who had gradually taken over the education of the new ship rats, finally retired and established a mariners’ school at the then-small harbor at Ellir. It grew, eventually training Khanerenth’s military in both land and maritime skills–with an emphasis on the latter.
Jeje sa Jeje was the first to sail away from the Fox Banner Fleet, once the navy took on a distinctly Marlovan air. Nugget sailed with her, and for a time they hired out to convoys and protected them. When they heard about pirate attacks, Jeje sailed to fight them, commanding from the Vixen pretty much as Inda had done. She never lost a battle, and became Harbormaster on the retirement of Dhalshev. She stayed in that position her entire life. She insisted to the end that what she did was not politics, though she wore her beautiful crimson robe for what she called ‘negotiations’ until it had faded and aged, but by then it had gained such authority that subsequent Harbormasters always wore crimson robes when issuing orders.
Jeje Pirate-Fighter was justly famed during her long life; her renown spread after a Colendi court poet met her (and how a court poet got anywhere near Jeje, who hated kings and despised nobles, is a story in itself). After an interview with Jeje (during which the poet heard Jeje’s opinions of courts and kings) the poet staged a play about Jeje, using her to pillory the falsity of courtly life as she presented an entirely fictitious episode in which Jeje gets the best of counts and countesses, dukes and duchesses, and finally royalty. That play was a resounding success. Jeje became a staple figure in plays for several centuries–always wearing crimson, though by then no one knew why. She would have found it most amusing that at least one of the events of her colorful life was entirely made up.
After he and Jeje first returned to Freedom, Tau could never stay in one place long, so he ended up traveling all through the Sartoran continent, from courts to harbors until he was co-opted more and more frequently as a negotiator between the various governments and interests along the strait, and in the east. His reputation as Elgar’s ‘angel’ was occasionally bolstered by wily old Chim and his “If ye cannot settle, we’ll call the Marlovans in. Ye know Taumad’s friends with their king.”; This combination established a peace that–to everyone’s surprise–stretched from years to decades; by the time Tau found out about Chim’s stratagem, the old fleet commander had died at last, and Tau never denied the allegation.
Tau and Jeje had a son. During the long waits for Tau to return, Jeje and Dasta in middle-age surprised one another with a hankering for marriage. This marriage complemented Jeje’s relationship with Tau; Jeje and Dasta had a son. With Dasta as the stationary parent, the boys grew up as brothers.
Both Jeje’s sons stayed with the sea, Dasta’s in ship building, and Tau’s became a famous pirate fighter. So famed in fact that many of Inda’s exploits were later attributed to him, including the freeing of the strait. This son married a woman from the west of Bren, which contributed to the legend of ‘Elgar’ having been born in Bren. Some of the descendants of this marriage crossed over into Ymar.
Mutt and Nugget did not pair up. He had a hankering for security and even respectability, unrecognized until he had become the first admiral of the Marlovan navy after Barend retired to become harbormaster at the Nob. After ten good years he retired to Lindeth with an Olaran wife and a sea-bent progeny, becoming harbormaster for the remainder of his life. Nugget resented the discipline that Mutt loved, and she was incapable of a single sustained relationship. She was one of the first to find her way back to Freedom. Though she occasionally visited her brother Woof–who became a diplomat, married, and had children—she sailed as an independent until she decided she was too old to swing upside down from the upper masts. She took to conducting tours of the old pirate haunts for wealthy east coasters with a limited taste for adventure. She was such a popular hostess, with all her great stories, that her tour ship multiplied into a flotilla, thus beginning the tour business in the south.
The year after Inda and Tdor went home to Choraed Elgaer, Princess Tdor-Kialen Montrei-Vayir was born to Hadand and Evred. Hadand kept her in the royal city so that Starand would not raise her; unfortunately, Fabern Idayago-Vayir, Starand’s daughter, was far more obnoxious than her mother. Tdor-Kialen had to grow up with Fabern, but life could have been far worse. Liet Toraca, Nightingale’s daughter, was chosen to marry Evred and Hadand’s second son. Liet was a peace-maker, beloved by both of the princes, by Tdor-Kialen, and by Evred and Hadand.
Cama’s children both inherited his good looks, but his son had more of his personality, so Tdor-Kialen was content to go north, where they had a good marriage. She allied strongly with her half-sister, Cama and Ndand-Arveas’s daughter, who became Randviar after her mother. Because of the network of guild women and Marlovan defenders established by those two women, peace lasted in the north far longer than anyone would have expected.
Starand’s daughter Fabern had inherited her father’s stunning black-eyed beauty, and her mother’s personality, which beauty and rank only worsened. There was no possibility she would ever get enough attention, and eventually she became the most gossiped-about gunvaer in generations.
Tdor-Kialen’s having been kept home broke tradition, and while everyone acknowledged Hadand-Gunvaer Deheldegarthe’s right to raise her daughter, more and more jarl families found excuses to keep their daughters at home. As the Ola-Vayirs gradually gained ascendance in the northwest especially, the breakdown of the betrothal system began. The girls did not always become loyal to the new families, but more often stayed loyal to their own, and generations later there were some spectacular kidnappings, runaways, and escapes to add to family legends, especially during the years the Ola-Vayirs were on the throne and Jarls ruled their jarlates like petty kings.
Choraed Elgaer flourished under the watchful care of its new Adaluin and Iofre. Inda-Adaluin continued to ride the border, sometimes swapping off with Whipstick if spring was late and his wounds troubled him. Not that Inda ever said anything, he’d just find Whipstick and the Riders gone, and he’d wonder how they knew. Whipstick and Noren had a daughter the year after their son Tanrid was born. Hadand-Gunvaer placed the girl with the senior Basna family, and Tanrid went to the academy to train as a dragoon commander.
The year 3963, the Year of the Great Frost, brought the most changes. It began when Fareas-Iofre died quietly in her sleep during a deep winter freeze. Inda began his rounds during what he thought was the beginning of a very late spring, but was caught by a terrible blizzard. He never did well in extremely cold weather; his joints would pain him into immobility, especially his right arm. A well-meaning young Runner gave him a hero’s dose of kinthus, as no one knew about his near overdose in Ymar. Inda sank into vision, surrounded by his Riders, and slipped out of life, leaving Castle Tenthen distraught.
Another death that year was Buck Marlo-Vayir. By then, he and Fnor and Vedrid, Captain of the King’s Riders, had settled into a comfortable relationship where Fnor and Vedrid were together whenever the King’s Rider was sent through on Herskalt duties.
Hadand was so upset by the news abut Inda that she took horse to go home to Tenthen, with the idea that she and Tdor could comfort one another. She had grown stout, as her grandmother had been, and though she was still strong and active in her ceaseless rounds, she was not the rider she’d been as a girl. The animal slipped on black ice–the frost had lingered for weeks–Hadand fell and broke her neck.
Tdor saw her son Jarend and his wife Rialden take over as Adaluin and Iofre. While recovering from the double tragedy of Inda’s and Hadand’s deaths, she considered her future. She could be senior woman–her relations with the younger generation were as good as Fareas-Iofre’s had been, if not better–but she felt there was no need of a senior woman. The young people were perfectly capable, and though she loved Tenthen, without Inda, home only held part of her heart.
When Joret Dei’s and Valdon Shagal’s son, the crown prince of Anaeran-Adrani, came to Darchelde on his world tour, Tdor was invited to Darchelde again.
Most of the Tenthen Castle children had shown little interest in Tdor’s young days, for as far as they were concerned, her life had been boring–never in the midst of great events. The exception was her tiny wisp of a granddaughter with the heart-shaped face that reminded Tdor of Mran Cassad, and eyes so much like Fareas-Iofre’s. That child observed, she thought, she read, and Tdor recognized another whose inward life was as rich as any life of adventure could ever be. So before she left, Tdor invited this girl to her room, and gave her the old trunk, explaining each notch, while the girl knelt beside her, big brown eyes intent, her thin little body shivering with intensity.
Tdor packed her few belongings into a saddle bag, and rode to Darchelde, with only one lingering, impress-on-the-memory backward glance, because she sensed it would be her last.
In Darchelde, Tdor was welcomed by Fox on down to her granddaughter Tdan, who was tall, strong, with bright red hair and green eyes. Tdan had inherited Fox’s sense of irony–and his restlessness for travel.
Montredavan-An girls still could not marry into any Iascan families. In fact, within ten years of becoming gunvaer Fabern Ola-Vayir had disbanded the queen’s training when she discovered that her sister in law, Liet Toraca, was far more powerful and effective than herself. Women were required to train their own daughters; the practical result was to diminish the sense of community among the Iascan women, which had dire results within a few generations.
Tdan Montredavan-An grew up at home. She and her Grandma Tdor became fast friends. Then the Adrani prince arrived, and Tdor witnessed Tdan and the prince fall dramatically in love.
Fox revealed his secret project to Tdor, who had stayed on to share memories of Inda. She used his words without amending them, not excluding the ‘banner of damnation’ though she knew the Fox Banner had once belonged to the Montredavan-Ans.
Two years later, when Tdan traveled over the mountain to marry the crown prince, Tdor went with her, getting at last to venture beyond the Iascan border. She and Joret traveled to Sartor together. Tdor was delighted with new vistas, interesting people, famous places; meanwhile, she had never forgotten Signi or her possible daughter. Not knowing if she’d ever get an answer, she sent a message via the Magic Council there in Sartor.
It took a season, but a letter arrived in the Adrani capital for Tdor, causing quite a stir. It had been sent all the way from the Land of the Venn. And it contained a magical transfer token.
Though everyone tried to talk Gramma Tdor out of using it, she vanished one day, and transferred to the far north. There she was met by Signi, whose health was failing, but she was kind and welcoming, interested in everything Tdor had to say. Tadara, now Queen of the Venn, looked like a sandy-haired Hadand to Tdor, but of all Inda’s children she was the only one to inherit that distinctive, intense gaze Inda had had: when he heard you, you felt like you were the only thing in the world for him, right then.
Tdor did not stay long. She did not know the language, and the confusing tangle of garishly colored underground rooms and tunnels seemed strange and unwelcoming. She could tell that nobody save Signi and the young queen knew what to make of her, and there was tension in Twelve Towers, something about trouble with mages. Tdor did not want to experience that long transfer wrench again, and so Tadara arranged a ship voyage to the south for her. As Tdor began her southward journey at the height of summer, she experienced the strange hissing lights that arced and shimmered across the far northern sky, a sight so beautiful she spent a couple of short nights lying on deck and staring up at the stars.
From trader to trader she was passed along, until at last she reached Anaeran-Adrani again.
Tdor continued to write letters to the wives of her sons (neither boy liked writing any more than Inda had) and her granddaughters. Now included among the correspondents was Tadara Sofar, Queen of the Venn, who asked for the truth about her father. Tdor answered all her questions as truthfully as she had Fox’s. Tadara cherished those records, which became a part of the Sofar archive deep in their mountain fastness.
Tdor enjoyed writing to Tadara about Inda. As she felt her long life drawing to a close, the importance of records preoccupied her, and so it was she who talked Valdon Shagal into writing his famous memoir. Though his thanks to her were subsequently left out by later Shagal descendants, who considered an old, foreign grandmother irrelevant, the tone that everyone later found so enchanting owed everything to Tdor. Valdon had read each day’s writing to her, and he did not consider a passage successful unless he had made her smile.
Fox’s son never went to sea, so the Montredavan-An connection to the navy ended there for several generations.
The year that Inda died, once he recorded Tdor’s memories, Fox Montredavan-An finished his book, which he had been working on steadily in between Inda’s annual visits. He left his jarlate to his son Indevan, who resigned from the King’s Runners, though he and Hastred Montrei-Vayir had had a good relationship.
Fox gave his memoir into Indevan’s hands, and took off to sail the world in the drakan-ship he had named Treason.
There, he, and the ship, vanish in time.
Inda never knew about Fox’s record. What would become the famous chronicle of Elgar the Fox was handed down as a secret in the Montredavan-An family. It became a manual for restoring the academy when the Montredavan-Ans (or Montredaun-Ans, after the language shift) regained the throne, once their ten generation exile ended.
Here the history of Fox’s memoir takes a peculiar turn. His descendants appreciated the wisdom and skill that Fox recorded in his long conversations with Inda. But they decided that knowledge was power, and so the memoir was recopied into two versions. There was an edition written for the general reader, called An Examination of Greatness (Fox’s title, but without his ironic introduction), with an eye to the enhancement of Marlovan prestige. This edition excised everything about the academy and training, and sank Inda’s part, attributing to Fox most of Inda’s exploits.
This was the version sent to the Fellowship of the Tower archive in Sartor, where it was duly copied, exactly as written, right down to errors of orthography, and distributed to any who wished to see. It became very popular in Colend and Sartor when the second most famous Montredaun-An king, Ivandred, brought the Fox Banner east, before it became known as the Banner of the Damned. The unedited version, as Fox wrote it, remained hidden for many centuries. The name Elgar Strait has lasted for 800 years.
The warrior associated with the name took on such legendary exploits that his birthplace was, and still is, claimed by at least six kingdoms, and his life was reported as recent for two hundred years after Inda’s lifetime.
‘Elgar’ came to mean invincible, a paladin, in most languages except those used by the Marlovans. In Iasca Leror (and later, when the kingdom renamed itself Marloven Hesea, then Marloven Hess) the name Indevan persisted in popularity. As Choraed Elgaer gradually receded from Marlovan affairs until it became its own kingdom, local legends about Inda remained distinct. 800 years later there are still traces of Inda in local stories and in local names such as Indascamp, a meadow where Inda usually stayed on his yearly rounds, and Indasbridge, near what used to be Tenthen. Inda’s tapestry was so revered it ended up being stolen several times, always in inheritance disputes. Eventually the tales of Inda-Harskialdna divorced completely from the faraway legends of the sea-going Elgar the Fox. Marlovens just never took much to sea tales.
When Evred told Vedrid he was leaving the kingdom with Taumad Dei, he kept his long-ago promise, offering to release Vedrid from service. Vedrid had no desire whatsoever to travel; he also knew that the king would be in good hands, and so he became a private individual at last, traveling down to Marlo-Vayir. Vedrid and Fnor retired to the horse stud, leaving the younger generation to take their positions as Jarl and Randael, Jarlan and Randviar.
Meanwhile, Evred traveled the world, spending the longest in Sartor. He kept his identity secret with Tau’s concurrence; he spent an entire year masquerading as a scribe in the Archive in Sartor. If the Magic Council knew who he was (and it’s likely) there was no official note taken.
Jeje understood him quite well, and on-lookers were amazed to see their tough old Harbormaster blush. He never interfered with governance, but seemed to content to pace over Inda’s boyhood sites, and then sit in Dasta’s tavern and listen to sea-faring stories and talk through the old battles stories. Jeje soon got used to his presence. He and Tau took up residence on the hill overlooking the bay.
One last note before I leave them to enjoy their days in peace and tranquility.
Evred recognized the sky in Dasta’s tavern from one of the records he’d perused in the Archive in Sartor. That pattern of stars had been captured by a magic spell, the result of a mage who had been through the Gate to other worlds.
He hesitated about revealing it. He had no use for the money, as Tau had sufficiency for their needs. After listening to speculation, he finally decided to leave the subject alone. Discovering that mysterious sky was an adventure best left to the young. | 2019-04-24T16:48:23Z | http://www.sherwoodsmith.net/sartorias-deles/inda-banner/what-happened-after-treasons-shore/ |
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Playing Minecraft, I like making circular things. I used a chart while I was building, but wanted to be able to make variable size ovals which is something I couldn't find a decent chart of or generator capable of, so I created this!
Fork my source on Github!
thanks this helped a lot in building by giant dome!
Thanks for creating this, will be using this alot in my upcoming builds!
thanks a lot. this will help me build my imperial city.
Thanks so much i just finished my castle useing these designs as the colums!
Is it also possible to create a circle around 4 blocks instead of 1 like here?
thank you very much, extremely useful!
Is there a download to this?
Thanks, this is going to help a ton with my bowl build.
New version is so much faster, thanks!
You have my gratitude, this has helped in in more ways than one.
Wow. Thanks, service with a smile there! I'll be sure to refer back to this while I build. You could make a 3-D version for domes and spheres!
Thanks, helped ALOT! Wish there was a way to zoom in, but otherwise fantastic!
This is great, but I pressed filled, and now I can't get it back. Help?
how do i see my result, theres no where to hit enter or something to send my numbers through or something.
It should appear instantly as you change the value. If you could provide some information on what browser and version you are using I can look into the problem.
This would be a great app that I would defiantly pay 99 cents for. Great design tool!
Could it be possible to make it so we can change the color on the tiles by clicking on them? It'd be a lot easier to know how far you are without having to alt+tab several times in a row to count very tiny pixels!
Also, if you could make it so it shows a cross with the intersection at the middle (2 wide if the number of blocks is even so the intersection is a 2x2 square) it'd be awesome in helping to count how many blocks you need to dig/construct!
Have you considered selling this a s an android/IOs app? also it would be a nice download for a small computer application.
I'm using this to work on a large project in CivCraft. This is a huge help. One suggestion I have is the ability to only show 1/4 of the circle. It's all I'm really using, and since the circle is 193 blocks across, having the rest showing makes it so that I can't see the individual blocks. Two other good suggestions are to have a way of marking blocks you've built already and a way to download a picture of the circle/shape.
Thanks for taking to time to make such a useful program!
@Rumaan just slide the "Scale" slider to the right a bit and use the scroll bars to position it.
Brilliant! Very easy to use, you saved a ton of time!
I have been using this generator for nearly a year on my phone with no issues. I have been making semi circles in my castle that step up each level so it has a colisseum look. However, every time I load this page, in the box were width and height are, all that's entered in there is NaN. I can't add to or delete it. Rendering this generator useless to mw now, and there are no other generators that work for me. Marvellous.
Cheers mate helped me build my quidditch stadium!!
Thanks for this. I am building a 501 diameter space station in starmade and it would have taken forever to figure out how to build it right without this.
This is one of the most helpful things I've ever found. Thanks!
Jesse, thank you so much for sharing your gifts with us. It's wonderful to see the multitude of ideas and creations that people have put together. And with this generator, more ideas will manifest even more easily. Thank you and may our Creator continue to bless you with even more ideas. Cheers and namaste!
can you add something where we can click on pixels to highlight them, or delete them? it got hard remembering where i was making a 111x111 circle.
If you want to save the result to an image there is a way. If you look at the page source or use your browser's "inspect element" on the result, you'll see and svg tag.
Then you can take that and paste it into notepad and save as an SVG file, then you can open it in GIMP or some other software that supports SVG files.
Can you create a feature by which you can break the circle or oval in half or quarters? That would help me use it to create the side of a building. You could use checkboxes for top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right quarters to make it more intuitive.
it whould be so cool for an ios app, have you started working on it yet?
also xcode is free to download and use.
I would suggest having it available so you can shade parts of the circle you have already completed, I think this would make it easier for people. I myself have to tab in and out to get the picture of the circle so I can copy it over to the game.I have a terrible memory, so I cannot remember where I left off.
If you were to add this, it would be fantastic. I would very happy if you were to add this.
I can't get it go below double digits, every time i completely remove a value form the box a get NAN it I I have to refresh the page.
I just donated to the fund because I use the page so much in Everquest Landmark closed beta testing. The only issue I have is that for REALLY large circles it is very difficult to count out the squares. Is there any way to maybe make a larger picture when the numbers are larger? Thanks for such a useful tool. If only it could do pentagons and dodecahedrons I would be in heaven.
I have been using this for a long time now, and it's been a great help in my builds. A great feature would be if you could only view a 1/4 of the circle if it's a circle or 1/2 if it's an oval as when I'm building circles with a diameter of over 500 I have to zoom in all the way on the scale factor, and then zoom in on the web page just to see the pattern.
But this is amazing, especially useful for the build of Thriller Bark I made, which if I was sane would have been a lot smaller but hey, I wanted it to be to scale so the diameter of the outer walls reached 575.
Thanks! I use it all the time.
print out the coordinates of the perimeter pixels, given the center point?
I got frustrated trying to make a big dome (I had only made little ones previously) and a quick google search turned this up. Thanks, man.
I tried to use plots on my tablet so I found you website and I love how I could zoom in like usual thanks a lot.
keep up hopes though! i mean... like... i guess?
The center line helps a lot! I had to use it to align screencaps of my circle. An option to save as image would be useful.
This tool is great! However, after making 10 circles that steadily get larger and larger, I noticed that the red color of the boxes starts hurting my eyes :( Is there any way to have a color changing option?
Thanks! now I can make my own circular arena!
Can u reference me to a STAR generator? I'm trying to make Hammer Kirby, and I keep srewing up the star, help plz!?
I made a really big thing out of circles.
I am using this for about a week on my kindle fire and I was wondering if you could add a save button that saves it as a image, is an idea. But this is very great thanks so much for letting us use it.
Thanks for making this it really helps me out a lot. I've been using this page for a while and it's helped me build many things. So once again thank you for making this.
Thank you so much, I am building a massive ship in space engineers (291 blocks long) and this has been such a great help!
Also, if anyone wants to save a picture of their circle and are using a mac you can go into the "Grab" program and take pictures of part of your screen.
Just a suggestion here, I dont know if someone said it before.
It would be nice to be able to click and color the blocks so we know what we have built yet.
This has been so helpful to me in my minecraft projects.
One suggestion I would make would be to offer a numerical version so I can see exactly how many blocks I have to lay, in order to make one quarter of of the circle without having to squint and count the pixels on the screen.
I regularly work with circles that are around the 500 diameter range so as you can imagine, figuring out exactly what blocks I need to put down can be grating on my eyes and, if I miscount, my patience.
I don't do Minecraft, but I do Perler Bead crafts (aka Hama beads or Fuse beads). Beads are placed on a peg-studded board to hold them in place, then fused together with heat from an iron when the design is complete. I was trying to make circles on a square grid peg board and having a terrible time--until I found this! THANK YOU!
Thx for this, will be using it in my massive tree on BeastsMC - an epic creative server with freebuild, plots and an awesome community! Join!
Could there be a tool that lets you make rings that have a filled-in circle but have an inner circle cut out?
Can you include something to mark the center? And something to list the radius of the circle?
Hey, I would like to see this one with a center of 2x2 instead of the 1x1. THanks in advance!
Thank you! I was having trouble making a circular arena for my new Ps3 hunger games map! this has helped sooooooooo much.
Will Definately be using this when building my version of The Lost City Of Atlantis map on Ps3. Just wish the lengths were numbered.
This is a good program for building on terraria.
You. Might add that into your description. This help me build biospheres.thanks!
Really useful, especially when it comes to world-edit sylinder and circle commands! Thanks a tonne for this!
Hi I'm creating the golden cage asuna is trapped in from sword art online and this is really use full to create the two circles for the birdcage she is trappped in thanx a bunch!
This is a great tool, but if you continue to work on it, you should have the option to generate multiple circles so that you can get an idea of what outer and inner circle's will look like together.
Hi well done the team love this tool when building. We can finally delete the rubish pixel app that takes up loads of space. Well done buddy.
Thanks so much for this. Can you add a center point so I know where the middle is?
Having a few issues with this program. Trying to create a sphere to encapsulate the spawnable area for hostile mobs (wiki: 128 radius from player). So I doubled the radius to 256 then generate a sphere based on that. Before I started I plotted out 6 points all starting out from the 0/0 axis in the end (which I removed all end stone). Markers were placed exactly 128 bocks up, down, left and right so it covers all X/Y/Z directions. When building the sphere I noticed that the 2D sides did not meet up with my (triple checked) reference points mentioned above. The sphere generated by this program seemed too big ( by quite a sizeable margin I might add). Thinking it was my error I recounted the chart...three times...rebuilt...three times...but still no joy. This is a great generator to make spheres...not denying that....but for really technical mapping it's fairly inaccurate in "true to size" builds. Sorry to rain on your parade but thinking I might add this footnote for other builders like myself thus saving them time. But hey....if your just after a good looking sphere this is the program for you.
Your math is simply bad. If you have a radius of 128 the diameter in pixel universe will be 255, not 256, because one of those blocks is the center. That is your issue.
My circles are mathematically correct. The math in fact is particularly simple.
Egg on face, foot in mouth...comment above humbly retracted. Seems I was factoring in an extra block by mistake. Circles ARE true to size. Big enough to know when I'm wrong. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks alot, this is super helpful in mega-builds, used it both for my laboratory and my castle. it's super effective!
Thanks-I actually used this for space engineers! Just made a ring around my space station.
What is the math behind this?
THIS SITE IS AMAZING I LIVE IT THANK YOU CREATOR!
Very nice generator. I used to have to use Neil Fraser Voxel Sphere Generator then find the middle slice to get a circle :o This is a whole lot more convenient.
nice one, this is helpful with some bio-spheres im building. great job and as many people have suggested if you could highlight the squares that would be great.
Hello, are there a formula for making a circle in minecraft?
Thanks a lot ! Helped me with a building in Terraria.
Using it to build a centaur class starship full size. I tried to do the saucer shape by eye but failed critically. This is really useful!
I think the png should be like 1 Block = 1 Pixel.. that would make things a LOT easier.. But still, a great tool!
Its useful however at 3, it creates a square, whereas the red blocks at 3 should disapeear if you wished for something kind of circular.
(search it up its amazing) anyway I needed a 120x120 circle and I was searching through Google and i found this so I'm using it this website is amazing.
Helped so much when finishing my Labyrinth. Other charts from google wouldn't go high enough. Amazingly helpful.
Used this for starbound, somewhere during the 60 minute long creation of my dome in the acid rain of a toxic planet it came out unsymmetrical by 3 blocks. fml.
Love this... Thank you so much, also is there any way to have layouts for circles in circles, like having more than 1 circle in the same layout in different sizes.
This really helped me when I was building a life size S.T.A.R. Labs model from the flash on Minecraft. Thanks for making it, it's brilliant!
THANKS SO MUCH THIS REALLY HELPED WHEN I WAS BILDING S.T.A.R LABS. I MESSED UP A LITTLE BUT IT TURNED OUT OK.
Could you possibly make it work with slabs as well?
using this to build an underwater city in starbound. lit A.F.
1. All one basically needs are quarter circles (ok, even 1/8th of a circle would do, but a quarter is more convenient. An option for that would be fine.
2. It would help immensely if you could change the save option for SVG in a way that one could get SVGs with different diametersat the same scale, so one can join different circles (or quarter circles) in one image by importing them into inkscape.
I found this tremendously helpful. Thank You.
I am a YouTuber who plays on many servers in which i build circles. Next time. I'm gonna be linking this is my description! AMAZING! I'm sorry i cant donate. But hopefully the peeps I tell about this will donate!
I have a base that is a bunch of circular rings, a bit like Mumbo Jumbo's base on the hermitcraft server. Cannot begin to comprehend how amazing this was. Thank you!
This is helping me build my 244 block wide dome of glass!
Hello, I wish to donate but do mot have money. But i know about Mumbo Jumbo!
Thank you so so much! You, my friend, are a saint! This is probably the most useful thing I'll ever use for building in Minecraft. Thanks again; keep up the great work.
So dang useful! thanks so much I completed lots of builds with thia.
Coincidentally, we can use this calculator to approximate pi.
Set the calculator to filled circle.
Force it to a circle.
Do the ratio on how many where shaded / how many unshaded.
Muitiply the ratio by 4.
As you can see, the approximation is close to pi.
1. Users : Do not know about cosine and muitipling it by x and truncating it.
2. Non-users : Know how to truncate cosine * x.
Thanks this will help create my GTA V in Minecraft!!
Is it possible to make a Spiral of Archimedes with this somehow?
Is there a version of this that goes up to 25,000?
Thank you for the heads up. I'd heard this from a couple people but was never able to reproduce it until today. It ends up it was a race condition, so it was dependent on the speed of your machine.
I believe I have fixed the issue. You may need to clear your browser cache to get it to work.
Excellent tool. even though its effectively a worse version of plotz,this has the default set to 2D AND it works on school wifi.
Thanks ypfor making this it's helping me make my skyblock islands.
A 200 by 666 oval filled with windows 10 can partially turn your screen black.
Words can't express how grateful I am. Thank you soooooo much!
Wait, how did you program this?
It would be great if you could include row numbers. On large circles I sometimes get lost, so it would be great to be able to count the rows to work out where I am.
now i can make my own Imperial City, Ba Sing Se and Minas Tirith!
Ive been using this for cross stitching, the perfect tool!
Yes! Here I come pvp arena for pros!
I suggest building the straight lines first and then using one part of it all the way around so you dont have to look at all four sides, this will help with larger circles.if your using this for minecraft of course!
I'm making a circle that's 170-175 books in diameter and built it up into a sphere and I've read the top comment that would've made it easier to build now can anyone tell me how to tie a noose so I can hang myself.
Anyone else with you could color it???
The center is marked out if you input an odd number, even numbers cannot have a center that is a single block inbetween others.
i agree, colors would indeed be nice, young padawan. often I find myself losing count then having to go back, only to lose count again.
thanks this will be a lot of help!!
Great tool! I Love it! It really helped on my build, would've like if it had a download image button. Thanks for making this!
Now to come up with a floor design to fit this awesome size 51 circle.
This helped me a lot while I was building a huge circle. all the other websites wouldn't work and when I came to this one I was so happy.
it helped me a lot and I really enjoyed being able to use it, altho I was wondering, why is the height of the iframe 810px?
Thanks for this tool, useful for many games with block based building, using this to build battleship turrets in From the Depths at the moment. Thank you would have had no idea where to start with a 31 diameter circle!
I really like it. Can I use it for my website?
I'm building a biome bubble in Terraria!
Thank you so much. This has been a lifesaver for the airship I'm building.
Thank you so much for this tool! I have used this on countless occasions both for Minecraft and for just needing a circle for something.
This tool is amazing! I have no idea how you made it (black magic?), but it is very easy to use and well made!
Fantastically made and I hope you keep it going strong.
is there a version or when I put 1504 of diameter it does not crash?
Thanks for this! It will help me finish my windmill for my village in modded Minecraft.
Can you add a part under the shape that has the command for minecraft that we can copy and paste onto it?
I built a kind of castle that was 364x364 in survival.
It was pain, but it would've taken 10000000000000000000000000 yrs if I did it without this.
For zoom just use the scale bar under the input areas.
Could you make a circle with 2 in the middle?
Really helpful and simple! Thanks!
I am creating a 1301 diameter circle... The zoom is far too small for that... I have used this dozens of times over the years so thanks!
Have you considered other mathematical shapes, like parabolas and hyperbolas?
Great tool - thanks for your effort!
Hey! Awesome tool with some pretty cool shapes but theres something I can't seem to find anywhere, diagonal ellipsoids. Do you think you could make one that is capable of making diagonal ellipsoids?
This is really handy in minecraft and many other games! | 2019-04-26T08:43:50Z | https://donatstudios.com/PixelCircleGenerator |
Lazyfeed, a Web service with good buzz, has opened up and is available to all today. It’s a browser-based tool for reading items from RSS feeds with an interesting premise: What if items were organized not by the originating feed (here’s Technologizer’s) but by topic–and were updated in real time? Like many brand-new services, it seems to be suffering some launch-day hiccups at the moment–it’s a bit sluggish, and is giving me some errors. But it’s still worth checking out.
The emphasis in Lazyfeed is very much on the newest stuff rather than the ones that are most relevant or from the biggest sources–for instance, the last time I checked the feed for “microsoftoffice,” the first item I saw was a job listing from a company seeking a secretary with Microsoft Office experience. I’d like Lazyfeed even better if the most worthwhile items on a topic were easier to find; maybe it’ll get better at filtering them for me as I use it more. I’m already finding it useful, though, especially for discovering items from sources that aren’t on my menu of feeds over at Google Reader–and which sometimes come from sites I’ve never heard of. Lazyfeed isn’t meant to replace Google Reader or other standard RSS readers, although I could easily see it adding enough browse-by-source functionality to make it a substitute for a typical RSS reader rather than a complement.
If you give the service a whirl, let us know what you think.
Harry, thank you for the great writeup, and most of all, I’m glad that you liked it. We intentionally started pretty basic and will be adding more features in the future, so please stay tuned. Also if you look around, there are several features we purposely did not promote yet but are very useful. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Seems to be a useful service, though personally I prefer using Flock browser with its built-in feed. | 2019-04-26T11:58:00Z | https://www.technologizer.com/2009/08/25/lazyfeed-is-live/ |
Posted November 6th, 2014 by Anthony Carbone, PC.
In many instances, workers’ compensation cases are routine ones. They involve approval of authorized medical care, as well as reimbursement for lost wages. In some cases, there may be money due for partial or total disability benefits. However, what happens when the employer or its insurance company disputes the claim? Is there a process in place for contested workers’ compensation cases?
First, it is advisable to seek legal advice when you are injured at work. It may not be difficult to get the insurance company to authorize medical care. However, it is important to know that if you want the bills paid, you need to treat with their doctors. The same goes for reimbursement of lost wages. If their authorized treating doctor directs you to stay out of work, the insurance carrier will likely set up payment for lost wages. Unfortunately, this may take time and an attorney can help with the process. More than likely, the insurance company will not voluntarily make an offer for partial or total disability. It takes an attorney to negotiate this part of the claim.
The real issue occurs when the claim is denied. In some cases, the employer may say that you never worked for them. They might opine that your injuries occurred outside of your employment. Perhaps there are questions of whether your problems are causally related to your job. There may be a dispute about the time frame of your accident. There could even be a question of whether your symptoms are actually part of a disease that has nothing to do with the employer. There are many reasons why a workers’ compensation case is denied.
What happens next is our attorney will file that same procedure used to process accepted claims. At the Law Offices of Anthony Carbone, we recognize the importance in securing medical treatment and reimbursement for lost wages. We will attempt to work with the insurance company to see that both are available to you. If your claim is denied, we will file the necessary paperwork so that a state or private disability plan will pay you in the interim. We will also communicate with doctors concerning your case.
Once the case reaches court, our law firm will negotiate with the insurance company’s lawyers. In some circumstances, it may seem advisable to wait until your case is called to trial. Otherwise, we may attempt to settle under a provision of the law known as “Section 20.” A case settled under Section 20 is reserved for disputed cases. It means that the insurance company has agreed to pay a lump sum payment to close the case. Medical bill payment is part of the amount considered in this type of settlement. It also is a final dissolution of the case. You cannot go back to the insurance company for more money if you suffer issues in the future.
If you have a workers’ compensation claim that was denied, contact the Law Offices of Anthony Carbone for a free consultation. | 2019-04-26T16:43:54Z | https://anthonycarbonepersonalinjurylawyer.com/taking-look-contested-workers-compensation-claims/ |
Gaoping (Sichuan, China) is located in CST (Asia/Shanghai) time zone. Difference to Greenwich mean time in hours: GMT+8. Current local time in Gaoping is: 4:37 pm Saturday, April 20, 2019 [info]. | 2019-04-20T08:37:23Z | http://time-zone.net/china/gaoping/ |
West Virginia defender Kadeisha Buchanan is one of three finalists for the 2015 Missouri Athletic Club’s (MAC) Hermann Trophy. The award represents the highest level of individual achievement in women's soccer.
A native of Brampton, Ontario, Buchanan is the first finalist in WVU’s 20-year history. Five different Mountaineers were previously semifinalists for the honor, including Buchanan and junior midfielder Ashley Lawrence this season.
The other two women’s finalists are Penn State senior midfielder Raquel Rodriguez and Virginia senior defender Emily Sonnet.
Buchanan, a three-time NSCAA All-America and two-time first team honoree, anchored a Mountaineer back line that recorded 15 shutouts this season, a program record, and allowed a program-low 11 opponent goals. The three-time reigning Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year, Buchanan and the WVU defense also put together a program-record nine-match shutout streak this season (Aug. 28 – Sept. 25).
Buchanan helped the Mountaineers claim their fourth straight Big 12 Conference regular-season title this year. WVU advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight, the second appearance in program history, and accumulated 19 victories, a program record. WVU was ranked in the top 10 nationally each week but two this year and hit a program-high No. 2 ranking twice.
The MAC Hermann Trophy is the highest individual intercollegiate award administered by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), and is presented annually at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis. This year’s trophy presentation and banquet will take place Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. | 2019-04-20T12:34:04Z | http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=210578718 |
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Your Westlake Louisiana minor in possession course has been designed to work on all major web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari. There are no downloads required. | 2019-04-22T14:07:38Z | https://www.onlinealcoholclass.com/MIP-Classes/Louisiana/Westlake |
Teijin Frontier has developed a polyester high-gauge knitting material laminated with a breathable film to produce thin, lightweight and breathable textiles. Textiles laminated with breathable film are widely used for high-functional sportswear due to their waterproofness and stretchability. The new material is compact as well as stretchable, form-stable and moisture-permeable. It has a glossy, translucent appearance and a smooth texture for excellent drapability. The company will sell its new material mainly for spring/summer 2019 sportswear.
The Lineage collection from Concertex includes two new silicone hybrid upholstery products that fuse together flair and function for the contract, health care and hospitality markets. Journey and Moonlets incorporate technology that combines silicone on the top coat, layered over a polyurethane base. With a subtle hand and outstanding durability, the new product technology allows for the transfer-printed design to be embossed. The textiles boast an abrasion resistance of more than 200,000 double rubs and are inherently graffiti-free for high-traffic environments.
Recognized in the marine market for its weather resistance and durability, Sunbrella® SeaMark® is now available in a wider selection of colors and has expanded from marine applications into the commercial shade market. Fabricated from durable Sunbrella performance fabric and 100 percent impervious waterproof backing, SeaMark is available in many colors for marine uses such as biminis, dodgers and cockpit enclosures as well as restaurant patio enclosures, office canopies and awnings. These fabrics are easy to care for, fade resistant and bleach cleanable.
Sunbrella Fabrics, Glen Raven, N.C., U.S.A.
Mimaki USA’s new TS55-1800, a 76.3-inch, dye-sublimation transfer inkjet printer offers high-end features, such as low running costs, high productivity and unattended continuous printing. The printer uses the new Sb610 inks at a maximum output of 1,506 sqft/h (140 sqm/h). These inks hold the ECO PASSPORT by OEKO-TEX® certification, meeting specific requirements with regard to sustainability, safety and compliance. The printer is available with two new optional units: a mini jumbo roll to ensure high-volume unattended printing and a 10 kg ink supply for continuous operation.
Mimaki USA, Suwanee, Ga., U.S.A.
Huntsman Textile Effects’ HIGH IQ® Sun Protect technology uses innovative dyes and effects to help mills, brands and retailers meet consumer demand for fabrics, garments and accessories with built-in sun protection. Fabrics produced with the technology provide an Ultraviolet Protection Factor of up to 50 and above, ensuring the highest level of protection for the lifetime of the product. The Sun Protect effect does not impair the natural aesthetics of the fabric, and prolonged exposure to sunlight and multiple laundering will not degrade the protection or fade the colors.
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Architextiles, a collection of sound-absorbing textiles with a woven 3-D structure designed by Aleksandra Gaca and produced by Casalis®, has added new colors, sizes, patterns and structures. The ribbed texture allows the fabrics to absorb sound waves better than flat textiles, contributing to a quieter interior environment. The textiles are fully customizable and uses include full wall panels and room dividers. The sound-absorbent qualities and easy integration of power sockets and screens, make the panels excellent for use in offices, airports and restaurants. | 2019-04-19T04:43:48Z | https://specialtyfabricsreview.com/2018/12/01/new-products-savvy-textile-solutions/ |
ffmpeg does not detect the audio channels if the audio streams don't have any in the first few seconds.
llogan and vulture both were valuable in figuring the problem.
Patch sent that prints the suggestion about increasing the values for analyzeduration and probesize for the provided sample.
This is now a regression: Current git head does not inform the user that max_analyze_duration was reached and that increasing it could help. | 2019-04-19T08:28:52Z | https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2691 |
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has cast doubts over the conduct of the Osun governorship rerun election taking place on Thursday, September 27, 2018.
The governorship election that originally took place on Saturday, September 22, 2018, was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, September 23.
With Osun residents casting their votes in the affected polling units on Thursday, Atiku has taken to social media to raise alarm over reports of irregularities taking place in the conduct of the election.
He tweeted, “Reports about voters & observers intimidation by security agents in Osun rerun election is unacceptable & must be stopped. The rerun is being widely monitored in Nigeria & beyond.
Atiku’s alarm comes just hours after PDP candidate, Senator Adeleke, described the rerun election as a coup against democracy.
“What is happening in Osun State now is not an election. What we have is a coup. That is what we are witnessing now.
“Our supporters are being harassed and are not allowed to vote at all. Let the whole world know that this is not democracy,” he told The Punch.
There have been several reliable reports that the polling units in Orolu LGA, considered to be the stronghold of the PDP, are scenes of widespread irregularities.
Thugs are reported to scare, harass and physically assault voters suspected to be PDP members while security operatives do little to control the situation.
Journalists and observers are also heavily monitored by security operatives while alleged thugs are reported to have taken over Orolu Ward 08 PU001 in Kajola village.
Some voters in Orolu protested after their permanent voter’s cards (PVC) were seized by gun-wielding thugs and they were sent away.
Three members of the Nigerian Bar Association observer group were also arrested by policemen at Ifon on their way to monitor the rerun election in some of the polling units in Orolu LGA. They were later released.
After INEC initially expressed frustration with reports of security operatives hindering observers and journalist, the commission later disclosed that all issues had been resolved.
“I hope that @inecnigeria will redeem its pledge of being an impartial umpire. | 2019-04-19T08:25:48Z | https://www.1904vibz.com/2018/09/osun-election-rerun-election-conducted.html |
Darren Lee's answer to Eunice Chua's Secondary 1 Maths question.
Since both Denny and John are moving together, we need to focus on the difference in speed instead of their individual speed. For John to catch up with Denny, the difference in speed (150 metres per minutes) is the one that is affecting how long he will take.
Therefore we take the 1800 metres and divide by the difference in speed, we get the time taken for John to catch up. | 2019-04-26T12:13:55Z | https://ask.manytutors.com/answer/482 |
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