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Prolific Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas continually produces biting and sardonic short works which interrogate and subvert states of normalcy. Part of the Dormimundo series, Cama is fascinated with the life of an inanimate object steeped in the values of family and tradition. A 'decent' ... Read more
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Argentina-Based Wideo Wants You to Ditch PowerPoint and Make a Cartoon Instead
October 31, 2012 at 10:10 am PT
The market for online tools that let you make and share presentations is already pretty crowded. But a new entrant in the field is pushing hard for casual users with serious ambitions.
Wideo (formerly Wideoo) hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and officially joins the 500 Startups accelerator program today — home to TaskRabbit, 9Gag and recent Google acquisition Wildfire, among many others. It then launches into a limited userbase beta on Sunday.
The pitch behind Wideo is that it makes quick, fun animations with a lot of pizzazz and a minimum of fuss. After dragging and dropping different pieces of the animation onto a canvas, users can quickly rotate, resize, move and otherwise transform characters, objects, text and their own uploaded images. It uses Adobe Flash right now, but Wideo’s founders seem anxious to roll out an in-development Apple iPad editing app.
The company’s promo video prominently features the Kickstarter logos, and that’s probably not just a coincidence: Kickstarter itself says engaging, share-ready videos translate into more crowdfunding dough. And, honestly, what would you rather watch: A cartoon, or an engineer trying to explain his product in one take?
For many years, it has been possible (but difficult) to make surprisingly decent animations and games with Microsoft’s PowerPoint, and Apple’s rival Keynote program has some competitive offerings in the way of design and ease of use. Wideo, though, pedals as far as it can in the latter direction, way past Keynote into a Prezi-like openness and minimalism.
Unlike Prezi — which is an “ooh, neat” substitute for the one-by-one slides of traditional presentations — Wideo feels more like a hybrid of a presentation tool and a video editor. All the movement and transitions are shown on a timeline below the canvas, but then each individual action is split up for the user into key frames, not slides.
(In simple-ish terms, key frames are the important points of motion that, when put together with less-important frames in between, turn stills into motion. So, you tell Wideo where a character should start walking, where it should stop and how long that motion should take and Wideo fills in all the necessary frames in between to make that happen.)
I got a chance to see an alpha version of Wideo in San Francisco last month, and co-founder Agu De Marco had two surprises up his sleeve.
First, in addition to a freemium payment model that will charge users by the month for advanced features, Wideo has cleverly realized that it can also make money off of virtual product placement. Therefore, if you want your cartoon character to carry a coffee cup, it might just have the Starbucks logo on it someday.
The other intriguing twist is that, even though Wideo offers tools to share videos with all the usual suspects — Facebook, Twitter, etc. — De Marco says his target audiences are entrepreneurs and young professionals. Making a Wideo in lieu of a PowerPoint, he said, will impress yuppies’ bosses and (thanks to those sharing features) replace the need for in-person business presentations.
That may be overreaching, but that’s for Wideo’s users to decide. If you aren’t on the shortlist that gets access to Wideo on Sunday, the company said it will open its doors to more and more people until it is completely public on November 15.
Tagged with: Agu De Marco, animation, Argentina, Buenos Aires, cartoons, crowdfunding, international, Key Frames, Keynote, Kickstarter, PowerPoint, presentations, Prezi, South America, Starbucks, Wideo
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Where Have All the UFOs Gone?
In Essence | Summer 2013
Skepticism is snuffing out wonder.
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One summer night in 1981, Stuart Walton watched a flying saucer hover in the sky outside his bedroom window. He saw “a strikingly large craft of some kind, flattish but with rounded edges.” Pulsing with white lights, the ship moved back and forth before disappearing into a cloud.
Such sightings were common enough that for years a British military unit investigated reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). But the investigations came to nothing. People were usually seeing car headlights, weather balloons, and Frisbees—not flying saucers. In 2009, the British government shuttered the UFO outfit. And over the years, reports of the extraterrestrial and the supernatural—spacecraft, ghosts, and spirits—have dwindled.
Have the aliens gone home? Are we less gullible than we used to be?
If UFOs still lurk, people are too jaded to notice them, argues Walton, a British author writing in Aeon Magazine. Commercial spectacles have made cynics of all of us, dulling our senses of wonder and awe. “In previous centuries, what was visually remarkable stood for the otherworldly, the spiritual.” But now we see dazzling sights every day. Instead of evoking the divine or the unseen, spectacles entice us to buy toothpaste, thrill us in the theater, or beckon us to click the “Like” button.
Much of what we’re bombarded with is pure fantasy. Advertisers paint spectacular worlds of consumer bliss. People cope by embracing blanket disbelief. In 1896, some audiences at the first movie projections fled theaters when a train seemed to bear down on them from the screen. Now we know better than to trust our senses. We treat everything—from Hollywood special effects to incredible YouTube videos to strange phenomena observed late at night—with an “incurious skepticism.”
Even as technology improves our ability to document our surroundings, people keep their eyes peeled for fakery. The moon landings were staged, they say. A camera crew and a movie set are all it would take. “We now extend the same degree of undifferentiating refusal even to those phenomena that, while hard to credit, deserve to be heeded,” Walton writes. “Climate change might be the most obvious current instance, but, at its most noxious, skepticism results in an unwillingness to believe in others’ suffering. The attitude of wholesale rejection, by which one might stand a chance of becoming impervious to fraud, is thus bought at the ever greater risk of nihilism.”
Walton yearns for the time when people were more attuned to wonder. “The baroque façades and soaring spires of cathedrals, the carmines and cobalts of stained-glass windows with the sun streaming through them, devotional processions and carnival parades, gargoyles, misericords, miraculous relics—all attested that there was an intangible reality beyond the physical one, a reality that could at most be suggestively delineated in extraordinary sights.”
Today, in a society “entirely mortgaged to the secular spectacular,” the other reality is lost. “The visible and the invisible, the material and the spiritual, the phenomenal and the noumenal are no longer the distinct realms they once were. They have become mutually permeable to their mutual diminishment.”
Walton remains a believer in that other realm. Several years ago, he watched a documentary on the decline in UFO sightings in Britain. “One man had seen a mysterious object in the sky,” Walton writes of a witness in the documentary. “He had drawn a sketch of [the UFO] soon after. Hearteningly enough, it was identical to mine.”
THE SOURCE: “Seeing and Believing” by Stuart Walton, in Aeon Magazine, April 5, 2013.
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Evolution of substrate specificity within a diverse family of beta/alpha-barrel-fold basic amino acid decarboxylases: X-ray structure determination of enzymes with specificity for L-arginine and carboxynorspermidine. Deng X, Lee J, Michael AJ, Tomchick DR, Goldsmith EJ, Phillips MA.
Evolution of substrate specificity within a diverse family of beta/alpha-barrel-fold basic amino acid decarboxylases: X-ray structure determination of enzymes with specificity for L-arginine and carboxynorspermidine.
Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent basic amino acid decarboxylases from the beta/alpha-barrel-fold class (group IV) exist in most organisms and catalyze the decarboxylation of diverse substrates, essential for polyamine and lysine biosynthesis. Herein we describe the first x-ray structure determination of bacterial biosynthetic arginine decarboxylase (ADC) and carboxynorspermidine decarboxylase (CANSDC) to 2.3- and 2.0-A resolution, solved as product complexes with agmatine and norspermidine. Despite low overall sequence identity, the monomeric and dimeric structures are similar to other enzymes in the family, with the active sites formed between the beta/alpha-barrel domain of one subunit and the beta-barrel of the other. ADC contains both a unique interdomain insertion (4-helical bundle) and a C-terminal extension (3-helical bundle) and it packs as a tetramer in the asymmetric unit with the insertions forming part of the dimer and tetramer interfaces. Analytical ultracentrifugation studies confirmed that the ADC solution structure is a tetramer. Specificity for different basic amino acids appears to arise primarily from changes in the position of, and amino acid replacements in, a helix in the beta-barrel domain we refer to as the "specificity helix." Additionally, in CANSDC a key acidic residue that interacts with the distal amino group of other substrates is replaced by Leu(314), which interacts with the aliphatic portion of norspermidine. Neither product, agmatine in ADC nor norspermidine in CANSDC, form a Schiff base to pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, suggesting that the product complexes may promote product release by slowing the back reaction. These studies provide insight into the structural basis for the evolution of novel function within a common structural-fold.
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Prof. Ahmed A.Medhat A.Fahim is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Official Consultant at the Architect and Housing Institute, [AHI] at Housing & Building National Research Centre, [HBRC] , Past Director of the Electro-Mechanical In Buildings Institute, [EMBI] and Head of the MEP Technical Governmental Reviewers Committee at UTI-Institute at HBRC. HBRC is an Egyptian governmental body ,Since 1954, where all building codes and implementing regulations are prepared and published. He was graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University at 1988 and got his M.Sc and Ph.D from the same university at 1993 and 1999 respectively. He started his HVAC career at 1985 before graduation as a trainee at KOLDAIR company which was one of the biggest and oldest HVAC equipment manufacturer and contractor that related to the Governmental Public Sector and after graduation he continue working till 1998 at KOLDAIR. After getting his M.Sc.. He works for many international consulting firms for the design and supervision of different HVAC projects in the Middle East. During 2002 HBRC elected him to join the field researchers team as a mechanical researcher and certified consultant for HVAC and fire engineering to participate in the developments of the HVAC and fire codes, in addition to that, He has been participated in preparation of Energy Efficiency Codes and the Green-Pyramid-Rating-System, GPRS for sustainable buildings design and evaluation. During the last Twenty years he has published more than sixty papers in international journals and conferences that are devoted to HVAC energy efficiency, development of indoor environmental quality and fire engineering.
Prof. Ahmed has established his private consulting firm during 1992 that named LUUKKI, Egypt “SFPE, NFPA, USGBC Certified”, such firm is working for both of Prescriptive and Performance-Base designs and supervisions for different HVAC and Fire-Engineering Design projects. Now, LUUKKI has more than 25 years’ experience in Egypt, Middle-East working for the design, CFD predictions, field tests with all applications of smoke-control & related fire engineering systems and strategies, in addition to HVAC and climate control systems in buildings. LUUKKI become accredited Fire-Engineering & Smoke-Control Consultant firm, develops and conducts a series of smoke-control seminars for HBRC, TUV, GTZ, ASHRAE Cairo-Chapter, ASHRAE Pyramids-Chapter, Egyptian Fire Protection Association. Finally, During the last 15 years, Prof. Ahmed “LUUKKI Director” conducted more than 30 technical articles in Fire-Engineering researches for HBRC. He is one of the authors of the HVAC & Fire-Safety-&- Protection-Codes. He has had input into various Standards, Codes, Regulations and is currently sitting on HBRC Committees for Fire Safety, Fire Engineering and Smoke Control along with a number of Egyptian Code Committees.
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Email: birolkilkis@hotmail.com
Fellow-ASHRAE, Ex-President of Turkish Society of HVAC and Sanitary Engineers, Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, he is a founder member of the Turkish Wind Energy Association, Turkish Solar Energy Association, and the past Country Coordinator of Wind Energy for CENTO, Engineering Track Member of USGBC, the founder of Exergy Analysis for Sustainable Buildings Technical Committee and the past vice-chair in ASHRAE. Country Manager of WADE (World Alliance for De-centralized Energy), Past vice president of TIBTD (Turkish Society of Thermal Science and Technology), Member of REHVA Education Council, Past Editor in Chief of Turkish Heat Science and Technology Journal, Advisory Board Member of Turkish Municipalities with Geothermal Energy, Vice President of EU Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform and Team Leader of Task 1. Advisory Board Member of Turkish Cogeneration Society, Past Member and Editor of Turkish Solar Energy Foundation, NATO ASI Organizers
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Hassan Sultan, Partner and Director of Mechanical Department at MZ & Partners – Architectural & Engineering Consultant practice since 2003. Acquired Bachelor Degree in Science and Engineering in 1981.
Highly experienced profile and carrier biography; Over 35 years of Middle East experience in diverse types of construction projects.
Member of Lebanese Order of Engineers and Architects, Lebanese Green Building Council, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc (ASHRAE), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and Founding Member of ASHRAE Qatar Oryx Chapter.
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Holding many recognitions, awards and certificates of Excellence.
Contributions and responsibilities entail Ex- Presidency of ASHRAE Qatar Oryx Chapter 2011-2013, ASHRAE General Chair of Doha Chapter Regional Conference and Organizing Committee Chair of The First International Conference on Energy & Indoor Environment for Hot Climates.
Student Activities, Regional Vice Chair – ASHRAE Region At Large.
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He is an ASHRAE Trainer at the Global Training Center , a certified trainer by the Association of Energy Engineers for the CEM course, an appointed Consultant for the ASHRAE 62.1 Standard and the recipient of the prestigious Young Energy Professional of the Year 2015 for the Middle East region by the AEE
He also facilitates the program course on Energy Auditing organized by the Emirates Green Building Council in collaboration with Masdar and the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy in Dubai and is a regular contributor to regional conferences and publications on energy efficiency.
Hassan is on the Boards of Governors of the local and regional chapters of ASHRAE and CIBSE, the internationally-adopted standardizing authorities based in the USA and UK respectively. In those capacities, Hassan works to promote the advancement and improvement of the regional construction industry by collaborating with industry professionals, academia, and governmental entities. He is currently the Chairman of the Industry Advisory Panel of the Herriot Watt Architectural and Engineering Program.
With extensive experience in engineering systems design, analysis and consulting and a passionate objective of raising the industry and sustainability standards in the region, Younes entered a partnership to establish Griffin Consultants where he is responsible for all technical and developmental aspects of the firm. Throughout his career, he was involved in the design of multiple high-end developments including retail, residential, commercial, and hospitality projects some of which are iconic in the Emirate of Dubai. Hassan led and completed multiple energy audits with private and governmental entities and provided consultancy on various governmental energy efficiency programs.
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Dr. Hesham graduated with B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 from Higher Technological institute -10th of Ramadan university. He worked at Miraco-Carrier-UTC as a BSS Technical manager (1996-2014),responsible for Chiller, air handling units, fan coil selection and pricing , he gained his experience in HVAC industry, and design. Dr. Hesham obtained his master of science 2009 From Cairo university in District cooling systems & then obtained the Ph.D. in Geothermal energy application in HVAC from Cairo University 2014 ,He was an instructor for Miraco-Carrier company – Carrier Adel Barakat training Centre from 2005-2014 , Dr Hesham has obtained certificates in HVAC design and energy modelling courses from Syracuse-NY Training Carrier USA (2005-2010),HAP LEED COURSE from Carrier university., and Certificate of Attendance for High performance buildings ,ASHRAE 62.1.ASHRAE 90.1 from ASHRAE educational institute Chicago, 2012, and STDF program instructor for industry 2013, he is the head of RP committee in ASHRAE committee and a board of governor in Cairo Chapter
Dr Hesham joined the BUE in 2014 as Lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr Hesham major Experience in the industry and applied engineering science for over 20 years in Miraco-Carrier industry school and mainly a consultant and partner in Multiclima consultants for HVAC Central projects , the scope of his education and research for applying Sustainability ,Green building specialized in Geothermal ground source heat pumps and energy & atmosphere ( EA) part in LEED for middle east Commercial projects area .
Dr Hesham is one of the representative consultant steering committee of the British university in a Governmental strategic project in manufacturing the compressors
Dr Hesham has been nominated as international instructor in VRF air-conditioning system , he made an international training course in South Africa , Dubai, and Pakistan.
Dr Hesham is the ASHRAE Cairo Chapter president 2018-2019
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Mr. K.K. Mitra is a Science Graduate with Post Graduation and Master in Business Administration. Has 30+ years experience in the field of Thermal Insulation and working as Sr. Vice President in Lloyd Insulations (India) Limited. Member of ASHRAE & ISHRAE and Past President of Ashrae India Chapter. Presently Chair CTTC of Ashrae India Chapter. Has been member of the Core Committee of Experts for drafting Energy Conservation Building Code of India 2007 and presently member of various committees of Thermal Insulation at Bureau of Indian Standards, Govt. of India. Is a member of technical committee for standardization of Cold Store specifications by National Horticulture Board / National Centre for Cold Chain Development, Govt. of India and Acoustical Society of India. Widely visited Europe, Japan, China, USA, Middle East & Far East countries. Has participated in various National & International level seminars & presented papers. Last year presented paper on Building Insulation during Ashrae Winter Conference at Las Vegas. Had attended Cold Storage training program at Paris organized by NCCD and Insulation Training program at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Naetsu Japan. Also visits Educational Institutes / Colleges regularly to deliver lectures on Thermal Insulation System for Green and Energy Efficient Buildings.
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After graduating from IIT, he joined VOLTAS LIMITED, a Tata Group Company and India’s premier Air-conditioning Company, in 1977, as a Management Trainee.
He spent the next fifteen years in VOLTAS, where he handled several assignments including Sales, Project Execution, Service and then moved to the Corporate Office where he was responsible for Business Development, Technology Transfer and Dealer Development.
Krishnan separated from VOLTAS in 1992 and started his own enterprise which is engaged in the business of manufacturing and marketing Air, Fire and Smoke Management Products.
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He has actively participated in Region-at-Large Activities. Served as Regional Treasurer. At a Society Level, Krishnan has been a Member of ASHRAE TC 5.03 since 2004 and served as Voting Member. He also served as a Voting Member on Special Projects Committee 200. He currently serves on the Society’s Nominating Committee and also served on a Presidential Ad-Hoc Committee to draw up the By Laws and Manuals for the Region At Large.
Krishnan is the recipient of ASHRAE’s Chapter Service Award and Regional Award of Merit.
Krishnan has been involved with ISHRAE since 1986. He has served as Secretary, Treasurer and President of the Mumbai Chapter, Regional Director (West) and also as Secretary at the Headquarters. He served as President of the Society during the Society Year 2011-2012. Krishnan has scripted several documents for ISHRAE including the Chapter Operations Manual, the Committee Documents, Finance Manual and is also on the Board of Trustees of the ISHRAE Institute of Excellence, the educational arm of ISHRAE. He is also an active Member of the ACREX National Steering Committee. Member of the ISHRAE Certification Committee and also a Faculty for the ICP Design Certification Program and the ICP Clean Room Design Certification Program. Krishnan currently serves on the Society’s Honours & Awards Committee and is the Vice-Chair of IIE
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Nicolos v. Borough
TOM DONOVAN NICOLOS, Appellant,
NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH, Appellee.
Appeal from the Superior Court of the State of Alaska, Second Judicial District, Barrow, Angela Greene, Judge. Superior Court No. 2BA-15-00178 CI
Appearances: Timothy Seaver, Seaver & Wagner, LLC, Anchorage, for Appellant. Danielle M. Ryman and Jared L. Gardner, Perkins Coie LLP, Anchorage, for Appellee.
BOLGER, JUSTICE.
The North Slope Borough discharged employee Tom Donovan Nicolos after he made statements that Borough employees interpreted as threats. Nicolos appeals from the superior court's order approving the Borough Personnel Board's decision affirming his discharge. He claims that his statements did not constitute threats or other misconduct under the Borough's personnel rules and that the Borough failed to conduct an adequate investigation into his alleged misconduct before terminating him. Nicolos also claims that his purportedly threatening statements were manifestations of a disability and that his discharge violated the Americans with Disabilities Act[1] (ADA) and the Alaska Human Rights Act[2] (AHRA). We reject Nicolos's claims of error and affirm the judgment of the superior court approving the Personnel Board's decision.
A. The First Alleged Threat
Nicolos began working in Utqiagvik (then called Barrow) for the North Slope Borough Department of Public Works in 2013. At some point Nicolos began having thoughts of harming himself and harming others - thoughts that Nicolos would later characterize as "unwelcome." The thoughts persisted, and one day in January 2015 he "woke up feeling the worst that [he] had."
Following advice from his parents, Nicolos went to work and immediately sought out his supervisor, Brittney Toalston, to inform her about his unwelcome thoughts of harm. Meeting in their shared office, Nicolos told Toalston that he "was not in a good place, . . . d[id] not want to hurt others, . . . did not want to hurt [him]self, and . . . did not want to go to jail." Toalston later testified to the Personnel Board that during this conversation Nicolos was "[v]ery agitated, stressed, and really red in the face" - "like he was very fidgety and he had to do something."
Toalston knew from previous conversations with Nicolos that he "ha[d] access to firearms and weapons." As a result, Toalston "became very scared for [her]self and [her] employees." She moreover did not "know how [she and the other employees] were going to act or work with somebody who said something like that." She advised Nicolos to clock out and seek treatment, and she sent her two other subordinates home for the day. She later testified, "[I]f I didn't feel safe in my workplace, then I feel my employees shouldn't be at work either."
B. The Second Alleged Threat
Nicolos left the workplace, as instructed by Toalston, but was unable to obtain immediate treatment in Utqiagvik. He flew to Anchorage that evening, and the next day he had a counseling session at Providence Alaska Medical Center with Mandie Webb, LPC.
After she met with Nicolos, Webb contacted Toalston and two Department employees that day to warn them about Nicolos's "homicidal ideation." The nature of Nicolos's comments to Webb and the content of Webb's disclosure to Toalston and the others are disputed. According to Toalston, Webb told her Nicolos "had expressed . . . that he had a list of people that he wanted to hurt either with guns or weapons," that Toalston "was number one on his list," and that "next was [Department employee] Ekatarina Pili and then [former Department employee] Pam Amling." Pili, one of the two other individuals warned by Webb, corroborated Toalston's account. She testified, "[Webb] told us pretty much that . . . [Nicolos] had either planned or premeditated to come to the workplace and open fire."
Amling, who also received a warning from Webb, gave a different account. She testified that she "d[id] not remember [Webb] saying anything about a plan to kill anybody" and that instead Webb had informed her that Nicolos had been "having feelings of hurting himself and such." For his part, Nicolos testified that he did not tell Webb he had a plan to kill his supervisor or anyone else. Rather, he told Webb he had been having thoughts - "unwelcome" thoughts - of harming his supervisor. Further he did not know when he made his comments to Webb that she would disclose them to Toalston. Webb did not testify at the Personnel Board hearing. But her notes, introduced at that hearing, state that she "contacted [Nicolos's] supervisor, . . . Toalston . . ., [about] the homicidal statements made by [Nicolos]." The notes do not mention a hit list or premeditated plan to kill.
C. The Borough's Response To The Alleged Threats
Toalston later testified at the Personnel Board hearing that after receiving the call from Webb about Nicolos's homicidal ideation, she cried and was "in shock." Toalston also testified that she "became sick to [her] stomach" and vomited. Similarly, Pili testified that she was "really kind of distraught and shocked" after receiving Webb's call. She thought there was "a high possibility that [Nicolos] could come to work and do whatever . . . [Webb] had said."
On January 14, the same day Webb contacted her, Toalston sent an email to the Borough's human resources and legal departments, her supervisor, and the Director of Public Works summarizing her conversation with Webb. The email stated that Webb had said "she ha[d] a legal obligation to reach out to each of [the warning recipients] to let [them] know that [Nicolos] ha[d] planned and ha[d] wanted to use firearms on all three [employees] in the office." The email further stated:
[Pili] and I will both submit restraining orders on [Nicolos] for fear of our lives.
Please - please let me know if there is anything else we can do. Because right now you have two women ([Pili] and myself) tearing up with the fact that [Nicolos] has a possibility of coming back to our office . . . .
Toalston later did obtain a protective order against Nicolos.[3]
Price Leavitt, a deputy director in the Department and Toalston's supervisor, testified that the Department held an "emergency meeting" to decide how to deal with Nicolos's statements to Toalston and Webb. Leavitt testified that following this meeting, the Department "put security measures into the [Department's] building by putting in special glass around the reception area . . . [and] security cameras" and by employing a security guard.
The Department placed Nicolos on investigative leave on January 16. Leavitt was responsible for investigating Nicolos's alleged misconduct. In conducting this investigation, Leavitt talked to Toalston twice, reviewed the Borough's personnel rules, and consulted with the Borough's human resources and legal departments. He did not interview Nicolos or other witnesses.
After he completed his investigation, Leavitt sent Nicolos a "notice of contemplated discharge" on January 29. The notice informed Nicolos of the allegations against him, of the personnel rules that he was alleged to have violated, and that the Borough was contemplating discharging him. Further, the notice informed Nicolos that he would have "an opportunity to present any evidence or otherwise respond" at a meeting with Leavitt on February 9. Nicolos submitted a written response, and he attended the February 9 meeting telephonically. Following this meeting, the matter of Nicolos's discipline was delegated to another deputy director in the Department, who decided to proceed with Nicolos's termination. This deputy director sent a second notice of contemplated discharge on February 17.
In accordance with the second notice, a predisciplinary hearing was held on February 26 before the Department Director. At the hearing, Nicolos testified under oath and presented other evidence, including Webb's notes. Nicolos testified that he had not intended to threaten anybody and that "[h]aving a feeling, an idea or an emotion is not in fact a threat or threatening." He further explained that his homicidal thoughts had been caused by a traumatic brain injury in his youth, that he was being treated for the injury, and that he no longer experienced the thoughts.
Following the hearing, on March 2, the Borough terminated Nicolos. The notice of discharge from the Director stated that the basis for the discharge was Nicolos's statements to Webb about his homicidal thoughts. The Director determined that these statements "violat[ed] . . . the Personnel Rules and Regulations on violence in the workplace and m[et] the definition of a 'threat.' "
D. The Personnel Board's Hearing And Decision
Nicolos appealed his termination to the Borough Personnel Board. In June 2015 the Board held a two-day hearing. In addition to the evidence summarized above, Nicolos and Amling testified that Toalston had been a verbally abusive supervisor. Toalston, however, denied mistreating Nicolos. Nicolos also offered the testimony of his psychiatrist, who explained that Nicolos was no longer homicidal and that he posed no danger. The psychiatrist testified that there is a "huge difference" between thoughts and planning, and she asserted that "at no point in the documentation did [she] find any . . . evidence that [Nicolos] was having intention of acting on [his homicidal] thoughts." The Board concluded that just cause existed to discharge Nicolos. The Board found that Nicolos's statements to Toalston about not being in a good place and not wanting to hurt anyone "constituted an indirect threat, as the . . . statements could be interpreted by a reasonable person as implying that [Nicolos] ha[d] intent to cause physical harm." Further, the Board found that Nicolos's statement to Webb about a "premeditated plan to use firearms to harm or kill" his coworkers was a "direct threat."
The Board thus determined that Nicolos had violated the Borough's personnel rules prohibiting violence and threats in the workplace, as well as its personnel rule requiring employees to "work effectively, amenably and courteously" with their coworkers.
The Board also determined that Nicolos's termination did not violate the ADA or the AHRA. The Board assumed that Nicolos was disabled and that Nicolos's purported threats were a manifestation of this disability. But the Board found that there was "no evidence that [Nicolos] was terminated because of his disability." It found that Nicolos "cannot be considered 'otherwise qualified' to perform the essential duties of his job, because threats of violence violated the Borough's policy against violence in the workplace." The Board further found that "there was no reasonable accommodation that could be made for [Nicolos], as his co-workers would always be in fear for their safety due to [Nicolos's] threats."
E. The Superior Court's Decision
Nicolos filed an appeal in the superior court. The court reversed the Board's findings that Nicolos's statements to Toalston and Webb constituted threats that violated the personnel rule against violence in the workplace. It reasoned that the rule "require[d] an employee to have intended to make a threat" and that "[n]o reasonable person [could] find that Nicolos intended to threaten anyone when he sought help for his mental health issues." The court approved, though, the Board's conclusion that Nicolos's statements violated the personnel rule requiring Nicolos to work effectively, amenably, and courteously. The court affirmed Nicolos's termination.[4]
In this appeal from the Borough Personnel Board - an administrative agency[5] - we "independently review" the Board's decision without giving deference to the superior court's intermediate review.[6] We accept the Board's findings of fact so long as they are supported by "substantial evidence," meaning "such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion."[7]
With respect to questions of law, we apply either the "reasonable basis test" or the "substitution of judgment standard."[8] The reasonable basis test applies when reviewing "questions of law involving 'agency expertise or the determination of fundamental policies within the scope of the agency's statutory functions.' "[9] Under this test, we seek only "to determine whether the agency's decision is supported by the facts and has a reasonable basis in law, even if we may not agree with the agency's ultimate determination."[10] The substitution of judgment standard, in contrast, applies "to questions of law where no agency expertise is involved."[11] Under this standard, "we may 'substitute [our] own judgment for that of the agency even if the agency's decision had a reasonable basis in law.' "[12]
Nicolos claims that the Personnel Board erroneously determined he made threatening comments and violated the Borough personnel rules, that the Borough failed to conduct an adequate investigation before deciding to discharge him, and that the Borough violated the ADA and the AHRA by discharging him based on conduct arising from his disability. Before proceeding to the first of these contentions, we resolve a threshold matter.
A. The Borough Was Not Required To File A Cross-Appeal.
Nicolos asserts that we must accept the superior court's ruling reversing the Personnel Board's determination that Nicolos's statements to Toalston and Webb constituted threats because the Borough failed to cross-appeal this ruling. But Nicolos misunderstands the cross-appeal requirement. "[A]n appellee may urge . . . in defense of a decree or judgment any matter appearing in the record, even if rejected below and even if [the] appellee's argument may involve an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court or an insistence upon [a] matter overlooked or ignored by it."[13] It is only when an appellee "attack[s] [a] decree [or judgment] with a view either to enlarging his own rights there under or of lessening the rights of his adversary" that the appellee must file a cross- appeal.[14] We are not bound by the superior court's ruling on Nicolos's threats, because our reversal of that ruling (in the following section) serves only to provide a basis for affirming the superior court's ultimate judgment approving the Board's decision. Reversal of the ruling does not alter the rights of the parties under the superior court's judgment or the Board's decision.
B. The Personnel Board Did Not Err In Finding That Nicolos Violated Personnel Rules ...
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Keating, v. Nordstrom, Inc.
MAUREEN KEATING, et al., Plaintiffs,
NORDSTROM, INC., Defendant.
ORDER RE MOTION FOR THE COURT TO DETERMINE THE SUFFICIENCY OF RESPONSES AND OBJECTIONS TO REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION AND MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSE OR IMPOSE OTHER DISCOVERY SANCTIONS
SHARON L. GLEASON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Before the Court at Docket 193 is Plaintiffs' Motion for the Court to Determine the Sufficiency of Responses and Objections to Requests for Admission and Motion to Compel Further Response or Impose Other Discovery Sanctions. Defendant Nordstrom, Inc., responded in opposition to the Motion to Compel Further Responses at Docket 200. Plaintiffs replied to Defendant's opposition at Docket 203. Oral argument was not requested and was not necessary to the Court's decision.
Plaintiffs served three sets of Requests for Admission (“RFAs”)[1]: Plaintiff Rheeston served a set on March 28, 2019, [2] and Plaintiff Freitag and Plaintiff Keating each served a set on April 17, 2019.[3] Defendant Nordstrom responded to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFAs on April 29, 2019, and to Plaintiff Freitag's and Plaintiff Keating's RFAs on May 17, 2019.[4] On July 24, 2019, Plaintiffs filed a motion for the Court to determine the sufficiency of Nordstrom's responses and objections to their RFAs and to compel further response or impose other discovery sanctions.[5]The parties met and conferred before Plaintiffs filed this motion.[6]
Plaintiffs' requests are numerous. They ask the Court to: (1) strike the “vague and ambiguous objections” throughout Nordstrom's responses;[7] (2) order Nordstrom to “deny [the] request without objection” for each of Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA No. 1, Plaintiff Freitag's RFA Nos. 4, 8, 10, 11, 14-16, 21, and Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 8, 21, 23;[8] (3) strike Nordstrom's “compound” objection throughout its responses;[9] (4) strike Nordstrom's “legal conclusion or expert opinion” objection and compel it to “admit or deny or explain any lack of information” for each of Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 3-8, 11-17, for Plaintiff Freitag's RFA Nos. 9, 20, 22, 23, and for Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 3-7, 9-11, 15-17, 22, 24-31;[10] (5) order Nordstrom to respond without objection to relevance to Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 10 and 11;[11] (6) strike Nordstrom's objections and qualifications entirely in response to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 2, 7, and 16, and to Plaintiff Freitag's RFA No. 7 and deem them admitted without qualification;[12] (7) strike Nordstrom's objections based on lack of information and deem admitted each of Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 9, 10, 18, 19, Plaintiff Freitag's RFA Nos. 1-3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18, 19, and Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 1 and 19;[13] and finally, (8) deem admitted Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 4 and 8 and Plaintiff Keating's RFA No. 8.[14] Additionally, Plaintiffs ask the Court to award sanctions to Plaintiffs for “costs in discovery, bringing this motion and such other and further sanctions to deter Nordstrom from presenting false evidence to this Court.”[15]
In response, Nordstrom contends that it provided substantive responses (notwithstanding its objections) to all but four of the RFAs.[16] Specifically, for all but those four RFAs, Nordstrom either admitted or denied the statement, or indicated that it “lack[ed] sufficient information to respond to this Request” in cases “where the information needed to respond was in Plaintiff's possession, not Nordstrom's.”[17] Nordstrom concedes that in those instances where it lacked sufficient information to respond, it did not include in its responses that it had made a “reasonable inquiry” as required by Rule 36.[18] Nordstrom adds that prior to Plaintiffs' filing of the motion, during the parties' meet-and-confer call, “counsel [for Nordstrom] confirmed that such an inquiry had been made” and that it would supplement its responses to so indicate on request.[19] It maintains Plaintiffs did not make any such request before filing this motion.[20] For the remaining four RFAs- Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 4, 8, and 16 and Plaintiff Keating's RFA No. 18- Nordstrom rested on its objections and did not admit or deny the request.[21]
LEGAL STANDARD
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 36 governs parties' Requests for Admission during discovery. It specifies that “[i]f a matter is not admitted, the answer must specifically deny it or state in detail why the answering party cannot truthfully admit or deny it.”[22] Moreover, “[a] denial must fairly respond to the substance of the matter; and when good faith requires that a party qualify an answer or deny only a part of a matter, the answer must specify the part admitted and qualify or deny the rest.”[23] If a party “assert[s] lack of knowledge or information as a reason for failing to admit or deny, ” it must “state[] that it has made reasonably inquiry and that the information it knows or can readily obtain is insufficient to enable it to admit or deny.”[24] The “[p]arties may not view requests for admission as a mere procedural exercise requiring minimally acceptable conduct . . . [and] should focus on the goal of the Rules, full and efficient discovery, not evasion and word play.”[25]
When a party moves to determine the sufficiency of an answer or objection, a court “must order that an answer be served” unless it finds an objection justified.[26] Upon “finding that an answer does not comply with this rule, the court may order either that the matter is admitted or that an amended answer be served.”[27]
Plaintiffs' numerous requests fall into four categories of relief: they ask this Court to strike certain objections, to order Nordstrom to respond substantively to some RFAs, to deem other RFAs admitted, and to order sanctions. The Court addresses each request for relief in turn.
1. Plaintiffs' requests to strike objections
First, Plaintiffs ask the Court to strike various objections from Nordstrom's responses including, inter alia, objections to vague and ambiguous language, compound statements, requests requiring legal conclusions or expert opinions, and relevance. Plaintiffs' position that some of Nordstrom's objections are unwarranted has some merit. But, notwithstanding its multitude of objections, Nordstrom provided substantive responses to all but four RFAs. The Court finds that in all but those four cases (addressed infra), Nordstrom did not use the objections as a basis to withhold information or responses.[28] Therefore, the Court declines to strike Nordstrom's objections from its responses.
2. Plaintiffs' request to compel substantive responses
Second, Plaintiffs ask the Court to compel Nordstrom to “admit or deny or explain any lack of information” as to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 3-8, 11-17, Plaintiff Freitag's RFA Nos. 9, 20, 22, 23, and Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 3-7, 9- 11, 15-18, 22, 24-31.[29] Having reviewed the responses, the Court finds that for all but four of these RFAs, Nordstrom provided an adequate substantive response. Specifically, Nordstrom denied Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 3, 5, 6, 11-15, and 17, Plaintiff Freitag's RFA Nos. 9, 20, 22, and 23, and Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 3-7, 9-11, 15-17, 22, and 24-31, and admitted in part and denied in part Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA No. 7.[30] Because Nordstrom provided a substantive response as permitted by Rule 36, the Court will not compel it to change or supplement its answers to these RFAs.
However, Nordstrom did not substantively respond to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 4, 8, or 16 or to Plaintiff Keating's RFA No. 18. Instead, Nordstrom stood on its objections. Each of these RFAs is addressed below.
Plaintiff Rheeston RFA No. 4:
Request: Less than 15 percent of the total number of beauty boxes sold were sold at a price higher than $28.90.[31]
Response: Nordstrom incorporates its Preliminary Statement and General Objections herein. Nordstrom objects to this Request on the grounds that it is vague and ambiguous, in particular with regard to its use of the terms “total number, ” “beauty box, ” “sold” and “price.” Nordstrom further objects to this Request to the extent it seeks an impermissible legal and/or expert opinion or conclusion. Nordstrom further objects on the grounds that Nordstrom produced the transaction histories, which speak for themselves. Nordstrom further objects to this Request on the grounds that it is vague and ambiguous as to time.[32]
In its opposition, Nordstrom contends that it has produced all the transaction data “relating to the Beauty Box from 2013, and not at any other time” and that “Plaintiffs can do whatever calculations they want.”[33] It adds that to answer this RFA would require it to pull all sales of the beauty box “at any time” and that this would be “unduly burdensome.”[34] Plaintiffs contend they did not have Nordstrom's data regarding the beauty box until after these requests were served.[35]
The Court finds that Nordstrom's response falls short of what is required under Rule 36. Although the Court agrees with Nordstrom that there is some ambiguity about the timeline, Nordstrom can and should answer this RFA based on the data produced in this case.[36] Accordingly, the Court orders Nordstrom to provide a substantive response (admit, deny, or assert insufficient information) to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA No. 4.
Request: YOU sold the beauty box at the same price or at a lower price after the 2013 Anniversary Sale was finished.[37]
Response: Nordstrom incorporates its Preliminary Statement and General Objections herein. Nordstrom objects to this Request on the grounds that it is vague and ambiguous, in particular with regard to its use of the terms “beauty box, ” “same price, ” “lower price” and “Anniversary Sale.” Nordstrom further objects to this Request to the extent it seeks an impermissible legal and/or expert opinion or conclusion. Nordstrom further objects to this Request on the grounds that it lacks a baseline price to which it is purporting to compare other prices, rendering it defective and incapable of being answered. Nordstrom further objects on the grounds that Nordstrom produced the transaction histories, which speak for themselves. Nordstrom further objects on the grounds that this Request is vague as to time.[38]
Nordstrom contends that it is “unclear what price [Plaintiffs] are talking about or during what period of time” and points Plaintiffs to its production.[39] As mentioned above, Plaintiffs contend they did not have Nordstrom's data until after these requests were served.
The Court finds that Nordstrom's response falls short of what is required under Rule 36. However, the Court agrees with Nordstrom that there is some ambiguity in the request as to the pricing and dates. Therefore, the Court orders the parties to meet and confer within 7 days of this order to address any ambiguity. Once resolved, the Court orders Nordstrom to supplement its response to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA No. 8.
Plaintiff Rheeston RFA No. 16:
Request: Nordstrom did not restock the beauty box purchased by Rheeston.[40]
Response: Nordstrom incorporates its Preliminary Statement and General Objections herein. Nordstrom objects to this Request on the grounds that it is vague and ambiguous, in particular with regard to its use of the terms “restock, ” “beauty box.” Nordstrom further objects to this Request to the extent it seeks an impermissible legal and/or expert opinion or conclusion.[41]
In its opposition, Nordstrom contends that this RFA is irrelevant, vague “as to time and meaning of ‘restock, '” and adds that the Beauty Box “did not sell out, [during the Anniversary sale] and therefore there was no reason to restock.”[42]
The Court finds Nordstrom's response insufficient to fulfill its obligations under Rule 36. Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA No. 16 is relevant to Plaintiffs' preseason sale claims. However, the Court agrees with Nordstrom that there is some ambiguity as to the meaning of “restock” and the relevant timeframe and orders the parties to meet and confer within 7 days of this order to clarify both. The Court orders Nordstrom to supplement its response to this RFA thereafter.
Plaintiff Keating RFA No. 18:
Request: Camilla Brooks has given pricing adjustments to customers because of register errors during her 21 years with Nordstrom.[43]
Response: Nordstrom incorporates its Preliminary Statement and General Objections herein. Nordstrom objects to this Request on the grounds that it is vague and ambiguous, in particular with regard to its use of the terms “given, ” “pricing adjustments, ” “customers, ” “because of register errors.” Nordstrom further objects on the ground that it is vague and ambiguous as to time. Nordstrom further objects on the grounds that it seeks information not relevant to the claims and defenses in the action. Nordstrom further objects on the grounds that the deposition testimony of Ms. Brooks speaks for itself.[44]
In its opposition, Nordstrom contends that this RFA “is completely irrelevant to this case” and that “Plaintiffs took [Ms. Brooks'] deposition and were able to ask whatever questions they wanted.”[45] The Court finds Nordstrom's response insufficient to fulfill its obligations under Rule 36. Plaintiff Keating's RFA No. 18 is relevant to Plaintiffs' register error claims. Moreover, the fact that Plaintiffs took Ms. Brooks' deposition does not preclude them from seeking to narrow disputed issues at trial through an RFA.[46] The Court orders Nordstrom to supplement its response to this RFA.
3. Plaintiffs' request to deem RFAs admitted
Third, the Court addresses Plaintiffs' request that Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 2, 4, 7-10, 16, 18, 19, [47] Plaintiff Freitag's RFA Nos. 1-3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18, 19, and Plaintiff Keating's RFA Nos. 1, 8, and 19 be deemed admitted. The Court finds that Nordstrom provided substantive responses to Plaintiff Rheeston's RFA Nos. 2 and 7, and Plaintiff Keating's RFA No. 8. ...
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The world-renowned “Peeping Tom” theatre company will debut at the Berliner Sommer Festspiele on August 13th and 14th, within the 28th “Tanz in August” (“Dance in August”) festival program. Known for their atmosphere-full and hyper-realistic dancing performances, they will display their 2015 Olivier Award-winning performance “32 Rue Vandenbranden”.
The performance contemplates life in an isolated social environment, within a trailer-park community. The focus is especially on the motivations that drive these people, who live as buried in the snow. Five dancers and a mezzo-soprano dive into this self-reflexive world of cultural analysis within the dark side of the human soul through the subconscious.
Further focus of cultural analysis within the performance is on the role of subconscious nightmares, fears and desires as physiological reasons for cultural constraint. More specifically, how these human emotions restrain individuals in an apparent state of total liberty to do what they want, from ever being able to escape their roots, family or culture.
The theatrical trip is accompanied by an eclectic musical selection that spans from Bach and Bellini to K-Pop and Pink Floyd, highlighting the relativity of time and space within the dance exploration, as well as its multicultural component. Another proof of it is the fact that the show was inspired by the Japanese film of Shohei Imamura “The Ballad of Narayama”, which explores the harsh traditions of a remote village in Japan.
The now artistic directors Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, formerly members of the “Needcompany” company under Alain Platel, founded the “Peeping Tom” theatre company in the year 2000. Since then, the company’s role in cultural diplomacy has been paramount, as their present show, for example, is a coproduction of Belgian, Dutch, French, Slovenian, German and Swiss theatre companies. Peeping Tom also gained support from the Government of the Belgian region of Flanders.
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Drinking Level 3 Kool-Aid
By Al Lewis
A former Level 3 employee recently told me she quit after finally losing faith in the company.
“I stopped drinking the Kool-Aid,” she told me.
I’ve heard that line several times over the past three years when talking to folks about the struggling Broomfield-based telecommunications company.
It evokes memories of the Rev. Jim Jones who killed his followers with a poisoned beverage in the 1970s. Or perhaps it’s an allusion to Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” a book that captured psychedelics in the 1960s.
Denver telecom analyst Tom Friedberg was the first person I heard use the Kool-Aid expression in connection with Level 3. He said it was a reference to the almost cult-like devotion Level 3 employees had for CEO James Crowe.
People who work for Level 3 seem to believe the best about the company, even as its stock has plummeted from $130 in March 2000 to about $2 today. Apparently, the “Kool-Aid” profoundly distorts perceptions.
In mid-May, Level 3 was one of the most shorted stocks on the market. I wonder if the Level 3 Kool-Aid is going to be strong enough to handle that.
“Are they drinking it, or are they shooting it up?” said Friedberg. “That’s the question.”
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We’ve got a whole new look, all-new sections and a talented team of experts and writers that will keep you clicking. I’ll also be writing more. Expect something from me weekly, sometimes more.
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Monday Night Football: San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders
San Diego Charger's quarterback Philip Rivers (17) gets close with his offensive line.
San Diego Charger's quarterback Philip Rivers (17) throws a pass.
I had an opportunity of a lifetime last night to shoot an NFL game. It was the season opener for the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers at the Oakland Coliseum.
I made the accommodations after our deputy editor Mark Anderson wrote a story about San Diego Chargers defensive coordinator Ron Rivera who played and coached for Seaside High School, then went to play for the 1985 Chicago Bears where he earned a Super Bowl ring.
Needless to say, shooting professional football was mind blowing (and hard on the knees...). The energy of the fans in the stands easily matched that of the action on the field.
The San Diego Charger's defense gangs up on an Oakland ball carrier.
Oakland Raider's quarterback JaMarcus Russell (2) hands the ball to running back Darren McFadden (20).
San Diego Charger's Steve Gregory (28) attempts to hold down Oakland Raider's wide receiver Louis Murphy (18) as he caught a touchdown pass. Referees called he wasn't in possession long enough. The Raider's scored a field goal on the next play.
(photo by Mark C. Anderson)
Me all geared up (note: red NFL photo vest) at my car prior to the game.
I equipped myself with:
Nikon D700 with either a 28-70 f/2.8 or a 70-200 f/2.8 for "shooting wide(r)" and a cropped-body Nikon D300 that had a 300 f/2.8 sometimes with a 1.4 teleconverter.
Most of my photos were shot tight and 70mm on a full-frame body is fairly wide when shooting football. I never took my wide-angle out during the actual field action.
This is the first thing I saw when I entered the field from the press elevator.
It was wild. Screaming fans and photographers all over the place. You never really know how big sports stadiums really are until you see them from the field level. A lot of history on that Oakland field where the Raiders and A's have both played some pretty incredible games.
Oakland Raider's running back Michael Bush (29) high-fives a fan as he runs out to the field.
Oakland fans are some intense folks.
Oakland Raider's quarterback JaMarcus Russell launches a pass.
Oakland Raider's defensive tackle Gerard Warren (61) pressures San Diego Charger's quarterback Philip Rivers (17).
Rivers launches a pass to a receiver.
Oakland Raider's quarterback JaMarcus Russell throws.
Oakland Raider's wide receiver Johnnie Lee Higgins (15) runs the ball down field.
San Diego Charger's wide receiver Vincent Jackson runs out of the way of the oncoming Oakland Raider's linebacker Ricky Brown (57).
Brown closes in...
Oakland Raider's cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha (21) grabs the jersey of San Diego Charger's running back Darren Sproles (43) for the tackle.
San Diego Charger's running back Darren Sproles (43) runs the ball downfield.
San Diego Charger's quarterback Philip Rivers (17) dodges Oakland Raider's defensive end Jay Richardson (98).
A San Diego Charger leaves the field at halftime.
My NFL field photo press credential in front of one of my cameras on my office desk.
Hopefully I'll get another chance to shoot the NFL. That was fun.
~ nic
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Canadian Federation of Musicians Announce Major Breakthrough Affecting Travelling Musicians
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As the largest organization representing the interests of professional musicians in Canada, the Canadian Federation of Musicians (CFM) is pleased to be partnering with the Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) and Nordicity in a critical study about Canada's independent music community. This study will establish the actual economic impact of independent music in Canada, both from a regional and national perspective.
We're asking for your help in order to make this project a success.
As important members of the Canadian independent music industry, I'm urging all our members to take a few minutes to complete a survey -- accessible by clicking on the link below.
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The survey will help accurately gauge the vital contributions of all parts of Canada's independent music industry including: labels, managers, publishers, distributors, promoters, artists and the many others who account for the economic activity created by independent music.
WHY is CIMA doing this (and why are we helping them)?
Federal and provincial governments who make decisions that affect the music industry
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Media who write about music and who influence public opinion ….ALL need to have an accurate picture of WHO you are, WHAT you do, and the IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION you make to Canada's national and provincial economies.
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Boardroom Spirits Is Changing The Liquor Game
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A Lansdale, PA distillery is turning out high-quality hooch at a price point aimed at the everyman. Their product line is a mix of the familiar and never-before-seen.
For all the constant innovation that’s been taking place over the past decade-plus in the world of craft brewing, liquor hasn’t enjoyed quite the same kind of renaissance. It’s almost impossible to keep track of all of America’s new breweries and their wildly different seasonal offerings. Drive from state to state, or even county to county, and the contents of the local beer distributors will be wildly different. Meanwhile, it’s relatively easy to predict what you’ll find inside of any liquor store in the United States.
It’s partly a function of how, at least when it comes to liquor, many of us are creatures of habit. We like what we like, and we know, after years of tasting and palate refining, what has a bad aftertaste, what might give us a hangover, what mixes well, and what tastes best straight up. For all but the most ardent connoisseurs who want to try everything that’s out there, it’s hard to get most people to deviate from their usual. Even certain brands are ingrained in our vernacular. Of course, “whiskey and Coke” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “Jack and Coke”—even if you’re not necessarily a big fan of Jack Daniel’s.
These facts have made opening a new spirit distillery in the United States a somewhat riskier affair than opening a new brewery. But those brave enough to do so also tend to be brave enough to try brand new things within the marketplace.
That’s where the story of Boardroom Spirits begins.
When three management consultants decided to ditch the corporate life and follow their passions, Boardroom Spirits was the result. Owners Vlad Mamedov, and his younger brother Marat and Marat’s wife Zsuzsa Palotas, took their love of recipes made with raw, all-natural ingredients, and combined that with their business backgrounds and strong affinity for quality control. The result is an incomparably high-quality product at an affordable price. (Full disclosure: Robert was so impressed with Boardroom Spirits and the team in charge he recently invested in the company.)
Boardroom vodka, gin, and rum began turning heads soon after the company’s sustainable micro-distillery opened its doors in early 2016. They’re the favorites of purists and mixologists alike, with both camps appreciating the clean taste that results from Boardroom’s pure and simple distilling process.
But as a new player in a vast marketplace, Boardroom was never going to be content by just playing it straight. That’s why their lineup also includes three flavored vodkas: Fresh Ginger, Fresh Cranberry, and Fresh Citrus, as well as Triple Sec. Concentrates, juices, and artificial flavors are totally forbidden in the Boardroom distilling process; that means that each of these liquors draws its bold and complex flavors from raw ingredients added by the master distiller.
And we haven’t even gotten to the really interesting stuff yet.
Boardroom Beet Spirit and Carrot Spirit are two liquors distilled from—you guessed it—their root vegetable namesakes. Distillers hand select and clean the carrots and beets that are then fermented. It might sound like a parlor trick from a backyard moonshiner, but the result is shockingly sophisticated. Carrot Spirit is clear and colorless, with a fragrant nose, a soft, bittersweet fruity palate, and a persistent, but pleasant carrot flavor finish. Beet Spirit is likewise colorless, with a bold nose, sweet palate, and peppery finish.
Whiskey, aged brandy, and aged rum are currently being developed and will appear on store shelves soon.
Click HERE to learn more about Boardroom Spirits. Click HERE to purchase online at Ezra’s, where all bottles are priced between $20 and $30. And the next time you’re at Robert Irvine’s Public House, ask for a taste, or have your bartender make your favorite cocktail using Boardroom Spirits.
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On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one 1 at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south 2 gate facing north.
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Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south gate and facing north.
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, in which the authors propose that the mass communication media of the U.S. “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”, by means of the propaganda model of communication.[1] The title derives from the phrase “the manufacture of consent,” employed in the book Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippmann (1889–1974).[2]
The book was first published in 1988 and was revised 20 years later to take account of developments such as the fall of the Soviet Union. There has been debate about how the internet has changed the public´s access to information since 1988.
Kubara, M.. (1996). Academic freedom. Interchange
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1007/BF01807291
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“Dewey, j. (1902). academic freedom. educational review, 23(4), 1-14.”
Macintyre, S. F.. (2010). Academic freedom. In International Encyclopedia of Education
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.00835-6
“Academic freedom is a freedom distinctive to academic institutions and those who work in them, allowing them to undertake academic activities. it encompasses the freedom of the university from improper interference, the safeguards for academics in their teaching, research, and public commentary, and the entitlements of students in undertaking their studies. this article considers how these aspects of academic freedom were established, the different arrangements to which they have given rise, and the contemporary pressures on academic freedom. © 2010 elsevier ltd. all rights reserved.”
Aghion, P., Dewatripont, M., & Stein, J. C.. (2008). Academic freedom, private-sector focus, and the process of innovation. RAND Journal of Economics
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2008.00031.x
“We develop a model that clarifies the respective advantages and disadvantages of academic and private-sector research. our model assumes full protection of intellectual property rights at all stages of the development process, and hence does not rely on lack of appropriability or spillovers to generate a rationale for academic research. instead, we focus on control-rights considerations, and argue that the fundamental tradeoff between academia and the private sector is one of creative control versus focus. by serving as a precommitment mechanism that allows scientists to freely pursue their own interests, academia can be indispensable for early-stage research. at the same time, the private sector’s ability to direct scientists towards higher-payoff activities makes it more attractive for later-stage research.”
Academic and Professional Freedom. (1969). British Medical Journal
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5680.379
“This introductory chapter presents the reader with an overview of the historical trends, current status and market developments in academic and professional publishing, and a dark cloud gathering over the industry. the chapter notes how these widespread changes are addressed throughout the book, with chapters providing insight into the integrated, innovative and multi-disciplinary approaches publishers are applying to adapt to the challenges facing the industry and take publishing forward. it also outlines what publishers do, how publishers add value and what the future may look like for the industry.”
Philip G . Altbach. (2001). Academic Freedom : International Realities and Challenges. Higher Education
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1023/a:1026791518365
“Academic freedom is a central value of higher education. it affects the academic profession in all aspects of academic work. yet, academic freedom is rarely discussed in the context of the changes taking place in higher education in the current period. the concept is defined in a historical and comparative framework, and the challenges facing academic freedom around the world are discussed.”
Hill, H. H.. (1955). Academic Freedom and Responsibility. Peabody Journal of Education
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/01619565509536615
Butler, J.. (2011). Critique, dissent, disciplinarity. In Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1057/9780230357006
“Academic freedom has become a contested category within the united states. on the one hand, conservative scholars have sought to use the term to criticize what they perceive as political correctness in the academy, whereas progressive scholars have sought to bolster academic freedom as a principle that safeguards academic self-determination over and against corporate and government intrusion. recently i published a debate with robert post in academic freedom after september 11. 1 this collection was first of all an effort to understand the definition and range of the concept of academic freedom. in his contribution, post argues that the way to pre-serve academic self-governance is to allow tenured faculty to make judg-ments about curriculum and appointments because they have undergone the relevant professional training in a given discipline and so are uniquely prepared to make these sorts of judgments. to protect academic freedom in this domain, then, depends upon our ability to protect the singular professional capacities that tenured faculty have assumed by virtue of pro-fessional training and practices of peer review. for post, the viability of the institution of academic freedom is founded upon established and agreed-upon academic norms, set and enforced by a professional class of educators who know the fields in question, and these norms, in turn, enable the kinds of research and teaching that we do. these norms, in fact, are the legitimating condition of our academic freedom. i have agreed with post that academic self-governance, which is crucial”
Giroux, H. A.. (2006). Academic Freedom Under Fire: The Case for Critical Pedagogy. College Literature
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1353/lit.2006.0051
“Part of a special issue on current right-wing attacks on academic freedom in the united states. there is much more at stake in the current assault on the university than the issue of academic freedom. right-wing extremists and corporate interests are making a concerted attempt to strip the professoriate of any authority, render critical pedagogy as merely an instrumental task, eliminate tenure as a protection for teacher authority, and remove critical reason from any vestige of civic courage, engaged citizenship, and social responsibility. it is critical that academics both develop a theoretical framework for engaging critical pedagogy and develop a defense for its use in the classroom as part of a broader project of linking education to democratic values, identities, public spaces, and relationships.”
Davies, M.. (2015). Academic freedom: a lawyer’s perspective. Higher Education
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1007/s10734-015-9884-8
“Academic freedom is central to ideas of higher education, yet in the united kingdom it is facing challenges from changing managerial approaches within some universities and changing governmental expectations. universities are increasingly expected to focus upon knowledge which can be shown to have value and to exploit the results of academic enterprise. resulting constraints on teaching and research by incessant market-driven demands have the potential to compromise academic freedom. this article considers aspects of academic freedom in an increasingly market-driven environment from a lawyer’s perspective. the legal protections for academic freedom in the uk are minimal, and consideration of the intellectual property policies of a significant number of uk universities suggests that, in many, academic outputs, especially those relating to teaching, have become subject to more entrepreneurial models of higher education, becoming potentially saleable products to be owned and exploited by universities as they see fit. the position is exacerbated by increasing developments in the use of technology as part of the teaching process. academics who lose ownership of aspects of their intellectual output risk the undermining of their position and academic freedom with a current employer and limiting their opportunities to change employer. © 2015, springer science+business media dordrecht.”
Sadler, D. R.. (2011). Academic freedom, achievement standards and professional identity. Quality in Higher Education
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2011.554639
“The tension between the freedom of academics to grade the achievements of their students without interference or coercion and the prerogative of higher education institutions to control grading standards is often deliberated by weighing up the authority and rights of the two parties. an alternative approach is to start with an analysis of the characteristics necessary for a system to exhibit integrity in grading academic achievement and treat the establishment and maintenance of academic standards as a problem to be solved. this would allow the respective responsibilities of academics and institutions to be resolved within a concrete setting rather than in the abstract. connecting the typical characteristics of a profession with isaiah berlin’s two concepts of liberty leads to a productive partnership in which the respective interests of individual academics and the values of institutions can converge on a practical solution to the problem of academic freedom. © 2011 taylor & francis.”
Washburn, J.. (2011). Academic freedom and the corporate university. Academe
“The article provides information on the challenges faced by professors in dealing with academic freedom in the u.s. it mentions that it has never been clear if academic freedom is something that belongs to the educational institutions where the professors work or to professors. it states that the quality of higher education will nearly fall without academic freedom.”
Aarrevaara, T.. (2010). Academic freedom in a changing academic world. European Review
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1017/S1062798709990317
“This article considers the academic profession and academic freedom in light of the results of the changing academic profession (cap) survey in finland and four other european countries. academic freedom is examined as a phenomenon that provides a setting for goal determination by members of the academic profession. it has a bearing on both institutional autonomy and individual academic freedom, i.e. the freedom of research and teaching. academic freedom can be examined on the basis of material from the cap survey through the questions about the freedom of teaching, the definition of work, working as a member of a community, the power of influence, funding, and the evaluation of quality. the concept of academic freedom varies slightly between countries, in part because of the growth of higher education systems and because of the increasing demand for ‘relevance’ being imposed on universities. [abstract from author]”
Brown, R. S., & Kurland, J. E.. (2014). Academic Tenure and Academic Freedom. Law and Contemporary Problems
Plain numerical DOI: 10.2307/1191800
“Tenure, like any other large, occasionally inefficient system, will probably remain under attack for years to come. anecdotal evidence of inferior scholars and teachers shielded by tenure makes a powerful hostile argument, though not a valid one. the economic and social costs of the tenure system are, we believe, outweighed by the fact that tenure is vital to academic freedom. no other proposed alternative (such as legal defenses, internal safeguards, less-than-career tenure, or tenure review) can provide adequate protection to the academic community. a greater danger to the tenure system than outright abrogation is continued circumvention. deficiencies in the due process accorded fired professors, dubious financial exigency claims by colleges and universities, the discontinuation of entire programs, and, especially, runaway expansion of nontenure-track positions threaten not to tear down the tenure system, but to weaken it severely.”
Karran, T.. (2009). Academic freedom in Europe: Time for a Magna Charta?. Higher Education Policy
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1057/hep.2009.2
“This paper is a preliminary attempt to establish a working definition of academic freedom for the european union states. the paper details why such a definition is required for the european union and then examines some of the difficulties of defining academic freedom. by drawing upon the experience of the legal difficulties beset by the concept in the usa and building on previous analyses of constitutional and legislative protection for academic freedom, and of legal regulations regarding institutional governance and academic tenure, a working definition of academic freedom is then derived. the resultant definition, which, it is suggested, could form the basis for a european magna charta libertatis academicae, goes beyond traditional discussions of academic freedom by specifying not only the rights inherent in the concept but also its accompanying duties, necessary limitations and safeguards. the paper concludes with proposals for how the definition might be tested and carried forward. [publication abstract]”
Thomas, N.. (2010). The politics of academic freedom. New Directions for Higher Education
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1002/he.416
“This is a thematic examination of the most influential ideas and writings on leadership. the text creates order from the chaos of leadership literature, and its structure, style and original approach encourages reader reflection.”
Website keywords: Liberty of thought; Freedom of thought; Sovereignty of consciousness; Psychological self-determination; Neuroethics, Neurorights; Mental integrity; Psychological continuity; Psycho-cybernetics.
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“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and ilis not afraid … Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
~ Nobel laureate Lord Bertrand Russell (1920) “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel” pp. 178-179
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Education as a system of indoctrination – Prof. Noam Chomsky (Video)
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“It must not be supposed that the officials in charge of education desire the young to become educated. On the contrary, their problem is to impart information without imparting intelligence. Education should have two objects: first, to give definite knowledge — reading and writing, languages and mathematics, and so on; secondly, to create those mental habits which will enable people to acquire knowledge and form sound judgments for themselves. The first of these we may call information, the second intelligence. The utility of information is admitted practically as well as theoretically; without a literate population a modern State is impossible. But the utility of intelligence is admitted only theoretically, not practically; it is not desired that ordinary people should think for themselves, because it is felt that people who think for themselves are awkward to manage and cause administrative difficulties. Only the guardians, in Plato’s language, are to think; the rest are to obey, or to follow leaders like a herd of sheep. This doctrine, often unconsciously, has survived the introduction of political democracy, and has radically vitiated all national systems of education.”
Bertrand Russell (1922) “Free Thought And Official Propaganda”
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A definition of “Cognitive Liberty”
The term “Liberty” is etymologically derived from the Latin libertatem which can translated as “civil or political freedom, condition of a free man; absence of restraint;” cognate to liber “free”. Ex vi termini, “cognitive liberty” is semantically synonymous with “the right to psychological self-determination“. It implies that human creatures have the universal freedom (viz., sui iuris) to control and determine their own psychology, i.e., their cognitive processes, emotions, and all aspects of consciousness. It is thus essential to the universal principle of freedom of thought (Article 91 of the Human Rights Act 1998) which in turn forms the basis (s.c., a condicio sine qua non) for the right to freedom of speech/expression. As Erich Fromm articulated it: “The right to express our thought, however, means something only if we are able to have our own thoughts; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality” (Fromm, The fear of freedom, 1942; pp.207-208). Self-determination is a cardinal principle in international law (jus cogens).2 Given the significant recent advances in psychology, the neurosciences, computer science, and artificial intelligence, cognitive liberty is becoming a topic of great concern for all human beings. This website is specifically devoted to this timely topic and provides information from a diversity of sources (an integral interdisciplinary approach is adopted to elucidate the topic from a plurality of perspectives). Insights derived from psychology, the cognitive sciences, and the neurosciences enable the manipulation and control of cognition and consciousness, oftentimes specifically targeting unconscious processes. Moreover, advances in computer science and cybernetics (e.g., Bayesian algorithms/deep learning convolutional neural networks) enable science to systematically tailor and “steer” information (the flow of perceptual input) to affect cognition and emotion (and consequently behavior) in prespecified and highly predictable ways. Especially unconscious psychological processes can be effectively exploited because humans are generally unaware of the programmatic excitability of unconscious mechanisms. This imbalance creates a power-differential between those who know how the human mind can be manipulated (viz., the financial power elite which utilizes media and a large segment of academic science for their purposes; cf. Mausfeld, 2017) and those who do not posses a detailed understanding of psychological manipulation and behavior modification techniques (i.e., the general populous). The list of evolutionarily inbuilt psychological weaknesses (vulnerable psychological exploits) is long and has been extensively studied by several generations of scientist, specially in the domain of behavioral economics (i.e., Kahneman & Tversky’s “heuristics & biases” research agenda).
The following application provides a synopsis of numerous cognitive biases which are well documented in psychology:
Open ‘Cognitive Bias Codex’ application in a lightbox modal window (you can zoom via the mouse-wheel)
The adumbrated psychological & technological developments are unprecedented in the evolution of the human species and have far-reaching ramifications for life on this planet as a whole because it is obvious that human behavior has a significant detrimental impact on the ‘Earth System’ . The relatively novel terms anthropocene & holocene are used in this context of destruction and mass extinction. These terms refer to an important psychological self-reflective insight science has developed, the insight that human behavior destroys the global ecosystem. Because human behavior is governed by psychology it is crucial that human beings are allowed to think freely in order to be able to choose a more rational course of action. Freedom of thought needs to be fostered. Currently, a large proportion of society is transformed into mindless conformist consumers (i.e., by the mass-media and other cybernetic methods of psychological programing). This manipulative modus operandi seriously impedes the unfoldment of virtuous human potential (contrariwise primitive egocentric cognitive schemata are constantly reinforced in the ego-driven system of consumerism which is based on wish-fulfillment , satisfactions, ingestion, introjection, consumption, competition, comparison, and other egoic human “drives”). In fact, the term homō consumens has been proposed as a more fitting substitute for homō sapiēns; a clearly self-inflated nomenclature which is etymologically derived from the Latin sapere3and thus translates into the wise or rational man – to be taxonomically exact homō sapiēns sapiēns – which duplicates the anthropocentric hubris.
The boiling frog analogy & Sôritês paradoxon
The boiling frog is an analogy describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is thrown suddenly into boiling hot water, it will immediately jump out. However, if the frog is put in cold water which is then slowly and gradually brought to a boil, it will not perceive the danger, sit still, and will therefore be cooked to death. Applied to human cognition & behavior the analogy could be interpreted as follow: If the environment changes gradually (microgenetically) in an incremental step-wise fashion, humans have great difficulty to recognize the change because each step in the evolution of the system (i.e., the change in the environment) is not drastic at all. However, over an elongated period of time the system changes significantly and the additive long-term effect of numerous small changes have extreme consequences. The question thus is: When does the system change from stable to chaotic, i.e., from “from lukewarm to boiling hot”. Per analogiam, the demarcation criterion between hot versus cold (chaotic versus stable) is not clearly defined. In the cognitive sciences this ambiguity is discussed under the header “vagueness of attributes”.4 In philosophy this is an ancient paradox known as Sôritês paradoxon (or the problem of the heap).5 The paradox is based on the seemingly simple question: When does a heap of sand become a heap? (When does the system “switch” from being life-supporting to deadly.)
Sôritês paradoxon can be expressed as a conditional syllogistic argument (modus ponens). N.B. You can replace the variable “grain of sand” with “toxic chemical molecules” in the context of environmental pollution; or with the “cutting down of trees” in the context of global deforestation; or with the “loss of species” in the context of anthropogenic reduction of biodiversity; et cetera pp.
1 grain of sand does not make a heap.
If 1 grain of sand does not make a heap, then 2 grains do not either.
If 2 grains do not make a heap, then 3 grains don’t.
If 999999,99999 grains do not make a heap, then 1 million grains don’t.
∞ ad infinitum…
Deductive conclusion
∴ Ergo (Therefore)
1 million grains don’t make a heap.
The Bald Man (phalakros) paradox is another allegory which illustrates the point: A man with a full head of hair is not bald. The removal of a single hair will not turn him into a bold man. However, diachronically, continuous repeated removal of single hairs will necessarily result in baldness. However, it is unclear when the “critical boundary” has been transgressed. In the psychology of reasoning this is termed the continuum fallacy. The informal logical fallacy pertains the argument that two states (i.e., cold vs. hot; falsum vs. verum) cannot be defined/quantised as distinct (and/or do not exist at all) because between them there exists a continuum of states (cf. many-valued logic/fuzzy logic). The fundamental question whether any continua exist in the physical world is a deep question in physics (cf. atomism). Deterministic Newtonian physics stipulates that reality is continuous. Per contrast, contemporary quantum physics is based on the notion of discrete states (quanta) as the notion of continuity appears to be invalid at the smallest Planck scale of physical existence.
Conditional Sôritês paradoxon in symbolic logic:
Mathematical Induction Sôritês paradoxon:
In linguistic terms, Sôritês paradoxon has been eloquently formulated by Black in 1937:
A symbol’s vagueness is held to consist in the existence of objects concerning which it is intrinsically impossible to say either that the symbol in question does, or does not, apply. …Reserving the terms of logic and mathematics for separate consideration, we can say that all “material” terms, all whose application requires the recognition of the presence of sensible qualities, are vague in the sense described. — M. Black (Vagueness: an exercise in logical analysis, 1937)
In the context of visual perception (psychophysics) Lord Bertrand Russel stated the following:
It is perfectly obvious, since colours form a continuum, that there are shades of colour concerning which we shall be in doubt whether to call them red or not, not because we are ignorant of the meaning of the word “red”, but because it is a word the extent of whose application is essentially doubtful. — B. Russell (Vagueness, 1923)
Figure 1. Sôritês paradoxon in visual brightness perception.
Figure 1 illustrates Sôritês paradoxon applied to visual perception (based on Russel’s argument). Adjacent luminance differences (e.g., tick-mark 1 versus 2) are indistinguishable by the human visual system while larger contrasts (e.g., tick mark 2 versus 3) are easily distinguishable.
For further information see my 2018 paper entitled: Sôritês paradoxon: Contextualism & borderline vagueness
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Voorhoeve, A., & Binmore, K.. (2006). Transitivity, the Sorites Paradox, and Similarity-Based Decision-making. Erkenntnis
, 64(1), 101–114.
“A persistent argument against the transitivity assumption of rational choice theory postulates a repeatable action that generates a significant benefit at the expense of a negligible cost. no matter how many times the action has been taken, it therefore seems reasonable for a decision-maker to take the action one more time. however, matters are so fixed that the costs of taking the action some large number of times outweigh the benefits. in taking the action some large number of times on the grounds that the benefits outweigh the costs every time, the decision-maker therefore reveals intransitive preferences, since once she has taken it this large number of times, she would prefer to return to the situation in which she had never taken the action at all. we defend transitivity against two versions of this argument: one in which it is assumed that taking the action one more time never has any perceptible cost, and one in which it is assumed that the cost of taking the action, though (sometimes) perceptible, is so small as to be outweighed at every step by the significant benefit. we argue that the description of the choice situation in the first version involves a contradiction. we also argue that the reasoning used in the second version is a form of similarity-based decision-making. we argue that when the consequences of using similarity-based decision-making are brought to light, rational decision-makers revise their preferences. we also discuss one method that might be used in performing this revision. © springer 2006.”
Keefe, R.. (2007). Vagueness Without Context Change. Mind
, 116(462), 275–292.
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzm275
“In this paper i offer a critique of the recent popular strategy of giving a contextualist account of vagueness. such accounts maintain that truth-values of vague sentences can change with changes of context induced by confronting different entities (e.g. different pairs through a sorites series). i claim that appealing to context does not help in solving the sorites paradox, nor does it give us new insights into vagueness per se. furthermore, the contextual variation to which the contextualist is committed is problematic in various ways. for example, it yields the consequence that much of our everyday (non-soritical) reasoning is fallacious, and it renders us ignorant of what we and others have said.”
Litman, L., & Zelcer, M.. (2013). A cognitive neuroscience, dual-systems approach to the sorites paradox. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/0952813X.2013.783130
“Typical approaches to resolving the sorites paradox attempt to show, in one way or another, that the sorites argument is not paradoxical after all. however, if one can show that the sorites is not really paradoxical, the task remains of explaining why it appears to be a paradox. our approach begins by addressing the appearance of paradox and then explores what this means for the paradox itself. we examine the sorites from the perspective of the various brain systems that are intuitively comfortable with the key features of the premises of the sorites argument. we suggest that the explicit and implicit cognitive systems are separately responsible for the initial plausibility of the categorical and inductive premises. the appearance of paradox is a function of our brain’s architecture and arises from the conflicting interactions of neurologically distinct systems. © 2013 copyright taylor and francis group, llc.”
Ludwig, K., & Ray, G.. (2002). Vagueness And The Sorites Paradox. Noûs
, 36(s16), 419–461.
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1111/1468-0068.36.s16.16
“The principle of stability now says that if sentence is true/false in a model m, then has to stay true/false if m is getting more precise. formally, let m = d, i be a refinement of m = d, i . then it has to be the case that for all : (i) if vm() = 1, then vm () = 1. (ii) if vm() = 0, then vm () = 0.”
Campbell, R.. (1974). The sorites paradox. Philosophical Studies
, 26(3–4), 175–191.
“The premises that a four foot man is short and that a man one tenth of an inch taller than a short man is also short entail by universal instantiation and ‘modus ponens’ that a seven foot man is short. the negation of the second premise seems to entail there are virtually no borderline cases of short men, while to deny the second premise and its negation conflicts with the principle of bivalence, if not excluded middle. but the paradox can be dissolved without resort to degrees of truth or any non-classical system of logic. if some true predications can be semantically uncertain in a sense suitable for defining borderline cases, the second premise can be denied without denying the vagueness of ‘short’ or reintroducing a sorites paradox along with higher order borderline cases.”
Hyde, D.. (2011). Sorites Paradox. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxicalarguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as aresult of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of thepredicates involved. for example, the concept of a heap appears tolack sharp boundaries and, as a consequence of the subsequentindeterminacy surrounding the extension of the predicate ‘is aheap’, no one grain of wheat can be identified as making thedifference between being a heap and not being a heap. given then thatone grain of wheat does not make a heap, it would seem to follow thattwo do not, thus three do not, and so on. in the end it would appearthat no amount of wheat can make a heap. we are faced with paradoxsince from apparently true premises by seemingly uncontroversialreasoning we arrive at an apparently false conclusion., the hooded man: you say that you know your brother. yet thatman who just came in with his head covered is your brother and you didnot know him.”
The etymology of the term “Cognition“
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Cognition: That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.
mid-15c., cognicioun, “ability to comprehend, mental act or process of knowing,” from Latin cognitionem (nominative cognitio) “a getting to know, acquaintance, knowledge,” noun of action from past participle stem of cognoscere “to get to know, recognize,” from assimilated form of com“together” (see co-) + gnoscere “to know,” from PIE root *gno- “to know.” In 17c. the meaning was extended to include perception and sensation.
1375–1425; late Middle English cognicioun < Latin cognitiōn- (stem of cognitiō ), equivalent to cognit(us ), past participle of cognōscere ( co- co- + gni-, variant stem of gnōscere, nōscere, to learn (see know) + -tus past participle suffix) + -iōn- -ion
Edaward BernaysWalter LippmannBertold BrechtErich Fromm
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.They govern us by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure. Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.” (Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928)
Bernays, E. L. (1928). Propaganda. Horace Liveright.
Bernays, E. L. (1936). Freedom of Propaganda. Vital Speeches of the Day, 2(24), 744–746.
L’Etang, J. (1999). The father of spin: Edward L. Bernays and the birth of public relations. Public Relations Review, 25(1), 123–124.
“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . [a]s a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power…. Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to deal with the world beyond our reach. … The public must be put in its place, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and roar of a bewildered herd.” (Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, Chapter XV)
Lippmann, W. (1920). Liberty and the News. Museum.
Lippmann, W. (1970). The Phantom Public. Politics.
From 1930 onwards, Brecht became part of a wider complex of projects exploring the role of intellectuals (or “Tuis” as he called them) in a capitalist society. A Tui is an intellectual who sells his or her abilities and opinions as a commodity in the marketplace or who uses them to support the dominant ideology of an oppressive society. ] The German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht invented the term and used it in a range of critical and creative projects, including the material that he developed in the mid-1930s for his so-called Tui-Novel—an unfinished satire on intellectuals in the German Empire and Weimar Republic—and his epic comedy from the early 1950s, Turandot or the Whitewashers’ Congress. The word is a neologism that results from the acronym of a word play on “intellectual” (“Tellekt-Ual-In”).
According to Clark (2006):
“… the critique of intellectuals which Brecht developed… around the notion of ‘Tuismus’ engages a model of the public intellectual in which the self-image of the artist and thinker as a socially and politically engaged person corresponded to the expectations of the public.”
Clark, M. W. (2006). Hero or villain? Bertolt Brecht and the crisis surrounding June 1953. Journal of Contemporary History.
Hunt, T. C. N.-. (2004). Goodbye to Berlin: For 200 years, German thinkers have shaped British intellectual life – but their influence is fading fast. The Guardian.
“It is very useful to differentiate between rational and irrational authority. By irrational authority I mean authority exercised by fear and pressure on the basis of emotional submission. This is the authority of blind obedience, the authority you will find most clearly expressed in all totalitarian countries.
But there is another kind of authority, rational authority by which I mean any authority which is based on competence and knowledge, which permits criticism, which by its very nature tends to diminish, but which is not based on the emotional factors of submission and masochism, but on the realistic recognition of the competence of the person for a certain job.”
― 1958. The Moral Responsibility of Modern Man, in: Merrill-Palmer. Quarterly of Behavior and Development, Detroit, Vol. 5, p. 6.
On_Cognitive_Liberty
Deepfakes with AI
The Smith–Mundt Act – Legal Propaganda
ABC Fake News – Syria Bombing
Oshō on the liberty and happiness of children
A pertinent passage from George Orwell’s 1984
The etymological root of the term “Archon”
Call on Congress to Create Modern Day Church Committee
University of Alaska Fairbanks WTC7 9/11 study
Television programming & effective frequency
Neuralink – a chronically implanted (hackable) cortical neuroprosthetic device
Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (Jacques Ellul, 1962)
Simulacra and simulation (Jean Baudrillard, 1994)
Violence and the brain (Vernon H. Mark and Frank R. Ervin )
Credit Suisse Research Institute “Global Wealth Report” (2018)
Plato – The Republic
Annie Jacobsen: Inside DARPA – The Pentagon’s Brain
Bertrand Russell: Proposed Roads to Freedom
Sir Francis Galton (*1822;†1911): Hereditary Genius
Dr. Peter Breggin (MD) – Psychiatry, neurosurgery, psychopharmacology and mind control politics
Joseph Goebbels principles of propaganda
The science of critical thinking
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
Google’s Whitepaper on the “fight” of disinformation
Studies on the financial power élite: Behind the façade of democracy
Cybernetics: The science of steering systems
Psychological warfare: Weltanschauungskrieg = The war of worldviews
J. Edgar Hoover on “monstrous conspiracy and morality”
The Impact of Science on Society – Bertrand Russell
Encyclopædic hegemony: On the dominance of Wikipedia
Full spectrum dominance (JointVision 2020)
Social Identity Theory and the influence of music on identity-formation
Dīvide et imperā – Divide and rule
Immanuel Kant: Sapere aude! (Dare to think for yourself)
Prof. Noam Chomsky on the illegitimate arrest of Julian Assange
Phone Hackers: Britain’s Secret Surveillance
Tu quoque fallacy- Appeal to hypocrisy (personal inconsistency)
Power structure analysis
Internal vs. external coöptation
Habituation & moral apathy
Psychological Reactance
Nescience vs. ignorance (on semantics and moral accountability)
Argumentum ad lapidem – Appeal to the stone
Ignoratio elenchi – Missing the point
Rhode Island Geoengineering Act 2017
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Analysis of the personality of Adolph Hitler
José Delgado, implants, and electromagnetic mind control: Stopping the furious Bull
10 arguments for deleting your ‘social’ media accounts right now – Jaron Lanier
Conférence avec Edward Snowden (Taking individual risk for the greater good)
The nucleus accumbens, dopamine, and social learning
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld – Neoliberal indoctrination: Why do the lambs remain silent?
Erich Fromm – Disobedience: A Moral or Psychological Problem (1962)
Wake up: The ‘Ascending reticular activating system’ (ARAS) and its role in consciousness & attention
Killing babies in incubators – The fake Nayirah testimony (PR PsyOp)
The British Raj in India
Satyāgraha
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
On boiling frogs & bold men
H.G. Wells – The new world order
The opportunistic marketable/salable character
Origins of the “conspiracy meme”
Parapsychology: CIA testing Uri Geller
Cognitive dispossession
Change blindness
Professor Noam Chomsky
Bertrand Russel – The scientific outlook
Skull & Bones society
The structure of power
Testing Theories of American Politics
Supernormal stimuli
Silvio Gesell and the monetary system
Julius Cæsar’s “Panem et circenses”
Hitler’s “Mass Suggestion”
Why do the lambs remain silent?
The enemies of freedom
Aldous Huxley – Brave new world
X Club
Primary documents
Assault on the male
The Scream – Edvard Munch (1893)
Anthropocene epoch
KUBARK – U.S. Army Torture Manuals
Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure
“Deep-Interrogation” – A euphemism for torture
Read the hidden fine print of your mobile phone
David Hume – “Essays Moral, Political, Literary” (1777)
The term “conspiracy theory” as a psycholinguistic tool for memetic hegemony
The art of deception
American psychological association & CIA: Science of Deception Workshop
Invisible facts and perceptual illusions – David Copperfield vanishing the Statue of Liberty
Ebbinghaus illusion
Lumen naturale
Structural violence
Theater History of Operations Reports (THOR)
Freenom world anonymous DNS resolver
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Barack Obama – Freedom is not free
Ramstein: US military bases in Germany
Edgar Hoover
grepWin: Regular expression search within large text corpora
On Cognitive Liberty
Mental self-defense 101: A primer on psychological resilience and self-control
Manufacturing consensus
Impression management
Psychoactive substances act (United Kingdom 2016)
Inattentional blindness
Dwight D. Eisenhower Farewell Address – ‘Military Industrial Complex’
Orwell’s unpublished preface to Animal Farm
Bordieu’s Habitus & Hexis
Wikipedia “edit wars”
Mental self-defense 101: A conceptual primer on cognitive resilience and psychological self-control
Ienca, M., & Andorno, R.. (2017). Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology. Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 13(1), 5.
“Rapid advancements in human neuroscience and neurotechnology open unprecedented possibilities for accessing, collecting, sharing and manipulating information from the human brain. such applications raise important challenges to human rights principles that need to be addressed to prevent unintended consequences. this paper assesses the implications of emerging neurotechnology applications in the context of the human rights framework and suggests that existing human rights may not be sufficient to respond to these emerging issues. after analysing the relationship between neuroscience and human rights, we identify four new rights that may become of great relevance in the coming decades: the right to cognitive liberty, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity, and the right to psychological continuity.”
Rose, N., & Abi-Rached, J.. (2014). Governing through the Brain: Neuropolitics, Neuroscience and Subjectivity. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Plain numerical DOI: 10.3167/ca.2014.320102
“This article considers how the brain has become an object and target for governing human beings. how, and to what extent, has governing the conduct of human beings come to require, presuppose and utilize a knowledge of the human brain? how, and with what consequences, are so many aspects of human existence coming to be problematized in terms of the brain? and what role are these new ‘cerebral knowledges’ and technologies coming to play in our contemporary forms of subjectification, and our ways of governing ourselves? after a brief historical excursus, we delineate four pathways through which neuroscience has left the lab and became entangled with the government of the living: psychopharmacology, brain imaging, neuroplasticity and genomics. we conclude by asking whether the ‘psychological complex’ of the twentieth century is giving way to a ‘neurobiological complex’ in the twenty-first, and, if so, how the social and human sciences should respond.”
Dr. Christopher B. Germann (Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc. / Marie Curie Alumnus) is a scientist and an interdisciplinary scholar with specific expertise in the domain of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, inter alia.
Moral impetus of the project
Cognitive-Liberty.Online was created to counteract the perfidious and utterly unethical psycho-physiological manipulation (viz., cybernetic propaganda) which is currently systematically utilised by the narcissistic financial power “elité” and its associated co-opted myrmidónes to control and exploit the largely naïve populace (behind a superficial Orwellian façade of humanitarian benevolence and scientific progress). As the propagandist Joseph Goebbels already noted in the age of the 3rd Reich: Effective propaganda is invisible — conscious awareness of the influence would automatically elicit psychological reactance/resistance, or, in Prof. Noam Chomsky’s terms, “the natural human instinct for freedom”. In other terms, human beings generally do not like to be manipulated… Unbiased information and historical context are crucial components for a realistic understanding of the prevailing highly manipulative socio-political situation. Cognitive-Liberty.Online was created to make a contribution towards this critical objective. Based on a multi-criteria metalevel analysis one is forced to conclude that the current capitalistic system (aka. the “capitalocene”) is antagonistic towards the unfoldment of human potential and nature/life as a whole, i.e., the current modus operandi is fundamentally corrupt and promotes nescience, neuronal atrophy, and moral decay. The empirical evidence for this statement is de facto overwhelming (if one dares to look at it in an unbiased manner). Per analogiam, the situation is very reminiscent of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” which he introduced in his Socratic dialogue “The Republic” (Greek: Πολιτεία/Politeia, ≈380 BC), a text concerned with the character of the just state and the just man. The text definitely ranks among the most influential philosophical text in world and it has deeply influenced modern political theory. The timeless cave-allegory profoundly demonstrates Plato’s status as a deep philosopher who was initiated into the occult knowledge traditions (etymological root meaning: that which is hidden/concealed from the eye, Latin: occultus), but see: https://christopher-germann.de/platos-hohlengleichnis/
“To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.” — Sri Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sapere aude, homō sapiens sapiēns!
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (1849)
http://www.archive.org/download/civil_disobedience_librivox/civil_disobedience_01_thoreau.mp3
AI Translation
Bordieu’s Habitus
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
Mass psychology
Decision-science
holocene extinction
External search on WikiLeaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WaUkZXKA30
Aldous Huxley on Cognitive Liberty
Categorical post overview
cognitive-liberty.online/post-overview/
Noam Chomsky lectures on “Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities”
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958)
The World According to Monsanto (Documentary)
The Century of the Self (Part 1: “Happiness Machines”)
Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Transl.: None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
Man muß das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns her immer wieder gepredigt wird, und zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von der Masse. In Zeitungen und Enzyklopädien, auf Schulen und Universitäten, überall ist der Irrtum oben auf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich, im Gefühl der Majorität, die auf seiner Seite ist. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Transl.: Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.)
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