admonishment won't make a difference. They have no concept of right or wrong, they are nothing more than narcissists.

He's transferring to a Prep Sports Academy...Probably in his best interest...Best to him...We may not have a National Championship Caliber Squad now...But we for sure will be very good...There is a lot of parity now in the Open Division...Ce La Vie

Never Underestimate The Heart Of A Monarch2017 Trinity League, CIF-SS Division 1, CIF State Open Division and National Football Champions

Findlay Prep......... is the high school basketball team of the Henderson International School, a primary school and former secondary school in Henderson, Nevada.[1][2] The Pilots have won the National High School Championships in 2012 and 2013. ……they travel across the United States to play games against similar programs…….. Although the highschool of Henderson International closed in 2010, the school continues to support a high school basketball program.[4]

The Pilots have won three National High School Invitational tournaments …….The program is run similarly to an NBA team, with the team - scouted beforehand - barnstorming the country to play in invitational tournaments. Due to its perceived overemphasis on basketball, critics have slammed it as a basketball factory that gives students hope of a pro career instead of education, school officials refute these allegations arguing their students' "100% qualification rate" with the NCAA, Findlay Prep was branded as "non-scholastic" by the same organisation in 2013 but later affiliated themselves with the NIAA.

I don’t know if this link will remain standing under the amorphous board regulations on links but, in case it


Cleese with Cheese

Josh Hadley

Originating in 1969 on the BBC in England as a comedy sketch series featuring absurdist humor and a random atmosphere where logic need not apply for the laughs to spring forth. Written and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin with animation and direction by Terry Gilliam, the show was surreal to say the least. Straddling the line between intellectual and moronic, the show ran for four seasons in its home country with films scattered about in the interim.

“Monty Python's Flying Circus" was the most famous of the TV works that the Python's would generate but, in fact, many of the Python members had worked together prior to the Flying Circus. Long standing TV comedy veterans, the group quickly becamea staple of British television as well as radio and while it would take some time, they would help define their style of comedy to future generations.

It being thought that British humor would not translate to Americans, it took until 1972 before we got to see any of the Python's shenanigans. The show was brought to us by Time-Life and in 1974 became a long running part of PBS's most-watched programming. American audiences loved the series and it came to define how US viewers would judge UK comedy (a high bar that few were able to ever get close to).

The series was introduced in America as a companion piece to the first Python film "And Now for Something Completely Different" in 1971 (which we got in 1972 alongside


the show).

Following the series being cancelled in the UK in the mid-1970's (right as we were getting it ironically) three more Python films were released. They were "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," in 1975, "Life of Brian" in 1979 and "The Meaning of Life" in 1983.

The series and the movies have long been favorites on college campus's and with ... um .... stoners. I can't put that any other way: stoners love Python. With the admittedly insane style of humor employed by the show it sometimes greatly enhances the jokes if you are on another plane of reality at the time of viewing.

“Holy Grail" is by far their most popular film and the one that John Cleese himself was in Green Bay to bring us. An insanebut also of steadfast comedians such as Cleese. While the man has a career spanning nearly 50 years, hundreds of TV episodes, dozens upon dozens of films and yet it is his work with Python and Holy Grail specifically which will earn him longevity in America.

Cleese very much made Green Bay his own, entering the stage wearing a cheese hat and wasting no time in cracking jokes about "American Football" while also telling us the true story of how his family name was once Cheese but his father changed it to Cleese.

"Absurd and/or ridiculous questions only are requested, please." This was how the tickets were sold and indeed the audience lived up to this mantra.

Being a funny guy in real life as well as in the movies, Cleese


let loose with his irreverent stories all the while taking shots at interviewer Len Nelson from WAPL. Berating him (in a humorous manner) for interrupting and finally taking the cards with the questions on them and throwing them across the stage wanting a less formal atmosphere. That all said, Cleese was engaging and frankly warm and outgoing for a good hour after the film with many funny asides and even an impromptu bit when (for no apparent reason) someone got up and walked out of the theater.

A true showman, Cleese proved yet again why he is one of the comedy greats and why the tradition of Monty Python is as large and revered as it is.

A fiercely confrontational and arrogant critic whose stubborn nature makes him immanently readableand equally angering, Josh Hadley is a writer for magazines such as Hustler, Fangoria, Paracinema, Shadowland, Grindhouse Purgatory and Cashers du Cinemart, as well as a radio host on Jackalope Radio. Find more from him at 1201beyond.com, a website that only the most anti-social personalities would engage.


wonderful husband:

The Orbea Ordu, full carbon frame and Shimano Ultegra components. The story of this bike is too amazing not to share. The original owner (aka the guy we bought it from) had herniated 3 disks in his back and was paralyzed from the waist down. The doctors predicted he would never walk without a cane again. After intense physical therapy he not only walked unassisted, he trained for and completed a full Ironman! This is the very bike he rode those 112 miles on! I feel so inspired by the history of this bike and honored to be the next one to ride it. Who knows, maybe it has two Ironmans (Ironmen?) in it! 😉

Moving right along to the running addiction from the cycling addiction. Week twofoot found the only exposed electrical wire, tripped and nearly face planted into the parking lot. It was then that Jena sealed her fate by saying, ‘you better be careful, it comes in 3s.’

Several port-o-pottie trips later (stupid digestive system) we headed out for our warm-up jog. It was still dark out and when we crossed the parking lot to one of the beach restrooms Jena tripped over a parking curb and ate pavement. She did a pretty amazing tuck and roll that almost made it look like she meant to do it.

After all that crazyness we squeezed into the starting pack near the front and were off. I started off at goal pace and it was anything but easy. My legs felt strong but the rest of


Court Passes the Buck on Fate of Chinese Muslims

by William Fisher

As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder prepared for his first trip to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, next week, human rights advocates suffered a stinging defeat when a federal appeals court ruled that 17 Chinese Muslims scheduled for release from the Caribbean detention center could not enter the U.S. and must remain in custody.

The Chinese prisoners, known as ethnic Uighurs, have been detained at Guantánamo without charge for over seven years, despite the fact that the U.S. government no longer considers the men "enemy combatants" and has admitted that it does not have the authority to detain them.

Last October, a federal circuit court ruled that the 17 must be released immediately and admitted into the U.S.state secrets privilege, and a lower court judge threw out the lawsuit. It was appealed to the 9th Circuit, where the Obama DOJ chose not to change the government's position. The Appeals Court has not yet ruled on whether the case will be thrown out again or allowed to proceed.

Congress has now become involved in the state secrets controversy. In the House of Representatives, Congressmembers have reintroduced legislation that would ensure meaningful judicial determination of the state secrets privilege. The bi-partisan State Secret Protection Act of 2009 would curb abuse of the privilege while providing protection for valid state secrets.

The legislation would require courts to examine the evidence for which the state secrets privilege is claimed, in order to determine whether the executive branch has validly invoked the


privilege. The court must look at the actual evidence, not just government affidavits about the evidence, and make its own assessment of whether information is covered by the privilege.

The state secrets privilege was regularly invoked by the Bush administration to block lawsuits over controversial anti-terrorism programs, including warrantless surveillance In September, a secrecy "report card" released by OpenTheGovernment.org revealed that the Bush administration invoked the state secrets privilege "45 times – an average of 6.4 times per year in 7 years (through 2007) – more than double the average (2.46) in the previous 24 years." Prof. David Cole of Georgetown University Law Center summed up the views of many leading legal scholars regarding the "war on terror" and related issues. He told IPS, "If our detentions of enemyAmerica’s global image: Implications for Washington and its allies

In the wake of the Second World War, the United States crafted a network of allies and partners spanning the globe. The success of this venture rested heavily on key countries supporting strong ties to the United States. American leadership of this “empire by invitation” rested on populations in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East wanting U.S. engagement. Does the same remain true today?

Wike presented the findings of a recently published report on global attitudes toward the United States. Between February 2016 and May 2017 Pew surveyed some 40,000 people in 37 countries across the globe. Among other issues, the survey explored confidence in President Trump as an international actor and overall favorability of the United States.

According to Wike,


the report shows that these two metrics are often closely linked. He explained that the “change of who is in the White House has had a big impact on how the world sees the United States.” Global confidence in the U.S. president to “do the right thing in world affairs” has declined from 64 percent to 22 percent with the advent of the new administration. Concurrently, favorable views of the United States have dropped from 64 percent to 49 percent. Russia, as Wike noted, is the significant outlier with a net increase in both of these metrics.

Wike reported a “steep slope downward” in favorability among Europeans between Presidents Obama and Trump, with European views of the current president roughly on par with those for President George W. Bushat the end of his second term in office. Within Asia, high favorability in nations such as South Korea and Vietnam was balanced by divided publics in India and Australia. And within the Middle East, views of the United States have remained stable within Israel and among America’s Arab allies, with greater variability of views vis-à-vis the particular president.

Opening the discussion on these findings, Tarun Chhabra, a fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy, emphasized the implications of the survey results for U.S. interests, alliances, and regional order, noting that among the 10 countries with the greatest decline in confidence in the president, nine are U.S. treaty allies.

The United States and Europe

For Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and


emanating from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Trump. Despite data suggesting broad public disapproval of Trump in the Middle East, Hamid cautioned against expectations of any drastic shifts in the prevailing relationships, noting a “status quo bias” between the region and Washington.

The United States and Asia

To CFR’s Ely Ratner, the report “brings more good news than bad” for the United States. Ratner pointed out that several Asian nations have sustained positive views of the U.S. president despite the transition from Barrack Obama to Donald Trump. However, Ratner noted that a president’s popularity does not always correspond to policy success, as he witnessed in the Obama administration.

Nonetheless, Asian opinions toward the United States matters considerably, according to Ratner, as Washington now finds itself in a nascent struggleCase Study Arcadia

Fashion group Arcadia streamlines planning across international and UK businesses after rolling-out TXT MAPLE LAKE technology

Case Study

Company Background

The Arcadia Group, which owns the Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Burton, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit brands, boasts a formidable international fashion empire. Arcadia, with annual sales of £2.7bn, is one of the UK's largest privately owned retailers with more than 44,000 employees. It operates a total of around 2,500 stores, with around 700 across 30 markets throughout the world. The owner, Sir Philip Green, said he had invested £113m in the group during the year taking Topshop and Topman to the US, where it now has stores in New York and Chicago as well as a Las Vegas store which opened recently in March. Another is due


to open in Los Angeles in February 2013. Arcadia's internet sales went up 27% during the last year. The online retail business continues to be a key focus for the group, both in the UK and abroad. It launched dedicated e-commerce sites in the USA, France and Germany in 2011.

Supply Chain Challenges

Planning for such a large scale operation is no mean feat. The retailer has to bring in more than 150 million units from approximately 55 countries around the world, planning what goes on sale many months in advance. Then, from one of four distribution centres in the UK, some 28 million units are rapidly sent out to international stores as widespread as Russia, Japan and Canada - all demanding varying sizes, styles and volumes. It also coordinatesadvanced, unified system across all its brands. The TXT MAPLE LAKE software was rolled-out across all Arcadia's global brands in just under two years. Benefits include the ability to match UK store space to available merchandise at any store, on any brand, and being able to send the numbers direct to the stores themselves.

Summary

Clothing retailer Arcadia Group has completed a roll-out of TXT MAPLE LAKE planning software across all its international and UK divisions to enhance store and channel planning in its high street and growing international businesses. Whether it's financial planning for a massive flagship store in London or New York, or knowing the floor space and how to plan more profitably for new international store openings, the retailer has embraced the new technology to stay at


in January. The buildings would be turned over the the municipal authorities, he said.

Some remain sceptical, given previous frequent rumours of closure that have come to nothing, but if Butyrka does close it will be the end of one of the most storied and feared prisons in the world.

A prison was first constructed on the site during the rule of Catherine the Great in the 18th century, and it briefly housed Emelyan Pugachev, the leader of a peasant revolt, before he was decapitated, drawn and quartered at a public execution in central Moscow.

Vladimir Mayakovsky; Alexander Solzhenitsyn Composite: getty / rex

Most of the existing structure dates from the 19th century, and during tsarist times housed some of the underground revolutionaries who would later go on to lead the Bolshevikblood.”

Other notable writers incarcerated at Butyrka in the 1930s and 1940s include Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov and Osip Mandelshtam. Hitler’s nephew Heinrich was captured by Soviet forces in 1942 during the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, and died at Butyrka.

Soldiers guard the Butyrka prison in 1917. Photograph: Alamy

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the prison continued functioning as a pre-trial detention centre. When the media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested and briefly held there in 2000, he was so shocked by the conditions he paid from his own money to fix the roof and provide new bedding for inmates. They have frequently complained of poor conditions, lack of light and exercise and low-quality or non-existent medical care.

Magnitsky, the lawyer who uncovered a major tax fraud perpetrated by


Bill Goodman is a slick, wealthy, celebrated psychiatrist, who leads a double life. He has a wife and daughter in New York. At the same time, the bigamist has another wife in London. Despite his long absences on 'business trips', both little families lived in domestic bliss, totally oblivious of each-others existence. Alas the wives find out about each-other place in Bill's well-organized life, and let jealousy get the better of happiness; they even team up and turn on the man who so cunningly made everyone happy for so long..Director: Rachel TalalayWriter: Simon BookerStars: Peter Gallagher, Cheryl Hines, Dervla Kirwanmodel aircraft with a single control line is the amount of control a user has over the aircraft movement. Previously, the only possible control a user had over single line model aircraft movement was speed, and the up and down movement of the aircraft. Because of this limitation, methods of flying single line controlled model aircraft have not been as popular as other methods of flying model aircraft.
The difficulty in accurately controlling single line model aircraft, and particular model aircraft which are formed of paper, resides in the nature of the aircraft as well as the variety of interacting forces which exist during the movement of the fishing pole, control line and model aircraft through the air. For example, in instances in which the control line is greatly


Medal is too far-fetched a thought and Indian gymnasts, sans an injured Dipa Karmakar, will face an uphill task when they begin their campaign at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, here on Friday.

The only Indian to have ever qualified for Olympics, Dipa, who had finished fourth in vault finals at the Rio Games, remains the country’s premier gymnast but she is out of the tournament after failing to recover from a nagging knee injury.

In Dipa’s absence, the onus will be on Pranati Nayak, Pranati Das and Aruna Budda Reddy to make an impact in the women’s category after they were selected in the six-member Indian team last month.

Pranati Nayak had won a bronze in vault event at the Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Mongolia earlier this year,while Aruna had claimed bronze at 2018 Gymnastics World Cup.

But World Championships are a different ball game where even reaching the finals has proved to be a difficult task for Indian gymnasts in the past.

In the men’s section, the focus will be on 2010 Asian Games bronze medallist Ashish Kumar, while the team will also have Yogeshwar Singh and Aditya Singh Rana.

Olympic quotas will also be up for grabs with the top nine teams in each discipline (excluding the three already qualified from 2018) set to qualify for the Tokyo Games.

Individual Olympic berths will also be at stake as the top 12 male and top 20 female gymnasts, which will be decided by rankings in the all-around competitions, will qualify for Tokyo Games.

Additionally, the three top gymnasts in


each apparatus final, excluding those from qualified teams, will also book their Olympic tickets.

Among Indians, Ashish, Pranati Nayak and Aruna have done reasonably well in the past and there will be expectations from them to at least reach the finals.

However, finishing in the top three will be far-fetched if not impossible, considering the fact that Dipa’s fifth place finish in vault event at the 2015 World Championships remains India’s best performance in the tournament till now.

On the eve of the tournament, Riyaz Bhati, vice president of the Gymnastics Federation of India, extended his support to the gymnasts.

“I assure a support of upto Rs 20 lakh for the gymnasts who will qualify for the Olympics for their training,” said Riyaz, who is the head of the Indian delegation.

For Ashishand Aruna, it has been a good comeback into the national team after battling poor form of late.

The 29-year-old Ashish has been out of form since last year’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. He failed to put up a good show in the Croatia World Cup in May and also couldn’t make the cut for the Asian Championships in Mongolia in June.

However, a training stint in Poland seems to have given Ashish and Aruna a lot of confidence as they managed to finish in the top three at the selection trials last month.

While Ashish top-scored with 78.7 points, Aruna came up with a score of 49.05 to make the cut.

Among others, Pranati Nayak (50.75) emerged as top-scorer in women’s section, followed by Pranati Das (49.1).

In the men’s category, Yogeshwar


Golf in Tasmania

A round of golf in Tasmania comes with added extras – kelp gatherers at the fairway edge, a round-eared native pademelon in the rough, or sheer sea cliffs ready to claim a wayward drive.

Tasmania has more than 80 golf courses set among rainforest and rolling rural landscapes or close to deserted beaches and mountains.

At Kingston Golf Club in the south, fairways zigzag through a riverside wildlife sanctuary where an eagle-eye might spot a platypus.

The island’s strong golfing tradition began with the oldest course in the Southern Hemisphere – established by Scottish settlers before 1840 – and now includes 12 major 18-hole courses. Historic Bothwell Golf Club, at the Ratho property on the edge of the central highlands, continues to fence the greens on its nine-hole layoutto protect the putting surface from grazing sheep. Its rules include the important number five, which specifies that, ‘If a sheep track interferes with stance, the ball may be dropped behind without penalty.’ A Gothic sandstone schoolhouse in the Bothwell township is home to the Australasian Golf Museum and a diverse collection that includes clubs from 1880-1970.

The 100-year-old Royal Hobart Course has hosted many high-profile tournaments, including the 1971 Australian Open won by Jack Nicklaus. Nearby, the Tasmania Golf Club, on Barilla Bay, offers fine golf and water views.

For a dose of drama, pit your wits against the Tasman Club’s par-3 eighth at Storm Bay, near the Port Arthur convict settlement. Underestimate the 136-yard carry over a gorge – known as The Chasm – and your ball will


failure.

2008 - The Great Etsy Culture Shift

Chad Dickerson was hired as the CTO and later became the CEO. He brought in a new culture and the previous culture was no longer at Etsy.

Removing the old culture also removed:

Devotion to PostgreSQL and stored procedures.

Fear of developers coding in SQL.

Fear of developers touching the product in general.

The idea that of infrequent and large deployments are the way to move code into production.

A general NIH attitude.

Spring 2009 - The Way Forward: Part 1

DevOps to the Rescue

DevOps are Ops people who are also engineers and engineers who are also Ops.

Upgrade database vertically as far as possible. Still not enough, but bought some breathing room.

Give developers production access to running code so they can help fix problems. Developed a tool called StatsD. ThoughMinister is clearly one of the 21% who like a pair of animal skin strides – having once famously prompted a row by wearing a some with a price tag of almost £1,000.

Crocs – the famous casual footwear brand – ranks third on the list, with around six in ten (59%) taking a dim view of them.

The genders divide on jumpsuits, generations split over hoodies

Jumpsuits are the item of clothing most dividing the genders. Three in five (60%) men dislike them compared to just over two in five women (43%). In fact, women are split down the middle over the all-in-one item: a further 45% say they like jumpsuits (by contrast, only 20% of men do).

Other notable disagreements between men and women include leggings and berets (both of


with the worm parallel to the band, and back into the rail. A slide is connected there to one of the two free ends of the band, in order to traverse it along the guide rail and thus move a gate. However, stable mounting and vibration-resistant adjustability of the spatial angle of a support plate for an outside mirror of a truck, for example, cannot be implemented using a slide guide which occupies so much space.
In German Patent Application 33 11 229 A1, the combination of a slider crank drive for a pitching movement with a further drive for converting a rotational movement into a longitudinal movement is provided, behind a shared drive motor, especially for mirror adjustment, but also for adjusting seats and steering wheels in vehicles,longitudinally movable adjustment rod which is toothed in at least some regions and flexible in at least some regions. This rod is deflected, on both sides of its central toothed section, in curved guides out of the plane parallel to the plate into the transverse direction in order to exit out of the housing, where its end piecesxe2x80x94after bridging the mounting distance between the housing and the platexe2x80x94are connected using an articulated joint to the back side or the inside of the plate to transmit pushing and pulling movements at their faces.
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and Herman Gyr

Richard and Barbara Pivnicka, and the Band of Angels

As Honorary Consuls of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic respectively, Richard and Barbara Pivnicka are amongst those who have made trade and commerce between the US and European continents their life’s mission. Richard Pivnicka is a patent inventor and highly active in the start-up and VC domains; he founded CzechTech, an organization connecting Czech and Silicon Valley businesses. Barbara Pivnicka is a renowned business executive and a global thought leader. She is President and CEO of the San Francisco Global Trade Council. The meeting with Richard and Barbara was dedicated to the prospects of Eligma venturing beyond the national and continental borders.

Meeting with Richard and Barbara Pivnicka

The Pivnickas are both members of the Band of Angels− Silicon Valley’s start-up funding organization with a tradition spanning over almost a quarter of a decade. I presented Eligma to its Blockchain Special Interest Group, which evolved into an intense two-hour meeting. I was truly honored by the amount of interest and feedback.

Meeting with Band of Angels Blockchain SiG

Ramesh Raskar

Sitting down with one of the finest minds in the tech domain today is an incredible experience. Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT and head of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture research group. He holds more than 75 patents and numerous awards. He has not only profoundly influenced the technical, but also the philosophical domain with his innovative contributions to academic learning. The main aim of meeting with Raskar was to discuss the potential of creating


an MIT research group assisting with the development of the algorithm and AI of the Eligma platform.

Meeting with Ramesh Raskar

A weekend with champions: Anton Marinovich, Tony Perkins and Andrej Kiska Jr.

Friday and Saturday were just as busy as the rest of the week, and the meetings included several eminent figures that hardly need an introduction in the business world. The first one is Anton Marinovich, an international expert in start-ups and SaaS sales. He started his career working on the first version of the Google Shopping platform, and evolved into a highly accomplished sales executive excelling at start-up sales performance, currently at ACELR8.

Meeting with Anton Marinovich

Tony Perkins is world-famous as founder and editor of the Alchemist and Cryptonite exclusive investor and expert communities. Dedicated to the advancement ofblockchain, Cryptonite is one of the most important communities of its kind on a global scale. With his amazing insight and vision, Tony Perkins is at its very centre, and a meeting with him inevitably provides you with a fresh insight into the industry. Eligma is no exception!

Meeting with Tony Perkins

The weekend was rounded off by a meeting with Andrej Kiska Jr. His father, Andrej Kiska Sr., is President of Slovakia and was able to try out Elipay a few months ago in Ljubljana. However, Andrej Kiska Jr. Is a well-known economic figure in his own right. Dedicated to furthering global business potential, he is a partner in Credo Ventures, supporting start-ups from Central Europe and known for successfully connecting them with the US market.

Meeting with Andrej Kiska


I remove it.’” [1]

With this idea in mind, Fry went back to work the next week and began developing a solution to his bookmark problem. As luck would have it, Fry happened to be working at the perfect company. He was an employee at 3M and one of his co-workers, Spencer Silver, was an adhesives specialist.

Over the next few months, Fry and Silver developed a piece of paper that would stick to a page, but could be easily removed and reapplied over and over. Eventually, this little project became one of the best-selling office supplies of all-time: the Post-It Note.

Today, 3M sells Post-It Notes in over 100 countries worldwide. You can find them at libraries and schools, in offices and boardrooms, and scattered around nearly every workspace inFAMOUS American sporting college Penn State has been fined an unprecedented $60 million for the child sex abuse scandal that shook one of the largest and most lucrative sports programs in the US.

Other sanctions include the loss of all once-legendary coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011.

Though the National Collegiate Athletic Association stopped short of imposing the "death penalty" - shutting down the football program completely - the punishment is still crippling for a team that is trying to start over.

Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant coach, was found guilty in June of sexually abusing several young boys, at times on campus, sometimes after finding them through the charity he founded for at-risk youth.

The NCAA action came in the wake of a devastating report asserting that top university


the Sandusky scandal.

On Sunday, Penn State tore down a statue of Paterno six months after his death from lung cancer at age 85.

The Paterno family released a statement criticising the decision, saying it was made in haste and before all the facts about Paterno's role in the Sandusky scandal were known.

In Washington, the White House said President Barack Obama believed "it was the right decision."Friday afternoon. "I'm going to fully focus myself on the rest of high school, and on football, because a year from now, I'm going to be on that roster."

The day Tevis arrives on campus will be the latest milestone in a wending trail that's taken him from one side of the ball to the other, and from one side of the world to the other, and back again.

As a freshman, Tevis was a quarterback. His father, Mike, and uncle, John, were both offensive linemen at Stanford. Then, he and his entire immediate family spent a year in France. His older brother, Mitchell, was already rowing at Dartmouth, but the other members of the family -- Tevis, his parents, one little brother and one little sister -- hit the


road.

Tevis has expressed interest in studying international business to BearTerritory, and it was his experiences overseas that sparked it.

"I'm very interested in international cultures things like that, and I speak French and Spanish," he said. "I lived in France for one year in high school, and one year in middle school.

While there, Tevis didn't play sports, not wanting to burn a year of eligibility. As he puts it, he was just a regular French kid. He used that time to learn both French and Spanish, and immerse himself in the culture. He also hit the weights.

"I went there a sophomore, and came back a sophomore, so I re-did my sophomore year," he said. "My parents were very interested in France, and they had the opportunity to go there,Socket wrenches incorporating ratchet drives and standard sockets for driving threaded fasteners including most commonly hexagonal nuts and bolt heads are commonly used in the mechanic's field. In situations where a mechanic is confronted with the requirement for driving a fastener located remotely from the place from which the mechanic must work or located in a tight space restricting the swing of the drive ratchet handle, extension drives are utilized to transmit the force from the ratchet to the socket. When driving a fastener in a remote location and particularly in a situation where the work must be accomplished in close quarters and with obstructions present, it is desirable to have a mechanism by which the socket can be locked to the extension. In addition to the desirability


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 28, 2011) - The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team defended its 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix title by defeating top-ranked Brazil 26-24, 25-20, 25-21 Sunday afternoon in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix gold-medal match held at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Macau, China.

The second-ranked Americans have now won the tournament four times, with all four titles occurring in China (1995 in Shanghai, 2001 in Macau, 2010 in Ningbo and 2011 in Macau). Team USA also has World Grand Prix bronze medals to its credit won in 2003 and 2004. Just two days ago Brazil defeated the U.S. 22-25, 26-24, 25-21, 25-20 to conclude the World Grand Prix Final Round Pool B on Aug. 26. Both teams had already qualified for thesemifinals regardless of the outcome of the pool match.

Brazil, which had not lost during its 13 matches of the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix, was attempting to win World Grand Prix title for a ninth time in the 19th edition of the tournament.

To watch UniversalSports.com video stream of the gold-medal match between USA and Brazil, click here.

Earlier today, Serbia defeated Russia 25-21, 25-20, 25-16 to capture the bronze medal in its first-ever appearance in the FIVB World Grand Prix.

Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas), the most valuable player of the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix, led the American attack with a match-high 16 points with 15 kills and a block. Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) chipped in 12 kills, one block and one ace for 14 points. Jordan


Larson (Hooper, Neb.) scored 11 points with 10 kills on 30 attacks and a block. Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) charted three kills, three blocks and an ace for seven points. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) totaled six kills and a block for seven points. Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) rounded out the scoring with a block.

The U.S. opened the first set with a 9-3 lead, only to have Brazil rally to take the lead at 18-17. The Americans came back from a 21-20 deficit to win 26-24 as the set was tied eight times down the stretch. After 13 ties through 15-all in the second set, the U.S. broke away with a 4-0 run taking a 19-15 advantage and went on to win 25-20 as Larson contributed five kills inin which the court apparently raised the idea, the Sayers requested the appointment of a receiver to ensure the harvesting of the various crops. The court later discharged the receiver, who was awarded a fee.
As the proceedings moved forward, the district court ordered the return of the Sayers' earnest money. The court also bifurcated the issues for trial. After the initial trial, at which certain contractual issues were heard, the court found generally in favor of the Bowleys. The court determined that the Sayers had not adequately proved the existence or terms of the alleged oral contract and that, thus, the Sayers could not prevail on the issues of breach of contract and specific performance. The Sayers then filed an amended petition, realleging the cause of action for


term hermeneutics covers both the first order art and the second order theory of understanding and interpretation of linguistic and nonlinguistic expressions. As a theory of interpretation, the hermeneutic tradition stretches all the way back to ancient Greek philosophy. In the course of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, hermeneutics emerges as a crucial branch of Biblical studies. With the emergence of German romanticism and idealism the status of hermeneutics changes. Hermeneutics turns philosophical. It is no longer conceived as a methodological or didactic aid for other disciplines, but turns to the conditions of possibility for symbolic communication as such. The question 'How to read?' is replaced by the question, 'How do we communicate at all?' Without such a shift, initiated by Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, and others,it is impossible to envisage the ontological turn in hermeneutics that, in the mid-1920s, was triggered by Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit and carried on by his student Hans-Georg Gadamer. Now hermeneutics is not only about symbolic communication. Its area is even more fundamental: that of human life and existence as such. It is in this form, as an interrogation into the deepest conditions for symbolic interaction and culture in general, that hermeneutics has provided the critical horizon for many of the most intriguing discussions of contemporary philosophy, both within an Anglo-American context (Rorty, McDowell, Davidson) and within a more Continental discourse (Habermas, Apel, Ricoeur, and Derrida)." Ramberg B. – Gjesdal K. , "Hermeneutics". This method was also reproduced by several scholars in the past: it can be


social scientists must interpret a social world which already exhibits symbolic meaning; (edit: bold are mine) So, the first part will deal briefly with Dante's background (historical, political, philosophical, poetical7) because those conditions and those problems had influenced his Weltanschauung and prompted the Florentine to build his conceptual meanings and structures. The second paragraph will explain his contributions to the late medieval legal speculation, by focusing on the problem between justice and revenge in the Comedìa (hereinafter The Comedy), especially through the Counterpass principle. Then, in the last paragraph it will be summarized those elements and presented, under a qualitative approach, a personal8 view of Dante's hermeneutical9 legal and social theory, with a result of double-hermeneutical theory, as a whole. 7 Litterally "fictio rethorica musicaque poita". Alighieri, Dethe story of the pilgrim), as well as an account of its own coming-to-be as an interpretive meaningful account (in the narrative of the poet). Thus there is a necessary relation, though not an identity, between the content of Dante's text (as shown in the journey of the pilgrim) and the meaningful interpretation of the content of Dante's text (as shown in the rue collective narrative of the poet). The issue of the dialectical relation between interpreter and text is dramatized by the fact that, in his account of the realms of the afterlife, Dante the poet is not merely describing realms that have meaning apart from his own hermeneutic activity. Rather, he is demonstrating that the pilgrim's journey of interpreting the world within which he finds himself


che nei suoi personaggi conosce e descrive ai suoi lettori, collocandosi egli stesso nell'esistente, fuori dal tempo materiale e da ogni spazio umanamente determinabile e determinato, descrive l'uomo: l'uomo com'è nella sua realtà e come invece dovrebbe essere in rapporto ai fini per cui Dio l'ha creato". Ibidem, 67. More precisely, "Self-interpretation, is so crucial to the fate of the souls in the afterlife is made manifest as a crucial structuring principle of the Inferno in the segment of the poem that begins with Dante's entry into the city of Dis. This transition directly involves the reader as interpreter by means of the poem's explicit addresses to the reader By his interpretive acts as poet, Dante actually participates in this violence and fraud. He makes himself complicit inthe literal level of the narrative and consequently failing to penetrate to its deeper doctrinal meaning. Precisely such hermeneutic penetration is expressly enjoined by the address to the reader in Canto IX 61-63: "O you who have sound intellects, look at the doctrine which hides itself beneath the veil of the strange verses." At this point, 'the veil of the verses' – that is, the story which serves as vehicle for the allegory or doctrine of the poem. Again, a mythical representation of the word meaning is the Medusa where "Employed here at the literal level of the narrative as blocking the protagonist's further progress, they become figures for blockage of the hermeneutic process of interpretation itself on the part of the reader. Being blocked at the literal


the products of such actions, most importantly texts. As a methodological discipline, it offers a toolbox for efficiently treating problems of the interpretation of human actions, texts and other meaningful material. Hermeneutics looks back at a long tradition as the set of problems it addresses have been prevalent in human life, and have repeatedly and consistently called for consideration: interpretation is a ubiquitous activity, unfolding whenever humans aspire to grasp whatever interpretanda they deem significant. Due to its long history, it is only natural that both its problems, and the tools designed to help solve them, have shifted considerably over time, along with the discipline of hermeneutics itself. The article focuses on the main problem areas and presents some proposals that have been put forward for tackling thempast biographical and cultural transfiguration; which, unlike to the position in scriptura paganorum, was subjected on an ethical judgment and a transcendent projection. See, Arqué, "Eterodossia" passim. Furthermore, considering Hell "The prompting of the readers to look beyond the letter of the text and to find a hidden, allegorical meaning, inevitably by application of the text to themselves, thus becomes perfectly explicit in cantos VIII–IX, pg.4 Even more significantly, the poem leads Dante, together with his reader, into further depths of revelation, into a space of interpretation where the true journey beyond the fictive one unfolds. The forward motion through hell thus becomes a figure for passage beyond the poem's literal sense to its 'doctrinal' – its educative and apocalyptic – meaning." Franke, supra note 13, 3; 17


has therefore laid the fundamental premises for the unity of Italian mothertongue motherland . However, it is important to observe that his political thought has come from typical philosophical foundations: Dante followed the Classics23, which had strived to lead to the unity of things and the study of natural phenomena, extending that principle even to the human facts, and attributing divine origins to them.24 However, the legal background of Dante has been confirmed by several sources25: he studied law for the first time in Tuscany and thenin Bologna, the home of the glossators. Furthermore, Bologna was a leading liberal arts center: for this reason, Dante26 could have attended his studies in these fields (rhetoric, ars dictandi, philosophy and medicine) just as much as he studied together with BrunettoLatini, and he learnt his practice on philosophical-didactic prose work and his epistolography. This context influenced him and his intellectual inclinations, preferring the Major Guilds over the practice of law when, in 1296, he was asked to join one of the Major Guilds, following the provisions of the popular reform, applicable in Florence, favoring the art of Medici and Speziali, who would have connected him with scholars and experts "nobiltà" approfondito nel Convivio: e il contrario di "viltà", vizio applicabile tanto alla sfera etico-sociale che a quella linguistica, ed e in prossimità con il principio di perfezione regolativa. Dante dunque, nei due trattati cosi complementari,sottolinea l'esigenza naturale dell'uomo di conoscenza e parola, a cui si oppongono tuttavia vari impedimenti di natura etica, sociale e politica." Rosieri-Catach, "Uomo Nobile",


166 and 169; 22 The concept of political authoritativeness has to be connected with the aristotelian megalopsychia; the popular language aims to spread the knowledge against the privilege of a few people by using the latin, as well as it gives to whole language a public and political actuality. It seems to recall the Nembrot's character in Inf. XXXI and it tries to recover a natural forma locutionis and "restituire senso alla presenza dell'uomo sulla terra". See, Sánchez Madrid, " Nobiltà Poeta".passim; 23 Dante had in touch with the florentine conventual places after Beatrice's death. There philosophy was practiced by studying Boezio's De Consolationae Philosophiae, Ciceros' De Amicitia, and Arabic philosophers such as Averroè; however, a great attention was dedicated to Aristotle's works and its comments by St.Dante could not have developed a deep understanding of justice, empire, church/religion, forms of government and federalism, society, jurisprudence and its characters of certainty and codification. Dante's idea of the Universal Monarch was developed out of the context of literary work,28 such as the difference between two jurisdictions the spiritual and the temporal one that was based on Odofredo's thoughts, and the same consideration should be made regarding Dante's concept of ius and the several legal forms and their connection. This notwithstanding, all of these intellectual results cannot be understood in a correct way unless the political framework of Florence, and more generally of the Italian communities between the XIII and XIV century 29, is mentioned. A combination30 of territorial and economical expansions destroyed the local unity, determining


a social partition into opposite factions, which had been increasing political instability and fragility towards a papal submission after the battle of Tagliacozzo31. Therefore, in these times, Dante had been joining democratic ideals, supporting a policy of absolute independency and autonomy, just as he showed himself as a balanced and reasonable pacifier confirmed 27 Relying on this assumption, it's important to keep in mind the debate between two pivotal scholars (Chiappelli and Chiaudano) that dealt with the Dante's direct knowledge about roman and canon laws; 28 The concept of "Universal Empire", built on kingdoms, republics, cities and fiefdoms where existed roman law, had already imposed by the Bologna medieval law school. The four Doctores' teachings and the tradition of "glossa" evocated Dante's political ideas and his works, aswell; 29 The role of context such as an element to conduct a correct interpretation of text, was even affirmed by Hans Kelsen's "The theory of the State in Dante"; 30 "I said to them, 'I was born and raised, and I am here in the body that was always mine." (Inf. XXIII, 95) 31 It was fought on 23 August 1268 between the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen and the army of Charles of Anjou representing the last act of the german imperial Hohenstaufen line power in Italy. The end of Conradin marked also the fall of the family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy; by the role of Ambassador that he exerted in several


occasions which gave him many difficulties in spite of the political consideration of him. In fact, it is known that Dante, during his life, underwent four trials and four convictions, while a fifth trial was executed post-mortem accusing him of heresy as author of the Monarchy32. Sure enough Dante was sentenced for the first time on January 27 th (1302), due to a violation of the norms of the Statutes of the Republic of Florence, after Charles of Valois had entered in Florence to restore the influence of pope Boniface VIII by imposing the black guelphs' regime. The sanction was, in that case, only a monetary punishment. Nevertheless, with the second judgment on March 10 th (1302) Dante was sentenced to the stake, forcing him to be exiled33from Florence34 and to travel through Italy in the search for friendships and protection35; later, his sons and heirs were also condemned and banned, as an indirect consequence of his works. Considering this, Dante persuaded himself on the current legal situation: criminal law was under the judge's will who was elected by the winning political party, based on public reputation, legal beliefs and mostly on torture36. Thus, judges were free to exert their power and abuse it; sentences were a great weapon of political persecution and a legal way to obtain revenge by the winning 32 In that occasion, it had been the opportunity to burn Dante's bones by cardinal Bertrando del Poggetto "...a eternal infamia e confusion della sua memoria". Then, it's very useful to remember another


is so clear to understand how Dante considered the torture such as kind of atonement of sin. See, Frosini "Misericordia Giustizia" passim; faction37, and Dante's trials themselves were just a serious demonstration of the inevitable decline of coeval criminal law and legal procedures representing a trial much more political than legal, during a civil war in Florence, and anarchy in the rest of Italy.38 Under these circumstances, the civil and moral39 message of human renaissance had to be explained in an effective way: not merely long – and probably inconsistent arguments, but "exempla" (subjective examples) by maximizing those historical and mythical characters who could have an impressive concreteness in the memory40 of his contemporary and not contemporary reader, making The Comedy the 37 Beside the song "Tre donnevarious locations of places in the world, and their relations to the two poles and the circle at the equator, I am convinced, and firmly maintain, that there are many regions and cities more noble and more delightful than Tuscany and Florence, where I was born and of which I am a citizen, and many nations and peoples who speak a more elegant and practical language than do the Italians." Alighieri, De Vulgari Eloquentia I, VI, 3 and what Alighieri said in Convivio, I, III, 3-6; 38 The tyrants cited in Inf. XXVII during the dialogue with Guido da Montefeltro, are considered as a recall on the conclusion of city freedoms and a manifestation of violent usurpation of the power by singular people: "...tell me if Romagna lives


scholars didn't define the concept of "exemplum" and it remained considered as narrative type and image useful for illustrating a moral concept, even though based on real facts. See Delcorno, supra note 38, 5; 47 A symptomatic representation is offered by the serpentine forms in the seventh Bolgia in consideration of the role that they assume in the context of counterpass principle (see infra). In fact, "Within the seventh 'Bolgia' all seems to be contingent upon the serpent as an instrument of metamorphosis and upon the resulting suspension of the thieves in a state of disintegrated personality and inability to become 'whole'....Furthermore the idea of the serpent as a force of transmutation and renewal is a 'well substantiated archetype'; even more, there is an image of the serpentas the principle and purveyor of evil. Then, it seems defensible, give the Jung's theory of archetypes, that the poet is the sometimes unconscious transmitter of a mythological, archetypal universe inherited from preceding generations....The capacity for such evil to bring about the psychological disintegration of the sinner and his personality becomes, an ever present motif: 'The power of Hell to deprive man of sanity was impressed so deeply on Dante's mind'; Dante's portraits of the thieves all suggest a curious lack of self-possession and an incapacity to master their individual personalities in what Jung describes as the "abaissement du niveau mental". See Glyn,"Contrapasso Archetypal Metamorphoses", passim. Another circumstance is the dimension of the horrific by describing the category of the monsters in Hell, recalling to the symbolic function


and nature of it. Considering that, one may argue that properly in Hell, Dante referred to a "symbology of sin" where " ...the pains of the damned are in truth their own living sins, but sins converted to torturing images by what Dante would persuade us is the allegorizing eye of eternal Justice. These pains become portions of a total metaphoric vision of human evil, one in which the damned souls' existence is doubly circumscribed first by the orientation of their affections-which defines the individual nature of their transgression-and second by the fact of their being dead and placed in a realm beyond that of ordinary life." Gross, "Infernal Metamorphoses", 42; direct reference to reality.48 It designates the embodiment of a virtue in a figure, but even definesthe relation between 'defect / sin / crime' with a personified image, referring to the two basic functions of the first part of the rhetorical technique: convincing through logic and psychology and being moved to action.49 This shows a marked linguistic and 'pragmatically oriented' approach endowed of illocutionary and perlocutionary50 functions from a qualitative side as well as a shortness from the quantitative side; then, from the axiological point of view this structure aims to allow afford subordinating the narrative element to the moral nucleus of the novel 51. This is why the Comedy52 is such an excellent and evident model: a cosmic world based on orders of places distributed in Hell, Purgatory and Heaven with circular perspectives (Hell's bolgie are the Heaven's spheres down). It appears like


a sum of similitudes and examples on a universal53 background, represented by mnemonic devices: a bridge between an abstract concept and a concrete image 48 Collections of exempla were developing both in religious and in laic contexts; then, it was possible that Dante had in touch with them, in particular with the l'Alphabetum predicatiorum or the Pietro Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis; 49 Properly in the fidem facere, the road to reasoning will come out, whether it's supported by rhetorical proofs namely rational and persuasive ways. The exemplum belongs to those technical probationes, named "artificiales" that are sustained by internal reasons within the rhetorical technique. So, on the ground, there is a reasoning that entirely depends on by the orator's power and it inheres in the practice of him: thethat application: "When I came out onto the ledge of the fifth round, I saw people on it lying face down on the ground and weeping. 'Adhaesit pavimento anima mea' I heard them say with such deep sighs the words could hardly be distinguished." (Purg. XIX, 70-75) Indeed, miserly' punishment is the same as what it could be read in the Samaritan Pentateuch in terms of metaphor: their inordinate desire toward material goods was purified by its position in the structure of Purgatory. They were woman's sons such as slothful and lustful people, who: "..., in a dream stammering, cross-eyed, splayfooted, with crippled hands and sickly pale complexion." (Purg. XIX, 7-9) And they suffered a lack of spiritual appetite, which generated a disgust for the Good and drove


human natural qualities (humana civilitas) although in different contexts and autonomous functions. Dante was trying to find a solution to the matter about the asset of the social aggregate able to ensure and guarantee peace and justice, regardless of the government forms adopted by each one of them; 65 Nagy refers especially to Ernst H. Kantorowicz's interpretation, that emphasized the secular nature of Dante's political view, with the full autonomy of the emperor, equipped with specific prerogatives and powers from the Pope, and Hans Kelsen's reading on it, that recognized in Monarchia, the Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics influences, as well as the Bible and St. Augustine's derivations, including Egidio da Romano's political traces; the purpose of the government, in Dante's political philosophy was assuring peace, justice andKant's Idee Zu Einer Allgemeinen Geshscichte Weltburgerlicher Absicht (1784) and Hamilton's The Federalist (1788), above all; Empire, which kept enjoying its authority, with the possibility of a parallel openness to single sites of local power. 2.2 The Law and the law In Dante's political thought, the discounting of natural law emerges in an exemplary way. Not only it should be included in positive laws, but the same positive order is mainly made up of the rediscovered Roman laws68, which are written ratio and the soul of justice.69 In view of that, Dante followed the classification and the scholastic philosophy series (nulla potestas nisi a Deo) among jus eternum – jus divinum – jus naturale – jus humanum (gentium/civile). The real issue is the identification, combination and correct application


it indicated a reversion to strict Old Testament equivalence in his conception of God's Justice administered to the souls of the dead." Armour, Dante's Contrapasso, 3-4. 87 The Counterpass was directly affirmed by baron and poet Bertrand de Born during the XIIIth cent; he was punished into the ninth "Bolgia" (the schismatics), for (Dante believes) causing the rebellion of King Henry the Young against his father, Henry II of England. He was decapitated (in relation to a supposed act of political decapitation in undermining a rightful head of state) "by a sword-wielding angel, healed as he marches around his circle, and struck again as he repasses that angel, Bertran provides the pilgrims with the following commentary on his situation" Gross, Ibidem. "Because I severed persons thus conjoined, severed,Finally, in the Heaven, the Counterpass takes a role in assigning the prizes to the blessed souls: in fact, "the degree of the bliss assigned to the single soul has got a direct and proportional relation with the virtue that it has been exercised by man during his life: this enforcing, the mechanism in whom the heavens are structured and the blissful souls are subdivided in them102". Then, it aims to be directly an instrument of God's retributive justice but103, at the same time, it has a special "maieutical"104 function. 97 "The thieves, by virtue of this kind of mental disintegration, become less human, monstrous and incomplete...part of their punishment lies in the ever-present nature of their crime and guilt captured in the external archetype of image of


105 Regarding to the word "insult" (it. "ingiuria"), cited in Inf. XI, 23, scholar Sabrina Ferrara defined this sin such as the injustice committed by man against God. Dante's thought was affected by the idea in which only God's action in the world might have established Justice for the mankind. Then, Dante's desire of Justice had a deep political critical meaning by that it could be identified opponents to Empire as opponents to Justice itself, representing consequently an increasing of moral distance between human society to divine society (Augustinian's Civitas Dei). Properly in the role of Dante's exile one may identify the meaning of his mission revealed to him by Cacciaguida (Par. XV, 97-102) and his title of divine messenger: outside his homeland Dante was able to observeamong two places of eternal punishment, as well as freedom was summed up by reason and will: so, it represented the distinction into moral behavior; 109 Instead, Purgatory was intended as the place of non facere where not Aristotle's ethical principles but Christ's ones were following to. An image of an island with a beach in the middle of mountain and sea. If sin (intended both action and omission) was punished in Hell, in Purgatory it had already been condoned by God, so the soul continued atoning its sinful tendency; this place configures an application of divine emendatory justice inspired by the law of love in the Gospel; 110This sky was depicted like a theatre for admiring God; 111 See Convivio, II,XIV,14 relating to the "just condemnation" principle;


in the will." Conv. I, XII, 9; rather giving each person what he was due). In addition to these observations, there were references to the subjective view in stoics' justice intended as "habitus" and "voluntas", and the patristic spiritual interpretation of Law. In this way, Dante tried to combine the abovementioned perspectives with the scholastic result of the conjunction between voluntary and intellectual elements, concluding that Justice is God's reason that rules the world: a divine justice that humanizes itself into natural justice and permits the proportional equality126. However, Justice, which is lovable for the whole mankind127, requires will and power to realize itself; it has then to orient to the charity and carry on to the peace129. All these conditions might have been satisfied by the monarchicalact, which highly loved the human good (both singular and cumulative). More precisely, the monarch had to do justice due to its feature of being the original vox legis and considering itself as the carrier of divine will: the law didn't simply become a prescription for future behavior, but seemed a description of fair nature131. Following this theory, Justice is truth and vice versa, because everything expressed that universal rectitude on which Christian philosophy had focused on. It is the "key-value" that is discovering itself and is losing its human nature, but keeps its rational feature during Dante's journey until the concession of the Grace by St. Bernardo's intercession to the Virgin Mary. It could be epitomized in power, love and wisdom, and is 126 "Ratio iustitiae consistit


loquendi: literalis (or superficialis o parabolicus) – hystoricus, apologogicus,methaforicus, alegoricus, tropologicus, anagogicus which witnesses the hermeneutical difficulties and confirmed a right interpretative way, able to understand the moral address in an eschatological fictio. In Dante's works (but deeply in The Comedy) it could be founded a dialogue between history and eternity on the one side and between human citizenship with traditional membership and non-human citizenship on the other one, like human mind's structural elements . It becomes a special object where analyzing the Aristotelian and Thomist influences on it without to forget that it can't be reduce on scholastic schemes but instead referred to Plato's metaphysical conception. In these terms the Plato's protological aspect is recognized such a founded hermeneutical instrument to understand Dante's thought where it explainsinterpretation, but also from his claim that interpretation of Scripture involves a deeper, existential level of self-understanding. The work of Thomas Aquinas, to which the young Heidegger paid a great deal of attention, has also had an impact on the development of modern hermeneutics. Heidegger, however, was mainly interested in Aquinas's notion of Being, and not in his engagement with specifically hermeneutic issues such as the proper authorship of certain pseudo-Aristotelian texts. Presupposing the relative unity of an author's work, Aquinas questions the authenticity of these texts by comparing them to the existing Aristotelian corpus, thus anticipating a critical-philological procedure that would later emerge as a crucial aspect of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of grammatical interpretation. This, however, is not the only point of contact between medieval philosophy and


He explained how the system of human relations was evolving in his society under a multi-disciplinary point of view, which aimed at revaluing the platonic ordo sapientiae in which there is no epistemological texts, emphasizing their allegorical nature rather than their historical roots, are mirrored in Gadamer's attempt to rehabilitate the hermeneutic relevance of the allegory." Mantzanovis, supra note 1; 150 Dante's greatness didn't consist only in describing the political, cultural and religious aspects of his time, but primarily in his extraordinary synthesis between historical and transcendent values, within "Christian cosmic ideology" which it was deeply current in medieval conscience but that it might be able to reproduce itself during centuries and offering itself to a mankind which discovers its values of freedom and moral responsibility, or better,its dignity. Dante's anthropology was affected by a mixture between Aristotelian and Christian doctrines about the essence of nature and the politics. Dante was convinced, like St Thomas and St. Albert, about the necessary role of Aristotle in a right speculation: human rationality, natural disposition of politics and the autonomous action were essential values for philosophy and practice. This established the human celebration of his integrity. St. Thomas represented a point of arrival of a speculation in which the great ancient tradition was renewed and revalued: in fact, the Christian idea of human being with its symbiosis of soul and body was evolving and emerging in those years and it was able to connect itself with the Aristotelian point of view. The bodily elements assumed a special dignity


in defining human essence (Homo non est anima tantum) See St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae, I, q.75, art. 2, 4. Dante was the first thinker-poet who was persuaded on person's unity and the concordance between soul and body: so, it wanted to represent him not only with his vices and defects but even with the greatness of his soul, founding a man's "ultra activity" feature beyond his historical borders. Every aspect of Dante's humanism was interpreting in a such way: the man as main character with his desires and actions but constantly projected to the divine searching the final sense of his life. Dante's ethical and political renovation remained sustained by a Christian secularism as well as faith and reason met themselves in the prophetic vision. Finally, Dante's humanismlatest answer for his own existence, but at the same time, he intended offering a glance on human destiny and its eschatological completion. Thus, the passage between reason and vision, through the faith, represents for Dante and the entire medieval conscience, the existencial "finishing line" as the final part of the Comedy explains: " Here my exalted vision lost its power. / But now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving / with an even motion, were turning with / the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars." Par. XXXIII, 143-145; 157 This reflects two constitutive axioms in hermeneutics: the Frege's principle of complexity ("...the meaning of a complex expression is supposed to be fully determined by its structure and the meanings of its


and scope163 in society. He investigated the human "having to be" in relation to its natural and supernatural purposes, through the role of poetry164 and its personification technique, qualifying it as an existential act; he was inspired by a desire to transpose the metaphysics into real times with an ascendant and proportional analogy. With reference to the public meaning of Law, instead, Dante anticipated the "realistic" conception of the "State of Nature", where the sovereignty (imperium) comes from a divine source but remains under the power of the Law, which has to be necessarily codified, assuring its certainty. Then, he contributed to establishing an original constitutional organization with an universalistic ambition and a federal system that overlaps with the States aiming to ensure peace and justice among themlaic178 and a moral philosopher180, who 175 Accordingly to that "Dante presents the supreme and absolute truth of Christianity, which his poem would propound, in a way that makes it indissociable from the story of his own individual search and journey. The way of understanding put in practice Dante's work, as in all work of interpretation, consist in finding oneself in the midst of what is to be understood and understanding oneself and it in relation to each other." anticipating Gadamer's formula (All understanding is the application of what is understood to ourselves). So, "Dante dramatizes on an epic scale this basic principle of interpretation, ....[and his] work is exemplary and revelatory of the phenomenon of the interpretation in general." Franke, supra note 13, 4. In this circumstance:


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What was the point of no return… the moment when it was clear that our nation would tear itself apart? That had to be in 1856, when low-scale civil war already raged in Kansas between free-soil and slave state advocates. Abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner stood up in that bastion of free, civic speech, the U.S. Senate, and delivered a stinging rebuke to pro-slave Senator Andrew Butler.

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Uttar Pradesh and Bihar – an area which has never returned back to the party fold since then. The second generation of OBC mobilization was attempted by BJP by building a broader coalition of a section of OBCs and upper castes through regional satraps like Kalyan Singh, Uma Bharati etc. It is the third generation of OBC mobilization that is now being attempted by Narendra Modi by marrying governance to a complete coalition of the Hindu vote in which OBCs are an important part.

This third generation mobilization of Hindu vote is the deadliest of them all and has the maximum disruption potential, especially in the whole of heartland. We could see the impact of this coalition in Chhattisgarh, where the ruling BJP was facing an impossible task ofregional caste-based parties, but if the experiment of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh holds true then expect major socio-political churning in UP and Bihar too. The problems in smaller states of Haryana and Jharkhand are related to forming proper alliances. In conclusion, this set of assembly elections have provided a perfect Launchpad for a Narendra Modi led BJP into the battleground of 2014.

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First let us state the obvious problem, Congress has been decimated in the latest round of elections and has an almost insurmountable 10% gap to cover in order to put up a fight against BJP. There are three ways of going about this business, one is what the party is doing in the TV studios, living in denial and just giving up on 2014. The second


existence of a NaMo-wave, then there is a third path, the old-fashioned political pathway to take on the bull by its horns in the electoral arena. You may not win 2014, but at least you would have put up a fight and would have ensured that you would live to fight another day. If Congress continues to live in denial, then the defeat in 2014 may actually be a deathblow to the party than just a minor setback.

To some extent, Sonia Gandhi does seem to still have her legendary political instincts intact, for she did address the basic problem of Congress not having a face to oppose Modi and that is a good starting point. There are hundreds of problems with the Congress party, but the two biggestUPDATED: SYDNEY FC are poised to lose Socceroo midfielder Terry Antonis, after Greek club PAOK launched a $500,000 bid to lure the 21-year-old to Europe.

Two years after injury destroyed his dream switch to Italy, Antonis has flown back from Sydney’s pre-season camp on the Gold Coast in anticipation of a potential medical.

Talks between the clubs over the terms of the transfer are believed to be advanced, with the player unlikely to have trouble in agreeing personal terms.

Though sources cautioned that the transfer was not a “done deal” yet, Antonis and his advisers have long sought a move to Europe after twice having his hopes dashed.

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Former Chelsea technical director Frank Arnesen was appointed to a similar role at PAOK, while Croatian Igor Tudor was hired in June as head coach.

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Though Antonis’s departure will be a blow for Graham Arnold, whohad planned to make the midfielder a starting member of his side next season, the return of Milos Dimitrijevic and the signing of Milos Ninkovic at least give him other options in the team’s engine room.

For Antonis the move will represent reward for his storming return from a fresh injury last season, a knee complaint that Sydney argued came from his time with the Socceroos at the Asian Cup. Antonis missed the second half of the regular season, returning only for the finals, but has worked intensely since on strengthening his physique.

If the move is completed he will also face a quandary at his new club later in the year, with Antonis likely to be a key figure in the Olyroos’ plans to secure a place at next


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abiding citizens. The last protectors of the US Constitution are We the People of the United States and our ability to fulfill that role successfully rests on our Second Amendment rights. Therefore, the Cherokee County Government will not authorize or appropriate government funds, resources, employees, agencies, contractors, buildings, detention centers or offices for the purpose of enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of any element of such acts, laws, orders, mandates, rules or regulations, that infringe on the right by the people to keep and bear arms as described and defined in detail above.

The measure is based on similar resolutions passed by some counties in Oregon. Counties in Illinois, Washington, and New Mexico have declared gun sanctuaries, with county sheriffs refusing to enforce federal gun laws they seeas an infringement on Second Amendment rights.

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Sixty-three municipalities in Illinois have passed some type of measure and more are likely, according to Dave Campbell, a member of the board of Effingham County, Illinois, in an interview with Reuters. "If they want to have their own laws, that's fine. Don't shove them on us down here," Campbell said. Half of the counties in Washington state are prepared to declare sanctuaries in response to Initiative 1639, which raised the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle to 21, and increased background checks and the waiting period, according to Reuters. Five counties have passed actual resolutions. Eight counties in Oregon and 25 in New Mexico have passed measures to support sheriffs who defy gun control legislation. Organizers are also working


with other states, having formed a friendly coalition to share resources and strategy with California, New York, Iowa and Idaho, according to Reuters.

The idea that a county or municipality can defy federal law and refuse to enforce gun control measures has a nice symmetry to states and cities declaring themselves a "sanctuary" for illegal aliens. But is it legal?

No doubt, there will be a challenge if Cherokee County goes beyond the symbolism and actually refuses to enforce federal law. And any challenge will probably be upheld due to the "Supremacy Clause" in the Constitution (Article VI). The difference between gun sanctuaries and sanctuary cities is a question of local officials refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. ICE still has enforcement actions in sanctuary cities. But any "immigrationoutside chores and field work. Samuel operated the farm, which included raising some cattle, and maintained almost total control of the finances in the marriage. The trial court described Samuel's farm records as "a total mess." The evidence shows Samuel was abusive to Magdalena, and his near total control of the finances and decision-making in the marriage was an emotional burden for her.
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are often intertwined) and early memories to the Star Wars franchise itself, but as someone who continued to grow up with the original trilogy and had become a fan, it was a welcome connection to make.

Star Wars' reception by and reflection of mainstream western culture is fascinatingly resonant. George Lucas borrowed and iterated on elements, motifs and even whole sequences from existing films, creating a pastiche work that expresses a homoginised amalgam of contemporary cinematography. Lucas also took inspiration from folklore, fairytales and mythology, leading Star Wars to resemble the monomyth from early drafts.

All of this builds up toward one of Star Wars' primary goals - the juxtaposition of newness and familiarity.

"I'm trying to make props that don't stand out. I'm trying to make everything look very natural,the occasional mind trick or unscrupulously manipulating dice), while those on the "dark side" use the Force to choke people, hurl objects at their foes, and shoot lightning bolts from their fingers (pew pew). The resulting implication is that the Force represents both light and dark, good and evil, yin and yang, and that it is up to the essence of a Force user to determine whether that power will be used constructively or destructively.

Across the original trilogy, the Force is "used" sparingly. Ignoring sensing "disturbances" and "presences", characters make use of the Force about four or five times to overcome minor hurdles in the first film. With less definition, the capabilities and limitations of the Force are left to audiences' imaginations, where it can be the subject


publishers typically include only the publisher(s) for primary development platforms

Screenshots have been drawn from a number of locations, gathered by myself and others. Mouse over the question mark icon above a screenshots for more details

When a game has had multiple releases (including additional platform releases and re-releases), the earliest public release date is used

Release dates don't include time zone information. Assume accuracy of +/- one day.

For the sake of readability, short names for some developers and publishers are used. For example, "Sculptured Software" has been truncated to "Sculptured"

When sorted by in-fiction period, the "All" category includes titles that both do and do not contain Old Republic era content. Titles set across an entire film trilogy are included in the category for that trilogy's first film

Eras in Star WarsGame History

Star Wars is typically accepted to be the domain of LucasArts, originally founded as Lucasfilm Games in 1982 (coincidentally the release date of the first Star Wars computer game, Parker Brothers' Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for Atari and Intellivision platforms) as the game development arm of Lucasfilm. Lucasfilm had licenced out the Star Wars IP to other game development companies, preventing Lucasfilm Games from exploring that until the early 90s.

The pre-LucasArts era of Star Wars games were a mix of platfomers, arcade space combat, scrolling shooters, and other oddities, landing primarily on PC and arcade platforms, but also on early consoles.

From 1992 onwards, LucasArts (as it had been renamed) was involved in the publishing of every Star Wars game (excluding Hasbro's Star Wars Monopoly and


Star Wars: Millennium Falcon CD-ROM Playset) until 1998 when education oriented spin-off company Lucas Learning was formed. This early period, which ran between Sculptured Software's 1992 The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith saw LucasArts making use of both internal and external developers, working with the likes of Software Toolworks, TotallyGames and SEGA to make titles alongside offering from their own already mature internal development teams.

Games developed during this time primarily targeted PC platforms and consoles, and included platformers, arcade space combat, space flight sims, cinematic rail shooters, first person shooters, and first/third person action games. Several successful series have their origins in this era, including X-Wing, Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, and Rebel Assault. Many of these games pushed the boundaries of boththe current technology and craft, though not all were well received. Of particular note, Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi, a 3D fighting game in the style of Soulcalibur released for the Playstation regularly finds its way onto lists of "the worst Star Wars games."

Lucas Learning's first title was Star Wars: Droidworks, which made use of the Sith engine created for Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (title names in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series get a little convoluted!), and the company had a comparatively short life, releasing nine titles before closing its doors in 2001. Primarily, their titles were puzzle oriented and centred around Phantom Menace tie-ins.

After a long and celebrated period of primarily creating new independent IP, LucasArts' focus shifted almost entirely toward Star Wars,


with nineteen of their twenty two titles released between 1998 and 2001 being Star Wars themed.

During this period, Factor 5, TotallyGames, Big Ape Productions, Ronin Entertainment, and Luxoflux also worked on Star Wars titles, all of which were published by LucasArts. PC platforms were still dominant across the board, with several titles supporting consoles and/or handheld devices.

This era also coincided with the film release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, the first installment of the prequel trilogy and the first Star Wars film since 1985's Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (which never received a game tie-in). Excluding one arcade title and Sculptured Softwares' four platfomers, no titles since LucasArts' early era began in 1992 had been straight film adaptations. After nineteen titles that told newstories (which typically intersected with the events of the original trilogy), Big Ape Studios released the game adaptation Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 1999.

Until the prequel trilogy ended with Revenge of the Sith in 2005, Star Wars game releases were mostly focused on the prequel trilogy era, supporting film releases with adaptations and intersecting stories. Beyond these, the Jedi Knight and Rogue Squadron series received new installments, and both Knights of the Old Republic titles were released.

Star Wars got its first MMO with Sony Online Entertainment's Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, initially set between the original Star Wars film and The Empire Strikes Back, it also received film tie-in content in the Rage of the Wookiees and Trials of Obi-Wan expansions. In 2005, the


first LEGO Star Wars game was released, adapting the entire prequel trilogy into a humorous brick based adventure. The first licenced browser based games also began to appear on StarWars.com, starting with 2003's Force Flight.

Though LucasArts was still publishing the majority of Star Wars titles, the number of individual developers working on Star Wars titles continued to grow to its peak, with releases from Ensemble Studios, Factor 5, Rainbow Studios, Raven Software, David A. Palmer Productions, Helixe, Pandemic, Sony Online Entertainment, BioWare, Pocket Studio, Ubisoft, Obsidian Entertainment, TT Fusion (TT Games in the timeline), The Collective, Universomo, Magellan Interactive, Amplified Games. Additionally, Tiger Games and Jakks Pacific released TV games, and StarWars.com and CartoonNetwork.com published several browser based titles.

Console support increased dramatically during this period while handheld andmobile titles were still comparatively rare, began to expand as well, with THQ Wireless taking over publishing of mobile titles produced by third party developers.

In October 2012, Lucasfilm and all of its holdings were acquired by Disney. The period leading up to this generally continued trends established in the years before. A few new publishers entered the fray, but LucasArts still published the majority of Star Wars titles. Consoles and handheld/mobile platforms continued to grow, while support for PC platforms declined significantly. Browser based games of varying scale increased dramatically, with StarWars.com, CartoonNetwork, Winning Moves and LEGO releasing multiple titles.

THQ Wireless continued to publish mobile Star Wars titles until 2010 shortly before it was sold to 24MAS as part of THQ's restructuring efforts. The number of publishers involved


with Star Wars games increased again, with titles released during this period being published by LucasArts, EA, LEGO, Ubisoft, THQ Wireless.

In addition to in-house titles developed at LucasArts, external studios including Petroglyph, Traveller's Tales (TT Games in the timeline), Magellan Interactive, Ubisoft, Flashlabs Entertainment, Rebellion Developments, G5 Entertainment, Krome Studios, Powerful Robot, Three Melons, Infrared5, Sony Online Entertainment, Vertigore Games, BioWare, Terminal Reality, 4T2 Multimedia (Amuzo in the timeline), Fuel, Soap, and Rovio Entertainment worked on Star Wars titles between 2006 and 2012.

During this period, LEGO produced a number of browser based games as well as mobile, console and PC titles. The Star Wars: The Force Unleashed series launched and gained a sequel, and the infamous Kinect Star Wars received praise and criticism for its approaches toward adaptingthe Star Wars universe for motion control. Following LEGO's lead, Rovio Entertainment developed two Star Wars themed titles, loosely retelling the Star Wars saga in Angry Birds' style.

Star Wars received its second and third MMOs in Sony Online Entertainment's 2010 Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and BioWare's 2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic. Eight and a half years after its initial release and shortly before The Old Republic launched, Star Wars Galaxies was retired. Clone Wars Adventures lasted for a comparatively short time, and was retired in 2014 after three and a half years of uptime.

Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm, LucasArts' development studio was closed and repurposed as a licensor, resulting in the cancellation of Star Wars: 1313 (not featured in the timeline) and several other titles which


were in development at the time. Moving forward, EA was granted an exclusive licence to develop Star Wars titles, while allowing Disney and what remained of LucasArts to pursue "casual" markets consisting of "mobile, social, tablet and online game categories".

Developers who released titles during this most recent era of Star Wars games include LEGO, BioWare, Amuzo, Konami, Rovio Entertainment, NimbleBit, TT Fusion (Traveller's Tales in the timeline), Disney, DeNA Santiago, Gigataur, North Kingdom, Bandai Namco, Kabam, DICE, Capital Games, ILMxLAB, and Netmarble. Jakks Pacific continued to release TV games, and the now regular slew of websites to feature Star Wars browser based titles expanded to include the Disney website.

Primarily, mobile and browser based titles have dominated this era in Star Wars game history. EA continued to publish TheOld Republic and its expansions, and eventually published a reboot of Star Wars: Battlefront in 2015, which was developed by its studio DICE. ILM's ILMxLAB produced their first Star Wars title in the form of Trials on Tatooine, a free virtual reality game letting players wield a lightsaber in defence of a grounded Millennium Falcon set after Return of the Jedi.

Late in 2014, an agreement between Disney and GOG.com saw a slew of classic Lucasfilm Games and LucasArts titles re-packaged and released for modern platforms. Of these, X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, Dark Forces, and both Rebel Assault titles were released for Linux. In the broader context, this isn't particularly noteworthy, but it's the platform I use and it's been lovely to be able to legally share these games with my


interested in picking up LucasArts' cancelled projects. In press releases, EA has talked about primarily focusing on creating "entirely original [titles] with all new stories and gameplay". That their first title created as part of this agreement (publishing The Old Republic and its expansions was negotiated prior to the Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm) was a reboot of a previously established Star Wars franchise throws some doubt on whether this focus fits with their current plans and makes it harder to predict what the long term outcomes of their involvement will be.

In addition to their Battlefront reboot and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, EA have announced that they will be working with Visceral Games and Respawn Entertainment on two separate action adventure titles, and creating additional content for Battlefront.

TimelineInterpretations

In addition to showing the chronological progression of Star Wars games, the timeline's various sorting options draw attention to a number of observations.

Early on, film adaptations were a high priority for Star Wars titles. Of the 13 titles preceding 1993's Star Wars: X-Wing (which included an adaptation of the original Star Wars film's climactic attack on the Death Star), Star Wars: Jedi Arena and Star Wars Chess were the only ones to not be a direct adaptation of film sequences.

X-Wing was the first Star Wars game with an actual story (Jedi Arena and Star Wars Chess don't seem to have much story content) to move beyond the confines of the films even if it still intersected with and was anchored around the events of the original trilogy.

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Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire was the first title to feature a fully independent story (the first Rebel Assault game intersected with events featured in the original Star Wars film).

Since Star Wars Rebels: Strike Missions in 2014, no Star Wars titles have featured canon-friendly stories that intersect with the events of any Star Wars films or TV shows, suggesting that canonicity isn't a priority for developers working on Star Wars titles in recent history.

Games with original stories (discounting titles like Clones vs Droids which don't seem to have much story content) have become increasingly infrequent, with Trials on Tatooine, The Old Republic appearing to be the only titles that fit since The Force Unleashed II in 2010.

Excluding Jedi Arena and 1982's The Empire Strikes back (which didn'treally depict characters), X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (which also didn't really depict characters) and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II were the first Star Wars games to not feature characters from the Star Wars films. Beyond those, are Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, then The Old Republic. This leads to the conclusion that Star Wars games, even for titles that have independent storylines, still end up leaning heavily on characters established in Star Wars films.

Up until 1997, playable Jedi and use of the Force in particular in Star Wars games was rare. 1983's Jedi Arena and the early film adaptation platformers (1987's Star Wars, 1991's Star Wars, 1992's The Empire Strikes Back, Super Star Wars, Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Super Star Wars: