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Church and state.--What things are of Caesar.--The birth of the papal state.--The middle ages.--Gregory the "politician."--Two French Philips. --The ghost of a Spanish king.--The daggers that were not blessed.--The purpose of the school.--Where they blew the light out.--Socialism.--The nation under God. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Church and state.--What things are of Caesar.--The birth of the papal state.--The middle ages.--Gregory the "politician."--Two French Philips. --The ghost of a Spanish king.--The daggers that were not blessed.--The purpose of the school.--Where they blew the light out.--Socialism.--The nation under God. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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Specific ideas about the Fisher relation between real and nominal interest rates and more general ideas about the nature of the central bank's duty to support the financial system in times of crisis were important to the Monetarist re-assessment of the causes of the Great Depression and what this event implied about the inherent stability of the market economy. Aspects of the evolution of these ideas since the Depression and the role that they have played in recent debates about the Great Recession are discussed, and some tentative conclusions about the validity of Monetarist ideas are drawn.

Splitting in Two, taking its name from a video work by Seamus Harahan, shows work from a group of lens-based artists exploring various states of disquiet, anxiety and tension, and how they are represented. How are tensions, be they personal, social or political, represented? This exhibition brings together a group of artists who engage with states of hostility and conflict in order to consider the various strategies available to artists who want to address the darker side of human life. Made over a period of 16 years the works in this exhibition point to a range of ways of dealing with difficult situations, from the elliptical to the direct. The voracity of conflict images in our news-saturated daily lives and their psychological effect are investigated through the use of found imagery, documentary, archival, and staged photography. Anger, tears, and furtive glances are the counterpoint to a whirlwind of friendship and fun that Corinne Day so clearly revelled in throughout the 1990s. The cumulative affect of her frank photographic series Diary, is to create a picture of a world teetering on the brink: like the Blown Down House, Texas 1999, collapse and survival are one and the same. John Duncan's Bonfires series document the long-standing tradition of bonfire building by Protestant communities in Belfast. As part of the annual 11th July celebrations the bonfire structures are at once positive assertions of identity for those within protestant communities and signs of exclusion to those on the outside. Seamus Harahan's experimental approach to film-making, collaging fragments of footage with soundtracks taken from popular music creates an aesthetic of uncertainty, often becoming analogous to the themes he is exploring. The unsteady, darting handheld footage of Splitting in Two becomes reflective of the tensions embodied within Stormont, home to the Northern Ireland Assembly, depicted in the film. The tensions of psychological dramas are expressed in Sarah Dobai's works. Avoiding any direct narrative, Dobai's images are suspended in time and located in non-specific places so that confusion and anxiety pervades. Until her untimely death in 1997, Andrea Fisher concentrated on the apparent factual status of disaster imagery and the hidden, psychic significance for the viewer. Reframing, zooming, and cropping images of traumatized women, focusing on scars and scratches, her works disclose more intimate truths about violence for those willing to look. Peter Kennard's paintings of traumatized, shrouded faces implicate the viewer with their gaze even when they are barely visible themselves, while Christopher Stewart's photographs of security training grounds suggest the presence of others watching us, pointing to the activity of surveillance and the power relations between the watched and the watcher. Made over a period of 16 years, the works in this exhibition point to a range of ways of dealing with difficult situations, from the elliptical to the direct. The role of conflict images in our news-saturated daily lives and their psychological effects are investigated through the use of found imagery, documentary, archival, and staged photography.

The world wasn't born yesterday. The past inflects the present, and it is our knowledge, interpretation and use of history enables us to intervene there. I do not mean the kind of knowledge you learn in schools, but a lived political knowing, in language and action -- this is our natality. In my writing, and in my everyday living breathing body, I want to help to create a map to a future free from the terror of the world we've inherited. I want to write towards a place where we can find each other, now and then.

Encina Mei Roh is a second year Political Science major at Simon Fraser University. She is the founder and co president of the Writer's Art, which leads free poetry programs at nursing homes and recreation centers throughout the lower mainland. Apart from her work as a legal intern and tutor for SFU, she enjoys writing and painting.

In 1959, the British scientist C. P. Snow gave the prestigious Rede lecture with the thesis of a breakdown of communication between the "two cultures" of modern society- the sciences and the humanities-which was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems (Wikipedia). In the 21st century, a more serious breakdown has occurred between the two cultures of politicians and scientists, especially concerning the five critical, global problems:(1) climate, (2) acidification of the oceans, (3) overpopulaition, (4) ecological overshoot, (5) damage, possiblu irreversible, to the biospheric life support system. All these global problems require a holistic approach and will only be solved by exemplary collaboration among the world's nations, using a "top-down" global-system perspective. Special interest views are importatnt, but should not dominate. However, in the United States, and most other countries, special interest groups and lobbyists do dominate. The global system, Earth, has no well financed, politically powerful lobby. The result is that two, global, ecological tipping points have been passed and the damage is irresversible in timeframes of interest to humans. Can this alienation between scientists and politicians be resolved? It must be quickly resolved if civilization is to be saved.

Autograph. ; The essay on "Don Quixote, " read before the Royal philosophical society of Glasgow, 31st Jan., 1908, is reprinted from the Proceedings of the society; "The politics of Burns, " read to the Historical society of the University of Glasgow, 22nd Oct., 1915, is reprinted from "The Scottish historical review, October, 1917. cf. Pref. note. ; 1. Don Quixote -- 2. The politics of Burns. ; Mode of access: Internet.

After California's adoption of the top two primary, voters faced the possibility of ballot choices between co-partisan candidates (two Democrats, for example, or two Republicans). We use the publicly available Google Trends data, which provides the rate of searching for particular words, to evaluate whether Californians are more likely to search for the names of legislators who faced co-partisan challengers in their general election than to search for the names of legislators who faced opposite-partisan challengers in the general election. We find evidence of increased search for the general election and, moreover, find that there is no increase for the primary election, suggesting that when the typical voter loses a key electoral cue (the party label) the voter will rely upon other sources of information to make a voting decision.

The Congrés Eucarístic (1952) neighbourhood and the Trinitat Nova (1953) estate in Barcelona were built at the same time to meet the severe lack of housing in the 1950s. Josep Soteras, an architect, participated directly in both of these projects, but they were developed in very different ways, and reflected two clearly different models of social housing. The first was a proposal for a neighbourhood integrated into the existing city; designed to fit into it and for the city and the neighbourhood to support each other. The second was a residential estate built on the edge of the city and almost turned away from it, on land destined for urban development with no existing services. The reason for the great difference in approach can only be determined if we know who each of the neighbourhoods was built for: the first was for the middle class with affinity for the political regime at the time (the Franco dictatorship); the second was for immigrant workers from other parts of Spain, who, in many cases, lived in the precarious slums that had been gradually established in the city from the 1940s onwards. The paper that we present compares these two case studies and describes the characteristics of each one. It reveals how political and moral ideology had a decisive influence on the conformation of the city and the definition of the architecture. The Congrés Eucarístic neighbourhood was promoted by the Diocese of Barcelona, which created a cooperative of benefactors to build the neighbourhood that would house model families according to Catholic moral. The Trinitat Nova estate was promoted by three local and state government bodies (the Patronat de l'Habitatge de Barcelona [Barcelona Council for Housing], the Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda [National Housing Institute] and the Obra Sindical del Hogar [Housing Union Association]), each of which followed its own criteria for the creation of social housing. ; Peer Reviewed ; Preprint

The Congrés Eucarístic (1952) neighbourhood and the Trinitat Nova (1953) estate in Barcelona were built at the same time to meet the severe lack of housing in the 1950s. Josep Soteras, an architect, participated directly in both of these projects, but they were developed in very different ways, and reflected two clearly different models of social housing. The first was a proposal for a neighbourhood integrated into the existing city; designed to fit into it and for the city and the neighbourhood to support each other. The second was a residential estate built on the edge of the city and almost turned away from it, on land destined for urban development with no existing services. The reason for the great difference in approach can only be determined if we know who each of the neighbourhoods was built for: the first was for the middle class with affinity for the political regime at the time (the Franco dictatorship); the second was for immigrant workers from other parts of Spain, who, in many cases, lived in the precarious slums that had been gradually established in the city from the 1940s onwards. The paper that we present compares these two case studies and describes the characteristics of each one. It reveals how political and moral ideology had a decisive influence on the conformation of the city and the definition of the architecture. The Congrés Eucarístic neighbourhood was promoted by the Diocese of Barcelona, which created a cooperative of benefactors to build the neighbourhood that would house model families according to Catholic moral. The Trinitat Nova estate was promoted by three local and state government bodies (the Patronat de l'Habitatge de Barcelona [Barcelona Council for Housing], the Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda [National Housing Institute] and the Obra Sindical del Hogar [Housing Union Association]), each of which followed its own criteria for the creation of social housing. ; Peer Reviewed ; Preprint

Two cases are described of a most unusual variant of two-chambered right ventricle. In both the ventricular septal defect was between the distal chamber of the right ventricle and the left ventricle. However the extensive dividing 'septum' between proximal and distal parts of the right ventricle converted the latter, haemodynamically, into part of the left ventricle. In the first case the distal chamber supported the aorta in the left anterior position, the pulmonary artery arising from the proximal part of the right ventricle. In the second the pulmonary artery arose from the distal chamber and the aorta from the proximal chamber. Though in both the ventriculoarterial connection was double outlet right ventricle, functionally there was arterial concordance in case 1 and discordance in case 2. A further disconcerting feature was the resemblance of the distal right ventricular chamber to the rudimentary chamber of a univentricular heart of left ventricular type.

Abstract in UndeterminedThe point of departure in my story is the contrast between two models of democratic voting process: popular democracy and what might be called committee democracy. On one interpretation, voting in popular democracy is a procedure whose function is to aggregate the individuals' preferences to something like a collective preference, while in committee democracy what is being aggregated are committee members' judgments. The relevant judgments on the agenda often address an evaluative question. It is such value judgments that this paper focuses on. The question is how their aggregation differs from aggregation of preferences.I focus on the case in which the two aggregation scenarios exhibit a far-reaching structural similarity: more precisely, the case in which, in the judgment aggregation scenario, the individual inputs are value rankings. This means that, formally, the individual judgments in this case have the same structure as preference rankings over a given set of alternatives, but while in a preference ranking the alternatives are ordered in accordance with one's preferences, a value ranking expresses one's comparative evaluation of the alternatives: say, this alternative is best, those two alternatives are second-best, that alternative is third-best, etc. I suggest that this difference in the nature of individual inputs in two aggregation scenarios has important implications for the task of aggregation. In particular, distance-based methods that look fine for the aggregation of judgments turn out to be inappropriate for the aggregation of preferences: Minimization of distance from individual inputs violates the Pareto condition.When applied to judgment aggregation, distance-based methods can also be approached from the epistemic standpoint: the questions canl be posed concerning their advantages as a truth-tracker. In this context, what matters is not only the probability of the outcome of the aggregation procedure being true, but also the expected verisimilitude of the outcome: its expected distance from truth.

I have argued that argumentation theorists should concern themselves with scientific argument as a source for images of epistemic virtue in argument. In this paper I will contrast the lessons learned from this endeavour with their counterpart in the evaluation of political arguments. Despite obvious differences, fundamental symmetries between the two argumentation cultures point to the need for a more serious engagement with rigorous disciplinary arguments in argument theory.