30 Stunning and Vivid Rain Sounds

Vividly Rain, Pt. 9

This talk was given on April 28, 2022 at Mississippi State University. The slides accompanying this lecture can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/bogardusmississippi

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About the Speaker:
Tomás Bogardus is associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University. He was born in Long Beach, California, and earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology, and is most interested in the mind-body problem and the rationality of religious belief.

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This talk was given on May 27th, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul.

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Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

The Individuation Of The Soul After Death | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

This lecture was given on May 28, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul.

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About the speaker:
Michael Gorman is a graduate of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto (B.A., Christianity and Culture, 1987), The Catholic University of America (Ph.L., Philosophy, 1989), the State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D., Philosophy, 1993), and Boston College (Ph.D., Theology, 1997). After serving as assistant professor of Catholic Studies at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia from 1997 to 1999, he joined the faculty of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, where he has taught ever since.

A fellow of The Catholic University's Institute for Human Ecology, he has also been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow (Leipzig 2004), a Fulbright fellow (Cologne 2008), and a scholar in the Templeton Foundation's Working Group "Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life" (2015-2017).

He works primarily on metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of essence, substance, and normativity, and on applications of metaphysics in areas such as theory of mind, Christology, action theory, and ethics. He is the author of Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge, 2017) and over thirty scholarly articles. He is particularly interested in how analytic philosophy and medieval philosophy can be brought together in a way that is historically accurate and philosophically fruitful.

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This lecture was given on May 28, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul.

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About the speaker:
Thomas M. Osborne, Jr. (Ph.D., Duke 2001), is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and a member of the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (Houston). He has written many articles on medieval and late-scholastic philosophy and other topics, and is the author of Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics (2005), Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham (2014), and Aquinas's Ethics (2020).

Free Will and the Soul | Prof. Thomas Osborne

This lecture was given on April 28, 2022 at the College of William and Mary.

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About the speaker:
Jennifer Frey is an associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. She has published widely on virtue and moral psychology and she has co-edited three volumes on Self-Transcendence and Virtue, Practical Wisdom, and Practical Truth. Her writing has been featured in Breaking Ground, Evangelization and Culture, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today.

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ทันทีที่อำนาจเปลี่ยนมือจาก พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา สู่ พล.อ. ประวิตร วงษ์สุวรรณ ทุกคนก็จับตามองว่าจะเกิดอะไรขึ้นหลังจากนี้

เพราะตามนิตินัย พล.อ. ประวิตร เป็นรักษาการนายกรัฐมนตรีที่มีอำนาจเต็ม แต่ตามพฤตินัย เราต้องดูท่าทีทางการเมืองจากนี้ของ พล.อ. ประวิตร ว่าจะเป็นรักษาการนายกฯ เต็มตัว หรือนายกฯ รักษาการที่ทำงานเพื่อรอ พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ กลับมาเป็นนายกฯ ตามปกติ

สัญญาณที่ต้องดูคือการทำงานของ พล.อ. ประวิตร ทั้งการแต่งตั้งโยกย้ายตำรวจและมหาดไทย รวมถึงการปรับคณะรัฐมนตรี 

ที่สำคัญอย่าประมาท พล.อ. ประวิตร เป็นอันขาด เพราะ ‘บิ๊กป้อม’ คนนี้คืออดีต ผบ.ทบ. พี่ใหญ่บูรพาพยัคฆ์ นายทหารผู้มากคอนเนกชัน รู้จักผู้คนในแวดวงต่างๆ มากมาย เป็นคนใจกว้างที่มากบารมี  

แค่การขยับตัวครั้งแรกของ พล.อ. ประวิตร คือการต่อสายตรงหา ‘ชัชชาติ สิทธิพันธุ์’ ผู้ว่าฯ กทม. เพื่อส่งทหารมาช่วยน้ำท่วม และต่อสายถึงผู้ว่าฯ อยุธยา เกี่ยวกับเรื่องน้ำท่วม เป็นท่วงทำนองทางการเมืองที่น่าสนใจยิ่ง

ส่วน พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ การเมืองของเขา เหมือนเกมหมากรุก ที่ตอนเริ่มต้นทุกคนมีเวลา จำนวนหมาก และพื้นที่บนกระดานเท่ากัน 

แต่ตอนนี้ ‘เวลา’ ของ พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ เริ่มน้อยลง 

นั่นย่อมหมายถึงความเสี่ยงของการเดิน ‘หมาก’ ที่อาจผิดพลาดได้

THE POWER GAME EP.103 ซูเปอร์ ‘ป้อม’ ‘ไม่รู้’ Management

A long soundscape across Dawn in the Queets River Valley rainforest of the Olympic National Park. Starting in Astronomical Twilight, a small herd of Roosevelt Elk walks in from a distance, though a small forest glade, an away towards the Queets River bed.

Early Autumn rainfall and dropping Maple Leaves are the dominant sounds to begin, their pak-pak-spaks are a reminder that time passes, even in the still quiet of a moss-covered forest.

Highway 101 in less than 12 miles away, and distant traffic is funneled up the Valley, showing the difficulty of escaping human-generated sound. This has been mitigated somewhat with light processing, but close listening and inspection will make remnants evident. There are no other edits or processes committed.

I love the crisp cold air of the rainforests in the fall. Sounds, natural and human generated, carry into the distant. Tucked into my sleeping bag, I lay back in my small tent, listening to the forest awaken. Where once there was just the soft distant wash of the river, the elk are joined by the local birds. Steller's Jays shriek their song with grating-yet-amusing "CHA-CHA-CHA-CHAs". A Northern Saw-whet toots in the forest canopy. Young Varied Thrush practice their songs, not quite reaching the beautiful and haunting signature fluting of their predecessors, instead emitting a silly buzzer-bell-like noise. Pacific Wren singing at the end of their season and the occasional Kingfisher make an appearance as well. Noe of these complete with the sheer vibrance of the elk.

Roosevelt Elk or Roosevelt's Wapiti or Rainforest Elk are the largest remaining elk species in North America and thrive in shadowy silences of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rainforests. Bull's bugles and roars echo through the trees, becoming one of the signature sounds of the Olympic Mountains. The cows mew and squeal in return, listening for one another to not wander far astray.

The small herd is a tight-nit family group, a with one, maybe two, dominant bulls, five or six cows in their harem, and a handful of young. The dominant bull leads the group on a daily hike, down from the upper valley to the river and back again. Their bugles urge the group, both signaling the direction to go and scolding those that dawdle. As they pass through the glade, their heavy footfall on the vegetative floor thump-thump-thumps their presence as much as the vocalizations and the continued crushing of vegetation as they push by.

I can't get enough of their energy. They pull back frequently. No matter how many times I encounter them, Elk never cease to awe me.

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Northwest Soundscapes

Queets River Valley Rainforest Dawn with Roosevelt Elk

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