After the Ascent: Plato on Becoming Like God

Plato is associated with the idea that the body holds us back from knowing ultimate reality and so we should try to distance ourselves from its influence. This sentiment appears is several of his dialogues including Theaetetus where the flight from the physical world is compared to becoming like God. In some major dialogues of Plato's later career such as Philebus and Laws, however, the idea of becoming like God takes a different turn. God is an intelligent force that tries to create order in the physical world. I argue that likeness to God in these dialogues involves imitating God's effort by trying to order our bodies, souls, and societies as intelligence directs. Becoming like Plato's God is not to abandon the world. It is to improve it

Letter from John M. Armstrong to James B. Finley

At a quarterly conference meeting on September 15, 1848, the official members formally declined having anything more to do with the Church South. During the Examination of Character, the local preachers and exhorters declined to accept license renewal ( unwilling to remain in the employment of the Church South ) -- Armstrong among them. Armstrong points out the necessity of prompt action and appeals to Finley. Abstract Number - 784https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/2290/thumbnail.jp

Letter from John M. Armstrong to James B. Finley

Armstrong writes that he has done his very best to guard our people from being carried off by the southerners and contending for property which I most conscientiously believed could not be taken from the Methodist E. Church or her members. He bewails the fact that a church worth $6,000 could be taken from those who built it and given to the Church South, based on the Resolution of the 1844 General Conference. Abstract Number - 347https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1545/thumbnail.jp

Letter from John M. Armstrong to James B. Finley

Armstrong is worried and anxious over the Indian situation. The Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis is a cruel, dishonest, profane man and as a result of his conduct, the Indian situation is getting out of control. With such men at the head of Indian matters in the west how can it be expected that the Indians will improve? All this is told in confidence. Abstract Number - 776https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/2282/thumbnail.jp

Experiences and perceptions of Spring Lane Sure Start Children's Centre

Spring Lane Sure Start Children’s Centre was designated in September 2007, and ‘officially opened’ in February 2009. The Centre is housed in refurbished premises within a nursery/school complex in the heart of Northampton and offers diverse health, childcare, early education and support services delivered by a multi-professional team. These services and activities are available to children aged 0-5 years old, and their parents/carers, residing within a catchment area comprising eight ‘Super Output Areas’ in the Castle and St. James ward of Northampton. In April 2009, the Centre for Children and Youth (CCY) – a research centre based at The University of Northampton – was commissioned by Spring Lane Sure Start Children’s Centre to collate and gather evaluative data regarding experiences and perceptions of the Children’s Centre during its first year of activitie

Microscale Fluid Behavior during Cryo-EM Sample Blotting

Blotting has been the standard technique for preparing aqueous samples for single-particle electron cryo-microscopy for over three decades. This technique removes the excess solution from a transmission electron microscope grid by pressing absorbent filter paper against the specimen before vitrification. However, this standard technique produces vitreous ice with inconsistent thickness from specimen to specimen and from region to region within the same specimen, the reasons for which are not understood. Here, high-speed interference contrast microscopy is used to demonstrate that the irregular pattern of fibers in the filter paper imposes tortuous, highly variable boundaries during the removal of excess liquid from a flat, hydrophilic surface. As a result, aqueous films of nonuniform thickness are formed while the filter paper is pressed against the substrate. This pattern of nonuniform liquid thickness changes again after the filter paper is pulled away, but the thickness still does not become completely uniform. We suggest that similar topographical features of the liquid film are produced during the standard technique used to blot EM grids and that these manifest in nonuniform ice after vitrification. These observations suggest that alternative thinning techniques, which do not rely on direct contact between the filter paper and the grid, may result in more repeatable and uniform sample thicknesses