The grammatical puzzles of Socrates' last words

Socrates says "we owe" in the last words as head of his οἶκος, a collectivity owing a debt for the recovery from disease of one of Socrates' young sons. Socrates addresses Crito in the plural as head of his οἶκος, whose servants will perform the sacrifice as their master directs. Socrates had instructed that the youngest son be brought to the prison. The baby's presence is not adventitious, for had Socrates primarily summoned Xanthippe, the baby would have been left at home in the care of the οἰκεῖαι γυναῖκες. The dying Socrates instructs that the debt be paid for the baby who recovered from a bout of illness and did not die. The rhetorical arrangement of the facts that inform the instruction (dying/speaking versus not yet talking/living) is Plato's invention

The September 12, 2012 Rose Garden Address: President Barack Obama’s “9/11” Moment

Albert Einstein once said memory is deceiving given it is colored by the events of today. The old adage “history repeats itself” fails to illustrate the powerful capacity for memory to sustain and revise historical events. Presidents often inject memories of the past into public address to define troubling situations in ways that broad, national audiences can make sense of them. Barack Obama’s Rose Garden Address rejuvenates and exploits the public memory of September 11 in three ways: by (1) situating the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as an extension of its timeline; (2) reaffirming the identity of the nation at a moment of community loss; and (3) presenting an eloquent moral vision of the future to illuminate the nation’s perseverance. As a public memory event, September 11 has proven remarkably resilient and yet fluid and adaptable as social and political contexts shift. Treating Obama’s speech as an extension of the September 11 memory in American public discourse can provide an update on its symbolic utility in light of a more recent, but understudied rhetorical artifact

The effects of provider control of Blue Shield plans : regulatory options / BEBR No. 645

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT Local Government Cable Fair Competition: Require Public Cable Service Providers to Conduct Cost-Benefit Analysis and Hold a Public Hearing Prior to Entering the Cable Service Market; Provide for Cost Accounting and Allocation and Prohibit Cross- Subsidization; Impose Fairness Requirements on Public Providers Regarding Franchise Agreements, Conditions of Access to Public Property, and Price or Rate Charged for the Cable Services; Provide for Applicability of Open Meetings Laws; Subject Local Governments Acting as Cable Service Providers to Antitrust Liability

The Act requires public providers of cable television services to conduct a three-year cost-benefit analysis and hold at least one public hearing before they can deliver cable service in an area. Public providers must prepare and maintain proper records of the full cost accounting of providing their service in the same manner required from a private provider. A public provider may use capital from its general funds to finance its service, provided it allocates these funds in the calculation of its capital cost; it may not cross-subsidize its cable operation by using other funds and resources available to it without proper cost allocation. A public provider must add the fees that it charges private providers into its total costs. A public provider, acting by itself or through a franchising authority under its control, shall not grant itself terms more favorable than those imposed on any private provider within the same jurisdiction, including local regulations or transfer, modification or franchise renewal terms. A public provider shall offer its cable service at a price equal to or greater than the price of comparable competing private providers or equal to or greater than its total costs, unless state or federal law requires such service to be subsidized. All meetings and records of public cable service providers are subject to Georgia public records and public meetings laws. Public providers of cable services are not immune from antitrust liability

CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Limited Liability Companies: Provide for Default Rule Maintaining Continuous Existence of Limited Liability Companies; Provide that Except as Established Otherwise in the Articles of Organization or Written Operating Agreement of a Limited Liability Company, a Member of a Limited Liability Company with Respect to Which the Event of Dissociation Occurs is not Entitled to Receive any Payment by Reason of Such Event and Will Become an Assignee as to Such Limited Liability Company Interest

The Act amends the existing Georgia Limited Liability Company Act to provide that in the event of dissociation, a member of a limited liability company becomes an assignee to the interest of such limited liability company (LLC). A person can cease to be a member of an LLC in the following circumstances: by operation of law; by reason of his or her death or incapacity; if he or she is removed in accordance with the articles of organization or a written operating agreement of the LLC; by the majority vote assignment; when he or she assigns his or her interest in the company for the benefit of the company or of the creditors; or when he or she is adjudicated bankrupt or in the process of being adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent. An LLC can be dissolved under the provisions of the articles of organization by a written operating agreement, by the decision of its members, or by operation of law. The Act provides for default winding up of the dissolved LLC by persons entitled to receive a majority of the subsequent distributions or their assignees or legatees in absence of the company\u27s managing members

CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Limited Liability Companies: Provide for Default Rule Maintaining Continuous Existence of Limited Liability Companies; Provide that Except as Established Otherwise in the Articles of Organization or Written Operating Agreement of a Limited Liability Company, a Member of a Limited Liability Company with Respect to Which the Event of Dissociation Occurs is not Entitled to Receive any Payment by Reason of Such Event and Will Become an Assignee as to Such Limited Liability Company Interest

The Act amends the existing Georgia Limited Liability Company Act to provide that in the event of dissociation, a member of a limited liability company becomes an assignee to the interest of such limited liability company (LLC). A person can cease to be a member of an LLC in the following circumstances: by operation of law; by reason of his or her death or incapacity; if he or she is removed in accordance with the articles of organization or a written operating agreement of the LLC; by the majority vote assignment; when he or she assigns his or her interest in the company for the benefit of the company or of the creditors; or when he or she is adjudicated bankrupt or in the process of being adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent. An LLC can be dissolved under the provisions of the articles of organization by a written operating agreement, by the decision of its members, or by operation of law. The Act provides for default winding up of the dissolved LLC by persons entitled to receive a majority of the subsequent distributions or their assignees or legatees in absence of the company\u27s managing members

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Local Government Cable Fair Competition: Require Public Cable Service Providers to Conduct Cost-Benefit Analysis and Hold a Public Hearing Prior to Entering the Cable Service Market; Provide for Cost Accounting and Allocation and Prohibit Cross- Subsidization; Impose Fairness Requirements on Public Providers Regarding Franchise Agreements, Conditions of Access to Public Property, and Price or Rate Charged for the Cable Services; Provide for Applicability of Open Meetings Laws; Subject Local Governments Acting as Cable Service Providers to Antitrust Liability

The Act requires public providers of cable television services to conduct a three-year cost-benefit analysis and hold at least one public hearing before they can deliver cable service in an area. Public providers must prepare and maintain proper records of the full cost accounting of providing their service in the same manner required from a private provider. A public provider may use capital from its general funds to finance its service, provided it allocates these funds in the calculation of its capital cost; it may not cross-subsidize its cable operation by using other funds and resources available to it without proper cost allocation. A public provider must add the fees that it charges private providers into its total costs. A public provider, acting by itself or through a franchising authority under its control, shall not grant itself terms more favorable than those imposed on any private provider within the same jurisdiction, including local regulations or transfer, modification or franchise renewal terms. A public provider shall offer its cable service at a price equal to or greater than the price of comparable competing private providers or equal to or greater than its total costs, unless state or federal law requires such service to be subsidized. All meetings and records of public cable service providers are subject to Georgia public records and public meetings laws. Public providers of cable services are not immune from antitrust liability

Government is the problem: Symbolic trajectories of the contemporary conservative movement

The rightward shift of the contemporary conservative movement represents one of the most significant developments in American culture and politics over the last forty years. While numerous studies in rhetoric have tackled case studies of specific events, speeches, and texts, there is not yet a longitudinal study that traces the symbolic developments of the conservative movement over this period. In this dissertation, I fill that gap in rhetorical studies by arguing that the contemporary conservative movement was entelechialized by a limited government worldview, leading conservative Republicans to refuse compromise even when that refusal posed grave political risks. In four case studies, I analyze a number of key influences on the symbolic trajectories of the conservative movement, including Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Patrick Buchanan, and contemporary conservative opinion media

Militarization and social development in the Third World

In this study we integrated the modernization and dependency theories of development to suggest the ways whereby militarization can affect development. We examined the effects of three components of militarization highlighted in these theories on the social development of ninety-two developing countries. Overall, our findings support the dependency theory's emphasis on the detrimental impact of international trade on disadvantaged nations. There is a significant negative correlation between arms import and social development. Arms export and indigenous spending are correlated with social development in the expected directions but their beta coefficients are not significant. The diverse ways these three aspects of militarization have been shown to affect social development help to explain some of the conflicting findings in the literature and point to the need to study these variables in their disaggregated form.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69141/2/10.1177_144078339503100105.pd