Oneness Pentecostalism, the Two-Minds View, and the Problem of Jesus's Prayers

Even thirty years after Thomas Morris wrote The Logic of God Incarnate, there are some claims that Morris makes that require examination in analytic Christology. One of those claims is a concession that Morris gives to modalists near the end of the book, where he says that the two-minds view he has defended can be used to provide a consistent modalistic understanding of Jesus’s prayer life. This view, he says, blocks the inference from the fact that Jesus prays to the Father to the additional claim that Jesus and the Father are numerically distinct. I argue that Oneness Pentecostals can appropriate central concepts from The Logic of God Incarnate as Morris suggests, and further that this means Oneness Pentecostals should abandon the claim that Jesus believes he just is the Father. Once Oneness Pentecostals abandon this claim, they can give a possible explanation of how it is that Jesus relates to the Father in prayer even though he just is the Father

An Examination of How Much Product Extensions Play A Role In Fandom

Executive Summary The purpose of this study was to determine if product extensions played a role in fandom so sport organizations could see what extensions they could use to gain more fans, generate revenue, and enhance their relationships with their fans. This research was important because sport organizations could use the product extensions that play a role in fandom to enhance their relationships with their fans. It was known that the development of fandom, product extensions, and the growth of sport programing along with the plethora of options for fans to use have been examined and researched individually. The method to draw conclusions were made by the testing results of a likert scale survey that was created of a list of product extensions asking the participants what extensions make the sport fan more of a fan of their favorite team. The survey was on a scale from 1 to 5. The survey was administered through twitter and emailed to a list of individuals at a private Division III university who are involved in sport. It was found that product extensions did not play a huge role in fandom. It was also found that out of the list of product extension variables team merchandise, gameday tv programming, and team specific social media accounts played the biggest role in fandom. It was important to do this research because there were many product extensions that played no role in fandom and some that played a great deal. Sport organizations were able to use the product extensions that played a role in fandom consistently and kept them updated while getting rid of and not spending as much time and money on the ones that did not play a role in fandom

The Unknown and Unknowable Shakespeare

A sense of mystery fills Shakespeare’s sonnets, mysteries that coax us into exploring dead ends, much like a Siren lures sailors to their rapturous, albeit vicious, deaths. A few of these tantalizing mysteries are: who stands on the other side of the 154 purported “sonnets of Shakespeare,” transmitting the poems to us? Did Shakespeare actually write these sonnets? What role, if any, did Shakespeare play in the production of these sonnets? The first question remains viable, especially considering print history and culture; the second and third questions, however, represent the lunacy of a parasitic, yet cherished, cultural bias: the need for certainty and singular answers. Given what little we know about Shakespeare and the fact that we possess no handwritten manuscripts of his works, any attempt to answer the latter questions—particularly the second one—is futile. Instead of perpetuating this fruitless game of “uncovering the unknowable,” we should accept the picture that posterity provides to us in Thomas Thorpe’s 1609 Quarto, John Benson’s 1640 Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent., and Stephen Booth’s 1977 Shakespeare’s Sonnets: namely, that due to the influence and motives of the printers throughout the history of Shakespeare’s sonnets, Shakespeare, at least as we know him, exists as much as a mythological construction as he did a real and successful playwright. Thus, the “answers” to his identity and authorship remain unknowable and not worth seeking

Global cycle properties in graphs with large minimum clustering coefficient

The clustering coefficient of a vertex in a graph is the proportion of neighbours of the vertex that are adjacent. The minimum clustering coefficient of a graph is the smallest clustering coefficient taken over all vertices. A complete structural characterization of those locally connected graphs, with minimum clustering coefficient 1/2 and maximum degree at most 6, that are fully cycle extendable is given in terms of strongly induced subgraphs with given attachment sets. Moreover, it is shown that all locally connected graphs with minimum clustering coefficient 1/2 and maximum degree at most 6 are weakly pancyclic, thereby proving Ryjacek's conjecture for this class of locally connected graphs.Comment: 16 pages, two figure

The role of spin fluctuations in the conductivity of CrO2_2

We present a time-resolved terahertz spectroscopic study of the half-metallic ferromagnet CrO$_2$. The ultrafast conductivity dynamics excited by an optical pump displays a very short (several picoseconds) and a very long (several hundred picoseconds) characteristic time scales. We attribute the former to the electron-phonon relaxation and the latter to the spin-lattice relaxation. We use this distinction to quantify the relative contribution of the scattering by spin fluctuations to the resistivity of CrO$_2$: we find that they contribute less than one half of all scattering events below room temperature. This contribution rises to $\sim70$ % as the temperature approaches $T_C$=390 K. The small effect of spin fluctuations on the resistivity is unexpected in the light of the proposed double-exchange nature of the electronic and magnetic properties of CrO$_2$

Effects of prior experience on shelter-seeking behavior of juvenile American lobsters

Author Posting. © University of Chicago, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of University of Chicago for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Biological Bulletin 232 (2017): 101-109, doi:10.1086/692697.Shelter-seeking behaviors are vital for survival for a range of juvenile benthic organisms. These behaviors may be innate or they may be affected by prior experience. After hatching, American lobsters Homarus americanus likely first come into contact with shelter during the late postlarval (decapodid) stage, known as stage IV. After the subsequent molt to the first juvenile stage (stage V), they are entirely benthic and are thought to be highly cryptic. We hypothesized that postlarval (stage IV) experience with shelter would carry over into the first juvenile stage (stage V) and reduce the time needed for juveniles to locate and enter shelters (sheltering). We found some evidence of a carryover effect, but not the one we predicted: stage V juveniles with postlarval shelter experience took significantly longer to initiate sheltering. We also hypothesized that stage V juveniles would demonstrate learning by relocating shelters more quickly with immediate prior experience. Our findings were mixed. In a maze, juveniles with immediate prior experience were faster to regain visual contact with shelter, suggesting that they had learned the location of the shelter. In contrast, there was no significant effect of immediate prior experience on time to initiate sheltering in an open arena, or in the maze after juveniles had regained visual contact. We conclude that very young (stage V) juvenile lobsters modify their shelter-seeking behavior based on prior experiences across several timescales. Ecologically relevant variation in habitat exposure among postlarval and early juvenile lobsters may influence successful recruitment in this culturally and commercially important fishery species.This work was supported by a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Scholar Award (MWJ), a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (SRB), NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant (MWJ), and National Science Foundation Grant IOS-0843440 (JA).2018-04-0