Philosophy: a case of Sunday afternoon fever | James Garvey

not a therapy or support. But people, many mental health problems, all of philosophy Stuart low confidence forums

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Stuart Foundation provides support and assistance to people in remote north London - many of them have experience of mental illness. They put on an amazing range of activities during live music, comedy, drama and cooking, lectures on history, astrophysics, chemistry and classical music. Sunday afternoon Trust Forum brings remarkable philosophy. For people who take part, the philosophy is certainly not the navel glance. The old questions - how do I live? what else matters? would it be? - They are to live

When Rachel Paine, a philosophy professor who helped create the forum, is the speaker, 30 people crammed into the purple sofas listen. He speaks of personal identity and self-concept narrative. "What makes you the person you are?" He asks.

habitual responses have to do with continuity - your body or memories that you do the same thing with the time - but ask about the control we have over what we are. The idea is that I can be deliberately choosing actions in line with the stories that have the kind of life you want to live, the type of person I want to be.

The main group is divided into four workshops, each led by an experienced volunteer philosophy. No discussion of what happens when the story fails, when your story is undermined by factors beyond your control, and you can be who you want to be. Others believe that the relationship between the story of a life and a social identity, how the thoughts of others can sometimes shape us.

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merge together, and Paine establishes a different conception of himself. The new idea is that a person consists of many things changing, strung along in time like pearls on a necklace. Seminars are again separated, and no discussion of Hume's theory package here and there. One wonders what the chain that connects the beads are supposed to be. There was a moment of awkward silence, smiles and conversation.

today was about metaphysics, but in the last year, the Forum examined how fiction can move us, Kierkegaard three stages of life, theories of perceptual experience, the distributive justice, freedom, ancient Greek philosophy, the problems of the truck, God, truth, and more.

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group opening to new ideas. "There is a debate among academics," a group leader, Aaron Finlay, he said, "butt heads when people only positions and established." There is a real sense of people trying to get to the truth, trying to make an honest philosophy.

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Home is where the heart is and, for James Milner that's Leeds United

midfielder Manchester City began his career at Elland Road and still considers the West Yorkshire club as "we"

There is a brief moment when James Milner guard down and looks more like a fan of a player Leeds United Manchester City. Host city Leeds in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Sunday and will be the first time that Milner met hometown club in which burst onto the scene as a teenage prodigy for over a decade. Newcastle sold a few years later, Milner gives the impression that he took with him his boots Tyneside, but he left his heart at Elland Road.

"I can talk to my mother and father on the club, and my uncle and all my friends are big fans of Leeds too," said Milner. "They are rising, if you want. 'S A better situation than it was when they were in League One not so long ago.' S a big club and I believe, like many others, they should be back in the Premier League. Hopefully this is a time of stability for us. "

The "we" was an innocent slip of the tongue, but highlights how Leeds said Milner. Born in Yorkshire, Milner began to see Leeds in 1993, at the age of seven, and quickly fell in love with the club where his parents were season ticket holders and. A few years later, he joined the Leeds Academy and has been training three times a week to attend parts of the first team as a ball boy and play college football on the short sides on Sunday.

The next stage of its development through a blur. "I remember that my father gave me my rings and GCSE results while in Thorp Arch for spring training. A month later, I played in the first team, "said Milner, smiling." It was really incredible. I think if you stopped and thought about it at the moment I hit. '

Milner grew rapidly. He became the second youngest player to appear in the Premier League, where, at 16 years and 309 days, he made his debut in the 4-3 win at West Ham in November 2002. A month later, Milner became the youngest player to score in the Premier League when they drew against Sunderland, nine days before his 17th birthday (James Vaughan later broke that record playing for Everton against Crystal Palace).

lived the dream, but at the end of the following season, his world came crashing in. Leeds, on the brink of financial collapse, would the league and his fate was sealed with a defeat almost four 1 Bolton. It was nearly nine years, but the party, and in particular the consequences, still feels raw and penetrated the spirit of Milner in a way that winning the FA Cup and the Premier League, has never been.

"I remember the game against Bolton. Remains always more than the victories they had," he said. "We were doing well and then I think [Mark] Viduka was expelled and match took place from there. It was a terrible day, go to support trip. Believe that came out of the last 15 minutes and I remember sitting on the bench late in the game and the feeling was the One of the worst things I've experienced, especially knowing that you gave everything and it was not good enough.

"This feeling that I had a few years before making his debut with his friends and family there and how he would be proud, and after experiencing the other side ... And you feel as a fan and reader. It was really shocking. remember there were a lot of tears in the locker room after the majority of the local guys who have gone through the academy, people like Smudger [Alan Smith] and Robbo [Paul Robinson], which reached a little more difficult. "

• followed by a fire sale, but Milner knew nothing of his imminent departure to St James' Park and had little say in the movement. "I played two seasons, but I was only 18 and did not really know the ins and outs of how things work," he said. "I came on the first day of training camp, and someone told me". Go to Newcastle for a future doctor "And that was all

"At a time when the club needed money and he was right. Was a good club Newcastle and work with an incredible director Bobby Robson. Was best for Leeds and end All went well for me, so I had the opportunity to play with Alan Shearer join the list of class players who had played with at a young age to Leeds -. '. Vidukas s, Smiths and Kewells Woodgates

"I am disappointed that has not played for a little over Leeds. Maybe if I was born a few years earlier, may have been involved in the Champions League along. But I enjoyed every minute and is the first result I look every Saturday. "

Although Leeds has nothing to lose at Etihad Stadium, City Station actually be more widespread if the FA Cup with a 3-1 loss discipline in Southampton last Saturday leaving the champions 12 points behind Manchester United in the title race with only 12 games remaining.
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The grandad I never knew

is sad that my son will never know dad, as I never knew my grandfather

one of the only furniture in the room of my father in the nursing home is a wooden chair. It is impressive, with the proportions of a chair, but light wood and dark, with a great support for the head and arms reel.

because the walls are bare bed and institutional perhaps dad last element still in orbit. He was at his country house just before going to the house - and the house by the sea who have lived before. In fact, it has been around since I have memory. The chair is a single law Grandad grandfather I never knew.

And like every description I've heard of him, the president looks amazing, hard, male shyly. Apparently, she sat for hours without cigarettes to quit smoking one day kill him. Dad did not talk much of his own father, and we did. Maybe it is not a surprise, because when the stories of wine from time to time, they were not happy.

father told me a story about how he had been offered a lot when I was young once to buy a property, but his father vetoed the operation, the perceiver as disloyalty. According to the story of my father, the purchase would have prepared for life. The bitter feeling of a missed opportunity was still alive. However, it is unclear whether this was true.

dad sometimes suggest that his father was forced to leave school at 14 to start working in the family business, a garage. Their hands were young and free labor. Again, it is difficult to know what really happened, but it seems a bit strange that my father - a brilliant man by any standard - do not go to primary school or get a title Whatever the reality, stillbirth, their education has continued into adulthood. He was paranoid about not being good enough. This is what classical music, the need to travel and the incessant desire to be different - better - than others tried. That's why he put a lot of pressure on me to make the most of my studies for the chance he did not.

• I can see everything now and understand the sadness that my father never had the choice of what he did. However, I am stronger than I streak the grandfather I never knew. Obviously, my father did not get along with him, that's for sure. Over the past 20 years, he left the family business, establishing his garage owns five miles down the road in what looks like an act of revenge curiously Cornish. But surely Act grandpa had to have a good team too? He would have smiled, loved his three children, there were days when the sun was shining on the sea, and all was well with the world. Why did Dad have continued to support the president if there was anything worth remembering?

is important for me to think about this now because I'm pregnant. And while not being able to share this event with my grandfather life feels like a turning point, the real sadness is that my new baby will ever know. Grandad and I did law My children have my own color, as they surely will with my own point of view.

know I will be gentle with my father in my memories, but it feels quite strange that my children will never know the same man in all his irascible, whimsical, fun-loving glory. All photos will look like is not it, the things I've written, the stories, ultimately lifeless, like an uncomfortable chair in the corner of a room

Frances Andrade killed herself after being accused of lying, says husband

violinist death sparks debate on how to handle abuse cases after the lawyer asked if she was telling the truth

The husband of a professional violinist who committed suicide after testifying against a former music teacher through their molestation of her as a teenager, said his wife was traumatized after being accused of lying in court.

death Francisca Andrade, who died a few days after testifying against Michael Brewer, has sparked a debate on how to deal with cases of this type, with the former Attorney General QC Vera Baird, questioning why the police did not inform the treatment Andrade after the trial in the case involving his testimony.

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Andrade, married Frances, known as Fran in 1988, and the couple had four children. He said that his wife had been devastated by questions from counsel Beer QC, Kate Blackwell, he was telling the truth.

In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Andrade said his wife refused to talk to him about the experience for days. He said: "We sat down one evening with a bottle of wine we were watching TV, then we realized that we did not see anything once she wanted to tell me she could not not stop, she began to cry .... so sad, almost inconsolable.

. "It was horrible She said:" You think I'm lying? I said, "No, of course not. He had never doubted her. But all his people had not believed life, including his mother. When this happens, you doubt yourself, everyone. It was terrible.

"How can you convince someone when they are convinced of the contrary It was like a little girl. It was like seeing how it had to be at the time. Worse, it could not discuss the case because they said no, even after giving evidence. As we talked, but we still had to be careful. "

Although Brewer, 68, former director of music at Chetham School of Music in Manchester, was convicted of five counts of assault against Andrade indecent when he was 14 and 15 years and a student of the school, the other charges were dropped at the beginning of the case. This seems to have been a trigger for suicide, says Andrade.

• He said. "[W] hen I found had an iPad in bed next to her with a story saying Brewer had lost five charges I thought" He was hired Overs, which was proven innocent. They did not believe it. poor, poor, poor. wish I could have heard the verdict today. verdict is not surprising, but at least it shows she was not lying. they believed. "

Andrade, 59, also a professional musician, said preparations for the event had been very stressful for his wife, who had attempted suicide twice: "There were spiral decline over the last year. She was afraid to be a witness. had to go on antidepressants, drugs were eventually to become stronger and it has no effect, but the court overturned the board. "

at that time, he said, the police advised his wife not to seek advice or treatment immediately:. "She really was a doctor be removed, and it was difficult to sleep suggested that talking to someone and said I could tell -., But she said she had told the police not

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Music teachers now eligible for new Grammy honor

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