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Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself. This apparent kinship is not merely thematic, since contemporary thinkers explicitly and repeatedly return to the texts and figures of the Greco-Roman world. In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile, and novel interactions and themselves contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside this are 2 original and previously unpublished translations of essays by Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Aubenque.

All smiles James and [Iain Hamilton] have enjoyed their start at Borestone Primary School; Bright sparks [Isla] and Iona celebrated their birthday on their first day at school; Keen Four-year-old [Sophie Greig] all set for Braehead Primary; Cousins Ollie and [Carly Mason] are raring to go as they start at Fallin Primary school \"It's one of those big milestone moments, but they seem to be having a lot of fun. My WIFETINA had to hold back a tear and got quite emotional, seeing them going into school.\"

The decision to seek an adoption order came due to the mother's 'troubled' domestic history, said the judge. Social workers and care experts had voiced concerns about possible physical and emotional abuse - as well as 'poor home conditions.' .

Twenty-one years after a worldwide ban on ivory trade helped stop the slaughter of African elephants, the demand for ivory seems to be making a comeback - prompting some African countries to propose the sale of tons of stockpiled ivory, while giving poachers a new incentive to slaughter elephants for their valuable tusks. Decades of unfettered poaching that began in the 1960s led to what [Iain Douglas-Hamilton] calls an \"elephant holocaust\" - the number of elephants dropped from about 3.million to 250,000 in Africa and Asia today. \"They promise the money will go back into conservation,\" said Douglas-Hamilton. \"But it's only going to encourage markets as far away as China.\"

Decades of unfettered poaching that began in the 1960s led to what [Iain Douglas-Hamilton] calls an \"elephant holocaust\" - the number of elephants dropped from about 3 million to 250,000 in Africa and Asia today. \"They promise the money will go back into conservation,\" said Douglas-Hamilton. \"But it's only going to encourage markets as far away as China.\" \"The plight of the African elephant is intensely personal to Iain,\" said Indianapolis Zoo President Michael Crowther. \"He truly epitomizes what it means to be a hero.\"

A The situation is more complex than it might seem. Normally, a cash machine in the UK will process a transaction from a debit or credit card using the chip on the card. Occasionally, when the chip cannot be read by a cash machine, the transaction will be processed using the magnetic strip. The records of the cash machine will show whether the payment authorisation was made using the chip or the magnetic strip. Although it is theoretically possible that a chip could be cloned, UK Payments Administration says there is no evidence that this has actually ever happened. Cloned cards have, to date, only involved the cloning of the magnetic strip, it seems. Card issuers therefore assume that if a chip was used to authorise a payment, then the original card was used. If authorisation was made via a magnetic strip, this creates doubt about whether the original or a cloned card was used. On this basis, the card issuer will seek additional information to indicate whether the cardholder's own card was used. In the case of the reader whose letter we answered, he was adamant his card had not been used to make a cash withdrawal - but Halifax said it was satisfied that its records, and those of the cash machines used, made it clear that the chip on the card had been read to authorise the withdrawal. This, and the use of the correct PIN, showed that the original card had been used, said Halifax.