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BRADSHAW: Well, the research that we've done suggests that it's almost indistinguishable, that everything that a cat does when it's playing seems to be a part of its normal hunting behavior. And this is - you kind of see dogs do this a little bit, but a lot of dog play and a lot of play between dogs and people is a much more social thing that the dog is kind of using a toy as a way of interacting with person, and the toy is, in some senses, irrelevant, it's just a piece of equipment that the dog uses.
I think we have to acknowledge that our cats are cats - they're not little furry people - and make the decisions for them. We've brought them into the world, in some senses. We've nurtured them throughout their lives, and I think we have a responsibility to make sure that they end their lives in as content a state as possible.
BRADSHAW: I would advise that there is a particular kind of punishment, which is not only sensible to use but also almost unavoidable. It's not punishment in the physical sense. It is punishment in the mental or psychological sense, and it's basically just a withdrawal of attention.
BRADSHAW: Well, what we know is that domestication has changed the wolf's mind really substantially. What we think is that the wolf has a very sophisticated sense of social life, of family, of family connections and so on.
Now this is - if you think about it just for a moment - is the flipside of breeding an animal like the dog, which is very - becomes very attached, and very easily attached to people. They crave the company of people. They also have a mind which does not have a particularly good sense of time. And so when they get left alone, they can immediately begin to think, when's anyone coming back? Have I been abandoned forever? And they get very anxious as a result. Or they may be OK for a while after they're left alone, but then something happens that scares them - like a gunshot going off in the distance, firecracker, something they really can't account for. And then they immediately look around for some kind of company to reassure them. And there's nobody there, no human there to reassure them and so then they panic, even though before that they might have been sleeping peacefully.
BRADSHAW: Yes. I mean, the sense of time is not, you know, it's not as sophisticated as ours. They don't seem to think into the future. They will do things that seem to fit them for the future, but they're probably just kind of pre-programmed. Whether they really ever think about the past, I think, is something that we don't know enough about yet. I mean, do they actually have imagination in the way that we do? We know they dream because you can measure the brain waves and the movements of the animal, and so on, which are very similar to the sorts of things that go on in humans when we dream.
This conclusion, while dispelling some of the confusion generated by the parties' respective contentions, fails to answer the central question, i.e., [45 Cal. App. 4th 1404] whether the Commissioner must "determine" the amount of penalties before the awarding body can properly withhold funds. Although PaintCo's own argument does not come to grips with this issue, the reasoning employed by the trial court suggests a possible argument in PaintCo's favor. The court reasoned that a penalty cannot be "assessed" until its amount has been determined. As we have noted, the term "assess" subtly misstates the true purport of section 1727, which is that the awarding body must withhold sums sufficient to meet the contractor's obligation for penalties (as well as underpaid wages). An argument resembling the trial court's reasoning might nonetheless be constructed as follows: Section 1727 obligates the awarding body to withhold sums which "have been forfeited." The use of the present perfect tense suggests that the contemplated act (forfeiture) has been completed-or, in grammatical terms, perfected-prior to the withholding. The common meaning of "forfeit" is to "lose" or "lose the right to." (6 Oxford English Dict. (2d ed. 1989) p. 67.) A forfeiture in this sense might be conceived as incomplete until perfected through judicial process or lapse of time. Arguably, money will not "have been forfeited" in this sense without a determination, at some intervening point, of its amount. It might therefore be contended that the quoted phrase contemplates a prior determination of penalties by the Commissioner.
The weakness in this argument is that the posited interpretation of "forfeit" would create a temporal impossibility under any reading of the statute. The act of withholding is itself preliminary to, and can therefore never be preceded by, a perfected forfeiture. It remains subject to court challenge until the time for such challenge elapses 90 days after "completion of the contract and formal acceptance of the job." ( 1730.) Thus even if the Commissioner exercised her discretion to determine penalties at the earliest conceivable moment, the forfeiture (in the sense contemplated by this argument) would remain incomplete and unperfected.
Fortunately, a more reasonable interpretation presents itself. To "forfeit" means not only to "lose," but also "to render oneself liable to be deprived of (something)." (6 Oxford English Dict., op. cit. supra, p. 67, italics added; accord, Black's Law Dict. (6th ed. 1990) p. 650.) In this sense one may "forfeit" a thing immediately upon engaging in the conduct which subjects the thing to loss. Thus, for example, as John Locke wrote, a conqueror "has an absolute power over the lives of those who, by putting themselves in a state of war, have forefeited them." (Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1690).) A contractor may therefore be said to have "forfeited" underpaid wages and penalties the moment he or she violates the prevailing wage law-regardless whether the violation has been discovered, or its magnitude [45 Cal. App. 4th 1405] or blameworthiness has been ascertained. From that point on it is accurate to say that the underpaid wages and penalties "have been forfeited," although in other senses of that phrase the forfeiture may remain incomplete and unperfected.
While some say that the beginning of their senior year was fantastic, some said that the first or two weeks of school was either OK or chaotic and a bit overwhelming from all the work. But they still have a bit of sense of happiness due to either being their last year or that their classes are OK.
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