Planning a party or event when you have a loved one who is in recovery can be tricky. You want your guests to have fun and feel welcome, but you also want to make a comfortable environment for your friend or family member. Creating a sober-friendly event takes a little work, but it will be worth it in the end if it helps your loved one.
When going through recovery, many people experience depression and other mood disorders and have a hard time being social. They may withdraw from friends and family because they feel like a burden or because they just don't have the energy or the right mindset to be around others. Going to parties can be a stressful ordeal because they know they'll have to answer uncomfortable questions or dodge temptation.
If you can create an environment where they feel relaxed and welcome, that's one step closer to their own healing. Here's how.
Remove temptation: While the word "party" is often associated with substances, you don't have to include them to have a good time. Give your event a fun theme and stress that it's kid-friendly, which will alert your guests that you won't be relying on alcohol to show everyone a good time.
Focus on the food: One of the best ways to help your guests have fun without substances is to focus on the food. Create several "stations" around the event area for desserts, appetizers, and finger-foods rather than having them all in one place or making it a formal dinner. This will allow your guests to mingle and mill around instead of crowding awkwardly around one table. For more tips on what type of food to serve, check out this article on keeping your guests safe and happy.
Mood lighting is key: Your loved one may feel anxious in a room with lots of people, so lower the lights and give the party a relaxed feel. Create different seating areas to encourage conversation and have a "quiet room" where anyone can go to simply sit and take a break.
Keep it safe: If your loved one is okay with you serving alcohol at your event, be sure you keep it up out of reach of little hands. Get familiar with how much alcohol you have on hand, what type it is, and how quickly it's being used up. Have a bar area that will be watched over at all times by a responsible adult so that young people don't have a chance to sneak a drink. It may seem like harmless fun to them, but many kids and teens develop harmful habits later in life if they are exposed to substances early on. In fact, Redfin.com published an eye-opening article about how much children can be affected by the things adults use.
Keep it low-key: It can be stressful for a person in recovery to attend a party during the holidays, as these are the months when temptation often rears its head. If you're entertaining during this time, keep things relaxed and low-key rather than forcing games or activities on everyone. Play soft music, set out lots of good food and non-alcoholic drink options, and have a separate area for kids who want to play and might become loud. Set out board games, video games, puzzles, and art supplies for little ones so they can entertain themselves.
Remember that your loved one may not stay for the duration of the party, and that's okay. The fact that they've shown up is a step in the right direction. Allow them to have fun at their own pace and decide when they've had enough so they will feel in control and confident.


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Category / Marcus DiPaola
April 2, 2021 by Edward Champion
Marcus DiPaola is Not a Journalist
Marcus DiPaola claims to be a journalist, but his demagoguery and his carelessness with the facts suggests that he could be the Charles Coughlin of TikTok.
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If you're on TikTok, there's a good chance that you've stumbled across Marcus DiPaola on your For You Page. He has 2.5 million followers and he doesn't follow anybody back. With thick-framed glasses, poorly groomed stubble, and hair parted in the middle in a manner that suggests that he could be the love child of Alfalfa and a Williamsburg hipster, DiPaola reads the news in an intense and fearmongering style against an Olan Mills backdrop that is grossly at odds with his "I spend most of my time in a basement" aesthetic. Think of DiPaola as Awkward Family Photos enhanced with white male rage. Like many grifters who have made a name for themselves in an age in which facts, fairness, and the appearance of objectivity are increasingly devalued, DiPaola cloaks his inadequacies behind his mission statement: that he is, according to his own bio, using a writing style "designed to make it possible for middle schoolers with learning disabilities to understand the news." But if this were truly the case, why then does DiPaola enunciate innocent words like "trains" with all the sinister timbre of Richard III chewing up the scenery just before hiring assassins to kill his older brother? If he is truly speaking to children, why then does his content have the feel of Walter Winchell with severe anger management issues? DiPaola reminds me of that Simpsons bit in which Christopher Walken read Goodnight Moon, only for the kids to scurry away in fear.
Up until recently, DiPaola's bizarrely aggressive "reporting" style was largely tolerated as something you had to endure before scrolling onto a shirtless Russian man loving his bear in subzero temperatures. But on March 29th, DiPaola offered a preposterously inaccurate report that "LGBTQ residents of Philadelphia are getting attacked by criminals so often that, today, the person in charge of dealing with crime in Philadelphia created an advisory board to figure out how to deal with the problem." It is certainly true that a transgender woman was attacked in Philadelphia on March 20th and that there was an uptick in transgender attacks last year. But DiPaola's hysterical rhetoric suggested that Philly was something out of Frank Miller's apocalyptic portrayals of Gotham. Last year, USA Today reported that Philadelphia was among the friendliest cities to LGBTQ people. The city was one of the first places in America to initiate a yearly Pride parade in 1972.
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DiPaola faced rightful pushback for his histrionics, which felt more like the bilious white supremacy spewed by Tucker Carlson than a man who professes to "anchor the news" on his Twitter bio. He never once corrected his inaccuracies — the basic responsibility of even a soi-disant journalist. Instead, he doubled down on his demagogic fury with a video that was swiftly parodied and widely condemned:
Journalism exists to point out things going wrong so people can change them. It is never my job to cheerlead or to make people happy. It is my job to point out the scary and bad stuff happening in the world, to build up pressure on the people in power so they fix things. If you want to make a change in the world, this is the channel for you. If you're scared of real life and want to pretend things are perfect, follow someone else.
As the user @jewishanarchist observed, this represented a case in which DiPaola refused to countenance the LGBTQ-friendly truth of living in Philadelphia. "You might not have the job to cheerlead," said @jewishanarchist, who grew up in Philly and who noted the vibrant drag scene in the City of Brotherly Love, "but you have the job to represent the accurate facts. Because what you did? You made the people of Philly look bad. You didn't make the government of Philly look bad. You made the people look bad. That's bad reporting."
Moreover, there's something incredibly dodgy in DiPaola's partisan approach here. It is a journalist's job to present the facts fairly and accurately. If the reader (or, in this case, the viewer) decides that she wants to change things, then that's on the audience, not the journalist. But these basic responsibilities are clearly beyond DiPaola's wildly limited faculties. He often fails to cite his sources. And a cursory exhumation of his feed instantly reveals numerous inaccuracies or willful misreadings of other reports. Irrespective of who your audience is, this is a deeply irresponsible approach for anyone who claims to report the news.
DiPaola could be easily ignored if he didn't have such a large platform to deliver his venomous spittle-flecked tirades. The fact of the matter is that, for some people who are hopelessly hooked on TikTok (it is incredibly addictive!), DiPaola could very well be the first place that they hear about a news story. And if they hear it from a man who is so careless and capricious with the facts, then DiPaola's outsize influence is incredibly dangerous. Not unlike Father Coughlin in the 1930s, who used his vast radio audience to whip up widespread anti-Semitism and support for fascism. Even comedians like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver have employed fact-checkers. Because they have known very well that millions of people are watching their shows and that they have a responsibility to convey the basic truth.
But DiPaola shows no such care or commitment. He cannot, by any standard, be called a journalist.

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IMO im sick of having the same buildings, i think gree should consider some new money buildings that cost honor. i have over 150k honor saved up because i dont know what to do with them since i dont want to waste them on units because my team is already indestructible and the units i get from finishing all the ltqs are better than any unit i could be 10fold... so lets change it up with some NEW MONEY BUILDINGS!!!
They should release the LE buildings like in CC and MW.
But, however, I highly doubt your army could not benefit from more Voracious Abominations at 400 attack, 346 defense.
45th? What about your 450? Or you 1450?
I've counted my top 1500 in both attack and defense. I have Blackrock Battering Rams in both lists. Granted, they are at the bottom...but they're still in there.
I've got 44 VA's, so are they still useful to me? Oh yes. Make that 47 - just clicked for 3 more just now.
I think you're bankrolling on fool's gold, my friend. I highly doubt GREE would release an honor building. If they do, kudos to you I guess - you'll be first in line.
It would be great with some new buildings. Any building would be ok, as long as we get something new.
Looks like KA and MW are syncing up: guild events in KA and now faction events in MW. Pvp in MW and it looks like the next event in KA will be pvp. MW has LE money buildings every war cycle and I am sure KA will have them soon. Then it is only a matter of time until people complain about too many buildings.
I just don't see the point...why give us more gold buildings, without first giving us something to spend gold on? Obviously BBR's were a failure, yes there was a siginficant boost in gold and stats, but nowhere near enough to the point that 2-3 months after they were introduced, they were already redundant for a lot of people.
Bearing in mind also that the guild vault increased from 330k to 1,130....and stat inflation has gone crazy....GREE need to address the gold units, buildings (gold and units) in line with inflation. Until they do this, adding more gold buildings into the game is just a waste of time, sure it gives you something else to upgrade, but if you're that bothered then upgrade your manors, I'm sure most people asking for the new gold buildings don't already have level 10 manors.
You'll be needing them if the costs are in line with MW. I'm predicting 3M to buy one. Lol.
I've created a spreadsheet of every unit I had roughly 6 months ago, segregated to class and categorized attack and defense.
I cut the lowest of each, att/def that went below 1500 units... At the time, I was shocked at what was still being used.
Things have changed and I can't buy gold units anymore of alive, however, the honor units still afford a stat boost.
I've since let the spreadsheet fall away, but its easy enough to see if a unit is used in your 1500 inventory or not.
Log your stats to the number, but one unit, close out and return. Log stats and note any changes. If there's a change, you an use that unit, if not change.... No good for you. Simple.
With the high price of guild upgrades any building that can increase IPH and reduce that time is a welcome addition. Some people have maxed out their upgrades at this stage.
Sarcasm: I hear some guilds have maxed upgrades, bonuses, everything out basically; so why do we need them?
Honestly, I stepped into whale territory and most of my upgrades are now beyond my max-vault. It would be nice to have other income and time the buildings so I can move forward with manors, etc.
brilliant. but how much of what Gree does makes sense?
I have had all my units & equipment in a ss for nearly a year now. My army reached 100% indestructible (plus <20 honor units) during the Raid Boss event. My 1500th units are now about 310/360 boosted. So new gold buildings would only be useful to me if they are accompanied by new unit buildings with gold units with stats better than that. Though really, I estimate 75% of my income is from raiding, not my own buildings.
So new unit buildings would be a lot more useful, and new gold buildings all but useless otherwise. New unit buildings would be ESPECIALLY if they make up for the fact that leveling is punishment at wartime by making those unit builds available at lvl 140, 150, 160 and 170 or something like that.
I believe new honor buildings would be a great addition to this game. How bout some more guild bonuses as well? Could offer new buildings as prizes during war? Also, i think it getting close to that time when levels must be raised to lv 300 as the max.


Today the team headed out after breakfast to drive to Elbasan and Cërrik in the center of Albania and along the Via Egnatia (Dave and Jared shared the driving). The purpose of the trip was to visit church planters and pastors, learn, pray and encourage. The day was a blessing!
We arrived at Kristian Kotorri's home located in a small village near Cërrik. There he lives in a home with his mom, wife Ersina and son Emanuel (9 months). We were served refreshments, shared testimonies and learned how Kristian is spreading the gospel throughout 5 villages and beyond in an area of over 290,000 people.
Kristian has an exuberant passion for the Lord and sharing the gospel. He is bi-vocational to support his family and his ministry. He is farming for the first time and we visited the fields he has planted with broccoli, cauliflower and two types of cabbage. Finances are tight and growing is difficult. Judy Thomas shared this verse and we prayed over the crops in the field. The harvest will be early December.
Ps 126:6 He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
From there we visited two pastors, Shaban and Llir, in Elbasan. Shaban has started a church after sharing the gospel at the school he and his wife started. Llir runs a small church that has existed for a number of years and Llir, a church planter, works with Roma people. We're able to listen to their history and current challenges and pray for each of them.
We also walked the via Egnatia where it is expected to have run. It was a joyful reflection to think that Paul may have walked this area almost 2,000 years ago.
Before driving back to Durres we returned to Kristian's home for a wonderful meal, were introduced to his team, and shared testimonies. It was a Spirit filled afternoon and their sacrifices for advancing the Gospel served as an example for all of us.
Prayer Request for Kristian: successful harvest and sold produce that will support his family for over 6 months and a second planting. Health for his family and growth of leadership numbers to advance the gospel and establish more home groups.
For the other pastors: leadership development, financial soundness and multiplication of churches.
← Partners Praying for Durres – Brad P.


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Leah 'an inspiration'
Dessie Blackadder
Monday 7 June 2021 13:25
Cadet Leah Service has been awarded a Certificate of Recognition in the British Citizen Awards.
The certificate states that "Leah has been recognised for her contribution to society and being an inspiration to other British Citizens".
Leah certainly lives up to the Army Cadet Force motto "Inspire to Achieve"!
On receiving the certificate Leah said: "I am absolutely over the moon, and could not have achieved this if it weren't for my involvement with Cullybackey Detachment, Army Cadet Force"
Last summer Leah was one of a small group of cadets to receive a certificate from Mid and East Antrim Mayor Councillor Peter Johnston in recognition of efforts during COVID-19 in assisting the Cullybackey Community Partnership (CCP) by delivering food parcels to the vulnerable during lockdown and Christmas presents to the members of the Everygreens Pensioners Group.
She also took part in Craig's Parish Church's Virtual VE Day Celebration by reading the poem "Flanders Fields", and was involved in the Battalion's research into local WW2 Heroes.
The BCA told Leah: "It is activities such as yours which makes life in UK communities so much better for many and you should be justifiably proud of your award. We were impressed by the good and activities you undertake".
As a Gold Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) participant she has completed both Bronze and Silver Awards through the Army Cadet Force (ACF) and both at Detachment and on Zoom meetings provided help and support to other cadets on their DofE journey.
She has also contributed to the joint ACF and Sea Cadet's Aluminium ring pull collection for prosthetic limbs and has organised litter picks in her home village of Portglenone, all part of the volunteering section of her award and her John Muir Environmental Award.
Leah will also be assisting with Cullybackey Cub Scouts this summer and has been of great assistance to the younger cadets at the Detachment.
Leah who is currently an A level student at Cullybackey College has been a great inspiration to all. Staff and cadets at Cullybackey Detachment and others within C Company, 1st (NI) Battalion will miss her when she turns 18 next month.
However she will not be turning her back on Youth Work, as she is hoping the help out at the local Squirrel's group in September and is keen to eventually return to the ACF as an Adult Instructor.
If you are aged between 12-17 & would like to join up with Cullybackey Detachment ACF come on down. We are currently meeting every Wednesday at the Maine Business Centre, Main Street, Cullybackey from 7-9pm.


A new infographic shares the content formats that work best with European audiences. The research, which can be found here, asked marketers what they think the most effective formats are.
As you can see below, blog posts are thought to be the most effective marketing content. E-newsletters come second, with infographics a close third. How can you make the most of these types of content to engage your audience? We look at some best practices.
Regularly publishing quality blog posts is a good way to ensure you remain on the radar of the search engines and stay visible online.
There is no shortage of advice on writing effective blogs. Good places to start are websites like Hubspot and Hootsuite, whose own blogs and guides offer a wealth of tips and best practice from content and style to posting times and all things in between.
If you're writing online it's also worth reading Google's online content style guide – it has advice on wording, style, formatting and other areas. Making sure you align with what Google is looking for will help get your blog seen – which of course is the whole point.
And with the advent of the GDPR in May, it's more important than ever that your content is engaging.
The new data rules will dramatically reduce the pool of people you can reach via outbound, unsolicited emails. Writing a compelling blog that encourages them to sign up for more is one way to keep talking to your clients and prospects.
Read more about how to create content that maximises engagement.
The second most effective content format. A good way to share news, events and other collateral in an easily-digestible format.
Don't forget that if you're regulated by the FCA, email newsletters count as financial promotions, and need to follow the regulator's financial promotion rules on content and sign-off process.
Time is of the essence with digital marketing – people expect up-to-date news and information. The need to get Compliance approval can sometimes slow you down – but it's a non-negotiable part of regulated marketing.
Finding out how to produce quality content in less time will enable you to get your material out there faster. Also read 6 proven tips to make your approvals process better to prevent slow sign-off holding you back.
And of course, the GDPR is highly relevant here too. Make sure you are up to speed with the new regulation to avoid breaking the rules.
Infographics are a great way of sharing information in bite-sized chunks.
Digestible and sharable, infographics summarise key points in a highly visual way. The secret is producing something that actually tells you something as well as looking good.
Some of the best infographics tell a story – something recognised as being central to successful content marketing. Make sure they're accurate as well as appealing – incorrect data will make you look silly, as well as potentially breaching regulatory rules. And of course, infographics also count as promotions – so need the appropriate review and approval.
Read more about how to create great infographics.
Consider how you could adapt your promotional materials and thought leadership to video; you may be surprised at how many options there are. If your consultants, advisers or partners struggle to commit time to video, consider animated options.
Whitepapers are probably more familiar territory for many professional or financial services marketers. As with all marketing materials, the rules are pretty simple – make it compelling, make it compliant and make sure you share it to the relevant people.
After 25 May, when GDPR comes in, you may want to increase the number of whitepapers you share on social media, as you probably won't have as big an audience to email them to. Find out more about some of the ways your marketing will change under GDPR and the efficiencies you might want to make to counteract the impact of the new rules. And read more here on how to make what you publish more shareable on social media.
Content marketing is effective – but it's a big commitment. After 25 May, it'll be more important than ever that your content is engaging and relevant. This infographic gives good insight into how you can prioritise your efforts.
For more tips on producing compelling and compliant content, download a free copy of our Marketing Guide to Compliance. It covers all aspects of compliant financial promotions, and you can download a copy here.


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The Orlando Titans were a professional lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League that played in the 2010 season. The Titans began as the New York Titans, and played for three seasons in New York before announcing the move to Orlando on August 10, 2009.

They played their first official game on January 8, 2010, versus the Philadelphia Wings. The Titans won 13–8.

In July 2010, the web site NLL Insider reported that the Titans would not participate in the 2011 season due to financial difficulties.  Reportedly, several Titans players were applying to the league for free agency, based on non-payment of salary; any players not granted free agency will be dispersed to the other teams via a dispersal draft. In September 2010, it was reported in the Orlando Business Journal that the 2011 season had completely been canceled and that calls were placed to all season ticket holders to inform them. The Orlando Business Journal notes that the Titans' website has been taken down, phone lines have been disconnected, and no sources close to the team (along with the league itself) were aware of the shutdown; most fans are unlikely to receive a refund from the team.

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Playoff results

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NLL Entry Draft
First Round Selections

 2009: None
 2010: None

References

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Josef Nagel ist der Name folgender Personen:
* Josef Nagel (Musiker) (?–1847), österreichischer Violinist
 Josef Nagel (Dirigent) (1921/1922–2001), Schweizer Dirigent
 Josef Marsil Wilhelm Xaver von Nagel zur Loburg (1715–1777), deutscher Offizier und Erbauer des Schlosses Loburg

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Location Map ( geo)
From: Melksham (ST903638)
To: Lyneham (SU018793)
Via: Calne
Distance: 14.3 miles (23 km)
Met (1956): A350, A342, A4, A420
Now part of: A3102
Traditional Counties
Route outline (key)
B3102 Melksham - Calne
(A4) Calne
B3102 Calne - Lyneham
The A3102 (former B3102) near Bromham
The B3102 formerly ran from Melksham to Calne, and then, after a very brief multiplex with the A4, on to Lyneham where it met the A420.
In the 1960s the section from Melksham to the A342 was upgraded to Class I status, becoming the imaginatively named A3102; the section immediately west of the A342 was rerouted to join it further south.
After the M4 was constructed across northern Wiltshire, the centre section of the A420 was downgraded to be the B4069, with the remainder of the B3102 being upgraded to the A3102 at around the same time. The new A-road also took on the route of the former A420 into Swindon.
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A method for determining the U-235 concentration in fuel assemblies of a high-power channel-type PBMK reactor is described. The measure of U-235 content of an analyzed sample is the number of neutrons from thermal-neutron fission of U-235, normalized to the number of gamma quanta produced in thermal neutron capture by hydrogen nuclei in the scintillator or by B-10 in the glass of a photomultiplier tube. A pulse neutron generator based on DT reaction is the neutron source, and an organic scintillator with the pulse shape discrimination between neutrons and gamma rays with the aid of the digital technology is a detector. The scintillator is also used as a neutron moderator. Simulation of the method shows that the U-235 content of the analyzed sample can be determined for 1 min with an accuracy of 1% or better. The efficiency of the method has been confirmed by experimental investigations on a model of the setup.


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Stephen Elop hints at Nokia tablet
By Vlad Dudau News Editor Neowin @avladd · Feb 4, 2013 09:30 EST · Hot! with 12 comments
We all guessed Nokia was working on a tablet device quite some time ago, with Nokia's chief designer, Marko Ahtisaari, saying that he spent a considerable amount of time on the product. Unfortunately, Nokia has yet to announce such a product in any official capacity but rather continues to hint at its existence.
In an interview with the Australian Financial Review Stephen Elop, Nokia's CEO, reiterated the company's interest in the tablet market, saying:
We haven't announced tablets at this point, but it is something we are clearly looking at very closely. We are studying very closely the market right now as Microsoft has introduced the Surface tablet, so we are trying to learn from that and understand what the right way to participate would be and at what point in time.
Late last year a rumor surfaced that the upcoming Nokia-branded tablet would feature an attachable keyboard similar to what Microsoft is offering for their Surface line, so it would make sense for Nokia to pay very close attention to Surface and to try an learn from Microsoft's mistakes.
While most people would think such a tablet device would undoubtedly run Microsoft Windows RT (or even Windows 8) given the company's partnership with Microsoft, Elop was quite keen on not burning any bridges, going as far as name-dropping Android as a potential solution. "We would consider any option [Android or Windows]," the newspaper quotes Elop as saying.
Despite all this, Elop emphasized the strong relationship that Nokia has with Microsoft and the potential of synergy between Nokia's Lumia line and a potential Windows tablet:
It is important to note that the opportunity for companionship is something that any user is looking for. So, when you think about the Lumia 920, running on Windows phone, having a Windows tablet or PC or Xbox is something that will give us the opportunity to have a pretty integrated experience. Our first focus on what we look at is clearly in the Microsoft side.
As for when such a tablet may hit market, there was no clear indication given. There was a rumor going around that the tablet might be unveiled at Mobile World Congress, but Elop states that, "It is the case that in the months and years ahead, you will see us broaden out the portfolio, which means pushing to lower and lower price points, in some cases smaller form factors and so forth." So it sounds like we might have to wait a few months for such a product to come to market.
Source: AFR via Techcrunch | Image created by Jonas Daehnert illustrating what a Nokia tablet may look like
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Burak Kadercan
Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy, Naval War College
My research agenda is comprised of four interrelated pillars:
Nationalism, Territory, and Interstate War
Based on my dissertation, this pillar explores the evolution of territorial conflict in the modern state system from historical, theoretical, and statistical perspectives. The central question is as follows: how can we explain the fact that territorial war since the Peace of Westphalia (1648) has become an increasingly infrequent but intense enterprise? I argue that the rise of nationalism has made leaders' political survival calculi extremely sensitive to the preservation of the territorial integrity of their state, rendering it difficult for leaders to risk territorial wars but also to limit the intensity of wars once they broke out. So far, two related articles were published in International Studies Review (2012) and Review of International Studies (2013). Another paper, "Nationalism and War for Territory: Rethinking the Relationship Between Indivisible Territory and Interstate War," is under review, with two additional papers -- "War is What States Make of Territory: A Territorial Explanation for the Changing Trends in Interstate War" & "Theorizing Clausewitz: The French Revolution and a Neoclassical Realist Theory of 'Systems Change'" -- in progress. Feel free to email for unpublished manuscripts.
The "Character" of Territory and IR Theory
The second pillar of my research agenda entails the expansion of my dissertation project on territory to synthesize insights from political geography as well as critical approaches to IR. A paper where I make the case for rigorous interdisciplinary dialogue between international relations theory, critical IR, and political geography is forthcoming at International Theory. Combined with my dissertation research, this second pillar constitutes the foundation of my book manuscript on the relationship between war and territory, tentatively titled Territory, The State and War: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis. I co-edited an interdisciplinary volume (also co-authoring one article and solo-authoring another) on the relationship between territoriality and foreign policy with Boaz Atzili, which includes contributions from Harris Mylonas, Gerry Kearns, Jordan Branch, Nadav Shelef, Ryan Griffiths, Katharine Kindervater, and Ehud Eiran, forthcoming from Territory, Politics, Governance in 2017.
Production and Diffusion of Military Power
This project deals with the ways in which civil-military relations affect states' approach to both the production of military power and state formation processes. An article associated with this pillar, also my second "big" project, has been published in International Security (2014). At the moment, I am conducting preliminary research for two follow-up articles. The first draws on recent debates in the military history literature concerning the role of military entrepreneurs in European warfare during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, pushing forward a novel interpretation of the relationship between war-making and state-building in the modern state system. The second article scrutinizes the ways in which great powers' reliance on auxiliaries and local forces affect state-building efforts, comparing the Ottoman and European experiences to generate insights that can be useful for analyzing contemporary cases such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Empires in IR Theory and Historiography
This pillar deals with the place of "empires" in general, the Ottoman Empire in particular, in the theory and history of international relations. In particular, I make the case that there is much to be gained from exploring non-Westphalian and Westphalian experiences in tandem from unified analytical frameworks, in my case, through comparative analyses of territorial practices and the institutions that affect(ed) ruling elites' political survival calculus. During International Studies Association's Annual Meeting in New Orleans in February 2015, I presented two papers on this topic, one titled "The Invisible Empire Strikes Back: Making the Case for Integrating the Ottoman Empire Into IR Theory and Historiography" (in a panel I organised, Bringing the Ottomans Back In: Ottoman Empire in International Relations Theory and Historiography), the other "Seeing Like An Empire In A System of States: Mapping Non-Western Empires in Modern IR Theory and Historiography" (for the Presidential Theme Panel - IR and the non-Western worlds: imagining a globally inclusive 'we'). Stay tuned for updates.
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The Policy & Practice Toolkit for Ontario AIDS Service Organizations on Clients' HIV Disclosure Decisions and Process ("the toolkit") is a resource designed to help community-based HIV organizations support client disclosure decision-making. It guides users through disclosure policy development and practice. The toolkit, which consolidates knowledge and resources related to disclosure support from literature and practice, was developed by the Ontario Organizational Development Program (OODP) with funds from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
The toolkit is made up of two distinct but connected components:
Policy templates, which can inform the creation or revision of governance/board policy and operational/staff policy
Checklists to help organizations work through policy development/revision and practice change
This toolkit promotes neither disclosure nor non-disclosure of HIV status and it does not provide legal advice to agencies. Instead, it is meant to support organizations as they consider their position on, and their role in, supporting disclosure planning, discussion and decision-making among people living with HIV.
It also provides guidance for organizations on managing risk, covering such topics as how to communicate contentious issues around disclosure and how to provide support to staff who engage in disclosure discussions with clients. The toolkit also encourages agencies to consider how to handle, in policy and practice, providing support for people to whom a disclosure is made. Users of the toolkit are prompted to ask critical questions:
Does your agency actively support the person to whom the disclosure is made?
Does your agency refer this person out to other services?
By working through key questions from the toolkit, organizations can reflect on how they support disclosure decision-making and action and can act on any gaps they find.
In addition to the policy templates, OODP chose to include a component on practice (included in a section called "Program Standards" and in the checklist), which is unusual for a policy tool. This was done to help organizations operationalize their policies.
The mandate of the OODP is to strengthen the capacity of HIV organizations and programs in Ontario. The goal is to help local HIV programs to determine their direction and to take responsibility for their own organizational development. The OODP is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Public Health Agency of Canada.


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Q: Strange label with TikZ-Feymann package and difficulty in math-mode Starting from a recent answer

with this MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}

\usepackage{tikz-feynman}
\tikzfeynmanset{compat=1.1.0}
\newcommand{\virgola}{\smash{\raisebox{0.1ex}{,}}}
\begin{document}
\feynmandiagram [layered layout, horizontal=b to c] {
a -- [boson,edge label'=\(p\virgola a\),charged boson] b
-- [fermion, half left, looseness=1.5,edge label'=\(\scriptstyle q+\frac{p}{2}\)] c
-- [fermion, half left, looseness=1.5, edge label'=\(\scriptstyle q-\frac{p}{2}\)] b,
c -- [boson,edge label'=\(p\virgola a\),charged boson] d,
};

\end{document}

I have encountered these difficulties:

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*I am not able to put the label of every fermion to outside of the graph. I read the manual and there is only the option of placing under boson, photon, etc.. I think that is exist only this option: edge label';

*Into the label can I put only symbols? For example I have created a comma "virgola" in math-mode. If I do not adopt this solution I get errors.

What are the solutions?

A: In edge label', the ' means "move label to the other side of the line", so use edge label instead of edge label'.
Regarding the comma, the problem is that the option list is a comma separated list, so if you have a comma in one of the entries you need to protect it with braces. In other words, use foo={bar, baz} instead of foo=bar,baz, otherwise the parser is confused by the comma. In your case, edge label'={\(p, a\)}.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz-feynman}
\tikzfeynmanset{compat=1.1.0}
\begin{document}
\feynmandiagram [layered layout, horizontal=b to c] {
a -- [boson,edge label'={\(p, a\)},charged boson] b
-- [fermion, half left, looseness=1.5,edge label=\(\scriptstyle q+\frac{p}{2}\)] c
-- [fermion, half left, looseness=1.5, edge label=\(\scriptstyle q-\frac{p}{2}\)] b,
c -- [boson,edge label'={\(p,a\)},charged boson] d,
};

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Inter crush Cagliari by four and lead the Italian league
Harley Turner December 13, 2021
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Inter Milan climbed to the top of the Italian Serie A after Lautaro Martinez scored two goals to lead his team to a big 4-0 victory over Cagliari at the San Siro stadium on Sunday.
The defending champion dominated the match from start to finish to achieve his fifth consecutive victory in the league after Argentine striker Martinez opened the scoring with a powerful header in the 29th minute.
Martinez almost doubled the score before the break, but the visitors' goalkeeper saved his attempt with a penalty kick.
The hosts did not wait long to score the second goal, as Alexis Sanchez, in a rare participation from the start, fired a direct shot into the goal five minutes after the start of the second half.
Cagliari collapsed after that, to add Hakan Calhanoglu the third goal.
Martinez completed the quartet in the 68th minute with a perfect shot after controlling a long pass from Nicolo Barilla, while Inter missed several other opportunities that were enough to increase the goals.
Inter took advantage of Milan and Napoli's missed points in this round to lead the competition, one point behind its neighbor Milan, while Cagliari fell to 19th place with ten points from 17 games.
The defending champions Inter, under the leadership of their new coach Simone Inzaghi, have been chasing Milan and Napoli since the start of the season in light of their unbeaten start to the season.
But with both teams in decline in the league, Inter reached their peak just before the winter break, and Cagliari could not keep up with the in-form title holder.
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Cagliari goalkeeper Alessio Cranio was busy for most of the match, and Inter hit 15 balls inside the goal frame in 90 minutes, and his brilliance kept the score without goals for 29 minutes.
But Inter's 14th goal from a free kick this season broke the visiting team's resistance, as Martinez headed in the goal after a corner kick by Calhanoglu.
After Denzel Dumfries was thwarted by Cranio just before the break, Martinez looked sure to double the score, but the Cagliari keeper managed to save the penalty.
Sanchez was enjoying his rare regular start and expertly scored his first goal in Serie A this season, hitting the bottom corner of the goal.
The Chilean striker created the next goal for Calhanoglu, who fired a powerful shot into the top corner of the goal from 25 metres, before Martinez scored his second goal in the match and the tenth in the league this season to conclude the quartet.
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"I learned how to handle situations in the Parent, Child and Adult state in the mode of parallel connections. Appreciating colleagues, avoiding using negative words, listening before I speak is something I must work towards"
"This workshop taught me about ego states which we come across in daily transactions with people. Stroke economy was also a good learning"
"I liked the learning on communication, viz. verbal/non-verbal/positive/negative/conditional/non-conditional strokes"
"Having attended this workshop, I feel more confident in conducting myself and handling situations using knowledge of listening skills, stroke economy and ego states"
"In order to have a healthier relationship with others, I will seek to understand people better and communicate in a more positive and assertive manner"
"This session was helpful to understand people's mind-sets and their ego states and accordingly handling them with appropriate strokes"
"My learnings today have been on communicating with proper phraseology and appropriate body language. I plan to praise my people when possible instead of only giving negative strokes"
"Understanding strokes and their usage will be of great significance at work and for interaction with my guests and colleagues. Identifying the three ego states will help me in dealing with them"
"Understanding what the guest is really trying to say and the message it is really trying to convey will help me in bettering my guest interaction skills. Identifying people's ego and the strokes I must use with them has been a learning for me in this workshop"
"Facing difficult situations, handling them in a positive manner and stroking oneself instead of waiting for appreciation has been my take away from this programme"
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Karen Blackett's astute interview with LeadersIn reveals her assessment of Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration and her predictions for the future of the EU in a post-Brexit Britain.
Karen also shares her down-to-earth views on leadership and what makes an effective CEO. She discusses developing a personal brand and relevance, and we admire her view on the power of listening more, and saying less.
Karen has been in media for 22 years and is currently Chairwoman of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK with billings over £1 billion. Prior to this Karen was CEO for 5 years. During Karen's tenure as CEO the UK business won over £790 million of new business. In 2015, Karen led the agency to win the coveted Tesco business, after over 23 years with their incumbent agency.
In 2015 Karen was appointed as one of four external advisors to help diversify the Civil Service, and as a UKTI Business Ambassador for No 10. Karen is also a Non-Exec for Creative England whose focus is to support new and emerging talent in the Creative Industry in turn helping commercial growth.


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The R.A.P. Cassette - December 1999
Welcome to the December '99 RAP Cassette! We begin Side A with an impressive demo from this month's interview subject, Shawn Kelly at Clear Channel Communications in Albuquerque, NM. The demo includes commercial work from Shawn and imaging work from Scottie Papek, Charlie Fox, and "Rainman" (Jason Rainey). We get five choice commercials on cuts 2 through 6 and wrap up Side A with a real gem from Don Elliot (who apparently had some time on his hands one day). If you are a producer and/or a voice talent, you'll get a real kick out of "One Director." Thanks Don!
Side B is filled with promo work for a variety of formats from all over the globe, and we wrap up the side with a spoof spot from Craig Jackman. By the way, a second cut from Craig Jackman, the promo he mentioned in this month's "Consolidation" article, was omitted from this month's Cassette by mistake. Look for it on next month's Cassette.
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1. Demo from Shawn Kelly, Clear Channel Communications, Albuquerque, New Mexico, (505) 830-6462
2. Newhouse Quality Homes, Stephen Mills, KPAM, Portland, Oregon, (503) 251-1277
3. Great Plains Cattle Company, Libby York, WKML, Fayetteville, North Carolina, (910) 483-9565
4. Monti's Restaurants, Geoffrey Erb, E.R.B., Scottsdale, Arizona, (602) 971-0966
5. Emerald Pointe/Where Witch?, JT Austin, WKRR/WKZL, Greensboro, North Carolina, (336) 274-8042
6. Ziggie's Satellite Service, Dan Kirkness, CHVR, Pembroke, Ont., Canada, (613) 735-9670
7. One Director, Don Elliot, KFI/KOST, Los Angeles, California, (213) 427-7236
1. Car Sticker, Chris Reay, BBC Radio Cleveland, Middlesbrough, England, (01642) 225-211
2. Art Bell, Doug Ankerman, WHBC-AM/FM, Canton, Ohio, (330) 456-7166
3. UCLA Bruins, Adam Garey, KCKC-AM, Riverside, California, (909) 682-7493
4. MTV Europe Music Awards, Shane Smyth, North West Radio, Sligo, Ireland, (071) 60108
5. 1999 Real Appeal, Mike Wilcox, Triple J FM, Sydney, Australia, (612) 93332929
6. Y2K Music, Chris Wrapson, GWR Group, Bristol, England, (0117) 9005335
7. WIBC/Dave Wilson, Lonnie Perkins, Perkins & Co., Louisville, Kentucky, (502) 245-8005
8. Jingle Bell Hop, Ron Harper, WWMG-FM, Charlotte, North Carolina, (704) 338-9600
9. Zip Code Game, Johnny George, Susquehanna Indianapolis, (317) 558-7130
10. Strait Concert Reaction, Garry "D", KNIX-FM, Phoenix, Arizona, (602) 966-6236
11. Abstinence, Scott Pollak, WVFJ, Atlanta, Georgia, (770) 487-4500
12. KKLH Workforce, Kat Morgan, KOSP/KKLH, Springfield, Missouri, (417) 886-5677
13. That Swingin' Dr. Laura, Matt Anthony, WTVN-AM, Columbus, Ohio, (614) 487-2532
14. Bike A Day In May, Terry Purcell, Metroradio Group, Halifax, NS, Canada, (902) 453-2524
15. KAT 103/Crypt of Death, Randall Horvath, Vanilla Gorilla Productions, Houston, Texas, (281) 277-7878
16. $5000 Fridays, Dermot O'Neill, KFRC/KYCY, San Francisco, California, (415) 951-2378
17. Ozzy & Harriet, Craig Jackman, CHEZ-FM, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, (613) 562-1061
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CHA! CHA! CHIA! Oh, that was just too easy. And ridiculous. I'll resort to blaming the cocktail. There's something about sipping Rum Chata over ice while composing a blog post that is so...well...creamy. Have you tried Rum Chata yet? It's an oh-so-creamy rum-infused liqueur that has a slight hint of cinnamon and it's made in the Midwest! Rum...made in the Midwest. Yes, please!
You know what else I've been sipping on this past weekend? Wait for it...homemade apple and grape juice! I know! You are slightly dumbfounded right now. Me, too! Homemade. Apple. Juice. All of you with juicers can stop snickering now and welcome me to your world.
My son is determined to drink his weight in apple juice or as he calls it, bap-ple juice. After Dr. Oz tried to scare the you-know-what out of me with his apple juice arsenic claims, I thought maybe I could try making my own juice.
Little Mr. Man has this idea that drinking a gallon of juice per hour is a fun past-time so it might be worth my effort. I digress, but please be sure to check back for my apple and grape juice canning trial and error adventure.
Back to CHA CHA CHIA! Chia Coconut Energy Bites. This is Kid Approved. Mommy Approved. Girlfriend Approved. Its just plain 'ol approved. I found the original recipe in my MOPS group monthly newsletter, but of course...I had to Beck-a-fy the recipe and, as always, it's so far from the original you can no longer even compare the two.
Standing behind my mixing bowl I imagined that chia, shredded coconut, and coconut oil would be excellent additions to the simple recipe. How much chia? Erm...how about 1/4 cup? Yep. That worked. The little seeds burst in your mouth giving a little crunch to these bites. The healthiest crunch obtainable known to man. I dare you to challenge that claim.
The preparation is so painlessly easy. Measuring, dumping, stirring, forming the mixture into balls then pop into the fridge or freezer. No cook time. No oven. I think you could do this blind-folded.
These little bites of goodness are portable and full of fiber, protein and antioxidants. They keep well in the fridge and even better in the freezer, either way, they won't last long because they'll be consumed and turned into endless energy so you can face your day with full-on fabulousity! Get to it!
Gently stir all ingredients together in a large bowl. Using a tablespoon measure or a melon baller, form into bite sized balls by hand. Place bites on a lined cookie sheet and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes to allow bites to firm up. Store in an airtight container in the fridge (up to a week) or the freezer (up to 3 months).


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Apple's iPhone 7 Plus revealed in leak, includes dual-lens camera
Posted Jul 12, 2016	by James Walker
Apple is likely to launch its next iPhone within the next two months. With only weeks to go, a new set of images has revealed the iPhone 7 in full, including the new dual-lens camera and smart connector accessory port for the larger Plus variant.
iPhone 7 Plus leaked images [via nowhereelse.fr]
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The images were uploaded by NWE today. They are said to show an iPhone 7 Plus pre-production dummy unit, detailing its design and the major differences between it and its predecessor, the iPhone 6s Plus.
As rumoured for months, the design is largely the same as Apple's current handset. The phone is crafted from aluminium and finished in a selection of different colours. There are a number of standout differences between the two phones though, notably the design of the upcoming model's case.
Whereas the 6s has visible antenna strips running across the width of its rear, the iPhone 7 finally does away with the unsightly plastic. Instead, Apple has moved the antenna bands to the top and bottom edges of the phone, leaving the rear free of adornment except for the Apple logo.
The change creates a much cleaner back that looks like a single flat sheet of aluminium. There are some important details though, notably the presence of three pins on the iPhone 7 Plus. These appear to be an Apple Smart Connector port, allowing you to attach external devices to the handset.
What the pins will be used for remains unclear. Apple employs a similar system on the iPad Pro to connect third-party keyboards. On iPhone, the Smart Connector could work with third-party cases to create smart cases capable of displaying notifications and alerting you when battery runs low.
Interestingly, Apple appears to be making changes to the layout of the iPhone's physical buttons. The home and volume keys remain in their usual places but the unique mute switch is nowhere to be seen. This could vex long-time iPhone users who frequently silence their phone with the physical switch.
Another major feature shown off in the photos is the new dual-lens camera system. Earlier rumours suggested Apple had shelved the camera due to immature tech but on this dummy unit the double-lens is clearly visible on the iPhone 7 Plus' rear.
The rectangular design appears to be large and bulky, standing out against the flat metal of the rest of the handset. It doesn't match the rest of the iPhone's chassis particularly well, indicating that Apple will either remove it before release or refine the design with future models.
One thing the photos don't clearly show is the phone's headphone port. Apple is widely expected to axe the traditional 3.5mm jack and replace it with a single Lightning connector. The photos do not help to confirm this as none of the angles clearly show the base of the phone.
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are expected to be unveiled in Apple's usual September launch window. Besides the design changes, the new handsets should feature improved performance, faster mobile data connectors and a minimum of 32GB of storage, keeping the iPhone ticking along until next year's rumoured "iPhone tenth anniversary edition."


(1) The odd thing is that since I wrote that piece I've seen that very 1960s vintage appliance two or three times on TV.(2) It's not the latest designer outfit or high-end household appliance - it's technology.(3) It takes a passion for innovation to consistently develop leading-edge appliance designs.(4) It is about the personal appliance of science,ÔÇÖ says the Operations Director.(5) I checked with an electrician who said that appliances thrive in cold, and I placed every appliance in the freezer overnight.(6) Seizing what seems to be an ordinary domestic appliance , he energetically attacks the prostrate form on the table.(7) It is self-understood, however, that the appliance of this rule will depend upon the peculiar laws of each country, and that, apart from legal obstacles, no independent local society shall be precluded from directly corresponding with the General(8) It's the creative appliance of science - and in the hands of a man like David, it can be inspiring.(9) First she might fuse the handle of a domestic appliance with an ergonomic detergent bottle to create an unfamiliar palm-sized plaster sculpture.(10) In its simplest form, it is a data delivery appliance designed specifically for performance, low cost of ownership, and reliability.(11) The appliance of science has not passed cricket by.(12) I remember well, but to go back to the time this handy appliance wasn't part of every kitchen's equipment is practically unthinkable now.(13) At the same time the fact that the European Union has changed directions concerning the support of Greek agriculture, and the appliance of a new Common Agricultural Policy have led farmers into new conditions needing adaptations (and familiarization).(14) It has since become my favorite household appliance .(15) The appliance of science got pupils from across the borough turning into budding Wordsworths.(16) Eventually, a laboratory will be added to the four spacious studios, bringing the appliance of science to the analysis of paintings.
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A related method is ionium—thorium datingwhich measures the ratio of ionium thorium to thorium in ocean sediment. Another minor source of naturally occurring radioactive nuclides are cosmogenic nuclidesthat are formed by cosmic ray bombardment of material in the Earth's atmosphere or crust. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Isotopes are unstable forms of elements. Become a Member Already a member?
Isotopes of elements heavier than boron were not produced at all in the Big Bang, and these first five elements do not have any long-lived radioisotopes.
Asymptotes, Domain, and Range Vector Spaces: Thus, as an event marker of s water in soil and ground water, 36 Cl is also useful for dating waters less than 50 years before the present. The methods work because radioactive elements are unstable, and they are always trying to move to a more stable state. Prentice Hall Earth Science: Older ages in the neighborhood of 4. This converts the only stable isotope of iodine I into Xe via neutron capture followed by beta decay of I. Scientists call this behavior radioactivity.


HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO HOLD A HOLIDAY GIFT SHOP?
In the late 70's and early 80's we introduced the Holiday Gift Shop program for schools that wanted to present the program to include students from a wider range of cultures and backgrounds. This gift program contains no Santa or Christmas type of items. (Winter and snowman are still popular and can be requested.) All of the promotional materials and supplies that are sent home and used in your shop contain our more generic Holiday Gift Shop name and logo. More schools select the traditional Santa's Secret Shop program, though the use of Holiday Gift Shop is increasing.
WHAT TYPE OF ITEMS WILL WE RECEIVE?
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO RUN THE PROGRAM? WHEN DO I PAY?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RUN OUT OF AN ITEM?
WHAT ADDITIONAL CHARGES AND FEES ARE THERE ON THE PROGRAM?
WE'D LIKE TO SEE THE GIFTS, IS THAT POSSIBLE?


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Retro Review: THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (2009){0}
It begins in standard enough fashion: Two young, pretty, obnoxious women get lost on their way to a party, only to stumble upon an isolated house belonging to a certifiable lunatic. That sums up the first 20-some minutes of Tom Six's The Human Centipede, but once we get that familiar fare out of the way … we're treated to one of the strangest, creepiest, and most adamantly disturbing ideas in many a moon. Where most horror films would be content to dole out simple scares or gross dollops of gore, The Human Centipede wants to give you about an hour of sustained discomfort. Perhaps "unease" would be a better description, because despite its rather off-putting premise, The Human Centipede is a shockingly confident mixture of David Cronenberg and Peter Greenaway. And while I doubt I'll be seeing it again any time soon, it also stands as one of the most uniquely memorable horror films in quite some time.
The lunatic, you see, is no mere madman. He is, in fact, a highly-regarded surgeon – who is also a madman. And this is his plan: Take the two girls he just kidnapped and "glue" them to the back of a third captive — thereby creating a "human centipede." Let's just say the surgical procedures involve a few "mouth to anus" skin grafts and all sorts of depraved lunacy. Oh, and then the three victims must waddle around the house, acting as the surgeon's faithful lapdog. Grafted together like, well yeah, a human centipede of sorts.
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Posted on 8 February 2021 by Szymon Bogacz — 9 Comments ↓
Hello again, this is Szymon, a PhD student working on Buddhist logic. In my last post, I talked about the methodological background of my project. Today, I will tell you what Dharmakīrti says about liar-like sentences and how we can turn it into a novel approach to the liar paradox. In next posts, I will discuss some goods and bads of this approach and what it tells us about logical knowledge.
What is the liar paradox? Let's look at the so-called liar sentence: 'this sentence is false.' You can reason from it to a paradoxical conclusion that the liar sentence is both true and false. Here's how this reasoning goes. Consider the first case: the liar sentence is true. Then, what is said—that the liar sentence is false—is the case. So, if the liar sentence is true, then it is false. Now consider a different case and say that the liar sentence is false. Then it is true because that's what it says. So, if the liar sentence is false, then it is true. When these two cases are put together, we see that the liar is true if and only if it is false. If every sentence is true or false, then the liar sentence is both true and false and this is paradoxical.
The liar paradox tells us something important about truth and logic. We cannot consistently believe that truth is simply what is the case, that every sentence is either true or false, and that no sentence is both true and false. Because of the paradox, we need to revise one of these otherwise attractive ideas.
The Buddhist epistemologists I study didn't talk about the liar paradox explicitly. However, they talked about something similar: contradictions with one's own words (svavacanavirodha). Classic examples of such a contradiction include 'my mother is barren' and 'all sentences are false.'
In the rest of this post, I will tell you what Dharmakīrti says about contradictions with one's own words in his Commentary on Epistemology (Pramānavārttika), chapter 4, verses 93-101. This fragment was translated into English by Tom Tillemans in his Dharmakīrti's Pramānavārttika: an annotated translation of the fourth chapter (Parārthānumāna), pages 138-142.
Dharmakīrti says, roughly and in between the lines, that contradictions with one's own words are ambiguous. On the one hand, when you say that 'my mother is barren', you imply that a person you talk about cannot have children. This is what 'barren' conventionally means. On the other hand, you imply that the same person has a child. This is what 'mother' means.
However, you cannot think that one person can and cannot have children at once. For Dharmakīrti, it is impossible to believe contradictions because contradictory beliefs impede with each other. It means that one belief prevents another from arsing in a similar way to which a drought prevents wheat from ripping. For him, the two beliefs implied by the sentence 'my mother is barren' are exactly like this: they impede with each other. Moreover, things in the world cannot have contradictory properties, so even if you were able to believe a contradiction, your belief couldn't be supported by anything real.
The above reasoning has a few gaps. For example, you could argue that not all mothers are biological mothers or that your mother wasn't barren in the past even though she is now. Leaving these immediate problems aside, there is something interesting about the Dharmakīrtian analysis of contradictions.
For Buddhist epistemologists, knowledge is a belief produced in a justified way. If there's no belief that your mother is barren, then there is no warranted belief. Consequently, it's impossible to know that 'my mother is barren' is true. Moreover, it is impossible to know that 'my mother is baren' is false for the same reason. There is no belief expressed by this sentence and so there's no way of showing that this sentence is actually false.
Why is it interesting? Let's think about the liar paradox again. The Dharmakīrtian analysis of the liar sentence—not something Dharmakīrti did but something I think can be successfully done—starts with the observation that the liar sentence implies two impeding beliefs. Firstly, 'this sentence is false' implies that it is false, and, secondly, it implies that it is true. This follows from how we conventionally understand what 'false' and 'true' mean. Consequently, the liar sentence is ambiguous between two interpretations. You can either think that it is true or that it is false but not that it is both true and false. Consequently, the liar sentence doesn't express any belief and so it cannot be known to be true or false.
What's the philosophical upshot of this approach to the liar paradox? There are a few but I will give you just one. Recall that that liar paradox arises because of an argument assuming that the liar sentence is true and that it is false. However, if the liar sentence is unbelievable, then we are unable to make these assumptions. If we cannot assume that, how can we reach the paradoxical conclusion that the liar sentence is both true and false? Maybe, the paradoxical nature of the liar sentence has more to do with what is possible to believe rather than what truth is, as the dominant approaches to the liar paradox assume. If that were the case, we would have a new approach to the liar paradox.
Sadly, it's not all sunshine and roses. Whether the Dharmakīrtian approach to the liar paradox is plausible or not depends on several considerations. For example, it depends on whether it is actually impossible to have contradictory beliefs (I'm far from convinced that it is), whether only sentences expressing beliefs can be known to be true or false (this sounds right to me) and whether real things cannot have contradictory properties (I still don't know!).
These are not the only questions I'm thinking about. In the next post, I will introduce yet another problem with the Dharmakīrtian approach to the liar paradox. It comes from Tom Tillemans and says that we could know that the liar sentence is actually false if we reasoned according to a logical rule that if a sentence implies its negation, then it has to be false ((A → ¬A) → ¬A). Discussing this idea will give us a chance to look into the relationship between Dharmakīrtian epistemology and contemporary logic a bit closer. Stay tuned!
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9 Replies to "Dharmakīrti and liar paradox"
Amod Lele on 9 February 2021 at 2:52 pm said:
Interesting post, Szymon. Thank you. Dharmakīrti's approach as you describe it seems to hinge entirely on the concept of belief: we resolve the liar paradox by saying (eg) "All statements are false" is not a belief. This makes me wonder the next question: what is a belief, for Dharmakīrti? The simple question here is "which Sanskrit word are you translating as belief?", but the more interesting question is what work that word does. It sounds like, for Dharmakīrti, the only entities that can be true or false are beliefs? Why is that – what is Dharmakīrti claiming about the nature of beliefs, or the nature of truth and falsity, that makes that the case? (Put a different way, one could ask Dharmakīrti: would "the cause of suffering is craving" still be a truth if nobody had ever believed it or thought about it?)
Szymon Bogacz on 10 February 2021 at 1:35 am said:
Hey Amod, thanks, these are all very interesting questions. I agree that this approach hinges on what beliefs are. Let me first say a few words about the context of Dharmakīrti's claim that contradictions with own words are unbelievable and then I will answer your questions directly.
Dharmakīrit says that contradictions with own words impede (pratibandhaka)—and I take it to mean that they are unbelievable/don't express any beliefs—while commenting on Dignāga's claim from the Pramāṇasamuccaya III.2cd that an argument has a fallacious subject (pakṣābhāsa) if it is opposed (anirākṛta) by authority (āpta). Dharmakīrit says that the words of authority and its opposing thesis (pratijña) impede and cannot invalidate (bādha) because neither the words of authority nor the opposing thesis can be supported by a valid means of cognition, just like contradictions with own words.
If a speech is a product of warranted inference, then it expresses a cognition (jñāna) that has the triple characteristic. When someone says something false, they express erroneous cognition (mithyopalabdhi) that hasn't been produced in a warranting way. When they state a contradiction with own word, then, I think, they are not expressing any cognition whatsoever. Why? Because, for Dharmakīrti, cognition—erroneous or not—is a unitary judgment (ekapratyavamarśa) and "My mother is barren" doesn't express a unitary judgment because it expresses (abhidhāya, vācinā) a contrary state of affairs (viruddhārtha).
With this picture in the background, I call 'a belief' any cognition that expresses a unitary judgment. This is my answer to your question what work 'belief' does in my post and how it relates to Dharmakīrti's philosophical project. I'm aware that's only a partial answer and I'm happy to say more.
Answering your simple question, "which Sanskrit word are you translating as belief?", there's no single Sanskrit word I have in mind when I say that, for Dharmakīrti, contradictions with own words are unbelievable. I don't think about my work as translating Dharmakīrti but rather making sense of what he says using contemporary terminology.
Answering you comment that 'the only entities that can be true or false are beliefs', I think that only beliefs can be warranted by valid means of cognition and so only beliefs can be known to be true. On the other hand, only beliefs can be shown to be fallacious and so known to be false. I don't think there's anything interesting to say about true and false things that cannot be known to be true or false in the above sense. Consequently, I don't know whether "the cause of suffering is craving" would still be a truth if nobody had ever believed it or thought about it. I know that if someone said that to me, then I would need to go through an inference to establish whether it's true or not.
Hope that helps! I'm very keen to say more, so feel free to keep asking.
Amod Lele on 12 February 2021 at 3:47 pm said:
Thanks, Szymon. I'm interested in trying to get at Dharmakīrti's perspective here. It seems to me that as a Buddhist he would likely be committed to saying the four āryasatyas are in fact satyas, and that they would still have been such before the Buddha thought of them. Do you think that's not the case?
No worries, Amod! That's an interesting question. I'm not aware of any fragments of Dharmakīrti's works where he talks about this problem explicitly (it doesn't mean that there are none!) so my answer will be a bit speculative.
Firstly, āryasatyas are true because they are supported by valid inferences and an inference is valid only if you went through it yourself. So, as long as you haven't inferred that, for example, 'Everything is suffering' for yourself—possibly guided by the words of others—you have no reason to think it's true.
Secondly, 'Everything is suffering' was warranted for someone in the past, before you warranted it for yourself. It was warranted by Buddha, for Buddha. Then, through an uninterrupted tradition, his words reached you and, relying on Buddhists arguments establishing that 'Everything is suffering', you are now in position to infer that for yourself. However, words of Buddha are not a source of knowledge. Only inference is a source of knowledge and Buddha's words, and Dharmakīrti's argument, can only assist your own inferences.
Thirdly, was 'Everything is suffering' true before the Buddha sat under the Bodhi three? Buddha walked a long-forgotten path, and there were Buddhas before him, and they taught the true Dharma, so they taught that 'Everything is suffering'. Because world has no beginning, and there were infinitely many Buddhas in the past and in infinitely many words—I'm doing some very advance Mahāyāna here—there probably was always some Buddha somewhere teaching that 'Everything is suffering'. However, we cannot know that because the deep past and other worlds are so-called radically inaccessible objects (atyantaparokṣa) of inference.
Generally, I think that the question of āryasatyas' truth before someone thought them feels foreign to the Dharmakīrtian framework. What makes it foreign is the nature of Dharmakīrtian truth-bearers. The sentence 'Everything is suffering' doesn't express a proposition: an object having defined semantic properties—truth, falsity, etc.—interpedently of agents and their cognitive lives. Rather, 'Everything is suffering' has semantic properties insofar as it inherits them from someone's belief that everything is suffering. Otherwise, the sentence is just a sound. So, 'Everything is suffering' is true iff you can go through a process of establishing that it is the case. Would it be true if no one went through this process? Maybe, it depends on whether we could infer that. And being able to infer is not different from actually inferring. Consequently, everything boils down to the question to whether there is an inference supporting that 'Everything is suffering', no matter whether Buddha actually taught that.
Let me know if that makes any sense, I wish I had a better answer. I will keep an eye on this question and report back as soon as I will come across anything interesting.
elisa freschi on 2 March 2021 at 8:06 pm said:
This is such an interesting point. To my knowledge, we can now infer the four nobles' truths (or visualise them through yogipratyakṣa), but only because the Buddha first perceived them under the bodhi tree (again, through yogipratyakṣa). I.e., we can repeat his path, but we could not have, had he not seen it as first. A test for this conclusion is the following: We have in many traditions stories about children left in wilderness and being able to come to the realisation of the truth on their own (e.g., Theologus Autodidactus). I remember Alistair Gornall mentioning a similar story in Theravāda Buddhism, leading to the conclusion that the child would have naturally spoken Pāli. But I can't recall anyone in Dharmakīrti's school using this argument to prove that the four nobles' truths are indepent of the Buddha…
Orwin O'Dowd on 16 February 2021 at 12:24 am said:
Szymon,
Can you process belief without possibility, and in contrast, unbelief and impossibility? Modern logic finds one formalism for these, in modal or deontic logic, and I thought the Buddhists took the truth-table a step beyond the intuitionism of the Jains, looking beyond uncertainty to ambiguity, or ambivalence, as inherent to our often wavering convictions. On Dharmakirti in particular, though, I couldn't say.
By the way, on you core research questions, there are crisp answers in Plato: Philebus 14c touches on "common and acknowledged paradoxes" of relative terms, and in Phaedo 102+, these are contrasted to what Socrates is "in himself" (svabhava). And Republic 3, in the middle, after mention of Apollo, gives "long and short" as definitely just metre (Chandas): thus cause and effect like waves on the ocean, as in modern wave mechanics, from Hermann Grassmann, who took it direct to . . . Sanskrit!!
Hey Orwin,
That's interesting but I'm not sure I follow everything.
What do you mean when you ask whether I can process belief without possibility? Do you mean whether I can believe something impossible or whether I can have a belief that's impossible to have? I'm okay with believing something impossible.
What's the formalism you mean? Buddhists philosophers I'm studying didn't use truth tables, neither did Jains as far as I know. That would be a surprise if they did! Could you say more? Also, what do you mean that Buddhists looked beyond uncertainty and ambiguity? What Buddhists?
I know very little Plato but I've just looked into Philebus 14c and it says that "the assertions that one is many and many are one are marvellous, and it is easy to dispute with anyone who makes either of them". Is this the fragment you have in mind? It's interesting but I don't know how it relates with my project.
I don't think Socrates has svabhāva because only dharmas have svabhāva and Socrates is not a dharma. I know nothing about wave mechanics and I don't know who Herman Grassmann is, so I cannot help with that.
Orwin on 16 February 2021 at 12:00 pm said:
With the Jains. it's their mathematics, which was impressive, especially thru the Classical period: just as the impact from Ptolemy was felt, they took the lead in astronomy. with computational methods matching the Greek epicycles. So there you have an understated but genuine formalism: they were pointedly not engaging any ontological questions.
That stance then sets a standard of comparison for Bhuddist logic, but not any way of engaging Buddhist texts. So there I may loose you. The Buddha's own Nyeti Nyeti just gives you neither true nor false, the skeptic position that has been traced thru Pyrrho back to Greece. An inclusive option does surface later as bedha-abedha: doesn't that have a background in the Abidharmakhosa? Or am I mistaken there?
It is worth noticing that correlations work equally positive or negative, and that matters for all phenomenal accounts of causality, and Hume's kind of skepticism.
As for Socrates, he was saying something like his *idea of great *was dharma, as the true kind of standard or cause behind all appearances. That's controversial of course: Platonism mostly denigrates the ideas. But Chrysippus the Stoic was noted saying ideas partake of the infinite, which gets me interested again.
As for waves: at each point you can place vectors representing force and acceleration, as cause and effect: so if cause is not effect. you have the inclusive contradiction, *due to the continuum assumed, and points of representation, which come as infinite limits, or the ideal or spiritual ground discerned by Leibniz. I hope that all helps some way.
Thanks Szymon! May I ask you a methodological question? You write that "Dharmakīrti says, roughly and in between the lines,…". This is, I guess, an experience many of us share: We need to interrogate the text and derive conclusions which are not spelt out. What do you use as a test in order to check whether you went too far and are just doing philosophy creatively, instead of interpreting Dharmakīrti? (If this is at all a concern!)
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Voter suppression as old as the nation
November 3, 2020 6:56 pm by Charity Graham | Staff writer
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To suppress something means to restrain or prevent the development, action or expression of it.
In the United States, a country glorified and known for its extensive freedom and democracy, there are still groups willing to go to extremes to ensure the government is run to their liking. Beyond campaigning for their own beliefs, they will make both subtle and bold attempts to sabotage the voting behaviors of the opposing side.
Voter suppression is not a product of the 21st century, either. It's almost as old as the nation itself.
Before voting rights were universal, they were given to only free white men who owned land, as it was believed that only citizens with a substantial stake in the economy could vote wisely. Flaws in this perspective became more apparent as time went on and by 1850, all white males could vote. The 15th amendment, passed in 1870, gave voting rights to all citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Rather than enforcing this amendment, many Southern states instead enacted Jim Crow laws in 1877 to suppress Black voters. They used tactics that disproportionately affected Black communities, like expensive poll taxes and nearly impossible literacy tests. Black voters were intimidated, discouraged, and bullied, resulting in only 3% of the Black voting-age population being registered to vote in 1940, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Legislation allowing women to vote didn't pass until 1920 with the 19th Amendment. The same for African Americans, men AND women, weren't guaranteed until 1965 with the Voting Rights Act.
More recently, voter suppression has been hidden behind concerns to keep elections secure, fair and clean. Gerrymandering or the strategic dividing and arranging of voting districts skews results and ultimately give one party an advantage over another. Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University, explained how this worked in a recent interview with ABC News.
"[It] either dilutes their vote, or it makes it hyper-concentrated so it dilutes in other places. It's packing and cracking and you can use mathematical solutions to look at a state and look at where people of color are, especially Black people in a particular area distributed throughout the state," Greer said.
The intentional spreading of misinformation is also a method used to suppress voters. Social media will often show maps or polls with one candidate winning by a large margin to provide a false sense of security. President Trump has tweeted about his disdain for mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, stating it would allow "rampant and unchecked cheating" and "induce violence," though there is no evidence of either.
Jaelyn Guyton, FAMU's chief diversity officer, is well versed in the strategies used to keep people away from the polls.
"Voter suppression is Texas limiting mail-in drop boxes to 1 in an entire county. It's Florida requiring you to match your signature. It's the fact that Election Day isn't a federal holiday," Guyton said.
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According to Bernie Spang, director of WebSphere Studio marketing at IBM, the deal "provides an open standard for connecting and integrating applications through the network, whether they're packaged applications or components of applications."
The first application, a customized product made for bank tellers, will be available later this year, Spang said.
SAP, a Siebel rival, recently announced a new product, NetWeaver, that allows SAP customers to use software development and middleware tools from IBM, such as the Java-based WebSphere, as well as Microsoft .Net products.
Siebel, meanwhile, covered its bases by signing a deal in October to tie its customer relationship management software to Microsoft's .Net architecture.
IBM and Siebel did not give specific financial terms of the deal, only saying that there was a commitment to put "hundreds of millions" toward the development over the term of the relationship.
To tout the venture, the companies took out a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal, sending potential customers to an announced joint site.


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Q: Is there an equivalent to java @SuppressWarnings in JSP The question is in the title : "Is there an equivalent to java @SuppressWarnings in JSP ?"

A: Yes, just use:
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A: If you are getting warnings in the code generated from a JSP (or in in-line code in a JSP), one solution is to move the problem code into a Servlet or into a utility class.  That way you can mark it up to your heart's content, and your JSP has less Java code in it.  Win-win!