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'We have to manage this': Carlo Ancelotti after losing Lucas Digne due to injury
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New Delhi, Delhi, India Published: Nov 27, 2020, 10:42 PM(IST)
File Photo: Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti. Photograph:( Reuters )
"I think we will be able to adapt to the loss of Lucas Digne for two or three months".
Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti feels that his squad can cope despite losing their star Lucas Digne for three months.
27-year-old Digne is set to undergo surgery on Monday after sustaining an ankle injury during training this week, leaving the Toffees boss with only the inexperienced Niels Nkounkou as cover.
"It is a big loss because he is one of the best left-backs in Europe at the moment but we have to manage this," said Ancelotti of Digne.
"I think we will be able to adapt to the loss of Lucas Digne for two or three months.
"Three centre-backs can be an option still. We can use (Alex) Iwobi on the left without problem as a wing-back so we will see."
Carlo has witnessed many setbacks in his defensive position as Seamus Coleman is still absent with a hamstring injury and Jonjoe Kenny, while available, is not fully fit.
Ancelotti's 3-4-3 strategy was to help the Englis club's defence. It paid off as the club conceded two or more goals in their past six matches after a bright start to the season.
Everton is set to host Leeds on Saturday. However, the coach admitted that the formation is still a work in progress and there remain issues to iron out.
"Of course we have to be concerned, we have to be worried, because we conceded too many goals. It is too much," he added.
"We are working on this. It is true we scored a lot of goals in these first games, we were really efficient up front and our strikers did really well in this period, but we conceded too much.
"We have to avoid this and we have to have, in one word, balance.
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Q: Android Google Tango Set object position wrt Area Description File Im in this situation, I have an ADF with some 3D object on it (I have the positions of objects saved on DB), now what Im doing is loading ADF,waitting to LOCALIZE and putting 3D objects on it but every time I run the app object appears in different places and I noticed that this depends on the orientation/pose of smartphone when it starts, so in few words how to take in account device pose/orientation and put 3D object in Rajawali3D(graphic engine) with respect to that pose?

A: Under Unity I had the same problem, I fixed it by checking the "Use Area description" in the Tango Pose Controller prefab. What this does, is that it changes the Frame of reference that Tango is using to localize itself: indeed instead of TANGO_START_OF_SERVICE you need to use TANGO_AREA_DESCRIPTION as a base reference frame.

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One thing I learned, was that Luke likes Star Wars, even though the first Star Wars movie came out more than a decade before he was born. Perhaps he envisioned himself as a Jedi Knight. Yeah, he was a fan of this movie genre, just like the rest of us, I guess.
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Small businesses preferred in DoD's search for innovative technology to support nation's security
March 30, 2016 By Andrew Smith
The Department of Defense (DoD) is accepting — until May 3, 2016 — white papers as part of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Fiscal Year 2016 Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF). RIF facilitates the rapid deployment of innovative technologies as a part of military systems or programs that address critical national security needs. DoD is seeking mature prototypes for final development, testing, evaluation, and integration under this program, and awards may be as much as $3 million with two years to perform the work.
RIF places a preference on technology proposals from small businesses, and small businesses may choose to collaborate with universities, large businesses, and other small businesses.
Topics of interest include areas identified by DoD as operational or national security needs, or technologies that will accelerate or enhance military capability or support a major defense acquisition program. Proposals should indicate how the proposed solution:
stimulates innovative technologies,
reduces acquisition or lifecycle costs, or
addresses technical risk.
A broad range of requirements are covered. Examples include:
sensor fusion data systems;
unmanned aircraft system command and control, software test suites, and multi-unmanned aircraft systems;
enhanced forensic analysis methods;
advanced technologies for lighter weight, better performing, and soldier protective equipment;
lightweight and portable power generation and storage systems;
affordable Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) technologies;
additive manufacturing technologies;
enhanced space situational awareness;
advanced data analytics;
cybersecurity;
medical informatics and telemedicine; and
counter-unmanned aircraft system capabilities.
Due Dates: An amendment to the RIF that provides answers to questions posed to date will be posted on FedBizOpps by April 15, 2016. Proposals consisting of a three-page white paper and quad chart are due by 3:00 PM (EDT) on May 3, 2016. Invitations to submit full proposals are expected by September 15, 2016, and awards are anticipated by January 3, 2017.
Total Funding and Award Size: Total funding available for RIF awards is $250 million in FY 2016. In previous years, about 2,000 white papers were submitted, and of those submitted between 150 and 200 were asked to submit full proposals. About 100 awards were made annually, primarily to small businesses, and teams led by small businesses, at an average of $2.1 million. Awardees are given 24 months to complete their funded efforts.
Eligibility and Limitations: The competition is open to all businesses and academic institutions capable of satisfying the government's needs. Emphasis is placed on source selection of technologies from small businesses or teams with small business participation.
Sources and Additional Background:
A presentation on the FY16 RIF, including examples of projects selected in the past, can be accessed at: http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/RIF_Overview_Mar2016.pdf
The full solicitation can be found on FedBizOpps by searching for "HQ-0034-16BAA-RIF-0001" or at https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/WHS/REF/HQ0034-16-BAA-RIF-0001B/listing.html.
More information on the FY 2016 Rapid Innovation Fund can be found at http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/rif.html.
The proposal submission links are available at https://www.dodrif.com/.
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Géry is een gemeente in het Franse departement Meuse (regio Grand Est) en telt 54 inwoners (2009).

De plaats maakt deel uit van het kanton Bar-le-Duc-1 in het arrondissement Bar-le-Duc. Voor 22 maart 2015 was het deel van het kanton Vavincourt, dat die dag werd opgeheven.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Géry bedraagt 4,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is dus 11 inwoners per km².

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Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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AT&T U-Verse and DirecTV subscribers will continue to receive Starz, as both companies recently signed a new distribution agreement. This will allow DirecTV and AT&T subscribers to access and watch popular contents from Starz such as Power, Outlander, and all other Starz and Encore programs.
In a recent SEC filing, Starz reported about a deal with AT&T, which followed long-running negotiations between the two companies. AT&T will get the rights for Starz and Encore channels through this new agreement. Reports also indicate that A&T has also taken up equity stake in Lionsgate, and Lionsgate has guaranteed AT&T to pay three annual installments of $16.67 million after completing their merger with Starz.
Lionsgate also admitted that they have signed a recent multi-year agreement with AT&T and DirecTV to cover the electronic sell-through (EST), pay-per-view and transactional VOD. However, financial details regarding the Starz-AT&T deal and on AT&Ts separate agreement with Lionsgate are not yet disclosed by the companies.
In an investor note, Barton Crockett, FBR & Co. analyst mentioned that Starz gave AT&T a "big double-digit step-down" to renew their deal. He added that the deal between AT&T and Starz was a "jarring outlier", when compared with other deal extensions negotiations done by AT&T.
Starz also revealed that their network revenues would have gone down by $46 million in last year, if they had the new AT&T/DirecTV deal. They also added that their network revenues would have been lower than $20 million, if the deal was in place.
AT&T has also signed separate deal with major companies such as HBO, Scripps Networks Interactive, NBCUniversal, and Disney. These channels will be available in all three streaming services from DirecTV, which is set for launch by the end of the year.
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The Chalk Circle Man, by Fred Vargas
Originally published as L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus, 1996
247 pp.
translated by Siàn Reynolds
While his crew of co-workers are trying to figure him out, the new commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg settles into his job in the Paris police force in the 5th arrondissement. Adamsberg started his police career in the "stony foothills of the Pyrenees," where another inspector told him that he wasn't "cut out" to be a policeman. But that was before he went on to solve several murders in the area, was promoted to inspector and then commissaire. When the job in Paris was offered to him, he grabbed it. Showing up to work with clothes in disarray, doodling all day, working largely on gut reaction and intuition, and moving very slowly, he didn't fit into what Adrien Danglard, one of his inspectors, considered to be the regular policeman mold.
This entire novel, like Adamsberg himself, is rather quirky, but the commissaire is just the tip of the iceberg. There is an assortment of offbeat and unusual characters that populate this book (more later), as well as a rather peculiar set of crimes that occur, all beginning with someone who draws blue chalk circles throughout the city, leaving different articles in each one: one day it's paper clips, another day it's a lamb-chop bone, and yet another a swimming cap, etc. And around each circle is written the same phrase: "Victor, woe's in store, what are you out here for?" The chalk circle phenomenon has become so widespread that the newspapers have a field day:
People will soon be jostling for the honour of finding a circle outside their door on the way to work in the morning. Whether the circles are the work of a cynical con artist or a genuine madman, if it's fame he's after the creator of the circles has certainly got what he wanted. Galling, isn't it, for people who've spent a lifetime trying to become famous? ... If he's ever tracked down, they'll have him on a TV chat show in no time (I can see it now: 'The cultural sensation of the fin-de-millenium'. (23)
But Adamsberg senses that there's more, and orders Danglard to have a police photographer out in the street to photograph the circle that he feels will come that night. And Adamsberg's intuition serves him well, as the harmless chalk circles escalate into murder.
Besides Adamsberg, who while doing his job is always thinking about his lost petite cherie Camille, a woman with a pet marmoset named Richard III, the author has created some other rather off-the-wall characters. Mathilde Forestier is a famous oceanographer whose hobby is following people around the city. Living with Mathilde is Clémence Valmont, her seventy-something year-old assistant, whose teeth remind Mathilde of those of crocidura russula, and to whom she often refers as "shrew mouse." Clémence spends her evenings combing the personals, looking for romance, and going out on pointless dates. There's also Charles Reyer, blinded when he was dissecting a lioness to study its locomotive system, and was squirted in the eye with rotten flesh. (Seriously -- I couldn't make up this stuff if I tried.) And finally, there's Adamsberg's colleague, Danglard, whose wife left him with two sets of twins and a child from a love affair. He's a good cop, but he also has a sense of compassion that doesn't stop, to the point where he worries about the sun dying in five billion years. Danglard, who has a bit too much to drink now and then, often holds "case conferences" with his kids, where he discusses police work and allows them their own voices in "theorizing" about the crimes.
Vargas allows her characters to develop their own approaches to understanding Adamsberg's nature, but in the end, it's Reyer, the blind man, who says it best:
He just gets on with his life, letting it all swill about, big ideas and little details, impressions and realities, thoughts and words. He combines the belief of a child with the philosophy of an old man. But he's real and he's dangerous. (103).
And indeed, the commissaire turns out to be both.
When I read crime fiction or mystery novels, I'm not so much interested in the "who" but rather the "why," as my primary interest is in that well-worn cliché about the evil that lurks in men's souls. I look for motivations and underpinnings in the criminal's psyche in determining the why. I'm a puzzle solver and this type of fiction (if written well) appeals to that part of me. I also examine how the crime is solved. And then I decide whether or not an author has fulfilled my expectations in those categories. I must say that Vargas sends all of that flying right out of the window -- she has written a very unusual novel with a highly eccentric cast of characters that are so odd that in a rather bizarre sort of way, they become very real. A conventional mystery/crime fiction novel takes you on a path in which certain things are expected to happen, and as a reader, that's what you look for, and then you're mildly surprised with whatever plot twist may happen to get thrown in toward the end. But Adamsberg and company are anything but conventional. The author lulls you into thinking along the lines of "it's this person, no, it's that person, but wait, that's also possible," and eventually it's "who can I trust in all of this?" But as you get into the possibilities of it all, Vargas comes up with an ending that hits you like the proverbial ton of bricks. And I liked it.
The Chalk Circle Man was well written. There's no real sense of a guiding road map anywhere and the characters are so eccentric that they appealed to my sensitivity to the quirky side of life. While it may be a bit frustrating for most readers of general crime fiction with all of the philosophical outpourings from time to time, it's good. There is just nothing conventional about this book, and I think that's part of it its appeal. Most highly recommended.
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Live: The Ingenious Maude Maggart at the Oak Room
by Will Friedwald
Maude Maggart, who recently opened a five-week run at the Oak Room, has a sweet and pretty voice, but this is at most a secondary attraction. There are plenty of singers in New York clubs who can out-sing her, but none who can out-think her. In fact, there are precious few playwrights on Broadway who can dream up more ingenious ways to link existing songs into a musical collage. Drawing upon widely varying styles and traditions, Maggart's shows are more like a one-woman Off-Broadway show than a typical cabaret set. Singing the subtext as much as the notes or the lyrics, she creates a kind of Jukebox Musical of the Gods.
Her opening three numbers are the most suspenseful part, wherein we try to figure out how one song links to another, and where the whole thing's going. By utilizing Alec Wilder's "Be a Child" (in which she touches hands with members of the audience in an exaggerated child-like manner), her late mentor Marshall Barer's anthem of dislocated identity "What's My Name," and Steven Sondheim's "Beautiful" (which, in her interpretation, is not necessarily about beauty, but about transformation as a perpetual state), the overall arc of the evening reveals itself to be a meditation on how our families and our experiences (particularly our first loves) shape our notions of self, and how those notions constantly change thereafter. "The Songs of Barry Manilow," it ain't.
A Maggart show is also like a collector's-edition DVD, complete with Easter eggs for the hardcore song nerds in the house. She leaves it for us to notice, for instance, that "Billions of Beautiful Boys," Barer's jubilant celebration of ménage-a-trois, is, in fact, now in 3/4 time. Rodgers and Hart's 1926 rarity "A Little Birdie Told Me So" (the title refers to an unwanted delivery from Mr. Stork) is further animated when Maggart takes the lyrics literally and, as Lorenz Hart suggests, "illustrates the meaning with her hands," not to mention bird whistles.
Maggart (whose little sister, Fiona Apple, was present at her opening last Tuesday) maintains a careful balance between traditional cabaret fare, show tunes, and standards, not to mention material rarely heard in the Oak Room, from the Incredible String Band to the Roches to Dolly Parton. She also presents both sides of an issue: a tale of a selfish parent and a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship, Babbie Green's "No Way, Jose" is counterbalanced by "Coat of Many Colors," Parton's parable of a self-sacrificing mother. Maggart makes it clear that both viewpoints are correct — there aren't many cabaret singers who remind me of Nietzsche's famous line about how there are no truths, only interpretations. (It sounded better in German.) Here, interpretation is everything. As an encore, she hits us with Irving Berlin's "Moonshine Lullaby," making me realize that the Annie Get Your Gun opus has everything: parental love, tenderness, and controlled substances.
Maude Maggart performs Tuesday through Saturday at the Oak Room through May 23. Yeah, that's right, we do cabaret reviews too. In journalistic parlance this is called "going to your left."
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Andrew Pari, LCSW, Diplomate, has been identified as the "nation's leading authority" on the neuro-biological arousal mechanism in sexualized violence. Founder and Director of Sexual Assault Awareness, LLC, he is a psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience treating survivors, including specialized populations in the sex industries and victims of trafficking.
Andrew's path to this point is a winding one, reflective of his passion and focus on "the human gaps." What is unseen and undiscussed in human behavior captures his attention. At 15 years old, he saw a documentary on CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children), what was then called "teen prostitution." It opened his eyes to a part of life he knew nothing about. These were girls his age, forced into a life they didn't want, often because of harms committed by others. This was the beginning of a life dedicated to reducing harm and understanding the complexity of human sexuality.
His naturally quick mind and desire to live in the moment led him on a path through stand-up comedy, improvisation, two degrees in psychotherapy, director of emergency psychiatric response for L.A. County, inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy and all the while, providing dedicated care to women suffering from abuse and sexual assault.
A Q&A on the undiscussed topic of sexual arousal in sexual assault on a popular social media site catapulted him to the national stage when he was invited to present his unique work at a survivors' conference. This led to his presenting his psychotherapeutic and forensic concepts at some of the most prestigious conferences in the country and abroad, including End Violence Against Women Int'l (EVAWI), Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) and, of course, the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS), where he was fortunate to meet the founders of Kink Knowledgeable.
Andrew consults and trains forensics and mental health professionals internationally, is available for expert testimony, and has assisted in curriculum development for SARS and campus sexual assault awareness programs. He is one of the NASW's "1000 Experts," selected to respond to media inquiries/interviews on trauma, sexualized violence, and disaster response. He serves on a national task force creating policy for sex work and commercialized sex trade. He directed the psychiatric emergency response team for West Los Angeles, responding to anything from celebrity interventions to airline crashes. He is a clinical supervisor, a trauma-informed clinician trained in multiple models of trauma recovery, and versatile trainer.
Mr. Pari hosted the largest ever public discussions on topics related to sexual abuse and rape. He is a moderator for forums on rape and recovery. He is a sought-after speaker, co-creator and former host of the Los Angeles radio show, Chasing the Why, where he covered a wide-range of social topics from the Japanese tsunami disaster to the international SlutWalk movement, and accomplished performer.
His personal interests include acting, directing and performing improvisational comedy, an area where he also provides self-care training to fellow clinicians to assist them in thinking on their feet and extending their Gestalt and therapeutic drama skill. He is the recipient of a Los Angeles regional theatre award for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird," and devoted Hamilton fan. (Ask him to shoot off a round of "My Shot")
He received his Master of Social Work degree from California State University, Long Beach in 1992, and currently practices, trains, and consults as Director of Sexual Assault Awareness, LLC.
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January was a bit pants on the running front. I've been training, mostly on the treadmill with a couple of speed repeats and long runs thrown in but nothing substantial outside. I have also fallen on ice a few too many times, think slightly-heftier-less-elegant-more-sweary Bambi.
The Hypo Half is on Saturday and I'll be glad to get 21.1k in.
Stay tuned for the race report next week so we can all see how it turns out. Your guess is as good as mine!
It's Groundhog Day tomorrow! What a brilliant tradition this is. We've been to Punxsutawney, PA for further investigation. These photos are from 2008. Phil evidently lives in his burrow in the library when not prognosticating. That's my kind of job.
Yes, "winging it" is a strategy. Just not a terribly good one, though better than nothing. Have fun in the race next week!
Looking forward to reading your race recap & seeing more pictures! I think Hypo Halfs are designed for winging it!


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A Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Over 300 entries
This dictionary provides a useful overview of the wide array of political structures and systems that comprise the contemporary Middle East. From Turkey through Iraq and Iran, to the Arabian Peninsula and the states of North Africa, it includes up-to-date definitions of political organizations, key political figures, and important developments, as well as region-specific concepts such as Majlis, academic terms such as rentier state theory, and events such as the Arab Spring.
It is an essential reference resource for students taking courses or modules in politics in the Middle East or broader subject areas such as politics, history, economics, and international relations with a specific focus on Middle Eastern politics.
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Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, author
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, PhD, is a Research Fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, an Affiliate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Working across the disciplines of political science, international relations, and international political economy, his research examines the changing position of Persian Gulf states in the global order as well as the emergence of longer-term, non-military challenges to regional security. Previously, he worked as senior Gulf analyst at the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies between 2006 and 2008 and as co-director of the Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 2008 until 2013.
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A Trump administration ban on bump stocks — devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull — was struck down Friday by a federal appeals court.
By Jessica Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 9, 2023 - 10:03 am
Updated January 9, 2023 - 7:22 pm
A bump stock is displayed on March 15, 2019, in Harrisonburg, Va. A Trump administration ban on bump stocks, devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull, was struck down Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
People visit a makeshift memorial honoring the victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on Nov. 12, 2017, in Las Vegas. A Trump administration ban on bump stocks, devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull, was struck down Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The ban was instituted after a sniper using bump stock-equipped weapons massacred dozens of people in Las Vegas in 2017. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Nevada's congressional delegation expressed disappointment with a federal appeals court ruling that blocked a ban on bump stocks — which was prompted after the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas that killed dozens of people — and urged their colleagues to pass legislation banning bump stocks themselves.
In a 13-3 ruling on Friday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans struck down the Trump administration's ban on bump stocks, devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull.
The ban was prompted after a gunman shot down festivalgoers from his hotel room at Mandalay Bay, using bump stock-equipped weapons to kill 60 people and injure hundreds, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The court's decision does not immediately affect the ban, as it next moves back to the lower court.
It also could go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who has co-sponsored legislation to ban bump stocks, said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that she was "deeply disappointed" by the appellate court's decision.
"There is bipartisan agreement that these dangerous devices — which were a factor in the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in my hometown of Las Vegas — should be prohibited once and for all," Cortez Masto said.
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, whose agency when he was Clark County sheriff investigated the Oct. 1 shooting, said in an emailed statement to the Review-Journal that he has been a vocal opponent of bump stocks and was disappointed in the court's decision.
The gun lobby has repeatedly challenged the legality of bump stock prohibition in the courts since it was enacted in 2019, said Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., in a statement to the Review-Journal.
Titus urged her colleagues to pass her Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act, which would subject bump stocks to regulation under federal firearms laws by classifying bump stocks as machine guns.
The New Orleans-based court's decision to block the ban of bump stocks was based on an interpretation of federal statutes and the definition of machine gun.
Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote in the lead majority opinion that a bump stock is excluded from the technical definition of "machine gun" set forth in the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act, although the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says a bump stock is part of the definition of machine gun, a position that the Biden administration is defending.
"A judge's rule over a 'technical definition' will cost lives," Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., said in a statement. "Congress needs to pass a ban on bump stocks — and we need to do it now. Of course, there's so much more we can do to end our nation's gun violence crisis, but we know that bump stocks can turn mass shootings even deadlier and they're used to skirt federal law. The Las Vegas community knows all too well the horror of mass shootings and we need to do everything we can to stop the scourge of gun violence in America."
Titus' legislation, which would settle the dispute over the definition of a bump stock, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2022 and was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, but it was dropped in the Senate.
"Although Congress has been unable to take action to outlaw this dangerous product, the (Trump) administration's rule provided at least a glimmer of hope in our fight to end some of this senseless gun violence plaguing our communities," said Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., in a statement.
Horsford said he would continue to work with his colleagues in the House and Senate to find a solution, although he hopes that the Supreme Court will weigh in and allow the Justice Department's ban to stay in place.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said in a statement she will keep fighting for action in Congress to permanently ban bump stocks and continue recent progress on reducing gun violence.
Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., was unavailable to comment.
Contact Jessica Hill at jehill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @jess_hillyeah on Twitter. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Thousands of California businesses have fled Golden State for Las Vegas
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Am I Bisexual? – 17 Signs That You Might Be Bisexual, From Real Women
Posted On : September 24, 2019 Published By : Liam Johnston
If you've been active on Twitter today, you've probably seen the hashtag #BiVisibilityDay floating around in your feed. That's because today, September 23, marks the 20th annual celebration of Bisexual Visibility Day, which started in 1999 as a way to create awareness around the bisexual community.
Today is not only for celebrating and learning more about the bisexual community's history, culture, and identifying individuals, but it's also a chance to inspire education and acceptance around what it means to be bisexual—especially considering only 5 percent of bisexual youth report being "very happy," compared to 21 percent of non-LGBTQ+ youth, according to a survey done by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Bisexuality isn't an exact science, and the experience for one individual may look very different from one person to the next. According to the HRC, a bisexual person is someone who can be attracted to more than one gender. But while some people who are attracted to multiple genders may identify as bisexual, others may instead refer to themselves as pansexual, queer, fluid, or not use a label at all.
To recognize Bisexual Visibility Day, we spoke with 17 women who can recall a pivotal moment in their lives: the instance when they knew they were bisexual. Remember though: There's no sort of checklist that can determine whether or not you're bisexual. You can identify (or not) in whatever way that empowers you—regardless of whatever gender you are or aren't attracted to.
1. "I came out when I was 26. I had been with only men up until that point, with really no happiness. One day my sister was joking about dating and said: 'You'll find the right guy. Or girl. Who knows?' and suddenly, something just clicked in my head. After I realized I could date both men and women, I felt significant relief and couldn't stop smiling." —Cassie, 28
2. "When I was in my 20s in college, I went to see our school's production of Hairspray with my friend. The second I laid eyes on the actress playing Penny, a lightning bolt went through me. I started to daydream about meeting her and asking her on a date—things I used to only associate with men. That moment was the first time I could really imagine romance with a woman. I googled 'bisexual' that night and the rest was history!" —Alyssa, 28
3. "I was about 12 years old and watching the music video for 'Toxic,' by Britney Spears, when I noticed it made me feel…funny. Afterward, I was very confused because I knew what bisexuality was, but I thought it had to be a 50-50 divide on attraction and I didn't feel any attraction to the women in my life. News flash: It doesn't. It wasn't until I was 16 that I decided to label myself as bisexual." —Maddie, 26
4. "I knew I was bisexual when I was 15. I had curious thoughts about women for years, but I thought it was just me wanting to be friends with them. When I was younger though, I was a big Glee fan, and that show introduced a lot of female relationships that I hadn't seen before. I think just being exposed to those really popular pairings made me realize that I wanted what I was seeing, but I was also still equally boy-crazy. Once I realized I wanted a dog and a white picket fence with a girl, that's when I really knew I was truly bisexual." —Michelle, 23.
5. "At 24, I met a girl and found myself not only fantasizing about kissing her, but actually dating her too. You know, like waking up with her in the morning, cuddling on the sofa, etc. I remember standing and looking at her talking to a friend when I realized that I would not make an exception for her, I was just bisexual." —Christin, 33
6. "I was probably 12 when I realized I had feelings for both men and women. However, I didn't understand what that feeling was. I was always very intimidated by other girls in my grade, and I never understood why—but looking back, it was definitely because I was attracted to them and shoved that to the side. My senior year of college though, I was crushing hard on one of my friends and it was very apparent to me what that actually meant." —Laurel, 24
7. "I don't know if there was a specific moment.…It was more a short period of time in which I realized I had my first crush on a girl—but in a way that I thought was normal until I understood not all people felt that way." —Lauren, 21
8. "I identified as straight until I was 29. There was one summer when I developed a crush on three women, and one of them ended up being my first girlfriend. We dated for three years. I didn't really label my sexuality at that point, but I knew I wasn't straight anymore. After that relationship, I dated somebody who was trans and non-binary, so I started learning more about bisexuality and started to embrace that I'm attracted to people of many genders." —Cally, 35
9. "I realized at probably 13 that I might like girls when my best friend at the time got her first boyfriend and I felt so heartbroken and jealous. I always just accepted that I could be attracted to both men and women and haven't questioned it since!" —Samantha, 25
10. "I knew deep down that I was bisexual since puberty, as I was fantasizing about women—even though I had always been attracted to boys from a very early age. So when I got to high school, I started experimenting with girls. Throughout school, I was hazed by other gay friends of mine who insisted I was a lesbian, but I knew I wasn't. Eventually, I met my now-husband. Coming out to him was the hardest thing I have ever done but the most liberating." —Becky, 27
11. "I was 20 or 21 when I came to terms with it. I was on a bus and a hot girl came on and I thought, 'I'm probably gay; that's it.' Then a hot guy came on and I was like, 'Woah, pretty sure lesbians are not this attracted to men.' So then came the light-bulb moment where I realized I was bi and there was no explanation needed." —Lorenna, 23
12. "I always had boyfriends when I was younger, but I think that was because I knew that's what girls were supposed to do. I've definitely always liked men and women, but I didn't realize my feelings toward women until my friends bought me a Paris Hilton CD and when I saw her on the cover, I was like, 'Oh, shit, I like girls too.'" —Laura, 23
13. "I went to an all-girls school, and in 8th grade, I was standing in line behind one of my best friends for a Halloween haunted house. She was dressed as Michael Jackson in a white dress shirt and black pants. I felt incredibly attracted to her and realized in that moment I liked girls as much as guys." —Jayne, 33
14. "I fell in love with a woman at 18, but I didn't feel comfortable with the idea that all my dating relationships up to that point were merely compulsory. Realizing that neither the straight nor the gay/lesbian labels fit me was my first experience as a member of a marginalized group. Then, I joined a community for bisexual women and the group shaped me personally and professionally. My first marriage was to a man and my second and now current marriage is with a woman." —Alison, 45
15. "There wasn't one specific moment when I realized I was bisexual, but I think I realized it when I was 17. I had been dating this guy, but I found myself clinging to his best friend. She and I would make out occasionally, but I told myself it was just to get the attention of guys around us. Eventually, I realized I had a crush on her. When I look back at that moment, I felt relief. I finally had a word to describe the way I adored other women when I was younger." —Abbey, 22
16. "There were hints throughout my life—my love of the The L Word, my involvement in gay rights, the way I couldn't keep my eyes to myself when I was at the beach and girls were in bikinis. I was finally able to admit to myself when I went to a strip club and sat at the rack and was like, 'Yup, I'm bi.' I made an OkCupid profile shortly after and then started coming out to my friends and family." —Tabby, 30
17. "I first knew I was bisexual when I was 17. I was supposed to visit my friend at her house on the weekend and she called me to tell me who was going. She told me her twin sister was bringing her girlfriend, but I was a little surprised to know she had a girlfriend. I asked my friend about it because I had always known her sister to be the 'boy crazy' type, and she nonchalantly said her sister was bisexual. I thought about the conversation all week and realized that was the word I had been looking for my whole life." —Sam, 21
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50 Years of the Liberation of Bangladesh
Elora Shehabuddin
Ayub Khan
East Pakistan
Language Movement
Bengal Renaissance
Women's Activism across the Wings of Pakistan
Collision amid Collusion and Cooperation
This paper examines the history of largely understudied women's rights activists in the early years of East Pakistan. While they collided with West Pakistani activists—and the central state—on matters of culture, identity, and political and economic issues, they actively cooperated with West Pakistani counterparts to fight gender discrimination and to demand reform in women's rights from the state.
On 26 March 1948, just months after the independence and partition of India and Pakistan (and, coincidentally, 23 years to the day before East Pakistan would declare its own independence from Pakistan as the new sovereign nation of Bangladesh), over 6,000 women from all districts of the eastern wing of Pakistan descended on the northern town of Mymensingh. They were there to attend the East Pakistan Muslim Women's Conference. Beneath the new green and white national flag of Pakistan, the proceedings began with all the participants singing Pakistan Azaad (the official national anthem of the new Pakistani state, Pak Sar Zameen, was yet to be written). An 18 April article in the Bengali-language magazine Begum (then still based in Kolkata, it would move to Dhaka in 1950) described how, over the course of three days, the conference participants addressed a variety of issues, ranging from the need for women to have a voice in formal politics, especially in the preparation of the country's new constitution, to demands for better and more educational and vocational institutions for girls and women, to the urgency of addressing the improper interpretation of Islamic doctrine that prevented women from praying in mosques and imposed on them a strict seclusion rather than merely the modesty called for in the Quran. Finally, they called on educated Muslims to eradicate misguided social practices, develop a blueprint for an egalitarian society in accordance with Islamic rules, and keep at bay the "impure climate of communism" (Begum 2006: 648–50).
While this articulation of demands by organised Bengali women is certainly a significant milestone in the history of women's rights activism in the new nation, what is striking about its timing is that the gathering occurred within a week of a controversial speech in Dhaka by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. On 21 March 1948, Jinnah had informed a crowd of some half a million people in Dhaka that "the state language of Pakistan [was] going to be Urdu and no other language." Bengalis had protested vociferously, energising the bhasha andolan or language movement that had been simmering already for several months (Jinnah 1948; Umar 2004: 14–35). And yet, as we saw, just six days after Jinnah's speech, thousands of Bengali women—of whom only a small number would have belonged to Bengal's small Urdu-speaking elite—sang the Urdu national song of Pakistan in unison at the Mymensingh conference.
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Updated On : 30th Oct, 2021


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The company's committed to investing in people, exploration and technology. We want to be the best by constantly seeking improvement and greater teamwork. Yet, we haven't articulated a clear human resource strategy linked to our strategic business objectives. We have management problems and we have industrial relations problems — all are human resources related. The Industrial Union of Mining Workers is strong because we are not doing a good job of managing our people. The union manages our workers, not us. Our managers have abrogated their HR management responsibilities. For heaven's sake, the union tells us who we can hire, if we can use contractors or not, whether we can fire someone. We can't do anything without getting the union's permission.
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As we approach the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, a thought to remember:
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
A voice, a chime
A chant sublime
Then from each black accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
"God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!
Aristotle on Animal Thought
In the great majority of animals there are traces of psychical qualities which are more markedly differentiated in the case of human beings. For just as we pointed out resemblances in the physical organs, so in a number of animals we observe gentleness or fierceness, mildness or cross temper, courage or timidity, fear or confidence, high spirit or low cunning, and, with regard to intelligence, something equivalent to sagacity. Some of these qualities in man, as compared with the corresponding qualities in animals, differ only quantitatively, that is to say, a man has more of this quality, and an animal has more of some other; other qualities in man are represented by analogous qualities: for instance, just as in man we find knowledge, wisdom, and sagacity, so in certain animals there exists some other natural capacity akin to these.
Aristotle, Historia Animalium 8.588a16-26. Thompson & Barnes translation.
Death of a Thousand Qualifications
A very odd article at MSNBC about Gregory Paul's argument that there is a correlation between religious belief and sociological dysfunction. It claims that the argument of Paul's article is sound; except that its methodology is inadequately explained, its data possibly unreliable, and, contrary to his explicit complain only to be establishing correlation, his discussion in the paper appears to presuppose a causal link. But it's still sound! Whatever that means. But this may in part be misleading journalism. In his response to his critics Mr. Paul manages to sound a great deal like a caricature of a pseudoscientist:
Paul said such questions were beside the point. No one has persuasively challenged his raw data or what they demonstrate, he contended; if other scientists don't believe him, they can do the research themselves. That's how science works.
"No one's shown what I did was wrong," said Paul, who said he was planning to write a book on the subject. "They tend to go off on tangents."
Since one's credentials, the reliability of one's data, the adequacy of one's statistical methodology, the sloppiness of one's presentation of the results, and the logic of one's inferences from the analyzed data (the major points for which he has been criticized) are here being lumped together as 'tangents', I'm left not knowing what Gregory Paul's view of science is.
(HT: prosthesis)
Boyle on Humane Treatment of Animals
In an early manuscript (probably late 1640s, when he would have been about 20), Robert Boyle put forward a number of arguments in favor of the humane treatment of animals. One of them was the Sabbath argument. Boyle notes that the Sabbath was instituted in part for the benefit of domestic animals:
Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
He also notes that when God tells Jonah why he spares Nineveh, he mentions the cattle;
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?
Other arguments Boyle gives are that animals feel pain; that we can't rule out the possibility that animals have immortal souls; that because animals only have sensory pleasures and not our power for abstract pleasures, we should take into account in our treatment of them that their sensory pains are not sweetened by abstract pleasures about what the future will bring; that creation glorifies God; that those who mistreat animals get a bad reputation and develop bad habits; that animals are God's property and not ours; that they have value in themselves independent of their use to us (as shown in the fact that God had Noah save even the noxious animals; that, since there may be an excessive fondness for beasts, we have no reason to deny that there may be a deficient fondness for them as well; and that our Christian charity should be as broad as all creation.
Somewhat ironically, in later life Boyle was a vivisectionist, and tends to avoid the issue of humane treatment of animals.
Out to the Horizon, Part II
[This is a bit late; I kept intending to put it up, but kept forgetting. Part I is already up.]
After a few more shudders of the earth, the Unforgiving Mountain subsided again. It had happened quickly but, as when the lightning strikes the tree, marring it forever, the damage had been done.
She could not return to the village; that would be death. Nor could we remain where we were. All those hours in which we had dreamed up plans of escape flashed through my mind, and in the harsh atmosphere of recent events, they all dissipated like clouds. They were nothing but idle dreams of prisoners in an inescapable prison. Half the island was impenetrable jungle, all of it surrounded by vast, rolling hills of sea-surf; over everything, a tireless sentinel, the Unforgiving Mountain held vigil. Wherever one looked the gods of the Mountain held sway; wherever we could go they could pursue us with their vengeance, unresting, unrelenting, and no remission of guilt or sin was possible to us. We both knew this; and with knowledge came the sapping of hope.
I tried to set these thoughts aside. Whatever happened, i knew I must do whatever was needed to distract her from despair, to make some space, however small and slight, for a genuine hope. Perhaps also, still not understanding the brutality of the mountain-gods, I hoped, in giving her hope, to find some hope myself.
I seized her hand, holding it to my heart, whispering encouragements in her ear, sealing each encouragement with a small kiss. It was all in vain; for as I held her hand the gods of the Unforgiving Mountain began to take their most terrible vengeance. The hand I held grew cold; her body grew still. I pulled away and froze in fear. From head to foot where my beloved had been was solid stone, as if some demonic hand had perfectly carved her form into a stone from the Mountain.
The moment passed, and her flesh quickened again, but we both knew it would not last. She burst into tears; I pulled her close to me, fighting tears myself. Every so often she would turn to stone again; and each time she was stone longer. In desperation we tried to do what seemed our only option: we held each other closely, in order to spend the last moments awake, catching every heartbeat of the other. But the mountain-gods were not so kind. As we lay trembling in fear they sent forth an atmosphere of heat and humidity so great that it dragged us both to sleep. We fought, but to no avail. The gods had determined that we would lose even our last moments together, and we fell asleep.
When I awoke, she was no longer there. With a cry of trepidation I rushed out of the hut, and saw, with a terrible chill up and down my spine, what I had most feared. I flew forward and fell at her feet, which were washed by the careless waves. She stood looking out to the sea, her hair flowing back as if blown by the wind. It was not the wind that blew it, however, for she was stone, through and through, and with the coldness of stone she stood unacknowledging as I wept at her feet. So she stood forever, cold and immutable, looking out to the horizon.
Turretin against Traducianism
Francis Turretin, arguing that the human soul cannot be traduced:
The soul is propagated by generation, either from both parents or from one only; either as to its totality or only as to a part. But neither can be said. Not the former because thus two souls would coalesce into one and be mingled. Not the latter, for if from one (either the father or the mother only) no reason can be given why it should be propagated by the one rather than by the other (since both parents are equally the principle of generation). If the whole is propagated, then the parents will be without it and so will be deprived of life. If a part, it will be divisible and consequently material and mortal. Nor can it be reasonably replied here that neither the whole soul nor a part of it is propagated, but a certain substance born of the soul and (as it were) an immortal seed of the soul. For it is taken for granted that there is a seed of the soul by which it either generates or is generated; yet such a seed cannot be granted (which does not fall from the soul), and therefore proves it to be material and divisible.
One way to break down the argument is as follows.
1. Assume the soul to be propagated.
2. Either it is (2a) from both parents or (2b) from only one.
3. (2a) implies that two souls are coalesced or mingled into one.
4. Therefore not (2a).
5. If (2b), no reason can be given why it should come from one rather than the other.
6. Therefore not (2b).
7. The soul is propagated either (7a) as a whole or (7b) in part.
8. If (7a), conception would deprive the parent(s) of life.
10. If (7b), the soul would be divisible.
11. Therefore not (7b).
12. Therefore the soul is not propagated, with contradicts (1).
For the background on traducianism, see the Catholic Encyclopedia article on it.
Compensator Theory
An interesting post at "Magic Statistics":
Toward a sociology of atheism
The most common efforts toward a sociology of atheism attempt are versions of secularization theory. Secularization theory tries to correlate the rise of atheism in society with a feature like education, economic prosperity, etc. The chief problem with just about every secularization theory is that it fails to account for the United States, which on secularization theories generally turns out to be a massive and unintelligible anomaly. (Nor, it should be said, is the United States always the only problem. The United Kingdom, for instance, which is much more secular than the U.S., nonetheless is still more religious than one would expect on most versions of the secularization theory, which often have difficulty explaining why the U.K. is more religious than, say, Germany or France. Ditto with Canada. But the big one, and the ultimate rock on which secularization theories tend to break, is the U.S., which is in a category all of its own.) In the post above, Scott Gilbreath points to an alternative to secularization theory that I hadn't heard of before, namely, compensator theory. The idea is that religion functions socially as a set of compensators: compensators are "postulations of reward according to explanations that are not readily susceptible to unambiguous evaluation" and supernatural explanations are among the most general compensators, i.e., they compensate for a wide variety of different rewards, and to a very high degree (think of Pascal's Wager). In the absence of a desired reward, people tend to accept explanations that posit a way for that reward to be fulfilled. Now, since compensators are explanations that give hope of rewards that are deferred or abstracted from immediate practical considerations, people naturally have a tendency to prefer immediate rewards to compensators. Compensators play an important role in social function, because they give a means for us to give aid to another even when we are not physically or financially able to do so. One thinks of prayer in this sort of situation -- someone unable to provide help to another may nonetheless offer to pray for them; belief that the prayer is doing some good, or that the prayer may be taken as a sort of genuine assistance, is a compensator. A dying man may prefer an immediate cure; but failing that, may very well be heartened at the fact that someone else is praying for him. Compensators also play an important role in psychological functioning. A parent worried about her lost child may well pray for the child's safety as well as look for the child; the prayer is a powerful compensator for the fact that the parent can't immediately produce the child at will. Such a compensator might (e.g.) help the parent avoid despair long enough to find the child and keep him safe. Compensators play a role in all our lives; and religion provides a set of compensators that are very broad in scope.
On a compensator theory of the rise of atheism, atheism will tend to arise in situations where people don't feel any need for compensators: that is, among people who are prosperous, have most of their needs taken care of, and have relatively few social obligations. In such a case there is relatively little practical use for compensators: even on the supposition that theism is true, for instance, a successful single man with no strong family ties in a developed country with a good welfare system and a relatively safe environment has very little in his immediate, practical, daily life that would require compensators as broad as theism potentially provides. Most of his practical needs are relatively easily fulfilled; and thus religion isn't as salient a factor for ordinary life. It's an interesting alternative. (I seem to remember that Freud somewhere has a very crude version of this, but I might be misremembering.) How well it accounts for the facts is a tricky issue, as Gilbreath points out. But it's a matter of some interest.
UPDATE: Miriam in the comments points to Callum Brown's The Death of Christian Britain as another proposed alternative to standard secularization theory. Brown's thesis is apparently that Christianity in Britain began to collapse in the 1960s due to a shift in women's sensibilities; since women were a major mainstay of British Christianity, and they were no longer finding it a useful way of seeing the world, the whole thing collapsed.
Liar, Liar II
In Buridan's Sophismata, we find the following interesting case:
I posit the case that I utter this proposition "I am speaking falsely" and no other.
The sophism is proved, since in so speaking I speak either falsely or truly. If I speak truly, then it is true that I speak falsely. Thus the sophism is true. But if I speak falsely, then the case is as I say. Therefore, I speak truly, and therefore the sophism is true....
The opposite is argued, since if the sophism were true, it would also follow that it was false, and so it would be both true and false, which is impossible. The conseuqence is proved, since if the proposition is true, then it is true that I speak falsely, and so what I say is false. And yet it is posited that I say nothing other than that sophism. Therefore, it is false.
It will be noted that this is very similar to the insoluble (L) I briefly discussed in my last Liar, Liar post. As Buridan goes on to note, this sophism cannot be resolved without considering the reasons for which a proposition is said to be true or false. After discussing a large number of issues with regard to supposition and insolubilia, he comes back to this sophism with his answer:
I answer that the sophism is false, because from it and the proposition expressing the case, a false proposition follows. Yet since this proposition expressing the case is said to be true, and that false, what thus follows is that the sophism is both true and false at once. But a proposition is false, from which, together with its truth, a false proposition follows.
And the arguments for the opposite are answered, according to what was said earlier. For it is said that if it were false, it would follow that it is true. I deny that consequent. And you proved it because if it is false, then it signifies. I agree, with respect to the formal signification. But this is not sufficient because it reflects on itself. For because of this it is not true, for it is not as the consequent of it and of the case signifies. For that consequent is that A is true, positing that my proposition is properly named A. and it is not as this signifies: "A is true."
This is a bit dense, but I think we can provide a very simplified answer to the sophism along Buridan's lines. The key point of Buridan's answer is that (if we make A = the proposition "I am speaking falsely" when nothing else is spoken) if A is false, it does not follow that it is true. One way you can see this is to recognize that a contradictory proposition is the very paradigm of falsehood. Even contingent falsehoods can be regarded as those propositions that generate contradictions on the supposition of something true. So the fact that there is a contradiction in A is no more a problem than the fact that there is a contradiction in 1+1=3. It only looks like there is a problem, because we are misled by the self-reference into thinking that A (or L in the previous post) supports the inference that if it is false it is true. All it supports is the conclusion that A is false, because it implies something false or impossible.
[Burdian translation from John Buridan, Sophisms on Meaning and Truth, Theodore Kermit Scott, tr. Meredith Publishing, 1966.]
'You should not look a gift universe in the mouth.'
The American Chesterton Society has a new blog. A bit of Chesterton's wisdom about philosophy (from his book on Shaw):
Philosophy is not the concern of those who pass though Divinity and Greats, but of those who pass through birth and death. Nearly all the more awful and abstruse statements can be put in words of one syllable, from 'A child is born' to 'A soul is damned.' If the ordinary man may not discuss existence, why should he be asked to conduct it?
And one of my favorite sentences in Chesterton, from The Common Man:
The best reason for a revival of philosophy is that unless a man has a philosophy certain horrible things will happen to him.
Traversing the Infinite
A very interesting discussion of whether the infinite can be traversed is going on at Philosophy, etc. I'm inclined to agree with some of the commentators that the common 'calculus' resolution of Zeno's paradox isn't a resolution of the paradox at all -- it's simply a restatement of the situation (that there is a finite interval whose traversal would take an infinite series). It's true that such situations really do exist; but that's the whole point of the original paradox, which Zeno directed against claims that a real, physical infinite divisibility was possible. As Hallq says in the comments, we don't seem to be able to get the claim that we can traverse an infinite; just that we can traverse any arbitrarily large finite series. But there are arguments that might be raised against this conclusion. Go and check out the discussion.
Simplicitas
Johnny-Dee has an interesting criticism of the doctrine of divine simplicity at FQI; naturally, I disagree with it, as you can see in the comments, but it's interesting. John always has a knack for putting things in a clear and straightforward way. [UPDATE: John has a follow-up post.]
There are a number of different ways in which the doctrine of divine simplicity can be formulated, but for dealing with criticisms like this one, the most useful is the logical approach. (It isn't a very useful approach for positive arguments for the doctrine, but it is very useful for showing how common criticisms of it fail.) A term within a proposition, like 'omnipotence', has a certain signification -- in this case, one involving power. It also has a supposition, i.e., a reference to something. So, for instance, when I say, "God is omnipotent," 'omnipotent' supposits for that in God which is supposed to be omnipotent. (In general, there are three kinds of supposition: material, simple, and personal. In material supposition a term supposits for itself, e.g., 'The word 'omnipotent' has four syllables'. In simple supposition, a term supposits for a universal or abstract quality or form, e.g., 'Omnipotence is a kind of power'. In personal supposition, a term supposits for that of which it is truly predicated, e.g., 'This omnipotent is God'.) Now the doctrine of simplicity put in these terms is just the following:
For any divine-attribute terms A and B, that for which A supposits is exactly the same as that for which B supposits.
Seen in that way, most criticisms of divine simplicity dissolve entirely, because they can be shown to confuse sense and reference. That's not to say it's a cure-all; there are objections it doesn't meet. But most of the criticisms that try to show that the doctrine involves some serious incoherence are themselves confusing signification with supposition. The deeper problem is that most critics of the doctrine (and some suppporters) don't recognize that the doctrine is, in fact, a step in negative theology. It does not make a commitment as to the real character of the divine substance; it merely denies that certain distinctions, and terms indicative of these distinctions, cannot properly be attributed to the divine nature, whatever the divine nature may be.
In any case, here is the comment I left at FQI, which I post here because it says something also about the importance of immutability:
I've never been impressed by Plantinga on simplicity; I think he's just confused on the subject. Part of the problem is perhaps the mistaken idea that the modern label 'property' introduces any precision into the discussion -- in fact, the reverse is true, because the modern notion is a catch-all, not a sharp notion. There is no generally conceded modern account of what properties are, and common usages typically lump together a number of things (accidents, properties, natures, sometimes even relations) that the medievals would regularly have kept distinct, and for good reason. The medieval discussion, which is usually in terms of signification and supposition (roughly, sense and reference) is much better.
When we put it in these terms, I'm not convinced that the problem arises. What is identical is not (say) perfect love and omnipotence; rather, what is one and the same is that to which we refer when we talk about God's love and His omnipotence. Now, nothing in this implies that the effects of the divine love and omnipotence are necessarily same across all possible worlds; only that, necessarily, in every possible world, that to which 'omnipotence' refers is one and the same as that to which 'divine love' refers. (That's why the truthmaker approach noted in a comment above is more promising than any property approach. The problem doesn't arise on a truthmaker approach, either, as far as I can see.)
It also seems to me that your argument isn't really against simplicity at all, but against immutability. But immutability isn't necessity: that God's will is immutable doesn't mean that it couldn't be otherwise than it is, but that there is nothing to which it is potential (i.e., there is nothing capable of making God actual in any way, because His will is actual prior to any candidate for making it actual). In other words, God's immutability doesn't contradict his freedom, but preserves it, by making it impossible for anything other than God to limit it. As Aquinas says somewhere, immutability is the strength of God; and Aquinas is right: it's the negative complement of divine strength, in the sense that it is the negation of what could limit divine strength or cause divine weakness. Eliminate the one, you eliminate the other.
Literature and Understanding
An interesting discussion on literature and understanding the worldviews of others in this post and its comments: In Defense of Narnia. Lewis himself says similar things of Lucretius's poem, which, of course, tends atheistic.
Of Proverbs
One can recognize a number of patterns in proverb-types. Here are a few:
The biggest group consists of what might be called feature proverbs. Feature proverbs contribute to our mental profile or paradigm ofa given type or characteristic; they identify some aspect or feature that should be remembered. Feature proverbs can be divided in a number of different ways. Some literal ones are indicative, e.g., Hatred stirs up strife; but love covers all sins (Pr 10:5); some are predictive, in the sense that they identify not a mark but an effect. Others are less literal, edifying similes and metaphors, e.g., As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so the sluggard to those that send him (Pr. 10:26). Whereas literal feature proverbs tell, the figurative ones evoke: The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly (Pr. 26:22).
Others are what I call rather proverbs. They differ from feature proverbs in that they indicate right preferences, and are thus always comparative. For example:
Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. (Pr. 15:16)
Open rebuke rather than secret love. (Pr. 27:5)
Yet others are paternal or magisterial exhortations, e.g., My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent (Pr. 1:10); Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them (Pr. 24:1); Open your mouth, judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and needy (Pr. 31:9). The point of such imperatives is to save us from error based on the long experience of others, which may or may not be given a formulation in the imperative itself. They are straightforward counsels.
Another kind of proverb is the query proverb; they are rhetorical questions whose point is not to tell but to press the one addressed to form their own insight. (Not all questions are query proverbs; some are other forms of proverbs in question format. The distinctive aspect of a query proverb is that it leaves the insight to the hearer, whereas question-format feature proverbs, e.g., don't.) While there are a few in the book of Proverbs, they aren't common; for a bit of wisdom literature that makes rather effective use of them, see the epistle of James.


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It is exciting to hire a new team member and enjoyable to give the person the good news. Unfortunately, it is difficult when the situation is reversed and you must give a person the news that you will not be hiring her. The key to a "no-thanks" letter to an applicant is an honest approach that praises the candidate on what she did well and gives her helpful ideas for how to improve her approach for her next job interview.
Address the applicant by his full name, such as "Dear John Jones," rather than a generic "Greetings" or "Hello." Express your appreciation for his time and interest in the company.
Explain your decision to hire another candidate for the job. Be honest in your email about why you did not choose the applicant. For instance, let him know if you decided to choose another person who had more experience or a stronger educational background.
Praise something specifically that the applicant did well in her interview. If she was extremely well-spoken, for instance, you should compliment her on that. Keep the letter as positive as you can considering the situation.
Suggest an area in which the candidate can improve. He might need to practice answering typical interview questions in a clear manner or, perhaps his resume might need revision to make it more concise and geared to the open position.
Tell her you will keep her resume on file if you plan to do so. Omit this part of the email if you have no intention of considering her for a future opening.
Conclude your letter with another expression of appreciation and a "best wishes" for future endeavors. "Sign" your email with your name and position in the company.
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Maintain a professional tone throughout the email. Don't get "chatty" with unnecessary or personal comments.
Respond promptly so the applicant can move on with his job quest. Start on your "no-thanks" letters as soon as you make your hiring decision.
Get to the point of your email quickly. You do not want an applicant to have to wade through a bunch of platitudes before she discovers the position is not going to her.
Do not encourage the applicant to "call with any questions," because you might become engaged in awkward phone calls during which you are compelled to explain your hiring decision in more detail.
Lisa Mooney has been a professional writer for more than 18 years. She has worked with various clients including many Fortune 500 companies such as Pinkerton Inc. She has written for many publications including Woman's World, Boy's Life and Dark Horizons. Mooney holds bachelor's degrees in both English and biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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