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Q: Orthogonality of integer shifts and sum of fourier transforms A function $\psi \in L_2(\mathbb{R})$ is orthogonal to all integer shifts of a function $\varphi \in L_2(\mathbb{R})$ if and if only
$$\sum_{k\in \mathbb{z}} \hat{\varphi}(\xi+k)\overline{\hat{\psi}(\xi+k)}\equiv0$$

My approach:
$\int_{\mathbb{R}}\psi(t)\varphi(t+k)dt=0$ $\forall k \in \mathbb{Z}$ given. Now
\begin{align}
&\sum_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\int_{\mathbb{R}}\psi(t)\exp(-2\pi i (\xi+k)t)dt \overline{\int_{\mathbb{R}}\varphi(s)\exp(-2\pi i (\xi+k)s )}ds\\
\implies &\sum_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\int_{\mathbb{R}}\psi(t)\exp(-2\pi i (\xi+k)t)dt \int_{\mathbb{R}}\varphi(s)\exp(2\pi i (\xi+k)s )ds\\
\implies &\sum_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\int_{\mathbb{R}}\psi(t)\varphi(s)dsdt \int_{\mathbb{R}}\exp(2\pi i (\xi+k)s )\exp(-2\pi i (\xi+k)t)dtds\\
\end{align}
The last step I am not so sure, I think this can be done if s and t are independent. I am open to further suggestions or corrections and ideas regarding how to proceed.

I got a hint from the prof that we need to use:
$$\varphi(\xi)=\sum_{k\in \mathbb{Z}}|\hat{\psi}(\xi+k)|^2$$
$\{\psi(t-k)\}_{k\in \mathbb{Z}}$ is a orthonormal system if and only if$\varphi\equiv1$

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Posted: April 8th, 2011 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
Back in February, director Stephen Norrington (Blade, Extraordinary Gentlemen) was packaging "The Crow" reboot in order to begin pitching the film to studios and other investors. The goal was to begin filming this summer.
Relativity has now announced that it is moving forward with a reboot of "The Crow," with "28 Weeks Later" helmer Carlos Fresnadillo on board to direct. Shooting is set to begin this fall.
Originally a 1989 comic book miniseries by James O'Barr, "The Crow" spawned a number of graphic sequels, four feature films and a television series.
Fresnadillo's version will focus on Eric Draven (played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film), while Norrington was planning to use a completely different character.
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Cinemaisdead writes:
on April 8th, 2011 at 5:33:08 AM
Hope the lead actor on this one makes it through the production.
jdl107 writes:
Ah, I like this. This movie has gotten one thing going for it.
Lol @Cinema
Rambo writes:
@cinema
in that case maybe shia labeouf would be a good chioce
Freudian_Nightmare writes:
Even though I like the choice of Fresnadillo, I still don't like the idea. The Crow is perfect on its own. I might be proven wrong, but I hardly think they can surpass the original.
boogiel writes:
Hollywood need to stop messing with The classics. Brandon Lee is Eric Draven. 'Nuff said.
BadChadB33 writes:
As Brandon spins in his grave. R.I.P.
zyban03 writes:
I hate to see this...Hopefully they'll do it justice.
FIRE IT UP!!! FIRE IT UP!! FIRE IT UP!!
Also, one of the best soundtracks of all time. IMHO
captnhowdy writes:
very true, this is film had one of the best soundtracks out there...
i wonder why you never see any soundtracks coming out like this one had any more?
would be great, if films were treated like events again
rabid writes:
on April 8th, 2011 at 10:54:51 AM
Works for me. Never did understand why people worship Brandon Lee so much. He was a pretty sh*tty actor. Amazing that nepotism still works 20 years into the grave.
I'm hyped for this project. I'm a huge fan of the Crow in all his comics. There are plenty of great interpretations left to tell. All it has to do is escape it's own gothiness.
Jakey Nightmare writes:
this HAS to be alot better than the 3 and 4 sequels of the movies.
minkowski writes:
on April 8th, 2011 at 12:18:56 PM
"All it has to do is escape it's own gothiness."
The Crow without it's gothiness would be basically...RoboCop.
Zeroguy writes:
on April 8th, 2011 at 2:06:11 PM
The original was good. And this director is okay.
Sleuth1989 writes:
@Rambo
If Shia LeBouf was cast I myself would bring Brandon Lee back to life like in the movie just so that frikkin' piece of no talent won't destroy another franchise and then blame everybody later on to cover his own butt.
And this time, Brandon Lee will hunt the guys who tried to kill his character with crappy actors.
SeWerin writes:
Is this director the f*cker who didn't like and threw away Nick Caves awesome R rated script?! If it is - well f*ck you sir!
And watch The Proposition
@ minkowski
The Crow comics are dark and hellish, but not so much Goth. You have to admit it doesn't matter how much black leather you wear, nobody looks tough fighting to a Cure song.
Never read the comics, Rabid, but I can imagine what the first film would look like if you stripped away the gothis ambience. Very drab and fairly generic.
Besides, if I want non-Goth hellish action, there's always End of Days or Constantine.
trailertrash writes:
Or Little Nicky
Trip Maverick writes:
I hope James Obarr gets his money for this one. They f*cked him over on the last one.
I think he sold the film rights off, but he's still going to make a killing on the graphic novel reissues, and it will be great advertising for his new series "Sundown".
The trailer for that looks very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2arweEJ6Q1c&feature=player_embedded
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on April 10th, 2011 at 1:03:33 AM
so it's a sequel ala um the sequels.........
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Metaphysical Imagination
From The Philosopher, Volume CVII No. 1 Spring 2019
Carl Jung surrounded by books in his study. A popular quote attributed to Jung gives the flavour of why Michael Moran elevates him to a key modern metaphysician: 'Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.'
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION?
By Martin Cohen
If the Philosophical Society of England has few claims to have actually produced any 'philosophy' over its 100 years or so, it has at least some associations. One, of course, is its historical link to the journal, The Philosopher, which originally existed to print the work of members, but now serves thinkers far and wide, and another, perhaps rather surprising one is to this book. Because Michael Moran says (in a closing note) that early versions of many of the chapters were read out to 'the Sussex Circle', a group of philosophers, hosted by Brenda Almond, loosely inspired by the 'local groups' tradition of the society. And indeed I myself had the pleasure of attending one or two of these circles and meeting Michael Moran there who was always, as he would explain, 'in the process' of writing his account. For me at least, this brought to mind the comment of the great Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard about the great projects of philosophers:
'The System is almost finished, or at least under construction, and will be finished by next Sunday.'
Kierkegaard's point being, that philosophers do not in fact ever achieve what they promise, and their great systems remain always in the process of being completed.
And yet here at last is Michael Moran's 'system', or at least key parts of it, completed just before his death in 2016. The book has been self-published and no doubt it is too long to be suitable for a commercial press, and it will probably find only a small readership. But in this Moran is in a long and reasonably honourable philosophical tradition: much the same was true for Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and even Hume, although of course the writings of all these later reached the widest possible audience.
And all these are also unconventional thinkers, as too, it turns out, is Moran. He frequently challenges philosophical conventions, defenestrates sacred cows and freely puts on pedestals alternative figures such as J.S. Mill or José Ortega or even C. J. Jung. He recalls a letter by the painter Friedrich Pecht (quoted in Ronald Taylor's 1983 book on Wagner) describing how he visited Wagner one day in Dresden only to find him:
'... passionately absorbed in Hegel's Phenomenology, which he assured me with characteristic extravagance, was the best book ever published. To prove it, he read me a passage that had particularly impressed him. I did not completely follow it, so I asked him to read it again. This time, neither of us could understand it. He read it a third time, then a fourth, until in the end we looked at one another and burst out long laughing. That was the end of phenomenology.'
Similarly, figures such as Heidegger, Derrida and Foucault likewise are regularly accused of 'various kids of obscurity and obscurantism' and in the process harming the cause of philosophical clarity. Nonetheless, Moran describes at length some of Hegel's ideas, particularly in the area of aesthetics, and the question of the origins of his famous 'dialectical' theory. After all as Moran puts it, ultimately 'what I think matters most in our engagement with any thinker is our own considered response to their works'.
However, to understand what drives philosophers to make their claims also requires us to first work out what need it serves. Because, as he quotes John Dewey in a revealing opening epigraph:
'Philosophers are part of history, caught in its movement, creators perhaps in some measure of its future, but also assuredly creatures of its past.'
It is in a bid to see a little further, that Moran asks to include the ideas of the psychologist Carl Jung. Jung was, he points out, 'determined to look in to the forbidden areas' of human thought, and sought always to project a message of open-mindedness and the need to avoid either scholasticism or 'preaching', both of which aims Moran salutes while warning that the inverse tendency presents 'serious dangers at the present time'.
This then is the context of the work: a book not for 'fellow academics' but rather for 'individuals who are deeply concerned with ideas'. Thus revealing that he sees the two groups as belonging in separate categories.
The essays in this volume are chosen to focus on thinkers who similarly have embraced ideas. Plato, for paradigm example, is a thinker who seems to have embraced the imagination, or 'insight' as it is more usually allowed. Apart from the rather obscure analogies of the Cave and the Line, there is the passage in the famous 'Seventh Letter' in which 'philosophical knowledge is not to be achieved solely by discursive, dialectical means but by a kind of vision', as Moran puts it, rather formally. But then, warming to his theme, Moran explains:
'From the time of the founding of the Platonic Academy at Florence in 1462 to the appearance of Bacon's Novum Orangum Scientianum (1620) almost every major thinker discussed the question of the function of the imagination in philosophical, theological and magical knowledge.'
Indeed, Paracelsus, remarks Moran, 'sometimes writes as if he thinks magia and imaginatio might be etymologically related terms', before adding: 'Sense perception and reason are the cognitive organs of the physical body; imagination that of the sidereal body.'
As for Plato's 'big idea' of mathematics as the key to unlocking the universe, Moran sides with Francis Bacon and others who sees thinkers from Pythagoras to Descartes (but surely on to today's quantum physicists) 'approaching nature with preconceived notions of its harmonious mathematical structure' and ending up with theories that are little more than 'the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer'.
That's the phrase of Francis Bacon, in a text called Globi Intuallectualis. It is for detail such as this that Metaphysical Imagination is both to be valued, and also critiqued, as the book stretches on for nearly 800 pages with little sense of the needs to select the essential from the merely interesting.
But back to the nature of science and Moran notes too that Didérot substitutes the notion of scientific intuition for scientific induction, saying that the great scientific insights came about from an instinct or feeling - an esprit de divination - for what would be their fruitful conjecture. (Indeed this is the idea also explored in Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander's book Surfaces and Essences: Analogy As the Fuel and Fire of Thinking published in 2010.
Actually, their book is also something of a magnum opus of 500 or so pages and yet Diderot himself makes not a sole appearance there despite having asked, very relevantly, in the 18th century:
'Is not experimentation often preceded by a supposition, an analogy, a systematic idea which experiment will either confirm of destroy?'
Anyway, it is interesting to be reminded that Kant (who himself was a respectable scientific thinker, indeed arguably a better scientist than a 'philosopher') worried that scientific investigations have the character not of a pupil who listens to everything the teacher chooses to say, but rather of a judge who 'compels the witnesses to answer questions he has himself formulated'. Even Martin Heidegger is praised (and Moran is generally a critic) for having upgraded imagination 'virtually to the level of metaphysical cognition', the 'formative ground' of 'ontological knowledge'.
However, if the role of imagination has been increasingly marginalised by both philosophers and scientists, so too has much else. Context and starting points, definitions and intentions have all been curiously ignored in the study of not only the history of philosophy but that of science. Moran recalls how Plato, for example, was studied at Oxford in a curiously artificially constrained manner. 'What is X' would be the topic of a seminar, and a singly passage of Plato would be examined from the particular perspective of one paragraph of one of his dialogues, with the rest of the dialogue let alone other ones, let alone an assessment of the wider context, simply ignored.
And yet, asks Moran, what was Plato really doing in asking his 'What is X' question'? What did he actually mean? These huge issues were simply not raised, instead Plato (and the other ancients) was treated as an honorary member of the circle of contemporary thinkers. Yet, as another writer, Peter Hubral, has detailed, in fact what Plato was doing was very different and had much more to do with a vanished mysticism than any modern linguistic analysis.
In consequence, Moran notes, his professors were often guilty of 'assuming the future' and reading into the ancient texts ideas and beliefs that did not become explicit until later. In the words of Quentin Skinner, a great many scholars imagine that they are approaching texts historically when in reality they are not being historical at all. It is the Hegelian Folly (we might dub it), where:
'… the whole of Western philosophy is viewed, with unprecedented narcissism, as culminating in Hegel's own system..'
And it is a folly where instead of celebrating books that are 'works of witchcraft' from which are conjured up all kinds of disturbing and provocative images (as Anatole France urges us to celebrate) instead books have become things that produce 'the sort of arrested attention that makes us state into space'. (This phrase is that of France's younger compatriot, Paul Valéry.) Or as Goethe once put it, 'certain books seem to have been written not in order to afford us any instruction, but merely for the purpose of letting us know that their authors knew something'.
Likewise the view that a learned reading of a text is 'the only important sort of understanding' and that unauthorised, perhaps 'deviant' responses and interpretations are worthless has become normalised. Moran condemns this approach, and he is surely right to do so. Indeed, a cursory glance at the lives of many great thinkers and innovators find them drawing inspiration from just such idiosyncratic responses to things that they have read.
Michael Moran notes that the empirical philosophies of the Anglo-Saxon tradition reflected the close links of their thinkers to the developing ideas of science, whereas over on the European Continent, writers like Hegel existed in a semi-feudal situation of sovereign principalities barely touched by the industrial revolution. And that where Hegel and Kant were professors, many of the British philosophers had a parallel life in the world of affairs: John Locke worked as an administrator for the government, Hume as both a diplomat and a civil servant; John Stuart Mill as a colonial administrator. If the British warn of their philosophers living in 'ivory towers', it is surely worse to find the Russian-born French philosopher Alexandre Kojève writing in 1946:
'It could be that the future of the world, and therefore the meaning of the present and significance of the past, depend on the last analysis on how one interprets Hegel's philosophy.'
Indeed, writing this review now at a time when the talk everywhere is of the 'rise of populism' and the threat to liberties, it is telling to find Mill warning over a century ago of the dangers to democracy of the ignorance of the masses (particularly about economics and international relations) and the ease with which organised groups can manipulate voters preferences and shape their beliefs.
It is reassuring to think that Mill's own reading of history is that there is trend towards the better, but this is tempered by his conviction that progress is not steady but rather piecemeal and erratic. But more to the point for Moran's book, is that Mill like so many of the continental thinkers saw a relationship between the dominant philosophy of the time and the political realities. It is not clear however, whether it is as Marx put it, that the ideology is the superstructure of the economic ship, or whether on the contrary, the ship emerges from a philosophical blueprint. Nonetheless, it seems sure that Moran thinks philosophers should be addressing such realities rather than engaging in parallel 'language games'. Words like 'being', for example, (which seems to have been most effectively explored not by the philosophers in their heavyweight tomes at all but rather by Lewis Carroll in his humouristic explorations of nonsense such as Alice in Wonderland) and also everyday terms like 'green' or 'bald' (as in Russell's endless explorations of the issues surrounding the claim that the present-day King of France is bald'). Moran comes down heavily on the vast edifice of 20th century linguistic philosophy, exemplified by Russell's efforts to provide ordinary language with a supposedly more rigorous logical syntax, saying flatly:
'What is remarkable about this convoluted procedure is that at no point does Russell face the simple fact that most of us have no difficulty in finding proper names and definite descriptions meaningful, even when - and here are many cases of this - they refer to imaginary, fictitious, or mythological entities.'
And he adds, one can well understand why Oxford Professor of Metaphysics, Peter Strawson, worried that Russell's translations of ordinary language expressions into more rigorous logical form might strike many people as 'pointlessly perverse'.
The Philosopher's verdict: 'Many' useful warnings about the complexities of simplistic thinking.
Metaphysical Imagination: and Other Essays on Philosophy and Modern European Mind
By Michael Moran
Fastprint 2016
ISBN-10 : 1784563161
Labels: books, Jung, metaphysics, Michael Moran, scientific method
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WHY IS THERE
NOTHING?
By Muneeb Faiq
Three centuries back, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued, 'The first question that should rightly be asked is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" Martin Heidegger, in his book What is Metaphysics asked somewhat the same question: 'Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing?' Philosophers and thinkers have acknowledged this proclamation and agreed with Leibniz. This question invokes a deep inquiry which is perhaps among the fundamentals of human thought structure. While this question is among the first questions to be asked, I argue that it may not necessarily be 'The First Question' per se. Why not? The answer may appear to be absurd at the outset but, as Albert Einstein maintained 'if at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it' so let us, nevertheless, inquire.
Give a readymade universe for physics, it will make sense of all that is going on up to the precision of first trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. But ask why this universe and why these laws - and it mumbles miserably. Physics has been afflicted by the pathology of a never ending paradigm since millennia which persisted through Greek theories, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, general theory of relativity as well as Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics. String theory and inflation theory also seek refuge under the same umbrella. The paradigm is 'Universe is a continuum of states evolving as per certain laws'. This paradigm never addresses the questions: Why a universe? Why does anything exist at all? Jim Holdt puts it in an neat perspective maintaining that contemporary physics at its best replaces God with a set of laws (laws not too different from God Himself) when it comes to bursting of the Universe into existence from nothing. He articulates that the original theological equation of 'God plus nothing gives rise to Universe' has been transmogrified by cosmology into something like 'Laws (of physics) plus nothing yields the Universe' - or Multiverse (or Multiverses if you will).
Despite stubborn efforts to remove God from the equation, Lawrence Krauss's book, A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, could not live to its expectations. His book is a peculiar demonstration of the persistent handicap of this sort. That is why David Albert came up with a negative review of Krauss's book to which Jerry Coyne appears to agree to an extensive scope. Krauss's own acquiescence presents far better a testimony when he enunciates 'I don't ever claim to resolve that infinite regress of why-why-why-why-why; as far as I'm concerned it's turtles all the way down'. Sean Carrol also says 'Nothing about modern physics explains why we have these laws rather than some totally different laws, although physicists sometimes talk that way- a mistake they might be able to avoid if they took philosophers more seriously'. George Dvorsky claims that there are certain questions that we will never be able to solve and the first question in his list is 'Why is there something rather than nothing?'
A caveat should be presented before we move on. How many things in total are there which we can collectively call 'everything'? That begs the question; how do we define a thing? What is a thing? Physics has a contextualised definition of a thing (that is what we adopt in the present paper) which may or may not superimpose with the definitions in other subjects. If a thing is a thing if we can think or talk about, then anything that we can refer to as thing is a thing. This way, 'everything' turns out to be difficult to imagine because things can be real, they can be imaginary, they can be possible, they can even be impossible (an impossible thing may also be a thing), they can also be existent and also be non-existent. Nothing can also be a thing, nonetheless.
The question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is based on two fundamental suppositions viz. there is something rather than nothing and 'something' and 'nothing' are different entities. The first question should be the one that does not need to invoke any assumption. In the case of 'The Question' in focus, the underlying beliefs are:
(1) something exists (or nothing does not exist) and
(2) something and nothing are distinct entities.
While "something exists" might appear to be profoundly obvious and intuitive, there is no raison d'être to hold this belief. Before accepting Leibniz's proposition, it is important to have sufficient ground for the thesis that there is something rather than nothing. What if this decree that appears to be the most fundamental truth may not necessarily be as exact as it appears? Let us, for a moment, be sceptic of the basic premise (consideration of the existence of something) of this question. Let us consider this; may be the existence of something is not true. In that case the first question would be 'Is there something rather than nothing?' The absurdity of this question may seem to be obvious as it defies the most intuitive knowledge that we possibly can have.
René Descartes started with doubting the existence of anything and everything that he could think of. After doubting the existence of every conceivable thing, he went on to be skeptic of his own existence. No matter how hard he tried, he could not doubt his own existence and finally concluded cogito, ergo sum usually rendered in English as 'I think, therefore I am' indicating that even if the denial of existence of everything is accepted, one cannot deny his or her own existence. People have experimented with this thought and finally accepted Descartes' avowal. If it is the ultimate answer to scepticism about existence then the first question would be 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' But if the Descartes' method/conclusion is not immune to the lancet of scepticism, then we may have to reconsider Leibniz's view. For that to happen, we have to give rise to scepticism about 'I think, therefore I am' and transform it into 'I think does not mean I am' or at least come up with 'I think, therefore I may or may not be'.
Consider you are sitting in a room in front of fire. You see the bright color of the fire, you feel the heat and hear the crackle of the burning wood. If you put your hand in the fire, it will burn you. But if you apply Descartes' method you can doubt the existence of this fire, room or the chair you are sitting in. You may think that this fire does not exist because may be the heat, color, sound, chair, room and everything else is an illusion/apparition created by what Bertrand Russell called 'sense data'. It is easy to agree that this fire may not exist as it may be an illusion but since you are experiencing this illusion, no matter how much you try to deny the fire and everything in the room, the room itself, your hands, feet, ears, skin, eyes; there is still some entity that experiences the fire and that is you. Now let us consider that you suddenly woke up and found it was a dream and you are now convinced that the fire, the chair and the room did not exist. Yet you are sure that you exist as you are the one who experienced it and are experiencing things in the world outside 'the dream' that you just woke up from.
Even if you are certain that the fire did not exist, you are convinced that the realm (let us call it realm) you now woke up in must exist. And even if the world you woke up in does not exist (as it may also be a dream), but you exist. May be a dream within a dream within a dream ad infinitum is the scenario and nothing in these dreams exist, but in no way, does it repudiate the existence of the entity that experiences the things in the dream (that is you). So here we fail to prove your own non-existence even if the fire, the heat, the color, the sound, the shape, the room, your body, hands, ears, eyes may not exist. It follows that 'you' as an observer do exist. In other words whatever you witnessed in the dream did not exist. It looks like even if there are multiple layers of dreams, you (the observer) do not pop out of existence though the 'you' that existed in your dream may not exist.
Does this ultimately prove Descartes' assertion? Though it seems to be so but let us consider a slightly different scenario. We have agreed to the possibility that you (as an observer) do exist yet whatever you observed may not. We thought this because we considered that when you woke up from the dream, you moved into another realm of experience which may be similar or dissimilar but does not affect your existence because you as an observer may be dreaming at multiple distinct levels or realms. No matter each level turns out to be non-existent but you as an observer still exist because as soon as a particular realm turns out to be non-existent, you immediately wake up in a separate realm. But wait! Did we consider that there may not be a series of dreams which are serially and gradually broken into different realms of wakefulness? What if there is alternate/reciprocal dreaming? What is alternate/reciprocal dreaming? So far, we have considered that you woke up into a different world which is separate from the dream. And then this different world also may be a dream considering it to be a linear series of dream within a dream ad infinitum.
What if there are two realms alternating/reciprocating with each other (or a loop of realms that move into one another; for explanation sake, let us keep our discussion to only two alternating realms). These two realms of alternate or reciprocal dreaming in which one dream is broken and you wake up into another dream and when this dream is broken, you again wake up in the first dream.
Since everything in the first dream does not exist, by the same principle everything in the second dream does not exist. It is important to note that if you are a part of dream, you will also be subject to same conclusions. If the chair in the dream did not exist, the person sitting in the chair also does not exist. So if both the realms do not exist and everything in both the dreams (which includes you in both the dreams) does not exist, it can be inferred that nothing exists (which includes you). This is because you are a subset of everything in any of the two dreams. You are a part of everything in first dream (if you were there) and you are the part of second dream (if you were there). And you will be subject to same laws as everything else in these dreams.
This indicates that you have two forms: You in the first dream and another you in the second dream. So you are in a realm. Since the first realm turns out to be nonexistent, you do not exist (because you are a part of the realm). Looking at it the other way round, you do not exist because second realm is also subject to same principles. Since these non-existent realms oscillate with each other, the cumulative inference would be that you don't exist leaving the question about your existence open to skepticism.
It is interesting to note the happenstance that the total energy of the universe cancels out to be zero and that is why Krauss thinks that the universe can burst into existence. A fundamental particle emerges into the observable universe with correspondence appearance of antiparticle. Matter and antimatter annihilate each other. Can it be that energy and anti-energy (as we may call it) annihilate each other in the same way (maybe the photon-antiphoton like particle-antiparticle analogy)? More remarkable is the coincidence of the so-called 'oscillatory/cyclic model' of the universe advocated by many modern physicists including Neil Turok.
According to this model, the universe bursts into existence from another universe imploding (the Big Crunch) onto itself and going through the implosion (an imaginary point of intersection with a zero value of time and space and presumably matter and energy also) to explode (the Big Bang) on the other side (so to speak) as a new universe. Through this process one universe pops out of existence to give birth to a new universe.
Doesn't it look much like the reciprocating dreams we just discussed? One dream implodes and the other explodes into existence. Is it that the consciousness in one world implodes/collapses to explode into the other realm? Can this be happening in the above reciprocal dream analogy where the observer is just a point (much like an imaginary intersection without any existence of its own)? Howbeit, from above given dream argument, we can assert that 'nothing exists' is a possibility and therefore the first question should not be 'Why is there something rather than nothing?'
It may be something deeper and original which does not invoke any assumptive axiom. Before arriving at this question it seems that we have confront some other questions like 'Is there something rather than nothing?' Or maybe 'Is something different than nothing?' Or 'Is something the same as nothing?' Or even 'What is nothing? What is something?' These questions disturb the sediment of Cartesian certainty of our existence or of the existence of the universe in the first place.
About the author: Muneeb Faiq is a neuroscientist who recently described diabetes type 4 and is exploring intricate connections between brain, mind and human health.
Address for correspondence: Muneeb A. Faiq, Neuroimaging and Visual Science Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY-10016, USA
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New DCAT Leadership Takes Office November 1
Robbinsville, NJ, USA November 1, 2018 --DCAT is pleased to announce that the slate of candidates recommended by DCAT's Leadership Development Committee for the 2018-2019 Board of Directors was approved by member company official delegates. Elected members will take office on November 1, 2018.
Leading our Board of Directors is DCAT President Paolo Magri who is Senior Vice President, Business Development at Advitech SA. Joining him in the important work of developing and guiding the organization's strategic plan, establishing and implementing policy, and managing financial matters for the member companies are:
First Vice President: Stephan Kutzer, Ph.D., President & CEO, Alcami Corporation
Second Vice President: Sean Diver, Director, Business Development, Early Intermediates, Lonza, AG
Third Vice President: Kerri McCullough Wood, Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial, TAPI, Teva Pharmaceuticals
The Board of Directors also welcomes several newly-elected directors, each serving a one-year term:
Elodie Cramer, Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing, Biogen
Charles Davies, Associate Vice President, Global Sourcing & Procurement, Merck & Co. Inc.
Sally Macaluso, Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Marketing and Business Services Procurement, Johnson & Johnson
Steve Poland, Global Director, 3rd Party FDF Sourcing, Mylan Pharmaceuticals
Sami Yusuf, Vice President, Corporate Development, Upsher-Smith
The following individuals will each serve a one-year term in an advisory capacity to the board:
Immediate Past President: Joe Sutton, Global Director, Sourcing, Eli Lilly and Company
2nd Immediate Past President: Milton Boyer, CEO, SCA Pharmaceuticals
The DCAT Program Management Council consists of the chairs of its standing committees which are charged with identifying the needs of the members, and managing initiatives consistent with the organization's goals and objectives. The committee chairs are as follows:
Education Committee: (new appointments)
Chair: Athelney J. Woolnough, Director, Business Development and Key Account Management, Boehringer Ingelheim Contract Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals
Vice Chair: Allison Vavala, Associate Director, Business Development, Helsinn Advanced Synthesis SA
Marketing Committee: Erin O'Brien, Senior Director, Product Management, Vial Containment & Delivery, West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
Science & Scholarship Committee: Scott R. Price, Vice President, Sales, Ren-Pharm International
Supply Management Committee: Rebecca A. Bishop, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Eli Lilly and Company
Alliance for Industry Women Committee: Lori Hoffman, Senior Director, Alliance Management, Frontida BioPharm, Inc
Leadership Completing Terms of Service
The DCAT organization would also like to thank the following dedicated leaders who have given generously of their time and provided invaluable insights to help the organization better serve its member companies.
Board of Directors (completed terms)
Dr. Folker Ruchatz, Past President, Site Head BioPharma Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
Anita Anderson, Director, Senior Director, Business Development, Gyma Laboratories of America, Inc.
Elizabeth Iorns, Ph.D., Director, Chief Executive Officer, Science Exchange
Kerri McCullough Wood, Director, Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial, TAPI, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Oliver Technow, Director, President, BioVectra Inc.
Advisory Council (completed terms)
Robert Discordia, Ph.D., Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing,Corbus Pharmaceuticals Inc.
William Fluharty, Business Director Americas-Chemical Manufacturing, Nexeo Solutions, LLC
Syed T. Husain, Chief Commercial Officer, Alcami Corporation
Scott Laird, Executive Director, Quality Assurance, Merck & Co., Inc.
Steve Poland, Global Director, 3rd Party FDF Technical Support, Mylan Inc.
Pam Tyler, Director of Sourcing, DPT, a Mylan Company
The Drug, Chemical & Associated Technologies Association (DCAT) is a not-for-profit, global business development association whose unique membership model integrates both innovator and generic drug manufacturers and suppliers of ingredients, development and manufacturing services, and related technologies. We are committed to provide programs, events and services that help our members meet their business objectives, expand their network of customers and suppliers, and gain insight into industry trends, markets, and those issues impacting pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. With over 400 corporate members, DCAT is headquartered in Robbinsville, New Jersey.
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Germany ranked fourth best country in the world
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The Berlin skyline in August 2018. Many entrepreneurs and brands are located in the capital. Photo: DPA
That's according to the annual 2019 US News & World Report Best Countries rankings, which handed it high points for entrepreneurship, power and quality of life.
Its neighbour to the south, Switzerland, takes the top seat for the third straight year and is followed by Japan and Canada.
This year, Japan jumped from fifth to second, thereby pushing Germany down a slot from 2018.
More than 20,000 individuals in 36 countries identified as informed elites, business leaders, and members of the public were surveyed online by US News and World Report in collaboration with BAV Group and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Survey participants were asked to assess a set of attributes to 80 countries. Based on the responses, those traits were further grouped into nine sub-categories such as quality of life and entrepreneurship.
Germany no longer leads in entrepreneurship
For the past three years, Germany headed the entrepreneurship category, but fell to the number two position in 2019, with Japan taking the number one seat.
A country's standing in entrepreneurship was, according to US News and World Report, assessed looking at factors such as its connection to the world, educated population, innovation, ease of access to capital and skilled labour force.
These standings come on the heels of Bloomberg´s Innovation Index released Monday. Germany´s standing rose to second place, but was a near equal with number one slot South Korea in total score.
For its index, Bloomberg assesses research and development spending, manufacturing capability and concentration of high-tech public companies.
Germany still respected for power and quality of life
Behind the United States, Russia, and China, Germany maintained its number four rank in the power subcategory of the US News and World Report rankings.
Berlin's comfortable top five position in power is likely due to the country's economic strength and international aid.
Germany also rounded out the top ten in quality of life. Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, Netherlands, and New Zealand rank higher than Germany that subcategory.
Quality of life was assessed by survey participants for their affordability, job market, economic stability, family friendliness, income equality, politically stability, safety, well-developed public education system, and well-developed public health system.
The adventure category – or how desirable and "sexy" of a travel destination a country is perceived as – featured Germany´s lowest standing of all the subcategories this year, at 57 out of 80 total points.
Those surveyed viewed Brazil, Italy, and Spain as the destinations most likely to cure their wanderlust.
Global consumers want Made in Germany
Additional rankings in the 2019 US News and World Report analysis such as best countries for women, best countries for education, and best countries origin index for products were also featured.
Those results show that Germany can be proud of its brand power on a global stage, particularly in the auto industry and health sectors. German brands came out on top in automobiles, health care, and pharmaceuticals.
German technology and electronic brands were also perceived very highly among the survey respondents and were ranked second, behind only Japan.
Vinters in Germany's wine regions should also raise a toast of sekt to the results. After Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, the German wine industry ranked fifth.
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I'm Steve Sande from Apple World Today, and this is a short AWT News Update for June 11, 2015. Thanks to this week's sponsor, Marketcircle, for making it all possible. Check out the AWT website for information on the company's new Apple Watch companion app for Billings Pro and their Daylite products for small business.
The 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York gets a lot of visitors. The big glass cube is open 24 hours per day, and it's a NYC landmark. Well, Apple plans to renovate the store soon and will move on a temporary basis to the location of the FAO Schwarz toy store in the General Motors Building — literall just steps away. The toy store is being vacated next month due to the high cost of rent, something that Apple can apparently afford. There's no word on when the renovations will begin or exactly how long they'll last.
And speaking of Apple Stores in New York, the new Upper East Side Apple Store will open on Saturday in an building that was originally the site of the US Mortgage & Trust bank. Apple reproduced some of the original chandeliers from old photographs of the facility, restored marble floors, and turned a bank vault into a showroom for VIPs. There's no Apple logo on the outside of the building, except for a black flag with a white Apple logo that hangs from the bank's original flagpole. The store will be the 266th in the US and the seventh in New York City.
Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn is apparently in talks to build an iPhone manufacturing plant in India. Reuters says that the company wants to achieve lower costs and boost sales of the iPhone in India, and may also be looking to build iPads and iPods in India.
Here's a cool iOS 9 feature that will come in handy for gamers and developers alike. ReplayKit is a new framework in iOS 9 that lets developers enable screen recording in their apps. Users can then record what's going on in a game or another app, then share recorded information through an iOS share sheet. At the present time, users need to use a Mac or other equipment to record iOS screens in action.
Finally, you may not have noticed but there's something missing from the top menu of the Apple website. Since the site was updated on Monday to highlight the upcoming appearance of Apple Music, the iPod is no longer listed along with Store, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Watch and other items. That underscores just how unimportant the iPod is to Apple's bottom line these days — a vast majority of people listen to music on their iPhones or iPads now. It's sad to see that the popular device that raised Apple from obscurity in the early 2000s is itself becoming a historical footnote. For the time being, iPods are still being sold, but they no longer have their own section of the Apple website.


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Her boyfriend won the argument. Later that night, he began to kiss and touch her. She didn't mind until he began to get on top of her. It was then she felt uncomfortable. "Stop, I don't want to go further. STOP." She repeated herself time and time again until he looked at her with an unreadable look.
She didn't feel much in the minutes that followed, only numbness. A few days later she experienced a violent panic attack.
Three years later, Kristen returned to the house that caused her so much fear and anger. It was different than she expected. While everyone else hung out outside, she stole a quick moment in the bedroom to see what she felt.
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A man was killed by another man wielding a machete or a large knife Tuesday night just north of downtown.
...Reading Dale Lezon's pithy accounts of life in our fair city.
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David is a member of the Sennheiser Global RF Expert program, which is a company-wide network of Sennheiser RF application engineers that support customers throughout the world.
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In 2012, Brian moved his skills in RF and Audio to Sennheiser's Technical Services Division where he now provides support to Broadcast and Touring organizations for Wireless Mic Frequencies and gives seminars and training sessions on RF theory and application. He also supports co-workers and dealers with multi-channel RF system designs for wireless microphones.
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Is a graduated electronic technician (DEC) with over 30 years of experience in the professional audio industry. His fields of competences include stage & live events, installed sound, broadcast applications and audio recording studios. During is career, he has worked as a field service technician, service manager, product manager and technical consultant. He joined Sennheiser Canada in 2001, and since 2003, his primary functions are dedicated to RF applications. He has followed several factory trainings and has gained a lot of experience by designing several large-scale RF systems, including RF coordination in many parts of the world for Cirque du Soleil, Céline Dion, Franco Dragone and IBM amongst others.
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Lenore Myka (Romania 1994-96) New Collection of Award Winning Stories: King of the Gypsies
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Lenore Myka is the author of King of the Gypsies: Stories, winner of the 2014 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, that will be published by BkMk Press this September.
Her fiction has been selected as a notable short story by The Best American Non-Required Reading of 2013, and a distinguished story by The Best American Short Stories of 2008. She was the winner of the 2013 Cream City Review and the Booth Journal Fiction Contests, a finalist for the 2013 Glimmer Train Open Short Story Contest, and a semi-finalist for the 2012 Iowa Short Fiction Contest.
Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Booth Journal, West Branch, Massachusetts Review, H.O.W. Journal, Upstreet Magazine, Talking River Review, and the anthology Further Fenway Fiction.
King of Gypsies is described this way:
Set against a wild and haunting landscape, the short fiction in this collection spotlights the struggles of everyday individuals to overcome the ghosts they have inherited from Romania's communist past.
The book, that won the publisher's BkMk's G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, was selected for that honor by PEN/Faulkner finalist Lorraine M. López, who writes, "Myka's characters release uncountable fibers, connecting them to one another in the linked narratives, binding them to the harshly beguiling Romania they inhabit and that inhabits them."
Lenore, who grew up near Buffalo, New York, and as a Polish-American Catholic, says her outlook on life is: "I am hung-up on fairness in the world, despite being told from an early age that life isn't fair."
Lenore now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Of her new book, here is what two other RPCVs writers have to say:
"Lenore Myka's collection of short stories, King of the Gypsies, heralds the debut of an extraordinary writer. With compassion, insight, breadth of knowledge, black humor, and an exquisite use of language, Myka crosses from Romania to the United States and back again, telling tales of characters cruelly haunted by having lived under totalitarian rule. Each story is brimming with wisdom about the human condition; this is an author I would trust and follow anywhere."
Marnie Mueller, Author of Green Fires,
The Climate of the Country, and My Mother's Island.
"Lenore Myka is a skilled craftswoman, sketching stories so exquisite and sincere that their power is unexpected and often fierce. She imbues each tale with candor and nuance, letting her characters thunder forth on their own, unprotected from life's realities yet carried by the dream of how things could be. The result is a portrait of Romania painted by its disenfranchised, its émigrés, and its foreigners, that shakes off stereotypes and hones in on the hopes and the vulnerabilities that that dwell in the human soul. Rarely have I felt so quickly drawn in to a collection of short stories. Rarely have I wanted to begin again as soon as I reached the end."
Sarah Erdman, Author of Nine Hills to Nambonkaha:
Two Years in the Heart of an African Village


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package tech.blacksource.blacknectar.service;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import tech.blacksource.blacknectar.ebt.balance.Field;
import tech.blacksource.blacknectar.ebt.balance.FieldValue;
import tech.blacksource.blacknectar.service.images.Image;
import tech.blacksource.blacknectar.service.stores.*;
import tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.AlchemyGenerator;
import tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.StringGenerators;

import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.AlchemyGenerator.one;
import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.BooleanGenerators.booleans;
import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.CollectionGenerators.listOf;
import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.EnumGenerators.enumValueOf;
import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.NetworkGenerators.httpUrls;
import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.NumberGenerators.*;
import static tech.sirwellington.alchemy.generator.StringGenerators.*;

/**
 * @author SirWellington
 */
public class BlackNectarGenerators
{
    private final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BlackNectarGenerators.class);

    public static AlchemyGenerator<Location> locations()
    {
        AlchemyGenerator<Double> latitudes = doubles(-90, 90);
        AlchemyGenerator<Double> longitudes = doubles(-180, 180);

        return () ->
        {
            return new Location(latitudes.get(), longitudes.get());
        };
    }

    public static AlchemyGenerator<Address> addresses()
    {
        AlchemyGenerator<String> zipCodes = StringGenerators.numericString(5);
        AlchemyGenerator<String> localZipCodes = StringGenerators.numericString(4);

        return () ->
        {
            return Address.Builder.newBuilder()
                                  .withAddressLineOne(one(alphanumericString()))
                                  .withAddressLineTwo(one(alphanumericString()))
                                  .withZipCode(zipCodes.get())
                                  .withLocalZipCode(one(localZipCodes))
                                  .withCity(one(alphabeticString(5)))
                                  .withState(one(alphabeticString(2)).toUpperCase())
                                  .withCounty(one(alphabeticString()))
                                  .build();
        };
    }

    public static AlchemyGenerator<Store> stores()
    {
        return () ->
        {
            return Store.Builder.newInstance()
                                .withStoreID(UUID.fromString(one(uuids)))
                                .withAddress(addresses().get())
                                .withLocation(locations().get())
                                .withName(one(alphabeticString()))
                                .withStoreCode(one(numericString(4)))
                                .withMainImageURL(one(httpUrls()).toString())
                                .isFarmersMarket(one(booleans()))
                                .build();
        };
    }

    public static AlchemyGenerator<Image> images()
    {
        return () ->
        {
            return Image.Builder.newInstance()
                                .withStoreID(UUID.randomUUID())
                                .withImageID(one(hexadecimalString(20)))
                                .withSizeInBytes(one(integers(100, 1_000)))
                                .withSource(one(alphabeticString()))
                                .withURL(one(httpUrls()))
                                .withWidthAndHeight(one(positiveIntegers()), one(positiveIntegers()))
                                .withContentType(one(alphabeticString()))
                                .withImageType(one(alphabeticString()))
                                .build();
        };
    }

    public static AlchemyGenerator<JsonObject> jsonObjects()
    {
        List<String> fields = listOf(alphabeticString());

        return () ->
        {
            JsonObject object = new JsonObject();

            fields.forEach(field -> object.addProperty(field, one(alphanumericString())));

            return object;
        };
    }

    public static AlchemyGenerator<Field> fields()
    {
        return () ->
        {
            Field.FieldType type = enumValueOf(Field.FieldType.class).get();
            String name = one(alphabeticString());
            String description = one(alphabeticString());

            return new Field(name, type, description);
        };
    }

    public static AlchemyGenerator<FieldValue> fieldValues()
    {
        return () ->
        {
            Field field = one(fields());
            String value = one(alphabeticString());

            return new FieldValue(field, value);
        };
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Start with your feet a hip-width apart. Step back with your right foot and bring your arms into running arms. If you have stepped back with your right leg, your right arm should be forward. Lunge down in a long lunge – make sure you step really far back. Make sure your front knee is directly above your ankle and not pressing in front of your toe. We don't want any knee pain!
When you've found your lunge position and running arms, step quickly up through your front leg – that would be your left leg. When you get up, make sure to press through your heel and to squeeze your front knee out towards your pinkie toe.
As you stand up, change your arms so your left arm is in front. Drive your right knee all the way through and up in front of you, like in a running position. Take a big hop into the sky, and then land back down in that reverse lunge. There is a lot of coordination going on, but when you find the rhythm, this will be a great exercise that really challenges your cardio fitness!


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Home > information > news > Abdelaziz Bouteflika win presidential election for the 4th term
Abdelaziz Bouteflika win presidential election for the 4th term
5:53 PM information, news
Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term with 81.53 percent of the vote in the presidential election conducted on 17 April 2014, (Bouteflika won 90,24 percent of the vote in 2009 and 85 percent in 2004).
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the president of Algeria since 1999.
Ali Benflis, who came second with 12.18 percent of votes cast, and he he refused to recognize the incumbent reelection.
The interior minister Tayeb Belaiz said that voter turnout stood at 51.3 percent of the country's 23 million registered voters, and the election was taking place in good conditions in the 50,000 voting centres.
Information about the presidential elections of April 17, 2014
Number of registered voters: 22.880.678
Number of voters: 11.307.487
Voter turnout: 51,70%
Nember of valid voters: 10.220.029
Number of votes canceled: 1.087.449
Participation rates by wilaya
Results of the presidential elections of April 17, 2014
Abdelaziz Bouteflika: 8 332 598 votes (81.53%)
Ali Benflis: 1 244 918 votes (12,18%)
Abdelaziz Belaid: 343 624 votes (3,36%)
Louiza Hanoune: 140 253 votes (1,37%)
Ali Fawzi Rebaine: 101 046 votes (0,99%)
Moussa Touati: 75 590 votes (0,56%)
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Latest and Greatest December 2018
Warning!!! This content could result in impulse purchases.
High Visibility Heated Jacket
For pros who work in dark and cold condition, staying warm and visible are top priorities. Makita's latest Heated Jacket is a solution for both problems. The jacket has a bright, fluorescent color and silver reflective accents that provide maximum visibility, and a power source that heats the jacket in five "core heat zones": left chest, right chest, back and both pockets. The jacket is made with a polyester shell for water and wind resistance and five pockets for storing tools, gear and maybe even a snack or two. Don't worry about things getting too hot, either; the jacket's heat source has three heat settings (high, medium and low) so temperatures can be quickly adjusted based on the work environment or personal preference. The Makita 18V LXT® Lithium‑Ion Cordless High Visibility Heated Jacket can be bought online for $199.00 (jacket only, battery is required)
RIDGID Butane 18V Heat Gun
RIDGID is heating things up this winter with the release of their new Butane 18V Heat Gun, which combines the benefits of natural gas with the convenience of a cordless tool. It's built for the most demanding jobs, able to hold a temperature over 1200-deg. for up to 25 minutes. Plus it has a completely adjustable temperature output, as well as a cool-down mode that prevents wear on the motor and allows for the tool to be put away and stored quicker. The RIDGID Butane 18V Heat Gun can reach temperatures up to 1400-deg. F and will be available soon for $99.00.
Big-Ass Light Bar
The idea for the Big Ass Light Bar was born when a Big Ass employee, a former auto-mechanic tired of work lights that just didn't get the job done, wanted to create something better. Two years later and the Big Ass Light Bar is now available for purchase. With six brightness levels and a 5,000 lumen maximum light output, the Big Ass Light Bar is the brightest battery-powered LED work light ever made. On a full charge, the rechargeable battery provides up to 48 hours of runtime and is housed in a shock-absorbing construction. Clearly, this was a tool built by pros, for pros. The Big Ass Work Light is available now for $399, and you can add a second battery for just $75 more.
Check out these other tools every auto mechanic should have.
Tapplock one+ fingerprint lock
Jobsite security is always a concern- no one wants their tools stolen. Tapplock has created a high-tech solution in the form of a smart padlock, the Tapplcok one+. The Tapplock one+ fingerprint lock can hold up to 500 unique employee fingerprints- all they have to do is scan a fingerprint to unlock equipment. The lock comes with a management platform that allows employers to grant and revoke access, set specific days and time when locks can be accessed, and track who is accessing which tools. For more information on how the Tapplock one+ Fingerprint Lock can improve jobsite security, click here.
Dump Cart from Grabber
Demolition is typically pretty back-breaking work, so any product that makes things a little easier on the body is a product we here at CPT will gladly take a look at. Grabber's new pro-grade Dump Cart is a seamless container made of durable, rugged materials so it can withstand the demands of demolition. The cart can hold up to ¾ yard of debris, and with the (optional) hinged lid that capacity goes up to a full yard. The big draw to this dump cart is its design, which combines back wheels on stainless steel bearings that can spin a full 360-degrees and large front wheels for easy dumping. The Grabber Dumper Cart's patented handle makes it (relatively) easy for just one worker to empty the bin.
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SENCO Construction Staplers
SENCO's new construction staplers feature technology that they claim will virtually eliminate misfires and jams. The SENCO NS20XP and NS20BXP N-Wire Construction Staplers are 15 and 20 percent more powerful than competitive models, respectively. Both staplers feature an EZ-Clear latch that has an aggressive locking feature to eliminate skipping, jams or misfires. They are also both fairly light, weighing in at 5.1 and 5.8 pounds. These staplers drive both 16 and 17 gauge 7/16″ crown staples and can be converted to vinyl siding staplers. Both the NS20XP ($219) and the NS20BXP ($289) will be available online and in stores soon.
Whether you're a forestry pro or just looking to chop down a tree for the holiday season, the Husqvarna 572XP should be more than enough to get the job done. The 572XP boasts the best power-to-weight ratio of any comparable Husqvarna saw, with a weight of just 14.5 lbs. and a powerful 5.8 HP engine. Husqvarna has also added a new filtration system to this saw which they say will provide more efficient filtration, leading to a healthier engine and better overall tool performance. For more information on the Husqvarna 572 XP, check out this interactive website.
Astroride Work
It's safe to say that the construction industry has never been the home of high fashion. But that doesn't mean that pros can't wear things that keep them protected, safe, and productive while also looking good. Reebok's new Astroride Work shoe line combines a sleek, stylish silhouette with features built in for pros working in the field. Ghillie laces and a special heal design allow the shoe to be taken on and off easily, and the sole is made from slip-resistant rubber to help keep pros on their feet. Shoes in the Astroride Work line are lightweight, have MemoryTech insoles that adapt to feet, and are made with protective steel toes that meet or exceed industry safety standards. Work shoes from the Astrostride Work line are available now, with prices ranging from $97 to $105 depending on features.
DEWALT In-Line Stud and Joist Drill
DEWALT's new In-Line Stud and Joist Drill is a high-torque right angle drill capable of powerful drilling and a long runtime. The drill has two unique features:
DEWALT's E-Clutch System, which uses sensors to monitor tool motion and will cut the motor of binding is detected.
DEWALT's 2-speed Quick Shift, which lets users switch between two set speeds automatically without having to feather the trigger.
The In-Line Stud and Joist Drill also includes an LED light, a two-position handle, and a shallow nose so it can reach into tight spaces. The 60V Max* In-Line Stud and Joist Drill can be purchased online and in home centers now starting at $249.00 (Bare Tool).
Makita Brushless Cordless Metal Cutting Saw
With a 2-1/4" cutting depth and a powerful brushless motor, the new 18V Cordless 5-7/8" Metal Cutting Saw from Makita is built to slice through a variety of metals, including:
Makita's Automatic Speed Change technology changes cutting speed and torque mid-cut for optimized performance. This saw has a chip collector box that collects metal debris created during the cutting process. One cool design aspect of this tool is that the collector box is transparent so that users can easily monitor how full it is and when it needs to be emptied.The 18V LXT Cordless 5-7/8" Metal Cutting Saw (XSC04Z) is available now for $199 (bare tool).
M18 FUEL 3-in-1 Backpack Vacuum
The M18 FUEL 3-in-1 Backpack Vacuum is an ideal tool for quickly cleaning up the jobsite after a long day's work. It's light, weighing just over 15 lbs., quiet, and according to Milwaukee provides up to two times the suction power of traditional jobsite vacuums. It's also completely cordless, running off of Milwaukee's M18 battery platform. The debris collector can hold up to 1-gallon of dirt and debris and the flexible hose and telescoping extension wand make it much easier to clean hard-to-reach areas. This vacuum doesn't have to be worn, either; the harness is fully removable so it can be stood up just like a regular shop vac*. The Milwaukee 3-in-1 Backpack Vacuum is available now for $299.
*Note: this is a dry vacuum only, not a wet/dry vac
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