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Natko Zrnčić-Dim (; born 7 March 1986) is a Croatian alpine ski coach and retired World Cup skier. He won a bronze medal in super combined at the World Championships in 2009 at Val-d'Isère, France, and is a member of SK Medveščak.

Born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, Zrnčić-Dim's best World Cup result is second place in a super combined, achieved on 30 January 2011 in Chamonix, France. Compatriot Ivica Kostelić won that race, his seventh of the month, and marked the first time that Croatians finished first and second in a World Cup race. Zrnčić-Dim incurred shoulder injury in a super-G at Beaver Creek in early December 2012, which ended his 2013 season. Through mid-January 2014, he has five World Cup podiums, all in combined events. He is one of rare downhill specialists who was able to qualify into second run of slalom. He has done it three times; all were in Wengen, having best result of 18th place in 2010.

In 2019 he announced his retirement from active competing, due to unsuccessful comeback after injury in November 2016. His last World Cup race was a combined in Bansko on 22 February 2019. Since the start of 2019/20 season, he coaches Rea Hraski to prepare for the 2019 Winter Deaflympics.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

 5 podiums – 5 AC (4 SC, 1 K)

Results per discipline

 standings through 25 Nov 2018

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

 Natko Zrnčić-Dim World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation

 Croatian Ski Team – official site
 Atomic Skis – athletes – Natko Zrnčić-Dim

1986 births
Croatian male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Croatia
Sportspeople from Zagreb
Living people

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Tub är bland annat en cylinderformad behållare av tunn metall eller plast för förpackning av tjockflytande massa. Den är tillsluten i ena ändan och försedd med skruvhatt i den andra. Innehållet kan bestå av till exempel färg- eller livsmedelsprodukter eller olika salvor.

Tub används ibland  som ett synonym för flaska, till exempel gastub eller dykartub. Skillnaden mellan en tub och en flaska är att tuben är öppen i bägge ändarna vid tillverkningen och påfyllningen medan en flaska alltid bara har en öppen ända.

Tub kan även vara ett slanguttryck för tunnelbana.

I Sverige säljs många livsmedel i tub, bland annat mjukost, tomatpuré, senap, majonnäs och fiskpålägg, vilket i början av 2000-talet fortfarande är ovanligt i många andra delar av världen.

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Fans have learned to expect the unexpected from a Gov't Mule show. With set lists that pull from a catalog of more than 300 songs, each night delivers a new and distinctive experience.
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Q: How to make a cell editable in qt tableview I try to make a cell editable using a tableview in qt. I have found a few examples and came up with the following:
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From what I found it looks like I need an itemDelegate to paint each cell. Then I add a MouseArea to the cell and check which cell was selected. In my case I only need to react on the cells in column 2.
The thing is when I use the code shown above I get the error that:

JavaScipt blocks are not supported in a QT Quick UI form. (M223)

Because of that I tried to register a property alias for cellMouseArea like this:

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qrc:/EditPageForm.ui.qml:24 Invalid alias reference. Unable to find id "cellMouseArea"

A: Overlay cell with TextInput  on click.
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Results for 'Chad Kautzer'
Radical Philosophy: An Introduction.Chad Kautzer - 2015 - Routledge.details
In this accessible introduction for students, teachers, and activists, Chad Kautzer guides readers through the dynamic field of radical philosophy. Kautzer s innovative approach is to organize the analysis of radical philosophical projects from Marxism, feminism, and queer theory to radical environmental, race, and political theory around their defining methodological commitments and emancipatory goals. Beginning with a discussion of the historical, dialectical, and reflexive forms of critique these projects employ, Radical Philosophy reveals the internal structure and overlapping (...) similarities of particular philosophical projects discussed in subsequent chapters. The result is a coherent and systematic introduction for beginners and specialists alike. (shrink)
Critical Theory, Misc in Continental Philosophy
Gender as Socialized in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Materialist Feminism in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Race and Justice in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
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Self-Defensive Subjectivity: The Diagnosis of a Social Pathology.Chad Kautzer - 2014 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 (8):743-756.details
In his book Das Recht der Freiheit, Axel Honneth develops a theory of social justice that incorporates negative, reflexive and social forms of freedom as well as the institutional conditions necessary for their reproduction. This account enables the identification of social pathologies or systemic normative deficits that frustrate individual efforts to relate their actions reflexively to a normative order and inhibits their ability to recognize the freedom of others as a condition of their own. In this article I utilize Honneth's (...) theory in the diagnosis of a contemporary social pathology, which impedes social recognition and thereby contributes to social injustice. I argue that this particular social pathology – associated with the Second Amendment right to bear arms – has given rise to a pernicious form of subjectivity, which I call self-defensive. I conclude with some remarks concerning what this application reveals about the strengths and weaknesses of Honneth's account. (shrink)
Hegel: Philosophy of Law, Misc in 19th Century Philosophy
Hegel: Theory of Recognition in 19th Century Philosophy
Justice, Misc in Social and Political Philosophy
The Nature of Justice in Social and Political Philosophy
Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire.Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.) - 2009 - Indiana University Press.details
Pragmatism has been called "the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition" by its supporters and "a dog's dinner" by its detractors. While acknowledging pragmatism's direct ties to American imperialism and expansionism, Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and the contributors to this volume consider the role pragmatism plays, for better or worse, in current discussions of nationalism, war, race, and community. What can pragmatism contribute to understandings of a diverse nation? How can we reconcile pragmatism's history with recent changes (...) in the country's racial and ethnic makeup? How does pragmatism help to explain American values and institutions and fit them into new national and multinational settings? The answers to these questions reveal pragmatism's role in helping to nourish the fundamental ideas, politics, and culture of contemporary America. (shrink)
19th Century American Pragmatism, Misc in Philosophy of the Americas
Feminist Political Philosophy in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Minorities in Social and Political Philosophy
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Kant, Perpetual Peace, and the Colonial Origins of Modern Subjectivity.Chad Kautzer - 2013 - peace studies journal 6 (2):58-67.details
There has been a persistent misunderstanding of the nature of cosmopolitanism in Immanuel Kant's 1795 essay "Perpetual Peace," viewing it as a qualitative break from the bellicose natural law tradition preceding it. This misunderstanding is in part due to Kant's explicitly critical comments about colonialism as well as his attempt to rhetorically distance his cosmopolitanism from traditional natural law theory. In this paper, I argue that the necessary foundation for Kant's cosmopolitan subjectivity and right was forged in the experience of (...) European colonialism and the (pre-Kantian) theory it engendered. It is in this context that we witness the universalization of subjectivity and the subjectivization of right, emerging from the justificatory needs of extra-national jurisdiction and resource appropriation. This form of cosmopolitanism, whose emergence necessarily tracks the rise of global capitalism, continues to exert great and often uncritical influence on theories and practices of peace today. (shrink)
German Idealism, Misc in European Philosophy
Kant: Political Philosophy in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Symposium: Naomi Zack's The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy.Chad Kautzer - 2012 - Radical Philosophy Review 15 (2):345-345.details
Our symposium on Naomi Zack's newest book, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), had its origin in an Author Meets Critics panel of the Radical Philosophy Association at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division conference in 2012, organized by José Jorge Mendoza. The respondents--Kristie Dotson, Lewis Gordon, José Jorge Mendoza, and Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.--have revised and expanded their original papers and Naomi Zack has in turn provided a detailed response (...) to their contributions. The result is an insightful, critical, and multiperspectival engagement with Zack's work. Throughout the respondents' papers you will find references to the twelve requirements that Zack argues are necessary for an ethics of race. These can be found in an appendix to Naomi Zack's response. (shrink)
Race as Socially Constructed in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
The Normative Role of Race Concepts in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Class, Crisis, and the City: An Interview with David Harvey.Chad Kautzer & David Harvey - 2008 - Radical Philosophy Review 11 (2):151-158.details
The following interview was conducted on July 13, 2009 at the JFK Institute for Graduate Studies, Freie Universität in Berlin, shortly after a conference, entitled "Class in Crisis: Das Prekariat zwischen Krise und Bewegung," at which Harvey delivered a keynote address. The conference, organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, engaged the political, socio-economic, and conceptual dimensions of the so-called precariat class. The precariat is typically defined by short-term employment, persistent marginalization, and social insecurity—something of a fragmented urban underclass whose precariousness (...) is increasingly evident in traditionally middle-class economic life. While the concept of the precariat has yet to take root in English-language social theory, the work of Loïc Wacquant, for example, has been popularizing it. (shrink)
Socialism and Marxism in Social and Political Philosophy
On War, Liberalism, and Religion: An Interview with Hans Joas.Chad Kautzer & Hans Joas - 2005 - Radical Philosophy Review 8 (1):69-81.details
European Philosophy, Miscellaneous in European Philosophy
Jürgen Habermas in Continental Philosophy
On Capitalism's New Esprit.Chad Kautzer - 2008 - Radical Philosophy Review 11 (2):205-211.details
Karl Marx in 19th Century Philosophy
Rorty's Country, Rorty's Empire: Adventures in the Private Life of the Public.Chad Kautzer - 2003 - Radical Philosophy Review 6 (2):131-144.details
The normative politics of Rorty's Achieving Our Country are inextricably related to the political-philosophical principles of Contingency,irony, and solidarity, yet the nature of this relation is not explicit, particularly regarding Rorty's earlier public/private sphere distinctionand renunciation of metavocabularies. This paper argues that Rorty's call for patriotism as a necessary condition for political practiceand a romantic historicism that replaces intersubjectively recognized history, leads to a privatized conception of the nation, betraying the most promising principles of Contingency, irony, and solidarity, and threatening (...) the necessary conditions of democratic and solidaristic practices. This critique also accounts for the theoretical lacunas in Rorty's most recent essays attempting to elucidate American Empire. (shrink)
Richard Rorty in 20th Century Philosophy
Symposium: The Ethics and Mores of Race.Chad Kautzer - 2012 - Radical Philosophy Review 15 (2):345-345.details
Michel Foucault in Continental Philosophy
The Sonderweg of Social Theory.Chad Kautzer - 2005 - Radical Philosophy Review 8 (1):97-101.details
Critical Theory in Continental Philosophy
Race, Culture, and Black Self‐Determination.Tommie Shelby, Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta - 2009 - In Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire. Indiana University Press.details
Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous
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On Capitalism's New Esprit. [REVIEW]Chad Kautzer - 2008 - Radical Philosophy Review 11 (2):205-211.details
Contract and Domination.Chad Kautzer - 2010 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 23 (4):370-373.details
Color Blindness and Color Consciousness in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Gender and Oppression in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Review).Chad Kautzer - 2011 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (4):425-428.details
Hegel: War in 19th Century Philosophy
On David James' Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Subjectivity and Ethical Life. [REVIEW]Chad Kautzer - 2008 - Political Studies Review 6 (3):371.details
Hegel: Civil Society in 19th Century Philosophy
Hegel: Family in 19th Century Philosophy
Hegel: The State in 19th Century Philosophy
On Feminist Interpretations of John Locke. [REVIEW]Chad Kautzer - 2008 - Political Studies Review 6 (3):369-370.details
Feminist History of Philosophy in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Locke: Political Philosophy, Misc in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
On Thom Brooks' Hegel's Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right. [REVIEW]Chad Kautzer - 2008 - Political Studies Review 6 (3):362-363.details
G. W. F. Hegel in 19th Century Philosophy
Resistance, Language, and Law: An Interview with Angela Y. Davis.Chad Kautzer - 2005 - In Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, Empire. Seven Stories Press. pp. 105-132.details
Black Feminism in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Topographia Dominium: Property, Divided Sovereignty, and the Spaces of Rule.Chad Kautzer - 2007 - In Gary Backhaus & John Murungi (eds.), Colonial and Global Interfacings: Imperial Hegemonies and Democratizing Resistances,. Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 57-77.details
Deliberative Democracy in Social and Political Philosophy
Democratic Authority in Social and Political Philosophy
Political Authority, Misc in Social and Political Philosophy
Political Legitimacy in Social and Political Philosophy
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Utilitarian Topographies of the Public.Chad Kautzer - 2005 - In Gary Backhaus (ed.), Lived Topographies. Lexington Books. pp. 163-82.details
Communitarianism in Social and Political Philosophy
Legal Authority in Philosophy of Law
Liberalism and Liberty in Social and Political Philosophy
Political Theory in Social and Political Philosophy
The Scope of Liberalism in Social and Political Philosophy
'Expression of Contempt': Hegel's Critique of Legal Freedom.Daniel Loick & Chad Kautzer - 2015 - Law and Critique 26 (2):189-206.details
In this paper, I argue for the existence of pathologies of juridicism. I attempt to show that the Western regime of right tends to colonize our intersubjective relations, resulting in the formation of affective and habitual dispositions that actually hinder participation in social life. Speaking of pathologies of juridicism is to claim that the legal form fundamentally contaminates the way in which we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world, resulting in an ethically deformed, distorted or deficient form (...) of subjectivity. To support my thesis I consult a philosopher, whose work still provides a powerful analysis and critique of juridicism, namely, Hegel. Hegel provides an historic and a systematic theory of the pathologies of juridicism. His historical theory locates the origin of the abstract subjectivity of right in Roman antiquity. His systematic theory understands the negative effects of an absolutization of the legal domain as a persistent threat to social integration and an individual's pursuit of the good life. I clarify these argumentative dimensions in two steps, beginning with Hegel's historical analysis of right in his Lectures on the Philosophy of History. I then reconstruct Hegel's critique of the subjectivity of right in the short chapter on the 'Condition of Right' in his Phenomenology of Spirit. In conclusion, I argue that, although Hegel's diagnosis is correct, his prescribed therapy must fail: instead of radically altering abstract right in terms of content and form, it only recommends its complementation through other ethical spheres. (shrink)
German Idealism in European Philosophy
Freedom's Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life.Chad Kautzer - 2014 - Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 61 (140):102-106.details
Geoff Pfeifer: The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Žižek: Routledge, New York, 2015, 140 Pp + Index, $145.Chad Kautzer - 2016 - Human Studies 39 (2):319-324.details
Slavoj Zizek in Continental Philosophy
Pragmatic Rights.Daniel Loick & Chad Kautzer - 2015 - Law and Critique 26 (2):155-171.details
In this essay I explore competing senses and tensions of the relation between the etymology of ta pragmata and praxis, with specific attention paid to Heidegger's theorization of modernity. In so doing I question the relation between rights and persons, and whether there might not be a new way of thinking about rights that does not presuppose or privilege the agency of personhood. Pragmatic rights would not assume the liberal values of self-determination that underpin personhood, and would enable a notion (...) of rights beyond liberal humanism more appropriate for twenty-first century political concerns and problems. (shrink)
Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
The Judge's Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber.Daniel Loick & Chad Kautzer - 2015 - Law and Critique 26 (2):117-133.details
The great work of the psychotic judge Daniel Paul Schreber, namely Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, has received predictable and rather unimaginative interpretations as the discourse of a lunatic. The work has not been studied as a theory of law. Schreber, it is argued here, was an extreme lawyer, a radical melancholegalist, a black letter theorist, a critic avant la lettre, and a radical theorist of an impure jurisprudence.
Right and Subjectivity: From Freedom and Agency to Pathology and Madness—Introduction.Daniel Loick & Chad Kautzer - 2015 - Law and Critique 26 (2):101-103.details
French Philosophy in European Philosophy
Poststructuralism in Continental Philosophy
Good Guys with Guns: From Popular Sovereignty to Self-Defensive Subjectivity.Daniel Loick & Chad Kautzer - 2015 - Law and Critique 26 (2):173-187.details
Beliefs once limited to the extremes of the North American gun culture have become mainstream, while the US Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller and a spate of right-to-carry laws have contributed to the proliferation of guns in public life. These changes in political discourses, legislative agendas, and social practices are indicative of an emergent and pernicious form of subjectivity, which is here defined as self-defensive. Such subjectivity is characterized by a pathological identification with the right of (...) self-defense, which undermines the social conditions of individual freedom and renders subjects unable to comprehend the function of abstract rights within an informal normative order. Practically speaking, this raced and gendered subjectivity relies on extra-legal relations of domination for its reproduction. The rapid expansion of gun rights and the recent loosening of restrictions on self-defensive violence are argued to be responses to a perceived threat to these identity-constituting relations, rather than to the threat of violent crime, which has long been on the decline. (shrink)
International Ethics in Applied Ethics
Проблема іншого в сучасній західній філософії: Провідні тенденції.Kseniia Meita - 2021 - Наукові Записки Наукма. Філософія Та Релігієзнавство 6:58-67.details
This article reviews the problem of the otherness in contemporary Western philosophy. The peculiarities of the representation of the category of the otherness in the 21st-century anglophone continental philosophy were analyzed. A theoretical base of the research consists of the works by Richard Rorty, Bruno Latour, Richard Kearney, Nancy. Fraser, Dan Zahavi, Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and Slavoj Žižek. Within the frameworks of an Anglophone philosophy, we made a comparison of the 20th-century pragmatist approaches based on the exceptionalism (...) and the exclusion of the Absolute Other from the intersubjective consensus and of the modern neopragmatist tendencies shaped on the principles of the generalized patience and extension of the framing of the subjectivity with the post-territorial regulation. The hermeneutical and phenomenological problems of the otherness typical for continental philosophy were covered with the analysis of the genealogy of the feeling leading to the victimization of the Other, its identification with Me, or its recognition with the preservation of the own identity. The author also analyzes ways to find a social consensus in the conditions of the antagonism between the emancipatory interests of different marginalized groups. Generally, the ways of adequate coexistence, which support the universal solidarity in a situation the global challenges humanity, had been demonstrated. That is why, finding out of a compromise in the analysis of the problem of the Otherness will be achieved with a realization of the following factors: all-affected principle, formed on the basis of the equal agency for all the subjects of communicative action for consensus with the help of a network activism, and a realization of the principles of a diacritical hermeneutics on the basis of the empathy to the Other and the termination of his/her marginalization. For this, it was offered to gain the equal rights for all the living forms for their own modes of existence to avoid antagonism between different social groups and to predict the impact of the obscurantist elites on the mass consciousness.Manuscript received 06.09.2020. (shrink)
A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation.Chad Hansen - 1992 - Oxford University Press.details
This ambitious book presents a new interpretation of Chinese thought guided both by a philosopher's sense of mystery and by a sound philosophical theory of meaning. That dual goal, Hansen argues, requires a unified translation theory. It must provide a single coherent account of the issues that motivated both the recently untangled Chinese linguistic analysis and the familiar moral-political disputes. Hansen's unified approach uncovers a philosophical sophistication in Daoism that traditional accounts have overlooked. The Daoist theory treats the imperious intuitionism (...) that alienates critical thinkers as a feature of Confucianism alone. Freed from the view that Confucianism is the core of Chinese thought and from myopic Confucian interpretations, Chinese thinkers emerge as unmistakably philosophical. (shrink)
Classical Daoism in Asian Philosophy
Hanfeizi in Asian Philosophy
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Phenomenal Consciousness with Infallible Self-Representation.Chad Kidd - 2011 - Philosophical Studies 152 (3):361-383.details
In this paper, I argue against the claim recently defended by Josh Weisberg that a certain version of the self-representational approach to phenomenal consciousness cannot avoid a set of problems that have plagued higher-order approaches. These problems arise specifically for theories that allow for higher-order misrepresentation or—in the domain of self-representational theories—self-misrepresentation. In response to Weisberg, I articulate a self-representational theory of phenomenal consciousness according to which it is contingently impossible for self-representations tokened in the context of a conscious mental (...) state to misrepresent their objects. This contingent infallibility allows the theory to both acknowledge the (logical) possibility of self-misrepresentation and avoid the problems of self-misrepresentation. Expanding further on Weisberg's work, I consider and reveal the shortcomings of three other self-representational models—put forward by Kreigel, Van Gulick, and Gennaro—in order to show that each indicates the need for this sort of infallibility. I then argue that contingent infallibility is in principle acceptable on naturalistic grounds only if we attribute (1) a neo-Fregean kind of directly referring, indexical content to self-representational mental states and (2) a certain ontological structure to the complex conscious mental states of which these indexical self-representations are a part. In these sections I draw on ideas from the work of Perry and Kaplan to articulate the context-dependent semantic structure of inner-representational states. (shrink)
Self-Representational Theories of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind
Deep Platonism.Chad Carmichael - 2016 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (2):307-328.details
According to the traditional bundle theory, particulars are bundles of compresent universals. I think we should reject the bundle theory for a variety of reasons. But I will argue for the thesis at the core of the bundle theory: that all the facts about particulars are grounded in facts about universals. I begin by showing how to meet the main objection to this thesis (which is also the main objection to the bundle theory): that it is inconsistent with the possibility (...) of distinct qualitative indiscernibles. Here, the key idea appeals to a non-standard theory of haecceities as non-well-founded properties of a certain sort. I will then defend this theory from a number of objections, and finally argue that we should accept it on the basis of considerations of parsimony about the fundamental. (shrink)
Bundle Theories in Metaphysics
Fundamentality in Metaphysics
Grounding in Metaphysics
Universals in Metaphysics
Universals.Chad Carmichael - 2010 - Philosophical Studies 150 (3):373-389.details
In this paper, I argue that there are universals. I begin (Sect. 1) by proposing a sufficient condition for a thing's being a universal. I then argue (Sect. 2) that some truths exist necessarily. Finally, I argue (Sects. 3 and 4) that these truths are structured entities having constituents that meet the proposed sufficient condition for being universals.
Structured Propositions in Philosophy of Language
In Our Shoes or the Protagonist's? Knowledge, Justification, and Projection.Chad Gonnerman, Lee Poag, Logan Redden, Jacob Robbins & Stephen Crowley - 2020 - In Tania Lombrozo, Shaun Nichols & Joshua Knobe (eds.), Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. pp. 189-212.details
Sackris and Beebe (2014) report the results of a series of studies that seem to show that there are cases in which many people are willing to attribute knowledge to a protagonist even when her belief is unjustified. These results provide some reason to conclude that the folk concept of knowledge does not treat justification as necessary for its deployment. In this paper, we report a series of results that can be seen as supporting this conclusion by going some way (...) towards ruling out an alternative account of Sackris and Beebe's results—the possibility that the knowledge attributions that they witnessed largely stem from protagonist projection, a phenomenon in language use and interpretation in which the speaker uses words that the relevant protagonist might use to describe her own situation and the listener interprets the speaker accordingly. With that said, we do caution the reader against drawing the conclusion too strongly, on the basis of results like those reported here and by Sackris and Beebe. There are alternative possibilities regarding what drives the observed knowledge attributions in cases of unjustified true belief that must be ruled out before, on the basis of such results, we can conclude with much confidence that the folk concept of knowledge does not treat justification as necessary for its deployment. (shrink)
Experimental Philosophy: Epistemology, Misc in Metaphilosophy
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Toward a Commonsense Answer to the Special Composition Question.Chad Carmichael - 2015 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (3):475-490.details
The special composition question is the question, 'When do some things compose something?' The answers to this question in the literature have largely been at odds with common sense, either by allowing that any two things compose something, or by denying the existence of most ordinary composite objects. I propose a new 'series-style' answer to the special composition question that accords much more closely with common sense, and I defend this answer from van Inwagen's objections. Specifically, I will argue that (...) the proposed answer entails the transitivity of parthood, that it is non-circular, and that it casts some light on the ancient puzzle about the Ship of Theseus. (shrink)
Material Objects, Misc in Metaphysics
Mereological Nihilism in Metaphysics
Mereological Universalism in Metaphysics
Persistence, Misc in Metaphysics
Vague Composition Without Vague Existence.Chad Carmichael - 2011 - Noûs 45 (2):315-327.details
David Lewis (1986) criticizes moderate views of composition on the grounds that a restriction on composition must be vague, and vague composition leads, via a precisificational theory of vagueness, to an absurd vagueness of existence. I show how to resist this argument. Unlike the usual resistance, however, I do not jettison precisificational views of vagueness. Instead, I blur the connection between composition and existence that Lewis assumes. On the resulting view, in troublesome cases of vague composition, there is an object, (...) which definitely exists, about which it is vague whether the relevant borderline parts compose it. (shrink)
The Argument from Vagueness in Metaphysics
Vague Objects in Metaphysics
On the Epistemic Rationality and Significance of Self-Fulfilling Beliefs.Chad Marxen - forthcoming - Synthese 199 (1-2):4243-4260.details
Some propositions are not likely to be true overall, but are likely to be true if you believe them. Appealing to the platitude that belief aims at truth, it has become increasingly popular to defend the view that such propositions are epistemically rational to believe. However, I argue that this view runs into trouble when we consider the connection between what's epistemically rational to believe and what's practically rational to do. I conclude by discussing how rejecting the view bears on (...) three other epistemological issues. First, we're able to uncover a flaw in a common argument for permissivism. Second, we can generate a problem for prominent versions of epistemic consequentialism. Finally, we can better understand the connection between epistemic rationality and truth: epistemic rationality is a guide to true propositions rather than true beliefs. (shrink)
Epistemic Permissivism in Epistemology
Epistemological Theories, Misc in Epistemology
Evidentialism in Epistemology
How to Solve the Puzzle of Dion and Theon Without Losing Your Head.Chad Carmichael - 2020 - Mind 129 (513):205-224.details
The ancient puzzle of Dion and Theon has given rise to a surprising array of apparently implausible views. For example, in order to solve the puzzle, several philosophers have been led to deny the existence of their own feet, others have denied that objects can gain and lose parts, and large numbers of philosophers have embraced the thesis that distinct objects can occupy the same space, having all their material parts in common. In this paper, I argue for an alternative (...) approach: I claim that human beings have ordinary parts—hands, heads, feet, and so on—but no extraordinary parts, such as 'foot-complements', the existence of which is essential to the puzzle. I rebut three objections to this approach: an objection that it is unacceptably metaphysically arbitrary, an objection that the view is incompatible with versions of the puzzle involving decapitation, and an objection concerning masses of matter. If we can believe that there are such things as hands and feet without involving ourselves in paradox, and without accepting large numbers of co-located material objects that share all their material parts, then that is what we should do. My view is the only known alternative which allows this. (shrink)
Coincident Objects in Metaphysics
Material Constitution in Metaphysics
Mereology, Misc in Metaphysics
Stuff in Metaphysics
Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind.Chad Engelland - 2014 - The MIT Press.details
Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable -- public--private, inner--outer, mind--body. In this book, Chad Engelland offers a philosophical investigation of ostension and its role in word learning by infants. Engelland discusses (...) ostension (distinguishing it from ostensive definition) in contemporary philosophy, examining accounts by Quine, Davidson, and Gadamer, and he explores relevant empirical findings in psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and neuroscience. He offers original studies of four representative historical thinkers whose work enriches the understanding of ostension: Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Augustine, and Aristotle. And, building on these philosophical and empirical foundations, Engelland offers a meticulous analysis of the philosophical issues raised by ostension. He examines the phenomenological problem of whether embodied intentions are manifest or inferred; the problem of what concept of mind allows ostensive cues to be intersubjectively available; the epistemological problem of how ostensive cues, notoriously ambiguous, can be correctly understood; and the metaphysical problem of the ultimate status of the key terms in his argument: animate movement, language, and mind. Finally, he argues for the centrality of manifestation in philosophy. Taking ostension seriously, he proposes, has far-reaching implications for thinking about language and the practice of philosophy. (shrink)
Augustine in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein in 20th Century Philosophy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Continental Philosophy
Philosophy of Language, General Works in Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind, General Works in Philosophy of Mind
Language and Logic in Ancient China.Chad Hansen - 1983 - University of Michigan Press.details
Chinese Philosophy of Logic and Language in Asian Philosophy
Later Mohism in Asian Philosophy
Experience Machines, Conflicting Intuitions and the Bipartite Characterization of Well-Being.Chad M. Stevenson - 2018 - Utilitas 30 (4):383-398.details
While Nozick and his sympathizers assume there is a widespread anti-hedonist intuition to prefer reality to an experience machine, hedonists have marshalled empirical evidence that shows such an assumption to be unfounded. Results of several experience machine variants indicate there is no widespread anti-hedonist intuition. From these findings, hedonists claim Nozick's argument fails as an objection to hedonism. This article suggests the argument surrounding experience machines has been misconceived. Rather than eliciting intuitions about what is prudentially valuable, these intuitive judgements (...) are instead calculations about prudential pay-offs and trade-offs. This position can help explain the divergence of intuitions people have about experience machines. (shrink)
Husserl's Phenomenological Theory of Intuition.Chad Kidd - 2014 - In Linda Osbeck & Barbara Held (eds.), Rational Intuition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 131-150.details
Husserl: Intuition in Continental Philosophy
Heidegger and the Human Difference.Chad Engelland - 2015 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (1):175-193.details
This paper provides a qualified defense of Martin Heidegger's controversial assertion that humans and animals differ in kind, not just degree. He has good reasons to defend the human difference, and his thesis is compatible with the evolution of humans from other animals. He argues that the human environment is the world of meaning and truth, an environment which peculiarly makes possible truthful activities such as biology. But the ability to be open to truth cannot be a feature of human (...) biology, without making such pursuits as biology, mathematics, and philosophy a biological function of a certain species, homo sapiens. To deny the human difference amounts to species relativism which leaves the normativity of truth unexplained. To reconcile the human evolutionary heritage and the uniquely human openness to meaning and truth, the paper amplifies a distinction occasionally made by Heidegger between condition and cause. (shrink)
Evolution of Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Human Nature in Metaphysics
Martin Heidegger in Continental Philosophy
Phenomenology, Misc in Continental Philosophy
Some Problems with the Process-Dissociation Approach to Memory.Chad S. Dodson & Marcia K. Johnson - 1996 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 125 (2):181.details
Philosophy of Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Closing the Case on Self-Fulfilling Beliefs.Chad Marxen - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy:1-14.details
Two principles in epistemology are apparent examples of the close connection between rationality and truth. First, adding a disjunct to what's rational to believe yields a proposition that's also rational to believe. Second, what's likely if believed is rational to believe. While these principles are accepted by many, it turns out that they clash. In light of this clash, we must relinquish the second principle. Reflecting on its rationale, though, reveals that there are two distinct ways to understand the connection (...) between rationality and truth. Rationality is fundamentally a guide to the belief-independent truth, rather than a guide to acquiring true beliefs. And this in turn has important implications for current discussions of permissivism, epistemic reasons, and epistemic consequentialism. (shrink)
Epistemic Norms in Epistemology
Epistemic Value in Epistemology
Epistemology, General Works in Epistemology
Epistemology, Misc in Epistemology
Assessing the Belief Bias Effect with ROCs: It's a Response Bias Effect.Chad Dube, Caren M. Rotello & Evan Heit - 2010 - Psychological Review 117 (3):831-863.details
Are Philosophers Expert Intuiters?Jonathan M. Weinberg, Chad Gonnerman, Cameron Buckner & Joshua Alexander - 2010 - Philosophical Psychology 23 (3):331-355.details
Recent experimental philosophy arguments have raised trouble for philosophers' reliance on armchair intuitions. One popular line of response has been the expertise defense: philosophers are highly-trained experts, whereas the subjects in the experimental philosophy studies have generally been ordinary undergraduates, and so there's no reason to think philosophers will make the same mistakes. But this deploys a substantive empirical claim, that philosophers' training indeed inculcates sufficient protection from such mistakes. We canvass the psychological literature on expertise, which indicates that people (...) are not generally very good at reckoning who will develop expertise under what circumstances. We consider three promising hypotheses concerning what philosophical expertise might consist in: (i) better conceptual schemata; (ii) mastery of entrenched theories; and (iii) general practical know-how with the entertaining of hypotheticals. On inspection, none seem to provide us with good reason to endorse this key empirical premise of the expertise defense. (shrink)
Epistemology of Intuition in Epistemology
Foundations of Experimental Philosophy, Misc in Metaphilosophy
Intuition in Epistemology
Thought Experiments in Metaphilosophy
Glivenko and Kuroda for Simple Type Theory.Chad E. Brown & Christine Rizkallah - 2014 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 79 (2):485-495.details
The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought.Chad Jorgenson - 2018 - Cambridge University Press.details
In this book, Chad Jorgenson challenges the view that for Plato the good life is one of pure intellection, arguing that his last writings increasingly insist on the capacity of reason to impose measure on our emotions and pleasures. Starting from an account of the ontological, epistemological, and physiological foundations of the tripartition of the soul, he traces the increasing sophistication of Plato's thinking about the nature of pleasure and pain and his developing interest in sciences bearing on physical (...) reality. These theoretical shifts represent a movement away from a conception of human happiness as a purification or flight of the soul from the sensible to the intelligible, as in the Phaedo, towards a focus on the harmony of the individual as a psychosomatic whole under the hegemonic power of reason. (shrink)
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Q: How I split particular column data from the dataset in R I have below client dataset includes client_id, birth_number and district_id. The birth number is in the form YYMMDD, here is twist  - The value is in the form: YYMMDD(for Men) and the value is in the form: YY(+50MM)DD(for Women). I want your help to develop the script in R where we can split the YYMMDD and set condition. based on condition if MM>12 then that row belong to women and the actual month value subtracted by 15 else Men with the same birth number.
please help
The value is in the form: YYMMDD (for men)
The value is in the form: YY(+50MM)DD (for women)
"client_id";"birth_number";"district_id"
1;"706213";18
2;"450204";1
3;"406009";1
4;"561201";5
5;"605703";5
6;"190922";12
7;"290125";15
8;"385221";51
9;"351016";60
10;"430501";57
11;"505822";57
12;"810220";40
13;"745529";54
14;"425622";76
15;"185828";21
16;"190225";21
17;"341013";76
18;"315405";76
19;"421228";47
20;"790104";46
21;"526029";12
22;"696011";1
23;"730529";1
24;"395729";43
25;"395423";21
26;"695420";74
27;"665326";54
28;"450929";1
29;"515911";30
30;"576009";74
31;"620209";68
32;"800728";52
33;"486204";73

A: An option is to use substring along with ifelse as:
# Get the 3rd and 4th character from "birth_number". If it is > 12
# that row is for Female, otherwise Male

df$Gender <- ifelse(as.numeric(substring(df$birth_number,3,4)) > 12, "Female", "Male")

# Now correct the "birth_number". Subtract 50 form middle 2 digits.
# Updated based on feedback from @RuiBarradas to use df$Gender == "Female"
# to subtract 50 from month number

df$birth_number <- ifelse(df$Gender == "Female",
                          as.character(as.numeric(df$birth_number)-5000), df$birth_number)

df

#    client_id birth_number district_id Gender
# 1          1       701213          18 Female
# 2          2       450204           1   Male
# 3          3       401009           1 Female
# 4          4       561201           5   Male
# 5          5       600703           5 Female
# 6          6       190922          12   Male
# so on
#

Data:
df <- read.table(text =
'"client_id";"birth_number";"district_id"
1;"706213";18
2;"450204";1
3;"406009";1
4;"561201";5
5;"605703";5
6;"190922";12
7;"290125";15
8;"385221";51
9;"351016";60
10;"430501";57
11;"505822";57
12;"810220";40
13;"745529";54
14;"425622";76
15;"185828";21
16;"190225";21
17;"341013";76
18;"315405";76
19;"421228";47
20;"790104";46
21;"526029";12
22;"696011";1
23;"730529";1
24;"395729";43
25;"395423";21
26;"695420";74
27;"665326";54
28;"450929";1
29;"515911";30
30;"576009";74
31;"620209";68
32;"800728";52
33;"486204";73',
header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, sep = ";")

A: Using the same commands as @MKR, I just prefer the tidyverse approach.
require(tidyverse)
df %>%
  mutate(Gender = ifelse(substr(birth_number, 3, 4) > 12,
                         "Female", "Male"),
         birth_number = ifelse(Gender == "Female",
                               birth_number - 5000,
                               birth_number))

   client_id birth_number district_id Gender
1          1       701213          18 Female
2          2       450204           1   Male
3          3       401009           1 Female
4          4       561201           5   Male
5          5       600703           5 Female
6          6       190922          12   Male
7          7       290125          15   Male
8          8       380221          51 Female
9          9       351016          60   Male
10        10       430501          57   Male
11        11       500822          57 Female
12        12       810220          40   Male
13        13       740529          54 Female
14        14       420622          76 Female
15        15       180828          21 Female
16        16       190225          21   Male
17        17       341013          76   Male
18        18       310405          76 Female
19        19       421228          47   Male
20        20       790104          46   Male
21        21       521029          12 Female
22        22       691011           1 Female
23        23       730529           1   Male
24        24       390729          43 Female
25        25       390423          21 Female
26        26       690420          74 Female
27        27       660326          54 Female
28        28       450929           1   Male
29        29       510911          30 Female
30        30       571009          74 Female
31        31       620209          68   Male
32        32       800728          52   Male
33        33       481204          73 Female


Getting temperature accurate is an important aspect when tempering chocolate. A marble slab helps to cool down chocolate after melting so that it can be tempered and worked with more easily.
Melt the chocolate as required by the recipe or chocolate package instructions.
Set up a marble slab on a flat surface.
Pour two thirds of the melted chocolate onto the marble slab.
Spread the melted chocolate out across the slab using a chocolate scraper. Work at it with the scraper until it starts to thicken just a little. The chocolate needs to be worked really well until enough seed crystals form.
The temperature should be 28ºC/82ºF.
Place the worked-on chocolate back with the third of warm chocolate that you didn't spread on the slab. Mix well until the combined chocolate reaches a temperature of 34ºC/93ºF evenly.
You'll then need to work very quickly with the chocolate.
If you find that it isn't cool enough, repeat the steps until it is cooled. While working with it, keep it at this temperature. This can be done by keeping the bowl in a warm spot or occasionally giving the bowl a blast of heat with a hair dryer set on low.
Why does my chocolate stick to the marble slab? I am trying to make chocolate fans.
You just need to wash the slab before you temper the chocolate. Sometimes if you do not wash the marble slab it will not work and the chocolate will stick.
Temperature is critical when working with chocolate. You'll need to rely on a thermometer initially to recognize when tempering occurs; however, with experience you should be able to start recognizing this more clearly.
This method is tricky and you will need to work fast. Be sure to keep the tempered chocolate at an even temperature of 34ºC/93ºF while working with it.
Chocolate that hasn't tempered properly will appear grayish-white and will be gritty or sandy in texture. Poorly tempered chocolate will also melt very easily when touched.
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An Uzbek Guide to Surviving a Government Shutdown
I have published three Op-Eds in the HuffPost since leaving Kazakhstan. If you are interested and haven't seen them, here are the links:
Why Is The U.S. Denying This Young Trans Woman A Student Visa?
U.S. Consuls Already Have The Tools To Discriminate In Visa Decisions
A Transgender American Diplomat Who Does Not Exist
I have to give this to the Department of State: all three Op-Eds were cleared for publication. Despite my deep disagreement with State and, in particular, Consular policies expressed in two of these Op-Eds, I am proud to work for a Department that has a place for dissenting views.
Alas, my HuffPost chapter ended with the closing of its Opinion section in early February. I wasn't even aware other than for the silence that greeted my most recent submission as we were still looking at the threat of another U.S. government shutdown. My final submission is now published instead here. It's a dark humor look at what government workers could learn from their counterparts in Uzbekistan when it comes to learning how to survive a shutdown. Enjoy.
If anyone has a suggestion for an outlet replacing the HuffPost Opinion section, do let me know!
We've been through it, a full month of government shutdown. A federal worker myself, I was one of the victims, first on unpaid furlough and then called back to unpaid, excepted work before the Trump White House finally caved and re-opened the government. In my office I've struggled to dig us out of the accumulated work and missed deadlines, and I know I'm not alone in that. Hanging over us all is the threat that this might happen again, soon at that.
We learned many survival techniques in January, and our helpful Departments and Agencies suggested useful ways we could cope without paychecks. Yard sales, pawn shops, unemployment compensation, and explanatory letters to creditors together with food banks became part of the mix. The White House saw no big deal for coddled federal workers who no doubt could make do with less. In the worst case, rich fathers or uncles could see us through, couldn't they?
This was all well and good, but January showed we are for amateurs when it comes to shutdowns. Why not learn from other countries that have been through this all before, not just for a month but for years on end? Why not learn from Uzbekistan? Government workers there are professionals when it comes to surviving shutdowns.
Uzbeks owe their professional shutdown survival skills to President Islam Karimov. A former Communist Party Secretary who became President after the Soviet collapse, Karimov espoused a policy of Make Uzbekistan Great Again. Within a few years most ethnic Russians who could get out did get out as Karimov allowed nationalist passions to ignite. Uzbekistan was now for the Uzbeks. Down came the statues of Lenin and Marx, and up went statues of Amir Timur, better known in the West as Tamerlane, the new symbol for Uzbek statehood. Terrorist bombings by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in 1999 led to a total crackdown on dissent of any type. Even benches were removed from parks so that people would not linger and, horror, talk about life with friends and neighbors.
Karimov introduced trade barriers that effectively cut Uzbekistan off from the rest of the world. No McDonalds or Burger Kings here. The policy was import substitution to encourage Uzbek business and industry even as uncompetitive Soviet industrial towns shut down and came to resemble U.S. rest belt towns. Uzbekistan even withdrew from the unified Central Asia electric grid to keep all electricity generated within its borders, well, within its borders.
The economic picture for Uzbekistan was nothing but rosy . . . according to official Uzbek government figures. Any source contradicting those figures was news of the most fake variety. The GDP was grew at a slow but steady pace, and the world financial crisis of 2009 scarcely touched Uzbekistan. Karimov's book The global financial-economic crisis, ways and measures to overcome it in the conditions of Uzbekistan called on the rest of the world to follow the Uzbek example to achieve abundant peace and prosperity. It was pointless to tell any Uzbek official that of course the Uzbek economy had not collapsed. How could it when it had never risen off its knees in the first place?
The White House could learn much from the Uzbek example that would allow it to pursue its agenda more effectively, but U.S. federal workers also have much to learn from their Uzbek colleagues. It was normal for government workers in Uzbekistan not to receive salaries for months on end. When salaries were paid, it was often in kind. I have Uzbek friends whose balcony was knee-deep in potatoes, their salary in lieu of cash for a month. When Russia put high tariffs on auto imports from Uzbekistan, the traffic in Tashkent exploded as government workers were given the chance to soak up the overproduction at next to no cost. (The Chevrolet Matiz, assembled at a facility in the Fergana Valley, sold for only about $5000 in 2009.) When the government began paying salaries electronically, employees became used to banks telling them there was no cash on hand when they went to make withdrawals. When pensioners started receiving their pensions on debit cards, they would stand at registers in high-end stores frequented by foreigners and ask that they be allowed to pay with their debit cards in exchange for cash they could use at the food markets.
Somehow or other, Uzbek workers lived on and even thrived after a fashion. Barter was the name of the game. "How many kilos of potatoes are needed to buy that Chevy Matiz?" The old Soviet model, "You pretend to pay me, and we pretend to work," continued to apply. Life happened on the side in spite of a government that was, in effect, shut down for more than 25 years until death came for President-for-life Karimov in 2016.
So take heart, federal workers of America. Ask your Department or Agency to work out a deal with American farmers who have lost their market in China. Just think what you could do with a balcony knee-deep in soy! Snip newspaper coupons and offer your services to private sector employees. You can reduce their weekly food expenses in exchange for a percentage in cold hard cash. One day you may be able to buy a car from Detroit that no longer has a market outside U.S. borders. A month's salary in American whiskey that is no longer competitive in Europe may ease your pain.
Through it all, ponder that you are helping to level the playing field for government bureaucracies everywhere through your understanding of the Uzbek experience. One day, perhaps, we may cast off our chains as we realize there is more uniting than dividing government workers in all countries. In the meantime, Xo'p mayli. That's Uzbek for Good or, sometimes and perhaps more to the point in this context, Whatever. . . .
Robyn Alice McCutcheon is a Foreign Service Officer who has served in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Romania. Although Ms. McCutcheon is employed by the U.S. Department of State, the views expressed in this column are strictly her own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of State or the U.S. Government.
Posted by Robyn Ann Jane Alice McCutcheon at 5:00 AM
Labels: #GovernmentShutdown, Robyn Ann Jane Alice McCutcheon, Transgender in State


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10 Mar 2020|Tracy Beattie, Hal Crichton-Standish, Daria Impiombato, Alexandra Pascoe and Albert Zhang
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Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force has commissioned its first Soryu-class diesel–electric submarine equipped with lithium-ion batteries. The lithium-ion batteries store significantly more energy than the lead-acid batteries used in earlier subs. The 4,100-tonne JS Oryu is the 11th Soryu-class submarine to be built and came at a cost of ¥66 billion (A$969 million).
China has rejected the US Navy's report that it fired a laser at US maritime surveillance aircraft operating in international waters in the Philippine Sea. China's defence ministry says instead that the US Navy P-8 Poseidon was circling its ship at low altitude despite 'repeated warnings from the Chinese side'. Incidents at sea between China and other countries have been occurring more frequently in recent years.
Australian-based shipbuilding company Austal has handed over to Fiji the sixth of 19 patrol boats it's constructing for a number of countries. This vessel will help Fiji combat transnational crime and respond to illegal fishing. It's hoped the new boat will strengthen Fiji's maritime capabilities and the Fiji–Australia Vuvale Partnership.
Australia will sell 46 of its F/A-18 Classic Hornet jets to flight-training firm Air USA. The Royal Australian Air Force will retire its F/A-18 fleet by 2023 as it transitions to the new F‑35A. The Defence Department said that the US Air Force intends to use the aircraft, which first entered service in the 1980s, for adversary combat training. So far, the RAAF has taken delivery of 20 F-35s out of an order of 72.
The German government has approved more than €300 million (A$518 million) in funding to improve the capabilities of the Luftwaffe. Around 80% of this budget will be used to update the Luftwaffe's ageing Tornado aircraft, which are used for NATO nuclear burden-sharing and the suppression of enemy air defences. Another €27 million (A$47 million) will be used to equip Germany's six new C-130J Hercules transport aircraft with missile warning systems.
Australia has expressed its support for the peace deal signed between the US and the Taliban on Afghanistan. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, meanwhile, has indicated Australian troops will withdraw from the country under the 14-month timeframe outlined in the agreement. More than 26,000 Australian troops served in Afghanistan and 41 were killed, while 400 remain in the country. Negotiations between the Afghan government, which was not a party to the agreement, and the Taliban are scheduled to begin today, but they might be jeopardised by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's refusal to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
An Indian Supreme Court ruling that women should have equal roles to men in the army doesn't represent a feminist victory, according to gender activist and lawyer Shreshtha Das. She argues that the ruling fails to address deeper issues with the army's entrenched 'hyper-masculinity' and other concerns about military practices that disproportionately hurt women.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has selected Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics for the its program to service geosynchronous satellites using robots. SpaceLogistics will provide the first commercial spacecraft with a robotic arm that can perform repairs, inspection or relocation of other commercial or military satellites. The US Defense Department is also seeking logistics vehicles that can ferry payloads between satellites, act as fuel depots or transfer space vehicles to new orbits.
Just Security has published a three-part forum analysing space-based military legal issues under the 'Woomera manual' tagline. The manual is an international project, led by the University of Adelaide, the University of Exeter, the University of Nebraska and UNSW Canberra, to clarify existing international law applicable to military space operations. Most space-faring nations are party to the Outer Space Treaty; however, the document is becoming increasingly outdated and lacks general rules of interpretation.
The launch of the United Arab Emirates' Falcon Eye 2 has been delayed due to issues with the upper stage of the Soyuz rocket it's set to use. The Russian space industry have been criticised by Parabolic Arc, which calculated that there have been an average of two failures annually by Russian launch vehicles over the past 30 years. Currently, only Russian Soyuz spacecraft can launch astronauts into space as US commercial crew vehicles aren't yet ready.
Wired watchtower
The electronic records system of the Australian Defence Force's recruitment arm was taken offline and quarantined from other military networks for 10 days last month, while specialists worked to contain an apparent security breach. An investigation by Defence has found no evidence of data being stolen from the company contracted to manage it. However, given previous hacks of Australian institutions, politicians have expressed concern about the apparently sophisticated nature of the attempt.
Cybersecurity executives from Huawei have admitted they don't know whether Huawei technology has aided government surveillance activities overseas. Despite assurances that Huawei is working to improve exploitable vulnerabilities, there have reportedly been several instances in which Huawei technicians and subsidiaries have been used in domestic surveillance in Iran, Uganda and Zambia.
While Taiwan was expected to be hard hit by coronavirus given its links and proximity to mainland China, unique steps taken by the Taiwanese government have helped prevent a major breakout. One such step has involved integrating the national health-insurance database with immigration and customs data, which has allowed for quick identification of cases and their degree of infectious risk.
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Philadelphia is at its lush best: green, green, leafy, breezy.
I so enjoyed joining local P'nai Or for davvenen this morning; and connecting with friends old and new there.
From there, a short ride to the home of a friend I've known since I was 16, his wife, and a dog I had not met before. Such richness: old friends with whom one can remember the past and also discuss our present.
Then back to my cousin's, getting lost the same way I did a few days ago, and getting rescued by cell phone.
I am grateful for shabbos, and grateful to re-enter the week.


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Prosecutor: Jupiter attorney shot 10 times by 'angry, angry ex-wife'
Defense arguing that victim's son, not ex-wife, killed him
Terri Parker
Donna Horwitz is accused of shooting and killing her ex-husband in Jupiter in 2011.
Prosecutors made opening statements in the murder trial of 66-year-old Jupiter resident Donna Horwitz, saying she killed her ex-husband Lanny in a fit of rage because he was "mean to her.""You will know beyond a reasonable doubt that this man that was shot 10 times was shot by an angry angry ex-wife," prosecutor Alethea McRoberts told the 12-person jury.MUGSHOTS: Have You Met Death Row's Female Faces?The prosecution said although the couple lived in a million-dollar house in the exclusive Admiral's Cove community, took trips and had fancy cars, they were really living beyond their means and close to bankruptcy. They said Lanny also had a girlfriend whom he treated much better than his ex-wife.McRoberts said in September 2011, Donna Horwitz shot Lanny 10 times as he took a shower, preparing to go on a trip with his girlfriend. One bullet missed.Horwitz's attorney, Grey Tesh, said the prosecution was "jumping to conclusions.""A third party murdered Lanny," Tesh said. "And he left a bloody smudge of DNA on the gate as he made his getaway."Tesh said that smudge matched no one at the crime scene.Tesh pointed out that despite the large amount of blood spatter, Horwitz had no blood on her hands or clothes when security guards arrived minutes after the shooting. She did have some blood on her foot.There was no fingerprint or DNA evidence on either gun.Tesh told jurors that the couple's adult son, Radley, who was in the home at the time, had a much better motive than his mother: he was in financial trouble and was the beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy on his father.Radley Horwitz will take the stand for the prosecution on Monday.NEW MUGSHOTS: 2013 Arrests In South Florida On WPBF.com:
Prosecutors made opening statements in the murder trial of 66-year-old Jupiter resident Donna Horwitz, saying she killed her ex-husband Lanny in a fit of rage because he was "mean to her."
"You will know beyond a reasonable doubt that this man that was shot 10 times was shot by an angry angry ex-wife," prosecutor Alethea McRoberts told the 12-person jury.
MUGSHOTS: Have You Met Death Row's Female Faces?
The prosecution said although the couple lived in a million-dollar house in the exclusive Admiral's Cove community, took trips and had fancy cars, they were really living beyond their means and close to bankruptcy. They said Lanny also had a girlfriend whom he treated much better than his ex-wife.
McRoberts said in September 2011, Donna Horwitz shot Lanny 10 times as he took a shower, preparing to go on a trip with his girlfriend. One bullet missed.
Horwitz's attorney, Grey Tesh, said the prosecution was "jumping to conclusions."
"A third party murdered Lanny," Tesh said. "And he left a bloody smudge of DNA on the gate as he made his getaway."
Tesh said that smudge matched no one at the crime scene.
Tesh pointed out that despite the large amount of blood spatter, Horwitz had no blood on her hands or clothes when security guards arrived minutes after the shooting. She did have some blood on her foot.
There was no fingerprint or DNA evidence on either gun.
Tesh told jurors that the couple's adult son, Radley, who was in the home at the time, had a much better motive than his mother: he was in financial trouble and was the beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy on his father.
Radley Horwitz will take the stand for the prosecution on Monday.
NEW MUGSHOTS: 2013 Arrests In South Florida On WPBF.com:


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When a pro-life Citizen Amendment leads to a ban on abortion and birth control, politicians find babies abandoned on their doorsteps. That's just the beginning.
"A powerful indictment about an all-too-possible United States where a craven, authoritarian government decides it has the right to tell women what they can and can't do with their own bodies. Tsetsi's prose is luminous; it puts the lie to such corrupt and immoral political acts, and does so via an exciting drama that illuminates the hypocrisies of our time without flinching." – Alan Davis, author of So Bravely Vegetative and Senior Editor Emeritus of New Rivers Press
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Pretty Much True knows the pain of deployment." —Stars and Stripes
Pretty Much True is ultimately about life and how we choose to deal with loss and grief, even when those we are mourning are still alive. It is an intimate and personal look into a soul bared raw for us all to see."–Pop Culture Zoo
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The Year of Dan Palace is a book to savour and enjoy the beautiful clarity of the writing. Stunningly good."—Indie Bookworm Reviews
The Year of Dan Palace is honest, original, and impossible to put down. With a wholly distinctive narrative voice, Chris Jane is a 21st Century Bukowski."—Joseph Dilworth Jr., Pop Culture Zoo
Obitogy for Steve / Dad Tsetsi
Steve Tsetsi was not born a dad, though it felt like he could have been. Instead, he was born a regular baby. . The first of five kids, he was a big brother to (in order of life appearance) Christine (Chris), Larry, Linda, and Mark. "He was the coolest big brother ever," Chris says.
Interview with WWII veteran Ted Cummings about his influences, his decision to join the Marines, and his role in the war
The following interview with Theodore R. Cummings was conducted in November 2013. Mr. Cummings, a friendly, energetic, and overall lovely interview subject, died two years later in September 2015. Since retiring from his position as chairman of the Manchester, Conn. Democratic Committee in 2007, a position he'd held for 47 years, lifelong Manchester resident Ted
Social media's "thigh gap" trend not to blame for eating disorders
Originally published Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 in the Journal Inquirer by Kristen J. Tsetsi The website wikiHow, which offers step-by-step instructions on how to build a door, drive a car with manual transmission, and accept not having children, also explains how to achieve thigh gap. Thigh gap, an aesthetic desired by a segment of young
There's more to preventing rape than the victims not getting drunk, experts say
Originally published in the Journal Inquirer as "How can we stop rape?" Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 by Kristen J. Tsetsi The University of Michigan reports that according to studies conducted in 2000 and 2001, teaching men to be dominant and aggressive often leads to their development of hyper-masculinity, male peer support for sexual aggression, and
The making of a book: Part II
Years ago, on a now-abandoned WordPress site, I made A book's stages of growth: in pictures after having written my first novel, Homefront (Homefront later became Pretty Much True, which became Pretty Much True by Chris Jane, and yes it's all the same story. Regerts, I have a few). Now that The Age of the Child
*for the Journal Inquirer (& still more than relevant enough to re-post years later) Federal prosecutors have said one-time East Hartford, Conn. "pimp" Brian Forbes sold two young women to another "pimp" for a promised payment of more than $1,000 in late 2003. The sale — for which Forbes never actually received payment, according to


BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Like most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogotá's Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot — a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long provided transportation for the masses.
But a few blocks away, sleek red vehicles full of commuters speed down the four center lanes of Avenida de las Américas. The long, segmented, low-emission buses are part of a novel public transportation system called bus rapid transit, or B.R.T. It is more like an above-ground subway than a collection of bus routes, with seven intersecting lines, enclosed stations that are entered through turnstiles with the swipe of a fare card and coaches that feel like trams inside.
Versions of these systems are being planned or built in dozens of developing cities around the world — Mexico City, Cape Town, Jakarta, Indonesia, and Ahmedabad, India, to name a few — providing public transportation that improves traffic flow and reduces smog at a fraction of the cost of building a subway.
But the rapid transit systems have another benefit: they may hold a key to combating climate change. Emissions from cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles in the booming cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America account for a rapidly growing component of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming. While emissions from industry are decreasing, those related to transportation are expected to rise more than 50 percent by 2030 in industrialized and poorer nations. And 80 percent of that growth will be in the developing world, according to data presented in May at an international conference in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and the Clean Air Institute.
To be effective, a new international climate treaty that will be negotiated in Copenhagen in December must include "a policy response to the CO2 emissions from transport in the developing world," the Bellagio conference statement concluded.
Bus rapid transit systems like Bogotá's, called TransMilenio, might hold an answer. Now used for an average of 1.6 million trips each day, TransMilenio has allowed the city to remove 7,000 small private buses from its roads, reducing the use of bus fuel — and associated emissions — by more than 59 percent since it opened its first line in 2001, according to city officials.
In recognition of this feat, TransMilenio last year became the only large transportation project approved by the United Nations to generate and sell carbon credits. Developed countries that exceed their emissions limits under the Kyoto Protocol, or that simply want to burnish a "green" image, can buy credits from TransMilenio to balance their emissions budgets, bringing Bogotá an estimated $100 million to $300 million so far, analysts say.
Indeed, the city has provided a model of how international programs to combat climate change can help expanding cities — the number of cars in China alone could increase sevenfold by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency — pay for transit systems that would otherwise be unaffordable.
"Bogotá was huge and messy and poor, so people said, 'If Bogotá can do it, why can't we?' " said Enrique Peñalosa, an economist and a former mayor of the city who took TransMilenio from a concept to its initial opening in 2001 and is now advising other cities. In 2008, Mexico City opened a second successful bus rapid transit line that has already reduced carbon dioxide emissions there, according to Lee Schipper, a transportation expert at Stanford University, and the city has applied to sell carbon credits as well.
But bus rapid transit systems are not the answer for every city. In the United States, where cost is less constraining, some cities, like Los Angeles, have built B.R.T.'s, but they tend to lack many of the components of comprehensive systems like TransMilenio, like fully enclosed stations, and they serve as an addition to existing rail networks.
In some sprawling cities in India, where a tradition of scooter use may make bus rapid transit more difficult to create, researchers are working to develop a new model of tuk-tuk, or motorized cab, that is cheap and will run on alternative fuels or with a highly efficient engine. "There are three million auto rickshaws in India alone, and the smoke is astonishing, so this could have a huge impact," said Stef van Dongen, director of Enviu, an environmental network group in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that is sponsoring the research.
Bus rapid transit systems have not always worked well in cities that have tried them, either. In New Delhi, for example, the experiment foundered in part because it proved difficult to protect bus lanes from traffic. And a system that does not succeed in drawing passengers out of their cars just adds buses to existing vehicles on the roads, making traffic and emissions worse.
But with its wide streets, dense population and a tradition of bus travel, Bogotá had the ingredients for success. To create TransMilenio, the city commandeered two to four traffic lanes in the middle of major boulevards, isolating them with low walls to create the system's so-called tracks. On the center islands that divide many of Bogotá's two-way streets, the city built dozens of distinctive metal-and-glass stations. Just as in a subway, the multiple doors on the buses slide open level with the platform, providing easy access for strollers and older riders. Hundreds of passengers can wait on the platforms, avoiding the delays that occur when passengers each pay as they board.
Mr. Peñalosa noted that the negative stereotypes about bus travel required some clever rebranding. Now, he said, upscale condominiums advertise that they are near TransMilenio lines. "People don't say, 'I'm taking the bus,' they say, 'I'm taking TransMilenio,' " he added, as he rode at rush hour recently, chatting with other passengers.
Jorge Engarrita, 45, a leather worker who was riding TransMilenio to work, said the system had "changed his life," reducing his commuting time to 40 minutes with one transfer from two or three hours on several buses. Free shuttle buses carry residents from outlying districts to TransMilenio terminals.
To the dismay of car owners, Bogotá removed one-third of its street parking to make room for TransMilenio and imposed alternate-day driving restrictions determined by license plate numbers, forcing car owners onto the system.
With an extensive route system, TransMilenio moves more passengers per mile every hour than almost any of the world's subways. Most poorer cities that have built subways, like Manila, can afford to build only a few limited lines because of the expense.
Subways cost more than 30 times as much per mile to build than a B.R.T. system, and three times as much to maintain. And bus rapid transit systems can be built more quickly. "Almost all rapidly developing cities understand that they need a metro or something like it, and you can get a B.R.T. by 2010 or a metro by 2060," said Walter Hook, executive director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, in New York.
Although TransMilenio buses run on diesel, their efficient engines mean they emit less than half the nitrous oxide, particulate matter and carbon dioxide of the older minibuses. Cleaner fuels were either too expensive or did not work at Bogotá's altitude, 9,000 feet above sea level.
TransMilenio is building more lines and underpasses to allow the buses to bypass clogged intersections, but for the moment the real challenge is overcrowding. Juan Gómez, 21, a businessman, takes TransMilenio only on days when he cannot drive, and he griped that it was often hard to find a seat.
"It's O.K., but I prefer the car," he said.
An article on July 10 about a bus rapid transit system in Bogotá, Colombia, that helps reduce fuel emissions erroneously included a city among poor cities in which subway service is limited, less efficient and more costly compared with the Bogotá system. Lagos, Nigeria, has no subway, though one has been proposed. A reader pointed out the error in an e-mail message several weeks after the article appeared.
This is the third in a series of articles about stopgap measures that could limit global warming. Future articles will address appliance- efficiency standards, building codes, reducing global-warming gases other than carbon dioxide and other efforts.


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NIH director says new Israel information is constructing case within the U.S.
New data from Israel on the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines over time is causing U.S. health leaders to rethink their position on vaccine booster shots in the U.S., National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins said Tuesday.
"The people who got immunized in January are the ones that are now having more breakthrough cases," Collins said during an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," referring to Covid infections in fully vaccinated individuals. Israel released new data Monday showing a reduction in the effectiveness of Pfizer's Covid vaccine against severe illness among people 65 and older who were fully vaccinated in January or February.
NIH Director Fr. Francis Collins holds up a model of the coronavirus as he testifies before a hearing looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on May 26, 2021.
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Collins said the rise in so-called breakthrough cases in Israel is likely due to a combination of the highly contagious delta variant and Covid vaccine protection waning over time.
"Mostly, of course, these are symptomatic, but not serious," he said. "But you're starting to see a little bit of a trend toward some of those requiring hospitalization."
Collins' comments come as federal health officials are expected to recommend that most people in the U.S. who are eligible for Covid vaccinations should get booster shots eight months after their second doses.
The federal guidance, which would apply only to the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, could go into effect as early as mid-September, pending FDA authorization, a person familiar with the discussions told CNBC.
The New York Times reported Monday that federal health officials are particularly concerned about data from Israel, where Covid vaccinations began ahead of many other countries. The data reportedly showed that for people vaccinated in January who are age 65 and older, the Pfizer vaccine was less than 55% effective against severe disease and hospitalization.
Collins said Tuesday that federal officials are starting to see the same thing in U.S. data.
"Although right now, it still as if our vaccine protection is working really well," he said. "But we don't want to wait until it's like oh, too late. So that's why we're looking at the data."
Up until now, federal officials haven't recommended booster doses for the general public. On Friday, they approved administering Covid booster shots of Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccines to Americans with weakened immune systems, which includes cancer and HIV patients and people who have had organ transplants.
Covid vaccine makers, including Pfizer and Moderna, have repeatedly contended that everyone will eventually need a booster shot and potentially extra doses every year, just like for the seasonal flu.
The NIH, Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a joint statement Tuesday saying they have a "rigorous process" to determine when boosters would be necessary.
"This process takes into account laboratory data, clinical trial data, and cohort data – which can include data from specific pharmaceutical companies, but does not rely on those data exclusively," the agencies said. "We continue to review any new data as it becomes available and will keep the public informed."
On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech said they have submitted early stage clinical trial data to the FDA as part of their U.S. application seeking authorization of a Covid vaccine booster for everyone 16 and older. The companies said they would seek approval for a booster dose via a supplement to their application once the agency grants the vaccine full approval.
If the booster shots are approved, the U.S. would likely vaccinate nursing homes, health-care providers and the elderly first, Collins said Tuesday. He said "ideally" people should stick with the same manufacturer they got their first two doses from.
"But if for some reason you don't have access to it, well, then get the other one," he said. "Again, I'd feel more comfortable as a scientist fixing our plans on real data, and that means sticking to the same kind of vaccine that you got to begin with."
–CNBC's Tom Franck contributed to this report.
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Harlem/Morningside Heights
Harlem Condo Board Files Suit Against Former Sponsor
By Rowley Amato Jan 4, 2014, 11:30am EST
When last we heard from The Lenox—one of Harlem's first market-rate condos when it launched sales way back in 2006—the residents were kvetching about the possibility of a Pioneer opening on the ground floor. Now, they're going to war with former sponsor Lewis Futterman , alleging a list of building code violations, construction defects, and fraud in a suit filed in the state Supreme Court on December 31st.
The Lenox's condo board claims that the building has "fundamental structural flaws, a defective roof and pervasive leakage," and that the units bought by residents in 2006 did not match the original offering plan. Futterman's sponsorship entity Residents have paid $260,000 for repairs, but are seeking at least $4 million in damages.
Since Futterman's sponsorship entity filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010, the board also claims that Futterman defrauded residents by transferring ownership of unsold sponsor units to his own company Uptown Partners, in order to avoid paying for repairs.
"Uptown Partners and the sponsor is one and the same," said the attorney for the board. "This is a scheme to make sure that the condo unit owners are going to have to pay for these repairs when, in fact, it's the responsibility of the sponsor."
· "Harlem condo board takes developer to task over alleged construction gaffes" [TRD]
· Previous Lenox coverage [Curbed]
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Q: JSF projects works on IE but throws an Exception in Google Chrome My problem is my JSF Primefaces project is not running on Google Chrome when I try to run it.  It displays the filename, item label, directory name, syntax is incorrect and open  empty a notepad file.
The same project run on IE properly.
Can anyone help me?

A: You have to set the contentType with <f:view contentType="text/html"> to your page.


I saw these photos on the internet and immediately thought of Freeze. This is something he would do. And as I type this, I realize this is going to cost us money since he will be spending company funds on a new "company" table.
How can I say no? I can't.
Glass Top Open and easily accessible.
Original markings left on outside.
I thought the grenade feet were a nice touch.
Hardware is well thought out.
Finished product. Would look good in most homes.
Did you notice the hand grenade legs? Nice touch. I guess pineapple grenades could be period correct if you consider all the war material we gave the Soviets during, "The Great Patriotic War". Or what we call, "The Big One: WWII". Anyway, not unexpected. We all know socialists need handouts to survive.


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