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Creation and the Sovereignty of God.Hugh J. McCann - 2012 - Indiana University Press.details
Creation and the Sovereignty of God brings fresh insight to a defense of God.
Creation, Misc in Philosophy of Religion
Divine Eternity in Philosophy of Religion
Divine Freedom in Philosophy of Religion
Divine Simplicity in Philosophy of Religion
The Argument from Evil in Philosophy of Religion
Leibniz: Creation and Conservation and Concurrence.Jeffrey K. McDonough - 2007 - The Leibniz Review 17:31-60.details
In this paper I argue that the hoary theological doctrine of divine concurrence poses no deep threat to Leibniz's views on theodicy and creaturely activity even as those views have been traditionally understood. The first three sections examine respectively Leibniz's views on creation, conservation and concurrence, with an eye towards showing their systematic compatibility with Leibniz's theodicy and metaphysics. The fourth section takes up remaining worries arising from the bridging principle that conservation is a continued or continuous creation, (...) and argues that they can be allayed once two readings of the principle are distinguished. What emerges from the discussion as a whole is, I hope, a clearer picture of Leibniz's views on the nature of monadic causation, his understanding of the relationship between divine and creaturely activity, and his position with respect to later medieval and early modern debates over secondary causation. (shrink)
Leibniz: Metaphysics in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Leibniz: Philosophy of Action in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Leibniz: Philosophy of Religion in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism.Giorgio Agamben - 2019 - Stanford University Press.details
"The texts published here reproduce, with some variation, those of five lectures held at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture between October 2012 and April 2013.".
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Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representaion.Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds.) - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.details
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the (...) evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour.Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen. (shrink)
Artifacts in Metaphysics
Cognitive Sciences, Misc in Cognitive Sciences
Concepts, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Ontology, Misc in Metaphysics
Theory-Based Theories of Concepts in Philosophy of Mind
The Creation of the World or Globalization.Jean-Luc Nancy - 2007 - State University of New York Press.details
Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-forming), Nancy undertakes a rethinking of what "world-forming" might mean. At stake in this distinction is for him nothing less than two possible destinies of our humanity, and of our time. On the one hand, with globalization, (...) there is the uniformity produced by a global economical and technological logic leading to the contrary of an inhabitable world, "the un-world" (l'im-monde)—as Nancy refers to it—an un-world that entails social disintegration, misery, and injustice. And, on the other hand, there is the possibility of an authentic world-forming, that is, of a making of the world and of a making sense that Nancy calls a "creation" of the world. Nancy understands such world-forming in terms of an inexhaustible struggle for justice. This book is an important contribution by Nancy to a philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of globalization and a further development on his earlier works on our being-in-common, justice, and a-theological existence. (shrink)
Jean-Luc Nancy in Continental Philosophy
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Creation and Authority: The Natural Law Foundations of Locke's Account of Parental Authority.Andrew Franklin-Hall - 2012 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42 (3-4):255-279.details
John Locke occupies a central place in the contemporary philosophical literature on parental authority, and his child-centered approach has inspired a number of recognizably Lockean theories of parenthood.2 But unlike the best historically informed scholarship on other aspects of Locke's thought, those interested in his account of parental rights have not yet tried to understand its connection to debates of the period or to Locke's broader theory of natural law. In particular, Locke's relation to the seventeenth-century conversation about the role (...) of generation in grounding 'paternal power' is not well-known. Understanding this background is interesting in itself, but more importantly, it can provide us with a .. (shrink)
Locke: Political Philosophy, Misc in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Time, Creation, and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.Richard Sorabji - 1983 - University of Chicago Press.details
Richard Sorabji here takes time as his central theme, exploring fundamental questions about its nature: Is it real or an aspect of consciousness? Did it begin along with the universe? Can anything escape from it? Does it come in atomic chunks? In addressing these and myriad other issues, Sorabji engages in an illuminating discussion of early thought about time, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Islamic, Christian, and Jewish medieval thinkers. Sorabji argues that the thought of these often negelected philosophers (...) about the subject is, in many cases, more complete than that of their more recent counterparts. "Splendid. . . . The canvas is vast, the picture animated, the painter nonpareil. . . . Sorabji's work will encourage more adventurers to follow him to this fascinating new-found land."—Jonathan Barnes, Times Literary Supplement "One of the most important works in the history of metaphysics to appear in English for a considerable time. No one concerned with the problems with which it deals either as a historian of ideas or as a philosopher can afford to neglect it."—Donald MacKinnon, Scottish Journal of Theology "Unusually readable for such scholarly content, the book provides in rich and cogent terms a lively and well-balanced discussion of matters of concern to a wide academic audience."— Choice. (shrink)
A-Theories of Time in Metaphysics
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Miscellaneous in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Aspects of Time, Misc in Metaphysics
B-Theories of Time in Metaphysics
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Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion.Elizabeth Harman - 1999 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 28 (4):310-324.details
Abortion in Applied Ethics
Creation and Divine Providence in Plotinus.Christopher Noble & Nathan Powers - 2015 - In Anna Marmodoro & Brian Prince (eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity. pp. 51-70.details
In this paper, we argue that Plotinus denies deliberative forethought about the physical cosmos to the demiurge on the basis of certain basic and widely shared Platonic and Aristotelian assumptions about the character of divine thought. We then discuss how Plotinus can nonetheless maintain that the cosmos is «providentially» ordered.
Plotinus in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
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Value Creation in Cross-Sector Collaborations: The Roles of Experience and Alignment.Joan Manuel Batista, Daniel Arenas & Matthew Murphy - 2015 - Journal of Business Ethics 130 (1):145-162.details
This research uses a survey to analyze types of benefits sought by partners in cross-sector collaborations in Spain and to test and build upon theories that indicate prior collaboration experience and partner alignment will positively affect value creation through the collaboration. Using exploratory factor analysis to operationalize a broad range of potential benefits into more specific concepts, the results of this study identify distinct factors that characterize the types of benefits sought by non-profit organizations and businesses engaged in cross-sector (...) collaborations. Findings show that prior experience and alignment positively affect each factor for value creation. Prior experience is also found to influence the type of benefits sought from cross-sector collaborations and to positively affect alignment in terms of mission and strategy. Unexpectedly, the study also finds that prior experience moderates the effect of alignment on value creation. (shrink)
Value Creation, Appropriation, and Distribution: How Firms Contribute to Societal Economic Inequality.Raza Mir, Jane Lu, Bryan W. Husted & Hari Bapuji - 2018 - Business and Society 57 (6):983-1009.details
Firms are central to wealth creation and distribution, but their role in economic inequality in a society remains poorly studied. In this essay, we define and distinguish value distribution from value creation and value appropriation. We identify four value distribution mechanisms that firms engage in and argue that shareholder wealth maximization approach skews the value distribution toward shareholders and top executives, which in turn contributes to rising economic inequalities around the world. We call on organizational scholars to study (...) the value distribution role of firms and its consequences for society, and introduce the articles in this volume of the special issue on economic inequality, business, and society. (shrink)
The Creation of the Essentialism Story: An Exercise in Metahistory.Mary P. Winsor - 2006 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (2):149 - 174.details
The essentialism story is a version of the history of biological classification that was fabricated between 1953 and 1968 by Ernst Mayr, who combined contributions from Arthur Cain and David Hull with his own grudge against Plato. It portrays pre-Darwinian taxonomists as caught in the grip of an ancient philosophy called essentialism, from which they were not released until Charles Darwin's 1859 Origin of Species. Mayr's motive was to promote the Modern Synthesis in opposition to the typology of idealist morphologists; (...) demonizing Plato served this end. Arthur Cain's picture of Linnaeus as a follower of 'Aristotelian' (scholastic) logic was woven into the story, along with David Hull's application of Karl Popper's term, 'essentialism', which Mayr accepted in 1968 as a synonym for what he had called 'typological thinking'. Although Mayr also pointed out the importance of empiricism in the history of taxonomy, the essentialism story still dominates the secondary literature. The history of the first telling of the essentialism story exposes its scant basis in fact. (shrink)
Anti-Essentialism in Metaphysics
Essentialism about Species in Philosophy of Biology
History of Biology in Philosophy of Biology
Value Creation in Inter-Organizational Collaboration: An Empirical Study.Morgane Le Pennec & Emmanuel Raufflet - 2018 - Journal of Business Ethics 148 (4):817-834.details
Over the last decade, businesses, policymakers, and researchers alike have advocated the need for value creation through inter-organizational collaboration. Researchers have widely argued that organizations that are engaged in collaborative processes create value. Because researchers have tended to focus on the identification of organizational motivations and on key success factors for collaboration, however, both the nature and processes of value creation in inter-organizational collaboration have yet to be examined. A recent theory by Austin and Seitanidi :726–758, 2012a; Nonprofit (...) Volunt Sect Q 41:929–968, 2012b) has proposed an analytical framework for analyzing value creation in inter-organizational collaboration, based on four types of value. The purpose of this current study is to empirically test this framework, and to provide key pointers for analyzing the nature of value, particularly in relation to learning. Our detailed empirical research is based on a 6-year retrospective case study of an inter-organizational partnership within an international development project for local economic development in Guatemala. The study's contributions are twofold. First, it provides evidence of the critical path of the creation of diverse types of values in a collaborative process; second, it links the different types of value creation with the types of learning that occur in an inter-organizational process. (shrink)
Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics: From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius.Whitney Bauman - 2009 - Routledge.details
Introduction : points of departure -- A genealogy of the Christian colonial mindset : ex nihilo from disputed beginnings to orthodox origins -- Ex nihilo and the origin of an empire -- Ex nihilo, erasure and discovery? -- The cogito, ex nihilo, and the legacy of John Locke -- The creation ex nihilo of terra nullius lands : omnipotent nations and the logic of global-colonization -- From epistemologies of domination to grounded thinking -- Opening words about God onto creatio (...) continua -- Creatio continua "all the way down": a post-colonial, planetary understanding of continuing creation -- Conclusion : a brief thought after. (shrink)
Environmental Ethics in Applied Ethics
Free Will, Self‐Creation, and the Paradox of Moral Luck.Kristin M. Mickelson - 2019 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 43 (1):224-256.details
How is the problem of free will related to the problem of moral luck? In this essay, I answer that question and outline a new solution to the paradox of moral luck, the source-paradox solution. This solution both explains why the paradox arises and why moral luck does not exist. To make my case, I highlight a few key connections between the paradox of moral luck and two related problems, namely the problem of free will and determinism and the paradox (...) of self-creation. Piecing together intuitions, arguments, and insights from recent work on each of these three problems, I argue that the type of control necessary for moral responsibility can only be satisfied by someone who is a genuine source of his own actions, but the relevant notion of sourcehood admits no coherent characterization. If our commonsense view of moral responsibility is incoherent, it is unsurprising that our commitment to the existence of morally responsible agents commits us to some paradoxical things—e.g. to both the existence and impossibility of moral luck. (shrink)
Free Will Skepticism in Philosophy of Action
Free Will and Responsibility in Philosophy of Action
Topics in Free Will, Misc in Philosophy of Action
Aesthetic Creation.Nick Zangwill - 2007 - Oxford University Press.details
What is the purpose of art? What drives us to make it? Why do we value it? Nick Zangwill argues that the function of art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its non-aesthetic properties, and this function arises because of the artist's insight into the nature of these dependence relations and her intention to bring them about.
Aesthetic Cognition in Aesthetics
Co-creation: A Key Link Between Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer Trust, and Customer Loyalty.Oriol Iglesias, Stefan Markovic, Mehdi Bagherzadeh & Jatinder Jit Singh - 2020 - Journal of Business Ethics 163 (1):151-166.details
In an ever more transparent, digitalized, and connected environment, customers are increasingly pressuring brands to embrace genuine corporate social responsibility practices and co-creation activities. While both CSR and co-creation are social and collaborative processes, there is still little research examining whether CSR can boost co-creation. In addition, while previous research has mainly related co-creation to emotional outcomes, limited empirical research has related it to rational and behavioral outcomes. To address these shortcomings in the literature, this paper (...) examines the influence of CSR on customer loyalty, considering the mediating roles of co-creation and customer trust. It also investigates the influence of co-creation on customer trust. The data were collected in Spain in late 2017 using an online survey, and the sample contained 1101 customers of health insurance services brands. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized relationships simultaneously. The results show that CSR influences customer loyalty both directly and indirectly through co-creation and customer trust. However, the indirect impact is the stronger of the two, implying that embracing co-creation activities and developing customer trust can make it easier for CSR practices to enhance customer loyalty. In addition, co-creation has a direct effect on customer trust. (shrink)
Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism.Ted Nannicelli - 2020 - Oup Usa.details
Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism investigates an idea that underpins the ethical criticism of art but is rarely acknowledged and poorly understood - namely, that the ethical criticism of art involves judgments not only of the attitudes a work endorses or solicits, but of what artists do to create the work. The book pioneers an innovative production-oriented approach to the study of the ethical criticism of art, one that will provide a refined philosophical account of this important topic as (...) well as conceptual tools that can guide future philosophizing and criticism. (shrink)
Art and Artworks in Aesthetics
Wealth Creation in China and Some Lessons for Development Ethics: Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability.Georges Enderle - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 96 (1):1 - 15.details
In the last 30 years, China has experienced an astounding economic development that calls for a differentiated understanding of this complex process of wealth creation. In the first section of this article, I present a new concept of wealth creation that goes beyond making money, maximizing profit and adding value and serves as a framework to address the article's main topic.In the second section, I investigate in what ways and to what extent this new concept might apply to (...) China's economic reform and development, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. In the third section, I attempt to draw a couple of lessons for development ethics in general. (shrink)
Evolution, Creation, and the Philosophy of Science.Paul Thagard - unknowndetails
Debates about evolution and creation inevitably raise philosophical issues about the nature of scientific knowledge. What is a theory? What is an explanation? How is science different from non- science? How should theories be evaluated? Does science achieve truth? The aim of this chapter is to give a concise and accessible introduction to the philosophy of science, focusing on questions relevant to understanding evolution by natural selection, creation, and intelligent design. For the questions just listed, I state what (...) I think is the best available answer and show how it applies to debates about evolution and creationism. I also indicate alternative answers that are preferred by other philosophers. I hope that the result will be useful for science educators and anyone else involved in controversies about evolution and creation. (shrink)
Evolutionary Biology in Philosophy of Biology
Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representation.Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence - 2009 - Analysis 69 (1):171-172.details
This collection of 16 original articles by prominent theorists from a variety of disciplines provides an excellent insight into current thinking about artifacts. The four sections address issues concerning the metaphysics of artifacts, the nature and cognitive development of artifact concepts, and the place of artifacts in evolutionary history. The most overtly philosophical contributions are in the first two sections. Metaphysical issues addressed include the 'mind-dependence' of artifacts and the bearing of this on their 'real' existence, and the distinction between (...) natural and artifact kinds, and its implications for issues in epistemology and semantics – for example, whether there is 'maker's knowledge' of artifacts, and whether 'direct' theories of reference apply to artifact-kind terms. The papers concerned with the nature of artifact concepts – the ways in which we represent artifacts to ourselves – address how judgements of artifact identity track judgements about manifest appearance, function, and maker's intentions, and the neuroscientific basis for artifact categorization. Papers …. (shrink)
The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics.Berys Gaut & Paisley Nathan Livingston (eds.) - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.details
Although creativity, from Plato onwards, has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and values of works of art. In this collection of essays a distinguished roster of philosophers of art redress this trend. The subjects discussed include the nature of creativity and the process of artistic creation; the role that creative making should play in our understanding and evaluation of art; relations between concepts of creation and creativity; and (...) ideas of tradition, metaphor, genius, imagination and genre. This is an important collection that will be eagerly sought by philosophers of art as well as theorists in art history, cinema studies and literary criticism. (shrink)
Creativity in Philosophy of Mind
Definition of Literature in Aesthetics
Literature and Emotion in Aesthetics
Literature and Knowledge in Aesthetics
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning: A Philosophical and Psychological Approach to the Subjective.Eugene T. Gendlin - 1962 - Northwestern University Press.details
In Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning, Eugene Gendlin examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from nonlanguage.
Meaning in Philosophy of Language
Creation, Actualization and God's Choice Among Possible Worlds.Klaas J. Kraay - 2008 - Philosophy Compass 3 (4):854-872.details
God is traditionally understood to be a perfect being who is the creator and sustainer of all that is. God's creative and sustaining activity is often thought to involve choosing a possible world for actualization. It is generally said that either there is (a) exactly one best of all possible worlds, or there are (b) infinitely many increasingly better worlds, or else there are (c) infinitely many unsurpassable worlds within God's power to actualize. On each view, critics have offered arguments (...) for atheism that turn on God's choice of a world. In what follows, I first discuss some background issues, and I then survey the contemporary literature on these arguments. (shrink)
Religious Topics in Philosophy of Religion
The Creation of Value Through Corporate Reputation.José Luis Fernández Sánchez & Ladislao Luna Sotorrío - 2007 - Journal of Business Ethics 76 (3):335-346.details
The relationship between social and financial performance (CSP – FP) has been a main objective in the literature on business management, as it would provide an economic justification for the social investment insofar as it contributes to the creation of value. This relationship has been empirically tested by several authors though without using a theoretical model that sustains this relationship. The aim of this article is to propose a theoretical model of the process of the creation of value (...) from the reputation generated by companies, integrating the factors that have been shown to be more relevant in this process from previous research, in such a way that hypotheses are put forward regarding the existence of this relationship and the factors that determine it. Finally, an empirical test is performed using the 100 most prestigious companies operating in Spain during 2004. (shrink)
Value Creation in Inter-Organizational Collaboration: An Empirical Study.Emmanuel Raufflet & Morgane Pennec - 2018 - Journal of Business Ethics 148 (4):817-834.details
Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy.F. M. Kamm - 1992 - Oxford University Press.details
Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, this book critically examines the prevalent view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible. Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this view is correct, and so has focused on the question of the personhood of the fetus. Kamm begins by considering in detail the permissibility of killing in non-abortion cases which are similar to abortion cases. She goes on to (...) consider the case for the permissibility of abortion in many types of pregnancies, including ones resulting from rape, voluntary pregnancy, and pregnancy resulting from a voluntary sex act, even if the fetus is considered a person. This argument emerges as part of a broader theory of creating new people responsibly. Kamm explores the implications of this argument for informed consent to abortion; responsibilities in pregnancy that is not aborted, and the significance of extra-uterine gestation devices for the permissibility of abortion. (shrink)
Feminist Ethics in Normative Ethics
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Value Creation, Management Competencies, and Global Corporate Citizenship: An Ordonomic Approach to Business Ethics in the Age of Globalization. [REVIEW]Ingo Pies, Markus Beckmann & Stefan Hielscher - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 94 (2):265 - 278.details
This article develops an "ordonomic" approach to business ethics in the age of globalization. Through the use of a three-tiered conceptual framework that distinguishes between the basic game of antagonistic social cooperation, the meta game of rule-setting, and the meta-meta game of rule-finding discourse, we address three questions, the answers to which we believe are crucial to fostering effective business leadership and corporate social responsibility. First, the purpose of business in society is value creation. Companies have a social mandate (...) to organize mutually advantageous cooperation. Second, business ethics should teach the management competencies necessary to fulfill business's societal mandate. These competencies are optimization competence in the basic game of value creation, governance competence in the meta game of (political) rule setting, and the three discourse-related skills of orientation competence, reception competence, and communication competence necessary for engaging in the meta-meta game. Third, companies can help solve global problems through global corporate citizenship if they participate as political and moral actors in rule-setting processes and rule-finding discourse aimed at laying the foundation for value creation on a global scale. (shrink)
Globalization in Social and Political Philosophy
Interpreting Creation: Castoriadis and the Birth of Autonomy.Suzi Adams - 2005 - Thesis Eleven 83 (1):25-41.details
This article critically considers Castoriadis' central concept of creation ex nihilo. It does so in two ways. It first draws on recent research to suggest that the historical inauguration of the project of autonomy in ancient Greece - in both its political and philosophical aspects - was more complex and contextually anchored than Castoriadis acknowledges: it did not surge forth out of nothing. Second, it considers the idea of creation from a theoretical perspective. Here the idea of (...) class='Hi'>creation as contextual rather than absolute is offered. Within this suggested qualification, two lines of discussion - drawn from the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions - are broached. (shrink)
History: Autonomy in Social and Political Philosophy
The Problem of Creation and Abstract Artifacts.Nurbay Irmak - 2021 - Synthese 198 (10):9695-9708.details
Abstract artifacts such as musical works and fictional entities are human creations; they are intentional products of our actions and activities. One line of argument against abstract artifacts is that abstract objects are not the kind of objects that can be created. This is so, it is argued, because abstract objects are causally inert. Since creation requires being caused to exist, abstract objects cannot be created. One common way to refute this argument is to reject the causal inefficacy of (...) abstracta. I argue that creationists should rather reject the principle that creation requires causation. Creation, in my view, is a non-causal relation that can be explained using an appropriate notion of ontological dependence. The existence and the creation of abstract artifacts depend on certain individuals with appropriate intentions, along with events of a certain kind that include but are not limited to creations of certain concrete objects. (shrink)
Abstract Objects, Misc in Metaphysics
Interlevel Metaphysics, Misc in Metaphysics
Musical Works in Aesthetics
Words in Philosophy of Language
Creation and End-Directedness.John F. Owens - 2010 - Sophia 49 (4):489-498.details
Does the act of creation show itself anywhere within the creation? A common contemporary ontology tends to see two possibilities for those who want to defend a notion of creation. The first is to argue that an original set of materials was brought into existence out of nothing by divine action a long time ago. The second, in the tradition of Paley, posits a specific divine action that oversees the development of some of the materials into entities (...) with an end-directedness. Much contemporary energy focuses on the second possibility. The argument of the paper is that the ontology behind both of these possibilities, which limits itself to the notions of a creation of materials and the building of some of the materials into end-directed entities, conceals rather than reveals the idea of creation. The paper tries to show how an Aristotelian sense of nature, with its recognition of internal teleology and original spontaneity, offers a better starting point for coming up against the mystery of divine creative activity. (shrink)
Anti-Darwinist Approaches in Philosophy of Biology
The Number of Gods in Philosophy of Religion
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life.David DeGrazia - 2012 - Oup Usa.details
The overarching aim of this book is to illuminate a broad array of issues connected with reproduction and ethics through the lens of moral philosophy. With novel frameworks for understanding prenatal moral status and human identity, DeGrazia sheds new light on the ethics of abortion and embryo research, genetic enhancement and prenatal genetic interventions, procreation and parenting, and decisions that affect the quality of life of future generations.
Genetic Ethics in Applied Ethics
Reproductive Ethics in Applied Ethics
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Absolute Creation.Thomas V. Morris & Christopher Menzel - 1986 - American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (4):353 - 362.details
Abstract Objects in Metaphysics
Divine Attributes, Misc in Philosophy of Religion
Divine Necessity in Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Religion, Misc in Philosophy of Religion
Creation, Evolution and Meaning.Robin Attfield - unknowndetails
This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends the meaningfulness of language about God, and also relates belief in both creation and evolution to the meaning of life. Meaning, it claims, can be found in consciously adopting the role of steward of the planetary biosphere, and thus of the fruits of creation. Distinctive features include a (...) sustained case for a realist understanding of language about God; a contemporary defence of some of the arguments for belief in God and in creation; a sifting of different versions of Darwinism and their implications for religious belief; a Darwinian account of the relation of predation and other apparent evils to creation; a new presentation of the argument, from the world's value to the purposiveness of evolution; and discussions of whether or not meaning itself evolves, and of religious and secular bases for belief in stewardship. (shrink)
Science and Religion in Philosophy of Religion
Creation and Conservation Once More.William Lane Craig - 1998 - Religious Studies 34 (2):177-188.details
God is conceived in the Western theistic tradition to be both the Creator and Conservor of the universe. These two roles were typically classed as different aspects of creation, originating creation and continuing creation. On pain of incoherence, however, conservation needs to be distinguished from creation. Contrary to current analyses (such as Philip Quinn's), creation should be explicated in terms of God's bringing something into being, while conservation should be understood in terms of God's preservation (...) of something over an interval of time. The crucial difference is that while conservation presupposes an object of the divine action, creation does not. Such a construal has significant implications for a tensed theory of time. (shrink)
No Creation, No Revelation.Paul Clavier - 2013 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (3):255-268.details
There is a strong claim that the world's createdness, if true, cannot be known but through revelation. In this paper we try to dismiss this claim by arguing that creation cannot be merely a revealed truth (revelabile tantum), since it is on the contrary the very preamble to any genuine revelation. Ontologically, no revelation can happen in a self-existent world. No creation, no revelation. Epistemically, no revelation is to be admitted but on the assumption that the world depends, (...) for its existence and operation, on a supernatural agent. No admittance of creative power, no justified identification of any revelatory activity. (shrink)
Judaism in Philosophy of Religion
The Creation Problem.Harry Deutsch - 1991 - Topoi 10 (2):209-225.details
Creation and the God of Abraham.David B. Burrell, Carlo Cogliati, Janet M. Soskice & William R. Stoeger (eds.) - 2010 - Cambridge University Press.details
Being all-good and gracious, God cannot be so envious as not to allow anything else besides him to exist. The necessitarian view thus limits God in His choice of creation and argues that God had to create in the first place out of His infinite ...
Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology.Adolf Grünbaum - 1991 - Erkenntnis 35 (1-3):233 - 254.details
Philosophy of Cosmology, Misc in Philosophy of Physical Science
Rudolf Carnap in 20th Century Philosophy
Leibniz, Creation and the Best of All Possible Worlds.Jesse R. Steinberg - 2007 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 62 (3):123 - 133.details
Leibniz argued that God would not create a world unless it was the best possible world. I defend Leibniz's argument. I then consider whether God could refrain from creating if there were no best possible world. I argue that God, on pain of contradiction, could not refrain from creating in such a situation. I conclude that either this is the best possible world or God is not our creator.
Fiction, Creation and Fictionality : An Overview.Matthieu Fontaine & Shahid Rahman - 2010 - Methodos 10:1-75.details
La réflexion philosophique sur la non-existence est une thématique qui a été abordée au commencement même de la philosophie et qui suscite, depuis la publication en 1905 de « On Denoting » par Russell, les plus vifs débats en philosophie analytique. Cependant, le débat féroce sur la sémantique des noms propres et des descriptions définies qui surgirent suite à la publication du « On Referring » par Strawson en 1950 n'engagea pas d'étude systématique de la sémantique des fictions. En fait, (...) le développement systématique d'un lien qui articule approches logiques, philosophiques et littéraires de la fiction devait attendre les travaux de John Woods publiés en 1974 dans son livre The Logic of Fiction : A Philosophical Sounding of Deviant Logic. Un des enjeux les plus excitants du livre de Woods se situe au niveau de l'interaction entre les points de vue internalistes ou interne-à-l'histoire (principalement pragmatiques) et les points de vue externalistes ou externe-à-la-fiction (principalement sémantiques). Sur ce point, Woods fut le premier à formuler une sémantique pour l'opérateur de fiction à lire comme « selon l'histoire… » en relation à la notion logique de portée, ce qui permettait l'étude de l'internalisme et de l'externalisme. Suite au livre de Woods, loin de s'essouffler, les débats trouvaient une nouvelle impulsion. Le fait pertinent pour notre article est que la tradition phénoménologique également, l'étude de la fiction a joué un rôle central. En effet, l'une des problématiques les plus sujettes à controverses dans l'intentionnalité est celle de l'indépendance à l'existence, c'est-à-dire le fait que les actes intentionnels n'ont pas besoin d'être forcément dirigés vers un objet existant. Influencée par les travaux de Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), l'un des plus importants disciples de Husserl, Amie L. Thomasson développe le concept phénoménologique de dépendance ontologique en vue d'expliquer les processus de références inter- et transfictionnels – dans le contexte de l'interprétation littéraire par exemple. L'enjeu essentiel de cet article est de proposer une reconstruction multimodale bi-dimensionnelle de la théorie des personnages fictionnels de Ingarden-Thomasson. Cette théorie qui entend prendre au sérieux le fait que les fictions sont des créations montre la voie pour une articulation entre les approches internalistes et externalistes. Nous motivons certains changements quant à l'approche artéfactuelle - incluant une sémantique appropriée pour l'opérateur de fictionalité qui, nous l'espérons, éveillera l'intérêt des théoriciens de la littérature. L'article est à d'autres égards un panorama de la façon dont différents concepts d'intentionnalité pourraient fonder différentes sémantiques formelles pour la fictionalité. Nous proposerons enfin un cadre dialogique qui est une extension modale d'un certain système de preuve développé par Matthieu Fontaine et Juan Redmond. Le cadre dialogique développe la contrepartie inférentielle de la sémantique bi-dimensionnelle introduite par Shahid Rahman et Tero Tulenheimo dans un article récent. (shrink)
Ontological Fictionalism in Metaphysics
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics and Quality of Life.David DeGrazia - 2015 - Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (5):415-416.details
Biomedical Ethics in Applied Ethics
Mathematical Creation.Henri Poincaré - 1910 - The Monist 20 (3):321-335.details
Henri Poincaré in 19th Century Philosophy
Aesthetic Creation.Daniel O. Nathan - 2008 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4):416-418.details
Inadvertent Creation and Fictional Characters.Zsófia Zvolenszky - 2015 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 22 (Supp. 1):169-184.details
In several papers, Petr Koťátko defends an "ontologically modest account of fictional characters". Consider a position (which I have been defending) that is anything but ontologically restrained: positing fictional characters like Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace as abstract artifacts. I will argue, first, that such a position turns out to offer a nice fit with Petr Koťátko's proposal about narrative fiction, one that fares better than an alternative pretense-based theory that doesn't posit Bolkonsky as existing in any sense. Second, (...) I will explore a recent challenge by Jeffrey Goodman—which I will call the inadvertent creation challenge—that is originally posed for those who hold that fictional characters and mythical objects alike are abstract artifacts. The crux of the challenge is this: if we think that astronomers like Le Verrier, in mistakenly hypothesizing the planet Vulcan, inadvertently create an abstract artifact, then the inadvertent creation" element turns out to be inescapable yet theoretically unattractive. Third, based on considerations about actually existing concrete objects being featured in fictional works (as Napoleon is in War and Peace), I argue that regardless of where one stands on mythical objects, admitting fictional characters as abstract artifacts is enough to give rise to the inadvertent creation challenge; yet this very set of considerations serves to undermine the challenge, indicating that inadvertent creation is not nearly as worrisome after all as Goodman is suggesting. Taking fictional characters (and mythical objects) to be abstract artifacts therefore remains a viable option. -/- . (shrink)
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William Lane Craig claims that the doctrine of creation ex nihilo is strongly supported by the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In the present paper, I critically examine Craig's arguments for this claim. I conclude that they are unsuccessful, and that the Big Bang theory provides no support for the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. Even if it is granted that the universe had a "first cause," there is no reason to think that this (...) cause created the universe out of nothing. As far as the Big Bang theory is concerned, the cause of the universe might have been what Adolf Grünbaum has called a "transformative cause"---a cause that shaped something that was "already there.". (shrink)
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Particle Creation as the Quantum Condition for Probabilistic Events to Occur.Nicholas Maxwell - 1994 - Physics Letters A 187 (2 May 1994):351-355.details
A new version of quantum theory is proposed, according to which probabilistic events occur whenever new statioinary or bound states are created as a result of inelastic collisions. The new theory recovers the experimental success of orthodox quantum theory, but differs form the orthodox theory for as yet unperformed experiments.
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Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics in Philosophy of Physical Science
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Nam V. Vo, PhD
Associate Professor Co-Director, Ferguson Laboratory for Orthopaedic and Spine Research Vice Chair for Orthopaedic Research Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Nam Vo received his PhD degree with Dr. Michael Chamberlin in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998 and completed his post-doctoral training with Dr. Michael Lai at the University of Southern California in 2003. His doctorate research involved detailed molecular analyses of the early stages of E. coli transcription. He continued his training by studying the mechanism and regulation of hepatitis C virus RNA replication, initially as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently as an assistant specialist in Dr. Caroline Kane at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Vo also taught Introductory Microbiology at Contra Costa College in 2005–06. Dr. Vo joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of UPMC as a research assistant professor in 2006.
Post-doctoral, University of California Keck School of Medicine
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
1. Nasto LA *, Wang D, Robinson AR, Clauson CL, Ngo K*, Dong Q, Roughley P, Epperly M, Huq SM, Pola E, Sowa G, Robbins PD, Kang J, Niedernhofer LJ, Vo NV#. Genotoxic stress accelerates age-associated degenerative changes in intervertebral discs. Mech Ageing Dev. 2013 Jan;134(1-2):35-42. Impact Factor=3.5. No of citation= 4.
2. Jacobs L*, Vo N, Coehlo JP, Dong Q, Bechara B, Woods B, Hempen E*, Hartman R, Preuss H, Balk J, Kang J, Sowa G. Glucosamine Supplementation Demonstrates a Negative Effect On Intervertebral Disc Matrix in an Animal Model of Disc Degeneration. Spine. 2013 May 20;38(12)984-90. Impact Factor=2.4. No of citation= 4.
3. Nasto, Luigi*; Robison, Andria; Ngo, Kevin*; Dong, Qing; Croix, Claudette; Sowa, Gwendolyn; Pola, Enrico; Robbins, Paul; Kang, James; Niedernhofer, Laura; Wipf, Peter; Vo,Nam. Mitochondrial-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a causal role in aging-related intervertebral disc degeneration. J Orthop. Res. 2013 Jul;31(7):1150-7. Impact Factor=3.0. No of citation=7.
4. Nasto L *, Seo, H-Y *, Robinson, AR, Tilstra, JS, Clauson, CL, Sowa, GA, Ngo, K*, Dong,Q, Pola, E, Lee, JY, Niedernhofer, LJ, Kang, JD, Robbins, PD, Vo, NV #. Inhibition of NFKB Activity Ameliorates Age-Associated Disc Degeneration In A Mouse Model Of Accelerated Aging. Spine 2012 Oct 1;37(21):1819-1825. Impact Factor=2.2. No of citation=12
5. Dong Wang *, Luigi A Nasto *, Peter Roughley, Adriana S. Leme, McGarry Houghton, Arvydas Usas, Gwendolyn Sowa, Joon Lee, Laura Niedernhofer, Steven Shapiro, JamesKang, Nam Vo. Spine degeneration in a murine model of chronic human tobacco smokers.Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2012 Aug;20(8):896-905. Impact Factor=4.3. No of citation= 12.
6. Vo, NV; Seo, H *; Robinson, A; Sowa, G; Bentley, D*; Taylor, L; Studer, R; Usas, A; Huard, J; Alber, S; Watkins, S; Lee, J; Coehlo, P; Wang, D; Loppini*, M; Robbins, P; Niedernhofer L; Kang, J. Accelerated aging of intervertebral discs in a mouse model of progeria. J Orthop Res. 2010 Dec; 28(12):1600-7. Impact Factor=3.0. No of citation= 24.
Dr. Vo is currently working in the Ferguson Spine Research Laboratory to investigate the molecular and cellular processes responsible for intervertebral disc diseases, with special emphasis on understanding gene regulation of the major disc extracellular matrix constituents.
In addition, he is active in teaching medical students, medical residents, post-doctoral fellows, having trained over 50 trainees on research projects, 22 of whom have won awards for their work, including the prestigious Outstanding Paper Award at the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting in 2008. He was named the University of Pittsburgh Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Teacher of the Year Award in 2007 and was named the Young Academician of the Year by the Association of Academic Physiatrists in 2009. He is also actively involved in training future clinician scientists as an Assistant Dean for Medical Student Research.
Dr. Vo has been actively engaged in teaching and mentoring students and postdoctoral fellows. He has served as a research advisor for over 50 trainees, many of whom have garnered noteworthy research awards and fellowships while under his mentorship. He also regularly lectures in graduate courses at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and School of Medicine. These include the Pathophysiology of Environmental Disease (EOH 3210) in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Extracellular Matrix in Tissue Biology and Bioengineering (MSCMP 3735) in the Departments of Pathology. In addition, Dr.Vo has been serving as a facilitator in Evidence-Based Medicine Applied and in Investigation and Discovery, the first year medical school courses in the Scientific Reasoning in Medicine Block.
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Q: wix custom dialog for config edit hi i'm trying make a setup msi for my application with wix v3
I have a problem about this task;
I need a user input that will be stored in my application's config file
(for example i need a dialog for sql connection string and the user input will be written in application config file.)
I tried to google but got nothing worked
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: You'll need to do three things:

*

*Create a custom property:
<Wix>
 <Product ...>
   <Property Id="SQLSERVER" /> ...
 </Product>
</Wix>

*Add a custom dialog to your Wix UI to capture the user input and store it to a property. This tutorial should help you with that.

*In the component that installs your web.config file, use the XmlFile element to update your web.config with the value of your property:
 <util:XmlFile Id="UpdateConnectionStringInConfigSection" File="[ROOT_DRIVE]inetpub/wwwroot/$(var.ProductName)/web.config" Action="setValue" ElementPath="/configuration/connectionStrings/add[\[]@name="ConnectionString"[\]]/@connectionString" Value="[SQLSERVER]" Permanent="yes" />

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Forget about actors--are celebrity playwrights now taking your jobs?
With prominent Off Broadway nonprofit slots next season going to Zach Braff and, now, Jesse Eisenberg, one has to wonder.
Proof will be in the pudding, I guess...
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don't forget Zoe Kazan!
I worked on Zoe's Humana play when it was little more than a scribble. Believe me, it didn't change much. The earnest effort of someone who'd never written a full-length play before. Mystifying.
I read the announcement of the Jesse Eisenberg and Zach Braff plays and thought, "Really? Those slots in the season could only be filled by plays that COINCIDENTALLY were written by well-known actors?" Who knows, maybe the plays are great. But maybe they're not. Maybe they're awful. In that case, it's a total waste, because I could have given these companies an awful play. I've got plenty of them, and my awful plays have just as much right to be staged as anyone else's.
Monday, June 06, 2011 9:38:00 AM
Sabina E. said...
oh jesus christ.
Ian Thal said...
To be fair to Braff, he did write the script to Garden State and the film was fairly well regarded, so there's at least some chance that he might be able to write for the stage as well.
To be honest, Garden State was another sappy dreadful hollywood attempt at creating some sort of "real" image of romance. Regarded means nothing.
Fair enough. I haven't seen it. I'm just noting that Braff has actually written things that have been produced in the past (unlike Eisenberg.)
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Q: nginx gzip compression not working I have no idea where to place my gzip compression lines within my http block, shown here.
http {
    default_type application/octet-stream;
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    log_format  main    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                        '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                        '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;

    keepalive_timeout 65;

    server {

        listen 8080;

        root /usr/share/nginx;

        location / {
            root /usr/share/nginx/html;

            try_files $uri /index.html;

            autoindex off;
        }

        location ~ ^/(images|fonts|videos)/ {
            root /usr/share/nginx/assets;

            autoindex                off;
            expires                  7d;
            proxy_redirect           off;
            proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;

        }

        location ~ \.(mp3|mp4) {

        }
    }

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

The lines I want to use for gzip compression are here, and I don't know whether to put these in the server block, before the server block, or in the location block:
# Compression
gzip on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
gzip_static on;

I have gzip_static set to "on" because I'm using gulp-gzip to compress various css and js files.

A: Edit your config file like this and it should work:
gzip on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/rss+xml text/javascript image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype;

Note the added types, because sometimes those types can be detected in different ways by different systems.


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#include "AccessMode.hpp"

namespace quickstep {
namespace transaction {

const bool AccessMode::kLockCompatibilityMatrix[kNumberLocks][kNumberLocks] = {
/*           NL     IS     IX      S     SIX     X    */
/*  NL  */ {true , true , true , true , true , true },
/*  IS  */ {true , true , true , true , true , false},
/*  IX  */ {true , true , true , false, false, false},
/*  S   */ {true , true , false, true , false, false},
/*  SIX */ {true , true , false, false, false, false},
/*  X   */ {true , false, false, false, false, false}
};

}  // namespace transaction
}  // namespace quickstep

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source "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../../hack/lib/init.sh"
trap os::test::junit::reconcile_output EXIT

# Cleanup cluster resources created by this test
(
  set +e
  oc delete all,is,pods --all

  exit 0
) &> /dev/null

project="$( oc project -q )"

os::test::junit::declare_suite_start "cmd/image-lookup"
# This test validates image lookup resolution

# Verify image resolution on default resource types
os::cmd::expect_success          "oc import-image --confirm --from=nginx:latest nginx:latest"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup is/nginx" "updated"
# Image lookup works for pods
os::cmd::expect_success          "oc run --generator=run-pod/v1 --restart=Never --image=nginx:latest nginx"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc get pod/nginx -o jsonpath='{.spec.containers[0].image}'" "nginx@sha256:"
# Image lookup works for jobs
os::cmd::expect_success          "oc run --generator=job/v1 --restart=Never --image=nginx:latest nginx"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc get job/nginx -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'" "nginx@sha256:"
# Image lookup works for replica sets
os::cmd::expect_success          "oc create deployment --image=nginx:latest nginx"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc get rs -o jsonpath='{..spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'" "nginx@sha256:"
# Image lookup works for replication controllers
rc='{"kind":"ReplicationController","apiVersion":"v1","metadata":{"name":"nginx"},"spec":{"template":{"metadata":{"labels":{"app":"test"}},"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"main","image":"nginx:latest"}]}}}}'
os::cmd::expect_success          "echo '${rc}' | oc create -f -"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc get rc/nginx -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'" "nginx@sha256:"

# Verify swapping settings on image stream
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup is/nginx" "was not changed"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup nginx" "was not changed"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup is --list" "nginx.*true"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup nginx --enabled=false" "updated"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup is --list" "nginx.*false"
os::cmd::expect_failure_and_text "oc set image-lookup unknown --list" "the server doesn't have a resource type"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc set image-lookup secrets --list" "false"

# Clear resources
os::cmd::expect_success "oc delete deploy,dc,rs,rc,pods --all"

# Resource annotated with image lookup will create pods that resolve
os::cmd::expect_success          "oc tag nginx:latest alternate:latest"
rc='{"kind":"Deployment","apiVersion":"apps/v1beta1","metadata":{"name":"alternate"},"spec":{"template":{"metadata":{"labels":{"app":"test"}},"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"main","image":"alternate:latest"}]}}}}'
os::cmd::expect_success          "echo '${rc}' | oc set image-lookup -f - -o json | oc create -f -"
os::cmd::expect_success          "oc run --generator=run-pod/v1 --restart=Never --image=alternate:latest alternate"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc get pod/alternate -o jsonpath='{.spec.containers[0].image}'" "alternate:latest"
os::cmd::expect_success_and_text "oc get rs -o jsonpath='{..spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'" "nginx@sha256:"

os::test::junit::declare_suite_end


Mona Abo Shanab, founder of an initiative that supports the idea and prevalence of polygamy in society, strongly condemned the law's proposal, saying that it was drafted by "some women who have physiological issues and complexes and do not carefully consider the problem of the outbreak of spinsters.".
Kody Brown and his four wives risked their freedom by allowing TLC cameras to document their polygamist lifestyles on the reality TV series Sister Wives since polygamy — the practice that involved a man who has multiple wives — is illegal in all 50 states in America, including their home state of Utah.
Thanks to the unique way it shines a light on the less-than-mainstream ideology of polygamy, TLC's Sister Wives is one of the most fascinating reality shows on the air. The series follows the life of 49-year-old Kody Brown and his four wives, Robyn, Christine, Meri, and Janelle — plus their combined 18 kids.
How does Fedi Nuril feel about being icon for polygamy?
The current circumstances have emboldened polygamy proponents, whose voices have grown louder in recent months. They justify the controversial practice on grounds that it gives women a "better chance of avoiding spinsterhood" and makes it easier for them to "exercise their right to have a husband.
Under Indonesia's civil marriage laws, polygamy is tightly restricted. An Indonesian Muslim man must provide a consent letter from his first wife. Then, a religious court decides if the polygamous marriage can be granted, taking into consideration things like terminal illness or infertility of the first wife.


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The Tool includes applicability flow charts and procedures for conducting inspections of emissions points for process vessels, storage tanks, transfer racks, wastewater, heat exchangers, equipment components, and devices used to comply with the standards. The Tool also provides checklists for determining compliance with the record keeping and reporting provisions of the rule. These procedures are fundamental for ensuring compliance with the standards under the CAA.


Player Eligibility: Due to the changes in WCS, our initial criteria for player eligibility required some reworking. These new eligibility requirements will go into effect for this tournament to continue to target the main audience we've been aiming to serve, the unsung ladder heroes who aren't the premier level players yet.
* Players must not have finished in the Top 32 spots in a Premier Level Tournament since the start of 2016.
* Players must be eligible to participate in the WCS Circuit System.
* Players who qualified for IEM Season XII - PyeongChang will be ignored as this tournament was a regional qualifier tournament.
Ro32 group stage with 8 groups. Top 2 players of each group advance to Ro16. All series are Bo3.
Playoffs begin at the Ro16 and are Bo5.
Grand Finals are played in Bo7.
Qualifiers: The league will have a total of 4 qualifiers where 8 players from each qualifier will move on to the Main Event. That will be 32 spots total.
• Players have 15 minutes to begin their match from the first time both players are available. If a player does not respond within 15 minutes, their opponent will be awarded a walkover.
• The maps will be picked using the ABAB format used in WCS. The higher seed bans first (A). The second player bans (B).
• Players are to play on the current map pool.
Tournament now gives out OSC pts.
Prize pool increased to $400!


Pieter Steph du Toit during the DHL Stormers training session and press conference at DHL Newlands Stadium on May 25, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Pieter-Steph du Toit admitted that he was 'sore' and that he was 'out of shape' by the time the 2018 season ended' but his indefatigable efforts were rewarded with a second SA Player of Year award in three seasons.
The athletic 2m tall lock/flank was the most consistent performer for the Springboks last season and his win' where he beat out 2017 winner Malcolm Marx' as well as wing Aphiwe Dyantyi' flyhalf Handré Pollard and lock Franco Mostert' was well deserved.
When he won the award for the first time in 2016' Du Toit played almost exclusively as a lock. In 2018' he played the bulk of his Test rugby at blindside flank.
In 2016 he featured in all 12 Tests the Boks played and appeared at lock 11 times but in 2019 he started eight of the Boks' 14 Tests at flank.
"It's a more satisfying feeling this time around because in 2016 I came off the bench a lot'" Du Toit said.
"Last season I started most of the games and I felt I was able to play to my full potential' although my body felt really sore at the end of season.
"By the end of the year I had lost some weight because I had played so much rugby. I must say I didn't look in good shape because I lost a lot of muscle as well.
"Going into this year I'm feeling good because I have done some 'smart' gym and fitness and my weight is back where it was. I've been well managed in the pre-season.
"I wouldn't say I'm a better athlete now' but I'm more experienced and smarter after several years at the top.
Despite his success and near complete switch to flank' Du Toit will challenge himself to be even better in 2019 – especially with the World Cup in Japan looming.
"You cannot stand still' you have to keep improving otherwise the competitors for you place will pass you'" Du Toit said.
Du Toit also had the honour of becoming Springbok captain No 60 when he led the team against Wales in Washington last year.


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Edward Fred Lammers
Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States
The Life of Edward Fred
When Edward Fred Lammers was born on 16 April 1892, in Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States, his father, Harm Heinrich Lammers, was 32 and his mother, Heimke Alene Peters, was 28. He married Rosie Geisler on 6 October 1913, in Pleasanton, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Beaver Township, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1900 and Loup Township, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States for about 30 years. He died on 25 November 1969, in Pleasanton, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Verdigre, Knox, Nebraska, United States.
Learn about Edward Fred's homeland.
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Rosie Geisler
Marriage: 6 October 1913
Lloyd Lammers
Ruth Lammers
Pleasanton, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States
Harm Heinrich Lammers
Heimke Alene Peters
Johann Frederick Lammers
Herman Harm Lubben Lammers
Tracy Margaret Lammers
William Rudolph Lammers
1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
North German and Dutch: patronymic from the personal name Lambert .
Edward F Lammers, "United States Census, 1920"
Ed F Lammer, "United States Census, 1930"
Edward F Lammars, "United States Census, 1940"


Salve recently attacked financial advisors while misleading the public saying that Variable Unit Investment Life (VUL) should not be offered to kids. In this video from the ANC On The Money she made strong invalid statements that not only misled the public but also made derogatory and degrading remarks to financial advisors at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aa_xh2KQU).
Critical Illness in a VUL can cover yourself and your loved ones in the event of unforseen circumstances such as the diagnosis of a serious or critical illness that would result in loss of an income stream to the family over a prolonged period of time.
Although your children do not contribute to the household income it is important to consider the costs incurred if a dependant was to fall critically ill. You may have to take unpaid leave or possibly even leave your job to care for your child in these circumstances. Therefore it is important to have provisions in place should the worst happen.
2. To cover for funeral, burial, medical expense as well as estate taxes of assets under the name of their children (donated by their parents during their lifetime). - Contrary to popular belief life insurance is needed by children to cover for funeral and burial expenses as well as the medical expenses of the child if child who suddenly dies due to illness or accident. A good funeral may cost around P100k-P1M not to mention the cost of the cemetery plot which may cost millions if the parents want privacy and exclusivity.
The unpaid medical expenses prior to death can sky rocket to millions as well. Some say that the chance of death or illness occurring is low precisely the reason why insurance is cheaper for children since risk for children is lower.
Further prudent estate planning necessitates that all future estate taxes will be paid off. If their parents have transferred assets to the name of their children through a donation an estate tax will be paid upon the death of the child for assets donated and titled to them. Life insurance will insure the parents can pay off estate taxes conveniently.
3. If the parents are completely covered, the parents may get insurance and investment while the children are still healthy and insurable. - Parents who have excess cash normally subscribe to the idea that VULs are necessary to protect their children from critical illnesses and provide immediate funds to pay for funeral, medical and estate taxes. Thus, it is wise to insure your children at a young age where they are 99% insurable and not when they are older which reduces their chances of being insured. It is not unusual for individuals to be denied of certain coverages once as they age. An example is a fellow advisor in her early 30s who wanted to apply critical illness cover but had a hard time being accepted due to certain lumps in her breast. Getting life insurance can be a good gift to your children that they can continue to pay once they have jobs in the future especially if parents are already covered and have excess funds.
Parents who got VULs for their children did not make wrong purchase decisions as long as the charges, advantages and disadvantages have been properly explained. Same as saying that we cannot tell parents not to buy a luxury watch and instead invest it when they have the money to buy for the P500,000 ROLEX watch. In fact, getting a VUL for your child might even be a better idea than buying a ROLEX watch but who are we to say they made a wrong purchase decision when they have excess money to buy the ROLEX anyway?
You see VULs and insurance do not just apply to adults. Kids also need VULs for critical illness, funeral, burial and medical expenses. VULs can accumulate funds for college education. If a payor's rider is attached it can be a fall back position to pay college education cost should the parents die or be disabled especially when the parents are already insured. Children can greatly benefit from VULs if properly executed through a well qualified financial advisor.
We urge Ms. Salve Duplito and the rest of ANC On The Money to ask second opinions from knowledgeable insurance advisors because it is their profession. Further Salve should know that in selecting funds you not only look at the fund management cost but the net return of investment contrary to what she said. There are several funds who charge fund management fees below 1.5% but the NET returns are not as good or as high as we think it should be. Fund management fees should not be the basis of investing but how much the investment has grown or will grow after a year net of the management charges. We also urge the Insurance Commission , the association of life insurance companies through PLIA and the association of financial advisors through our LUAP board to look into this case.
Further she said that VULs are harder to monitor which is far from the truth. VULs can be viewed online through the company customer portals. Further an annual report shows how the funds are managed by the fund manager itemizing the income and expenses of the fund. We were wondering why she said that it is hard to monitor VULs than Mutual Funds?
She went off topic when she criticized the compensation of financial advisors as overpaid which is far from the truth. Our commitment to our clients last a lifetime (or even several generations) of service and consultation working even during a weekend or a holiday just to make our clients happy. And no amount of compensation can compensate us financial advisors who leave our high paying fixed salary jobs just to help spread financial literacy and even pay off an expensive dinner, drive to Alabang from QC for a client who will not invest with us. Imagine spending for people's coffee or dinner and providing financial advise just to end up being rejected.
Salve should have known the concept of High Risk, High Return by now. We risked our high paying job for an unsecured income all to help improve the financial literacy of the Filipino people. If Salve likes our compensation, she should be a life insurance advisor and see how hard it is. Our clients contact us 24/7. Not to mention the sweat, frustration and rejection while going out of the office in the heat of the sun.
It seems to me that she is implying that financial advisors are ripping off people. But all jobs that do not give a fixed salary provide high commissions (such as a property sold by a real estate broker worth P300,000 yields them a 5% commission of P15,000 while a VUL worth P300,000 payable for 10 years will only give the financial advisor an FYC much much lower than P15,000 not to mention less the car amortization and gas to meet the client 3 times for first meeting, closing and policy delivery as well as the cost of that coffee or dinner). So are the financial advisors going to earn millions faster than their clients? Definitely not especially if you factor all the after sales service expenses we will be doing for them. We are the ONLY PROFESSION that promises to serve for years and even generations without asking anything more in return yet Salve doesn't see our efforts because you she is confined in the box of her studio.
WE HOPE THIS REACHES HER AND HOPEFULLY MORE PEOPLE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH.
Mark Joseph T. Fernandez, CPA, RFC, AFA is the founder of FinancePH and is one of the top financial advisors of Insular Life. He has helped hundreds of people start saving, investing and insuring. Aside from spreading financial literacy his wildest dream is to be senator at age 40. Reach him at mjtfernandez@gmail.com.


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Castelul lordului Valentin (engleză: Lord Valentine's Castle) este un roman științifico-fantastic de Robert Silverberg, prima oară publicat în 1980. Romanul face parte din Seria Majipoor, o serie de romane și povestiri  a căror acțiune are loc pe planeta Majipoor. A câștigăt premiul Locus pentru  cel mai bun roman în genul fantezie în 1981 și a fost nominalizat la Premiul Hugo din 1981.

Este un roman asemănător ca temă cu Dune de Frank Herbert.

Prezentare

Valentin se trezește fără nicio amintire pe uriașa planetă Majipoor și fără niciun țel, la marginea atotputernicei cetăți Pidruid. Acolo, Lord Valentin, Coronalul, stăpânul  Majipoor-ului a venit cu tot alaiul curții sale. Dar amnezicul și cerșetorul Valentin este urmărit de vise ciudate: că el ar fi de fapt adevăratul Lord Valentin, adevăratul Coronal, al cărui spirit ar fi fost transferat prin știință ori magie în trupul unui necunoscut.

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Legături externe

Romane științifico-fantastice
Romane de Robert Silverberg
Cărți din 1980
Romane fantastice

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NATO Strikes On Serbia?
B-Sky TV – Studio Notes – 09-10-1998
By mid-October 1998, after seven months of conflict, the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo(a) was reaching desperate proportions. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovan refugees had fled Serb troops and paramilitary police and an estimated 50,000 refugees were living rough in mountain forests. Their only protection, the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) had been routed and allegations of widespread Serb genocide and atrocities on the civilian 'Albanian Muslim' population were being confirmed by reliable eye-witnesses. It was now appearing increasingly likely that Nato might carry out its threat to launch air strikes on Serbian military assets in order to impose its will on President Milosevic's government in Belgrade.
Nato was demanding that Belgrade comply with the terms of UN Resolution 1199 and that Milosevic withdraw his troops from Kosovo, allowing access to military observers and humanitarian organisations while permitting the refugees to return in safety to their destroyed villages and houses. Significantly too the International Criminal Tribunal (Former Yugoslavia) in the Hague had asserted its right to send investigators to pursue alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
By Christopher Long
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"Like Saddam Hussein in Iraq, President Milosevic of rump Yugoslavia stays in power so long as he heads a state in a perpetual and paranoid state of crisis. He needs festering, nationalistic and apparently threatening conflicts a safe distance from Belgrade in order to survive."
"Air attacks by Nato on Serb assets in Kosovo(a) and/or Serbia play into Milosevic's hand, securing his position. But at the same time Nato has to be seen to 'do' something to satisfy public outrage at the atrocities Serbia's nationalist racism have spawned."
"However, no Nato member supports the aspirations of the majority of Kosovo's Albanian Muslim's (who constitute 90% of the Kosovo population). They want nothing less than complete independence from Serbia and are increasingly unwilling to settle for the mere 'semi-autonomous' status they had before Milosevic stripped them of this right in Spring 1989. And Nato member states are opposed to inserting ground troops into Kosovo(a) to enforce the West's will while Serbian troops remain there. They fear an open-ended commitment, finding themselves trapped between two warring factions, being forced to take sides and being unable to extricate themselves if their position becomes untenable."
"But it's hard to see what the West hopes to achieve from purely airborne strikes. And harder still to see how any of this will assist the freezing, hungry, homeless refugees camping out in the mountains who will have no protection should Milosevic choose to continue his genocide and mass expulsions."
"Without a rapid resolution of the conflict, however, a huge humanitarian disaster is looming. Kosovo's winters come very fast and are bitterly cold. Its geographical and political position also presents a far more difficult logistical problem for relief agencies."
"In fact the fighting season is now over for this year and Milosevic loses nothing by withdrawing his troops as he now claims he's doing. He would have withdrawn them anyway. Past experience shows that by next Spring, when the current crisis has been forgotten, the thugs among Serbia's troops and special police may well continue their work – before the refugees have been able to rebuild their shattered villages, towns and houses and, vitally, before the KLA can re-group and re-deploy."
"Air strikes may make us all feel better but Milosevic will undoubtedly win a moral victory (in Serb eyes) if strikes do not occur – and a political victory in the polls if they do."
Four days later a US envoy claimed to have extracted sufficient guarantees of Milosevic's willingness to comply with Nato and UN demands. The threat of air strikes receded. This came as no surprise to seasoned journalists, however. They had already detected a clear unwillingness on the part of the Nato allies – and the US in particular – to carry out their threat of air attacks. Milosevic too would have detected a less than wholly committed Western response.
It appeared that, with blunt sabres rattling, the West was being led down the familiar and well-trodden path seen so often before in Bosnia 1992-95. The West would deploy its sleek and deadly diplomats against the bemused but unworried Serbian military regime! A daring game of brinkmanship would ensue, resolving and changing nothing. President Milosevic would appear to his people to have won the battle. The West's massive military forces would be deployed on perpetual standby in the wings until a role could be found for some of these supposed fighting forces as social workers and diplomats. Meanwhile the cause and the creators of the original conflict would remain untouched!
© (1998) Christopher Long. Copyright, Syndication & All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
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Dick Wolf Brings 'Law & Order: Hate Crimes' To NBC
The legend that is Dick Wolf continues to be an unstoppable force in television.
One of television's most successful franchises is tackling a very relevant and topical subject matter as iconic Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf brings Law & Order: Hate Crimes to audiences beginning with a 13-episode order from NBC.
Co-created with former Law & Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner Warren Leight, the latest installment of the enduring and wildly popular Law & Order franchise is based on New York's actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S.
The unit, which pledges to uphold a zero-tolerance policy against discrimination of any kind, works under the NYPD's real Special Victims Unit and often borrows SVU's detectives to assist in their investigations.
The first incarnation of this new unit will be introduced in the latter part of the upcoming 20thseason of "SVU."
"As 'Law & Order: SVU' enters its remarkable 20thseason, it is exciting to get back into business with Dick Wolf on a new 'Law & Order' incarnation that feels extremely timely," said Lisa Katz, Co-President of Scripted Programming, NBC Entertainment. "Considering that last year there was a double-digit rise in hate crimes in our 10 largest cities — the highest total in over a decade — it seemed like this topic is begging to be explored."
Law & Order: Hate Crimes is set in New York City, where crimes motivated by discrimination are vigorously investigated by an elite, specially trained team of investigators. Going behind the headlines and viral videos, these diverse, dedicated and passionate detectives will stop at nothing to bring these criminals to justice.
"As with all of my crime shows, I want to depict what's really going on in our cities and shine a light on the wide-ranging victims and show that justice can prevail," Wolf said. "Twenty years ago when 'SVU' began, very few people felt comfortable coming forward and reporting these crimes, but when you bring the stories into people's living rooms – with characters as empathetic as Olivia Benson – a real dialogue can begin. That's what I hope we can do with this new show in a world where hate crimes have reached an egregious level."
**Photo courtesy of Evans Vestal Ward/NBC**
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TNT Releases Trailer For The Fifth And Final Season Of 'The Last Ship'
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The Flagship Killer of 2014- One Plus One is now available in Nepal for a discounted price of Rs. 38,000 via Online Reseller M.K.Tradelink. Although, the One plus has already more than a year old device, but it still features top of the line hardware specs.
The phone comes with 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC with quad-core Cortex A15 processor running at 2.5Ghz. It has 3GB of DDR3 RAM and 64GB of inbuilt storage.
The OnePlus One features a non-removable 3100mAh of battery. The phone currently runs Android 5.1 Lollipop based on Oxygen OS. It sports a 13-megapixel rear Sony IMX214 sensor with six lenses and f/2.0 aperture that boasts quick shutter speed of only 0.3-seconds, according to OnePlus. It also comes with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Connectivity options on the OnePlus One include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC functionality.