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Designed for multi-tasking, the Studio Designs Graphix II Workstation features a versatile, divided work surface, with a large angled top and a smaller flat top you can use simultaneously. A pencil ledge keeps drawing instruments right at your fingertips.
Constructed for long-term durability in your studio or home, the frame is made of heavy-gauge steel with a White finish and Gray accents. Tops are made of melamine with a White laminated finish.
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I would probably not buy this item again because of its size
By Charlie
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You advertise the work area as 24 x 36 which is misleading. The total top size is 24 x 48. I am havingtrouble working it into the space I intended.
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Outstanding multi-use table
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I sought out a good sturdy table after suffering with a cheap wobbly table for years. In addition to painting, I needed a table that could double as a cutting surface for my quilt projects. This one seems perfect so far. I can have a flat surface for sewing or incline a portion of table at an angle for painting. It is heavy duty and stable with adjustable height. I put it together without my husband's help, though a few of the nuts/bolts were awkward to reach. The parts were well-labeled and organized for assembly. I could not be more pleased!
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Hellbastard Could Live Two Months on $100
Slayer is one of the most recognizable names in all of heavy metal. On Oct. 8, Slayer played Long Island's Nassau Coliseum with Megadeth and Anthrax. Just over 20 miles away, at a venue more known for it's dance parties than metal shows, Slayer was the topic of the night, as Mutant Supremacy and Hellbastard slayed at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Europa.
"I want to thank each and every one of you for not paying $60 to see Slayer and coming here instead," Mutant Supremacy vocalist Sam Awry said to fans. Still fairly new to the New York metal scene (in comparision to the New York death metal pioneers at least), Mutant Supremacy play with an old-school spirit. The don't feel they are owed anything. They just want to shred, scream and go off.
When crusty thrashers Hellbastard reached the stage, they had a similar sentiment. With less than a half hour to play a set, frontman M.S. "Scruff" Lewty and team kept what Bad Brains would call PMA — a positive mental attitude. After the crust metal punk show, Europa transformed to a dance club mecca, making the set's curfew 10:30 PM. It was about 10:10 PM when Scruff started talking.
Somehow Slayer found their way back into the show; $60 for a ticket, $40 for a shirt. "You could live off of $100 for two months," Scruff exclaimed. Even though his math might not add up for the average American, he had a point.
Be sure to pick up Mutant Supremacy's debut full length 'Infinite Suffering.' It is also available on LP. Hellbastard will be reissuing 'Heading for Internal Darkness' on CD in early 2011, but the LP is available in clear vinyl.


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These Chili Garlic Meatballs are the perfect appetizer for game day, a holiday or any day of the week! Easy oven baked meatballs are spiked with garlic, ginger and cilantro before being adorned with an amazingly flavorful chili garlic sauce.
Appetizer season continues! First with the holidays, then with all of the bowl games and then in just a few weeks, the Super Bowl. Nobody thinks twice when they see you filling your plate full of bite sized treats. Even if they see you doing so more than once as they've likely already done the same thing. It's definitely a win/win situation! You've got all the excuses you've ever needed to add these Garlic Chili Meatballs to your appetizer spread.
And apparently I have a bit of a meatball issue. This Chili Garlic Meatballs appetizer makes my ninth meatball recipe on Melanie Makes. I've shared with you Sharp Cheddar Stuffed Turkey Meatloaf Meatballs, Meatball Poutine, Four Cheese Meatball and Sweet Pepper Lasagna, Easy Baked Meatballs, Blueberry Balsamic Chicken Meatball Pizza, Porcupine Meatballs, Moscato Meatball Skewers and Thai Chili Peanut Meatballs. I am apparently to meatballs as Forrest Gump is to shrimp. Totally blaming that on my husband as he absolutely loves them.
This Super Bowl worthy appetizer is a spin off of my Easy Baked Meatballs as they're spiced with ginger, garlic and cilantro. While they're in the oven, baking to perfection, an easy five ingredient chili garlic sauce is stirred together on your stove top. The end result? An amazingly flavorful meatball that's sure to have your friends missing a few downs of the big game to refill their plate.
Yields 20 meatballs
15 minPrep Time
20 minCook Time
35 minTotal Time
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 egg white
- 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons chili garlic sauce
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- 1 tablespoon water
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, add all meatball ingredients. Stir to combine, being careful not to overmix.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, create meatballs and place on parchment or silicone mat lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan over medium heat, add rice wine vinegar and sugar and simmer until sugar dissolves.
- Whisk in chili garlic sauce, corn starch and water and cook until thickened.
- To serve, top each meatball with chili garlic sauce and additional chopped cilantro, if desired.
Adapted from Ginger-Garlic Cocktail Meatballs .
These Chili Garlic Meatballs are ready and waiting to be added to your next gameday or party spread. Lucky for you – and your guests! – they're prepped and ready to go in no time!
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House Republicans Agitating for Health-Care-Themed Gov't Shutdown; Florida Reps Love It
If you're wondering what the next ridiculously destructive posturing move House Republicans are going to be embarking upon (other than seeking reelection), it just might be outlined in a letter that they sent to Speaker of the House John Boehner.
Details started coming out this week about the letter, which asks House leadership "not to bring to the House floor in the 112th Congress any legislation that provides or allows funds to implement ObamaCare."
That, it would seem, indicates that Republicans are going to stage some kind of a fuss over the funding of the government, which has to be renewed either via a new budget (not likely, given the looney-toons proposals of the right) or a continuing resolution by October 1. Not passing one, or causing some showdown between the House, Senate, and White House, would, in theory, shut down the government about a month before Election Day.
And Florida Republicans are sooo in favor.
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Boehner said he's not going for the idea of using the appropriations process to strangle laws, according to Talking Points Memo, though that doesn't mean the Floridians (and 116 of their closest friends) won't try to force the issue, because why not, eh? Temporarily shuttering the entire federal infrastructure is a small price to pay in the fight against creeping socialism.
West, for his part, tried to diffuse the situation last time the Republicans started taking hostages -- he (rather cartoonishly) supported the debt-ceiling deal before it was approved. He supported the whole "supercommittee" business and the steep cuts ("sequestration") that would be levied if the committee couldn't find the necessary cuts.
Now, of course, he's saying exactly the opposite. He tweeted earlier this week that "sequestration is damaging to our troops" and that you should really "watch my emotional speech on the house floor."
In that speech, he reverses his stance from supporting the compromise to calling it a "dark spectre that hangs over our country." Whatever it is, it's Congress' fault. It had a chance to avoid that whole mess and failed miserably.
West and his equally unreasonable colleagues aren't willing to honor that deal -- why should we have any faith in them to keep the government running instead of using it as leverage for their reelection campaigns against Obamacare?
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With the holidays fast upon us, all Jewish soap fans are celebrating Hanukkah this week. Interestingly, and I am not sure why this is, but there are not many stories around Jewish families in soapdom.
We have the big Horton family Christmas celebration every year on Days of our Lives, and Christmas parties at General Hospital and in the fashion world of The Bold and The Beautiful, not to mention some of the goings on in the Abbott and Chancellor households on The Young and the Restless over the years. But really not too much about the Jewish holidays.
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Youngsters from St Richard's Catholic College celebrated their leavers' prom at the Powdermills Hotel in Battle.
Pupils along with staff enjoyed the opportunity to look back on and celebrate their five years together.
They made a fantastic effort in dressing for the occasion and they arrived in an imaginative array of transport including a noisy arrival by motorbike and a very early arrival by army truck. Staff and families gathered to welcome the pupils on their arrival in the splendid grounds of the hotel.
After drinks and photographs, everyone proceeded to the Pavilion suite at the hotel which had been beautifully decorated by the school's PTFA. A three-course meal was followed by speeches and a 'special' awards presentation. The final part of the evening enabled everyone to mingle and enjoy a disco.
Glenn Clark, Assistant Principal at St. Richard's, thanked all the staff at the Powdermills, St Richard's staff, pupils and their families for making it such an enjoyable and memorable event for all involved. He added: "Special mention should also go to Mrs Douglin and Mrs Hood for decorating the Pavilion suite so beautifully. I would like to join Miss Cronin, the Principal, and all the members of the college staff in wishing our Year 11 the best of luck for their future."


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Benita Raphan: Shorts
Imprint recently assembled a profile of Benita Raphan. Starting with her graduation from SVA which lead to grad school in London. The article looks at her film work, from "The Immediate Subject "(1986), a tribute to her mentor, the graphic designer Andrzej Klimowski to her most current project "Pete the Dog," a film about her own life.
"It's a true story about living in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world and going broke on a wonderful ASPCA dog that is afraid of people and sounds," she says. "I thought that I was going to have a happy-go-lucky jogging partner. Little did I realize I was adopting the greatest companion an artist could have—except for the people-and sound-deal. I want to use the film to help raise awareness of canine behavioral issues, knowing that this is a growing problem worldwide."
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London, Dec. 30 (ANI): Mario Balotelli ended his long fight with his mother Rose Barwuah by taking her to his luxury home in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, on Christmas Day.
The 22-year-old Italian footballer picked up Barwuah in his camouflaged Bentley - wearing an army-style outfit.
The Manchester City striker then drove her from her rented 67,000-pound house to his 3-million-pound mansion. His 13-year-old sister Angel also joined them for the day, the Mirror reported.
A source also said that the mother-son duo have had a rocky relationship since Barwuah accused the Balotellis of turning Mario against her.
The source also confessed that the mother-son duo have steadily been rebuilding their relationship and they are getting closer all the time.
He has not spent Christmas with Baruwah, since being adopted by the wealthy Balotellis aged two, the paper said. (ANI)


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I want to have a different include on a page according to the user's choice and if there is no choice, the date. The part with cookies to change the included php works, but the page is totally ignoring the date. I want it to be in that order, first considering if the user has made a choice and then if not, it will assign an include depending on the date. The choices are in order, I want the code to stop once it finds a choice that fits and just go with that, so I used "if else", as there can be more than one choice that is true, thus I thought it might not work with "switch case". Here's what I have, the cookies work, but the lines dealing with the date are ignored. I tried putting the day in a variable, but it didn't make a difference.
$thedays = date(d);
if ($_COOKIE["confetti"] == "ver1") { include("axel7.php"); }
else if ($_COOKIE["confetti"] == "ver2") { include("yuki7.php"); }
else if ($_COOKIE["confetti"] == "ver3") { include("zel7.php"); }
else if ($_COOKIE["confetti"] == "ver4") { include("yug3.php"); }
else if ($thedays <= 7) { include("yug3.php"); }
else if (($thedays >= 8) && ($thedays <= 14 )) { include("axel7.php"); }
else if (($thedays >= 15) && ($thedays <= 21)) { include("yuki7.php"); }
else if ($thedays >= 22) { include("zel7.php"); }
else { include("axel7.php"); }
'd' gives the day with leading zeros, not 7 but 07. Use
$thedays = date('j');
and don't forget the quotes to make it a string 'j'
Try this:
echo $thedays=date(d);
echo $thedays=date("d");
Beaten again, responding with a one-fingered tablet is so slow:(
Thanks everyone! It's working now.
This was such a rookie mistake... ^^;; But 2 days of experience is a rookie so I guess that's to be expected. XD
I am pleased we were able to help, we have all been there to get the T-Shirts
As mentioned using error_reporting and display errors usually screams when errors and warnings are encountered. Having a blank screen without notifications makes it difficult to debug.
And? Whether the $thedays is "7" or "07", the if conditions will do the same thing.
Better check, don't you think?
$thedays = '07';
if ($thedays <= 7) {
echo 'Salathe is right';
} else {
echo 'Salathe is wrong';
says: "Salathe is right"
You still need to be careful with leading zeros with integers. It could be mistaken for an Octal.
decimal : [1-9][0-9]*
| 0
hexadecimal : 0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+
[B]octal : 0[0-7]+[/B]
binary : 0b[01]+
integer : [+-]?decimal
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| [+-]?octal
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I am under the impression the date only returns two digits so even with a leading zero there will not be a conflict.
Not in a string unless explicitly declaring that it is octal (e.g. by specifying the base in a function call). More likely is the developer mistaking it for octal.


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Rendering for Six-Story Mixed-Use Building on 41st Avenue
Construction is now underway at 27-05 41st Avenue, on the corner of 27th Street in LIC. This will be a six-story, 44-unit mixed-use building with 30,041 square feet of residential space and 6,970 square feet of commercial space. The architect responsible for all those glassy balconies is Michael Kang Architect. Like the look of it? Reminds us of prolific Brooklyn architect Karl Fischer. The anticipated ETA is December 31st, 2014. See a photo of the construction site after the jump. GMAP


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A Revolutionary Socialists banner in Tahrir
The Revolutionary Socialists attacked on Friday the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that it honoured the murderers and is acting like former president Hosni Mubarak's regime.
The true face of the brotherhood's regime was revealed "when it honoured the military council murderers", a statement distributed in Cairo's Tahrir Square said.
The brotherhood rushed to "reconcile with the businessmen of Mubarak's regime", the statement added.
"The brotherhood's system is digging its own grave by following in Mubarak's footsteps," the statement said.
The Revolutionary Socialists criticised the National Salvation Front which includes leading figures such as Mohamed ElBaradei, Hamdeen Sabahi, and Amr Moussa, adding that the front was wrong to create alliances with figures of the former regime.
The statement called on the "revolutionary youths" of the salvation front to press for "cleansing their ranks and joining us and all revolutionaries to build a real revolutionary front that completes the objectives of the revolution".


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'Rare and lovely occasion' Murder She Wrote star Angela Lansbury made a Dame by the Queen
MURDER She Wrote actress Angela Lansbury has spoken of her pride after being made a Dame by the Queen at Windsor Castle today.
The 88-year-old, famed for her role as Jessica Fletcher on the hit US TV show, said she was "very proud" to be recognised by the country of her birth.
Ms Lansbury, who is currently starring in the West End, left Britain for America as a child during the Second World War.
She was honoured for her acting career which has spanned seven decades and for her charity work.
Dame Angela said: "It is a very proud day for me to be recognised by the country of my birth, and to meet the Queen under these circumstances is a rare and lovely occasion."
It is a very proud day for me to be recognised by the country of my birth
She joins an exclusive group of acting Dames including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and most recently Good Life star Penelope Keith.
Dame Anegla has starred in countless films including children's classic Bedknobs And Broomsticks and alongside Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii.
She also has been nominated three times for an Oscar including for her debut in 1944 thriller Gaslight.
Dame Angela has failed to win an Academy Award but was presented with an honorary Oscar last year.
She said: "One (the Oscar) is for my work in motion pictures and this is for the overall accomplishments of my life as an actress.
"It has afforded me the joy of working in America and also in England a great deal."
Her son and his wife flew from America to be at Dame Angela's landmark day while her niece who lives in England was also present.
Dame Angela, who had previously been awarded with a CBE, was born in London but moved to America during the Second World War.
She moved after the death of her father Edgar who was a politician and while in the States followed in the footsteps of her actress mother Moyna MacGill.
Last month she took to the stage at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End for a production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.
It is the first time in almost 40 years that she has been on the London stage, reprising the role which won her a Tony award on Broadway.
Her award is for services to drama and to charitable work and philanthropy.


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Due to some of my life experience with private equity type transactions and the purchases and sales of closely held and family owned businesses, I sometimes like to apply that approach to large publicly traded companies just to help assess the market valuation compared to what the business would be worth to a private buyer.
The recent price reversal in shares of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) caused the business to appear on one of my value screens and I decided to see if the business would be a good acquisition for an individual. You might be surprised at what I found.
For those who might not be familiar with Qualcomm and its business. Qualcomm's best known product is its code division multiple access (CDMA) which allows several transmitters to send information simultaneously over a single communication channel without interfering with each other. This allows multiple users to share a band of frequencies and increases the number of communications that can be conducted at the same time in a limited amount of bandwidth. Without this advancement in communications technology, our transition to a wireless existence would be severely restricted. If you use wireless communications devices, you probably own Qualcomm products or products where the manufacturer has paid a licensing fee to Qualcomm for using their technology. Once again, here is a business that provides a product or technology without which our society does not continue to function in the same manner as it does today.
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The Creation Of A Buying Opportunity
Qualcomm is the unquestioned dominator in its field but even that position can have its own problems. China has recently become the world's largest market for smart phones where Qualcomm's technology excels and provides a crucial function. China has also decided to declare Qualcomm a monopoly; not such a good thing.
Qualcomm has also recently charged some Chinese manufacturers with shipping more products, for which they should be paying license fees to Qualcomm, than they are reporting to Qualcomm. They are also experiencing problems with some small tablet manufacturers not paying license fees and royalties. These short-term problems are all very solvable. However, as we see over and over again, some short-term and solvable issues have panicked investors and they headed for the door in droves. On their way out, they drove the share price down 10.24% from $81.97 to the current level of $72.55
What Is The Downside Risk?
The stock market is an emotionally driven creature and stocks can, at times, trade at just plain silly valuations both in terms of being overvalued and in terms of being undervalued. The market is also capable of maintaining crazy valuations for extended periods of time. But, in the end, value always wins out and prices will return to a level that reflects the true value of the business.
One way to determine if current valuations are out of line with the fair value is to ask myself if I would be interested in buy the whole business instead of just a few shares? In the case of Qualcomm, the answer is a resounding "yes". I will not rehash the critical need for their products and technology; I will just go straight to the mathematics.
QCOM has a current market value of $121.6 billion, so I am currently a bit short of the cash required to buy the company. However, I could come up with a 10% down payment. No, I am not worth $12.16 billion; but, Qualcomm does have $18.153 billion in cash and short-term investments on their balance sheet as of June 30th. In addition, they have receivables of $2.084 billion and another $1.185 billion of inventory that could be liquidated. If I owned the business, I could take $12.16 billion in cash off the balance sheet and make my 10% down payment on the business. Of course, that would leave me with an additional $6 billion in cash that I could pay myself as a bonus for closing the deal.
In today's zero interest rate world, companies like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) have been able to issue long-term bonds at 3% to 4% interest rates. Even if I had to pay 25% more interest, because I am not that smart, the total interest payments on the remaining $109.44 billion in bonds I would have to issue to finance the remaining 90% of the purchase price would only be $5.472 billion a year. Since QCOM had free cash flow of $7.73 billion for the year ended September 30, 2013, I could pay the interest on the bonds and still have $2.25 billion left over with which to provide myself a meager salary.
Now, we all know I am not going to be able to structure a deal to buy Qualcomm and take it private; but, QCOM could certainly eat itself by implementing an aggressive share buyback program using cash on hand and issuing debt. The numbers are what the numbers are and a deal of this type would make sense as far as what it would be worth to a private party. I don't believe for one moment that a transaction like this will happen; running the numbers on it simply reveals just how compelling the value of this business is at the current price. This tells me there should be ample downside protection in terms of the value of the business. Anyone who tells you they know with certainty what the lowest price could be and gives you a number above zero will likely be wrong about other things as well. Price is set by emotion; value is established through analysis.
What Is The Real Fair Value And Upside Potential?
I always caution people about using earnings projections for establishing fair value because I know how easily per share earnings can be manipulated within accepted accounting rules. I do understand that most people use this metric so it is important to consider. Qualcomm is expected to earn $4.84/share for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014. Based on the current share price of $72.55, the P/E is established at a very reasonable 15.05 times current year earnings. This estimate would produce an increase of 20.26% over 2013. Analysts are currently projecting the company to experience annual earnings growth of 14.6% for the next 5 years. It is reasonable to expect the share price to rise along with the rate of earnings growth when it is currently trading in line with that figure.
For my analysis work, in the tech sector, I like to use the average of the previous 5-year average annual returns on equity, assets and capital multiplied by the current year's earnings to establish fair value. In the case of Qualcomm, that calculation results in:
[{(16.4 + 12.2 + 16.2)/3} X $4.82] X 1.25 or $89.97/share fair value. If you discount the share price by the $12.76/share of cash, receivables and inventory on hand, you can argue that the fair value is actually closer to $100/share. The stock price would have to rise 37.8% from where it is today to reach this level.
If we assume the share price increases at the same pace as the earnings, the stock should return about 15% annualized over the next five years. If the valuation closes the existing gap between current price and fair value while also increasing in proportion to earnings growth, the returns could become spectacular.
Final Thoughts And Actionable Conclusions
There are never any guarantees when it comes to investing and markets can and do assign ridiculous values to both good companies and bad ones at various times. While Qualcomm is certainly a compelling value at the current price in my view, that does not mean the price cannot or will not move lower. Successful investing is not about picking exact tops and bottoms in price, it is about recognizing and seizing upon compelling values when they are found and liquidating them once they are loved by all. Trying to pick exact tops and bottoms will cost you money on both ends over the long haul.
Now, for those who just like to pick up a compelling value and put it away for several years while the market corrects its mistake, just pick up a few shares of QCOM at the current market price, I think you will be quite pleased with your double-digit annual returns over the next 5 to 10 years.
Investors who just have to get a discount on everything they buy without regard to the actual value, can consider selling one $70 strike price September 20, 2014 expiration put option for each 100 shares of the stock they would like to buy and receive a premium of around $1.10/share or 1.57% over the 48-day life of the contract. If the shares stay above $70, the options will expire worthless and you will keep the premium collected for the sale and produce an annualized return of 11.9% on the $7,000 of capital that would have been required to purchase the shares covered by each contract sold.
Investors who like dividends but find most of them just a bit too meager could buy the shares in the market and, for each 100 shares purchased, sell one $75 strike price call option with a September 20, 2014 expiration date and collect a premium of about $0.85/share. This will produce an immediate return on invested capital of 1.13% over the 48-day life of the contract for an annualized return on allocated capital of 8.6%. However, this trade option is better than that. Qualcomm shares go ex-dividend for shareholders of record as of August 29th and that dividend will be $0.42/share increasing the return to $1.27/share (the sum of the option premium plus the dividend) or 1.75% for 48 days. This increases the annualized return to 13.3% on invested capital.
Should the share price rise above $75 by September 20th, the option seller will lose the shares to the buyer but will collect an additional $2.45 (75-72.55) in short-term capital gains. This result would increase the total profit to $3.72 or 5.12% on invested capital. This results in an annualized rate of return on investment of 38.96% over the next 48 days.
I just love finding undervalued businesses that provide products or services we do not want to try to live without. I also really like to have multiple choices for attractive ways to open a new position. Qualcomm scores high in all respects.
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Boeing (NYSE:BA), which has struggled to deliver its 787 Dreamliner range of jets on time, has been hit by further delays. It has discovered a manufacturing error, which according to industry experts, has caused delamination in the plastic-composite aft fuselage section of some 787 Dreamliners. The company has acknowledged the problem in its short briefing on Sunday but has not disclosed its exact nature or the amount of damage expected. It however said that their are no short term safety concerns and repairs are underway. Boeing principally competes with other global jet manufacturers like Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and Airbus (EPA:EAD).
The delamination is happening in a section of the aft fuselage near where the horizontal tail is joined. According to Flightglobal, the website for Flight International magazine, structural stiffening rods, which had been hardened with fuselage skin in massive ovens, have partially separated from the skins. The Dreamliner's aft fuselage is manufactured at Charleston, S.C., a plant Boeing took over in 2009.
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There are many reasons why people hesitate about starting a new business. One of the biggest ones is the huge financial risk that it can entail, when you look at the cost of staff, premises, rates and insurance it can seem quite daunting even for a relatively modest start up. However there are options and the internet has given us the biggest one by far. It's brought the chance to start a business within reach of almost anyone with an idea and some application.
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May 25, 2011 at 12:40 am #4406
I am using drop cap short code on the main page at http://teamredlands.com. My client would like to make the following changes. What is the best way to do this and can I use Widgets in the main page area and if so how?
1. In place of "Rides" put running Twitter and Facebook lines, with 4-5 most recent tweets/posts (this is to draw more attention to our social media and for those not on FB/Twitter to be engaged)
2. Above "Rides" where the Team News is, instead of just the link, put a paragraph from the most recent blog post with the title, to try and draw people in.
3. They also want to know if the heading photos can be smaller and how would I change the dimension.
If the widgets in the home page body don't work, when I set the home page up as the Default Template instead of the Full Width, I saw that the News automatically was on the right side. Is there a way to have the News, facebook and twitter feeds on the right and HOW would I set this up? How do I tell it how many news items to show? Are there nice clean twitter / facebook feeds you can recommend?
Thanks for all your help!May 27, 2011 at 8:09 pm #46207
Hello? Can someone help me please, so I can help my client. Thank you!May 28, 2011 at 2:24 pm #46208
to be honest 1 and 2 is beyond the scope of this support forum because they're time intensive customizations and are not related to theme setup directly. However I'll give you hints:
1) The easiest way would be to use a jquery script or a service like: http://twitcker.com/
2) You need to write a new page template here which includes a custom blog post query. Alternatively you can use the sidebar news widget.
3) You can adjust the image dimensions in functions.php. Afterwards you need to adjust the slider css – open up style.css and adjust following code:
#top .slideshow{
height:235px; /*this changes the height of the main image slider*/
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position: relative;
list-style-type: none;
margin:0 0 20px 0;
#top div .slideshowBig{
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I.e. if you decrease the dimensions in functions.php you need to decrease width + height of the #top .slideshow and #top div .slideshowBig too.
4) You'd need to create a new page template with content widget areas, etc. to achieve what you want. However I think this will require some css and html/php coding and is very likely a time intensive task.
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INVITATION Bowl hero Winning Partners (4-1 favourite) announced his return to the big time with a superb win in the final local event at Sha Tin last night. Defying a 140-pound impost and strong suggestions that he would be so much better for the run, Winning Partners ran the 14-strong field of Classes One and Two sprinters off their feet over the longer 1,200-metre sprint.
Winning Partners beat the fast-finishing Basic Instinct (5-1) by three-parts of a length with last-start winner Victory And Gold (6-1) the same margin back in third place. Greg Childs rode a perfect race on Winning Partners and came through to go clear halfway down the straight after being kept in close touch with the pace. Topweight Helene Star (6-1) ran a mighty race, fading close home but putting the writing firmly on the wall for the future. It was a fine effort from veteran trainer Neville Begg and Childs said: 'It was a pleasure riding Winning Partners, he's a quality horse.
He should come on from this, but there is no doubt that Neville had him tuned up and turned out perfectly for this.' Earlier, champion apprentice Simon H. K. Yim had resumed winning service with Everwell Times (4-1) in the seventh event. Yim, who had a winning summer in England, had gone close on a couple of occasions in the first few meetings but the Wong Tang-ping galloper was his second success of the new campaign. The five-year-old gelding had clearly benefitted from his first outing of the season when he was backed into favouritism and came through strongly under Yim to take it up in the final 100 metres of the Class Five, 1,600-metre event.
'He was very fit and going well for me. I was not very worried because I was sure we would be able to get a good run at them,' said Yim. Everwell Times scored readily from Elite (5-1) with the eye-catching run of the race coming from third-placed Beau Geste (99-1), showing his first glimpse of form. He was ridden a treat by Jimmy Fortune and should obviously go on from this. Maximum claimer James K. C. Chan notched his first success of the season and stunned punters when Lucky Express (24-1) careered away with the Class Three sixth event on the card.
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IN THE Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that could come forth as Science that he published in 1783 in the hope of both defending and popularizing the Critique of Pure Reason that he had published two years earlier, Immanuel Kant famously wrote "I freely admit that the Erinnerung of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave my investigations in the field of speculative philosophy a completely different direction" (Prolegomena, Preface, 4: 260). I have left Erinnerung, which typically means "recollection" or "remembrance," but could also mean "reminder" in the sense of "admonition," untranslated in order to sidestep a scholarly debate about chronology—did Kant mean that it was only the recollection of Hume some years after he had first read the early German translations that interrupted his dogmatic slumbers, or did he mean that the admonition of Hume had interrupted his dogmatic slumbers as soon as he read him, many years before writing the Critique of Pure Reason and the Prolegomena?1 What is important for my purposes in this collection of essays is that, however he got there, by the time Kant reached his philosophical maturity at least one way he conceived of his philosophical task was that of putting key principles on more secure foundations than all those earlier ones that Hume had shown to rest not on reason but at best on experience and custom, and at worst on mere dogmatism.
What principles? Kant repeatedly stated that Hume had cast doubt on whether the concept of causation expresses a genuine necessity that is "thought through reason a priori . . . and has an inner truth independent of all experience" (Prolegomena, Preface, 4: 249), and settled instead that it expresses nothing more than our own feeling of necessitation in response to the frequent association or repetition of impressions of external objects. He clearly thought that Hume had raised a genuine problem about the real foundations of the concept of causation and the necessary truth of both the general principle that every event has a cause as well as particular causal laws, and thought that Hume had not sufficiently resolved this problem, although Hume himself may have been content with his solution. But Kant also held that Hume had put his finger on a more general problem without realizing what he had done:
Thus I first investigated whether Hume's objection could be made general, and I soon found that the concept of the connection of cause and effect is far from being the only one by means of which the understanding thinks the connections of things a priori for itself, rather that metaphysics consists entirely of such concepts. I sought to assure myself of their number, and since this succeeded according to my wish, namely from a single principle, I went on to the deduction of these concepts, from which I was assured that they were not derived from experience, as Hume had worried, but had arisen from the pure understanding. This deduction, which seemed impossible to my acute predecessor, and which no one other than him had ever even thought about, although everyone had confidently used the concepts without asking on what their objective validity is grounded, this, I say, was the most difficult thing that could ever be undertaken in behalf of metaphysics; and what is the worst thing about it is that metaphysics, no matter how much of it is everywhere available, could not give me the least assistance, since this deduction must first establish the possibility of a metaphysics. Now since I was successful in the solution of the Humean problem not just in a special case but with regard to the entire faculty of pure reason, I could thus take sure although always slow steps in order finally to determine the entire scope of pure reason in its boundaries as well as to determine its content completely and in accordance with universal principles, which was then the very thing that metaphysics needed in order to execute its system in accordance with a secure plan. (Prolegomena, Preface, 4: 260–61)
In this statement and others like it (Pure Reason,B 19,A 764– 68/B 792–96; Practical Reason, 5: 13, 5: 50–57), Kant claims that the doubts Hume had raised about the existence of an a priori concept and principle of causation were only an example of the kind of doubts that could be and indeed should be raised about the previously merely dogmatic foundations of all the central concepts of metaphysics, and that none of these concepts and principles could be secure until they had all been given a proper foundation or "deduction" by Kant himself. As Kant rightly points out, Hume had raised no objection to our ordinary use of causal concepts and beliefs and, by implication, our ordinary use of the other concepts and beliefs that are in the same boat, nor did Kant himself think that scientists in their laboratories or craftsmen in their shops have to suspend all their activities until their key concepts had been put on a sound footing. But in his view Hume had without realizing it raised a challenge for all of metaphysics that had to be answered before philosophy could proceed. Moreover, Kant held that unless the metaphysical concepts at stake were both properly founded and properly limited, that is, restricted to the properly demarcated sphere of human experience, perfectly reasonable doubts about their cognitive value beyond this sphere could end up undermining our confidence in their use within this sphere, and thus cast doubt about our use of these concepts for the purposes of ordinary cognition and ordinary science after all. Thus, in a crucial passage in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant writes about Hume, whom he calls "perhaps the most ingenious of all skeptics" (A 764/B 792), that:
The skeptical aberrations of this otherwise extremely acute man, however, arose primarily from a failing that he had in common with all dogmatists, namely, that he did not systematically survey all the kinds of a priori synthesis of the understanding . . . had he done so . . . He would thereby have been able to mark out determinate boundaries for the understanding that expands itself a priori and for pure reason. But since he merely limits our understanding without drawing boundaries for it, and brings about a general distrust but no determinate knowledge of the ignorance that is unavoidable for us, by censuring certain principles of the understanding without placing this understanding in regard to its entire capacity on the scales of critique, and, while rightly denying to understanding what it really cannot accomplish, goes further, and disputes all its capacity to extend itself a priori without having assessed this entire capacity, the same thing happens to him that always brings down skepticism, namely, he is himself doubted, for his objections rest only on facta, which are contingent, but not on principles that could effect a necessary renunciation of the right to dogmatic assertions. (A 767–68/ B 795–96)
Kant recognized that Hume had been satisfied with his own explanation of key concepts and principles as resting on "nothing but a custom arising from its experience and its law," and thus as "merely empirical, i.e., intrinsically contingent rules, to which we ascribe a supposed necessity and universality" (A 765/B 793), and he recognized that Hume had used his empirical derivation of such concepts and principles to argue that we could not apply them to objects of which we have no experience. Thus, Kant recognized that it was the intended payoff of Hume's philosophy that we cannot use our empirically grounded principle that every event has a cause to infer that the whole world has a unique cause of a sort that we have never directly experienced, namely God.2 However, Kant also believed that without a clear demarcation between the realm of human experience within which the principle of causation and all the other fundamental principles of human thought apply and the realm beyond experience where we can doubt that those principles apply, there is no barrier to prevent our skepticism about the validity of those principles in the latter realm from splashing back and undermining our confidence in the validity of those principles in the former realm, and with no foundation for those principles within the former sphere but mere "custom and experience," Hume would have no way to resist this gastric reflux of doubt. Thus, although Hume advocated only "mitigated scepticism" as "the limitation of our enquiries to such subjects as are best adapted to the narrow capacity of human understanding" (Enquiry I, Section 12, Part 3, p. 120), Kant nevertheless felt justified in calling him the "most ingenious of all skeptics."
As we will see in chapter 2, Hume had raised a more general challenge to our most fundamental concepts and principles than Kant seems to have realized. Kant's acquaintance with Hume's works during the crucial years of his own philosophical development was incomplete: Hume's Enquiry (originally Philosophical Essays) concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, was translated into German in 1755,3 and Kant is known to have owned this early translation of the first Enquiry at the time of his death and reasonably presumed to have read it much earlier in his life,4 in all likelihood very soon after it came out. But under the rubric of "Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding," Section 4 of the first Enquiry focuses almost exclusively on Hume's worries about causation, and under the title of "Sceptical Solution of these Doubts"—a title to which Kant could certainly have appealed for his own characterization of Hume as a skeptic—the first Enquiry provides only Hume's empirical account of our belief in causation. Hume's original Treatise of Human Nature, by contrast, very clearly raises doubts not only about our concept of and beliefs about causation but also about our concepts of and beliefs in external objects and an enduring self, and moreover notoriously regards those concepts and beliefs as much more problematic than the concept of and belief in causation, with his account of which Hume was entirely satisfied. However, the Treatise was not translated into German in its entirety until long after Kant had completed his work on the Critique of Pure Reason.Atthe time that he wrote the Critique, Kant is thought to have had anything approximating firsthand knowledge of the Treatise only through Johann Georg Hamann's translation of Book I, Part IV, Section 7 of the Treatise, published in a Königsberg newspaper in 1771.5 In this section, Hume gives his famous argument that while "reason is incapable of dispelling" the "clouds" of skeptical doubts, "nature herself," in the form of riverside walks and nice evenings of dinner, backgammon, and conversation, "suffices to that purpose," but he does not restate the particular skeptical doubts about self and object as well as about causation that he had earlier raised.6 Nevertheless, I will propose, the philosophical approach Kant developed for showing that our concept of and beliefs about causation have a foundation that Hume denied they have also provides Kant with an approach for addressing the concerns Hume raised about external objects and the self—so even though Kant did not know that Hume had generalized his skeptical doubts about causation as Kant thought he should have, the general approach to grounding metaphysical concepts and principles Kant developed in response to Hume's worries about causations does address the other problems that Hume himself had raised. Thus Kant was wrong to think that Hume had not generalized his problem about causation, but right to think that he himself had developed a general method for addressing the generalization of Hume's problem.
Beyond showing that Kant did indeed generalize Hume's problem about causation and was stirred by his Erinnerung of that problem to develop a general foundation for other theoretical concepts such as those of self and object, I will also suggest that much of Kant's philosophy beyond theoretical metaphysics can be read as a response to Hume, specifically that important elements of Kant's moral philosophy, his aesthetics, and his teleology can also be fruitfully read as responses to Hume. By saying this I by no means intend to say that in all these other parts of his philosophy Kant exclusively or even foremost intended to respond to Hume, any more than I mean to suggest that Kant was concerned with Hume alone in this theoretical philosophy. While he was not a learned historian of philosophy, Kant was broadly acquainted not only with the German philosophy of his own century but also with a vast array of European philosophy, science, and thought of both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus, his interlocutors and targets in theoretical philosophy include Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Crusius, and Mendelssohn as well as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; his targets in moral and political philosophy include ancient Stoics and Epicureans, Wolff and Baumgarten, and also Montaigne, Hobbes, Mandeville, and Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Adam Smith as well as Hume (see e.g., Practical Reason, 5: 40); his targets in aesthetics include Baumgarten, Meier, Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Herder as well as Burke, Gerard, and Hume; and his targets in teleology include Spinoza, Wolff, and Herder as well as Hume—so it would always be a grievous error to reduce Kant's targets in any area of his work to a single figure, no matter how important. Kant's career-long focus on causation, for example, has to be understood as a response to debates within German rationalism that began with Leibniz's claim that genuine substances are "windowless monads" that cannot actually cause changes in each other but merely represent changes in each other because of God's beneficent selection of a coherent set of actual monads from among all those possible.7 Nevertheless, Kant does mention the name of Hume not only at crucial moments in his theoretical philosophy but also in his moral philosophy (again, Practical Reason, 5: 13–14, 50–56), his aesthetics (Judgment,§34), and his teleology (Judgment,§80), and I will propose that quite apart from any debate about the historical influence of Hume on Kant or Kant's intentions to respond to Hume, it is nevertheless illuminating to think about the ways in which these parts of Kant's philosophy can also be considered as responses to challenges that Hume raised. Just as in the case of theoretical philosophy, where Kant by no means rejected, indeed endorsed Hume's project of criticizing the use of our fundamental concepts and principles in dogmatic metaphysics while nevertheless holding that these concepts and principles required a more secure foundation than Hume had given to them, Kant's relations to Hume in moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology are also complex. In the case of moral philosophy, the difference between a philosopher who held that the use of reason is never more than merely instrumental to the realization of goals set entirely by sentiment and one who held that the fundamental principle of morality must be founded in pure reason is obvious, but I will argue that there are also important affinities between Hume's and Kant's models of motivation and their uses of these models in their opposed moral theories. In the case of aesthetics, I will suggest that Hume profoundly influenced Kant's conception of the problem of taste, although once again Kant strives for an a priori rather than merely empirical foundation for our claims to agreement in judgments of taste. In the case of teleology, I will argue that Kant fully endorses Hume's criticism of the constitutive or dogmatic use of teleological principles within both natural science and teleology, but also may well derive his conception of the heuristic use of teleology within our investigation of nature from Hume, while he at the same time argues that our naturally teleological conception of nature itself has a use in morality, specifically in moral theology, that Hume entirely failed to recognize. In all these cases, I suggest, reading Kant's philosophy as a response to Hume is a way to elucidate, through both their similarities and their differences, some of Kant's deepest philosophical assumptions and ambitions.
Having stated my intention to look at Kant's treatment of causation as a response to Hume, at his theoretical philosophy as a whole as a response to further problems about objects and the self that Hume had raised even though Kant did not know that, and even at further domains of Kant's philosophy as if they were responses to Hume, I should say something here about some recent arguments against overemphasizing Kant's intentions to respond to Hume in his theoretical philosophy. (Neither of the arguments I am about to discuss go beyond Kant's theoretical philosophy.)
Gary Hatfield has argued that in his few references to Hume in the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant actually enlisted him as an ally in his own critique of traditional metaphysics, although he also held that Hume did not have a systematic criterion or method for distinguishing between illegitimate pretensions and legitimate claims of reason,8 and therefore did not just suggest a useful "skeptical method" for scrutinizing dogmatic metaphysics but risked lapsing into actual skepticism. According to Hatfield, in the first edition of the Critique "Kant did not treat Hume's account of causation as a genuine threat to natural science or ordinary knowledge," but saw "Hume's own attempts as directed primarily against the pretensions of reason," although he also saw "Hume's failure" as lying "in not curbing those pretensions once and for all."9 Correspondingly, Hatfield sees Kant's own aim in the first edition of the Critique not so much as demonstrating the reality of synthetic a priori knowledge and principles in the face of Hume's doubts about that, but instead as providing "an explanation of the possibility of synthetic a priori cognition in order to be able to assess its possibility and impossibility in various metaphysical domains,"10 thereby making precise and conclusive the criticisms of traditional metaphysics that Hume had left indeterminate and therefore possibly too broad. As Hatfield sums up, "Given that Kant does not mention any skeptical threat to ordinary experience, mathematics, or natural science in the A Critique, that he evaluates the skeptical method positively, that he describes the one crucial function of the Deduction and Analytic of Principles as preparatory to limiting the understanding to experience, and that he singles out the possibility (or impossibility) of transcendental metaphysics as his main quarry, there seems little basis for arguing that instead Kant was really out to refute the skeptic and save ordinary knowledge."11 Hatfield then continues that in the Prolegomena Kant "did take a new interest in Hume and skeptical idealism" in response to the charge of the notorious "Garve-Feder" review of the Critique that there was no difference between Kant's "transcendental idealism" and the idealism of Berkeley and Hamann's comparison of Kant's skeptical conclusions about metaphysics to those of Hume, but that "a close reading of the Preface" to the Prolegomena "reveals that he did not present Hume's problem or Hume's doubt as a challenge to anything but metaphysics. He certainly did not portray Hume as presenting a skeptical challenge to natural science or to ordinary knowledge of objects."12 Only in the second edition of the Critique (1787), Hatfield concludes, do Kant's added remarks about Hume show that "He related Humean skepticism to ordinary experience; [that] he suggested that his Deduction avoids skepticism"; and did he intend "the latter claim to cover Humean skepticism."13 But, Hatfield also suggests, Kant's new emphasis on refuting Hume's skepticism about our ordinary and scientific knowledge of causation rather than refining Hume's skeptical method in the critique of traditional, dogmatic metaphysics, is a response to external factors, an increased interest in skepticism and charges that Kant's own transcendental idealism leads to skepticism, in the later half of the 1780S, rather than an accurate indication of Kant's original concerns in the Critique of Pure Reason. So, Hatfield concludes, for a historically reliable interpretation of Kant, we should not read the Critique as really intended to refute skepticism about causation in ordinary knowledge and natural science, let alone skepticism about other fundamental concepts, but should emphasize Kant's original intention to refine Hume's skeptical method for his own critique of metaphysics.
This approach to Kant's relation to Hume is misleading in two regards. First, it is true that Kant recognized that Hume did not mean to argue against our ordinary practices of making causal judgments in science and everyday life—this is why he says that Thomas Reid and other Scottish commonsense philosophers "missed the point of [Hume's] problem . . . proving with great vehemence and, more often than not, with great insolence exactly what it had never entered his mind to doubt" (Prolegomena, Preface, 4: 258). It is also true that Kant held that "No critique of reason in its empirical use was needed, since its principles were subjected to a continuous examination on the touchstone of experience; [and] it was likewise unnecessary in mathematics, whose concepts must immediately be exhibited in concreto in pure intuition, through which anything unfounded and arbitrary instantly becomes obvious," and that a "discipline" of reason is instead necessary "to constrain its propensity to expansion beyond the narrow boundaries of possible experience" "where neither empirical nor pure intuition keeps reason in a visible track" (Pure Reason,A 710–11/B 239–40). Kant also, especially in the Prolegomena and the Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (B x–xiv), appealed to the secure progress of mathematics and science as a model for what needs to be done in metaphysics. Nevertheless, Kant also thought that in the absence of a precise way of demarcating the domain of ordinary experience and normal science where our ordinary practices of causal inference are reliable from the disputable domain of metaphysics where they are not, Hume had no way of preventing his skeptical doubts about the metaphysical use of causal inference from undermining our ordinary use of causal inference. Thus, in Kant's view, Hume was inevitably led into skepticism about the concept and principle of causation in ordinary life and natural science even though he had no intention of being skeptical in those domains. Second, it seems misleading to separate Kant's positive project of grounding the first principles of human thought, including mathematical and scientific thought, from his negative project of eliminating metaphysical dispute by confining those principles to possible experience. To be sure, Kant sometimes stressed the negative rather than the positive side of his project, especially after the first edition of the "Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding," the part of the book that he said in the Preface to the first edition of the Critique was of the utmost importance "for getting to the bottom of that faculty we call the understanding, and at the same time for the determination of the rules and boundaries of its use" (A xvi, emphasis added), met with rejection from its first readers.14 This is particularly so in the Preface to the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science of 1786, where Kant says that "if we can prove that the categories which reason must use in all its cognition can have no other use at all, except solely in relation to objects of possible experience . . . then, although the answer to the question how the categories make such experience possible is important enough for completing the deduction where possible, with respect to the principle end of the system, namely, the determination of the limits of pure reason, it is in no way compulsory, but merely meritorious."15 Yet this seems to have been somewhat of an overstatement on Kant's part: it seems clear that in his original conception of the Critique the positive task of establishing the validity of the a priori categories of the understanding and the synthetic a priori principles of judgment (including the concept and principle of causation) within possible experience was every bit as important to him as proving that these concepts and principles cannot yield cognition beyond the limits of possible experience, and that from the outset he considered the former just as much a critical rebuttal of Hume as he considered the latter a critical refinement of Hume. This is evident not just from the nearly equal sizes of the constructive "Transcendental Aesthetic" and "Transcendental Analytic" and the destructive "Transcendental Dialectic" (in the first edition, 273 and 348 pages respectively), but also from Kant's programmatic statements in the first edition of the Critique. In the Critique's most extended discussion of Hume, in the "Doctrine of Method" where he is explaining the significance of his position in the history of philosophy, Kant first stresses the inadequacy of Hume's account of causation and then stresses that because of the further inadequacy of Hume's boundary between possible experience and what lies beyond it he has no way of preventing his doubts about the use of causation—and other a priori concepts that he should have considered, such as persistence—in metaphysics from casting doubt upon their use everywhere. Kant says that "the most ingenious of all skeptics" raised his doubts about causation because he recognized, although he did not name, the problem of synthetic a priori cognition, but did not know how to solve it:
Hume perhaps had it in mind, although he never fully developed it, that in judgments of a certain kind we go beyond our concept of the object. I have called this sort of judgment synthetic. There is no difficulty about how, by means of experience, I can go beyond the concepts that I possess thus far. Experience itself is a synthesis of perceptions that augments my concept which I have by means of one perception by the addition of others. But we also believe ourselves to be able to go beyond our concepts a priori and to amplify our cognition. We attempt to do this either through pure understanding, with regard to that which can at least be an object of experience, or even through pure reason, with regard to such properties of things, or even with regard to the existence of such objects, that can never come forth in experience. Our skeptic did not distinguish these two kinds of judgments, as he should have, and for that reason held this augmentation of concepts out of themselves and the parthenogenesis, so to speak, of our understanding (together with reason), without impregnation by experience, to be impossible; thus he held all of its supposedly a priori principles to be merely imagined, and found that they are nothing but a custom arising from experience and its laws, thus are merely empirical, i.e., intrinsically contingent rules, to which we ascribe a supposed necessity and universality . . . he made a principle of affinity, which has its seat in the understanding and asserts necessary connection, into a rule of association, which is found merely in the imitative imagination and which can present only contingent combinations, not objective ones at all. (A 764– 66/B 792–94)
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