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Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology / Edition 1by Tim Crane
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Pub. Date: 03/04/2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
A complete and self-contained introduction to metaphysics, this anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of fifty-four of the best classical and contemporary readings on the subject. The readings are organized into ten sections: God, idealism and realism, being, universals and particulars, necessity and contingency, causation, space and time,
A complete and self-contained introduction to metaphysics, this anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of fifty-four of the best classical and contemporary readings on the subject. The readings are organized into ten sections: God, idealism and realism, being, universals and particulars, necessity and contingency, causation, space and time, identity, mind and body, and freewill and determinism. It features a substantial general introduction and detailed section introductions that set the selections in context and guide readers through them. Discussion questions and detailed guides to further reading are also included.
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Table of Contents
Each Part opens with an Introduction and ends with Study Questions and Further Reading.
List of Boxes
Notes on Contributors
Part I. God
1. Why Anything? Why This?, Derek Parfit
2. The Five Ways, Thomas Aquinas
3. Selection from Natural Theology, William Paley
4. Selection from Proslogion, Anselm of Canterbury
5. Selection from Monadology, G.W. Leibniz
6. Evil and Omnipotence, J.L. Mackie
Part II. Realism and Idealism
7. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
8. Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley
9. Selection from Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
10. Selection from Matter and Sense, Howard Robinson
11. Realism, Michael Dummett
Part III. Being
12. Selection from Categories, Aristotle
13. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
14. Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity, Robert M. Adams
15. On What There Is, W.V. Quine
16. Selection from Material Beings, Peter van Inwagen
17. Can There Be Vague Objects?, Gareth Evans
18. Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood, David Lewis
Part IV. Universals and Particulars
19. Selections from Parmenides and Republic, Plato
20. Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, D.M. Armstrong
21. Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals, David Lewis
22. On the Elements of Being: I, Donald C. Williams
23. Causality and Properties, Sydney Shoemaker
Part V. Necessity
24. Selection from Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke
25. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis
26. Actualism and Possible Worlds, Alvin Plantinga
27. Selection from A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, D.M. Armstrong
Part VI. Causation
28. Selection from Metaphysics, Aristotle
29. Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
30. Causation, David Lewis
31. Causal Relations, Donald Davidson
32. Selections from The Facts of Causation, D.H. Mellor
Part VII. Time and Space
33. Selection from Physics, Aristotle
34. Selection from The Nature of Existence, J.M.E McTaggart
35. Changes in Events and Changes in Things, Arthur N. Prior
36. Selection from Asymmetries in Time, Paul Horwich
37. Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
38. The Space-Time World, J.J.C. Smart
39. The Paradoxes of Time Travel, David Lewis
Part VIII. Identity
40. Identity through Time, Roderick M. Chisholm
41. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis
42. Personal Identity, Derek Parfit
43. Persons, Animals, and Ourselves, P.F. Snowdon
Part IX. Mind and Body
44. Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
45. Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances, G.W. Leibniz
46. Selections from Thought, Gilbert Harman
47. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications, David Lewis
48. Selection from Thinking Causes, Donald Davidson
49. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel
X. Freedom and Determinism
50. Selection from Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
51. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person, Harry Frankfurt
52. The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism, Peter van Inwagen
53. Selection from Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, Barry Loewer
54. Human Freedom and the Self, Roderick M. Chisholm
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By David Swanson
NBC's Dateline program aired pro-drone propaganda this week and has posted the video online. Their so-called report purports to be "balanced" and "even-handed." In fact it misleadingly promotes an extremely destructive government program that millions of people would protest if they knew the actual facts of the matter.
Dateline introduces us to drones with the claim that drones have saved lives by "hitting terrorist targets." Unlike any negative statement about drones made in the course of this Dateline video, such positive statements are never immediately countered by somebody authoritative saying the opposite in a different vocabulary (such as "murdering human beings never convicted or even indicted for any crime" rather than "hitting terrorist targets"). Much less is any positive statement countered with actual facts. At the very end of the program we'll hear that during this "war on terrorism" terrorism has increased, but the causal connection recognized by numerous experts is brushed over. In fact numerous top officials involved in the U.S. drone program blurt out, the moment they retire, that it is generating more enemies than it is killing. Numerous such statements are publicly available, and such voices could have been included in this program.
Next Dateline shows us a drone pilot in Nevada in his car and "on his way to fight ISIS." In fact, U.S. drone pilots (who dress up as pilots and sit at a desk) blow people up in numerous countries, have (like their commanders) no idea who most of the people are whom they blow up, and have seen ISIS recruitment soar since the U.S. began bombing that organization which its earlier bombings and occupations and prison camps and torture and weapons sales were absolutely central to creating.
Dateline shows us footage of drones, but none of what they do -- only fuzzy videos selected by the Air Force in which we see no humans, no bodies, no body parts, and are just told that the people murdered were ISIS, which is supposed to make it moral and legal. Endless footage exists and is available, including of course from the Air Force, of the people blown to pieces by drones. Plenty of reporting explains that this type of warfare kills more innocent people than even other horrific types of warfare. But Dateline will instead eventually get around to focusing on phony critiques like "Is this too much like playing a video game?"
Dateline lets us meet "pilots" and hear their views. We meet no victims, no survivors (available footage includes testimony before Congress), and no targets. A man recently traveled to London from Pakistan to request to be taken off the kill list and for the United States and Britain to stop trying to blow him up. He was not arrested, by the way, which CIA Director John Brennan falsely claims later in the program is always preferred.
Drone pilots and the narrator (should we call him a "reporter"?) tell us on Dateline that they protect human lives, rather than destroying them: "Operators often keep watch over U.S. troops on the battlefield." Dateline glorifies the technology describing "an exotic array of onboard bombs and missiles." Dateline shows us drone footage of their "journalist" that is fuzzy but that he tells us is clear. Yet that's the closest we come to seeing footage of an actual drone victim. Government documents that reveal that most victims have never been identified or targeted, and which contradict much of what government officials say on this program, are public.
"Do you ever feel guilty that you're fighting an enemy who can't hit you back?" Dateline asks a drone pilot, reinforcing the idea that he's fighting an enemy, and not asking if he feels guilty for killing human beings, for killing non-enemy human beings, for generating more enemies, or for violating the laws against murder and against war. "We're saving our troops on the ground," the drone pilot says, without explaining how or, of course, why those troops are on that ground and couldn't be saved by leaving it.
"Drones are decisive weapons, key to U.S. military dominance," Dateline tells us. Then we see Brennan claiming drone murder protects the United States. Then we see fuzzy distant footage of an unarmed drone's film supposedly showing Osama bin Laden prior to 9-11. The implication is that blowing him up would have prevented 9-11 and its thousands of deaths, if not perhaps the millions of deaths caused by the U.S. wars marketed as responses to 9-11, since those wars might have been given a different marketing theme. But the cartoonish implication that a single evil mastermind was the source of all resentment and violence toward the United States, and that murdering him wouldn't have further enraged many others, is torn down by Dateline itself which later claims triumphantly that drones have murdered seven potential replacements of bin Laden.
The CIA's role in the Dateline film is more extensive than in the production of Zero Damn Truth -- er, I mean, Zero Dark Thirty -- and we next hear Brennan claiming that "Counter-terrorism professionals always would prefer to capture individuals." That counter terrorism is terrorism, that children living under the constant buzz and threat of drones are traumatized, never comes up. And Brennan's claim is false. We know of numerous cases when someone could have been easily arrested, but murdering them and anybody nearby was preferred -- or at least murdering whoever had that person's cell phone at the time.
Brennan's next utterance is ludicrous: "Taking kinetic action against a target or individual usually is a last resort." Because the option of not doing so doesn't exist?
This flood of propaganda is not impeded by the voices of critics, protesters, lawyers, survivors, or victims, by the views of foreign governments or the European Union or the Pakistani courts, by the perspective of families afraid to step out of doors. The "successful" drone war in Yemen that predictably led to a larger war is not examined. The spread of terrorist groups, the strengthening of al Qaeda in places like Yemen goes unmentioned. Instead, Brennan blatantly lies that al Qaeda has been "very methodically dismantled." No voice replies to that provable falsehood. In fact, Brennan tries to fudge his words to leave a way out, but the message received by the viewer is false.
Dateline's "reporter" who is to a reporter more or less what a drone pilot is to a pilot holds up what he says is a list of "285 names of terrorist targets" and exclaims that "about half are gone" -- clearly expecting us to shout Hurray!
Then -- blink and you'll miss it -- we hear from critics of drone killing, specifically three former participants therein. But it's the Dateline reporter who claims this: "It's because drones are so effective that we use them more than we should, critics say." Effective at what? The critics he then turns to say drones are counterproductive and immoral, but they don't say that on Dateline. The seconds they are given do not allow them to say on NBC what they've said elsewhere.
The former pilots and participants do raise the topic of killing civilians, and the "reporter" asks whether they didn't realize the military kills people. He also asks them if drone warfare is "video game warfare" and then takes that line of his to the commander of Creech Air Force base and asks him the same silly question. He also lets that commander claim that "every effort is made" to avoid killing civilians, before devoting one sentence to what "international human rights organizations say," without putting them on the air to say anything. But our "journalist" counters that with what Obama says -- allowing Obama to say it directly -- and then brings on a pseudo-critic to wisely tell us that the truth must lie somewhere in the middle. Isn't it more likely that the truth lies somewhere near the serious journalism that identifies the victims?
Dateline brushes aside the question of who's being murdered and never touches the question of legality, focusing instead on the supposed need for "transparency" from the White House. Dateline briefly mentions signature strikes and double taps, and even has Brennan acknowledge that the number of terrorists has grown (without commenting on why).
The best question Dateline asks is when it asks the base commander what the U.S. will do if other nations do drone murders (perhaps in the United States). But the reply is not met with laughter or critique: "We'll adapt. We don't rest on our laurels." Adapt how? Wasn't that the question.
Brennan closes out his program by saying: "When I see the extent of evil and the number of individuals who wantonly murder innocents, the obligation of government is to ... protect its citizens." Nobody mentions that his drone pilots are murdering innocents, that doing so is evil, or that it's endangering U.S. citizens -- or that in fact some of his drone victims have themselves been U.S. citizens, including in one case that we know of a child -- whose head may not have been cut off with a knife but whose head certainly didn't remain on his body.
Jump to the end of this episode of Dateline, sponsored by the number 1 and the letters "C" "I" and "A" and we are treated to footage of little children speaking in their cute little voices over military music telling us how heroic the U.S. military is. "They protect people" a tiny boy says in his cute little baby voice.
The United States is the one nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child which forbids military recruitment of children.
President Obama went to Hiroshima, did not apologize, did not state the facts of the matter (that there was no justification for the bombings there and in Nagasaki), and did not announce any steps to reverse his pro-nuke policies (building more nukes, putting more nukes in Europe, defying the nonproliferation treaty, opposing a ban treaty, upholding a first-strike policy, spreading nuclear energy far and wide, demonizing Iran and North Korea, antagonizing Russia, etc.).
Where Obama is usually credited -- and the reason he's usually given a pass on his actual actions -- is in the area of rhetoric. But in Hiroshima, as in Prague, his rhetoric did more harm than good. He claimed to want to eliminate nukes, but he declared that such a thing could not happen for decades (probably not in his lifetime) and he announced that humanity has always waged war (before later quietly claiming that this need not continue).
Never mind an apology, Obama should admit the truth
By David Swanson, TeleSUR
Since before he entered the White House, Barack Obama has proposed handling past crimes by powerful people and entities through a policy called "looking forward" -- in other words, by ignoring them. While President Obama has targeted whistleblowers with retribution and more prosecutions than his predecessors, deported more immigrants, and kept the lights on in Guantanamo, anyone responsible for war or assassination or torture or lawless imprisonment or most major Wall Street scams (or sharing military secrets with one's mistress) has been given a total pass. Why shouldn't Harry Truman receive the same privilege?
I'm committing to not vote for Clinton or Trump, and you can do the same.
The Democratic Party's undemocratic primaries are not over, and nobody has won them. It is entirely possible that Hillary Clinton will not be nominated for any office. That doesn't prevent us from going ahead and committing to never vote for either her or Donald Trump for president of the United States.
Making this commitment could send a badly needed message to the world: There are people in the United States with some minimal level of decency. It could also kickstart the movement that will be needed to resist the regime of whichever of them wins. It could also alert Californian Democrats to the need to vote for Bernie Sanders in the primary.
There's a cartoon floating around at which a Muslim U.S. voter tries to choose between "Ban my relatives from entering country" and "Bomb the s--- out of my relatives." Not much of a choice, is it? Especially when the bomber is following the model of our current president with his record deportations, and the banner is a loose cannon who's proposed to kill the families of designated enemies in the Middle East.
This is the essence of the problem. Whichever of these two you were to vote for, you'd get wars, nasty policies toward immigrants, plutocratic policies toward wealth, and destructive policies toward the natural environment -- barring the arising of a powerful popular movement to bring the government under control.
Sure, one candidate is a comically ill-informed jackass who hates women, while the other is a woman whose comically jackassy policies will come with great scholarly volumns of ill information. But where does either of those really get us?
Lesser evilism predictably produces a pair of candidates each cycle who are both worse than was the more evil candidate last time. This cannot go on forever, and has already gone too far. We need a nonviolent movement to reform our election system -- something not done through elections. But there are plenty of good candidates, such as Jill Stein, to check or write in. We should vote for those good candidates and get right back to work on improving the world.
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Here are a few reminders of who the "progressive" candidate of the "Democratic" Party is:
"For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be." —Robert Kagan
"I have a sense that she's one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president." —Dick Cheney
"I've known her for many years now, and I respect her intellect. And she ran the State Department in the most effective way that I've ever seen." —Henry Kissinger
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By David Swanson for Peace Fresno
At least ninety percent of humanity is represented by governments that wage war much less than the U.S. government. Over ninety-nine percent of people in the United States are not in the military. There has never been a single case of PTSD from war deprivation. The largest cause of death in members of the U.S. military is suicide. War supporters can try to claim that hunter-gatherers waged wars despite the lack of evidence, or that chimpanzees wage wars despite the lack of either evidence or relevance. But the very idea that humans all wage war or that it comes naturally is ridiculous on its face.
But people in the United States imagine themselves at war. Over 40% say that they "would" join a war (what's stopping them?). Troops are thanked for their so-called service and allowed to board airplanes first. Troops are thanked for watching the Super Bowl from 175 nations. President Obama has bragged about having bombed seven nations, and at most events where I speak nobody can name all seven. War has been so normalized that we pay it no attention. The arms trade, led by the United States, has been normalized further beyond that.
By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune
Consider this a friendly reminder to President Obama on his way to Hiroshima.
No matter how many years one writes books, does interviews, publishes columns, and speaks at events, it remains virtually impossible to make it out the door of an event in the United States at which you've advocated abolishing war without somebody hitting you with the what-about-the-good-war question.
Of course this belief that there was a good war 75 years ago is what moves the U.S. public to tolerate dumping a trillion dollars a year into preparing in case there's a good war next year, even in the face of so many dozens of wars during the past 70 years on which there's general consensus that they were not good. Without rich, well-established myths about World War II, current propaganda about Russia or Syria or Iraq would sound as crazy to most people as it sounds to me.
And of course the funding generated by the Good War legend leads to more bad wars, rather than preventing them.
I've written on this topic at great length in many articles and books, especially this one. But perhaps it would be helpful to provide a column-length list of the top reasons that the good war was not good.
1. World War II could not have happened without World War I, without the stupid manner of starting World War I and the even stupider manner of ending World War I which led numerous wise people to predict World War II on the spot, without Wall Street's funding of Nazi Germany for decades (as preferable to commies), and without the arms race and numerous bad decisions that do not need to be repeated in the future.
2. The U.S. government was not hit with a surprise attack. President Franklin Roosevelt had committed to Churchill to provoking Japan and worked hard to provoke Japan, and knew the attack was coming, and initially drafted a declaration of war against both Germany and Japan on the evening of Pearl Harbor -- before which time, FDR had built up bases in the U.S. and multiple oceans, traded weapons to the Brits for bases, started the draft, created a list of every Japanese American person in the country, provided planes, trainers, and pilots to China, imposed harsh sanctions on Japan, and advised the U.S. military that a war with Japan was beginning.
3. The war was not humanitarian and was not even marketed as such until after it was over. There was no poster asking you to help Uncle Sam save the Jews. A ship of Jewish refugees was chased away from Miami by the Coast Guard. The U.S. and other nations would not allow Jewish refugees in, and the majority of the U.S. public supported that position. Peace groups that questioned Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his foreign secretary about shipping Jews out of Germany to save them were told that Hitler might very well agree to that but it would be too much trouble and require too many ships. The U.S. engaged in no diplomatic or military effort to save the victims in the camps. Anne Frank was denied a U.S. visa.
I've come around in favor of backing all moderates. The question appeared to me for a long time as a difficult one. Should one give anti-aircraft weaponry, for example, to al Qaeda fighters in Syria in order to better combat ISIS (which could some day develop the airplane)?
The answer is yes, if, and only if, those fighters are moderates.
Now, who's a moderate? Some people get confused on this part, but it's not really that difficult to get straight. Fighters who want to blow up buildings and airplanes and cars and pedestrians and playgrounds can be either moderates or extremists, since war has nothing to do with their categorization. After all, we're picking which people to arm in the war.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has taught in the Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations' headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of seven other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, and including An Indigenous People's History of the United States.
She discusses the idea that President Obama is the longest serving war president.
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...and the Ballantine Trail - reason enough to take up hiking. Places that look as beautiful as this, or even nicer, are why I go hiking when I get the chance. Besides that, I may lose a few pounds while at it. This shot was taken last weekend on a hike north of Phoenix. I only hiked 3 miles that day but it was awesome nonetheless. You just gotta love places that look like this - tha is as long as you have enough water with you. Mine is in my pack all the way to the left side in the photo as you look at it.
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The Junction of the Pine Creek Loop Trail...
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Nice country. Would be a good place to live. Find one of those roads that just go off into nowhere, and find the end of it.
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The Wyoming Jr high rodeo Assoc. held there state finals in Casper Wy on Friday.
Sheridan County will be sending 6 students to the National Jr High finals in Gallup, Nm June 23-29th.
25 contestants from the state of Wy. qualified to go and 6 were from Sheridan county. The top 4 in the state in each event, qualify.
Created in 2004, the NHSRA Junior High Division was established to bring the excitement of the sport to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders and to serve as a feeder system into the high school ranks of the Association.
LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - New Sheridan lady bronc basketball coach Jessica Cordingly visited Sheridan high school Monday.
Cordingly takes over the Lady Bronc program following season Yeager's announcement this spring he will be leaving Sheridan.
Cordingly was officially named the coach a week ago at the Sheridan school district two board meeting. She grew up in Thermopolis and has been coaching and teaching in California.
We sat down with Cordingly Monday and she is excited to be coming to Sheridan high school.
Six months ago a Cemetery Planning Committee was formed with the goal of developing a master plan for the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Monday night, the Sheridan City Council approved that master plan unanimously.
Officials with Sheridan County School District #2 have put together two options for the District's 2014-2015 School Calender. Parents with students in District #2 along with staff will soon have a chance to vote on the two options.
Miss Wyoming 2013 Lexie Madden will be in northeast Wyoming this weekend as part of a promotional campaign by Miss America and the 2013 contestants. Madden will be making appearances at the Gillette and Sheridan Walmart stores.
Monsanto is an American multinational agricultural biotech corporation that calls themselves a sustainable agriculture company, but some say the group is killing small farms and local agriculture as well as causing health problems related to consumption of its foods. This Saturday there will be a "March on Monsanto" in Sheridan designed to raise awareness to the problems posed by GMO foods. Sheridan Media's Chris Foy has more.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation has announced that due to inclement weather, the re-opening of U.S. 14A - a 22 mile stretch of road west of Burgess Junction - has been delayed until noon on Tuesday.
A team from the University of Wyoming will be presenting the fruit of their interdisciplinary studies in Sheridan on Wednesday evening. Jean Garrison, University of Wyoming director of global and area studies - formerly international studies - explains.
At last week's meeting of the Johnson County School District One Board of Trustees, District Business Manager Matt Ramey gave a very preliminary budget report to the board, and also crunched some enrollment numbers over the past five years.
The Johnson County Commissioners will work through a full agenda Tuesday during their regular meeting.


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LOS ANGELES — Family-friendly "Megamind," Dreamworks' animated 3-D film featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey, is set to upend recent R-rated dominance at the box office with an otherworldly high-$40 million opening this weekend.
Released by Paramount, the PG-rated, action-adventure with shades of "Superman" is debuting at around 3,500 theaters and 195 IMAX screens as the critical holiday movie season officially gets rolling.
"Megamind" is widely anticipated to follow the success earlier this year of Dreamworks' 3D/IMAX release of "How to Train Your Dragon," which performed well in its offseason timeframe with an opening weekend gross of $43.7 million. "Megamind," with its good vs. evil premise, sci-fi feel and considerable star power, should be able to exceed "Dragon's" performance.
Warner Bros.' "Due Date" offers the unlikely comedic pairing of Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey, Jr. — a match made in box office heaven — in a buddy road trip movie from "The Hangover" director Todd Phillips. "The Hangover's" $45 million opening weekend surprised analysts and the film went on to become the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time.
Phillips' average opening weekend is around $20 million, yet a much better than average debut in the mid-$30 million range is likely for his latest comedy, which also stars Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan.
The third newcomer to the weekend's festivities is Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls" from Lionsgate. Perry is a true movie mogul, having created an incredibly lucrative film-making empire in just five years. The stats tell the tale: Nine movies totaling nearly $500 million in domestic box office, an average opening weekend gross of $24 million and an average total domestic gross per film of $53.5 million make Perry one of the most consistently successful filmmakers of all-time.
With "For Colored Girls," his 10th film, Perry makes his way into dramatic territory, and with Lionsgate making this an event movie for African-American women, a gross in the mid-$20 millions or even higher is in the cards.
Fourth and fifth places will see a battle between three veterans of the marketplace: Halloween weekend's No. 1 film, Lionsgate's "Saw 3D"; the consistently-performing, word-of-mouth action movie "RED" from Summit; and Paramount's horror juggernaut "Paranormal Activity 2" are all vying for grosses in the $6 million to $8 million range.
Also opening in just four theaters nationwide is Fox Searchlight's hotly-anticipated critic's favorite "127 hours," starring James Franco as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston and directed by "Slumdog Millionaire's" Danny Boyle.
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Jump to the 12 Hour, Natural Yeast Infection Cure Part »
If you have been suffering from a yeast infection, you may have discovered Linda Allen's Yeast Infection No More publication. Allen's ebook is reasonably priced and promises to naturally and safely heal a yeast infection in a time frame of 12 hours. Additionally, the book comes with a 60 day money back guarantee which you can read more about later on this page. The promise of being rid of an yeast infection in as little as 12 hours without having to use harsh antifungal drugs sounds quite appealing, especially if you are going through the agony of having a yeast infection!
After I perused Allen's website, I was quite intrigued by Allen's claims of being able to terminate a yeast infection naturally with such alacrity. Other natural treatments could take days to work. Each hour you have to experience the symptoms of a yeast infection can drag on and on! Having a yeast infection gone in such a short duration of time is quite impressive, and Allen's claim could be perceived as a touch unrealistic by some individuals.
To ensure the quality of Allen's book, and to more fully comprehend her treatment methodologies, I decided to get Linda Allen's book. Once I took a look at Allen's publication, it was apparent that she had used an appropriate degree of professionalism. As she states, she spent years researching her condition; this shows that Allen could indeed back her claims up with other authors. It is always good to see a strong list of references whenever you are evaluating any publication; it validates an author's legitimacy.
In addition to showing how to alleviate a yeast infection, Allen dealt with the important topic of recurrent yeast infections. Women are often prone to developing repeat yeast infections, just like Linda Allen dealt with for many arduous years. According to Linda Allen, she spent 12 years and approximately 35,000 hours of clinical research and thousands of dollars on experiments and trial and error making her final cure.
Why are Linda Allen's Treatments so Novel?
There are many health care experts who seem unable to present a feasible solution for recurrent yeast infections. It is probably safe to assume that most large pharmaceutical companies are not interested in spending money to determine exactly how to end yeast infection recurrence. Over the counter products like Monistat and prescription drugs for yeast infection are a big business, and purveying information that could stymie such a huge industry would not be fiscally prudent. In short, it is too profitable for large corporations to produce products that deal with peripheral symptoms and never address the root causes of yeast infections. The unfortunate result is, there are few experts who actually are equipped with the knowledge of how to address the root causes of yeast infections.
Linda Allen herself was a victim of the seemingly endless cycle of yeast infection recurrence and treatment. Over the counter drugs, prescription treatments, strange dietary regimens, and even many natural remedies were unable to permanently end Linda Allen's yeast infections. After being disappointed by all the avenues she tried to use to discover a permanent cure for her problems, Allen became determined to do the research and discover the answer herself. After doing her own research and testing various methods of treating a yeast infection, Allen finally ascertained a functional solution to her problem. As Linda Allen herself said, this solution changed her life forever and gave her complete freedom from the cycle of yeast infection recurrence.
After reading through Linda Allen's Yeast Infection No More publication, you will be impressed with her simple, easy to follow treatment methodologies. Once you address the root causes of your yeast infections, you can be assured that they will not return. If you would like to hear more testimonies of how Allen's remedies work, or if you would like to learn about Allen's story yourself, consider perusing Linda Allen's website.
Linda Allen's Generous Refund Period
Another important reason I trust Linda Allen is that her publication is backed by a 60 day money back guarantee policy. Linda Allen's publisher, ClickBank, processes her orders and handles her refunds. ClickBank is very reputable organization and publishes a variety of books by many different authors. ClickBank itself is a subsidiary of the large firm Keynetics Incorporated which is based in Boise, Idaho. I encourage you to investigate Keynetic's Incorporated and learn as much as you can about this corporation based in the United States of America. It is important to know exactly who you are dealing with before you purchase anything online.
Linda Allen's book promises to treat a yeast infection in 12 hours and keep it from recurring. After you purchase Allen's book, you will have 60 full days to evaluate her work. If Allen's claims are not true, or if you find her book to be unsatisfactory, you can ask for a prompt refund via Allen's publisher. It is probably safe to say that 60 days will be an adequate amount of time to determine the efficacy of Linda Allen's Yeast Infection No More publication. Find out more at her website Yeast Infection No More website.
Linda Allen's Story
Recently I wrote Linda Allen and asked her to tell me her story. She agreed to send me a letter containing a brief synopsis of her struggle and years of research. I read this letter intently and was able to rewrite it and post it on this website. If you want to know more about the author behind the book then this story could be a good read. You can find the story here at this page.
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I find myself getting more and more excited about this controller. First off, those videos are almost certainly not indicative of how you will actually use the controller. I think you will likely have the "remote" sitting in your hand with your hand on an armrest or on your lap (like it would be today) and will be making slight motions of the wrist to control it. So I really don't see the motion aspect being fatiguing at all. The problem is controlling its buttons. I think they need to stick primarily to using the trigger (the remote does have a trigger right?) cause I sometimes get fatigue in my hand just switching between buttons on my TV remote. That is something I am concerned about much more than just doing the motion aspect of it.
The door is so wide open with this controller (if it works well) for them to have games that just don't work on consoles now. (Tons of PC-like games). It *should* be the best way to play a FPS on a console.
The keys are : A. they better have the tech down so that it feels "right" and isn't awkward to motion-control. B. You better be able to callibrate the motion detectors so they can be as sensitive/insensitve as gamers want. In fact they should store multiple "controller profiles" on each Revolution so person A and person B don't have to adjust the sensitivity when they switch. and C. Actually do fun things with it that just can't be reproduced on other consoles.
I also think it's key that this be at a low price point ($200 max). It would help to actually have a lot of titles at launch for once too.
As for me, like with any Nintendo console - Call me when Zelda is out for it, and then I'll take a look!


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I don't know about Fritz Hall Andy I think we need Albert Hall across the back to stop the goals going in! :-) I am still not convinced about Brown. Derry for me was the anchor man and the fulcrum for QPR last year in their push for promotion, very reliable and competitive as we all know and a good leader on the pitch..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Good luck Larry M.O.T
Tom, I agree. I would take Derry any day but Colin will be constrained to the players already here and Brown, who Colin knows well, is a like for like Derry - at least as far as Bates sees it.
I may be wrong - I hope I am - but I still think we will get Fits All on loan.


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Quick eFile ITR1 or Quick e-File ITR4S Online
If you have to efile Income Tax returns for ITR-1 or ITR 4S, you can complete the process on the income Tax website itself, by using the Quick efile ITR. This article explains the process of Quick Efile with pictures which can be used to file ITR1 or ITR4S.
What is Quick e-File ITR?
Quick E-file means e filing Income Tax Return online.
E-filing is filing your Income Tax return electronically. It is mandatory for the following individuals to file their return:
- Those with an income of Rs. 5 lakh and above
People having assets abroad
People whose income needs to undergo an audit
Quick E-File is simple,user friendly and hassle free and its features are:
- It is online service. No need to download Excel Utility or Java utility or generate XML. Its like filing any other form on the net
- It is only available for ITR1 and ITR4S as these are simple forms with less number of tabs or schedules to fill.
- It has data like Personal Information and Tax paid already filled it i.e it is prepopulated.
- You don't have to fill the form in one sitting. You can save the information entered. When you login again you can start from where you left. However the saved draft can be accessed within 30 days only.
Our article Comparison of Income Tax Filing Websites:IncomeTaxEfiling,ClearTax,etc compares various Income Tax Efiling websites in detail.
Overview of Process to Quick eFile ITR
Overview of the process to Quick eFile ITR is as follows.
ITR4S, the difference between ITR4S and ITR4
You can file ITR4S or ITR4 if you have income from Business or Profession or freelancing. What is ITR4S? Difference between ITR4S and ITR4.How to choose which ITR to file between ITR4S and ITR4? What does ITR4S covers? Structure of the ITR-4S Form,How to file the ITR-4S Form ? Videos on how to fill ITR4S
ITR4S or ITR4
As per the Income Tax Act, an income from any profession that involves work, which requires you to use a skill, which is an intellectual skill or is a manual skill, then such income will be taxable under the head Profits and Gains of Business and Profession. As ITRs are based on type of income (among others) so One has option to file ITR4 or ITR4S.
ITR-4S is a four page document, while ITR-4 is a detailed form, possibly one of the two longest of all tax return forms. Called Sugam, the ITR 4S is for businesses what the Saral ITR 1 is for individuals -short, easy to understand and file. Section 44AD has been from assessment year 2011-2012 (AY 2011-12) into Income Tax Act. Before AY 2011-12 section 44AD was only applicable to the business of civil construction. However, it is now applicable to all types of businesses
ITR-4S is a special case ITR, applicable for businesses where income is calculated on 'presumptive method'. As per Dictionary, Presumed means to accept legally or officially that something is true until it is proved not true. As per Dictionary, Presumptive means presumed in the absence of further information. So Your tax liability is calculated on the basis of a `presumed business income', irrespective of what your actual income may be.
It is covered by Section 44AD and Section 44 AE
- Under Section 44AD Your Net Income is estimated to be 8% of the gross receipts of your business. Gross receipts or Turnover mean the total collections of the business. The receipts shall be inclusive of VAT & Excise Duty. The receipts shall also include delivery charges as well as receipts from sale of scrap. Discounts given, advances received and money received on sale of assets should be excluded. Section 44AD specifically mentions the word business, therefore section cannot be applied in case of professionals.
- Under section Section 44 AE you can report your income as Rs 7,500 per month for each vehicle if you are in the business of plying, leasing or hiring trucks.
- From FY 2016-17 or AY 2017-18 Section 44ADA is introduced for Professionals. Professionals whose Total Gross Receipts do not exceed more than Rs. 50 Lakhs in a financial year can claim benefit of this Section from Financial Year 2016-17 onwards.
- You don't have to maintain books of accounts, profit & loss statements or audits. of this business.
- You don't have to pay Advance Tax for such a business.
- You are not allowed to deduct any business expenses against the income.
Insurance: Types of Term Plan
A term plan is the best and cheapest way to buy a life insurance policy for every individual who desires to secure his family in his absence. In a term plan the nominee gets a sum assured on death of policyholder during the policy term and nothing if policyholder survives the term. Realising the need for something extra from the term plan, many companies such as Max Life Insurance has come out with variations of vanilla term plans, where they offer lump sum and monthly income to nominee. However, there are various types of term plan that you should understand so that you can choose according to your needs.
Vanilla Term Plan
What is a Term Plan?
A term plan is a comprehensive insurance plan. The nominee of the policy gets lump sum assured amount after the death of the term plan holder. This plan offers only death benefit but no maturity benefit. Death benefit is the amount that a nominee can receive if the policy holder unfortunately dies within the policy tenure. Maturity benefit is the amount that the policy holder receives after the policy tenure expires. The premium on term plans depends on three factors: age, term of the policy and the sum assured you choose. Even as term plans are the cheapest insurance product you get a further discount by buying them online. Comparison of the best term policy was easy as the one with maximum cover and minimum premium would top the list.
How does Typical Term Plan work?
Suppose Mr. Mehta, aged 30 years has opted for this traditional for basic term plan for sum assured of Rs. 1 Crore for 30 years for an annual premium of Rs.7400. After paying 9 premiums i.e at age 39 Mr. Mehta passes away. As per death benefit, his nominee will be eligible for Rs. 1 crore. If Mr. Mehta expires at age 61, his nominee will not be entitled for any amount.
Plain Vanilla Term Plans are Suitable for:
- Nominees who are confident enough to investment the lump sum amount received in the appropriate investment avenue.
- For the category of people who do not fear any future undetected expenses and feel that they will have sufficient funds to manage the same if need arises.
Generally the eligibility criteria for all term plans with any company are similar and can be as follows.
New Type of Term plans
The new kind of term life insurance break the sum assured into lump sum payment and monthly instalment payments for a fixed number of years. Some offer to increase the monthly income by a certain percentage to inflation index your cash flows. This helps if the nominees is not equipped to optimally utilise the lump sum. A term plan promises to pay the beneficiary the sum assured in lump sum if the policyholder dies during the policy term. Income benefit plans, on the other hand, break this sum assured down into monthly payments for a fixed number of years in order to provide regular cash flows to the nominee.
Please note the amount received as sum assured and additional income according to the plan is tax-free. But income earned from the proceeds of investing the term amount is not tax-free
Who is the New Type of Term Plans are Suitable for?
- When the nominee is not very familiar with investment avenues where they can utilize sum assured to receive returns.
- People with low savings who will find a difficulty meeting expenses.
- If the term policy holder is the sole earning member regular and smooth flow of cash flow will financially secure the nominee in individual's absence.
Sum Assured and Monthly Income Term Plan
This kind of term plan offers death benefit. The nominee is entitled to assured lump sum amount + 0.4% of the policy sum assured as an additional compensation every month for 10 years.
How does this actually work?
Let us take the same example of Mr. Mehta who is 30 years old and has bought Sum Assured+ Monthly Income Term Plan of Rs. 1 crore with an annual premium of Rs. 10400 in 2016. After payment of 9 premiums Mr. Mehta dies in 2024. As per Max Life Sum Assured plus Level Monthly Income Death Benefit Option his nominee will be eligible for Rs. 1 Crore + Rs. 40000 every month till 2034-2035.
(Rs. 1,00,00,000 * 0.4% = Rs. 40000/month)
Total benefit from the Term Plan to the nominee: Rs. 1,48,00,000
(Rs. 1 Crore + Rs. 40000*12*10 = Rs. 48,00,000)
Sum Assured Increasing Monthly Income Term Plan
It offers some assured + Increasing Monthly Income Term plan. With 100% sum assured and 0.4% of sum assured as additional monthly income the additional point here is this additional income increases every year at 10% simple interest.
How does this plan actually work?
Mr. Mehta who has opted for Max Life Sum assured+ increasing monthly income term plan with assured cover of Rs. 1 Crore in 2016 at an annual premium of Rs. 11100, deceased in 2024. Therefore his nominee will be qualified to get Rs. 1 Crore ( Sum assured) + Rs. 40000 (0.4% additional monthly income) from 2025. In 2026, his monthly income would increase by Rs. 4000(10% of Rs. 40000= Rs. 4000) and it will increase by 10% every subsequent year for a period of 10 years. In year 2034-35 the nominee will be entitled for a hefty monthly income of Rs. 76000/month.
Comparison of Different Type of Term Plans
Using Max Online Term Plans as example
Comparing the Income Benefits Term Plans
But how do you compare these plans? In a plain vanilla plan that offers a lump sum benefit, the basic level of comparison can be on basis of premiums, but plans that offer staggered benefits, premium comparison is more difficult.
Say, you buy plan 1 for Rs.1000 that promises to pay your beneficiary Rs.1000 every year for 10 years, and plan 2 at the same cost promises to pay your beneficiary Rs.750 for 15 years. The total payout in the first plan is Rs.10,000 and Rs.11,250 in the second plan. So you may be inclined to buy the second plan. But you need to consider Inflation and Net Present Value.
Inflation eats into the value of money, which means what you can buy for Rs.1000 today, will cost you more than Rs.1000 in the future. Even as plan 2 offers a slightly higher payout in the future, it may not really be a better deal if you factor in inflation and time value of money.
For a suitable comparison, you need to look at net present value (NPV) of both the plans. Assuming inflation of 6%, NPV of all future cash flows from plan 1 comes to Rs.736 andRs.728 from plan 2. This means, plan 1 offers better value.
Net Present Value
Present Value works on the principle that Money now is more valuable than money later on. Why? Because you can use money to make more money! Let us say you can get 10% interest on your money. So 1,000 now could earn 1,000 x 10% = 100 in a year. Your 1,000 now would become 1,100 by next year. So 1,100 next year is the same as 1,000 now.
Formula for Present Value:
PV = FV / (1+r)n
- PV is Present Value
- FV is Future Value
- r is the interest rate (as a decimal, so 0.10, not 10%)
- n is the number of years
To get a Net Present Value you also need to subtract money that went out (the money you invested or spent): Add the Present Values you receive – Subtract the Present Values you pay
Example: A friend needs 500 now, and will pay you back 570 in a year. Is that a good investment when you can get 10% elsewhere?
- Money Out: 500 now
- You invested 500 now, so PV = -500.00
- Money In: 570 next year
- Net Present Value = 518.18 – 500.00 = 18.18
So, at 10% interest, that investment is worth 18.18. A Net Present Value (NPV) that is positive is good (and negative is bad).
Invest 2,000 now, receive 3 yearly payments of 100 each, plus 2,500 in the 3rd year. Use 10% Interest Rate.
Let us work year by year :
- Now: PV = -2,000
- Year 1: PV = 100 / 1.10 = 90.91
- Year 2: PV = 100 / 1.102 = 82.64
- Year 3: PV = 100 / 1.103 = 75.13
- Year 3 (final payment): PV = 2,500 / 1.103 = 1,878.29
Adding those up gets: NPV = -2,000 + 90.91 + 82.64 + 75.13 + 1,878.29 = 126.97
Example: (continued) at a 6% Interest Rate.
- Now: PV = -2,000
- Year 1: PV = 100 / 1.06 = 94.34
- Year 2: PV = 100 / 1.062 = 89.00
- Year 3: PV = 100 / 1.063 = 83.96
- Year 3 (final payment): PV = 2,500 / 1.063 = 2,099.05
- Adding those up gets: NPV = -2,000 + 94.34 + 89.00 + 83.96 + 2,099.05 = 366.35
Looks even better at 6%
The following is the formula for calculating NPV: where
- Ct = net cash inflow during the period t
- Co = total initial investment costs
- r = discount rate, and
- t = number of time periods
NPV calculator
With diversification in term plans, individuals can choose the most favourable plan for themselves that will be suited best for their family.
Note to Term Holder:
- Before opting for the right term plan always compare the NPV of money considering the inflation rate.
- You can choose the criteria given on Max Life How to choose a term plan #MaxLifeTermPlan shown in image below
Term plans are an excellent way to insure yourself and staggered payments add to customisation. Take advice from a planner to assess your insurance needs and look at NPV of income benefit plans to properly compare the premiums.
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If you own a property, you have income from House Property. What will be Income from House Property for more than 1 house? How to Evaluate which house to choose when one has two houses and both houses are self occupied? How to Choose which one to show as Self Occupied in ITR? How to calculate Income from House Property when one is Self Occupied, One given on rent. When you have multiple Houses then how do you account for these multiple houses in ITR?
Overview of Income from House Property
If you own a property, you have income from House Property. A house property could be your home, an office, a shop, a building or some land attached to the building say a parking lot. The Income Tax Act does not differentiate between a commercial and a residential property. All types of properties are taxed under the head Income from house property in the income tax return.
But if you occupy your house property to carry on a business or profession or your freelancing work– any income or expenses with respect to this property shall be covered under the head 'Profits & Gains of Business & Profession'. You will be allowed to deduct expenses that you may incur towards maintenance and repairs from your business income. Any rent receipts will be added to your income.
Income From House Property and ITR
In Income Tax Returns (ITRs) section called Schedule-HP (HP for House Property) needs to be filled for details about percentage of co-owned property, loan, Annual Value,deductions etc. Information about the House needs to be filled in as shown in picture below. Income from house property can be divided between the co-owners which can reduce overall tax liability. Our article Income from House Property and Income Tax Return explains Income from House Property in Detail
Calculation of Income from House Property is as follows
Customise ITR: How to remove schedules not applicable to you
Many ITR, such as ITR2 have multiple schedules. Selection of ITR depends on kind of income one has. For example one having capital gain or two houses cannot file ITR1. ITRs have many schedules and not all will be applicable. For example if one has Salary Income and Capital Gain, but does not have Income from House Property then he does not need Schedule HP. This articles talks of how to Customise ITR so that you can remove schedules not applicable to you. How to add rows in ITR?
Which ITR to fill
Every tax payer is required to declare to the Income tax Department of the Government of India, summary of income, tax paid which he earned during the year(between April to Mar of next year) n a form prescribed by the Government something like report card in school. The form which one needs to fill in is called Income Tax Return.
There are various ITR forms such as : ITR-1 (Sahaj) ,ITR-2A,ITR-2 ,ITR-3, ITR-4 and ITR-4S( Sugam). ITR-5 and ITR-6 which differ in information required and hence number of pages.
- There are different Income Tax returns form based on
- Who has to fill (individual, Hindu Undivided Family(HUF), Business etc). Did you know that Fourth Character in PAN specifies the type of tax-payer. For Individual's it's P , HUF it's H, Firms F etc.
- Whether a resident of India or not Our article Non Resident Indian – NRI explains who is NRI?
- On types of Income earned ex: Income from Capital Gains or Income from House Property.
- On whether losses are carried forward or not.
- These forms are released every year by Income Tax Department as there are some modifications in income tax law in the budget or Finance Bill ex: exemption limit is modified, new tax saving option is introduced (80TTA ftom AY 2013-14), some tax saving option is removed (20,000 under 80CCF from AY 2012-13).
- For income less than 5 lakhs one can file ITR manually. In case of physical filing the return, an individual needs to fill the printed form or the hard copy and submit it to the nearest Income Tax Office (ITO) and get an acknowledgement.
- If income exceeds Rs. 5 lakhs one has to furnish the Return electronically.
- The process of electronically filing Income tax returns through the internet is known as e-filing. One can file directly(incometax website) or through an e-Return Intermediary such as Taxsmile,Taxspanner. While the I-T department lets you file your returns online for free, most other portals charge a fee.
- To e-file the returns one can fill the Excel utility/Java Utility/Prefilled form provided by the income tax department. Our article E-Filing of Income Tax Return covers e-filing in detail.
- Forms for the Financial Year 2015-16(assessment year 2016-17) can be downloaded from Income tax website(http://incometaxindia.gov.in/) Downloads->Income Tax returns ( http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Pages/downloads/income-tax-return.aspx). Income Tax's Download also provides instructions in Hindi and English with forms. It also has forms for earlier Assessment Year.
Use the right form and right Assessment Year. For the income earned between 1 Apr 2015 to 31 Mar 2016 the Assessment Year is 2016-17 (or Financial Year 2015-16) and income tax return by individual must be filed before 31st Jul 2016.
The only difference between ITR 2 and ITR 2A is that if one has income from capital gains, Details of foreign assets or Details of Income accruing or arising outside India then one can furnish only ITR 2, one cannot file ITR 2A.
Many Schedules in ITR
For example ITR2 is divided into 20 schedules as shown in image of Excel Utility below.
But you don't have to work with all schedules. For example if you don't have Capital Gains,CG schedule. i.e you haven't sold any property or gold or debt mutual funds then you can customise your ITR to not have the schedule. All you have to do is on the Home Tab , Select N in the column Select applicable sheets below by choosing Y/N and then click Apply. The Excel Utility will then appear as follows
How to Customise ITR
Customising ITR can mean simplying ITR by removing Non Applicable schedules or Adding Rows or Deleting Rows. Lets look in detail. Note Some of the schedules can't be removed. These are in white color in Select Y/N column and don't give Yes/No Option.
Customise ITR in Excel to remove Non Applicable schedules
- Go to the Home Tab or Home worksheet ,
- Select N in the column Select applicable sheets below by choosing Y/N
- click Apply.
The corresponding worksheet or tab will be removed.
Customise ITR in Java Utility for ITR
- Go to the Home ,
- For the Schedule Not Applicable to you Select No in the column Schedule Selection. Image below shows selection of Schedule HP .
The Selected Tab will be removed. The image shows the Home page after the Schedule HP is removed.
Adding New Rows to Table in ITR
In ITR wherever information is captured in tables , such as Employers, Number of Houses, one can add multiple rows if required.
- Adding new Row : Click ADD button to insert a new row and then enter values in the field provided. Make sure you provide information in all mandatory columns ( * ) marked
- IN many cases you might get error Please fill in all the mandatory fields in the last row before adding another row.
- Deleting Row : Select the row to delete from the list and click DELETE button
- Remove unnecessary blank rows from the table by selecting the row and clicking on DELETE button.
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