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Are you ready for the future?
Reasons for hope and for concern
By CNN's Michael Bay
Robots and smart machines will be everywhere in the future.
Your comments
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Hold on tight.
The future is coming faster than you think.
CNN Future Summit is looking ahead to the future, at how technology is going to change and shape our lives. We've asked a number of scientists, futurists, scholars and writers to join us for an ongoing discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in coming decades. And we want you to participate. Each week, we'll pose a new question and ask for your feedback.
We begin with a look at where we've been, where we're going, and hopes and concerns about the future.
Life 50 years ago
Remember what life was like in 1956? Even if you only know it from books and movies, you know it's a far cry from life today.
Satellites were still a year away, so there was no global network to link us all, to show us our world and what lies beyond.
Computers were just making the transition from vacuum tubes to transistors. Putting a computer on your lap would have crushed your legs.
The mobility of your phone was limited to the length of the cord attached to the wall. You might have had a personal assistant, but certainly not a digital one.
Television programs were still mostly broadcast in black and white. The very first videotape recorder was being introduced, but it would be decades before you bought one for your home.
There were some key discoveries being made in medicine, but there was still much we didn't know about the underlying causes of many diseases.
Calder Hall, the first large scale nuclear reactor, began operation in England. The average price of a barrel of oil was $2.94 ($21.30 adjusted for inflation, less than a third of what it costs today).
Life in the future
Now imagine what life might be like in future. Go ahead. Close your eyes.
You'll be healthier than ever and you'll potentially live much longer, thanks to individualized medicine made possible by genetic testing and a growing understanding of human biology.
Diabetics will undergo stem cell therapy to replace the islet cells in their pancreas. Or perhaps they'll just get a whole new pancreas, grown from their own stem cells.
People will recover from traumatic accidents, through either biological or technical means. Artificial limbs will provide tactile sensory feedback directly to the nervous system, and will be made, partially or completely, from organic materials.
Nanotechnology will provide tiny machines that will revolutionize industry and manufacturing, and will also be deep inside our bodies, repairing damage we may never realize exist.
We'll be living in a world filled with machines, which will be far smarter than ever before. Perhaps they'll be smarter than we are. Robots and smart machines will be everywhere, doing all manner of work, from basic manual labor to designing the next generation of technology. Some of those machines will be moving around, looking very much like the beings that created them. Some of them will be living in your home, perhaps helping to take care of your children, or your elderly parents.
Alternative energy sources will help power an energy hungry world. Genetic designers may be creating artificial life forms that could solve energy needs and cleaning up environmental pollution.
When will this come about? That depends on who you ask. Many scientists hesitate to make predictions. There are many challenges to be overcome still, and no guarantees on how long it will take to overcome them. Others say the future is coming faster than you can imagine, and that the pace of discovery is increasing faster every year.
Radical changes ahead
These developments are going to have a radical effect on our lives, our societies, cultures and economies. Humanity will live in a world vastly different than today, with many common problems we face today long solved, and new challenges facing us.
As communities and societies, we'll be forced to face changes unique in history. People living healthier and longer will challenge us to ensure their quality of life. Artificial life and artificially intelligent machines will challenge our notions of ourselves. Robots may become an intimate part of our societies. Nanotechnology and materials science, as well as many other technologies, may have a profound impact on global economies. And we may be venturing farther in space than ever before. Will mankind be living on Mars and elsewhere in our solar system?
These changes won't happen overnight. Tomorrow morning, your world will still look like it did today. But consider this: If tomorrow, you spend a few minutes reading a blog on the web, or searching for information on a search engine, you'll be doing something that was impossible just thirteen years ago.
"The word blog hardly existed three years ago," points out futurist Ray Kurzweil. "People didn't use search engines five or six years ago. The first reference to the world wide web was in 1993 in the New York Times."
So how should we view the changes that await us in coming decades? Should we be optimistic about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds?
A sense of optimism
"For I dipped into the future,
"I'm optimistic about the future because I don't see any end in sight of how we can develop," says Rodney Brooks, the director of MIT's Robotics Lab. "I see us pushing ahead quite well, and I'm looking forward to technology unfolding and coming more to my life as I get older and older."
"We have certainly made great advances over the last century," says Australian genetics researcher Lyn Griffiths. "And I expect will make many more - all of which contribute to our quality of life." But Griffiths notes, "It would be good to see medical advances and quality of life more equitably distributed."
"I feel optimistic about the way applications of science for the health and welfare of a large majority of people in the developing world are taking shape," says Dorairajan Balasubramanian, Director of Research at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India.
I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature
-- Craig Venter
"As a scientist," says Craig Venter, "I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature." Venter, who led the team that was first to sequence the human genome, is now working to engineer life forms he believes can help provide alternative energy sources.
"One can imagine a more interesting world, perhaps even a healthier world than today," says Hugh Herr, of MIT's Biomechatronics Group. "But we have to architect it, and do everything we can to make it happen." Herr says that in the future, "it may be possible to be anywhere on the globe and give the world your service, and also receive the world's services. That's an interesting world, because you can live anywhere. You can live in Greenland and play a violin in Paris, if that's what you do."
"The pace of scientific discovery seems to be getting faster," says Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue. "Both technology and biomedicine have the potential to make what would now seem to be unbelievable new advances to cure or prevent disease and to help people to live more fulfilling lives." Donoghue serves as the director of the Brown University Brain Science Program. "The exciting trend toward integrating engineering, biology, mathematics and physics will create new ways of thinking and bring new ideas to practical use."
"I am optimistic about the future growth of technology," says John Searle, a University of California Berkeley Philosophy professor, "because I think improved understanding in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry, medicine, physiology, and especially neurobiology will enable us to prolong life, improve health, and overcome poverty and malnutrition."
"Mankind adapts rapidly to innovation, often in spite of itself," says Mark Reed, Yale University professor of Engineering and Applied Science. "We are amazingly adaptable, which is why we survived - our progeny will not only adapt, they will excel."
Hans Moravec, a roboticist serving as chief scientist at Seegrid, sees improvements in computers as a reason for optimism: "In all fields of science, computers make new things possible, because more and more science is done computationally. You can simulate things, so can you can try out things where the experiments may be hard or impossible to do. And you learn things, enormously surprising things often from simulations."
Reasons for concern
"The person who does not worry about the future
Venter worries about the quality of science education: "That's our key to the future, if we have bright, well educated children coming up to pick up the next level of challenge, we have a chance for a very positive future."
That's a concern shared by Professor Balasubramanian. "While creativity and intellectual brilliance is common to all nations," he says, "kindling them and making them blossom seems to happen in but 30 or so counties out of the 192 in the world." Balasubramanian also expresses concern about how science is managed and applied by governments and businesses. "Useful science," he says, "is now increasingly thought of in commercial terms."
"What makes me a little pessimistic is whether we can think long term enough to solve some of our big problems," says Brooks. "We have to worry about energy. We have to worry about global warming. We have to worry about health care and social security. Many of these things require some long term thinking, and I think that's going to be hard for us to figure out how to do."
I am afraid that the long term future we are building will have no space left for human beings.
-- Daniela Cerqui
"I am afraid that the long term future we are building will have no space left for human beings," says Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural anthropologist. "The main values of our so-called information society are related to data that must circulate and be processed as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks."
"Human beings are characterized by their ability to give a meaning to what happens and take decisions about what they want," says Cerqui, who serves as a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Lausanne. "If aware that the future of humankind is at stake -- and it is, definitely! -- people will hopefully react and try to preserve themselves."
"There are limits to what technology can do for us," Searle points out. "One of the really great sources of pessimism about the future is the likelihood that we will have unexpected epidemics. My medical friends assure me that it is quite likely that we will have a return of the type of flu epidemic that occurred worldwide in 1918 and killed far more people than were killed in the First World War. Global warming continues apace as does the general pollution of our environment. We can look forward to increased number of hurricanes like Katrina, and more unpredicted earthquakes and tidal waves."
"Though technology may be beneficial in many ways and we humans may adapt both intellectually and physically," says robotics expert Joanne Pransky, "I question our ability to emotionally, socially, and psychologically acclimate at the same exponential rate. How are we humans to adapt to change that rapidly? How are people to have effectiveness, self-efficacy, and direct control of their environments?"
"For a technologist," says roboticist Ron Arkin, "it becomes very hard to predict what the end-products of our research will eventually be used for, and what unsuspecting outcomes will arise, for better or worse. As a designer of technological artifacts such as intelligent robotic systems, this gives me pause to think about the consequences or our endeavors."
"The future of the human race is too important to leave to politicians and corporations," says Reed. "A scientifically educated global population will help us focus on the truly important problems, such as energy - arguably the most important crisis we as a species will face - instead of wasting efforts on petty squabbles for short term economic and political gain."
Moravec says he finds it hard to be a pessimist. "It's true, we could mess up. We are just coming out a situation where we were well set up to mess up in a very big way, namely, we had 50,000 nuclear warheads aimed at each other on a hair trigger. Now that was a situation that was genuinely dangerous. And it wouldn't have taken very much and would have set us back at least quite a while."
Hugh Herr cites the ability for people to obtain very powerful weapons as one reason for concern over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives. "Machines systematically taking over what humans do is not a healthy thing," Herr says. "There are certainly many areas of danger. It's important to do this, start talking about it, create a dialogue, and try to push things and, so we end up at a place that's reasonably healthy."
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Egypt Today
Gov't plans to restore global status of Egyptian cotton - PM
Monday، 19 August 2019 - 10:02 AM
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli stressed Sunday that the country shows a great interest in developing and supporting the textile sector as well as planting and selling the Egyptian cotton.
The Egyptian government plans to restore the status of the Egyptian cotton globally, Madbouli said after his meeting with Minister of Public Business Sector Hisham Tawfik, where they reviewed the latest efforts in this regard.
Tawfik expounded that his ministry allocated EGP 21 billion to maximize the added value of the Egyptian cotton, the plan advised the supervised by international consultant Warner, who prepared a comprehensive study aimed at developing this sector.

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How do you get yours? Social networks and the distribution of news.
February 28, 2013
Something I wrote about at length a bit more than two years ago is the use of social media to find news about friends rather than traditional news.
Since then, I have visited traditional news sites less and less. The news site I refer to in that blog post was somewhere I visited daily (and had done for five years or so) but it doesn't even register on the Chrome list of sites I visit often.
Why the change?
I guess there are three reasons:
i) The type of content I am interested in is now on Facebook – so any person / group / issue I care about (from pop star to football team to climate change) have users I follow who post content – quite often daily. So I can read updates from the source of the news for them.
ii) Any other news, particularly breaking news, appears in Facebook streams pretty quick – I heard about the pope abdicating on Facebook and the meteorite hit in Russia via Twitter. Anything which comes up can be verified by a Google search and clicking on the first reputable news source it brings up.
iii) The radio station where I live, and the local print newspaper, each have Facebook streams and post reasonably regularly, so any local news appears in my stream (no need to buy a paper anymore as they are giving it away in another medium) and if it is of interest I take a look.
The future of news appears to be social. Quite how money is made from that, I am unsure.
I am frustrated by the Murdoch pay wall, as content from their cannot be shared (or if it can, it would seem only with other subscribers – feel free to tell me if I am not understanding how that works correctly) as far as I can tell it is working out for him, but his news output is not coming my way online.
Filed in culture, economics, publishing
Tags: Facebook, Murdoch, paywall, sharing, social media


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In 1815, Germany's General Music Journal published a letter in which Mozart described his creative process:
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer; say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. All this fires my soul, and provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost finished and complete in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. When I proceed to write down my ideas the committing to paper is done quickly enough, for everything is, as I said before, already finished; and it rarely differs on paper from what it was in my imagination.
In other words, Mozart's greatest symphonies, concertos, and operas came to him complete when he was alone and in a good mood. He needed no tools to compose them. Once he had finished imagining his masterpieces, all he had to do was write them down.
This letter has been used to explain creation many times. Parts of it appear in The Mathematician's Mind, written by Jacques Hadamard in 1945; in Creativity: Selected Readings, edited by Philip Vernon in 1976; in Roger Penrose's award-winning 1989 book, The Emperor's New Mind; and it is alluded to in Jonah Lehrer's 2012 bestseller Imagine. It influenced the poets Pushkin and Goethe and the playwright Peter Shaffer. Directly and indirectly, it helped shape common beliefs about creating.
But there is a problem. Mozart did not write this letter. It is a forgery. This was first shown in 1856 by Mozart's biographer Otto Jahn and has been confirmed by other scholars since.
Mozart's real letters — to his father, to his sister, and to others — reveal his true creative process. He was exceptionally talented, but he did not write by magic. He sketched his compositions, revised them, and sometimes got stuck. He could not work without a piano or harpsichord. He would set work aside and return to it later. He considered theory and craft while writing, and he thought a lot about rhythm, melody, and harmony. Even though his talent and a lifetime of practice made him fast and fluent, his work was exactly that: work. Masterpieces did not come to him complete in uninterrupted streams of imagination, nor without an instrument, nor did he write them down whole and unchanged. The letter is not only forged, it is false.
It lives on because it appeals to romantic prejudices about invention. There is a myth about how something new comes to be.
Geniuses have dramatic moments of insight where great things and thoughts are born whole. Poems are written in dreams. Symphonies are composed complete. Science is accomplished with eureka shrieks. Businesses are built by magic touch. Something is not, then is. We do not see the road from nothing to new, and maybe we do not want to. Artistry must be misty magic, not sweat and grind. It dulls the luster to think that every elegant equation, beautiful painting, and brilliant machine is born of effort and error, the progeny of false starts and failures, and that each maker is as flawed, small, and mortal as the rest of us. It is seductive to conclude that great innovation is delivered to us by miracle via genius. And so the myth.
The myth has shaped how we think about creating for as long as creating has been thought about. In ancient civilizations, people believed that things could be discovered but not created. For them, everything had already been created; they shared the perspective of Carl Sagan's joke on this topic: "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." In the Middle Ages, creation was possible but was reserved for divinity and those with divine inspiration. In the Renaissance, humans were finally thought capable of creation, but they had to be great men — Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and the like. As the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, creating became a subject for philosophical, then psychological investigation.
The question being investigated was "How do the great men do it?" and the answer had the residue of medieval divine intervention.
A lot of the meat of the myth was added at this time, with the same few anecdotes about epiphanies and genius — including hoaxes like Mozart's letter — being circulated and recirculated. In 1926, Alfred North Whitehead made a noun from a verb and gave the myth its name: creativity.
The creativity myth implies that few people can be creative, that any successful creator will experience dramatic flashes of insight, and that creating is more like magic than work. A rare few have what it takes, and for them it comes easy. Anybody else's creative efforts are doomed.
How to Fly a Horse is about why the myth is wrong.
"The Creativity Myth" is excerpted from How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery, by Kevin Ashton, available here. If you would like to get news of more posts like this one, please like Kevin's Facebook page.


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Shown Simplified Style Living Room Unfinished. Cat is not the absolute case. Whitewash only cement wall makes the living room look more simple, but still unique. The following living room for example.
"Well, his house unfinished, really, is habitable?" Perhaps the question is what comes to mind when you enter this living room. Indeed, this living-style room unfinished. This means that there are some elements that are left seem not yet completed.
One of them is a wall, which left only as whitewash semen.Tampilan this official and eliminate the impression of rigidity. Natural and simple impression is also very pronounced, because the homeowner does not play a lot of color, there is only white on the floor, ceiling, even on some furniture.
But be careful, too, if not observant, look like this can make quickly bored by monotonous. The solution, place the elements of refreshment, such as green plants or a little color to the accessories game.
What about dark impression? For the problems this one can be tricked by creating a wide opening and lots. As we can see in this picture, the room was so bright and open as it is surrounded by a wide aperture. Another advantage, so the room cooler.
This unfinished room, more save money as well. Funds for the paint can be allocated to the other. Agree?
Photo: idea / Richard Salampessy
Source: www.ideaonline.co.id


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Whirlpool is telling its side of the story, as the appliance maker cuts a century-old partnership with Sears Holdings.
"We informed Sears in May we would no longer supply Whirlpool brand products [if] we could not reach terms that were acceptable to both parties," Whirlpool Chief Executive Marc Bitzer said on a call Tuesday morning with analysts and investors.
"The entire Sears business declined over time," Bitzer added. Overall, he said Sears only accounts for about 3 percent of Whirlpool's global business — a "small fraction" when compared to other sources of revenue.
A representative from Sears didn't immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment regarding the conference call.
Bitzer confirmed that Whirlpool would continue to manufacture some Kenmore-branded products for Sears, as it has been doing for years.
In an internal memo to its employees, Sears cited a dispute over pricing as its reason for cutting ties with Whirlpool.
"Whirlpool has sought to use its dominant position in the marketplace to make demands that would have prohibited us from offering Whirlpool products to our members at a reasonable price," Sears wrote.
On Monday evening, Whirlpool reported third-quarter profits and revenue that missed analysts estimates. The Michigan-based appliance maker cited higher raw material prices in its earnings report and warned that those costs are expected to rise through 2018.
Whirlpool shares were falling more 10 percent Tuesday morning.
Bank of America and RBC Capital Markets both reacted by downgrading the stock.
"We are ... not satisfied with our operating margins, which were impacted by raw material inflation, unfavorable price/mix and slow progress on our European integration," Bitzer added in a statement.
"Thus, we are implementing strong actions to deliver our long-term goals, including recently-announced global cost-based price increases and a fixed cost reduction initiative," he said.
Over time, the market for appliances has become increasingly competitive, with players ranging from J.C. Penney to Best Buy to Amazon itching for a share.
Once recognized as the go-to destination for dishwashers and refrigerators, Sears gave up an estimated $1 billion in major appliance sales in 2015, according to analysis by Twice and The Stevenson Co. More recent data wasn't immediately available.


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The Perfect Gifts for a Gentleman – The Top 5 Gifts for Him
Finding the perfect gift for the true gentleman in our lives is a difficult conundrum.
They have a particular flair, a sartorial sense, an aura that they have cultivated over time.
There is little sense in getting him aftershave as the modern gent has a wide range of smells that he takes pride in and is unlikely to be running low or wish to try a new scent that he has not sought out.
The same is true with clothes. Firstly these are expensive gifts and knowing his size (especially skinny fit) can prove troublesome and can lead to your gift being returned or exchanged.
So below we have set out our top 5 gifts for a gentleman to give you some inspiration!
Pocket Squares
Pocket squares come in all colours, sizes and materials so there is a great deal of input from you without enforcing your style upon him. However stay away from cheap materials such as polyester and satin or mass produced squares.
Cotton or silk are the most favoured by gents with cotton being cheaper and somewhat less flimsy.
There are many ways a gentleman can fold a pocket square and it can be worn daily which acts a great regular reminder of you!
Bow Ties
Bow ties are a staple of a gentleman, especially a self tie bow tie. A gentleman takes pleasure in tying their own bow tie and relishing in the nuanced difference a self tie gives over a pre-tied bow tie.
If your gent does not know how to tie a bow tie then a self tie bow tie gives them a skill to master and once they know, they will love it!
A pre-tied bow tie is a great alternative to the self tie bow tie and is a great way to show your gent that you consider him to be a dapper guy!
Bow ties can be quirky, classic and in a wide range of colours. Give some thought to when your gent will wear his bow tie to select the most appropriate bow tie i.e. at work? At a charity event?
A great gift and too often overlooked. Cufflinks are jewellery and just as ladies like jewellery, a gentleman does too.
Perhaps go more classic in look for the gent in a professional role so that he can get the most wear out of them and for the man who likes to dress up for date night, perhaps a fun cufflink set (champagne cufflinks?).
A set of cufflinks also allows the gent to wear double cuff shirts which make a great deal of difference to the gent's look and set him apart from another man.
Lapel Pins
A lapel pin is as it sounds. It attaches to the gentleman's lapel as a subtle additional extra to a blazer or suit jacket.
A whole outfit can be changed with the addition of a lapel pin or boutonniere and can become part of a collection for a gentleman.
For a wedding, perhaps look for a classy fleur-de-lis lapel pin however there is a huge range to choose from and maybe there is one that will remind your gent of you when he wears it?
Tie Pins
Another item of jewellery that gentleman love to wear. Their aim is to keep a tie in place exactly as he wants and allows the gentleman to move without the tie flapping in the way (another benefit a bow tie has over the tie!).
Doctors and lawyers are keen on tie pins as a tie can flop into patients faces or get in the way when next to a desk and at the same tie can show a sense of humour should you opt for something more fun.
Where to find great gifts for the modern gentleman?
Society Gent has a large range of all mens' accessories including unique, limited edition handcrafted pocket squares, bow ties, cufflinks, tie pins and lapel pins specifically designed with a gentleman in mind and can be found here www.societygent.com.
What's more, if you use GENT10 at checkout they are offering 10% off!


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White Radish - Mullangi in Lemon Juice - Side dish
1 White Radish - Mullangi
1 Carrot
5 – 6 Green Chilies
Lemon Juice
1 tsp Vammu
Peel and chop mullangi and carrot into small pieces. Chop green chilies into small pieces, suit your taste.
In a glass bowl squeeze lemon juice and add chopped green chilies, vammu, salt and turmeric. Add the mullangi and carrot pieces. Mix well and let sit for 1 -2 hrs before serving, by doing this, vegetables will absorb the lemon juice and the seasoning.
This can be used as side dish for rotis and as a side with dals and curries with rice.
Gullasenaga pappu (Putnala pappu) Kobbari Chutney- White Chutney1
1 cup Gulla Senaga pappu: Putnala pappu
1 cup coconut
5 – 6 Green Chilies
4 – 5 Garlic Pods
1 tsp Tamarind paste
¼ cup Milk - Cold
Take 2 tsp of oil in a skillet and make tadka with ½ tsp jeera, 1 tsp mustard seeds, hing and few curry leaves. Keep aside.
Chop coconut into small pieces or grate coconut.
Dry grind gulla senaga pappu, garlic and green chilies to a dry powder. Then add coconut pieces, tamarind and salt and grind again. Then mix well and add ¼ cup milk and water as required while grinding.
This pachadi can have a good flowing consistency. Add more water as required.
Empty the pachadi into the tadka skillet, mix well and transfer into a serving jar.
This is a good side dish with idli, dosa and uttapam.
Spicy Corn
4 cups of Corn Kernels or Frozen Corn
2 cups chopped Capsicum – Bell Peppers any colors
1 Carrot
1 Jalapeno preferably or Red Chili Powder where not available.
1 tsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
Lemon juice
Take 2 tsp of ghee in a skillet add chopped jalapenos (Optional or reduce if want the dish milder) fry till nicely done then add ginger garlic paste. Do not use green chilies instead of jalapenos.
Cut carrot and capsicum into small cubes. Add them to the skillet and fry for a few minutes. Now add corn, salt and turmeric.
Add 1 inch of butter, 1 tsp of garam masala or chat masala. Cook with a lid on for 5 – 7 minutes. Do not over cook, steam cooking is enough and a let a pinch of rawness remain in the vegetable.
Add lemon juice, mix and serve hot.
This is a very easy and addictive snack for cold afternoons.
A very hot - fast food item in Chennai Malls.
Pineapple is a favorite tropical fruit next to Banana. Pineapples are actually not just one fruit but a composite of many flowers whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core. Each fruitlet can be identified by an "eye," the rough spiny marking on the pineapple's surface.
Pineapples have a wide cylindrical shape, a scaly green, brown or yellow skin and a regal crown of spiny, blue-green leaves. The fibrous flesh of pineapple is yellow in color and has a vibrant tropical flavor that balances the tastes of sweet and tart. The area closer to the base of the fruit has more sugar content and therefore a sweeter taste and more tender texture.
Look for pineapples that are heavy for their size. While larger pineapples will have a greater proportion of edible flesh, there is usually no difference in quality in terms of size. Pineapple stops ripening as soon as it is picked, so choose fruit with a fragrant sweet smell at the stem end.
Pineapple can be left at room temperature for one or two days before serving, will not make the fruit any sweeter, it will help it to become softer and juicier.
Pineapple can be cut and peeled in a variety of ways. Regardless of how you proceed, the first step is always to remove the crown and the base of the fruit with a knife.
Place its base side down and carefully slice off the skin, carving out any remaining "eyes" with the tip of your knife. Then cut the pineapple into quarters, remove the core if desired, make slices into the quarters cutting from the flesh towards the rind, cut the pineapple into the desired shape and size.
Pineapple that has been cut should be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container. Cut fruit, if chilled, retains many of its nutrients for at least 6 days.
Pineapple is a wonderful addition to fruit salads, especially those containing other tropical fruits such as papaya, kiwi and mango.
Mix diced pineapple and chili peppers for an easy to prepare salsa.
Drizzle maple syrup on pineapple slices and broil until brown.
Boil diced pineapple chunks in sugar syrup (water + sugar boiled) if the pineapple has a tart taste.
Pineapple juice is a favorite among tropical beverages.
Nutritional Profile
Pineapple is an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese. It is also a good source of vitamin B1, vitamin B6, copper and dietary fiber.
Idli - TamilNadu
Idli stand and Pressure cooker are required for making Idli.
1 cup Urad dal
1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
4 cups Boiled rice
1 cup Raw rice
Add fenugreek to the urad dal and mix the raw rice and boiled rice. Soak them separately over night.
Grind urad dal and the rice mix to a smooth batter. This should be done separately, once rice and urad dal mixes, texture of the batter will change.
Then they can be mixed together, add salt and mix well and set aside to ferment for 6 - 8 hrs. Yeast or cooking soda can be added for fermentation. Keep in a warm place or in the oven.
Spray Pam or smear oil in the holes of the idle stand and pour the batter. A small trick I have learnt over the years, is to alternatively align the holes in the stand, by doing this, idli will not stick to the top tray.
Steam cook in high heat for 15 min and in low flame for 5 - 6 mins.
This is steamed food and very good for kids. Rub some ghee on the idli and serve with coconut chutney or podi. Idli can be soaked in sambar and eaten.
To make it appealing for kids, button idli stand can be used, same taste, smaller size - bite size. These idli's and soaked in sambar and eaten.
1 cup Urad dal
1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
4 cups Boiled rice
1 cup Raw rice
Add fenugreek to the urad dal and mix the raw rice and boiled rice. Soak them separately over night.
Grind urad dal and the rice mix to a smooth batter. This should be done separately, once rice and urad dal mixes, texture of the batter will change.
Then they can be mixed together, add salt and mix well and set aside to ferment for 6 - 8 hrs. Yeast or cooking soda can be added for fermentation. Keep in a warm place or in the oven.
Water can be added to the batter as required to make uttapam.
Grease a dosa pan with oil and pour the batter a little thick on the skillet spreading evenly with the ladel. Sprinkle chopped onion, green chili, ginger and chopped coriander.
Add a tsp of oil so that uttapam can be removed easily. Turn the other side and let roast.
Serve it with chutney.
Tomato Besan Pachadi
2 Tomatoes
1 Onion: Optional
½ tsp Jeera
½ tsp Mustard Seeds
A pinch of Fenugreek Seeds
1-2 Red Chilies
½ tsp Red Chili Powder
1-2 Green chilies
Few Curry Leaves
½ tsp Tamarind paste
4 -5 tsp Besan - Senagpindi
Cut tomatoes into small pieces.
Take 4 tsp of oil in a small skillet and when oil is heated add jeera, mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, hing, red chilies, and chopped green chilies and curry leaves. Then add chopped onion and fry till it is translucent. Add tomato pieces, salt, turmeric, red chili powder and 1 cup water, cook till tomatoes are done.
Then add tamarind paste and besan stirring slowing so that lumps are not formed. As you are adding the base thickens and starts to cook. Add coriander and cook for a few minutes till the base separates.
Check for salt, adjust seasonings according to taste and more water can be added according to the required consistency.
Transfer contents into a serving bowl.
Tomato chutney can be served with hot rice with a tsp of oil or with upma, dosa or any tiffin items.
Alu Parata
2 cups Atta
1/2 cup Milk
5 Potatoes
½ tsp Coriander-Jeera Powder
2 Green Chilies - Optional
Boil potatoes with salt, peel and mash them without any lumps. Add coriander-jeera powder, red chili powder, chopped green chilies, coriander and make it into balls.
Mix atta, milk and little salt and 2 tsp of oil along with water and make solid dough. Do not use too much water. Can be used immediately or can let sit for a few hours.
Make big lemon size atta balls. Using dry atta, roll the dough balls into circles using a rolling pin. Place one potato ball in the middle and cover it from all the sides (using dry atta) slowly roll using a rolling pin. Do not press hard into the atta, it will make holes. Try rolling from all sides to get an even shape.
Take a flat base pan (dosa /chapatti pan) and turning back and forth cook the parata till it is nicely done on both sides adding a tsp of oil accordingly. Remove when done nicely on both the sides. Dab with butter stick when hot.
Transfer to an air tight box if not used immediately.
Alu Parata does not need a spicy side dish; fresh curd can be used as a side dish.
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Roll atta into a circle with a rolling pin.
Place the potato ball on the rolled atta and flaten it.
Fold the atta roll from all the sides coving the potato ball.
Using a rolling pin and dry atta gently roll the atta again.
Cook them on a skillet or a griddle using oil or ghee and turning them frequently.
Stuffed alu/potato paratas are ready.
Chips and Guacamole
1 Ripe Avocado
1 Red Onion
1 Tomato
Lemon Juice
Jalapenos - Optional
Banana Peppers - Optional
Cut avocado in half; remove the pit and scoop the flesh into a bowl. Mash it well with a spoon. Chop onions and tomatoes into small pieces.
Add salt, 2 tsp lemon juice, red chili flakes, chopped coriander and mix well. Jalapenos or/and banana peppers can also be used by spicy lovers. The avocado flesh has an oily, smooth texture and it binds everything well.
This is a good dip for corn chips or tortillas. Enjoy a spicy snack with colas or juice.
A favorite item for Super Bowl Parties or Game nights.
Brinjal Potato Allamkaram-Kura
4 – 5 long Brinjals
3 Potatoes
Chili-Ginger-Coriander Paste
1 tsp Jeera
Grind green chilies, ginger, coriander and 1 tsp jeera into a smooth paste.
Boil and peel potatoes, cut into cubes.
Cut brinjal into 2" pieces. Use immediately or brinjal oxidizes, place them in water.
Take 3 tsp of oil in a skillet and add cut brinjal and stir fry for a few minutes, then add chili-ginger-coriander paste and fry for a few minutes.
Then add cooked potatoes and mix gently without disturbing the shape of the vegetables.
Taste for salt and seasonings, can be adjusted to suite your taste.
This is a good side dish with rice.
Thotakura Ava Pulusu - Amaranth Leaves
1 bunch Thotakura - Amaranth Leaves
4 - 5 Okra
Bedakaye, chopped into 1" pieces : Optional
2 Green Chilies
Few Curry Leaves
Tamarind juice
2 tsp Jaggery
2 tsp Ava Powder
2 tsp Sesame Powder
Grind mustard seeds to a fine powder. This is called ava powder.
Soak tamarind in hot water and make juice adding less water.
Chop thotakura finely and wash and drain. Cook in a pressure cooker with salt and turmeric and 2 cups water. Do not drain the water.
Take 2 tsp of oil in a sauce pan and make tadka (popu) with jeera, mustard seeds, few fenugreek seeds, hing and a red chili. Add chopped green chilies, curry leaves and fry for a few seconds. Okra can be added and fried for a few minutes.
Remove the red chili into a bowl and squish it, add 2 tsp of rice flour, 1 tsp of jaggery, 2 tsp ava powder, 2 tsp sesame powder. Using water mix them all nicely and keep aside.
Then add cooked thotakura, turmeric and 2 cups of water. Add tamarind juice and the previously made base and bring to a boil. Cook for a few minutes more, the liquid will start to thicken and oil will separate, then remove from flame.
Check for salt and seasonings, more jaggery or ava can be added according to taste.
A authentic Telugu recipe that tastes very good with hot rice. The tangy of the tamarind juice, sweet of jaggery, hot from the red chili gives this Liquid dish a unique taste.
Soya Chunks and Vegetable Pulov
4 cups Basmati Rice
1 cup Soya Chunks
2 Onions
1 Potato
1 Carrot
1 cup Beans
½ cup Peas
2 tsp Ginger-Garlic paste
3 Green Chilies
4 tsp Garam Masala: From my previous blog Garam masala from Powders/ Podis
4 Bay Leaves
1" Butter Stick
Take 2 tsp of oil in a skillet and fry the dry soya chunks till they are nicely roasted. Then soak them in warm water for 15 minutes. Drain and squeeze out water before using them.
Take 4 tsp of oil in a skillet add chopped onions, chilies, bay leaf and once the onions are translucent, add ginger-garlic paste and all chopped vegetables and soya chunks.
Wash and drain rice. Once the vegetables look like they lost all the water, add rice. Stir fry. Now add 4 tsp of garam masala powder and salt. Let cook the mixture for a few minutes with a lid on.
Transfer from the skillet to a rice cooker and pour 1:2 ratio of water for the rice. Add 1" of butter stick in the vessel and taste for salt. For attractive appearance add food coloring. (optional)
Fried cashews and coriander can be used for garnishing. Quick one dish meal.
Raita or kurma is a good side dish for this Mixed Vegetable and Soya Chunks Pulov.
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T-Birds Battle Past Tips In Overtime
Andrej Kukuca scores overtime game-winning goal
EVERETT, September 1, 2018 — Andrej Kukuca scored at 3:58 of overtime Saturday night at the Delta Hotels Preseason Classic at Angel of the Winds Arena to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 5-4 win over the Everett Silvertips.
The Classic ends for the T-Birds on Sunday, September 2, as they play the Spokane Chiefs at 3pm.
Kukuca also had two assists in the game and now has a goal and four assists in two preseason games.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 VICTORY!!!! Kukuca! pic.twitter.com/L6YSjgeBOK
— Seattle Thunderbirds (@SeattleTbirds) September 2, 2018
Prior to the game against the Silvertips, T-Birds General Manager Bil La Forge announced Nick Redding, the team's Video/Hockey Operations Coordinator, has accepted a head coaching position with a to be announced Junior B team.
"It is a difficult time to lose a position like this, but Nick wanted to pursue the opportunity to coach. We are in the development business at all levels and we will start our search immediately to fill Video/Hockey Operations Coordinator position," said La Forge.
"Interested candidates for the Video/Hockey Operations Coordinator position can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to us at email@example.com," continued La Forge.
Everett took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Sean Richards at 1:10 of the first period. Reece Vitelli had the only assist.
Seattle outshot Everett 12-8 in the first period.
The T-Birds tied the game 1-1 2:54 into the second period. Zack Andrusiak won a puck battle in the right corner to Holden Katzalay who moved the puck to Simon Kubicek at the right point. Kubicek skated to his left and took a wrist shot with traffic in front of Everett goalie Blake Lyda. Kubicek's beat Lyda on the blocker side. The T-Birds announced Kubicek's signing with the team earlier in the day.
Everett took a 2-1 lead at 8:54 of the second on a goal from Luke Ormsby. Connor Dewar had the only assist.
The Silvertips went in front 3-1 on a five-on-three power-play goal by Jake Christiansen. Dewar and Bryce Kindopp had the assists.
Everett outshot Seattle 11-4 in the second period and led 19-16 in shots after two periods.
The T-Birds started the comeback at 7:15 of the third period. Kubicek took a shot off the rush that his Kukuca and came right to Nolan Volcan to the left of the net. Volcan lifted the puck over Lyda for his first goal of the preseason.
Seattle took a 4-3 lead with two power-play goals in 50 seconds. At 9:46 of the third Graeme Bryks took a pass in the slot from Jared Davidson and wired a shot low past Lyda.
The T-Birds kept the pressure on and Mike MacLean banged in rebound at 10:36 to get his team the lead. Kukuca passed the puck to Andrusiak in the left circle. Andrusiak took a shot that Lyda stopped but MacLean was there to clean up the rebound.
Seattle was called for a penalty with 1:52 left in the game. Everett pulled Lyda for a six-on-four advantage and Christiansen scored a tying goal with 1:12 left in the game.
Seattle outshot Everett 16-13 in the third period and 35-34 in the game.
Seattle goalie Liam Hughes had 30 saves on 34 shots and gets his first win of the preseason.
Lyda had 30 saves on 35 shots.
Preseason play continues for the T-Birds at the Red Lion Hotels' Preseason Tournament at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. The T-Birds will begin the tournament on Thursday, September 6, against the Spokane Chiefs at 3pm. Tournament play will conclude on Friday, September 7 with a matchup against the Kootenay Ice at 3pm.
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First period – 1, Everett, Richards 1 (Vitelli), 1:10. Penalties – Davidson, Sea (cross checking), 5:13. Bauer, Sea (cross checking), 6:08. Seeley, Evt (interference), 9:41. Vitelli, Evt (kneeing), 17:55.
Second period – 2, Seattle, Kubicek 1 (Katzalay, Andrusiak), 2:54. 3, Everett, Ormsby 1 (Dewar), 8:54. 4, Everett, Christiansen 1 (Dewar, Kindopp), 14:27 (pp). Penalties – Fasko-Rudas, Evt (tripping), 2:50. Khaira, Evt (boarding), 10:38. McNelly, Sea (cross checking, roughing, 10-minute misconduct), 13:10. McIsaac, Sea (roughing), 13:10. Khaira, Evt (roughing), 13:10. Volcan, Sea (roughing), 13:55.
Third period – 5, Seattle, Volcan 1 (Kukuca, Kubicek), 7:15. 6, Seattle, Bryks 2 (Davidson), 9:46 (pp). 7, Seattle, MacLean 1 (Andrusiak, Kukuca), 10:36 (pp). 8, Everett, Christiansen 2 (Richards, Sutter), 18:44 (pp). Penalties – Walker, Evt (tripping), :23. Walker, Evt (high-sticking), 8:27. Khaira, Evt (high-sticking), 10:24. McIsaac, Sea (roughing), 11:43. Richards, Evt (roughing), 11:43. MacLean, Sea (kneeing), 14:20. Sutter, Evt (goaltender interference), 16:13. Tyszka, Sea (cross checking), 17:06. Dewar, Evt (embellishment), 17:06. Uchacz, Sea (interference), 18:08. Andrusiak, Sea (unsportsmanlike conduct), 18:44.
Overtime – 9, Seattle, Kukuca 1 (Williams), 3:58. Penalties – No penalties.
Shots on goal – Seattle 12-4-16-3 35, Everett 8-11-13-2 34. Goalies – Seattle, Hughes 34 shots-30 saves (1-0-0-0); Everett, Lyda 35-30 (0-0-1-0). Power plays – Seattle 2-8; Everett 2-8. Referees – Bryan Bourdon, Duncan Brow. Linesmen – Michael Ellis, Cameron Wetmore.


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The challenges that your eCommerce brand faces today are not just limited to manufacturing & delivering quality products. Offering a seamless experience across multiple sales channels is the need of the hour. With customer experience becoming the primary focus, the question remains - Should your brand outsource eCommerce operations or manage them in-house?
In order to decide what is best for your brand, an in-depth understanding of both options is necessary.
Exemplary Customer Experience
When you outsource your operations, your control over customer experience goes away. From managing eCommerce platforms to delivering the product, the entire process is handled by an external party which then also becomes responsible for your brand experience.
While managing operations in-house, you gain complete control over end-to-end eCommerce operations such as inventory management, order processing, catalog management, promotions management, etc. This way, you have the power to offer a pleasant brand experience to your customers.
Also, you can receive insights to optimize various factors such as cart abandonment, promotions performance, and customize a memorable shopping experience. It can help you truly differentiate your business from others in this highly competitive world of eCommerce.
Smoother Return Processing
A study conducted by invescpro.com suggests that 30% of all products ordered online are returned as compared to 8.89% in brick-and-mortar stores. What's more, 92% of consumers said that they will buy again if the product return process is easy whereas 79% of consumers want free return shipping. An easy and quick return process will offer you a highly competitive edge over others. When you outsource your operations, the return process can get complicated. Therein, the product goes back to the 3PL partner and important feedback may be lost as the levels increase between you and the customer. When operations are managed in-house, with every return, you can figure out the exact reasons behind it and implement strategies for smoother return processing.
Flexibility in demand reaction
When it comes to demand reaction, it is necessary for brands to remain flexible. If you outsource your operations, such situations may become chaotic for you to manage as these situations require immediate attention. If you have to restock a top-selling product, you need to be in sync with your service provider all the time, which may hamper the sales for your business.
In comparison, when you do it in-house, you have complete visibility over the supply chain. You can spot a fast-selling product easily and re-stock it instantly. Similarly, for a low sales product, you can run promotions and discounts through a centralized platform and optimize them efficiently.
Business Scalability
As you scale your business and your order volumes increase, the cost of fulfillment also increases. A change in your business model will lead to an increase in fulfillment related complexities. When you outsource your operations, the scalability of your business depends on your distributor/ service provider and factors like their stability, global reach, and presence across various countries. This may be a lucrative option in case they have a set infrastructure that can facilitate seamless scaling.
However, you can also scale your business in-house with your existing assets & resources and the right technology.
How can you leverage technology for your in-house eCommerce management?
The right technology can help your brand manage their eCommerce operations seamlessly. An appropriate Software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology platform can not only offer you a streamlined way of managing your operations, but also offer insightful data, complete visibility, speedy fulfillment, and much more. Take a look:
Supply chain visibility and order accuracy
Technology tools like an inventory management system ensure that you have complete visibility over your stock at every step of the supply chain- all in real-time. Equipped with this visibility, you will have better control over the order flow across multiple sales channels. Using a centralized platform with inventory and order sync facility will ensure 100% order accuracy. It helps you keep track of your top and bottom performing products, enhancing product organization, keeping track of fast selling products, and gauging replenishment levels- helping you in enhancing the customer experience.
Pricing Discounts and Promotions
A SaaS platform not only allows you to set pricing discounts and promotions across marketplaces but also track and monitor them closely. With a clear view of your sales, you can set promotions and discounts for low selling products and track them in real-time, thus allowing you the flexibility of reaction to demand. When it becomes simple to perform such operations on just one platform, you can push your eCommerce presence in a new direction.
Speedy fulfillment:
With more and more customers demanding faster deliveries, speedy fulfillment is the need of the hour. By leveraging a multi-channel inventory management system that enables you to integrate an Order Management System (OMS), you can speed up the fulfillment times without any extra cost. Using an OMS connected with a full-suite Warehouse Management System will allow you to keep a check on your stock levels across multiple locations and enable you to send order details to a fulfillment center that is closest to your customer, thus speeding up the fulfillment process.
Cost-effective scaling
With SaaS, you can scale your business at minimum costs. A centralized platform that integrates with multiple marketplaces and facilitates inventory and order sync will help you manage huge order volumes without the hassle or the extra cost. It will also help automate all your warehouse processes and streamline them. It will also help in the efficient use of storage space as you scale.
As the modern customer matures and the competition grows intense, you need to ensure that you offer every customer an exemplary experience right from the start. With the help of sophisticated multi-channel management systems, you can guarantee that you deliver a seamless brand experience and gain a competitive edge.
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered all media outlets to clear salaries of their employees by April 30.
The order was issued by a three-member bench in a suo motu case related to non-payment of salaries by some newspaper organisations and TV channels and a subsequent development about politicising of government advertisements.
The bench was headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and its other members were Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.
The proposed 'guidelines for content regulation of government advertisement in print and electronic media', contained in the order, have six points: the guiding principles for dissemination of information, definitions of classified advertisement and government advertisement, scope and object of the guidelines for government advertisements, purpose of government advertising, content regulation and the government advertisement during election period.
The guidelines have been prepared in consultation with senior counsel and all major stakeholders of the electronic and print media, including All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE).
The court also heard Information Secretary Sardar Ahmed Nawaz Sukhera, and Additional Advocate General, Punjab, Asma Hamid who accepted the proposed guidelines.
Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2018


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"That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise." – David Hume
My understanding of Hume is via Deleuze who has an idiosyncratic reading. Hume was the subject of Deleuze's first book Empiricism and Subjectivity and pops up again later as the focus of Pure Immanence, although Deleuze is concerned with partiality in Hume's moral philosophy, as well as empiricism. This article is an attempt by me to get to grips with contingency in Hume in relation to Meillassoux's critique of Kant's solution to the problem of induction.
As an empiricist, Hume begins his philosophical investigations with everyday observations about the world. So he privileges direct experience and seeks to ascertain the relations between things that provide the reality of our experience, rather than building an immovable philosophical edifice. In so doing, Hume seeks to emulate the method of scientific empiricism and physics of his time.
For Hume, the mind is just a radical set of ideas (not the origin of experiential thought). This amalgam of ideas can then be endlessly reconfigured and restructured into new associations, so it is never predetermined or preprogrammed. In essence, this amalgam of endlessly re-combinable and dynamic ideas is what constitutes the 'self' or 'I'. Accordingly, the self for Hume is a fiction that is determined by practice (habits or custom). There is therefore never any 'universal' laws or constancy that governs the relation of these ideas. If there are any 'rules' these are merely contingent and impermanent, much as we observe in science, which allows us to 'suppose' a set of contingent rules until we encounter new evidence that refutes the model that we have espoused. Hume had a distinct influence on Karl Popper's philosophy of science here, particulalry regarding falsification.
Deleuze appropriates Hume from the group of Enlightenment thinkers that he is usually lumped with (Descartes, Locke and Berkley) and reckons him to be a philosopher of the future, despite some of his more obvious flaws. He even claims that Kant owes something essential to Hume. Hume seems as relevant as ever at the moment, as the reality that he problematizes still lies at the heart of philosophical debate. These problems are confronted in After Finitude by French philosopher and speculative materialist Quinten Meillassoux. He embarks on resolving some of Hume's questions, which Ray Brassier investigates in turn in Nihil Unbound in the chapter titled 'The Enigma of Realism'; which is eminently useful for unpacking these core controversies.
The question that Meillassoux principally addresses is the controversy of the problem of causality and Hume's ideas regarding contingency and the uniformity of nature. This is commonly known as the Problem of Induction. Which is all fascinating.
If we look at any causal relationship (A follwed by B) we know through experience and observation that B always follows A; it has done so in all past occurrances. Yet Hume maintains that A and B are not bound by any universal principle of causation. So the problem is characterised by the question: why do we infer that the regularity of B following A, which has been observed until now, will hold in the future? How do we know the sun will rise tomorrow?
Hume's response is that of 'inductive inference', which is merely the association of ideas and hence a psychological habit formed over time. In so doing Hume casts doubt on inductive reasoning; which is presumed to be the core of scientific enterprise. This critique of induction casts doubt upon the verifiability of scientific theory. For Hume it is logically impossible to verify a universal proposition by reference to experience. In response to this argument Karl Popper develops his falsificationist philosophy of science, through which science's law-like generalisations are not inductively verified, but deductively falsified.
Therefore, an experiment can never verify a scientific law; it can only falsify it, since a single counter-example allows us to deduce its falsity. This very much correlates to the importance of contingency in Hume. So, even the best corroborated scientific theories could be overthrown by one counter-instance. Part of the problem of Popper's science philosophy is that it presumes a uniformity of nature, but Hume's critique of causality undermines this.
Hume is fascinated by the discrepancy between the vast realm of logical possibility and narrow domain of empirical actuality. Brassier uses Hume's example of billiard balls to illustrate this:
When I see for instance, a billiard-ball moving in a straight line towards another; even suppose the motion in the second ball should by accident be suggested to me, as a result of their contact or impulse; may I not conceive that a hundred different events might as well follow from this cause? May not these balls remain at absolute rest? May not the first ball return in a straight line, or leap off from the second in any line or direction? All these suppositions are consistent and conceivable. Why then should we give preference to one, which is no more consistent or conceivable as the rest? All our reasonings a priori will never be able to shew us any foundation for this preference. [David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]
Whilst there is no good 'reason' why we should find one outcome more plausible, our 'belief' in causality encourages our predicted outcome to be necessary. This is the uniformity of experience that Hume says we predict through habit; so the nature of belief is somewhat habitual. It is therefore merely habit that allows us to perceive nature as anchored in a uniformity of occurrences. Habits generate the appearance of uniformity. We have an irrational faith in the sun rising tomorrow through necessity; we believe it will through the constancy of appearances.
By confiscating the ground of uniformity from reason, Hume abandons it to faith. In so doing he paves the way for Kant's natural theology, the transcendentalisation of uniformity and his legitimation of fideism (synonymous with christian apologetics and apposite to strong corelationism under Meillassoux's definition). Kant completes the question of whether constancy should be a necessary feature of our experience of phenomena. This is the question that Hume begins by rooting uniformity in association and association in habit. Kant comes up with a 'frequentialist' solution to the problems of uniformity and constancy, which Meillassoux then counters with an 'anti-frequentialist' answer in which he deploys mathematics to demonstrate that Kant's solution is untenable. If Hume denies the rationality of our belief in the reality of uniformity — without denying that uniformity itself — by identifying belief as originating in habit, he transforms the problem of induction into a question of how our experience of constancy is possible.
This is the aporia that Kant takes up in the The Critique of Pure Reason and it falls to him to complete it. Kant in turn transforms it from a metaphysical question about reality-in-itself, into a transcendental question about our experience of phenomena. Kant surmises that: If there is no constancy in appearances, then no representation of appearances (i.e. phenomena) would be possible.
So, in summary, since representation manifestly occurs, it suffices to refute a sceptical hypothesis of a world without constancy. Kant concludes that in a world in which causality and the principle of uniformity are suspended — a world in which not only billiard balls are unpredictable, but also their entire global context (the table, the walls, etc.) — such a world would be unrepresentable to ourselves, therefore unimaginable and an impossibilty. For Kant all such phenomena would be subject to endless chaotic transformations, which is inconceivable.
Kant therefore claims that uniformity is not a necessary feature of noumena (things-in-themselves), but that the possibility of consciousness and representation itself requires the constancy of phenomena. It is essential to it. One presupposes the other to produce a global stability of context. So in The Critique of Pure Reason Kant goes on to demonstrate that the law-like regularities which science finds in nature are essential and necessary features of phenomenal reality.
Meillasoux, in After Finitude, infers from Kant's answer to the problem of induction a 'transcendental legitimation' for the necessity of uniformity. This is perhaps an unstated inference, but nonetheless detectable. Meillasoux observes that if representation presupposes constancy, and constancy requires a uniformity, one cannot conclude that uniformity is necessary. This relies on assumption and perhaps to legitimation via transcendental recourse.
Kant would have it that if phenomena were inconsistent and the laws of nature based in contingencies, it is the frequency of their transformations that would render them unrepresentable. This is why we could characterise Kant's solution as 'frequentialist', as the rate of capricious transformation in an unstable global context would preclude the act of synthesis whereby the mind reproduces the properties of appearances from one moment to the next:
If cinnabar were sometimes red, sometimes black, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, if a man changed into this and sometimes into that animal form, if the country on the longest day were sometimes covered in fruit, sometimes with ice and snow, my empirical imagination would never find opportunity when representing red color to bring to mind heavy cinnabar. [Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason]
So the 'sometimes' of Kant's solution is a unambiguous reference to a 'putative' frequency that precludes representation. Meillasoux's counter-argument calls this into question. Meillasoux then sets about constructing a 'speculative' solution to Hume's problem in which he posits reality as a storm of hyper-chaos.
Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (2008)
Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity (2001) and Pure Immanence (2001)
Quinten Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (2008)