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Industrial Catalog 08
2008-2009 Industrial Tools & Fasteners Efficient Solutions For Specific Industrial Applications. Pallets Crating Fencing Upholstered Furniture Case Goods Manufactured Housing Bedding Millwork Specialty WHY BOSTITCH? We torture our tools to make them better. We drop them, drag them, pummel them, shake them, and even freeze them under sub-zero conditions. Why go to these extremes? Because we know that you demand superior performance. BOSTITCH is up to your challenge; you can depend on us … no excuses. IMPORTANT TABLE SAFETY INFORMATION OFCONTENTS IMPORTANT – READ CAREFULLY This catalog was designed to highlight the complete Industrial ® You, and others working around you, can be seriously injured by fastener driving line of Bostitch tools and collated fasteners specifically tools if you do not follow the instructions provided on the tool and in the operator’s suited for a particular industry. manual. Used properly, these tools provide easy, safe, and efficient methods for driving nails and staples for all kinds of construction projects. SECTION PAGE REFER to your Operator’s Manual, Parts List, or call Bostitch® Customer Service at: 1-800-556-6696 if any of the terms used below are unfamiliar to you. INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS EYE PROTECTION which conforms to ANSI Z87.1 specifications and PALLETS, CRATING, FENCING 8-11 provides protection against flying particles both from the FRONT and SIDE should ALWAYS be worn by the operator and others in the work area when UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE 12 - 16 connecting to air supply, loading, operating or servicing this tool. Eye protection is required to guard against flying fasteners and debris, which CASE GOODS 17 - 19 could cause severe eye injury. -
The Stanley Works 2005 Annual Report
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHIGHLIGHTS (MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS) 2005 2004 CHANGE Closing market price per share $ 48.04 $ 48.99 (2%) Total return (share price change plus dividends) 1% 35% Net sales from continuing operations $ 3,285 $ 2,997 10% Operating income from continuing operations $ 445 $ 412 8% Percent of sales 13.5% 13.8% (30bp) Net earnings from continuing operations $ 272 $ 237 15% Per share from continuing operations $ 3.18 $ 2.81 13% Net earnings $ 270 $ 367 (27%) Per share $ 3.16 $ 4.36 (28%) Free cash flow* $ 294 $ 317 (8%) Return on capital employed from continuing operations 14.8% 14.8% – Dividends per share $ 1.14 $ 1.08 6% * REFER TO PAGE 38 OF MD&A FOR THE RECONCILIATION OF OPERATING CASH FLOW TO FREE CASH FLOW TABLE OF CONTENTS LONG-TERM FINANCIAL OBJECTIVES BUSINESS SECTION SALES GROWTH Letter to Shareowners page 2 3-5% Organic Growth The Scorecard page 7 8-12% Growth Including Acquisitions Business Overview page 8 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE FINANCIAL SECTION Mid-teens percentage EPS Growth Management’s Discussion And Free Cash Flow greater than or equal to Net Income Analysis of Financial Condition ROCE In 12-15% Range And Results of Operations page 31 Financial Statements page 47 DIVIDEND Notes page 51 Continued Growth CORPORATE SECTION CREDIT RATINGS Investor and Shareowner LONG-TERM“Upper Tier” Investment FINANCIAL Grade OBJECTIVES Information page 76 Board of Directors and Executive Officers page 77 THE STANLEY WORKS, AN S&P 500 COMPANY, IS A WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF TOOLS, HARDWARE AND SECURITY SOLUTIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL, INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER USE. -
First Quarter 2012
e-newsletter of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction Volume 6, Issue 1 First quarter 2012 ICLR Board of Directors The writing is on the wall for future wildfire Kathy Bardswick (Chair) The Co-operators risk in Canada Barbara Bellissimo State Farm ICLR launched its wildfire research Our surprise last year was Charmaine Dean program more than a decade ago. that a large loss was experienced in Western At that time the largest wildfire loss such a small community. The major Andy Hrymak for our industry was less than $10 wildfire losses for insurance Western million in claims paid, nevertheless companies in the United States and Paul Kovacs the Institute warned that it was Australia typically involve fire ICLR inevitable that our industry would burning into larger communities. But Sharon Ludlow experience a $1 billion loss event. Slave Lake had a population of Swiss Re Deborah Moor In 2003, the fire on the edge of 7,000. Indeed there are hundreds of Lloyd’s Canada Kelowna had the potential to grow communities like Slave Lake Brian Timney into a billion-dollar loss, but was put located near forests across Western out shortly after it came into the city. Canada. Many of these Last May a fire near Slave Lake communities have valuable grew into a $700 million loss when it commercial facilities for mining, destroyed one-third of the town. We forestry, oil production or tourism. remain convinced that our industry For example, several large fires will experience a $1 billion wildfire were burning last year near Fort loss event. -
Posthuman Rights: Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds
#EVANS, W.. (2015). Posthuman Rights: Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds. Revista Teknokultura, Vol. 12(2), 373-384. Recibido: 29-04-2015 Open peer review Aceptado: 12-07-2015 http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/pages/view/opr-49072 Posthuman Rights: Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds Derechos posthumanos: Dimensiones de los mundos transhumanos Woody Evans Texas Woman’s University, EEUU [email protected] ABSTRACT There are at least three dimensions to rights. We may have and lack freedom to 1) be, 2) do, and 3) have. These dimensions reformulate Locke’s categories, and are further complicated by placing them within the context of domains such as natural or civil rights. Here the question of the origins of rights is not addressed, but issues concerning how we may contextualize them are discussed. Within the framework developed, this paper makes use of Actor-Network Theory and Enlightenment values to examine the multidimensionality and appropriateness of animal rights and human rights for posthumans. The core position here is that rights may be universal and constant, but they can only be accessed within a matrix of relative cultural dimensions. This will be true for posthumans, and their rights will be relative to human rights and dependent on human and posthuman responsibilities. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_TK.2015.v12.n2.49072 ISSN: 1549 2230 Revista Teknokultura, (2015), Vol. 12 Núm. 2: 373-384 373 Posthuman Rights: Woody Evans Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds KEYWORDS transhumanism, human rights, natural rights, animal rights, civil rights, technology, political philosophy. RESUMEN Hay por lo menos tres dimensiones de los derechos. -
The Ethical Consistency of Animal Equality
1 The ethical consistency of animal equality Stijn Bruers, Sept 2013, DRAFT 2 Contents 0. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................ 5 0.1 SUMMARY: TOWARDS A COHERENT THEORY OF ANIMAL EQUALITY ........................................................................ 9 1. PART ONE: ETHICAL CONSISTENCY ......................................................................................................... 18 1.1 THE BASIC ELEMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 18 a) The input data: moral intuitions .......................................................................................................... 18 b) The method: rule universalism............................................................................................................. 20 1.2 THE GOAL: CONSISTENCY AND COHERENCE ..................................................................................................... 27 1.3 THE PROBLEM: MORAL ILLUSIONS ................................................................................................................ 30 a) Optical illusions .................................................................................................................................... 30 b) Moral illusions .................................................................................................................................... -
Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race Bryon Pavlacka
ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE Bryon Pavlacka Artificial Intelligence is all around us. It manages be used against humanity. Of course, such threats are not your investments, makes the subway run on time, imaginary future possibilities. Narrow AI is already used diagnoses medical conditions, searches the internet, solves by the militaries of first world countries for war purposes. enormous systems of equations, and beats human players Consider drones such as the Northrop Grumman X-47B, at chess and Jeopardy. However, this “narrow AI,” designed an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle that is being tested for solving specific, narrow problems, is something by the US Navy (DefenseTech.org, 2011). That’s right, there distinctly different from Artificial General Intelligence, or is no pilot. Of course, the drone can be given orders, but “AGI”, true thinking machines with human-like general the exact way in which those orders are carried out will intelligence (Wang, Goertzel, & Franklin, 2008, p. v). While be left up to the drone’s Narrow AI system. Whether such AGI is not rigidly defined, it is often envisioned as being systems will ever be extended toward general intelligence self-aware and capable of complex thought, and has is currently unknown. However, the US military has shown BSJ been a staple of science fiction, appearing prominently in interest in producing and controlling generally intelligent popular films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Terminator, killing machines as well, as made evident by a paper called and I, Robot. In each of these films, the machines go “Governing Lethal Behavior” by Ronald C. -
Chimpanzee Rights: the Philosophers' Brief
Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief By Kristin Andrews Gary Comstock G.K.D. Crozier Sue Donaldson Andrew Fenton Tyler M. John L. Syd M Johnson Robert C. Jones Will Kymlicka Letitia Meynell Nathan Nobis David M. Peña-Guzmán Jeff Sebo 1 For Kiko and Tommy 2 Contents Acknowledgments…4 Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: Chimpanzees, Rights, and Conceptions of Personhood….5 Chapter 2 The Species Membership Conception………17 Chapter 3 The Social Contract Conception……….48 Chapter 4 The Community Membership Conception……….69 Chapter 5 The Capacities Conception……….85 Chapter 6 Conclusions……….115 Index 3 Acknowledgements The authors thank the many people who have helped us throughout the development of this book. James Rocha, Bernard Rollin, Adam Shriver, and Rebecca Walker were fellow travelers with us on the amicus brief, but were unable to follow us to the book. Research assistants Andrew Lopez and Caroline Vardigans provided invaluable support and assistance at crucial moments. We have also benefited from discussion with audiences at the Stanford Law School and Dalhousie Philosophy Department Colloquium, where the amicus brief was presented, and from the advice of wise colleagues, including Charlotte Blattner, Matthew Herder, Syl Ko, Tim Krahn, and Gordon McOuat. Lauren Choplin, Kevin Schneider, and Steven Wise patiently helped us navigate the legal landscape as we worked on the brief, related media articles, and the book, and they continue to fight for freedom for Kiko and Tommy, and many other nonhuman animals. 4 1 Introduction: Chimpanzees, Rights, and Conceptions of Personhood In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017). -
Trial on Personhood for Chimp Iihias111
~ ~~ -~------------- Trial on personhood for chimp IIHias111 Martin Balluch 1 und Eberhart Theuer' [Verein Gegen Tierfabriken, Vienna, Austria, 2University of Vienna, Austria Summary Zusammenfassung: Gerichtsverfahren zur Erlangung des Perso- In 1982, the chimp "Hiasl" was abducted from the Western nenrechts für den Schimpansen Hiasl African jungle to be used in scientific experiments in Austria. Der Schimpanse "Hiasl" wurde 1982 aus dem Dschungel West- Since his abduction was illegal, he was freed at the airport. Af- afrikas nach Österreich entführt, um hier zu Tierversuchen ver- ter long legal battles with the company responsible for his ab- wendet zu werden. Da es sich um einen illegalen Transport han- duction, he grew up in a humanfamily and now lives at a Vien- delte, wurde er am Flughafen von Zollbeamten befreit. Nach nese anima I shelter. In 2006, this shelter ran into financial langem Rechtsstreit wuchs Hiasl in einer menschlichen Familie difficulties and "Hiasl" was threatened with deportation. und dem Wiener Tierschutzhaus auf Durch finanzielle Schwie- Therefore in 2007, his close [riends started legal procedures to rigkeiten des Tierschutzhauses Ende 2006 war er plötzlich mit have him declared a person and to have a legal guardian ap- Abschiebung ins Ausland bedroht. Deshalb begannen seine pointed for him to represent him in court. Foul' renowned ex- Freunde einen Sachwaltschaftsprozess am Bezirksgericht Möd- perts in anthropology, biology and law supported the case sei- fing für seine Anerkennung als Person. Vier anerkannte Exper- entifically. According to Austrian civil law, all members of the tinnen in Anthropologie, Biologie und Rechtswissenschaften genus "Homo" are persons. Sharing 99.4% of human genes, unterstützten diesen Antrag wissenschaftlich. -
President's Report to Board of Trustees, 2005-2006 Clemson University
Clemson University TigerPrints President's Reports to the Board of Trustees Office of the President 1-1-2006 President's Report to Board of Trustees, 2005-2006 Clemson University Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/pres_reports Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. code). Use of these materials beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. For additional rights information, please contact Kirstin O'Keefe (kokeefe [at] clemson [dot] edu) For additional information about the collections, please contact the Special Collections and Archives by phone at 864.656.3031 or via email at cuscl [at] clemson [dot] edu Recommended Citation University, Clemson, "President's Report to Board of Trustees, 2005-2006" (2006). President's Reports to the Board of Trustees. 20. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/pres_reports/20 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of the President at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in President's Reports to the Board of Trustees by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. C ( ( ( ( , C ( ( C C ( ( , ( ( C ( ( ( , ( C CC ( ( ( ( ( ( •••• •• • ••• ••• • • • ••• •• •• • BEYOND ORIGINAL INSPIRATION "The diagram for many research universities is a huge graduate school and research enterprise surrounding an isolated under graduate program. We are saying no to this traditional research university model and saying we will invent our own model with more bridges and fewer walls. In the process we are re-inventing the research university." - James F. -
Bostitch Industrial Catalog
Industrial Tools & Fasteners Efficient Solutions For Specific Industrial Applications. Pallets Crating Fencing Upholstered Furniture Case Goods Manufactured Housing Bedding Millwork Specialty WHY BOSTITCH? We torture our tools to make them better. We drop them, drag them, pummel them, shake them, and even freeze them under sub-zero conditions. Why go to these extremes? Because we know that you demand superior performance. BOSTITCH is up to your challenge; you can depend on us … no excuses. IMPORTANT TABLE SAFETY INFORMATION OF CONTENTS IMPORTANT – READ CAREFULLY This catalog was designed to highlight the complete Industrial ® You, and others working around you, can be seriously injured by fastener driving line of Bostitch tools and collated fasteners specifically tools if you do not follow the instructions provided on the tool and in the operator’s suited for a particular industry. manual. Used properly, these tools provide easy, safe, and efficient methods for driving nails and staples for all kinds of construction projects. SECTION PAGE REFER to your Operator’s Manual, Parts List, or call Bostitch® Customer Service at: 1-800-556-6696 if any of the terms used below are unfamiliar to you. INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS EYE PROTECTION which conforms to ANSI Z87.1 specifications and PALLETS, CRATING, FENCING 8 - 11 provides protection against flying particles both from the FRONT and SIDE should ALWAYS be worn by the operator and others in the work area when UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE 12 - 16 connecting to air supply, loading, operating or servicing this tool. Eye protection is required to guard against flying fasteners and debris, which CASE GOODS 17 - 19 could cause severe eye injury. -
Transhumanism, Metaphysics, and the Posthuman God
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 35: 700–720, 2010 doi:10.1093/jmp/jhq047 Advance Access publication on November 18, 2010 Transhumanism, Metaphysics, and the Posthuman God JEFFREY P. BISHOP* Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA *Address correspondence to: Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University, 3545 Lafayette Avenure, Suite 527, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA. E-mail: [email protected] After describing Heidegger’s critique of metaphysics as ontotheol- ogy, I unpack the metaphysical assumptions of several transhu- manist philosophers. I claim that they deploy an ontology of power and that they also deploy a kind of theology, as Heidegger meant it. I also describe the way in which this metaphysics begets its own politics and ethics. In order to transcend the human condition, they must transgress the human. Keywords: Heidegger, metaphysics, ontology, ontotheology, technology, theology, transhumanism Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. —Martin Heidegger I. INTRODUCTION Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement, whose proponents declare themselves to be heirs of humanism and Enlightenment philosophy (Bostrom, 2005a, 203). Nick Bostrom defines transhumanism as: 1) The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. 2) The study of the ramifications, promises, and potential dangers of technologies that will enable us to overcome fundamental human limitations, and the related study of the ethical matters involved in developing and using such technologies (Bostrom, 2003, 2). -
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Inside: Seacoast Holidays ALSO INSIDE: 16 VOICES 26,000 COPIES Please Deliver Before FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006 Vol. 32 | No. 49 | 3 Sections |40 Pages In tune with the School concerts hit a holiday season high note for students Cyan Magenta Yellow Black BY SCOTT E. KINNEY ble treated those in atten- EDITOR, 16 VOICes dance to “Holiday Magic,” a EXETER | The gymna- collection of three Christmas sium of the Lincoln Street tunes and “Jingle March,” Royal Caribbean is currently promoting January and February sailings. School was packed to capac- written by string ensemble Below is a sample of many itineraries being offered at promotional rates. ity on Tuesday night, as the director Nancy McGehee. Prices are cruise only!!! school’s fifth graders treated Not to be outdone the 15-Jan-2007 4 Nt. Bahamas Cruise Sovereign of the Seas their audience to a holiday school’s chorus performed its Inside $244.00 Ocean-view $259.00 WE SPECIALIZE IN SERVICE OF musical extravaganza. version of “Once on a House- 11-Jan-2007 4 Nt. West Caribbean Cruise Enchantment of the Seas The event began with the top,” an international holiday Inside $279.00 Ocean-view $399.00 fifth grade band perform- musical that lends itself to VOLVOS, JAGUARS 04-Feb-2007 6 Nt. Western Caribbean Cruise Jewel of the Seas ing holiday favorites “Sleigh any holiday this time of year, Inside $499.00 Ocean-view $599.00 Ride” and “The Little Drum- regardless of denomination. & HONDAS mer Boy,” along with “We If those in attendance 04-Feb-2007 7 Nt.