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We live in a designed world and we believe everybody deserves good design. The ongoing collaboration between design engineers and customers has changed the course of appliance design for us as a company and for those who use our products day in and day out. Our future will be built on fostering this spirit of collaboration and curiosity.

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Jhalak Prize co-founder Sunny Singh has called out the industry's "moral failure" to reflect diversity at every stage of publishing.
Speaking in a video conference panel discussion on the future pipeline of publishing, held on Friday (26th June), Singh said she could "no longer believe the industry thinks it's acting in good faith" where championing diversity is concerned. Read more
Book publishing is unlike many industries in that its fundamental product, the writing, is not, for the most part, an in-house commodity. Publishers wait for their next new bestselling authors to arrive on no known date, writing about no pre-arranged topic, and in many if not most cases as people previously unknown. Read more
Now more than ever, as the Black Lives Matter movement appears resolute on toppling racist and imperial structures, we need the words and radical ideas of black poets - to reimagine the kind of world we want to arise once the ash has settled.
Kadish Morris
Black Lives Matter is reverberating around the world, triggering a fresh reckoning with the racist global history of colonialism and slavery. While Confederate statues began to tumble across the American South, in Bristol, England, a diverse group felled a statue of a slave trader that has long provoked offense. Read more
For years, RWA's members of color had felt stigma and hostility like that experienced by Huguley and Malone; they'd felt unwanted, disrespected, or simply shut out. So had the queer members, and the poly members, and everyone else who didn't quite fit into the traditional romance mold. Read more
Like everyone in the book industry, writers have experienced considerable change over the last few months. Although they might be used to working from home, being forced to do so has impaired creativity and made it nearly impossible for some writers to focus. Read more
Jack Reacher, VI Warshawski, Harry Hole ... Leading crime writers reveal how they came up with their most famous creations, what it's like to live with them over decades and if they'll last the distance
Like any social media platform, the more you use Twitter the more you will get out of it. So keeping your account as active as possible-i.e. tweeting as often as possible-is perhaps the most valuable tip of all. But that raises a common anti-Twitter excuse: "Oh, I wouldn't know what to talk about..." Read more
'Books say: she did this because life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own,'
Almost 4m books were sold in the UK in the first six days after bookshops reopened last week - a jump of over 30% on the same week last year as desperate readers returned to browse the aisles for the first time in three months.
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First a few definitions. Gravemarker is the generic term for a headstone, tombstone, or gravestone, normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a burial in a cemetery. However, gravemarkers can be almost any substance including wood and bone. These markers are also referred to as stele (plural stelae). Wikipedia:Gravemarker. The problem is that there are a huge number of graves without markers. From the standpoint of a genealogist, relying on indexes, databases and transcriptions of gravemarkers is helpful but certainly not final. It is also not too uncommon to discover that a gravemarker has been placed arbitrarily and that the site of the actual burial is unknown. There are even gravemarkers for places where there are no graves or where the people buried are unidentified.
Overall, the various terms used by those who operate cemeteries vary from location to location. Here are links to two slightly different lists of terms used in cemeteries: Placer County Cemetery District No. 1 and Memorial Pines Cemetery. You can find hundreds of such lists online. For genealogical purposes, understanding these terms is crucial to discovering all of the information that may be available about a burial. If you don't ask the right questions, you won't get the answer you need.
As I have done more and more research in and about cemeteries, I have found more information that is evidently obtainable, but only when asking the right questions.
There are endless possibilities for what happens to people at the time of death. The body may never be recovered, the body may have been destroyed in the event causing death, the body may have been buried in an unmarked grave, and so forth. There may be a controversy as to who is buried in the grave, even with very famous people. But one thing is certain, there are a lot more records for genealogists to examine than are usually considered.
It is certain that a vast number of people in most civilized countries are buried in cemeteries or their equivalent. In the United States, most of these cemeteries are operated by some sort of sponsoring institution or entity, usually a local government, a church, or a private company. There are a significant number of cemeteries operated by or under the direction of the Federal Government also. In these cases, as you can probably guess, there is a lot of paper work associated with the burial. It is probably impossible to list all the variations in cemetery records because each of these entities have their own variations and forms. What is important to the researcher is to realize that these records must exist somewhere. Not all the records will or can exist in all locations, but there have to be some records somewhere.
For example, in Rhode Island there is a Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Commission that is a "a permanent advisory commission to study the location, condition, and inventory of historical cemeteries in Rhode Island and to make recommendations to the general assembly relative to historical cemeteries in Rhode Island." Nearly all the cemeteries, active, inactive, marked and unmarked have been inventoried and recorded. The The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project has over 458,000 records for over 3400 cemeteries. Most of the states have similar projects.
Many beginning researchers ask for a death certificate as if this type of document was a universal key to identifying information about a death. However, in each state, death certificates are a relatively recent development, In Arizona, for example, death certificates were not required by law until 1906 and not universally implemented until sometime in the 1920s. This does not mean that there were not death records, it just means that the State government does not have the records. To find out more about the alternate places to look for death records, you may wish to start with this article in the FamilySearch.org Research Wiki: United States Death Records.
It is my further experience that there is a trail of records starting with the immediate records concerning the death such as hospital or other care facility records. There may be records concerning the transportation of the body, funeral arrangements and funeral programs, mortuary records, gravemarker purchase records, gravesite purchase records, permits from the city, county or state for the burial, documents recording the location and description of the burial, and records of other incidental expenses such as flowers or arrangement for military escort or police escort. Very, very few of most of these types of records are available online and most require some real detective-type work to discover. But they do exist.
The key, as I mentioned earlier in this post, is asking the right questions to the right people. Some further complications of the burial process vary considerably from country to country. One issue in the United States is the growing tendency to cremation. Although there may still be records, the disposition of the remains may be entirely informal.
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- "If we live through this, I'll follow you anywhere, woman."
"Now he tells me."
- ―Garrett and Kate.[src]
Kate and Garrett are two vampires who meet when the Cullen family asks for their help. It does not take long before they fall in love with each other, and Garrett joins the Denali coven to follow her.
In the movies, Kate is portrayed by Casey LaBow and Garrett by Lee Pace. In addition, Garrett is portrayed by Ian Shepard in the segment Turncoats.
- "Anyone who tries to touch me drops like a human that's been Tasered. It only downs them for a second, but that's long enough."
- ―Kate[src]
Kate is a core member of the Denali coven with the ability to create an electric-like jolt on anyone who touches her. She, her adopted mother, Sasha, and her adopted sisters, Tanya and Irina, originated from Slovakia.
Their greatest devastation was the death of their mother, who was executed by the Volturi for the crime of creating an immortal child. To dull the pain of loss, she and her sisters courted countless men, but ultimately killed every single one for their blood. They actually grew fond of some of them and tried to kill less often, but despite their effort, their courtships always ended in killing their male counterparts, which is why Kate was excited when Tanya told her and Irina about her discovery of living on animal blood to improve their self-control.
Kate and her sisters then spent centuries developing their control and by the time they met Carlisle's family, they had all become as good at vegetarianism as them. Kate was thrilled by never having to kill the men she dated again, but she never found her true match until she met the adventurous vampire, Garrett.
- "You are an amazing woman."
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Garrett is an adventurous vampire who was a soldier during the American Revolution. He was changed accidentally by a feeding vampire that took advantage of the war's death toll. Garrett was given a blow to the head and knocked unconscious. By the time the vampire moved on to Garrett, he had already drained his entire group and was so satiated that he did not drain Garrett completely. Because of the blow to his head, his creator didn't expect him to survive and Garrett became a vampire.
After the transformation was complete, Garrett's quest to understand what had happened to him turned into a permanent characteristic, and he wandered the world alone, seeking mysteries to investigate and things to explore. Throughout the centuries, he encountered different vampires, even befriended the Cullen family. But never had he found a particularly appealing coven until he met Kate, who was a member of the Denali coven.
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When the Cullen family is in great distress caused by the arrival of the Volturi in Breaking Dawn, they look for their friends throughout America, Europe, and Africa in hopes of assistance. Kate, a member of the Denali coven - a vegetarian vampire coven - and Garrett, a nomadic vampire, come to Forks to help them testify against the Volturi about a deadly misunderstanding. During their time together, Garrett befriends the Denalis very quickly, as he finds their way of life interesting, constantly questioning them on it. He even tries animal blood out of curiosity even though he drinks human blood. He finds it difficult and Bella witnesses him and Kate, home alone, playfully arguing about drinking animal blood. The two become infatuated with each other very quickly. Garrett even asks Kate about her power, and she hustles him into testing it. He does, out of curiosity, and is sent to the ground, calling it "something."
Before the confrontation, Garrett slides one step closer to Kate, showing he is very protective of her. Bella hears Garrett telling Kate he will follow her anywhere if they survive. When the Volturi kill Kate's sister Irina in an attempt to provoke a fight, Garrett holds Kate back to save her life, knowing that she wouldn't survive if she attacked Caius, who is guarded by the entire Volturi. He suffers through her shocks to save her, until Bella takes her shield off of Kate and Zafrina blinds her. He calls her "Katie" and teases her lightly on her not being able to hurt him. He comforts her over the loss of her sister while the confrontation continues. After they survive the Volturi confrontation, Bella sees Garrett picking up Kate and spinning her around in a circle.
At the end of Breaking Dawn, Garrett joins the Denali coven as Kate's mate, and Bella states that he'll probably be there "from now on." However, new challenges will be coming for the couple: Garrett has to learn to adapt to vampire vegetarianism while Kate will attempt monogamy for the first time in her life.


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Apocalypse Yesterday
Yes, dear readers, I know that we still have at least 15 more months before Mayan legend is set to destroy the universe, but I'm afraid ruination and chaos might already be here, making 2012 moot.
Don't believe me?
Well, you know Sarah Palin is on Twitter, right? Not only that, but she's also doling out advice to overnight Teabagger sensation, Christine O'Donnell:
O'Donnell strategy: time's limited;use it 2 connect w/local voters whom
you'll be serving vs appeasing nat'l media seeking ur destruction
Yes, Christine! Seeking… your… destruction! Bwahhhhhhhhhh! Me want freedom to touch myself! Me want witchcraft-free Delaware! Me want answer to Teabagging claim of fiscal responsibility despite inability to pay back your college loans! Bwahhhhhh! How dare we demand such clarity! Bwahhhhhh!
Gotta be a sign of the apocalypse.
If not that, then how about the colossal union of two universally disliked MLB wormbags? That's right, folks. Jayson Werth (and his beard) have teamed up with Scott Boras to form the sort of free agent chimera that will have everyone talking more zeroes ad nauseum this winter. Look, I get it. Dude wants to get paid. No problem with that. But for someone whom the public has already deemed a megafortified jerk, it seems like hiring the sleaziest of the bunch to fetch that money might not have been the best public relations move. Oh, and it also means he won't be an Angel next season.
The Angels handcuffed into quelling big time free-agent magic? Gotta be a sign of the apocalypse.
Of course, nothing can predict the end of the world is near better than our US American justice system playing host to a caffeine insanity defense, in a murder trial! Sorry, your honor. Two Jolt colas and a bottle of Ride-the-Snake diet pills and I just couldn't STOP MYSELF FROM MURDERING MY ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD!
Um… okay.
It is no secret that I am a caffeine addled man myself. But I would never use that as an excuse to kill someone. Insult my going-nowhere Redbirds and maybe we can talk creative defense strategies, but to blame it on caffeine?
There's no other explanation, folks. It's gotta be another sign.
So go ahead and hate me 'cuz time's runnin' out. Just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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I have a reservation on a Model S. I live in the Wasilla Alaska area and was hoping to find other Alaskans that may also have reservations or are ordering a Tesla. If so can you post here or email me at email@example.com.
Tesla has not yet come out with a service plan for those of us that are thousands of miles from the nearest service center (or even several hundreds). I have also read posts from other people who have either ordered one and are wondering the same as I about service or, they are holding off on ordering because of the distance and the dollar a mile. If enough people get a Tesla up here I am hoping I can go there and be trained to service them when the checks are due. I realize there will be little service required but, it will be needed. The nearest service center to Alaska is in Seattle and would be about 4000.00 dollars just for the travel.
I hope to hear from anyone who has thoughts or ideas on this subject.


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LiveCycle Correspondence Management solution users often use text content from MS-Office applications like Word and Excel.
The text content can be copied from MS-Office applications and pasted to Rich Text Editor of Correspondence Management.
Currently the content copying is supported but any rich text formatting applied to the text in external applications like MS-Office applciations will not be retained.
If the user copies (to clipboard) below content from MS-Word
and pastes it in CM text content area of Rich Text editor , the text would appear like
Lot of customers are asking us to provide a functionality to copy paste content from MS-Office applications that supports copying of text content along with the formatting. This is currently on the roadmap but there are no fixed timelines when this feature would be available in the product.
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Taylor Swift said Kanye West called her today to apologize for interrupting her speech during the MTV Video Music Awards over the weekend.
"Kanye did call me, and he was very sincere in his apology and I accepted that apology," she told ABC News Radio.
Earlier today, Swift appeared on ABC's "The View" and told the ladies this morning that the hip hop artist had not reached out to her to personally apologize despite his public appeals for forgiveness.
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"He has not personally reached out to me or anything," Swift said on "The View" today. "But if he wanted to say hi... "
Reps at "The View" told gossip website TMZ.com that Kanye called to apologize following the show and that Swift accepted.
The 17-year-old starlet said she was stunned when hip hop artist Kanye bounded onto the stage during the award ceremony at Radio City Music Hall Sunday night, ripped the microphone out of her hand and began to argue she didn't deserve to win the award.
"My overall thought process went something like, 'Wow, I can't believe I won. This is awesome,'" she told the ladies on "The View."
"'Don't trip and fall. I'm going to get to thank the fans, this is so cool ... Oh, Kanye West is here! Cool haircut! What are you doing there? And then, ouch. And then, I guess I'm not going to thank the fans."
Kanye expressed regret for pulling the stunt on his blog and later gave a tearful apology on "The Jay Leno Show."
"I'm not going to say that I wasn't rattled by it," Swift said today, "but I had to perform live five minutes later so I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform."
Stars flocked to Swift's defense and the songstress said she found the overwhelming support to be heartwarming.
"I just never imagined that there were that many people our there looking out for me, so it was really wonderful to see that people were out there defending me so I didn't have to."


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Congratulations everyone -- students, faculty, politicians -- who went after California State University for its fee increases. They've been beaten back, and won't be increasing fees anymore, the system announced this week.
Instead, they'll be reducing enrollment.
So to keep fees down, fewer kids will be able to get a public higher education in California. Cal State said Monday that all applicants for fall 2013 will be wait-listed, pending the results of November's vote on whether to raise taxes. How is that a victory?
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News from around the country and around the globe
It's long past time for those who support Cal State to stop fighting the symptoms of the funding problem at Cal State -- higher fees, class cuts, even higher salaries for campus presidents (who are harder to lure to Cal State given its troubles) -- and fighting the real McCoy: the budget system itself.
The reason why Cal State will keep seeing cuts in state support is that the budget system makes it far easier to cut higher education than other things. That's because higher ed doesn't have the same constitutional, initiative and court protections that other big pieces of the budget do.
So either fees will go up, or enrollment will go down, until the system itself is fixed. Even the passage of the tax increases in November will only provide temporary ballast.
Until Cal State's backers see this, their push on fees is only likely to hurt the state -- by reducing access to higher education.
(And if you want a reminder why Cal State matters, HealthyCal's Daniel Weintraub explains here).
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Largo, FL--Each year, U.S. doctors perform some 37,000 corneal transplants. Because sutures used in the conventional surgical technique can induce astigmatism, a sutureless method of implantation has been proposed. This procedure involves hand-cutting donor material to match a pre-cut aperture in the recipient eye. The circular aperture includes a series of thin, symmetrically-spaced pockets. These accept positioning tabs that extend radially from the donor blank's central portion.
"It was extremely difficult for doctors to manually prepare a tabbed corneal implant," says Joseph Collins of Tool Engineering. "The circle-to-circle fit from donor to recipient may leave gaps and/or bulges due to the donor material's elastic nature." Collins adds that because the implanted cornea is used as a transfer template to prepare the recipient eye, the operating room procedure is lengthy. This time spent in surgery increases expense as well as the chance of damaging the donor material.
Responding to a request from doctors at the University of South Florida, Collins invented and built a punch and die tool that precisely prepares a replacement cornea with symmetrical tabs. Punch shape corresponds to the donor blank's top surface. Likewise, the nest that receives the punch exhibits the same concave spherical radius.
To prepare the blank, the doctor aligns nest and punch, and places the donor material on the resulting surface. A vacuum holds the material in place. Lowering the die cuts the donor blank, with tabs, to its proper shape. The die descends until its upper surface is higher than the punch cutting edge by the required 100-micron (0.004-inch) tab thickness.
After producing the tabbed blank, the doctor lowers a guide tube onto the die's top surface. A round trephine within the tube cuts into the donor blank to produce a circular incision between the central portion of the blank and its radial tabs. Incision depth matches the desired tab thickness.
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A tab thinning tool then cuts the tabs to size. The doctor simply places the slit donor blank on the tool's castellated nest. A syringe-vacuum holds it in place while the tab bender slides over the nest, forcing the tabs against the nest's outer wall. A second trephine slices off the tab's excess material leaving a properly prepared blank of consistent dimensions.
Additional details... Contact Joseph Collins, Tool Engineering, Box 2908, Largo, FL 34643, (813) 345-7959


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Health and Safety
As a company values employee's health, CN Innovations are committed to ensure a decent and healthy working environment from different aspects. All raw materials we adopted for production are non-toxic or less polluting materials. In the production process design, we utilize automation equipment, sealed production line, as well as advance ventilation equipment to prevent dissemination of harmful substances in the workplace. Different kinds of harmful substance detectors are also properly installed to ensure a more efficient respond to accident.
We also conduct internal and external audits and reviews for preventing occupational hazards, corrective actions will be made afterwards to ensure the working environment in line with the national laws, regulations and standards. Medical checkup is arranged regularly for employee as well.
We established a scientific safety management system to ensure the lives and safety of employees, information security of customers, and the property and product safety of the company.


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We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go. We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day. We will harrass the ever loving shit out of you all the time. Campus is OCCUPIED. State street is OCCUPIED. The Square is OCCUPIED. Vilas, Schenk's Corners, Atwood, Willy Street – Occupied, Occupied, Occupied, Occupied.Interesting. All that "Occupy" talk, antedating the earliest manifestations of Occupy Wall Street. What do you make of that?
Did you really think it was all about the Capitol? Fuck the Capitol, we are the CITY... We have the numbers and we don't back down from anyone. We all know each other. We all know each other. We know each other from Service Industry Night at the Orpheum, because we're regulars at the same coffee shops, restaurants and bars, we know each other from the co-ops, we know each other because we've had a million jobs each (and we all worked at CapTel at least once), because we live in every shitty townie house in ever-changing groups of 2 – 7 people, because we are young and horny and screw each other incessantly, because we're all on facebook, and because we aren't anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL FUCK YOU UP. We will throw our baseballs in your lawn, you cranky old pieces of shit, and then we will come get them back. What are you gonna do? Shoot us? Get Wausau Tea Patriots to form an ad hoc militia on your front lawn? That would be fucking HILAROUS to us. You could get to know the assholes on your side in real fucking life instead of sponging off the civil society we provide for you every single day you draw breath."More here:
"Ann Althouse and Meade advocate torture, attack against nonviolent protesters, police-state crackdowns on citizens exercising their constitutional rights, class privilege, race privilege, and basically the full spectrum of assaults against American democracy advocated by the radical, revolutionary wing of the republican party. They are unkind, unChristian and anti-American."ADDED: When I tried to post this last night, I kept getting the "conflicting errors" message, which I know a lot of people attempting to comment were also getting. I hope this means the problem is solved!
ALSO: The text at the link was partial, and it went to a page on the scribd website which now says the document was deleted. I've now updated my original post with the full text of the deleted document, which I had, fortunately, saved. If you've never read the whole thing, try it. Here's the last paragraph:
If you have not acceded to our demands within a week, it is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG. WE AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE. EVER. WE LIVE HERE 100% OF THE FUCKING TIME. YOU CAN'T BAN MADISON FROM LIVING IN MADISON, BUT WE CAN SURE AS SHIT BAN YOU. WHO ARE YOU GONNA CALL? COPS FOR LABOR? THE CHICKENSHIT TEA ASSWIPES WHO ARE SCARED SHITLESS OF THE TEAMSTERS TRUCKS? THE NATIONAL GUARD? SCOTT WALKER? NO ONE IS GOING TO COME AND CRACK DOWN ON US FOR YOU. THERE IS NO CAVALRY. ITS US VS YOU ON THE STREETS OF THE CITY GOING AS FAR AS IT HAS TO GO UNTIL A) WE WIN OR B) DOOMSDAY.


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IMF Research Bulletin, September 2002 »
Volume/Issue: 3/3
Series: IMF Research Bulletin
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 October 2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451928075.026
Keywords: tfp, growth accounting, capital accumulation, labor productivity, productivity growth
The IMF Research Bulletin, a quarterly publication, selectively summarizes research and analytical work done by various departments at the IMF, and also provides a listing of research documents and other research-r...


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Libya: killing black Africans in the name of the revolution and democracy
Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Reports for many months have stated that Libyan rebels have been killing and persecuting black Africans in Libya once areas came under their control. The number of reports highlighting this continues to grow and many images have been shown which show Africans being mutilated and having their bodies abused and mocked by non-black African Libyans. This disturbing fact mocks the notion of "good" versus "evil" because both sides have committed atrocities but for black Africans it is the rebels who they fear.
It is clear that some rebels accuse Africans of being mercenaries for the Gaddafi regime and they believe that he was favorable towards them during his rule over Libya. However, it is obvious that the vast majority of non-African Libyans based in Libya were normal workers who just desired employment.
Also, reports have stated that African Libyans are also being victimized and suffering persecution. Therefore, since large areas have fell to the National Transitional Council (NTC) both non-African Libyans and African Libyans fear for their safety.
It is factual that many African mercenaries did fight alongside loyal Gaddafi forces and propaganda on both sides is being stated to the media. After all, you have anti-Western individuals who want to use Libya against some European powers and America for supporting the NTC.
Also, loyalist who still support Gaddafi desire to show that rebels are not democrats and that they have also committed atrocities. This means that the fog of war is also being played by many political elements and the propaganda war makes the issue more complex.
Alternatively, pro-rebel forces and Western governments who have supported the rebels have also pinned countless atrocities on Gaddafi. According to the rebels and Western governments who support the NTC, the Gaddafi regime was preparing to slaughter tens of thousands of individuals in rebel held areas before military intervention and arming the rebels took place.
However, it is apparent that non-African Libyans and African Libyans are residing in fear and many Africans have been killed who were not mercenaries. Nigerians who were caught up in the mayhem have heavily rebuked Libya's NTC and Western powers who supported the rebels against Gaddafi. They have not done this on the grounds of supporting the Gaddafi regime but because of how they have been treated by the rebels.
Karlos Zurutuza, writer for Deutsche Welle, reports in his article titled Racist violence overshadows Libya's revolution, that many Africans are suffering and being persecuted. He quotes a local rebel council officer called Abdulhamid Abdulhakim who states "None of them are Libyans. Those guys we keep inside are all foreigners paid by Gadhafi to kill our people, what are we expected to do with them? They are mercenaries, you know?"
Zeinab Muhamed repudiates this logic by stating that "They say we're not Libyans but that's not true. I was born in Chad but we moved to Sebah – 900 kilometers (560 miles) south of Tripoli – 20 years ago. We have had Libyan passports almost since the day we moved."
Under Gaddafi he allowed vast numbers of African migrants to move to Libya because of the sheer size of Libya and natural resources. This, alongside the small population in Libya meant that outside workers were needed for menial jobs. However, the crisis of today is partly based on many Africans being recruited by the Gaddafi regime.
Many Libyans are also black Africans and they are also being persecuted and like stated earlier, it is obvious that the vast majority of African migrants were workers who had been welcomed by the Gaddafi regime.
Therefore, rebels and anti-Gaddafi individuals are exploiting the situation in order to clampdown against innocent Africans in Libya. This can be seen by many make-shift prisons which have sprouted up in areas controlled by the NTC.
Before local officials prevented African prisoners from speaking to Deutsche Well one prisoner from Ghana spoke. Abiki Martens stated "I came from Ghana last year because my brother told me it was easy to find a job as a street cleaner. It seems that all of them are black. I swear I've never ever held a weapon in this country."
Rebels counter accusations of racism and killings of Africans by stating that people killed or being held in make-shift prisons were found with military arms and had war wounds. Therefore, implying that they were only holding Africans who are deemed to be mercenaries and that Africans who were killed had fought against rebel forces.
Human Rights Watch issued a statement calling on the need to stop "arbitrary arrests and abuse of African migrant workers and black Libyans assumed to be mercenaries (and that) …widespread arbitrary arrests and frequent abuse have created a grave sense of fear among the city's African population."
Sarah Leah Whitson who works for Human Rights Watch issued a chilling comment because she stated that "It's a dangerous time to be dark-skinned in Tripoli."
Reporters on the ground like Karlos Zurutuza and many others are stating similar things. Therefore, images of persecution and arbitrary killings during the height of the fighting is leading to an uneasy feel for the majority of Africans throughout Libya and something needs to be done to protect the innocent.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15366254,00.html – Karlos Zurutuza and Racist violence overshadows Libya's revolution
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14758156 – Plight of sub-Saharan Africans in Libya
http://www.unhcr.org/4d7513e49.html – UNHCR
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Rory Scovel plays a supporting character on the TBS sitcom Ground Floor, and has a new standup comedy album called Rory Scovel Live at Third Man Records. He'll be performing this weekend at Helium.
WitOut: On Ground Floor, you play a character named Harvard, who, I think, is the most interesting part of the show. How would you describe Harvard for someone whose never seen the show?
Rory Scovel: Thank you. I appreciate that. I am very lucky with this character. He is definitely the weirdo of the show, a role I've been preparing for most of my life. I'm not sure how to describe him really because I'm not a professional actor. I sort of just pretended I knew what I was doing at the audition and for some reason they liked that about me. That's kind of who he is, Harvard. He just goes through life pretending he knows what he's doing and being an office weirdo. I love him. Yes, I said I'm in love with my own character that I play. Further proof I'm so ready to be this guy on camera.
WitOut: What's the experience been like in general? Is it intimidating being on the set with John C. McGinley?
Scovel: It's been great. I've really loved it and I'm excited to get back for a second season, fingers crossed. It's a great group to work with so I want to go back and have some more fun and see what we come up with. McGinley is a champion. Not only of the show and of the craft, but of people. He has an intimidating quality because I think he wants everyone working as hard as he is. He makes me a better actor, so it's great to be around him. He is a pro.
WitOut: How'd you get involved with The Life and Times of Tim?
Scovel: A buddy of mine, BJ Porter, wrote on the show and recommended me to come in for it. We were working on a pitch for a show and it just worked out to go in and become one of the characters. I wish it was still possible to go in and do that show.
WitOut: What are some of the responses you've gotten to your album Dilation?
Scovel: Pretty good I think. I try not to read reviews too much but with that being my first album, it was hard to avoid. I think overall people enjoyed it and anyone that reviewed it seemed to like it. I know there are some people that didn't like it and I hope those people die an awful death. Not soon or anything, I'm not a monster, but when it does come time for them to die, I hope it's awful.
WitOut: Your new album is available on vinyl only. What influenced that decision?
Scovel: I recorded it on Jack White's label Third Man Records, it's called Rory Scovel Live at Third Man Records. They primarily release stuff in vinyl format and I thought it would be cool to just release it as that. I'm sure it's out there in digital form somewhere ILLEGALLY. We decided to do it as just vinyl since some of the material is going to show up in my upcoming special that I'm shooting in Charleston, SC on 2/21 and 2/22. Didn't want to have the same material over and over in different formats.
WitOut: Have you been watching the Olympics so far? What's your favorite event?
Scovel: I have not watched any of it. I'm not sure that I will. Maybe the hockey. I don't know, I really haven't thought about it. The pressure, it gets to me.
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UK IT is currently stumbling along a rather rocky road. But for the tablet, times would be rather tougher, market watcher GfK reckons.
Looking back over the six months from January to July, and to the equivalent six-month periods in the previous five years, the contraction in sales of desktop tower PCs is very evident.
So is a 2007-2008 leap in notebook sales - and the market's very minor growth since then. The rise and fall of the netbook - peaking in 2010 - is equally clear cut, but nothing stands out like the rise of the tablet: from next to nothing in 2010 to a little over a third of the overall UK IT market in 2012.
The only other growth market in recent years has been the all-in-one desktops, but that growth has clearly run out of steam, the category's share of the market stuck at just under three per cent during 2011 and 2012.
Claiming that the tablet has "kept IT afloat" in the UK is a hard call to make, even though GfK says just that. Had the iPad never been launched, would others have still appeared? If not, as seems likely - Apple's rivals took longer to follow it that they would have had they equivalent kit in the pipeline already - would notebooks and netbooks have fared better during the past few years?
It's clearly the case that some cannibalisation - tablets bought in place of older form-factors - has gone on, but it's also true, as GfK analyst Mehryar Hamid notes that "saturation in the market and the lack of innovation have all had a significant impact on this market".
UK IT sales volumes were up half a percentage point for the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, but sales value was down 3.8 per cent, Hamid notes. With so much growth seen in high-margin items like tablets, this figure highlights how far the prices of other computer technology have plunged.
The outlook isn't good. "The figures for July 2012 ave been even less encouraging," said Hamid. "Both sales volume and value were down 6.6 per cent and 3.4 per cent respectively."
Retail sales were up 2.8 per cent in volume and 11 per cent in value in comparison to July 2011, pointing to a big fall in sales through other channels, which benefit less than shops do from shiny new items like tablets and e-book readers. ®


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NOT: Themed eateries. The eye-catching monstrosities set up in high-traffic tourist traps; the cheesy, logo-emblazoned paraphernalia; the overly decorated walls; the outrageously priced diner-style meals-all have lost favor among 21st-century consumers, leaving themed restaurants in the dust as an official '90s fad.
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Could Jaso Stay Up with the Rays ?
I have to be honest here. I have never really considered Rays current Catcher Du Jour John Jaso to be a Major League catcher. I always heard a huge bunch of baloney about his erratic bat motion that even frustrated ESPN analyst and ex-bat wiggler himself Joe Morgan. That the motion Jaso wastes in his swing just before the pitcher releases the ball would tire him out after 4 at bats. And wasn't it some Rays website somewhere who was throwing the fear of God almighty that Jaso's defensive indifference would also be a burden if he ever became a full time fixture with the Rays.
Isn't it great that all that noise about Jaso for some reason has instantly disappeared after he came up and started to produce like a true back-up catcher trying to fulfill a full-time spot with the big club. And I have to say I am not only pleasantly surprised, but I was touched enough by his fine bit of offensive and defensive adjustments that I popped him instantly as the starting catcher in my ESPN Fantasy League. But with Jaso currently sporting a hefty .455 Batting Average and the ability to not only produce runs, but also showing a great amount of plate discipline for a guy on the edge of a roster spot.
And it has been a great surprise, and even a godsend that he has shown the maturity and the ability to make some nice adjustments to his defensive game while he has been up with the Rays to get an extended look by Rays Manager Joe Maddon as he handles every member of this Rays young pitching staff. And this is all from a guy that most people within the organizations stands thought would never be able to produce at this level and might be a Triple-A lifer at best. And I can honestly say I am one of those guys who is glad I was wrong, because Jaso might actually make a decision hard for the Rays after Shoppach gets back behind the dish again soon.
But that also raises a good question as to if he could be a great addition to this Rays team, or is one of those guy who might be a nice plug-in piece for the future, or at least get an extended look in Spring 2011. But with Rays current starter Dioner Navarro in a bit of a slump both offensively and showing some lazy tendencies on defense, could Jaso just be the piece of the puzzle that might click without forcing or taking any momentum from this team. It offers up a good question as to if Navi might have to sweat it out and provide some impressive numbers to remain a fixture on this Rays roster.
And this might be a decision or an idea that the Rays have had in the back of their mind for a bit, but not thinking it might crop up during the season, but in the 2010 off season. With Shoppach in the fold with a two-year contract, and Navarro possibly showing a upper price in the mid $ 2 million range in 2011, could this be the right time for the Rays to dangle Navi to a few teams that are currently in a bit of upheaval over their own catching department.
We saw one of those teams recently when the Oakland Athletics came into Tropicana Field and had to use Jake Fox who they got in a trade with the Chicago Cubs this off season behind the dish, and everyone in attendance was looking all throughout the dugout for Kurt Suzuki. Bringing in a experienced backstop would be beneficial to the A's, and might not take more than a high left-handed reliever in the A's farm system, and maybe a prospect or two considering the package. It could be a "win-win" situation for the Rays and A's as they both get some benefit from such a deal.
But then there is another catching carousel going on in the same American League West division as the Texas Rangers are currently playing their own version of musical catchers with the recent demotion of both od their Opening Day catchers Taylor Teagarden and Jarrod Saltalamacchia to their Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma City Redhawks. And with the Rangers then picking up the option of Triple-A catcher Max Ramirez, the team is hoping that the tandem of Ramirez and old timer Matt Treanor can finally shore up the Texas backstop. But this might just be a temporary fix, and there might need to be a further look maybe towards Tampa Bay.
And in the 2010 Spring Training Grapefruit League season I was whispering about the Rangers potential problem with the young Teagarden maybe not ready for the full-time MLB reins, and Saltalamacchia maybe too fragile with his curvature of the spin situation to see him do prolonged duties behind the plate more than four starts a week at the most. It might be about time for the Rangers to stop trying to bluff the rest of Major League Baseball and admit they might have been backing the wrong horses.
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Enter Navarro into the Rangers possible catching equation. He would provide instant credibility and endurance to their line-up, plus get a chance to start again fresh and contribute to a young team and pitching staff that might benefit from his experience. For some reason when I think of Navarro and the Rangers I do see a marriage maybe not made in heaven, but of necessity and mutual want for a clean slate. Again, the price might not be a huge burden here in terms of prospects or maybe even a reliever like Darren O'Day or C J Wilson (lefthander) straight up for Navarro.
It is not like I would be foolish enough to consider a great developing prospect like fireball reliever Neftali Feliz… that would just be plain unimaginable a price for Navarro.But I do think that at some point in 2010, the Rays will consider offers for Navarro considering his salary will jump, plus the Rays would not probably be willing to bank about $5 million dollars in two catchers who basically are bookends offensively, with Shoppach showing a bit more defensive prowess.
And an additional point might be which of them would be a positive mentor for the young Jaso? Instantly the eyes wander straight to Shoppach's name and the job he did in Cleveland after Victor Martinez headed East with Cleveland's young catcher Lou Marson.
And this might just happen due to the extent of the development that Jaso has shown during his short time up with the Rays. If he remains "hot" and can both produce a offensive firestorm at the catching position while also diving on balls and throwing out base runners, Jaso could honestly get a chance to retain some MLB service time in 2010.
Considering he is making the MLB minimum even if he does stay up with the team for the rest of the season, his jump in pay scale will not break the Rays bank, or cause any alarms to go off in Rays Vice President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedmans laptop when considering his salary under the Rays 2011 payroll limits. The Rays have always committed towards fiscal respectability and holding each member of the Rays roster responsible for their actions and production. After Shoppach returns, it just might be time for the Rays to consider cutting the cord with Navarro and letting him find a better suited future somewhere else.
Catching has never been a position that the Rays could ever say they have been over abundant with talent or power, but right now there might be an indication of a crossroads for one Rays catcher, and who know which direction he will wander next. No matter if Navarro stays and Jaso is returned to Triple-A Durham when Shoppach returns, or a trade keeps Jaso here and sends another catcher to fresh surroundings, this is a huge stepping stone for this franchise to finally know they have the talent and the in-house abilities to even consider such a move well within the season.
I like Navarro as a person. I have talked to him several times and get a good vibe from him most days. But right now it seems that Maddon is trying to let Navarro out himself from this situation or possibly this team. So far Navarro has been a team player who realistically sees that Jaso has the "hot hand" and respectfully gives him the chance to strive.
But with each passing RBI or walk, it also seems like another small seed of doubt or even confidence in Jaso to do the same job without the offensive woes or the defensive catnaps behind the plate. Hopefully no matter what happens, Jaso knows he can finally be considered MLB worthy.


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I spent some time this weekend in front of my sewing machine. Oh how good it felt! :) I *finally* finished Asa's 2nd birthday quilt. I would like to make our children a handmade gift each year for their birthday. This year, I planned a dog themed quilt for Asa. He had a puppy birthday party, and while the gift was not ready RIGHT on time (I was 9 months pregnant!), it IS done now.
I purchased some dog machine embroidery applique files for each square of the quilt with nine squares total. I received a free motion quilting foot from my husband for Mother's Day, and I decided to try it out on Asa's quilt. Lesson #1: free motion quilting is a LOT harder than it looks! I thought it was simply a matter of having the right sewing foot and lowering my feed dogs. WRONG. If you have any tips for me, especially for achieving even stitch lengths, I greatly appreciate it!
I pressed on, regardless of my free motion newbie foibles. I read a post by another blogger who said a quilt for her child was a great first project because your child will love the quilt regardless of the mistakes that will glare at *you.* That encouraged me to finish what I started and be glad I could make something special for Asa as I learned. :)
This evening I finished the free hand quilting and added a silky blanket binding. He likes "soft" things, so I thought the silky binding was a good choice for this particular project.
Without further ado, here is his quilt--my second quilt but the first I've completely finished (my "first" is waiting for binding), my first attempt at free motion quilting, and a happy return to crafting after having a baby. :)
Monday, September 26, 2011
Return to Sewing
I spent some time this weekend in front of my sewing machine. Oh how good it felt! :) I *finally* finished Asa's 2nd birthday quilt. I would like to make our children a handmade gift each year for their birthday. This year, I planned a dog themed quilt for Asa. He had a puppy birthday party, and while the gift was not ready RIGHT on time (I was 9 months pregnant!), it IS done now.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Maybe, Just Maybe
I'll be able to whip out some holiday outfits for the kids. I have been craving craft time the past few weeks. I think we're almost there. I know I could take an evening or two with Matt tending to Anna Reaghan so I could bury myself in yards of fabric in the sewing room. We're not quite to the point I can reclaim nap time for craft time, but that possibility is in sight at least. :)
What have I been dreaming of creating? Well, Pinterest has given me about a million plans. :) But here are a few I am especially considering in light of the changing seasons.
I want/need to milk the matching bro/sis outfits while I can (i.e. before Asa's too old), so I love the last 2 pictures. Not SURE about the spider motif, but the rickrack web the spiders are hanging from is so cute and Asa loves "buggies" of all types. :) How will I ever choose?! And which to make first?! :) I'll keep you posted. I know I need some orange material, and then I can get started on a few ideas!
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
A Little Hello
I have been quite noticeably absent for the past many, many months. I see I mentioned our move from Florida to Ohio in the last few posts here, and that our sweet Asa finally started sleeping through the night at 14 months making me less of a zombie and more able to craft. What happened the very next month threw me right back into the land of the overtired. ;) We found out we were expecting again! Enter exhaustion, nausea, another move (same town, different house), and I fell off the crafting wagon. Or at the very least, blogging about it.
I'll be you can tell just from these pictures below whether we welcomed a baby boy or baby girl to our family!
Anna Reaghan had a happy belated arrival (following in her big bro's footsteps) on July 14th. She is such a sweet baby girl, blowing her brother's sleep habits completely out of the water, and a delight to us all. She IS sleeping amazingly well, but I still feel a bit of that newborn fog especially with chasing Asa around even if/when she is napping. I am planning some holiday outfits for them, so I thought I might try to pick back up with this blog. And Pinterest has given me all sorts of inspiration for crafting of all types!
Another minor change I made is getting this blog set up to post from the google account I use the most. Originally I had it tied to a different email address I don't use as much, and it was a hassle to sign in and out of accounts in order to post. With that remedied, this is much more of a simple "point, click, type" process. Yea!
Here's to more crafting!
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In early August, six Chinese student ambassadors arrived in Bemidji to get a taste of life in America and learn what it means to be an American college student.
The students were visiting from Wiefang University in Wiefang, China, a university of approximately 20,000 students with which BSU has developed a close relationship over the last year. BSU has sent a number of students to Wiefang this year, including a group of four students who worked in China as English instructors, and BSU's student electronic music ensemble spent a month in Wiefang this summer teaching electronic music and composition. This group of ambassadors were the first group of students from Wiefang to visit Bemidji. They were:
• Lin Chen, "Alison," majoring in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages;
• Li Mingzi, "Fiona," majoring in accounting;
• Sun Shichao, "Baron," majoring in network engineering;
• Dong Yantong, "Maria," a Chinese linguistic literature major;
• Zeng Xianguan, "Glory," majoring in business English; and
• Li Wanzhuo, "Rachel," a Chinese linguistic literature major.
The group is pictured above with BSU student Emma Li (center).
The students left Bemidji the morning of Sept. 20 and began their trip home to China, taking with them memories that will last a lifetime. The students experienced life at BSU, living in Tamarack Hall during their time on campus, and traveled throughout northern Minnesota. The group also visited Minneapolis and Chicago.
The students sat in as guests in a number of BSU classes and were impressed with the treatment they received from the university's faculty. Chen recounted her experiences auditing a music class.
"The professor treated me as a real BSU student," she said. "He put my name on the class list and let me sing with the other students. I told him I was just observing, but he made me feel very comfortable to join the class. When he put my name on the list, I felt very happy."
The six ambassadors learned about BSU through interactions with the BSU students who visited Wiefang earlier in the year. But beyond knowing that their university was pursuing closer ties with BSU, the group didn't know much about the town or university before making the trip. However, each was impacted by the friendliness of the people and by the natural beauty of the BSU campus and its surroundings.
"BSU is smaller than our university, but I found out it was more beautiful," Xianguan said.
The group also planned to enthusiastically recommend BSU to their friends and classmates back in China.
"We will tell our friends and classmates that the atmosphere at BSU is very good," Shichao said. "We want them to know about the opportunity to try this for themselves. Everything is very good. The only bad thing is that we can't stay one more month."
And as with any goodbye, the relationships formed during their time in Bemidji will be the most difficult thing to leave behind.
"I'm going to miss my friends," Chen said.
The group's adventures were chronicled on Facebook by the BSU summer programs office: https://www.facebook.com/SummerBSU


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The restaurant industry is rife with fully employed chefs and waiters, busboys and dishwashers lacking health insurance; now suddenly food professionals may have an edge. Sue Lowden, a Republican challenging Harry Reid for his Nevada Senate seat, recently suggested bartering for health care saying "in the old days [patients] would bring a chicken to the doctor." And she's not the only one - Tennessee state representative Mike Bell suggested bartering with vegetables.
If this is what Republicans are promising should they prove victorious in November's mid-term elections, Dan Barber and Alice Waters may be all but guaranteed the best health coverage in America. Even Stephen Colbert's on board, on last night's Colbert Report the host suggested "just go for where they sell live chickens, they go for about $8... and when a doctor wants to charge $40,000 to put a stent in your heart, offer him the chicken." Video below.


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The motive for objectifying moral values and duties is understandable, as Mackie notes, we need morality to regulate inter-personal relations. Often against people whose natural inclination, we therefore want our moral judgments to be authoritative, and many think that only objectivity can achieve this authority. In the words of Thomas Nagel, "There is a tendency to seek an objective account for everything before admitting its reality. But often, what appears to be a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for this way." The common misconception that if morality isn't entirely objective, it is therefore subjective and therefore "only opinion" or "arbitrary" is obscured and hijacked much on this discourse subject. These arguments ("only opinion" and "arbitrary") should ultimately be discarded.
The motive for objectifying moral values and duties is understandable, as Mackie notes, we need morality to regulate inter-personal relations. Often against people whose natural inclination, we therefore want our moral judgments to be authoritative, and many think that only objectivity can achieve this authority. In the words of Thomas Nagel, "There is a tendency to seek an objective account for everything before admitting its reality. But often, what appears to be a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for this way." The common misconception that if morality isn't entirely objective, it is therefore subjective and therefore "only opinion" or "arbitrary" is obscured and hijacked much on this discourse subject. These arguments ("only opinion" and "arbitrary") should ultimately be discarded.
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Morality refers to the concept of human ethics which pertains to matters of good and evil — also referred to as "right or wrong". Morality is generally discussed within three contexts:
- matters of individual conscience;
- systems of principles and judgments — sometimes called moral values — shared within a cultural, religious, secular, humanist, or philosophical community; and
- codes of behavior or conduct.
Theistic morality is based on the assumption that there is a god who has absolute understanding of right and wrong, and orders people to obey rules as a condition for goodness, see Christian morality for an example. See also Divine Command as the Foundation of Morality
Secular morality is a complex subject and is discussed in a separate article.
Absolute and relative morality
Absolute morality postulates that what is moral and what is immoral is unchanging and can be laid down well in advance. Thus it is very popular with religions and their reliance on holy texts to determine moral and ethical guidelines and commandments. Moral relativism (which should under no circumstances be conflated with relativity) on the other hand postulates that morals can be somewhat flexible and develop as education and understanding progresses, and accepts the subjective nature of morality. This acknowledges that cultural differences across different times and different regions may mean that what people consider moral can change. This change, particularly over time, is sometimes known as the moral zeitgeist, from the German "spirit of the times". Hence once slavery was accepted in parts of the western world, it now is not - or at least it has been outsourced to poorer countries and prisons. Moral relativism isn't without criticism as it is viewed as lending justification to clearly immoral acts by effectively saying "well, they do things differently over there".
A formal moral argument put forth for divine existence goes as follows;
- P1) If 'God' does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not exist.
- P2) Objective moral values and duties do exist.
- C) Therefore, God exists.
According to William Lane Craig, a proponent of this argument, to say that there are objective moral values (OMVs) is to say that something's good or evil independently if anyone believes it to be so. But if moral values are independent of everyone's evaluation, this leaves you with significant problems. One is if two humans perform an action, one thinking it is evil while the other has no sense of doing evil, what they believe about their behavior is not irrelevant to our moral assessment. If someone is genuinely ignorant of what they do, we do not accept their harmful behavior and we restrain it if possible, but we do not call it "evil." Craig's idea that something is evil regardless if anyone believes so clearly doesn't reflect the way we tend to make moral judgments. The idea of evil is only relevant in proportion to an agent's understanding, which is one reason why we do not judge other animals by human standards. Craig thinks that nonbelievers who see anything special about human morality have "succumb[ed] to the temptation of speciesism." But noting that humans have greater capacity for moral reflection than other species is not 'unjustifiable bias' its a relevant difference. In fact, given Craig's own claim that no moral dimension exists for non-human animals, then the real speciesist would be God. After all, what do we make of a being that has decided only 1 species of the billions on earth are morally accountable, so that the human child killer is evil but the lion who kills other lion's cubs has done nothing wrong.
However, a more basic problem for Craig is that values are the result of evaluation process. Moral values of what we prefer to what we judge morally valuable or important. So to say that they imply "independently" of anyone's evaluation, that somethings have unevaluated value, becomes unintelligible. It also lacks any practical application. We may dismiss things right now which may, given other information, we'd value. But we can't go beyond the range of our own awareness to see how unknown information would alter our values. So to unknown values, if they existed, would only be relevant from the moment of their discovery, at which point it would be far less metaphysical extravagant to simply say then made evaluation than to say we discovered an unknown unevaluated value. It is true that given more information, justifications for certain attitudes and behaviors will be exposed as false. It is true that there could be subjective facts. If you burn your finger, the pain you feel won't be merely a matter of opinion even though it is subjective. It is also true, as John Mackie noted, that given specifically specified standards of morality, it will be an objective issue (a matter of true or falsehood) on how well any particular specimen measures up to those standards. Of course, the choice of standards still wont be objective, but nor will it be completely arbitrary because what we value isn't completely random but highly influenced by the kind of creature we are. So we can agree with Craig when he says "most people think there is an objective difference between torturing a child and caring for it...that these are not morally indifferent acts." However, just because we distinguished torture for caring and finding one bad and the other good, doesn't mean we have to agree these behaviors are good or evil independently of what anyone thinks.
Some defend objective values by claiming 'moral values' is a property we detect with a special faculty of moral perception. But notice this is no longer supporting divine existence as the moral argument is claimed to. And only proposing new phenomenon in need of their own independent support, and each has problems. For example, how can it be shown that Q is morally good, they have detected a value of goodness that is part of Q itself rather than making a subjective evaluation that Q is good. We can't appeal to consensus. Agreement of Q still doesn't tell us the goodness is part of Q rather than something we are ascribing. Besides, this particular moral argument is Premise 2 deems agreement irrelevant. Nor can we appeal to innate tendencies even if it can shown to have predisposition to find Q good. That wouldn't show Q has objective goodness, it would only indicate that we predisposed to value Q subjectively. We may value life, but from sliding from "I value to life" to "life has subjective value" makes the same mistake as sliding from "I find slugs revolting" to "slugs are intrinsically revolting." It is falsely projecting our own attitude onto the object of our attitude.
As Mackie notes, wants and demands give rise to the notion of something being objectively good or having intrinsic value by reversing the direction of dependence. So instead of saying our evaluation of a things goodness depend on our desire, our desire for a thing seem to depend on the thing's goodness.
Saying "intuition lets us KNOW what's morally good or bad" also needs to be challenged. The weaker claim that moral intuition is a kind of instinctive judgment can be granted. It is true that instinctive feelings can lead us judge actions immoral without conscious reasoning. For example, empathy leads us quickly to apprehend that the distress of a child being attacked, a moral judgment may arrive in our awareness almost instantly. Our brains process information rapidly, and its easy to see how having protective instincts came to give us an advantage while trying to survive together on a hostile planet. But having useful advantageous instincts isn't evidence that we are accessing objective moral knowledge. We do well to treat our intuition with more caution, they frequently mislead us.
Contrary to appearance, these squares are not moving [1], but we seem hardwired to make a false interpretation. Much of what we discover about ourselves and about the world is counter-intuitive. For example, we tend to care and donate more when charities show us cases of a single rater than a mass suffering. A fascinating article looking into this 'identifiable victim' effect (Slovic, P. 2007. Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 2, no. 2), Paul Slovic notes how we are generally less effected as the number of victims presented to us increases and discusses the unsettling implications it stands on our moral tendencies. Sometimes what one intuitive thinks X to be self-evidently morally bad, another intuitive states X is self-evidently morally neutral. If they both appeal to intuition, this only tells us that they they each 'know' they're right. To make a valid case, they need to do more. This subjective experience of believing a thing to be so obvious is to require no explanation, no self-guaranteeing. This is especially true with morality when people are prone to mistaken feelings for moral knowledge. While intuition may be a source of useful questions, our brains are too error-prone to regard in as a reliable source of objective answers.
Moving to "moral duties," when Craig says that we have "objective moral duties" is to say we have certain moral obligations regardless whether or not we think we do. This is a concept with similar empirical in-conceptual problems. If absolutely no one is aware of a duty to do X, the idea of having such a duty gets us no purchase. Again, there is no problem in saying given better information, justifications based on falsehoods get to be eliminated while new justifications emerge. If the members of society X are genuinely protective of others from a state of mental disorder for demon possession they see as a threat, they may feel a moral duty consistent with these attitudes, may be a duty to destroy their perceived threat. If they outgrow their belief in possession and learn about brain dis-function, they may feel a new duty to care for those with mental disorders. It is not that they discovered a hither or two unknown objective duty to help than rather harm these people, it is given their initially protective attitude, their sense of duty changes in response to change in information. As before, much of the sense of what we ought to do may come initially from instinct rather than conscious reasoning. Again, empathic instincts influence much of our behavior, and it is easy to see how much this instinct would evolve, how natural selection would favor groups of humans whose instinct was to protect each other over individuals who were trying to survive on a hostile planet with no one to protect them. But as before, having advantageous instincts that motivate us to behave or stop behaving in a certain way, isn't evidence of objective duties.
Is or ought
In the 18th century, David Hume objected to the authors of morality should shifted from statements like "is" or "is not" to other connected by "ought " or "ought not" which he said "expressed a new relation." To Hume, it seemed "altogether inconceivable" that all relationships were deducible from "is" ones as "entirely different." This is commonly interpreted to mean: we cannot infer what we morally ought to do from purely factual premises. We can't derive an "ought" from an "is." Further reading gives a different emphasis. Here is what Hume says about willful murder, "The vice entirely escapes you as long as you consider the object. You will never find it until you turn your reflection into your own breast and find a sentiment of disapprobation that derives from you towards this action." Here is a matter of fact: but 'tis the object of feeling, it lies in yourself not in the object. In other words, evil isn't a feature of willful murder but in a judgment arising in sentiment.
When Hume objects from the shift from "is" to "ought" he is criticizing those who mistake their own feelings about things like murder for intrinsic qualities like murder, echoing the for mentioned of error for projecting ones own attitude onto the object of that attitude. Of course, whatever Hume's original meaning, the idea that we can't derive moral "oughts" from factual "is" statements has spawned a great deal of debate in our own time.
Is the so-called "is or ought" problem really a problem? All it is saying is that moral obligations aren't deducible purely from nonmoral facts. And this seems quite true if moral obligations involve emotional elements. I don't like pain, but my dislike of pain isn't arbitrary. I am biologically biased to dislike pain. Indeed, the inverse quality of disliking pain protects us by prompting our retreat from harmful stimuli. Knowing also that I have no valid basis for thinking my comfort is not uniquely important. If I don't want other people to hurt me, then to avoid hypocrisy, this obliges me not to hurt others. This obligation isn't unconditional, it arises largely from biologically influenced preferences.
Some say preferences has no role in our morality. After all, rapists like raping, but we don't say they ought to rape. But of course that is misleading. Morality has never meant doing whatever you prefer no matter who it hurts. Part of morality's essence is considering our impacts upon others. And asking "why rapists shouldn't do what they prefer" completely ignores the preference of the victim. No one is saying ALL preferences are morally relevant, but some are. We have numerous moral prohibitions about inflicting pain, but our dislike of pain ultimately reduces to preference doesn't diminish its relevance. When we dissect any moral obligation, we always find some element of preference, even if it is a preference largely determined by biology.
As Mackie notes, for any argument that supports an evaluated conclusion, whether this conclusion has some action guiding force that is non-contingent of our desires or chosen ends, someway into the input of this argument there will be something that cannot be objectively validated, some premise which is not capable of being simply true, or some form of argument not valid by any logic whose authority or cogency is not objective.
Objective grounding
Craig claims that if God does not exist, there is no ground for objective moral duties because there is no moral lawgiver. The implication being that a lawgiver could provide that ground. But this is false, lawgivers are still subjective beings and their presence doesn't guarantee moral objectivity. Even if a divine lawgiver required certain duties of us, all that would be necessarily true is that it required certain duties of us. It would not follow that the certain duties were therefore objectively good or objectively grounded.
Craig thinks he can achieve objective grounding by making use of Anslem's notion of a "greatest conceivable being.' According to Anslem's ontological argument: one can understand what's meant by 'a greatest conceivable being' such a being can exist at least in thought, but if it existed only in thought one can think of a greater being existing in thought and reality. Therefore, Anslem insists, if one claims to be able to conceive of the greatest being without ascribing to its real existence, one is contradicting oneself, and states the "greatest conceivable being" is one whose NON-existence is inconceivable. Of the well known flaws in this argument, perhaps the most basic, is that even if person A has in her mind a concept of the greatest conceivable being, no logic requires her concept to correspond with reality. As Kant pointed out, "whatever and however much our concept of an object may contain, we must go outside the concept of we're to attribute the object with existence." No ontological argument has establishes that there must be a god, that this god must have an essential nature, or that essential nature must be good. This leaves Craig's claim to objective grounding no more than the unsupported assertion of a god and qualities Craig wants it to have to make his moral case.
We value generosity, compassion and fairness because we experience and appreciate their positive effects. When these are proclaimed "divine qualities", this isn't because anyone has observed these qualities from a god, no god has been established to exist, let alone one whose nature we can study. All what is happening is the qualities already judged independently to have value are being ascribed to an entity declared to exist and be good by definition. If we want to imagine an "idealized being" as a way of developing some basic principles of conduct, the most appropriate model we can relate to is something with human biology.
Rooting morality into a being "beyond our comprehension" only pushes morality beyond our comprehension. It is even worse when what we choose as a model is a god of ancient scripture depicting moral principles we hold being most basic (such as Ez. 9:5-6, God commands "slay the little children without pity.") When we tell ourselves there is an all-powerful entity that can do this, and still be "morally perfect," we create the very conditions that far from leading us to moral truths guarantee a moral confusion. Even if a god created our universe, nothing about the act or power of grand creation requires moral perfection. And even if the universe was created by a god somehow 'intrinsically good' no logic would require the being still to exist. Imagine if such a god existed yesterday but destroyed itself today, would torture suddenly stop being a moral issue? If so, then this god can't have embodied values of enduring relevance. Severing any connection with any objective moral values. If not, we admitting that this god does not need to exist, destroying this moral argument's conclusion for the existence of god. There would be equally overwhelming problems with claiming that "moral values and duties are transcendental in nature, and therefore require a supernatural creator." As soon as we require things to be viewed supernaturally with "goodness" "badness" or "oughtness," as soon as we allow the supernatural feature in any of our explanations, the idea of a single supreme deity becomes just one of countless unknowable untestable concepts, all with their unhooked justifications.
In this case of transcendental values and duties could just as easily be the creation of a group of supernatural experimenters, arbitrarily making things "good" and "bad" as to study the effect on animal behavior. If moral values and duties had to have been created supernaturally, this alone would count against their objective validity. For that matter, any argument for the existence of god (even if they were valid), wouldn't provide a logical pathway to a god of any particular religion or scripture.
In summary
Reviewing the moral argument;
- P1) If 'God' does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not exist.
- The implication of Premise 1 that the existence and only the existence of one god could grant moral objectivity is not established.
- P2) Objective moral values and duties do exist.
- C) Therefore, God exists.
- Not only do objective values and duties lack necessary support, we have good reason to reject those concepts as incoherent, leaving Premise 2 and therefore the Conclusion undemonstrated. This moral argument does not establish the existence of any god.
The motive for objectifying moral values and duties is understandable, as Mackie notes, we need morality to regulate inter-personal relations. Often against people whose natural inclination, we therefore want our moral judgments to be authoritative, and many think that only objectivity can achieve this authority. In the words of Thomas Nagel, "There is a tendency to seek an objective account for everything before admitting its reality. But often, what appears to be a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for this way." The common misconception that if morality isn't entirely objective, it is therefore subjective and therefore "only opinion" or "arbitrary" is obscured and hijacked much on this discourse subject. These arguments ("only opinion" and "arbitrary") should ultimately be discarded.


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The academic year is over and summer is in the air; let's enjoy First Friday!
School of Art graduate students continue their tradition of bringing artists to Missoula and exhibiting their work in an alternative gallery space. Located in the ally behind the Old Post Pub, FrontierSpace Missoula welcomes Joe Meiser for June's First Friday. Stop by between 6pm and 9pm to see work that, "… examines the limitations of the human body and mind, the impermanence of life, and ideas about mortality that come from science, philosophy, and religion—often attempting to make sense of narratives that are in conflict."
Join our friends at MAM for an opening reception exhibiting the works of Colorado artist and professor Melanie Yazzie from 5-8pm with an artist gallery talk at 7pm. Professor Yazzie describes her work as meant to "…challenge the idea of what most see as a good, proper print. The works are made fast paced and they are about the action of making them and producing them to capture a moment and energy that is not still. You can feel a movement in these works. When I am producing an edition of work they are more controlled and printed in a very formal way. The works here are speaking about a morning walk I take and the vibration I see around. It is honoring the moment and I hope to capture the feeling of being quiet and still–the unpredictable is what I am after with this series of work."
The exhibition is hosted in the Lynda M. Frost Contemporary American Indian Art Gallery, a gallery dedicated to honor the creative cultural contributions of American Indian people to contemporary art, and to ensure that Indian artists will always have a place to celebrate that contribution. The artist residency is supported by MATRIX Print Workshop at the School of Art at The University of Montana.
MAM would like to thank the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation for their support of this exhibition.
The good folks of the Clay Studio are excited to host the First Friday reception of Artist in Residence Courtney Murphy from 5:30-9pm. Courtney's functional forms in "house/hold" are influenced by simplified abstractions of nature, children's artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as textiles, patterns and historical pots. She is simultaneously attracted to worn surfaces that show the passage of time, as well as forms that are clean and simple, elegantly utilitarian. Her careful attention to line is evident on both the surfaces of her forms and the forms themselves.
School of Art alum Anthony Yazzie (BFA 2014) is just one of the many talented artists to contribute to the 3rd Annual Icons of the West exhibition. See Anthony's piece along with many others from 5-8pm.
In 2004 a group of local artists and art educators came together to form a collective of creative thinkers called, "Saltmine." Their latest exhibition will be on display at Montana Framing (709 Ronan St.) with a First Friday reception from 5-9pm. Join noted local artists Karen Rice, Edgar Smith, Peter Keefer, Bev Beck Glueckert, Kathleen Herlhy-Paoli, Cathryn Mallory, and Stephen Glueckert for an evening of wonderful art and conversation.
Out Of Town:
For those of you outside the Missoula area this First Friday, we recommend a trip to The Imagination Resource Center in Butte. School of Art alumni Jennifer DuToit (BFA 2013) and Parker Beckley (BFA 2014) have teamed up to present, "the Black Box" at the Phoenix Gallery (68 W. Park).
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