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The Subs handling piece of Tallys consists of two main sections; Creation of subs and Shipments (movements) of subs. New subs are created either from the main menu or through the equipment/sub list screen. A sub has two ends both of which can be defined with different sizes and threads as well as other standard sub information. Shipments allow you to ship (out) or receive (in) subs. Each sub on a shipment can go to a rack (these "sub racks" are different from those defined in the racks module) and can be assigned a serial number.
To begin using the subs module you'll first be required to create sub definitions. Sub definition creation is initiated by clicking on the 'New Sub' button from the main menu, or selecting 'new sub' from the equipment list screen. After either of the above sequences you will be presented with the sub equipment detail screen shown below.
The Sub Input Screen
Fields used to define a given sub:
Owner - To choose an owner, type the owner number, the beginning of their name + an '@' (the wild card in Tallys), or hit F4 on screen or on the keyboard to bring up the owner list screen.
Our Part No. - This field is read only and is set by Tallys. It is used internally
Description - This field is read only and is set by Tallys. It is set using the following formula:
End1 Size(Imperial) "End1 Thread End1 Type X End2 Size(Imperial)" End2 Thread End2 Type X Length"
Length - This field is a numeric field accepting a maximum of 6 digits, which defines the length of this particular sub.
Sub Type - The type of sub is defined by the radio buttons below the header. This can be box;box, box;pin (default), or pin;pin. Selecting these will automatically update the End 1 and End 2 headers accordingly so that you know which criteria represents each end.
End 1 and 2 - Tallys allows you to define a size and a thread for each end of a given Sub. These are defined by the drop down under each end's respective header. The options available are those previously defined in your pipe definition section.
Include Serial No's - This checkbox defines whether the sub should store serial numbers and racks on shipments. If this box is checked; every time you ship this item each Sub must have a unique serial number which would in turn be referenced on the 'Current' tab. Some reports are pulled from these fields and will be unavailable if you do not have the 'Include Serial No.' box checked.
NOTE: When you save your work either by pressing the enter key to the lower right of your keyboard's number pad, or by hitting the 'save' button on screen you will be presented with another blank record. This speeds up initial entry so that you may skip hitting new sub over and over again. Once you've saved your last sub hit escape and abandon the record.
NOTE: A given Sub's description MUST be unique to the owner it is tied to. Tallys will not allow you to save a sub if you have already created a sub with an identical description in that owner's inventory.
Tracking Subs, Connections or Adapters
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When North Carolina couples decide to get a divorce, they don't usually know exactly what they're getting into. As such, some of the financial ramifications of asset division, child support and alimony can really take them by surprise. Those surprises could translate into financial troubles, so it is important for couples to speak with an attorney and financial advisor as soon as possible, either before or during their divorce process.
Seek the help that is needed. Divorce can be emotionally taxing and that means that it will be difficult to make sound and clear decisions. In order to avoid mistakes, having a wise legal counselor, accountant and financial advisor available to speak with can be a huge source of support.
Consider child support and alimony insurance. Ex-spouses who are receiving alimony and child support can take out an insurance policy to ensure the payments. Should a sudden death happen to the spouse who is paying support, the money represented by those payments will fortunately be insured for the future.
Be careful when choosing the assets to be kept. Most importantly, spouses need to be sure that they have accurately appraised the value of assets and also evaluated any potential tax liabilities that come with those assets. Any asset's value must be reduced by the amount of taxes that will have to be paid upon liquidating the asset.
North Carolina spouses will want to consider a lot more important elements during their divorce proceedings. An experienced family law attorney will be able to guide spouses through the dissolution of their marriages in a way that prevents common pitfalls, defends their asset division and promotes their children's best interests.
Source: CNBC, "Headed for divorce court? Here are your top 5 financial musts," Andrew Osterland, Dec. 22, 2016

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65th Anniversary Gala – Sunday, January 31st 2016
Guest Speaker: Dr. Richard Hovannisian
AEF Legacy Award: Ralph Tufenkian
AEF Lifetime Service Award: Hacop Baghdassarian
SUMMER SOCIAL LUNCHEON- Sunday, August 9th 2015
Location: Eden Garden, 175 E. Holly St. Pasadena CA 91101
Calendar of Activities
For the Armenian Educational Foundation, the past half-century has been marked by a special commitment to Armenian students and schools in need. The great strides it has made in these areas can best be seen through the organization's many noteworthy projects and activities. The following is a sampling of its extraordinary achievements
- In 1959, a grant of $50,000 from benefactress Sophia Hagopian to the AEF established the Levon and Sophia Hagopian School in Athens, Greece. The construction of the school was completed in 1962.
n 1960, in response to an appeal from the Armenian Student's Association at the University of California, Berkeley, the AEF allocated a total of $50,000 for the teaching of an Armenian studies program over five years.
In 1962, the AEF, with the assistance of Sophia Hagopian, raised $120,000 to build the Levon and Sophia Hagopian College in the Bourj Hammoud suburb of Beirut, Lebannon.
In 1965, the AEF played a key role in the building of the first Armenian day school in the United States: the Armenian Mesrobian School in Pico Rivera, California. More than $400,000 was raised for this project from donations from individual members and fund-raising efforts.
In 1986, the AEF established the Chair of Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This endowment was made possible through donations totaling $500,000 from AEF members and friends.
In 1990, the AEF provided $140,000 for the construction of a kindergarten and elementary school in Krashen, a quake-stricken village of the Republic of Armenia. This project was carried out in cooperation with the Armenian Relief Society, Western USA.


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Societe Generale's Dylan Grice hasn't been thrilled by the Federal Reserve's decision to embark on QE3 — an effort to lower interest rates by buying bonds. And many of the world's central banks are pursuing aggressive monetary policy.
In response, Grice has previously said "the defining feature of coming decades will be a Great Disorder".
By this, he means that currency debasement would eventually bring about social disorder.
At today's Big Picture Conference, Grice reiterated this argument when he posted this quote from John Maynard Keynes. Via CapitalismWithoutFailure.com:
"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.
The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers," who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat.
As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
Grice warned that central banks are playing games they don't understand (via @SamMundi).
SEE ALSO: SocGen's Dylan Grice Thinks These 5 Books Are Must Reads >


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George Osborne said spending on adult training would rise by £250m a year to boost workforce skills during the economic recovery.
It represented an increase of 50 per cent on the amount of money set aside by Labour for apprenticeships.
But the announcement failed to mask sharp cuts elsewhere in the further education budget.
Cash for colleges and adult training will be slashed by a quarter – or £1.1bn – to £3.2 billion by 2015.
Train to Gain, which provides courses for over-25s already in employment, will be scrapped.
The Coalition also announced that English language courses for economic migrants and those not intending to take up UK residency would be cut.
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, said: "I am not going to say that any of these cuts are going to be easy and many people are going to feel the consequences, but without action all of us, for years to come, would pay the price.
"These decisions have been hard but they are necessary"
Julian Gravatt, assistant chief executive of the Association of Colleges, said: "There is no escaping the fact that the next few years will be extremely difficult and there are some real challenges ahead, but colleges are resilient and will find ways of making the best possible use of the funding available."


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BERKELEY, Calif. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Civil rights activist and former Harlem resident Yuri Kochiyama, whose photograph famously appeared in Life magazine showing her cradling the head of Malcom X moments after he was shot, has died of natural causes in her Berkeley, California home. She was 93.
Kochiyama's family said she died in her sleep Sunday.
The mother of six was living in New York when she forged an unlikely bond with Malcolm X, and she witnessed his 1965 assassination in Upper Manhattan.
She was sitting in the front row of the Audubon Ballroom Auditorium, at 165th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights, when assassins burst in and gunned Malcolm X down.
And among her many accomplishments during 50 years of work, Kochiyama's activism led directly to the U.S. Senate's agreement to pay reparations and apologize to Japanese-Americans and others who were interred during the World War II.
Kochiyama was born in San Pedro, California, to a middle-class family. She and her family were interred for two years in Arkansas during World War II. After the war, she moved to New York and married her husband, Bill, who died in 1993.
After her release at the war's conclusion, Kochiyama dedicated her life to social activism that spanned races, nationalities and causes, including vocal opposition of the Vietnam War and anti-apartheid policies in South Africa while supporting independence for Puerto Rico.
"Her tireless dedication to civil rights helped inspire generations of activists, including within the American Muslim community," the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement. "She will be fondly remembered by all those of us who continue to defend civil liberties and promote justice."
The California Assembly adjourned in Kochiyama's memory Thursday.
Kochiyama is the author of a memoir, "Passing It On," and is survived by four of her children and several grandchildren.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Public Seminar in Jackson, WY on bark beetles, climate change and forest pestilence
Drs. Matt Ayres (Professor of Biology at Dartmouth College), Brent Ewers (Botany), and Dan Tinker (Botany) will also jointly offer a public talk on bark beetles, climate change and forest pestilence in Jackson WY on Thursday, December 1 at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, 6:30-8:30, with doors opening at 6:00 pm.
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Natural Food Know How
Navigating the World of Real Food, food labels, and food ingredients for vibrant health.
Learning how to closely scrutinize the world of food.
You are buying this course as a stand alone course. I really recommend Natural Food Know How be paired with Whole Food Eating for deeper learning. I also am aware that some people are already present with whole food knowledge so I offer this up to those of you who want to learn to navigate the world of natural food from another angle.
This is a 2 course class combined with Whole Food Eating: The Whats and Whys of Real Food. What is real and why do I need to be eating it. You will learn how food affects your cellular health which, in turn, impacts and affects every system in your body to either be diseased or healthy. Walk this path with me to vibrant health!
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A Great Agriculture Video
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Northwest Distributors is an agricultural distribution business. Our expertise is in equine products, However we believe that agriculture is a crucial industry in our country. Whether it be thoroughbred horses, cutting horses, or backyard ponies, we are part of an industry which supports farmers. We are proud to distribute grains, forages, bedding products to racetracks, stores, farms throughout the. We believe in finding and selling the highest quality products in the market place. Aside from being a distribution business we have experience building relationships that have allowed us to grow beyond simply buying and reselling these products. We can arrange shipping services, domestic and abroad. If you have manure management problems we work closely with composting facilities throughout the country and we may be able to find suitable solution for you. Northwest Distributors is dedicated to achieving the best service at an affordable price for our customers.
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CityVille reaches 100 million players, nearly half of all Facebook gamers
Actually, CityVille hasn't quite reached the 100 million mark yet, but with 99,903,740 players and up to 400 thousand added daily it truly is only a matter of time, according to Mashable. Regardless of whether CityVille has eclipse the rest of the Zynga game lineup, they're not going anywhere. Zynga games hold four of the top five spots in AppData's list of largest Facebook apps. In fact, a game by another developer doesn't appear on the list until 17th place with Digital Chocolate's Millionaire City. However, it's unlikely that CityVille can retain 100 million monthly players for long much less stay on top. Then again, it's more than likely that it'll be yet another Zynga game that eventually topples the gargantuan city builder.
How long do you think CityVille will remain on top? What game or developer do you think can give CityVille and Zynga a challenge? Sound off in the comments. Add Comment.


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As the title of my blog implies, I sometimes reminisce about events that happened in my past. I never know when something in today's world will remind me of yesterday. This happened recently when my husband and I visited Hilton Head Island.
One of the most endearing qualities of the island for me were the numerous beautiful live oaks. Those trees are delights in and of themselves with their whimsical limbs that grow in a seemingly haphazard fashion.
Creating even more visual interest, however, is the Spanish moss hanging from them. I've seen Spanish moss in various Southern states, but to the best of my recollection, I've never seen the quantity of Spanish moss as there is in Hilton Head. I absolute love the atmosphere it creates.
I think I can trace my fondness for Spanish moss to my teenage years. I first saw this epiphytic plant during my junior year in high school when I went to Florida on a school trip. I remember thinking then that Spanish moss was a parasite. As a matter of fact, I had to research the plant for this blog to know what to call it. I learned that it is not a parasite and does not harm the tree, which is fortunate considering how thick it sometimes becomes. When walking on Hilton Head, I saw blobs of the moss where it had fallen off the trees, and I was reminded of the small piece I brought home with me from Florida when I was seventeen. I hung it on a nail in my bedroom and kept it there for years. It didn't change, just hung there. I guess I eventually threw it away. Or perhaps my mother did. I don't remember now. I just recall how enthralled I was by Spanish moss. I still am, obviously. 🙂


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Farmers Market Recipes
July 11, 2017
The Farmers Market at Southlands Mall takes place every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Why not stop by this weekend? We have some great recipes for you to try using your farmers market finds! We scoured some of our favorite sources for few appetizing, healthy, and lip-smacking recipes to take full advantage of …read more


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Nearly half of the buildings in the neighborhood of Delmas 32 were destroyed in the earthquake of 2010. Today, it's a bustling urban center teeming with life thanks to the construction of apartment buildings, an outdoor market, newly-paved roads and sewers. It's part of PADF's Urban Project for Participatory Development program (PRODEPUR), financed by the World Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank in partnership with Haiti's Bureau of Monetization of Development Aid Programs (BMPAD).
In January 2016, 18 families who were displaced after the earthquake moved into a brand new residential complex on Rue Durand.
Today, Toussaint Léon feels like he is living again. The last few years have been a struggle. He was buried under the rubble of his apartment building for days after the 2010 earthquake. Today, he is living in a brand new complex and he and his wife own a shop on the same street.
"I'm so pleased," he says of his new home. "I now have a place to receive guests. I'm not ashamed anymore when someone comes to my house."
He was living in a corridor before. "Now, I feel like I'm living," he says. "I have space. I can breathe."
His neighbors agree. "It's a success," affirmed Biene Johnson (below, with his daughter). "I feel very comfortable in this apartment with my family. The neighborhood is evolving and moving in the right direction, and I have no qualms about raising my daughter here," he added.
After the earthquake, PADF and partners repaired more than 1,100 damaged homes in Delmas 32 alone—10,000 throughout the country. What began as an emergency response became a multi-year development project that includes five square miles of roads, more than 300 solar-powered streetlights, new sidewalks and paths, water kiosks and more.
The construction is creating local jobs. Forty-year-old Laurent Vertier has worked at the Delmas construction for nearly a year. He has had trouble finding steady work in the past, he says, and works to support his wife and four young children. The construction work has changed things for his family.
"People are more willing to give me credit because they know I have a job," says Laurent. "When I get home at night, I'm tired, but knowing I have this job gives me strength."
Magdala sells rice, beans and lalo, a traditional Haitian spinach stew, to construction workers at the Delmas site. She will sell lunch to workers like Laurent on credit because she knows they are working.
"Business has picked up since the construction started," she says.
There's a newfound sense of hope in a neighborhood that was once reduced to rubble. "All I can do is pray for the staff of PADF for their efforts," said Toussaint. "And for everybody that made this possible.


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UD alum turns experience with AmeriCorps into job after graduation
Amelia Nolan, a 2015 graduate of the University of Delaware's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, didn't know exactly what she wanted to do after college, but she did know one thing for sure – she wanted to work with birds. "I have always had a passion for birds; they're amazing to me," Nolan said, recalling her time at UD and a trip to Tanzania with Jacob Bowman, chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology and Nolan's undergraduate adviser, where she studied taxonomy and identification of African species of birds. "Dr. Bowman was extremely influential to me. It was literally like we were bird watching for a straight month, which only strengthened my crazy obsession with birds," said Nolan. Following graduation, Nolan and her family looked into moving to the West, home to many ski resorts and enthusiasts, just like her. She was living in Wisconsin, doing a wildlife rehabilitation internship, and soon learned about AmeriCorps, part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that fosters community service and provides a variety of different programs and ways to get involved. Then she landed her first volunteering experience at the Teton Raptor Center in Wyoming in January 2016. Nolan lived at the Teton Science Schools, a school system rooted in Wyoming whose primary focus is to educate by putting a high priority on the outdoors and the physical environment, during her service term. By the end of her service term in September, she found out about an educational position opening within the Teton Raptor Center. "I didn't think I was very qualified for the educational one because it said you have to have 2-3 years' experience with people. I worked at a nursing home for eight years, but that was only a narrow scope of people. But that is the great thing about AmeriCorps, you don't necessarily need the experience in the field you are applying to," Nolan said. During Homecoming weekend of last year, Nolan was on her way back to Delaware to reunite with her fellow alumni when the center contacted her to tell her she had gotten the position. "It was unreal, I almost turned the car back around right then," she said. Nolan now has been working as the program assistant at Teton Raptor Center for the past year, teaching the public about the importance of birds and working at raising interest in raptors. Every day has something new to offer, and since the beginning of her time with Teton Raptor Center, they have conducted over 400 different programs on-site and off-site, including at Grand Teton National Park. "There is no typical day, every day is different here," Nolan said. Of working with AmeriCorps right after graduation, Nolan said that she highly recommends the program. "This past year was probably one of the best experiences of my life. AmeriCorps brought me to the Raptor Center where I am now. It was one of those experiences where I can now say I have a friend in every state. I have met so many people along the way," said Nolan. Article by Courtney Messina This article can also be viewed on UDaily.


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Esther's Story...
If you knew us back when we were preparing to come to Thailand, you probably heard us talk about how our desire and goal in ministry was to disciple young Akha leaders, who could then go out and minister the gospel to their own people! Arriving in country, we found that as much as we wanted to "disciple" we simply didn't have the language or cultural understanding to do so, and so we began the *long* process of language learning. As we lived in a village, God began to slowly lead us (almost without our knowledge) into a medical ministry to the Akha (which we now call the Akha clinic). While most of our official ministry for the past 4 years has been seen in more tangible ways like medical clinics and dental teams, our desire to disciple young people never left us. Let me go back a few years the beginning of Esther's story (at least the beginning of her story with us!) I was pregnant with Abi and had horrible morning sickness that kept me confined to bed or running to the bathroom most of the day! Paul was running himself ragged, trying to take care of a sick pregnant wife and keep up the with laundry, dishes and the house. Seeing our predicament, Nancy, a seasoned missionary, mentor and friend, encouraged us to hire a "helper". We grimaced at the thought, partly because we were too stubbornly independent to admit that we couldn't handle everything on our own, and partly because we hated the thought of having someone do our "dirty work", it seemed so elitist! However, we were clearly in a pickle and even beyond that, we began to realize that our independence was more a reflection of our American culture than the community-centric Akha culture to which we were trying to assimilate.
So, we began to pray! We prayed that God would bring us someone who would be so much more than a housekeeper. We prayed that He would bring someone who really needed a job to help support her family. We prayed that he would bring someone who would become part of our family, someone who would be a disciple, someone who would be a co-worker with us in our ministry. Esther was the answer to those prayers.
Esther came to live with us full time. When we were in the city, she was there. When we went to the village she came along! We immediately began to see that Esther had so much potential! She is brilliant, passionate, bold and diligent. She has a great head on her shoulders and a desire to learn. We were immediately blessed by her ability to make friends instantly wherever we went; her personality was the perfect fit for our unusual mobile lifestyle.
But even more than that, we could see that she was hungry for God! She had grown up in a Christian home, going to church every week for her whole life. But like many teens, when she first came to live with us, she was doubting the faith she had grown up with, asking hard questions like "Is God really real? If so, how do I know?" Knowing the importance of the these times of struggling, we encouraged her to continue seeking God and stood by her through her journey.
Over the next few years, we had many amazing conversations with Esther. She always initiated the most interesting topics; we discussed polygamy to freewill, ethics to nose rings... and everything in between. About a year after she came to live with us she started saying things like "I think I'd like to go to Bible school... But I DON'T want to go into ministry! I just want to learn for myself." We secretly hoped that she would one day decide to go into ministry because we could see such great potential in her, but we were happy to see her faith growing and hoped, at least, that she would be a solid member of the local church.
In August, she was baptized, publicly declaring her faith in God. And this last weekend, Esther announced that she wanted to go into full-time ministry, carrying the gospel to her unreached Akha brothers and sisters internationally . When I asked her what brought about the change, she said that she was thinking about her future (she had always imagined herself selling produce like many of the Akha women do) and realized that she wanted to impact people and do something "special" for God! We are ecstatic! We are so honored to be a part of Esther's life and hope that she will be able to impact areas that we cannot!
Please join us in praying for her future!
A Husband: Please join with us as we pray for Esther's future husband. Pray that God will provide an amazing loving husband with a similar calling on his life. Someone who is strong enough to complement Esther's strong personality, yet graceful enough to allow her to minister in the full capacity that the Lord has equipped her for.
Personal Growth: Pray that God would continue to work on Esther's heart and prepare her for the many difficulties she might encounter on the mission field in the future!


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By Prince Ugochukwu Olisakwe
For Family Writers
I am calling our brothers and sisters to come home, Northern Nigeria is a land of beheading, raping, marrying under aged girl and all manners of evils are been done to those who are infidels to them. It's time to bring home your properties. Pogrom is waving at you again as it waved in 1966.
It sounded like a dream when late Chief General Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu who was the Eastern Governor called for mass return of those who lived in 'waste' Northern Nigeria to come home. Sixty-five percent of Biafrans based in 'Weste' Northern Nigeria ignored his call and were busy doing business hoping that Nigeria is one without knowing that pogrom is waving at their lives. The 1966 pogrom took over half a million lives.
Now this pogrom is still on. The killing of Biafrans by Northerners both in our land and in the North has never stopped. The most painful thing is that in our land, they use the Nigerian Forces in uniforms to kill our people on daily basis. The Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and the director of Radio Biafra/Biafra Television Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been making a come home call but some people see it as a stupid and meaningless call while the North is perfecting plans for the complete Islamisation and annihilation of Biafrans.
The Northerners has never seen us Biafrans as human beings but instead we are infidels to them. These are a set of people who kill, avenge and fight for God (Allah). Living with them is very risk. In Northern Nigeria, there is no greener pasture. The town crier is crying again for your return in a safety time.
There is no reason to die that way, in that waste land and land of killing, raping under aged girls and all manners of evil.


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BANGOR, Maine — Members of the Student Environmental Action Committee at John Bapst Memorial High School are teaming up with the founders of the BARKA Foundation to raise money for Burkina Faso.
The Peace, Water and Wisdom 5K race is on Oct. 2, and will use the same route as the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure set for Sept. 18.
An unaffiliated nongovernmental organization, the BARKA Foundation works with communities to improve quality of life in Burkina Faso, a land-locked country in West Africa.
Racers must be registered by Sept. 15 and can register by visiting www.peacewaterwisdomrace.org. The organizers also are seeking sponsors.
Registration begins at the Bangor Waterfront at 9 a.m. with the race starting at 10 a.m.
John Bapst's Student Environmental Action Committee also aided the BARKA Foundation in May with a Water Walk around the city.


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A Challenge
An open letter to future fellows:
dearest recent college grad,
you are equipped with the tools that will enable you to pursue opportunity;
your future looks bright, teeming with potential and possibility.
you are empowered, sprinkled with thoughts of hope and change--
with just the right hint of shameless idealism.
you learn that poverty and injustice are true realities,
and deeply entrenched within the fabric of our society.
yet your passion for real change is unfazed, undeterred, &
consistently tugs at the margins of your consciousness
to the core of your very being.
in the quietest hours you begin to question:
you want to know the "how" or "what,"
but most importantly, the "why."
therefore i challenge you--
to live out your values,
to see every moment as an opportunity to create lasting impact.
become part of an organization that carries more than just heart,
but conviction in its practice; radically give, learn, and receive.
Join the movement -- and the 12+ family. Be the change you wish to see in the world, in Philadelphia, and in the lives of many students.
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How we pay for the TYPS
The Tucson Youth Poetry Slam is a program of Spoken Futures, Inc., and is supported by grants, foundation support, and most importantly: donations.
Donations to support the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam can be tax deductible if made through our fiscal sponsor, Southwest Institute for Learning (see below).
What Your Donation Does
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Because Lexile levels are only used to determine a student's reading level, they are not useful in determining the student's overall grade level. MetaMetrics, the company that created the Lexile system, offers a list of ranges in which students of a particular grade should be on the Lexile scale.
The bell-curve-like shape of the Lexile ranges indicates at which reading level the majority of students in any given grade should be. For example, the majority of sixth graders should fall between 665L and 1000L on the Lexile scale.
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First of all you have Mr. Federer falling yet again in the quarters of a Grand Slam, this time losing to Tomas Berdych from Czech Replubic. The moment he lost, you can almost hear all the commentator and player thinking out loud: Is this it? Is this the beginning of the steady descend of a champion? And are we ready to start the count-down of Federer's last hurrah before retirement? Two consecutive early loses at Grand Slam (early according to Federer's standard), is a pretty strong signal of something's wrong with Fed's game, especially when he's losing not because he's playing badly, but he was just simply out-played at times. There's one more Grand Slam left in the season, it's really important for Federer to have a strong summer hardcourt swing to restore his confidence, I do not think he can continue to go into the slams and expect to do well and pull a Williams sister; Federer is more the kind of player who needs a good momentum going into slams.
Other Wimbledon Men's quarter final results:
Rafael Nadal def. Robin Soderling 3-6 6-3 7-6 (4) 6-1
Novak Djokovic def. Y. S. Lu 6-3 6-2 6-2
Andy Murray def. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-7 (5) 7-6(5) 6-2 6-2
Men's Semi Prediction:
This one is harder to call than the women, there's just so much more potential and unpredictability in the men's game...mm..
Djokovic over Berdych in 5 sets - I originally picked Berdych, but as I was writing why so, I was more convinced that Berdych's lack of mental strength at the bigger moments will finally get to him in the semi, especially after such an emotional high defeating Federer the round before. And Djokovic is playing some sick tennis this tournament and I don't see Djokovic letting this one go. This could be a turning point for his year and once again set him on track back to the world's best.
Andy Murray over Rafael Nadal in 5 sets - I think we're in for a battle. The crowd is going to be solely on Murray's side as he once again advances to the semi-final of his home tournament. Nadal has been less than impressive this whole tournament although he's been able to get out of trouble in the early rounds. Murray has beaten Nadal before and has enough game to to do it again, and once we get to the 5th set, I expect the crowd to carry Murray through to his first-ever Wimbledon Final.
Final Prediction:
Unlike the women's, there no one here who's an outright winner, so I'm going to wait till the semi-final is played out.


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Avalokiteshvara Padmapani at Ajanta (6th C)
It is strange. I've always wondered why the deepest of all emotions bring tears. Why is that I always begin to choke whenever I get moved by anything magically profound or innocently simple? An enchanting musical composition, a poignant moment in a novel, a captivating sequence in a movie, a dramatic catharsis in a play always moves me beyond words. Sometimes a simple human gesture evokes the same. And, during the meditative silence before any of the beloved Gods and the intimate Gurus. The deep-seated longing in every soul to be in constant communion with the eternal gets expressed in the tear. Or in the mirthful laughter. Both evoke the same resonance at the core of one's being.
Avalokiteshvara is one of the most pivotal Bodhisatvas in Mahayana form of Buddhism. He is the Maha Guru, the Enlightened Soul of Boundless Compassion. Also called as Padmapani in Sanskrit, Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of infinite compassion, always hearing every cry of every being in the universe and appear anywhere to salvage them from all forms of distress. Chanting the Mantra of Ohm Mani Padme Hum, holding a lotus flower in the Hand, with the Moon of total purity behind, Avalokiteshvara liberates all beings from suffering in this world and enriches the love and compassion of all beings for life and living. Blessed are the ones who have searched and found out such Gurus to protect the cherished soul..
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Great idea using a USB power source, almost everyone has access to them.
Still a bit too expensive for my backpocket.
Lights just seem to get smaller and smaller and brighter and brighter. At this rate, in a few years they'll be brighter than the sun and invisible to the naked eye. For the time being though we'll have to make do with units like the MiNewt USB which kicks out three hours of super-bright beam and weighs less than your race saddle.
The MiNewt is marketed as a commuter light so before I go on to remark on its goodness I'll have the usual gripe about it not having any side visibilty. I mean, light manufacturers, how hard can it be to put a couple of windows in the side. As it is you'll need to run an LED flasher as well if you want to be safe (and legal).
Anyway, back to the good stuff. The beam is very bright: 110 lumens is the claimed output, and while I can't vouch for that empirically it's certainly as hot as other lights I've tested with similar numbers. The beam is focused in the centre with a dimmer halo, which is more or less perfect for road riding: you get most of the light pointed at where you're going but with some spill to give a bit of peripheral vision. It works well as a head torch too (you'll need the plus version for that which costs an extra £30, either that or fashion a mount yourself) and is a great supplement to a bar-mounted light off-road.
The USP of the USB is that you can plug it in to your computer to recharge it via any standard mini USB lead, so there's no need to remember where your charger is (it does come with a mains charger). It takes about four hours and the button on the battery goes green to let you know when it's full. As far as convenience goes it couldn't be better, there's no excuse for a flat battery if you use a computer at work. The USB port has a waterproof cover and the lamp lead is pretty well sealed too. Of course if you don't use a computer at work you may have a slight problem.
Fitting the light is easy: the battery attaches to your stem with a velcro strap and the light is held on with an O-ring. There's a bit of side-to-side movement in the light mount if your bars aren't straight and the whole system can be securely fitted in about 20 seconds.
I really like the MiNewt for the convenience and beam power that it offers. It's super-light and a fuss-free way to get some decent illumination if your commute or training schedule requires it. It's a pity there's no side visibility for town riding.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
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In this help document, we'll go over some of the server environment configurations that Time Doctor will need in order to operate smoothly.
If this is your first time using Citrix, you'll want to ensure that you have all the necessary system requirements recommended by Citrix.
Citrix's User Profile Management must be installed, so that user preferences roam properly. Time Doctor does use the HKEY_Current_User (HKCU) registry hive to store sensitive information, so it's critical that the registry settings of each user are properly loaded no matter where they log in from, or what delivery server they connect to. Properly installing Citrix's User Profile Management takes care of this. You can read more about UPM, here.
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Who thinks this shit up? Will all the educational material deny evolution too? Maybe it'll have a little stock ticker as well.
News Corporation is getting into the fondleslab business via its educational arm, Amplify, with a cheap Android slab aimed at schools. "We want to transform the way teachers teach and students learn," said Amplify CEO Joel Klein in a statement. "Technology has revolutionized the world, but not the classroom. Our hope is that …
This bothers me the most. Fox is not a news outlet, it is the media wing of the republican army. Msnbc is no better, they're virtually all biased to one extreme or another.
Kids need to be given facts and taught and encouraged to draw their own conclusions. BS propaganda from either end of the political spectrum has no place in education outside of a study of Germany in the '40's.
"How much extra do you have to pay to remove the automated phone tap built into the gizmo...you know, so that News Corp reporters have access in case you become newsworthy?"
Now now, you know that was nothing to do with News Corp.
"Excesses of subordinates...." "...I was not in full possession of the facts..." "....News of the World has been shut down..." "We are co-operating fully with the police investigation..." etc.
The Boy Murdoch was never charged with anything. His reputation status remains "Teflon".
I thought I'd just include a shot of Jimbo's dad as well.
That might constitute unlocking your phone which is practically terrorism!!
No doubt it will soon be cheaper, sponsored by ads and games from such outstanding organisations as the NRA. I can just imagine the 1st person shooter where you single handedly take on an entire fictional islamic army commanded by ohhhbammah then use bon jovi's sub to capture the enigma machine thereby winning the Korean war. All part of next weeks test.
I can't see the otherlot being much better, it would probably be some hypermiling your prius simulator where you save bunnies for every mpg you get over a f150.
Android based, though for some reason they put "Monarch OS" on the front page of the site. Looks suitable though, mostly because of the thick rubber casing. Bounce proof? Essential.
As in the cartoon Gulliver's Travels, with that Lilliputian who murmured
"It'll nhevurh wwwerkkk, nhevhuuurrrr"
Fb will let people build their news and edu-feeds and the kids will just use tablets subsided by mommy and daddy, another party, or some corporations that want to name the high school after their company name, supplying tablets freely or at half price, for the extra benefit of gaining access to student grades.
Not a new model. I suspect it is done in Korea, where many big corps' names are on high schools and/or vocational schools they own or fund.
Amplify looks expensive, there is a $99 yearly subscription fee ontop of the $299 as well as requiring 1000 unit purchase to get the $299 pricing and 2 year committment on the subscription. Educational Resources' LearnPad looks to be the best Classroom Tablet Solution to date and is $299 with no fees.


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HOUSTON — Teenagers browsing online aren't sure about what news is real, according to a Stanford study.
Researcher said most teens don't know when news is fake.
The study covered students from middle school through college, and 82 percent of middle school students could not distinguish between ad-labeled sponsored content and a real news story.
From satire to misleading articles to click-bait — it's a real problem.
Facebook and Google say they are taking steps towards prevent fake news from being shared and won't place ads from fake news sites.


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ST. LOUIS – Samantha Fisher has had a hands-on history with Gateway Arch.
"People of St. Louis love it so much and want to learn more about its history and they have people like me whose grandfather was involved in the building of the arch," says Samantha Fisher, Director Communications Gateway Arch Park Foundation. "So, when they come to this gallery they`ll see the other models that could have been the monument and understand why ours is the best."
For 50 years the stainless-steel monument on the riverfront has been a part of many St. Louis memories.
Now the museum underneath Eero Saarinen's dream is getting set for its grand opening July 3rd.
The free museum is telling the many stories from St. Louis and American history.
"We always wanted that first welcoming experience to just be the best one possible," says
Eric Moraczewski, Executive Director of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation. "I think everyone walks in here and their first sentiment out of their mouth is wow."
The buffalo is back as well as the statue of Thomas Jefferson. But there are many new parts never before seen, and some uncovered during the excavation for the expanded museum.
"This is our pirogue," says Fisher. "This is one of the first great photo opportunities in the museum. So, you can sit here in the museum and imagine what it would have been like to sail one of the first interstate highways the Missouri River."
Look for tactile experiences that let all touch and feel a part of this city's history come to life.
"We grew the museum space by about 50 percent," says Moraczewski.
"But we really ask people to come in and look at history from a fresh perspective and consider all the people who were impacted on this journey westward," says Fisher.


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After what seemed like one of the longest, darkest and grey winters I've seen in a long time, the sun has finally shown it's beautiful face and warmed up this part of the world. A week of 80 plus degree weather and I'm back in my favorite bikini and hitting the beach.
It's finally SUMMER again!
And you know what that means... my annual Summer Sale is back on!
Now until the end of September, you can take 50% off all my DVD's and Blu-Ray's. Including the 2 Disc Special Edition of "Regarding Jenny", "Dirty Doll Stories" and even the episodes of "Inside Marie's Play Place" that I guest starred in. It's all on sale for HALF OFF.
If there's any titles you don't have, or you want to upgrade to Blu-Ray, now is the perfect time to do it.
Just use Coupon Code: SUMMERSALE when you check out, and the discount will be applied.
But don't wait... the sale is only good thru the Summer, and then it's gone.
Get outside and enjoy the warm weather, then at night when it cools off, curl up with me!


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Jeff Gundlach might be the hottest fund manager in the markets.
According to spokesperson Lew Phelps, DoubleLine's assets under management as of February 24 jumped to $28 billion, up from $25 billion on January 31. It was at $21 billion in December.
So, when will Gundlach bring down the gates on new investors?
During the Q&A of his February 14 presentation, a participant raised the question.
To that, Gundlach said he would be comfortable managing $35 billion. But he also added that he could see DoubleLine's AUM rising to as much as $50 billion.
So, new investors have a little bit of time. But not too too much.
SEE ALSO: The Presentation Where Jeff Gundlach Dares To Compare The US To The Roman Empire >


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News of Johnny Depp's death has been greatly exaggerated, it seems.
The Depp-stick was the latest celebrity to fall victim to internet hoaxers - pimply 20-year-olds with no girlfriends, not even pimply ones - who claimed he had been killed in a car crash in France last Saturday night.
The hoax enraged Depp's British fans, who began wondering if Princess Diana is really dead, and his American fans, who began wondering whether Elvis is still alive. His British fans already know he is.
Other celebs to have been falsely declared dead are Matt Damon and Tom Hanks, which is disgusting, and Paris Hilton, which is plain disappointing. Hilton immediately made a public statement that she was alive, but could produce no proof.
The earliest practical joke on record came during World War One when a British aviator flew over a German camp and dropped what appeared to be a huge bomb. The Germans legged it but there was no explosion.
When they crept back and gingerly approached, they saw it was actually a large football with a note tied to it that read: "April Fool".
Now bookies Paddy Power are betting on the next celebrity to have a hoax death story written about them and the 8-1 favourite is Britney Spears, which surprises me. I thought she'd already snuffed it.
Amy Winehouse and Kerry Katona are 10-1, presumably because you could easily choose to believe they've been killed. Jordan is 12-1, presumably because you could easily choose to kill her.


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December 10 : The Marquis is always such a good time. Great staff, great room and great pizza. We were a bit of a mismatch for the bill considering all the other bands (herestofightin, Brumby, Jared & the Mill) were folk rock but the crowd was still amazing and very kind. People bought merch! We haven't sold much in the last few shows if anything at all but the new designs from Dylan Roop are too good to pass up.
It was nice to have some family at the show. Some of them haven't seen us in awhile and we've changed a lot of things up since last time and they enjoyed it and had some good feedback. We are in an awkward limbo between albums right now where we are playing new songs but not the arrangements that are developing in the studio and our old songs are so much different than the way they are. Our transitions aren't as sharp as they should be and the sets for the shows haven't been prepared in a specific order since we started playing around again. It's fun. It's messy in a rock n roll way.
Currently we have a couple record deals, management opportunities, booking agents, etc., that we are sorting through. Perfect timing really. I wholeheartedly believe that business administration is what determines the success a band has–or rather their ability to get to where they set out to go in the first place. I'm the worst administrative person in the world so the last year we've kind of felt like we are spinning our wheels. Our vision is to get a solid team around us whether that's a label or maybe something different. In order to really make a run at this thing we gotta get someone to speak into it beyond what we know–that way I can focus on writing and producing and other creative related things. We'll see. All in good time.
Can't wait to show you our new songs. They are different but I think a huge step forward. I hope you are well, enjoying the holiday season and surrounded by lovely people.
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Come join in on December 8th the reading of the poem which is all about one night on the occasion of Christmas. Family and friends will enjoy sharing Dylan Thomas has managed to universalize the very essence of Christmas as any child anywhere might perceive it.
This is an awesome poem to read along with the actors and audience as it reflects the childish mind hidden inside everyone.
All your Christmases will live again in the magic of Dylan Thomas' poetic language in A Child's Christmas in Wales written by Dylan Thomas read by actors and followed along by the audience.
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Botox® Cosmetic
Botox Cosmetic treatment is used to temporarily reduce the look of mild to severe wrinkles. Although muscles are meant to contract and relax to give you facial expressions, some muscles around the face stay contracted as you age. This causes crow's feet and frown lines to form and permanently stay. Botox is purified botulinum toxin which temporarily reduces the contraction of those muscles thereby reducing wrinkles and fine lines giving your face smoother, younger looking skin. The results usually last up to four months.
We administer small injections directly into the area you'd like to improve. If you have sensitive facial areas, we'll be happy to apply an ice pack or anesthetic cream to the area we'll be working on. That's all you'll need.
The safe, purified protein from the injection goes to work immediately on the facial muscles that are causing wrinkles. You will have a visible improvement within weeks.
A few things to know pre and post Botox care:
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Fun Events Happening at Incline Village NV on May 21-25
There are many reasons why you will want to buy one of the many beautiful luxury homes for sale in Incline Village NV. One of these reasons would be to literally have your own piece of paradise on earth.
Another great reason why you should consider viewing and checking out the grand Incline Village homes for sale in Nevada is because of the programs and activities that the community offers. Below are some of the things that are keeping the Incline Village residents involved in village events and connected with other community members.
Robotics Class with Lego
Discover the creator in you as you assemble and program your very own robot. With the availability of Lego Mindstorm and mechanical K'Nex, guests of all ages will surely have an awesome time as they get creative and appreciate their inventions. This one-hour Robotics Class will start at 3 P.M. on Saturday, May 21 at the Incline Village Library.
Teddy Bear Picnic in Tahoe
Tahoe's Connection for Families, or TCF, a nonprofit organization that offers programs for parenting and early childhood development, will host its 6th Annual Tahoe Teddy Bear Picnic where children and their teddy bears get to do fun activities and join in games together. This is a great opportunity for its participants to know and socialize with other members of the community.
With a minimum fee of $35 for a Bearific Ticket, participants receive a teddy bear, drawstring backpack, lemonade, water bottle, and much more. The general admission ticket costs $15 and includes limitless access to the bounce house, themed booths, and event activities. This entertaining affair will open its doors to excited participants at 10 A.M. on Sunday, May 22 at the Aspen Grove. Learn more about the event rates and the exciting games lined up for everyone at www.tcfkids.org/#!teddy-bear-picnic/cbjr.
The Art of Japanese Taiko Drumming
If your heart is into traveling, music, and exploring other cultures, save the date for this Japanese taiko drumming demonstration by local performers in Incline Village. As these artists share some insights about the Japanese culture, they will also discuss its relation to this art of drumming. This event, called Tsurunokai, will be held on Wednesday, May 25 at 4 P.M at the Incline Village Library.
The Incline Village Library is located at 845 Alder Avenue, Incline Village, NV 89451. The library is open from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Tuesday thru Saturday, and closed on Sundays and Mondays. For more information and changes in schedule, you may contact the library at (775) 832-4130 or you can check out their website at www2.WashoeCounty.us/Library/Incline_Village.
These activities are some of the reasons to look for the best Incline Village real estate agents to work for you. Don't miss any of these cool events in Nevada. After all, in Incline Village, life is not just lived, each day can be a celebration!
Learn the reasons why now is the time to call your real estate agent in Incline Village, Nevada by visiting www.InclineLuxuryHomes.com.
If you are looking for the perfect luxury home or condo for sale in Incline Village NV, call me, Peg Augustus at 775-831-2846. With my personalized service and extensive knowledge of the Incline Village real estate market, I can help you find the perfect property that best suits your needs and high-end tastes.


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Author: Dan Lowe
Category: Ethics
Word Count: 1000
Human beings use non-human animals in a variety of ways: for scientific experimentation, clothing, and, most commonly, for food. Are humans morally justified in using animals in these ways?
One position which provides a positive answer to this question is speciesism, the idea that humans have a moral status superior to animals, just because humans are members of the human species.1 Speciesism offers a reason why it is morally acceptable to use animals in these ways.2 Although few people self-consciously identify as speciesists, speciesism is immensely attractive insofar as it captures something of moral common sense: we think that being human confers a special dignity and moral status.
Despite its significant intuitive appeal, speciesism faces surprisingly difficult objections from some philosophers.3
1. Objections to Speciesism
The topic of "what it is to be human" can be approached variously; but for the speciesist, to be human is to be a member of the species homo sapiens.4 This is a matter of biology: if one's DNA is configured in a certain way, then that makes one a human being. But if that's what the speciesist accepts, then there's an obvious objection: How one's DNA is configured is just a fact about the order of molecules in our cells, and that seems morally irrelevant.5
This objection to speciesism might seem unfair. After all, it ignores the fact that human beings have very different capacities from animals. To take just three, humans have sophisticated language, the capacity for complex thought, and the ability to live according to moral ideals. We might thus distinguish the Capacities View: the idea that having certain important capacities is what gives a being moral status.6
But appealing to these capacities won't actually help the speciesist. If these capacities are what give human beings moral status, then it's having those capacities that is morally important – not one's biology. The Capacities View is an alternative to speciesism, not a way of supporting it.
This objection might also seem to miss the point. Surely we have those capacities partially because of our biology, and thus our species membership.
That's true, but this won't help the speciesist, either. For one, membership in the species homo sapiens is neither necessary nor sufficient for having those capacities.7 It's not necessary because aliens with a different biology could nevertheless have these capacities. It's not sufficient because not all members of our species have these capacities; the severely mentally handicapped, for instance, lack all three of the capacities mentioned. For another, even if all and only human beings had these capacities, that wouldn't make species membership itself morally relevant. The capacities themselves would still be the basis of moral status.
This is why some philosophers have argued that speciesism commits the same error in reasoning as does racism or sexism.8 The racist, for example, says that members of a certain race are superior to members of other races. But what race one belongs to is morally irrelevant. Likewise, what species one belongs to is merely a biological fact, and also morally irrelevant.
2. A Revised Version of Speciesism
To rescue speciesism, one might claim that a combination of species membership and these capacities is morally relevant. Contemporary advocates of speciesism often go this route, saying that humans have a superior moral status to animals because they are members of a species where the typical members have these important capacities.9
This version of speciesism has two advantages. First, it does not depend on the idea that species membership all by itself gives humans superior moral status – by referring to typical human capacities, it draws on a plausible aspect of the Capacities View. Second, it would not imply that the severely mentally handicapped, for instance, have inferior moral status; even though they may lack these capacities, they are members of a species in which the typical members do have them.
3. Objections to the Revised Version of Speciesism
Although the revised version of speciesism may avoid some of the earlier problems, it also encounters new ones.
Crucially, the view depends upon a dubious combination of ideas: (1) having certain capacities matters for having a certain property (namely, moral status). But (2) some being can entirely lack those capacities, but still have the property – just because typical members of the being's species have those capacities.
To illustrate the problem, consider an analogous case.10 If a story is well-written, has an engrossing plot, and excellent character development, then these qualities give it the property of being a good story. Suppose that most of the stories in the Sherlock Holmes series are like this – except "The Naval Treaty." It would be wrong to say that, even though "The Naval Treaty" doesn't have any of those qualities, it still has the property of being good because the typical members of the series do have those qualities.
Likewise, it would be wrong to say that some humans have moral status because the typical members have certain characteristics, even though the members in question lack those very characteristics.
Moreover, the revised version of speciesism seems just as vulnerable to the charge that speciesism is analogous to racism or sexism. Consider a racist who believes in the superiority of one race because most members of the given race had special characteristics that the members of other races lacked. Even if it were true that most members of a race had special characteristics that members of other races lacked, that still wouldn't justify racism. Likewise, appealing to the characteristics of typical members of a species doesn't justify speciesism.11
4. Conclusion
If these objections cause us to reject speciesism, then we should rethink our beliefs about the moral status of animals. This is far from easy. The advocate of the Capacities View, for instance, will still need to say what capacities might be the basis of moral status, and to what extent they are shared by humans and animals alike. In any case, some account of the grounds of moral status is important for understanding how we should treat animals.
1 The concept of speciesism was introduced to a wide audience by Peter Singer. He formulates speciesism differently: "Speciesism … is a prejudice or attitude of bias toward the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species" (Animal Liberation, p. 7). The formulation used in this essay is different in two ways. First, it is more neutral — it does not presuppose that speciesism is a form of prejudice or bias. Second, it aims to express more clearly the role of speciesism in the debate about animal ethics — namely, that it tries to establish the superiority of humans to non-human animals, on a purely biological basis.
2 According to one version of speciesism, humans have moral status superior to animals in that humans have moral status and animals do not. Such a version of speciesism thus constitutes an argument for exceptionalism – the view that humans have no duties to animals.
3 Philosophers who advocate speciesism include Carl Cohen, Tibor Machan, and David Schmitdz; philosophers who contest it include Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and Gary Francione.
4 It should be noted that it is controversial whether species are real things – in other words, whether they are natural kinds, or whether they are merely a human-made category which does not correspond to any deeper reality. But if a speciesist is going to say that species-membership is morally significant, then it seems clear that this requires species to be more than mere social constructs.
5 James Rachels, "Drawing Lines."
6 Speciesism and the Capacities View are not the only positions on the source of moral status. One might believe, for instance, that having a soul is what gives a being moral status.
7 Philosophers often inquire about what is necessary and sufficient for some phenomenon to occur, or for some concept to be applied. For example, gasoline is necessary for your car to run, but not sufficient for your car to run—your battery must also be charged. Alternatively, taking a transatlantic flight is sufficient for getting from New York to London, but it's not necessary—you could take a boat, instead. Some things are both necessary and sufficient: Getting 270 electoral votes is both necessary and sufficient for being elected President of the United States. Here we are asking whether being a member of the species homo sapiens is either necessary or sufficient for having the important capacities mentioned earlier.
8 Peter Singer, Animal Liberation; Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights."
9 Carl Cohen, "The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research"; David Schmidtz, "Are All Species Equal?"
10 Similar examples are provided by Alastair Norcross, "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases"; Nathan Nobis, "Carl Cohen's 'Kind' Arguments For Animal Rights and Against Animal Rights"; and Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life.
11 Gary L. Francione, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
Cohen, Carl. "The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research" in Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, 5th edition, eds. Steven M. Cahn and Peter Markie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Francione, Gary L. Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.
Machan, Tibor. Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
McMahan, Jeff. The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Nobis, Nathan. "Carl Cohen's 'Kind' Arguments For Animal Rights and Against Animal Rights." Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21., No. 1, 2004.
Norcross, Alastair. "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases" in The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, 2nd edition, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Rachels, James. "Drawing Lines" in Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, ed. Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Regan, Tom. "The Case for Animal Rights" in In Defense of Animals, ed. Peter Singer. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
Schmidtz, David. "Are All Species Equal?" in The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics, eds. R.G. Frey and Tom Beauchamp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. Updated Edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Related Essays
The Moral Status of Animals by Jason Wyckoff
Applied Ethics by Chelsea Haramia
About the Author
Dan Lowe is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds a BA from The Evergreen State College and has a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He works on ethics broadly construed, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. His current research is in naturalized moral epistemology and philosophical methodology. https://sites.google.com/site/danlowe161/


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I have this trouble, with God. I don't think I really know him very well at all. Not because of anything He does or doesn't do for me. But more because of the things I think about him. I know God loves me. I really do. I completely believe that he sent his son for me because he loves me.
But the thing I have much, much more trouble with, is the concept that He likes me. (And yes, in my mind there is a difference) Say a child, they know they are loved, they see everything their parent does for them, and they appreciate that. Their parent is kind, and good and loves them. And the child knows that. But the love that the parent gives that child, then causes that child to try to do things to please their parent. I watch it in my own children, a couple of days ago for example, Georgie mastered doing her own buttons up on her pajama top, and she was just thrilled when I was so excited and proud of her. I watched her just glow and beam with joy, because she was proud to have pleased me. I know as a child myself, I was so thrilled when I got an award at a school presentation night, and my Dad was there, and I saw him be proud of me. He goes pink in the face, and he grins and looks like Santa Clause when he is particularly chuffed. And I could recognize that my Dad was proud of me, and liked me, you know?
Parents often do have favourite children. They just do. It's a fact. I find my favoritism often chops and changes with my children depending on what stage they are going through. But I never feel like I am God's favorite.
I don't often feel like I do anything that makes God like me. I don't often feel like I have made him proud, or pleased. I know he loves me and his son died for me, and that is because I am his child and I am his blood and I belong to him, and so he cannot help but love me. But often I feel like that frustrating, annoying, difficult child who can't get things right and just makes things more complicated. I get scared that my own parenting mirrors the beliefs I hold about God and it just kills me. I know it's kind of ridiculous, and probably completely wrong, but it feels right.
I have huge trouble with the idea that God could look down on my and delight in me. I feel like he is just looking down, going "What's she done again?" a lot of the time. I feel so much that I have to work to earn God's liking and I never ever manage it, because I am such a selfish creature.
The Bible tells me that he likes me, that he delights in me.
He brought me forth also into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me. Psalm 18:19
The LORD your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. Zephaniah 3:17
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; Psalm 149:4
I know it. But it is head knowledge, not heart knowledge. I'm not quite sure how to go about making it heart knowledge. But I know I carry around an awful lot of false guilt. I am a sinner, heaven knows I mess up so much. But my sin is forgiven and gone because of Jesus' sacrifice. So my guilt should be gone as well. That's a much harder beast to conquer. I know my guilty feelings feed directly into my belief that God doesn't like me, and I know it is false and robbing me of so much.
And while you'd think that the guilt would be the explanation, I don't think it (solely) is. I think I also have trouble understanding the heart of God. I still believe that he is capable of withholding himself, that he treats the free gift of grace, and therefore his goodwill like something that must be earned. Even though I know that he all that is good and pure and lovely and kind.
I know so much of this is directly affecting the way I act now, the way I love others. but it's bloody hard ignoring things you feel to be true. I'm trying to figure out how. I'm working on trying to believe that He is a God who adores me. And when he sees me broken, and tired and sad and dirty, he doesn't get frustrated or angry or fed up with me, but rather he sees my brokenness and his heart breaks for me. I'm trying to believes that he picks me up, and adores me. That there are things about me that he finds endearing, and delightful. That I am his favourite. That there are aspects of me that he would never ever change. It's hard, but I'm trying.
But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. Psalm 3:3


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A few personal rules of thumb for behaving on Twitter.
1. Tweet as if your mother is watching. It's the 21st Century and she probably is.
2. Twitter feels like a pub conversation. It is and it isn't. You're a publisher now. You can be sued for your comments.
3. Play the ball, not the person. Yes you'll get into arguments on Twitter. Argue the points and the facts and try not to get personal. With anyone. Ever. Seriously (as my 6 year old would say).
4. Tweets have a half life of 15 minutes. Thanks to the Library of Congress, Data Sift and others they are also part of your permanent record.
5. Treat others as you'd like your mother to be treated (assuming you have a great relationship with your mother. If not substitute 'your mother' for someone you care about).
6. Pause before tweeting when you're angry.
7. Offense is taken, not given. No one has a right 'to be offended'.
8. Be open.
9. When you're wrong admit it and apologise. Move on.
10. Listen to people with different views from yours. There are plenty of good and reasonable people who don't believe as you do. It's a small planet.
11. Wear sunscreen.


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For someone who likes organizing, I'm not a particularly organized person. Oh, sure, I like the fou-fou labeling and 43 Folders and fetish trips to Office Depot aspects of it, but all of that is window dressing belying my real status as Queen of Mt. Perilous, that towering stack of unknown "to-be-handled" paper that I never, ever seem to be able to reverse-traverse my way to the bottom of.
I paid Asshole Tax last month, though, in triplicate (dinged thrice for automatic transfer of funds to cover payments out of checking) which so disgusted me, I made an appointment with my tax preparer for this coming Monday, which for me is the economic equivalent of throwing a party to make oneself clean the house. I have a high tolerance for nagging guilt (half-Jewish + raised Catholic = guilt bonanza) but an extremely low tolerance for wasting money. In fact, the only time I can take it is when I'm really sick, really tired, or on vacation. And, if the pricing on Tylenol in Las Vegas hotel gift shops is any indication, I am not alone in this.
But something has got to give. Despite my well-nurtured (but probably innate) bent for overachievement, I cannot, it is clear, do it all. And I'm of the belief that one can really only commit to three projects really well at any given time. Why three, I don't know. But I've tried four, and I think it goes without saying that I've tried five to fifty-six, and really, three is the limit. Whether or not you have any kind of a life worth living outside of your to-do list, which, God willin' and the creek don't rise, I'll continue to enjoy.
So I'm starting right now. Instead of going to 43 Things and doing it, I'm going to out myself here. My three things. Bam, bam, bam: laserlike focus, until they're done (or done enough) or i've decided they're done (as opposed to defaulting into discarding them). Previously, my Three Things have included such super-fun tasks as...
- Write screenplay.
- Find attorney.
- Get rid of horrible rash on face.
- Get well.
- Put on weight.
- Get off of medication.
But I have never, to my knowledge, made "Get house in order" one of the three things. So here we (gulp) go:
- Finish pilot presentation for "#1 & #2".
- Achieve reasonable proficiency on piano and guitar.
- Get house in order.
I realize that #3, the thing that's kicking "Blog every day" off of the list, is kind of a gigantic, squishy catch-all, especially when compared to (hey!) #1 & #2. I suppose it's just such an intensely personal batch of items that I'm a little uncomfortable sharing it with all 47 of you. But Mt. Perilous is first, to be immediately (and I mean IMMEDIATELY) followed by tax prep. After that, I'll see what I feel is appropriate for public consumption. Who knows? Maybe I'll end up making my whole process public, like Evelyn is so bravely doing.
But what I am definitely doing is giving myself permission to be less than perfect here. As communicatrix, the Blog, serves communicatrix, the Vastly Flawed Human Being, I'll employ it, in service of this task, or as occasional diversion. Just maybe not as often. And maybe not as deeply.
Or who knows? Maybe it'll be deeper and richer and better than ever.
Let's see where the journey takes us.


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Over the last few years, a phenomenon with perhaps the greatest potential to disrupt the global political and economic system has gained an increasingly prominent position in public discourse. This phenomenon is "international migration".
While migration occupies a prominent place today in the media and on political agendas, what we are now seeing is likely to be dwarfed by the scale of migration in the future. A 2011 Gallup World Poll found that 40 per cent of people living in the poorest 25 per cent of countries would like to move permanently to another country. This migratory pressure is only likely to build as populations in the developing world continue to grow and the drivers of migration become stronger.
There are two drivers in particular that are worth mentioning. First is the wage-gap in unskilled labour between rich and poor countries. An unskilled worker in Europe or America can earn a wage many times higher than a worker in the developing world doing the same job. This creates a significant incentive for workers to migrate to high-wage countries.
The second driver is the changing demographic profile in advanced economies. Ageing populations and longer life-expectancies increase the need to attract a young workforce from abroad. This need will be intensified by higher demand for labour in so-called "hardcore and low-skilled nontradeable" employment. These are jobs such as janitors and cashiers which cannot be exported overseas, but which are unpopular in rich countries.
International migration has the potential to bring about explosive change to the world economy. Economists estimate the gains from removing restrictions on labour migration from poor to rich countries to be in the trillions of dollars, somewhere between 20 and 60 per cent of world GDP. Such income gains could bring millions of people out of poverty and deprivation.
Just as the potential benefits from unfettered migration are enormous, so too are the risks. Policymakers are facing a backlash at the moment in America and Europe against the relatively modest number of migrants arriving on their shores. The problems caused by this toxic political environment are exacerbated by a lack of external coordination between countries. Dealing with the migration challenges we currently face requires far greater international cooperation. This does not bode well for a world in which migrant flows from developing countries are likely to be many, many times higher.
The dilemma of migration promises to be one of the key challenges of the 21st century. Balancing the opportunities and risks of this disruption will prove a worthy challenge for our brightest future leaders.


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In between clubs
June 26, 2009 - Steve Anderson
Many times on the course you're faced with a yardage that's in between two of your clubs, say a 6 or 7-iron, and you're not sure what to do. There are several methods and let's discuss them now.
The first is to take the 7-iron and swing a bit harder than normal. Many tour pros and advanced players go this route as their swing are very solid and technically sound and they can give it a litlle more speed without throwing their swings off too much.
The smarter route may be to go with the 6-iron and swing a bit easier. The extra club will let you swing 75% of your normal swing speed and can result in a solid strike to the blow and better balance on your part. The other way is to swing your normal way and simply choke down on the club an inch. When your shorten down on your club you make the shaft shorter so it won't hit the ball as far and also make the shaft play a little bit stiffer which will take off 5 yards or so.
Try them all out on the range and pick the method that works best for you. Within no time you'll be a master at the in betweener.
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