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NANA Project #9 — Volumes 17 and 18
Greetings everyone! This month, Melinda, Michelle and I return to discuss volumes 17 and 18 of NANA. Michelle decides she likes Miu, Danielle has a Yasu-epiphany, and Melinda takes on Takumi and Reira's dysfunctional relationship.
Danielle: I'll start by noting that I personally found volume 17 to be a bit exposition-heavy while volume 18 was rather nerve-wracking, what with the so-called "countdown to tragedy" slowly but surely winding down. But for once instead of skipping ahead to dessert (i.e. the juicy stuff in volume 18 or the compelling flashback to Takumi's early years), let's start with the revelations about Misato. Did her backstory work for you? Do you think it fit with all we've come to know about her? And what do you think Nana would do if she knew about Misato's connection to her family?
Melinda: I'd say that Misato's story *works* for me, and yes I do think it's consistent with what we've seen in her up to this point, but it's not as compelling for me as the other things that are going on around it. I am grateful that it doesn't dominate the entire volume. I'm not sure what to say about Nana's reaction, though. I think she might actually not want to be around her for a while if she found out. Misato has represented a kind of pure adoration for Nana up to this point. I think finding out that Misato's secrets actually have to do with *her* could be difficult for Nana. She doesn't trust easily, after all.
Michelle: I thought Misato's backstory did a good job at explaining how she came to know and adopt the name of Nana's little sister without making it into some huge drama. I'm not sure how Nana would react—she's always known that Misato idolizes her, but probably thinks it's something purely positive and not an obsession in the service of which Misato has withheld crucial information.
I was thinking that a lot of this series is about people having idealized views of one another, and it occurs to me that the relationship between Nana and Misato is just another example of that.
Melinda: Oh, that's a wonderful insight, Michelle! I'll take this a step further and say that much of the series is about people's perceptions of each other in general, and how skewed that can be for various reasons. Something that struck me sort of profoundly early on in this volume, was Hachi's observation about the real Misato, and how she was "not old enough to consider her parents as people with their own lives apart from her." I think I spent half the volume pondering that in the back of my mind, and how easily it applies to people in all kinds of circumstances, including adults.
Danielle: Ah, such excellent points about how Nana idealizes Misato. I remember how miserable Hachi felt when she first met Misato because she felt so *selfish* for wanting to be special to Nana in a way no other person was. A lot of this series is about how people try to hold on to those that they love in exclusionary ways that can be harmful to both individuals. There has to be a balance somewhere…between Yasu, for whom all loved ones are equal in status, and Nana's suffocating desire to completely own Hachi or Ren.
Michelle: I was thinking that maybe Miu is the best at not wanting to completely own someone. She's a little jealous of Yasu's connection with Shion, but I didn't get the impression it's going to make her hyperventilate or run away from the relationship. She's also able to see almost instantly that *Hachi* is the strong one and Nana the weak one, no matter what Hachi herself thinks. Am I the only one who began to seriously like her in these two volumes?
Melinda: Anyone who befriends Hachi is fine by me, so Miu definitely grew on me during these volumes, yes.
Danielle: *raises hand* Not only did I start to like her, I had a total Yasu EPIPHANY. I'm like a Yasu-convert now. I've been very critical of him in the past, but watching him respond to the disaster that is Shin with tough love, I realize he's almost always taken the right approach with the others (the big exception in my mind is his unquestioning support of Ren, because Ren totally needs to be set straight by someone with a lot more sense than him and Reira is a disaster as a friend).
Michelle: There's a lot of great Yasu stuff in these volumes. His approach to the Shin situation was strict but ultimately more loving
than any more lenient suggestions. While Nana and Takumi thought of the tour first, and Hachi thought of Shin first, it was Yasu who was able to see both simultaneously. I suppose he and Miu do make a good couple after all, since she's a fairly impartial observer who hasn't concocted idealized notions about the other characters.
Melinda: I found Yasu's comment stating that making Shin feel guilty for canceling the tour was less awful than making him feel expendable to be, actually, very moving. I've been a fan of Yasu from the start, but he's really shown to his best advantage in this situation, I think.
Michelle: It's interesting how strongly Ren seemed to feel the same, too. Maybe it's because of their shared background that they're both very sensitive to making someone feel unneeded.
Danielle: I can't give Ren any credit here at all because he's never *useful* in these situations ever. He tries for Yasu's distant protection and ends up as performing a fairly cool self-interest instead. Ren's refusal of Nana's attempt to enlist him into the band for their first major arena concert really grates with me. Can he never ever step up and be a hero for Nana? Is this expecting too much of him (or anyone?) Just once I'd like him to put Nana first. Just. Once.
Melinda: You know, for once I can get behind intense anger towards someone other than Takumi (heh), because I absolutely agree with you, Danielle. Though it doesn't *surprise* me, it infuriates me that Ren won't step up to help Nana here, at least just for the one concert. How could that have possibly hurt him? Yet it might have saved Blast.
Michelle: I'll be the lone voice supporting Ren's decision here. Okay, yes, maybe doing it for one concert might not have hurt, but it's obvious that Shin is not going to be released for a while. What then? What about the other shows? What happens when Shin realizes they all went on without him? There's no good answer here, because going on with the tour with a different bassist and canceling the tour altogether *both* have the potential to derail Blast's upward trajectory.
Interesting that Takumi sort of took responsibility for it all.
Melinda: And yes, helping for one concert doesn't save the whole tour, but at least it buys them some time to find another bassist, or some other solution.
Danielle: Well, I think what really infuriates me isn't just the refusal but the way he *digs* the knife into Nana, telling her that he wouldn't want to help out someone who didn't support her own bandmember. Now, Nana's sinking in quicksand at this moment and she's mad at Shin, but she has a right to be. She'll forgive him in time, but I think she's allowed to be mad right now. And Ren's hypocrisy — when he knows he departed the band for greener pastures to benefit *him* and *only him* — is just disgusting to me.
Michelle: That's a good point about the hypocrisy. That angle hadn't occurred to me.
Melinda: Yes, YES, Danielle, *that*. Oh, look, I'm all riled up. I really do think, too, that Nana (and everyone in the band) has a right to be angry at Shin here, whatever his own pain has been, and really Ren's just looking for an excuse not to have to step out of his comfort zone.
Danielle: Even though I'm not surprised Ren said no, something still seems off about *why* — deep down — he's refusing her. Is he that afraid to "step out of his comfort zone" as you say? It is something else? Could he really want to torpedo Nana's career? I can't see that of Ren, no matter how self-absorbed he can be (and remember, this is the person who could have "fixed" the entire Takumi-Hachi-Nobu triangle by simply opening his mouth and giving Nana a head's up about Takumi not understanding that Hachi's done with him). Is it he's just so self-involved he doesn't want to get involved…because it's a bother?
Melinda: I don't think it's so much that he's self-involved, but that he's really, really a coward. He's terrified of putting himself on the line, even to save himself. That's what makes Reira such a comforting friend for him. She doesn't require anything of him except what's easiest.
Michelle: Whereas Nana is needy and requires quite a lot, hence his "I'm sick of catering to her" response.
Danielle: Perhaps it is time to turn to the reason Blast is in this mess in the first place…poor Shin. It is interesting to see both how lost and self-destructive Shin is as a teenager but in the flashforward we see a young man who has taken accountability for his actions and works very hard to gain a foothold in the entertainment industry. I'm kind of proud of how both he and Nobu turned out, to be honest.
Melinda: I think Yazawa manages this brilliantly. By showing us future Shin juxtaposed against current Shin as he's making the worst mess of his life, she's avoided having to tell us what's happened to him via awkward exposition later on. It's wonderfully effective storytelling shorthand.
I'd agree, too, I love seeing both future Shin and future Nobu, and the men they've become. They're even lovelier than I might have hoped. Do you think they could have turned out so well if Blast hadn't been forced to break up at this point? With Shin in particular, I have to wonder if this ugly wake-up call might be exactly what he needs in order to figure out how to live a healthier life, even if it comes at others' expense.
Danielle: Even though Shin's a walking disaster and is engaging in risky behavior, I have to point out that it is hilarious to me there's such a big scandal over pot of all things. I mean, I realize this is a representation of the Japanese music industry and not the American one, but still…Shin self-identifies as a punk. How exactly is he *supposed* to act? Sheesh. And while the underage sex is a component of this, he's really just busted for the pot as far as I can tell. In the U.S. he's be released immediately on bail and probably go off to give a concert the next day.
Michelle: Well, marijuana laws in Japan are really strict. Paul McCartney was busted there for pot in 1980 and spent nine days in jail. I suppose to them, it *is* a huge deal and a big scandal.
I agree that seeing future Shin, who has obviously turned out pretty well, before we learn the details of his fall from grace is reassuring. It's interesting to me how much closer current and future events are getting. (Or should it be past and present? I'm not sure…) Before, we had this ominous retrospective narration but no clue as to what was going to happen, but slowly, like a funnel, the edges of the story have been coming together and now we can see the other side. We still don't know exactly what sends Nana running away to England, but we can see that she's there and that she's hurting, and it's only a remembrance of Hachi's faith in her that has kept her alive so far.
Danielle: I really like the funnel metaphor, because slowly but surely we are beginning to see the whole picture. We see why Shin has become an actor, where the seeds of Hachi's business came from (Miu teaching her how to dress herself in a kimono), why Nobu splits his time between his parents' inn and the music scene, etc. We know Nana is alive but we also know that she's only hanging onto her current life by a thread, which is quite heartbreaking. Nana wishing for the oblivion of death is just…so broken. The mystery remains — why does she feel she can't reach out to Hachi
Melinda: That really is the great mystery, isn't it? While it's easy to imagine any number of reasons Nana might leave the music business in Japan, and maybe even why she might lose touch with her bandmates, who are inextricably tied to memories of her youth and her hometown, it's much, much harder to imagine why she might cut all ties with Hachi, to whom she obviously still clings, if only in her mind. What could have happened to drive the two of *them* apart like this?
Michelle: I honestly think this goes back to the issue of having an idealized view of someone. Nana is still trying to be Hachi's shoujo hero, and probably feels like she'll be too big of a disappointment. Hachi's faith in her was a source of strength at times, certainly, like when she prepares to embark on her solo career, but that kind of faith also comes with expectations that she might feel that she's unable to live up to.
Danielle: This is interesting theory particularly because of how *not* upset Nana was once the tabloids ran the story on her mother. I was actually kind of impressed with the fact Nana decided to take the "good" that came from the story — a real reconciliation with Hachi — and not cling to the fact her mother abandoned her all those years ago. Of course, this could be because as Michelle notes, she's turned Hachi into an idealized version of herself (and I would argue a kind of mother figure at the same time).
Michelle: I think, too, that she's taking comfort in the fact that Hachi is still herself, even after the ideal-busting liaison and union with Takumi. They've finally got back into a place where Nana can sort of forget some of that stuff happened and allow herself to see Hachi as someone saintly once more.
Danielle: Now that we've speculated on the characters' future, let's return to their past — or Takumi's past, at least. "Takumi's Story" — unlike Nobu and Naoki's stories, both of which had a heavy layer of romanticism / nostalgia filtering their respective childhood experiences — is a rather unflinching, almost brutal, portrait of the anti-hero of NANA. In spite of the fact I will always find his treatment of women despicable, I also found his development from violent, empty-headed thug to hard-working bandleader impressive. A lot of the characters in NANA have impressively shitty childhoods but Takumi's seems like a living hell. The fact that unlike a lot of the other characters he doesn't go out of his way to sabotage his own life or success (because he's so "damaged" or some excuse we might make for Nana, Shin, Ren, etc.) is a mark of a very tough individual. I suspect, though, that I am probably alone in my weird respect for this character….
Melinda: I have a lot of respect for Takumi as a businessman, and his side story here enhances that, for all the reasons you describe, Danielle. I also think his ideas about women are horrifying, and this story only enhances that perspective as well. Interestingly, the person I came out of this story feeling a new sense of sympathy for is Reira.
As much as I despise the ways Takumi uses his girlfriends (and oh, the way he deals with one of them getting an abortion makes me want to punch him in the face) I actually think the girl he treats the most cruelly is Reira. His idea of her as an untouchable doll may be keeping him from defiling her or whatever, but it's also responsible for pretty much everything that's wrong with her *now*. All those things we find maddening/annoying about her? Takumi created them. By keeping hold of her so tightly, but refusing to actually touch her, he has, in a very real way, I think, driven her mad. She can't be with him, because she's too precious for him to touch, but she can't be with anyone else either, not really, because he's still holding on to her. If anything, this story makes me despise Takumi more, but it definitely gives me a new appreciation for how much it sucks to be Reira. She really *is* a songbird in a cage, and Takumi's left her in there so long, it's a wonder she can still sing at all.
Danielle: I think I feel the exact opposite of you in terms of who is responsible for Reira — I think only *Reira* is responsible for Reira. She knew he was never going to love her the way she loved him…so why should he take responsibility for the fact she couldn't leave his side? The girl we saw in the flashback had spirit and fire. She even demands to know what she means to Takumi and when he can't answer her that should have been her cue. GET AWAY FROM THIS MAN. She didn't take it and as she sinks into Takumi's comfortable birdcage I feel she only has herself to blame. Takumi's a strong personality but he didn't drag her kicking and screaming into his orbit (and, therefore, his control). She *walked* right into the cage knowing full well what he was like.
I have very little pity for her, because while I respect the teenager who was able to defy him but not the infantilized women who cedes to his every direction / whim. I totally agree he used her to make his career but I think she let herself be used.
Melinda: I disagree that this is all her responsibility. The very last page of the side story, when he makes it clear that he wants to keep her by his side… he *knows* how to do this. He knows exactly what to do to keep her with him, and even though he rejects her romantic advances, he never actually lets her go. I'd be willing to come halfway and say they're both playing their part here, but I just can't absolve him of responsibility when he's so consciously keeping her with him. And I don't actually think he's made it clear to Reira that he's never going to love her the way she loves him. In fact, I think he *does* love her exactly that way, but he's not willing to touch her, because then she's be tainted by him and couldn't be his precious angel anymore. To me, that's just sick.
Michelle: I kind of feel like y'all want me to cast a tie-breaking vote here, but I really can't. I agree that Takumi does love her in a way—again with the idealized views!—and is purposefully keeping her by his side, but it's Reira who keeps staying there. Maybe if he had made clear the impossibility of the kind of relationship she wants, she would have left, but I rather doubt it. They're both responsible, and neither one of them is willing or able to walk away from the relationship.
As a side note, I found it very interesting that she does with Yasu exactly what she's doing now with Shin. She purports to love him, they're in a relationship, but ultimately, in the end it's really all about Takumi. In fact, there really are quite a few characters in this series with conflicting romantic feelings for two people.
Danielle: I'm starting to come around on Takumi deserving a hefty share of responsibility for the status quo between him and Reira, although I think I resist reading him as "in love" with Reira. I think that's because he clearly finds it sickening when he tries to think of Reira in a sexual way, which makes me believe that his love for her can't be read in romantic terms, but rather something much more complex. In a way, I think he actually holds love for Hachi in his heart, while Reira is part of his soul / extension of himself. Takumi can do without his heart (i.e. he can discard Hachi when it suits him), but I don't think he can manage without that which defines him, i.e. Reira. This may be a silly distinction between love / self but for some reason it just works for me.
Michelle: That makes sense. Y'know, learning Takumi had impregnated someone before and urged an abortion makes me wonder why he didn't do the same to Hachi. Is it because she, although no pure angel, is still more fundamentally *good* than the other women he came across and he realized that, with her, he had the best chance of creating the happy family he himself was denied?
Melinda: Well, he was a teenager (maybe even a middle schooler?) at the time, so it seems likely that has *something* to do with it. He certainly felt no responsibility for it having happened back then, and resented having to play a part in it at all. I do have doubts that the difference would have much to do with Hachi herself, since I don't think he loved her in the slightest back at that time, or even thought of her as being worth much. She was just something he didn't want Nobu to have. I think perhaps he's grown to feel love for her, but back then, she was just part of his need to beat Nobu, and taking care of her and offering to support her baby was what he could do to best achieve that.
Michelle: I'm pretty sure he was in high school, but given his history of refusing to use protection, that girl and Hachi *can't* be the only two girls he's impregnated.
I don't mean to ascribe better motives to him than he had, because I think you're right that he wanted to take her away from Nobu, and maybe the notion of building a family came afterwards. I just think it might factor in somewhere, even if only a little.
Danielle: I guess I think it is significant that the woman he chooses to allow complicate his life (something he'd always seen as a "bother" before) is Hachi. And pregnancy seems like a major complication to a guy whose first response to trouble of any kind is to cut ties with the woman in his life.
Of course, Takumi's status allows him to support Hachi and a baby in a way he couldn't as a teenager….but what's really interesting is that he accepts Hachi *knowing* that the child might not be his. I mean, that is a complete 180 in attitude from when he didn't even give a damn about a girlfriend aborting a child he knew was his.
I don't agree with Melinda that he only valued Hachi because Nobu wanted her…even for a man as extreme as Takumi it seems irrational to commit himself to a woman simply because some other guy loved her. I *do* agree that he doesn't love her then, but I think Hachi *interests* him. And that interest he had for her may be the closest he had ever come (up to that point) to *feeling* something for someone outside his immediate family…besides Reira, of course.
Michelle: Probably you guys are never going to see eye to eye where Takumi is concerned! 🙂
Melinda: Probably not. But at least we both love Hachi!
Michelle: And you both want to kick Ren in the shins.
Danielle: And I can't even begin to tell you both how much it pleases me to wrap-up this month's NANA project with the image of us kicking Ren in the shins. Join us later in the spring when the three of us will tackle the final three volumes of NANA that have been published in the U.S. and then try to figure out where we'll go next.
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No problem there. Black has been the male fashion colour of choice in Moscow since 1987. Ideally you need black jeans, black shoes, and a black shirt to go with it.
Have you looked in Metropolis shopping centre at Voikovskaya, or Evropeisky at Kievskaya? All the main European fashion brands from budget to upscale are here in Moscow now, and mostly at the same prices as in Germany, Britain, Sweden etc (you can tell from the Euro price labels, which aren't removed from the stock when sold in Russia)
Lands end I think an american company sell really good parka type jackets for men which are both practical and smart, I think I paid about 130. In black if you want. I bought one which is about 3/4 length and wore it in Russia last January during a cold snap (where I was it was down to minus 25 centigrade) and I was perfectly warm in it. Not too much on underneath either a shirt and sweatshirt. I found the problem to be feet and legs. I wore long johns which kept me warm but I didn't like the restrictive movement. And I wore two pairs of specialist socks (inner and outer) and boots with good thick soles. But my feet got cold. Not absolutely certain but I think I bought "Men's Regular Insulated Squall Parka". For some silly reason the forum will not allow me to post the link ??? Apparently I need 5 posts. Why?
I know what it is and what it is expensive. The one you highlighted was marked down from 9000rur and was bright green, not exactly to everyone's taste. From my experience snowboarding jackets are not very useful as everyday winter jackets, as you'll have to be burning a lot of calories to keep warmer.
If you're waiting for buses and going in and out of the metro, a well insulated, breathable jacket might be best.
I didn't mention SportMaster. I shop there but I'm not too thrilled with it. I prefer Decathlon for big chain stores. Globus has many outdoor activity specialty shops. There are a lot of good brands in Moscow. Affordability is the X factor.


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|Hallways to Health, Turner SBHC Physician's Assistant/Health Educator, Sara presenting storyboard information at the 2014 Hallways to Health midpoint meeting
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|WinRAR Backups with Pure BAT Files
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I made up some pure batch files to use WinRAR for simple backups. Uses WinRAR's timestamp switch to append date. Just copy the 4 included files to a new folder, edit the !backup.ini and !backup.lst files with the appropriate details and then run !backup.cmd to create a backup or !restore.cmd to restore the most recent copy.
You can create them yourself with the instructions below or alternatively, just jump to the bottom and download an archive with all four files inside.
@echo off setlocal for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "Filename="^<"!backup.ini"')^ do set rarFilename=%%a for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "Switches="^<"!backup.ini"')^ do set rarSwitches=%%a for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "rarPath="^<"!backup.ini"')^ do set rarPath=%%a %rarPath% a %rarSwitches% %rarFilename% @!backup.lst exit
Run this to start a backup. Running this will read data from !backup.ini and !backup.lst to perform the backup so make sure you edit !backup.ini and !backup.lst first.
Filename=backup-filename_ Switches=-agYYMMDD-HHMMSS -ep1 -m3 -r -s RestorePath=C:\TEMP\ExtractToFolder rarFilePath="C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe"
* Edit this file just like you would any ini file. Filename will be the name of the backup file.Switches are the command line switches that are past to WinRAR.RestorePath is the path you would like to restore files too. rarFilePath is the path and filename of the WinRAR or RAR application. Do not edit this file.
* Place each file or folder to backup on a seperate line. Wildcards are acceptable.
@echo off setlocal for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "Filename="^<"!backup.ini"')^ do set rarFilename=%%a for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "RestorePath="^<"!backup.ini"')^ do set RestorePath=%%a for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "rarFilePath="^<"!backup.ini"')^ do set rarFilePath=%%a for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /od %rarFilename%*') do set rarFile=%%a rarFilePath x "%rarFilename%" * "%RestorePath%" exit
Run this to restore the newest backup to a RestorePath from !backup.ini. Do not edit this file.
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Environmental sustainability & public health are more important than short-time profit
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Environmental sustainability - "The maintenance of the factors and practices that contribute to the quality of environment on a long-term basis" [1]
Public Health - "all organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole" [2]
Profit, in this debate, will refer to "Economic Profit", not accounting profit, that is:
"Revenue - all opportunity costs. Opportunity costs are the alternative returns foregone by using the chosen inputs. As a result, you can have a significant accounting profit with little to no economic profit" [3]
I will leave the term 'Inequality', 'priority' and 'exhaust' for my opponent to define, as they are very vague references.
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I don"t mean the ecoagriculture, but the more common large-scale corporate agriculture, that is appearing all over the world. This economisation of the farming has also lead to mass extinction of local farmers, due to hard concurrence of large farmers. Its also leading to large-scale fertilisation of areas (that has a negative effect on all local environments). I"ve done some research for math a few years ago and while testing the composition of a small stream near a farm, I found out that the levels of fertilisation substances were high. This aquatic pollution is very common in industrialised countries and is able to poison the environment or cause dangerous spreads of algae, that after death leave behind CO2 and take the O2 from water, killing almost all aquatic fauna. However the other way to use an area for agriculture is to move to other areas when the soil gets infertile, this approach is yet worse, because you"re constantly destroying environmental areas and leaving behind an very bad Pedospheric condition, making an rehabilitation of the nature a lot harder. Not only this, large plantations that are growing in very sensitive areas are really hurting the biodiversity, due to the support of only a single culture of plants. Deforestation is actually happening, but not only because of agriculture *. Irrigation is a modern and ancient technique, that is proven to be effective, however it has a major minus. Its causing increasing soil salinity, that makes an soil very infertile, its also one of the many reasons why the Mesopotamians collapsed. Plus it can destroy the aquatic environments, large rivers and streams in Spain got drought-out. And in South-Spain many ecologist are still and were warning about the possibility of infertile and salty soil future, following a end to agriculture and making it nearly impossible for environments to stabilise back. Large industries in farming are also showing off a negative effect on bees (all bees, wild and domesticated). But we can also see the brutal and concentrated meat-production (US is the worst here) where animals might not even see the sun. Its also leading to dangerous merits with the chemistry and Genetic engineering and no-labeling policies. We are also observing E. coli and salmonella in modern farming.
Basically, bacteria is getting immune to our antibiotics, as it adapts to its new environment. It really bad , because one day we wont be able to get rid of the b"s with antibiotics.
The solution to this is simply: Ecoagriculture.
But everything is going to be injured by our terrible influence to our environments. We"re releasing large amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere, causing increased climate changes, CO2 reacts with H20 into H2CO3 that"s poisoning our seas. We"re destroying forests and areas that are really needed for nature to make its typical cycles, we are also causing the creation of Global Warming, by speeding up the natural feedback's that can be dangerous. The climate has changed often in its past and it has made a lot of good and bad, however there is more than enough evidence that were causing this climate change. It"s as well influenced by solar activity. Its going to be a poor future, because of that what were doing now. Lets not forget about the pollution of CH4,NO-s, SO2 (in water transforms into H2SO3)
But were also having trouble with waste, and it"s a serious problem. China and second place US are the worst and largest polluters. There simply is not enough regulation and initiative will-power for better ways of wasting products. Too much plastics aren"t being recycled and the use of light-decomposable plastics is low. We"ve still got the problem of lack of recycling. But the amount of cole and oil that is being burn isn"t even reasonable. Energy can be produced in another way. Like nuclear, solar, wind, wave, river (but not too much) power and more ways do exist. Desertec a European group, that thinks that we should invest into large areas of solar panes in the Sahara desert. Check what sized-area do we need for the electrical-supply of all EU. But there are also other alternatives. For instance a hydrogen-powered economy (H2 Economy) would be a great solution. Because all industries would still work on burning. We get H2 with the electrolysis of H2O. And when H2 burns, that is quite an explosion water creates (H2+O2->H20). It"s a clean way, plus its only gas, so we wouldn"t experience all these oil disasters.
Trusting the market, isn"t really a great idea, as it didn"t really develop in a green way, but the opposite. But some changes are visible, we"re selling more electrical cars and hybrids than ever before. In the past and still today the oil industry is a big factor everywhere. Many economies rely very much on the price of it. But the problem was that the oil industry bought-off all potential green alternatives. Its called the power of money. In capitalism you cant make it without any potential investments and growths.
Also Hydraulic fracturing is a serious health and environment hazard. Compare Vermont (The first US state to ban fracturing) and the rest of the US that hasn"t ban it.
The last pollution is the one you probably never heard of, but is quite important.
Space debris. Its becoming a more and more serious problem in the LEO and GEO and especially in the polar orbit. More and more satellites, leftovers from previous missions and satellites" Its getting a problem as more and more missions continue. Space in 2050, if we continue business as usual, we"ll experience serious threads to all missions private or research-based, and new disasters will occur yet more often causing yet more trouble. It"ll become a serious problem and getting rid of it isn"t easy and cheap. You cant send a garbage truck into space like in Hollywood. You"ll need high precision spacecraft that will have to use an complicated radar to detect and slow-down debris. The slower the speed, the sooner they"ll fall back. But the worst part is, that you aren"t allowed to take back a dead satellite without the permission of the owner, that"s a problem.
now lets head to the problems of human over-poulation. We"re the same as an bacteria culture. Because every species if given an great opportunity (no predators, diseases, much food and water) in nature will overpopulate an ecosystem. The nature has a system, so always when an species number is growing, the number of predators grows. But the Homo Sapiens is a problem. We"ve destroyed every predator in our way+ we are able to cure diseases (more or less). Nature has no systems to regulate our growth. So one day, the human number will meet the limit. The limit is when nature wont be able to work anymore and we"re going to collapse. A smaller amount of people are a lot more easy to control, organise and sustainably work.
Inequality is also a bigger problem. We"re saying that we need the rich to invest in our future. But latest research has showed that we don"t need the rich (well, we need them in smaller amounts), in the UK the average income of the middle and low class hasn"t rise, but the income and worth of the rich has grown 2-times more. So taxing the rich less isn"t a good thing, but the opposite. But also evidence has showed that extreme redistributions aren"t as good. But equality is also very important, because it can cause an better living environment. Scandinavia, especially Denmark and Sweden have a very low GINI coefficient. They are also listed as the best countries to live in. Equality makes less crime (proven fact) and makes the people more sceptical. Compare Denmark and the South African Republic.
But the point is that we need to plan more our future. I mean, how would you fell that your child would never have seen the outback & Norwegian fjords because they turned into plastics-factories?
Your turn ,Good luck.
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Public health is often ignored and business is often a priority. The heavy industry, the leaded fuel industry, the tobacco industry have all been a serious thread to our environment and health, but have been regulated or eliminated. Today the biggest thread still comes from the food industry, oh and oil industry. The oil industry has prevented all concurrences like eco-cars, biofuel... Its also sad that oil-rich countries become so developed (like United Arab Emirates). Fossil fuels are terrible. They are fossils that've been left of past-life forms. Burning them can also produce SO2 if more sulfur is present. Hydrogen and bio-fuel are a good solution. The WHO has proposed the ban on fast-food advertisement. I agree with them. The fast food industry has strong lobbies, especially in the US. The problem is that they use simple chemistry and biology to make max profit. And they're successful. The obesity rates in the west have skyrocketed. Meanwhile in countries like Sweden (that has regulated them) the obesity rate's a lot smaller. Also compare the life-expectancy of Japan to other countries, the food there is a lot healthier. The globalization is good, however it can be dangerous. Almost every country has a McDonald's. Due to higher obesity rates production should fall in the future. The problem is getting bigger and bigger. So, the fast food industry is a big business. Like, they put more monosodium glutaminate, sugar and antibiotics into their food, so that people eat more. Because these substances increase your apetite non-natural. Industries are exploirating us. To have a good future, we need to care about our health."
If we continue bussiness as usuall we're not generating a good future for our children. They'll have to be worried with bad sideeffects that we created."
Well, good luck for your argument.
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One last G"day, its my last argument. I'm going to only enhance this last argument, because Con hasn't responded.
My whole debate was a little pessimistic, so I'm going to point out the more positive facts. Especially the growth of the production and the fall of the price of renewable energy.
China is in lead, that is a good thing since China"s the worst polluter. We could invest in Sahara, Outback, Gobi desert and in the Nevada desert. About inequality, there is some hope, because more and more countries are getting developed and people will fight for better life standards, however the inequality is growing. Compare the UK in the 19th and the UK in the 21st century.
Many countries are slowly developing Eco- technologies, but too slow. For instance,even if we start doing everything to protect the environment, stop the Global warming and similar, we still will experience some extra warming until the climate will start stabilising.
But we´ve got to do something to stop the growing population. The most effective way is to improve human condition, wealth and education. The emergency way is to regulate/limit the number of children per family. India is a country that has to do something about their population. Very soon India is going to have a larger population than China. If we wont control the global population, then we´re about to experience economical, environmental and social dangers. The human population growth is worrying,isn't it:
Nordic countries if compared to Russia, have a different way of industry. Russia has a higher environmental and health pollution causing shorter life, meanwhile countries that took care of how the industry develops, especially f they were concerned with health, made a better future, that is also more healthy.
Environment can fix it self, Aldus it takes much time and many loses can be observed. We´ve made a lot of problems that future generations will have to take care of. Its worrying, but there is a possibility that future technology´ll help to solve the problems.
Well, thanks for the little debate.
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Jun. 26-Jul 4, 2018 - Dojo will be closed as 18 athletes, 3 coaches, 4 officials, and 25 parents and siblings travel to Ft. Lauderdale for the AAU/USA Karate National Championships. Competition days will be Thu-Sat. Jun 28-30.
Jun. 12, 2018 - Five Best Karate black belts flew to Scotland to compete in the World Union Karate Federation World Championships. Good luck to Alex, JJ, Erin, Aydan, and Maya. Look for Live Streamining of competition action on June 14, 15, 16 at wukf-karate.org
Apr. 14, 2018 - Twenty Best Karate athletes will be competing at the AAU Karate VA State Championship in Richmond. Dojo will be closed on Saturday, April 14.
Mar. 23, 2018 - US Team members from this dojo will initiate a FUNraiser and will request your support. Help our five athletes get to Scotland!!! (Details coming...)
Mar. 17, 2018 - 27 people test for new ranks. Results are posted above.
Mar. 3, 2018 - Triangle's Best Karate, athletes, coaches, and parents hosted the AAU Karate NC State & District Championships.
Jan. 16, 2018 - 26 athletes joined the 2018 competition team and began new conditioning techniques 3X a week.
Dec. 9, 2017 - 42 people tested for new ranks.
Sep. 9, 2017 - 24 people tested for new ranks.
Oct. 15, 2017 - Eight athletes from TBK were selected to the National Team Pool to compete at international events in 2017-18. Congratulations to Erin Cutler, Aydan Gwisdalla, Alexander Horsky, Gene Kim, Ken Schiman, Maya Starr, Asia Yu-Robinson and J.J. Yu-Robinson.
May 20, 2017 - Triangle's Best Karate will host the AAU Karate SuperRegional for the Southeast United States in Apex, NC. The venue will be the Middle Creek Community Center in Apex.
Apr. 14, 15, 16, 2017 - The Dojo will be closed for Easter Weekend.
Apr. 3-10, 2017 - Sensei Stephen Robinson will be representing the U.S. as one of three Senior U.S. Referees at the World United Karate Federation European Championships.
Mar. 18, 2017 - Best Karate hosted the North Carolina State Championships in Charlotte, NC. More than 15 different clubs and 160 athletes competed at this event to qualify for AAU Karate National Events in 2017.
Jan. 30, 2017 - NCAAU Karate announces Road to the Nationals in Raleigh. www.ncaau.org - See karate page.
Jan. 17, 2017 - Competition Team Training begins Jan. 29 with Weapons Introduction. All Karate Competition Training schedule begins Feb. 1. See Red Text Thu, Fri, Sat. Sun. practices on Spring Schedule.
Sep. 15, 2016 - Triangle's Best Karate is pleased to announce that Sensei J.B. Mirza, Chairman of AAU Karate and Head of TKO International, will be overseeing our Black Belt Test on Friday, Sep. 30, and giving the BudoFest Kumite Clinic on Saturday, Oct. 1. Following the clinic, he will answer your questions about Karate's acceptance into the 2020 Summer Olympics. See our Flyer.
Sep. 1, 2016 - AAU Karate issued a statement regarding Karate in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and the training camps for athletes who wish to prepare for Olympic karate. Click here to read.
Jul. 7, 2016 - Congratulations to Triangle's Best Karate for being recognized as one of Top 20 Dojos in the U.S. for bringing a spirited 16 athletes, 2 coaches, and 4 officials to the AAU Karate National Championships. And congratulations to Sempai Asia Yu-Robinson for winning one of the coveted AAU Karate scholarships. Asia has competed for 12 years straight, like National Teammater and co-winner Andrea Shugar of Cincinnati. Asia will be attending Appalachian State University in August 2016.
JUN. 17-19, 2016 -- Ten athletes from Triangle's Best Karate in Raleigh, North Carolina, were selected by AAU Karate for the WUKF Karate World Championships in Dublin, Ireland (June 17-19, 2016). Salaheldien Abuahmad, Randall John, Thomas Dang, Asia Yu-Robinson, and JJ Yu-Robinson committed to training karate 15 hours a week beyond regular schoolwork, karate classes, music, dance, EMT, and other commitments. Thanks to family, friends, and the Best Karate boosters club who donated funds for their travel and wished them well.
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"The Canada Line rapid transit system is a planned key element in transforming Richmond's City Centre," according to the city's most recent Official Community Plan (2012).
The future is taking shape today.
City planners have logged more than $3 billion worth of proposals for the city centre, some now in progress and others yet to start. City centre also accounts for a significant portion of the $1 billion worth of building permits issued in 2015.
Among the current projects is Orchid, a 15-storey concrete high-rise Beedie Living is developing at No. 3 Road and Lansdowne, steps from Lansdowne Station. Right next door is Lansdowne Centre, a 50-acre site that's slated for redevelopment in the coming years with a mix of uses that will add to the area's vibrancy.
What will the city of the future look like?
It will be denser.
By 2041, the city expects to nearly double the number of residential units to 47,000. Most of the new housing will be multi-family. Population in the city core will double in turn, from 50,000 to 100,000 – more than anywhere else in the city. Plus, 18,000 additional jobs will be created in the city centre.
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Canada Line service, which is integrated with the rest of the region's rapid transit networks, "offers a convenient, frequent, reliable, and accessible travel choice." It puts Downtown Richmond a mere 25 minutes from Downtown Vancouver. The rapid transit line is also the spine of a series of centralized transit exchanges that Richmond plans to develop that will help unite the city in its own right.
It will be less congested.
The development of transit services has made Richmond a destination for commuters. By focusing new development in its downtown core and making transit more convenient to use, Richmond hopes to cut vehicle trips from 83% of all travel in Richmond in 2008 - the year before the Canada Line opened - to 49% of trips by 2041. Transit use will triple over the same period to 22% of all trips made in the city.
Transit has redefined what it means to live in Richmond and other parts of Metro Vancouver. Commuter cities in the future will not be where people are from, but where they live, move and come into a fuller sense of being.


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Man in a Cave, 1943, Gouache and ink on paper, Private collection, courtesy Osborne Samuel Gallery, London © The Estate of Keith Vaughan. All rights reserved, DACS 2012
During the Second World War Vaughan was a conscientious objector, and served with the Pioneer Corps, recording his experiences in his journals and in ink and gouache drawings. He was not appointed an Official War Artist, but was included in exhibitions of war art as well as writing contributions for 'Penguin New Writing' and illustrating numerous literary anthologies. His work drew on themes from literature such as the poetry of Homer and Arthur Rimbaud, presenting poetic responses to the horrors of war and a refuge in nature. The figure in the landscape became a key theme in Vaughan's work, and he came to be seen as a leading figure in the group of artists dubbed the 'Neo-Romantics', which included Graham Sutherland, John Piper, John Minton, Michael Ayrton, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde.
In the late 1940s Vaughan's work explored the alienation of the post-war years, painting psychologically intense groups of figures in room settings which were to lead to his large format figure paintings of the 1950s and 1960s.


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by Maria Eunhea Lee-An
Father's Day, on June 15, provided us with a graceful opportunity to gather for a picnic and some quality time among friends at the ICCC. Maria Eunhea, whose family joined us for the event, so describes it:
"When I received an e-mail with Heart's Home Family Day's invitation, we just decided to go without hesitating. It was our first time visiting the International Center for a Culture of compassion. When we arrived at the place, Fr. Alexander welcomed us, together with Sr. Diana, Alexandra and Cecile from Heart's Home.
The place was picturesque. There was enough wide green lawn to play baseball, soccer, or to simply relax. There were wild flowers like buttercups, thistles, and of course clovers. The trampoline was tempting all our kids to jump on it, but they all manage to get a hold of themselves to join in for Mass first. The chapel was lovely, cozy and filled with wonderful scent of cedar. All of our families sang hymns with Sr. Diana's lead, her clear voice echoing in the chapel.
We had a delicious potluck lunch, followed by a tour of the house with its beautiful artworks and its serenity. After that, we all headed to the lake nearby for a canoe ride. The weather was calm: a perfect day for canoeing. The trees reflected on the surface of the lake while some dragonflies surrounded us.
After the 15 minute hike back, we all had a snack with homemade muffins and coffee. Time flies in there. It was a wonderful time shared with all the families and the nice people we met. The day cleared away some struggling and refreshed me as a mom and an artist. It really inspired me.
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In response to HIllary won't be the only one knifing Obama in the back over Bergdahl:
As John noted, according to MSNBC's Chuck Todd, White House aides are now accusing members of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's unit of "swift-boating" Bergdahl.
"I've had a few aides describe it to me as 'we didn't know that they were going to swift-boat Bergdahl,'" Todd said Wednesday.
The term was thrown out there to evoke an emotional response from Democrats who remember how the men who served with John Kerry capsized his campaign in 2004.
Democrats like to accuse the right of using "dogwhistles" for racism, sexism – or whatever type of H8 they want to accuse us of. But they're projecting as always because they're the ones who use dog whistles to excite their followers.
The Obama administration actively uses dog-whistles in this way, as former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner noted in his memoir. He told the story about how he had objected to some talking points given to him in preparation for some appearances on the Sunday talk shows.
I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn't contribute to the deficit. It wasn't a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute. Pfeiffer said the line was a "dog whistle" to the Left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.
On the right, we understand it to mean, telling the truth about a Democrat – more specifically in the Kerry and Bergdahl cases – men who served with honor telling inconvenient truths about a guy who didn't, who is useful to Democrats.
John calls the Regime's attack on the vets who served with Bergdahl, an "incandescently stupid blunder, guaranteed to stoke the anger of military families."
Yet, they did it anyway in a desperate attempt to rally the base. We'll see how much success they have.
The reason the Regime is so surprised that the reaction from military personnel has been so uniformly negative, is because they forced Bergdahl's platoon mates to sign non-disclosure agreements about what happened. This wasn't supposed to come out. The Obama administration clearly wanted to portray Bergdahl as a long-suffering hero who had served his country well, and through their outstanding efforts, will soon be home with his family.
But the men who served with Bergdahl, who have been simmering with rage for years over comrades killed looking for the deserter, exploded like a geyser as soon as he was released, because at that point, they felt they were free to talk.
The Obama administration is now deploying the swift-boat dog-whistle to combat this.
Tuesday, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf picked the short straw, taking Jen Psaki's place in the briefing room.
Harf tangled with the same Fox News reporter who has been giving Psaki grief lately, telling him "we don't know the facts of what happened to him (Sgt. Bergdahl) on that day," dismissing the accounts given by Bergdahl's platoon mates. She said there would be an investigation to find out what happened (five years after the fact.)
It should be noted that the Army conducted an investigation into Bergdahl's disappearance in 2009, but shocker — it's classified. I guess that's why we need a new investigation. Because no one can see the old investigation.
"I don't think that that's the case," Harf responded.
The accounts I've seen from Bergdahl's platoon mates have all been strikingly similar. The only one that differs is the account by Bergdahl himself in the Haqqani propaganda video, in which he said he was captured when he lagged behind his patrol.
The Obama administration's target audience at this point are either ideologues who are still willing to believe their lies, or folks who are disengaged from what's going on and only hear a few soundbites. The Regime's dog-whistles are meant for them.


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When we bought our first house, the kitchen had this grapevine wallpaper. Not atrocious, but also not really our style. We said we'd get rid of it when we had the time. Seven years later, when we sold the house, we hired someone to remove it and paint the walls white. Then we moved into our new house . . . which had practically the same wallpaper. Grapevines - not terrible, but not our favorite design.
The thing was, the grapevines were keeping me from doing anything with the kitchen. The walls were so busy, that it was impossible to hang a picture or a calendar without making our eyes go crossed. Three months after we moved into the house, Buster was born, and we were busy for a while. It's not that we couldn't have done the work, but there was always something else - rebuilding the home network, working, living. Fast forward three years.
I was now working with a Scandinavian colleague who positively delighted in home improvements. How was his weekend? He had built a porch in his backyard. Or planted twenty trees, finishing by flashlight. Once he started building a bathroom from scratch for his family's lakeside cabin, I decided that it was becoming shameful that I couldn't get the #&$^@ wallpaper removed. So, last autumn, our weekly calls became a motivator.
This week, he framed walls for the bathroom.
I searched through my house papers and found the phone number for the painter/wallpaper remover.
The following week, he plastered the walls.
I called the wallpaper guy to see if he was still in business.
Next, he constructed the plumbing.
I made an appointment with the wallpaper guy.
He built the shower.
I met with the wallpaper guy and made a date for the work to begin.
He installed a toilet.
The wallpaper guy and team removed the wallpaper, textured the walls, and painted them.
We're practically even in the amount of work we accomplished!
Hooray, wallpaper going away.
I ordered a set of pinboards, calendar whiteboards, and dry erase boards that I'd admired from Pottery Barn Teen for a long time and SwingDaddy installed them.
Some of the hammering was a little loud.
We went to IKEA and selected a cabinet that matched the existing cupboards fairly well. The boys "helped" SwingDaddy assemble it while I sorted and labeled baskets to hold all the school papers and art supplies. Buster's art supplies are on the bottom shelf so that he can reach everything he needs.
And then our kitchen became complete and wonderful. The family calendar is in view, there's a place to post school reminders and bulletins, and room to display the boys' artwork. We've had this arrangement for about three months now, and I'm loving it.
Monday, February 27, 2012
The New Kitchen
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