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17 July 2006
The Beach
photo by Foul Pete taken on 15th July 2006
You may remember the not so memorable flick, "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It was based on the slightly more memorable book of the same title by Alex Garland. "The Beach" is about the pursuit of Paradise or an Utopist existence and how it can easily go sour. Garland, like many other writers and artists chose 'the beach' as the location of where paradise can be realized. The setting was on a remote island off Thailand that takes considerable effort to get to and was kept exclusive by vows of silence as to its location. When I read the book, I was already pretty disgruntled by the 1990s Lonely Planet Generation and their quest to out do each other in terms of experiencing remote destinations. The idea being that the further you go off the beaten path, the closer you get to this enlightened experience. Sure I'd love to visit remote locations in lonely corners of the globe but to many it was just something to get out of their system before settling into college, career, family and general middle class existence without really taking the opportunity to put what they had experienced in the context of their privilege. Anyway, I suppose my point is, that I was so repulsed and/or jealous of the Lonely Planeters that I was convinced the definition of paradise was subjective and to try too hard to find it defeated the point.
But then I found it.
About five years ago, I was taken to a trail head on the Oregon Coast for a hike through an old growth forest down to a remote beach. It is about a two mile walk through giant trees that let in the occasional heavenly beam of sunlight until you reach the sand. Half way down you can get a view of the beach. A huge headland to the north and miles of sand to the south. The water is usually crystal clear. I've seen a grey whale feeding off the reef and deer on the beach. Seals in the water and unknown beasts splashing around further out to sea. The first time I went there I could immediately tell this place had huge surfing potential before I even knew it was a 'legit' surf spot. My obsession was immediate and remains to this day.
I've been there dozens of times by now and every time I pause to take in that view at the half way point I try to remind myself of a particular Taoist quote:
The world is a sacred vessel,
Which must not be tampered with or grabbed after,
To tamper with it is to spoil it,
And to grasp it is to lose it.
- Tao Te Ching.
You see, when I happen upon an overwhelming landscape I want to do more than just look at it. Just witnessing it, is never enough. I get anxious and want to dive into it or blow myself up and spread my remains through out it. It almost gives me a headache. Sometimes it almost feels sexual. Sometimes it feels morbid. Sometimes, it makes me feel very comfortable with my mortality. Sometimes, it makes me want to seek out invincibility. I tie my brain in knots, trying to find a way to grasp the view before me and then that quote comes back to me and I have to let my Western-consumer-capitalist-materialist mindset surrender that desire and try not to think. This works most of the time.
Yet, at this particular location, I have found a way to embrace, dive into, seize and experience the 'place' beyond just taking in the view. And it is almost all the more troublesome, as my obsession has become more twisted. You see this place has offered me some of the best waves I have ever surfed. With surfing you are fully immersed in the environment. You are as intimate as you can get with the water, weather, sand, rocks and wildlife. Sometimes, so immersed, so intimate that you briefly disappear. In fact that is the goal.
Therefore, no amount of Taoism can quell my lust to dive into this scenery. I'm haunted by it. I constantly wonder what's going on down there. I wonder how certain swells are breaking there. I wonder what it looks like at night. I want to be alone down there in the dark. I want to live there at the end of the world. Hunt deer in the woods and build a hut out of driftwood. To die and rot there. Let my eyes be pecked out by the birds of prey, my legs eaten by a Great White, my torso munched on by strange fish.


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After years of planning trips for myself, my family and others, I learned that one of the toughest decisions to make is finding where to stay. Things tend to get harder for me because, even if I like them, I try not to take my family to large chains or all inclusive resorts. To me, the hotel we choose is more than 50% of the experience of our trip. Anyone can stay in a large, generic resort but the art is in finding the unique places that will be one of the best memories of our trip.
The main issue I have found while doing this is that the websites of most hotels don't let you know how unique, artistic and creative they can be. This makes it really hard to know 100% if you are getting what you are promised via images and text.
Luckily, during a recent trip General Sutter Inn not only surpassed their promise, but I don't understand how they aren't among the most unique and creatively decorated hotels, plus historic IN THE WORLD!
This might sound like I am exaggerating but its NOT!
Lititz, Pennsylvania – Get Ready for a Surprise
Going back to when I started my research on Lancaster County and the surrounding towns, I remember thinking that I knew almost nothing about the area. I had no idea about what the towns where like or where anything was located.
For me, the town of Lititz was just a name on the map, but after checking out many websites I thought that General Sutter Inn looked like a great choice and we decided to go for it.
I will admit, that you think you know what to expect from the cities and towns they can end up being totally the opposite.
That's exactly what happened to me. I considered staying in Lancaster City, but when we arrived and drove through there, it wasn't at all what I expected. I'm super grateful we didn't stay there.
Lititz on the other hand BLEW OUR MINDS! This must be one of the cutest towns we've been in on this whole trip. It was totally different and historic. It literally felt like walking down a street from the 18th century Britain.
What Makes General Sutter Inn So Different From Other Hotels
When I first contacted the hotel to make reservations they recommended the Penthouse Floor, 3rd floor, where the suites are. Just hearing those words gave me a price attack. But they sent me the rates and I noticed that it was actually quite affordable considering we would have a suite with two rooms. One was the actual bedroom and the other one was a sitting area that turns into a bedroom for my dad.
Jokingly, in the email correspondence when making the reservation, the girl told me to be prepared to be treated like a rockstar. I figured this was just their marketing tool.
I am so happy to say that she wasn't kidding!
Here's the short version of how General Sutter Inn designed:
The hotel has three floors. On the first floor you will find the reception area, which is decorated old-Victorian style with a sitting room and even a Piano area. Off to all sides, there are restaurants, a pub style restaurant, a gorgeous outdoor courtyard, a banquet hall, and another family style dining room.
The second floor also has that old fashioned Victorian style and is where the hotel rooms begin. This is where my brother and his girlfriend where staying. It was just perfect for a couple!
The third floor is where the penthouse is – Rock Lititz Penthouses. When you stay there you get a separate key and no one without this key can head upstairs. I am always looking for as much privacy as I can get so I really loved the sound of that. Nothing like exclusivity to get me stoked about the room.
The third floor's rooms all have names – ours was On Stage. The sitting area was spacious with a fridge, coffee station and TV. The master bedroom was huge and it had a king sized bed and another TV.
The Bathroom was super fun with three shower heads, robes and other fun things to play with. My boys had a lot of fun at shower time. I'm also a big bathroom fan and really enjoyed the showers.
The whole third floor was decorated as though we were part of a rock concert.
But that was secondary. The floor also has a kitchen that is fully stocked to be used whenever we want. And we loved having breakfast here.
But our favorite spot of all was the lounge room. We literally spent 90% of our time there. It has a huge TV, comfy chairs and an outdoor private porch, why would we leave?
However the best part was that we got there during a weekday, so we were the only ones on the entire floor. There was no one around to share these extras with.
RECOMMENDATION – If you decide to stay in this hotel, ask for a Penthouse, you will get every bit of your money's worth.
History and Fun Facts for General Sutter Inn
General Sutter Inn is full of amazingly interesting stories:
• In 1776, the Moravian town of Lititz was created. It was named after the Bohemian town of Lidice.
• The Town Regulations of 1756 were adopted. This meant that you had to sign the Regulations to be allowed to live in the town.
• A few of the rules were: No light-minded, disorderly and needless conversation allowed, no changing of professions, no dancing, no giving a night's lodging to any person, no undertaking a journey, either far or near, without permission, parents shall be accountable for their children and families if they misbehave.
• Marriages were arranged.
• By 1856 the church found itself unable to enforce a way of life that no longer had community support.
• The rules were abolished and the town opened to people of all religious persuasions.
• It was "for the necessary entertainment of strangers and travelers" that in 1764 the present Inn was built and named the "Zum Anker".
• Then in 1930 the name was changed to The General Sutter Inn to honor John Augustus Sutter.
Information for General Sutter Inn
Address: 14 E Main Street, Lititz, PA 17543
Phone: (717) 626-2115
Price: $70 – $180

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Estimation webinar
Q: What is a point?
A: A point is a relative, abstract value to represent size. We know the difference between tiny and huge. Story points are a representation of this concept. You and your team determines what means what. Some teams may say 1 = tiny and 2 = huge, or 10 = tiny and 1,000,000 = huge. We recommend using a Fibonacci sequence to represent points.
Q: Why do you suggest estimating spikes using points? Spikes do not bring business value.
A: Because it is still work that the team has completed. If you have a 2-point spike, and the team averages 20 points of velocity per iteration, a chart may show 18 points of completed work. That negatively affects velocity, which is incorrect. The team did gain value by learning more about the proposed feature.
Q: Is it okay to split stories during estimation with the team?
A: The moment the team determines that a story is larger than an entire iteration work of velocity, the story should be broken down. Break them down as small as possible.
Q: What is best practice for planning poker when the team members are globally dispersed? Video meetings?
A: You can use video, instant messenger, or phone conferences to perform planning poker or other estimation techniques.
Q: I find people try to correlate the size-based estimation into days and hours and they do that by using the tasks feature; however, this tends to underestimate. How do you get the team not to correlate tasks to size-based estimation?
A: Focus on making story points abstract. Correlate the size of new work to similar work the team completed in the past. We know this is a common issue. Emphasize that correlation is useful, but only after an iteration is complete, to verify and adjust estimates, instead of upfront.
Q: Is a scrum master generally a full-time position? It seems like a potentially full-time job during planning and retrospective, but not for the full 2–4 weeks of an iteration when programmers are programming. Beyond daily Scrum meetings, what does a scrum master do?
A: Generally, yes, it is considered a full-time duty. Scrum masters help to unblock team members from issues in their way, represent the needs of the team to the business, and facilitate meetings. Meetings include the daily standup, iteration planning, release or long-term planning, backlog refinement and estimation, and retrospectives. If you have multiple teams, a scrum master can serve on more than one team.
Q: Is an example of a self-correcting story where we believe some functionality is coming from a third party provider, but find out later it is not?
A: Here is a great explanation of a self-correcting from an online article: Velocity and story points are entirely based on the environment and members of the team. A new addition to the team, for example, might change the definition of a story point, and will have a direct effect on the team's velocity. A good aspect of velocity and story points is that they are self-correcting measures. Since the team's workload is derived from them, it will also adjust accordingly to any change in the team or environment. Wrong estimates also tend to average out—while we underestimate some stories, we also overestimate others.
Q: Why is it okay to convert points into cost but not points into hours?
A: Hours is a much more granular estimate, and should not be relied on to provide cost. With points, you know generally if you are going to meet your iteration commitments. Task hours represent the daily commitments, and can be used at the end of the iteration to see if your point estimates are accurate.
Q: How can you estimate project duration when you have the stories and their relative size, but the delivery team is not co-located?
A: If the delivery team is co-located, you can still perform group estimation activities so that you can compare the proposed work against the team's velocity. Using phone, video, conferencing software, CA Agile Central, and instant messenger, you can make your Agile team room global, allowing for planning poker or other methods.
Q: Does size relate to the number of resources working on a story?
A: It relates to the team as a whole and their belief in delivery. That doesn't mean every team member works on every story in an iteration, but during estimation and planning meetings, discussions can take place that uncover skills and needs of individuals.
Q: I get resistance about items that get started within a sprint but not finished. The team wants to put some of the points into the original sprint, and then move the remaining points to the next sprint. I tell them that points do not accrue until the work is done, but they are concerned that it affects their velocity.
A: It should affect their velocity so that they may learn from the slip. At the end of the iteration, the team is able to view a chart that shows that they did not meet their goal. The team can then retrospect on why the issue happened, and strategize on ways to prevent issues in the future. Whether it is a technical blockage, a miss on estimation, or other factors, it is important to have this documented.
Q: Do you suggest providing estimates in days once we separated them in small, medium, and large? How many days do you suggest before a feature needs to be broken down?
A: Estimates should always be an abstract and relative value. If you give into the temptation of correlating a certain number of user story points to actual days or hours, you risk the tendency to underestimate.
Q: Keeping stories fresh means often that we stay away from implementation details. However, the development team wants details in order to better estimate. How does the PO stay away from giving too much detail on how but still let the team do estimates?
A: One method for handling this situation is to focus on the what. Allow the team to ask questions about the value a user story provides, so they can determine what makes up the how. For example, if you ask a development team to build a credit card system, they should have a discussion about what currencies you want them to support, which will help them estimate size.
Q: What is the proposed best practice for developing velocity and burndown charts for different teams on the same project?
A: One suggestion is to use tags in CA Agile Central, so that you may take advantage of the Story Burndown charts. This allows you to track all work across multiple projects over the course of iterations and releases.
Q: How can one tell when an iteration can finish if there is no estimate in hours?
A: Over time, your team will learn what their velocity is. Velocity is the average number of story points that can be completed in an iteration. With this value known (approximately), the team can plan within this figure, and know that they will most likely be able to finish.
Q: What factors does the team need to take into account when assigning story points to a story?
A: Size, complexity, and risk.
Q: What is the minimal project length that makes sense to apply the Agile methodology? If our software development projects tend to only last 4–6 weeks, don't you lose some of the Agile principles?
A: The great thing about Agile is that it can be adaptive. While two-week iterations are a familiar standard, you can have one week iterations (or even shorter) to accommodate the project. As long as you are prioritizing the work of the project, estimating the size, committing to the requirements, and retrospecting to improve on the next project, you are being Agile.
Q: What about a moving scope—the size always changes because the customer never knows what they want at the beginning of the marathon.
A: The overall size, or set of features that a customer asks for may change, but this shouldn't affect individual user stories once they have been scheduled. Part of this problem may be solved through customer education. Set the expectation that you work in 2–4 week sprints, and that once a sprint has begun, its course is set. If the customer does not like the results of a specific iteration, they must be present (or through the product owner) to help refine the backlog to their needs for upcoming work. It's a tough balance, CA Agile Central has thousands of feature requests but can only get to so many. One strategy we use is to host a quarterly customer council. Through this, we have released most of the top most requested items, while being able to continue work on important internal stories.
Q: In estimating, when do you switch from relative sizing (S, M, L) to story points?
A: Use a number system that works best for your team, but ensure it remains relative. We really like Fibonacci-style sets: 2, 3, 5, 8, 20, 40, 100. The key is to not fall into the trap of two points = two hours, days, and so on.
Q: How do you estimate accurately when there are several dependencies affecting the tasks of a user story?
A: Those dependencies should be uncovered and discussed by the team during meetings. Such dependencies increase the complexity of work, which can increase the initial story estimate.
Q: CA Agile Central has tasks which asks for hours or days type of estimate. I find it difficult to get the team to do size based estimation because of this.
A: User stories are estimated by the team with the relative, abstract value of points. After a team commits to those stories, tasks may be used to help individuals provide short-term estimates as to their ability to complete steps to bring that user story closer to completion. This can be done in hours, to ensure a team member has enough capacity during the week to handle the work load. Check out the Sizing and Estimating video for an explanation of the difference between the two values.
Q: Why call it velocity, instead of speed? How fast teams can progress?
A: Velocity is a term used by many Agile organizations, so if you're joining us from another learning provider, we want to make sure we use the same verbiage. Learn more about velocity here.
Q: If a story with 10 points is only partially finished in an iteration, how do you deal with that at the end of the iteration?
A: When you are unable to complete a story in an iteration, it is all-or-nothing credit. Since the story cannot be accepted, that iteration's data will show a 10 point learning opportunity (miss). That serves as a reminder to discuss why the story was not finished in the next retrospective meeting. Whether it was an incorrect estimation, technical issue, or other problem, actions can be taken to prevent the same miss in the next iteration. For the next iteration, you will re-schedule the same 10 point story. However, the team can re-estimate the remaining work, to ensure they have enough new story work to complete as well.
Q: Do you take into consideration who will do the task (a large development for a junior developer may just be a small one for a senior developer)?
A: When you estimate the size of a user story, you're estimating as a team, not an individual. When a story is planned, you create tasks and team members volunteer for them, providing personal hourly estimates. Individual estimates are only for an individual's part of this story, but the entire team has committed to the story.
Q: Do we still differentiate developers and QA members in scrum methodology?
A: With scrum, your team should be cross-functional. That means it contains members with all the skills necessary to deliver a user story. We talk a bit about vertical slicing, which is the concept of writing user stories such that multiple team members can work in parallel, instead of QA stories and Development stories.
Q: Is 20 points considered twice as big as the one with 10 points?
A: Yes. Numbers are useful because like points, they remain abstract. They do not tie back to hours in a day, or days in a week. They are the same as words like large, big, or huge. In fact, you can set up the Estimation Board app in CA Agile Central to assign a point number based on these terms and rely on the terms to break out of correlations to actual time.
Q: Spikes are estimated in points, the same as user stories?
A: Yes. It is generally a smaller number, unless the research requires a large effort.
Q: What does size include? Sum of expected efforts, complexity, risk? What else?
A: Those are the main three aspects of what size includes. Watch the Story Points video to see an Agile coach explain what factors into this size.
Q: Is there any guideline on the maximum hours that can be assigned to a task within a story?
A: Yes. We recommend one ideal developer day, which is about 6 hours. If a task takes more than a day, then the value of providing status at the Daily Standup meeting is lost.


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6 bodies on the floor of a gallery. One after another they wake, only to find themselves drawn into terrible fates. Except for one who survives… Why? Who? Find out in 6 blood-curdling minutes.
A short horror film produced by LUMA (La Trobe University Museum of Art) in partnerships with Darebin Youth Services and Banyule Community Health. It was shot on location against the artworks of La Trobe University. Death by Numbers was written, shot, performed and edited by a group of adolescents from Banyule Community Health and Darebin Youth Services. Their work was faciliated by 3 artists from Black Hole Theatre.
BLACK HOLE ARTISTS: Nancy Black, Benjamin Ducroz, Zoe Scoglio, Mark Battistella.
Special thanks to Anita La Pietra and Vincent Alessi from La Trobe Musum of Art, Jacqui Faliszewski from Darebin Youth Services, Jane Casey from Banyule Community Health, Nikki Bushby, and the La Trobe Media Department. DVD design by Nicole Dominic.
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India is among the lowest scoring countries on political finance regulation,according to a new report.
Global Integrity Report for 2011 released on Friday,indicates that developing as well as developed countries,including the US,are equally struggling to effectively implement money-in-politics rules.
Global Integrity is an international non-profit organisation which tracks governance and corruption trends in the world.
The Election Commission in India has instituted measures to create enhanced transparency and closer scrutiny of financing and election expenses. It is pushing the government for electoral reforms that help track sources of political funding.
The country dismally performed on individual candidate financing and scored a paltry 28. It scored 45 on Conflicts of Interest Safeguards & Checks and Balances in judicial Branch.
a 28 out 100 on the legal framework.
India scored 0 out of 100 on implementation and disclosure of political party and candidate financing information to the public,an aspect that is non-existent.
Also a 0 on effectiveness of its modest party financing regulations,while the set of regulations per se received a score of 67 out 100.
The country dismally performed on individual candidate financing and scored a paltry 20 out 100 on the legal framework. It scored 46 on Law Enforcement: Conflicts of Interest Safeguards and Professionalism.
Overall India scored a weak rating of 70/100. Its Legal Framework hit 87 points while implementation of law scored even a weaker 55 out of 100.
"We remain deeply concerned by the lack of progress globally on effectively regulating the flow of large sums of private money into the elections process in many countries," said Global Integrity's Executive Director,Nathaniel Heller.
The report also states,"anti-corruption agencies often fail to fulfil expectations. Many anti-corruption agencies assessed in 2011 are heavily politicised and are not independent from the governments they are ostensibly tasked with monitoring."
The United States scored just 29 out of 100 on the effectiveness of its party financing regulations and 25 in its ability to effectively regulate contributions made to individual political candidates.
Those scores represent a significant decrease from 2009,the last year Global Integrity covered the US,and reflect the negative impact of the "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision in early-2010 that loosened the controls over private money flowing into US elections.
In Asia,countries assessed have earned modest overall scores,except Vietnam,which earned poor ratings with large implementation gaps,particularly in Azerbaijan,highlighted as a "concern" for all countries in the region.
The West African category has earned moderate overall ratings,but face particular challenges in the areas of whistle-blowing,political financing transparency,and judicial branch accountability.
"The lack of robust oversight of political financing is a major weakness in several regions,but the problem appears particularly acute in West Africa where the legal and practical framework to regulate donations is non-existent or ineffective," reads another part of the report.
Another region assessed was Middle East and North Africa. The overall performance of Algeria and Jordan has remained steady since the 2009 Global Integrity Report,attributed to the possibility that the two countries have yet to feel the effects of the political changes sweeping the region one year after the Arab Spring.
The Latin American countries earned moderate overall ratings,the exceptions being Venezuela and Nicaragua,which scored poorly while Colombia,Mexico,Nicaragua,and Venezuela suffer from significant implementation gaps.
"We flag four key anti-corruption safeguards that are extremely weak in the Latin American countries covered in this year's Report: the judiciary,civil service,whistle-blowing,and law enforcement," the report reads.
In Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,most of the countries covered in the 2011 Global Integrity Report have reportedly seen relatively minor changes in their overall performance since the 2009 assessment.
The most significant weaknesses in the region are in the areas of judicial accountability,law enforcement,and political financing with legal safeguards against conflicts-of-interest and political interference being more-or-less in place in these sub-categories of the Integrity Indicators.
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We're back! What a lovely week in California it was, but we are glad to be back in the blogging world once again. And after a long(ish) absence, we think you blog-viewers are quite deserving of an infusion of color! So let's get to it.
Stefanie was married a couple of weeks ago at Red Butte Garden. Her colors were coral, peach, ivory, and turquoise. Now, you should all know, although it is extremely popular this season, coral is actually a little hard to come by when it comes to flowers. Stefanie specifically did not want any roses (other than garden roses) so that made our options limited even further. However, we aim to please our clients and were able to come through with the most stunning coral peonies EVER at the end of the typical peony season. Stefanie's lucky day!
Enjoy several snapshots we got of the bridal party floral, starting with...
larger, more feminine version of boutonnieres. stock, lisianthus, mini-carnations, spiral eucalyptus, silver dollar eucalyptus, and filler. finished with a turquoise ribbon wrap, turquoise ribbon bursts, and peach pins.
peonies, garden roses, stock, lisianthus, spiral eucalyptus, silver dollar eucalyptus, lady's mantle, and pin-cushion protea. finished with draping turquoise ribbon.


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Definition of Genus lycoperdon
1. Noun. Genus of fungi whose fruiting body tapers toward a base consisting of spongy mycelium.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Lycoperdaceae, Lycoperdaceae
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1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"It has been transferred from the genus Lycoperdon to the genus Calvatia because it ruptures the peridium irregularly to discharge its spores, ..."
2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Trans, it is referred to the genus Lycoperdon, and Mr. Dickson has introduced it in his Fasc. Plant. Cryptog. p. ..."
3. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvement of the by William Withering (1830)
"Trans, it is referred to the genus Lycoperdon, and Dickson has introduced it in his Fasc. Plant. Cryptog. p. 24, under the name of L. phalloides. ..."
4. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George Massee (1892)
"As defined above. the genus Lycoperdon is distinguished by the spinose, warted, or smooth and deciduous outer layer of the peridium, ..."
5. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1895)
"I wish to draw attention to the fact that 1 have found the greatest virtue to lie in the genus lycoperdon bovista. The genus giganteum is the largest and ..."


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Women and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons. A Report of the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Seminar (6th, Washington, D.C., November 16-18, 1981).
Perlman, Leonard G., Ed.; Arneson, Kathaleen C., Ed.
This publication contains five action papers, as well as reaction to them, from a seminar on women and rehabilitation. The papers consider women both as professionals in the field of rehabilitation and as consumers of rehabilitation services. In the first two papers, Carolyn L. Vash, Martha M. Carrick, and Tamara Bibb explore the employment status of disabled women, and describe the problems they have faced in attempting to gain access to benefits and services. In both papers, it is implied that disabled women face the same types of discrimination as other women, but in more exaggerated forms because of their double handicap. In the third paper, Bobbie J. Atkins examines the problems faced by disabled women who are members of minority groups and makes recommendations to overcome these barriers. The last two papers of the conference, by Joan Thompson Barker and Denise C. Tate, focus on women as leaders in the field of rehabilitation (history, current status, law, and economics), exploring why women professionals are paid less than their male counterparts and have higher unemployment and how women can influence the rehabilitation of women in other parts of the world. Tributes to and biographical information about Mary E. Switzer are also included in the seminar papers. (KC)
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We had spent the last 6 full days based in Interlaken exploring places like Lauterbrunnen Valley, Jungfraujoch, Bern, Meiringen, and even Zermatt. Our latest long day excursion to Zermatt was to try to see the iconic Matterhorn. Unfortunately, the mountain only showed a fraction of itself, and the web cam history on Zermatt's website seemed to indicate that it had been that way for 7 straight days and counting.
Oh well, that's life. But it certainly beat the rainy weather in the Bernese Oberland area, and I thought we maximized our chances of seeing the Matterhorn. It just wasn't meant to be.
Today, we're finally leaving Interlaken and bound for Lucerne (or Luzern). This will be the 2nd to last accommodation we'll be staying at before ending it off in Zurich. I hope my bum ankle will last (there is a 4-hour return hike in there). We'll just have to deal when the situation arises...
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'A Crystallization of Evanescence'
The Material Culture of Death and Mourning by Lauren Bennet, Sophie Chatellier, Ralph Day and Charlotte Slark
With 'restarts' in mind, this article brings together research projects undertaken by four MA History of Design students on the subjects of death, mourning and material culture. In each project, death can be seen to be productive of material culture: with the death of a subject comes the birth of an object. With design-historical research, we investigate the design, production and consumption of artefacts as sources for writing social, cultural and economic histories. What kinds of materials bore the weight of responsibility for properly memorialising the life and death of a loved one? Why ceramic, card, hair or gold?
Death and mourning practices can stimulate industry and economies. Livelihoods are made from death. As we examine relics of death and mourning, we tease out tensions between standardisation and personalisation in historical design practices. Printers and jewellers might offer standard templates for mourning cards or pendants, which give us clues as to the availability and cost of materials at a given time, and to the contemporary iconography of death and mourning. But these standard items are open to customisation by those mourning the death of a loved one. And indeed could be easily adapted to the fast-paced changes in fashion and etiquette surrounding death and mourning.
While certain objects belong to the rituals of death and mourning, others tell us of the beliefs and hopes of what comes after. They are objects made for the dead, to accompany them and offer comfort in an unknown, new journey. And all these objects, with custom additions, subtractions and modifications, register the fragile intentions of individuals to carve out a special place for their loved ones in the material world. To prove, that though gone, they have not been forgotten.
The Materiality of Murder: Study of a Nineteenth-Century Memorial Card by Charlotte Slark
The following extract is taken from an unpublished essay written in 2016.
On 16 May 1862 three children were murdered by their parents in Strangeways, Manchester. It was a crime which not only shook the local community but, thanks to improved travel and publishing networks, was reported across the country and led to nationwide public outpourings of shock and grief. While it was undoubtedly a tragedy, it was one of many that occur every year, and could have been easily lost in the annals of history were it not for a small piece of card (Museum Number E1509-1987) in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Memorial cards, also known as mourning or funeral cards are usually small cards, printed with a message dedicated to the memory of dead person. While a lot has been written about Victorian mourning in general, there is very little existing literature about memorial cards themselves. They were nevertheless a part of the rituals surrounding the death of a loved one in Victorian Britain.Unlike many rituals surrounding mourning in the nineteenth century, memorial cards were not an evolution of an older mourning tradition. Their use did not come into fashion until the 1840s, and acted as a replacement for the elaborately printed funeral invitations of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unlike the funeral invitations which they replaced, mourning cards were usually sent out after the funeral and often contained the location of the deceased's grave instead of the time and place of the ceremony.
The framing of memorial cards seems to have been a popular way to both store and display these mementoes of departed friends. Displayed either on the wall or on a surface of a notoriously cluttered Victorian room, it could act as a constant reminder of the loved one who was no longer there. Memorial cards were not just kept in frames, many were placed between the pages of the family bible, perhaps linking back to a time when it was important to remember to pray for the souls of the dead.
While it is incredibly difficult to find evidence of the exact etiquette surrounding the distribution of mourning cards, it seems that in most cases the cards would have been commissioned and distributed by the family of the deceased. For many reasons, this would not have been possible for the example in the V&A. Printers are known to have advertised the sale of individual mourning cards dedicated to recently deceased public figures in local papers, and Memorial cards were also printed and sold in the street when major tragedies took place, as is likely the case here.
While many of the specific details surrounding the creation, distribution, and etiquette of mourning cards remain unclear, this specific card is proof that they do fulfil their intended purpose. This small piece of card has created a renewed interest in the story of the three children and has ensured that over a century and a half later, their lives have not been forgotten.
Phenomenal tech: A Georgian pendant enclosing velvet and unworked hair by Ralph Day
The following extract is taken from an unpublished essay, 'Phenomenal tech: a Georgian pendant enclosing velvet and unworked hair' (V&A/RCA MA History of Design, 2016). It examines the material and figurative qualities of a tress of hair enclosed in a gold pendant in the V&A Jewellery and Metalwork collection (Figure 1). The pendant is inscribed with the date of the death of a subject named Frances Fisher, 4 November 1802. It is referred to here as the 'Fisher Pendant':
Human hair is naturally elastic, and it conducts static energy. In jewels manufactured contemporaneously with the Fisher Pendant, which enclose woven or plaited hair, strands of hair have popped out of position over the centuries due to elastic deformation or indeed due to the deterioration in strength of the gum used originally to secure them in place. So even though hair is (apart from the root) dead matter, there is certainly something lively, springy and rebellious about it.
Given the eighteenth-century vogue for toupées, it is likely that Frances Fisher wore various forms of false hair for much of her life. And so this fragment of her hair, enclosed in the Fisher Pendant, suggests privacy, intimacy, and a bold (unfashionable) organicity.
The latter half of the eighteenth century saw a fashion for mountainous, powdered wigs, which could reach spectacular heights of artifice and ornamentation. Alexander Rowland notes the case of a lady visiting the Palace at Versailles, who included in her headdress miniature bottles of water 'for the purpose of preserving the freshness of the natural flowers worn in the hair.' And even the simpler, neoclassical styles à la Grècque and à la Titus, which succeeded the trend for high, powdered hair, included false hair pieces (Figure 2).
As an assemblage of organic materials – human hair, seed pearls and velvet – the Fisher Pendant can be read as a kind of ecosystem. And so it shares qualities with the hairstyles in vogue during the life of Frances Fisher. Even for those less ostentatious than the visitor to Versailles noted above, flowers and feathers were standard accessories: the London Fashions commentary in the July 1801 edition of The Lady's Magazine affirms that they are 'universally worn as ornaments'.
While these hairstyles incorporated the fruits of nature, they were of course "man-made," and required careful preparation at the hands of a skilled designer: a hair-dresser. An essay published in The Lady's Magazine in September 1801, titled 'Eulogium upon the Art of a Lady's Hair-Dresser,' offers a captivating insight into contemporary meanings of hair and hair work. As the lexica of death, nature and hand-craft intertwine, we can see why contemporary subjects might have felt that a tress of unworked hair encased in a pendant would have the power to capture and condense the fleeting nature of life and lively beauty.
Like a jeweller, metalworker or textile worker, the writer credits the hair-dresser with the ability to 'modify into pleasing forms these long and slender filaments (…); to give them a consistency of which no one would suppose such materials were susceptible.' A technician apparently capable of taming unruly nature (in the form of unruly strands of hair), the hair-dresser also accumulates familiarity with death. His materials (hair, flowers, feathers), and his temporary sculptures, are the very stuff of fugacity and mortality:
'The fruits of his art are more fleeting than those of the spring. Like the bouquets whose brilliancy they possess, they disappear with the day which has seen their growth, and find their tomb in the sleep, from whence the beauties they adorned derive new freshness. (…) his art resembles that which we admire most in nature. It is the fate of every thing beautiful to fade away and vanish at the moment when arrived at the highest degree of perfection.'
Aestheticised hair – the vertiginous, bounteous coiffure, or indeed the fragile, naturally tensile tress of hair – straddles the border between life and death: a 'crystallization of evanescence,' in the words of cultural historian Deborah Lutz. Indeed, this is where it reaches its 'highest degree of perfection.' And in this light, it seems a poignant and meaningful relic with which to memorialise the life and death of a loved one.
A Home Away From Home: Funerary Architectural Vessels by Sophie Chatellier
When visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York this summer, I came across a display of ancient mesoamerican architectural models from various parts of the world. I do not pretend to know much about the subject, but what I found interesting is that many of these architectural sculptures were also vessels. According to Joanne Pillsbury, from the department of African, Oceanian and Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, these vessels could have contained liquids or other material relevant to the funerary ritual, but they also play on the embodied role of architecture as a vessel for human bodies and activity.
One of the displayed architectural vessels which struck me for its detail and intriguing shape was a Moche ritual vessel from 400-600 A.D. (see picture). The vessel is a bottle in a spiralling, pyramidal shape, on top of which sits a figure under a roof, withheld by four pillars. The figure wears a little conical hat, earrings and a big necklace while holding something that looks like a weapon. The expression on its face is unhappy, or fierce, and reflects the figurative style of contemporary Moche representation. The spiralling platform is ornamented with high relief sculpted snails and felines painted in red slip, who seem to be ascending toward the figure.
The practice of placing miniature buildings in tombs is certainly not unique to the Moche culture, nor even to Southern America. We find it with the greeks, the ancient Egyptians and in Han China. (see links British museum) Uses and meanings differed. As Pillsbury writes, these architectural models were 'distillations of ideas about the symbolic significance of architecture' – they embody political or religious power. For the ancient Egyptians, the structures were called 'soul houses', because they were meant to contain liquid offerings for deities. The soul itself seems to have been thought of as something liquid, which was contained in a vessel – a body, yes, or – after that stops working, in a ceramic pot. A pot that is a vessel for both sustenance and souls. In a sense, perhaps our actual houses can be read in the same way – vessels that contain us and our souls. Essentially then, the house becomes an extension of our terrestrial bodies, it is another form of container, just as a jug would contain water, and a barrel, grain.
Not much is known about Moche burial rites, and I do not pretend to have done enough research to be able to say what exactly those populations were thinking, or hoping, when burying their dead with small scale houses. They might all have had very different reasons – but the fact that it is a recurring occurrence worldwide, in different epochs of human history, points to a deeply human need for dwelling. To me, this is about safety, about having a place that is known and welcoming when faced with the uncertainties of their new life.
Hair-Working In Late Georgian Memorial Jewellery: A Sentimental Industry? By Lauren Bennet
This is an eighteenth-century mourning jewel, made after the death of four (probably) family members, engraved with their names and enclosed with locks of hair. Today it is a relatively 'invaluable' object due to the standard of its artistry, and quality of materials. Perhaps this is why the pendant is currently hidden away in the Metalwork archives at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The fashion of hair-working in jewellery is unheard of nowadays; to us the idea of adorning the body with another person seems rather grotesque! Yet, hair as a material in mourning jewellery used to be so popular that in the nineteenth century hair-working became a common craft at home. The physical activity involved in manipulating the hair of a loved one aided the grieving process by stimulating emotional or even erotic attachment to the deceased. What is to us a morbid fascination is common in contemporary hair-working manuals of the time. Alexanna Speight's 1871 manual The Lock of Hair gives an insight into and even step-by-step illustrated instruction to the art of ornamental hair-work.
The physical act of working with the hair, and memorialising it inside the jewellery, acted as a sensory connection between the maker and the deceased. Historian Marcia Pointon suggested that hair-working was producing 'an artefact that is at one and the same time the substance of the deceased and not that substance'. Hair is organic corporeal matter, yet through its transformation into an artefact, it gains immortality. This paradoxical situation is at the heart of why it was deemed to have supernatural qualities, and why it was a popular theme in contemporary art and literature of the period.
One literary example of this is the seventeenth century poem The Relic by John Donne:
'And he that digs it, spies
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone',
Will he not let'us alone,
And think that there a loving couple lies,
Who thought that this device might be some way
To make their souls, at the last busy day,
Meet at this grave…'
In this stanza he is drawing comfort from the fact that when he dies, because he is being buried with a bracelet of his lovers hair, he knows that they will meet again in the afterlife. Because hair survives when the rest of the body decays, it seems to possess otherworldly power and provides reassurance in the wake of grief.
Therefore, it is interesting to consider how the original highly personal sentiment captured when the brooch was made could have changed as it was passed down the generations. The fashion for mourning wear grew during the reign of Queen Victoria, so what was constructed as an intimate private object may have gained considerably different meaning when it was worn in public much later, when mourning itself was a fashion statement.
The notion of physical versus emotional worth, in an object actually made from a deceased loved one, raises fascinating questions. That an inanimate object could be considered to be alive makes the study of sentimentality in mourning jewellery particularly unique.
Our design-historical research has sought to shed light on the lives of these objects. For anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, who has written on object biographies and the 'social life of things,' the death of a person is the beginning of his/her material possession's new life. As an object is passed down through generations, it gathers different meanings as it is transferred to each new person. It is interesting, then, to consider how the sentiments originally communicated through the construction of objects for death and mourning can diminish over time, with implications for the object's 'value.'
In design history, the scholar's interest is constantly renewed by objects that come under their scrutiny. They pick specific objects in order to get a sense of a wider truth. By reading and researching other sources, they subvert their content and give objects a new meaning. Thus, in a sense, an object is reborn every time it is considered and understood by a new person, be it a design historian, a collector or a walker-by. And through such objects, the person who is memorialised, or the story of that person, is reborn too.


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University of Wisconsin left guard Jon Dietzen has been ruled out for Saturday's game at BYU, while right guard Beau Benzschawel remains questionable.
Both of the Badgers' starting guards are battling right leg injuries, per the team's injury report, and the absence of both could leave some major holes in UW's offensive line against a solid BYU front seven.
Junior Micah Kapoi, who's played in 27 games with 13 starts in his career, will replace Dietzen in the lineup. Benzschawel has practiced throughout the week, but if he's unable to play, the Badgers may replace him with an inexperienced sophomore in Jason Erdmann.
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Running back Bradrick Shaw (right leg) and kickoff specialist P.J. Rosowski (right leg) both remained questionable Thursday. Safety Patrick Johnson (left arm) is not expected to play.
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The Badgers will be left wondering which quarterback they'll see under center for BYU on Saturday.
Cougars starter Tanner Mangum injured his ankle late in their loss to Utah last week, and BYU's coaching staff has declined to give any update on his status for this week.
"I think you can drive yourself nuts trying to figure out what's going to happen," Chryst said. "That's why I still believe that the most important part of preparation is the things that you can control. Now, the opponent matters. What do we have to defend? What are we attacking? But it's different if you saw a lot of tape on who it may be and you say, 'OK, this is what the offense may be with this one and how it changes.' You don't know."
Beau Hoge, Mangum's backup, hasn't attempted a pass since his freshman year in 2015, when he completed 10-of-17 passes for 137 yards with one touchdown and one interception over four games. He also rushed for 49 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries during those four games and could certainly do damage with his feet if he played Saturday.
BYU offensive coordinator Ty Detmer told reporters Wednesday that the Cougars' offense won't change if Hoge does play but that they'll cater to what guys do best.
Without much film to go off, it's difficult for the Badgers to prep for what Hoge could bring to a struggling BYU offense. Chryst said Hoge's limited 2015 tape won't be particularly useful for UW this week.
"All I know is that if it was one of our players that played two years ago, we'd hope that it'd be a lot different," Chryst said. "I think that you can do that to get a sense of the person. We've done it before where you go back and look at a high school tape, just to see what kind of skill set does that individual posses, but you wouldn't book too much on it, I don't think."
Effects of elevation
The Badgers don't expect Provo's 4,500 feet of elevation to serve as a major disadvantage for them Saturday.
Inside linebackers coach Bob Bostad coached in many games at a high altitude while at Cal State Northridge (1995-96), San Jose State (1997-98) and New Mexico (1999-2005). He said it "would be an excuse" and shouldn't play a big factor for those who are in good shape.
Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, who played a mile above sea level for the Denver Broncos in 2012, takes a similar approach.
"One hundred degrees, snowing, altitude, it does not matter," Leonhard said. "Nobody cares. You have to go out there and execute. There are tips. There are tricks to handle it a little bit better, as far as being hydrated and things like that. You've got to lock in and just focus on what you can control and go play football."
The forecast may also help diminish the effects. After temperatures reached 90 degrees in Provo earlier this week, the high for Saturday is just 63.
Still, playing a game with less oxygen available will take some getting used to for UW.
Badgers wide receiver Deron Harrell grew up in Denver. He said the difference wasn't noticeable when living in the area, but he struggled the first time he returned home from Madison.
"Once I go back home to work out, you can really feel it when you're working out and stuff like that," Harrell said. "It's just hard to breathe, fatigue. Like you don't have any energy. You've just got to fight through it.
"I think it'll surprise (our players), but really it's just a mind over matter thing. You've just got to fight through it. Don't even think about it. Just play the game."
The kicking game will also be affected. UW kicker Rafael Gaglianone said the ball will likely travel three of four extra yards on field goals, and even further on kickoffs.
"Going into the altitude as a kicker, the ball flies better and flies deeper, so we're excited about the opportunity," Gaglianone said. "Maybe you get an opportunity to hit a couple far ones. … I'm assuming it's going to be a pretty good range."


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Ah, iPlayer. What would I do without you? I didn't manage to catch the BBC4 broadcast of the first episode of Science and Islam last night, but thanks to the wonderful catch-up service I am able to provide you with a full review. Of course, services like the iPlayer would be impossible without the internet, which in turn could never arisen without first inventing the computer. And what makes computer software tick? Algorithms.
An algorithm is basically a set of instructions, broken down in to simple steps. A computer can follow an algorithm to do pretty much anything, which is why we find them so versatile. As presenter Jim Al-Khalili (a physicist born in Bagdad) tells us, algorithms were invented by a Persian man known as Mohammad ebne Mūsā Khwārazmī, or al-Khwārizmī. Even the word algorithm is derived from his name.
It's not just algorithms that have been given to us by medieval Arab scholars. The words algebra and alkalis both betray their Arabic origin, but so much of science is attributed to the West. The three part series seeks to unearth the unsung heroes of Islamic science.
The rulers of the Islamic empire realised that with knowledge comes power, and as they spread their influence across the globe the sought out scientific texts from many different regions and cultures. These texts were translated into Arabic, the official language of the empire, which just so happened to be a very scientific language. Originally intended to communicate the teachings of the Koran without misinterpretation, its detailed scripts allowed a precise and unambiguous description of many scientific phenomena.
Much of our modern knowledge can be traced back to this extensive library. In one part of the programme, Al-Khalili visits a modern surgeon to get him to perform a cataract operation by following an Arabic text and using replica instruments from the time. Thankfully for the squeamish the operation is carried out on an eye that has long since been separated from its owner, and the surgeon admits that the instructions are based on sound principles. Indeed, Islamic science provides us with one of the very first anatomical diagrams, showing how the eye is controlled by surrounding muscles.
It's easy to draw parallels between this programme and an earlier BBC4 one, namely Marcus du Sautoy's The Story of Maths. Both adopt a sort of travelogue approach, but whilst the earlier programme consisted of nothing but all du Sautoy, all the time, Science and Islam is nicely broken up with contributions from many others. They do cover similar ground however, especially when Al-Khalili meets mathematician Ian Stewart to examine one of the early texts on al-jabr; that is, algebra.
The conclusion of this episode is that by gathering texts from many different places, Islamic scientists proved that science is a universal concept that belongs to no one religion or culture; rather, it can be appreciated by everyone. No arguments here. I will say that at an hour, the programme was perhaps overly long. I can lay the same criticism against it as I did to The Story of Maths – less of our narrator wandering through generic marketplaces please! At least there was no dodgy CGI, however.
As I said at the start, I watched the programme on iPlayer, so of course so can you. If you liked The Story Of Maths, or perhaps if you missed it but want to learn about the history of science, I suggest you give it a look.


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Health officials called Thursday for urgent action to tackle "alarming" rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Myanmar where nearly 9,000 people catch the strain of the infectious disease each year.
Treatment programmes in the impoverished nation -- where the healthcare system was left woefully underfunded during decades of military rule -- are expensive and ineffective leaving the deadly illness to spread unchecked, experts warned at a Yangon forum on the issue.
Union Minister Dr. Phay Thet Khin from the Ministry of Health said that there are only 15 Neurologists in the entire country. The statement was made at the Upper House Parliament held on August 21, in response to an inquiry.
U Kyaw Kyaw, Upper House MP from Rakhine State inquired whether the government had any plans to appoint specialists for general hospitals in Sittwe township.
Dr. Phay Thet Khin responded, "The total number of trainees and Neurologists that are currently employed is only 15. They are already appointed at the University of Medicine, Yangon (1) and (2), Naypyidaw, and Mandalay. We do not have sufficient specialists to be appointed at hospitals in other states and divisions."
He also added that there are only 12 Neurosurgeons all over the country.
U Kyaw Kyaw had submitted an application to the Parliament requesting appointment of specialists to the general hospital in his constituency. He has requested for Urologists, Neurologists and Gastroenterologists. The Chairman of the Parliament directed the request to the Union Minister.
Dr. Phay Thet Khin elaborated further that it takes a minimum of 12 years for doctors to become specialists. Therefore, in spite of the government's efforts to produce more specialists, it will not happen easily.
He also added that the policy that was practiced by the former government has changed now and trainings for respective subjects for specialists are being provided separately.
"Big Zaw" has known he was different since a teenage growth spurt sent him soaring above his neighbours in a remote Myanmar village.
Now at seven foot eight inches he is believed to be the country's tallest man, and a recent rise to fame means he can finally seek treatment abroad for the health condition behind his towering height.
"My friends call me Big Zaw," said Win Zaw Oo, who at 233cm is significantly taller than the 168cm (five foot six) average Myanmar man.
"I do not fit in an ordinary car. When the doctor brought me here, he had to hire a truck," said the 36-year-old, who was given access to healthcare after a story about him in state media this year sparked a flurry of interest from reporters and medical experts.
He is now set to undergo surgery in Singapore for a pituitary gland tumour -- which causes the body to produce excessive growth hormones -- because the procedure is too advanced to be carried out in Myanmar, where the health system was left chronically under-funded by the former junta.
Win Zaw Oo, who left Myanmar on Thursday, said he was anxious about the trip.
"I have only seen a toy plane before, so I feel a bit worried about having to fly. But if it is for my health, I must do it," he told AFP ahead of his departure, adding that he was concerned about the future costs of treatment.
His height brings day-to-day challenges.
Win Zaw Oo has gone barefoot for most of his life in his rural village in Magway region, central Myanmar, where his parents and three sisters scratch a living from growing peanuts and sesame seeds on a couple of acres of land.
While his family was able to make extra-large longyis -- the sarong-like skirt worn by both men and women in Myanmar -- for him, custom-made footwear was far beyond the family's modest means.
His condition also means he tires easily and is unable to hold down regular employment, although he says he can help out in village construction because he does not need a ladder.
Shy but friendly, Win Zaw Oo attracts stares when he travels, but at home people are accustomed to him.
"We see him every day in our village... so we do not really think of him as being extraordinarily big," said his cousin Than Htoo.
Myanmar doctors said Win Zaw Oo appeared to have stopped growing, but that his condition carried future health risks.
"He needs to be cured," said Myatthu Mynn, part of the medical team travelling with him to Singapore on a trip funded by private donations from Myanmar and Singapore.
He explained that the procedure -- which usually involves accessing the pituitary gland at the base of the brain through the nose or an incision in the mouth -- is too specialised for Myanmar's hospitals.
Decades of military dictatorship in the Southeast Asian country left the vast majority of citizens without access to even basic healthcare, as the junta state focused on its military spending.
A new quasi-civilian regime took power in 2011, but medical care remains woefully inadequate.
Official figures show the state only allocated around one percent of its expenditure to healthcare in its 2011 to 2012 budget, rising to three percent in 2012 to 2013.
Win Zaw Oo's condition -- acromegaly -- which can lead to gigantism when it develops in puberty, is extremely rare.
Accurate data for Myanmar is unavailable, but Britain's Pituitary Foundation said only around four to six new cases per million of the population are diagnosed each year.
It said health risks include "diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems with a reduced life expectancy compared to the normal population".
Doctors said only one other extremely tall person has been recorded in recent memory in Myanmar.
Zee Kwet Sein, who is believed to have died in the 1970s, was left blind by her condition and her exceptional height saw her exhibited at fairs in the country's central region.
Win Zaw Oo's recent fame had led him to consider the possibility of a film career to help support his family, although he would rather start a business with his sisters.
But the condition takes its toll.
"I cannot move quickly like the others do. I feel depressed about that sometimes," he told AFP, adding that he does not expect to have a family of his own but hopes medical care will secure his future.
"After the treatment is finished it will be enough to live my life, even if it does not change my appearance," he said.
Myanmar has started launching mother- related health program this month with the first week of being observed as breastfeeding, official media reported Friday.
During this month, the second week will be nutrition promotion week for under-five children while the third week as the nutrition promotion week for pregnant women and lactating mothers and the fourth as the week for elimination of iodine deficiency disorders, said the New Light of Myanmar.
The launching of the program is coincided with government's call for breastfeeding rather than milk powders and bottle feeding.
The Ministry of Health called on all mothers to pay more attention to breastfeeding which is highly recommended as the most complete form of nutrition for infants and its health, growth, immunity and development.
Breast-fed children are most resistant to disease and infection early in life than formula-fed children.
Although breastfeeding brings a range of benefits for children, milk powder and bottle feeding are sometimes detrimental to child' s health with negative effects.
Meanwhile, New Zealand has recalled up to 1,000 tons of dairy products as bacteria were found in the milk powders and dairy products. A total of 300,000 children in China fell ill after being fed contaminated milk products.
Breast milk has disease-fighting cells called antibodies that help protect infants from germs, illness, and even sudden infant death syndrome.
Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham has called for an end to underage marriages and unsafe abortion practices, claiming that Myanmar's adolescent birthing rate is too high.
He made the comments at a ceremony commemorating World Population Day, held on Thursday. The event was attended by government officials, diplomats, youth representatives and the UN.
During his opening speech, the Dr. Sai Mauk Kham called on Myanmar's citizens and decision makers to empower and protect the estimated 2.9 million adolescent girls that live in Myanmar.
The current adolescent birth rate is 16.9 per thousand among those aged 15-19, according to a 2007 Fertility and Reproductive Health Survey. The Vice President claims the figures are high compared to the country's ASEAN neighbors, and increased support is needed if Myanmar is to reach Millennium Development Goals.
"This is a matter of human rights to protection as well as access to services through a core package of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health and HIV services" said Janet E. Jackson, UN Populations Fund (UNFPA) representative to Myanmar.
In a proposal outlined during the event, the UNFPA called for in increase in local services including contraception units, STI and HIV clinics, maternal health services and post-abortion care.
"These should be provided to adolescents in a friendly, sensitive, confidential, non-judgmental, and non-discriminatory way, without legal restrictions," said Jackson, in a press release following the ceremony.
Last year, a report was released that claimed eastern Myanmar was facing a public health crisis, with maternal death rates far surpassing Thailand and urban Myanmar. (http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/6580-health-crisis-in-eastern-burma-health-survey.html) The report showed a high rate of unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortion practices.
According to a 2007 World Health Organization report, only 37 percent of Myanmar's women gave birth with a trained attendant present.
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Malnutrition is the leading cause of deaths for 40 percent of disease-ridden children in Myanmar, says Union Minister Dr. Pe Thet Khin from the Ministry of Health to the Pyithu Hluttaw (House of Representatives) on 10 July.
"The diseases can be caught easily due to lack of nutrition. They could die without resistance once the disease gets into their bodies," he says.
Determining whether the child has adequate nutrition levels has to also take the mother's state of health and mortality rates into account. Dr. Pe Thet Khin added that 60 percent of women who die from blood loss is also due to the lack of nutrition.
Dr. Pe Thet Khin admitted that health care is especially weak in border and suburban areas including villages where 70 percent of the country's population is located. He promised the members of parliament to accelerate tasks in reducing the gap in standard of health care between cities and villages.
In May this year, UNICEF announced that according to a 3-year survey led by the UN, 2.5 million children were undersized due to malnutrition, and 200,000 children have died due to malnutrition.
As a response, Dr. Pe Thet Khin took action to fight against child malnutrition by joining Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) - a global movement by the efforts of nation leaders and organizations dedicated to address the malnutrition problem.
"An individual's health status, whether malnourished or well-nourished, is not an individual matter. It also impacts the country's economy and education," says Dr Pe Thet Khin at the signing ceremony for SUN held at the Ministry of Health in Naypyitaw.
For the current 2013-2014 fiscal year, the Hluttaw has granted a budget of nearly five hundred billion kyats to the Ministry of Health.


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The heavyweight has long vowed to hang up his gloves on his 31st birthday - which falls on Thursday - but many had expected him to delay his retirement.
Haye told Telegraph Sport last month that he intended to fight on if he received an offer from Vitali Klitschko, the WBC champion.
The Londoner lost his WBA belt to WBO/IBF king Wladimir Klitschko in July, but had been linked with a comeback bout against the Ukrainian champion's brother Vitali, who holds the WBC title.
However, Board Secretary Smith said: "I received an email on Monday advising me Haye would not be carrying on.
"The board will discuss it on Wednesday but there is no way we could go against his wish not to renew his boxing licence. Without it, he can't fight."
Haye has not yet officially confirmed that he will retire. His licence is up for renewal in December.
Should he change his mind, however, renewing his boxing licence in the next two months would be a quick and easy process.


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Jolie told Zaharas real mother was dead at the time of adoptionNovember 25th, 2007 - 4:06 pm ICT by admin
London, Nov 25 (ANI): When Angelina Jolie adopted Zahara in 2005, she was told that the tots biological mother was dead, when she was actually alive and well in Ethiopia.
It has been discovered that not only is Zahara's mother, Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, alive and fit, but that the man who arranged the babys adoption has been promoting a campaign of threats and intimidation against her family.
Last week when rumours surfaced that all was not as it appeared with the paperwork, the American headquarters of the international adoption agency Wide Horizons For Children initially insisted that Zahara's mother was dead. And yet in Ethiopia, the man who brought Zahara to the agency knows Mentewab is alive and has been attempting to shut her up.
Mentewab recently came into light after revealing that Zahara was conceived during rape.
When Girma Degu, the man who arranged the adoption for the agency, came to know that Mentewab would be talking to journalists, he threatened to have one of her sisters jailed, reports the Daily Mail.
Mentewab said that her mother Almaz Elfneh had already been introduced to Girma by her sister- in-law and he agreed to take the baby after the Kebele gave its consent.
"Girma took the baby to Addis Ababa. He promised he would keep in touch. He said he would bring back the baby to visit after five months and he would send me a picture. He also promised to introduce me to the family that would adopt her, Almaz said.
Almaz added that she never told Girma or the authorities that her daughter had died.
"But then Girma came to me and told me that the baby had been adopted and taken abroad. He said there will be journalists coming to you and you must deny the whole story and say it is not your granddaughter, she said.
After stories first began to circulate two years ago that Zahara's birth mother was still alive, Almaz says a furious Girma dragged her to the local council offices and accused her of lying. He also tried to force her to say that Zahara was not her granddaughter.
"He brought this woman who claimed Tena Adam was her daughter. He tried everything to get me to say that it's not my granddaughter. He even threatened that he'd put me in jail and have me tortured, she said.
Dr Tsegaye Berhe, head of the agency in Ethiopia, said he had been told Zahara's mother was dead at the time of the adoption and had the official papers to prove it.
"We have to trust the documents we received. She (Almaz) has signed, three witnesses have signed, but the document is saying something different to what she is saying now. She said her daughter had died, Dr Berhe said.
He added that he had asked the government to instruct Ethiopian police to investigate whether the grandmother had lied to the Kebele.
Dr Berhe claimed that he had the paperwork that was signed by Almaz and three other witnesses testifying that Zahara's mother had died.
However, Almaz said: "I cannot read or write. I don't know what they wrote but what I said was that my daughter ran away, not that she was dead."
But the adoption agency says it makes efforts to establish links between the adoptive parents and the child's family.
Dr Berhe said he always arranges for the adoptive parents to go to the village to meet surviving family members, "take pictures and videos and even have some correspondence".
Yet, according to Zahara's birth family, Angelina has never visited their home in Awassa.
Angelina Jolie was unavailable for comment. (ANI)
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