text:
When going over the use of social media as being a promotional tool for company, usually it is simply the big labels including Facebook and Twitter that pick up the spotlight. The causes are evident. Those are the most favored social websites systems with a enthusiast subsequent working into thousands. Which businessman wouldn't desire to maximize such an expansive adhering to for his business?Nevertheless, there are several far more cheaper-known interpersonal websites that do similarly properly to market your business inside the on-line marketplace. Instagram is one to name. Instagram offers you a good way to not only increase your organization and also to achieve your focused target audience. This article looks at why your organization must leverage Instagram as a promotional tool. acheter des followers instagram france
Instagram has been able to earn greater than 150 thousand active end users. The quantity may still be small compared to the two social media biggies mentioned at the start, but what must be mentioned is definitely the timeframe that it has managed such development. It manufactured its debut only in 2010; so, that is certainly truly commendable. Additionally, it displays assure for long term expansion.
Has been able to earn greater than
- When discussing the use of social media marketing as being a marketing tool for organization, normally it is simply.
- With Instagram, you may not have only an opportunity to.
- acheter des likes instagram.
- If you think about Instagram and also the graphic information.
- If in contrast Twitter and facebook tend to be more individual. Instagram has a.
- acheter des followers.
- Instagram has were able to generate greater than 150 mil productive end users. The quantity may still be.
If in comparison Twitter and facebook are usually personal. Instagram features a company really feel to it. This is when 70Percent of the world's top manufacturers perform. It means some critical business. Market research showed that Instagram customers usually share, like and discuss brand listings considerably more frequently than that noticed on other social media web sites. comprar seguidores en instagram
Personal Instagram features a
The opportunity to talk about accounts and experiences creatively by way of graphic content can be another ingredient that consistently add customers to this interpersonal website. Consumers like visual content material as it is easier to read through, comprehend and discuss rather than having to search through webpages and webpages of information. On Instagram, it is possible to submit top quality images and video tutorials that are real to the business.You can utilize this kind of visible information to share with the history of the organization and also to create a personality for your enterprise. It can be used to display what occurs behind the curtain incorporating openness to the organization. acheter des followers
With Instagram, you may not just have the opportunity to add authentic pictures and video lessons, but additionally edit them to ensure they most connected to your small business. The filters permit you to add the impact you want by playing with colours, vignettes and facial lines. All this can help create a strong manufacturer appeal for your personal company with out actually priced at you a lot.
Can help create
When you consider Instagram and the visual information it functions with, the very first thing comes up is that it is best suited for product or service-structured firms. They could probably put up photographs in the products they may be selling or item trial videos. The use of Instagram is just not restricted to particular company. Merchandise and repair-structured enterprises can make use of this social media foundation equally. The way you apply it depends intensely on the innovative potential. comprar seguidores instagram
- comprar seguidores en instagram.
- The ability to discuss testimonies and experience creatively through graphic content can be another factor.
- If you think about Instagram and also.


text:
"Holy Rollers" Hitting Theaters May 21
The Sundance hit stars Jesse Eisenberg as a Hasidic Jew growing up in Brooklyn in the 1990s who finds himself caught up in one of he city's biggest Ecstasy smuggling rings. It co-stars Justin Bartha and Q-Tip.
We don't waste our time on anything not worth your time. We celebrate the best of what's coming on film and TV. We cheer when our expectations are met and criticize when we're let down.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
No doubt there will be time to reflect more deeply about the news announced by President Obama last night. For now, I thought it might be useful to annotate some of the initial headlines.
On where he was found:
Abbottabad is essentially a military-cantonment city in Pakistan, in the hills to the north of the capital of Islamabad, in an area where much of the land is controlled or owned by the Pakistani Army and retired Army officers. Although the city is technically in what used to be called the Northwest Frontier Province, it lies on the far eastern side of the province and is as close to Pakistani-held Kashmir as it is to the border city of Peshawar. The city is most notable for housing the Pakistan Military Academy, the Pakistani Army's premier training college, equivalent to West Point. Looking at maps and satellite photos on the Web last night, I saw the wide expanse of the Academy not far from where the million-dollar, heavily secured mansion where bin Laden lived was constructed in 2005. The maps I looked at had sections of land nearby marked off as "restricted areas," indicating that they were under military control. It stretches credulity to think that a mansion of that scale could have been built and occupied by bin Laden for six years without its coming to the attention of anyone in the Pakistani Army.
The initial circumstantial evidence suggests that the opposite is more likely—that bin Laden was effectively being housed under Pakistani state control. Pakistan will deny this, it seems safe to predict, and perhaps no convincing evidence will ever surface to prove the case. If I were a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice, however, I would be tempted to call a grand jury. Who owned the land on which the house was constructed? How was the land acquired, and from whom? Who designed the house, which seems to have been purpose-built to secure bin Laden? Who was the general contractor? Who installed the security systems? Who worked there? Are there witnesses who will now testify as to who visited the house, how often, and for what purpose? These questions are not relevant only to the full realization of justice for the victims of September 11th. They are also relevant to the victims of terrorist attacks conducted or inspired by bin Laden while he lived in the house, and these include many Pakistanis, as well as Afghans, Indians, Jordanians, and Britons. They are rightly subjects of American criminal law.
Outside the Justice Department, other sections of the United States government will probably underplay any evidence of culpability by the Pakistani state or sections of the state, such as its intelligence service, I.S.I., in sheltering bin Laden. As ever, there are many other fish to fry in Islamabad and at the Army headquarters, in nearby Rawalpindi: an exit strategy from Afghanistan, which requires the greatest possible degree of coöperation from Pakistan that can be attained at a reasonable price; nuclear stability; and so on.
Pakistan's military and intelligence service takes risks that others would not dare take because Pakistan's generals believe that their nuclear deterrent keeps them safe from regime change of the sort under way in Libya, and because they have discovered over the years that the rest of the world sees them as too big to fail. Unfortunately, they probably are correct in their analysis; some countries, like some investment banks, do pose systemic risks so great that they are too big to fail, and Pakistan is currently the A.I.G. of nation-states. But that should not stop American prosecutors from following the law here as they would whenever any mass killer's hideout is discovered.
Of course, Mullah Omar and Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, probably also enjoy refuge in Pakistan. The location of Mullah Omar, in particular, is believed by American officials to be well known to some Pakistani military and intelligence officers; Omar, too, they believe, is effectively under Pakistani state control. Perhaps the circumstantial evidence in the bin Laden case is misleading; only a transparent, thorough investigation by Pakistani authorities into how such a fugitive could have lived so long under the military's nose without detection would establish otherwise. That sort of transparent investigation is unlikely to take place.
On who was living with Bin Laden:
The early reports suggest that he was living with his "youngest wife." Bin Laden, who was fifty-three years old when he died, had always lived surrounded by family and children, so it is not surprising that he had managed to do so even as a fugitive. He is known to have married at least four times. His first wife was a cousin from Syria. His second and third wives were highly educated Saudi women. His fourth wife was a kind of mail-order teen-age bride from Yemen, whom he married while living in Afghanistan during the nineteen-nineties, according to the account of bin Laden's former Yemeni bodyguard. Bin Laden's Syrian and Saudi wives were said to have gone home before or immediately after the September 11th attacks, and the Saudi wives were said to be living in the kingdom, without contact with Osama. When I visited Yemen in 2007, to conduct research on the bin Laden family, Yemeni journalists told me that his youngest wife had returned home and was living in the region either of Tai'zz or of Ibb, significant cities to the south of Sanaa, the capital. It seems that she may have found her way to Pakistan to live with her husband. My own guess had been that bin Laden would have accepted informal divorce from his older wives on the ground of involuntary separation, and would have remarried a local woman or two while in hiding in Pakistan, perhaps a daughter presented by one of his Pathan hosts. That is at least conceivable as well. Apparently, one of his adult sons was killed in the raid. Osama has more than a dozen sons. Some have returned to Saudi Arabia, but others have appeared in videos with their father, vowing to fight alongside him. It is conceivable that one of his sons could make a claim on Al Qaeda leadership in the years ahead.
On what bin Laden's death means for Al Qaeda:
On the constructive side: The loss of a symbolic, semi-charismatic leader whose own survival burnished his legend is significant. Also, Al Qaeda has never had a leadership succession test. Now it faces one. The organization was founded more than twenty years ago, in the summer of 1988, and at the initial sessions bin Laden was appointed amir and Ayman al-Zawahiri deputy amir. It is remarkable that, for all the No. 3s who have been killed, and for all the ways in which it has been degraded since September 11th, Al Qaeda had retained the same two leaders, continuously, for so long. Zawahiri is famously disputatious and tone-deaf. His relatively recent online "chat" taking questions about Al Qaeda's violence did not go well. Bin Laden was a gentle and strong communicator, if somewhat incoherent in his thinking. Zawahiri is dogmatic and argumentative, and has a history of alienating colleagues.
On the other hand: Al Qaeda is more than just a centralized organization based in Pakistan. It is also a network of franchised or like-minded organizations, and an ideological movement in which followers sometimes act in isolation from leaders. The best guesstimates are that Al Qaeda has several hundred serious members or adherents in Pakistan, along the Pakistan side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and perhaps up to a hundred scattered around Afghanistan. Just last week, the German government disrupted a cell near Dusseldorf in which one of the members, of Moroccan origin, had allegedly travelled to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where he received explosives training from an Al Qaeda contact. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, appears to be just as potent. Dan Benjamin, the State Department counterterrorism coördinator, gave a speech last week at New America that provided a very good, up-to-date summary of Al Qaeda and its affiliates worldwide, their capabilities and connections to one another.
On the hunt itself:
After President Obama took office, he and the new Central Intelligence Agency director, Leon Panetta, reorganized the team of analysts devoted to finding Osama bin Laden. The team worked out of ground-floor offices at the Langley headquarters. There were at least two-dozen of them. Some were older analysts who had been part of the C.I.A.'s various bin Laden-hunting efforts going back to the late nineteen-nineties. Others were newer recruits, too young to have been professionally active when bin Laden was first indicted as a fugitive from American justice.
As they reset their work, the analysts studied other long-term international fugitive hunts that had ended successfully, such as the operations that led to the death of the Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar, in 1993. The analysts asked, Where did the breakthroughs in these other hunts come from? What were the clues that made the difference and how were the clues discovered? They tried to identify "signatures" of Osama bin Laden's life style that might lead to such a clue: prescription medications that he might purchase, hobbies or other habits of shopping or movement that might give him away.
The Langley analysts were one headquarters egghead element of the hunt. Similar analytical units, at Central Command, in Tampa, and at the International Security Assistance Force, in Kabul, sorted battlefield and all-source intelligence, designated subjects for additional collection, and conducted pattern analysis of relationships among terrorists, couriers, and raw data collected in the field. Detainee operators in Iraq, in Afghanistan, at Guantanámo, and at secret C.I.A. sites also participated. Apparently, the breakthrough started several years back from detainee interrogations; it's not clear yet how or by what means the information about the courier who led to the Abbottabad compound was extracted.
Overseas, C.I.A. officers in the Directorate of Operations and the Special Activities Division—intelligence officers who ran sources and collected information, as well as armed paramilitaries—carried out the search for informants from bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Units from the military's Joint Special Operations Command, which includes the Navy Seals, Delta, and other specialized groups, joined in. Often, Special Operations and the C.I.A. worked in blended task-force teams deployed around Afghanistan, and, more problematically, as the Raymond Davis case indicated, around Pakistan.
These teams searched not only for bin Laden but also for other "high-value targets," as they are legally and bureaucratically known inside the U.S. government. My understanding is that, as of this spring, there were approximately forty legally designated, fugitive high-value targets at the top of the wanted-list system. If there were forty, I suppose there are now thirty-nine.
Read Jon Lee Anderson, Dexter Filkins, Hendrik Hertzberg, George Packer, David Remnick, Lawrence Wright, and more of our coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.
Photograph by Farooq Naeem.


text:
screencap Friday: what the flick? #21
Friday fun! Here's a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it's definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/flick/public_html/wptest/wp-content/themes/FlickFilosopher/loop-single.php on line 106


text:
It's no Graceland, but the Beverly Hills home shared by Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla is hardly a jailhouse either.
The four-bedroom, five-bathroom French Regency estate, seated on a 1.2-acre promontory with city-to-ocean views of Los Angeles, is now for sale at $12.995 million, according to real estate website Trulia.
The gated, 5,367-square-foot property is in a quiet cul-de-sac of Trousdale Estates and bears the ZIP code 90210. Built in 1958, it was until recently leased out for $20,000 a month.
Buyers will have to shell out $2,421 for each square foot. The house features a pool and spa, floor-to-ceiling windows, glass walls and an attached guesthouse with a four-car carport. The entry gate is covered with handwritten Elvis tributes from fans.
Coldwell Banker real estate agent Jade Mills holds the listing.
In other celebrity housing news, pop star Taylor Swift picked up a $4.9-million Cape Cod mansionin August to be closer to her boyfriend, a scion of the Kennedy family.
In July, the beachfront San Diego County home once owned by NFL linebacker Junior Seau went on sale for nearly $2.3 million.
Real estate website Trulia files for $75 million IPO
Junior Seau's Oceanside home lists for $2.3 million after suicide
Taylor Swift buys $4.9-million mansion near Kennedy love: reports


text:
Ever had a moment so nerdy that you needed to tell the Internet about it? Send your submissions to dorklypwnup at gmail.
Two weeks ago, I went to China with my parents for vacation. When I was looking at a lot of different porcelain artifacts in the Temple of Heaven, all I could think about was how Guybrush Threepwood would be shuddering if he were there.-Rich
When me and my friend were playing a game we saw someone trip outside through my living room window. My friend said "that looked so stupid" and then I said "You should have seen it on my screen."
Then I realized what I said. I play too many games.-Shan
For most people during high school, they tend to hang out with their various cliques, form friendships and try to find someone of the opposite sex who will tolerate their presence long enough to call them boy/girlfriend.
At least, that's what I assume most people do, because my high school years were spent being obsessed with Maplestory instead. I spent dozens of sleepless nights grinding away, watching that experience bar slowly rise as the hours crawled on. The only reason I didn't just do that during the day was because the popular training spots were breeding ground for more assholes than what could fit in those maps. Of course, that never stopped me from also playing during the day, too.
Over the course of about four years I spent thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars on this free MMORPG. The time not spent playing was spent thinking about it. I visited Maplestory fan sites and forums for hours every day. I doodled characters in my school planner during classes. I started learning to do digital art so I could post fanart to those sites, and I even started doing comics based on the terribleness of this game that I was still devoting all my free time to. In retrospect I think I started getting fed up with how bad it was maybe half a year in. That sure didn't stop me from being obsessed, though.
Though Maplestory took the place of my social life until I left for college, it did give me something I really appreciate to this day. It got me interested in drawing during a time of my life where I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with myself, and these days I'm becoming more skilled with art and growing into a career as a game designer. Now instead of spending all my time ignoring friends and playing a video game, I'm spending all my time ignoring my friends and making a video game.
Moral of the story: find something more productive to obsess over.-Bitcoon
As some readers may remember, a few years back Pokemon celebrated its 10th anniversary by touring around the world with giveaways, competitions and exclusive news. I had convinced my mom to take me to one near us and waited in line for 4+ hours to get exclusive in game Pokemon like Celebii, Raikou, and Latias. The wait would have been worth it if I hadn't lost the game on a trip 6 months later. I'm still not over it, but I like to think someone else found it and flipped the sh*t out when they turned it on.-Zachary
I fell in LOVE with Steam about 6 months ago. I've spent like 200 dollars on it already. This one time I went to my local GameStop to buy a card and there was a person just standing in front of the Xbox games. I asked him what was wrong and he said that all his friends wanted to play CoD but he dispises the game. I gave him my $20 card, my steam account name and told him to meet me on TF2. We've been friends since.-Dylan


text:
Find your dream car here
While every reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, we are not responsible for any errors or omissions contained on these pages. Please verify any information in question with O'Regan's Automotive.
Driving Higher Standards
© 2019 O'Regan's Automotive Group
Privacy Policy | Site Map


text:
Home > Eyeglasses > JB by Jerome Boateng > VISIONARY (JBF105 - 4)
Visionary JBF 105 is available in 3 additional attractive styles
Size and availability
Low prices
Low prices
Visionary Eyewear
As a customer of Edel-Optics, you are totally aware that eyewear can crown your style. This accessory makes you look very smart when you are out and about and convincing in the office and in your leisure time. The JBF105 is brand new on the market in 2017, with this eyewear you are at the cutting-edge of trends. The JBF105 is available in the Edel-Optics online shop in other styles from JB by Jerome Boateng collections 2016 and 2017.
The frame is specially designed for men. Sporting clear lines, New School Cool meets traditional quality. Eyewear is in. Full rim is extremely popular, because you feel that you get more eyeglass for your money. It is not just about their resilience, but also about the visibility of material and design, which are of the highest quality.
Moreover, we can also provide you with the correct prescription lenses at an incredibly low price. The only thing you need to provide us with are your current dioptre values determined by your ophthalmologist. Together with our digital dispensing optician, you can choose between reasonably priced brand lenses from Germany or premium brands such as Seiko, Hoya and Rodenstock. Edel-Optics' plastic lenses have many features such as anti-reflection coating, lotus effect, cleaning coating, antistatic and hard coating at no extra charge.
The model is in stock. If you order now with the express shipping option, we can even guarantee the time of delivery. In our online shop we have consistently low prices. You won't get JBF105 at such a low price, not even in the sale.
Don't hesitate to call us at
payment methods
Credit Card
Bank Transfer


text:
iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2545 (Early 2013 Edu Model) Cutting
显示产品 1-1 / 1
Introduced in 2013 the A1418 EMC 2545 iMac was originally only available for sale to educational institutions. Internally this model has a slower processor, much slower graphics that share memory with the system, less RAM, and a smaller hard drive than the 2012 models. It included a wired Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad and a wired Apple Mouse in place of the wireless keyboard and trackpad included with other models.


text:
If you are looking at Corizon, you should consider Jacada WorkSpace, a Corizon Alternative
Jacada WorkSpace provides a J2EE-based, thin client alternative to Corizon Solutions. Jacada WorkSpace, a Corizon alternative, is a Web-based, thin-client workspace housing all major functions and applications required by the agent to service customer calls.
Jacada® WorkSpace – a Corizon alternative – is a unified customer service desktop for CSRs that provides a single, "intelligent" point of access to all the mission-critical applications and call center tools required to effectively complete a customer interaction.
Specifically Jacada WorkSpace, a Corizon alternative, offers:
- Agent Scripting - Dynamically driven scripts drive optimal agent performance with minimal training. New scripts can be developed and deployed in real-time to ensure the latest process changes are adopted quickly and easily.
- Agent Navigation - Step-by-step task navigation ensures rapid access to the right applications for a given task or process.
- CTI Integration - Seamless access to customer information, as well as soft-phone capabilities.
- Up-Sell/Cross-Sell - Leverages real-time data to identify offers and recommendations that drive additional revenue and better service.
- Information Access - Context-sensitive access to pre-existing help systems, information portals, FAQs, and other reference materials.
- Alerts and Notifications - Fully customizable alerts to communicate critical information about customers, up-sell/cross-sell offers, or corporate information.
- Application Access - Context-sensitive access to existing business applications with no required access or changes to the existing application's code or database.
- Single View - Delivered using Jacada Fusion Process Optimization, consolidates information from existing systems to speed call initiation and improve service.
- Personalization - Role and individual-level profiles to tailor the desktop.
A Corizon Alternative
A Corizon alternative, Jacada WorkSpace provides an integrated, simplified agent desktop to reduce average handle times, reduce training expense and improve the customer experience.
Companies today are realizing the tremendous impact desktop complexity has on the customer experience, and while Corizon solutions offer some benefits, these organizations are discovering the Jacada WorkSpace unified service desktop offering is a more comprehensive Corizon alternative.


text:
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Working mothers
And the scale said 51.0 this morning. So, those of you who guessed 2 weeks were (unfortunately) wrong.
So, I've decided to talk about something I'm a little bit more excited about. That's being a mommy returning to work. I started my "praktik" (or unpaid doctor work) last week in the Ophthalmology department. There are a lot of hoops to jump through in order to get paid here as a doctor, but I should start getting an income in March. Yes, the kind of "surgical resident" I was in the US was an eye surgeon (not an optometrist, grrrrr).
Anyway, a small part of me wants to just hang out with the Lorax and be one of those stay-at-home moms. Then I could run and swim and do as I please. Perhaps an easy and comfortable life. But I just could never do it; it is not how I was brought up. And being back in an ophthalmology department reminded me why I got a good education and how excited I am to start again.
But, according to SR, being a stay-at-home mom in the United States is just "normal." I remember him infamously saying to me before we started dating that he thought women should be stay-at-home moms (of course he just wanted to see my reaction). But can it possibly be true that it is "normal" to just stay home? Is America still so far from equality between the sexes? Or is his perspective biased?
I had to do some research (of course). It turns out that over 90% of Danish mothers work. While in the US, 58 % of mothers with children under the age of six work, and about 75% of those with children between the ages of 6 and 18 work. The percentage of working mother peaked in he US in the 1990's and plateaud since then.
Why the discrepency between the countries? For one, employees of daycares in Denmark have a long, formal training before they can begin to work. The public institutions are extremely successful in the social, emotional and intellectual development of children (so much so that in the paper today it was annouced that daycare will be compulsory for immigrant children). But in the US, there is no consistency in the quality of daycare. An NICHD study of early childcare showed that children who were placed in high-quality childcare settings had better language skills and social/emotional development than those who were placed in centers with poorly trained adults or a high number of children per adult caregiver.
Despite those findings, the US has not started following the Danish model. And the inequality between men and women in the workplace will thus persist.
Is the high percentage of working mothers in Denmark one of the reasons it's considered the "happiest" country in the world? I tend to think there's a correlation.
Running song of the day: We are Blind and Riding of the Merry-Go-Round byAlaska in Winter
15 comments:
- Abbie said...
The argument for mothers in the workplace always seems to be a subject upon which everyone has an opinion. I think everything you wrote was interesting, but like the argument itself, it is subjective. For example, what specifies equality? What specifies happiness?
Does equality mean that each of us can do exactly what the other does? Does it mean that each profession has an equal number of each gender?
And happiness... that is so completely subjective that I won't even go there.
That said, I agree with parts of what you wrote. I currently stay at home with my daughter and would like to find a job that will allow me to get out a few hours a day but no more. I personally don't want my daughter spending 8 hours a day in daycare. For me, staying at home is not 'normal'. It's downright hard sometimes. I have a Masters degree and certainly there are many things I could do with it but I choose to stay home. Others choose to work. And each person makes their choice and deals with the consequences. I don't pass judgment because I know that not everyone can deal with being at home.
I think you hit a chord when you said that staying at home is "perhaps an easy and comfortable life". So many (my own siblings even!) think that being a stay-at- home mom is easy and hardly any work... all fun and tons of play. I think it couldn't be further from the truth. It's hard work (if you do it right), stressful, emotionally challenging and many other things.
I feel that as a society we have placed so much emphasis on fulfillment coming from working. The role of a mother who stays home (raising a human being!) seems to bear little importance compared to those who choose to work force. It's almost looked down upon and I think that's sad.
- 31 January 2009 at 15:28
- Brianne said...
I agree with Abbie, though I certainly have no problem with people that decide to return to work. (I do think that 6 weeks is too early though - ie. the typical American mat. leave.) I myself find it extremely challenging to stay home and hope to be able to find some part time work in my field, perhaps a few students, a few gigs in order to exit the mind-numbing aspect of child-rearing if only for a few hours a day. But I too don't want her to be in daycare all day. If I had the option of reliable and educational daycare that it sounds like Denmark has, perhaps I would feel differently.
Changing subjects, I too have been plagued by injuries. It's totally depressing, though I did manage to win a 7.6 mile race last weekend:0 (just against the females, of course a lot of men beat me.)
- 31 January 2009 at 17:12
Staying home with one's child is a wonderful choice to have - if you have the luxury of choice. For better or worser, the vast majority of women in the USA who work outside the home do so not just because they feel more fulfilled if they work, but because of economic necessity. I do think that it is important to remember this fact and not couch the issue of women's working as a "choice". Those who have the choice, like Abbie and Brianne, are the lucky few.
Denmark's policies (and the EU in general) are so much more family and woman-friendly than the USA. Due to years of service I will be able to take a 6 week paid maternity leave when I deliver, but others in my workplace with less time on the job will have to take that leave with partial or even no pay. The USA is far, far behind when it comes to legislation that protects women and their economic stability.
No one should feel they have to justify either the importance of the work they do within or outside the home. We all do what we need to do to support ourselves and our families, and for so many of us, that means staying in the workforce full-time.
- 31 January 2009 at 18:04
...and I meant "worse", not "worser"! I don't seem to be able to see my typos until I've published!
- 31 January 2009 at 18:07
- Cee said...
my mom was a stay at home mother and i know from watching her that it is not easy (last year she had an anxiety attack and fell into great depression- it was scary). i think its sad that society puts pressure on moms to work by telling them they are worth more or will be more fulfilled if they bring home an income. i am currently home with my baby while i finish school and i feel that pressure to "get a real job." if you ask me stay at home moms have the hardest job ever... so i think your categorizing of them is unfair.
i think each mom is best fit to determine what is best for her family. i might decide to stay home if my son needs me home but i would like to put my law degree to work sometime too. and i agree that not all people have meaningful choices when it comes to this matter.
- 31 January 2009 at 19:03
- Abbie said...
I agree with Enthused and her comment about Europe being much more friendly towards working mothers. Having nannied in Belgium, I witnessed that first hand as the mother of the children for whom I was a nanny worked part time but had excellent benefits and maternity options.
I will say that with my husband in law school right now and living off thousands of dollars of loans that my choice to stay home is sadly not because we have the money to do so but because I feel that it is the most important thing I can do for my daughter. That's not to say that I think anyone's choice, especially yours Sea Legs, to go back to work is bad. It's just not the choice I am making at this point in my life. But I still hope for that job or little something extra that will allow me a few hours out a day. :)
- 31 January 2009 at 19:12
- sea legs girl said...
Let me just revise what I said... parts of being a stay at home mom would be easy, but man is it HARD WORK to care for a kid/kids all day.
That's why it seems like a better system for people who are trained in daycare and enjoy it to watch kids while other moms work at what they're trained in and enjoy. It's better for the society, too.
I should also mention that all moms in Denmark have one year payed materntiy leave (so the most important time for mother child bonding still happens!).
- 31 January 2009 at 21:31
- olga said...
Yup, stay-at-home mom is hard. And mostly boring too, on daily basis, when all you have is a tot to talk to. So it makes it harder. And then there are house chores. And making you man, a bread-winner, happy. You know, I am not a home-mom, never was and wouldn't be able to. But I am all for it. In Russia the paid maternity leave is 1.5 year, and then they hold your spot for 3 years. In US - it's not that they can, or choose, to work, they have to. And it sucks, when the choices are made for you. Why still not that many works? Because work market sucks for female, AND because not only many day cares are not the best qualities, they cost a fortune, for many (for me being in academic science back when my kids were young) my whole salary covered day care. That's it. What's the purpose? Wouldn't a mom better stay home and take good care of her baby, and cook some, and clean some, instead of paying all she makes and then still cook and clean, but tired? Ever thought of correlation of fewer divorces and happier children back when we grew up (well, like some 30-40 years ago)? Besides that divorces were a "no-no", still, men felt they are MEN and are feeding the family, so they didn't leave their manhood and ego behind (and no matter how much feminism we instill, men can't check it out of their genotype), and women, well, served men better because they didn't have to work 40-50 hr/week and still be expected to do same stuff. Take it with a grain of salt, I am pretty feminist's, and try and tell me what to do. But I wish I could consider myself weird and the world would just revolve the way it was before. Truly, I do.
- 31 January 2009 at 22:52
I agree, daycare in the USA is outrageous both in terms of quality (low) and price (high)! In my area, full-time daycare for a newborn can run as high as $1500 a month. I can't imagine how people of average income afford that, especially once they have more than one. At that point, it does make sense to look at how much that job really contributes to the bottom line.
I feel very, very fortunate that my husband will be able to stay home and care for our daughter while I am at work. Unfortunately, that's not reality for many women I know, especially some of my students (I'm a college professor at an urban university), who juggle work, school, and life as single parents while the men who fathered their children sometimes pay child support, and sometimes don't. Often, they have to leave their children in unlicensed and inadequate care - it's certainly nothing like Denmark's system, which sounds wonderful.
Maybe with this new administration we will finally get better social services (including health insurance, which we haven't touched on in this discussion) to support women and their children.
- 31 January 2009 at 23:45
- sea legs girl said...
Cost is a whole other issue which I'm glad you guys brought up. It is so sad that it costs more to have kids in daycare than what families can afford. Here the minimum wage is about $17 an hour, so even the lowest paid families can afford daycare. There is also support from the government here for daycare payment (ours is about half paid for!).
I'm not trying to make women who stay at home feel bad. I just think it is sad that in the US a lot of women don't have the option of daycare (monetarily) or they don't trust the system. The lower working rate among mothers in the US simply perpetuates inequality in the work place (along with wasting of women's education) and that is what makes me sad.
- 1 February 2009 at 08:14
- Abbie said...
I have to strongly disagree with your very last statements Sea Legs Girl (though I do agree with the monetary price of daycare and a distrust for the system). I think the lower working rate among mothers has very little to do with inequality. There are hundreds of thousands of mothers who choose to work in the US. Mothers who stay home I believe, do so mainly by choice, not because of inequality.
And I am hoping that I read your comment in the wrong way when you stated that mothers not working is a waste of their education. It is anything but that. I don't feel that staying home with my daughter is a waste of my six years of education. Anything but. My daughter has an educated mother who has traveled extensively and appreciates foreign culture, speaks two foreign languages fluently, holds a bachelors and masters in art related fields, appreciates music, reading and a healthy lifestyle. I would rather she be watched over and cared for by me than by someone who holds a "degree" in daycare.
The role of mother is one of the most important and if one is religious, sacred, roles women can have. The influence of a mother on a child is something that can never be replaced by anyone else. It is by no means easy and I know you know that too from first hand experience. But don't think that if you were to stay home with the Bois that your education would be a waste. That is almost an insult to motherhood.
- 1 February 2009 at 19:42
- Heather said...
I think that it's just fine to go to work but I don't think being a stay at home mom should be considered the easy lifestyle.
I stay at home. My husband travels. I get no help and have to manage a house and her 24 hours a day... okay, I get 3-5 hours on the weekend. It is not an easy lifestyle.
It is true though that for us it's cheaper for me to stay at home than to pay for daycare and associated costs with me working.
- 5 February 2009 at 03:11
- Nali's Mom said...
Have to jump in here - I am a stay-at-home mom of a 3 yo and currently 8 mo preggo w/number 2. I never expected to stay home. I fully planned to return to work but when the time came, I just couldn't do it. That's not to say that this was an easy "choice" for me or my family. It has required not only economic sacrifice but sacrificing to some extent my very identity. The loss of friends that I had primarily through work made the first 8 months extremely lonely. Now, I have a great base of other SAHM friends but it has taken time and work to build those relationships. I don't plan (neither can we afford) to stay home indefinitely perhaps another 3 years or so but nothing can replace this time w/my daughter (soon to be daughters). If you are "lucky" enough to work OR stay at home, I think the best indicator of your level of happiness is the support you receive from your significant other and friends. As long as they are there to support you, validate your choices and share your stress it'll make either decision easier and will help you be the best mom you can be.
And as an aside, if in the United States companies were more willing to retain their well-compensated employees by allowing them to go part-time for a few years as opposed to this all or nothing (don't work or 40 plus hours) then I think more highly educated women would make the choice to return to work. I live in L.A. - to work a 9hour day (which for me would be ridiculous w/a small child anyway) then commute 1 1/2 each way to work is not a "choice" I can afford to make right now.
- 6 February 2009 at 06:48
- mcd137 said...
Just another SAHM who had to chime in. I have a college degree (put myself through). I have had my own business, so I know from hard work. It has been my experience that being home with a 2 year-old and a 6-month old is Very.Hard.Work. Constant. Mind-numbing. But yet, I want to be here. I mean, what else is there, really, in life? Food, sex, and your babies. That was true for the cave(wo)men, and fundamentally it's true for us today. Oh, and crossword puzzles. Like those, too.
- 9 February 2009 at 03:29
- Stephanie said...
I couldn't afford to pay someone with my qualifications to take care of my kids, so I decided to do it myself. ;-)
Seriously though, I wouldn't have missed this experience for the world. Hand my kids over to someone with a degree in childcare? No way. I'm too selfish.
- 10 April 2009 at 09:37


text:
Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation
552 pages
April 2007
Table of Contents
Part 1: Understanding and Exploiting Windows Networks.
Chapter 1: Network Investigation Overview.
Chapter 2: The Microsoft Network Structure.
Chapter 3: Beyond the Windows GUI.
Chapter 4: Windows Password Issues.
Chapter 5: Windows Ports and Services.
Part 2: Analyzing the Computer.
Chapter 6: Live-Analysis Techniques.
Chapter 7: Windows File Systems.
Chapter 8: The Registry Structure.
Chapter 9: Registry Evidence.
Chapter 10: Tool Analysis.
Part 3: Analyzing the Logs.
Chapter 11: Text-Based Logs.
Chapter 12: Windows Event Logs.
Chapter 13: Logon and Account Logon Events.
Chapter 14: Other Audit Events.
Chapter 15: Forensic Analysis of Event Logs.
Chapter 16: Presenting the Results.
Appendix A: The Bottom Line.
Author Information
Steve Bunting is a captain with the University of Delaware Police Department, where he is responsible for computer forensics, video forensics, and investigations involving computers. He has more than thirty years experience in law enforcement, and his background in computer forensics is extensive. He is a Certified Computer Forensics Technician (CCFT) and an EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE). He was the recipient of the 2002 Guidance Software Certified Examiner Award of Excellence. He has a bachelor's degree in applied professions/business management from Wilmington College and a computer applications certificate in network environments from the University of Delaware. He has conducted computer forensic examinations for numerous local, state, and federal agencies on a variety of cases, including extortion, homicide, embezzlement, child exploitation, intellectual property theft, and unlawful intrusions into computer systems. He has testified in court on numerous occasions as a computer forensics expert. He has taught computer forensics for Guidance Software, makers of EnCase, and taught as a lead instructor at all course levels. He has been a presenter at several seminars and workshops, is the author of numerous white papers, and is the primary author of the book EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCE: EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide , which was published by Sybex in early 2006. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
New to This Edition
- A focus on investigating criminal activity and not simply inappropriate use of company networks and systems
- Guidance that enables students to present this technically complicated material in simple terms with language and analogies that prosecutors, judges, and juries can readily understand.
- Coverage of the emerging field of "live forensics," where investigators examine a computer, server, or network while it is still running to obtain evidence. (The standard practice has been to perform investigations on unplugged machines or data files that have been seized and taken back to the lab. However, once the machine is unplugged, valuable evidence may be lost.)
|Download Title
|Files to Support the Chapter 16 Electronic Reports
|Click to Download


text:
This is a story about a girl named Sage and her best...
One direction282730
- by ZaynsMirror0112 & niallhoran0913
- Rating:
- Published: 6 Aug 2013
- Updated: 18 Dec 2013
- Status: In Progress
These are lyrics to the one direction song from Up all night tour, Take me home tour, and the new album Where we are as they come out. Also I will make a list of some covers that they did. There will be lists at random times.
Join MovellasFind out what all the buzz is about. Join now to start sharing your creativity and passion
Loading ...


text:
VCA Bradshaw Animal Hospital is seeking an Emergency Veterinarian to join our thriving, multi-doctor, 24-hour general and emergency practice in Elk Grove, California.
We'™ve been serving the local community'"as well as the nearby cities of Sacramento, Galt and Lodi'"since 1977. Over the years, we'™ve evolved into a full service practice with 22 small animal doctors and a well-trained, friendly support staff.
Our state-of-the-art facility is well-equipped with ultrasound, endoscopy, digital radiography, dentistry and chiropractic services.
We would love to welcome someone who will share our friendly, outgoing, collaborative, enthusiastic personality and is eager to join a fast-paced, friendly group of professionals. This is a wonderful opportunity for the right candidate. We value a work-life balance. This is an Emergency doctor'™s dream job: an established reputable hospital with a strong, loyal referral base in a beautiful building with state-of-the-art equipment. You will have the ability to work a rotation of emergency shifts/day shifts/overnight with opportunity for GP shifts if desired. We provide a comprehensive benefits package, support in building and growing your service and the stability that is inherent in a company like VCA.
As a member of the VCA family, your passion for medicine and compassion for pets and people is matched with our commitment to your professional growth. Among the reasons to consider joining VCA are:
VCA Bradshaw adds value to your compensation package with the following:
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
Knoxville, TN 37996
Personnel Directory
Disclaimer · Indicia · EEO/AA Statement/Non-Discrimination Statement


text:
Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylic colors with a consistency similar to heavy cream. Produced from lightfast pigments, not dyes, they offer very strong colors with very thin consistencies. No fillers or extenders are added and the pigment load is comparable to GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics.
Unlike mixtures of heavy-bodied paints and water which produce weak color and films by dilution, Fluid Acrylics contain high pigment levels suspended in an acrylic polymer vehicle. The result offers fine dispersion, high tinting strength, durability, flexibility and good adhesion. Fluid Acrylics are ideal for spraying, brushing, staining, and can be mixed with other GOLDEN Products. Blend with Airbrush Medium for spray application. Excellent for fabric application.
Available in 4 and 16 oz. Quarts and gallons are available by special order. Please contact us for prices.
Health & Safety: Some colors contain a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.
Due to inherent differences in computer monitors, colors displayed on this page may not accurately represent the actual color.


text:
Find Offices & Recruiters
Sign In
Need help? Call 800-298-6440
The Standard in Attorney Search and Placement
Welcome to the jobs section of the BCG Attorney Search Web site. We are constantly updating our jobs seven days a week. As a firm dedicated to research, our ability to forge strong relationships with law firms allows us to offer our candidates a breadth of opportunities that we believe is unrivaled anywhere.
Back to Attorney Job Search results
Delaware - Wilmington
United States
Wilmington office of our client seeks patent attorney with 5-10 years of experience. The candidate should have a book of business of $400,000+.
This law firm strives to provide services that clients can trust. Their areas of practice include bankruptcy litigation, business litigation, cannabis law, construction law, family law, legal ethics, intellectual property, and more. Their offices are located across Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York.
IP - Patent General, Intellectual Property - General
New York
125 Park Avenue, 25th floorNew York,New York 10017
Phone(212) 232-0277 | Fax (213) 895-7306
Email email@example.com
BCG Attorney Search Reviews New York
Submit Resume
Email a Colleague
Printable Version
Share of Facebook
Share of Twitter
Call 800-298-6440
Social Share
Download Apps


text:
Cheat Sheet
Persuasion & Influence For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Persuasion and influence are key skills both in the world of business and in everyday social life. This Cheat Sheet gives you some key tips on how to up your game in practising persuasion and influence in general, in making a great first impression, and in building rapport with others.
Your Persuasion and Influence To-Do List
This is a list of behaviours for you to adopt that can help you become a person of persuasion and influence. Rather than tackling them all at once, pick one or two to begin with and focus on them for a week or so until you've embedded the action into your behaviour.
You might also text yourself an occasional reminder, enlist a friend's support, or even tape your list to your bathroom mirror so you can look at it every morning and night as you brush your teeth.
Show up on time. While some people use the waiting game as a power play, keep this careful thought: Unless you're the bride (who's allowed to keep people waiting for a few minutes), show up on time, prepared and ready to go.
Dress the part. Like actors at work, look the part you're playing. Determine what attire is appropriate for the image you want to portray and dress accordingly.
Treat others with respect. When you show that you value others, their opinion of you rises, increasing your level of influence and your ability to persuade.
Demonstrate a genuine interest in people and projects. People like feeling special, valued and appreciated. If you show your interest in them, they feel good about you. And when people feel good about you, they're prepared to do what you ask of them.
Aim to lessen the other's load. If you can help someone, do. The person remembers you with positive feelings long after the action. As they says, 'People may not remember what you said or what you did, but they always remember how you made them feel.'
Be generous in your words and actions. Speak well of people and behave with kindness. Acting with negativity tarnishes your reputation. People figure that if you're saying something bad about one person now, nothing can stop you from speaking negatively about them in the future. Avoid judging and gossiping. Negativity comes back to bite you when you least expect it.
Think about your words and actions. Determine which behaviours can get you to your goals and which are likely to keep you from achieving them.
Envision the end point. Include as much practical detail as you can in order to energise you and keep you going. When the going gets tough, when you meet set-backs and resistance, having a clear vision of what you're aiming for helps keep you on track.
Make sure your arguments and point of view meet the other person's needs. People are willing to go along with you as long as they feel responsible for their actions, and not because you manipulated, coerced or bullied them.
Making a Great First Impression
Making a powerful first impression helps enormously with persuasion and influence. Follow these recommendations when you want the impression you make to be the best it can possibly be.
Establish and maintain eye contact. When you look someone in the eye, you come across as self-assured and like you mean business. Maintain eye contact 85 per cent of the time during a conversation to appear trustworthy and interested in what the other person's saying. Avoid staring, because that can make you look intimidating and somewhat creepy.
Smile. A warm and friendly smile puts others at their ease and makes you look comfortable and relaxed. When you and the person you want to persuade are at ease and comfortable, you find persuading a lot easier than if you both are feeling tense and uptight.
Stand tall. Place your weight evenly on both feet – hip width apart, one foot slightly ahead of the other – to make you look and feel grounded and confident. Instead of slumping, lift up from your waist and chest, imagining that your shoulder blades are meeting at your spinal cord and melting down your back, and hold your head horizontally to give the impression of someone who's in control.
Claim your space. Wherever you are, act like you belong there. If you're feeling nervous or insecure, silently say to yourself, 'I'm glad to be here and people want to hear what I have to say.' Giving yourself encouraging messages makes you feel good about yourself and sends out an upbeat impression.
Move with purpose. Fiddling fingers, shuffling feet and darting eyes make you look nervous and ill at ease. Make your gestures and expressions clear and meaningful and when you move, do so with focus and energy.
Offer a firm handshake. Whenever you shake someone's hand, put the best of yourself into the gesture. A limp handshake comes across as uncommitted, while a knuckle-cruncher is painful. Meet the other person's hand in an upright position, palm to palm with the webbed skin between your thumb and index finger – known as the thenar space – meeting hers.
Focus on the other person. Engage in a bit of small talk resembling a tennis match, with each person contributing to the conversation in turn. If you monopolise the conversation, you come across as self-involved and uninterested in the other person.
Speak with energy. Your voice conveys an impression of who you are, so make it good. Monotones are uninspiring, and a voice that can't be heard comes across as uncertain. Although people think faster than they speak, if you stick to about 145 words per minute, loud enough to be heard without blasting your listener's ear drums, you should be able to maintain people's attention.
Building Rapport in Relationships
Rapport is about making a two-way connection between people. It is the foundation for any relationship. When it comes to building rapport, size doesn't matter. You can develop rapport on a one-to-one basis or with a group of thousands. Great leaders understand the value of rapport in persuading people to adopt their suggestions and in directing their behaviours. Follow these principles to establish rapport:
Seek connection. Get to know the other person. Take a genuine interest in her. Find out who she is and where she comes from. Uncover what she enjoys doing at work and at play. The more you know about someone – including background, attitudes and values – the more points you have for finding where you connect.
Reflect back what you observe. Notice how she breathes and match your pattern to hers. Pick up on the key words and favourite phrases she uses in her conversation and subtly build these into your own.
Pay attention to the way she likes to handle information. Is she a detail person or does she talk about the big picture? When you speak, replicate her patterns in yours. Adopt a similar stance to hers in your gestures, expressions and postures.
Give her the benefit of the doubt. Believe that whatever she intends to convey is for the good, even if her words and actions may not always seem to support this belief. By treating her as if her heart was in the right place, you're more likely to establish rapport than if you don't.
Treat the other person's resources with respect. Time, energy, favourite people and money are important to people.
Stay in the flow. Rapport is a process not a state. You may fall in and out of rapport several times during the course of a conversation or meeting. Indeed, you may want to break rapport at certain times such as when you have a task to complete, need to speak with someone else, or just want to end the conversation. But like switching on and off a light, you can reconnect whenever you need or want to.


text:
0 Items (Empty)
Recently Viewed Items
Your Shopping Cart
Your shopping cart is currently empty. If you would like to make a purchase today, add items to your shopping cart.
Gas Scooter Pull Start #2 - This pull starter fits many models we sell as well as many other models on the market. Make sure you take off your pull starter to see which one you need before ordering. There are 3 different types that all look the same on the outside. This gas scooter recoil fits 43cc, 49cc, 50cc, 52cc Motors.


text:
STRIFE TECHNICAL: It is our firm belief that you don't have to sacrifice comfort for performance. The Strife Technical is our top level athletic sock with an amazingly comfortable feel. Enhanced technology features never sacrifice comfort but foster top level athletic performance. The Strife has a base fabric upgrade to the thinner AdrenaLite technical fabric for light weight support. Unlike other rough performance fabrics AdrenaLite still has the incredibly soft Adrenaline feel. An AdrenaMesh upper and toe ventilation port keeps the feet dry during the most rigorous athletic competition. AdrenaBand 2.0 arch technology adds top level support while AdrenaGrid heel padding aids in fit and injury prevention. The AdrenaGIll forefront technology has the dual function of preventing bunching allowing for greater foot flex while also providing additional ventilation. Quality construction with padded and reinforced heel and toe.
BENEFITS: No need to sacrifice comfort for technical performance with this ultra-performance field sock. The New AdrenaLite fabric foundation provides for a more supportive and snug fit. Simple and effective technology enhancements blend Adrenaline comfort with top end field performance. CUT: Mid-Calf cut with a comfort reinforced toe and heel design allows for a smooth slip on and stability. Tighter fit for enhanced performance and stability. We believe you should save the fight for the field and not when you put your sock on.
FEATURES: AdrenaLite foundational fabric is thinner and adds stability compression to the foot for field play enhancement. AdrenaBand 2.0 arch support for enhanced support for demanding field play a snug fit and injury prevention. AdrenaGill forefoot flex technology for increased mobility and superior ventilation. AdrenaMesh reinforced toe ventilation port maintains snug support while allowing breathability. AdrenaGrid heel protector pad decreases risk of injury while offering blister protection through its anti-slide function. Reinforced padded foot base adds a layer of injury prevention. Double Reinforced heel and toe for comfort and durability.


text:
This story appears in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Watching his daughter on a homemade ladder smoothing varnish over the red-and-yellow trim of their large new log house, Norbu Choden smiled with the satisfaction that even if there was no getting the Chinese out of Tibet, he'd finally figured out how to benefit from their decades-long occupation of his homeland. "Once you understand that they're never going to help us," he said, "you realize that you have to make your own future."
Norbu made his by transforming himself from a herdsman to a middleman. Like many of the five million Tibetans living under China's flag, he'd spent nearly all of his 48 years in eastern Tibet driving shaggy yaks through alpine meadows, eating their meat and butter, living in a tent woven from their coarse black wool, barely getting by from one brutal winter to the next. Now he leaves the hard work to others, while he buys and sells for profit.
The middleman has a long and storied history among Chinese, but his vital economic role has largely eluded the grasp of Tibetans. Before Norbu's metamorphosis, he would look on with envy as Chinese from neighboring Sichuan Province arrived each spring, buying up a wrinkled little fungus that he and other nomads had dug from the ground in their spare time. The Chinese then sold the brown Cordyceps, known as caterpillar fungus, for huge profits to traditional medicine makers.
Gradually the thought took hold: If the Chinese can do it, why couldn't Tibetans? Why couldn't he? The government in Beijing had long since declared that personal wealth was no longer a social evil; indeed, Deng Xiaoping himself had said back in the 1980s that to get rich was "glorious." So, nervous but hopeful, Norbu sold off his animals two years ago and went into the Cordyceps business.
Earning as much as $750 a pound from medicine makers in Chengdu, the Sichuan capital, Norbu made his risk pay off. Now he is by his own assessment a rich man. He displays the symbols of his new wealth: the coral-and-turquoise-studded jewelry he and his wife wear on their fingers and wrists, around their necks, and in their long, glossy black hair; the copper pots gleaming in the spacious log-walled kitchen; the sunny mountain mural in the main room. His rosy-cheeked wife still wears the chuba, the wraparound woolen robe traditionally favored by both women and men, but Norbu, tall and rugged, has switched to dark trousers and open-collared white shirt—what Tibetans refer to as "Chinese clothes."
Norbu says what satisfies him most is that he's used some of his wealth to help restore the Buddhist shrine, or stupa, across the dustblown road from his house. For him, as with nearly all Tibetans, Buddhism is a constant, overriding presence, involving never ending rituals to assure good fortune and, ultimately, rebirth. In Tibet, as in all Buddhist countries, the faithful erect stupas and place relics inside them to bring good to their lives. Norbu's shrine was one of thousands of religious structures destroyed by Red Guards during the decade-long Cultural Revolution launched in 1966; by the time it was over, youthful communist zealots had killed millions throughout China—including tens of thousands of Tibetans.
But Norbu represents the stubborn side of Tibetans. He and some of his neighbors recently won permission from the local government to reconstruct the stupa. "They told us that if we were willing to pay for it, we could do as we liked." Now freshly whitewashed and gilt trimmed, it resembles a giant upended ice-cream cone, gleaming in the brilliant sunlight.
For me Norbu's experiences suggested the first tentative emergence of what could become a significant change in Tibet. More than a decade has passed since I was last there, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and a previous civil uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Martial law was in effect then, and foreigners weren't permitted to travel outside the city, where drab concrete Chinese buildings were already overwhelming traditional earthen and stone Tibetan architecture.
This time, though, I traveled more than 4,000 miles throughout the Tibetan Plateau, where 85 percent of the people live as subsistence herdsmen and farmers. I also made side trips to Nepal, a funnel for escapees, and India, where 100,000 Tibetans live. There I spoke with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan god-king who fled Lhasa in March 1959 and established a government-in-exile in northern India. The 130,000 Tibetan exiles around the world still dream of the Dalai Lama marching triumphantly home to a newly independent Tibet.
This unrealistic hope has been weakening ever since 1965 when China separated most of the Tibetan Plateau from the rest of China and designated it the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Parts of the eastern Tibetan states of Kham (where Norbu lives) and Amdo were made into so-called autonomous prefectures and grafted onto the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan. In reality neither the TAR nor the prefectures enjoy autonomy—they are as much under Beijing's thumb as any part of China, with dissent banned and dissenters punished. For this reason I have changed the names of most Tibetans in the story.
As with other Westerners, what I anticipated finding in Tibet today was heavily conditioned by the exile government's well-organized information machinery. The exiles admit almost no progress back in their homeland, and I expected a people and culture in deep decay. Finding Norbu and others like him, therefore, came as a great surprise. They are by any standard middle class, a breed of Tibetans that barely existed historically and is all but unknown to the outside world today.
Beyond these individuals I was also surprised to find signs of the modern world spreading across Tibet: robed monks wearing sunglasses and riding motorcycles; nomads' tents powered by solar panels; slopewalled adobe houses sprouting TV dishes. At Gonsar monastery on the eastern plateau, 20,000 people massed for a week in a sea of white tents to pay homage to a five-story-tall golden Buddha statue newly installed in a hilltop shrine.While some came on horseback, more drove in trucks, vans, SUVs, and wagons pulled by coughing tractors.
The greatest shift taking place everywhere in China is that with economic freedom now a reality, people are becoming increasingly independent minded. Tibetans are beginning to follow, but slowly and fearfully. Initiative does not come easily to Tibetans, conditioned by Buddhism to be content with their lot—overwhelmingly as impoverished serfs and nomads—and to await happiness in the next life. Added to this, Beijing's spending on agriculture, transportation, and other infrastructure has helped foster a culture of dependence.
Even given their first signs of economic initiative, Tibetans are nowhere near achieving political self-determination. Although many are loathe to accept it, the reality is that China is there to stay. Just as most Americans believe they are the legitimate owners of land once occupied by Native Americans, most Chinese say Tibet is a legitimate, historic part of the motherland. They'd no sooner return Tibet to the Tibetans than the United States would return South Dakota to the Sioux. And unlike the U.S., which had no prior claim on Indian territory, China does at least have an arguable historic claim on Tibet: Chinese emperors dominated Tibet during most of the 18th and 19th centuries. For more than 1,000 years before that, China and Tibet made war on one another repeatedly. Fortunes reversed again and again, at times leaving Tibet with the upper hand. China lost control early in the 20th century before the communists took over Tibet once and for all in 1959.
During the Cultural Revolution China tried to commit cultural genocide by destroying almost all the holy places of Tibetan Buddhism, though it has since pursued a less aggressive policy. As a result the number of active monasteries has been cut from 2,500 before "liberation" to 1,800, and the number of monks is down from 120,000 to 46,000. Now the Chinese government is betting that as Tibetans continue to join the money race, they'll become more pliant and less committed to the Dalai Lama and to what Beijing alleges is his scheme to split China by inciting rebellion in Tibet.
While Norbu is a devout Buddhist, rebellion is the furthest thing from his mind. He believes that he and others like him have the ability to improve their own lives and the welfare of Tibet. "We are taking our fate into our own hands," he said. "By growing rich we're able to support our religion and our language so that our children will be able to remain Tibetans."
In fact, everywhere I went in Tibet, the faithful were still in evidence: pilgrims in dust-coated chubas and Mao-style padded blue jackets packed into open-bed trucks, heading for temples; worshipers carrying out the repetitive drills of Tibetan Buddhism—circumambulating shrines and temples, always clockwise; passing loops of prayer beads through their fingers, keeping careful tally as they strive for millions of repetitions; twirling little prayer wheels around, around, around.
Once, driving at 14,000 feet in the eastern TAR, I nearly ran over two monks sprawled in the middle of a narrow dirt road. They were prostrating their way across the country to Lhasa, a thousand miles and two years distant. This is perhaps the most extreme expression of religious fervor in a society that honors extremes—but it isn't unusual. The monks, protected only by rawhide knee pads and wooden blocks strapped to their hands, lowered and extended themselves from toe to nose, scrambled to their feet, took two steps forward, then repeated the whole routine. After swerving hard and screeching to a halt, I got out and asked the men the obvious question. "For His Holiness the Dalai Lama," one replied after a moment's thought.
Everywhere, too, were the silent but dynamic signs of Buddhism and its affiliated animist culture. Hardly an hour would go by that I didn't pass outcroppings of rock with the Buddhist mantra chiseled in bas-relief: Om Mani Padme Hum . . . Om Mani Padme Hum . . ."Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus," again and again. Prayer flags—red, green, white, blue, yellow—strung from posts and trees like pennants on a sailing ship fluttered their appeals heavenward. At high passes and across table-flat pastures, rocks the size of bread loaves were stacked meticulously into squared-off cairns—more modest versions of stupas. Chinese authorities, despite their paranoia about religion, evidently don't consider these symbols dangerous.
While religion is crucial to Tibetan culture, the language— incomprehensible to Chinese, almost none of whom bother to learn it—is the second pillar of Tibetan identity. In this as well the new entrepreneurs are helping, financing schools and colleges to teach Tibetan to young Tibetans, who are in danger of losing their language as they become proficient in Chinese, the language they must use if theyâre to get ahead.
One of these young people—Sonam—traveled with me as guide and interpreter; he was fluent in Tibetan,Mandarin, and English.We met in Chengdu in Sichuan Province, but before starting out, Sonam wanted to receive a blessing from a friend, a lama, who was in town. This senior monk, in his early 60s, told me he'd sat out 30 years of "liberation," Cultural Revolution, and other Chinese-inflicted horrors as a hermit, meditating in a cave. Five years ago, having reached the level of spiritual growth he was seeking, he rejoined the world and found that Chinese were fascinated by his story. He was now on the lecture circuit, spreading Tibetan Buddhism to born-again former communists.
The lama received us in his room in a bare-bones hotel where he and a large party of aides—monks, nuns, and laypeople—occupied two entirefloors. As he sat cross-legged on his bed, wrapped in a maroon robe, his young assistants flowed silently in and out with an endless stream of plastic trays bearing foam cups of instant noodles, hard candies, apples, bananas, cheese, buttered tea, and Coca-Cola. All had been paid for by the lama's followers—including some wealthy Chinese women.
Tibetan Buddhism, said the holy man, was becoming fashionable among sophisticated Chinese. "Some of it is due to their awareness that Buddhism is popular with famous American movie stars," he said, "and part is because their lives are empty and they feel a need to fill that emptiness with spirituality. In addition, he said with a vague smile, some are attracted by a misunderstanding of tantric practice, an esoteric element of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, which they associate with a more erotic sex life.
After taking our leave, Sonam and I headed west toward Tibet. An hour or so out of town, the four-lane superhighway gave way to lesser roads, some newly paved, some barely there, some holed deep enough to swallow our car, others terrifyingly narrow enough to drop it, and us, into bottomless ravines. Accommodations, too, deteriorated: Within a couple of days in Tibet, we slipped from hot water to cold to none; from indoor toilet to outdoor privy to a squat in the bushes; from clean linen to questionable to probably-never-washed to bare mattress.
Along the way I encountered my most enduring image from anywhere in Tibet: thousands of men and women—Chinese and Mongols as well as Tibetans—digging, hammering, blasting, pouring concrete, cooking tar, and meticulously assembling rough stone into towering retaining walls as they pushed an expanding web of roads mile after mile westward through the mountains and across the great Tibetan Plateau.
Like the long knives Tibetan nomads hang from their belts, new roads into Tibet can cut deeply, slicing away millennial layers of isolation and ignorance, clearing access to the world and to almost anything money can buy. But the roads can also cut into a rich—and fragile—culture. Still, although I found no shortage of Tibetans who damned the Chinese, few criticized the roads. "We have to admit that only China could accomplish this," a farmer with a brown walnut of a face, astride a wheezing one-lung motor tricycle, told me as we waited more than four hours for a pick-and-shovel gang to clear a rock slide. "Our own government never did and never could."
This mammoth construction project is key to Beijing's "Develop the West" program, intended to modernize the lagging economy of western China, which includes the Tibetan Plateau. The eventual objective is to fill this open territory—as vast as Western Europe—with millions of Chinese now living in economically deprived parts of China. Just as Horace Greeley advised an earlier generation of ambitious young Americans to go West, the authorities are urging Chinese to move in the same direction. So far results have been mixed, because lowland Chinese find the altitude, the dry, cold climate—and the Tibetans themselves—unwelcoming. Beijing's statistics, widely considered extremely low on this point, show that 122,000 Chinese are now living in Tibet. Those who do migrate generally stay no more than a couple of years, just long enough to save some money, before returning home.
Mutual animosity runs high: Chinese despise Tibetans as ignorant, lazy, superstitious, and dirty. Tibetans hate and fear the Chinese as cruel and money grubbing. The resident Chinese seem genuinely puzzled by the antagonism. "We're bringing them the benefits of a superior culture," a couple running a tiny Chinese restaurant in the Wild West town of Dari, near Sichuan Province's boundary with the TAR, told me, with what sounded like utter sincerity. "We don't understand why they don't welcome us with open arms." They didn't understand either how numbing it must be for people with an ancient culture to realize that their country is permanently occupied by what they consider to be a foreign government, or how disquieting it is when a convoy of olive-drab trucks loaded with grim-faced armed Chinese troops rumbles past a village. I passed these convoys on several occasions, and each time I noticed that the Tibetans on the roadside would glance up, then quickly look away, fearful of making eye contact with a Chinese soldier.
A sign of why Tibetans resent the Chinese can be seen, at a distance, in the form of brick-and-stone-walled compounds sprinkled across the Tibetan Plateau—the laogai, "reform through labor" camps. Statistics on the prisoners in these camps are almost meaningless: Beijing claims that in 1995 there were 685 camps holding 1.2 million prisoners throughout China. Harry Wu, a former inmate now living in the U.S. and known around the world for his indefatigable struggle against the Chinese authorities, insists there are nearly twice as many camps and up to eight million prisoners across the country. Perhaps 10 percent of them are held for their political activities. According to Wu, camps in the TAR hold some 4,000 Tibetans, and countless thousands more are imprisoned in neighboring provinces. He says the Tibetans, along with other prisoners, are tortured and forced to work at hard labor and produce cheap goods for international trade; officially they are spared another indignity: the government's harvesting of bodily organs for sale.
Tibetans I met acknowledged that along with oppression China has brought a standard of living far higher than that of their parents under the Dalai Lama's rule. The Chinese have built hundreds of schools, where until the 1950s there had been just a handful of nonreligious schools. They've built hospitals. Everywhere I traveled, they'd halted deforestation and are replanting trees, having learned through bitter experience in the summer of 1998 that the denuding of Tibet caused the Yangtze to flood, drowning 4,000 people. They've built airports and are beginning the first Tibetan railroad. They've also installed a telecommunications network, one that enabled me to dial directly to the U.S. Despite having a phone line to India, the best the Dalai Lama could do to send word across Lhasa from the dim recesses of the Potala Palace was to dispatch a runner.
Yet Tibetans almost invariably also said that China was implementing development solely to help exploit Tibet's natural resources. "Their goal is to extract all our treasures—timber, wildlife, gold, uranium—"and to make China rich and powerful," said a man in his late 20s in Chamdo, a town on the banks of the Mekong River.
It is in rough-hewn towns like Chamdo that China's colonization is most noticeable. Along streets either ankle deep in putrid mud or swirling with choking red dust, the air foul with sour, eyeburning smoke from yak-dung cooking fires, new Chinese arrivals throw together featureless concrete shops, restaurants, and brothels to serve the needs of the road crews and other transient laborers. The new one—and two—story buildings bear signs in two languages—Tibetan script on top and larger Chinese characters below.
As thankless as I found these towns, dirt-poor Tibetan nomads are as dazzled as the proverbial rubes who see Times Square for the first time. Herdsmen in filthy chubas roam the dirt streets in clusters, gawking into storefronts at Chinese women in short dresses cutting customers' hair or chatting over cans of Coca-Cola. A single tube of pink or purple neon in the window of a brothel can be as exciting as all the lights of Broadway. "I would like to go in," said a man in his 20s with lank, shoulder-length hair, in the little town of Jamdun, a few miles east of the Mekong River. "But I have no money." Few Tibetans do, but that doesn't stop them from aspiring to the pleasures of the towns. And Beijing seems to be counting on that hope to eventually win Tibetan hearts and minds. One soft evening in the northeastern corner of the TAR, I shared dinner with Huadon and his wife, who—despite having suffered, as he put it, "the full misery of liberation and the Cultural Revolution"—seem to be bearing out that hope.
Both 54, they'd lost family members among the more than a million Tibetans killed since 1950; they'd never been to school; Huadon had been frustrated in his boyhood dream of becoming a monk. After the agricultural commune where they lived during the Maoist era of the 1950s and '60s was disbanded, they began growing barley, the staple of the Tibetan diet. They scrimped and searched for business opportunities. Now Huadon owned a small cement plant and a general store, which his wife ran, and a blue pickup truck. Despite his lasting anger over the past,Huadon didn't hesitate to tell me that "there's no comparison between the way we live and the way our parents did."
Huadon and his family certainly seemed comfortably off. As is the custom each summer throughout rural Tibet, they and about 20 other families were spending three weeks relaxing, camped in a grassy field riotously spread with yellow and lavender wildflowers against a stunning backdrop of snow-streaked mountains. A hacking gas-powered generator, a sure indicator of rural prosperity, provided electric light and pumped Tibetan and Chinese pop tunes over the fancifully embroidered large white tents.
At the open front of their tent, Huadon's wife was cooking on a portable gas stove. She'd loaded a long table with dried yak meat, huge mutton ribs—which we ate with a hunting knife passed from hand to hand—bowls of steaming rice and curry, salted nuts and seeds, cookies, candies, watermelons, bottles of tepid Chinese beer, soda, juice, and water. "This is our time for forgetting everything and to eat and drink and have fun," said Huadon, as we raised unending toasts.
I asked about their three children. The couple had sent their elder son through college, and he was now working as a teacher. Their daughter was a Buddhist nun. And, to Huadon's great joy and satisfaction, their younger son, at 16, was becoming the monk Huadon hadn't been allowed to be. The Chinese government bans monastic education before the age of 18, but devout parents like Huadon quietly ignore the law. "I believe that my son and his generation will save Buddhism and Tibetan culture," he said.
People like Huadon and Norbu, who use their participation in the new economy to help preserve the old ways, represent the leading edge of change in Tibet. I spent my most comfortable night of the trip in a shiny new hotel in the burgeoning town of Jyekundo, a few hours drive from Huadon's camp. Proud of his success, Gama Sera, the owner, was pleased to let me use his real name. "I was working for a state-owned bank and came to realize that because of this town's location at the juncture of six counties, a decent hotel could do well here. So I proposed that the local government lease me the state guesthouse for 20 years. Very quickly, they agreed."
The result was a multistoried, tile-faced structure replete with gilt dragons on red-lacquered pillars, a glass-domed lobby with marble floor and electric-eye doors. Clean rooms, clean beds, clean bathrooms, fresh towels, soap, toilet paper, TV spouting Chinese dramas and advertisements for luxury condominium communities in Beijing, and, most delicious after days of red dust and no showers, the prominently advertised "24-hour hot water."
Gama Sera, too, is contributing to the rejuvenation of Buddhism. With his earnings, he said, "I'm helping support a lama whose teachings I follow."
With religious practice woven so inextricably through the fabric of their lives, and with China having systematically undermined it, the Tibetans' fear of cultural genocide is well-founded. Although individuals are permitted to worship, owners of photos of the Dalai Lama, which are seized from temples and even personal shrines, have been jailed for as long as six years. Monks feel the lash of Chinese control most severely. In the Dalai Lama's day the power of the religious establishment was complete. Nearly a fourth of all Tibetan males took the tonsure and maroon robes of monkhood. The great monasteries counted members in the thousands and owned huge tracts of farming and grazing land. They enjoyed the right to use peasants as laborers and to recruit little boys, some of whom they may have used for sex. Claiming moral outrage, although in reality far more concerned with loosening Buddhism's hold on Tibetans, the Chinese have jailed thousands of monks during their occupation.
In Lhasa, I spoke with 73-year-old Tashi Tsering,who also allowed me to use his real name. He said that at the age of ten he'd been recruited into the Dalai Lama's dance troupe and chose to become a drombo, or passive sex partner, for a senior monk. Tsering, who has written a book about his life, said the drombo practice was widespread, but I was unable to find any other Tibetan willing to acknowledge awareness of this sexual activity in the monasteries.
Lhasa is the spiritual focus of Tibetan Buddhism, and in the heart of the city is the Potala, the deep-red, 13-story hilltop palace that has been the residence of all Dalai Lamas since the 17th century. The Potala is now a museum, and fewer than a dozen of its thousand rooms are open to visitors. Bored Chinese tour guides deliver rote recitations on paintings and statuary in a smattering of languages. I found a few men hanging around languidly in the dim halls, mainly for atmosphere, I thought. But like Tibetans I encountered elsewhere, they were willing to risk being caught to let a foreigner know their true allegiance. One, prayer beads in hand, sidled up to me and whispered, "I love the Dalai Lama. I think of him every day."
The monastic establishment today is a faint shadow of what it had been before the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa just steps ahead of the People's Liberation Army. I visited six monasteries, and at each one the nervous whispers were the same: By reducing the number of monks, the Chinese are attempting to destroy our religion.
At Derge, an 18th-century town carved into the side of a ravine rising steeply off the east bank of the Zi Qu tributary of the Yangtze, I met two men in their 20s. For protection, I will not identify their homes, but they'd been traveling by truck for nearly a month, and now they, as I, were gawking at the Derge Parkhang. This exquisite carmine, gilt-roofed, three-story printing house, which looks like a temple rather than a factory, was built in 1744 to produce traditional unbound books of religious and medical texts. During the 1960s troops of the People's Liberation Army occupied the building, gravely damaging it. The Chinese government, always in search of tourism income, restored it and opened it to visitors in the late 1990s.
Led by a Chinese government guide, after paying the 20-cent admission fee (no charge for Tibetans), we walked past walls newly painted with religious murals of fantastic demons and through unlit rooms lined with floor-to-ceiling racks holding 270,000 ancient wooden printing plates that had survived the Chinese army and subsequent neglect. Tibetan men, many physically disabled, sat by threes on the floor, each team slathering the plates with thick black ink, pressing them onto sheets of rough paper, and peeling off some 2,500 pages an hour of the classical texts. This impressive output, sold inexpensively in bookshops throughout Tibet, appeared to contradict allegations among Tibetans living abroad that the Chinese ban Tibetan-language publishing.
After the tour, as I chatted with the two men, it became evident that they knew a great deal about the tribulations Tibetan monks face today. "Fifteen times a year Chinese officials visit the monasteries and conduct 'patriotic education' classes," said the younger man. "Each class lasts two or three hours. Basically they tell the monks that the Dalai Lama is evil and that he wants to split the motherland. The monks must pretend to listen, but most manage to block it out by chanting silently to themselves." Afterward the monks try to erase anything that might have seeped in by listening to Voice of America Tibetan-language broadcasts on shortwave radios.
In an attempt to counter the impact of the age ban on monastic life, they said that the monks smuggle in boys as young as eight and begin training them in secret. "No one wants to become a monk when they've already danced with girls," the older one said with a little chuckle as he glanced at two gum-chewing young women in diaphanous chubas, tottering past our table on platform shoes.
One afternoon on a roadside in eastern Tibet, I spoke with a monk I'd waved down to ask directions. He told me about his monastery, which once held 500 monks and 300 students and had seen those numbers more than halved by government edict. Like other monks I spoke with, he measured the strength of Buddhism by the length of monastic rolls. "Only when we're many," he said, "can we properly teach the people that it is much better to be poor, as long as you have your faith and know that peace is coming, than it is to live in a concrete house, wear Chinese clothes, and have a lot to eat, if you're not at peace."
Not all Tibetans agree. "One of the main reasons Tibet was so backward is that too many men were in the monasteries and not contributing toward development," said Arzong, a 39-year-old instructor at the Tibetan Language School in eastern Tibet, about 300 miles southeast of Derge. "I continually advise parents to send their children to schools, not to monasteries. Otherwise, our population will remain stagnant, and we'll never be able to compete economically."
In his large, sparsely furnished office, Arzong demonstrated that he was able to communicate on the Internet in Tibetan. "The truth," he said, "is that there are plenty of Tibetan books and literature available, both electronically and in print." Over the summer he was writing a volume on Tibetan grammar for use by teachers and was editing a collection of folktales. He conceded, though, that the only reason for young people to learn their ancestral language was "to preserve Tibetan nationalism."
In these ways do the old and new, tradition and change, exist uneasily side by side. Among the Tibetans, even while those like Norbu, Huadon, and Gama Sera are embracing change, I found a people conflicted by that change. Some candidly acknowledge the hardships and inequities of life under the Dalai Lama. Others grudgingly concede economic progress under China. No one wants to return to the old, often abusive, theocracy. But no one wants the Chinese to remain in Tibet either. They don't miss the old days and its old ways. They simply want their country back.


text:
|Betty Kelley
Larry and Betty Kelley, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0511.
The Decline of Farming in Eastern North Carolina: Larry Kelley shares the details of a lifetime of farming and other rural work while discussing the hardships he and others faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd.
Interviewee: Larry Kelley, Betty Kelley Interviewer: Charles Thompson, Charles Thompson
Duration: 02:07:54 Annotated Excerpts: Listen to and read all 14 excerpts.


text:
Share the experiences, pictures, and general shenanigans of your Nationals 2013 trip.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules


text:
We love our Capiz Shell Chandelier almost as much as our customers do! This item has been quite popular over the years because of its stellar price point…just $358 plus tax and shipping! It is petite, measuring 18″D x 21″H and is ideal for a small space like a city apartment, over a small and chic table. I can see a mirrored table and some lucite chairs to complete the look (which can all be found at The Well Appointed House, of course!).
As followers of our blog and fans of our website (The Well Appointed House), you are eligible for the drawing, which will be held on Friday (yes, in two days!). There is not much time so here are the rules: you must be a registered follower of our blog and you must post a comment under this entry officially entering yourself into the drawing. Good luck! If you aren't the lucky winner, you can purchase the chandelier here!


text:
See? I am real. I'm drawing guest strips for Kim, and I'm lending him my avatar, OOC Shironu Akaineko.
What do you think of my art so far? I got more on my site. shitloads more.
**shameless self promotion space here, here, here and here**
All I want is comments. or flame mail. anything. I CRAVE ATTENTION!
Booya Booya


text:
Stem Cell Research for Patient Treatment Plans
Stem cell scientists use stem cells to understand normal cell physiology, cell function, and development, as well as the mechanisms and progression of various diseases. Scientists hope to use this valuable stem cell research to develop future treatments for diseases. For example:
Scientists can create stem cells with the genetic changes that cause Alzheimer's and study what happens to individual cells and how those events affect other cells. Discovering the inner workings of normal development and disease progression gives scientists a basis to identify key pathways or elements that are "broken" or misused in disease.
When scientists can identify exactly what goes wrong in a particular disease, researchers can then begin testing drugs to see which ones, if any, fix the problem or prevent further damage. They also can experiment with different types of cells and different genetic combinations to see whether certain cells can provide help to damaged cells.
Scientists also can use stem cells to generate tissues for study, testing, and possible therapies. For example, some labs are working on growing replacement skin to treat burns; other labs are working on growing pancreatic cells to treat diabetes.
If researchers can figure out reliable ways to grow tissues that are specific to a particular patient, those methods could be used to help tens of thousands of people who need tissue transplants but can't find a suitable donor. Eventually, scientists hope to be able to grow entire organs in the lab — if they can figure out the right structure and combination of different cell and tissue types and get them to work the way they're supposed to in the body.


text:
Borcich, Brumby and Smith are out.
Chaulk is through and if Carlton get up tonight (please!) and Pickup doesn't visit this thread before tomorrow, he'll be the inaugural winner.
Rest In Peace Craigos
Lol, a 2 week last man standing.
Go AFL
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Haha, will we run it again?
President of SKAS - Kat is King | Proud member of CVAAS - One of the best | LRPLTAS - Rosco rocks!
Go Tigers!
R.I.P. Fardin & Craig
Fascist Dictator of the Heath Davis Appreciation Society
Supporting Petone's Finest since the very start - Iain O'Brien
Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.
Vimes tells it how it is:
So ash chaulk is the first ever AFL Last Man Standing.
Everyone is back in for this week's games.
Carlton vs Hawthorn
Kangaroos vs Adelaide
Western Bulldogs vs Fremantle
Geelong vs Brisbane Lions
Port Adelaide vs Essendon
Richmond vs Melbourne
Sydney vs Collingwood
West Coast vs St. Kilda
Last edited by pasag; 11-06-2007 at 12:57 AM.
I'm gonna go for St Kilda as they sound as if they should be a caribbean island rather than a Melbourne suburb with a dirty, dirty beach.
Oi, that's my beach you're talking about. Geelong for me.
When I was in St. Kilda's at Christmas, I saw a dead rat and a dead seagull on the beach. There were also a few locals skinny-dipping in what was freezing cold water. The rat and seagull looked a lot more pleasant, and suffice it to say, rigor-mortis had long since set in on the rat.
I tell you, in that cold no sort of rigor (mortis or otherwise) would have set in on the men skinny dipping. And no, I didn't "check them out" so to speak. I dived into the Espy and had the dirtiest pint I'd had in a while. They obviously don't clean their lines too often at the Espy.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)