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While George Lucas toils day and night thinking of ways to make iconic scenes from his classic Star Wars films just a little bit worse, there are plenty of folks out there who are doing more interesting, worthwhile stuff with the beloved intergalactic heroes and villains of their youth. National treasure Topher Grace for one. Another is Montreal-based X3 Productions, which has provided us with these elegant, thought-provoking posters, featuring the prominent inhabitants of the Star Wars universe rendered with an eye on the major "forces" that make them who they are.
The posters are designed to promote X3's forthcoming "Star Wars Identities" exhibit, which provides fans with an interactive experience studying how "the origins of the characters, the influences that shape them, and the choices they make during their life" have coalesced to forge the identity of each," seemingly with particular focus on the divergent paths of Luke and Anakin Skywalker. It will also feature around 200 original props, costumes and art used in the films. And maybe, just maybe attendees will learn something about their own identities in the process. Hit the jump for the posters and more information on "Star Wars Identities".
The following posters come courtesy of The Star Wars Blog (via Movies.com). "Star Wars Identities" will be at the Montreal Science Centre from April 19 through September 16, 2012. Subsequently, it will open at Edmonton's Telus World of Science from October 27, 2012 through April 1, 2013. Tickets can be purchased here. Check out the official press release below for more information:
STAR WARS(TM) Identities: The Exhibition
A character-driven adventure into identity
Coming soon to the Montréal Science Centre!
MONTREAL, Nov. 21, 2011 /CNW Telbec/ – For thirty-five years, audiences around the world have followed the adventures of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi heroes of a galaxy far, far away. And now, a new exciting exhibition comes to our own galaxy with STAR WARSTM Identities, a redefined modern exhibition experience in which we will rediscover the unforgettable characters of Star Wars in a whole new way. From the team that brought you Indiana JonesTM and the Adventure of Archaeology, this new innovative exhibition, made possible by Lucasfilm Ltd. and produced by Montreal's X3 Productions, will make use of an extensive collection from the Lucasfilm Archives to explore the sciences of identity through the characters of Star Wars. The world premiere of this exhibition will be held at the Montréal Science Centre, starting on April 19, 2012.
A stunning collection from the Lucasfilm Archives, a customized, interactive identity quest, and insightful scientific content will all work together in STAR WARS Identities to follow the dramatic journeys of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, cinema's most famous father and son duo. Visitors will develop a better understanding of what makes the characters of Star Wars who they are, and at the same time explore their own identity with one question, at once simple and profound: What forces shape you?
The Components of Identity
Working with the Montréal Science Centre exhibition developers and a committee of scientific advisers, STAR WARS Identities has divided its study of identity into three major themes: the origins of the characters, the influences that shape them, and the choices they make during their life. Within these three themes, ten components of human identity are explored: species, genes, parents, and culture in Origins; mentors, friends, and marking events inInfluences; and occupation, personality, and values in the final zone, Choices.
These components form the backbone of the exhibition, exploring the complex notion of identity both in the real world and in creative fiction. Original content throughout the exhibition will shed light on each of the components of identity; simultaneously, "making-of" featurettes explore the stories behind the development of many iconic Star Warscharacters, explaining how they became who they are, and showing how different creative choices might have made them different characters altogether.
Kyra Bowling, Exhibits Manager at Lucasfilm Ltd., says "the Star Wars saga continues to captivate audiences who find connection to its richly diverse cast of wonderful characters. Star Wars provides a natural lens through which to explore the themes of personal identity and character. This innovative exhibition lets visitors of all ages investigate, in a fun and educational way, the factors and forces that help shape who we are as individuals."
A vast and exclusive collection of some 200 objects from the Lucasfilm Archives features props, models, costumes, and artwork from the Star Wars films. This rich collection spans the entire Star Wars canon, drawing from the classic (1977-83) and prequel (1999-2005) trilogies, as well as the animated feature The Clone Wars (2008) and the ongoing television series of the same name. Fan favourites like Darth Vader, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Yoda, the Millennium Falcon, and Anakin Skywalker's full-sized Podracer – among others – are sure to delight visitors of all generations.
An Interactive Quest
STAR WARS Identities will place the visitor at the centre of the exhibition experience with an interactive identity quest that spans the duration of the visit. Closely interwoven with the collection and the educational content, this unique interactive experience will use technology to help visitors of all ages create their own personal and original Star Wars identity by incorporating elements of their own identity with fictional elements. Visitors will then leave with their own unique character inspired by the Star Wars universe and with a deeper understanding of the exhibition's central theme.
A Team of Experts
In order to develop the exhibition's scientific content, X3 Productions has collaborated with the Montréal Science Centre content experts to gather a team of specialists from a variety of scientific fields, including genetics, neuropsychology, health sciences, and psychology. Their knowledge and expertise have shaped the exhibition's structure, and their input has been essential in developing its scientific content and in ensuring that its investigation into identity is up to date and firmly rooted in the sciences.
A Cultural Touchstone
The Star Wars movies have broken box office records and won countless awards over the decades, but it is in the public's imagination that the franchise has truly made its mark, enchanting audiences of all ages and establishing itself as a cultural touchstone all across the world. The stories continue to resonate today because of their universality: we identify with the characters of Star Wars, and we recognize ourselves in their journeys.
"This exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the beloved characters of Star Wars," says Jacques-André Dupont, Executive Producer of X3 Productions. "We get a deeper understanding of their identities, and, at the same time, we get a deeper understanding of our own. The collection, the interactive components, and the scientific content work hand in hand here to create a seamless and exciting experience for our visitors. It's a character-driven adventure into identity."
Information and Ticket Sales
STAR WARS Identities will premiere at the Montréal Science Centre from April 19 through September 16,2012.Tickets are on sale now! For complete schedule and ticket information, visit their website atwww.montrealsciencecentre.com or contact them at (514) 496-4724 or (877) 496-4724.


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One almost expected to see a Monsanto executive among the honored guests and presenters at the 19th annual Farming for the Future Conference held Feb. 4 – 6 in State College, Pa. After all, the St. Louis-based agri-giant was recently named "Company of the Year" by Forbes magazine. And in its well-funded advertising campaign that strategically targets such media outlets as National Public Radio, Monsanto proclaims itself to be the very champion of sustainability.
While many of the more than 2,200 attendees of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's yearly gathering would have gladly entertained a dialogue with a Monsanto representative, it's safe to say they view the conference's central concept in a quite different light.
In his opening remarks, PASA President Kim Seeley borrowed a phrase from architect and designer William McDonough, a previous year's keynote speaker, and asked: "Does the end result love all the children? We will condone all forms of farming that will love the children."
It's hard to associate the maker and marketer of Roundup pesticide and poison-withstanding genetically modified seeds with "loving all the children." Yet, that is what Monsanto–newly crowned by Forbes "for persevering in the face of vicious criticism to feed the world"–would have us believe through what writer Ken Edelstein has called a "greenwash marketing" campaign that is "positively Rovian on the chutzpah meter." Equally credibility-straining is Elanco, Ely Lilly and Company's animal-health division, which in 2008 purchased the Posilac brand of synthetic bovine-growth hormone from Monsanto. Elanco's president has been on a speaking tour promoting a technology-dependent program of "Sustainability and Feeding the World."
Obviously, a different take on technology from that of most who attended the conference.
And in a recent call-to-arms speech delivered in Seattle, American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman railed against those he called "extremists who want to drag agriculture back to the days of 40 acres and a mule" and against "misguided, activist-driven regulation on labor and environment being proposed in Washington." Further, Stallman called sustainability "the most overused and ill-defined word in the policy arena today."
Finally, a patch, however small, of common ground.
"I completely agree that the term 'sustainability' is overused and often confused for something it's not by those who try to use it," PASA Executive Director Brian Snyder said in his stage-setting conference speech. "So, I have an idea–how about if you, Mr. Stallman, and your counterparts at Monsanto and Elanco stop using it! We can handle this one, and have been doing so quite ably for several decades now."
Snyder said it is impossible to overlook the deliberate attempt by sustainable agriculture's detractors to dilute the dream and goals PASA and its members aspire to in order that their objective of putting profitability above all else does not fail.
Not that profitability was ignored during the Farming for the Future conference. Quite the contrary. Neither was the concept of "small" farming, currently a pejorative term in Washington and elsewhere, where those who use that word, according to Snyder, "get immediately pigeonholed and tossed aside as a probable relic of the past."
Here, the common-ground borderline was crossed.
"There is nothing 'small' about what any member of PASA is doing with respect to our food system, whether as a producer, processor or consumer, regardless of any volume specifications," Snyder said.
"People like to hear about lots of acres or large numbers of animals and bushels of corn per acre measured in the hundreds," he continued. "But models of farming that can gross $50,000 to $100,000 on a single acre, or Community Supported Agriculture programs that, in some cases and on relatively small acreage, are able to count their customers in the thousands and bank $1 million or more in the spring before even planting a seed, are anything but small!"
A non-genetically-modified seed, he might have added.
Snyder said that a second misconception held as incontrovertible truth in the halls of power is the notion that "we cannot feed the world this way," that only industrial food systems can do so.
"We must encourage everyone, wherever they are and as a priority, to eat food produced as near to their own homes as possible," Snyder said. "Secondly, feed thy neighbor as thyself. From this perspective, local food not only can feed the world, it may be the only way to ever feed the world in a healthy and just manner."
Few involved with farming, even of the sustainable variety, relish increased government regulation. But Snyder likened what he called the "Stallman Doctrine"–a "Don't Cap Our Future"-sloganed, war-like resistance to a cap-and-trade system or any proposal to limit farming's environmental impact–to a modern re-emergence of Manifest Destiny, "wherein we take and use what we believe was divinely ordained for us to have, regardless of the consequences for others."
By contrast, Snyder said a truly sustainable farmer wakes every morning with two thoughts in mind. The first is one of gratitude that the land we are privileged to own, rent or be paid to cultivate has been given to us, and we must give it back in better shape than we found it.
"Second," Snyder said, "we as individual farmers are limited and essentially dependent on each other to figure out what's best to do with this land in order to honor it, improve it and make a living from it and one day to deliver it back to the source from whence it came."
"It's all about maintaining a 'right relationship' with the land, which," he said, "is analogous to the good relationships we hope for in other aspects of our lives as well."
Or, at the end of the day, does it truly love all the children, and will it give them a good Earth to love, as well?
That–regardless of what corporate farmers and the companies they serve will tell you–is what sustainable agriculture is really all about.
In contrast to the Stallman Doctrine – an unwillingness to work as hard as possible to save our beautiful planet – PASA Executive Director Brian Snyder offered the Promise of Sustainability.
"We understand that this world is not really ours to do with as we please and that we must work together to make it better," Snyder said. From this perspective, here are some things sustainable farmers choose for themselves, rather than depend on government regulations or ballot initiatives to force upon them:
- We would do everything possible to protect the Earth, its water, air and climate systems, and to cherish and protect our great watersheds, including especially here in the Mid-Atlantic region, that which feeds the Chesapeake Bay.
- We would never lock up livestock of any kind for prolonged periods in restrictive cages or crates where they can't even turn around or care for their young in a natural manner.
- We would not treat cows with artificial growth hormones, either for profit or the pride to be gained from seeing how much milk we can force them to give. We would also never feed antibiotics to animals for the sake of speeding their growth, especially in the absence of medical need.
- We would take whatever pre-emptive steps may be necessary – even if less than 100 percent certain – to protect our bees and other pollinators, and also to promote the diversity and integrity of seeds we depend on to produce food, avoiding advanced technological strategies that might otherwise undermine or diminish them.
- In dealing with our neighbors around the world, we would reject the political philosophy of Free Trade in favor of Fair Trade.
- We would treat with dignity immigrant and migrant laborers who are needed to work our fields, care for our animals and generally keep our food system moving, and welcome them as full members of our communities as they choose and are able to settle here.
- We would teach and assist the citizens, communities and countries of a hungry world to feed themselves as we would wish to be fed.
- We would build our entire food system on the concept that fair prices for farmers will keep wholesome, nutritious and safe food on our tables without fail.
Corporate entities such as Monsanto and Elanco–Ely Lilly Company's animal-health division, which owns the Posilac brand of synthetic bovine growth hormone–lay claim to "sustainability," thereby distorting its meaning and diluting its promise.
The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, no ally of sustainable agriculture, recently called "sustainability" the most overused and ill-defined word in the policy arena.
Perhaps we can help.
The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture has recently partnered with Food Alliance, based in Portland, Oregon, to deliver a trusted, third-party certification to our region's farms, processors, food buyers and consumers. The Food Alliance Certified seal ensures safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals and careful stewardship of ecosystems. Here is how Food Alliance answers the question, "What is sustainable agriculture?"
Sustainable agriculture:
- Provides safe and fair working conditions. It creates a work environment with open communication about workplace safety and job satisfaction, with incentives and opportunities for development of employee skills; it considers quality-of-life issues for farm workers and their communities.
- Ensures the health and humane treatment of animals. It raises livestock with respect for their physical needs and comforts; it provides livestock with access to sunlight, fresh air and an environment where they can socialize and express normal behaviors; it handles livestock with care to minimize fear and stress.
- Does not use hormone or antibiotic supplements. It raises animals without using hormones or antibiotics to stimulate growth or productivity; it uses antibiotics only to treat a sick animal and return it to health, not as a substitute for healthy living conditions.
- Does not raise genetically modified crops or livestock. It raises crops or livestock that are not derived from transgenic or genetically modified organisms in order to respect public concern over potential impacts on human or environmental health.
- Reduces pesticide use and toxicity. It practices integrated pest management by using field scouting and cultural and biological controls to avoid pest problems; it minimizes risks to human health and the environment by selecting least toxic pest treatments and using best practices for application.
- Protects water resources. It protects water quality and riparian habitat by providing buffer zones along streams; it manages tillage to maximize the ability of soils to absorb rainfall; it manages animal wastes to prevent ground and surface water contamination.
- Protects and enhances soil resources. It protect soils by maximizing plant cover, rotating crops and using cover crops to enrich soil and increase productivity; it uses management-intensive grazing; it uses tillage methods that protect soil quality and promote soil conservation.
- Provides wildlife habitat. It encourages vegetative cover, food and water resources necessary for habitat; it establishes biological corridors; it manages mowing and grazing cycles to minimize impact on wildlife; it protects and restores wetland, prairie and woodland habitats.
- Continually improves practices. It sets annual goals for improving performance in areas addressed under Food Alliance certification; it evaluates and reports progress on goals annually.
For more information, go to www.foodalliance.org.
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- Friday, February 19th, 2010i love this article!! thanks so much for putting it out there. sharing on facebook!
- Sunday, February 21st, 2010I am having problems understanding how any tillage can be uttered much less supported in a sustainable agriculture organization. Not one mention of Rodale Institute's Organic no till, or Dakota Lakes no till research. Dakota Lakes senior researcher Dwayne Beck in addition to research, educates no till farmers on new ways to reduce herbicide and synthetic fertilizer usage while building soil structure, soil organic matter, and essential soil microbes.
Tillage creates a compaction layer in soil, a hard layer of soil that water has problems penetrating and plant roots won't penetrate making the plants more drought prone. Tillage destroys macropores that allows water and oxygen move into the soil.
Tillage leaves the soil bare with nothing to keep it from washing or blowing away. When ever a heavy rain fall event occurs soil is washed off the fields taking nutrients with it. When the wind blows across bare soil moves lots of dirt with, inaddition to that the act of tillage creates a tremendous amount of dust. Dust particulate is a real problem and is being reviewed by environmental agencies.
Whenever tillage takes place Carbon that is stored in the soil is released. No till farmers are learning more about the importance of Soil Organic Carbon and the role it place in plant and soil health.
Tillage requires a tremendous amount of diesel fuel. Diesel exhaust is full of pollutants so tillage can not be part of an environmental sustainable approach.
- Monday, February 22nd, 2010Tom-
I agree with everything you point out about no-till's advantages in regards to soil quality, soil carbon, and reduction of soil erosion. Except maybe the notion that you are "having problems understanding how any tillage can be uttered much less supported in a sustainable agriculture organization". Let's not forget, until Rodale's Organic no-till came along, no-till meant almost exclusively tremendous amounts of herbicide, and more often than not roundup-ready. (And most conventional no-till still does). I think most organic farmers realize that organic ag has been too reliant on tillage and aggressive cultivation, and most are working to find alternatives. It is good to hear, "No till farmers are learning more about the importance of Soil Organic Carbon and the role it place in plant and soil health." But again, let's not forget that Organic farmers have been emphasizing organic matter since salt fertilizers first hit the scene. I think no-till is rapidly evolving and improving, and Rodale's methods and conventional methods will probably meet in the middle sometime in the next ten years. And while organic ag may just be catching up on tillage methods, no-till advocates are just catching up to what organic farmers have been saying for years.


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President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought to allay rising anxiety among farmers about the impact of his trade war with China, promising over Twitter to bolster sales of their products but acknowledging it could take a while.
"I will open things up, better than ever before, but it can't go too quickly," Trump said in a pair of tweets sent from Brussels, where he is attending a gathering of NATO leaders. "I am fighting for a level playing field for our farmers, and will win!"
His attempt at reassurance came a day after he escalated his trade war with China, identifying an added US$200 billion (NZ$295 billion) in Chinese products that he intends to hit with import tariffs. The move made good on the president's threat to respond to China's retaliation for the initial US tariffs on US$34 billion in Chinese goods, which went into effect on Friday.
The fallout has been acutely felt by soybean producers and other agricultural sectors in the Midwest - prompting even some members of Trump's own party to voice alarm.
"I'm very, very nervous about it, and my constituents are very, very nervous about it," Senator Charles Grassley said in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday morning shortly before Trump sent his tweets from overseas.
Grassley said the Trump administration tariff fight has "a very detrimental effect on current markets" and that the impact is rippling through other industries in his state beyond agriculture.
"I hope he knows what he's doing," Grassley said of Trump. "It's making people nervous."
Trump's comments on Twitter came on a day that Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to spend in three Midwestern states.
At an event in Kansas City, Pence read Trump's tweets and reiterated that the administration is fighting for farmers "in the heartland."
"Our president is going to keep fighting for trade deals that are free and fair and reciprocal," Pence said. "We will always fight for American farmers to export what we grow and raise around the planet."
Pence cited several exporting opportunities that he said have improved during the Trump administration, including beef to China and poultry to South Korea.
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Munich, 13 May 2013 – Linde Gases, a division of the Linde Group, today announced the launch of its Crop Science business. The re-energised product and service offering – previously referred to as its "fumigants" business – is recognition of Linde's renewed commitment to combating the increasing challenges facing the world food supply chain.
Tomorrow also marks the opening of Linde's new plant in the Czech Republic, which will manufacture the group's latest environmentally friendly fumigant. The new fumigant, to be marketed as EDN®, will be used to limit the impact of pests and disease on timber and in agriculture.1
Global research by the Department of Agriculture and Food in Australia has confirmed that a third of the world's food supply is lost or wasted – enough to feed over two billion people. Over half of this food loss is attributable to destruction by crop pests. There are an estimated 70,000 species of crop pests responsible for over 1.4 trillion US dollars of economic losses each year, and as crop pests are predicted to outpace the growth of environmental pests and animal diseases over the next 20 years, this problem will only intensify.
Leading Linde's Crop Science program, gas applications manager, Chris Dolman, said, "Unwanted and harmful organisms are an increasingly global and complex problem, ranging from microorganisms such as bacteria and moulds to arthropods such as insects and spiders, to specific types of plants."
The issue of crop pests is further aggravated by population growth. Predications around food production indicate that food growth will need to increase by 70 to 100 percent over the next 30 years to meet demand.
Globalisation and the movement of people and goods also create new opportunities for pests: entry into new geographical regions, the finding of new vectors, hosts and environments, and the development of new genetic combinations.
With these challenges in mind, Linde's newly formed Crop Science business will offer innovative fumigant products to protect both food produce itself and the producer's investment, while allowing for genuine sustainable agriculture. The products are highly effective substitutes for the universal – and now mainly banned component – Methyl bromide (MBr), which has for some time been the global standard for fumigation. Linde's fumigant product range is considerably more environmentally friendly and comprises of naturally occurring active ingredients that degrade to earth-friendly metabolites. The fumigant range also fully complies with UN Directives, such as the Montreal Protocol, and has no known global warming potential.
Dolman added, "The move to strengthen our Crop Science business reinforces Linde's commitment to food security and to help protect the global food supply chain. Linde has always played a pioneering role in innovative gas technologies and has a strong heritage in environmental care and scientific research. It is well placed to lead the way with innovative solutions for crop protection."
Linde's innovative Crop Science product range includes VAPORMATE™ and EDN™. Linde also has a dedicated team to ensure farmers and producers select the most appropriate fumigant product to meet their needs and to comply with local regulatory requirements. Further information can be found at http://cropscience.linde-gas.com
In recognition of Linde's dedicate to sustainabilty performance, in September 2012 the Group was added to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI World). Analysts at the Sustainable Asset Management Group (SAM) recognised in particular the Group's activities in the areas of climate change, environmental management systems and risk and crisis management.2
About The Linde Group
The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 62,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2012 financial year, Linde generated revenue of EUR 15.280 bn. The strategy of the Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at www.linde.com
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1 Based on ethanedinitrile, EDN® is an ozone friendly alternative to methyl bromide (MeBr), which was banned in many countries in 1992 by the Montreal protocol due to its ozone-depleting effects. EDN® surpasses the efficacy of MeBr, requires less dosage per crop, has a shorter fumigation period and has the additional benefit of leaving residues that degrade to become useful soil fertilisers.
2 The internationally renowned share index for sustainability performance selects the top 10 percent among the 2,500 largest companies listed on the Dow Jones Global Index. The companies represent 58 different industry sectors and are ranked by SAM analysts according to various environmental, economic and social criteria.


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HTC's flagship One X may be set to receive a minor specification bump before the end of 2012, according to reports from Stuff. The re-vamped model is known only by its codename "HTC Endeavor C2" — note that the original One X was "Endeavor". It'll allegedly ship with a souped-up 1.7GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 CPU, along with an "improved" battery, new color options and urBeats earphones included in the box. Stuff also claims that the new "Endeavor C2" will be compatible with all existing One X accessories, which to us implies that the chassis design will remain identical.
Essentially, the C2 could be to the One X what the Sensation XE was to the original Sensation last year — the same design, with slightly upgraded internals. The news also converges nicely with rumors we've heard from T-Mobile USA, suggesting an "HTC One X+" may be arriving on that network later in the year.
Some software enhancements are reported too, including ClearVoice tech for improved voice call quality, in addition to "HTC Watch 2," a new version of the HTC movie streaming service. Though not confirmed in today's leak, we suspect Jelly Bean and HTC Sense 4.1 may also be on the cards, depending on the timing of the eventual release.
Speaking of which, the Endeavor C2 is said to be slated for a UK release around Oct. 1, with on-contract prices reportedly around £5 more per month than the original One X. HTC isn't expected to have a big showing at this year's IFA event, but if this release date turns out to be accurate, it's possible we might see an official announcement sooner rather than later.
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Source :http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/10-Jan-2010/Imran-warns-of-protests-if-Aafia-convicted
By Khalid Aziz
ISLAMABAD – Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf Imran Khan Saturday warned of countrywide protest against the prospective conviction of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in USA.
Khan while addressing a students' seminar said that the US court was going to deliver an ex-party sentence against Dr Afia who was not pleading her case for having no hope of justice from American courts. PTI's Women Wing had organised the seminar at party's central office.
He regretted that our own agencies handed over a daughter of nation to foreign powers for the sake of dollars, adding that rulers were keeping mum over her possible conviction. He, however, warned that PTI workers would come on streets in each and every corner of the country if Dr Aafia were convicted by US court.
Recalling his youth days before the students, PTI chief said by then Pakistan was a fast progressing country and the nation was proud and confident. Later, it became slave of foreign powers due to the misdeeds of its rulers. He said that rulers were worshipping the dollar, who, he said, had sold out the nation for minting dollars from USA.
He said that PPP should ask Zardari to explain from which source or business he earned the millions of dollars kept in foreign banks.
Khan also condemned military operations in FATA and other parts of the country and called for withdrawal from the foreign war. He said operations were not a solution to the problem but produced more militants and suicide bombers. Once again he offered mediation between the Taliban and government with guaranteed success provided Pakistan withdrew from the so-called war on terror.
He also denounced US drones' attacks inside Pakistani territory, saying that 42 drone attacks carried out during the last year killed only eight terrorists and 708 innocent Pakistanis. PTI Chief said people were not paying taxes due to lack of trust in government, adding that rulers were spending taxpayers' money on their lavish foreign trips having no benefit for the country. "Zardari is once again out on begging trip," he said.
Responding to a question regarding government response to his earlier mediation offer, Khan said that rulers had not yet obtained NOC from USA. He asked why government was not establishing its writ in Karachi and why judicial inquiry of the May 12, 2007 carnage in Karachi was not being carried out.
Imran Khan also regretted that at times when rest of the world was asking US for withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, Pakistan Foreign Minister was requesting them for staying in Afghanistan for at least five more years. He said government was shedding the blood of its own people for the sake of dollars.


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- Film List
- Fiction for the Older Child
- Fiction for Youth and Teens
- Fiction for Teens and Adults
- Nonfiction for Teens and Adults
A Place at the Table - Filmmakers explore the issue of hunger in the United States through people struggling with food insecurity. The film explains the serious implications hunger poses to America, but also presents hunger as a solvable problem.
Soul Food Junkies – "Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food -- from its roots in Western Africa, to its incarnation in the American South, to its contribution to modern health crises in communities of color. Soul Food Junkies also looks at the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from making calories cheap, but healthy options expensive and hard to find." (source: ShopPBS.org)
Frontline: Poor Kids – Documentary examining poverty through the eyes of children. Poor Kids follows three families dealing with the aftermath of the Great Recession highlighting the intersection of hunger and poverty.
The Garden – Award winning documentary chronicling the fight to save a community garden in South Central Los Angeles. Years of hard work and community building are threatened when the property is sold to a developer. Nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
30 Days - Created by Morgan Spurlock, 30 Days is the innovative TV show that dares the viewer to take a walk in someone else's shoes. In the season opener, Spurlock and his fiancé try to make ends meet by working minimum-wage jobs. (We recommend parental guidance for children under 13).
Hidden in America - A father of two is downsized out of his job. He struggles to support his children alone in a new city. Rated for All. A Citadel/As Is Production in association with The End Hunger Network. (We recommend parental guidance for children under 13).
Meaning of Food - A wonderful documentary that explores all the different ways that food creates meaning in our lives. Presented by PBS. Not Rated.
Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup. 1947. Based on an old French tale, this story is about three hungry soldiers who outwit the inhabitants of a village into sharing their food.
Bunting, Eve. Fly Away Home. 1991. A story about a boy and his father who live in a busy airport. Both illustrator and author focus on giving the child's-eye view of the problem, and their skill makes this a first-rate picture book.
Cooper, Melrose. Gettin' Through Thursday. 1998. A young boy in a family that is just making it paycheck-to-paycheck feels the richness of family love.
De Costa Nunez, Ralph. Our Wish. Published by Institute for Children and Poverty, Inc. The workbook can stand by itself as a teaching tool for small children. This book can be ordered from Homes for the Homeless (212) 529- 5252. This is a story about a family of rabbits that lose their home. They go to an animal shelter and with help they find another home in an orchard.
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen. 1991. The story of a young boy's introduction to work in a community kitchen. He learns from his Uncle Willie about how to help and support those living in poverty in his community.
Hesse, Karen. Spuds. 2008. Ma is working late shifts but there doesn't ever seem to be enough to eat. So one frosty night, Jack and Maybelle put little Eddie in a wagon with some empty sacks and sneak into a farmer's field to liberate the potatoes that are just lying there.
McBrier, Page and Lohstoeter, Lori. Beatrice's Goat. Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Page McBrier and Lori Lohstoeter beautifully recount this true story about how one child, given the right tools, is able to lift her family out of poverty. (2% of publisher's proceeds will be donated to Heifer Project International).
McGovern, Ann. The Lady in the Box. 1997. This is the story of two children who help and befriend a homeless woman who lives in a box on their street. It is a wonderful book to introduce children to the concepts of service and compassion. It is also a wonderful tool to address some of the myths that prevail about who is homeless and why we have homelessness in this country.
Noble, Trinka Hakes. The Orange Shoes. 2007. Delly Porter enjoys the feel of soft dirt beneath her feet as she walks to and from school, but after a classmate makes her feel ashamed of having no shoes she learns that her parents and others, too, see value in things that do not cost money.
Nunez, Ralph Costa, and Schrager, Willow. Cooper's Tale. Published by Institute for Children and Poverty, Inc. When two fat cats take over the cheese shop, Cooper the pink mouse suddenly finds himself homeless. The friendship he develops with three homeless children changes all of their lives in ways they never expected.
Rosen, Michael J. The Greatest Table. Published by Harcourt Brace and Company. This is a book that unfolds into a 12-foot long accordion book, showing the various ways people eat together and the variety of foods people eat. This book lends itself to a number of art projects for children. This book is out of print but does have limited availability through some book stores and Amazon.com.
Armstrong, William and Barkley, James. Sounder. 1995. This is the story of an African American sharecropper family in the late 19th century South.
Bromley, Anne C. The Lunch Thief. 2010. Rafael is angry that a new student is stealing lunches, but he takes time to learn what the real problem is before acting. [NOTE: This is a picture book, but reviews indicate that it is targeted at an older audience and best shared by an adult with a group of listener/readers.]
Carlson, Nancy; Williams, Garth. The Family Under the Bridge. Originally, 1958. Reissued, 1989. The story of a homeless man named Armand who lives in Paris under a bridge. He suddenly finds himself helping care for a newly homeless family.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. 1999. The story of Bud Caldwell, a ten-year old boy on his own, on a journey to find his unknown father in depression era Michigan.
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks. 1997. Thirteen very different voices - old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful - tell one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood.
Mathis, Sharon Bell. Sidewalk Story. 1986. A young girl comes to the aide of a friend and her family being evicted from an apartment across the street. Her compassion causes others to sit up and take notice. This is a wonderful introduction to advocacy.
Neufield, John. Almost a Hero. 1995. A young boy in Santa Barbara does a community service assignment at a childcare center for homeless children.
O'Connor, Barbara. How to Steal a Dog. 2007. Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina and her younger brother concoct an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward.
Voigt, Cynthia. Homecoming. 1981. Abandoned by their mother, four children begin to search for a home and an identity.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Long Winter. 1940. During an already hard winter, a terrible storm keeps trains from getting through with food/supplies.
Carey, Janet Lee. The Double Life of Zoe Flynn. 2004. When Zoe's family has to live in their van for months after moving from California to Oregon so her father can find work, Zoe tries to keep her sixth-grade classmates from discovering that she is homeless.
Fenner, Carol. The King of Dragons. 1998. Eleven-year-old Ian and his troubled Vietnam-vet father have been living on the streets by day and sleeping in a deserted courthouse by night. Now, though, the weather is getting cooler, food is becoming scant, and Ian's father has disappeared.
Flake, Sharon. Money Hungry. 2001. All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
Greenwald, Shelia. My Fabulous New Life. 1993. An 11-year-old girl adjusts to her new neighborhood in Manhattan.
Haworth-Attard, Barbara. Theories of Relativity. 2005. When his volatile mother throws him out of the house, sixteen-year-old Dylan is forced to live on the streets and beg for money, yet through it all, he finds a way to survive.
McDonald, Janet. Chill Wind. 2002. Afraid that she will have nowhere to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
Mulligan, Andy. Trash. 2010. Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
Shulman, Mark. Scrawl. 2010. When eighth-grade school bully Tod gets caught committing a crime on school property, he must stay after school and write in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor. As he writes, details of his home life emerge. Tod's house is barely habitable, and he is forced to help his mother in her job as a seamstress to make ends meet. His bullying is often less about wanting to hurt other kids than genuinely needing money.
Strasser, Todd. Can't Get There from Here. 2004. Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.
White, Ruth. Little Audrey. 2008. It's 1948, and 11-year-old Audrey lives in a Virginia coal-mining camp with her father, who drinks; her mother, who is emotionally adrift; and her sisters, the "three little pigs." A fiercely honest child's-eye view of what it's like to be poor, hungry, and sometimes happy.
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. 1993. A deeply engaging story of a young girl growing up in poverty during the 1950s and 60s.
Arnow, Harriet. The Dollmaker. 1954. An enormously popular novel from the late 1940s, The Dollmaker is the dramatic story of an Appalachian family's move from the mountains of Kentucky to wartime Detroit.
Baldwin, James. Another Country. 1962. A genius of American fiction, this is one of Baldwin's most eloquent statements about the intersection of race and class.
Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man. 1952. A classic novel about the manner in which we refuse to see each other and the effects this has on our lives.
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. 1984. Lends insight into life on and off Native American reservations.
Grimsley, Jim. My Drowning. 1998. An evocative, uncompromising account of a hardscrabble childhood in rural North Carolina in the 1940s.
Islas, Arthur. Migrant Souls. 1990. A tale of the conflicts of a Latino family in south Texas.
Morgan, Robert. Gap Creek: A Story of a Marriage. 1999. A view of life at the turn of the century and the strength and grit required to gather, make and prepare food and the utter dependence upon nature.
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Beloved. Jazz. 1972. Any work by Morrison speaks to the soul of our nation's character, dealing with the issues of race, class, and gender, as well as the basic struggles of human existence.
Mukherjee, Bharati. The Middleman. 1988. A National Book Critics Circle award winner about recent immigrants' struggle to survive in the United States.
Abramsky, Sasha. Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It. 2009. The author combines an account of his own seven-week experiment in living on a poverty budget with moving vignettes of men and women who have fallen through society's frayed safety net and are suffering from food insecurity.
Beckmann, David and Simon, Art. Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World. 2002. A primer on the causes of international hunger.
Berg, Joel. All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? 2008. Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, spotlights domestic poverty and hunger in this book that has sharp words for politicians, charities and religious denominations. The author reveals how consistently the federal government has ignored hunger in the United States.
Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (And What We Can Do about It). 2010. Follows the trajectory of America's food from gathering to garbage bin in this compelling and finely reported study, examining why roughly half of our harvest ends up in landfills or rots in the field. Bloom says, "Current rates of waste and population growth can't coexist much longer," and makes smart suggestions on becoming individually and collectively more food-conscious.
DeGraf, John, and others. Affluenza. 2002. Based on the PBS documentary, which is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption.
Edelman, Marian Wright. Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change. 1987. Based on Edelman's 1986 W.E.B. Dubois lectures, this book gives an eloquently argued case for a broad national agenda to fight childhood poverty. (Edelman is the executive director of the Children's Defense Fund.)
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Making it in America. 2001. This book gives us a compelling look at the challenges of being a part of America's growing working poor. Ehrenreich takes a year out of her freelance life to try making it in the low wage work force.
Kilman, Scott and Thurow, Roger. Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. 2009. A powerful investigative narrative that shows how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies have conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself.
Lappe, Frances Moore, Collins, Joseph and Rosset, Peter. World Hunger: Twelve Myths. 1998. Addresses the myths about hunger and poverty that keep us from adequately approaching and addressing the problem.
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx. 2003. LeBlanc provides a profoundly intimate portrait of a teenager, her family and a community in the Bronx throughout the 90's. It illuminates the complicated and many layered challenges of poverty. "The lives of teenagers are demonized in the same way that those of children are sentimentalized. When these lives unfold in places exhausted by poverty and its related burdens, the texture of their real experiences is obscured..." Adrian LeBlanc.
Newman, Katherine. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. 2000. Katherine Newman explores the explosion of working poverty in urban America.
Phillips, Kevin. Wealth and Democracy. 2002. A social criticism and economic history of plutocracy, excess and reform.
Roberts, Paul. The End of Food. 2008. The author of The End of Oil considers how we make, market, and consume food, which leaves too many people fat and too many others starving.
Russell, Sharman. Hunger: An Unnatural History. 2005. Analyzes the psychological and physical consequences of food deprivation and semi- starvation, discussing topics ranging from hunger strikes and religious fasts to cannibalism and anorexia nervosa.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. 2001. Schlosser documents the effects of fast food on America's economy, its youth culture, and allied industries, such as meatpacking, that serve this vast food production empire.
Shipler, David K. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. 2004. An analysis of the plight of the surprisingly diverse and numerous Americans who work, but still walk the official poverty line. Poverty is shown to be a "collection of difficulties that magnify one another."
Sider, Ronald J. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity. 1997. Explores Biblical perspectives on the poor and possessions, the causes of poverty, and strategies for implementing solutions to the poverty problem. Emphasizes personal lifestyle choices, building communities of caring within churches, and the need for structural change and greater social justice.
West, Cornel. Race Matters. A Collection of Valuable Essays from One of Our Principal Social Critics. 2001. West allows his readers to see race as a lens through which Americans view life.
Winne, Mark. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. 2008. The former executive director of the Hartford Food System offers an insider's view on what it's like to feed our country's hungry citizens. Winne explains Hartford's typical inner-city challenges and the successes he witnessed and helped to create there. The story concludes in our present food-crazed era, where the author gives voice to low-income shoppers and explores where they fit in with such foodie discussions as local vs. organic.


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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Wow. Just. Wow.
I bet you did. I was loud .. and proud.
I headed Up North to Lutsen, MN around 830 Friday morning, just after the boys boarded the school bus.
Extremely excited to run, no pre run jitters, just excitement because I was going to spend the weekend with my favorite friends and spend a good 13 + hours on a beautiful trail. Gods Country. Truly.
I arrived in Lutsen earlier than my roomates so I checked in, unpacked and did some hiking out to the start line, onto the trail and up into the woods a few miles. I was thinking about the next morning, thinking about the race, wondering what would happen out here on the trail.
Would I be able to eat and drink without feeling sick, would I have blisters and would I again be stuck in the dark?
Friends arrived, we went to the packet pickup at the host hotel, where we were staying, mingled with everyone and settled down to the hotel's pasta special. Spaghetti, sauce, garlic bread and salad. Well, the spaghetti sauce was without meat, apparently the previous year 'too many people asked for meatless'. Unreal. So no meat for anyone. And the spaghetti, it was fat and water logged. I called it flobberworms (I'm reading Harry Potter). It sat in my stomach and grew even more.
I had a bad dream about the spaghetti that night. I dreamed that I had a spaghetti tail growing from my bottom. Oh man, a spaghetti nightmare. Should I cut it or let it grow? Please wake up. I did. No more flobberworms for me.
Race day morning was fun. I and Jeffrey were late checking in. We moved up to the front of the start. Runners were all around us, Race Directors Larry and Colleen were standing in the front, clipboards in hand. I and Jeffrey walked up to them and as they were checking us in I felt like it was an 'Amazing Race' moment. Of course I said what I was thinking out loud, as I usually do, and everyone laughed. It was a funny moment. I love 'Amazing Race'.
It was warm and dark. We began at 6 AM. I had a flashlight to carry and then drop off in my drop bag at Oberg Aid Station. I figured I could then pick it up on the way in if I was going to be running in the dark. I hoped I wouldn't need it.
Larry told us to head out, so out we went. At Voyaguer I and Jeffrey started out in the front pack, and that turned out to be a good thing. I figured I'd try it again. There were about 15 people in front of me as I ran the first section. I ran like hell. It was hot. I removed my long sleeved shirt before I hit mile 1. That was a sign of things to come.
It took about 1:40 to get to Oberg; 7 miles. I was happy with that. I dropped off my flashlight, said HI to Scott and Alicia who were working the aid station, had my bottles filled and was out of there.
I felt awesome, but it was early. The next section was 5 miles. Lots of climbing, lots of rocks and roots. This trail is so rough. SO rough. It's like nothing else I've ever run upon.
The fall colors were spectacular. I stopped along the way and took many pictures, I then told myself to cut it out and get running. No more picture taking. I will post the pics soon. There was beautiful scenery.
It took me 1:30 to cover the next 5 miles. Into the aid station, get both bottles filled (48 oz in 1:30!), grab a PB&J and out of there.
Onto the next 5 mile section. More climbing, climbing, climbing up the hills. But I felt good, felt strong. I told myself it was early, the bad patch would arrive soon.
It didn't.
The pack I had started out running with was dispersed and I was running most of the race alone. I was happy that the marathon was going one from our turn-around back to our start, so I could see some folks.
My friend Ann looked awesome in the marathon, she was in a bunch of 4-5 when I saw her, we said hello and good bye. Ann ended up finishing in 6:04, taking 2nd Master Woman. Go Ann. You rock!
This section is 8 miles long and goes on forever and a day. I drained both bottles of drink; one water, one Hammer Heed, had to dig into a Myloplex bar and finally arrived at the aid station. Filled up the bottles, grabbed a sandwich and was on my way.
5:45. 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Wow. A Miracle!!
I was feeling so good, I was hot, but not baking. It was 81F and very very humid. Some people were frying. I was eating, drinking, doing Ecaps every hour, no pain other than blister pain, but that's a given for me. I was feeling really strong.
I noticed the first woman on the way to the turn around, Deb Bennet, she rocks. She finished in 10:30. Yeah, 10:30. I spoke with her after the race for a long time, trying to glean some knowledge from her! An awesome strong woman, 46 years old.
Going back toward the start was awesome. I love out and backs. I was able to see all of the runners, get a few high fives, a few shocked glances, lots of encouragement. These ultra runners are just the best.
I just kept moving forward. No pain, no cramps, no bad patch. It was a miracle. Ouch, I did get stung by a bee a few times. It didn't bother for too long though.
I was trying to figure out the math in my head, trying to figure out the miles and the time I may finish. Then I thought I was becomming too cocky and just better run. My luck I'd fall down and break an ankle as I'm dreaming of a 13 hour finish. Just run, woman, run.
All alone to my thoughts, not a person to be found after the 50 Milers reached the turn around was real lonely. I yelled out "TOPIE WOPIE" for Topaz. I actually thanked him out loud for being my faithful training partner this past year. For helping me to go out and snow shoe for 20 mile snow shoe runs during the winter when I was cold and lazy and didn't feel like it. For always being at my side with a wag of a tail and a wet kiss for me. He's the best.
When I reached Oberg at 430 I was pretty amazed. I think Scott was shocked. I asked him if I needed my lights and he laughed at me "No, Jul, you don't need your lights. You'll finish this thing in the day light" He gave me a big hug and a bunch of encouragement and I was going to run in the last 7 miles. I was going to run my ass off.
I started crying as I was running that last section. Crying because I was doing something I never thought I could. Finish WITHIN the time limit? I hadn't done that here before. I was always the slow, fat chick. Barely finishing before the cut off's or even after. 17:50 last year and 15:30 the year before.
I might finish in 12:45. But I might crash and burn. I might get sick or fall or who knows what.
I was running along and saw Kim Holak running towards me on the trail. She has won this race in the past. She wasn't running because she is doing Bear 100 in three weeks. Her husband, Andy, won the race (tied with his friend) in 8:xx. Anyway, I asked Kim how much farther. "1.5 miles Julie, and it is all downhill"
Crying again, I ran as fast as I could. It probably wasn't that fast but boy it felt like I was flying. It was all downhill, over the rocks, the roots, over the final river. I told myself DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING INSIDE. LEAVE IT ON THE TRAIL. LEAVE IT ALL ON THE TRAIL. All the blood sweat and tears. Leave it here. Run hard. Run hard.
Man I ran hard. I was bawling. I was embarassed. Nobody saw me though. I came out to the road, up the hill, saw the Caribou Highlands. Saw the pool. Oh my god. I'm here.
Ann yelled. They all began clapping. I crossed the finish line in 12:20. Second Woman. First Master Woman. 11th Overall.
11th Overall. That's what really gets to me, inside. 11th Overall. It's shocking. It makes me cry..happy tears :)
11 comments:
- Emma said...
Gosh, all I can think to say is WAY TO GO! I was tearing up reading your post. You are amazing. Really...big hugs to you and congratulations!!!! You worked so hard for this...WOW!
OMG! Awesome Job!
The part where you're thanking your dog? Priceless. And then finding out that you wouldn't need a flashlight at the end... Well, hard not to tear up.
You deserved this. Way to go out there!!!
Way to go Julie. You got me tearing up with your calls to Topaz and the rest.
Great Job. I am so happy that you keep surpassing all of your goals. You just ROCK!!!!
- Julie B said...
Emily! You began a blog. I will definately be visiting. I'm honored you mentioned me on your first entry. Wow.
Cathy and Jessie; thanks so much. I'm learning more about myself each and every race. Peeling away the layers. Thank you for your continued congratulations!
- :) said...
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, WOW!
I can't even say how inspired and amazed I am by you! You so rocked that race! You deserve every bit of that trophy.
11TH OVERALL???!!! Dang, woman, you are the greatest!
- Joe said...
Way to go indeed! That's incredible! Saying "great job" doesn't quite cover how amazed and impressed I am, but Great job!
- Unknown said...
Hey, way to go! Awesome report and great race. There aren't too many ultra runners out there blogging, so it's great to find a new one. Thanks to Flatman for posting the link. Good job!
- Nancy Toby said...
I came over here to see your blog because Flatman recommended it, and hey, he is never wrong! I am amazed and impressed! Fantastic accomplishment! Well done!!!
- Tracy said...
"Crying again, I ran as fast as I could. It probably wasn't that fast but boy it felt like I was flying. It was all downhill, over the rocks, the roots, over the final river. I told myself DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING INSIDE. LEAVE IT ON THE TRAIL. LEAVE IT ALL ON THE TRAIL. All the blood sweat and tears. Leave it here. Run hard. Run hard."
Just GOD! OMG! I was glued to this post, you're unbelieveable. What an incredible journey. Just...GOD!
- Chris said...
CONGRATULATIONS! What an awesome effort and race report. I still think your 50 was harder than my 140.6. At least I have wheels for 112 of that! ;)
Great job! Very well done! :)
- Susan said...
Wow - how did you lose the weight? I have about 20 lbs that won't budge and I run ALL the time.
Maybe it's the pringles.


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Franco, "Access Hollywood" reports, caused quite the stir when he went to the Manhattan-based studios to film the show. A record number of fans and industry regulars were reportedly turned away, over 250 when all was said and done, and there was an unheard of grapple for seats, TMZ reports.
The long-running show, as well as its host, James Lipton, has been the subject of many a "Saturday Night Live" sketch for being famously stoic and dry, but not this time. During taping, fan's screams and cat calls were reportedly so disrupting that Lipton was forced to stop the interview to calm them down, remarking "Seventeen years filming this show and I've never heard a sound like that before."
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Joined: 09 Jun 2010
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Location: Wales, UK
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:46 pm
Post subject: The Test....
It's been a while since I've updated my blog.
The main thing really, is how I feel that every inch of my life is under inspection... No dark patch or emotion can be left... and also, my reactions to all things are being tested. Much inspiration from Buddhism and very brief contact I had with Buddhist monks. It is possible to go beyond desire and develop a deeply stable mind. Letting go, and in the process, seeing and receiving more, with always the desire to uplift the world in some way.
I wrote that wheat was a long struggle for me, but since last update, I've had no attraction to bread (June I think it was). I used to hit the bread like an addict (because I was an addict). I still drink coffee
) This is under review for me now too.
My food intake is really mostly fruits and carrots and celery, and almonds. I haven't felt better. If I feel like 'joining in', as it were, on a Saturday morning, I have a chocolate croissant, but my body reacts to that - not dramatically, but my body doesn't want this. I kind of enjoy that Saturday thing, but on the other hand, it also feels like eating slime or something... (I don't say that to anyone
) )
I feel like my body wants to reject what I'm mostly eating - all that sweet fruit, and fibrous raw vegetables. It's weird, or perhaps normal, but I have bowl movements four or five times a day. I read that was healthy somewhere, I don't know. I just know that my body is eliminating stuff as quickly as possible, to get it out... The opposite, bowls stuck with unprocessed matter, is clearly a health risk. It seems to me, health isn't so much about what one eats, but more about what one doesn't.
Here's a thing I've learned for myself. Eliminating food stuffs isn't really to gain anything for this life, like amazing health or longevity (after all, we all die
) ). It's that everything we put into ourselves has a kind of resonance, a link to the whole process surrounding the food product. I feel freer without putting into myself all those energies... It's about connecting to something deeper.
I mentioned that I'm under inspection by something greater than me, and that continues to be true. It really is like a test. Often, I don't welcome it at all, and just wish I could be 'normal' and eat normally, But on the other hand, stagnation is not an option...
Weight still the same, 10 stone. Stopped running (my joints troubled by it). Keeping fit though, push ups etc.
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Location: Wales, UK
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 9:10 pm
Post subject: Finally some peace..
I just wanted update my blog a little.
My path has always been two steps forward and one step back. If I look back, I see I've come a long way at not being a total addict.
Sometimes I was eating a lot of raw food, then going back onto the bread, or coffee big time and so on.
Something has changed now though. It's been months since I've had bread. Coffee, too, I'm switching off without any sense of loss at all. I feel so much freer. I get through work without coffee! Now that is strange.
As I go forward, I'm happy to join in very occasionally. For example, next Saturday morning I'll have coffee and a vegan pain-au-chocolat. The rest of the week, just fruits and some carrot and almonds.
What I foresee, is that this too will slowly start to feel strange (or maybe not!), but for now I'm happy with it. I feel at peace, because I don't crave some of the things I used to...
No rules! Just going with the flow.
I know this blog had the word 'breatharianism' in it, but really, I don't know about that at all. That's just an idea, and I have no idea what it means.
What does anything mean?
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:56 am
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In my last post I said I was going to have a chocolate croissant at the weekend and a coffee- well that did happen, but only two weeks later. It was ok. Not sure I really enjoyed it that much. The coffee registered positively in my brain, but then there was the come down later.... so...
It's just been fruits and nuts for me all this time, since last time. My weight still hovers just a little under ten stone. I'm preparing for a fruit Christmas. (Salad has been out, don't feel like it, for a long time now.) That's going to be interesting, with relatives etc. Funny, but I really don't care about it. Perhaps because I feel certain about my course of action. Also, I've said to myself and my wife, that I can revert to cooked anytime, but I think we both know, that's not going to happen any time soon...
The other thing is the weather. It's cold. It's damp. But I'm still on fruits. Something's happened to me, and what has happened to me, is not something I can easily explain. I should be cramming the bread in, drinking gallons of coffee, but that's not happening. I am drinking warm teas though, usually herbal.
Actually, I feel strangely isolated in myself at the moment, with other moments of clear perception.
The one thing - or two things, or even three! - I have to face are
1)my job
2)computer time
1)I need to quit it. I don't really fit in the IT company. I don't what the f**k I'm doing there really!! Not a clue.
2)I've been spending more and more time on the computer recently, it's like a disease/addiction. I have to quit this constant checking of, just rubbish really. I don't like it when I see people buried in their tablets/ipads/phones/laptops... so why have I been doing this more and more??
3)I have to go to bed earlier.
I don't know how I'm going to quit my job. I'd love just to walk out, without even giving notice, so I don't have to face the people there anymore. Giving notice is the worst kind of imprisonment, in some ways. But it's helpful, and it's nice to be helpful?
Other than that, it's more and more obvious to me.... that everything I do is just one form of distraction to another... it's like my ego is going through some kind of revolt against... just to be a body, animated by consciousness, with no agenda, with no desire to be anything or anybody, someone/body unknown... with the hope that the overall shape/design of the planet improves... I can't really see anything else worthwhile wishing for really... there's nothing else to do than keep working toward that...
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:59 pm
Post subject: Life is like climbing a big mountain toward the Light
Hello, I haven't updated my blog for a long while.
For the sake of focusing my mind, I thought I would write some more - writing has always been found to be the best method in that regard
It was December last year last time I wrote, a long time. This is pretty much how things have gone for me food wise since then.
I got through Christmas as a fruit/raw food person, but went back in a strange fashion soon after Christmas. I was with the family, in the financial district of London, and ended up eating a pizza (!!!?) there. This was strange and crazy for me. I felt cold (it was really cold), I felt strange by all the strange buildings, and the strange reality of London financial district.... The kids and my wife wanted a nice meal, and we ended up in a pizza place, which wasn't even grounded on the earth. It was a restaurant above the road, with cars underneath. So it was weird. I started to ingest pizza, above a road, surrounded by glass buildings and ancient Roman remains. It's hard to explain how disconnect from the earth these places are. I think part of my problem, is that with all the Christmas socializing, I just hadn't been eating my usual amounts of fruit, wasn't really prepared enough.
After that pizza, which re-acclimatized my body to this kind of 'food' (it's definitely not food), and feeling at a low ebb, I ate more cooked food. I still get a soar throat nearly straight away after eating (too much) cooked food, which is weird.
I've been having coffee and toast again, but it's not doing me much good. Also, eating other cooked stuff, but try and keep that down as much as possible. Weirdly, I find a whole cooked meal, with cooked vegetables etc, much worse than eating sometimes more 'unhealthy', like a piece of toast with vegetable grease.
I can't explain this to myself. Why is it, that cooked vegetables, or whole cooked meals, feels like eating a load of sludge and dirt, but chewing on a crunchy piece of toast doesn't? Perhaps cooked dishes are really complex in their make-up, with different levels of things all mixed together.
I don't have a plan to go all raw food again. Really I'm more interested in doing a fast again soon.
My weight has changed very little over all this time, a little above 10 stone.
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:32 pm
Post subject: It's all OK!
Something has deepened. I wasn't going to write about it, as I feel that keeping quiet about these things is a better approach... But then, in these times, I feel that there's enough Light around, for things like this to be made open....
A couple of realisations:
1) The deep love and impersonality of Light - I feel this keenly, unlike other times. This has helped me forward a little. By impersonality, I mean without emotion, without fluctuation.
2) Foods are bad! In my path, of going back and forth, but mostly two steps forward and one back, it's taken me up until now to feel with clear conviction that inputting substances into the body, isn't such a good idea. How long is it taking me to get this fully? Too long!
Am just on fruits again. The other day, just some juices. Really feel a change going on. Like I really don't want to walk back on the old path.
Also, realising that refining food input, isn't about attaining amazing long life, but about cleaning up the body/antenna that receives the higher signals. To enhance communion with those.
I came upon a sentence that really jumped out at me, from a C.S.Lewis book, Voyage to Venus:
"...And he bowed his head and groaned and repined against his fate - to be still a man and yet to be forced up into the metaphysical world, to enact what philosophy only thinks.'
Kind of says it all, and perhaps anyone who's on this path feels the same. Why always being pushed on to refine food, to somehow go beyond it? It's an agreement at soul level I think.
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:00 pm
Post subject: 1 month raw then started to fast+ salt water flushes
Did a month on just fruits, nuts and salad. The only non-raw thing I had was a bit of olive oil dressing on the salad, but didn't have a salad every day.
After that month, started to fast in a spontaneous way on some days off work I had. Was so used to doing myself a fruit smoothie in the mornings, that I forgot about my fast, and had a smoothie automatically... But from 9am onward, my fast had started....
My findings for those days:
Day 1: Later that morning, did a salt water flush, and it did hurry my bowels somewhat. Had some diluted orange juice during the day. Also, cups of herbal teas.
Evening weight: not much difference, just above 10 stone.
Day 2: Did another salt water flush, but it would not move my bowels at all. Diluted orange juice during the day, also cups of herbal tea.. Quite gassy, which I was surprised about, because I felt I didn't have much left in there. But since it takes between 20 and 30 hours for food to travel from the mouth to the way out, that's not surprising. No stools all day, which is unusual. The reverse of what a salt water flush is meant to do.
Evening weight: I was expecting my weight to have fallen today, but it had not, just above 10 stone.
Day 3: Did another salt water flush, and about 20 mins later it produced a bowel movement. A surprisingly dense and heavy stool for someone who eats mostly fruit, it was difficult. Once that was out of the way, and the blockage has been removed.... I needed to be near a loo for about 2-3 hours!! The salt flush really, really worked. I must have gone 5 to 6 times, and couldn't believe how much was being washed out. It felt so good to be free of all that. Immediately my breathing became deeper, like a part of my abdomen was more accessible. Also, a feeling of warmth spread out from that area, helping circulation to my extremities. When the salt flush really began to work, I felt like something was urging me to SHIFT quickly somehow, like a presence was trying to get me to change gears. A bit later, drank hot water with lemon juice. Unfortunately, I couldn't accommodate the last bowel movement, as I had to pick the children up from school!! I had a worrisome moment in the car... but I was ok! This process is like a game, with humour, and tailored to my way of life.
Weight: Strangely, again, my weight has not decreased, in fact has increased a little. How is this possible? I would say I look a bit thinner around the neck, but my overall weight has not changed, in fact, increased a tiny fraction. despite losing all that internal matter.
I haven't felt weak over these 3 days. Sleep has been a little light though, but have been using that time to read etc. Doing push ups and squats to keep the body motor ticking over... Push ups up to 50, just to keep tabs on my fitness level.
If I feel like I do now, tomorrow, I won't eat, just have herbal teas and diluted orange juice.
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:57 pm
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Day 4 of fast:
In the morning felt bad, not weak, but a bit nauseaus... drank some tea and diluted fruit juice and did some press ups, then I was ok. Had a very busy day, from swimming to having to go to a concert in the evening. Weight at end of day, down a little. That night, I was in a strange place within myself, and in the middle of the night I had to walk around the house, gently pacing back and forth. Felt incredibly sad at the bananas I wasn't eating, but I realise that the sadness was there, had nothing to do with bananas really - yet, also felt a kind of deep connection to things. Throughout the day, a couple of times felt like I needed the loo, but I didn't, nothing there.
Day 5 - end of fast:
Stomach felt a bit sicky on the fluids. Strangely, like yesterday, still have a fair amount of gas.
Weight his morning: 10 stone, so weight has finally dropped a little. There's a bug going round, and my body has reacted to it massively. Extremely sore throat. Decided to have some fruits again, both as smoothies and individually, as I felt so bad. Also, needed to keep my head together.
Day 6: Weight in the morning: just under 10 stone, despite eating again. Have had the most terrible snot EVER... just a stream of mucus all night. Feel like I'm massively detoxing.
It's been a week now, eating fruits, and I've had terrible mucus, like I've never had before. Feel this part of detox. It's been cold and very wet lately, damp, and for the first time in over a month, had some cooked food. A baked potato, and some stew. Will see how I feel about that in a day or two. First impressions, is that it was quite a handy thing to have, against the cold and damp.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 7:12 am
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More and more fruits have been tasting not good. Also, because I do less exercise than I used to, I've been finding that I've been getting too loaded with fruit sugars. Sometimes, after eating some fruit, I've felt tired. Also, I've had that bombed feeling recently after eating fruit, kind of high and woozy at the same time - so it looks like my pancreas or something, has been struggling with the quantity of sugar involved in eating lots of fruit, even though they're natural sugars...
At the same time, I've been struggling with the taste of everything. Fruit teas have been tasting really bad. I was away for a while and had a coffee, just to get a taste of something I actually liked, but could only drink a third of the cup. I've been in a strange place where just everything tastes bad, whether salad or fruit - anything really.
Yesterday, it was raining and I found myself baking a loaf of bread, for the fun of it - without really much intention of eating it. Also, feeling lonely in my food choices, I wanted to reconnect with the whole comfort=food process - and that's especially true of baking. Of course, I did have some toast in the end, and I have to say, it tasted great to me. Also, the children liked it, which is better than the bought bread they usually have.
It's been ages since I've had bread.
Another problem that has been growing for me with regards to fruits, are the air miles involved. Being transported thousands of miles by air... just so I can have some fruit. Seems insane somehow. I've always had many bananas, but I'm wondering, am I moving away from such vast quantities of fruit? The garden provides nice fruit for about a month, and then it's root vegetables for most of the time.
I seek simplicity really in everything. Really, I need to fast again soon.
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:24 pm
Post subject: 4 years later....
4 years seem to have gone past since I last updated this blog. In a way, I wish I had used less words to describe my thought processes, skipping back over what I have written... it feels long winded and unnecessary.
Recently I was on fruits only for 2 or 3 months, something I'd never done so consistently before. However, I found it quite hard socially. The strange thing is, is that I could NOT see myself going back to cooked food, but one morning, I suddenly felt different about it... Maybe because it was too hard with the family and kids. So I'm back again to cooked food, which took a while to get back into. I feel like I'm becoming an expert at how foods make people feel, the good and the bad.
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:08 pm
Post subject: Re: 4 years later....
lovedimension wrote:
I feel like I'm becoming an expert at how foods make people feel, the good and the bad.
I would be interested to see your conclusions, ld.
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i'm new to this forum and i was read your posts with great interest. how are you getting on now?
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Lommori finished the match with 33 assists, five kills and three digs.
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As a team, CCSU hit .340 for the match, while the Terriers posted a .170 mark.
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