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- 1 year voluntary work related to development policy in Latin America (Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru) or Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique)
- Support by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) within the framework of the weltwärts-programme
- 30 years of experience and competence in educational and project work related to development policy
· Commitment in local Non-Governmental organizations and associations that reflect a broad spectrum of work related to development policy.
- Networking with other organizations whose work is related to the respective countries
- Accompaniment and preparation by experienced volunteers and full time employees that have a broad knowledge about the countries that are at disposal
- Experience with more than 170 welwärts-volunteers since the beginning of the programm three years ago
- Individual interviews and assignment of projects
- Personal care
- Involvement of the host organizations in the selection and conception of the programm
- Country specific and country comprehensive preparation including an introduction about development policy, intercultural competence, security/safety and gender
- Individual options/choice in the preparation for the acquisition of practical skills that can be applied during the service, as for example text, image, video and theatre
- Chance to commit yourself as a returnee
· Contact with the embassies in the countries
· Experienced tutors in the countries that can give advice in case of problems
· In some countries, there are additional possibilities to tackle with country specific topics in groups
- According to the guidelines of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the voluntary service as an alternative service abroad can substitute the community service as as well as the military service
The following applies to the voluntary service 2011/2012:
- The programm is aimed at young grown ups between 18 and 28 years that are German citizens or are permanently resident and have the right of residence in Germany.
- They must either have completed a vocational training course after graduating from school at 15 or 16; or have graduated from secondary school at 18 or 19 having passed the school-leaving examination qualifying them to enter higher education; or have passed a similar school-leaving examination. Applications from people with work experience and students are especially welcome.
- We expect a high degree of independence and self-responsibility. The willingness to adapt to the circumstances of life in the host country and to the requirements of the project are expected.
- You have good knowledges in the language of your host country (in spanish comparable with the level B1 of the European framework of reference, in portuguese: basic knowledge of the language)
- It is obligatory to participate in preparing seminars and events before the voluntary service begins, as well as seminars for returnees. Altogether, there are 25 seminar days.
- It is expected, that the volunteer builds up a support group that raises about 150 Euros every month.
- Applications from East Westphalia are especially welcome.
- Moreover, we are happy to receive applications from people that do vocational training. A qualification through vocational training or work experience can be a substitute for language skills – if they are not sufficient.
In addition, you can get more information on the official "weltwärts" page of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).


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Saying you're going to change something in the New Year is easy. Doing it, of course, is the hard part, regardless of how committed you think you are. The lesson I always turn to about how people successfully break bad habits is one from NPR's Alix Spiegel. Last year around this time, she explored how disrupting your environment can help you turn the corner on a hangup. Research indicates that it's not so much the behavior that's hard to change, but the environment that gives us cues to perform that behavior. This insight started, strangely, with a study into why Vietnam veterans who were addicted to heroin during the war had such success overcoming their addictions after treatment and returning to the U.S. In large part, the fact that they weren't in Vietnam anymore helped their recovery tremendously.
"We think of ourselves as controlling our behavior, willing our actions into being, but it's not that simple," Spiegel writes. "It's as if over time, we leave parts of ourselves all around us, which in turn, come to shape who we are." And who we want to be.
Ten Stats That Will Change the Way You Look At Video in 2013 (Ad Age)
It's true: in 2012, online videos were watched at a rate of 150 clips per second. This is a huge opportunity for brands, but only if executed in a way to make you stand out from the crowd. In this handy list, Visible Measures marketing director Matt Fiorentino breaks down what companies need to know about the current online video climate. Some trends? People are actively choosing to watch online video advertising — there were at least 4.6 billion voluntary views this year. In addition, video campaigns that build suspense (like those launched prior to a big Super Bowl ad reveal) generated 600% more views in 2012. Also, there's the whole "videos with cats do better than videos with dogs" thing, but even I could have told you that.
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Carl Sagan explores the universe in this monumental cosmic journey. A fascinating blend of science, education, and entertainment that covers everything from the cells which build life to the Big Bang that started it all. 13 episode on seven volumes. Includes bonus book.
Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination.
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A mother and a daughter died in a Thursday evening two car crash in Merchantville, New Jersey.
The accident happened in the area of Chapel Avenue and Russell Avenue in Camden County.
A spokesman for Camden County tells FOX 29 the driver and a passenger in the other car were listed in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital.
Investigators have not released the names or ages of the victims.
It's not yet clear what caused the accident.
Not the prettiest Friday, but we're ready for a great weekend. Expect scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the day. After an early high in the upper sixties, temperatures fall & winds pick up out of the chillier northwest. Right now the Memorial Day Weekend looks sunny and cool with highs in the low to mid 60s on Saturday, in the 70s Sunday & Monday. Cooler temps at the shore.
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Touring the Operating Room
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Updated: November 14, 2012
It's the place many of us hope to never be, the operating room. But tonight Rome Memorial Hospital offered guided tours of its OR to the public. Dozens of adults and children took the tour. Visitors got the chance to get their hands on surgical equipment and explore actual operating rooms.
Russell Arant, the Director of Surgical Services says, "This gives people the chance to go behind the scenes, ask questions, we have our nursing staff on hand to personally guide people through the OR and explain the equipment and the procedures and that way they can get the information first hand."
Rome Memorial Hospital holds this event annually in recognition of pre-operative nurses week.


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Women's Soccer Battles Newberry to Scoreless Draw
October 10, 2012NEWBERRY, S.C. – Anderson and Newberry battled through two overtimes to a scoreless draw in South Atlantic Conference women's soccer Wednesday afternoon at the Newberry College Soccer Field.
Anderson moves to 5-4-3 overall and 3-1-2 in the conference after seeing two draws in the last four outings, while Newberry (4-5-3, 1-3-2 SAC) saw its winless streak extended to five contests.
The Trojans' defensive effort marked the eighth time this season that opponents have been unable to score - equaling last season's record-setting mark, while the stalemate was the fith clean sheet posted by the Wolves.
"Today was by far our worst performance of the season which is disappointing on so many levels," said Anderson head coach Samar Azem. "We did not play our style, we did not show courage in the box and we certainly lacked desire and focus. Our players have to adopt a consistently disciplined mentality coupled with leadership. Once we do, we will begin winning the games we should and the occasional games we are not expected to."
The Wolves outshot the Trojans, 11-9, on the afternoon and held a 5-2 advantage in shots on goal. Newberry also recorded four corner kicks, while AU notched three.
Junior Kaitlyn Neipp played all 110 minutes in goal for the Trojans, recording five saves, while Newberry's Rebecca Darley also went the distance and notched a pair of saves.
Anderson will look to return to the win column Saturday, as Wingate invades Trojan Stadium for a 1 p.m. kick-off.


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In the July 2012 issue, we gave you an update on Jacks Vaquero, aka "Cowboy." The senior gelding is now teaching 4-year-old TJ Hammond of Idaho to ride. We first introduced our readers to Cowboy in the April 2006 issue. Review that article below.
A tiny girl sits atop a nondescript brown gelding. They're waiting to compete in a barrel-racing class for riders 5 and under at the Washington State Junior Rodeo Finals in October of 2005. The girl's tawny hair is tucked neatly under a straw hat; her babyish face is doll-like. Her legs reach only halfway down the horse's sides.
The gelding begins to prance slightly, his neck bowed obediently to his rider's hand. The girl's mother leads the pair down the alleyway and turns them loose in the arena, then stands aside, holding her breath.
The girl leans forward and the gelding sprints toward the first barrel. As he nears it, the girl sinks into the saddle and the horse wraps himself around the metal can, digging in with his hindquarters and bending through his middle. He finishes the turn and springs toward the second barrel.
"This isn't the first time this horse has done this," drawls the announcer. Just short of the second barrel, the gelding switches leads, and again the girl sinks into the saddle. The pair spin around the second can, perfectly synchronized, and leap toward the third. One more tight, neat turn, and they're headed for home. The girl stands in her stirrups and shoots her rein hand forward, urging her gelding on with everything she's got. The horse responds with a surge, tripping the electric eye at a full gallop.
Their time makes them the only pair in their age group to break the "teens"; they win first place. The girl smiles happily and claps her horse's neck.
The mother smiles too, blinking back tears. Twenty years ago, she was the little brown-haired girl on this same gelding, racing around barrels, winning prizes. To see her daughter now, running and winning on this cherished, aged horse, brings the most exquisite flush of emotions.
But—we're getting ahead of the story. It begins two decades earlier, in Lewiston, Idaho. It's the tale of Jacks Vaquero, also known as Cowboy, the plain little Quarter Horse with the great big heart.
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It was July 2, 1981. Jami Yochum (the mother in our opening vignette) was only 4 years old, but she remembers the day vividly. It's when her parents, Johnny and Debbie Rynearson, took her out to the pasture to see a little brown colt, just 1 hour old. A colt intended to be Jami's own someday.
The Rynearsons and their two daughters lived on five acres in a rural part of Lewiston. At the time they had 18 horses, some on their own property and others boarded in nearby pastures. This newest foal carried the blood of several American Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame luminaries, including Poco Bueno and Two Eyed Jack (see "Cowboy At A Glance," page 2). "We were firm believers in Two Eyed Jack horses," Debbie recalls. "You could do everything with them."
Though bred for success, the colt perhaps didn't appear so at the time. "I remember thinking he looked a little like a mule," says Jami. "He had that typical light 'muley mouth' that true brown horses do, and big ears. But he was cute and well muscled, and also friendly, curious, and unafraid. I got to pet him, and he didn't act bratty and try to bite like some of the other babies I'd been around."
The foal, registered as Jacks Vaquero, came to be known simply as Cowboy (English for vaquero). At the time of his birth, Jami was already becoming a skilled rider on her talented Shetland Pony. Over the next four years, the 10-hand-tall Candy would carry her as Jami learned to love a variety of events, including barrel racing, pole bending, breakaway roping, and goat tying.
Cowboy, meanwhile, was growing and impressing everyone with his levelheadedness. "I remember clipping his ears when he was a weanling," Debbie recalls. "I used big clippers—they were awfully loud—but he didn't even move. If I hadn't already known it, that alone would have told me he was special."
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In the winter of Cowboy's 2-year-old year, Jami's father started him under saddle. An experienced horseman who helped his neighbors with their young stock, Johnny found the newly gelded horse to be calm and willing from day one.
"He's the kind of horse you could ask to climb a tree, and he'd say, 'Which one?'" says Debbie. "I remember riding him across neighbors' land to cutting clinics on cold, snowy days in the winter of his 3-year-old year, and he was great. He wasn't all that interested in cattle or the cutting machine, but he walked out smartly to get there and let us expose him to a bunch of different things."
By the time Cowboy was 4 and Jami was 8, the Rynearsons felt the two were ready for each other. Jami started riding the 14.1-hand gelding under her parents' supervision, while continuing to show her Shetland. Then, one day in 1985, things changed forever.
"A local barrel-racing club my mom had founded was having its finals competition," Jami recalls. "I ran Candy in the first run of my age group, then tried Cowboy in the second. He was so much faster, so much more powerful! It gave me an adrenaline rush. I had complete confidence in him, though, so it wasn't scary,just incredibly fun."After that,the pony was retired, and Cowboy became Jami's steady partner.
"He was and is a quick learner," Jami says. "In addition to barrel racing and other rodeo events, I did everything with him—trail riding, 4-H fitting and showing, Western pleasure, showmanship, trail. He excelled at it all." A clever horse, Cowboy also excelled at untying himself. "He's a regular Houdini," says Jami. And though a kind, quiet eye is one of the gelding's best traits, he's not a lapdog sort of horse. "I wouldn't say he's standoffish, but he's not at all cuddly," Jami explains. "He definitely doesn't like being petted around the head." Other quirks include a loathing of llamas ("something about the smell," Jami thinks) and a passion for Twizzlers red licorice ("he can eat a whole bag").
His most distinguishing eccentricity, however, is something his family calls "the Cowboy shuffle." It's the little strut he does just before and after he makes a run.
"He doesn't get hard to handle; he just takes these short little steps and is very perked up," notes Jami. "It's how we know he's going to win."


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Ex-Kirtland resident faces federal charges involving defrauding
A former Kirtland resident was federally charged Thursday on charges of defrauding relatives and family members out of $366,500.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice news release:
John C. Hartman, 60, allegedly told friends and family that he needed money to pay for outstanding tax obligations, a bad stock investment and medical expenses for his sick wife in 2005 and 2006. He told the victims they would be repaid at a future date.
Officials said the delinquent taxes and bad investment were lies and his wife did not have a serious medical condition. Hartman allegedly spent the money on personal expenses.
Additionally, the suspect did not file the additional income on his tax returns, thereby creating a $83,760 tax loss.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Robert Patton and Special Assistant United States Attorney Perry D. Mastrocola, following an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.
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It seemed like a lot of work went into making these (I didn't make them, Tyler did!) They are great though and I think you can definitely tweak them to best suit your preference. We'd actually never cooked with leeks before! First time for everything, and I think we'll be using them more in the future. Honestly who couldn't like a dish topped with smoky bacon? ?
Smoky Potato Pancakes (from Cooking Light)
- 2 center-cut hickory-smoked bacon slices
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 1 cup thinly sliced leek
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 1/2 pounds shredded peeled baking potato (about 2 large)
- 1/3 cup (1 1/2 ounces) shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 large eggs
- Cooking spray
- 1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
1. Preheat oven to 425°.
2. Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan using a slotted spoon, and crumble. Add onion to drippings in pan, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add leek and garlic; cook for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Combine onion mixture, grated potato, cheddar cheese, 3/4 teaspoon salt, black pepper, and 2 large eggs in a medium bowl, stirring well.
3. Divide the potato mixture into 8 equal portions, and shape each portion into a 1/2-inch-thick patty. Place patties on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Coat patties lightly with cooking spray. Bake at 425° for 25 minutes or until golden and set. Top with crumbled bacon and sour cream.


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Faces are essentially very similar: two eyes above a nose and a mouth. Yet most people are really good at noticing subtle differences between faces, and interpreting accurately. This helps enormously with social interaction: we can tell who they are, if we know them, we can also tell if they are male or female, roughly what age they are, and what that person might be feeling.
In autism, deficits processing facial expressions are widely acknowledged, but there is an increasing amount of evidence for impaired facial identity recognition from scientific studies as well as personal anecdotes.
Several years ago I worked as an ABA therapist for a little girl, Clare (not her real name). She was profoundly autistic and her quirky ways and bounding energy made her popular with her classmates. Despite her popularity Clare was always getting the names of the other children mixed up. She was unconcerned by her mistakes and paid little attention to repeated corrections. But we were a little worried, figuring that after a while the other kids might be offended that she still couldn't identify them. So, in an attempt to protect her social reputation, her mother took a photograph of each child and we Clare and I played various 'who's this?' games. She did get better at naming the photographs. But I'm not sure she ever actually got better at naming the kids in real life.
A year later I found myself reviewing literature on face recognition in autism for my PhD. 'Face recognition' AND 'autism' returns over 600 hits on Web of Science. The experimental methods used in these studies varied hugely. There were memory tests, matching tests, spot-the-difference tasks. Faces were turned upside down, blurred, or shown with all the hair removed. Features were moved around or switched or presented without the face they came from. .. and the results? Some studies reported impairments, some did not.
I was confused.
Image matching
Then it occurred to me that perhaps some tasks allowed participants to do well even though they were not actually very good at facial identity recognition. At this point I got some helpful advice (and pictures of faces) from Prof Mike Burton, who at the time was with the Glasgow Face Recognition Group. The group had done some really interesting work showing that whilst people can easily match the same image of a person, they have a lot more trouble matching different images of the same person when that person is unfamiliar. So – we thought – when autistic participants do well on the face recognition tasks, are they just 'image matching'?
Examples of two trials. On the left, one of the images on the bottom is the same as the top person. On the right, the bottom left image is the same person but different photo |
My first experiment tested this hypothesis. We gave kids two different versions of a simple face-matching task. They'd see one face on a computer screen. Then they'd see two more faces and have to decide which of these was the same person as the first face. In one condition, the correct face would be exactly the same image as the first face. In the other condition, the correct face would be a different image of the same person. Obviously, the second condition is more difficult, but we predicted that the effect of changing the image would be even larger than normal for autistic children because it would prevent them using an 'image matching' strategy.
Performance on the test was much better for identical images than different images, but the effect was identical for both groups. |
Hypothesis rejected.
Each symbol here represents a single child. Scores above -1.64 are considered to be age- appropriate. Roughly half of the autistic kids were in this "normal" range. |
But then we looked again at the results for individual children. Unsurprisingly, older children were better at the task than younger children, so we calculated age-standardized scores to show how well each child performed relative to their age. Results showed that ability level within the autism group varied enormously. Some kids were impaired, some were not and this was not accounted for by differences in intelligence.
The question for the rest of my PhD became: why are some autistic children bad at face recognition?
Probably the most interesting results came from the last study I did where I used an eyetracker to monitor where kids were looking as they did a face recognition test. One idea I tested was that performance on face recognition tasks would be associated with the amount of time participants spent gazing at the eye-region of the faces they were trying to learn. Avoiding eye-contact is a common symptom of ASD and several studies have shown that at least some autistic kids avoid looking at the eyes of people even in movies. This could be detrimental to face recognition because the eye region is thought to be particularly useful for recognising identity [PDF].
However, in our study, we found no correlation between gaze-time on the eyes and performance on the test. Another hypothesis rejected.
Dynamic scanning
So then we looked at distribution of attention across the face. Although most adults focus more on the eyes than other facial features, attention is distributed between core features of the face (eyes, nose, mouth). This is thought to build up a unified percept of the face containing information about individual features as well as their spatial relationships. A failure to distribute attention could impede successful recognition.
Face recognition performance was not predicted by how much people looked at the eyes of the face (a) but it was predicted by (b) the Dynamic Scanning Index |
To test this idea, we developed what we called a Dynamic Scanning Index, which indicated the number of times a participant saccaded into, and out of, a core feature interest area. We found that the kids whose eyes moved around the face more were better at recognising faces. This was true of both the autistic and the typical kids.
On average, the autistic kids had much lower Dynamic Scanning Indexes than the typically developing kids. But the autistic kids with normal scores were the ones whose face recognition skills were also OK.
We don't yet know whether there is a causal relationship between identity recognition and dynamic face scanning, and if there is, in which direction. Reduced eye-movements around faces could result in impaired recognition ability. But it's also possible that poor face recognition skills result in an individual developing unusual scan paths for faces.
Where do we go from here?
The main conclusion from my PhD was that some but not all autistic kids have difficulties with facial identity recognition. We ran several different experiments (not all discussed here) and this was the one clear result that emerged throughout. This serves as a good example of most (if not all) symptoms and characteristics of ASD: variation within autistic participant groups should be expected, and researchers should strive to explain this variation rather than searching only for overall differences between groups.
Some autistic kids did have clear face recognition problems, and a crucial question is whether interventions would be beneficial. For example, training people to move their eyes around the face might improve their recognition skills. There have been a few training studies in the past, but the results haven't been particularly convincing. This may be because they were training the wrong skills. But it may also be that some of the people they were trying to train didn't actually have a problem to start with.
Further reading:
An article on face-blindness in non-autistic people by Ellie's other supervisor, Romina Palermo, now at University of Western Australia
Wilson CE, Palermo R, Burton AM, & Brock J (2011). Recognition of own- and other-race faces in autism spectrum disorders. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology, 64 (10), 1939-54 PMID: 21895562 PDF
Wilson CE, Palermo R, & Brock J (2012). Visual scan paths and recognition of facial identity in autism spectrum disorder and typical development. PloS one, 7 (5) PMID: 22666378 Open Access


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Asia is not experiencing an arms race like the one that preceded World War I -- at least not yet.
Arms races, naval or otherwise, get a bad rap. They are usually regarded as the military expression and consequence of the existing state of international relations, but they can also develop a momentum of their own, wasting money, exacerbating already tense relations between states and threatening to destabilize whole regions. Instead of reflecting policy as Clausewitz reminds us the military should do, arms racers determine it. All too often, moreover, they seem to make conflict more likely.
In the Asia-Pacific region many media outlets and pundits fear that a naval arms race is indeed developing and lament its possible consequences. It is not hard to see why— Whether it is Malaysia's Scorpene submarines, Vietnam's Kilos, India's unprecedented naval building program or China's new carrier the Liaoning and its carrier-killing ballistic missiles, naval modernization across the region is producing, if not always an overall increase in numbers, then at least substantially more impressive offensive and defensive naval capabilities.
And all of this is coinciding with, or even produced by, rising maritime tensions in the East and South China Seas. There are more narrowly focused tensions too, with analysts especially debating the dismayingly competition between China's "counter-intervention" strategies and capabilities, and the U.S.Air-Sea Battle construct. Vietnam's Kilos can also be seen as a more modest version of an anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy. These examples all suggest a worsening competition between "offensive" and "defensive"capabilities.
But is all this really developing into a naval arms race similar in style (and potentially effect) to the Dreadnought race that took place between Britain and Germany before the First World War – and even if it is, how serious might its consequences in the Asia-Pacific Region actually be?
While the answer to this question partly depends partly on how one defines a naval arms race, there are some major differences between pre-war Europe and the situation now. Most obviously—and with some exceptions like China, Singapore, and India— Asian countries today are devoting a far smaller proportion of their national treasure to defense than did Britain, Germany and the other countries of pre-war Europe. In general, naval armaments are making much slower technical advances than was the case a century ago, with acquisition programs around the area being more incremental, deliberate, and less determined by transformational technology. It is hard to think of a modern equivalent, for example, of HMS Invincible, brand spanking new and revolutionary when commissioned in 1909 but obsolescent when sunk at the Battle of Jutland seven years later in 1916.
Compared to then, technological transformation now is much steadier, and the importance of maintaining an edge over rivals more debatable, given the rise of asymmetric technological/political/legal alternatives and strategies. Crucially, few national leaders, diplomats, or even sailors talk in arms race terms, and they certainly do not justify their efforts by the need to "get ahead." On the contrary policymakers make every effort to avoid publically naming possible adversaries that they need to build against.
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Whilst I found the contents of the article very interesting the scary part was actually reading the comments posted after it. The narrow minded, illinformed, jingoistic, nationalist sentiments expressed on both sides reveal the true and sad nature of humanity. Confirming that we (humans) are very much only just out of the trees and have a very very long way to go before we can call ourselves civilised.
Kim's Uncle
Well China loss over 400,000 sq km of outer Manchuria but still don't dare to ask the Russians to return them? This just proves how weak they are! A lot of talk but nothing to show for it!
It's all a question of timing. The Russians know it, and the Chinese know it.
Its called cowardice. The Russians know it. The whole world knows it. The Chinese know it and called "reasonable cowardice with Chinese characteristics".
@ vic
Sure, question of timing. Such as the Russians shot to death not one, not two, but several chinese poachers a few months ago, right? Funny how chinese media (print or internet) and chinese (in china or oversea) would not dare to say a word, not one. What is the matter? No chanting of "teach them a lesson" or "historic evidences" or "nuke them" or all the usual big empty threat and talk from china and chinese?
Full of shame and humiliation all over again. So much for "china as the next Godfather". How sad and pathetic. Perfect example of china and chinese characteristics.
For those that are not familiar about Russia took all the land and slaughtered chinese like sheeps, read this: (moderators, these are not spam)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Aigun (Russia took over 600 thousands square kilometers of land from china, not just 400 as another poster said)
This is the quote from the link you have provided:
"Thus, by pure diplomacy and only a few thousand troops, the Russians took advantage of Chinese weakness and the strength of the other European powers to annex 350,000 square miles (910,000 km2) of Chinese territory. With the exception of Muravyov's rather ceremonial cannonade at Aigun, they had apparently not fired a single shot."
I failed to find any evidence about " chinese slaughtered like sheeps"
China is a coward nation and they have nothing other than tonnes of cheap and scrap technology..lol
@ be way said "Vietnam should go back to China".
Sure, right after china goes back to Japan (rapes of nanjing) , Britain (Opium Wars), Machuria, and Mongolia.
As another poster said above, china repeatly tried and tried to swallow little Vietnam for the last few thousands years, got slaughtered and still mad about it.
Let check the history, shall we? Funny how you and other chinese posters would not brag about these facts. What is the matter? So shameful of your ancestors pathetic fighting skill or rather, lack of it?
1979 – ten of thousands PLA soldiers lay dead at the border.
1788 – Emperor Nguyen Hue defeat over 200K Quing soldiers in less than 1 week.
1427 – Emperor Le Loi defeated over 300K Ming soldiers.
1257, 1284 and 1288 – Commander Tran Hung Dao defeat between 300K -500K Mongols/Yuan (chinese slaves) soldiers. No country on Earth would able to achieve such thing, beat the fearsome Mongols not one, not two, but THREE TIMES.
938 Battle of Bach Dang River - the end of china reign forever.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Use it, comrade. How pathetic.
I can see this as increasing deterance of naval interdiciton, it could hopefully only be a good thing. If the countries around China have a healthy submarine force it would make them a hard target worthy of respect. If any nation wants to push them around they must expect casualties and masive defence expendature to overcome the threat. Plus this only reduces the reliance on the US to deliver security, something the US tax payer would be happy about.
There is also a long History of these developing ASEAN nations being pushed around, they must be sick of it by now. Now they have some money to build a decent defence structure they will do it, good on them.
Asean nations are too far behind the development curve to come up with effective navies. Perhaps two to three generations from now (i.e., 90 years), these nations may have the modern manpower and organizational skills. Right now, it is a question of catching up to "modernity".
China might have big number of guns, modern ships and millions of soldiers but NO fighting skills. I repeat NO FIGHTING SKILLS and most importantly NO FIGHTING SPIRIT, even it comes to defending their own country. Please tell readers here when China won any major wars either against big or small countries? If I were you, probably I would not brag like that.
Kim's Uncle
I wonder why Chinese are not so assertive about their vast loss of territory in outer Manchuria? China loss over 400,000 sq km to czarist Russia but they go ape sh*t over a few speck of islands??? LOL.
Hey, little fenqings (Be Way, john chan, Anon, etc.) go beat the war drum to the Russians! Why so timid when facing Russia?
Be Way
It's not a question that the Chinese are afraid of the Russians or anyone else. It's the strategic mistake of the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty, for restricting the Chinese of entering the Manchus hinterland. By the time they are aware of their mistake, the Outer Manchuria is swarmed with Russians occupying their lands for ages. Unlike the fascist Japanese who brutally attacked China, the Chinese at least take the comfort that the Russians will helping them against the ugly Western Imperialists and sadistic Japanese animals. That's the main reason why China being a peaceful country, can forge peaceful and stable settlement with almost all its 14 neighbors except the quarrelsome neighbors, Japan and Philippines.
"China being a peaceful country"? peaceful my foot! This day, 34 years ago the barbarian China sneakily attacked and invaded six Vietnamese northern border provinces when the Vietnamese removed the murderous Khmer Rouge, the China's vassal regime. The "sickman of Asia" turned to be a children, civilian killer. Now, it wants to be a gangster. For the Vietnamese, we can't forget this day 34 years ago. Leave our East Sea alone, surely a bloody nose again and losing tooth are what you don't want to see on your face.
Be Way
Let me also tell you straight that Vietnamese are not the noblest kind of race around.. Remember your history of how Vietnamese not only destroyed the Kingdom of Cham in Central and South 'Vietnam' but also brutally annihilate all the natives there. The royal edict to all Vietnamese is when they see one Cham male, they kill one until all of them either disappeared from Vietnam or migrated to Malaysia, Cambodia and even Hainan Island where at least they are saved from being brutally massacred. At least the Chinese have more conscience to leave all the natives surviving until now whether they are in Tibet, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Manchurian or even Mongolian. By the way, the Vietnamese doesn't belong to South East Asia family as they only have different appearance, culture and the genes are not much different from the Chinese.. Vietnam should go back to China.
Kim's Uncle
@ Be Way, what you just posted was very comedic! Just accept your loss status as a 2nd rate power that only dares to push around smaller weaker neighbors. Outer Manchuria was historically part of China but since the Russians are too powerful the commie Chinese are only brave at facing 3rd rate powers like the Philippines and Vietnam over claims that do not pass the BS test so no wonder these countries call BS on China! Anyone that is outside region can look at it objectively and see China claims are contrived and made up! Commie China was built on lies n suffering of its people so when red commies make up lies to the West we can see that! Our society was built up because our culture values moral n ethical behavior that's why we have free speech, freedom, and free press! Government officials have to be credible in the West or else they will be thrown out because a free press ensure the officials will be honest and report on misdeeds.
Btw, your comments are very emotional when you describe Japan or the US! It is a hint of irrationality n childishness! Modern day Japan is a democratic country with individual rights china can only dream about! You to think in this century and stop equating today's Japan with that of Tojo's Japan. Those people are not in power. Grow up please!
As for your emotional diatribe against the US, it is very ironic sense the US was the power that prevailed over Imperial Japan which gave china a new life! Plus without the US 7th fleet, the western Pacific would be lawless n chaotic! US protection of the high seas allow other nations to prosper thru trade n commerce including china as most of china's oil needs pass thru these waters! How ironic you lambast the very power which allows your country to climb out of the dung heap! I guess it is not a part of Chinese culture to be grateful! Sigh!
Be Way
@Old Kim from North Korea.
Before you start commenting, please check whether my above comment referred anything to U.S or not.
@Be way,
You talked like a parrot of what the CCP feeds you all along. Your logic is flawed when comparing feudal time of hundreds of years ago with current time. We know for the Chinese, they act consistently throughout time so a bully remains a bully, no matter when. Anyone, who is familiar with Vietnam history, knows that it is the Chinese the Vietnamese killed the most throughout its struggle for independence. Go to Vietnam, you will see most of the street names are names of Vietnamese heroes dying fighting the Chinese. Taking about genes, it is non-Han southern Chinese, who carry our DNA as they are families of BeiYue (One hundred of Viet), not other way around. The Han Chinese invaded and took the Vietnamese vast land from the south of Yangtze river, thus pushing the Vietnamese to the south. Clearly, this is not what the CCP teaches you and Chinese. So learn something before you comment here if you Chinese don't want to lose face in front of knowledgeable readers here.
BTW, in Vietnam we just celebrated a few days ago" the Dong Da battle", in which the Vietnamese emperor Quang Trung and his soldiers killed more than 30,000 Quing Chinese trrops, just in 5 day campaign in the spring festival of 1789.
Be Way
Honestly we don't give a damn of your historical rivalry with the Chinese as your enemy tomorrow could well turn to be the French, the Americans, Japanese or even the Cambodian, Laotian or Thai. On top of your neverending squabblings with external enemies, it's a shame of the Vietnamese that there are so many bloodsheds caused from your own internal conflicts ranging from your centuries of Nguyen, Tinh, Trieu, Ngo, Dinh and etc rivalries where it's the penchant of barbarity and brutality of every Vietnamese to fight amongst themselves with their base animal instincts instead of being rational and levelheaded.
@Be Way,
Calm down, boy. I started to see you lose your cool and you ruined your own debate by "I-don't give a damn thing". Anyway, I proved my point is that China is never a peaceful country throughout its history, at least to the Vietnamese, unlike you falsely claimed. Have nothing more to say to you.
Be Way
It's not a question of calm or not calm to our debate. It's a question of whether Vietnam can remain calm or not just after being peaceful for a few decades since the last disastrous Vietnam War. As far as we in ASEAN are concerned, we don't give a damn about your continuous historical rivalry with China but we are just concerned whether Vietnam belligerent behavior will lead towards another unnecessary bloodshed war with China or not, that will directly affect everyone of us in ASEAN.
@Be Way,
Wait a minute. You are from an ASEAN country? Are you sure you are not a mainland Chinese disguised as one of South East Asians seen all over places tirelessly repeating the CCP's lines? What a crook! For ASEAN as a whole, no one trusts the big bad bully China except for the dictator Hunsen (ironically, he sold his country to the butchers in Beijing. Sadly, history is repeating in Cambodia). As matter of fact, ASEAN should be thankful of the Vietnamese because hadn't them standing on China's way on the southward march, then the entire ASEAN swallowed by the ever hungry China now. And by the way, what is wrong for the Vietnamese resisting the big bad bully China's expansionists?
LOL. What I should call you now, Be Way? A SEA guy, willingly sell his soul and body for those little emperors in Beijing, hoping from article to article commenting tirelessly just for 50 cents per post (maybe more). I am a quiet guy and you made me talkative.
Stefan Stackhouse
The pre WWI arms race was only the kindling. It was a lunatic hypernationalist Serb with a pistol that actually generated the spark that set the whole thing off, and that is the type of bolt-out-of-the-blue "black swan" event that is totally unpredictable. The person that sets off the China Sea War is probably alive today, and is as yet unknown. But the clock is ticking.
Let's break up AmeriKKKa!! Yeehaw!!
A non-nuclear war requires a vast amount of oil, neither of which Japan and China has. I can see an extended war a scenario in which both sides just flat out run out of resources.
And all the talk of which side is bigger, better or just superior has little meaning when you have to transport troops and weaponry over water. A ship is just a floating target: slow and with little defense. Japan and China will just destroy each other's ship before they reach their respective beaches. All the talk about China attacking Taiwan: I doubt if China can land a single troop carrier.
Now in a nuclear war, both sides will just lose. Japan has nuclear weapons. Like Israel, they do not advertise. If you have the capability to make hundreds in a month then you have already been working on them, and have many in various stages of finish and capability. I am sure they are as advanced and miniaturized as the US models.
So both Japan and China huff and puff. Nothing will change. China will still be talking Japanese imperialism in another 30 years which will mark the hundred-year-old anniversary of WWII. Japan then will be a country of 80 million and wealthy, and China will be a country of a billion and poor. Nothing will change – just the numbers.
I'm not so sure if Japan does have Nuclear weapons, I can't prove they do not, but I'll hazard a guess and say they do not. However I doubt it would take the Japanse nuclear scientists long to make one, and they already have the rocket to send it anywhere on earth.
papa john
No one but stupid American administrations (and greedy capitalists) from Nixon up to now should be blamed for raising red monster of China. A little late, Obama admin does realize commie China is an unfinished work for America since the end of the cold war when we finished the Soviets, that's why it comes the pivot. We are little broke but still have strengths to finish off the unfinished work before we have to face the real wwIII then. Breaking up China in pieces is much better strategy.
Be Way
Oh well, maybe why not add more of your frustration by cursing the Americans further, for supporting and raising China for many centuries as the top economic power of the world.
Kim's Uncle
Not really it only shows china's weakness and futility and it created the mindset for a crybaby culture of victim hood! Great nation and great people do not cry! Great people and great country can also defend themselves! Great people and great country can also learn from their own mistakes and admit to their faults and failure like modern Japan and Germany! Cry baby culture does not endear respect, cry baby culture only breeds contempt!
Be Way
Hello old uncle kim of north korea,
The other old papa is cursing the Americans for not doing enough to befriend and make peace with the Chinese and here you are talking about Chinese being crybaby, crybaby, blah, blah..la, la…do, re, mi. Can you just be more alert by paying attention to the topic being discussed.
@papa john
America is just "little broke" ? It is broke big way, big time. It's a real big hole to crawl out of, and it is going to take a long, long time.
papa john
The West and Japan just cut trade with the red monster, then China will come back to the stone age for sure. Its right time for America to beat the commie China for fun, don't you think, Chinky godfather?
Kim's Uncle
@ Vic. I don't think you know much about economics but it is interesting to see and hear from people with little knowledge! Ignorance is bliss as they say! Strange for a "broke" country the Chinamen still buy US assets like US Treasury bonds? Saudis and Japanese too! Did you know when China pays for its oil bills it has to pay them in US dollars like all counties do for crude oil? All oil is invoiced in dollars even Iranians and Venezuelans have to accept that! :). What does that tell you? The US is a very powerful country! China only has wishful thinking!
Kim's Uncle
I'm always amazed that during the Opium wars the Brits could travel half way around the world moving equipment, supplies, and weapons along with troops and still managed to defeat china's pathetic military on their own turf!!!! LOL. China can't even move troops n supplies in order to conquer Taiwan in 2013? :).
Be Way
@Old Uncle,
That's proved your point that the Chinese are good natured people who don't go around invading other countries. It's appeared that you don't seen to understand even such simple logic.
You called your country an Empire, in every sense that was a devastating blow to so called Sino Superiority to be defeated by the Brits from Thousands of Miles away.
@Be Way,
That simply proves that Chinese were not good navigators. To infer from this that Chinese were not good warriors (on land) is ignoring the obvious. To infer that Chinese were exceptionally peaceful and that they own this large territory today by non-violent means only is just cheap propaganda. Just look up the territories occupied by successive Chinese dynaties. For dummies, start with Wikipedia, then read the Chinese own "shi lu".
Taiwan will come to the embrace of the motherland without fighting. It is the acme of political ability to attain one's goal without fighting.


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WASHINGTON -- Following on the heels of the successful "Got Milk?" and Milk Moustache campaigns, the milk-industry's marketing think tank is looking to spread the word again, this time by promoting availability.
The Fluid Milk Strategic Thinking Initiative -- developed in 1995 and co-sponsored by the Milk Processors Education Program and Dairy Management Inc. -- has been conducting surveys of various distribution channels, with the hopes of developing new markets.
Task forces are concentrating on surveying convenience stores, vending areas, school and food-service operations, nutraceuticals and meal solutions.
One survey conducted by the 14-person vending task force concluded that vending operators give little consideration to milk when making purchases. According to the group's statistics, soft drinks accounted for about 40% of all beverages sold through vending machines, while milk only accounted for 0.1%.
The survey of vendors also revealed that dairy companies don't strive to nurture relationships with vendors as beverage companies do, and they don't provide much in the way of merchandising support and sell-through strategies.
Other issues facing the milk industry in the vending arena include the lack of new types of vending equipment, the lack of milk-product variety, containers that are not resealable, the short sell time due to expiration dates and the absence of brand identity.
The convenience-store task force used a telephone survey to determine that C-store chain buyers and owner-operators paid little attention to their dairy shelves. The task force also determined that C-stores have minimalized milk's shelf space, making more room for carbonated drinks and bottled water.
According to the National Association of Convenience Stores, milk sales, as a percentage of total sales, dropped from 3.93% in C-stores in 1993 to 3.39% in 1997 -- a 0.54 percentage point decline over the four-year period.
The C-store task-force survey concluded that waning consumer interest in milk products could be attributed to the lack of merchandising and promotional support, lack of innovative packaging and low gross margins.
From the meal-solutions task-force survey, it was found that consumers don't usually purchase beverages with their meals, but drink the six to 10 beverage options they already have at home -- which include soda, juices, milk and dry-mix beverages. They also found that consumers only drink milk with certain meals and feel that they must drink it immediately.
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text: St. Paul, Winnipeg MP Joy Smith, one of Canada's leading anti-trafficking champions, will address the issues and implications of human trafficking at Northridge Community Church in Newmarket Sunday. Ms Smith's leadership in Ottawa has contributed to important changes in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. You are invited to an informative evening to learn about human trafficking, nationally and locally, and how young Canadian and immigrant females are lured into a horrific life of sexual slavery. The event is hosted by True City Southlake and the Northridge Salvation Army Church, in co-operation with Newmarket-Aurora MP Lois Brown, Belinda's Place, the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, Teen Challenge GTA, TLC Pregnancy Centre and York Region Police Victim's Services. Introductions and speakers are 5 to 7 p.m., followed by questions and answers, refreshments and information booths until 8 p.m. Northridge Community Church is at 415 Pickering Cres., Newmarket For information, visit truecitysouthlake.ca


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High-Fat Foods No Good for Colon Cancer
Dr. Fuhrman makes it pretty clear. If you're looking to prevent cancer, eating lots of animal products is a bad idea. Take intestinal cancer for example. Here's a graph from Dr. Fuhrman:
And here's some more news to support the link between animal foods and colon cancer. Randy Dotinga of HealthDay News reports that red meat, poultry, and dairy may raise colon cancer risk:
And here's some more news to support the link between animal foods and colon cancer. Randy Dotinga of HealthDay News reports that red meat, poultry, and dairy may raise colon cancer risk:
New research suggests that a nutrient in red meat, poultry and dairy products may contribute to the development of intestinal polyps, which can lead to colon cancer.Good thing the research mentions poultry because a lot of people think grilled chicken is some sort of savior. It's not. Dr. Fuhrman explains in Eat to Live:
The study, which involved women only, was preliminary, and no one is yet suggesting a change in diet as a result.
However, the research into the nutrient, called choline, could ultimately lead to new dietary recommendations, said Eunyoung Cho, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Red met is not the only problem. The consumption of chicken and fish is also linked to colon cancer. A large recent study examined the eating habits of 32,000 adults for six years and then watched the incidence of cancer for these subjects over the next six years. Those who avoided red meat but at white meat regularly had a more than 300 percent increase in colon cancer incidence.1 The same study showed that eating beans, peas, or lentils, at least twice a week was associated with a 50 percent lower risk than never eating these foods.But this next report muddies up the water a little bit. Amanda Gardner of HealthDay News reports that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, poultry, and fish lowers the risk of recurring colon cancer:
Colon cancer patients who eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, poultry and fish can significantly lower the risk of their cancer returning, new research suggests.Okay, the fruits and veggies are golden and we just talked about chicken, but remember, consuming too much fish is not without its problems either. In Eat to Live Dr. Fuhrman brings up a scary risk:
"We know a lot about how certain dietary things affect the risk of developing colon cancer in the first place but we didn't know, before this study, how diet affected persons who already have cancer," explained study author Dr. Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, an assistant professor of medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Although the findings, which appear in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, need confirmation, colon cancer patients might want to consider improving their eating habits.
Today the link between animal products and many different diseases is as strongly supporting in the scientific literature as the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. For example, subjects who ate meat, including poultry and fish, were found to be twice as likely to develop dementia (loss of intellectual function with aging) than their vegetarian counterparts in a carefully designed study.2 The discrepancy was further widened when past meat consumption was taken into account. The same diet, loaded with animal products, that causes heart disease and cancer also causes most every other disease prevalent in America including kidney stones, renal insufficiency and renal failure, osteoporosis, uterine fibroids, hypertension, appendicitis, diverticulosis, and thrombosis.3So, what are the best foods for cancer-prevention? The answer should be obvious by now. Dr. Fuhrman's favorites: fruits, vegetables, seeds, and beans. These posts will help fill you in:


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Design by Alessandro Medini, 1998.
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Anna pepper mill from Alessi's "A di Alessi" brand, which includes their "most democratic and accessible products".
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Born in Milan in 1931, former director of Casabella, Modo and Domus, winner of a Compasso d'Oro and designer of the Groninger Museum in Groningen, the Casino in Arosa, the Forum in Omegna, he is a designer, architect and image consultant for Philips, Swarovski, Swatch, and Bisazza.
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