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This might seem like a really basic question, but there's no harm in asking. I've never had a bicycle with drop handlebars. I've always had sort of standard horizontal bars with only one hand position, which is on the rubber grips. I'm outgrowing the bike I have now, and thinking of upgrading next year to something faster. Pretty much every faster bike has drop handlebars, but I'm not sure how to use them.
I understand that there are multiple hand positions. I'm sure I can figure out for myself which ones are more comfortable than others just by feel. But I don't want to necessarily do what feels natural, I want to ride properly. What are all the different hand positions available on drop bars? Which positions do you use in which scenarios?
I just don't want to put myself in a dangerous, uncomfortable, impractical, or stupid-looking situation by having my hands in the wrong place.

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I consider myself very lucky to be able to go into the pilot's lounge, here at the virtual airport, and talk with or exchange e-mails with some very perceptive, knowledgeable pilots. I deeply appreciate the time they take to educate me so that I can write this column. In the last five months I sent a lot of e-mails and made quite a few phone calls to the regulars of the lounge, asking for assistance and advice because I had, perhaps naively, agreed to teach an aviation law class at Western Michigan University for the semester that just ended. I thank each of you who took the time to answer my questions and to offer advice, because facing 70-some bright, motivated young men and women who want to make a career of aviation caused me to do a lot of thinking about what I should be teaching and how to go about it. After fielding their questions and spending time talking with them, I'll argue vehemently with anyone who says our high schools are failing. I was impressed.I found that I remembered the intense desire I had to get into aviation when I was in college and the frustration with the lack of guidance available. In the questions that were asked of me, I saw the same hunger for knowledge among the students, and felt the same desire for some idea what it was like "out there." I wanted to find a way to pass along information from outside the textbook that might be of some assistance to them both in the process of making a career in aviation and trying to simply keep them from killing themselves in an airplane. I was hesitant to do so. I was concerned that I would sound presumptuous on one level and, on another, more than a little doubtful that college men and women would listen to comments about flying airplanes from some middle-aged dweeb in a coat and tie.After several talks and e-mails with the folks here in the lounge, I decided to go ahead and try it; I would talk about certain subjects and try to give a real-world perspective to what it was the students wanted to do. With the help of the pilot's lounge regulars, I put together areas that I wanted to cover and went into them periodically during the last half of the semester and then finished up at the end of the last class. What follows are the fleshed-out notes I used when I did my best to pass along some of the hard truths about this business.
I've done my best to keep this class "real world" so that when you are an airline pilot or running an FBO, or president of an airline, you will recognize when a legal issue is about to bite you and can take the necessary steps to identify what issue exists, be aware of its significance and then deal with it appropriately. From the real-world context, as someone who has been in some aspect of professional aviation continuously for over 30 years and has a lot of friends who have been at it longer than that, I would like to close out this class by talking very frankly with you about the business most every one of you in here wants to enter.I remain of the opinion that professional aviation is one of the most rewarding occupations around. Some times it is financially lucrative, but, if a large income is your goal, the odds are better in other fields. Nevertheless, professional aviation can be one of the most enjoyable ways for you to spend your working life that you can imagine. It's not perfect. It's not even close to perfect. However, if you go into it with your eyes open, you may be able to recognize the imperfections before they blindside you and you can take steps to protect yourself from the warts on the face of aviation. As with any endeavor, knowledge truly is power; the more you know, the more able you are to protect yourself and potentially change things for the better for you and those who are to follow.
Staying Alive
Once you are flying for a living, if you are truly willing to take intensive recurrent training every six months, and apply yourself to it, you are going to increase your chances of dying in bed, rather than an airplane, immeasurably. If your decision-making process starts from the assumption that you cannot make a given trip safely and that you have to find evidence that is strong enough to convince you that you can go safely, you will live a long time.With recurrent training and conservative judgment, the two areas left that are most likely to kill you are weather and maintenance. Resolve to become a weather guru. Read Bob Buck's Weather Flying and then go on to more advanced material. If you are flying jets, get to know high-altitude weather and aerodynamics, because ignorance of that world outside a maximum-differential pressure vessel can kill you.In your first, entry-level job, you will probably be pressured to fly airplanes that are not well-maintained. How far you can go in agreeing to fly such equipment is a judgment call both from the standpoint of whether junk can fly but also from the risk of a violation if the FAA happens to ramp check you and pieces fall off of the airplane as you fish your pilot certificate out of your wallet. Get to know the systems of your airplane intimately and make friends with the mechanics so that you can develop a healthy feel for which glitches really matter and which don't. Learn how to write a squawk so that a mechanic can understand it and have a fighting chance of fixing it. If you are told by your boss not to write up squawks, get out of there as fast as humanly possible. There are other jobs and far, far better ways to die.
It's A Small World
Don't tell off the chief pilot or director of operations when you depart a lousy job. While it may feel good for a minute or two, the aviation community is small. A year or two down the road the fact that you were professional when you left that job may mean everything because that same chief pilot may be making the hiring decisions for the dream airline job for which you are interviewing.Expand your circle of friends in aviation as widely as possible. By the time you have your CFI, you should know enough people that if your airplane breaks down two states away, you will have a friend in that city who can let you sleep on his couch. You never know when the fact that you have friends with whom you keep in touch will lead to that evening phone call that says, "So and so is hiring pilots with your ratings and flying time, if you can be there tomorrow with a resume, you'll get a job." I've seen it happen more than once.
Airline Seniority And Management
Many of you will work like crazy and become airline pilots. Once you are employed and pass the requisite checkrides, your entire future will be controlled by the God of Seniority. It, not your skill, experience or intelligence, will determine what routes and airplanes you fly, where you live and whether you have a job during economic downturns. As such, you have very little control over your destiny. However, you will have some and it is up to you to take the steps to develop the knowledge applicable to the situation to allow you to influence your destiny. That means educating yourself in the rules that apply to your job, the political realities of the job and how you can most effectively communicate with and influence those who make the decisions that affect you.Overall, because of seniority, you will be at the mercy of the management of your airline. You will rapidly find, with some notable exceptions such as Southwest Airlines, that airline management is staggeringly incompetent, and often stunningly unethical. Sometimes shockingly so. Recently, one airline demanded major salary cuts from its contract employees in order to stave off bankruptcy, while simultaneously approving a massive bonus program for its management. Yet the management spokesperson saw nothing wrong with that concept and said it was necessary to pay lots of money for managers. In a flat economy? Pay bonuses to boobs who drive the airline to the edge of bankruptcy? At least two airlines that took the no-strings-attached, year 2001 financial grants from the government given after 9/11 (the airlines did not have to account for how they spent the money) did not use all of the money to shore up the companies, but paid out nearly half of it in executive bonuses while calling for pay cuts for the pilots, flight attendants and mechanics. Another, currently in bankruptcy, was awash in money six years ago as a result of salary givebacks by contract employees. Its management proceeded to squander the surplus on a half-baked plan to get into the already saturated fractional bizjet market as well as exercising the financial genius of attempting to buy another airline that had a negative net worth. When the inevitable downturn happened, the airline had no cash and the employees, reluctant to trust those running the show, were not exactly excited about further pay cuts, especially when management didn't rush to take cuts themselves. Just a thought: When you see leaders call for suicide bombers and kamikaze pilots, if they don't rush to volunteer for the job themselves, but seek to keep their comfortable positions and let other suckers give their all for the glory of the regime or company, perhaps you might want to do a little mature deliberation before you volunteer for the "honor" being offered.Airlines tend to hire young, bright MBAs to handle their finances. Those kids have no airline experience or reflexes, yet they are making decisions for which they are not qualified, and they have this interesting history of pricing airline seats below cost, while trumpeting the obsolete concept of market share. Perhaps they figure that even though they lose $5 per seat, they'll make it up on volume. The airlines promptly compensate for hiring managers who know nothing about aviation by staffing their operations department with pilots who know little about management. The promoted pilots too often figure that the way to manage is to intimidate and belittle those they manage, perhaps figuring that no one will then notice they don't know what they are doing. The results of the management techniques are predictable and quite obvious right now.What can you do? The first thing to do is recognize that your future is largely in the hands of people who can move laterally or upward to another airline should they take yours into the toilet, while you, on a seniority system, will have to start at the bottom at a different airline should those managers screw things up. As a result, they have nowhere near the personal incentive you do for your airline to do well. Your best set of tools and defense mechanisms is a combination of education and the ability to communicate effectively so that you can influence the decisions of management. I strongly suggest to you that you get a graduate degree as soon as you can. One of the big positives about flying for a living is that you have more time off than the poor sucker sitting in an office. There are a number of excellent schools that have advanced degree programs on the Internet. They are tailor-made for pilots. While I strongly recommend that you never, ever stop learning, in the environment of professional aviation today, a graduate degree is a huge plus. If you pick up an MBA, or a masters in management or finance, and you become active in your union, yours is a voice that will carry some weight. Should you decide to try to move into the management side of the airline after flying the line for some years, the combination of a graduate degree and your aviation experience will allow you to outclass the local talent in nothing flat. It also means that if those geniuses in the front office, who don't give a damn about the pilots, tank the company, your chance of finding another job in aviation at better wages than a new-hire co-pilot are excellent.
Aviation's Ugly Secret
Racial, religious and sexual discrimination is very much alive and well in aviation. It is a white, male-dominated world, with its fair share of bigots who think that airplanes somehow won't fly unless white, heterosexual, protestant males are in the crew seats. They are convinced that the airplane knows the color of the pilot's skin because, by gawd, the Wright brothers were white and only white men are good enough to fly airplanes. The data regarding women having lower accident rates than men is lost on them. Women still get accused of sleeping their way into employment positions; they still get propositioned by married, male pilots, who proceed to turn in negative reports on their piloting skills when the proposition is turned down.I recently received yet another report of a female co-pilot in a three-crew airplane who had the male flight engineer reach around from behind and fondle her breasts. She complained, and the captain and flight engineer both denied it happened. She was told to take a checkride on short notice, after a very unpleasant interview with the chief pilot in which he impugned her integrity but did not question that of either of the other two pilots. Amazingly, the captain who had been on the flight was placed in charge of the checkride. To no one's surprise, she failed it, and the airline was able to get rid of someone who "wasn't on the team."A charter operator recently told its one female pilot that she had to go to a beauty salon for a "makeover" and start wearing makeup, and until she did, she was grounded. She had been flying there for some time without any complaints. She was not a person who ever wore makeup and she was aware of the warnings about the danger of burns when wearing lipstick in the presence of 100% oxygen.If you are not a white male, don't be so nave to think that discrimination is a relic of the bad old days. Be prepared for it and decide ahead of time what you are going to do when it occurs. Know your rights and talk with your peers to get a feel for what you will be willing to tolerate, how you are going to react, where you are going to draw the line and how you are going to document it and fight it. If you are a white male, resolve not to tolerate displays of discrimination in any form, and to work to fight it.
Continue to learn. Always. It will greatly improve your quality of life in innumerable ways. Do not confine your reading to the USA Today you pick up free at the motel desk. It's the newspaper for those with short attention spans. Once you are rated and flying, the reality of life on the flight deck is that there is very little intellectual stimulation. You will hear a fair amount of loud, uninformed, right-wing politics from the same bigots who tell the racist jokes. You are a citizen of this country. As such, you are responsible for how it is run. Read material from the entire political spectrum, continue your education and make informed decisions rather than follow the loudest voice on commercial radio or television. You owe it to yourself and your country to be informed on all sides of issues that matter to you and your family.Always, always, always have a library card. It's free. When you are a poorly paid co-pilot, the library is one of the best sources of inexpensive entertainment and unbiased information you can get. When you are a wealthy captain, you'll be a tightwad anyway and will continue to use the library; however, you may wind up on its board of directors.If you have not done so already, learn a second language. The U.S. is one of the very few countries in the world where we are not required to learn a second or third language in school. With the world becoming more and more competitive, not having a second language is going to be a handicap during your lifetime.
Mechanics, Your Signature Is Your Bond
Those of you who are going to become maintenance technicians, my hat is off to you. You will have a great deal of job security in the near future, as we are short of mechanics. You will find that, from time to time, you are pressured to sign off work before it is completed to your satisfaction. Take some time to think about what you are going to do now, before the time comes. You, more than almost anyone in aviation, put your career on the line every time you sign off maintenance work, so do not do so lightly. And, if you go into the maintenance business for yourself, if there is only one thing you take from this course, I hope it is that you resolve never to let a customer's plane leave your shop until you have filled out the logbooks and received payment in full.
You are going to gain about 20 pounds in the next 10 years and wonder where it came from. We Americans are the fattest people on the planet, and it is rapidly showing in the fact that our overeating and under-exercising is doing a great deal to not only drive up our medical costs but also shorten our lives. Flying is a sedentary occupation, so unless you resolve to continue to exercise, you will become a heart attack candidate by the time you are 40, and you may get that great job in the left seat of a 747 only to lose your medical because you haven't been smart enough to take care of yourself.Recognize that among the risks you will run is that you are going to be riding crew vans regularly and staying in hotels. Wear the seatbelts in the vans. You don't want to be remembered as one of those poor slobs who died in a van driven by some minimum-wage cowboy. When in the hotel, count the number of doors between your room and the exit, because when the fire gets going, you are going to be on your hands and knees to stay below the smoke. If you detect a fire, call 911 and report it, don't call the front desk. They'll only send someone up in the elevator to verify it before they call it in, and that someone may die when the elevator door opens into the fire. Learn how to survive in hotels and how to protect your health in circumstances where you are around a large number of people on a daily basis.
When Your Recreation Turns On You
A certain portion of you in this room, probably about 25%, will have significant trouble with drugs or alcohol. Sorry, it's just the nature of being human. You are not macho because you can drink a lot and fly the next day. That ability will diminish rapidly as you move through your 20s. About a quarter of you will discover that your body is wired such that at some point it will quit tolerating alcohol or drugs well. It's not because you aren't macho or that you have some weakness, it's just the way you were born. If you are one who falls in that group, you will be faced with probably the toughest task you will have in your life. You'll have to quit drinking or give up the drugs you enjoy. And, because of the nature of the beast, your body will fight you all the way. If you get a DUI or someone close to you suggests you need to cut down on your drinking, and your reaction is to rationalize the DUI or push away the friend, consider it a red flag that it is truly happening to you. At that point you have to be a realist and do your best to accept the fact that you were issued the genes that cause you to handle alcohol or drugs poorly, and move right into the process of getting help from those who know what they are doing so you can stop before you completely screw up your life or kill yourself or someone else.
Pilots suffer from a very high rate of A.I.D.S., Aviation Induced Divorce Syndrome. You will be regularly in the presence of members of the opposite sex at work, in bars, restaurants and hotels. The opportunity for sexual encounters is greater than in many other professions. That means that if you consider marriage, it would be wise for you and your spouse to be to reach an agreement on appropriate behavior for each of you, that you can and will live with; or that you not get married. You have to be completely honest with yourself. Professional pilots have to retire at age 60. One or two divorces can mean that your retirement mansion has wheels under it and that Extra 300 you were going to buy to enjoy is made of balsa wood and has a rubber-band motor.
The FAA is neither all good nor all bad. There are a certain percentage of absolute bastards employed by that agency, so protect yourself by knowing and following the regs. There are a certain percentage of very good people employed by that agency. Befriend a few. They will add markedly to your quality of life and may just be able to get you out of a jam initiated by one of the bastards. You may also find that the FAA is a good employer, particularly if you like the idea of becoming an air traffic controller.
Pilots tend to be foolish about money. The standard riddle is: What does an airline captain do with all of his excess money? He invests it until it is gone. Take a finance course or two and don't pick your investment advisor from the yellow pages.
Give Back
Volunteer. Give back to aviation. Continue to fly little airplanes. Get involved in the Scouts, community groups, museums, politics, and youth organizations. You have gotten to where you are with the help of others. It's time for you to start being the helper. It feels incredibly good.So, learn all you can, pay attention to what is going on around you all the time and may you enjoy a long, happy life in aviation.See you next month.


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Parkland College will upgrade to a new wireless LAN network and management system in an effort to enhance online learning and connect its 18,000 students, 1,200 faculty and staff, and campus visitors. To accommodate the growing use of mobile devices on campus and support their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiative, the Champaign, IL-based community college will implement Aruba Network's wireless LAN and the Aruba ClearPass Access Management System designed to allow mobile devices to securely connect to a network. The new wireless network will comprise Aruba Mobility Controllers that incorporate several AP-105, AP-134 and AP-135 access points, Aruba's AirWave Network Management System for maintenance and troubleshooting, and the Aruba ClearPass Access Management System to provide guest access to campus visitors. Remote access points (RAPs), which are designed to cut costs by maintaining connectivity to remote sites, will be used for a variety of applications, including extending the college's secure services to home offices. The new wireless LAN will also support Parkland's online learning application Desire2Learn, an online course platform that provides course materials, communication between students and teachers, video, and testing.
In addition, Parkland is currently working on a pilot research program with the University of Illinois using the WLAN network to develop a graphical 911 system for college campuses. The application allows students to receive emergency help based on their proximity to access points in the network. The application is expected to launch by the end of the school year.
"With an average of two mobile devices per student and about 1,000 concurrent devices on the network, performance and reliability are critical," said Doug Brooks, associate director of campus technologies for Parkland College, in a prepared statement. "Aruba delivered all of this, along with top-notch support. We're now getting glowing reviews on the wireless network from our students." Approximately 18,000 students annually attend Parkland College, a two-year community college located in Champaign, IL. Parkland's 255-acre main campus is close to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and accessible to the 54 communities it serves. The school's operating budget for 2012-2013 is estimated at $51.5 million.
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Media Watch 26 February 2014
The headline for the BBC's Radio 4 program From our own Correspondent earlier this month was "Come to sunny Gaza!" Below it, on the program's web page, were the words: "Why might our man visiting the Gaza Strip be considering going back there, with his family, for a holiday?"
And so the scene was set for a cheery, holiday-style report from Gaza by BBC journalist Simon Cox.
Cox, who seems to be on his first visit to Gaza, says he had "come prepared for trouble," kitted out in flak jacket and helmet, only to discover that "Gaza was not such a scary place at all."
And so he ditches the protective gear to visit pizza restaurants and ice-cream parlours, before filing his radio report and corresponding online article back to the BBC.
The online article is exactly the same as the radio item but the headline has been changed to: "Discovering Gazans' resilient side." And there is no problem in reporting on just how resilient Palestinians are.
But what exactly are the Palestinians in Gaza withstanding? Cox does not say. At no point in his reports does the BBC journalist explain, or even mention in passing, that Gaza is under Israeli occupation and siege.
In fact, he seems to be blissfully unaware of this painful reality. Standing at his hotel window, he describes the "spectacular view of the Mediterranean lapping gently at a curve of golden sand" and says this is not what he was expecting from Gaza.
Somehow he manages not to see, as he admires the view, the Israeli gunboats that are ever present on the horizon, waiting to shoot at Gaza's fishermen as they struggle to make a living for their families.
Nor, at any point during his visit, does he spot the Israeli warships which patrol the waters. And he fails to see or even hear the drones which constantly buzz in the skies above Gaza, causing fear and uncertainty in those below.
Holiday vibe
Or maybe he does see them. But to report on them would ruin the holiday vibe of his piece. Cox's Gaza is not one of food shortages, blackouts and desperate overcrowding but a place so delightful that he ends by saying he'd like to bring his wife and children back for a holiday.
It would be interesting to see him try. Gaza is sealed off from the rest of the world, its land borders with Israel and Egypt closed, and its sea and air space blocked by Israel. Cox fails to explain this to his audience, leaving the uninitiated to assume that everyone enjoys unrestricted entry and exit.
His own visit, crossing from Israel, would have been facilitated because he is a journalist. But that facilitation is not guaranteed. Israeli journalists, for example, are barred by their government from entering Gaza.
So, just how realistic is it for the BBC to introduce Cox's radio item by saying that he's "considering going back there, with his family, for a holiday"? The answer is, not at all.
But surrealism and appalling triteness are not the only themes of Cox's reporting. His item mirrors the BBC's consistent theme of reporting on Palestine — it is written with absolutely no context or facts whatsoever.
The siege and occupation are absent and so is any mention of their instigator, Israel, other than at the beginning when Cox says he's been driven into Gaza from Israel. He gives a nod to the lack of electricity and high unemployment but these could be the result of mismanagement on Gaza's part as far as his audience is concerned. No explanation for the power cuts or shortage of jobs is given.
The result is a construction which will lead BBC audiences to believe the situation in Gaza is far better than it really is. In other words, it is a deception.
The reality is that decades of Israeli occupation, compounded by the seven-year siege, have put Gaza on a terrifying trajectory which is leading to it becoming unliveable by 2020, according to a 2012 United Nations report.
The report's damning warnings were echoed in the British Parliament recently, with MPs from all sides painting a grim picture of the situation in Gaza.
In a debate on 22 January, Britain's aid minister, Alan Duncan told MPs: "It is no exaggeration to say that, come the autumn, Gaza could be without food, without power and without clean water." It was a place, he said, that "risks becoming unfit for human habitation."
Like the BBC's Simon Cox, Duncan had just returned from a visit to Gaza. It would appear that, unlike the journalist, Duncan noticed that only salty water comes out of Gaza's taps, saw the refugee camps and the destroyed buildings and gained a real understanding of life there for Palestinians.
The second debate was on 5 February and this debate also made a mockery of Cox's BBC report. MPs lined up to condemn Israel's siege — the siege that Cox did not even see fit to mention.
Conservative MP, Sir Tony Baldry, told the House of Commons that, when he returned from Gaza he told his children he had been to "hell." He added that he could not imagine a "purgatory" of such total hopelessness as Gaza.
Unsurprisingly, he did not say he would be taking his children back to the BBC's vision of "sunny Gaza" for a beach holiday.
Just days after the BBC broadcast Cox's singular view of Gaza, its rival broadcaster, Channel 4 ran two items over two days on its evening news program focusing on the Strip.
The difference between the BBC's report and Channel 4's reports is shocking. Presented by foreign correspondent, Jonathan Miller, Channel 4 News's first report examines the destruction of Gaza by telling the story of one family, the Dolas.
His second report looks at Gaza's health crisis, highlighting the case of Abdel Karim, a three-year-old with a brain tumor, whose parents have been refused travel permits by the Israeli authorities. As a result, their son cannot leave Gaza to access radiotherapy treatment and is dying.
"Running on empty"
Both reports are set in the context of Israel's blockade and of UN reports on Gaza. "Gaza," says Miller in his first report, "is running on empty."
Following the broadcast, Miller tweeted: "After my #Gaza report last night, I'm accused of being anti-Israel & anti-Semitic. I am not. But the siege of Gaza is cruel and shocking."
So, we have two journalists — one producing hard-hitting, fact-laden reports on a "cruel and shocking" siege, and one who won't even tell his audience that there is a siege. Whose reports would you believe?
The irony of Cox's inability — or unwillingness — to write in context is that he was in Gaza to train young Palestinian journalists. Journalists, it should be pointed out, as Cox didn't, who will find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to leave Gaza and report on the outside world.
Who knows what they learnt from Cox? What we do know is that a BBC journalist went to Gaza and saw a happy, holiday destination, utterly at odds with the grim experience of British MPs, UN workers and fellow journalists.
From which we can learn that, if you're looking to the BBC for truth, facts and objectivity in its content, you won't find it in its reporting on the Israeli occupation.
- Simon Cox
- Radio 4
- Gaza
- Sir Tony Baldry
- Alan Duncan
- Jonathan Miller
- Channel 4 News
- Gaza siege
- gaza fishermen
- Egypt
- House of Commons
- Gaza power cuts
- Abdel Karim
- drones
- unemployment
Gaza as a Vacation Destination
Permalink Dr Harold Goldmeier replied on
Kudos to Cox. Improve Gazas economy & lowee the violence by flooding Gaza with tourists. It could be the Riviera of the Mid East. Peace will come with prosperity
Response to Mr.Goldmeier
Permalink Tess replied on
To whose violence are you referring here? Please elaborate.
Permalink Peter replied on
I guess he means that, if we flood Gaza with tourists the Israelis may hesitate before shooting people across the border of killing them from the air... for fear that they might kill someone that might 'matter to them'.
Israel wouldn't let the
Permalink Tess replied on
Israel wouldn't let the tourists in, not because they give a toss about killing them but because of what they would be witnesses to.
Off to Gaza
Permalink Donna Schwarz-Nielsen replied on
I'm off to Gaza next week as part of International Women's day with a delegation of 100 women. I'll be keeping a blog if anyone is interested in one woman's experience behind the wall.
Willful misunderstanding
Permalink Luke Coleman replied on
Cherry picking what he didn't say to suit an agenda doesn't serve a cause with which I agree. This was a human interest piece focused on his work as a media trainer. The wrong target was picked here, in the hope no one actually listened to FOOC on this occasion.
Cox was supposedly there to
Permalink Tess replied on
Cox was supposedly there to train young Palestinians journalists, to write about what do you think? Surely the conditions under which they are forced to work cannot be
A further point
Permalink Luke Coleman replied on
I'm having this convo on FB, so a final point: In fact, the 'Sunny Gaza' thing is a direct ironic reference to the audience understanding of the suffering there.This commentary on the BBC piece comes from a point of view so utterly obscured to have lost sight of what the wider world knows. It's almost willful, and helps no one. Written with verve and passion, but blinkered.
The link to the FOOC
Permalink Sam N replied on
The link to the FOOC broadcast is provided in the article, so everyone can listen to it (there's no hope that people won't listen to it on this occasion). The broadcast is introduced by Kate Adie, who makes a point of highlighting Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel this year, but doesn't mention Palestinians killed by Israel this year (but no matter, everyone knows what's going on anyway, even if the BBC never mentions it, and this was just a lighthearted broadcast).
I think Cox's piece would have been great if it was a spoof, sending up the BBC's unwillingness to report on the reality of what is happening in Gaza. But it wasn't - it was lighthearted yes, to the point where he didn't even want to mention Israel's strangling siege, but it was still serious journalism.
The fact is that he mentioned none of the realities of the siege and occupation, in order to place his lightheartedness in context. On the other hand, (backed up by Kate Adie's introduction) he left us with the suggestion that he would like to come back with his family (an impossibility), told us Gaza is neither 'scary' nor violent (even though it remains under constant threat of Israeli attack, and a mentally-ill woman was shot dead there by Israeli soldiers on Friday, 28th Feb), and implied that the reality of Gaza is that it is a place of swish hotels and plentiful, readily available food.
This is a distorted, misleading view. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Cox was cherry-picking in order to suit his own agenda.
Permalink John Duqesa replied on
Zionist apologist Goldmeier in these comments suggests flooding Gaza with tourists to "lowee (sic) the violence". What violence? Does he mean the violence from the Zionist Entity which has seen many Palestinians killed and injured this year as they have been every year? Perhaps if there were tourists around, they would publicise how evil the Entity is and BDS would accelerate in strength, a result I would applaud. But no tourist is going to put up with power cuts for 2 hours a day, isolation from other countries, sonic booms daily from Zionist Entity aircraft to torment the inhabitants, salt water coming from taps, lack of goods due to the Entity's blockade and the possibility of being killed in one of the Entity's regular attacks.
The only solution that will "lower the violence" is the disappearance of the Zionist Entity and its replacement by a state for all religions.
I entirely agree.
Permalink Tess replied on
I entirely agree.
Humm, I think you grossly mis
Permalink SH replied on
Humm, I think you grossly mis-represented this (written) article and are reaching a bit much here. While I understand your accusations against the BBC about not being critical enough of Israel this was not the point of this particular article anyway. His criticism and description of the blockade on Gaza are there, just very subtle. Anyone interested in more facts about it (albeit from the BBC perspective) can click on any of the 'related stories'.
Actually, I think this article does have a positive impact as illustrating Gazans as well-educated with all the aspiration and needs of any other kind of people. Most people from the West think of people from Gaza as ultra-radical Hamas types, tinkering away making home-made missiles. Sometime fluffy articles like this are needed to remind people that the people in this conflict are humans and to give a different perspective on things.
Also, unless you really are opposed to the concept of reading between the lines, this hardly read as promoting Gaza as a tourism destination to which he would like to bring his family... but nice try.
nail / head interface
Permalink Luke Coleman replied on
bang on.
I should think the majority
Permalink Tess replied on
I should think the majority of the wide and varied audience (general public), reached by the BBC are rather too preoccupied by their own lives(understandably) and fed constant media propaganda, to be aware of the true situation of the Palestinians.
In that context they are not inclined to read between the lines or to appreciate subtlety. The plain facts are what would hit home.
Sunny Gaza
Permalink Mary Hughes Thompson replied on
Blessedly for the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has not yet figured out a way to take away their sun. The Zionist state has taken away just about everything else, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time…


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Ya Kinda want to puke when you hear her qoute the bible,
doesn't it?
Hillary Clinton Is On The Wrong Side Of History
By Chuck Baldwin
March 31, 2006
In an attempt to justify massive illegal immigration to this country,
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) completely mischaracterized the
Biblical story of The Good Samaritan. Obviously, there is nothing
unique about politicians misusing the Scriptures. What the average
politician knows about the Word of God could fit into a thimble.
And that goes for Republicans as well as Democrats!
Specifically, Mrs. Clinton voiced her opposition to a House
measure subjecting illegal aliens and those who hire them to
criminal penalties saying it "is certainly not in keeping with my
understanding of the Scriptures, because this bill would literally
criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably Jesus Himself."
However, there is absolutely nothing about Jesus' parable that
remotely relates to the subject of illegal immigration. Absolutely
nothing! The story of The Good Samaritan is simply a lesson in
Christian compassion. The Good Samaritan was willing to stop and
help a man who had been beaten and left for dead. Jesus compared
the actions of the Good Samaritan with those of a priest and a
Levite who walked by the dying man and refused to help. What in
the world does that have to do with illegal immigration? Nothing!
However, if one wants to examine the Scriptures to find teachings
relevant to the subject of illegal immigration, he can certainly do
so. Let's start with Nahum chapter three.
The prophet Nahum warned Israel that their stubbornness and
disobedience to God was evidenced by the fact that "the gates
(borders, ports, entry ways) of thy land shall be set wide open unto
thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars." (Nahum 3:13) In this
passage, the prophet made it clear that open gates or borders,
which allow enemies easy access to a nation, constitute an
imminent threat to any nation. How right he was!
Furthermore, Moses told the children of Israel in very clear and
concise language, "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's
landmark." (Deut. 19:14) "Landmark" refers to territory, boundary,
or border. Moses further declared, "Cursed be he that removeth his
neighbor's landmark." (Deut. 27:17)
National borders or boundaries are extremely important to the
security and survival of any nation! In fact, the Bible promotes
nationhood and condemns internationalism!
To the Old Testament nation of Israel, Moses said, "When the
Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people."
(Deut. 32:8) Notice that God "separated the sons of Adam." God
"set the bounds of the people."
That God has separated nations and expects them to function
independently of other nations is also seen in the New Testament.
Read the inspired author, Dr. Luke: "And hath made of one blood
all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds
(boundaries, borders) of their habitation." (Acts 17:26)
National boundaries are divinely ordained. Nationhood is divinely
ordained. Independent governance is divinely ordained. On the
other hand, internationalism, globalism, multiculturalism, etc., is
not of God.
Certainly, God instructed His people to be compassionate to
"strangers." (See Deut. 10:19; Exod. 22:21.) And no nation has
been more compassionate, more understanding, and more tolerant
of "strangers" (i.e. non-citizens) than the United States of
For the duration of our nation's existence, America has allowed
millions of immigrants to become U.S. citizens. However, for the
very sake of our country's survival, immigration must be lawful
and respectful. The immigrant is expected to obtain citizenship in
accordance with our country's laws. Also, the total number of new
immigrants must be carefully monitored and regulated in order to
maintain the health and stability of our culture and economy.
Furthermore, the aspiring immigrant-citizen must be expected to
assimilate into the foundational fabric and spirit of America.
Listen to the words of President Theodore Roosevelt: "In the first
place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in
good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he
shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an
outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's
becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is
an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We
have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for
but one language here, and that is the English language. And we
have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the
American people." (Jan. 3, 1919)
However, those who advocate amnesty, guest worker status (which
is just another name for amnesty), or other types of legalization for
illegal aliens are promoting something much different from both
the Scriptural and historical models. If the people of the United
States allow G. W. Bush and Hillary Clinton to get their way on
illegal immigration, America's demise will be faster than anyone
can possibly imagine!
Already, more than 20 million illegal aliens live in the United
States. In fact, according to The Center for Immigration Studies,
three-fourths of all U.S. population growth stems from (mostly)
illegal immigration.
There is more. According to the Bureau of Justice, 29% of all
federal inmates are illegal aliens. And according to statistics
provided by the House of Representatives, illegal aliens cost state
and local governments more than $13 billion per year.
Let's face reality: illegal aliens are criminals! They broke our laws
to come here. They break our laws to stay here. Furthermore, the
employers that hire illegal aliens are criminals! Illegal aliens do not
save money for Americans; they cost money, and a lot of it!
America is a nation of law. The supreme law of the land is the U.S.
Constitution. Nowhere does the Constitution allow for illegal
aliens. There is nothing in our laws, our history, or our traditions
that allows for illegal immigration!
Illegal aliens not only trample our nation's laws, weaken our
economy, burden our local and state governments, they also spit in
the face of those many thousands of honest and honorable people
from all over the world who attempt to lawfully immigrate to our
I have many personal friends who have either recently become
U.S. citizens or who are yet in the process of becoming U.S.
citizens. Each of them is a honest, hard working person who
desires to become an AMERICAN. They are not trying to create
another Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Zimbabwe, England, or
Honduras here in America. They simply want to be an
AMERICAN, just like Teddy Roosevelt explained.
Yet, now we are being asked to repudiate our laws, compromise
the decency and character of our people, and jeopardize our very
security just to allow millions of lawless people to invade our
country! I say, NO WAY!
Opposing illegal immigration is not un-Christian, and it is not un-
American. Neither does opposing illegal immigration make one a
racist or a fascist!
Hillary Clinton is on the wrong side of Scripture and on the wrong
side of American history. So is G. W. Bush and a majority of U.S.
America must secure it's borders! We must make a concerted
effort to deport all illegal aliens found to be here. We must
severely punish any American company or employer who
knowingly hires illegal aliens. Furthermore, we must send a clear
and convincing message to Mexican President Vicente Fox that if
he does not start effectively policing his northern border, we will
consider him a terrorist and treat him accordingly!
And there is one more thing: we must evict every senator or
representative from Washington, D.C., who refuses to protect our
nation's borders and who aids and abets illegal immigration in any
shape, form, or fashion! And we must do it now!
© Chuck Baldwin
Ya Kinda want to puke when you hear her qoute the bible,
doesn't it?
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What are Meniscal Tears?
A meniscal tear is a tear that occurs in the cartilage of the knee. The meniscus is a small, "C" shaped piece of cartilage in the knee joint. Each knee has two menisci, the medial meniscus on the inner aspect of the knee and the lateral meniscus on the outer aspect of the knee. The medial and lateral menisci provide a cushion between the thigh bone (femur) and shin bone (tibia) and act as shock absorbers to stabilize the knee joint.
Meniscal tears are one of the most common injuries to the knee joint. They can occur at any age, but are more common in athletes playing contact sports. A sudden bend or twist in your knee can cause the meniscus to tear. Elderly people are more prone to degenerative meniscal tears as the cartilage wears out and weakens with age. A torn meniscus causes pain, swelling, stiffness, or catching or locking sensation in your knee, making you unable to move your knee through its complete range of motion.
Knee Strengthening Exercises for Meniscal Tears
Exercising may perhaps be the last thing on your mind to do when your knees are stiff and painful. Nevertheless, exercise is a significant part of treatment of meniscal tears to help ease pain and keep you active. Knee strengthening exercises play a crucial role to restore normal knee function and improve flexibility and strength by specifically targeting joints and muscles of the knee for better management of meniscal tears pain. Here are some exercises that are designed to stretch, strengthen, and stabilize your knee.
- Half squats: Stand with your feet shoulder-distance apart and stretch your arms out in front of you. Slowly bend your knees into a half-sitting posture until your kneecap is directly over your big toe. Keep your chest lifted and back straight without leaning forward. Hold the position for five seconds and then slowly stand back up with your feet firmly on the floor.
- Heel raise: Stand firmly on the floor. Hold the back of a chair or place your hands on the wall for support. Slowly lift your heels a few inches off the ground and rise up on the toes of your both feet. Hold this position for a couple of seconds and gently lower both the heels to the floor. Do 2 sets of 10 repetitions.
- Bridges: Lie down flat on your back on the floor. With bent knees and feet firmly on the floor, rest your palms down near your hips. Now, lift your buttocks as high as possible with a straight back and slowly lower yourself back to the floor. Do 5 sets of 20 repetitions. This exercise works on the hamstrings, quadriceps, hip flexors, gluteal muscles, and lower back.
- Lunges: Stand straight with your feet hip-width distance apart. Step forward and anchor on the front foot and bend the back knee towards the floor, but do not let it touch. Keep your back straight and maintain both knees at 90 degrees. Do not let the front knee move forwards past your toes. Do 2 sets of 10 repetitions with the injured leg behind and repeat the same with the injured leg in front. Gradually increase the sets and repetitions to your tolerance level.
- Straight leg raises to the front: Lie on your back on the floor with your legs fully extended in front of you. Bend the knee of your uninjured leg and position the foot flat on the ground. Now, tighten the thigh muscle of your injured leg and lift the leg about 10 inches off the floor. Maintain your leg straight, hold for 5 seconds, and lower your leg down slowly to the floor. Do two sets of 15 repetitions and increase gradually.
- Straight leg raises to the back: Lie flat on your belly with your legs extended straight behind you. Place your folded arms below your head and rest your forehead on your arms. Draw your stomach in towards your spine and stiffen your belly muscles. Now, tighten the thigh muscles and buttocks of the affected leg and lift the leg off the floor about 8 inches backward. Hold this position for 5 seconds with your leg held straight and slowly lower your leg to the floor. Do 2 sets of 15 repetitions.
- Wall squat with a ball: Stand with your head, shoulder, and back against the wall. Keep your feet about 12 inches from the wall and shoulder's width apart. Place a basketball or soccer-sized ball behind your back. Maintaining your back firmly against the wall, gently bring your back down to an angle of 45-degree. Hold this posture for 10 seconds and slowly slide back up the wall. Do 2 sets of 10 repetitions.
- Step-ups: Stand in front of a step of stairs. Hold onto the railings for balance if needed. Set your left foot on the step of stairs. Stiffen your left thigh muscle and step up, touching your right foot onto the step. Hold your muscles stiff as you slowly lower your right foot. Touch the ground and lift again. Do 2 sets of 10 repetitions and switch legs after every set.
- Heel slides: This exercise is an excellent way to improve your knee flexion. Lie flat on your back on the floor with legs stretched out in front of you. Gently slide the heel of your injured leg up towards your hips, allowing your knee to bend as far as possible. Slowly slide back your heel to the straight-knee position. Do two sets of 15 repetitions and gradually increase to more sets and repetitions.
- Passive knee extension: Lie on your back on the floor with legs fully extended in front of you. Place a rolled-up towel below the heel of your injured side to position the heel about 6 inches off the floor level. Straighten your knee and relax your leg muscles and hold this posture for about 2 minutes. Relax for a few seconds and repeat 3 times. You can also do this exercise while sitting on a chair with your heel extended on another stool or chair.
- Stationary bike: Riding a stationary bike is a significant part of knee meniscus tear exercise program. Stationary bike exercise utilizes smooth movements to strengthen knee muscles and joints without adding much stress or strain on them. It improves muscular endurance and range of motion of the knee. Your physician will determine the amount of time you need to ride based on your knee condition.
- Leg extension: This is a very simple and effective exercise that can be performed while sitting in a chair. Position yourself on a chair with your feet firmly on the floor. Slowly extend the injured leg upwards until it is parallel to the floor. Hold this position for a couple of seconds and slowly release the leg to its starting position. Do 10 repetitions of 2 to 3 sets and switch legs.
- Hamstring curls: Lie flat on your belly with your legs extended straight behind you. Place your folded arms below your head and rest your forehead on your arms. Now, gently bend the knee of your affected leg towards your hips and slowly lower your leg back down to the ground. Do 10 to 15 repetitions of 2 to 3 sets.
A meniscus tear is a worrisome and painful injury that can affect your activities of daily living and work and prevent you from enjoying your usual recreational activities. By working with your physician and physical therapist and participating in active exercise programs, you can safely and swiftly return back to your optimal activity level and function.


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I saw this book in Barnes & Noble's foreign language section.
The author calls it a "dictionary"; I would call it a "Chinese Gibberish Complication Guide for Idiots". The only Chinese character on its cover is "book" (書,or simplified version: 书) is indeed upside down! This is a truly pathetic attempt by the pubisher to squeeze another $27.95 from the dumb and stupid. Now I know where the tattoo artists get their "hanzi" (汉字) from.
Note: Wolfram Eberhard was one of the early greats of China scholarship...was, as in he died in 1989. The author of 35 books who ended his career with a nearly three-decade run on the faculty of U Cal-Berkeley, A DICTIONARY OF CHINESE SYMBOLS was his last work. (thanks to an Anonymous, aka Chengdude, comment posted here)


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This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through magical intervention of the bones or blood of their victims.
We begin with a look at the story of Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street as it shares a common theme of accidental cannibalism with Grimm fairy tale central to our episode, "The Juniper Tree." Some Victorian urban legends are identified as possible sources of the story, which first appeared in an 1846 penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls, a Romance. We also hear a snippet of a song about the Demon Barber written by R.P. Weston and sung by English music hall revivalist Stan Holloway, the artists who also gave us the song about Anne Boleyn's ghost "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm," featured in our "Lost Heads" episode.
We then have a look at "The Juniper Tree" published in 1812 in the original edition of Grimm's collection Children's and Household Tales, that is, what we call Grimm's Fairy Tales. The grisly tale would never lend itself to the Disney treatment, though it did serve, extremely loosely, as inspiration for an Icelandic film of the same name, starring a young Björk.
"The Juniper Tree" tells of an evil stepmother who contrives to kill her stepson in a particularly brutal way, covering her crime by cooking the child's remains into stew served to the family. The tale also includes of blood, a vengeful bird, and a fiery, magic juniper tree. English, Austrian, and Romanian version of the tale, are also noted for noteworthy bits of horror, and we hear a a musical rendition by the Russian ensemble Caprice of the song sung by the bird in this Grimm story.
The next story, introduced via an audio oddity from the 1962 film, The Wonder World of the Brothers Grimm, is "The Singing Bone." Like "The Juniper Tree," this one revolves around the outing of a murderer though a song. In this case, the song telling the tale of murder of one brother by another produced by a flute made of a bone of the murdered brother. We also have a look at a number of variations on this tale and a tool used by folklorists,The Aarne–Thompson Tale Type registry, where one can find synopses of tales listed the "Singing Bone" (#780) category, such as:
"780B: The Speaking Hair: A stepmother buries a girl alive. Her hair grows as wheat or bush and sings her misfortunes. Thus she is discovered and dug up alive. The stepmother is buried in the same hole."
Just as bones communicate the identity of their murderer, the blood of a victim in other tales can bring a killer to justice. We hear a number of tales of this sort, including the Icelandic "Murder Will Out," featuring a bleeding skull impaled with knitting needles.
The idea that human remains could identify their killer was not just the stuff of folk tales. The idea that a corpse would bleed in the presence of its murderer (called 'cruentation' from a Latin word for "staining with blood")was, in past centuries, an accepted element of criminal law in Germany, Denmark, Bohemia, Poland, and Scotland, and even the United States. We hear a snippet from Shakespeare's Richard III, featuring the practice as well as an example of cruentation used as late as the early 1800s in the US.
The "Singing Bone" story has parallels in the world of folk music. The murder ballad "Two Sisters" (also "Twa Sisters," "The Cruel Sister," "Binnorie," or in America, "The Dreadful Wind and Rain") tells of the murder of one sister by another over an issue of romantic jealousy. Like "The Singing Bone," the victim's bones are found and made into a musical instrument that produces a song convicting the murderer. Often the hair, or in an older version dating to the 1600s — veins, are turned into the strings of a harp. We hear a version of the song by The Askew Sisters and by the German group Broom Bezzums, and American versions by Kilby Snow and Tom Waits, also a rather different take on the song from Sweden, where more than a hundred versions also exist.
We saved a final tasty morsel for the end of the show, a surprising historical account, which precisely parallels the Sweeney Todd story, not from 19th-century London, but a place and time far, far removed.


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