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On November 3, 2014, WILD women had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Zanjani, where all of those in attendance were able to listen to one very inspirational speaker reflect on her own life experiences and share them with WILD Women. Dr. Zanjani is currently the Vice President for Institutional Advancement and she discussed how she obtained her degrees, and reflected on her life to encourage us to work hard, study abroad and go places where we may not necessarily see ourselves going. Dr. Zanjani is responsible for meeting with donors who give to GCU to contribute any monetary amount for the success of GCU students. We all gathered in a large circle to discuss, reflect, and inquire about various aspects of being a student and sharing our plans for future goals. Many WILD sisters have mutual goals on wanting to obtain higher degrees, despite differences in majors, we all shared uncertainties such as whether we should stop school to pay off loans or to be like a gambler and go for the money while things are hot. Another commonality that united us was holding jobs to pay for school, living expenses while working, and inquiring how we manage those responsibilities and learned to prioritize. Along with prioritizing we were encouraged to plan our future short and long term goals. We were encouraged to write them down on paper to make them more attainable and real. Dr. Zanjani's event was introspective as we spent some time to reflect on our life, question ourselves, and determine the steps we need to do to get there. Although it is easy to get caught up in our lives and short term goals, we can always be reminded of our peers and remember that we all share similar goals; similarly, those whom we look up to as role models have made their own path to success, as we are currently building our own to one day inspire younger generations. Proving that gifts come in many forms, not all of them involve money, some involve wisdom and most of the time all gifts are unexpected. On behalf of all my WILD sisters, I would like to thank Dr. Zanjani for a lovely event to help us all prioritize our lives to be able to do everything and for lending some words to give us advice to prove we are always lifelong learners.
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He holds a PhD in Science and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science from University College Ghent (Hogeschool Gent). Before joining UCL Matthias has worked as a PhD student at VUB (as part of the BrusSense team) and the Sony Computer Science Lab in Paris. During this time he was involved in the NoiseTube project, a mobile sensing platform for the creation of participatory noise maps. NoiseTube and the more general concept of community memories are also the topic of his PhD thesis (VUB, June 2012, advised by Prof. Luc Steels).
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In the name of science, or in actual fact solely for our own amusement, we've paired up two unlikely suspects in the world of external hard drives. IOSafe's latest effort, which is a mammoth beast and claims to be indestructible, and Freecom's Hard Drive XS, which claims to be one of the world's smallest USB 3.0 drives.
We wanted to take them out and put them in fun and kooky situations, since they are an unlikely pair and thus excellent candidates for a sitcom pilot. However, the IOSafe is just too bloody fat and heavy to carry around so we had to leave him at home and just take the Hard Drive XS to the park to go on the swings instead.
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Want to know if a girl you admire really likes you? Not sure what those glances and smiles might mean? The steps below show how girls act when they really like a guy.
Her body language- All girls are different. Notice her body language. Leaning in, uncrossed legs, nervous voice, are all signs she likes you. Some common body signs that shows she likes you is when she gives you random hugs reserved mostly for you, if she accidentally bumps into you more often than what you'd consider the usual…
Signs of flirting– if she's flirting, she might be difficult to read. Gregarious girls may flirt with guys who they consider just friends. But when a girl flirts with you and has no idea that she does, she probably likes you a great deal since her subconscious is letting her body language do the talking.'
The way she acts when she's with you – Observe the way she looks at you despite the fact she might not be able to look you straight in the eye, also the smiles at you and laughs at your jokes even those that are boring and stupid.
Reaction of her friends– You also have to observe the reaction of her friends when you are around them. If you see most of her friends glancing back at you and smiling or giggling then she probably has told them about you.
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Decayed tooth enamel and gums are common problems among children and older people living in North Fort Myers. Traditional dentistry used enamel scissors, drills, rotary tools and cleaning brushes to treat these problems. There are two types of devices that are currently used in dentistry to remove decay from teeth, one is the Dental Drill and the other is the Dental Laser.
Dental drill or drill dentistry is the most common and traditional technology used by dentists in North Fort Myers. This device uses hard metal alloy bits. These metal bits are available in various shapes and sizes as a useful attachment for different applications. Most of them are made with steel within tungsten carbide coating. Earlier dentist drills were slow in speed – around 3000 rpm – but today's drills are much more advanced and can rotate at 800,000 rpm. But these drills can give you chills and cold sweats as they make physical contact with your teeth. This technique is not very comfortable but it's also not too costly. The dental drill is still an essential part of every dentist's equipment. Some high-speed dental drills may cause a smudge layer, which is a layer of dead organic material.
The latest technology used in dentistry is the 'Laser'. A Laser is a device that emits energy in the form of amplified light. This amplified light is used to cut tissue and teeth. This light is transmitted at different wavelengths for different targets including enamel, gum tissue, decayed teeth, and whitening enhancement. Laser dentistry is an FDA (Food and Drug Association) approved technology and it has also received ADA (American Dentist Association) seal of acceptance, which assures the safety of this technology. Most dentists use lasers only for tooth decay, gum problems, and lesion removal. Lasers can also be used to detect cavities. NASA Langley research center has stated that two major wavelengths for dentists can be produced using the same hardware resulting reduced cost and complexity. Waterlase laser is the first laser approved by FDA for cutting hard tissue.
The major advantage of a dental laser compared to a dentist drill is that it causes no vibration and no pain. It does not require any anesthesia. It can target a specific portion without disturbing the surrounding area. Bleaching and swelling are also reduced and the patient feels comfortable and at ease. Currently lasers are used for recon-touring or re-shaping gums. Dental lasers are quite safe and are an effective procedure for treating dentistry in children and adults.
No doubt, laser dentistry offers numerous important improvements over the dentist drill and also eliminates the common complaints of traditional dentistry. But laser dentistry has some disadvantages. For example, laser dentistry may not be used for teeth where previous filling has been done. It also cannot be used to fill cavities located between teeth, or shape or polish the filling. Laser is also not suited for large cavities that need to be prepared for a crown. Even though laser dentistry has some limitations it is by far the best dentistry for a patient's comfort. As per a patient's condition and requirements, your dentist can help you choose which is best for you.
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Most people when thinking about malpractice suits are not aware that there are also dental malpractice suits filed. Dental malpractice suits are in their own category but just as any other person in the medical field, dentists are liable for improper treatment services.
The frequency of the number of claims in dental malpractice is pretty steady. The claims are smaller of course than in the medical field. Here is a range of injuries, due to improper dental treatment that can lead to a dental malpractice claim: injuries to jaw, lip and tongue nerves, injuries related to anesthesia and death.
If a dentist for example fails to detect oral cancer, and other oral diseases he is liable.
A dentist has to make sure that there are no prior medical conditions that may require special treatment for example before giving anesthesia.
The most obvious dental malpractice case is when a patient dies from the dental procedure. This can happen for example by administering improper anesthesia or by improper treatment of gum infections. Here are some other reasons for a person to be able to file a dental malpractice suit:
1. Permanent nerve damage due to complications from an oral surgery.
2. Sometimes a root canal can result in permanent numbness.
3. When a person may be injured from what is called a dental extraction (making a mistake by accidentally removing a good tooth)
Dentists are just like other physicians liable for any injury due to improper treatment or wrong diagnosis. By law, dentists are held to a certain standard of care when rendering services to their patients.
Here are some real cases of dental malpractice:
1. A case of periodontal abscess caused by defective bridge not properly treated: a $24,000 settlement.
2. A woman had a procedure done but it was done with improper contoured crowns and bridges, negligence: a $47,500 settlement.
3. A patient had a permanently numbed tongue following a rather routine wisdom tooth extraction: a $140.000 settlement.
4. A young man who sustained nerve injury in his mouth as a result of a dental procedure: a $54,000 settlement,
5. A woman with painful numb lip and chin after a routine dental treatment: a $100.000 settlement.
While it is not quite clear how many cases of dental malpractice are filed every year in the United States alone, according to some statistics the numbers are rising. There are countless cases of people that have suffered due to improper dental procedures and negligence and all too often these cases are not reported. Often, people may not be aware that they can file a dental malpractice suit. While dentists are people and therefore can make mistakes, making an error that results in a permanent injury that could have been avoided is not acceptable.
If you feel that you have experienced any of the injuries above or some others, it may be time for you to search for a lawyer that is familiar with dental malpractice lawsuits and that can help and advise you.
The time that you may spend searching for such a lawyer could make a difference in your life or the life of one of your family members. It is only right to get justice when injured through careless dental treatments or negligence.
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Dentists are oral health care practitioners who study long and hard before becoming certified to practice dentistry. Four years of undergraduate school must be accomplished with a high GPA before even applying to dental college.
To become admitted into this grad program, an applicant must be a cream-of-the-crop individual. High grades, entrance exams, personal interviews and more will be thrown into the decision making mix. Competition to get in is stiff indeed. Once these future docs are enrolled, the rigorous years continue. Years of academic classroom training along with hands-on clinical experience must be accomplished before the initials DDS are earned. DDS stands for doctor of dental surgery. These individuals are as well trained as a regular medical physician. Here are some of the subjects that they study:
- Tooth composition: A tooth is made up of three main parts. These parts are 1) the enamel, 2) the dentine, and 3) the pulp. The enamel covers the inner workings and is made up of hard, durable white material. The dentine is sometimes referred to as the core and lies directly beneath the enamel. The pulp is the portion filled with nerves and blood vessels.
- Anatomy, physiology and chemistry: Not only the tooth is studied, however. A dentist needs to know how the entire human body works in terms of muscles, blood systems, skeletal structures and chemical reactivity.
- Medications: A DDS needs to study pharmaceuticals and how they affect patients. Dentists use a wide variety of medications in their work and need to be well versed in pharmaceuticals. They prescribe pain meds, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs and more. Nitrous oxide is also known as "laughing gas" and is a prescribed drug. This is often used during procedures in order to relax nervous patients.
- Current trends in procedures: The practitioner must be up on the latest materials and methods for everything from filling a cavity to performing a root canal. Dental implants, orthodontia, cosmetic or pediatric dentistry and the base of knowledge are constantly being updated.
- Office management: Many DDSs own their own private practice. In order to run a practice, the doc must know all about good business practices. This includes bookkeeping, hiring and firing, employee compliance and more. Not only must this professional be science brained, he or she must be business brained, as well.
- Marketing: Businesses must be properly marketed in order to be successful. A dentist will have to know all about marketing, advertising and getting the good news out about their expertise to the community.
- CERES technology: CERES stands for ceramic restoration. Dental practitioners are learning about this cutting edge 3D design imaging for instant procedures. A computer program is connected to a milling tool which is connected to a special camera. These programs work together to create reconstructive products within minutes. Many dentists are studying about this new procedure in order to offer it to their patients.
Dentists must go to school for many years to obtain expertise. When an individual has earned the DDS initials, patients can rest assured that their doc is a pro.


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With the cancellation announced, watching "Pushing Daisies" is already an exercise in wondering what might have been. Bryan Fuller has already admitted that the show will now end on a cliffhanger, so the fans won't even get a fulfilling conclusion to the story (unless that film version miraculously happens or the proposed comics prove worthwhile). Perhaps it makes sense for a show about resurrection of the dead to end with what feels like a wake.
That seems to be a trend for Bryan Fuller shows. The writing is often brilliant and the concepts are simple but unique. Yet the execution is frustrating: it's excellent enough to gather devoted fans, but just far enough left of center to make the devoted throng a ripple in the ratings pool. Bryan Fuller is not unlike Joss Whedon in that respect.
This episode is another strong entry for the second season, which has matched along despite losing a bit of the magical luster that came with its original premiere. The character through-lines are certainly ambitious, as secrets long kept threaten to blossom into the light of day. It's devastating to realize that there will be little to no resolution in the end.
In the case of the episode's central mystery, however, it wasn't all that engaging. Maybe it was too easy to see where the story was going to go, but I was far more interested in the subplots involving Chuck's family matters. I suppose that's part of my problem with the current state of "Pushing Daisies"; the things that brought me to the table are the very things that will be left hanging.


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DANBURY — The Little East Conference sure did like the goalkeepers on the men's and women's soccer teams at Western Connecticut State University this past week.
The LEC named Western's Austin Tierney its men's Goalkeeper of the week and Western's Jillian Fernandez its women's Goalkeeper of the Week for their efforts this past week.
Fernandez came up big as the Colonials blanked St. Joseph (Conn.) 4-0 and earned a 1-1 draw with UMass Dartmouth in the conference opener. She stopped one shot against St. Joseph and saved nine against the Corsairs, including two in the overtime periods.
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Tierney made 18 saves combined as the Colonials lost a 1-0 battle to Springfield and opened conference play with a 1-1 tie against UMass Dartmouth. Tierney saved 10 shots against Springfield, and added eight against the Corsairs, including a save in the 101st minute to preserve the tie.
DANBURY — Felicia Wetzel's unassisted goal in the 53rd minute was all the offense William Paterson needed in a 1-0 victory over Western. Goalkeeper Kristy Trotta, a former Danbury High School standout, made 15 saves for the Colonials (3-4).


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The Australian pork industry says 60 per cent of producers are now 'sow stall free'.
Sow stalls confine a pregnant pig in a small space for the duration of the pregnancy.
The production technique raised animal welfare concerns, leading to a phase out of the sow stalls by the industry.
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Keith Ledger shocker! But who the hell is Keith Ledger?
People are so distraught about the death of their beloved Keith Ledger that they have pushed his name to the number two spot on Google Trends with a full "Volcanic" rating of hotness:
He comes in just under the slightly more famous Heath Ledger who also just died in what appears to be a tragic overdose — possibly compounded by pneumonia.
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Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here... highlighting the big storyline. Because there's nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. With Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster struggling mightily, manager John Farrell summoned Steven Wright in the fourth inning of a marathon matinee against the Mariners. Seattle had already scored six runs and had two runners on. Kyle Seager greeted Wright with an RBI single and then . . . nothing. With the Red Sox in desperate need of a reliever who could take the heat off Craig Breslow, Junichi Tazawa and the rest of the middle relief corps, Wright fluttered to the fore. The knuckleballer shut out the Mariners for 52⁄3 innings and was prepared to go even longer, at least until the Red Sox took an 8-7 lead in the 10th. So he instead handed the ball to closer Koji Uehara, who slammed the door on Wright's first big league victory, which comes in just his second big league appearance. "Today's win is because of him," Uehara saluted. Herald: Knuckler Steven Wright brilliant in 1st win Of all the pitchers on the Red Sox staff, who would have ever thought that Steven Wright would have emerged as a stopper and bail out the team? (I almost posted a pic of comedian Steven Wright, but that's been done way too much). Coming in for a shelled Ryan Dempster (allowed seven earned runs), Wright saved the day and the Sox bullpen throwing five and two-thirds innings while allowing only three hits, two walks, no earned runs, and struck out three. He bridged the gap to get to Uehara, as Nava put the Sox ahead in the 10th. We all know how valuable a knuckleballer is to a bullpen. If the knuckler is dancing the right way, the pitcher can go a long way to bail out his club. Wright may just be that guy. Did the Red Sox just solve their bullpen problem in one day? Probably not. But yesterday was a great step towards correcting the problem in from within. Rest of the links: Globe: Daniel Nava lifts Red Sox past Mariners | Globe: Steven Wright earns first win | Globe: Uehara misses out on All-Stars | Herald: Daniel Nava delivers as Red Sox rally past Mariners | Herald: Koji Uehara stars in ways that count | CSNNE.com: Wright the 'story of the day' vs. Mariners | CSNNE.com: Nava makes most out of clutch opportunity | ESPNBoston.com: Wright rights ship, earns first MLB win
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else. We can give ourselves the unconditional love that is the grounding for sustained acceptance and affirmation. When we give this precious gift to ourselves, we are able to reach out to others from a place of fulfillment and not from a place of lack.
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"Commitment: Let Love Be Love in Me" in All About Love (p. 67)
I ate the yam. I ate the yam between a pair of greasy chicken-fried colored legs and well-worn hands that carved hair plots for my budding locks beneath the buzz of blackgirl talk and a florescent flicker. For some of my stay-woke hip hop sistren, our return to feminist roots was all (about) the rage. I believed my minute meditation, speed journaling, and my manicured Badu hairdo were the seeds to recovering my Black self. (Commercial break makeovers were fashionable in the 90s.) So, when I changed my (out)look and my worldview with her four words (read: white supremacist capitalist patriarchy), this candied yam-fed feminist felt personally betrayed by bell hooks who now seemed hell-bent on some love kick. What's self-love gotta do with it? I ate her yam—brushed over her book. But, how was a series of self-help survival guides gonna save me?
I was young.
Yesterday, I ruminated about Love Day. I unearthed hooks again along with other Black feminists writing about self-love as a meaningful political act of resistance and reclamation for Black women who are trained to be the first-responders to other folks, to be the bystanders of our own crisis. Love—rooted in an unique, emotive, empathetic ethic of care—is the hallmark of Black feminist thought. I was reminded that to do the work of feminism is to do the labor of loving ourselves.
Changing my hair has been much easier than changing my heart.
On a day when we are encouraged to shower someone else, I want to turn love inward too. This ain't ego-trip. For some of us, it is a lifelong journey just imagining what love feels like. To starve my all-consuming rage that used to poison me and those I cared for, I have practiced patience and forgiveness, learned emphathic listening to hear with my spirit, and devoted time to cultivating dreams for my lovers. After another day of guilt-grabbing drive-thru food between on-the-book and off-the-clock meetings, I see myself flopping fully-clothed and head first on the bed falling back out of love with myself because of my inner people-pleaser. Still growing. The outsider-within still needs to nurture love from the inside out. I do know how to love. Yet, each day I must remind myself to give to myself what I willingly offer others. I gotta love me like I love my lover. We, sisters of the yam, have strong roots. This V-Day, let's plot and nurture the kind of revolutionary self love that Black feminism has sown.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. It may be lonely. Certainly painful. It'll take time. We've got time. That of course is an unpopular utterance these days. We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than right here. The revolution ain't out there. Yet. But it is here.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
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To see a friend or family member struggle with the pain of bereavement is a saddening experience. It is at times like these that they need the support of the living - your support. Yet, when we look at the situation from outside we tend to worry about impinging on the personal space of the bereaved or otherwise being an annoyance to them. How best then can we convey that we understand their pain and are always there for them, no matter what the circumstances? Answer: memorial gifts.
The Power of Memorial GiftsMemorial gifts are a solution to this conundrum. They offer a gentle non-intrusive reminder to the bereaved, which remains with them long after the funeral has passed.
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Caring for a patient with terminal illness is challenging because most of the time the patient is unconscious thus remains a passive recipient of care. Health care professionals and family members are left to decide for the patient yet they do not experience the physical impact of the disease. With a view to the selected incident, two issues that arise are ethical and legal.
The rationale of selecting the ethical and legal issues is that Battes (2003) states that they interfere with decision making process in times of a dilemma. Autonomy is one of the ethical principles and it requires that the patient makes decision about the care that he wants (Gedge et al. 2007). In an event where the patient is unconscious, health care professionals compromise autonomy by deciding for the patient or letting the relatives decide. The right of a patient to live is one of the legal issues (Rhome 2004) that arise from the incident. The doctor is faced with a challenge of whether to take the patient's life by withholding medications or letting him live and suffer.
Legal and ethical issues have an imperative impact on the delivery of care to the patients and carers because they influence the actions of the health care professionals. According to the law, the doctor can withhold treatment and let the patient die peacefully (Cook, 2008). On the other hand, Chantal (2006) explains that it is unethical to withhold treatment if the majority of the people concerned do not feel happy about the idea. For instance, if withholding treatment will annoy the family members, the doctor has no right of doing so. According to the ethical principles, health care providers should supply comprehensive and holistic care to the patient and the significant others regardless of whom they are.
Ethics is a way of examining morality. Singer (2010) states that clinical ethics dictate the professional behaviors of health care providers because they issue a framework for decision making process. Ethics in terminal care entail practical reasoning about the management of the patients. Occasionally, the health care provider may find himself in an ethical dilemma because the ethical principles which are autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice are in conflict (Matzo et al. 2004). For instance, the patient has a right to make decision but when he is unconscious, it becomes hard for the health care professional to decide who should play that role on the patient's behalf. In such a case the health care professional should select a course of actions that he thinks is morally upright. By this, the health care professional can decide for the patient or allow the relatives to make an informed decision.
The ethical principle of autonomy dictates that it is a patient who should decide whether he wants to continue living or not. Autonomy is similar to self determination and Thomas (2009) states that every insane human being has freedom to choose what can be done to his body. The focus of autonomy is informed consent and health care professionals should explain to the patient about the disease process, management and outcome so that he can make a choice (Chantal, 2006). In the event where the patient has a cognitive problem the significant others can decide for him. With a view to the selected incident, the doctor explained the patient's condition and management to the family members so that they decide on his behalf.
The ethical theories of beneficence and non-maleficence guide the health care professionals so that they provide quality care to the patients. Thomas (2009) explains that according to beneficence theory, health care professionals should provide care that is beneficial for the patient while non-maleficence states that the patient should be protected from harm. These theories form the goal of patient's management which is to assist them in recovering or reduce suffering and thus prolong life (Gallagher et al. 2007). With the view to the selected incident, the issue that arises is withholding some treatment and life supportive assistance. The patient could not completely benefit from the hospital interventions but he was likely to experience more harm because of lack of treatment at the hospice. That is why the family members were confused when the doctor declared that he was going to stop the intravenous fluids and some medications. The question that comes out from the incident concerns the authority of sustaining or withholding life. Is it a doctor, a nurse, a patient or the family members who should make a decision about withholding treatment? According to Wright (2003), the patient should decide, but if he is unconscious the significant others can decide and the doctor has no authority of imposing forced treatment regimen.
Justice is an ethical principle that concerns fair and equal treatment of the patient, the relatives and the significant others (Battes 2003). It states that the nurse should treat every person equally regardless of their social status, culture and disease condition. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse respected the patient's relatives by explaining them the patient's condition and the treatment plan. The nurse's action demonstrates distributive justice. On the other hand, the nurse was unfair in her attempts to withhold treatment and deny the patient his or her right to live.
Analysis of Legal Issues
In the provision of care, health care professionals cannot assume legal issues since they affect care. Some actions may be allowed by ethics, while being not permitted by the law (Thomas 2009). According to the law, it is forbidden to take any human's life while the ethical principle of autonomy permits it in case of patient's request to take his life. With a view to the selected incident, the doctor could not have stopped the patient's treatment if he had followed the law that forbids to withhold someone's life.
According to Wright (2003) the law is minimal ethics because it operates under the values and principles of the society. The law is a reflection of the ideas of the majority concerning specific issue. If the health care professionals are to follow the law, they have to respect the voices of the family members and significant others (Cook 2008). This means that when it comes to matters concerning life and death, the family members and significant others should be given the first priority. With a view to the selected incident, the doctor should have asked for the family member's opinion about treatment withdrawal instead of implementing the plan that only afterwards was introduced to them..
Most of the legal issues relating to care of the patients with terminal illness fall under the common and statutory law (Matzo et al. 2004). The court decides the common law and it involves issues like autonomy and treatment withdrawal while the statutory law concerns euthanasia (Thomas 2009). The law limits ethical actions that may be risky for the patient or the family members. Wright (2003) states that the law acts as a framework for decision making process and it helps the health care professionals avoid liabilities. With a view to the selected incident, the doctor could have prolonged the patient's life for some days by not withholding treatment since the law states the patient's right to live.
Rhome (2004) explains that the law provides guidelines for the health care professionals to balance between benefits and harm. Health care professionals should relieve any patient from the signs and symptoms of the disease, inflicting no harm. In the event that the patient's relatives doubt the treatment regimen and are worried about the side effects, the health care professional should prioritize the law about harm prevention (Matzo et al. 2004). On the other hand, if the benefit is imperative in comparison to the prevention of harm then the health care professional should prioritize the law of benefits. With a view to the selected incident, the doctor followed the law of benefits by withholding treatment. This is because being allowed to continue living, the patient could have suffered more.
The law provides guidelines that assist the health care professionals in dealing with two harmful situations. If the health care professional cannot compare the danger of prolonged treatment with the side effects of medical care, he should select one action that is less harmful to prevent the occurrence of a more serious harm (Battes 2003). With a view to the selected incident, the prolonging of the patient's life could have a negative impact on both the patient and the family members. The patient could have suffered for a long period of time while the family members would continue experiencing psychological and emotional difficulties while caring for him. This is the reason why the doctor decided to take an action with a lesser harm that is to withhold the treatment.
How Nursing Practice Can Be Improved In Relation To Ethical and Legal Issues
In relation to ethical and legal issues nursing practice can be improved by the application of ethical-legal theories while providing care to the patients and the significant others. The ethical-legal theories include deontology, utilitarianism and natural law (Wright 2003). Although these theories will assist the nurse in making a rational decision while in a dilemma, a moral reasoning is important. Therefore, a nurse should learn how to establish a therapeutic relationship with the patient, so that the moral skills develop (Chantal 2006). Moral skills will assist the nurse in making an ultimate decision about the care of the patient. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse could have refused to stop the medication if she considered it to be unethical.
Utilitarianism is an ethical-legal theory that operates under the principle of making many people happy regardless of the consequences to an individual (Gallagher et al. 2007). Application of this theory to the nursing practice is important because it will reduce the prevalence of self interests. Singer (2010) explains that according to utilitarianism, a nurse should provide quality care because that is what the hospital institution is aimed at. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse could have provided holistic care to the patient till death because it is in line with the hospital guidelines. By so doing, the nurse could have alleviated the distress that the family members underwent while observing their relation die peacefully. On the other hand, it was ethical for the nurse to stop the medication, having explained the treatment plan to the relatives. This is because the relatives accepted the treatment plan.
According to the deontology theory, common sense is important and nurses should perform their duties fairly that is to treat every person with integrity and apply the ethical principles without discrimination (Wright 2003). Ethical principles that are deontological in nature include autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficience and preservation of life (Chantal 2006). A nurse should provide services that are beneficial for the patient and avoid any source of harm, preserving his life. Considering the selected incident, the nurse should have provided holistic care to the patient and the significant others because it is her duty. Additionally, the nurse could not have stopped the medication because the theory of deontology states that a nurse should preserve life.
The natural law of ethical-legal theory states that an action is morally good if it is in line with the human goals and it does not harm a person (Singer 2010). According to this law, it is unethical for the nurse to refuse to care for the patient. The nurse should help the patient to become independent,providing a collaborative care that addresses his needs. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse could have collaborated with the doctor and provide comprehensive care to the patient. Withholding of the treatment decreased the patient's ability to progress into a different stage of recovery.
Potential Barriers
The application of the ethical-legal theories in the nursing practice can be interfered by a number of barriers concerning the patient, the significant others, health facility and the health care providers. According to Wright (2003), a patient's beliefs, disease condition and financial status can be a barrier to application of ethical-legal principles and theories in the nursing practice. A patient who believes that intravenous medication is the best solution may refuse other treatment modalities. In the event that a certain drug does not have an intravenous preparation it may be hard for the nurse to provide beneficial services for the patient is likely to refuse treatment.
In a study done, Singer (2010) explains that approximately sixty eight percent of the patients with terminal illness were willing to allow the doctor to end their lives because of financial difficulties. Many of them preferred to die because they could not afford to support their families financially. This shows that financial inability can be a barrier to application of ethical theories in the nursing practice. For instance, the aforementioned patients can refuse nursing care because they want to die. Lastly, the disease condition of the patient is a potential barrier to nursing practice because it influences the decision making process (Matzo et al. 2004). A patient with cognitive abnormalities cannot make a rational decision concerning his management. In the event that such a patient refuses treatment, the nurse is in a dilemma of whether to force the patient to take medication or follow his wishes and command. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse had to follow the family members' commands because the patient was unconscious and could not decide about his care.
The patient's family members and the significant others can be a barrier to the application of ethical principles in the nursing practice because they influence the management of the patient (Gedge et al. 2007). When a nurse wants to provide a comprehensive and holistic care to the patient and the significant others want the nurse to withhold treatment, it becomes hard for the nurse to apply the ethical-legal theory. Rhome (2004) explains that the culture and social values of the family members are potential barriers to provision of nursing services. For instance, people who believe that the nurse should not administer narcotics to a patient with a terminal illness can interfere with the nursing practice by prohibiting the nurse from administering medication to the patient.
The potential barriers to application of the ethical-legal theories that relate to the health facility include lack of enough supplies, the hospital policies and the human resource (Wright 2003). A nurse may want to support the patient's life but if the hospital does not have the necessary supplies, it becomes impossible. For instance, lack of protective devices like gloves and masks can prevent a nurse from providing the patient with a quality care. The hospital guidelines play an imperative role in the application of ethical-legal theories in the nursing practice. If the hospital rules dictate that the doctor is the final decision maker in the management of a patient, the nurse is unlikely to provide quality services (Chantal 2006). With a view to the selected incident, the nurse had to withhold treatment yet the nursing ethics states that a nurse should assist the patient until he dies.
Finally, inadequate human resource is a potential barrier to provision of nursing care (Wright 2003). For instance, if the nurse is under pressure because of understaffing, she is likely to withhold treatment so that the patient dies and relieves her from the excessive workload. Besides, lack of knowledge about application of ethical-legal theories can be a potential barrier to the nursing practice (Rhome 2004). A nurse who is unaware of ethical principles is likely to harm the patient in case of a dilemma. Thus, if a patient wants a pain relieving medication while the relatives are against it, the nurse should apply the principle of autonomy and the deontology theory and is to give the patient the medication instead of following the relatives' command. A nurse who is not aware of the principle of autonomy and the theory of deontology is likely to follow utilitarianism theory and deny the patient the medication. This will cause harm to the patient as it makes him suffer.
Policies and Guidelines that Affect the Ethical and Legal Issues
The national, international and local policies and guidelines that apply to ethical and legal issues concern the nursing care of a patient who is terminally ill. The nurse should provide care to a patient who is terminally ill so that he can have control over his management (Gedge et al. 2007). This policy is related to the ethical principle of beneficence and it means that the nurse should not withhold treatment but continue caring for the patient.
Cook (2008) explains that the management of a person with terminal illness should be in line with his beliefs as well as the culture. This policy coincides with the principle of autonomy and the ethical-legal theory of deontology. The nurse should respect the dignity of the patient and provide care not discriminating his culture or beliefs. This also means that the nurse should not harm the client because going against his beliefs and culture can interfere with the healing process. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse could have listened to the views of the patients relatives and act accordingly instead of following the doctors instructions and withholding medication.
The nurse should know about conditions like mental disabilities and beware of the side effects of medications that can affect the decision making process of a patient who is terminally ill (Rhome 2004). This policy is important because it affects the nurse's choice about the autonomy of the patient. It influences the selection of a person who should decide on the behalf of the patient. The nurse should explain the progression of the disease, the management and possible outcome to the person acting on behalf of the patient ,so that he can make an informed decision (Singer 2010). With a view to the selected incident, the nurse acted ethically explaining the treatment regimen of the patient to the family members.
The nurse who is taking care of a terminally ill patient must know the patient's wishes as well as expectations regarding his management (Gallagher et al. 2007). The nurse should develop a therapeutic relationship with the patient so that she probes him to express his feelings and thoughts about the disease. By so doing, the nurse will know the patient's wishes and expectations. This policy is important because it provides a solution in case the relatives' or the health care's wishes are not compatible with the patient's expectations. With a view to the selected incident, ethical and legal issues arose, since the patient was unconscious and no one knew either his wishes or expectations.
The nurse who is responsible for the patient with terminal illness must know the outcome of the doctor's management and document it accordingly (Cook 2008). This means that the nurse should discuss the patient's care and progress with the doctor.. This policy is in line with the principle of beneficence and nonmaleficience. When a nurse knows the rationale behind the doctor's management, she is likely to provide the service, beneficial to the patient, and avoid harm. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse could have discussed the patient management with the doctor, so that they explore other possibilities instead of withholding treatment because it was distressing for the family members.
It is essential for the nurse to provide palliative care to a patient with terminal illness (Chantal 2006). The care should include physical, psychological, social and emotional support. Physical care involves provision of medication that relieves the distressing symptoms of the disease process. Psychological and emotional care involves counseling the patient about the disease process, so that he comes to term with it. Social support entails talking to the patient and encouraging him so that he does not feel lonely. This policy relates to deontology and utilitarianism theories. According to the deontology theory, the nurse should provide palliative care to the terminally ill patient because it is her duty. On the other hand, utilitarianism theory will restrict a nurse to provide palliative care to the terminally ill patient if many people do not feel happy about the idea. With a view to the selected incident, the nurse withheld treatment instead of providing palliative care because the majority accepted the outcome.
In conclusion, ethical and legal issues are imperative in the care of a patient with terminal illness. This happens because they influence the decisions of the health care providers concerning the management of the patient. With a view to the selected incident, the ethical issues that arise are autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficience and justice. Legal issues concern the law and they assist the health care professional to make a rational decision when the ethical principles are in conflict. One of the legal issues is the law that prohibits killing and when a patient wants his life be taken the nurse can disrespect his autonomy because the law forbids killing. Nurses should apply the ethical-legal theories in the nursing practice if they want to provide a comprehensive and holistic care to the patients with terminal illness.
Nurses should strive to know the ethical and legal issues concerning patients with terminal illness by reviewing relevant literatures about the issues. This will assist them in making a rational decision when faced with an ethical dilemma. Battes (20003) states that a nurse who is knowledgable about ethical and legal issues is likely to provide comprehensive services in times of an ethical dilemma than the one who does not know anything about it.
Hospital institutions should organise seminars or workshops for the nurses to attend and learn about ethical and legal issues. This is important because as nursing continues to evolve, the legal and ethical issues keep on changing (Rhome 2004). Attending such seminars, they get to know the current practices of taking care of the patients with terminal illness.
Nurses should conduct research about barriers to ethical and legal issues and then address the findings accordingly. For instance, if the barrier is understaffing then the hospital should employ more health care professionals. In case of the knowledge deficit, the nurses should be taught about ethical principles and theories. According to Thomas (2009), research enables the nurse to gain more insight about legal and ethical issues. Through research, a nurse can get introduced to the new ways of solving ethical legal dilemmas. This will assist the nurse in providing beneficial services when faced with a conflict.
Finally, nurses should educate the relatives about the care of the patient and the outcome. This will assist them in making a rational decision about the patients' care in the event where the patient is unconscious and cannot decide. Cook (2008) states that educating the relatives about care of the terminally ill patient alleviates the negative belief and culture that they usually hold. A patient's relative who knows about the management of a terminally ill patient is unlikely to interfere with the management of the patient by prohibiting the nurse to provide care because he knows that rationale of the management.
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Admission fees aren't very cheap, but visiting Scone Palace will keep you busy for hours - there is so much to see. Prices listed on the website are as follows.
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Johan Botha was a South African born tenor.
At five years of age he told his father he wanted to be an opera singer and by age ten he was already taking voice lessons.
He made his debut as Max in Der Freischütz in 1989 at the Municipal Theatre in Roodepoort.
His big international break came in 1993 at the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris when he sang Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Since then he has sung in many of the worlds leading opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House (London), La Scala, and the Salzburg Festival. He currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
Johan Botha sang all the big tenor roles from Andrea Chenier, Tannhauser, Tristan and Otello in an ever expanding repertoire- he also had a growing discography that includes The Jungle Book - Charles Koechlin (1994) The Puccini Experience (1995) Tristan und Isolde (1995) Elektra (1996) Taillefer - Richard Strauss (1998) Italian Arias (2001) Stabat Mater - Dvořák (2001) Tiefland - Bertrand de Billy (2006)
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Google teamed up with Samsung this week to unveil the Galaxy Nexus, an ambitious smartphone they hope will make a run at the iPhone while serving up Ice Cream Sandwich, a new version of Google's Android mobile operating system.
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Review: Sarah Luther's hopeful take on the things that divide
I found myself doing something unexpected at the opening for the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship show recently. Involuntarily, it seemed, I was separating the seven artists into groups, the optimists and the pessimists.
It was a natural, if ironic, response. So much of the work in this year's exhibit is about the ways we separate ourselves from one another, whether because of politics, history or geography.
Or maybe it was simply because of Sarah Gail Luther, whose idealism seems impossibly true blue, but absolutely is not. It's a quality that infuses her work and that makes Luther easily underestimated, too.
It would be easy to view the young woman who cheerfully seeks out underutilized patches of urban landscape, picks wildflowers there and hands them out to strangers around town as a romantic, as a flower-power girl straight out of the `60s.
Sure, there's an essential element of whimsy and spontaneity in Luther's art-making practice, but she's up to something quite sobering. She's identifying the physical places where divide happens in Milwaukee, places where differences in class and race, among other things, exist on a map.
A Milwaukee map hangs in the gallery, an accessible starting point, something we all recognize and know rather intimately. On it, Luther indicates the locations of the abandoned lots that she's adopted and the destination spots where she distributes her Queen Anne's Lace out of a green, wooden flower cart.
Each starting and ending point is connected by a line, and across each of those is some barrier, such as I-94 or the Milwaukee River. It's shockingly obvious in some respects, especially to a Milwaukeean. What does this say about what we already know about our city?
Also in the gallery are full-scale telephone poles and a blue Post Office box handmade from plush toy-like materials. All but invisible to us in our daily lives, they take on a different relevance in the gallery. We are invited to contemplate the ubiquity of infrastructure, the invisible systems, projects and decisions that have particular power to connect and divide.
They are also stand-ins for us, I think. These are icons of public systems that we all have access to and own. By inviting visitors to write notes to friends and family on postcards with drawings of neglected neighborhoods, which will get sent from one zip code to another, passing through the hands of a multitude of government workers along the way, Luther invites us to consider how we might occupy our public services. How might we utilize them as a means to raise awareness and reconnect?
This is where Luther's optimism comes into play. She not only adopts forgotten bits of land, showcasing their potential. She seems to believe philosophically in the power of community and art to occupy and knit back together the things broken up by streets, freeways, bodies of water, social habit and misunderstanding.
She entices us, by the way, to cross such boundaries is a real and physical way. To do so, she puts beautiful, hand-drawn "field guides" into our hands. They are available for the taking in the gallery.
These sweet, fold-out guides, feature rows of tidy boxes and geometric shapes indicating blocks and streets like just about any map. But Luther breaks free of such conventions too. She adds notes, both pragmatic and philosophical, pointing out pubic art or a great café, or filling up spaces with drawings or her own thoughts.
"There was a clear sense of the peculiar-ness of my presence when I would walk around here," she wrote in one guide for an area that included a predominantly black neighborhood. "It amazes me that I can feel so out of place in my own city."
In her catalog essay about Luther's work for the Nohl exhibit, Chicago gallerist Shannon Stratton writes about her annoyance with a Carsten Holler exhibit last year at New York City's New Museum. This may seem an odd place to begin, but it's apt way to place Luther in a larger context.
Holler, along with artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Maurizio Catelan, are associated with the term "relational aesthetics" and a form of art that needs the engagement of an audience to function.
Stratton's annoyance with Holler's "Experience" show, which involved extreme physical experiences like sliding down a giant slide or taking a dip in a salt bath, hints at new forms of engagement in art. Artists like Luther, instead of taking "experience" to new extremes in art environments, utilize the unique dynamic of public spaces to gently empower their audiences with goals that are less theory laden and more about social justice.
But that begs the question -- how can such art, which effectively uses the urban landscape as a medium, function in a gallery? Is Luther's installation at Inova simply a documentation of art that happens on the streets? While I think Luther's exchange between the two environments might be improved upon, she does a pretty good job of figuring out how to create meaningful exchange in both places and of taking advantage of the unique properties of each.
Ultimately there is subtle and gentle critique here. But with Luther's curiosity as the driving form of expression, it is more about inquiry than finger waving. In the end, I walk away empowered and inspired.
Instead of reviewing the Nohl exhibit in its entirety, I plan to write about artists individually this year. The Nohl show will be on view at Inova, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., through Dec. 9.
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Skip to comments.{Islamic group} Boko Haram Kills Nigerian Church Leader
Posted on 05/28/2013 10:59:38 AM PDT by Cronos
Boko Haram terrorists are believed responsible for the murder of a popular Pentecostal pastor in Nigeria. Faye Pama was the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, North East zone.
Stefanos Foundation Director Mark Lipdo said Pastor Faye was killed in Borno state Tuesday afternoon.
"Gunmen climbed his fence and got into his house and shot him down... You know the sect says they are out for Christians. Being in that position and being so vocal, he must have been a very marked man," Lipdo said.
Faye had several college-aged children and one in secondary school. Lipdo asked that Christians pray for the pastors widow and children, and for Nigerian Christians who are living under intense persecution.
Wow, I used to be a fan.
Trip the light fandango!
THE CHRISTIANS HAVE THE WHOLE DANG ARMY. This guy was living and preaching in the Muslim corner of the country. Dangerous job.
That's right; they need protection, and since the gov't seems unable...
The good guys are getting mass-martyred there, and elsewhere. How long, O Lord, how long?
actually, the mid-belt across Nigeria is a transition zone — neither all muslim nor all Christian; but the muslims are trying to do what they do, which is kill the competition, just as in Punjab, S. Thailand, and in S. Philippines. There is entirely too much cheek-turning, and too much asymmetry.
Of course, you are right, in that this is the most isolated outpost of Christianity in the transition zone, Bauchi, Gombe, Gorno. Dangerous, indeed!
When I read the title I thought, "Whiter Shade of Pale".
Muslims are killing members of other religions all over the World.
I knew I wouldn't have the first Procol Harem joke.
And waiting . . . and waiting . . . and waiting . . .
Thanks Cronos.
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The Musical Representation
How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals.
Construing the art music of the modern West as representational, as a symbolic system that carries extramusical content, Nussbaum attempts to make normative principles of musical representation explicit and bring them into reflective equilibrium with the intuitions of competent listeners. The human mind-brain, writes Nussbaum, is a living record of its evolutionary history; relatively recent cognitive acquisitions derive from older representational functions of which we are hardly aware. Consideration of musical art can help bring to light the more ancient cognitive functions that underlie modern human cognition.
About the Author
Charles O. Nussbaum is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Arlington.
—Lawrence Zbikowski, Department of Music, University of Chicago
—Anthony Cascardi, University of California, Berkeley
—Jesse J. Prinz, John J. Rogers Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, and author of Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis


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Friends of Leigh Jennings say they'd like to see murder suspect Charles "Steve" Stephenson get the death penalty if he's convicted of murder.
Leigh Jennings
AURORA, Ind. - Friends of an Aurora, Ind., woman, who was found murdered in her home, say they're outraged after hearing how their close friend was killed.Prosecutors say 67-year-old Leigh Jennings died from blunt force trauma after being hit repeatedly with a pepper grinder and an iron skillet. The suspect is 58-year-old Charles "Steve" Stephenson. He's currently being held at the Boone County Jail, facing evidence tampering and separate drug charges. In Indiana, Stephenson faces murder and robbery charges in Leigh Jennings' death, after long being a person of interest in the case."It was a total shock," said one of Jenning's close friends, Laura Lesko.Lesko says she wasn't ready to hear the grisly details of how their friend was killed. She learned about them, as she watched live coverage of the Dearborn County prosecutor's news conference Thursday afternoon."It's really hard to see that my friend has been killed with a peppercorn shaker and a skillet. And....what was my reaction... my reaction is that I'm glad he has been charged," said Lesko.Lesko says she knew Jennings through a group of friends that talked or met each other almost every day.After Jennings was found murdered, that's when Lesko and the friends started piecing information together."I went in and discovered that basically that his name was Steve and I seen him on Facebook and he lived in Kentucky and it just kind of made sense to me. That evening, we told some of the detectives and it went from there," said Lesko.Lesko says she and her friends are still in pain over Jennings' murder and that she doesn't know if she'll ever have the strength to forgive the man who has been charged with killing her friend.9 News asked Lesko if the prosecutor should ask for the death penalty.
"Yes, he should. If that prosecutor had one that he loved dearly and knew that someone is guilty for sure and you know for sure someone is guilty, then he should," said Lesko.Lesko says that once Stephenson is brought back to Indiana to face murder and robbery charges, she will try her best to go to as many court dates as possible. She says that she and her friends will want to be there in the courtroom for their friend.


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|Thaipoosam Cavadee Celebration in Mauritius
Mauritian Tamils celebrate the Thaipoosam Cavadee to demonstrate with dignity and fervour their affection and allegiance to Lord Muruga. The date of the celebration is fixed according to the Tamil calendar and occurs in the months of January and February
. Devotees fast for ten whole days before Cavadee. On each of the ten fasting days devotees gather in the temple to offer worship.
On the night preceding the Cavadee celebration devotees prepare their Cavadees. The Cavadee is constructed with sculptured wood and decorated with green leaves (mostly of medicinal value), banana tree bark, V-shaped coconut shoots and flowers of all colours. They vary in shape and form according to the devotees' imagination and dexterity. Some may take the shape of a peacock, others that of a temple but the commonest one is the arch with the shape of a spear protruding in the middle.
At dawn on the tenth day of fasting, the penitents assemble at the temple before moving in procession to the river for the rites of purification. After bathing in the river the penitents change into saffron or crimson-hued loin-cloths worn in the traditional manner. The male devotees do not cover the upper part of the body. Sacred ash is smeared on their forehead, shoulders, joints of arms, wrists, torso and chest.
Offerings including small silver needles are placed on a plantain leaf in front of the Cavadee. Camphor is lit, and incense is burnt as part of a brief ceremony to invoke Muruga's blessing. The priest and his attendants now go from one Cavadee to another, pouring fresh cow milk from a can, into two small brass pots. The pots are immediately covered with a plantain leaf and a small piece of cloth; they are then tied to each side of the Cavadee.
In a supreme spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice, the penitents have their bodies pierced with the needles. The needles pierce the skin in symmetrical arcs and patterns on the chest, the back, the torso, the arms, the thighs. In some cases, in accordance with the penitent's vow, a longer needle is driven through the cheeks and another needle is driven straight through the tongue forming a sort of mouth lock. The devotee is thus unable to utter anything, communicating only through gestures.
Some Cavadee carriers bristle with needles set in an elaborate pattern with interlinking chains. Others are pierced with hooks to which limes are suspended. Yet some others draw a small chariot by means of chains fixed to hooks which have been dug into their sides. And then there are a few who have their foreheads pierced. Female devotees have either the cheeks or the tongue pierced. They carry a big brass pot filled with milk on their head. Devotees who do not have any part of their body pierced wear a piece of saffron-dyed cloth around the mouth instead. Each chariot carrier holds in one hand a rattan stick which stands for Muruga's mace. All the needles, big or small, are sharp and pointed at one end, with the other end shaped like a spear. They stand for the vel (spear) that Lord Muruga always carries with him. The needle-shaped Cavadee is similarly in honour of the valorous Muruga.
When the piercing ceremony has been completed, at a signal from the priest, the procession starts to move. The devotees carry the Cavadees across their backs like a yoke. A few choose to walk all the way to the temple on wooden sandals studded with nails. It is always the Kovil Cavadee (i.e. the temple Cavadee) that leads the procession. It is always this Cavadee that enters the Kovil first. Preceding it by a few paces another devotee carries one or two wooden maces. In some places, Lord Muruga's big long needle is carried.
The procession headed by Lord Muruga's chariot slowly makes its way to the temple, followed by groups of young men and girls, often dressed in yellows and greens and garlanded with golden flowers, playing Kummi and Kolaattam. The former is played by striking the two palm the hands against one's partner's palms, at regular intervals. The Kolaattam is played with two sticks. There are special rhythmic songs for these. The Kummi and Kolaattam groups may either lead the procession or follow at the end. Thus a touch of gaiety is given to an otherwise austere procession. People who are unable to participate wait on the route to make offerings and receive blessing. People also open their taps to let water flow on the roads. Many others pour bucket-fulls of saffron-mixed water over the body and feet of Cavadee carriers. Sweetened water with lime is offered to the followers and passers-by. These little gestures of piety are held in great ecstasy since they bring to the doer the blessings and pardon of Lord Muruga. The Cavadee carrier is considered to be a pure soul and worthy of worship so his feet are touched in veneration.
No stranger is allowed to join the procession. Most devotees walk bare-foot. Nobody smokes or eats anything on the way. Continuous reading is kept on. Religious songs are broadcast from loudspeakers mounted on car roofs. Now and then, if the penitent expresses such a wish, a close relative is allowed to carry his Cavadee in order to provide a temporary relief.
Each region has between forty to a hundred Cavadees. In bigger places like Port-Louis there may be six to eight hundred. The procession is long and slow. Since January and February are summer months, the heat is oppressive. Arrangements are made with local Municipalities, District Councils or Sugar Estates to have the routes doused with water from water-lorries.
When the Cavadees enter the temple, they go thrice round the courtyard. At this juncture, babies who are to be blessed are laid on the ground and the Cavadee-carriers step over them. Men and women of all ages prostrate themselves. Some carriers accomplish the three rounds on their knees.
Once inside, the Cavadee is dismounted, and the needles removed. Sacred ash is sprinkled on the devotee amidst shouts of Arogara (Glory to God). Not a single drop of blood comes out. The devotee experiences no pain. After this the devotee brings the two brass pots filled with milk to the priest. The milk always remains pure, fresh and wholesome in spite of the heat and the arduous journey.
The milk is poured over the deity from head to foot. A little of this milk is collected in the brass pot and given back. This blessed milk is drunk and shared by everyone with deep veneration. Now and then the deity is washed with water. People rush to take this water in their cupped hands and drink it. There is great joy on everyone's face. An act of great sacrifice has been consummated and Lord Muruga has blessed everyone.
In the outer yard of the temple temporary marquees have been erected. Vegetarian food is served to everyone, irrespective of creed and community. At about four o'clock, a big ceremony is held to request Lord Muruga to shower His Grace upon one and all, including the other people of the country. After the ceremony, Cavadees are taken home. This time relatives and friends are allowed to carry them. Carriers choose their partners for the Cavadee dance and the Cavadees start weaving and rocking, sinking and rising, bobbing and twirling to the rhythmic beat of the drums in the hot sun. Yes, it is a dance of joy and liberation. By vanquishing their fears and desires the penitents have earned the grace of God. The Cavadee is no longer a yoke, it is a crown.
The next day devotees again gather at the temple to take part in a brief ceremony which ends the very elaborate and austere festival called ThaipoosamCavadee.
Picture Gallery
A Cavadee procession
Laying the offerings in front of the Cavadees
Children participating in the procession
A prayer spot by the river side
Cavadee gathering at the river side
Preparing for the ritual bath in the river
Proceeding with the piercing ceremony
Silver needles in symmetrical archs
The Kummi group
The Kollaatam group
A devotee carrying a Cavadee and pulling a chariot
A penitent wearing nails-studded sandals
A Tamil Kovil (Temple) in Mauritius


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This mod gives you a number of backpacks of various carrying weight that allow you to hold more goods in your personal inventory. It is a life saver, and it's not just some mod that changes a number—it's an actual backpack. With this mod, you can carry up to 90 more pounds of goods! You can really become your own personal caravan with this. The packs themselves are beautifully made as well.
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If you have and old version (0.1b or 0.1c)go to Johnson Nash or Gibson, and save and quit. Then delete the .esp, start the game, and save and quit again. Then load the new .esp, this will prevent a bug in which the carry weight of the old backpack is permanently added to your character.
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