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[NOTE: Originally posted on Last Free Voice]
As you are hopefully all by now aware, longtime LFV contributor Chris Bennett is seeking the LP's Vice Presidential nomination. While he would have my support simply for being an LFV contributor and a great guy, there is so much more to his candidacy that I have decided to formally endorse his bid for the LP Vice Presidential nomination.
Chris is 35 years old (will be 36 on August 30th) and lives in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated from Heritage High School in Littleton, Colorado. As an interesting aside, Chris was classmates with Matt Stone, co-creator of "South Park".
Chris has been married to Evonne Bennett for eight years, and they have two children, Brandon (age 7) and Charity (age 9). He will graduate in May from the University of Illinois at Springfield, with a degree in Political Studies, and a minor in Economics. As such, there should be no question that he has the education to back up his candidacy, especially when compared with other LP candidates (including many of those seeking the LP's Presidential nomination).
Chris also has the actual experience to back him up. As a libertarian activist for the last 16 years, he has volunteered on four presidential campaigns, three of them Libertarians. He was Scheduling Coordinator for the late Aaron Russo during his 2004 presidential campaign, and was also heavily involved in the Marrou and Badnarik presidential campaigns. He is currently the Legislative Chair for the Libertarian Party of Illinois, where he has fought for better ballot access for third parties in one of the most difficult ballot access states in the country.
Chris announced his candidacy right here on Last Free Voice last year, and his platform is as follows:
I will not make promises I can not keep. I do not have 200,000 dollars in future contributions and I am not endorsed by a famous dead person. However there are some promises I will keep:
I am strongly against the invasion and the "police action" in Iraq and will help push for an anti-war resolution at the Denver Convention.
I am against a fair tax and I will continue to fight to decrease the tax burden for all Americans.
I will continue to fight to restore our civil liberties and constitutional rights and fight to eliminate the Patriot Act, the Real ID Act, the Military Commissions Act and the North American Union.
As an African-American, I will use my candidacy to recruit more minorities and women into the libertarian movement.
As a soon-to-be college graduate, I will continue to convince younger voters and non-voters that the Libertarian Party is the future not the two "boot on your neck" parties and use my candidacy to re-energize libertarian college campus and local organizations across the country.
If I am nominated, I will help/assist state parties on getting our presidential ticket on their respective state ballots.
If I am nominated, I will assist serious Libertarian candidates running for office in all facets of their campaign across the country.
The days of a dormant Libertarian Party VP candidate are over. Our VP candidate should be as active as our Presidential candidate and I will proudly work with whoever you choose as our Presidential candidate in order to spread our message of liberty and freedom to the American people.
Chris has been working hard to spread the word about his candidacy, and in fact he is one of the few Libertarian candidates to get attention from the mainstream press. Even better, he received FRONT PAGE attention in a major newspaper, the Springfield State Journal-Register.
By BERNARD SCHOENBURG
Published Monday, October 15, 2007
At 6-foot-9, Chris Bennett is hard to miss. And his political aspirations match his height.
Bennett, 35, a senior at the University of Illinois at Springfield, is hoping to become the vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party.
"The days of a dormant Libertarian Party VP candidate are over," said Bennett in a news release announcing his quest last week. "Our VP candidate should be as active as our presidential candidate and I will proudly work with whoever you choose as our presidential candidate in order to spread our message of liberty and freedom to the American people."
Bennett was soft-spoken as he explained in an interview how he realized, after working on Bill Clinton's primary campaign in 1992, that he didn't really believe in Clinton's platform.
"I just didn't like how he wanted more government in more stuff," Bennett said. "I didn't like government having more control over the health-care situation, as Hillary tried to do and she's proposing to do now."
So, Bennett said, "I went soul searching."
"The Republicans didn't feel right," he said. "They never really do reach out to minorities or a lot of women. And the Democrats, it just seems like they were taking the black vote for granted. So I decided 'I'm going to search for another party.'"
Bennett had seen a Libertarian Party convention on C-SPAN. The convention included an African-American candidate for the presidential nomination, Richard Boddie.
"He was saying stuff that I really agreed with," said Bennett, who is black.
Bennett now has been a Libertarian activist for more than 15 years, including working as scheduling coordinator during the late Aaron Russo's 2004 attempt to be the Libertarian nominee for president.
"For the longest time, I used to carry a Constitution in my back pocket," Bennett said, "so if anybody wanted to get in a philosophical, constitutional argument, I could whip out my Constitution."
Bennett doesn't think the country's leaders are adhering to the Constitution, including going to war in Iraq without a formal declaration of war. Among his platform planks are "restore our civil liberties and constitutional rights," including elimination of the Patriot Act and a proposed federal "Real ID" identification card. He said both invade people's privacy.
He'd like to see lower taxes, with eventual elimination of the Internal Revenue Service.
Bennett frequently posts on Web sites, including one called
lastfreevoice.com, often in strong language.
"Jesse Jackson has taken up the anti-gun issue only because he failed as a 'civil rights' leader and pushes his new agenda to re-invent himself," Bennett claims in one entry. "Just remember Hitler forced his people to give up their guns and look what happened; millions died in concentration camps. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; I'll defend those values with my gun to protect my right to bear arms."
Bennett said he actually doesn't own a gun, but believes in the right to own one.
He's also taken off on television preachers who get rich through their appeals.
"TV evangelists are the scum of the Christian community," he said, writing about recent allegations of misspending by Richard Roberts, son of Oral Roberts. "Isn't it immoral to steal from your contributors for your own lavish lifestyles …? Who do they think they are — the GOVERNMENT?"
And in an essay chastising Democrats for not doing more to get U.S. troops out of Iraq, he refers to the president as "Fuhrer Bush."
Bennett is pro-life on abortion, which goes against the Libertarian platform. But he thinks other Libertarians may be coming around. He also thinks steps should be taken to legalize drugs.
A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bennett moved to Littleton, Colo., at age 9. He's been married to his wife, Evonne, for 71/2 years, and they have two children. He moved to Springfield in 2005 to attend UIS.
While he said rural or suburban Libertarians might not be keyed into the issue of race relations, those from urban areas are, and he thinks the party is good for African-Americans.
In addition to ending discriminatory drug laws, which he blames for too many blacks being in prison, the Libertarians' anti-tax sentiment would also help, Bennett said.
"If we lower taxes, people would be more able to get the house that they want or be able to contribute to their church or their social organization a little bit more," he said. People could also "save for a rainy day."
"I know a lot of people who would like to start their own IRA account, but they can't because they're taxed so much," Bennett said.
Clearly, Chris interacts well with the media, and is able to get across his point intelligently, but also in a way that the average person can easily understand.
For the above reasons, I endorse Chris Bennett, without reservation, for the Libertarian Party's Vice Presidential candidacy.
This brings me to another point. Chris is in desperate need of donations, to help him get to the Libertarian Party Convention in Denver. As a family man working his way through college, with a wife and two children, he is far from wealthy. Not only will he need the funds for travel and hotel, plus incidentals such as food and beverage, he will also need the funds to print brochures, to hand out to the delegates in order to get the votes he needs.
We all give money to other candidates, whether Ron Paul or Steve Kubby or George Phillies, or someone else. We need to start giving money for Chris's campaign, because unless he can afford to get to Denver, he will be unable to continue his campaign. It would be a travesty if a qualified candidate such as Chris was not seriously considered for the LP's Vice Presidential nomination, solely because he lacks the funds to attend the convention. We can do much better than that, especially with a candidate who has proven his worth. If we all pitch in, we can get Chris to Denver.
You can make donations to Chris's campaign by clicking here, or you can click directly on the "donate" link on his website, which will take you to the same place. You can donate by credit card, debit card, or by setting up other payment arrangements via PayPal.
While I normally would never ask anyone to donate to a specific campaign, I'm making an exception in this case. Chris is "one of us", a valuable and respected member of the blogosphere, a valuable and respected contributor to Last Free Voice, and a valuable and respected member of the libertarian movement, who has given freely not only of his time and expertise on other campaigns, but also has managed to engage in hands-on activism while in college and trying to raise a family.
Chris is not just another libertarian on the internet, waxing philosophical about libertarianism, who suddenly decides he should be nominated to represent the LP in a lofty position; nor is is a Johnny-Come-Lately to the LP who suddenly decided he should be nominated for for the Vice Presidency; he has actually made many years of sacrifices which benefit us all, and he has the experience and education to back up his campaign for the Vice Presidency.
Unlike many candidates, Chris is not looking to raise millions. He has set a goal of $3000 to attend the LP Convention, and since I used to live in Denver, I can assure you that it's a very reasonable goal, especially since it will also cover the costs of his campaign brochures.
I have made a commitment to donate $100 to Chris's campaign, to help him get to Denver. If only 29 more people match that commitment (and I know there are many others who can afford to do so), Chris will have met his goal. However, even if you can only spare $10, or $20, or $50 – or if you can give the legal maximum of $2300 per person, or $4600 per married couple – you can rest easy with that donation, knowing Chris is a tried and proven libertarian, and a candidate who has actually earned that donation through his many years of activism on behalf of libertarians everywhere.
Please, help spread the word. Let's raise the funds necessary to get Chris to Denver!


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Eat more when you're stressed? You're not alone. More than a third of the participants in a national survey conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health said they change their diets during stressful times.
And many of us are quick to turn to either sugary foods or highly refined carbohydrates such as bagels or white pasta when the stress hits.
"There can be a bit of a vicious cycle," says David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics and nutrition at Harvard University and a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital. "When we feel stressed we seek foods that are going to comfort us immediately, but often times those foods lead to surges and crashes in hormones and blood sugar that increase our susceptibility to new stresses."
Now, of course, we can't control lots of the events and circumstances that lead to stress. But, Ludwig says, "our body chemistry can very much affect how that stress gets to us."
He points to a study he and some colleagues published in the journal Pediatrics several years back.
They gave teenage boys different types of breakfast meals. One included protein-rich eggs, while another meal included high-fiber, steel-cut oats. A third meal of instant oatmeal was highest on the glycemic index, a measure of how quickly sugar is absorbed and how soon a food is likely to make you hungry again.
"After the highly refined instant oatmeal, blood sugar soared but then crashed a few hours later," Ludwig says. "And when that happened the [stress] hormone adrenaline, or epinephrine, surged to very high levels."
Ludwig says the links between food and mood are complex. And just as there are individual differences in susceptibility to diseases, there are differences in response to food, too. Not all of us are equally sensitive to foods like instant oatmeal, high on the glycemic index.
Given what we know about how different foods affect the risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes, "why should it be so surprising that the nature of the foods we eat can also affect our emotional and mental well-being?" Ludwig says.
So, if eating lots of refined carbs and sugar may exacerbate our responses to stress, are there other types of food that make us more resilient? Researcher Joe Hibbeln of the National Institutes of Health believes the answer is yes.
"I think there's a very strong connection between what you eat and your mood," Hibbeln says.
He has spent the past two decades investigating links between the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish and emotional health.
"One of the most basic ways that omega-3s help to regulate mood is by quieting down the [body's] response to inflammation," Hibbeln says.
When you get walloped by something, whether it's a virus or an emotional stressor, you want to bounce back as quickly as possible, he notes.
"You can either be good at weathering stress or you can be brittle. And omega-3s make your stress system more flexible," Hibbeln says. He points to studies showing that omega-3s can help protect neurons against the damage that can be done by chronic stress.
He also points to clinical trials that have found that omega-3s may help control depressive symptoms. And a study of schoolchildren in England linked omega-3s to more pro-social behavior.
Hibbeln knows that some people shy away from fish due to the cost, so he points to affordable options such as canned light tuna and sardines, which are good sources of omega-3s. There are also plant-based sources of omega-3s, such as flaxseed and chia seeds.
Now, clearly, omega-3s aren't the only food that's good for our emotional health.
Drew Ramsey, a psychiatrist at Columbia University and author of The Happiness Diet, says a nutrient-rich diet is best for beating stress.
He points to his favorite stress-busting breakfast: scrambled eggs mixed with kale (or other greens) and topped with pumpkin seeds.
With this meal, you're covering all your bases, Ramsey says. The eggs are a good source of B vitamins and protein, which can be more satiating than a carb-based breakfast. The greens are incredibly nutrient-dense, and are a good source of vitamin A, vitamin K and potassium.
And the pumpkin seeds are a good source of magnesium — which is thought to play a role in fending off anxiety — and zinc, which may help boost the immune system.
For dessert, go for dark chocolate, which can have "an acute affect on mood," Ramsey says. He points to a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear thinking among adults who are engaged in intense mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.
In addition, dark chocolate has been shown to improve vascular health by increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation.
The bottom line? The foods we choose can't magic away stress. But Ramsey says he believes "there is a very, very strong connection between food and mood."
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne. Today in Your Health - stress. It's a normal part of life, but how we deal with it can make a big difference to our overall health. In our poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, lots of people told us that when they are stressed, they try to eat healthily - try - but stress tends to tug people in the other direction. As part of our series Stressed Out, NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the role our diets play in either making stress worse or helping us keep it under control.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: At a time when many families lead super busy, overscheduled lives, it's not a surprise that lots of us go, go, go until we just can't.
MELANIE DAWSON: I can recall, absolutely, an instance.
AUBREY: Melanie Dawson is a mom who lives in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
DAWSON: I've had a lot of experience with those stressful days.
AUBREY: Most recently, it was all the end-of-school-year events with concerts, trips, ceremonies, the busyness - the pace of life reach a crescendo.
DAWSON: Trying to fit everything in - trying to make sure everybody is happy.
AUBREY: The juggling act of kids, careers, activities can just wear us down.
DAWSON: And I noticed that when I'm really stressed and overwhelmed, I crave something that's just really sweet and complete sugar.
AUBREY: Lots of us have been there. About a third of the people in our poll told us that their diets change during times of stress. They tend to eat more. And sugars, as well as refined carbohydrates that our bodies turn into sugar quickly, such as crackers, chips, white bread, white pasta are the things we reach for. Melanie's recent stress craving led her to a favorite childhood candy - Smarties.
DAWSON: You know, in the moment, it sure tasted good going down. And then the sugar crash comes, and I feel terrible.
AUBREY: Her mood takes a turn for the worst. Melanie says she's gotten much better at fending off these sugar urges. She's pretty health-conscious and says she knows better. But for many people, it's a trap there not even aware of. Here's physician David Ludwig of Boston Children's Hospital.
DAVID LUDWIG: There can be a bit of a vicious cycle when we feel stressed. We seek foods that are going to comfort us immediately, but often times, those foods are the very ones that lead to surges in crashes and hormones and blood sugar that increase our susceptibility to new stresses.
AUBREY: Ludwig says, of course, it's true that we can't control lots of the events and circumstances that lead to stress in our lives.
LUDWIG: But our body chemistry can very much affect how that stress gets to us.
AUBREY: Now, for those of you who can't imagine how a simple breakfast choice, say a white bagel or even a package of instant oatmeal, could amp up your stress response, well, consider a study that Ludwig and his colleagues published several years back. They gave a group of teenage boys different types of breakfast meals. One included protein-rich eggs, and another included high-fiber steel cut oats, which provide for a slow release of energy. Now, a third meal was a bowl of instant oatmeal, which is digested much more rapidly.
LUDWIG: After the highly refined instant oatmeal, blood sugar surged, but then crashed a few hours later. And when that happened, the hormone, adrenaline or epinephrine, surged to very high levels.
AUBREY: So the teenagers produced high levels of a stress hormone in response to eating the highly refined carbs. Now, the boys in the study were overweight, and Ludwig says, just as there are differences among people in susceptibility to diseases, there are differences in response to foods, too. Not all of us are as sensitive or would have the same response, but he says what's become clear is that what we eat can influence much more than our waistlines.
LUDWIG: There've have been studies for decades showing how different foods can affect our risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but why should it be so surprising that the nature of the foods we eat could also affect our emotional and mental well-being?
AUBREY: So if eating lots of sugar and refined carbs can exacerbate our responses to stress, are there other types of foods that might make us more resilient? Researcher Joe Hibbeln of the National Institutes of Health studies this question.
JOE HIBBELN: I think there's a very strong connection between what you eat and your mood.
AUBREY: I've met up with Hibbeln at a local grocery store where he leads me directly to the fish counter.
HIBBELN: I see big variety of fish. I see salmon and halibut. It's beautiful and fresh, and I'm getting hungry looking at it.
AUBREY: All of these fish, he explains, are chock-full of omega-3 fatty acids. Now, a lot of people know of the omega-3 connection to heart health, but Hibbeln has spent 20 years investigating links with emotional health.
HIBBELN: One of the most basic ways of omega-3's help to regulate mood is quieting down your response to inflammation.
AUBREY: He says when you get walloped by something, whether it's a virus or an emotional stressor, you want to bounce back as quickly as possible.
HIBBELN: You can either be good at weathering a lot of stresses or you can be brittle, and omega-3 fatty acids make your stress system more flexible.
AUBREY: Both by helping cells in the brain communicate better and, he believes, by protecting neurons against the damage that can be done by high levels of stress hormones over a long period of time. And this, he believes, leads to more emotional resiliency.
HIBBELN: When you do look at people who eat more fish, they have less depression. They have less aggression.
AUBREY: Now, not all studies have shown this convincingly, but Hibbeln points to a growing body of evidence. For instance, a study of schoolchildren in England, linking omega-3's to improved behaviors - more pro-social behaviors - and several clinical trials that have found omega-3's may help control depressive symptoms and promote feelings of well-being.
HIBBELN: When I started eating fish more myself - when I really started eating it regularly, it was an aha moment.
AUBREY: He said he started to notice that he was more inclined to stay on an even keel and less likely to buckle to stress.
MONTAGNE: That's Allison Aubrey. And, Allison, you're here with us in the studio to talk more about this connection between food and mood. I was listening to that researcher talk about the salmon and the halibut and I - you know, I'm thinking these are extensive items...
AUBREY: That's right.
MONTAGNE: ...One recent people don't eat more fish is the cost. So what alternatives?
AUBREY: Well, the most affordable options that come to mind would be canned tuna and sardines. These are a fraction of the cost of fresh fish, but still good sources of omega-3's. And there are also plant-based sources of omega-3, such as flaxseed and chia seeds. One of the easiest ways to get flaxseed into your diet would be to buy a bag of milled or ground flaxseed at the store, sprinkle it on yogurt, put it in your cereal, and, similarly with Chia - there are lots of Chia seed powders. So you can add them to shakes and smoothies. So those are some good options.
MONTAGNE: Of course, talking food - it's breakfast time.
AUBREY: That's right.
MONTAGNE: You have brought in a meal yourself. This meal includes eggs. Tell us what you've got.
AUBREY: Yeah, so, you know, we've talked about omega-3's, but there are a host of other foods and nutrients that are thought to play some role in helping to regulate our moods. So what I have here in front of me is a plate of scrambled eggs that I made at home before coming in. It's got greens, and what I'm doing now is I'm sprinkling some pumpkin seeds on top, hear. A professor at Columbia University - a psychiatrist, Drew Ramsey, turned me onto this combination. He calls it his stress-busting breakfast.
MONTAGNE: OK. Tell us a little more specifically, what is there on the plate that might be helpful.
AUBREY: So the eggs are a good source of protein, which, as we've just heard, can be satiating and tend to stave off hunger longer than if we were to just eat, you know, say a bagel. And eggs, along with other protein-rich foods such as beans, meat and some grains, provide many of the essential amino acids that our brains and bodies need to - to function well. Buried under my eggs, here, are these - these greens. I've got Swiss chard - I think Drew prefers Kale - and these are just chock-full of lots of vitamins and nutrients - so everything from vitamin A to vitamin K to potassium - so incredibly nutrient-dense, and that supports good brain function. So I think the bottom line here is that, you know, no food that you're going to eat is going to take away your stress, but if you eat meals like this that are nutrient-dense, have good amounts of protein and healthy fats, this can affect how the stress gets to us.
MONTAGNE: Allison, your eggs are getting cold. Thank you for joining us. NPR's Allison Aubrey covers food and health.
AUBREY: And you're right. These eggs are getting cold.
MONTAGNE: You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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(5) Performance. Swapping from the stock system to the Yoshimura RS-4D yielded an immediate improvement in throttle response everywhere in the curve. Total low-to-mid power was only improved modestly, but it felt big because of the added sensation of the hit. That snappy response made the bike really jump out of turns and rev into the meat of the powerband. The best power improvement came in the upper-mid to top end of the powerband. Right in the sweet spot that most riders get to about 50 feet down a straight, the RS-4D pulled like a team of racehorses. Overrev was a little better than stock, too, but close in performance.
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It's easy to make a slow bike faster, but the 2012 KX250F is not slow. To Yoshimura's credit, the RS-4D made the all-good KX250F powerband even better. The power was good, but power-per-dollar ratio, not so much.


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|Lalo Delgado
Institutional Alternatives
"These palomas like I, belong here in the barrio?"
by Abelardo B. Delgado
I found our city to be lacking in terms of enough alternatives. The same story of long-waited lists was told by two manager of the two high-rise housing units. I was happy to learn that some two such high-rise units are scheduled to be erected in South El Paso, a barrio which is almost 100 percent Chicano.
This barrio is perhaps one of the reasons I didn't find anymore Chicanos in the places I visited. Let me explain.
The barrio is near Juarez, Mexico and is near downtown and for people like our abuelitos who lack transportation the place is ideal. It also has one of the oldest churches, Sagrado Corazon.
Old people congregate themselves in tenement houses where rent is cheap and they can have their plantas and their canarios. In that same barrio there is a "casa de los ancianos" for women. I found there some twenty women, nineteen of them Chicanas and one Anglo.
This place has been highly successful and evolved form a place similar to the tenements (presidios) where there was cooking and washing and eating done in each unit to what no is a well-planned community.
The manager spoke to me at length about each individual, and I could sense a sort of pride and joy in her work. She told me of the problems of handling the money for some whose faculties lack to do it themselves, and of a Senora Luz who used to feed the pigeons and who exclaimed at the first attempt to stop her from doing that – "These palomas like I, belong here in the barrio?" – she continues to pay young kids to feed them, since she cannot do it inside the home now. She pointed to Dona Lola watering two rusty cans with plants and said, – "See those plants...if I were to take them from her not only would the plants die, but so would she."
There are actually two alternatives for the aged Chicano, or otherwise, a nursing home or a housing authority unit. In our city, which I venture to predict is not much different from others, the choices are rather limited.
Cedar Grove Nursing Home, somewhat for from the city on Alameda Avenue, was recently closed down for failure to meet standards. It was run by an Anglo couple who proudly spoke of their dedication to their work but realized economically it was not feasible to upgrade the facility. Four Seasons Nursing Center, R.N. Nursing and Convalescent Home, Sunset Haven, Valley Community Home are in operation as far as a place for the viejitos needing medical attention or to recuperate, but even all of them covered only some one-thousand beds are available.
It is obvious that the necessity for such institutions so overwhelmingly evident will pry the necessary funds loose to build a more adequate series of such nursing homes as well as housing units for those still able to function pretty independently. What worries me is if such institutions in an effort to answer the call efficiently do not lose the human value which needs be instituted in the very blue prints. More so will those differences that I speak about be considered. Take the simple task of having a set of tenederos erected. Tendederos are clotheslines, and most of our viejitas prefer the good El Paso sun to dry their clothes rather than the gas dryer. Because I fear the human and cultural aspect will be omitted, I would like to offer some suggestions based, again, on what I have seen this last month in which I have infiltrated "el mundo de nuestros viejitos."
All staff should hold sensitivity training sessions so that these cultural differences involving particularly Blacks, Chicanos, or Indians can be acknowledged. By now in each community there are enough articulate and knowledgeable members of these communities who could conduct them.
Most of the places I visited were extremely well-cleaned and spotless, ye in all of this spic and span environment, I felt a very dehumanistic and artificial air prevailed.
I could perhaps suggest a big of home grime to be permitted if it means lifting up the spirit of something to get he antiseptic mood out of nursing homes. It was depressing for me to be in some of these places only a couple of hours, how much more so for the "Jefitos" and Abuelitos (parents and grandparents) who stay there two or three years.
One ex-male nurse and now administrator is one of the nursing homes hit real hard on instilling the feeling of usefulness and worth by doing what he claimed he did with el Senor Pablo Garcia. Senor Garcia had come there not able to even brush his own teeth and feed himself. In a month or so he was doing both tasks quite well; he was babied too much by his own family and by the previous home. What appears to be cruelty may very well be the best remedy, as I presume Senor Garcia missed a meal or two before he got the message he could do much on his own.
There's nothing better than involvement, and I believe from what I saw that the old are sheltered from present issues too much. Locally, again, there's a group of oldsters who started a store and can be heard to shout in some meetings, Viejito Power.
I cannot find strong enough language to make the following recommendation and that one is to our Chicano community. We must continue to care for our papas y abuelitos whether it is in our own home or in a nursing home, or wherever, by visiting them and let the "nietos" (grandchildren) be with them. Some of the youngsters today actually fear viejitos because they have not been exposed to them. Do not just dump and forget them as discards. We can very well recycle viejitos into a meaningful and well-earned rest and maximum productivity with merely being concerned with them rather than for them.


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Car Talk Promotes Physical Fitness
From: Ron Speir
Dear Click and Clack,
While countless listeners have learned that you guys know absolutely nothing about cars, very few know the one useful thing about your show: you promote Physical Fitness. While preparing for my first marathon the past few months, I needed something to fill countless hours of pounding the pavement. Since you bill your show as a waste of a perfectly good hour, I figured why not! I downloaded many of your podcasts, set out on a run and repeated this torture every weekend. To my shock and surprise as the weeks went along, I found I was running faster and longer. I attribute this directly to your show and my desire to hurry up and finish the run so that I wouldn't have to listen to you two fools for longer than I had to! Perhaps you can parlay this testimonial into a fitness infomercial.
Seriously, thanks for filling the many lonely hours preparing to achieve my goal, which I did last weekend while listening to you guys.


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- Kookaburras take title thanks to strikes from Jeremy Hayward and Matthew Dawson
- Host nation India stun Netherlands in shoot-out to claim bronze medal
- Australia's Jamie Dwyer named Hero Best Player at the event in Raipur, India
Australia won the men's Hero Hockey World League 2015 champions thanks to 2-1 win against Belgium in the tournament final in Raipur, India. But it was party time for the hosts, India, who clinched Bronze medal by defeating mighty Dutch team in high voltage match in shoot-out after being held for 5-5 draw in regulation time in front full capacity Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Hockey Stadium.
The crowd witnessed Rupinder Pal Singh score twice in the contest but it was the shoot-out heroics of goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh that gave Asian champions India victory in what was one of the games of the tournament and one of most important medal won by the Asian Giants in recent decades.
Australia's Jamie Dwyer was named Hero Best Player of the tournament, while Arthur van Doren of Belgium was given the NMDC Best Junior Player award. Netherlands shot-stopper Jaap Stockmann was named SECL Best Goalkeeper while Gonzalo Peillat of Argentina finished as Hero Top Scorer with eight goals. The NTPC Fans Choice Award went to Indian goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh.
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Characters are delineated through both account and exchange in a work of fiction. They can be level or minor, or round and major, created with more profundity. The persona is uncovered through the character's reactions to struggle, through discourse, and through depictions.
Characters in fiction can have numerous parts and purposes, every one of them managed by the author's expectation and style, cooperating to unpredictably propel the plot.
The Protagonist
The hero is the principle character, the saint or courageous woman of the story. Now and again, the peruser encounters the story through this present character's eyes. In others, the hero may be just a single of a few characters whose viewpoint is depicted.
The hero does not need to be a character with whom the peruser distinguishes. He or she may be a genuine legend yet could likewise be a character the peruser should detest because of a specific character blemish or condition. Think Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair. She shined a different light on the term heartless, however go ahead, 'fess up. Is it true that you weren't pulling for her only a bit?
The Antagonist
In numerous classifications—especially yet not only dreams, spine chillers, spy books, wrongdoing stories, and secrets—the hero is hollowed against a rival. The rival can be a really improper or abhorrent individual, for example, Dr. Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes stories, however he can likewise be a good natured yet oppressive parent or even a blundering moron who inadvertently obstructs the hero.
Most importantly the enemy is inconsistent with the saint or courageous woman in the plot, and at times the story includes very genuine chances including crucial conditions. Shakespeare's Iago in Othello is a decent case, however a hero can likewise be an entire gathering of individuals: the legislature, a clique, or a wrongdoing syndicate.
Utilizing Metaphor
In a few works, characters are made not as completely acknowledged individuals or fantastical creatures but instead as allegories for a specific human quality. Master Voldemort in the Harry Potter books isn't expected to be viewed as a completely imagined individual, but instead as an illustration for the horrendous result that outcomes from hating and restricting the energy of adoration.
Characters As Plot Devices
At times, characters exist to a great extent to move the story along starting with one plot point then onto the next. These characters are just sketchily considered. They're level characters—maybe a couple dimensional. It's not who this person is or how he feels yet what he does that issues.
Journalists ordinarily make characters whose sole object is to persuade the hero to take the activities that drive the story forward. A decent case of this kind of level character is Scar in The Lion King. Contrast him with Simba, a round character. You knew Simba. Scar…maybe not really.
Required Characters
A few stories are worked around a period, a place, or a circumstance that requires certain sorts of characters to be available. These characters won't not be horribly vital to either the plot or the subject, however their nonattendance would in any case be felt.
Envision a story that happens in an inn situation without the incorporation of no less than a couple of individuals from the inn staff. A story that happens on a spaceship set out toward Mars would be deficient without no less than a portray of the ship's skipper, regardless of whether he's not a principle character. Somebody may be shot and murdered amid a bank heist. His character, emotions, contemplations, and profundity aren't essential to the plot, however the way that he was a casualty would be.
Instructions to Create Characters
Be clear as far as you could tell about your character's motivation in your work before you start composing and making a character. Why and how can he move your plot to the end goal? You can start fleshing him out when you've addressed that inquiry, and you'll presumably need to give this piece of the procedure a brief period if he's your hero.
Live with him for a couple of days or even half a month prior to you pen that first sentence. As occasions unfurl in your life, ask yourself what he would do or how he would respond in a similar condition. Become more acquainted with him.
In spite of the fact that it's essential to completely know and comprehend your hero's identity attributes and her inspirations, interests, and gifts, you'll require far less detail for a character who basically fills in as a plot gadget. You don't need to waste your time digging into what makes her tick.
Run With Your Gut
As any individual who has ever composed a fruitful work of fiction will let you know, your gut is a capable apparatus. Also, barely any drafts of fiction are ideal the first run through around. More than likely, you'll dash out a work in progress at that point update it two, perhaps three times.
On the off chance that a character bounces into your pages apparently out of the blue while you're composing that first draft, for what reason not given him a chance to hang out there for some time? Your subliminal may attempt to reveal to you something. He could be vital later, giving a vital plot turn. You can abandon him be and on the off chance that he ends up being unnecessary, give him the hatchet when you're setting up your last draft. You can simply keep in touch with him out later on the off chance that things being what they are he has nothing to offer.
Regardless of how huge or unimportant your character is, make certain the individual is predictable and reasonable inside your story's parameters. Inspirations and activities must cooperate with the goal that the peruser isn't left confounded and baffled.
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Allison Svoboda is a professional artist with over twenty years of industry experience. While she specializes in ink and watercolor on paper, including cut paper, the majority of her current projects have been printed on cut metal. I had the chance to encounter one of her pieces through my position as marketing manager at Cushing Printing.
The graphic was printed on di-bond, an aluminum composite material, and installed on the side of a building. The work combined artistic vision and savvy and I wanted to learn more. Over the phone we discussed the project and Allison was kind enough to let me jot it all down, sharing career tips, insights, and details on how the fine details came together.
What inspired you to make your career in art?
I have always wanted to be an artist but I came to it through the back door of architecture. Working in an architectural firm is grueling, tons of "all-nighters" to finish projects -- just too hectic. I enjoy the ability to set my own schedule and commit fully to being an artist.
How important are relationships and networking for a professional artist?
Essential. I try to go to openings and try to keep involved in Chicago Artist Coalition and Chicago Sculpture International.
How did the gallery project in Michigan come together?
I was invited to a show at the Grand Rapids Public Museum for ArtPrize, the largest art competition in the world ($500,000 in prize money.) Although I've made it to the top 25 several times, I have never won. Fortunately, I do usually sell my work so it's worth entering the competition. For this installation, the piece had to be outside so I made it on metal.
This project went very smoothly. Before this large piece for Grand Rapids, I completed a smaller five-foot diameter piece for a show in Milan that was made from four segments that needed to match up just right. Paul Han, one of the designers at Cushing really understood what I was trying to achieve and did a great job.
How important are vendor relationships in pulling these types of projects together?
They are also essential especially for large-scale public art projects. Since I used to work in architecture, I really enjoy this aspect of the process.
If you were not practicing art as a commercial career, what would you be doing instead?
Maybe a therapist!
What advice do you have for artists seeking to make a career out of their creativity?
Plain old hard work. The business portion of my career takes up a lot of time--I'd say 30 percent of my day if I'm not on a residency. To get your career moving, keep applying to shows and residencies and don't take rejections too seriously.
What's your favorite place to visit and why?
I've spent a lot of time in India. The diaspora of the Indian culture from the Himalayas to the beaches in the south is the most inspiring place for me. I love the colorful textiles, the friendly people, and the food. I'm going to Japan on a fellowship this fall, which should be a contrast. Both countries have interesting textile traditions that are still thriving, which is what really interests me.
Any interesting projects or items on the horizon?
My fellowship from Hemera Foundation, which is supporting me to go to Japan to study traditional ink painting and shibori. Also two weeks in California to study calligraphy with Kazuaki Tanahashi and then to the Vermont Studio Center where Jacob Hishimoto will be the visiting artist. I also have upcoming shows at the Ukrainian Modern Art Museum and Prairie State College.
Find more of Allison's work at http://www.allisonsvoboda.com/
Jon Davis is the marketing manager at Cushing. When not writing guest blogs or updating website content, he loves seeing how fine art makes appearances in large format wall graphics and signage, inside and outdoors.


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