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Treaty Shopping: How Companies Tilt The Legal Playing Field For Investor-State Arbitration
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Alongside globe-spanning treaties like ACTA and TPP, there are more subtle efforts to limit the power of national governments, through the use of free trade agreements (FTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs). There are now so many of these that it's hard to keep up, although the dedicated site bilaterals.org is a great help here. The confusing multiplicity only adds to their attractiveness for those negotiating them behind close doors, keen as they are to avoid transparency as much as possible.
One key issue for both FTAs and BITs concerns investor-state arbitration procedures that allow companies, typically powerful global corporations, to take entire nations to court over actions that allegedly cause the company harm -- for example, by introducing stricter environmental legislation that requires additional expenditure at manufacturing plants. The trailblazer in taking advantage of these provisions is the tobacco giant Phillip Morris. Here's what it did in Uruguay, back in 2010:
The tobacco giant is suing Uruguay, alleging the country is violating Switzerland's trade agreement by requiring that anti-smoking warnings cover 80 percent of cigarette packages. If World Bank arbitrators agree, Uruguay could be forced to pay the company millions of dollars.
But Uruguay -- whose Gross Domestic Product is $44 billion -- refuses to back down from Philip Morris, whose market capitalization equals $108 billion. And now the country is getting backing all across the world in its fight against tobacco.
It's also suing Australia for similar reasons:
On 1 December 2011 the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 received Royal Assent and became law in Australia.
A fascinating article on the infojustice.org site from a few weeks ago explains the strategy of the tobacco giant here:
The Act forms part of a comprehensive Australian Government strategy to reduce the rate of smoking in Australia. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease in Australia.
Philip Morris Asia is challenging the plain packaging legislation under the 1993 Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of Hong Kong for the Promotion and Protection of Investments. On 21 December 2011, the Australian Government provided its response to Philip Morris Asia's Notice of Arbitration.
So why didn't this American company go through the [the main US-Australia FTA]? Because that treaty (1) does not guarantee investor-state dispute, and (2) provides for exemptions to expropriation obligations for limitations on intellectual property rights. Phillip-Morris faced a greater likelihood of failure under the US treaty.
Phillip Morris is engaging in "treaty shopping" -- choosing to invoke those FTAs or BITs that contain terms most favorable to its legal action, whether or not they are the most logical or relevant to the dispute in question. That's possible because of the multiplication of these treaties, often with slightly different wording that allows the tobacco company to cherry-pick in this way. As well as deploying it against Australia, Phillip Morris is using the same approach in its fight against Uruguay by invoking the bilateral investment treaty between that country and Switzerland, not the US.
The Hong Kong BIT is also a particularly good choice for Phillip-Morris because, unlike other treaties, it does not include prohibition on claims brought by investors owned by citizens or entities of countries not party to applicable treaty. For example, the BIT with the Czech Republic states:
Article 2(2): Where a company of a Contracting Party is owned or controlled by a citizen or a company of any third country, the Contracting Parties may decide jointly in consultation not to extend the rights and benefits of this Agreement to such company.
Had the Hong Kong BIT contained this language, Australia could have stopped Phillip Morris International from going through their Asian subsidiary in bringing this claim.
This underlines why it is crucially important for nations to get the wording of investor-state arbitration procedures right when negotiating FTAs, BITs and multilateral treaties like TPP. If they don't, they may well find that global corporations will exploit favorable clauses through the kind of treaty shopping practised by Phillip Morris to put countries at a disadvantage when arguing before international tribunals.
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The exhibition "Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands", on view through September 12, 2010, highlights the wealth of female artistic expression from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These graceful works were largely made during years spent in the cultivation of skills that prepared a young woman to shoulder the many roles required of her in adulthood as a wife and a mother. Others demonstrate that women continued to nourish their creative selves by plying those skills throughout their lives. Most of the artworks were created within the prescribed conventions of female life. Yet these paintings, drawings, samplers, quilts, rugs, and other works were artful from conception to execution, were displayed in parlors and best rooms, and conferred status and taste upon both heads of household: male and female. Selected by senior curator Stacy C. Hollander, Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands includes approximately 60 objects drawn from the museums collection, rich in this area.
Ironically, the exhibition is introduced with the work of a male sculptor, as female sculptors were rare. Samuel A. Robbs imposing "Sultana" of c. 1880 embodies the ideal of female authority and self-possession. By the twentieth century, the discovery of Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses stimulated an interest in folk art by female hands. Grandma Moses set the tone for a nostalgic association of womens art in the public imagination. Her paintings of rural life evoked an earlier time, and her grandmotherly presence had a calming effect during the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. The emergence of Grandma Moses as a popular figure, a folk artist, and also as a woman artist played into the tenets of the Colonial Revival movement and the renewed interest in Americas colonial past. Womens work, especially pieced cotton quilts, seemed to capture the romance of an American heritage and led to the notion of folk art as the home where female creativity dwelled. As the field of folk art began to develop, the female contribution to American folk art became increasingly apparent.
Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, artmaking activities were primarily the province of male artists, and womens work operated almost entirely within a separate circle that was admired and judged by female peers and important figures such as teachers and parents. Needle and thread were the traditional tools used to fulfill womens roles in society: clothing the family, warming and covering the beds, and ornamenting the home. The elegant Hannah Carter Canvaswork, one of the earliest works in the exhibition, is part of a group of related pastoral embroideries worked by young girls from some of the wealthiest colonial families while attending Boston boarding schools.
The same set of skills could be parlayed into major artistic expressions, such as the stunning Crewel Bedcover that relates in material and technique to the schoolgirl needlework. Quilts showcased individual creativity and awareness of current aesthetic trends, and, in some cases, a womans independent thoughts. The unidentified maker of the Cleveland-Hendricks Crazy Quilt used the fashionable format of the Crazy quilt to make her political sentiments known. Incorporating political ribbons and other ephemera, the strutting rooster (an emblem used by the Democratic Party during the 1880s and 1890s) and portraits of Grover Cleveland and his running mate, Thomas A. Hendricks, the graphic, colorful quilt presents a strong statement of Democratic sympathies in a socially sanctioned format.
By the end of the eighteenth/ turn of the nineteenth century, a womans intellectual attainments were directly tied to her ability to raise educated and moral sons, and female literacy reached a new high. Historians now refer to this enlarged role of women as Republican Motherhood. According to Ms. Hollander the decades that followed in the early nineteenth century have been among the least examined in womens studies, with few female public figures or events of notable historical significance. Interestingly, they were years of unprecedented female artistic activity, much of it under the auspices of a talented schoolmistress.
During this period, serious schools, such as the Litchfield Academy in Connecticut, offered ornamental arts including watercolor painting and pictorial needlework, but combined them with rigorous academic studies that ornamented the mind as well, such as Greek, Latin, botany, history, geography, philosophy, and religion. Mourning pieces that combined Christian values and neo-classical motifs were a uniquely female expression for this post-Revolutionary era. Ellen Ogdens poignantly rendered "Ogden Family Mourning Piece", a watercolor and ink on silk, is dated 1813 on the reverse-painted eglomise mat of its original frame. She pictured only herself and her parents, as it commemorates the deaths of her six siblings, one older sister and five younger brothers. An unusual Map of the Animal Kingdom, 1835, illustrates the introduction of geography into the curriculum. Probably based on a print source, the map with its charming depictions of animals native to each locale, is framed with delicate theorem painting of roses with thorny stems.
Portrait painting throughout the nineteenth century was largely produced by male artists. Not only was there a long history of men as portrait painters, it was also not deemed appropriate for a woman to participate in an itinerant lifestyle. One rare exception, represented by a small watercolor of a family group, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Day and Daughter Cornelia, was Deborah Goldsmith, who painted to support herself and her aged parents. When she traveled in western New York State she was usually accompanied by a family member or trusted religious leader. Female artists through the mid-nineteenth century, however, created pastels, miniatures, or watercolors that were meant as tokens of friendship or as gifts for family and friends. Emily Eastman's delicate Woman in Veil, a watercolor c. 1825, was probably inspired by a print source, possibly a fashion plate of the neo-classical period.
Home and church represented the two poles of a womans life. From samplers to sermons, a womans world provided many of the metaphors through which she visually conveyed her spirituality. The concept of Virtue expressed the values a girl should aspire to and that was inculcated into every aspect of female life. The Lucy Low Sampler, stitched in 1776 when she was 12 years old, is composed of alphabets and a religious sentiment at the top, over a pastoral scene with figures and a rose tree flanked by stubby trees at the bottom. As a 69-year-old woman, Maria Cadman Hubbard proudly signed her name and the date of 1848 on the front of her unique Pieties quilt. She combined the pieced-letter device of seven small, stacked blocks, with religious texts, highlighting her role as her family's moral and religious center. In Shaker communities, founded by Mother Ann Lee, several Shaker sisters received messages from deceased Shaker elders during the period known as womans work. These visions were transcribed in intricate works that were gifted to specific Shakers. Six of these rare gift drawings are on view.
Women worked with mediums that were culturally acceptable or innovated with unusual materials, such as tinsel and marbledust, that were outside the high-art canon of easel painting and sculpture. Within these parameters, as in life, lay the freedom for innumerable iterations and personal artistic satisfaction, notes Ms. Hollander.
What did women look like in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Visitors leaving the exhibition will pass a wall of faces of women, painted, of course, by men.
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On Melo's Comments About Being Selfish Because of Linsanity
In this USA Today article, Carmelo Anthony said that he's the selfish player people claim him to be because of "the whole Linsanity thing." He goes on by saying "That's when it started. That's when it started to escalate as far as people saying I was selfish." This I find not to be true on many levels. Prior to Linsanity happening, Melo was being barraged with criticism from really, the lion's share of Knick fans for having a string of bloodcurdling shooting games. What I never understood was the criticism from certain Knick fans saying that he was a ballhog and a piece of shit (there's many more things he was called and they weren't good things). You should of expected what you were gonna get in Melo. I was expecting it to happen because of the following reasons: 1. His hefty usage-rates, 2. Being a purebred shooter (and a high volume scorer), and 3. Making sweet love to the basketball whenever he receives a pass from anyone. Those fans were acting like it was a breaking news story coming from tabloids, TMZ in particular, the headline being "BREAKING: Melo Is A Ballhog Fiend. Knick Fans Are Exasperated" or something like that. They were probably fans that came out of the woodwork for all I know.
Throughout his career, Melo has been a high-usage player. Last season, he was 4th in USG% with 31.8%, only behind LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Kobe Bryant. And in his Denver days, his highest USG% was at least 30% in five (and a half if you want to count his year being traded from Denver to New York) seasons played with the Nuggets. All of that being said, Melo is a usage rate stalwart. He's certainly not in the upper echelon of defenders, averaging a steal to less than a steal per game, and most importantly, to him at least, he's essentially branded as a scorer in isolation situations and in any situation. It's a dead giveaway. Shooters shoot, and…yeah. I don't have to go any further with stats because by looking at Melo's stats, you get an elegantly painted picture of what his career has been like statistically.
When Linsanity detonated the fuse (MSG) back in February, Lin was demonstrating fundamental basketball, Red Holzman-like basketball—-passing to the open man and getting almost the whole team involved in the game, developing a synergy with spot-up shooter extraordinaire, Steve Novak, in particular. Melo was sitting out with a groin injury most of the time Linsanity was occurring. There was skepticism about Melo and Lin co-existing in the midst of Melo's injury because of Melo's isolation-oriented game and Lin's let's-get-the-whole-team-involved game. Melo came back and just couldn't quite tie the knot with Lin, unfortunately. Lin is back with the Rockets after the Knicks decided to not match a remunerative deal a few weeks ago and Mike Woodson's offense is going to be fabricated around isolation (or Iso Joe), Melo's offensive tactic of choice.
Melo, I like you and all, but it's not a revelation at this point that you're a selfish player. It's the way you play the game. You're a shooter that likes to throw up shots and score. Stuff like this has been surfacing for ages now. But blaming Lin? C'mon man. That's a bunch of poppycock. It's a little ridiculous to blame the player who rose from a guy laying down on his brother's couch to global basketball rock star status boosting the Knicks into the playoffs. Let's not go further by saying even worse tomfoolery. You went just a bit too far this time *Bob Uecker voice.
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Samsung this week announced a breakthrough in the evolution of smaller, more efficient DRAM memory. The company has produced its first 20nm, 4Gbit DDR3 DRAM.
As with all semiconductor technology, the smaller the transistors, the more capacity can go into a form factor. The smaller the circuitry, the cheaper it is to manufacture chips with the same or even greater capacity.
The DDR3 is used in desktops, notebooks, ultrabooks and tablets where Samsung said "customers will see a significant power savings," as well as cost savings.
Samsung's new 20nm DRAM. (Photo: Samsung)
"While we cannot speak for [device manufacturers], we believe that customers will benefit from a significantly lower total cost of ownership," a Samsung spokesman said in an email reply to Computerworld.
Samsung is already providing the new DDR3 chips to some manufacturers, and it expects that they will be available in computing devices later this year.
Over the past five years, Samsung has shrunk its DRAM transistors from 50nm (in 2009) to 30nm (in 2010) to 25nm (in 2011) to the 20nm process technology today.
While NAND flash has the lead in the race toward single-digit nanometer processes (it has been at 19nm for some time), DRAM circuitry is decisively more difficult to shrink.
NAND flash dies of different sizes. (Image: Micron)
With DRAM memory, each cell consists of a capacitor (where the electrical charge is held) and a transistor that are linked to one another, whereas with NAND flash memory each cell only has a transistor. So DRAM technology requires both the transistor and capacitor to shrink.
Samsung said it was able to refine its DRAM design and manufacturing technologies and came up with a "modified double patterning and atomic layer deposition."
In micro-circuitry, such as DRAM or NAND flash, dense repeating nanostructures are required. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a technique for depositing those nanostructures using thin films with precise uniformity. Double patterning, simply put, is a method for doubling the number of features.
Samsung's said its modified double patterning technology is a milestone. By enabling 20nm DDR3 production using current photolithography equipment, it has established a new core technology for the next generation of 10nm-class DRAM production.
Samsung also successfully created ultrathin dielectric layers of cell capacitors with an unprecedented uniformity, which has resulted in higher cell performance.
Applying new process innovations, Samsung's new 4Gbit 20nm DDR3 has improved manufacturing productivity by more than 30% over that of the preceding 25 nanometer DDR3, and more than twice that of 30nm-class DDR3, the company said.
"Also our new 20nm 4Gb DDR3-based modules can save up to 25% of the energy consumed by equivalent modules fabricated using the previous 25 nanometer process technology," Samsung said.
This article, Samsung achieves DDR3 size, calls it efficiency breakthrough, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
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MIDDLETON — A 35-year-old homeless man surrendered to police without incident Thursday after allegedly stealing a high-powered assault rifle and taking a woman hostage inside a Middleton home.
Richard Penney emerged voluntarily from the Lake Shore Drive home shortly after 5 p.m., ending a nearly three-hour standoff, and defusing a situation that police say carried the potential for "extreme violence."
During a press conference held in the evening at Middleton Town Hall, State Police Director Colonel Robert Quinn hailed the officers in Middleton for their composure during the episode.
"It was a tremendous effort, and the chief should be proud of his officers and the first responders, and we're just grateful that it ended as peacefully as it did," he said.
Penney is facing charges of felony theft of a firearm, armed robbery and kidnapping, according to Middleton Police Chief Randy Sobel. He is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at 11 a.m. in Rochester Circuit Court.
Middleton Police Sgt. Jason Lamontagne said the incident unfolded after Penney broke into his brother's home and stole numerous weapons. Taken were "multiple" handguns and long guns, Lamontagne said, including a fully automatic AK-47.
After stealing the weapons, Penney allegedly traveled on foot to Lake Shore Drive and entered a home near the intersection with Karen Road.
Police evacuated the neighborhood, and the town hall was opened as a shelter as a standoff ensued. A 22-member state police SWAT team amassed at the scene, carrying three negotiators.
The man involved in the standoff was described in police radio communications as approximately 6 feet, 2 inches tall, and weighing about 220 pounds. He was said to be wearing a black coat and pants.
Radio reports also indicated the man was homeless, and that he was known to sleep in abandoned cars and sheds in town, as well as homeless shelters.
Police initially set up a staging and command center at the Middleton Town Hall, but moved closer to the scene. Police closed down the network of roads in the neighborhood, which straddles the eastern edge of Sunrise Lake.
Joining State Police and authorities from Middleton at the scene were officers from Wolfeboro, Farmington, Milton, Wakefield, Strafford County Sheriff's Department and elsewhere in the area.
Police stopped school buses from entering the area and advised the school to go into a "soft lock-down." A state police helicopter was also visible overhead during portions of the afternoon.
At 4 p.m. Superintendent of Schools Steve Welford said all Middleton students were being kept at the Henry Wilson Memorial School in Farmington until the Middleton scene cleared. Students are typically released from Farmington at 2:30 p.m. and sent home on buses to Middleton.
Welford said parents had been notified through an emergency notification system their children were being held and many parents had already driven to the Farmington middle school to pick up their children. Children were supervised by school personnel, Welford said.
Welford also noted there were two middle school basketball games scheduled so the home team was expected to have a full house.
Penney was then persuaded to exit the home without incident at about 5:07 p.m.
After the crisis ended, Middleton middle school students, who attend school in Farmington, were cleared to leave the school and go home. They had been held at the school as a precaution.
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Page 243 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 135 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it?
Page 128 - ... sewed on by an old woman, its priestess, whose peculiar care it is. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense; they pray to it in time of sickness; it is invoked when a storm is desired to dash some hapless ship upon their coast; and again, the exercise of its power is solicited in calming the angry waves, to admit of fishing or visiting the main land.
Page 189 - A space is left between these where the ' conductor,' should there chance to be one, walks up and down, directing the choruses. But very often there is no leader, and apparently all sing according to their own sweet will. One voice commences: it may be an old native tune, with genuine native words (the meaning of which we had better not inquire), or it may be a Scriptural story versified, and sung to an air originally imported from Europe, but so completely Tahitianised that no mortal could recognise...
Page 103 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
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Page 99 - At morning and afternoon service all the neighbouring villagers assemble, and the intervening and later hours are filled up with Sunday-school for children and Bibleclasses for adults. A simple service, with a good deal of singing, ends the day. The Holy Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of each month. The institution rules are few and simple; but for any infringement of them the penalty is a fine, which goes towards the expense of lights.
Page 189 - Some confine their care to sound a deep booming bass in a .long-continued drone, somewhat suggestive (to my appreciative Highland ear) of our own bagpipes. Here and there high falsetto notes strike in, varied from verse to verse, and then the choruses of La and Ra come bubbling in liquid melody; while the voices of the principal singers now join in unison, now diverge as widely as it is possible for them to do, but all combine to produce the quaintest, most melodious, rippling glee that ever was...
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The 2012 General Election was the first major election in Florida held after the passage of House Bill 1355, a controversial election law that among other things reduced the early voting period in Florida and altered the requirements for casting provisional ballots.
By cutting early voting from 14 to eight days and eliminating early voting on the Sunday before the 2012 election, HB 1355 likely contributed to longer early voting lines at the polls, causing in‐person early voting turnout to drop by more than 225,000 voters compared to 2008.
The reduction in opportunities to vote early under HB 1355 disproportionately affected African American voters, insofar as nearly half of all blacks who voted in 2012 cast in‐person early ballots. Although blacks made up less than 14 percent of the Florida electorate as of November/December 2012, they cast 22 percent of all the early votes in 2012, roughly the same percentage as in 2008.
African Americans and Hispanic voters were more likely than white voters to cast provisional ballots and nearly twice as likely to have their provisional ballots rejected.
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My first talk was at Oceans Palms Elementary. One hundred and sixty kiddos were selected to participate in a health and wellness talk by an "Ironman athlete". The kids were hand selected based on demonstrating two of the schools' pillars: Caring and Trustworthiness.
When I was asked to speak to the school, I hoped for a March opening.....what better than to speak to the kids during National Nutrition Month!
With many of the kids training for their first kids triathlon, I knew they would be excited to see some of my toys, so I couldn't resist bringing in my bike, aero helmet, Ironman medals and sunglasses. I am not a professional athlete but the kids sure did make me feel like one!
I decided to show a Youtube video of the Ironman "You will do this" that always sends chills down my body when I watch it on the 2 nights before an Ironman. The kids likewise thought it was SO COOL.....I could hear them whisper..."Wow, 26.2 miles of running!!" I guess it is kinda crazy if you think about it.
I absolutely love speaking to kids as I feel the message that I send to kids is not far off from how I "counsel" adults. Love your body, fuel your body, have a healthy relationship with food, eat more wholesome food, move your body daily and don't be afraid to try new things.
Sadly, when working with adults, body image is often a priority and unrealistic habits and often the diet and exercise routine is taken to an extreme. For with kids, it's easy to see when a child is "healthy". They sleep better, act better, think better and of course, feel better. For adults, they want to feel better and be more healthy but diet and exercise are only two "controllable" parts of the picture. For many adults are too stressed, overwhelmed and often filled with anxious or obsessive thoughts and many times, health is compromised not at the cost of "not being good" with nutrition and/or exercise but due to daily lifestyle choices. Sure, some are not within your control but others are modifiable..that is, if you are willing to change certain areas of your life.
Kids are amazing. They are open to new things and like to do what their friends are doing. They also think everything is cool and different and despite their words, they really do listen. They are also really good at learning from others by their actions, for often you don't have to say anything but kids can pick up on what you are trying to do or achieve.
To start my talk, I wanted to discuss one of the pillars: Caring.
I asked the kids if they care about their body and I responded by telling them how I care about my body...
1) I care about my body because I do not like getting sick. Therefore, I make sure I get lots of vitamins and minerals from fruits and veggies on a daily basis.
2) As a triathlete, I care about what I put into my body, so I spend 1 hour a day making yummy creations in my kitchen so that I can fuel my body for my workouts.
3) I also care about my body SO much that I want to try to reduce my risk of getting diseases, like cancer, diabetes or have a heart attack. Therefore, I make sure that I am always having fun when I exercise, like running with dog. I also make sure that I get a good sleep most days of the week and always keep a positive attitude.
After picking 10 volunteers to be my tasters, I found it important to talk about good and bad food. Two words that are common in the adult vocabularly.
I asked the kids if there are bad foods in this world. They screamed YES. I asked them what are bad foods? The kids responded...
Ice cream
To the adults reading my blog...sound familiar?
I expected those responses and mindful of eating disorders starting at a young age, as well as relationships and habits with food, I followed up their comments by telling the kids that there are no bad foods. I kept it simple and straightforward "There are lots and lots of foods out there that we should eat every day because we know that they improve our health, make us think better, help us feel more energized, give us stronger muscles and help us from getting sick. It's nice to save those other foods, like desserts, ice cream and sugary cereals for special occasions and to really enjoy them when you eat them."
To all those parents out there, you wouldn't tell your kids they are fat and need to lose weight on a strict diet or give them a list of "off limit" foods that they can never eat because they are bad. So, why do you do it to yourself?
Certainly, many people are dying from weight related problems. Take a minute and look at yourself in the mirror. Is obsessing about losing five pounds really worth it if you are living a healthful lifestyle and feel your life is filled with quality? If you do need to lose weight, will long-term success come from drastic short term actions? Often, diet and exercise are two parts of a big puzzle. Putting all the pieces requires work and time and not just trying to be perfect at two things.
If you were able to manage your weight all your life, have ample energy to partake in daily activities or competitive sports and you felt like other areas in your life were in balance, would you feel the need to have good or bad food, off limit food lists or engage in extreme exercise just to be able to eat whatever you want while trying to maintain a lean physique? Hopefully, you are saying no. For with kids, they are often aware of their body but they also don't truely appreciate how nutrition and exercise impact their overall health..both short and long term. So would extreme dieting or "bad" food lists be practical for a child like it is, in the eyes of many, for adults?
I told the kids that I have five powerful foods that I want them to try. And in order to shape up your plate, it's very important to choose a variety of foods that don't have a long ingredient list. In other words, you want to eat a lot of foods that are grown straight from the ground/earth and they aren't made in a factory.
My five powerful foods are filled with lots of vitamins and minerals like vitamin K, vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium, fiber and protein. These foods are just a few of many foods that will help you remember information, get stronger muscles, have more energy and of course, help improve your health for the rest of your life.
I told the kids that I know that sometimes foods can be kinda "plain" or boring, especially the first time you try them....So, I came up with a FUN way to make these five foods even more powerful by combining them with other foods and calling them my creations.
(Sound familiar??)
Here's my top five POWERFUL foods for the kids to try. I provided some basic info for you to tell your kids (or to inform yourself) as to why they are so powerful in the body.
1) Barley - this is a whole grain, filled with fiber so it is really good for the inside of your body and makes your digestive system very happy. Barley can be eaten any time of the day but it is really good for breakfast with some strawberries and cinnamon.
2)Oranges - How can you not love a food that is filled with natural sugars? They are filled with vitamin C to keep you from getting sick and they are good for your skin, your eyes and your heart. Another food that I like is chocolate but I like dark chocolate because it is a bit more powerful than milk chocolate. Rather than having dessert or candy after dinner, how about having some fruit every time you want something sweet or try a little dark chocolate with an orange for a sweet dessert after dinner.
3) Plain yogurt- Yogurt can be kinda sour when it is plain but I made it extra powerful by adding some granola and banana slices for a nutrient-packed creation. Yogurt is awesome for your bones and your muscles to keep you strong and growing thanks to vitamin D, Calcium and protein.
4) Kale- Kale is from the cabbage family and it is filled with antioxidants, vitamin K and vitamin A and it helps reduce your risk from cancer and other diseases. I came up with a neat creation by cooking the kale in the oven with a little olive oil and sea sat and I made kale chips. This is a yummy way to snack on veggies during the day, especially for an afternoon snack.
5) Avocado- Sometimes people eat it as a dip, like guacamole and other people like to slice it and put it on salads and sandwiches. I made a creation with an avocado by mashing it up so it is a perfect dip to go with whole grain crackers for a side dish for a school lunch. I added a little parmesean cheese for a little extra taste. Avocados kinda look like a pear and they are a fruit (due to the seed inside) but they are a great source of heart healthy fat for the entire body, especially for the heart and the brain.
I asked the kids:
1) Do you think you can eat my favorite top five foods on a daily basis?
2) Are you going to go home and tell your parents you want to grocery shop with them and pick out your favorite foods that are grown from the earth?
3) Are you going to spend more time in the kitchen, making your own yummy creations?
Here's a helpful handout that I gave to the kids..you can find it on my website at
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More than 300 Pench Tiger Reserve (both core and buffer) staff were trained by IFAW-WTI in May-June, 2014. Some of these staff had undergone the training earlier and the course offered a refresher, while others – especially those from buffer areas – were freshly trained.
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Economic Recovery, Hawaiian Style
There was once enough for everyone. That was before Captain Cook "discovered" our Hawaiian islands on his way to find a northwest passage, before the missionaries came to save our heathen ancestors and before the American businessmen called in the U.S. Navy to protect their land investments. For centuries before western contact, the Hawaiian people flourished. There was no disease, no hunger, no homelessness, no economic recession. That was then. Today, we who call Hawai'i home are mostly mainstream Americans, often holding two or more jobs just to survive, and we are dependent on the outside world for virtually everything, even bottled water.
When Captain Cook arrived on our shores in 1778, the population was somewhere between 400,000 and a million. Complex agricultural systems, sophisticated fishing laws and a deep spirituality that was at the heart of government and community life were all evidence of a highly advanced people who had been living throughout the islands for many hundreds of years. Hawaiians knew when to fish and when to plant according to seasons and the phases of the moon; they knew what herbs and prayers to use to cure illnesses and broken bones; they had names for everything. Our ancestors had highly developed arts and leisure time. They spoke in poetry and metaphor and had great oratorical skills. They could trace their genealogies back to a time when gods and humans lived freely among each other.
In the Hawaiians' worldview, everything was connected, including the trees, the stones, the birds, the stars. As humans, their role, or kuleana, was to be the guardians, to maintain the balance and harmony of all things. To help carry out these responsibilities, Hawaiians were born with spiritual powers, or mana. Any abuse or misuse of these powers would result in a loss of one's mana, as in leaders who showed greed or who did not act in the best interests of the people. Mana could also grow in those who demonstrated exceptional skills, whether it was in fishing, healing, canoe making, and so on. Great warriors and leaders were revered as having very powerful mana.
The cultural practices of the people assured that food would always be abundant and that the earth, in its bounty, would provide for everyone. These practices were based on taking only what one needed and only when those things were plentiful. When fishermen had successful catches they fed their families, then the community. They would trade with farmers for taro and other staples. Nothing was wasted.
After over two hundred years of western influence and immigration to our islands, our sovereign government is long gone, mana has no correlation to leadership and the global market now dictates the success of our tourism-based economy. In the mainstream, we are like most other Americans, bombarded by slick ads and peer pressure to buy large screen televisions, bigger cars to protect ourselves from everyone else's big cars, and more food on our plates than we can—or should—eat.
We are encouraged to buy things we can't afford and don't need. Natural resources are being depleted faster than they can be renewed to keep up with this compulsory demand, a trend that is making our land and water toxic and has contributed to our islands' loss of sustainability.
Age-Old Wisdom for the New Economy
Indigenous peoples have learned a few things about making it through hard times. Rebecca Adamson discusses what traditional economies did to foster abundance, sharing, and harmony with Mother Earth.
High fuel costs and the downturn in the national economy have taken an enormous toll on our state. Fewer visitors to our islands have caused businesses to close and new construction to be delayed, which in turn has increased unemployment and is draining the state treasury. Our government leaders' response to this economic crisis has been to raise local taxes, decide which government programs to cut, and whether to furlough or lay off state employees. These quick-fix choices do not present courageous or visionary solutions to this or future recessions, instead they only serve to reinforce how dependent we have become on the outside world for survival and what little control we as individuals have over our own lives.
While analysts predict that recovery is around the corner, they caution that the economy will not likely return to the high growth rates of the past few years, at least not anytime soon. This contention is supported by the ongoing instability of foreign governments, the aging of our own American population, now increasingly concerned about having money for retirement, and in the longer term, the effects of global warming on the environment. Although we are gaining confidence that it is safe to spend again, we would be well served to take the experts' warnings as an opportunity to rethink the economic philosophies that guide our country, our state, and most importantly, our own ways of thinking.
Although much in Hawai'i has changed, the values of our culture have been passed down to us, and by looking both backward and forward, we can forge real solutions that will improve our sustainability now and in the future. Growth in our Western economic system is based on increased consumption. This is a contradiction to the most basic precept that our ancestors passed down to us: take only what you need. If this idea can be at the heart of decisions that leaders, corporate executives and even consumers make, then economic crises will become obsolete.
We do not have to stop consuming or abandon our western lifestyles to achieve sustainability, nor does the gross national product need to grow at high rates every year to maintain a stable economy. If we consume only what we need, even when we are not in a recession, the economy will eventually adjust downwards and stabilize. This would decrease the power of the multinational corporations and the volatility and impact of global economics on our local communities. To think, this could all happen because we stopped buying things we don't need, or at the very least, started buying less of what we don't need!
The Earth and the economy are inextricably tied together. As we deplete our natural resources we can expect that there will be increasingly less of everything in the future unless we think in terms of using less and replenishing what we take. This idea is consistent with the Hawaiian concept of kuleana, that is, taking personal responsibility to be sure that what we take is not more than we need and that we replace or compensate for what we take so as not disturb the balance of all things. We adopted the ways of the colonizers in order to survive. In spite of the decimation of our populations, we are still here, and we still carry the DNA of our ancestors who understood the rhythms of nature and lived in harmony with the earth.
Americans are starting to lose confidence that past solutions to our economic problems will continue to be effective. Our system may eventually collapse if we do not fix what's really wrong. As Native people we are in a position to help shift the paradigm of western economic thinking by leading through example—consuming less and taking only what we need. The more we take responsibility for our own actions and support leaders whose policies are in our best interests, the sooner the changes can start to be made that will assure the survival of our grandchildren, their descendants, and, most importantly, our beloved Earth.
Editor's note: Lurline Wailana McGregor 's essay was one of seven winning entries in Native Insight: Thoughts on Recession, Recovery & Opportunity, an essay contest sponsored by the that asked competitors to offer their perspectives on the current economic and political landscape, as well as thoughts and ideas related to economic renewal.
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Gill's Deli in Rutland, VT, is famous for its sandwiches.
But, you know, they also have a nice little array of home-baked goodies too.
When I went to Gill's as a sandwich ambassador for Serious Eats (my title, not theirs) I was able to scope out the bakery case, too, and pick up some treats.
But the one I want to tell you about is the Oatmeal fudge brownie.
Sort of like a chocolate fudge bar cookie on the base, this baby was studded with a sweet, crunchy oat topping which added a nice, nutty flavor, as well as a satisfying heartiness to the bar. Not a fancy treat by any means, it was a nostalgic, lunchbox style treat that was charming to find among the sandwiches, and worth picking one up if you find yourself in the environs.
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard is expected to launch September 4 its new $2.5 billion credit backing the company's plan to spin itself off from Vivendi and buy back shares, loan investors told Thomson Reuters LPC.
The loan package is expected to include a $2.25 billion term loan B and a $250 million revolving credit facility.
The company has received commitments from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan for the bank financing. Activision also plans to issue $1 billion of secured notes and $1.5 billion of unsecured notes, according to an August 1 SEC filing.
Activision plans to fund the purchase of 429 million of its shares from Vivendi with a combination of $1.2 billion in cash on hand and $4.75 billion in debt financing, according to the filing. The transaction is expected to close by the end of September.
Activision is buying the shares back for $5.83 billion, or $13.60 per share.
Separately, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Co-Chairman Brian Kelly will purchase 172 million shares for $2.34 billion.
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Vanessa Hudgens suffered a severe panic attack while portraying a pregnant teenager in her new film Gimme Shelter.
The 25-year-old actress plays teenage mom-to-be Agnes 'Apple' Bailey, who is forced to live on the streets after running away from her abusive mother.
In the film, Hudgens acted out extreme situations, including eating from a trash can and downing a raw egg, but one violent car-stealing scene sent her over the edge.
Hudgens tells website redeyechicago.com, "The stealing the car was really traumatic for me for some reason because the guy who tells me to get in the car, his name was Jeff, he was kind of my bodyguard, he was looking out for me the whole time.
"And they wanted me to drive the car really close to him and he bangs on it and he yells at me, and it was so much to take all at the same time that I just had a panic attack and I kind of lost it for a second because it was really overwhelming."
She adds, "And then eating out of the garbage was horrible as well because there was a paparazzi there that day so pictures are out of 'Vanessa eating out of the trash,' and I'm like, 'No, it's Apple.'"
Vanessa Hudgens suffered a severe panic attack while portraying a pregnant teenager in her new film Gimme Shelter.


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V99 Mixtape Allister Whitehead can you reupload ..please is dead
ANGEL set worked cheers..
Hi mate, What's going on?? I saw you are pissed off but have no idea what happened?
Shit man, i didn't even see your message last night about leechers (back from holiday, straight onto internet, beer in hand!). I truly feel bad mate, cause in the end i am a leecher myself - i buy vinyl, not mixes. I never have anything to share, and probably never will. But i will always help out with track names wherever i can.
I think a lot more people appreciate what you do. I just wish they would speak up
hello their!!
hello sir !!
Hi Greg, You need to get yourself over on Home Of House buddy. We have absolutely loads of Bangkok mixes for download on there. You started posting a while back, but haven't done since? You need to post 20 post to gain full access to the download forums, and you have already made 15 posts so not many to go. Trust me, it's worth it. I run Home of House so know just how awesome it is.
Cheers, Henry
Drop Dead Gorgeous - Graeme Park - 1995
V99 - Graeme Park & Allistair Whitehead 1999
Live - Jeremy Healy & Allistair Whitehead
I have just bought these 3 they are all double pack tapes from eBay ,what I will be sharing later on in the week looking forward to sharing them, if people want to sell them let them get on with it. It makes me happy sharing my tapes anyhow they should get delivered later on in the week. One other thing I don't see the passwords in your message.
Hi there,
Here are the Seb and Rampling links with their passwords. I've seen that you have been pretty proactive on here sharing sets etc for the last few months, so am happy to pass them on to you You will have noticed that activity and sharing on forums like OSA have died right down which is such a shame. This is due to people coming on here, downloading the mixes and the selling them on ebay or their own Mix Selling sites. Many of us don't agree with this, as for example the majority of mixes that I have shared are ripped by me from the original tapes that I have spend money collecting over the years. The fact that others are profiting from me goodwill drives me mad! I love sharing music with people for them to enjoy, but them making money from it is a no no for me. The other problem is people sharing the links on Facebooks, SoundCloud and MixCloud etc. The sellers scout those places to find new mixes to sell, so again it's not great.


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Latest News
Al Jazeera journalists make first court appearance in Egypt
Three Al Jazeera English journalists charged with running a terrorist cell out of a luxurious Cairo hotel appeared in court for the first time Thursday, offering during two recesses detailed descriptions of their 54 days in jail, saying that they'd been denied outside information and allowed only limited exercise and that the prison system has become a breeding ground for militants.
No details about the case against them were presented in court, and the proceeding was adjourned until March 5. But the three journalists were able to shout their observations on Egypt's opaque prison system to other reporters in the room. Court officials made no effort to block the communications as long as court was not in session.
The journalists, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Australian Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, have been held since Dec. 29, when security forces raided their offices in the Marriott hotel and charged them with putting out false information about Egypt and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, the secretive organization through which ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi rose to power. The group has since been declared a terrorist organization.
The case has raised fears that the military-backed government that replaced Morsi is leading a crackdown on press freedoms, spurring international protests against the Al Jazeera journalists' detention. But many Egyptians welcomed the charges, believing Al Jazeera favored the Brotherhood and that its coverage spurred instability.
The three journalists said they had not been tortured while in prison, but four university students charged with giving them false information who also appeared Thursday said they'd been abused in jail – beaten, given electric shocks and burned with cigarettes. One said he had never met his lawyer.
Khalid Mohammed, 21, one of the students, said he had been blindfolded for three days and that guards had pressed burning cigarettes into his head. He also pointed to his thighs to show where he had been beaten.
"We were hanged, tortured and electrocuted and deprived of food for three days at the State Security office," said another of the students, Shadi Abdel Hamid, 23.
The journalists said that while they had not been physically mistreated, the prison regimen – allowing them just one hour of exercise a day, preventing them often from knowing what time it was and receiving little outside news – had taken a toll.
"Psychologically it is unbearable," said Fahmy, a well known author who's worked previously for CNN and the BBC.
The journalists described a judicial system that is creating militants. In the Scorpion section of Tora prison, a facility reserved for Egypt's worst criminals, prisoners are on a 15-day hunger strike, the journalists said.
Fahmy and Mohammed had been held in Scorpion, where they were deprived a bed and at times food, until earlier this month when they were moved to another part of the prison and now share a cell with Greste. The three said they are held alongside Morsi's prime minister and the former head of Parliament, who were arrested after Morsi's July 3 ouster.
Tora prison once held former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who resigned Feb. 11, 2011, after 18 days of raucous and violent street protests.
The students reported that they are being held in solitary confinement at Tora. In all, 20 people have been charged, some in absentia, in the case, which authorities here refer to as the "Marriott terror cell."
The journalists said they had yet to see the evidence against them. The government has alleged that computer experts found that the journalists were purposely manipulating news videos they had obtained in the course of their reporting.
"I think they are confusing fabricating with editing," Fahmy said.
Earlier this month, the Egyptian television channel Tahrir released a 20-minute video of the journalists' arrest and initial interrogation, which included dramatic music playing over the items found in the hotel, which included computers, cameras and cables. The journalists said they knew of the video's release and called it a violation of their rights.
Word that international protests were held on their behalf buoyed their spirits, the journalists said.
"If there is justice in the Egyptian courts, we will be free soon," Greste said.
The judge, Mohammed Nagy, had little patience for the lawyers, who at times bickered over who was representing whom. And he rejected their appeal for the journalists' release pending a trial. The defendants only spoke to the judge to confirm their lawyers and to deny the charges against them.
There were no translation services for Greste, leaving Fahmy to translate the proceeding. Fahmy's and Mohammed's families were not allowed inside the proceeding, while Greste's brother, Andrew, was admonished for trying to communicate with his brother by holding up a sign.
The difference in how the Australian and Canadian embassies treated the case was evident, as the former escorted the family in while the Canadians left Fahmy's parents and wife outside. Asked for an explanation, a Canadian official told McClatchy, "This is Egypt."
Outside, Mohammed's wife, Jehan Mohammed, waited with her two children, ages 3 and 2, during the two-hour proceeding. Mohammed learned his wife is expecting their third child during her first visit with him, she said.
"I tell the children he is at work so he can buy them new toys," she said. "They are angry. They said they don't want him to go to work anymore."


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About Geeker
I had a suspicion you were a depressive type of person from your previous posts, which is really quite sad for you. Reading this post could indicate that you have a serious problem:
Nothing makes me more depressed than seeing gleeful torrent users thumbing their nose at copyright.
I sincerely hope that you seek help immediately!
Isn't it about time that we all start calling it what it really is... copyrestriction
I agree and take your point, but, they actually didn't accomplish their mission, the site switched to rojadirecta.me
Of course, where he answers We will fight hard to make sure that the internet remains the open forum for everybody, in his language open forum will mean absolutely everything we type, say, watch, listen or look at online will be monitored and logged, whenever and however they feel like it, sans warrant.
Having to endure 18 months of being fobbed off and stone-walled like this is atrocious and totally unacceptable. If they do persevere with legal action, they have to realise that it will be prohibitively expensive, as well as an extremely long haul ...and for what in the end?
I really can't see that the perpetrators will be held accountable or punished in any way for their illegal actions.
Shameful! Grrrr
The case against SurfTheChannel and Anton Vickerman, almost the same in my own case FACT Vs Filesoup, was without doubt a Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice on the part of everyone involved with and leading up to the prosecution.
One thing really sickens me, they have the arrogance of crying conspiracy to defraud at anyone who is stupid enough to listen and believe their manipulated reports and lies!
From my own personal experience of having to fight FACT and the Police through 18 months of hell, there is no doubt in my mind that many aspects of FACT's so-called case, were nothing more than trumped up lies, manipulation as well as the withholding of selected evidence, resulting in a fiasco of a kangaroo trial and a complete miscarriage of justice.
The fact that they can continue to get away with such dirty underhanded tactics, over and over again, progressively getting more devious and underhanded, case after case and without ever being questioned about the legality of their methods and actions, let alone being held accountable for their wrong-doing, is totally unbelievable.
Cases such as these should make everyone ask, just how far up the ladder does this corruption go? Example... I know for sure that the Attorney General was involved in the FACT Vs Filesoup case!.
It would not surprise me one tiny little bit, if everything in your post was in fact completely accurate.
FACT and the Police are still doing the same now as they did in my case. From my own unfortunate and farcical experience with them, I've seen 1st hand their way of manipulating and interpreting everything to suit their nefarious needs, their mishandling of evidence and the dirty underhanded tactics they use to get the results they want.
It truly is despicable that they can continue to violate the rights of others in this way, they appear to believe that they are allowed to get away with this injustice without question or any form of repercussions for wrong-doing, time and time and time again.
I sincerely hope that you have the stamina, the will and the money to continue your fight and that you succeed in exposing them all.
Good luck with your appeal.
*waves hand*
"These are not the IPs you are looking for"...
If he is extradited from the UK (where it's not illegal) to face trumped up charges in the USA (manipulatively illegal, maybe), will the MPAA/RIAA et al; agree to cease & desist their region-locking and geo-tagging of all content worldwide ...Haaa, yeah right, like that's ever going to happen!
I am the owner of filesoup.com and one of the accused who have had to endure this complete and utter fiasco.
From the moment the police threatened to break down my front door, barged into my home and then arrested me 18 months ago, they have continuingly and consistently ignored the procedures set out in PACE, both the police and FACT have harrassed and fobbed me off with excuses or simply ignored every inquiry I've made about this case throughout.
They have not even bothered to investigate my official IPCC complaints about the police actions and inactions and basically just put me through as much crap as they could, it has without question, been totally vexatious to the extreme.
The British "fair" judicial system ...bah!