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Colon Health and TCM
I still remember many years ago, the loud "Yuck" from my wife at the time when we were together watching the Chinese movie "Last Emperor."
Merger Creates New Model of Care
Two San Francisco powerhouses of holistic healing, the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) and California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), are merging. Together they are building a visionary approach to applied integral health.
Treat Every Patient as an Athlete
Frontal-plane movement pattern dysfunction can set the stage for musculoskeletal injury. Frontal-plane stabilization is essential during the normal activities of daily living: think single-leg stance and gait cycle.
The Art of Creating a Healing Space
I always advise my graduates to examine their group practice or treatment rooms with fresh eyes after they leave my CE workshops. I tell them, "Ask yourselves - is your space qi filled, welcoming and healing? Or is it cold and clinical?"
The Integrative Medicine Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together
The conversation is changing in the broader healthcare community with patients actually moving the discussion toward more integrative topics. Patients today want to know their options.
Data: The New Frontier in Health Care
Your practice is empowered with the data you need to improve patient health, run a more efficient (read: profitable) practice, get paid in timely fashion and help show the efficacy of chiropractic on the national stage in the midst of sweeping changes in health care!
The Roots of TCM in Depression Treatment
In traditional Chinese medicine, there is historical precedent for the treatment of so-called "Shen" (Heart-Mind) disorder, or disorder/dysregulation of the spirit, which is also considered as distinct but not separate from the cognitive function of the brain.
Technology Meets Practice: Chiropractic Every Day
About a year ago, I had an interesting conversation with a DC who made house calls. When I asked why, she was quick to explain she learns much more about her patients when she sees them at home than she could ever observe in the office.
News in Brief
Support of F4CP Continues With Latest Donations; Walter Reed Honors Dr. William Morgan; Recognizing 40 Years of Public-Health Activism; Allstate Decision Reversed.
Can Acupuncture Treat Knee Pain?
Recently, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that, "neither laser nor needle acupuncture conferred benefit over sham for pain or function" among older chronic knee pain patients.
Medicine as Metaphor
The practice of medicine is both an art and a science. We study and learn the system so that when the time comes to apply it, there is a greater possibility of successfully helping others.
Aetna Updates 97140 Policy
In a development the Association of New Jersey Chiropractors is calling "a resounding victory for chiropractors nationwide," Aetna Insurance Company has updated its national reimbursement policy regarding 97140 (manual therapy), reaching an agreement two years after the association filed a declaratory judgment suit in federal court against the insurer.
The Source-Luo Point Combination, Part 3
Dr. Nguyen Nghi (NVN) was born in Vietnam and is one of the most important scholars, writers, teachers and practitioners of modern time. Many of his theories and applications are the source of modern teachers from Europe and the United States.
Making Public Health a Chiropractic Priority
As highlighted in this edition's News in Brief, Rand Baird, DC, MPH, FICA, FICC, editor and occasional author of our long-running column, "Chiropractic in the American Public Health Association", was recognized by the organization recently for 40 years of membership.
Adding Microneedling to Your Clinic for Results and Profit
Microneedling has taken the beauty world by storm over the last 10 years. Under the names dermaroller, microneedling or skin needling you will see these treatments listed in the services of nearly every fashionable beauty salon and day spa in the country.
A War You Can Help Patients Win
The average American consumes approximately 60 percent of calories from sugar, flour and refined oils. A donut is a good example of a so-called "food" that represents these calorie sources.
ICD-10 Is Not Scary (and Not About Billing)
In my 13 years of consulting with doctors on billing and coding matters, ICD-10 has aroused the biggest combination of misguided fear and ignorance I can remember.
Exploring and Learning from the Gift of Life
I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to teach cadaver dissection classes and workshops with Stephen Cina at the New England School of Acupuncture over the past seven years, first through the Sports Medicine Acupuncture Program and later as a NESA elective course.
Treating LBP in Golfers: Beyond Basic Assessment
The drive to master the most efficient swing demands a tremendous amount from the lower back. Maintaining stability in a flexed posture, supporting torso rotation and repetitively supporting the golf swing all put the lower back in a vulnerable position.
Lower-Extremity Overuse Injuries: Primer on Causes and Corrections
From ankle sprains to stress fractures, shin splints to plantar fasciitis, the research is clear: These common overuse injuries of the lower extremities – among dozens of others – may be related to abnormal foot function in your patients.
Online Marketing Basics: Google Ranking, Part 1
We all know there is so much opportunity with online marketing. And, let's face it, if you don't have a presence online with a website and social media, you are probably not where you want to be.
Melatonin: A Promising Natural Agent in the Prevention of ALS
A number of years ago, experimental studies suggested melatonin could block key steps in the development of Alzheimer's disease, primarily by acting as a brain antioxidant and inhibiting the build-up of beta-amyloid plaque in the brain.
Shellie Enteen has been an aromatherapist for 20 years and teaches nationally approved continuing education courses in aromatherapy for massage through her company, Carolina Continuing Massage Education, and a 150-hour course in Professional Aromatherapy, currently at Greenville Technical College with plans to expand this into tele-seminars and webinars. Shellie is the South Carolina Regional Director and on the Board of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA). She is the author of articles published in trade journals, including The Aromatherapy Journal along with her ongoing Column in Massage Today. Articles include Inside Aromatherapy: How to Recognize and Offer High-Quality Aromatherapy, and Treating Fibromyalgia with Aromatherapy (which can be viewed on the website www.naha.org). Shellie provides monthly essential oil profiles and pure, therapeutic essential oils through her website. She resides in Greer, South Carolina, and can be reached at .


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First, Ghostface and Doom have new joint.
First, Ghostface and Doom have new joint.
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like. Here's why that's disastrous for education—and mental health.
Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in "that violates the law") lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she'd sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. "I'm a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me," the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan's article in this month's issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can't take a joke.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
I traveled to every country on earth. In some cases, the adventure started before I could get there.
Last summer, my Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca landed at Malabo International Airport in Equatorial Guinea, and I completed a 50-year mission: I had officially, and legally, visited every recognized country on earth.
This means 196 countries: the 193 members of the United Nations, plus Taiwan, Vatican City, and Kosovo, which are not members but are, to varying degrees, recognized as independent countries by other international actors.
In five decades of traveling, I've crossed countries by rickshaw, pedicab, bus, car, minivan, and bush taxi; a handful by train (Italy, Switzerland, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Greece); two by riverboat (Gabon and Germany); Norway by coastal steamer; Gambia and the Amazonian parts of Peru and Ecuador by motorized canoe; and half of Burma by motor scooter. I rode completely around Jamaica on a motorcycle and Nauru on a bicycle. I've also crossed three small countries on foot (Vatican City, San Marino, and Liechtenstein), and parts of others by horse, camel, elephant, llama, and donkey. I confess that I have not visited every one of the 7,107 islands in the Philippine archipelago or most of the more than 17,000 islands constituting Indonesia, but I've made my share of risky voyages on the rickety inter-island rustbuckets you read about in the back pages of the Times under headlines like "Ship Sinks in Sulu Sea, 400 Presumed Lost."
Heather Armstrong's Dooce once drew millions of readers. Her blog's semi-retirement speaks to the challenges of earning money as an individual blogger today.
The success story of Dooce.com was once blogger lore, told and re-told in playgroups and Meetups—anywhere hyper-verbal people with Wordpress accounts gathered. "It happened for that Dooce lady," they would say. "It could happen for your blog, too."
Dooce has its origin in the late 1990s, when a young lapsed Mormon named Heather Armstrong taught herself HTML code and moved to Los Angeles. She got a job in web design and began blogging about her life on her personal site, Dooce.com.
The site's name evolved out of her friends' AOL Instant-Messenger slang for dude, or its more incredulous cousin, "doooood!" About a year later, Armstrong was fired for writing about her co-workers on the site—an experience that, for a good portion of the 'aughts, came known as "getting dooced." She eloped with her now ex-husband, Jon, moved to Salt Lake City, and eventually started blogging full time again.
ISIS did not merely blast apart old stones—it attacked the very foundations of pluralistic society.
If the ruined ruins of Palmyra could speak, they would marvel at our shock. After all, they have been sacked before. In their mute and shattered eloquence, they spoke for centuries not only about the cultures that built them but also about the cultures that destroyed them—about the fragility of civilization itself, even when it is incarnated in stone. No designation of sanctity, by God or by UNESCO, suffices to protect the past. The past is helpless. Instead these ruins, all ruins, have had the effect of lifting the past out of history and into time. They carry the spectator away from facts and toward reveries.
In the 18th century, after the publication in London of The Ruins of Palmyra, a pioneering volume of etchings by Robert Wood, who had traveled to the Syrian desert with the rather colorful James Dawkins, a fellow antiquarian and politician, the desolation of Palmyra became a recurring symbol for ephemerality and the vanity of all human endeavors. "It is the natural and common fate of cities," Wood dryly remarked in one of the essays in his book, "to have their memory longer preserved than their ruins." Wood's beautiful and meticulous prints served as inspirations for paintings, and it was in response to one of those paintings that Diderot wrote some famous pages in his great Salons of 1767: "The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures. ... Wherever I cast my glance, the objects surrounding me announce death and compel my resignation to what awaits me. What is my ephemeral existence in comparison with that of a rock being worn down, of a valley being formed, of a forest that's dying, of these deteriorating masses suspended above my head? I see the marble of tombs crumble into powder and I don't want to die!"
Some Republican candidates are promoting a policy change that would hurt workers by disguising it with a pleasant-sounding phrase.
Americans like their Social Security benefits quite a bit: They oppose cuts to them by a margin of two to one. Even Millennials, who won't be seeing benefits anytime soon, feel protective of Social Security, according to a poll from the Pew Research Center.
One way to effectively cut Social Security benefits is to raise the age at which they kick in. And yet, when asked specifically about raising the retirement age, Americans are mixed.
Perhaps confusion arises because "raising the age of retirement" sounds like a nice jobs program for older Americans, or an end to forced retirement. I sympathize with that position: Anyone who wants to retire later and work into old age should have a job. But that's not what raising the retirement age would entail—the fact is, raising the Social Security retirement age represents a reduction in benefits: Because the monthly payments a person receives grow bigger the later in life he or she retires, raising the age cutoff reduces the total amount of money paid out.
In continuing to tinker with the universe she built eight years after it ended, J.K. Rowling might be falling into the same trap as Star Wars's George Lucas.
September 1st, 2015 marked a curious footnote in Harry Potter marginalia: According to the series's elaborate timeline, rarely referenced in the books themselves, it was the day James S. Potter, Harry's eldest son, started school at Hogwarts. It's not an event directly written about in the books, nor one of particular importance, but their creator, J.K. Rowling, dutifully took to Twitter to announce what amounts to footnote details: that James was sorted into House Gryffindor, just like his father, to the disappointment of Teddy Lupin, Harry's godson, apparently a Hufflepuff.
It's not earth-shattering information that Harry's kid would end up in the same house his father was in, and the Harry Potter series's insistence on sorting all of its characters into four broad personality quadrants largely based on their family names has always struggled to stand up to scrutiny. Still, Rowling's tweet prompted much garment-rending among the books' devoted fans. Can a tweet really amount to a piece of canonical information for a book? There isn't much harm in Rowling providing these little embellishments years after her books were published, but even idle tinkering can be a dangerous path to take, with the obvious example being the insistent tweaks wrought by George Lucas on his Star Wars series.
It's not just Trump: With Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina on the rise, Republicans are loving outsiders and shunning politicians.
For the first time in a long time, Donald Trump isn't the most interesting story in the 2016 presidential race. That's partly because his dominance in the Republican polls, while still surprising, is no longer novel and increasingly well explored and explained, but it's also partly because what's going on with the rest of the GOP field is far more interesting.
It's a topsy-turvy world. Take Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina to start. Carson's campaign has been up and down, with occasional turbulence on his staff. But despite foolish reporters writing him off, Carson has been on fire since the first GOP debate on August 6. According to RealClearPolitics' average of national polls, he's now running a solid second, behind Trump. In Iowa, he's tied or just a hair behind the man with the hair. Meanwhile, his fundraising remains strong.
The brash Manhattan billionaire would seem to stand for values they despise—yet conservative Christian voters are flocking to his campaign.
Donald Trump is immodest, arrogant, foul-mouthed, money-obsessed, thrice-married, and until recently, pro-choice. By conventional standards, evangelical Christians should despise him. Yet somehow, the Manhattan billionaire has attracted their support.
According to the most recent polls, Trump is one of the top picks for president among evangelical Christians. One Washington Post poll even had him as the group's favorite by a margin of six points. His first major rally in the Bible-Belt fortress town of Mobile, Alabama, drew an estimated 18,000 attendees. And on September 28, prominent televangelist Paula White will reportedly lead a delegation of evangelical leaders to meet with the mogul in Trump Tower.
Burning Man is underway in the Nevada desert, the migrant crisis grew in both scale and impact, new Star Wars toys went on sale worldwide, China marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Alaska's Mt. McKinley was renamed Denali, and much more.
Burning Man is underway in the Nevada desert, the migrant crisis grew in both scale and impact, new Star Wars toys went on sale worldwide, China marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Alaska's Mt. McKinley was renamed Denali, a Kentucky county clerk was jailed for contempt of court while refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and much more.
An excerpt from a new documentary explores the fraught relationship between Evangelical Christians and sex.
Why aren't more people doing basic skin-cancer screening?
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The making of a Patience Brewster keepsake, from concept to creation
Everything Patience Brewster comes to life through her own original artwork. Her thoughtfully developed process is hands-on from start to finish. From drawings to carved wood models to clay molds, the intricate painting and the appointing of final details results in miniature, lighthearted masterpieces infused with uncommon detail.
Here's a snapshot of the process that brings each Patience Brewster design to life:
- Each design goes through a three-step sketching process: Patience starts with an initial black-and-white rendering, then she translates this drawing into a full-color painting, followed by additional drawings for multiple angles and profiles.
- A talented team of sculptors precisely recreates Patience Brewster's design by transforming each drawing into a three-dimensional woodcarving.
- Meticulous adjustments are made, in consultation with Patience, often requiring either additional carving or the application of clay amendments.
- The approved model is placed in a bed of clay to create a mold, and then removed. Artisans hand paint resin into even the smallest nooks and crannies of the mold to capture every minute detail of the original design, before the rest of the resin is poured in—no machines are involved.
- An extra note of interest: a single mold only lasts for approximately 30 ornaments before details begin to disappear and the mold is discarded.
- After the resin hardens, the figure is removed from the mold, hand-trimmed, hand-sanded, and primed for the decorative painting stage.
- All painting is done by hand, over several hours, using an astonishing number of colors for just one single Patience Brewster design.
- Detailed embellishments, such as sewn fabric accents, stars and glitter, are added.
- Finally, a stamp of authenticity, including the year of creation, is applied.
This fascinating look at the artistic vision of Patience Brewster is proof that when you purchase one of her signature designs from Grandin Road, you're receiving a truly handmade, one-of-a-kind work of art.
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Artists To Watch: Nashville
June 04, 2014 via Pepsi
Artists To Watch: Nashville
There's a reason they call it Music City. Nashville has a long and storied history in popular music. People have devoted entire books to Nashville's music scene. When you consider the city is barely a million strong in metro-area population, it's staggering to consider artists like Kings of Leon, Jack White, The Black Keys, Paramore, and Ben Folds all still call Nashville home. While we've covered artists like these pop titans before, we figured we'd give you a closer look at the Music City music scene, scouring alleyways and creek beds for the hottest artists in Nashville right now. Let's dive in.
The last city you'd expect electro-pop party animals to hail from is Nashville, but Music City's resident bad boys, Cherub, proudly do just that. The duo started garnering solid attention for their Prince-indebted raunchy, sugar high R&B dance-pop in 2013 with their debut record titled MoM & DaD. Last week Cherub delivered their sophomore full-length, Year of The Caprese, on Columbia Records. Pick up a copy on iTunes and stream their single "Lifesaver," above.
JEFF The Brotherhood
Following in the vein of Weezer or fellow Nashvillian Jack White at his heaviest, fraternal duo JEFF The Brotherhood (yes, they're actually brothers) make sludgy, no-fuss slacker rock. Even though these dudes have just begun to reach a larger audience, they've been honing their garage rock sound for a while. They've released five LP's already, and played in the now-defunct band, Be Your Own Pet. This winter, JEFF The Brotherhood began work on a new batch of songs, continuing to carry the legacy of down 'n' dirty guitar, drums, and vocals.
Mikky Ekko
Growing up a traveling preacher's son in the Deep South, Mikky Ekko was immersed in both country and gospel music, eventually settling in Nashville as a producer and songwriter. He quickly realized he preferred performing his own music and stepped into the limelight with his own tunes, which lead Ekko to be featured on Rihanna's track "Stay." The song, written by Ekko, launched his musical career into warp speed. With a killer live show and a solid set of tracks already released, Ekko is an intelligent and refreshing addition to the pop music conversation. Now all we need is an album!
Night Beds
Last year, Night Beds, newcomers to the Nashville scene, garnered plenty of praise for their country-inflected folk-rock. Winston Yelle and his band recorded their debut album in a house once owned by Johnny Cash, and took the tunes on the road opening for bands like Lord Huron and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Their new single aims for the bleachers with anthemic bombast giving fans a lot to expect from Night Beds in 2014.
Wild Cub
Keegan DeWitt fled Brooklyn for Nashville in 2008 in order to pursue music full-time, something he felt was exceedingly difficult to do in NYC. After working on film scores for a number of years, he struck out to form Wild Cub with other music industry professionals he met in Nashville. Their sound combines the exuberant jaunt of Tanlines with the cosmopolitan pop edge of Vampire Weekend.
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell, the former frontman of The Drive-By Truckers never rested on his laurels. As he's settled down both literally and metaphorically, he broke out towards a softer mode of alternative country falling somewhere in between Ryan Adams and Gram Parsons with a healthy dose of the modern country confessional. His most recent album, Southeastern, is a straightforward Americana diary in the keys of G and A minor.
Turbo Fruits
Formed by former guitarist of Be Your Own Pet, Jonas Stein, Turbo Fruits lean heavily towards the no-frills garage rock persuasion. The band's been featured on Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth's Ecstatic Peace! label, as well as ARK recordings, and most recently on Fat Possum. They just finished recording their upcoming album last month, and while details are hazy, the band is sure to be up to the same garage-rock hi-jinks. Check out "Get Up Get On Down (Tonite)" on Soundcloud.
Pujol is the moniker of quirky intellectual lo-fi rocker Daniel Pujol, who churns out garage rock tunes a la Ty Segall or Jay Reatard. Since 2009, he's released music with Jack White's Third Man Records, JEFF The Brotherhood's Infinity Cat Records, and Saddle Creek. Now, his newest LP, Kludge, is out May 20 on Saddle Creek and reinforces his brand of patchwork cassette-friendly rock. Hit his Soundcloud for a free download of "Pitch Black."
Vinyl Thief
This Nashville-born-and-raised quartet grew up playing music together, culminating in the release of their debut LP Rebel Hill in 2012. They followed it up with their recently-released EP Stop Motion. Written and recorded in an old church sanctuary, the EP has a stark vibe that's unexpected and refreshingly welcome coming from the largely-country Nashville scene.
The Features
The Features are a fixture in the Nashville music scene. The band grew up together in rural Tennessee, before playing gigs in Nashville and the nearby college town of Murfreesboro. Since they began cutting their teeth in the Nashville music scene in the mid-90s, this indie pop band was the first to be signed to the Kings of Leon's imprint label, Serpents & Snakes.
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East Tennessee State Indoor Track and Field Competes in SoCon Indoor Championships
Saturday, February 24, 2001
Indoor Track:
The Southern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships concluded this afternoon from Memorial Center with several titles won by ETSU atheletes.
Roseline Addo successfully defended her SoCon title in the 400-meters with a time of 56.92. Fellow Buccaneer Jennifer Howard finished in second. Addo also finished third in the 200 meters.
The ETSU 4x400 team of Howard, Natasha Peyton, Keitha Nelson and Addo won their event and broke a ten year old conference record with their time of 3:49.11.
On the mens side, senior Evan Hawkins won his first SoCon 200-meter title with a time of 21.55. Hawkins also finished second in the 400. Senior Jason Farr won the mens high jump with a mark of 6'09.00.
The ETSU women finished fourth in the meet with 52 points, 78 behind champion Appalachian State. The ETSU men also finished fourth in the championships with 53 points, 93 behind champion VMI.
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Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
Consisting of eight geographical clusters of protected areas within the boundaries of the Three Parallel Rivers National Park, in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan Province, the 1.7 million hectare site features sections of the upper reaches of three of the great rivers of Asia: the Yangtze (Jinsha), Mekong and Salween run roughly parallel, north to south, through steep gorges which, in places, are 3,000 m deep and are bordered by glaciated peaks more than 6,000 m high. The site is an epicentre of Chinese biodiversity. It is also one of the richest temperate regions of the world in terms of biodiversity.
Aires protégées des trois fleuves parallèles au Yunnan
Composé de huit groupes d'aires protégées contenues dans le Parc national des trois fleuves parallèles, dans le nord-ouest montagneux de la province du Yunnan, ce site de 1,7 million d'hectares comprend des secteurs du cours supérieur de trois des grands fleuves d'Asie : le Yangtze, le Mékong et le Salouen. Ces fleuves coulent pratiquement en parallèle, du nord vers le sud, à travers des gorges vertigineuses qui peuvent atteindre 3 000 mètres de profondeur et sont bordés de hauts sommets dont les pics glacés dépassent 6 000 mètres. Cette région tempérée est la plus riche du monde en diversité biologique, et elle est également un épicentre de la biodiversité en Chine.
محميّات الأنهر الثلاثة الموازية ليونان
يتألّف هذا الموقع من ثماني مجموعات من المساحات المحميّة الموجودة في المنتزه الوطني للأنهر الثلاثة المتوازية في شمال غرب مقاطعة يونان الجبليّة، وهو يمتد على مساحة 1.7 مليون هكتار ويضمّ قطاعات من المجرى الأعلى لأنهر ثلاثة كبيرة في آسيا وهي يانزي، ميكونغ، وسالوين. تجري هذه الأنهر بشكل متوازٍ من الشمال نحو الجنوب وتمرّ عبر مضائق سحيقة تبلغ حدَّ 3000 متر من العمق وتحدّها جبال عالية تتخطّى قممها الجليديّة ارتفاع 6000 متر. وهذه المنطقة بمناخها المعتدل هي الأغنى في العالم من ناحية التنوّع البيولوجي وهي كذلك محور التنوّع البيولوجي في الصين.
source: UNESCO/ERI
source: UNESCO/ERI
Национальный парк «Три параллельные реки», провинция Юньнань
Этот исторический парковый ландшафт демонстрирует достижения садово-паркового искусства в период XVIII-XX вв. Здесь содержатся ботанические коллекции (гербарии, живые растения и документы), которые за несколько веков существенно пополнились. Сады, начиная с момента своего создания в 1759 г., внесли огромный вклад в изучение растительного мира.
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Zonas protegidas del Parque de los Tres Ríos Paralelos de Yunnan
Situado en la parte montañosa del noroeste de la provincia de Yunnan, este sitio está compuesto por ocho grupos de zonas protegidas que se hallan dentro del Parque Nacional de los Tres Ríos Paralelos. Tiene una superficie de 1.700.000 hectáreas y abarca tramos del curso superior de tres grandes ríos de Asia: el Yangtsé, el Mekong y el Salwin, que discurren por gargantas de hasta 3.000 metros de profundidad y están flanqueados por picos de más de 6.000 metros de altura, coronados por nieves perpetuas. Además, este sitio constituye un epicentro excepcional de la biodiversidad en China y es una de las regiones templadas del mundo con mayor diversidad biológica.
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Beschermd gebied van de drie parallelle rivieren van Yunnan
Het beschermd gebied van de drie parallelle rivieren van Yunnan ligt in het bergachtige noordwesten van de provincie Yunnan en bestaat uit 15 beschermde gebieden, onderverdeeld in 8 clusters. Het ruim 1,7 miljoen hectare grote gebied omvat de bovenloop van de grote rivieren van Azië: de Yangtze (Jinsha), Mekong en Salween. Ze stromen nagenoeg parallel, van noord tot zuid, door diepe kloven, die plaatselijk wel 3.000 meter diep kunnen zijn en begrensd worden door ijspieken van meer dan 6.000 meter hoogte. Het beschermde gebied is een van de rijkste gematigde streken ter wereld qua biodiversiteit.
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Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
Located in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan Province in China, the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is a natural serial property consisting of 15 protected areas, grouped into eight clusters. The Property contains an outstanding diversity of landscapes, such as deep-incised river gorges, luxuriant forests, towering snow-clad mountains, glaciers, and alpine karst, reddish sandstone landforms (Danxia), lakes and meadows over vast vistas. The 1.7 million hectare site features sections of the upper reaches of three of the great rivers of Asia: the Yangtze (Jinsha), Mekong and Salween which run approximately parallel, north to south, through steep gorges which, in places, are 3,000 m deep and are bordered by glaciated peaks more than 6,000 m high. The property spans a large portion of the Hengduan Mountains, which is the major arc curving into Indochina from the eastern end of the Himalayas. Being located in the convergent regions of the three world's major biogeographic realms, the property is in an epicentre of Chinese biodiversity. It may also harbour the richest biodiversity among the temperate areas of the world.
Criterion (vii): The deep, parallel gorges of the Jinsha, Lancang and Nu Jiang are the outstanding natural feature of the property; while large sections of the three rivers lie just outside the property boundaries, the river gorges are nevertheless the dominant scenic element in the area. High mountains are everywhere, with the glaciated peaks of the Meili, Baima and Haba Snow Mountains providing a spectacular scenic skyline. The Mingyongqia Glacier is a notable natural phenomenon, descending to 2700 m altitude from Mt Kawagebo (6740 m), and is claimed to be the glacier descending to the lowest altitude for such a low latitude (28° N) in the northern hemisphere. Other outstanding scenic landforms are the alpine karst (especially the 'stone moon' in the Moon Mountain Scenic Area above the Nu Jiang Gorge) and the 'tortoise shell' weathering of the alpine Danxia.
Criterion (viii): The property is of outstanding value for displaying the geological history of the last 50 million years associated with the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate, the closure of the ancient Tethys Sea, and the uplifting of the Himalaya Range and the Tibetan Plateau. These were major geological events in the evolution of the land surface of Asia and they are on-going. The diverse rock types within the property record this history and, in addition, the range of karst, granite monolith, and Danxia sandstone landforms in the alpine zone include some of the best of their type in the mountains of the world.
Criterion (ix): The dramatic expression of ecological processes in the Three Parallel Rivers property has resulted from a mix of geological, climatic and topographical effects. First, the location of the area within an active orographic belt has resulted in a wide range of rock substrates from igneous (four types) through to various sedimentary types including limestones, sandstones and conglomerates. An exceptional range of topographical features - from gorges to karst to glaciated peaks -- is associated with the property being at a "collision point" of tectonic plates. Add the fact that the area was a Pleistocene refugium and is located at a biogeographical convergence zone (i.e. with temperate and tropical elements) and the physical foundations for evolution of its high biodiversity are all present. Along with the landscape diversity with a steep gradient of almost 6000m vertical, a monsoon climate affects most of the area and provides another favourable ecological stimulus that has allowed the full range of temperate Palearctic biomes to develop.
Criterion (x): Northwest Yunnan is the area of richest biodiversity in China and may be the most biologically diverse temperate region on earth. The property encompasses most of the natural habitats in the Hengduan Mountains, one of the world's most important remaining areas for the conservation of the earth's biodiversity. The outstanding topographic and climatic diversity of the property, coupled with its location at the juncture of the East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Tibetan Plateau, biogeographical realms and its function as a N-S corridor for the movement of plants and animals (especially during the ice ages), marks it as a truly unique landscape, which still retains a high degree of natural character despite thousands of years of human habitation. As the last remaining stronghold for an extensive suite of rare and endangered plants and animals, the property is of Outstanding Universal Value.
The Three Parallel Rivers Property is composed of 15 different protected areas which have been grouped into eight clusters, each providing a representative sample of the full range of the biological and geological diversity of the Hengduan Mountains. Following boundary modifications accepted in 2010, the core areas cover an area of 960,084 ha, and each cluster is surrounded by a buffer zone covering a further 816,413 ha. The justification for inscribing a series of areas to represent this diversity is due to the fact that the area has been modified by human activities over thousands of years; note that in 2003 some 315,000 people lived inside the property, with 36,500 residing inside the core zone. However, much of the site is still relatively undisturbed and continues to perform its ecosystem functions. This is partially explained by the inaccessibility of the higher slopes and the relatively light impact of the subsistence activities of the resident populations.
The boundary/area ratio for some of the components is extremely high, and connectivity between the component parts is also an issue. Some of the component parts are separated by precipitous river gorges, high mountain glacial divides and/or human settlement. Such a condition will result in a certain biological isolation, and options for linking the units via wildlife corridors would considerably help to enhance the integrity of the overall site.
Protection and management requirements
The main challenges facing the property include tourism development within the property and other human activities in adjacent areas. The principal management requirements are to establish and maintain the management plans for all eight clusters of protected areas and scenic areas; regulate and control human activities in adjacent areas, including hydropower development and mining; assure effective on-site boundary demarcation; and to build management capacity, to protect and conserve the Outstanding Universal Value of the property.
The 15 different protected areas that make up the property all have a range of different legal conservation designations, including national and provincial level nature reserves and national scenic areas, thus are subject to different national and provincial laws and regulations. The coordinating and management body for the Property is the Yunnan Three Parallel Rivers Management Bureau, which has offices in Diqing, Nujiang and Lijiang prefectures, as well as representation in offices and stations in more than 20 counties. This Management Bureau is responsible for the overall revision and improvement to the master plan of the entire property.
.Substantial funding is provided by the central government each year for the day-to-day management of the property, with a large special fund earmarked for formulating the master plans of the site. Central government has also provided special support to the conservation and management facilities for the property. Local government has provided funding for exhibition facilities, eco-environment protection and biodiversity conservation, funding which is growing steadily and proportionately with the overall funding. The government of Yunnan Province will continue to mobilize funding from various sources for environmental protection, environmental management, ecological compensation, use of new energy sources and research specially focusing on strengthening environmental protection, ecological construction and biodiversity conservation in northwest Yunnan. Management of the property will also benefit from provincial funding for biodiversity conservation targeted at capacity building, formulation of management plans, scientific research, demonstrations, publicity and awareness education.
Long Description
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is situated in south-west China. The site consists of 15 protected areas (in eight geographical clusters) in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan Province.
Extending 310 km from north to south and 180 km from east to west, the site encompasses large sections of three of the great rivers of Asia, the Yangtse (Jinsha), Mekong (Lacang) and Salween (Nu Jiang), which run parallel from north to south through the nominated area for over 300 km.
The world heritage area lies over four parallel north-south trending mountain ranges that reach a height in excess of 4,000 m above sea level in altitude. These ranges are part of the Hengduan Mountains located beyond the eastern end of the Himalayas, which have been corrugated and uplifted by the pressures of crustal folding.
The site is dominated by a huge composite orogenic belt that shows the signs of powerful crustal movements in the past. Notably is the compression of the edge of the Eurasian plate by the underlying Indian plate which is being subducted along the line of the Lancang River fault. The resulting squeeze created vast thrust-nappes; violent shearing and uplift into high mountains, through which pre-existing rivers continue to cut, resulting in the extreme vertical relief which characterizes the area. Some of the results are visible in complex patterns of folded rock and unusual mineral formations.
The site is also an excellent representative of alpine landscapes and their evolution. The eastern mountains, plateaus and valleys are covered with meadows, waterfalls and streams and hundreds of small glacial lakes left by glacial erosion processes.
The land area encompassed by Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is one of the world's least-disturbed temperate ecological areas, an epicentre of Chinese endemic species and a natural gene pool of great richness. It supports the richest diversity of higher plants of China, owing to its altitudinal range and its position in a climatic corridor between north and south, it includes the equivalents of seven climatic zones: southern, central and northern subtropical with dry hot valleys, warm, cool and cold temperate, and cold zones. Owing to its function as a refuge during the last Ice Age and its location near the boundaries of three major biogeographic realms, East Asia, South-East Asia and the Tibetan plateau, the park has 22 vegetation subtypes and 6,000 plant species.
The fauna is a complex mosaic of Palaearctic, oriental and local endemic species adapted to almost all the inland climates from southern subtropical to frigid, except for desert, although there are hot dry valleys. The area is believed to support over 25% of the world's animal species, many being relict and endangered. There is a concentration of the country's rare and endangered animals within the nominated area. Being near the boundaries of the East Asian, South-East Asian and Tibetan biogeographic realms, the nominated area also acts as a corridor where several species from each realm meet and reach their limits of distribution. In addition there are numerous primitive animals that are relics of the ecological past, alongside animals that have recently adapted to colder conditions.Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC


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