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This is how I imagine how his informal little dinner chat over the fabulous gourmet meal in Rothchild's Corfu villa went down...
David Geffen: "Ooooh, (crocodile tears) boo-hoo, boo-ooooh Mandy, you've no idea how difficult it is being a multi-billionaire - I mean, I just don't know where my next few million dollars are going to come from any more. Especially not with that evil, evil, evil, internets - did you know people are out there practically STEALING the Almas Caviar out of my mouth? How am I ever going to pay for my breakfast lobster thermidor and oh yes, my artistes their pittance - if those good-for-nothing normal people go around downloading the music for free?"
Mandelson -"ooooh poor, poor Daaaavid, [oh, you're so scrummy you multi-billionaire gay you] (pass the white truffles please) - that's absolutely heart breaking. I'll tell you what - when I get home I'll make sure our lot take the internet piracy thing a lot more seriously. Like, oh, I don't know - let's say, no more internet for those file sharers and massive fines and long prison sentences for all who transgress - will that do you?"
David Griffin: "Well -it's a start... but if you could at some point in the future start fining the people who don't buy music from my record label - that would be good too. Oh, look the desert course has arrived - will you take your rent boys here or would you like to retire to your room?"
"Oooh rent boys - my favourite - hope they'll be gentle on my prostrate though..."
There now follows some free advice for the music entertainment industry on how to combat pirates...
1. Simply Totally ditch CD releases (and even iTunes) - go back to vinyl only releases.
[Well let's face it - it all started going wrong for the music industry when they practically forced every one to go over to CDs. Yes, at the time it was a boom time for the industry as most people ended up replacing their vinyl record collections with CDs... but that boom time is long over. Unfortunately - all that extra income got the industry thinking this was going to be the normal state of affairs from then on... Well, this was back when there weren't any such thing as CD-burners on computers. Let along computer games and mobile phones and internet access for people to spend their disposal income on. Then later there came those pesky MPG files and those damn iPods... and well, it was all downhill from then on.
Yet the industry is still frozen at that very point back in the Eighties and totally unable to comprehend what has happened in the rest the world since then - all they know is they still want to be making those huge amounts of money... except they have been repeatedly and so absurdly lazy-ass about facing up to how they could now be earning money from music in the internet age...
So bearing that in mind - they really should give up on the modern age - it's apparent they don't understand it, can't deal with it - and are unlikely to ever catch up now and should go BACK to what they know best - vinyl records - which are that little bit harder to digitize - hell, especially since hardly anyone has record players any more... and when the technology market starts churning out hundreds of those record players that hook up to computers and turn everything you can play on them into sound files... well, then the music industry can go back to producing rolls for player pianos.
If I didn't dislike Mandelson enough...
mumbled Groc on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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August 3, 2012 (Washington, DC) - In a press conference today Dumbarton's Beer announces the relocation of its international and intergalactic headquarters from the capital of the free world, Washington, DC to the capital of winter, Buffalo, NY.
The move to upstate New York will allow Dumbarton's Beer to recognize enhanced craft beer social media economies of scale, create greater efficiency within the company's various output channels, and reduce our carbon footprint. The relocation will increase the population of western New York by at least four. While specific data is not available this increase could lead to the creation of thousands of jobs and a Super Bowl victory for the Buffalo Bills.
The President and Chief Beer Drinker for Dumbarton's Beer said "we are excited for the opportunity presented in upstate New York and we very much look forward to imbibing in the various upstate craft beers. Dumbarton's Beer is very proud of the growing craft beer segment in Washington, DC. With a little luck, Dumbarton's Beer can do for Buffalo area beer what it did for Washington, DC brewers - which amounts to little more than drinking as much of their beer as possible." He specifically mentioned Franklin's (Hyattsville), Chocolate City, and DC Brau; and went on to thank area Petworth pubs including DC Reynolds and Looking Glass Lounge.
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Germany Opposes Any G-20 Fiscal Stimulus; Focuses on ReformBy
Schauble's stance sets up potential for conflict at G-20
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Germany's finance minister opposed any fiscal stimulus plan from the Group of 20, whose top economic officials gather Friday, and instead sought to focus on structural reforms to strengthen national growth rates.
Wolfgang Schaeuble, speaking hours before meeting with his counterparts from the G-20 developed and emerging markets, also said that the space for monetary policy has been exhausted. He warned that using debt to fund growth just leads to "zombifying" economies.
"Talking about further stimulus just distracts from the real tasks at hand," Schaeuble said at a conference in Shanghai. German policy makers "do not agree on a G-20 fiscal stimulus package, as some argue in case outlook risks materialize."
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The German finance minister said that the slide in oil prices has already offered a "huge" stimulus for demand. He also said that expansive fiscal policies could lay the groundwork for a future crisis.
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Good Morning!!!!
Wow the weeks are flying by! Hope all is going well. Today Speedy's Friends bring you another challenge, this time Joanne G. has ask us to do some paper piecing on our card or project.Now I love to cut out stamped images so this was easy for me.
Now in my sample here I stamped the image twice and the colored one and on the other one colored just the butterfly and cut around his wings and added some glue to just one side of each side so his wings would flare out a bit. Unfortunately the photo didn't show that very well.
The stamp set used is the newly released set from MFP " Nature's Postage". The DP is Basic Grey and CS is MFP. The image was colored with copic's.
Hope you can join us and Remember, for every 50 entries we get there is a winner of a stamp set from MFP!! If you use MFP stamps, you are entered twice and you can enter more than once.
Hope you have a nice week end and thanks for stopping by.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Speedy's Friends Challenge #33
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- Becky said...
The weeks and months are jetting by. Before we know it, it will be spring again. :).. This is gorgeous Geri, gorgeous coloring.
- December 10, 2010 at 10:09 PM
- Harriet Skelly said...
Geri this is beautiful - I love your coloring of the image!!
- December 10, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- Selma said...
What a lovely card Geri. That is a beautiful image and your coloring really brings it to life.
- December 11, 2010 at 5:03 AM
- Vicki Dutcher said...
Aww my friend - such GORGEOUS coloring!! Beautiful card!
- December 11, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- Joanne Travis said...
Gorgeous!! It looks just like the poppies that grow here in our yard.
- December 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Joanne (jojot) said...
beautifully done..love the diagonal
- December 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Virgo5 said...
Wow, this is coloured beautifully!
- December 12, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- Our Little Inspirations said...
SO very pretty! Love that butterfly and gorgeous poppy! Awesome coloring! Congrats on your win from GinaK too - what a great label for your yummy jar of caramel sauce!
- December 15, 2010 at 1:31 AM
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Choice in Birth
In speaking with many people lately, sitting in prayer and Gods word I find myself asking a few questions about birth in our society. "Why do we doubt our body's abilities? Why do we stop trusting God's design and allow someone other than God to have control?". God designed our bodies to work perfectly, not only in birth, but in all ways. Even if you don't believe in God you have to admit that science has proven that our bodies innately know how to give birth.
I truly believe many woman in our society today have given their births away. We have simply just given control to someone else. For several decades now our doctors have been given clearance to attend our births and administer what drugs they feel are best. But best for whom? Time after time each different drug has been proven to disrupt and alter deliveries in ways no one would want if they were given a choice. I remember the story of Jesus birth pretty well, and I don't remember it saying anything about pitocin, epidurals, cervical checks, monitoring, ultrasounds, vacuums, forceps or any other augmentation of labor you can think of. She simply went into labor, sat on that sweet donkey as long as she had to, when it was time she sat herself down on some hay and had baby Jesus. God, Mary and baby did all the work together. I'm sure Joseph was of great comfort but even he didn't "do" any work.
If you look back a little before Jesus' birth you'll find some reading about Elizabeth's baby and John the Baptist's birth. From this I realize Mary saw live births probably her whole life, they were a natural everyday occurrence in her world. Birth is an everyday occurrence here today where we live but most times there is nothing natural about it. I have had the great privileged of being present at several births and they have all gone very differently. Some where natural like the ones Mary experienced and others shared one common thread, Lack of choice.
Ladies we have a choice in our births. You can choose to trust in a doctors opinion fully or you can educate yourself in all things birth and question his/her opinion when you feel you need to. Most people reading this know I've had two home births. Please know I am not suggesting every person have a home birth. I'm simply saying we as women need to take back what is rightfully ours. I am no feminist, but I do believe this has been stolen from us and we desperately need to take charge of our bodies and have a choice in what happens to it and our babies during this beautiful process.
Many of you I know are saying "I choose everything with my birth, it was just as it was supposed to be." You will forgive me if I explain further for a minute to help you understand what I mean.
Picture this very common scenario:
You realize you are in labor, contractions are 4-5 minutes apart and they have a gradual increase and decline. You notice them getting a little stronger as your walking more and more to hurry up and get baby out, I mean your 10 months pregnant, technically, and you are ready to meet this baby! (1) You call the doctor, wait for a call back and they say come in and let us monitor and check you out to see where you are. You're so excited your hubby is scrambling to get things together as you breath through contractions and call everyone you know to let them know you are on your way to the hospital. (2) You get there, get checked in and (3) they hook you up to a monitor right away so they can see your contractions intensity and frequency. (4) They check your cervix and tell you that you are 4 cm and 50% effaced and then (5) suggest you get potocin to"really get things going". You are all too happy about this idea because you want to meet your sweet baby. You get all settled in your room and get hooked up to more stuff, (6) handed a cup of ice chips and (7) they ask where your pain level is and ask when you would like your epidural. You tell them your OK but you'd like to wait a little you want to (8) start walking to get the baby here faster. They leave the room and your pitocin kicks in. Contractions go from early labor contractions to transition contractions! After getting through a few contractions the nurse comes back in and asks you if you want that (9) epidural now? You easily say "Oh yes". Even if you thought a natural birth is what you would try it's not worth (10) hours of this pain. They get you hooked up to an epidural and the contractions slow down. So (11) they turn up the pitocin drip and give you a little (12) sedative so you sleep some. The nurses and/or doctors (13) continue to check you even wake you to be checked only to realize you are progressing at a slower pace than they'd like to see. (14) So they break your water. Labor then speeds back up a little only to slow down slightly again. (15) You slowly but surely reach 10 cm and start to roll yourself into a ball and push this baby down. (16)Get a few hours into it exhausted and start to spike a fever. Not only have you spiked a fever with broken waters, (17) but the baby seems to be stuck. Several hours of pushing in the same position because they will not allow you to move has jammed the baby in your misaligned pelvis. They tell you a c-section is (18) your best choice. Giving you reasons like; your fever is a danger to the baby, that the baby seems to be to big for your frame and you are progressing too slowly. (19) You get a c-section. (20) An hour or two later you finally get to see your baby who has a hard time latching to nurse. Not that you are extremely interested yourself. You are realizing how extremely tired you are and decide it would be best for you and baby to (21) try again in a few hours, after some sleep. They take the baby to the nursery where he or she gets it's first bottle, (22) fed by nurses who are trying to help you rest. (23) You go home and (24) spend the next several weeks trying to recovery from major surgery. All while trying to adjust to being a new mom.
This is only one scenario that happens day after day in our society of 35% c-section rate. Yep, our country has a 35% c-section rate. One of the local hospitals here has a 99% epidural rate! That number floored me when I found out. To further traumatize you, Our local large hospital is staffed with many many nurses who on average see only one natural birth in a 10 year career. ONE, WOW! I'm feel confident in saying God did not envision this for us. It makes me sad that we as woman today just don't know what we can do. In not knowing what we are capable of we lose such an amazing opportunity to experience a miracle.
Looking back at the scenario above there are numbers throughout the story. Below is a breakdown of how this woman had a choice.
(1) Don't call the doctor, they will typically only tell you to come in.
(2) Staying at home and laboring as much as possible is the best plan for a successful natural delivery. A doctor is not needed to be present during labor. There is NO need to monitor you in anyway. Your baby and your body know what they are doing better than any nurse or doctor. It's important we trust this process. Knowing that God developed it that should be easy.
(3) Once you do get to the hospital you have to know where to pick your battles. This should be one, monitoring, it should be intermittent. Having yourself hooked up to a monitor enables you from moving. You will want to be able to move freely, for a successful birth. A monitor will keep your focus in the wrong place counting contractions and timing. This is not productive. You want to be as relaxed as possible. I don't know one clock watcher that can relax.
(4) Do NOT let them give you a cervical exam. The dilation of the cervix doesn't really tell you anything. Every labor will progress differently so knowing this number only does one of two things; Gives your false hope, False in that you have NO idea how fast your labor will or will not go. Or two, it will frustrate you because you may not be as dilated as you had hoped. Which means nothing, again, because every labor progresses differently. You should be focused on breathing and relaxing not a number that has no bearing on your birth.
(5) Pitocin; Oh, where to start? Basically pitocin is a way to augment your labor. ANY labor augmentation will interfere with Gods natural design so you really should seriously weigh those consequences before deciding if it is the best choice for you. There are some serious side effects that you should know about when dealing with this this drug. One that you would notice right away is that your contractions will go up in intensity to transition labor contractions and stay there. God designed your contractions to happen the way they happen for a reason. Transition contractions are more intense and would be very difficult for a person to handle for too long. Also, this is not the flow a birth should have. Again I will say, contractions happen in the flow they do for a reason. It is designed perfectly to encourage baby out the way your perfect body needs it to. Each stage has in purpose and the contractions play a big role in each stage.
(6) Hydration; A woman not only needs hydration during labor but she needs fuel. You are running a marathon you can't do it without food. To deny a woman food is crazy and unfounded. Even the anesthesiologist will tell you an empty stomach is more dangerous or equally as dangerous if you aspirate. Stay home, labor peacefully and eat as you want to. Lots of protein, light salt and carbs for energy.
(7) Epidurals; The last thing any woman needs to think about is her "pain level" during labor. You have a choice to not be asked. In hospitals they will ask. If you make the choice to stay home and labor you will not be asked this question. Having a strong birth partner with you, for when you do go to the hospital, can help to help fend off the constant inquiries about your discomfort levels. A doula is a great option here.
(8) Walking; You are on the right track. You need to be able to move freely as your labor moves. An epidural will interfere with this. Keeping all your limbs free of cables. You have a choice here. They may not love what your choice but they can NOT make you have an IV nor do you need one. Just drink water.
(9) Oh where to start with the Epidural? Really just google "side effects of an epidural" and you will be amazed! Educate yourself before choosing to have one of these augmentations of labor. It's not just pain relief, as they would lead you to believe. Too many unfortunate ladies have found this out the hard way.
(10) The pitocin the doctor choose for her to have earlier has made her contractions as severe as they can be so, yes hours of pain would be tough. Good news ladies, real natural labor isn't that painful. Augmented labor IS that painful. Labor with constant interruption from people who don't believe you can birth a baby naturally or that you can do it without all the medical assist is painful. FEAR equals PAIN. Who can focus in an atmosphere like that? I know I sure couldn't. I felt so judged with every person who entered that door. Like I was on display, a watched pot that they were waiting to see explode. So, they could rush in a save the day! Real natural labor is only really uncomfortable at the very end and that typically only lasts a few hours at the very most, realistically more like 30 - 45 minutes. Labor is actually very peaceful and pleasant when a woman is left to relax and do as she is comfortable doing. It isn't until the end things are uncomfortable.
(11) I have already stated how pitocin has side effects you need to research. Well, more pitocin only increases these risks. One in particular that I happen to have personal experience with is uterine exhaustion and uterine atony. After hours of increased levels of pitocin by health care professionals that had my best interest at heart (sarcasm) my uterus after birth simply gave up and wouldn't shrink so I hemorrhaged. Badly enough that I needed a blood transfusion that I denied. Thanks to God I did survive this experience and thanks to God I was later educated on my choices.
(12) Normally they will not even tell you they have given you this sedative. It will be administered with your epidural. You need to take charge of your birth, know the side effects of all the sedatives that could possibly be used . They don't only effect you but your baby too. They will frequently effect your nursing after delivery also. Delaying nursing and possibly stopping it all together.
(13) Again ladies cervical checks are NOT medically necessary. There is NO need for them.
(14) Your water is not meant to be broken manually. It will break when it is time and there is no harm in waiting. There is, however, harm in breaking it early. Once it is broken in the hospital setting, you will get time stamped. If your body doesn't expel a baby in that time frame you will end in a c-section. The main reason given for this practice is to speed up labor. Ladies, your labor goes at the rate it goes for a reason, there is no need to rush it. If you are progressing slower than a doctor would like, leave and labor else where. Go back to the hospital when you are closer to transition. If your labor stalls there is probably a really good reason for that and you should trust your body enough to let it stay stalled until it is ready to return to active labor.
(15) Pushing, aw the most feared part of labor. And yet if you allow you body to do so it will push the baby out its self! Yes your uterus can and will push a baby out on it's own. Most first time moms will need to push in some way. However most woman will feel the urge to push no matter which baby it is. And should if they feel the need to. Here is where a trained birth partner (midwife) is so helpful. They can help to lead you in pushing. Laying on your back and pushing can last for hours, because that is not a great position for getting a baby to come down. You need to be able to move around to get into favorable positions to allow the baby to descend in a way that is natural to your body shape and baby's position. Here is another reason to skip the epidural.
(16) Fever; An epidural will often cause you to spike a low grade fever and after your water has been broken. This is considered dangerous to the baby and medical professionals haven deemed a c-section the way to help this scenario. Completely unnecessary and avoidable. Don't get the epidural and don't let them put in internal monitoring. Problem solved.
(17) Like I said before, if you can't move around because you are being stricken to your bed baby can and will often times get stuck. You need the freedom of movement. One other thing that I highly recommend while preparing yourself to deliver baby is to consider corrective chiropractic care, for you and the baby when it arrives. It is a wonderful preventative tool for this scenario of baby getting stuck because of misaligned hips and spin. It will also keep you healthier and feeling wonderful during your pregnancy. And as for baby it will help them get the best start to life after birth, keeping them out of the doctors office as much as possible. This applies for all members of the family.
(18) Your best choice is what you decide it is. Educate yourself on your options so that you and your partner can make these decisions on your own.
(19) In no way am I saying a c-section will never happen and should never happen. They are true blessing from God in those true emergency situations. They are WAY over used in this country. If you have allowed birth to happen naturally and things don't go right, don't blame yourself. Feel confident in knowing you did all you could. It's when we don't educate ourselves that we can fall prey to blaming ourselves postpartum. I have seen these situations effect woman well into their children's college years.
(20) Often times breast feeding issues are a side effect of a c-section. Lack of bonding can cause the baby to have a hard time nursing. Several hormones are released after birth that help the baby nurse and the mother to produce milk and c-sections can inhibit this process.
Breast IS best! Really it is!
(22) After the birth can and should be a wonderfully joyous bonding time for mother, father and baby. This sweet child has spent 9 -10 months inside you it needs you. It is comforted by your smell, your sound, simply put you! While sleeping or awake your baby needs you. It should stay with you getting skin to skin contact until you leave the hospital. There are studies that show the great bond between mother and child and how in-tune they are. So in-tune that the mother will wake right before baby does or the baby will wake because the mother has a bad dream. It's a beautiful thing God has created in this bond.
(23) If you end up with a c-section you will spend several days in the hospital. On the flip side, after a natural birth, there is no reason you shouldn't walk out of that place within a few hours. You will recover best at home in a place you are most comfortable. This again is a Choice.
(24) When delivering a baby vaginally you will find the recovery time is very quick as opposed to a c-section where you are out of commission for weeks. People take for granted that it is a major surgery. Like all major surgeries should only be done in extreme emergency and with great caution. The American Association of Gynocology (AAGL) has stated that Vaginal Delivery is safer than a cesarean (obviously). And that vaginal delivery after cesarean (V-Bac) is safer than a return cesarean. This was a statement just recently released and LONG time coming. For years they have stated over and over again how dangerous a V-BAC is. When in actuality the drugs they gave to augment a V-Bac labor is what was dangerous and caused ruptures. If you check out their web page it is almost 100% about surgery. Now I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want a surgery focused professional attending my birth, have you seen Gray's Anatomy?
Hopefully I have helped you to see how I feel we have lost Choice in Our births. Now, do I feel this is our fault? Absolutely not. How can we be expected to do something so monumental that is completely foreign? If all you know about birth is what is plastered across the TV how could you have a good view of it? I know I wouldn't and didn't. The key here is to educate yourself and be open to learn new things. Things you may never have expected to be truths simply are.
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Guido Gutierrez Ruiz
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view.
This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.
The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being.
To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge.
With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
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He was a skinny little weak-looking guy, with wrists about as big as pencils. Finally, what he did, instead of taking back what he said, he jumped out the window. I was in the shower and all, and even I could hear him land outside. But I just thought something fell out the window, a radio or a desk or something, not a boy or anything. Then I heard everybody running through the corridor and down the stairs, so I put on my bathrobe and I ran downstairs too, and there was old James Castle laying right on the stone steps and all. He was dead, and his teeth, and blood, were all over the place, and nobody would even go near him. He had on this turtleneck sweater I'd lent him. All they did with the guys that were in the room with him was expel them. They didn't even go to jail.
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Smart Energy Solutions—New Zealand's favourite home energy company, with over 250 employees and having insulated over 40,000 kiwi homes since forming in 2009.
Re-design the Smart Energy Solutions home page and create templates as needed for throughout the site. As part of this, refine the user experience, creating new wireframes, design concepts and final page design with strong emphasis on lead generation.
Use localization and customise the user experience with relevant, region specific content—generated dynamically based on geographic location.
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This is not about Pat in Kenya, but what is happening back in America while I am here. I do miss the 40+ inches of snow you all have had, but not the cold weather. But the big news is how the Novak family is growing. Josephine Grace (Josie) was born last Thursday (Feb. 18) weighing in 8.2 and 19" with a fantastic head of hair.
Betsy and David have announced September wedding plans. Not sure how that will impact my PC situation, but will be there for the wedding for sure.
Life is good - traveled last weekend to the east of Mt. Kenya helping another PCV work with his group project and will have the opportunity for an actual holiday this coming weekend traveling to Mt. Longonot and Hell's Gate. The weather is a bit tricky, the rains should be over, but they aren't so we shall see.
Anyway - here's the pics of big sister Lucy and Josie and David and Betsy.
Love and hugs to all - spring is coming!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Nimechoka na nimechafu sana - I am tired and dirty
Nimechoka na nimechafu – kabisa! I am tired and dirty – totally. I just returned from a 10-day journey to the Coast and I am exhausted. It was a great trip in so many ways. I started my journey on Tuesday, working in the PC office trying to get as much information re: GAD (Gender and Development) and Camp GLOW (Girls Leading our World) meeting on Friday. I have a friend living in Nairobi so I spent the night and left early for Mikindu. Since I had time to spare, I walked for over an hour from my friend's house to the staging area in town (Nairobi). I saw a lot I had whisked by in a matatu. It took a bit to find the staging (departure) area as there are so many, and so many of the streets have no signs. I knew it was by the Salvation Army and Tuskys (a grocery store). Once found, I had an hour wait until it filled and then a 3 hour "bus" ride to Makindu. Rafiki yangu (my friend) Paula is working there with the Makindu Children's Center which helps find funding for OVCs (Orphans and Vulnerable Children) and their guardians as well as operate a primary school. She truly has a job and works 6 days a week. She is an AARP member of PC and the one I plan on hiking Mt. Longonot with at the end of this month. I stayed at the Sikh gurdwara (hostel) which was incredible. We took our afternoon chai and snack there as well. The cost was merely a donation. It is truly a sanctuary in the midst of the African desert!
Next morning I was up and sitting on a bus to Mombasa. This was a 6 hour trip. Fortunately the Mombasa Road is well paved and there was only one stretch of road construction. Reminded me of home! Once reaching Mombas I had to alight in town, find a matatu to the ferries, cross over, catch another mat to Mtwombe and my friend Jonathan's. The ferry is very controversible – several have sunk and during busy hours there are literally hundreds of folks pushing their way down the ramp to board. My timing was good so I avoided the "crowd", but it was still packed. Felt like I was in a cattle herd and being pushed down the ramp. Pickpocketing is rampant so I was extra cautious! Once landing on the other side, it was another 15 minute ride to J's site with is a NYS (National Youth Service) school where he is an IT person. His house has 3 bedrooms, huge sitting room, kitchen, indoor toilet and bath! A palatial estate and he has opened it up for PCVs who want to stay on coast.
Next morning, another mat ride to the ferry, cross over, and then a 3 hr ride to Mswembenie and Jeff's site. He is with a camping group and ecotourism. The campsite is on a plot above the beach on the Indian Ocean. The treat here was watching Jeff greet and interact with the locals in his community. He lives in one room of compound/hotel. Takes most of his meals out and the mama at the hoteli prepares dinner for him every night. He has an hour ride to get to his posta and beinki.
Pat and Jay - Indian Ocean Gede Ruins
On to Sharuimoyo. We had to leave Jeff's site by 6 to make sure I was on the early mat. to Ukunda to catch the bus to Mombasa in time to catch the matatu to the next stage! Even if I was at the stage, we could wait for a period of time for the mat. to fill, or on the other end, it could already be filled and there would be no room for me. Yikes, did I feel the pressure of what I had no control over. The travel gods were smiling and all went well. Five hours later I arrived at PCV Mary site late afternoon and had a 20 -30 min. walk UP hill to her housing. She is a public health volunteer and often times they are placed in remote areas. Her house is 2 rooms and a kitchen with sketchy running water. But she has no stima (electricity) but she has adapted well. Hopefully they will be able to hook up in the near future as the poles and lines are in place. Mary is another AARP PCV so we had much to talk about. Saturday we went to the Gede ruins near Watamu. Built in 13th Century and abandoned 400-500 years later. Traveled to Malindi for lunch, Kalifi for grocery shopping and then back to Shaurimoyo. After a great meal, a bottle of wine, birthday calls from children it was a full day. Sunday we went to Timboni beach with Jay, one of Mary's Kenyan friends, saw another PCV site on the beach (ecotourism again), back home for an early start to Wongoni the following day.
Pat, PCV John, John - Taita Hills
Travel to Voi was easy (4 hours) – the 2-hour, 24 mile ride to Wongoni was on the worst road I have ever been on. I will never again complain about potholes in the US. How the matatu driver made is beyond me, but I am glad he did! We kept climbing up, up and view was incredible. I am now in the Taita Hills. PCV John works with another ecotourism group. We walked around his village, truly a village with no stima at all, and saw the 3 hotelis, and small dukas (shops) ,one bar and many traditional African homes. The next day, we hiked for 8-9 hours in the Taita hills with one of his counterparts and Isiah, a friend and guide. Unfortunately there are no trails and we got "off" trail only once and I was not sure what was going to happen. It was a bushwacking adventures. We talked about what they needed to do to make it a successful hikers destination. My legs still hurt. Next day, back down the hill (slightly faster), and back to Nairobi.
The adventure gave me an idea of what other PCVs are doing, how they are living and how difficult travel can be for some of them. Me, I have it easy. I have water and stima, easy access to food and travel and a paved road to Nairobi. Everyone is having hiis/her own work and living experience. This trip put a lot into perspective for me and made me realize how good I have it here.
It also made me realize how hard it will be to share my PCV adventure as so much of it is internal and personal.
I hope this finds you all well and enduring the winter in Nebraska. Spring is just around the corner! Love and hugs to all. Mutanu (aka Pat)
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text: I sympathize with the anarchist tradition as well; however, I couldn't wrap my head around anarchism until I started learning about the things that are going on today within the anarchist movement. haymarket summarizes anarchism as 'political philosophy' but his description of anarchism remains utopian. in other words, anarchism is held up as a utopian system that we need to 'get to'. Talking about anarchism this way makes it hard to conceptualize what anarchism means in the present. When I speak with people about anarchism, the most common reply is that anarchists are 'naive' or 'idealistic'. people assume that advocating anarchism requires assuming that 'all humans are good' or that 'if we got rid of all the laws, everything would be great'. These assumptions stem from treating anarchism as a utopian political philosophy that is 'somewhere in the future' rather than right now. However, the most interesting part of anarchism (to me) is its strength as a philosophy for the present. When we start thinking about anarchism in the present, it opens up a whole new set of possibilities that are often completely invisible to the mainstream. These possibilities are hard to think about because they don't fit into what most people traditionally think of as 'politics'. For example, as I write this, all of the subheadings under politics are about policy and governmental politics: elections, energy policy, foreign policy, healthcare, and Iraq. For a lot of people, these are the limits of politics; we get to talk about what 'the politicians' or 'the policymakers' are doing, but we don't do much ourselves, other than argue about policy, and vote every few years. Anarchism helps open a whole new field of 'politics'. A lot of people who don't identify or sympathize with anarchism actually practice forms of politics that are 'anarchistic', meaning that they are based on a lot of the same principles that are central to anarchism. For example, a lot of people (not just anarchists) practice 'direct action'. This means getting out there and being political yourself, or within your own community. Direct action describes political acts that don't rely on government or other large-scale institutions. If you're against the barrage of corporate advertising that saturates all of our cities, direct action might mean spraypainting a corporate billboard, rather than lobbying the city for new laws. If you're looking to take a stand against pollution, global warming, and huge SUVs, direct action might mean joining in a Critical Mass ride (google it) rather than lobbying government for more bike lanes or asking them to sign onto Kyoto. Direct action doesn't have to be illegal or 'radical'. Community gardens are a great example. These might not seem to be 'anarchistic' at all... what's political about gardening? When we start to think about it, community gardens can be deeply subversive because they challenge the monopoly of huge corporate agribusiness and factory farms. For people who oppose corporate farming (maybe because of its pollution, treatment of animals, or because it ruins the livelihood of small-scale farmers) community gardening provides an alternative that lets us get (at least some of) our food elsewhere. The idea of providing alternatives is important as a concept of anarchism, and as a way of doing politics in general. Direct actions like these help to show that other worlds are possible. In other words, they help to show that the basic ideas behind anarchism (more freedom, more autonomy, more creativity) aren't so naive or idealistic after all. This is political in itself because it presents alternatives to neoliberalism, corporate control, and reliance on government for help with our problems. A final note: widening the concept of 'politics' doesn't necessarily mean throwing out traditional ways of doing politics. In other words, just because we recognize that gardening can be political and that it can challenge corporate farms doesn't mean that we should stop challenging corporations and governments in other ways. In other words, sympathizing with anarchism doesn't necessarily mean asking for governments to dismantle welfare and social services. We need to recognize that this would play into the hands of corporations because people depending on these services would be forced to pay for private services instead. However, we can chip away at this dependence by creating alternative ways for people and communities to sustain themselves. This won't happen all at once, but the important (and inspiring) thing about direct action is that it's happening somewhere right now!


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Lululemon (LULU) pants caused customers undue exposure, but the company doesn't face additional legal risks. And that is reason for investors to put the see-through pants saga that culminated in a recall last year behind them, say cashtaggers on StockTwits.com.
Lululemon not blamed 4 hiding see-thru pant problem/Lululemon prevails in lawsuits over yoga pants recall http://stks.co/f0TAL $LULU-- marina strauss (@MarinaStrauss) Apr. 4 at 12:14 PM
A judge said Friday that investors in the athletic wear company should not be allowed to sue for management allegedly failing to disclose problems with the opacity of some black yoga pants. The stock edged higher Friday after news of the judge's draft decision, but plunged more than 4% on Monday.
$LULU nothing has changed & the stock is bullish, this is nothing more than what I call a 'micro pullback' or 'fractal pullback' on move up-- So Generous (@sogenerous) Apr. 7 at 12:18 PM
Many investors on StockTwits.com said the selloff was overdone. Sentiment on Lululemon is 95% bullish, despite the recent weakness. Many are buying what they see as an opportunity to get shares for cheap.
$LULU added another 1/3 position here. Will add another third at 49.5 if we get there-- LongandShort (@lngndshrt) Apr. 7 at 12:23 PM
StockTwits investors argued Monday that the company's turnaround is working. They see hopeful signs in the company's direct to consumer sales, which climbed 25% in the fourth quarter from the same period a year ago, according to last month's quarterly report. And they say that fourth quarter net revenue growth of 7%, for a total of $521 million, wasn't bad for a brand that suffered an image crisis last year.
They're not alone in their assessment. Of the 24 analysts tracked by the Analyst Ratings Network, half have buys on the stock. Nine have hold ratings. Only three have sells. The consensus price target is $61.56. Lululemon traded at $52 intra day.
Of course, some cashtaggers don't believe a clothing company can ever recover after admitting that its pants were basically transparent in certain situations. But many more argue that things are looking more solid for the company. And that's good news for long term investors and pants buyers.
At the time of publication the author had no position in any of the stocks mentioned.
This article represents the opinion of a contributor and not necessarily that of TheStreet or its editorial staff.


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If you live in the Los Angeles area you should definitely stop by the 14th annual VisionFest put on by Filmmakers Alliance this Wednesday, October 19. The event includes the presentation of the "Nilsson Awards" which recognizes the best of filmmaking that has been overlooked by the mainstream indie community.
The Vision Award will also be presented to Christine Vachon at the event. Vachon has served as a producer on films such as "Boys Don't Cry" and "I'm Not There". The award is given to career filmmakers who inspire others in the industry through the excellence and artistry of their work. In the past the award has been given to Terry Gilliam, Kevin Smith and Alexander Payne.
A reel of short films will be shown at the event which will finish off with a rooftop part in downtown L.A.
More details can be found here. Enter the discount code FriendsofFA for five dollars off admission.


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(Translated from orignal language german)
My child, don't see only the shadows, the darkness. See your bright wonderful light. Shine with it into the darkness and it will dissolve. Where there is light no darkness can persist. Don't give it energies but your love and your light. Don't be blind for shadows, but don't concentrate on it but on all the beauty that exists in your world and in yourself. With that you achieve so much more as if you fight against something. To fight against something gives it food, energy, from what it can live. Take notice of it and send your love and your light into it. With this you heal the situation. Love is the strongest force in Creation. Love can All and IS All, my child. ~
Your Divine Mother
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What up guys?
It's good to be back, I know i've been gone for a while because of all my stupid busyness.
But forget about that because i'm back! Well, usually I write when I want to but this time because I got the time and also to fill my boredom.
Lately, I keep asking myself, what i've been doing this last months and also after the new years?
By the way, Happy New Year guys! Sorry I couldn't post anything like previous year. Oh yeah and also Merry Christmas for those who celebrates! I hope you guys get the gifts that you like not like mine. And back to the topic. So, for the couple of months besides I finally finished my first semester, I'm doing nothing. I know it's a sad thing but hey smile! I got pretty much to do also, making Vine videos and wondering around Jakarta seeing the flood coming in and out. For those who got Vine account you guys can check me out @geovanilaskar. Well I also spend some time out my house here in Jakarta so don't worry that maybe you guys think that I'm spending my 1 month holiday inside my house only, well i'm not.
Okay, besides that I want to share you some cool and awesome videos (not my Vine videos, chill). Well actually these are funny videos, I got couple of them. So check them out!
1. This one is so funny, I laughed myself for the first 30 minutes non stop!
What I've been Doing Lately?
What up guys?
Thursday, January 23, 2014
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May 21 is National Strawberries and Cream Day! A holiday we can all celebrate without the world's favorite sweet!!
And why should I write anything more on the subject when I can delight you and tempt your taste buds with delicious pictures? :)
|Strawberries filled with cream... mouthwatering!
|What does chocolate have to this cute cupcake?
|Strawberry (ice) cream... that still counts, right?
|Strawberry shortcake!