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The mishandling of Rebecca Black is the latest, and perhaps singlehandedly, the furthest reaching example of where the music industry and its organizers have failed their audience and (dare I say) talent. The premature and permanent musical expenditure of Ms. Black - coinciding with a supplementary dose of viral harassment - is of serious concern, especially when the product of such hasty treatment is a 13 year old girl-child. The anti-hit single, Friday, should be known as the commodity sadistically written by Patrice Wilson and produced by Clarence Jay. The acceptance of ARK Music Factory to entertain the ambitions of this unprepared youngling, and their subsequent work-shy composition have ruined what should have been a work-in-progress. The de rigeur dismissal needed was foregone, and instead replaced by the old 'college try'; this implicates the authors, as well as the financiers. Equally at fault are the exploitive television icons, such as Stephen Colbert et al, who have fed their own egos while concurrently driving the online battering that Black is undoubtedly aware of. The drive for hit singles, the idea of internet stardom and the utilization of music as a vessel for corporate gain have contributed to the subversion of music as an art-form.
The hit-single phenomenon and the attempts to artificially create instantaneous musical success can only be seen as a byproduct of a disingenuous and greed-driven model. From the insincere visual offering, to the banal lyrical content of Friday, there is the semblance that the luminaries were trying to make their creation onto the airwaves by complete stultification of the mind. Or by a disgusting degree of familiarity; don't we all recognize and love Fridays? It's not an entirely novel device either: Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night is by no means challenging, with its repetitive chorus and mechanical recommendation to spend it up as an aide-mémoire for club conduct. Admittedly, the latter does enjoy a higher degree of juxtapositional complexity. However, if there exists a challenger who wants to substantiate their claim about a so-called ironic recipe behind this latest concoction, I admire their understanding of the concept to begin with. Tommy Wiseau would have done a better job with her music video. "You're tearing me apart, Monday!"
On to the concept of internet sensations; I have much experience in the field, being one myself… I suppose my 313 (last I checked) subscribers and 300, 307 views sans promotion isn't quite as extraordinary as the Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa or the One Night in Paris videos (the night-vision assisted coital showcase by the beloved heiress) who share 900, 700 and 400 million views respectively, and counting. In the case of the former, the young Canadian (native of Trois-Rivieres) filed a harassment lawsuit against four of his former classmates, citing cyber-bullying, and an out-of-court settlement was agreed upon. Gary Brolsma, the star of Numa Numa fame, enjoyed the favourable reception of his terse, yet widespread online recognition. The obnoxious scion, the talent and garment-stripped Paris - in direct variance with the fate of Black - has been presented with additional and gratuitous support; and as tormenting as her sexual showcasing may have been, I purport that she was aware of its eventual release. We can see conclusively that Paris has not been victimized; her public romping has invigorated her infelicitous career as a social elite and paved the way for various supplementary celebrity exhibitions. A secondary example of her willingness to give?
Unfortunately in the latest case, we see the most militant campaign to tear down this young songstress by unsophisticated and surreptitiously unidentifiable users, whose online contributions include: flaming, name-calling and the frequent usage of the 'dislike' button. Their zealous detestation has reached pandemic proportions, and Friday has netted a superlative number of 'dislikes' and hateful comments for any viral video. To give you an idea of the magnitude: her video has earned 216,557 likes, 1,706,960 dislikes and 1,696,413 comments, the majority of which are pure evil. We must now accept that any degree of online identity for Black, which is now structured into the lives of modern teenagers, is virtually terminated. She is not to blame. I have not browsed for the possibility of a Rebecca Black Facebook page, but only because I'm frightened by what lies behind the binaric curtain of separation. In the case of Justin Bieber, who receives an offsetting dosage of admiration and contempt (the latter for his follicular options), we have been presented with a pop-star who has showcased the modest amount of talent and market value necessitated for entry into the business. The kid can still sing, he can still dance, woo an audience of young girls, can respect meter/play the drums and can also play guitar, though cursed as a lefty. Lady Gaga, the contemporary queen of pop superstardom, can extemporize at the piano, is said to have been classically trained (to what level I don't know) and has demonstrated at least a talent for quasi-neoteric composition. She is another example of an artist who fits-the-bill and needs little support from the industry nabobs. Black is but a template for tasteless art and for a feigned experiment in musical persuasion; every angle of perception fortifies the claims against her artistic readiness. The internet is but one avenue of exposure; Black may now have the capacity to fill a venue, but she doesn't have the expertise to win over a paying crowd. She has but one miserable song attributed to her name, and it has already ruined her.
A lack of musical talent is not an uncommon characteristic and no practicing musician needs to be reminded of how difficult acquiring skill is. The unfortunate outlook of many young talents is one of corner-cutting, marketability and of expedient career-building. The insult felt by many serious musicians trying to garner attention through artistic means is not negligible, and they rightfully proclaim that music is an art form of the highest caliber. We see reduced support for the unripened talents in writing and painting who need to acquire their chops to have a career in the first place; what about a premature stint in the world of architecture? The popular music industry has become an arena for trial and error; a place where new artists exceedingly demonstrate a slim grasp of music theory, history, and business savvy. Even those who know their way around the business don't always have the capital or influence to call the shots. With the ever-widening scope of online access we see what abuse can be assumed by precipitously introduced names . Hopefully in this case we do not lose sight of the victim, a vulnerable adolescent. I consider this a crime and an insult to the consumers. Furthermore, it compromises the integrity of the art-form and blemishes the history of its most pellucid genre. The pop idiom should not be shunned for its lucidity but for the attempted annexation of music from its original intent and its latest hollow efforts. No one need remind me of how art and film are used as vessels for corporate permeation; I am fully aware of the model and the notion is equally execrable.
Indigenous, classical and jazz music will always be at the zenith of musical creation, and the genres have inborn standards. Classical music has also had its financiers, except the aristocracy and elite of the day were interested in contributing to an ancestry of religious and spiritual art. The composers were well-versed in the theoretical and historical aspects of music (most were multi-instrumentalists) and many would have preferred a solitary life of musical creation, as opposed to being congested by self-agrandisement. Chopin embodied the mentality and is quoted as saying, "I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me." The French virtuoso, and Chopin's neighbour in Paris' Square D'Orleans, Charles-Valentin Alkan, notoriously sequestered himself from the populace to pen some of the most sophisticated and passionate opuses for the pianoforte. Mozart was catapulted into early fame, and composed his first piano opus at 5 years of age. Although there exists a farcical imbalance between Mozart and Black, we understand that being musically inclined is not a whimsical choice, rather it is a privilege and responsibility. In fact, for most of us it is our life's struggle. The regression of music standards has never stripped me of being moved by my favourite works, but I am ashamed to live in a society where the majority remain unaffected by the numinous and transcendent beauty of our euphonious past.
If our society has any chance of flourishing we need to prefer craft over trend and art over rubbish. A reduced admiration for the arts is an alarming exemplification of where we have been weakened by inculcation. No one needed Rebecca Black the artist, and the frivolous campaign behind her is a blunder that should not go unnoticed. Patrice Wilson, Clarence Jay and the parents of Ms. Black are infinitely guilty of stripping this young girl of her decency and so are we.
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The Problem with Exposing Rebecca Black
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Without trying to over-simplify things, this is just another in a long line of cases where the supposed "taste-makers," and "shot-callers" at the major labels & PR firms insult the public's level of intelligence and sophistication by offering up this drivel. I will also point out that, yet again, these same people are completely out-of-touch with what is truly considered "good music," and instead, prefer to force-feed this sonic gruel down our collective throats. However, as a Business Model, it works, and THAT is the travesty of this entire situation. This type of Business Model acts as a cancer withing the Artform, itself.ReplyDelete
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwired - Oct 6, 2016) - The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (OTCQB: WTER), a producer of premier bottled alkaline drinking water, packaged and sold in 500 ml, 700 ml, 1-liter, 3-liter and 1-gallon sizes under the trade name Alkaline88, announced today that the company's Alkaline88 water is now being sold at all Dierbergs Markets throughout Missouri. Dierbergs operates 25 upscale supermarkets and features Alkaline88's 700 ml Sports Cap, Three (3) Liter and One (1) Gallon packages. Dierbergs is the second-largest supermarket chain in the St. Louis area. Supermarket News ranks Dierbergs15th overall in its 2016 Top 50 small chains and independent supermarkets survey.
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Examine the first three sections of OPEC
Examine the first three sections of OPEC dealing with the topics below:
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OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. This is a pool of thirteen popular countries of the world. The countries included in the pool of OPEC are Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Angola, Algeria, Ecuador, Venezuela, Libya, Qatar and Nigeria. The organization has it's headquarter in Vienna. The main objective of the organization is to make the price of oil stabilize in the international oil market. This also aims to safeguard the interest of the oil producing nations (The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 2008).
The organization mainly puts emphasis on its first three sections including price, production and inputs. All the three sections have equal importance for the organization. The prices of the oil have continuous fluctuations in the international oil market. To make the prices stable the organization require some recommendations. The production of the oil is also an important factor for the organization. The annual rates of the oils are becoming high due to the decline in the world's annual oil production. The composition of inputs is also an important factor for the organization. The production of the organization depends on the level of inputs utilized for the production of the oil. The organization requires some final recommendation for price, production and composition of inputs.
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Pricing the petroleum is the most important section for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. There are great variations in the pricing of the petroleum products. These variations in the price of petroleum products are due to the difference in tax policies of different petroleum consuming nations. The ...
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DURHAM -- Barbara Sasser Jones, 78, formerly of Kenly, died Sunday at Peak Resources Nursing Home.
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Millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant was sprayed by American planes on Vietnam's jungles to destroy enemy cover and has been blamed for cancers and disfiguring deformities among babies.
The landmark £30 million joint operation at the former US air force base at Danang in central Vietnam will clean a 47-acre site where the dioxin was stored and mixed before being loaded on to the aircraft.
The area has been cordoned off for years but the dioxin has seeped into the soil and watersheds in the rainwater and has been blamed for cancers, birth defects and other abnormalities among those living nearby.
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Perhaps I am up to compiling a list of kofta curries on my blog. Actually, I love kofta.... any kind of. I find it as a very good vegetarian side dish to go with rice or breads. Since my men are not vegetable lovers, I have to find out tricks to feed them veggies. They definitely will not want to eat a carrot or beans curry, but what if I mix them all with selective spices, make kofta balls and cook in a flavourful curry.... serve with rice or Indian bread... they will eat. Should not we do this much for our loved ones??... we must.
My men are not bored of eating chicken / mutton in any form.... minced, with bone, boneless, but I get bored cooking meat everyday. It concerns me giving them meat so often. With this thought, I keep packets of soya, minced soya, paneer in my pantry. I try to make dishes with them as tasty as possible so they happily eat them. Preparing a kofta curry with minced soya was long on my list.... I did this Soya Kofta Curry in a yogurt and gram flour based curry and viola, my men did not understand it is not minced chicken kofta they are eating. Come, let us do this easy to make Soya Kofta Curry together.
INGREDIENTS :[for the kofta]
Minced Soya : 1big cup
Potato : 1medium[boiled]
Cumin Seed : 1/4tsp
Cumin Powder : 1/2tsp
Coriander Powder : 1/2tsp
Turmeric Powder : 1/2tsp
Green Chilli : 2-3[chopped]
Onion : 1medium[chopped]
Gram Flour : 1tbsp
Salt : As Required
Sugar : 1tsp
Oil : 2tbsp + 50ml[to fry the koftas]
INGREDIENTS :[for the curry]
Plain Yogurt : 100-150gm
Gram Flour : 1tsp
Onion : 1big[sliced]
Ginger Paste : 2tsp
Lemon Juice : 2tbsp
Cumin Powder : 1tsp
Coriander Powder : 1tsp
Red Chilli Powder : 1tsp
Turmeric Powder : 1/2tsp
Garam Masala Powder : 1/2tsp
Cinnamon Stick : 1two inch
Green Cardamom : 2-3
Cloves : 2-4
Bay Leaf : 1
Sugar : 1tsp[optional]
Salt : As Required
Oil : 3tbsp
Wash and soak the minced soya in hot water for 1/2 an hour. Drain the water completely. Mash the potato adding little salt.
Heat 2tbsp oil in a pan. Temper with cumin seeds. Add the chopped onion and green chillies and fry till brown.
Add the minced soya and mix well. Add the turmeric powder, cumin powder, salt, coriander powder and stir well for 4-5 minutes.
Add the mashed potato, sugar and gram flour and stir for 3-4 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Let cool. Shape mixture into round balls.
Heat 50 ml oil in a wok and fry the soya koftas in batches till light brown. Place them on tissue paper to soak excess oil.
Temper rest of the oil with a bayleaf, cinnamon stick, green cardamoms, cloves. As they release a nice aroma, add the sliced onions. Fry till brown.
Add the ginger paste. Fry till the raw smell goes. Beat the yogurt along with the gram flour and pour on the wok. Stir well for a minute.
Add the cumin powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt. Stir well for a minute.
Add one big cup water and let boil for 3-4 minutes. Add lemon juice, sugar and garam masala powder. Let boil for a minute. Switch off.
Arrange the kofta balls in a serving bowl. Pour the gravy on them. Let the kofta balls soak in the juice. So wait for 1-2 hours before serving.
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Leith Library, 28 – 30 Ferry Road, EH6 4AE
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11.30am onwards Thurs 29 June
At Scottish Parliament, Holyrood – to coincide with First Minister's Questions
Disability Living Allowance claimants are currently being re-assessed for Personal Independence Payments, even those who were awarded DLA for life.In the course of this re-assessment, 25% lose all this benefit, and receive no PIP at all. 23% lose some of their benefits, being awarded PIP at a reduced rate. (1)
The decision to replace DLA with PIP was taken by the Westminster Government with the deliberate aim of cutting the benefits paid to the most seriously disabled people.
However DLA and PIP are now devolved to the Scottish Government. Nevertheless the DLA re-assessments are set to continue for another four years. The voluntary sector paper Third Force News reported :
"Scottish ministers won't stop Westminster from forcing disabled Scots to endure hated capability assessments, TFN can reveal. Despite new welfare powers being devolved to Scotland this year, the Scottish Government said it will continue with the current arrangement until at least 2021.
It means an estimated 100,000 Scots will lose either some or all of their disability payments by the time the new social security system is in place " (2)
This lack of action by the Scottish Government has been condemned by people directly affected. Jenny Scott, spokesperson for East Ayrshire Carers Forum, hit out:
"This is a death sentence for people facing these degrading assessments. The utter misery and anxiety they cause has to be halted.
"It is dreadful news and a huge disappointment for the thousands of disabled people and their carers that this hell will continue.
"We expected so much under the new powers but this a real bitter blow. I'm not convinced at all the Scottish Government can't do more. It must." (2)
The Week of Action is called by the Action Against Austerity Network to demand the Scottish Government act now to stop this brutal attack on disabled people. In addition to demanding an end to the re-assessment of DLA claimants, we demand that the Scottish Government cover the loss in benefits (and Motability rights if that applies) suffered by DLA claimants who have already been re-assessed for PIP, and any who are still re-assessed. We see this Week of Action as part of the struggle against all the cuts to social security and against the whole austerity programme, which is no less than global class war by the rich against the poor. We need to organise autonomously from the grass-roots to take direct action and resist, and to challenge the whole profits system.
Actions are being organised round Scotland. In Edinburgh protesters will lobby and demonstrate at the surgery of Ben Macpherson MSP on 26 June, gathering from 4.30pm till 5.30/ 6pm at Leith Library, while in Dundee pickets are planned on 23 and 30 June at the offices of Joe Fitzpatrick and Shona Robison respectively. In Glasgow West Gap and the Anarchist Federation are organising a public meeting for 22 June. More activities are expected to be announced soon.
1 https://citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/PIP-and-the-reassessment-of-DLA-claimants-April-2017.pdf page 7
2 http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/scottish-government-wont-halt-hated-disability-assessments
Glasgow public meeting events page
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My name is Noel Sommers, and I've done hundreds of shocking interviews, but this one takes the cake. I don't know if Santa Claus had eaten too many of Mrs. Claus' chocolate chip cookies on this particular night, but he was definitely in a rare talking mood. Maybe it was the three glasses of eggnog he casually sipped during our interview. Maybe he had been reading too many letters to Santa.
Whatever the reason… I could hardly believe my ears at how candid Santa Claus was being. I soon found myself on the receiving end of the blockbuster interview of the century.
Now, normally Santa Claus sticks to clichés and routine answers during an interview. Sort of like a 'North Pole Politician.' Throughout history, his mere existence has been shrouded with vague answers to such compelling questions as:
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The wind bellows against the frosty windows as the fireplace crackles. The sweet smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies permeates the room. Santa Claus sits across from me in his favorite plush chair, with his classic Santa hat resting on his brim. As Santa casually sips a mug of frothy eggnog, one would have to look closely to noticeMrs. Claus bustling about in the background.
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Santa Claus: Hi Noel! What a pretty name. Is that your real name young lady? (Combing through his white silky beard with his right hand)
Noel Sommers: Thank you... yes, that's my given name. My mother was a huge fan of Christmas, and you, as well!
Santa Claus: I think we're going to get along just fine. (Santa bellows his trademark laugh)
Noel Sommers: So Santa Claus, what are your thoughts on Christmas in these modern times?
Santa Claus: I'll be honest with you, I have mixed feelings. On one hand my job has gotten a whole lot easier. Santa tracker GPS makes global navigation a snap; my blackberry gives me instant updates on toy assembly, Naughty & Nice list names, and my cocoa bean stocks. And my laptop allows me to type up personalized Santa letters much more efficiently…
But, on the other hand, I face the same problems everyone else does with all of this technology. There can be loopholes, and sometimes it can be difficult to make sure all the children "play by the rules."
Noel Sommers:…what do you mean by "play by the rules?"
Santa Claus: Well, kids these days are hip to the new technologies. They're smart. They're much smarter today than they were even several years ago.
A child MUST be good all year long to receive a personalized Santa letter and personalized Nice Certificate from me… that's just the rules. I don't make the rules, oh wait, yes I do! (Trademark Santa laugh again)
Noel Sommers: …so are you implying that some children are not following the rules you have designed?
Santa Claus: I've never really talked about this publicly (Santa leans forward as to tell me a secret)… but to be perfectly honest with you, recently some children have hacked into my computers. They manipulated my data to make it appear as if they have been good, when all along, they've been part of the naughty list.
Noel Sommers: My gosh! That is naughty. Did they get away with it?
Santa Claus: Well, luckily Arthur Honeytree (the lead Elf) noticed something funny going on when Timmy Warchickles showed up on this year's Nice List.
Noel Sommers: Wait a minute. Isn't little Timmy Warchickles the child that posted your personal phone number on his MySpace.com account to over 73 million people!?!
Santa Claus: (Santa is visibly shaken) Yes… the scoundrel! I had to immediately disconnect my phone. I was getting over 12,000 Santa calls a second! It was quickly resolved thanks to our technical team up here at the North Pole.
The whole incident still shakes me up a bit. Can you imagine, naughty children receiving a precious personalized Santa letter AND a Nice List Certificate? It would've been sheer chaos! Things would have never been the same. (Santa shivers)
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That's about all I can discuss about the top secret "Package from Santa" program right now…
Noel Sommers: …I understand. (Knowing that Santa Claus has averted answering this question in every interview he has ever done, I try to press my luck…) So, how do you deliver all of the special Christmas gifts in only one night?
Santa Claus: (Santa begins to lift himself out his cozy chair) Noel, I do apologize sweetheart, but it's time for me to go feed my reindeer. We'll have to save that question for our next interview. (Santa winks)
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Acupuncture remains highly underutilized in mainstream treatment of mental-emotional health. It is a modality that is still viewed as "somatic" medicine, despite the fact that countless Chinese Medical clinicians and scholars have been successfully working with mental health for centuries.
Acupuncture is being subjected to a struggle like psychoanalysis in the 1920s. Wilhelm Reich was one of the forefathers of modern psychoanalysis. In his book "Discovery of the Orgone," he describes the conflict between MDs and psychiatrists during a time when psychoanalysis was becoming known to the public. At the root of the struggle, explains Reich, is the perceived separation between body and mind. In his work, Reich searched for an underlying "energy" that showed connection between body and mind. Unfortunately his theories were never fully accepted by the medical community.
Chinese Medicine has already developed its theory linking the body and mind. Aspects of the mind are related to all the organs: the Spleen (consciousness), the Liver (memory and collective consciousness), the Heart (animation), the Kidneys (the will) and the Lungs (instinctual animal consciousness and morality). Each of the acupuncture channels is also related to aspects of the mind, as well as the emotions. Furthermore, the Zang organs are said to "store" aspects of the spirit.
Chapter 8 of the Ling Shu implies all ailments are essentially a disturbance to the spirit. Furthermore, it is the spirit that heals all disease. Many ancient medical systems have a similar way of thinking. The Hawaiian Huna spiritual tradition sees the body as possessing three souls: a physical soul, a conscious mental soul and a spiritual higher soul. The soul, called Ling in Chinese Medicine, is an embodiment of the Shen spirit.
The Huna notion of the soul is much like the Chinese idea of the Ling Po (animal "corpse" soul), the Ling Shen (mind, consciousness, animation, our "agenda") and the Ling Hun ("etheric" soul, often seen as a record book of our past, present and future). All of these soul aspects come together to create our physical, mental and spiritual life as emanations of the big Shen.
All of the organs have spiritual aspects, just as they all have physical, mental and emotional components. There is Shen in everything. Altogether they create the entirety of our being. Within Chinese Medicine, the mind doesn't reside in the brain, but in all areas of the body.
Even the description most of us are taught about the Po, Shen and Hun is a bit limited. When we work with the physical body, we are working with the Po. It is the yin aspect of the body. It is the essence. It is also wei qi. It possesses an instinctual wisdom that knows how to rebuild the body when it is injured, and maintains daily autonomic function. An aspect of it is the Kidneys, which we modernly associate with the DNA and hormonal-endocrine systems. Another aspect is the Lungs and the pulsation of the breath that keeps things moving and in order.
The Shen is associated with the blood: ying qi. It is the conscious aspect of the mind. It is associated with the Spleen that manages the blood, the Heart and Pericardium that circulate the blood and the Liver that stores the blood. The Shen relates to the different ways we deal with our thoughts: we rationalize and transform them, we recall them, we make them into reality - belief systems. The blood feeds the tissues of the body, just as our conscious thoughts also feed us. Alternatively, the blood and our thoughts can poison us if they are toxic.
It is through the mental level that we have major control over the physical body, say the Kahunas of the Huna Tradition. "The mental soul is the master; the body soul is the servant." We see this in Chinese Medicine through the Luo Vessels and their relationship to the Extraordinary Vessels and the Yuan Level. The Luo Vessels are conduits of ying qi: they conduct blood, which carries the Shen. The Luo Vessels are a way into the Yuan level, as shown by the Transverse Luo Vessel theory which says unresolved pathology in the level of the Luo can find its way into the source. Incidentally, many of the Extraordinary Vessels utilize Luo points as "opening" points to activate the channel.
When people say "it's all in your head," they are right! Our minds can make us sick. They can also make us well. People tend to scratch their heads in frustration when they are told this however. We, as Chinese Medical practitioners understand how energy circulating through the ying level can affect the constitution and wei levels of the body. We possess a lot of wisdom that can help explain how something "in our heads" can cause problems in our physical bodies.
A pathogen that has originated in the ying (internal) level of the body has many pathways by which it can spread to different energetic levels of the body. Ying qi and wei qi have a close relationship: they are constantly adjusting to one another. At times when a greater amount of wei qi is needed, ying qi transforms itself into wei qi, and vice versa. The Longitudinal Luo vessels, as well as the Primary Channels are areas where ying and wei interact. A toxin residing in the ying level (blood: mind and emotions) can easily affect our immune function, sensory organs, peristaltic activity and sleep patterns: all aspects of wei qi function.
Ying level pathology can also find its way into the yuan constitutional level to affect our DNA via the Transverse Luo vessels. This can create endocrine disturbances, problems in the Zang Fu and Curious Fu, as well as shifts in personality.
Chinese Medicine goes beyond mere theorizing about psychosomatics: they show energetic pathways that explain them. Chinese Medicine has never had a problem with the link between body, mind and spirit because its science is that of energy, which permeates all things. If it is the spirit that is the root of all disease, as well as the force responsible for all healing, this creates a medical system embracive of all things.
That which has solidified into physical form is simply a more dense form of energy: more an aspect of the Po: a yin manifestation of qi. There may be a change in physical structure: ying or yuan; blood, fluid or Jing. Or potentially the yang aspect of wei, ying and yuan: qi- functionality will show problems.
The mental-emotional manifestation of disease can show up in different energetic forms: as a mood disorder (a wei level phenomenon), thoughts or emotions (ying level), or personality shifts (yuan level).
The Luo Vessels teach us that underneath everything (physical, mental, emotional) is its energetic nature. Ying level pathology can show up in many forms: as physical symptomology or mental-emotional disturbance; on the wei, ying or yuan levels. The classical symptoms associated with the Longitudinal Luo Vessels are mostly presented as somatic. They manifest visually as blood or fluid masses, physically as Bi Obstuction, and functionally as counterflow qi. They can also manifest though Shen disturbances. Pathology can be translocated into the wei level as varicosity on the surface of the skin, into the ying level as blood or fluid masses, or internally in the yuan level as inflammation.
The Luo Vessels are perhaps the best illustrations of the transformation and translocation of pathology within Chinese Medicine. The vast "network vessels" travel throughout the entire body, manifesting in the physical, mental and emotional terrain.
As a field of medicine, we can be emboldened by knowledge that our system is built to address mental and emotional health concerns. Chinese Medicine has a profound understanding of the human mind and spirit, and how they interact and manifest through the physical. We have been given the gift of the acupuncture channels, which provide lessons about the mysteries of the body. They map out and support the cohesive unity of all aspects of the human self: body, mind and spirit, dispelling confusion about a mind-body split.
Qi circulates everywhere. In some manifestations it is called "wei," in other forms it is "ying." At its root it is "yuan." Each layer of qi can transform itself into another form of qi. Just as pathology can be translocated to the surface of the body, the interior, or the root, it can show itself as a change in physical structure or function, within the mind or the spirit.
We, as Chinese Medical practitioners have much to offer the mainstream medical community and its patients, especially in the mysterious field of mental health. The Western psychological community has been searching for what we have to offer for decades. It is time we create partnership and become greater participants, emboldened by the power of our profoundly wise medical tradition. We must find ways to communicate what we know so others can hear us.
Wilhelm Reich died an alienated man. His theories were largely rejected by the mainstream medical community. Only recently are his writings being re-examined with interest. Perhaps now is the time when energetic forms of medicine are about to be accepted by the medical establishment. It is up to us to create dialogue, fully confident in what we know our medicine can do. We are here to help, to heal and to educate. Sharing our "truth" about the body is not only our pleasure, it is our job. For many of us, it is also our mission.
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"I'm wary because I don't want what I say to be used against the principal and the staff," she said. "I don't think the (school system's) central office is allowing for enough discipline. I'm definitely concerned. ... Day to day, there's disorder and disrespect to those in authority."
Cole said her daughter has told her of incidents in which a student has been sent away from a class after causing a disruption, only to be returned to that same class several minutes later.
"I'd like for (the school system) to reassure parents that there will be day-to-day discipline to occur," she said. "It's sad. There are some good teachers there. The principal and assistant principal are wonderful. But (nobody) is going to say anything."
David Gowan, the school system's director of risk management, said the forum was held at the same time as the board meeting because it was one of two days in which Sony Shepherd, Safe Haven International chief operating officer, was available to meet with Bibb County parents.
Gowan said the second public forum will be held Friday at 6 p.m. at Sonny Carter Elementary School.
Shepherd said she and her staff are in the process of accumulating as much data and feedback as they can, including on-site visits to nine Bibb middle and high schools as well as training of school system personnel. Once the information is collected, Safe Haven will make a recommendation to Superintendent Romain Dallemand, who included school safety as part of his Macon Miracle strategic plan.
"It's kind of early," Shepherd said. "We're not done with (getting the data). There's a number of people who are saying there are issues and they want to fix them -- staff, parents, students. They want something done. These forums are to address that."
Safe Haven has collected about 1,000 questionnaires from students about school safety. They also are providing questionnaires to parents and may put a questionnaire online if there isn't enough attendance at the forums.
Ralph Brown, a teacher at Central, also attended the meeting. He said there are a lot of negative perceptions of the school system because of media reports.
"When you turn on the TV, you get (bad) news," he said. "I feel more nervous when I go out to get gas. I tell the students I'm there to provide them with a safe environment. ... Can we do more? Yeah, but we're doing what we can. We can always be more cognizant of school safety. We have to change perceptions."
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Isaac Crewdson
Isaac Crewdson (6 June 1780 – 8 May 1844)[1] was a minister of the Quaker meeting at Hardshaw East, Manchester. He wrote A Beacon to the Society of Friends which was published in 1835, a work that had a schismatic effect on English Quakerism.
Early life[edit]
Isaac Crewdson was born into a Quaker family in Kendal in the English Lake District. He entered the cotton trade and became a successful mill owner in Manchester. He was appointed as a Quaker minister in 1816.
The Beaconite Controversy[edit]
In 1831, controversy arose amongst Manchester Quakers over the spiritual emphasis of Quakerism[2] and these differences culminated in 1835 when Crewdson's A Beacon to the Society of Friends was published.[3] His book highlighted the distinction many Manchester Quakers drew between the guidance of Scripture and the central feature of Quakerism, the Inner Light, the direct and personal experience of God. Crewdson and his followers believed that too much emphasis was placed by Quakers on the Inner Light at the expense of Biblical authority.
In his book Crewdson wrote unfavourably of the American Quaker, Elias Hicks (1748 - 1830), who had considered "obedience to the light within" to be the most important principle of worship and who regarded the Bible as a 'dead letter' unless read 'under the regulating influence of the spirit of God'.[4] Hicks was responsible for the first schism in Quakerism in 1827.
Initially, Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting was thrown into disorder by the controversy. The matter was discussed at the 1835 London Yearly Meeting and a Visiting Committee was appointed to investigate and seek the reconciliation of members there. The Committee, which included Crewdson's close friend, Joseph John Gurney, the leading English Quaker evangelical of his time, was inclined to be sympathetic to Crewdson.[5] Even so, the correspondence that took place between Crewdson and the Committee in 1835 was published by them without his knowledge and consent in A Few Particulars of the Correspondence Between the Committee Appointed by the Friends' Yearly Meeting, and Isaac Crewdson.[6] Eventually, the Committee brought matters to a head by asking Crewdson to withdraw his book from circulation but he refused to do so. He was then suspended from his ministry to prevent further internal strife.
In 1836 the situation was again discussed at London Yearly Meeting.[2] There Gurney spoke, upholding the supremacy of scripture, but he also stressed the 'true soundness of Friends' views in regard to silent meetings'. He also declared that if Friends were to 'give way in our meetings for worship to any ministry except that which flows immediately from the Lord's anointing we should suffer loss.'[5] Gurney also indicated that 'to place the impressions received from our own minds' was a prelude to a Quaker form of Deism. Gurney declared himself to be a 'middle man' between the two opposing views and the London Yearly Meeting did not resolve the issue.
The discord was effectively determined when Crewdson tendered his resignation from the Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting,[7] this being accepted on 15 December 1836 along with those of 38 of his supporters.[8] However, the great majority of the Manchester membership chose to remain.
In 1836 and in the following year, some 50 Quakers left Manchester Meeting and another 300 left other meetings throughout the country. These included meetings in Bristol, Birmingham, Tottenham and Plymouth.[2] After Manchester, the largest group of Quaker leavers were those from Kendal Meeting.[9] Crewdson's daughter Margaret (1808-1864) had married a fellow-Quaker, Henry Waterhouse, in 1832[10] and they, like her father, resigned from Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting in 1836.
The Beaconite split also divided some Quaker families along partisan lines, as with the Braithwaites and the Lloyd banking family[11] and ended commercial relationships, as with the Benson and Cropper partnership.[12]
The Evangelical Friends[edit]
Together with his brother-in-law, the former Hardshaw East Quaker elder William Boulton, Crewdson founded the short-lived 'Evangelical Friends' who were termed 'Beaconites' by Quakers. They first met for Sunday worship on 18 September 1836 at an infants' school in Manchester before opening their 600-seat chapel[13] at Chorlton-on-Medlock on Sunday 17 December 1837.[14]
They incorporated into their worship baptism and taking the Lord's Supper which have been historically rejected by Quakers as rituals that obstruct the relationship between the worshipper and God. The Evangelical Friends held a Yearly Meeting in the style of a Quaker Yearly Meeting in London in 1837 and for a short while published a monthly journal, 'The Inquirer'.[14]
An active abolitionist, Crewdson attended the June 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.[15]
Crewdson died at Bowness on 8 May 1844 and was buried at Rusholme Road Cemetery, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.
The Evangelical Friends did not flourish and gradually dispersed in the decade after Crewdson's death. Many joined the Plymouth Brethren and brought Quaker simplicity of worship to that movement. Notable Quakers who moved to the Brethren included John Eliot Howard and Robert Mackenzie Beverley.
The Beaconite chapel, which was sparsely attended,[13] languished and was sold to the Baptists in 1844, the year of Crewdson's death.
In 1870, the last surviving member of the 1835 Visiting Committee, Doctor Edward Ash, wrote that the Committee had been mistaken in suspending Crewdson's membership.[17]
It has been suggested that A Beacon to the Society of Friends was twenty years ahead of its time and that by the 20th century some Quaker evangelicals had reached a position close to that of Crewdson in the 1830s.[13]
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- Hints on a Musical Festival at Manchester, (1827)
- Trade to the East Indies(c.1827), referring to the Slave Trade.
- Andrew Fuller's Religious Declension, abridgment (1829)
- Baxter's Saint's Rest, abridgment (1829)
- The Doctrine of the New Testament on Prayer (1831)
- A Beacon to the Society of Friends (1835)
- A Defence of the Beacon (1836)
- The Beacon Controversy Between the Society of Friends and Isaac Crewdson (1836)
- Water Baptism an Ordinance of Christ (1837)
- Water Baptism and the Lord's Supper: Scriptural arguments in behalf of the perpetual obligation of these ordinances (1837)
- The Trumpet Blown, or an Appeal to the Society of Friends (1838)
- Observations on the New Birth (1844)
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- ^ a b c Anna Braithwaite Thomas (1912). "The Beaconite Controversy, VolumeIV, no. 2". Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society. Philadelphia. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ Isaac Crewdson (1835). A Beacon to the Society of Friends. Hamilton, Adams. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ "The Blood of Jesus A Sermon and Prayer Delivered by ELIAS HICKS, at Darby Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, November 15, 1826". Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- ^ a b Thomas C Kennedy (2001). Oxford University Press. pp. 27, 28, 29. ISBN 9780198270355 Quakerism, 1860-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community https://books.google.com/books?id=iIDIlhlnuCsC&pg=PA26title=British Quakerism, 1860-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community Check
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- ^ Society of Friends (1835). A Few Particulars of the Correspondence Between the Committee Appointed by the Friends' Yearly Meeting, and Isaac Crewdson. Hamilton, Adams, & Company. p. 2. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
- ^ Alan P F Sell et al. (2006). Protestant Nonconformist Texts: The Nineteenth Century Volume 3. Ashgate Publishing. p. 77. ISBN 9780754638506. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ Thomas Dillworth Crewdson; Society of Friends Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (1836). The Crisis of the Quaker Contest in Manchester. W. Simpson. pp. 244, 245. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke et al. (2012). Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers). Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN 9780810868571. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ Margaret Crewdson (I13265), Stanford University, retrieved 2013-02-14
- ^ Humfrey Lloyd (2006). The Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution 1660–1860. Taylor & Francis. p. 322. ISBN 9780415381611. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ Jehanne Wake (1997). Kleinwort Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking. OUP, Oxford. p. 50. ISBN 0198282990. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ a b c Pink Dandelion (2007). An Introduction to Quakerism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 94, 95. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ a b The Inquirer Volume II, THE HISTORY AND PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF THE BODY AT MANCHESTER,CALLED EVANGELICAL FRIENDS. Central Tract Depot, London. 1839. p. 73. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ J. F. JOHNSON, SHORT-HAND WRITER (1843). " Proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention, called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and held in London from Tuesday June 13th to Tuesday June 20th, 1843 Check
|url=value (help). JOHN SNOW, LONDON. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG599, donated by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880.
- ^ "The Friend". The Friend: 46, 47. 1870. Retrieved 2013-02-14.


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We've been on an interesting journey the past couple of months. I returned to work in June, only to be laid off as a redundancy 4 working days later. I was pretty disappointed after giving my employer 3.5 years of my dedication and loyalty, but now we're just cutting our losses and I'm continuing to look for part-time work elsewhere (and I've been applying for -everything- *sigh*.
Lily is now 9.5 months old, has 2-and-a-half teeth, is almost standing (with guidance, not support!), and I have no doubt that she'll be walking by the end of September. We're still having issues overnight with her waking numerous times a night, but nothing we can't deal with I guess. She's got curls coming through which, let's be honest, she was destined for anyway!
Here's the munchkin and I at her Poppy John's birthday celebrations:


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Public Investment Plan
Public Investment Plan
Sustaining a strong middle class – and a strong and competitive American economy – over the long term requires a foundation of robust public investment. From physical infrastructure investments in efficient roads, rail lines, seaports and airports, safe drinking water and waste systems, and reliable electrical transmission, to investment in new scientific research, 21st century energy technologies, and a financial system that successfully provides credit to small businesses, public investment lays the groundwork for private sector productivity and the private creation of solid, middle-class jobs.
These investments produce critical public goods that the private market relies on – like a transportation system that can bring millions of workers to their jobs quickly and affordably – but would not generate on its own. Yet despite a one-time infusion of public dollars through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the nation's long-term investment in infrastructure is inadequate. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation a grade of D on the state of its physical infrastructure in 2009.1 Meanwhile the world's other major economic powers, including China and the European Union, are making substantial national investments in transportation infrastructure, including freight facilities, ports, and high speed rail lines that will promote economic growth in the coming decades.2 With lagging resources, America risks losing ground to countries that have invested more wisely.
President Obama's proposal to invest $60 billion in the nation's physical infrastructure, including the creation of a national infrastructure bank to leverage public and private capital, is a powerful step in the right direction.3 His American Jobs Act reflects the nation's long history of making prudent long-term investments even at times of debt and war. From the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway System to the American military's investments in the basic research and development that produced jet aviation, the internet, and the computer, the American government has historically played a critical role in making the investments that spurred private enterprise and productivity. As the bipartisan political leaders of the Building America's Future fund note, "the infrastructure past generations built for us – and the good policy making that built it – is a key reason America became an economic superpower."4
To continue that tradition, we propose investing 1.5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (about $228 billion) annually in the development and maintenance of physical infrastructure, clean energy, and providing credit to small businesses. Another critical part of the nation's infrastructure – the schools, colleges, and training programs that produce an educated citizenry and workforce – is considered in its own section of this report.
The American Society of Civil Engineers projects that an additional investment of $1.1 trillion over five years beyond what the nation is currently spending is needed to bring the country's physical infrastructure up to good condition.5 We propose a new investment of $200 billion per year to both maintain and upgrade the nation's physical infrastructure, creating nearly 5 million jobs over the next decade.6 At the same time, lifting millions of Americans into the middle class demands not just adequate investment in physical infrastructure but careful attention to where facilities are built and improved. Infrastructure – from rail lines to broadband access – can connect people in low-income communities to economic opportunity, or, in the case of public housing complexes in remote corners of a city – leave people isolated in pockets of concentrated poverty. Too often, public investments in parks and other amenities are concentrated in wealthier localities, while communities struggling to work their way into the middle class receive a disproportionate share of infrastructure burdens like a polluting power plant or waste treatment facility in their neighborhoods. Guided by principles of regional equity, areas with deficient or deteriorating infrastructure and poor access to mass transit must be targeted for priority investment.7
Broad investments in renewable energy and improved energy efficiency would produce multiple benefits for the U.S. economy and the long-term flourishing of the middle class. By laying the groundwork for a transition to a cleaner economy, renewable energy investments cut pollution, decrease the perils of climate change, reduce energy costs for households and businesses, and create millions of jobs in the transportation, construction and manufacturing sectors. But these are not benefits that can realized quickly: building a clean energy economy demands consistent levels of public investment, policies to steer private capital toward clean energy investments, and public support for technological innovation in energy efficiency and green energy. By making investments that build on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and establishing sensible regulations like a national renewable energy standard, the government can create a market for clean technology products and services – from manufacturing hybrid buses to designing biodegradable packaging to weatherproofing services – that will ultimately sustain millions of middle-class American jobs.8 We can further promote a clean energy economy by financing the cost of investments through a carbon tax levied on fossil fuels, a policy estimated to raise $846 billion over ten years.9
Just as the nation's physical infrastructure provides a critical foundation for the private sector to move goods, increase access to those goods for employees and customers, and a host of other functions, financial infrastructure ensures that the contemporary financial system, including deposits, credit, payments, and insurance, operates fairly and effectively. From this perspective, the recent home mortgage crisis that precipitated the Great Recession can be seen as a massive failure of the nation's financial infrastructure.10 Since the recession and its aftermath, we have seen another malfunction of the nation's financial infrastructure in the inability of small businesses to access credit that would enable them to expand and hire employees. A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concluded that while a lack of consumer demand was the primary factor inhibiting the recovery of America's small businesses, constrained access to credit was also a significant impediment to small business growth and hiring.11 When the financial crisis hit, small businesses suffered the sharpest fall-off in lending since 1942 as the large banks that had come to dominate our credit markets pulled back. Without access to affordable credit, small businesses across the country laid off workers, stopped buying from suppliers, and went out of business. Despite trillions of dollars in public bailouts, the nation's major banks have failed to keep credit flowing to America's small businesses, preferring instead to redirect public money into more immediately profitable areas, such as securities trading and overseas operations.12
To restore the flow of credit to small companies and enable them to begin hiring again, we propose the establishment of state-level Main Street Partnership Banks modeled on the nearly 100-year-old public Bank of North Dakota (BND). By partnering with local community banks to make loans to small businesses, Main Street Partnership Banks create new jobs and spur economic growth. Even though they have less than one-third of banking assets, community banks account for more than half of small business lending13 – and small businesses have been responsible for two out of every three jobs created over the past 17 years. It works through a public investment mechanism: when North Dakotans pay their taxes, instead of being deposited into private commercial banks, the funds go to the Bank of North Dakota, which in turn reinvests in both sectors of the local economy: private and public. BND supports private banks and local business borrowers by offering "banker's bank" services to community banks in ways that increase local lending. BND supports the public sector by saving local and state governments money through profit-sharing and financing for local infrastructure projects. In addition to generating new revenue for the state, the bank enabled North Dakota to keep credit moving to small businesses when they needed it most. BND's business lending actually grew from 2007 to 2009 (the tightest months of the credit crisis) by 35 percent.14 The bank is also one reason North Dakota has consistently enjoyed the nation's lowest unemployment rates throughout the recession and its aftermath.
- "2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure," American Society of Civil Engineers (2009). http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/report-cards
- "Building America's Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind," Building America's Future Education Fund (2011). http://www.bafuture.com/sites/default/files/Report_0.pdf
- White House Office of the Press Secretary, "American Jobs Act: Fact Sheet and Overview," White House Webpage, September 8, 2011, Accessed March 4, 2012, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/08/fact-sheet-and-ove...
- "Building America's Future," 2011. http://www.bafuture.com/sites/default/files/Report_0.pdf
- "2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure," American Society of Civil Engineers (2009). http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/sites/default/files/RC2009_exsum...
- "Building America's Future," 2011. http://www.bafuture.com/sites/default/files/Report_0.pdf
- "Safety, Growth, and Equity: Infrastructure Policies that Promote Opportunity and Inclusion," Policy Link (2011). http://www.policylink.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lkIXLbMNJrE&b=...
- Susan Urahn et al, "The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses, and Investments Across America," Pew Center on the States (June 2009). http://beyondcareer.com/clean-economy-report-web/ "The New Apollo Program: Clean Energy, Good Jobs," Apollo Alliance (September 2008). http://apolloalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fullreportfinal.pdf
- "H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009," Congressional Budget Office (June 2009). http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/102xx/doc10262/hr2454.pdf
- On page X we will explore reforms to the nation's mortgage market that would boost the American middle class.
- Ayşegül Şahi et al, "Why Small Businesses Were Hit Harder by the Recent Recession," Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Current Issues in Economics and Finance 17 (2011). http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci17-4.pdf
- Heather C. McGhee and Jason Judd, "Banking On America: How Main Street Partnership Banks Can Improve Local Economies," Dēmos (2011). http://www.Dēmos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Dēmos_NationalBankPaper.pdf
- Stacy Mitchell, "Charts: Small Banks and Small Business Lending," New Rules Project (February 2010). http://www.newrules.org/news/charts-small-banks-small-business-lending
- "Bank of North Dakota 2009 Annual Report: Our Roots, Your Growth," Bank of North Dakota (2009). http://www.banknd.nd.gov/financials_and_compliance/pdfs/annualreport09.p...
- "A Business Plan for America's Energy Future," American Energy Innovation Council (2010). http://www.americanenergyinnovation.org/full-report-download/AEIC_Brochu...
- Hart Research Associates, "The Rockefeller Foundation Infrastructure Survey," Rockefeller Foundation (2011). http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/80e28432-0790-4d42-91...


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SINGAPORE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Crude oil exports by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in August were 25.19 million barrels per day (bpd), their lowest level since April, according to Thomson Reuters Oil Research.
But average 2017 levels for January-August of 25.05 million bpd were above average 24.85 million bpd in the same period a year earlier, despite OPEC's pledge to hold back supplies between January this year and March 2018 in order to tighten the market and prop up prices.
The drop of 370,000 bpd between July and August was largely a result of the political and economic crisis in Venezuela and disruptions in the group's African members, the research showed.
"Crude oil exports from OPEC's African members tumbled by 540,000 bpd month-on-month to below 5 million bpd after posting their highest export volumes in July since at least Jan. 2015, thereby breaking a four-month streak of rising exports," Thomson Reuters Oil Research said in a report published on Wednesday.
The fall in African output may not be long-lived. Oil production at Libya's Sharara field, the country's largest, was resuming on Wednesday after a valve was reopened on a pipeline shut by an armed group for more than two weeks, Libyan oil industry sources said.
For now, the fall in African output offset rising shipments from the Middle East, OPEC's biggest producer region, which rose from 18.06 million bpd to 18.34 million bpd between July and August.
Reporting by Henning Gloystein; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell


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This week's Country Kids will be the last one from our time at Coombe Mill and I hope you've enjoyed them and fingers crossed they've given you a few ideas of what you can get up to while to stay in Cornwall.
This week's one is from our day out in Newquay which has plenty to offer whatever the weather.
Our first stop was Newquay zoo which is a very well looked after zoo with plenty to look at with a lovely range of animals from lions to meerkats as well as penguins, wildebeest and monkeys.
The way the zoo is set out allows you to get up close to all the animals and you'll be able to get some lovely photos.
Anything with animals is a winner with this family and the zoo doesn't disappoint. You also get a savings voucher to use at the Aquarium. The one thing to point out is the cafe is lovely but not the biggest which in the summer isn't a problem but in February it got filled up very quickly.
Once the girls had played on one of the playgrounds we decided to head to the Aquarium which is about a 5 minute drive. First tip is the aquarium doesn't have a car park so if you use a satnav be warned it will take you on a wild goose chase so head into the town and find a car park. It's only about a 2 minute wall from the town to the sea front where Blue Reef is located.
What can I say about Blue Reef that's not overally negative? Parts of it is lovely and some beautiful displays the problem is it's too small for the price. It took us an hour at most to slowly walk around. An hour!
The best part without doubt is the view when you leave the aquarium.
Newquay is a lovely place to walk around and if your after a gift to take back home then this is the place to look with lots of unique shops.
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Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! Christos Anesti! Alethos Anesti!
Angnolo Bronzino c. 1552
Easter isn't over. In fact, Eastertide is a period lasting fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. So no, it's not back to liturgical life as normal. There is still some significant partying to be done. Divine Mercy Sunday, the Ascension and a plethora of saints are all celebrated before the season officially ends on Pentecost.
I've often heard others describe Catholics as people who mourn their faith. Seriously. I've actually heard this repeated multiple times. I wonder how many Catholics they actually know because they truly know nothing about our liturgical calendar or our faith to make such a bizarre statement. Yes, bizarre. We party harder, for longer, and more frequently than most protestants whose holidays last a single day. I guarantee you, all those Christmas trees you see tossed out for the trash on December 26th where not put there by Catholics.
I think people may assume we are a mournful lot because we embrace suffering, celebrate the death of saints, admire martyrs, venerate relics and other stuff that can be misconstrued as macabre. We are appropriately mournful when the time calls for it, like Good Friday or when we are sorry for our sins.This is a healthy ebb or flow of temperament. I find protestant religions that rely heavily on that "good feeling" throughout the entire year to fall into a sort of apathetic sense of false contentment. I've often wondered how you appreciate joy if you don't have the pain of suffering which to measure from. If Christ is always resurrected then really how awesome is the day commemorating His actual resurrection?
So you see, we appreciate more and celebrate with a greater intensity because we mourn when the situation calls for it. Lent can be emotionally draining, long and painful, with 40 days of penance and fasting. We are half starved and cranky. Then we have Easter! Our Lord has risen and you won't find a more spiritually and physically famished group of people than Catholics ready to sing Alleluia and celebrate over a rack of lamb.
Happy Eastertide, all. The partying doesn't stop here.


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