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Evolution with God?
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RE: Evolution with God?
If theists want to claim that evolution is god's way of creating the diversity of life on the planet, I don't have a problem with it. Such a belief may violate Occam's Razor, but if it gets them off of special creation, it is a step in the right direction.
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(04-02-2013 01:20 AM)Egor Wrote: It's the continuum that is the problem. If an ape gave birth to a modern human, that would at least allow for the improvements. The problem with gradual evolutionary change is you have a kidney developing over--forever--until one day it becomes functional as a kidney. Before then, it was just useless mutations for no reason at all. I don't accept those odds.All those gaps! It seems the problem just keeps getting worse--we find an intermediary species, and theist point out that now there are twice as many gaps as before. They have us beat--RETREAT!!!!
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@ Egor
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RE: Evolution with God?
(04-02-2013 01:20 AM)Egor Wrote: It's the continuum that is the problem. If an ape gave birth to a modern human, that would at least allow for the improvements. The problem with gradual evolutionary change is you have a kidney developing over--forever--until one day it becomes functional as a kidney. Before then, it was just useless mutations for no reason at all. I don't accept those odds.
I am detecting a failed high-school Bio student here.
If I understand you correctly...
No, that is not the case.
When the cell started out, it was not a kidney, it was a cell, since multicellular life began evolving, it was never a kidney developing in perpetuity; simply because it would become a kidney much much later in evolution, that does not mean with was a kidney always developing as a mass of pointless mutations, a specialized cell perhaps, but certainly not a mass of uselessness.
You are right that the mutations have no reason. They are mutations after all; they don't happen for reasons. They happen because a protein was coded wrong. (If I remember correctly).
Since we all still have kidneys, it is clear that the mutations which caused the specialized cells served some positive purpose, and have continued to serve in a helpful capacity in most creatures since (at least in our lineage), as such, it is reasonable to infer that the "kidney mutations" were in fact, not a useless bunch of mutations; they started out as a single mutation, slowly amounting to it's later iterations, which served purposes and mutated along with the rest of the housing organism being subjected to the same environmental pressures as the whole organism, as such, were subject to the same selection, if they were useless completely, they would likely have been selected out by this time.
The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
"Anti-environmentalism is like standing in front of a forest and going 'quick kill them they're coming right for us!'" - Jake Farr-Wharton, The Imaginary Friend Show.
RE: Evolution with God?
The creationist obsession with probability amuses me.
Aside from the fact that natural selection is not random, any time someone points at odds involved in mutations and goes, "OMG SO UNLIKELY," I feel obliged to point out that things that have a one in trillion chance of happening... happen all the time. To suggest otherwise is to grossly underestimate the total number of things there are, and how much time there is for things to happen in.
Egor, consider that an organ or cell can have a simple operation that gradually becomes more complex over time, while being fully functional for the duration. Organs are just clumps of specialized cells held together by connective tissue in particular arrangements. Specialized cells are really just cells where certain internal organelles and certain external proteins are exaggerated or present in increased amounts, causing the cell to be more efficient at certain tasks. The organ's structure is determined by 4th and 5th level regulatory genes, its location and relationship to other organs is determined by 2nd and 3rd level regulatory genes, and its gross location in the overall body plan--in fact whether it is there or not--is determined by the 1st order regulatory genes, called Hox genes. The specialization of the cell is controlled by a number of genes and the chemical environment cells are exposed to while still stem cells. The internal functions of the cell are encoded by protein encoding DNA and cellular regulatory genes.
A change to cellular regulatory genes, protein encoding genes, main regulatory or Hox genes, or the genes that control environment during early fetus development, can each independently cause beneficial, harmful, or neutral changes that affect (or don't affect) the functionality of the organ.
I don't know how to explain this any clearer. Given your brand new knowledge of the functioning of animal genomes, and what you *should* already know about genetics, population genetics, mutation, and natural selection... Denying natural, non-guided evolution strikes me as sort of like denying the TCP/IP protocol. You may not like it, it may be complicated, but it fucking works and we've explained it to you fifty times and if it didn't work we wouldn't be talking.
Figure it out Egor.
E 2 = (mc 2)2 + (pc )2
614C → 714N + e– + ̅νe
2 K(s) + 2 H2O(l) → 2 KOH(aq) + H2 (g) + 196 kJ/mol
It works, bitches.
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(04-02-2013 12:33 AM)Egor Wrote: Money matters: If you have it and you believe in something, then you should give to that cause. Otherwise you have nothing to say. Where your treasure is, there your heart is as well. If you're so broke you can't spare a dollar to support your cause, how can you get on the internet to begin with?Um, are you colour-blind on top of everything else?!
(Also, atheism is not my cause. While I've helped the site, I prefer to regularly donate to you know, refugees, people affected by disasters, the starving - all those punishments for their sins that our loving father has deemed fit to unleash upon them. Vicious little buggers, just look at them. Evil incarnate. Wait, no. That's your non-existent god.)
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(04-02-2013 03:13 AM)Phaedrus Wrote: The creationist obsession with probability amuses me.
Can you be my biology teacher?
The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
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Yeah then he can cut an paste pointless drivel for you too
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The big story this weekend was Steve Wozniak's review of the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher. Interestingly enough, the review wasn't provided via an interview. Wozniak actually made his thoughts known in the discussion section of Gizmodo review of movies. So the big question is: what did Wozniak say after he saw the movie. Well, I would say Wozniack was more disappointed with Kutcher than the actual movie.
Here's a little excerpt from Wozniak's review. "I saw 'Jobs' tonight. I thought the acting throughout was good. I was attentive and entertained but not greatly enough to recommend the movie. I suspect a lot of what was wrong with the film came from Ashton's own image of Jobs." You can click the link above to read the full review. Overall, Wozniak wasn't pleased with the lack of respect for people he knows first hand.
I haven't seen the movie, but I do have a certain feeling it's not going to impress me. How can a movie portraying such an epic feature have such little fanfare. In fact, I had no idea the movie was being made until it was out in theaters. To acquit Kutcher, it's no easy task portraying a man like Jobs.


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Robin Williams's suicide has highlighted a problem endemic to his age group. The Wall Street Journal reports that the suicide among adults between the ages of 45 and 64 rose 40% from 1999 through 2011 (the Centers for Disease Control's latest data). The Journal notes that the elderly have usually been considered at the highest risk for suicide, but that the Baby Boomer generation has overtaken the more senior crowd, and now has a higher suicide rate than the elderly as well as teenagers. Rutgers sociology professor Julie Phillips tells the WSJ Boomers are coming up against new issues, including greater isolation (think divorces, never-married, no children) as well as pressures such as the recent financial crises and an increased use and abuse of prescription medications.
Canada is giving the World Health Organization between 800 and 1,000 doses of its experimental, untested-in-humans Ebola vaccine. Bloomberg reports that the National Microbiology Laboratory developed the VSV-EBOV vaccine. BBC News reports that this most recent outbreak is the world's deadliest, and the New York Times says efforts to contain the virus now include "a disease-fighting tactic not used in nearly a century: the 'cordon sanitaire,' in which a line is drawn around the infected area and no one is let in." The Times notes this style of quarantine was deployed during the Black Plague and was last used in Poland and Russia to contain typhus in 1918.
A group of researchers called the Androgen Study Group wrote a letter to JAMA chair Edward Shortliffe charging the medical journal with violating its own code of ethics and integrity by not pulling a study by Vien et. al, which found an increased risk of heart attack and stroke in men who received a prescription for testosterone therapy. "This article contradicted decades of research, created new concerns regarding risk for a frequently prescribed medication, and precipitated a brand new area of medical malpractice," penned lead author Abraham Morgentaler, MD, a urologist in private practice in Boston and a professor of urology at Harvard.
The number of Twitter followers is coming under greater scrutiny, now that it looks like 8.5% of the folks—23 million users—that the platform counted as monthly active users are actually automatons. Industry site Mediabistro is not anti-bot since it's not as though they are spammers, but notes the "one thing they're definitely not is human," a point the site says is something advertisers will have to reckon with since bots don't buy and "reporting bots within a tally of active users is a little bit cheeky."
ICYMI: AbbVie announced recently that its drug ABT-414 for glioblastoma multiforme (the most common and aggressive type of malignant primary brain tumor) has scored an orphan-drug designation by both EMA and FDA regulators, the drugmaker announced recently. According to the National Brain Tumor Society, two to three of every 100,000 people are diagnosed with gliobastoma multiforme and when diagnosed have a five- year survival rate of 4%.


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The link roads from the M11 J6 northbound to the M25 J27 clockwise and M25 anti clockwise to M11 northbound were closed on the morning of Thursday 07 November due to a Heavy Goods Vehicle shedding its load cooking lard onto the carriageway. The road remained closed into the following day for protracted clean-up operations.
At 11:30 on the morning of Thursday 05 November 2015 our Eastern Regional Control Centre was alerted by Essex Police to reports of a Heavy Goods Vehicle shedding its load onto the carriageway on a link road from the M11 northbound onto the M25 clockwise. It transpired that the vehicle was loaded with cooking lard.
Essex Police were mobilised along with Highways England Traffic Officers and they arrived at scene at 11:42 to discover a considerable amount of debris in the form of cooking lard spread across approximately 100 metres of the carriageway.
Upon further assessment of the incident Essex Police advised that the road would be closed for a long period of time for recovery and clear up work. The link road from the M11 J6 northbound to the M25 clockwise J27 was subsequently closed as the spillage posed a threat to driver safety. Diversions were subsequently instigated with motorists advised to travel to the M25 J26 anti clockwise and turn. Plans were formulated to remove the contaminant (lard) and it was determined that a specialist cleaning company would be required. Our service provider (contractors) advised that approximately 24 tonnes of lard had been spilt, they had a grab lorry in position at 13:30 and that they were awaiting the attendance of the specialist cleaners (one of only 4 in the country) to begin clean-up operations.
At 14:55 the specialist clean up team arrived on scene and once all other ancillary vehicles arrived (recovery vehicles and water bowsers) steam cleaning of the carriageway commenced circa 15:30.
The incident and subsequent closure was not in itself causing significant delays on either the M11 or the M25 and delays of 10 minutes at peak on the approach to the link roads were reported (measured) by our National Traffic Operation Centre. Due to the large area of contaminated carriageway it became apparent that clean-up operations would be protracted and it would be some time before the use of the road would be re-instated. At 17:19 our contractors, in addition to the current closure, closed the link road from the M25 anti clockwise to the M11 northbound. This was necessary as the run off from the steam cleaning was encroaching onto this carriageway.
Operations at scene continued through the night. The steam cleaning of the carriageway was working well, but we had to be wholly satisfied that the road would be safe to use and present no slip hazard before we re-opened it. Secondly an inspection of the road surface would need to be made to determine whether re-surfacing of the carriageway would be required due to any possible deleterious effects of the lard upon it. The following morning circa 10:52 we were able to re-open the link road from the M25 J27 anti clockwise to the M11 J6 northbound and later at 13:07our contractors confirmed that the clean-up was completed and that they were assessing the carriageway for surface damage. This was confirmed as satisfactory and that re-surfacing would not be required. At 13:37 on the 06 November confirmation was received that all work was completed and that all closures had been removed with both link roads now safe to use once again.
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Cream of Amaranth Soup
Amaranth is another vegetable that I noticed for the first time at my local market without being able to identify it. Thanks to the posts at Mahanandi I did not remain in the dark for long - check out the fantastic JFI roundup there. In Mandarin it is called hong xian cai but my market vendors, most of whom speak Sichuan dialect, all seem to call it hong han cai.
I found amaranth a bit difficult to cook - it tastes and behaves a lot like spinach, wilting quickly and losing a lot of volume. It also bleeds and stains everything red. I made an amaranth omelet that tasted wonderful but looked really odd. My favourite way to cook it so far is a simple and restorative vegetable soup that does not mind being pink.
Mince half a small onion and one clove of garlic, and half a red pepper and sweat with salt in a small sauce pan until vegetables are tender but not browned. (Can use other vegetables based on what you have on hand.) Add one and a half cups of chicken or vegetable broth and simmer for a few minutes. Stir in one and a half cups chopped amaranth and heat til vegetable is wilted; then stir in three tablespoons of cream. You can omit the cream if desired for an even more basic soup. This should fill up one person or serve two as first or last course.
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- Ricercar said...
Thanks this looks good! Dont know if I will get it here though.
- 5/04/2007
- Jenavira13 said...
Amaranth is also popular in Mexico.
- 5/04/2007
- Pepper said...
That's really interesting - how is it cooked in Mexico? I will have to find some more recipes. It is supposed to be more nutritious than spinach.
- 5/05/2007
- Jenavira13 said...
Hey Pepper,
In Mexico the grain of amaranth is used. I've never tried it, but I remember that a few years ago it was a popular subject on the food days in Newspapers here in California. Here is a really interesting article that really goes into the details of it and what other countries use amaranth: http://chetday.com/amaranth.html
- 5/07/2007
- Faye said...
I seem to recall Grandpa sending us some amaranth seed to try, here in northern Alberta. It was quite, um, purple and grew as an exotic weed for a couple years after the initial planting. I don't recall us ever actually eating it though!
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- Meesha said...
Thanks for the post! I just got back from China, and while in Jiuzhaigou I had "han cai", which through your post I discovered is called xian cai in standard Mandarin or amaranth in English. I also enjoyed checking out some of your other posts about simple, delicious foods.
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- Meesha said...
by the way, where in China are you (or were you) located?
- 8/10/2009
- Pepper said...
Hi meesha! in Chengdu. The other blog is
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Jose-Luis Mejia, associate director of TAYSF, is also as Peer Educator who shares personal experience of trauma with students
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Among the 60 or so kindergartners at San Francisco's John Muir elementary school, 90 percent knew someone in jail, and more than 75 percent knew someone who had been shot or killed, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2007.
Growing up in a neighborhood of poverty or violence can traumatize any young person, and lead them to struggle with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—like anxiety, depression, and aggressive behavior.
San Franciscans who grapple with issues related to individual or systemic trauma (such as high-rates of poverty, incarceration or community violence), often delay seeking help because of stigma surrounding mental health. Too often these effects of trauma and other forms of mental illness are viewed as something foreign, something only other people have.
We spoke with TAYSF's own Jose-Luis Mejia on his work as a Peer Educator teaching young people about mental illness and stigmas often attached to it through SOLVE. Jose-Luis graciously shares his personal story with trauma and its consequences to high school students and providers, and us!
Trauma in the Home
Once when he was five years old, Jose-Luis Mejia begged his mother for a piece of candy before dinner. After she refused, an irate Jose-Luis told her that he hopes dad will beat her, which he had seen happen before. Jose-Louis still remembers watching his mom move out the following morning.
Jose-Luis now shares this pivotal moment over twenty years later, along with other experiences of trauma and healing, with high school students as a Peer Educator for Sharing Our Lives Voices and Experiences (SOLVE), a mental health organization that raises awareness about mental health, trauma, and breaking down social stigma.
After Jose-Luis' mom left, his father's violence turned on him. "Its one thing to hit a child with the open hand," Jose-Luis said, "but another with construction belt, or for things like needing to use the bathroom during dinner."
Though later Jose-Luis realized this violence was child abuse, at the time and in his neighborhood, violence was common, and not talked about as abuse. "I was mad as hell, but couldn't do anything but just look for the first excuse to let it out when someone disrespects you."
Violence in the home lead Jose-Luis to fight constantly in school. He got kicked out of class, sent to the principal with referrels, and suspended. School was Jose-Luis' first experience of the general lack of understanding or training around mental illness in adults, especially ones who work with youth.
"Instead of saying 'this child might be dealing with mental health issues,'" Jose-Luis said, "they put me in a box as a troubled Latino. Instead of support that I needed, they reprimanded."
Jose-Luis could fight over anything, someone bumping him or stepping on his shoe, and became someone easily triggered and unable to control emotions the way most people do. These triggers and uncontrolled emotions become part of his identify, as someone who doesn't take disrespect, a fighter. He did not know at the time that he was experiencing the affects of trauma.
"I internalized that message that when there's disagreement or you want something, the way to get it is the way my dad had handled it: through violence," said Jose-Luis. "No one is naturally getting into fights all the time," Jose-Luis said, "it was a symptom of post-traumatic stress."
In middle school, Jose-Luis' mom became disabled with a severe and suicidal depression, which compounded his previous trauma. Jose-Luis and his sister had to remind their mom to take her medicine, go to all her appointments, sleep on hospital floors, and show up to school exhausted from sleeping in the emergency room all night.
"My mom's unable to help her kids because she can't help herself," Jose-Luis said. "When she became disabled, my sister and I had to mature fast, and step into care-giver roles."
"I took on too much responsibility paying bills and stuff like that," Jose-Luis recalled. All these things cause a type of trauma called Parentified Child, where adult responsibilities place an undue burden on an undeveloped brain.
Feeling the responsibility to provide money, help pay rent, utilities, mom's credit card debt, he ended up involved in underground street economy.
Trauma on the Streets
By high school, Jose-Luis began "slanging" and stealing. He had friends that passed away others that went to jail. He got beat up, one time so bad that he ended up in the hospital. A couple of drive-bys, he and his friends were shot at.
In Oakland one night, his whole family was stuck up by three cars of young men accusing him and his brother of doing something to them. "My family was catching the heat of what my brother and I did," Jose-Luis said.
"I had a part in swaying others to go steal this, go get back at people who steal from you, pushing kids to do worse things," Jose-Luis said. "I got my brother to sell things at his school."
"I was displaying negative leadership, first seeing violence, then internalizing violence as my regular behavior," he said, "and then recreating the trauma and even teaching it. I literally taught my sister how to fight; I taught her to fight with a very harsh street code."
Eventually, Jose-Luis's two sisters and cousin ended up jumping another girl because she had snitched on her friend. As a consequence, his sister went to jail in San Mateo, and she had to go to continuation schools because she was expelled.
"Because I taught her to fight, and she followed that code and landed in jail," Jose-Luis said, "I felt guilty, like it was my fault. This repetition of negative events got me questioning what the hell I was doing," Jose-Luis said.
SOLVE Peer Educators Combat Stigma
Jose-Luis' recovery from effects of trauma really started when he changed to a positive leader after his senior year at Balboa, after he met Sara Brant at SOLVE.
SOLVE trains adults, mostly young adults like Jose-Luis, to educate their peers about mental illness and social stigma. SOLVE teaches how to share personal stories and experiences safely, and how to be comfortable sharing very sensitive experiences dealing with mental illness and stigma to high school health classes and the San Francisco Police Department, as a free service to the community.
And research has shown that the most effective tactic to reduce stigma surrounding mental illness is personal connection, "more than some flyer, public service announcement, or any class," Jose-Luis said. This research convinced SOLVE to make a large investment to create a 'speakers' bureau' to share personal stories of mental illness and personal triumphs of healing.
Now as a Peer Educator for SOLVE, Jose-Luis lets students, at Galileo and other public high schools, know about the lack of support and lack of understanding he had for his symptoms—which some of them might have themselves, and need help to overcome stigma and learn how to heal.
"Stigma is another word for discrimination," Jose-Luis said. "People are discriminated against from getting a job when someone was able to see on the surface that he or she has some kind of mental health illness."
Jose-Luis says he relates to all of three types of stigmas SOLVE teaches—self, structural, and public or societal stigma—and that SOLVE's training showed him that he has experienced and contributed to stigma in the past.
Public or societal stigma derives from prejudices about mental illness spread through family, groups of friends, or media. Structural stigma actually affects you on the job or at school, often due to a lack of understanding or competence to serve you when you have a mental illness, for example, a school placing youth in special-ed class when you don't need to be there. And personal stigma is the after-effect of internalizing these societal messages.
"We let them know examples of stigma and how wrong it is, how it affects people," Jose-Luis said, "and let them know that if they are experiencing trauma or mental illness, recovery is possible."
SOLVE trains educators to use strength-based language that doesn't demean others or yourself. "A lot of people say 'I am schizophrenic, or I am bi-polar.'" Jose-Luis said. "But those three words actually say that you are that and that's all you are."
"The truth is no one is just bipolar, homeless, or foster youth," Jose-Luis said. "No, I am a young person who happens to suffers PTS. You are a young person; the illness is not what defines you."
Jose-Luis wants to share with other young people that mental illness affects all kind of folks, and that they even might know someone experiencing a mental health illness.
Flipping the Script
Jose-Luis first told Peer Resources 'hell no' when Sara asked him to teach young people about mental illness during his senior year of high school, but she eventually won him over.
"Sara told me I was a leader," Jose-Luis said. "I realized that she was right. I was already leader, but unfortunately in a negative way, and that I could transform that into a positive."
Obliging Sara and signing up with SOLVE at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco became a pivotal moment in Jose-Luis' life. SOLVE trained Jose-Luis to mentor others. He first mentored a 9th grader.
He then branched out and became involved with Bay Area Video Coaliton, a video media youth program. BAVC had a big monetary and professional impact impact on his life, and also had a great healing effect as an art form, storytelling, and creative outlet as part of his recovery.
"This made me realize that I can do this and enjoy it," he said. "All these skills I still use today that I learned in this class. That program helped begin my healing journey."
When he graduated from High School, Jose-Luis made a personal commitment to the community: he would do the opposite of what he had been doing, and try to improve and not destruct it.
Recovery, Always an Option
Jose-Luis says he shares at the SOLVE presentation what he does currently to stay mentally healthy. Now he sees a therapist, plays basketball every Tuesday, gardens herbs, flowers, vegetables, rides a bike, hikes with family, listens to music, writes poetry and rhymes.
"In terms of healing," Jose-Luis said, "the career that I dedicated myself to is completely tied to it. I recover more and more everyday by doing this work."
Now at 26, a young professional with responsibilities, Jose-Luis will always be healing, and I still have moments with mental illness affects his work, he says. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have a role to play in helping our community. "As someone who works on recovering from mental illness," he said, "I have a role to play in helping my family and community heal."
Recovery May Take A Lifetime
Jose-Luis concludes his presentation by sharing the transition into recovery. "Technically, I have PTS," he said, "and experienced certain amount of depression, anxiety and panick attacks."
Now a parent of two kids, one an infant the other a five-year old, Jose-Luis still gets triggered all the time. His five-year old daughter will say something a certain way, or not pay attention to her parents, and it snaps Jose-Luis back to when he was her age, and his Dad's reaction was to hit.
"That's when my mind quickly goes 'hell no, you're not supposed to talk to your parents like that,'" Jose-Luis said, "and my physical instinct becomes that I want to hit her, and do the same thing my Dad would do."
"It's a battle between two sides. I try to tell my brain to overpower my animalistic brain stem telling me to hit her," Jose-Luis said, "the intelligent side rooting not to hit her, but to talk and love her, and provide other ways to discipline."
SOLVE tells Jose-Luis this struggle with his daughter is something you never hear from other Peer Educators, and encourages him to share this in public. "It's important for someone to step up and keep it real," Jose-Luis said, "to be honest that this is a struggle for someone that has dealt with violence and trying to break the cycle of violence in the community."
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma
Jose-Luis is never afraid to emphasize that this cycle of violence stems from colonization. "These are cycles of violence that have been passed down, generation after generation from oppressors that killed, raped, and forced values and religion on us," Jose-Luis said. "For an indigenous person who survived the colonization, there was no therapist at the time. Same in the African slaves. You can't expect this to go away easily for the survivors of violence and displacement."
"I used to tell myself I was not going to pass these things on to my daughter," he said, "but this illness is strong. As much as I promise, I know I've made mistakes. Maybe I won't fully eliminate this in a generation, maybe eventually I can set her on a path so it will eventually be eliminated."
What Funders Should Know
Jose-Luis choose to do peer education (and agreed to this interview) because he wants to put his money where his mouth is, and put it out there for colleagues and policymakers to hear.
"Who better to solve these problems than people who actually lived them," he asked. "Who knows the problem better than the people closest to it? Then why not empower those people with the professional development, skill sets, and education in order to be a healer, educator, policy maker, strategist to resolve these problems?"
"Funders and departments need to not only say to their program's employees 'yes, take care of yourself.' Its common knowledge," he said. "They need to give them the resources in funding when you give a grant, a line-item for therapy for staff, massage, camping, etc."
"We can't just be about it for our youth, we need to be about it for ourselves, we need to walk the walk," he said. "Everyone is dealing with this. Services providers are experiencing second-hand trauma as well."
"I call out to all service providers, supervisors or directors that read this as well," Jose-Luis said, "keep these things in mind, and take care of your staff. Self-care and mental health should be a part of the job."
Not only service providers, but all the caring adults young people come in contact with in the education, youth development, and housing and workforce fields should be trauma-informed, Jose-Luis added.
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Dependability is an underrated virtue for a rock band, almost necessarily so. It's easy to take for granted when a group consistently performs excellently. There are the notable exceptions—Bruce Springsteen, U2 and, increasingly so, the Flaming Lips—but for the most part, the bands that trot out day by day to entertain with predictable flair are seen as owing something, rather than appreciated for their reliability. Still, every night can feel special in its own way, and last night at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, Dr. Dog, one of rock's soon-to-be steady hands, played a strong set of favorites as well as providing some signature moments.
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Ramadan in Gaza: its in the detailsPosted in Posts on 08/29/2010 01:19 pm by Laila El-Haddad
A fellow Palestinian blogger noted the other day on Twitter that none of us had written up a Ramadan post. Ramadan is a very special time as any Muslim will tell you. But it also brings with it its own unique set of challenges. It is spiritually uplifting, but it is also physically exhausting.
In Gaza, these challenges are multiplied tenfold. This Ramadan came amidst a merciless heat wave across Palestine. Ordinarily, one can find ways around this by staying indoors or cooling off in front of a fan of air conditioning. But no so in Gaza, where we were enduring continuous 9 hour electricity outages: 8 hours of electricity, 9 hours without, 8 hours of electricity, 9 hours without…and on and on. Since a fuel agreement was reached a few days ago, we are now privileged and get an average of 15-20 hours straight of power, then 12 hours without…not sure which is worse! But the Jerusalem Post reports today that Israel has "balked at a request" by Tony Blair to boost the amount of electricity it supplies to the Gaza.
Combine that with the blocked off urban construction, and you have your very own personal saunas.
Electricity aside, there is the issue of access to fresh foods. Few people buy "fresh" meat anymore, opting instead for lower grade imported frozen meat that sells for the half the price. Once again, it must be emphasized: the issue in Gaza is not availability of foods; it is accessibility. The flow of goods in Gaza waxes and wanes with each passing week, a perplexing combination of "premium" Israeli goods and a small amount of West Bank products; tunnel commodities (such as processed cheeses, but also Egyptian lemon-limes and cows); and other "foreign" goods, mainly from Turkey. This is not to mention that one cannot preserve fresh or even cooked foods more than a couple of days, given the lack of electricity to power refrigerators.
Yet, what I've increasingly noticed is that they here are finding ways to make ends meet, to "cope" if you will. Some food aid from here, some zakat from there, some relatives living abroad: many manage in a piecemeal fashion. But they resent being depicted as beggars or victims. Still, the situation takes its toll. You have to look for the signs.
We recently went to visit a friend of my mother's, Um Rami, who is a widow and works as a seamstress in her spare time out of her Shati Refugee camp home. She was kind enough to let us photograph her cooking (and alter a heap of clothes for us).
I noticed her iftar consisted of the following: noodle soup (made with a bouillon cube); rice (from UNRWA food aid); tomato salad (dagga); and mulukhia-made with a couple of chicken wings.
She was beaming as she recounted traditional recipes passed down to her from her grandmother from their village of Beit jirja and sharing stories with us about her late father's favorite foods. "The best gift my father-who lived in Saudi Arabia for a long time-confessed to ever receiving was some khubayza (Malvaccae, a member of the mallow family that grows in the wild, and whose leaves are cooked much in the way mulukhia would be) I brought him from Gaza". Um Rami she wasn't coming to my door begging or crying for handouts or even wailing in front of television cameras: I saw the hardship in her soup.
And so Ramadan here takes on a more solemn, persevering character. And it is the hospitality, the humor and the incredible resilience of the people that shines the most this month.


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Haniya also called on "the security services to follow up on the matter."
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A truce to end eight days of violence in and around Gaza was agreed between Israel and Hamas and announced in Cairo on Wednesday evening, with Hamas expected to enforce its terms on the various militant groups in the Palestinian territory.
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My Red Hat Society chapter did their annual thrift shop crawl this week, an event where they carpool to a sting of secondhand stores with a break in the middle for lunch. I've been on the go so much lately that I am burning out so I just met the group for lunch at a Mediterranean grill. The service was so slow I think I grew an inch long chin hair while waiting for my chicken shawarma. (I'm quite sure it wasn't there when I left the house.) And if I'm being entirely honest here, I'm not fond of carpooling with other drivers my age and older. Once in a carpool, the driver was running on fumes---that point where your dashboard says you only have one mile to find a gas station. I'm too old for preventable stress, I get enough of the other kind. Another time the woman driving joked that her family wanted her to stop driving and I could see their point. Still another time the carpool driver hit a cement pillar in a parking garage. Car size is an issue with carpooling too. I recently learned I can't fit a walker in my Chev Trax unless I put the back seat down. One problem with that: The back seat won't go down without pulling the driver's seat too far forward for me to get in and drive.
Welcome to the Misadventures of Widowhood blog!
In January of 2012 my soul mate of 42 years passed away after nearly 12 years of living with severe disabilities due to a stroke. I survived the first year after Don's death doing what most widows do---trying to make sense of my world turned upside down. The pain and heartache of loss, my dark humor, my sweetest memories and, yes, even my pity parties are well documented in this blog.
Now that I'm a "seasoned widow" the focus of my writing has changed. I'm still a widow looking through that lens but I'm also a woman searching for contentment, friends and a voice in my restless world. Some people say I have a quirky sense of humor that shows up from time to time in this blog. Others say I make some keen observations about life and growing older. I say I just write about whatever passes through my days---the good, bad and the ugly. Comments welcome and encouraged. Let's get a dialogue going! Jean
Saturday, June 10, 2017
First World Problems and Trump Era Conversations
My Red Hat Society chapter did their annual thrift shop crawl this week, an event where they carpool to a sting of secondhand stores with a break in the middle for lunch. I've been on the go so much lately that I am burning out so I just met the group for lunch at a Mediterranean grill. The service was so slow I think I grew an inch long chin hair while waiting for my chicken shawarma. (I'm quite sure it wasn't there when I left the house.) And if I'm being entirely honest here, I'm not fond of carpooling with other drivers my age and older. Once in a carpool, the driver was running on fumes---that point where your dashboard says you only have one mile to find a gas station. I'm too old for preventable stress, I get enough of the other kind. Another time the woman driving joked that her family wanted her to stop driving and I could see their point. Still another time the carpool driver hit a cement pillar in a parking garage. Car size is an issue with carpooling too. I recently learned I can't fit a walker in my Chev Trax unless I put the back seat down. One problem with that: The back seat won't go down without pulling the driver's seat too far forward for me to get in and drive.
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Good Morning!ReplyDelete
I've noticed that people don't really listen to what I say. (Or understand what I write) I believe they respond to my saying a positive comment, when it really isn't. I don't always agree with what they have to say.
It has been a while since I have been shopping, I think I'd like that. Have considered taking my walker or getting one of these little hoveround things and trying it. I had to think about your problem with getting your walker into the car. Hmm, I don't remember how mine breaks down for travel.Replies
I don't use a walker but have been with a woman twice now to art and crafts fairs while she was using one. It's really handy for carrying stuff (we all loads it up) and for sitting once in a while. Lots of people shop with a walker, you should give it a try. If I was all alone I could get a walker in the backseat but it takes up the whole seat so it doesn't work for carpooling with someone with a walker.Delete
What you said about people not really listening is a problem I think we all face as we age. Plus the older I get the less fluent and precise my verbal language skills are and I trust myself less and less. When writing, I think I do a better job of saying what I want but I still experience people misunderstanding me...not so much on this blog but else where on the net. Very annoying and I don't know if it's them or my writing.
- AnonymousJune 10, 2017 at 8:08 AM
I agree fully with the sentiments expressed by you that by not speaking (in order to maintain civility) we are in effect as guilty as those who will not let others speak. I don't know the solution. I am reminded of the time I criticised a government policy, and to my surprise my adult children agreed with the policy. I gave my reasons, and they theirs, and there it ended - each with our opinion intact. But I know sometimes, knowing the rationale, we have understood better and if not altered, amended our view point. Its important to talk, to get 360degree viewpoint, and listen to all respectfully. I have been at work meetings where the chairperson skilfully brought all attending into the conversation, and did not let a few dominate. It was often surprising the value a normally quiet member brought to the meeting, in terms of experience and knowledge.ReplyDelete
I don't understand Trump-supporters at this stage when they've seen his boorish behaviour on the world stage, his lies (yippee, they're now using that word rather than euphemisms), his hypocrisy, and well, seemingly working to build up his personal brand more than anything else. I am angriest at his enablers, the GOP. I look at the Speaker genuflecting in front of him and, knowing from #45's past that he always settles personal snubs, I think: wait till he kicks you in the backside (and the front!).
Please do continue to narrate your first world problems - its comforting to not be alone! I just think that even Diana, then the future Queen, had them too! ~ LibbyReplies
It's funny that you should mention the chairperson's ability to draw everyone out and let no one person dominate the narrative. I had written a paragraph about how nice it would be if we could have a trained mediator at all tables where politics are discussed but I had to cut it to keep the blog the right length. I admire that skill.Delete
There was a segment on one of the talk shows this week that I think explains a lot. It showed the coverage of the Comey hearings as shown by FOX and alt-right sites and the coverage shown by main stream media. It was if they were covering two different hearings. I wish we could bring back the Fairness Doctrine which required the all media to give equal time to both sides of issues. (Can't happen in this era of cable but I can still dream.) We have way too many pundits and not enough actual newscasters and some people can't tell the difference, and we all tend to pick the pundits we like and refuse to listen to anyone who isn't saying similar things.
The conversations of different political views is a difficult one. I live among mostly Trump supporters, but I do have two close friends that aren't. Because two of these Trump supporters are so outspoken and their beliefs are dug in deep, it's best with them to talk about other things, as I consider them friends otherwise. But I am probably contributing to the problem.ReplyDelete
A good example is the remark from the London mayor. The right posted a small bit of his total statement out of context, but unless you watched what I call "real" news and NOT Fox or Rush Limbaugh, they could have heard the whole thing in which he first talked about the large increased police presence in the city and the people should not be worried because of this or perhaps in seeing more presence to not feel something new was up. Either way, he was identifying the problem and offering reassurance in the hopes that the increase would help. To me it's obvious, that people who support Trump on his Tweet against the mayor, are perhaps prejudiced against the mayor's ethnicity. And so it goes. Will this divide ever end or get better? I have my doubts.Replies
The careful editing of the mayor's remarks to suit the president's agenda is something the Trump fans don't hear and trying to explain it to them would probably fall on deaf ears because they're minds are already made up. To me, it takes an evil mind to purposely misrepresent that mayor's comment like Trump did.Delete
As for will the divide ever end or get better? I sure hope so because the alternative is going to result in a national mental health crisis in my opinion.
Hi Jean, you make a very good point on discussing topics like politics, I try my best to steer clear of it on my blog, and Lord knows you don't discuss it on Facebook, but face to face it does come up and I will join in.ReplyDelete
I have written a post that I hope to share next week that touches on this. I agree with you and believe with all of my heart that people can be friends and get along in spite of what they think politically.Replies
My husband's and mine close 'couple friends' for over 40 years were the opposite politically and we could talk about the topics of the day and actually enjoy the exchanges. But no one ever raised their voice or took themselves so serious that they didn't listen to what we each thought. But the was in an era when we could actually debate real issues with real facts. Now, people are debating/fighting about fake news vs. real news and that is a dangerous road our country is going down, in my opinion.Delete
FACEBOOK: No way will I post politics there! I have lost total respect for a few family members who do that. I try to limit my political posts on my blog. But this week it touched my off online life and I couldn't shake it off.
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- AnonymousJune 10, 2017 at 9:21 AM
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I kept on flipping channels till I got one without pundit-commentary. CNN's panel with partisan pundit-commentary is useless.
Same testimony, yet such different commentary! I'm glad I stayed to watch it live and form my own opinion of all the actors. ~ LibbyReplies
I watched the entire hearing live as well, without the pundits. I watched them later in the day, though. I hate it when cable TV has large panels discussing issues. Too often they talk over each other. I understand they want to represent all sides but they need to pick people who don't make a habit of talking over others.Delete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2017 at 9:27 AM
PS - I like and admire Bill Mayer's show for having panel members who do NOT validate his views. He's not racist and his apology for using 'that' word was genuine and from the heart. Plus from the context it's obvious he didn't mean it that way. ~ LibbyReplyDeleteReplies
I can't get Bill Mayer. Years ago when he was on network TV, my husband loved him.Delete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2017 at 8:27 PM
Jean R. - Bill Maher show is posted on YouTube. Search for ' Maher June 2017'. ~ LibbyDelete
Thanks. I forget we can find just about anything on YouTube these days.Delete
I do stay away from political discussions. I'm pretty sure no one will convince me to become a Trump supporter nor do I think I can bring anyone to the left. These beliefs go so deep. Very sad to realize.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree we probably can't change each other but I'd love it if we didn't keep seeing each other as the 'enemy.' There are people on the political debate sites who literally believe we will haven another civil war over this administration.Delete
"Very sad" is a phrase that Trump has ruined for me. LOL
Jean, a very good essay today. I find that we share many of the same sentiments. The one thing that strikes me most about supporters of this administration is how vociferous and adamant they are in their support. It's almost fanatical...defiant. I think he was absolutely correct when he said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. Sadly, I believe that is still true.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. I don't see that changing any time soon either. His supporters have picked up his mantle of hate and division...so different than any other president we've ever had who have all tried to bring Americans together.Delete
I do wish people had more manners and self control so we COULD talk politics and religion and money and whatever. We learn a lot from others. Conversations not confrontations! Seems like we had that 10-20 years ago ... but sure not now.ReplyDeleteReplies
Manner and self control...ah, the good old days. The closest I remember to our country being so divided was in the last year or two of the Vietnam War and we managed to move past that eventually. So there is a sliver of hope we'll do the same in the post-Trump era.Delete
You just can't talk politics or religion anymore and expect a sane conversation. At our luncheon, we don't ever bring up those two subjects, and yet over the 60+ years we've known each other, we used too without anyone's feelings being hurt. Now, the Trump voters who hated Obama call the Left-Wingers intolerant and condescending and the Trump haters call the Right-Wingers know-it-alls and intolerant. As for me, a confused moderate, and my family of Republicans, Democrats, Green Party and a couple of staunch gun owners, one who works for the Michigan Senate-Republican side, and one Bernie supporter--well, we do not ever talk politics! We don't talk religion because the family is Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Agnostic. Discussing money would be out of the question, as that has NEVER been talked about and considered crude and rude. That leaves us to talk sports, travels, food and memories of the old days, which seems to leave us all happy and content.ReplyDeleteReplies
Isn't it funny how diverse our families are these days. I don't remember it being that way growing up. As for your last line, I don't follow sports, don't travel, don't cook and don't have a good memory of the "old days" so I don't have a lot to talk about. LOLDelete
its hard to know, because in my lifetime (65 and counting), I've never seen our country so polarized. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
Let's hope we can find our way back to "normal" again.Delete
I live in a west coast blue bubble of liberalism and share that with most of my friends, so I rarely encounter a Trump supporter. My BP couldn't take any defense of him anyway. My bad, I guess. But I just completed a lecture series at the university and the lecturer told us not to try to talk politics to our polar opposite with any hope of making much progress in this divisive environment. He said if everyone just moved one notch over from where you are and had conversations there, maybe that would help. Far left talks to Moderate Left; Moderate Left talks to Independent; Independent talks to Moderate Conservative; Moderate Conservative talks to Ultra Conservative. It makes some sense to start small to find common ground where the differences are not so vast. At least we're talking.ReplyDeleteReplies
Interesting theory. If I have an opportunity to try it out I will.Delete
I live in a Red state in a county that has never voted democratic for anything.
I live in a Trump county of Oregon and I've talked to several people who voted for him. They want things to 'go back' the way they were. That's a different time frame for everyone, but it's not terribly realistic. Some also like his strong man attitude. I'm careful to be conciliatory, but I've found I'd just as soon avoid conversations about politics and concentrate on the great things I know about the people I'm around. If people choose to only read and watch what agrees with their views, they're not going to be well informed about what's really happening. It's depressing.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hear the same things about going back to the idealized 1950s but it wasn't an ideal time for many segments of our society. I also hear the admiration for what they call a 'strong man' attitude but I see a bully whose not particularly smart. I hope someone really good comes along next time to run.Delete
I'm crossing my fingers Congress is adjusted in 2018 by the voters who were shocked that their vote did matter in 2016, to provide some balance in 2018. And I'm also anticipating he'll shoot himself in the foot eventually, but we'll be stuck with Mike Pence so a more balanced Congress is vital.Delete
I couldn't have said it better. It' what I hope for, too.Delete
I think it's important to discuss pros and cons of issues with friends and family as long as everyone remains civil. When my brother and I disagreed on some matters years ago, I recall his saying, "We agree to disagree." And we'd move on to another topic with neither feeling we had to convert the other, or that it was a win/lose situation and we still respected and loved one another.ReplyDeleteReplies
That's a phrase I use regularly in situations where I sense things are tensing up. It really is too bad people can't 'talk' instead of 'argue.'Delete
- AnonymousJune 11, 2017 at 10:50 PM
Because you choose not to be confrontational doesn't mean that you are intolerant. Too much has been written in the media since the election about people needing to talk to each other to cross the divide, The reality is that it is difficult and for different reasons people are not always willing to have those discussions. Which is why it is accepted that there are things that we dont discuss with each other. Resolving conflicts is not easy and anyone who thinks so is not experienced.ReplyDelete
I think you handled your situation really well.
I am really wary of some people I know who are Trump supporters and I don't necessarily have any reason or desire to discuss it with them. On this we will disagree.
I think I'm too old to change something so basic to my personality, so I'll go on trying to lessen tensions if they are building in a group situation.Delete
Really thought provoking post. Wise cracks around a sacred cow of mine is never welcome, even if I can crack an egg over their head in return. Since demonizing isn't your stock in trade, at least publicly, I like the way you handled it once the flames started ...make it off limits!ReplyDelete
Anyway...If 37% remain diehard Trump fans, that still leaves a lot of wiggle room for some inspiring, rising leader to win hearts for a better option. What we all have in common is that we pine for rescue from whatever ails us. Do you see anybody out there to fit this bill?Replies
Thanks. I think. LOL I sure hope there is an inspiring leader (new blood) out there that will rise to the top for the next election---two of them would be even better. I like elections where you know who ever wins he/she won't blow up the world.Delete
I miss your blog. Hope your summer is going well so far.
Nice to be missed :-) Sorry I've been scarce. Life has been both more nuts and more sane. I've my hands in so many more pots - I've started drawing again - nude figure drawing!, I'm taking yoga classes, designing the home remodel, helping out my father and brother out, and basically expanding mind/ heart/body care in alternative ways. Playing it forward into a world beyond the one roiled by Trumpian firestorms. Yup. He too shall pass...Delete
You sound happy and in a good place. So happy for you! And, boy, am I envious of you taking nude figure drawing again! Those were my favorite classes back in college.Delete
I practically fell into these drawing classes through an online neighborhood networking group called Nextdoor.com. it has introduced me to all sorts of activities and people. One guy fished for interest for a life drawing group, where we'd pool our money to pay the model fees. He's an animator, and wanted to practice life drawing. Really interesting group of (mostly) guys (all married) animators and cartoonists. The guy who took over Beetle Bailey's strip when Mort Drucker died is there. Nice, softspoken fellow.Delete
It's been good for my soul to brush off my dusty, rusty drawing skills. Now I'm 'in the flow'!! I'll email you some pictures ;-)
I clearly belong to the wrong neighborhood networking group. All ours does is talk about lost and found pets, contractors and noises they don't understand.Delete
Looking forward to seeing your drawings.
Wow, very interesting Jean. Here in Canada we can talk about Trump any time but yet there are some people here think Trump is doing great. I watched a show last time about how many people ( mostly men ) were taken and thrown out the US because they don't have the normal papers. Before they would just down and speak to a special person and then they would be allowed to go home. They should men who have wives and children and yet they were sent out of the US. One was so bad, His daughter was graduation from collage and the next day they got rid of him. The family were all crying. The daughter cried was worried about her future without her father. These men had good jobs, built homes or bought them, paid taxes, were part of their communities but yet since they were told, we have a new president and therefore you have to go. WHY? This upset me very much. I always thought that immigrants were welcomed to this country. My family came from Italy and I still have father members living in the states. During the show, they spoke with a 17 year old who said he was a Republican and totally agreed with Trump. He was questioned about these men who had families, had lived in the states for many years, paid taxes, etc. You know what he said? Tough, they aren't Americans so get them out. This teenager came from Texas. What the heck is this world coming from?ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful day and be careful while in some body else's car. See ya my friend.
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Trump has demonize immigrants and blamed them for a lot of our problems---real and imaginary. It's hard to watch. My grandparents came here from Italy, too, and faced their share of prejudices but what's different now is we have a president whipping up the hate. I really miss no-drama Obama or someone equally as level-headed at the helm of our country.Delete
- AnonymousJune 13, 2017 at 9:43 PM
Jean, You've made such an important observation here: If we ban discussions of politics, we keep our conversations civil and polite, but we also never figure out how to have civil and polite conversations about our differences. This just increases the polarization in our country, where each of us only talks to those who agree with us. It's a dilemma. I wonder if it would work to have, instead of a "no politics" rule, a rule that no one is allowed to make a political remark that assumes an right-thinking person must agree. -JeanReplyDeleteReplies
It would be worth a try. I don't think the polarization is good for any of us. Conversations with rules for engagement. I like that.Delete
You bring up a good point about talking to each other. I'm guilty of not talking to many people about politics. I talk politics with my husband, my son and my daughter-in-law who are all like-minded democrats. I talk politics a little with a very close friend who is a republican, but is not a Trump supporter. She held her nose and voted for Hillary... as far as I know. :) That's it. I don't talk much about it to anyone else really.ReplyDelete
Most Americans watch the cable news channel that reinforces their already set beliefs. I'm guilty of that, too.
Levi The Mighty Schnauzer is mighty handsome in your sidebar.Replies
I think the constant drama that comes along with Trump is stressing out a lot of people on both sides. I don't see polite and helpful conversations starting in the heartland until we get a unifying president in the White House.Delete
Levi is a handsome guy but scary sick right now. I'll write about it Saturday, just got home from the vet with a bottle of pain pills.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The latest figures from the NCAA show that football and men's basketball players are graduating in record numbers.
The annual Graduation Success Rate figures, released Thursday, show both sports hit an all-time high based on the one-year measurement of freshmen who enrolled in 2005-06.
Men's basketball players made a six-percentage point jump over the freshmen class of 2004-05, hitting 74 percent. Football players were at 70 percent, up from 69 percent last year.
The NCAA's overall four-year measurement, covering freshmen classes from 2002-03 through 2005-06, was 80 percent, matching last year's record.
The one-year numbers compiled by the federal government remained steady at 65 percent, two points higher than the overall student body. There is a difference in the overall numbers because the NCAA figures include transfer students.
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Denard Robinson Leaving Other Heisman Hopefuls In His DustOctober 3, 2010
Denard Robinson and the Michigan Wolverines entered the 2010 College Football season under a lot of scrutiny and with many critics selling them short. Many questioned whether Rich Rodriguez could have success at such a high publicity school like Michigan. Rodriguez had great success at West Virginia, but Michigan is a completely different atmosphere when it comes to College Football.
After finishing 3-8 in 2008, the Wolverines fell under a heavy cloud of scrutiny. That criticism grew when Michigan had another lackluster year in 2009. After starting 4-0, Michigan fell flat only winning one more game that year finishing 5-7. For a perennial power like Michigan, eight wins in one year is consider a disappointment. Eight wins over a two-year span is unacceptable. Needless to say, Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines were under a great deal of pressure entering this 2010 season.
Rich Rodriguez came to Michigan with a completely different style of football than what fans in Ann Arbor were accustomed to seeing. Rodriguez and his supporters would tell you that it takes a while to change systems and recruit the right athletes for that system.
Well it appears Rodriguez has found the right athlete, at least at the Quarterback position. Sophomore QB Denard Robinson has burst on the scene taking advantage of Rodriguez's spread option offense to put up video game type numbers through five games this season. Saturday's game against the University of Indiana was no exception, as Robinson lit up the Hoosiers for almost 500 yards of total offense, all by himself.
Rich Rodriguez's spread option system relies on a speedy, athletic QB who can threaten defenses with both his running and passing ability. Pat White thrived in this system at West Virginia, accounting for more than 10,000 yards in his four years as a Mountaineer. Denard Robinson seems well on his way to besting White's numbers under this spread option offense. Robinson has already accounted for more than two thirds of Michigan's total offensive yardage this season, which is even more impressive when you consider that Robinson left the game against Bowling Green in the first quarter with a knee injury. Even after missing three quarters of a game, Robinson has totaled 1,008 passing yards and 905 rushing yards through 5 games this season. Robinson also has 15 Touchdowns to his name (7 passing, 8 rushing).
Pat White's best year under Rich Rodriguez he was able to total 1,724 passing yards and 1,335 rushing yards. Denard Robinson is less than halfway through the season and well on his way to crushing these totals set by White. Let's put Robinson's numbers into perspective with some of his other Heisman Trophy competition. The Michigan QB currently leads all Heisman candidates in rushing yards, in fact he leads the nation in rushing yards. Coming into Week 5, Robinson leads defending Heisman winner Mark Ingram in terms of yards per game by 18 yards a game (Robinson 172 YPG rushing, Ingram 154 YPG rushing). Through five games Robinson currently trails Ohio State QB Terelle Pryor by only 7 passing yards (1,015 for Pryor, 1,008 for Robinson) yet he has out-rushed Pryor by 532 yards (905 for Robison, 373 for Pryor).
Many critics question whether or not Robinson can keep up this relentless pace throughout an entire season. Some argue that teams will begin to scheme against Robinson, making it significantly more difficult for him to put up the kind of numbers he has thus far. Only time will tell, but so far only one team (Connecticut) can claim they were caught off guard by Robinson, every team after that has been scheming to stop Robinson and none have been able to do so. The only thing standing between Denard Robinson and the 2010 Heisman trophy is the threat of injury. Running Quarterbacks are much more susceptible to injury due to the fact that they put themselves in harms way more often than pocket passers. However, Robinson has proven himself tough and resilient thus far. I fully expect Denard Robinson to be crowned the 2010 Heisman trophy winner.


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"Students can access the library's public computers 120 hours a week." Most messages can be boiled down in just this way.
Don't think only about what the message means to your library ("Cutting Sunday evening library hours will mean staff layoffs."). Think about what the message means for your college or university ("Cutting Sunday evening library hours will mean that students will lose a key location and a critical time for research and study.")
Come up with some "talking points."
This is where you can use the data your library collects so diligently. Using the previous example (concerns about shortening Sunday evening library hours) your talking points should include:
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- The impact on users (students, faculty, research and teaching assistants and other school staff members) if services must be reduced because of reduced hours. Be specific, use your data. Click on a useful tool, Put Your Data to Work for Your Frontline Advocacy Team [4.5.f.2] for some ideas about using statistics to help convey your library's message.
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So on the 7th of January, our first birding trip out of the new year, we grabbed our gear and ambled over to Essex to our favourite RSPB reserve, Rainham Marshes. Its a great place to bird, I saw many of my firsts here. And bonus it has a loo! We set out for our walk around with no real high hopes of seeing anything, it was freezing cold and windy. We headed round to this little section where they have bird feeders to have a see what was about, expecting to see the usual. Which we did, including two rats having a munch.
We weren't standing there long, when I started smacking my partner (his names Mike by the way) and pointing in to the flattened reeds.
'What?! Its a Moorhen you dope' he says, but oh no, no. I know I get confused at times, and quite often call Moorhens, Coots, and Coots, Moorhens (I can tell them apart, my mouth just moves to fast for my brain!) but this was not Moorhen. A few seconds pass and then Mike realises that what we are looking at is in fact our Water Rail! We both stand in awe for a few moments with silly grins on our faces! We have finally seen our elusive Water Rail and it hadn't even noticed we were there!
I only managed to get a shot of its behind!
So looks like our 2015 bird is ticked off already! What now!?!
More shots from the day.
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With the U.S. House expected Saturday to consider a compromise bill to regulate pharmacy compounding, interest groups have weighed in on the merits of the legislation.
Earlier this week negotiators from the House and Senate announced agreement on legislation that would clarify the authority of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the practice. Pharmacists compound when they mix drugs from scratch to meet patient needs, but without having to adhere to the same safety standards that drug manufacturers must meet.
Congress' action came in response to a year-old meningitis outbreak that has killed 64 and sickened more than 700 in 20 states. Investigators traced the outbreak to a batch of contaminated steroid injections compounded at a Massachusetts pharmacy.
A Kansas City Star series more than a decade ago first exposed the risks in pharmacy compounding.
The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, a professional group, announced its opposition Friday, saying the legislation was too restrictive and gave the FDA "sweeping, unprecedented authority in determining what pharmacies can compound."
"This bill will not further the safety of compounded medication, which was its only purpose," David G. Miller, the group's executive vice president, said in a written statement.
From a different perspective, Public Citizen's Health Research Group criticized the legislation, saying it wasn't restrictive enough.
"It has misleadingly been presented to the American public as something that improves federal oversight over compounding pharmacies," said Michael Carome, director of the health research group.
The National Community Pharmacy Association, which represents more than 23,000 independent pharmacies, announced its support for the bill in a letter to House leadership, calling it "a balanced and effective approach to address critical and complex issues surrounding compounded medications."
And in a letter to House members, Kasey K. Thompson of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists said the bill would clarify federal oversight of compounding.
"The ASHP believes this legislation will help the FDA focus their regulatory efforts on entities that are compounding outside the scope of traditional pharmacy compounding, while leaving traditional pharmacy compounding under the oversight of state boards of pharmacy," Thompson wrote.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Friday scheduled the Drug Quality and Security Act for floor consideration Saturday, but noted in his announcement that a vote could not be expected before noon Kansas City time.


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Deputy Prime Minister's Response to Parliamentary
Question from Andrew Lansley MP11 July 2001
I head a new office of the Deputy Prime Minister
in the Cabinet Office. I am supported by a Minister of State,
my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Mrs. Roche),
by a Parliamentary Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley
(Mr. Leslie) and by Lord Macdonald of Tradeston CBE and Baroness
Morgan of Huyton for business in the House of Lords. As First
Secretary of State I will continue to deputise for the Prime Minister
as required, drawing on the resources of other parts of the Cabinet
Office as necessary. I will oversee the work of the Social Exclusion
Unit, which reports to the Prime Minister through me. I am also
responsible for the Regional Co-ordination Unit and the nine Government
offices of the Regions. On international matters I will support
the Prime Minister by seeing visiting dignitaries; undertaking
overseas visits; and overseeing the work of the International
Public Service Unit. I also carry ministerial responsibility for
the British-Irish Council and will deputise as necessary for the
Prime Minister at meetings of the Council. I will continue to
play a role in international climate change discussions and negotiations
on behalf of the Prime Minister. In addition, I will chair new
Cabinet Committees on Domestic Affairs and on Nations and the
Regions; and new sub-Committees on Social Exclusion and Regeneration
and on Energy Policy. I will continue to chair the Committee on
The Minister of State in the Deputy Prime Minister's
Office supports me across the full range of my duties. She will,
in particular, oversee the work of the Regional Co-ordination
Unit and the Government Offices in the Regions, reporting to me
on the development of their role and on the work of the regional
network of the COI. She will lead on projects arising out of the
work of the Social Exclusion Unit, be responsible for the work
of the Business Co-ordination Unit, and will be sponsor Minister
for a number of PIU projects. She will also be a member of a number
of Cabinet Committees, including those on the regions and social
The Parliamentary Secretary will support the Minister
of State and me across the range of our duties. He will also support
Lord Macdonald and will be the Minister answerable in the Commons
for day-to-day decisions on the Civil Service under the Prime
Minister as Minister for the Civil Service.
Baroness Morgan of Huyton, Deputy Minister for Women,
will report to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for
Trade and Industry as the Cabinet Minister for Women on: the day-to-day
oversight of the Women and Equality Unit and sponsorship of the
Women's National Commission. She will co-ordinate equality issues
across Whitehall as Chair of a new Cabinet Sub-Committee on Equality.
She will also have responsibility for implementation of Article
13 (reporting to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry)
and cross-cutting equality issues (on behalf of the three lead
equality Ministers).
The right hon. Lord Macdonald of Tradeston CBE, as
Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster reports direct to the Prime Minister. He has day-to-day
responsibility for the work of the Delivery Unit, which supports
the Prime Minister on matters to do with the delivery of public
services. He will work closely with me as appropriate on related
cross-cutting issues covered by the Cabinet Committees under my
chairmanship. He is also responsible for the work of the Regulatory
Impact Unit; and the e-envoy's unit's work on e-government. He
will chair the Panel on Regulatory Accountability and will jointly
chair a new Ministerial Group on the Manchester Commonwealth Games
with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
The Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home
Civil Service, Sir Richard Wilson, will continue to report direct
to the Prime Minister on the work of the Cabinet and Cabinet Committee
Secretariats; the Joint Intelligence Committee and the Single
Intelligence Vote for which he is the Accounting Officer; and
the corporate management of the Civil Service (including the Government
Information and Communication Service); the honours system; the
Performance and Innovation Unit, which reports through him to
the Prime Minister and which will provide support to the new Forward
Strategy Unit in Number 10; and the new Office of Public Services
Reform which will similarly report through him to the Prime Minister.


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