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Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü etkinlikleri yıllardır Türkiye'de gerçekleştirilmiştir. Türkiye'deki Etkinlikler Tai Chi ve Çigong gösteriler ve çeşitli güzel Türkiye'de yerlerde öğretmek-ins dahil ettik ...
Tai Chi ve Türkiye'nin en güzel eyalet çapında Çigong öğretmenleri ve uygulayıcılar katıldı ...
http://www.WorldTaiChiDay.org Organizasyon Kitleri, Medya Kitleri, ve etkinlikler için resmi beyannamede nasıl hakkında bilgi tai chi ve qigong meraklıları, öğretmenler, okullar ve kuruluşların Türkiye çapında sağlayarak, organize merkezi olmuştur. WorldTaiChiDay.org 'un ücretsiz kaynaklara Tai Chi ve Çigong yardımcı olmuştur (Chi Kung) meraklıları yerel medya ile ortak Tai Chi ve Çigong sağlık yararları hakkında kamuoyunu eğitmek ve yerel Tai Chi durumu ve Türkiye genelinde Çigong sınıfları hakkında (bkz: at bağlantılar alt) ...
Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü WorldTaiChiDay.org ayrıca Günü afiş, broşür ve posterler tai chi ve qigong meraklıları kendi yerel çalışmaları hakkında Türkiye genelinde insanları eğitmek ve Türkiye'ye yardım etmek, Tai Chi ve Çigong (chi kung) Resmi Dünya için ücretsiz sanat sağladı Onları Dünya Tai Chi ve Luxemburg büyük ve güzel bir eyalet çapında Çigong Günü etkinlikleri içinde yer almak nasıl bildirmek için ...
WorldTaiChiDay.org, Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü için organize hub, tai chi yardım ve qigong grupları (altta Geçmiş Medya Linkleri bakınız) olaylar için maksimum medyada kazanmak için 18 dilde çeviri de dahil olmak üzere resmi Basın Bültenleri, sağladı ...
Türkiye Tai Chi ve Çigong uygulayıcılarının Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü logosu Dünya ile, Dünya Resmi Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü Tişörtleri alarak, sağlık ve şifa niyetiyle ve eğitim, birçok destekleyici WorldTaiChiDay.org eserinin küresel dalganın bir parçası olmuştur Batı bilim ve Doğu zihin-beden sağlığı bilimi şimdi dünyanın yararına birlikte geliyor nasıl göstermek için Ying Yang Sembol üzerine yerleştirilmiştir Da Vinci'nin Vitruvian Man. Geri Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü sloganı var "Tek Dünya ... One Breath" kişisel bir vizyon oluşturmak için küresel Tai Chi ve uygulayıcılar Çigong ailesi ırksal, etnik, dinsel ve jeo-politik sınırların ötesinde her yıl bir araya gelip nasıl gösteren ve küresel sağlık ve şifa ...
Tai Chi ve Çigong tıbbi araştırma, Dünya Tai Chi toplanır ve http://www.worldtaichiday.org ücretsiz bir kaynak olarak kullanılabilir Çigong Günü WorldTaiChiDay.org Tıbbi Araştırma Kütüphanesi, Türkiye'de uygulayıcıları kendi yerel sağlık sistemleri, devlet ve kurumsal eğitmek yardımcı olur tai chi ve qigong derin yararları kanıtlayan büyüyen araştırma sağlık uzmanları Türkiye'de ikamet ve toplum sunuyoruz ...
Türkiye'nin uygulayıcıların WorldTaiChiDay.org 'ın Foto ve Video galeri Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü etkinlikleri (altındaki bağlantıya bakın) aracılığıyla dünya ile paylaşmak için Türkiye'nin kendi güzel ev devlet vitrine güzel fotoğraflar ve videolar almış ..
Türkiye Dünya Tai Chi temel bir parçası olmuştur ve her yıl etkinlik Çigong Günü global ailesi var ...
Biz davet ve teşvik tüm tai chi ve qigong uygulayıcıları Türkiye'de mevcut Dünyada Tai Chi katılmak ve Luxemburg Çigong Günü etkinlikleri, veya son günü tai chi ve qigong uygulayıcıları her yıl dünya ile yapılacak kendi Türkiye'ye etkinlikler düzenlemek Nisan Cumartesi, dünya çapında kitlesel tai chi dalga ve qigong sergiler parçası ve Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü olarak bilinen qi bu dünya çapında dalga, makyaj öğretmek-ins ...
Luxemburg'un olaylar hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinin ve Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü etkinlikleri (altta canlı Görüntüleyebilmeniz) Küresel Dünya ...
Harvard Sağlık yayının çünkü Tai Chi ile yardımcı veya önlemek için kanıtlanmıştır tüm sayısız sağlık sorunları Tai Chi "in Motion İlaç" çağırdı ...
Tıbbi araştırma Tai Chi ve / veya Çigong fibromiyalji, depresyon, anksiyete, Parkinson belirtileri ile yardımcı, beyin boyutunu artırmak, kalp hastalığı tedavi, gencin DEHB semptomları azaltmak, yaklaşık% 50 oranında daha düşük yüksek tansiyon bağışıklık fonksiyonunu artırmak olduğunu bulmuştur ve diğer sağlık sorunları bir dizi. Tai Chi ve Çigong, chi kung, dünya çapında olduğu gibi Türkiye'de de sağlık, iş ve eğitim programları için güçlü bir ek olurdu ...
Rod Ferguson adında bir Avustralya tai chi hocası, Tai Chi eğitimi yaşlılar tarafından önlenebilecek ne kadar para onun yerel eyalet hükümeti gösterdi bir teklif oluşturmak için WorldTaiChiDay.org az ve WorldTaiChiDay.org 'in haber bültenleri yoluyla sağlanan tıbbi araştırma kullanılır ve kendi devlet çapında yaşlılar (altta Tıbbi Araştırma kaynak WorldTaiChiDay.org canlı bağlantıya bakınız) için Tai Chi kullanılabilir hale getirir Tai Chi programını finanse edilen bir devlet sonuçlandı ...
Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü sundukları içine, Tai Chi ve Çigong, chi kung birleşmeyle konusunda yerel yönetimler, sağlık kurumları, üst düzey bakım, ve kurumsal wellness uzmanları yetiştirmektir WorldTaiChiDay.org bizim engin kaynaklarını kullanma konusundaki sakinleri teşvik neden olabilir büyük tasarruf gelecekte sağlık sorunları kaçınılır ve mevcut sağlık sorunları tai chi ve qigong kullanarak çok ekonomik hafifletti gibi ...
Tai Chi ve Çigong da mahkumların davranışlarını geliştirmek ve büyük ölçüde kendi suç işleme oranını düşürmek için ceza tesislerinde kullanılmaktadır. En mahkumlar hapishanede maliyeti pahalıya toplumun maliyetleme, hapishaneye geri gel. Ceza ve rehabilitasyon programlarına tai chi ve qigong birleşmeyle, Türkiye gibi ülkelerin geleceği cezaevinde hapis maliyeti tarifsiz milyonlarca kurtarabilir, ve yardım mahkumların tekrar topluma kendi yayınlanmadan önce sakin insanlar haline ...
Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü sağlık ve şifa eğlenceli bir küresel kutlama değil, aynı zamanda tüm dünyada Türkiye ve diğer devletler ve milletler karşılaştığı sorunları için bazı çok ciddi çözümler sunmaktadır ..
WorldTaiChiDay.org tıbbi araştırma ve tai chi ve qigong haberleri ve dünya çapında uygulayıcılarından ipuçları kırma ilgili güncelleştirmeleri almak için: Türkiye'de yerleşik Dünya Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü Resmi E-Bülten Dergisi kaydolmak için davet edilir. Arşivlenmiş geçmiş WorldTaiChiDay.org E Dergiler artık 38 dilde görülebilir. (Altta Dergi Archived Issues WorldTaiChiDay.org canlı bağlantıya bakınız) ..
Türkiye'de ikamet adresindeki ücretsiz değerli e-dergi almak için kayıt olabilirsiniz ...
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Organizasyon Kitleri
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Fotoğraf / Geçmiş Dünya Video Galeri Tai Chi ve Çigong Günü etkinlikleri
WorldTaiChiDay.org Tıbbi Araştırma
WorldTaiChiDay.org E-Dergi Geçmiş Sayı Arşiv
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events have been held in Turkey for many years. Events in Turkey have included Tai Chi and Qigong demonstrations and teach-ins at various lovely Turkey locations…
Tai Chi and Qigong teachers and practitioners throughout the beautiful state of Turkey have participated…
http://www.WorldTaiChiDay.org has been the organizing hub, providing tai chi and qigong enthusiasts, teachers, schools and organizations throughout Turkey with Organizing Kits, Media Kits, and information on how to get official proclamations for their events. WorldTaiChiDay.org's free resources have helped Tai Chi and Qigong (Chi Kung) enthusiasts partner with local media to educate the public about Tai Chi and Qigong health benefits, and about the availability of local Tai Chi and Qigong classes throughout Turkey (see links at the bottom)…
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day's WorldTaiChiDay.org has also provided free artwork for Official World Tai Chi and Qigong (chi kung) Day banners, flyers, and posters, to help Turkey tai chi and qigong enthusiasts educate people throughout Turkey about their local work and to let them know how to get involved in World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events throughout the great and beautiful state of Luxemburg…
WorldTaiChiDay.org, the organizing hub for World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, has provided official Press Releases, including translations into 18 languages, to help tai chi and qigong groups gain maximum media coverage for their events (see Past Media Links at bottom)…
Turkey Tai Chi and Qigong practitioners have been part of the global wave of health & healing intent and education, many supporting WorldTaiChiDay.org's work, by getting Official World Tai Chi and Qigong Day T-Shirts, with the World Tai Chi and Qigong Day logo of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man overlayed on the Ying Yang Symbol to show how Western science and Eastern mind-body health science are now coming together to benefit the world. The back has World Tai Chi and Qigong Day's motto of "One World … One Breath" showing how the global Tai Chi and Qigong family of practitioners come together each year across racial, ethnic, religious and geo-political boundaries to create a vision of personal and global health and healing…
Tai Chi and Qigong medical research, collected in World Tai Chi and Qigong Day's WorldTaiChiDay.org Medical Research Library, available as a free resource at http://www.worldtaichiday.org helps Turkey practitioners educate their local health systems, government, and corporate wellness professionals on the growing research proving the profound benefits tai chi and qigong offer Turkey residents and society…
Turkey practitioners have taken beautiful photographs and videos showcasing their beautiful home state of Turkey to share with the world via WorldTaiChiDay.org's Photo and Video gallery of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events (see link at bottom)..
Turkey has been a foundational part of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day's global family of events year after year…
We invite and encourage all tai chi and qigong practitioners in Turkey to join in existing World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events in Luxemburg, or to organize their own Turkey events to be held with the world of tai chi and qigong practitioners each year on the last Saturday of April, as part of the worldwide wave of mass tai chi and qigong exhibitions and teach-ins that make up this worldwide wave of qi, known as World Tai Chi and Qigong Day…
Learn more about Luxemburg's events and also the global World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events (see live links at bottom)…
Harvard Health publication has called Tai Chi "Medication in Motion" because of all the myriad health issues Tai Chi has been proven to help with or avoid…
Medical research has found that Tai Chi and/or Qigong can boost the immune function by nearly 50%, reduce ADHD symptoms in teenager, lower high blood pressure, treat heart disease, increase brain size, help with Parkinson's symptoms, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, and a host of other health issues. Tai Chi and Qigong, chi kung, would be a powerful addition to health, business, and education programs in Turkey as it has been worldwide…
A Australian tai chi teacher, named Rod Ferguson, used the medical research provided at WorldTaiChiDay.org and via WorldTaiChiDay.org's newsletters to create a proposal that showed his local state's government how much money could be saved by training seniors in Tai Chi, and it resulted in a state funded Tai Chi program that makes Tai Chi available for seniors throughout their state (see live link to WorldTaiChiDay.org Medical Research resource at bottom)…
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day encourages Turkey residents to utilize our vast resources at WorldTaiChiDay.org to educate your local government, health institutions, senior care, and corporate wellness professionals about how incorporating Tai Chi and Qigong, chi kung, into their offerings can result in massive savings as future health issues are avoided, and current health challenges are alleviated very economically by using tai chi and qigong…
Tai Chi and Qigong have also been used in penal facilities to improve the behavior of inmates, and to dramatically lower their recidivism rate. Most inmates come back to prison, costing society dearly in prison costs. By incorporating tai chi and qigong into penal and rehabilitation programs, states like Turkey could save untold millions in future prison incarceration costs, and help inmates become calmer people before their release back into society…
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is a fun global celebration of health and healing, but also offers some very serious solutions to issues facing Turkey and other states and nations around the world..
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Below are excerpts from The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong 3rd edition.
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Chapter 1
Why Practice Tai Chi (and Qigong - Chi Kung)?
> The reasons behind Tai Chi's exploding popularity
> The root of Tai Chi
> A brief history of Tai Chi
> ALL styles of Tai Chi can offer powerful benefits
Tai Chi comes in several excellent styles. While some chapters in this book relate to particular Tai chi styles, you'll find this book to be a valuable resource to anyone exploring "any" form of Tai Chi or QiGong, which is why it is used as a primer and textbook by teachers of many styles worldwide, and in several languages.
Tai Chi is practiced by about 20 percent of the world's population and is fast becoming the most popular exercise in the world today. Its rapid expansion is largely due to one important fact it feels really good. Although Tai Chi was originally a martial art and is increasingly offered by martial arts studios, it's now practiced in businesses, hospitals, and schools everywhere. Tai Chi is not only a valuable tool for improving health, it is a powerful business tool as well. Companies see that T'ai Chi improves productivity by helping employees to be happy, relaxed, and creative. Hospitals see Tai Chi as a potent, yet cost-effective, therapy for nearly any condition. Tai Chi classes can be found nowadays almost anywhere. In this chapter, I'll give you a whirlwind tour of the reasons behind Tai Chi's growing popularity and what Tai Chi can do for you.
Exploring the Reasons Behind T'ai Chi's Popularity
Do you ever feel like life is getting more stressful? It is. The increasing stress in today's world is one reason for Tai Chi's growing worldwide popularity. Tai Chi was designed to help people go through change with less damage by improving the way we handle stress. Studies show change is stressful, and even though change is often good, if the stress that change causes isn't managed it can damage your health and outlook on life. Since about 90 percent of the discoveries made in the history of the human race have been made in our lifetime, we are all going through some serious change and stress. Therefore, Tai Chi's ability to help practitioners "let go" of this stress more easily is just what the doctor ordered, literally.
Imagine life is a carousel upon which we ride. When life gets spinning really fast, Tai Chi seems to slow things down, like a hand pulling us away from the "edge," back to the center of life's carousel. Here, in the center, we can let life spin even faster and not feel like throwing up (hardly ever anyway). In fact, by practicing Tai Chi as you ride life's carousel, you might even catch yourself going "wheeeeeeeeeeeee" a lot more often.
Whether you are stressed out, continually exhausted, treating a health problem, or just wanting to get in shape and feel young again, Tai Chi is just what you need. Tai Chi goes right to the heart of everything we do by healing and cleansing the central nervous system. Tai Chi helps us to let go of all the nervous tension that bogs down our mental computer system (like getting a general tune up every day). This makes everything inside us work better, which often makes the world around us seem better, too. So Tai Chi is really a self-improvement tool that will make you a better "anything-you-want-to-be." Unless of course you want to be stressed out, exhausted, uninspired, and feel old and out of shape. In that case, Tai Chi won't help.
People everywhere in the world are rapidly embracing Tai Chi as "their" exercise. Although Tai Chi originates from China, it is now seen so commonly in the West that soon it will be thought of as an American thing, a British thing, a Canadian thing, or whatever. If you ask American kids what their favorite American food is, many will reply, "Pizza!" (which is originally Italian). And someday, when asked what their favorite American pastime is, Americans will say, "Tai Chi!"
Tai Chi Relaxes the Mind, Body, and Our Lives
Just as we flow through the changes of life (or not), our life energy, or Qi, flows through us (or not, if we are stressed out). Qi is the energy of life and flows through all living things. Qi animates, heals, and nurtures life. When the stress of change makes us tense, we squeeze off the flow of life energy. Physically, this feels like tension. Tai Chi and QiGong are easy, simple, yet sophisticated relaxation exercises that encourage the muscles to let go of tension, the mind to let go of worry, and the heart to let go of angst. Tension, worry, and angst all block our Qi flow.
Tension, worry, and angst are usually the result of our mind, heart, or body being unable to "let go" of something. The goal of Tai Chi is to move through a series of choreographed movements like a slow martial arts routine, but very slowly and in a state of absolute relaxation. In order to do this, we have to let go of our mental/physical tensions, grudges, prejudices, and anything that keeps us tied to the past. This enables us to flow more easily into the future by clearing our mind and body of old stress so that we constantly get a "fresh" perspective on life.
Tai Chi is simple and easy to do, yet benefits us on many deep and complex levels. Tai Chi's slow, relaxed movements incorporate breathing and relaxation techniques that cleanse our mind, body, and emotions each time we go through the gentle movements. T'ai Chi is designed to uncover and release every single place we hold tension or blocked energy. When our mind or heart holds onto issues (fears, obsessions, angers, and so on) our body literally squeezes itself with tension. Going slowly through the movements is like doing an internal scan of the entire body to clear and release any place the body is gripping onto tension. There is no exercise on earth that can help you go through this wild ride toward the future quite like T'ai Chi canwhich is why T'ai Chi is truly the exercise of the future.
Tai Chi Promotes Internal Strength for Young and Old
Tai Chi looks very much like slow-motion kung fu. David Carradine performed a form related to Tai Chi as Kwai Chang Caine on the television series Kung Fu. And although Tai Chi shares some similarities with kung fu, don't let that scare you away. Tai Chi can be practiced by anyone at any age and in any condition.
In martial arts circles, it is known as an internal martial art. Tai Chi promotes internal strength physically, mentally, and emotionally, which is why it can be powerful training tool for martial artists. But you don't have to be a martial artist to benefit from Tai Chi because it can also be practiced even by those in wheelchairs, with great results.
Unlike karate, Tai Chi has no belt or ranking system because the benefits of Tai Chi can only be felt and not seen. You practice Tai Chi to live better, more calmly, clearly, healthfully, and productively. Tai Chi is a tonic for life. You will see your progress reflected by how you feel, how spry you look in the mirror, how much you love life, and how healthy you are. Isn't this much better than owning a black belt? However, if you do karate, Tai Chi can help you get that black belt by improving your internal function and grace.
Also, Tai Chi differs from most martial arts in that people of all ages can practice it. Many people with disabilities and ailments practice Tai Chi as therapy. No one is restricted from practicing Tai Chi, and yet Tai Chi can benefit the fittest athletes, just as much as it benefits elderly arthritis sufferers. Tai Chi clubs are sprouting up all over the world, with people from all walks of life.
Tai Chi: Finally an Exercise That Feels Good!
Tai Chi is popular because it is easy to do and provides a gentle workout that doesn't leave you drained, but energized! Tai Chi's "effortless" nature is a big stretch for most of us, however, because we associate exercise with force, pain, and tension. In fact, some exercise actually contributes to stress. When I played junior high football in west Texas many years ago, the coaches determined that we were through running when one of us started throwing up. That's right, upchucking. It was the only time in my life I ever hoped to see someone throw up.
Tai Chi is helping the world get a healthy, enjoyable view of exercise. As a nation, we have adopted a mutant notion of exercise, exemplified by the mantra "no pain, no gain." This has traumatized many Americans, including myself, leaving an indelible mark on how we view exercise. In Tai Chi we have a mantra, too, "If your exercise causes pain, you'll get so sick of the thought of it that you'll never want to do it again." Ours isn't as neatly poetic as "no pain, no gain," but ours makes infinitely more sense. Tai Chi should always, always, always, feel good. And since it does feel good, you will look forward to it. Each morning you will find yourself grateful that you're alive and able to practice this cool exercise called Tai Chi.
Tai Chi doesn't begin with the premise that there is "something wrong" that needs to be "fixed, sculpted, lost, or burned off." It is a very accepting exercise, and helps us remember we are already perfect … but our ability to get better is limitless. Everyone is qualified to do Tai Chi. You don't have to look good in tights or Spandex to do Tai Chi, although if you do Tai Chi enough, you'll look pretty good in whatever you like to wear.
Tai Chi and QiGong are for anybody who is dealing with stress. In other wordseverybody. Anybody can do Tai Chi. If you've picked up a book on Tai Chi, you've probably experienced the acute stress of imagining yourself in some of those incredible (seemingly impossible) positions the Tai Chi models pose in for the photos. Relax. Those people are models. Most people do Tai Chi just the way you will do it. Easily and effortlessly. Although Tai Chi was one of the original martial arts, it is now practiced all over the world as a relaxation technique by people of all ages in the same shape you are in, and sometimes in even worse shape.
When you begin an exercise class, you may have the illusion that everybody other than you "belongs" there, and that they are all "good" at it. You will find that everybody goes through the same trials and tribulations. As you lighten up on yourself, you'll see struggling, growing, and healing are everywhere. Breathe and enjoy; you are among friends.
When you first begin practicing Tai Chi out in the backyard or in your local park, people may stare. Before long, your unique practice of Tai Chi becomes part of the rich texture of the neighborhood, and if you move away, they will miss you. Just as Tai Chi adds to your personal internal charm, your practice adds to the charm of your community.
Life is very complicated, and Tai Chi cannot solve all your problems. However, Tai Chi can help you simplify your life in a big and relaxing way.
Imagine that you're a tree. While your mind and body are the trunk of that tree, all your "life stuff" is like the many leaves on that tree. Your job, relationships, hobbies, hopes, and problems are all dangling out there on the tips of your life. When your health is bad or you can't sleep well, this affects the whole tree. You may have problems with your job that may strain your relationships, which in turn will drain the energy you need to pursue your hobbies, making you too tired to have hopeful dreams, and causing your problems to get seemingly bigger and bigger. When you are already beat, trying to figure out how to heal all these sick, shriveled leaves is too much to even think about.
However, what if you could pour some magic water on the roots of your tree? Magic that would heal all the sick leaves and cause them to grow larger, to catch more breezes and more sunlight, and more fun! This is what Tai Chi does. By nurturing the very core of your mind and body, Tai Chi makes you better at everything you do. You don't practice Tai Chi to be better at Tai Chi (although that happens). Each time you practice Tai Chi, you pour healing water on the roots of everything you are. This healing water, or energy, is carried out to the leaves of everything you do, making you the freshest, greenest tree you could ever want to be.
One name does not adequately express everything Tai Chi is because Tai Chi nurtures so many aspects of our lives at the root. Although originally a martial art known as Tai Chi Chuan ("supreme ultimate fist"), the shortened name of Tai Chi reflects how it is now viewed, as one of the most effective mind/body exercises in the world. So Tai Chi now refers to "supreme ultimate health exercise," "supreme ultimate relaxation therapy," "supreme ultimate balance conditioner, muscle toner, beauty treatment."
Tai Chi is the supreme ultimate because it goes right to the root of most health problems by relaxing the muscles and mind, aligning the spinal posture, and balancing the energy systems that run through the body, providing them with life energy. It is one of the most soothing, easy, and powerful things you can do for yourself. It is a profound self-improvement tool, a great toning exercise, and an incredible healing art. Whether you want to improve external beauty, mental outlook, or physical health and longevity, Tai Chi heals the roots of your being.
Tai Chi is a highly effective therapy for many injuries or chronic conditions, whether mental, emotional, or physical. The following chapters will discuss different maladies and how Tai Chi treats them. Tai Chi bolsters the immune system, as well, and can actually eliminate problems long before they become an actual physical illness.
Forget about covering up problems with makeup or surgery. Beautify from the inside out instead! Many cells are replaced daily, and almost the entire body is completely replaced every five to seven years. You are literally born anew on some level each and every day of your life. How those cells are reproduced is determined by how the life energy, or Qi, flows through your body. Therefore, you can have a terrific impact on how you age, look, and feel by promoting your Qi flow.
Have you ever sat back and noticed how small children never run down? Like the Energizer rabbit, on fast forward, they leap and spring, dance and chat, and chat and chat. Have you ever thought to yourself, "God, I wish I had that energy"? Well, you do have access to that energy (and without doing espresso shooters).
As human beings, we begin to block our access to that energy as we "mature" by holding onto past grudges, by shouldering responsibilities that are unrealistic, or just because of silly worries. Then we don't know how to let them go, and we get used to having less and less energy. We can think on a mental level that we want to "stop worrying" or "let go of tension," but that doesn't really work. We need life tools that help us let go of these blocks on deep levels in our mind, heart, and body, so that we can open to your flow of life energy.
Tai Chi and QiGong will give you access to simple exercises, which feel good and can open a valve to that limitless energy you thought you had lost forever. The Chinese discovered long ago that these blocks, or our stress, are simply the mind and nervous system squeezing onto grudges, worries, or even desires. Just as our muscles can tighten when tense, our mind and heart can grip tension too, and we have to be taught how to let go of their squeezing grip on life issues. So the goal of these ancient exercises is to wash our nervous system clean, so our mind can be fresh and vibrant like a newborn baby's, while still remembering the important stuff, like stopping at red lights and dressing before going to work.
Seriously, as we let go of most of the meaningless, irritating debris bouncing around in our mind, we have more space and energy for really important ideas to surface. Important memories like the bill we forgot to pay, or realizations like we forgot to tell someone how much you care about them. Tai Chi's slow, soothing movements provide that calm open space, even in the very center of the rat race.
America is not into the "aging" thing. What Americans spend on cosmetic surgery attests to that. Tai Chi will help you get over that prejudice, while also slowing the aging process in many ways. The Chinese believe as we practice Tai Chi it returns us to a state of "child-likeness" (but not childishness), where we see the world with fresh eyes. This allows us the freedom to reinvent ourselves easily and constantly, just as children do, enabling us to flow with the changes of life. We can once again be flexible and exuberant, while still benefiting from the wisdom of experience (like being able to hit our mouth with the spoon, well, most of the time). So Tai Chi has the ability to renew us, and through that renewal enhance our strength, health, and creativity.
Tai Chi is based on the principle that the world doesn't need to be held up by our worrying mind and tense body. In fact, we are much more helpful to the world (and far more enjoyable to be around) if we can let go of as much stress as possible. Realizing this principle is the first big step to letting Tai Chi reopen you to your own personal rejuvenating "fountain of energy"!
Tai Chi is unique. Although it is in a way 2,000 years old, it is at the cutting edge of modern Western medical research. Tai Chi is ancient yet modern, Eastern yet increasingly Western. Using Tai Chi is a way to get the most benefit out of all worlds, old and new, East and West. In fact, Western science is embracing Tai Chi very rapidly. Almost every month a new study seems to find yet another thing Tai Chi can treat, cure, or improve. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell said Tai Chi is about to explode (in popularity) as medical practitioners discover the time-tested technique.
In fact each new Tai Chi player educates more people on Tai Chi, and sometimes in odd ways. One of my students was practicing Tai Chi in the park in a suburb of Kansas City one morning when a police officer approached him to ask if he was all right. The officer said someone had called and reported somebody was having a "problem" in the park. So it may behoove you to know a bit more about Tai Chi in case you need to do some fast-talking. The following will help.
For an exercise that is so made to order for modern life, it is amazing to realize that Tai Chi is thought to be about 1,200 years old. Furthermore, Tai Chi is an expanded version of a more ancient exercise called QiGong, which may be at least 2,000 years old. Tai Chi's moving exercises are done very slowly, like slow motion kung fu. In days of old, Tai Chi (or Tai Chi Ch'uan) was primarily a martial art. It is believed that Buddhist and Taoist monks began practicing Tai Chi forms in monasteries (yes, like the Shao Lin Temple) for two reasons: One, to promote health because they were out of shape from sitting around meditating all the time; and two, because they were so out of shape, they couldn't defend themselves, and bandits would come and beat them up before taking their valuables. (And you thought you had stress!)
When most people first join a Tai Chi or QiGong class, they are not quite sure what they are getting themselves into. Most have a mother, a doctor, a friend, a daughter, or son telling them, "This Tai Chi stuff is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you have gotta try it!" However, these enthusiasts can't quite explain why you've gotta try it. So the following is for you, or whoever's been trying to explain it to you.
In modern terms, Tai Chi and QiGong are ancient systems of biofeedback and classical conditioning. Traditional Chinese doctors of long ago noted that our natural tendency is to hold onto stress, which bogs down the brain. They therefore created exercises that would train the mind and the body not only to continually dump stress, but also to actually change the way the body handles future stress (not the way your kids change the way you handle stress, but in a good way).
As Tai Chi players move through their slow motion movements, their mind becomes calm, their breathing deepens and slows, and their muscles relax. All this happens while the muscles are toning, making it a very efficient exercise. But, forget about efficiency, Tai Chi should be done as though you were going to do it forever. If you try to "hurry up and relax," it doesn't work as well. By proceeding slowly with Tai Chi, and making it a game, you will be much more likely to enjoy it and to stick with it. Chapter 2, "Let's Get Physical," explains how even in Tai Chi's easy going way, there is great power and dramatic physical benefit awaiting you, no matter what style of Tai Chi you enjoy.
Refer to this book's valuable insert DVD to view non-instructional exhibitions of a Mulan Basic Short Form and a Tai Chi Long Form, to get a feel for the soothing un-hurried flow of Tai Chi motion, with a calmness that all styles promote.
> Tai Chi reduces stress and slows the aging process.
> Everybody can do Tai Chi.
> Tai Chi restores the power of youthful exuberance.
> Tai Chi is an efficient therapy that can improve all aspects of your life.
> By clearing the mind, Tai Chi reminds you that life is a miracle.
Above are excerpts from The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong 3rd edition.


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NASCAR race cars require hundreds of welds -- and every single one of them has to be perfect.
At 200 mph and around every corner, race cars are pushed to the very limits. They have to be strong for safety, but light for performance. The cars built at Stewart-Haas Racing are no exception.
Back at the shop, master fabricators such as Daniel Smith spend hours making sure every weld is just right.
"I've always wanted to weld," said Smith, a native of Concord, North Carolina, who was born and raised in the heart of motorsports country.
After graduating from NASCAR Technical Institute and 5 Off 5 On Pit Crew U in 2004, then-19-year-old Smith landed a full-time position at what was then Haas CNC Racing. Being a typical adventurous teen, Smith quickly earned the nickname "Danger" among his peers at the shop, but that didn't stop him from putting in long hours of hard work and sacrifice to perfect his craft.
"In the beginning, I spent a lot of time in the shop," Smith reminisced. "I would stay after work on my own time to pick up pointers from other welders. I was welding anything and everything I could get my hands on in the shop."
Smith began his racing career in the tear-down department, but soon earned a promotion to the fab shop. Today, the 29-year-old veteran juggles both pit crew and shop duties.
Double duty: Daniel Smith is a welder/fabricator at Stewart-Haas Racing and rear tire changer on the No. 14 Mobil 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet.
"On Sundays, I go over-the-wall as the rear tire changer on the No. 14," explained Smith. "On Monday mornings at 7 a.m. sharp, I'm back at the shop, welding and building suspension pieces, upper control arms, oil tanks, spindles and exhaust pipes."
Smith's day job is critical.
About 95 percent of NASCAR race cars are TIG-welded by hand. Long before the race car hits the track, welding and fabrication consume roughly 950 man hours on each vehicle back at the shop.
Lincoln Electric, which has provided Stewart-Haas Racing with welding machines, consumables and apparel since 2008, says welding plays an important role in NASCAR keeping drivers safe first and foremost.
"Critical components such as the roll cage, seat, and chassis need to withstand forceful impacts at speeds of 200-plus mpg," said Mickey Holmes, sports marketing manager for Lincoln Electric. "Quality welds help achieve this."
Most welds join intersecting tubes that make up the frame and the all-important roll cage. By rule, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race cars have a minimum weight requirement of 3,300 lbs. The Gen-6 race car is 160 pounds lighter than its fifth-generation predecessor (100 pounds lighter on the right side, 60 pounds lighter on the left). The frame and roll cage components are fabricated from mild steel, which allows the car to absorb the forces of a crash in a bend-before-break mode.
When drivers often walk away from high-speed crashes unhurt, it can be attributed to overall safety improvements in the chassis design -- and weld quality.
Smith works with a variety of Lincoln equipment at the shop, including the Invertec V311-T AC/DC, Precision TIG 375, Invertec V205-T AC/DC, Power MIG 350MP, Power MIG 256 and Power MIG 180C.
The team's transports are equipped with Power MIG 180C's and Invertec V205's.
"The welding technology is really amazing," said Smith. "They're solid machines. You can kind of get spoiled working with all the nice equipment at the shop."
Smith understands if a part breaks on the track, it cannot break at the weld. He knows the importance of a sound weld, and that a driver's life is on the line.
"My standards are a little higher from working in NASCAR -- the welds have to look nice and be clean and sound," Smith said. "The steering shaft has to hold up at every turn. Holding all of the suspension components together is very vital in racing."
Smith first got into serious welding at age 19. He's been doing it ever since.

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If you plan to graduate (i.e., complete all of your final degree requirements and plan to have a degree awarded) Fall 2013, you MUST Apply for Graduation.
THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR FALL 2013 GRADUATION TO BE IN THE FALL COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM IS NOVEMBER 10, 2013. Please note that a $70.00 Graduation Fee will be assessed to your account EACH TIME you apply to graduate. Students who have multiple majors need to only apply once.
The Application for Graduation is completed within your Student Center within MyUNIverse. Below are the steps you will need to take:
- Log into MyUNIverse.
- On the "My Page" tab, click on the "Go to my Student Center" link.
- Once inside your Student Center, you will see a drop down box that says, "Other Academic..." along the left-hand side of the screen. Change that to "Apply for Graduation," and then click on the "Go" button (i.e., the purple circle with two arrows).
- Select the appropriate Program and Plan.
- Follow the directions that are provided, and then submit your application for graduation.
You will be able to use the "View My Graduation Status" link to check your status throughout the process. Nothing much will change until AFTER final grades have been posted at the end of the semester, and the Record Analysts have verified that all of your degree requirements have been met. The Graduation Check-Out process does day a few days to complete, so please do not be alarmed if your status does not change immediately upon grade submission.
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If you do, you'll want to tune in to public television tonight:
Paul Simon: Live at Webster Hall, New York
(Hartford, CT – Sept. 9, 2011) – In June 2011, Paul Simon thrilled his hometown fans with a special club performance at New York City's historic Webster Hall. The show was the culmination of a sold-out, two-month US tour about which the New York Times raved "Salvation pursued musically." The resulting concert special, PAUL SIMON: LIVE AT WEBSTER HALL, NEW YORK, gets its world premiere on Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) on Wednesday, September 14 at 8 p.m.
The set list was drawn from Simon's legendary career and includes several songs that haven't been performed live in many years. Kodachrome, Mother and Child Reunion, Gone At Last and The Obvious Child are just some of the highlights as well as songs from Simon's recently released, brilliant new album So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music /Concord Music Group), including Dazzling Blue, The Afterlife and the album's propulsive title track.
Joining Paul on the show is a stellar band of musicians including Cameroonian guitarist Vincent Nguini, guitarist/drummer Jim Oblon, pianist Mick Rossi, saxophonist/keyboardist Andrew Snitzer, bassist Bakithi Kumalo, guitarist Mark Stewart, master percussionist Jamey Haddad and multi-instrumentalist Tony Cedras.
Paul Simon, the first recipient of the Library of Congress' "George Gershwin Award for Popular Song" in 2007, is one of the most treasured musical performers in American history. CPTV is proud to be the first PBS station in the country to broadcast this incredible musical event from this iconic artist who continues to work at the peak of his artistic and creative powers.
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CPTV is a media service of the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network. It is a locally and nationally recognized producer and presenter of quality public television programming, including
UConn Women's Basketball, original documentaries and educational programming. CPTV has built a reputation as a leader in children's programming, including playing an historic role in bringing Barney & Friends™, Bob the Builder™ and Thomas & Friends™ to public television. The station offers 11 hours of positive, nurturing children's programs each weekday, reaching 50,000 to 70,000 households daily. The Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network (CBPN) also includes WNPR. WNPR is an affiliate of National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media. WNPR serves almost 240,000 listeners weekly in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island with news and information. Its award-winning local programming includes The Faith Middleton Show and Where We Live. Overall, the network brings a broad spectrum of public affairs, entertainment, sports and educational programming to viewers, listeners and readers. For more information, visit cptv.org.
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Yankees win, take three of four from Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) -- Ivan Nova struck out 10, Andruw Jones hit his fourth homer in three games and the surging New York Yankees went into the All-Star break with a 7-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.
The Yankees took three of four at Fenway Park and boosted their record to a major league-best 52-33. They hold the biggest division lead in baseball at seven games over Baltimore.
Boston (43-43) dropped its sixth game in the last seven and fell into a last-place tie in the division with the Blue Jays, 91 2 games off the pace.
Nova (10-3) allowed two runs and six hits in six innings. Jones provided a cushion with a two-run homer in the seventh that gave New York a 7-2 lead.
Jon Lester (5-6), who won at least 15 games in each of the last four seasons, left with one out in the fifth after giving up five runs and nine hits. Until Sunday, the lefty had rebounded from early-season troubles and posted a 3.86 ERA in 13 starts.
The Yankees scored in the first inning in all four games in the series, taking a 2-0 lead in the finale. The first three batters all hit safely -- singles by Derek Jeter and Curtis Granderson and an RBI double by Mark Teixeira. Granderson scored when Nick Swisher grounded into a forceout.
The Red Sox got an unearned run in the bottom of the inning when Jeter dropped a routine popup by Cody Ross with two outs. The shortstop's misplay scored Pedro Ciriaco, who had singled and stolen second.
New York made it 3-1 in the second on a double by Jayson Nix, a passed ball by Jarrod Saltalamacchia and a sacrifice fly by Chris Stewart. Boston came back again with a run in the third on Ciriaco's single and David Ortiz's double.
The Yankees drove Lester from the game in the fifth, scoring twice for a 5-2 lead. Teixeira started the rally with a single and scored on a triple by Alex Rodriguez. Jones then singled in Rodriguez.
Nova won five consecutive starts before going 0-1 in his next three. He would have gotten out of a first-inning jam had Jeter held on to the soft popup near second base. The righty even pumped his fist and started walking off the mound but stopped as the ball bounced out of Jeter's glove.
Then Nova struck out the side in the second before escaping trouble in the third when the Red Sox scored a run and loaded the bases with one out. But Saltalamacchia struck out for the fifth time in seven at-bats and Ryan Sweeney grounded out.
Nova fanned three of his last four batters and at least one in each of his six innings.
Jones' homer was his 11th of the season and the Yankees' 134th, most in the majors. They're on a pace for a club-record 255. The 1997 Seattle Mariners hold the major league record with 264.
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The veteran espaliered pear just coming into bloom in Bonnefont Cloister garden has grown there since the 1940s. The tree is responding well to a program of rejuvenatory pruning. Photographs by Corey Eilhardt
The espaliered pear is one of the most beloved trees at The Cloisters, and has graced Bonnefont garden for more than sixty years. This method of training fruit trees against a wall is a Renaissance development, rather than a medieval technique. The heat and light that radiate from the wall help to ripen the fruit.
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The court's decision comes one year and nine months after District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced a conviction-integrity unit in March 2011 to address a series of prosecutorial misconduct allegations against the office; the alleged misconduct preceded his tenure. The unit was to set protocol to prevent future errors.
The Dec. 27 appeals court ruling stems from two 1994 felony cases against Dariel Shazier, who pleaded guilty of sodomy with a minor under age 14, sodomy with a minor under age 18, and oral copulation where the victim was unable to resist due to an intoxicating substance. He was sentenced to 17 years and 8 months in state prison.
But shortly before his release from prison, in April 2003, the DA's office filed a petition to commit Shazier to a state mental facility as a sexually violent predator under the Welfare and Institutions Code.
The first commitment trial resulted in a hung jury. The jury in a second commitment trial in 2005 sent Shazier to a state mental hospital for two years.
But the verdict was overturned the following year by the appellate court after the prosecutor in that case, Benjamin Field, was found to have committed misconduct. (Field was disbarred in 2010 for four years for misconduct in multiple cases.)
The DA's office went forward with a third commitment trial against Shazier, this time with Boyarsky prosecuting. A jury found that Shazier met the criteria as a sexually violent predator after a 15-day trial, and he was committed for an indeterminate term. He again appealed.
In the court's Dec. 27 ruling, Presiding Judge Conrad Rushing wrote that Boyarsky asked improper questions of the witnesses, which elicited inflammatory answers, and he made improper arguments to the jury.
Commitment cases do not allow for arguments that suggest the consequences of a jury's verdict, the court noted. But Boyarsky implied those consequences when he implied to the jury that if it didn't commit Shazier, he would be free to commit other criminal acts out of state since he would not be on parole.
Boyarsky also told jurors that schools and parks would be in proximity to Shazier's mother's home, where he would be living if released.
During his closing argument, Boyarsky asked jurors to consider what their friends and family would think if it returned a verdict of "not true."
The court found there was no difference between the proposal that jurors "have a conversation about the verdict with an imaginary friend explaining that their verdict unloosed a dangerous predator on the public" than saying directly, that their friends and neighbors will condemn them if they release him, Rushing said.
Boyarsky also implied that Shazier had committed additional sex crimes for which he was not caught, yet the prosecution did not supply any evidence in support of those statements, the court noted.
"This is not a case in which the prosecutor engaged in a few minor incidents of improper misconduct. Rather, the prosecutor engaged in a pervasive pattern of inappropriate questions, comments and argument, throughout the entire trial, each one building on the next, to such a degree as to undermine the fairness of the proceedings," Rushing wrote.
"We find it is reasonably probable that defendant would have obtained a more favorable result absent the repeated incidents of improper conduct."
During the third trial, Shazier was diagnosed by two prosecution psychiatrists as having hebephilia, an attraction to teenage boys who had reached puberty. But experts for both sides admitted that hebephilia is a controversial diagnosis and doesn't exist as a diagnosis of mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV), the standard for mental disorder diagnosis.
A prosecution psychiatrist also admitted that Shazier was not aroused by violence or force, and that the only reason his prior crimes were considered non-consensual was because the victims were minors who could not legally consent.
A defense psychiatrist testified that a diagnosis of a mental disorder is not dependent on what is considered socially acceptable or moral.
He stated that homosexuality was removed from the DSM because it is no longer considered a mental disorder and that it was only included in the manual because of social view of morality at the time.
Hospital-staff witnesses also testified that Shazier followed all of the rules while housed in the state hospital and participated willingly in all voluntary treatments. He did not display inappropriate sexual behavior toward teenage boys housed with him, they said.
Boyarsky said on Friday that he accepts the court's decision.
"I made my arguments in good faith. Based on the court's opinion, if I had it to do over again, I would make my arguments differently. I accept the ruling," he said.
Rosen also said his office respects the court's decision.
"Any prosecutor in my office may err, and when we do, we learn from it and improve," he said.
The DA's office might pursue another trial for commitment against Shazier, he added.
"Dariel Shazier has a serious history of sexually preying on young teenagers. Once his case is sent back to our court for a new trial, we will seek updated evaluations by state-appointed doctors to evaluate whether he continues to be a sexually violent predator. If so, we will try him again to ensure that he remains in a locked psychiatric facility," Rosen said.
Rushing said in the court ruling that prosecutors are held to a higher standard than other attorneys because of the function they perform of representing the state. The government has an obligation to be impartial, Rushing noted.
Under the law, a prosecutor commits misconduct by "engaging in deceptive or reprehensible methods of persuasion," he wrote.
Prosecutorial misconduct often occurs during argument and may take a variety of forms, including: mischaracterizing or misstating the evidence, referring to facts not in evidence, misstating the law, attacking the integrity of the defense counsel intimidating witnesses or referring to a prior conviction that was not before the jury, appealing to passions or prejudice such as asking the jury to view the crime through the victim's eyes or predicting that the defendant, if not found guilty, will commit future crimes, the court noted.
It remains unclear whether the California State Bar will take any action against Boyarsky. Sean Webby, a spokesman for the DA's office, said the state Attorney General's Office is acting as Boyarsky's counsel. A spokesman for that office could not be reached before press time.
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Pastor Rick Warren, leader of one of the nation's largest evangelical churches, says his son's suicide last week was the result of years of struggle with depression and a "momentary wave of despair."
In an open letter to his church, later shared with his nearly one million Twitter followers, Warren said Matthew Warren, 27, took his own life at his Mission Viejo, Calif., home.
Matthew Warren struggled with mental illness, deep depression and suicidal thoughts throughout his life, Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement.
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AstroFire, I tried searching that thread and I didn't find anything. I believe that thread was on the old forums and it likely was deleted during the switch over.
--Little Kitty
AstroFire, I tried searching that thread and I didn't find anything. I believe that thread was on the old forums and it likely was deleted during the switch over.
--Little Kitty
Whenever I try to post in the 'Announcements' forum, it says I'm not authorized to do so. For example, in the Meet the New Mods thread, people were able to post but I wasn't allowed. Does it have something to do with my group subscriptions? Thanks!
Edit: It works, thanks Beth!
Try again Periwinkle. If it still doesn't work, PM an admin.
There used to be an Americanisms vs. Britishisms kinda thing. Like British words to use, instead of American ones. I dont know if its still around, or if it was one of those things that wasnt brought back. Could someone tell me where I could find that thread? Or possibly even something on Lexicon? Thanks very much in adavnce!!!
Well, there's a Being British thread which you might be able to use as well:
Sorry if that's not what you were looking for.
I'm fairly certain this is the correct venue for my question. Chapter three of my current work has been "being validated" for a week+. I know that the mods are extremely busy with incoming work, but it seems to be taking an abnormally long amount of time. Is everyone behind, or is this just (hopefully) a one-time thing?
We're working on it. Major sweeping has just been done.Originally Posted by lady-rhian
P.S. Your story actually hasn't been there for even a week yet.
Thanks so much. I could have sworn it was a week ago. Ahh well. Thanks for the prompt reply.
I was wondering...
I have posted a request to a beta to beta my story, but whenever I post it in this area (the beta guild) I don't see it first, so I do it again. Then, about two days later, it comes up that I have double-posted with exactly the same information.
If someone is monitoring this thread, wouldn't it be easier if they check them before they allow the post to go through?
And why does this happen?
The Beta Guild is a moderated forum, which is why you don't see the posts immediately.
If there is a double post, you shouldn't get penalised in any way for it in that forum. But now you know, you won't submit twice, so it won't be a problem in future.
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He plans to use the $200 to help launch a youth soccer camp at Cubberley Community Center this summer — and donate proceeds to Right to Play, an international charity that provides coaches for 700,000 low-income children in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America.
"This is my first endeavor into entrepreneurship and philanthropy. We'll see how it goes," Parikh said of the project he started with six friends, Laces Soccer Camps.
The other seven student recipients of Gunn @ Your Service grants, this year, are:
• Freshman Leland Wei, who will buy a rototiller and vibration plate for his Eagle Scout project to renovate a beat-up path near the Palo Alto Duck Pond, which he hopes to complete over spring break in April
• Sophomore Divya Saini, who plans to mount an earthquake-education campaign in Palo Alto
• Junior Tatiana Grossman, who will use the funds to help Gunn's African Literacy Club ship children's books for primary schools in sub-Saharan Africa
• Junior Sungkook Peter Kim, who will provide sheet music and music stands for Gunn musicians performing for patients at the Palo Alto Veterans' Health Care Center
• Junior Praniti Sinha, who will help Gunn's Asha Club run a fundraiser for Asha for Education, an organization that provides computers, food and education to orphans in Bangalore, India
• Junior Lily Tsai, who will buy flutes to loan to music students in an afterschool music program at Costano School in East Palo Alto. In the program, Gunn Music@Costano, eight Gunn students go to Costano once a week to teach music, including flute, piano and trumpet, to more than 20 participating Costano students.
• Senior Natasha Allen, who will ship academic books to South Sudan in cooperation with Sudan-American Foundation for Education and STAND, the student arm of the Genocide Intervention Network.
Tsai said she and her sister Stephanie began teaching piano and violin at Costano three years ago, after Stephanie Tsai visited the school with the Gunn orchestra.
"Last year, we decided that since so many students in the afterschool program wanted to participate and we, as only two people, didn't have enough time to teach them all, we would try to bring in more Gunn music students to teach.
"Thus was the start of Gunn Music@Costano," Tsai said. "This year we have eight students participating."
Tsai said she'll try to buy four flutes, which would enable half the Costano flute students at a time to take the instrument home. The Palo Alto Unified School District has lent the program violins and cellos, she said.
Allen said she got interested in Sudan after taking a class at Gunn called "Facing History and Ourselves: the sociology of genocide," with teacher Ronen Habib.
"We not only learned about the causes and terrible effects of genocide but also about genocidal acts that are being committed even now," Allen said.
She started a STAND Club at Gunn, aimed at spreading the word against genocide through efforts like letterwriting to politicians. The club plans to collect books around town to send to schools in South Sudan.
"Due to the high cost of shipping, we can only send high-level books, such as college and AP textbooks," she said.
Grossman will use her grant to augment her long-standing project of helping establish libraries in primary schools in sub-Saharan Africa. That effort — which she launched at the age of 12 — has grown into the award-winning nonprofit Spread the Words. The organization has established libraries serving 99 African villages and primary schools where before there were none.
Grossman's mother, Lauren Janov, organized Gunn@Your Service two years ago, and this is the group's second round of grant-making. Funds are raised through an appeal letter that goes out to parents early in the year and through a Yahoo group email list.
"Our mission is about making it easy for kids and families to do community service, promoting it and building community," Janov said.
"Different kids want to do service in different ways."
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New York Signs Josh Bailey for three years
Newsday: Mr Logan is reporting in Newsday's blog an announcement is expected to come after practice on the Islanders regarding first round pick Josh Bailey which speculation suggest is the club signing him to an entry level contact. Mr Botta's Point Blank blog outright says he will be signed here as he blogged on weeks ago.
Mr Logan also had a few strong words on the teams injury policy.
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No small thing with a player signing his first professional contract, congratulations to Josh Bailey.
Now we see if he can do enough to stay here for year one, this buys the Islanders the first nine games after which time he goes back to Windsor or he stays in New York all season.
No middle ground on this beyond playing in the WJC, he cannot play for Bridgeport, for now I guess we wait and see if he is healthy enough to play some games.
Islanders website: Announce the signing of Josh Bailey to a three year entry level contract with his comments along with general manager Garth Snow and head coach Scott Gordon.
ITV has several inteviews including the press conference.
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1) Good for the kid! Just hope he isn't rushed. As you correctly wrote, if he's kept beyond the 9 game tryout period he's locked into staying up here the whole season.ReplyDelete
2) It may be temptig to retain him, but unless he's scoring/contributing/playing a great deal, another year of leading his Windsor team may be best for the kid's development. Not to mention it buys another year until he's a RFA or UFA!
3) Also perhaps some hockey writers will apologize to Snow for trading down to get him? Nah, we won't hold out breathe. LOL
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As much as I agree Snow and Ryan Jankowski did not deserve any abuse for taking what they consider best player available and trading down for him signing Bailey does not mean it was the right long-term decision.
We'll know that down the road.
For now he's only played one game and is still not ready, I would guess he'll get a game or two and it depends on how he does vs his best long-term interest.
Until I see him play a game it's just impossible to know either way.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan at his June 11 confirmation hearing to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.
If appearances are any indication, Shaun Donovan is a tech-savvy guy. The current secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget read his opening statement in his confirmation hearing from a tablet computer screen, rather than shuffling through papers.
Donovan also told the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that oversight of OMB's IT responsibilities will be a key priority.
"Our IT investments are some of the largest and most important investments that we make, and through my own experience ... some of the places where it's easiest to go wrong," he said.
At HUD, Donovan inherited a failing $100 million IT project designed to reinvent the department's financial management system. Eventually, the project was scrapped, and HUD is moving its financial management system to the Treasury's shared services offering.
"I'm a big believer that OMB can play an important role, because I've lived it," he said.
Donovan also connected the dots between tech initiatives and policy outcomes. He noted that a move by the Federal Housing Administration to adopt electronic signatures for loan documents does more than save time and money in processing. It gives borrowers extra time to review the details of their loan agreements.
A vocal proponent of President Barack Obama's data-driven management agenda, Donovan said, "I love data," at several points during the hearing.
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) both said they hope that love would express itself in implementation of the Data Act. OMB is taking a lead role in moving the government to a single standard for reporting government spending in machine-readable form.
Donovan said OMB is in the process of trying to understand what system changes and spending would be required to bring agencies into compliances. Portman noted that when he was OMB director under President George W. Bush, he was able to implement the similar Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act without much in the way of extra appropriations. He said the same could be done with the Data Act, which calls for a uniform federal financial data system by May 2017. "If you aren't committed to that time frame, it will never happen," Portman said.
Most of the committee members said former Director Sylvia Matthews Burwell was going to be a tough act to follow, especially with regard to responsiveness to questions from lawmakers. Still, Donovan appears to have an easy path to confirmation. A committee vote is not yet scheduled, but Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) promised quick action. In the meantime, Brian Deese, deputy director for budget, is acting as head of OMB.
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Large parts of the federal government will shutter at least temporarily as Congress fails to enact a four-week stopgap spending bill. As agencies prepare to power down, officials say cybersecurity is being given a higher priority than it was in the 2013 shutdown.
An individual's walking gait will be the first biometric used to continuously authenticate mobile warfighters.
The former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the lead sponsor of the IT procurement bill FITARA is calling it quits.
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord has been replaced as the chair of the group overseeing the massive cloud initiative known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure.
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I find Rob Portman's statements laughable. "He was able to implement the similar Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act without much in the way of extra appropriations. He said the same could be done with the Data Act, which calls for a uniform federal financial data system by May 2017." He knows better, and knows the scope of the two acts are not similar at all. The state of disparity in financial systems alone, not to mention that fact that the financial life cycle is not even fully automated in many agencies yet, means that full planning and programming to execution down to the transactional level, and the ability to track transactions back to assess planned v. total costs is definitely going to require appropriation. Or is this just a set-up to make the administration look bad, as usual?
Of course if Mr D had been a competent HUD Secretary maybe the confirmation would have been different-and quicker. He talks a good game but fails to carry through. Maybe as OMB director he can dislodge regulations that have been stacked up like airplanes over O'Hare airport for the past three years. Don't hold your breath.
May be tech savvy, may know all the buzz words, may be able to read from a tablet (teleprompter anyone?) but most people at HUD believe he is an empty suit and, quite frankly, like the proverbial "emperor without any clothes". He does not accept anything contrary to what his given thoughts or ideas are, his staff is afraid to tell him the truth or bring any bad news, and he has ruined the morale at HUD (see the Employee Viewpoint Survey for the past several years). But for us, better at OMB than at HUD....
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Acupuncture to Reduce General Anesthesia (AAEP 2011)
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There was no significant difference between groups in duration of anesthesia, physiologic parameters, or recovery quality. However, the electroacupuncture-treated horses exhibited a significantly deeper depth of anesthesia compared to controls.
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After reading about a study in which electroacupuncture reduced dogs' need for general anesthetics for some surgical procedures, a research team wondered if the same might be true for horses.
"Inhalant anesthetics are commonly used to maintain general anesthesia in horses," explained Laura Romanò, DVM, a private practitioner from Italy, during the 2011 American Association of Equine Practitioners annual convention held Nov. 18-22 in San Antonio, Texas.
However, compared with other species, horses have a higher risk of cardiac (heart) problems and myopathy (muscle problems) associated with general anesthesia. Thus, reducing the amount of anesthetic required in horses could minimize these undesirable side effects.
Anesthetic delivery to any patient is adjusted continually throughout an anesthetic session to maintain the desired depth of anesthesia and the patient's physiologic parameters (heart/respiratory rates, etc.). Thus, if outside factors (such as acupuncture) increase the patient's level of sedation, then less anesthetic drug would be necessary.
To definitively answer the question of whether acupuncture could decrease anesthetic requirements, Romanò and colleagues applied 30 minutes of electroacupuncture at nine acupoints on 10 horses undergoing general anesthesia for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams. They compared these horses' physiologic parameters to those of five horses that did not undergo electroacupuncture for similar exams. Alveolar (in the lung) concentrations of the general anesthetic drug isoflurane, body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, depth of anesthesia, and quality of recovery were measured r estimated for each horse throughout the examination.
Romanò reported there was no significant difference between groups in duration of anesthesia, physiologic parameters, or recovery quality. However, the electroacupuncture-treated horses exhibited a significantly deeper depth of anesthesia compared to controls. They also had 31.3% lower alveolar concentrations of isoflurane compared to previous research and control groups, indicating that less anesthetic was given to these horses.
"Electroacupuncture decreases the isoflurane requirement in horses undergoing general anesthesia … and (it) could be considered a valid tool as part of a multimodal anesthetic approach," Romanò summarized. "This is a quick application that fits into routine practice for every general anesthesia case (surgical or not). This procedure would also have possible use in horses with hepatic (liver) dysfunction or renal (kidney) failure to reduce the medications they would need to metabolize."
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By Allan Muir
Does anyone want to play for the New York Islanders anymore?
Katie Strang of ESPN New York is reporting Nino Niederreiter, the team's top prospect, is the latest to request a ticket to anywhere else in the league.
From Strang:
"The former first-round pick (5th overall, 2010) is unhappy with his current situation, the source said, and feels he would be best served playing somewhere other than with the Islanders organization. His agent informed Islanders general manager Garth Snow of the request last week, the source said, although Snow is not believed to be amenable to doing a deal -- at least at the moment."
It's safe to assume the 20-year-old winger was miffed after being passed over when the Isles sent out training camp invites, and if that is the case you can see where he's coming from. He spent the majority of last season with the team and while he only scored once an finished a staggering minus-29, he had every reason to believe he was in their plans for 2013.
But those camp invites weren't third grade valentines that went out to everyone in the class. The shortened camp meant less time for players to stake their claim to a spot and the team had greater confidence in the immediate contributions that could be made by players like David Ullstrom and Colin MacDonald.
If that's how it went down, it was probably the right decision on Snow's part. Ullstrom and MacDonald are older and better suited for the depth spots that were available.
Going by how poorly Niederreither fared in that role during a 55-game stint last season, there was no reason to expect significantly better results this time around. A little puck luck might have polished his numbers a bit, but it wouldn't have altered the general impression that his confidence was shot and that what he needed more than anything was the chance to get his mojo back.
He's doing exactly that in the AHL, with 19 goals, 36 points and an All-Star Game invite to his credit thus far. He's improving his play away from the puck, too. In time, he'll be a solid top-six forward.
But there's no need to rush him. He's 20 and he still has plenty to prove at that level before he moves on to the next one. That may be a tough pill for a top pick to swallow, but it's better for the long-term--both his and the team's. And with a high-end asset like Niederreiter, the long term has to take priority over one shortened season.
Maybe the Isles didn't communicate their plans well enough to his camp. If that's the case, shame on them. And if Niederreiter lacks the patience to work his way up the ladder, then shame on him.


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John Moholy, Captain - June 6, 1897 (#36)Chemical Co. No. 6
Appointed April 26, 1887, age 27 - Occupation, Horse-shoer
Appointed as Foreman and assigned to Engine Co. No. 11, April 26, 1887
Assigned Chemical Co. No. 7, 1893 as Foreman
Assigned Chemical Co. No. 6, 1895 as Foreman
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Timothy Hallinan, Hoseman - June 6, 1897 (#37)
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Frank Keller, hoseman of Engine 6; Timothy Hallinan, driver of Truck 1, and John Moholy, Engineer of Chemical 6, were killed on the 6th of June, 1897, while engaged in the discharge of their duties at a fire on Folsom street, between Fourth and Fifth streets.
Source: 1897 Municipal Reports, page 491
June 6, 1897. At about 12 o'clock this night three alarms 'of fire were turned in from box 157 for a fire in a three-story brick building at Nos. 839-49 Folsom street, occupied as a cracker bakery by Shroth & Westerfield. The tragic incident attending this fire, which resulted in the killing of three members of this Department, will long be remembered.
The origin of this fire is something of a mystery. Morris Know, a tailor living at No. 857 Folsom street, was the first person to discover it; he saw flames coming from the second story windows of the building on the west side. He notified policemen Ryan and Tracy, who at once turned in an alarm from the box on the corner of Folsom and Fourth streets. When the department arrived on the scene the whole building was enveloped in flames and a second and third alarm was turned in. It was realized, however, that nothing could save the contents of the factory from total destruction. The streams from several engines were kept playing on*he sides and roofs of all frame buildings reached by the heat from the big fire. The balance of the available water supply was devoted to flooding the several floors of the big building. The water tower was placed in service, but unfortunately some of its structural parts gave out and it was necessary to confine its effectiveness to the battery thereon. This proved of material assistance, but was not nearly as valuable as would have been the heavy stream that could be thrown in the upper stories of the building by the tower.
John Moholy, Captain of Chemical Engine No. 6, carried his hose up the stairs of an adjoining building. He made his way through the unoccupied second story to the rear. Suddenly the wall of the brick building rocked, and part fell, crushing the rear of a paint shop adjoining. "My God, Moholy' s in there," shrieked some one. Lieutenant Lee, of the Fire Patrol, Frank Keller, hoseman of Engine 6, and Timothy Hallinan, Driver of Truck 1, who were standing close by, rushed bravely to the rescue. They made their way through the wreck and reached the rear of the building, where Moholy was lying with a broken leg. They dragged him from the wreckage, which had buried him to the waist, but the wrenching of Moholy' s broken leg caused him such pain that he cried in agony. "Boys, get a board or a door to carry me on," groaned Moholy, whose suffering was so intense that he could hardly bear to be touched. Lee rushed out for a plank. Keller busied himself in placing Moholy' s leg in a more comfortable position. Hallinan went to assist Lee in carrying the plank, which he had picked up in the yard where District Engineer McCluskey was standing, and pulled it through an opening to where Moholy was laying. "Look out," roared McCluskey, rushing back. Lee looked up and saw the toppling wall and got away in safety. There was a great roar, a crash, and the three stout-hearted firemen were buried from view. Lee and half-dozen others started to rush in, but McCluskey ordered them all back, saying: "They're dead, and you'll all be killed with them if you go in there." In time the flames were extinguished, the debris cleared away and the men reached. They were found all together. Hallinan's arms were over Moholy's shoulders, and Keller's hands grasping at his feet. They had made one last effort to lift Moholy and get him out.
Chemical 6 was one of the first engines to reach the burning building. Captain Moholy, who was in charge of the crew, realized at once that it would be useless for him to attempt to stay the progress of the flames in the big building, and accordingly turned his attention to the frame structures adjoining it, his purpose being to prevent, if possible, the spread of the flames to the long row of frame structures between the factory and Fourth street. Then came the fall of the first part of the wall, the pinning of Moholy, the brave attempt at rescue, and the second and fatal crash.
Too much cannot be said in praise of these three heroes who so unfortunately met their death. This Department has lost three of the bravest and most faithful men in the service, and their death is keenly felt and sincerely mourned.
The damage at this fire amounted to about $50,000, covered by insurance.
D. T. Sullivan
Chief of the Fire Department
Source: 1897 Municipal Reports, page 493
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text: Re: Star Trek: Destiny: Mere Mortals - SPOILER Thread Again, a very enjoyable entry. Some thoughts: Spoiler: spoilers on Mere Mortals It was a shame to see what happened to the Columbia officers that were stranded with Captain Hernandez. We sure are lucky it was her who toughed it out instead of one of the other officers though...I guess Captains are made of sterner stuff! I was very interested in the other 'destinations' from the subspace tunnels. I was also thinking (as some have stated above) that that would be a good mission for Voyager. Not sure how/if that will play out now though. I would have liked to have seen some of the battle with the Allies against the Borg ships. Did the Borg truly 'ram' them...simply plowing through the bulk of the fleet without firing a shot? Yikes. I also very much enjoyed the parts where the Hirogen invaded both the Enterprise and Aventine. Some very descriptive and intense passages there. I particularly liked the crew woman who was Takaran (I think) and had no truly 'vital' organs. Is the Hirogen 'energy dampening' technology a holdover from Voyager? I don't remember it there. Another great spot to end a volume of this trilogy. I got a very BoBW feeling from Riker at the end. I could even hear the music. I'm also wondering what it was Dr. Ree was doing to Troi...I hope it's not as disgusting as I'm thinking it might be.


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Gay folks measure victories incrementally: The first time the New York Times acknowledged "longtime companions" in their obits of gay men; the time Ellen came out on TV and the cover of Time; the first time — recently — that broadcasters casually referred to the partner of a gay celeb as his or her spouse, husband or wife.
Well, add to those media milestones Jet magazine.
The 51-year-old lifestyle magazine targeting the African-American community has long featured a weddings section called Jet Love, and in the Dec. 10 print edition, it features for the first time a gay couple, as reported by The Advocate. Among the photos of tuxedo-and-gown-clad duos shoving cake in each others' faces and tossing bouquets is the happy (and handsome) couple of Ravi Perry and and Paris Prince, who were wed in Worcester, Mass.
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An exhibit of rare photographs from the doomed Lodz Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland is now on display at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School library.
The mostly black-and-white photographs, commissioned by the German-controlled Jewish Council, were taken between 1940 and 1944 and document everyday life in the ghetto, the last one in Poland to be liquidated.
The exhibit, The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures by Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944, is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and runs until March 17.
A roll call of the members of the fire brigade in the Lodz ghetto.
Curated by the Topography of Terror Foundation in Berlin in co-operation with the Polish State Archive in Lodz, it has been brought here by York University's Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Anti-Racism Education, the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, the Azrieli Foundation and the consulates general of Germany and Poland in Toronto.
First exhibited in Germany three years ago, the photographs were previously displayed in the visitors lobby of the United Nations and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
When the exhibit opened at UN headquarters in New York City last year, Germany's ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Wittig, said the photographs conveyed "the pretense of a normal, functioning life."
As he put it, "While we see some pictures with children still smiling and ghetto inhabitants leading a seemingly regular working life, we know that already at that point of time, when these pictures were taken, the killing of exactly these persons was already being planned."
Lodz, an industrial centre with a population of 672,000, of whom 230,000 were Jewish, was occupied by the German army in September 1939. It was renamed Litzmannstadt, after a World War I German general, in April of the following year.
The ghetto, measuring 4.1 square miles, was established in Baluty, the poorest district in the city, and 160,000 Jews were crammed into it.
From the autumn of 1941 onward, an additional 25,000 Jews from western European cities, including Frankfurt, Vienna and Prague, were deported to the ghetto. At least 5,000 Sinti and Roma from Austria were also transported there.
After Warsaw, the ghetto in Lodz, administered by Chaim Rumkowski, was the biggest one in Poland.
Ghetto workers produced goods for Germany and particularly the German army. Rumkowski believed that "honest and useful work" would ensure the ghetto's survival. "Work is our only chance," he declared.
But the Nazis, acting on a plan approved in 1942 to exterminate the Jews of Europe on a systematic basis, never intended to let its inhabitants survive.
From December 1941 to September 1942, 70,000 Jews were murdered in Kulmhof, an extermination camp 60 kilometres northwest of Lodz. Seven thousand more Jews were killed in Kulmhof between June and July 1944.
Amid appalling conditions, thousands more died of infectious diseases and malnutrition.
The last remaining 68,000 Jews, including Rumkowski and his family, were dispatched to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Aug. 9 to 29, 1944.
Only five per cent of the Jews of Lodz survived the Holocaust.
Incredibly enough, a substantial number of photographs from the ghetto exist, thanks in large part to a Jewish Council decision in August 1940 to create a photographic office within the ghetto's statistics department.
Ghetto residents, however, were not permitted to own cameras.
Photographs of the ghetto were also snapped by Walter Genewein, head of the finance department of the Nazi ghetto administration, and by an ethnic German policeman named Steiner. Their portrayals of ghetto Jews were generally tinged with antisemitism.
The more than 50 photographs at York University are but a tiny fraction of the 12,000 small-format prints commissioned by the Jewish Council and held today in the Lodz State Archives.
The stark photographs, as one inscription reads, portray "short-lived moments of harmony and joy, even happiness, and "a remarkable will to preserve humanity despite the inhuman reality."
Diverse and eclectic in terms of topics, they reveal a city-within-a-city fighting off unspeakable misery and cruelty and teetering on the precipice of disaster.
They show people from all walks of life and in all situations: a nurse inspecting girls' hair for lice; a schoolboy pointing to a map of Palestine, his teacher next to him; girls in a classroom looking straight ahead; boys saluting a fireman standing next to a fire truck; policemen on duty; people lined up in a pharmacy; infants in cribs staring brightly ahead; girls, arms linked, dancing in a children's colony; three women posing behind the spokes of a bicycle wheel and toddlers in an orphanage holding crusts of bread.
There are also photographs of Rumkowski in repose, delivering a speech, watching a parade and attending a wedding.
And tragically, one photograph shows Jews walking to the Radegast loading station, where a cattle train would presumably take them to Auschwitz.
The photographs leave you spent and empty. You know that almost all of the people in them died needlessly in Lodz, Kulmhof or Auschwitz.
"Images are stronger than words," Wittig said last year in inaugurating this exhibit at the UN. "Keeping the memory alive through photographs also means telling young people about the indescribable horrors of the Shoah so that this break with civilization can never be repeated."


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Second bold: Raptors fans also can have "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome. Everyone is always the right fit until things fall apart. Every PG we brought in against Jose was "more talented' until they couldn't win the starting job because they obviously weren't. People getting overexcited by acquisitions like Fred Jones and Juan Dixon.....Seriously...Ross is a young high potential player on a rookie scale contract. It is a gigantic gamble to trade him away unless you are getting an all-star player (not a borderline one, a genuine one).
Finally: Who says it would take 7 years? It's only been a few months fer chrissake...even perennial all-stars don't always show it in their rookie year. Have some patience. He has boatloads of athleticisim and more skill than Demar had as a rookie, so I'd give him some time. Unless we're getting an all-star who still produces, it is really risky and absurd, IMO, to trade Ross.


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KDE 3.5.4 / KOffice 1.5.2
Update to KDE 3.5.3
Update to KOffice 1.5.1
Update to KOffice 1.5.0
Approved by: portmgr (kris)
cVS: arabic/koffice-i18n/distinfo arabic/koffice-i18n/pkg-descr
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11 vulnerabilities affecting 94 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
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Last updated:2018-01-19 16:44:07