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Magnesium - treating a deficiency
I have struggled for over twenty years to try to make sense of red cell magnesiums. It seems that they are almost invariably low in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Furthermore, so many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome do benefit from magnesium by injection. You could argue that I have been a bit naughty in the past by using a low intracellular magnesium as an excuse for trying magnesium injections! This is really to encourage GPs to use the injections because clinically they are so helpful. Often, paradoxically, when I repeat a red cell magnesium, it is only marginally better, but nonetheless the magnesium injections often afford marked improvement clinically.
I actually now believe that a low red cell magnesium is a symptom of mitochondrial failure. It is the job of mitochondria to produce ATP for cell metabolism and about 40% of all mitochondrial output goes into maintaining calcium/magnesium and sodium/potassium ion pumps. I suspect that when mitochondria fail, these pumps malfunction and therefore calcium leaks into cells and magnesium leaks out of cells. This, of course, compounds the underlying mitochondrial failure because calcium is toxic to mitochondria and magnesium necessary for normal mitochondrial function. This is just one of the many vicious cycles we see in patients with fatigue syndromes.
The reason for giving magnesium by injection is in order to reduce the work of the calcium/magnesium ion pump by reducing the concentration gradient across cell membranes.
So, a low red cell magnesium is an indication for giving magnesium by injection. Doing this makes the work of the ion pumps less hard and therefore helps mitochondria to work better.
This explains why it is a waste of time measuring serum magnesium. Serum levels are maintained at the expense of intracellular levels. If serum levels change this causes heart irregularities and so the body maintains serum levels at all cost. It will drain magnesium from inside cells and indeed from bone in order to achieve this.
Correcting a deficiency
Having said that, getting serum levels as high as possible will make the job of the calcium/magnesium ion pump much easier. Therefore intracellular levels can be improved by taking magnesium supplements. There are lots of different ways one can do this. The only way I can guarantee to get magnesium levels up is by using Magnesium by injection.
I have yet to see a red cell magnesium result which is too high. However, it is theoretically possible to overdose with magnesium in people with kidney failure.
Some people never manage to get their red cell magnesium levels into the normal range and one has to settle for low normal or levels just outside the normal range. Dr John McLaren Howard tells me that there is actually a biphasic normal distribution of magnesium. Because I see low magnesium almost routinely in patients with fatigue syndromes, I just wonder if this vicious cycle of low magnesium and fatigue has a genetic predisposition.
Magnesium by mouth
Are you taking enough magnesium in the diet? The recommended daily allowance is 300mgs for men, 350mgs for women. Magnesium is extremely safe by mouth – too much simply causes diarrhoea. Try increasing the amount of magnesium you take by mouth until it causes diarrhoea, then reduce the dose slightly so it does not. This is called taking magnesium to bowel tolerance (just like using vitamin C to bowel tolerance).
The richest source of magnesium in the diet is from chocolate (yippee, but care with the sugar!), nuts, green vegetables and seeds. Use a magnesium rich salt such as Solo. Use a bottled water rich in magnesium. Hard water also contains more magnesium than soft water. Most processed foods are low in magnesium.
As a routine I like all my patients to take my Mineral Mix, which is rich in magnesium in balance with all other essential trace elements that are permitted. Please see Multi Mineral Mix for further details. I now also supply Sunshine Salt. Please see Online Sales shop link for Sunshine Salt. Sunshine Salt can be used instead of Multi Mineral Mix [MMM] and can be used instead of salt for cooking and on the table. Sunshine salt contains the top twelve essential minerals, vital for good health but lacking in modern Western diets. Adults should consume one rounded teaspoonful daily, less for children according to weight. Please also see my book The PK Cookbook - Go Paleo-ketogenic and get the best of both worlds for more detail on Sunshine Salt.If this does not do the trick, add in other magnesium salts such as Epsom salts (try between ¼ and 1 teaspoon daily dissolved in a little warm water and gulped down, followed by a nice drink – too much gives diarrhoea, but the right amount can help with constipation), magnesium citrate, chelated magnesium, magnesium EAP etc. which are all available from my On line Store.
If there is also a problem with Acid-Alkali balance then magnesium carbonate would be a good option - again pleas see my On line Store.
Is magnesium's absorption blocked?
Calcium and magnesium compete for absorption and so too much calcium in the diet will block magnesium absorption. Our physiological requirement ratio for calcium to magnesium is about 2:1. In dairy products the ratio is 10:1. So, consuming a lot of dairy products will induce a magnesium deficiency.
Tea contains tannin, which binds up and chelates all minerals including magnesium. If tea is to be drunk, don't have it with food. Incidentally, tea drinking is a common cause of iron deficiency anaemia in the UK for this same reason.
Vitamin D is necessary for the body to utilise magnesium. The only significant source of vitamin D is direct sunshine on the skin (the effect is not the same through glass). Only a small amount is required to make a difference – 10 minutes a day on the face and hands has an effect. One hour of whole body sunshine in summer can produce 10.000iu! The RDA for vit D is set ridiculously low at 400iu – in America it has just been raised further, but I like people to have at least 2,000iu and many people I recommend 10,000iu daily. At this level of dosing there are no side effects and no toxicity. In winter, in our climate, we should all be taking vitamin D.
Hypochlorhydria – magnesium requires an acid environment for its absorption and hypochlorhydria will result in poor magnesium absorption. See Heartburn - at last I have sussed out why this is such a common problem. Actually I see this problem very commonly in CFS!
Are you a magnesium loser?
- All diuretics will make you pee out magnesium. By this I do not just mean drugs, but also tea, coffee and alcohol. Even some herbal teas are mildly diuretic.
- Hyperventilation makes you pee out magnesium. This is because hyperventilation induces a respiratory alkalosis, the body pees out bicarbonate to compensate, but each bicarbonate is negatively charged and carries a positively charged cation with it – in this case magnesium.
- Heavy exercise makes you pee out magnesium. This should not be a problem for CFS patients (although many are ex-athletes!) but does explain why long distance runners may suddenly drop dead with heart dysrhythmias.
- Magnesium is lost at times of stress. This also includes hypoglycaemia, food allergy reactions and detoxification.
Can you hang on to magnesium?
- For magnesium to be retained inside cells you need good cell membranes. The two important facets of cell membranes are:
- Have good antioxidant status - see Antioxidants.
- Have good levels of fats and Essential Fatty Acids in the diet. Please see Lipids, fats and essential fatty acids
- Boron is necessary for normal calcium and magnesium metabolism. Calcium and magnesium metabolism is of critical importance in livestock. Indeed vets will tell you about the dramatic effects that injecting these minerals has on cows at calving time. What is interesting is that they don't just inject calcium and magnesium, they actually inject calcium, magnesium boroglucanate - ie it seems that the boron is also important in calcium/magnesium metabolism. Boron is of proven benefit in arthritis, it is in the Mineral Mix but additional amounts are present in my Joint Mix. See Arthritis - Nutritional treatments and Joint Mix - nutrition for healthy joints.
Magnesium absorption through the skin
A recent paper by Rosemary Waring from Birmingham has been very helpful. She did experiments with people looking at the absorption of Epsom Salts in the bath. A 12 minute bath at 50-55ºC with a 1% solution of Epsom Salts caused significant rises in plasma magnesium and sulphate levels together with an increase in magnesium excretion in the urine. To achieve a 1% solution, a standard UK bath of 15 gallons requires 600grams, (just over a 1lb) of Epsom Salts. The water should feel slightly soapy. In this experiment there were no adverse effects, indeed 2 of the volunteers who were over 60 years of age commented without prompting that their rheumatic pains had disappeared. See Report on Absorption of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) across the skin
Magnesium chloride could also be given through the skin. Again there is good scientific work showing that magnesium chloride is well absorbed through the skin. The recipe for this is a 33% solution of magnesium chloride. So if you take 333grams of magnesium chloride (I can supply - see Magnesium Chloride at Sales at Dr Myhill) into a jug and make this up to a litre this will give you the correct solution. You may have to warm this up for it to be completely dissolved. Or you could add a bit more water - it really doesn't matter. The daily dose is then 10mls (or more) rubbed onto skin. Use soft skin such as in the tummy or in the armpits or inside the thighs, don't wash it off subsequently but every day add more magnesium to the site – as the levels build up the absorption will be improved. See also Minerals and vitamins in creams
Epsom salts available from Just a soap epsom salts - they will deliver a sack to your door! Or you could order from Bittersalz on Amazon. Many of my Facebook members use Westlab Dead Sea Salts to good effect.
Magnesium per rectum
This is another route of getting magnesium into the body. Details in Magnesium per rectum.
Magnesium by nebuliser
A nebuliser bubbles air through a solution and turns it into a mist which can be inhaled. The lungs have a large absorptive surface (about the size of a tennis court) and so magnesium can easily be absorbed in this way. I now have patients whose levels I have checked before and after nebulisation and so far results consistently show increased levels.
I am using the same magnesium sulphate preparation for nebulisation as for injections. It is a 50% solution, which some people find to be a slight irritant - it may make them sneeze or cough. However, after a few breaths, this settles down (I found it best just to inhale through the mouth and not the nose). There are no theoretical or practical reasons why anyone should get problems such as wheezing while nebulising - indeed, magnesium works well for asthma. In fact, a study in New Zealand of magnesium by nebuliser for the treatment of acute asthma showed this to be a very effective treatment, over and above the effect of standard bronchodilators. If you feel you are getting short of breath during the nebulisation, stop the treatment. Some patients respond as well to magnesium by nebuliser as they do to magnesium by injection.
Initially I suggest using 1gm daily of magnesium sulphate (approx 100mgs of elemental magnesium). Because magnesium sulphate is a salty solution, you may see white crystals appearing in the nebuliser and the tubing but these can be easily washed away. They may block the small hole through which the solution bubbles in the nebuliser, in which case rinse it out.
How to use the nebuliser
The idea is to convert the liquid magnesium sulphate into a vapour which can be inhaled and absorbed by the lungs. This is achieved by bubbling air through a solution of magnesium. Most of the nebuliser is a simple pump which pumps air. Plug it in and start. You can feel the air coming out of the nozzle. There is a length of plastic tubing - push one end over this nozzle, the other end goes into the base of the nebulisation chamber. From the top of the nebulisation chamber the mask fits on via a connecting piece. The nebulisation chamber divides in two when the top half is unscrewed from the bottom. Magnesium needs to go into the bottom half of the chamber - you can see there is a little plastic float which directs the air from the pump down through the liquid magnesium. This float needs to be positioned squarely over the air flow otherwise the nebulisation chamber won't screw back together snugly again. You can see when the nebuliser is working because air bubbles through the magnesium and a white mist comes up out of the mask. Nebulisation is complete when the pool of magnesium is almost gone and no more white mist comes out of the mask - it should take 10-15 minutes.
How to obtain a nebuliser
These are the arrangements I have come up with to speed up the process and to reduce the cost. You can purchase a nebuliser direct from "Intermedical" - freephone is 0800 028 2194 and also see Intermedical website. The cost is approx £60.00, plus carriage. You simply ring them, they send you an order form and a form to fill in so they do not charge you VAT (if you are chronically ill or registered disabled, you are able to claim VAT exemption), you return the forms to them with payment, and they will post the nebuliser directly to you. If you prefer, the ordering process can be done online. It has a two year warranty and appears to be very good value for money. When you receive your nebuliser, phone the office to order some magnesium sulphate crystals (60g) and instructions on how to use them. I recommend using analar grade magnesium which is highly purified. One pot should be sufficient for two months of daily nebulisation. Intermedical are offering a 5% discount to all who find out about them through my website. Simply enter the following discount code at the checkout stage, or on the form, when ordering your nebuliser or any other product from Intermedical: DMY5.
Instructions for use of magnesium sulphate crystals
The crystals are hygroscopic – this means that they will absorb water from the atmosphere if exposed to air. It does not matter much if they do - the crystals simply go a bit hard! Therefore, keep the pot sealed and only open it very briefly when you are measuring your dose of magnesium sulphate. One gram of magnesium sulphate is contained in approximately a third of a teaspoon. The actual dose is not critical at all – it will be obvious within a week or two if you are using a little bit too much or a bit too little as, of course, you can expect the whole pot to last two months. 1gm of magnesium dissolves easily in a small teaspoon of water. I recommend you use spring water, put the crystals of magnesium sulphate and water straight into the nebulisation chamber and the air bubbling through will quickly mix and dissolve these crystals. After a while it may go a bit foggy, but this does not matter – it will still work just as well.
I am very happy for people to experiment with stronger or weaker solutions. Sometimes the stronger solutions give a metallic taste in the mouth and throat – but on the other hand the weaker solutions take longer to nebulise. It is up to everybody to find the right balance for themselves. See also Magnesium by nebuliser.
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- Magnesium by injection - the only way to guarantee getting magnesium levels up in the body
- Minerals and vitamins delivered through the skin
- Acid-Alkali balance
- Heartburn - at last I have sussed out why this is such a common problem
- Antioxidants
- Lipids, fats and essential fatty acids
- Arthritis - Nutritional treatments
- Joint Mix - nutrition for healthy joints
- Magnesium per rectum
- Magnesium by nebuliser
- The PK Cookbook - Go Paleo-ketogenic and get the best of both worlds
External links
- Magnesium given intravenously by bolus injection is a very powerful treatment - see this paper by Dr Sam Browne here
- The 'Magnesium Online Library' is an excellent resource and can be found here
- Just a soap epsom salts
- Bittersalz on Amazon
- Westlab Dead Sea Salts
- Online Sales shop link for Sunshine Salt
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Although "staggering" price increases for many key commodities have occurred since 2007, with several at or near historic highs, this should not be a major contributor to inflation, says O.A. Cleveland, Jr.
"The bull market in commodities has a good bit more life," he said in a discussion at the Starkville, Miss., Rotary Club. "It could last another five years or more. But I don't see inflation as a problem."
Cleveland, who is Extension agriculturalprofessor emeritus at Mississippi State University, says "a lack of money supply available to consumers" will hold inflation in line. "They don't have the spending power they had prior to 2008. Unemployment remains high, which also serves to limit consumer cash for purchases; those who are out of work are using what cash they have for food and necessities.
"People are more cautious about spending in general— they're actually saving more and paying down more on debt than in a very long time."
The outlook points to a continuation of the bull market for agriculture, Cleveland says. "It will take at least three years for price ratios to come back in line."
There's a big "but," however — "With ethanol expected to use 40 percent of the U.S. corncrop, the commodity boom could last another five to 10 years."
Ethanol production, subsidized by the government at 45 cents per gallon, (estimated to total $31 Billion in 2011)was originally intended to relieve the pressure on U.S. imports of oil, Cleveland says, "but a corollary impact was to raise world food prices," sparking protests in many countries around the world.
With world population increasing by 75 million each year — the equivalent of 25 states of Mississippi — demand for commodities will remain strong, regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, he says.
People will keep eating
"In a good economy, commodities will make money; in a bad economy, the government prints money and commodities make money. In either scenario, people will continue to eat."
Since 1997, soybeans, corn, and wheat prices have risen 200 percent to 275 percent, Cleveland notes. Cotton "has enjoyed the most fantastic run in history," up 300 percent over the last year, and 100 percent in the past six months; silver is up 600 percent over the last five years, gold continues to reach new highs, and oil is again over $100 per barrel.
"Delta farm land that was $2,000 per acre six years ago is $4,000 to $4,500 today, and none is for sale."
While the big runup in commodity prices has occurred since 2007, the seeds for it were sown in 1970, he says, with Russia's political decision to upgrade the diets of its people.
"Over a single weekend, they purchased much of the U.S. wheat crop, immediately sending the market limit up, a trend that continued for several days. The wheat that had been $2.50 jumped well above $6."
In time, the supply-demand situation was brought back into balance and prices stabilized.
But in 2000, Cleveland says, both China and India made political decisions to update the diets of their people, the Chinese opting to do it with pork, the Indians with poultry.
"These two countries are feeding more than 2billion people — 20 times more than Russia when it bought up U.S. wheat. And all those animals need grain.
"China's hog industry is four to five times larger than ours; they are the world's largest importer of soybeans, corn, and cotton, and have the world's largest textile industry."
Toss into this mix the U.S. decision in 2002 to use corn as a feedstock for ethanol and to subsidize ethanol production, major oilseed and wheat crop failures in 2007 in Europe and Australia, and "demand for oilseeds, feed grains, and food grains had jumped well above supplies."
The brink of disaster
By 2005, Cleveland says, "The world was on the brink of a food disaster. By 2008, world carryover of oilseeds and grains had disappeared and prices exploded." In 2010, just as there was a hint of prices settling down a bit, there came Russia's wheat disaster."
Cotton stocks were at record levels and frantic demand for grains and oilseeds sent cotton acres plummeting and grain/oilseed acres soaring. Mississippi cotton acres dropped to an all-time low of near 250,000.
But while cotton was taking a back seat in plantings over five years, the surplus in stocks was disappearing and prices were climbing.
"All this says is that economics works," Cleveland says. "With cotton supplies used up, the market has to catch up with grains and oilseeds. More specifically, the price ratios between the various field crops have come back in line. That is what $1-plus cotton has done.
While the world is no longer on the brink of a food disaster, supplies of commodities remain tight and food prices are at all-time highs, Cleveland says.
"The world cotton supply can't be rebuilt in a year. Neither can grain and oilseed stocks. Cotton is now on a competitive track for acreage, and will continue so for at least two years, or until all commodities can rebuild supplies.
"The next step will be for more land to be brought into production — and there is plenty of it. But, that will take five to 10 years. In the meantime, cotton will see many more months of the magic dollar sign."


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Australia Zoo and the Irwin family have partnered with Green's General Foods to utilise yet another platform to encourage conservation in a fun (and yummy!) way. Not only are kids getting educational wildlife bag tags with Green's packs, but Green's are also making a donation to Australia Zoo Conservation Projects! Wooo hoo!
Fauna & Flora International
Australia Zoo has partnered up with Flora and Fauna International for 'Answer The Call', a program that gives you the chance to make a difference and help save gorillas in central Africa, simply by recycling your old mobile phones.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
In December 2007, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Captain Paul Watson honored Steve Irwin by naming the anti whaling ship after the Crocodile Hunter. Sea Shepherd partnered with Terri Irwin and launched operation Migaloo to intervene against illegal whaling actions by the Japanese whaling fleet.
In 2008, Terri Irwin honored Paul as a Wildlife Warrior at the annual Australia Zoo breakfast. Terri said Paul was a fitting choice as he too is incredibly passionate about protecting whales, which was something Steve was so passionate about.
"Paul is a Wildlife Warrior in every sense of the word. He puts his life on the line to defend the ocean's great mammals and in doing so, has saved 500 whales. What an effort. I know Steve would be so proud," Terri said.
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This male Spotted (Rufous-Sided) Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) was sitting in a tree in Sedona, Arizona. He let me sit 6 feet from him while he sang these two variations. The first notes are a jay-like call, or mew, which he repeated for several minutes,then he started the second, which is a fantastic short song. The spectrogram shows his frequencies to exceed 11 KHz!
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hot springs capital of the world
A vast number of people pass through or by Hveragerði in south Iceland each year. Located 45 km from Reykjavik, Hveragerði may be seen from the vantage point of the Kambar mountain slope, as it spreads out across a 5,000 year-old lava field. Troughout the year, pillars of steam from the numerous hot springs in the town may be seen rising up out of the ground. In summer the town is truly a green community, abounding in trees. A green revolution is taking place as areas of woodland in and around Hveragerði expand, with the locals working together in order to further develop their blossoming town.
Geothermal park
Without doubt, Hveragerði´s, most precious gem is it´s geothermal park. There can not be many towns in the world with hot springs literally in peoples back yard. The geothermal park is centrally located and is open every day in the summer time. A natural clay foot bath can be enjoyed in the park and afterwards you can soak your feet in one of the hot springs. In a hole in the park the locals bake the famous black bread using the geothermal ground as an oven. You can boil egg in the hotsprings and later enjoy warm with the bread. Guidance is provided on the spot. During off season time please contact the local information office which arranges group tours upon request. Only 50 metres from the Geothermal Park a restaurant uses the geothermal heat for its outdoor kitchen which its visitors find simply fantastic.
The existence of hot springs led people to settle in Hveragerði. The natural hot water could be used for space heating, for cooking, baking and laundry. But it also led to the development of jobs. The first market garden, Fagrihvammur, was founded by the Varmá river in 1929. A year later the first greenhouse was built, marking the beginning of greenhouse horticulture in this region. Horticulture became a key sector of the local economy. Hveragerði began to grow a community in bloom.
Brand new hot springs on the 29th of May 2008
A new hot spring area broke through the ground in the earthquake that shook Iceland´s southern part on the 29th of May 2008. It is situated in the hillside above the town. Several very active hot springs can be seen that throw colourful mud and clear water in the air. A spectactular sight that should not be missed. All information is given in the tourist information office.
The exhibition "Quake 2008"
A powerful earthquake (6,3 Richter scale) struck the South coast of Iceland at 15:45 on the 29th of May in 2008. The epicenter of the quake was about two kilometers southeast of Hveragerði. The area closest to the epicenter of the quake suffered severe damage of houses and contents as this was being thrown around in the earthquake.
The exhibition presents the causes and derivatives the earthquake 2008 in Hveragerði. The exhibition shows the experience of residents, how it affected the buildings, local environments and other damage. Television screen shows the recordings from the camera monitoring, photographs of local people and information from Earthquake Center, University of Iceland. Earthquake simulator that visitors can experience a powerful earthquake that is over 6 per richter. When digging the foundation hole for the shopping centre a large, ancient fissure was revealed. One can see the fissure lit up through a transparent section of the floor in the library and at the tourist information centre.
Access to the exhibition is free but fee is taken for the earthquake simulator.
"Quake 2008" Sunnumörk 2-4810 Hveragerði tel: +354 483 -4601
Hveragerði today
In 1946 Hveragerði became its own municipality. Hveragerði has been a productive town in the last few years. New buildings are appering as more and more people are choosing to come and live in the town attracted by its tranquillity and closeness to nature. The growing population has risen to 2300. Hveragerði has much to offer. Trout and salmon swim in the Varmá river, berries can be had for the picking on the heath to the west of the town, and the area abounds in excellent walking routes. Not to mention the swimming pool, that for years was the largest pool in Iceland. It´s surroundings are remarkably beautiful. There are hot baths, whirlpools, a natural sauna and a fitness center. The swimming pool is open all year round. The NLFÍ Health and Rehabilitation Clinic offers the opportunity to seek health and happiness, and the Ás senior citizens´ home provides comfort for the twilight years. As the poets said: "Hveragerði is the best place in the world."
The Outdoors – Nature – Exercise
The Hveragerði surroundings are a paradise for outdoors people. There are good hiking trails within the town that link up with a network of trails on the land belonging to the Agricultural University of Iceland at the foot of Reykjafjall Mountain and in Ölfusborgir. There are also hiking trails in the recreational area at the foot of and on Hamar Mountain. From the mountain there are excellent views of land and out to sea. There are interesting hiking trails within the town. The Poets´Trail winds its way through historical parts of the town visiting three streets that made up the "artists´ quarters" between the years 1940-1965. These are Bláskógar(Blue woods), the street of painters; Frumskógar (Jungles), the street of poets, formerly known as Skáldagata, and Laufskógar (Leaf Woods), the street of the musicians. The Geothermal Trail visits the principal geothermal areas in and around town.
Maps and guidance for the main trails in Hveragerði can be found here.
There are walking and riding trails from the town into Ölfusdalur valley, the Hengill area and all the way to Nesjavellir and Þingvellir. On the route you will find warm natural pools and rivers for bathing.
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A September 26 AFP wire story incorrectly attributed a quote to Naomi Klein that should have been attributed to Arun Gupta. The error has been corrected by AFP but please note that the
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Call-Out by Arun Gupta
This week the White House is going to try to push through the biggest robbery in world history with nary a stitch of debate to bail out the Wall Street bastards who created this economic apocalypse in the first place.
This is the financial equivalent of September 11. They think, just like with the Patriot Act, they can use the shock to force through the "therapy," and we'll just roll over!
Think about it: They said providing healthcare for 9 million children, perhaps costing $6 billion a year, was too expensive, but there's evidently no sum of money large enough that will sate the Wall Street pigs. If this passes, forget about any money for environmental protection, to counter global warming, for education, for national healthcare, to rebuild our decaying infrastructure, for alternative energy.
This is a historic moment. We need to act now while we can influence the debate. Let's demonstrate this Thursday at 4pm in Wall Street (see below).
We know the congressional Democrats will peep meekly before caving in like they have on everything else, from FISA to the Iraq War.
With Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie, AIG, the money markets and now this omnibus bailout, well in excess of $1 trillion will be distributed from the poor, workers and middle class to the scum floating on top.
This whole mess gives lie to the free market. The Feds are propping up stock prices, directing buyouts, subsidizing crooks and swindlers who already made a killing off the mortgage bubble.
Worst of all, even before any details have been hashed out, The New York Times admits that "Wall Street began looking for ways to profit from it," and its chief financial correspondent writes that the Bush administration wants "Congress to give them a blank check to do whatever they want, whatever the cost, with no one able to watch them closely."
It's socialism for the rich and dog-eat-dog capitalism for the rest of us.
Let's take it to the heart of the financial district! Gather at 4pm, this Thursday, Sept. 25 in the plaza at the southern end of Bowling Green Park, which is the small triangular park that has the Wall Street bull at the northern tip.
By having it later in the day we can show these thieves, as they leave work, we're not their suckers. Plus, anyone who can't get off work can still join us downtown as soon as they are able.
There is no agenda, no leaders, no organizing group, nothing to endorse other than we're not going to pay! Let the bondholders pay, let the banks pay, let those who brought the "toxic" mortgage-backed securities pay!
On this list are many key organizers and activists. We have a huge amount of connections – we all know many other organizations, activists and community groups. We know P.R. folk who can quickly write up and distribute press releases, those who can contact legal observers, media activists who can spread the word, the videographers who can film the event, etc.
Do whatever you can – make and distribute your own flyers, contact all your groups and friends. This crime is without precedence and we can't be silent! What's the point of waiting for someone else to organize a protest two months from now, long after the crime has been perpetrated?
We have everything we need to create a large, peaceful, loud demonstration. Millions of others must feel the same way; they just don't know what to do. Let's take the lead and make this the start!
When: 4pm – ? Thursday, September 25.
Where: Southern end of Bowling Green Park, in the plaza area
What to bring: Banners, noisemakers, signs, leaflets, etc.
Why: To say we won't pay for the Wall Street bailout
Who: Everyone!
Clarification by Arun Gupta:
Naomi Klein did not write the email encouraging protest against the bailout plan for Wall Street. All she did was post the call on her website and list serve. I was the sole author of the original email, sent to many people, including Naomi, and asked them to forward it.
Corrected: Popular Anger Puts Fat Cat CEOs on the Run
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NEW YORK (AFP) — An angry US public and Congress are pushing to snip the rip cord on golden parachutes used by fat cat CEOs to escape Wall Street's mayhem.
Democrats in Congress -- set to resume emergency talks Friday with their Republican counterparts on a 700-billion-dollar (478-billion-euro) bailout for the financial industry -- insisted that any agreed package include restrictions on executive pay.
They caught the mood of a nation sickened at watching the titans of finance walk away from Wall Street disasters not only unscathed, but enriched. "The wealthiest people, those... in the best position to pay, are being asked for no sacrifice at all," read a petition to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, which by Thursday, after three days, had 32,600 signatures.
The petition, organized by independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, attacked what it described as the Treasury's attempt to let bungling executives "continue to make exorbitant salaries and bonuses."
Those gigantic pay checks, bonuses, and Midas-like farewells encapsulate what the public sees as Wall Street's greed-is-good philosophy.
For example, the CEO of bankrupt Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld, received total compensation of 71.9 million dollars in 2007, including stock, bonuses and other pay, according to a survey published by Forbes magazine.
Martin Sullivan, the chief executive of AIG, who left the insurance giant before it was rescued this month by the federal government, received 14 million dollars, a survey in USA Today said. He also quit with a severance package worth 47 million dollars.
Even punishment for those at the center of the chaos comes with a gold lining.
When the government took over collapsed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ousted bosses Daniel Mudd and Richard Syron were not allowed 12.59 million dollars worth in severance payments.
Yet they still got out the door with 9.43 million dollars in retirement benefits.
Public anger at such figures underlies skepticism about the entire government rescue.
"We'll never see that money again," said Mathew May, a 24-year-old economics student attending a small demonstration near the New York Stock Exchange. "They deregulated the markets and ran wild. Now we're bailing them out."
Arun Gupta, an editor of alternative New York newspaper
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, said there was "socialism for the rich and dog-eat-dog capitalism for the rest of us."
"Think about it," Gupta wrote in an email that quickly circulated to thousands of activists and inspired the New York street protest. "They said providing healthcare for nine million children, perhaps costing six billion dollars a year, was too expensive, but there's evidently no sum of money large enough that will sate the Wall Street pigs."
And left-wingers are not the only ones speaking out.
Newt Gingrich, the fiercely conservative former speaker in the House of Representatives, wrote in the National Review that the bailouts, likely to top a trillion dollars, smack of "crony capitalism."
"Doesn't that mean that we're using the taxpayers' money to hire people to save their friends with even more taxpayer money?" he asked.
, the magazine for and about the rich, also said enough was enough.
"The compensation schemes for Wall Street CEOs should be capped to a small fixed amount," wrote national editor Robert Lenzner.
"The rest should be dependent on performance in a way that does not reward taking greater risk than is prudent. If CEOs don't perform, they should get nothing."
One worker in the New York finance sector, who asked not to be named, said his colleagues were as angry as the general public.
"A lot of people are very upset that managers in their own companies and captains of industry in other areas made some really, really bad decisions," he said.
"The most insulting thing is the golden parachutes where these jackals from Fannie and Freddie, having destroyed the company, walked away with millions.... It all comes down to greed."
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When dealing with different types of tasks and priorities, often happens to mistakenly consider urgency and importance as synonyms and hence manage tasks, resources and time with a wrong approach.
Urgency is normally driven by external or emergent factors: a customer request, a short deadline, a blocking bug. Importance is usually driven by internal factors: a well known technical debt, a required refactoring, a performance and optimization improvement. You will probably find several definitions on the web concerning these two characteristics. Here, we will try to focus on their appliance to IT projects and how they could improve our perception of priorities and the effectiveness of our productivity.
Therefore, the first step to better manage your time and task allocation is to distinguish between what is urgent (and what is not) and what is important (and what is not). As you could guess, these characteristics can generate up to four combinations of different types of tasks as shown below:
- Not Urgent, Not Important: think about a wrong log information, a typo error in a label of a graphical interface: things appearing in your task list which are easy to fix and not urgent for the client.
- Urgent, Not Important: think about the same information as above but more relevant for customers and auditors: an audit records containing wrong information and used for the generation of a report, it's an easy fix, not internally important but urgent for the user.
- Not Urgent, Important: things become important, but probably the client is not aware of them (and he/she should not in most of the cases): it could be a refactoring, a performance issue, which has to be fixed, internally, and worries the IT Architect because if not corrected in a short term it could then turn in an headache for the whole team and project.
- Urgent, Important: a blocking bug or a wrong algorithm implementation which affects several layers of the software architecture, has impacts on client side and its propagated to several components of the product.
It's important to note that the four combinations above do not represent static states: they represent set of tasks, which are dynamics because affected by customer wills, time constraints, product evolution. Tasks could hence move from one combination to another (and thus from a product back log to another), converging – applying a pessimistic but often realistic pattern – to the worst of them, as show below:
A wrong log information can become urgent for the client if affecting customer care interventions on determining the source of an unexpected error (Not Urgent Not Important > Urgent Not Important); a new column in a report table required by the customer but internally not considered important can suddenly turn in something much relevant if the required data would then be needed by other tables and relationships (Urgent Not Important > Urgent Important); a postponed refactoring can be become urgent if blocking new required features (Not Urgent Important > Urgent Important). And, naturally, whatever was urgent and important can only increase its urgency and importance by the time (Urgent Important > Really Urgent Important).
Hence, every single task could, in the worst case, converge to a more urgent and more important task. Indeed, tasks should never move two states further, spotting a wrong prediction or uncorrected requirement in the project: if a Not Urgent and Not Important task, like a supposed to be easy and isolated bug, became an Urgent and Important issue it would definitely mark an underestimation at the beginning. More realistically, Not Urgent and Not Important tasks would remain in that state for a long time, moving from a back log to another and perhaps gaining a bit of urgency when becoming really old or just disappearing as consequence of refactorings and related fixes. And it would be absolutely normal, because depending on their assigned combination, you should manage tasks differently, as suggested below:
Urgent and Important tasks should always have the priority before any other task: you don't have much choice, you (or any Senior Developer of the team) must work on them, as soon as possible. You should also focus as much as possible on Not Urgent but Important tasks and spending time to identifying them, allocating the right time and resources for them in order to avoid future urgency and pressure: these are the common tasks that would keep an IT Architect and a Senior Developer busy. Urgent but not important tasks are usually easy to fix, don't require much time but have to be part of the coming release, thus you could either work on them or try to delegate to an experienced team member while Not Urgent and Not Important tasks could be delegated to a newcomer or a Junior Developer, somebody who needs to work on the projects on easy tasks which would introduce him/her to the product through narrowed bug fixes and minor tasks.
That's it. We actually went through resource and time management just applying four different combinations of tasks, as simple as that. Refactor your ideas, hence, looking at urgency and importance in a different way, optimizing your daily to-do list and increasing the effectiveness of your productivity.


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Betty Hobbs has put down deep roots in the coastal village of Louisa Creek. Between looking after her large extended family, the frog ponds, camping ground, bush regeneration and community centre, she keeps a weather eye on the creeping coal expansion slowly devouring her community.
For the coal industry, Louisa Creek is just a place to dump its coal. For the families that live there it is where they played as kids, spent weekends fishing and caring for the bush: it's their community.
"Our community is a really good, close community," said Betty. "We work together, we look after each other, if one person gets sick or in trouble we're all there to help that person: it's like an extended family."
But as Betty says, her community lives in "the danger zone." Already, there are two coal terminals on the southern point next to Louisa Creek – known as Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay. The coal industry plans to build a third coal terminal on the other side of Louisa Creek, Dudgeon Point, dumping an enormous stockpile of coal in between. According to Betty, thirty years ago, there were 240 homes at Louisa Creek, then the coal industry moved in. Today there are 65 houses left and only 15 homes owned by residents.
But Betty's not going anywhere. "We are never going to stop fighting. We really feel strongly about defending our turf."
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On one of his submersion's I noticed he was following something larger than usual...I could not believe it, a white tip shark. It was HUGE - at least to me (being small and all). Not having a snorkel and completely exciting I started swallowing water as I tried to get my head underwater as fast as possible. The shark swam by completely, un-phased by our presence. I think my dad was just as excited, little did he know that 20 years later he would be photography these beautiful animals. What seemed like an eternity - was actually just a matter of a few seconds - but enough to find a permanent place in my head. See video below - that was my first shark experience.
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The Bilbao campus of Deusto University is located between the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum and the Euskalduna Conference and Music Centre, in the Abandoibarra area. Access to Deusto University from this area is via the Padre Arrupe walkway. Another way of getting into the centre of Bilbao is across the Deusto Bridge. Its oldest building is the Literary University (1886), the work of the Marquis of Cubas, in Classical style. Inside, the building is distributed over two cloisters, with the central staircase standing out especially, along with the Paraninfo Room, the Gothic chapel and the library.
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The Florida Board of Cosmetology has banned the procedure, even before it was known to be offered anywhere in the state. The board said salons had been inquiring about its legality and decided to issue the decision before it became a problem.
The treatment is popular in Asia and has spread to some U.S. cities. A client sticks feet, hands or other body parts in a bowl or pool, and the small fish chow down on soft decaying skin.
Texas, Washington, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have also outlawed the practice. A spokeswoman for the Florida board says there's concern because there's no way to disinfect a pool of fish in between uses.
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I've never really watched Project Runway — not from lack of desire but from lack of cable — so I don't know much about Laura Bennett except that I saw a picture of a pretty dress she designed once. I am going to make a wild guess that, being a fashion designer, she's not exactly a model of body positivity. Nonetheless, this post of hers on the ways parental restriction on food can lead to binge and compulsive eating is spot on. She starts with a jaw-dropping story about an acquaintance trying to win sole custody of her kids because her ex served them non-organic food for lunch, and then gets into what happens to these overmonitored kids when they visit a house (like hers) where they have access to — heaven forfend! — junk food.
I just want to let the food Nazi moms* in on what happens when your kids come to a house where junk food inhabits the pantry. They have no decision-making skills or sense of moderation when faced with the forbidden fruit roll-up. Like deprived animals, they are determined to consume the lifetime allotment of sugar they have been denied; all before pickup. I have seen one such child eat Swiss Miss Cocoa with a spoon directly out of the family-size container, only to move on to conquer a box of frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts. When faced with not one but three brands of chips, they become apoplectic and run from the kitchen clutching bags of Cool Ranch Doritos and French onion-flavored Sun Chips, later to be found in a corner curled up in the fetal position surrounded by wrappers, unable to state their name.
Sheltering children from every evil in the world does them a disservice; decision-making is a skill, learned with practice from the time they are small. At some point my boys will go out into the world and have to decide for themselves what is right and wrong. One would hope that by then they have ascertained that Krispy Kreme doughnuts are not really for breakfast—and there are serious repercussions if you leave the mother of your children for a 24-year-old.
We've talked about this dynamic before, of course, often in terms of the self-deprivation of dieting and the fantasy of the compensatory binge. You tell yourself that you are absolutely, under no circumstance, to ever eat an Oreo or you have FAILED at LIFE, and then when you do crave one you figure you may as well eat all the Oreos in the WORLD. As an adult, you can train yourself — haltingly, painstakingly — in the art of intuitive eating; as a kid, you're often at the mercy of the adults in your life.
I was the kid who grew up in a junk food-friendly house. I loved Cheetos and Frosted Flakes and chocolate chip cookies and god knows what else. But my mom was also a very good cook, so I also loved potatoes and broccoli and homemade soup and pork tenderloin and all that. Having good homemade food and having "junk" food weren't mutually exclusive in my house — we just had to have a lot of food, period, because we sometimes had heaps of kids in the house at a time between my mom's three and my stepdad's three and all our little friends and cousins who'd stop by. The only time I remember ever engaging in what I'd now call compulsive eating of junk food was in the first couple years after my mom remarried — I was probably feeling a lot of emotional strain, and suddenly there were all these older boys in the house who would eat all the snacks in about two minutes if they could, so I would grab my favorite snacks when I got home from school and eat them all on the staircase to my room before my brothers found me. I was 7 years old and I was confused and I liked food; I stopped doing it once our household settled down more. Eventually I learned that I really didn't want all those Cheetos all the time — they made my tongue feel funny and I didn't want orange fingers for the rest of the day. In short, I learned the decision-making skills that Bennett talks about (at least until I started reading teen magazines and getting a whole other species of food morality pumped into me).
But boy, did I have those friends who went berserk when they came to my house. They would be so overwhelmed with the prospect of mainlining all that sugar that sometimes they forgot why they came over in the first place; plans to play a game or ride bikes would crumble under the hypnotic sway of Smore-flavored Pop Tarts.** It always baffled me, because I didn't have the same reaction when I went to their houses — I often really enjoyed the home-grown, hand-picked, carefully allotted food (not organic, though — too early in the century for that) we got there, because hey, I liked food, but I didn't usually feel the need to go on a carrot stick bender. After all, I could get those at home too. (I did like discovering new kinds of foods at friends' houses, though — this was the '80s and '90s, and in my area "ethnic" foods [i.e., from ethnicities that include non-white people] and hippie foods and fancy vegetables were just starting to enter our awareness. Plus, my mom had some medically based food restrictions, so though we did eat vegetables often, we didn't eat a wide variety of them, and we didn't eat them raw. Salad was a total revelation to me when I was a teenager.)
Not being a parent myself, what struck me most about Bennett's article is that the dynamic she describes — not letting kids have the slightest opportunity to make their own decisions about food — doesn't actually go away when you're an adult. We're all infantilized by the diet industries and the anti-obesity epidemic BOOGA BOOGA scare factories. All of us, but especially if we're women, are told that we don't know what we want, that we don't know how much to eat, that if we claim to eat by the rules we must be lying, that we're one bad decision away from death's door. The single most basic act of living that you control — putting food in your body — is considered out of your league, intellectually speaking. We are never allowed to grow up when it comes to the refrigerator.
Here's the thing: we're all going to make bad decisions sometimes. It's okay. You don't have to be perfect. You don't even have to try to be perfect! If you're trying to shed a lifetime of infantilization and cognitive dissonance around food, rest assured that practicing intuitive eating doesn't secretly mean that you have to be Michael Pollan's fat twin to do it right. (I'm betting he has had an Oreo or two in his lifetime, too.) It means you get to eat what you want, for real, without judgment. And if you're trying to raise a kid not to be insane about food and fat, good luck to you — it will be an uphill battle, but you're already giving your kid a leg up by refusing to treat yourself like a child, too.
*My biggest problem with Bennett's article: why the focus on moms? Yes, her original encounter was with a food-obsessed woman, but that doesn't mean that only women can warp their kids' psyches. This reads to me as resting on unexamined misogynist principles, namely that women are solely in charge of children's nourishment.
**Dude, are these as good as I remember? I haven't bought Pop Tarts in ages but OMG I can still taste these in my mind.


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If you are going to make your first appearance in a musical theatre role, appearing in Grease might be the dream job.
And that was the case for former Eastenders star Louisa Lytton who stars in the show coming to Milton Keynes Theatre.
She said: "I play Rizzo who is such an iconic character and have been having a wonderful time with the cast and crew. I have been so lucky as I had not done a musical theatre role before.
"I didn't think I would enjoy doing something like this as much as I have but it's been wonderful.
"I was a huge fan of the film and watched it a lot when I was growing up and then I went to see the show when it was in the West End when I was about 12 which was great. To be in now is lovely.
"My favourite is probably the opening number, Grease is the Word when all of us in the cast are on the stage."
It will be a return to Milton Keynes for Louisa having previously appeared in pantomime at the same venue in 2008 as Peter Pan.
She said: "I did pantomime back at Milton Keynes. It is a great venue and a big theatre and it is also close to my home so am really looking forward to performing there again."
Louisa appears alongside The Wanted's Tom Parker who plays Danny and Danielle Hope as Sandy. It runs from Monday August 28 to Saturday September 2.
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A gripping storyline and convincing characters are integral to creating great feature films, but finding a location to bring the tale to life is just as important.
Yorkshire has proved a particular hotspot for the silver screen over the years, with its dramatic landscapes, heritage buildings and gritty urban areas proving popular among film crews - with one of the biggest feathers in the cap being its starring appearance in the Harry Potter franchise.
Here are a few of the famous Potter filming spots around Yorkshire where you can soak up some movie magic, along with the locations of some other big blockbusters shot here.
Malham Cove
This natural limestone rock formation is easily recognised in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One, appearing in the tense scene where Harry and Hermione hide from Lord Voldemort in a rocky camp.
The unique patterned formation was formed by a river which once ran over the rock.
The Shambles
This charming cobbled street in York served as the inspiration for Diagon Alley, with the film designers heading to the famous street ahead of building the set to study the real-life version of JK Rowling's fictional thoroughfare.
Fans can now pay a visit to The Shop That Must Not Be Named which sits proudly on The Shambles and boasts an array of Potter memorabilia to purchase, including mugs, books, wands and jewellery.
Goathland Station
Goathland on the North York Moors Railway, between Whitby and Pickering, served as the location for Hogsmede station, where Hogwarts students were dropped off at the start of their school term.
A popular spot among film crews, it has also starred as a long-running setting for British soap opera Heartbeat.
York Train Station
This fellow Yorkshire train station also made it into the films, with the bridge which Harry and Hagrid walk over at Kings Cross actually being filmed in York.
Doncaster Grammar School
Attracting attention for its listed Victorian buildings, the historic school (now called Hall Cross Academy) reputedly almost made it into the films, having been scouted as a location for some Hogwarts scenes, although it never made the final cut.
Other famous blockbusters
The Full Monty
Various locations around Sheffield made a starring appearance in the surprise film hit The Full Monty, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson, including Ruskin Park and Shiregreen Working Men's Club, where the men performed their famous dance.
Testament of Youth
Filmed extensively in Yorkshire in the Spring of 2014, locations for this period production include Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Leeds City Varieties, Brodsworth Hall in Doncaster, Robin Hood's Bay and the Old Terry's Chocolate Factory in York.
Phantom Thread
The beautiful North Yorkshire coast was used as the base for this period drama, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Lesley Manville.
The Victoria Hotel which sits high above Robin Hood's Bay was used as one of the filming spots, along with Staithes, Ravenscar, Lythe and Grosmont Station.
Ghost Stories
This British horror film, starring Paul Whitehouse and Martin Freeman, captured many of its scenes around Yorkshire, with the Harewood Estate, Hornsea, Harrogate, Leeds and Saltaire all making an appearance in the spooky flick.
Darkest Hour
This Oscar winning Winston Churchill biopic starring Gary Oldman was brought to life at a couple of Yorkshire spots, with Rotherham's Wentworth House being used as the double for Buckingham Palace's interior, and nearby Branham Park standing in as the Downing Street.


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One ad for a 2018 congressional candidate shows him wearing a T-shirt with an unofficial Marine Corps motto, "Pain is weakness leaving the body." Another ad shows a candidate boasting, "I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat. And I got to land on aircraft carriers."
But neither candidate is a Republican, the traditional party in favor of a muscular military. Instead, they're part of a cohort of at least 20 military veterans running under the banner of an increasingly liberal Democratic party in the 2018 midterm elections.
The recruitment effort, designed to bolster Democrats' hopes of taking the two dozen seats they need to retake the House of Representatives, revises an old strategy the party used in 2006 when roughly 50 veterans ran with mixed results. The new effort is designed to puncture Republicans' hold on the so-called guns-and-guts vote, while also appealing to voters' apparent desire for political outsiders.
"The old model is out, the new model is in," said David Wasserman, of The Cook Political Report. "The old model was to recruit people who were proven vote-getters in their districts — safe legislators, mayors. That's out in this current political environment when voters are really skeptical of politicians. We learned that in the 2016 election."
And so far, the recruitment efforts have added intrigue to races in traditional swing districts.
That includes Maine 2nd Congressional District, where state Rep. Jared Golden became one of five Democrats hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, who is serving his second term.
Golden, 34, is the assistant majority leader in Maine House of Representatives. He also served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines.
Golden highlighted his military service when he announced his candidacy in August. The announcement was also accompanied by a slickly-produced digital ad that stressed Golden's combat experience while also highlighting Poliquin's vote on a controversial bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, and a press strategy he admitted in a secret recording was designed to protect his seat.
Golden's ad was similar in tone to Amy McGrath, a Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky.
Joseph Kopser, of Texas, Randy Bryce, of Wisconsin, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Chrissy Houlahan, of Pennsylvania, are some of the others military veterans embarking on congressional runs.
The House effort has been jointly run by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and VoteVets, a progressive organization now headed by Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton.
Golden specifically mentioned Moulton in his announcement press conference.
Jeremy Teigen, a political science professor at Ramapo College in New Jersey, said "military veterans have been looked to as an electoral asset since the very beginning of the republic."
Jeremy, author of an upcoming book, "Why Veterans Run," says military veterans have been sought as candidates since the election George Washington.
In the 1970s, nearly three-quarters of the members of Congress had served in either World War II or the Korean War. According to the Pew Research Center, veteran membership has dropped dramatically since then. In the current Congress, only 20 percent of senators and 19 percent of representatives have served in the military at one point in their careers.
That percentage is still reflects a larger representation than the American public. According to Pew, only 8 percent of U.S. adults had military experience in 2014.
Teigen says veterans are considered good candidates because "military service provides a very easy-to-consume cue for voters to perceive someone who has leadership, selflessness, patriotism."
Democrats hope that cue will help them carve into what Teigen describes as Republicans' hold on the gun-and-guts vote — voters who value national security and a strong military.
Democrats have tried this before, including the 2006 recruitment effort by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that produced the so-called "Fighting Dems."
While military veterans performed well in Democratic primaries, only a handful won in the general election.
Nonetheless, Democrats hope veteran candidates can inoculate themselves against specific GOP attacks.
Last year, Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt accused his challenger Jason Kander of voting to erode gun rights.
Kander, a former Army captain, responded by releasing a video in which he reassembles an assault rifle — while blindfolded.
According to polls taken at the time, Kander received a bump from the ad. But he still lost to Blunt by nearly three percentage points in the election.
Teigen says recruiting veterans as candidates won't be a panacea to other challenges facing Democrats, such as deeply conservative districts or a party platform that fails to resonate with voters. He says veterans can provide a small advantage, but that edge only matters in tight races.
Wasserman, who recently changed his rating of the Maine 2nd District race from Republican to leans Republican, agreed.
"If you're a Democrat running in a really, really Republican district this time, even if you have been a military hero and have no legislative record, you're still going to get tagged as a liberal who wants Nancy Pelosi to be House Speaker," Wasserman said.
That's what happened when Golden entered the race last month. Not only did Republicans attack him as a Trojan Horse liberal, the National Rifle Association chimed in with an attack on Golden's legislative votes on gun bills.
We are more than a year away from the 2018 midterm elections, but a trend is emerging among the field of Democratic congressional candidates. Democrats are recruiting military veterans. Steve Mistler of Maine Public Radio reports.
STEVE MISTLER, BYLINE: It's probably safe to say that a lot of Mainers don't know Jared Golden.
JARED GOLDEN: For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jared Golden. And today I formally announce my candidacy to represent Maine's 2nd Congressional District.
MISTLER: The 34-year-old Democrat is the assistant majority leader in the Maine House of Representatives, and he's trying to unseat two-term Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin. It's a big, rural district that's swung between Democrats and Republicans. And Golden's pitch to voters starts with his military career.
GOLDEN: I'll never forget what it felt like running across the field and up the ridgeline toward the sound of the gunfire. On the other side of that ridge, three of our marines were in a firefight. We were racing to get there faster because they needed us to have their backs.
MISTLER: Golden served combat tours as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan. In his first campaign ad, he's shown jogging on a back road, wearing a T-shirt with a slogan adopted by the Marines. Pain is weakness leaving the body. The ad is slick, professional, and it highlights Golden's military service. Golden is 1 of 20 military veterans recruited by Democrats to run for Congress in 2018. Another candidate who has attracted attention is Amy McGrath, who's running against a Republican incumbent in Kentucky.
AMY MCGRATH: I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat, and I got to land on aircraft carriers.
JEREMY TEIGEN: Military veterans have been looked to as an electoral asset since the very beginning of the republic.
MISTLER: Jeremy Teigen is a political science professor at Ramapo College in New Jersey and an author of the upcoming book "Why Veterans Run," a historical look at veterans running for office. He says that military veterans have been sought as candidates since the election of George Washington. And Teigen says there are a lot of reasons why veterans are considered good candidates, including the perception that they're not career politicians.
TEIGEN: Military service provides a very easy-to-consume cue for voters to perceive someone who has leadership, selflessness, patriotism.
MISTLER: Democrats hope that cue will help them carve into what Teigen describes as Republicans' hold on the guns-and-guts vote. That's voters who value national security and a strong military. Democrats also hope veteran candidates can inoculate themselves against specific GOP attacks. Last year, Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt accused his challenger Jason Kander of voting to erode gun rights. Kander, a former Army captain, responded by releasing a video in which he reassembles an assault rifle while blindfolded.
JASON KANDER: And in the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights. I also believe in background checks so that terrorists can get their hands on one of these. I approve of this message because I'd like to see Senator Blunt do this.
TEIGEN: He definitely won the award for best ad of the cycle, certainly.
MISTLER: But Kander still lost that race. And Teigen says that contest in Missouri illustrates what history has already taught us - that veterans running as Democrats can have an advantage against Republicans who haven't served. But the district can't be too strongly Republican, and Democrats still have to offer something fresh to voters. For NPR News, I'm Steve Mistler in Lewiston, Maine.
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Twenty years ago this week, when humans still roamed the Earth freely without buzzing or beeping, a UK engineer unleashed the world's first text message.
Fourteen characters flashed through transistors as digital bytes, contorted into radio waves, then flew into a company Christmas party.
"Merry Christmas".
Neil Papworth's transmission in 1992 was the birth of a new way of communicating - soon to become the method of choice for arranging extramarital sex (Tiger Woods), abusing enemies (John Banks, Andrew Williams, Scott Styris), and almost or actually walking off cliffs, running into people and crashing your car.
It has become the most popular means of communication - more common than talking, according to some studies - which makes texting significant enough to be demonised, in nervous moments, as the incipient downfall of civilisation and the loss of all privacy and human warmth.
"We've become absolutely beholden to these buggers," said Telecommunications Users' Association chief executive Paul Brislen.
"We just can't put it down - trained like Pavlov's dogs."
Worldwide, about eight trillion texts are sent a year, or 15 million a minute, and Kiwis have been among the most enthusiastic adopters of the technology.
It has taken us from walking the world unconnected, to allowing memos to reach you anywhere, even if you're ignoring calls, emails, Facebook, Twitter...
"It's quite a different form of communication - a different level of communication... There's something about text messages. It's immediate," Mr Brislen said.
New Zealand's turning point came in 1999 as pre-paid phones flourished and 20-cent texts revealed their value against voice calls.
Comments at the time explained the surprise adoption of the "fiddly" technology as being driven, mainly, by cheapness.
Even the world record for typing a text message on a smartphone is only 60 words a minute (42 without a touchscreen keyboard), for the following sentence:
"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality, they seldom attack a human."
We typically talk twice as fast.
"I don't think anybody in the industry expected it to take off in the way it did," Mr Brislen said.
Some mobile carriers considered it a fad and tried to ignore it. But texting kept growing.
"It crept up on me, certainly: one day I was saying 'No, I don't do that kind of thing' and the next day I was."
The Herald highlighted the phenomenon in a 2000 article, "Shorthand messages fly".
Though a year late to the trend, in the classic way of media, it delightfully told of an anonymous "sensitive man" admitting that texts let him communicate with women without him becoming a doofus.
Texts have become part of our shared experiences in many other ways: rushed apologies as we're running late; snooping through partners' phones; trying to navigate a friend through a crisis when you're far away and just can't talk; casual "how r u's", which really are sudden onsets of loneliness; and late, liquid nights when full disclosure suddenly seems a good idea.
And there are the things we no longer do, like searching forever through a shopping mall because your grandmother has shuffled to the wrong exit. Has it changed who we are? And does it matter?
Earlier this year in the New York Times, a fretful Massachusetts Institute of Technology psychologist recounted in a column how her students were learning to maintain eye contact with someone while texting another. It would be the death of conversation, she cautioned.
Dr Sherry Turkle noted how so many of us now fidgeted for a device whenever we had a moment alone.
"Always-on/always-on-you devices provide three powerful fantasies: that we will always be heard; that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; and that we never have to be alone."
Seduced by such fantasies, Dr Turkle said, we were losing our ability to savour - or even cope with - solitude, making us more prone to loneliness.
"We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. If we are unable to be alone, we are far more likely to be lonely. If we don't teach our children to be alone, they will know only how to be lonely." In her view, we've been changed by the technology to become more befuddled, both in social situations and when alone.
Victoria University information management expert Val Hooper, who has written extensively on cellphone use, has a contrary view about whether we've really changed.
In one of her studies, Dr Hooper found that the abbreviated language of texting had quickly overflowed to all of our communications, with a deleterious effect on the fullness of vocabulary and grammar.
"As a lecturer, you notice it among the students: they don't use the language - this may sound so pompous, if you like - but language is so rich and the richness of language isn't explored, used and played with very often," she said.
Almost everyone was now writing like engineers, "where the language was in symbols".
In turn, the pidgin-like language of texting opened up new worlds for the disenfranchised. In Africa, the semi-literate and women who had been denied education were gaining business tools by learning to text.
"It has contributed to literacy. People who are semi-literate are nevertheless able to text in that crude form of language, and it has had a hugely emancipating effect... They have leapt across that great divide - that chasm of business literacy - and enabled them to operate very, very well," Dr Hooper said.
"It's a simple language. It doesn't have to be as grammatically correct."
Nevertheless, she said, all the new behaviours had an old drive behind them - "a compulsion to always want to be attached".
"You know, we might change our superficial type of behaviours... they might become daily practices, we might become more efficient and effective - but essentially, at our core, we're the same."
She found that text messaging, despite its ubiquity, rarely reached the level of addiction. "It's more wanting to be in touch with your nearest and dearest."
Texting has spun new invisible lines of communication through unusual places, from under dinner tables to pockets in loud concerts.
Under-the-table communications may be among text messaging's most unique accomplishments: something like secretly holding hands, or putting a hand on a knee, while everyone else keeps chatting away oblivious to the exchange of affection - but doing so across a city or even thousands of kilometres. Emails can be more deliberate, Skype more verbose, but there's nothing as sneaky as SMS.
Many great scandals have been launched by text, including sportsmen David Beckham, Ashley Cole and Woods in variously alleged and admitted affairs, politicians around the world getting too sexy in words and pictures, and countless other incidents titillating and gross.
Intimate messages are surreptiti-ously thumbed and flicked away at the speed of light, back and forth through the day - a giant network of secrecy carrying promises, nudity, break-ups, grave announcements and utter banality between the assumed privacy of pairs.
Woods once wrote: "I will wear you out... when was the last time you got [bleeped]! Send me something very naughty."
Similarly, texts have appeared in court as almost unguarded comments, with lawyers reading out messages to juries while interpreting the mangled words. (Auckland University law professor Scott Optican said he was unaware of studies describing how significant text message evidence might have become in criminal courts.)
For youth, it can be hard to be totally alone with someone. Not at school, rarely at home, by definition not in public. A private electronic world is freedom, even if it is a proxy.
In 2009, a distressed 15-year-old Rotorua girl wrote to a 27-year-old man who had engaged in sexual relations with her: "hi Pele um this might be the last text you ever get from me ... I love you with all my heart".
The girl heard back: "just f*** off I don't care if you kill yourself I not even like you a***hole".
In an inquiry into her suicide, coroner Wallace Bain discussed how texting caught people truly alone - teenagers in their bedrooms, without support, free to dream of death.
In text messaging, there's no one else around - no other diners around a restaurant to witness exchanges, passing pedestrians or neighbours to hear, no glass windows exposing expressions, not even the other person to notice you in that moment in time. There's a privacy that's liberating and dangerous.
It is an intimate world, framed by a tiny rectangular screen and barebones words, and stretching out with imagination.
We've all had pangs of feeling protective towards solitary adolescents walking around with a phone - something outsized or with an unfolding screen - held in front of them as if it were simultaneously a shield and some sort of navigation system.
The closeness between texts and their recipients gave them influence, said Auckland University health researcher Robyn Whittaker, whose text-based programme to help people stop smoking managed to double participants' quit rates.
"Text messages reach you wherever you are," Dr Whittaker said.
"The feedback that we tend to get from participants in these studies is that they feel more supported to make the change, and that someone is checking in with them about how they are going."
And they're more direct: a ringing phone conceals what you're going to have to deal with. You can even dread email headers, which require opening up to find out their truth.
But text messages have no adornments. Relatively speaking, they avoid the pageantry of other forms of communication.
If text messaging has been a world-changing innovation, it is a disappointingly basic one.
Dr Hooper, from Victoria University, said this was the story of the last decade.
At the turn of the century, top technologists guessed what could be the next big thing to change our world.
Many predicted robots.
But we got things like 160- character texts and Facebook instead. Social networking, Dr Hooper said, was decades-old even as a science.
The technologies that took off had been the most obvious ones, fulfilling our basic needs as social animals, she said.
Led by text messaging, we've gained many new ways to connect - while becoming disconnected from the physical world.
The danger of cellphone use while driving, Dr Hooper has found, is because of this disconnect. There are no pauses in communication because you've hit a dangerous part of the road. Right at hairy bend, a spouse can reveal an affair, unaware of where you are.
There has been much uneasiness about having become persistently connected electronically while being disconnected physically - and therefore distracted. Many studies, from computers to mobiles and other developments, have looked at how technology might be isolating us. Mostly, however, its use has actually turned out to be about social connection, even from our individual boxes, Dr Hooper said.
And we've recently outgrown the point where we might let text messaging dominate our lives, instead learning to balance its use with family time and other ties, she said. "The tipping point in many ways has past."
By the numbers:
1992 year of first text message
1999 texts take off in NZ
160 characters maximum (originally)
60 record words a minute speed for a text
8 trillion texts sent a year worldwide
15 million a minute
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"That just can't happen on camera. You want to come into the locker room and throw someone against the wall if they screwed up? That's part of this. That's emotional professional sports, but I
can't have it on the field in the camera's eyes."
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acting, the representation of a usually fictional character on stage or in films. At its highest levels of accomplishment acting involves the employment of technique and/or an imaginative identification with the character on the part of the actor. In this way the full emotional weight of situations on stage be communicated to the audience. The actor must be a sharp observer of life and thoroughly trained in voice projection and enunciation and in body movement.
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