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COLUMBIA - Columbia Police officers identified two additional suspects Tuesday in the murder of 23-year-old Dontay Tolston. Monday, police arrested Martell Smith for second degree murder in connection with the case.
Jimiah A. Lambert, 20, and Derrick Copelin, 17, are believed to be armed and dangerous. Officers do not believe the men are in the Columbia area.
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Boone County Prosecutor Dan Knight filled second degree murder charges against the suspects. The Boone County court set $1,000 cash only bonds for both men.
The Columbia Police Department said a woman found Tolston on the floor of a Newton Drive residence with a gunshot wound on Jan. 2. Tolston died at the hospital on the morning of Jan. 3.


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It is generally true to say that the American and British media have a shallow and dilettantish understanding of the race and ethnicity of the 'enemy' in the 'war on terrorism'. These enemies who are principally Arab and Islamic extremists or fanatics represent, demographically, a miniscule percentage of the Muslim world. Nonetheless, the Western media's presentation of ordinary Muslims is often identical or almost identical to their presentation of Islamic terrorists and fundamentalists. Both are shown as hateful and zealous religious extremists whose first aim is to overthrow Western democracy and freedom. There is often hardly even a crude attempt to discern between and present differently genuine terrorists and ordinary, peaceful and law-abiding Muslims.
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It is as if the Arab media were suddenly to infer from the IRA bombings of Britain in the 1980's and 1990's that all white Irishmen are inclined to commit terrorism. No thinking Muslim could ever contemplate a suggestion as ludicrous as this; Muslims legitimately ask in protest therefore why their race and ethnicity should be portrayed so simplistically and crudely in the Western media. The uniform and monotonous image of Arabs and Islam promoted in the media arises from that media's lack of comprehension and empathy with the Muslim world and the Islamic religion.
Only a more thorough and objective analysis of the Islamic world can push back the media's impulse to be influenced by racial and ethnic stereotypes about Muslims. If this re-orientation and re-education takes place it will be possible to wash away from the minds of the general public popular illusions about the involvement of Muslims in the 'war on terrorism' – for instance the assumption that Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Britain all share the same terrorist inclinations as Al Quaeda or the P.L.O. This essay explores the Western media's perceptions of the Arab race and of Muslim ethnicity, and suggests how these perceptions influence its coverage and commentary on the 'war on terrorism'.
'The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle
dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance.
These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time
practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which
hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least
as compared with all other societies preceding it. … Islam is replete
with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.
(H.G. Wells, 1932)
H.G. Well's eloquent words are one example from many of a long tradition in the West of admiration and appreciation for the civilization of the Arabs and the religion of Islam. Of late, the Western media has forgotten about the cultural achievements born in the Islamic world and seems no longer able to discern between the general Muslim public and the extreme groups of Muslims who commit atrocities such as the September 11th attacks or this week's bombings in London. Our newspapers and television stations typically present Muslims – be they terrorist or civilian! – in the following way.
They are either groups of young Muslim men torching American flags in the streets of Palestine whilst wielding rifles; or they are a crowd of agitated Muslims outside a mosque in north London preaching lessons of jihad; or they are the inculcated and indoctrinated disciples of the Quran. The implication in all these examples is that all Muslims are susceptible to the temptations of terrorism and can be seduced by leaders such as Osama Bin Laden. There is of course a patent absurdity in such a simple presentation: the massive majority of Muslims in all countries oppose, for instance, the train bombings in Madrid or the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
This image is sustained by the propaganda of stations such as CNN, ABC, and the BBC, who often display scenes of Arab children waving signs showing the face of Osama Bin Laden or Mohammed Omah, to imply that young children are on a large scale manipulated and recruited into terrorist causes. Newspaper slogans shout 'This Fanaticism that we in the West Can Never Understand' and 'In the Heart of London Demands for Holy War' . If Muslims so unreflectingly projected upon modern Christians all the terrors that have been carried out in the name of that religion, and if Christians were to glimpse that projection, then we might have far greater empathy with the present simplistic image of racial and ethnic incitement in the Muslim world.
By promoting such racial and ethnic prejudices the Western media reveals what one scholar calls its Islamophobia (Tape, 2003). In Britain, newspapers such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Express and the Daily Mail recklessly promote Islamophobia when they know the true nature of affairs is far less simplistic than they suggest. Amongst these misrepresentations perhaps the most serious is that which paints Islamic ethnicity as an intransigent and monolithic structure that systematically abuses women, squashes human rights, and loathes democracy. The media's subscription to this political idea is highly dangerous. It convinces television and newspaper audiences that the actions of a few fanatical terrorists are typical of Muslims generally and so perpetuates an idea that the 'war on terrorism' is against a far wider segment of the Muslim world than it really is. For instance, British newspapers frequently imply the similarities between terrorist cells training and operating in Afghanistan or Iraq and the activity of Muslim communities in north London or Bradford
James Bignell's book Media Semiotics (Bignell, 2002) and S. Rampton's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Rampton, 2003) have showed that television, newspaper and radio audiences intrinsically trust the message they are given – no matter what form this media arrives in. Thus the responsibility upon the media to make an accurate portrayal of race and ethnicity as an influence upon the 'war on terrorism' is even more essential. Yet the media's language about Muslim race and ethnicity often fails to separate Muslim terrorists from Muslim civilians.
As an example, the recent Runnymede Trust's 'Islamophobia' survey (Runnemede, 2004) found that 85% of members of the British general public thought the terms 'terrorist', 'extremist', 'fanatic' and 'fundamentalist' synonymous with 'Muslim'. Such a warping of the truth can only have been facilitated by the media's own indiscriminate use of these terms. Moreover, whereas ten years ago these terms were only thought to be synonymous with Muslims abroad, now words such as 'fanatic' are being associated with British Muslims who are British citizens also.
How then did the Western media come to possess these theories about the race and ethnicity Islam and its influence upon Muslim terrorism? The Runnymede Trust's 2004 report illustrated that ideologically, spiritually and culturally Islam is perceived as the 'other world' by the Western media, and as the diametrical opposite alternative to Western democracy. The media cements an 'us and 'them' conflict that makes the rift between the two civilizations appear far wider than it is – remember, of course, how many Muslims live in Britain as legitimate British citizens and who are an essential part of that civilization.
But The Daily Mail for instance still produces inflammatory headlines such as 'Fanatics With a Death Wish: I Was Born in Britain, but I Am a Muslim First' . Slogans like these are intended to make wider the perceived ethnic differences between Christians and Muslims, and to imply that Muslims give their allegiance to terrorist cells before their country – of course, most Muslims are fully abiding citizens. Moreover, all credible Islamic councils and Islamic scholars in the U.K. explicitly condemn the actions of men like Bin Laden – though such condemnations are rarely reported at depth in the media.
R. Ferguson argues in The No Nonsense Guide to Terrorism (Ferguson, 2003) that the mainstream Western media is largely complicit in promoting stereotypes they know to be false; at the same time they ignore acts of equivalent terrorism authorized by their own governments or committed by their own citizens. The Quran is represented equally simplistically and is implied to be a reservoir of motivation and justification for terrorists. Little attention is given by the media to the fact that the Quran is in the enormous majority of instances used for the spiritual enlightenment of Muslims — and only rarely for the purpose of justifying jihad or terrorism!
Likewise, the media is to be reproached for sensationalizing and dwelling upon the lives of lone extremist clerics such as Abu Hamsa. The Daily Mail, for instance, in September 2001 featured the same provocative photo of Abu Hamsa on seven consecutive days (Sep 13th-20th) even though he is a radical and unwelcome figure in the mainstream British Muslim community. This disproportionate focus upon the lives of extremists is intended to fix in the readers' or listeners' minds the prejudice that all Muslim's share opinions like those of Abu Hamsa. In the words of Tape:
'Abu Hamsa has become the press's mythical, personified construct that
incorporates all the Islamophobic stereotypes that have become the
pretext for much contemporary reporting. He is the Islamophobe's
perfect caricature'
The effect of such media campaigns against ordinary Muslims is to, paradoxically, increase the likelihood of terrorists being created in Britain. In Britain the sensationalized images of extremist figures are now being mixed up with accusations that these figures are illegal immigrants who are accepting benefits whilst absconding from their duties as British citizens. Since the media has already established that these figures are typical of Muslims generally, it becomes easier to suggest that ALL Muslims are illegal immigrants abusing their status in British life waiting to betray it.
All these points were eloquently portrayed in a caricature published in the Daily Mail on September 25th, 2001. A image is shown with a group of young Muslim men waiting before the Houses of Parliament waving posters proclaiming 'Death to Britain and America'; the quotation beneath says: 'Parasite: (Chambers English Dictionary): a creature which obtains food and physical protection from a host which never benefits from its presence'. The implication in this crude cartoon is that this definition of a 'parasite' is applicable to all Muslims and not just terrorists associated with Osama Bin Laden. Thus through the parts of the media's manipulation of the true state of affairs, millions Britons are duped into support for a largely phantom war on terror – phantom when applied to the majority of Muslims.
Gunter Grass, the eminent German novelist, has said that it is not preposterous to call analogies between the gross distortion of truth by Nazi propaganda against the activities of the Jews in Nazi Germany and popular European sentiments towards Muslims Grass has even suggested that Islamophobia induced by misrepresentation of the 'war against terrorism' could become so intense as to produce a repetition of the Kristallnacht incident in 1938. Grass says that the intention of this media technique – practiced assiduously and methodically by the major U.S. news stations – is to demonize the enemy to such an extent that it is possible to justify almost any action against them.
The celebrated French social-scientist Jean Baudrillard argues that modern media is 'hyper-realistic construct where the real and the imaginary continually collapse into each other'(Baudrillard, 1990) . In other words, the judgment of the public is so easily won that they near automatically believe whatever is presented to them about the war on terror. Noam Chomsky has written at great length on this subject of media inculcation and terrorism (Chomsky, 1989, 2001). Chomsky argues that modern news had a fundamental institutional bias towards white elites in America and Britain. Thus in his film Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky, 1992) Chomsky says 'Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to the totalitarian state' – an instrument for the coercion of opinion.
The racial and ethnic predispositions of the Western media create a basic prejudice against news that does not conform to their mindset. Thus news has to pass through five 'filters' – a filter of ownership, profit making, government organization, pressure groups, and popular journalistic conceptions – before it can be passed to the public. When Chomsky's model is applied to the media's coverage of the war no terror it produces striking results. Chomsky speaks of 'Paired examples' whereby news that has passed through these five filters receives a totally different presentation to news that has not.
For instance: the train bombings in Madrid passed these filters and so received the appropriate thoroughness and responsible coverage appropriate to the disaster. On the other hand, the indiscriminate destruction of a school in Baghdad in which fifty school-children die does not pass the filters and so there is little or no coverage of the Arabs and Muslims who perceive this act as an act of terrorism against them. Chomsky has on this point that 'The wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism' (Chomsky, 2001). By this definition the United States were terrorists in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Chomsky accuses the media of failing to give any precise definition to the terms 'race', 'ethnicity' or 'war on terrorism'. The advantage of such nebulous and foggy concepts is that they go unquestioned by the general public because they have no precise shape.
Although some of Chomsky's opponents think the idea of 'manufacturing consent' is almost a renewal of the idea of 'false consciousness' in Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse, 1990) – a novel in which the general public are so indoctrinated by propaganda that they need special elites to advise them how to think – he is universally admired amongst the West for, amongst other things, demanding that the mainstream media question more thoroughly their assumptions about Islam and its influence upon the 'war on terrorism'.
In the final analysis, theories and misconceptions of race and ethnicity have produced a fundamental and unnecessary bias in the Western media's coverage and discourse on the 'war on terrorism'. Moreover, this war threatens to spill over into a war of ideologies where the secular democracy of the West is in combat with the authoritarian and dictatorial regimes of the Middle East. There are many responsible journalists and media organizations working in the West who are aware of the subtleties and intricacies of the 'war on terrorism' and who conscientiously make the distinction in their coverage between Muslim terrorists and the vast bulk of ordinary Muslims who reject terrorism.
The British newspaper The Independent is an outstanding example. All too often however this simple yet vital distinction is lost. Muslim's of all attitudes, behaviors and beliefs are huddled together to be demonized by the press as zealous religious extremists intent on overturning Western democracy and civilization. Prejudiced theories about the racial and ethnic constitution of Islam and Muslims feed these misrepresentations. The vital task for the future of American and British journalism is to educate themselves deeply about the racial and ethical makeup of the Middle East so that they might provide the 'war on terrorism' more objectively and perhaps facilitate conciliation between ordinary Muslims and the West. Buy dissertation on any other topic at our site


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If you sit through the end credits of the upcoming "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" expect a surprise, though how pleasant it is may depend upon which country you're watching it in.
Empire reports that at UK screenings of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," a clip from rival studio Fox's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" has made it onto the film's end credits as a 'stinger'.
According to the report, the clip is a straight up scene from 'Days', NOT a specially crafted stinger like Marvel Studios routinely does for their films and which the first "The Amazing Spider-Man" did.
The scene sees Mystique, Havok and Toad taking on William Stryker (Josh Helman) and his men. Sony have confirmed that the clip will be attached to the film in the UK.
This, however, sounds like a territory-by-territory style deal. I attended a media screening of "Amazing Spider-Man 2" in Australia this past Monday night and sat through the end credits for the film.
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"There was no fighting against it," the recent high school graduate told the jury at Sandusky's trial. "Sometimes [I'd] scream, sometimes tell him to get off me, but other than that, who was there? We were in the basement, no one could hear you down there."
Those in the courtroom in Bellefonte, Pa., were brought to tears by the testimony of the witness identified only as Victim 9, the last in a string of alleged victims of sexual abuse called by prosecutors against Sandusky.
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St. Paul, Minn. – Volunteers of America-Minnesota (VOA-MN), a nonprofit health and human services organization, recently welcomed Macalester College American Studies Prof. Karin Aguilar-San Juan to its board of directors. Aguilar-San Juan is one of two new board members who will bring fresh perspectives and deep experience in restorative justice to an organization with a long history of helping ex-offenders and at-risk teens.
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2016 marks the centenary of Birger Dahl's birth, which Northern Lighting are commemorating with the launch of this timeless glass pendant. Dahl designed the lamp in 1956 and installed it in the renovated Norwegian Parliament building two years later. Although Dahl is a classic mid-century design, its minimal form and smooth, unembellished surfaces still have a contemporary appearance today. The shade is made from mouth-blown glass and etched by a surface treatment that creates a smooth matt finish. Dahl's metal parts are dark grey or light green, or made in matt brass. The shade attaches to a metal disc at the top and makes space for a pair of concentric rings to slot into the opening down below. The pendant has the same understated features that characterise Dokka and Birdy – two other classic Birger Dahl designs also re-introduced by Northern Lighting.
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Zen in the Art of Archery: A Practitioner's View
O'Brien, Liam
The Middle Way
v.78 n.4
195 - 204
The Buddhist Soceity UK (http://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/)
London, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國]
期刊論文=Journal Article
In the 1920s the German academic Eugen Herrigel went to Japan in search of the Zen experience. He had studied theology and then philosophy at Heidelberg University, and through his interest in Christian mysticism (Eckhart), he became interested in Zen, which he thought of as one of the most mystical of religions. He wanted to find a way of directly experiencing living Buddhism, which he understood could be found in the practice of Zen Buddhism.
He was advised that as a foreigner with no command of Japanese, he would be better off if he first of all studied an art form (geido) that was related to Zen and through that to gradually find a relationship to Zen Buddhism. On this recommendation he took up the practice of kyudo, the way of the Japanese bow, and wrote about his experiences in his now famous book Zen in the Art of Archery. With the publication of an English-language edition in 1956, further publications followed in many languages, including Japanese. This book helped to popularize an interest in Zen and kyudo and to establish the notion that they are in some way intimately connected.
Herrigel took up his kyudo training under Master Kenzo Awa. He came from the Japanese archery tradition that evolved historically from two main lineages, the warrior tradition (bushakei), which used the bow as a weapon of war, and the ceremonial tradition (reishakei), with its emphasis on ritualized shooting form. When the bow became obsolete as a weapon, it continued to be used for competition and ritual ceremony. Eventually its use became a way of moral and spiritual training.
Awa was considered an expert and was well known for his accuracy. He was capable of hyappatsu hyakuchu -- 100 shots, 100 hits -- and in his earlier period as an instructor he emphasized accuracy. But at a point in his kyudo career, he is purported to have had doubts about his shooting and about Japanese archery as just excellence in technique. He adopted the view nani mo iranu -- nothing is needed -- and held that practice goes beyond technique and that there is a need to create a 'spiritual' release with absolute, deepest effort issha zetsumei -- one shot, one life. It would seem that Awa had some insight or awakening in his own practice, upon which this was founded. Awa's kyudo became more of a spiritual way, almost to the extent of being considered a religion by some of his critics. At this time, Jigoro Kano founded judo, whose concept was opposed to the purely technical jujitsu. At the same time, kyudo was evolving from kyujitsu (Japanese archery) as a way of moral training and cultivating the character. Awa's creation of his own school of the 'great shooting way' (daishado) reflected this shift of focus, but to his own extreme of spiritual intention.
Kyudo practitioners at the time considered Awa unorthodox, if not eccentric. There may even have been some who thought he was mad. He definitely did not represent the mainstream of kyudo. Also, his relationship to Zen practice is not clear. He had a 'brother' student, with whom he had undergone training, in Zen Master Umeji Roshi, who was also considered unconventional in his teaching of kyudo and who used Zen approaches in his teaching method. It is known that he was greatly admired by Awa and that they trained together even after they had established their own training practices. But it seems that Awa never actually formally adopted Zen training or practised sitting meditation (zazen). His approach was to use kyudo as a way of transcendental experience, and he used Zen concepts and terminology to illustrate this, but that is as far as the connection seems to have gone.
For Herrigel in his own quest for insight through a Zen practice, Awa was custom-made. He must have fitted completely Herrigel's romantic notion of the mysterious and mystical master. As was mentioned earlier, Herrigel did not speak or understand Japanese, and this would not have helped him to understand that Awa never considered himself a proponent of Zen and that kyudo and Zen were not in some way synonymous. It would seem that he constructed his own interpretation of his experiences with Awa so as to re-enforce his own romantic view of kyudo as a form of Zen practice.
One example of this can be found in Herrigel's book, in a passage which he asks Awa what is needed to hit the target. Awa is reported to have said that we do not need to think about hitting the target. We do not need to aim at it. Herrigel challenged this by declaring that if the target is not aimed at it cannot be hit.
Awa ordered Herrigel to come to the practice hall that evening. In the semi-darkness, he placed a stick of lit incense in front of the target so that only its light was visible (the target butts are usually 28 metres from the shooting line). Awa shot his first arrow and it was heard hitting the target. He then shot his second arrow (arrows are shot in pairs), which also hit. It would seem that the first arrow hit the centre of the target, and that the second arrow did so too, having split through the shaft of the first.
According to Herrigel, Awa said that through experience it was acceptable that the first arrow hit, but that the second arrow was evidence of shooting without self and that this shot was not created by him, as if something mysterious had taken place. Herrigel states in the passage relating to this incident that Awa said, '"It" shot and "It" made the hit. Let us bow to the goal as before the Buddha.'
However, other sources reported Awa's explanation of the incident quite differently, saying that Herrigel went to retrieve the arrows and when he did not return, Awa called to him but received no answer. When Awa went to the target butts he found Herrigel sitting speechless in front of the target with the arrows in it. Awa said that this was just coincidence and that he had had no intention to demonstrate such a thing. Awa placed no special mystical significance on the shooting and may even have been irritated that the second arrow had damaged the first.
My experience of kyudo and my limited experience of Zen practice suggests that they are treated in a very matter of fact way, without mystification. And yet they still contain an unspoken reverence for the profound, which is not seen as different from the ordinary.
In the incident above, Awa wanted, I am sure, to demonstrate that with correct alignment to the target and correct conditions to make a natural release, the arrow will be sent to the target. He wanted to show that as a master, he did not need any special control, only the years of training that had created concentration and balance. He wanted Herrigel to have faith in this rather than to see it as extraordinary or mysterious.
This example is also important in understanding kyudo because the romantic mystical notion of kyudo sometimes gives the idea that one need not hit the target or implies that it is hit by some mysterious process that happens without the effort of proper training.
Beginners can find a way to hit the target, but the training demands that the arrow be sent to the target in the correct form. In mainstream practice, students are encouraged to enjoy the situation, through competition and without too many immediate expectations, but the form is gradually applied, and senior grades must meet -- strict requirements. They must obey the concept of seisha seichu -- correct hitting is correct shooting. They must meet the challenge and discipline of creating a true and natural release based on the correct and natural use of form.
The target is there for a reason. It reflects our shooting in an uncompromising way. If the arrow does not go to the target, then there is something lacking. Of course there may be impressive effort and a sincerity in the shooting -- these qualities by themselves are admired -- but to keep to the discipline of seisha seichu, the arrow must go to the target. The target also gives us the opportunity to meet desire. Everyone has the desire to hit the target, but in thinking about the result we are already separated from the moment and the conditions of the full draw, which create a proper release. Desire is always an idea, a hope or an expectation, which can lead us away from the real situation.
We have to work with desire and the sense of frustration we create from our expectation. This is a normal condition of the learning process. Those who want to do 'spiritual' kyudo, and pretend to be unconcerned about the result, are deceiving themselves. In many kyudo practice halls, you can find the calligraphy mushin, which is a state when the person is transcended and there is no separate conscious awareness. This is considered the highest state of shooting (a concept taken from Zen). Many kyudo students seek this condition, but it cannot be attained intentionally. My own teacher would always say that you must first of all have yushin, the heart full of desire, if you are to find the transcended heart.
Awa was uncompromising, and would have set the ultimate goals of practice from the beginning. His most radical view, and the central theme of his teaching, was that one should not to be caught by anything (torawarenai). One surrenders oneself completely to the shooting and the situation. For this to be possible, one must recognize that we do not own our body, spirit or thoughts and that they have their own life as part of Life.
In kyudo, the handling of the bow requires an empathy towards the bow that allows it to express completely its energy and life. It is a relationship and dialogue far removed from any idea of the bow as a tool to be manipulated for a result. The body is used in a natural way so that the alignment of the joints and the use of muscle power is natural and correct. The breath and posture must also obey the natural law. And this is where we must understand Awa's position on nani mo iranu -- nothing is needed. I do not believe, as some do, that in this approach he abandoned all technique, because this is impossible. What I am sure Awa meant is that nothing extra is needed. When we learn to use the body in the right way and to recognize the natural functioning of the bow, there is the understanding that nothing is added on -- no separate agency is needed to operate them. There is just the natural functioning of the situation.
The paradox we experience is that we feel separate and lacking in something, and yet there is nothing to gain. In acquiring 'naturalness' in the situation, we need to become rather less than more. It seems as though we are developing and advancing, which we are in a relative sense, but we do this by removing misunderstanding and our own ideas of how we should do something. This is why we need relational attitudes such as acceptance and trust and reliance more on our felt experience than our understanding.
We must live the paradox. In kyudo we must be in the middle of understanding and feeling, doubt and faith. We must seek an ideal but accept the matter of factness of the situation. We must have technical understanding, but not at the expense of felt 'understanding'.
Training is the foundation of all this. Although the teacher pushes us when we are lazy or avoiding ourselves and although we have the experience of all those who have gone before to help us, the practice is the real teacher in which the truth of seisha seishu exists. Without the daily repetition of giving in to the practice and confronting ourselves, nothing is realized. But no one can do this for us. Only our own effort and our own perseverance can make this possible.
The process of learning is often seen traditionally in three phases: shin, gyo and so. Shin is the character for truth, which represents the fundamentals and essence of the practice, and at the shin level the student must unreservedly copy the fundamentals of form without deviation or personal interpretation. This is the essential training of the heart to establish right attitude and remove resistance. We must practise repetitively, trying to keep to the established form, and in so doing we meet our frustration and desire to do things in our own way. What we are taught are the fundamentals, which are also the absolute possibilities of the form, so we continue to seek to make the correct stance, for example, to the end of our lives. Once the practice has become more accepted and more in the body, the practitioner is at the gyo level, where the form is carried out with some degree of naturalness. Following on from this, the ultimate condition of so is the state in which practitioner and the form are one. The character so is the character for 'grass' (kusa), representing movement with the thousand things, as though we were moving as one through a field of tall grass.
Other elements of traditional learning also emphasize the felt and intuitive approach rather than technical understanding. For example, traditional methods of learning rely on observation practice (midorikeiko) rather than simple explanation. I experienced this as a beginner, when I was asked to watch the example of an instructor and then just to copy it. In the natural world the young of animals do this, and there is evidence that the acquisition of behaviour is a skill that is often learnt only in this way, by observation and then internalizing the action. My teacher would say to me, why don't you just do it. Younger students just copy and do it. But of course, I, as a Westerner and an older person, would have to try and filter the experience through my own understanding. And then, when I felt it was mine, I would allow it to be acquired (this practice involves not simply observing with the eye but observing with all our senses).
In modern kyudo, and also in the shooting of Awa, every movement and element of the shooting offers an opportunity for self-examination and relationship. This is most evident in the release. In kyujitsu a controlled and intentional release is used, deriving from the days when the bow was used as a weapon. But in the shooting of kyudo, the creation of a natural and uncontrived release is the real challenge.
For the kyudo practitioner this is the 'iron wall' and the 'glass mountain'. This is where we have to choose either a 'safe' controlled and prescribed release, which will give you the result you want in hitting the target, or a release based on the principle of seisha seichu, when the archer attempts a sincere giving in to the correct and natural release, which will send the arrow to the target. The effort of Awa's issha zetsumei -- one shot with all your life -- is the effort to give in without giving up. How to let go without just letting go? In Herrgiel's own commentary this is well illustrated. He trained on an arrow stop, a makiwara, for the first four years of his training. This is quite demanding and not usual today because most modern students in Japan and the West have different expectations and would find it unfulfilling and possibly give up. But Herrigel persevered and saw the search for a proper release as his training purpose. Initially he had an idea that there was some technique to the release, like that of shooting a pistol, which he had experience of. But when he tried to create a contrived release he was admonished by Awa, and gradually he realized the meaning of a natural release.
In kyudo the bow is not actually held: the pressure of the bow is used to keep it in the left hand. On the right side, the power of the bow is transferred from the glove to the elbow, which in turn takes the tension of the bow. The archer is between these two points of the power of the bow; and by bringing the body inside the draw of the bow, he is centred inside the pressure of the drawn bow. Through an opposite expansion of feeling-body energy the pressure gradually increases to its optimum, when the string is naturally ripped from the glove hand and a natural release is expressed. Any imbalance of power through gripping in either hand or a collapsing of this tension will result in an unsatisfactory release, which will affect the flight of the arrow. The moment before the release is the time to realize the balance of body, bow and spirit and to allow negative feelings and disturbing thoughts to disperse.
This expansion of energy (nobiai) to create the release is unique to kyudo, it is not found in any other form of archery. It is at the heart of understanding kyudo. When we give ourselves to the effort of the expansion, then we are in the living moment. (To stop this and make a separate action of release is a contrived release.) As we cannot know this actual moment, only the condition of 'nobiai', for this moment we are beyond thinking and the separate person.
Experience teaches the archer to rely on the situation and to accept emotional reactions, so that they do not have so much hold. The shooting gradually becomes in the body, and in the highest level of practice the presence of an independent agent is not apparent. There is no person shooting; there is just shooting itself. This 'naturalness', without the person, is the ideal of truth, goodness and Beauty (shin, zen and Bi), the 'effortless effort' mentioned by Herrigel in his book, effort that has nothing added, that is not seeking for anything special. From the viewpoint of the person, this is complete effort with all our heart, but without the person it is the boundless effort of ordinary doing. It is effort without definition -- just effort itself.
We should remind ourselves that although we seek the profound, it is also the ordinary. In the practice hall there is no philosophy, just training the body and spirit to find its true nature.
But in our own culture the body is so possessed by ourselves. Our 'personality' is expressed through the face and the hands. To shift energy from the hands, the face and the upper body, is very demanding; and with the focus of power on the upper body and the breathing locked in the throat and upper chest, the whole body cannot function naturally. Body awareness should be centred in the abdomen just below the navel, known in mediation practices and in traditional Japanese arts as tanden or, more commonly, hara. This centre is where we start to bring everything together by placing our concentration and breathing there. With this focus the practitioner expresses the natural state of non-division between body and awareness. Without division or attachment to our experiences, feeling and thoughts, we can be what we are.
What we can see is that although kyudo and Zen are not synonymous, having their own separate form and traditions, they do seem to seek for the same reality. If Zen in its purity is not the property of any school but as a expression of truth is in essence without any special spiritual allegiance, then I believe that Awa's approach to the transcendental and his own search had much in common with Zen's ideals and purpose.
In Buddhism we question the meaning of being a person, an individual. In doing this we practise the giving up of attachment to these notions and become aware of the whole of life. We surrender ourselves. All great spiritual traditions and practices that recognize the something beyond the individual need this understanding as the foundation of training.
Traditional Japanese practices place great emphasis on subordinating ourselves to what is beyond ourselves. Many Westerners, and I guess many Japanese as well, enter into a practice such as kyudo or the tea ceremony with the idea of an individual purpose and experience. But in tea, for example, the guest is more important than the host; and in the larger tea gathering, one must be very aware of others. The same is true for kyudo. Although there is often ceremonial shooting performed by an individual master or senior grade and although the individual performer seems quite heroic alone in the shooting area (much like the individual meditator), it is the community of the practice place and how to work together with others that is essential for training. Working with others is in some ways more difficult than with the bow or the situation: it challenges our relationship to ourselves, and in this and all the prescribed aspects of the dojo and the practice there is very little room to indulge ourselves. I think this is also true for Zen training.
Herrigel helped in creating the myth that kyudo and Zen are in some way the same and that kyudo is an esoteric practice. As we have seen, they are not synonymous but they do share the same reality and have much in common. However, kyudo is not seen as part of a religion, as is Zen, even if for some there is a recognition of the spiritual. When Herrigel practised kyudo very few kyudo practitioners connected kyudo to Zen or practised it. The same is true today. Modern kyudo owes its recognition of the spiritual to the legacy of Awa, but a large majority of practitioners in Japan consider it as a recreational activity used for moral discipline or as a way simply to have good health. Although some practitioners of kyudo in the West also espouse a utilitarian view, the vast majority, through the influence of Herrigel, have taken it up on the assumption that it was imbued with Zen purposes and ideals. This understanding was for many Westerners about Zen only as sitting mediation practice (zazen) and some notion of personal transcendence. It ignored the fact that the Zen schools are an intimate part of the religious purpose and practice of Buddhism.
The value of Herrigel's contribution to a popular appreciation of the spiritual is unquestionable. Traditional Japanese practices such as kyudo or a religious practice such as Zen require a commitment and dedication beyond any romantic view, and they do not consider the profound as extraordinary or separate from the mundane. If we realize this, we shall understand them better and bring ourselves closer to the examples set for us by the great teachers, who have shown us that farther along the path there is a unity we lack in our present condition. But as we look ahead, we must also look to where our feet walk now.


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15 Before he died he heardi of the destruction of Nineveh, and he saw its prisoners being led into Media, those whom King Cyaxaresj of Media had taken captive. Tobiask praised God for all he had done to the people of Nineveh and Assyria; before he died he rejoiced over Nineveh, and he blessed the Lord God forever and ever. Amen.l
Codex Sinaiticus reads saw and heard
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Wordless Wednesday.
4 comments:
- Carrie said...
Awesome shots. Love the white space on the sunflower. TFS. Happy WW!
- 7/21/2010
- Pat said...
Happy, joyous, carefree summer are my impressions from your photos. Great shots.
- 7/21/2010
- Dawn said...
Good shots. I would agree with Carrie--the white space with the flower is a nice contrast. However, I think my favorite has to be the tree one. :) It looks quite like an enjoyable tree to climb. Thank you for sharing, and happy Wordless Wednesday!
- 7/21/2010
- Symphony of Love said...
That is one very big and wide tree! :)
- 7/21/2010
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Family Medicine in Gauteng
There is a strong overlap between Family Medicine Principles and Primary Health Care Principles (enshrined as District Health Service Principles in the South African National Health Act, 2004). This has been explored in Gauteng since 2005 and the role of Family Medicine is slowly being appreciated within the government priority of primary health care. One important step has been the setting up of Family Medicine, the specialty in clinical primary care, in the District Health Services. Gauteng Health and three Universities (Wits, Pretoria and MEDUNSA) started a process of transformation by jointly placing Family Physicians, specialists in clinical primary care, into each of the six Health Districts covering the whole of Gauteng ( Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, West Rand, Sedibeng and Metsweding). District Family Physicians lead the Family Physician-Doctor-Nurse clinician team in Departments of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care in each District. The focus of the Family Physicians has been to strengthen the Community Health Centres and District Hospitals and improve doctor visits to clinics.


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April 29, 2016
The fact that everybody loves sex is something you already knew. Well, you are reading the XEscorts blog so that means you are one of the people who really enjoys a lot of sexy time. And that is very healthy. Unfortunately, the fact that we love having sex it's sometimes used in order to captivate our attention. Well this is not always bad, but let's be honest, we would strongly appreciate if some advertisers messed less with our minds.
Many of us are aware of the subliminal messages everywhere, but this doesn't mean we can fight them because we can't actually detect most of them.
Why are these hidden messages used? Well, they tickle our brain and even if we don't realize we see them, our subconscious picks them up like a sponge. So, there are ad's, movies and even cartoons where sexual references are used in order to attract people.
Sex Sells, Even When You Don't Notice It
Ads are not created for the conscious mind. If you carefully look at printed ad's, or watch some TV commercial, you might be able to notice a few subliminal messages. However, ads are specially created to reach your subconscious.
Why? Well, you don't stare at an ad and check it out. You just look at it for a few moments, right? Not now, of course! Now you are probably thinking about staring at a few ad's hoping to find the naughty messages. But first, finish the article. Anyway, you don't need more than a few seconds for your brain to assimilate whatever the advertiser offers. Usually, sex is the aspect used because…it sells!
This is why images with penises, pussies, butts, boobs and the word "sex" are hidden everywhere you look . And it doesn't matter if you look at ad's, watch commercials, movies and even cartoons. Sex is everywhere because it has to reach all types of people.
What's the point? How can an image or a word make any difference? Well, it's all about how this makes you feel. Thinking about sex makes me…anxious, horny. If the word murder is hidden somewhere, I might feel scared or angry. So, hiding messages is important when something needs to generate emotional responses. How else can something be attractive if it doesn't generate emotions?
Do you understand why you have a man with a hard penis on a pack of Camel cigarettes, a naked lady on a can of coke or the word sex on a pack of Skittles? Sex sells!
As mentioned, you get to see, or better said not see but assimilate sexual messages in movies and on their posters as well. What is a bit terrifying is the fact that Disney puts sexual representation in most of its movies. Disney pictures were famous for the racism they were promoting but they are also pretty good at hiding sexy messages in all the kids' productions. I mean, I understand that this is a way to captivate adults, but is it necessary? Personally, I don't like the idea of a kid growing up with seeing penises, pussies and sex everywhere.
Can People Be Hypnotized Through…Sex?
So, hiding naughty texts and images in ads, movies and cartoons is pretty easy, but do they work? Well, first of all if they didn't, why would they be there? Yes, they could be there just for fun, but that's not what's going on.
Now, I can't say that people are actually hypnotized through sex. I mean, I would watch and like Harry Potter even if there was no sexy subliminal message. I read the books and I liked them and I am pretty sure J.K Rowling didn't spend her nights trying to insert the word sex in it.
However, we have to agree that people are stratified when something sex related is involved. So it sells because it awakens some very powerful emotions in all of us.
Anna Smith
She is most well known for her sex advice pieces, yet also has a major interest in sexual health and other serious issues. However, this is all done with a quirky style that is unmistakably hers.
When she isn't working, Anna is a fitness fanatic, and enjoys going away with her partner for various weekend trips.
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Satellite view of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor Complex captured from Google Earth.
The Opening Kick: Contaminated Water Discovered mid July near the Inner Harbour
- 11 July: TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) reports a potential radiation leak from Unit 3. Elevated levels of radioactive caesium, strontium and tritium are discovered in a groundwater testing well approximately 30 metres (100′) from the shoreline to the Fukushima inner Harbour, of approximately 10-20,000 Bq/L, 100x the expected amount of 100-200 Bq/L, where 1 Bq = one radioactive disintegration per second.
- For comparison, you have a constant internal activity of 5000 Bq and an average of about 42 L of total body water, for about 120 Bq/L.
What is the Contaminated Water Source?
- 11 July: TEPCO initially suspects the source is a pit which had been implicated in a leak into the inner harbour in April 2011. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) directs TEPCO to expedite completion of a coastal containment wall to prevent radiation from leaking into the inner harbour, initially slated for completion in March 2015.
- 29 July: TEPCO and NRA suspect source may be trapped water from the initial accident in the cabling trenches that run between the reactors. NRA orders water drained.
- 6 Aug: Ground water levels are noted to rise after ground solidification is complete. NRA on-site official declares a "state of emergency" citing a "rather high possibility" of water spillover into the inner harbour.
- TEPCO announces increased radiation in another sampling well
Is Contaminated Water Leaking into the Inner Harbour?
- 18 July: TEPCO reports to NRA increased tritium detected in the inner quay but no Strontium or Caesium.
- 22 July: TEPCO announces to the press, delaying the announcement until after the general election, swept by the pro-nuclear Liberal Democrats. Foreign consultants are not amused, and TEPCO president announces pay-cuts over the delay, including to himself, states intention to fully disclose henceforth.
Mitigation Efforts Commence for Rising Groundwater Near Shoreline
- 7 Aug: Government official estimates 300 tonnes of ground water reaching "the sea." No clear discrimination in press reports between inner harbour and open ocean. Levels of Cesium and Strontium essentially unchanged in outer harbour since April '13.
- TEPCO begins pumping groundwater away from shoreline
- 12 Aug: Japan's Industry Minister says statement of contaminated water flowing to sea is an assumption.
- 15 Aug: TEPCO releases details of groundwater pumping system. Overall plan is to filter cesium/strontium out of ground water and store in above ground tanks
- 16 Aug: Hanford Engineer Works, which purified the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb, is approached by TEPCO for assistance in contaminated water handling
- 20 Aug: Cesium stripped water storage tank leaks 300 tonnes of tritium and strontium contaminated water
- 27 Aug: The leak is stopped and defective tank contents are pumped into other tanks
Did Contamination Leak into the Outer Harbour?
- The Fukushima inner harbour is separated from the outer harbour by a large break wall and silt dam which extends to the sea floor and has been closed for over a year, to prevent water mixing.
- 1 Aug: Measurements comparing inner and outer harbour water indicate no contamination is reaching the outer harbour.
Did it Leak Into the Pacific?
- 10 Aug: Radioactivity is undetectable at Nakoso Beach, 65 km south of the power plant and Yotsukura Beach, 40 km south
- 23 Aug: Fukushima prefecture opens Yotsukura beach for the first time since 11 Mar 2011.
- 27 Aug: Rainwater channels that originate at a ditch near the storage tanks and meet the sea showed no detectable Cs-134 and 18 Bq/L of Cs-137, less radioactivity per litre than found in one banana
Is it in the Food Chain?
- Radiation levels in fish sampled outside Fukushima port (1-3 km offshore but within 20 km) show 96 samples in 100 which meet Japanese regulatory requirements
- Fish inside the port show higher radiation levels, but these appear unchanged since April '13 (cf. Schlegel's black rockfish).
Is there Human Contamination?
- 22 Aug: 18 child thyroid cancers are reported in 210,000 children in Fukushima prefecture, with 25 more suspected.
- This is much lower than in the US, where 500 cases would be expected in a sample of 200,000 children
What happens now?
- TEPCO intends to resume operation of the ALPS (Advanced Liquids Processing System) in September which will remove all nuclides except tritium
- The national government intends to take a direct, active role in ongoing decontamination
- Post-processed water containing only tritium could be diluted and released into the Pacific
Much of the information in this site has been compiled at the excellent Hiroshima Syndrome, and I am grateful for Leslie Corrice's ongoing efforts rationally documenting the unfolding saga. My errors are mine alone.


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Is a Patient Advocate or Navigator a Qualified Medical Expense for Patients?
In the process of writing about Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) I began looking at what constituted a "qualified medical expense," which is the list of the products and services the IRS lets us pay for tax-free. They are those expenses that we can either claim on our taxes, or pay for through the use of an HSA, MSA or FSA. (What would the IRS ever do without acronyms? But I digress…)
After looking at the list of expenses, I began to wonder whether a patient / taxpayer who hires and pays for a health or patient advocate can deduct that expense from their taxes or account? Are we, as advocates who improve their healthcare experiences, deductible expenses?
So I went straight to the IRS horses to see what would come from their mouths… and what came from their mouths were big, loud question marks. They don't know. Advocates might be a deduction. Or they might not.
Frustratingly, the process to figure out an answer requires people willing to test the system, at their own expense, which culminates in a "ruling." And even then, when there is a ruling, the answers might change. (Is this a great country, or what?)
The best way to explain this is to use a metaphor – a parallel situation that resulted in a ruling. Acupuncture.
Years ago, patients began to deduct the cost of acupuncture from their taxes. Once in awhile, one of those patients got audited. For the first dozen or hundred or thousand (who knows?) the deduction was not allowed because there was no "ruling." After awhile, there were enough people who fought for the deduction (paying their CPAs or lawyers to do so) that the IRS finally came up with said-ruling that said, "OK – acupuncture is now included on the list of qualified medical expenses (AKA deductions.)"
So, a couple of notes:
The CPAs and lawyers who successfully got acupuncture reviewed did so by showing evidence that acupuncture has a medical benefit. (ha! If your doctor doesn't believe in the value of acupuncture, you can tell him it must work – because the IRS says so!) Our patient advocacy parallel would be that we need to show that patient advocates provide a medical benefit.
Individuals can ask their CPAs and lawyers to ask the IRS for a "private letter ruling." That would mean that, before the patient deducts something, he asks the IRS to rule on it. (I thought about doing this on behalf of AdvoConnection's member advocates, however IRS Guy told me it has to be done by individuals, on a case-by-case basis, and cannot be done on behalf of an organization's members.)
I reviewed the publications put out by the IRS and found a few parallel expenses that are allowed. From IRS publication 502, I see Christian Science Practitioners (who, like advocates, are not licensed), Nursing Services (these services also do not require a licensed nurse, but can provide everything from true medical services to washing and grooming) to (you'll love this) guide dogs. When I asked IRS Guy about guide dogs, he said they are deductible because they assist patients who are blind to get the care they need. Honestly, of all the goods and services on that entire list, that is the best parallel for health and patient advocates – guide dogs. (In my own humble opinion.)
It seems clear that in order to become a bona fide tax deduction, a few things are going to have to happen.
1. Patients will need to begin deducting advocate services in order to test the system.
2. Some patients, early adopters, are going to end up paying tax and penalties for their advocacy services because no ruling will yet exist.
3. Those patients should be able to find a CPA or lawyer to help them fight the extra tax and penalty by showing the parallel services that already exist on the allowable deductibles list, and using stats that show that patient advocates do improve a patient's medical care.
4. Eventually it seems like advocate services will be able to be deducted – but (like everything else) it will take awhile.
So — that big disclaimer! — I'm not an attorney, nor am I a CPA… but it's a fair question that deserves more review, plus brave patients and caregivers who are willing to be the deductions guinea pigs by claiming these very important and necessary medical services patients' advocates provide.
Why Can't Patients Be Their Own Advocates?
Imagine… you suffer chest pains and are swept off to the ER. The pain meds leave you too groggy to make good decisions. Who will help you?
Or… difficult symptoms result in a diagnosis that leaves you stunned. You leave the doctor's office remembering very little of what you've been told. Now you aren't even sure what to do next.
Or… you've begun to find it confusing to keep track of all your medications. You're concerned you'll make a mistake. Which ones are you supposed to take with food? Or on an empty stomach? What about having that glass of wine at dinner – will it affect the medicines you are taking?
Next week you'll be admitted to the hospital for knee surgery. You have friends who have acquired infections from surgeries – one even died. You can't advocate for yourself when you're drugged and in pain… who will sit by your bedside to keep you safe?
Your loved ones live too far away to be much help. Sometimes you just need a ride to an appointment, or someone to run to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription.
These are just a few of many scenarios that require us to find some assistance to be sure we get the best care and stay safe. Whether you have a debilitating disease, a new diagnosis, or you just feel so lousy that you can't think straight – it's time to call in a patient advocate to help you.
New patient advocates often find themselves having to explain what they can do to help a patient that a patient or caregiver can't handle him or herself. Depending on the circumstances, having a patient advocate by your side can actually make – or break – your ability to heal, or even just cope.
Can you think of other scenarios that require a professional private patient advocate? Why not share them in the comments!
Dear Nurses, We Are Here to Help
For the second time in just a few days, I've learned from an AdvoConnection advocate member that a nurse has become defensive and territorial in reaction to his choice of career.
Now, please know that I'm not dogging on all nurses. Not all all. Instead I'm looking at this as an opportunity to clarify – for everyone's benefit, not just nurses'.
Last week I answered the question, "Does a patient advocate have to be a nurse?" The question came in response to an experience where nurses had actually looked down their noses at another advocate, a non-nurse, suggesting she did not have the qualifications to be a patient advocate. My answer is no. All nurses are advocates, but not all patient advocates need to be nurses.
This time it's very different, but no less upsetting to the person who was on the receiving end of the nurse's defensiveness. The advocate's name is Ken. He has worked for more than 30 years as both a physician's assistant and a nurse. In a conversation with another nurse, one who works in an oncology infusion center, he told her his plans for establishing himself as a private patient advocate. She reacted by telling him that there was no room for him in healthcare as an advocate. SHE is the patient advocate for her patients.
Without question, I'm sure she, like most nurses, is an advocate for her patients. But that's not the same — at all — as a private patient advocate or navigator. The real parallel, perhaps, is a private duty nurse. A private duty nurse is definitely a private patient advocate, too.
But that's not what Ken's nurse-friend is. Here are some of the differences, and the reasons why there is room for both nurses and advocates when it comes time to help a patient:
1. Nurses are provider or facility-bound. That is, the patient comes and goes, but the nurse stays, connected to the provider or facility. As long as the patient is inside the nurse's (provider's or facility's) domain, then the nurse can be the patient's advocate. But there is plenty of need for an advocate outside that domain, too.
2. If every patient only ever had one medical need at a time, went to one doctor at a time, got all their tests at the doctor's office, took one drug at a time, got one bill at a time for care, THEN a location-bound nurse might be all the help that patient would need. But these days, and in particular as baby-boomers continue to age, many patients do have more than one medical problem they deal with, take more than one or two kinds of drugs, are being treated or are getting therapy for additional problems, and have too many confusing bills… Ken's friend isn't the advocate who can help them. A private patient advocate is.
3. Hospital nurses do a yoeman's job, managing way too many patients, often with at least one arm tied behind their backs. We have all heard stories about when a patient pushes the help button to get up and use the bathroom only to have to wait…. and wait…. and wait…. and wait. We also hear about the wrong drugs being administered, or infections that could have been prevented… A private bedside advocate who is focused only on his or her one patient can be a lifesaver. Ken's friend can't do that either.
As healthcare continues to get more and more confusing, as safety problems don't improve enough to guarantee safety in the hospital, as access becomes more difficult because healthcare reform introduces 32 million new Americans to the care system – patient advocates will continue to grow in numbers, need and stature.
So, nurses (and others who haven't yet figured out the value of private professional patient advocates and navigators)… Please understand that patient advocates are not trying to get in your way, nor subtract from your domain. Instead, they are there to focus on their patients when you can't, and to facilitate the communication and collaboration between their patients and their patients' providers.
There's clearly a need. There's plenty of room for all. Let's work together with some better understanding that both nurses AND advocates play important roles in improving their patients' quality of life.
Do I Have to Be a Nurse to Be a Patient Advocate?
The answer is simple. No.
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The Unit Collective, a new collaboration of playwrights in Minnesota is back this month, with their Madness program. This time Madness is presenting "Doorways" and the Producing Playwright is May Lee-Yang. The playwrights will be in the hot seat after the performances for a Q&A. They'd love to see you there!
Tuesday February 23rd
7:00pm Taco Bar
7:30pm - 9:00pm Performance
The Playwrights' Center
2301 East Franklin Avenue, MPLS


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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
New Study Shows Less Surgery Better for Breast Cancer Patients
VOAVideo: New Study Shows Less Surgery Better for Breast Cancer Patients
When breast cancer has spread to a patient's lymph system, surgeons traditionally have operated to remove a large number of underarm lymph nodes, to eliminate any trace of the cancer. The procedure is effective, but it can cause permanent complications. Now, a new study shows there is no advantage to taking out so many lymph nodes, and the finding could mean major changes in breast cancer surgery. VOA's Carol Pearson reports.
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"Do you believe in love at first sight?" Freddie asks the beautiful lady. "I know that at this point you have no idea what I'm saying, but I'm a believer. And I think I'm in love with you. Was that too much? Too soon? Am I coming on too strong?" "Come on man," the beautiful lady's panther mutters under his breath. "This is getting pretty desperate."
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