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Unfortunately, today almost no completely healthy people.From time to time some problems with the body disturb everyone.In this article I want to talk about what is in the adult intestinal cramps: symptoms, treatment of this problem.
What is it?
In the beginning, you need to understand the terminology.So, intestinal colic medicine also called dyskinesia intestine.It is a complex disorder that result from a violation of the motor function of the intestine.The absence of its organic changes.Speaking easier, the intestinal colic - is a strong attack of severe pain.Develop this feeling due to spasm of the colon or small intestine.It should also be noted that colic - it is not a single disease, but a symptom of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
consider further the theme - intestinal colic in adults: symptoms, treatment.At this stage, I want to say a few words about why this problem can disturb humans.
- Gelmintizatsiya body.E. A similar phenomenon may occur in people who have worms.
- As already stated, colic - it is a symptom.Perhaps one of accompanying the following diseases: pancreatitis, cholecystitis, colitis and others.
- Colic can occur if a patient has such disease abdomen that require urgent surgical intervention.
- may Arise with overeating, consumption of low-quality, "heavy" or junk food.Also, do not consume food that has just been removed from the refrigerator.The body difficult to cope with the food cold.
- may occur if you have diarrhea or flatulence.
- Colic occurs during acute infection with any of the intestine.
- may also occur in the case of intestinal obstruction.
- reason may also be nervous stress stressful situations.
What are the main symptoms of intestinal colic?
- strong sharp pain.Attracted waves (cramps).
- possible bloating, flatulence.The stomach often becomes hard.Discomfort when you touch him.
- disorder chair.There are as constipation and diarrhea.You can also find mucus in the stool (white tape).Often characterized by intestinal colic violation kaloobrazovaniya.
about pain
Exploring further the theme of "intestinal colic in adults: symptoms, treatment."So, a few words I want to say separately is a pain.Most often they are localized in the navel or lower abdomen.Less given to the lumbar region.Rolls spasms.Duration of colic can vary from a few seconds to tens of minutes.In the most difficult situations, and colic can last hours.Between bouts of pain in patients with other symptoms persist.
Can anyone the right to determine that the patient is an acute intestinal colic, and not another problem?So, you just need to know how to differentiate the problem.
- Acute gastritis.The symptoms are not typical for the intestinal cramps nausea, vomiting, bloating, coated tongue.Also there is an aversion to food.
- Lead colic.The symptoms are not typical for intestinal colic: the appearance of the gums in the lead-gray border, grayish color of the skin of the face and other body parts.
- intestinal obstruction.The symptoms are not typical for the intestinal cramps vomiting, pain, difficulty in discharge of fecal gases.Pain is not a typical localization.And in the intervals between contractions completely passes.
- Abdominal crisis.It is also accompanied by severe sharp pains in the navel.However, in this disease appear as hemorrhagic rash (bruising).Also available blood in the stool.
This information is important, as is often the intestinal colic confuse it with these diseases.
As already mentioned above, intestinal colic - a symptom of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.How can we confront the problem?It is important to proper nutrition in intestinal colic.Thus, the patient is recommended to strictly adhere to a special diet.
- It should completely abandon the consumption of food products that contribute to gas formation (beans, cabbage, and so on. D.).
- It should also be as much as possible to reduce the consumption of sweets, muffins.
- necessary to reduce salt intake.Food should be as fresh.
- also have to abandon pickles, marinades, canned food.
- completely be excluded from the diet of meats, condiments, ketchup and mayonnaise.
- The diet should be as much fiber.Useful fresh fruits and vegetables.
- method of cooking: steamed, boiled or stewed dishes.
- very useful in colic eggs: scrambled eggs or boiled boiled.
- well as warm drink sweetened teas.Excellent help to cope with colic fennel tea.
- helps to cope with intestinal colic dill and cumin.Of them can make herbal teas or infusions and taken orally.
- very useful slimy gruel and boiled rice water.
- necessary to refuse from the soda, "colored" drinks, coffee and alcohol.
What to do if there is a problem such as intestinal colic in adults?Treatment in this case is to appoint only the doctor.It can be self-great harm to your body.To what doctor to go?
- gastroenterologist.In most cases, the assistance necessary to address it to him, because intestinal colic - is a symptom of a failure in the gastrointestinal tract.
- traumatology.In the case of colic caused abdominal injury.
- gynecologist.If a pregnant woman suffers colic.
have specialist
Considering topic - intestinal colic in adults: symptoms, treatment, - you need to talk about that will make the doctor to the patient.
- Inspection.In the beginning, the doctor will lay the patient on the couch and explores his abdomen.It is important at this point to indicate where it hurts, and the nature of pain.
- study of history.
- doctor will also give direction to the analysis of feces.It is necessary to examine the stool for the presence of worms and know the state of the microflora of the stomach.
Possible studies:
- gastroscopy.It will take, if the doctor is suspected diseases of the stomach.
- urinalysis.Needed in the case if the doctor is suspected problems in the kidneys.Also, using this analysis can determine whether there is inflammation in the body.
This is a major event.However, in some cases, the doctor may prescribe, and other studies.
So, intestinal colic in adults.Treatment will depend precisely on the cause of this symptom.Now, however, I want to talk about the tools that can help relieve the pain:
- warm relaxing bath.It can substantially reduce colic and allow a person to relax.It is important to remember that water should not be hot.
- Attention: intestinal colic on the stomach can not put a hot water bottle.If this bilious colic, on the abdomen can put a hot water bottle with ice.
- If colic is caused by the intake of low-quality food, in which case you need to vomit (it must be in order to make the stomach from the remnants of the product).
- can also take antispasmodics.E. A means to help relieve the pain.So, this may be the following drugs: "No-spa", "Spazmalgon."
- It is also important to adopt tools to help the gastrointestinal tract.For example, it may be drug "Smectic".
- If poisoning - the cause of intestinal colic, as well take a drug as "Enterosgel".He will bring toxins from the body, greatly speeding up the healing process.In parallel, the doctor also may prescribe an enema to cleanse the bowel.
- If the patient has intestinal colic, what to do to alleviate the condition?So, if the symptom is the result of a viral disease, is sufficient to consider taking this medication "Activated Carbon", a complex of vitamins and diet.
Traditional medicine
What can you recommend to people who want to know how to treat intestinal colic?So, if you do not want to resort to the use of drugs, you can turn to traditional medicines.What, then, can help?
- Dill.Designed to cope with this task greens.To do this, prepare a decoction of milk from its seeds (one tablespoon per cup of milk).
- collection.We need to take one tablespoon of calamus, angelica and oak bark, pour a liter of boiling water and insist night.Take your medicine you need two tablespoons before each meal.This tool will not only eliminate colic, but also relieve bloating.
- motherwort juice.Excellent relieves spasms.To do this, one teaspoonful of the juice should be diluted in a glass of warm boiled water.
- Corky pomegranate.By studying the theme of "intestinal colic: Symptoms and Treatment", I want to say that perfectly cope with the problem can peel a pomegranate.To do this, take one teaspoon of crushed crust, pour cup of boiling water and boil on low heat for half an hour.It is taking the medicine three times a day before meals for 30 ml.
What else can you say to those who wish to have more information about what exactly is intestinal colic, symptoms and treatment of the problem?It is also important preventive measures will help avoid this problem:
- Proper nutrition.We need to abandon the products that contribute to gas formation.Also, it is best to stick to the usual diet of healthy people (need to completely give up the fast food, convenience foods and "bad" foods).
- daily routine.To prevent cramps, the day the person must be sufficiently active.If the work is sedentary, be sure to make the breaks a small charge, and every two hours to go at least 10 minutes with fresh air.
- Get rid of colic help exercise.It works especially well in the swing direction of the press.
- And, of course, need to avoid stressful situations and emotional overload.


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To summarize, Dark Heart of the Dreamer is the first supplement for Dungeon World in the Planarch Codex series. More information about its contents is available here on the page for the PDF version. The print version is a 3.5×5-inch pocket-sized, 32-page, chipboard and 100% recycled paper, soy-based-ink offset-printed, saddle-stitched (i.e. stapled) booklet. It is very stylish, but because of that, it is more expensive than something you might print on a photocopier.
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Sometimes I have woken and been unable to get back to sleep.
I generally have my prayer rope under my pillow, and it is but the work of a second to grasp it and start the Jesus prayer, for myself, family or friends, and usually I will get back to sleep with the words of the Prayer on my lips.
I have an eclectic mix on my blog-roll, and I was delighted to see this post by a nun on the voice in the night calling us to prayer.
I`m glad to know I am not alone :-)


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The thing about feeling ill is that you end up spending a lot of time in bed, thinking; and the less capable you are of being kinky somehow the more you end up thinking kinky. My fantasies tend to range from things I've done, to things I'd like to do, to the totally unrealistic (but very hot). I suspect this comes somewhere between the last two categories.
It starts gently enough. We are together, my Master and I, with time ahead of us. We snuggle. He tells me he loves me. He tells me he wants to play with me.
"I want you to be a good girl", he soothes, "I know you can do this".
Then it begins.
There are no details here, because whatever occurs, is his desire, and even in fantasy, to seek to describe it, would make it my own, but there are possibilities…
He commands and expects obedience. I obey. His demands continue, and I become frightened. I am cheeky, seeking to lighten the mood, to draw softness from him, instead of this implacable hardness. Perhaps he gags me now, to silence me.
He continues to play with me. I hear myself beg for mercy, but there is no respite. I start to sob, unable to bear what he is doing, what he is asking of me. I expect him to stop now, surely he will feel I have taken enough. He does not stop. I cannot believe what he is doing, but I struggle to endure it.
He continues to an ending. It does not end with my orgasm, although he may have ripped them from me as part of his play. It may end with his, or simply when he has finished whatever he intended. Yet there is an ending. He walks away, and I am left alone, still sobbing. I feel used, empty of myself. I feel the pain of submission, the reality of his control.
Then suddenly his arms are around me. He comforts my tears, and I cling to him, my rescuer, as surely as he has just been my torturer. He holds me close, and tells me he loves me, that he is proud of me, that I have pleased him.
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Seriously, why do you care?
"What's it to you how others get along as long as you have yours? Let them get their own!" You may have heard many versions of the "What's it to you?" question in recent years. You may have been told, "Never mind about them. It is not your problem." If you have a comfortable living, I suppose you can walk away from a lot of social problems. Indeed you can rant and rave against any notion that we should help others. "Let them help themselves," you may add. "There is no need to concern ourselves about that problem, because it is not our problem."
When exactly did we come to the philosophy to protect the wealth of the rich and to hell with the poor? When did social security, medicare and unemployment benefits become terms that are to be tossed around like dirty rags into the trash? There was a time when the Republicans across the aisle and their leaders called for additional taxes on the "haves" in order to help the "have-nots." Now many of them act as if this never happened. Perhaps part of the problem is that they are all part of the rich themselves. They pay themselves big salaries while trying to figure out how to give the elderly and the poor next to nothing. To them "Entitlements" is a dirtier word than the seven dirty words George Carlin could not say on television.
On the other hand, some might argue there is a moral imperative that comes into play here. That means we must take action, or not take action, as required based on a moral reason that comes from within ourselves. This is like the voice inside that compels us to do right. It is imperative that we do the right (moral) thing. In modern philosophy I guess it is the same as saying, "do the next right thing." Suppose, however, there is no voice from within urging us to make the moral choice. What if our inside tells us to ignore the needs of others and to protect our own? What if our inner voice issues no commandment of reason (imperative) and there is no morality to be heard? My friends on the left side of the aisle may call that the Tea Party voice, if they like. I caution you that the Boston Tea Party was not what it seemed.
Whether or not there is a moral imperative to drive our decision-making, shall we also ignore the voice of the major religions that speak of our moral obligations? Of course, there are people who do not follow any religion, but the vast majority of people do associate themselves with one of the major religions. Followers of Islam and followers of Christ both believe in the obligation to help those in need, Jews believe they are commanded in the Old Testament to help the poor, other major religions here this calling as well. So how is it that political leaders can claim to be both religious and opposed to social programs? Religious leaders here and around the world have encouraged the continuation of lending a helping hand in the tough economic times. It is not a matter of whether there is enough to go around, it is the issue of whether there is a willingness to share.
Islam believes that it is a moral obligation for Muslims to share with the less fortunate. It is a way for the rich to understand the needs of the poor. A young man in Cairo recently told me that his family was fortunate enough to give a camel to the poor each year. Some may give a goat or lamb. Pope John Paul II wrote in his 1981 encyclical letter on social justice, Laborem Exercens, that there is a right to life and subsistence. In other words there is an obligation to meet the minimum needs to the poor. The Vatican's Justice and Peace department have urged world leaders to create a fair economic system. It called on Catholics as a "moral imperative" to help the poor. U.S. Catholic bishops have urged Congress to extend social programs. House Speaker John Boehner, a practicing Catholic, has been challenged by a faculty member of Catholic University regarding his willingness, almost stubbornly so, to cut or eliminate certain social programs.
Why should Congress care? If they are not urged by some moral imperative from within, or pushed along by some moral obligation stated by the major religions, then by what standards do they rule over others? In preserving as many of their own dollars and that of their wealthy friends, have they lived up to the social contract? Do they care that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life?" Or have we dropped "all for one" in favor of "each man for himself?" Let's look at this in an individually selfish way then. Is is not better to preserve "domestic tranquility" by helping the poor when needed, rather than letting them fall into desperate and hopeless situations? Crime rises in desperate times because if there is no hope, there seems to be little to lose.
"The public revenues are a portion that each subject gives of his property in
order to secure or enjoy the remainder. To fix their revenues in a proper
manner, regard should be had both to the necessities of the state and to those
of the subject. The real wants of the people ought never to give way to the
imaginary wants of the state." —Thomas Jefferson
"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all
from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property
in geometrical progression as they rise." —Thomas Jefferson to James Madison,
Related articles
- Nine Basic Themes of Catholic Social Teaching by Richard Gribble, CSC, PhD (unionsandsocialjustice.wordpress.com)
- How Islamic finance and a more ethical capitalism go hand-in-hand (socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk)
- "The Poor You Will Always Have With You" (polistew.com)
- The Other Problem With 'Makers Versus Takers' – Bloomberg (blog) (bloomberg.com)
- Look at the moral side of the fiscal cliff (voices.kansascity.com)
- Time to play offense for the social safety net (tv.msnbc.com)


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London based afro-psych metallers Vodun just unveiled the second excerpt off their upcoming album, due out in 2015. "Loa's Kingdom" is streaming right now at The Obelisk and available for free on Bandcamp.
Second excerpt off their forthcoming full-length, "Loa's Kingdom" is a highly energetic ode to spiritual elevation marked by pounding riffage and incredibly catchy hooks. Here is what the band has to say about the track:
"Loa's Kingdom is about the desire to transcend into the realm of the Gods – your highest self. A kingdom only fit for supreme beings, who must first pay penance to Papa Legba, as all the spirits do. He is the first and last, the beginning and end. He is the one who will let you into their world, and the one to let you out, so be generous with your offerings".
- 24.10 CAMBRIDGE – Portland Arms
- 25.10 COLCHESTER – The Old Bus Station
- 26.10 NOTTINGHAM – Stuck On A Name
- 27.10 WAKEFIELD – The Unity
- 28.10 MANCHESTER – Kraak Gallery
- 29.10 LIVERPOOL – Maguires Pizza Bar
- 30.10 BRISTOL – Mothers Ruin
- 01.11 LONDON – The Victoria
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Here is a homily from Sunday, February 19, 2017 at St Mary's Cathedral in downtown Austin, TX, promoting Marian consecration to the Immaculate Heart.
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You can find resources for doing the Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary at MyConsecration.org.
Here is a homily from Fr. Kevin Rai on the Total Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.


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Americans like their freedom. We are used to our freedom, it is inherent in our culture. Children here grow up wanting to be free, and expecting it. As children they shun bedtimes and assert their food-related demands. As teens, they go crazy and usurp freedom that their parents won't give to them. Then, as adults, they generally leave the nest early to go to college or get their own place as soon as possible. They lead their owns lives, marry whom they want, and make their own decisions. Sure, parents often continue to play a role, but in other cases, the kids move to a different state or become estranged.
Asian culture is a little bit different. I was raised in a mix of the two. Asian parents have more control over their kids, it's a common stereotype and mostly true. There's a little more emphasis on the family than the individual. Just go to an Asian restaurant, and what do you see? Families kind of share their food, or at least that's what we do. The parents order sushi or whatever, and everyone shares. Sometimes if it's a Korean BBQ type restaurant, they won't even give teenagers a menu, because really, it's not their decision. But in American restaurants, it's a very different story. Everyone needs to have their own food, and only grudgingly will you allow your Mom to eat your fries, and reluctantly will you accept a taste of someone else's chicken. They even make special menus to cater to the kids, who are too picky to eat normal food.
As a kid, I didn't raise temper tantrums over cookies. I was always a little afraid of my mother. But I did eat my first hamburger when I was six, and secretly they are probably my favorite food. I never learned how to use chopsticks the "proper way," but I can get by without dropping things, and the food will make it to my mouth. I attended and held a few sleepovers, but they were regretted by my parents :D. Shortly after my sixteenth birthday, I was allowed to go to the DMV to get my license, but I didn't drive alone for a couple more months. And when I did, I had to text my parents every time I arrived from/left a place, and I virtually only went to school, dance lessons, and Starbucks.
Freedom is still a big issue in my life, especially as a Christian. My parents still want me to do certain things with my life that I may not like at this point. I want to live the American ideal and be a free person, able to make my own decisions, and go places that I want with people that I like. But I know that I am essentially not free, that I am property of God. I know that life is not about making myself happy. I know that I have a higher calling, to make disciples and serve my fellow man. I know that freedom often breeds sin.
But as an American, I believe in freedom in a slightly different sense. People can't be told what to do by government. People must make decisions for themselves, and you can only hope that they will choose to listen to God. As Roger Williams put it, "Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils."


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In his inaugural blog post, From the Ground Up, Cst. Derek Chesney unknowingly foreshadowed this post when he said that, "Saskatoon is a far cry from Vancouver's East Hastings but we are not immune to many of the issues that plague the area… The Saskatoon that I experience can be one of mental illness, drug and alcohol addictions, prostitution and poverty."
While Cst. Chesney sees the aftermath of what alcoholism and drug addictions can do to a person's life, the Saskatoon Integrated Drug Unit (SIDU), took a proactive approach to reach an impressionable audience, kids in grades 6-8 in Saskatoon.
SIDU is responsible for drug enforcement and investigations, but like many issues, educating and informing people about the dangers of drug abuse is a preemptive approach to helping people before it's too late and addictions too strong.
In 2004, SIDU partnered with The Western Hockey League, RCMP "F" Division and the Vancouver Police Department to create "Project Faceoff". This program spans Western Canada, partnering the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) with various police agencies and their local WHL Club. Project Faceoff aims to promote drug prevention and education by using role models of The WHL.
As part of their participation, four Saskatoon Blades players were taken on a two-day tour of Vancouver, B.C. to witness the first-hand effect that drug and alcohol addictions can have on a person's life. On the trip, players were accompanied by members of SIDU and the VPD in Vancouver's East Hastings area.
Following their trip, Blades' players Duncan Siemens, Matthew Pufahl, Brenden Walker and Dalton Thrower joined SIDU in speaking to 21 schools in the Saskatoon area, reaching 2,740 kids in grades 6, 7 and 8. They spoke about the dangers of living a high-risk lifestyle, what they saw and stories they heard from the people living on the streets and in the run-down apartments of East Hastings.
At the Blades game on Feb. 22 vs. the Brandon Wheat Kings, a Constable with SPS and the RCMP presented each of the four participating players with a certificate of appreciation for their commitment to the community and support of the program.
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Summer Lifestyle: Which Wine ?
In Episode 1, Dorian focuses on easy drinking. His tip for the summer is that it is important to store all wines in the right place. For example if you still prefer red wines in the summer, you need to make sure that they are store in a place where the temperature is stable. According to Dorian there are no bad wines, it all … Read More Summer Lifestyle: Which Wine ?


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The Right Thing To Do
Originally written sometime in early May
We stayed up and watched the first of a new miniseries on PBS called Carrier. Like most stuff on that network, the show was excellent. At one point, in what I believe to be an effort to show the scope of drama in the lives of the 5000 people living on a floating city, they showed a fresh-faced young man recounting the story of how he told his girlfriend's father that his daughter was pregnant.
Now what struck me about this is not the fact that the girl was pregnant; that stuff happens all the time. What bothered me was that the lad mentioned that he and the girlfriend both wanted to "do the responsible thing" or "the right thing". Not to single this couple out, as this is a common refrain in our country, but I have to call bullshit on this one. The "right thing to do", the "responsible thing to do", would be to not have unprotected, or partially protected sex. Period. Having a child with someone who failed to be responsible in the first place, is hardly responsible. At best is shows the hope of responsibility, but not the fact of responsibility. In fact, it's probably more appropriate to say it shows the faith of responsibility, as little or no responsibility has been actually demostraited.
Once pregnant, having the child is nothing more than making the best of a bad situation; one caused by one's own irresponsibility. Nothing more, and nothing less.
Now I don't wish any ill on this couple, or any other in this situation. Quite the contrary; I hope for them the best. Nor do I think they should have gotten an abortion. My point, my only point here, is that dressing up a pig, doesn't make it any less a pig. If you want to be responsible, and do the right thing, and if you do not believe in the personal use of abortion (like myself), then the responsible thing to do, the right thing to do, is to not get anyone (our yourself) pregnant. Period.
See how simple that is?
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I'm currently working on a Windows PowerShell Snap-In for EC2 now that they have released "Windows" support. Note that the snap-in project is in very early stages of development and I should be publishing a preview release that supports running and terminating instances very shortly.
That said – I am largely disappointed that Amazon isn't providing Windows 2008 support yet. I just used my Describe-Image Cmdlet to list out the EC2 images for Windows.
As you can see the images aren't for Windows 2008, and from what I can tell they aren't planning on supporting Windows 2008 until early next year. This effectively means that GoGrid is out in front of Amazon for support of Windows despite the fact that they don't have the same feature set of Amazon.
Interesting Times Ahead
Interesting times indeed, especially in the context of what Microsoft is planning on doing with Windows Azure. My advice is to start getting your stuff into the cloud now with GoGrid and EC2, so that you are in a good position to leverage the Azure services platform – but plan on plugging into things like Live Framework in the medium term.


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Obama's Speech at the UN General Assembly Address, 2014
'President Barack Obama dinged Russia and declared the extremists in Syria and Iraq a "cancer" in his U.N. General Assembly speech on Wednesday (24 September 2014)'.
'President Barack Obama dinged Russia and declared the extremists in Syria and Iraq a "cancer" in his U.N. General Assembly speech on Wednesday (24 September 2014)'.
'Abby Martin speaks with journalist and author, Chris Hedges, going over where the recent mass climate change demonstrations in New York fall short, as well as why he believes revolt is the only solution to restoring a functioning American democracy (321 Sept 2014)'.
The economics and politics writer Tim Fernholz, on the 'digitally native news outlet' that is Quartz, established in 2012 by Atlantic for 'business people in the new global economy', confides that "US intelligence officials have spent the last week dropping hints about another al Qaeda off-shoot that does aim to attack Western countries at home, and it operates in ISIL's backyard. The organization is known as 'the Khorasan group', a reference to a historic territory encompassing modern Afghanistan and Iran. Like ISIL, it has has roots in al Qaeda, but unlike the militants attempting to seize territory in Iraq and Syria, the Khorasan group is still within al Qaeda's hierarchy and focused on terror attacks in the West".[1] Now that the Islamic State (or ISIL or ISIS, if you will) has finally emerged as the West's new bogeyman, it turns out that America is not content and feels the need to come up with yet another one for good measure . . . Fernholz continues that the "US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said this group [. that would be the Khorasan group] could be a more direct threat than ISIL and mentioned the leader's name publicly for the first time: Muhsin al-Fadhli, a Kuwaiti who was a 20-year-old member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle at the time of the 9/11 attacks. By 2012, he was al Qaeda's top man in Iran, financing terror operations in Iraq as a go-between for Gulf state donors, and earning a $7-million price on his head from the US. According to [a] CIA source who spoke with the New York Times following Clapper's revelation, the now-33-year-old al-Fadhli is working with a cell of Afghan and Pakistani fighters in Syria to recruit Muslim extremists with US and European passports for attacks in their home countries. His organization is collaborating with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni offshoot of the extremist movement that has a reputation for attempts at sophisticated bomb-making designed to slip explosives past airport security procedures. Three have made it onto airplanes, but none of the plots have succeeded. It's not clear why intelligence officials chose to reveal their concerns about the Khorasan group now. Some in the US government have been accused of exaggerating the threat of ISIL to the United States, but these revelations are a reminder that some of its ideological siblings are still focused on attacks in the West".[2]
Does this mean that the U.S. does not see the Islamic State as a direct enough threat to America??? According to Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (a neoconservative Washington-based think tank) and writing about five months ago, "Muhsin al Fadhli, a senior al Qaeda leader who once headed the organization's network in Iran, relocated to Syria in mid-2013, according to a report in The Arab Times on March 21 [, 2014]. Citing anonymous sources, the publication reports that al Fadhli has joined the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria. He was apparently sent to the country after a dispute broke out between Al Nusrah and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). Al Fadhli was one of the trusted operatives who reported back to Ayman al Zawahiri on the dispute, according to the Arab Times, and he influenced al Qaeda's decision to eventually disown ISIS. Today, al Fadhli reportedly recruits European Muslims to join the jihad in Syria and 'trains them on how to execute terror operations in the western countries, focusing mostly on means of public transportation such as trains and airplanes'. The Arab Times account does not identify its sources and parts of it do not ring true. For example, al Fadhli's 'four main targets' inside Syria are supposedly Bashar al Assad's forces, the Free Syrian Army, the Islamic Front, and ISIS. However, only two of these targets make sense in the current operational environment".[3] So, it seems the man at the head of the group was an already well-known terrorist, but the name Khorasan Group had not been coined till recently. Joscelyn continues that "Al Fadhli became the leader of al Qaeda's network inside Iran after a senior al Qaeda leader known as Yasin al Suri was detained by Iranian authorities".[4] As the good folks of Wikipedia remind us: "Khorasan in its proper sense comprised principally the cities of Balkh, Herat, and Taloqan (now in Afghanistan), Mashhad, Nishapur, and Sabzevar (now in northeastern Iran), Merv and Nisa (now in southern Turkmenistan), and Samarqand and Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan)".[5] And so it came about that Muhsin al Fadhli suddenly emerged on the scene as the leader of the Khorasan Group, a shadowy, even possibly non-extant organisation, with 'clear' links to the bogeyman of yesteryear, Al Qaeda . . . or to employ that nifty Escobarian phrase once more, the name that is a "catch-all ghost entity" . . . And now Obama has once again released genie from the bottle that Junior handled or even prepared in the aftermath of 9/11.
[1] Tim Fernholz, "Meet the terror group in Syria that could actually threaten the US" Quartz (22 September 2014). http://qz.com/269198/meet-the-terror-group-in-syria-that-could-actually-threaten-the-us/.
[2] Tim Fernholz, "Meet the terror group in Syria that could actually threaten the US".
[3] Thomas Joscelyn, "Report: Former head of al Qaeda's network in Iran now operates in Syria" The Long War Journal (28 March 2014). http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/03/report_former_head_o.php#ixzz3E9n7jGQn
[4] Thomas Joscelyn, "Report: Former head of al Qaeda's network in Iran now operates in Syria".
[5] "Greater Khorasan" Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Khorasan.
"The Bush-Cheney era weighs heavily on America. Its divisions and disappointments help to explain much about today's politics, from public war-weariness to the anti-establishment contempt that seethes among the Republican grassroots and the Tea Party. Insiders have already penned enough don't-blame-me memoirs and score-settling biographies to dam the Potomac. [Peter Baker's Bush biography Days of Fire] concentrates on relations between the two men at the top of the executive branch. His shrewd, meticulous reporting offers a useful corrective to tales of a puppet-master deputy manipulating an inexperienced boss".[1]
[1] "Bush's legacy" The Economist (26 Oct 2013). http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21588363-best-account-yet-failed-presidency-bushs-legacy.
Helen Cooper and Eric Schmitt write in the New York Times that the "United States and allies launched airstrikes against Sunni militants in Syria early Tuesday [, 23 September 2014], unleashing a torrent of cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs from the air and sea on the militants' de facto capital of Raqqa and along the porous Iraq border. American fighter jets and armed Predator and Reaper drones, flying alongside warplanes from several Arab allies, struck a broad array of targets in territory controlled by the militants, known as the Islamic State. American defense officials said the targets included weapons supplies, depots, barracks and buildings the militants use for command and control. Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from United States Navy ships in the region. The strikes are a major turning point in President Obama's war against the Islamic State and open up a risky new stage of the American military campaign. Until now, the administration had bombed Islamic State targets only in Iraq, and had suggested it would be weeks if not months before the start of a bombing campaign against Islamic State targets in Syria". Significantly, "Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates took part in the strikes, American officials said, although the Arab governments were not expected to announce their participation until later Tuesday [, 23 September 2014]. The new coalition's makeup is significant because the United States was able to recruit Sunni governments to take action against the Sunni militants of the Islamic State. The operation also unites the squabbling states of the Persian Gulf. The strikes came less than two weeks after Mr. Obama announced in an address to the nation that he was authorizing an expansion of the military campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS".[1]
Cooper and Schmitt continue that "the salvo on Tuesday [, 23 September] in Syria was the beginning of what was expected to be a sustained, hourslong bombardment at targets in the militant headquarters in Raqqa and on the border. The strikes began after years of debate within the Obama administration about whether the United States should intervene militarily or should avoid another entanglement in a complex war in the Middle East. But the Islamic State controls a broad swath of land across both Iraq and Syria".[ii] President Obama's cautious consideration of all the options available has now led to a more direct engagement, but still apparently lacking the boots on the ground deemed necessary by so many. In the NYT, Cooper and Schmitt add that the "strikes in Syria occurred without the approval of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, whose government, unlike Iraq, did not ask the United States for help against the Sunni militant group. Mr. Obama has repeatedly called on Mr. Assad to step down because of chemical weapons attacks and violence against his own people, and defense officials said Mr. Assad had not been told in advance of the strikes. But administration officials acknowledge that American efforts to roll back the Sunni militant group in Syria cannot help but aid Mr. Assad, whose government is also a target of the Islamic State. The United Arab Emirates announced three weeks ago that it was willing to participate in the campaign against the Islamic State, and administration officials have also said they expect the Iraqi military to take part in strikes both in Iraq and Syria. If both nations are in fact participants, the strikes on Tuesday [, 22 September] could mark a rare instance when the Shiite-dominated Iraqi military has cooperated in a military operation with its Sunni Arab neighbors".[3]
As such, a Syrian Twitter user named Abdulkader Hariri "is believed to have broken news of US air strikes in Syria 30 minutes before the Pentagon confirmed the military had launched attacks on the Isis stronghold of Raqqa alongside other countries".[4] In the Independent, Heather Saul comments that the "air strikes are a major escalation of the US military response to Isis and come after President Barack Obama stressed it would not coordinate with the government of President Bashar al-Assad in any way in its fight against the group".[5]
[1] Helen Cooper and Eric Schmitt, "Airstrikes by U.S. and Allies Hit ISIS Targets in Syria" The New York Times (22 September 2014). http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/middleeast/us-and-allies-hit-isis-targets-in-syria.html?emc=edit_na_20140922&nlid=68990308&_r=0.
[2] Helen Cooper and Eric Schmitt, "Airstrikes by U.S. and Allies Hit ISIS Targets in Syria".
[3] Helen Cooper and Eric Schmitt, "Airstrikes by U.S. and Allies Hit ISIS Targets in Syria".
[4] Heather Saul, "Syria air strike: Twitter user Abdulkader Hariri live tweets US Islamic State attack 'before Pentagon breaks news'" The Independent (23 September 2014). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/twitter-user-live-tweets-attack-before-pentagon-breaks-news-9749973.html.
[5] Heather Saul, "Syria air strike: Twitter user Abdulkader Hariri live tweets US Islamic State attack".
'U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announces U.S. plan to help fund new World Bank program to counter climate change (22 September 2014)'.
Also on Monday, 22 September, the Washington Post's Adam Taylor declares that this "week, the United Nations will host a huge and well-publicized one-day summit on climate change. The public is likely to be watching it closely: It comes just days after thousands of people in New York and around the world took to the streets, demanding more political action to help fight global warming. The climate summit's organizer, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, took part in the New York march, and for Tuesday's event, he is promising to bring together some of the most powerful people in the world with a common purpose. "I have invited leaders from government, business, finance and civil society to present their vision, make bold announcements and forge new partnerships that will support the transformative change the world needs," he wrote in a blog post on the summit for the Huffington Post. It's certainly true that the climate summit has an impressive guest list: More than 120 world leaders are heading to the United Nations in New York for the event, including President Obama and many big names from the private sphere. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will give one of the opening speeches. But as impressive as that guest list is, what's more interesting is who is missing. Notably, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are skipping the event. In empirical terms, it's hard to think of two more important leaders in the world right now: Together they lead more than 2.5 billion people, more than a third of the world's population".[1]
[1] Adam Taylor, "U.N. climate summit is high-profile, but some of world's most important leaders will skip it" The Washington Post (22 September 2014). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/22/u-n-climate-summit-is-high-profile-but-some-of-worlds-most-important-leaders-will-skip-it/.
'An interview with Nick Davies, the reporter who exposed the British phone hacking scandal. He exposed one of the biggest scandals in recent British political history. Nick Davies, the journalist who laid bare a political controversy that reached into multiple British institutions and painted a picture of a news organisation so powerful that those institutions, including parliament, police and the rest of the British media, dared not take it on. Richard Gizbert sat down with Nick Davies to discuss the story, the power of fear and the future of the Murdoch media empire, which lies disgraced, but by no means defeated (20 September 2014)'.


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5 Ways How Negativity Hampers Work
It is said that success is the by-product of determination and hard work. However, fewer are still able to achieve success at workplace. This often happens because these people who are not able to succeed are lacking at something. They are hardly aware that it is their own negative pattern that is sucking up all the opportunity to achieve success. If only they become aware about what is causing failure, it would be easier to eliminate it all. Through this article you will discover 5 ways how negativity hampers work.
1. Being A Slacker
Slacker is just not a term if it causes you to face humiliation at workplace and your colleagues get talking about it. If you too are finding yourself becoming easily bored and begin to fail at most of the tasks, then it is time to re-evaluate yourself. Being the object of humiliation by your boss or your co-workers is what further dampens your spirit to perform better.
It is easy to get stuck in a situation where you find your work boring and feel lackadaisical. However, what you can do is try to learn new things and different ways of doing the same thing.
2. Procrastination
A recent survey by salary.com revealed that at least 89% of participants confessed wasting their precious work-time. Even though you might like to take a break every now and then, however doing it at the cost of putting off work is not acceptable. It is essential to understand that you are a procrastinator. Putting off work just because you are not interested in it is not an excuse, it is a negative behaviour pattern that you need to break.
Make a chart of what needs to be done on a weekly basis. Highlight the priority tasks to begin working immediately. A daily to-do list too would help you achieve things at time without putting it off for the final deadline.
3. Giving A Cold Shoulder
It is not always that you gel along with people who you work with, however personal interaction with your co-workers is essential. Many times it is all about being able to get along with your colleagues or your boss earns you the extra credit. If you continually try avoiding talking to people around you or try avoiding your boss, then you might end up in the wrong books.
It is not that you need to do things out of the way to impress or to get along with co-workers. However, chatting up, going out for tea or coffee breaks, taking interest in their work or life would do the trick. A small lunch-room chat with your boss can work wonders without giving an impression that you are unable to adapt to the environment.
4. Wrong Or Negative Attitude
Not being able to focus on positives of a work environment or gossiping around is a negative attitude. If you too are more into complaining about things that are not perfect or keep cribbing about what is wrong with the environment, then you are stuck in a negative attitude pattern.
It is advisable that you first need to shift your focus to something positive. Every place has something positive to offer. Staying away from gossip mongers is yet another thing to cut off negativity from your attitude. Remember there is nothing like perfect or ideal workplace, it is all about your attitude.
5. Lacking Initiative
While you are trying your best to do your given tasks in a good way, another co-worker wins the perks for achievement. How did this happen, when you are already working just fine? It is all because you failed to realize that just doing your job is not all that is expected of you. Your lack of taking initiative for new tasks is what puts your behind.
Even though you might already be loaded with work, but taking small initiatives every now and then won't hurt you. You can choose to take initiative at anything that is not an extra burden, but will help you shine amongst your co-workers.
After realizing what all needs to be done to improve your attitude and stay positive, you can begin by self-improvement. Next, it becomes easier to overcome it all and live a life that is free of negative patterns.
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South Africa: The "Purple Cow" party is proposing a Negative Income Tax form of basic income
"Innovation. Disruption. No BS – because we love our country." That is the "Purple Cow" party power tag. The party is officially called "Capitalist Party of South Africa", and is defending the basic income policy, particularly in the Negative Income Tax (NIT) form. The party is proposing an income top-up for all those earning less than the tax threshold in» Read more


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Vastavam web: World athletics chief Sebastian Coe blasted the "obsession" with Usain Bolt as track and field entered its new era without the Jamaican showman at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.Coe said there was no shortage of athletics talent for the Games, the first major competition since Bolts retirement last year left the sport with a void to fill."Are we going to replace Usain Bolt? Probably not, because you dont replace Muhammad Ali.
"But Marvin Hagler and Manny Pacquiao and (Julio Cesar) Chavez and the great boxers came through." Bolt, the eight-time Olympic champion and 2014 Commonwealth relay gold-medallist, would have been the star attraction and a certain crowd-puller at the Gold Coast.Jamaican sprinters Yohan Blake and Elaine Thompson, and Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas now shape as the main athletes to watch during the eight-day athletics programme.
"Usain under any set of circumstances has driven our sport and thats a high-class problem to have, and he will remain engaged," said Coe.Australias Dane Bird-Smith and Jemima Montag won the mens and womens race walks as the athletics competition got underway, with the mens hammer and 5,000m finals due later on Sunday.


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Hello! Remember how I said I was back last week? Well, that was wrong. See, I always do this. I assume that since the play is over, life will be back to normal. What I always forget is that I have two weeks worth of life built up that I have to go through and it takes a long time.
I have some pictures to post soon from the play. It really did turn out well and I was quite pleased. I'll post the photos as soon as I've heard back from all the parents from whom I am seeking permission to post.
Auditions for The Wizard of Oz are this week. Can I tell you a secret? I'm dreading them. I hate auditions so bad. I try not to let on too much to the kids, but auditions are painful for me. I'm not asking for sympathy, but I do want to get this off my chest.
See, only one kid can get each lead. That's just the way it is. I don't struggle with knowing who the lead should be. Auditions are rigorous enough that it is abundantly clear who is best suited for the roles.
What is difficult, and what I can't get over, is the fact that it hurts so badly to audition and not get the role you want. It's especially keen for the 8th graders, for whom this is their last shot in middle school.
Yes, I know. I know this is part of life, I know that we can't get everything we want. I know this is preparing them for the future. I know all this, I believe it, and I preach it to them and their parents.
Still, having been an actor, I know how keenly it stings when you don't get the part you are dying for. It hurts and I know that. So, it's painful for me to be the inflictor of that hurt.
That makes me sad. But there's something else that makes me sad. I'm disappointed every year by how some of the adults react to their child not getting the role they wanted. The kids get over it. Some of the parents don't and every year, there are people I thought were my friends who suddenly become very chilly and sometimes downright mean. That's disappointing. I have a fairly thick skin after 25 years of doing this, and my self-esteem isn't based on what people think of me. But it still makes me disappointed and sad. This year is complicated by the fact that my daughter is an 8th grader, so these kids are almost like my own children in terms of the fondness I feel for them.
Ultimately, of course, this is about the kids. I want to provide the best experience I can for them. Doing that means producing the best play that we can do. Which means casting it right and setting them up for success. It all boils down essentially to doing it for the kids, even when they are disappointed at the moment.
This week, I'll have my parents meeting and go over the expectations and put on a strict face and give the speech about dealing with disappointment. I'll do the same thing with the kids. I'll put on a good face. But Friday we'll have call-backs. That night, I'll toss and turn all night long and not really sleep at all. Saturday I'll post the cast list and shed some tears for the kids who didn't get what they wanted. I'll watch some of them handle their disappointment bravely and graciously--congratulating the person who did get the part. I'll be disappointed again at the way some people handle it.
And then, life will go on. In the end, it's all good and it's a part of life. I get that.
But gosh, it stings!
I don't know how you do it. Even after a lifetime in the performing arts - where I got some of the things I wanted and didn't get others - I still hate this element of it so much that I can't actually do it. And since I can't do it with the consistency and integrity that you have, I don't do it at all. Heavy price to pay, right?
Ugh. It sounds like you've learned how to best deal with it, but I know it's hard. The parents thing is what gets me, too. Heck, my husband has even had parents come yell at him for not giving their (college-student!) child first chair. It does get ridiculous.
11/1/2010 04:53:09 am
Oh I totally get that! I totally totally get that. Isn't that so true. Kids are resilient. Parents, not so much. Well said, Braden Bell. Well said.
11/1/2010 11:03:19 am
Wow! I don't envy you at all!
11/2/2010 01:21:09 am
Well told, Brade. I love your tender heart. I can't imagine how hard that would be, and I feel sorry for kids whose parents react that way. That's not a good message for them to be sending.
11/5/2010 02:19:01 pm
Guess who just called to write and co-direct the road show in our ward?
11/6/2010 06:45:43 am
I like your thought that even the disappointments are in the cause of providing a positive experience for the kids, and thus provide a long-term benefit despite short-term disappointment -- though if you're like me, that's an argument that (no matter how much you may accept it in the abstract) does little to get you over the pain of the moment.
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The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
A new perspective on the urban jungle
Photographer Andy Yeung offers us a whole new way to look at cities with his pictures of Hong Kong. Here's just one example. Click the image for a larger view.
There are more pictures at the link.
Yeung's photographs offer an interesting perspective on how hundreds of millions of people live today. I can't help but look at them and wonder how much extra stress and strain it causes to have to live under such surreal, artificial conditions - something for which Mother Nature surely never designed us. That may have a lot to do with the urban crime problem we discussed this morning.
10 comments:
- Old NFO said...
It's a 'strange' city in more ways than one... Some people never leave the building they're born in. Everything they need is right there.
- June 21, 2016 at 5:19 PM
- Odysseus said...
"Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself."-Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert Heinlein.
- June 21, 2016 at 6:02 PM
- Jim said...
No way I could live in a place like that.
- June 21, 2016 at 6:26 PM
Hong Kong is a most interesting city with a unique mixture of old and new. You will see a Chinese apothecary with wares displayed outside the shop and on the other side of the street will be a modern jewelry store or new mall. There is always construction and there is always something to see.
- June 21, 2016 at 7:29 PM
- Home on the Range said...
I've a pilot friend that flies for a foreign carrier and he lives there. He enjoys it but it would drive me crazy. I'm glad to have a deep lot with lots of spruce so I can at least pretend I'm not in the city.
- June 21, 2016 at 8:02 PM
- Javahead said...
My wife's family lives there. I love to visit, but neither of us has any desire to live there - even for her, after a week or two the crowding gets oppressive. There are places that are relatively uncrowded (parts of Lantau island, and steeper areas of the Kowloon peninsula), but they're unbuildable, protected as parks, or have unworkable commute times for most people; in general only the very wealthy can afford the amount of living space that middle-class Americans take for granted.
Her nephew and his wife just bought an apartment. In a relatively inexpensive area with inconvenient transit connections they paid ~1000 US dollars per square foot for a ~375 square foot apartment. Prices run even higher for larger places in more desirable locations. And you'd be amazed at the number of people who live in an 800-900 square ft 2 bedroom apartment who have live-in maids.
- June 21, 2016 at 9:35 PM
- Eaton Rapids Joe said...
City people are funny.
They make disparaging comments about country folk. For instance, they want to control our mobility and energy use (usually via "carbon").
But they are blind to their own consumption. Good article here: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679249/a-block-by-block-look-at-the-energy-consumption-of-new-yorks-buildings
Even this article completely ignores the energy that is embedded within the manufacturing processes that supplied the steel, concrete, asphalt, carpeting, plaster, glass, etc. Those fixed assets do not have an infinite life and strict accounting would "depreciate out" those hidden teracalories against the inhabitants.
I suspect the presumed "green" benefits of living like sardines in high rise buildings would look less green if embedded energy was accurately accounted for.
- June 22, 2016 at 5:42 AM
To me, that's an overhead picture of hell.
- June 22, 2016 at 6:55 AM
It's weirdly similar to this picture from nat. geo
- June 22, 2016 at 7:51 AM
- Tal Hartsfeld said...
Of course it has a lot to do with the various crime problems you read about all the time.
Go figure: Any time you go anywhere you're crowded out, everyone's in your way. You always have to wait in long lines for services. When you need to go somewhere you're either stuck in a traffic jam or riding a crowded bus or subway train.
And the constant noise resulting from residing in an overpopulated place.
After a while one can get "fed up" enough they may simply "snap" and do something rash out of exasperation.
Does that notion sound so illogical?
- June 29, 2016 at 11:18 AM


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"Itzik Manger un Rokhl Oyerbakh: a mayse fun libe, has un poezye" with Efrat Gal-Ed
The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series
*Lecture will be in Yiddish*
Rokhl Oyerbakh (1903–1970), author, journalist and translator, known for her work in the legendary Ringelblum Archive and later at Yad Vashem, was Itzik Manger's life-companion in Warsaw (1933–1938). Manger traveled to the Polish metropolis for the first time in late 1928, he soon made the city his chosen home, and was deported from there in the spring of 1938. Looking back in the 50s, Manger reflected that Warsaw was his "true home". Manger's sense of belonging to and being at home in Warsaw was significantly due to his living and working with Rokhl Oyerbakh, his great love and important intellectual interlocutor and assistant in his major literary projects. However, after their acrimonious separation in 1945, Manger didn't acknowledge her part in his life. Oyerbakh, too, remained silent on the matter. The talk presents a reconstruction of the companionship and its role in Mangers creative process.
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Several hundred thousand people rallied against marriage equality in France Sunday, but the apparent success of the protest seems to reflect the influence of American groups more than anything. Multiple news reports refer to a coalition of groups led by the Catholic Church's hierarchy — as well as some evangelical Christian and Muslim groups — that organized the protest, but none of those groups are recognized by name. What's clear, though, is that the U.S.-based National Organization for Marriage is playing a significant role in France's debate on same-sex marriage.
On Friday, NOM's Brian Brown announced he was in France for the protest, and the group spent last week pushing the "gays against gay marriage" meme featuring anti-gay French Catholics. NOM also highlighted a series of offensive French editorial cartoons that imply same-sex parents are incapable of raising happy children because the children will only care about the parent of a different gender they don't have. Jeremy Hooper also discovered that NOM is responsible for a French "Let Us Vote" site encouraging the country to support a public vote on civil rights. Brown offered this reflection from the protest:
You see, the French people know in their bones that every child deserves a mother and father. And so they took to the streets — hundreds of thousands of them!
I am proud to be a part of this historic moment in France. […]
They held signs that read "Une papa, une maman pour TOUS les enfants! — which means "A dad, a mom for ALL children." Some children held signs that read "Made in papa + maman": "Made in mom and dad."
I have been so excited to be part of this new international solidarity movement in defense of marriage, children and family.
As Alvin McEwen notes, NOM offers no consideration for the many children who have no parents at all to raise them. The implication of their message, as it has always been, is that same-sex parenting somehow harms children, a myth with no foundation. Perhaps the organization is dismayed by its recent losses in the U.S. and is trying to bolster their own egos by exporting their message, or perhaps they feel they can only be successful in societies where public understanding and visibility of same-sex families has not advanced as much. Either way, it's clear that NOM is betraying its own "national" mission to condemn same-sex families the world over.


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Rajasthan Budget - year 2010-2011 Date/Summary/Highlights
Rajasthan Budget 2010-2011, 2010-11,rajasthan budget 2010 date, rajasthan budget highlights, summary, speech, ashok gehlot, finance minister rajasthan
Rajasthan budget for the financial year 2010 - 2011 will be read my Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on March 2010, date is yet to be decided.
We will update you on the highlights of the Rajasthan budget as and we get the information.
We will very soon provide you the link where you can download Rajasthan budget 2010 - 2011 speach, budget highlights and financial statements of Rajasthan state which will be presented by honorable Finance Minister of Rajasthan.
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Well, of course no one can be sure of the motivations of people--having said that, I do have some insight into the way (Fred) Hyatt and his colleagues (at WaPo) think. First of all I want to make very clear that most people who get to important positions in government and the mainstream media have been vetted continually. First in University and later as they move up the ladder. Intellectual brilliance (I assure you) won't get you very far.Agreed and agreed.
One of the most remarkable things about the American intellectual elites (on all sides of the political spectrum) is their inability to understand power, class, elites, cliques and so on. Since Marx has long ago been forbidden in American discourse we also have thrown out Machiavelli and others who speak about how power (politics) really works. We have the strange (to me) notion that "public servants" and members of the media are somehow dedicated to the truth, to the betterment of mankind and so on. This notion is pure garbage--you wouldn't last ten minutes if you were.
My point is that Hyatt operates in the interest of his class and his clique. There is surprisingly little difference between members of the elites say that write for the Post across the left/right spectrum--they differ in tactics but pretty much agree on the necessity of Empire. These guys believe in the Walter Lippman idea that power belongs to the elites and that the people as a whole ought to be misinformed and propagandized.
You know, (the) notion that the Neocons are some kind of aberration is kind of silly. They represent a large faction of the elites--what other factions don't like about them is that they are fairly straightforward in expressing their opinions and believe in making bold moves. Hyatt and others in the mainstream would rather be a little more circumspect, a little quieter, more polite and more diplomatic.
I say all this as a longtime resident and observer (usually from a distance but sometimes close up) of the Washington scene.
In Sibel's case, much of the attention is focussed on the neocons - but that's only part of the picture, too.


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A single uncharacteristic putt for Tiger Woods has given Nick O'Hern the title of "The Man who broke Tiger Woods' win streak". David took down Goliath for the second time in match play!
Yes, this was a day of mental errors for Woods, from a shot that landed in the drink right down to that four-foot putt on the nineteenth hole which, as Woods claimed, left a "totally" repairable ball mark.
We at Golf for Beginners, discuss the USGA Rules of Repair on the Putting Green as well as how you can avoid Tiger's costly mistake.
Barry and I also review the Club Glove Aficionado III stand bag. It's extra-light (only 5.6 lbs. fully loaded) as well as amazingly strong. The Izzo dual-strap design coupled with a thick, large lumbar support makes it comfortable and easy to carry.
A super-nice feature of the Club Glove Aficionado III is that all pockets are easily removable for lighter practice rounds although don't be fooled by this golf bag! It's large enough to comfortably fit a full set of clubs. Check out our review!
Finally, congratulations to Henrik Stenson on his win at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship! I knew he was going to win all along...right RonMon? Too bad I'm not a gambler!
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In all seriousness, the Marlin is a great rifle, too. I own a Model 60, one of the best rifles ever made.
Brownings are nice, but in terms of quality AND accuarcy AND ruggedness, it's hard to beat the Marlin.
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So is it reasonable to hold £153 million in shares which you desperately want to increase in value while being the authority that decides on allowing expansion of that industry in the County? Tory run Kent County
Council thinks it is:
This is from the BBC's website - KCC deputy leader John Simmonds said: "We invest a small part of our
pension fund in oil companies because they offer the best possible
returns, which in turn results in less of a burden on the taxpayer. KCC has a pension fund of around £3bn. We imagine that every council up and down the country invests part of its pension fund in oil. It is absolutely the normal and sensible thing to do."
A normal and sensible thing to do... Investing £153m in industries that are actively destroying our environment, sensible? Normal, so it seems but hardly sensible.
I wonder what it would take to change John Simmonds' and his fellow councillors' minds? Perhaps a drill or two near their houses? Listening to the drone of the drill running 24/7 is stomach turning. Perhaps having to deal with real water shortages as the aquifers get drained to provide water for Caudrilla? Maybe the increase in illnesses and the devastation of wildlife as the ground water gets polluted? Or maybe the dumping of radioactive waste in local rivers as seems to be happening in the US?
Most worrying is that people voted these idiots in... lets hope the electorate hold them to account very soon.


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If you are looking for integrated wireless abilities, then the V37 is not the best choice. Viewsonic did include a few frills such as voice recording and MP3 playback, but it is obvious that the V37 is not geared towards those who want a portable media center at their fingertips.
However, for corporate users looking for a budget PDA, or a consumer looking for a highly efficient handheld, the Viewsonic V37 is an excellent choice. The V37 is easy to navigate, mind-numbingly simple to sync with your PC, and gets the job done faster than any Pocket PC in its price class.
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The weather is getting warmer! And warmer weather means cool, refreshing drinks! A healthy drink choice is sparkling water. But how safe is this for your teeth?
According to this article, sparkling water is safe for your teeth. When your drink sparkling water, the carbon dioxide breaks down in your mouth and becomes carbonic acid. People question whether this acid is harmful. However, there is no evidence indicating sparkling water harms tooth enamel.
To read more about this check out this article by David Oliver entitled Sparkling Water is Safe for Your Teeth, Dentist Says.
So enjoy that fizzy water without worrying about compromising your dental health!


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It's important in any course of study to have a strong foundation in the basics. The following courses, webinars, audio downloads and reading suggestions will help you create a solid course of self-guided study.
We're always available for one-on-one mentoring and tutoring when you need it. Just reach out and we'll help connect you with one of our fine teachers for private sessions. We're here to help shed light on a confusing topic, get your studies moving in the right direction, or apply what you've learned in one of our online courses.
At the beginning, you'll need to spend time getting to know the building blocks of astrology: Signs, Planets and Houses. From these core symbols, all styles of astrology are built.
Courses for Beginners
These courses introduce students to the basic building blocks, in addition to general knowledge about how a chart is constructed, and some of the overarching philosophy behind various astrological approaches.
- Beginning Astrology – A Language of Life with Robert Blaschke (includes some intermediate topics too, but provides a great introduction)
- Practical Astrology for Beginners with Kelly Surtees
Planets, Signs and Houses
These are the building blocks of astrology. You'll need to understand the basic symbols (planets, signs and houses) to do just about anything with astrology, whether you want to read birth chart or understand the unique energies that unfold anew every day.
Steven Forrest's Elements series covers all of the major astrological symbols over 4 audio lectures.
- Earth Element Symbols with Steven Forrest
- Water Element Symbols with Steven Forrest
- Air Element Symbols with Steven Forrest (coming soon)
- Fire Element Symbols with Steven Forrest (coming soon)
We don't currently offer any beginning-level webinars on just the signs, but we will soon! Once you get to the intermediate level, we have some wonderful signs lectures with Jason Holley that explore the more nuanced mythic and psychological dynamics. But at the beginning level, we suggest keeping it simple!
Until we have a standalone set of signs lectures for beginners, start with the Elements series by Steven Forrest above. 3 signs are covered in detail in each series, in addition to the major planets and all 12 houses.
This talk by Jeff Jawer addresses the signs from a humanistic perspective:
- The Signs of the Zodiac with Jeff Jawer
You can spend a lifetime exploring the meaning of the planets! But you have to start somewhere. Here are some great webinars and classes that will get you started.
- Chart Interpretation 1: Planets with Kelly Surtees
- The Moon through the 12 Signs with Steven Forrest
- Mercury through the 12 Signs with Steven Forrest
- Venus through the 12 Signs with Steven Forrest
- Mars and the Spiritual Warrior with Steven Forrest
- Challenging Mars with Tony Howard
- Understanding Saturn with Jessica Murray
- Saturn the Guardian of Our True Potential with Mark Jones
- Understanding Uranus with Jessica Murray
- Working with Neptune with Jessica Murray
- Working with Pluto with Jessica Murray
The houses are the places where all the action happens. Every planet is in a sign and a house. The sign tells us about the style, the mode or the agenda the planet has. While the house describes where that planet expresses most visibly in our life.
If you're brand new to astrology, start with the planets and then the signs. Once you're feeling comfortable with those, add the houses. Here are some classes to get you started with the houses:
- The Twelve Houses: The Wheel of Life with Demetra George
- The Ascendant: The Mask You Wear with Kelly Surtees
- The Spiritual Dimensions of the Ascendant with Robert Blaschke
- Spotlight on Success: The Midheaven with Frank Clifford
- The 11th House of Good Spirit with Kelly Surtees
- The Water Houses with Darby Costello
Supplementary Topics for Beginners
Once you have a handle on the planets, signs and houses, it's important to take in the elements and modalities.
Exploring our rich history will help you place astrology in the current context of our times as well as develop a profound respect for our craft.
Elements and Modalities
- Elements and Modalities with Demetra George
The History of Astrology
Learning about the rich history of our craft can inspire awe and wonder as well as an appreciation for the context current astrological study arises from.
- The History of Astrology with Demetra George
Recommended Reading
Search for these books at your favorite local book shop or at Amazon or Powell's online.
- The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest – This timeless classic considers why the symbols are oriented as they are, rather than just describing them.
- Astrology by Ronald Davison – A handy little reference book you'll refer to often as you're getting started.
- Making the Gods Work for You by Caroline Casey – This book will help you think more creatively right from the start of your studies.
- Astrology for Lovers by Liz Greene – This classic and often-quoted book has one of the best descriptions of the psychological dynamics of signs available.
- The Inner Planets by Liz Greene
- Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil by Liz Greene
- The 12 Houses by Howard Sasportas
- The Astrological Houses by Dane Rudhyar


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Is there a theoretical unit size limit?
This seems so simple that i had an idea to scale it up to a near ridiculous size.
Is there a theoretical limit to how large you can make one of these , or if you size everything up accordingly is making one big enough to mix a 55gal drum possible?
Is this a good question?


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A Dose of Inspiration: What our campers have been up to since camp ended
The problems of the world can sometimes feel overwhelming, but it can help to recognize that there are many people doing so much to make the world better. For those needing a dose of inspiration, you need look no further than the amazing work our campers have been doing since YEA camp. Take a look:
- Isabele is gathering pledges and participating in the AIDS Walk Portland with her high school's Queer-Straight Alliance. She is also starting a project to mentor middle schools who are just beginning to have a GSA/QSA.
- Mehar in NJ is putting on her first ever event to draw attention to issues around the education of girls in Third World countries on October 11th, the International Day of the Girl.
- Sky and Shikha in New Jersey have started the Harry Potter Alliance, a community service club, at their high school.
- CJ in Washington created and completed a school climate survey to gather data about how safe students feel at his high school. He is using this data to launch a club with a goal of implementing school-wide anti-bullying curricula.
- Djuna from New York led 13 high school juniors and seniors on a service trip to New Orleans. They worked and lived on an urban farm in the Lower Ninth Ward. She led workshops to her classmates and teens from the area about social justice issues.
- Destiny in Oregon has been leafletting every two weeks about veganism and last weekend attended a circus protest with several other YEA Campers. She also joined and is growing her high school's animal rights club.
- Griffin from Oregon has been leafletting to educate Oregonians about Nestle's plan to bottle water in the Gorge, resulting in environmental destruction. He was joined by several other YEA Campers.
- Danika in Massachusetts created an anti-war flyer when couldn't find one online that communicated what she wanted to say. She is also working to get more Spanish-language books in her local library, and is developing trainings for other youth activists so they can benefit from the trainings and experiences she has had, such as YEA Camp!
- Many YEA Campers on the east coast volunteered in August at Sunny Meadow Animal Sanctuary together.
- Ramsey in Oregon is beginning an internship at Farm Sanctuary in California.
- Nick in Illinois started a school club for animals that has already had their first meeting. He has been volunteering with Mercy For Animals outside of school.
- Jasmine in Connecticut has been volunteering with the Humane Society of the United States.
- Sarah in New Hampshire is organizing an event for National Primate Liberation Week to draw attention to the plight of primates in labs. She also got a letter to the editor printed about NPLW in her local paper! Way to go, Sarah!
- Fletcher in CA started an anti-bullying group called Delete at his school that now has 44 members!
- Kelley in Tennessee has been collecting cans to donate to the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County (one pound of cans buys two pounds of dog food!)
- Grace in Ohio joined her school environmental club and is starting a project to remove styrofoam trays from the school cafeteria.
- Anthony in North Carolina attended the DC Vegfest and will be interning with Mercy for Animals.
- Jaliessa in Oregon is volunteering with the Portland VegFest and recently attended her first-ever protest for elephants at the circus.
- Katie in California held her GSA's first event of the year, a "Chapel of Love" where anyone can get married, complete with ring-pop rings and marriage "certificates" which include information about marriage rights and same-sex marriage. The pictures of the happy couples are posted on Facebook.
- Alex in California is passionate about sexual health education for teens and started a club called the Sex Squad at her school. She is working with UCLA to inform her classmates about safe sex and healthy sexuality. She filmed teens at her school asking them why Health Education is important to them. She plans to make a video and send it to the school board. She is also starting plans for actions on World AIDS Day, and she was recently awarded a $1,000 grant from The Pollination Project to further her efforts.
This is just a small sampling of some of our campers' accomplishments that we are aware of – and this is only since the camps ended in July and August. We are so proud of their accomplishments and cannot wait to see what they do during this school year and in the years to come!


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High on spectacle and history, but low on acting caliber and story, "Pompeii" gets trapped in its own unrelenting rain of volcanic fire.
Aug. 24, 79 A.D. is the day when slave-turned-gladiator Milo (Kit Harington) fights in the Amphitheater of Pompeii.
It is also the day when his true love Cassia (Emily Browning) finds herself forcibly betrothed to the corrupt Senator Corvis (Kiefer Sutherland), who was responsible for slaughtering Milo's family years before.
But most important of all, this is the day when Mount Vesuvius buries Pompeii under layers of ash and balls of fire, leaving no means of escape for the terrified citizens. As the volcano unleashes its destructive power, Milo must rescue his beloved Cassia and flee from the crumbling city.
OK, so director Paul W. S. Anderson ("Resident Evil," "Death Race," "The Three Musketeers") knows how to utilize his penchant for stunning visuals to wreak both havoc and destruction, which means the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no challenge.
When the volcano spews forth ash and pumice toward Pompeii, it strikes with full force and doesn't relent. I asked for a visually impressive catastrophe, and it looks like my wish has been granted.
In addition, I am impressed with the amount of attention to detail in terms of historical accuracy; an approximate 70 percent of what appears onscreen is how Pompeii looked like back then. Whether it has to do with politics, entertainment, architecture, fashion, or social standards, the lost city comes to life.
Underneath those layers of magnificent scenery and period details, however, "Pompeii" is an empty spectacle — one that sets itself up for total annihilation.
From what I understand, the overall story consists of two components: a prolonged gladiatorial contest and the ensuing destruction of Pompeii. While the latter emerges in a timely manner, the former plods along, lengthening the fierce fights between gladiators to an unnecessary extent.
This is where the age-old rule of "less is more" is ignored and the resulting consequences are merciless.
To make matters worse, Milo's quest for vengeance feels as though it had been tossed into the mix just for the sake of moving the film along. No development occurs, especially when his chance to exact revenge reaches its climax on the last days of Pompeii.
Plus, the romantic subplot is weak and devoid of energy — not that I'm shocked to notice this, considering how obvious it is that the male and female leads have no chemistry.
And the sad part, this film fails to give me any reason to care about the countless deaths that transpired as Vesuvius wiped Pompeii from the face of the Earth. As unsettling as it is for me to hear Pliny the Younger's haunting eyewitness account of the event, it is even more problematic to see this big screen depiction not highlight any souls to remember.
The "characters" are no different from the stereotypes you'd expect to see in a fictional work set during the days of the Roman Empire. Why the cast didn't make an effort to imbue them with more substance, I'll never know. Of course, this is to be expected whenever you pay to see a Paul W. S. Anderson movie; the man has never been one for engaging characterizations.
Kit Harington, who plays Milo, spends all of his screen time staring into space with an expressionless visage, and therefore drags the film into a flurry of aimless motivation.
I'm not surprised that Emily Browning offers a flat performance as Cassia, because she functions as eye candy here and not much else. As for Kiefer Sutherland…well, he hams up his dialogue so much that his Senator Corvis comes off as a tasteless parody of a corrupt Roman politician.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje breathes a convincing combination of physicality and emotion into the veteran gladiator Atticus; unfortunately, he is forced to play second fiddle to Harington.
Jared Harris and Carrie-Anne Moss do what they can with their roles of Cassia's parents Severus and Aurelia, respectively, but even they cannot save the film from being obliterated by its own shortcomings.
Flee "Pompeii" while you still have a chance. This lovechild of "Gladiator" and "Titanic" isn't worth your time and money.
MPAA rating: PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content.
Run time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Playing: In general release


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Video above published Mar 6, 2017: The Rolex Spirit of Yachting film series presents the 72nd Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race — the action, highlights and memorable moments in a 25-minute documentary. The behind-the-scenes footage covers peak moments during the 628-nautical-mile course, from the start in Sydney Harbour, to Perpetual LOYAL's record-breaking race time by nearly 5 hours, as well as interviews with key players. They include Jim Delegat, who earned the Tattersall Cup and a Rolex Timepiece for achieving Overall Winner together with his two sons and the rest of his New-Zealand based crew.
The 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race marks the 73rd edition of this time-honoured tradition. Over 100 yachts, including 30 overseas entries, are expected to cross the start line at 13:00 AEDT on 26 December 2017 (Dec 25th at 9pm EST in U.S.). Everything is in place for another exceptional chapter in the history of this classic race.
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GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. -- Three Guilford County elementary schools have won money for their schools while helping to save the environment.
The 7th Annual Kids, Cans and Cash Elementary School Recycling Challenge charged schools with collecting and recycling as many aluminum cans as possible from November 1-15. The winners were announced Friday for America Recycles Day.
Winning schools, including High Point Friends, McLeansville and Nathaniel Greene Elementary schools, had dance and pizza parties to celebrate their accomplishment Friday.
High Point Friends collected 326 pounds of cans, winning $153. McLeansville Elementary collected 344 pounds of cans, winning $226.35. Nathanael Greene Elementary collected 227 pounds, winning $283.05.
On Friday, Nicole Ferguson joined the City of High Point, Guilford County and Republic Services of North Carolina to party with the kids and present their checks.
Other sponsors included Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, DH Griffin Companies, Sonoco recycling, Adams Sign Service & Repair and Hungry Howie's Pizza. Check out the celebration above.