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Quick links to pages in this section: Bush Tucker and CKD I Home Country News I Education Videos I Health Research I Indigenous CKD Stats I Weblinks
Kidney Health Australia and Amgen collaborated with an expert group. to gather and share existing education material that was culturally sensitive to the needs of Indigenous Australians. most reviewed resources listed below use images to tell simple stories. They may also be appropriate for patients who have English as a second language.
This project was committed to reviewing resources promoting a healthy lifestyle and CVD risk reduction, but with a kidney focus. Materials approved by our expert group were judged as quality resources. Many are free and most are downloadable.
Note: Indigenous Australians are advised resources may contain images and voices of people that have died.
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY To reprint Balanda Life Stories contact: Barbara Beacham - Program Manager Primary Health Care - Health Systems Workforce Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Call 08 8132 6312 or email@example.com
Balanda Life Stories: Sharing True Stories Project
Produced by the Northern Territory Government & NT Renal Services. Some posters supporting this resource are available, just click FOR PATIENTS to view. Any questions on this important resource: Alice Springs - 08 8951 6750
Darwin (Nightcliff) - 08 8948 9000 Incentre W7A, Royal Darwin Hospital - 08 8922 8400
Katherine - 08 8973 9360 Tennant Creek - 08 8962 4370
Flipchart series - teaching resources
These Kidney Stories are produced using culturally sensitive drawings to very simply present the story of kidney disease.
No 1: The work of your kidneys No 2: When your kidneys get sick No 3: Living with Kidney Disease No 4: Treatment options and pathways No 5: Haemodialysis No 6: Peritoneal dialysis No 7: Fistula and Catheter No 8: Diet and kidney disease No 9a: Palliative care for people with sick kidneys No 9b: Palliative care for people with sick kidneys No 10: Transplant 1 to 4: *Introduction *Tests required *Surgery *Life after transplant Central Australian & Top End versions Audio and DVD versions available Part 1 - What is Peritoneal Dialysis? Part 2 - How does Peritoneal Dialysis work?
Supported by 'Kidney Stories' posters and resources Suitable for health professionals in clinics working with Indigenous Australians - culturally sensitive drawings tell these simple stories.
Also helpful when working with patients, who have English as their second language. Go to these patient resource pages onsite to download A3 posters for education with clients, based on Kidney Stories.
* HOW DO MY KIDNEY WORK? (A3 poster for download) * ARE YOUR KIDNEYS OK? (A3 poster for download) * WHAT IS A KIDNEY HEALTH CHECK? (A3 poster for download) * KEEP STRONGER LONGER (education online only)
Other patient support education posters and resources * Graphic based education posters and support resources>
Kidney Health Discovery -'The Kidneys' Flipchart Kidney Health Australia In partnership with Amgen Download free from National Renal Resource Centre Indigenous Resources or call direct 1800 257 189 for hard copy A popular teaching resource - designed to be used by a health professional educating patients. The Kidney health Discovery story is set out so it can be translated by an interpreter in your client's native language, as you work through the story.
Keep Culture Family Strong: Know Early About Diabetes (flipchart series) *How do you feel? *What is it? *What do I do? *Why take medicine? *Why me? Developed by Healthy Living NT via Diabetes Australia - you must use ATSI Flipchart Order Form to order copies of this resource
HEART, STROKE & DIABETES For copies: Derbarl Yerrigan Health Services
WA Office of Aboriginal Health 156 Wittenoom St, East Perth WA 6004 Call 08 9421 3888 or fax 08 9421 3884
Our pathway to living longer Stories told in this resource are about: *Blood pressure *Smoking & heart disease *Goals of healthy eating *Healthy body *Healthy food alternatives *Reading food labels *Example meal plan *Food for thought & diabetes *What type am I? *Complications of Diabetes *Blood glucose levels *Physical activity and diabetes *Stress & diabetes
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
Resources for Indigenous Australians
The resources, developed to help Aboriginal Health Workers and health professionals working with the Heart Foundation, deliver high quality patient education which supports the Good Medicine Better Health - Hypertension module (click links below). The resources include a flip chart, patient brochure and five flyers for the patient and their families to take home. Stories told in this range are about: ACE inhibitors, Angeotensin receptor blockers, Beta blockers, Calcium channel blockers and Thiazide diuretics.
High blood pressure (hypertension flip-chart) Print two charts: for Health Worker and patient - highly recommended
These resources can also be ordered from National Prescribing Service in hard copy from NPS by completing this NPS order form>
NSW Health Vascular Health Program Chronic Care for Aboriginal People Program Download e-copy from link above. Developed in consultation with Aboriginal Health Workers and peak non-government organisations including Kidney Health Australia. Order hard copy set (13 brochures) direct from: Better Health Centre: Publications Warehouse, PO Box 672 Nth Ryde BC NSW 2113. Call 02 9887 5450 fax 02 9887 5452 or email email@example.com Topics cover (click links) *Depression *Stress *Obesity *Nutrition *Kidney Disease *Smoking *Cholesterol *Stroke *Heart Attack *Blood Pressure *Heart Disease *Cardio Vascular Disease *Physical Activity
INDIGENOUS KIDNEY HEALTH EDUCATION IMAGES Free for use by health professionals
Free - simple culturally sensitive images to represent health lifestyle choices. Slides use easy to read words to allow images to tell the story. Best used in education sessions led by a health professional. Download this PowerPoint from link below or email Prof Wendy Hoy, Director, Centre for Chronic Disease, University of Queensland email@example.com
KIMBERLEY RENAL SUPPORT SERVICE Part of Kimberley Medical Services Council
The KRSS provides a range of excellent kidney health education posters and other resources - Indigenous Resources & KRSS contact details for regional dialysis centres in the Kimberley.
Queries to: Jenny Cutter - KRSS Manageron 08 9194 3200 or 0411 759 921
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Dr. LeFrançois completed a BA at McGill University. She obtained her MA in Mental Health from Anglia Ruskin University (UK), graduating with distinction. She holds a PhD from the Tizard Centre, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK).
Her doctoral research was on the topic of children's rights and power relations within child and adolescent mental health services. In addition to specializing in children's rights, Dr. LeFrançois' varied research interests include issues relating to: gender, parenting and mental distress; sanism and mad studies; social activism; the application of queer theory to psychiatric diagnosis and practice; as well as ethnographic and participatory approaches to studying mental distress and children's culture.
Dr. LeFrançois' main teaching experience has included courses at the BSW and MSW levels in social work theory, with special emphasis on participatory practice, critical social work and post-structuralism. In addition, she has taught child abuse and neglect, social work with children and youth, community development and social activism, law and ethics, group work as well as qualitative research.
Dr. LeFrançois will consider supervising new PhD students with interests in the areas of childhood studies, mad studies, critical disability studies, critical mental health, critical whiteness studies and/or social activism.
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LeFrançois, B.A, (2013). The psychiatrization of our children, or, an auto-ethnographic narrative of perpetuating First Nations genocide through 'benevolent' institutions. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2, 1, 108-123.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2013). Adultism. In T. Teo (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical
Psychology: SpringerReference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_304657
LeFrançois, B.A. (2013). Ethnography. In T. Teo (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Critical
Psychology: SpringerReference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_304748
LeFrançois, B.A., Menzies, R. and Reaume, G. (2013). (Eds.). Mad
Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.
Menzies, R., LeFrançois, B.A. and Reaume, G. (2013). Introducing Mad
Studies. In LeFrançois, B.A., Menzies, R. and Reaume, G. (Eds.). Mad Matters:
A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press
LeFrançois, B.A. (2013). Queering Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: The subversion of heternormativity in practice. Children & Society, 27, 1, 1-12.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2012). And we are still being psychiatrised. Asylum, 19 (1),
LeFrançois, B.A. (2012). Distressed fathers and their children: A review of the
literature. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 58 (2), 123-130.
Bâ, O.B. and LeFrançois, B.A. (2011). Ethnic genocide, trauma, healing and recovery: The case of identity ruptures and restoration amongst Bosnian refugees. In Matyok, T. (Ed.). Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2011). Supporting positive relationships in families where fathers suffer with mental distress. Critical Social Work, 12, 1.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2010). Response to the Shaking the Movers IV report, re: the right to information. In CRAN (Ed.). Children's Rights Academic Network Final Report - 3rd Annual General Meeting. Ottawa: Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2010). Children's resistance: Organizing collectively through children's rights legislation and children's agency. Conference Proceedings for PsychOUT. OISE, University of Toronto.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2009). Mental Health and the Fathering Role, Toronto: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
LeFrançois, B.A. (2008). "It's Like Mental Torture": Participation and mental health services, The International Journal of Children's Rights, 16, 233-248.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2007). Children's Participation Rights: Voicing Opinions in Inpatient Care, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 12: 2, 94-97.
LeFrançois, B.A. (2006). "They will find us and infect our bodies": The views of adolescent inpatients taking psychiatric medication, Radical Psychology, 5:1

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Horace Porter
Horace Porter | |
Horace Porter
Born | Huntingdon, Pennsylvania |
April 15, 1837
Died | May 29, 1921 New York City |
(aged 84)
Place of burial | West Long Branch, New Jersey |
Allegiance | United States of America Union |
Service/branch | United States Army Union Army |
Years of service | 1860–1873 |
Rank | Colonel Brevet Brigadier General |
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Awards | Medal of Honor Legion of Honor |
Relations | David R. Porter (father) |
Other work | author President of the Union League Club of New York Held several government posts |
Horace Porter, (April 15, 1837–May 29, 1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905. In 1866, he was appointed to the brevet grade of brigadier general, United States Army.
Early life[edit]
Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1837,[1] the son of David R. Porter, an ironmaster who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania. A first cousin, Andrew Porter, was a Mexican-American War veteran and Union Army brigadier general.[1] Horace Porter was educated at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (class of 1856)[2] and Harvard University. He graduated from West Point July 1, 1860.[1] Porter was commissioned a second lieutenant on April 22, 1861 and a first lieutenant on June 7, 1861.[1]
American Civil War[edit]
Porter served in the Union Army in the Civil War, reaching the grade of lieutenant colonel by the end of the war.[1] He initially served in the ordnance department of the Union Department of the South, Army of the Potomac, Department of the Ohio, Army of the Cumberland and Military Division of the Mississippi.[1] He was distinguished in the Battle of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, at the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of the Wilderness and the Second Battle of Ream's Station (New Market Heights).[1] On June 26, 1902 or July 8, 1902,[3] Porter received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Chickamauga as detailed in the citation noted below. In the last year of the war, he served on the staff of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, later writing a lively memoir of the experience, Campaigning With Grant (1897).[1]
On July 17, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Porter for appointment as brevet brigadier general, to rank from March 13, 1866, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on July 23, 1866.[4]
From April 4, 1864 to July 25, 1865, Porter was aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant with the grade of lieutenant colonel in the regular army.[1] From July 25, 1866 to March 4, 1869, Porter was aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant with the grade of colonel in the regular army.[1]
Grant administration[edit]
From 1869 to 1872, Porter served as President Grant's personal secretary in the White House.[1] At the same time, he held the grade of colonel and an appointment as aide-de-camp to General William T. Sherman.[1]
Porter had refused to take a $500,000 vested interest bribe from Jay Gould, a Wall Street financier, in the Black Friday gold market scam. He told Grant about Gould's attempted bribery, thus warning Grant about Gould's intention of cornering the gold market. However, during the Whiskey Ring trials in 1876, Treasury Solicitor Bluford Wilson claimed that Porter was involved with the scandal.[5][6] Porter testified before the committee investigating the scandal, and was never formally charged with wrongdoing.[7]
Later life[edit]
Resigning from the army on December 31, 1873,[1] Porter became vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company. He was U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905,[1] paying for the recovery of the body of John Paul Jones and sending it to the United States for re-burial. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from the French government in 1904. In addition to Campaigning with Grant, he also wrote West Point Life (1866).
Porter was president of the Union League Club of New York from 1893 to 1897. In that capacity, he was a major force in the construction of Grant's Tomb.
He was elected an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati in 1902. He was also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Horace Porter died at New York, New York, May 29, 1921.[1] He was buried in West Long Branch Cemetery, West Long Branch, New Jersey.[1]
Medal of Honor citation[edit]
Rank and Organization:
- Captain, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. Place and date: At Chickamauga, Ga., September 20, 1863. Entered service at: Harrisburgh, Pa. Born: April 15, 1837, Huntington, Pa. Date of issue: July 8, 1902.
- While acting as a volunteer aide, at a critical moment when the lines were broken, rallied enough fugitives to hold the ground under heavy fire long enough to effect the escape of wagon trains and batteries.[8]
See also[edit]
- List of Medal of Honor recipients
- List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P
- List of American Civil War generals
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. pp. 435-436
- ^ Eicher, 2001, p. 435 identifies this as the Lawrence Scientific School.
- ^ The uncertainty as to the date is expressed in the source, Eicher, 2001, p. 435
- ^ Eicher, 2001, p. 736
- ^ Jean Edward Smith, Grant, pp. 481-490, Simon & Schuster, 2001.
- ^ McFeeley 1981, p. 409
- ^ New York Times, Western Whisky Frauds: Gen. Horace Porter's Testimony, August 13, 1876
- ^ "PORTER, HORACE, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient". American Civil War website. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- "Civil War Medal of Honor recipients (M-Z)". Medal of Honor citations. United States Army Center of Military History. August 3, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
- "Horace Porter". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
Further reading[edit]
Wikisource has original works written by or about: |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horace Porter. |
- Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z at Project Gutenberg, contains a number of speeches by Porter.
- Mende, Elsie Porter; with Henry Greenleaf Pearson (1927). An American Soldier and Diplomat, Horace Porter. Frederick A. Stokes Company.
- Owens, Richard Henry (2002). Biography of General and Ambassador Horace Porter, 1837-1921: Vigilance and Virtue. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-7242-8.
- Porter, Horace. Campaigning With Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1897. Time-Life Books reprint 1981. ISBN 0-8094-4202-7. (deluxe)
Diplomatic posts | ||
Preceded by James B. Eustis |
U.S. Ambassador to France 1897–1905 |
Succeeded by Robert S. McCormick |
- 1837 births
- 1921 deaths
- United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
- Union Army generals
- Harvard University alumni
- Ambassadors of the United States to France
- United States Military Academy alumni
- People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
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The gene behind a butterfly's mimicry; the evolution of adipose fins; bacteria and bowel cancer; plants lacking plastid genomes
The gene behind a butterfly's mimicry; the evolution of adipose fins; bacteria and bowel cancer; plants lacking plastid genomes
The development of serrated polyps depends on bacteria present in the gut, a mouse study shows.
Fossilized structures suggest that mat-forming microbes have been around for almost 3.5 billion years.
Researchers are using snowdrifts to artificially warm Arctic tundra during winter and finding that more carbon is released from the soil than plants can soak up from the atmosphere.
Scientists map the partial proteome of a common lactic acid bacterium.
Researchers reveal the molecular mechanisms of Streptomyces platensis's defense from its own antibiotics, which inhibit fatty acid synthesis in other microbes.
The European Commission is set to approve a new strain of genetically modified maize despite opposition from member nations.
Study finds that coffee plants grown in the vicinity of Mount Kilimanjaro produce more coffee beans of a better quality if they are surrounded by thriving plant and animal communities.
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Clifton-Fine Fights for a Future, While a Mill Remains Shuttered
Jul 28, 2005 — The shuttered Appleton Paper Mill in Newton Falls was on a list of regional impacts Congressman McHugh cited in his vote against CAFTA. Closure of the mill in 2000 only made matters worse for Star Lake, Cranberry Lake, and Newton Falls. They've struggled for years to reverse the impact chronic high unemployment has on their communities. People came together five years ago in a concerted effort to identify projects that would help. A follow-up round of revitalization meetings is wrapping up tonight in Wanakena. As David Sommerstein reports, many residents see a bright future. Many others can't forget the silent mill. Go to full article
Newton Falls Paper Mill Reopens: Economic Victory For St. Lawrence County
Sep 30, 2002 — A Canadian company will spend more than twenty million dollars refurbishing the paper mill in Newton Falls. The plan--which will mean roughly 120 job--was unveiled Sunday at a ceremony in the village. The economy in southern St. Lawrence County was devastated three years ago when the Newton Falls mill shut down. As Brian Mann reports, many locals say yesterday's announcement was the pay-off for years of hope and hard work. Go to full article
Watertown EDZ Expands to Include Paper Mill Renovator Newstech
Nov 12, 2001 — The boundaries of the Empire State Development Zone in Watertown have been expanded to include a new paper manufacturing company that will renovate and expand the former mill in the village of Deferiet. Newstech New York Incorporated is expected to be up and running by February and if the company meets its commitments on hiring and investment, it could see millions of dollars in tax incentives. Jody Tosti reports. Go to full article
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The Wall Street Journal presents 21 ICONS South Africa: Honoring the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
WSJ has exclusive U.S. access to this new video-profile series on some of South Africa's most well-known faces. Produced by Australian photographer and filmmaker Adrian Steirn of the Ginkgo Agency, the series features luminaries who have been instrumental in shaping South Africa, including Desmond Tutu, F.W. de Klerk and Mr. Mandela himself.
A weeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, living in exile in Africa since he was ousted in a rebellion five years ago, said Friday he wants to return to his quake-devastated country and is prepared to leave immediately, but didn't indicate any concrete plans to do so.
In a rare public appearance, Mr. Aristide told reporters at a hotel next to Johannesburg's airport that he and his family are ready to return to Haiti to help with the catastrophe. He said friends, whom he didn't name, are willing to provide a plane to fly him to Haiti with medical supplies and other emergency equipment.
"As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time to join the people of Haiti, share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity," said Mr. Aristide, his wife Mildred next to him, eyes downcast, twisting a handkerchief. The former president didn't answer questions.
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Poutine at Caplansky's
It's true. Zane is making poutine. Not just any poutine mind you, but Caplansky's influenced poutine. Cheddar curds, a downright heavenly smoky, meaty gravy all atop his wonderfully perfect fries. Get it on its own or as part of the combo.
Went today for lunch and it was available, so everyone at the table ordered it. Once it hit the table the previously vehement discussion of politics suddenly evaporated and the sounds of silence ensued. Well, not exactly silence...several mmmms, a couple of ahhhhs and some yelling when one of our party tried to lick their empty bowl clean.
The sandwiches are their usual tastiness. No more lean though, it's regular or fatty now - which seems just fine to me. The coleslaw keeps improving, and displays some subtle changes every time I have it.
I've noticed in some other postings that the menu at Caplansky's isn't like other Montreal style smoked meat places and I would add this: It is not a Montreal style smoked meat resto, it's Caplansky's, pure and simple. Nothing more, definitely nothing less.
Tried it today -- an interesting poutine..
Not really like a tradtional quebec poutine you'd find at La Belle Province or similar chains, it has some herbal flavorings (sage?) and bits of smoked meat in the poutine.
Curds aren't really plentiful, but they're pretty good -- no "squeak" though
A great addition to my regular "combo" and I'm sure it can only improve... Kudos
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Oh no you didn't just compare it to La Belle Provence. That has to be by far, the worst place to get poutine Francophone or not.
Please visit my buddy's blog who's almost religious about finding the best poutine.
Pardon my drool but M. Caplansky absolutely must have his enterprise survive. True poutine (and great fries underneath it all). Smoked brisket from heaven itself. A delish knish. A slaw that will burst into greatness at any moment. Soups that your mother would be hard-pressed to top.
Forget the hoo-haw about foreign chains "blessing" Toronto by opening a franchise. Go local and be proud.
re: pinstripeprincess
I echo your comments. I hoped to be the first to "break the story".
Anyhow, tried it and it was ok. Not sure if i'm crazy about the gravy with such a smoky flavour. But hey, it's definitely a welcome addition to Toronto's sad poutine scene.Oh, and my sandwich was great. I've had 6 and only one was disapointing. I'll take those odds given that the good ones were sooooo good.


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Last night once I got home from work I soooo wanted to eat. I didn't need food, so I resisted the urges. I needed to log onto spark people and log my exercise. I had done 15 minutes on the stairs- major calorie burn!
I decided to look into sparkcoach as an add had just popped up. I had always assumed that you have to pay for sparkcoach, so I had never signed up for it. Maybe that's to have your own personal spark coach, or maybe I was just mis informed.
Anyhow, I signed up for spark coach and just completed the first days goals. It seemed helpful and will keep me on track.
I am over at my best friend's house baby sitting. I was supposed to be here super early and over slept. Thus, I was quite frazzled. I made some healthy choices though for breakfast and came in at right around 500 calories. A bit more than I was intending, but that is ok...I can make it up as I go throughout the day. We are supposed to have dinner here tonight but I have no idea what that might be. I did see steak in the refrigerator, so maybe that is what it will be.
Since I am over here and it is her camera that my photo is on I'd thought to upload it. Unfortunately I can't find her memory card. I have a feeling that my husband still has it in our computer. Typical. He still hasn't bothered to try and fix the computer either. Do I sound pissed? There's some other things he's been doing the past couple days to piss me off...but this isn't a gripe session. LOL!
When I woke up this morning I was in a bit of pain. Not a lot though. I still intend to do some exercise today. I was thinking of using my weighted back pack that I have here for some cardio. What exactly I am going to do I don't know. Usually I do the stairs, but I think maybe I better do something else. Anyhow, then I have to do my "999" routine. I'm so not in the mood. That is why I also was thinking of using the weighted back pack- to maximize my workout and do less...just because I am in one of those moods. Sometimes less is more, right?
Well, off to figure out what to do with these 4 kiddos to occupy them long enough to let me get a workout in...another reason to do a shorter more effective workout.
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- Apple patent app describes flexible, wearable, watch-like AMOLED device.
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- Google Glass patent application shows detailed diagrams.
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- Unusually detailed report links Chinese military to hacks against US.
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Read Deuteronomy 29:1 through 31:30
John was in a hurry as he drove down Main Street. As he approached an intersection he immediately detected trouble. The traffic light was not glowing—the electricity had gone out.
Drivers in the busy intersection quickly became nervous and unsure. No one seemed to remember how to respond in a busy four-way intersection without the help of the light. Even John, a seasoned driver, had trouble remembering the driving rules he had learned as a teenager.
No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction (Deuteronomy 30:14–15).
God's Word serves as a light to those who choose to follow it. However, when we neglect reading and absorbing God's Word, we can find ourselves lost and helpless in times of trouble. The purpose of studying Scripture is to take God's Word to heart—to digest it. Truly knowing God's Word will serve us well in any situation.
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Early in 2001 the Los Angeles club Root Down put on their first of a three part series called "Sound Clash," organized & hosted by DJ Dusk. Based on the reggae sound system competitions, this was a hip-hop event - in this case featuring Madlib and Cut Chemist - going head to head, beat for beat for respect in front of a packed club.
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J.K. Rowling has maintained a discreet silence, and as of yet, the secret has not leaked out: Will she kill off Harry Potter?
Rowling has revealed that two of her main characters will die in her final Harry Potter book, :The Deathly Hallows."
But which ones? And if one of them is Harry -- how will it affect the millions of impressionable young people who have agonized and exulted through six previous books with him?
Heather Servaty-Seib, a counseling psychologist and assistant professor of educational studies at Purdue University, expects double trouble.
"We grieve for things that we are attached to, and children, in particular, have gotten attached to these characters," she said in a statement. ". . .Parents should realize the end of the series is an added factor in how their child might react."
But veteran child psychologist Lewis Lipsitt, an emeritus professor of psychology at Brown University said, "There's probably nothing terrible to worry about," adding that most kids are tougher than adults think they are.
"They are terribly resilient, as a matter of fact," he said. "Kids will simply ask questions. And whether they ask questions or not, one hopes they will discuss what they're reading with their parents, so their parents will be able to point out that writers write about all sorts of things, and sometimes they're talking about terrible things that happen to people. And it's not a bad idea to talk about such things, because that's the reality that kids are going to be faced with when they grow up."
Servaty-Seib agrees, and says the Harry Potter series, in which death is a persistent theme, has been a good tool for teaching children about the emotions surrounding it. Earlier books dealt with Harry's grief, sense of loss and remorse over the death of his parents and other characters.
"Parents need to talk with their children," she said. "I encourage parents to start the conversation before children start reading the book. It is not as much about the content of these discussions, but rather about communicating an attitude of openness. . ."
Speculation has been running wild, meanwhile, about Harry's fate.
Classicists argue that Harry must die.
Others argue that that what might be the norm for classic tragedy and legends, might not be for a children's fantasy, after all.
Author J.K. Rowling isn't talking, but a prophecy in her fifth book in the series, "The Order of the Phoenix" (now in theaters), seems to predict that either Harry or his archenemy Lord Voldemort -- or both -- will meet doom.
If she kills them both off, readers may be instantly reminded of Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, who met his demise locked in a death grip with his archenemy Moriarty as both fell from the top of a high waterfall in Switzerland.
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As expected, America's major media won't explain it. Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel ducked the issue, saying it's "a time for grief, not grievance." Blaming a "crazed act of a clearly unstable man," she called it "an assassination of democracy….shut(ting) down speech to slay those seeking its exercise," then added "we still don't know whether (violent rhetoric) was responsible for last weekend's horror."
A Wall Street Journal editorial "Murder in Tucson" deflected blame from hard right extremists, and rejected political reasons for the attack, saying:
"….Loughner is a mentally disturbed man who targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and anyone near here….because she was prominent and they were tragically accessible….Whatever confused political motives he expressed seem merely to be part of the maelstrom of his mental sickness."
JARED LOUGHNER (below), a terribly maladjusted young man may have been swayed by right-wing rhetoric.
In other words, blame a "deranged" gunman, not society, its extremist politicians, demagogic media hosts and pundits, and America's longstanding culture of violence. More on it below.
New York Times writers Marc Lacey and David Herszenhorn noted "political repercussions," concern for personal security, denunciation of threats and acts of violence against public officials, and overall outrage. Ignored was growing anger from festering economic conditions and the proliferation of violence across America, never reported when ordinary people are affected.
A Times "Blood and Invective in Arizona" editorial noted accused gunman Jared Loughner's mental illness and "Internet ravings about government mind control," saying also that "scores of politicians" receive violent threats without explaining reasons for public anger or that society top down is responsible.
Unexplained as well is how radically, in recent decades, America shifted right, accentuated by extremist talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Back, Sean Hannity, and many lesser known ones except to their faithful. Also politicians, including conservative Democrats, Republicans, and Tea Party favorites like defeated Senate candidate Sharron Angle, referring to congressional "domestic enemies and homegrown enemies," needing "Second Amendment remedies" as a "cure" for "The Harry Reid Problems."
Key as well is the nation's political/media-led war against Muslims, Latino immigrants, people of color, whistleblowers, progressives, dissent, and anyone considered unAmerican. Most of all is America's violent culture, a topic a previous article addressed, accessed through the following link:
Key parts relating to domestic violence are covered below. It began by explaining that from inception, America glorified wars and violence in the name of peace. It's waged them every year in its history at home and/or abroad against one or more adversaries.
RIGHT: 9-year-old Christina Green, one of the victims.
It has by far the highest homicide rate of all western nations and a passion for owning guns. Violent films are some of the most popular, and similar video games crowd out simpler, more innocent street play of generations earlier.
Prescription and illicit drugs use is out-of-control as well as tobacco, alcohol and other type substance abuses.
Moreover, US society is called a "rape culture," data showing:
– one-fourth of adult women are victimized by forcible rape sometime in their lives, often by someone they know, including family members;
– one-third of them are victims of sexual abuse by a husband or boyfriend;
– 30% of people say they know a woman who's been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year;
– one in four women report being sexually molested in childhood, usually repeatedly over extended periods by a family member or other close relative;
– American women overall experience extreme levels of violence; an astonishing 75% of them are victims of some form in their lifetimes;
–domestic violence is their leading cause of injury and second leading cause of death;
– statistically, homes, with men in them, are their most dangerous place as millions of women experience battering by husbands, male partners or fathers;
– for most women with children, there's no escape for lack of means and because male assailants pursue them, causing greater harm;
– adding further injury, societal help is often lacking because women are afforded second class status, privileges and redress when they're abused, so many suffer in silence fearing coming forward may cause more harm than help;
– their children are also abused; millions suffer serious neglect, physical mistreatment and/or sexual abuse; many only get relief through escape to dangerous streets where they end up alone, more vulnerable and in greater danger away than at home, where there, too, families act more like strangers or predators, forcing young kids to flee in the first place.
Throughout America, irrespective of class, income, race, religion or ethnicity, these conditions are more commonplace than rare. Moreover, peace, tranquility and safety are illusions when crowded out by foreign wars and domestic violence at home, in communities, neighborhoods, schools, through the media, in core families, and by federal, state and local governments waging war on ordinary people.
It begs the question: what kind of country glorifies mass killing, assaults and abuse; that calls pacifist nonviolence sissy and unpatriotic, yet claims peace loving, "indispensable state" credentials, and manipulates false notions of exceptionalism and moral superiority to force our ways on others globally. It's no third world dictatorship. It's America where human rights, civil liberties, democratic values, common dignity, and personal safety are more illusion than fact.
American Society Breeds Violence
Imperial America aside, popular culture breeds domestic violence. Television features it, studies showing nearly every home has at least one TV set, and 54% of children have their own in their bedrooms. They spend 28 hours a week on average watching, double the time spent in school, so they learn more about life through the media than from parents, teachers or friends.
Before age 18, the average American child watches 200,000 acts of violence, including 16,000 murders, and studies show homicide rates doubled 10 – 15 years after television was introduced.
Moreover, potential adverse effects from excessive media exposure include:
-- increased violent behavior;
– impaired school performance;
– increased sexual activity and use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs; and
– decreased family communication among other negative influences, unrelated directly to violence.
Studies show that two-thirds of children's programming have violence, three-fourths committed goes unpunished, and most victims aren't shown experiencing pain. Moreover, nearly half the TV violence children see is in cartoons, usually portrayed humorously with victims hardly ever having long-term consequences.
In addition, big screen films are similar, exposing children like adults. So is online material, including pedophile cyber-seduction on unsuspecting children, leading to sexual assaults.
Studies also show how violent video games (VVGs) like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Mortal Kombat may increase aggressive thoughts, beliefs and behavior both in laboratory settings and real life. They're worse than TV or films because they're interactive and engrossing, getting players to identify with aggressors by acting like them while playing. These games teach violence. Many young people play them often and parents don't object. No wonder years later they exhibit the same violent behavior as adults.
The American Psychological Association's (APA) March 2010 Psychological Bulletin published an analysis of 136 papers, representing 130,296 participants and studies from several countries. It showed a consistent correlation between violent video game use and aggressive behavior.
Music also teaches violence. The Parents Music Resource Center reports teenagers hear an estimated 10,500 hours of rock music between grades 7 and 12 alone or nearly as much time as they spend in school. Entertainment Monitor reported three-fourths of popular CDs sold in 1995 included profanity or lyrics about drugs, violence and sex with some popular rap artist music glorifying guns, rape and murder.
Against this backdrop and centuries of belligerency, no wonder domestic violence and attitudes toward it are out of control. A lone gunman is symptomatic of ingrained values that proliferate violence daily in US communities and homes, unnoticed unless someone prominent is affected.
Moreover, America's history reflects harshness against dissidents, labor, minorities, street protesters, rioters, ethnic or religious groups, and others, plus commonplace one-on-one confrontations. The great majority go unnoticed or cared about when committed by one person of color against another.
For centuries, monstrous violence against Native Americans nearly exterminated them. Harshness against Black slaves included whippings, other beatings, rapes, mutilations, forced family separations and even amputations as punishment for runaways. Post-slavery, Jim Crow and northern segregation enforced White supremacy on Blacks. Today include Latino immigrants, Muslims, and others disadvantaged as prime targets for state-sponsored repression plus whatever they experience in regular one-on-one incidents.
FBI and other Data
In 2009, the FBI reported 13,636 murders, itemized as follows:
– 6,452 by handguns (nearly half);
– 348 with rifles;
– 418 from shotguns;
– 1,929 by unknown firearms;
– 1,825 with knives or similar instruments;
– 1,864 by other weapons; and
– 801 with hands, fists or feet, etc.
The Brady Campaign.org campaign against gun violence gives much higher figures, including 30,000 annual gun related deaths and 70,000 injuries, including 3,000 children and teens. For Black men aged 15 – 34, firearm homicide is the leading cause of death. For Hispanic men aged 15 – 24, it's the second leading cause.
Moreover, America is the only industrialized country that "has not responsibly addressed the problem of gun violence," causing, on average, eight times more fatalities than in other developed nations. For children under age 15, it's 12 times higher.
America has few federal gun laws, and even those are pockmarked with loopholes. Among states, Arizona is the most lax, making gun purchases almost as simple as buying toothpaste. As a result, anyone can obtain them, even Jared Loughner. Despite his known extremism, instability, and perhaps derangement, he easily got a Glock 19, a dangerous semi-automatic handgun bought legally from Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson on November 30. Using a 30-round magazine with an extra bullet in the gun's chamber, he fired the entire clip before subdued.
Data from the Department of Justice and other sources show:
– 960,000 violent acts against a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, and up to three million women physically abused by their husband, male partner or boyfriend annually;
– in 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490) victimized by nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner;
– intimate violence is mainly a crime against women, accounting for 85% of these incidences;
– women are up to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner;
– in 2001, 20% of violent crimes against women were by intimate partners;
– up to 324,000 women experience intimate partner violence during pregnancy;
– women of all races are about equally vulnerable to intimate partner violence;
– women are up to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner;
– 20% of female high school students report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner, and 40% of 14 – 17 year old girls report knowing someone their age struck or beaten by a boyfriend;
– in a national survey of 6,000 American families, 50% of men who frequently assaulted their wives also abused their children;
– studies show up to 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually; and
– over half a million women report being stalked annually by an intimate partner, while 80% stalked by former husbands are physically assaulted and 30% sexually abused.
The FBI divides violent crime into four categories:
– "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter;
– forcible rape;
– robbery; and
– aggravated assault."
It uses the International Association of Chiefs of Police Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program's definition of violent crime as involving force or threat of force. Annual data show these crimes:
– topped one million in 1975, and from the mid-1980s ranged from around 1.5 – 1.9 million annually;
– since 1975, annual violent crimes of murder and reported rape ranged from around 100,000 – 130,000;
– every year over the past century, 10% or more of all crimes committed were violent ones;
– in 2009, an estimated 1,318,398 violent crimes occurred nationwide, according to the most recent FBI figures; and
– the domestic incidence of violent crimes overall exceeds the combined total of all US foreign wars.
A Final Comment
Generations of violence engrained it in US culture. It proliferates daily in homes, communities, and by state-sponsored repression against society's least advantaged, cared about or wanted. It made America the world's prison capital – a repressive gulag with over 2.4 million incarcerated, more than China with a population four times greater.
The Institute for Creative Development's director Dr. Charles Johnston, a psychiatrist and futurist, calls violence a drug. In his Center for Media Literacy article titled, "Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare," he said:
"At a psychological level, the drama and titillation of these violent scenarios and our identification with their heroes and heroines serve to create a sense of excitement, potency and significance that is missing from most people's daily lives."
Other effects are more neurological in nature. "Here, it is less violence per se – behavior driven by anger or aggression – that hooks us to violent programming than the generalized rush of adrenalin we feel in response to violent situations presented to us."
Media violence is powerfully addictive beyond equivalent substance abuse. It also involves "social circumstances that support the addictive response." For example, anger and frustration initially drive riots or street violence. But as it becomes "more chaotic and random," it's driven less by doubts of achieving the American dream "than by knowing at some level that even winning would mean little, that the dream itself had become empty. This ultimate despair (becomes) a force for destruction."
Further, violence's addicting power, both real and media driven, "increases exponentially during times of transition" when something familiar no longer inspires and nothing new emerges. "At these times, people are particularly" prone to violence to gain "excitement, engagement, and influence, feelings lacking in their own lives. And random violence….becomes particularly addictive in a new way" by giving "voice to the feelings of fear and chaos so central to these times…."
His two-part cure involves basic media literacy to separate facts from fantasy to counter "people's susceptibility to (be harmfully) manipulat(ed) by violence's hypnotic effects."
Secondly, it requires working together to write a new narrative – a "much-needed next chapter in our cultural history," including new policies and defining metaphors, as well as "new ways of talking about what (most) matters" at all levels – at home, in schools, in community meetings, at all government levels, in business, between family and friends, and through the media.
Ultimately, the ability to reject pseudo-excitement, pseudo-meaning, and pseudo-fulfillment depends on the extent of positive real life experiences. They're absent for millions in a society experiencing growing poverty and despair, exacerbated by its longstanding addiction to violence, proliferated by America's infatuation with imperial wars, conquest, and repression. Kicking that habit may be key to rehabilitating domestically.
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