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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - It's like the movie "The Incredible Journey," but with a modern twist. A 4-month-old polar bear cub traveled across the entire United States - from Alaska to New York - with the help of UPS Worldport and the Louisville Zoo.
Kali is cute, cuddly and has a story that might just break your heart.
Kali's story is reminiscent of one of the most famous orphaned animals of all time, Bambi. Kali was less than 20 pounds when he was found in Alaska after a hunter accidentally shot his mom.
"To the credit of the villagers and Kali, they rescued the cub, notified U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and now it's just a huge success story," said Louisville Zoo Director John Walczak.
This week, as Kali began his long journey from Alaska to his new home in New York via Louisville aboard a UPS jet, he was a happy growing cub.
"Kali weighed 66 pounds and is doing great!" Walczak said.
Walczak and his team were brought in thanks to the folks at UPS.
"We knew that if we brought a polar bear cub through Louisville and didn't tell John Walczak and the folks at the zoo, they'd be mad at us," said Mike Mangeot, spokesman for UPS Air.
Both groups have experience in moving baby bears.
Mangeot said it happened, "Just like a standard package would, but this is a little more precious and obviously alive."
Two years ago, one of the Louisville Zoo's most famous residents, polar bear Qannik, who was a cub at the time, made a similar journey.
"It absolutely brought back the memories of that incredible excitement and just being honored of getting Qannik here in Louisville," Walczak said.
Mangeot said Qannik and Kali aren't even the most unusual thing to come through Worldport.
"We ship unusual things on a pretty regular basis, everything from locomotives to race cars to killer whales," Mangeot said. "When see that plane flying in in the evening, all the flights in and out on a given night, you never really know what's going to be in that cargo hold."
Kali made the journey just fine and is now settling in at his new home in Buffalo and the polar bear cub that started out with a story that could break your heart looks like he'll get his happy ending.
"When we can help rescue and recover a threatened species like this, a cub whose got a great life ahead of it," Walczak said. "He's going to be a big boy too, good looking bear."
In Buffalo, Kali will be paired up with another cub around his age.
In Louisville, Qannik hangs out with a slightly older bear. Zoo keepers hope that she and Siku might one day make a connection and have cubs of their own.
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A College Park man, accused in the July 2010 shooting death of a teenager, was among those indicted Wednesday by a Clayton County grand jury.
Tyrone Terek Patterson, 31, has been held without bond in the Clayton County Jail since his August 2010 arrest on the charges. Patterson faces a 12-count indictment in the shooting death of Darnell Fields, 17.
He was also indicted on aggravated assault and firearms charges in the same case.
Another man, whose alleged victim videotaped the sexual assaults was also indicted. Roosevelt Hozay Riley, 46, of Jonesboro, faces 23 counts of child molestation, rape, incest, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and enticing a child for indecent purposes. He is being held on the charges in the Clayton County Jail.
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Barry Biddulph reviews, The making of New World Slavery, Robin Blackburn,Verso, (London and New York, 2010 )
Robin Blackburn's view of plantation slavery, based on a formidable amount of historical research, is that it was an integral part of the development of Industrial Capitalism . Black slavery in the Caribbean was a hybrid form of capitalism, a racist by-product of the transition to industrial Capitalism in Europe. The circuits of capitalist production in western Europe, presupposed a previous or primitive accumulation of Capital. In the words of Karl Marx : "the conversion of Africa into a preserve of the commercial hunting of black skins are all things which characterize the dawn of the era of Capitalist production". (1) If wage labour is a hidden form of slavery, it was consolidated by an open racial slavery.
Eric Williams, as early as 1944, pioneered the view that the slave Plantations in the West Indies were closely tied to the development of industrial capitalism in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. Williams, " did quite correctly identify the great intimacy between the surge of a slave produce, and trading on the one hand, and British capitalist development on the other". (2) Robin Blackburn acknowledges the insights of Williams, but is able to base himself on decades of further research and debate. His conclusion is that Plantation Slavery was not a historical hangover from the pre capitalist past, but a social and economic hybrid : an extension of mercantile ,financial and manufacturing capital in the European metropolis, in a time of a transition to industrial capitalism.
In Blackburn's own words, the Slave plantations "were set up directly for supplying the European market,and had no other raison d' etre". (3) They were integrated into global networks of trade, commerce and finance. The planters acquired equipment ,commodities, credit, and African Slaves from the market. The logic of the plantations were not strictly speaking capitalist, but planters calculated profit and loss in their market trading. Indeed, according to the Scottish historian Tom Devine : " The credit structures linked to the plantation economy were crucial elements in the UK financial markets" (4) This comment brings out the connection to the growth of British industrialism.
Eric Williams described it as Britain's triangular trade, which does simplify the complexities of the commercial pattern involved, but at the heart of it was manufactured goods shipped to Africa, buying captured African slaves and taking them to the Caribbean, to be resold into plantation slavery, and then carrying a cargo of sugar or other exotic produce to North America and Britain. Robin Blackburn's estimates, from the research he surveys is "that profits derived from the triangular trade could have furnished anything from 20.9% to 55% of Britain's gross fixed Capital formation in 1770″ (5) The secret of the original accumulation can be seen in the images of Robinson Crusoe, and the glamorous Glasgow Tobacco Lords strutting along the streets of the Empire's second city, in scarlet cloaks and gold tipped walking canes. The secret is their wealth was based on African people's forced labour.
Robin Blackburn does not think slavery was organised maliciousness ,intended to punish those with black skins, but obviously "without racist assumptions the Atlantic trade would not have been permitted". (6) Robin probably understates the racism involved, in making the case that plantation slavery was a rational quasi capitalist organisation. Barbara Bush makes the general point that,"the modern concept of race coalesced through contact with Africa and slavery between the sixteenth and nineteenth Centuries". (7) Linda Colley wants to play down the contrast between black victims and white slave traders. Although she is quick to state that white victims of captivity and slavery were not comparable with black slavery. Yet, she does go some way towards that view when she insists that the neat division of black victims and white perpetrators gives"insufficient attention to Ottoman and North Africa slave, and forced Labour systems". (8)
Colley also throws in for good measure, the argument that people in Britain were treated badly in this period: Cromwell enslaved Scots in 1650 and what about the savage treatment of the Monmoth Rebels. Put this together with white slaves on the Barbary coast and we get the impression that this was the way of the world at the time, blunting any critique of Capitalist barbarism. Blackburn does engage in polemic ,in the footnotes, with the apologetics of historian David Eltis. Eltis argues that New World Slavery was not unrestrained. The western slave powers did not enslave their own people. This was a gain for humanity in western Europe. Presumably, this was the best that could be expected at the time : the best of what existed justifies the worst. To use Blackburn's phrase : a perverse view. (9)
Against David Eltis, Blackburn makes the obvious point that "there was economic and social progress in the Netherlands,England, and some parts of Western Europe precisely because they were not mired in an East European morass of peasant servitude". ( 10) There had been no peasantry in the countryside in England for a considerable historical period. The agricultural labourers had been separated from the means of production, and the means of subsistence. There had been enclosure of the commons, with wealthy landowners owning huge estates, operating as agricultural capitalists. In short, the growth of modern commercial society. The State in England had been modernised with the so-called English revolution in the 1640's and consolidated by the revolution of 1688. As Alex Callinico notes this "allowed capitalist interests dominate." (11)
The scale of African Slavery can be glimpsed by the rough estimates of the number of slaves transported from Africa provided by Blackburn: 370,000 in the Sixteenth century,rising to over one and a half million in the Seventeenth century and then to over three million in the Eighteenth century. Arguably the slavery in the British West Indies was the most exploitative and oppressive in the new world. Robin Blackburn's research convincingly demonstrates the link between unfree labour in the West Indies and South America and capitalism in the European heartland. Unfree labour still exits to this day in some parts of the world, providing cheap goods for Western Capitalists to make super profits. Capitalism and racism are still tied together.
1 Karl Marx, Capital Vol 1, Penguin Books, ( Aylesbury 1976 ) p.925. Also from the same page Marx adds "in fact the veiled slavery of the wage labourers in Europe needed the unqualified slavery of the New World as its pedestal".
2 Robin Blackburn, The American Crucible, Verso, (London and New York 2011) p. 101
3 Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery, verso ( London and New York 2010) p. 374
4 Tom M Devine, Scotland's Empire 1600-1815, Penguin Books, ( London 2004 ) p. 221
5 Robin Blackburn, The Making of New world Slavery, p. 542. The rise of the Plantation originated in Brazil in 1580, but in a sustained way in British and French plantations from the 1650's. The British State seized Jamaica in 1655, and Barbados earlier in 1627.
6 ibid,p.350
7 Barbara Bush,Imperialism and Post Colonialism, Pearson Longman, ( Edinburgh) 2006,p. 29
8 Linda Colley, Captives. Britain, Empire and the World,1600-1850,Pimlico, (London 20002 ) p.63
9 Blackburn's other correct argument is that it would not have been possible to use mass slave labour from Britain, Holland and France at the time. And the fact is Black slave labour was used.
10 Robin Blackburn, ibid, p.361
11 Alex Callinicos, Imperialism and Global Political Economy, Polity, (Cambridge 2009) p.132


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Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.
At a little after 7 on the morning of June 5, 1967, as Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's commanders were finishing their breakfasts and driving to work, French-built Israeli fighter jets roared out of their bases and flew low, below radar, into Egyptian airspace. Within three hours, 500 Israeli sorties had destroyed Nasser's entire air force. Just after midday, the air forces of Jordan and Syria also lay in smoking ruins, and Israel had essentially won the Six-Day War -- in six hours.
Israeli and U.S. historians and commentators describe the surprise attack as necessary, and the war as inevitable, the result of Nasser's fearsome war machine that had closed the Strait of Tiran, evicted United Nations peacekeeping troops, taunted the traumatized Israeli public, and churned toward the Jewish state's border with 100,000 troops. "The morning of 5 June 1967," wrote Israel's warrior-turned-historian, Chaim Herzog, "found Israel's armed forces facing the massed Arab armies around her frontiers." Attack or be annihilated: The choice was clear.
Or was it? Little-noticed details in declassified documents from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, indicate that top officials in the Johnson administration -- including Johnson's most pro-Israeli Cabinet members -- did not believe war between Israel and its neighbors was necessary or inevitable, at least until the final hour. In these documents, Israel emerges as a vastly superior military power, its opponents far weaker than the menacing threat Israel portrayed, and war itself something that Nasser, for all his saber-rattling, tried to avoid until the moment his air force went up in smoke. In particular, the diplomatic role of Nasser's vice president, who was poised to travel to Washington in an effort to resolve the crisis, has received little attention from historians. The documents sharpen a recurring theme in the history of the Israeli-Arab wars, and especially of their telling in the West: From the war of 1948 to the 2007 conflict in Gaza, Israel is often miscast as the vulnerable David in a hostile sea of Arab Goliaths.
"You will whip the hell out of them," Lyndon Johnson told Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban during a visit to the White House on May 26, 1967. The president's conclusions were based on multiple intelligence reports, including a CIA assessment that Israel "can maintain internal security, defend successfully against simultaneous Arab attacks on all fronts, launch limited attacks simultaneously on all fronts, or hold any of three fronts while mounting successfully a major offensive on the fourth." As Nicholas Katzenbach, U.S. undersecretary of state at the time, recalled: "The intelligence was absolutely flat on the fact that the Israelis ... could wipe out the Arabs in no time at all."
A key discrepancy lay between U.S. and British intelligence reports and those conveyed to the administration by the Israelis. On May 26, the same day Eban met with Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, the secretary of state, relayed a message from Israel indicating "that an Egyptian and Syrian attack is imminent." In a memo to the president, Rusk wrote: "Our intelligence does not confirm this Israeli estimate." Indeed, this contradicted all U.S. intelligence, which had characterized Nasser's troops in the Sinai as "defensive in nature" and only half (50,000) of the Israeli estimates. Walt Rostow, the national security advisor, called Israeli estimates of 100,000 Egyptian troops "highly disturbing," and the CIA labeled them "a political gambit" for the United States to stand firm with Israelis, sell them more military hardware, and "put more pressure on Nasser."
As for the Egyptian president, there was a huge difference between his public and private signals. He had threatened Israelis with "annihilation," causing fear bordering on paralysis for a population devastated by the Holocaust. He had closed the Straits of Tiran, a source of less than 10 percent of Israel's shipping, but nevertheless a casus belli as far as Israel was concerned. He had expelled the U.N. peacekeepers from Sinai, further raising fears of war. (Israel, however, refused to accept those same peacekeepers -- a move that would have diminished the chance of war.) And, as the leader of the "Arab nation," Nasser was under great pressure from other Arabs to cut short Israel's nuclear ambitions and deliver the Palestinians back to the homes they had fled and been driven out of in the war of 1948.
But privately Nasser was sending strong signals he would not go to war. On May 31, he met with an American emissary, former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, assuring him that Egypt would not "begin any fight." Two days later, Nasser told a British M.P., Christopher Mayhew, that Egypt had "no intention of attacking Israel." The same day he met again with Anderson, agreeing to dispatch his vice president, Zakariya Mohieddin, to Washington, in an apparent last-ditch attempt to avoid war. (Anderson and Johnson had also spoken of a visit to Cairo by Vice President Hubert Humphrey.)
Rostow decided that Israel should know about the secret visit. In a June 2 note to the president, the national security advisor urged that the United States inform Israel of Mohieddin's impending trip to the White House: "My guess is that their intelligence will pick it up." The same day, Nasser sent a telegram to the American president indicating that Egypt would not attack Israel, but that "we shall resist any aggression launched against us or against any Arab state."
The archives for the 1967 war, as with the documentary evidence from other Arab-Israeli wars, thus reveal a history far more complex, and far more interesting, than the inflated portrayal of Arabs poised to crush Israel. "One against 40," declared David Ben-Gurion in describing the odds facing Israel in the war of 1948, ignoring the fact that comparisons of total populations meant little. The records show that the key Arab and Jewish forces -- a much more crucial benchmark -- were about the same, and that after a June 1948 cease-fire, a rearmed Israel had a decided advantage, which it parlayed into victory. Fifty-nine years later, in today's conflict in Gaza, the tragic, well-publicized deaths of Israelis in Sderot from crudely built Qassam missiles -- nine in the last six years -- are dwarfed by the deaths of 650 Palestinians last year (more than half unarmed civilians, according to Amnesty International) from attacks by Israel, one of the most potent and sophisticated military powers in the world, armed with nuclear weapons.
Yet the David vs. Goliath narrative persists, obscuring a more nuanced view of the balance of power in the region. Much of this has to do with Americans' familiarity with the story of Israel as a safe haven for Jews ravaged by the Holocaust. By contrast, Arabs, especially Palestinians, have long been seen as a vaguely menacing Other, as depicted in Leon Uris' hugely influential best-seller, "Exodus." The "Exodus" history, in which Arabs are alternately pathetic or malicious, holds no room for a more layered narrative of the struggle between Arabs and Jews, in which someone like Gamal Abdel Nasser, blustering for the Arab street, may have been privately seeking a way out of war.
Did Nasser truly want peace? We may never know. On June 3, 1967, after Secretary of State Rusk had informed Israel of the pending visit from Egyptian Vice President Mohieddin, Rusk relayed a message from the president to Nasser. "In view of the urgency of the situation," Rusk wrote, "we hope it will be possible for him to come without delay." That same day, however, at a Pentagon meeting between Mossad director Meir Amit and McNamara, the prospects for war seemed closer than ever. Amit told McNamara bluntly that he was "going to recommend that our government strike." This time, the Americans did not object; indeed, the CIA had grown sympathetic to Israel's war aims, in which Nasser, seen as too close to the Soviets, would be defanged. When McNamara asked Amit how long a war would last, the Mossad director replied: "Seven days." And so the meeting between the White House and Mohieddin, scheduled for June 7, never took place. By that time, it was already Day 3 of the Six-Day War, and Israel was already in control of Sinai, the West Bank, Gaza and the skies over much of the Middle East.
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Let me refer actually to the Syrian front in 1967, because it I believe it to be the key to the six day war.
In series of interviews conducted in 1976 with Moshe Dayan (which was later published in Yediot Ahronot after his death in 1981), he confessed that his greatest mistake was that, as a Minister of Defense in June 1967, he did not stick to his original opposition to storming the Golan Heights, and he described how the confrontation with the Syrian evolved to a war as the following:
"Never mind that [when aked whether Syrians initiated the war from the Golan Heights]. After all, I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes there started. In my opinion, more than 80 percent, but let's talk about 80 percent. It went this way: We would send a tractor to plough someplace where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was. I did that, and Laskov and Chara [Zvi Tsur, Rabin's predecessor as chief of staff] did that, Yitzhak did that, but it seems to me that the person who most enjoyed these games was Dado [David Elzar, OC Northern Command, 1964-69]." (Iron Wall, p. 236-237)
Remember that Nasser blocked the Tiran straights and ammased troops in Sinai because Israel was threatening Syria and he had a pact with Syria that obligated Egypt to come to Syria's help. It's clear from Moshe Dayan that Israel was provoking Syria in oder to have an excuse to attack both countries.
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While Israel consistently expressed a desire to negotiate a peace with its neighbors, there was no matching sentiment on the Arab side. In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda Meir challenged Arab leaders to meet with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to negotiate a peace settlement. Nasser (Egypt) answered on October 15, saying that Israel was trying to deceive world opinion, and reiterating that his country would never recognize the Jewish State. Nasser's rhetoric became increasingly bellicose; on March 8, 1965 he said:
* We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand. We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood.
A few months later, Nasser expressed the Arabs' goal to be:
* ... the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people. In other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate aim: perfection of Arab military might. The national aim: the eradication of Israel.
Other Arab leaders from Syria, Jordan, and Iraq joined in the rhetoric and preparations for war, increasing pressure on Egypt's President Gamal Nasser, perceived as the leader of the Arab world. Syria's attacks along the DMZ grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966. Syria's attacks on Israeli kibbutzim from the Golan Heights provoked a retaliatory strike on April 7, 1967, during which Israeli planes shot down six Syrian MiGs. Israel followed up by re-introducing military forces to the DMZ.
At the same time, and unknown to the Israelis, the Soviet Union mounted a disinformation campaign pushing Egypt to join Syria against Israel. At that time, the Soviets were providing military and economic aid to both Syria and Egypt. On May 13, 1967 a Soviet parliamentary delegation visited Cairo and informed the Egyptian leaders that Israel had concentrated eleven to thirteen brigades along the Syrian border in preparation for an assault within a few days, with the intention of overthrowing the revolutionary Syrian Government. This was a complete fabrication designed by the Soviets to destabilize the Middle East. Similar false information may have been given to Egypt by the Soviets as early as May 2.
The build up and aggressive intent were denied by Israel. UN Secretary General U Thant reported that UNTSO observers on the Syrian border:
* ... have verified the absence of troop concentrations and absence of noteworthy military movements on both sides of the [Syrian] line.
Nasser probably correctly interpreted the Soviet information as an indication to him that the time was ripe for an attack on Israel and that he had their backing. With the United States deeply distracted by the War in Vietnam, the Soviets had reason to think there would be no US intervention. Nassar then abandoned his former cautious policy and took the lead for new aggression against Israel. Syria and Iraq eagerly joined Egypt's preparations, increasing the momentum toward war.
On May 15, Israel's 19th Independence Day, Egyptian troops began moving into the Sinai and massing near the Israeli border. By May 18, Syrian troops were prepared for battle along the Golan Heights.
On May 16, Nassar requested the withdrawal of the UN Emergency Force, stationed in the Sinai since 1956. Egyptian forces moved up to the UNEF lines and began to harrass the UN positions. Without bringing the matter to the attention of the General Assembly, as his predecessor had promised, Secretary-General U Thant complied with the demand. This was a direct violation of the conditions under which Israel had returned control of the Sinai to Egypt after the Sinai Campaign. The UN force was supposed to safeguard Israel from Egypt again closing the Straits of Tiran or launching terrorist attacks from that quarter.
Blockade of the Straits of Tiran
In 1956, the United States gave Israel assurances that it recognized the Jewish State's right of access to the Straits of Tiran. In 1957, at the UN, 17 maritime powers declared that Israel had a right to transit the Strait. Moreover, any blockade violated the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, which was adopted by the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea on April 27, 1958. Nonetheless, on on the night of May 22-23, 1967 Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israeli shipping and all ships bound for Eilat. This blockade cut off Israel's only supply route with Asia and stopped the flow of oil from its main supplier, Iran.
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Krishnamacharya's Legacy
Whether you practice the dynamic series of Pattabhi Jois, the refined alignments of B.K.S. Iyengar, the classical postures of Indra Devi, or the customized vinyasa of Viniyoga, your practice stems from one source: a five-foot, two-inch Brahmin born more than one hundred years ago in a small South Indian village.
He never crossed an ocean, but Krishnamacharya's yoga has spread through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Today it's difficult to find an asana tradition he hasn't influenced. Even if you learned from a yogi now outside the traditions associated with Krishnamacharya, there's a good chance your teacher trained in the Iyengar, Ashtanga, or Viniyoga lineages before developing another style. Rodney Yee, for instance, who appears in many popular videos, studied with Iyengar. Richard Hittleman, a well-known TV yogi of the 1970s, trained with Devi. Other teachers have borrowed from several Krishnamacharya-based styles, creating unique approaches such as Ganga White's White Lotus Yoga and Manny Finger's ISHTA Yoga. Most teachers, even from styles not directly linked to Krishnamacharya—Sivananda Yoga and Bikram Yoga, for example—have been influenced by some aspect of Krishnamacharya's teachings.
Many of his contributions have been so thoroughly integrated into the fabric of yoga that their source has been forgotten. It's been said that he's responsible for the modern emphasis on Sirsasana (Headstand) and Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand). He was a pioneer in refining postures, sequencing them optimally, and ascribing therapeutic value to specific asanas. By combining pranayama and asana, he made the postures an integral part of meditation instead of just a step leading toward it.
In fact, Krishnamacharya's influence can be seen most clearly in the emphasis on asana practice that's become the signature of yoga today. Probably no yogi before him developed the physical practices so deliberately. In the process, he transformed hatha—once an obscure backwater of yoga—into its central current. Yoga's resurgence in India owes a great deal to his countless lecture tours and demonstrations during the 1930s, and his four most famous disciples—Jois, Iyengar, Devi, and Krishnamacharya's son, T.K.V. Desikachar—played a huge role in popularizing yoga in the West.
Recovering Yoga's Roots
When Yoga Journal asked me to profile Krishnamacharya's legacy, I thought that tracing the story of someone who died barely a decade ago would be an easy job. But I discovered that Krishnamacharya remains a mystery, even to his family. He never wrote a full memoir or took credit for his many innovations. His life lies shrouded in myth. Those who knew him well have grown old. If we lose their recollections, we risk losing more than the story of one of yoga's most remarkable adepts; we risk losing a clear understanding of the history of the vibrant tradition we've inherited.
It's intriguing to consider how the evolution of this multifaceted man's personality still influences the yoga we practice today. Krishnamacharya began his teaching career by perfecting a strict, idealized version of hatha yoga. Then, as the currents of history impelled him to adapt, he became one of yoga's great reformers. Some of his students remember him as an exacting, volatile teacher; B.K.S. Iyengar told me Krishnamacharya could have been a saint, were he not so ill-tempered and self-centered. Others recall a gentle mentor who cherished their individuality. Desikachar, for example, describes his father as a kind person who often placed his late guru's sandals on top of his own head in an act of humility.
Both of these men remain fiercely loyal to their guru, but they knew Krishnamacharya at different stages of his life; it's as if they recall two different people. Seemingly opposite characteristics can still be seen in the contrasting tones of the traditions he inspired—some gentle, some strict, each appealing to different personalities and lending depth and variety to our still-evolving practice of hatha yoga.
Emerging From the Shadows
The yoga world Krishnamacharya inherited at his birth in 1888 looked very different from that of today. Under the pressure of British colonial rule, hatha yoga had fallen by the wayside. Just a small circle of Indian practitioners remained. But in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a Hindu revivalist movement breathed new life into India's heritage. As a young man, Krishnamacharya immersed himself in this pursuit, learning many classical Indian disciplines, including Sanskrit, logic, ritual, law, and the basics of Indian medicine. In time, he would channel this broad background into the study of yoga, where he synthesized the wisdom of these traditions.
According to biographical notes Krishnamacharya made near the end of his life, his father initiated him into yoga at age five, when he began to teach him Patanjali's sutras and told him that their family had descended from a revered ninth-century yogi, Nathamuni. Although his father died before Krishnamacharya reached puberty, he instilled in his son a general thirst for knowledge and a specific desire to study yoga. In another manuscript, Krishnamacharya wrote that "while still an urchin," he learned 24 asanas from a swami of the Sringeri Math, the same temple that gave birth to Sivananda Yogananda's lineage. Then, at age 16, he made a pilgrimage to Nathamuni's shrine at Alvar Tirunagari, where he encountered his legendary forefather during an extraordinary vision.
As Krishnamacharya always told the story, he found an old man at the temple's gate who pointed him toward a nearby mango grove. Krishnamacharya walked to the grove, where he collapsed, exhausted. When he got up, he noticed three yogis had gathered. His ancestor Nathamuni sat in the middle. Krishnamacharya prostrated himself and asked for instruction. For hours, Nathamuni sang verses to him from the Yogarahasya (The Essence of Yoga), a text lost more than one thousand years before. Krishnamacharya memorized and later transcribed these verses.
The seeds of many elements of Krishnamacharya's innovative teachings can be found in this text, which is available in an English translation (Yogarahasya, translated by T.K.V. Desikachar, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, 1998). Though the tale of its authorship may seem fanciful, it points to an important trait in Krishnamacharya's personality: He never claimed originality. In his view, yoga belonged to God. All of his ideas, original or not, he attributed to ancient texts or to his guru.
After his experience at Nathamuni's shrine, Krishnamacharya continued his exploration of a panoply of Indian classical disciplines, obtaining degrees in philology, logic, divinity, and music. He practiced yoga from rudiments he learned through texts and the occasional interview with a yogi, but he longed to study yoga more deeply, as his father had recommended. A university teacher saw Krishnamacharya practicing his asanas and advised him to seek out a master called Sri Ramamohan Brahmachari, one of the few remaining hatha yoga masters.
We know little about Brahmachari except that he lived with his spouse and three children in a remote cave. By Krishnamacharya's account, he spent seven years with this teacher, memorizing the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, learning asanas and pranayama, and studying the therapeutic aspects of yoga. During his apprenticeship, Krishnamacharya claimed, he mastered 3,000 asanas and developed some of his most remarkable skills, such as stopping his pulse. In exchange for instruction, Brahmachari asked his loyal student to return to his homeland to teach yoga and establish a household.
Krishnamacharya's education had prepared him for a position at any number of prestigious institutions, but he renounced this opportunity, choosing to honor his guru's parting request. Despite all his training, Krishnamacharya returned home to poverty. In the 1920s, teaching yoga wasn't profitable. Students were few, and Krishnamacharya was forced to take a job as a foreman at a coffee plantation. But on his days off, he traveled throughout the province giving lectures and yoga demonstrations. Krishnamacharya sought to popularize yoga by demonstrating the siddhis, the supranormal abilities of the yogic body. These demonstrations, designed to stimulate interest in a dying tradition, included suspending his pulse, stopping cars with his bare hands, performing difficult asanas, and lifting heavy objects with his teeth. To teach people about yoga, Krishnamacharya felt, he first had to get their attention.
Through an arranged marriage, Krishnamacharya honored his guru's second request. Ancient yogis were renunciates, who lived in the forest without homes or families. But Krishnamacharya's guru wanted him to learn about family life and teach a yoga that benefited the modern householder. At first, this proved a difficult pathway. The couple lived in such deep poverty that Krishnamacharya wore a loincloth sewn of fabric torn from his spouse's sari. He would later recall this period as the hardest time of his life, but the hardships only steeled Krishnamacharya's boundless determination to teach yoga.
Developing Ashtanga Vinyasa
Krishnamacharya's fortunes improved in 1931 when he received an invitation to teach at the Sanskrit College in Mysore. There he received a good salary and the chance to devote himself to teaching yoga full time. The ruling family of Mysore had long championed all manner of indigenous arts, supporting the reinvigoration of Indian culture. They had already patronized hatha yoga for more than a century, and their library housed one of the oldest illustrated asana compilations now known, the Sritattvanidhi (translated into English by Sanskrit scholar Norman E. Sjoman in The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace.
For the next two decades, the Maharaja of Mysore helped Krishnamacharya promote yoga throughout India, financing demonstrations and publications. A diabetic, the Maharaja felt especially drawn to the connection between yoga and healing, and Krishnamacharya devoted much of his time to developing this link. But Krishnamacharya's post at the Sanskrit College didn't last. He was far too strict a disciplinarian, his students complained. Since the Maharaja liked Krishnamacharya and didn't want to lose his friendship and counsel, he proposed a solution; he offered Krishnamacharya the palace's gymnastics hall as his own yogashala, or yoga school.
Thus began one of Krishnamacharya's most fertile periods, during which he developed what is now known as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. As Krishnamacharya's pupils were primarily active young boys, he drew on many disciplines—including yoga, gymnastics, and Indian wrestling—to develop dynamically-performed asana sequences aimed at building physical fitness. This vinyasa style uses the movements of Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) to lead into each asana and then out again. Each movement is coordinated with prescribed breathing and drishti, "gaze points" that focus the eyes and instill meditative concentration. Eventually, Krishnamacharya standardized the pose sequences into three series consisting of primary, intermediate, and advanced asanas. Students were grouped in order of experience and ability, memorizing and mastering each sequence before advancing to the next.
Though Krishnamacharya developed this manner of performing yoga during the 1930s, it remained virtually unknown in the West for almost 40 years. Recently, it's become one of the most popular styles of yoga, mostly due to the work of one of Krishnamacharya's most faithful and famous students, K. Pattabhi Jois.
Pattabhi Jois met Krishnamacharya in the hard times before the Mysore years. As a robust boy of 12, Jois attended one of Krishnamacharya's lectures. Intrigued by the asana demonstration, Jois asked Krishnamacharya to teach him yoga. Lessons started the next day, hours before the school bell rang, and continued every morning for three years until Jois left home to attend the Sanskrit College. When Krishnamacharya received his teaching appointment at the college less than two years later, an overjoyed Pattabhi Jois resumed his yoga lessons.
Jois retained a wealth of detail from his years of study with Krishnamacharya. For decades, he has preserved that work with great devotion, refining and inflecting the asana sequences without significant modification, much as a classical violinist might nuance the phrasing of a Mozart concerto without ever changing a note. Jois has often said that the concept of vinyasa came from an ancient text called the Yoga Kuruntha. Unfortunately, the text has disappeared; no one now living has seen it. So many stories exist of its discovery and content—I've heard at least five conflicting accounts—that some question its authenticity. When I asked Jois if he'd ever read the text, he answered, "No, only Krishnamacharya." Jois then downplayed the importance of this scripture, indicating several other texts that also shaped the yoga he learned from Krishnamacharya, including the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Sutra, and the Bhagavad Gita.
Whatever the roots of Ashtanga Vinyasa, today it's one of the most influential components of Krishnamacharya's legacy. Perhaps this method, originally designed for youngsters, provides our high-energy, outwardly-focused culture with an approachable gateway to a path of deeper spirituality. Over the last three decades a steadily increasing number of yogis have been drawn to its precision and intensity. Many of them have made the pilgrimage to Mysore, where Jois, himself, offered instruction until his death in May, 2009.
Shattering a Tradition
Even as Krishnamacharya taught the young men and boys at the Mysore Palace, his public demonstrations attracted a more diverse audience. He enjoyed the challenge of presenting yoga to people of different backgrounds. On the frequent tours he called "propaganda trips," he introduced yoga to British soldiers, Muslim maharajas, and Indians of all religious beliefs. Krishnamacharya stressed that yoga could serve any creed and adjusted his approach to respect each student's faith. But while he bridged cultural, religious, and class differences, Krishnamacharya's attitude toward women remained patriarchal. Fate, however, played a trick on him: The first student to bring his yoga onto the world stage applied for instruction in a sari. And she was a Westerner to boot!
The woman, who became known as Indra Devi (she was born Zhenia Labunskaia, in pre-Soviet Latvia), was a friend of the Mysore royal family. After seeing one of Krishnamacharya's demonstrations, she asked for instruction. At first, Krishnamacharya refused to teach her. He told her that his school accepted neither foreigners nor women. But Devi persisted, persuading the Maharaja to prevail on his Brahmin. Reluctantly, Krishnamacharya started her lessons, subjecting her to strict dietary guidelines and a difficult schedule aimed at breaking her resolve. She met every challenge Krishnamacharya imposed, eventually becoming his good friend as well as an exemplary pupil.
After a year-long apprenticeship, Krishnamacharya instructed Devi to become a yoga teacher. He asked her to bring a notebook, then spent several days dictating lessons on yoga instruction, diet, and pranayama. Drawing from this teaching, Devi eventually wrote the first best-selling book on hatha yoga, Forever Young, Forever Healthy. Over the years after her studies with Krishnamacharya, Devi founded the first school of yoga in Shanghai, China, where Madame Chiang Kai-Shek became her student. Eventually, by convincing Soviet leaders that yoga was not a religion, she even opened the doors to yoga in the Soviet Union, where it had been illegal. In 1947 she moved to the United States. Living in Hollywood, she became known as the "First Lady of Yoga," attracting celebrity students like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Arden, Greta Garbo, and Gloria Swanson. Thanks to Devi, Krishnamacharya's yoga enjoyed its first international vogue.
Although she studied with Krishnamacharya during the Mysore period, the yoga Indra Devi came to teach bears little resemblance to Jois's Ashtanga Vinyasa. Foreshadowing the highly individualized yoga he would further develop in later years, Krishnamacharya taught Devi in a gentler fashion, accommodating but challenging her physical limitations.
Devi retained this gentle tone in her teaching. Though her style didn't employ vinyasa, she used Krishnamacharya's principles of sequencing so that her classes expressed a deliberate journey, beginning with standing postures, progressing toward a central asana followed by complementary poses, then concluding with relaxation. As with Jois, Krishnamacharya taught her to combine pranayama and asana. Students in her lineage still perform each posture with prescribed breathing techniques.
Devi added a devotional aspect to her work, which she calls Sai Yoga. The main pose of each class includes an invocation, so that the fulcrum of each practice involves a meditation in the form of an ecumenical prayer. Although she developed this concept on her own, it may have been present in embryonic form in the teachings she received from Krishnamacharya. In his later life, Krishnamacharya also recommended devotional chanting within asana practice.
Though Devi died in April, 2002 at the age of 102, her six yoga schools are still active in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Until three years ago, she still taught asanas. Well into her nineties, she continued touring the world, bringing Krishnamacharya's influence to a large following throughout North and South America. Her impact in the United States waned when she moved to Argentina in 1985, but her prestige in Latin America extends well beyond the yoga community.
You might be hard-pressed to find someone in Buenos Aires who doesn't know of her. She's touched every level of Latin society: The taxi driver who brought me to her house for an interview described her as "a very wise woman"; the next day, Argentina's President Menem came for her blessings and advice. Devi's six yoga schools deliver 15 asana classes daily, and graduates from the four-year teacher-training program receive an internationally recognized college-level degree.!--page-->
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Petzl Marketing Director John Evans worked with the the film's property director, Scott Arneman, and tracked down eight headlamps fitting the description. Lights came in from locales far and wide, including Spain, Iceland and France. It was truly a global effort.
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|Province of Benguet
Map of the Philippines with Benguet highlighted
|Coordinates: 16°30′N 120°40′E / 16.500°N 120.667°ECoordinates: 16°30′N 120°40′E / 16.500°N 120.667°E
|Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
|June 16, 1966
|La Trinidad
|• Type
|Province of the Philippines
|• Governor
|Nestor Fongwan (NUP)
|• Vice Governor
|Nelson Dangwa (LP)
|• Total
|2,769.08 km2 (1,069.15 sq mi)
|Area rank
|49th out of 80
|Excludes independent city
|Population (2010)[2]
|• Total
|• Rank
|63rd out of 80
|• Density
|150/km2 (380/sq mi)
|• Density rank
|53rd out of 80
|Excludes independent city
|• Independent cities
|• Component cities
|• Municipalities
|• Barangays
including independent cities: 269
|• Districts
|Lone district of Benguet
including independent cities:
Lone district of Baguio City
|Time zone
|ZIP code
|2600 – 2614
|Dialing code
|ISO 3166 code
|Spoken languages
|Kankana-ey, Ibaloi , Pangasinan, Kalanguya, Bontoc, Ilocano, Tagalog, English
Benguet (Tagalog pronunciation: [beŋˈɡet]; Ibaloi: Probinsya ne Benguet; Ilocano: Probinsya ti Benguet; Filipino: Lalawigan ng Benguet), is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is La Trinidad and borders, clockwise from the south, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya.
Baguio, a popular tourist destination in the country, is located in the interior of Benguet, however, the city is independent of the province.
The mountainous area now covered by Benguet has been settled for millennia by several peoples collectively known as the Igorots. Two of these groups, the Ibaloi and the Kankanaey, are dominant ethnolinguistic groups of the area. In the pre-conquest period, these tribes enjoyed flourishing trade with lowland groups immediately to their west and south, such as the Ilocano and the Pangasinense.
At the beginning of the Spanish Era, colonisers heard of the rich gold mines in the mountains, attempted to colonize the highlands, but failed. In 1572, Juan de Salcedo led a small expedition into the southern part of Benguet, but the natives forced them to retreat. The first major expedition into the mountains occurred in 1620, when Spanish explorers went into the La Trinidad Valley and briefly controlled some Igorot gold mines, and later abandoned after a few years.
In the 1800s, Spanish colonizers made more serious attempts such as expeditions under Col. Guillermo Galvey[3]:280 and succeeded in establishing a presence in the La Trinidad Valley, named after Galvey's wife.
This area later became a district of the new province of La Union in 1846. Eight years later, in 1854, Benguet became a separate comandancia politico-militar. Parts of the present province were established as component territories of other comandancias such as Lepanto and Amburayan.
When the Americans took control of the Philippines, they established local civil governments in many parts of the country. American civilian government was established in Benguet on November 23, 1900 by virtue of Act No. 49, with Canadian journalist H.P. Whitmarsh appointed as the province's first governor.
The Americans then established Mountain Province on August 18, 1908, with the enactment of Act No. 1876. Benguet, along with Amburayan, Apayao, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto, became sub-provinces of this new province. Later on, Baguio became a chartered city in 1909. Then in 1920, Benguet absorbed the sub-provinces of Amburayan and Lepanto.
In the 1930s, mining companies were started to mine the gold deposits in the area. This brought it jobs and many lowlanders migrated to Benguet, especially in towns surrounding the mines, such as Itogon.
During World War II, Igorot guerrillas and the combined Filipino and American forces fought Japanese soldiers during the final days of the war in 1945.
On June 18, 1966, the huge Mountain Province was split into four provinces with the enactment of Republic Act No. 4695. The four provinces were Benguet, Mountain Province, Kalinga-Apayao and Ifugao. Benguet became one of the provinces of the Ilocos Region. On July 15, 1987, the Cordillera Administrative Region was established and Benguet was made one of its provinces.
|Population census of Benguet
|±% p.a.
|Source: National Statistics Office[2]
In the May 2000 census, Benguet had a total population of 330,129. This figure is up by 16,296 from 313,833 persons recorded in the 1995 census, giving an annual growth rate of 1.09% during the 5-year period—much, much lower than the national average of 2.43%. The province registered at 63,123 households, an increase of 4,588 households over the 1990 figure. This gave an average household size of 5.2 persons, a little higher than the national average of 4.99.
At the 2010 census, the population excluding the independent Baguio City was 403,944, which makes it the most populous province in the region. If Baguio City is included, the population is 772,620.[2]
Cordilleran, is an unofficial and relatively recent term for the people of the hill tribes of Luzon, Philippines, who are residing in the Cordillera region. This term is an attempt at political correctness, since the more current term "Igorot" is considered by some to be a derogatory product of colonialism.
In the 2000 census, 43% of the household population were Kankana-ey. About 29.2% were Ibaloi and 13.4% were Ilocano. Other ethnic groups included Ikalahan (3.7%) and Tagalog (2.4%).
Benguet residents generally speak their own languages in addition to Ilocano, Tagalog, and English, which are used for trade and commerce. The Ibaloi tribe speak Ibaloy, which is similar to Pangasinan, while the Kankanaey have their eponymous language, which is related to the Bontoc language.
The SIL Ethnologue database [1] classifies the languages under the South-Central Cordilleran branch. Nabaloy (named in the database as Ibaloi) is part of the Southern Cordilleran branch which also includes Pangasinense. The Kankanaey language (named in the database as Kankanaey) is under the Central Cordilleran branch, which also includes Bontoc and Ifugao.
Benguet is subdivided into 13 municipalities, and some of these municipalities surround Baguio City. Baguio City used to be part of the province but became independent when the city's charter was enacted in 1909. However, for statistical and geographic convenience, Baguio City is informally considered a part of Benguet, especially in census data or when the city is chosen as a location for Benguet provincial offices for convenience and practicality.
Agriculture, mining, and tourism are the major industries in Benguet. Because of its temperate climate and high altitude, Benguet is an ideal place for producing vegetables. Benguet is often called the Salad Bowl of the Philippines. During February 2007, Benguet suffered crop damage due to freezing temperatures in the area, reaching as low as 7 Celsius and even lower in some areas, and important crops like cabbages were damaged. Major crops include potatoes, Baguio beans, peas, strawberries, cabbage, lettuce, and carrots. Other agricultural-related activities are monggo processing, fruit preservation, peanut brittle manufacturing, broom making, basket weaving, and flower growing. Apisang (scientific name: Pittosporum resiniferum), a plant endemic to the Philippines, is also being grown in Kapangan and Kibungan towns as a potential alternative source of fuel and energy, rivaling the overhyped jatropha biofuel plant.
Mining is another major industry of Benguet, which is one of the country's leading gold producers. The Benguet Corporation one of the Philippines largest diversified conglomerates was founded to exploit mines in Benguet Province. Other mineral deposits are silver, copper, pyrite, and limestone. Silversmithing is a large industry in Benguet, and many entrepreneurs sell silver works at lower prices in Baguio City, compared to Manila. In 2006 alone revenues from mining reached a stunning four billion pesos, and yet this figure comes from just two-Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation and Philex Mines- of the many mining firms operating in the province. Nevertheless, the province's mining vigor has never translated into better quality of life of the Benguet people, simply because a bulk of the mining firm's taxes are not paid directly to the province. The two mining corporations, like many others around the country, have principal offices in the City of Makati, a set-up that makes Makati the prime mining tax beneficiary.
The presence of Baguio City in Benguet draws a large number of tourists from the lowlands. Often, people who go to Baguio also explore the province, especially the strawberry and vegetable plantations in La Trinidad. Accommodations is sparse in the province of Benguet this is why many tourists opt to stay at different Hotels in Baguio City whereby Baguio City will be their starting point to their Benguet adventure (See also the Tourist Attractions section below.)
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Benguet also is home to the Cordillera Regional Science High School, while National University opened a campus in the province in 2004.
While Baguio City is not officially part of Benguet, it is a Chartered City. Its location provides additional income in form of tourism for the province. Some of the interesting places near Baguio City are, Kennon Road, Binga Hydroelectic Plant, strawberry and flower farms in La Trinidad, the Ambuklao Dam in Bokod, and the Palina and Naguey rice terraces in Atok.
Aside from these, Tuba and Tublay hot springs are usually flocked by local tourists from the neighboring provinces. A good view of vegetable terraces can be seen from the Halsema Highway, especially during the growing season, while the mist-covered "Man-asok" River is another destination. Kabayan is known for its centuries-old mummies, while Buguias is visited for its hot springs and the Apo Anno. But aside from these there are lots of tourist attractions but kept private by the citizens to avoid exploitations of these heritage.
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TO THE EDITOR: In regards to the article printed Sept. 26, "Rosenquest: City Blocks Downtown Activity," I find it rather interesting that the current administration feels they have been such overwhelming supporters of events like First Weekends.
What a crock that is. I was there the night that we asked for everyone to show up to ensure that the streets would be closed for this great event, and even with such obvious public support, the council and mayor were still less than enthusiastic.
Many times, I have heard of people feeling very frustrated when dealing with City Hall for events like this. They try to point to things like Mayor's Cup as proof of their support. Well, here is a reality: Mayor's Cup is dying a slow death; it is now a shadow of what it was.
They wish to blame the economy? How about admitting they do not know how to bring it back to life. Also, mention was made of an existing Community and Economic Development Office for Plattsburgh. If one went to City Hall and went to the door of this alleged office, they would find a note taped to that door with a phone number to call. I have tried this number on numerous occasions and have never once gotten a live person. No one is ever in this office. Who is the director? Where is the staff? It does not exist.
The current administration is delusional if they feel they are growing this city. Voting in current council members for mayor will only perpetuate this stagnation.
It is time the people of Plattsburgh had a mayor and council who work for them, not one that gets annoyed by its constituents.
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STATEMENT ON H. CON. RES. 25 by Representative J, W. Fulbright All of us know that we must win the war first, if there is to be any hope for the future of civilized man. Of equal importance, it seems to me, is the necessity of winning the peace. To give real significance to the victory which I am confident we shall achieve, I think it is imperative that this nation develop a sensible and positive foreign policy* Surely all of us can agree that if we are to win the peace, if we are to prevent a repetition of the egregious mistake of 1920, Congress should act now. To do nothing as we did in 1920 will be a decision in favor or international anarchy. All the world is watching us for signs that American willingness to help win a lasting peace will match American determination to win a total victory. All of our experience indicates that it is absolutely necessary that some positive, affirmative action be taken before the fighting is over, if we are to achieve anything of lasting value from this war. I think that we are also agreed that the only thing of lasting value that we can obtain from this war is some as^uiNhce of peace in the world of the future. The principal question for us is, therefore, what kind of action, designed to accomplish this purpose, is the Congress most likely to take now? The Congress is presently so grossly over-burdened with wartime legislation, in addition to the usual domestic measures, and is so distracted by the struggle for political power in anticiapation of 1944, that the members have neither the serenity nor the inclination carefully to analyze and to formulate at this time a detailed plan for international cooperation, As a matter of fact, in the field of foreign relations, the proper function of the legislative power is to express the broad fundamental policy of the nation. The executive povrer is better equipped to and properly should develop the details of all agreements within the outlines, and subject to the restrictions of the fundamental policy, as expressed by the representatives of the people. For these reasons, I think it is highly desirable that any proposal submitted to the Congress at this time should be reduced to the simplest possible terms. Of all the resolutions so far introduced, I believe that House Concurrent Res, 25 is the least controversial ana the most likely to be acceptable to the Congress now. It consists of only a few lines which I should like to read to you: "Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world and as favoring participation by the United States therein."
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|Statement on House Congressional Resolution 25
|Speech given by Senator Fulbright outlining his belief that it would be in the best interests of the United States to avoid the isolationism implicit in its rejection of the League of Nations charter in 1920. House Resolution 25 provided part of a necessary legislative foundation upon which the United Nations would later be constructed.
|Fulbright, J. William
|June 15, 1943
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|A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks
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Aging in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Mini-ReviewHappé F.a · Charlton R.A.b, c
aMRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and bClinical Neuroscience, St George's, University of London, London, UK; cDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA Corresponding Author
This article addresses an important and barely researched topic: what happens to children with autism spectrum disorders when they grow old. We review the small published literature on aging in autism. We then consider the relevance of research on 'neurotypical' aging in core domains of autistic impairment: social cognition, executive function, cognitive style and memory. Research themes from the study of normal aging, including cognitive reserve, compensation, quality of life, loneliness and physical health are of relevance for future research on autism. Studies of aging in autism will be important not only to plan appropriate services, but also to shed light on the full developmental trajectory of this neurodevelopmental condition, and perhaps provide clues to neuropathology and etiology.
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