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BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter firstname.lastname@example.com November 30, 2012 1:40PM
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday they are "very close" to an agreement on a new casino bill that will include the ethics reforms the governor has demanded and earmark 100 percent of the money from a Chicago casino for school construction and modernization.
The two powerful Democrats met privately last week to put aside their feud over who will lead the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority and move on to more important issues.
They talked about providing provisional driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, about joining forces on a new capital bill and about the land-based casino that has eluded Chicago for more than two decades.
"I'm optimistic that, by the 9th of January, we can come up with a bill that meets all of our criteria," Quinn said during an unrelated joint appearance with Emanuel.
"The mayor and I are very close on the issue of strong regulation and ethics and making sure the money goes to schools and infrastructure. Isn't that true?"
Quinn then yielded the podium to Emanuel, who agreed.
"I believe that we are very close. Remember, this has been 25 years in the making. But that said, on oversight and the type of issues like that, we are in alignment," the mayor said.
"And I know from our meeting the governor agrees that 100 percent of the money should go into modernizing our schools. ... Unlike any other casino in the state, all of the resources will go into ... modernizing the Chicago Public School system. Building new schools, doing new additions, modernizing to handle the type of education our kids are gonna need to compete and win so the jobs of tomorrow don't go to Japan, don't go to Korea."
Neither the mayor nor the governor would explain how Quinn's ethics concerns had been resolved.
The governor has demanded a blanket ban on campaign contributions from casino interests, Illinois Gaming Board control over a Chicago casino and more resources and more time for the board to thoroughly vet operators and investors. He also wants strict procurement controls while ruling out slot machines at O'Hare and Midway airports and at the Illinois State Fair.
Last year, Emanuel engaged in a months-long verbal battle with Quinn aimed at pressuring the governor to sign a bill that would have paved the way for a land-based casino in Chicago and slot machines at the airports.
When Quinn denounced the bill for "serious shortcomings" in the area of casino oversight, Emanuel all but dismissed those integrity concerns as a smokescreen. Emanuel also ticked off the wish list of projects he intended to build with casino cash.
The pressure tactic didn't work with Quinn, who accused the mayor of "putting the cart before the horse" and spending casino cash he doesn't have.
The governor subsequently vetoed the casino bill, putting the decades-old issue back to Square One.


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Showfolks Circus, another "Sarasota only" tradition, marks the official beginning of the holidays for us.
All the acts perform free to benefit the Showfolks Club of Sarasota; it's different every year, but in the best years, you'll see youngsters trying to impress the many circus producers from around the country who scout the show every year for new acts.
And sometimes we see "farewell acts" such as the 70-year-old wire walker who swore he could do it one last time-and after stopping our hearts a few times, he really did.
Performers and their families laugh, cry and hug just about anybody as they celebrate coming back home to Sarasota, having made it through another season on the road.
So if you really want to understand Sarasota and the circus people so important in its history a bit better, treat yourself and any youngsters you can find to Showfolks Circus.
Scheduled this year for Saturday, Dec. 8, at Robarts Arena, the one-day-only afternoon and evening performances really mark the annual return of the circus community for a couple of months of rest, rehearsals and development of new acts.
Oysters are the official holiday food at my house, and the more local, the better. Years past, my buddy Jim Watt would show up with a burlap sack of Midnight Pass 'coon oysters-those little salty ones the raccoons like so much-and some beers under his arm.
How can you find a better friend than that?
With Midnight Pass gone and nobody I know brave enough to eat local oysters, we now buy them from Walt's for $25 a bag-a wonderful bargain. The $25 buys you at least a gross of oysters-an appropriate term, in some people's thinking-surely more than you and friends can eat in one sitting, and in a genuine burlap bag, to boot.
Actually, November is deep enough into the fall to eat oysters, so we generally start with a bag at Thanksgiving and repeat the performance at Christmas.
Now that we have at least two good French bakeries in town, some folks consider bûche Noel the appropriate holiday treat, but I'm sticking with my $25 bags.
Leave it to the City Commission. First it forced City Manager David Sollenberger to retire effective Jan. 1. Then, a couple of months later as he prepared to leave his duties, the commission offered him a raise.
In true Sollenberger style, without a word or even a lifted eyebrow, he personally removed the item authorizing his raise from an upcoming commission agenda-effectively telling commissioners exactly what they could do with their raise.
Even a fallen-away Unitarian needs a home and warmth on Christmas Eve.
And midnight Mass at St. Martha's-"the church the circus built"-fills the bill so well that some years you'll find dozens of us pilgrims just standing around outside the overflowing church, basking in the Christmas warmth.
If you're lucky enough to find a seat inside, be sure to look into the southwest corner of the sanctuary and notice another unique piece of Sarasota history. It's a huge stained-glass window called "The Good Shepherd," dedicated to "The Ringling Brothers."
No, John and all his older brothers weren't good Catholics-and in fact, all but John were dead when the window was dedicated in 1936, in return for benefit circus performances helping St. Martha's build the church you now see at Fruitville and Orange.
Somehow Christmas Eve is comfortable in "the church the circus built."
Sarasota Mayor Carolyn Mason was born in Overtown, the near northside area that was the city's original black neighborhood. At 14, she moved to Newtown, where she still resides.
Q: Are you ready for an old-fashioned Newtown Christmas?
A: Oh, I'm ready. I'm getting to the point where Christmas has some meaning again because of my grandchildren. It's also the time of the year when I can do my favorite thing, which is helping people. Helping them find whatever they need-toys, clothes or whatever, to get through the season.
Q. So you don't have any bitterness about growing up black in Sarasota?
A: No. We certainly didn't have a lot, but we honestly didn't know we were poor. There was a terrific sense of family and that led to a sense of community-kind of like that so-called "village concept" the planners are all talking about these days. Our community was so tight that when somebody saw you doing something you shouldn't, they told your Mama. You might call it an early version of neighborhood watch–a real cheap version.
Q: And the obvious separateness of the races?
A: We didn't know any different. The separateness from whites actually made us in the black community closer. And really, growing up in Sarasota I thought that's the way the whole world was. The lesson for all of us is that we can never let the separateness happen again. There were great people of both races who crossed that line between them, but that line should never have existed.
Q: Are you tired of being called "Sarasota's first black, female mayor"?
A: Heck, no-I'm proud of it. The title will wear off one of these days, just like those who always used to mention that I'm now a Republican.

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Come to the Stable, with Loretta Young, and The Bells of St. Mary's with Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
Love those two ...
I also like some of the corny ABC Family dime-a-dozen Christmas movies, like the one where the woman gets trapped in a snow globe, or where the divorced and/or widowed father loses touch with the spirit of the holiday and the magical housekeeper puts things in motion that make everything right.
Another one I just remembered is The Christmas Box, with Richard Thomas. Sappy, sentimental, refreshing, and rejuvenating.
I also recall a movie that I can NOT remember about a family that donates a tree to Rockefeller Center and there's some discord in the family, or some such. I'll have to try to search for that...
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Metal-detecting buffs Tim "Ringy" Saylor and George "KG" Wyant of the show "Diggers" came to the area in mid-January to explore the historical grounds of Dockery Farms Plantation outside of Cleveland.
A segment of the upcoming episode will feature their discoveries.
The purpose of the show is to highlight historical locations throughout the U.S. and exhibit the countless artifacts that can be discovered just 6-8 inches below the surface.
"It was unbelievable having a nationally syndicated show come to the Delta and Dockery," said Dockery Farms Foundation Executive Director Bill Lester, who also maintains the grounds. "It was a big treat to work with them."
Lester has lived next to the plantation for 30 years and has been with the foundation for 12 years and was happy to make a guest appearance on the show.
"I had no idea that so many pieces of historical value could be found here," said Lester. "They were able to find a great deal with their high quality metal detectors."
A number of valuable items were discovered, including a Ford Model T hubcap, a rare Whippet car gas tank cover and a tiny award sculpture.
"One of the coolest things they found was a 50 cent piece that would have been used as plantation script," added Lester. "The coins were used at the Dockery commissary and were even accepted in Ruleville and Cleveland. It probably holds some value today."
The unique currency was typically undated but Lester said they were used in the 19th Century and existed until around 1915.
Besides using the metal detectors, the crew used small knives to carefully remove the objects from the soil during their three-day search.
The ground looked unscathed after the pursuit thanks to their intricate surface digging.
Everything that was found was documented, photographed and then donated to a collection maintained by the foundation.
The show's associate producer, Cory Adcock-Camp, was thrilled to bring the series to a distinctive rural scene.
"Dockery is a unique location because not only is it the birthplace of the Blues, but it was also home to thousands of workers going about their daily lives," said Adcock-Camp. "This combination made it an ideal location for the Diggers to visit, due to the allure of finding something that belonged to a Blues legend, and the assurance of finding all kinds of other artifacts to shed light on the lives of their audience and the people who worked and lived on the banks of the Sunflower."
Saylor added that he enjoyed seeing a new part of the country and learning about Dockery's deep musical roots.
"KG and I have never been to that area before," said Saylor. "It was especially awesome for me because I have played guitar for years — badly — and I really enjoyed getting to see some incredible blues musicians."
According to the "Diggers" website, Saylor and Wyant refer to themselves as treasure hunters in a tongue-in-cheek way.
Most of their discoveries are limited in value, but it's the thrill of the process that keeps them going.
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Casey Canady shows the planters, window boxes and shutters that he makes Thursday, February 21, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
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The Chicago Flower and Garden Show will be from March 9 to 17 at Navy Pier's Festival Hall. It will feature "Chicago style" gardening — raised beds and vertical gardens — a kids activity garden, how-to demonstrations, celebrity chefs, interpretive arrangements and a marketplace of lawncare products, plants, tools and reference books.
Weekday admission is $15 when tickets are bought online, $17 at the box office. Weekend rates are $17 and $19, respectively. Tickets for children ages 4 to 12 are $5, and group rates are available.
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When the Chicago Flower and Garden Show opens March 9 at Navy Pier, the work of a budding Mokena craftsman will be featured among the artistic gardens and landscape displays.
The theme of this year's show — The Art of Gardening — makes it an appropriate venue for Casey Canady, who has crafted creative plant containers that are functional works of art.
Before gardeners even step inside the show, Canady's creations, which landscape architects will fill with flowers, will be set up at the entrance and in the lobby to get people excited about the show, he said. More will be on display at his booth inside.
Canady, founder of Custom Architectural Design, also is excited about his second appearance at Chicago's show.
"It's really a big deal to be part of this," he said. His first show last year was "unbelievable," he said, and he got lots of positive feedback on his work.
This year he is taking it to another level.
"I had no idea what to expect, but people loved it. They were refreshed by the new ideas," he said.
Canady's new ideas feature a handmade armoire as a planter, antique trunks he turned into gardening vessels with cedar inserts, and burlap containers trimmed in reclaimed maple large enough to house a conifer.
Perhaps the most unique piece is a champagne/wine rack, on wheels for portability.
Crafted from reclaimed cedar, glass tile and bubinga — a dense hardwood from South Africa — it holds a champagne bucket, four glasses and 10 bottles of wine.
It stands as an example of what his business can do.
He tries to design planters and window boxes that are "different than anything I have seen," he said.
Canady said he always "dabbled" in woodworking and "loves designing." Before launching Custom Architectural Design in September 2011, he designed rooms in Chicago nightclubs.
"That's where I came up with idea for the champagne rack," he said.
His business, which focuses on custom shutters and planters, began as a home improvement project. Canady needed shutters on his own home and decided to do it himself, then realized there was a niche for it. All of his shutters and window boxes are customized to fit the client's windows, so they are "architecturally correct," he said.
Canady claims to be "self-taught" and is learning more about gardening as he grows.
He uses the "best of the best" products, hardware and finishes, with an emphasis on detail, and embellishes the window boxes with unique decorations to add character, so they are equally functional and visually appealing.
Canady also likes to use reclaimed wood and spends a lot of time searching for it.
His planters now adorn the exterior of the Brookside Marketplace shopping center at 191st Street and Harlem Avenue in Tinley Park, and the Palomar Hotel at 505 N. State St., in downtown Chicago.
With his business blooming, the young designer is looking to move it out of his home's garage and into a bigger location.


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There've been some changes and additions to the busy Sarasota cultural season since our November season preview story was compiled. Here's a glimpse of what's new:
An Evening with Judy Collins and special guests, 8 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Van Wezel.
Other changes at the Van Wezel: singer-actor Mandy Patinkin will perform Jan. 20 (instead of the originally scheduled February date); Michael McDonald will appear Feb. 26; and George Benson has switched from a planned October date to an April 18 performance at the hall.
The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe's full season has been confirmed. Five Guys Named Moe, featuring blues man's Louis Jordan's greatest hits, will run Dec. 4-14, followed by Black Nativity, a song-play by Harlem Renaissance spirit Langston Hughes that tells the original story of the Nativity in scripture, verse, music and dance. That's onstage Dec. 18-21 and 27 and 28. Ain't Misbehavin' turns up Jan. 8-18, and Spunk, based on the work of Florida-born Zora Neale Hurston, April 8-18. All shows take place at FST's new SecondStage (formerly Theatre Works) at 1241 N. Palm Ave. Call 954-4651 for tickets.
And in case you were expecting to see Neil Simon's Fools onstage during the FSU/Asolo Conservatory season, you've been fooled. That show has been replaced by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which now runs March 3-21, followed by Shaw's Arms and the Man April 14-May 2. Box office number is 351-8000.


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BY STEPHANIE ZIMMERMANN Sun-Times Media November 26, 2012 6:46PM
Jessica Thompson at her home in Chicago, Ill., on Friday, November 2, 2012. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
"Cause-based marketing" — in which a business promises to give a portion of its proceeds to charity — is increasingly common, according to consumer experts who say a good rule of thumb to follow is this:
If it's a product you need and the business is upfront about how much will go to charity, go ahead. If not, forget it, says Ken Berger, president and chief executive officer of Charity Navigator, which operates the CharityNavigator.org website.
"The best way to give to a charity is to give directly to the charity and cut out the middleman," Berger says.
Charity Navigator and Give.org — operated by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance — offer consumers a way to check out charities. There's no charge.
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You see them at bars and Bears games and other places around Chicago and the suburbs that attract big crowds and a lot of men — young women who want you to help a "good cause" by buying T-shirts and other items emblazoned with the words "Boobies Rock!" and similarly provocative phrases. Their pitch: "Would you like to make a donation to breast-cancer awareness?" Former sellers say it works, often bringing in $3,000 or more in cash at events for Boobies Rock, a company based in a Denver suburb. Often, they say, people would press money into their hands saying they want to donate to the fight against breast cancer, even if they don't want a T-shirt, beer koozie or bracelet. "We had these bags of cash," says Berlinda Williams, who collected money from tailgaters at the Oct. 20 Notre Dame football game. Williams says her boss told her to "just tell them this is going toward a good cause." But Boobies Rock isn't a charity. It's a for-profit business. And some of the charities it claims to help say these claims are misleading, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found. One of those charities says it got $100 a year ago and never heard from anyone at Boobies Rock again. Another says it received $250 but only after complaining about the unauthorized use of its name. One charity whose name has been used to market Boobies Rock says, "We never received a penny." Just how much goes to charity? A marketing presentation obtained by the Sun-Times that Boobies Rock uses to gain entry to some venues put its gross revenues for 2011 at about $1.1 million, with net revenue of $400,000 and unspecified "total commitments" at just over $250,000. Those "commitments" largely reflected philanthropy under pressure: a $250,000 legal settlement that Boobies Rock founder Adam Shryock paid to the Keep-A-Breast Foundation, best known for its I (Heart) Boobies products, to settle a trademark-infringement suit. Shryock confirms that the "commitments" included the settlement. In addition to the money, Shryock and The Se7ven Group, another business he owns, gave up about $200,000 in merchandise to settle the Keep-A-Breast Foundation lawsuit, according to Gary Sirota, an attorney for the California charity. Sirota says that in preparing his organization's lawsuit, he spoke with about a dozen women who sold Boobies Rock merchandise. He says one woman, in Memphis, Tenn., told him her three-person team collected about $20,000 in cash in three months. "The guy gave up $450,000 of cash and merchandise without blinking an eye," Sirota says of the Shryock settlement. "That tells me something." As part of the settlement, Shryock and The Se7ven Group paid $25,000 to an organization called the Young Survival Coalition — a donation Boobies Rock touts, saying in an Oct. 31, 2011, blog post: "We are extremely excited to announce that we have just sent a $25,000 donation to the Young Survival Coalition!!" The donation "did actually happen. But was it voluntary?" says Jenna Glazer, development director for the Young Survival Coalition. "This kind of thing is what makes it difficult for legitimate non-profits to raise money." Help 'a great cause' Boobies Rock operates in 36 cities nationwide. In the Chicago area, its activities include hosting "Cocktails for a Cause" events at Chicago bars and selling merchandise to fans attending Bears, Cubs, Northwestern, Notre Dame and St. Xavier games without permission, the Sun-Times found. On its Facebook pages and website, the company describes itself as a clothing business and "a creative blend of music, sports, fashion and pop culture." As Shryock notes, the company doesn't say it's a charity. But its website calls Boobies Rock "one of the leading advocates for the awareness of breast cancer across the U.S." and, until a Sun-Times reporter inquired, the website also promised that "a portion of each sale will be donated to organizations that provide direct services to those affected by breast cancer around the country." Now that has been amended to say "a portion of each online sale" will be donated, though the company's Facebook page contains the original wording. Its materials and pitches include such phrases as "support our cause" and "thanks for helping a great cause," as well as slogans like "Save second base." At a recent bar event in Chicago, the pitch was: "Would you like to donate to breast-cancer awareness?" Shryock says that as a for-profit business, Boobies Rock doesn't have to give any money to charity. But he says it does so, sometimes "anonymously" or under a name other than Boobies Rock, such as The Se7ven Group. He says that's why some of the charities' figures are lower than his. And he said he gave $3,000 to an individual breast cancer sufferer. He says he can't control the actions of independent sellers who exaggerate the charitable aspect of the business. "The girls are instructed very matter-of-factly what we are and what we are not," he says. "We cannot control what some of these girls say." He acknowledges that one seller told people she herself had cancer. He says another claimed that 80 percent of the money raised by Boobies Rock goes to charity. When things like this happen, Shryock says, "We put a stop to it." A spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says that office has asked Boobies Rock to provide information about its activities to see whether it falls under the state's professional fund-raising statute. The company generally hires young women who respond to online employment ads for promotional models. They are told they will be selling Boobies Rock T-shirts and other products for a good cause and will be paid out of the cash that's collected, according to sellers interviewed by the Sun-Times. 'I . . . feel like a drug dealer' Jessica Thompson, who answered a Craigslist ad seeking promotional models, sold T-shirts and other Boobies Rock items at the Oct. 20 Notre Dame game and at the Oct. 22 Bears game. She says her trainer told her to roam the parking lots with Boobies Rock merchandise, seeking "donations." "She explicitly told us it was not selling and to not use the word 'sell,' " Thompson says. Instead, she says she was told, "It's a 'breast-cancer awareness promotion.' " Thompson says people were told that if they donated a certain amount, they would receive a "prize" like a T-shirt or bracelet. "I was assuming it was a charity," she says. Thompson says she saw her trainer bag up the cash — about $3,000 for each game. She says the trainer boasted of collecting $4,000 some weekends. Thompson says she was unnerved by a comment the trainer made as she spoke of her plans to carry the cash back to Boobies Rock in Colorado: "She said, 'I always feel like a drug dealer when I fly back to Denver.' " Williams says she, too, was surprised to learn that she wasn't working for a nonprofit organization. "My mom died of cancer," she says. "I thought I was doing a good cause." Her friend, Myesha Jones, who also worked the Notre Dame game, says she put her heart into collecting the money, also thinking she was working for a charity. "I can't even tell you how upset I am," says Jones, who is a teacher. Giving when confronted Gateway to Hope is a St. Louis nonprofit that provides care to women with breast cancer who have no insurance or are underinsured. Boobies Rock lists Gateway to Hope as a "Boobies Rock non-profit affiliate" on its materials and lists it on its website and Facebook pages. The charity has received one donation from Boobies Rock — in 2011, for less than $100, according to Cindy Frank, its executive director. That donation came after she and the charity's development director, Susan Bushnell, learned that Boobies Rock was using Gateway to Hope's name without permission at fund-raisers at St. Louis-area bars and demanded to know why. Bushnell says that after the donation was made via PayPal, Gateway's bookkeeper noticed an attempt to void the payment. "It just makes me sick," says Frank. "We've done everything we can to distance ourselves." The Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation is another charity listed as a "Boobies Rock non-profit affiliate." Donna Duncan, the Philadelphia foundation's executive director, says her charity also got just a single donation from Boobies Rock, also for $100, in August 2011. (Shryock says his records reflect donations of $1,000.) "They indicated that they were going to give a donation on a monthly basis," Duncan says. "But that did not happen. We never heard from them again." Jami Eller, executive director of the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition, another charity listed in Boobies Rock's promotional materials, said a friend of her daughter observed Boobies Rock sellers invoking the cancer group's name to sell T-shirts at a Nashville-area bar last year. Eller says she contacted Boobies Rock, and after that Shryock provided a credit-card number and said to run it for a $250 donation. Eller says the charity "sort of put Adam Shryock on the spot," adding that it was the only donation from Boobies Rock in the charity's records. "They're vague, and they can get around certain things by saying things a certain way. The consumer is just assuming that the money to going to some organization that is doing something with breast cancer." The Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas, another charity cited as a recipient of Boobies Rock's largesse, also received one $250 donation, according to its executive director. And Pink Lotus Petals, a California charity whose name was used by Boobies Rock, got nothing, says its chairman, Andy Funk. "They told us they were going to make a big pledge, and then started fund-raising, using our name, our brand and the fact that we're a breast-cancer organization," Funk said. "Long story short, we never got a dime. "They were definitely raising a lot of money and nothing ever was going where it was supposed to go." 'Never heard back' In the Chicago area, Boobies Rock has invoked the name of a Michigan charity called The Pink Fund in its stadium parking-lot sales pitches and at bar events. A Boobies Rock news release in March pledged $50,000 to the organization. Shryock says that reflected a goal for fund-raising for The Pink Fund set in March, but he adds, "I did not want to sign an actual pledge agreement that would bind us to giving $50,000." He acknowledges that Boobies Rock did not communicate again with the charity until November. That was after Shryock's company heard from The Pink Fund's lawyer. "We got everything resolved," Shryock says. "I'm a very understanding person, so I don't have any ill feelings toward The Pink Fund." Pink Fund president Molly MacDonald says that when Boobies Rock contacted her organization in 2011, saying they would like to raise money, she was initially excited about the prospect. "I never heard back from them again. "We never authorized Boobies Rock to use our name in marketing materials or on their website or anything else. We never had an agreement. We never authorized them to use our name or trademark." On Nov. 17, Boobies Rock delivered a company check — not the cashier's check MacDonald says was agreed upon — for $50,000. Shryock acknowledges the criticism by the charities, which he blames on online comments by former Boobies Rock employees. But he says he sees nothing wrong in the way he operates, touting charities he has given even small amounts to or contributed to as the result of a lawsuit. "We have the right to say who we give money to," says Shryock. "We don't have to be best friends with them, but we have the right to say who we give money to." Glazer, from the Young Survival Coalition, is among the breast-cancer charity operators critical of Boobies Rock's methods, which they describe as "pink-washing" — a term used in the not-for-profit world to describe businesses that piggyback on charities' efforts by, for instance, slapping on a pink ribbon or logo. "People don't necessarily have a lot of money to be giving away," says Glazer, herself a breast-cancer survivor. "When I see somebody trying to make money purely for profit off breast cancer, that absolutely disgusts me." Ken Berger, president and chief executive officer of the watchdog group Charity Navigator, which operates the CharityNavigator.org website, says people hear the words "breast cancer" and don't realize their money is going to a for-profit business. "It's like a poster child for pink-washing," Berger says. "There's no clear explanation as to how much money goes where." Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, echoes that concern. "You have to watch out for types of disclosures that tell you 'some money is given' because you'll never really know how much," says Weiner. Regarding Boobies Rock, Weiner says, "I suspect that without the charity benefit, people would not be interested in buying the product that he's selling."


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I have loved cars since I was a kid. I grew up around my Uncle's 1964 Corvette, but I gained a love for foreign sports cars, particularly European. I am passionate about Porsche, BMW, and Corvairs. I also love Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Bugatti, McLaren, and so much more.
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1973 Opel GT. It was the only car with an automatic I've ever owned. It was two-tone gold and brown. My brother got the car after me and swapped in a 4-speed, a Weber carb, header, and a nice Flame Red Metallic paint job, along with custom wheels. It was way cooler when he owned it.
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Just how much can hormone therapy (HT) improve the quality of life after menopause? A lot.
With women reaching menopause between the ages of 40 and 55, many think their body simply makes a transition, but that isn't true. "Menopause is any time the ovaries no longer produce estrogen," affirms Lauren Streicher, MD, Gynecologic Specialists of Northwestern. "With life expectancy increasing, women live well into their 80s, spending a third of their life in menopause," says Dr. Streicher.
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Low-dose vaginal preparations of estrogen improve vulvar vaginal atrophy – vaginal dryness – and come in three forms: pill, ring and cream. "While vaginal estrogen helps alleviate painful sex caused by vaginal dryness, it also benefits women who aren't sexually active and still experience general discomfort, irritation, odor or frequent bladder infections," shares Dr. Streicher. As for dosage, Dr. Tough DeSapri says, "A vaginal estrogen pill or cream is usually prescribed two to three times per week, depending on the extent of vaginal dryness. The vaginal ring is prescribed every three months."
Another benefit of HT is osteoporosis prevention. "One to two women over age 50 will sustain a fracture in their lifetime," explains Dr. Tough DeSapri. "In our center, we focus on maintaining bone health and preventing debilitating fractures by treating with calcium, vitamin D, medications and lifestyle modifications to slow bone loss, which is a natural part of menopause and aging. Standard doses of HT can reduce fractures by up to 40 percent in menopausal women."
What about risks? "The number one risk physicians are concerned about is blood clots, which may lead to a stroke or heart attack," informs Dr. Streicher, who observes this risk is greater when taking oral HT as opposed to transdermal (gel, cream, spray or patch) HT. "Women who are either overweight or have a history of blood clots are more at risk. To reduce the risk of blood clots, I recommend these women lose weight and use transdermals."
Breast cancer is another concern, but Dr. Streicher says majority of women who've had breast cancer never took estrogen in their life. "Current studies don't show an increase in breast cancer for women who take estrogen alone. For women who take both estrogen and progestin, there's a slight increase in breast cancer, particularly if they've taken them for more than five years. But, the risk of breast cancer from using a small amount of estrogen is not nearly as large as the risk associated with family history or obesity." Dr. Tough DeSapri agrees: "The risk of side effects such as heart attack, stroke, blood clots or breast cancer in 50- to 60-year-olds taking HT is very low."
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:20 pm
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I eat meat mostly because of food allergies. I have oral allergy syndrome [
], and because of where I live and the things I'm allergic to, I cannot eat any form of fruit and most nuts. So... going vegetarian is not nutritionally a good idea for me.
I also do not, practically, agree that the slaughtering of animals for my benefit is morally wrong. I believe that there is a way to be ethical (keeping them clean, comfortable, feed them well, don't shove hormones down their throat, etc), but I find nothing morally objectionable with eating meat. Animal abuse is one thing-- but like I mentioned, not necessarily because of the animal itself, but because of the depraved individual who would behave that way. It's the abusive behavior of the individual I object to.
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Tam, you won't see me going vegan because most of my meat is locally grown - just like most of my veggies - and because my dad works for the USDA. Well, chicken and pork is, anyways (and I think we've a few fish farms hidden away somewhere). There's not a beef processing plant nearby, so I don't know about that, but then again, I don't eat beef much anyways - mostly just chicken (seeing as I don't eat pork). Chances are I passed the place where the chicken I eat came from everyday on the way to and from school. Boycotting the farms down here would do a lot more bad than good. The economy's shot, especially in my area, which is pretty rural and wasn't well off to begin with. We've had a bad couple of years with soybeans and corn (it's been too dry), and I'm not going to do something that will mess with people's livelihood and might have repercussions on my dad's job (though chances of that are slim as he's in soil and irrigation) or the jobs of people he knows.
I'm not saying that the farms down here are perfect, we've a friend who's in poultry science, but I at least know where what I'm eating is coming from. Small comfort, I guess, but have you ever tried to convince a redneck of something? They're GROWN stubborn (myself included).
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Tinalles wrote:
So it doesn't make sense to claim, as you appear to be doing, that the existence of selfish people negates the utilitarian approach to morality. The whole essence of the utilitarian approach is to deal with the existence of selfishness. It's impossible to eliminate it, but it's entirely possible to discourage selfish behavior and encourage altruism. So I'm not buying your argument.
Have I misunderstood or misinterpreted something?
It's not unreasonable to strive for the greatest good for the greatest number, if you want to. The problem is that the utilitarian argument says that you should want to. It goes from the realm of a could to the realm of an ought. For empirical claims it's clear what ought and should mean; they're predictions, or descriptions, about how things line up with the world. But in the case of the utilitarian argument it goes:
If X [you value happiness in yourself]
then [you should]
Y [value it wherever it is.]
And, since we have a world that contradicts that, we have examples of X with ~Y in selfish people, their argument for why people should agree with them doesn't hold.
If they just wanted to claim that people can be altruistic then that's fine; but equally I can claim that people can be non-altruistic. Those claims can be components of propositional arguments but of themselves they're simply trivia.
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Yes, but that is true of
individual. Therefore, you are not getting special treatment, you are getting treatment that the rest of society is getting. Assuming we're using the word 'special' to mean 'out of the ordinary,' that's not special treatment. That's just you not being treated any worse than others for an arbitrary reason--which would be out of the ordinary.
Forgive me if I'm just misunderstanding.
Theoretically anyone who fulfills all the same qualities as another person will be treated in exactly the same way as that other person, down to the interpersonal relationships they have and their displayed behaviour. In a sense we're all treated the same, in that had we lived each others lives we'd be treated the way they are treated.
Special really depends on your frame of reference and how often the thing occurs within that. By reference to the majority of other people within my society I'm not treated that poorly by way of rights, I don't get special treatment in that regard; by reference to the entirety of humanity those of us with such a full set of rights are treated pretty specially. By reference to how I treat myself as compared to how I treat others I also show myself a lot of special treatment.
In this case the frame of reference was shown at the start of, (Tam's, I think?) question, 'All humans.'
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:17 am
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Nem wrote:
For empirical claims its clear what ought and should mean; theyre predictions, or descriptions, about how things line up with the world.
See, that's where we're diverging. You're treating the "should" in the utilitarian as an empirical description of reality, and
it's not
, nor is it supposed to be.
Your example frames it as a logical construct:
Nem wrote:
If X [you value happiness in yourself]
then [you should]
Y [value it wherever it is.]
In which the "should" has predictive force. But that's not how it's meant. Moral arguments are based on setting up ideals to strive for. Ideals by their very nature are contrary to observed fact in many cases. So the "should" is not meant to predict an outcome, but to formally approve a particular outcome as preferable to other possible outcomes. Thus:
Tinalles wrote:
If X [you value happiness in yourself]
then [it would be a really good idea]
Y [to value it wherever it is.]
That's how moral arguments work: by envisioning an ideal outcome and advocating for it. If you restrict a moral argument to the basis of empirical observations of human behavior, it's no longer an argument about morals.
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Squee hasn't read the argument here but would like to point out that the wrong questions are being asked here, as is usually the case when "animal rights" comes up. Technically, no thing has inherent rights; even people's rights are invested by the morals of society, not by an inherent trait of humankind. (You may argue for God-given rights, but even then a person can't truly have any rights without the consent of society.) The only "rights" are the Law of Nature, which is, to survive, to reproduce. As the top of the food chain, humans have every "right" to use the rest of nature as they see fit. After all, natural selection has left us the strongest species, and our biological imperatives are hard to ignore.
Now, that said, the question should be: "Should we treat animals closer to how we treat others of our own kind, because we are thinking, moral beings with the ability to make value choices? How closely should we treat them to humans? Should we ignore our inherent natures in the process? At what point do we make a distinction between "human-like" and "vermin?" These questions are far more relevant questions, and far harder to answer.
Animals do NOT think as humans do, so applying equal morals may not be the best idea. For instance, if you treat a dog like a human, the dog will become quite confused and likely act out inappropriately, because a dog is trying to make sense of what is going on in the only framework it can: that of a pack structure, not a human society. Whereas, treating a dog as more subservient will actually make the dog far more happier; you've become the alpha male/female of the pack, and it knows how to behave appropriately at that point. At the end of the day, NO animals has the same thoughts or emotions of a human. One nearly has to have a pet to know how alien they think sometimes for something that is so familiar to us.
Now, I believe that one's treatment of animals says a LOT about someone's character, independent of their treatment of other human beings. It's obvious to everyone that someone who is cruel to animals has some serious amoral tendencies in his character. Acting out inhumanely against animals is only a substitute for actual people, and the line can be very thin indeed.
But we certainly can't go overboard and say that eating animals is unethical or morally wrong. Why then is eating another living thing, plants, different? The answer is simple, and somewhat revealing: the more humanlike something gets, the more we treat something as human. Remember the experiment with babies and american footballs? The babies would try to find where the football was "looking" even though it has no eyes. The same is true of all of us: the more things start looking humanlike, the more we tend to treat them as such. Animals, they have eyes and ears and mouths, so naturally we start have human emotions towards them. Plants? Immobile, notta feeling. Bugs? Bleh, look at those legs and weird eyes! CREEPY! Bacteria? Can't even see them, might as well apply liberal anti-bacterials. The line is both simultaneously clear and blurry when looked at in that light. Taking a moral high ground based on denying a biological need (eating certain foods) based on
biological system (primitive recognition of "human-like" qualities) is standing on shaking ground at best. Not saying that vegatarians/vegans are wrong, just that moral superiority for such is...frankly laughable.
Laws can and should be in place to enforce ethical standards towards animals just as for humans, since the two are so intermingled, but at all times, you can't forget at the end of the day: they're still animals, and should not be valued more highly than the more meaningful life of us, humankind.
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Squee, I agree that animals should not be valued more highly than humans. Moreso, I think that humans should be valued higher than animals.
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Taking a moral high ground based on denying a biological need (eating certain foods) based on another biological system (primitive recognition of "human-like" qualities) is standing on shaking ground at best. Not saying that vegatarians/vegans are wrong, just that moral superiority for such is...frankly laughable.
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Squee hasn't read the argument here
Could you read it before calling it laughable please? =/ Regardless of the topic, I think that's a little unfair. Especially as several of your points have already been addressed.
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Tam: why shouldn't humans be valued higher than animals? Given the choice, when driving, between running over a small group of rabbits (say, 10 of them) and swerving into the path of a family hatchback and killing yourself and all the occupants of said hatchback (total, 6) which would you choose? I know which I'd pick... but according to your logic, you'd be morally obliged to kill yourself and 5 other people to save 10 rabbits. Or have I read your logic incorrectly?
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Uhm.... reread the sentence? I said that I think humans should be valued higher than animals. Like, I'd much rather kill the rabbits. =S
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Yeah, I misread that o_O
But the question (or one related to it) still stands. At what point do a certain number of animals have greater value than a certain number of humans? The question is particularly important when you consider animal research for life-threatening conditions.
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Animal research is, like I said, a whole 'nother story... from what I've learned, it's not nearly as reliable or helpful as we treat it. Animal biology and human biology are incredibly different, and oftentimes the things we learn from experimenting on animals turn out to be totally different with humans. There are other, better ways to experiment, not the least of which is on human cells. It's often done, and it's much more reliable than animals.
However, that's sort of avoiding the question you asked.
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At what point do a certain number of animals have greater value than a certain number of humans?
I don't know.
I mean, I think that almost no number of animal lives equals a human life (unless it's like millions, in which case you're endangering the ecology and other humans? I dunno). But I'm not sure if that validates experimenting on animals, if only because other types of research may be more useful.
What I do know is that we don't need to be eating meat. So I can argue against what I'm reasonably sure is wrong, and leave the scientists alone for now.
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We don't need to be using computers, flying, driving, sending rockets to space... all of these are harmful to the environment and damaging the world. Will you argue against them, too?
For the most part, I agree with you about animal experimentation. It's less useful than most people think, and less useful than many scientists think. There are emerging technologies which drastically reduce the necessity of it. But there are some experiments which require whole organism systems to perform. And they will always require animals, unless you do them on people...
And when they are necessary and unavoidable, I fully support doing them.
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And I tentatively support doing them. =P
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We don't need to be using computers, flying, driving, sending rockets to space... all of these are harmful to the environment and damaging the world. Will you argue against them, too?
No, but I will argue against the things that are causing them to be harmful to the environment (fossil fuels anyone?). There are good and bad ways to do these things, and I feel we tend to choose the cheaper, more damaging to the environment way. Green energy, recycling, biodegradable materials and no end of other technological solutions are available to help us keep our way of life without destroying the world too much.
Besides, these things are all helping to advance the human race. Eating meat doesn't really advance us any, as far as I can see. It's mostly just killing us.
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I am enjoying reading every ones take on this particular topic, I hope that no one will mind if I give you my input.
First on the issue of eating meat. I try not to buy mass produced meat products. (battery farms for hens, pigs, all farmed fish for example) The reason for this is two fold. One is the health issues that have already been mentioned. I am wary of the various additives put into the feed, which are probably not doing us any favors. Farmed fish are probably best avoided. The second is that it is cruel to keep any living thing that is capable of a lot of mobility in such a small space that it can not even turn. I will however happily eat meat that is sourced from a free ranged farm. I see no problem eating meat from an animal that had a good life (for lack of a better term) I am aware Tamir, that this does not address your very good point that there is no longer any reason to eat meat except that we like the taste. I do not agree with animal cruelty but I (mostly) do not give them enough rights to avoid the dinner table. (For example: endangered animals you just dont eat.)
There is another angle that I do not think has been addressed yet and I would like to read your opinions on it. Animal rights and zoos/pets/captivity
I once read a pretty good argument by a zoo keeper about how it was not cruel to the animals in a zoo to keep them there. His argument was based around tigers but he brought up some very good points that can be applied almost universally. He said that an animal in a zoo gets regular meals, is safe from the predations of rivals, and, well other predators and is kept free from dieses that habitually affect there cousins in the wild. He mentions that those in the wild have large territories because they have to. Access to water, the necessity of a large hunting ground etc (he was more eloquent and detailed then I) At the end he demonstrates his point by comparing a tramp in a city having to endure the elements, roam across large areas of the city in search of food while suffering from numerous easily cured dieses to a man being kept in a warm house, being well fed and clothed, access to the internet and various other types of entertainment and having regular check ups by doctors. The only condition is that he can not leave the house. If offered a choice between the two what would be your choice?
However, there is in our local zoo a corner considered by me to be a very depressing one. This is because that corner is where they have their great eagle. The cage the bird is in is huge, but anyone can tell when they see it, it is too small. The bird was meant for wide, endless open spaces, for flying, all it does is sit on its perch. No matter how big the cage is it will always be too small, a cage cannot contain the sky. It is wrong for the bird to be there. (Never mind that it could no longer survive in the wild, it was never meant to be there in the first place)
*Sorry, while this example is not as articulate as the tiger one it is the best I can do for the other point of view.*
Is there a happy medium? Where an animal is looked after and fed, but also given plenty of freedom. Dogs for example. This just opens up more questions, when do we stop looking after them? Should they be kept alive for as long as possible? Constant visits to the vet, long drug treatments, surgery etc. Or should we just put them to sleep at the first sign, so as to avoid any pain? Where does the dogs rights lie? Should we judge it case by case? or give universal edicts? Is it ok to treat one animal very well because we know it and are emotionally attached to it, while ignoring the suffering of others because we are not?
I will never rate an animal above a human, never. But that does not mean that I will condone their mistreatment. I think that we should treat animals as animals. They are more then mere commodities but, they are after all, less then human.
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The same is true of all of us: the more things start looking humanlike, the more we tend to treat them as such. Animals, they have eyes and ears and mouths, so naturally we start have human emotions towards them. Plants? Immobile, notta feeling. Bugs? Bleh, look at those legs and weird eyes! CREEPY! Bacteria? Can't even see them, might as well apply liberal anti-bacterials. The line is both simultaneously clear and blurry when looked at in that light. Taking a moral high ground based on denying a biological need (eating certain foods) based on
biological system (primitive recognition of "human-like" qualities) is standing on shaking ground at best.
I'm sorry if this comes off as a bit angry, this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine and I do not mean it to be mean.
Plants do not work the same way as animals. Cutting of a branch is
the same as cutting off a finger or a hand. That fruit? It will fall off anyway. We are not killing the plant to eat it in all cases. I recognize there are times where the plant is killed, but this is not true for all. My favorite plant foods are apples, plums, oranges...to the best of my knowledge, picking those doesn't kill the plant.
For the same reason you don't treat a dog as a complete equal, you can't say eating a plant is the same as eating an animal, because they have different effects on the organism.
There is something to be said for the difference between domesticated and non-domesticated animals. You should be providing for a dog because you've taken on the mantle of Alpha. It is a job you have chosen.
And about the thing around the tiger...first off, I, personally, would choose tramp and try to work my way up (I am assuming I am alone for this choice, no family to care for or anything). THis would arguably be even easier in the wild, as you have to hunt and pass on your genes; you don't need a degree that costs money to make money, you need to go out and train. (If you're on your own or a runt from day one, that's another story.) Being inside all the time would drive me insane, and if I couldn't invite any friends over (as the tiger can't), I would probably get bored out of my skull. Second, the main thing in that choice is that it
is a choice
. If you just had someone stick you in that house, how would you feel?
Also: working my way up. There is a ceiling that I am constantly in contact with, in that house. What can I do? (I have a thing about feeling useless, though, so...*shrug*)
I dunno, that's just my take.
...Interestingly enough, I actually tend to support zoos that give ample space, food, water, so I guess I need to go think that over now...
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I would like to jump into this argument with a few thoughts. First of all, let me go on to agree with the notion that when we take on the mantle of caretaker (or Alpha, or whatnot) that we have assumed a role of companion and... well, caregiver for an animal. It is this role we have volunteered ourselves for that we should then use to bring the animal as much happiness, love, security, and joy as we can to their life. That is what a companion does.
Animal testing? Depends on the test. Valuing human life over animal life, I would rather see animals used in tests that are very likely to have high mortality rates. Would I want this done to my family pet? Of course not. Again, I have taken on role of companion and caregiver. Protector, if you will.
The eating meat argument: I prefer (though do not exclusively eat) meat that I have killed myself. Hunting and fishing constitute a little over 50% of the meat I eat, and I can guarantee a painless kill while hunting. The concussive force of the projectile is enough to knock the target unconscious, which I have seen dozens of times. Most importantly, they do not suffer unduly if I can avoid it. As for fishing... that's a bit trickier, admittedly, but I also quickly end their pain and refuse to throw back fish that are injured beyond continued life. I have made a choice, to value my life and needs over theirs. The least I can do with that choice is to respect that their lives existed, and they were living creatures. I can do them a service and grant them as painless and quick an end as I can, that's my opinion.
Finally, let me discuss plants and whether they feel "pain" or not. Perhaps due to a nervous system that has never worked
right, or perhaps because I spend far more time internally than I do externally, my own nerves for "pain" seem to be a bit off. I feel pressure, tension, textile sensation, and temperature. All these things combine to produce a sense of urgent reflex (like taking my hand off a hot stove), or a sharp pressure combined with a surge of adrenaline (animal bites, knife stabs, so on). Neither of these things I would consider "pain", only reflexive responses to stimuli. Ignoring the constant headaches I get for now, let's continue about "pain" as a response to stimuli.
According to Merriam-Webster, "Pain" is..
2 a: usu. localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder (as a disease or an injury) ; also : a basic bodily sensation induced by a noxious stimulus, received by naked nerve endings, characterized by physical discomfort (as pricking, throbbing, or aching), and typically leading to evasive action
By this same definition of pain, I conclude that many plants feel these same things when they are harvested. Those that we eat the fruits of, obviously, do not feel any more pain than they normally would when the fruits fall naturally. However, plants which are comprised mainly of the edible portions? Almost all vegetables fall into this category, for instance.
The plant DOES have a nervous system. Not in the same fashion as the CNR (Central Nervous System) of "higher organisms" like mammals, but a nervous system all the same.
(Let me know if that's not very conclusive, I haven't actually read the ENTIRE thing and I don't want to fish out my textbooks before bed..)
Since "pain" is defined as the nervous system's response to external stimuli that damages nervous tissue, I can only assume that plants feel pain. There are many, many studies that seek to understand the plants' response to damage (I'll provide links below). The interesting things to read about? Plants don't respond to mechanical damage the same as natural herbivore damage[5]. Plants respond to different types of damage in different ways[1,3,4]. Finally, plants respond to deficits in water, though this is hardly news to anyone who's grown them in a garden[2].
What I'm aiming at here, is I dislike the notion that simply because it's far more difficult to observe a plant suffering that it does
suffer. It is a living object, incapable of communicating with humans in a manner that we perceive as such. In the same way that we believe animals are "lesser intelligences" because they do not communicate with us or have different instincts, we apply this prejudice to plants and deem them completely without intelligence. Living matter with no "life" to them, if you will. This notion is tenuous at best in my opinion, believing that ONLY a "soul" permits one to have the ability to register things like pain, fear, hope, desperation, and finally... resignation to the idea of death.
I apologize if I sound abrasive, but... it does bother me, it bothers me a great deal. I have looked into "lesser animals" and seen understanding, cunning intelligence. I have stared into the endless depths of a far older and wiser "animal" than I, and felt instantly humbled. I have watched the way a plant, year after year, behaves as it grows and populates around it. The touch of a gardener's hand here, the brush of a metal blade there...and the plant changes itself. It is alive, there is no question to me. As with all living things, it has a system for perceiving it's environment. That system, that understanding of things that happen to it, allow it to suffer. The problem is, plants have no central processing center. There's not an easy way to end it quickly, as such. Assuming that lack of response ever was a quick end to begin with..
Different responses to levels of damage
Plants respond to water deficit
More responses to different types of damage
Specific damage required for response
Mechanical damage does not replicate actual herbivore damage
Edit: I should clarify in summary, I think, my overall position. I believe that all organisms that are alive and contain some measurable way to perceive their environment are as capable of pain as I, myself, am. I do not know, nor will I ever truly know, to what extent this perception translates into fear, suffering, and so on. All that I can do, in all the things I do, is to provide as best I can for those things that I have domain over, and to cultivate or harvest that which I consume in as compassionate a manner as I can. To that end, I do a great deal of gardening and hunting when I can, to ensure the conditions of my meal.
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I. Welcome and presentation of the Moderator
II. The challenge cholera to development in the countries of
o Ministry of Health of
III. The National and Binational Plans to respond to the Cholera Epidemic in La Hispaniola
IV. The Coalition for the Elimination of Cholera in
o PAHO (Coalition Temporary Secretariat)
o Consideration by Coalition Members
V. Calling for the support of the Coalition
o Reaction by non-participating members: UNDP and/or others
o Extending the challenge: water and housing , Fiocruz Foundation
VI. Open discussion on the mechanisms for the future (Coordinator TBN)
VII. Closing remarks, Coordinator
Product of the Side Event
· Distribution of the Coalition Declaration
· Highlight the challenge of developing countries for making development sustainable
· Present the Coalition for Elimination of Cholera in
· To bring attention of other potential partners and actions to the Coalition
Additional events around the session
· Luncheon during the session
Venue: ISAGS
Date: Tuesday June 19, 2012
Time: 12:00 to 14:30 hrs
Contact: Vitale, Mrs. Mirriah