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Gross National Happiness
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The assessment of gross national happiness (GNH; Wylie: gyal-yong ga'a-kyid pal-'dzoms) was designed in an attempt to define an indicator and concept that measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic and psychological terms than only the economic indicator of gross domestic product (GDP).
GNH has only been officially used in Bhutan, where a Gross National Happiness Commission is charged with reviewing policy decisions and allocation of resources.[1] In 2013, with a new administration, the country shifted the focus from spreading GNH globally to the well-being of people within Bhutan.[2] This shift has been interpreted by some as an abandonment of GNH in favor of more standard development initiatives.[3]
Origins and meaning[edit]
The term "gross national happiness" was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's fourth Dragon King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who opened Bhutan to the age of modernization soon after the demise of his father, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. He used this phrase to signal his commitment to building an economy that would serve Bhutan's unique culture based on Buddhist spiritual values. At first offered as a casual, offhand remark, the concept was taken seriously, as the Centre for Bhutan Studies, under the leadership of Karma Ura, developed a sophisticated survey instrument to measure the population's general level of well-being.[4] Two Canadians, Michael and Martha Pennock played a major role in developing the Bhutanese survey, which took a six to seven-hour interview to complete. They developed a shorter international version of the survey which has been used in their home region of Victoria BC as well as in Brazil. The Pennocks also collaborated with Ura in the production of a policy lens which is used by the Bhutanese GNH Commission for anticipating the impact of policy initiatives upon the levels of GNH in Bhutan[5]
Like many psychological and social indicators, GNH is somewhat easier to state than to define with mathematical precision. Nonetheless, it serves as a unifying vision for Bhutan's five-year planning process and all the derived planning documents that guide the economic and development plans of the country. Proposed policies in Bhutan must pass a GNH review based on a GNH impact statement that is similar in nature to the Environmental Impact Statement required for development in the U.S.
At present, we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP.
The Bhutanese grounding in Buddhist ideals suggests that beneficial development of human society takes place when material and spiritual development occur side by side to complement and reinforce each other. The four pillars of GNH are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance. At this level of generality, the concept of GNH is transcultural—a nation need not be Buddhist to value sustainable development, cultural integrity, ecosystem conservation, and good governance. Through collaboration with an international group of scholars and empirical researchers the Centre for Bhutan Studies further defined these four pillars with greater specificity into eight general contributors to happiness—physical, mental and spiritual health; time-balance; social and community vitality; cultural vitality; education; living standards; good governance; and ecological vitality. Although the GNH framework reflects its Buddhist origins, it is solidly based upon the empirical research literature of happiness, positive psychology and well-being.[citation needed]
The ideal of government as a promoter of happiness can be traced back at least to the Spring and Autumn period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, approximately 771 to 476 BC, where Confucius in the Analects is quoted as saying "Good government obtains, when those who are near are made happy, and those who are far off are attracted."[7]
In 2013, the President of Singapore Dr Tony Tan proposed that in addition to building up substantial financial reserves, Singapore also needed to focus on building up its "social reserves", a concept that appears to have parallels to GNH.[8]
Qualitative and quantitative indicators[edit]
There is no exact quantitative definition of GNH,[9] but elements that contribute to GNH are subject to quantitative measurement. Low rates of infant mortality, for instance, correlate positively with subjective expressions of well-being or happiness within a country. The practice of social science has long been directed toward transforming subjective expression of large numbers of people into meaningful quantitative data; there is no major difference between asking people "how confident are you in the economy?" and "how satisfied are you with your job?"
GNH, like the Genuine Progress Indicator, refers to the concept of a quantitative measurement of well-being and happiness. The two measures are both motivated by the notion that subjective measures like well-being are more relevant and important than more objective measures like consumption. It is not measured directly, but only the factors which are believed to lead to it.
According to Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton University Economist, happiness can be measured using the day reconstruction method, which consists in recollecting memories of the previous working day by writing a short diary.[10]
A second-generation GNH concept, treating happiness as a socioeconomic development metric, was proposed in 2006 by Med Jones, the President of International Institute of Management. The metric measures socioeconomic development by tracking seven development areas including the nation's mental and emotional health.[11] GNH value is proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures:
- Economic Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of economic metrics such as consumer debt, average income to consumer price index ratio and income distribution
- Environmental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of environmental metrics such as pollution, noise and traffic
- Physical Wellness: Indicated via statistical measurement of physical health metrics such as severe illnesses
- Mental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of mental health metrics such as usage of antidepressants and rise or decline of psychotherapy patients
- Workplace Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of labor metrics such as jobless claims, job change, workplace complaints and lawsuits
- Social Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of social metrics such as discrimination, safety, divorce rates, complaints of domestic conflicts and family lawsuits, public lawsuits, crime rates
- Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local democracy, individual freedom, and foreign conflicts.
The above seven metrics were incorporated into the first Global GNH Survey.[12]
Ed Diener, a psychologist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed a scale referred to as subjective well-being, a concept related to happiness and quality of life, which has been used to compare nations to each other on this construct.[13] This study found that "high income, individualism, human rights, and social equality correlated strongly with each other, and with SWB" (p. 851, abstract).
Adam Kramer, a psychologist from the University of Oregon, has developed a behavioral model of "Gross National Happiness" based on the use of positive and negative words in social network status updates, resulting in a quantitative GNH metric.[14]
"Rethinking Development: Local Pathways to Global Wellbeing," the Second International Conference on Gross National Happiness was held in Antigonish, Nova Scotia 20–24 June 2005, co-hosted by Genuine Progress Index Atlantic (proceedings online); the Coady International Institute; Shambhala; the Centre for Bhutan Studies; the Province of Nova Scotia; the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University; and the University of New Brunswick. The second regional Conference took place 8–11 November 2006 at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. The conference examined Haida successes to apply non-western economic and social modalities.
The 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness Towards Global Transformation: World Views Make a Difference offered an opportunity to articulate Asian world views towards transformation in a "message to the world." It took place in Nong Khai and Bangkok, Thailand between 22 and 28 November 2007. Implying the transition from a natural to modernized state, the 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness (GNH 3) took place in two locations: the first three days took place in rural north-eastern province of Nong Khai and the last three days in the urban campus of Chulalongkorn University in central Bangkok, Thailand. The organizers planned all activities so that participants were able to explore a large variety of venues, presentation and discussion formats and draw on the great variety and talents of the entire group of 800 participants who registered. Main co-organizers were the Sathirakoses Nagapradipa Foundation (Thailand), Centre for Bhutan Studies, while local NGOs, progressive business group Social Venture Network and the government of Thailand in particular The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Thailand, have formed a support network together with research agencies and other government departments like the Thai Health Promotion Foundation.
The 4th International Conference on Gross National Happiness was held in Bhutan with a focus on Practice and Measurement. Results of the Bhutanese survey were presented and a number of international contributors discussed different approaches and challenges to the measurement and application of the GNH framework.[15]
In 2009, the 5th International Conference was held at Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, with more than 800 participants. The conference was organised by Future Vision Ecological Institute and Itaipu Bi-national Hydroelectric Facility, in collaboration with the Centre for Bhutan Studies. The growing interest in GNH within Brazil has resulted from the work of Dr. Susan Andrews at the Instituto Visão Futuro which sponsored a series of events in São Paulo and Campinas in October 2008. Speakers included Karma Ura from Bhutan and Michael Pennock from Canada.[16]
On 19 July 2011, the United Nations approved a Bhutan-sponsored resolution 65/309, titled "Happiness: Towards a Holistic Approach to Development", which was co-sponsored by 68 countries. It stated that 'happiness is fundamental human goal and universal aspiration; that GDP by its nature does not reflect the goal; that unsustainable patterns of production and consumption impede sustainable development; and that a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach is needed to promote sustainability, eradicate poverty, and enhance wellbeing and profound happiness." The resolution was followed by a meeting at the UN in April 2012 which was attended by more than 800 participants including the President of Costa Rica, the United Nations general secretary, the president of the UN General Assembly and Economic and Social Council, government ministers and ambassadors, leading economists and scholars and prominent civil society, business and spiritual leaders. As a result of this meeting a Secreatariat was established in Bhutan, supported by an International Expert Working Group led by Drs. Robert Costanza and Jacqueline McGlade, which will draft a new global development paradigm for presentation to the UN in 2013.
External studies[edit]
In a widely cited study, "A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?" by Adrian G. White of the University of Leicester in 2007, Bhutan ranked eighth out of 178 countries in Subjective Well-Being, a metric that has been used by many psychologists since 1997.[17] In fact, it is the only country in the top 20 "happiest" countries that has a very low GDP.
National happiness is also sometimes classified under empirically studied "National Happyism," and psychologists, Drs. Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, have researched and analyzed what could be described as technological elements and characteristics of happiness for both individuals and societies.
Domestic critics argue that emphasis on Bhutan's experiment with GNH has diverted global attention away from government suppression of the nation's largest minority the Hindu Lhotshampa, who formerly comprised approximately one sixth of Bhutan's population. Since the mid 19th century, the Lhotshampa coexisted in relative harmony with the dominant Buddhist population, but, as a result of new citizenship laws created in the mid 1980s, the Nepalese descendants suddenly were subjected to mass expulsion and oppressive tactics aimed to bring about their cultural and linguistic annihilation. Bhutan continues to deny those Lhotshampa who have remained basic human rights of cultural and linguistic expression. Instead, the group has been allegedly subject to torture and sexual assault. At the same time, refugees continue to languish in refugee camps, denied the right to return for over 20 years.[18]
From an economic perspective, critics state that because GNH depends on a series of subjective judgments about well-being, governments may be able to define GNH in a way that suits their interests. Economics professor Deirdre McCloskey criticizes such measurements as unscientific, saying that "Recording the percentage of people who say they are happy will tell you... [just] how people use words," making the analogy that society could not "base physics on asking people whether today was 'hot, nice, or cold'". McCloskey also criticizes the anti-consumerism of the movement to base government policy on happiness, asserting that "High culture has in fact always flourished in eras of lively commerce, from fifth-century Greece through Song China and Renaissance Italy down to the Dutch Golden Age."[19]
Other critics say that international comparison of well-being will be difficult on this model; proponents maintain that each country can define its own measure of GNH as it chooses, and that comparisons over time between nations will have validity. GDP provides a convenient, international scale. Research demonstrates that markers of social and individual well-being are remarkably transcultural: people generally report greater subjective life satisfaction if they have strong and frequent social ties, live in healthy ecosystems, experience good governance, etc. Nevertheless, it remains true that reliance on national measures of GNH would render international comparisons of relative well-being more problematic, since there is not and is not likely ever to be a common scale as "portable" as GDP has been.[vague][13][17] Nevertheless, Bhutan's stated goal is to maximize whatever they see as GNH, not compare numbers with other countries.
Alternative indicators of emotion as an analog to economic progress have also been supported by a number of NGOs such as the UK's New Economics Foundation, and are employed in some governments notably in Europe and Canada.[citation needed] The Gallup poll system also collects data on wellbeing on a national and international scale.[20]
See also[edit]
This section may contain excessive, poor, or irrelevant examples. (January 2013) |
- Economic democracy
- Gender Empowerment Measure
- Gender-related Development Index
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- Global Peace Index
- Cool Japan
- Happiness
- Happiness economics
- Happy Planet Index
- Human Development Index
- Human Poverty Index
- Income inequality metrics
- Index of Economic Freedom
- Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
- Legatum Prosperity Index
- Leisure satisfaction
- List of countries by income equality
- Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Philosophy of happiness
- Post-materialism
- Psychometrics
- Satisfaction with Life Index
- Social reserves
- Socionomics
- Subjective life satisfaction
- Sustainable Human Development Index
- Utilitarianism
- Where-to-be-born Index
- Wikiprogress
- World Happiness Report
- World Values Survey
- ^ Sonam. "Gross National Happiness Commission - The Planning Commission of Bhutan, Development for Happiness". Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "Bhutan's New Prime Minister Says Happiness Isn't Everything". NPR.org. 3 August 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/world/asia/index-of-happiness-bhutans-new-leader-prefers-more-concrete-goals.html
- ^ "Gross National Happiness". The Centre for Bhutan Studies. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ Pennock M, Ura K. Gross national happiness as a framework for health impact assessment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2010.04.003
- ^ Commencement speech at the University of Portland
- ^ "Confucius Analects 13:16". Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ "Leong Wai Kit, "S'pore needs both financial and 'social' reserves to thrive: President Tony Tan", 'Today', 6 November 2013.". TODAYonline. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ McDonald, Ross (2005). "Rethinking Development. Local Pathways to Global Wellbeing". St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. p. 3.
- ^ Templeton, Sarah-Kate (5 December 2004). "Happiness is the new economics". London: Timesonline. Retrieved 8 January 2007.
- ^ "Gross National Happiness (GNH) – Gross National Happiness Policy and The American Pursuit of Unhappiness- Med Jones, IIM". Iim-edu.org. 10 January 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Gross National Happiness (GNH) Survey | Global GNH Survey". Iim-edu.org. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ a b http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/69/5/851/ Factors Predicting the Subjective Well-Being of Nations
- ^ http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753369 An Unobtrusive Behavioral Model of "Gross National Happiness"
- ^ "Gross National Happiness". The Centre for Bhutan Studies. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ "Gross National Happiness". The Centre for Bhutan Studies. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ a b http://www.le.ac.uk/users/aw57/world/sample.html A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?
- ^ Mishra, Vidhyapati (28 June 2013). "Bhutan Is No Shangri-La". The New York Times.
- ^ McCloskey, Deirdre N. (28 June 2012). "Happyism: The Creepy New Economics of Pleasure". The New Republic. pp. 16–23.
- ^ "A Wellbeing Report Card for President Sarkozy". Gallup.com. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- Adler Braun, Alejandro. Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: A Living Example of an Alternative Approach to Progress, 24 September 2009. http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/OtherArticles/GNHPaperbyAlejandro.pdf
- Confucious. Analects 13:16. http://ctext.org/analects/zi-lu/
- Diener, Ed and Robert-Biswas Diener. Happiness – Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008. 290 pages. ISBN 978-1-4051-4661-6.
- Eric Zencey, "GDP RIP," New York Times, 9 August 2009 [1]
- Eric Ezechieli, "Beyond Sustainable Development: Education for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan" http://suse-ice.stanford.edu/monographs/Ezechieli.pdf, Stanford University, 2003
- Kammann, R. "The Analysis and Measurement of Happiness as a Sense of Well-Being", Social Indicators Research, 15(2) (1984:Aug.) p. 91–115
- Layard, Richard (2005), Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Penguin Press, ISBN 0-14-303701-3
- Niestroy, Ingeborg; García Schmidt, Armando; Esche, Andreas (2013). "Bhutan: Paradigms Matter", in: Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.): Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future. Reinhard Mohn Prize 2013'. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh. pp. 55–80. ISBN 978-3-86793-491-6.
- Powdyel, T.S. "Gross National Happiness, A Tribute," Gross National Happiness, Kinga, Sonam, et al. (eds) (1999), Thimphu: The Center for Bhutan Studies
- Priesner, Stefan (2004), Indigeneity and Unversality in Social Science: A South Asian Response, SAGE Publications, ISBN 0-7619-3215-1
- Thinley, L. (October 1998). Values and Development: "Gross National Happiness." Speech presented at the Millennium Meeting for Asia and the Pacific, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
External links[edit]
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- Gross National Happiness American Project
- Official Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Website, Centre for Bhutan Studies
- Nadia Mustafa, "What About Gross National Happiness?", Time, 10 January 2005
- Rajni Bakshi, "Gross National Happiness", Resurgence, 25 January 2005
- International Institute of Management – US based GHN research, GNH policy white paper
- Bhutan 2008 Paeans to the King
- Gross National Happiness, Chapter 9 Facts about Bhutan by Lily Wangchhuk
- GNH 2 Media Clips tracks the appearance of the notion of "Gross National Happiness" in the media 2000–2005.
- World Happiness Report
- Bhutan, Gross National Happiness and Sustainable Development – YouTube (12:31)
- Gross National Happiness Survey, Global


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This memory is funny as hell. I have had many women and a pretty face or nice legs is great but i had always been a tit and ass man. I generally have developed the preference for attached or inexperienced women and submissive women but there have been times when the woman made the move and fucked my brains out and this was one of them. I was in my early 20's and out of college. I worked a variety of jobs and a the time would wear a suit or nice clothes to work and one day stopped at this dry cleaners to drop off a few things. I had never been there before and it was acutally a woman place from what i saw as i pulled up to the drive thru window. The woman that took my clothes was very average looking and looked a bit worn and in maybe her 40's and my eyes nearly popped out of my head when i saw her massive tits covered in only a white t-shirt. They must have been 40 DD and when she went to the get a check claim i saw she had on these cut off shorts with her ass hanging out the back. She had a tatoo on her arms and one on her lower leg and as she bent at the counter just a bit i saw a big one on her lower back above her ass. She was rough looking and i noticed a 6 pack of beer on the floor behind the counter with only 2 cans left in it.
For some reason even though she looked like a used up biker chick she was giving me a hard on as i sat in my van. When she came back and gave me a claim check for my clothes she said take a picture next time doll it will last longer. She had this way about her that i just started talking trash with her even though i didn't know her. So, i said..you got the biggest tits i've ever seen..mmmm and laughed. She said you like em huh...then she lifted her t-shirt and flashed me saying bet you'd love to stick your dick between these and then she laughed hysterically. She asked how old are ya doll and i told her and she said...hmmm ..your just a boy...and i said boy this and unzipped and pulled out my dick which was already getting hard and kind of moved up at the waist and she leaned forward as much as she could and saw my cock and said...geez ..you got a big prick for a boy. I heard a beep from behind me and it was another car that had just pulled in and i said..wanna fuck old lady ? She said doll..you have no idea....then she said close up in 10 minutes pull around back and i did and waited. She came out the back door with the two beers and i opened the side door of my old Ford van and she got in. She looked around and said ..you got this all decked out for fucking don't ya doll. I was feeling cocky and said ..are we here to talk or fuck ? She looked at me and said take off those shorts doll and i'll show you how to fuck. I was only wearing gym shoes and shorts and a t-shirt and stripped down fast as she threw me a beer and popped the can on one and took a guzzle of it then she set it on the floor and pulled off her t-shirt and held her hands on her tits and said these look like fun to you ? lol I swear my cock twitched and was rigid looking at her big tits. Then she picked up the beer and poured it over her tits going emmmmmm....she had a heart tattoo on her left tit as well and then she said...ewww..you want to lick this off for me doll. I was so turned on i moved in and she leaned her head back as i started to lick and suck the beer off her tits and she laughed as her nipples grew and i sucked them and rub my face around between them and she started to moan saying ..mmmmm..nice mouth..ohhhhh suck em..mmmmm suck em hard. I was so intense i pushed forward and she kind of layed back and onto the carpeting of the van and i was above her and pressing down with my mouth and sucking her tits. Then i slid up and straddled her and she held her big tits as i ran my cock through them and i was going...ooohhhh...mmmmmmm...as she squeezed her tits with her hands around my dick and my cock felt so hot against her skin. I was sliding back and forth as hard as i could be and she leaned her head up and as my cock came through her tits she took as much as she could in her mouth which was only a few inches in that position and was moving her head back and forth catching my cock. She was kind of sucking hard when it went in her mouth and when it came out it made a popping sound coming through her tightened lips around my shaft. Then she let go of her tits and kind of forced her body up and i rolled off onto my back and she got over me and grabbed hold of her tits again and was fucking my dick with them and squeezing and going mmmmmm..mmmmmm...until she dropped them and took hold of my cock and started to go down on me and she was deepthroating me and sucking me fast and hard and i was doing that uuhhh..uhhhh and she knew she had me near cumming and pulled her mouth off and it dropped to my stomach and then hung there erect a few inches off my belly. She said don't you CUM..no..no...you gotta fuck me...and she got on her back and i got ontop as she spread and bent her legs back and i put my cock in her and started to fuck her and she was going...eewwwwwww...mmmmm...nice dick...hahaha..fuck me boy...come on..harder...all of a sudden i felt this squeeze on my cock over and over as i pumped her and she had this big grin on her face and said like that doll..my snapper...hahaha...come on..fuck me..i swear her pussy felt like a hand gripping and holding my cock as i thrust in and out and it was fantastic. It felt so good it was no time before i was lunging into her grunting and going balls deep in her and blew a huge load of CUM with a long drawn out groan. When i finished cumming i pulled out and sat next to her still on her back with my cock still fairly hard and she said..doll..you got a nice cock....She was one horny old lady and she starteed to rub my wet cock and make it fully erect again and then she got on all fours and i got behind her and banged her doggie style working up a sweat banging her pussy which wrapped around my cock like a soft vice and after maybe 10 minutes of balling she came with a loud moan and layed down on her stomach laughing and saying boy..you do now how to fuck...MMMMMMMMM. After a few minutes she slowly started to put on her clothes saying she had to get home to the old man but she told me to come by at closing time on the date i pick up my clothes. I did and this time i fucked her doggie stlye on the floor behind the counter and after she came i stood up and she sat on her knees and titty fucked me a bit and then sucked me off. 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"No Refusal" will be in effect this upcoming New Year's Eve and heavier Tennessee Highway Patrol enforcement has been announced.
Recently, THP partnered with Mothers Against Drunk Driving "to help raise awareness about the importance of designating a non-drinking driver during holiday celebrations."
"Tie one on for Safety" red ribbon campaign is in full swing and is a nationwide awareness program. Red ribbons have been placed on THP cruisers.
In Bradley County, heavier traffic enforcement will be noticed as well.
Plans are being made to increase patrols throughout the county this week to deter serious injuries and fatal crashes during the New Year's holiday period which begins New Year's Eve at 6 p.m.
THP has planned DUI checkpoints in Bradley County during the period.
The "No Refusal" law came into affect in July 2012.
Bradley County was included in the Chattanooga District 2 enforcement campaign, which allows suspected DUI offenders no recourse in refusing blood-alcohol draws.
To date, 975 people have died on Tennessee's roadways in 2013.
Seven have died in Bradley County and the trend has switched from rural deaths being reported, to fatal crashes occurring more prominently inside city limits.
The trend data also indicated more drivers and passengers are buckling up.
Tennessee's 2012 data showed that 1,008 people died due to traffic-related crashes, down 33 year-to-date.
According to the Tennessee Department of Safety, 28 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in Tennessee during the holiday periods of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's in 2012.
"Bradley County has the opportunity to end the year with the fewest number of traffic fatalities in more than 20 years, if we can get everyone to be careful and obey traffic laws," Capt. W.G. Campbell said recently. "Last year we lost 24 people in traffic crashes. As we head into the last week of the year, the fatality count for this year stands at seven."
"Our goal is to have everyone arrive at their destinations safely. Prepare ahead of time and designate a driver or make other plans, but don't drink and drive," he added.
Campbell is over Patrol Division and other programs at the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
Officials will also be using the Special Operations team, Traffic Units for traffic enforcement as well as residential saturation, Criminal Investigations Division detectives and administrative staff. Officials have also enhanced Patrol Division operations during the holiday in an effort to keep criminal activity down.


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Garnier • Garnier Fructis Strength & Repair Shampoo • Shampoo
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Average Rating. | 4.1 |
Would buy this product again. | 75% |
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fazli on 12/31/2009 11:29:00 AM more reviews by fazli
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
This is my favourit shampoo. Even though I usually buy more expensive products, I am amazed at how good this product is. I am trying some shampoos from time to time because I wonder whether I can get some further volume and less hair fall but each time this one turns out to be the best. Also, I have a small dundruff problem and this shampoo helps both me and my boyfriend with that as well.
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*TOP REVIEWER* forcedorgasm on 12/24/2009 2:50:00 AM more reviews by forcedorgasm
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Tan Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
i used this once and my hair came out very soft!! even after i shampooed it felt very conditioned... i normally dont care for garnier but this is great... now to try triple nutrition!
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goldenfae on 11/24/2009 4:35:00 PM more reviews by goldenfae
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone Hair: Black Eyes: Black
In the beginning, it was great. Then I guess the product built up or something because it refused to clean my hair. I actually had greasy, sticky roots 2 hours after I just washed it. Ewww. I also think this disrupted the pH of my scalp. As in smelly scalp. Double ewww.
It takes a lot of product to actually cover my hair given how watery it is. On the plus side, the silicones let me easily detangle my hair and I can sometimes skip out on conditioner.
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jeanrainbow on 7/25/2009 11:41:00 PM more reviews by jeanrainbow
Age: 25-29 Skin: Sensitive, Fair Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
I love this shampoo. It smells good, is cheap, and does nice things for my hair. I have very dry straw-like hair that hasn't made up its mind as to whether or not it's frizzy or straight and this stuff calms it down and prevents too much breakage. A little of this stuff goes a long way since it can weigh down hair.
I always feel very clean after using this stuff. I give it top marks.
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uncreativename on 3/25/2009 5:34:00 PM more reviews by uncreativename
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
I have colored wavy hair with split ends. My hair gets tangled up very easily, especially after using shampoo. I got a trial in the mail for this shampoo and conditioner and fell in love, so I went out and bought the bigger versions.
This shampoo smells AMAZING and it left my hair oh so soft and tangle free. Follow through with the conditioner, and i was easily able to comb my fingers through my hair and detangle everything. Leaves it frizz-free, smelling amazing, lots of bounce and overall looking healthier.
Im trying to find a good volume-boosting shampoo, so I'm going to try the volumising fructis line. If it doesn't work, I'm coming back to this.
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sweet92girl on 3/24/2009 10:22:00 AM more reviews by sweet92girl
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel
this is an amazing shampoo....after a month of using it my hair became so shiny and healthy looking...and the smell is amazing...it is a reallllllllllllllllllly good shampoo
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siyang2 on 11/25/2008 8:29:00 PM more reviews by siyang2
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
This product was okay. I didn't have high expectations anyways so I would give it a 3/5. It didn't exactly repair my hair or make it softer. It was kind of just like a normal shampoo for me. Even with the conditioner it didn't work as effectively as it should have. It's not a bad product either, just wished it was better.
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krista187 on 10/19/2008 5:54:00 AM more reviews by krista187
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THE ONLY SHAMPOO THAT DOESNT STRIP MY HAIR1 I never really cared for this brand but I decided to give it a try and I was impressed! so is the conditioner! I also use the Garnier Fructis Strength & Repair Deep Conditioner once every 2 weeks! ny hair has been healthier! I highly recomend it !
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Men like Hugh Alexander, baseball men will tell you, are the bedrock of the sport. Alexander was a baseball lifer, a superscout near the top of the Philadelphia Phillies hierarchy, considered one of the best organizations in baseball during the 1980s, at the twilight of Alexander's career. A widely syndicated 1983 story by Philadelphia writer Bill Conlin said Alexander, then 66 and a part of the baseball world for half a century, "personified baseball." He was, as Conlin wrote, "a man with a face from a Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell, a sage who speaks the earthy poetry of his game and his time from a yeasty treasure trove of reminiscence."
Like most scouts, Alexander had a baseball career before he entered scouting. Alexander was signed by a legend, Cy Slapnicka, at the time the only scout in the Cleveland Indians organization. Slapnicka was a classic huckster, the baseball version of The Music Man's smooth-talking protagonist Harold Hill. Kevin Kerrane wrote of Slapnicka in Dollar Sign on the Muscle:
"When he became the Indians' general manager in 1936, he began hiring scouts and showing them how to cut corners. He had once been a vaudeville juggler, and he could also juggle the contracts he issued to new prospects, leaving them undated or otherwise non-binding until the prospects proved themselves in the minors."
Alexander was signed to the Indians on one of Slapnicka's "undated or otherwise non-binding" deals as a 17-year-old. In 1936, Alexander's first year at Cleveland training camp, another young player named Tommy Henrich challenged the contract he had signed from Slapnicka. Commissioner Kenesaw Moutnain Landis ruled that Henrich's contract had been manipulated, and Henrich was made a free agent. Soon after, Slapnicka approached Alexander and asked if he would pursue free agency as Henrich had. As Alexander told Kerrane in Dollar Sign on the Muscle:
I said, 'No sir, Mr. Slap' — that's what I called him — 'you've been good to me, and I want to stay with you. I don't want my free agency.' He said, 'Oh, you're a fine boy, and here's what I'm going to do for you.' He opened a drawer and pulled out a thousand dollars in cash, and he said, 'I'm going to give this to you.' But then, instead of handing me the money, he wrote out a little agreement: I'd get one thousand dollars if and when I got called up to the majors."The next year, 1937, the Indians called me up late in the season. I still had that piece of paper in my wallet, and finally I got up enough nerve to go up to his office one morning. I said, "Mr. Slap, I think you owe me a thousand dollars." And he had forgotten about it—he said, "Oh no, no." I said, "I've got a little piece of paper here that you signed at spring training last year." "Oh yeah," he said, "I remember that." And then he started givin' me the poor-mouth talk—and he could do it, like Branch Rickey—about how times were tough, and the Indians' attendance was low, and all that stuff. He finally said, "I'll tell you what I'll do for you, Alex. I'll give you two hundred and fifty now, and if you're still in this ballpark thirty days after the season opens next year, I'll give you the other seven hundred and fifty dollars."
What went through my mind was: "Well, I'm gonna be on the club. I'm a good young ballplayer and I can play, and I'll just get my seven hundred and fifty next year." So he talked me into the two hundred and fifty, and we wrote up the new agreement. And at the end of that season I went home, and that December I got my hand cut off.
Alexander, like many minor leaguers at the time, worked during the offseason to supplement the low wages of minor league baseball. Alexander, raised in Oklahoma, spent the winter of 1937 working the oil fields of Seminole, Oklahoma. On December 6th, Alexander's hand was cut off after it became tangled in the gears of an oil well. His career ended at age 20, his final line 1-for-11 in seven games for Cleveland. But Cy Slapnicka made good: he sent Alexander the $750 he was owed, and then Slapnicka made Alexander the youngest scout in major league history.
Slapnicka was Alexander's mentor, and Alexander took to his teaching quickly. One of the first players Alexander signed, Dale Mitchell, called Alexander out for an illegal contract. As Alexander told Kerrane, "…it was a little on the shady side when I signed him. See, sometimes we wouldn't date the contracts, so if a player didn't work out we could just release him with no obligation. It was a common practice in those days, and maybe Dale found out about it from another scout." Alexander and Slapnicka, however, backdated the contract before the case went before Landis. Mitchell was left without proof of wrongdoing and remained property of Cleveland.
Alexander was aggressive and took pride in his ability to sign the ballplayer, no matter the odds. In the offseason, when most scouts were working a second job, Alexander continued to pursue players. "One might say, "Mr. Alexander, I want to get married so bad, but I don't have any money." Or another one might be broke, and Christmas is comin' up. And maybe I'd sign each of those boys for less than a thousand. Then one of the other scouts might say, "You son of a bitch! You went and signed my player out of college." I'd say, "I sure did. While you was out bein' a carpenter, I was still workin'."
Alexander described brushing up on tax law and using under the table payments to scoop players from other scouts. He talked of having to convince families their boys would be taken care of, how to convince mothers to let their kids "go a thousand miles to play baseball, and not see him till September."
"I might've told their mothers that I'd look after the boys personally," Alexander said, "But it finally got to a point that when I signed a ballplayer, I forgot about him."
Alexander rose quickly. His first signing for Cleveland was Allie Reynolds, who led the American League in strikeouts with 151 in his rookie year in 1943 and reached five All-Star games, all with the Yankees in his 30s. Mitchell reached a pair of All-Star games with Cleveland. After a move to the Dodgers, Alexander signed MVP and 10-time All-Star Steve Garvey, six-time All-Star Ron Cey, and a host of other future major leaguers. In 1972, the Phillies plucked him out of the Dodgers organization and made him a special-assignment scout, one of the few highly paid — $30,000 yearly in the early 1980s, worth roughly $85,000 today — scouting positions available.
Alexander had finally made it to the top. What did it take?
I was kind of a loner. I think you have to be a certain breed to be a baseball scout, I really do. You couldn't take just anybody and put him out to it. It's a lonesome goddamn life, to begin with. And it ruins marriages. I know for sure how many it ruined of me—I've been married five times. And I have a daughter, she's married now with children of her own, and I never really got to know her. Sometimes a scout gets to a point where his wife just says: "Hey, here it is. I'm gonna put the ultimation on you. You gotta get out of the scoutin' business and be a father, and stay home, or I'm gonna pack my bags and leave." And that becomes a hell of a decision for a baseball scout. I always said, "Well, I've gotta stay in baseball, so… "—what's the old saying?—"Vaya con Dios."
Alexander was recruited and trained by one of the first real scouts, one of the "bird dogs." He scouted through the Branch Rickey era, as the farm system and the chain store and "quality through quantity" became the status quo. He scouted through the breaking of the color line, the institution of the draft, and MLB's entrance into Latin America. Alexander said he would drive 60,000 miles per year when he was with the Dodgers. "Many a time we slept in our cars. Drive all night long — no air conditioners in automobiles in those days, so we drove at night when it would be a little cooler, plus the fact that we might have to get to a town five or six hundred miles away."
Because of the stump where his left hand used to be, scouts across the circuit called Alexander "Poor Old Hughie." According to Conlin, in Poor Old Hughie's story you can hear "the heartbeat of a nation."
Let us recap this story. Alexander, one of the few promising talents out of his rural area, was paid so poorly by original superscout Cy Slapnicka and his bosses in Cleveland's owners box that he was forced to risk his health working in his hometown oil fields. His employers routinely lied about payments and deceived players on contract negotiations.
In a moment of compassion, the Cleveland organization gave him a job. His job was to run the same con on the next generation of baseball players that Cy Slapnicka ran on him when he was 17. His job was to figure out how to save his owners' money, at the expense of kids who had bought the line, like Alexander had, that baseball was the way out, their pathway to a better life. He did this job well, and he took extensive pride in it.
For every Steve Garvey and Allie Reynolds signed by Alexander, there were many others who flamed out before they reached the majors. Others had careers cut short by injuries. Alexander himself said he immediately forgot about them.
Perhaps the organization would remember them, as Slapnicka remembered Alexander in 1937, and reward them with a chance to work for peanuts for half a century, at a job requiring them to sacrifice family and friends. Perhaps not, and they're left to fend for themselves, untrained, perhaps without even a high school diploma, with the wear and tear of a life of baseball on their bodies, and perhaps without the money owed them on one of the unbinding or undated contracts Slapnicka and Alexander were so fond of.
It's a story of exploitation across generations. The methods evolved over time, but the objective remained the same, to provide the plutocrats in the owners box with as cheap a labor force as the law — or manipulations of it — would allow. I don't know if Poor Old Hughie Alexander personifies baseball. But he personifies the business of baseball, of Major League Baseball, and in this story, the heartbeat of America is unmistakeable.


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The H-F Racquet and Fitness Club, located at 2920 W. 183rd St. in Homewood, held the second race of its annual H-F Summer 5K Circuit, the Run for Freedom. The race, an annual tradition predating the Race Circuit, started and ended at the Lions Club Park and Pool in Homewood.
The earlier start time of 8 a.m. seemed to invigorate the almost 200 race enthusiasts to set a fast pace. In addition to local participants, runners came from Glen
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The top finishers in the Run for Freedom in the Men's Division were Josh May (15:48), David Cooke (16:35), Greg Castady (16:40), Mike Brunette (17:46) and Chris Laflin (18:17). In the Women's Division the top finishers were Darla Erman (22:40), Ellen Hughes (22:50), Margaret Hockenberry (23:22), Priscilla Cordero (23:25) and Meghan Muldoon (23:38).
Participants in all three Circuit races are competing for the overall Circuit title in both male and female categories. The overall Circuit standings, a combination of the Apollo 5K held in May and the just completed Run for Freedom, are Men's Division David Cooke (1), Mike Brunette (2) and Joel Dellaria (3). In the Women's Division, the top three are Darla Ermanc (1), Margaret Hockenberry (2) and Mary Wilson (3).
Voted the Chicago Southland's No. 1 Health/Sports Club for many years, and the Chicago District Tennis Association and Chicago Tennis Patrons Facility of the Year, the club's goal is to maintain its position as one of the finest racquet and fitness clubs in the country while providing exceptional service every day to its members and guests. This year, 2013, marks the club's 40th Anniversary of serving the H-F communities. Started in 1973 as a tennis and racquet facility, it now includes 10 indoor tennis courts, outdoor courts throughout the park district, a 12,000-square foot fitness center, indoor lap pool, racquetball and basketball courts, private Pilates Personal Training studio and much more. It is a facility of the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District, a two-time National Gold Medal Award Winner for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management.
For complete race results, visit the club's website hfracquetandfitness.com or mychicagoathlete.com. For all the Run for Freedom photos visit the club's Facebook page.
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Most of the wort that enters the braid will do so within the first several inches from the bukhead. A short braid 6-12" long will work nearly the same as a long length formed in a loop or figure 8.
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Winding copper wire from Big Box Store around something that's the same diameter of the hose braid is another option, one I might be doing this weekend.
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I am looking for larger trades, basically any kind of fruit, except for the thornless blackberries I already have. Really wanting to do alot of planting of healthy things to eat !! Take a look at my list and see if we can trade . Some of my plants are in dormancy now ( zone 7 ), and would have to wait on a spring trade, but I have quite alot potted up also that could ship now. |
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- Posted by LullabyF360 8a (My Page) on Tue, Mar 5, 13 at 10:04
I have red delicious apple seeds, granny smith apple seeds, cherry pits, & pomegranate seeds. |
cody I emailed you back...Lullaby, I appreciate it, but since i'm trading plants, I'm looking for plants at this time. |
I have two species of blackberry and I have a large number of things on your want list: A few very good books on cacti & succulents, terrarium plants (mini ferns, little fern leaved mosses, etc) , SEEDS: love-in-a-puff vine, cup & saucer vine, adenium obesum, many daturas, snail vine, sunflower moonwalker, several black hollyhocks, morn. glory 'chocolate', chocolate daisy, LOTS of heirloom veg, sweet banana peppers, dutchman's pipe. I'm interested in your: (plants) passionflower, purple sage, catnip, orange mint, some cannas & lilies. |
- Posted by plant-one-on-me MI 5b (My Page) on Sun, Mar 24, 13 at 16:23
I have a couple of rooted fig cuttings (not sure of the name) if you are interested. I would like edibles in return but if you do not have any, these would be great also: Echinacea (Coneflowers) 'Pink' •* Echinacea (Coneflowers) 'Magnus' •* Echinacea (Coneflowers)( White Swan ) LMK, Kim |
- Posted by gr8heather none (My Page) on Thu, Apr 4, 13 at 20:15
I'd be interested in some of your plants. I have Red Strawberries, White Alpine Strawberries, Red Raspberries, lots of heirloom tomatoes (not sure how to ship these?) Orange Brugmansia, & a Queen Elizabeth rooted rose bush cutting. Some of my plants were pretty hard to come by... I like your Brugs, your peonies, Chamomile and maybe some others, I'd have to look them all up. |
HI there, I am still looking for trades. Peonies have to be traded in the fall, this is the wrong time of year to dig on them. I do have a few different Brugmansias. What is the name of the orange Brug you have ? I'm set for tomatoes , as I have around 600 planted in the greenhouse, but would be interested in your Alpine Strawberries and Red Raspberries, and the Queen Elizabeth Rose bush for my mother. Send me an email and I can send you a list of the Brugs I have, etc. |
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I have a heirloom peach, it blooms dark pink, light pink, white, and a mix of all three. It is a cling type with yellow flash, real good. I have brown turkey figs and I have quince. If interested in any of these let me know. |
- Posted by nel.nucifera 8a (My Page) on Mon, Apr 8, 13 at 19:32
I have one lemon tree and one rangpur lime tree. But they are patio plants that need to come in for the winter. I can also dig up one agastache 'apricot sprite' (hardy to zone 6). If you're interested, I can take photos. I'm interested in your mints. Nel |
I am very interested Nel, and I have an entire room I bring my too tropical plants in during the winter. Can you email me , photos would be grea. email@example.com |
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Emailing you Nel. |
- Posted by momof2boys_wv zone 7 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 9, 13 at 21:54
I have Bonfire Dwarf Peach tree(lots of them) as well as red and pink bee balm. Lemon, Chocolate and spearmint mint. Up for trade if you are interested let me know. Thanks Jennifer |
Hi Jennifer, I am very interested, can you email me? |
Hi I was wondering if you would be interested in a loquat tree seedling about 2 ft tall or a pecan tree seedling, I also have a lemon tree seedling. I don't really know what I would pick to trade if you agree I feel like a kid at a candy store as I was browsing thru your trade list lol. Thanks -Araceli |
- Posted by CharlieBoring 7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 12:00
I have raspberry plants that I can trade for thornless blackberry. |
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