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I think the winner of Okami/Jacare would make one helluva argument for being a great challenger. Bisping/Weidman would be money in the bank for what is now, a burgeoning, novice main event PPV draw in Weidman.
Favorite Fights: Jonny Bones Jones, Wandy, Hendo, Cain, Matt Hughes, Melvin.
Most disliked fighters: Michael Bisping, Spankie Edgar, Alistair Overeem, Anderson Silva, Tim Sylvia, Chuck Liddell
Munoz isn't in title contention, Belfort is closest.
Bisping is not a title contendor. Not now. Not ever.
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking
Incredible night.
Loved Gabriel Gonzaga and Edson Barboza's finishes, especially Gonzaga's. I just hope this doesn't lead to him head hunting in his next several fights again.
Chris Leben should not say how he's new and improved anymore. Take all the footage of his last few losses, tighten those weaknesses and use the tools to force his next fight to his strengths. Don't say anything, just work on it.
I have enjoyed watching Cub Swanson bounce back from his disappointing fights against Lamas and Mendes. Either one of those fights would be great rematches to see who the next number one contender would be. Either way, I don't think Cub would suffer the same fate against either opponent.
Mark Munoz looked fantastic, even if he was surprised with a takedown by Boetsch. Donkey Kong punches, mixing up his targeted areas and great top control for another win. I want him against Bisping to see how both would fare in an interesting styles clash.
Roger Gracie...goddamnit. Tim Kennedy didn't win the first round. I don't care what the judges say. Maybe Boetsch could give Tim a good fight.
Frankie Edgar seems to be stuck in purgatory. He does not need to be in any title fights anytime soon, but maybe he's two wins away (or one impressive win at least). Maybe Nik Lentz, Clay Guida (if he beats Mendes) or Chad Mendes(if he loses to Guida) would be good fights to move him up the rankings. I'm not a good matchmaker.
Chris Fucking Weidman. Wow. He should definitely enjoy this next week or so. I don't think he can top this win anytime soon. Maybe he faces Belfort if Anderson genuinely doesn't want a rematch. Otherwise, I'd love to see how their second fight would go.
Favorite Fights: Jonny Bones Jones, Wandy, Hendo, Cain, Matt Hughes, Melvin.
Most disliked fighters: Michael Bisping, Spankie Edgar, Alistair Overeem, Anderson Silva, Tim Sylvia, Chuck Liddell
Okami would be strong in the clinch and his training with Sonnen and Lindland seems to be paying dividends as shown in the Lombard fight, with the wrestling takedowns that he's learned. He's got a great stiff jab, good movement, leg kicks which can keep Weidman guessing. Okami's biggest weakness is pressure fighters, so as long as he can keep Weidman from pressuring him, the fight would be interesting.
I can see a reason for Vitor getting the shot, but does anyone think he will accept a fight outside of Brazil at this point?
Okami is coming off wins over Belcher and Lombard. Not saying they were the elite of the MW (however, they were in the 9-12 range), but a win over Jacare does make his case better.
Jacare is nowhere close, as his current winning streak is over guys who are ranked outside of the top 20. A win over Okami does move up a lot closer though. I would say both guys should fight Vitor for #1 contender.
Munoz needs a few more solid wins to be in title talks. He doesnt really have many quality wins at MW outside of Maia and now Boetch.
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However, with a win over Jacare(I have it even as of now), Okami will have amassed consecutive wins over Belcher, Lombard and Jacare, which IMO is a better argument than anybody but Vitor
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The Making of the "Other" Chicago
January was the deadliest month in Chicago in more than a decade. Forty-two people lost their lives on the city's streets, most of them to gun violence. For 2012, the total number of homicides was 509, of which 443 involved firearms. While most of the shootings could be attributed to gang feuds, innocent people were caught in crossfire that often erupted in broad daylight and on public streets.
Hadiya Pendleton's shooting death, which took place only a week after the 15-year-old honors student performed at the presidential inauguration, is the latest tragedy to reinforce the perception that Chicago is the murder capital of the nation. Pendleton was killed when a gunman opened fire on a group of high-school students gathered in a public park about a mile from President Barack Obama's Chicago home. Two reputed gang members, Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were charged with Hadiya's murder and with wounding two other teens. Such shootings have become so common in low-income neighborhoods, people are afraid to sit on their front porches.
Many similar homicides in poor neighborhoods receive scant attention from the media, but because Pendleton's murder took place in a gentrifying neighborhood of expensive brownstones and middle-class families, her senseless death set off an alarm that could be heard all the way to the White House. First Lady Michelle Obama attended Pendleton's funeral. A week later, President Obama returned to his old neighborhood to address the violence and push for stiffer gun legislation. National attention is being focused on Chicago's gun violence because the city has seen a steady increase in shootings while other cities have seen a decrease.
That is all well-known. What is little understood, either outside the city or within it, is a key fact: The violence that plays out on the streets is an instance of the chickens coming home to roost.
Chicago defines itself as a city of ethnic neighborhoods. But in reality, it is a city divided by race and economics. On one side of town, businesses thrive, people jog, and kids play in the parks. On another, hordes of jobless young men stand on corners, elderly people hide behind barred doors, and children learn early that they could get shot just walking to school. Instead of tearing down the walls that separate one side from another, the social policies of the last few decades have only widened the divide. We dismantled miles of crime- and drug-infested public-housing buildings only to shift thousands of poor residents into predominantly African-American neighborhoods already burdened with gangs and crime. We "cut off the head of the snake," as a top federal prosecutor put it, by indicting top gang chiefs for running criminal enterprises, but that only splintered organized street gangs into warring factions. Like the rest of the country, we locked up an unprecedented number of young black men and women for drug-related offenses. After serving their terms, these felons return to the same impoverished communities with little hope of finding jobs and a way out of a life of crime.
A half-century after the civil-rights era, a census study conducted by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research found that Chicago remains the most racially segregated city in America. It is in these highly segregated communities that violence takes root. About 20 percent of the violence occurs in neighborhoods that represent only 2 percent of the city's population. These largely African-American communities have the highest unemployment rates—in 2011, unemployment among African Americans in Chicago was 21.4 percent compared with the city's average of 8.6 percent—and the largest population of ex-felons. There are entire blocks on the South and West Sides where young people have never seen an adult male get up in the morning and go to a job. But most of these youth have seen plenty of drug-dealers working the corners, and police officers handcuffing their fathers, brothers, and uncles. They've seen blood on the streets, and memorials tied to light poles. That so many young people are growing up in isolation amid such negative images helps explain why Chicago has three times more homicides than New York City.
This pattern of isolation and crime got its toehold in the 1950s, when the late Mayor Richard Daley, bowing to aldermen who didn't want public housing in their wards, segregated poor African Americans into high-rise public-housing units that stretched for miles in pockets of the city's South, West, and North Sides. The most infamous of these developments were Robert Taylor on the near South Side, and Cabrini-Green, located in the shadow of the city's wealthy Gold Coast. By 1995, crime and drugs were so prevalent in the high-rises, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had its own police force, and the high-rise developments were considered the most dangerous places in the city. For the most part, murder and mayhem were kept at a respectable distance from the commerce and industry that has made Chicago a tourist destination.
In 1996, under the leadership of Daley's son, also named Richard, CHA embarked on an ambitious plan to revamp decaying public housing by tearing down the crime-ridden high rises and replacing them with mixed-income developments. When public housing started coming down in 2000, families were given vouchers to find housing in the private market and about 4,100 are known to still be relying on them. Many of the former CHA residents moved into other segregated areas already burdened with higher crime and lower resources. The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, tracked CHA residents that moved to private apartments with a voucher over a 10-year period. After moving, the majority of respondents said they lived in much better neighborhoods. The Institute also found, however, that respondents "live in communities where about 41 percent of the residents have incomes below the poverty level and 87 percent are African American." While the voucher program did decrease overall violence, the declines were modest, and many serious problems still confront impoverished Chicago communities.
Similarly, federal prosecutions of organized gangs did little to reduce gun homicides. At the same time public housing was coming down, organized gangs were being dismantled as federal prosecutors aggressively went after gang leaders. Street gangs splintered into the headless, armed factions that police claim are responsible for most of the city's shootings. Anti-violence groups such as CeaseFire—a community initiative that employs former gang members to help mediate conflict before it turns to violence—as well as law enforcement acknowledge there is no longer an organized gang hierarchy. Rather, there are gang factions. Gun violence often erupts between these groups over everything from drug disputes to perceived disrespect on the street. Compounding the problem, gang members who are locked up are put on a path that leads them right back to crime. After serving their time, they are released into the same impoverished neighborhoods they came from, but with even fewer opportunities. Saddled with a record, the ex-felons can't find a job, get educational financial aid, or housing assistance. The cycle of violence repeats itself.
In the wake of the Hadiya Pendleton murder, local politicians have made the usual calls for tougher legislation and more cops. Mayor Rahm Emanuel urged the Illinois General Assembly to pass a new mandatory minimum-sentencing law. The law would boost the required prison time for people convicted of gun possession from one year to three years. It would also require that those convicted serve 85 percent of their sentences. His police chief, Garry McCarthy, moved quickly to put more cops on the street, shifting about 292 sworn officers from desk duty. On the national level, Senators Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, and Senator Mark Kirk, a Republican, have proposed federal legislation that creates a statute to punish people who buy guns legally, known as "straw purchasers," then pass the guns on to criminals. Under the proposed bill, a straw purchaser could face up to 25 years in prison. McCarthy's approach to reducing the violence may get offenders off the street for a while, but it won't change the dynamics that breed new offenders.
Left unchecked, the social ills that lead to violence are passed on like a mutated gene. Quarantining communities plagued by these ills and locking up more offenders simply has not worked. In Chicago, a young person growing up in poverty amid the daily dose of street violence is estranged from the hope that propels most of us forward. Last week, six-month-old baby Jonylah Watkins was killed when a gunman opened fire on the baby's father, a reputed gang member. The senseless shooting is further proof that Chicago isn't likely to see a significant downturn in homicides until it finds a way to bring the isolated masses into the fold.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article featured several errors relating to the Chicago Housing Authority's voucher relocation program initiated in 1999. The number of families known to now be using vouchers was implied to be 25,000 when the correct figure is 4,100. The article stated that after relocation 66 percent of participants in an Urban Institute study reported problems in their new neighborhoods with gangs, 50 percent with shooting and violence, and 78 percent with drug-dealing. These figures actually reflect perceptions prior to relocation—afterward most residents said they lived in better neighborhoods. Research from the Urban Institute also shows that the voucher program reduced overall violence, while an earlier version claimed the program merely redistributed violence.
Mon, 2013-03-18 11:21
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Open letter to Oakland mayor Jean Quan:
The only legislation that can realistically end gun violence in Oakland – and Chicago – is a labor law: doubling the minimum wage to $30,000/yr. The Crips and the Bloods could not whip a decent paying Ronald McDonald.
Crackpot? More than doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25/hr to $15/hr ($600/wk) would cause less than 4% direct inflation:
$3.87/hr (half/average raise) X 2080 hours (full work year) = $8,049/yr X 70 million workers (half the workforce -- $15/hr is today's median wage) = $563.4 billion. (3.5 million workers at the minimum wage would get a full $16,020 raise may be left out to simplify eighth-grade math.) Divide $563.4 billion by a $15.8 trillion GDP and we get 3.6% direct inflation (not counting leap frog pushups which may not add up to that much – LBJ's median wage was only 25% higher than his minimum – high minimum wages often approach median level in other economies).
Oakland won't educate its way out of poverty and crime. Catch 22: political scientist Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, from neighboring UC Berkeley -- who spent nine years in five poor New York and Los Angeles neighborhoods (and ten years before that researching street gangs) -- explains in his 2008 book Cracks in the Pavement that ghetto schools don't work mostly because students (and teachers!) don't expect anything decent awaiting for them in the labor market, so think it hopeless to make the effort.
In 1956 majority leader LBJ steered an $8.50/hr ($1/hr nominally) minimum wage bill through the US Senate. In 1968 (hourly increments and retail workers added in years between) president LBJ piloted a minimum wage of $10.50/hr ($1.60/hr nominally) into law -- per capita income having expanded 25% in the dozen years intervening.
Per capita income has doubled in the two generations since 1968.
There would be a dismal gap even between a minimum wage of $15/hr, or $30,000/yr and a reality-based minimum needs (poverty) level for a family of three – and even between a median wage 25% higher of $18.75/hr, or $37,500/yr.
A realistic poverty line for a family of three is $45,476 in 2012 dollars according to the 2001 Ms. Foundation book Raise the Floor (table 3-2 on p.44 -- includes $8,786 medical insurance cost). Raise totals up from a comprehensive list of expenses, including taxes to get its figure. (Raise provides extensive explanations for its minimum needs parameters in Appendix B, citing Solutions for Progress -- allots $3,000 to yearly medical expenses even if the family has insurance.)
$19,090, supposedly covers the minimum needs for a family of three under the 1955 era federal formula. Both the Ms. and government formulas calculate about $6 per person/per day for food – the ancient federal methodology multiplies the cost of food three times and leaves it at that. Which is why you won't see the federal measure quoted much anywhere except as a formula multiple (2X, 3X, 4X).A wage even 50% higher than today's median, of $22.75/hr or $45,000/yr, would barely support a family of three.
"Since 1973 [note: the last year national income gains were shared across-the-board], productivity has grown roughly 80 percent while median hourly compensation improved by roughly 11 percent." Something more elemental than "raising the floor" needs to be prescribe.
Anyone can work up a list ruses by which the average American's interests are being hung out to dry these days. I was just going to say the only thing not foisted upon us so far is foreign firms buying up local water rights and charging them back to us triple.
Then I remembered Chicago leasing its parking meter system for 75 years for $1.15 billion:
Up the road from Oakland City Hall – up College Avenue – on the UC of Berkeley campus labors as progressive a progressive economics faculty as anyone should wish. They could you tell you, Madam Mayor, and tell everyone else at the same time [this essay may hopefully edge them in the latter direction] about a species of labor legislation that can potentially re-write the American social contract front to back, economic to political.
Legislation that has been tried and tested over half a century in the first world (Germany, France) moving to the second and third worlds (Argentina, Indonesia) as well as right next door (French Canada). Legislation bringing to Americans a labor market setup devised – not by Karl Marx – but by post WW II German and other continental industrialists – not to empower labor -- but to stifle union wage races-to-the-top that would divert money from industrial bases rebuilding. (England did not take this path which is why it fell behind – which I'm pretty sure I read in Berkeley's, Barry Eichengreen's 2008 The European Economy Since 1945.)
Europe's fabled welfare state was offered as a compensation for labor price moderation. Magic bullet: legally mandated, sector-wide collective bargaining – wherein everyone working the same category of job (e.g., retail clerk) in the same geographic locale (where applicable) works under one common contract with all employers – thwarts the race-to-the-bottom just as surely – just the right barraging balance.
The late David Broder, dean of the Washington press corps, said that, when he came to D.C. 50 years ago, all the lobbyists were union – which meant: naturally balanced campaign financing, someone minding the store on the average person's interests, all backed by the majority of voters -- perfect democracy.
Your friendly economics faculty up the avenue can tell you all about all of this – but you'll have to ask.
Denis Drew
Chicago (sometimes Berkeley)
Mon, 2013-03-18 11:24
More than DOUBLING the minimum wage to $15/hr would -- believe it or not -- add less than 4% direct inflation: 70 million workers would get a raise -- because $15/hr is today's MEDIAN wage -- multiplied by $8,000/yr average raise would come to a "mere" $560 billion which represents "all of 3.6%" inflation in a $15.8 trillion dollar economy.
LBJ's $10.50/hr minimum wage ($1.60/hr nominally -- yes it has fallen $3.25/hr since!) was 80% of the median which is not uncommon in labor markets with a high minimum wage so a ripple up median wage may not be much higher.
Main point is disproportion of wage increase to prices increases. Wal-Mart wages would go up 50%; Wal-Mart prices would go up only 5% (retail wages 10% of costs) -- fast food wages would go up 107%; fast food prices would go up 35% (fast food 33%).
WITH HALF THE COUNTRY GETTING WAGE INCREASES THAT ARE MULTIPLES OF THEIR EMPLOYERS' PRICE INCREASES their employers should do better than ever.
Unrealistic? Wal-Mart supported the 2007 minimum wage increase from $5.15/hr to $7.25/hr so its customers would have more to spend.
Wal-Mart would not like a minimum wage of $15/hr. Wal-Mart had to close 88 big boxes in Germany because it could not compete paying the same as everyone else. On the continent (since the late 1940s)and around the world (including French Canada) they use a labor market system (instituted by post WWII industrialists, not lefties) called SECTOR-WIDE LABOR AGREEMENTS, where all employees doing the same work (e.g., retail clerk) in the same locale work under one commonly negotiated contract -- worked out wonderfully fair and balanced all around.
Sector-wide has to our next project. Today's median wage is not much higher than LBJ's even though per capita income about DOUBLED in the meantime (due to rising productivity) from about $20,000/yr to about $40,000/yr.
Sector-wide bargaining -- meaning automatic unionization -- would reset our middle class' political leverage back to normal too -- the only way to get our mojo back.
If you told Americans of 1968 that by early 2007 the minimum wage would have dropped almost in half ($5.75/hr in today's dollars) they would have conjectured: a comet strike, limited nuclear exchange, multiple plagues, sunspots activity knocking out all power grids?
Last but not least -- just local color: when Illinois pretty quickly raised it minimum wage from $5.15/hr to $8/hr there was a noticeable pickup in business in my neighborhood McDonald's -- mostly in the third world end -- noticed by others as well as myself.
Mon, 2013-03-18 19:11
Everybody keeps talking about Chicago and yes it's bad but Tucson, AZ with 1/10th the population has half as many gun deaths. 5 times Chicago per capita. 250 gun deaths last year. Loose gun laws in Arizona make for an extremely high gun death rate and MSM totally misses it! And yes poverty and gangs are just as bad here.
Mon, 2013-03-18 23:55
These same old sad arguments about spending more money for 'lost generational losers' are just ridiculous. $15 an hour jobs? Really?? Why not 50 or 60? Because, clearly, with the laughable crazy naiveness that this person has about running a business, what difference does any amount mean? Well duh, it means McDonalds won't be able to offer a product people will be able to buy. It will be unprofitable. So, no one will take a chance on losing their time and money to own and operate one. So, double duh, no one does. Then duh, no $15, 50 or 60 dollar jobs. You see, you fools, only Obamas Green energy Boondoggles guarantee this, (all profit with no product) and this is only offered to his donors, (using working peoples money). So, you want solutions? You can't handle solutions. Because it means less taxation, less regulation, and more self sufficiency then you would or could want to offer. Because all you've got as a solution is a endless buffet of meaningless platitudes, and more calls for taxation, and servitude, and continued dumbing down of people given their pitiful smattering of public money, without any expectation of having them support themselves. People need to work. In order for them to work, we need money in the private arena, not the federal one. Because government only takes, it cant make (unless were talking about regulations and redundancies).
Tue, 2013-03-19 14:17
Here's the deal and I know I'll be called a racist because it seems that anyone who disagrees with the current "breeding for paychecks" policies is called a racist.
If you look at these areas there is an overwhelming lack of fathers, married fathers, in this scene. Women get pregnant by choice because it gets them housing, food, heath care, cell phones, and everything else in between. What Democrats, who mostly advocate for this policy and Republicans who go along, do is condemn generations to cycles of poverty. It should be considered child abuse to keep this policy intact!
The country has changed now since the Great Depression of -07 but the attitudes and polices ARE NOT CHANGING. Pregnancy should not be considered an economic disability in the United States today. 50 - 60 years ago when access to, and knowledge about, birth control was sketchy, the policies may have been well-intended. Today? They are little more than cradle-to-the-grave sentences for minorities and poor whites.
In almost every instance, across this country, high school drop-out rates among black Americans about 70%; among Hispanics about 55%. Want to tell me why these welfare parent(s)/guardians are permitted to allow their children to drop out of school and why state governments are permitted to collude in this bad policy?
If 2000 decent paying jobs showed up in these neighborhoods tomorrow the majority wouldn't be qualified to be hired for them. Conversely, stop using the contrasting "other sides" of town as a way to shame everyone onto thinking they own the problem. The country spends billions on trying to keep these kids in schools, on GED, etc. Everyone knows a high-school dropout will more likely be incarcerated; have poor health, and never meet his/her potential for earning power. It's a loss for the young adult, the municipality, the county, the state, and the country.
If you want to change behavior then change the financial incentives. Change the policies. This isn't the 60's anymore.
Fri, 2013-03-22 15:41
cehohan said" Because it means less taxation, less regulation, and more self sufficiency then you would or could want to offer."
Cutting taxes doesn't create jobs. Never has, never will.
Regulation isn't stifling jobs or business; that's just a tired conservative excuse.
Can't be self-sufficient when the game is rigged against you. The middle class has been shrinking for three decades while the top 0.01% sucks up all the money and power. Corporate America won't be happy until we're all fighting over jobs that pay $3/hr.
Sat, 2013-03-23 14:40
Sat, 2013-03-23 15:51
Ms. Mitchell, what about the effects of environmental LEAD poisoning [and maybe other toxins as well]? MotherJones' Jan-Feb '13 edition had a good article on the connection between lead poisoning in children, especially boys, & its effect on development and behavior.
Tetra-ethyl lead as an additive in gasoline has been eliminated; but the article says that lead that was spewed out, especially more in our big cities, still remains until we remove it -- and that each summer, heat sends it back into the air.
... Separately, is there a FEDERAL law against gun trafficking?
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"That was the feds' decision. This is an extension of that earlier grant, not a new grant," said Bodine.
The biggest chunk of the money, $930,600, will be spent on an average of 36 weeks of "needs based payments" to those who take part, at $275 per week. This is paid out only during the training and licensure period, which varies depending on occupational choice.
A little more than $143,000, or 8 percent of the total, will be spent on funding non-personnel administrative costs. The hiring of a project supervisor, and two case managers, will take out $230,000 for 24 months, and when benefits are added in, will cost $310,500.
About 62 participants, or two-thirds of the total, are expected to enroll in training that includes correctional officers, auto technicians, commercial truck drivers, welders, and heavy equipment mechanics, among others (see sidebar).
The remaining third is targeted for enrollment in a combined GED-work experience program, which will enable them to receive their high school diploma as s step towards further training. This will cost the grant an average of $1,800 each, and include ca work experience component.
"Adult education can't be a standalone activity," said Jennifer German, deputy director of CSGC. "It must be paired with something else."
The grant includes an on-the-job training wage supplementation for 15 participants at $7,500 each. This is paid directly to the employer to subsidize part of the worker's pay.
There are a number of other lesser expenditures to assist in the training, such as $44,820 for passenger vans to Lively Vocational Tech in Tallahassee; lodging costs in Marianna for 12 truck driver trainees, which as $200 a week for hotel will run $19,200; and supportive service costs, for gas cards and the like, which run on average $200 per participant, of about $18,800.
"We have 24 months to work with," said German. "Some training is 18 months and we need to pad in for testing or retakes for state licensure."
Bodine said that the grant process to secure the funds took longer than is typical.
"I've never really quite been needled on a proposal like this one," she said. "They wanted more and more detail but we don't have a crystal ball."
Bodine said the federal government has invested millions of dollars in projects around the nation related to fishery failures, and they are concerned the money is spent wisely.
"What they've seen is people will go to training but then do everything they do to stay in the same occupation," she said. "It has to be something they can get a job in."
German said that while she is waiting on a notice of funds availability, to arrive shortly, "my staff is sitting on go and is already started contacting the people."
She said her staff will do what it can to assist in successful completion of the vocational training, including providing an academic lab at the Van Johnson municipal complex, where the administration arm of the program will be housed.
"We do what we can within reason to help," she said, but stressed it takes commitment on the part of participants. "If you don't attend classes, there's no point in us giving you the money."
In his announcement Monday, Scott said "we will continue training workers and expanding the Apalachicola Bay economy with these funds. With this $2.1 million investment we will work to get this community back on its feet.
"We're working tirelessly to support the natural treasures families in the area rely on," he said.
"Diversification is a key element of a strong economy," said Department of Economic Opportunity Executive Director Jesse Panuccio. "We look forward to continuing to work with this community to ensure a thriving Apalachicola Bay economy that supports multiple industries and jobs for Florida families."
U.S. Representative Steve Southerland said that "while we may be a long way from restoring Apalachicola Bay's oyster fishery, these additional funds help move us one step closer to the goal of restoring peace of mind for this proud, but struggling community."
Future careers
The following is a breakdown on what has been allocated to cover the average cost of retraining, including tuition and course materials.
·Correctional officer: 10 participants @ $2,000 each
·Auto service technicians: 10 participants @ $6,315 each
·Heavy equipment mechanics: 10 participants @ $5,376 each
·Heating and air conditioning: 2 participants @ $5,642 each
·Commercial truck driver: 12 participants @$2,504 each
·Welders: Five participants @$6,810 each
·Misc. training, such as licensed practical nurse, commercial cook: 15 participants @ $5,500 each


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|Alternative Medical Systems
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Acupuncture (from Lat. acus, "needle", and pungere, "to prick") or in Standard Mandarin, 針砭 (zhēn biān) (a related word, 針灸 (zhēn jiǔ), refers to acupuncture together with moxibustion) is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine filiform needles into specific points on the body with the aim of relieving pain and for therapeutic purposes. According to traditional Chinese acupuncture theory, these acupuncture points lie along meridians along which qi, the vital energy, flows. There is no generally-accepted anatomical or histological basis for these concepts, and modern acupuncturists tend to view them in functional rather than structural terms, (viz. as a useful metaphor in guiding evaluation and care of patients). Acupuncture originated in China and is most commonly associated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Different types of acupuncture (Classical Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, Vietnamese and Korean acupuncture) are practiced and taught throughout the world.
While acupuncture has been a subject of active scientific research since the late 20th century, its effects are not well-understood, and it remains controversial among researchers and clinicians. The body of evidence remains inconclusive but is active and growing.
The WHO, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Medical Association (AMA) and various government reports have all studied and commented on the efficacy (or lack thereof) of acupuncture. There is general agreement that acupuncture is safe when administered by well-trained practitioners using sterile needles, and that further research is appropriate.
Recent examinations of Ötzi, a 5,000-year-old mummy found in the Alps, have identified over 50 tattoos on his body, some of which are located on acupuncture points that would today be used to treat ailments Ötzi suffered from. Some scientists believe that this is evidence that practices similar to acupuncture were practiced elsewhere in Eurasia during the early Bronze Age. According to an article published in The Lancet by Dorfer et al., "We hypothesised that there might have been a medical system similar to acupuncture (Chinese Zhenjiu: needling and burning) that was practiced in Central Europe 5,200 years ago... A treatment modality similar to acupuncture thus appears to have been in use long before its previously known period of use in the medical tradition of ancient China. This raises the possibility of acupuncture having originated in the Eurasian continent at least 2000 years earlier than previously recognised., .
Acupuncture's origins in China are uncertain. The earliest Chinese medical text that first describes acupuncture is the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (History of Acupuncture) Huangdi Neijing, which was compiled around 305–204 B.C. However, the Chinese medical texts (Ma-wang-tui graves, 68 BC) do not mention acupuncture. Some hieroglyphics have been found dating back to 1000 B.C. that may indicate an early use of acupuncture. Bian stones, sharp pointed rocks used to treat diseases in ancient times, have also been discovered in ruins; some scholars believe that the bloodletting for which these stones were likely used presages certain acupuncture techniques.
According to one legend,, acupuncture started in China when some soldiers who were wounded by arrows in battle experienced a relief of pain in other parts of the body, and consequently people started experimenting with arrows (and later needles) as therapy.
Representatives were sent out across China to collect information about the theories and practices of Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is the formalized system of Chinese medicine that was created out of this effort. TCM combines the use of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, tui na, and other modalities. After the Cultural Revolution, TCM instruction was incorporated into university medical curricula under the "Three Roads" policy, wherein TCM, biomedicine, and a synthesis of the two would all be encouraged and permitted to develop.
In Vietnam, Dr. Van Nghi and colleagues used the classical Chinese medical texts and applied them in clinical conditions without reference to political screening. They rewrote the modern version: Trung E Hoc. Van Nghi was made the first President of the First World Congress of Chinese Medicine at Bejing in 1988 in recognition of his work.
From the 1970s to the present, acupuncture continues to play an important role in China's medical system, and China has taken the lead in researching all aspects of acupuncture's application and clinical effects.
In the 1970s, acupuncture became popular in America after American visitors to China brought back firsthand reports of patients undergoing major surgery using acupuncture as their sole form of anesthesia. The National Acupuncture Association (NAA), the first national association of acupuncture in the US, introduced acupuncture to the West through seminars and research presentations. The NAA created and staffed the UCLA Acupuncture Pain clinic in 1972. This was the first legal clinic in a medical school setting in the US.
Chinese medicine is based on a pre-scientific paradigm of medicine that developed over several thousand years. Its theory holds the following explanation of acupuncture:
Health is a condition of balance of yin and yang within the body. Particularly important in acupuncture is the free flow of Qi, a difficult-to-translate concept that pervades Chinese philosophy and is commonly translated as "vital energy". Qi is immaterial and hence yang; its yin, material counterpart is Blood (capitalized to distinguish it from physiological blood, and very roughly equivalent to it). Acupuncture treatment regulates the flow of Qi and Blood, tonifying where there is deficiency, draining where there is excess, and promoting free flow where there is stagnation. An axiom of the medical literature of acupuncture is "no pain, no blockage; no blockage, no pain."
Many patients claim to experience the sensations of stimulus known in Chinese as de qi ("obtaining the Qi" or "arrival of the Qi"). This kind of sensation was historically considered to be evidence of effectively locating the desired point. (There are some electronic devices now available which will make a noise when what they have been programmed to describe as the "correct" acupuncture point is pressed).
TCM treats the human body as a whole that involves several "systems of function" generally named after anatomical organs but not directly associated with them. The Chinese term for these systems is Zang Fu, where zang is translated as "viscera" or solid organs and fu is translated as "bowels" or hollow organs. In order to distinguish systems of function from physical organs, Zang Fu are capitalized in English, thus Lung, Heart, Kidney, etc. Disease is understood as a loss of balance of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood (which bears some resemblance to homeostasis). Treatment of disease is attempted by modifying the activity of one or more systems of function through the activity of needles, pressure, heat, etc. on sensitive parts of the body of small volume traditionally called "acupuncture points" in English, or "xue" (穴, cavities) in Chinese. This is referred to in TCM as treating "patterns of disharmony."
Most of the main acupuncture points are found on the "twelve main meridians" and two of the "eight extra meridians" (Du Mai and Ren Mai) a total of "fourteen channels", which are described in classical and traditional Chinese medical texts, as pathways through which Qi and "Blood" flow. There also exist "extra points" not belonging to any channel. Other tender points (known as "ashi points") may also be needled as they are believed to be where stagnation has gathered.
Treatment of acupuncture points may be performed along several layers of pathways, most commonly the twelve primary channels, or mai, located throughout the body. The first twelve channels correspond to systems of function: Lung, Large Intestine, Stomach, Spleen, Heart, Small Intestine, Bladder, Kidney, Pericardium, San Jiao (an intangible, also known as Triple Burner), Gall Bladder, and Liver. Other pathways include the Eight Extraordinary Pathways (Qi Jing Ba Mai), the Luo Vessels, the Divergents and the Sinew Channels. Ashi (tender) points are generally used for treatment of local pain.
Of the eight extraordinary pathways, only two have acupuncture points of their own: the Ren Mai and Du Mai, which are situated on the midline of the anterior and posterior aspects of the trunk and head respectively. The other six meridians are "activated" by using a master and couple point technique which involves needling the acupuncture points located on the twelve main meridians that correspond to the particular extraordinary pathway.
The twelve primary pathways run vertically, bilaterally, and symmetrically and every channel corresponds to and connects internally with one of the twelve Zang Fu ("organs"). This means that there are six yin and six yang channels. There are three yin and three yang channels on each arm, and three yin and three yang on each leg.
The movement of Qi through each of the twelve channels comprises an internal and an external pathway. The external pathway is what is normally shown on an acupuncture chart and is relatively superficial. All of the acupuncture points of a channel lie on its external pathway. The internal pathways are the deep course of the channel where it enters the body cavities and related Zang Fu organs. The superficial pathways of the twelve channels describe three complete circuits of the body, chest to hands, hands to head, head to feet, feet to chest, etc.
The distribution of Qi through the pathways is said to be as follows (the based on the demarcations in TCM's Chinese Clock): Lung channel of hand taiyin to Large Intestine channel of hand yangming to Stomach channel of foot yangming to Spleen channel of foot taiyin to Heart channel of hand shaoyin to Small Intestine channel of hand taiyang to Bladder channel of foot taiyang to Kidney channel of foot shaoyin to Pericardium channel of hand jueyin to San Jiao channel of hand shaoyang to Gallbladder channel of foot shaoyang to Liver channel of foot jueyin then back to the Lung channel of hand taiyin. According to the "Chinese clock", each channel occupies two hours, beginning with the Lung, 3AM-5AM, and coming full circle with the Liver 1AM-3AM.
The acupuncturist decides which points to treat by observing and questioning the patient in order to make a diagnosis according to the tradition which he or she utilizes. In TCM, there are four diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiring, and palpation (Cheng, 1987, ch. 12).
Other forms of acupuncture employ additional diagnosic techniques. In many forms of classical Chinese acupuncture, as well as Japanese acupuncture, palpation of the muscles and the hara (abdomen) are central to diagnosis.
Although TCM is based on the treatment of "patterns of disharmony" rather than biomedical diagnoses, practitioners familiar with both systems have commented on relationships between the two. A given TCM pattern of disharmony may be reflected in a certain range of biomedical diagnoses: thus, the pattern called Deficiency of Spleen Qi could manifest as chronic fatigue, diarrhea or uterine prolapse. Likewise, a population of patients with a given biomedical diagnosis may have varying TCM patterns. These observations are encapsulated in the TCM aphorism "One disease, many patterns; one pattern, many diseases". (Kaptchuk, 1982)
Classically, in clinical practice, acupuncture treatment is typically highly individualized and based on philosophical constructs as well as subjective and intuitive impressions, and not on controlled scientific research.
Felix Mann, founder and past-president of the Medical Acupuncture Society (1959–1980), the first president of the British Medical Acupuncture Society (1980), and the author of the first comprehensive English language acupuncture textbook Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing' first published in 1962, has stated in his book Reinventing Acupuncture: A New Concept of Ancient Medicine:
A report for CSICOP on pseudoscience in China written by Wallace Sampson and Barry Beyerstein said:
George A. Ulett, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine states: "Devoid of metaphysical thinking, acupuncture becomes a rather simple technique that can be useful as a nondrug method of pain control." He believes that the traditional Chinese variety is primarily a placebo treatment, but electrical stimulation of about 80 acupuncture points has been proven useful for pain control.
Ted J. Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver, refers to acupuncture as "prescientific." Regarding TCM theory, Kaptchuk states:
According to the 1997 NIH consensus statement on acupuncture:
Most modern acupuncturists use disposable stainless steel needles of fine diameter (0.007" to 0.020", 0.18 mm to 0.51 mm), sterilized with ethylene oxide or by autoclave. These needles are far smaller in diameter (and therefore less painful) than the needles used to give shots, since they do not have to be hollow for purposes of injection. The upper third of these needles is wound with a thicker wire (typically bronze), or covered in plastic, to stiffen the needle and provide a handle for the acupuncturist to grasp while inserting. The size and type of needle used, and the depth of insertion, depend on the acupuncture style being practised.
Warming an acupuncture point, typically by moxibustion (the burning of a combination of herbs, primarily mugwort), is a different treatment than acupuncture itself and is often, but not exclusively, used as a supplemental treatment. The Chinese term zhēn jǐu (針灸), commonly used to refer to acupuncture, comes from zhen meaning "needle", and jiu meaning "moxibustion". Moxibustion is used to varying degrees among current schools of oriental medicine. For example, one well-known technique is to insert the needle at the desired acupuncture point, attach dried moxa to the external end of an acupuncture needle, and then ignite it. The moxa will then smolder for several minutes (depending on the amount adhered to the needle) and conduct heat through the needle to the tissue surrounding the needle in the patient's body. Another common technique is to hold a large glowing stick of moxa over the needles. Moxa is also sometimes burned at the skin surface, usually by applying an ointment to the skin to protect from burns, though burning of the skin is general practice in China.
In the clinical practice of acupuncturists, patients frequently report one or more of certain kinds of sensation that are associated with this treatment, sensations that are stronger than those that would be felt by a patient not suffering from a vascular headache:
These cases are based on clinical experience and are not necessarily substantiated by controlled clinical research. The inclusion of specific diseases is not meant to indicate the extent of acupuncture's efficacy in treating them.
Pain transmission can also be modulated at many other levels in the brain along the pain pathways, including the periaqueductal gray, thalamus, and the feedback pathways from the cerebral cortex back to the thalamus. Pain blockade at these brain locations is often mediated by neurohormones, especially those that bind to the opioid receptors (pain-blockade site).
Some studies suggest that the analgesic (pain-killing) action of acupuncture is associated with the release of natural endorphins in the brain. This effect can be inferred by blocking the action of endorphins (or morphine) using a drug called naloxone. When naloxone is administered to the patient, the analgesic effects of morphine can be reversed, causing the patient to feel pain again. When naloxone is administered to an acupunctured patient, the analgesic effect of acupuncture can also be reversed, causing the patient to report an increased level of pain. It should be noted, however, that studies using similar procedures, including the administration of naloxone, have suggested a role of endogenous opioids in the placebo response, demonstrating that this response is not unique to acupuncture.
One study performed on monkeys by recording the neural activity directly in the thalamus of the brain indicated that acupuncture's analgesic effect lasted more than an hour. Furthermore, there is a large overlap between the nervous system and acupuncture trigger points (points of maximum tenderness) in myofascial pain syndrome.
Evidence suggests that the sites of action of analgesia associated with acupuncture include the thalamus using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and PET (positron emission tomography) brain imaging techniques, and via the feedback pathway from the cerebral cortex using electrophysiological recording of the nerve impulses of neurons directly in the cortex, which shows inhibitory action when acupuncture stimulus is applied. Similar effects have been observed in association with the placebo response. One study using fMRI found that placebo analgesia was associated with decreased activity in the thalamus, insula and anterior cingulate cortex.
Recently, acupuncture has been shown to increase the nitric oxide levels in treated regions, resulting in increased local blood circulation. Effects on local inflammation and ischemia have also been reported.
Blinding of the practitioner in acupuncture remains challenging. One proposed solution to blinding patients has been the development of "sham acupuncture", i.e., needling performed superficially or at non-acupuncture sites. Controversy remains over whether, and under what conditions, sham acupuncture may function as a true placebo, particularly in studies on pain, in which insertion of needles anywhere near painful regions may elicit a beneficial response. A review in 2007 noted several issues confounding sham acupuncture:
A study by Ted Kaptchuk et. al. showed that sham acupuncture exerted a stronger effect on pain than an inert pill did, and concluded: "Placebo effects seem to be malleable and depend on the behaviours embedded in medical rituals.
The development of the evidence base for acupuncture was summarized in a review by researcher Edzard Ernst and colleagues in 2007. They compared systematic reviews conducted (with similar methodology) in 2000 and 2005:
For low back pain, a Cochrane review (2005) stated:
A 2008 study suggest that combining acupuncture with conventional infertility treatments such as IVF greatly improves the success rates of such medical interventions.
A review by Manheimer et al. in Annals of Internal Medicine (2005) reached conclusions similar to Cochrane's review on low back pain. A review for the American Pain Society/American College of Physicians found fair evidence that acupuncture is effective for chronic low back pain.
For nausea and vomiting: The Cochrane review (Lee and Done, 2006) on the use of the P6 acupoint for the reduction of post-operative nausea and vomiting concluded that the use of P6 acupoint stimulation can reduce the risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting with minimal side effects, albeit with efficacy less than or equal to prophylactic (i.e., preventative) treatment with antiemetic drugs. Cochrane also stated: "Electroacupuncture is effective for first day vomiting after chemotherapy, but trials considering modern antivomiting drugs are needed.
A 2007 Cochrane Review for the use of acupuncture for neck pain stated:
For headache, Cochrane concluded (2006) that "(o)verall, the existing evidence supports the value of acupuncture for the treatment of idiopathic headaches. However, the quality and amount of evidence are not fully convincing. There is an urgent need for well-planned, large-scale studies to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupuncture under real-life conditions." .
For osteoarthritis, reviews since 2006 show a trivial difference between sham and true acupuncture.
For fibromyalgia, a systematic review of the best 5 randomized controlled trials available found mixed results. Three positive studies, all using electro-acupuncture, found short term benefits. The methodological quality of the 5 trials was mixed and frequently low.
For the following conditions, the Cochrane Collaboration has concluded there is insufficient evidence to determine whether acupuncture is beneficial, often because of the paucity and poor quality of the research, and that further research is needed:
Positive results from some studies on the efficacy of acupuncture may be as a result of poorly designed studies or publication bias.
Acupuncture appears to have effects on cortical activity, as demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography. A 2005 literature review concluded that neuroimaging data to date show some promise for being able to distinguish the effects of expectation, placebo, and real acupuncture. The studies reviewed were mostly small and pain-related, and more research is needed to determine the specificity of neural substrate activation in non-painful indications.
The NIH consensus statement said that
The NIH consensus statement summarized and made a prediction:
The NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine continues to abide by the recommendations of the NIH Consensus Statement, stating that:
"There is little evidence to confirm the safety or efficacy of most alternative therapies. Much of the information currently known about these therapies makes it clear that many have not been shown to be efficacious. Well-designed, stringently controlled research should be done to evaluate the efficacy of alternative therapies."
Some researchers have questioned the use of sham acupuncture as a control in this study and others, arguing that sham acupuncture may be too similar to real acupuncture to be a valid control, thereby skewing results toward showing a relative lack of efficacy.
Several styles of Japanese acupuncture use non-inserted needling, making for an entirely non-invasive procedure. In non-inserted needling the needle is brought to the skin, but never penetrates it, and various other acupuncture tools are used to tap or stroke along the meridians. Notable examples of these styles are Tōyōhari and the pediatric acupuncture style Shōnishin.
A survey by Ernst et al. of over 400 patients receiving over 3500 acupuncture treatments found that the most common adverse effects from acupuncture were:
The survey concluded: "Acupuncture has adverse effects, like any therapeutic approach. If it is used according to established safety rules and carefully at appropriate anatomic regions, it is a safe treatment method."
The chance of these is very small; the risk can be further reduced through proper training of acupuncturists. Graduates of medical schools and (in the US) accredited acupuncture schools receive thorough instruction in proper technique so as to avoid these events. (Cf. Cheng, 1987)
Receiving any form of alternative medical care without also receiving orthodox Western medical care can be inherently risky, since undiagnosed disease may go untreated and could worsen. For this reason many acupuncturists and doctors prefer to consider acupuncture a complementary therapy rather than an alternative therapy.
Critics also express concern that unethical or naive practitioners may induce patients to exhaust financial resources by pursuing ineffective treatment. Some public health departments regulate acupuncture.
Commenting on the relative safety of acupuncture compared with other treatments, the NIH consensus panel stated that "(a)dverse side effects of acupuncture are extremely low and often lower than conventional treatments." They also stated:
In a Japanese survey of 55,291 acupuncture treatments given over five years by 73 acupuncturists, 99.8% of them were performed with no significant minor adverse effects and zero major adverse incidents (Hitoshi Yamashita, Bac, Hiroshi Tsukayama, BA, Yasuo Tanno, MD, PhD. Kazushi Nishijo, PhD, JAMA). Two combined studies in the UK of 66,229 acupuncture treatments yielded only 134 minor adverse events. (British Medical Journal 2001 Sep 1). The total of 121,520 treatments with acupuncture therapy were given with no major adverse incidents (for comparison, a single such event would have indicated a 0.0008% incidence).
Acupuncturists may also practice herbal medicine or tui na, or may be medical acupuncturists, who, as well as being qualified physicians, also practice acupuncture in a simplified form. In most states, medical doctors are not required to have any formal training to perform acupuncture. Over 20 states allow chiropractors to perform acupuncture with less than 200 hours training. The typical amount of hours of medical training by licensed acupuncturists is over 3,000 hours. License is regulated by the state or province in many countries, and often requires passage of a board exam.
In the US, acupuncture is practiced by a variety of healthcare providers. Those who specialize in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine are usually referred to as "licensed acupuncturists", or L.Ac.'s. The abbreviation "Dipl. Ac." stands for "Diplomate of Acupuncture" and signifies that the holder is board-certified by the NCCAOM. Professional degrees are usually at the level of a Master's degree.
A poll of American doctors in 2005 showed that 59% believe acupuncture was at least somewhat effective. In 1996, the Food and Drug Administration changed the status of acupuncture needles from Class III to Class II medical devices, meaning that needles are regarded as safe and effective when used appropriately by licensed practitioners.
Canadian acupuncturists have been licensed in British Columbia since 2003. In Ontario, the practice of acupuncture is now regulated by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Act, 2006, S.o. 2006, chapter 27. The government is in the process of establishing a College whose mandate will be to oversee the implementation of policies and regulations relating to the profession.
In the United Kingdom, acupuncturists are not yet regulated by the government.
In Australia, the legalities of practicing acupuncture also vary by state. Victoria is the only state of Australia with an operational registration board. Currently acupuncturists in New South Wales are bound by the guidelines in the Public Health (Skin Penetration) Regulation 2000, which is enforced at local council level. Other states of Australia have their own skin penetration acts.
Many other countries do not license acupuncturists or require them be trained.


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1. When and why did you start painting?
Ever since I was a little girl, I felt drawn towards painting and enwrapped in the colors. I even used my mother's make-up to paint, when I had used up all my crayons and colored pencils. I was always full of creativity, I liked to imagine and create off those ideas! That calling to art was always present in my life, even though I studied Marketing and Advertising in college. I do consider those subjects to be related to art, because in the same way that a piece of art brings us to pause and reflect on what the artwork is conveying, with advertising we have to create in order to communicate our messages in an understandable manner.
The big moment came as I was wrapping up my college studies. I participated in a cultural exchange program with the European University of Madrid, and once in Europe I dedicated my time to visiting museums. It was love at first sight to see the works of Velázquez and Goya in the Prado Museum, the works of Sorolla in his house museum and the works of Van Gogh in The Netherlands. Recently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City I saw the works of Picasso and all the art masters. Not to mention the sharply focused sculptures and paintings of Botero in Colombia and the great luck at being invited to visit a private collection of Guayasamín belonging to some honorable people, who are now also friends of mine.
I feel like a kid in a candy store, excited and happy, whenever I visit a museum. Standing in front of artwork, I can lose track of time. I get inside the skin of the artist who painted the work and try to figure out what he or she was thinking about in the moment of creation.
2. When is your favorite time of day to paint? How much time do you spend painting?
There's no specific time for me. At any time of day I can seek out my brushes-- when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when someone or something inspires me. Since I am currently preparing for my upcoming national and international exhibitions in early 2013, now I'm completely immersed in my painting the whole day; there's no clocking in with my canvas, I am absorbed in my passion for painting all day long.
That said, I have done some of my best paint strokes in the early morning hours. If people are divided into "early birds" and "night owls", I consider myself a night owl. Around sunset I begin to create with this relentless torrent of energy, and keep going until dawn breaks. After the moon fades away and the first intense rays of sunshine beam out, then I fall asleep for a few hours, before continuing work.
3. Of all the pictures that you have painted, which one is your favorite, and why?
My paintings for me are the children that I do not have, because I have birthed and brought each of them to life with emotions, dedication, tenderness, happiness, sadness. I have created them with much love, and in the end they give me many rewards, and make me feel satisfied.
While I love all of them equally, there is one that I am specially fond of because it was my first creation, my 'firstborn', which sparked my passion for my country's indigenous elements and has given me so much satisfaction. It is titled"Pre-Columbian Indian Splendor", and that artwork prompted me to continue painting native Panamanian motifs. Really, they are all my favorites, I love them all the same!
4. If you could reincarnate yourself as a great master of art, who would you like to become?
Life is so beautiful that I would not want to have to die in order to become reincarnated as one of them. If I could choose, I would prefer instead to continue in this life, but incorporating their virtues, taking a little bit of the best from each. I would like some of Goya's passion, Velázquez's delicate brushstrokes, Botero's clarity, Van Gogh's persistence, Sorolla's strength, Frida's rawness, Guayasamín's native pride, and I could go on and on...all of the great artists inspire me! I want a little bit from all of them in me, but most importantly, while still being myself.
5. What are your sources of inspiration?
Everything inspires me. They say we all have a little bit of artists, poets and lunatics in us. I like to write poems and am a member of a network of writers. Some poems inspire me to paint, and some paintings inspire me to write poems. I'm also inspired by sunrises, the moon in all its splendor, indigenous elements of my country.
I'm particularly drawn to people's gazes, because I agree with the belief that our eyes reflect our soul. I think that "Silence may bind our words, but nobody and nothing can restrict our soul when reflected in our eyes." That's why I enjoy painting expressive looks on the faces of indians and peasants. I also like painting dances and folklore, everything that expresses my roots. I love anything that screams 'Panama'. I'm aware that every artist evolves and perhaps at some point finds other sources of inspiration, but for now I am enjoying this moment.
6. Of all the artistic movements, which one influences your work the most?
Just as I proudly say that I am of a mixed race, the product of different cultures that have come to Panama, my works of art are a mix of everything. Because I believe that in life, combining refreshes us, enriches us, endows us with new aspects; it's like adding instead of subtracting. Even though I could change at any moment to different techniques and trends, Impressionism always prevails in me, as the Impression shows reality. I especially like to use Impressionism in the faces and eyes; I seek to make them appear clearly defined. I would almost like to bring them to the point of hyperrealism, practically photographic, but blurring the rest, letting it nearly disappear into the canvas. I will always make an effort to have the looks, faces and expressions of my canvases be memorable.
On the other hand, I like Expressionism for the way it handles light, for allowing me to intuitively express myself, without censoring anything that flows from my inner being. I like my paintings to be full of vivacious colors, almost violent in the way the colors contrast, especially red, the color of blood, and green, the color of nature. I view both pigments as the elixir of life, the colors of creation.
7. What does art mean to you? What role does it play in your life?
To me, art means 'expression', because it allows us to convey what we feel, to understand what others feel or were feeling. Art is a daily part of my life; it's in everything that I see, touch, hear. It sends me a type of message that turns into a lesson, a poem that inspires me to create, to paint. Everything related to art allows me to be who I am and express my sentiments. Every day in life we face the challenge of making ourselves understood.
Art has given me many rewards, has led me to cross borders, meet interesting people, make a name of myself in my country and now abroad too. Art lets me be myself and transpose my ideas onto canvas. It drives me to build up my dreams, and gives me a reason to live every day.
I think that life is like a canvas, and with our daily actions we add little splashes of paint and detailed brushwork to our grand piece of art work. It's up to you to decide on the colors, contrasts, brightness and shadows. In the end, everyone will be held responsible for their own creation, so I say "Try to add some color to the canvas of your life."
8. This year you had the opportunity to display your artwork in the New York show called Eclecticism. What can you tell us about that experience?
First and foremost, I want to thank Artelista for the opportunity given to all of us who are here exhibiting our work so that it can be discovered and appreciated. In my case, I had been showing my artwork for a couple of years, when out of the blue I was contacted to participate in the Eclecticism exhibition in New York. Artelista gives everyone the same opportunity, because apparently the curators and art critiques monitor artwork from Artelista, and they had an eye on my work. When they got a hold of me, I actually thought it was some prank, because I didn't know anybody from the competitive art world in the United States, much less in New York. I could hardly believe it! But after a few phone calls and emails I could confirm that it was true. I felt nervous, but very excited. I will always be deeply grateful to Artelista for having made this possible.
The experience was unforgettable. The news reached the media and from that moment they called me, "the artist who reflects the indigenous Panamanian." I began to feel like a real artist! I proudly brought my roots, portrayed in my paintings, to New York, specifically to Soho, the world-famous art district of Manhattan. Through my artwork I explained the background behind the native body painting, folklore, clothing, Pre-Columbian pottery, and at that moment I felt like the ambassador of my country abroad, representing my culture. It was my first exposition, and international at that! In New York! It is an amazing place, such a contrast from my canvases. I wandered the streets and enjoyed art at its finest, from museums to street art. It all enriched me and inspired me.
I give thanks to God, to Artelista and the Arte Ganexa university in Panama, where I took my first classes and made my first brushstrokes. I would also like to thank my teacher, the Panamanian artist Blas Petit, my whole family, all my friends and supporters who encouraged me. Thanks also to Ward Nasse Gallery, the curators Leda Prado and Gigi Gafoglio, who discovered my work in the Artelista portal and, without even knowing me, saw the potential to become part of this great experience. Thanks to everyone who continue to open doors for new exhibitions at home and abroad.


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Even if your typical 350 horsepower small-block won't "Wow" the fairground crowds, the truth is that it makes plenty of power for your typical Camaro. After all, it's more than the fourth-gen LS1-powered Camaros were putting out, and nobody was complaining that they were "dogs." And while the world of small-blocks is mostly comprised of the venerable 350-cubed V8, there's also quite a few 327-inch varieties lurking out there. They too can easily be worked over to put out respectable power levels.
First introduced in '62, the 327 small-block was only produced for eight years, but it did manage to find its way under the hood of quite a few Camaros. Its efficient design combines a four-inch bore and a short, 3.25-inch, stroke that yields a nearly optimum 1.75:1 rod/stroke ratio. The upside to this is that the 327 has an excellent horsepower-per-cubic-inch potential. For decades the L84 fuel-injected 375-horsepower variant was king of the hill compared to other naturally aspirated, single-cam, production small-blocks. The power ranged, in stock trim, from 250 hp all the up to the aforementioned 375 hp mill. But, most of the ones found in Camaros ranged from 210 to 275 horsepower.
Finding a good core isn't easy, but if you already have one under your hood, then it might be better to juice it up a bit rather than spend a lot more for another engine. We decided to try out Trick Flow's top-end kit (TFS-K314-350-400, $1,679.95) from Summit. Included in the kit are aluminum 23-degree heads, a hydraulic flat tappet cam, aluminum roller rockers, chromemoly pushrods, a billet timing set, and every gasket needed from the oil pan to the intake. It even includes high-end ARP head bolts. n
At only $20 for a new Melling oil pump it just didn't make sense to re-use the old one. To insure against any problems down the road, we were sure to tack-weld the pickup tube in place.
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Also in the kit was this new Trick Flow billet timing set (PN TFS-31478500). This USA-made part features a billet steel cam sprocket, heat-treated and coated crank sprocket, and three keyways with +4/-4-degree adjustments. We set ours at zero.


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BBC Radio 1 DJ's Chris Moyles and Greg James are packing their bags early and taking their shows to Carlisle a week before Radio 1's Big Weekend.
The pair will broadcast their shows live from Cumbria from Monday (May 9) to Friday (May 13) when they arrive a week ahead of the main event. In addition to their daily shows, Chris, Greg and their teams will be getting out and about in the city and surrounding areas, meeting the residents and celebrating all that Carlisle has to offer.
The pair will immerse themselves in the local community for a whole week, and they also plan to meet the city's students in a Q&A session during the week.
Chris Moyles says: "The Big Weekend is always the highlight of my year and I'm so excited that we get to go up to Carlisle for a whole week beforehand and settle in before everyone else arrives. I'm hoping the good people of Carlisle are going to show us a good time!''
Greg James adds: "I'm really looking forward to this year's Big Weekend and to bring my show live from Carlisle. Chris and I will be out and about meeting the locals during the week and I'm hoping we can experience the best of the city!"
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend is the UK's biggest free ticketed festival and 40,000 lucky music fans will be able to enjoy performances across four stages at Carlisle Airfield where the event is taking place – the Main Stage; the In New Music We Trust Stage; the Outdoor Stage and the BBC Introducing Stage. This year's artists include, Lady Gaga, Foo Fighters, The Black Eyed Peas, Tinie Tempah and Ellie Goulding.
A truly multiplatform experience, Radio 1's Big Weekend will be broadcast on Radio 1, with a major interactive presence online and many live performances available to watch on demand. There will be highlights on BBC Three and extended performances can be seen via BBC Red Button on digital TV during the weekend.
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'VERY knowledgable' staff at a popular Kendal attraction are celebrating after securing a top accreditation.
Kendal Museum has been accredited as a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction - an assessment run by Visit England and recognises customer service and visitor experience at attractions across the country.
A Visit England assessor praised the strong collections, recognising the effort that has gone into creating a well-balanced wildlife gallery and the considerable effort that has been put into modernising the Wainwright Gallery.
In a report, the assessor said of the museum: "The Wildlife Gallery succeeds in presenting specimens from five continents in an imaginative and lively fashion that can be readily grasped by children".
Learning facilities for children were also praised along with 'excellent' reading books being available.
The Wainwright Gallery was also commended for its cabinets and the assessor said that the staff 'engaged well and were very knowledgeable'.
The assessor summed up his judgement and reported: "There is a wealth of excellent material in the museum – with the Wildlife Gallery and the Wainwright exhibits showing what can be achieved. The possibilities for mutually beneficial exchanges of skills with college courses and museum qualifications seem exciting. There is huge potential scope for the Museum."


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Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane?
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With Twitter apparently on a path to profits, or at least revenues, two of its cofounders are now on to other things. Biz Stone's and Evan Williams' new company is Obvious, whose motto on its spare website is "We do various things." A bit more specifically (but not much), Obvious' goal is to "build systems that help people work together to make the world a better place." Its first effort, called Medium, might be viewed as Twitter 2.0, seeking to figure out what to do with the firehose of information Twitter has helped create.
In a "fireside chat" with Hunter Walk, a Google director of product management working at YouTube, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco today, Stone and Williams fleshed out their vision, admitted they didn't get everything right at Twitter, and offered advice on how to build Internet companies today:
Q: You don't still work at Twitter, right?
Williams: I'm on the board, but we don't work at Twitter.
Q: It's not an incubator, not an investment fund, and you're building Medium. So what is Obvious?
Stone: It's an excuse for me and Ev to work together. Really cool, good stuff comes from an organic atmosphere of working on things. We do whatever it takes to help people and projects philosophically aligned with us succeed.
We have marketing capabilities, design and engineering prowess, and money, and we deploy them wherever it makes sense.
A: Now you are older and wiser and wealthier, and parents. How does that change how you run a company?
Williams: I tried to be a ski bum when I left Twitter, but it didn't work. We're driven to do interesting things in the world. We decided to let it evolve as the products evolve, figure it out organically as we go. That's satisfying. It's a hell of a lot more fun than skiing every day.
Q: The first product you've come out with is Medium.
Williams: We came out with a preview, not a real product yet, a few weeks ago. We have a team of engineers working on it every day.
Medium is essentially a publishing platform, along the lines of what we've done before, with Xanga and Blogger. We've been obsessed with the democratization of media on the Internet. We just thought there's still more stuff to do.
Q: Only a select few can publish on Medium. Why?
Williams: We want to help high-quality content succeed and get attention. Not everybody can write. It's not to limit who can publish. It just happens to be we launched in private beta. It's hard to throw open the doors in closed beta. It's definitely not the ethos of Medium to be closed in any way.
Stone: We learned a few things about opening up the doors….
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