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40 Years Later: Making the Improbable Real
Fall 2009
a Broadway musical in 1965, "Man of La Mancha" has
brought to a popular audience the enduring central
message of Cervantes's masterpiece. The impossible
dream. Identity is a made thing. We can decide what and
whom we will be. Hearts and minds can change and, even
if the Earth does not move, the human spirit can soar far
beyond its meager clothing of flesh, its bounded identity
in time and place. We can even experience, against all
rational expectations, reality altered by the power of the
spirit, the conviction of the soul.
But the process is not an easy one. A quotidian
dullness neutralizes heroic action; the hungry soul
imagines dreams and truth to be one. In one of his first
sallies, don Quijote, ablaze with the dream of his beautiful
lady, stops a group of merchants on their way to market
in Toledo and demands that they share his faith.
"What matters is that without seeing her (Dulcinea),
you are to believe in her beauty, to confess, affirm,
swear, and defend it. If not, I challenge you to combat,"
don Quijote tells the startled merchants. Stupefied, the
merchants ask before they are to swear for a picture of
Dulcinea: "A small one will do, even if it is the size of a
grain of sand." Enraged at their insistence that a dream
must assume a palpable presence before it can be acted
upon, don Quijote charges the group. His nag stumbles.
He falls and suffers a sound thrashing at the hands of a
strong and slightly irritated young man.
A university is about an imagined future, a dreamed
identity, a new life, laid hold of slowly as a student pursues
his or her studies. It was a dream of new life for all South
Texas that created Texas A&M International University.
Long before Governor Ann Richards turned that initial
spade of dirt in February 1994, Laredoans and South
Texans first imagined a better way and then, like don
Quijote, set about to bring it into being. The obstacles, far
more formidable than the merchants don Quijote faced,
were attitudinal, material, political, a cyclical pattern
of exclusion that had long kept the dream of higher
education for this region a seemingly impossible one.
Like don Quijote, citizens and elected officials
continued to push and to press, to rage and to insist, to
plot and to promise, until the dream of new life began
to acquire a body. And that body, this magnificent new
campus, continues to grow and develop: hope given
corporeal form, no longer impossible, just enormously
difficult to create.
As we celebrate our 40th year, reflections upon the
creation of Texas A&M International University assert
forcefully a lesson well-known to Cervantes. The larger
and more improbable, the more pharaonic the dream,
the greater the possibility that it may become true. The
task to build this University, the zeal to see it become
real, awakened in Laredo both an energy and strength
beyond anything seen since colonial days. Our legislators
in Austin and leaders and philanthropists in the Laredo
community imagined what could not be, and it was.
When contemplating our Laredo miracle, gazing over
the beauty of these marvelous and fermosas salidas, a
wise man captured well the dream, its challenge, and its
"It must be," he said, "that the first 250 years are the
Ray M. Keck III
Professor of Spanish
Texas A&M International University


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Cheryl Rascoe, head of York's parking bureau, said she hopes the temporary parking passes are the solution to a problem residents frequently complain about.
The passes cost $20 -- which might sound like a lot but is actually less than half of what it would cost to park for five days at a city meter, she said.
Residents can purchase the passes for their guests as many as five times a year.
"If residents request it more, we'll take another look at it," Rascoe said.
Thumbs up: To the York County Veterans Treatment Court on its first anniversary.
The court was founded a year ago to offer offending veterans intensive counseling instead of prison time. Program participants must undergo intensive therapy and treatment, attending meetings several times per month.
In exchange for their successful completion of the treatment, the judges can downgrade the severity of their crimes. For example, a felony might become a misdemeanor and a misdemeanor might be dismissed.
During its first year, 88 veterans graduated from the program, saving the county more than 22,000 days in York County Prison. That translates to a savings of more than $860,000 for taxpayers.
Common Pleas Judge Craig Trebilcock, a U.S. Army veteran, started the court because he under stand war changes people.
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The treatment court corrects an injustice against Vietnam-era veterans, who were thrown in jail because of lack of research and understanding about the effects of post-traumatic stress, Trebilcock said.
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1st Chibi kinight: Furball-Slayer, Dragon-Slayer, Worthy-Chibi and Demon-Slayer
Defeat all bosses in the game. One southeast after crossing the wooden bridge, he gives you magical boots. One up north after crossing the water with the boots, he gives you the castle key. Three knights inside the castle, defeat them to gain access to the top of the mountain. The final boss at the top of the mountain.
Obtain all 4 spells from the mages. One east of the starting point. One in a tree with a sleeping bird (after cutting the tree with the axe). One in the damaged house northwest of the starting point (after cutting enough trees with the axe). One hidden in a fire pot at the second floor of the castle.
Level up everything to level 8. My recommendation for leveling up is to defeat the Purple Knight, but afterwards instead of picking up the gem kill yourself with the fire, then repeat. You get 400exp each time you defeat him, but if you pick up the gem you won't be allowed to fight him again.
If you have already defeated him go in for the last battle against the Demon Beast, destroy a crystal orb, walk out the fight to one of the sides, repeat. Each crystal orb gives you 5exp per hit for a total of 65exp for each destroyed orb.
Finish the game without getting the axe or obtaining any spell (even if you never used magic but you obtained a spell, you won't get this medal). You may take as long as you want to obtain this one (leveling up attack and defense for example), so it doesn't really need to be a "speed" run.
Slash-n'-Burn secret medal
Chop down all trees in the forest with the axe.
Getting the Axe not a medal
This is not a medal, just some important info for those who want to get some specific medals. Detailed instructions:
- Go southeast, cross the wooden bridge and then defeat the Canyon Beast that will give you the magic boots.
- Go inside the temple which is west of the starting point, in there jump on top of the water (you can stand on it with the magic boots), then jump on top of the structure and free the pixie/fairy.
- Go north and across the water, defeat the Island Beast if you need to, then go further up north to find a boat, there you will find a blacksmith that will give you the axe for rescuing his pixie.
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2nd Sydney shark: ZEPPELIN
25 points
Take down the zeppelin
25 points
Take down the HH65 Dolphin helicopter
25 points
Take down the CH46 Sea Knight helicopter
25 points
Take down the crocodile jet
25 points
Take down the broadcast helicopter
25 points
Take down the Airbus A380
25 points
Take down the BAE Hawk
25 points
Take down the sailplane
25 points
Take down the DHC 2 Beaver
25 points
Take down the UFO
25 points
Nuke Sydney (bring down the nuke. This also ends the game instantly)
Other medals
25 points
Crush 10 kayaks (the pink ones. Not the canoes. You don't need full-on air to crush them)
25 points
Eat 60 pieces of Orca (orcas take three bites to fully eat, meaning you'll need to spot and get to at least 20 orcas. It gets annoying as they lost parts, since they'll shake up & down more)
50 points
Kill 9 horses (these will be carried up in the air, and will by marked by black horse head icons. There's three per load, and the carrier moves pretty slowly, so this should be easy to get)
50 points
Kill 30 cruise ship passengers (marked by people icons. Again, get big air every time you want to go up, and mash the bite button once you're up there. Speeding up at the same time helps, too. There's plenty to go around, so this one's also pretty easy)
50 points
Kill 10 sky divers (this one's pretty hard. You have to get all 10 of them, marked by black parachuting icons. Getting one at a time will likely push you back some if you want to get them all, so by getting air and speeding up at the same time, you can get two at once)
HAT (secret medal)
50 points
Finish the game with a hat on. You can find it at the very beginning of the game. Just swim by it to put it on. Be careful, as it can come off when you're airborne. If you still feel like causing destruction with it (there's a point bonus if you're going for a high score, too), it's safer to jump straight up with it so it lands back on your head when you hit the water again. Having it on when you nuke Sydney counts, too.
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If you've missed previous kickstarters for other folding ultralight stoves, you have one more chance now. Utah local Mikhail has a new Kickstarter for his FireAnt Titanium Stove. Check it out here:
Also, no need to worry about this project funding, as that only took 6 hours. The price is extremely good for titanium, so worth getting in on the early pricing. Ultralight stoves like this and the Folding Firebox are excellent things to keep in your bags, since they can run on scraps compared to a large fire. They help leave far less traces at your campsites, and use much less fuel to get you what you need.
I've already kicked for one, and if you don't already have a folding stove, you really should take the opportunity on this great deal. (more…)
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One of my favorite prepper toys over the last couple of years has been my Firebox. A small folding stove made here in Utah by a local businessman. It's been a wonderfully useful little folding stove, although sadly one of my scouts just lost the two pegs (hey guys, do you sell those individually?).
Now even better news. While small and somewhat light, it hasn't fit the "ultralight" category that can be really nice. But now there is a new product coming out. Check it, and jump over to kickstarter and pre-order this thing.
Right now my decision is just what level I want to kick it at. If you look they have upgraded packages that include carriers, stable fuel, combos with the 5″ classic version and more. Don't miss this discounted chance to get an excellent stove.
Tags: backpacking, Cooking, Fire, kickstarter, Stove
In my mind, I can hear the sound of an 80's song, but I am not an egyptian. No, but I do like a Wok. Most commonly associated with Chinese cooking, the wok actually has variants found from India to Japan. Billions of people have relied on this simple pan as their main cooking pot for good reasons. The wok represents one of the most efficient means to utilize a fires heat and cook in a variety of ways. This is why we thought it to be a good test at our recent stove party.
In short, a woks shape allows it to provide the best surface area to connect with your heat source, and concentrate it for efficient cooking. Depending on what food you use, you could boil, saute, stir fry, and more. So for our test, I grabbed some of the cheapest stew meat, and frozen veggies to test a stir fry. This cooking method is good in a preparedness sense in that it allows you to take smaller pieces of whatever proteins and vegetables you can get your hands on, and quickly cook them with some flavor for a group. This can be really important in an extended emergency when food fatigue has set in, or if you just are trying to get the most out fo your food budget today.
The next installment in our Heat and Light series is Making a simple Emergency Stove from Household Materials. This stove is capable of boiling water in less than 10 minutes and is very easy to use and re-use. The materials required to make it can commonly be found in the home and should be stored in your preps. Required are: Paraffin Wax, cardboard and a couple tin cans. (more…)
Tags: Cooking, emergency preparedness, Fire, food prep, heat, Stove
Attention, preppers! We've been given the opportunity to organize a group buy on the Volcano II Stove I wrote a review about a couple days ago. Now is your chance to get one for a great price.
To make things easy, we're going to focus on offering only one of their products: The Volcano II Stove with propane attachment. This kit sells for $150 on the website; with the group buy, you'll be able to grab one for just $108 (before tax)!
Last week I had the opportunity to get in on a group buy for the Volcano II stove. (Sorry, I would have shared the details but I found out about it very last minute and barely made it in myself!) I had heard good things about this stove, and after a brief review of its features and online ratings, I decided to acquire one.
The main reason I wanted to add this to my supplies is its versatility—Volcano stoves can use charcoal, wood, or propane (with the adapter). I found this setup very desirable, since while my fuel may be diversified, this single stove can handle almost everything I throw at it. It's made to accommodate dutch ovens, or you can lay down the included grill on top and use a normal pan, pot, or cook your things directly on it. And cleanup is as simple as turning the stove over and dumping the remnants out (unless you're using propane, of course).
Another great feature of the Volcano is its unique heat chamber that channels the heat upwards towards your food, instead of wasting fuel by expelling heat out the sides and bottom. This also means that the area surrounding the stove is cooler than conventional stoves, allowing you to cook with the stove on a variety of surfaces that you normally might not use for putting your stove on.
Below are the pictures of my grand unveiling when I opened and first used the stove.


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Sharvette, I would love to speak with you about The Hip Hop Jesus dvd message that is going to transform our youth and young people. If President Obama can raise the bar and standard of our youth, how much more can The Hip Hop Jesus do. This is bigger than The Passion of The Christ because of the youth and young people it will rfeach and impact.
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The first entries for the Rolex Trophy One Design Series to be held December 10-12 have come from the Farr 40 design yachts - Evolution (Australia), Ichi Ban (Australia), Venom (New Zealand) and Mascalzone Latino (Italy). All four yachts took part in the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship in Sydney earlier this year, with Richard PERINI's Evolution taking the world champion crown for an Australian victory.
The Rolex Trophy One Design Series is for yachts in the Farr 40 and Sydney 38 one design classes. Yachts of the same length, weight and all identical in design will compete over three days in up to nine challenging races.
With entries also expected from the Sydney 38 one design class, potentially including yachts entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, the first three days of this year's Rolex Trophy should prove highly competitive.
'We are looking forward to seeing Mascalzone Latino back to race in Sydney again and to defending our title from last year's Rolex Trophy series,' said Richard PERINI, skipper of Evolution which won the 2004 Rolex Trophy series in the Farr 40 class.
'Many of the crews on the Farr 40's are also sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart so it is a great opportunity for time on the water for them.'
Entries for the Rolex Trophy One Design Series close at 17:00 on 8 December, 2005.
Rolex Trophy - Rating Series
Six yachts have already applied for entry in the 2005 Rolex Trophy Ratings Series to be held 15-18 December, 2005.
The Rolex Trophy Ratings Series is the final event prior to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and comprises of four days of racing with two races being held each day on a course set off Sydney Heads.
While entries are open until 13 December, the following boats have already registered their intent to take part in the three days of racing off Sydney Heads:
All entries to date except for Vanguard and Nips n Tux are also competing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
The 2005 Rolex Trophy will be sailed over mostly short windward/leeward courses and will comprise of three to four rating divisions which will give boats of vastly different size and performance the opportunity for an even playing ground.
Nips n Tux won the PHS (Performance Handicap System) Division in last year's Rolex Trophy Rating Series while Yendys finished 4th in the IRC (International Rule Club) Division in 2004.
The event provides spectacular ocean racing, with yachts battling it out for points from each race which are tallied for overall results.
'The competition in the Rolex Trophy Rating Series can be incredibly close,' said Geoff ROSS, skipper of Yendys. 'Last year, Targé took victory by just one point so you're always looking to do your very best in each race over the four days. It's fast and furious out there and every mistake could cost you a point so its pretty intense.'
The fleet for the 2005 Rolex Trophy Rating Series includes a PHS division and three IRC divisions:
For further information on the Rolex Trophy and the Notice of Race, please visit www.cyca.com.au under 'sailing'.


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It's funny what we remember - and what we forget. I have no memory of ever learning the Pythagorean Theorem or Bernoulli's Principle, but I will always remember that Avogadro's number is 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd power and I can recite all 17 stanzas of Alfred Noyes's epic poem "The Highwayman."It's finally February - two days in, actually - and for some inexplicable reason, whenever February arrives, I can see in my mind's eye the bulletin board that graced the halls of Porterdale School when I was growing up. Every year it was the same thing - a red border, white background, a big Cupid in the middle, flanked by silhouette portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. February - The Birthday Month. That's what it always said - in big red letters. I bet they had a similar one in your school, if you are as old as I am. I suppose February was touted as the birthday month because of the Lincoln and Washington thing. They were pretty big names back in those days, and we made a big deal about their birthdays. Today? Not so much. For the record, William Henry Harrison was also born in February, but he caught pneumonia during his inaugural address and died after a month in office, so we never paid much attention to William Henry Harrison in Porterdale. But every year we had to write biographies about Washington and Lincoln, as well as other famous folks who were born during the year's shortest month. That's what's so crazy. I remember all the stuff about Lincoln and Washington, as you might expect, but I also remember the stuff about a lot of the other people, too. Like Babe Ruth. Did you know that Babe Ruth was born on Feb. 6? Well, you do now? In Baltimore - above a saloon. Raised in an orphanage, mentored by Brother Mathias, started out as a pitcher, hit a ton of homeruns - presumably without the benefit of steroids, yada, yada, yada ... Ironically, Ruth almost shared his birthday with the man who would break his career homer mark. Hammering Hank Aaron. Feb. 5. Mobile, Ala. I don't know when Barry Bonds was born. Nor do I care. Everybody knows about Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, but do you know about Lord Baden-Powell? He and George Washington share Feb. 22 as their birth date. Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts and, therefore, had a huge impact on my life. I was an Eagle Scout and a longtime Scouter, even as an adult. One of the highlights, for me, during a long ago trip to England, was getting to visit Baden-Powell's prep school and seeing where he had carved his initials into his desk - just like many of the run-of-the-mill delinquents his movement helped save. Gen. William T. Sherman was born in February, and one year my teacher made me do a report on him. She may have been punishing me or perhaps she just wanted to help me become more objective about the whole War of Northern Aggression. It obviously didn't work. I still named my son Jackson Lee, not Willie T. Thomas Edison was a February baby, and none of us could escape researching his life story. I must admit, he made a huge contribution. I like movies and I listen to records and the first thing I do every morning is turn on the lights, so there you go. Ronald Reagan was born in February and so was Susan B. Anthony. Now, that's what I call progress. Ms. Anthony couldn't even vote for president, and if she were still alive, she could actually run if she so chose. I remembered all of those people from school - except Reagan, of course. He was just the guy that peddled 20 Mule Team Borax on Monday nights when I was kid. I decided this week to do a little Internet research and find out if February is still producing famous folks, and the list is pretty impressive. In sports we have Fran Tarkenton, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordon, not to mention Freddie Blassie, who used to go against Ray Gunkle every other week on Live Atlanta Wrestling. In country music, Garth Brooks and Johnny Cash, not to mention Tennessee Ernie Ford - speaking of which, when's the last time you actually heard somebody mention Tennessee Ernie Ford? Several big-time Hollywood movie stars were born in February, too. Clark Gable was one. Lana Turner was another and, moving to more recent times, our own Dakota Fanning will turn 14 on the 23rd. And in the hot chicks category, the month gave us Christie Brinkley, Farah Fawcett and Jennifer Anniston. I could go on and on and on and I have concluded, after much research, that February still deserves to be known as the Birthday Month. Now, of course, February has also been designated Black History month, and the bulletin boards in our schools are more likely to reflect that distinction - including the one in my classroom. For the record, Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Ala., on Feb. 4, 1913. Happy Birthday, and may she rest in peace. Darrell Huckaby is a local author and educator. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Dear All,
I need to generate reports for huge data (around 2 to 5 lakh records) in different file formats in my web application.
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I have been searching for a best open source report generation tool and ended up on choosing on Dynamic Reports.
Aspose , is licensed and unluckily we could not afford to at this moment.
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Yup. I guess , Jasper Reports might need more coding than Dynamic reports. And also Dynamic Reports is based on Jasper.
Need to validate on the server performance as well as this can crash the server if wrongly implemented.
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Aside from the technical issues, though, this reminds me of a similar assignment I had way back in the earliest days of my career.
I was given the task of generating a multi-level report that would be run daily and emit about 2-1/2 boxes of IBM fanfold printout. That means 2.5 boxes of 2000-pages at 60 lines per page.
This was obviously nothing but a data dump, since no human being is going to read that much, period, to say nothing about daily. We accepted the assignment knowing full well that it was going to tie up the printer, destroy trees, consume ink, wear out ribbons and type chains and more often than not, get discarded unread. We didn't have Earth Day back then and it was all billable anyway.
There was little enough excuse for such things back then, when data tended to mostly be locked away on magnetic tapes, but these days it's considered to be more or less trivial to hack out a data query and drill down for the information you actually need, instead of wading through reams of eye-watering raw output.
In fact, the next level up when you're talking masses of data is Business Intelligence. The Pentaho BI suite is available in a fully-functional free Community Edition, and its report writer is pretty good (in fact, they used to use Jasper). Plus it can do OLAP stuff and other things that are not only impressive buzzwords but actually very powerful business tools.
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I have to say the Secret Service is in dangerous territory here. In cooperation with the Palin campaign, they've started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people in the crowd. This is a serious violation of their duty -- protecting the protectee -- and gets into assisting with the political aspirations of the candidate. It also often makes it impossible for reporters to get into the crowd to question the people who say vulgar things. So they prevent reporters from getting near the people doing the shouting, then claim it's unfounded because the reporters can't get close enough to identify the person.
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PITTSBURGH >> Tyler Boyd is used to the attention that comes with being among the best players on the football field.
Still, the Pittsburgh sophomore wide receiver's stellar 2013 season — when he set school freshman marks in receptions (85), yards receiving (1,174) and touchdowns (seven) — wasn't enough for him to generate much buzz. Boyd didn't make the preseason All-ACC team.
But neither did any other Panther. And Boyd and his teammates noticed after they were picked to finish near the bottom of the ACC's crowded Coastal Division.
"We know that people aren't talking about us," Boyd said. "But it's up to us. We walk around and we tell each other, 'We're not the seventh best team in the ACC, we're one of the top two or three.' But we can't just say it. We've got to go out there and do it."
The Panthers had an uneven debut in their new conference home after splitting from the Big East. The same team that beat eventual Coastal Division champion Duke and stunned Notre Dame also stumbled against Navy and North Carolina. A victory over Bowling Green in the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl left them at 7-6 for the second straight year.
While coach Paul Chryst enters his third season with his program stable — no coaching changes, no conference switches and no glaring offseason issues — Pitt still has yet to gain much traction. It might be a good time to start.
"I've been telling a couple other people, as proud as we are to be members of the ACC, our goal and objective is to make an impact on it," Chryst said. "We're certainly not there right now."
The schedule is hardly intimidating. No Florida State. No Louisville. There will be plenty of chances for the Panthers to prove the prognosticators wrong and prove something to themselves.
"We're not where we want to be," Chryst said. "But I sure appreciate and enjoy going through and facing that challenge with this group of guys and for every challenge there's an opportunity."
LET BOYD BE BOYD >> Boyd quickly delivered on his considerable promise last fall, providing the Panthers with the kind of explosive playmaking at wide receiver they hadn't seen since Larry Fitzgerald was hauling in catches a decade ago.
Yet the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Boyd is no longer one of the ACC's best kept secrets. He will be the focal point of opposing defenses, leaving it up to Chryst to find ways to keep Boyd involved.
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I believe cannabis is a feminist issue. Feminism advocates for equality of all genders, sexual orientations and expressions, and by extension equity for all human beings regardless of social location – which necessitates conversation about subjugated entities and the permissions granted or denied to human beings regarding what they may or may not do with their own bodies.
I will be applying several premises in this article:
- Unlike legalized recreational substances such as alcohol and tobacco, cannabis ingestion does not incur death
- Cannabis cultivation can be done in such as way as to not produce toxins
- Cannabis has extensive medical uses, including the treatment and alleviation of side-effects from mainstream cancer (and other severe illness) treatments
- Cannabis has extensive medical applications for women in particular
- Cannabis has recreational value
The world is full of laws, and in order for human beings to co-exist peacefully, we need to have limitations on how we exercise our innate human rights so that we do not interfere with the rights of others. Some laws, however, infringe on individuals' bodily freedoms, and when a law infringes on bodily freedoms that do not infringe on the rights of others that law is an attempt at enslavement to the institutionalized hegemony. No one has the right to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own body, so long as your body is not interfering with the rights or freedoms of others. On the basis of this logic, the illegality of cannabis is an infringement upon human rights.
For women in particular, cannabis has beneficial use, including the alleviation of menstrual and pre-menstrual symptoms such as mood swings and menstrual cramps. In fact, Queen Victoria regularly consumed cannabis to alleviate her menstrual symptoms. And, unlike, common pain-relievers such as acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol), ibuprofen (e.g., Advil, Midol), and acetyl-salicylic acid (e.g., Aspirin), cannabis has no long-lasting negative effects upon the liver or gastrointestinal system.
This lack of toxicity to the liver and gastrointestinal system is especially important for those who suffer from medical conditions that necessitate dietary restrictions and considerations (e.g., Celiacs, Chron's, ABS). For example, persons with Celiacs have reduced liver function that can adversely affect nail growth, alcohol tolerance, and the ability to expel toxins from the body – meaning that the liver is not able to expel acetaminophen before it turns into a deadly toxin that a healthy liver would normally expel before that toxin could do lasting damage to the body. And yet, the majority of North American women are being denied access to cannabis for alleviation of menstrual symptoms.
Part of the problem is that for many centuries menstrual symptoms, including the intense, life-interrupting pain and symptoms of associated syndromes such as dysmenorrhea and endometriosis, weren't of interest to the (predominately male) medical industry. Even now, the common 'cure' for menstrual problems is either the prescribing of drugs (such as the Pill, which is increasingly harmful to female health as age increases, and prescription-strength NSAIDs, which are more harmful than their non-prescription forms described above) or the inducing of menopause, both of which are not cures but rather medical interference masquerading as treatment.
How is cannabis a feminist issue? For one, the denial of access to safe, effective treatment that lacks death as a side-effect for menstrual symptoms and conditions is absolutely a feminist issue – because yes, NSAIDs and the Pill, as well as the other pain-killers and interventions mentioned above, all contain the risk of death with use.
For another, women have too long suffered illogical, useless dictations concerning what they can put into and what they can do with their own bodies. The time for dictation is over. The time for freedom – and health and well-being – is now.
Unlike the substances that cannabis is classified with, such as cocaine and meth, producing marijuana does not produce environmental toxins (growing hydroponically in a basement with insufficient air flow may cause mold growth, but so will growing tomatoes). There is no part of the process of cannabis cultivation that will harm the neighbors or prove dangerous to the persons performing the cultivation. The only harm associated with cannabis is the harm inflicted by outdated, illogical laws about cannabis.
The current war on cannabis users incarcerates hundreds of thousands of individuals. Incarceration – even simply arrest – ends the life that was and inflicts a new, much worse existence. To cause such damage to individuals for growing or ingesting a harmless substance is not just inane, but vicious and cruel. The war on cannabis users is in fact a form of persecution. It is a persecution that unjustly subjugates and furthers the suffering of specific groups of persons – including and particularly the sub-set of women with uteruses.
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Tattoos, earrings and other piercings happen World wide but why do people do this to themselves. Okay, nose and eye rings can be removed as can tongue rings, lip rings etc but tattoos are difficult to remove. I honestly think it's either an in-thing with youngsters and is in vogue, but Golden Oldies with tattoos and rings look stupid.
Saw a TV progamme with two sixty year old's recently who both looked unkempt, had straggly hair and large bellies (mama too), and tattoos and eyebrow rings--as well as a few others. Do we all have to imitate Onslow? Do we have to advertise that many of us are lower class types, fag hanging from mouth and vests as only garments. Lots of comments here I'm sure.
Do Brits have to display lower class when we may not even be so? Look at Beckham--he's a walking tattoo nightmare even in his Jockey shorts. Go to the Costa Del Sol and you can easily pick out the cheap holiday Brits. The tattoos, the piercings, old hags with scraggly hair and men with beer bellies. Fag is always in hand and a can of lager in the other!
I'm serious-we look like a nation of gypsies and has-beens. What do others think of us? A bunch of rough moaners looking like trailer trash. God help us.
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