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Put your back into it
Back-fixing work.
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Pilates, physiotherapy, Feldenkrais, Alexander technique - which one is for you? Deb Richards looks at the sciences of body posture.
When Michael Shellshear walked through a Sydney shopping centre with chronic back pain, a book that caught his eye changed his life forever.
"I like to think it 'waved' to me," he says. As with many people in pain, Shellshear says he had tried everything; unlike many sufferers though, he finally found something that worked for him.
Shellshear had stumbled on a book describing the Alexander technique, one of several disciplines for training posture and movement.
It was a revelation. "I had a lifetime of hunching over, of very bad posture and sitting badly. When I took classes in the Alexander technique, I learned to unburden my muscles, to co-ordinate better."
Shellshear's back healed. "It wasn't a miracle cure, it took six months," he says. But it seemed to have miraculous results: "I had been unconsciously squeezing myself down, and when I stopped, I am now [11 centimetres] taller than I was."
Not everyone finds the treatment that is right for them. Those of us still looking for a cure, who are still nagged by dull or searing pain in the shoulders or back or legs, are often bewildered by the array of treatments available.
Aside from the manipulative therapies, there are a range of disciplines from dance to rigorous exercise that claim to be able to fix the way we move. The names blur past: Pilates, physiotherapy, Feldenkrais, Alexander technique, yoga, tai chi ... an exhausting if not exhaustive list.
Estimates say about a third of all Australians are suffering from back or neck pain at any one time; about two-thirds of these people have pain severe enough to disrupt normal life. Most of these are sprains and strains - the sort caused by poor posture and lifting things badly.
A typical history sees a person suffering one bout of pain, then it goes away. But it's not gone forever, with recurrent episodes of pain occurring with increasing frequency, until in their 50s the problem becomes chronic and complicated.
Exactly why this pattern is so common has been explored over the past decade by the department of physiotherapy at Queensland University. This research has helped establish the importance of the core stabilising muscles that lie around our stomachs and spine.
We now know that acute pain stops these muscles from working - and they don't automatically start working again once the pain eases. Without them, our skeletons have less support and are propped up by incorrect use of the "power" muscles on the surface. Recurrent back problems are the result.
Recent research in Britain for the charity BackCare showed the problems start early. Poor sitting posture at school on badly designed chairs and tables was the most common factor associated with back pain in children and adolescents.
The message is to tackle problems early and train ourselves out of the bad habits we have learned.
Pilates, the Feldenkrais method, the Alexander technique and musculo-skeletal physiotherapists all concentrate to differing degrees on the core stablising muscles, each working to build body awareness and overcome the poor habits that lead to tension and pain.
For Shellshear, the Alexander technique did the trick. "I'd been an academic kid and done lots of sitting. Once I started lessons in AT, I learnt I was putting great tension into all my movements."
One of the key objectives in the technique is for the person to learn to move with ease. Frederick Alexander was a Tasmanian who performed Shakespearean recitals a century ago. He found tension in his neck muscles during performance was strangling his voice.
An acute observer, he discovered that we precede movement with a barely perceptible "priming movement". It helps us balance the weight of our heads as we get up or start to run.
If the priming moves the head up and extends the spine, movement will be co-ordinated. However, when the head is pulled back and the spine contracts, movement will be less co-ordinated and not so easy.
Shellshear, who is now chairman of the Australian Society of the Teachers of Alexander Technique, says that gaining awareness of one's body and how it should be used is an eye-opening experience.
Lessons can be in groups or one-on-one. You start with simple movements, such as sitting or walking, as the teacher helps you understand your co-ordination and how to release muscular tension.
"We work on eliciting change in our students. Tai chi does similar work, but it's not a conscious process. We point out what's going on: with very delicate touch we say, 'Can you feel how you are twisting here? Can you feel tension in your neck here?' It's all about bringing awareness," Shellshear says.
"If we are moving correctly, then we use the right muscles for the jobs we are doing, and they 'fire' in the right way."
The scientific research for many movement techniques is limited; physiotherapy, however, is a discipline that follows research-based practice. The profession is celebrating its 100th year in Australia.
Cathy Null, president of the Physiotherapy Association, says practitioners have a strong university training in science and functional anatomy and can help diagnose and treat skeletal problems from first principles.
The profession started as an adjunct to medicine, as the Massage Association of Australia, but quickly developed stronger intervention treatments during the polio epidemics from the 1920s to 1950s.
Physiotherapists can specialise in different areas, such as sports injury or neurology for people who have suffered brain injuries. Those in the musculo-skeletal discipline concentrate on joint movement, exercise and relief from pain. They can use physical interventions, including joint mobilisation and recommending an exercise regimen.
Many physiotherapists now employ ultrasound to help patients "see" their core stabilising muscles. Clients use the visual feedback to isolate and then contract and release these core muscles, getting them to function normally again.
Null embraces other disciplines such as Alexander, Feldenkrais and Pilates as adjuncts to physiotherapy. She believes that scientifically based clinical training is necessary to understand the complexity of the problems a patient can have.
"They are very valuable approaches, especially if the client has no pathology," she says. "But if you've done the training in one technique, it's like you have a recipe book - but you don't necessarily understand why you are doing it, or what it's doing to the body.
However, Renee Pinshaw found she jettisoned her physiotherapy training when she discovered the Feldenkrais method to be a far more satisfactory healing technique. The difference is in the attitude of the patients, she says. "Physio is more passive, in that patients come in and want you to cure them. In Feldenkrais, we assist people to learn new ways of moving - they take new knowledge away with them. It's a discovery process."
Dr Moshe Feldenkrais felt the longstanding medical model of "wellness" - an absence of disease - wasn't good enough. A judo practitioner, he was influenced by the Alexander technique, and developed his method in the 1970s.
He claimed it results in better-functioning bodies and minds and healthier people. He taught that good health is a matter of positive functioning.
More than 20 years ago, Pinshaw felt dissatisfied with the medical training she was doing, but didn't find satisfaction by switching to physiotherapy. She then went to a weekend workshop in Feldenkrais. "I was so stimulated by it, I almost levitated out of the room," she says.
It's a paradigm shift. "If you look at some of the exercises we teach, they could be done in Pilates or physiotherapy. But our approach is different. We explain movements, we create awareness by asking questions. We don't look at them and tell them what they are doing right or wrong. We take their patterns in and add to them."
She says a lot of computer people slump at their desks. "They won't feel their old slump to be comfortable after we help them to find sitting up straight is better. We ask them where their feet are. Often they are tucked underneath, but out they come as the person starts to feel that they aren't supporting themselves properly."
As the immediate past president of the NSW Feldenkrais Guild, Pinshaw knows that a lot of people find the discipline frustrating at first. "They have to discover what works best. We just guide them."
In Feldenkrais, patients lie on a low table while the instructor helps them concentrate on their movement and the habits they have developed. They build "proprioception" - an awareness of where their body is and how it is moving.
Pinshaw has no doubt that it works. "At first, they ask us to tell them what they have to do - they may not get it intellectually, but their body will. If you give the nervous system an option, it will choose the better way. They have an 'aha!' moment."
In Pilates, clients are more likely to have an "ugh!" moment, as the exercises can be strenuous. "Pilates is about retraining the body through an array of exercises," says trainer Penny Latey, who until recently ran the Pilates course at the University of Technology, Sydney. "It 'turns on' muscles not used in a long time."
Joseph Pilates was a martial arts and boxing trainer interned on the Isle of Man during World War I. His fellow captives all practised the exercise method he developed using hospital bedframes as part of the regimen.
Modern Pilates can be floor-based or studio based, employing various pieces of equipment. The exercises emphasise control and form rather than huge numbers of repetitions.
The discipline originally catered to elite athletes and dancers. As a dancer in London in the 1970s, Latey was sent to Pilates training to help overcome minor injuries to her back, shoulder and hip.
She learnt she'd been making mistakes in her technique as a dancer and had been straining because of inappropriate movements.
The method has been modified and adapted to cater for a broader community. Exponents focus on the core postural muscles, yet claim Pilates is a way of achieving total body conditioning, resulting in flexibility, alignment, body awareness and energy.
Latey advises that the discipline is separating into two branches: clinical and a more fitness-based "gym" Pilates.
She advises that it's an unregulated industry and large group classes are unsuitable for people seeking to overcome painful problems.
The right treatment might be a question of hit and miss, but all of these disciplines aim to improve your posture and relieve you from pain. The benefits that flow are a question of application - and that bit is up to you.
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You see, he confessed—the half-wit did—before he was killed.
For what the half-wit did was what he had seen these others do.
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No offense but until you have a precise race-track timed 0-60 measurement, documented with a proper statistical sigma calculation, no sane person is buying the mobile-phone-on-the-fly-tacho measured 4.3 seconds. Keep in mind 60 mph on your tacho is around 55 real speed, too.
The latest Audi S8 which weighs 450lbs less, has more torque and hp and an awesome 8 speed tranny, and, well, overall a faster car by miles, does 4.2s. The new m5 which weighs substantialy less and is, duh, an m5, goes 4.4s. Your f01 can't be on the same level, period. I'm guessing realistically you have around 4.7 not less. By the way, stock f01 is stated as 5.1 and *not* 5, this is yet another wrong statement from you.
The results seen from Richards car seem actually very realistic and they are also correctly measured and can be trusted.
You don't get a linear increase of speed after a certain point, this is physics and not primitive math.
I did 10-12 stop watch measurements when stock and 10-12 after the dinan tune. They were all within .1 of 5 when stock and .1 of 4.3 when tuned. so say what you want, it's a good way to see if it's installed or not. Remember, BMW tried to pull the same crap with me the first time they installed the software. It wasn't installed and my 0-60 times were still 4.9-5.1 every time.
You really need to do a little more research if you want to comment here with facts. 750i stock is 5.0, 750li is 5.1. Also numbers the the new M5 are all over the place on the internet, but should be under 4.
Yes, Richards numbers prove his software was not installed correctly.
I have also raced a 2012 M3 coupe in a straight line and slowly walked away from him, 0-60 on the M3 being 4.4.
So piss on everything I say all you want, it doesn't change the fact that I have proven that the Dinan is installed correctly on my car. Also I do my 0-60 stopwatch voodoo everytime I get the car back from the dealership, even if they tell me they haven't upgarded the software.
Maybe do some upgrades yourself and stop armchairing things you have no first hand knowledge of.
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She sat down on the grass and said: "I am a symbol of Nature. I am the virgin whom your forefathers did adore; for whom they build altars and shrines and temples in Baalbek and Aphaca and Byblos." And I said: "Those temples are destroyed and the bones of my forefathers lie level with the earth, and naught remains of their gods and their ways save a few pages between the covers of books."
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The 2011 Missouri Governor's Cup, a prestigious award that recognizes the best wine in the state, went to Blumenhof Vineyards and Winery's 2010 Valvin Muscat.
It was the first time Blumenhof has been awarded the coveted award.
The award-winning wine was selected at the 2011 Missouri Wine Competition by a panel of judges from across the United States. The judges tasted 266 wines that were submitted from 35 wineries before handing the top spot to Blumenhof.
The Governor's Cup Awards Presentation and Proclamation was held May 10 at the Capitol building in Jefferson City. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and first lady Georganne Nixon presented the proclamation and Governor's Cup trophy to Mark Blumenberg, owner and winemaker of Blumenhof Winery, and his son Eric Blumenberg.
Blumenhof Vineyards is located in Dutzow, near Augusta, which was the first official American Viticulture Area in the United States.
Blumenhof, "court of flowers," in German, takes its name from the Blumenberg family's ancestral farm in Germany. Beginning with its first vintage in 1986, Blumenhof Winery has been dedicated to growing, producing and bottling Missouri-grown varietal wines from their vineyard, which was established in 1979.
Not only was the award the first for Blumenhof, but for the grape as well. Valvin Muscat is a hybrid grape that was released by Cornell University in 2006. Blumenhof is the only winery in the state making the semi-sweet to sweet white wine.
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By fitting a "smart" mobile phone with magnifying optics, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley created a real "cell" phone, a diagnostic-quality microscope that can be used by clinics in developing countries and inside - and outside - American biology classrooms, according to Eva M. Schmid, PhD, who described the development of CellScope at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Dr. Schmid, who is in the bioengineering and biophysics lab of Daniel Fletcher, PhD, said that the UC Berkeley researchers initially envisioned a mobile phone-microscope so rugged that it could be used for high-resolution imaging outside traditional laboratory environments, especially for disease diagnostics in developing countries.
But, after a chance encounter with a secondary school science teacher, Dr. Schmid and her colleagues decided to evaluate CellScope in an alternate environment: a middle school science classroom at the San Francisco Friends School.
Over the course of a year, the middle schoolers participated in the development of educational CellScopes by carrying out a "Micro:Macro" project outside the classroom, where they took macroscopic and microscopic pictures of objects in their homes, gardens, parks and playgrounds.
Dr. Schmid said that the captured images were displayed in real time on the phone's touch screen and were viewed simultaneously by multiple individuals, thereby sparking interactive discussions among students and teachers.
Image modifications and annotations were performed directly on the smartphone screen, and results were subsequently posted to social media platforms for further discussions.
Now the devices are being tested for educational outreach with other classrooms and museums. Researchers at the University of Hawaii have taken the CellScopes and their students to the beach to monitor plankton diversity, Dr. Schmid said.
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January is "event month" in Aspen, when the marketing powers-that-be promote a series of events meant to fill the gap between the holiday rush and February. Wintersköl is one of my faves. It was the first big community event I attended when I moved here, and I remember being mesmerized by the Canine Fashion Show. The dogs and the costumes were impressive, and it was clear the entrants put a lot of time and thought into their themes.
A few years ago I saw Carrie Marsh's "Louie" win dressed as a woolly mammoth, the year they found the bones in Snowmass. Some dogs were just born for the stage, as Louie won again this year in the "Celebrity Look Alike" category dressed as Chewbacca.
The dog catwalk is a favorite, but Soupsköl is clearly the most popular event at Wintersköl. Restaurants offer sample-size portions of their kitchen's best soup recipe while competing for a traveling trophy in the form of a huge copper soup pot. More than 2,500 people attended this year.
My friend Jenna escorted me to all the samples, and we tried at least 15 of the 20. I can honestly say they were all good, some were better than others, but none of them were terrible. Jenna tried one that caused her to make a gagging face and toss it out, but I didn't taste it so I can't judge for myself.
They were all so different it's really hard to compare. Two of my favorites were Kenichi and BB's Kitchen. Kenichi's entry, which placed second overall, was a chowder made with crispy fried shrimp. I know it sounds strange, but it was very good.
BB's Kitchen offered a pureed squash soup, which doesn't sound that exciting, as a lot of entrants had pureed squash offerings due to it being January in Aspen. But BB's added apple into the mix. I make a great winter squash soup myself, but once I tried this I made a mental note to look for a recipe that adds apples to my existing acorn squash/sweet potato/onion soup standard.
Despite all the excellent entries, my palate dictated that one stood above the rest, and my taste was confirmed by the voting results. Square Grouper, a new restaurant that isn't even scheduled to open until May, created a fantastic concoction called Jackalope Gumbo that wowed the crowd and won the fledgling business top honors as "Best Soup in Aspen."
A "jackalope" is a fictional creature, much like a unicorn. For the purposes of creating recipes, the soup is a traditional gumbo with shrimp, chicken and tomato served up with a custom-made andouille-style sausage of rabbit, antelope, pork and habanero peppers, created by Continental Sausage in Denver.
Chef Tom Slanga's recipe included a dark roux made with duck fat, and the huge copper pot indicates the crowd loved his recipe as much as I did. Big chunks of okra and sausage with a little spice warmed the body on a cold winter day, and Square Grouper's finely tuned recipe won over the majority of the voting crowd. Check them out this spring when they open in the current Elevation space on restaurant row.
Aspen Gay Ski Week is in full swing, and locals are once again praising their favorite group of the winter season. Organizers report more than $250,000 in lift ticket sales, and Aspen's service industry workers consistently report this crowd is the most fun, most friendly, and most generous of the season. As a gay guy, I've been pressed for weeks now about my anticipation for this event. "Gay ski week is almost here, aren't you excited?" I love this week, and I'm thrilled that it's a successful and recurring event, but it's not really my thing.
I interviewed Jon Busch this week for my other gig with Aspen Public Radio, and was fascinated by the stories he told, like the time in the '70s when a local bar owner called the police because Jon was dancing with another man. The police came and told the bar owner that there was nothing illegal about two men dancing together, and to get over it.
When you consider the political and social landscape of the '70s , that's a pretty remarkable achievement. It must have taken a lot of guts to stand up to the heterosexual establishment and demand equality at a time when that was considered taboo. It's also a testament to Aspen that, as one of the first towns in Colorado to pass a gay rights ordinance in 1977 forbidding discrimination in employment and housing, Jon was able to stand his ground without being run out of town… or worse. Remember Matthew Shepherd?
So a gay ski party is a great thing that's good for the local gay community and our town, but I find it hard to reconcile the amount of media attention it receives with what I consider the gay heroes of our society. Guys like Jon risked life and limb just to dance in a bar. Brave ACT UP members in the '90s risked stigma, public scorn and even arrest to save their brothers who were dying by the thousands.
If you want to see some true gay heroes, download David France's phenomenal and unbearable documentary "How to Survive a Plague" from Amazon.com. It chronicles the rise of ACT UP during the height of the AIDS crisis, and has been nominated for an Academy Award this year for Best Documentary. When you watch it, consider the sacrifices made by those brave men and women, and ask yourself if you would do the same in their situation.
I love gay ski week and all the men who come to support our town. But when I look at the amount of media coverage the event receives, it makes me sad. In the almost four years I've lived in Aspen, the only locally-written coverage I've seen on HIV/AIDS was a column I wrote to commemorate World AIDS Day in December 2011. I was trying to start a conversation.
But it didn't work. It's the only column I've ever written for this newspaper for which I didn't receive a single email, phone call or conversation with a stranger on the street. Apparently nobody cared.
Doug Allen can't wait for the X Games and can be reached at email@example.com.


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While it is still a matter of global dialogue whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We argue that a broader concept of mobility has to be integrated into those debates. This understanding would go beyond remittance-intense migration to include the increasing diversity of migration patterns and related commodification services, the close linkages between internal and international mobility, and the unequal access to and benefits of mobility, all of which calls for a more fundamental human rights perspective to be integrated into post-MDG-debates.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Framework to meet the needs of the world's poorest is going to expire in 2015, and discussions on what will follow are at their height [
Migration has been explicitly identified as an underrepresented topic and is seen as integral part of some of the major challenges discussed in the post-2015 debates [
More skeptical voices worry that, despite references to migration in the United Nations System Task Team report on the post-2015 agenda [
Nepal, one of the world's top 10 remittance-receiving countries as a percentage of GDP (22%) [
Despite severe political crisis, Nepal managed to achieve several of its Millennium Development Goals for economic and social prosperity during the conflict period. Next to other governmental and non-governmental interventions, academics, and practitioners in Nepal also attribute these improvements to migration and remittances. Like other countries, Nepal included the MDGs in their pre-existing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) without fully adapting them to national or regional needs [
In their assessment of the achievements of the MDGs, the Nepal Planning Commission and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [
At the same time, migrants' associations and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have already been pushing hard to force migration onto the policy agenda. There have been some significant achievements in terms of policy and programs, but the many controversies and remaining gaps illustrate the future policy challenges. Using the example of Nepal, we highlight characteristic challenges facing remittance-dependent countries. We will conclude that migration must form part of any post-MDG debate but must first be understood more broadly, i.e. in terms of mobility; and second, any discussion about migration and development also has to take human rights into consideration. This understanding would go beyond remittance-intense migration to include the increasing diversity of migration patterns and related commodification of services, the close linkages between internal and international mobility, and the unequal access to and benefits of mobility. We will do that by, firstly, providing more conceptual background on the migration, development and human rights debate, and, secondly, shifting to Nepal and highlighting different dimensions and inequalities of mobility such as: (1) migration and remittances characteristics and inequalities in access to and benefit from migration; (2) internal mobility; (3) the role of brokers and the commodification of migration; and (4) the political representation of migrants, both international and national, as well as the gendered dimension of Nepal's migration policy. Finally, we shall present the road ahead and come up with suggestions for aspects to be included in the post-MDG debate in Nepal, particularly from a human rights perspective.
The paper is a reflection based on both authors' long-standing and ongoing research into various dimensions of mobility in Nepal, including labor migration and student mobility [
The formulation of global and national targets in the MDG debate masked inequalities. Therefore, discussions on a post-2015 framework highlight that any sustainable development path has to be based on the general right to development, human rights and social inclusion (including decent work and gender equality), as well as convergence, where all regions and countries have the right to prosper [
In the more specific "migration and development" debates, critical voices argue along similar lines. Inequalities in migration realities and the context of neoliberal globalisation have been substantially downplayed [
This "unequal development" is described by an increase in social inequalities in terms of unequal concentration of capital and power and increasing disparities including reduced access to production and employment, declining working and living conditions and segmentation of social security systems within and between countries and regions ([
These growing inequalities lead to an increasing "forced" element in migration, although this does not qualify as "forced migration" under the official United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) definition. Officially labeled as voluntary and free, in reality it is unequal development and structural conditions that foster migration. Migration is fueled by violence, conflict, and catastrophe, but also by dispossession, exclusion, and unemployment. Subsumed into the category of "economic migrants", it is assumed that they travel freely and are socially mobile, whereas in reality they are subject to extreme vulnerability and exposed to exploitation [
Poverty, unemployment, declining natural resources, and political instability are major reasons why international labor migration has become an increasingly important source of income for Nepal. Next to political and economic instability, migration has been also a "rite of passage" being particularly for young men central to their transition into adulthood [
The latest MDG Progress Report 2010 [
However, the MDG Progress Report also highlights a significant variation in poverty by geographic region, with the high mountains and the western hills showing a higher percentage of poverty and slower fall than the
In 2011, the official total amount of remittances was recorded as US$ 3.5 billion, or 22% of Gross National Product [
Varies studies indicate that the migrant workers going to India are mostly from the mountains and hills, and particularly the western part of Nepal. Despite the overall contribution of remittances to poverty reduction, there are indications that the beneficiaries of remittances tend to be families located in urban areas and generally central and eastern regions of Nepal with members working as migrants in countries other than India. Similarly, well-off families benefit the most from remittances [
Therefore, international migration must also be seen as a highly selective and non-egalitarian process in Nepal, deeply entrenched in social networks through friends and family or brokers and the availability of information and seed capital. People with more seed capital and greater access to information are more likely to go to destinations with higher earnings, which often results in higher remittances. Consequently, it is not the poorest that benefit the most from migration.
Furthermore, migration often has positive and negative aspects at the same time. For example, even when the economic status of non-migrating family members does improve, the cognitive and emotional dimensions are far more context-specific and can range for non-migrating women for example from gaining more autonomy and power to living under even stricter control by their parents-in-law in the absence of the husbands [
This high remittance dependency not only induces changes in household structures [
Finally, in public discourse, Nepal is widely known as a labor-sending country. However, Nepal is also a receiving country. The recent census shows that there are 120,891 Indians, 15,447 Bangladeshi, and 2,572 Chinese citizens in Nepal [
As in most countries worldwide [
Overall, with increasing malaria control in the plains of Nepal (1971), internal migration from the hills to the plains increased by 41% from 1991 to 2001 [
During the last 12 years, much internal mobility was associated with displacement driven by the Maoist conflict and smaller subsequent conflicts, with 270,000 people internally displaced at the height of the Maoist conflict [
The categories of national and international migrant as well as labor migrant and conflict-induced refugee became blurred. Inter-linkages between internal and international migration, as well as complex return-characteristic where people would rather situate their future prospects in better-developed urban or peri-urban areas, became typical of most mobile people. While internal migration might be the only way for the poorest to find an income source, for better-off people internal migration is often linked to their own international migration and sometimes that of former generations, such as parents or grandparents [
Migration therefore often develops into multi-local livelihoods connecting places within and often outside Nepal. People will derive the income necessary to sustain or establish the new home in the plains of Nepal by working or having a family member working abroad, still they might have responsibilities and/or emotional attachments (e.g. through land or relatives) to their place of origin in the hills. International and internal migrants alike not only sustain their non-migrating family members through remittances, but also provide networks of access to medical care and education in better-developed urban and peri-urban areas, as well as jobs for subsequent migrants. This is how they maintain their transnational and national rural-urban linkages [
The "economics of migration" [
The second group involved in the recruiting process are middlemen (or brokers). They are the crucial link between (potential) migrants and manpower agencies. Known locally as agents, who send people abroad, a large majority of them are not registered. They are unregulated and work on an individual, unregistered and entirely independent basis in local communities [
It is not only increasing service provision to labor migrants, educational consultants also play an active role in international student mobility. In Nepal, for example, 205 consultancies are currently registered under the umbrella of the Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal. In 2010/11, 11,912 young adults officially went abroad for higher education purposes [
In a context of high international and internal mobility, questions of political representation and participation are becoming ever more complex. Such processes of differentiation, inequality, and potential exclusion not only call for an analysis of power as the direct assertion of will, but also an examination of "agenda-setting power" and political representation [
Over the last years the number of associations and Non Governmental Organization related to migration has been growing [
International migrants are often deprived of political participation in their new host country, but they might also face obstacles to retaining transnational ties and practicing their citizenship in their home country.
In Nepal, there is no provision in the constitution so far for migrants to participate directly in political affairs such as taking part in elections from their country of destination. While Nepali migrant associations in neighboring India have been active for a very long time [
The diaspora organization also marks its presence through other activities. For example, they have donated trolleys with their logo to Kathmandu international airport, funded a homestay for elderly and established a public building called "
Generally Nepalis are allowed to move freely within their country without many bureaucratic obstacles—a right that is not automatically granted in all countries of the world (e.g., on Kyrgyzstan [
The situation was different for persons who were forcibly displaced during the Maoist conflict. People displaced by the Maoist and other conflict victims formed the Maoist Victim Association in order to assert their demands. They organized regular protests and demonstrations to demand security, livelihood options and compensation for the loss of their livelihoods, property and in many cases also their family members. The leaders of the Maoist Victim Association were very prominent in Kathmandu and some of them are now represented in the Local Peace Committee (LPC) and other organizations working with victims of the conflict. However, like other internal migrants, internally displaces persons (IDPs) can now move freely to and from their place of origin and exercise their political rights by participating in elections or engaging in political activities in their home districts through membership of political institutions. However, despite the importance of political rights, most of the Maoist Victim Association's demands concerned basic livelihoods rather than political participation. The first priority was health and education, especially for children and teenagers, followed by access to employment. The freedom to exercise political rights had lower priority at the time [
Migration has become a concern for Nepal's government but the focus is clearly on labor migration to countries responsible for the bulk of remittances such as the Gulf countries, Malaysia, Japan and Korea. Nepal's government took various steps to address migration issues. The agenda included the creation of a Department of Foreign Employment under the Ministry of Transport and Labour Management and the establishment of the Foreign Employment Promotion Board within this department, as well as the establishment of the Foreign Employment Tribunal (
Despite these efforts, Nepal is struggling to develop a holistic national migration policy. Nepal's Foreign Employment Act (2007) and Foreign Employment Regulation (2008) focus entirely on the protection and safety of migrants in their destination. As such, they do not cover the barriers migrants face before going abroad. Nepal recently drafted the National Foreign Employment Policy 2011. The National Planning Commission and the Ministry of Labour and Employment commissioned organizations like the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to review previous acts and regulations and develop an action plan for labor migration. Nevertheless, the Nepal National Interim Plan [
Local NGOs have been a major driver in bringing the topic of migration to the public and pushing the government to take action. For example, the Pravasi Nepali Co-ordination Committee (PNCC) is a very active committee that lobbies with the government of Nepal as well as migrants and human right organization abroad for rights and protection of migrant workers, safe migration and rescue initiatives, resources and counseling for migrants, and networking of migrants in the Gulf and Malaysia. In addition to this, it also works towards reintegration of migrants to their home community. Another NGO, the People's Forum for Human Rights, also publishes and provides regular information about legal issues related to migration. Similarly, the Asian Human Rights and Cultural Development Forum (AHRCDF) works with the diaspora and on safer migration. One Nepali NGO has been very successful in establishing a radio program (Pourakhi) to better disseminate information to migrants and potential migrants about the dangers and opportunities of migration. A further example is that NGOs have been doing increasing national and regional lobbying to make the voices of migrants heard, most prominently through CARAM (Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility) Asia and the Migrant Forum Asia. Both networks are alliances of NGOs working on migration in different countries, and selected Nepali NGOs are a part of them. However, the perception of inter-linkages between foreign employment and development is mixed. For example, CARAM Asia is critical about overemphasizing the link between migration and development, seeing it as potentially turning migrants into a commodity for development purposes. On the other hand, the Migrant Forum Asia has a positive stance of migration and development. In their view, migration has brought employment for the 400,000 Nepali youths entering the labour market every year that would otherwise be difficult to absorb, since Nepal offers very few employment opportunities. Similarly, international donors, such as the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) and HELVETAS Swiss Inter-cooperation, have started to take up migration—particularly safe migration and pre-departure training. Similarly, the German Agency for Development Cooperation (GIZ) has worked on promoting student returnees to use their knowledge and skills in Nepal. Despite these initiatives, international donors are a long way from placing migration at the top of the agenda in their practical work.
NGOs and networks like CARAM Asia have been particularly critical of Nepal's gendered migration policy. In terms of governance, the major policies (Foreign Employment Policy, 2011, Foreign Employment Act, 2007, Foreign Employment Regulation, 2008) demonstrate no sexual discrimination when it comes to sending Nepalis abroad for employment. In practice however, Nepal's migration policy considers mobility by men and women in very different ways. Officially, only 13% of Nepal's migrants are women. However, Gurung
The Nepalese government looked in particular at the risks of women being exploited and restricted women's international mobility for domestic work with the intention of protecting women from different forms of physical and psychological abuse. This is due to the growing number of cases of women being abused while employed in domestic work in other countries. Restrictions ranging from outright bans to discriminatory limitations in various ways were imposed, lifted and re-imposed many times. At present, there is a ban on women under 30 leaving to work in informal sectors that are not covered by host countries' labor laws. This was on the recommendation of the Gulf countries themselves and in line with other South Asian countries like Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Indonesia. However, organizations working on female migration often argue that such restrictions have in fact increased women's vulnerability and denied them the right of mobility. They are of the opinion that the recent and widespread confusion about the legality of women's migration has not stopped the flow of women, but instead forced women to choose even riskier paths to employment abroad. Curtailing women's mobility is not only discriminatory but has also been counterproductive in combating trafficking [
The latest data on worker recruitment also hints that women take greater risks than men. Recruitment is strongly gendered. Proportionately more women migrant workers (70%) go out on "individual" visas than men (30%). "Individual" visas indicate that the worker has arranged the visa by himself or herself through personal invitation, unauthorized and unregistered brokers and that it is a tourist visa or overstay, whereas an "institutional" source indicates recruitment agencies. Despite criticism and the risks of unprofessional manpower agencies - which sometimes also operate informally - overall they are still considered to be a safer option than individually arranged visas [
While it is still a matter of global debate whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-MDG debates. Though migration is not seen as a long-term and sustainable solution to addressing unemployment in Nepal, the government envisions using the financial remittances, knowledge, and skills of migrants to create employment and foster development in the country. Similarly, they will support demand-based training for foreign employment at the time being.
Despite national particularities, we argue that Nepal presents various characteristics typical of other remittance-dependent countries. There are similar concerns about the sustainability of remittances for families and the country, protection of migrants including their human rights, and interlinkages between internal and international migration, as well as the commodification of migration.
Based on the example of Nepal, we strongly argue that, as MDGs impact on people's mobility and
Mobility is deeply entrenched in global politics and economics and requires global, regional, and bilateral cooperation by all actors, such as governments, the private sector (including employers and facilitators, such as recruiting agencies), migrants themselves and their families, and migrants' associations, NGOs, international donors, and the research community. Therefore, a post-2015 agenda requires enhanced cooperation and coherence between the aforementioned actors across borders and at various levels. These global interdependencies are best addressed through what in the recent MDGs has been labeled as global partnerships [
Linking migration with the more fundamental demand for human rights, we suggest the following four rights [ Nevertheless, the right to development should be decoupled from unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, since costs such as environmental changes once again disproportionately affect the most vulnerable groups and might also lead into even more forced migration. An inclusive and sustainable approach would include The human rights of all migrants in sending, receiving and transition countries should be guaranteed, including access to decent employment, public services, and security. This could translate into more concrete actions, such as:
Policies and actions should Further measures would include Lastly, there is a need to
Nevertheless, the right to development should be decoupled from unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, since costs such as environmental changes once again disproportionately affect the most vulnerable groups and might also lead into even more forced migration.
An inclusive and sustainable approach would include
The human rights of all migrants in sending, receiving and transition countries should be guaranteed, including access to decent employment, public services, and security. This could translate into more concrete actions, such as:
Policies and actions should Further measures would include Lastly, there is a need to
Policies and actions should
Further measures would include
Lastly, there is a need to
The research for the present study was conducted within the framework of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North–South: Research Partnerships for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change. The NCCR North-South is co-funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the participating institutions. We are grateful for the very valuable comments of three anonymous reviewers.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Luxembourg (AFP) March 07, 2013
A top EU court rejected Thursday a challenge by Poland, heavily dependent on coal, to the bloc's controversial greenhouse gas trading system.
The General Court said the European Union's allocation of free carbon dioxide credits for 2013 was fully in keeping with EU law and that the Polish complaint had no basis.
The EU Emissions Trading System for CO2, the greenhouse gas widely blamed for global warming, first allocates an amount of pollution credits free to companies.
If they exceed this level, they can either buy more credits through the ETS or longer-term, invest in new technology to reduce their CO2 emissions, which in turn may result in their having credits to sell to others.
Poland, which relies on coal for 90 percent of its energy needs, said the way the pollution credits were calculated and allocated breached EU law, as well as being disadvantageous for its companies.
If Poland seeks to appeal, it would have to go one step up to the European Court of Justice.
The ETS has so far not lived up to promises that it would encourage companies to curb their greenhouse gas emissions because prices are so low, giving them little incentive to invest in new, less polluting technology.
Brussels plans to freeze about 900 million tonnes of pollution credits in 2013-2015 in an effort to boost prices and so get the market functioning as intended.
Current prices for carbon of around 4.0 euros a tonne are a long way short of the mid-20s judged necessary by analysts to put the ETS back on track.
The European Commission called for the freeze on the grounds that the economic slump had resulted in less demand for carbon credits.
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A quick look at recent retail, commercial and industrial projects, sales and leases of note in Western Pennsylvania:
Property sold: 1909 New Texas Road, Plum
Seller: PS Building LTD, Volant
Buyer: Zephyr Properties PN LLC, Longwood, Fla.
Details: Acquired a 25,600-square-foot flex office/warehouse, occupied by ProSource, a flooring company, with Agency Cosmetics as a new tenant.
Comment: "We will continue the current use of the building as an investment," said James Treweek, general partner.
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Property: 303-09 Smithfield St., Downtown Pittsburgh
Seller: James A. Malanos (Baker Young Corp.), receiver for MDL/309 Associates LLP
Buyer: DK Development LLC, Pittsburgh
Details: Six-story, 30,174-square-foot office building, built in 1930 and renovated in 2004, 30 percent leased.
Comment: "We will put on a new roof, do some cleanup, and attempt to lease the remainder of the building since this is an investment," said Dan Spanovich, partner.
Property sold: 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty
Seller: East Liberty Development Inc.
Buyer: Y Hotel LP, Pittsburgh
Details: Former five-story East Liberty YMCA, which will be renovated into an estimated $23 million boutique hotel with 63 rooms, a restaurant, a ballroom and a gym.
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Recent home and condominium sales that brought top prices in Western Pennsylvania:
Property: Squirrel Hill
Seller: David and Lisa Hackam
Buyer: Roman Danyliw
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Comment: "Buyers loved the large eat-in kitchen, three-car garage, first-floor family room and master suite," said Ann Greathouse, Howard Hanna Real Estate.
Property: Pine Township
Seller: James Rogers
Buyer: David and Claudia Goldby
Details: Two-story brick Provincial with hardwood floors, oversized windows, kitchen open to family room, four large bedrooms, spa-like master bath, big mudroom off garage/laundry room, finished lower level with bar and full bath.
Comment: "Buyers were attracted to the open floor plan and sunken family room, the breakfast area surrounded by windows overlooking the flat backyard, the finished game room with bar, perfect for big game days, loved the community and school district," said Kim Marie Angiulli, Coldwell Banker Real Estate.
Property: Squirrel Hill
Seller: Craig Maloney and Elisa Tragni
Buyer: Jeremy and Sara Weber
Details: Two-story house with side porch overlooking yard, near Schenley Park, has new kitchen, new master bath, refinished hardwood floors, central humidifier/air filter, large laundry room.
Comment: "Buyers liked the location and being close to Schenley Park and the universities. They also liked the updates that the home offered," said Julie Treemarchi, Howard Hanna Real Estate.
Sam Spatter is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7843 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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