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Nic's Healthy Banana Cake recipe
You can easily make your own gluten free flours, by blending your nuts or seeds or both in the blender as a dry mix to make the flour. Don't over blend. Allow it to stay loose.
When making a plant based healthy recipe it is all about texture and taste. I always have ripe banana's stored in my freezer for when I want to make the family and friends a banana cake.
This is one of my favourite recipes.
Have fun .
Nic xx
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1 egg
2 egg whites
3 ripe mashed bananas
1/2 cup dates - soften with boiling water in a 1/2 cup water or use honey
2 cups of Gluten free flours- I use LSA, or a cup of almonds made into almond flour. (try blending the dry nuts into a flour use 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds 1 cup raw almonds, or and sun flower seeds or Oats
1 tspn baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/2 cup mixed seeds -this could be chia, pumpkin, sunflower, or linseeds
1/4 cup of almond milk or pure orange juice - made from your blender or juicer - or squeeze and orange
Mix until a batter like texture, add more almond milk if you have to. The consistency should be similar to a cake mixture.
Pour into your banana loaf or cake tin. Remember to grease it with coconut oil first or use baking paper
Bake for around 25 mins -40 mins on 150 degree watch it, test with the fork to see if the inside is baked through .
Sit out to cool.
Serve with greek or coconut yoghurt and berries YUM!
Yoga may be the fountain of youth, I was blessed to begin my own path in my 20's but it's definitely not just for youth.
Some yogis come to yoga when they're young, fit, and healthy just like me. I was competing in body building competitions and needed it for mind body soul.
But as our bodies change with injury and the ageing of time, yoga can serve us even more and help us maintain health and vitality into our golden years. I know within my own practice I need it more and more as I age.
Our practice should change + evolve with our body's needs + lifestyle.
If you started practicing in your 20s, you were probably drawn to faster-paced flow-style yoga, I certainly was! Vinyasa or flow yoga is the most common yoga Ashtanga based. This type of yoga moves quickly, and it's as much of a cardio workout as it is a yoga practice. It's a fun practice that offers sweat, like Bikram in the hot room.
As we move into our late 20s and 30s, it becomes crucial to build strength in the glutes and core.
In your 30s, years of sitting at a desk for work or school may start to take a toll. Or long lengths of standing like I was when I ran my hair salons.
In our 30s and 40s, major life changes occur. I can certainly say that.
Some of us will balance families, work elderly parents, hormonal imbalances, and increasing job pressure.
It's important that we focus on relaxation during these often-stressful years. Adding in yin based or restoration yoga poses can create balance.
Your 40s are a perfect time to start a more focused meditation practice. Research shows that in addition to lowering stress levels, a regular meditation practice can offer anti-ageing properties.
Women in their mid 40s will begin to have hormone shifts: gentle yoga and meditation can be
the antidote to changing moods and energy levels.
Our 50s are all about balance, and a focus on balance poses is especially helpful.
Poses that strengthen the abductors and outer hips are crucial. Side plank is one helpful pose for this kind of hip strength. It can be modified with the bottom knee down on the earth for more support and it can be made more challenging if the top leg is raised up. Traditional standing balance poses, like tree pose and warrior III should be regularly practiced, too, since the only way to get better at balance is to practice.
Psychologically, facing the ageing years of 50 can feel like a major life milestone. Breath work such as pranayama and Nidra Breathing exercise can help with anxiety at this point of mid life,
As we move into our 60s and beyond, health concerns take precedence when deciding what yoga practice to do.
I know yoga is part of my life forever and can already see the different styles I have been drawn to throughout my 20's, 30's and 40's
PS my next blog I will dive deeper into the different styles I have certified in and practiced throughout my life.
Warmest regards
Nicky Arthur 🙏🏻
Live life with passion, health & vitality
Remember to vote for me today for the Miss Jetset Cover competition, this round is tough and every vote will help.
Soothe your tummy with my Turmeric Tea While my home country New Zealand is in it's darkest days, I make myself a turmeric tea, light a candle and sit in a meditation to pray for the people effected in this disturbing and so close to my own home land attack.
Many of you know I am a kiwi and from little old Dunedin. I remember as a child growing up in Dunedin feeling so far far away from battles and wars. I always remember thinking nothing like this would or could ever happened in New Zealand.
Over the years we have become a global community and what use to seem not possible is the possible. Social media has it's place, and we have had to learn how to use it, respectfully and accept it. I have seen positives outcomes with Facebook in such events where people have been stuck or in danger and used it to reach out to get help, fast.
Let's keep sharing positive loving caring messages on our social media platforms. It is a snowball effect. What we think we become. Let go of fear and repeat I am safe and secure, all is well. I welcome only love and light into my life.
I am a proud kiwi and send love compassion and prayers out to my country and the effected Muslim Community to the loving people and children who have been taken recklessly brutal and selfishly. New Zealand is my roots and a place I will always call home, my rock solid friends and family are there in this beautiful country that is filled with such diversity, acceptance
49 prayers to 49 people.
1. I send love and healing compassionate energy out to the universe.
We are a global community and we must stick tougher in peace love kindness, tenderness, compassion, diversity, acceptance.
Kia Kaha NZ
Love and light to the world.
PS here is my Turmeric Tea recipe to soothe you tummy and heal your spirit today.
Turmeric Tea
1 tspn turmeric powder organic
1 cup Boiling water
1/4 tspn coconut oil
sprinkle of cinnamon
Stir well
As a proud Kiwi living in Sydney ~ I am currently running in a campaign for Miss Jetset Cover model search. The winner is based on all public voting. I was blessed to be positioned 7th at the beginning of the competition out of thousands. I have maintained this position and now running 6th over the next few days, they will take the top 10 then the top 5 so please help me move my rank to top 5 thats the next goal.
Vote here
Thank you to all my amazing Kiwi friends, family and former clients who have been voting daily for me. I am forever grateful and this would be such a wild dream come true to get to the finals in Arizona in May. Thank you to all my current Aussie voters, friends, family and also amazing current clients I am working with who are supporting me in this competition. The funds raised are for the Be Positive Foundation ~ helping families with children who have cancer. You can read up on the foundation here and you can also donate paid votes to help the foundation and help me rank to the top.
Again thank you, I appreciate you reading my blog and voting.
Nic xx
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Simple Green Smoothie
Simple Quick and Easy dose of Greens for your body and mind.
Simple Green Smoothie
1 cup kale
1 cup spinach
1 cup silver beet
1 green apple
800mls water
Blend all ingredients in the blender, serve cold or at room temp. You could add a sprig of mint.
Why silverbeet is good to eat
Miss Jetset Current Campaign I have been enjoying the involvement in this current campaign to help bring awareness and raise money for 'Children in Cancer and helping those families dealing with it.
I have to say it really does make you stop and think about life and how easy we can become caught up with the small stuff, when really there is always much bigger problems people are dealing with, I think we are blessed with how far the medical world is progressing with Cancer, however I still get so passionate about sharing tools techniques for preventative health, but when it comes to children it just doesn't seem fair or right that a young child should get such an illness. I have taken a lot of time out in this campaign to give my who gratitude and thanks to my daughters health and wellbeing. Truly feel blessed for their health.
The final hours are here in this Campaign and I am asking you if you could make a a simple vote for me to stay intros round. All I have to do is move up to 1st place in this round to go through to the next round with 30 Models. This comp is not about being the best looking model, it is for a lifestyle magazine, and I believe it really comes down to building that relationship with your people, clients, fan base. I would love to go through to the next round as I feel I am only just ramping up this amazing awareness for the B+Foundation for families dealing with cancer. Everyone is going to be pushing hard to make the cutoff tonight. So keep promoting, and let your voters know that you need them to help you hold your position. Remember that it's still early in the competition and anything can happen.
I often say "Never Give Up" so I am doing all I can today in these final 6 hours to give this my best shot. My following fan base has been amazing and client support, they have taken time to vote daily spot I feel I owe it to my support crew now to really step up these final hours and do the best I can.
All you need to vote is have a Facebook account and click this link now... thank you so much.
I will keep you updated.
Oh and you will also get to go in my own little Prize Draw I will be drawing out a name this week.
NICKY ARTHUR A world renowned Fitness & Yoga Coach who started her journey 20 years ago in a hippy and rustic Ashtanga Yoga studio in Dunedin, New Zealand. Now a Certified Iyenger and Bikram Yoga Teacher and Fitness Coach has helped lead thousands of people to Yoga.
Mood Boosters
Hi there,
Have you had a massive week! Restoring your temple and your mind is everything for living life with passion and VITALITY.
We all need a little mood boosting from time to time.
These Tips are practical and they work.
Mood Booster Techniques
Control the direction of your thinking- choose to identify and eliminate negative thoughts from your mind.
1. Choose your peer group wisely-they can either lift you up or tear you down. Be bold and be honest in your assessment of your circle of influence.
2. Get plenty of quality sleep- invest in a comfortable mattress, pillows, soft sheets and tranquil thoughts. Use the mediation CDs to help you relax and to clear your mind before sleep.
3. De-clutter your space- an organised environment at home and at work results in an increased sense of calmness.
4. Keep your work and home environment bright and airy- light increases serotonin levels and lifts mood. An airy environment helps increase oxygen flow and energy levels.
5. Listen to uplifting music- Music is the ultimate mood changer. It can take you from the depths of listlessness to the heights of exhilaration. Invest in an ipod or MP3 player with your favorite mood booster play lists on it. Try Wilson Phillips 'Hold On', Savage Garden 'Affirmation', your favourite band, or embrace some yoga music such as 'Deva Premal', spiritual, sensuous and relaxing.
6. Stay aware of your body language- posture and facial expressions are powerful influences on the brain's neuro-transmitters, so walk tall, sit straight and smile!
7. Take a break and do something different- just doing something different will help break the state that you're in (e.g. if you've been working on the computer for a long period, just get up and walk around or try having a fresh glass of cold water or telling a joke).
8. Use the power of visualization- we can re-live a previous highlight or future utopia (and its associated positive emotions) at any stage by using the creative energy of our minds.
9. Look for reasons to laugh- the act of laughing, or even faking a laugh can elevate mood levels significantly. It is my mission to make people laugh again and be happy!
10 Aromatherapy-when lavender and rosemary scent oils are emitted from an oil diffuser, people tend to feel more contented and relaxed. Try my blend at night of geranium and lavender oil.
11. Massage-touch creates measurable changes in brain wave activity. Treat yourself to a professional massage or get your partner to stimulate energy flow and mood through massage.
12. Engage in acts of kindness- helping others not only makes us feel good, but it helps other people to feel better, because they see that you care about them.
13. Nutrition- You are what you eat. A healthy diet will provide you with more energy and vitality.
14. Get out and about around Nature. Research has noted that spending time at around trees helps increase good quality oxygen to your body.
For me this is my number one too along with yoga & meditation. 👌🏻🌾
April 2020
Let me introduce myself, I'm Nicky Arthur International Author, Yoga and Fitness Coach, Vegan specialist, & Fitness Model Competitor, above all a mother of two beautiful healthy energetic young girls. For me that's my most prized accomplishment. However, being a Mum and juggling it all can be challenging. But it doesn't necessarily mean you have to stop setting your own goals and dreams.
I love physical challenges and yoga has taught me the power of your mind. Often the mind stops you from doing the exercises than the body, are bodies are much stronger & flexible than we think and our minds are even more powerful.
My work is based on helping women and mums transform their body and life.
The 10 week Body Transformation program is aimed to help you look fit & healthy but more importantly feel good in the inside. I have the right recipe ticking all the right boxes for living a holistic, drug free, pain free happy exciting satisfied life. It is not just about weight loss, or fitness, it is about internal health and happiness, learning how your body works. In 10 weeks. I provide you with a plan, the tools and help you to you dream body so you can live your own dream life.


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The Ajou School of Business Administration (ASB) originated from a business administration program within the Department of Industrial Management, the College of Engineering, in December 1977.
In 1988, the Department of Business Administration grew to the School of Business Administration to coincide with the elevation of Ajou College to the state of university. Currently the Ajou School of Business Administration consists of 55 teaching faculty, 1,200 students and 3 departments: Department of Business Administration, Department of e-Business and Department of Financial Engineering. The Department of e-Business and the Department of Financial Engineering were opened as the first programs of their kind in the nation to aim at the demands of the rapidly changing times.
Also, the ASB offers competitive Master's and Ph.D. programs. The Graduate School of Business Administration also opened in 1988 as part of an academic-industrial co-operation effort to encourage continuing education, and launched the first on-off blended learning program for those students who experienced difficulties coming to campus due to time and distance constraints, in 2001. Despite its relatively short history, ASB has made rapid strides and offers a variety of programs of undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as an MBA and Chief Executive programs.
To become a leading global business school in Asia
To educate and research about principles and best practices in management.
To nurture ethical professionals who value human resources.
To adapt to the changing global business environment.

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McDermott International, Inc. announced it has signed a Joint Venture Agreement with Zamil Offshore to target the Maintenance, Modifications and Operations (MMO) market in Saudi Arabia.
McDermott and Zamil will work together on an exclusive basis to provide Saudi Aramco with comprehensive offshore brownfield EPCI solutions and asset maintenance services. The new joint venture will be uniquely positioned to offer integrated, cost effective MMO services, to address the rising market demand in Saudi Arabia.
Zamil is renowned as the largest offshore and marine services provider in the Middle East. The partnership with Zamil will provide McDermott access to a new revenue stream in the maintenance, turnaround, inspection, and asset integrity services market in Saudi Arabia.
"Our partnership with Zamil reflects McDermott's commitment to supporting Saudi Aramco across the oil and gas production life cycle," said Linh Austin, McDermott's Senior Vice President, Middle East and North Africa. "Building on the strengths and distinguished track-record of both companies and fueled by McDermott's technology and digital-ready solutions," added Austin, "we will enable our customers to maximize the performance of offshore assets by increasing reliability and production uptime."
The joint venture bolsters McDermott's long-term growth plans in Saudi Arabia and is expected to significantly contribute to the in-Kingdom Total Value Add (IKTVA) program and local content commitments, ultimately supporting Saudi Vision 2030.
About McDermott
McDermott (NYSE: MDR) is a premier, fully integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. Our proprietary technologies, integrated expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. Customers rely on McDermott to deliver certainty to the most complex projects, from concept to commissioning. It is called the "One McDermott Way." Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott's locally focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 32,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world.
About Zamil Offshore Services
Zamil Offshore Services was founded in 1977 as a 100% Saudi Company working in diversified business fields. Its scope of work covers; offshore marine services, ship chandelling, ship chartering, Offshore Hook-up projects, offshore shipbuilding, ship & rig repair and sea ports operation and management.


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23 End-of-Summer NYC Festivals
23 End-of-Summer NYC Festivals
Fall may be just around the corner, but NYC hosts amazing end-of-summer events right up until the last day of the season (Sept. 22). Check out these cultural celebrations, music parties and food festivals before the leaves change color.
Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival (Now through Sept. 1): Check out screenings of some of the Met's most popular performances in Lincoln Central Plaza at this free 10-day festival.
Dream Up Festival (Now through Sept. 7): The Theater for the New City's summer showcase presents 24 original productions in its fifth season.
NY International Salsa Dance and Music Festival (Aug. 27-Sept. 1): The Hilton New York hosts Latin dance workshops, expert performances, live concerts and non-stop entertainment. Prices vary.
Electric Zoo (Aug. 29-31): Dozens of electronic musicians invite you to party at Randall's Island Park this Labor Day weekend.
NYC Unicycle Festival (Aug. 29-31): Cyclists prove that one wheel can be better than two through rides, races, competitions, exhibitions and more. Check the website for location details.
New York Caribbean Carnival (Sept. 1): Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood celebrates Caribbean culture, arts, history and traditions with a parade and carnival.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (Sept. 4-11): Fashion designers showcase their latest collections. Even if you're not going to the runway shows, you can still dine in style at fashion-forward restaurants using Where New York's handy guide.
NYC Honey Week (Sept. 8-14): This citywide festival celebrates the honeybee with apiary tours, honey-themed dinners, tastings, cooking classes and other events throughout the city.
Harlem International Film Festival (Sept. 10-14): More than 20 countries are represented by nearly 90 films to be screened at this uptown movie festival.
Feast of San Gennaro (Sept. 11-21): The 88th annual Italian celebration brings tons of food, fun and free entertainment to the streets of Little Italy.
Oyster Week (Sept. 11-28): Benefit dinners, chef's tastings and other events immerse diners in all things oyster.
Beer for Beasts (Sept. 13): Hosted by BeerAdvocate and Sixpoint Brewery, this daylong event aimed at promoting compassion toward animals invites guests to The Bell House in Brooklyn for tastings of exclusive beers.
NYC Vendy Awards (Sept. 13): Head to Governors Island for a cook-off between sidewalk chefs competing to win the "Oscars of street food." General admission tickets costs $100.50.
Great Irish Fair of New York (Sept. 13-14): Coney Island gets the luck of the Irish with this festival, featuring traditional and contemporary music, dance, food, crafts and more.
Urbanworld Film Festival (Sept. 17-21): The nation's largest competitive multinational film festival screens narrative features, documentaries, short films and more at AMC 34th Street Theatre. $15 per ticket.
Festival of New Trumpet Music (Sept. 17-28): Renowned performers strut their stuff at NYC venues for 12 days of brass.
Harvest in the Square (Sept. 18): The North Plaza of Union Square Park brings together more than 1,200 residents, business leaders, elected officials and visitors for tastings of locally made food, wine and microbrews. General admission tickets cost $125.
Coney Island Film Festival (Sept. 19-21): An eclectic range of films are screened on Coney Island as filmmakers compete for prizes.
Oktoberfest in Central Park (Sept. 20): NYC's biggest Oktoberfest serves up pitchers of German brews and offers up cultural entertainment. $20 per ticket.
Yankees Radio Network FanFest (Sept. 20): Former Yankees stop by Pier 86 to sign their fan's favorite memorabilia during this daylong celebration of America's favorite pastime.
Queens County Fair (Sept. 20-21): This traditional county fair hosts blue-ribbon competitions in livestock, produce, crafts and more, along with pie-eating contests, hayrides, pig races and other down-home fun at the Queens County Farm Museum. $9 for adults, $5 for children.
World Maker Faire New York (Sept. 20-21): "The Greatest Show (And Tell) on Earth" takes over the New York Hall of Science for a family-friendly weekend of interactive science presentations, innovative designs and fantastic projects. Ticket prices vary.
Brooklyn Book Festival (Sept. 21): The largest free literary event in the city presents famous writers and emerging authors at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza.
Looking for more to do? Check out our calendar for even more events.


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If you are coming to ResaleRev for the first time - welcome :)
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If you are drawn to what artisans can do with reclaimed materials... you've come to the right place. And if you like the buying and selling of 'second-hand' treasures... you've come to the right place.
In short, we are a resale website... and ONLY a resale website. 24/7/365. We love this stuff. We love the hunt.. and we love the find. It's a "treasure hunt with a tour guide!"
What's great about ResaleRev.com is that we believe 'resale' is really about connecting; neighbor to neighbor buying and selling locally or across the country. We support folks doing their own yard or tag sales as well as the 'mom and pop' stores and businesses that make their living with resale.
We are 100% GREEN. We RESELL... We RECYCLE... We REPURPOSE.
For Individuals: Post your yard or tag sale like the professionals do; insert pictures or videos, list the items you want you sell, if you choose buyers can communicate with you prior to the sale date. Your address appears 24 hours prior to start time - complete with mapping! This is a winning formula for sure.
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Unibet Free Champions League Prediction Game – Win £100k
To coincide with the return of the Champions League have re-launched their extremely successful and completely free prediction game, called Game of Champions, with a cash prize of £100,000 each game week.
There is no requirement to deposit or bet to play, you simply need to have a unibet account. You can also get a welcome offer on joining, which you can read about in our Unibet review.
Each Champions League week there will be six selected selected questions about that weeks fixtures. These are things like who will win a specific game, will both teams scorem correct scores, number of corners, team to score first, etc. Customers get one entry each week and you can edit your predictions right up to kick off.
If you guess the six predictions correctly you will win £100,000. If multiple people get the correct result then the prize is shared. The prize is given in real cash and can be used or withdrawn as you wish.
This competition runs for each match week until further notice. There is a limit of one win per player, although that seems fair enough, if you win £100k you probably shouldn't be able to win it again!
If no one wins the top prize then the player(s) at the top of the leaderboard will win (or share) £25,000. The deadline is before kick off of the first match and predictions can be edited right up to the closure time.
Considering the game is free, the prize is cash, and there are few downsides, this is well worth a go in our opinion. Major terms are are available on the Unibet site. Click below for more details or to register and start playing for free.


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The dutch route of the Good Food March has started again for the final Etappes towards Brussels. After cycling from farm to farm the last weekends we will now cycle evry day, until we finally meet you all in brussels.
Yesterday we started from the farm Veld en Beek in Doorwerth towards the "city of life science" Wageningen, to visit the Wageningen University and Research Center. Huge cube-buildings welcomed us in the brave new world of the agricultural science. Fortunately we had an appointment with a class of students in the programm for organic agriculture. They also had some statements on the agriculture they want in future.
After a short tour throug the university (where we learned, that 10% of research fundings of the government were supposed to be spent for organic research – but they finnaly also and in so called "sustainable" approaches) we visited the organic experimental farm around in the afternoon.
In the evening we had "political grass roots dinner", where we discussed good ways to make people value the food more again, like CSA, Slow Food and also urban community gardens do. The night we spent in the famous Droevendaal, a very special place in Wageningen, where lots of alternative thinking people live.
Today we cycled from Droevendaal/Wageningen to Thedinghsweert in Tiel. We had to cross the lower rhine and the waal river with ferrys and came along lots of apple orchards. When we arrived on the Zoergboerderij Thedinghsweert, where they have almost everything you can imagine on a farm, we were shown the diversity of this farm by one of the farmers.


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Studies and Perspectives Series - The Caribbean, No.75
This set of policy briefs has the objective of profiling disaster risk management (DRM) policies in five selected member States of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee: Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The present publication, is the second that ECLAC has released on the mainstreaming of DRM strategieson this topic area. In 2017, a similar document was published for the following countries: The Bahamas, Belize, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica (ECLAC, 2017b).
It also aims at analysing these policies and their interactions with broader development issues and instruments such as national development plans and climate change adaptation strategies. To this end, firstly, this study presents the five pillars of DRM, namely risk identification, risk reduction, preparedness, financial protection, and resilient recovery, as well as their applications to disaster assessments.
Secondly, for each of the five countries focused upon, it describes the integration of DRM into development policies. The structure of the analysis is maintained the same as in the previous volume and will allow countries to identify strengths and weaknesses of their DRM policies and how they interact with other planning and development instruments. Finally, it presents policy recommendations to strengthen the role of DRM and to improve the use of resources through multisectoral projects that build resilience to disasters and climate change.
UN Symbol: LC/TS.2019/7; LC/CAR/TS.2018/3


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Disease! Crash Course
What are Germs ? - Major Types , Diseases, Infections ,Animation Video
Health - Non-Communicable Diseases
WHO: Global Noncommunicable Disease Network
Health: Communicable Diseases
Parasitology- Ascariasis (Ascaris lumbricoides)
The Lifecycle of Ascaris lumbricoides
What to know about diarrhea?
Diarrhoea, the Symptoms & Causes
How to Treat Diarrhea
The Story of Cholera
Cholera Video
Cholera and Osmosis
Amoebic dysentery - Entamoeba Histolytica
Dysentery - dreadful effects of and causes for decline
How Does The Common Cold Work?
How a common cold develops
Cold - 10 Tips to Prevent and Treat the Common Cold in Adults
2013 Cholera: The Disaster Disease
Deadly Roundworm - Monsters Inside Me Ep6
Cancer - Causes and treatment of cancer
What Causes Cancer?
Animated Introduction to Cancer Biology (Full Documentary)
3D Medical Animation - What is Cancer?
What is a Heart Attack?- 3D Medical Animation
What causes a heart attack?
Heart Disease and Heart Attacks
Coronary artery during a heart attack
Diabetes Effects on Body Animation 3D
Pathophysiology of Diabetes Mellitus
Rheumatic Fever
Hepatitis C Made Simple
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis B (Full Lecture)
Hepatitis B Treatment Mode of Action Animation
Do I Have Syphilis? Signs and Symptoms of Syphilis
Syphilis Health Byte
Role of Nutrition in Health
Basic Nutrition- Virtual Health Coach
What Is A Balanced Diet?
Partnership for Improved Nutrition in Nepal
Scurvy : Treatment and Symptoms
Scurvy Health Byte
Anemia pathophysiology
Anemia symptoms and treatments - Signs of being anemic
Child Malnutrition - What? How? And when to Refer..
What is Marasmus disease in malnutrition
What Is Night Blindness?
Ending chronic malnutrition in Nepal
Nepal tops world's child malnutrition rates
Micronutrient Malnutrition: Causes, Prevalence, Consequences and Interventions
Harmful Effects Of Tobacco On The Human Body
Smoking and its effects on Health - Stop today!
Factors that Contribute to GERD -- Use of Tobacco Products
How to Quit Chewing Tobacco on 'The Doctors'
How to Detect the Signs of Alcoholism
Causes of Alcoholism
Alcohol and your Brain
What are there longterm effects of alcohol abuse?
Drug Abuse Education - It's a Fact!
They Lied! Drug Prevention Video
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TLC Is Funding Final Album Through Kickstarter
TLC Is Funding Their Final Album Through Kickstarter
To fund their fifth and final album, TLC is turning to Kickstarter. It's all in an effort to "involve the fans," Chilli told Billboard, saying, "Fans have even been sending ideas for what they want a new album cover to look like — they get so creative. They have so much love for us, and we thought, 'We gotta do this.'" Although pledges start at $5, bigger contributions will give fans creative things like a TLC slumber party, a workout with Chilli, and a phone call from the group. Noting that there's definitely a bit of pressure, Chilli said, "It's important to make sure the product is up to par . . . If the tracks aren't jamming, we won't do them." As for their signature look, she's preparing for that, too: "And we gotta make up new TLC dances . . . we gotta figure out crazy new outfits."


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The tipi resting on school grounds just east of the Rocky Mountain football field in Cowley was erected two weeks ago as part of a hands-on summer school program.
Ryan Boettcher, a math teacher at RMHS, started the outdoor-oriented program seven years ago with former teacher Freda Miller, and officially affiliated with Project Archaeology six years ago. RMMS math teacher Justin Moss now works with Boettcher to teach the four-week program.
Project Archaeology is a curriculum the Bureau of Land Management developed through Montana State University-Bozeman to teach middle school level students.
"With all of the cultural resources we have in this area, we decided to use this curriculum for our summer school program," Boettcher said, noting that he often learns as much as the kids do.
"It's a more project based program," he said. "We study the past by looking at shelters and how people lived, comparing them to modern dwellings."
For instance, archaeology can tell students how a tipi was used, where the family slept, ate and the like. Students are taught to spot the clues, he said.
The program incorporates math, English, science and history, he noted, the traditional components of a summer school program, but in a hands-on and invigorating way that engages the students.
Each year the students engage in different projects and enjoy field trips to sites such as stone circle and tipi ring sites. This year the students worked at the Two Eagles interpretive trail in the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area and spent a week at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis working on an actual dig.
Last summer the students worked on a dig at the Last Canyon Cave site near Warren, Mont., with a University of Wyoming archaeology professor.
The program runs four days a week for four weeks, and Boettcher has often engaged longtime area archaeologist Chris Finley to help with the instruction and hands-on work. Last week, for instance, Finley instructed students how to lay out a grid and catalogue items found. Students visited Pompey's Pillar National Monument in Montana and the BLM Curation Center in Billings.
As for the tipi in Cowley, the Rocky Mountain students helped Finley and Johnny Tim Yellowtail with the setup on Wednesday, June 29. The process was instructional, Boettcher said, noting, "There's a reason for every pole and the way it faces. It's part of the cultural side we try to teach the kids, as well."
He said the tipi used the traditional Crow structure of four poles but has a Sioux cover.
Between 10 and 15 students participated in Project Archaeology this summer, depending on the week, Boettcher said.
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Telling It Straight
An updated edition of the personal story behind the very public political face of Labor's Anthony Albanese.
Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for a decade. For the previous decade he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is the whole story of Anthony Albanese and the remarkable mother, Maryanne, who raised him.
Anthony learned his political craft among the tough men and women of NSW Labor, inheriting his mother's devotion to social justice, the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the party his family had served for three generations.
ALBANESE: Telling it Straight reveals what shaped the bloke they call 'Albo', his climb through politics by playing hard, fast and sometimes loose and how as he and his colleagues wrestled with Labor's future, he discovered his own past.
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"I think it's almost impossible to overstate the influence of those early years on Albo."
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This past weekend was my goal setting weekend. I finally took the time to set down and establish some goals for my personal life, my business and even my home. Actually, truth be told usually I just lump my personal goals in with my home to-do list but then I saw that the Nester was having gathering place for all to share their home goals so I split them up.
My first reaction to setting actual goals for your home was twofold. First, should we all be putting so much emphasis on our homes? I think as long as our/my intention is coming from the right place and not to just "keep up with the Joneses, its' ok and I know that the Nester did not put the home goal sharing link out there for any other reason than to share with the community.
Second, staging is presenting a house to buyer that showcases it's best features as beautifully as possible and placing merchandise in the stores to grab people's attention is what I do for a living so how could I NOT put some emphasis on how my home looks?
Now that I have that all ironed out for myself and some of the guilt is gone, I can get to some goals for my home. Because we are not sure of our future in this home my goals are things that will benefit us no matter where we live.
Home Office Organization;
Our office is a mess, well half of it is. I share the space with the hubs and we'll just say it is not my side that looks like a trash heap most days of the week. So, I am going to tackle this area for both of us. I am going to draw up a plan, possibly re-paint, purchase some storage either for him or something separate for myself (watch out Craigslist) to use. This is a must do no matter where we reside.
Defined Electronic Device Charging Station/Drawer;
I don't know about you but we have cords all over our house for our phones, my Kindle, my camera which has to be charged as often as my phone and others. I am going to designate a space, drawer, cubbie, something to gather everything in one spot. I like this charging drawer idea from Martha, that way it's hidden and you could make a spot for other essentials.
Bedroom Furniture;
We bought our bedroom suite almost 10 years ago and fortunately it still looks pretty darn good. Except the hardware. It has tarnished and makes it look old. I will be buying new hardware to try to update the look and I also want to buy or thrift some new updated accessories to place on the top of one of the longer dressers. I have thought about painting them white or off white but I just can't bring myself to do that, yet.
More Inviting To Guests;
I suppose this could be placed in my personal goals area as well but I really want to use my home as I think homes were intended. As a gathering place for its owners and guests. Now that my kids are grown and I don't have their friends coming over for this and that all the time I have started to kind of close my home up. I can't find the time or the house isn't perfect (which it wasn't in the earlier days either) so this year I would like to be more open to people coming over.
Those are just a few home goals for now. I look forward to tackling them as well as others that I am sure will come up as we move through 2012. I think my last goal will be the hardest one to tackle so I hope that at this time next year I can look back and see that I did a good job with some great memories of more friends and family in our home.
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Samsung Galaxy Note will be sell on US
Not unexpectedly, the Samsung Galaxy Note that some time ago in umukan when IFA has a fantastic record sales. In recent months, Samsung Galaxy Note has successfully sold more than 1 million units worldwide. Not including the United States.
Viewing this success, Samsung plans to soon launch the Galaxy Note to the USA in the near future and will be sold through a partnership with AT & T.
Samsung is hoping that some unique and advanced features on the Samsung Galaxy Note is able to lure gadget enthusiasts in America. Note whether the Galaxy can achieve success in America, we'll see.


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A testament to the interdisciplinary nature of photography, emerging practitioner Kate Ballis creates unique, colour-drenched images using infrared technology. Recording the modernist landscape and lush vegetation of Palm Springs, the series Infra Realism marks a departure from a previous career as a corporate lawyer, offering an otherworldly perspective.
A: Infra Realism focuses on isolated deserts and built environments, questioning how human presence offers new architectural forms, shapes and textures. What initially drew you to the topographies of Palm Springs?
KB: I was first drawn to Palm Springs after seeing Slim Aarons' photos of the jet set crew enjoying cocktails by the pool in the middle of the desert. My first trip was in 2013 and it was love at first sight. The midcentury houses transported me to another time, and the mountainous backdrop gave a surreal setting like a painted Hollywood backdrop. The next time I went out to Joshua Tree National Park and I couldn't believe how completely foreign the landscape felt. Palm Springs became my new muse and I've visited around eight times now. The light on the mountains will always move me.
A: The series transforms everyday topographies into artificial, hyperreal depictions using infrared. What influences this unique practice?
KB: I adore surrealist art; Salvador Dali was my earliest favourite artist as a child. I also love Georgia O'Keefe. For a long time I've wanted to be able to paint so I can create absolutely foreign landscapes, and have found painting frustrating as it doesn't come as naturally to me, plus I've had a very small proportion of practice hours in comparison. I think via my frustration in art classes, I realised that I can distort reality via my photography rather than relying on painting, which was empowering and led me to this series.
A: Palm Springs is such an iconic place within visual culture. How does this series fit into the chronology of pre-existing images, and how does infrared technology offer a new visual perspective?
KB: Photography of Palm Springs initially focused on the people and landscapes; although the architecture was modern, it was part of a movement throughout the world, and needed the patina of time to make it such a fabulous subject. Palm Springs drew the celebrities from Hollywood, as it fell within the rule that they must be 2 hours from the studio at all times! There is wonderful photography focusing on the residents and wild parties in Palm Springs throughout time. Landscape photographers such as Ansel Adams also photographed the Coachella Valley. In more recent years, photographers have documented the incredible modernist architecture with the mesmerising background of the mountains.
I think my infrared photography – which highlights the spectrum of light emitted by plants – has put a focus on the immaculate landscaping of the gardens in Palm Springs. Mid-week it can be difficult to get park on a quiet street in Palm Springs as all the landscape gardening trucks are parked in front of the residences. I am intrigued by how abstract the succulents and palms look in a single colour. To the human eye they are usually a variety of greens, browns and yellows that blend into the mountains and desert-toned houses, but through my art the block colour draws focus to the textures of the plants. It really brings the meticulous landscaping to the foreground, instead of blending into the desert tones of the midcentury homes.
A: Has your former role as a media and entertainment lawyer influenced the way you construct compositions and negotiate aesthetic values? Are there any similarities between your previous career and photography?
KB: In my former life as a media and entertainment lawyer I was fortunate enough to work on some extremely interesting art fraud cases! This involved meeting artists and collectors and looking for the compositional elements in authentic works that were utilised in the allegedly forged works. I spent hours upon hours looking at slight differences in colours and brush stroke and analysing artists' oeuvres. It was also wonderful hearing art collectors, forensic art experts and artists themselves explaining their methodology and what makes their compositions so unique. I think I went into photography knowing that as an artist I had to create something original that was inspired by my own practice.
My previous career made me exercise my attention span and account for every minute spent as we had to bill in 6 minute blocks! So I can happily sit retouching for 12 hours straight, only taking a couple of short breaks. I'm also very on top of copyright, usage and licensing, so I re-read and sometimes modify contracts before signing.
A: Your work is exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead. What is the importance of this event to emerging practitioners, and whose work are you especially drawn to?
KB: I think a great aspect of the Affordable Art Fair is the way they put extra effort into supporting galleries who are championing emerging artists as well as well bigger names, it's so important to be given these platforms to exhibit your work when you're starting out as an artist. The Hampstead fair will have the Made in Arts London exhibition, showcasing recent graduates' work, so there's a great variety of mediums on show. I'm looking forward to seeing Marco Pantaleoni's images, he's part of Made in Arts London and recently graduated from Central St Martin's. He uses photography and live 3D-scanning techniques to re-define the idea of portraiture and he'll be doing scans of people live at the fair, which will be really interesting!
A: Can you tell us about any future projects and whether you plan to experiment with other light-altering technologies?
KB: My next project is about exploring my heritage via mythology. My father was born in Crete and my mother was born in Somerset, England. I'm going to be using a variety of techniques including different styles of infra-red photography and explore other spectrums of light that are invisible to the human eye. I've got mountains of books to read and lots of camera testing ahead of me before I head off to Europe!
The Affordable Art Fair runs from 10-13 May. Find out more here.
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Riff on the Reef: China's Concert for Troops and WorkersMay 5, 201600:33
BEIJING — China has deployed a new weapon to the hotly-disputed waters of the South China Sea: a Grammy-nominated superstar.
Song Zuying has performed with the likes of Celine Dion and Plácido Domingo. But this week the singer sang for workers at Fiery Cross Reef, one of seven man-made islands built by China in the fiercely-contested Spratly archipelago.
The United States has criticized Beijing's massive construction project in the archipelago, which also features runways capable of accommodating military aircraft.
Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines and other countries have overlapping territorial claims to the waters.
Song's performance Tuesday was backed up by a 50-member troupe of musicians, actors and entertainers — one of several stops on a broader tour of the artificially reclaimed islands this week.
The 49-year-old artist — who holds the rank of rear admiral in the Chinese Navy — led a two-and-a-half-hour show that included numbers such as "Ode to the South Sea Defenders," China's government news agency Xinhua reported.
It wasn't all about the music, however. China also flexed the scale of its increasing regional dominance, flaunting its airport runway, industrial-scale building works, roads and a giant warship on national television.
"We are extremely excited!" a soldier named Huang Quntian told the government-run Xinhua news agency.
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The tour comes as the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague decides on a case brought by the Philippines against China's claim that it owns most of the South China Sea.
The court, whose authority is rejected by China, is widely expected to rule in favor of the Philippines.
Chen Xiangmiao, an analyst at the government-supported National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said Song's performance showed how important Beijing views its claim over the Spratlys.
"That Song, a very famous singer, has gone there for high-level performance shows that our leaders give great importance to our islands' construction," he told NBC News. "The entertainment was an easy way for the Chinese people to see the fruits of our construction there, it will make them happy and boost their confidence."


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The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.After a few minutes of internet browsing I learned that the author, Hugh Howey, self-published these books and that their sales were driven primarily by word-of-mouth. I was further impressed by the virtually universal rave reviews of the book from readers and that in less than a year the film rights were secured by 20th Century Fox, with Ridley Scott having expressed interest in making the film.
This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
While Israeli officials are quick to rattle off the numbers of projectiles fired from Gaza, rarely do they tell you what they fire into Gaza, what the effects of this fire is and what the fallout from it is.
For example, in 2011, the projectiles fired by the Israeli military into Gaza have been responsible for the death of 108 Palestinians, of which 15 where women or children, and the injury of 468 Palestinians, of which 143 where women or children. The methods by which these causalities were inflicted by Israeli projectiles breaks down as follows: 57 percent, or 310, were caused by Israeli aircraft missile fire; 28 percent, or 150, where from Israeli live ammunition; 11 percent, or 59, were from Israeli tank shells; while another 3 percent, or 18, were from Israeli mortar fire.
Through September 2012, Israeli weaponry caused 55 Palestinian deaths and 257 injuries. Among these 312 casualties, 61, or roughly 20 percent, were children and 28 were female. 209 of these casualties came as a result of Israeli Air Force missiles, 69 from live ammunition fire, and 18 from tank shells. It is important to note that these figures do not represent a totality of Israeli projectiles fired into Gaza but rather only Israeli projectiles fired into Gaza which cause casualties. The total number of Israeli projectiles fired into Gaza is bound to be significantly larger.
For context, consider this: more Palestinians were killed in Gaza yesterday than Israelis have been killed by projectile fire from Gaza in the past three years.
"What do you know?"
"Well, that is hard to tell," replied Jack. "For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world to find out about. It will take me a little time to discover whether I am very wise or very foolish."
It is remarkable that the Democrats have not been harsher in holding Romney in contempt for his comments [making fun of efforts to mitigate global warming] in these final days leading up to the election. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot.But instead both parties quietly agreed not to make an issue out of the biggest issue facing mankind.
Imagine a world where we had not seen the Sept. 11 attacks and a Democratic challenger to President Bush's reelection in 2004 had mocked the money that Bush had spent on defenses against terrorism. If the country had then been hit by a terrorist attack in the week before the election would the Republicans be shy about going after their challenger's bad sense of humor?
The reality is that people who work themselves into a lather over deficits while ignoring the very real problem of climate change don't care a whit about the fate of future generations. They're simply demagoguing a largely soluble non-issue to create an excuse for handing social insurance programs over to Wall Street, and for shredding what little is left of discretionary spending in order to ensure a cheap, desperate labor force with low tax rates for the wealthy.It really is sad that between tepid, no-backbone Democrats and lunatic Republicans we've gone so far backwards on this issue.
For the first time since 1988, presidential candidates did not mention the issue of climate change during debates.If you wish to familiarize yourself with the villains and fools who through a combination of greed, ideologically motivated ignorance, and intellectual dishonesty are determined to doom future generations to a planet less livable with less diversity of life, the Frontline episode "Climate of Doubt" is an excellent starting point.
Even as the world has seen 331 consecutive months with global temperatures over the 20th century average, even as extreme weather gets more intense and expensive, even as the Arctic sees unprecedented melt of sea ice, and even as scientists issue dire warnings about an approaching climate "tipping point," the issue got no mention at all within three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, there have been over 1100 reported cases of West Nile virus disease in the US this year, including 42 deaths. If these numbers seem high, they are – in fact, it's the highest number of reported cases since West Nile was first detected in the US in 1999, and West Nile season has just begun. Given that the peak of West Nile epidemics generally occurs in mid August, and it takes a few weeks for people to fall ill, the CDC expects that number to rise dramatically. But why now?
Though the CDC doesn't have an official response to that question, the director of the CDC's Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Division said that 'unusually warm weather' may be to blame. So far, 2012 is the hottest year on record in the United States according to the National Climatic Data Center, with record-breaking temperatures and drought a national norm. It's likely no coincidence that some of the states hit hardest by West Nile are also feeling the brunt of the heat. More than half of cases have been reported from Texas alone, where the scorching heat has left only 12% of the state drought-free. Fifteen heat records were broken in Texas just last week on August 13th.
Perhaps it's not quite as groundbreaking as being the country's first female national security adviser or first female African-American secretary of state, but Condoleezza Rice broke another barrier Monday with a golf club.Obviously, future torturers and war criminals will be discouraged from their actions by the severe plight of figures like Rice.
The formerly men-only Augusta National Golf Club -- a golfing mecca where the annual Masters Tournament has been played in Georgia since 1934 -- announced that Rice and Darla Moore, a female pioneer in banking, would be the first women admitted to its exclusive membership of about 300 captains of industry and government.
A year after telling Golf Digest that she didn't feel Augusta had an obligation to admit women, Rice, 57, now a Stanford business professor and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, said in a statement Monday that she looks forward "to playing golf, renewing friendships and forming new ones through this very special opportunity."
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
Both now and in Thompson's day, most of the press figures we lionize as great pundits and commentators seem to think it's proper to mute our expectations for public figures. We're constantly told that politicians should be given credit for being "realistic" (in the mouths of people like David Brooks, "realistic" is really code for "being willing to sell out your constituents in order to get elected") and that demanding "purity" from our leaders is somehow immature (Hillary had to vote for the Iraq war; otherwise she would have ruined her presidential chances!).
To me, the reason so many pundits and politicians take this stance is because the alternative is so painful: If you cling to hope and belief, the distance between the ideal and the corrupt reality is so great, it's just too much for most normal people to handle. So they make peace with the lie, rather than drive themselves crazy worrying about how insanely horrible and ridiculous things really are.
But Thompson never made that calculation. He never stooped to trying to sell us on stupidities about "electability" and "realism," or the pitfalls of "purity." Instead, he stared right into the flaming-hot sun of shameless lies and cynical horseshit that is our politics, and he described exactly what he saw—probably at serious cost to his own mental health, but the benefit to us was Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
With those words [of determination to assassinate US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki] attributed to Obama, Klaidman has reported what would appear to be the first instance in American history of a sitting President speaking of his intent to kill a particular U.S. citizen without that citizen having been charged formally with a crime or convicted at trial.
The due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits "any person" from being deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law." Obama authorized the termination of Awlaki's life after he concluded that the boastful, mass-murder-plotting cleric had, in effect, forfeited constitutional protection by waging war against the United States and actively planning to kill Americans. Obama also believed that the Administration's secret process establishing Awlaki's guilt provided adequate safeguards against mistake or abuse—all in all, enough "due process of law" to take his life.
Awlaki was certainly a murderous character; his YouTube videos alone would likely convict him at a jury trial. Yet the case of Awlaki's killing by drone strike is to the due-process clause what the proposed march of neo-Nazis through a community that included many Holocaust survivors in Skokie, Illinois, was to the First Amendment when that case arose, in 1977. It is an instance where the most onerous facts imaginable should lead to the durable affirmation of constitutional principle, as Skokie did. Instead, President Obama and his advisers have opened the door to violent action against American citizens by future Presidents when the facts may be much less compelling.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie -- what is it, the Dark Knight Lights Up or something? Whatever the name of it is. That's right, Dark Knight Rises, Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in the Dark Knight Rises is named Bane. B-A-N-E. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran, and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time, the release date's been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental, that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?Limbaugh concluded by saying that, "I'm just telling you this is the kind of stuff the Obama team is lining up."
LIMBAUGH: Anyway, so this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there's now discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful, and whether or not it will influence voters. It's going to have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is going to be huge, lot of people are going to see the movie. And it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd. And they're going to hear "Bane" in the movie, and they are going to associate Bain. And the thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, not Bain Capital, but Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie --"Oh yeah, I know who that is." There are some people who think it will work. There are some people think it will work. Others think -- "You're really underestimating the American people who think that will work."
Everybody's out there running around saying I got this giant conspiracy theory that the Batman people, the creators, the comic book creators, created this thing to campaign against Romney. I never said that. I didn't say there was a conspiracy. I said the Democrats were going to use it, which they are.Rush Limbaugh asked his audience, rhetorically, if they thought it was an accident that the character was named Bane and that the movie's release date had been scheduled for summer 2012. When commenters pointed out Limbaugh's ignorance by noting that the character was created and named in 1993, he lies and asserts that he was only saying that "Democrats were going to use it." But Limbuagh, pathologically dishonest idiot that he is, can't even keep that lie coherent within a single broadcast, as later in the transcript he says
I was talking about Hollywood, the people who market the movie, who determine when it's gonna be released. So you've got the villain named Bane. We know that Obama is doing everything he can to discredit Bain.And this is the same level of maturity and dishonesty and ignorance and incoherence that Limbaugh brings to bear on virtually every single subject that he talks about. As when he maliciously attacked Sandra Fluke, lied about her testimony and demonstrated a complete ignorance of how birth control works.
[Morning Joe] devoted a six-minute segment to Esquire's Tom Junod, who — as I noted earlier today — has just published a worthwhile and heartfelt article entitled "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," which examines in depth the multiple ways the President has seized the power to kill; in one section, Junod reports on the U.S. killing of 16-year-old Abdulrahman Awlaki in Yemen, and Esquire has published that section separately under this headline: "Obama's Administration Killed a 16-Year-Old American and Didn't Say Anything About It. This Is Justice?" In the Morning Joe segment, Junod repeatedly documented the numerous innocent Muslims — including children — that are continuously killed by Obama's attacks, such as the 16-year-old Denver-born son of the Islamic preacher, a mere two weeks after his father was killed.It really is remarkable watching that clip, as everyone except Junod seems incapable or unwilling to acknowledge and recognize that a 16 year old American citizen accused of no crime was killed by his own government without any explanation.
You just have to watch the reaction of [Harold] Ford, neocon Dan Senor, and Mike Barnacle to appreciate the soulless rot that leads people so cavalierly to defend and dismiss the continuous killing of innocent Muslims by the U.S. But it's Ford's smirking, self-satisfied, effete ignorance — from a warmonger whose delicately manicured hands have never been and will never be near any of the carnage he reflexively defends — that is particularly nauseating. Like most mindless defenders of U.S. violence, Ford just repeatedly utters the word "Terrorist" over and over like a hypnotic mantra.
Even after Junod describes the heinous death of the indisputably innocent American teeanger, Ford just smirks and pronounces that it's better to Kill The Terrorists than to capture them.
Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us. For all good and evil consists in sensation, but death is deprivation of sensation. And therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living. So that the man speaks but idly who says that he fears death not because it will be painful when it comes, but because it is painful in anticipation. For that which gives no trouble when it comes, is but an empty pain in anticipation. So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.The account of Boswell's interview of Hume can be read in fuller detail in the article that Zaretsky wrote comparing the dignified manner in which Hume and Christopher Hitchens confronted dying. (The article is essentially the same material that appears in the book, minus the portion relating to Hitchens.)
I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence," I remarked.
"So they have. And many have been wrongfully hanged."
A recent IRS report showed that 20,752 households that reported earning more than $200,000 in 2009 paid no federal income taxes. About 1,500 of those tax-free Americans were millionaires.
The Obama administration considers any military-age male in the vicinity of a bombing to be a combatant. That is an amazing standard that shares an ugly synergy with the sort of broad-swath logic that we see employed in Stop and Frisk, with NYPD national spy network, with the killer of Trayvon Martin.For more background on this truly vile, reprehensible and heinous policy of defining "militant" to include any of-age males killed by a drone strike, see Glenn Greenwald (here and here).
Policy is informed by the morality of a country. I think the repercussions of this unending era of death by silver bird will be profound.
The claim that "our side" never targets civilians is familiar doctrine among those who monopolize the means of violence. And there is some truth to it. We do not generally try to kill particular civilians. Rather, we carry out murderous actions that we know will slaughter many civilians, but without specific intent to kill particular ones. In law, the routine practices might fall under the category of depraved indifference, but that is not an adequate designation for standard imperial practice and doctrine. It is more similar to walking down a street knowing that we might kill ants, but without intent to do so, because they rank so low that it just doesn't matter.
In sum, Poitras produces some of the best, bravest and most important filmmaking and journalism of the past decade, often exposing truths that are adverse to U.S. government policy, concerning the most sensitive and consequential matters (a 2004 film she produced for PBS on gentrification of an Ohio town won the Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy).Yes, I am so very proud to live in such a "brave" country.
But Poitras' work has been hampered, and continues to be hampered, by the constant harassment, invasive searches, and intimidation tactics to which she is routinely subjected whenever she re-enters her own country. Since the 2006 release of "My Country, My Country," Poitras has left and re-entered the U.S. roughly 40 times. Virtually every time during that six-year-period that she has returned to the U.S., her plane has been met by DHS agents who stand at the airplane door or tarmac and inspect the passports of every de-planing passenger until they find her (on the handful of occasions where they did not meet her at the plane, agents were called when she arrived at immigration). Each time, they detain her, and then interrogate her at length about where she went and with whom she met or spoke.
In 1975, Stanley Marcus, chairman of Neiman Marcus in Dallas, decried corporate obstruction of social legislation. "Who among the business community today," he asked, "would seriously propose that Congress repeal our child-labor laws - or the Sherman Antitrust Act? The Federal Reserve Act, the Securities Exchange Act? Or workmen's compensation? Or Social Security? Or minimum wage? Or Medicare? Or civil rights legislation?"All of us today" he said, "recognize that such legislation is an integral part of our system; that it has made us stronger."That may have been true in 1975, but not today. The credit, or blame, lies squarely with Ayn Rand.
"Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school," she said. "For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that's practically an entire summer's salary."Here is what Rush Limbaugh, the radio demagogue that Republican officials bow down before, had to say in response.
And the policy has hurt not just those who want the pill to prevent pregnancy, she said. One friend — a lesbian — needed oral contraception to control ovarian cysts.
But while the Georgetown plan includes a medical exception, her friend never got the medication. "Despite verification of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy," she said.
She eventually stopped taking the medication when it became too expensive, grew a cyst "the size of a tennis ball," and "had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary as a result," Fluke testified.
And when others ask what she expected when she chose to attend a Jesuit university, Fluke replied that she and her fellow women law students:"[R]efused to pick between a quality education and our health, and we resent that in the 21st century anyone thinks it's acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women."
What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic], who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex.Right. Isn't that exactly what you heard when you saw her testimony? That she's a whore who expects the US taxpayer to pay her for sex? - not that she's suggesting that access to contraception is an important means to providing equal career/educational opportunity for women and also protecting their health.
She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.
Rush Limbaugh was traveling with four other men--including the producers of the hit show '24'--when he was detained over a mislabeled bottle of Viagra found in his luggage during a Customs search. A Department of Homeland security passenger manifest shows that Limbaugh and his four buddies flew from the Dominican Republic on a Gulfstream IV jet owned by Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates his radio program. Limbaugh returned to Palm Beach, Florida on June 26 with Joel Surnow, '24''s co-creator and executive producer and Howard Gordon, another of the Fox hit's executive producers (Hollywood agent Jeffrey Benson was also part of the Limbaugh quintet). With all those guys in tow, it is unclear what Limbaugh needed with those 29 100mg Viagra pills.Yes, what would he be doing with Viagra pills in a location notorious for sexual tourism.
On November 5, 1775, General Washington issued orders forbidding soldiers in the Continental army to observe that "ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the Pope" - an act that could only insult and alienate the ex-colonies' potential allies in Franco-phone Canada. "At such a juncture, and in such Circumstances, to be insulting their Religion, is so monstrous, as not to be suffered or excused," he expostulated."
Murray is baffled that a collapse in the pay and conditions of work should have led to a decline in a workforce's commitment to the labor market.That last line perfectly captures how absurd this focusing on Piven or Alinsky or ACORN as the root of all evil in America has been.
His book wants to lead readers to the conclusion that the white working class has suffered a moral collapse attributable to vaguely hinted at cultural forces. Yet he never specifies what those cultural forces might be, and he presents no evidence at all for a link between those forces and the moral collapse he sees.
In an interview with the New York Times, Murray is more specific—but no more precise—in his analysis:The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.The '60s. Of course. But which reforms are the ones that Murray has in mind? He does not say, and I think I can understand why he does not say: because once you spell out the implied case here, it collapses of its own obvious ludicrousness.
Let me try my hand:
You are a white man aged 30 without a college degree. Your grandfather returned from World War II, got a cheap mortgage courtesy of the GI bill, married his sweetheart and went to work in a factory job that paid him something like $50,000 in today's money plus health benefits and pension. Your father started at that same factory in 1972. He was laid off in 1981, and has never had anything like as good a job ever since. He's working now at a big-box store, making $40,000 a year, and waiting for his Medicare to kick in.
Now look at you. Yes, unemployment is high right now. But if you keep pounding the pavements, you'll eventually find a job that pays $28,000 a year. That's not poverty! Yet you seem to waste a lot of time playing video games, watching porn, and sleeping in. You aren't married, and you don't go to church. I blame Frances Fox Piven.
This is a battlefield that we must stand upon and we need to let president Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, and take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.What really demonstrates just how demented the Republican party has become is that this belief in how un-American the Obama administration and Democrats is is a reaction to a Democratic party which has implemented what a few decades ago were Republican ideas (e.g. a health care plan which was previously advocated by the conservative Heritage Foundation.)
"The opponents of the New Deal, backed and funded by the business elite, announced that President Roosevelt had permitted communists to infiltrate the government and government-funded programs, such as the Federal Theatre Project. And that project was the first target of the Dies Committee, led by Texas Democrat Martin Dies. The theatre project was denounced in a series of hearings in August and November 1938. The Dies committee eventually became HUAC. [Hallie] Flanagan [head of the Federal Theatre Project] was asked about an article she had written titled "A Theatre is Born," in which she described the enthusiasm of the federal theaters as having "a certain Marlowesque madness.""You are quoting from this Marlowe," observed Alabama representative Joseph Starnes from the committee. "Is he a Communist?"The room rocked with laughter, but I did not laugh," Flanagan remembered. "Eight thousand people might lose their jobs because a Congressional Committee had so prejudged us that even the classics were 'communistic.' I said, 'I was quoting from Christopher Marlowe.'""Tell us who this Marlowe is, so we can get the proper references, because that is all we want to do," Starnes said."Put in the record that he was the greatest dramatist in the period of Shakespeare, immediately preceding Shakespeare," Flanagan answered.By 1939 the theatre project was killed.