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Tradition Table H40,5 / 1.049 eur
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Tradition is a series of non-traditional outdoor furnitures that can be adapted to your own needs without compromising on aesthetic, comfort or quality. The Tradition Table in teak is easy to combine with the other Tradition furnitures.
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Aluminum / Dark Grey
LxWxH: 76x76x40,5 cm
Item no. 1505902
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Weight: 11 kg
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Proper usage and maintenance
Proper usage and maintenance is vital for getting the most out of the valuable resources we have. Our designs are made to last for generations, but just like everything else, they need a little care to get there.
Teak is commonly found in Southeast Asia, Central and South America. Our FSC-certified Teak comes from Central America, Brazil and Indonesia, while our non-certified Teak comes from plantations in Southeast Asia and Trinidad; managed to sustain a renewable and reliable supply of wood.
Teak is a heavy, hard and sturdy type of wood. The high content of natural oils makes it highly weather and rot resistant and is therefore a good choice for outdoor furniture.
Do a general cleaning when needed with a suitable wood cleaner and soft bristle brush. Rinse afterwards with clear water and let it dry. Note: Wipe off tables, benches and chairs after dinner and such with a dry cloth.
As the wood is untreated, the surface will patinate over time and eventually turn into a beautiful silvery grey colour. If you wish to preserve or intensify the original honey-golden colour, use a suitable furniture oil on a regular basis. No matter what you choose, the wood will be resistant to everyday wind and weather thanks to the high content of natural oils.
Winter storage
The product is usable in all types of wind and weather, all year round. However, during wintertime, it is advisable to store the furniture in an unheated room such as a garage or cellar.
Indoor use
The wood has been dried for outdoor use. Hence, if you wish to use the furniture indoors it may need to be re-tightened once in a while.
Powder coated aluminum
Powder coating is a high-quality and dry finishing process which makes it possible to create a thicker and more streamlined surface than with conventional liquid paint. The coating is applied on the super light-weight aluminum in order to reduce the risk of impact from moisture, UV, scratches and corrosion.
Use a soft brush with soapy water and wipe with a dry cloth. Note: Do not use abrasive pads or abrasive cleaning agents as this may harm the surface.
Although sturdy and resistant, powder coated aluminum is not invincible, be careful not to make scratches in the surface as it will make the material vulnerable to corrosion.
Winter storage
The product is usable in all types of wind and weather, all year round. However, during wintertime, it is advisable to store the furniture in an unheated room such as a garage or cellar.
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About the designer / Povl B. Eskildsen
Form does not follow function. Form and function go together. That is how Povl B. Eskildsen describes the essence of designing. And he is a man who knows what he's talking about, for he has created a long line of strong designs for both Danish and international companies. He was born in Jebjerg, Denmark, close to the Limfjord and qualified as an architect from the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1986. Since then he has worked as an independent designer on creating designs that reflect the present-day age and lifestyle.


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|In this exercise we expand what we know about triad arpeggios and look at a major 7th arpeggio and how to play it on two strings for some cool sounds!
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|In this exercise, we take a look at Minor 7th arpeggios and inversions on two strings
|Dominant 7th Arpeggio on 2 Strings
|In this exercise, I will show you how to play a Dominant 7th arpeggio and its inversions on 2 strings
|Minor 7th (b5) Arpeggio on Two Strings
|In this exercise, we look at the last of the 7th arpeggios that come from the Major Scale - the Min7(b5)
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|In this exercise, we will use what we learned about 7th arpeggios from the previous exercises to come up with a musically interesting arpeggio progression.

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A Central Florida family is using a Facebook support page to fight to save their 1-year-old beagle, who bit their 4-year-old child, after learning the dog is going to be put down.
The 25-pound dog, named Rufus, was turned over to Orange County Animal Services after biting the family's 4-year-old child in the lip, but they never imagined it would get to this.
Rufus' owner, Nikki West, said she was giving him wet dog food, a special treat for his birthday, when 4-year-old Chazz ran into the kitchen.
West said she rushed Chazz to Arnold Palmer Hospital and was told to fill out some paperwork, a standard procedure for dog bites. She said later that night at around 10:30 p.m. Animal Services came to her door with more paperwork to take Rufus for a 10-day evaluation.
"I would have never have thought that this would have happened when I signed those papers," West said.
If Rufus didn't show signs of aggression he would be adopted, West said. When she called to check on Rufus she says she was told the bite was too serious and that Rufus would be euthanized.
"He's scared he's just a scared little puppy in there," she said.
West has now turned to Facebook and started the "Save Rufus" page to raise awareness and hire an attorney. She's hoping to block animal services decision and keep her beagle alive.
You can also sign a petition to save Rufus by clicking here.
West could appeal the decision but as of now, West says Rufus is scheduled to be euthanized on April 27.
Local 6 in Orlando tried to contact Orange County Animal Services Monday night, but did not receive an immediate response.


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The Alaska Legislature has passed a measure allowing out-of-state residents to serve on the board of a corporation that could play a key role in a major liquefied natural gas pipeline project.
The Senate's 13-7 vote helps clear the way for Richard Rabinow, a former pipeline company executive from Texas, to serve on the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp.
Governor Sean Parnell appointed Rabinow last September and has defended the appointment as falling within his discretion under the constitution. Rabinow faces confirmation Thursday.
Supporters of the bill, including House Speaker Mike Chenault, have said it was an oversight to not explicitly allow for out-of-state residents to serve on the board. They say they want the best people possible to serve.
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But it's just not that simple.
Last week, as I was reading, I did a lot of thinking about thinking, and especially about what and who makes me think. I realized that I'm usually drawn to like-minded writers - to those who make me think more about things I already think.
But I also recognize that sometimes my best learning - by best thinking - comes as a result of reading things written by people who think very differently from me. Sometimes those different-thinking writers help me appreciate perspectives I'd not considered before, and alter my own perspective; sometimes they make me better able to articulate why I'll continue to think what I've been thinking all along.
That's the spirit with which I tried to approach Strange Son, because it became clear to me almost from the outset of the book that Iversen and I differ in our approaches to parenting a child with autism. As I read, I reminded myself that our boys are very different from each other: Iversen's son Dov is almost entirely nonverbal, and for many years Iversen felt unable to reach him. I reminded myself that Iversen's life, experiences, and parenting journey were undoubtedly different from mine, and that I could not possibly know for certain what I would have done - what my choices would have been - what approaches I might have tried - had Bud been less like Bud and more like Dov.
I could not possibly know.
And yet, I could think.
And what I think is this: I think that no matter who Bud had been when I met him - whether he'd been nonverbal or deaf, whether he'd had seizures or been hyperactive, whether had he been unresponsive or typically developing - no matter who he'd been, I think that at any point at which I felt like I couldn't understand him - at any point at which his behavior seemed frightening - at any point at which I felt out of my element - my first instinct would have been to spend more time trying to engage with him, trying to understand him, and trying to let him know I was there - for him, and with him.
Unlike Dov, Bud is verbal and visibly engaged with the world, but I think - I believe, though I can't know - that if he wasn't, I would have had the same philosophy. If Bud spent his days staring past me, not responding, watching dust mites in a sunbeam, I believe that - for a while, anyway - you'd find me sitting next to him, feeling the warmth he felt, watching the patterns he saw, and thinking: how can we use this? what can we do next? what can we do here together?
Iversen took a different approach, and in the first half of Strange Son she outlines the journey she took in the years immediately following Dov's diagnosis, as she invested herself fully into learning about the science of autism - the biology, the neurology, the genetics - and into raising money and recruiting researchers. Together with her husband she founded the Cure Autism Now foundation, sponsoring research, fundraising efforts, and national conferences. With the financial support of CAN, she brought Tito Mukhopadhyay, a young man "nonverbal and severely affected by autism" and his mother Soma to the United States from their home in India. Under Soma's direction, and despite his "rocking and flapping and staring ahead as if he (didn't hear) at all," (p. 49) Tito learned to communicate by pointing to letters on an alphabet board, revealing his IQ of 185 and his talent for writing poetry. Iversen lobbied researchers and scientists in the U.S. to raise awareness of Tito and Soma, and to promote research that might make this kind of communication possible for other people with autism.
Iversen's efforts were exhaustive, focused, and intense. She devoted every bit of her time and energy to her work with autism - to the work she did on Dov's behalf. But throughout most of Strange Son, it remained unclear to me how much of the work she did was actually with Dov. Dov remained a stranger to me for most of the beginning chapters of the book. Iversen's love for him is palpable; but, so too is her sadness, frustration, and fear. As I read, I got an increasing sense that, despite the long hours and hard work she put into studying, lobbying, and networking around autism, she regarded spending time with Dov just too difficult a task.
In the second half of Strange Son, Dov became a larger presence, as Iversen recounted Soma Mukhopadhyay's work with him, teaching him to use an alphabet board the same way she'd taught Tito. In a short time under Soma's tutelage, Dov was using the board and Iversen discovered through Dov's own words that he had been able to read for years, that he understood everything he heard, that he'd been paying attention to news reports on NPR, and that he was a smart, engaged boy.
I would have imagined that this would read like a moment of triumph - this unveiling of the "real" Dov - this moment in which mother and son could finally connect. And yet, it was one of the most heartbreaking moments in the book, as Iversen realized that her nine-year-old was a stranger to her. She writes, "After all these years, I had a thousand questions to ask him and a million things I wanted to tell him. And yet, I couldn't think of what to say. 'I love you,' I blurted out. My words hung strangely hollow in the interior of the car." (p. 291)
I imagined that the rest of the book would lead to a denouement of lessons learned: the importance of recognizing your child's own unique talents and gifts, the need to savor every moment that you have with your child, the importance of connection. But the lessons never came, and Iversen remained a stranger to me.
As a result, the more I read, the less inclined I was to keep reading. The science that Iversen presented was thought-provoking. Her description of scientific studies about the arousal states of children with autism was fascinating. Tito and Soma's story was interesting. But it was Dov whom I longed to know.
So I kept reading - until, toward the end of the book, Iversen described a presentation by Dov at a CAN annual scientific meeting. He was scheduled to appear with Soma in front of a room full of people to give a demonstration of how he used the alphabet board to communicate. When the presentation began, Dov seemed anxious and tense and pointed out the word "rock." Soma pushed him to name three types of rocks, and his anxiety and anger grew as he growled, pinched, and head-butted Soma, but ultimately typed the words igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
It was an extraordinary achievement, especially given the conditions under which Dov was asked to perform. And yet, Iversen describes her reaction this way:
"I was relieved when it was over and Soma and Dov joined Erika and Tito and they left the room. I rationalized to myself that at least this was a demonstration of how even such an out-of-control, behavioral wreck of a person could still be intelligent." (p. 352)
An "out-of-control, behavioral wreck of a person."
Her son.
I put the book down, and thought perhaps I was done with it.
A few days later, I returned to it. Perhaps, I thought, the next page would reveal her regret, her learning, and her determination to do better next time.
Instead, I read this:
"The room was emptying out for the morning break when Gino came over to me.
'I found this under the camera tripod,' he said, handing me a rock. 'I think Dov
dropped it on his way up to the stage.' I turned the rock over in my hands. It
was Dov's rock, the one he had been carrying around for days, a security blanket
of sorts. ... I now realize that Dov spelled 'rock' because he had lost his rock
on the way to the stage. He wanted his rock; he needed his rock. But when
Dov spelled 'rock,' Soma pushed him, until he spelled out what she wanted him
to." (p.352-353)
I was relieved that Iversen gained this insight - that she recognized Dov's need for local coherence, and understood the loss of local coherence that came with the loss of his rock. I was certain that this knowledge would make her realize that Dov's dysregulation in the demonstration was an understandable reaction to that loss, and did not make him a "behavioral wreck of a person." I scanned the pages ahead, looking for the conversation in which Iversen apologized to Dov for failing to pay attention, for not working harder to understand what he was trying to say, for pushing him to perform in the midst of overwhelming and unreasonable conditions, and for blaming him for his reaction to them.
I hope that the conversation happened in real life. It didn't happen in the book.
At least, I don't think it did. I'm about 25 pages away from the end of Strange Son, but I've finished reading it.
It may be that Dov's story is not really the story that Iversen intended to tell with this book; unfortunately, it was the story I wanted to read. Though the book's subtitle calls it the story of "two mothers and two sons," at its most basic level, Strange Son is a book about one woman's take on autism - one woman who knows a lot about the science of autism. I learned a great deal of information through her writing, and she made me ponder issues I'd never considered before. But, really, I am not particularly drawn to books about the science of autism. I am drawn to parenting memoirs; and, to my mind anyway, at its most basic level, Strange Son is not a parenting memoir.
And so, I've stopped reading just a few chapters from the end of the book. I realize that there may be great insight in these final chapters. There may be a glorious "a-ha" moment ahead. But that will be for another reader to find out.
I'm off to spend time with my son.
3/2/07, 6:00 p.m.
Addendum to Original Post:
In the interest of full disclosure and in response to some commenters who seem to have interpreted this post as an unprovoked attack on Portia Iversen's parenting, I'd like to add this: I received a complimentary copy of Strange Son from Iversen's publicist for my review. I knew when I accepted the book that I would need to post my reaction to it, no matter what that reaction was. I'm certain that both Iversen and her publicist would insist on getting an honest review. Anything less would compromise the integrity of us all.
This post is intended to be a review of Strange Son, and not a commentary on Portia Iversen or her parenting. And among the positive reactions that I had to the book (Iversen presents compelling information about the science and research of autism; Iversen writes with great intellect; Iversen's account of her tireless efforts in promoting autism research is impressive), were less positive reactions (I found some of her language when writing about Dov jarring; though the book promotes itself as the story of "two mothers, two sons," Dov struck me as a supporting player with a minor role for large segments of the book; I would have found the book more engaging if she had written more about her parenting and delved more into her life with Dov.) I've tried to capture all of that in the post above.


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Food for Change: 5 Food Groups Doing Great Work
Profiles on causes and organizations that are addressing issues of poverty, poor health, and food access.
Editor's note: In "Food for Change," we'll profile groups out there connecting people to better food access. In this series we want to applaud the passionate people and organizations doing meaningful work with food in their communities. Please share tips for others to include in this column in the comments below.
- Foodlink works to serve hungry communities in Central and Western New York. Their numerous programs include a food bank, nutrition education, a farmers market, and summer meals for children. The group rescues and redistributes over 12 million pounds of food annually, to 450 member agencies across the region. They estimate that this food equates to 5,000,000 meals served each year. Foodlink also works to help regional small farmers find markets for their produce. Their website has helpful materials for starting your own food drive or food bank for your community.
- The Food Trust is based out of Philadelphia, and has many initiatives centered around increasing the healthfulness of the urban community. They provide materials and assistance to parents who want to advocate for less soda and junk food in their kids' schools. Their Healthier Corner Store Campaign has received much attention for helping bring healthier food options to hundreds of corner stores across the city. The group also works with the city and state government to increase funding for programs to bring local produce into groceries and urban markets.
- In South Florida, the Urban Oasis Project works to facilitate personal and community gardens in the region. The group helps plant and grow fresh produce, with the goal of eradicating the area's food deserts. They also create community around nutrition education and food production. Building these community connections allows for ongoing support for eating local and healthy.
- Portland, Maine is a town with plenty of access to agricultural production, and Cultivating Communities is capitalizing on that access to unite residents around food production and access. The group has developed several urban farms in the city, and runs several CSA programs and farmers markets to provide access to local, delicious food for the community. Additionally, CC runs a training program for new immigrant farmers, providing classroom and field-based learning opportunities and community support.
- MercyCorps allows you to purchase gifts for your loved ones that benefit disadvantaged populations around the world. From a goat to a new well, gifts large and small are available for purchase. Your donation goes towards providing that item to a family or community in need. The 501c(3) organization spends almost 90% of its funds on direct service.
About the Author: A student in Providence, Rhode Island, Leah Douglas loves learning about, talking about, reading about, and consuming food. Her work has also been featured in Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.
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Poor Sean Bean. Dude can't really catch a break, can he? Good things rarely happen to the characters he plays.
We don't quite know anything for certain yet, but it looks like nothing good will happen to him in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, either. It sort of looks like a lot of pretty not-good things will happen in this movie, starting with the acting, which is CW-level at best. And is the "3D" seriously an official part of the title? That is not! Very! Scary!
There is, however, a pretty cool-looking beastie made out of assembled mannequin parts. And of course, good ol' Pyramid Head. Also, Jon Snow! I wonder if Arya and Bran turn up anywhere. Might as well throw the whole Stark clan into Silent Hill.
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Changeup helps Porcello move past ugly outing
ARLINGTON -- In his fourth outing this year, Rick Porcello had arguably the worst start of his career.
He gave up nine runs and recorded just two outs against the Angels on April 20, a 10-0 loss. Porcello's ERA skyrocketed to 11.08 and the pitcher who allowed more hits than anyone in the American League last year (226) was off to an 0-2 start this season.
Since then, however, Porcello has been much more effective. He is 2-0 with a 3.24 ERA in his last four starts, picking up a victory in the Tigers' 2-1 triumph over the Rangers on Friday.
"He's been good, hasn't he? Really good," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "He's had some stiff competition, too. I'm really happy for him. He did good last night, stayed out of the middle [of the plate]. I thought he attacked them pretty good."
Porcello allowed one run on five hits over 5 2/3 innings in Friday's win, striking out six and walking only one. Since the forgettable outing against the Angels, he's lowered his ERA from 11.08 to 5.92. He credits much of the improvement to his changeup.
"I just pretended like it never happened," Porcello said of the April 20 start. "My changeup has been coming around nicely. I've been able to get some swings and misses off it lately, especially with two strikes. I'm throwing it to both righties and lefties. It's been a nice pitch for me this year.


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Angel & Faith #16
Angel's plan to resurrect Giles inches ever closer toward success. As he and Faith hack their way toward one more magical item to help in their venture, Angel reveals it is time to get the final part of Giles's soul. But their triumphant return to London holds more than one surprise: first, the revenge-seeking Nadira and the Slayers come calling...
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The typical joropo song begins with a fast homophonic block of melody and rhythm, stringed instruments led by folk-harp and bandola guitar, and percussion — BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! And then a piercing nasal vocal cry: "Aaaay!"
It's the call of the cattleman, herding his charges. Joropo is music born of the plains that extend from Colombia into Venezuela. Though the area has since the late 1900s seen the advance of the oil industry, it has a longer tradition as ranchland. And that's where joropo, and other plains music ("música llanera"), comes from. Like a lot of regional folk music — from Cajun and Creole in southwest Louisiana to Tex-Mex conjunto — joropo is high-energy and highly emotional, declamatory, full of boasts and laments, and created to be performed with dancers.
Don't expect to see much dancing except for onstage when the joropo septet Cimarrón makes its Boston debut in a World Music/CRASHarts show at Johnny D's this Saturday. The club is known to attract throngs of knowledgeable dancers for touring Cajun and zydeco acts. But, says Cimarrón founder Carlos Rojas Hernández, the helter-skelter triple meter of joropo is "such a complex dance, so fast that it doesn't entice" North American dancers. What's more, the regional style is little known even in much of Colombia, never mind LA or Somerville.
The swish and stomp of dancers' feet were originally of a piece with the rhythms of joropo. To compensate for that missing element in recordings and concert performances, Hernández, who founded Cimarrón in 1986, has over the years tweaked the band's sound, adding the cojon rhythm box and electric or acoustic bass. "When you listen to the recording, you don't get to hear the sound of feet, so we try to re-create that sound and those rhythms," Hernández says in Spanish through an interpreter at a tour stop in Albuquerque. And, throughout the live performance, there is constant dancing from the band's two percussionists.
So, if what you hear at Johnny D's (or on the band's 2011 Smithsonian Folkways release "Cimarrón: Joropo Music From the Plains of Colombia") doesn't exactly match what you might hear at a festival in farm country along the Orinoco River, there are other compensations. For one, there is the stunning virtuosity of the band, evident in the complex flurry of patterns from Hernández's harp, the bandola of Ferney Rojas Cabezas and the four-string cuatro guitar of Darwin Rafael Medina Fonseca. The various sets of maracas approximate the swish of dancing feet, while the actual feet of the percussionists stomp out forceful zapateado rhythms, a sound Hernández describes as "much louder and more aggressive" than flamenco.
Cimarrón has several instrumental features in its book, but the stories of joropo and música llanera come from its two vocalists, Luis Eduardo Moreno and Ana Veydó. Moreno is esteemed for his impassioned, rapid-fire delivery, and his skill in contrapunteo (competitive verse improvisation), which is akin to the freestyling of rap battles, with cash-prize awards. You might improvise boasts about your skill at roping a steer or, as in rap, simply about your vocal and lyrical prowess.
That's a pretty macho context for a woman to enter into. After all, Moreno's nickname is "El Gallito Cantaclaro" — "the clear-singing cock." But Hernández says that in Cimarrón "there's no such thing as female and male songs. It's one kind of music. It focuses on scenes of love but also scenes of working on the farm, with cattle and horses." So there are songs about milking and riding, about the pride of being a plainsman ("Llanero soy"), or even an homage to one's hat ("Mi sombrero"). Veydó, with her flexible, darkly colored voice, is as adept at those work songs as at songs of love, and especially effective when one becomes a thinly veiled metaphor for the other as in "El cimarrón" ("the wild bull"), and its lyrics, "I go singing 'El cimarrón'/ along the moonless roads/ I go recounting to the plain/ my sorrows, one by one." And although there are more women singing joropo these days, Hernandez describes Veydó as "a pioneer" for women in the genre.
Hernández says that although the band has toured internationally, in Colombia itself, joropo is still not as prevalent as the Andean-style folk music from urban centers like Bogotá or even the Afro-Caribbean cumbia of the northeast coast. The lineage of the music, he says comes from the native Indian culture as well as Spanish colonialists, including the North African slaves who found their way through Spain to South America. Perhaps that accounts for the Arabic tinge of the band's highly ornamented string playing.
But, though he has written extensively about joropo, Hernández says this information is secondary to enjoyment of the music. "It's a music that transmits a lot of feeling, a lot of character. So it doesn't need any other explanation. Sit back, enjoy, and be surprised by the aggressiveness, the rhythms, and the force of the music."
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Becca then is described as: "14 (18 or high school proficient to play younger), all ethnicities. Becca is Payson's younger sister and though she has some of the natural athletic ability of her sister, shares none of her focus or will. Having a star sister means Becca has been slightly overlooked, and this has allowed her to blossom in some interesting, unchecked ways. Sometimes she acts out in silly or goofy ways just to get attention. More immature but much more well rounded than her sister, Becca loves music and writing, and makes fantastic collages and video movies. Because she is so happy-go-lucky, you might be surprised that her art occasionally reveals the pain of being in her sister's shadow, a fact she hides from everyone, including herself. She doesn't work as hard at gymnastics as her star sister, but she is good, perhaps in the top 100 in the US, and because she has a much more mellow and fun approach to the sport, you can occasionally see glimmers of someone who could be much better than she thinks she is. Because a part of her feels "second place", she can get totally sucked in to the attention of boys. In the first season, when an injury threatens to take out her sister, Becca somehow steps up and naturally shines, which shatters her identity, completely wracks her with guilt, and challenges the family order." Filling out the ensemble then are fellow gymnasts Kylie ("a girl who wants to stay small and limber for her sport but is clearly growing into a woman") and Bradford Snow ("equally attractive but a lot more clueless"), their parents Kip and Ronnie, Emily Kmetko ("perhaps the most naturally gifted gymnast, she has had only scattershot training, but was born to do this") and Mario Rodriguez ("madly in love with Kylie Snow, they've been secretly together for a year, and he has quiet plans to marry her when the spotlight is off them.") Holly Sorensen is behind the hour, which comes from Super Delicious Productions.
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Why Handel?s ?Messiah? endures
On 12.22.11 07:41 AM posted by Jennifer Marshall
It's one of the most famous and widely shared pieces of music in history.
Handel intended his oratorio "Messiah" for Lent, and it was first performed just after Easter 1742. But over the centuries, public performances of the masterwork became a rite of Christmas.
It is 270 years since Handel composed the classic, yet crowds continue to gather and listen, once again, for hours. Today's audiences typically reserve that kind of time for a Lady Gaga concert or the opening of a new "Mission Impossible" movie.
What explains the enduring attraction of Handel's "Messiah"?
For one thing, the sheer beauty of the music. For another, the incredible skill of the composer. In one of history's most astounding creative feats, Handel produced the 260-page score in just 24 days.
Beethoven – whose Ninth Symphony's final movement ("Ode to Joy") rivals the "Hallelujah Chorus" of "Messiah" for widespread emotional appeal – is said to have revered Handel as the greatest of composers.
The lasting popularity also owes to the work's moving text, drawn from the Bible. From prophecy to incarnation to death and resurrection, the life of Christ has been called the greatest story ever told. Indeed, Leland Ryken and other Christian literary scholars have noted how the narrative qualities of biblical revelation are finely tuned to the way we're made as humans.
Together, the music and subject of Handel's "Messiah" reach the sublime status of great art that speaks to "what is permanent in the human soul," as the 19th-century poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold wrote. No wonder we love to hear it at Christmas, the time of year that calls us back to the permanent things.
Master artists and authors create a "unity and profoundness of moral impression," Arnold wrote, "which constitutes the grandeur of their works, and which makes them immortal."
That kind of moral impression is grounded in the conviction that human nature persists, truth exists and life has meaning and purpose. Such courage of conviction has been waning for some time.
A century ago, the great English writer G. K. Chesterton diagnosed that "what we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place." Modesty used to rein in our ambition; it shifted to constrain conviction, "where it was never meant to be."
Things haven't improved since Chesterton's time. Today's radical postmodernist academics teach young people there is no universal human condition or transcendent morality. Reality is culturally determined, they say, a mere social construct erected by personal background and identity. This relativism leaves some philosophers skeptical about the nature of rationality and truth altogether.
To be sure, experience does influence our perspective on reality. Whether a child grows up in Bedford Falls or Berkeley or Bahrain will shape her outlook. So will racial, socioeconomic and religious characteristics. Just as eyeglasses are shaped by a sanding process, many factors grind the lens through which each of us sees reality.
But it remains a lens. It does not change reality itself.
Great art helps continue to refine and polish that lens with accounts of truth that transcend our own outlooks.
Wise voices across generations have urged a perennial return to classic works to gain perspective on our age and experience. "Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes," C.S. Lewis explained. We need to read "old books," he said, to correct the blind spots of our day.
Lewis didn't idealize the past, though.
"People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes," he wrote. "Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."
The well-aged insights of great works of art, literature and music help us sift today's culture, as Arnold explained, to identify what will "cultivate what is best and noblest" in us as human beings.
Plenty of entertainment will lose its popularity long before the end of the century – if not the decade. But great works endure because they appeal to universal longings of the human spirit.
Nearly three centuries since its debut, crowds continue to gather for Handel's "Messiah" because the stunning crescendos and familiar choruses draw us toward answers to "the hopes and fears of all the years."
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SAN FRANCISCO—I'm pretty obsessed with saving as much money as possible on my mobile phone, especially while traveling abroad (see our feature, Die contracts! Prepaid mobile phone use surges). Turns out, I'm not the only one.
Eric Boromisa, 27, founded Attaché Arrivals earlier this year with a similar interest in saving money while traveling. "I don't believe that people should live in 1990 while abroad; they should live in 2014," he said.
In other words, most people turn off mobile data while traveling to not get hoodwinked. Fancy smartphones are then handicapped unnecessarily. How bad is it? AT&T charges its customers $1.50 per minute for all calls while roaming in France and $30 for 120 megabytes of mobile data.Sitting over lunch at a San Francisco pub, Boromisa showed Ars a familiar sight—his own container of used SIM cards, complete with a paper clip to punch into his iPhone to swap them out. With those SIM cards, he says, he can use his phone like a local rather than pay exorbitant roaming fees from his American carrier.
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Boromisa said that the inspiration for Attaché Arrivals came to him when he was circling the globe in 2013 after leaving a comfortable job in San Francisco with Accenture, a global consulting firm. Boromisa found himself landing in new cities, being forced to run the same errands over and over again: researching mobile options, finding a place to work (a Wi-Fi café), getting local currency, and navigating an unfamiliar transit system.
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After having recently lived in Europe for more than two years, it's easy to see Americans are still getting ripped off by wireless carriers. That's despite the recent rise of prepaid options here in the United States. While these days the industry is slowly responding—T-Mobile famously did away with contracts in 2013 for instance—many still hope for a European-style carrier here in the US.Take Mobile Vikings. That company's basic offering is extremely appealing: €15 ($20) per month for 2GB of mobile data, €0.24/min ($0.32) for voice, and 1,000 text messages. You could say the same thing about 3 in the United Kingdom. This company offers a 30-day deal for just 15 British pounds ($23), and that includes 300 domestic minutes, 3,000 text messages, and unlimited data. (Remember, when considering these plans, incoming texts and calls are free in Europe.)
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This eventually leads to that bucket of local SIMs—such a setup allows you to hit the ground running with a local number while saving some dough. (I now have a small collection of such cards from the United Kingdom, Canada, Chile, Iceland, and Germany, for instance.) But figuring out which provider is best and where to actually obtain a SIM card is a pain. Information online from sites like prepaidgsm.net is often out of date, and surprisingly, few airports sell SIM cards in obvious places.
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"From there, I've been putting together arrival kits, with exactly those things I kept searching for, sent to your house before you leave," Boromisa writes on his site. "I hope to make your first experience in a new country as seamless as it is to arrive in your home airport."
Even though the project is only two months old and hasn't made any major sales, the strength of Boromisa's idea alone has drawn some attention from those following the travel industry. Henry Harteveldt, the founder of the Atmosphere Research Group, told Ars he thinks Attaché Arrivals is "an interesting concept."
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Collapsible laundry hampers with wire supports may pose a risk to children's eyes, according to researchers who saw two related injuries within a year, both requiring surgery.
Such hampers have an embedded stiff wire spring, which can be dangerous if the cloth frays and the wire becomes exposed, researchers said.
"Parents should receive a warning of the risks of these hampers," Dr. Iris Kassem from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her colleagues wrote Monday in Pediatrics.
They describe the cases of two children who each had an eye punctured by one of those wires - an 11-year-old boy injured while putting clothes in a collapsible hamper and a 23-month-old girl.
Both needed emergency surgery for cuts on their eyeballs.
The older boy had a second surgery and now wears a contact lens, according to the study team. The younger girl developed a lazy eye but her vision returned to normal after wearing glasses and a patch for a year and a half.
Dr. Michael Repka, a pediatric ophthalmology researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said he had not personally treated this type of injury, but sees how it could occur.
"There are dangers in lots of products and I think it's great they called attention to this one, and certainly people ought to look at the design," Repka, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
"But it's not isolated to wire hampers," he added. "Wires from lots of products can hit kids in the eye."
Repka said it's too early to draw conclusions about collapsible wire hampers based on these two cases - other than to say a wire that's poking out at kids' eye level is a hazard.
A representative from Whitmor, which makes collapsible hampers, said no eye injuries have been reported to the company.
"We've been on the market many, many years with these items ... and never have we had a customer complain about anything, much less an injury," Scott Felsenthal told Reuters Health.
He said Whitmor's pop-and-fold hampers come with a warning label and that the company will be looking into whether its collapsible hamper needs a warning label as well.
Kassem said warning labels are "a good start," but some hampers may require design changes as well.
She recommended two precautions for parents.
"One is to have the hamper in a safe location so children cannot be near or play around this product," she told Reuters Health by email. "The second thing I suggest is to check the integrity of the hamper and if the fabric is frayed in any way, it needs to be thrown away.


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Everyone can participate this year regardless of distance to the event. Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested.
Story Sponsorships
If you or a woman you know developed preeclampsia, HELLP Syndrome, or another hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, and you would like to share your story or share how her illness affected you or your family, prepare your story (500 words or less), solicit sponsors of your story, and then submit your story. Your story and recognition of your sponsors will be included in a special Saving Grace program book.
As in recent years, centerpieces on the tables will include photos of survivors.
Make a Therapeutic Contribution
Share your story with others in a way lets you heal from your experience. A HELLP Syndrome survivor who is an art therapist is providing this unique opportunity for anyone touched by preeclampsia to participate in art therapy workshops to reflect upon what happened to them in the hopes of healing from the experience. Participants will have the opportunity to have the products of the workshops on display at Saving Grace along with a brief description of their story. The workshops will be made available online so survivors from across the country can participate.
Slide Show
As in the past, the event will include a tribute slide show to the lives of those impacted by preeclampsia. This is one of the most powerful and moving moments of the evening. Contribute your story and you may move someone to make a donation! All that is required is a brief description of your story and some compelling photos to assist in telling the story.
Other Requests
Other ways you can contribute and make sure the event is a success include:
~ Coming to the event
~ Promoting the event to your friends and family (why not create an e-mail signature?)
~ Give us contact information of likely guests to add to the invitation list
~ Agree to distribute invitations with a personal invitation of your own
~ Contribute or help solicit items to the live auction (e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to help)
~ Help us make a personal connection to a sponsor
~ Become a gala committee member by agreeing to bring 10 guests to the event with you – you will receive special recognition in the event program
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Review: Polpetta - Your Meatball Canvas
>> Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Overall comment: Great place for meatball lovers (both meat eaters & vegetarians)!
Halal: Pork-free
Polpetta is almost one month old now! *yay*
Here's introducing Polpetta, your meatball canvas :D Build your own main dish with meatballs as the main ingredient - be creative! Build your own combination as the 'canvas' is free for you to 'design' ;)
Located at 10 Boulevard along the Sprint highway before the ramp to Bandar Utama, Polpetta is surely a potential to be THE place for good meatballs. This simple cafe is a family business by the Nah family, managed by their young & capable son, Egbert Nah. The family has a passion in the F & B industry & Polpetta is certainly one of the family's pride & joy.
The design of the cafe is simple & homey, aiming to just satisfy the cravings of all meat & even mushroom lovers! Yes, you read it right! They have mushroom balls for vegetarians (100% meatless) :D *yay again*
Ordering is fairly simple although I do feel that it's somewhat complex due to the choices available! :P Just 4 steps, but there's a possibility of 240 combinations!! *faints* I hope my math is correct (3*4*4*5).
1. Choose your meatballs: Beef (RM15.00/serving), chicken (RM13.00/serving) or mushroom (RM16.00/serving)
2. Choose your base: Pasta, mashed potatoes, brown rice or salad
3. Choose your sauce: Classic tomato, freshly blended pesto, mushroom or cheesy cream
4. Choose your topping: Parmesan cheese, nuts, crispy crunch, roasted garlic, or roasted onions
That's not all that Polpetta offers. They have add-ons available as well such as fried egg, hash brown & more, PLUS special combinations/sets! You'll certainly be spoilt for choice here :)
The menu
Since a group of us friends came together to try out Polpetta's meatballs, here are some of the dishes that we had:
Creamy Mushroom Soup (RM9.00/serving)
You can taste the bits of mushrooms in their soup, but the taste could be improved as the soup was had that day lacks salt/ seasoning. Texture is acceptable, but somehow it lacks some "umph" for a mushroom soup. Drink it while it's hot. We realized that when it turned cold, it was quite difficult to finish the bowl of soup as the taste has 'changed'.
Beef Meatballs + Pasta + Freshly-Blended Pesto + Parmesan Cheese (RM15.00/serving)
The meatballs were actually quite large. Although each serving comes with just 3 meatballs, it's actually enough to satisfy your craving of meatballs & keep you happy. The meatballs were flavorful & juicy, & it actually went well with the fresh pesto.
The Three Stooges (Beef RM15.00/ Chicken RM14.00/ Mushrooms RM16.00 per serving)
Three balls served separately in brioche buns with lettuce & tomatoes, three different sauces: mushroom gravy/ fresh pesto/ classic tomato/ cheesy cream
If you're a fan of meatballs & love variety, go for this dish! You'll get to try all 3 types of meatballs with 3 different combinations of sauce, served in mini brioche buns! Christmas is coming & this looks like the perfect treat for yourself this season :D
Three Musketeers (Beef RM20.00/ Chicken RM18.00/ Mushrooms RM22.00 per serving)
Three balls served on top of a toasted roll with caramelized onions, crispy eggplant, a splash of sauce & simple selection of greens
Mushroom balls + deep-fried eggplant slices + cheesy cream sauce served on a bun! It's actually quite nice, but the mushroom balls had a bit too much bread crumbs that I couldn't really taste & feel the texture of the mushrooms. We gave the feedback to Egbert already, so I'm very sure that they've improved on their mushroom balls since our 1st visit!
Beef Meatballs + Mashed Potatoes + Classic Tomato Sauce + Parmesan Cheese (RM15.00/serving)
This is really classic. You can't go wrong with such combination ;)
Chicken Meatballs + Pasta + Mushroom Sauce + Parmesan Cheese (RM13.00/serving)
This is your typical, homey, comfort meal. I think they could improve on their mushroom sauce. The meatballs are the star of the dish as always.
Mushroom Balls + Mashed Potatoes + Mushroom Sauce + Crispy Crunch (Beef Bacon (RM16.00/serving)
This is my pick for comfort food craving as a mushroom-lover: mushroom balls + potatoes + crispy beef bacon! *drools*
Mushroom Balls + Mashed Potatoes + Cheesy Cream + Parmesan Cheese (RM16.00/serving)
I call this combination the ultimate cheesy combo! Hats off to Sheepz for ordering such a cheesy combination! He must be craving for cheese like crazy...hahaha...he was "stuffed" by the time he finished the whole plate of mushrooms balls & mashed potatoes.
This festive season, why not try something new in town by popping by Polpetta to fill-up your own meatball canvas? They're constantly improving & introducing new items to their menu, so do give this place a try!
Polpetta Cafe
B-G-26 & 27, Jalan Kenanga
10 Boulevard, Kayu Ara
47400 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel: (+6016) 222 9908
Business hours: 11:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. daily
FB: https://www.facebook.com/polpettarevolution
Note: It's facing inside, not facing the Sprint highway.
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- Remember: This is a Ride, not a race!
- Wear a helmet and carry a patch kit, tire levers, a spare tube and a pump at all times.
- Know and obey all traffic signals, signs, markings, laws and regulations.
- Always ride predictably and in control. Ride in a straight line and consciously try to avoid excessive weaving back and forth. In most vehicle-bicycle accidents, motorists say they never saw the bicyclists or didn't see them in time to avoid the collision.
- Always use hand signals to indicate that you are going to make a right or left turn or are about to stop; motorists and cyclists need to know what you intend to do. If your hands aren't free as you slow or stop, call out "SLOWING" or "STOPPING." When stopping, pull to the right edge of the road. Move completely off the road to rest or make repairs.
- Cycle with traffic, never against it. When moving from one lane to another, always give way to traffic.
- Keep to the right of the road at all times and leave other Riders plenty of room to pass on your left. The exception to this rule occurs when preparing for a left turn or avoiding unsafe road conditions (potholes, construction, etc.).
- Call out "ON YOUR LEFT!" when passing at all times. Also, don't stop or slow down without letting other cyclists and drivers know your intentions in advance. Call out "STOPPING!" or "SLOWING!"
- Always stop at stop signs and look right, left, then right again before entering the road.
- Always make left turns from the appropriate left turn lane.
- Ride single file when cycling with a group. Do not ride side by side.
- Always be on the lookout for a person in the driver's seat of any parked car you may pass. Parked drivers are notorious for swinging their doors open suddenly or pulling out into traffic without checking for bicyclists.
- Drafting behind other cyclists can be dangerous and leaves very little room for error. These techniques should never be used in high traffic areas or on roads with frequent intersections.
If your bike fits you correctly and is adequately maintained, it should not contribute to injuries. Likewise, if you train wisely and consistently, and don't overdo it, you can prevent overtraining injuries. Stretching regularly will avert injuries caused by poor flexibility.
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Health issues from exposure occur most often when it's either hot or cool outside. Special attire, built of fabrics that vent perspiration and cool you, help to keep heat stroke at bay in hot weather. Here again, adequate intake of fluids is essential. Also, protecting your skin and eyes from overexposure to the sun is crucial when cycling during warmer months.
Make sure during your cooler weather training that your cycling attire keeps you warm and dry on the inside. Layering to keep warm is especially important for cycling, as it minimizes the effects of wind chill. The expense of the proper attire for cool weather cycling is well worth it.
Adequate intake of calories and fluids is essential for safe cycling. Eat before you are hungry and drink before you are thirsty. "Hitting the wall" occurs when you have completely depleted the glycogen stored in your muscles. Your body runs out of fuel. When this happens, disorientation, headaches, and loss of body and bike control set in. This can be a very serious situation. If it happens to you, get off your bike and start eating and drinking to replenish your fuel stores immediately.
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In nearly every sport, having and using the proper equipment adds to the enjoyment of the activity. Cycling is no exception. Moreover, having the right equipment when you ride increases your comfort tremendously. If you need a new bike or have questions about cycling gear, call the Ride office at [877] 699-BIKE [2453] and your Ride Guides can help.
The most important thing for The Ride is a good bicycle that runs well and fits you properly. Poor bicycle fit leads to enormous discomfort over long rides and can cause injuries in the knees, upper and lower back, neck and arms. It is definitely worth the time, effort and money to take your bike to a reputable bike shop for a proper fit. If your bike isn't the right size, there are parts that can be altered. If you're not sure, one of our Outfitters will be happy to help.
Once you know your bicycle fits you well, it's important to be certain that it is in good working order. Here again, it's worth it to maintain your bicycle so that it serves you well and doesn't break down during The Ride. If you haven't ridden it in a while, scrape the cobwebs off and take it to your local bike shop for a tune-up.
A good helmet is essential for all cyclists. All Riders are required to wear a helmet while on The Ride and all training rides prior to the event. Cyclists who don't wear helmets are roughly seven times more likely to suffer head injuries in a crash, and a cyclist who sustains a head injury is 20 times more likely to die than a cyclist who suffers other injuries. Helmets are mandatory on The Ride.
Choose a helmet that fits securely on your head, is well ventilated and is certified. All Ride participants must wear a certified bicycle helmet.
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Georgia Teens Raise Money to Hold High School's First Integrated Prom Ever: 'Yeah It's Kind of Embarrassing'
Ironically, it was just after the high school in Wilcox County, Georgia, became integrated thirty years ago that the school held its first segregated proms.
"It's embarrassing to know that I'm from the county that still does this," Wilcox County High School student Keela Bloodworth told 41NBC.
Bloodworth, a white student, and three of her friends — two of them black — have launched an effort to hold the school's first ever integrated prom, but the task is proving more difficult than one might expect in 2013.
"I actually put up posters for the integrated prom and we've had people ripping them down at the school," Bloodworth told CBS Atlanta.
Both the separate black and white proms and the separate black and white homecoming dances are privately funded by parents and students, so Bloodworth and her friends have been forced to try and raise the money themselves.
While the school has no official stance on the matter, it did decide that there should be only one homecoming king and queen this year.
But it was an empty gesture: The white king and black queen were not allowed to take joint photographs for the yearbook, and neither is allowed to attend the other's prom.
"I think it's more of the personal opinions of those involved," City Councilman Wayne McGuinty told Fox24. "I don't think there is an effort made to keep black kids out of the white prom and to keep white kids out of the black prom."
Actually, there is.
When a biracial student attempted to enter the white prom just last year, police were called to turn them away.
McGuinty, meanwhile, fondly reflected on his high school days, when the school had three proms instead of two.
"They couldn't agree if they wanted a live band or a DJ, so there were two white proms that year," he said.


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Allah says in The Qur'ān, "And, don't allow your Hatred, against any People, prevent you from behaving justly.".(Noble-Qur'ān: Chpt.8, V.5)
Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said that Allah said, "Oh, My Servants!!! Verily, I've made Oppressed Forbidden even upon Myself, as well as between you. So, do not oppress one another.".(an-Nawawī)
In light of so many Events around our Planet, detailing the constant & consistent Oppression of People, whom are Desperate to be heard, to be listened to, to be helped-Sadly, much like the Carnage which took place during the infamous Rwanda-Conflict, in 1994, C.E., there's seems to be absolutely zero Change, in terms of how the International-Community chooses to respond to Conflicts which yield levels of Destruction which can't be defined in any ways other than: Inhumane, Genocidal, etc. And, you'd think that the World would've learned from the Errors of Rwanda, as the Nations of our World just stood by and made us watch in agony while they did nothing, as nearly a Million Human-Beings, along with countless other Thousands were: tortured, maimed, raped, murdered, starved-out all in the name of Power & Domination over the Other.(For more Information concerning International-Genocide: http://www.genocidewatch.com)
Ever since the 1990's, C.E.: there've several Nations which have become war-torn, in which untold Millions of Human-Beings have become the subject of Theft, Rape, Murder, etc. With these blatant acts of Genocide being witness before our very eyes, we've stayed glued to our Social-Media tools of Communication & Observance, (TV, the News, the Internet, YouTube, etc.) to remain "Aware" of what's happening. However, unfortunately, that's largely all we've done as a Society is just sit-back and watch, as Multitudes of People just like us: Humans perpetually suffer unjustly. It's almost as though we've become so used to Carnage, that it's now just another form of Entertainment.
Also, it seems as though the "International-Community" conveniently waits for Conflicts to get at their worsts, before anything substantial is actually done, in order to significantly dispel Oppression around the World. For example: for those of us old enough to remember, the Conflict in Rwanda from beginning to ending was nothing short of the many things which were imposed upon Human-Beings during the Reign of the 3rd-Reich during the WWII-Era (1939-1945, C.E.). The World said "Never Again", pertaining to the World's-Nations sitting on the Sidelines as the International "Bullies of da Block" push People around. But, the World hasn't kept its Word, to maintain Justice for Oppressed-Peoples around the Globe.
Just like what occurred within Rwanda, there've been a string of International-Conflicts, either caused by Religious, Ethnic strife between Peoples of the same Nation or imposed upon them by Bullies whom profess to be the Defenders of Freedom…Justice…Equality.
Let's take a look at some examples of the Rwanda-Syndrome:
- Somalia
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Syria
- Libya
- Mali
- Sudan
- Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Burma/Myanmar
- Palestine/Israel
- Yemen
For Decades, Nations such as these have been torn apart by Conflict, both internally amongst themselves, as well as the Conflicts being catalyzed, arguably even promoted via Western-Colonization, Western-Influence, etc. Whatever the Reason doesn't really matter. What matters is the fact that these listed Nations have been struck with Conflicts which have completely either broken-down their entire Societies or has left Millions Dead, Maimed, Raped, Displaced/Homeless, Starving, Diseased, and yet there's been little to nothing done to concretely put an end to the Oppression the Innocents of these Countries are forced to face. Which comes back to my Point, regarding us being self-victimized by the Rwanda-Syndrome: as a Globally-Connected Society, one would think/assume that there'd greater Efforts by the International-Community to resolve such Conflicts. But, this is clearly yet to be seen.
My Question is this though: how many more People have to actually succumb to these types of Atrocities, before we actually get it, that these are Human-Beings who don't deserve to be treated like this?!!!
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Philadelphia alt-folk collective Espers are to play a handful of British dates in November in support of their long-player of earlier this year, II.
Like it's not obvious from the title, II is the band's second long-player; both are available through Wichita in the UK.
The band play the following dates...
19 Bristol Cube Cinema
20 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
21 Manchester Klondyke Club
22 London Luminaire
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I still don't understand how so many different countries can come flooding in within a matter of minutes. I don't know what triggers it. I know some may not understand English but can enjoy the photos. I hope. And some must have frustratingly slow Internet connections. But, hello worldly friends! Lots of love, light and Aloha to you and yours all the way from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Thanks for visiting! Hope to see you again...
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