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Yes TNT, insulation poses lots of issues, from asbestos fibers on early insulators to trapped debris which harbors bacteria, allergens and mold, all detrimental to human health.
Also many roof insulations techniques trap dust and debris, to become a fire hazard in itself, even though the fiberglass or wool insulation itself is reasonably fire resistant.
Such is one of many hazards humans have created for themselves.
Sadly, I am VERY familiar with super bugs. MRSA in particular. A major reason for these super bacteria is the overuse, as a food additive, in raising factory farmed animals. The conditions in these massive concentration camps is so filthy, the air so rich with ammonia fumes and the stench of feces, and the crowding so extreme, that these animals require constant antibiotics. The drugs also speed growth.
Then, a careless attitude toward cleanliness and hand washing, filthy hospital room walls, the curtains around each bed, and medical instruments, like blood pressure cuffs and stethescopes, all contribute. The hospitals have policies in place to reduce their liabililty in deaths resulting from their active transmission of these bugs. They test entering patients, to prove they already were infected. They NEVER test patients leaving the hospital. Why? Because, that would show they caught the infections while in the hospital.
Oh, I forgot. It is because of our over-population that we raise animals in this unhealthy, unethical way.
Which is why I got irritated when a certain person came around with their high and mighty talk of purpose is to "do good", when the definition of "good" is so entirely subjective. And what is "good" for the few is deleterious for so many.
TNT666 - you are so wonderful. Thanks very much. I agree that good is subjective. In fact there could be a discussion on exactly what the meaning of "good" is. Many thanks for your intelligent responses. Appreciate it.
Thank you GOD'aye for your thoughtful responses here. I agree about antibiotics being overused.
When tackling a question such as "What is the meaning to life?", it would do us well to understand what exactly we mean by purpose, for every word has multiple meanings in all its different contexts. A person may or may not be cognitive of the distinctions between the ideas referred to by this word, so any position must clarify its terms to enhance comprehensibility. There are 2 dichotomies which I will be focusing on:
Next, I will briefly explain the different ways in which purpose may be used.
So to answer the question: Can our lives have purpose(A/B)? Absolutely. But can our lives have purpose(C)? This is a distinction of paramount importance. One must realize the extent and confines of their conclusion, for if they have worked out a problem using some limited conception of purpose, and then adapt it to encompass and breathe life into a purpose that exists in itself, then he has just committed a semantic shift fallacy perhaps even without his knowledge. On paper it may all appear the same, but someone proclaiming to have found purpose must have some conception of what that "purpose" is, and that conception makes all the difference. Some people tend to drop their intellectual guard after some time, perhaps weary of being unable to grasp what they seek, that they start to confuse purpose(A) or purpose(B) for purpose(C). They may even be satisfied in their abilities to choose some worthy goal to live their lives for, or consciously work towards being a model citizen in some arbitrarily chosen system to follow. I risk controversy for saying what I'm about to say, but it is not wrong to do either, even whether that system be a system of God or some system of naturalism drawn from scientific principles such as Evolution as inspiration (such as a system backed by Christopher Hitchens). Neither are wrong. But I do believe in intellectual honesty -- as long as a person recognizes and accepts that his purpose is either purpose(A) or purpose(B), but not purpose(C), and be honest and forthcoming about that revelation, then I should also accept that in the face of overwhelming unknowns and absurdities it becomes necessary to adopt a "purpose", whatever it may be, or face eternal stagnation wrestling with a spectral problem that may as well be epistemically impossible to solve.
Many thanks Jonathan. What a wonderful piece of writing. Very well written.
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Jonathan Chang's response gets to the heart of the problem. Certainly, I can have a purpose in the sense that I can make myself useful participating in the community, contributing to knowledge, raising and caring for my family, etc. But can I have a transcendental 'purpose in itself'? I am not so sure.
When I was a Christian, my ultimate 'purpose in itself' was to get home to heaven. (Truly a terrible, selfish motivation for doing good things.) But I never really considered the logical progression: What would my purpose become once I got there? What happened once my body and soul were transported into utopian space? What purpose COULD they serve in a place that is by definition free of all problems and suffering? My priest would have told me my purpose in heaven was to glorify God, but that seems awfully narcissistic on his part.
It seems to me that even the religious lack a Kantian Purpose with a capital 'P,' perhaps even more so than some humanists.
For my part, I have never heard a better answer to this conundrum than this verse:
"Look at the flowers, so faithful to what is earthly
to whom we lend fate from the very border of fate
and if they are sad at all about the fact that they must whither and die
perhaps it is our vocation to be their regret." (Rilke)
Flowers have a biological purpose, absolutely. A narrative purpose, briefly, if we impose one on them. And an ultimate Purpose, unlikely.
I doubt we humans are so terribly different.
The closest thing to an ultimate, sacred purpose we have is tucked into the last line, and it is, in fact, not a sacred purpose but a poetic one: Perhaps it is our vocation to practice and extend our human consciousness.
"Perhaps it is our vocation to be their regret."
Everything ends. Great empires fall, no matter how many lives where lived for them. The mark we make in the world fades, be it memory or monument. The world we create will be reformed and our planet will die with our star.
I understand how this depresses people, but I find it liberating.
No cause or country can claim to truly matter; none have claim to your life but you. If everthing is irrelevant what you choose to do with your life is as good as any choice. You need not strive or achieve anything unless you're doing it for you, because you deem it worthy.
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State of the (Fast Food) Nation
Post-Vermont, Eric Schlosser dishes on trends in American eating
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Eric Schlosser is the man who told Americans exactly what lies between their hamburger buns. His best-selling expos of the cheap-eats industry, Fast Food Nation, laid bare the sordid history and grotesque inner workings of factory farms, slaughterhouses and restaurants such as McDonald's and Burger King.
Since he published Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, in 2001, Schlosser has advocated for sustainable food raised and processed without human-rights abuses; he also promotes healthier options and nutritional education in schools.
A couple of weeks ago, Senator Bernie Sanders invited Schlosser to Burlington to participate in a "town meeting" discussion about sustainable agriculture. Schlosser blew the crowd away with his impassioned views on the nation's tangled food chain. Panelists, including State Rep and organic farmer David Zuckerman and Allen Matthews, farm enterprise coordinator at the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture, also weighed in.
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SEVEN DAYS: How did you end up working with Senator Sanders on bettering wages for exploited Florida tomato workers?
ERIC SCHLOSSER: It was really an incredible experience for me. I wrote an op-ed for The New York Times on the issue, and I was contacted by Senator Sanders' office . . . He wanted to see [the conditions] for himself. I said I'd meet him down there and show him around.
I was impressed that he did go down there to see for himself and also that he showed up without any aides or press people, and he did the work: He stayed at the home of one of the local coalition members. He got up at the crack of dawn to see how the workers were chosen. He was powerfully affected by what he saw and was determined to do something about this. And he carried through on his promise. Some of the poorest workers in the U.S. are going to get a pay raise from this.
SD: During the town meeting, you brought up the idea of interconnectedness among consumers, food manufacturers and growers, and the employees of those companies. But it seems to me that many Americans take the position: "What I put in my body is none of your business." Do you think it's unethical to eat without social consciousness?
ES: You know, I'm not pure, and I don't expect anyone else to be pure, either. But I think it's important to have a social consciousness, to be aware. It's good to think about the larger implications of all your behavior. For the past few decades, selfishness has been widely celebrated in the mainstream culture. We could all use a little more compassion.
SD: Given that Vermont has a challenging climate, is it wise to try growing everything locally? Would it be better to learn how to grow crops like persimmons and rice here by modifying the land and using season extension techniques and technology, or should we keep on purchasing rice grown in another part of the country? Or should we give up eating rice because it doesn't grow here?
ES: Again, it's a question of how pure you aim to be. The perfect shouldn't become the enemy of the good. If people in Vermont want to drink coffee, they're going to have to import it. The same is true for lovers of maple syrup in California (like myself). Some commodities are always going to be shipped long distances. But the goal of local self-sufficiency is well worth pursuing, even if it's never fully achieved.
SD: Since you left, I heard a rumor that Burlington's Intervale may be shut down, because of conflicts between its designation as a historic site and a flood plain and its use as farmland. Given that you and other folks have been lauding Burlington as being "way ahead of its time" when it comes to sustainable food production, what are your thoughts on this news?
ES: Shutting down the Intervale would be a huge mistake. There has to be a way to balance the area's archaeological importance with its importance as a model of enlightened urban agriculture.
SD: Even though conventional food costs are rising, and Vermonters have an increasing number of places to purchase organic, local foods, there's still a price gap between the two. What are the next steps toward making healthy, ethical foods available to everybody?
ES: We need agricultural policies at the national level that end the subsidies for unhealthy food and that make good food much less expensive. Low-income families shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford to eat well. We have an overabundance of food in this country and a system that encourages mass consumption of the wrong foods.
SD: You mentioned that the "organic" label doesn't provide any information about how workers are treated. What's the solution? A new label along the lines of "Fair Trade," or a greater reliance on local foods so that a consumer can actually check out a farmer's practices for herself? Other ideas?
ES: The more information that people get about their food, the better. Labeling can provide it, as can a greater emphasis on local foods. I am a big supporter of labels like "Fair Trade" that go far beyond organic.
SD: If you were asked to explain your ethical food purchasing hierarchy, what would it look like?
ES: People, animals, land, in that order. There's no reason we can't have an agricultural system that treats all three with respect.
SD: One of the questioners at the town meeting opined that it doesn't take a lot of education to choose healthy foods, and that most people would do it if it was affordable. I'm not sure that's true, in part because Americans' tastebuds have been suckered by food manufacturers into preferring fake flavors, like "cheeze," to wholesome ones. Plus, certain inexpensive, healthy foods, such as rice and beans, are viewed as boring. What do you think?
ES: There's a direct correlation between how much education you have and how likely you are to become obese. Many billions of dollars are spent each year to persuade people to buy what's cheap and easy and tastes good in the moment. If an equivalent amount were spent every year educating people about our food system and its consequences, the Chicken McNugget would become an endangered species.
SD: Many folks around here hold that Vermonters should "buy local," yet don't want people from out of state to stop buying Vermont products. Hypocritical?
ES: It depends what you're exporting. Vermont strawberries to Japan? That would be a bad idea. Vermont maple syrup to the rest of the United States? Absolutely essential.
SD: There's some tension between the folks who think smaller farms and food operations should be less strictly regulated to give them a greater chance of financial success and those who think all food sources should be heavily regulated in an attempt to eradicate food-borne illnesses. What do you think?
ES: It depends what you mean by regulation. Most of the federal food safety rules are process-oriented. They are mainly concerned with how you do things. They favor large-scale, industrial operations. And for the most part, they ignore the actual threat posed by what's for sale. I think our food-safety policies should be based on routine testing for dangerous pathogens. Judged by that sort of measure, the small producers will do just fine. Our small meat-packing plants have much lower levels of contamination than the really big ones. Big or small, however, nobody should be allowed to sell tainted food.
SD: I read an interview from 2002 in which you posited that most Americans didn't have a clue about where their food was coming from, or about the abuses inherent in the system. Do you think the American public is better informed in 2008?
ES: I think some of the public is much better informed . . . A lot of people are changing what they eat and where they buy it, but in my opinion it's too confined to the educated, the middle class and the upper class. The danger is we're splitting even further into a society where there's one class who are eating really well and getting fit, and another group who can't afford to eat that way and don't have access to health care. If you're upper middle class and you're getting obese, your doctor tells you that you have to make a change; you can go to the gym . . . There needs to be much more in the mass media about this, and there needs to be much more at the federal level and at the state level.
SD: So is it too late for some people? What can we improve?
ES: It's never too late for anyone. Statistically, though, if you're obese by the age of 13, the odds are overwhelming you'll be obese as an adult. If you're already obese, it's harder to make the change. But that doesn't mean any one individual can't change.
That's why so much of my own activism has focused on children and trying to prevent kids from becoming obese, both by working with schools and by putting limits on what these companies can market to kids.
SD: You've said that you're not a gourmet guy, and that you enjoy basic American food. But on the flip side, you know more about the ills of the industrial food complex than most. So I'm curious: What does a typical meal look like in your household?
ES: You know, it really varies. Whenever possible, we buy local and organic. We don't buy any meat from the industrial system, ever. A typical meal would not be a hamburger and French fries, but it also wouldn't be quinoa and a vegetarian casserole. The best way to describe the diet would be Mediterranean.


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Report: Health spending (increases) drops – againI don't know what else to say, other than "wow": Health care spending increases have been held under 4 percent for the fifth straight year, according to the latest study published today in October issue of Health Affairs. Like I said last year in my blog, this has never been done before. But this may be the end of the sub-4 percent growth. The Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services projects 5.8 percent annual growth from 2014 to 2022. This is 1 percentage point higher than projected GDP. This spending growth (6.1 percent in 2014) will be due to more people accessing health insurance coverage, and more medical services, starting in 2014, a growing economy and an aging population, the actuary says. Even that increase, however, is still below historic spending increases of 7.4 percent per year from 1990 to 2006. "The use of medical services and goods, especially prescription drugs and physician and clinical services, among the newly insured is expected to contribute significantly to spending increases in Medicaid (12.2 percent) and private health insurance (7.7 percent)," the report said. However, "Out-of-pocket spending is projected to decline 1.5 percent in 2014 due to the new coverage and lower cost sharing for those with improved coverage." For Medicare in 2013, spending is projected to grow 4.2 percent, down from 4.6 percent in 2012, because of the 2 percent reduction in Medicare provider payments mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011, also know as sequestration. My take is that nobody predicted health care spending would decline under 4 percent, much less for five straight years. I believe these estimates of higher spending growth, averaging 5.8 percent, over the next 10 years, will prove to be on the high side. They were wrong before and they could be wrong again. Why? Hospital and physician executives, providers of all stripes, even health insurers, realize the financial profit pie is not unlimited anymore. Nobody in the health care industry wants a single payer system, so the industry will continue to lower prices and increase quality to avoid that day. Still, that 5.8 percent spending growth is a lot lower than 7.4 percent.
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Today's Sunday Telegraph (17/4/05) has a half page feature on BAS recruitment. It appears that they are trying to positively discriminate in favour of female recruits. To quote a BAS spokeswoman, Athena Dinar; "The recruitment campaign is open to men and women, but this year we are particularly looking to target women", "[BAS] is looking for 5 electricians, 4 carpenters, 5 plumbers, 2 helmsmen/women and 5 steelworkers aged between 18 and 60.". The report goes on to report comments by Caroline Lewis who manages support staff. Caroline was at Halley for 4 months in 2002 and again in 2004. She seems to think that women have a civilising effect there. She goes on to add " It is thanks to [women] that on Saturday evenings in the research stations, supper is served on white tablecloths and with wine." Now my time down south was long before the first women recruits wintered on bases but we still managed to conduct ourselves in a similar very civilised manner all by ourselves. On both bases I was at, Saturday evening meals were invariably a more formal event for which we always dressed up in out smart clothes. We also had wine with the meal and finished with liqueurs. I will concede the point about tablecloths, we only went that far (+ napkins) at Christmas and Midwinter. After the meal we would all sit down together to watch the evening's entertainment - a cine projection of documentaries or once a month, a current cinema release. Mrs Lewis thinks women will reduce loutish behaviour on bases, but has there ever very much of that? In two seasons, I can only recall two instances of scradge fights that come anywhere close to being called loutish. The question of whether BAS would ever overwinter female recruits was often discussed on base but the only data we had on which to base our suppositions was the alleged scandal of 1947 which led us to think it would be a bad idea. We could also see that back in the UK social changes would inevitably lead to female recruits. That happened in 1989 but I don't know if that has led to more problems on base or fewer. Maybe someone with more recent experience can enlighten me.
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The positive discrimination part is understandable I guess, but like you Keith, I'm a bit puzzled by the "civilising effect" and also by the Saturday night meals.
On Signy in the mid 80's every Saturday was as formal a meal as we could manage. The gashman for the day would act as waiter for every-one else and lob the wine for the evening. We didn't use white tablecloths as freshwater was in short supply and unless they were thrown away, it would be wasteful to use them. Loutish behaviour? Well blokes together behave differently to when there are women about. My last summer on Signy 86-87 was the first time BAS had sent women down South, a token one turned up on base from first call I think and then there were another two who overwintered (87) - but I never met them as I left mid-season. Did behaviour change? not that I recall - less swearing when females were about, but that happens anywhere, and of course women introduce other tensions that were not there before. I just wonder if Mrs. Lewis's stay at Halley wasn't coloured by the fact she was there immediately after the winter and the culture shock that it brings to the winterers. Maybe times have changed with British culture becoming more "laddish" and that has been taken South with recent recruits, but I don't know. But whatever other arguments for more women being specifically recruited there are, the behaviour modification one is certainly interesting and as puzzling to me as it is to Keith. |
No, women definitely don't make this place more civilised....
Was it not just this last saturday night when I saw the female doctor and a female metbabe wrestling ?? And was a chair not broken ?? (accidently I'm sure!!!) I think the type of women who winter down here aren't your stereotypical girly girls. So come on girls, raise those drums, dig that melt tank, I need to go and wash off my facial scrub. |
Well I'm a woman wintering in Antarctica at the moment and don't agree that women make the base more civilised. That's a sexist comment in itself. (That chair was obviously dangerous and at least I broke it in a safe manor). The fact is that everyone is different and assuming someone's character based on their sex alone is a mistake that people make quite often. I'm also not sure why this sort of excuse needs to be made to justify an employment drive.
What BAS need to do is to is to shed the ?old boys club, Talley ho? image and start recruiting from all walks of life. So any employment drive is good for BAS, since it advertises that these jobs exist and that you don?t have to be a scientist smoking on his pipe to come here. Oi and Craig, the freebees from the Comso are mine? I clearly need them more than you do. |
Hi Craigy and franck and welcome to the board.
It's particularly good to get people posting who are down South at the moment. Also good to hear that Cosmo is still provided! I imagine the women recruits is some tick-box thing from NERC or government target of x% by 2007 or something similar. What's the balance of male / female on Halley at the moment. Oh, also, how are you taking the news of Halley VI? It's been quite prominent on the news here (well it is summer). |
Yes, Cosmo is well fought over at the beginning of each month since the only other magazines we seem to be recieving this year are photography mags... all well and good, but not that interesting to read.
This year 4 out of 16 Halley fids are girls... but next year the VLF job is being dropped so they'll be only 15 wintering and we're looking at 6 girls. A record for Halley so far: a Doctor, 2 MetBabes, a Chef, an Electronic Engineer and a Chippy!!! So the bathroom will be very full :sad: but I'm getting some face packs and chick flicks sent in, so lots of fun to be had. :grin: As for Halley VI, it's all very interesting, but none of us will ever see it, and only two of us will be around in the 06/07 summer to see any building going on (?) On another note, my dad managed to get a letter in the Times - on the 18/07 I think... about me not being able to read the new Harry Potter until the post comes in ... much more interesting press!! |
i am glad to hear that Cosmo is still sent south. the scratch and sniff were always prized when the new lot of mags came out.... are the girls still using the small single shower, loo in the main platform or has it been enlaged??? in my time at Z5, no women winterintg, this loo was used as the smokers den as it was the only room with an extractor fan... getting it cleaned up ready for the summer was a majour job for the smokers.
Wintered at Rothera 92,93. And wintered at Halley 94. Now live and work Turkey looking after privat yachts. |
Good to hear from an ex-winterer (I'll look you up on the dinning room wall photos at lunch).
Yes, we've still got a little bathroom!!! The toilet has a lockable cubicle, the shower's next to that, there's one sink, a half-step I keep on falling down and a couple of shelves full of the bases Tampon mountain -it's not like BAS to over order some things and under order others is it??? (we have a definite risk of running out of tea again before the winter's out, which would be disastrous). So it does four wintering girls (we never lock the room, and just use it as a communal bathroom), but gets a little busy on a pre-dinner Saturday evening. I think the smoker?s toilet you're talking about (I could be wrong) are the South Toilets. I know they used to be used for smoking in. But there's no smoking on the platform now, I just passed our chippy having a fag out in a 40knot blow on my way to the Simpson this morning. One guy?s given up smoking all together. I avoid the south toilets at all costs since there was a plumbing disaster last year and I don't think the smell has ever gone away. If you're interested the WBC here's put a plan of the base on his weblog http://simonc.f2o.org/south/archives/000110.php and gives a general idea of what we're up to. |
hi. that was a quick reply. no it was not the south loo but the one you are all using now. interesting topic.... I am nearly the exact oposit temp wise 33 deg to day,I am now based in Turkey. Make the most of the experiance down south. It changed my life and the friends I made during my time with BAS are some of my best. thanks for the link to your WBC's page. I like to keep an eye on how things are going down south. Halley 6 even made it on to the BBC world service so you are being talked about at the moment. The internet access I am sure has made a big impact. Have a good remander of your winter.
Wintered at Rothera 92,93. And wintered at Halley 94. Now live and work Turkey looking after privat yachts. |
hiya craigy,francis
I'm with craig on this one. I think everyone down there knows my opinion on this one.The more women involved on the base the more tension in the air.I for one would like to see it back to the old days,men only.it is my opinion only .No dis respect to the women there or venturing forth in the future. In this day of sexual "freedom"us blokes still have to be carefull in what we say or do and in a confined environment like halley this can and do get heated.We don't give it a second thought but we MAY upset the females. Yeah yeah chauvinist pig,but space is limited down there and to have separate facilities for the two sexes(and craigy)is pushing the space. Sorry if i upset people ,but if you need a better explanation please mail me. ash |
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For those of us invested in the world of youth and their development, Michel Gondry's latest film, The We and the I—which will screen this Wednesday at 7pm at the American Theater in the Bronx—may have a special resonance. A welcome, refreshing change to the often monochromatic and monocultural New York City seen in film and on TV, The We and the I showcases South Bronx teens of color, including queer youth. Gondry was inspired by the experience of entering a Paris subway car and being surrounded by the irrespressible and complex world around him. It is precisely this moment that opens the film, as several teens board the fictional BX66 bus. And while the movie isn't technically a documentary, Gondry and his young collaborators have still captured something that feels essentially fresh and real.
The We and the I had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last May, as part of the Directors Fortnight program. Like Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, the Speed movies and Ang Lee's The Life of Pi, Gondry's film deploys the trope of forced coexistence: A group of people are brought together by time and circumstance and then embark on a literal and figurative voyage together. In this instance, the microcosm is youth-controlled and Metropolitan Transit Authority–fueled; the film chronicles teens and other passengers traveling through the South Bronx as afternoon becomes evening on the last day of school.
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Although The We and the I touches on a range of pressing youth issues, it's no "social problem" film. It doesn't bracket its story with alarming statistics but instead concludes with the personal: As the end credits roll, we hear a touching, funny letter read by the mother of one of the teen performers to Gondry—a communication from caregiver to director. For those of us attuned to teens' creative development, it's gratifying to see the straightforward portrayal of their demonstrated interests, whether digital-media production, manga, music or car-racing. One of my favorite moments in the film shows a trio of young women bounding off the bus toward a nondescript building. Although we don't follow them inside, their purposeful stride and the sign outside their destination—"Art Farm"— provide the necessary clues about what awaits them: people to welcome them and encourage their budding interests.
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Thanked profusely in the credits but never named in the film, THE POINT, a youth-development, arts and culture, and community advocacy group serving the Hunts Point area in the South Bronx, is the real-life organization that centers The We and the I. The movie is the result of an extensive collaboration between Gondry, Partizan Entertainment and the educators, artists, activists and youth-development experts who are the lifeblood of THE POINT. (See The We and the I THE POINT'S Point of View for more details) It is this organization's extended network that helped fuel the film's production and perhaps explains the grounded sensibility that defines The We and the I. Based on the teens' experiences, the film was workshopped at THE POINT, a process that was mediated by the group's creative and therapeutic professionals. This joint project between Gondry and THE POINT typifies the organization's drive not only to make meaningful change in Hunts Point but also to transform how outsiders understand life there. As Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, THE POINT's executive director tells me when we discuss the film, "Nine times out of ten, when Hollywood comes to the Bronx, we don't see our lives reflected anywhere."
Depending on your approach, as you enter THE POINT, you may pass a mural in celebration of a multitasking Ganesh, kids maintaining an herb garden, an auto-parts-shop factory, black-and-white photographs sparkling with the glow of actual film and emulsion, or a subway car graffitied by the world-renowned Tats Cru. Inside the building, each nook and cranny houses its own small enterprise, community project or service, such as Blank Plate Culinary Arts and Design Classes, the young women's empowerment group, Where Our Minds Empower Needs (WOMEN), Open Hydrant Theater Company, Society for Aquaponic Values and Education and many others.
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On my recent trip to THE POINT, it's noon on Saturday; I had just seen The We and the I at the IFC Center the night before. Open Hydrant is doing a script reading at a table in the atrium. A few doors are open, but many of the warrens that make up the space are sparsely inhabited. As I head up to the Teen Loft, though, it's a different story: I see that educators and kids from Global Action Project (GAP), a youth-development organization that focuses on using media analysis and production to address social-justice issues, have joined the teens from THE POINT's Activists Coming to Inform Our Neighborhood (ACTION) grou[ for a Hive Digital Media and Learning Fund–sponsored workshop entitled, "Making Media, Shaping History."
Together, they are an impressive group, comprising youth who have made real change in their communities and travelled widely sharing skills and knowledge. But now they are eating pizza and breaking the ice by kidding around; later they'll break into a game of Ninja. It's great to see a couple of familiar faces from The We and the I, the two actors in the film who are still in high school. This is also one of those great Hive NYC moments when you see in action some of the core beliefs that bring our learning network together.
Essentially, what I saw that afternoon was just some of the real story behind Gondry's fictional film: THE POINT's free workshops and its focus on leadership, social change, creativity and college and career readiness. As Terry-Sepulveda emphasizes, "We work with a youth-centered model. Every issue you see in the film is something that THE POINT addresses on a regular, sustainable basis."
The We and the I is being screened on Wednesday, April 17, at 7pm at the American Theater in the Bronx. After the screening, actors from the film and educators from THE POINT will be present to discuss their role and their objectives in working with Gondry. Tickets are $9 per person and can be purchased online. For additional information, please call THE POINT: 718.542.4139


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Overnight flight to Vientiane. Hotel - 1 night (D)
Vang Vieng
Take a short public bus journey to Vang Vieng (approx 4 hrs).Situated on the Nam Song River, Vang Vieng offers limestone karst scenery, local markets and riverside walks.Explore nearby limestone cliffs and caverns, many associated with well known local legends, walk along the river bank or simply sit back and soak up peaceful river scenes of local pole boats and fishermen going about their work. Hotel - 2 nights
Luang Prabang
Drive to Luang Prabang (approx 6-7 hrs).
The atmospheric World Heritage-listed city of Luang Prabang is a favourite of many. Nestled in the hills of northern Laos on the confluence of the Mekong and Khan rivers, it's studded with ornate temples and French colonial architecture.Follow dusty tracks along the river to find villages full of friendly children, dogs and chickens. Vientiane's vibrant, colourful morning market (which incidentally is open all day!) is full of local treasures. A great way to round off the day is to enjoy a spectacular sunset over the Mekong.Head out to the beautiful Kuang Si Falls, where pale turquoise waters cascade over limestone formations. The lovely pool at the base of the falls is perfect for a refreshing afternoon dip.Enjoy a guided tour around the Traditional Art & Ethnology centre - a non-profit museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of its traditional arts and lifestyles. Guesthouse - 3 nights
Tat Lo/Bolaven Plateau
Catch a short flight to the sleepy southern town of Pakse, at the base of the Bolaven Plateau.
Take a moderate trek on to the Plateau (approx 2 hrs) - an area of picturesque coffee plantations and home to a wide variety of ethnic groups with diverse cultures and beliefs. Palm-thatched houses dot the landscape and buffaloes graze next to small vegetable plots, providing ample photo opportunities. Take time here to explore local villages for an insight into tribal culture - many Alak and Katu tribespeople inhabit this region, and fascinating customs such as facial tattoos and buffalo sacrifice are still practised here. There are also many beautiful waterfalls nearby, such as Tat Fan, and plenty of wildlife such as hornbills, monkeys and butterflies may be seen in the thick forests surrounding these cascading waters. Hotel - 2 nights
Don Khong
Today after catching a boat to the Island of Don khong you will have free time to explore. Why not hire a bicycle of head out on another boat trip and explore this fabulous region. That evening you will then stay at a village where the locals adhere to a very traditional lifestyle. Homestay - 1 night (D)
Continuing further south, cross the border into Cambodia and journey by bus to Stung Treng, a real outpost town.
Stop for lunch at Mekong Blue, a silk weaving centre which provides jobs for women in the Stung Treng province. See the process of silk production from Mulberry tree to finished product and enjoy tasty Khmer food in the pretty surroundings.Kratie is a picturesque town on the banks of the Mekong. Until recently Kratie was a strategic trading port on the river between Phnom Penh and Stung Treng. Both the French and Khmer Rouge found the town useful and there are a number of French colonial buildings that remain.Board a local barge from Kratie waterfront to the Island of Koh Trong for our Cambodian homestay. Once arriving on the island there is the opportunity to cycle (by local bicycle) or pony cart a circuit around the island. Hotel - 1 night (B)
Phnom Penh
Get ready for a long day on the bus to Phnom Penh. En route, we pass through Skuon (a small town famous for its tasty spiders), where it's possible to sample an eight-legged snack. It's recommended that you eat these furry arachnids as you would a crab, by cracking the body open and pulling the legs off one by one - delicious!
Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, is set on a major junction of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers and boasts some fine examples of French-inspired architecture.Confront Cambodia's tragic past on a guided tour of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a former school which served as a Khmer Rouge torture centre. It's estimated that more than 20,000 people were held and tortured here.Head out to the Choeung Ek Memorial, where a stupa made up of some 8,000 human skulls marks the site of the infamous Killing Fields. This was the execution ground for the torture victims of Tuol Sleng and standing in this peaceful setting it's almost unthinkable to imagine that to date nearly 9000 corpses have been exhumed from the area.Learn about a brighter period in Cambodian history with a visit to the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda.Stroll along the famous Sisowath Quay and enjoy a coffee or cocktail at one of the many cafes while observing the busy river traffic. Hotel - 2 nights (Bx1)
Siem Reap & Angkor Wat
Take a bus to Siem Reap.
The small but expanding town of Siem Reap is the gateway to Angkor. It's markets are a great place to shop or to try some cheap, delicious street food.Temple-hop with our local guide to make the most of our visit to the world-famous Angkor complex. These temples were built between the 9th and 13th centuries when the Khmer empire was the pre-eminent influence in South-East Asia. The temples were believed to represent the cosmic world and were set in perfect balance, symmetry and composition. The intricately carved bas-reliefs and architectural designs are mind-blowing and there are spectacular photographic opportunities at any time of day - watching a sunrise or sunset is a must. The ruins are scattered over an area of some 160 sq km, but the main cluster of temples is close to Siem Reap so we'll have plenty of time to fully appreciate the great archaeological sites of Angkor Wat, the Bayon and the jungle-covered Ta Prohm. Hotel - 3 nights (Bx3)
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Flight to Oshkosh 2012Oshkosh has become a bit of a regular pilgrimage, and this year seemed like a good time to get there under our own steam.
So sometime on Sunday or Monday three aircraft (Baron, TB20 and C182) will leave Southern England for KOSH via Iceland, Greenland and Canada. Between the three aircraft and six pilots there's been a fair bit of work done getting ready for the trip (insurance, visas, medicals, licenses etc. etc.), and even today, a couple of days before departure there are still a few lose ends to get sorted. We'll update this thread as we go with pics, comments, maps and if we can get it working properly a SPOT tracker page. For now, the only picture is from last night's work on the remaining ToDo list. If I can remember how to make this work, this should be the URL for the SPOT tracker, it may well show my drive to work today though:-) SPOT CONNECT Ian The dirt is full of people who wanted bragging rights
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The Grand Hotel Aminta is in a commanding position above Sorrento with magnificent views across the Bay of Naples. We are a four-star hotel, and have been since our opening.
A Hotel di Charme in Sorrento, the Hotel Aminta is one of the most beautiful, fully-equipped, historic hotel buildings in Sorrento, typical of the Neapolitan Riviera.
The Grand Hotel Aminta welcomes the Giro d'Italia in Sorrento. Eddy Merckx team stayed at the Aminta in 1974, the same year that Merckx won the Giro.
Another beautiful day in Sorrento, it's warm and the sun is shining! Check out the beautiful scenery of the Gulf of Naples through our webcams!
The Aminta Staff had the privilege to serve Pope John Paul II during his first visit in Pompeii. We are proud and overjoyed of the election of the new Pope Francis. Viva il Papa!
The hotel opened on April 16, 1961, and has been continuously renovated and maintained throughout the years to keep up with the trends of changing times, always maintaining our four-star standards.
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The all-day Taste of South Buffalo event, a celebration of food and music to be held on Saturday, Aug. 18, in Cazenovia Park, is right around the corner! From great restaurants and fabulous musicians to the Mike Diggins Memorial 5K Walk/Run and an attempt at the world's largest split club, the event promises lots of fun for everyone.
Restaurants taking part in the event include Conlon's Bar & Grill, Wise Guys Pizza, Big Belly Barbeque, The Blackthorn Restaurant & Pub, Brick Oven Bistro & Deli and more, including some of Buffalo's favorite food trucks!
The fun gets going at 8 a.m. with the Diggins Memorial 5K, a USA Track & Field-sanctioned event. Mike Diggins was a long-time contributor to Western New York running community who grew up in Buffalo's Old First Ward. An avid runner, Diggins was proud of his Irish heritage and his strong ties to South Buffalo, Bishop Timon High School, Bishop Turner High School and St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute.
At 11 a.m., the Buffalo Warriors basketball team of the Atlantic Coast Professional Basketball League will take on South Buffalo Catholic School parents in an exhibition game. At 6 p.m., there will be a live taping of the "Duck, Duck, Goose" television game show, followed by the split club drawing at 9:30 p.m. Organizers of the event are hoping to break the world's record for the biggest split club ever given away — $100,000! A 15-foot pool package from Zappia Pools & Spas of Lackawanna will also be awarded as a consolation prize.
Musical entertainment will include the Jane Jane Soundsystem from noon to 5 p.m., recording artist Zack Joseph at 5 p.m., and the band So Far So Good at 8 p.m.
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Although some readers may be drawn to the title for the promise of an exotic variation on Lolita, and for the drama inherent in this unlikely pairing, this is less a story about romance than it is a story about consequences and inevitability.
I enjoyed the first half much more than the second half. The second half wavers: the combination of voodoo, misunderstandings stopping just short of the feverish pitch reached in the film The War of the Roses, and an attempted suicide scene may strain believability. There's a sense that, for all we've read about the main characters, we haven't come to know them well enough to truly understand them. Maria's past, with its difficulties, is implied as the reason for her present-day desire for security, but it may come across as too simplistic.
Still, the book is recommended for fans of Maria Arana's previous book American Chica. Lima Nights explores similar themes from another angle, such as the duality present in the city, from the guarded streets of the wealthy to the corrugated rooftops in the shanty towns. The ability to navigate these social worlds with a clear, accomplished writing style made this a compelling enough book to read in one sitting.


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All right now one of the things it has happened in the wake of the shooting is a Utah company that makes bullet proof.
Has seen orders skyrocket -- bullet -- Backpacks.
To kids we have a piece on this -- foxnews.com.
Right now it is written by Joshua Rhett Miller who joins us.
In this -- studio right now.
Josh really bulletproof backpacks.
Unfortunately yeah since Friday he had these products and they are.
Produced by amendment to which is based in -- -- -- in the company yeah -- -- a 500%.
I was unable to get the details of exactly how many have been sold but -- This is a company let's say hang it there's obviously -- need -- -- and so don't.
Basically going -- it's not just backpacks they do bulletproof vests to kids as well.
They have -- tactical vest which is 499.
Dollars and these backpacks they started 300 they go up to 400.
It's basically a flexible.
-- material that they call it's rhino hide right and basically what the idea is if there's a school shooting a kid could.
Potentially hold up the backpack and get themselves.
In back and men and potentially stop -- 357 Magnum bullet -- I don't see the -- can see the the rationale behind it of course all but why how what a commentary on.
On the way we -- well let me that your kid paranoid different sets want to give him the you know gee that's risen all I can hope is that the numbers supporting the 500% increase or they sold one before -- rifle fire that's.
-- -- that's my only hope there.
And I think that perhaps.
That is the case because there where they basically bought that telling how many that they had sole bright pink blue and so it's a 500 percentage.
Increase that could one point five yeah right -- since there's there's go to be a better way then.
Giving our kids bulletproof backpack.
That's that was not the answer they may be some answers about think that's it.
Right -- -- -- it wasn't cause our question of the day leaving weighing in the so far around 30% of you saying yes you would.
By a bulletproof backpack for -- -- Majority here just 57%.
As saying you know you wouldn't and thinking about it 13% of you I guess though I mean -- it.
It's it's question -- -- -- -- themselves in the in the wake of this is as sad as it is but yet and I mean as a parent myself.
It's a sickening.
That you waste rent do you have to think about -- but.
As -- said I suppose this company and they've actually getting hate mail.
From as far away really as Italy right and they're saying hey don't.
-- blame must there's obviously some coming in for it.
And there is a technology out there that could potentially help your can see why not.
All right.
Just -- for -- -- dot com and as the sage of season article on these bulletproof backpacks.
Is -- a folksy dot com if you wanna take a look at it -- Josh thank you very much.
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It is a little-known fact that a life lived without enemies would be an extraordinarily dull affair. One person who understood this very clearly was the nineteenth century British essayist William Hazlitt, whose misanthropic-sounding On the Pleasure of Hating was in fact a gracefully written ode to this much maligned social emotion: "Without something to hate," wrote Hazlitt, "we should lose the very spring of thought and action. Life would turn to a stagnant pool, were it not ruffled by the jarring interests, the unruly passions of men." Suddenly the idea of a utopian society, where everyone is satisfied, equal and good, sounds like a rather drab and stultifying place. Heaven, according to this view, would be a special kind of Hell, a land filled with the souls of smiling, slumbering idiots intoxicated by unending love, understanding and pleasant company. (And an especially interminable ocean of boredom, since one couldn't even escape through death.)
Or consider, where would Bill O'Reilly be without the "Liberal Left" that so angers him, Richard Dawkins without the "dyed-in-the-wool" believers who've become the bane of his existence, or prosecutorial talk show host Nancy Grace without the "scum" she abhors so passionately? (Writer Jean Genet, who spent the first half of his life as a cog in the French penal system, pointed out that criminals were just as important to society as were those who despised them. After all, said Genet, an entire industry of people—lawyers, judges, jailers, clerks, guards, legislators, psychiatrists, counselors and so on—were only able to pay their taxes, feed their children and furnish their homes through the tireless labors of criminals.) Without someone to hate, these pundits would be considerably poorer, no doubt, without a soapbox to stand on and void of any unique social function. With all this in mind, I suppose it was a very wise PR person who once told me that if ever I found myself universally liked, this would be a sign that I was doing something very wrong.
Yet the problem is that, although I can certainly appreciate the rationale behind this strategic advice and I'm all too happy to submit to our species' natural taste for self-righteous animosity, I've unfortunately (and, I must say, embarrassingly) inherited a rather "sensitive" disposition. For most people, it's relatively easy to hate—even, as Hazlitt reasoned, to find a hidden pleasure in such emotions. But, unless you're a genuine sociopath, it's a real feat to derive such pleasure from actually being the subject of others' wrath. And that, of course, is the ugly flip side of Hazlitt's glimmering coin of hatred.
According to Duke University psychologist Mark Leary, the feeling of being disliked, ostracized or rejected was specially designed by evolution to be particularly painful; subjectively speaking, being evaluated negatively by others can feel even worse than physical trauma. The reason that others' negative evaluations affect us so deeply, Leary believes, has to do with our primate past.
Unlike virtually every other species, the hominids could not rely on speed, flight, strength, arboreal clambering, burrowing or ferocity to evade predators. Many theorists in psychology, anthropology and biology have noted that human beings and their hominid ancestors survived and prospered as species only because they lived in cooperative groups. Given the importance of group living, natural selection favored individuals who not only sought the company of others but also behaved in ways that led others to accept, support and help them.
In other words, for a human being, only death itself ensures a speedier genetic demise than stigma and exclusion. To ensure that our ancestors were ever wary of their tenuous dependence on others, Leary proposes that they evolved a sort of subjective, psychological gauge that served to continually monitor their fluctuating "relational value," an affective index of where the self stood in the eyes of other ingroup members. Generally speaking, the higher one's relational value, the greater one's reproductive opportunities and genetic fitness. Just as it continues to do today, this hypothetical "sociometer" generated emotional states that, collectively, were translated into what's popularly known as our "self-esteem." Assuming our sociometer isn't broken or impaired, negative self-esteem is a kind of warning, then, that one is at serious risk of social (and therefore genetic) exclusion.
One of the most significant contributions of the sociometer hypothesis is that, over a decade of conducting carefully designed experiments meant to test its central tenets, Leary and his colleagues have almost completely debunked the popular "doesn't-matter-what-anyone-else-says" idea that self-esteem comes from the self. That is to say, if you're prone to boasting that you don't care what other people think about you, then you probably just haven't given enough thought to the source of your self-esteem—that, or you genuinely have a diagnosable personality disorder. There are, of course, individual differences in this domain. For example, "high self-monitors" are people who are unusually preoccupied with the impressions they're making on others. Such people—I tend to be one of these in real life—are overly agreeable chameleons who easily adopt the attitudes and beliefs of the prevailing social environment (at least on the surface). But wherever we fall along the self-monitoring scale, each of us presumably has an innate sociometer providing continual emotional feedback and encouraging us to boost our relational value.
The trouble, of course, is that each of us is also vulnerable to flubbing up the occasional social norm. If we were perfectly angelic specimens, we wouldn't need the sociometer to begin with; rather, the sociometer is as much a preemptive device for disarming our selfish desires and preventing dips in our relational value as it is a corrective one that prompts us to repair the reputation-related damage we've already done. One quick-and-dirty damage control tactic is apologizing to those we've wronged. And you might be surprised to learn just how effective a simple apology can be. In fact, a recent series of studies showed that, to a large extent, it doesn't even matter if the apology is patently insincere—at least for the target of the original wrongdoing. In this 2007 article by Cornell University psychologists Jane Risen and Thomas Gilovich and published in Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes, unsuspecting students were confronted with a surprisingly obnoxious person (ostensibly another student, but actually someone who was in on the experiment and acting out a script to test the researchers' hypotheses) during testing.


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