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No Time to Spare – November 17, 2014
In Review: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
The first thing to say about Naomi's Klein's latest book is that its title makes a grand promise, This Changes Everything – and that's before you even get to the subtitle, which sets up a face-off between capitalism on one side and the climate on the other. The second thing to say is that no single book could ever meet such a promise. Klein, with careful aplomb, does not attempt to do so. Rather, she offers a tour of the horizon upon which we will meet our fates. Or, rather, the horizon upon which we will attempt to change them.
by: Tom Athanasiou
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As Dire as It Sounds, IPCC Report Is an Understatement – April 3, 2014
The consensus text does not track the bleeding edge of anxiety
There are two things to keep in mind if you would know the climate future. The first is that, as scientific statesman John Holdren likes to say, it will come to us as a mixture of mitigation, adaptation, and suffering. The second is that the suffering will be disproportionally visited upon the poor and the innocent.
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Climate Denialism has Peaked. Now What Are We Going to Do? – April 8, 2013
We need action on the scale that's actually necessary, rather than the scale that appears to be possible
It was never going to be easy to face the ecological crisis. Even back in the 1970s, before climate took center stage, it was clear that we the prosperous were walking far too heavily. And that "environmentalism," as it was called, was only going to be a small beginning. But it was only when the climate crisis pushed fossil energy into the spotlight that the real stakes were widely recognized. Fossil fuels are the meat and potatoes of industrial civilization, and the need to rapidly and radically reduce their emissions cut right through to the heart of the great American dream. And the European dream. And, inevitably, the… more
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Equity: No Longer a Peripheral Issue at Global Climate Talks – November 26, 2012
What's needed now is courage, and a bit of real statesmanship that takes into account the evolving realities of this mad and dangerous world
Well, the annual climate talks began again today. This time they're in Doha, the capital of Qatar, which has the highest per-capita emissions in the world.
Equity is, of course on the agenda. The surprise — at least it's a surprise for some — is that its no longer a peripheral issue. With the negotiations now tasked with setting the stage for a 2015 negotiations breakthrough, equity is getting some real time in the spotlight. In that context, you might spare a moment to read The pathway to Ambition, the "equity opener" which was just published in the opening edition of the Climate Action Network's ECO newsletter. I… more
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"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" — Bill McKibben's call for a carbon divestment move – July 27, 2012
But the core problem here is that, absent real leapfrogging, the developing countries will be hard put to take any paths apart from those that have already been pioneered in the wealthy world
The new issue of Rolling Stone has a major essay by Bill McKibben, called Global Warming's Terrifying New Math. It's a must read, for a number of reasons. The big one is that McKibben's call for a "carbon disinvestment" movement – aimed at breaking the hammerlock that the fossil cartel has on our civilization – is a big step forward. It's not the only step we need to take (more on this below) but it would make a huge difference.
First up, Terrifying New Math is a fine science-for-civilians essay on the recent "extreme weather," which has been monumental. In fact, the summer of 2012 may well turn out to… more
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Congenital Transmission of Lineages I and II of Trypanosoma Cruzi
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T. cruzi has been divided into two main lineages: T. cruzi I (TcI) and T. cruzi II (TcII, including all non-TcI). TcI is predominant in Mexico and Central America, while TcII (non-TcI) is predominant in most of South America, including Argentina. In recent studies from Argentina, the risk of congenital transmission has been estimated to vary between 2.6 percent and 7.9 percent. By contrast, we know very little about the congenital transmission of TcI. It has been suggested that congenital transmission of T. cruzi is strain related, and there is an urgent need to know if TcI transmits differently than TcII (non-TcI). Our primary hypothesis is that congenital transmission rates are different for TcI versus TcII. Our secondary hypothesis is that the characteristics of T. cruzi infected mothers (e.g., age, parity, transmission in previous pregnancies) and their exposure to vectors are different in regions where TcI is predominant versus regions where TcII (non-TcI) is predominant. To test these hypotheses, we propose to conduct a prospective study to enroll at delivery 13,000 women in Mexico, 7,500 women in Honduras, and 10,000 women in Argentina. We will measure transmitted maternal T. cruzi antibodies in cord blood, and, if the results are positive, we will identify infants who are congenitally infected by performing parasitological examinations on cord blood and at 4-8 weeks, and serological follow-up at 10 months. We will also perform standard PCR, real-time quantitative PCR, and T. cruzi genotyping on maternal blood, standard PCR and T. cruzi genotyping on the cord blood of congenitally infected newborns, and serological examinations on siblings. We will estimate the exposure to vectors in the household. In addition, we will measure prenatal outcomes among infected and uninfected infants with seropositive mothers, and the birth weight of their siblings. The specific aims of this study are: 1) To determine the rate of congenital transmission of TcI compared to TcII (non-TcI); 2) To compare the T. cruzi infected mothers' characteristics and exposure to vectors in regions where TcI is predominant and regions where TcII (non-TcI) is predominant; and 3) To describe the birth outcomes of infected and uninfected infants born to TcI and TcII seropositive women.
Chagas Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Congenital Transmission of Lineages I and II of Trypanosoma Cruzi
- Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi [ Time Frame: Two years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]We will identify infants who are congenitally infected by performing parasitological examinations on cord blood, on venous blood at 4-8 weeks, and serological follow-up at 10 months. Standard PCR, quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR), and T. cruzi genotyping will be performed on maternal blood and cord blood.
- Birth outcomes [ Time Frame: Two years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Perinatal outcomes (premature rupture of the membranes, birthweight, gestational age, IUGR, and neonatal complications) will be measured among infected and uninfected infants with seropositive mothers, and birthweight will be measured among infected and uninfected siblings.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
Plasma, blood with guanidine, dry spots on filter papers
|Study Start Date:
|April 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
TcI, TcII
TcI: T. cruzi seropositive mothers from countries where TcI predominates, or/and with TcI genotyping TcII: T. cruzi seropositive mothers from countries where TcII (non-TcI) predominates, or/and with TcII (non-TcI) genotyping
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Women delivering in participating hospitals.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Women 18 years old or more, informed consent, live birth.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women residing outside of the follow-up area.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01787968
|United States, Louisiana
|Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy
|Buenos Aires, Argentina
|Laboratory of Parasitology, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
|Brussels, Belgium
|Inst. de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitol Antonio Vidal
|Tegucigalpa, Honduras
|Lab. de Parasitologia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
|Merida, Mexico
|Principal Investigator:
|Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
|Tulane SPHTM
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Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Pierre Buekens, W.H. Watkins Professor and Dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
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|NCT01787968 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|February 7, 2013
|Last Updated:
|February 4, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine:
Congenital transmission
Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Chagas Disease
Euglenozoa Infections
Parasitic Diseases
Protozoan Infections
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Mar 09 2010
Local Town Hall to Address "Suspicious Activity" Reporting
The Council on American-Islamic Relations of Los Angeles filed a complaint on Friday alleging that Nevada police detained seven California Muslims for "suspicious activity." The men had been traveling through Henderson, Nevada when they stopped at a local shopping center for gas and food. It was in the parking lot where the Muslims from various ethnic backgrounds openly prayed. Soon, after receiving a report, police cars arrived to question the men, search their vehicle, and ultimately detain them. A CAIR-LA staff attorney contacted the Henderson police chief asserting that the police actions were unreasonable and illegitimate. One of the seven Muslim men involved in the Nevada incident will join with civil liberties advocates, academics, researchers and other activists for a local town hall tomorrow discussing the phenomenon of "suspicious activity" reporting. Co-hosted by CAIR – LA, the gathering will also highlight a new study to be released by Political Research Associates detailing the practice as one that all too often institutionalizes domestic surveillance, promotes racial profiling, and, despite claims to the contrary, actually undermines national security.
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It's been almost four weeks since Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager carrying a bag of Skittles and an iced tea, was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a white and Hispanic neighborhood crime watch volunteer armed with a nine millimeter shotgun.
Local prosecutors have not arrested Zimmerman, although the case is now being investigated by the Department of Justice and a Florida state attorney.
How can this be? Why has there been no arrest when no one is contesting that Zimmerman was the murderer?
Stand Your Ground Law Means It's OK To Use Deadly Force
Cue Florida's self-defense law. In 2005, Florida became the first state to explicitly expand a person's right to use deadly force for self-defense.
From Mother Jones:
Florida makes it easy to plead self-defense in a killing. Under then-Gov. Jeb Bush, the state in 2005 passed a broad "stand your ground" law, which allows Florida residents to use deadly force against a threat without attempting to back down from the situation.
According to Mother Jones, Florida courts have found that under the 'Stand Your Ground' statute, a "defendant's only burden is to offer facts from which his resort to force could have been reasonable" while "the State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense."
In other words, Florida's self-defense law grants immunity to people who act to protect themselves if they have a reasonable fear they will be killed or seriously injured. And once self-defense is invoked, the burden is on the prosecution to disprove the claim.
You read that right.
"Stand Your Ground is a law that has really created a Wild West type environment in Florida," said Brian Tannebaum, a criminal defense lawyer in Florida, told The New York Times. "It allows people to kill people outside of their homes, if they are in reasonable fear for their lives. It's a very low standard."
24 States Have Sweeping Stand Your Ground Laws
From Pro Publica:
Most states have long allowed the use of reasonable force, sometimes including deadly force, to protect oneself inside one's home — the so-called Castle Doctrine. Outside the home, people generally still have a "duty to retreat" from an attacker, if possible, to avoid confrontation. In other words, if you can get away and you shoot anyway, you can be prosecuted. In Florida, there is no duty to retreat. You can "stand your ground" outside your home, too.
Florida is not alone. Twenty-three other states now allow people to stand their ground. Most of these laws were passed after Florida's. (A few states never had a duty to retreat to begin with.)
Click here to see a list of the states with laws mirroring the one in Florida, where there's no duty to retreat in public places and where, in most cases, self-defense claims have some degree of immunity in court. (The specifics of what kind of immunity, and when the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, vary from state to state.)
Take Action
These 24 states make it easy to use self-defense as a claim. Using the "Stand Your Ground" law, anyone can take a shot at another person, claiming that it was in self-defense. And that's exactly what's happening in the Trayvon Martin case now.
If you believe that "Stand Your Ground" laws are wrong, please sign our petition, asking Florida legislators to get rid of this outrageous law.
And thank you.
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The other day while shopping at a local grocery store I saw an hispanic woman about my age with a hoodie on and I wondered: "Will someone think she 'doesn't look right' and shoot her?" Should we not buy clothes with hoodies at all? That could be a problem here in Wisconsin were the weather is cold in fall and winter. In fact that's why the hispanic woman had her hoodie on.
@Jan H
Race certainly does matter in this and every hate crime. It clearly matters when race is the sole or primary reason for a murder. And Zimmerman can clearly be heard saying "f*cking coons" the tape, and no, he was not saying anything like "f*cking punks". The ck sound can clearly be heard. The very fact that he thought he looked "suspicious... something's wrong with him... he's high on drugs or something.... he's looking about" are all comments that would NEVER have been made if Trayvon were white and I'm white, saying that. I look around frequently at nice houses.....nobody would think that's "suspicious" or ''high on drugs or something". One legal expert said, if anything Zimmerman sounds high on the tape and I thought the same thing, but he was not even examined but Trayvon was and he was clean. Yes, race matters in this and every damn case like it. As far as the Black Panthers are concerned, the $10,000 reward is for a citizen's arrest of a wanton murderer who has not even been arrested 5 weeks after the murder and you say they should be ashamed? You're the one who should be ashamed for saying that. You're either a racist yourself, or incredibly naive or simply don't know the facts.
It matters not what color Trayvon was, what past indiscretions he's
committed, that he was wearing a hoody, or even whether Zimmerman is guilty of racial profiling or not. What matters is an innocent kid - not carrying a weapon, was gunned down by an adult.
What the people want to know and have a right to know follows...
Why is Zimmerman in hiding? It only adds to our suspicion of his
guilt. Why isn't he explaining his actions to the public? Why did he lie about a bloody head wound and broken nose he claims came from Trayvon? Why is a "neighborhood watch" guy weilding a gun? Why the big cover-up by the authorities? A child is dead! We the people deserve to know who, what, why, where, when and how this took place. How else can we prevent this from happening again if we are not given adequate information as to what went wrong so that we might protect all our children.
It is time to put Mr. Zimmerman on trial and let a jury of his peers determine whether his actions were justified.
And to the New Black Panthers - Shame on you. Neither Malcom X nor
Martin Luther King would approve.
To the person who wrote privately about why capitalism was being mentioned here on THIS thread, you need to understand Care2 threads proceed from bottom to top. I was responding to Julian. I'm using a smart phone and couldn't seem to respond to you privately.
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I believe in free markets and I believe business practices need to be regulated stringently, but not extensively. I think bailouts are the antithesis of capitalism. Failure is just as important to capitalism as is success.
@Michael A. Just one thing I forgot to ask you. Why do you think that CAPITALISM is not Capitalism in any other form than pure Capitalism? That's not true at all. People can still have the right to become millionaires without doing it at the expense of hurting everybody else. Pure Capitalism is a terribly destructive thing but it can work well if there are reasonable restraints on its abuses. That's what the argument is really about - not whether Liberals are trying to turn American into a socialist state. That's nonsense, but that's the Republicans' accusation. Anyway, I hope I clarified a couple of things and maybe you'll at least think over what I've said. Even if you come to the same conclusion you'll have a better idea of the other side.
@Michael A
Hi, Michael,
From your last remark realize you're not nearly as aggressive and insulting as I thought you were being and I was already thinking that from your previous answer asking me what you were being hypocritical about. Thanks for your honesty about not know much about the subject but that Socialist accusation has been used all too often by people who mean it a lot more aggressively than you did. I'm sorry I called you a "pinhead". But why do you say you're sorry about not having the pure form of Capitalism? Didn't you read the examples I gave about the need for restraints on pure Capitalism? Or do you really believe that slavery was a good thing, workers who die on the job because of no safety laws, people who get sick and die because they can't get health insurance, people who are too old to work should just live in the street because there's no social security, no unemployment insurance,no medicare, no public education.....that's pure Capitalism, Michael. We can differ in the details but is that what you really want? At least give it some thought,O.K.?
Thank you for your kind tone, Julian. I think we're better off that way. I don't know too much about this topic. Regarding capitalism, it's too bad we didn't get the pure version. CAPITALISM isn't capitalism in any other form.
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Hi Brian! As you know I spoke with Wendy and Toby a couple of days ago. One of the questions I asked Wendy and I'd like to get your take on it, and it especially came to me as I was reading World of Faerie -- you both generally tend to present the world of Faerie as less dark and more mischievous. She said that's more deliberate because you don't want to draw up the really dark parts of Faerie. I was noticing in your work, you do tend to go a bit darker than she does…nothing really scary, but definitely darker.
The subject matter I'm dealing with as an artist, I personally take responsibility for the images that I'm creating. So it's interesting -- people accuse me of 'painting evil', of 'painting evil faces' and I say excuse me, I don't paint evil, I deliberately don't paint evil. When I did Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, the publisher wanted me to paint some even darker things I had some problems with, I think the Soul Stealer was the darkest and the worst it was getting. So I don't want to introduce into the world terrible things, because there are enough terrible things in the world as it is. So my dark side characters tend to have a bit of a twinkle in their eye; they do have some kind of redeeming features. At the same time I do think it's important to have some dark aspects, especially in Faerie. They've always traditionally been connected to death and disease and problems in general. It's only been the end of the 20th century and still continues now where people make the mistake of thinking faeries are just pretty and light and pink.
(laughing) Yes.
In the opening of the book you talk about how faeries have been relegated to trivial and cute and entertaining, which brings to my mind the Cicely Mary Barker flower fairies, which are certainly cute, but they also certainly have relatively little power to them. So…you are connecting more with the powerful side of Faerie.
Yes, I think it's precisely that. Giving the faeries their power back is what I'm attempting to do. Not that they need my help! (laughing) They can do it on their own. But being as I am, an 'ambassador' of Faerie, I bring images or emotions of Faerie to the world; it is my job to show them in a good light but also in a true light.
I think you've definitely achieved that! You know, I go to Faerieworlds every year and the amazing diversity of the kind of faeries that people want to represent and the images they want to pull up -- I don't think we'd have seen that 30 years ago.
No. Looking at a lot of faerie artifacts and art, faerie paintings and things, in the world, a lot of it is truly awful as art. But with Faerie it doesn't matter so much how it looks as how it feels. So often the art can feel wonderful and be truly expressive of Faerie…(Faerieworlds and FaerieCon) are very unusual, it's very unusual to go into any kind of space where there's art and it's not the surface , it's what's underneath. You know it's a very unusual thing.
Because art is supposed to evoke emotion, and yet emotion is subjective. You manage to evoke a lot of different emotions but all along the same theme…
Yes. What's interesting about it is I don't put emotion in my paintings. My personal struggle is to make the painting make some sense, or make the forms make sense, or the shapes…make it a good painting, whatever that means. Does it really represent something of Faerie? Those are my concerns. So I don't put the emotion in it, as an artist. But they are emotional. The faeries sort of do that themselves (laughing). They sort of come through, and it's only a little bit afterwards when you look at it, you see what they're saying. That's what I think people really respond to…I don't impose anything on (the painting), it just becomes a doorway to somewhere else.
Charles de Lint writes about numena and the artist creating the image of the being on the 'other side of the doorway', and the image then becomes a gateway for the being to come through. That sounds like what you're talking about here.
Yes, precisely, because…well, what I paint is a problematical thing, because faeries, being elusive, and amorphous, and shapeshifters and changers, whatever I paint is an illusion. It's not it. I can't pin faeries down, they have to be free. So my faerie characters have to be in transition. They have to be away to somewhere else. And also, they don't look precisely like that. They look similar. But they feel like that. I'm hoping I get what they feel like. Because I have to make this accessible. Otherwise, a couple of things can happen. One is that I can commune with the faeries, I can be away with the faeries, and that's me lost to the world. But I don't choose to do just that, I choose to come back and paint images, which is a communication of what I've felt about the faerie world.
When you're painting them do you ever find them telling you 'no, I don't want to look like that today'?
Yes! It's very interesting because I have lots of doodles and I'm always looking for an expected face, something that says or is of Faerie, so there are lots of scribbles in my sketchbooks, and they're very very loose. But when I come to paint the picture and I think 'OK, it needs to be about this, this particular character needs to be in it' it's shocking how long it takes me to draw it on the board, to redraw, constantly redraw, trying to get that elusive quality. So many lines I rub out. And that's the mystery -- why is this line not right, why is that line not right, and then suddenly a line seems to work. And then a few more, and then something seems to emerge, a character emerges. And then it's the struggle, the battle to deal with bits of paint and pencil and all the nonsense, the nightmare of painting. (laughing) Then there comes a moment where I stop, where I declare it's finished, and then I look at it and I go 'was that it, was that what was trying to come through? Is that it?' And I'm usually then in despair, but then a few weeks later when I look at it, there it is and I go 'oh yeah, that's it, look at that!' (laughing)
(laughing) Did you have more trouble on the Goblins book because you were focusing on the mischievous beings?
(pauses) Yes, yes, I guess so. Because I like the mischievous beings, but when you invite them in all Hell can break loose. (laughing)
Yes,Wendy told me a bit about what happened with Gargle (a goblin originally created for the Goblins book-- Ed.) when you were first dealing with him...all sorts of crazy problems, floods, light bulbs going out...
(laughing) Yes. But he's a good companion for me now. He stands by my drawing board and occasionally tumbles off and ends up hiding somewhere and I have to rescue him. But he does keep an eye on me and I really, really like him. We're great friends.
As far as diversity of images, there are a lot of faerie artists out there now, and I think that's greatly thanks to you, but there are a lot of images you can look at and immediately know who drew them because they all look pretty much the same. Especially because representations of Faerie tend toward the feminine and they're mostly all little skinny girls. As a NOT little skinny girl I particularly appreciate that your representations of the feminine are so diverse. I was looking at the Red Queen, who is very voluptuous, and then turning around and looking at the Magician, who is very lithe and athletic and slender. How does that work for you, because you seem to have a really excellent connection with the feminine...
(laughing) Well thank you! Actually lots of women say very similar things, they say 'thank you for putting me in your pictures' because they can see themselves, they can recognize themselves. And it isn't just thin pretty young girls in Faerie. I'm very influence by…there was a book called The Nude by Sir Kenneth Clark, in which he described the Southern nudes which 'float across the sky' with no clothes on, whereas the Northern nudes, in Northern painting, are like little root vegetables sort of plucked out of the earth. And I've always loved Northern painting. And when you look at those paintings, sort of late medieval or beginning of the Renaissance, the nudes they painted, they have sort of small tops and then big thighs, sort of like a carrot or a parsnip or something like that. So to me, the female figures of Faerie are aspects of Nature. So they not only refer to vegetables (laughing) they refer to Nature in all its forms. And they're connected to fertility. And so I love, I love the different shapes. Shapes and forms and distortions are expressive, not only as an artist, but in Faerie where all forms have meaning because they change their shapes, it's even more important. So there is no norm, there is nothing normal, there is no one set of 'what is beautiful.' I think everything has it's inherent, it's own beauty. And I try to express that in those shapes. And also I like women! (laughing) I think women are fantastic creatures, wonderful things! So it's an absolute joy to put them in the pictures.
Well I am one who certainly appreciates it! Now with Muse, and I saw the short film at the Faerie Ball on New Year's Eve, and in the book, you talk about symbols of the alchemical process and transformation. Is the alchemy something you're really conscious of when you're painting?
No…no, I really know nothing about alchemy. I'm just intrigued by the very idea, and by the images. It is indeed like turning dross and rubbish into gold, which is what you try to do as an artist all the time. In a sense my paint, the very paint itself, which is often brown, is made of pigments from the ground, it's made of earth. Painting with dirt, in a sense. But out of the dirt, comes Light. A magic, and faerie gold.
You can see that with your colors, in paintings. They all seem to start with the earth base, with the browns and the greens, and then some of them morph into other colors and some of them stay within that earthy palette. How does that process work for you?
Well if it's brown, the browns really refer to the Earth itself, they're very 'nature'. And also refer back, I suppose…well, I'm painting spirit and I'm painting in a way that I hope is truly me, but it does refer back to other paintings. It refers to classical art, it will refer to the great illustrators of the past, like Rackham…so there's lots of references going. So the browns…well, they sort of hold it there for a while so it allows the spirit to leap out. The figure who will be brighter in the middle of all the earth tones, that's the spirit that's going to leap out of the painting. Now the other ones, heading toward the blues and the violets, those are much more internal, like an internal world, in the head and the heart. That's why they're blue, they've moved on out of the earth, if that makes sense.
So from earth more to air?
Yes. But of course the thing I think that gives me my strength as a faerie painter is that I am earthed whereas a lot of other people who paint faeries are in the air. And they are not connected. You know, they want to be connected to Faerie, and 'oh isn't this lovely, and isn't this beautiful', but they don't know how to ground their energy. It dissipates into airy nonsense. Whereas mine is well-grounded nonsense! (laughing) And it's the grounding that gives the faeries their power back.
I like nonsense! But it's good when the frivolity is connected to something deeper, as you say.
Now, in the book you talk about starting out with painting for advertising, which is painting to someone else's specifications, and then you worked on The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and more collaborative things, and I know you still do collaborations, especially with Wendy. But you've probably got a lot more freedom now to do your own thing. Do you feel like you're growing away from collaboration or do you still enjoy that?
Actually I'm about to embark on another collaboration, with John Matthews. We've been wanting to work together for years. I've just started now, painting pictures for it -- he hasn't seen anything yet. It's about faeries, of course.
Something happens, I think, when you collaborate…it gives you another perspective, or it gives you something you didn't think of, and so you move into a stronger place than on your own. It's problematical, though, nowadays, with the publishing being as it is, about what to do. It's been a weirdly tough time for the past year and a bit, and so sometimes you lose a bit of faith. Am I completely mad, painting faeries? But you know as I always say, once you step on the faerie path, there's no way off. You have to continue. You have to have faith in what you do, and it may not be making any sense yet, but it will eventually.
All my projects are like that…it starts somewhere, but it's a journey. And I never quite know what the book is. The publishers don't like that. They want to know exactly what the book is and I can't tell them exactly so they think it doesn't exist! (laughing) But it always turns out alright, because once you start the book itself tells you what it wants. And it starts to create it's own shape and form and it's own language. And that's when it becomes quite exciting.
Do you feel you're still more in control of the power of the book that way, by letting it do what it's going to do?
The World of Froud is so amazing, I'm just sitting here flipping through it as we talk. Now, retrospectives are hard for people who aren't dead…
Yes! When I finished I thought it was a bit depressing, I thought, 'oh dear, am I dead?' But no, I'm not. I haven't given up yet! And in fact it's not a retrospective, it seems like it might be, but very early on…well, we could have gone two routes. One was a retrospective, and it was like a museum catalog, and I decided that was very distancing. I decided what I wanted to do was make it very intimate.I wanted to come in closer on the paintings, or allow people to feel what the paintings were like, and that's why we approached it, graphically, in a different way. You know, the paintings are literally static, they're on a bit of cardboard, they're oblong shape and flat, the colors are flat, there's no perspective, it's flat, and yet emotionally the images leap off the page. The paintings do the same thing, emotionally they always want to turn into something else. They want to be something else, or turn up in another form somewhere. So we were trying to get that feeling going in the book, you know, that's why we've got the other little books that open up, or the bits and fragments of painting, or show a bit of landscape -- so you can see that all the images are moving somewhere. Not only is there movement through my life, my connection to faeries, the years of that, but it's the emotional movement of every single painting.
Now with most of your books you've had collaborators as far as the text…Alan Lee, Ari Berk…
Yeah, I stopped illustrating about 1975, illustrating somebody else's text, and then started painting pictures. Then I would invite somebody to put the words to the pictures. And so I've done that quite often, and then on Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, I wrote that myself. I realized that only I could sort of explain what I was doing there. Then I worked on the Cottington book with Wendy. Wendy wrote that. So that was a great collaboration. And of course I wrote this one, The World of Faerie. But I find words difficult. As an artist I'm thinking in images. So that's my way of communicating. I struggle towards words that can do something similar. It's problematical with words, because I don't want words to pin down or curtail or diminish the image; it has to enhance it or give another aspect or help it move somewhere else, not define it. That's what my images do, and to find the words to do a similar thing, it's hard. But hopefully I'll achieve it.
Your language in this book is very poetic, and traditionally the people whom the faeries interact with are the musicians, the poets and the mad -- so when you've written the text of this you've definitely done it more as a poet…
I've given up a long time ago worrying if anybody thinks I'm mad! There was a stage, you know, 15 years ago, when I thought 'oh, well, you know I can't really mention what I do…' (laughing) But you know you've just got to forget about that, because it's all about truth in it's own way, so who cares if I'm mad? I've had problems for two weeks trying to deal with my broadband connection, trying to deal with people on the phone, and you know, they're the mad ones! It's a Wonderland world out there, but in here, dealing with the strangeness of painting peculiar images of winged creatures, that seems perfectly normal compared with the technological world! (laughing)
(laughing) I know what you mean…Bedlam is out there now, not in one place! So now that you have so many fans, and you've inspired so many other people to make art and poetry and writing…do you enjoy that?
I'm very glad about that! In my day, those people who inspired me were all dead! If anybody thanks me in person I say 'well aren't you glad I'm alive?' and they look at me in shock, and what I mean is 'I gratefully thank you, because I'm still here (to thank)'. Sometimes you get a bit peeved when people steal from you in terms of images, but as artists we are all inspired by other artists. I always say if you want to learn anything copy the best, but very soon you've got to find your own voice. And a lot of people are still maturing as artists and they haven't quite found their own voice yet, but they will. I was heavily inspired by many artists and 'stole' in my day, but hopefully I've transformed it into my vision and my voice. But that is what we're here for, is to move art, move it on. You know, when I started, there weren't really any faerie books. They were very much out of favor, when I first started. In fact when I started to paint children's books anything that had any sort of representation in it was frowned upon. It had to be very broad, abstract images. And now it's completely changed. Things just move on. So I, from my own private passion about painting faeries, I'm very gratified that it's had some effect in the world, that people suddenly are…serious is not the right word…suddenly are passionate about it, and want to paint pictures and write magazines about faeries, and this is quite wonderful.
It can be!
(laughing) I know. But (representation of) Faerie is fraught with, the glamour of Faerie, is all tinselly and sparkly and lovely and childish and that's not it. I mean, that is the surface of some of it, but people just get trapped in that. If they can get down beneath it, they'll find that it's childlike, which is completely different, when you're open and beautiful and indeed poetic and sad and lonely and it's about love and it's about all those things that all the major poets of the world have been connected with. And that's what the true nature of Faerie is, it seems to be part of the creative soul of the world.
Do you think that Faerie holds back and doesn't ever really tell us it's true nature entirely, so that we're always off base a little bit?
Well it's up to us to find out, isn't it? We always want to know, we want to know the secret, or we want to know the whole thing. We have to find out. There are no books of rules when it comes to dealing with faeries, and that's what people want. People want The 7 Rules for Seeing Faeries (laughing). But when you're dealing with faeries, as they say, at every single moment you have to do the 'right' thing. Now, with no book of rules, how do you do the right thing? Well, you have to figure it out. Because faeries, as their shapes and forms shift, as energy shifts, as everything is shifting and moving, you have to do the right thing at the right time. And that's difficult. But it means that you do become truly connected to the world. So it's not a fantasy. It's not a retreat from the world, it's a re-engagement with the world.
I wanted to ask about one more thing before I let you go… I've been going to Faerieworlds since the first event and I know we haven't seen a lot from you and Wendy about Faerieworlds. I know you've talked about how you've been able to create the environment of faeries that is sort of in your head, at that festival. With Faerieworlds and now FaerieCon, is that something you've always wanted to do?
No, really, it happened almost spontaneously. You know, Robert (Gould) noticed that some groups, particularly like Woodland, were using my images, you know, behind them when they were playing. And we thought, well this is so natural; as I said before, my images want to burst out of their flatness into the world, and to actually project them with music was like 'Wow. Yes, of course!' So we just encouraged them shamelessly to do more, and then we developed things. We like the idea of it moving outwards, forever outwards into the world. So song and music and dance and everything like that is very expressive of the world of Faerie. And so for several years now that's been a joy, to see everybody totally connected, and connected to each other when they're there. I mean it's like a big family. It's extraordinary. It's very connective, this idea of Faerie. But something else was needed. That's why we did FaerieCon. Because that has the ability to have something a bit more cerebral, something where you can impart to people the thinking behind some of this and talk about it. A few years ago we did something at the Omega Center in New York, we held something like a small conference about faeries. The actual Center was very dismissive of it but we knew it was OK because we were doing our panels and talks and we'd look up in the back and there'd be all the staff, peering around the doors and listening, charmed by what was being articulated by those writers. And so we knew it was working and we wanted to try to get back to that. And that's why we're doing FaerieCon. It has a bit more of that to it.
I look forward to making it out to FaerieCon in the next year or two, but I'll definitely see you at Faerieworlds. Thank you so much for talking to me today!
Thank you. See you there!
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1. I did a trail running marathon about two weeks ago and suffered pretty good from the beloved "monkey butt" and some groin chafing because I forgot to put anything on.I just ran another 27.5 miles of trail this Saturday...I applied a thin coat of Desitin diaper rash cream (10% zinc oxide) and ran like a champ without a single issue, during or after.Even cheaper is straight zinc oxide- a 2 oz. tube is about $2.00.Compare that to Body Glide- all hype I think.2. Also just found that Zombierunner.com has a continuous supply of Leukotape P for $8.95 a roll (it's always out of stock here).3. I've really begun to realize the power of mental toughness in longer distances. Not that training doesn't play a role, but...Don't think you can run 28 miles? Pick a route that takes you 14 miles into the woods AWAY from home, make plans, and promise everyone you'll be back for lunch. Get up at 4 A.M., start running, and don't look back. Now you have to run 28. Don't give yourself any outs, physical or otherwise4. I don't think this distance/ultra thing is well suited for anything but going solo. The more I run alone, the more I begin to feel I couldn't do it with anyone else (not that this is an issue, just thinking aloud). In many ways I think company would screw with my head, my pace, and the overall vibe.I'm looking at doing an upcoming "official" 50K, but I'm seriously a little psyched out by the thought of all the people. It's not a competition/pace thing; I'm simply afraid it'll keep me from getting into my proper headspace. I really like the idea of unsupported long runs.I'm beginning to question if I should bother with anything "official". Why run "official" when I can put on a pack and go it alone? Recognition? Competetion? Do I need it?Why do you do it?Funny...the other day a student of mine (I teach high school) asked what I run for. As in, what charity. I told her I run alone.She seemed disappointed.At one point on my run this weekend I came to a peak and the sky felt really big and I felt like a speck in a vast wilderness and everything was beautiful.I thought about her question and realized that I run because one day I'm going to die.That's the best answer I can come up with so far.Cheers.
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I'm not going to touch upon the monkey butt (ew!)...but I run alone. Always. I have a few friends who want to trail run with me this spring and I am feeling mildly anxious about it. I've only run one race ever. And it was on snowshoes. No need for official. No need for accurate times or splits or rankings. I'm definitely a lackadaisical purist when it comes to that stuff.I run for those brief moments where you stop hurting, stop sucking wind and feel more alive than you would ever think possible - no thoughts, completely unfocused... yet 100% conscious of how alive you are. Best feeling in the world. So I guess I run to feel free. Even though it only lasts about ten seconds before I crash back into the hurting!Also don't know about shipping and have yet to buy it but leukotape is a buck cheaper here: http://www.wisdomking.com/product12127.htmland the same site also sells a leukotape "equivalent" for much less or you can scope out ebay I've seen it on there a few times for very cheap.
I've had good luck with the higher zinc concentrations for healing chaffing, but not so much for preventing it. For that, it needed more lubrication.
I ran/fast hiked 15 miles in a short amount of time in Shenandoah last Friday and I had the same chaffing issue on both inner thighs. I don't normally have this problem. Not sure why this time, was it my pace, my underwear/pant combo?? Any thoughts on prevention?That night I applied some hand healing cream I use for rock climbing (climb on) which is miraculous. The next morning I was still a bit sore and I used the aformentioned body-glide product to prevent any more rubbing while out and about doing errands that day. Normally I've used body glide to prevent nipple abrasion while running. By Sunday all was better, but if I had needed to run back another 15 miles I would of really been sore and uncomfortable. Craig, good job. I really like running alone in the woods. I can't imagine doing it with others. I like hiking with friends but not running. No music, just me and my interior voice reminding me to relax the shoulder blades, drop them and maintain good posture. What kind of elevation and vertical change were you running.
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I once came down with a severe case of trail rash and, in desperation, I rubbed it down with triple antibiotic ointment (aka: Neosporin). It really did not make it feel better immediately but in the morning it was clear as a baby's butt! Now I rub a tiny bit of Neosporin in the aforementioned areas every morning on the trail before getting dressed. I have not suffered from trail rash since.
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We are not ignoring the following obvious dilemma here : Google expects the Internet to be structured in one way, but, irrespective of how Googlebot works, a webmaster might feel that a different structure will be better for marketing purpose. We do not agree with the claim by Google and others that, if a webmaster designs his website to optimize the interaction with his clients, this is going to be also optimal for search engines, as if the search engines were the only gateway to the Internet. This is obvsiously wrong : the Internet is connected with the real worlds in so many ways such as links in business cards, in news paper, word of mouth, etc. and these are the most important connections. They are the true connections with the real world.
We do not see that search engines are the only gateway to the Internet, but we agree that a webmaster should naturally structure his website to optimize the experiences of the users. This is Google's advice. This advice means that it is perfectly fine to structure a site with many variants of the home page adapted to different locations. We only disagree that this is necessarily equivalent to a search engine optimization. This is why we made this experiment. This is also why we emphasis that it is important to monitor the link juice. We want to consider all aspects of the interaction with the users. Therefore, we cannot neglect the search engine result pages (SERPs).
On October 12, 2011, I could not draw any conclusion from the experiment yet, but I felt that I should comment the results as they arrive on Google search engine. Any one can collect these results, but Google cache changes over time, so I am keepint track of these results and provide some comments. On 16 October 2011, we can see that civm was last cached on 12 Oct 2011 07:46:53 GMT, whereas civm/?store=somerled was last cached on 28 Sep 2011 01:50:05 GMT . There was a canonical tag toward civm when both pages were cached, so normally they should have been cached as one page. However, they were cached at different times and the content changed a lot between these two versions. Unless Google algorithm caches multiple pages under a same canonical, we must assume that the canonical tag was not followed by Google. It means that Google does not follow the canonical tag blindly.
We will be disapointed if the result of the experiment is that these pages always remain indexed separately, not merged toward a single canonical. However, even in that was the case, we could still hope that a user-adapted canonical tag, which must come with extra information, will not suffer the same problem. It is a stronger request, less easy to accept, but if Google can gather information to justify its use in some cases, then it also takes care of the issue with the (ordinary) canonical tag.
We have not been disapointed, not yet. On October 25 2011, the URL codeforweb.org/?store=somerled was removed from the index whereas the canonical URL codeforweb.org was last cached on October 19, 2011. Therefore, it seems that the canonical tag was respected despite the distinct phone number and street address in codeforweb.org/?store=somerled. However, the dedicated page codeforweb.org/dedicated.php?store=somerled (i.e., this page) is not indexed any more. This might be temporary. It was indexed on October 17 2011 as it can be seen on a related discussion on Google webmaster central help forum. For the experiment to be fully conclusive, we will have to wait that the dedicated page codeforweb.org/dedicated.php?store=somerled (i.e. this page) gets re-indexed while the page codeforweb.org/?store=somerled remains merged with the canonical codeforweb.org.


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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Three people, including a 4-year old boy, are recovering from gunshot wounds after getting shot on the 3600 block of Penn Avenue North Tuesday night.
The shooting prompted Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau to hit the streets with her officers throughout the day connecting with neighbors in hopes of catching the shooter.
"I'd like a little bit more cooperation than I think we're getting. I'd like answers. I certainly would like a suspect in custody and we don't have one," said Harteau.
A group of people gathered on the corner of 36th and Penn Wednesday afternoon holding signs that read, "we don't shoot 4 year olds." It got the attention of Mike Elliot who lives near the shooting and is a father of a 5-year old girl.
"It's extremely troubling," said Elliott. "It really is a state of terror in this community."
According to police, two adult males who were shot are heavily sedated in the hospital. All of the victims are expected to survive. Police believe the shooting was not random.
"I get mad, I get mad," said Christina Banks whose son was killed last year.
The news of the shooting brings her back when her 5-year old son Nizzel George was shot and killed a year ago.
She and her family took time to remember her son's death Wednesday afternoon and had a message for anyone who knows about Tuesday night's shooting.
"If a baby was shot and somebody knows something, they need to open up their mouth and tell it. Don't be scared," said Banks.
Two teens were convicted of George's murder. Police are still looking for the shooter who killed 3-year old Terrell Mayes more than a year ago. A stray bullet went through his north Minneapolis home.
Now with another toddler shot, some neighbors believe it can't just be the police department's responsibility.
"It has to be a real partnership between the police and resident," said Elliott. "There's probably trust building that needs to take place."
It is why Harteau says her officers will connect more with people this summer by walking their beats. And like Wednesday, the chief plans on joining them.
"I think that's just huge," said Elliot. "Hopefully this is going to be the beginning of something more transformative."
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please bless me with a better lifeWritten to God on September 22nd, 2011
Dear God,
Please bless me with a better life. I am so tired of never having enough anything. Life is a constant daily struggle. I know I should count my blessings, but they are so few. If it weren't for my dogs, I would kill myself. They are the only thing I have to live for. Please hear my prayer, please help me.
Comment from Gopal Kaushik
Time December 23, 2011 at 12:10 am
Dear God,
Please bless me with a better life. I am so tired of never having enough anything atleast a job/work. Life is a constant daily hard struggle. I would kill myself. They are the only thing I have to live for. Please hear my prayer, please help me.help me. help me.
Comment from romana kanta
Time March 21, 2012 at 6:33 am
please pray for me for good score.
Comment from Kourtney
Time March 26, 2012 at 8:12 pm
The Lord has sent His angels in the form of dogs that will help you laugh, love, and create within you a caring and selfless person. I say those qualities make for an awesome person, a person whose life is worth living!
Comment from shiv
Time March 26, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Let Go and Let God!!! These are trials and tribulations that are part of life's syllabus: they make us stronger/spiritual so that when joy comes we will really know its value….
Prayers for you…..
Comment from Reesee
Time April 9, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Dear lord…..The best thing….you gave me life,From there you gave me a gift to live this life you gave me….Lord I ask myself everyday…How can i make myself a better person….forgive me for my sins and the things i do in my life….That i know aint right but lord I ask you to help me along each day i wake up….I love to see who I am….But I would love to be who you want me to be…I want my life to be on your roads to heaven….pls Help ME… for me to do right and find a good job….But I will always live and love life that you gave me no matter what im goin through
Comment from Brothers in Pain
Time May 26, 2012 at 11:51 am
Read the whole book of JOB in bible. He was blessed with everything and the devil took it all away. He was in a struggle with his soul over whether he would give up and curse GOD. His faith in God won and he was awarded double of what he lost. Have faith bro and good luck with your life. Ill pray for u.
Comment from toni
Time August 16, 2012 at 2:49 am
You are told to seek God first, put him first, think of him first, and then what you receive from him give to others, If he gives you Joy then give joy, if love then love it is a flowing process. We cannot hold on to anything of this world we must have our eyes on God only and all other provisions, food clothes friends etc will come, be assured of this.
Touch the throne of God in Worship, spend as much time as you can singing worship songs from your heart to God, he will change you and then your circumstances
Comment from Jenny
Time August 20, 2012 at 5:58 am
You are in my prayers and thoughts. As your message was nearly a year ago, I hope things have improved for you. Good luck and Gód's blessings to you.
Comment from Judy Van Natta
Time November 26, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Gods love and support will get me through and along with everyone else that has faith in him snd lo e n respect. Amen ~
Comment from Ella
Time November 28, 2012 at 11:49 am
Please dear GOd give me a job.I am so desparate I can't take it anymore..All doors are closed? Why? I have been looking for a work for 3 years..oh please God I need a job. I need to feel worth it..I need answers to why I don't have a chance…I have been praying every day to give me a chance to earn for my living…
Comment from Dan Smith
Time December 10, 2012 at 7:18 pm
God will bless you with a better life .true love is pure and.I wish my true love asking god who loves us truely is the right person to. ask.I wish my true love. could understand how much I. want tobe. in her and my baby's life. but satin and mistrust drove us apart my. prayer are asking god to soften her heart. for my foolish. belief. because she was on a date sight she cheated on me ….and jumped to conclusions …I will pray for you and her and my new baby I may beaver see.god blessed us all.and hears our prayers.amen…
Comment from Liz
Time February 2, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Dear god,
Please give me the strength to continue to live! I try day and day to struggle to remain sober! What have I done to deserve such a terrible existance. My family and friends all left me when the money stopped! Why is it no one cares about me unless I have something for them. I work full time and go to school full time and because I have always been the person to turn to financially I'm constantly left to figure things out. My mother only let me here for financial reasons! Please Jesus I just want someone to let me know its ok to be human that I am loved. When I was scared and in the hospital with chest pain my mother asked me for a loan. Am I not worth love! I struggle w the fact that I know I'm fat and ugly. I smile and put on a brave face but deep down I cry. I cry bc I'm the forgotten daughter, the one who in second grade who did not have shoes. Who borrowed her twins for gym bc my mom forgot to buy them for me and when we tell the story my sister talks about how she was embarrassed bc she had to borrow my older sisters shoes that I wore daily she wore for 3 hours .o poor u When in reality I didn't have shoes! I slept on a mattress with a spring that cut me at night and said nothing. God I just want this pathetic life of mine to end.
Comment from M r
Time February 20, 2013 at 9:28 am
I feel I have nothing to live for.. Everyday is a struggle, 6 years without a job..
The job offer I got a year back could not come to me as I didn't get my work permit in the country I lived
Thank you for helping me God. I believe I receive you in my job now in Jesus name
Comment from M r
Time February 20, 2013 at 9:33 am
Liz, I m sorry for the disappointment u had with family. But I want to extend Jesus's love to you. Where r u located
Ur sister in The Lord
Comment from Disciple
Time February 23, 2013 at 5:45 pm
I fee your pain i really do i know that feeling im living it now and i pray that the lord blesses you and help you never think of suicide thats giving up God is here he will help you
I pray for your happiness in Jesus name Amen
Comment from Disciple
Time February 23, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Liz Liz i am sooooo sorry i read this and wow i feel your pain and i pray that all goes well and i will pray for you every time you pop up in my head you are worth loving i wish i lived near you I Would have been your best friend i love your heart and i need you to hold on God is here he is coming just wait hes coming right now but Liz seek God first and his kingdom then everything else will come your way I love you Liz and i pray that all goes well with you
Comment from Melissa
Time March 13, 2013 at 3:03 am
God I love u and u know all my problem help me
Comment from rrong ew
Time April 25, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Yes .amen
Comment from rrong ew
Time April 25, 2013 at 12:10 pm
Ya i need realy jesus help a ry day so i went go in irsial in work plz pray for mr
Comment from rrong ew
Time April 25, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Comment from Britt07
Time May 1, 2013 at 10:10 am
Hi Liz! I know you wrote this prayer almost 2 years ago. I hope that things are going well for you. I hope God was able to touch your heart and lend you a hand in support. May God bless you!
Comment from sally
Time May 21, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Well l know how most of you feel. Every one gets fed up and down in the dumps. some times you just have to think of someone that has less than you. I have spent a hole Christmas and new year with out any electricity or food it was a very sad and depressing time. l just had to pull my self together and sort it out. I think in this world you have to look out for your self because no one is going to do it for you.
Comment from tony
Time June 4, 2013 at 3:20 am
Dear father,
I have come to you in my prayer i ask for thee in a long year i never got anything i could ask for i have been waiting for you to bless me i got none some people you have been blessing them that should be my turn now o Lord why are you doing this to me Lord,all the year i ask for and i didn't get anything,i know you are here with me and you have forgive me my sin which i ask thee o Lord please help me, all i want is you to bless me o Jesus Christ by your Blood,Let your Blood flood over me onto me,do not pass me bye untill you bless me now…..Father i ask i thank you for answer my prayer. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Comment from vani
Time June 17, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Dear God, please help me… forgive me if i had done any mistakes, you already tested me with so many testing, please forgive me and bless me please…
when i was child, i lost my family happiness.. I totally lost my happiest life with my mum and dad. I have looked around and when other people was enjoying their life with their family, i was suffering.. When i was a teenager.. the same things happened, continously, My marriage life also not successful, in half way my hubby passed away when i was caring my lovely son. Now with my kids i was alone and trying to manage my life but …why i still have to facing so many problems.. please give me strenght and patient… please help me to solve my life problems..
Comment from TR
Time July 4, 2013 at 2:16 pm
god u know my needs, i love u and thank u for giving me life….
Comment from andrew
Time July 13, 2013 at 6:45 am
please blend our souls of life and love andrew paula
Comment from Thomas Cogan
Time July 17, 2013 at 1:40 am
In the name of Jesus I pray for you
Comment from Ismail
Time August 28, 2013 at 3:16 am
god please bless me with a nice muscle body show me the right way to it!
Comment from Arleen
Time November 19, 2013 at 12:46 am
Heavenly Father please help me please hear the cries of my heart! I Need You Jesus You are my everything. Please help me in Jesus name I pray thank You Amen!
Comment from tim little
Time May 6, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i shall fear no evil….
In times of trouble I remember the 1849 christian martyrs of madagascar, who were condemned to be burnt at the stake, sang,
"There is a blessed land
Where we shall be happy
Our rest will never be disturbed
They know no sorrow here."
They were still singing this hymn when they were in the fire. Then they prayed, saying 'Lord receive our spirits. it is because of your love that this is happening to us. Lord, lay not this sin to their charge'. (Bruno Chenu, The Book of Christian Martyrs, p. 149-51.)
And they prayed like this as long as life remained in them. Then they died gently and in peace.
Comment from Aftab Herbert
Time June 24, 2014 at 8:21 am
To our Jehovah God:
Dear Heavenly Father in our Lord Jesus Christ, You know everything and every need of us. i do not need to go into details, but pray with the rest of the believers that you help all Your people and even every human. Please pull us out of miseries. Thank You Father! In the Precious Name of our Lord Jesus, Amen!
Comment from Joey R myslinski
Time June 29, 2014 at 12:02 pm
I feel your pain .I don't own dogs but I took in a stray cat that was starving n eating out of a dumpster.I't took qwite a while before the poor animal could even trust the food I was feeding her in about 2 months the cat n I were best of friends.she became healthy n started to come into my home to the point where she started to sit in my lap n purr.what I didn't no she had a kitten outside.when big enough the kitten would eat the food I put out .but was never trusting to come in.as bad luck happens .the poor little kitten was hit by a car.such a sad moment.but the mom a cat had gotten pregnant again.she had one kitten in my apartment.that kitten grew up to about 3 months old .I called her ki, ki. I grown to love that little kitty.but I lived in a small evidence apt.she wanted out n needed to explore.always afraid to let her out.see I lived in the middle of nowhere but the main landfill in TN. Was rite across the street.I couldn't even sleep when she went out at night.always so happy when she would be waiting to come in.for the night.I don't no why but it was bound to happen.late at night she was sitting in middle of road witch I was not aware of.usually no traffic except those dump trucks from land fill.but I figured out the times late n the Evening n during the day trucks would come n go.again I loved that kitten.she also got hit bye a car that was just flying down the road.I was so hurt cuz I wasn't their to stop it.but at the pm hours from 9pm n 3 pm usally no traffic.just some body speeding n I hope to GOD it was n accident n not on purpose she was also hit.I could barley look an was praying it wasn't my ki, ki, but it was it was very hard on me! The mommy kitty cried n cried looking for her.the momma cat now had her for almost two years now in perfect health.she's had three more kittens in the pipe under the st.witch to small for me to crawl in and get them out.she still came home two 3 times a day so I could feed her .But she'd always go back to her babies.well one day we had a terrible storm I begged her cuz she was by the drainage ditch to bring her kittens I could tell thier were 3 of them I kept yelling mama get it kitty's.she finally grabbed one of them bring it to me almost had it n she ran back in pipe with it.I yelled I begged mama bring your kittens.she brought back the smallest one n dropped in my hand I said comin mama 2 more she brought the second one n dropped it in my hand so amazed by her trust for me.only one more to go water was all ready over her head she tried for the third kitten but water was to deep.we lost the third one so upsetting I brought the two kittens n mom a kitty into house derid.ed them .n did what a could to keep mom a kitty n Her baby's warm n dry.next moring she went for that poor little # 3 kitten he had drowned.it was a horrible feeling I could'nt do nothing to help.but I helped her raise the two little ones n when they were signed of thier mothers milk .I was able to get a good family to take in the kittens.I missed them even be for I had to let them go.my landlord did not want anymore animals at my apt.it was me or to leave or try to find her a home by this time I have had her the mom a kitty almost two n half years .no one wanted her.it broke my heart but I had to bring her to a shelter.I pray to God someone took her home.I don't think I will ever own a pet again.it hurts to bad to loose an animal that was wild became tame n I lost all of them not by my choice but just the way things are. I had to leave TN. But I don't want another pet ever again.to painful.then I had a great uncle passes away shortly after.I don't blame God at all.my point is getting attached to pets it is very hard to loose them by n accident or have to let them go cuz of rules an regulations of n appt.no looking at a loved n well respected family member.its been very hard last couple of years.I lost my job to a accident that has left my arm 90% disabled.All I can do is pray n ask GOD for strength .n God does listen.I pray for everyone out thier that has had loss of loved one's weather it's Family or a pet u truly cared for.my name is Joe.I will pray for every one who needs prayer for what ever your ailment might be.GOD bless all of you!
Comment from allie
Time July 19, 2014 at 6:03 pm
Dear God
tired. of living and of breathing, no one to care. end my useless life now, please god just let me go. so hurt and lonely sad alone, tired of my my sad sad empty world cannot breath, don't care anymore. hope to die,
Comment from stephaine
Time July 20, 2014 at 1:59 pm
God bless me to move out this house with a evil person. And let me live my life. Please, please
Comment from Clinton Abbott
Time July 21, 2014 at 7:50 pm
I think you for today and I ask you for forgiveness of my sins in Jesus name a MEN .I come humbly to bless my family and with money. And successful life's and I thank you and Praise you holy name ..
Comment from sheila ward jones
Time October 22, 2014 at 4:54 pm
lord please bless me i am so tried of the of going thru hard time bless me with my own house and a car. And to help someone else
Comment from Sue Davis
Time January 3, 2015 at 3:15 pm
I can relate to your prayer, except I have cats & a parrot! Our good Lord God blessed you by leading you to pray this prayer. & He blessed me when I entered into the search line "Dear God please bless me" by answering with your prayer!
We are not alone, He is with us all the time, & he is teaching us humility through our struggles!
We have to stay strong! As a Christian believer the strength we show to the word also shows the strength of Faith in Christ! Think of Job… God told satan he could do anything but kill Job, & in the end God blessed Job more richly than he had ever been blessed before!
Everything is done in Gods time. We have to be patient & keep putting one foot in front of the other & God will bless us too! :0)
I once saw a church billboard that read " Dear God, please make me as good as my dog thinks I am! ". As a pet person I'm sure you can relate to this, Our wonderful fur babies love us so unconditionally, I think this is part of Gods plan for us to add to our strength in Him throughout these earthly struggles by giving us our pets to keep moving forward for them when we don't think we can move forward for ourselves!
So stay strong in Christ, & know you are loved!
God Bless you richly! :0) Sue D.
Comment from Nikki
Time February 9, 2015 at 5:16 am
Wonderful.. I totally agree..With every word!
Comment from abby
Time March 30, 2015 at 9:05 pm
Lord bless me I'm tired
Comment from Ginah
Time April 5, 2015 at 4:58 am
God is with you,His ways are not your ways nor His thoughts are your thoughts,it might not be now but He will answer,just don't let go of His hand,hold on my dear!He will not let fall-just be patient
Comment from lateshia
Time May 18, 2015 at 10:00 am
Please God bless me..
Comment from patricia stovall
Time June 22, 2015 at 3:16 pm
I need money really really really bad to pay my bills please help me out GOD
Comment from Srao
Time June 26, 2015 at 11:29 pm
I want to give you a big hug and tell you that you are loved, even if we are strangers we want you to keep living and enjoy the little things in life. I hope at the very least you have some close family and friends you can reach out to for support. Please don't take your own life. Praying for you that things turn around. Big hugs.
Comment from vanessa
Time August 4, 2015 at 2:55 am
Dear god. Please . bless them
Comment from Anonymous
Time August 8, 2015 at 5:59 pm
Dear god
Mor goro manu aru bahiro manu mok beya ke koy goro pora moy walab nora hosu moy ki koru clg jaba nowa hosu mok beya ke bodanam korise moy ki koru moy voy lage please hel kora na kiba vol hose jodi sorry khojiso plaes help bohot kosta aaso aaponi help korib para aru kono help nokore pleas please help god help me
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Holiday greetings from Kaaawa!
December 24th, 2012 · 3 Comments
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I enlarged this to see if it was touched up. The trees look so distinct I thought they were photoshopped. Amazing.
It's the wonderful quality of a full-frame digital SLR, in this case a Canon 5D.
Slight processing in Lightroom. I had to keep exposure down to capture the sun, so then opened up the shadows to show a little more detail. That could have impacted the way the trees stood out, I'm not sure. But nothing major was done in post-processing.


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just came across the wire
Terror leader Usama bin Laden plans to address Americans on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in a new video, according to a terror monitoring group.
SITE Intelligence Group said an Internet announcement of the plan included a photo of the al-Qaeda leader from the upcoming video — his beard, which in previous messages had been streaked with gray, was entirely dark.
A senior U.S. official with knowledge of intelligence affairs tells FOX News that "no one should be surprised to get a message from Al-Qaeda around this time."
The official could not confirm or deny the authenticity of the images released, but he said "it's not exactly clear at this point" if the message will be authentic. The official also pointed out that previous messages were later proved to be older footage.
Meanwhile, federal counterterrorism officials are analyzing a posting on an Islamic forum Web site that warns of "a special gift" to be given on the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, FOX News has learned.
The warning was posted Sept. 2 on a site frequented by radical groups and said in part that "there will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhatten."
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Saxo > Staff
Tenna Jensen
SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
23, Building: 23-5-17
2300 København S
Member of:
Research interests:
- The history of food (in Denmark) in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Developments of food quality and production;
- The inter-relationship between food science, -policy and -practice;
- Changes and continuities in the consumption of food in Denmark.
I am Co-PI iCopenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, a research centre at the SAXO-Institute that works with cultural analytical and historical perspectives on health, body and ageing. I am responsible for the development of the groups cultural historical projects and its interdiscplinary initiatives on food, including the ongoing SAXO-network that arrange regular seminars and activities on Foodpractices and Nutrition.
I am currently Co-PI and employed as post.doc. on the intidiscplinary researchproject CALM ( Counteracting age related loss of skeletal muscle-mass in the elderly), one of the University of Copenhagen Programmes of Excellence. Read more about the project on http://calm.ku.dk/. I am furthermore project manager on the research project Appetit på maden ( appetit for food). The project is a collaboration with the municipality of Copenhagen concerning apetite among older persons in Copenhagen.
My post.doc. project is titled Food for the Elderly in 20th and 21st century Denmark. The project focuses on scientific and political perceptions of food for elderly and past and present municipal and personal food practices.
I have previously researched developments in food consumption in Denmark in the 20th and 21st centuries; socio-geographic consumption patterns; historical developments of food quality and aspects of the developments of the nutritional science in Denmark from 1900.
I am furthermore affiliated researcher at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/about-us/affiliates-emeriti-research-fellows/dr-tenna-jensen/ .
Selected publications
- Published
Fedt II: Margarine;fra fattigfedt til omega3Jensen, T. V. 2009 In : 1066 Tidsskrift for Historie. 39. årg, 2, 1 p.
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article
- Published
Svin - kvalitet og kontrolJensen, T. & Gjerløff, A. K. 2010 In : Akademisk Kvarter. 1, 1
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article
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Fødevareforbrug i Danmark i det 20.århundrede: Tre perspektiver på fødevareforbrugets langsigtede udviklingJensen, T. 2011 København: Det Humanistiske Fakultet. 236 p.
Publication: Research › Ph.D. thesis
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The Consumption of Fats in Denmark 1900-2000: Long term changes in the intake and qualityJensen, T. Jan 2013 In : Anthropology of Food. S7, 15 p.
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article
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Udviklinger i arbejderbefolkningens fødevareforbrug i det 20 århundredeJensen, T. V. 2009 In : Samfundsøkonomen. 4, 6 p.
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article


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Chinese food was my favorite food when I was pregnant. Udon noodles, big fat, gluten chewy noodles. And don't forget the salty sodium filled – Soy sauce, oh yum.
Up until a few months ago, I didn't know that Tamari was legal. I can't tell you how excited I was. I read that it is legal because the Soy is fermented. Just use it sparingly and "test" your body.
The "noodles" in this bowl are so good, you really don't have a clue that you are eating anything "different". I did use my Spiral Slicer which makes this task MUCH easier. You can use your peeler if you don't have one, just try to make really thin strips.
It all comes together so well. I love the spiciness, just to give it that known Asian great flavor. Of course, you can omit that if you wish. This bowl really is so delicious and really hits that Asian craving, pregnant or not.
Asian "No Mein"
|Prep time
|10 minutes
|Cook time
|30 minutes
|Total time
|40 minutes
|Dairy free, Gluten Free, Grain free, Sugar free
|Meal type
|Main Dish
|Serve Hot
- 1/2lb Organic Chicken or Thin sliced Beef (Cut in chunks)
- 1 Large Zucchini or Summer Squash (Peeled and spiral sliced)
- 6oz Fresh Spinach
- 4oz Shiitaki Mushrooms (Sliced)
- 3 Green Onions (Scallion) (Chopped)
- 1/4 cup Tamari ((Coconut aminos can be substituted for Paleo))
- 2 tablespoons Sesame Oil (For the pan)
- 1/2 teaspoon Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Coarse ground Black Pepper
- 1/2 Red Bell Pepper (Chopped)
- 1 Organic large egg
- 1 teaspoon Crushed Red Pepper