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It's not just about calories in versus calories out.
If that were all it took to lose weight — eating a little less and exercising a little more — then weight loss would be as simple as grade-school math: Subtract Y from Z and end up with X.
But if you've ever followed a diet program and achieved less than your desired result, you probably came away feeling frustrated, depressed, and maybe a bit guilty. What did I do wrong?
Instead of X, it's XXL.
Because there's probably more at work here than just calories in/calories out. More and more research is indicating that America's obesity crisis can't be blamed entirely on too much fast food and too little exercise. (Or on these seven habits of highly obese people.) A third factor may be in play: a class of natural and synthetic chemicals known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), or as researchers have begun to call them, obesogens.
The new weight-gain threat
Obesogens are chemicals that disrupt the function of hormonal systems; many researchers believe they lead to weight gain and, in turn, numerous diseases that curse the American populace. They enter our bodies from a variety of sources — natural hormones found in soy products, hormones administered to animals, plastics in some food and drink packaging, ingredients added to processed foods, and pesticides sprayed on produce. They act in a variety of ways: by mimicking human hormones such as estrogen, by misprogramming stem cells to become fat cells and, researchers think, by altering the function of genes.
Endocrine disruptors are suspected of playing a role in fertility problems, genital malformation, reduced male birth rates, precocious puberty, miscarriage, behavior problems, brain abnormalities, impaired immune function, various cancers, and cardiovascular disease. "We have data linking environmental chemicals to practically every major human disease, from cardiovascular disease to attention-deficit disorder," says Jerry Heindel, Ph.D., an expert on EDCs at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Discover the frightening health problems EDCs have caused on one Canadian Indian reserve.
Now new research is finding that some EDCs, the obesogens, may be helping to make us fat. This field of research is dominated by animal and test-tube studies. And while researchers note that the known effects of many obesogens are more potent in the unborn and newly born, some suspect a similar impact on adults.
Video: 'Skinny fat' masks obesity This combination of factors, along with our growing tendency to put on weight, is what we call the obesogen effect. Understanding it could be the key to freeing ourselves from weight gain and the other hazards of these chemicals.
Why traditional diets don't work
Decades ago, before big, soft guts were the norm in the United States, we referred to overweight people as having "glandular problems." Their weight was not their fault, doctors explained; their bodies just didn't have the ability to fight off weight gain like most people's bodies did.
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We don't use that polite phrase any longer. What changed? Now that about two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, did those folks with "glandular problems" disappear? No; it's just that many others have caught the same disease. Thanks to the obesogen effect, we may all be at risk for some glandular problems.
Because it's probably been a while since you took high-school anatomy, here's a quick refresher: Your endocrine system is the contingent of glands producing the hormones that regulate your body. Growth and development, sexual function, reproductive processes, mood, sleep, hunger, stress, metabolism — they're all controlled by hormones. And the pancreas, hypothalamus, adrenal glands, thyroid, pituitary gland, and testes are all part of that system. So whether you're male or female, tall or short, hirsute or hairless, lean or heavy — that's all determined in a big way by your endocrine system.
Your endocrine system is a finely tuned instrument that can easily be thrown out of kilter. "Obesogens are thought to act by hijacking the regulatory systems that control body weight," says Frederick vom Saal, Ph.D., curators' professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri. "And any chemical that interferes with body weight is an endocrine disruptor."
That's why obesogens seem to be good at making us fat — and why researchers are so bent on uncovering the truth about these chemicals. The NIEHS is funding studies that target them. The Endocrine Society, the largest organization for hormone research and clinical endocrinology, has also noted the connection. "The rise in the incidence in obesity matches the rise in the use and distribution of industrial chemicals that may be playing a role in generation of obesity," it stated in a recent report, "suggesting that EDCs may be linked to this epidemic."
That's one reason why weight-loss advice may not always work. In fact, even strictly following the smartest traditional advice won't lower your obesogen exposure. See, an apple a day may have kept the doctor away 150 years ago. But if that apple now comes with chemicals believed to promote obesity, then that advice is way out of date. In fact, apples have been named one of the most pesticide-laden produce choices out there.
The obesogen effect may be part of the reason why traditional dieting practices — choosing chicken over beef, eating more fish, loading up on fruits and vegetables — may not work anymore.
But as we began researching our book, "The New American Diet," we found some good news: There's no reason why our favorite foods — steak, burgers, pasta, ice cream — can't be part of a reasonable weight-loss program. We just need to move past the old thinking, and adopt some new laws of leanness.
Leanness law #1: Know when to go organic
Every day the average American is exposed to an estimated 10 to 13 different pesticides and/or their metabolites (breakdown products) through food, beverages, and drinking water.
Some of those chemicals can mimic estrogen during development, which can lead to weight gain later in life. Others can spur unnecessary fat-cell formation at any age. At the University of California at Irvine, Bruce Blumberg, Ph.D., recently reported that prenatal exposure to obesogens among mice can predispose them to weight gain later in life. The effect is likely the same in humans. In one study, the adult daughters of women who had the highest levels of DDE (a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT) in their blood during childbearing years were found to be 20 pounds heavier, on average, than daughters of women who had the least.
And the evidence continues to accumulate.
- Researchers have noted a link between organochlorine pesticides and impaired thyroid function. According to the Endocrine Society's 2009 report on EDCs, changes in thyroid function can result in metabolic effects. Indeed, the authors of a 2009 Thyroid Research article cited hypothyroidism, a symptom of which can be weight gain, as a possible effect of organochlorines on the thyroid.
- The authors of a study in the journal BioScience found that tributyltin, a fungicide, activates components in human cells known as retinoid X receptors, which are part of the metabolic pathway necessary for fat-cell formation. They also found that tributyltin causes the growth of fat cells in mice exposed to it. Although tributyltin is no longer used on crops, experts suspect that a similar compound still used on produce, fenbutatin, is at least as potent.
- The authors of a recent study in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology note that organophosphates and carbamates, two common classes of pesticides, cause obesity in animals.
But there is some hopeful research; a study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that children who ate fruits and vegetables free of organophosphorous pesticides for just 5 days reduced their urine concentrations of those pesticides to undetectable levels.Video: Organic food: A fresh approach to health?
According to the Environmental Working Group, you can reduce your pesticide exposure by nearly 80 percent simply by choosing organic versions of the 12 fruits and vegetables shown in its tests to contain the highest pesticide load. The group calls them the Dirty Dozen: In order of pesticide load, they are peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, kale, lettuce, imported grapes, carrots, and pears. There's a Clean Fifteen, too, a group of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables with the least pesticide residue: onions, avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, mangoes, asparagus, sweet peas, kiwis, cabbages, eggplants, papayas, watermelons, broccoli, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. No matter what kind of produce you're buying, use this guide to pick the perfect fruit and vegetables at your grocery store or farmer's market.
Leanness law #2: Stop eating plastic
You're thinking, Well, I don't generally eat plastic.
Ah, but you do.
Chances are you're among the 93 percent of Americans with detectable levels of bisphenol A (BPA) in their bodies, and you're also among the 75-plus percent of Americans with detectable levels of phthalates in their urine. Both of these synthetic chemicals, found in plastics, mimic estrogen. And like some pesticides, these chemicals can predispose your body from an early age to gain fat.
How do they end up inside you? Mostly through what you eat and drink: Phthalates can be found in food packaging, plastic wraps, and pesticides, as well as children's toys, PVC pipe, and medical supplies. Each year, about 18 billion pounds of phthalate esters are created worldwide, and they can easily leach into your body.
More than 6 billion pounds of BPA, found in polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins, is produced every year; it leaches from food and drink packaging, baby bottles, cans, and bottle tops. Pop the top off a jar of tomato sauce and check out the resin on the inside of the cap — that's where the BPA comes from.
Video: BPA in canned foods? A recent study published on BPA's effects on humans found that workers exposed to BPA at Chinese factories had more than four times the risk of erection difficulties. (Japan reduced the use of BPA in cans between 1998 and 2003; as a result, measures of BPA in some Japanese populations dropped more than 50 percent.) According to the Environmental Working Group, canned chicken soup, infant formula, and ravioli have BPA levels of the highest concern. And your sturdy reusable water bottle? After people drank out of a polycarbonate bottle (usually stamped with a 7 on the bottom) for just 1 week, their BPA levels jumped by nearly 70 percent, according to a seminal study from Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here's how you can limit your exposure.
- Follow vom Saal's rule: "No plastic item ever goes into the oven or the microwave." Heat can damage plastic and increase leaching.
- Avoid plastic-wrapped meat. "The plastic wrap used at the supermarket is mostly PVC, whereas the plastic wrap you buy to wrap things at home is increasingly made from polyethylene," vom Saal says. PVC contains phthalates that, according to animal studies, may lower testosterone levels. In humans, lower testosterone leads to weight gain as well as a decrease in muscle mass and sex drive. Go to a butcher who uses paper instead.
- Cut down on canned goods like tuna, and buy frozen vegetables in bags instead of canned produce. Consider buying Eden Foods canned beans and jarred foods, which are in BPA-free packaging.
- Use a nonplastic mug whenever you can. And for good measure, avoid drinking coffee or other hot beverages out of Styrofoam, which can leach styrene, a compound linked to cancer.
Leanness law #3: Don't eat the Viking
When was the last time you took a dose of weight-promoting hormones?
Okay, when was the last time you ate a burger?
The answer to both questions may well be the same. Every time you eat conventionally grown beef, there's a chance you're eating weight-gain hormones — a potential cocktail of natural and synthetic obesogens. In fact, a report in the International Journal of Obesity by researchers at 10 universities, including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell, notes that the use of hormones in meat could be a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic.
A 1999 European study concluded that people who eat meat from cattle treated with growth hormones are taking in hormones and their metabolites: estrogens in the range of 1 to 84 nanograms per person per day, progesterone (64 to 467 ng), and testosterone (5 to 189 ng).
A nanogram is a billionth of a gram: That's tiny. But it may be enough to disrupt the way your hormone system operates, research indicates. Some experts believe that certain obesogens exert influence at below 1 part per billion. And small amounts from many sources add up over time.
Perhaps even more worrisome are the potent synthetic steroids we ingest from beef. Trenbolone acetate is an anabolic steroid estimated to be eight to 10 times as potent as testosterone, which is an endocrine-disrupting chemical by definition. "This cocktail of hormones given to beef has huge consequences," vom Saal says. We know what happens to the body when it receives large doses of steroids over a short period of time, but there is no research on the effects of small doses over years.
To bring this all home, imagine you've been in a terrible plane crash in the Andes, like those poor souls depicted in the movie "Alive." The only way to survive is to pick one of the dead folks to eat. You're given the choice of an obese, grotesquely muscled, man-boob-toting Minnesota Vikings lineman with shrunken testicles who's been injecting himself with hormones for a dozen years, or someone of normal size and body type and hormonal function. (One of the Kardashian sisters, maybe.) Which would you choose?
Well, every time you eat conventionally raised beef, you're choosing the Viking.
There's a better way. Organic beef has none of the weight-promoting steroid hormones of conventional beef, while grass-fed beef has been found to have more omega-3s and more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). CLA is a fatty-acid mixture that's been linked to protection against cardiovascular disease and diabetes; it can also help you lose weight, according to a meta-analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Similarly, conventionally raised dairy cows are often given hormones to produce more milk, which may lead to some nutrient dilution. Grass grazing, however, may increase omega-3 content in milk. By choosing to eat and drink more omega-3s, more CLA, and more nutrients, you're choosing to fill your body with more nutrition — feeding your brain, fueling weight loss, and keeping hunger at bay.
Leanness law #4: Beware of the sneaky saboteurs
Ingesting pesticides, growth hormones, and plastic-based chemicals obviously isn't a good idea. But other, sneakier obesogens are at work. We're talking about high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and soy, which are added into your diet and the diet of the animals you eat, and which carry or are converted into natural obesogens.
But wait: Isn't soy good for your heart? Not necessarily. A review in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation notes that soy protein can lower LDL cholesterol, but only a measly 3 percent. You'd have to eat the equivalent of 2 pounds of tofu a day to reap that benefit. As a result, the AHA withdrew support for definitive health claims for soy protein and coronary heart disease. Yet soy is in hiding in everything from cookies to french fries to salad dressing. Scroll through this shocking slideshow to unearth what's hiding in your food.
The result of all that extra soy could be — get ready for it — more fat. This is particularly true for people who were given soy-based formula as infants. You see, soy contains two naturally occurring chemicals, genistein and daidzein, both of which are estrogenics, which can spur the formation of fat cells.
But wait! Guess who else is on a soy diet? Elsie, Wilbur, and Chicken Little — the animals we depend on for food. (Many fish, too, are chowing down on soy.) Chickens that once ate natural grasses and forage now feed on a high-energy diet of which soybean meal is a large component.
According to British researchers, this type of diet is partly to blame for the fact that some modern chickens contain two to three times as many calories from fat as from protein. (That's right: The chicken's proportion of muscle is dropping, just like ours! Sounds like the obesogen effect.)
So when you eat modern, supermarket chicken and beef you're eating more fat, less protein, and more obesogens.
High-fructose corn syrup, too, has been fingered by some experts as a possible player in the obesity crisis. HFCS is found in countless items, from bread to ketchup to Life Savers to cough medicine. Recent research indicates that a diet high in HFCS may trick your brain into craving more food even when you don't need it. And preliminary research indicates that HFCS may even play a role in disrupting the endocrine system, says Robert Lustig, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF. In overweight people, it interferes with leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite.
Is all this a bit disturbing? You bet. Depressing? Not at all. Because you can reconsider the old weight-loss advice — the "diet wisdom" that told you to stop eating burgers, pasta, and ice cream — and go back to eating what you love. Of course you should eat reasonably-sized portions. But the key is to eat natural, obesogen-free versions. Do this while keeping up your exercise program and over time you'll see results. Your waistline, your tastebuds, and even your muscles and libido will thank you.
Adapted from "The New American Diet" (Rodale 2009), available at bookstores and at NewAmDiet.com.
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Supposedly, it is said that Richard II of England have invented the pocket square, but it might only be the square shape he can take credit for. We are not quite sure if we believe that people didn't use a piece of cloth to wipe their forehead or nose before Richard II spoke up about the pocket square.
Nowadays, hygiene is at focus and people only use the pocket square as a colorful accessory to their outfit. Actually, hygiene was the reason for the pocket square to end in the breast pocket.
The reason being the pockets in the pants were filled with dirt, which made the pocket square dirty before it was used.
A pocket square shouldn't be from the same fabric as the tie or bow tie you are wearing. It might seem as the most natural thing that your tie and pocket square should be alike, but a pocket square is a supplement to your outfit and ought to give you more color and personality than your tie or bow tie.
Most blazers from Bertoni have a build-in pocket square. You can pull out the fabric from the breast pocket and get a soft puff fold.


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Hi, my name is Sergio, I´m interested in learning some English, I want to have the complete 620... ? irregular verbs list, but where can I find it? Please tell me the site I can do it, thank you very much
I signed up because I wanted the full list of 620 verbs.
If you have it- please make it accessible- if you dont- why claiming you have ?
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That second link mara_ce gave has a link to 470 irregular verbs, and that program Anglika linked to has 395, fully conjugated - isn't that enough? Considering there are words like 'beseech' in there, I would think so. Also, many of the words are just an irregular verb with a prefix attached: speak, forespeak, misspeak, outspeak, overspeak.
What makes both of you think there are around 620 irregular verbs?
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RonBee said (in 2007) - There are about 600 of the most common regular verbs on that list. That should be a good start.
Asasasas then said - Can you please direct me to the list with 600 irregular verbs ?
Notice, Asasasas, he said 'regular verbs'. I doubt there are 620 irregular verbs - at least being used by a fair number of people.
In that case, asasasas, Mara_ce already gave the link - the first one.


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The Holy Prophet Elijah Mission in Durango on Sunday closed its weekly service with a special guest: Bishop Benjamin Peterson, the Archbishop of San Francisco and the West of the Orthodox Church of America.
About 16 people attended the service in the Main Mall. The mission is led by the Rev. Benjamin Huggins.
Peterson said he oversees churches and missions – 65 total –in 10 western states, and that duty brought him to Colorado.
"It's a family of churches," Peterson said. "Basically, of the eastern part of the Mediterranean: Greece, Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia, Romania, and the middle East: Lebanon, North Africa and Egypt."
He said it was united with the Roman Catholic Church until 1054, when they split in the Great Schism. In North America, it began with a Russian mission in 1794 in Alaska. Currently, there are about 1.2 million members of the church in the U.S.
Peterson said a diversity in the church is reflective of America itself.
"America is a country of people who have immigrated from all kinds of places," he said. "Our church reflects that. I'm Scottish and Swedish, the Dean of my church is Japanese. Some of the parishioners are Russian, Ethiopian – all kinds of people – that's what America is. That's what we're about."
One of the oldest Orthodox parishes in the United States is in Calhan, Colorado, Peterson said, founded by Czechoslovakians a hundred years ago.
He described the sect as conservative, but one that adapts.
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Huggins welcomes the calling. Arriving in Durango last July, the Durango School District 9-R special education teacher and his wife, Lauren, a registered nurse, saw an opportunity for the parish in the region. They briefly congregated in an old cabin near Lemon Reservoir before establishing a new home.
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"only remember and talk about the good".
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read the lyrics:
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As I lay me down
Heaven hear me now
I'm lost without a cause
After giving it my all
Winter storms have come
And darkened my sun
After all that I've been through
Who on earth can I turn to?
I look to you,
I look to you
After all my strength is gone
In you I can be strong
aI look to you,
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Searching for that open door
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Led to my regret
And I don't know if I'm go'n make it
Nothing to do but lift my head
My levees are broken
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New Associate in Science in Dental Hygiene Program approved for Maui Community College
Dental Hygiene Program will help meet student, county and state needs for dental hygienists and address oral health crisis on MauiUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaiʻi — At its monthly meeting held today at Maui Community College, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents approved the Associate in Science in Dental Hygiene program at Maui Community College. The two-year program prepares students to become dental hygienists and provides a foundation for them to pursue lifelong learning in the field.
"The Dental Hygiene Program will address community needs for improving oral health and provide our students with a fulfilling career in a well-compensated and respected profession. We're extremely grateful for all of the support from the County of Maui, State Legislature, and our colleagues around the UH System for this initiative," said Maui Community College Chancellor Clyde Sakamoto.
The Maui Community College Career Ladder in Dental Assisting Certificate and Associate in Science in Dental Hygiene emerged from the oral health crisis on Maui and the need for dental assistants and dental hygienists.
These needs were first presented to the college in 2001, when Maui dentists and healthcare officials estimated that more than 30 percent of Maui residents had inadequate access to dental care. The issues surrounding this estmate are complex, and include lack of fluoridation, inadequate reimbursement for dental care, and a shortage of dental assistants and dental hygienists. A survey of Maui County dentists was also completed and 95 percent indicated a shortage of dental assistants and 94 percent indicated a shortage of dental hygienists.
The Maui Oral Health Initiative became a collaborative effort to address these issues and brought together a number of partners to explore the possibility of a dental auxiliary program at Maui Community College, including the HMSA Foundation, Hawaiʻi Dental Services, Maui County Dental Society, and the Maui County Dental Alliance, which includes the Department of Health, Community Clinic of Maui, Mobile Care Van-Office of Social Ministry of the Catholic Church, Hui No Ke Ola Pono, and the Veteran's Administration Center.
Due to this effort, the development of a Certificate of Completion in Dental Assisting has already been accomplished, and the Dental Assisting Program received full seven-year accreditation from the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation in January 2006. The program at Maui Community College is the only accredited dental assisting program in the UH system, and has awarded 52 students with certificates so far.
Establishment of the Associate in Science in Dental Hygiene program is the second step in the Initiative's plan. The program will meet student, county and state needs for dental hygienists and will prepare the dental hygiene students to competently provide care to clients of diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds while demonstrating the academic and clinical knowledge and skills required for the profession.
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Jesus Christ Himself announced His candidacy for the President of the United States in 2016.
Rather than commencing with the long awaited Second Coming, the Big Three (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) changed game plans and decided that the political path was a better way to reach modern man.
Following Obama's success of accomplishing the seemingly impossible by getting a black man nominated to the world's largest alleged democracy, the Holy Ones thought they could pull off a miracle and get a provenly ethical man nominated as well.
At first Republicans greeted the newcomer with open arms as one of their own thinking He would be aligned with their ways of thinking. However, once it became obvious that Christ was in support of such 'socialist' activities as free healing of illnesses, control of money lending institutions (including casting money lenders out of the temple), taking a passive stance with enemies, understanding and forgiving sinners, supporting gun control and other 'un-American' leanings, they changed their minds.
Now, as a solid block, they have begun a pogrom of character assassination on their former Savior. Ignoring their centuries long support of Jesus, they now paint Him as a weak individual who is soft on crime, is against war, and who does not love America and is dragging it down. FOX News has taken the lead on this with all the pundits taking turns defaming their former Lord and giving Him the Judas kiss.
Such statements as these were forthcoming:
Bill O'Reilly "Look who this Jesus hung out with back in Israel- prostitutes for god's sake! And simple fisherman. Will he be bringing his buddies into the Cabinet with him? What sort of a government will we have then? A loser convention? Of course that would fit in well with the Democrats. He also seemed to be a little too much into wine too if you ask me."
Karl Rove- "The Nazarene has no political depth at all. He would be perfectly happy forgiving every criminal in America and trying to straighten them out. This would cost oodles more money than just electrocuting the bums."
Ann Coulter- "This guy has Liberal written all over him. Just look at his hair and clothing! Do we want this man representing America? He looks like an Indian fakir!"
Rush Limbaugh- "There is no way this man is fit to run a country! He might be good at making high and mighty speeches but you didn't see him getting tough with the Romans did you? When the subject of taxes came up what did he say? 'Render unto Rome that which is Rome's.' There would surely be no room for him in the Republican party with that attitude."
Dick Cheney smirked snidely- "This wimp Jesus thinks we should turn the other cheek with the terrorists? What sort of a son of a vengeful God is that?"
Michael Savage- "Jesus! I can see why people say 'Jesus' all the time. I imagine the Jews and the Romans were saying 'Jesus!' a lot when he was around. Seems like a slacker to me. Hanging out with the boys and bumming around the countryside."
Sean Hannity- "Someone like this becoming President would be disastrous. If he goes around chasing money lenders out of the temples he's probably a communist. Who is to say that he might start chasing the capitalists out of the banks as well?"
The tirade kept up for days until Jesus cast their souls into swine and they ran off a cliff and died. Then the world was very peaceful for a while.


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Splitting up California's isn't a bad idea.
A state of this size and population, with so many media markets, doesn't fit together all that well.
Harvard researchers who study the size of states and countries say that California is far bigger than ideal size for a polity (You want to be the size of Switzerland, somewhere between six and eight million people).
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The problem is that all that talk about splitting in two is wasted breath, because it's not going to happen.
Why not? Our American occupiers won't let us.
It would mean adding another star to the flag. And giving us another two senators in the U.S. Senate. The other 49 states would lose a little bit of representation.
Splitting California only makes sense if we secede from the United States first. And that's not about to happen either.
But that doesn't mean California can't re-organize itself, in ways that legitimize the valid concerns of our regions. The best way to re-organize is to think about our loyalties.
Is our first loyalty to California? Do we think of ourselves as Californians first?
Or do we think of ourselves as citizens of our regions?
My answer to that question is yes.
When I travel around the country and the world and somebody asks me where I'm from, I usually tell them Los Angeles, not California.
Because I feel more Angeleno than Californian.
I drive LA's freeways and eat at LA's restaurants and root for the Lakers and the Dodgers and the Angels (yes, on that last one, the boundaries of Los Angeles can be a bit fluid).
Because of my job, I've traveled all over from California, but the state is full of places I don't know anything about and won't spend time in.
Heck, I live closer to Mexico and Arizona than I do to much of Northern California.
In years spent talking with Californians about the state, most people describe themselves as being from a particular region. The Bay Area, the Central Valley, San Diego, the Inland Empire, the Central Coast.
These regions are, by American standards, the real states of California.
They share media, sports teams, cultural institutions, weather and a state of mind. Californians often move within these regions, but they rarely move between the regions.
But despite our ties to regions, our governance isn't really regional.
Most California regions encompass multiple counties and many, many municipalities.
California's re-organization should be along regional lines. We should elect legislators to represent regions. We should remake our local governments into regional bodies.
\We have some experience with regional governance in matters like transportation and air quality.
We should do more here – and much less at the state level, since one size does not fit all of us.


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For the past six years, I have met with a group of highly analytical people every Saturday. We call ourselves the Saturday morning breakfast club. We gather to discuss a variety of topics. This past week's talk got a little heated once the name Tiger Woods was placed on the table. Pat Hoffman suggested Woods should apologize for objectifying women. Two hours later I began to see Pat's point.
I placed the question in my status box on Facebook. I wasn't a bit shocked at what came back. From, "I'm tired of this topic," to "You must be kidding" it was clear most believe Woods owes no apology for having sex with "those women." They grown enough to know what they were getting into. They should apologize to his wife. They participated in this fiasco by coming after Tiger because of his fame and cash.
The consensus among most is the same. The responses to that question leaves me brooding the implications of a world where sex is viewed as no more than a game pitting men versus women for the sake of whatever comes their way. The humanity of the people under the sheets has been stripped and transformed into objects there to satisfy the desire of the one in need of a release.
The names of the objects don't matter. It doesn't matter that there is a family back home, that there is a history connected to that warm body. She or he (yes, women do it too) is reduced to a depository there to stimulate his or her need for something missing. She becomes his crack fix. He becomes her mood altering sedative. People aren't present in that space. They are toys to be played with.
The public has spoken. They knew better. They participated in his act of play. That may be true, but there is a deeper issue to bear in this matter. If Tiger is engaged in a therapeutic process, and he is, then he must dig deeper and deal with the way he has reduced women to no more than those objects for his self-gratification. Until he does that he will remain stuck in a place where he contends he deserved to be the recipient of their offer to play due to his entitlement as a man with money and power.
Having willing participants doesn't resolve a man or woman of a deeper obligation to consider the humanity of those they use for play. Failing to make that apology absolves responsibility for the way one views those used for sex game. Tiger was able to do it because he minimized those women. In doing so he not only disregarded the worth of those women, he did the same with his wife. He engaged in a practice that has become common within the larger society-the placement of people within boxes to be used at the discretion of the one in control.
Tiger's wife served a purpose-take care of the children and to make him look good in public space. The women he had sex with served another role-to give him the space to engage in behavior that he felt he deserved as a man. He viewed women like the little white ball he hits on the golf course. They are there for play.
This conversation should not be relegated to a quarrel regarding Tiger's personal business. As he so eloquently put it, he needs to be left alone to rebuild his relationship with his wife. I raise the question for reasons beyond how the King of the golf course fell in the bunker. Critical in this matter is how the humanity of the other has been detached from the act of sex.
It's easy to get caught up in the game of sex when no person is connected to the act. To move forward, men and women like Tiger need to examine how they have used others for the sake of their self-gratification. It is true the other has willingly participated in that game, but that doesn't absolve a person of their responsibility to consider the worth of the people used in the game of sex. Failure to make that acknowledgement creates space for the continuation of the same form of manipulation.
Sorry folks, it's more than just sex. There's a person connected to that climatic experience. When women and men are used for the purposes of self-gratifications, the manipulator needs to apologize for living with a screwed up concept regarding the worth of those used in their game. It's not just Tiger's cross to bear.
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Seventy dodgeball teams vied for prize money totaling $11,000 at Skyline Sport & Health Club in Falls Church, VA, in February. The response to the tournament, which attracted more than 500 amateur dodgeball players, was so encouraging that the management team plans to add dodgeball to its repertoire of fitness programs.
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7.2.4 Radiative Processes
220.127.116.11 Radiative processes in the troposphere
Radiative processes constitute the ultimate source and sink of energy in the climate system. They are generally well known, and particularly the clear-sky long-wave transfer, including the absorption properties of most greenhouse gases. Their treatment in atmospheric general circulation models relies on several approximations: the fluxes are computed as averaged quantities over a few spectral intervals, the propagation is limited to the vertical upwelling or downwelling directions, and the role of sub-grid scale features of the clouds or aerosols is essentially neglected. Although this methodology is believed to have only a marginal impact on the accuracy of computed long-wave fluxes, the analysis of satellite, ground-based or aircraft measurements (Cess et al., 1995; Pilewskie and Valero, 1995; Ramanathan et al., 1995) has generated a concern that the radiative algorithms used in climate models could significantly underestimate the atmospheric shortwave absorption. Similar results have been obtained as part of the ARM/ARESE experiment (Valero et al., 1997; Zender et al., 1997). The excess, or "anomalous" observed absorption may reach typical values of about 30 to 40 Wm-2. Its very existence, however, remains controversial and is at odds with other investigations. Li et al. (1995) analysed large global data sets from satellite (ERBE) and ground observations (GEBA). They did not find the anomalous absorption except for a few tropical sites over a short period of time. The exception appears to be induced by enhanced absorption due to biomass burning aerosols (Li, 1998). Limited accuracy of the measurements (Imre et al., 1996) and the methodology of analysis (Arking et al., 1996; Stephens, 1996; Barker and Li, 1997) have been raised as possible contributing factors to the finding of the anomalous absorption.
A comparison of the ARM-ARESE measurements with a state of the art radiation code, which uses measured atmospheric quantities as an input, and relies on the same physical assumptions as used in climate models, indicated that the anomalous absorption is larger for cloudy than for clear conditions, and also tends to be larger for visible rather than for near-infrared fluxes (Zender et al., 1997). These two characteristics are consistent with the results of a comparison between the output of the CCM3 general circulation model and observations from Nimbus 7 (Collins, 1998). However, Li et al. (1999) analysed all the data sets collected during the ARM/ARESE experiment made by space-borne, air-borne and ground-based instruments and did not find any significant absorption anomaly. They traced the source of controversial findings to be associated with inconsistent measurements made by some air-borne radiometers as used in the studies of Valero et al. (1997) and Zender et al. (1997) with those from all other instruments. However, other studies (Cess et al., 1999; Pope and Valero, 2000; Valero et al., 2000), that do find a significant absorption anomaly, have further demonstrated that the ARESE data do indeed satisfy a number of consistency tests as well as being in agreement with measurements made by other instruments. Meanwhile, evidence of enhanced cloud absorption has been found from measurements of the MGO aircraft laboratory (Kondratyev et al., 1998). Inclusion of anomalous absorption has been found to improve the representation of atmospheric tides (Braswell and Lindzen, 1998). There finally exists evidence of an effect associated with clear-sky conditions – in the presence of aerosols: models tend to overpredict clear-sky diffusion to the surface (Kato et al., 1997).
The three dimensional nature of the solar radiation diffusion by cloud (Breon, 1992; Cahalan et al., 1994; Li and Moreau, 1996) is unaccounted for by present climate models and may play some role in anomalous absorption. In a recent study using a Monte-Carlo approach to simulate three-dimensional radiative transfer, O'Hirok and Gautier (1998a; 1998b) show that cloud inhomogeneities can increase both the near-infrared gaseous absorption and cloud droplet absorption in morphologically complex cloud fields. The enhancement is caused when photons diffused from cloud edges more easily reach water-rich low levels of the atmosphere and when photons entering the sides of clouds become trapped within the cloud cores. The amplitude of those effects remains limited to an average range of 6 to 15 Wm-2, depending on the solar angle. The inhomogeneities significantly affect the vertical distribution of the heating, though, with potential consequences on cloud development. Incorporating the effect of cloud inhomogeneities in radiative algorithms may become a necessity, and recent efforts have been made along that path (Oreopoulos and Barker, 1999).
If anomalous absorption turns out to be real, it is an effect that will need to be incorporated into radiation schemes. Evaluation of its importance is hampered by lack of knowledge of a physical mechanism responsible for the absorption, and hence lack of a physical basis for any parametrization. Modelling studies by Kiehl et al. (1995) have demonstrated the sensitivity of the simulated climate to changes in the atmospheric absorption. As a radiative forcing, anomalous absorption is fundamentally different from water vapour or CO2 in that it does not significantly alter the Earth's net radiation budget. Instead, it shifts some of the deposition of solar energy from the ground to the atmosphere (Li et al., 1997), with implications for the hydrological cycle and vertical temperature profile of the atmosphere. Anomalous absorption may not, however, appreciably affect climate sensitivity (Cess et al., 1996).
Model validation is also affected. Many of the data which are used to tune or validate model parametrizations, such as the Liquid Water Path (LWP) or the droplet equivalent radius, are obtained from space measurements by the inversion of radiative algorithms, which ignore cloud inhomogeneities and anomalous absorption. This gives a strong importance to satellite instruments such as POLDER which provide measurements of the same scene at a variety of viewing angles, and provides a good test of the plane-parallel hypothesis in retrievals of cloud quantities.
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From underground heroes to internationally acclaimed act, hotly-tipped rockers Motionless In White have slayed audiences worldwide. With the release of their highly-anticipated second album Infamous, the scintillating sextet defiantly strides into a new era, ready to take the spotlight --- and truly make their mark.
In the two years since the release of acclaimed debut 'Creatures', Motionless In White has constantly challenged the concept of "playing it safe". Unafraid to make music as intense as it is intricate, their ability to interweave powerful lyrics and strong musicianship with striking imagery that has captivated both fans and media around the globe. Infamous sees the band embracing the hype and stepping up to the plate, delivering a collection of 13 tracks that has refined, defined and intensified the band's sound. Stepping off a successful full summer on Vans Warped Tour, the band storm into sold out runs in the UK and Japan, before wowing fans this fall on their first North American headline tour. Matching the musical elements with equally creative marketing and visual concepts, Motionless In White are coming out swinging --- and won't stop until they make jaws drop!


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ARCast.TV - Change Your Life By Podcasting with Carl Franklin
Ready for a change of pace? I'm warning you... this video is very low-tech. You could say it's non-tech but a lot of fun. Have you heard of .NET Rocks? Well Carl is the co-host and so I run into him in a variety of places but we never really had a chance to talk. So on this episode - enjoy about 10 minutes of a fun chat.
Oh yeah and a special second anniversary look back at ARCast.TV
Oh yeah and a special second anniversary look back at ARCast.TV
The Discussion
Man 1: It's Friday, October 12, 2007 and you're watching ARCast.TV with Ron Jacobs.
Ron Jacobs: Hey, welcome back to ARCast.TV. This is your host, Ron Jacobs, and today we're going to talk about something that's kind of a little offbeat. You know, a little different than your typical ARCast show. But we're going to talk about something that's changed my life, might change your life, and changed the life of somebody else I know: Carl Franklin of ".NET Rocks!"
Now when I was down in Orlando at Tech Head US, I had a chance to grab Carl. We're always bumping into each other at these things, and Carl is around recording ".NET Rocks!" shows and doing his thing, and I'm often there recording ARCast and speaking at events as well. So I saw Carl and I said "Dude, c'mere, c'mere, let's record a quick podcast. It's only eleven minutes long. It does not talk about architecture, OK?" But we're just talking about podcasts, podcasting, how he got started, and, you know, it's an interesting talk, what can I say?
But wait, there's one more thing. In celebration of our two year anniversary of ARCast we made a little fun promotional video, so check that out and then we'll go to Orlando and hear from Carl Franklin.
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Man 2: My name's Gar McCrista and I'm from Dublin, and I like Cark [laughter]
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Man 3: [laughing] Take two!
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Man 2: Hi, my name's Gar McCrista, I'm from Dublin, and I like ARCast because it's a great way to pick up information really quick.
[music starts: Blur's "Song 2"]
Man 4: [over the introduction of the song, soft rhythmic drums and electric guitar] Oh, man, I'm so hungry, I need some dinner. Ah! Tuna!
[sound of electric can opener operating]
Oh yeah, mayo, got to get some mayo.
[sound of refrigerator opening]
D'oh! We're outta mayo! Oh great, and now I've got an open can of tuna.
If only there were transactions in real life.
[song moves into a loud segment, with heavy guitars, strong drum rhythm, and a wildly shouted "Woooo Hoooo"]
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Ron: Hey, welcome back to ARCast.TV, and today I'm here at Tech Head in Orlando where I'm joined by fellow podcaster and co-host of.NET Rocks, Carl Franklin. Hey, welcome, Carl.
Carl: Thank you, Ron.
Ron: It's so funny because we run into each other at these events now and then and you guys have been podcasting for forever and a day.
Carl: Since before podcasting really. Since 2002.
Ron: Wow and I remember kind of seeing your show and thinking "what's that?" but it's really done well hasn't it?
Carl: Yeah, at first we didn't know--we had no idea what was coming of course but I've always been a fan of public radio--PRI or NPR or whatever. There are a whole bunch of shows on the radio that are done like this. Like Science Friday is a great one. They're always talking to somebody about technical stuff and of course it's not going to be a huge audience. It's a niche audience. So I thought, "let's do something like that." My medium is the Internet and audio, so I just made MP3s and people were downloading them. There were like 200 downloads for the first couple of weeks, just emailing my friends and really we never had to do any advertising or anything and it just grew.
Ron: That's amazing. So you just kind of started this out of the clear blue.
Carl: Absolutely. It was just something I--first of all I'm an audio guy right? I'm an audio engineer and I'm a musician so I like creating the music beds and it gave me an excuse and all that stuff, so it gave me a great reason to write off all that equipment.
Ron: [laughs] There you go.
Carl: But that wasn't the real reason of course. So I always just wanted to merge all these things that I do into one big project and I didn't know that I would be getting out of doing teaching which is what I was doing at the time. I had no idea that I would one day give that up to do this.
Ron: So were you like teaching.NET or...?
Carl: Yeah, I was doing hands on training in.NET and I built a training company around that so now that training company is going on and we're getting other people in other classes and going and doing on sites and things but I personally had to stop doing it because if you're doing a five day class you know you can't even do one show a week let alone five or six.
Ron: Yeah, wow. You know, I think it's interesting when you talk about the training angle because one of the reasons I started ARCast was because I was working with people who were architects and they were like, "well there are so many new things coming and I don't have time to learn about this stuff" and "I can't keep up with all the latest trends" so it seemed like rather than saying "I'm going to go get a big dose of something one week" if you just kind of weekly listen to a program or two you can keep up with things.
Carl: Yeah, and we also didn't have any idea that people would start downloading them and burning CDs and listening to them in their cars. But I think that's the real secret of podcasts' allure is the fact that people commute and the commute is the number one place where people listen to podcasts. It's the number one place.
Ron: Which is true. I remember when I first started this listening to an expert talk about the time that people have and how busy they are and people don't have time for this and they don't have time for that, but there was one amount of time that was growing. It was commute time.
Carl: It's growing. That's right. As cities expand and suburbs expand people sometimes have a two-hour commute. Easy.
Ron: Yeah, and I hear people say "I listen while I'm on the train" or "I listen while I'm in the car." What surprised me was how many people like the video podcasts.
Carl: We were just talking about this before the cameras were rolling.
Ron: Yeah, Yeah. I use to say we're on audio only because we're not that good looking. [laughs]
Carl: That's right. I have a face made for radio!
Ron: Yeah, Yeah.
Carl: Which is a clich in the radio business. Nobody wants to hear that anymore, but it's so true. Well, Channel Nine is a testament to how well video works I guess in podcast form.
Ron: I've had people say--I had one guy send me an email from Cuba. He said "I don't get to go to Tech Ed. I don't get to go to these things but I can listen to your show and it feels almost like I'm there."
I think people have reached out to the virtual community in a sense. Maybe they live in a place where there isn't a great.NET user group or something like that. So they connect this way.
Carl: I get the same thing about dnrTV which is more about training than it is about podcasting. dnrTV is something we do where we always wanted to be able to show people the code. Of course it's audio, so we do a Camtasia screencast where you get the same audio that you get in.NET Rocks. It's me talking to the person as an interview, but at the same time we can both write code. They can show things and I can ask questions as a proxy for the listener for the viewer. We've gotten a lot of emails recently that people watch this at lunch with a group.
Ron: Ah, OK.
Carl: A "Lunch and learn" kind of thing. Part of it is growing and I get emails all the time from people who say they can't--not only are they remote, they are not able to travel to places--they don't have the funds. They don't have the money to do it.
Ron: Oh, yeah.
Carl: So they don't have the money to have a personal trainer or go to a big training class for a week. So it really works out.
Ron: Then there is a guy you and I both know, Scott Hanselman.
Carl: Oh, Scott, he's a dynamo.
Ron: Isn't He? He's hilarious.
Carl: Amazing, Scott Hanselman.
Ron: I was saddened that he couldn't be here this week. That was a bummer. In fact he and I were going to do a pre-conference session together. I had to do all six hours, "Thanks, Scott!" [laughs] But no, it's fine. I love his show. How did you guys get started doing that?
Carl: First of all, Scott Hanselman and I met at an RD summit, I think was 2003. It was a PDC or a Tech Ed or one of those things where the RDs got together. I was sitting across from him at dinner, and I said, "You are a smart man. This is somebody I want to talk to more." So we got into this conversation that went from software to mythology, this all encompassing thing.
He became one of the earliest guests on.NET Rocks. Over the time I started reading his blog. He's just a dynamo. When I say dynamo, he is.
Ron: Yeah.
Carl: He has the best blog post. He's thorough; he's fair about everything that he does. I asked him if he wanted to do this show about him because, here's the thing, and it was Tech Ed 2005, maybe? He was riding around on a Segway. Podcasting was like this big thing in 2005. Someone was interviewing me about podcasting and he drives through the frame on the Segway and goes "Podcasting sucks. Podcasting sucks." It's like Green Eggs and Ham. Turns out, what he really meant to say was "Pod casts suck." Not "Podcasting."
He went and he listened to what people were doing. He was just horrified by the lack of content and the "Hey, we're podcasting" attitude that seems to be so prevalent. When I asked him, do you want to do this? He says, "OK, but no fluff, all business. Let's just knock it out."
Ron: Yeah.
Carl: Great, that sounds great. It's different than DNR and it's all him. That white noise you're hearing is rain hitting the roof.
Ron: I know. It's like a major storm here. The thing--from time to time I get people who say to me, "Hey, Ron, I'm going to do a podcast. Do you have any advice for me?" I'm sure you get this all the time. Right?
Carl: All the time. Like where do I start? [laughs]
Ron: I think most people really underestimate the commitment it takes to do this on a regular basis. Don't you?
Carl: Not only to come up with content, but the production part of it is particularly hard and deceptively difficult. I think a lot of people think that audio is just there. Because it is for most people. It's just there, it's everywhere. You turn on the radio, the TV, the audio's good, and it's clean. It's there without realizing somebody did a little bit more than stick a microphone in somewhere.
Ron: Oh yeah, I've had to learn a heck of a lot about audio as many of my listeners can attest to. When I mess it up I get all kinds of complaints about it. If it were possible, I would just hire pros like we have here to just do it for me all the time, but I don't get that.
Carl: When you find out what pros charge, Oh my god! We're actually going to--and I've been asked this a lot--as you know, I've turned podcasting into a company. That does podcasting services and its audio services. I call it podcasting services because it does include RSS and all those things. It's really audio post production that we do mostly.
One thing we're not doing is like going out and recording for people. That's going to be a big waste of time for us. I've decided to document our entire production process and recording process and just give it away for free.
Ron: Ah, there you go.
Carl: So you are going to see something online fairly soon in video form that shows us going through the entire process of selecting microphones. What are the different situations under which you would record? How do I get a good signal? How do I process the audio so that it's nice and loud, that it doesn't distort, that it's clean, no noise, separating, EQ, all of these things?
Ron: Wow.
Carl: We're going to show--basically people are going to say, "I don't want to do that." But for those that think they can and want to, it's a service we can give away, that information.
Ron: That's great.
Carl: There's way more need for people to be able to do it than there is work that we could possibly get out of it.
Ron: Well, that would be fantastic. I would love it because I really feel ignorant sometimes. I'm an architect. I don't know anything audio engineering. I look at all these gizmos on the software.
Carl: Most content providers are the same way. The have the content and they want to do it themselves.
Ron: Yeah [laughs]
Carl: It's true.
Ron: Well, I just thought we keep running into each other, we've never done this, and people like to have a little change of pace sometimes, so why not?
We're here at Tech Ed thinking about podcasting. Thanks so much Carl for being on ARCast.
Carl: And thanks for our universes colliding. Real fun.
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Ron: all right. We'll see you next time from Tech Ed.
That was really great fun just hearing about Carl. Man, started in 2002, there's something, some kind of big advantage of being an early adopter of things and being a first mover.
I'm always amazed as I speak to people that become relatively well-known people like Martin Fowler or Jeffery Richter, or other people who have been on ARCast.TV. I'm amazed at how they got started. Often it's by writing a book, becoming a great blogger or something like that. You want to stand out. You've got brilliant ideas. The world's got to hear them some way.
Who knows, you could be the next big famous guy, right? One way you can learn a lot and stick around over many years is by staying informed. Lifelong learning is the key and that's why we do ARCast.TV. Hope you're enjoying it. See you next time!


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IPCC Professor wants communist-style controls on giving birth
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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, January 7, 2011
Top United Nations Professor David Shearman isn't content with forcing the planet to worship a new green God while accepting the abolition of freedom and its replacement with an authoritarian global government run by "elite warriors," he also wants Americans to pay a carbon tax of more than $18,000 dollars for each CO2 exhaling, mother earth killing child they have.
In an article published earlier today, we learned how Shearman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide and Assessor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, wants to dispense with democracy and replace it with an "authoritarian government" run by elite eco-guardian warriors who will invent a new green religion to coerce the proles into following their every order in the name of saving the planet.
We are now starting to get a clearer picture of how the "elite warriors" in control of this enviro-dictatorship will dominate every aspect of human society, down to the very act of procreation itself.
In an article posted on the Doctors for the Environment Australia website (of which he is President), Shearman laments the fact that "behavior modification" by global warming alarmists is not working because most people have been brought up in "liberal democracies" that allow them some semblance of freedom. He calls for, "Enforced rules whether at the collective level through carbon trade with penalties OR at the individual level."
"The first step to overcoming this obstacle, Professor Shearman writes, is persuading the governments of the world that curtailing the right to have children is an absolutely essential part of the fight against global warming," points out Haunting the Library blog.
Shearman quotes a letter that appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia which discusses how children having the temerity to breathe is harming the planet and that "population control" needs to be enforced as part of a "second ecological revolution".
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In a subsequent article entitled, Please Pay the Climate Change Tax on Your Children, Shearman argues that this new green revolution should be funded by a carbon tax on those who dare to break Communist-style one child policies enforced by his yearned for totalitarian global government. Under the notorious one child policy in China, women who defy its edicts are sent to "re-education camps," once they have been beaten, forcibly injected and had their baby boiled alive inside their womb, of course.
"Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by a new human being," he writes. "They should pay 5,000 dollars (4,400 US) a head for each extra child and up to 800 dollars every year thereafter."
"Over 18 years, that works out to a climate change child tax of approximately $18,800 US. Professor Shearwater doesn't comment on what penalties would be imposed on couples failing to pay the tax. Perhaps confiscation is a possibility. Who knows?" asks Haunting the Library.
The agenda for a global one child policy is being advanced by billionaire elitists who are exploiting the contrived climate change scam to push for total control over mankind.
In a May 2009 confab in London, a gaggle of rich "philanthropists," including David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and George Soros met to discuss ways of "solving overpopulation".
As we have tirelessly documented, "population control" has nothing to do with saving the planet – the United Nations' own figures show that world population will level out at 9 billion and then make a rapid decline.
In reality, what is now termed population control is merely a disguise for the barbaric and arcane race-based theories of eugenics, which were exported out of Britain where they originated by Rockefeller's father, John D. Rockefeller, to Nazi Germany, where they were cited by Hitler as a justification for the holocaust, the sterilization of so-called defectives and state-sanctioned mass murder of disabled people.
Hat Tip: Haunting The Library
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV's) make up a very special demographic along the Big Island's Hamakua Coast. A recent Sunday afternoon "photo op" brought together seven couples from the area, all of whom met and married during, or as a result of, their service in Peace Corps. They, along with numerous other RPCV's, will be special honorees in Honokaa's Peace Day Parade on Sunday, September 18, in celebration of Peace Day and the Peace Corps' 50th Anniversary this year.
Romel Delacruz, retired Executive Director of Hale Ho'ola and Jodean Delacruz, former principal of Honokaa High School, met on assignment in the Philippines in the 1960's.
About the same time, David and Gloria Myklebust, both educators, met in New York City before their service in Cameroon, on Africa's central western coast. They've been told they are the first couple to be given permission to marry while serving in the Peace Corps.
Walter Mosch met future wife Janet Goh in graduate school in international studies at Columbia University, not long after Walter's service in Cameroon, 20 years after the Myklebust's (who coincidentally live next door).
Steve and Jacinta Hanks fell in love in Papua New Guinea during Steve's service in the 1990's. They both teach at Honokaa High School, and have devoted countless hours to helping the people of Jacinta's homeland, the Carteret Islands.
Other Hamakua residents with ties to the Peace Corps include Bill and Jane Lichter (Saipan), Joe and Karen Clarkson (Marshall Islands), Andrew and Patricia Andrade Stout (Ecuador), Theresa Lee and Stephen Oldfather.
What makes Hamakua such a "peace-full" community? Hard to say. The rural lifestyle of the former sugar cane plantation town is a factor; the island's tolerance for families of mixed races may be another, as well as work opportunity at Honokaa High School, good weather for growing things, and a strong sense of place.
Romel Delacruz estimates that of the 200,000 RPCV's since the Peace Corps' inception in 1961, 200 live in Hawaii. Some RPCV's trained in Waipio Valley, where a full-scale hamlet was constructed to replicate a Southeast Asian village.
In celebration of the Peace Corps 50th Anniversary, an island-wide reunion is planned for November 14-21, with events in Kona, Hilo and Waipio Valley. For more information, visit www.rpcvhi.org.
The 5th Annual Parade & Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace steps off at 11 a.m. from Honokaa High School, and proceeds down Mamane Street. With Taiko drums, marching bands, Bon Dance, belly dancers, jazz, rock & roll, hula and more, the Peace Day Parade is a "moving stage" of music, dance and entertainment with a message. Concurrently, a Peace Day Festival takes place at the Honokaa Sports Complex from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with great local and ethnic foods, artists and crafters, live entertainment and a large community Bon Dance for everyone to join.
The 5th Annual Parade & Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace are presented by the Peace Committee of the Honokaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in cooperation with the United Nations and numerous community organizations. Major financial support has been provided by the County of Hawaii Department of Research and Development (Tourism Division) CPEP and the Social Concerns Committee of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii.
For more information visit www.PeaceDayParade.org or email email@example.com
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Many people believe that mood can affect health. Now it appears that unselfish happiness does as well.
A new study of the genetic effects of happiness indicates people whose happiness is based on hedonism, or consuming things, have higher levels of biological markers known to promote increased inflammation throughout the body and lower levels of markers that increase antibody production.
That means hedonists may have more of the inflammation that is linked to the development of cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and less ability to fight off infections.
Meanwhile, volunteers whose happiness was more based on a sense of higher purpose and service to others had just the opposite — lower levels of pro-inflammatory gene expression and higher levels of the markers that increase antibody production.
The New York Times recently reported that researchers from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles conducted the study of 80 healthy volunteers, who filled out an online questionnaire that asked why they felt satisfied with their lives and compared results with an analysis of their white blood cells.
Steven W. Cole, senior author of the study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said genes appear to respond differently to a purpose-driven life than to a shallower one.
Though the study is based on a relatively small number of people, it raises an interesting idea: people who do good for others may reap the reward of a healthier life.
But, alas, the study also found that the true altruists were a small minority of study participants, and it noted that plenty of participants reported getting happiness both from consuming things and helping others.
Most of us probably feel happiness both from what we have and what we do. But it wouldn't hurt to increase what we do to help others.
Our communities have plenty of opportunities for people to help. From donating to the food bank to volunteering in schools to volunteering with one of the many nonprofits in the area, almost everyone can find a way to help someone else — and perhaps help themselves in the process.