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Okay, so he may only be twelve (for the 100th time) but Peter Pan is right! Life is a big adventure full of unknowns that can be scary or exciting or both! Right now I'm feeling both...
I'm a planner. I like to plan things month by month, week by week, day by day, hour by hour, etc. If I don't, I don't feel secure so I'm currently scared out of my mind for December after I graduate; and I worry now because it'll be here before I know it & I like to plan things by at least a year ahead haha! I constantly am thinking of questions....
- Where am I going to move to? (FL? CA? NY? Who Knows, I Don't! I just know that I'm up for anything!)
- Am I going to get the Disney Professional Internship? (wont find out until 2/3 months before I would have to move)
- Will I be able to afford to live on my own? (doubtful, with my luck I'll have to live at home until I have enough money)
These questions & many more are driving me crazy!?! And the answers I want are of course are unrealistic, but a girl can dream right? but I need to be realistic I'm going out into the real world soon ahhhh!!!
Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck on a treadmill walking in the same place without any sort of proof that I'm moving forward, but I'm done w/that feeling. I'm going to take bigger steps & get out of my comfort zone and take a nice jog in an unfamiliar, but beautiful area in life that will let me continue to move on until I want to take a quick rest stop to check out the scenery.
Yes I'm still talking about my life (I would never actually take a jog just for the hell of it HAHA!) My point being, I'm ready to move on with my life & not doing the same thing over and over again. I have amazing things going for me right now, especially one specific part of it ♥ and there are things I don't want to change, but I need to get out of WV & stay out of WV. I need to be done w/school & never look back, I am ready to move on and have a real life, I want to go on adventures & explore the world, I want to live my life w/no regrets, but financially I can't do anything that I really want so I'm worried about that.
Okay now I sound like I'm whining, I promise I'm not, I'm just looking forward to what life has for me, now lets just hope I take the correct paths that'll lead to success. I think that if I follow my heart & my gut I'll be just fine ... right?? =)
"I don't know where I'm goin but I sure know where I've been hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday. An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time but here I go again, here I go again."
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Other few ones which I remember are: Arabian Nights, Chandrakantha, Jungle Book, Chitrahaar, Rangoli.....
Please add to the list if you remember any :)
PS: Malgudi Days episodes can be watched watched online.
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Got this as a forwarded mail and felt nostalgic! :)ReplyDelete
hey that was gr8..i remember mogli n that ek chidiya anek chidiya advertisement..:)ReplyDelete
Wow...brought back so many memories...it's amazing how some people sitting in the offices of Doordarshan have actually made such a telling difference in our lives...ReplyDelete
Nice collection... a few other popular shows in those days were Chandrakanta, The Jungle Book, Stone Boy, The world this week, ek se badh kar ek... etc!ReplyDelete
OH MY GOD!! I loved oshin but it was taken off air suddenly :(
Hated Alif Laila
i feel sooooo nostalgic...
patichar was one more serial i watched. then 'hum panchi ek chawl ke'
how could you forget mahabharat? 8O
Nostalgia. I remember this and so many like Space city Sigma, Phatichar, Karamchand, Stone Boy, Subah, Chunauti, Karmabhoomi, yatra, Nukkad. Golden era.ReplyDelete
LMAO at Doordarshan's Screensaver. Thats crazy thinking!! :) and yeah the images brought back the old days! Wonderful.ReplyDelete
Hi Manasa, how are you?
I am following up on the Bangalore Indiblogger meet this Saturday at Microsoft campus http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=26. It is at tomorrow 3:30 PM. Just a gentle reminder. Looking forward to meeting with you there.
anwin at indiblogger dot in
feeling nostalgic now .
i want them back
Alif Laila, Vikram aur bedal, Krishna, Mahabharata!ReplyDelete
Old days, beautiful doordarshan, no distractions of any movie channels ...
thanks for helping relive it.
how could the list miss rangoli which came on sunday morningsReplyDelete
just to add a few more.... ek-do-teen-char, mickey n donald, buniyad, humlog, udaan, the RIN ad with Lalitaji, Spiderman cartoon, "Humko pata hai G - Parle-G", Gold-Spot - The Zing Thing... the list would go on...ReplyDelete

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Beyond defensiveness
It is one thing for us to lambast the situation in our own country, another for outsiders (ignorant foreigners) to level any criticism. This defensiveness is a very human reaction and rather common in academic circles. Not surprisingly, Constructing Singapore by Michael Barr and Zatko Skrbiš has provoked a fair amount of local criticism in Singapore since its publication two years ago.
It was thus refreshing to read a far more measured response to the study by the Singaporean scholar, You Yenn Teo, recently published in Pacific Affairs (vol. 84:3, September 2011). Although in a few respects critical of the study, nonetheless overall he is rather positive about the book.
Constructing Singapore begins with a provocative claim: that Singapore, outwardly a modern, secular state committed to meritocracy and multiracialism has in fact, beginning from the 1980s, moved toward a model of nation building that prioritizes ethnic Chinese and a particular form of Chineseness. Focusing on the education system and particularly on elite selection within it, Barr and Skrbiš draw on historical data and interviews with key informants, to illustrate the ways in which ethnic minorities are systematically disadvantaged and left out of the administrative and political elite in contemporary Singapore.
This book is a welcome addition to recent critical scholarship on the Singapore state and particularly its incomplete and often one-sided version of history. In its detailing of Singapore's education system over the past few decades, it provides a valuable record of key moments and changes, central logics and tensions. Most importantly, the authors maintain a sustained commitment to showing the institutionalization of inequalities. They paint a compelling image of what these patterns of segregation have meant for Singaporean Malays in particular, and for Singapore citizens more generally.
Barr and Skrbiš end with another provocative claim: that the system of elitism fosters among ordinary Singaporeans a sense of skepticism and distaste that may ultimately undermine sentiments of national belonging.
The book will not be surprising for scholars familiar with the Singapore case, particular those who have themselves undergone the education system, but its attention to the specificities of the system gives much-needed concreteness to impressions.
As the authors point out, the ethnic Chinese majority are often oblivious to their own advantages. I can therefore see the book opening the eyes and shaping discussions in university classrooms. Barr and Skrbiš have also paved the way for future research by showing the gaps in our understanding of how inequality is reproduced and the costs that are borne by all Singaporeans.
This review is unlikely to change attitudes to Constructing Singapore in some quarters. Nonetheless, having an insider acknowledge that these particular outsiders are not ignorant (and their study not rubbish) - far from it - is very much welcome here at the Press.
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The Danger of the Lens
Published Date : Dec 20, 2017
The Danger of the Lens
By Roma Sonik
2017 English Teaching Assistant Fellow
It was my second day of teaching. The windows in the classroom were opened wide, but I was sweating through my black dress. Some of it was due, no doubt, to the Bangkok heat—but the remaining ninety-nine percent was the result of nervous energy. It was the final week of orientation month, and we were teaching an English camp for a week as a way to prepare for the year ahead.
I ignored my palpating heart (was it possible that 20 eager high school children could make me so nervous?), and, together with my co-teacher, instructed the class to gather in a circle, preparing them to play a reinvented version of hot-potato.
I set up my speakers, and Beyoncé blared in the classroom. We strategically stopped the music on the most talkative boy, certain that his excitable persona would encourage his classmates to participate.
"What is your favorite food?" I ask him, slowly, deliberately.
The boy, named Toon (I later found, is short for "Cartoon") exclaimed without hesitation, "KFC! My favorite food is KFC!"
I was taken aback. KFC? As in, Kentucky Fried Chicken? What?
But trying not to skip a beat, I responded- "Yes, KFC! Very nice, Toon."
As I thought about it later, I realized that the visceral reaction I felt was a kind of an "Oh no!", a concern that Toon's preferences evidenced the muddying of Thai culture by some Other influence. "Is nowhere sacred?" I remember thinking. I was here to learn about Thai food—kao soi, tom yum, and som tam. But KFC? KFC? What kind of a cultural exchange was that?
Chimamanda Ngoze Adiche, a feminist icon perhaps best known for her novel Americanah, gave a famous Ted talk in 2009, titled "The Danger of a Single Story."
In the piece, she explains how the single narrative of Africa has dispossessed Africans of their identity, by perpetuating stereotypes and creating monoliths out of complex stories. She warned of the dangers of equating a single experience with an entire group.
As I mulled over my issues with KFC, I realized that I had fallen in the trap of a single story.
This is a guilty admission, for me. It is not my first rendezvous with international cultures and their nuanced complexities– my parents, though Indian by origin, were born and raised in Kenya. I, in turn, was born and raised in the United States. The threads of history, sacrifice, privilege, and culture that overlap in the story of my family history alone should have reminded me that each unit, whether family or nation, contains multitudes and contradictions.
Unknowingly, I had become complicit in buying into the 'single story' in a way that was shaping my reality. I had absorbed a preconception about Thailand, and it had morphed into a lens through which I was reading my experiences.
Lenses encourage us to seek out experiences that fit our distorted preconceptions of what something is, should be, or should become. As a result, we build a bias: we only continue to notice and act on things that support our single-storied narratives. We dismiss things that are "not Thai enough" or mentally emphasize our predeterminations. The real danger seems to be that these "single stories" are a lens that we do not even realize we are wearing. If left unchecked, we turn a three-dimensional world into a single story, able to be stuffed into a box of things we Already Knew, things we have read about online—"Mai Bpen Rai" and "Thai time" boxes. The danger is this: if we do not question our own lenses, we may well find that we see the same stories everywhere we look.
All the while, we remain convinced that we are seeing things as they truly are. We pass judgments—as I did to Toon—on what is or is not "authentic" and find a compulsion to assess our experiences as "good" or "bad" at every turn. What does not fit our paradigm of the Vision that we have built, we choose to reject as contrived, inauthentic, or, worst, "touristy."
As educators, appointed change makers, it is quite easy to see why many of us could fall into this practice; we seek out anecdotes that fit our notions of what is wrong with the way things are, because we are so eager to fix them. Fulfilling the single story narrative placated the problem-solver in me, allowing me point to a simple solution that followed from the lenses that I had built. "See?" I found myself thinking, after spending hours learning about Thai time. "Things aren't punctual! If only it were punctual, my students would learn faster!" Such "ruminations," of course, fail to recognize all the other impacts at play.
What I have learned during orientation month in Thailand is the following: Fulbrighters are a zany, unconventional bunch. We have come from many different walks of life. If you corner any one of the twenty-two of us, and ask, "Why did you choose Thailand, of all places?" the range of answers will startle you: cultural identities, academic interests, friends' experiences.
But what is more startling than the diversity of answers is the glimpse that each line of reasoning provides into the Big Experience that is Thailand. Each of us are convinced of something about Thailand. While this means that we bring a range of experiences to the table, it also means means we are all particularly vulnerable to miss the complexities of its culture. If left unexamined, these tendencies become realities that we then pass on to our families, careers, and communities. This practice results in, at best, a reduction of a culture into a caricature of its reality; at worst, it results in a warped daguerreotype that goes on to inform policy, exchange, and culture.
The opportunity to be equipped with weeks of jumpstart language training, robust international networks, and sensitivity towards Thai history has been an exceptional step in the direction of combatting such ills. The month-long process of orientation has made it possible for us to wrestle with expectations and realities, with cynical thoughts and idealistic plans. A month of introduction has made it possible for our cohort to engage in and agonize over conversations like the dialogue I offer here.
The Danger of the Lens is, in fact, the following: although each lens forces distortions on its viewer, it is the lens in our eyes that allows us to see. While we may never be able to truly remove our lenses, we can learn to minimize its illusive effects—we can meditate both the shadows on the cave wall and the shortcomings of our own implicit readings. I trust that the strength of the relationships we build in our respective communities and the constant, exhausting work of remaining self-critical will push our Fulbright cohort in becoming better purveyors our future journeys. I trust that visits to KFC will inform, not mar, our understanding of Thailand, and that we will one day look back at our complex experiences and use them to power better policies, intentional education, and inclusive innovation. After all, isn't 20/20 just a few years away?


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Whoo hoo! Sherry S. and her son, Josh (CAS), were the lucky winners of "Sing Out!" music CD designed for kids with CAS. Congrats!
Sherry and Josh reside in Crystal Lake, IL where Josh (12 years) attends 6th grade and is doing quite well. Sherry was kind enough to be interviewed for "Apraxia Monday" and shares with you her thoughts, feelings and journey of Josh's life. Read on to feel inspired and empowered. I'd also like to point out that Sherry blogs about apraxia as well. Her link is listed in the side bar as well as in today's post.
Can you tell us a little about your "apraxia story?" When was Josh diagnosed and what were some of the tell-tale signs that you were dealing with CAS?
Josh was adopted at 4 days old and, at 6 days, was in the hospital with sepsis and a body temp of 93.6. Our wonderful doc helped, almost literally, bring him back to life and we were released from the hospital after about a week. ….Josh had no speech from that point until he was about 3 years old, then he started using grunts, pointing, and "ba" for everything. We had begun PT, OT, ST, and music therapy when he was 12 months old through our local Easter Seals, and, at 2 years old, the SLP suggested the possibility of verbal/oral apraxia. I started doing lots of research on it, talked it over with Josh's doc, and speech therapy was then aimed at treatment for apraxia. In the year from age 2 to 3, Josh started using the "ba" more, and then I found the online group, childrensapraxianet. They were advocating the use of fish oils so I checked that out with Josh's doc – his response was that there is a reason why the Omegas found in fish oil are "essential" fatty acids – he said go ahead, can't hurt him. I started Josh on fish oil on July 27, 2002 – within three weeks he was saying words – difficult to understand but definitely words – and Josh has not stopped talking since then.We still have speech therapy, and Josh is still difficult to understand (articulation problems from dysarthria and oral apraxia, and lack of tongue movement), but he has a quite large vocabulary and his receptive language is pretty much age appropriate (age 12).
I started blogging (www.budsnvblog.blogspot.com) this past May, not really as to Josh's experiences with apraxia. Josh broke his leg at a school outing last Fall and I all started seeing what we believed were seizures. Sure enough, in October of last year he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Medication is controlling the epileptic seizures, but in January of this year he was also diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures – behaviorally and psychologically based seizures (anxiety overload). So, in May, after much debating with myself and much research, I started him on supplements and started the blog to keep track of things that were occurring. It's pretty interesting to look back.
What other resources or networks are you involved with regarding CAS?
If you have not tried fish oil supplements, or Nutriiveda, talk to your child's docs, do the research, and give it a try. As for music therapy – absolutely yes. I'm a musician (in addition to a career as a lawyer) – and I've always been an advocate of music in a child's life. We got Josh into music therapy at 12 months or so, and I really credit that therapy for the advances in sensory issues in particular. I have been involved with www.childrensapraxianet.com for years, I've checked out many sites for sensory and developmental issues as well as apraxia. Josh has been in Special Olympics for several years – gone to State competition probably 4 or 5 times – gold, silver and bronze medals in various sports/divisions. There is a lot to be said for developing speech while participating in sports – the comaraderie, the verbiage relevant to sports, the cheering on of teammates, etc. SO is a great opportunity for our kiddos on so many levels. And, for increasing breath support (and just plain good for the body) – yoga. I started doing adapted poses with Josh even before he could walk, and we will be starting with a yoga program through a behavioral psychologist Josh is now seeing (for the anxiety/seizures) – the breathing and calming aspects help greatly with speech development.
What advice would you give to parents just beginning this journey?
No matter what diagnoses come down for our kiddos, remember, whatever that diagnosis is, that kid is and always will be your son (or daughter), just a kid – who happens to have some sort of issue. I always remember a writing that says there is a reason we parents of kids with challenges, have been "chosen" to be their parent – live up to that responsibility and always try to do what is best for your kiddo. "Welcome to Holland" essay – I think about that often–it still brings me to tears, look for it online and print it, post it on your fridge, and read it often. And last, most important
Thank you, Sherry! It has been wonderful hearing your story and words of inspiration.
Coming Up on Apraxia Mondays:
- Donna Lederman, SLP–a summary of her presentation on CAS (from October 14th)
- Dee Fish, SLP–information about her new book and speech practice
- Silent Stars Foundation–a non-profit in Chicagoland supporting CAS
- An Interview and book give-a-way, featuring Teri Peterson, SLP


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How To Find Success and Love Again After A Broken Heart
Love Destination's 'How To Be An Amazing Kisser' series deciphers the secret body language of the kiss
Best-selling Author Daphna Levy Reveals "The Secrets of Happily Ever After"
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Nonprofit Event Series Combining Date Night with Volunteerism Expands Across U.S.
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Couples therapists depict love and fear cycles in new self-help book
Former Detroit Tiger Frank Tanana and his wife Cathy shared their secret for a long and successful marriage centered on God's Word when they recently taught at the Westside Christian Academy Marriage Conference held at Faith Bible Church in Livonia.
On the back of their record-breaking year in 2017, Naked Divorce are launching a range of innovative ground-breaking retreats in Thailand for 2018.
New Book Reveals How a Woman Sheds the Role of 'Victim' After a Violent Assault, Healing Herself and Her Attacker With Compassion
Save the Date and personalized boards for Weddings are made from solid pine wood, and are sanded smooth before staining for a nice quality finish. Packages have multiple signs to take you from engagement to I Do.
Passionflix is proud to announce their first original holiday season feature film, The Trouble With Mistletoe, based on the best-selling novel by Jill Shalvis. Directed by Ashley Avis and adapted for the screen by Joany Kane, The Trouble with Mistletoe will be released exclusively to Passionflix this December… right in time for Christmas.
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Finance Accounting Specialist (Secret Level/EU Security Clearance)
Job Introduction
Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.
Serco Europe employ's a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.
Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe.
For one of our prestigious customer we are looking for: Finance Accounting Specialist
Role Responsibility
- Booking all the supplier invoices into the accounting software
- Prepare the bookings for the vendor invoices to be received
- Review pending invoices in the accounting software and hasten
- Approval (where delegated) of supplier/vendor invoices
- Prepare invoices for payment batch execution by Treasury and Disbursing
- Run reports such as aging lists in order to check all the outstanding payments to vendors
- Ad hoc support of the business for questions
- Finance point of contact between suppliers and the business, when needed
- Assist with accruals information
- Review, approve if delegated, and book the intercompany invoices
- Prepare the month end closing files for AP including reconciliation
- Calculate travel expense claim liquidations
- Enter the travel liquidations into the accounting system and prepare for payment
The Ideal Candidate
Bachelor (or equivalent) in accountancy and finance; minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience in finance and accountancy, knowledge of accounting software such as Oracle R12 or Peoplesoft;
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Minnesota law allows law enforcement agencies to seize property in a wide range of alleged criminal investigations. That may seem obvious, as property is often evidence that prosecutors intend to use to pursue a conviction. However, there is another side to some seizures. Each year, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors seize cars, cash, computer equipment and other assets under Minnesota asset forfeiture laws.
On Friday, an Olmsted County jury acquitted Rochester resident Oddie Oker of rape and burglary charges. The State of Minnesota accused Oker of breaking into an acquaintance's residence and committing a brutal sexual assault.


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March 2018 Volume LIII Number 2
AAPD Speaks to Childhood Obesity and Sugared Drinks
"Calories, Cavities, and Kids: The Role of Dental Professionals in Addressing Childhood Obesity" was a topic of interest for the National Network of Oral Health Access (NNOHA) during a one-hour webinar on Feb. 5, 2018. Presented by Policy Center Director Robin Wright, Ph.D., the continuing education session discussed how oral health professionals can join collaborative efforts with their colleagues to combat childhood obesity. To listen to the webinar and view the slides, visit http://www.nnoha.org/.
Nearly 32 percent of children ages 2–18 are either overweight or obese, and eight percent of infants and toddlers have high weight for recumbent length.
Sugared drinks are the single largest category of caloric intake in children.
In a recent AAPD survey, 17 percent of pediatric dentists stated they offer childhood obesity
information or other healthy weight interventions in their practices. Nearly 94 percent of pediatric dentists offer informational counseling on the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).
Only 14 percent of pediatric dentists agree that parents are receptive to obesity counseling in the dental office, while 81 percent think parents are receptive to advice about sugared drinks.
Pediatric dentists see a child's weight as a medical rather than a dental issue, while sugared drink consumption is perceived as integral to the practice of pediatric dentistry and the care of children.
The chief barriers to offering obesity-related counseling are concerns about parent reactions to weight management interventions in the dental office, such as offending the parent, appearing judgmental and creating parent dissatisfaction.
Nearly 88 percent of pediatric dentists agreed they would be more interested in advising par- ents about weight management if there were a clearer clinical link between obesity and dental disease.
You and your team have an excellent opportunity to address such dietary habits as sugared drinks and thus support early obesity prevention and promote healthy weight in children.
Caries-Risk Factors Accessible During Well-Child Visits Validated in a Secondary Testing Site
The AAPD Policy Center has completed its third year of research exploring oral health promo- tion in primary care and identifying common risk factors for a more effective caries-risk assessment tool for primary care providers. As an essential piece of this research project, patient data from Marshfield Clinic, a secondary testing site, were analyzed to further validate significant variables previously identified by Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) in Columbus, Ohio. Marshfield, a large multi-site community health and dental system in Wisconsin, has a semi-rural patient popula- tion, making the system an ideal complement to NCH's mostly urban-based pediatric clients.
Marshfield data identified a history of broken appointments and Hispanic ethnicity as predic- tors of lifetime caries experience. This is parallel to previous results from NCH data analyses during Year 2 of the study. Additionally, the variable of "speaks a language other than English" was identi- fied, a significant variable determined during the development of the caries-risk predictive model. Table 1 below compares the significant variables of the two testing site populations.
Open PDF attached to view table 1.
This analysis lends support to the overall research project demonstrating risk factors in a child's medical record may be used to predict the presence of dental disease and/or the assessment of "high" caries risk at the time of the child's first dental visit. A full Year 3 report will be available in 2018 through the AAPD Policy Center website at http://aapd-oldsite.ae-admin.com/policy_center/.
Evidence-based Dentistry Committee Update
Two new EBD guidelines have been accepted by the National Guideline Clearinghouse:
The AAPD's evidence-based guide- lines are being produced in accordance with standards created by National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the National Institute of Medicine) and mandated by the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and therefore will be eligible to be included in the NGC. Inclusion in the NGC guarantees our guidelines will be seen by private and public payers. The guidelines are available as open access publications on the AAPD's website.
Patient education materials, based on the new guidelines, have been developed for indirect pulp therapy, pulpotomy and silver diamine fluoride and are available for purchase in the AAPD's online store.
The non-vital pulp systematic review workgroup met in December to begin work; in vivo and in vitro protocols will be registered within the year.
A new guideline workgroup on be- havior guidance for the pediatric dental patient began work in January. The new behavior guideline, based on an existing systematic review, will be published next fall.
For more information, please contact Director, Research and Policy Center Robin Wright at email@example.com.
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Les cuelgo esta noticia del periodico estadounidense, Washington Post, publicado el 29 de este mes. La traducci?n la traeremos posteriormente. La entrevista fue hecha a Will Salgado, quien ahora al parecer se retracta de lo dicho al periodista Manuel Roig-Franzia, en una entrevista hecha por el faro, el d?a de hoy (
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Former Salvadoran Foes Share Doubts on War
Fifteen Years Later, Problems of Poverty Remain at Forefront
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, January 29, 2007; Page A01
SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador -- Jos? Wilfredo Salgado says he collected baby skulls as trophies in the 1980s, when he fought as a government soldier in El Salvador's civil war. They worked well as candleholders, he recalls, and better as good-luck charms.
In the most barbaric chapters of a conflict that cost more than 75,000 lives, he enthusiastically embraced the scorched-earth tactics of his army bosses, even massacres of children, the elderly, the sick -- entire villages.
It was all in the name of beating back communism, Salgado, now the mayor of San Miguel, said he remembers being told.
But as El Salvador commemorates the 15th anniversary of the war's end this month, Salgado is haunted by doubts about what he saw, what he did and even why he fought. A 12-year U.S.-backed war that was defined at the time as a battle over communism is now seen by former government soldiers such as Salgado, and by former guerrillas, as less a conflict about ideology and more a battle over poverty and basic human rights.
"We soldiers were tricked -- they told us the threat was communism," Salgado said as bodyguards with pistols tucked into their waistbands hovered nearby at his home, ringed by barbed wire. "But I look back and realize those weren't communists out there that we were fighting -- we were just poor country people killing poor country people."
Salgado said he once thought that the guerrillas dreamed of communism, but now that those same men are his colleagues in business and politics, he is learning that they wanted what he wanted: prosperity, a chance to move up in the world, freedom from repression.
All of which makes what they see around them today even more heartbreaking and frustrating. For all their sacrifices, El Salvador is still among the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere -- more than 40 percent of Salvadorans live on less than $2 a day, according to the United Nations. The country is still racked by violence, still scarred by corruption. For some the question remains: Was it all worth it?
"We gave our blood, we killed our friends and, in the end, things are still bad," said Salgado, who has served three terms as mayor of El Salvador's second-largest city. "Look at all this poverty, and look how the wealth is concentrated in just a few hands."
North of Salgado's home, the guerrillas he once fought live with the same doubts. Speeding along the curvy mountain roads near the onetime rebel stronghold of Perquin one recent afternoon, former guerrilla Benito Chica Argueta lamented that the future didn't turn out as he'd hoped.
Today, he scrapes together a living any way he can: Sometimes he sings at parties, sometimes he sells firewood. Zipping past a few sturdy masonry houses that appeared out of place alongside flimsy shacks, he quietly observed that such luxuries were beyond his reach.
"Those are people who get money sent from their relatives working in the United States," he said. "They're the only people around here who can afford a nice house."
Miles from those nice homes, he parked and hiked through a craggy ravine, grabbing vines to steady himself as he worked higher and higher up the Cacahuatique Mountains. At the end of the ravine, he reached a cave. Inside, bats skittered through the cool darkness that was his refuge as a scared young guerrilla. It still feels like a safe place to him.
Chica Argueta, who maintains the pencil-thin mustache he wore as a young rebel, once trudged through a shallow stream to get there, so that he wouldn't leave footprints that would give away the location of the guerrillas' Radio Venceremos -- Radio We Will Be Victorious. Now he'll take anyone there for a few dollars.
In a honeyed voice that once crooned revolutionary anthems, Chica Argueta, now 46, said his guided visits are part of an effort to build a tourist industry on the relics of El Salvador's civil war -- one of the first such endeavors in Central America. But something else is at work. He is trying to secure his guerrilla movement's place in history.
Even though some factions of the coalition of guerrilla armies that fought in El Salvador's civil war were Marxist, he said, ideology had nothing to do with his decision to take up arms and leave the farm where his father earned only a few colones for backbreaking work. Nor did ideology play a role in motivating his friends in the People's Revolutionary Army -- one of five guerrilla factions during the war -- that he served with in the northern Morazan region, he said. He remembers fighting "for a piece of land, for the chance that my children might someday get to go to the university."
The Reagan administration, fearing a communist uprising, built up El Salvador's military with weapons, training and hundreds of advisers to serve as a surrogate force against what it described as encroaching Soviet and Cuban influence in Central America. To this day, Chica Argueta seethes when he recalls the sight of U.S. planes, knowing that they were there to fight a communist threat that he believes was overblown.
The war's degeneration into senseless malice was seared into Chica Argueta's mind in a tiny mountain town called El Mozote. In December 1981, a U.S.-trained battalion of government troops tortured and executed about 500 villagers there; the names of dozens of victims -- many under the age of 2 -- are now etched on the wall of the rebuilt church.
Chica Argueta and his fellow guerrillas arrived in El Mozote several days after the massacre and, fearing a return of the soldiers, hurriedly buried the dead beneath a thin layer of adobe bricks. Salgada arrived months later, after rains had unearthed the corpses, and piled skulls into sacks as souvenirs. He had "lost his love of humanity," he recalled, but a kernel of doubt was forming. He was conflicted, as he is today.
Salgada kept the skulls for years. They were reminders of how deeply he had sunk into depravity, yet somehow they also represented his awakening, he said. Witnessing the aftermath of what his colleagues did in El Mozote and reflecting on those skulls changed his mind about how the war was being fought. He might still have the skulls, he said, if not for the new family and the new life he has forged.
"Could you imagine the nightmares my children would have if I kept them in the house?" he said.
Salgada's mentor, the vaunted Col. Domingo Monterrosa, ordered the attack in El Mozote, which Salgada said he now considers "a genocide." Yet Salgada displays a huge painting of himself and Monterrosa -- who was killed during the war -- in the foyer of San Miguel City Hall. Perhaps it will make people ask questions about the war, Salgada said, though he's sure "people hate me" for displaying it.
If Monterrosa had lived, Salgada said, he should have been prosecuted for "war crimes like a Hitler." But he tempered his historical indictment, saying that "those were different times."
The scars of what he and his compatriots did, of the horrors of their brand of war, linger. Just two years ago, on a bridge in San Miguel, Salgada encountered a former government soldier who appeared to believe the war was still underway. He saluted Salgada and told him he had secured the bridge so that rebels couldn't cross, even though the war had been over for more than a decade.
"These are old wounds," Salgada said. "These anniversaries just open them wider."
Salgada and Chica Argueta now share a point of view, a common phenomenon in El Salvador today, where former soldiers and guerrillas often work together and intermarry. Chica Argueta said he believes the intermingling of former enemies was made possible by peace accords signed in 1992 without declaring a loser, thus leaving the guerrillas and the government soldiers on an even plane.
While Salgada and Chica Argueta struggle with doubts about the war, El Salvador's ruling party, the Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, presents a less nuanced image. ARENA prides itself as a bulwark against communism. The party's official hymn, sung often at political and government gatherings, boasts that "El Salvador is the tomb of the red ones," a reference to communist sympathizers.
Walter Araujo, an ARENA stalwart who is president of El Salvador's Supreme Court and former head of the party, said in an interview that the civil war "put up a barrier against communist expansion. . . . To say communism wasn't a threat at that time would be to deny history."
Araujo is quick to point out that some rebel factions received support from Fidel Castro in Cuba and Daniel Ortega's Sandinista government in Nicaragua. And those countries might have played an outsize role in shaping El Salvador if the war had ended differently, Araujo said.
"We would have suffered the same fate as Nicaragua if there had been a victory by the left," Araujo said.
Today, Araujo and others describe what they portray as a similar threat -- the rise of populist socialist movements in Latin America -- and worry that El Salvador once again will be swept up in a bitter ideological fight.
"The risk has resurged," Araujo said.
A group of former guerrillas watched Araujo speak on television a few days before the Jan. 16 anniversary of the peace accords and scoffed at his comparisons between the present and the civil war era. On the patio of a small hotel in Perquin, where a civil war museum promotes the guerrilla version of history, they fretted that their struggle is still misunderstood.
The conversation drifted toward their disappointments about postwar El Salvador: the continued mass migration to the United States by Salvadorans who cannot find work at home, their fears about violence in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, their worries that the government isn't doing enough to address either problem.
"We have no historical memory here in El Salvador -- has everyone forgotten what we fought for?" said Adolfo Sanchez, a 47-year-old former guerrilla whose left arm is several inches shorter than his right because a bullet obliterated his elbow.
Then Sanchez paused. A smile grew on his face.
"You know," he said, "before the war we never could have sat here, right out in the open, and said such things."
Maybe, they all agreed, it had been worth it after all.
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Mi?rcoles, 07 de febrero de 2007 | 9:52
asi como dicen en el grafico el periodista del Washintong post no sabe mucho de El Salvador, Walter Araujo no es presidente de la corte suprema de justicia y radio venceremos no inicio en el cerro que menciona.
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The other day I told you about the sketch at Sassy Lil Sketches. I, of course, had to give it a try as I found the perfect pictures! This is Lily Bee's Catching Fall paper:
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Fall Frolic
6 comments:
- Jamie Harder said...
Those snowy trees are gorgeous, especially contrasted with that beautiful blue sky! Love the fall layout!!!!
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- Laurel said...
Gorgeous layout and picture!
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What a beautiful Autumn layout.
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- Katie said...
Such a beautiful fall layout! I just love the papers you used and the leaf embellishment.
I can't believe you have that much snow, Brenda!
- December 2, 2010 at 4:58 AM
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I love the warm colors and clean lines -- fun page!
Your snow looks more romantic and fun than ours.
- December 2, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Bev said...
I love your LO. The tree pics are pretty cool as well!
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It's fairly well known that I'm hoping to eventually complete a PhD in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. While talking with a co-worker about this a few months back, I mentioned that it would be interesting to study how the survivors of the Holocaust coped with their ordeal versus the survivors of modern genocides.
In a not dissimilar line of thinking, Janine Beck, a PhD student at Queensland University of Technology, conducted a study that revealed that depression, anxiety, and trust issues were all elevated in descendants of Holocaust survivors.
The children and grandchildren of survivors experienced depression and anxiety at a higher rate than the general population, Ms Beck said.
They also had more difficulty trusting others, which leads to difficulties in relationships.
The researcher said the traumatic after-effects of the Holocaust flowed to subsequent generations through the way survivors interacted with their children.
"Survivors were either over-protective or clingy because they were fearful that something would happen to their children or they were dismissive and pushed their children away in an attempt to prevent any future hurt," Ms Beck said.
"These parenting patterns are highly likely to be repeated, so the cycle of trauma transmission continues."
The study showed that the most affected survivors – those who spent time in concentration camps or were the sole survivor in their family – had children who were the most affected.
"In addition, survivors from Hungary and Eastern European countries appear to have suffered from higher symptom levels than those from Western European countries," Ms Beck said.
I imagine that Beck's findings would translate fairly uniformly to places such as Rwanda and Darfur. I do wonder, however, if the availability of mental health services wouldn't factor into the outcome, leaving impoverished countries with greater suffering and a more prolonged impact.
I was particularly grateful to see Beck's study as the question I had originally asked was one that I would never actually get around to answering myself. I'm interested to see if she goes on to do similar studies with different conflicts.


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TOOWOOMBA based jockey Nozi Tomizawa was the big winner at Ipswich on Saturday as the hot weather created havoc with the racing.
Tomizawa had five rides at Ipswich for four wins and a third placing. Tomizawa was first past the post in races three to six before he headed back home up the range for the Toowoomba evening meeting where he had further riding success.
The winning rides of Tomizawa's were aboard Captain Treasure for trainer Alyssa Ross, Kavalong for Patrick Sexton, Magazine Miss for Michael Nolan, and a pick up ride on Madam Shazam for Tony Sears.
Nozi Tomazawi is a first choice rider among a number of trainers from the Downs and his quartet of winners on Saturday moved him to 11 wins for the current season at Ipswich.
This places him level with Jeff Lloyd behind only Jim Byrne and Robbie Fradd on the Premiership list.
The last of Tomizawa's four winners was originally booked for Emma Ljung as the rider. However, Emma suffered effects of the intense heat on Saturday and was deemed unfit to ride Madam Shazam as a result.
The examination of Emma Ljung by ambulance officers resulted in a delay to fifth race with each subsequent race being put back to a later time.
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THE recently introduced Racing Queensland hot weather policy was again applied at Ipswich on Saturday.
It was the second time this summer that such a policy application occurred at Ipswich and the ITC is just about the only thoroughbred club to have had races brought forward.
The Hot Weather Policy is in place to protect licensees and horses in intense heat. It involves measures such as air-conditioning, cooling bays, and ice packs at level 1 which is when the temperature rises to 36 degrees. These measures are for both riders and equines.
If the temperature rises above 38 degrees the integrity services team on the day decide whether any adjustment to the racing is to take place in terms of timing, or postponement/ abandonment of the meeting.
On Saturday the one change that steward's made was to allow riders to be half a kilogram overweight for races encouraging them to increase their intake of fluids which was a wise move.
The decisions that have been made by Racing Queensland at Ipswich to bring race meetings forward are under question in relation to the hot weather policy.
The question is whether a decision should be made two days earlier than the meeting on bringing the timing forward and effectively ruining tote turnover, or leaving it to the day to determine if action needs to be taken by race stewards. With forecasts of hot weather again this week at Ipswich the policy may be again be referred to.
Houtzen collects
GOLD Coast trained Houtzen gave trainer Toby Edmond his greatest success in brilliantly winning the Magic Millions on Saturday on the Coast.
After leading from the outside draw the smart galloper worked at both ends of the race but was far too good for the opposition to collect the major spoils of the $2M race prize.
On a day of long price winners in steamy conditions, Houtzen flew the flag for the Queensland brigade.
Next meeting
THE final Ipswich January meeting is on this Friday, before a break of a week leading into February when there are four meetings programmed.


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Here's what you need to know about how the proposed new health care plan would change the lives of new mothers who are on Medicaid.
The American Health Care Act, which recently passed the House of Representatives, will bring some significant changes. And while there's plenty of coverage of the ways in which the plan would affect women's health issues—including allowing insurance companies to increase the cost of your health insurance if you have a gap in coverage for any reason and one of many preexisting conditions, such as a previous C-section or postpartum depression—you may not be aware of how the plan will impact new mothers on Medicaid.
Let's back up a bit: As we've reported, women in the United States are not legally entitled to paid maternity leave on a national level. Obviously, this is problematic—anyone who has ever had children understands that having time to care for and bond with your baby (along with recovering from childbirth yourself) is crucial. And while American women are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the proposed legislation will give new mothers even less time away from the workplace—at least, if they want to keep their healthcare.
The version of the AHCA which passed on Thursday drastically cuts Medicaid funding—and Medicaid currently covers nearly half of all births in the country. As part of a revision of the initial law, moms on Medicaid will have to find jobs within just 60 days of giving birth or their coverage will be revoked.
Politics aside, this is a tough idea to swallow—having a baby is one the hardest things a person can do, and the prospect of not having adequate prenatal care due to Medicaid cuts, or job hunting while physically healing and caring for a newborn seems incredibly unfair. President Trump ran on a platform promising six weeks of paid leave for new moms, and while this is a separate issue from the AHCA's effect on new moms, it's unfortunate that they won't get the help they deserve. Low-income families often struggle to find work. This will put extra pressure on them, or strip them and their children of their healthcare coverage at a crucial time—right when their babies would benefit from wellness checks and vaccinations.
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Oceania Cruises, the world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line, is unveiling new dinner menus that are the most expansive and diverse at sea. The menus feature an incredible spectrum of world flavors as well as an all-new Executive Chef's Food & Wine Pairing, available every evening and featuring the chef's selection of exquisite dishes specifically curated for their complementary and contrasting flavors. Another stand-out attraction of the menus are the new "Global Cuisine" dishes each evening – these are bolder and more adventurous ethnic dishes – for the traveler with a spirit for spice.
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