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The little wagon seemed abandoned.
So when Ada Calhoon's 1-year-old son spotted it during an outing to a neighborhood park, he began playing with it. But almost immediately, they heard a little boy on a far-away swing set shriek "Noooooooooooo!" sending his mom storming toward them.
"Rather than saying, 'We're swinging now. You can let that baby look at your wagon,' [the mother] took the wagon out of my son's hands and brought it to her son in the swing," says Calhoun, the editor-in-chief of the popular parenting Web site Babble.com.
It wasn't the child's fit that left Calhoun speechless: It was the mother's.
Parenting blogs — and grandparents — echo that shock. A commenter on a recent New York Times' blog recounted seeing a preschooler purposely trip a woman in a crowded restaurant, and chortle, "'Mommy, did you see me trip that woman? I tripped her!'" — with no corrective measure from the mother. On Grandparents.com, a mortified grandmother recently asked for advice on how to handle her grandson's relentless public insulting of his own mother, who apparently seemed unable or unwilling to stand up to the mistreatment.
Many experts say today's kids are ruder than ever. And it may have something to do with popular parenting movements focusing on self-esteem and the generation that's embracing them: Generation X, or those born between 1965 and 1977.
On paper, it doesn't add up. After all, by many accounts Generation X may be the most devoted parents in American history. They are champions of "attachment parenting," the school of child-rearing that calls for a high level of closeness between parents and children, Many Gen-X parents co-sleep with their children, hold them back from entering kindergarten if they feel their children's emotional maturity is at stake and volunteer at their kids' schools at record rates. Gen-X moms have been famously criticized by early feminists for dropping out of the workforce to care for their young children.
Yet, their kids are, well, rude. It may be that today's parents are so fixated on their children's emotional well-being that they're teaching them that the well-being of others is comparatively unimportant, says Dr. Philippa Gordon, a long-time pediatrician in Park Slope, Brooklyn, an urban New York neighborhood famous for its dense Gen-X parent population.
Parents 'ferociously advocating'
"I see parents ferociously advocating for their children, responding with hostility to anyone they perceive as getting in the child's way — from a person whose dog snuffles inquiringly at a baby in a carriage, to a teacher or coach whom they perceive is slighting their child, to a poor, hapless doctor who cannot cure the common cold," says Gordon. "There is a feeling that anything interfering with their kid's homeostasis, as they see it, is an inappropriate behavior to be fended off sharply."
Such defensiveness represents a radical departure from Gen X's parental forebears, who, experts say, were more concerned about their children's behavior toward others, rather than the other way around. But it also may highlight what makes many of today's parents tick, as a group — specifically, how they themselves grew up.
Many researchers consider members of Generation X to have been among the least nurtured children in American history with half coming from split families, 40 percent raised as latchkey kids — literally, home alone.
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"They are trying to heal the wounds from their own childhoods through their children," says Dr. Michael Brody, a child psychiatrist and chair of the Television and Media Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In indulging their children's moods, Brody argues, some parents may be trying to protect their children from experiencing the kind of anxiety and neglect that they themselves suffered as youngsters.
Attachment parenting or enmeshment?
But not being able to separate their own feelings from their children's has its costs. "Generation X parents seem to have mistaken emotional 'enmeshment' for 'attachment parenting,'" he says.
To be fair, such a response comes from an understandable place.
"Our parents, the Boomers, didn't pay so much attention to us — they were getting divorced and working and respecting independence, so they left us a lot of times to Scooby Doo," says Calhoun. "But we're going a bit far in the other direction and paying so much attention that we're picking up on every blip in our kids' whims."
But not all this can be laid at Generation X's door. Dr. Susan Linn, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, points out that children learn societal values not just through parental modeling, but also from the stories and toys passed on to them.
"Commercial culture tends to glorify negative behaviors on the continuum from rudeness to violence," says Linn. "Anti-social behaviors capture the attention of viewers and add to audience share, and in a world where physical violence reigns, rudeness seems ordinary — it becomes a behavioral norm."
Just take a quick survey the most popular commercial offerings for kids, Linn says. On "American Idol," which, according to Nielsen ratings, is a top program among 2- to 11-year-old viewers, the judges aren't just rude but truly scathing to contestants.
And, of course, a best-selling line of dolls is, literally, named Bratz. That message pales in comparison to the video game franchise "Grand Theft Auto," a perennial best-seller among teens and pre-teens who spend hours engaging in virtual behaviors ranging from bullying to having sex with a prostitute and then killing her. Younger siblings who emulate their older brothers and sisters are peripherally, but routinely, exposed to such violence in large numbers, says Linn.
Preschool delinquents?
It is also worth underlining that rudeness can have more serious behavioral consequences. As a 2005 Yale study demonstrated, preschool students are expelled at a rate more than three times that of children in grades K-12 because of behavioral problems.
What does this mean for their future as adults? We may be starting to see some of the effects in Generation Y, those born between 1980 and 1996, whose self-centered — if not downright arrogant — workplace behavior has been well-documented in the popular press since the mid-2000s.
"They've grown up questioning their parents, and now they're questioning their employers. They don't know how to shut up, which is great, but that's aggravating to the 50-year-old manager who says, 'Do it and do it now,' " says Jordan Kaplan, an associate managerial science professor at Long Island University-Brooklyn in New York, in a USA Today article.
As for today's little kids? "No one will want to hire them," says Brody. That's not an encouraging thought, especially in these economic times.
Economic climate does seem to have an effect on manners. Indeed, some experts believe that trend of rudeness among kids first emerged with the rise of Wall Street and its culture of entitlement in the mid-1980s, which is when Generation X began having children. It has been building since then, they say. But today's downturn may inspire renewed prudence.
"I think that people who lose their wealth, their jobs, and other emblems of success that gave them a mindless assurance about their social status — plus with the new standards in the White House — may examine their values more seriously," predicts pediatrician Gordon. "It will be less easy to fob off your inner questions by purchasing an expensive education, summer camp or horseback riding classes."
It may also be easier if Gen X parents start implementing the popular campaign that they grew up with themselves: "Just say 'No.' "
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Sammy Shepard is a creepy bastard. It's a fact. It's on the internet, there's no arguing it. For this fact alone he is a perfect fit for Scott Cooper's new gritty 80's era crime-thriller "Out Of the Furnace". The story follows a man recently released from prison who finds his brother has been murdered. Shepard plays the killer but we don't find that out till the end. Oh, spoiler alert. I'm kidding of course. I have no idea who the killer is. Man if it is him though wouldn't that be cool? It's like I can see the future or something. Think of a number and let me know on twitter when you're ready. I'll tell you what number you're thinking of.
Strap in kids because "The Dark knight Rises" has officially been given a rating by the MPAA. It's such big news that I think we should just sit back and take a deep breath and prepare for it. Now look around the room. Is there anything you want to say to the people around you before you read this in case the news gives you a heart attack and you die right there? Go tell them. I'll wait. No maybe you might want to go to the bathroom. I heard when you die everything lets go and you don't want a giant mess ruining your corpse. Ok. Are we good? Ready? Here we go. PG-13. The rating is PG-13.
There's all kinds of problems going on with Tom Six's "The Human Centipede Three". Namely Six and the first film's star Dieter Laser having slap fights about money or some crap. Well today news has dropped that Laser is officially out of the project and will be replaced by none other Udo Kier, who kind of looks like Dieter Laser so i guess problem solved. Ya know, unless you see the film actually being made as the problem. In which case you're still SOL.
Ever since season 2 of "The Walking Dead" picked back up I've been giddy with excitement over all the happenings with our band of zombie killers. And with news today that British actor David Morrissey will be joining the cast in season 3 as "The Governor", the leader of a group of survivors that the run into Rick and the gang, well I'm just skipping around. Alright honestly I don't even know who this guy but this is the best you're going to get today. Don't forget to tip your waiter.
Christian Bale has been confirmed to be taking the lead role in a new revenge flick from "Crazy Heart" director Scott Cooper titled "Out of the Furnace". The film is set in 1986 Indiana and Bale will play a former prisoner who finds out his brother has been murdered while he was locked up. I smell prison shower scene! Not literally, I don't know what that would actually smell like. Awful I bet.
I've lost track of what's actually going on with the "Robocop" remake but it looks like "The Killing" star Joel Kinnaman has received an offer from MGM to take on the lead role of Alex Murphy, the cop turned robot.. or Robocop as you might call him. Seriously, didn't Colin Farrell already take the role? What the hell is going on here. Where am I!?
I didn't want to talk about this because I feel like there's a new casting update every day for some new horror show but here goes. Dave Annable has joined the cast of "666 Park Avenue." Please update your score cards.


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As first discovered by Centre County Report, the PSU College of Communications' news program, the NCAA Shop this morning took down all Penn State merchandise from their site. The Nittany Lions aren't listed among the teams available, and a search for Penn State turns up no results.
We called a site representative, and she was only able to tell us that there was "a problem," and they were told to take down the PSU gear a couple of hours ago. (Centre County Report says the order came down from the NCAA. We couldn't confirm, and are waiting to get comment from the NCAA.) The rep told us there's currently no time frame for making PSU merchandise available again.
This probably isn't sinister. The NCAA has been content to make money off of Penn State gear throughout the scandal, so there's no reason things would have drastically changed today. More likely is a problem with the latest merchandise shipment, or a contractual issue with the supplier. But Penn State fans don't need another coincidence like this one to convince them the NCAA is out to get them.
Update, 11:35 EST: Just as I published, ShopNCAASports.com added this note to their front page:
Due to a technical glitch, Penn State product is currently not appearing on the NCAA Shop. We are working diligently to quickly restore all Penn State product back on the NCAA webstore. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Update, 12:20 EST: Penn State stuff is back. Conspiracy theorists, stand down.


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Whale-sized investors, financial market oceans, large fish (the Federal Reserve), small fish (banks)—PIMCO chairman Bill Gross certainly drinks his fill of briny metaphors in his June market commentary. Gross writes that, "Soaring debt/GDP ratios in previously sacrosanct AAA countries have made low-cost funding increasingly a function of central banks as opposed to private market investors."
This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such "previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40-year-old global monetary system."
"[This possibility wasn't] considered feasible as recently as five years ago," Gross writes. "Now, however, with even the United States suffering a credit downgrade to AA+ and offering negative 200 basis point real policy rates for the privilege of investing in Treasury bills, the willingness of creditor whales—as opposed to debtors—to support the existing system may soon descend."
Gross adds that the global monetary system, which has evolved and morphed over the past century but always in the direction of easier, cheaper and more abundant credit, may have reached a point at which it can no longer operate efficiently and equitably to promote economic growth and the fair distribution of its benefits. Future changes, which lie on a visible horizon, "may not be so beneficial for our ocean's oversized creatures."
So what's to be done?
The solution points toward higher global inflation to solve overextended debt-ladened balance sheets, he warns. Therefore, bond investors should favor quality and "clean dirty shirt" sovereigns (U.S., Mexico and Brazil), as well as emphasize intermediate maturities that gradually shorten over the next few years.
"Equity investors should, likewise, favor stable-cash-flow global companies and ones exposed to high-growth markets. Investors in general, however, will be hard pressed to repeat the rather right-tailed performance of the past 30 years, a whale rather than plankton-dominated era based on excessive credit expansion. Deleveraging economies and financial markets present a different and lower returning kettle of fish than did recent credit-dominated decades."
He concludes by noting the current obsession with Europe, which he dismisses as a "localized tumor."
"The developing credit cancer may be metastasized, and the global monetary system fatally flawed by increasingly risky and unacceptably low yields, produced by the debt crisis and policy responses to it. The great white whale lies waiting on the horizon. Investors should sail carefully, and the Wall Street 1% should put on their life vests if they expect to weather the inevitable storm that may threaten the first-class cabins they have come to enjoy."


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This past October, Doug Menuez was scheduled to shoot a worldwide marketing and ad campaign for a new model of Nikon camera, and to be followed during the shoot by a film crew for a mini-documentary on him and said camera. The location for this assignment was terrific—he'd be shooting all over downtown Manhattan and DUMBO—but the timing could not have been worse. Hurricane Sandy struck the day after his client (and their understandably high expectations) arrived in New York.
At the time, Doug lived downtown, which if you recall was without power for days and, in Doug's case, without water too. But the shoot, as they say, must go on. Here, Doug shares how he managed to complete the assignment, despite the darkness, the cold, the transportation challenges, the loss of his locations, etc.…
My wife and I awoke in our apartment the Tuesday morning after Hurricane Sandy hit to find we had no power and, worse, no plumbing and, even worse, no Internet. As for cell service, it was ridiculously spotty. We were 16 floors up, our apartment surrounded by water, with a production meeting scheduled with my clients from Nikon's Tokyo ad agency K&L, who had arrived from Japan just before the storm. We were supposed to shoot a worldwide marketing and ad campaign for a top-secret new camera, the COOLPIX A. And Nikon was also planning to shoot a video of me working with this new camera, directed by the distinguished director Naoki Fukada. I hadn't seen the camera, let alone learned how it worked or used it. Let's just say I was very nervous.
Our clients—who were on the 16th floor of the Standard Hotel—also awoke to find they had no power, toilets that didn't work, and no means to communicate. My studio building on West 26th Street, which houses my servers, computers, and gear, was flooded, along with the whole neighborhood. The basement and first floor remained underwater, with crews pumping water like mad into the street. I called 300 hotels to try to find a place to stay, with no luck. Finally, after a frantic few hours, I managed to secure a friend's empty apartment uptown where my wife and I could evacuate. I got our stuff up there and myself back down to my studio to secure our servers and get ready for the production meeting.
We met in my freezing, dark studio to plan the shoot, which started on Wednesday and ran through Friday. Mr. Miyama, the veteran producer, and his associate Naoya Watanabe were already hard at work booking talent who'd been cast the Friday before. We had about 20 talent to locate in the middle of a disaster, all around the boroughs. Real people plus the model agencies had to be contacted and logistics arranged for talent and crew. Everyone on our crew and most of the talent were without power or transportation. How would the talent even get into Manhattan? The bridges and tunnels were closed, and subways and trains were all down. It was hard to see how we could manage all this. I was more than worried at this point.
The meeting started. I asked Gen Umei, my longtime friend and client from K&L, if he thought we should reschedule the shoot. "No! Absolutely not! We must proceed!" Then he smiled and we both laughed, because over the last 10 years we had shared some amazing but extremely difficult shoots for Nikon around the world. This would be no different.
The producers and agency folks were also talking about our predicament when suddenly everyone got quiet. Gen was opening a black bag and pulling out three prototypes of the new Nikon COOLPIX A. He instructed us to never say its name, as it was so top secret. We all signed nondisclosures and agreed to no Facebook or Twitter postings. We decided to call it our "friend" for the rest of the shoot. I would be the first in the world to use it, and I was beyond excited.
The COOLPIX A looks like a gorgeous, small black rangefinder, but actually is the world's smallest compact DSLR with a DX CMOS sensor. When I held it, I was surprised to feel that it was made of metal, not plastic. And it came with a fixed 18mm 2.8 lens (equivalent to 28mm), which was a fine idea, the 28 being a classic lens for street shooting. I was in love. I'd been hoping Nikon would make something like this for years. My favorite thing to do is walk the streets and document what I see, and I'd always wanted a very lightweight, unobtrusive camera that could also deliver high-quality files. Well, here it was. I read the specs: 16.2 mp files, 4 frames per second, and full 1080 p HD video with stereo sound. And I could shoot manual. Clearly, this was designed to be more than an advanced amateur point-and-shoot; it would also meet the needs of pros. There was more to learn, but I wanted to go shoot with this thing, storm be damned.
We produced shoots with some very interesting talent and situations, and it was pretty wild getting around the city, to Brooklyn and back, with our driver sitting on a gas line for three hours every night. Mr. Miyama and his team managed to get almost all the talent to all the shoots, although almost all our locations were closed due to flooding. Most of our shoot was to take place on the High Line, for example, and months of meticulous location scouting and planning had been invested, but the High Line was closed down. We scrambled for replacement locations.
In between the produced shoots, they let me roam freely around the streets so I could grab real moments. Although they were paying me to test the camera and appear in a promotional video, I have never promoted something that did not truly work for me. The COOLPIX A was a dream to shoot with. Fast, quiet, small, and nonthreatening. Fun. And after I got the files downloaded, I confirmed they were beautiful. Outstanding results for such a small package, the lens bokeh was lovely, and it was superb at low noise in low light, as expected with anything Nikon.
By Friday, we had a great range of stuff from all around downtown, from West Chelsea to the Lower East Side to DUMBO. But we were all completely exhausted. (It also felt surreal not to be covering the disaster itself.) I had been driving pre-dawn every day from the Upper West Side—I still didn't have power at my apartment—down to our shoot. I was really missing my home, clean clothes, and the other things we take for granted. But as I learned the extent of the damage that the horrific storm caused in the other boroughs, I realized how incredibly blessed I was compared to those who lost everything.
I said goodbye to Gen and my clients that night and started to drive uptown to my wife, Tereza. As I reached the corner of 26th Street and 10th Avenue, there was a surge of light all around as the power was switched on after five days of complete darkness in lower Manhattan. Tenth Avenue had been under water, but now lights were glowing all the way down the avenue. What an incredible sight. We got our shoot done despite Sandy, and I was going to go home after all.


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Driven by its lifelong love affair with the written word that it did not have to write itself, television's recent campaign to adapt literary classics for a modern audience and for zero dollars has added updated versions of Pride And Prejudice and Romeo And Juliet to its public domain reading list of books it's not actually interested in reading. In the quickly established tradition of upcoming shows based on Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Sense And Sensibility, Tom Sawyer And Huckleberry Finn, Dracula, Hamlet, and Alice In Wonderland, Lifetime and ABC Family will put new spins on the well-worn Jane Austen and William Shakespeare tales, respectively, answering the contemporary dearth of scripts in which two people fall in love with each other but someone else doesn't want them to.
ABC Family's Juliet Immortal will go the "paranormal love story" route with Romeo And Juliet—a sentence that, sadly, seems perfectly routine here in 2012—adapting Stacey Jay's novel in which Juliet is murdered by Romeo in order for him to gain immortality, but Juliet returns from the dead, similarly unkillable and sworn to fight Romeo " to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent." Again, this is Romeo And Juliet, because look at their names. Meanwhile, Lifetime has signed noted romance author and The Client List star Jennifer Love Hewitt to supplement her usual handjob activities there with the even more masturbatory exercise of producing her very own version of Pride And Prejudice, this one set among the landed gentry and ingrained class struggles of modern-day, small-town Virginia. Naturally, it's named Darcy's Town, presumably because Can't Buy Me Love was, unfortunately, already taken. Finally, these two stories will be told, but in a more modern way and better.


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- There are 36 Metropolitanates of the "New Lands" of Northern Greece and some of the Aegean Islands which also fall under the spiritual and canonical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; however, their administration has been entrusted to the Church of Greece on behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate since 1928.
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Clearly a plot from our government to discourage any future gambling activities.
The wife being questioned, is merely a smokescreen to deflect any attention to the covert activities that were carried out.
McGinnin, is that really you that wrote this?, as I am a bit doubtful it was comming from you.
I thought that you of all persons understands like you rightly used the correct word, the covert spririt of the Federal Governments and the State Governments departments of Treasury. These bodies spend no red cent on a lottery ticket but consistently collects millions in tax revenues practically every day, and not just when there is big money in the pots of PB and MM
So why would they wanna act against thier bread and butter and practically maintenance free pipeline for $$ millions. They get most of their money upfront
I would think that if anything else, they would want to see the entire nation loose all their money to gambling because at the end of the day, its more money from then, though a drop in the bucket, that is still good useful money towards keeping the Chinese pacified, in making at least the weekly billions or millions in interests payments alone, on a debt that WILL NEVER EVER be paid off and will be settled in war and by war some day. Unless there is a conversion of heart in the governments, which I believe will happen at the same time that the weather man reports ice in Gehenna, and unlikey event either.
To shed a little light about myself, when and if I should ever win the lottery, I would start a charity group of physicians to commence a stem cell research to help family members overcome the stigmas relating with schizophrenia and mental illnesses and to help the poor in my midst and - currently poor myself... have the basic needs and to have the simple responsibilities of life be met... without trying to take the whole world into my shoulder as some millionaires do... I simply request to be at equitable peace and standing with my family at my custody! and would make the sacrifices to be sure that they are remaining safe... I do not tolerate violent people - and often at times the potty mouth people like to crowd me, and try to overwhelm jealousy around me when good prosperity come my way... I would like to own a house in a place where I am more likely to be respected by others and what I truly stand for... I do not like for people to harass me, or to stonewall false lies about me - that is my true personality about my character... I have no desire to hurt anyone in this world because to how the country and world has to be so involved and or solicited in "money" I would choose to rather help the inlaws, that ran false accusations about my identity of character from the past few years ago who trialed me away from my son wrongfully by accusing me of hurting him/them. I am true to my word, my wife and myself in this matter- and that I pray that no more psychiatrists bother me about this matter... If I were to become wealthy by sudden chance I wish to settle all my claims, and drive a new car for the road of Liberty, and Justice. I am a married man and deeply respect the women of my livelihood - I know nothing about stalking anyone, Leave that word to describe a corn field.
Harold, Welcome to the Lottery Post!
I hope too, that you can find some Peace in this Forum.
In reading your post, you appear to want the best for the marginalized of our world, and that is magnanimous. I encourage you not to wait on the lottery, because at the end of the day, Lottery money is not exactly blessed money. It is money created from millions of dashed hopes, by the greed of the governments that run and operate the lotteries, and the states that use such money for education are not transferring any blessings whatsoever to the young pupils in schools, and in effect ensuring some of the many problems that we see at grassroots education across America.
The greedy government are in effect inept entities, and lacking in better ways to raise funds to support the educational programs of their states from other ways other than lotteries. These governments are never, and have been and will never be on your side. The governments are a tool of the professional politicians
I believe that lottery money should be better used in senior programs, homelessness, health-care and the sorts, but not Children's education.
Education is not a human welfare problem like homelessness, old age, and unsolicited health issues to name but a few.
There is more than enough money in the coffers of the United States Federal Goverment to take care of the education of young people across America if the USA government will stop hypocritical war mongering and defense of tyrants in middle Eastern oil nations of the world and other places of the world with strategic mineral interests for the USA
This will end up being a sharia law case........
You are very observant
It appears that Sharia law has already being carried out on Urooj Khan
Poor Khan He is so lucky to win the lottery but success is not for him whoever killed this Guy you must repent now God is watching you..
Don't all wives want to kill their husbands?
I think a large percentage of mine did at one time or another.
And I'm sure a few still do.
And I ain't even gonna get into the mothers in law.
Mean, vicious, straight razor totin' wimmins...
There is a great story by Ruth Graham.
They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No, I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times
Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grace. We will rebuild!
I hope they asked her which pot/pan she cooked that meal in and what exact
plate w/utensils he ate it with, if any of those are missing you know something is up with her!
I still think the clerk did it.
this is a big case I think the suspect that murdered her husband is aftering the money.
Got some sister in laws like that.
Winter is coming ! Ned Stark.
If it's the wife, they oughta lock her and Drew Peterson up together in the same cell.
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Germans to probe alleged NSA spying on Merkel
BERLIN -- German federal prosecutors opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone by the U.S. National Security Agency, they said Wednesday.
Chief Prosecutor Harald Range mulled over the decision for months whether to open a formal probe of the Merkel allegations that emerged in October. The revelations cooled relations between Berlin and Washington, prompting Merkel to accuse the U.S. of a grave breach of trust and President Obama to pledge he would not allow America's massive communications surveillance capability to damage relations with Germany or other close allies.
Range's office said he opened an investigation Tuesday into persons unknown regarding Merkel's phone, a move that could again complicate matters diplomatically.
"Extensive preliminary investigations have established that sufficient factual evidence exists that unknown members of U.S. intelligence services spied on the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel," Range's office said.
In addition, his office said, prosecutors will continue to monitor the "possible massive collection of telecommunications data of German citizens by British and American intelligence services." His office said they would also intensify their efforts against "cyber-espionage."


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This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that, before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject, there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person, which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.
["Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10", Vol. 2, pp. 181-182. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949.]


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Year of Grace – an Overview
The Year of Grace was an initiative of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC). The outlines were developed by a Working Party of four Bishops chosen by the ACBC, being Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe sdb, Bishop David Walker, and Bishop Michael Putney. This Working Party proposed that the Year of Grace be based on Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, picking up especially the phrases "contemplate the face of Christ" and "starting afresh from Christ".
During the ACBC Plenary of May 2011, the Bishops unanimously accepted their proposal, and it was determined that the Year of Grace should run from Pentecost 2012 to Pentecost 2013. A National Project Officer was appointed and, by mid-2012, a Coordinator was appointed in every Archdiocese, Diocese, Eparchy and Ordinariate in the country.
Archbishop Philip Wilson, as President, issued a Pastoral Letter announcing the Year of Grace on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
Soon after this decision was made, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed a Year of Faithfor the Universal Church, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Second Vatican Council. It was quickly and easily decided that, in Australia, these two initiatives would run in tandem as it were, each complementing the other.
Annual National Meetings of these Coordinators were held in Sydney in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and in between, they kept in touch with bi-monthly teleconferences or meetings, and received communications from the Project Officer. Through these means they were able to share ideas and resources, and support each other in a variety of ways.
Soon after the first of these National Meetings, a small National Planning Team was formed, consisting of several Diocesan Coordinators with a variety of skills and expertise and, at the suggestion of the Bishops of the Working Party, with nominees from Catholic Religious Australia and the Secretariat for Catholic Education. This small group worked closely with the Bishops of the Working Party and with the Project Officer, in some face-to-face meetings and by teleconference.
A logo was designed, and this website was set up. A short inspirational video clip was designed, to launch the Year of Grace, and the Bishops of the Working Party all spoke to camera for clips that also went onto the website. There followed a series of articles on grace, and a great variety of resources (banners, posters, prayers, etc.) that were available to people to use or adapt as they liked. In time, people were invited to subscribe to an e-bulletin, Living Grace. Eventually this had nearly 2,000 subscribers, and ran to 20 monthly editions.
Just before Pentecost 2012, and to inaugurate the Year of Grace, the Planning Team produced a beautiful Prayer Card, containing an Icon of the Face of Christ and the National Prayer. An astonishing 1,670,000 of these cards were ordered, and on the initiative of the Coordinators from the Maronite, Melkite and Chaldean Eparchies, a further 50,000 Prayer Cards were produced with the Prayer in both English and Arabic. The Prayer could also be found on the website translated into several dozen other languages, and signed in Auslan for people with impaired hearing. Several local initiatives had a national reach, such as the e-conferences on Grace sponsored by the Diocese of Broken Bay, or Sydney's Pilgrimage of Grace visit of the relic of St Francis Xavier.
Towards the end of 2012 the National Planning Team produced a DVD, Contemplate the Face of Christ, featuring Australian-sourced photos of images of Christ, in a variety of styles and forms. The DVD could be viewed with or without accompanying quotes from Scripture, and either for the full 30 minutes or in six five-minute "chapters". 3,500 copies were produced and distributed.
A large Year of Grace candle was presented to each Diocese, and these were replicated in many parishes around Australia. Likewise, many parishes and schools made banners and logos, inserted regular notices in their bulletins and publications, and so on.
It is important to say, however, that while many initiatives were undertaken around the country the whole emphasis of the Year of Grace was that it was not about "doing" things, and especially not "doing extra things", but rather seeking to "start afresh from Christ". It was an invitation to "contemplate the face of Christ", to find new or better or more focused ways of praying – individually, in groups, in parishes, in schools, in retreats, etc.
On Pentecost Sunday 2013, to mark the end of the Year of Grace, an on-line survey was set up, inviting people to reflect on the Year of Grace. There were 875 responses, and a summary of these replies was given to the ACBC.
At their final National Meeting, in June 2013, the Diocesan Coordinators undertook a similar exercise. Again, their reflections were presented to the ACBC. It was noted that they, perhaps more than anyone else, were the people best placed to note and report on the various fruits of the Year of Grace that they observed "at ground level" in their local Churches.
Originally the Bishops of the Working Party, and the National Planning Team, had worked towards a Celebration of Repentance (based on a similar Liturgy celebrated by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee Year in Rome). This was to have been celebrated on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, 2013, and was to be called "Bringing Our Wounds to Jesus". However, with the calling of the National Royal Commission, as well as several other regionally based Enquiries, in almost every Diocese (except Townsville, Rockhampton, Maitland-Newcastleand Port Pirie) it was decided that this was not the most appropriate time for such an initiative.
A Celebration of Holiness, again based on a somewhat similar event in Rome during 2000, has been planned in some places, to take place around the Feast of All Saints Day 2013, to mark the end of the Year of Grace / Year of Faith.
In the many positive comments that have been received, this is among the most consistent. People appreciated that the Year of Grace was an invitation, not an imposition.


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Intelligent design was invented in a situation in which Christians were unable to cope with Darwin's theory of natural selection. They could no longer explain man's origin as created according to the Image and Likeness of God (Genesis 1: 27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them). They had to find another reason, and since the nineteenth century was almost as proud of science as the twentieth century, the reason had to be scientific. Since I read the God Delusion, I have been puzzled about the passions that permitted and even moved Christian fundamentalists to deny the evidence for evolution. To give a concrete example from my own experience in Congregational Church, the theory of Evolution is understood not surprisingly against the background of a misinterpretation of Einstein's theory of relativity. The operative logic is that Einstein has proved Newton's equations to be "wrong." By the same token, somebody is, in the near future, going to prove evolution wrong too. Although Newton discovered his law of gravity more than 300 years ago, his equations describing this force made such accurate predictions, that we still make use of them today. In fact, scientists needed nothing more than Newton's equations to plot the course of a rocket that landed men on the moon. Yet, there was a problem. While his laws described the strength of gravity with great accuracy, Newton was harboring an embarrassing secret: He had no idea how gravity actually works. At the age of 26 Albert Einstein made a startling discovery. That the velocity of light is a kind of cosmic speed limit, a speed that nothing in the universe can exceed. But the idea that nothing can go faster than the speed of light flew in the face of Newton's picture of gravity. To understand this conflict, we have to run a few experiments. Imagine that all of a sudden and without any warning, the sun vaporizes and completely disappears. Newton's theory predicts that with the destruction of the sun, the planets would immediately fly out of their orbits careening off into space. In other words, Newton thought that gravity was a force that acts instantaneously across any distance and so we would immediately feel the effect of the sun's destruction. But Einstein saw a big problem with Newton's theory. The triumph of Newton's equations come from the quest to understand the planets and the stars; in particular the problem of why do the planets have the orbits that they do. And with Newton's equations you can calculate the way that planets will move; Einstein's got to resolve this dilemma. Einstein came to think of the three dimensions of space and the single dimension of time as bound together in a single fabric of space-time. It was his hope that by understanding the geometry of this four dimensional fabric of space-time, that he could simply talk about things moving along surfaces in this space-time fabric. Einstein's imagination then supplied the missing details. Like the surface of a trampoline, this unified fabric is warped and stretched by heavy objects like planets and starts. And it's this warping or curving of space-time that creates what we feel as gravity. A planet like the earth is kept in orbit not because the sun reaches our and instantaneously brags hold of it as in Newton's theory, but simply because it follows curves in the spatial fabric caused by the sun's presence. So with this new understanding of gravity, let's rerun the cosmic catastrophe. Let's see what happens now if the sun disappears. The gravitational disturbance that results will form a wave that travels across the spatial fabric in much the same way that a pebble dropped into a pond makes ripples that travel across the surface of water. So we would not tell a change in our orbit around the sun until this wave reached the earth. What's more, Einstein calculated that these ripples of gravity travel at exactly the speed of light. And so, with this new approach, Einstein resolved the conflict with Newton over how fast gravity travels. And more than that, Einstein gave the world a new picture for what the force of gravity actually is. It is warps and curves in the fabric of space and time. Einstein called this new picture of gravity, General Relativity. The major difference between the scientific and religious mind lies in the differing perspectives of reality. Where the later sees contradiction, the former sees harmony. And where there is an apparent conflict between two views, science seeks for uniformity. A friend of mine, who is a mathematician at London University, helped me see these things, perhaps in part because I myself have seen in the religious mind something of what it was that permitted Christianity to be split in so many denominations each one as a world apart. The religious mind does not understand that it is possible for a scientist to develop future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past.
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The paradisiacal shores of Quintana Roo offer extraordinary opportunities to enjoy some of the most intense experiences in nature. Swim with the giants of the sea or playful dolphins, dive in cenotes (sinkholes) or just let yourself go and enjoy the natural spectacle.
Swim with thousands of colorful fish along the enormous coral reef, while watching barracudas, moray eels and even stingrays. The best places to dive are Sian Ka'an, with its 110 km of reef, and the extraordinary Chinchorro and Xcalak reefs. Tours leave from Majahual and Xcalac. But the king of these waters is the whale shark. There is a unique opportunity between June and September to swim with these gentle giants, who can grow up 16 meters long. The Tiburón Ballena (Whale Shark) Biosphere Reserve can be reached from Isla Morena, Chiquila and Holbox.
The Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve has virgin beaches, lagoons and mangrove forests. Turtles spawn in the wetland here and it is also a habitat for seabirds and crocodiles. In addition to the idyllic coves for snorkeling in Akumal, you can also swim in the beautiful cenotes here.Aktun Chen has the largest cave system in the State. Some great family activities are the visits to eco-parks, crocodile farms or places where turtles lay their eggs and where you can swim with dolphins.
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FOOD- It's true: Verity blue now on W. Main
Just over two years old, Charlottesville's European-style gourmet marketplace, The Main Street Market, is gearing up for its first major growth spurt. Passersby and customers have surely noticed recent signs of destruction and construction– disappearing walls and doors along the wing of garage bays, a row of cement columns flanking the east-side wall, a "somethin's going on in there" kind of look about the sealed-off corner space next to Feast! All part of life on blossoming, evolving West Main.
So– besides the Walker Square Apartments down the road and the still-to-open West Main- A Virginian Restaurant across the street– who else will be moving in?
Well, as Dish herself knows all too well, the Market is already loaded with goodies to eat at the table, but now it will also have an entire store that caters to the table itself– the "art of the table," that is.
Verity blue, a European-inspired home and garden store owned by Mark and Victoria Cave, will occupy five of the garage bays as well as an ample roof-deck, for a total of 3,000 square feet.
What is Verity blue? Both a business and a lifestyle, the Caves say. Married in Venice and in love with the European way of life– especially when it comes to food and the leisurely, artful enjoyment of it– the Caves decided in 2000 to leave the hustle-and-bustle of big city life in DC for the tranquility and history of New Market. There, in 2002, they opened Verity blue, a name which suggests the authenticity and beauty of their imported products.
Just two years later (in sync with the Market), the Caves were ready to hunt for a second location. With the help of a marketing consultant, they zeroed-in on Charlottesville because of its proven (and growing) interest in European-gourmet culture and artisanal products.
Hand-painted ceramics from Deruta, Italy, richly colored placemats, napkins, and tablecloths made from 100 percent European linen, and rustic hand-made pine tables are some of the items offered at the new Verity blue- all meant to enhance the dining experience and make eating more a shared art than a rushed necessity. Garden items will be on display on the roof deck, which will likely include a seating area.
Speaking of which, by June 1 the area now delineated by cement columns will become a communal outdoor seating area for the entire Market. A pergola and plexiglass roof will protect customers from both the elements and the adjacent parking lot.
But if you're more inclined to stand, then the Caves' new Italian-inspired coffee bar will surely be of interest.
"We feel the art of the table extends to the art of coffee, especially as seen in Italy," Mark tells Dish. Gelato and panini will be likely cappuccino companions.
Coffee is definitely a high-demand item at the Market, so it was only a matter of time before a serious coffee bar showed up. To satisfy constant requests, Feast! started selling brewed coffee two months ago, as does Albemarle Baking Co. Both plan to stop brewing once the new coffee bar opens, which should be sometime this summer.
But one thing Feast! does not plan to stop doing is growing. In fact, Feast! is responsible for a good chunk of the present construction. In order to make room for more wonderful cheeses, charcuterie items, organic meats, and produce, Kate Collier's emporium will be expanding to occupy the indoor space next door (behind Hedge) as well as the first garage bay. A wall will be knocked down to make one large, Feng shui-ruled space, which will absorb the items in the current gift shop (that space is currently up for lease and will be closed off.) The garage will cater primarily to Feast!'s growing catering business- now managed by chef Carrie Shaeffer.
"We're really looking forward to offering more grocery items and becoming more of a neighborhood market," Collier says.
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Hiking a volcano and walking on a dried lava field in Hawaii
Remember all those earth science classes you took about volcanoes and lava rocks? Visit Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to see the real thing in action. Not only will you get the chance to drive right up to the caldera—don't miss the Crater Rim Drive, an 11-mile road that passes through the various volcano landscapes from tropical rainforest to the desert-like crater itself, with scenic overlooks all along the way—there's also the opportunity to walk inside the Thurston Lava Tube, no longer an active part of the volcano, that allows you to walk 1/3 mile inside Kilauea where lava once flowed a few hundred years ago. Expect to pay $10 per vehicle that enters the park, or $5 per individual if you enter by foot, bicycle, or motorcycle. Don't forget to get a park map from staff on your way into the park, and stop by the Kilauea Visitor Center and Jaggar Museum to learn more about what you're viewing. Free camping and hiking opportunities are also available, as are park ranger-led walking tours, but be sure to check the website for updates on volcanic activity in the park before you head out. Always stick to the marked paths and never try to get closer to the lava, no matter how great you think your photo might turn out. You're still on an active volcano, after all.
About an hour's drive outside the park along Highway 130 in Puna is the entrance to Kalapana, a town that was completely covered by a 1990 lava flow. Miraculously, no one was injured and the town actually got together and hauled their church to a nearby town to escape the wrath of Hawaiian volcano goddess, Pele—you can still visit the Star of the Sea Painted Church today, now located along Highway 130 just before Kaimu Park. Park your car where the road ends (it's literally blocked by a wall of hardened lava), grab a sturdy pair of shoes, and go for a hike on the dried lava field. The hike can take anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours depending on how much of a hurry you're in, but it's best to tread lightly and slowly, as lava can be very sharp if you fall. The trail, which ends at a gorgeous black sand beach (swimming is not permitted due to the proximity to the active volcano, Kilauea) is open daily from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Parking and hiking are free, thought the last car is allowed to park at 8 p.m., so plan accordingly and bring a flashlight if you plan to do the hike at night.
Zorbing in New Zealand
Americans first encountered zorbing—the art of rolling and bouncing down a hill while inside a giant, hamster-wheel-like plastic ball contraption—when teams competing on The Amazing Race a few years ago faced it on TV as one of their big challenges. An adrenaline junkie's dream come true, Zorbing has been popular since 1997 and is definitely one of those "only in New Zealand" types of experiences to write home about. You have two options: Zydro, a sort of water-ride version of the Zorb, and Zorbit, the dry version. Zorb Rotorua then offers four track options and eight ride variations—some strap in just one person, others up to three for a crazy head-over-heels trip down the half-mile track. Prices for one Zorb ride (either wet or dry) are $45 per person; pay $70 for two people to ride in the same globe; pay $90 for one person to ride three times.
Zip lining over alligators in St. Augustine, Fla.
While regular zip lining may already give you a heckuva rush, there's nothing quite like zip lining and completing an aerial obstacle course over a park full of crocodiles, alligators, and hundreds of other reptiles. At the St. Augustine Alligator Farm's Crocodile Crossing, located along Florida's northeast coast just outside the historic town of St. Augustine, you can do just that. Not to worry, everything is totally safe. (I have to admit I was a little skeptical myself when I tried this, but figured the bragging rights and bucket list story would be more than worth it in the end). You are trained by the experts before you go about how all the ropes and pulley systems work, and even get to do a small practice zip line before you set off on your adventure. Choose from the 45-minute long Sepik River Course that takes you 20 feet up and gives you three zip lines to go through, or the longer, higher, 90-minute Nile River Course, an aerial obstacle course 60 feet above the park that takes you through a total of nine zip lines. (The 45-minute course costs $30 per person while the 90-minute course costs $65 per person). Both courses are self-led, but there are trainers beneath you to come to the rescue should you get stuck or require assistance. Once my knees stopped shaking (I wasn't used to being so high up), I tried to concentrate on the view around me and not on the giant, toothy reptiles underfoot, and had a great time!


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To all those who said they wanted to work on this thread ..
I need to know who is still planning on working on the current stage of the medical astrology thread that we are currently on: Uranus opposed Mars. So please let me know and also when you feel you will be able to submit your work on this this.
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Hi Rad
I still plan to work on thisthread and stage, and to post next week.
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Hi Rad,
I have been called away on an urgent
family matter. If I find some spare time
in the next several days, I will post.
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Aug 31, 2013, 07:58 PM »
Hi Rad and All,
I have been meaning to post but find that when I work on this I overwhelm myself. I start reading health and medical books and go off into all kinds of places and feel I am in over my head.
I am therefore going to just post a few simple thoughts, otherwise I will end up not posting anything :-)
Like I said when I posted a question earlier, stress is the first thing that popped into my head. I also thought about spasms and then metabolism issues. I am thinking there would be body chemistry (as produced by the brain (Uranus) and the adrenals (Mars) issues causing hypo (low) and hyper (high) levels of various chemicals and even hormones. Chemical imbalances causing havoc throughout but mostly depending on which signs and houses are involved. With the adrenals being pumped up (triggered by transits), cortisol levels can go from low to high leading to weigh gain or loss. There may also be hormonal imbalances causing imbalances in relation to sexual energy - swinging from high to low etc.
Of course, an individual with Urn opp Mars may be quick to anger, which effects the body on a physical level (blood pressure) and may be accident prone.
Sexual trauma is another road I started down.
Wow, there are just so many possibilities and I am finding that my knowledge of physiology is rather basic :-)
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Cat and others,
There is no need to read medical books at all. All's we need to do is examine the correlations that have been provided about the anatomy, physiology, and the chakra systems and then link those correlations to the example: Mars opposed Uranus. So, in this example we would simply refer to the correlations of Mars, Aries, and the 1st House to the correlations of Uranus, Aquarius, and the 11th House and put that in the context of an opposition. That's all we have to do.
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Hi Rad, I'll be posting what I have so far tomorrow morning.
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Sep 04, 2013, 09:37 AM »
Hi Rad, this is what I have so far. I want to let you know that I am thoroughly appreciating this practice. By looking at the correlations you listed and doing my own research on them - all in the context of a specific practice (Mars Uranus) it is helping me to learn and understand how this works little by little.
I would like to continue to research the correlations you have made and write more here while we are still on Mars Uranus - even if its just a little. I'll be doing that over the rest of this week. Thank you again for this opportunity.
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Neurotransmitter acetycholine is co-ruled by Uranus and Mars as it is a neurotransmitter that binds with skeletal muscle fibers. Upon binding to these fibers it opens up channels in the cell membranes which is then entered by sodium which apparently results in muscle contraction (the role of an electrolyte?). One correlation I can see from that is where the brain will fire the acetypcholine neurotransmitter due to some sort of fight flight response which results in involuntary muscle contraction/muscle tension.
Mars rules the testes and the penis. Acetycholine is also responsible for the swelling of the penis, which correlates as well to the contraction of the testes. I imagine due to sexual trauma/sexual violence there can be issues with the firing or the reception of this neurotransmitter resulting in impotence and psychologically dissociative behavior around sexual arousal/ expression of desires. Uranus also co-rules the sheathing on the nerves. There can be a wear on the nerve sheathing which then could eventually lead to nerve damage.
Dehydration throughout the body in general is possible with this opposition. I see that there are several kinds of dehydration.
. Most forms of dehdration in humans are isotonic which refers to an equal loss of water and electrolytes. This can be created through a great amount of stress on the central nervous system.
Mars rules red blood cells. Red blood cells are responsible for carrying lots of oxygen throughout the body. From wiki on red blood cells:
Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are the most common type of blood cell and thevertebrate organism's principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues via the blood flow through the circulatory system.[1] They take up oxygen in the lungs or gills and release it while squeezing through the body's capillaries
The oxygen is received from the lungs which of course receives it from the air that is breathed. Lungs correlate to Uranus, and there can often be issues with full breathing due to various traumas. This can then have the impact of lowering the amount of oxygen in the blood which then effects the functioning of the entire body, including level of alertness/awakeness. This can lead to various medication conditions wherein the body is deprived of the oxygen that it needs.
Of course there can also be difficulty breathing and there is the clear possibility of accidents/direct trauma involving the lungs as well which can affect all that was stated above.
Injuries to the nose that impede upon the ease of taking in oxygen.
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I see the potential for a dramatically high energy level with the combination of testosterone, the nervous system and the brain, which in time can overtax the body if the person does not find a way to create a calming balance with himself to accomidate for the potential inner stress of the nervous system.
Potential stressors in muscle tissue and blood flow, potential disruptions of the neurotransmitters correlating to disrupted release of Dopamine, Serotonin, Gaba, and Acetylcholoine.
A general potential disruption of the overall nervous system and the bodys ability to deal with the energy overload. Perhaps Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a potential medical disorder.....
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Some correlations:
… brain, neurotransmitters, entire central nervous system, bursting action.
… muscles, red blood cells, primary brain.
The specific correlation to the Mars opposite Uranus aspect is the severe disruption to the neurotransmitter, Acetylcholine, located in both the central nervous system (Uranus) and the peripheral nervous system (Uranus). In the central nervous system, acetylcholine plays a role in attention and arousal. In the peripheral nervous system, this neurotransmitter is a major part of the autonomic nervous system and works to activate muscles (Mars).
Neurotransmitters (Uranus) are chemical messengers which the brain (Uranus) uses to deliver instructions from one neuron (nerve cell) to another (the sheathing on the nerves correlates to Uranus). Without this versatile troupe working in concert, our brains could not function. Acetylcholine is a key player in this troupe. The body uses more of it than any other neurotransmitter.
Acetylcholine is the primary neurotransmitter in charge of muscle movement (Mars). It is found both in smooth muscle and skeletal muscle. Acetylcholine dictates that our muscles work in harmony.
For mental alertness, concentration and memory, acetylcholine is a must. When levels are right, mood is elevated, the mind is focused, and intelligence increased. The brain performs its dance smoothly and effortlessly. When acetylcholine levels are low, learning and recall can plummet. The ability to think clearly and coherently can be disrupted.
This neurotransmitter also plays a vital role in controlling primitive drives and emotions, eg anger, fear, and aggression. When there is an imbalance among our neurotransmitters, these drives and emotions, now unchecked, can wreak havoc on both the individual affected and on the people around them.
Our brain's ability to create acetylcholine lessens as we get older. This can give rise to memory loss and possibly to dementia later in life. Research has shown that all people who experience dementia suffer from insufficient acetylcholine.
Steady blood flow (Mars, red blood cells) is vital for acetylcholine to do its job. But if blood flow in the brain is restricted, by damage caused by strokes, for example, acetylcholine takes a serious hit. This problem is compounded by the fact that the acetylcholine system controls blood flow to the outer portion of the brain.
Uranus correlates with the brain (and Mars to the head), therefore strokes/injury within the brain, and to the physical action of bursting when an existing restriction within the body has reached an extreme.
A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood supply) or to a hemorrhage (Uranus, bursting action). As a result, the affected area of the brain is unable to function.
The ability of the brain to recover from such injury as stroke or trauma depends on a particular circuitry of neurons that 'talk' to one another using the brain chemical acetylcholine.
Parasympathetic nerve fibers send out acetylcholine which induces relaxation, ie slows down the heart. In regards to the cardiac cycle, it influences the volume of blood (Mars) that is ejected during the cycle. When heart rate decreases, cardiac output should also decrease.
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Hi Rad
Medical correlations - Uranus opposed Mars
Possible manifestations include
* stress, potential PTSD, and potential bursting involving the nervous system, potentially affecting the integrity of the myelin sheathing of neurons. Imbalances in the levels of neurotransmitters serotonin, and acetylcholine.
* Mars co-ruling acetylcholine and ruling adrenaline and muscles in general would create cycles of restlessness and muscular tension because of defensive physiological response, increased levels of lactic acid, and fluctuating levels of energy.
* Also, potential irregular breathing, ranging from hyperventilation to shallow breathing or no breathing, affecting the levels of oxygen in the bloodstream
* heat in the lungs, and hemoptysis
* potential imbalances in the levels of iron and hemoglobin affecting oxygen/energy
* also, wonder if this could be a potential signature for anemia
* potential de-hydration and fluctuating levels of testosterone, translating in fluctuating sexual desire.
* extremes in energy levels within the nervous system could produce a stroke
* tension in the diaphragm and the esophagus
* in some cases, the Uranus/Mars opposition could reflect a potential for diseases of sexual transmission affecting the nervous system
* at the chakra system, Mars opposed Uranus could reflect an intention to align egocentric will with a higher will, which has required a liberation from Saturn conditioning. Thus, contents emanating from the individuated subconscious would be demanding externalized action reflecting the liberation, with the potential for willful assertion at an egocentric level, with the underlying intention to align with a higher will, thus creating clashes of will. This will be different in each case and would depend on the evolutionary state of the individual.
* because the umbilical chakra relates to digestion, and the root chakra relates to elimination, the Uranus/Mars opposition could affect persitalsis and hydration of the gastrointestinal tract, producing constipation alternating with diarrhea.
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If possible, could you please refer to the causes for placenta previa, and how this condition can be treated? Would sanicle be of help (after 5th month of the pregnancy)?
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Sep 06, 2013, 09:05 AM »
Quote from: Gonzalo on Sep 06, 2013, 06:34 AM
If possible, could you please refer to the causes for placenta previa, and how this condition can be treated? Would sanicle be of help (after 5th month of the pregnancy)?
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Hi Gonzalo,
Here is a link that will answer the questions you have asked about this:
Sanicle will not alter or help this situation in anyway.
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Hi Group,
I will return on Monday next to review all of the work you have submitted. So if those who have not posted, and said they would, please post by Monday next.
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Hi Rad,
Thanks for waiting Rad, will do.
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Sep 08, 2013, 08:45 AM »
Hi Rad, I've been researching lots of "data" and mostly I feel I have lots of unconnected bits of information. I just wanted to fill you in on my process - my inner guidance at this time is to give all the research a significant rest and to learn by way of taking only small steps myself, by reading other people's posts and your feedback – and asking questions based on all that. I've been trying too hard to research and place together too many Gemini pieces together without enough Sag understanding of nearly any of it.
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