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Great capture, Antonio. . . but, a bit over-sharpened. Makes the boy look alien, IMHO. I would like the eyes intense, but not creepy.
I will review that point later in the day.
Thank you for your opinion.
thats much better, nice image
Thank you Mark Much better indeed.
The story behind the image
We were visiting Man Mandir Palace in Gwalior, India when a young boy came to us speaking English and asking us if we wanted a guide for the tour inside.
As we were at that moment with a Polish and a Spanish and speaking in English we were surprised to listen to the young boy addressing some words to us.
I asked if he could also speak Portuguese when he told me he could speak English, French, Spanish, Italian and even a bit of German, all learned on the street. Amazing. In fact I adressed him in French and it was true, and the same happened when my wife spoke to him in German.
He said he was some 8 years old - we think he should be about 10 - and he had never been in school as he couldnt even read.
We are not sure if all the story is true or not but during the tour and as other young and older boys came along following us, he sent them away in a very strong manner.
To us it was astonishing how a young boy at that age could be so bold and clever and talk languages like that.
When a school passed with some 40 children see how the teacher was looking at him.
Later we read in the Times of India about the "India's invisible children: Swallowed by the streets".
Incredible India.
Wonderful story Antonio... I love how you capture people.
Many of my photos go to garbage. Why ? Because I take them at wait level without seing what I am doing.
Some are blurred because I forget to set the correct speed or focus correctly etc.
Some are nice however. It was a surprise to myself to see this one when I arrived home.
With the arrival of the new CS6 probably I will save many pictures. So, I am not erasing them ... so far.
The way she looks to the boy and the reading of the unsuspected article, adjust the idea one makes about the hole situation.
You also have seen this in China.
I was forgetting to say:
When this teacher stopped in front of me - all children had gone down the stairs - I told her that the boy could speak English etc. and he was not in school. She said "Oh yes..." or something similar and went away.
Comment of the boy: "They are rich. They go to school"
Incredible India
Great shot Antonio! Interested in camera and lens used and ISO, Speed and Aperture. Thanks
Another not so incredible Indian!
However, what makes India so incredible is in fact, his own contradictions. After all, India (China) is growing as a World Power but their population has a large percentage of poor. And it must remain poor for the sake of competitiveness. Oh politics !
16-35 on a Canon 5D old model, ISO 200 - 1/250 - f/4.0 @ 16mm, waist level, random picture as I couldn't see what I was capturing.
You may now say: you have been lucky.
I say: Yes I have been lucky. But if I had not tried would I have been lucky ? Would I ever be able to capture this feeling ?
This way I take many many pictures which are pure rubbish. However, with a bit of luck...
Something else: The focus point is supposed to be - better: should be - automatic and not to the center - as I usualy have - in order the camera can guess the best contrast and select the supposed to be right focusing point.
Then we pray so God gives us the best contrast where we want the focus. God doesn't help you but from time to time.
@ Brian
It is interesting isn't it ?
This time we were travelling on our own which allowed the direct contact with the local people.
The toning down of the whites of the eyes make a big difference. Great capture!
He looks older than eight, António.
In India, like many places in the world people must pay for education. The poor cannot pay and thus get their education on the streets. This boy is obviously very bright and very street wise.
It is not unusual for a child to pick up languages, in particular if he works as a tour guide. Childhood is the best time to learn languages.
By sending the other children away in a stern manner he was simply protecting his territory and livelihood.
The adults are looking disdainfully at the poor boy because India still has a caste system, despite that fact that it is supposed to be outlawed. The poor are discriminated against by people who believe that they are superior because they have some money. Teachers are notorious for their stern and even cruel treatment of children.
Brazil has a similar issue with millions of street children as do many nations in Africa. The West has its own problems with runaway, throwaway children on the streets and sexual slavery. There are more slaves today than at any time in the history of humanity.
I doubt that these children will always remain so terribly poor, for the sake of competitiveness. The tide tends to lift all boats. Even China is raising the minimum salaries of its workers.
Hi Antonio,
It looks great to me -- the only thing I'm wondering is if there is a little too much space to the camera-left of the young man's head - just wondering if a crop that cuts some of that away would improve the balance at all (I haven't tried this, just a thought).
Thank you for dropping those wise lines Viana
@ Colin
Huuummm... I see what you mean...
Thanks for these pictures. I've seen this same "education/non-education" phenomenon in South America in Paraguay, Peru, and in Africa in the Congo and some truly bright kids with little chance to use their "gifts". It is heart-breaking!
Antonio, I would advise you to buy LYTRO Camera, which is now available $396... You need not focus the subject prior to taking photograph.
After capturing Photographs, you just select the portion you want to be in focus, click there and you will have your subject perfectly sharped in focus
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This cottage was made of stone of some sort , covered with at least twelve thousands coats of what I will call paint. It seems like every old building in this city where much of the Enlightenment was born , has about that much paint.
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The small city of Pamplona in northern Spain is home every July to the running of the bulls, the highlight of the weeklong San Fermin festival.
The world-famous fiesta and its nine days and eight nights of traditional events, music and alcohol-soaked parties attract around 1 million visitors every year to the city of nearly 200,000.
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To celebrate, I went and poured myself a glass of ouzo. I drank it standing by the fire watching the first stars appear in a wild sky that still glowed thinly with the last traces of daylight. The mountains jutted against it like solid black cut-outs. The air was big and blustery with the sea's roaring. A fizzing mist of spindrift, driven by the gale, floated over the roof of the house and across the courtyard into the fields beyond. I sipped the ouzo, relishing the aniseed flavour and the chill of the ice in my mouth. If a better post-walk drink existed, I hadn't yet found it. When the glass was empty, I went inside and poured myself another one.
Gradually the fire began to settle, the olive wood burning down to bed of glowing red coals, its peppery aroma tinting the air. I returned to the kitchen and took the sausages from the fridge. From the living room came the sound of laughter – Casanova again, creating merry hell. Sausages in hand I returned to the courtyard just in time to see a yellow slab of moon detach itself from the mountain behind the house. It lingered for a moment, haloing the broken stub of castle on top in an aureole of gorgeous buttery light. Then it sailed slowly and magnificently into the inky field of sky, gradually turning from yellow to white as it imbedded itself in its own hazy nimbus.
With a second ouzo on the go, the situation was improving by the minute. The rich smell of the burning olive wood swirled around me. I didn't mind being left alone courtyard with two young kittens. Good things were happening all over the place. It was almost time to throw the sausages on the fire. On top of this, I still felt energised and excited by my afternoon's walk.
It had started out modestly enough, just a casual jaunt up through the village and down to a chapel dedicated to Agia Paraskevi. This was a little white barrel-roofed building which sat prettily among the terraces against a backdrop of two great spreading pines. Sage and thyme grew all around it. It was one of those places that just felt right. The path that led to it was monumentally walled and, in November, lushly grassed. I followed it down past the chapel into a cutting where it joined the track that leads to the beach at Skafi. My plan was to walk to Skafi and swim, but then, quite suddenly, I experienced an urge to do something different with my afternoon. Following this impulse I left the track and climbed up over the terraces and through a gap in the low cliffs of powdery Pompeian red rock that rose on the other side.
The detour brought me, puffing but happy, onto a barren expanse of ground opposite the village. Dense clumps of khaki-coloured scrub lay over crumbly red-ochre earth shored up behind low terrace walls of flinty grey limestone. A handful of thinly spread olive trees swirled silvery green in the wind. Scattered among them were the charred skeletons of several very old trees that had been struck by lightning and now stood like monuments to their own toughness, ruined but enduring. Zipping up my jacket, I set a course over the terraces and began climbing the mountainside. The wind swirled around me. The dry scrub crunched under my boots. In the thin bright afternoon sunlight the golds and greens and greys and earth tones of my surroundings appeared with a primary brilliance beneath a sky of flawless cobalt.
At some point I stopped and turned to the south. There, extraordinarily distinctly upon the metallic horizon, stood the high mound of Karpathos. The island of Saria rose up before it. A little to one side was a second and slightly less vivid silhouette which I knew must have been Kassos. It was unusual to be able to see these islands so clearly. Often enough, you saw nothing at all, just a blank horizon whitened with haze. Encouraged by the sight, I quickened my pace and was soon quite high, forging my way over collapsed terraces, detouring around abrupt and unwelcome limestone salients that I was unable to scale.
The wind dropped as I moved up into the body of the mountain. The sun beat hard on my back and reflected off the stones and earth. With sweat running down my face and my heart thudding in my chest, I paused several more times to gaze back down at the way I had come – Agia Paraskevi looked tiny – and across at the village standing white and serene on its ruin-strewn mountainside. The euphoria that comes from gaining altitude quickly was upon me and I laughed with pleasure – up there on the mountain, all alone – as my eyes swept the heights, taking in Profitis Ilias, Paleiokastro, the towers at Amali and, far in the distance, the old communications station on the mighty peak of Koutsoumbas. Everything looked bright as a pin, the details exquisite. Continuing upwards, I was soon in striking distance of the ridge – a long, crenulated line of limestone that ascended to a gruff little peak, tucked away beneath which stood the old Italian heliograph station.
It didn't take me long to reach the top. The ground dipped and tipped and I scrambled up, over a slope of dark red earth, to find myself standing on an open plateau covered by thorny phrygana. It was a bleak and empty place and the wind howled unimpeded, a noisy living presence. I staggered into it, surprised by its virulence. The sweat on my face seemed to dry in an instant. Zipping my jacket I thought with excitement of how the north wind was still called Voreias – the same name that the ancients gave to this all-powerful entity, which in one of the early creation myths formed itself into a serpent and fertilised the cosmic egg. Today its effect on the world was no less startling: looking out over the steep and lonely east side of the island, I beheld a racing sea furrowed by whitecaps and a vision of islands and mainland that had been stripped bare and brought into stunning focus.
With some wonder I gazed out across the sea at the neighbouring island of Nissyros, which looked within swimming distance. The corrugations in the steep brown cliffs that climbed out of the sea were perfectly delineated. I could see the trees and phrygana spread across its tan-coloured uplands and the village of Nikia, high on its shoulder, glittering like a little white sugar-cube. To the right of Nissyros, the long line of Kos reclined upon the sea like an old god, craggy but enduring, with the lofty southern end of Kalymnos rising above and beyond its midriff; while between the jutting tip of Turkish Dacta with its little white lighthouse and military outpost and the eastern tip of Kos floated the khaki-tinted fairy-tale mountains of the Bodrum peninsula. I could see all of Dacta, in perfect detail, as it soared high and wild and thickly forested above the sea, curving back towards the main body of Asia Minor and cuddling the island of Symi, all buff-coloured rock patched with the dark green of pine forest, with the tip of Rhodes edging into the picture from the west. Beyond Symi the mountainous coast of Anatolia floated away in a vision of snow-covered mountains. They were, I realised with a thrill, the western end of the Taurus massif, in which I had walked earlier in the year. Never would I have dreamed that I would be able to see so far.
Once again the sense of euphoria that I'd felt on the way up kicked in, though with redoubled force. The vision was mind-numbing. I couldn't help thinking, as I drank it in, that this was the same world that men like Pericles and Alexander had looked upon. I also felt amazed and grateful that I was here, in November, walking alone on an island that had been my home for less than a year but which had already become integral to my being. The wind howled and I laughed straight back at it. It felt too good. Finally I turned and, still smiling, headed along the crumpled and craggy ridge to the Italian House.
The rest of the story is quickly told. The barbeque went smoothly. I managed not to burn the sausages, despite having become quite jolly with the ouzo, and we ate in the kitchen, with Bach's Brandenburg concertos on the stereo vying with the wind outside and much lively talk of Casanova, Baron Pucci, Paprizzio and Giovanni Bruni. The night went on a bit, as they often did at Agios Antonios; but then finally we said goodnight to B and, replete with food and music and conversion and plenty of cheap red wine, ambled off to bed. On the way I checked the thermometer in the courtyard. It read a chilly eleven degrees.
It was even colder early next morning when I got out of bed and, quite naked, raced outside to visit the bathroom. Stars glittered high overhead. The wind was still roaring. On the way back I went and stood at the courtyard gate and saw the moon, a dark and portentous reddish-orange colour now, hanging above the darkness of Plaka. The noise was enormous and a crumpled band of golden light angled towards me across the stormy black sea.


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Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs has been a busy man of late. On his trip to the US to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials, he dropped by the Center for Strategic and International Studies to give a lecture on Japan in the world, touching on its relationship with the US (including Okinawa), the issue of North Korea, and development. If you can get past the staccato reading pace (but kudos for giving the talk in English), then it works as an overview of Japan's goals for the coming year (more about this in tonight's Weekend Update – watch this space).
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Newsletter material for Sunday 14th of June
Sunday 14th of June: Second Sunday after Trinity
10:30am Confirmation and Renewal of Confirmation Vows in a service of Holy Communion.
(Special service order) + Geoff preaching and presiding
Bring and shared lunch afterwards - Lady Chapel.
No 7:45am or 6:30pm services - nor any other services in the benefice this Sunday
Meetings/ Services This Week
Monday: 7:30pm PCC Meeting (Vestry)
Tuesday: 9:30am Morning Prayer at St. Lawrence Church, Gnosall
Wednesday: 11am Service at Gingercroft
7:30pm Alpha course 9. Does God heal today? (Vestry)
Thursday: 9:15am Holy Communion
2:15pm Play and Praise
6:40pm Choir Practice
7pm Office Hour
Friday: 11am Impstones service
7:30pm Music Group
7:30pm Bell ringing practice
Saturday: Gnosall Carnival!
Sunday 14th of June: Third Sunday after Trinity
7:45am Holy Communion (Ordinary Time Communion Booklets) Mark
10:30am Parish Communion (Ordinary Time Communion Booklets) Mark
6:30pm Evening Worship (Normal service orders) Mark
Ecumenical Service to mark the beginning of G Fest: Sunday 5th of July
Please note service times for this Sunday.
There will be, as normal, a 7:45am service of Holy Communion on this day.
It is the turn of the Chapel to host an ecumenical service to mark the beginning of Gnosall Festival Week. Therefore there will be NO service at 10:30am at Church. Instead we will be going to the Chapel for the service - also at 10:30am.
There will be, as normal, a 6:30pm service of Evening Worship on this day
Jim - please add to the current G Fest existing notice - underneath 'more information later'
Saturday 18th of July at 7:30pm. A celebration Praise Service marking 11 years of ecumenical Christian praise music provided by the Music Group + Friends. Refreshments. Offering taken for G Fest. Needed - two people to act as Meet and Greet on the door. Please contact any of the Music Group or Rev Mark if you can help.
Christian Aid House to House Collection
£2,132.90 was raised this year as a result of the ecumenical House to House collection for Christian. Particular thanks must go to all those who collected from streets around the village and those who counted and organised behind the scenes. A thank you to all - remembering the purpose of the collection: to help in whatever way we can to assist the world's poorest people.
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The list is now out at the back of church if you would like to come to our Parish barbecue following the 10:30am service that Sunday. At the home of Norman and Sheila Hailes (Hollies Common) or in the Grosvenor Centre - depending on weather conditions. Please put a 'T' by your name if you require transport.
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Authorities in Arizona are looking to find the woman believed to have left a newborn baby in the Tuscon Airport in January. They have released photos and video of the woman, seen holding something wrapped in a blue blanket. The baby boy was born at the Tuscon Airport and left in a family bathroom in the baggage claim area with a note. An airport employee found the infant abandoned in the restroom, lying on a changing table, cleaned and wrapped up after his birth.
The Tuscon Airport Authority noted that "An investigation of video and witnesses indicates it is possible the mother, who has yet to be identified, gave birth to the baby boy sometime around 9pm."
The note left with the baby reads: "Please help me. My mom had no idea she was pregnant. She is unable and unfit to take care of me. Please get me the authorities so they can find the boy a good home. I just want what's best for him, and it is not me. Please. I'm sorry."
The baby is reportedly healthy and is currently in the care of the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Arizona is a "safe haven" state, which allows parents to leave newborns at designated locations if they feel they can't care for the child. Since an airport is not one of the designated areas (typically hospitals and churches), the woman who abandoned the baby could face criminal charges.
Many weighing in with comments on the Daily Mail's coverage of the story were relieved that the baby was unharmed, with notes including:
"Leave her alone. Thank God she didn't harm the baby. We want women to do what she did rather than kill their babies, yet we hunt them down after they do it. Why? Is it to set them up so that they can care for the child? If not, bless that family who wants to adopt and keep it moving," "Leave her alone, she didn't kill him," and "Thank you for not harming your baby."
Others wondered how the woman didn't realize she was pregnant, with one commenter asking: "How do you not know you are pregnant and carry a baby to full term? One has to be completely out of touch with their body."
Another person responded, "If you're 'fat', I think it can go unnoticed, but if you're a normal weight like me, impossible. I looked like I had 2 foot beach ball protruding from my belly."
Another commenter offered: "She knew she wasn't fit to be a mother and she did the best she could with what she had at the time. Would you prefer that she kept him and tried to raise him herself? If she had, and needed assistance you would call her a moocher and shame her for accepting welfare. And for all we know she might have had protected sex and still gotten pregnant. Stop judging others when you know nothing of their life."
In response, another person pointed out: "Safe Haven drop off locations and laws are there for a reason. Hospital/fire station etc, no questions asked, no laws broken. Each state is different but they all have some protection in play."


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MILLIONS of BILLIONS of HUNGRY CANNIBAL HOMELESS (HERE! by CHRISTMAS) 21st Century Cities Two Billion Slum Dwellers [Elisabeth Eaves] 06.11.07, 6:00 PM ET Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly significant that 2007 will become a touchstone for future historians. For the first time, more people will be living in cities than in the country. The individual who tips the scales might be a baby born to a city dweller or an adult migrating from the countryside, but in either case, it's likely that his or her new surroundings will include flimsy walls, disease and an enveloping stench of sewage and trash. The newcomer will have arrived in a Third World slum. By 2030, an estimated 5 billion of the world's 8.1 billion people will live in cities. About 2 billion of them will live in slums, primarily in Africa and Asia, lacking access to clean drinking water and working toilets, surrounded by desperation and crime. Already these slums are huge. According to Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums, nearly 80% of Nigeria's urban population, or some 41.6 million people, live in slums. The comparable numbers in India are 56% and 158.4 million. Many of these slum dwellers are also squatters, lacking leases or legal title to their homes. Not all slums are equal. By the United Nation's definition, their residents are missing at least some of the following: durable walls, a secure lease or title, adequate living space, and access to safe drinking water and toilets. A fifth of slum households are missing at least three of these basic needs. To the outsider, many developing-world slums look unbearably awful, but to their residents they do function, complete with social hierarchies, commerce and a degree of home-grown government. Still, when one sees a family living in a flyblown concrete cell in Karachi, inside a mud hut in Nairobi or in a cardboard shack in Lagos, one might be inclined to ask, Are they really better off than in the villages they fled? Dismal though the slums may be, the answer is often yes. After all, nearly all of the residents are there by choice (many, in fact, pay some sort of rent), so they themselves think they are better off. The vast majority moved to the city seeking better economic prospects, and many find them. A 2005 study on migration and poverty in Asia by the International Organization for Migration notes that "even if migrant jobs are in the risky informal sector, the gains to be made can be several times higher than wages in rain-fed agriculture." Many slum dwellers are in fact entrepreneurs, albeit writ very small. They recycle trash, sell vegetables, do laundry. Some even run tiny restaurants and bars for their neighbors. Even though they are technically squatters, lacking legal title to their land, many also improve their dwellings--often just one brick at a time. After decades of home improvement, some of the best dwellings in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro sport balconies and ocean views. Indeed, for many decades the slums offered a degree of upward mobility. Migrants squatted on city outskirts, drawn by free or nearly free land and proximity to urban jobs. Over the decades many of the residents built permanent housing and succeeded--often after a long wait--in getting services like water, sanitation and electricity routed to their neighborhoods. Onetime poor colonias in Mexico City have gentrified since the early 1980s. The favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the oldest of which date back to 1897, are famously vibrant, replete with lively bars and low crime rates--even if they happen to be "governed" by local drug gangs. Davis, the author of Planet of Slums, comes to a darker conclusion. "That frontier of free land is essentially over," he says. "Squatting has now been privatized." Since the 1980s, he says, new migrants to the slums have had to pay for the privilege of living there. In some cases, as in Pakistan and Kenya, the land is ostensibly public, but local police forces or corrupt politicians demand "rent." In others, as in many Latin American slums, the newest, poorest arrivals rent space from more-established squatters. A byproduct of this diminishing supply of free land is that new arrivals move onto more marginal land: steep gullies in Tijuana, vertical hillsides in Caracas, flood-prone flats in Dhaka. Davis also argues that in cities like Mumbai, urban job growth has failed to keep pace with city growth since the 1990s. "These areas are now supersaturated with Darwinian competition," he says. And even when there is more economic opportunity in the city, life in the slums is extremely perilous. According to the United Nations, slum children in sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to die from water-borne and respiratory illnesses than rural children, while women living in slums are more likely to contract HIV than their country cousins. In countries including Egypt, Bangladesh and Guatemala, slum children are less likely to be enrolled in primary school than their urban counterparts. Still, the dream of a better life in the city persists. Overall, the world's urban population is expected to grow at an annual rate of 1.78% until 2030, while rural communities shrink. Ways to mitigate poverty amid this massive shift are not easy to find. Just last month, the government of the Indian state of Maharashtra announced an ambitious plan to transform one of Asia's largest slums. The neighborhood, Dharavi, is home to about 600,000 people crammed into one square mile at the heart of Mumbai. But no sooner had the government proposed the $2.3 billion scheme, which would rehouse the slum dwellers for free, than local activists denounced it for favoring the rich and driving out Dharavi's myriad of small businesses. Turkey offers some lessons to governments serious about grappling with urban poverty. As Robert Neuwirth documents in his book Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World, Turkey has two laws giving squatters legal and political rights, which encourages them to invest in their homes and neighborhoods. Neuwirth, who lived in the squatter communities of Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, Mumbai and Istanbul, writes that a legal system like Turkey's could benefit squatters all over the world. Of course, that kind of legal reform presupposes a measure of democracy and good government, something much of the developing world doesn't have. For decades, governments around the world simply abdicated responsibility for this massive urban influx. One result is that most of the world's slum dwellers--a billion people--remain cut off from the legal economy, working outside the tax system and with only tenuous rights to the land on which they live. Into this vacuum of power have stepped all sorts of organic movements. Some are potentially positive: Pentecostalism is on the rise in slums, according to Davis, and Indian slums have spawned influential groups that fight for squatters' rights. But for every benign community organization that rises to power in a slum, so does a criminal gang or a militant movement like Hamas. Western security experts rightly fear failed states; in the future, they will have to worry about failed cities. Mega-cities, of 10 million or more, are on the rise across Asia, while cities like Dhaka, Jakarta, Lagos and Delhi will cross the 20 million threshold by 2020. Planning and building is not keeping pace. The world ignores the slums at its own peril. 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Quit frankly they don't deserve my compassion. Most are there by choice, rejecting help at every opportunity. So homeless should be given an option, live in-city in a shelter and WORK daily picking up trash, sweeping sidewalks, cleaning parks etc, or we haul them off to a campment in the middle of nowhere in east county. They would be free to leave anytime, but it would be quit a hike to go beg for money. I bet it would cost the county WAY less in the long run and maigh actually motivate these people to accept the help and programs offered to them. 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Date: 2009-06-18, 8:08AM PDT Reply to: your anonymous craigslist address will appear here MAKING HIS WAY FROM PUBLIC SQUARE, through a blossoming park next to the County Courthouse, the tall homeless man in the red "Rise Up" Cavs T-shirt bounds down some steps and onto a ramp that looks like a miniature football field from above. Overhead, the constant hum of the Shoreway. Ahead, cars whipping by, the half-billion-dollar Browns Stadium hulking impressively beyond. Below, two busy train tracks and a tiny fenced-in city parking lot. Mark's home. The 40-year-old hops a short railing. A sign there reads: "Homeless Being Evicted by the City of Cleveland over a Sporting Event. We Need Help from Anyone." Directly under the ramp, a shirtless man and a frail woman are tweaking out. "Don't you take no fucking pictures over here," the man says, pacing the perimeter of his tent like a pit bull. "You paying us to talk? You got five bucks for us to talk? Anything. We're hungry." Mark rolls his eyes, ambles over to the tidier section of the camp, the side he jokingly refers to as "the suburbs," where charcoal in a small grill is just going gray next to a neat row of five red tents. His is on the end. "We was staying over in an alley behind the 55 building [on Public Square] until 'bout Christmas," says Mark, who's been on the streets for five years, battling addiction and a job market largely closed to ex-cons. "These kids from Wooster, a church group or something, they come around and give us these tents. So I put mine up right then and the police, they was like, "Uh-uh, no way.' So we just come on down here." A tent city was born. There are about a dozen spread through the lot, sometimes more. A milk crate mounted to a railing serves as a makeshift basketball net. Everyone's got a lawn chair. They pee down a sewer grate, hop the tall chain-link fence and trot off into the underbrush near the tracks for serious business. Some say it's as comfy as they've been in years. "We like it better down here," says 55-year-old Tim, a Vietnam vet who's turning chicken on the grill brought down by his cousin who donates food a few times a week. "It's peaceful. At the shelters, it's like checking into the jail. Out here, you can clear your head, breath some fresh air." He takes a big whiff of the city. "All we do is drink beer down here, kick back a little. Botherin' nobody. Over there," pointing to the hovels under the ramp, "they get into all other sorts of things, but keep it away from me, you know? We get less hassles from the police because we're not in the public eye. That was the big problem with being out on Public Square." And then it became a problem under the highway, too. IN 1994, FOUR HOMELESS MEN successfully sued then-Mayor Mike White and the city for ushering Public Square panhandlers into squad cars and relocating them to the outskirts of the city or the Metroparks. "So the city ends up agreeing to say, "Not that we did this, but we won't do it again,'" says Gary Daniels, litigation coordinator at the ACLU of Ohio and a board member of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH). That narrowed the line city leaders have to walk, between rebranding Cleveland as "a city of choice," and providing for those who serve as reminders of Cleveland's failures. Tim and Mark, along with the five others in their little family, say police and bike patrols from the Downtown Cleveland Alliance continue to make downtown, where social services and free meals are most prevalent, inhospitable. They're used to the drill. In recent years, the city has told homeless not to sleep in a lot of places: the airport, outside City Hall, at the convention center, at the rapid stations. Now, it's this lot, leased by the city to the Browns, who claim ignorance of the city's decision to give the squatters the boot last weekend. "They gonna keep moving us on, moving us on," Mark says. "They doing it again Sunday [June 10] 'cause they got some soccer game they gonna charge people to park here for. They gonna make $500 at $20 bucks a space. We ain't worth $500 to them. They wanted us off Public Square, we came here. Now they want us out of here." But money's not the concern, Mayor Frank Jackson's staffers claim, nor is the fear of bad publicity from media covering the national women's soccer team game on June 16 at the stadium, as homeless advocates have also alleged. "It's important for the city to take a position on quality of life," says Natoya Walker, a Jackson spokeswoman. "Quality of life is important for every Clevelander, including homeless persons, and it's potentially unsafe, as far as cleanliness or personal hygiene or whatever, for a person to be out there in a tent. So our goal is to refer them to the homeless network." Besides, she says, "That tent city is a city-owned parking lot. It's inappropriate for housing, or for someone to live there temporarily in a tent." And what would the tailgaters think of those homeless people with the prime spots? "It's easy for someone to walk by a person sleeping in a doorway," says David Coffman, a civil rights organizer for the National Coalition for the Homeless. "But when you see a tent city by Browns Stadium, that's not so easy to ignore. That becomes a problem." Where the little red city blossoms next is anyone's guess. "You got a parking lot over there at the Free Times?" jokes Tim. "We'll see ya Sunday." COUNCILMAN JOE CIMPERMAN has been the leader of downtown's Ward 13 for a decade. Before that, at John Carroll University, while serving as student council president, he founded Project GOLD, a group that served homeless families. His early career was spent coordinating volunteers or as an outreach worker at Cleveland's West Side Catholic Center. But serving the poor makes up a small piece of his puzzle today. Though he went public in 2002 to lobby against the federal government continuing its cuts to affordable housing programs, Cimperman, like many of his colleagues, is beholden to a broader range of influences, especially now that he's chairman of Council's Planning Committee and vice-chairman of Community and Economic Development. In March, during Council's budget hearings, Cimperman asked the city's parks superintendent to get a ruling on whether Public Square could be designated a city park. If so, then police could legally tell homeless to move along at 9 p.m. like they do in other parks. He didn't want to talk about the request then, and numerous attempts to reach him in recent weeks were unsuccessful. "Money and the pressure to get reelected seem to turn nearly everyone away from the constituency that got them elected in the first place," is how Brian Davis sees it. But he's executive director of NEOCH. Davis says the city's law department ruled that Public Square couldn't be designated a city park since some of the property there is privately owned. The plan fizzled. At least that one. "There's no concerted effort on our part to address street people in Public Square or near Browns Stadium," says Cleveland Police Lt. Tom Stacho. "That's not to say individual officers didn't have interactions with an individual or a group and maybe that was taken as some sort of official policy or attitude to the homeless." Davis has a theory: "The yellow-and- blue shirt crew seems to have gone about solving this problem on their own," referring to the Block by Block group subcontracted by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, hired last year by downtown building owners to clean up the sidewalks, trash and all. The need was clearly there. In late 2005, the Project for Public Spaces ranked Cleveland's Public Square seventh on its international list of "The 16 Squares Most Dramatically in Need of Improvement." A Plain Dealer story that exposed the designation used the occasion to explore the options for when the Euclid Corridor and streetscaping are finally wrapped up. A few city planners envisioned a more commercial-friendly future. Ann Zoller, leader of the nonprofit ParkWorks Inc., said, "You get people into public spaces, and the [homeless] problem takes care of itself." In the story, Cimperman called Public Square "a sleeping giant" in terms of development possibilities. Ted Hissam, operations manager at Block by Block, doesn't deny that his workers try to interact with homeless and push them toward available social services. But no one is moved forcibly unless they violate the law, he says. Hissam and his cyclists field call after call and do what they can to leave a clean spot behind. "A week ago, some college folks brought down some mattresses to hand out," he recalls. "And many of them were left on corners where homeless people had to store them. So we worked with them in picking this stuff up." Two separate homeless men in the tent city say Block by Block cyclists have come up and parked on either side of them while they squatted on a sidewalk downtown. "And they'll tell you," says one of the men, Wayne Hoyne, 45, "there's nothing illegal about us coming up and just hanging out by you." Hissam insists his group isn't the enemy. He talked about cracking down on aggressive panhandling and how the group has a paid police officer to handle criminal complaints. The group even has a social worker who guides homeless toward services. Just last week, a new worker started who was recruited off the streets. "Their sleeping arrangements are very problematic," Hissam says, "and everyone sympathizes with their plights." Helena Miller, DCA's social worker, claims many of the people her group encounters are perfectly happy living as they do. "A lot of them, they're quite content being where they are and doing what they're doing because living on the street is pretty inexpensive. People take care of you, feed you, supply you with your needs. So it's a pretty economical arrangement." She speaks of prodding along the homeless with an aim to better their lives: "In terms of people actually living on the streets, it's not appropriate, especially with the weather we have here." The problem in Miller's eyes is how America's safety net has dropped precariously close to the ground. And until more is done to properly house all people, she doesn't see the problem with homeless using tents and creating some form of a tent city, maybe at a place like Edgewater Park, conveniently located outside the group's boundary of operation. The alternative, she says, is to continue letting people slip further under the radar and into harm's way. "Every person has an individual story," she says, "and most are more than any one person could bear. There's little wonder they're homeless." THE CITY CLAIMS to be doing what it can with what it has. After the FAA announced that November 1, 2007 would be the end of the city's overflow shelter at Aviation High, Jackson and other leaders worked to find a solution. The city is currently in the process of acquiring the 88-bed North Point Inn on Euclid as a replacement, as well as selecting a service provider. Beyond that, Walker, Jackson's spokeswoman, doesn't know what else the city could afford to do. "Homelessness is a national problem, not a city problem," she says. It's an easily illustrated one, too. A 2004 CSU study found that about 20,000 people are homeless throughout the year in Cleveland, as many as 4,000 a night - far more than the 2,000 or so shelter beds available. A 2005 federal report provides a good snapshot of those people: More than 60 percent suffered from chronic substance abuse; about half were chronically homeless; about a quarter were severely mentally ill; one-fifth were veterans; about 10 percent were victims of domestic violence. And the numbers have risen steadily for two decades, Davis says, as services and affordable housing options dwindle. According to the county's Office of Homeless Services, the county needs at least 3,384 more shelter beds, as well as 170 more beds for homeless families - a daunting expense. The alternative is having more people exposed to the violent streets. Coffman, with the National Coalition for the Homeless, says hate crimes against the homeless increased about 65 percent between 2005 and 2006, and 68 percent of that spike can be attributed to teenage boys. In Cleveland, advocates have documented at least six hate crimes since February. In May alone, two homeless men were murdered; no suspects have been named. But Cleveland Police's Lt. Stacho says that only one of those alleged hate crimes - a series of assaults by a large group on a homeless couple in the Flats - is on file with police. That one involved the sale of their dog to customers upset about the terms, Stacho says - and that's not a hate crime. He doesn't know about the other cases; they weren't reported. "If there is some targeting of street people, we definitely would address it," he insists. Advocates have a different set of reports. Donna Kelly, a nurse with CARE Alliance who treats homeless patients where they wander, says she treated most of those other victims and insists their blood ran red like the rest of us. "Some of them were beaten to the head, had black eyes, some had cuts to their legs from broken bottles," she recalls. "In the last month alone I've had five. It's more than six since February." Some of the victims told advocates that they were beaten by bands of roving youngsters resembling skinheads, with pipes and other makeshift weapons. They likely didn't want to report the crimes to police, Davis says, because of fear of having a warrant or a general disdain for the uniform. Still, he worries police may be downplaying or not grasping the seriousness. Stacho should know about at least one other attack, Davis adds, because 2nd District Commander Charles Boddy himself responded to it in April outside Franklin Circle Church, a case in which a homeless man was attacked, again, by a large group of skinhead-looking ruffians. "They took him in an alley and beat him up," Davis says. "But he didn't want to be interviewed." And these types of crimes aren't contained to the fringes of the city. Four summers ago, teens were sneaking up on the homeless right on Public Square with stun guns and video cameras, filming their assaults. Two years later, two more assaults on Public Square. But nothing like the current wave. Last year, Davis says, there were just two hate crimes reported to advocates in the entire state. The National Coalition's Coffman believes that as cities across the nation criminalize the homeless, they become easier targets. He points to a strong correlation between cities with the strictest panhandling laws and their levels of homeless attacks. That's one of many reasons homeless advocates want to see a 24-hour shelter opened downtown to coordinate charitable services away from Public Square. Still, Cimperman and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance have expressed distaste for the plan. "They've been resistant to having that anywhere near existence," Davis says. "It would be a white elephant in the middle of nowhere." And so everyone waits for the federal government to return to the table. "We ended national housing policy back during the Reagan administration, and so we need so much housing now that's affordable that it's beyond any city's ability to do that," says Davis, noting how Jackson has been the first mayor in his memory who truly seems concerned with the issue and even campaigned in the shelters. "It has to be a national priority." BACK DOWN IN THE TENT CITY, a place referred to by the residents as "Browns Town" or "The Freeway Hilton," 38-year-old Richard Benson sits along the chain-link fence, scanning the highway. He says he's got a seriously prohibitive rap sheet, including a seven-year stint for felonious assault. He wonders, How's a man like me gonna pay for life? Mark pipes in that McDonald's just turned his application down. "So we got this temp work thing and it gets us through 'til tomorrow," Benson says. "Or we go scrappin'. They gon' move us out again and you know what? It don't even matter. They just waiting for us to burn ourselves down to nothing." dharkins@... * Location: In LOS ANGELES alone! BILLIONS of HOMELESS-USA-by DEC. '09 Date: 2009-06-18, 8:03AM PDT Reply to: your anonymous craigslist address will appear here newsdesk.org ( http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004300.html) The Slums: A Boom in Urban Poor Defies Solutions Posted June 13, 2007 Experts predict that by 2030 two billion people will live in urban squatter and slum communities with no services, sanitation or running water. The growth of slums and economic disparaties are spurring poitical debate and legal crackdowns, even as new social movements emerge within the communities themselves. Forbes.com reports that today 80 percent of Nigerians -- that's more than 40 million people -- live in slums, as do 158 million Indians, or 56 percent of the population. The Economic Times in India puts that sum closer to 70 million, accounting for 45 percent of Delhi's population, and more than 50 percent of Mumbai's. In an editorial, the newspaper says that the huge influx of rural poor to cities has changed voting patterns, which are now divided along economic rather than caste lines. It also said that legitimizing illegal land claims will only worsen the problem by encouraging more squatting, and that the government should instead offer affordable housing and increase economic opportunity in rural areas. Forbes writer Elisabeth Eaves notes that reformist and religious movements, drug gangs and fundamentalist militants such as Hamas have all emerged from slums, even as social and environmental problems deepen. In Brazil, favelas outside of Sao Paulo cluster around a stream that feeds one of the city's primary reservoirs, polluting water supplies with raw sewage. A move to turn the stream into a covered, underground channel will likely result in the mass eviction of those living around the watershed, many of whom moved there from within Sao Paulo proper after being displaced by gentrification. In Cleveland, Ohio, as many as 4,000 people are homeless on a given night -- more than twice the number of shelter beds available -- and a tent city there balances between a court precedent supporting squatters' rights and a push to ban panhandling and spur construction and development. Critics say assault and other crimes against the homeless are on the rise, even as college students hand out tents and mattresses, the Cleveland Free Times reports. Other advocacy groups there seek to remove the homeless from local public spaces, including a secluded highway underpass the city wants to use as a fee-for-service parking lot. Sources: "Two billion slum dwellers" Forbes.com, June 11, 2007 "Why slum rehabilitation is good money chasing bad" The Economic Times (India), june 12, 2007 "BRAZIL: Water sources threatened by lack of low-cost housing, sanitation" Inter Press Service, June 8, 2007 "We can still see you" The Cleveland Free Times (Ohio), June 13, 2007
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Today's wedding is a total stunner for sure! We first met Genna + Chris for their adorable engagement session with Graham and we have been anxious for their wedding ever since!!
This is what Genna says of her wedding hopes "Ever since I was young I have always envisioned my wedding to be as elegant and romantic as possible.. kind of like Cinderella!" Well, Genna we think you achieved just this except you are even more beautiful than Cinderella to us!! Genna + Chris invited all their family and friends to St. Leonard's Church for their gorgeous ceremony. The shots graham captured of the entire church are amazing beyond belief. This Church blows us away!!! Feels like a fairytale wedding to us. Afterwards, G + C rode to a few different Boston locations for some Ah-mazing couples photos. We especially love the sunset shots!!
Their reception was just as wonderful. In one word: FUN!! Genna + C danced the night away with their guests and its pretty clear that everyone had a great time! We know we did.
Genna + Chris, your wedding is one of our very favorites! We adore you both. All our Love. xoxo
Ceremony: St. Leonard's Church | Reception: Seaport Hotel | Florist: Flouer | Cake: Konditor Meister | Entertainment: Wilson Stevens Productions | Officiant: Fr. Antonio | Wedding Dress Designer: Rita Vinieris | Shoes: Kate Spade | Hair Stylist: Christine Lyman | Make-up Artist: Hilary Warner | Invitation/ Program Designer: Laura Lubanski with Gus and Ruby | Bridesmaid Dresses: Jenny Yoo


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MoTW---"Final Destination 3"
It's time to take a break from the garbage I've been spewing out the
last few months. What follows something that's been brewing inside me
for about a year and I feel that it's time to let it all out.
CAUTION: The following contains really, really bad language and
descriptions of acts that are really, really kind of sick so proceed at
your own risk.
A guys goes into a talent agent's office and tells the agent about a new
act he has discovered.
"It's a family of six consisting of a mother, father, son, daughter,
grandmother and grandfather. They all come out on stage dressed as
Disney characters with the mother as Cinderella, the father as Prince
Charming, the daughter as Ariel, the son as Aladdin, the grandmother as
Mary Poppins and the grandfather as Dopey.
"The music starts and Mary Poppins whips out her tits and starts
whacking Aladdin's face with them while Ariel crawls under Mary's skirt
and starts licking her pussy.
"Pretty soon Mary has an orgasm and starts shitting on Ariel's face
since she can't control herself and then Dopey comes up and starts
fucking Mary in the ass even though the shit is still oozing out.
"Prince Charming sticks both his arms up Cinderella's pussy and he roots
around for awhile and then he withdraws his arms and his hands are
holding a tiny baby. Now, we'll only be able to do this five times since
she's pregnant with quintuplets, but that's a matter we can discuss at a
later time.
"Then Prince Charming whips out his dick and starts smacking the tiny
baby's ass with it until it starts crying. He then tosses it to the
floor and Aladdin walks over and pisses on it, while chewing on it's
umbilical cord as if it were a piece of taffy.
"Cinderella then frees her tits and starts spraying milk into the air. A
couple of crackwhore children dressed as Minnie and Mickey and a retard
dressed as Dumbo prance unto the stage and try catching the milk on
their tongues as Dopey chases them around with a sharp stick shoving it
deep into their asses until they bleed.
"When there's no more milk, the family take turns licking the pointy end
of the sharp stick and then start kicking Minnie, Mickey and Dumbo in
the stomach until they start to projectile vomit. Then they gather the
vomit together into one big pile and start to fuck each other in it,
with Dopey fucking Ariel, Aladdin fucking Cinderella and Prince Charming
fucking Mary.
"When they're done fucking they all shit and then mix the shit in with
the vomit and sit around on the stage until it dries and then they take
out knives and forks and dine until they're full while Minnie, Mickey
and Dumbo try to shove the baby into an empty 2 liter soda bottle."
"Well," said the agent, "that's something new and different. What does
this act call themselves?"
"The Aristocrats!"
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Long lasting benefits of physical activity during youth
Young adults who run or participate in other cardio fitness activities may preserve their memory and thinking skills in middle age, finds new research published in the journal Neurology.
Nearly 2,800 healthy people with an average age of 25 underwent treadmill tests the first year of the study, and again 20 years later during middle age (43 to 55 years). The participants walked or ran as the speed and incline increased until they could not continue. At the first test, participants lasted an average of 10 minutes; that decreased by 2.9 minutes on average in the follow-up test.
Every additional minute completed on the first treadmill test corresponded to better scores on tests of verbal memory and psychomotor speed, even after adjusting for other factors such as smoking, diabetes and high cholesterol.
People who had smaller decreases in their time in the follow-up treadmill test were more likely to perform better on an executive function test than those who had bigger decreases.
"These changes were significant, and while they may be modest, they were larger than the effect from one year of ageing," says study author David R. Jacobs Jr of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Shedding new light on weight management
The early bird catches not only the worm but also has a significantly lower body mass index (BMI). That's according to a new study in PLOS ONE by Northwestern University, which has found that the timing, intensity and duration of light exposure during the day are linked to weight.
For seven days, 54 male and female study participants with an average age of 30 wore a wrist actigraphy monitor that measured their light exposure and sleep parameters in normal living conditions, and kept food logs to track their caloric intake.
Those who had greater morning light exposure had a significantly lower BMI than those who had most of their light exposure later in the day. This was independent of an individual's physical activity level, caloric intake, sleep timing, age or season. It accounted for about 20 per cent of a person's BMI.
"Light is the most potent agent to synchronise your internal body clock that regulates circadian rhythms, which in turn also regulate energy balance," says study senior author Dr Phyllis C. Zee. "The message is that you should get more bright light between 8 a.m. and noon."
Workplaces and schools should also have windows. Employees should be encouraged to go outside for lunch or breaks, and indoor lighting should be improved in the school and workplace, says Zee.
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The more depressed you feel, the more you're at risk of heart failure, according to an 11-year study of nearly 63,000 Norwegians.
Data such as body mass index, physical activity, smoking habits and blood pressure, were first collected in 1995 from Nord-Trøndelag county for a large epidemiological study. Depression was assessed and ranked for severity using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.
During the study period, nearly 1,500 people developed heart failure. After adjusting for factors such as obesity and smoking, it was found that compared to people with no symptoms of depression, those with mild symptoms had a 5 per cent increased risk of developing heart failure and those with moderate to severe symptoms had a 40 per cent increased risk.
Depression triggers stress hormones that induce inflammation and atherosclerosis, which may accelerate heart diseases, says Lise Tuset Gustad, first author of the study and an intensive care nurse at Levanger Hospital in Norway. The findings were presented last week at EuroHeartCare 2014 in Norway, an annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology.
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Deakin University was established in the 1970s as one of the new generation of Australian universities. Deakin combines a university's traditional focus on excellent teaching and research with a desire to seek new ways of developing and delivering courses. Deakin has won several awards for its teaching and learning excellence, including QS 5 Star Rating for Excellence in 2013 - testament to its excellent facilities, flexible study options and courses which are informed by industry professionals.
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