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Reflections on Multilingual Environments

Magangdang Araw, Mayad ng Adlaw, y Mayon Adlawan. Three ways to greet someone in the Philippines yet three different languages. The Philippines is an archipelago comprised of 7000 islands and just as many languages. In reality, this nation has more than 100 languages. The official language of the Philippines is English and Tagalog with more than a dozen recognized regional languages. As a volunteer, we were told how complex the language learning in this country is. The Peace Corps Philippines have tried many models of teaching language competency that would adequately prepare volunteers for their service in the country. While preparing for my study abroad to Senegal, I found the readings that referenced models of education, critical analysis of English, and policy issues around language. All of these references brought back these memories. In this reflection of multilingual environments, I will discuss my experience with multiple languages in the Philippines as an American volunteer.

The method my cohort used for learning language was Tagalog first then our local language. The first two months of training was dedicated to the entire cohort learning Tagalog and once we learned our permanent site placements we would separate by local language and have a one week language intensive before traveling to our site assignments. This proved problematic for a few reasons. There was more priority given to the official language despite whatever the dominate language is in the specific region a volunteer was placed. For example I learned Tagalog and only spoke it when traveling to Manila, the nations capital. However, I spoke Kinaray-a, a language local to the province of Antique but a variation of the Bisayan language specific to the Visayan region. I use the term variation to distinguish a meaning similar to Benson and Kosonen (2013) which involves “mutual intelligibility” (p.7). They describe it as speakers of different varieties of one language being able to communicate and understand one another with ease. This was frequent with employees of the Department of Social Welfare of Development. These workers would speak Hiligaynon to the beneficiaries in which they serve and beneficiaries would respond in Kinaray-a and there was no difficulty in understanding the others dialect since they both derive from the Bisayas.

The term dialect was something that also caught my attention while reading Language Issues in Comparative Education (Benson and Kosonen, 2013). The term seems to be disregarded in this context. A loose definition was provided, however, since it is not applied universally it seems to be discredited. This allows me to reflect on a course from the fall semester that questioned the authenticity of knowledge based on origin. The reading by Sawadogo (1995) argues that  western forms of thought are dominant over everyone else and because other knowledge is not universal, published, or even understood then it is discredited. I had the same thought about the word dialect. I am curious to see what research has been done on the term and what cultures use the term dialect. Many people would express they were so surprised that I speak their dialect. It wasn’t until I started explore issues of language that this was perceived as post-colonial jargon. Perhaps this is outside the scope of the curriculum for this field course but something to note nonetheless as it caught my attention.

In the Philippines, I was assigned to the children, youth, and family sector. I was not an education volunteer so I did not work directly in the school but I did collaborate frequently with the high school and university to support the youth for which I provided services. Ouane and Glanz (2011) cites conditions for effective language training to surround the emphasis of the first language as medium of instruction. This is where the Philippines falls short. The Department of Education just recently made mother-tongue classes required in school but it is not the medium of instruction and it is not in every grade level. Mother tongue offering may be limited because, I noticed limited resources for learning the local language. Even as volunteers, learning Kinaray-a was challenging because materials provided were different than what we learned from our community. There were about seven volunteers in our local language group and there were variations of the Kinarya-a from the northern part of the province to the southern part. When we exchanged notes. There were many differences. The same applies to Tagalog, they have many resources for learning the language but there seems to be a greater confidence and usage of the language with the presence of a television or radio where they are exposed to the language outside of the school. However, the Philippines does meet the condition that a second language takes up to eight years to learn before being used as a medium of instruction. Filipino start learning English from grade one well into college and the amount of English used for instruction increases with time.

Since, researching languages in Senegal and noticing French as a dominate language I have been able to draw parallels with English. According to Benson and Kosonen (2013), these dominate languages are determined by prestige, popularity, and persuasion from the government. English seems to be held to a higher standard. I have witnessed students make fun of other students whose English was not as developed, and teachers are strict with students on being grammatically correct when they speak, which in turn, discourages the students from speaking. Ngugi (1993) explains English in Scandinavia used as a means to an end, mostly for commercial use and trade, not to carry national culture or oppress another group. Historically, we have seen English in the Philippines used to oppress Filipinos and now its culture is deeply embedded in the language. What I saw frequently, was English used to demonstrate status. Either jokingly or intentionally, some Filipinos spoke English to show off that they were better than others. This was a micro aggressive technique used to marginalize those that did not speak English as fluently or were not as confident.

This experience in the Philippines was a crash course on the complexities of multilingual environments before I was able to identify those challenges. In preparing for this study of languages in Senegal, I better understand terminology to distinguish the hierarchy of languages, I understand the educational context of language in Senegal provided by Diallo (2011). Language and culture is being oppressed in nations around the world and education plays an crucial role in preserving the language and culture which has prompted me to end with this beautiful quote. “A world of many languages should be like a field of flowers of different colours. There is no flower which becomes more of a flower on account of its colour or its shape. All such flowers express their common `floralness’ in their diverse colours and shapes” (Ngugi, 1993, p.39).

– Javonni McGlaurin

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IE10 passes IE9 in market share, Firefox falls back below 20%, but Chrome manages to gain the most

The first half of 2013’s browser war is now over. June saw the third full month of IE10 availability on Windows 7, as well as the release of Firefox 22 and first full month of Chrome 27 availability. The latest market share numbers from Net Applications show Firefox was the biggest loser and Chrome was the biggest winner last month.

Between May and June, Internet Explorer gained 0.16 percentage points (from 55.99 percent to 56.15 percent), Firefox lost a whopping 1.48 percentage points (from 20.63 percent to 19.15 percent), and Chrome grabbed 1.43 percentage points (from 15.74 percent to 17.17 percent). Safari meanwhile gained 0.09 percentage points to 5.55 percent and Opera dipped 0.19 percentage points to 1.58 percent.

At 56.15 percent, Internet Explorer’s growth seems to be slowing. January was the first time the browser went back above the 55 percent mark, while the next few months have shown it won’t be losing that crown anytime soon.

At 13.52 percent in June, IE10 has gained more market share (4.26 percent) in the third month of availability on Windows 7 than in the first and second. As a result, IE9 has lost a solid 3.68 percentage points (its biggest loss ever), falling to 11.71 percent, and has even managed to fall below IE10. Soon IE11 will be doing the same thing, given that it will be available for both Windows 7 and Windows 8.

IE8 meanwhile dipped 0.32 percentage points, but it’s still the world’s most popular browser at 22.67 percent. The real tragedy here is that this won’t be changing anytime soon: IE10 is mainly stealing share from IE9 on Windows 7, since Windows XP users can’t upgrade past IE8.

IE7 was down 0.09 percentage points to 1.69 percent and IE6 somehow managed to gain 0.10 percentage points to 6.13 percent. Everyone can’t wait for it to fall below the 5 percent mark, but that won’t happen till sometime later this year (and China is delaying things).

At 19.15 percent, Firefox has lost all it has managed to accrue in 2013, back below its one-fifth-of-the-pie mark. Firefox 22 was not available for a full month, so it only managed to grab 1.46 percent share as Firefox 21 made some minor gains to 12.47 percent. All other versions were down: Firefox 20 fell 9.69 points, Firefox 19 lost 0.19 points, and Firefox 17 dipped 0.03 points.

At 17.17 percent, Chrome has managed to recover quite a bit from its 21-month low in May. Chrome 27 grabbed 10.10 additional percentage points as all other versions barely budged: Chrome 26, Chrome 25, Chrome 24, and Chrome 23. This month has given new spark to the notion that Chrome could surpass Firefox this year.

Net Applications uses data captured from 160 million unique visitors each month by monitoring some 40,000 websites for its clients. StatCounter is another popular service for watching market share moves; the company looks at 15 billion page views. To us, it makes more sense to keep track of users than page views.

Nevertheless, for June 2013, StatCounter listed Chrome as first with 42.68 percent market share, IE in second with 25.54 percent, Firefox in third with 20.01 percent, Safari with 8.39 percent, and Opera with 1.03 percent. The only part everyone agrees on is that Safari and Opera are not in the top three.

See also – Windows 8 now up to 5.10% market share as it finally passes Windows Vista

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Read next: Apple files trademark for iWatch in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey, Columbia as tech firms ramp up smartwatch efforts

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Second Annual St. Baldrick’s Shave Event in Elk Grove!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 will be the second annual St. Baldrick’s Shaving Event in Elk Grove.  Once again, we have Team LaurenStrong to support Lauren’s mission to raise the awareness of childhood cancer. St. Baldrick’s is an organization that Lauren supported due to their focus on pediatric cancer research.

The event will again be held at BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse at 9327 Laguna Springs Drive, at Laguna Blvd.  Bring in a copy of the attached BJ’s flyer while you enjoy a delicious meal between 11:00 am and 9:00 pm and BJ’s will donate 15% of your meal to our St. Baldrick’s event.

The shaving will be from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm.  Come watch the fun, or better yet, join us in raising funds for childhood cancer research by participating as a shavee or donating to one of our existing shavees.  Many of Lauren’s friends and family will participate as shavees once again. There will also be raffles of items donated from local merchants.

Last year’s event raised just over $8,000.  Can we double that this year?  Join us for food, fun, and raffle prizes on Wednesday, March 25th!

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“I don’t know how to describe what I saw, it’s horrific… It’s like the end of the world”: Super Typhoon Haiyan Kills At Least 10,000, Makes 620,000 Climate Refugees

In Uncategorized on November 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm
A boy carrying a plastic bottle of water walks past a car which slammed into damaged houses after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 10, 2013. REUTERS-Romeo Ranoco

Oldspeak: “Expect the death toll to rise significantly. Many of the worst affected areas have yet to be heard from. We are unable to adequately prepare for these increasing in frequency and devastating natural disasters. Rebuilding in devastated areas is folly. Extreme weather events will only get stronger and more devastating in the future. We’re still nibbling around the edges. We have to fundamentally change the way in which we organize our civilization. Profit and growth can no longer supersede the environment and climate. We must focus all our energy on creating climate resilient,environmentally co-existent, sustainable, low-growth, resource conserving communities. All old socioeconomic paradigms are no longer valid.” -OSJ

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Typhoon Haiyan: at least 10,000 reported dead in Philippine province

By Manuel Mogato & Roli Ng @ Reuters:

TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged towns and villages in the central Philippines on Monday as they tried to deliver aid to survivors of a powerful typhoon that killed an estimated 10,000 people and displaced more than 600,000.

The United Nations said some survivors had no food, water or medicine. Relief operations were hampered because roads, airports and bridges had been destroyed or were covered in wreckage, it said.

President Benigno Aquino, facing one of the biggest challenges of his three-year rule, deployed soldiers to the devastated city of Tacloban to quell looting and said he might impose martial law or a state of emergency to ensure security.

Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of structures in its path as it tore through Leyte province on Friday, said police chief superintendent Elmer Soria. After weakening, the storm headed west towards Vietnam.

Huge waves from one of the strongest storms ever recorded swept away coastal villages. Some officials likened the destruction to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

“From a helicopter, you can see the extent of devastation. From the shore and moving a kilometer inland, there are no structures standing. It was like a tsunami,” said Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas, who was in Tacloban, Leyte’s capital, before the typhoon struck.

“I don’t know how to describe what I saw. It’s horrific.”

The Philippines government and disaster agency have not confirmed the latest estimate of the number of deaths from the storm, whose sustained winds reached 195 miles per hour (313 km per hour) with gusts of up to 235 mph.

Soria, quoting local officials, said the estimated death toll so far was 10,000. That could climb once rescuers reach remote villages along the coast.

Nearly 620,000 people were displaced and 9.5 million “affected” across nine regions, the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement. Local officials observed one mass grave of between 300 to 500 bodies in one area of Tacloban alone, it added.

About 300 people died in neighboring Samar province, said an official of the provincial disaster agency.

Across Tacloban, men, women and children walked carefully over splintered remains of wooden houses, searching for missing loved ones and belongings. Not one building seems to have escaped damage in the coastal city of 220,000 people, about 580 km (360 miles) southeast of Manila.

Witnesses and officials described chaotic scenes. The city and nearby villages were flooded, leaving floating bodies and roads choked with debris from fallen trees, tangled power lines and flattened homes.

Survivors queued in lines, waiting for handouts of rice and water. Some sat and stared, covering their faces with rags to keep out the smell of the dead from one of the worst disasters to hit the typhoon-prone Southeast Asian nation.

One woman, eight months pregnant, described through tears how her 11 family members had vanished, including two daughters. “I can’t think right now,” she said. “I am overwhelmed.”

About 90 U.S. Marines and sailors headed to the Philippines in a first wave of promised military assistance for relief efforts, U.S. officials said. President Barack Obama said the United States was ready to provide additional aid.

U.S. aid groups also launched a multimillion-dollar relief campaign. One group, World Vision, said a shipment of blankets and plastic tarpaulins would arrive from Germany on Monday as a first step in its plan to help 400,000 people.

An official of World Vision based in Cebu Province said there were early reports that as much as 90 percent of northern Cebu had been destroyed.

An aid team from Oxfam reported “utter destruction” in the northern-most tip of Cebu, the charity said.

The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said it was rushing emergency supplies to the Philippines.

“Reaching the worst affected areas is very difficult, with limited access due to the damage caused by the typhoon to infrastructure and communications,” UNICEF Philippines Representative Tomoo Hozumi said in a statement.

Most of the storm deaths appeared to have been caused by surging sea water strewn with debris that many said resembled a tsunami. Tacloban lies in a cove where the seawater narrows, making it susceptible to storm surges.

Aquino said the government had deployed 300 soldiers and police to restore order in Tacloban.

Looters rampaged through several stores in the city, witnesses said. A TV station said ATM machines were broken open.

Mobs attacked trucks loaded with food, tents and water on Tanauan bridge in Leyte, said Philippines Red Cross chairman Richard Gordon.

“Tonight, a column of armored vehicles will be arriving in Tacloban to show the government’s resolve and to stop this looting,” Aquino said on Sunday.

Aquino has shown exasperation at conflicting reports on damage and deaths. One TV network quoted him as telling the head of the disaster agency that he was running out of patience.

“How can you beat that typhoon?” said defense chief Voltaire Gazmin, when asked whether the government had been ill-prepared.

“It’s the strongest on Earth. We’ve done everything we can, we had lots of preparation. It’s a lesson for us.”

The U.N.’s OCHA said aerial surveys showed significant damage to coastal areas with heavy ships thrown ashore, houses destroyed and vast tracts of agricultural land “decimated”.

The destruction extended well beyond Tacloban.

Officials had yet to make contact with Guiuan, a town of 40,000 people that was first hit. Baco, a city of 35,000 in Oriental Mindoro province, was 80 percent under water, the U.N. said.

There were reports of damage across much of the Visayas, a region of eight major islands, including Leyte, Cebu and Samar.

Many tourists were stranded. “Seawater reached the second floor of the hotel,” said Nancy Chang, who was on a business trip from China in Tacloban City and walked three hours through mud and debris for a military-led evacuation at the airport.

“It’s like the end of the world.”

Six people were killed and dozens wounded during heavy winds and storms in central Vietnam as Haiyan approached the coast, state media reported, even though it had weakened substantially since hitting the Philippines.

Vietnam authorities have moved 883,000 people in 11 central provinces to safe zones, according to the government’s website. ($1 = 43.1900 Philippine pesos)

(Additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco and Karen Lema in Manila and Phil Stewart and Charles Abbott in Washington. Writing by Dean Yates; Editing by Christopher Wilson and Mark Bendeich)

There’s a Violent World War Going On, With Millions of Casualties – Oligarchs vs. Everyone Else

In Uncategorized on January 23, 2013 at 5:12 pm

https://i1.wp.com/img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/iamnotanobject/structuralviolencediagramJames.jpgOldspeak: “We have become, in the United States, and increasingly all over the world, a society with only two classes: Those who own, and those who owe.” –Thom Hartmann When one generally thinks of world wars, the most easily identifiable examples that come to mind are World War I, World War II, and “The Cold War”. These wars were characterized by physical violence perpetrated by various nations armies engaging in armed combat. The World War being currently waged is also characterized by physical violence perpetrated by nations armies in armed combat, via more numerous small wars and regional wars. But what’s different about this war, is nations are gradually seceding their sovereignty to the transnational corporate network via various “trade agreements”, treaties, privatization and “austerity” measures.  Also different, vitally important, less apparent, vastly increased & near completely globalized is structural violence.

Johan Galtung originally framed the term “structural violence” to mean any constraint on human potential caused by economic and political structures (1969). Unequal accesses to resources, to political power, to education, to health care, or to legal standing, are forms of structural violence.

It refers to a form of violence based on the systematic ways in which a given social structure or social institution “kills people” by preventing them from meeting their basic needs. Institutionalized elitism, ethnocentrism, classism, racism, sexism, adultism, nationalism, heterosexism and ageism are just some examples of structural violence. Life spans are reduced when people are socially dominated, politically oppressed, or economically exploited. Structural violence and direct violence are highly interdependent. Structural violence inevitably produces conflict and often direct violence, including family violence, racial violence, hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, and war.

Structural violence, however, is almost always invisible, embedded in ubiquitous social structures, normalized by stable institutions and regular experience. Structural violence occurs whenever people are disadvantaged by political, legal, economic, or cultural traditions. But structural violence produces suffering and death as often as direct violence does, though damage is slower, more subtle, more common, and more difficult to repair. Structural violence is problematic in and of itself, but it is also dangerous because frequently leads to direct violence. The chronically oppressed are often, for logical the world is easily traced to structured inequalities.

Galtung’s general definition of violence forms the foundation of his typology of violence. He identifies three ‘types’ of violence — direct, structural and cultural. These concepts clarify ‘violence’ by broadening its definition, and creating categories that help us to study violence more systematically and deeply. The basic distinction between direct and structural violence is that direct violence involves an identifiable actor causing intentional harm, while structural violence does not structural violence is an indirect and, arguably, unintentional violence. In reference to structural violence, Galtung states that ‘violence is built into structures and shows up as unequal power and consequently as unequal life chances’. Structural violence is both an accompanier to and underlying cause of direct violence.  Structural violence is found in most, if not all, structures in society — social, political and economic. It is not an accident, but rather the outcome of human action which generates these systems in the first instance.  Structural violence is present as exploitation, poverty, misery, denial of basic needs and marginalisation  all are types of inequality. In other words, inequality can be seen as structural violence.” –Dr.N.V.S.SURYANARAYANA

Structural violence is pervasive in all aspects our civilization at present. Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Polyarchy, Inverted Totalitarian Kleptocracy, all these systems around which we’ve organized our civilizations are built on structural violence. Global capitalism cannot exist without it. While wars of the past were called world wars, they were really only large regional conflicts. It’s sort of how Americans declare themselves “World Champions” in sports having only played teams in America. The whole world is not involved, just as the whole world was not at war. This current war, though it may not seem like it, is the only true World War. Casualties are global and cross untold species of life. The entire biosphere is under assault. Its weapons are far more devastating than bullets and bombs. Chemicals, Patents, Bribery, Corruption, Money, Laws, Knowledge Sequestration, Money, Politics, Influence peddling, Growth, Development are the weapons of choice in this war. With these weapons, the Transnational Corporate Network has extracted untold trillions from the earth and most of her inhabitants, destroying life, air, land and sea all along the way. Eradication of structural violence requires fundamental change in our civilizations.  Gandhi’s “Constructive Programme” would be a great template on which to build. Society civilization based on truth and non-violence. Cooperational governance  instead of corporate governance. Giving selflessly instead of gratuitous greed. Unity instead of competition. Actualization instead of illusion… What a wonderful world that would be. The change must begin within us.

By Thom Hartmann @ Alter Net:

History is littered with the corpses of those who thought they could conquer the world, or at least the “known” or “important” world, through force of arms.  Many come immediately to mind: Alexander the Great; Caesar; Hitler; the Celts, Ottomans, and Catholics; various European, Asian, and American empires from the 17th Century Dutch to the 18th Century French, to the 19th Century British and the 20th Century Soviets and Americans.  Others, like the Aztecs, are less well known to westerners, Europeans, and Asians, but no less ambitious.

All used some variation on war, the force of military power, to accomplish their goal. All won, over the short-term, and then collapsed over the long term (making the relatively safe assumption that the American Empire is in the process of collapse right now).

So, who’s next?

While the rising economies of the world, like the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations, all have the potential, particularly the Chinese, all also are pretty focused on regionalism.  But there is one group that has declared war on us – all of us, all over the world – and already won some significant victories.  And that’s the creditor class, what economist Henry George called the “rentiers,” and we generally today refer to as “the billionaires.”

The top story on the Sunday, January 6 2013 online edition of the Financial Times, [3] was headlined, “Banks win more flexible Basel rules” by Brooke Masters.  The lead paragraph noted that “International banks received a new year fillip” or gift, when the new regulations out of the Basel bank regulators meeting “announced that the first ever global liquidity standards would be less onerous than expected and not be fully enforced until 2019, four years later than expected.”  Perhaps the single most relevant sentence in the article started: “The results are largely good news for bank profits…”

We have become, in the United States, and increasingly all over the world, a society with only two classes: Those who own, and those who owe.

The owners (or “Takers”) own vast wealth, and loan it out at interest to everybody from students to governments.  They’re continually receiving that interest back in ways that are either tax-free or taxed at very low levels.  (Here in the US we call it “capital gains,” “Interest,” “dividends,” and “carried interest.”  While a working person will pay as much as 39% in federal income taxes, the federal income tax to the Mitt Romneys, Paris Hiltons, and Lloyd Blankfeins of the world is now capped at 20%.  As Leona Helmsley famously said, “Only little people pay taxes.”)

The owe-ers – the indebted – find themselves trapped on a lifelong treadmill paying interest and fees to the Takers.  The owe-ers are also mostly the workers, the people who make things (from manufactured goods to hamburgers), and so are rightly called the “Makers.”

For a brief period of American history, the rapaciousness and greed of the Takers  was kept in check by the Makers – mostly through the actions of their unions and elected officials like FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter.  Glass-Steagal prevented banksters from gambling with your savings account or pension.  The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and its heirs prevented the big fish from swallowing all the medium-sized and smaller fish, so cities and malls were filled with locally-owned businesses.  Social and economic mobility were higher in the United States than in most other countries of the world.

But with the election of Ronald Reagan, the Takers – whose favorite way of taking is through putting the Makers into debt – won a huge victory.  They killed or weakened democratic institutions, like unions and politicians not dependent on them.  They moved the Middle Class from prosperity into, first, credit card debt, then into second-mortgage debt, and finally into student loan debt.  And then, in the final Coup de grâce, they made the formerly democratic governments of Western Europe and the United States indebted to them.

They knew from the beginning it was war.  But a softer and more silent form of war than the world was used to.  Not since the ascendency of the British East India Company in the 1700s had the world seen an economic, rather than sovereign, force so dominate the world.

And now they’re in the final stages of their war.  Having taken most all the resources of the West’s Middle Classes and thrown them and their children into debt bondage, they’ve moved onto taking over entire nations.

This is what Republicans mean when they talk about “making government smaller” here in the United States, or “the austerity agenda” in Europe, Canada, and Australia.  It’s all the same thing – transfer even more wealth and political power from those in debt (be they individuals, cities, states, or nations) to those who made the loans.  From the middle-class Makers to the billionaire Takers.

And God forbid a politician should stand up to the Takers.  From Republicans refusing to raise taxes on billionaires, to international banking institutions leading the charge, via their captive governments, on “renegade” states [4] like Bolivia.

Longer work weeks in France.  Indexing the Inheritance Tax to inflation in the United States, but not the minimum wage.  Cutting Greeks off their national health-care system after a year of unemployment.  Slashing government support to schools, police, and health-care in Canada.  Banks committing crimes and getting slap-on-the-wrist fines.  Fossil Fuel corporations, the world’s most profitable, not only getting taxpayer subsidies but never, ever paying for the cancers, pollution, and global warming they cause.  The list goes on and on.

It’s war.  Rob, plunder, and pillage.  Take what little is left from those with a little, and give it all to those who have a lot.  Turn the Makers into slaves, while the Takers get an Inheritance Tax cut so their great-grandchildren can live the lives of the landed gentry.

When Ronald Reagan came into office, America was one of the most socially- and economically- mobile nations in the developed world.  Today it is among the least.

Democracy is being replaced by plutocracy.  Modern oligarchs are richer than the kings of old.  And, still not content, they’re amping up the war with a coming July 4th attempt to amend the US Constitution so the wealthy need never again fear tax increases.  It’s being led by the Goldwater Institute [5] with its “Compact For America.”

Look out.  We’re moving from trench warfare to aerial bombardment.  And when they’re done, Western Democracies will look far more like Italy in the 1930s…


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‘Cheesy Love Songs’ make audience sway

Veronica Hodur

April 20, 2014

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Reviews

Morgan Wenter and the band Jiving Board showcased a selection of Burt Bacharach favorites that would win over any crowd. Wenter composed the selection of songs for his junior music education recital, a requirement for the major, and performed Thursday in Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. The songs varied from ...

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The Most Powerful Force

“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

— Yehuda Berg

Beta Readers Needed

“Beta reader has been adopted from the software industry where programmers release a ‘beta’ version of a new program to people who will test it. The beta version comes after the Alpha version (a writer’s first draft). Beta Reader means someone who evaluates a manuscript. Beta testers find the bugs and improve the software’s usability before the final “release” version goes on sale. A beta reader tests your manuscript (by reading it), and tells you about the ‘bugs’ so you can improve its readability, its usefulness and even its sales ability.”

– Belinda Pollard of “Write & Publish Like a Pro”

I am looking for people willing to “Test Drive” Keep Yourself Fulla short inspiring reminder that self-care nourishes the quality of our life and makes us fit to be of service to others.

Keep Yourself Full is perfect for:

  • Bible Believers
  • Inspirational / Motivational Readers
  • Poets / Creatives
  • Life Coaches

Having a few of you Beta read before the edit would be enormously helpful.

You’ll get a copy of the book in exchange for constructive feedback. You will also get to leave your Honest Review of the read once it goes up for preorder.

As a reminder, the rules are as follows:

  • Download the book when it’s emailed to you.

  • Read the book and email me your feedback / suggested changes.

  • When the book is up for preorder, in return for the free book, you are to leave an Honest Review* on Amazon and any other retailer of your choice when it’s available.

*You can leave a review anywhere the book is available but to get credit a review must be left on Amazon*

About Book Reviews:

  • The review doesn’t have to be an essay, college paper or thesis. You are not required to be the smartest person in the room.

  • You are only required to leave your Honest thoughts on the book no matter how short or long, whether you liked it or didn’t like it.

  • Please leave a disclaimer at the front end of the review that you received the book as an ARC or gift from the author. Example: “I received a copy of this book as an ARC (or gift) from the author.”

  • Be sure that you notify me of the review in some way (tag me on social media, link to this blog, email me) when it’s posted so that you are given credit and remain part of the program.

This book is short so it won’t take up much time and is perfect if you fall into the following categories:

  • Bible Believers
  • Inspirational / Motivational Readers
  • Poets / Creatives
  • Life Coaches

I am looking for readers who are interested in something inspirational and motivational but also biblical and poetic with a touch of self-help and life lessons.

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The PBS Blog Podcast: Ep 4 – Let Your Light Shine

Another episode of The PBS Blog Podcast is available. Today, we are talking shining unapologetically. Not to be confused with trying to be seen of men, letting your light shine is about being a good example to those around you by just being yourself. You don’t have to know the right people, make a lot of money or have the right connections to be a positive influence on the world. You just gotta let your light shine.

Don’t forget to subscribe for notification of new episodes.

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

—Marianne Williamson

Ep 4 – Let Your Light Shine

Learn to Be Kind

We are officially done with summer (boo) and are entering the fall months. We are headed to what I like to call the darkest times of the year. I call it this because lots of negative energy is released around this time. Lots of stress, suicide rates climb, and people lose their minds. So, this is just a random Thursday word but, I’d like to remind you as we come into the later portion of the year that no one has an obligation to respond to negativity. There is no written rule that the loudest voice is the most courageous and I’d like everyone to remember that its OK to be cool, calm, and collected. Poised if you will. Balanced.

Being angry is easier than being kind. Anger requires little to no effort at all. Anger robs you not only of peace, but of physical and emotional energy. It is a sign of weakness and low self-esteem. It takes more self-control and self-discipline to be kind when others are being mean. It takes more strength to be still in the face of adversity, and to sit back and be silent when others are in confrontation. Kindness is a sign that someone has done a lot of work to improve their personal self and have come to great self-understanding, humility, and wisdom. Learn and practice being the kind, centered version of yourself. This is the most inspiring and productive person.

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The fear lurks within all who put pen to page or fingers to keyboard. Should I do this? Should I actually sit down and write a story? What do I have to say that others would want to read? Our need to write is deep-seated, something we can’t deny. It’s a craving like you have for a cigarette or a drink of alcohol. Denying ourselves the opportunity to write leaves us with a deep ache within. Yes, we sometimes struggle to write, but we manage to get words down. A sentence here, a short paragraph there. Each word leading to the next, until the start of a story emerges onto the page or screen.

This fear is normal, but if you start to dwell on it, obsess over it, you may find yourself in a bit of a jam. You begin to find excuses to not sit down and write…

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The Poetry Question

Discovering the Relevance of Words

The Poet is the Amplifier of Longing

– John Ebersole

Every poem I write is written by a white straight male American poet.

I recently saw a group of black children bouncing on a trampoline and something about it didn’t feel right, as if their joy was threatening. Where do reflexes come from?

Poetry exposes the reflexes within me.

In bondage, whites depicted blacks as infantile. In freedom, whites cast blacks as thugs.

Within white supremacy, a joyous black child is an ontological contradiction. The black body must be the trampoline.

Unlike fear, anxiety doesn’t have an object to attach itself to, like a hooded black man walking towards a white person. It cannot be imaginatively overcome: one cannot cross the street. Because anxiety is more generalized, more nebulous, sewn to nothing, it is always present, unresolved, and therefore must be expressed: poems happen.

Anxiety is estrangement: from each other and from ourselves.

In its desire to become an object of fear, anxiety acts as frustration on the mind that arises from the unmet desire for camaraderie. Poets know this to be where creativity is born. Poems provide the texture for love to adhere to.

The poet is the amplifier of longing.

I’ve been writing poems about whiteness, about anti-blackness. A friend asked me – what good can it do? As I write a black body into one of my poems, am I a poet or an overseer?

Charles Olson’s theory of FIELD COMPOSITION sounds insidious.

Whiteness is a ubiquitous nothing that longs to be something: just like anxiety. If anxiety strives to be fear and if fear must be attached to an object, does my whiteness make the black body the object of fear…so I can overcome it? So I can discover who I am? Or is it that the poem itself serves as the object of fear?

Is the desire to discover the contours of the self – within the zones of race – racist?

Property has always been anything that helps whiteness achieve its fullest articulation. It’s why guns are so precious.

A silhouette is black so the white body can project its lack into it. Is a white poet writing on race merely making property law sound like poetry?

Disability experts say white texts are seen best against a black background.

Poets reveal our own anxiety. By casting words upon it they make it suddenly visible, like the wall you pass every day but never see until graffiti’s been sprayed on it.

Are my poems about race little imaginary whips that I can only see as lines?

When I see a young black father pushing a stroller, dressed a little street, I know what my white mind thinks. Poetry, annihilate my reflexes.

History is full of statistics, but not memory. Nine bodies in Charleston will dissolve into ache.

The poet sings our estrangement. The poem recovers our contemplative nature. Poetry reads the fine-print of our inner-life. Poetry is receptivity and absorption.

The poet says with a poem: forgive yourself for existing as you do. In poems, we hear God asking us for forgiveness.

Poetry is where you can be vulnerable and everyone will say you’re brave.

We crave connection. Poetry is the arrangement of that craving.

You can find more from John Ebersole at his website Little Reviews for Busy People, or on his Twitter account @ebersole_j.

About Christopher Margolin

Chris Margolin spent more than a decade in Education as a high school English teacher, and is now an Instructional Coach for the Longview School District. He is also the founder of The Poetry Question, an online journal which focuses on reviews of small press poetry publications, and runs a regular series called "The Power of Poetry," where notable poets share their personal stories of how poetry has affected their lives. Margolin resides in Vancouver, Washington with his wife, and daughter.

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UBC Day 12: Can you Defy Gravity?

On my way into work, I was listening to the soundtrack for Wicked, one of my favourite musicals. The song Defying Gravity never fails to inspire me and, if you’ll pardon the Bette Midler reference, put some wind beneath my wings.

If you’ve seen this musical you know this is a pivotal part in the story where Elphba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. But the story, and this song in particular, is about playing by your own rules and carving your own path. This is what we do in PR. We carve out our own path to get our message heard.

Have you defied gravity lately?

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BREAKING: HipCityVeg and Sweetgreen Become Enemies

After just two weeks of opening for business, Penn’s newest restaurant, HipCityVeg, has effectively stolen 84% of Sweetgreen’s customer base. HipCityVeg is campus’s newest restaurant that caters to vegans, disillusioned hippies, and anyone who pretends to know what a Portobello mushroom is. Because of its quirky menu, it has slowly been stealing away Sweetgreen’s customers, thus creating an intense rivalry between the two.

“I do not feel threatened at all. This is just a fad,” said Tommy Watson, manager of Sweetgreen. “It’s so unhealthy over there anyways. I hear they use real chicken and just trick everybody into thinking it’s a vegan restaurant. Also, they don’t even have mesclun there. What is this? The 90’s?”

With tensions running high, Sweetgreen employees have been exhausting all efforts to take back their customers. Yesterday they were seen outside of HipCityVeg holding up signs that read: “HipCityVeg discriminates against meat-eaters”, “HipCityVeg uses child labor”, and “HipCityVeg hates puppies and world peace”. In addition, Sweetgreen employees have created trails of quinoa and agave nectar that lead to their store in order to lure more customers inside. Unfortunately, though, this has just increased their ant problem.

“Those signs were totally ridiculous,” said Tiffany Kahn, manager of HipCityVeg. “First of all, we do not discriminate here. Secondly, those eight year olds told us they wanted to work here instead of going to school. There’s nothing wrong with that. Sweetgreen is just jealous because we have better food and prettier people. And they also have those weird forks there that are made out of cornstarch or something. Sweetgreen clearly hates plastic, hates free enterprise, and hates America.”

Other restaurants in the area have taken note of the new rivalry, but seem to be uninterested. “Both of those restaurant are disgusting,” said Johnny Cruz, manager of Chipotle. “Who wants to eat those elitist ingredients anyways? Here at Chipotle, you can get a big bowl of meaty deliciousness well under $8. None of that kale nonsense over here.”

While data is still being calculated, it is inconclusive if HipCityVeg will be able to sustain this boom in customers.

Rumor also has it that Jenny from Sweetgreen is secretly dating Michael from HipCityVeg, which complicates things even further. “They both go into our store bathroom with their food orders and just stay in there for hours. All we hear is moaning and groaning. I honestly can’t tell if they’re having sex or just eating our juicy, meaty lamb shawarma. Probably the latter,” said an anonymous employee at Hummus Grill.

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The perfect summer

I have been trying for years to replicate my “perfect” season of training which was the summer of 2008. For the past 6 years I have struggled to run the mileage I ran that summer and now I understand why…I will never be able to go back and rerun those miles again because they are behind me now. I realized I had to run new miles, set new goals, and decide that no matter what I did this summer I was going to train hard everyday and never look back again, well at least not look back and dwell.

The summer of 2008 was the summer before my senior year of college and I wanted to be prepared since we had a lot of new, talented recruits coming in. I had always been in the top 7 for cross country so I worked hard to make sure that no matter what happened I would absolutely not have to worry about not being in the top 7. Yes, I was successful and I was in the top 7 but it was not worth it in the end because I created this unrealistic link between success and running 60-70 miles a week and I haven’t been able to run 60- 70 miles in one week in 6 whole years.

The reasons why I have failed to reach that mileage range again are variant. In 2009 I started a new job and graduate school. I was also just burnt out from years of running. In 2010 I got married, took a promotion and I was still in grad school. In 2011 I decided to start seriously racing again but I wasn’t very accustomed to running high mileage anymore. I was also still in graduate school and took another promotion later on in the year. In 2012 I just couldn’t get myself focused enough without the guidance of a coach and I started coaching which took up more of my time. In 2013 I very seriously began training and racing again but my head was all over the place. I was frustrated with my life in general. Halfway through the year I joined a running club, received a training plan, found people to run with, people to race with, and gained a huge network of other runners. I still could’t train “perfectly” though. This past spring was a disaster as far as training goes. I guess I ran well, I even ran a few PRs, but I just couldn’t get it all to click and that was because I was dwelling.

I have a tendency to dwell on things even though I know I can not change them. There are two things that I have been dwelling on since I have had that “perfect” summer of training 6 years ago and as soon as I stopped dwelling on them running became easier and my mileage instantly increased. The first thing I was dwelling on was not applying to graduate school for sport psychology. Yes, I was already in grad school and I finished that degree, but I lost sight of what I really really wanted to do and I have regretted it ever since. The second thing I have been dwelling on is not being able to run those high mileage weeks and then being disappointed in myself on a weekly basis. Finally, I stopped dwelling and took two chances. I applied to graduate school for sport psychology back in May. It was around the time that the girls I had been coaching for the past two years gave me a photo album with letters they had written to me. This was the push I needed to take that chance to apply and I got into the program. Life instantly became less stressful when I did this. The second chance I took was decided while running at 9,000ft of elevation in Frisco, Colorado. I had new shoes, I was fresh off of my recovery period after track season, and I couldn’t have been in a more beautiful place. I decided that this would be a great training season, then I ran, I ran at that altitude even though I live at sea level and it hurt my lungs the first few times, and I kept running when I came home. I decided to just go for it and have a “perfect” summer of training. I also stopped looking at old logs and comparing what I did then to what I am doing now. Its great to keep logs but it is not wise to torture yourself with your logs and try to compare then to now because things change and things happen that we can not control. Circumstances change, our surroundings change, life changes and we just have to adapt.

I finally ran several 60ish miles weeks and then last Sunday I hit my second ever 70 mile week exactly 6 years after the first time I ran 70 miles in a week. Exactly to the day, 8/24. There are a few substantial differences this time though:

1. I was sick with a migraine one day and I ran these 70 miles in 6 days, last time it took me 7 days to get the 70 miles (this shows I am stronger now)

2. I could walk the day after. My body did not hurt

3. I don’t think I harmed myself physically. I actually felt very very strong. I am 99% sure I will not get mono and ruin my track season this time as a result of running so much.

4. I stopped comparing myself to the runner I was and became the runner I am

5. I am more confident in my training

6. I also realized that there is no such thing as “perfect training”

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Welcome to  The Savannah Deck official site!

The Savannah Deck is a Major Arcana Cartomancy Deck that uses some of Savannah’s Historic Landmarks and history. Allow the amazing history of Savannah itself to unfold the mystic Major Arcana to give you insightful messages. The deck is great as a gift or a keepsake of Savannah, as the paintings on the cards are of many of Savannah’s Landmarks. The Deck comes complete with 22 cards of the Major Arcana, and an instructional guide book. It describes the historical reference of the illustrations used and then gives details for messages to unfold for you right out of Savannah’s history itself.

The Savannah Deck

The Savannah Deck as seen in; In New Light Video Magazine Sept Issue


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The final fleeting weeks of summer bring an array of arts events and benefits to ensure the season goes out with a bang. From exhibitions featuring artistic masters to innovative dance performances to exciting ways to experience the highly-anticipated solar eclipse, here’s what we’re looking forward to in some of our Scouted cities next month.

Asheville, North Carolina

August 18-19, the 9th Annual Asheville Food & Wine Festival will return to the vibrant city in Pack Square Park, located in the midst of the walkable Downtown Art District. Attendees can enjoy culinary events like the Grand Tasting and Sweet & Savory that exhibit Asheville’s acclaimed food and drink scene while enjoying street performers and entertainment. {For local recommendations for what to do and see in Asheville, follow TSG Asheville on Instagram.}

Charlottesville, Virginia

Beginning August 25 through December 17, The Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia will host Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966. The exhibit will showcase the modernist’s artwork alongside essays and scholarly publications to highlight Kootz’s influential role in the art world during his most prolific period. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Charlottesville here.}

Cincinnati, Ohio

August 5, visit Greenacres Arts Center for their annual Celebration Concert, an evening of performances by music and arts groups including the Cincinnati Opera, the Cincinnati Ballet, and the May Festival Chorus. The concert, themed “Romeo and Juliet’, will feature cuisine from La Petite Pierre and performances of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Bernstein’s compositions. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Cincinnati here.}

Cleveland, Ohio

Documenting the enduring American Spirit during the hardships of the Great Depression, From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression is an exhibit opening next month at the The Cleveland Museum of Art. August 13-December 31, the museum will host this must-see collection of works from renowned photographers, including Walker Evans and Alfred Stieglitz. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Cleveland here.}

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

In the spirit of the upcoming solar eclipse, the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts presents Diavolo Architecture in Motion, a two-part dance performance showcasing athleticism and artistry on August 18 and 19. Performed on an architectural stage set meant to evoke the form of the moon, Diavolo’s Fluid Infinities explores conceptions of space and movement while Trajectoire confronts the tension of destiny versus destination in the human condition. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Jackson Hole here.}

Knoxville, Tennessee

Benefitting the Knoxville Zoo, Feast with the Beasts is a highly anticipated event. On August 12, guests over 21 years of age can enjoy samples from over 40 local restaurants, wineries, breweries, and distillers alongside live performances by the Vibraslaps and Pop Rox in the company of the Zoo’s beautiful and fascinating animals. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Knoxville & The Smokies here.}

Lexington, Kentucky

August 19-20, join the Lexington Art League and Lexington Parks & Recreation for the Woodland Art Fair. A weekend of creativity and family fun, the Fair, held on the Woodland Park grounds, will include live music, local food and beer, and works from over 200 talented artists to peruse. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Lexington here.}

Nashville, Tennessee

August 21, Cheekwood will host a viewing party to celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse. Complete with live music, local food trucks, cash bars, and protective eyewear, the event is the perfect environment in which to experience a solar eclipse for the first time in nearly a century. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Nashville here.}

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The 9th Annual 2nd Street Festival will take place on August 6, bringing live music, crafts, local brews, and more to the area. Located on 2nd Street between Germantown Avenue and Spring Garden Street, the festival, which will take place from noon to 10 p.m., will feature over 250 vendors and a roster of performers. {Find local recommendations for what to do and see in Philadelphia here.}


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The Sensitive Gut

Understanding IBS

Is there an IBS Personality?

What happens in a persons life can make them ill, but while some seem to get ill at the slightest provocation; others cope with the most catastrophic events without any … Continue reading

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I’m not mad. I’ve got IBS.

Is what we call IBS the name given to any one of a number of different unexplained gut disorders or is it a combination of defects in many functional components … Continue reading

October 25, 2017 · 2 Comments

IBS: many diseases awaiting discovery or another bowel upset?

What do we know about IBS? The answer is surprisingly little. There is no definitive cause, no specific pathology and no single effective treatment. It is and always was a … Continue reading

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Health anxiety and morbid thoughts; the trap of IBS.

‘What life is it if you are constantly afraid of dying?’  I asked Tom. He had been  coming to see me for years, always with a new set of symptoms: … Continue reading

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Not in your genes.

Oliver James was smaller than I thought he would be. Thin and balding with straggly dark hair and beady eyes behind large dark framed glasses, he was dressed in grey … Continue reading

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Via Cathal Kelly's Twitter feed, dig Jimmy Breslin's column about John Lennon's death:

That summer in Breezy Point, when he was eighteen and out of Madison High in Brooklyn, there was the Beatles on the radio at the beach through the hot days and on the jukebox through the nights in the Sugar Bowl and Kennedys. He was young and he let his hair grow and there were girls and it was the important part of life.

Last year, Tony Palma even went to see Beatlemania.

And now, last night, a thirty-four-year-old man, he sat in a patrol car at Eighty-second Street and Columbus Avenue and the call came over the radio: "Man shot, One West Seventy-second Street."

Here is more on Lennon's death from the always incredible Kottke.


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TenGenix Review

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leftTenGenix Review | Male Enhancement Supplement Reviews

TenGenix is a natural male enhancement supplement that contains several herbs and vitamins which have been proven to impact erectile dysfunction. The only problem is there are hundreds of other supplements out there that work in the same way. Read this TenGenix review to learn why it failed to rank on our list of the Top 10 Male Enhancers.

Claimed Benefits of TenGenix

  • May enhance sexual performance
  • Can improve libido
  • Increases nitric oxide production and blood flow
  • May help you last longer in bed

How Does TenGenix Work?

TenGenix works through the use of herbs and vitamins that have been shown in clinical trials to help positively impact males with erectile dysfunction.

The first way it works is through increasing nitric oxide production and optimizing blood flow. Often times, when you need to achieve an erection but are unable to, the issue is simply that your blood flow is being interrupted. Correcting your blood flow could lead to tremendous benefits if you’re someone who has trouble getting it up in the bedroom.

Another way in which formulas like this one can help men with erectile dysfunction is through elevating sex drive and libido. The main issue guys with E.D. tend to report is the inability to achieve an erection, but almost just as common is a lack of sexual appetite so to speak. Natural remedies for erectile dysfunction like TenGenix are often able to give men a better sex drive which can lead to more confidence, and not to mention, more sex.

With that said, TenGenix is not our favorite product in the industry. While we don’t have anything bad to say about it we simply have reviewed some products we believe to be better. Our recommendation would be to check out some of our other male enhancement reviews to learn about the products we consider to be top notch.

TenGenix Ingredients

As per usual, I link studies when and where I can. Although boring reads, sometimes its good to venture off and confirm the opinions of any review site. I won’t be offended, just please come back, I made a fabulous dinner.

Tongkat Ali

Tongkat is basically famous in the male enhancement industry as well as another industry that goes hand in hand with male enhancement, which is testosterone boosting. Tongkat is believed to help increase testosterone levels in men while also serving as a libido booster in and of itself, making it sort of a multi-purpose ingredient. (study)

It would be challenging to try and find a male enhancement supplement that does not contain Maca, and that’s because the amount of evidence for its efficacy is simply overwhelming. Several clinical trials have shown results indicating that men with sexual health issues may be able to benefit from regular Maca supplementation.

Arginine is the most popular nitric oxide booster in all of sports nutrition. It converts directly into nitric oxide upon ingestion, which makes it extremely beneficial for guys who have trouble achieving erections. A nitric oxide boost and some help with your blood flow can go a long way when the time comes where you need to get it up.

Other TenGenix Male Enhancement Reviews

Our primary source of reliable, genuine user reviews is Amazon. Unfortunately, this product only has one user review on Amazon, so we don’t have a whole lot to go off of here.

With that said, that review gave the product a 1-star rating. The user was simply saying that the product didn’t work for them. That doesn’t mean it won’t work for you, but negative user reviews are often a bad sign. It would be in your best interest to keep an eye out as more user reviews start to be submitted on Amazon.

The Pros

  • Contains several proven herbs and vitamins for erectile dysfunction
  • Uses natural herbs and vitamins
  • Has a pretty high overall potency
  • Includes a pretty long list of natural ingredients

The Cons

  • Place your list items here

  • The only user review on Amazon was negative
  • It uses a proprietary blend in the formula, which means we don’t know exactly what it contains

The Verdict on TenGenix

TenGenix is overall a pretty impressive product. It has an excellent nutrition label with several proven natural herbs and vitamins for erectile dysfunction, and the overall MG per serving is higher than we typically see.

The negative user review we found is a little bit discouraging. We would have liked to see a bunch of positive reviews ideally. We simply don’t feel there is enough evidence for us to be confident enough in TenGenix to recommend it. Therefore, our recommendation is to explore our list of the Top 10 Male Enhancers to see some more highly ranked products.

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The New Surge

"Most essential for us is to stay real, you know; being sincere and honest with what we are doing."

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Weesp – An Alternative Post-Metal band

Alexei (Lex) Falco – vocals, piano; Michail (Mike) Zalucky – guitars; Dmitry (Mi) Budzko – bass; Stanislav (Stak) Budzko – electronics; and Alexei (Gul) Galesnik – drums

Minsk, Belarus

We formed Weesp in the middle of 2000s in Minsk, Belarus and, starting from 2009, have been releasing some EP albums and singles. The band has been touring a lot across Eastern Europe, Poland, Germany and whole CIA. Weesp have released two long-play albums: The Void (in 2015) and Black Sails (2018).

What would you say that your band has to offer that is different from what is out there?

Being different is something that we’ve always tended to be.  We make music, combining different rock and metal genres, and we put a lot of feeling into it. We love working with sound on our records, but even more we love to kick ass on live shows, touring, building ‘emotional bridges’ with our listeners.

What would you say is the essence behind your band?

Most essential for us is to stay real, you know; being sincere and honest with what we are doing.

How do you compete in today’s market?

We are in the beginning [stages] of our path in the market. But we don’t like to look at it as competition in the market. It’s more about finding a way to say what you have to say in a way that people will understand and feel; being able to reach them to make them give it a listen. Both parts are pretty tricky, but we’re on our way.

Describe your music. What do you want it to convey?

We love contrasts in music. We have heavy riffing and groovy beats, expressive vocals, but then it goes with soft melody and that quiet emotional feeling that makes you shiver, you know. We love it when music kicks us right in the head and then launches in space. But first of all, our music is dedicated to everyone who is trying to be someone real.

We stand against the dictation of society’s conservative values. Our music is about finding one’s own path, it’s about hard choices, dreams and passions, about being different.

Define some of the goals for the band.

To have a world tour can be considered a goal for us at the moment. Also one of our goals is to get on some of the top festivals to perform. It’s all about being heard, and to be closer to our listeners. This is our main goal.

Anything else you would like to add?

We’re always happy to see everyone on board under our black sails!

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Meet the Bristol third year who starred on Eggheads this week

They came, they saw, they lost

For the daytime telly addict, BBC’s long running quiz show ‘Eggheads’ is required viewing. But for one Bristol student,  merely watching his favourite TV programme was not enough.

Michael Shennan, a third year historian appeared this week on ‘Eggheads’ alongside fellow members of the University Pool and Snooker Club.

We sat down with Michael to talk about his 30 minutes of fame, bantering with Jeremy Vine and the challenge of duelling with the intellectual titans of the ‘Eggheads’.

How long have you guys been quizzing together then?

Actually not that long at all. We all play pool and snooker together and quizzed separately, it was only in the couple of months before Eggheads was filmed that we really started taking quizzing at all seriously.

How did your appearance on the show come about?

A couple of the boys at UoBPSC are very keen quizzers who had been trying to get on various quiz shows for months. One of them saw an advert for an Eggheads application and asked around, and being as ludicrously overconfident as I am I thought I’d give it a go.

Prior to the show, did you do any prep work?

Well unsurprisingly for those of you who saw our appearance, we probably weren’t as well prepared as we might have been. Most of us are in the latter stages of our degrees, so downloading the Eggheads app for the plane journey had to suffice. In fact, most of our prep involved coming up with stupid stories to say on national television, and in that respect we did excellently!

What were Jeremy Vine and the ‘Eggheads’ like? Did they intimidate you at all?

Not at all. They were actually really friendly, and getting to meet them before and after the recording was certainly a highlight. I don’t think they or indeed the recording staff were used to having excitable, loud university students around but it seemed a pleasant change! Jeremy was as likeable calm and calculating as he comes across on TV, and he undoubtedly runs the show when he’s on set.

What was it like getting a question on television right (and wrong)?

Well, when I went up for the ‘Arts and Books’ round I was nervous, given that as a final year History student I manage to spend more time with a cue in my hand than in the library. The first question of the three is usually fairly straightforward, so getting that right was more of a relief than anything. Honestly I wasn’t that disheartened when I failed miserably at the following two questions; I’d been on national television and told a stupid story about an orangutan called Tiger Woods that will forever tarnish my name, anything else would have been a bonus!

Be honest: would you have rather been on Eggheads or University Challenge?

Eggheads was great fun as it wasn’t too serious and we essentially had a two-day all-inclusive holiday to Glasgow (many thanks to the BBC) where we met some F-list celebs. That being said I do love making a fool out of myself, so perhaps going on University Challenge and getting more questions wrong would have suited me even better.

Finally, what lies next for the quizzers of UoBPSC?

Well unfortunately it seems like that ‘The Potter’s’ have sunk their last ball (sorry), what with various exams and deadlines approaching. Hopefully next year UoBPSC will continue its tradition of television appearances (we also had someone on countdown this year) and move on to even bigger and better things.

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The Pill made me so erratic and depressed, I broke up with my boyfriend

But those are just regular side effects, right?

We all have a friend that turned a little bit psycho after taking the pill, or we know someone who put on at least half a stone within the first two weeks. But although we’re aware of its side effects, more and more young girls start taking it everyday.

I began taking the pill when I was eighteen, and I suffered side effects so severe that they became a strain on my brand new relationship. In the end, my erratic and unjustifiable behaviour caused by the pill contributed to our break up.

Nearly two years later I’m ready to speak about my experience with the pill, what happened after I began taking it, and how it affected one of the best relationships of my life.

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I met my first boyfriend when I was eighteen, and as soon as my mum twigged that things were getting serious she encouraged me to go on some sort of contraception. Having been unlucky with eczema through my teenage years I was ironically blessed with acne free skin, so I’d never taken anything similar to the pill before. Even so, I’d heard some of the horror stories. Choosing to ignore these, I started taking the combined pill about a month into my relationship.

It seemed like the default option at the time, and I guess I thought that nothing that bad could happen on something which everyone seemed to be using.

It took about two months for my mum to notice a change in my behaviour. I was too caught up with my new relationship and the stress of A2 exams to notice anything different. So although I remember feeling low or angry for no reason whatsoever, I think I just blamed it on the pressure that I was under.

It wasn’t until I actually finished my exams that I knew something was seriously wrong. Because at the time when I should have been celebrating that it was finally all over, I felt that it had just begun.

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I became angry all the time, picking fights with everyone and anyone. I was unable to control my emotions, lashing out at those who were closest to me. It affected my mum the most, but the way I treated her was nothing in comparison to the way that I treated my boyfriend.

Our relationship which had once made me indescribably happy, became strained. I began to act irrationally, my mood turning within seconds. I knew how I was behaving was wrong, I just couldn’t seem to control my emotions anymore.

The worst part was that he was always the first to forgive me after an argument, and he stood by me despite all the shit that I threw his way. I knew I was hurting him but I couldn't seem to do anything about it.

I quickly learnt that one of the hardest things is seeing someone that you love upset, knowing that you were the one that caused it.

The pill was also affecting things outside of my relationship. Countless times I would sit in bed just staring at the wall, almost forcing myself to cry so that I could feel some sort of emotion. I was extremely volatile and behaved mostly through random outbursts, spending as much time picking fights as I did apologising for them straight after.

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When I found out that I had got into my first choice uni, I didn’t want to believe it. I told myself that I didn’t deserve to go to Leeds as I hadn’t got the grades that they had asked for. No matter what my parents said, I convinced myself that I wasn’t worthy of my offer and that everyone would soon find out that I was a fraud. I rang the university admin office three times over two days just to make sure they hadn’t made a mistake.

Before writing this, I asked my closest friends and family if they could remember anything about this time. Their responses confirmed what I already knew: I was able to hide just how badly the pill had affected me, and it was my ex that had been hurt the most by my behaviour.

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In the end, there were a number of reasons why me and my boyfriend broke up a few months into my first year at uni, many of which will always remain only between us. But the pill made it difficult for me to deal with the issues that we did have in a rational way. It became the catalyst to my random outbursts, excessive needy behaviour and depressed state. And two weeks after we broke up, I decided to come off the pill.

Girls shouldn’t have to accept these side effects as the product of the pill, just because it seems like the default option.

A recent study has shown that women taking the combined pill are 23% more likely to be diagnosed with depression, whereas those taking the progesterone only pill (or ‘mini pill’) are 34% more likely to develop the condition. Even the NHS website mentions mood swings or, ‘mood changes’ as regular side effects of the oral contraceptive.

I'm aware that not all those who take the pill suffer like I did and I know plenty of people that have not been affected even in the slightest by the pill, but we should understand that the pill can have serious effects on its users.

It's important to remember that everyone is different and what might work for someone might not work for someone else, but there are other types of contraception out there which contain a smaller hormonal dosage so often have less severe side effects than the pill.

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So although the pill might seem like the default form of contraception, it isn’t the only option.

To find out more about alternative forms of contraception, visit the FPA website.

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March On NYC.

Dear Friends,

On Monday, we celebrated the life of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and we find that so many of his profound words still have so much meaning in today’s world.
One of his most famous quotes reads: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

And it is in that spirit that we are writing to you. The Women’s March Alliance is organizing a march this Saturday and we wanted to urgently invite you to join. We received the following email yesterday from ATPAM:

Dear Member of ATPAM –

I invite you to join IATSE President Matthew D. Loeb, myself and sisters and brothers from other IATSE NY area locals as we take to the streets for the New York City Women’s March this coming Saturday, January 20. The march begins at 11am and will go down Central Park West, across Central Park South and down 6th Avenue, ending at 43rd Street at around 4pm.

Meeting place for the IATSE cohort will be on Central Park West between 65th and 66th Streets, near the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Look for the IATSE signs!

Bring a sign (no wood or metal), do your vocal warmups (so they can hear us down in Washington!) and keep an eye on the weather reports to dress accordingly. Comfortable shoes are a must.

If you can’t attend the march in New York, check with your local labor council – either city or state – to find out where people are marching in your area.

Let’s keep the pressure on and continue to make noise about issues that affect working men and women across this country.

I hope to see you on Saturday!

In solidarity,

We suggest that you support this powerful movement—even if you cannot make it to the march, there are many ways to support it. For you, for your daughters, for your mothers, for your sisters, for your great-great-granddaughters.

To join the march (which starts right outside our door step!), donate to the cause or learn more click here: https://womensmarchalliance.org/2018-womens-march-on-nyc/

Best regards,
Philip & Marilyn

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Where have all the protest songs gone?

This email from Dave arrived yesterday.

What has happened today the art of the protest song?

In the 60’s and 70’s, music’s influence as the voice of change, counter-culture and a generation. Alternative rock in the 90’s had some bands the carried the torch but who now carries it.

In an era of Donald Trump, the 1% protests, Me Too movements etc, you would think that alternative music would be ripe to provide a soundtrack of bringing issues to light but that is not the case.   I can’t think of a mainstream protest song in recent years except for Pearl Jams latest release and also Gord Downie’s activism with aboriginal rights. Red carpet celebrities do speak on their platform, but I don’t see new alternative bands taking a stance in their music.

Is this a result of news outlets already taking sides, or society’s questioning of authority is now common. Is a protest song seen as the “low hanging fruit”?  Or has the business model for record labels changed so much that protest songs aren’t good for business?

I would love to hear your view on this,

Great question, one that a lot of people are asking. Here are some thoughts.

1. There is some good protest alt-rock protest music out there.

Pearl Jam just released a track called “Can’t Deny Me.” Gord Downie’s efforts to push reconciliation with First Nations has gained tremendous momentum. Meanwhile, Prophets of Rage have been, er, raging since they were formed. For example:

2. If you want more anger, turn to hip-hop

Hip-hop artists have never been shy about expressing their opinion. Want some anger? Turn to people like Eminem or YG and Nipsey Hustle.

3. The issue might not be the lack of protest music…

…but the nature of modern slacktivism. Social media has distorted what activism and protest mean. For many people, changing the avatar on their Twitter account or leaving an angry comment on Facebook counts as protesting against The Man.

4. People just don’t want to get involved

I know many people who think this way: “Nobody listening to what I have to say. And even if they did, nothing will happen.”

5. And you’re right, protest music just doesn’t sell like it used to

Back in the 60s, the counter-culture was driven by music. The hippy kids ate up this music because it was the galvanizing force of the generation. Today? Not so much. Protest music might be out there, but it just doesn’t have the same effect on the general population as it once did.

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Today is the first day of kindergarten for my only grandchild. I can’t believe she is old enough!

Sunday, after church, she asked, “Grandma, can you take off my sandals?”

“I want to try on your shoes!”

(I was wearing pumps ad she loves high-heeled shoes!)

She makes us laugh and gives us hope. The world is always a better place when Olivia is around.

Today, we read of Jerusalem’s destruction. The chapter ended with King Jehoiachin being released from prison. Why is that important? It showed there was hope for Israel’s royal line.

Pray for the children at school. They bring us hope.

Dear Father God,

Thank you for sending Olivia to us. I pray that she has a good day at school. I pray that she doesn’t allow peer pressure to change her, but has a good influence on her peers. I ask you comfort Bethany today because sending your baby to school is hard!

In Jesus Name,

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A Tale of Three Soldiers

Today I got spanked! No, not physically but the words I read slapped me upside the head. I saw myself in the failure of another.

I was reading about three different soldiers: Abner, Jonathan, and King Saul. Abner is the soldier I wanted to compare myself with, 1 Samuel 14:50, 51.

He was Saul’s cousin. Their shared great-great-great grandfather was the one remembered for his stalwart character, 1 Samuel 9:1.

Abner commanded the entire army but we don’t read of his actions or his comments. He took his orders from Saul and carried them out.

(Unfortunately, I saw myself in another soldier – Jonathan.)

Jonathan served under Abner and his father, King Saul. Yet, he did whatever he wanted.

  1. He went wherever he wanted, 1 Samuel 14:1.
  2. He didn’t report to his commanders, 1 Samuel 14:1.
  3. He didn’t answer to anyone, 1 Samuel 14:3.
  4. He took others along, 1 Samuel 14:6.
  5. He expected God to work for him, 1 Samuel 14:6.
  6. His attitude was, “Nobody said I couldn’t,” 1 Samuel 14:6.
  7. He told his men what his father should have done, 1 Samuel 14:30.
  8. He saw his error as small, insignificant, 1 Samuel 14:43.

King Saul was the third soldier in these chapters.

  1. He took it easy, 1 Samuel 14:1.
  2. He destroyed what no one wanted, instead of everything, 1 Samuel 15:9.
  3. He set up a victory monument in his own honor, not God’s, 1 Samuel 15:12.
  4. He lied about doing everything God commanded, 1 Samuel 15:13.
  5. He stopped being humble before God, 1 Samuel 15:17.
  6. He did not obey God, 1 Samuel 15:19.
  7. He trampled God’s word and instructions, 1 Samuel 15:24.
  8. He cared more about pleasing people than God, 1 Samuel 15:24.
  9. He let the people tell him what to do, 1 Samuel 15:24.
  10. He rejected God’s command, 1 Samuel 15:26.
  11. He tore Samuel’s holy robe to get him to do what he wanted, 1 Samuel 15:27.
  12. He repented to get Samuel to support him in front of everyone, 1 Samuel 15:30.

1 Samuel 15:22, 23, shows us what God does not want from His soldiers:

  1. Empty rituals just for show.
  2. Sacrifices instead of obedience.
  3. Lavish religious productions.
  4. Self-importance.
  5. Ignoring commands.

What does God want?

  1. Plain listening.
  2. Doing what He tells you to do.
  3. Humility.

1 Samuel 15:29, “Israel’s God-of-Glory doesn’t deceive and He doesn’t dither. He says what He means and means what He says.” The Message

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Street Name Change: Recognizing Your Community’s Influences

Getting a street name change is a rigorous process. It includes having to canvass support of and obtaining signatures for the modification. Yet, it is one of the greatest honors one can receive in their hometown. Pictured here is a photo taken in 1993, just before a row of shotgun houses in Louisville, KY were demolished to make way for a new commercial district. It is believed that these homes were built in 1880 along what was then known as Walnut Street — On December 7th, 1978 a city alderman (last name Gray) achieved a great feat, when his efforts resulted in the street name being changed from Walton Street to Muhammad Ali Boulevard in honor of the Louisville, Kentucky native.

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