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Participation of young people was discussed frequently in the late 1970s in Japan. In 1979 the Youth Problems Council, which is one of the advisory bodies to the Prime Minister's Office, published a report entitled Young People and Participation. [1] In this report participation implies more than merely building a system of participation in a formal way. Participation is instead seen as a process for young people to willingly take on roles for themselves and to have a sense of participation in the group or community, creating a new society through voluntary involvement. Examples were shown of gradually increasing youth participation in families, peer groups, schools, and working places, as well as groups and associations, communities, the nation, and the international community. Jiro Matsubara, one of the drafters of the above-referenced report, explains that youth participation starts with a membership stage, subsequently developing into further stages of reference, participation, commitment, and service. [2]
Haruhiko Tanaka has criticized Matsubara's report in stating that the report does not reflect whether Japanese society is really an attractive society in which young people actively wish to participate, and the report does not provide any examples of critical participation of the society. [3] Hitoshi Mashiyama argues that the report is not based on the rights of young people and give them only duty to serve community and the nation. [4]
Shuhei Araya has commented on Tanaka and Mashiyama's papers. Araya summarizes that though Mashiyama proposed participation as a right of young people, he indicated that adults should request that young people participate actively in common works and projects of the adult society. Tanaka stated that the central issue of participation was how we provide the channels of participation for young people who have not yet taken any action but have a desire to participate. Araya said theories of participation of this period had the view that adult society involved young people in activities which were designed to be done with adults, even if they were pro-institutional or non-governmental. [5]
2. State of Participation of Young People in the 1980-90s
In the 1970s youth organizations and childcare agencies campaigned for increased youth participation by encouraging them to become members of these organizations. Every youth organization gained membership gradually in the 1970s thanks to this campaign. But the growth stopped in the 1980s and memberships stood still or declined somewhat. For example, the Boy Scout Association of Japan had a membership of 181,000 in 1970, growing to 332,000 in 1983 at its peak. But after that membership dropped to a reported 269,000 in 1990 and even further to 228,800 in the year 2000. One of the reasons for these membership declines is the decrease in the number of Japanese children, due to birth rates that have been gradually declining since 1973. Another notable reason is that young people tend to be disinterested in the group activities or group work approach of youth organizations.
The rate of participation in voluntary activities was reported as one in ten, or approximately 10% in the 1980s. [6] According to a more recent survey in 1996, this rate was observed to be 14.9% in teenagers and 13.7% among people in their twenties. This rate was fairly stable during the period. [7] However, activities regarding development cooperation and international exchange have proved to be especially popular among young people, and numbers have occasionally jumped when natural disasters struck, such as the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.
Since the 1980s young people have been leaving group work. Most group activities request or require members to follow some kind of rules or restrictions in order to participate in that activity. For young people who have no difficulty following these rules, group work can be a pleasure. But for others, there may be little or no attraction in joining a group and then being forced to follow its rules and regulations. When young people choose group work activities, they rely on the programs and ethics provided by adults or the organizations. Japanese society in the 1980s moved beyond the traditional main concept of youth organizations: endurance, order and service. Japan had reached the affluent society in the 80s, and the country was losing the incentive to catch-up with the West, which was a primary national purpose since 1868 and the Meiji Restoration. Japanese society has lost its basis used for organizing and grouping young people. Young people themselves perceive these changes in social purposes. [8]
Yoshitomo Tsutsui points out that youth culture has diversified since the 1980s, because young people's interests have become increasingly varied, and also due to the availability of many tools through media. He says that the circle culture was the major culture among youth until the 1970s, and it has turned out to be less important since the1980s. Young people today enjoy other activities such as comics, games, the Internet, and street cultures. [9]
3. Convention on the Rights of the Child and Harts' Participation Theory
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted in 1989, recognizes children as developing citizens, and stressed that their voices should be heard in the decision-making that affects their lives. CRC sets universal standards for the protection and development of children, which have been easily undervalued compared to the rights of adults. The main concept of CRC is the best interest of the child, and it contains four major rights of the child; right of survival, right of protection, right of development, and right of participation. The biggest change is that the child is not only an object of protection, but also has the right and ability of participation. The first three principles of rights - survival, protection, and development, are the established rights of the child, and were set as goals to be realized since the Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924. On the other hand, the last right - right of participation - is the new right that contains a drastic change in relations between children and adults. The new rights of participation were articulated in freedom of expression (Articles 12 and13), freedom of thought, conscience, and religion (Art.14), freedom of assembly (Art.15), and so on.
Some resistance and obstacles to realizing the right of participation of the child can be noted in both developing countries and industrial countries which are considered established democracies, because this right suggests a basic change in concepts of adulthood and childhood. The Japanese government joined CRC in 1994, but the country is somewhat hesitant to implement the right of participation and its legal basis is not well established. Kawasaki city government enacted the Children's Rights Act in 2000 for the first case in Japan, but it is a lengthy process for other local authorities to consider and pass this kind of legislation.
Roger Hart published a book entitled Children's Participation in 1977 with the help of UNICEF. He reviewed practices of children's participation in the area of environmental education worldwide, and proposed some theories and suggestions for effective participation. [10] There are three major points in this book. First, he proposes a model of participation as the ladder of children's participation Chart 2. In this model, there are five degrees of participation and three degrees of non-participation. This model has become popular in youth work and childcare. Secondly, Hart connected children's' participation with environmental education. A child's world is the space where they live their daily lives, a distance of about one kilometer between their home and school, though the distance varies according to their age. It is important for children to identify problems and resolve them in this sphere. The process itself is environmental education and leads to community development. Hart stresses that children should be the main actors to solve global environmental issues, because they know the community where they live the best.
Thirdly, Hart proposed a method for this process as follows: children start by identifying the problem, with an analysis of the identified problem following. Then they begin planning for solving the problem, and take actions toward implementing potential solutions. After an evaluating and reflecting process, if they succeed in solving the problem, they will move on to the next problem. If they failed, they will conduct further planning considering revisions or address a new problem. By doing this, children are expected to benefit from good relationships with adults in the community. Children will be given a sense of effectiveness rather than powerlessness, and will become good change agents in dealing with social problems in the future. Harts' theories on children's participation give us valuable hints for future practices in implementing children's rights of participation.
4. Conclusion
There are five points to be discussed regarding participation of young people. First and foremost, participation of young people leads inevitably to fundamental changes in the rights of adults and children. Education and youth work in the past were mainly supported by a system based on paternalistic authoritarianism. It will be a central issue whether the adult community can accept a drastic change away from such a system.
The second problem is the needed change in adult educators and youth workers. To maximize effective participation of young people, new approaches of working with youth are required. The old style of teaching, which aimed young people at attaining certain goals set by adults, should be changed. Educators and youth workers will adopt the role of supporter, facilitator or coordinator, rather than teacher, instructor or caretaker. Appropriate training of the facilitator will be important.
Thirdly, new support system roles should be implemented, especially in the public and private sectors. Governments are building upon a bureaucratic and authoritarian system, and they have never included any system which includes children's participation. The public sector accomplishes its roles best and most fully when society has a certain clear goal. But Japanese society since the 1970s has lost such a clearly defined goal, and people's needs have diversified. In these circumstances, NPOs will work well to find individual needs, and support and address those needs. As for youth work, NPOs will work better for young people. We should also seek effective and beneficial relations between the government and the NPOs.
Fourthly, we should discuss how we approach various kinds of youth cultures. If we ignore their cultures, participation will be nominal and mere tokenism. But youth culture changes over time, making it difficult for adults to accurately know and effectively work with them.
Finally, when we seek to increase the participation of young people, it is crucial to redefine the age of majority. Japanese laws define the age of majority as 20 years old. We should consider revision of the Juvenile Law and the Election Law, but discussions on this matter have not yet started.
[1] Seishonen Mondai Shingikai, Seishonen to Shakai Sanka (Iken Gushin), Sourifu, 1979.
[2] Haruo Matsubara, Nihon no Seishonen - Seishonen Kyoiku no Teisho, Tokyo Shoseki, 1978, p.187-189
[3] Haruhiko Tanaka, Gakkougai Kyoiku Ron, Gakuyou Shobou, 1988, p.134.
[4] Hitoshi Mashiyama, Kodomo Kenkyu to Shakai Kyoiku, Aoki Shoten, 1989, P.176
[5] Shuhei Araya, Gakkougai Kukan ni Okeru Wakamono no Jikokeisei, Master thesis of University of Tokyo, 2001, p.4
[6] Haruhiko Tanaka, Gakkougai Kyoiku Ron, Gakuyou Shobou, 1988, p.115-116
[7] Kokumin Seikatsu Hakusho Heisei 12 Nen Ban, Okurasho Insatukyoku, 2000, p.15.
[8] Haruhiko Tanak Hen, Kodomo Wakamono no Ibasho no Kousou, Gakuyou shobou, 2001, p.3-5.
[9] Haruhiko Tanaka Hen, Kodomo Wakamono no Ibasho no Kousou, Gakuyou shobou, 2001, p.144.
[10] Roger A Hart, Children's Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care, UNICEF, New York, 1997.
Haruhiko Tanaka, Rikkyo University (2002) "Participation as a Key Concept in Modern Japanese Youth Work": Child Research Net. Retrieved Jul. 23, 2004, from the World Wide Web


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Fulham are becoming well-known for producing wonderkids.
Ryan Sessegnon has taken the Championship by storm having come onto the scene two years ago, ending last season as their top scorer with 16 goals, while Steven Sessegnon, Matt O'Riley and Marlon Fossey are all knocking on the door.
But the next crop of talent is already coming through at the Academy, and 15-year-old Harvey Elliott is the latest youth prospect to make his mark.
He's been linked with the likes of Chelsea and Barcelona already, but for the moment Elliott is playing two years above his age group with Steve Wigley's U18s, with whom he also played with during last season.
And it's there where he's turning heads, having already bagged a hat-trick in Fulham U18s' 8-0 demolition job of Nottingham Forest in their penultimate pre-season fixture at Motspur Park.
Elliott scored his three goals before half time, with his third being the pick of the bunch as he picked up the ball, drove through midfield before spotting the keeper off his line, lobbing him with an audacious chip.
There is a clear pathway through to the first team at Fulham, something that is of utmost importance for Academy Director Huw Jennings, and with Slavisa Jokanovic keen to give youth a chance with the first team, it may not be long before we see Elliott in a first team environment in one shape or another.
Fulham U18s open up their U18 Premier League campaign with games against Swansea City, Aston Villa and Southampton in August, while the U23s open up their Premier League 2 campaign against Manchester United on August 10.
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Media legislation and its Educational Implications on the Development of Health Awareness in Preschool Child: An Analytical Study
The audio-visual media, especially TV, have many pros and cons that affect the life of every individual in the community. Nevertheless, audio-visual media include some risks that affect the formation of awareness and attitudes of individuals, especially children in the preschool age. This is evident in the light of what is addressed in the media programs, advertisements, songs and what they advertise of daily products, services, and guidelines directed to the child which in one way or another affects the child's personality and his intellectual, physical, and health state. Therefore, many developed and developing countries paid great attention to issuing laws and legislation that regulate the content of such advertisements and programs so that the positive educational impact on developing the preschool children`s health awareness can be achieved, with an ultimate view to maintain the health of the child and protect him from unsound harmful diseases and behaviors.
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ChronoBank is reimagining hiring for the blockchain age. Founded and based in Australia following its successful token sale of 5,400 BTC in February 2017, the company has developed the most sophisticated blockchain-based hiring ecosystem in the world. ChronoBank is led by a seasoned executive team with deep domain experience in HR, banking, and fintech. It boasts one of the strongest technical and design teams in the blockchain world and is well-funded to innovate in all sectors of HR, from hiring to workers compensation to lending to insurance.
The HR Startup is now launching LaborX which is the leading blockchain-based recruitment marketplace. It is a complete platform that connects companies and job seekers and lets them transact quickly, safely, and easily in crypto.
Using LaborX, job seekers can maximize their hourly rate, avoid payment delays and disputes, and work from anywhere in the world. Companies benefit because of LaborX's proprietary reputation system, which grades and immutable records freelancer performance on the blockchain, saving them from a costly screening process.
Companies also get access to new types of workers: digital nomads, crypto evangelists, and the unbanked. LaborX offers dramatically lower platform fees (1% vs. 5-20% from traditional platforms), resulting in a savings of $450 per month per freelancer. LaborX is projected to reach 1,000 companies and 100,000 users by year's end.
I wanted to find out more about how LaborX is integrated into ChronoBank's multi-currency wallet (ChronoMint) and crypto exchange (TimeX) so I invited Sergei Sergienko, CEO, and founder of ChronoBank onto the show.
It is both invigorating and exciting to be a part of the blockchain revolution. We are all living in a world that is changing faster than ever before. Traditional ways of doing things are fast becoming obsolete, including the way we work and earn a living.
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We discuss LaborX features such as:
- Much (much) lower platform fees. Because of blockchain efficiencies, LaborX only takes a 1% commission on all hires. Compare this to the 5-20% commissions other freelancer portals take.
- Through a proprietary reputation system that factors in dozens of candidate data points stored on an immutable ledger, companies can trust the candidates they hire. This saves them time and money on expensive and unreliable screening processes.
- Using smart contracts and built-in dispute resolution, job seekers are guaranteed to receive the payment they were promised at their work's completion. This is critical because 58% of freelancers have experienced non-payment in the past (PayPal survey). Funds appear instantly in wallets instead of taking days to clear in the bank. Freelancers can also get paid in crypto by the hours, receiving tokens as they work. We call it "continuous payment"
- With LaborX's built-in exchange and wallet, companies and job seekers can instantly cash-in or trade their cryptocurrency without having to sign up for any outside platforms; this fixes a major pain point for people new to cryptocurrency
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Another Weekly Wash
Check out the water beads on the paintwork after hosing down the car. To minimize DOF, I switched on the macro mode on the Fujifilm F11, positioned the camera almost as near to its minimal focusing distance (6cm) and took this photo. The water beads as if the paint was just waxed.
Fujifilm F11, 35mm, F/2.8, 1/160s, ISO80
I simply love the image quality of the F11. Bokeh is considered excellent in its own class. And most of the time, the sharpness wins some DSLR kit lens! Another two closeup shots after the car wash.
Fujifilm F11, 35mm, F/2.8, 1/60s, ISO100
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6. Mortgage loans at 15.50% ROI.
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ACR Capital Holdings has appointed Sergei Korol as group chief financial officer with effect from Monday.
With some 17 years' of experience in the insurance sector under his belt, Mr Korol took over the role from Tan Chong Liong, who will fully focus on growing the company's business in North Asia in his position as chief operating officer, North Asia, at Asia Capital Re.
Asia Capital Re, Asia's first reinsurance company focusing on the pan-Asian region with particular specialities for large and complex risks across non-life business lines, is ACR's wholly owned reinsurance operating subsidiary.
In a statement on Monday, ACR said that Mr Korol joined the firm from ACE Group in Hong Kong, where he was regional CFO of ACE Life Asia Pacific and China.
Before that, Mr Korol was with American insurer Metlife Inc, after spending 12 years in a number of AIG operating life companies managing a spectrum of portfolios, including financial analysis, investment and capital management.
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John Tan, ACR's group chief executive said that the company's operations have expanded significantly since the business was started nine years ago.
"We now have offices in 11 territories across Asia and are looking at further deepening our foothold in the region, in particular, giving greater focus on growth in the highly promising North Asian market. With that, our needs have evolved: We have regionalised our resources and redeployed some of our strategic personnel, including former group CFO Chong Liong to focus solely on his role as chief operating officer, North Asia of Asia Capital Re."
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I'm one of those people who wait until the last moment to find a Halloween costume, and thanks to last year's attempt to buy a costume shop one day before Halloween, I'll just settle for things, I have lying around in my house until today. It's like a Black Friday chaos, only with more attackers.
The purpose of this summary are Halloween costumes at the last minute. You do not use anything except the things you have lying around in your apartment. Seriously, that's as easy as possible, with as little work and material as possible. I also do not speak of Twister costumes. Who owns Twister? I mean, I like to go in your closet and take some markers.
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Pumpkin Head
No, I'm not talking about this pumpkinhead which would take much more time and effort, but a simpler version. Basically, just cut a hole in the bottom of one of the big pumpkin lanterns on your porch (or another) and hit it on your head. Done
2. Joel Goodsen
You may not recognize the name, so let me rewrite that for you … Tom Cruise in Risky Business . Take off your pants, put on sunglasses, and grab something nearby to sync your lips. It never gets old, no matter how bad the movie is.
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This year, not only thanks to Beyoncé, it will be hot, but it's as easy as on a posterboard. If you do not have any artistic skills (or an Instagram account), I would skip it, but if you can use scissors and a blue marker, why not?
4. Error 404: Costume Not Found
If you have a black Sharpie and a junk t-shirt or hoody that you do not want to ruin, the [4049020] Error 404 Shirt is the simplest Halloween costume ever and perfect for today's Internet-driven world.
5. Sheet Ghost
I know this is like the oldest costume ever, but there is a reason why this costume is still there. It's easy, and anyone with a bed and scissors can do that.
Add a large kitchen knife and glasses, and from the original Halloween .
Hell, it's even a good last minute costume for your pet.
6. The Black Outfit, ie Ninja, Burglar, Shadow, Etc.
Orange may be the color of pumpkin lanterns, but black is definitely the color of Halloween, so it seems logical that everything in black clothes should be enough to go trick or treat. Just do not take that as Orange Is the New Black or anything and go invisibly, because that's unacceptable – point – no matter how many celebrities try it.
You can do so many different things with the black clothes in your wardrobe … DIY Ninja Costume, DIY Burglar, DIY Cat Burglar, DIY Shadow … you have the point.
They just need a t-shirt for the ninja mask. For the burglar, a dark tights or a ski mask, balaclava or black cap is enough. Simply attach a few paper ears to the cat burglar or pull a mustache into your face, à la Amanda Knox. Shadow is pretty self-explanatory, right?
7. Write on Your Face
There are tons of movies and TV shows where the characters have scribbled words or symbols on their faces. Choose your choice, take a mark and scribble. For example, draw a few crosses on your face, such as the Mad John Trent (Sam Neill) In the Mouth of Madness . Chain smoking is optional.
8. Cassette magazines to the arms
If you World War II you know what I mean. Magazines are the best way to protect yourself from a zombie bite, as Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) has shown us so skilfully. Actually, you can use anything that is thick and bendable. If nobody understands it, you can simply say that you protect yourself from dogs with rabies. Zombies, canines, the same thing.
9. Sluts & Never Nudes
With the comeback of Arrested Development this year on Netflix. What's easier than writing "SLUT" on a red shirt like Lindsay or showing your gymnophobia by liking your denim shorts Tobias?
Need more ideas?
We have plenty of . In this costume guide you'll find other last minute ideas like the Brawny guy, a stick figure and a naked Rihanna. Or for Charlie Brown, Hesher and Candy Corn. Maybe less is better in your case, like the girls from the video "Blurred Lines".


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second post after last post
oh wow another post - maybe because everyone is anxious hmmm
anyways just went through everything (i really did read every single thing) and editted it
made it seem more professional lets say.. haha
added a few points to a few pages - took a long long time
and completed the client history and the business spreadsheet a while ago
my 'uniquely' primitive sample ad is uploaded haha
made a new post on corporate blog
added my bit in design report
and i guess its done
omg its finished...so quick
The post after the last post
So....I'm lost....is the site due on Friday? Mind=blown if so....o.o so...I have one more day then I thought. Oh well, being the good *cough* James Ruse *cough cough* kid I am *coughs so much I'm actually coughing seriously now* I crammed it all today....GAHHHHHH
Anyways, this past week, alot of work has gone down. Our company has gotten 3 new affliates(a cookie for each reference you get), we've got our logo done, I've written in all the sections we've been leaving for last. Currently all I'm rushing is the design report. Kathy is doing Business Spreadsheet so hopefully that'll be done soon. One of my friends helped us with the logo, thanks Darren(p.s. I wish I could use photoshop...) what else....Ah right, we finished the advice and pricing section. So in summary, everything done but design report. yayyyy. Just need to upload a few things. =)
P.S: Nice title names Steve
last post?
last post is mine. id like to thank you ray for doing all your work setting the site up ^^ (Y)
also im doing to business spreadsheet thing
and i will help you with that design report
im still trying to figure out how to word the pricing scheme - i really dont know how to put it into words which is why theres only two sentences up so far - but i will get there yays
what else?...
Damnit, why have you guys been posting so much? =(
4 days remaining. Starting to get anxious and losing sleep. Why do all my projects have to be due in the same week? >>
Anyways, site is essentially completed, all that's required is to polish a few parts and thats that done. Past week, we've made more progress then in the last month and the site actually looks like a site :D.
List of stuff done:
Employee Listing finally posted(finished it like a month ago. Thanks Kathy)
Pricing mostly done
Blog written up
Most other sections polished
To do List:
Finish spreadsheet
Design Report
Do 1 last blog post
finally mmm...
hey haha i finally managed to get into the adtime site (it wont let me sign in ==" which is the reason why i havent been posting) after it gave my tons of trouble and would not allow me access. anyways ive finished the eemployee listing a while ago and planned out the pricing scheme. I will also be doing a sample ad for pink unicorn bank and working with ray to complete the design report. also i have slightly editted ray's work on the website - plz read.
Stuff hates me apparently...
Is anyone else having issues with their DET laptop or google sites? I mean, every time I scroll down on google sites, internet explorer crashes. And my DET laptop crashes like once a day. Also my internet has started becoming unstable again. Anyways moving on...almost all stuff is filled now. Not much left to do however none of it is really polished so that needs to be done. A few things are on my computer, just haven't uploaded it yet. Other then that, I need list of employees as it affects the rest of the website. 2 weeks 10 hours remaining as of right now =)
mmm... =\
SORRY RAYY!! i havent posted in ages so sorry
anyways hi, i admit i havent been doing much lately
however i pormise ill do much much much more so no worries ^^
just about finished employee listing
Work to do
Trying to catch up on lost time. Added a new category on the site to make it seem more authentic. I'll need some fake advertisements for it. I've got plans for the backdrop however I haven't created it yet. Planning to schedule corporate blog posts. ATM everything is a draft, nothing is finalised. I need list of employees.
Guess I'm posting again then. Haven't done much recently, been running into heaps of problems like my modem hating me, my router hating me, my filter hating me, my ISP hating me etc... However I think those problems have been solved so I'll be updating the website alot in the next few days to catch up on the time I've missed.
Haven't done much recently. Sorry Kathy. Blog started, need to schedule blog posts. Will do one once a week. Starting design for background. :S
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I have had an ES100 for about 10 years or so which I bought second hand from a Glasgow guitar shop.
It is more orange than red in colour albeit the back is as a cherry model.
It is definitely Japanese made. It is model no. TES100RTR and has serial number 4022350.
Any ideas as to year of maufacture and value would be welcomed.
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Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars posted a story about Emily O'Connor being removed from a flight in the UK, implying that it was tolerance for non-conforming migrants that gave her the boot:
A woman flying out of the "diverse" UK city of Birmingham, which has a 25% Muslim population, was told to "cover up" or be kicked off her flight. https://t.co/mlT9aVlz1U
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 13, 2019
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Britain's favourite drink damages teeth
tooth enamel is naturally porous and can absorb the tannins in tea, leading to unpleasant brown discolouration of your teeth
• National Tea Day 21st April
• 165 million cups of tea drunk each day
• Tea can cause discolouring of teeth
Brits favourite brew gets its day in the sun on 21st April as the nation celebrates all things Tea. A whopping 60.2 billion cups are drunk each year in the UK alone and two of the top three destinations for a first date are coffee & tea shops. But are we damaging our teeth with our number one beverage of choice?
Tea is worse for staining your teeth than coffee due to staining compounds theaflavins, thearubigins, theabrownins. The more fermented the tea, the worse the staining will be. This process is different to coffee roasting, which relies entirely on heat to break down the beans.
High levels of tannins found in tea can lead to discolouration of the teeth. Tannic acid creates plaque on your teeth and causes yellowing.
In a recent survey conducted by dental brand White Glo, 46% of brits were found to notice people with bad teeth and 45% said they found people with whiter teeth more attractive.
In the same survey, almost a third (31%) of us said we were unhappy with the colour of our teeth. So, does all this mean we have to put down our tea cups forever?
White Glo's dental expert, Jordan Kirk, says that both regular and fruit tea can have negative effects on the colour and health of your teeth: "tooth enamel is naturally porous and can absorb the tannins in tea, leading to unpleasant brown discolouration of your teeth".
Thankfully, White Glo has developed a revolutionary Coffee & Tea Drinkers Formula toothpaste to tackle this everyday problem and keep your teeth white. The toothpaste contains Micro Polishing Particles to target discolouration and yellowing on the tooth enamel caused by consumption of tea over time. This formulation also has a MICRO WAX shield coating to protect your tooth enamel from tea and coffee staining.
The White Coffee & Tea Drinkers Formula is available now at your local Boots, Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons and Superdrug or via Amazon.com. For more information visit www.whiteglo.com. You can also follow White Glo on social media by searching White Glo UK.
So, stick the kettle on, and enjoy a brew safe in the knowledge your teeth with be just fine.
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Toothsome: adj. 1.Delicious; luscious: a toothsome pie. 2. Pleasant; attractive: a toothsome offer. 3. Sexually attractive or exciting.: a toothsome blond Yes, we are a toothsome family. Oh, and my husband is a dentist. Teeth are big around here.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sometimes We are Really Cool Parents
6 comments:
- Lisa Christine said...
Cool parents indeed!
- February 18, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Britt said...
I showed this to my kids at home. Big mistake.
"Why don't we ever do stuff like that?" "See, THEY don't have helmets on!" "Why is our tree always fake?"
Thanks a lot.
- February 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- Gabriela said...
LOL. They look pretty happy!
Once my dad me ride on TOP of the car when I was little. I thought my mom was going to KILL him.
Britt-I won't be showing my kids! Thanks for the heads up :).
- February 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- Michelle said...
I think you are very amazing! They will always remember that!
- February 18, 2009 at 6:53 PM
- ash said...
That does look fun! I don't remember ever doing that, too many kids at that time to fit on the tree I guess. What fun.
- February 19, 2009 at 5:21 AM
I love it!! I would love to do that. My dad used to pull our sled behind the car. No, not dangerous at all.
- February 19, 2009 at 7:07 AM


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Samuel Antwi from the Atomic Tennis Club defeated Isaac Titriku 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 to emerge winner of the professionals event at the fourth edition of the Babolat Tennis Singles Open which ended at the GHACEM Club House in Tema Community Seven on Saturday.
Antwi, a final year student of the Koforidua Technical University in the Eastern Region, proved too strong for his contenders in the one-week competition as he walloped Ofosu Bamfo 6-2, 6-0 in the quarter-final and beat Ghana's number one seed Benjamin Fumi 7-6(10), 6-0 in the semi-final before meeting Titriku in the final.
In the preliminaries, Antwi thumped Aaron Asante 6-1, 7-5, won 6-0, 6-0 against Joseph Obimpeh and claimed 6-2, 6-2 victory over Francis Gbologo to pick a slot to the quarter-final.
For his prize, Antwi took home a trophy, GH₵500 as cash prize, customised Babolat tennis kits and he will get a three-month gym access to the Baboo Fitness Centre.
Samuel Antwi in action during the match
In the ladies category Yvonne Bruce Tagoe from the Volta River Authority (VRA) Tennis Club defeated Kate Coleman 9-5.
Other winners were Isaac Bempo (Ghacem Tennis Club) who defeated Job Obimpeh (Tema Tennis Club) 7-5, 6-3 in the men's special group division, Desmond Ayaba (Baboo Sports) recorded a 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 victory over Amos Asante (Saint Francis Academy) in the boys U-16 event.
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I just found out I have endometriosis, which my mother also has. She says endometriosis raises our risk of ovarian cancer, so I should have children early and then get a hysterectomy. What's the real story?
It sounds like your mother jumped to the wrong conclusion.
Endometriosis and ovarian cancer are linked, but the relationship isn't straight cause and effect.
Although ovarian cancer occurs at higher rates in women with endometriosis, the overall lifetime risk is low to begin with.
Some studies suggest that endometriosis increases that risk, but it's still relatively low.
Although rare, another type of cancer – endometriosis-associated adenocarcinoma – can develop later in life in women who have had endometriosis.
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Tour start at 08.00 with pick up from your address and continie to Nis, until he have about 2.5-3 hours drive.
Fair Naissus, city of fairies, city of fairytales. Many compared it with the most beautiful cities around the world. The city of the millenniums, holds the stories everyone should envy. During its existence, Niš welcomed many kings and generals. Niš welcomes you as well! Welcome to our town!
The tour starts with story about Čegar hill and going back through history to the Stevan Sinđelić era: to the time when the famous Čegar battle occured, when the world heard the story of prowess. The inevitable sequel of this story is going to the Scull tower, a place where you loose your breath! We will whisper about what happened here and continue on Tsarigrad road to Niška Banja (a spa, 7km away from the center of Niš). And in the Spa we will take a walk and talk about the old times, beutifull villas. We will talk about one king, one Prime minister, some nice events, Agatha Christie and some old times… And as soon as we finish Orient Express drive, we will take nice memories tram drive… And after, a short bus drive on Via Militaris with one stop in Mediana archaeological site. At this archeological site we will talk about Constantine the Great, the Edict of Milan… After this ancient times walk we will go to the Fortress, where we will have a stroll and talk about it's gates, hammam, arsenal, powder magazines, old roman streets, one mosque, Felix Kanitz, the first prison, red carpet and the Film festival… after, we continue by the "Building where history lives", the Castle, Anton Avgustinčić, Đorđe Krstić, Branko Miljković and other great artists. The walk will finish in Kazandžijsko sokače, the old Niš street, where the group can relax and enjoy a cup of coffee.
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A lot of these old playlists I made for myself are an interesting window into what I was thinking and feeling at the time. This one is especially so. Amidst a lot of the usual "this song was fun and bouncy and maybe a little bit snarky" fare that tends to grab my ear in pretty much any stage of my life, I can tell as I go back and listen to some of these songs that I was really wrestling with deeper concepts of legalism vs. grace, a death in the family and the thoughts it left me with about what sort of legacy I'd leave behind when it was my time to go someday, and some of my own hopes and fears about one day becoming a parent. Looking back and trying to figure out what my younger self wanted to remind me of when he picked these songs has been quite cathartic, actually.
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Robert Randolph & the Family Band
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Marshall Fleet Solutions (MFS) is to relocate its Cambridge head office to much larger premises in the city as part of a long-term growth strategy.
From October, the new head office for Marshall Fleet Solutions will be based in the purpose-built office complex known as 'The Quorum', which is approximately one mile from the company's current head office site.
The move means that MFS – said to be the UK's largest independent refrigeration (including installation), tail lift and commercial vehicle fleet service and support organisation – will be located alongside some of the wider Marshall Group companies, including Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group and Marshall Motor Group.
Mark Howell, managing director, Marshall Fleet Solutions, commented: "This is a very important and exciting development for MFS, which clearly demonstrates the long-term commitment and investment by the Marshall Group to the future of Marshall Fleet Solutions. It is also a natural follow on from their recent investment in a brand-new management team here at MFS at the end of 2018."
Howell added:, "As we approach our 50th anniversary in 2022, MFS has already embarked on a period of change, by implementing an ambitious long-term growth strategy for the business. The move to this new spacious head office complex will give us a significant 40% increase in office space that will comfortably accommodate our future expansion plans."


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South Wagga out to celebrate 100 years
South Wagga's centenary celebrations are fast approaching with the club to toast 100 continuous years of cricket next month.
The Blues are holding a special reunion over the weekend of February 16 and 17 with Blues of the past coming back to Wagga.
Coach Joel Robinson expects it will be a big weekend for the high-flying club, who are currently on top of the ladder.
"We're getting quite a bit of interest and hopefully in the next couple of weeks we will get a little more interest," Robinson said.
"It is good to see the old blokes showing they are still interested and I've received quite a few messages from guys who have moved away but still keep on eye on things.
"It will be a really good celebration for the club, be good for everyone to catch up and also for the current group to see their is still a passion for the club among the old guys."
With over 50 years of involvement at the club Max Knight is certainly among those with a passion for the club.
After joining South Wagga in his early 20s, Knight fulfilled various playing and administration roles, including almost two decades as secretary, and still rarely misses a match.
"I joined them in '62 and they were a struggling club then," Knight said.
"I was 22 and about the sixth oldest but after a few years we got it together and I've mainly stuck with them because of the mateship."
All grades play in the Bolton Park precinct with South Wagga to tackle Kooringal Colts at Robertson Oval in first grade.
A barbecue will be at the ground before the anniversary dinner at the Rules Club after the day's play.
There will then be reverse draw on the Sunday.
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Mark Dery's 'I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts'
"I do believe it's the political business of the cultural critic to poke the sharp end of his pen into the buried truths and dirty secrets, fringe subcultures and borderline personalities that often reveal more about the American scene and our cultural psyche than the mainstream does," says Mark Dery, author of I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams.
No critic delves into the dark recesses of American consciousness quite like Dery. And perhaps at no time in recent history has national disillusionment been so primed for such critique.
Consider, as examples, the Wall Street crash of 2008 and the housing foreclosures that spread like rolling blackouts in the years that followed; the Occupy movement's sick-of-it-all civil disobedience or the hacktivism of groups like Anonymous and LulzSec. In so many ways, the public's once-idyllic vision of personal prosperity achieved through blood and sweat has eroded, leaving a hard truth in its wake: The American dream is not all it's cracked up to be.
That theme is a dominant refrain in nearly all of Dery's work, which lends itself well to his hybrid role as a sharp-witted writer with the mind of a highly attuned scholar — a reality which often leaves him straddling the line between mass-market author and full-fledged academic.
After coming to prominence in 1993 with the publication of Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs — a book that laid the groundwork for an entire generation of politically minded media protesters — Dery piqued his own curiosities about American culture at the dawn of the internet age. He followed that thread by publishing a stream of critical tomes throughout the 1990s — Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, and Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink — each with a keen focus on not only technology's growing presence in our daily lives, but the way that it influences culture. It's an interest he often pins to a specific influence, science fiction novelist J.G. Ballard, who Dery tells me he reads as "a postmodern philosopher, [who] believed that the future was being annexed by the ever-encroaching present."1
With the publication of I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, his first book in over a decade, Dery strays (somewhat) from his interest in technoculture, the interactions and politics of technology and culture. Dedicating only a quarter of the page count to the topic, he takes on a dizzying new array of cultural memes and altered realities. From the growing national fervor over 2012 as mankind's endpoint, a study of Mark Twain's dark side, and the rigidly defined masculinity of the American male, to examining the suicide note as a literary genre and exploring the obscure pleasures hidden in medical libraries, no topic is too sacred, macabre, arcane, or even outlandish. Granted, the essays in I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts are a collection of previously published writing for a host of print and digital publications — Boing Boing, Nerve, Cabinet, The Village Voice, Bookforum, and others — but that fact does little to diminish their cumulative impact or cultural relevance.
In fact, Dery uses the book's title, borrowed from a song by Los Angeles punk band X, as a clever way to package this new volume. Dery tells me that to "think bad thoughts," or plunge into society's taboo or undesirable topics as a means of deep and necessary investigation, is a writer's mandate.
Just as Ballard acts as a science-fiction-meets-reality influence on Dery, his own notion of what he refers to as "the American Gothic" is equally crucial, and plays an integral role in the frame and focus of I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts.2
In the book's introduction, Dery outlines the concept, offering readers a disclaimer of sorts: "I believe the American Gothic is as revealing about who we are, as a nation, as our noblest moments," he writes. "By the American Gothic, I mean the stomach-plunging drop from reassuring myth to ugly truth — the distance between our dream of ourselves and the face staring back at us from the cultural mirror."
Illustrating that divide in lucid detail — essay-by-essay, section-by-section — Dery depicts an America that's both deeply strange and endlessly enthralling.
In "Dead Man Walking" for instance, the book's lead essay, he suggests that our growing fascination with zombies may actually "embody displaced rage about gut issues like food, shelter, and health care." Consider the viewership numbers for AMC's zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead — 10.5 million people tuned in for the season 2 finale this past March — and Dery's premise doesn't sound at all far-fetched. In truth, it smacks of rational thought — a simple explanation to give meaning to the hours spent watching as fellow humans are disemboweled by mad packs of "walkers," or as their brains are devoured like the heat-lamped chicken at an all-you-can-eat buffet. In short, we can empathize with the plight of the undead.
Connecting ideas like this — sometimes seemingly disparate, other times not — is at the core of what Dery does best, and the essays in I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts are no exception. More often than not, he produces conclusions that offer readers a fresh vantage point on whatever topic he's unlocked. Take, for example, "Jocko Homo," in which Dery tackles the homoerotic subtext of the Super Bowl by exploring jock culture and masculinity, and at times injecting personal observations from his own high school phys-ed experience. Or "Gun Play: An American Tragedy in Three Acts," in which Jared Lee Loughner's deadly shooting spree in Tucson in January of 2011 is invoked to explore the mythology of firearms as national birthright. "In a country where the gap between the power elite and the politically impotent millions, frantically bailing out their underwater mortgages, yawns wider by the minute," Dery writes, "owning a gun is the closest many downwardly mobile Americans will ever come to any sense of immediate empowerment."
In the section dubbed "Myths of the Near Future: Making Sense of the Digital Age," however, Dery truly hits his stride. "World Wide Wonder Closet," an essay on blogging originally published in Revista Cult in 2007, evokes nostalgia for the halcyon days of the web, before SEO-optimized headlines and pageview counts mattered most: "There are echoes, here, of the go-with-your-instincts, follow-your-obsession logic that gave rise to book publishing's heyday, before the multinational conglomerates moved in, with their marketing teams and their profitability experts." It's an observation that's still eerily familiar today, especially with the recent dust up over SOPA and PIPA still fresh in our minds.
In "(Face)Book of the Dead," one of the book's brightest moments, Dery mines his own experience to tell a dark-humored, cautionary tale of social networking — a story littered with the familiar highs and lows so many of us have encountered through the site. He recalls stumbling upon "someone I hadn't seen since his last day at the college we'd both attended, an afternoon curling and bleaching in my memory like an old Polaroid, tinged by one of those apocalyptic L.A. sunsets, not to mention the Maxfield Parrish colors switched on by the magic mushrooms we'd eaten. A lifetime later, the rapport was instant, as if we never left that lost world…" But as quickly as their friendship had been rekindled, it faded away, which left Dery scratching his head, at least for a moment: "If that sense of connection was genuine, why did it tail off?"
In contrast, "Word Salad Surgery" is a tongue-in-cheek look at the spambot-generated poetry that arrives each day, by the terabyte, in email inboxes across the globe. Even though spam is machine made, Dery says, writers who have long mourned the dead art of letter writing are "missing the riches under their noses."
Though Dery sometimes embraces topics that might traditionally be viewed as lo-brow — Satanism, zombies, pop music, and more — his work is anything but and demands attentive, well-versed readers. His choice of subject matter reflects his background as a writer with one foot in academia and the other firmly planted in the trenches of American subculture. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, which places the nation's infinite oddities and dark undercurrents in full display, is a perfect example of his tinted worldview. Cracking open the book shows a willingness to go down the rabbit hole into a fantastic world of absurdist reality — where no author pokes around, attempting to extract the hidden truths of our cultural identity, in the way that Dery does. And it's no accident, it turns out, that his black comedic sense of humor is pervasive throughout.
"I do believe humor is a distinguishing characteristic of intelligence, as well as the fixed bayonet of effective polemic," Dery says.3 "I debate my friends on the academic left about this, all the time. The left, in America, needs more Lenny Bruces in the same way that classical music, to quote Erik Satie, needs less sauerkraut."
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Professor Ricardo P. C. Nunes
Academic and research departmentsSchool of Economics, Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies.
Ricardo Nunes is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey. He graduated from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) obtaining a MSc in Economics in 2003 and a PhD in Economics in 2007. After graduating he spent 10 years in the Federal Reserve System under various roles. In 2007 he joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked as an economist and senior economist. In 2014 he moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston working as a senior economist and policy advisor. He has held research visitor roles at several central banks and international institutions such as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Bank of England, the IMF, and the Bank of Portugal. In February 2018 he was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
His main research is on monetary and fiscal policy, both theoretical and applied. He has published in leading academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, among others.
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- Direction of Centre of International Macroeconomic Studies
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, 2016-2017
Senior Economist, 2014-2015
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Senior Economist, 2015
Economist, 2007-2014
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics UAB
Invited Lecturer, 2009-2015
International Monetary Fund
Visiting Scholar, Dec. 2012
Intern Economist, May 2006-Sept. 2006
Bank of Portugal
Visiting Scholar, Sept. 2012-Dec. 2012
Intern Economist, Sept. 2001-Mar. 2002
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Research Assistant, 2005-2006
Teaching Associate, 2005-2006
Teaching Assistant, 2003-2004
Ph.D., Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Summa Cum Laude, 2007
M.Sc., Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Honors, 2003
B.Sc., Universidade Técnica de Lisboa,Honors, 2001
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His main research interests are in the area of macroeconomics, both theoretical and applied. He has published research examining the design of monetary policy, expectations formation, inflation dynamics, central banking communication and forward guidance, policy credibility, sovereign bond default, maturity structure, and monetary and fiscal policy interactions, among other topics.
My teaching
Undergraduate, Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECO2046)
PhD, Advanced Macroeconomics II (ECOD004)
PhD, Topics in Macroeconomic Modelling II (ECOD012)
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|Mathilde Wesendonck by K. F. Sohn
|Tristan and Isolde by J.W. Waterhouse
|Villa Wesendonck, Zurich, 1857
For more on Wagner in Zurich see my A Stroll Through Wagner's Zurich
|Mathilde Wesendonck by K. F. Sohn
|Tristan and Isolde by J.W. Waterhouse
|Villa Wesendonck, Zurich, 1857
Interesting, though I have read Wagner--at least after the Ring--renounced, to some degree, his earlier pagan and/or buddhistic beliefs. Schopenhauer's writings also influenced Nietzsche, and Nietzsche, while not giving his blessing to Gautama , seems to consider Buddhism worthier than judeo-christian tradition...
That said, Schopenhauer's views on buddhism should not be considered equal to the new-agey leftist buddhism of 60s and 70s. Professional metaphysician I am not, but Schopenhauer most likely felt the eastern religions upheld a sort of immanent idealism closer to his own views--
Hi J,
Thanks for your comment and for putting a link to my article on your blog.
I'm not sure about Wagner renouncing Buddhism after the Ring. The Ring itself is saturated with Buddhist and Schopenhaurian ideas. Even the musical score, with its hundreds of leitmotivs, signifies reincarnation (according to Wagner himself, not just according to me. Many believe that Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, was his most Buddhist. Then again, others see it as his most Christain - for instance Nietzche, who was disgusted by its Christianity and insipid nationalism - while others see it as a sort of gnostic, occultic work. Debussy considered it an esoteric work, literally. Hitler loved it but Goebbels banned it. Most recently Paul Scholfield has published a book claiming that Parsifal is actually the fifth opera of the Ring and that the entire cycle is Buddhist. I tend to agree to the extent that I think Wagner always continued to see himself, at least partly, as a Buddhist. A bad Buddhist maybe.
You are of course right about Nietzche. He despised Christianity for giving so much importance to sympathy, an virtue according to him which implied a false sense of superiority. Buddhism, on the other hand, offers few false illusions.
Thanks again for your comment.
A brilliant piece of writing. Recently I was in Bonn and visited Beethoven's birthplace, reviving my interest in his 5th symphony and Mozart's 40th Symphony. I came to this page while searching for articles by Cosima Wagner.
Much before even Buddha, six schools of philosophy had developed in India, in which time was considered as an illusion. There is no such thing as time. We need this concept when we have the need to measure a phenomenon- like our mortal life. As T.S.Eliot put it, all time is eternally present.
Similarly space had no significance and the relativity of space was described in cosmic terms of movement of planets. Thus the earth would be a microscopic dust particle, and a life span could be no longer than a micro-second. The challenge for humanity thus was to create collective immortality through individual detachment, so that society could survive. Thanks.
Thank you for your comment Janu. Indeed, India is the source of so many profound ideas and systems of thought and it is astonishing how often these are ignored by westerners.ReplyDelete
Great article. Thank you. I'm currently reading Bryan Magee's book, "The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy" where he elaborates on the ideas you bring up. However, one thing confounds me -- the business of sex being part of Desire and therefore needing to be renounced. And yet, sex serves as a great release for the lovers of Tristan and Isolde. As Magee writes (paraphrasing Schopenhauer's own thoughts): "Orgasm is not only the ultimate experience but a quasi-mystical one that carries us to the very centre of life's mystery."
So is sex good or bad in the Schopenhaurian equation?
And it goes without saying that Wagner himself was a very poor practicing Buddhist what with his profligate lifestyle and demanding only the best that money could buy. I wonder how he reconciled that with his newfound philosophy.
Good point. I think sex or orgasm is quasi-mystical as magee says, but only in its sublimated symbolic form - when it is translated into art. This implies a denial of sex in its worldly sense, which, as you say, Wagner wasn't very good at doing. Thanks for you comment.ReplyDelete
Can the sublime be achieved without a rhetorical allusion to immortality in some form (in this case, Buddhist concepts)? Unfortunately, although the aria is great, for me the presence of ideology ("world-breath") in the lyrics weakens the humanity of a scene, which, like Ophelia's mad scene, already has a tenuous hold on reality.
It's interesting but also somewhat disappointing to learn that Wagner linked the excellent mnemonic leitmotif technique with reincarnation.
The ideology might be mistaken, but the music remains. I hope you can enjoy despite objections to some of the ideas.
thanks for your comment Alphasun.
Joseph Campbell introduced me to the Wagner-Schopenhauer-Nietzche-Gautama connection . Isn't Schopenhauer and Wagner doing what all beginner Buddhists do, confuse renunciation with abstinence? Applying end of life philosophy to all age groups is a great tragedy, each has its place. I see Tristan and Isolde (romantic) and Parsifal (compassion) as a duality and a progression (yes that seems paradoxical but everything can't be explained), up the chakra ladder. Giving up the one for the other aspersc risis. I am currently at that point so living this firsthand, not some intellectual exercise. Your article is helping me make more sense of my prior school philosophy and its influence (damage) from a personal perspective, and the east west connection.
Buddhism saving the West...not so far fetched...I think it might save the entire planet, since it has always had respect for the natural world, embraced modern science, and that admits the by design its not so easy to see the big picture, if there even is one.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment Richard. I'm glad you got something from the article. Good luck in your quest.Delete
Of all experiences in my seventy-six years, two memories of my adult life stand out as spiritually unique. They were brief sexual encounters with two different men, both unknown to me, at widely spaced different times and places.
During those moments, I somehow crossed that frontier between the physical world of my "mortal illusions", passing freely into a realm of transcendent communion with two other beings . To this very day each erotic encounter has seemed at least mysterious, if not other worldly, perhaps even angelic.
Since my early teen years, I have dwelled almost daily with the unresolved call of Tristan and Isolde. Its enigmatic music ceaselessly stirs within me, tugging at my consciousness as the years have morphed ever more distantly into memories.
Yet, during all that time, two profoundly erotic "illusions", at once both Earthly and other worldly, have dwelled within me.
Perhaps that transcendent realm of haunting emptiness and formless beauty awaits those among us who, in their own good time, enter unafraid.
Richard Lager
Colrain, MA
Thanks for sharing these memories which have clearly had a profound impact on your life Richard. I can understand how the music of Tristan und Isolde speaks to them.Delete
A very interesting article and comments. I came across it while doing some reading before seeing the opera at the Royal Opera House earlier this week. It was the first time I had seen the opera, and I was left wondering just how well Tristan and Isolde did illustrate Schopenhauer's philosophy.
In Schopenhauer's noumenal world there is no self, no individual will. Individuation is an aspect of the phenomenal world. So, in longing for the darkness what were they hoping for?
One could imagine that they were hoping to have their desire for each other in some sense perpetually satisfied in the timeless world of the noumenal, the distractions of the phenomenal world having been taken away leaving only their souls together. A very romantic idea but is this Schopenhauer?
Or were they hoping that the noumenal would bring an end to the suffering that their love for each other gave rise to, doing this through the cessation of their desire for each other? Not at all romantic, but perhaps more in line with the Scopenhauerian will.
Another alternative is that I've missed the point!
The influence of Buddhism on western philosophy is also very interesting. There is now a train of thought that David Hume encountered Buddhism while writing the Treatise at La Fleche, and that this may have influenced his own 'no-self' doctrine:
"For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception." Treatise 126.96.36.199
Hi John,
I hope you enjoyed the opera - sublime music. Yes, I think the option is that the darkness represents the end to suffering, therefore the end to desire, which is, as you pointed out, not very romantic.
I've heard it said that there is a chance that Hume encountered a Jesuit who had been in the Far East as a missionary and who informed him of some of the basics regarding Buddhism.
All the best,


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Ms. Wells suggests this as a topping for toasted tomatoes and it is very good that way. But this has many uses--drizzled over a piece of grilled fish or chicken, as a sandwich condiment, or, my favorite so far, thinned with a bit more olive oil and used as topping for focaccia.
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4 Amazing Ways Not To Lose Your Sanity As An Entrepreneur
Have a successful business without losing your head.
Launching a business is exciting. Just thinking of the benefits one would reap after such hard work is enough to jump into it at once. But don't wear your celebratory hat yet because you still have to walk through fire to get there. You may even lose your sanity along the way.
Most businesses and entrepreneurs fail because of lack of preparation and scalability, that secret ingredient that makes business capable of growth. While it is great to think ahead of the good times, you have to be realistic and deal with the situation on hand and the reality that it may not be an easy ride.
Worry no more, Amy Anderson listed the best ways on how to ensure a business would succeed without losing your head in the process.
Read on. It is not as hard as you think!
Do These 4 Things to Avoid Losing Your Mind as an Entrepreneur
- Write down the number of hours you're spending on your client work each week. Then write down the number of hours you're spending on administrative or other work related to running your business.
- Ask yourself how much more you can handle. Be honest. Do you have another hour in your day or would adding more work require skipping a lunch break?
- Analyze your marketing. Do you get clients from your website? From social media? From an online job site? How many and how fast do they come in?
- If you continue to acquire new business at the same rate, calculate how soon you will crash and burn.
–by Amy Anderson
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