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I've received a lot of questions relating to my eating habits. Depending on my current goals or how curious I am to experiment I will switch around my diet to obtain a desired outcome. I may be eating an all vegan diet, or mostly raw, or paleo for athletes, a bodybuilding diet or a weight loss diet.
One thing that hasn't changed in the past few years is the type of diet I consume. I haven't been eating anything in the past few years that contains highly processed ingredients, high sugars or high fat. No matter the type of foods that I am eating, they are ALWAYS WHOLE FOODS. It has been proven over and over again that ingesting a diet of highly processed, sugared foods leads to disease. Information that doesn't waver is that a diet of WHOLE foods is best for health. This fact doesn't change with the latest government food pyramid or the latest fad.
If a food is sitting on a grocery shelf, wrapped in a box with a health claim stamped upon it, it probably isn't healthy. The potato, the broccoli, the bananas, they don't need a wrapper with a health claim stamped upon it! They don't even have a wrapper on which to stamp.
Over the years we have heard conflicting information: remember the low fat craze? We were told to lower our fat and that this would decrease our chances of heart disease. What happened? The industrialized food corporations brought on Snackwells, low fat poptarts and Olestra chips, etc. were developed. Is Olestra still out there? I recall everyone complaining of stomach problems after ingesting. Americans began to gorge on these highly processed foods and did heart disease go down? No. Americans became fatter. Remember the low carb craze? Don't eat that pasta or that potato! Eat the man made low carb variety with 41 ingredients instead. Did this make Americans healthier? Um, no but everything in the grocery store was then wearing a label stating LOW CARB.
One writer who I continually read is Michael Pollan. His latest book, Food Rules, is a book that shouldn't have had to have been written, yet is a very valuable piece. It answers the question "what should I eat?" Some of these rules are so obvious you'd think someone would have thought to write this sooner as we have all probably thought of these rules before but have not put them to paper. We live in a country full of beautiful packaging and low-fat, low-carb options and yet we are getting bigger and bigger. This isn't a diet book, it's a lifestyle book. I think it is a great beginning step for those who have not yet begun to eat a healthier diet. I also think this book will lead it's readers to Michael Pollan's other works if they haven't yet read them.
IN DEFENSE OF FOOD is my favorite of Pollan's. On the cover he writes : Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. This is the premise of the book.
I wouldn't have thought it necessary to be told to eat food. Duh. What else would I eat? Wrong. Food = Real Food. Not the heavily processed refined grains, the fake foods that have taken over the shelves of the supermarket. Even yogurt now has go-gurt, a squeezable yogurt that has 18 ingredients and none of them am I able to identify or pronounce. This product is a man made highly processed non-food. That's only one example. It isn't a real food.
In Defense of Food is very easy to read, uncomplicated and full of information. I have reread it at least 4 times over the past few years.
I think the following hints that Pollan lists are brilliant!
• Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Yeah, such as the go gurt. She would have thought it was toothpaste!
• Avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number or include high fructose corn syrup.
• Avoid food products that make health claims.
• Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
• Get out of the supermarket whenever possible Purchase a CSA plan or shop your farmers market
• Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
• You are what you eat eats too The animals we eat have a bearing on the nutritional quality of the food itself whether it is meat or milk or eggs. You'll notice when you buy eggs from a grass fed chicken they will have a bright orange yolk. This is the beta carotene from fresh green grass.
• If you have space buy a freezer When you find a good source of pastured meat, you'll want to buy it in quantity. The more you purchase the less expensive it is.
• Eat more like the French or the Italian or the Japanese or the Indians or the Greeks. Almost every diet is much healthier than people eating the Standard American Diet.
• Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism It pays to approach novelties with caution. A novel food resembles a mutation: soy products is one example-the soy isolates and soy isoflavones are highly processed foods. You can be eating a vegan diet and still be eating a very unhealthy diet. The vegan 'sausage, burger, bacon' stay away.
• Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does American gas stations now make more money selling food than selling gasoline. The food is highly processed nonperishable snack foods and extravagantly sweetened soft drinks. Gas stations have become processed-corn stations: ethanol outside for your car and high-fructose corn syrup inside for you.
• Cook and, if you can, plant a garden. I have a garden. It is probably 20 feet x 40 feet and it provides a great variety and a good amount of vegetables for us. I also buy a share in the local CSA each year to provide us with a good variety of veggies.
I also like Paleo Eating for Athletes. It isn't much different from the Pollan way of thinking. PEFA is eating whole foods consisting of lean meats, fruits, veggies, nuts and healthy oils. As an ultrarunner I appreciate the V stages of nutritional timing outlined in PEFA. Of course the main difference is that Pollan includes whole grains where Cordain does not.
Following are the stages outlined in PEFA:
Stage I: Eating Before Exercise
In brief, we recommend that athletes eat low to moderate glycemic index
carbohydrates at least two hours prior to a hard or long workout or race. There may be some fat and protein in this meal. All foods should be low in fiber. Take in 200 to 300 calories for every hour remaining until exercise begins. If eating two hours prior is not possible, then take in 200 or so calories 10 minutes before the workout or race begins.
Stage II: Eating During Exercise
During long or hard workouts and races you will need to take in high glycemic index carbohydrates mostly in the form of fluids. Sports drinks are fine for this. Find one that you like the taste of and will drink willingly. Realize that events lasting less than about an hour (including warm-up) don't require any carbohydrate. Water will suffice
for these. A starting point for deciding how much to take in is 200 to 400 calories per hour modified according to body size, experience and the nature of the exercise (longer events require more calories than short).
Stage III: Eating Immediately After In the first 30 minutes post workout (but only after long and/or highly intense exercise) and post race use a recovery drink that contains both carbohydrate and
protein in a 4_5:1 ratio. You can buy a commercial product for this. Or you can make your own by blending 16 ounces of fruit juice with a banana, 3 to 5 tablespoons of glucose depending on body size, about 3 tablespoons of protein powder, especially from
egg or whey sources and two pinches of salt. This 30_minute window is critical for recovery. It should be your highest priority after a hard workout or race
Stage IV: Eating for Extended Recovery
For the next few hours (as long as the preceding challenging exercise lasted) continue to focus your diet on carbohydrates, especially moderate to high glycemic load carbohydrates along with protein at a 4_5:1 carb/protein ratio. Now is the time to eat non-optimal foods such as pasta, bread, bagel s, rice, corn and other foods rich in glucose as they contribute to the necessary carbohydrate recovery process. Perhaps
the perfect Stage IV foods are raisins, potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams.
Stage V: Eating for Long_Term Recovery For the remainder of your day, or until your next Stage I, return to eating a Paleo Diet by focusing on optimal foods.
I've noticed lately that Troy, who is 14, is developing breakouts of acne on his forehead. Of course I don't want to make him concerned over the breakouts or to bring attention to the acne. I did switch out his face washing lotion with a benzoyl peroxide based cleanser to see if it would help. It really hasn't changed.
Many dermatologists state there is not a link between breakouts and diet. I can't believe this to be true. I do break out when if I eat a product containing chocolate, something high in salt or dairy. I know that these foods cause me breakouts.
In reading about Loren Cordain I came across some research he has done pertaining to acne and diet. He has shown a direct link between diet and acne, notably between acne and dairy.
I just finished reading a book by Cordain related to the acne-diet connection. Last night I told Troy about the research. He reminded me of a time last year when he broke out in little bumps all over his face. At the time he was eating yogurt and berries for breakfast and a yogurt smoothie in the evening after baseball practice. We attributed the breakouts to yogurt and when he then stopped eating yogurt and the breakouts went away and I forgot all about it.
Troy told me that he has been drinking two cartons of milk at school each day with his lunch ( his unhealthy hot lunch that the school offers). This is a change that has taken place in the past three weeks. He also drinks milk with his bagel in the morning and a glass of milk with dinner.
Troy told me that he would like to try a two week trial to see if there is any change in his acne. I hadn't yet suggested he try this, I was quiet after I presented him the research and was watching the wheels turn in his head.
I told Troy that I was proud of him for willing to make a change in his diet and he told me he didn't think it would be too difficult, that he would think of it as an experiment. It will be interesting to see if his skin clears up due to the dairy!
So many times we want the magic pill for a fit body or a clear face, to give up smoking. Troy has learned that there isn't a magic pill. To obtain the desired outcome you need to be responsible and be willing to lay the groundwork. One can't eat crap and hope to be healthy. Hope doesn't have a chance.
This morning Troy drank orange juice with his bagel and is going to pass on milk during his lunch. I'm anxious to watch Troy and to see the outcome of this experiment!
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
5 comments:
- Alan said...
This is a very interesting blog and so i like to visit your blog again and again. Keep it up.
You're a fantastic role model for your readers and a great mother. Thank you so much for your site!
- SteveQ said...
The acne and chocolate/salt/dairy thing is probably stress related. People tend to crave comfort foods when stressed and that's also when acne tends to crop up.
- Helen said...
Great post Julie and fair play to Troy - very impressive for a kid his age to think about making those changes (though of course he has a wonderful role model)!
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
What Is It Going to Take?
My little charges have been working on basic human needs over the last few weeks in relation to resources, specialization, and the United States economy. To connect to our Native American standards which will be tacked next I have been hammering home the basic needs for any human: food, shelter, and clothing. The whole point students need to arrive at is humans meet their basic needs with the resouces around them.
I am also teaching two groups of Language Arts this year and we are currently examining literary elements. Character is our current focus, and I am trying to get students to evaluate literature based on what characters do and say, as well as, what is motivating the characters through the plot of the literary piece.
One of the things that really surprised me when I first became an educator was the lack of motivation that most students exhibited. It has been rare to find students who are motivated to turn in neat assignments, correct assignments, or any assignments. The writing process is a real bear to get students to follow simply because they have to revise sometimes and rewrite it. Gee, you'd think I'm asking them to dig a ditch from Atlanta to Boston with their bare hands.
What motivates our littler characters, our students, through their own personal plot line?
Yesterday afternoon I noticed one of my students simply sitting in the hall while we were waiting on late buses to be called. I encouraged him to begin his homework which was to look up five vocabulary words and define them on paper.
One of my classic cinematic/literary characters is Prissy in Gone With the Wind. She's the one Scarlett sends to town to get Dr. Meade when Miss Melly is 'bout to birth her baby. After being told he can't get there in time Prissy saunters back home as slow as molasses and entertains us with her rendition of 'tote the weary load'. She also has to admit to Scarlett that she 'don' know nothin' 'bout birthin' no baby'. Picture the male version of Prissy and you can visualize my young unmotivated friend. After many manueverings and machinations the assignment was begun, and I was free to go forth and harass some other young wee one.
The whole point of the homework assignment was for students to be familiar with their definitions and to have them out as they completed a classwork assignment today. After going over the assignment I began to walk the room to check off homework and to 'be amongst my peeps'. When I finally stood next to my young unmotivated friend he produced a paper that looked like his dog really had gotten hold of it!
"Gee, my unmotivated young friend," I said, "I thought you were working on this while you waited for your bus."
"I did." He actually believed he had.
It was clear my young unmotivated friend had not written the definitions as they appeared in the book, but what he had been extremely sucessful at doing was presenting the finest example of a half-as-ed rendering of this particular assignment I have ever seen. Letters within words simply morphed into curved lines, dots, and dashes. Finally the markings on the page simply melted into nothingness…..a mere mish-mash of markings on the page.
"Eureka," I exclaimed. "You've created a whole new written language my unmotivated young friend. Please pardon me for underestimating your abilities."
So, my unmotivated young friend began the homework assignment anew after I gave him a reasonable facsimile of this particular speech:
Who are you hurting when you don't do what you need to? …..Yes, yourself. Now tell me, who will always be there for you no matter what? ….Yes, you're right. You! You will always be there for you no matter what. You are your own best friend, and when you don't do what you need to do you are only cheating yourself. Why would you want to do that?.....I don't know why either. So, what are you going to do to solve this situation?
Well, my unmotivated young friend got the assignment done plus his classwork. He was met with mucho, mucho praise from Elementaryhistoryteacher too.
But what will it be tomorrow? Maybe my little speech worked that time but what about the next time, and we all know there will be a next time.
Every human has different needs at different times that govern motivation. It is up to us as the educators to discover each student's needs at the right time and at the right place so that we all can be successful. Research tells us that students can be goverened by approximately seven different needs that we can meet once we tap into them. It's the tap dance that we have to do that causes the difficulty. Sometimes we are a little rusty with the steps.
All students want to be sucessful. They are not motivated by failure or by a sense of inadequacy. If they feel more sucessful disrupting our classroom than they do by actually completing an assignment then guess which choice they will make. This is why it is so important to know our students as people and as learners. We must be willing to meet some students where they are even if every child in the room is on a different rung of the ladder so that we can carry them to the top. If we, as educators are not willing to do this….if we continue to teach to the top and make our classroom an uninviting place for at least one-third of our students then this particular group will never experience academic achievement.
All students no matter their age want power. Think about the classes you've taken. Don't you like it when you have some choice, some freedom, some responsibility for your own learning. Think about your students who disrupt. All they are trying to do is wrestle with you for power. They want it…..give it to them. Think of some ways to give them choice. Just make sure that when you give them a choice each opportunity you give is actually something you need or want them to do.
Don't forget the need for affiliation either. Humans need to be with other people. Groups can work wonders for meeting this need. I like a quiet, busy classroom but I have discovered something very interesting….during group time I hear more actual learning going on than when I stand at the front with everyone on the same page, doing the same thing, and at the same time. If I continue with the "its all about me" type of teaching style everyday I might as well be Charlie Brown's teacher simply sitting at my desk. I'd have the same effect….
Of course, you have students who can't stand group work and pull a Greta Garbo on you. "I vant to be alone." These students have autonomy needs. In fact all students do at certain times. Independent projects are just as important as group ones. Mix it up. One activity can meet the affiliation need while another zeros in on the autonomy freaks. Just for the record Elementaryhistoryteacher is an autonomy freak.
The fifth need students want to have met is self-esteem. I know, I know. We've heard it before. We have heard it out the wazaoo. Now I'm not Suzy Smile…I don't give compliments easily and if a student needs to be made aware of a transgression or needs correction I give it. This can be done though with a modicum of tact, however. I like to think of it as truth and mercy. Think how you soar when someone recognizes your hard work.
I see more and more students these days who crave safety and security, the sixth need. Research shows that if you want high productivity, high achievement, and high satisfaction in any environment students must feel they are physically and psychologically safe. This will lead to high satisfaction. We have a responsibility to maintain close contact with all our students and to be aware of what is going on in the room so that ridicule, put downs, and teasing doesn't occur where it is not wanted.
Finally, students have a need for equity. We need to strive for fairness with our students. They notice when others get special priviledges or attention. However, it is my own personal opinion that fair does not always mean equal.
Well, looks like I'm going to be tapping many times over the next few months….tapping into my students needs. Guess I need to pick up a case or two of carrots and some polish for my dancin' shoes.
Update: Check out my comment section for an applicable link regarding motivation and meeting the needs of students thanks to kderosa at D-ED Reckoning. You can also check out these articles as well------School Leadership and Student Motivation, Student Motivation to Learn, and Motivation: What Does the Research Say?
5 comments:
- Ed Darrell said...
So, where does one find research to back up the "Six Needs?" Everything we do under NCLB must be research-backed, remember . . .
But I am truly curious. Two months ago I sat through a 20-day series of lectures by top Texas educators and administrators, several of them talking about how teachers need to motivate students, a few latching onto Maslow's hierarchy, but not one ever venturing close to Herzberg's solid work on motivation.
You're closer.
What's your source?
- KDeRosa said...
You're close to understanding the motivation problem in lower-performers.
I'd suggest reading this.
- KDeRosa said...
Here's another good one:
Managing Classroom Behavior
- EHT said...
Thanks for the comments and links. I updated my post with a few articles I've read, however, the actual list came from a paper I was given at a meeting. Like many things I'm handed it had no source on it at all. It just seems so basic to me....common sense, you know....
- TurbineGuy said...
'teacher, I have many of the same problems at home with my 4 kids of school age. They all have different personalities, strengths, and weaknesses, so its a battle to keep them all motivated. I constantly stress the importance of hard work as opposed to talent in learning and keeping up there grades. I also make sure that everyone of them knows that they are the best at something, while letting them know its ok not to be the best at everything. I can imagine how difficult it is in a classroom.


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General Marshall and Commander Bethune
Frank Chile writes, "I had recalled that Commander Graham Bethune (US Navy - VIP Plane Commander in the Flag Division with Top Secret Clearance) who while piloting 31 passengers) had a UFO sighting (of a 300' craft) on February 10, 1951 which was written up in Project Blue Book" Graham had shared with me that on two separate occasions he flew General Marshall (as well as other VIP's) to two saucer retrieval sites. One was outside Reykjavik Iceland the craft was about 100' in diameter and saucer shaped.
The other event was in the American SW, I believe Commander Bethune had mentioned somewhere in Utah - this craft was also about 100' in diameter and slightly oval - both events had high ranking US Army and Navy officers in attendance as well as scientists and academics from various stateside universities. Both discs were retrieved and brought back to Wright Patterson.
Commander Bethune gave me this photo and was quite insistent that US Air Force was getting the focus of UFO attention from the public, but the real player in this and always behind the scenes was the US Navy. Graham was informed by Admiral Forney himself and Graham never doubted that a ploy was set-up to divert attention away from the Navy.
Commander Bethune also flew Secretary of the Navy Kimball who discussed with him seeing a craft come up out of the Pacific Ocean pacing two Navy aircraft doing barrel rolls around them. Graham had also spoken with Admiral Radford - who became the first Joint Chiefs of Staff - about the discs as well as aides to Admiral McCormick, who had relieved Eisenhower as the NATO Commander. lt seemed to be common knowledge at that level Admiral Forney had given Commander Bethune some Navy photos of discs taken during the '50's which were quite astounding.
George Catlett Marshall, Jr. (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.General George C. Marshall I attempted to retrieve some information on-line about General Marshall regarding the subject and found these two brief statements - both are indeed fascinating! "The United States has recovered UFOs and their occupants. The UFOs were from a different planet and they were friendly. They have been hovering over defense facilities and airports. The U.S. authorities were convinced they had nothing to fear from them. The U.S. wanted people to concentrate on the real menace, communism, and not be distracted by the visitors from space. There has actually been contact with the men in the UFOs and there have been landings." In 1955, Dr. Rolf Alexander, a prominent British UFOlogist, had a remarkable conversation with his old friend General George C. Marshall who told him,"Visitors from outer space are trying to work out a method of breathing and staying alive in our atmosphere before landing and establishing contact. "Apparently the general was privy to secret reports containing information of aliens before that information became available to UFOlogists in the 1960s." Thanks to Frank Chile Soviets Also Have Crashed Space Ships
I was always surprised when the Soviets beat us into space with Sputnik satellite, but if they had an alien spaceship to obtain advanced technology it makes sense. William Brophy writes, "I was invited by Dr. Roberto Pinotti to the San Marino Republic UFO Symposium as a speaker to talk about the 1933 UFO crash near Milano, Italy." On June 13, 1933, a UFO crashed near Magenta, Italy just west of Milano. The occupants were tall blond Nordics with oriental like features on their light blue eyes.
The Japanese told the Italians and Germans that those tall blonde-haired people were in their legends; this led to the Axis Alliance. Pope Pius 11 was furious and informed President Roosevelt about the UFO crash in 1938. Winston Churchill and Mussolini also carried on secret correspondence about the 1933 crash. It's thought at the end of World War 11 the Soviets invading Army captured the craft.
As confirmation Ufologist Jorge Martin was told Fidel Castro confided in his friend named Juan Mari Bras that, "The Soviets had captured several alien vehicles and Castro was taken to a Cosmodrome and shown several alien vehicles of various shapes." Juan is a person of great integrity, and would not say something like this if it not was true. Castro also told us, "The Soviets knew the Americans had a similar lab and research center with crafts and alien bodies."
It is likely Castro was taken to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome or the Kapustin Yar missile center. Here there are several large hangars and an underground facility with several floors, in which Russian scientists could study alien technology of captured and crashed alien spacecrafts.
Under these lines we are showing a sketch with data on some of the extraterrestrial spacecrafts that the Russian Government keeps at this research center, made by a confidential Russian source, which was delivered to Italian journalist and UFO researcher Constantino Paglialunga in 1997.
KGB officers sold secret Soviet film to several countries. I saw some amazing footage used in the film "Secret KGB UFO Files." A documentary that attempts to ascertain what the Soviet Union knew about UFOs. Via interviews with scientists, soldiers, and spies, viewers get a picture of KGB discoveries and their secret campaigns. It is very possible that Fidel Castro saw the alien spaceship and the alien corpse at Kapustin Yar. Thanks to Jorge Martin
Russian UFO Crash
B J Booth writes, "According to the unsubstantiated reports, not far from the city of Prohlandnyi, in the USSR at 1 AM, on August 10, 1989, Soviet military radar picked up an unidentified flying object. An attempt was made to contact the craft, without success. The UFO was classified as "hostile." Soviet defenses were put on alert, and MIG-25s were put in the air to find and identify the UFO.
The MIG- 25s closed on the UFO and were given the authority to attack. When the UFO refused to answer hails, the MIGs fired, hitting the UFO that ditched over the Caucasian Mountains. A crew aboard an M1-8 helicopter located the disc-shaped UFO outside of Nizhnizy Chegem. The area was completely cordoned off to everyone except military personnel.
The UFO was about 20 feet long and 10 feet tall and shaped like a long cigar. There was a long rutted out place in the ground where the object had obviously skidded as it plowed to a stop.
There was obvious damage to the exterior of the craft. The retrieval team, wearing protective outer wear, moved to the site. There was a small amount of radiation, and some members of the team were effected.
A helicopter on the scene was hooked up to the craft, and the UFO was transported to Mozdok Air Base. The base was rumored to store nuclear weapons, and long range bombers. Another investigative team was sent to Mozdok to begin a scientific analysis of the UFO. A KGB cover-up was in full operation by this time. Team members entered the craft, and found were three alien bodies-two dead, one barely alive.
A team of doctors and other medical personnel made every effort to keep the alien alive, but failed. All three of the beings were about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall, with gray outer wear. Underneath, their skin was a blue-green color with a reptilian texture. They had no hair, large black eyes covered with a protective lid, and web fingers ended their long, slender arms. The alien bodies were being kept in glass containers and UFO was taken to Kapustin Yar. This information originated from three Russian investigators-Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova and Alexander Mosolov who do not have documentation to support their claims. Thanks to B J Booth
Scientists Could Find Alien Life within 40 Years
Scientists could find alien life within 40 years, says royal astronomerThe question of whether alien life exists could be answered within 40 years, according to the Queen's astronomer.
The Queen's astronomer Martin Rees Photo: Jay WilliamsMartin Rees, former president of the Royal Society said, "Evidence of whether beings exist not only beyond earth but beyond our solar system, could be found in that time."
Lord Rees, who has been Astronomer Royal - a senior position within the Royal Household offering advice to the Queen on astronomical matters - since 1995, said: "Within 10 or 20 years we will be able to image other planets like the earth, orbiting other stars."That will be a really exciting subject to see if there is evidence for extra-terrestrial life or not."
Scientists at Aberdeen University believe they can show millions more planets are capable of supporting life. Scientists have designed new models for testing whether a planet could support life by searching for evidence of underground water. Instead of looking for surface water, the new tools identify whether there may be water kept liquid by core heat, according to the BBC. The development could mean more planets and moons are found to be capable of sustaining life forms.
The research, which was presented at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen, challenges the "Goldilocks" theory that planets need to be within a defined distance from the sun to support life before water either freezes or evaporates.
Sean McMahon, a PhD student from Aberdeen University, said: "It's the idea of a range of distances from a star within which the surface of an Earthlike planet is not too hot or too cold for water to be liquid. "So traditionally people have said that if a planet is in this Goldilocks zone – not too hot and not too cold – then it can have liquid water on its surface and be a habitable planet."
The new research could be an important breakthrough in establishing signs of life where planets and moons generate their own heat rather than receiving heat from a star like the sun.
Professor John Parnell, lead researcher from Aberdeen University, said: "There is a significant habitat for microorganisms below the surface of the Earth, extending down several kilometers and that the bulk of life on Earth could even reside in this deep biosphere."
Mr. McMahon added: "If you take into account the possibility of deep biospheres, then you have a problem reconciling that with the idea of a narrow habitable zone defined only by conditions at the surface. There will be several times more habitable planets." Thanks to Telegraph and Sonya Porter Heaven Is Real: A Doctors Experience with the Afterlife
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. I followed my father's path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
Dr. Eben Alexander fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis. During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion "shut down" and that he then experienced "something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death." In an essay for Newsweek to promote his book "Proof of Heaven."
Dr Alexander says, "I was met by a beautiful blue-eyed woman in a 'place of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones' and "shimmering beings".He continues: "Birds? Angels? These words registered later, when I was writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have known on this planet. They were more advanced and higher forms." The doctor adds that a "huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. The sound was palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin but doesn't get you wet."
Dr Alexander says he had heard stories from patients who spoke of outer body experiences but had disregarded them as "wishful thinking" but has reconsidered his opinion following his own experience.
He added: "I know full well how extraordinary, how frankly unbelievable, all this sounds. Had someone even a doctor told me a story like this in the old days, I would have been quite certain that they were under the spell of some delusion.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEw8nE1U77whttp://vimeo.com/20420223
Editor's Note: The Bible tell us Heaven is a planet where God lives, and he sends his angel messengers to tell us to love one another. God even sent his Son to show his love. I have lost two grandsons who drowned and ask you to spend some time with your loved ones, give them a warm hug and say, 'I love you' to your partner. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Give time to love, give time to talk, and share your precious thoughts and make the world a little bit better.
UFO Sightings in the US
Alaska Discs
"I keep thinking they have a base under the 1,100 square miles Harding Ice Field in our area, or an undersea base close by." Most UFOs come in via the Harding Ice Field and icebergs shown here. I've seen small craft 50 feet in size to huge aircraft carrier size, with like fighter caps that rotate around the big ones. Many people in Seward have seen them, and told to keep quiet about this. I've also seen Bigfoot creatures on the ground while UFO incidents are going on and feel there is a connection between these creatures and UFOs. Thanks to Robert Mackey
Arizona Rectangle
YUMA – At 9 PM, on October 29,-2012, the rectangle shaped object was seen traveling at 2500 feet altitude. Then a total of four identical rectangle objects flew past in a perfect line then banking right to the southwest. The rectangles were outlined in black with very bright red light inside flying at a speed that seemed too slow for an object that long in length to be able to stay airborne. Their length exceeded my fist. Then top #4 blinked once then went out, #3 then blinked once and then went out with #2 and #1 following.
My neighbor and I watched them for 30 seconds before all went out. Photo is a rendering of UFO. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Arkansas Orb
RODGERS -- My son initially reported he saw a strange light outside on November 1, 2012. Then our entire family saw a second light fly overhead about five minutes later. I grabbed my digital video camera before the third one flew over silently five minutes later. To the naked eye, they appeared to be spinning orange colored flames. When you see the magnified video, the flames appear to have a square structure around them. These lights were not flashing like you see on aircraft, and didn't fall like you a flare. I recorded the video with my iPhone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Sightings
SAN FRANCISCO -- The video is posted on YouTube and a viewer posted a comment about seeing something I never noticed on October 7, 2012. If I stop the video at 3:53, I do catch and see it near the Bay Bridge tower and if I start and stop it quickly from 3:54 I see it to the far right. It is moving very fast and is too big to be a bird.
Note: UFO activity has frequently been reported at "Blue Angels" air shows. The witness presents an argument that the "blurry UFO" is not a bird because it is behind the bridge. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
EL CAJON -- My sister and I were on our way home on October 31, 2012 (Halloween night) on Freeway 8 around 8:50 PM. As I approached Main Street I saw a straight line of blue lights in the sky.I've had other sightings and I quickly pulled over and sat in my car for over an hour. At first there was a pattern to the lights that were blinking on and off. This line started to move side to side silently, but above these lights I saw a small unlit round object. "It was a UFO." As it started to become foggy I was no longer able to see the small object but the lights remained.
My camera was able to capture them pretty high in the sky. My sister was also able to identify what I was seeing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Light
MIAMI BEACH -- I was in the kitchen when I noticed a bright light, I grabbed the camera and took pictures of the object for ten minutes. The object was hovered and eventually went into the water. I have never seen this before. This was during the day time and I had clear view of the object. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
ORLANDO – On November 4, 2012, I exited off Route 408 onto Challenger Parkway and looked up and thought I saw a helicopter. Then I noticed yellow/white lights circling around it, revealing a disc-like shape. It was moving away from me but I kept staring at it because I was confused. It was not a helicopter, and flying very low and moving smoothly away. A witness from another location also saw the UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Light
KIHEI – I saw an orange light with no tail in the south sky off the island of Maui on August 31, 2012, at 7:40 PM. I know a lot about astronomy, and I know this was not a comet/meteor. I have never seen anything like this before. It increased speed, slowed down, increasing speed again, it slowed down again, and then it vanished. I am certain it was not a lantern in the sky! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Moon UFO
CICERO -- As I was sitting in my backyard filming the full moon, two discs flew past the moon at high speed in less than six seconds. I saw the unidentified objects in the camcorder screen and was stunned. The first UFO flew pass at high speeds and kind of wobbled in a straight slanted line turning upside down. The second UFO dropped down like a tear drop at high speeds and it had like an American eagle shape to it at one point. I felt stunned to spot something pass the moon so fast and see on my camcorder. I showed my girlfriend and friends right after I caught it on film. After the sighting, I watched the video over 100 times to finally come to a conclusion that these were UFOs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Landing
PARIS --While mowing my pasture on October 20, 2012, I came across this circular patch of ground approximately 14 feet in diameter. The plants are dead, the soil is discolored and balled up, and the rock on the surface has an orange tint in the center of the circle.
I was thinking that this is the result of a lightning strike but I've always seen lightning take some sort of path and not just be a circle. I have been careful not to disturb the possible landing site in any way. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Object
NEW ORLEANS -- Walking down Bienville Avenue, going south towards the river when I noticed an unusual glittering, randomly blinking, and shining object about the size of an aspirin hovering over the Mississippi River. I was instantly suspicious as it did not have the traditional navigation or anti-collision lights and was just hovering in an unusual way.
I took pictures a mile from the hovering object and ran up Bienville towards the river stopping to take a few pictures. The object looked smaller as I got closer to the river and lost sight of it.I asked some people who had been sitting on the levee if they saw it and they said they did not and couldn't believe the pictures I got. The object was not flying normally and it glinted in an unusual way. Thanks to MUFON CMS
OMAHA -- I saw a large rectangle shaped object with lights in the sky on October 29, 2012 at 7:45 PM, over the 150th Street area just south of Dodge Expressway. It had bright white lights all across the front and underneath the craft. You could see a faint light coming from inside the object. At the back was a red light.
It came from the southwest and hovered over about 150th Street on the south side of Dodge for about three minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)) Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
New Hampshire Lights
NEWTON -- My boyfriend and I were driving in my Mustang to my house on Route 108 on November 1, 2012. He points and says, "Look at that light hovering over the treeline!" It dipped down then shot straight up and then came toward us. I pulled over as the aspirin size bright white light was coming toward us.
It was performing just for us, it hovered there for several seconds and then the lights went out. A second later seven horizontal lights came on nearly perpendicular to our view. In the Photoshop sketch above this is exactly what it looked like.
My boyfriend got my camera and took a video, but only two black still shots came out. The UFO flew directly over us and out of site. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Image
WOLCOTT -- My husband and I had a campsite on shore of Lake Ontario on September 24, 2012. I always carry my camera and take many pictures. We were watching a line of storms moving across the lake that were producing waterspouts about 8 AM. I thought I saw a ship trying to avoid the storms so I took some images as the sunlight reflected on it. The light seemed to be reflecting on all sides. When I looked at pictures on my computer they really looked strange. We were facing north and it was just glowing. The whole object was illuminated and seemed above the water and showed no signs of being affected by the rough water. It also looked very square which didn't make sense for a ship or barge. It was traveling east and then turned north and just disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Editor's Note: Superior mirages are mirages of objects which occur above horizon and may occur when there is a strong temperature inversion.
South Carolina Orb
-- On October 31, 2012, I had been photographing this object for the last week. It is a bright white light and moves in all directions and hovers.
Through binoculars it is a glowing green. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Pitch Black Triangle
COLLEGE STATION -- I work graveyard shift on Texas A&M campus and went outside on October 29, 2012, between 1:40-1:45 AM, and was looking at Orion's Belt and saw a very subtle motion near it. I noticed it was a perfect 'V'shape. At first I thought it was geese because of the shape, but it was travelling too fast, and the shape was a perfect 'V' with no fluctuation.
It appeared to be a solid V-shaped object, and I could see two V edges, but I'm not sure about a third edge. It appeared solid and uniform. It was black on black against the night sky. The 'very large dark triangle/boomerang shaped V' was flying southeast object about the altitude and speed of a regular plane.
I only got about 4-5 seconds of being able to see it before it blended into the night sky too far away. Maybe it was military aircraft? Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Cigar Chemtrail plane's disguise UFO escort
WEST WYALONG -- On October 28, 2012, I noticed an aeroplane leaving a Chemtrail over my small town area. Thirty seconds later another one came into view on the same linear path but slightly east of the first one at 2 PM. They were both heading south and I thought this was a bit strange that two planes were so close together. Then another plane followed on the same path and again slightly east of the last one. Five seconds behind there was one more.
I was starting to get concerned about what these plane's were leaving in their wake in such a uniformed manner when my eye's adjusted to see one more object east again of the last plane following within meters of the last plane without leaving any trail at all... It was similar in size but didn't seem to have the span where the wings should be. There was no Chemtrail, no wings, and I think it was an escort and possibly atmosphere manipulation to help this escort. This image is a depiction of the event. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Brazil Crop Circle Season
IPUAÇU -- A. J. Gevaerd writes, "The 2012 crop circle season in Brazil started two weeks earlier than expected on October 13, 2012." An immense crop circle was found in the State of Santa Catarina, in south Brazil.
Again, for the fourth year since 2008, the formation was found 320 miles west of Florianópolis near Ipuaçu, where they always manifest. Strangely, the phenomena was never reported in Brazil prior to 2008, and since then the crop circle season starts every year in the last days of October..
The first formation of this year was confirmed by residents of the city and is a beautiful exotic pattern. It has an immensely more complex shape and is significantly bigger than the formations of the previous years. The figure was found in a fresh green wheat field and is a perfect geometric composition. The "agroglyph" is composed by a larger circle of about 130 feet in diameter of folded plants in one extremity, circled by nothing less than 30 smaller circles disposed as satellites with plants in their interiors alternately folded clockwise and counter-clockwise.
This set is connected by a "corridor" of folded plants towards another set of two concentric rings and another circle inside. All of the agroglyphs registered in Brazil are situated some 20 miles radius from that town, making it clear that the manifestations have something related to that specific location. Watch the agro glyph video: http://youtu.be/8ebtLbR_Ggk www.UFO.com.br/public/agroglifos/2012/ipuacu/marcelo_franzosi Thanks to A. J. Gevaerd Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine www.UFO.com.br www.UFO.com.br/artigos/as-mensagens-por-tras-dos-circulos
Canada Strange Object
TORONTO – I was trying to take photos of Jupiter on October 25. 2012, at 10 PM, and noticed a strange object in the photos. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Over 100 UFOs seen along India China border
NEW DELHI -- The Indian Army troops deployed along the China border from Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh in northeast have reported more than 100 sightings of UFOs in the last three months.
The Army Agencies have not yet been able to identify these luminous flying objects. The 14 Corps, which looks after military deployment along Kargil-Leh and looks after the frontiers with China, has sent reports of sightings of UFOs. Reports suggested that these yellowish spheres appear to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for three to five hours before disappearing. The officials confirmed that these UFOs were not Chinese drones or satellites. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Over-100
Ireland Clouds
HAMEDAN – A few days ago we saw flying object at night which came down from above and flew north.
Photo of strange clouds was taken on February 2, 2008, that suggests something was inside them.
DUBLIN – On October 31, 2012, I was in my back garden when I saw a bright red object move at steady high speed at about 15,000 feet altitude. At first I thought it was a meteor. I tracked it moving silently across the sky, and ran to the front of the house and object was on same trajectory at high speed. I finally lost sight as the object disappeared over horizon. The sighting lasted about two minutes. It was like a bright red star moving at high speed at low altitude across the sky Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Moving Glowing Cylinder
LIMA – I was talking on the phone on my roof due to poor cell phone service and looked up to see a bright red and orange glowing ball or a vertical rectangle-type object on October 27, 2012, at 9:12 PM. The district was firing off fireworks, but what I saw was NOT part of the show and was alone, and moving on its own. The fireworks were in a total opposite direction. It moved slowly to the right and when I ran downstairs to get my camera to film a video, I returned with my girlfriend to the roof but the object was no longer visible. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Spain Lights
BENIDORM -- This amazing footage was captured by me in, on the night of October 13/14th in the middle of the night. I recorded this ten minute video using my Sony Cyber Shot H70 Digital Video Camera using the best possible quality at 720P with Bionz technology and zoomed in as close as possible using 10X optical zoom. This is not a hoax, this footage is 100% authentic and I have the original film still on my memory card. The space ship craft appears to be morphing, changing size and shape as the lights in the video appear to be all over the place. The lights are also changing colors from white to BLUE and other colors too.
Note: Here is another video of airborne lights. It is difficult to determine whether or not these lights are unusual based on the video footage. The witness did use a quality camera to capture the footage. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
UK/England Lights
NORWICH -- I was walking home with my girlfriend, when we stopped to decide if we should get some food, when a huge glowing light came across the sky on September 21, 2012. I thought maybe it was an asteroid as cars stopped to look, but then two objects were ejected from the primary object and trailing behind the biggest one. We both stood there and watched and I ran down the road to see but was blocked by buildings. Thanks to MUFON CMS
ICKENHAM -- Lying in bed I saw a flashing very bright red light in the sky on October 31, 2012. It was coming across our view above the airport so we jumped out of bed and went to the window. The object seemed to move quickly and as it turned toward the airport we saw another white light that we assumed was a plane that appeared to have taken off from Northolt.
The flashing red light turned towards the white constant light and the red light passed over slightly above the white one at a right angle. As they crossed the white light disappeared completely and was absorbed into the red light. The red light continued to go round in a circle and headed off towards the west. I am a private pilot and interested in all things aviation.
HIGH WYCOMBE -- In the evening I visited my friend's house on November 3, 2012, about 8 PM, and came outside for a cigarette and saw a small object flying at high altitude. I thought it was a satellite passing over when I spot a second object flying parallel to the first one. Suddenly the second object changed direction and began to approach the first one and the two objects played with each other. They changed direction, accelerate, slowed down to overtake each other. They look like living creatures playing with each other and flew off over the roof of the building next door. I quickly went into the street, but I lost them. They were too fast to be airplanes and something very strange. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Vietnam Unidentified
PLIEKU -- In the spring of 1969, I was 20 years old and in the U.S. Army stationed in Plieku, South Vietnam. I was in the 62nd Maintenance Battalion working in the security platoon. Guard duty was my main job.
On this day, I started the second shift at 3 PM and was scheduled to work until midnight. The temperature was around 75 degrees. I was on a SSE guard tower overlooking a 100 yards perimeter. Rows of razor wire extended 300 feet and the perimeter was surrounded by miles of rice paddies.
At 6 PM, I had been on tower guard for about three hours, when an unidentified glowing object caught my eye over rice paddies a couple miles out. I observed the yellowish glowing object for about five minutes, and I felt like this object was communicating with me by putting calming thoughts into my head. At this time, I had no fear of the object. It was hovering two to three feet off of the ridgeline near the rice paddies.
It made no sound, and I had a thought that this strange object was going to move directly in front of me. No sooner than I had this thought, the strange object flew from the rice paddies to directly in front of my location, some 300 feet from my guard tower. Now it was hovering just above two light poles. Whatever the object was, it moved with incredible speed. In just a split second, it had traveled three miles to my location. I was stunned by the speed, but I still had no fear of it.
Now I could see this cloaked cloud had what seemed to have a dirty mist surrounding it as this cloaking got thicker surrounding the object. The glowing was coming from inside of the cloud. After a minute or so, the mist surrounding the object was growing really thick and suddenly there were three or four silver colored orbs out in the perimeter. They were the size of a medicine ball and were just floating in the air at different heights from the ground and different locations from the razor wire. Still I heard no noise and as suddenly as the orbs appeared, they simply disappeared.I observed this strange object for a few more minutes and suddenly it was gone. It just disappeared from sight. This sighting took place over an eight to ten minute period of time. I did manage to take a photograph of the object while it hovered above the light pole.
NOTE: The witness took the photo from a "30 foot gun tower" while on guard duty. He always carried a camera with him. He did not report the incident nor did he discuss it with anyone in his Battalion.
The witness showed this picture to a "UFO expert" that he had heard on a radio show around 1985. He signed a release statement and the UFO investigator sent the photo to the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. Two months later the witness received the photo back and a typewritten report. The report said that the object was "unidentified and was a genuine UFO." The witness moved to Florida and his house was burglarized and the JPL report was taken among other belongings. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
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People angered and frustrated by media representations of those living in poverty have inspired a Guide for Journalists on reporting.
The experiences of men and women in receipt of benefits, both in and out of work, were gathered in interviews by the National Union of Journalists.
The Union had previously created new guidelines for all its members on reporting poverty to exist alongside its materials on issues such as reporting gender, race and suicide.
The new guidelines state that journalists can't avoid a measure of responsibility in fighting stereotypes of the working poor and benefit recipients as expressed through the mass media.
It has now launched A Guide to Reporting Poverty in partnership with Christian social justice charity Church Action on Poverty.
The experts on poverty contributing to the campaign say stop using chavs, lazy and feckless in stories.
Rachel Broady, Equality Officer at Manchester and Salford Branch, who wrote the guidelines and conducted the interviews, said: "The language used to describe people living in poverty isn't acceptable. We can't allow it to become the norm.
"It's important for journalism and for journalists that we regularly stop to think how what is written could potentially demonise sections of our society. People experiencing poverty are not our enemy and their stories should be reported fairly and accurately."
Comments include:
- Journalists need to realise that the majority of people suffering within poverty did not put themselves in that situation by choice.
- See me as an individual, a person, a human being. Don't think because I'm on benefits you can judge me or make your mind up about me without talking to me.
- Don't use labels like lazy, cheating, skiving, feckless (especially parents), anti-social (especially young people) – lumping all people in poverty under these labels, like we have no value. We do have value and this should be reported too.
- People living in poverty have dignity. That humanity and dignity is taken away because of how the media portrays them.
Daily Mirror Real Britain columnist Ros Wynne-Jones joined the NUJ in launching the Guide for Journalists at its annual conference.
She said: "As the report says, poor people are actually the poverty experts. Viewing them as 'case studies' demeans people as human beings. They are living through welfare reform, through austerity, through poverty. They may be experiencing the bedroom tax, or be insecure work, they may have addictions or be homeless, or be in debt, or they may just be unlucky – something that can happen to any of us. In the course of writing around 150 columns, I have come to the conclusion bad luck is the most common denominator separating the lives of people in poverty from mine.
"Unfair and inaccurate reporting doesn't just damage lives, it damages all of us as journalists. That's why these poverty reporting guidelines are in my view such a breakthrough for our industry. It's why we need to take a stand."
It is hoped the guidelines will be used by NUJ members and the Guide for Reporting Poverty will be adopted by journalists and publications across the country. Plans are in place to take the campaign to Scotland and Ireland.
Jackie, Poverty Media Programme Coordinator at Church Action on Poverty, said: "Church Action on Poverty is delighted to be working in partnership with the NUJ to promote the guidelines. They're a great response to media reporting that stigmatises people living in poverty, in particular those in receipt of benefits, by using misleading information and negative stereotypes.
"We now need individual journalists, newspapers, broadcasters and online media companies to adopt the guidelines, and use them to report on poverty and related issues in a responsible and accurate way."


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Paul Walker has left his 25 million dollar fortune to his teenage daughter, according to reports.
According to Variety, court records of his will, filed at the end of January, show the estimated value of his estate and name Meadow, 15, as the sole beneficiary.
The Fast & Furious actor's father is named as the executor of the will, and his mother as Meadow's guardian until she reaches adulthood.
Paul's 25 million dollar (£15 million) estate is said to be made up of assets including his 10 million dollar home and personal property worth eight million dollars.
It will also keep drawing in money from the Fast & Furious franchise including the seventh instalment, which he had already started filming.
The 40-year-old actor died on November 30 in a car crash when the Porsche that he was travelling in hit a lamp post and tree in Los Angeles and burst into flames.
It was being driven by friend and financial advisor Roger Rodas and is thought to have been travelling at 100mph or more before it crashed.
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It is amazing to think that today, November 11 2008 represents the 90th anniversary of the end of 'the war to end all wars'.
Britain lost almost a million men during this war. A million sons. Think about that for a second when you are having a bad day because the fax machine is jammed.
For me, today is one of the most important days of the year. And I think it is testiment to this great country of ours, that with the passing of time, the shared emotion of rememberance seems to get stronger and stronger. As individuals, and as a nation we join together in remembering and thanking all those heros, not just in the First World War, but in the Second World War, The Falklands, Iraq, and all the other conflicts and battles. These guys lay down their lives for us so we can sleep peacefully at night, and for that I thank you.
The BBC as always have masses of information and ways of remembering. I urge you all to check out their webpages at http://www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance/
Also, the National Archives has made some of their fascinating audio records available through their 'voices of the armistice' project. These podcasts are free to listen to on their website, and includes a rendition of Haig's war diary from 11.11.18, an account of a gas attack in May 1915 and extracts of the personal diary of Private Pattenden of 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Fascinating stuff.
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them.
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Welcome to Creativity Guide
Brainstorm For Creativity Article
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Is It Possible That Creativity Can Be Learned!from: Jim Holden - Staff Writer
Many people say that creativity is a trait which only a selected few are born with, that it isn't something that can be taught, because like physical beauty, it is a gift or a privilege.
They would maintain that is something influenced by circumstances and other factors in someone's heritage, instead of something that could be introduced after a person is born. Therefore the conclusion of some is reached that creativity is not something that can be taught.
However there are different schools of thought in this matter, especially as the world advances and we begin to see many people start to develop their creative faculties, and begin to excel only later in life. It is usually the case that these people have not shown any sign of much creativity in their earlier days.
Those proponents of the idea that creativity is something that can be taught and learned, assert that a person's environment or their orientation and background, are the factors which are responsible for enhancing or diminishing one's creativity
On the other hand advocates of the traditional idea that creativity is inherited, say that those factors such as orientation and a person's environment, are merely tools to enhance creativity, and that their presence would amount to nothing if there was no creativity to hone in to in the first place.
This issue has long been the topic of debate among many scientific and social experts all over the world and some people say that perhaps the differences lie in the fact that creativity is an all too general concept. This can therefore encompass a variety of ideas and occurrences that people have varying definitions for, and so what might be an indication of creativity for one, may not be so for another.
Within this article however, for the sake of uniformity we will be tackling the idea of creativity as being a factor of imagination and innovation.
If creativity is genuinely a component of innovation therefore, then perhaps it is actually something that could be taught and learned in schools and also at home. This is because it is seen both as an ability to adapt to changes and also to adjust to them as necessary.
When we were born, although we would have been equipped with rational faculties, none of these would have been of any use to us, had we not been taught how to use them properly. Therefore while we were born with certain traits that might make us creative, they would be of no benefit to us if no form of education or teaching had been given in the process of their development.
At birth we were unaware of what the future held for us, so because of this lack of knowledge about future occurences, all our parents and schools could do was to teach us to be resilient, and how to think for ourselves. In order to have the ability to make unique decisions when the need arose, we were not taught early on how to specifically respond to changes, but we were taught how to be creative and innovative amid behavioral and environment shifts.
So that having been said, perhaps creativity can actually be taught after all.
Today's trend of using standardized tests to determine a person's creativity is not only very innacurate, but actually very limiting and stifling. This is because nobody can really measure how creative a person can be, because this faculty only surfaces when particular situations arise, and because incidents do not happen to everyone, creativity is difficult to measure. In the light of this therefore, who is to say who is creative and who is not!
So the argument on whether creativity can or cannot be taught is a bottomless pit. For some education has been successful, while for others, education is seen as merely a tool.
However whichever way you choose to see it, you should appreciate that you were born human and given the ability to understand and engage in such debates. They can go on forever,and may not even eventually find a consensus, but ironically that is exactly where your creativity comes in, namely in your response to the issue and your decision on how to deal with it.
Confusing isn't it, but then life itself is very often confusing.


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Lightning Release (雷遁, Raiton, English TV: Lightning Style) is one of the five basic elemental nature transformation techniques that allows the user to generate lightning by increasing the high frequency vibrations of their chakra, allowing for piercing damage and fast movement. The electricity paralyses the target so that they are unable to move and leaves them vulnerable to a finishing strike.[1][2][3][4][5] While uncommon, lightning can be infused into bladed weapons in a way similar to Wind Release through chakra flow for increased piercing power through vibrations, with the added effect of inducing numbness.[6][7][8] When the technique is released from their bodies, and thus not requiring physical contact, it does not move as fast as true lightning. Instead, due to the control the user has to exert over it, it moves far slower, which can give opponents time to still react.[9][10] Lightning Release is common to the ninja of Kumogakure.
Relationship with other Natures
- Lightning is strong against earth, because it can easily travel through and break the ground apart. However, it is weak against wind because it is a natural electrical insulator. At the same time, lightning can potentially surpass the penetrative force of wind by increasing the former's vibration frequency high enough.
- Lightning also has a unique relation with water, since water conducts electricity. This means that a Water Release technique can be used to increase the damage of a Lightning Release technique and vice versa.[11] Though this also means that if one's opponent still has a physical connection with the water, either a pre-existing source or one created with their own chakra, then they can be paralysed via their own technique.
- Lightning is much more powerful when it utilises natural lightning;[12] a powerful Fire Release technique shot into the sky can produce thunderclouds in preparation for this.[13]
- Lightning-natured chakra is a component of the Storm Release and Explosion Release kekkei genkai.
- The Third Raikage utilised Black Lightning, and taught it to Darui.[14]
- In the anime it was stated that Limelight is considered to be the most powerful and destructive of all Lightning Release techniques.[15]
- Under the influence of Six Paths Chakra, Lightning Release techniques undergo a change in colour, becoming black instead of light blue, as seen with Sasuke's Chidori or Kakashi's Kamui Raikiri.
See Also
- ↑ Naruto chapter 422, pages 15-16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 308, pages 4-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 308, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 412, pages 14-15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 463, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 411, pages 16-17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 470, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 473, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 334, pages 15-16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 384, pages 10-11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 461, page 2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 391, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 391, pages 3-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 526, page 3
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 66
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This morning while Topaz and I were heading out to the trail I had something in mind, in addition to snowshoeing for a few hours. As the boys will be gone next Saturday day into Sunday, I wanted to scope out a prospect for a 50 mile run next week. I was hoping to find someplace to run through the Refuge where I wouldn't have to run upon snowshoes for 9 hours.
We ran our regular loop for 8 miles and then ventured off to a deer trail that was pretty slick with ice. Lots of ice. My snowshoes weren't gripping very well, it was cold, 3F and I just wanted to see some gravel. I looked at my Refuge map and figured we should eventually come to a non maintained gravel fire road. Sure enough, a few more miles of ice and I could see the gravel road. Woohoo! What a sight for 'tired of snowshoeing every day' eyes. I ditched my snowshoes at the side of the path and ran upon the gravel, whooping it up, scaring the bejeezus out of Topaz as I screeched with glee. Look, no snowshoes! I'm running..fast..I can feel it in my hamstrings..nice! It was wonderful.
The map tells me this gravel road is 25 miles in length. It eventually ends at the bank of the St Francis River which meanders all throughout the area. Perfect for next weeks 50 mile run.
I put my snowshoes back on and we hit a trail I hadn't been on before that was covered with snow, no ice. A few more miles back to the Blue Hill Trail, back to the ice and back to the car.
Next week I'll try the gravel road sans snowshoes. Of course if we have ice and snow before then I can take screws to the shoes and run 50 miles of road into Big Lake, around town and home. Ack.


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Federal antitrust enforcers have been looking into Google this year on two issues: how the company arranges its search results, and its use of standards-based patents as ammunition in the sprawling smartphone wars.
Just two months ago, it looked like there was going to be action before the end of the year on the search fairness issue. Today, the ground has shifted. It looks like the Federal Trade Commission has almost reached a deal with Google over the patent issue, and the FTC may leave action over search results to European regulators, according to a report in Politico.
The big question is whether Google will be able to use such patents to get an injunction that could kick competitors' products off the market. In a case involving Google-owned Motorola, a federal judge has already ruled standards-based patents—which involve a promise to license on a "reasonable" basis—can't be used to win injunctions. Other bodies, including the International Trade Commission, are also considering how to deal with standards-based patents.
In two recent cases, a majority of FTC commissioners found using standards-based patents to ask for injunctions or outsized royalty payments could be considered unfairly anti-competitive.
Google and its handset-maker allies want to use standards-based patents to file patent counter-suits against Microsoft and Apple, which have tended to use non-standards-based patents to go after Android. If judges and government agencies continue to find Google's practice problematic, it could seriously weaken Google's position in patent battles against its competitors.


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Robert Wittman on Civil Rights
Opponent's Argument for voting No (The Week; Huffington Post, and The Atlantic): House Republicans had objected to provisions in the Senate bill that extended VAWA's protections to lesbians, gays, immigrants, and Native Americans. For example, Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) voted against the VAWA bill because it was a "politically–motivated, constitutionally-dubious Senate version bent on dividing women into categories by race, transgender politics and sexual preference." The objections can be grouped in two broadly ideological areas--that the law is an unnecessary overreach by the federal government, and that it represents a "feminist" attack on family values. The act's grants have encouraged states to implement "mandatory-arrest" policies, under which police responding to domestic-violence calls are required to make an arrest. These policies were intended to combat the too-common situation in which a victim is intimidated into recanting an abuse accusation. Critics also say VAWA has been subject to waste, fraud, and abuse because of insufficient oversight.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission by the Congress:<
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.
Related bills: H.J.RES.22, H.J.RES.74, H.J.RES.89
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission by the Congress:
Article--'The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.'
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