Woke early morning, showered... Had some meds and then was all up in the sky... Being sick is awful!!! When you see bloggers in real life, it's kinda like you feel like you know them but don't really, weird. She was busy so, I decided that I shouldn't really bother her. I did buy some really cute earrings [posted on my craft blog]... Had no time to talk or anything like that... I guess because I may have had a cold and was all drugged out from the meds... oh well, still like my ear rings they're beautiful... Wanted to ask how they were made but I was just not feeling myself and just gave my money smiled and walked away... Having a cold was not my plan this weekend. I was looking forward to this bazaar today for a long time. BFG was kinda laughing at me for the bad karma I was having... Oh well...
Went to the SS, met w/ acc. then went to Chinatown to get some bake goods... Came home ate some and then started to have a soar throat and headache... Took some pills, NeoCitran and plenty of fluids... 38.5C, a small fever... watched 'Ghost Whisperer' and then went off to bed...
Happy only by watching TV maybe?= Unhappy People Watch Lots More TV
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
Unhappy people glue themselves to the television 30 percent more than happy people.
The finding, announced on Thursday, comes from a survey of nearly 30,000 American adults conducted between 1975 and 2006 as part of the General Social Survey.
While happy people reported watching an average of 19 hours of television per week, unhappy people reported 25 hours a week. The results held even after taking into account education, income, age and marital status.
In addition, happy individuals were more socially active, attended more religious services, voted more and read a newspaper more often than their less-chipper counterparts.
The researchers are not sure, though, whether unhappiness leads to more television-watching or more viewing leads to unhappiness.
In fact, people say they like watching television: Past research has shown that when people watch television they enjoy it. In these studies, participants reported that on a scale from 0 (dislike) to 10 (greatly enjoy), TV-watching was nearly an 8.
But perhaps the high from watching television doesn't last.
"These conflicting data suggest that TV may provide viewers with short-run pleasure, but at the expense of long-term malaise," said researcher John Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In this scenario, even the happiest campers could turn into Debbie-downers if they continue to stare at the boob-tube. The researchers suggest that over time, television-viewing could push out other activities that do have more lasting benefits. Exercise and sex come to mind, as do parties and other forms of socialization known to have psychological benefits.
Or, maybe television is simply a refuge for people who are already unhappy.
"TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it," Robinson and UM colleague Steven Martin write in the December issue of the journal Social Indicators Research.
They add, "Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV."
The researchers say follow-up studies are needed to tease out the relationship between television and happiness.
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google [creative labs places emphasis on consumers needs]
by Simon Canning
THE newly named strategic planning director of Google's Creative Lab in New York says the web giant will place greater emphasis on consumers' needs rather then simply inventing things and throwing them into the market in the future.
Stuart Smith, a former planning director at advertising agency Wieden and Kennedy in London who worked on brands such as Nike and Honda, joined Google's recently formed advertising division two months ago and is now working on ideas to expand the brand.
Smith, who was in Sydney last week to meet local agency planning directors, says Google remains driven by engineers but there has to be a shift in the development process, which will be led by the Creative Labs group.
"What typically happens is it is just a load of engineers producing a load of things and then refining until it finds an audience," Smith says. "What they have never really done is to look at audiences and understand audiences and say 'perhaps there is a need over here -- let's meet that need'.
"Now I think they have seen an opportunity to come at it from an audience perspective and that is part of what any planners' job is -- to understand audiences."
He says the challenge is Google's wide variety of audiences, from consumers through to the advertising industry.
He admits that within the advertising industry there has been trepidation about the creation of Google Creative Labs. Some wondered if it would put agencies out of business by taking over their role.
But Smith says the Lab's role is to promote Google and its products, bringing advertising clients with them along the way.
"Our jurisdiction is to come up with ideas to promote the Google brand -- initiatives, projects, ideas, whatever it may be to help people stay in love with the Google brand," he says.
At the same time, he believes Creative Labs will bring a new level of creativity to the Google brand. "Google is an incredibly metrics-based organisation -- everything has to be measured, everything has to have a number against it. Our section, we are hoping, will have a bit more creative freedom to create things on a whim. The creative process isn't quite as quantifiable as the rest of the Google business."
The creation of the Labs division and the hiring of a planner whose career has been in the advertising industry represents a learning curve for Google, Smith believes.
"It's an interesting question," Smith says.
"I think there might be a healthy tension between those two perspectives.
"You have got creative people who don't necessarily like to be evaluated in quite that particular fashion and then an organization that has always done that and been very successful at it.
"Particularly going into a recession, it is going to be very interesting because we are going to have to justify our actions."
Smith expects many of the ideas to come out of Creative Labs to be driven by altruism.
Project 10/100, for example, aims to come up with ideas that help the most people in a single action, and the Vote Hour asked CEOs to give people time off to vote in the recent US election.
Smith believes the division will play an important role in communicating the positive elements of Google while acknowledging that some parts of the community harbour concerns about its scale and influence.
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Woman Addicted to Surgery Injects Oil Into Her Face
Hang Mioku, who had her first plastic surgery at the age of 28, is a cosmetic surgery addict who has let her obsession with surgeries ruin her life.
After her first plastic surgery, her addiction led her to Japan where she received additional operations on her face, which eventually became enlarged and deformed.
Eventually the surgeons she was visiting told her that they would no longer perform operations on her and suggested she seek help for her addiction.
Upon, returning home to Korea, Mioku was so deformed that her own family could no longer recognize her.
After searching for someone who would perform more surgeries on here, she found a local Korean doctor who provided her with silicone, which she would self inject into her face with a needle.
Mioku was so addicted to plastic surgery, she would even inject cooking oil into her face when the silicone supply ran out.
Recently, Mioku was featured on a Korean TV show for her addiction and deformities. Many viewers sent in money to help her get additional surgeries to help reduce the size of her face.
Having seen the error in her decisions, Mioku only wishes she could go back and have her original face back.
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Public release date: 17-Nov-2008
Contact: Dr. Mark Huebener - mark@neuro.mpg.de - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Forgotten but not gone -- how the brain takes care of things
Thanks to our ability to learn and to remember, we can perform tasks that other living things can not even dream of. However, we are only just beginning to get the gist of what really goes on in the brain when it learns or forgets something. What we do know is that changes in the contacts between nerve cells play an important role. But can these structural changes account for that well-known phenomenon that it is much easier to re-learn something that was forgotten than to learn something completely new? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have been able to show that new cell contacts established during a learning process stay put, even when they are no longer required. The reactivation of this temporarily inactivated "stock of contacts" enables a faster learning of things forgotten. (Nature, November 12, 2008).
While an insect still flings itself against the window-pane after dozens of unsuccessful attempts to gain its freedom, our brain is able to learn very complex associations and sequences of movement. This not only helps us to avoid accidents like walking into glass doors, but also enables us to acquire such diverse skills as riding a bicycle, skiing, speaking different languages or playing an instrument. Although a young brain learns more easily, we retain our ability to learn up to an advanced age. For a long time, scientists have been trying to ascertain exactly what happens in the brain while we learn or forget.
Flexible connections
To learn something, in other words, to successfully process new information, nerve cells make new connections with each other. When faced with an unprecedented piece of information, for which no processing pathway yet exists, filigree appendages begin to grow from the activated nerve cell towards its neighbors. Whenever a special point of contact, called synapse, forms at the end of the appendage, information can be transferred from one cell to the next - and new information is learned. Once the contact breaks down, we forget what we have learned.
The subtle difference between learning and relearning
Although learning and memory were recently shown to be linked to the changes in brain structure mentioned above, many questions still remain unanswered. What happens, for example, when the brain learns something, forgets it after a while and then has to learn it again later? By way of example, we know from experience that, once we have learned to ride a bicycle, we can easily pick it up again, even if we haven't practiced for years. In other cases too, "relearning" tends to be easier than starting "from scratch". Does this subtle difference also have its origins in the structure of the nerve cells?
Cell appendages abide the saying "a bird in the hand …"
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have now managed to show that there are indeed considerable differences in the number of new cell contacts made - depending on whether a piece of information is new or is being learned second time around. Nerve cells that process visual information, for instance, produced a considerably higher number of new cell contacts if the flow of information from their "own" eye was temporarily blocked. After approximately five days, the nerve cells had rearranged themselves so as to receive and process information from the other eye - the brain had resigned itself to having only one eye at its disposal. Once information flowed freely again from the eye that had been temporarily closed, the nerve cells resumed their original function and now more or less ignored signals from the alternative eye.
"What surprised us most, however, was that the majority of the appendages which developed in response to the information blockade, continued to exist, despite the fact that the blockade was abolished ", project leader Mark Hübener explains. Everything seems to point to the fact that synapses are only disabled, but not physically removed. "Since an experience that has been made may occur again at a later point in time, the brain apparently opts to save a few appendages for a rainy day", Hübener continues. And true enough, when the same eye was later inactivated again, the nerve cells reorganized themselves much more quickly - because they could make use of the appendages that had stayed in place.
[Store room for future learning: nerve cells retain many of their newly created connections and if necessary, inactivate only transmission of the information. This makes relearning easier.]
Useful reactivation
Many of the appendages that develop between nerve cells are thus maintained and facilitate later relearning. This insight is crucial to our understanding of the fundamental processes of learning and memory. And so, even after many years of abstinence, it should be no great problem if we want to have a go at skiing again this winter.
Original work:
Sonja B. Hofer, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Mark Hübener
Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits.
Nature, November 12, 2008
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mothers force to make grim decision which child lives or dies [poverty]
(CNN) -- Some mothers choose what their children will eat. Others choose which children will eat and which will die.
A food riot erupts in Haiti. Food scarcity is now hitting more affluent countries, experts say.
A Haitian boy begs for food. One child dies from hunger every six seconds, an aid agency says.
Those mothers forced to make the grim life-or-death choices are the impoverished women Patricia Wolff, executive director of Meds & Food for Kids, encounters during her frequent trips to Haiti.
Wolff says Haitians are so desperate for food that many mothers wait to name their newborns because so many infants die of malnourishment. Other Haitian mothers keep their children alive by parceling out food to them, but some make an excruciating choice when their food rationing fails, she says.
"It's horrible. They have to choose among their children," says Wolff, whose nonprofit group was formed to fight childhood malnutrition. "They try to keep them alive by feeding them, but sometimes they make the decision that this one has to go."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies." Four decades later, King's wish remains unfulfilled. The global food market's shelves are getting bare, hunger activists say -- and it will get worse.
Food riots erupted across the globe this year in countries such as Egypt and India. Food pantries in the United States also warned that they were running out of food because of unprecedented demand. The news from the World Food Programme is even grimmer: A child dies of hunger every six seconds, and hunger now kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
As World Hunger Relief Week is marked, more people are asking: Why are so many people starving and what, if anything, can be done to eradicate hunger?
The end of food?
Wolff thinks hunger can be conquered. Her group produces "Medika Mamba," energy dense, peanut butter food that's designed to ensure Haitian children survive childhood. Medika Mamba is easy to make, store, preserve and distribute, she says.
"It just takes the will to do it," she says of eliminating hunger. "Look at what we did for Wall Street. We didn't have enough money for infrastructure, schools, but all of a sudden, we had all of this money for Wall Street."
Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System," says the right to food should be seen as a human right. But, he says, powerful corporate food distributors control too much of the world's food supply to ensure a robust global food supply.
Patel says "2008 was a record year in terms of harvest. There's more food per person in 2008 than there's ever been in history. The problem is not food, but how we distribute it."
Other causes for the rise in global hunger have been documented. They include:
• Surging oil costs have made it more expensive to harvest, fertilize, store and deliver food.
• The rise in droughts and hurricanes worldwide has wiped out crops and made farming more difficult.
• The world is running out of the raw materials -- water, oil, good farmland -- needed to keep the food system intact.
"A lot of people have begun to understand at various levels that the food system, as it is, can't go on," says Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Food."
Every time an American bites down on a steak or hamburger, they're contributing to global hunger, Roberts says. As other countries become more affluent, they're copying our meat-heavy diet. The problem: It takes so much grain and other resources to produce meat, he says.
"If the rest of the world were to eat like we do, the planet would collapse," Roberts says. "There's been this unspoken assumption that the rest of the world won't eat meat like we do. That doesn't go over well in countries like China."
Fixing our food system would be similar to weaning ourselves of our addiction to oil, Roberts says. It's going to require innovation, heavy business involvement and changes in public policy.
People are going to have to find ways to grow food with less fertilizer and water, and use less energy to store and transport food, he says.
Much of this innovation will have to be driven not just by activist and aid workers, but by savvy business people, he says.
"It's going to have to be profitable or the market won't be interested in it," Roberts says. "And if the market isn't interested in it, it's not going to happen."
In the meantime, Wolff offers some of her own solutions. She says the practice of big foreign aid agencies shipping in food to poor countries like Haiti needs to be modified. Food has become too expensive to produce, ship and store, she says.
"You can't count on big aid agencies showing up to save everybody," she says. "Not everybody can do it, and when they do it, it's not soon enough and not long enough."
She suggests that more groups teach local farmers in poor places how to produce their own crops. In Haiti, for example, her group employs 22 Haitians who make Medika Mamba and teaches other farmers how to grow crops for the mixture.
"Instead of throwing fish in the crowd, we should be teaching people how to fish," she says.
Until that day takes place, Wolff, who is a pediatrician in St. Louis, Missouri, will continue to make her trips to Haiti, where mothers are forced to make their grim choices.
"It's the most difficult thing I've ever done," she says. "You realize how absolutely blessed you are by the fate of your soul coming down the chute in the United States of America," she says. "You wonder: Why did this happen to me and not to them?'
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Primary Physicians in the US would love to change their profession too overwhelmed with the red tape from insurance companies and government agencies
By Val Willingham - CNN Medical Producer
(CNN) -- Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
Experts say if many physicians stop practicing, it could be devastating to the health care industry.
Experts say if many physicians stop practicing, it could be devastating to the health care industry.
The survey, released this week by the Physicians' Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find the reasons for an identified exodus among family doctors and internists, widely known as the backbone of the health industry.
A U.S. shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2025 was predicted at last week's American Medical Association annual meeting.
In the survey, the foundation sent questionnaires to more than 270,000 primary care doctors and more than 50,000 specialists nationwide.
Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they'd consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there's too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.
And if that many physicians stopped practicing, that could be devastating to the health care industry. Video Dr. Gupta: Watch more on the looming doctor dearth »
"We couldn't survive that," says Dr. Walker Ray, vice president of the Physicians Foundation. "We are only producing in this country a thousand to two thousand primary doctors to replace them. Medical students are not choosing primary care."
Dr. Alan Pocinki has been practicing medicine for 17 years. He began his career around the same time insurance companies were turning to the PPO and HMO models. So he was a little shocked when he began spending more time on paperwork than patients and found he was running a small business, instead of a practice. He says it's frustrating.
"I had no business training, as far as how to run a business, or how to evaluate different plans," Pocinki says. "It was a whole brave new world and I had to sort of learn on the fly."
To manage their daily work schedules, many survey respondents reported making changes. With lower reimbursement from insurance companies and the cost of malpractice insurance skyrocketing, these health professionals say it's not worth running a practice and are changing careers. Others say they're going into so-called boutique medicine, in which they charge patients a yearly fee up front and don't take insurance.
And some like Pocinki are limiting the type of insurance they'll take and the number of patients on Medicare and Medicaid. According to the foundation's report, over a third of those surveyed have closed their practices to Medicaid patients and 12 percent have closed their practices to Medicare patients That can leave a lot of patients looking for a doctor.
And as Ray mentioned, med school students are shying away from family medicine. In a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in September, only 2 percent of current medical students plan to take up primary care. That's because these students are wary of the same complaints that are causing existing doctors to flee primary care: hectic clinics, burdensome paperwork and systems that do a poor job of managing patients with chronic illness.
So what to do? Physicians don't have a lot of answers. But doctors say it's time to make some changes, not only in the health care field but also with the insurance industry. And they're looking to the new administration for guidance.
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One of President-elect Barack Obama's health care promises is to provide a primary care physician for every American. But some health experts, including Pocinki, are skeptical.
"People who have insurance can't find a doctor, so suddenly we are going to give insurance to a whole bunch of people who haven't had it, without increasing the number of physicians?" he says. "It's going to be a problem."
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Woman wakes up during surgery
By Ninemsn Staff
A Northern Territory woman has endured a nightmare operation at Alice Springs Hospital after she became conscious during stomach surgery but remained paralyzed by the unaesthetic.
Rebecca Jones, 24, told the Northern Territory News she could feel every cut of the surgeon's knife during the operation last month but was unable to scream for help as the anaesthesia had paralysed her.
Ms Jones, who was being operated on for gallstones, said she could not open her eyes but could hear and feel everything.
"I thought the doctors had woken me up because the surgery was over — I quickly realized that was not the case," she was quoted by the Northern Territory News as saying.
Ms Jones realized her predicament when she took a breath and found she couldn’t move, but eventually moved her hand to get the attention of surgery staff — to no avail.
"(Someone) said, 'she's just moved her hand' but they kept going," she said.
The hospital's general manager Vicki Taylor admitted to the NT News that Ms Jones had been awake during the operation but denied medical staff knew of her pain.
Ms Jones is now considering legal action against the hospital.
THESE ARTICLES ARE NOT IN ANYWAY WRITTEN BY ME...
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
Unhappy people glue themselves to the television 30 percent more than happy people.
The finding, announced on Thursday, comes from a survey of nearly 30,000 American adults conducted between 1975 and 2006 as part of the General Social Survey.
While happy people reported watching an average of 19 hours of television per week, unhappy people reported 25 hours a week. The results held even after taking into account education, income, age and marital status.
In addition, happy individuals were more socially active, attended more religious services, voted more and read a newspaper more often than their less-chipper counterparts.
The researchers are not sure, though, whether unhappiness leads to more television-watching or more viewing leads to unhappiness.
In fact, people say they like watching television: Past research has shown that when people watch television they enjoy it. In these studies, participants reported that on a scale from 0 (dislike) to 10 (greatly enjoy), TV-watching was nearly an 8.
But perhaps the high from watching television doesn't last.
"These conflicting data suggest that TV may provide viewers with short-run pleasure, but at the expense of long-term malaise," said researcher John Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In this scenario, even the happiest campers could turn into Debbie-downers if they continue to stare at the boob-tube. The researchers suggest that over time, television-viewing could push out other activities that do have more lasting benefits. Exercise and sex come to mind, as do parties and other forms of socialization known to have psychological benefits.
Or, maybe television is simply a refuge for people who are already unhappy.
"TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it," Robinson and UM colleague Steven Martin write in the December issue of the journal Social Indicators Research.
They add, "Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV."
The researchers say follow-up studies are needed to tease out the relationship between television and happiness.
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google [creative labs places emphasis on consumers needs]
by Simon Canning
THE newly named strategic planning director of Google's Creative Lab in New York says the web giant will place greater emphasis on consumers' needs rather then simply inventing things and throwing them into the market in the future.
Stuart Smith, a former planning director at advertising agency Wieden and Kennedy in London who worked on brands such as Nike and Honda, joined Google's recently formed advertising division two months ago and is now working on ideas to expand the brand.
Smith, who was in Sydney last week to meet local agency planning directors, says Google remains driven by engineers but there has to be a shift in the development process, which will be led by the Creative Labs group.
"What typically happens is it is just a load of engineers producing a load of things and then refining until it finds an audience," Smith says. "What they have never really done is to look at audiences and understand audiences and say 'perhaps there is a need over here -- let's meet that need'.
"Now I think they have seen an opportunity to come at it from an audience perspective and that is part of what any planners' job is -- to understand audiences."
He says the challenge is Google's wide variety of audiences, from consumers through to the advertising industry.
He admits that within the advertising industry there has been trepidation about the creation of Google Creative Labs. Some wondered if it would put agencies out of business by taking over their role.
But Smith says the Lab's role is to promote Google and its products, bringing advertising clients with them along the way.
"Our jurisdiction is to come up with ideas to promote the Google brand -- initiatives, projects, ideas, whatever it may be to help people stay in love with the Google brand," he says.
At the same time, he believes Creative Labs will bring a new level of creativity to the Google brand. "Google is an incredibly metrics-based organisation -- everything has to be measured, everything has to have a number against it. Our section, we are hoping, will have a bit more creative freedom to create things on a whim. The creative process isn't quite as quantifiable as the rest of the Google business."
The creation of the Labs division and the hiring of a planner whose career has been in the advertising industry represents a learning curve for Google, Smith believes.
"It's an interesting question," Smith says.
"I think there might be a healthy tension between those two perspectives.
"You have got creative people who don't necessarily like to be evaluated in quite that particular fashion and then an organization that has always done that and been very successful at it.
"Particularly going into a recession, it is going to be very interesting because we are going to have to justify our actions."
Smith expects many of the ideas to come out of Creative Labs to be driven by altruism.
Project 10/100, for example, aims to come up with ideas that help the most people in a single action, and the Vote Hour asked CEOs to give people time off to vote in the recent US election.
Smith believes the division will play an important role in communicating the positive elements of Google while acknowledging that some parts of the community harbour concerns about its scale and influence.
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Woman Addicted to Surgery Injects Oil Into Her Face
Hang Mioku, who had her first plastic surgery at the age of 28, is a cosmetic surgery addict who has let her obsession with surgeries ruin her life.
After her first plastic surgery, her addiction led her to Japan where she received additional operations on her face, which eventually became enlarged and deformed.
Eventually the surgeons she was visiting told her that they would no longer perform operations on her and suggested she seek help for her addiction.
Upon, returning home to Korea, Mioku was so deformed that her own family could no longer recognize her.
After searching for someone who would perform more surgeries on here, she found a local Korean doctor who provided her with silicone, which she would self inject into her face with a needle.
Mioku was so addicted to plastic surgery, she would even inject cooking oil into her face when the silicone supply ran out.
Recently, Mioku was featured on a Korean TV show for her addiction and deformities. Many viewers sent in money to help her get additional surgeries to help reduce the size of her face.
Having seen the error in her decisions, Mioku only wishes she could go back and have her original face back.
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Public release date: 17-Nov-2008
Contact: Dr. Mark Huebener - mark@neuro.mpg.de - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Forgotten but not gone -- how the brain takes care of things
Thanks to our ability to learn and to remember, we can perform tasks that other living things can not even dream of. However, we are only just beginning to get the gist of what really goes on in the brain when it learns or forgets something. What we do know is that changes in the contacts between nerve cells play an important role. But can these structural changes account for that well-known phenomenon that it is much easier to re-learn something that was forgotten than to learn something completely new? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have been able to show that new cell contacts established during a learning process stay put, even when they are no longer required. The reactivation of this temporarily inactivated "stock of contacts" enables a faster learning of things forgotten. (Nature, November 12, 2008).
While an insect still flings itself against the window-pane after dozens of unsuccessful attempts to gain its freedom, our brain is able to learn very complex associations and sequences of movement. This not only helps us to avoid accidents like walking into glass doors, but also enables us to acquire such diverse skills as riding a bicycle, skiing, speaking different languages or playing an instrument. Although a young brain learns more easily, we retain our ability to learn up to an advanced age. For a long time, scientists have been trying to ascertain exactly what happens in the brain while we learn or forget.
Flexible connections
To learn something, in other words, to successfully process new information, nerve cells make new connections with each other. When faced with an unprecedented piece of information, for which no processing pathway yet exists, filigree appendages begin to grow from the activated nerve cell towards its neighbors. Whenever a special point of contact, called synapse, forms at the end of the appendage, information can be transferred from one cell to the next - and new information is learned. Once the contact breaks down, we forget what we have learned.
The subtle difference between learning and relearning
Although learning and memory were recently shown to be linked to the changes in brain structure mentioned above, many questions still remain unanswered. What happens, for example, when the brain learns something, forgets it after a while and then has to learn it again later? By way of example, we know from experience that, once we have learned to ride a bicycle, we can easily pick it up again, even if we haven't practiced for years. In other cases too, "relearning" tends to be easier than starting "from scratch". Does this subtle difference also have its origins in the structure of the nerve cells?
Cell appendages abide the saying "a bird in the hand …"
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have now managed to show that there are indeed considerable differences in the number of new cell contacts made - depending on whether a piece of information is new or is being learned second time around. Nerve cells that process visual information, for instance, produced a considerably higher number of new cell contacts if the flow of information from their "own" eye was temporarily blocked. After approximately five days, the nerve cells had rearranged themselves so as to receive and process information from the other eye - the brain had resigned itself to having only one eye at its disposal. Once information flowed freely again from the eye that had been temporarily closed, the nerve cells resumed their original function and now more or less ignored signals from the alternative eye.
"What surprised us most, however, was that the majority of the appendages which developed in response to the information blockade, continued to exist, despite the fact that the blockade was abolished ", project leader Mark Hübener explains. Everything seems to point to the fact that synapses are only disabled, but not physically removed. "Since an experience that has been made may occur again at a later point in time, the brain apparently opts to save a few appendages for a rainy day", Hübener continues. And true enough, when the same eye was later inactivated again, the nerve cells reorganized themselves much more quickly - because they could make use of the appendages that had stayed in place.
[Store room for future learning: nerve cells retain many of their newly created connections and if necessary, inactivate only transmission of the information. This makes relearning easier.]
Useful reactivation
Many of the appendages that develop between nerve cells are thus maintained and facilitate later relearning. This insight is crucial to our understanding of the fundamental processes of learning and memory. And so, even after many years of abstinence, it should be no great problem if we want to have a go at skiing again this winter.
Original work:
Sonja B. Hofer, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Mark Hübener
Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits.
Nature, November 12, 2008
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mothers force to make grim decision which child lives or dies [poverty]
(CNN) -- Some mothers choose what their children will eat. Others choose which children will eat and which will die.
A food riot erupts in Haiti. Food scarcity is now hitting more affluent countries, experts say.
A Haitian boy begs for food. One child dies from hunger every six seconds, an aid agency says.
Those mothers forced to make the grim life-or-death choices are the impoverished women Patricia Wolff, executive director of Meds & Food for Kids, encounters during her frequent trips to Haiti.
Wolff says Haitians are so desperate for food that many mothers wait to name their newborns because so many infants die of malnourishment. Other Haitian mothers keep their children alive by parceling out food to them, but some make an excruciating choice when their food rationing fails, she says.
"It's horrible. They have to choose among their children," says Wolff, whose nonprofit group was formed to fight childhood malnutrition. "They try to keep them alive by feeding them, but sometimes they make the decision that this one has to go."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies." Four decades later, King's wish remains unfulfilled. The global food market's shelves are getting bare, hunger activists say -- and it will get worse.
Food riots erupted across the globe this year in countries such as Egypt and India. Food pantries in the United States also warned that they were running out of food because of unprecedented demand. The news from the World Food Programme is even grimmer: A child dies of hunger every six seconds, and hunger now kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
As World Hunger Relief Week is marked, more people are asking: Why are so many people starving and what, if anything, can be done to eradicate hunger?
The end of food?
Wolff thinks hunger can be conquered. Her group produces "Medika Mamba," energy dense, peanut butter food that's designed to ensure Haitian children survive childhood. Medika Mamba is easy to make, store, preserve and distribute, she says.
"It just takes the will to do it," she says of eliminating hunger. "Look at what we did for Wall Street. We didn't have enough money for infrastructure, schools, but all of a sudden, we had all of this money for Wall Street."
Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System," says the right to food should be seen as a human right. But, he says, powerful corporate food distributors control too much of the world's food supply to ensure a robust global food supply.
Patel says "2008 was a record year in terms of harvest. There's more food per person in 2008 than there's ever been in history. The problem is not food, but how we distribute it."
Other causes for the rise in global hunger have been documented. They include:
• Surging oil costs have made it more expensive to harvest, fertilize, store and deliver food.
• The rise in droughts and hurricanes worldwide has wiped out crops and made farming more difficult.
• The world is running out of the raw materials -- water, oil, good farmland -- needed to keep the food system intact.
"A lot of people have begun to understand at various levels that the food system, as it is, can't go on," says Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Food."
Every time an American bites down on a steak or hamburger, they're contributing to global hunger, Roberts says. As other countries become more affluent, they're copying our meat-heavy diet. The problem: It takes so much grain and other resources to produce meat, he says.
"If the rest of the world were to eat like we do, the planet would collapse," Roberts says. "There's been this unspoken assumption that the rest of the world won't eat meat like we do. That doesn't go over well in countries like China."
Fixing our food system would be similar to weaning ourselves of our addiction to oil, Roberts says. It's going to require innovation, heavy business involvement and changes in public policy.
People are going to have to find ways to grow food with less fertilizer and water, and use less energy to store and transport food, he says.
Much of this innovation will have to be driven not just by activist and aid workers, but by savvy business people, he says.
"It's going to have to be profitable or the market won't be interested in it," Roberts says. "And if the market isn't interested in it, it's not going to happen."
In the meantime, Wolff offers some of her own solutions. She says the practice of big foreign aid agencies shipping in food to poor countries like Haiti needs to be modified. Food has become too expensive to produce, ship and store, she says.
"You can't count on big aid agencies showing up to save everybody," she says. "Not everybody can do it, and when they do it, it's not soon enough and not long enough."
She suggests that more groups teach local farmers in poor places how to produce their own crops. In Haiti, for example, her group employs 22 Haitians who make Medika Mamba and teaches other farmers how to grow crops for the mixture.
"Instead of throwing fish in the crowd, we should be teaching people how to fish," she says.
Until that day takes place, Wolff, who is a pediatrician in St. Louis, Missouri, will continue to make her trips to Haiti, where mothers are forced to make their grim choices.
"It's the most difficult thing I've ever done," she says. "You realize how absolutely blessed you are by the fate of your soul coming down the chute in the United States of America," she says. "You wonder: Why did this happen to me and not to them?'
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Primary Physicians in the US would love to change their profession too overwhelmed with the red tape from insurance companies and government agencies
By Val Willingham - CNN Medical Producer
(CNN) -- Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
Experts say if many physicians stop practicing, it could be devastating to the health care industry.
Experts say if many physicians stop practicing, it could be devastating to the health care industry.
The survey, released this week by the Physicians' Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find the reasons for an identified exodus among family doctors and internists, widely known as the backbone of the health industry.
A U.S. shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2025 was predicted at last week's American Medical Association annual meeting.
In the survey, the foundation sent questionnaires to more than 270,000 primary care doctors and more than 50,000 specialists nationwide.
Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they'd consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there's too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.
And if that many physicians stopped practicing, that could be devastating to the health care industry. Video Dr. Gupta: Watch more on the looming doctor dearth »
"We couldn't survive that," says Dr. Walker Ray, vice president of the Physicians Foundation. "We are only producing in this country a thousand to two thousand primary doctors to replace them. Medical students are not choosing primary care."
Dr. Alan Pocinki has been practicing medicine for 17 years. He began his career around the same time insurance companies were turning to the PPO and HMO models. So he was a little shocked when he began spending more time on paperwork than patients and found he was running a small business, instead of a practice. He says it's frustrating.
"I had no business training, as far as how to run a business, or how to evaluate different plans," Pocinki says. "It was a whole brave new world and I had to sort of learn on the fly."
To manage their daily work schedules, many survey respondents reported making changes. With lower reimbursement from insurance companies and the cost of malpractice insurance skyrocketing, these health professionals say it's not worth running a practice and are changing careers. Others say they're going into so-called boutique medicine, in which they charge patients a yearly fee up front and don't take insurance.
And some like Pocinki are limiting the type of insurance they'll take and the number of patients on Medicare and Medicaid. According to the foundation's report, over a third of those surveyed have closed their practices to Medicaid patients and 12 percent have closed their practices to Medicare patients That can leave a lot of patients looking for a doctor.
And as Ray mentioned, med school students are shying away from family medicine. In a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in September, only 2 percent of current medical students plan to take up primary care. That's because these students are wary of the same complaints that are causing existing doctors to flee primary care: hectic clinics, burdensome paperwork and systems that do a poor job of managing patients with chronic illness.
So what to do? Physicians don't have a lot of answers. But doctors say it's time to make some changes, not only in the health care field but also with the insurance industry. And they're looking to the new administration for guidance.
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One of President-elect Barack Obama's health care promises is to provide a primary care physician for every American. But some health experts, including Pocinki, are skeptical.
"People who have insurance can't find a doctor, so suddenly we are going to give insurance to a whole bunch of people who haven't had it, without increasing the number of physicians?" he says. "It's going to be a problem."
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Woman wakes up during surgery
By Ninemsn Staff
A Northern Territory woman has endured a nightmare operation at Alice Springs Hospital after she became conscious during stomach surgery but remained paralyzed by the unaesthetic.
Rebecca Jones, 24, told the Northern Territory News she could feel every cut of the surgeon's knife during the operation last month but was unable to scream for help as the anaesthesia had paralysed her.
Ms Jones, who was being operated on for gallstones, said she could not open her eyes but could hear and feel everything.
"I thought the doctors had woken me up because the surgery was over — I quickly realized that was not the case," she was quoted by the Northern Territory News as saying.
Ms Jones realized her predicament when she took a breath and found she couldn’t move, but eventually moved her hand to get the attention of surgery staff — to no avail.
"(Someone) said, 'she's just moved her hand' but they kept going," she said.
The hospital's general manager Vicki Taylor admitted to the NT News that Ms Jones had been awake during the operation but denied medical staff knew of her pain.
Ms Jones is now considering legal action against the hospital.
THESE ARTICLES ARE NOT IN ANYWAY WRITTEN BY ME...
Yamagata restaurant featured on Chef Abroad with Michael Smith.
Christine Cushing Live, was watching early morning and she was making traditional Greek foods... One thing that got my eyes was dolmades [googled it].
Christine Cushing Live, was watching early morning and she was making traditional Greek foods... One thing that got my eyes was dolmades [googled it].
Skinny models are a 'turn off' in advertising, claim scientists
It has been a golden rule of advertising from its inception - thin models sell more products to women. The only trouble is, it is not true, claims new research.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Researchers have found that skinny models are actually a turn off to consumers in TV commercials and other advertising.
They found that images of super-thin models carry no edge in encouraging young women to buy and for the majority of adult women ads showing skinny girls actually discouraged sales.
So-called plus-size models, on the other hand, actually encouraged them to buy.
In the study psychologist Phillippa Diedrichs, of the University of Queensland, Australia, created a series of ads for underwear, shampoo and a party dress.
Each ad was made twice, once using a skinny size eight model and another featuring a size 12 woman.
When the ads were shown to 400 young women, they produced no difference in the likelihood for them to buy.
However, when women aged between 18 and 25 saw the adverts they felt better - and more likely to buy - after viewing the images of the larger models.
Miss Diedrichs said: "For anything to change, research has to be convincing, not just to government and health researchers, but also to people in advertising who actually make the decisions.
"Often people make the argument that thinness sells, and that's why they use slim models.
"But we can change the images we see and still sell products but also make people feel better about themselves."
The Unilever soap brand Dove has based its image on a campaign using "real women" and highlighting how much imagery in advertising is manipulated.
But critics point out that the same firm uses more traditional imagery to promote other brands, such as Lynx deodorant, which features skinny models.
There have been concerted campaigns against the ultra-thin "size zero" with fashion weeks in Madrid and Milan banning models from the catwalk who were of a weight deemed unhealthy by the Body Mass Index measure.
Article is not in anyway written by me... Its originally from: www.telegraph.co.uk
It has been a golden rule of advertising from its inception - thin models sell more products to women. The only trouble is, it is not true, claims new research.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Researchers have found that skinny models are actually a turn off to consumers in TV commercials and other advertising.
They found that images of super-thin models carry no edge in encouraging young women to buy and for the majority of adult women ads showing skinny girls actually discouraged sales.
So-called plus-size models, on the other hand, actually encouraged them to buy.
In the study psychologist Phillippa Diedrichs, of the University of Queensland, Australia, created a series of ads for underwear, shampoo and a party dress.
Each ad was made twice, once using a skinny size eight model and another featuring a size 12 woman.
When the ads were shown to 400 young women, they produced no difference in the likelihood for them to buy.
However, when women aged between 18 and 25 saw the adverts they felt better - and more likely to buy - after viewing the images of the larger models.
Miss Diedrichs said: "For anything to change, research has to be convincing, not just to government and health researchers, but also to people in advertising who actually make the decisions.
"Often people make the argument that thinness sells, and that's why they use slim models.
"But we can change the images we see and still sell products but also make people feel better about themselves."
The Unilever soap brand Dove has based its image on a campaign using "real women" and highlighting how much imagery in advertising is manipulated.
But critics point out that the same firm uses more traditional imagery to promote other brands, such as Lynx deodorant, which features skinny models.
There have been concerted campaigns against the ultra-thin "size zero" with fashion weeks in Madrid and Milan banning models from the catwalk who were of a weight deemed unhealthy by the Body Mass Index measure.
Article is not in anyway written by me... Its originally from: www.telegraph.co.uk
We Used To Recycle Everything; What Happened?
Throughout history, since the dawn of man, we have been a recycling people. We reused anything and everything multiple times before discarding of it - if there was anything left at all. When we were lucky enough to get our hands on something useful, we were careful with it so as to make it last as long as possible. Hunters used every part of an animal. Houses were made from any scrap material that could be rounded up, as it was easier than building one from scratch. Children played with the same toys their entire childhood. Things were cherished - nothing was thrown away unless it was absolutely destroyed. No one bought the “new” version of something before the “old” version was used up. How times have certainly changed…
Now we throw everything away - and most of it still works! We replace perfectly fine household electronics because ours is not the “new” kind, we buy new cell phones every few months, we only keep cars for a few years (which I have certainly been guilty of!), and we are sold so many single-use items that I don’t even know if anyone knows how to use a washable mop/sponge/diaper anymore. We buy cheap clothing by the bundle and it only lasts a few months before it is either out of style or torn to shreds. Products are bought, used for a short time, and thrown away. Most everything we buy cannot be recycled, so it ends up in an overcrowded landfill that we then bury or burn, contributing to the decline in the quality of our environment. It’s a never-ended cycle that seems to get worse by the year - I am hopeful that so many people taking a newly found interest in the green movement that we can reverse the trend before we take it too far.
There are still some smaller industries and companies who do their best to recycle and reuse everything. Take a small farm for example - the farmers grow crops, which feed both them and their animals. The animals digest their food, leaving behind animal poop that is can be used as compost to regrow more crops, which feed more animals…you get the picture. And even better than that, some farmers are using the animal waste to actually make electricity and reusable water - an Alberta farm is the future site of IMUS, which is a new technology that will turn manure into a source of electricity, heat, fertilizer and reusable water – all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts. And companies like Patagonia (who I buy my fleeces from) and Act2 turn old plastic bottles (and their own old garments) into clothing and consumer goods. This is very good progress, and every day more and more companies are seeing the benefits of recycling and going green, both for the environment and their bottom line!
We used to be a nation (and world, for that matter) of recyclers, but it has become to easy to just “buy a new one” because the “one” we have is out of style or has a little wear and tear. I think we need to encourage more of us to go back to the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra that we have followed since the beginning of time - even if we didn’t know it then. There is no way we can continue to buy and throw away at the rate that we are - all that stuff has to go somewhere. (Want to know where? Check out the book “Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash” which is a staple on my bookshelf.) Let’s start building quality products again so when we buy something we know it will last a very long time, and let’s start reusing what we already have access to. Enough with the single-use plastic crap that every store is full of - let’s bring back quality goods!
Article is not in anyway written by me... Its originally from: www.thegoodhuman.com
Throughout history, since the dawn of man, we have been a recycling people. We reused anything and everything multiple times before discarding of it - if there was anything left at all. When we were lucky enough to get our hands on something useful, we were careful with it so as to make it last as long as possible. Hunters used every part of an animal. Houses were made from any scrap material that could be rounded up, as it was easier than building one from scratch. Children played with the same toys their entire childhood. Things were cherished - nothing was thrown away unless it was absolutely destroyed. No one bought the “new” version of something before the “old” version was used up. How times have certainly changed…
Now we throw everything away - and most of it still works! We replace perfectly fine household electronics because ours is not the “new” kind, we buy new cell phones every few months, we only keep cars for a few years (which I have certainly been guilty of!), and we are sold so many single-use items that I don’t even know if anyone knows how to use a washable mop/sponge/diaper anymore. We buy cheap clothing by the bundle and it only lasts a few months before it is either out of style or torn to shreds. Products are bought, used for a short time, and thrown away. Most everything we buy cannot be recycled, so it ends up in an overcrowded landfill that we then bury or burn, contributing to the decline in the quality of our environment. It’s a never-ended cycle that seems to get worse by the year - I am hopeful that so many people taking a newly found interest in the green movement that we can reverse the trend before we take it too far.
There are still some smaller industries and companies who do their best to recycle and reuse everything. Take a small farm for example - the farmers grow crops, which feed both them and their animals. The animals digest their food, leaving behind animal poop that is can be used as compost to regrow more crops, which feed more animals…you get the picture. And even better than that, some farmers are using the animal waste to actually make electricity and reusable water - an Alberta farm is the future site of IMUS, which is a new technology that will turn manure into a source of electricity, heat, fertilizer and reusable water – all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts. And companies like Patagonia (who I buy my fleeces from) and Act2 turn old plastic bottles (and their own old garments) into clothing and consumer goods. This is very good progress, and every day more and more companies are seeing the benefits of recycling and going green, both for the environment and their bottom line!
We used to be a nation (and world, for that matter) of recyclers, but it has become to easy to just “buy a new one” because the “one” we have is out of style or has a little wear and tear. I think we need to encourage more of us to go back to the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra that we have followed since the beginning of time - even if we didn’t know it then. There is no way we can continue to buy and throw away at the rate that we are - all that stuff has to go somewhere. (Want to know where? Check out the book “Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash” which is a staple on my bookshelf.) Let’s start building quality products again so when we buy something we know it will last a very long time, and let’s start reusing what we already have access to. Enough with the single-use plastic crap that every store is full of - let’s bring back quality goods!
Article is not in anyway written by me... Its originally from: www.thegoodhuman.com
This article was on yahoo. I found it interesting and wanted to keep it on my blog... :) I didn't write any of this...
Global recession fears deepen after lackluster G20
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan became the latest major country to fall into recession Monday as global economic fears deepened after a Washington summit offered markets scant hope for action to contain the damage, analysts said.
Markets showed little initial enthusiasm for a vague pledge on Saturday from Group of 20 leaders to join forces to galvanize growth and overhaul the world's financial architecture. The G20 , grouping developed and developing countries, stopped short of announcing specific steps such as coordinated stimulus spending. "In the midst of an emergency crisis, to have a statement that reads 'We will cooperate with each another' is all but meaningless," said Daisuke Uno, chief strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
"Market sentiment has soured and with all eyes back on the theme of global recession," he said. Major European stock exchanges fell at the opening of trade, following a mixed performance in Asia, but later pared their losses. The yen strengthened as risk-averse investors, despite news of a Japanese recession, sought shelter in what they saw as a safe currency. In London the FTSE 100 index was down 0.11 percent at mid-morning while Paris had edged up 0.34 percent and Frankfurt 0.18 percent.
Stocks closed down 2.5 percent in Sydney and 0.9 percent in Seoul, while Hong Kong was 0.4 percent lower in late trade. Tokyo managed to eke out a gain of 0.7 percent as investors hunted for bargains.
Chinese share prices closed with a gain of 2.22 percent, led by airlines following reports that two of the nation's biggest carriers could get government aid, dealers said. The dollar fell to 96.91 yen in Tokyo afternoon trade, down from 97.06 in New York late Friday. The euro dropped to 1.2567 dollars from 1.2591 and to 121.77 yen from 122.24.
"The economic spillover of the financial crisis has increased and there is uncertainty about when conditions will stop getting worse," said Saburo Matsumoto, chief forex strategist at Sumitomo Trust Bank. "Equities are struggling to rise and traders are reluctant to buy the dollar, euro and other currencies, pushing up the yen," he said.
There was no let-up in the flow of bad economic news. Official data showed Japan, the world's second largest economy, contracted 0.1 percent in the third quarter, following Germany, Italy and Ireland into recession. "This is not going to be a short or painless recession," warned Noriko Hama, a professor and economist at Doshisha University.
The last time Japan was in recession -- usually defined as two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction -- was in 2001 after the Internet bubble burst. The Bank of France predicted Monday that the French economy was likely to contract by 0.5 percent in the last quarter of the year, leaving growth for the year at just 0.9 percent.
France narrowly escaped recession with growth of 0.1 percent in the third quarter after its economy shrank 0.3 percent in the second. US president-elect Barack Obama, who did not attend the weekend G20 gathering, vowed to make fighting a looming recession a top priority, notably with fresh stimulus spending and help for the auto industry. He said there was a common understanding that "we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again."
"And that we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after. That short term, the most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession," he told the CBS television network in an interview. The parlous state of the US auto industry was also threatening car manufacturers elsewhere. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to hold crisis talks with executives at car maker Opel, which has said it needs state guarantees for its bank loans as its US parent company, General Motors, struggles to stave off bankruptcy. But German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck ruled out a financial rescue package for the auto sector.
"An economic program for the entire automobile industry makes no sense," Steinbrueck told the mass-circulation daily Bild, stressing that the state is "not responsible for errors committed by industrialists."
The head of the International Monetary Fund meanwhile told the BBC on Monday that the IMF, which offers credits to cash-strapped countries that agree to strict reforms, would likely need an extra 100 billion dollars to meet appeals for help over the next six months.
"The number of countries having problems at the same time has dramatically increased and they come to the IMF asking for support," IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.
another Article that I found interesting: Global crisis shows teeth with mass Citigroup cuts
Global recession fears deepen after lackluster G20
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan became the latest major country to fall into recession Monday as global economic fears deepened after a Washington summit offered markets scant hope for action to contain the damage, analysts said.
Markets showed little initial enthusiasm for a vague pledge on Saturday from Group of 20 leaders to join forces to galvanize growth and overhaul the world's financial architecture. The G20 , grouping developed and developing countries, stopped short of announcing specific steps such as coordinated stimulus spending. "In the midst of an emergency crisis, to have a statement that reads 'We will cooperate with each another' is all but meaningless," said Daisuke Uno, chief strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
"Market sentiment has soured and with all eyes back on the theme of global recession," he said. Major European stock exchanges fell at the opening of trade, following a mixed performance in Asia, but later pared their losses. The yen strengthened as risk-averse investors, despite news of a Japanese recession, sought shelter in what they saw as a safe currency. In London the FTSE 100 index was down 0.11 percent at mid-morning while Paris had edged up 0.34 percent and Frankfurt 0.18 percent.
Stocks closed down 2.5 percent in Sydney and 0.9 percent in Seoul, while Hong Kong was 0.4 percent lower in late trade. Tokyo managed to eke out a gain of 0.7 percent as investors hunted for bargains.
Chinese share prices closed with a gain of 2.22 percent, led by airlines following reports that two of the nation's biggest carriers could get government aid, dealers said. The dollar fell to 96.91 yen in Tokyo afternoon trade, down from 97.06 in New York late Friday. The euro dropped to 1.2567 dollars from 1.2591 and to 121.77 yen from 122.24.
"The economic spillover of the financial crisis has increased and there is uncertainty about when conditions will stop getting worse," said Saburo Matsumoto, chief forex strategist at Sumitomo Trust Bank. "Equities are struggling to rise and traders are reluctant to buy the dollar, euro and other currencies, pushing up the yen," he said.
There was no let-up in the flow of bad economic news. Official data showed Japan, the world's second largest economy, contracted 0.1 percent in the third quarter, following Germany, Italy and Ireland into recession. "This is not going to be a short or painless recession," warned Noriko Hama, a professor and economist at Doshisha University.
The last time Japan was in recession -- usually defined as two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction -- was in 2001 after the Internet bubble burst. The Bank of France predicted Monday that the French economy was likely to contract by 0.5 percent in the last quarter of the year, leaving growth for the year at just 0.9 percent.
France narrowly escaped recession with growth of 0.1 percent in the third quarter after its economy shrank 0.3 percent in the second. US president-elect Barack Obama, who did not attend the weekend G20 gathering, vowed to make fighting a looming recession a top priority, notably with fresh stimulus spending and help for the auto industry. He said there was a common understanding that "we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again."
"And that we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after. That short term, the most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession," he told the CBS television network in an interview. The parlous state of the US auto industry was also threatening car manufacturers elsewhere. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to hold crisis talks with executives at car maker Opel, which has said it needs state guarantees for its bank loans as its US parent company, General Motors, struggles to stave off bankruptcy. But German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck ruled out a financial rescue package for the auto sector.
"An economic program for the entire automobile industry makes no sense," Steinbrueck told the mass-circulation daily Bild, stressing that the state is "not responsible for errors committed by industrialists."
The head of the International Monetary Fund meanwhile told the BBC on Monday that the IMF, which offers credits to cash-strapped countries that agree to strict reforms, would likely need an extra 100 billion dollars to meet appeals for help over the next six months.
"The number of countries having problems at the same time has dramatically increased and they come to the IMF asking for support," IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.
another Article that I found interesting: Global crisis shows teeth with mass Citigroup cuts
Rie Fu - あなたがここにいる理由 (Anata ga Koko ni Iru Riyuu)
[Rondo] 輪廻-ロンド- ON/OFF
吸血鬼騎士第二季
Anime - D.Gray-Man 5th ending.
Vampire Knight 9 English Subs [1/3]
Article - Stream your movies, music and photos using a video game console
[Rondo] 輪廻-ロンド- ON/OFF
吸血鬼騎士第二季
Anime - D.Gray-Man 5th ending.
Vampire Knight 9 English Subs [1/3]
Article - Stream your movies, music and photos using a video game console
Watching youtube:
This video made me cry "Voice Of Heaven by Zia (English Subbed) Part 1"... Well many Korean music videos make me cry... But this one was more close to my heart then others... Zia's songs are great! :) Although she remains a mystery, not showing her face but actress Kim Ok Bin represents her on the videos and covers... I want to get this album 'Voice Of Heaven 지아 싱글.'
Kibum kissing a girl in Chunja's Happy Events (Eng. Sub), want to see this drama "Happy Events at Chunja's" (tentative title), the sequel to "Ah Hyung Dong Madam"... wonder where... still looking... Deals with how the main character, Yeon Bun-hong, is betrayed by a man and becomes an unmarried mother. She and her mother lives together, bravely walking through life's difficult struggles.
AndreasChoice - had info on
3 types of flat irons: chrome ceramic tourmaline
Revlon deep waver
Hot Tools Helix Adjustawave Deep Waver
Vidal Sassoon tourmaline and ceramic waver
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Jennifer F Mapp
703-269-5155
CIBU-Love
CIBU Int.
CIBU17 Channel
AUBREYCIBU - CIBUTUBE 10% off/ orders over $30 [Mom bought and recieved, not that good still using my Pantene]
For make up at CoastalScents, wonder if they're any good but want to get some mica powders and containers for my crafts.
RIT dye - dye you can buy at grocery store.
Information on a cam we got for the niece but she didn't want so will probably keep for now. Jazz video camera info.
Chatelaine article: How to break up with a friend. I have had the worst female friendships.... I don't really have any... They have all betrayed me some how but not completely jaded yet. I have had some blog girlfriends [I consider them] which are fabulous and to this day still have contact with... :) I don't have to name them cuz they know who they are... :)
This video made me cry "Voice Of Heaven by Zia (English Subbed) Part 1"... Well many Korean music videos make me cry... But this one was more close to my heart then others... Zia's songs are great! :) Although she remains a mystery, not showing her face but actress Kim Ok Bin represents her on the videos and covers... I want to get this album 'Voice Of Heaven 지아 싱글.'
Kibum kissing a girl in Chunja's Happy Events (Eng. Sub), want to see this drama "Happy Events at Chunja's" (tentative title), the sequel to "Ah Hyung Dong Madam"... wonder where... still looking... Deals with how the main character, Yeon Bun-hong, is betrayed by a man and becomes an unmarried mother. She and her mother lives together, bravely walking through life's difficult struggles.
AndreasChoice - had info on
3 types of flat irons: chrome ceramic tourmaline
Revlon deep waver
Hot Tools Helix Adjustawave Deep Waver
Vidal Sassoon tourmaline and ceramic waver
----
Jennifer F Mapp
703-269-5155
CIBU-Love
CIBU Int.
CIBU17 Channel
AUBREYCIBU - CIBUTUBE 10% off/ orders over $30 [Mom bought and recieved, not that good still using my Pantene]
For make up at CoastalScents, wonder if they're any good but want to get some mica powders and containers for my crafts.
RIT dye - dye you can buy at grocery store.
Information on a cam we got for the niece but she didn't want so will probably keep for now. Jazz video camera info.
Chatelaine article: How to break up with a friend. I have had the worst female friendships.... I don't really have any... They have all betrayed me some how but not completely jaded yet. I have had some blog girlfriends [I consider them] which are fabulous and to this day still have contact with... :) I don't have to name them cuz they know who they are... :)
i been feeling sick the past few weeks. been neglecting my health a bit. need to take care. when spending too much time on the net i get sick. crap no more long hrs reading. haven't catched up too nothing. too freaken sick!
even doing this post takes me a while.
even doing this post takes me a while.
woke at 5 am... fed kitties and did some cleaning... BFG woke... decided to go and buy the 129$ vid cam for the 14yr old niece... when also to the grocery store and got some creamer [french vanilla n butterscotch], choco McCain cake, baguette, 3 concentrated lemonade and 2 lean cuisines [cheese ravioli, my fave!!!]/2 stouffers, meatloaf n mash potatoes, bfg's fave... heee...
Last night we went to get fresh baked bagels, the best in the world! Had that for breakfast this morning! We should have gone this morning to get them and had them really fresh...
spend most of the day on the net... a little tv once in a while but mostly spend it watching crafty vids... ooohh, should mention that I did a new blog for just my crafts... heee... I still need to put it up on my side bar... Have the all cutzie site but haven't updated in a while, since July... managing more then one is a bit much. Thinking that maybe I should just put all of it in one... Except for the really personal stuff... :)
oooh, did I mention that I spend like 5hrs taking a nap... woke up and started the utubing... heee...
Wanting to make some of the stuff I saw but I have my own stuff i want to try, too... I'll post that on my crafty blog... then started to watch the make-up vidz... want to try this CIBU which is like totally in VA! Sweeeeeett... They have the cutest bag for drinks!! Jennifer Mapp has her utube channel cibu17 which is really good... tried to buy but my pc is totally screwed up... so I couldn't hopefully I can get the 36$ w/ 10 rebate... :) I'll try to see how I can get my hands on it... Need to get my hands on some R.I.T which you can get at a grocery store, apparently, well that's what cibu17 said... Has to go on my list, that keeps getting longer instead of shorter!
Need to put all the crap I came upon while utubing! still tired... going to bed... dude, its like almost 3am... ok time for bed...
Last night we went to get fresh baked bagels, the best in the world! Had that for breakfast this morning! We should have gone this morning to get them and had them really fresh...
spend most of the day on the net... a little tv once in a while but mostly spend it watching crafty vids... ooohh, should mention that I did a new blog for just my crafts... heee... I still need to put it up on my side bar... Have the all cutzie site but haven't updated in a while, since July... managing more then one is a bit much. Thinking that maybe I should just put all of it in one... Except for the really personal stuff... :)
oooh, did I mention that I spend like 5hrs taking a nap... woke up and started the utubing... heee...
Wanting to make some of the stuff I saw but I have my own stuff i want to try, too... I'll post that on my crafty blog... then started to watch the make-up vidz... want to try this CIBU which is like totally in VA! Sweeeeeett... They have the cutest bag for drinks!! Jennifer Mapp has her utube channel cibu17 which is really good... tried to buy but my pc is totally screwed up... so I couldn't hopefully I can get the 36$ w/ 10 rebate... :) I'll try to see how I can get my hands on it... Need to get my hands on some R.I.T which you can get at a grocery store, apparently, well that's what cibu17 said... Has to go on my list, that keeps getting longer instead of shorter!
Need to put all the crap I came upon while utubing! still tired... going to bed... dude, its like almost 3am... ok time for bed...
LOVE... this song WOMAN by John Lennon! :) the love of a man for his soulmate! :)
Woman I can hardly express,
My mixed emotion at my thoughtlessness,
After all I'm forever in your debt,
And woman I will try express,
My inner feelings and thankfullness,
For showing me the meaning of succsess,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,
Woman I know you understand
The little child inside the man,
Please remember my life is in your hands,
And woman hold me close to your heart,
However, distant don't keep us apart,
After all it is written in the stars,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,
Woman please let me explain,
I never mean(t) to cause you sorrow or pain,
So let me tell you again and again and again,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
This song makes me cry... tears flow down... I can clearly hear the sound of love coming through this song! :~(
Woman I can hardly express,
My mixed emotion at my thoughtlessness,
After all I'm forever in your debt,
And woman I will try express,
My inner feelings and thankfullness,
For showing me the meaning of succsess,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,
Woman I know you understand
The little child inside the man,
Please remember my life is in your hands,
And woman hold me close to your heart,
However, distant don't keep us apart,
After all it is written in the stars,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,
Woman please let me explain,
I never mean(t) to cause you sorrow or pain,
So let me tell you again and again and again,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
This song makes me cry... tears flow down... I can clearly hear the sound of love coming through this song! :~(
Every time I listen to the Beach Boys it always reminds me of my childhood in Cali!!! Though it was in the 80s... Still, the Beach Boys remind me of the beach and surfing! Damn, the waves... aaahh, the sunset on a Friday at Santa Monica Pier. That was the best!
The Hollies 'Bus Stop.' Reminds me of my mom and those afternoons when we use to hang out in the patio... Thinking of all the lovely afternoons... The music coming from the living room! :) aahh, being a kid again... :) remembering those good times that will never come back.
"Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same
Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella"
John Lennon... Instant Karma!
"Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together darlin',
Join the human race,
How in the world you gonna see,
Laughin' at fools like me,
Who on earth d'you think you are,
A super star,
Well, right you are.
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Well we all shine on,
Ev'ryone come on.
Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you off your feet,
Better recognize your brothers,
Ev'ryone you meet,
Why in the world are we here,
Surely not to live in pain and fear,
Why on earth are you there,
When you're ev'rywhere,
Come and get your share. "
When I was a teenager I went to see Imagine... I cried so much... The sadness but the love was there between them.
The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"
I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air
aah Cali, I miss those times... :(
The Hollies 'Bus Stop.' Reminds me of my mom and those afternoons when we use to hang out in the patio... Thinking of all the lovely afternoons... The music coming from the living room! :) aahh, being a kid again... :) remembering those good times that will never come back.
"Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same
Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella"
John Lennon... Instant Karma!
"Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together darlin',
Join the human race,
How in the world you gonna see,
Laughin' at fools like me,
Who on earth d'you think you are,
A super star,
Well, right you are.
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Well we all shine on,
Ev'ryone come on.
Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you off your feet,
Better recognize your brothers,
Ev'ryone you meet,
Why in the world are we here,
Surely not to live in pain and fear,
Why on earth are you there,
When you're ev'rywhere,
Come and get your share. "
When I was a teenager I went to see Imagine... I cried so much... The sadness but the love was there between them.
The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"
I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air
aah Cali, I miss those times... :(
The 2008 film Changeling [with Angelina Jolie] based loosely on the Wineville Chicken Murders. 11/1/30 Wineville's name was changed to Mira Loma due to the high publicity of the murders but there's an avenue, park, road and other references to remind them of what it was called before. A very interesting story...
when buying a engagement/wedding ring contact your home insurance company:
p-a-f
"mysterious disappearance"
coverage is world wide
p-a-f
"mysterious disappearance"
coverage is world wide
Short movies:
go kill yourself
do not bend
Please to meet you
last stop for miles
miranda and gordon [this tugged at my heart and made me cry]
cartoon "by the rapids" [Kahnawake] created by Joseph (Dega) Lazare. Esther Sky his mom! Mohawk.
about: A comic animation in which a Mohawk city boy is shown the ropes on the reservation of Kahnawake.
By the Rapids
(2005, 4 min.) CANADA
Director: Joseph (Dega) Lazare (Mohawk)
Produced by: Big Soul Productions
Joseph (Dega) Lazare (Mohawk) is an animator and director of short films who has been making movies since he was thirteen. In 2008 his animated short By the Rapids was selected by Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Television Network to be developed as a half-hour series for their fall season. He has interned at Big Soul Productions, the Native youth media organization in Toronto which produced Might of the Starchaser, an official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Lazare participated in CyberPowWow 2004, an interactive visual art exhibition, web-hosted by Oboro Gallery of Montreal. In 2001 and 2002 Lazare won the Best Poster award at the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival. Lazare lives in his hometown of Kahnawake, Quebec, where he designs Mohawk-language textbooks for schoolchildren.
"I began shooting film through Teioiaks, a program that helps kids make movies, kind of like a film summer camp. I got a great response and decided this is what I want to do. I intend to keep on making movies that tell great stories while keeping my unique artistic vision."
others:
watch: Good Looking
site: Good Looking
Comedy, 20:00 minutes, English, QC, 2007
Synopsis
A struggling and quirky young actor finally lands a role. Unfortunately, it’s as a bimbo in a zombie film. Now she must decide what’s more important: getting the part or maintaining her self-respect.
Creative team
Director/director: Joseph Lazare
Producer: Laura J. Milliken
Personal statement
Director Joseph Lazare says:
"Good Looking was the first production I did that had a craft truck! What was also great was that this is the first film where I wrote about the struggles of a female protagonist. Most of my films are about Mohawk guys saving the planet from aliens.
I was inspired to create Good Looking after hearing all of the crazy audition horror stories my actor friends would tell me. I dedicate this film to any Native actor who had to go beyond their limits just to see their face on screen."
go kill yourself
do not bend
Please to meet you
last stop for miles
miranda and gordon [this tugged at my heart and made me cry]
cartoon "by the rapids" [Kahnawake] created by Joseph (Dega) Lazare. Esther Sky his mom! Mohawk.
about: A comic animation in which a Mohawk city boy is shown the ropes on the reservation of Kahnawake.
By the Rapids
(2005, 4 min.) CANADA
Director: Joseph (Dega) Lazare (Mohawk)
Produced by: Big Soul Productions
Joseph (Dega) Lazare (Mohawk) is an animator and director of short films who has been making movies since he was thirteen. In 2008 his animated short By the Rapids was selected by Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Television Network to be developed as a half-hour series for their fall season. He has interned at Big Soul Productions, the Native youth media organization in Toronto which produced Might of the Starchaser, an official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Lazare participated in CyberPowWow 2004, an interactive visual art exhibition, web-hosted by Oboro Gallery of Montreal. In 2001 and 2002 Lazare won the Best Poster award at the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival. Lazare lives in his hometown of Kahnawake, Quebec, where he designs Mohawk-language textbooks for schoolchildren.
"I began shooting film through Teioiaks, a program that helps kids make movies, kind of like a film summer camp. I got a great response and decided this is what I want to do. I intend to keep on making movies that tell great stories while keeping my unique artistic vision."
others:
watch: Good Looking
site: Good Looking
Comedy, 20:00 minutes, English, QC, 2007
Synopsis
A struggling and quirky young actor finally lands a role. Unfortunately, it’s as a bimbo in a zombie film. Now she must decide what’s more important: getting the part or maintaining her self-respect.
Creative team
Director/director: Joseph Lazare
Producer: Laura J. Milliken
Personal statement
Director Joseph Lazare says:
"Good Looking was the first production I did that had a craft truck! What was also great was that this is the first film where I wrote about the struggles of a female protagonist. Most of my films are about Mohawk guys saving the planet from aliens.
I was inspired to create Good Looking after hearing all of the crazy audition horror stories my actor friends would tell me. I dedicate this film to any Native actor who had to go beyond their limits just to see their face on screen."
8pm watched wipe out... hee... Tamara Pickering totally funny "shouldn't have had that taco... oooaaaahhh- groan" heee... [re-run]
Mom and I watched it by phone... :)
prime time: medical mysteries [10:20pm]
Proteus syndrome - named after a god that could be able to change form
Joseph Merrin/c - elephant man
not hereditary
the lens on cbsnw:
wakeupwalrmart.com [10:24pm]
Chris Kofinis [originally from Kingston, on]
Lee Scott
[10:26pm]
not everyone has fingerprints... some people don't have... have to prove who thery are constantly.
Cheryl Manners[flight attendant] cannot sweat, no fingerprints.
hair, nails, cannot sweat, no fingerprints.
rare...
only family in the world but then kaylon/p [11yrs] has is too but his teeth are pointy. inherited from mother. not related had a similar condition then Cheryl but his hair and teeth were effected. he has another mutation of that gene. there are over 100 syndromes [mutations]. in-utero at 11wks forms print start to form
dpr syndrome inherited mother side [female side]...
[10:33] back to cbswn
Al Norman - started 1993sept 3, we are against the WALL. greenfield, won [by a small margin] not to have a walmart in a small town... the go to guy to fight walmart.
Ben Bennet, [4/28/05] - his town Guelph, On, walmart coming but its been on going for 8yrs fight... beside a religious retreat house [Jesuits]: father James... Ben and the Jesuits are suing walmart... Court rejects...
12thousand, anti-walmart...
[10:43pm - 10:50pm] Incredible creative compulsion... ideas pop in all over the place. Dr Flarety, Microgarphia came about [tragic death of premature twin boys]. wrote a book: the midnight disease.
Tommy Mccue, stroke, left side neglect... John Sarton... Strokes created lesions in the brain... full of ideas in a creative ways...
[10:48pm] TMZ totally freaken' funny... Britney looking more sane... Akon hits woman on stage apparently by mistake... singing really bad by Greg [70s singer]... Shak sings really bad, too... m.Rouke at the film festival...
In QC there was a walmart closed due to union activity! you know they want to take over the world with their stores and make you a drone. they want your money for their vacations, buying their brats a new nose or just fucking their money!
Mom and I watched it by phone... :)
prime time: medical mysteries [10:20pm]
Proteus syndrome - named after a god that could be able to change form
Joseph Merrin/c - elephant man
not hereditary
the lens on cbsnw:
wakeupwalrmart.com [10:24pm]
Chris Kofinis [originally from Kingston, on]
Lee Scott
[10:26pm]
not everyone has fingerprints... some people don't have... have to prove who thery are constantly.
Cheryl Manners[flight attendant] cannot sweat, no fingerprints.
hair, nails, cannot sweat, no fingerprints.
rare...
only family in the world but then kaylon/p [11yrs] has is too but his teeth are pointy. inherited from mother. not related had a similar condition then Cheryl but his hair and teeth were effected. he has another mutation of that gene. there are over 100 syndromes [mutations]. in-utero at 11wks forms print start to form
dpr syndrome inherited mother side [female side]...
[10:33] back to cbswn
Al Norman - started 1993sept 3, we are against the WALL. greenfield, won [by a small margin] not to have a walmart in a small town... the go to guy to fight walmart.
Ben Bennet, [4/28/05] - his town Guelph, On, walmart coming but its been on going for 8yrs fight... beside a religious retreat house [Jesuits]: father James... Ben and the Jesuits are suing walmart... Court rejects...
12thousand, anti-walmart...
[10:43pm - 10:50pm] Incredible creative compulsion... ideas pop in all over the place. Dr Flarety, Microgarphia came about [tragic death of premature twin boys]. wrote a book: the midnight disease.
Tommy Mccue, stroke, left side neglect... John Sarton... Strokes created lesions in the brain... full of ideas in a creative ways...
[10:48pm] TMZ totally freaken' funny... Britney looking more sane... Akon hits woman on stage apparently by mistake... singing really bad by Greg [70s singer]... Shak sings really bad, too... m.Rouke at the film festival...
In QC there was a walmart closed due to union activity! you know they want to take over the world with their stores and make you a drone. they want your money for their vacations, buying their brats a new nose or just fucking their money!
Concordia is going green, reduce foodtprint... compost machine!
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Automatic Kitchen Compost Machine
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all about lawn stuff - http://www.scottscanada.ca/
recycling mower - mulching mower
tips on mulching mowers and grasscycling
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YouTube - Turbo Compost Magma Mulcher Machine
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http://www.thepigsite.com/directory/2/north-america/15/equipment-drinking/2804/brome-agrisales-ltd
Brome Agri-Sales Ltd [Agri-Ventes Brome Ltée.]
2389, 202 Road, Dunham, Quebec J0E 1M0
362, rue de la Rivière, Cowansville, QC J2K 1N3
Tel: 450-266-5323
Automatic Kitchen Compost Machine
http://www.earthmachine.com/
all about lawn stuff - http://www.scottscanada.ca/
recycling mower - mulching mower
tips on mulching mowers and grasscycling
http://www.saskwastereduction.ca/composting/grasscycling_tips.htm
YouTube - Turbo Compost Magma Mulcher Machine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0QMnU6VwA4
