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THE history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict's garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42954-emma-goldmanTHE history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the... more
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Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/04/youth-optimism-historic-low-poll_n_857750.html
NEW YORK -- Noelle Aldrich never planned on moving back in with her parents after graduating from college.
Aldrich will graduate from Oklahoma Baptist University next Friday. Once the ceremony is over and her mother and sister board a plane home to Claremont, N.H., she and her father will make the return trip by car, with all of her belongings nestled in the backseat.
Aldrich, 21, considers herself to be a consummate planner. Possibly more unnerving than anything else, she says, is the lack of knowing what comes next.
“It’s going to take me years to ever make what my dad makes now,” said Aldrich, who wants to work as an elementary school teacher, but has yet to find a job. “Eventually I hope I’ll get there.”
Aldrich is hardly the only 20-something questioning whether or not she’ll be able to build a better life than her parents. For nearly three decades, pollsters have been asking, Will today’s youth have a better life than their parents’ generation?
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"What good can we do?" Was the question that started it all, and at 3 AM on a drifting boat in Boston Harbor, three best friends came up with their answer: Road Trip!!
Love, The Bus was born - A mission to find and fund the worthiest youth causes of America. But the three know they can't do it alone, so they're trying to get as many people involved along the way as possible.
Through advancements in mobile technology and social media trends, the trip is crowd sourcing ideas; of where to go, who to help, and what to do during the adventure.
The three are accepting challenges from viewers (their version of a marathon run for charity) and as they complete them, they fund youth & community driven organizations, all suggested by their viewers.
It's a story about following dreams, and giving back through creativity and modern means. They are discovering just what three guys and a bus can do to help others, and they need you to get involved to add spontaneity, adventure, and hilarity to their trip, while raising your suggestions of America's best youth causes.
An intro to their project can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEfDF4_JfdQ&feature=related
Their website, with all other information, as well as updates of the adventure is:
www.lovethebus.tv"What good can we do?" Was the question that started it all, and at 3 AM on... more
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Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. Thus, instead of avoiding the purchase of products from one bad company only to support another, we avoid buying anything to the greatest degree we are able.
Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42951-freegan-Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has... more
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After hours of snowmobiling, I had become tired and my hands were sweaty from struggling with the heavy machine. It was at that moment as the temperature continued to plummit that my mittens stayed frozen on the throttle on the handlebars as I raced, flat out towards the wall.
Read my story:
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Snowmobile-IncidentAfter hours of snowmobiling, I had become tired and my hands were sweaty from... more
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The Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness
is pleased to invite you to the
second and final Global Assembly of the Open Forum
, which will take place in Siem
Reap, Cambodia, on the 28th, 29th and the 30th of June 2011, facilitated
by the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC).
The second Global Assembly of the Open Forum will bring together over
200 CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) and other stakeholders from
across the globe to finalize the contents of the International Framework
for CSO Development Effectiveness
- the synthesis of over 80 country consultations involving some 3000
CSOs on what development effectiveness means for us collectively.
The first landmark Global Assembly of the Open Forum in Istanbul
,
September 2010, laid the foundation for the International Framework by
adopting the eight guiding Principles of CSO Development Effectiveness
, now widely
referred to by the international CSO community in their development
work.
The second Global Assembly aims to finalize the Framework as a
consolidated CSO statement on the road to the Fourth High Level Forum onThe Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness
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DAMN this video evokes a lot of different emotions.
The music is by EU (Everything Under), a group that undoubtedly pushes the limits and dont give a damn. This video reflects to all of us how music videos nowadays are lame and gear sex, women, foul language to society and our kids! but they mask it and saturate it to hell. This is just simply slaps you on the face. You gotta give it to them. The artwork is from the Couto Brothers, two brothers who do extreme colorful art together and use historical and political awareness tied into it. This collaboration between these two groups of artists is something to definitely watch.
This video is INTENSE >!!!WARNING!!!<
www.liveinherforever.com
www.coutoart.comDAMN this video evokes a lot of different emotions.
The music is by EU (Everything... more
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Are you someone that wants to make a positive difference in this world?
Are you an activist? An environmentalist? Do you stand for justice, freedom, peace and self sufficiency?
You can open and lead the Legion of the town you live/reside, grab the name if it is available or join an existing one.
Connect and communicate with thousands, millions of people that live in your town!
We are just starting this in the United States of America but this is open to the whole World! No matter where you live, open the Legion of your town or join it.
To all that have been complaining and asking what to do to truly make a positive difference, to change America and the world, I continue to say: With no unity, there is no change.
There isn't much time left, here is one of the most powerful opportunities to network, to create the change that we wish, "change" that this time comes from the PEOPLE!
http://organiclegion.org/legions.htm
We are coming to take back our Freedom, to stop the exploitation of people and our planet.
Thank you.Are you someone that wants to make a positive difference in this world?
Are you an... more
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When I'm involved in a conflict between people, or just a discussion with a overly passionate person, I quickly start checking the quality of their claims; first I begin to evaluate the measures they are using. Most uncomfortable moments in life are directly attributed to inappropriate quantification of things. A teaser to illustrate an image in your mind of what I mean is, “you're a dirty whore!” or even “you're a stupid good for nothing and will never amount to anything!” When I hear claims, especially inflammatory, I think first about the definitions to see if they are accurate; whore – a person who exchanges acts simulating procreation in exchange for remuneration of some sort. I ponder, can we establish the criteria, and if not it discredits the person uttering the offending words. Generally when the inaccuracy of a claim's shown, it diffuses its potential to do damage and prevents escalation of tension. I would also wonder how they define “dirty” and would ask for clarification. It could mean soiled with the earth, soiled by garbage, or human sweat; perhaps they mean dirty relative to a set of specific moral values. These are measurable, and can be tested for accuracy, and objectively refuted when appropriate to defuse a difficult situation.
When we are initially learning about measurement, we count, we shade number lines, or color an area. We find out about nuances like Ordinal, Cardinal, Existential, Nominal. We think they’re only good for statistical use or study of natural science. They are in fact part of our every day life, but they become innate and are taken for granted. If average people were to think about them deeply or at least accepted them as valuable tools which can be used to defuse tense situations by verifying truth and rejecting false claims, then maybe they would be used more often, and fewer hardships would exist in the world.
So accurate and unbiased measurement is a very important part of all things in life. A main reason why good measure is important is we tend to act based on an accepted measurement. If “you are a dirty whore” turned out to be true, then eviction may be the resulting action, but what if it was a biased claim based on false evidence and bad measurement techniques? The eviction would still take place. Only when it is shown to be untrue that the “defendant” would remain a member of the residence. One of the best parts of the American existence is that we strive to never convict the innocent. People that get into rash situations are often not evaluating their assumptions to see if they're unbiased measurements.
Though it seems that testing of statements (antecedents) only applies to conflict between entities, it also applies to inner conflicts for individuals. Through the course of my life have been close to some deeply troubled people and was with them when they went from a suicidal state, to rational and hopeful state of mind. The last four people I talked out of suicide were stuck in a heavily biased, dark view of all things. They had made a sufficient number of determinations about their life and the lives of many other people around them that they became hopelessly stuck. Invariably the determinations were wrong and were based on a collection of biases that all needed to be questioned, but to the person in distress all the determinations were inarguably true.
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.” –Aaron Levenstein
In these situations a person finds themselves correct about a great many of their determinations, and any argument you make with them about their position is likely to be subjective enough to not change their mind, but take a moment to think about the quote above. They are statistically taking a position that says, all life is intolerably bad and will never get any better. Based on what they are looking at it appears to be true, but they are only looking at the suggestive part that the bikini is revealing, not the vital part that it is covering up. You have to take them on a guided tour of their own mind and show them that the many other memories refuting their evidence for suicide. Present evidence from your own life that refutes their case; foster an “I can do it so you can do it” spirit. Test their ability to measure things as bad or good; they may have a black or white scale where truly there are only shades of gray, and they are likely screening out other points of view that would discredit their claims. Also, people often think they can predict the future really well, but when you ask them what their historic accuracy record is, or at least what their current predictions of the future are, they can easily be shown as a very biased and hopelessly inaccurate estimator of the future. If you can clearly show that they are not able to determine future events, you can get them to leave the proverbial ledge and go with you to get ice-cream or something pleasant while you begin to sort out the rest of their troubles.
A final note to make here is that many people don't possess good skills for decisions under risk, that or they have some emotional bias on a specific class of decisions that prevent the rational thinking.
“The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense
reduced to calculus.” –Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820
All decisions under risk boil down to a up-side of a choice, and a likelihood of the upside, and a downside with it's own likelihood of happening. When a ordinary person makes a decision they innately calculate this to find an optimal payoff as Laplace indicates above; they do not even have to be good at arithmetic to do this, it's just part of being a mammal. Things can go wrong in the mind though, and people tend to forget parts of the model; most typically the forget the likelihood part. A gambler type ignores probability and sees only the upside. A pessimist type ignores the probabilities and sees only the downside. They make irrational decisions because of not fully weighing the decision. The pessimist may have gotten that way from a some bad experiences with slander, a tragic loss of a relative in a motor vehicle accident, or even a horror story so vivid and frightening that they cannot be rational about their decisions. Let's look at friendships and the pessimist, and you can interpolate things for the gambler, and other daily life decisions.
A pessimist sees risk from friendships as well as the gains, but is focusing on the risks. They know of the devious nature of some people who will take private conversations and turn them into a popularity commodity to trade at the hairdressers shop. This is certainly a possibility when taking on the risky decision of making friends with new people. The up side of a friendship is they will listen to you (and if they are a good enough friend), notify you immediately when you are about to do something you will regret later. The likelihood of the gossip slipping into a trusted friend circle is small, and the likelihood of the true friend is great, but the pessimist is too focused on the potential damage from gossip to think rationally. Their long term friends go through life changes and move away or have less time, and our pessimist does not replace them with new friends due to their improperly weighted risk of harm. It doesn't take long before they are alone in the darkness of their own mind. What they needed in their thinking was a good academic dose of weighted averages. The massive gain from friendships, times the probability of good people summed with the potential negative from gossips times the small probability of them equals the expected payoff (weighted average) of the friendship decision under risk. If that is any positive number they should forge ahead at making friends. Even if some bad friends did filter through, it's possible to fix the damage they did.When I'm involved in a conflict between people, or just a discussion with a... more
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Spiritual empowerment and upliftment for the impoverish soul by America's famous radio broadcaster on BlogTalkRadio, DJ Mona-Lisa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K-hsecMlokSpiritual empowerment and upliftment for the impoverish soul by America's famous... more
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Nearly half of the alcohol-related cancers in the UK are related to the mouth and throat. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA
Charity urges Europe-wide action to cut consumption after huge study underlines risks of drinking too much
At least 13,000 cancers in the UK every year are the result of people's drinking habits, according to one of the largest studies ever carried out into diet and cancer.
The research, carried out across eight European countries including the UK, has found that thousands of cancers could be prevented if men had the equivalent of no more than two drinks a day and women had no more than one.
Nearly half of the alcohol-related cancers in the UK – nearly 6,000 – were related to the mouth and throat. Alcohol is a key cause of cancer of the mouth, oesophagus, voicebox and pharynx.
But alcohol also causes more than 3,000 colorectal cancers and about 2,500 breast cancers every year, according to Cancer Research UK, which cofunded the study.
The full extent of the damage is revealed by the Epic study (European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition), which is monitoring the links between diet and cancer in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany and Denmark. It finds that 10% of men's cancers and 3% of women's cancers in western Europe are caused by drinking.
(more at link)Nearly half of the alcohol-related cancers in the UK are related to the mouth and... more
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Enculturation is the process whereby an established culture teaches an individual by repetition its accepted norms and values, so that the individual can become an accepted member of the society and find their suitable role.
http://www.squidoo.com/enculturationEnculturation is the process whereby an established culture teaches an individual by... more
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People those are opposing the introduction of sex education in school, will be surprised to know that premarital sex has been common among youngsters these days. The percentage is higher in case of women aged 15-24 years and prefers sex.
link :http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/features/7561-girls-take-the-lead-when-it-comes-to-sex-before-15.htmlPeople those are opposing the introduction of sex education in school, will be... more
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George Washington famously once said "A free people ought to be armed." In America, weapons have always been a strong part of the culture — we associate them with freedom, personal independence and self-reliance. The following weapons sent shock waves around the world when they were created — some literally — and, to varying degrees, have altered the course of humanity.
LINK : http://www.bestcollegesonline.net/blog/2011/10-weapons-that-changed-the-world/George Washington famously once said "A free people ought to be armed." In... more
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Pharmaceutical ads had gotten so out of control recently, Congress got involved. But even before pharmaceutical companies were known as the big bad corporate meanie in our society, drug ads have been pretty ridiculous. Here are some of the best, pulled from vintage magazines to current commercials.
LINK : http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/10-Totally-Ridiculous-Pharmaceutical-AdsPharmaceutical ads had gotten so out of control recently, Congress got involved. But... more
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