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Tag: canned
Waiting for the FDA to Rule on BPA
The chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, is found in some plastic food packaging and the inside of most tin-cans. (Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute)
The government missed a deadline to
declare whether a chemical in food
packaging is safe. Shawn Allee reports critics are growing
tired of the delay:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/spot_allee_121009.mp3
The chemical is Bisphenol-A, or BPA. It's found in some plastic food packaging and the inside of most tin-cans.
The US Food and Drug Administration is reviewing whether BPA causes developmental diseases and some cancers. The agency missed a deadline of November 30th, and some groups are getting impatient.
Sarah Jennsen is with the Natural Resources Defense Council. She says while the Food and Drug Administration deliberates, more studies are coming out against BPA.
"We've had studies now published that show toddlers exposed to BPA behave diffrently from toddlers who are not exposed, and so this human research which is being published is very concerning because it's replicating what we've already seen in the animal studies.
The Food and Drug Administration won't say which studies it's including in its scientific review of BPA or when it will finish.
For The Environment Report, I'm Shawn Allee.
A related blog post from the LA Times
A related story on BPA from The Environment Report
Author Shawn AlleePosted on December 10, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags bisphenol, bisphenol-a, bottle, bottles, bpas, canned, cans, chemical, chemicals, danger, dangerous, dangers, health, healthy, illness, lined, liner, liners, lining, linings, plastic, plastics, sickness, toxic, toxin, toxins, unhealthy
BPA Making Little Girls Aggressive?
The researcher plans to follow the children to see if the aggressive behavior is lasting. (Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute)
A study has found links between a chemical used in some plastics and aggressive behavior in girls. Lester Graham reports on the latest research on BPA:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/spot_graham_101609.mp3
BPA, Bisphenol-A, is used in a lot of plastic products including plastic dental fillings, carbon-less paper receipts and most canned food linings.
Researchers tested 249 pregnant women for their exposure to BPA and then followed-up after they gave birth.
Joe Braun is one of the researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Braun says the mothers were given a lengthy questionnaire on the children's behavior when they turned two.
"And what we found is that the exposure to BPA, or bisphenol-A, in pregnancy was associated with behaviors like aggression or hyperactivity. And this association was strongest in girls and we really didn't even observe an association in boys."
The study was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Braun says they'll continue to follow the children to see if the aggressive behavior is lasting.
For The Environment Report, I'm Lester Graham.
A related article from USA Today
Another related article from Yahoo! News
Author Lester GrahamPosted on October 16, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags aggression, aggressive, babies, baby, beverage, beverages, bisphenol, bisphenol-a, bottle, bottles, canned, cans, chemical, chemicals, drink, drinks, food, foods, girl, girls, lined, liner, liners, lines, lining, linings, plastic, plastics, pregnancy
Kicking a Chemical Out of Cans
Tomatoes are posing a problem for a BPA-free lining - they are so acidic they can eat through it (Photo by Scott Bauer, courtesy of the USDA)
More than a hundred studies have linked a chemical in plastic to health problems. Things like breast cancer, prostate cancer, diabetes, and early puberty. This chemical, bisphenol-A or BPA, is used to coat the inside of baby formula cans and almost all food and soda cans. Rebecca Williams visits one company that's found a safer can:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/feature_williams_031609.mp3
(sound of forklift backing up, pumpkin seeds pouring out of roaster)
It's pumpkin seed roasting day at Eden Foods. It's a natural foods company based in Michigan. It sells things like rice, canned beans, and all kinds of packaged fruits and sauces.
Michael Potter is the company's president. More than a decade ago, he came across some news reports out of Europe.
"And I learned all the can linings in the USA were lined with this lining that leaches BPA into foods from the can."
That got him thinking, and researching. Then he started badgering his can manufacturers.
"We virtually begged them to provide us an alternative. We persisted in hounding them and eventually the Ball Corporation said they'd make a can with an old lining they used to make."
The lining's made from a plant resin instead of the epoxy resin with BPA. The thing was, it would cost Eden Foods 14 percent more – that's about 2 cents a can.
But Michael Potter says he had to make the switch.
"We're selling this not only to people that we don't know, in the market, we're feeding it to our children, our grandchildren and ourselves – we didn't want to eat bisphenol A."
But there was one problem. He couldn't make the switch for canned tomatoes.
Tomatoes are acidic, and they can eat through the plant resin can lining. That could lead to bacteria or rust getting into the food.
"There is no alternative for high acid foods other than bisphenol-A lining at this point. We are urging, nudging, demanding a bisphenol-A free alternative. And we're optimistic we'll end up with one."
But the metal can industry says those alternatives just don't exist right now.
John Rost is with the North American Metal Packaging Alliance. He says the industry is trying to find new materials. But he says shoppers shouldn't worry about eating canned food.
"The levels of BPA that are coming from epoxy can linings are exceedingly low. We're talking low parts per billion. That level has been deemed safe by the European Food Safety Authority, Health Canada and the US FDA."
That's true, but Health Canada has declared BPA toxic. It's making moves to limit its use.
A number of independent scientists debate that there's any safe level of BPA.
Maricel Maffini studies BPA at Tufts University School of Medicine. She says they've seen harmful effects on lab animals at the same very low levels of BPA that are leaching into our food from cans.
She says that's because BPA acts like the hormone estrogen.
"You just need a tiny little signal to trigger an effect. So I think it's unfair to say there is a safe dose because as scientists we cannot say that yet. We have not found a dose that is low enough where we don't see effects."
She says babies and kids are the most at risk. She says BPA has caused lasting damage in lab animals when the animals were exposed to the chemical both before and after birth.
"I think we should be concerned, I think we should limit our consumption of canned foods especially if you are pregnant or if you have babies."
It's possible that US can makers will be forced to stop using BPA. Leaders in Congress have introduced bills that could soon ban BPA in all food and beverage containers.
For The Environment Report, I'm Rebecca Williams.
More about Eden Foods' alternative can
North American Metal Packaging Alliance
A related article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on March 16, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags bisphenol, bodies, body, bottle, bottled, bottles, bpa, can, canned, cans, chemical, chemicals, danger, dangerous, drink, drinks, food, foods, health, healthy, hormone, hormones, ill, illness, lined, liner, liners, lining, pop, pops, sick, sickness, soda, sodas, toxic
Bpa in Your Body
BPA is not only found in plastic bottles, it is also found in the lining of most canned foods (Photo by Ken Hammond, courtesy of the USDA)
A chemical found in plastic might be present in people's bodies more than previously thought. A number of previous studies suggest that even at very low levels bisphenol-A, or BPA, could be linked to health problems. They range from prostate and breast cancer to early puberty in kids. Rebecca Williams reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/spot_williams2_012609.mp3
Scientists thought our main exposure to BPA was through food because of plastic linings in cans and other containers. They also thought BPA didn't stay in our bodies very long.
But in this new study, researchers found that people who fasted for 24 hours still had levels of BPA close to the same as people who'd just eaten.
So they think we might be exposed to BPA some other way. Maybe water – some plastic water pipes contain BPA. Or, BPA is staying in our bodies for longer than people thought. Or both.
Dr. Rick Stahlhut is the lead author of the study in Environmental Health Perspectives. He says there are some ways to reduce your exposure from food.
"You'd probably have to get food that was mostly fresh and cook it yourself and try not to use polycarbonate plastic to store food."
And he says use containers and bottles that don't contain BPA.
A related article on the study
An interview from The Environment Report on BPA
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on January 26, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags bisphenol, bodies, body, bottle, bottles, bpa, can, cancer, canned, cans, chemical, chemicals, food, health, ill, illness, liner, liners, lining, plastic, plastics, sick, sickness, unhealthy, water
Banned: Bpa Baby Bottles
BPA is found in things such as plastic water bottles, canned goods, and baby bottles (Photo by Ken Hammond, courtesy of the USDA)
Canada has become the first country to
begin the process of banning plastic baby bottles
containing the chemical Bisphenol-A. Environmental
activists are praising the move, but want Ottawa
to go further. Dan Karpenchuk reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/spot_karpenchuk_102708.mp3
Bisphenol-A, or BPA, is just about everywhere – one of most commonly manufactured
chemicals in the world. It's main use is to make plastics hard and shatterproof.
It's found in consumer products such as plastic baby bottles, water bottles, C-D cases,
eyeglasses and the lining of tin cans.
Rick Smith is with the group, Environmental Defense. Smith says particularly at risk are
infants.
"So there's very good evidence that kids that are exposed to it earlier on in life are
more prone to breast cancer, prostate cancer later on in life."
Research has also linked BPA to heart disease, diabetes, and liver problems. Smith says
BPA is in virtually every tin can in people's cupboards, and evidence has shown that it
can leach into the food or beverage, even at room temperature.
Health Canada says the levels of BPA most adults are exposed to are not harmful.
But Smith and other environmentalists are calling for a complete ban in consumer
For The Environment Report, I'm Dan Karpenchuk.
An article on the ban from the Washington Post
A related interview from The Environment Report
A related story from The Environment Report
Author Dan KarpenchukPosted on October 27, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags bisphenol, bisphenol-a, bottle, bottles, bpa, can, cancer, canned, cans, chemical, chemicals, children, danger, dangerous, food, health, ill, illness, kids, plastic, plastics, sick, sickness, toxin, unhealthy
Toxin Leeches Into Canned Foods
(Photo by Ken Hammond, courtesy of the USDA)
Environmental activists are calling for
food packagers to stop using a toxic plastic to
line food and beverage cans. Lester Graham reports:
The thin plastic lining used in many canned foods and soft drinks contains a chemical
called bisphenol-A.
Canada is taking steps to restrict the use of the plastic in baby
bottles and formula can linings. In the U.S., some retailers have removed some
products using plastic with bisphenol-A.
Aaron Freeman is with the Environmental Defense Fund in Canada. He says this
chemical has been linked to too many health problems to ignore.
"Things like breast cancer, prostate cancer, early puberty in girls, attention deficit
disorder, and so on – those are all health effects we're seeing sharp rises on."
Freeman concedes cans lined with plastic containing bisphenol-A have not been proven
to cause the diseases. But he says since the canning industry has other plastics it can
use, it's just a sensible precaution to stop using plastic with bisphenol-A.
For The Environment Report, this is Lester Graham.
Another story on bisphenol-A from The Environment Report
A related article in the New York Times
Author Lester GrahamPosted on June 9, 2008 Categories News SpotsTags bisphenol, bisphenol-a, bodies, body, bottle, bottles, bpa, can, cancer, canned, cans, eat, eating, food, good, goods, health, healthy, ill, illness, lining, nalgene, plastic, puberty, safety, sick, sickness
Audio Postcard: Food Bartering
These are "zooks." They're a form of currency used by the Zook Society, a group that barters for homemade products. (Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
The Zook Society members trade each other for food and other items from their gardens and homes. (Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
Some jars of food being offered, including peaches and grape syrup. (Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
People in search of homemade foods are finding an old-fashioned way to get them: bartering. Gardeners and cooks who have a special pasta sauce are trading with others who make homemade applesauce. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Stephanie Hemphill recently attended a barter gathering and brings us this audio postcard:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/02/hemphill_022105.mp3
People in search of homemade foods are finding an old-fashioned
way to get them: bartering. Gardeners and cooks who have a special pasta
sauce are trading with others who make homemade applesauce. The Great
Lakes Radio Consortium's Stephanie Hemphill recently attended
a barter gathering and brings us this audio postcard:
"Hi, it's nice to see you again."
"Have mostly baked goods today."
"Maple syrup, grape syrup, eggs."
"Apple butter, squash soup, and frozen split pea soup. Um hm."
"Worm juice! What the heck is worm juice?"
Buckley: "My name is Jenifer Buckley, and I'm one of the people who got the Zook Society together. This is an informal bartering group of people who home-process and garden."
"We have lefse! We went down to the farm this part weekend, and Mary learned from her mom, so it's totally homemade. And we would like two zooks for each bag."
Buckley: "We decided on the zook as a unit of currency, because everybody agreed the Zucchini is easy to find. We wanted to make sure, for example if I have sauerkraut and somebody else has eggs and somebody else has jam, that we could all three of us barter for those things, so we decided on the zook as currency."
"This is the three-generation salsa, my grandma's salsa recipe. My grandma just died this summer. I made some with her last summer, but this summer I made it myself."
"We have a pint of applesauce from this year's crop, a good year for apples, and I guess this is about a three-zook item, does that sound fair?"
Buckley: "What often happens is that people are asking relatively little for their products, so people will say, 'That's not enough, you should ask for more for that!' Because in general, I think people tend to undervalue what they do; a lot of time goes into baking and processing and so forth."
Rhodes: "My name is Gina Temple Rhodes, and this time I brought some new things that I had never brought before. I brought Hinkelsteins, which are cookies made from oat flour, dates, So that was pretty popular. It's a little strange – you bring things and hope they'll sell because if they don't you feel a little disappointed and have to take it home."
Buckley: "It's about bringing trade and economics down to the community level; it's about trying new products. So in that respect there's little bit of incubator going on here."
"Try Paula's? They're a zook apiece."
"Dave, are we supposed to eat these or plant these?"
Susie: "I'm Susie, and I brought worm juice, from our worm compost bin. It's full of nutrients and you can use it to boost your house plants or in your garden. And I see nobody's snapped it up yet, so I may have to go out and do promotion."
Dawson: "I'm Katie Neff Dawson. We came away with some canned peaches – I'm kind of a peach freak so we got those. Cooper was into the peanut butter things, they look like Bit-O-Honey things, they're really good. I think we all got lip balm because that was a good deal – lip balm for one zook. It's a real diversity, and you come away with a wonderful meal, and it's just a good community, good people getting together."
"Bye, all! Thanks for the good food!"
HOST TAG: "Bartering home-made goods in Duluth, Minnesota. Stephanie
Hemphill produced that report for the GLRC."
Learn how to start a bartering club from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (.pdf document)
Learn about "worm juice" from this web page on worm farms.
Author Stephanie HemphillPosted on February 21, 2005 Categories FeaturesTags apple butter, canned, community, diversity, duluth, economics, eggs, food, garden, goods, grape, homemade, incubator, lip balm, maple syrup, meal, minnesota, peaches, soup, squash, trade
Study Sparks Concerns Over Airplane Water
The EPA has found that some of the water served on airplanes is contaminated, and are advising people to be cautious. (Photo by Lester Graham)
New data suggest you might want to think twice before drinking coffee or tea on an airplane. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Christina Shockley explains why:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/01/shockley_013105.mp3
New data suggest you might want to think twice before
drinking coffee or tea on an airplane. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium's Christina Shockley explains why:
The water on airplanes is tested by the Environmental Protection Agency. Recently, researchers found water that contained coliform bacteria on about one in six of the planes they tested.
The bacteria is usually harmless, but can signal the presence of other, more dangerous organisms.
Cynthia Bergman is with the EPA. She says there's no need to panic, but concerned passengers should choose other options on board.
"Canned or bottled beverages or bring bottled water onto the flight, and they shouldn't be shy about asking the flight attendant if the water used for the coffee or tea was made with bottled water, or if it was brought to a boil."
Bergman says the EPA has not seen any major outbreaks of illness from airplane water. She says symptoms could include nausea and stomach pains. Researchers don't know yet where the bacteria is coming from, but twelve major airlines have agreed to test the water and disinfect their planes more frequently.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Christina Shockley.
The EPA has more on this subject
Read about coliform bacteria
The EPA's advice for airplane passengers
Author Christina ShockleyPosted on January 31, 2005 Categories News SpotsTags airline, airplanes, boil, bottled, canned, coffee, dangerous, disinfect, epa, flight, illness, organisms, passengers, planes, stomach, tea, water
New Law Requires Seafood Labeling
A new law states that labels on the majority of seafood will need to list the country of origin. Some are worried about the amount of time and money this will cost. (Photo by Ivan Pok)
Seafood lovers will soon know where their dinner was caught. A new U.S. law requires most seafood to have a label that names the country it came from. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Peter Payette reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2004/10/payette_101104.mp3
Seafood lovers will now know where their dinner was caught. A new U.S. law requires most seafood to have a label that names the country it came from. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Peter Payette reports:
The label will tell the country of origin and whether the seafood was farmed or wild. Processed foods like canned tuna or fishsticks will be exempt and smaller stores won't be required to label their food.
The new law is supported by some in the fishing industry who think shoppers would rather buy seafood caught in U.S. waters. But other suppliers and retailers complain the law is forced marketing and has nothing to do with food safety.
Linda Candler is with the National Fisheries Institute. She says it will cost billions of dollars for the industry to keep track of all the necessary information.
"We've already heard from several retailers that, in order to keep their record keeping to a manageable level, they will cut the number of their suppliers. Meaning, they'll have less flexibility in price."
The law is now in effect. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture won't enforce it for six months. They say that will give the industry some time to adjust to new requirements.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Peter Payette.
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Unconstitutional Awakening the Podcast
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Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Tonight, Luis and Bandit join me in welcoming the hosts of the Cult of Conspiracy podcast. We start the night off getting to know the fellas, and discussing mutual combat states, then jump all the way back to Caligula expelling the Muurs from Spain, followed by chatting about all the left behind military equipment in Afghanistan, We discuss some new tech Russian soldiers seem to be sporting, the brush over ancient Egypt and the land of Punt, we chat about eating gator, iguana, and more, as well as bring up band books, and overpriced books to keep them out of the hands of peasants like us. we wrap up by discussing the Dine, and other native Americans.
For more from our convo:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/mutual-combat-states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/afghan-weapons-left-behind/index.html
https://defence-blog.com/russias-unusual-laser-devices-fall-into-ukrainian-hands/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Punt
https://rockonrr.com/ultimate-guide-to-iguana-hunting-florida/
https://www.abebooks.com/9780962834806/Forgotten-Cause-Civil-New-Look-0962834807/plp
https://www.familyeducation.com/naming-trends/75-traditional-navajo-indian-names-meanings
For more Cult of Conspiracy:
https://www.instagram.com/cultofconspiracypodcast/
https://linktr.ee/cultofconspiracy
Tonight, Bandit joins me in welcoming back my two favorite Aussies, Drew from Missing the Point podcast, and Terry founder of Defeat The Media, We chat about the failures of the board of education worldwide, GMO's, and big tobacco owning most of our food production, that one time Americans couldn't do fractions, how medieval surfs had it better than most of us today, White lung, Americans fist fighting bears, and so much more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
https://curioushistorian.com/why-medieval-serfs-had-more-vacation-time-than-you-do-today
https://culinarylore.com/food-history:aw-1-3-pound-burger-failure-fact-check-are-americans-really-that-bad-at-fractions/
https://www.ntd.com/white-lung-phenomenon-among-chinas-covid-19-spike_893114.html
For more Drew:
https://www.instagram.com/missen_the_point/
https://drewmissen88.podbean.com/
For more Terry:
https://www.facebook.com/defeatthemedia/
Tonight, Luis joins me in welcoming back show friend and sponsor (friend in liberty) Brett Pike, founder of ClassicalLearner.com, Homeschools Connected, and author of the Cubs to Bears books. We chat home schooling in general and how things have grown exponentially for his grass roots movement, we chat propaganda, calendars, Modern monetary theory, the Arkansas drag show bill, about the needs for self-sufficiency and small, strong communities, how big tobacco owns most food processing companies, we discuss banned NotSee books, porn as propaganda, and Brett fills us in with some home school resources, and even asks the crew to join the movement and aid in curriculum writing, with added appearances by Neptune, a special appearance by Kell, and so much more
https://hslda.org/
https://beartariatimes.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/101688.Books_Banned_by_Nazis
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/ethiopia-calendar.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/jewish-calendar.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485894.The_Metamorphosis
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/porn-run-on-seized-tv-channels-say-residents-20020401-gdf5uw.html
https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/moral-subversion-pornography-as-weapon-of-psychological-warfare.287647/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/p7577l/did_the_israeli_army_broadcast_pornography_on/
https://www.mindgeek.com/
https://www.investopedia.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-4588060
https://timcast.com/news/arkansas-bill-would-formally-classify-drag-performances-as-adult-oriented-businesses-ban-children-from-attending/
https://rjrt.com/transforming-tobacco/history/
For more Brett:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065158254557&mibextid=LQQJ4d
https://www.instagram.com/classicallearner/
https://twitter.com/classiclearner/status/1330202414176145408?s=46&t=Fqa6Sc3LHwOa5YjjO6eYKA
https://www.youtube.com/@homeschoolsconnected747
Tonight, Bandit and Luis join me in hosting a couple show friends, Canadian John returns to give us some News Updates for Real, and Steven adds his bit of gruff flair as he does. The nights full of well, Current world events being completely ignored by MSM, John shares with us some of the stories he's covering currently, like Riots in Peru, Brazil, France, and more, the Battle of Athens and that one-time Puerto Rican Nationalists stormed the capitol, attacks on grid infrastructure, the wild amount of people "suddenly dying", the assassination of the Iranian Judge of Death, We also chat about the need for the absence of the state, what we think are good ideas about it, that tiny country the Republic of Molossia within America, Money, and so much more.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-want-the-source-code-far-right-in-brazil-are-using-the-jan-6-playbook-to-overturn-an-election/ar-AA168Qet
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/arrests-after-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazil-s-congress/ar-AA167vBy?OCID=ansmsnnews11
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-least-12-dead-in-anti-government-protests-in-southern-peru/ar-AA168Sod
https://news.yahoo.com/counter-terrorism-detectives-arrest-man-030345252.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html?edg-c=1
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1954-capitol-attack-by-puerto-rican-nationalists/
https://firstsportz.com/nba-news-fans-creeped-out-as-cedi-osman-bleeds-yellow-after-hard-fall/
http://oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SJR2
https://kfor.com/news/lawmaker-says-proposed-bill-would-allow-oklahoma-to-secede/
https://www.eenews.net/articles/attacks-on-grid-infrastructure-in-4-states-raise-alarm/
https://www.nutritruth.org/single-post/pfizer-fda-knew-covid-vaccine-caused-immunosuppression-vaed-ade-in-feb-2021-and-they-knew-it-wa
https://www.unilad.com/community/country-inside-america-own-president-currency-20220927
https://youtu.be/5fbvquHSPJU
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Today, Neptune joins me in welcoming Harry Guiremand of the Bloodstained Men. BSM, is an advocate group trying to fight for a different aspect of human rights than you're probably used to hearing. We discuss the fore front of the fight to stay intact, as well as the trials and tribulations of the horror stories even I've faced with such a procedure., as well as a positive side to it with Neptune, we talk about the activism, and work, and about historical fallacies and propaganda pushed by everyday people who just don't understand the true concept of human rights, as well as the concept of how mind control starts with Trauma and this is definitely seems to have some things to do with it. We also share some stories and have some laughs.
For more of Harry, his work and our convo:
https://www.bloodstainedmen.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/Bonobo3D
https://www.arclaw.com/
https://www.beyondthebris.com/
http://thecircumcisionlawyer.com/
https://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org/
http://chhrp.org/
https://www.circumcisionisafraud.com/
http://circumstitions.com/
http://cirp.org/
https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/
https://www.tumblr.com/foreskins-ok-usa
http://circumcisiondebate.org/
https://norm.org/
https://circumcision.org/
https://intaction.org/
https://www.yourwholebaby.org/
http://www.sexasnatureintendedit.com/
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
https://youtu.be/Ceht-3xu84I
We want to show people that we have more in common then we don't. And to bring laughter to people via memes, videos, and Blogs, that are informational about very very serious issues.

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Justin was really easy to talk to, and I enjoyed listening to his stories of his time in the Peace Corps. Listening to him, it made me realize how the Peace Corps experience often pushes people to step out of their comfort zones. Though we may be skeptical or hesitant at first, the results of that step are often quite spectacular.
Another thing that struck me about our conversation was how Peace Corps can serve as a catalyst to propel your life into a direction that you may not have considered before. In Justin's case, he came into the Peace Corps with a background in Computer Science, but is now pursuing his MBA.
Justin with his neighbor's daughter next to a completed energy efficient stove.
Performing surgery alongside one of the doctors at a medical mission (left).
Reading a book on the summit of Mt. Chirripo in Costa Rica.
Justin graduated with a degree in Computer Science from California State University Sacramento. He served in the Peace Corps Dominican Republic as an IT Education volunteer from 2008-2010. Justin extended his Peace Corps service in Costa Rica as a Community Economic Development volunteer. After his Peace Corps Service, Justin was accepted to the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program. He lived just outside of Tokyo where he taught English at two public senior high schools from 2011 - 2013. Justin met his wife Cecilia in the Dominican Republic where they both served as Education volunteers. Cecilia gave birth to their first child (Samantha Ai) in Japan. Justin is currently a 1st year MBA candidate at Thunderbird School of Global Management and he is pursuing a career in Organizational Development and Change Management.
With his wife, Cecilia, and their daughter, Samantha Ai, in Japan.


I remember that like it was yesterday. Oh wait, that's because it was yesterday, and today as well, now that I think about it. But the heyday of the social media gurus may have reached its zenith, because there's a new, contrary, position gaining momentum. It's the "who the hell are these people to call themselves experts" movement, and it is spreading all over the web, in well-reasoned posts like this and this.


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Liberal fundamentalist
By John Keane
AC Grayling's 'Liberty in the Age of Terror'
In Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values (Bloomsbury, 304pp; $35.00), English liberal philosopher AC Grayling confronts readers with a disquieting thought: we are living in perilous times in which the tried and true principles of liberty are losing ground to the evils of "fundamentalism, reaction, and their militant expression". Grayling wastes few words recalling the decadence of the decade that has just ended. In the name of protecting and promoting liberty, armies were sent to more than a few foreign countries. Talk by leaders of "pre-emptive" action flourished. Civilians were put through costly new "security" checks. Police powers expanded, the dark arts of surveillance spread, and the old division between the torturable and non-torturable classes made a drastic comeback. The consequence, argues Grayling, is that Western liberal societies are morphing into garrison states – armed camps in which citizens are routinely treated as if their daily lives play out on a permanent battlefield in the "War on Terror".
Against these trends, Grayling sharpens his liberty sword. The freedom of reasoning individuals is, for him, the paramount human value. Such liberty should only be limited when individuals make nuisances of themselves by acting unreasonably, for instance when they embrace religious bigotry or (on the same continuum for him) terrorise and kill civilians in public places. Grayling's Liberty Principle (it can be called) lends his liberalism a compass, a sense of urgency and rightness that leads him to condemn the "self-harm" that he thinks is now weakening liberty in "the West". He wants to say that, while "terrorism is a serious threat, and has to be countered", the far more worrying trend is the squeeze on civil liberties by "liberal democratic" governments. The principle of liberty was originally designed to protect individuals against arbitrary uses of state power. Today, in liberty's name, individuals are being robbed blind of its benefits.
Here, Grayling's chief target is Britain. His picture of political life in the Land of Hope and Glory is not pretty. He portrays it as a lazy parliamentary democracy, a polity whose rich and ancient traditions of civil liberty are now threatened by more than fiscal bankruptcy, Westminster rigor mortis, muddled defensiveness about "Europe" and political spin. Citing EM Forster's attack, during the 1930s, on "Fabio-Fascism", Grayling points a finger at its latter-day equivalent: a very British authoritarianism that is gaining the upper hand by stealth – one parliamentary bill, one new police dawn raid and one new regulation at a time.
Grayling probably exaggerates the omniscience and technical competence of the burgeoning security systems, but the picture he draws of political sclerosis seems worryingly accurate; citizens with a feel for questions of civil liberty might even think his case is blindingly obvious. Yet tough objections should be made to the way Grayling frames his defence of liberty. This surprisingly parochial book highlights the defects of John Stuart Mill-style liberalism in the entirely different circumstances of today.
Mill was forced by circumstance to get his long johns in a twist about democracy. His writings followed the nineteenth-century rule that cries for liberty were normally curses against the people. That was why, in Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859), Mill argued for the weighting of the suffrage in favour of liberty-loving, educated types like himself. Grayling is steeped in much the same spirit. Lip service is paid to "justice" and "democracy", certainly, but for him it is the liberty of secular and reasonable individuals – above all their liberty of expression – that is the primary philosophical and political value. Questions about the desirability of group rights and citizens' equal access to property, or legal guarantees of decent pensions, or the right to be different – these and other topical questions in contemporary democracies simply disappear from this book.
Grayling's liberalism has too much pomp about the liberty of reasonable individuals and not enough commitment to humility, the radical equalisation of power, and the give-and-take, rough-and-tumble pluralism of democracy. His numbed liberal feelings for democracy show up in curt and inaccurate comments about its history, not helped by his secularist view of its origins and use of the zombie phrase "liberal democracy". The torpidity is particularly evident in Grayling's attack on Isaiah Berlin, whose own defence of liberty was deeply sensitive to its contingent philosophical status (liberty was for him by no means an absolute). Berlin also wisely spotted the paradoxical nature of the ideal of liberty: different liberties (of property ownership and press freedom, for instance) usually stand at odds with one another. That was why, as the late Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski and other central European intellectuals first noted, political thinking in defence of liberty implied fighting for something much more radical: a civil society that made room not just for liberalism, but for various different ways of life and definitions of freedom protected by law, convivial customs, different types of property and representative forms of democratic government.
A global fascination with the democratic ideals and politics of civil society has mushroomed during the past half-generation, but this seems uninteresting to Grayling. That's because – to put it bluntly – his liberalism is fundamentalist. In supposing that liberty enjoys the status of a foundational first principle, in an old-fashioned philosophical sense, Grayling effectively writes against the style and substance of a democratic civil society by calling upon everyone to sign up to his brand of liberalism, or else suffer the consequences. What is needed, he argues, is the robust requirement that "anyone who wishes to live in and benefit from membership of a liberal society should be prepared to live by its basic values". Those who dissent from its liberal principles "must give up their membership" of this society. They must "seek a place" where they can live according to their "alternative values". Presumably by emigrating. Or by finding themselves a mattress and bedpan behind bars.
Grayling's dogmatism is mirrored in his distinction between "the West" (a loaded noun Grayling uses repeatedly) and the rest of the world – full of basket-case states, religious believers, criminal types and corrupted politicians and civilians, who have no feel for the Liberty Principle. It is not simply that Grayling's liberalism is unable to grasp that in contexts as varied as India, Taiwan and South Africa, for example, there are vigorous living traditions of freedom, whose language, institutions and 'rationality' cannot be described or analysed by resorting to Mill's vocabulary. Grayling's liberalism is narcissistic, a form of political thinking that combines the concern for precious liberties at home with ignorance or summary judgements of events abroad.
"Where liberty is not, there is my country", Tom Paine once quipped to Benjamin Franklin. What's missing in this book is an engaged awareness that concern with civil liberties and democracy at home is practically bound to their degradation elsewhere in the world, for instance in the Middle East, where the military struggle against 'terrorism' is making things much worse, not better. Military invasion of the region, led by American and British armies in Afghanistan and Iraq, has become the poisonous norm. Its toxins have spread into Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and may well spread more widely. Anti-Americanism is growing, thanks to hypocritical Western support for Arab dictatorships. The attraction of Al Qaeda-tactics among the disaffected is correspondingly blossoming, way beyond the region, for instance into Britain, itself now a major hothouse for figures like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and those yet to make a name for themselves on the global stage.
Two further kinds of resistance have become visible in the region during the past decade. One of them is armed struggle, using the tactics of asymmetric warfare practised by Hamas and Hezbollah, with or without the support of Iran, whose upgrading as a major regional player is an unintended consequence of the military destruction of Iraq's Ba'athist regime. The other brand of resistance, non-violent civil action against dictatorship in defence of civil society and human rights, is weak, but now desperately trying to get up from bended knee in Iran. Its elevation, as the 2009 electoral victory of Saad Hariri in Lebanon shows, might make a powerful difference to the whole region. It would certainly have leavening effects upon the lives of Muslims and other liberty-loving citizens in so-called Western countries as well. Which goes to show that Grayling, in spite of his liberal defence of liberty, is on to something pivotal.
John Keane is the co-founder of the Sydney Democracy Network and professor of politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). His The Life and Death of Democracy is the first full-scale history of democracy for over a century.
In Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values (Bloomsbury, 304pp; $35.00), English liberal philosopher AC Grayling confronts readers with a disquieting thought: we are living in perilous times in which the tried and true principles of liberty are losing ground to the evils of "fundamentalism, reaction, and their militant expression". Grayling wastes few words recalling the decadence of the decade that has just ended. In the name of protecting and promoting liberty, armies were sent to more than a few foreign countries. Talk by leaders of "pre-emptive" action flourished. Civilians were put through costly new "security" checks. Police powers expanded, the dark arts of surveillance spread, and the old division between the torturable and non-torturable classes made a drastic comeback. The consequence, argues Grayling, is that Western...
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Our New Edens: Chapter 5 - The Beauty of Quietness
By J.R. Miller
"In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." Isaiah 30:15
"This should be your ambition: to live a quiet life." 1 Thessalonians 4:11
A quiet life has many points of beauty. It has poise, the lack of which is always a serious blemish. It has self-mastery, which is kingliness. Quietness is the condition of receptiveness. Some people make so much noise, that they hear none of the great and noble voices which are speaking continually in their ears words of wisdom. Quietness favors thought and meditation. Some of us never give ourselves time to think, and hence we never have any words worth while to speak.
It would seem that anybody could keep still and quiet. We would say that it requires no exertion. It is activity that is hard--it ought to be easy to rest. It takes energy to speak--it should be easy just to be silent.
But we all know that few things are harder for most people, than to be still. Our lives are like the ocean in their restlessness. They cannot be comprised and confined within narrow limits. This is one of the proofs of our greatness and our immortality. Life is vast and ever in motion. Dead things have no trouble in keeping still. A stone is never restless. The lower the quality of life, the easier it is for it to be quiet. The human soul was made for God, and its very greatness renders its repose and quiet--the most difficult of all its attainments.
Yet the lesson of quietness is set for us again and again in the Scriptures. We are told that the effect of righteousness, is quietness. We are specially exhorted to "study to be quiet," to make it the aim of our life to be still; to make a study of it--as something to be learned, as one would learn an art or train one's self in beauty of living. In the margin, the language is even stronger, "Be ambitious to be quiet." Think of human ambitions--to be rich, to be honored, to have power, to do great things! Quietness must, therefore, be one of the most desirable of all qualities in life. We are to be ambitious to be quiet.
Another saying of the New Testament is, referring to women, "The apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, is of great price in the sight of God." Quietness is extolled, too, as a privilege in a noisy world. "A dry morsel and quietness therewith, is better than a feast with strife and contention."
Quietness is evidently a mark of high spiritual attainment. On the mountain the prophet saw the wild convulsions of nature--the storm, the earthquake, and the fire--but in none of these, was God manifested. Then followed "the voice of gentle stillness" --and that was God" Yet there are many people who think that noise is strength, that quietness lacks robustness and vigor. They suppose that the more noise a speaker makes--the greater orator he is; that the louder one's voice in praying--the more power the man has in prayer. But noise is not eloquence. Mr. Beecher used to say that when he was speaking and had no thoughts, nothing to say, he thundered, and the people were greatly moved. The greatest preacher is the one who the most deeply impresses other lives, turning them from sin to holiness, from earthly to noble things.
The common impression probably is that people who make the most bluster and show in their callings, are the greatest workers, accomplish the most, produce the deepest, best impressions. But this is not true. The best Christian workers anywhere, are those who make the least noise. They live deeply, dwelling in the valley of silence. We never can do our best anywhere--if we have not learned to be quiet.
In all departments of life, it is the quiet forces that effect the most. How silently all day long the sunbeams fall upon the fields and gardens! They make no noise. Yet what cheer, what blessing, what renewal of life, what inspirations of beauty they diffuse! How silently the flowers bloom, and yet what sweetness they pour upon the air! How silently the stars move on in their majestic marches round God's throne! They utter no voice. Yet they are central suns with systems of worlds revolving round them! How silently God's angels work, stepping with noiseless tread through our homes, performing ever their quiet ministries for us and about us! Who ever hears the flutter of the angels' wings--or the whisper of their tongues? Yet they ever throng the air and are continually bearing to us their messages of cheer, joy, hope, and comfort, and are ceaselessly engaged in their ministries of protection, guidance, and help.
How silently God Himself works! He is never absent from our side. He never ceases blessing us for a moment. He brings us gifts while we sleep and is ever present when we are awake. He comes so quietly, that He never disturbs us. He comes into our sick rooms, stands beside our beds of pain, and sits down beside us in our time of sorrow and gives comfort--but we never hear Him. He makes no ado.
One of the most beautiful qualities in the life of Christ, was His quietness. The prophet said of Him before He came into the world, "He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets." When earthly kings move through the land, they make a great display. Heralds go before them and proclaim their coming. Attention is drawn to them and great public demonstrations mark their movements. The booming of cannon, the ringing of bells, and the shouts of the people tell of their coming and going. When heaven's King went on earth's streets--there was no noise. He sought not--but rather shunned, publicity and fame. Throngs did indeed follow Him--but they were drawn by the ministry of love He wrought wherever He went--healing, comforting, forgiving, saving. When the people in their enthusiasm tried to make Him their earthly king--He fled away to the mountains, seeking refuge there with God. He never advertised Himself. He did nothing for show. Yet think what blessings He left in the world as He passed through it! Wherever His feet touched the earth, flowers grew in the path! Into whatever home He entered, He carried a breath of heaven and left there the blessing of His peace. Every life He touched, had in it afterwards something of beauty or of blessing it never had had before. It is now nineteen centuries since Jesus walked on the earth in human form--and still the influence of His gentle, blessed, quiet life, fills all the world.
Which class of men have most deeply impressed the world--those who have made the greatest noise--or the quiet people? Of course, in the records of history, the names that are most prominent are those of kings and warriors and men of ambition. But there have always been in the world a host of quiet folk, who have attracted no attention to themselves, who have done no brilliant deeds, whose names have not got into the newspapers--but who have touched the world's life with the spirit of their own lives. They are the lowly ones who dwell near the heart of Christ, catch the tone of His life, and then go on living simply, and singing the songs of love and peace they have learned.
Yet we all experience the temptation--to want others to know us and praise us. Many people think that if they do not get into official positions, or grow rich, or rise to power, or gain newspaper notoriety, or make a show in some way among men--that they have failed in living. But some day it will be seen that usually those who have wrought quietly and without fame or human praise--have achieved the noblest and most permanent results!
Only the other day, one came and spoke with sadness of what appeared to be a useless life. It seemed to have been without result, without blessing to others or honor to Christ, because nothing great or conspicuous had been done. Yet all who know this friend are aware that with her quiet life, her victorious cheerfulness, her unfailing kindness, she carries blessings wherever she goes!
Much of the best work in this world, is done unconsciously. Indeed, there is danger always that the good deeds we do consciously and with intention, shall be marred by the very consciousness with which we do them.
There is a legend of a good man's shadow which, when it fell behind him where he could not see it, had healing power; but which, when it fell before his face, where he could see it, had no such power. The legend is true in life. There are many quiet people who never dream that they are useful at all, who even deplore their uselessness, but whose days are really full of gentleness and kindness, ever setting in motion gentle tides of beneficent and heavenly influences which make the whole world better, sweetening its air and enriching its life. Some day it will be seen that our very best work in God's sight--is done when we are not aware that we are doing any good at all; while much that we glory in as the finest achievements of our lives--will prove to have been of no value, because filled with self!
The lives of godly people are sometimes compared to the dew. "They will be like dew sent by the Lord." Micah 5:7. One point of likeness, is the quiet way in which the dew performs its ministry. It falls silently and imperceptibly. It makes no noise. No one hears it dropping. It chooses its time in the night when men are sleeping, when none can see its beautiful work. It covers the leaves with clusters of pearls. It steals into the bosoms of the flowers, and leaves new cupfuls of sweetness there. It pours itself down among the roots of the grasses and tender herbs and plants. It loses itself altogether, and yet it is not lost. For in the morning there is fresh life everywhere, and new beauty. The fields are greener, the gardens are more fragrant, and all nature is clothed in fresh luxuriance.
Is there not in this simile, a suggestion as to the way we should seek to do good in this world? Should we not wish to have our influence felt--while no one thinks of us; rather than that we should be seen and heard and praised? Should we not be willing to lose ourselves in the service of self-forgetful love, as the dew loses itself in the bosom of the rose, caring only that other lives shall be sweeter, happier, and holier, and not that honor shall come to us? We are too anxious, some of us, that our names shall be written in large letters on the things we do, even on what we do for our Master; and are not willing to sink ourselves out of sight--and let Him alone have the praise.
Our Lord's teaching on the subject is very plain. He says: "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full." That is, they have that which they seek--the applause of men.
"But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." The meaning would seem to be, that we are not to wish people to know of our good deeds, our charities, our self-denials; that we should not seek publicity, newspaper announcements, for example, when we give money or do good works; indeed, that we are not even to tell ourselves what we have done; that we are not to think about our own good deeds so as to become conscious of them; not to put them down in our diaries and go about complimenting ourselves, throwing bouquets at ourselves, and whispering: "How good I am! What fine things I have done!"
This is an insightful test of our lives. Are we willing to be as the dew--to steal abroad in the darkness, carrying blessings to men's doors, blessings that shall enrich the lives of others and do them good--and then steal away again before those we have helped or blessed waken, to know what hand it was that brought the gift? Are we willing to work for others without gratitude, without recognition, without human praise, without requital? Are we content to have our lives poured out like the dew--to bless the world and make it more fruitful, and yet remain hidden away ourselves? Is it enough for us to see the fruits of our toil and sacrifice in others' brightened homes, greater spiritual growth, and deeper happiness; or in good institutions, in renewed society, in benefits prepared by us and enjoyed by others--yet never hear our names spoken in praise or honor--perhaps even hearing others praised for things we have done?
Our lesson teaches us that this is the way we are to live--if we are followers of Christ. John the Baptist, when they asked him who he was, said he was only a voice--a voice crying in the wilderness, foretelling the Messiah. That was humility--hiding away that only Christ should be seen and honored. Florence Nightingale, having gone as an angel of mercy among the hospitals of the Crimea until her name was enshrined in every soldier's heart, asked to be excused from having her picture taken, when thousands of the men begged for it--that she might drop out and be forgotten, and that Christ alone might be remembered as the author of the blessings her hands had ministered. That was the true Christian spirit!
We need not trouble ourselves about fame, trying to make sure of honor and praise when we have done anything for the Master. What is fame? At the best, it is likely to be transient. We all know how soon the world forgets even its brightest names. A man who has filled a large place among his fellows dies today. Tomorrow all the newspapers will give him a notice, longer or shorter. Two or three days later his funeral occurs and then his name disappears from the public prints--unless he has so disposed of his property that the announcement shall start another ripple of publicity. Recently an honored railroad president died, and the day he was buried every wheel on the great railway system he had directed stopped and stood still for ten minutes. Then the trains rolled on as before, and the great man will scarcely be missed or mentioned hereafter.
What an empty thing is fame! How unsatisfactory! How hard it is to maintain! How fickle it is! There is a picture of the place of the crucifixion of Jesus, with the empty cross, and the crowd gone, and over yonder an donkey nibbling at a piece of withered palm branch. That is the way of fame too often. Palm Sunday and Good Friday were only five days apart.
Says Emily Dickinson:
"Fame is a bee. It has a song!
It has a sting! Ah, too, it has a wing."
As one writes: "When death has dropped the curtain--we shall hear no more applause. And though we fondly dream that it will continue after we have left the stage, we do not realize how quickly it will die away in silence, while the audience turns to look at the new actor and the next scene! Our position in society will be filled--as soon as it is vacated, and our name remembered only for a moment--except by a few who have learned to love us, not because of fame--but because we have helped them and done them some good."
The closing words of this quotation tell us the secret of the only fame that is worth living for--the fame of love, won not by our great deeds--but by humble service in Christ's name. The only fame that will last, will be in the records of good done to others. Vain was the child's wish that he might help God paint the clouds and sunsets, for as we watch the glorious banks of clouds in the heavens, their form changes and their glory vanishes. But if you go about doing good in simple ways, in gentle kindnesses, not thinking of reward, not dreaming of praise, not hoping for any return--you are enshrining your name where it will have immortal honor.
God hides away the things of love we do in the silence, with no thought of reward--hides them away in the memories, in the hearts, and in the lives of those we help, or bless, or influence for good. Nothing done in love and in humility, will be lost! Fame is transient and ephemeral, like the flowers you wear today, which will fade by tomorrow; but the touches you put upon human lives are immortal.
Those who have learned to live "in quietness and in confidence" have found the true secret of beautiful living.
Confidence! God loves to be trusted. We all love to be trusted. Earth has no sweeter joy--than when one heart trusts another. God is like us in this--trusting Him gives Him joy. He has a plan for our lives, a plan that takes in all our days and their smallest events. "The very hairs of your head are all numbered" means not that God actually counts our hairs--there would be no use in that--but that the smallest things are included in God's plan for our lives.
One came to me in anxiety about the future. This friend has had a good position for several years--but the office would be closed on August thirty-first, in one month--and the work would cease. "Then what shall I do?" asked the person. The answer I gave was: "God has a plan for your life--far beyond August thirty-first! His plan takes in all the months after that--as long as you may live. He will have something ready for you when your present task is finished." God loves to have us trust Him implicitly. The simpler our faith is--the more joy it gives Him. And He will never disappoint our confidence.
We do not know how much we grieve God--by our noisy fretfulness, our peevish complainings, our miserable discontents, our sad unbeliefs. Oh, for quietness and confidence! The promise runs: "In quietness and in confidence, shall be your strength." Strength--that is just what we need, for we are pitiably weak. If only we would get quiet and still, God's strength would come into our lives! If only we had confidence--that would bring us into communion with Christ, and leaning on Him, His strength would become ours and His peace would hold us quiet and at rest!
When sailors are heaving the anchor, they start a song and keep time to the music. When soldiers are going into battle, they play martial music to inspire the men. Carlyle said, "Give us, oh, give us the man who sings at his work." There is tremendous power in a songful heart. Quietness and confidence will fill our hearts with music, and then we will be strong.
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Chapter 1 - Our New Edens
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Chapter 5 - The Beauty of Quietness
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With interest rates at historic low levels, and equity markets especially volatile, how are individuals to build a portfolio that will allow for restful nights and a healthy nest egg for retirement?
By assessing their appetite for risk, deciding on their investment goals and diversifying, says Jeffrey Ray, Assistant Vice President, Mutual Funds and Structured Products, Manulife Investments.
The choices facing today's investors are difficult. On one hand, low interest rates mean that anyone counting on GICs [Guaranteed Investment Certificates] to fund their retirement may be out of luck. "If you were to try to grow your nest egg for retirement through guaranteed investments, I'm not sure the math would work out because the rates are so low," says Mr. Ray.
On the other hand, today's equity markets are experiencing frequent ups and downs. "This is more extreme volatility than I think anybody has ever seen over any period of time, and it doesn't look like it's going to dissipate any time soon," he says.
The right approach is to diversify. "Holding different types of assets is number one," he says. "That could be equities, bonds, money market instruments and combinations thereof." That spreads the risk, rather than keeping "all your eggs in one basket."
Diversifying also means looking outside Canada's borders.
"If you look at fixed income or bonds, there are interest rates and yields that are much higher than they are in Canada or the United States. If you look to some of the emerging market countries, and countries like Australia, their government bond yields are much higher than our own – in the four per cent range. If it is yield that you need, you should invest a portion of your portfolio in those countries."
Equities in emerging markets are more volatile than in Canada or the United States, and currency issues add an extra layer of complexity. Still, "from a growth perspective, you're likely going to want to be invested somewhat in emerging markets, where there is a good chance to see some growth."
Diversifying also means not simply expecting one's house to serve as a retirement nest egg, says Mr. Ray. "People seem to be quite satisfied putting money into their home because they feel it's more stable and will be there in the long run. But the real estate market goes through fluctuations. It goes back to my point about not having all your eggs in one basket: having everything in real estate and not buying any equities or fixed income instruments does not make a lot of sense. Real estate prices tend to move in cycles the same way the equity markets do.
"They see times of deterioration, so if you think your house is worth $500,000, it doesn't mean it will be forever. It could go through periods where it's down 10 or 20 per cent. If you need money to put your children through university, and the real estate market's down 20 per cent, you're probably not going to feel too good about having all your money in your house. You would feel the same way if you had all your money in the TSX and it was down 20 or 30 per cent."
Each investor must consider his or her tolerance for risk, he says. "How much can you stomach up and down? How much can you take your portfolio rising or declining? And then create a portfolio to match that appetite or tolerance."
Investors need to decide what their goals are – preferably in discussions with an advisor, says Mr. Ray – and make sure their investment strategy fits those goals. "It could be you want to grow your money as best you can over time, or you want to grow a portion of your money, and you want some of it for income on an ongoing basis. It could be to supplement your income or it could be your sole income.
"If you know you'll be making a big purchase in a number of years, a house or automobile, or putting your children through school, your portfolio can be set up to do that. If you've got to buy something in the shorter term, you'll probably want to have a pool of money that's less risky or more stable, so it's there when you need it."
Progress should be measured "more long term than short term," he says. (He defines the short term as three years or less, medium term as three to five years and long term as five years or more.)
How to prevent panicky reactions? "One way is not to look at all." Realistically, though, a semi-annual or annual review is wise "to make sure you're investing in the things you need to be invested in to get you to where you want to be."
Those with a smart, diversified portfolio usually do well in the long term, he says. "If you're invested in the right areas, things tend to right themselves. Alternatively, if this volatility really scares you and you can't sleep at night, there are safer vehicles."
Studies suggest that people who have a financial advisor tend to stick to their plan more closely than those who don't have one. "If you had to have surgery, you wouldn't try to do that yourself, you'd go to a doctor. If you needed legal advice, you'd go to a lawyer. Your financial portfolio should be dealt with exactly the same way," says Mr. Ray.

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The Sexiest!
By Guest son, jery,
February 28, 2002 in General Discussions
Guest son, jery
Rita and Alix, you are so on target about the gorgeous but tragic John Gilbert. And compared to today's crop of boy toys? Fuggadaboutit! Younger movie buffs think that just because a legendary star is "old", they're jokes. Gilbert and Garbo were so great together because they both had phenomenal electricty. But in "The Merry Widow," I really got what Gilbert was all about.
Guest mongo
The dashing John Gilbert must have had something since Dietrich was also attracted to him. I guess all was well in the boudoir as long as he didn't talk. Only kidding.
Guest K, Sandy
Right on about Ava Gardner, mongo! I just watched EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE yesterday and I was knocked out once again by her beauty and sex appeal.
Okay, I finally saw Ramon Navarro in something-MATA HARI. I thought that he was pleasant looking, but one of the sexiest? Too much of a boy, not enough of a MAN! Give me John Gilbert any day!
Just watched a chestnut from 1932 on PBS titled "Mr. Robinson Crusoe" with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. It was Island hokum at its best and he called the Island girl (Maria Alba) Saturday!!! Mr. Fairbanks didn't impress me as being a matinee idol since he appeared a bit pudgy or maybe stocky. He was however athletic and acrobatic which probably thrilled the ladies at the time.
Guest o, rita
Mongo, Fairbanks, Sr. was a middle aged leading man in 1932. Remember, that's when Fairbanks, Jr. was beginning his career as a young leading man. Perhaps, having an adult son being billed as Fairbanks, Jr., made him look old to the public. As you said he was still active and athletic on the screen. Dietrich referred to him as "that pretty son" of Sr.'s. Maria Riva alluded to her mother's affair with Jr. in the 30's. However, she never divulged his name. I guessed it was him from her description and photos of the two of them together as they were attempting to be discreet. The photos of them were taken in Europe. Maria described Jr. as a "wannabe English gentlemen, hanging out with the aristocracy. i.e. Duke and Duchess of Windsor, D & D of Kent, etc. She indicated he was somewhat pompous. She never considered him one of her ersatz father figures,e.g. John Gilbert; she adored him. It was said that Sr. was resentful and a little jealous of Jr.'s emergence on the silver screen. I guess Sr. still thought of himself as the action-hero, leading man, of more then twenty years by 1932.
Guest Alix
I loved Fairbanks, Sr. in a movie called REACHING FOR THE MOON. He plays a rich tycoon who's devoid of skills with the ladies. He falls hard for Bebe Daniels, and aviatrix, and who in their right mind wouldn't fall for her! He's witty in this one, handsome, and of course throws in some Fairbanks athletics. For a transitional film, with a former silent star, I really like it and him!
I think I saw Fairbanks Sr. in "Robinson Crusoe" and at the time I, too, thought he was strangely portly to be playing such an outdoorsy role. Isn't this the one where he wore that horrible black lipstick that all those men wore in the early talkies? Also, Fairbanks Jr. became so British-fied that he became sort of a joke in Hollywood and England. Yes, it's true, that Fairbanks Sr. did everything he could to discourage his son to enter "flickers.' It was another case of that ole debbil rivalry.
Thank's Rita and Alix for your input regarding Douglas Fairbanks Sr. I have to make it my business to see one of his silent films when he was in his prime. I did however like his son who impressed me in some good movies. I believe that he was once married to diva Joan Crawford.
Guest olmsted, l
Sandy, I completely agree with you. I kept thinking, what is all the rave about? Like you, I thought he was cute, but not a sexy beast. As for Gilbert and all the references to his high voice, I read that studio heads had it out for him over some dispute and that they actually fooled with the soundtrack to make him sound more feminine? Does anyone know if this is actually true?
I can't believe no one has mentioned the gorgeous Norma Shearer. Not only was this woman a great talent, but she had a voice like velvet! And those eyes! They always seemed to suggest something like she knew something no one else did. She was one hot lady.
You're right about that Mongo; he was married to Joan. She acquired the "class" she was seeking when married to Jr. She was clueless when they first got together to the chagrin of Doug and Mary. I guess Jr. "schooled her". I read that one day on set of film she was acting in she blurted out "oh, ****"!
Olmstead, don't mean to cast expursions on your girl, Norma; however, I read the cameraman worked very hard on those eyes of Norma's. Apparently, it was of great concern of Irving as her eyes were "beady" and close together. Apparently, if she was not lit properly or certain camera angles made her look cross-eyed. Elinor Glyn< after watching one of Norma's films, commented she had "such teeney eyes" .
I always thought Norma Shearer was a unique beauty. She just exuded sensuality, especially in those sheer silk gowns she wore and no underwear beneath them. There's a bio out about her. Before she died at the Motion Picture Rest Home, she used to wander the hallways there, a long mane of silver hair, combed down her back, and she'd stop people and say: "Are you Irving? Tell Bill Daniels I'll be on the set in just a minute." Irving, of course, was her husband, Irving thalberg and Bill Daniels was MGM's great camera man, William Daniels. So sad.
I see what you mean about her eyes being small, cross-eyed, etc. I noticed that the first few times I watched her in movies, but boy, when they got it right, they sure looked gorgeous! And as Jery was saying about her in those gowns of the '30's--she had the perfect body for those costumes.
Actually Norma did have one eye that had a cast in it. She worked very hard to control the muscles and keep it in line. Watch the breakfast scene of PRIVATE LIVES...it contains the most troublesome moments "eye-wise." Norma looked stunning in those satin gowns sans underwear! I love her clothes in A FREE SOUL and the smart business attire she wears in THE DIVORCEE. The one thing I always felt Norma needed in the beauty department was a decent hairdresser! Another beauty in bad need of a new hairdresser was Kay Francis. OH MY...did Kay have some atrocious looking hair in some of her movies!
Thanks to her films on TCM I was introduced to the lovely Norma Shearer and the more I see of her the more I adore her. I was familiar with "Escape" which was made at the end of her film career where she wasn't used to such a good advantage. However when I watched her in "The Women", "Strange Interlude", "Marie Antoinette", "A Free Soul" and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" I went bonkers. She had that movie star magnetism especially in "The Women" and it was her eyes I was most attracted to. Miss Shearer was quite a lady.
I don't see her as such a great beauty and I think her figure was kind of thick waisted and dumpy looking. In the Women she looked plump when she wore the skirt and sweater set.
She also looked dumpy in HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, when she had to wear tights and a tutu as a circus rider. She had really thick legs, and it wasn't a very attractive look. I think she looked much better in long gowns.
Guest Collinsworth, Michelle
Hi, I'm new to here and a young lover of classic films, especially from the 30's and 40's.I've been reading through and no one has mentioned Rock Hudson, personal life aside he was hot. Also a young James Stewart. I also love Fred Astair as leading man, he had a wonderful comedic flare and was a great singer and of course dancer. Marilyn was my favorite female for sex appeal until I discovered Dietrich, she's got to be one of the most facinating women in movie history her voice, her attitude...clothes everything about her was the embodiment of unattainable hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Not to mention her amazingly long screen life, we should all age so gracefully!
I just watched FATHER GOOSE on TCM and once again I was swept away by the sexiness of Cary Grant. Even at 60 years of age, playing an unshaven, messy curmudgeon, Cary is still the guy that I'd love to be stranded on an island with!
Today on TCM I watched one of my favorite actors Burt Lancaster in "The Swimmer" (1968) and he was superb as a man reflecting on his life. Thankfully Paul Newman, William Holden and Glenn Ford turned the part down. Throughout the film his only costume was a bathing suit and for a guy in his 50's he was still handsome and in great physical shape (and in one scene even walking around bareass naked). It surprises me that Lancaster isn't mentioned on the boards more often and especially in this category since I figured that some of the ladies would consider him one of the sexiest stars to come out of Hollywood.
Today's NY Daily News declared George Clooney is "today's" Clark Gable. Huh? Okay, it gets even better. Our new-age Gary Cooper is boy toy Matthew McConaughey (quick, name one movie he's been in). Nicolas Cage is today's answer to Gary Cooper, Hugh Grant is our new Cary Grant and Tobey Maguire (who dat?)has earned the title of our new Errol Flynn. Pu-leeze! This sounds like PR hype to me. What do you think?
Of course the actors that you mention have no control over the comparisons to the great stars that they are compared with. Clooney for one would just laugh at the whole thing. I've seen all these gents in movies and each were good at times in what they do. McConaughey was excellent in the film "Lone Star" as was Maguire in "The Cider House Rules". He will most likely fly to the top after "Spider-Man" is released very soon. I don't believe that Grant takes himself too seriously although he was good in some light comedies. Of course Cage won an Oscar already for "Leaving Las Vegas" and was in the popular "Moonstruck". This new breed will also have their ups and downs as did the great stars of the past, which there is actually no comparison, however the outrageous pay checks that they receive will more than compensate for a bomb or two.
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That skinny little runt Sinatra does not deserve to be even mentioned in this thread!


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