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Work of artist Erin C. Potter exhibited at Electric Haze
Above: Artwork by Erin Potter
Electric Haze, in its unique hookah bar-meets-gallery setting, will feature upcoming artist Erin Potter on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Potter�s show will focus on the current state of the human being�s relationship with its habitat.
Having grown up in the woods of Berkshire county, Potter�s identity and artistic voice are forever entwined with the forest, like the branches and roots so heavily featured in her work. The great wild expanse is revealed in parts throughout her artwork, her romance with nature ever-evident. For Potter, art is about describing and conveying the beauty already around us, too often unnoticed.
�I am always chasing a feeling when I paint. The feeling you get when the sun shines through the trees in just the right way, that you can see the fairies. Or when the moon casts its blue light over a foggy meadow. The smell of the mud in springtime when we start to see color again, or a fresh snowfall when the world sparkles, covered in frost,� Potter explains.
With impressive breadth, Potter dabbles and displays talent in a variety of media, including painting and photography, clothing, jewelry and headdress design, and performance art. �Art is in everything we do,� Potter says, �whether it is cooking, dancing, making a campfire, growing a garden�I am inspired by life, and the world around me, so I grew to express myself in many ways.�
She describes her different artistic outlets almost like the different chakras, with each contributing something particular to the larger spirituality of her artwork and herself as an artist. �I love nature photography because I get to run around the woods,� Potter says. �Fire spinning allows me to let go, to use my whole body and portray a feeling, to stretch out and sacrifice myself to the fire � Painting keeps me curious. Cycling through different outlets keeps things fresh, exciting.�
Her paintings are ethereal and dreamy, whistling colors off into a landscape devoid of human societal trappings and industry. Particularly in her nature paintings, her colors and forms blend together, releasing the tension of expectation, of realism and representation, and freeing the mind to escape into their language-less narratives. Light filters through forms or rushes through air filling sublime, but familiar atmospheres, reminding the viewer how surprising nature�s beauty can be. While her scenes are primarily innocuous and adventurous, ever present is the understanding that all things exist together, light with dark, life with death. A Dire Wolf series, rendered entirely in variations of black and white, conveys a placid violence, resting just below the otherwise peaceful surface, whimsically portrayed through an array of splash-like strokes, harsh but flowing dark lines, and vague shadows.
Her paintings dealing with mandalas and anthropomorphic woodland creatures have palettes that are either bright and bold or dark and mysterious. The mandala, an ancient Hindu symbol for the interrelatedness of all things, is significant to Potter, for whom it is an outlet, a release of energy, she says. �The repetitive patterns are meditative and remind me of the fractal patterns in nature.� Likewise, her creatures are therapeutic, emanating the emotions of the forest. Often sprite-like but dissimilar to the popular Victorian image of a quaint miniature winged pixie, Potter�s fairies range from deer-skulled seraphims to a cycloptic snake-mammal with an intimidating multi-horned, sinewy body and spiked tail, but a vulnerable, begging look in its moonlit eye. For Potter these creatures are not merely inhabitants of a mythical wooded world, but physical representations of our own natural world.
�The creatures I create are my interpretation of the forests� many spirits, moods and transformations, as well as our own connection to the natural world. I draw inspiration from the many animals I see often as a person living in the country. Deer, coyotes, bears, owls, foxes, songbirds, hawks, chipmunks, squirrels. Animals have important lessons to teach us, if we would only pay more attention,� Potter says.
It is clear that in all of her art, Potter advocates respect for the natural world around us. Rather than promoting herself as an artist, Potter comes across as an interpreter, a mere mortal vessel through which the true beauty of existence may humbly pass. �My biggest aspiration would be to live as sustainably as possible, growing and hunting my own food, while always continuing to paint and make work. I�d like to have a family someday, live in a community, and touch the world in a positive way.�
For her upcoming exhibition at Electric Haze, Potter seeks to thematically spread awareness of our dissociation from nature, something lingering on so many minds but still far beyond societally reconciled.
�This work is about our connection/lack of connection to nature. The more we separate ourselves from nature, the more we separate from each other. Our sense of community, of belonging, of connection, grows distant as consumer culture teaches us that success is based on how much stuff you own, that you have to get to the top, no matter who you step on to get there. Indigenous cultures have held onto something we've forgotten. How to live in harmony with the earth, and in harmony with each other.�
To view Erin Potter's work, head to Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St., Worcester on Wednesday, Feb. 5 and visit www.erincpotter.com or her Etsy store, Tiny Lion Creations at www.etsy.com/shop/TinyLionCreations where she sells jewelry, headdresses, and clothing fashioned with feathers, bones, crystals and more.


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The pink cloud is a term that stems from the Alcoholics and Addicts Anonymous sobriety networks, and it's one of the most common feelings that the majority of recovering addicts will experience during their recovery period. It's the first year after sobriety, and the pink cloud can often feel like its own high without the addiction present, but it can be just as dangerous as the addiction itself.
Here's the essential information about the pink cloud experience, and how to approach your sobriety once it wears off.
The pink cloud is defined as the feeling that recovering addicts frequently get during their first year of being sober; it feels like being high again without the addiction, and it feels greater than anything you've ever felt before. It feels like an almost manic high, and people are often inspired to forge new friendships and relationships during this period, take up new hobbies and make drastic lifestyle changes during this time.
But should you? Research and practice says NO.
The pink cloud feels great, and it can be fantastic – but it's usually only experienced for the first year of sobriety, and the pink cloud can eventually wear off. This should already show why and how the pink cloud can be dangerous; first, any drastic lifestyle changes that you might have made during this one-year period just might not stick.
The feeling of the pink cloud can last a little longer than a year, or sometimes a little less than a year – but the important thing to know about it is that it eventually wears off. That can leave many people feeling completely lost: Now that life has gotten back to the usual and mundane, it can feel like you're screwed, and it can put you right back to where you were.
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US Taking a Tougher Stance Against Animal Cruelty
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Posted: Oct 24, 2014, 3:38 am |
Updated: Oct 22, 2015, 11:04 am
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — People who hate animal cruelty should be happy about an important change in federal law that will go into effect next year.
Beginning in 2015, the FBI will consider animal cruelty as a crime against society, falling into the same category as homicide, kidnapping, burglary and arson. Animal cruelty crimes will also be included in the Uniform Crime Report — National Incident Based Reporting System.
The change should help law enforcement authorities get a better handle on understanding the motivation behind these crimes as well as stopping future ones from occurring.
Animal cruelty crimes will be reported to the UCR under the following classifications: simple/gross neglect; intentional abuse and torture; organized abuse; and animal sexual abuse.
Besides protecting animals from some unspeakable acts, the FBI also believes that the new system will help prevent violent crimes against humans since studies have shown that people who commit heinous acts such as serial killing often abused, hurt and killed animals during their adolescence.
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The West Yorkshire School of Performing Arts (WYPSA) in Guiseley, has not one, but two very young students who are up for plum roles in two different productions.
10-year olds Mathew Lyons, and Freddie Sawyer are both on the auditions shortlist to star in major roles.
Lyons who has been attending the WPSA the age of seven, is up for the title role in Billy Eliott: The Musical," in the production adapted from the hit 2000 movie "Billy Elliot," which grossed $120 million and received three Oscar nominations.
The musical, scored by Sir Elton John and book and lyrics by Lee Hall, is directed by Stephen Daldry with choreography by Peter Darling.
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Sawyer, instead, is up for the lead role of Peter Pan in Warner's Brothers new movie that will be directed by Joe Wright, and is live action remake of JM Barrie's classic novel Peter Pan, that will star Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard.
Lyons, Sawyer and Jake Spittlehouse, also age 10 attended the Leeds audition for Billy Elliot, that saw more than 80 boys trying out for the part.
Mathew make it all the way through to the final stage of the auditions and is waiting to be called to London to see if he can become one of the three boys who alternate in the role of Billy Elliot.
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The Last Ones () is a 1908 four-act drama by Maxim Gorky.

The play which the author started working on in 1907, was originally called Father (Отец), and was later  translated into English as Our Father. It was first published by the Znaniye compilation (book 22) in Saint Petersburg and came out simultaneously as a separate edition in Berlin via the Ivan Ladyzhnikov Publishers.

In a September 1907 letter to Ladyzhnikov Gorky enquired whether in the latter's opinion the play could be staged in Berlin, for in Russia it had no chance of passing the test of censorship. In as soon as October, though, he informed the publisher: "Failure with the "Father" does not upset me, for I know myself, the attempt is unimportant. Leave this thing under a bushel, I hardly ever come back to it". Still, Gorky resumed working upon the play in November and completed it in spring 1908, giving it the new title. He sent it to Konstantin Pyatnitsky, the Znaniye editor, in April. The play was banned from being produced by the Imperial theatres by the Imperial Press Department on 10 June 1908. In 1923 it was included into the Complete Works by Maxim Gorky for the first time and since then started to be produced by the Soviet theatres.

In 1972 the Moscow Art Theatre production of the play was adapted for television by Oleg Efremov, Leonid Pchyolkin and Vladimir Salyuk.

References

External links
 Последние. The original Russian text
 Последние. The 1972 Soviet film. Full version, 2 hours 14 minutes, YouTube

1908 plays
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Finnish Long Distance Orienteering Championships 2023 will be held in North Karelia near Joensuu in 2nd and 3th of September 2023. At same time the competition is also World Ranking Event (WRE). The competition is organised by Kalevan Rasti ry. The map is made by Jussi Silvennoinen and Petteri Hakala.
The competition center is located in a farm in Hirvilahti near Pielinen lake. The distance to Joensuu is 57 km and to Koli 22 km. Parking is arranged in the immediate vicinity of the competition center as field parking.
There will be training opportunities organised by Kalevan Rasti ry. Please, contact by email sm2023@kalevanrasti.fi.


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A plea for Kosovo - voices from Pristina and Brussels
Kosovo achieved its independence a decade ago, in 2008. Now it navigates a path towards EU membership (Photo: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
By Bekim Çollaku and Antonia Battaglia
BRUSSELS/PRISTINA, 4. Apr 2018, 09:19
Our aim is to give a twin perspective on Kosovo's present situation and its integration path towards the EU.
We thought it interesting and enriching to see Kosovo's future accession to the EU from two different points of view: Pristina and Brussels, where in one the accent is more on what the EU should do, and from Brussels the emphasis is on Kosovo's institutions' accountability for the way ahead.
The view from Pristina is by Bekim Collaku, chief of staff to the president of Kosovo and a former minister for EU Integration, and the view from Brussels by Antonia Battaglia, researcher at the Centre for Political Theory of ULB University in Brussels.
Kosovo, as an integral part of the mosaic making up the Western Balkans, needs to be treated as an equal with the other five partners in the region, in the European Union's plans to enlarge in this non-EU pocket of Europe.
The strategy of the European Commission makes distinctions among the countries of the Western Balkans.
Some are treated as more advanced, and are given more concrete targets for accession by 2025, while others are not given any precise steps.
However, the EU accession perspective is strong for all the 'Western Balkans Six' and it would be a mistake to allow this vagueness in the text to now concretely restrict Kosovo and its EU integration.
The EU realises that leaving Kosovo behind would be a grave strategic mistake. Such an approach would indeed deteriorate the political and economic situation in Kosovo, and ultimately in the entire region.
The strategy for the Western Balkans puts a strong emphasis on the need to solve bilateral disputes before joining the Union.
However, to make this happen all 28 member states must reiterate that all six Western Balkan countries enjoy an EU perspective.
Unfortunately, the EU Council has already confirmed that enlargement as such, will not be a topic of discussion at the Sofia summit in May, which is a missed opportunity.
When it comes to Kosovo's bilateral dispute with Serbia, both Kosovo and Serbia have committed to the dialogue for the normalisation of relations.
But both have put their trust in the EU as mediator of this dialogue because of the promise that solving the issues between the two countries will enable EU membership. There is no alternative to dialogue, and it is difficult to emphasise enough its importance.
Events that took place in Kosovo on 26 March 2018 when a Serbian state official entered Kosovo illegally and in violation of the mutually-agreed procedures, which then led to his arrest by Kosovo police, illustrates how brittle the stability on the ground is, and how things can also escalate for the worse.
Security and stability in Europe to a great extend depends on the ability to preserve peace in the Western Balkans.
The EU has a poor track record when it comes to conflict prevention and peace-making in the region so far.
The message should be clear: all bilateral disputes, including between Kosovo and Serbia, will need to be solved before accession to the EU.
Only this can make the Sofia summit the moment where the Western Balkans' EU perspective becomes real.
The ambitious strategy set out by the European Commission for the accession of the Western Balkans to the EU has underlined that Kosovo has still a road ahead before meeting the requirements of the membership process.
The call is on the need for deep and durable reforms in the areas of rule of law, independence of the judiciary, fight against corruption and organised crime, good governance and respect of fundamental rights. Moreover, border disputes should be resolved before any accession talk.
The road to Europe has its next most important stop-over in Sofia on 17 May, where the summit on Western Balkans will represent the opportunity to deepen mutual commitment, to foster economic cooperation and heighten reciprocal engagement on security, migration and, most of all, mutual connectivity.
But, if the strategy is meant to bring Kosovo to the future, the international community should engage more clearly with a detailed path towards EU membership, building effective partnership and favouring the participation of local institutions to relevant EU policy discussions.
Kosovo needs to 'grow' into Europe.
As recent events have showed, the country is still a very delicate fulcrum where any action related to the dialogue with Belgrade may become disruptive of the peace accords.
Kosovo needs to be lifted of the uncertainty lingering around its status and, if the European perspective wants to be successful, it needs to mature through the empowerment, responsibility and accountability. A real relationship.
The integration of Serbs living in the North and the strengthening of their position within Kosovo institutions should take place unconditionally of what happens in Belgrade.
Keeping on making the future of Kosovo and Serbia so interdependent heightens pressure and further burdens the difficult internal situation.
The Kosovo leadership, at the same time, needs to become ambitious, bold, set to work more than ever for the adoption of anti-corruption and anti-crime reforms, for social change and investment in the economy and education.
The EU needs to face the issues of liberalisation of visas and the question of the status.
Spain (along with Slovakia, Romania, Greece and Cyprus), not being ready to grant Kosovo its status are committing a big political mistake that talks loads about the past but finds no place into a broad European perspective.
Catalonia's population has not undergone a war, and the case of Kosovo cannot be at any time be compared to the current Spanish internal political situation.
Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said that the Western Balkans believe in Europe more than 'we' (those of us already 'European' by passport) do. True.
Sacrificing real advancement to maintaining an apparent (fragile) stability in the region has showed ineffective. Kosovo needs a brand new future.
And Europe needs a rock-solid Kosovo.
Bekim Collaku is chief of staff to the president of Kosovo and a former minister for EU Integration. Antonia Battaglia was a UN officer in Kosovo, and is a researcher at the Centre for Political Theory of ULB University in Brussels, author of a book on Kosovo, and writes for Balkan Insight
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's, not those of EUobserver.
Kosovo drops objection to EU court
EU downgrades Kosovo enlargement status
Kosovo killing halts EU talks in Brussels
Western Balkans summit imperilled over Kosovo
EU powers and the US have welcomed Kosovo's decision to end its attempt to overturn a war crimes tribunal.
EU commission changed key policy document after Spanish objections, despite Kosovo's warning of "tensions".
Serbia has walked out of EU talks on better relations with Kosovo after what it called a "terrorist" killing of a Serb politician in Kosovo.
While Bulgaria aims to have all 28 EU countries in Sofia in May to give a boost to EU accession of the Western Balkans, some EU countries want to make sure their reservations about Kosovo are noted.
EU name change masks new restrictions in development sector
This week the European Commission's Directorate for Cooperation and Development changes its name to the Directorate-General for International Partnerships - in a symbol of how early-industrialised countries seem to be losing influence to the benefit of some emerging countries.
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The recent attack on the US Capitol reveals the toxicities of digital media platforms, but the European Commission's proposed competition laws won't fix it.
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Italy's return to statism spells trouble for the eurozone
There are profound questions about whether the windfall of cash from the EU coronavirus recovery fund will truly help Italy recover or whether it will cause more problems than it solves, for Rome and the rest of the eurozone.


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In 2003, a building condition assessment and space needs assessment study of the justice building was undertaken by the Stonewall Group.
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individual who concluded a new facility is the best possible solution.
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chambers on the quality of service provided by the city's waste contractor, BFI Canada.
McCaig inflamed matters, in what can best be described in football terms as piling on after the whistle, when he sided with Sawatzky and threw in a couple of solid jabs for good measure.
Campbell, however, has bounced back with his sense of humour intact to offer this rebuttal.
"I am going to forgo some advice I received from good friends, that it was best not to respond to articles in the press," writes Campbell.
Campbell continues: "I have a constant list of complaints from citizens that they have to navigate around garbage receptacles on the sidewalk. This is particularly perilous for those with visibility problems, the elderly and those whose mode of transportation are wheelchairs and motorized scooters.
As to the matter of McCaig's personal observations, Campbell advises of progress made over the past couple of weeks.
and the appropriate city staff and myself sat down with him in a cool, calm and friendly manner and believe we have resolved many of the issues we discussed, including containers on the sidewalk.
"Finally, Mr. McCaig's comment about politicians who have never achieved anything in life take great glee in trying to destroy those who have — Bob, I take that insensitive remark as a slam against me. I am quite happy with my accomplishments in life and have to consider the source of the remark.
As an aside Gord, I think Matthew refers to a camel passing through the eye of a needle as more likely than a rich man entering into the Kingdom of God, but the argument is well taken.
It's been quiet at 99 Edward St., so we checked in this week with Ald. Dave Warden, Elgin St. Thomas Public Health board chairman.
Sounds like a new facility is to be built, however Warden says not necessarily so.
Warden stresses the proposal is not limited to a new building.
"It's options for us to look at. The county was excellent in extending us a year on the lease (at 99 Edward St.).
page as to which address will appear next on health unit letterhead.
Ald. Dave Warden on the request for proposal to provide office building design services for Elgin St. Thomas Public Health.
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Who has created these 'Adequacy Standards' included in the Police Services Act, in which the number of staff in Police Services increases the police-to-population ratio?
Well, according to (http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/police_serv/about/about.html) it is the Ontario Government.
Perhaps St. Thomas should consider downsizing the staff in its Police Services, so that the present building will continue to be adequate for Police Services needs. This will minimize the cost to the taxpayer, helping to alleviate the tax burden from those in our community who have to make due with what they have, as the result of job losses and little or no wage increases.


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Qatar's Mowasalat to set up unified call center for booking Karwa taxis
Lesley Walker
Amid ongoing complaints about the service and availability of taxis in Qatar, the state transportation company Mowasalat has announced plans to launch a new, unified call center to take bookings for all the Karwa franchises.
Once the center is fully operational by the end of the year, customers will be able to call a single, toll-free number, 800TAXI (8008294) to book their transportation from a fleet of 4,000 cars, based on their location.
The goal is to provide "faster and better" service to clients, a Mowasalat official has said. This would be accomplished by having all four private companies that operate turquoise taxis on Qatar's streets, as well as Mowasalat-run vehicles, available for service.
All Karwa taxis will be fitted with GPS to track their location, and customers would be sent the nearest available car, the Peninsula reports.
Because the new system is still in the testing phase, franchises that currently operate their own bookings system will keep their individual phone numbers for a short while longer. But eventually, all Karwa taxis will have to use the single number.
Under the new fully integrated system, customers will likely not have a choice between cars from different companies, which raises a question about how the franchises will distinguish themselves.
However, according to a Mowasalat official, "It does not matter which company the taxi belongs to. The purpose of the center is to provide faster and better service to the customers."
There are currently four private companies that have franchises to operate taxi services in Qatar.
In addition to the 1,200 light gray-roofed cars run by state-operated Mowasalat, maroon-roofed Al Million and blue-roofed Al Ijarah taxis collectively operate roughly 1,800 cars.
In September, Dubai-based Cars Taxis announced it had joined forces with Profit to run the yellow-topped vehicles, while last month Capital Taxis, operated by Ibin Ajayan Group, became the fourth franchisee with its dark gray-roofed taxis.
These last two firms have said they will each roll out 500 additional taxis onto the streets before the end of this year, bringing the total number of Karwa taxis in Qatar to 4,000.
At the time of its launch, Ibin Ajayan's consultant CEO Ravi Pillai told Gulf Times that the taxis would distinguish themselves from the competition by providing better customer service.
"Almost 100 percent of our taxi drivers have previous experience in the GCC states, including Qatar and they are extremely familiar with the road conditions in the region, in particular in the country," he said.
Earlier this year, Qatar's transport minister announced that the Karwa taxi service would be entirely privatized by 2017, with a further two companies planned to come on board to run the taxis, while Mowasalat withdraws to operate solely as regulator.
Poor customer service and unreliability are among the main criticisms of Qatar's taxi service voiced by customers.
Profit Group taxis.
At the moment, residents can choose to book cars through a particular firm, which incentivizes companies to focus on improving their service. It is not known if this might change under the new system.
However, the General Manager of Cars Taxis told Doha News that he welcomed the unified bookings system, saying it would improve efficiency for the companies, as drivers would have to spend less time touring the city and touting for business.
Ajith Stephen said: "This new system is good news for everyone. It is great for the customers – they will get a taxi quicker – and it is great for us.
"Currently, our drivers can use up half their kilometers driving around looking for customers. Now this will be reduced, as they will be called and told to go to the nearest customer. They will become more efficient."
Meanwhile, an adviser to the Ministry of Transport has warned that residents should prepare for "three to four years" of congestion on Qatar's roads while the infrastructure is overhauled.
Speaking at the seventh annual Bridges and Highways Middle East conference in Doha yesterday, surface transport adviser Abdul Ghaffar A H Chaudhry said traffic snarls during the works were inevitable, but that ultimately the new roads would help to ease congestion, Gulf Times reports.
In its latest annual report, public works authority Ashghal announced it plans to start 14 new roads projects next year as part of its Expressway Program. Many of these involve extensive construction to key routes through central Doha.
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jalong
"Currently, our drivers can use up half their kilometers driving around looking for customers."
And, yet, I can never flag one down when I need it and have to wait a minimum of two hours when I call for one. Or at least I did before; I just bought a car because the taxis here are too much of a headache to deal with.
Been happily using uber for a while, and a couple of days ago made the mistake of getting into a karwa cab when I came out of a hotel, it was there and I hadn't thought of ordering an uber shortly before leaving so I thought why not. Big mistake, the guy drove like a nutter and took an indirect route despite my telling him to go a different way.
After somehow making it to my destination accident free, I thought to myself, at least he's not pulling the broken meter lie. So I paid him the displayed fare plus what I thought was a generous tip. The driver actually had the nerve to demand an extra 10 rials, said it's because he had to wait a long time until a customer came along!
brorick
"Currently, our drivers can use up half their kilometers driving around looking for customers"
Yet when I ask them to take me to certain places they refuse unless I pay them a lot
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that to me is the biggest problem. they refuse to go by the meter and try to reneg a fare while they pick up several customers at once… perhaps they also need to be paid better 1,200 is a joke…
BigDaddyDK
I had that happen one evening when leaving Carrefour at Villaggio to take my wife and I to our villa in Al Soudan. Dude had us in the car and refused to turn on the meter, then tried to charge us QR20 for a short ride. I got our three or four bags out of the vehicle and my wife whipped out her phone and took photos of the driver and the vehicle plate. Amazingly he wanted to give back the money then. Knowing that he was paid quite poorly to begin with, I understood why he did what he did. I let him keep the money, but we definitely called Mowasalat and complained about the fact that it had happened. We didn't give them any details but wanted it known that it did occur. That fellow may well have required a change of underwear too based on the look on his face when she snapped the photos. He was the proverbial deer in the headlights.
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Still not as good as Uber.
Oh good. Now I only need to call one number to be told that the next available taxi is in four hours…
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See, living the dream now
Especially if you try to schedule one when schools are letting out. Heaven help you if you don't have a taxi booked three days in advance. That's how we always make our flights on time if we need to leave in time for an 8:00 flight. Three or four days ahead we call and make a reservation. Fortunately, Karwa never let us down. However, I'm not sure that everyone has been so fortunate. I always have a backup plan.
i thought they already had one number! it's pretty obvious they needed to have it in place early on
"Almost 100 percent of our taxi drivers have previous experience in the GCC states, including Qatar and they are extremely familiar with the road conditions in the region, in particular in the country."
You can tell that by the way they drive. Had one about a year ago that took me from the airport to my villa and was weaving across multiple lanes of traffic as though he was a thobe-wearing Land Cruiser driver on C-Ring, all the while the bass was thumping on some profanity-laced Tupac songs that I'm sure he'd bit-torrented, based on the song titles rolling across the digital display on the radio. Nigerian fellow, if I remember correctly. Nice enough, but drove like an animal. That and the music were just what I needed after a red-eye flight from Jakarta.
Qatar taxi services may not improve in the short term as majority of the taxi drivers are imported. How do you expect them to know the roads or locations well if they have only arrived Qatar for less than one year? That's why sometimes it takes more than half or one hour for the drivers to find the passengers who themselves may not be able to tell the call centre of their exact locations of waiting. These imported drivers may have to stay in Doha and driving on Qatar roads for more than one or two years to get familiar with the various locations. Furthermore, many buildings, roads and compounds are without proper signage! The new transport ministry may need to review Mowasalat's roles?
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Q: Is there a way for double/parallel authentication in one application? I'm building application based on micro services. REST API. For authenticating users I'm using JWT. All that works fine.
But for communication between modules I would like to use ssl client certificates.
I don't know how to deal that when request comes from the outside use JWT, and when request comes from the inside use ssl authentication.
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Who is the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition?
Our mission is to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado. We are a coalition of nearly 7,000 individual members and over 100 faith and community organizations who have united to stop perpetual prison expansion in Colorado through policy and sentence reform.
Our chief areas of interest include drug policy reform, women in prison, racial injustice, the impact of incarceration on children and families, the problems associated with re-entry and stopping the practice of using private prisons in our state.
If you would like to be involved please go to our website and become a member.
California's Plan to Curb America's Overmedication of Foster Kids
In the United States, low-income and foster-care kids are prescribed psychotropic drugs at an alarmingly higher rate than their peers in America or abroad. Governing recently wrote about the problem and what states are doing to deal with it in March. But since then, California began closing in on a package of bills that could make the state a leader in controlling overmedication.
Earlier this month, the California state Senate unanimously passed four bills that would strengthen the state's monitoring system for foster kids' prescriptions, require stronger evidence documenting the need for medications, add more medical expertise in the area of oversight and force group homes that overprescribe to develop plans to change their practices. Some of those ideas aren't new, but experts say adopting all of them together could make California a model.
"We feel pretty confident that this package of four bills is really more comprehensive and targets so many different aspects of the problem that other states really have not been targeting," said Bill Grimm of the National Center for Youth Law, the group behind the legislation.
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Psychotropic drugs range from amphetamines, which are often prescribed for ADHD, to antidepressants and antipsychotics. Antipsychotics were originally intended for the treatment of severe mental health illnesses but have increasingly been prescribed to children with behavior issues since the 1990s. Numerous studies show low-income children, particularly those in foster care, are prescribed psychotropic drugs at rates far above privately insured kids. The Office of Inspector General has raised alarms in numerous reports. Since 2011, federal authorities have required states to report annually about steps they're taking to curb psychotropic prescriptions.
California is one of only a few states that requires a judge to approve prescriptions for psychotropic drugs, but according to an investigative newspaper series, it still prescribed them to about a quarter of foster kids (compared to just 4.8 percent of privately insured children), over the past decade. The bills would revamp the court system of prior approval. The form that doctors submit to judges, for instance, would have to show that doctors tried other therapeutic services first. Judges would also have the power to request a second opinion or return the form for more information, and doctors would have to get the written consent of children 14 and older. The bill also offers training to everyone from judges to group-home employees on the appropriate uses of these drugs and expands data-sharing between the Medicaid system that pays for care and the child welfare system.
The two most notable changes, though, are increased monitoring of group homes and expanded use of nurses -- both of which are uncommon. The newspaper series highlighted links between group homes for foster kids and high rates of prescription medications, which children often had to take as a condition of staying there. With better data-sharing, state officials would flag group homes with the highest rates of psychotropic prescribing and require them to make plans to reduce overmedication. Nurses, meanwhile, would monitor the side effects of antipsychotics such as serious weight gain, diabetes and neurological disorders.
The bills haven't encountered opposition, but they still need to pass the California Assembly and get the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown who's been fairly quiet on the issue even though it generated a lot of interest after the newspaper investigation. The bills come at an estimated cost of $5 million in the first year, with about $4 million thereafter. To Anna Johnson, a policy analyst with the National Center for Youth Law, Brown's reputation as a budget hawk means he's less likely to support the bill package.
"His main legacy here has been that he's had this balanced budget, but for foster kids [for] whom every day feels like a rainy day, we feel like he could do more to protect them," she said.
When asked for his opinion on the package of bills, his press office said Brown doesn't typically comment on pending legislation.
Shadi Houshyar, vice president of child welfare policy at the advocacy group First Focus, agrees that the bills would be a positive step, but she also thinks states are generally behind on an element that's critical to actually replace drugs: access to services like intensive counseling and individualized case management.
"The biggest challenge is how you increase the use of evidence-based therapies for kids in addition to the monitoring strategies," she said.
The way to do that, according to Houshyar, is to offer those services through Medicaid, which allows states to leverage federal funding, and make them accessible through child welfare departments. Some notable examples of places that do that are Arizona -- which has a Medicaid plan specifically for foster children -- Michigan and New Jersey.
For California, the money is there, said Grimm. Since 2004, the state has raised $13 billion for mental health services from a ballot measure that raised taxes on people earning more than $1 million a year. But an independent state oversight agency found recently that much of the spending is unaccountable and poorly prioritized, with little sense of exactly how the money is being spent and what it's producing. Grimm's group wants to ensure that money is going to children in the foster-care system.
"There is a considerable amount of money and resources out there," he said. "The question is to what extent is that money being used for children?"
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Germany's Kinder, Gentler, Safer Prisons
On Sunday, bleary after an overnight flight from New York, a group of American criminal justice professionals squeezed into a private room in a downtown Berlin restaurant. They were preparing to visit German prisons and meet German prison officials. The trip, organized by the Vera Institute, a think tank based in New York, is all about studying another system so that we might better understand our own.
How Germany Does Prison
From the brief introductions, it was clear that this trip would be as much about the United States as about Europe. Germany's system of sentencing (15 years is the longest most people go to prison here unless they are demonstrably dangerous) and incarceration (open, sunny prisons, full of fresh air, where prisoners wear their own clothes) serves as a reference point for reflecting on the punitive mentality that has come to define the U.S. justice system.
In Germany, then, we would see ourselves—but through a looking glass.
The American travelers—corrections officials, district attorneys, academics, and activists—represent the variety of perspectives that fall under what journalists have taken to calling the "emerging consensus" on criminal justice reform. There are the guys who run prisons and worry about recidivism numbers. There are elected district attorneys wondering how the public responds to such short sentences. And then there are reform activists determined to see prisoners treated humanely.
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After A Year Of Freedom, Parolee Kevin Monteiro Still Carries Weight Of His Past -
One year ago -- on June 10, 2014 -- Kevin Monteiro was released after nearly 30 years in prison for second-degree murder. That day, Monteiro was dropped off by a prison van at the Greyhound bus station in downtown Denver with a prison-issued debit card, and says he felt completely lost.
"I had a hundred dollars in my pocket and a box of books," remembers Monteiro. "No family, nobody."
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Now, a year after his first day of freedom, Monteiro told Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner that he's built a life for himself. He has a steady job, his own apartment, and he's reconnecting with relatives. Putting all of that together wasn't easy though.
"Prison is a funny thing. At first when you go in you hate it. There's a stage you go through. Then you come to accept it. Then you come to depend on it," he said.
Breaking out of the routine took a lot of time, effort and luck, Monteiro said. It was bad enough that at one point he actually wanted to go back to prison. But those days are now passed, he said.
"I don't miss prison. There's times I miss some of the people I left behind in prison," he said. "There are some good people inside and they are worth saving."
Click the audio player above to hear the full conversation, and read highlights below.
- See more at: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/after-year-freedom-parolee-kevin-monteiro-still-carries-weight-his-past#sthash.E0Wrllja.KYvhthiF.dpuf
On the difference between what he planned and what's happened
"My plans were totally different. What I planned ... is totally different to what's happening in my life now. There's a big difference when you have friends. Coming out of prison with no family, with no one that really cares is one thing. But when you come out and people care about you and people give you a chance, that's really amazing."
On having a weak immune system after decades inside
"Because I did so much time, and a lot of my time was in isolation, so when I did come out of prison, I noticed that I catch colds a lot. This last cold I had, I actually went to the hospital and they actually had to give me a steroid and antibiotics. But when [a nurse] took the blood and did an examination on me, she said your immune system is very weak and very low. So I kind of drag colds along with me."
On giving advice to fellow parolees
"What an ex-offender or parolee has to do is, number one, be very honest with themselves. And always remember that the number one thing in an offender's life is his victim. Always remember your victim. Don't ever separate that. I took a life. ... [T]hat's something I can never fix. So that victim is always in my mind."
Coming Straight Home From Solitary Damages Inmates and their Families
The thing Sara Garcia remembers from the day her son, Mark, got out of prison was the hug — the very, very awkward hug. He had just turned 21 and for the past two and a half years, he'd been in solitary confinement.
"He's not used to anyone touching him," Garcia says. "So he's not used to hugs. And I mean we grabbed him. I mean, we hugged him. We held him. I mean, it was just surreal to just know I can finally give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek."
Mark, who was released directly from solitary confinement into his mother's arms, is one of tens of thousands of inmates that NPR and The Marshall Project — a journalism group that focuses on the criminal justice system — found as part of a state-by-state survey. We wanted to know: How many people are released directly from solitary confinement to the streets?
There were at least 10,000 in 2014. That's from information provided by just 24 states. The other 26 states — as well as the federal prison system — say they don't count, or couldn't provide, numbers.
Often, inmates in solitary confinement serve all or most of their sentence. So when they are released, they don't get parole services to help with re-entry that's offered to most ex-prisoners.
Mental health experts and researchers say that long stays in solitary confinement often emotionally damage people, both teens and adults, and can create lifelong mental illness. When those prisoners come home, they often struggle to get along with people, including the family members they depend upon most.
Prison officials say they need solitary confinement to control the most violent prisoners. In Texas, for example, it's used often to break up prison gangs.
Garcia's son went to a Texas prison for robbing a store with a gun. At the time, he was 14. She says that her son was manipulated by some older men; prosecutors say he acted alone.
Just days after he turned 18, Mark was moved to an adult prison. When his mother came to visit, he told her that he was afraid of the older inmates.
More From This Investigation
This story was reported in partnership between NPR News Investigations and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal justice system. Continue reading this investigation on The Marshall Project's website: From Solitary To The Street. You can read the first part of the NPR report here.
From Solitary to the Street
In prison, Brian Nelson lived in solitary confinement. That meant 23 hours a day in a small cell. No human contact, except with guards — for 12 years straight.
Then, his prison sentence for murder was over. One moment he was locked down. The next, he was free.
NPR and The Marshall Project, an online journalism group that focuses on the criminal justice system, investigated the release of tens of thousands of prisoners from solitary confinement to find out how many prisoners, like Nelson, go straight from solitary to the streets.
What was stunning is that most prison systems say they have no idea.
The Marshall Project and NPR surveyed all 50 states. About half reported they don't keep track or could not provide numbers of which inmates go straight home from solitary. And a recent audit for the federal Bureau of Prisons said it doesn't keep numbers, either.
But our tally from the 24 states that say they count shows that last year, at least 10,000 inmates came straight out of solitary.
Yet inmates released from solitary often need the most help — and get the least.
In solitary, they're cut off from things that help with re-entry. There are no education classes, no job training; and when they are released, they often get less supervision than other prisoners.
When Nelson's mother picked him up at the distant supermax prison in Tamms, Ill., he told her how he was given a television during his last year of solitary and kept seeing ads for a fast-food ice cream.
"And I kept seeing a Blizzard. I kept seeing these Blizzards. And I'm like, 'God that looks so good.' So all I wanted was a Blizzard," he says.
On the drive home, they stopped for a Blizzard at a Dairy Queen.
"And I'm standing there and a guy walked behind me. And I was not used to people being that close to me. And I started cussing. I turned around, I'm ready to fight because I thought I don't know if he's going to attack me," Nelson recalls. "I have prison mentality in my mind. And then I looked up and saw my mom crying, like 'Oh my God, what have they done to him?' You know, because I couldn't handle being around people."
That was five years ago. It's still hard for Nelson, 50, to be around people.
About This Investigation
This story was reported in partnership between NPR News Investigations and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.
Read more of this investigation from The Marshall Project: From Solitary To The Street.
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Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, tells the story of a late nineteenth century woman trying to break away from the male-dominated society to find an identity of her own. Edna Pontellier is trying to find herself when only two personas are available to her: the 'true woman,' the classic wife and mother, or the 'new woman,' the radical women demanding equality with men. Patricia S. Yaeger, in her essay "'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening," argues that what Edna is really searching for is a female language of her own. Edna is prevented from finding her own language and ideal and therefore is trapped until she discovers that suicide is her only way out. The ending of the novel has been considered Edna's final step in her search for freedom from the restrictive society she lives in. Elaine Showalter, in her essay "Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book," and others say that it is Edna's last move towards female liberation, but is it really? Suicide hardly seems liberating. Edna lives in a phallocentric world where women have no identities apart from their relationships with men. Leslies W. Rabine, in her essay "No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," says that "traditional male narratives" are based "on a linear and circular quest to return to a lost paradise" (Rabine 90), however, female narratives do not have this lost paradise. The world in which Edna lives traps her so that the paradise she is seeking cannot exist. The paradise Edna is looking for is nothing more than a situation in which she can be truly happy. The fundamentally phallocentric...
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Showalter, Elaine. "Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awaking as a Solitary Book." As it appears in: Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 1993: Bedford Books, New York.
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- Kate Chopin's The Awakening Kate Chopin's novella The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a woman who throughout the novella tries to find herself. Edna begins the story in the role of the typical mother-woman distinctive of Creole society but as the novelette furthers so does the distance she puts between herself and society. Edna's search for independence and a way to stray from society's rules and ways of life is depicted through symbolism with birds, clothing, and Edna's process of learning to swim.... [tags: Kate Chopin Awakening]
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Hillsong UNITED's JD Douglass Talks Church's Impact On Christian Music, Ministry And Fashion
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Multiplatinum-selling and award-winning Christian worship band Hillsong UNITED is gearing up for the release of their album PEOPLE, and The Christian Post caught up with founding band member JD Douglass to get a look at how the ministry continues to revolutionize worship music worldwide.
Hillsong church was founded by Brian Houston and his wife, Bobbie, in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in 1983. It has now grown from a single church to an international ministry that has churches in 21 countries on six continents, including: London, England; Paris, France; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; Tel Aviv, Israel; and three cities in the United States.
The church has an average global attendance approaching 130,000 weekly.
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Ademco Security Group is a Singapore-based security services company that sells monitoring services, manpower security services, unified security management, and enterprise security software.  The company has approximately 8000 corporate and government clients across Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and China's major cities.

Ademco established Singapore's first private wireless mesh network for security clients in 1998. It currently employs 400 in Singapore and its branch locations in six other countries. In 2018, it reported annual revenue of $40 million. The company also runs Singapore's fire decentralized central alarm monitoring center.

History

In 1977, Ademco USA hired business executive T.C. Koh to set up a regional headquarters, Ademco Far East PLC, to expand security services in Asia, primarily fire sprinklers, alarm systems and sensors, and locks. Koh opened offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.

In 1985, on a visit to a friend in the eastern United States who owned a central alarm monitoring company, Koh decided to start his own security monitoring business in Asia.  At the same time, the US was suffering a recession, and Ademco USA offered to sell its Asian subsidiary directly to Koh.  Koh purchased the subsidiary for $1 million, establishing the new company as Ademco (Far East) Pte Ltd. Koh set up a private alarm monitoring station enterprise for client facilities in Singapore.

In the 1980s, the company installed alarms in elevators for the Housing and Development Board (HDB) to deter local crime. It also helped the Singapore Civil Defense Force set up their fire alarm monitoring station. In the 1990s, Ademco outfitted the highway speed cameras with proximity sensors and surveillance equipment to protect highway speed cameras for the Singapore police.

In 1995, Ademco began a failed attempt to enter the Chinese market. In the same year, T.C. Koh's son, Toby Koh, joined the company after spending three years as a corporate banker.  The younger Koh started at Ademco in sales, then eventually became managing director and spokesperson for the company.

In 2006, Rentokil Initial, a London Stock Exchange-listed British company bought out Ademco with plans to expand across Asia. The expansion plan was canceled with a management team turnover in 2008.  In 2007, the company established an in-house development and design division. In 2010, a group of Asian businessmen bought the business back from Rentokil through a management buyout, returning control to the Koh family.  A merger with a competitor in China allowed Ademco to relaunch on the mainland in 2010, opening offices in Tianjin, Beijing, ChongQing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.

In 2009, Ademco Security Group won a Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) contract and provided the resort with integrated security management for security and business functions.

In February 2018, the company announced a 60 percent acquisition of TNT Technologies Joint Stock Company, a security provider in Vietnam.

Services

Products and services include 24-hour central alarm monitoring, managed facility security services, video surveillance, digital policing, closed circuit TV (CCTV), biometric and identity management, personal contraband scanners, RFID tags, access control systems, and electronic barriers.

AES Wireless Mesh Security Network: Approved in 1998 by iDA, Singapore Police Force and Singapore Civil Defence Force, the AES private wireless network attained countrywide coverage in 1999. As of 2016, this network served more than 2,400 buildings in Singapore.

Alarm Monitoring and Intrusion Detection: Ademco built an Alarm Monitoring Station in Singapore.  The Monitoring Station is also a Fire (DECAM) Monitoring provider in Singapore.

CCTV/Surveillance: Ademco Security Group's network digital video provides monitoring, access control, intrusion detection and fence intrusion in applications for retail, corporate, petrochemical, and government use at airports, seaports, and high-security facilities.

Access Control Systems and Biometrics: The Access Control systems prevent unauthorized entry into controlled environments.  Ademco's biometric solutions include authenticating identities using fingerprint, palm geometry, iris, vein, voice, facial and other human characteristics.

Managed Services: Outsourced security functions such as remote surveillance and video control meant for small-medium enterprises.

Robot Security: The company launched Robot as a Service (RAAS) in 2017. The robots are autonomous four-wheel vehicles that use artificial intelligence to patrol an area like a security guard.

Awards
The company is the only security company in Singapore audited with the SS540 certification for Business Continuity Management by the international certification organization TUV SUD PSB PTE Ltd. In 2013 the company was cited as an honoree in the 2013 Spirit of Enterprise Award competition, a Singapore-based non-profit organization that recognizes innovation and achievement among small to medium size (SME) entrepreneurships. In 2015, the company was honored in both the Singapore Enterprise 50 Awards and the Singapore Prestige Brand Awards in the Heritage Brands category.  In 2017, it was named the Overall Winner of the 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year awards in the Established Entrepreneur category.

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Security companies of Singapore
Business services companies established in 1985
Singaporean companies established in 1985


Cool wet droplets slide slowly down the side of my tall icy glass of orange juice. It is hot and working in the earth planting, digging, raking has built up a thirst I am looking forward to quenching. Slowly I lift the glass to my lips and feel the wonderful liquid roll over my tongue and across my palate. Its flavours permeate my senses and find their way into my brain. Wonderfully delicious and satisfying the powerful little molecules of energy and nutrition flow down my throat and through my body to work their magic.
Broccoli, red peppers, and brussels sprouts have more vitamin C than oranges but for some reason we usually associate vitamin C with this bright orange coloured fruit.
Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, is sometimes confused with citric acid. Citric acid is another acid which the body needs to help produce the energy that runs each individual cell. In our diets, we find citric acid most often in citrus fruits such as lemons, limes, oranges and grapefruit.
Vitamin C, on the other hand, is needed by the body for a whole other range of metabolic reactions. Humans cannot make this vitamin internally. We need to get it from food.
WHAT DOES VITAMIN C DO FOR US ?
So what is it needed for?
1. The first thing Vitamin C does is to synthesise collagen. It works to create the most abundant protein in the human body, collagen, which makes up from 25% to 35% of the bodies protein content.
Collagen one is designed for the skin, tendons, blood vessels, ligaments, organs and is the main component of bone.
Collagen two is designed for cartilage. All the cartilage in our bodies is made up of this collagen.
Collagen three is designed for the reticular fibre in our eyes.
Without collagen, we would just disintegrate.
2. Vitamin C synthesises carnitine. What is that, you may ask, as I did. It turns out carnitine is an important compound that is synthesised from the amino acids (protein building blocks) lysine and methionine and is required for transporting fatty acids into the mitochondria (energy centre) of the cell where they are broken down creating energy for the cell.
3. Vitamin C helps in the syntheses of the neurotransmitter that doubles as a hormone, neuroepinephrine. Neuroepinephrine also known as noradrenaline, controls our stress levels and the fight or flight response as a hormone. As a neurotransmitter it controls our focusing and responding actions and acts on our sympathetic nervous system in regard to our fight or flight response.
5. Vitamin C also helps to create the amino acid tyrosine and it acts as an electron donor to enzymes.
6. What Vitamin C is most famous for is its amazing antioxidant properties. When there are more free radicals (free and out of control oxygen molecules) than antioxidants in the cell then a condition called oxidative stress arises.
Oxidative stress leads to diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, chronic inflammatory disease and many cancers. Even in small amounts ascorbic acid can reverse oxidative stress and create chemical balance within the cells. It is believed that this amazing vitamin can even replenish the antioxidant vitamin E after E has spent its electrons to inactivate free radicals.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DON'T GET ENOUGH VITAMIN C?
In the beginning, back in the olden days, when sailors sailed on wooden ships across the vast oceans, they used to contract a disease called scurvy. One day somebody noticed this guy who liked limes and used to take a bunch with him on his voyages. He never got any of the symptoms associated with scurvy. Word got around and pretty soon everybody was into the 'lime fad'. Scurvy became a thing of the past. This, of course, is a bit of fantasy. It probably didn't happen exactly like that but somehow the introduction of limes to the diet of sailors ended the scourge of scurvy.
Many years later a famous chemist named Linus Pauling whose main interest was in the area of the electronic strutter of atoms and molecules and who was the winner of two Nobel prizes, the first for physical chemistry and the second for mathematical physics decided to try his hand at understanding the structure of atoms and molecules in the biological realm. Through his work, he became interested in how vitamins affect the body. He coined the term 'orthomolecular medicine' or megavitamin therapy. It was in 1966 that he became interested in high dose vitamin C and thus the love affair began.
He studied and experimented with vitamin C for many years coming to many conclusions some of which were verified and many which were not. To this day he is considered one of the greatest minds of the last two centuries. This is not the format to go into the details of his work but should you be interested there has been a great deal written about him and by him and I'm pretty sure Google can find most of them for you.
Suffice it to say that Linus Pauling's work on vitamin C gave a great wake up call not only to the medical community but to the public in general. There's nothing like controversy to peak one's interest. For years, and I will tell you this because I was there, the public was all fired up about the wonders of vitamin C and the medical profession was pooh, poohing it all as if it were some giant hoax. Finally, science began to move on the side of the public proving that there was some validity to this vitamin C stuff.
As time has moved forward we have had the opportunity to do many, many studies and tests to prove or disprove what this vitamin can do for us. Even now, though, there is still much to learn. Testing has proven itself to be very difficult because of the vast array of variables in every test, variables such as how many other vitamin supplements were being taken by which individuals and exactly what was the diet of each person in a 20,000 person study. How did all the other nutrients being ingested interact with vitamin C.
Scurvy: It cures scurvy which is caused by the loss of collagen which results in damaged blood vessels, connective tissue and bone. Scurvy leads to joint swelling and pain, frequent bleeding and easy bruising hair and tooth loss and ultimately death.
Stroke: When consumed with vegetables and fruits, six to seven days a week, it helps to lower the risk of stroke by over 50%. If taken as a supplement it only lowers the risk by about 30%. This suggests that it may work better as a team player with other nutrients to promote health.
Cancer: There have been numerous studies done showing that the risk of contracting most cancers decreases the more fresh fruits and vegetables are consumed. When we consume 90 to 110 mg daily of vitamin C there is a significant reduction.
In the 'Nurses' Health Study', premenopausal women with a family history of breast cancer who consumed an average of 205 mg/day of vitamin C from foods had a 63% lower risk of breast cancer than those who consumed an average of 70 mg/day." – Linus Pauling Institute.
Studies also have shown that diets poor in vitamin C lead to higher risk of lung-borne diseases in smokers than if they got higher levels in their diets.
Immunity: Vitamin C affects both the production and function of white blood cells, our primary defence against bacteria and viruses. It also protects the integrity of immune cells against free radicals' oxidative damage. So far this is what we know about vitamin C and the immune system. Further studies are needed to ascertain whether it acts as a direct immune enhancer or whether its role is as a support to the immune system.
Vasodilation: Vitamin C, in study after study, has shown that it improves the ability of the blood vessels to relax.
The common cold: Contrary to our great expectations, study after study has shown that vitamin C does not help stop a cold once it has begun nor does it shorten the duration of a cold. It does, however, according to a recent double-blind study, give a 60% lower risk of developing three or more colds over a five year period if we consume over 500 mg per day of supplemental vitamin C. They, apparently, did not measure dietary intake.
Infections & wounds: Studies of the treatment of infections and wounds with high doses of vitamin C have been inconsistent. When combined with other antioxidants however there is an improvement in wound healing. Once again it is the synergy between the nutrients which promotes health in the body.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET TOO MUCH VITAMIN C?
How much is too much? How much is enough? The amount of vitamin C we need each day to prevent scurvy is about 60 mg. This is the baseline. This, for years, was the recommended daily intake by the European Union RDA, the USDA and Health Canada. Recently it has been increased by the North American Dietary Reference Intake which now recommends 90 mg per day. This will prevent scurvy, a disease which has been under control in the developed world for a very, very long time. If, however, you want to prevent chronic diseases more is definitely better. If you want to live a health empowered life then more, along with an ample supply of a variety of other nutrients, is best.
The North American Dietary Reference Intake now recommends 90 mg per day. The Linus Pauling Institute, which has done probably more than any other institution to study the properties and effects of vitamins and minerals in humans, recommends 400 milligrams a day. Others suggest massive doses in the thousands although this, in the big picture, appears unnecessary if not counterproductive. We would be better advised to make vitamin C as part of a comprehensive vitamin and mineral dietary regime. Mix it up! Enjoy a good, well-balanced meal.
Because the body gets rid of any excess vitamin C in our urine it is not possible to get too much.
Vitamin C decomposes under certain conditions. Longer cooking times at lower temperatures can actually increase the loss (as will cooking in unlined copper pots). Boiling quickly decreases the loss. Leaching into the water increases loss. Vegetables with thicker skin such as broccoli don't lose as much as thin-skinned ones and fruits stored in the fridge don't lose as much as those left on the counter.


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