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A Disorder of Things
Philosophy, Food, Politics, Health, Ethics, & Miscellaneous Things
Book & Current Projects
Rise & decline of bioethics libraries
'Unsettling Food Politics' on Radio National
Reading, writing, and flailing
NEW BOOK: Unsettling Food Politics
IVF and the Birth of Bioethics in Australia
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April 22, 2017 April 22, 2017 by crmayes
Small 'l' liberals, White Australia & Citizenship
ABC, Australia, Australian history, biopolitics, media, Policy, politics, politics of fear
730 Report, Alfred Deakin, Australian history, Australian politics, australian values, Deakin, Joanna Cruickshank, Leigh Sales, Malcolm Turnbull, Religion, Stuart Macintyre, values, White Australia, whiteness
Last Thursday Leigh Sales "grilled" Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over proposed changes to Australia's citizenship laws. Changes include a more stringent English language test, proof of integration into Australian society, and a four-year waiting period for permanent residents to apply for citizenship.
Sales considered these proposed changes to be an aberration of Australian liberalism and out of step with Turnbull's own political philosophy.
Towards the end of the interview she asked:
LEIGH SALES: Before you became Prime Minister, your image was that your values put you in the small 'l' liberal tradition of Alfred Deakin and Malcolm Fraser.
Can you today name one policy position that you hold that aligns with that tradition rather than with the conservative wing of your party?
Ironically, the policy that Turnbull could name is the very policy under discussion. The tightening of citizenship laws, especially using racialised notions of cultural values, English-proficiency, and religious belief is deeply entwined with the legacy of Deakin.
Historian Joanna Cruickshank, quoted Alfred Deakin in an article on the enduring power of white supremacy in Australia. Speaking in 1903, Deakin said:
"A white Australia is not a surface, but it is a reasoned policy which goes down to the roots of national life, and by which the whole of our social, industrial, and political organisations is governed."
Another Australian historian, Stuart Macintyre, quotes Deakin during a debate on the Immigration Restriction Act (1901) saying:
The unity of Australia is nothing, if that does not imply a united race. A united race means not only that its members can intermix, intermarry and associate without degradation on either side, but implies one inspired by the same ideas, an aspiration towards the same ideals, of a people possessing the same general cast of character, tone of thought…
Turnbull is careful to avoid explicit appeals to race in the ethno-biological sense. However, his emphasis on the "unique" Australian values – "freedom, equality of men and women, mutual respect, the rule of law, democracy, a fair go" – serve as markers, shibboleths and "tone of thought" for indicating who is "in" and who is "out".
The subtly of these dynamics was demonstrated when asked about who can integrate into Australian society. Turnbull gives a quick – "of course they are" – in response to Sales' question "Are Jews who celebrate Hanukkah integrated into Australian cultures and values?" In contrast, he gives a bumbling non-response to the question about whether a woman who wears a headscarf is also integrated.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, people are free to wear whatever item of clothing they like. I mean, bear in mind, I say again and again, whenever I talk about Australian citizenship and Australian values, I say that the foundation of our success, our extraordinary success, is mutual respect.
And that means… It's a two-way thing. You respect others in their diversity and they respect you. It's also about respecting the equal rights of men and women. And that is vitally important.
This and other tortured debates about the right and wrong way of applying Australia values of a "fair go" and "mutual respect" reveals the implicit way some forms of life are accepted and others are rejected.
Turnbull's proposed changes to the citizenship laws do not stray far from those who went before him. From Deakin to Abbott, Australian liberalism (spelled with a small or large 'l') has tied itself in knots to restrict the entry and freedom of racialised others. Despite his progressive shtick and love of public transport, Turnbull is no different.
April 3, 2017 April 3, 2017 by crmayes
Pete Evans may sneer at medical science, but sneering back is a bad idea.
food, media, medicine, philosophy, Science
Carl Elliott, Pete Evans, philosophy of science, science and technology studies, scientific research, scientism, sts, The Saturday Paper
Writing in The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray describes celebrity chef Pete Evans as "sneering" at the importance of medical qualifications and that the "medical industry is corrupt". Evans continues,
What do you need a qualification for to talk common sense? Why do you have to study something that is outdated, that is industry-backed, that is biased, that is not getting the results? That would be insane to study something that you're gonna waste your time with? That's just crazy.
McKenzie-Murray is quick to dismiss Evans and describes his interview as "a pathetic performance". There is much to criticise Evans for. But these are good questions.
What gives someone authority to tell others what to do in relation to their body and health? How is medical and nutrition science produced? What are we to make of the way this knowledge and advice seems to shift over time? Do scandals of corruption and bias in one area of scientific research taint other areas?
These are the kinds of questions philosophy of science and science and technology studies deals with. In fact, Ray Moynihan, research fellow at Bond University, has addressed similar questions in his occasional health column for The Saturday Paper.
As I was writing this I received an email for a conference at Georgetown University that is exploring the question "Does Industry Influence Medical Discourse?" Presenters are asking some of the very questions Evans is asking about the basis of authority, knowledge production, and different conceptions of evidence.
One presenter, philosopher and bioethicist Carl Elliott has spent much of his career critiquing the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical practice and research. To be sure, Elliott and other scholars are not drawing the same conclusions as Evans, but nor do they conclude that "everything is ok" in the world of modern medicine.
One only needs to glance at the newspapers (or Retraction Watch) to realise that medicine and scientific research is not a straight-forward or innocent enterprise. Recent examples include a "fake doctor" practicing in NSW with fraudulent qualifications, sugar industry influence on dietary recommendations, or Dr Anna O. Szust – the scientist who doesn't exist but was able to get appointed as an editor to over 50 academic journals.
These examples of fraud and misconduct are extreme. The point is not that these examples discredit medicine or science, but that they raise questions about the social and commercial contexts in which science is produced and medicine is practiced.
Yet, even when there is no misconduct, there are questions about the results of science when it is "done right". As I've addressed elsewhere, STS and philosophy of science shows that the "inside" of science is a messy, value-laden, emergent, trialled-and-eroded, accidentally-collective network enterprise that bears little resemblance to the smooth, authoritative discursive claims on the "outside." This is not to say that science is a hoax and one opinion is as good as another. But there are questions about science worth asking.
Evans draws the wrong conclusion that medical and scientific knowledge is fake and can't be trusted. But he is asking the right questions about how it is produced, who counts as an authority and what does it mean to be qualified. There aren't always straight-forward answers to these questions. To double-down by saying "trust the experts, you're a fool like Trump" only serves to entrench polarised and isolated camps.
As Rachel Ankeny said in an interview about Evans and the critical response from the Australian Medical Association and others
"They need to engage with the community — not just those who are pro-science — but the whole community,"
"It's not about saying you're a 'whack job' and shouldn't be listened to,"
Instead of sneering back at people who question science – vaccinations, climate change or nutrition – it would be more productive to acknowledge the significance of their questions and provide ways of thinking that avoid the Scylla of scientism and Charybdis of pseudo or anti-science.
March 27, 2017 March 27, 2017 by crmayes
Manning Clark on making the most of faculty meetings
Australian history, history
academia, faculty meetings, Manning Clark
I have been reading Manning Clark's A Historian's Apprenticeship – a short book about writing the 6-volume History of Australia.
He sketched many of his initial piecemeal ideas and impressions in a little black book – 'I began to write down ideas in all sorts of places'. He continues,
I wrote many an entry in the little black book when my colleagues at the Australian National University were telling each other at meetings of the Professional Board or the Faculty of Arts, in long a dreary speeches, how important their subject was and what a contribution they had made to the advancement of wisdom and knowledge. Sometimes the entries record the comfort derived from imagining these colleagues on the hoist in a garage for an oil and a grease in preparation for their next encounter with their academic rivals; sometimes they too are seen as being nailed to a cross, viewed from the eye of pity as men and women who would never get what they wanted – the power they coveted, or the applause or the recognition that were forever out of reach.
Sheep as the settlers' totem: Lamb of God, sheep of the field
Australia, Australian history, Christianity
Frontier violence, Lamb, Lamb enters the dreaming, map, Religion, Robert Kenny
In working on the manuscript for my book, I have been reading and thinking about sheep and their role in settler-colonialism and the frontier wars.
Robert Kenny's, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming, is fascinating on many levels. I particularly liked this reflection:
'It is important to appreciate here that the connection between the religious symbolism of the Lamb and the white things wandering around the paddocks was lost to the settlers, but not to the local people. Having been brought up a Christian, it never occurred to me until I came to write this book that Jesus as Lamb of God, or myself as Lost Sheep found, had any connection to the dumb, fluffy animals that dot the countryside. Of course, I would recognise "the Lamb" as a lamb, but I would not look at a lamb in a field and think of Jesus. Or a sheep that had wandered alone onto a road and think of an apostate Christian. Since I was a small child, the separation of the symbolic Lamb from the wool-bearing sheep has been granted, the result of centuries of separation. But if I had come across the Christian symbolism of the Lamb at the same time as the novel presence of sheep, this separation would not be – and it would certainly not be if I understood the spiritual and physical worlds as unseparated.' – Robert Kenny, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming, Melb., Scribe: 2010.
Also, it is disturbing how much of the frontier violence revolved around sheep and agriculture. This map makes the impact of colonial expansion on Indigenous life obvious.
Boycott: A Twitter Poem
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BOYCOTT AIR FRANCE
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boycott ExxonMobil.
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boycott Disney?
Boycott Everything!
boycott threats over refugee hiring hasn't hurt
Keep the boycott on Starbucks – they are hurting badly.
Boycott Good Morning America!
Women Boycott of Women's Day
boycott self-service
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Boycotted everything I see here long ago
February 8, 2017 February 8, 2017 by crmayes
CFP: Public Health Ethics Workshop, 20th June 2017 (USYD)
CFP, workshop
AABHL, Australiasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law, bioethics, public health, public health ethics
Book Review: Ben Golder's 'Foucault & the Politics of Rights'
book review, Foucault, politics
Ben Golder, book, book review, counter-conduct, Foucault, foucault and the politics of rights, human rights, rights
'…man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end' (Foucault 1973, 387). Foucault goes on to conclude The Order of Things with the evocative image of man being erased 'like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea'. Foucault's anti-humanism, especially as expressed in these lines, has long been considered to preclude the possibility of human rights entering his thought.
In a 1981 interview questioned on this very point – 'Do you reject any engagement in the name of human rights on the grounds of the death of man?' and later 'I am wondering if it is possible to reconcile the movement in favour of human rights and what you have said against the humanist subject' (Foucault 2014, 264-65).
It is these questions of engagement and reconciliation between Foucault and rights that Ben Golder explores in Foucault and the Politics of Rights (Stanford University Press, 2015).
'Foucault's curious deployment of rights'
Golder is not the first to address Foucault's discussion of rights in his late interviews and lectures. However, he is one the first to do so without characterising Foucault as betraying his earlier critiques of the subject and sovereign models of power in order to embrace liberalism. Rather, Golder exegetes Foucault's lectures and late interviews as a continuation of his previous work.
Foucault's rejection of the universal human subject (The Order of Things) and critique of sovereign model of power (Discipline and Punish and The Will to Knowledge) are examined alongside what Golder calls 'Foucault's curious deployment of rights'.
For example, Foucault states, 'we should be looking for a new right that is both anti-disciplinary and emancipated from the principle of sovereignty' (Society Must Be Defended) and claims to the 'rights of the governed'…'a new right – that of private individuals to effectively intervene' (Confronting Governments: Human Rights). Golder examines these remarks on rights as tactical and useful instruments for political struggle.
Rights as critical counter-conduct
Drawing on the Security, Territory, Population lectures, Golder argues that Foucault's deployment of rights in the late-70s and early-80s is akin to the counter-conduct tactics used in the lead-up to the Reformation. Foucault argues that in response to pastoral practices that sought to govern or conduct the life of the church, a series of tactics were developed to counter this conduct. John Wycliffe, Jan Hus and associated Christian communities re-purposed the governmental instruments used by ecclesial authorities (e.g. scripture or community or ascetic practices) and opened the possibility for insurrection and resistance.
In a similar manner, Golder suggests that Foucault's appeal to rights is not a late embrace of the liberal subject of inalienable rights derived from their humanness, but a 'critical counter-conduct of rights'. There are three dimensions to this use of rights:
contingent ground of rights;
ambivalent nature of rights (both liberatory and subjectifying);
tactical and strategic possibilities of rights as political instruments (Golder 2015, 23).
In conceiving rights in this manner, Golder is able to take Foucault's late discussions of rights seriously without suggesting that there was a serious break with his earlier work. While Foucault may critique the anthropological and political foundations of rights, this does not preclude the possibility of making use of rights discourses in specific political contests.
Golder's formulation of rights as critical counter-conduct can be read as part of a wider literature seeking to move away from tired debates over whether Foucauldian analyses of socio-political struggles are self-defeating with little room for meaningful action. Like Amy Allen (The Politics of Our Selves, 2008) and Colin Koopman (Genealogy as Critique, 2013), Golder appeals to the idea of 'critique' and Foucault's relation to Kant to argue that there is an affirmative (if not normative) dimension to Foucault's project.
Critical ambivalence of rights
In his essay discussing Kant's "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" Foucault puts forward a notion of critique that is genealogical rather than transcendental. While the Kantian critical project sought universal structures of knowledge, Foucauldian critique is opened up via "historical investigation into the events that have led us to constitute ourselves and to recognize ourselves as subject of what we are doing, thinking, saying" (Foucault 2000, 315). Through his own historical or genealogical investigations into punishment, sexuality or subject-formation, Foucault opened up space for critical questioning of ourselves. Importantly, this 'critical ontology of ourselves' is not a new body of knowledge or information, but a critical ethos or attitude that is performed and lived.
Golder rightly identifies the way narratives of human rights and associated events have formed a prominent story that we tell ourselves and in which we recognise ourselves as subjects. Drawing Samuel Moyn's historical analyses of human rights, Golder suggests a genealogical critique can reveal the contingent grounds of rights and expose areas vulnerability to contestation and reform. In this sense, Golder's use of critique is more than a negative project. It is in the process of the critique of rights that he makes the affirmative move of re-deploying rights a critical counter-conduct.
Like the proto-Reformers who used ecclesia tools to create openings to resist the pastorate, Golder suggest that rights, as a practice of critical counter-conduct can resist governmental strategies that subjugate and govern too much. In putting forward this argument Golder stresses the ambivalent nature of rights, which corresponds to the reversibility of power relations described by Foucault in The Will to Knowledge. That is, the use of rights as a political instrument or tool is always vulnerable to co-option by the governmental strategy – a liberatory moment can be transformed into another instance containment and constriction.
To demonstrate the ambivalence Golder examines Foucault's discussion of gay rights, abolition of the death penalty, and right to suicide. While on the one hand, Foucault was concerned that a dependence on a traditional liberal rights discourse would cede too much political ground and, as Golder summarises, leave "unquestioned (indeed, it reinforces) the powers of law, state, and medicine to regulate…the character and quality of that life itself" (Golder 2015, 132). On the other hand, Foucault recognised the danger of tactical deployment of rights as a means of merely reforming or refining the object of critique. For instance, rights-based arguments against the death penalty may serve to simply fine-tune methods of execution to account for humanistic concerns.
Rights: strategic or tactical reformulation of power relations?
While the ambivalence of rights cannot be avoided, attention to the relationship between tactical and strategic deployment is an important precaution. Following military theory, a strategy is the general plan, while tactics are transitional decisions or acts contingent on the circumstances and overarching strategy – or in different terms, tactics are to strategy what apparatus is to dispositif.
Golder, like Foucault, is concerned that the use of rights as a tactical counter-conduct will eventually be co-opted by the overarching strategy (i.e. the juridical order). And, while useful for a time, the tactical deployment remains within the strategy and may serve to further refine and reinforce its effects. Rather than remaining at the tactical level, points of vulnerability and weakness need to be exposed in order to shift and subvert the strategy itself.
Golder cites the controversial French criminal defense lawyer, Jacques Vergès (with whom Foucault had some dealings), as an example of the way his strategy of rupture "contest the law's legitimacy and its self-presentation so as to effect a rupture in the system itself"(Golder 2015, 125). Verges would uses the French courts as performative space to expose the French State's criminal past (e.g. colonial violence and occupation in Algeria) and hence inability to sit in judgement on other criminal matters (e.g. Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal).
In a similar way, Golder argues that Foucault's use of rights is not merely tactical and local, but "connected to a broader and concerted strategic engagement" that skews the liberal game of state versus individual and "to inaugurate a different game, with a different mode of relation to life" that can contest the dispositif or strategic network of power. It would seem that at this point, the significance of genealogical critique returns. That is, to be able to strategically rupture and destabilise our present and our understanding of ourselves.
Golder's argument for a Foucauldian politics of rights is provocative and productive. There are areas that I would have liked to seen explored further – especially a reading of this Foucault-as-rights-theorists in relation with other similar theorists more aligned with rights discourses, e.g. Arendt and Agamben. It would have also been useful had Golder discussed a contemporary example of rights-based politics where this Foucauldian approach could be adopted e.g. first or stateless peoples.
Golder contends that a Foucauldian account of rights "actually facilitates a range of different political possibilities beyond, and potentially critical and transformative of, liberalism itself" (Golder 2015, 62). This is perhaps the real test of Golder's book – does this account of rights provide something that is more useful that than juridical, universal and anthropological right discourses?
Foucault, M. (1973) The Order of Things, Translated by. New York: Vintage.
Foucault, M. 2000. "What is Enlightenment?" In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, edited by Paul Rabinow. London: Penguin.
Foucault, M. (2014) Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer. Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Golder, B. (2015) Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Translated by. Stanford: Stanford University Press.


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Le  ou plus exactement  est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur rattaché à l'université Cornell d'Ithaca dans l'État de New York mais dont les locaux sont situés dans l'Upper East Side de Manhattan.

L'unité regroupe à la fois la faculté de médecine et le laboratoire de recherche médicale. Créée en 1898, l'école s'implante d'emblée à New York qui offrait alors davantage d'infrastructures. L'établissement est par ailleurs l'un des premiers de ce type à admettre des femmes comme étudiantes en même temps que des hommes. Le philanthrope américain Sandy Weill fait partie de ses principaux donateurs.

Personnalités liées au collège
 Otto F. Kernberg, professeur de psychiatrie
Henry J. Heimlich , professeur de médecine

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The Witcher returns! A brand new novel set in the early days of The Witcher saga - the inspiration behind the bestselling series of games!Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings.


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Q: Receiving a string as a void pointer parameter and using strcpy to change it Here's the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void print (void*);

int main (void)
{
  char *a = "Mcwhat";
  print(&a);
  printf("\n%s", a);
  return 0;
}

void print (void *text)
{
    char* pchar[5];

    *pchar = (char*)text;

    strcpy( *pchar, "Mcthat" );
}

I am trying to make Mcwhat into Mcthat using a void parameter, but the printf gives me a segmentation fault afterwards. Where is my mistake? I managed to do it char by char but now I want to change the whole string. Didn't found enough material on this in the books on C I have.

A: Keep it simple and pay attention to the type of your variables :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void print (void*);

int main()
{
  char a[] = "Mcwhat"; // a is now a read-write array
  print(a); // a decays to a pointer, don't take its adress or you'll get a pointer-to-pointer
  printf("\n%s", a);
  return 0;
}

void print (void *text)
{
    strcpy( text, "Mcthat" ); // Don't dereference text here
}

Note that this "print" function is unsafe in all imaginable ways, but that wasn't the question.

A: There are lot of issues in your code:
1. Char array should be big enough to store the string. char[5] cannot hold Mswhat.
2. char* pchar [5] declares 5 char pointers, whereas you need one char pointer pointing to a char array.
I have corrected it.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void print (char*);

int main (void)
{
  char *a = malloc(10);
  strcpy(a,"Mcwhat");
  print(a);
  printf("\n%s", a);
  free(a);
  return 0;
}

void print (char *text)
{
  char *pchar = text;
  strcpy( pchar, "Mcthat" );
}

A: Just write it like that
void print (char *text)
{
    strcpy( text,  "Mcthat" );
}

But make sure, the that size of text is large enough to put "Mcthat" inside it.
Also in main:
print(a);

instead of
print(&a);  // would requite void print (char** text)

tho whole shebang:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void print (void*);
int main (void)
{
  char *a = malloc(strlen("Mcwhat")+1);
  print(a);
  printf("\n%s\n", a);
  free(a);
  return 0;
}

void print (void *text)
{
    strcpy(text, "Mcthat" );
}

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• Place the potatoes and 1 tablespoon of salt in a large pot of water. Bring the water to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 45 minutes or until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife. Drain the potatoes. Let the potatoes cool at room temperature and peel if desired. Cut potatoes in half or quarters depending on size.
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Scepticaldem
originally posted by: Dfairlite
Wait, so now the US is running murder camps because after we reject their bid to enter illegally, they get killed in their own country by some other means? LOL those are some olympic level mental gymnastics.
At least you are getting responses.
I have asked her 6 questions and she ignores me....
Lolz🤪
Let's imagine for a moment, it's WWII. Germany is not rounding up jews. They're not massively exterminating civilians. There are no gas chambers. There are no fire pits. There is no human experimentation. HOWEVER, there are camps. Concentration camps, where people who would like to join germany are sent for evaluation. If these people are rejected they are sent back to their home countries. If they are accepted, they get to become a german. If you don't want to go to one of these camps, it's simple enough to avoid. Don't say you want to be german and show up at one.
Now redo your analysis of WWII. Does your defining our border facilities as concentration camps become pretty toothless? Now revisit why, given the actual WWII history, using the term concentration camp to describe our border facilities is a very poor choice of words at best.
Yes, we do have concentration camps.
They are not work camps. They are not death camps. At least, not on purpose. Our government is not building massive gas chambers and industrial crematoria. It is not conducting sick medical experiments on members of an unfavored class.
But that does not mean that the places into which we are herding tens of thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are not properly called concentration camps. Because that is precisely what they are.
www.sltrib.com...
I couldn't have said it better.
Mike Korenblit's parents survived a concentration camp in Poland. Now Korenblit, 67, and his wife, of Edmond, Okla., protest regularly outside their local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. He wore a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum T-shirt to Saturday's protest and defended using the term "concentration camps" for internment camps and migrant holding areas.
"They are the same kind of situation. Why aren't they identified as the same thing?" he said.
www.latimes.com...
An initial reaction could easily be to say, 'no, the detention centers at the U.S. border are not the same as the Nazi camps,'" she said. But to say the term applies only to camps set up by the Nazi regime is incorrect and only signals "an ahistorical understanding of the Holocaust
Sociology professor Richard Lachmann at the University at Albany, SUNY, agreed, telling Newsweek: "Concentration camps are any place where large numbers of people are held in poor conditions because of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or other characteristics rather than as individuals convicted of crimes."
Noting the experiences of migrant children in U.S. detention centers—some of whom are set to be housed at Fort Sill, a site that held Japanese Americans and Native Americans before them, back in the 20th century—Buff said: "The trauma these children are suffering threatens to disable a generation."
"All asylum seekers crossing into the United States are placed in 'hileras,' cells chilled to 50-55 degrees. They are stripped of warm clothing. Many get sick; several have died. This is torture and life endangerment," she added.
www.newsweek.com...
edit on 24-6-2019 by Sookiechacha because: (no reason given)
a reply to: Scepticaldem
Sorry if you're feeling ignored. I thought I had responded to this post:
originally posted by: Scepticaldem
SO, they (the Obama administration) IGNORED the law on the books? I see...if the law doesn't meet your expectations, just ignore it?
There is no law on the books that says that migrant families must be separated at the border.
It just says that the family as a whole unit can not come into America.....
Why are people even bothering to argue with you?
You come with no substance 🤪
There is no such law. Perhaps you're referring to "reunification" which is what Trump calls "chain migration", where immediate family members can apply to be reunited with their family members in the USA, which is how Melania Trump's parents arrived in the USA.
Whatever dude
You put your foot in your mouth
There are no mass murders going on in usa detention facilities.
Just some dnc haterade talking point you took hook line and sinker.
Peddle your dnc tslking points elsewhere.
LOL Look who's moving the goal posts! I never claimed that US detention/concentration camps were death camps. You guys and your hyperbole!
JohnnyCanuck
originally posted by: thedigirati
you just lied, they can have a nights sleep, lack of bedding is not life threatening, nor is lack of toothpaste and toothbrushes, nor soap. you are pushing your white privileges again.
show me anyone that has died from lack of a toothbrush, not a "could die" has died.
you really have no leg to stand on, all those things are "nice to have" but not "need to have" not one of them.
I have slept many times without bedding, (yes, I have been homeless, have you?), heck for 3 months I lived on one bowl of rice a day. ( try it sometime ) I lost a great deal of weight. it ws not on purpose, but I lived through it.
Next it will be cruel to not have a game system.
You shame your country.
Well, he tried to play a little with the wording here, but he either thinks the local jail is a concentration camp (as a decent number of those people are not convicted yet) or he's wrong.
But you've doubled back around and we're back to the same premise:
The imagery that was desired was WWII, that's why AOC called them concentration camps. That's why she (and you) keeps saying never forget. But the fact of the matter is that we don't have anything resembling that. Even the daily kos article says that. So again it was a false comparison, as it was directly tied to WWII concentration camps, where people were starved, beaten, tortured, and murdered. You can either admit that it was a poor comparison or you can deny it but it's a fact.

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Capital of boredom? No way! Hanover has much more to offer visitors than just flawless High German. With a population of around 530,000, the city on the banks of the River Leine is one of the 15 largest cities in Germany. Internationally known primarily for CeBIT, it is a great place to stroll along beautiful half-timbered houses and visit picturesque parks and gardens. Bremen, Hamburg or Berlin are only a stone's throw away and the Lüneburg Heath or the Steinhuder Sea are in the immediate vicinity. The capital of Lower Saxony is definitely worth a visit.
Tip 1: City Hall
It is not for nothing that the New City Hall stands in a row with such famous German sights as Neuschwanstein Castle, the Brandenburg Gate or Cologne Cathedral. Although at first glance you might think you're looking at a palace, the magnificent Wilhelminian building with its spectacular dome is not the former home of highborns, but the seat of the mayor, the Hanoverian city administration and the citizens' office.
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Nevertheless, the landmark is of course also open to visitors, who can climb the 97.73-meter-high dome in the world's only arched elevator: First, the elevator climbs vertically before transporting its guests to the top at an angle of seventeen degrees. Not only does the glazed roof of the cabin offer the possibility to follow the ride, but also a window at the bottom. Once at the top, one is then rewarded with a breathtaking view of the nearby Maschsee lake and the hustle and bustle of the city. City models show Hanover in the years 1698, 1939, after the world war and today.
By the way, if you've always wanted to take a look behind the scenes, you can do so during an exclusive tour of the city hall.
Tip 2: Lake Maschsee
It's hard to believe, but Hanover consists of 50 percent green space. Particularly worth seeing is the approximately 80-hectare Lake Maschsee, which is barely a stone's throw from the New City Hall. Whether it's pedal boating, a detour in the beer garden, a leisurely stroll or simply relaxing in a beach chair – here you get that vacation feeling in the middle of the city. The picturesque Lake Maschsee is not only a destination for sports enthusiasts, but also the backdrop for the largest open-air event in all of northern Germany, the three-week Lake Maschsee Festival.
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Hanoverians say that if you haven't been to the Lake Maschsee, you haven't really been to Hanover at all. One more reason to pay it a visit.
Tip 3: Historic Centre
Looking at the idyllic alleys with their historic half-timbered buildings, inviting cafés and small stores, it is hard to believe that Hanover's old town center was almost completely burned out after the Second World War. But at the end of the fifties, the remaining half-timbered houses in the city began to be demolished and rebuilt collectively in the area around the Market Church and the Old Town Hall. Today, Hanover once again has a historic core that is worth seeing and invites visitors to shop and stroll around. In the immediate vicinity there is much worth seeing, such as the Holzmarkt with the Leibniz House, the Kreuzkirche (Cross Church) built in 1333 and the Ballhofplatz.
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By the way, you do not need a map in Hanover to find your way in the old town, because here literally runs through a red thread that leads to 36 sights. The red line painted on the pavement measures a total length of 4,200 meters and makes discovery tours on your own child's play – a tourist guidance system of a completely different kind. For those who want to know exactly what they're looking for, there's an accompanying brochure that explains all the attractions along the red line in more detail, and most recently, there's even an appropriate app.
Tip 4: Herrenhäuser Gardens
Hanover is rightly one of the greenest major cities in Germany. Every year, the baroque garden art of the Herrenhäuser Gardens attracts around half a million visitors, impressing them with colorful diversity and paradisiacal beauty. Built at the end of the 17th century on the French model, it features water features, fountains, cascades, gallery buildings, a maze and an orangery.
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During the summer months, theater performances, garden festivals and the famous International Fireworks Competition are held here. A special highlight is the grotto, which was created in the 19th century: pieces of pebbles, glass and mirrors transform it into a work of art made of colors and light. Extremely worth seeing! The Berggarten (Hill Garden) also houses Europe's largest collection of orchids in the botanical garden and an aquarium.
Tip 5: Castles of Herrenhausen and Marienburg
Those who like to walk in the footsteps of the former kingdom of Hanover should definitely visit the castles of Herrenhausen and Marienburg. Destroyed during World War II and only lavishly rebuilt in 2011, Herrenhausen Palace once served the Guelph dynasty as a summer palace and venue for prestigious receptions and dinners. Today, its walls house not only a modern conference center, but also a museum displaying Baroque treasures with more than 500 exhibits.
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As an alternative, Hanover also has Marienburg Castle on offer. Built in neo-Gothic style, the hunting lodge was once a gift from King George V to his wife, Queen Marie of Hanover. After her departure into exile, it was inhabited only by the janitor for almost 80 years. During a guided tour of the palace, you can marvel at the royal splendor and learn a lot of interesting facts about courtly life in the 18th century before enjoying a royal meal in the adjoining restaurant.
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Bald Mountain Hot Springs in Ketchum, Idaho was a historic resort.  Located at Main and 1st St. in Ketchum, the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.  In 2003, plans had been approved for a new 80-room hotel complex on the site.

The original complex was built as the Bald Mountain Hot Springs Motel in 1929 by Carl E. Brandt, manager of the J.C. Penney store in Hailey, Idaho, who had bought a different, decrepit hot spring resort enterprise northwest of Ketchum in 1827.  Rather than fixing that up, he moved the hot water to the new resort location on Main Street in Ketchum.  The resort included Rustic-style architecture and work by architects Tourtellotte & Hummel.  It included the C. E. Brandt Residence, tourist cabins, and the natatorium where people swam in hot springs water piped in from three miles away.

While the original resort was planned to have 30 tourist cabins, the NRHP listing included just five contributing buildings and one contributing structure on .  In 2003, three of the historic structures had been moved to a hunting club location near Hagerman, Idaho.

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Skincare is often the first thing we do in the morning and the last thing we do at night. For many of us, skincare is a big part of our self-care routines and a crucial aspect of a healthy lifestyle. From the boom of Korean skincare products, to TikTok skincare culture, to Instagram skincare influencers, to the 'Clean Girl' trend and celebrity skincare lines, it seems we are more tuned in to the health of our skin than ever before. In fact, over the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us were confronted with our skin every day, as we spent hours of our days staring at ourselves on Zoom calls. Mask-wearing and a heightened sense of 'hygiene' has also increased the attention that we pay to our skin, and to skin conditions such as acne.
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How to find vegan skincare products…
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Metal stamping technology has come a long way since early stamping machines, tooling dies, and other methods of assembly. In the late 19th century, early forms of progressive stamping known as successive gang cutting were introduced into the metal stamping industry. Since then, the progressive stamping press has grown into what we use today at Thomas Engineering Company for our precision metal stamping in Minneapolis, MN.
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The information about how metal stamping works was really interesting. I didn't know that pilot pieces that are shaped like bullets are used to help maintain advancement from one station to the next by locking the blank into place. I was wondering about how that process was made to be so precise, so it's really good to know that pilot pieces play a huge roll with metal stamping.


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These settings should erase all unnecessary versions stored in .git folder on local machines. I'm doing it right?
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Jewels Airport Transfers provide taxi from Gatwick airport to Rugby and taxi from Rugby to Gatwick airport. Our taxi services are run by experts who know the roads leading to Rugby and places in Warwickshire, thoroughly to make your trip comfortable and pleasant. We offer two-way booking system to aid advance booking from anywhere, anytime. Considering the time zones that some of our guests need to traverse, we have a 24/7 call centre, where you can get our representatives any time of the day, irrespective of from where you are calling. Once you provide the requirements, the representatives will send an email with a quotation and the secure payment link options. Check the quotations to pay up using any debit or credit card. For those who prefer the non-verbal mode of communication, you can just fill the online form with details such as postal codes of destination and so on. With the quotation in hand, you can complete the booking, all within a few minutes to secure a transport from Gatwick to Rugby or anywhere in the UK. As a confirmation, we will be sending an email with receipt and payment options. All we ask for is to leave a few words before signing off, to have the pleasure of hearing your opinion about us!
Rugby in Warwickshire County is about 125.6 miles from Gatwick airport. Our taxis cover these miles in a jiffy, provided we have favourable weather and traffic conditions. It takes about approximately two hours and twenty minutes to cover, give or take a few minutes, depending upon the external factors. As a comfort, we have expert drivers from our sides, who know the rudiments of travelling on a day filled with a road packed with cars up to the brim. Our experts will ensure you get to the place in time to enjoy your sojourn in the countryside. To ease up the matters further, we have a 'meet and greet' service, which is designed to bring our guests in contact with our drivers easily, even at a crowded airport. Our experienced drivers will keep track of flight delays and so on, and still be there at the right time to welcome our guests into our taxis. We also have a credit facility for our corporate guests and those travelling on institutional business. Call our call centre representatives to give details and references to help them with your booking. Enjoy your time in Rugby, starting with a pleasant trip on our taxis where you will be regaled with tales about anything under the sun, by our expert drivers!
A market town in Warwickshire, England, Rugby is famous for being the birthplace of Rugby football. The town is close to River Avon, and houses one of the most prestigious Rugby school. The first prototype of today's Jet Engine was conceptualized in this town, thereby putting this town on the world map. There are several places of interest in the town, including the Rugby school museum, Rugby football museum, Benn hall, the historic village of Dunchurch and many more.


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Iran's deputy FM: US invasion of Afghanistan remains no more than failure in war on terrorism
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi said the US invasion of Afghanistan failed in its so-called mission of eradicating terrorism in the country, and now extremism has spread to the different parts of the world.
"Now extremism has turned into a major problem and the US invasion of Afghanistan has not only failed in uprooting terrorism but also spread it to the neighboring states," Sarmadi said, addressing an international conference in Tehran on Monday.
He described 'war on terrorism' as just an excuse for some American warmongers to attack Afghanistan, and said since day one, Iran has never accepted such a pretext for an invasion of Afghanistan, during which a much larger number of people were killed than those who lost their lives in the twin towers attack in New York on September 11, 2001.
A Gallup polls found in February that Americans think the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was a mistake, with 49% holding that belief compared to 48% who say the conflict should have occurred.
The poll was conducted since the November 2001 invasion, reaching a peak of 93% of Americans supporting the effort in January 2002.
49% of Americans said it was a mistake for the US to go to war in Afghanistan.
More Americans now think it was a mistake for the US to invade Afghanistan in 2001.
A new Gallup poll showed 49% of Americans say the US should not have gone to war, with 48% responding that the conflict was justified.
This marks the first time since 2001 that the majority had a negative view of the war.
Data from 2001 to 2014 showed how war fatigue has set in over time.
In November 2001, when the public was first polled shortly after the attacks of 9/11 and the Afghan invasion, an overwhelming 89% believed the war was not a mistake, with only 9% expressing concern over the conflict.
"Clearly, in the turbulent atmosphere and general 'rally effect' environment that followed 9/11, Americans were overwhelmingly supportive of the decision to send the US military to Afghanistan," the polling group said.
Support for the conflict actually grew in January 2002, when 93% said the invasion was the right decision.
Over time support began to drop and by March 2013, 51% believed it was not a mistake and 44% said it was a mistake.
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It's been decades since John Mellencamp first exploded onto the music scene and his signature sound continues to transcend the synthetics of the industry. John Mellencamp will be stopping by Montreal in 2015 at the St Denis Theatre. Mellencamp has established himself as the voice of the American landscape and its inhabitants. Mellencamp's songs range from musings of morality, inquiries of God, and the stories of the American heartland. Known for smash hits such as "Hurts So Good", "Crumblin' Down" and "Paper in Fire", Mellencamp will perform for 2 nights at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto.
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Mellencamp utilized his velveteen rasp, superlative fusion of acoustic and electric guitars, and coalescence of American folk and rock to contribute layers of depth to his tunes of American realities. Indeed, Mellencamp's songs are unique in their authenticity, and the singer-songwriter can never be accused of being a sell-out or a puppet of the music industry.
Mellencamp currently holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number-one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In addition, Mellencamp has taken home one Grammy award, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. He's also shared the stage with legends such as Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Fogerty, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen.
Now, Mellencamp is gearing up for the release of his highly-anticipated new album Plain Spoken, the follow-up to 2010's commercially successful and universally acclaimed masterpiece No Better Than This.
To promote his upcoming album, Mellencamp is embarking on an expansive 80-date North American tour. Fear not, Canadian fans! Mellencamp certainly hasn't forgotten about you! The tour will include performances at iconic venues such as the Hamilton Place Theatre, Quebec's Grand Theatre, Regina's Conexus Arts Centre and Saskatoon's TCU Place.
There has never been a better time to see John Mellencamp live in concert! With years of experience under his belt, Mellencamp has perfected the art of performance!
John Mellencamp will take the stage in Winnipeg at the Centennial Concert Hall. The concert tour also includes a stop bythe Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, AB.
John Mellencamp will visit Canada's West Coast and perform at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.


Puregold.sg was established in 2010 as an e-commerce store selling value-added gold and silver coins and bars. It is one of Singapore's premier private mints with its own in-house factory. It aspires to be the leading hub of creative quality premium gift coins and bars that are made in Singapore. Apart from physical retail shops, it also runs and manages an online platform, www.bullioncurrencies.com, empowering merchants and consumers to use gold as the base currency for all transactions. With its experience in the gold price market, Puregold.sg stepped into the global arena of gold trading and electronic gold exchanges.
Bullion Currencies (Pte Ltd) is a subsidiary of Puregold.sg Pte Ltd. It provides an online platform where customers are able to buy and sell gold, and also use the gold as a means of payment when purchasing goods and services. It firmly believes in the notion of "Gold is Money" and has taken this literally into the e-commerce world.
Working together, they provide customers an all-round service and pleasant experience when dealing with their gold transactions.
Puregold.sg, which is headquartered in Singapore, has offices and retail outlets in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. It has also launched a Gold Dispensing machine in Singapore.
Established 2010 in Singapore. Selling value-added gold and silver coins and bars.
2012.Excellence in brand image, customer loyalty and market acceptance. Read the article here.
2013.Recognised as a strong Singapore brand.
Asia's First Gold ATM Machines that dispense real Gold. Check out our video archive.
Offshore offices in Malaysia & Vietnam. Global market expansion and acquisition of raw gold.
Lazada Top 5 Most Competitive Seller Award 2017. Award given to companies whose products are top seller in many countries.
Bullioncurrencies.com soft launched. The start of a new revolution to define Money and bring back trust!
ICO. Wide-spread promotion and usage of digital gold as medium of exchange.
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Jumpsuits, onesies, boilersuits… whatever they're called, they're a great item to have in your wardrobe. You really just have one decision to make, and that's what shoes to wear with them! Jumpsuits are perfect for pretty much any time of the year! In the warmer months they look perfect with a pair of sandals for day and strappy heels at night; in winter, layered the with turtlenecks and coats and wear them with sneakers or boots.
However, if you're on the petite side, jumpsuits can overwhelm your frame, not to mention the hemming and alterations needed! Below are some of my favourite ways to wear jumpsuits to complement my height.
A single colour from top to bottom lengthens the body and makes you look taller. And don't forget print… consider an all-over small print (big prints can really overpower petite frames), or even vertical stripes which also have that lengthening effect.
Just like vertical stripes, V necklines have an elongating effect. This could also be achieved with a faux wrap element at the top of the jumpsuit. If the plunge of this neckline is a little too much, you could wear a lacy cami underneath. In winter, the V-neck jumpsuit could be worn with a turtleneck or with a long sleeve shirt underneath.
Even though I'm only 5'0", I just can't wear heels anymore – I'm always on my feet chasing the kids so flats are a must. I find that jumpsuits with a cropped leg (ie finishing just above the ankle) look best when I'm wearing flats – anything longer seems to swamp my leg, and you want to show off your flats after all! However, I've also worn jumpsuits to more formal occasions where I've worn heels, and in these cases a full length jumpsuit is best. Finding cropped jumpsuits for petites is pretty much impossible though so here professional tailoring is a must to make sure the leg shape remains the same after taking up the length.
Petites, embrace your waist in a jumpsuit – either with a belt, sash, or with a cinched waist. Steer clear of jumpsuits that don't have a waist whatsoever. That is the closest thing to the proverbial potato sack for us petites.
If you haven't got a jumpsuit in your wardrobe yet check out the JD Williams range for some inspiration!
Do you have any tried and tested tips that work for you when wearing jumpsuits? What are your favourite ways to wear jumpsuits (petite or otherwise)? Let me know!
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You look great in your striped jumpsuit! 🙂 For me I have the issue of being so short that any waist on a jumpsuit never hits at the right point for me – I've tried a few and then given up. it's the same reason I can't wear faux wraps unless it's a petite style!


There are other ways to stay cool without turning your thermostat down as low as it will go (this is ineffective anyway since your air conditioner can only efficiently cool down to 20 degrees below the outside temperature). For instance, you can drink plenty of water, and cool down from time to time by using a cool washcloth or compress.
You can also use your ceiling fans to help distribute the cooled air throughout your living space better. This could help you turn your thermostat up a few degrees, thus saving you money. It's important to note here that a ceiling fan can't actually cool down the temperature of your home, so using it when you're not in the room is pointless. But it can certainly help you feel cooler, especially when you use it in combination with your air conditioner. Plus, if you close the curtains on the windows where the sun faces, this can help even more.
Keep your thermostat at about 78 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the day when people are at home (you may need to adjust if you have seniors or babies in your home).
Set your air conditioner to raise the temperature by 5-10 degrees when people are away or asleep.
Have the settings automatically readjust to your preferences 20-30 minutes before you plan to arrive home for the full benefit.
We get it, you have some appliances you absolutely have to use, like your washing machine and clothes dryer. But if you can, try to avoid using your oven on days that are exceptionally hot. It makes your air conditioner work that much harder. If you must, we recommend that you use your high-heat appliances at night, after the sun has gone down.


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The problem of non-invasive preoperative localization of motor areas in human cortex has not been solved yet. In clinical practice, localization of the hand representation in the primary motor cortex often becomes one of the main goals of the pre-surgical evaluation. In healthy subjects the area of the motor hand representation usually corresponds to certain standard anatomical landmarks (hand knob in the precentral gyrus), which can be easily found in sMRI images. Unfortunately, in patients with various brain lesions these landmarks may be absent or not corresponding to the area of the motor cortex. In such cases, location of irreplacable areas must be determined according to their functional and/or temporal dynamical characteristics.
It might become a promising method of localizing primary motor area by way of taking into account the characteristic properties of the primary motor cortex temporal dynamics during movement preparation.


For centuries, the experience was called "night-mare" (picture a demonic-looking horse). It was an apt name.
You know those accounts of people being abducted by aliens in their sleep? How they feel themselves caught in a tractor beam, how they can see bright light, and how they are frozen, unable to move or call out for help?
Sometimes these tales are the stuff of Hollywood or horror novels. Sometimes, though, they're real.
Okay, to be honest, the aliens aren't real, at least not in this situation. If you believe in alien encounters, by all means, continue to do so. It's just that when it comes to that pre- or post-sleep sensation, the explanation is all too human. We're talking about a phenomenon called sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis? Yes! You can be temporarily paralyzed when you are falling asleep or waking up from sleep. Here are 10 things you need to know about this strange—and frankly quite terrifying—phenomenon.
The biggest symptom of sleep paralysis is that you can't move any part of your body. You're aware enough to try to move, but you can't. You're completely immobile for a few seconds to a few minutes.
Many, but not all, people experience hallucinations in which they see or hear things that aren't real.
Anxiety is a common symptom of sleep paralysis. It's most intense during the episode, but it can persist afterward, too, because the experience can be extremely frightening.
Evidently, you're more likely to experience sleep paralysis when you're sleeping on your back. If you're on your back and experience sleep-related leg cramps, sleep paralysis is more likely to occur, too.
Sleep paralysis can happen as a part of other conditions, such as PTSD, bipolar disorder, stress, or a lack of sleep. Sometimes it happens to people on certain medications.
Being able to see and think and feel yet being unable to move or call for help is a disturbing experience. However, there is there is no actual harm being done to your body during an episode of sleep paralysis. Physically, your body is fine.
Because the experience is surreal and nightmarish, people report that they were abducted by aliens, controlled by demons, or other such terrifying occurrences. In reality, the images are taking place in the brain. No one is in any sort of danger during an episode of sleep paralysis.
When you're seized by sleep paralysis, your mind works (albeit sometimes inaccurately, as when you're experiencing hallucinations during the episode), but your body doesn't.
When you're sleeping, you don't have control of your body, either. That's not a problem, though, because you're not trying to control it. In sleep paralysis, you're very much aware that you can't move.
This makes fear skyrocket, and the fight-or-flight response kicks in. Unfortunately, you can neither fight nor flee because you have no control over your body.
Through the ages, doctors and scientists and the curious have written about what we now call sleep paralysis. Writings from ancient Greece, Persia, medieval and Renaissance Europe as well as from other times periods and places describe the very heart of sleep paralysis.
The first officially documented case of sleep paralysis was recorded in 1664 by Dutch doctor Isbrand van Diemerbroeck. The scientific revolution was underway, and the tide had turned. Sleep paralysis was becoming less demonized, but it was still terrifying. It remains so to this day.
Studies of human history worldwide reveal a similar fascination with the occult or supernatural. Artwork and storiesdepict witches, demons, ghosts, monsters, and other such sinister phenomenon.
Based on images and the stuff of stories, it's theorized that many of these tales of possessions, abductions, and the like are rooted in people's experience with sleep paralysis. Without modern science to help them understand the brain and hallucinations, these events were attributed to the occult.
This temporary paralysis doesn't do any damage, and it doesn't have anything to do with neurological or other diseases.
Sleep paralysis is frightening and can cause stress and anxiety. While these are legitimate reactions and can be disruptive to daily life, they won't cause lasting harm. Sleep paralysis happens infrequently, so the anxiety that accompanies it usually doesn't linger.
Every night when we sleep, we enter a state called REM sleep. This period of rapid eye movement is when we do most of our dreaming, and during this state we are actually paralyzed.
Sleep paralysis is a lot like REM sleep, except it happens just as you're falling asleep (called hypnagogic paralysis) or right as you're waking up (hypnopompic paralysis). Unlike REM sleep, you're semi-aware. It can be like you are witnessing your own dreams and nightmares, but you can't move out of their way.
You see things, hear things, feel things. You think things. You don't know if they're real. Are you being abducted by aliens? Are you dreaming about being abducted? It feels real. And try as you might, you cannot move a muscle.
You're paralyzed, so you can't verify that you're awake by moving, but you know that you're not dreaming. What you see and hear seem real. However, they're hallucinations.
The hallucinations of sleep paralysis could be extensions of dreams. It's not known with certainty if they come from dreams or different brain activity. What is known is that sleep paralysis feels like a nightmare.
Imagine falling asleep or waking up and suddenly becoming aware that you can't move. You can't speak. You can't call for help. You can't defend yourself against terrifying hallucinations that might turn out to be real.
The experience naturally creates anxiety, panic, and dread. Struggle fuels anxiety and panic, and it becomes hard to breath. It can feel like suffocation. It feels like you're going crazy. It feels like you're dying.
The sensation of slowly, painfully dying is universal among anyone experiencing sleep paralysis. The good news: It is but a feeling. No one has died during sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis isn't a disease, but it can be a symptom of a sleep disorder called narcolepsy that involves serious disruptions in the sleep-wake cycle.
There are a lot of unknowns about sleep paralysis, but scientists do know that it is brain-based. They also know that it's frightening but otherwise harmless.


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Larry Prozan has over 30 years' experience in the financial services industry. He is the founder and sole owner of Prozan Financial Services, a registered investment advisor and is also a registered representative with Cetera Advisors, LLC. He specializes in small business pension plans and individuals since founding Prozan Financial in 1997. He currently manages approximately $80 million.
Larry Prozan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 with a BA in political science. Shortly thereafter he started in the investment and financial planning business. While Larry serves a wide range of clients he prefers to work with people who require ethical, impartial, and fairly priced advice, including clients who prefer a different approach than your typical large firm.
Larry volunteers much of his time to the University of California, Berkeley and to many Jewish causes. He is married to Linda, a securities attorney and has two children.
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FDA Grants Blue California's L-Theanine GRAS Status
FDA has confirmed Blue California's (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA) L-TeaActive l-theanine ingredient as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) for use in food and beverages.
L-theanine, an amino acid sourced from green tea, is said to provide relaxation benefits. The company says that numerous clinical studies on green tea and l-theanine have shown that the ingredient stimulates production of alpha brain waves, increasing mental and physical relaxation, without causing drowsiness. Other studies, it says, have shown that a combination of l-theanine and caffeine may work synergistically to benefit cognitive function and mood.
L-TeaActive is standardized to 98% and is produced from green tea leaves and other natural ingredients using a proprietary manufacturing process that the company says ensures high purity, lower cost, efficacy, and safety.
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Half a century ago, many stately homes and churches used scupper boxes as part of their standard gutter systems. At that time, scupper boxes were necessary to control the large volume of water flowing off the massive buildings. Today we rarely have an actual need for scupper boxes. However, some architects specify them for their decorative appeal.
Alloy Gutter Company occasionally gets a request to include scupper boxes on a job. We are a full service gutter company and can install this ornamental embellishment for you. If you want your "castle" to have the look of a classic gutter system, give Alloy Gutter Company a call.


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Since 1966, St. Mary's Hospital has served Central Virginia, providing compassionate health care of the highest quality.