tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13116154600318756552024-02-21T06:53:17.358-08:00No sex please IIYehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-76247306829366294162015-10-18T18:39:00.001-07:002015-10-18T18:39:33.688-07:00Sex with robots will become reality by 2050, author claimsSex with robots will become reality by 2050, author claims<br />
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That’s the scenario envisaged by David Levy, author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Love and Sex and Robots</i>, who predicts it won’t be long before we’re all doing it — with machines.</div>
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“It just takes one famous person to say I had fantastic sex with a robot and you’ll have people queuing up from New York to California,” the CEO of Intelligent Toys Limited told news.com.au.</div>
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“If you’ve got a robot that looks like a human, feels like a human, behaves like a human, talks like a human why shouldn’t people find it appealing?”</div>
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This November, Mr Levy along with Adelaide-born Professor Adrian Cheok will chair the second international congress on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://loveandsexwithrobots.org/#topics" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Love and Sex with Robots</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Malaysia. The event will bring together academics from around the world to discuss the legal, ethical and moral questions on everything from “teledildonics” to “humanoids”.</div>
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Mr Levy said the subject has spawned a huge amount of interest since his 2007 book and it’s only a matter of time before the currently “crude” versions available become more sophisticated and go mainstream.</div>
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“If there was a sophisticated sex robot around now then I would be very curious to try it,” he said.</div>
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“It can’t be long before we get to the point that there are robots looking very lifelike and with appealing designs that people find appealing to look at and then it’s a question of how long it will take until before the artificial intelligence is developed to the point where they can carry on interesting and entertaining conversations?”</div>
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Whether you find it horrifying or appealing, there’s no doubt the idea has taken root in popular culture with films like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Her</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lars and the Real Girl</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ex-Machina</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dedicated to the relationship between<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/sexbots-realdoll-sex-toys" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>humans and machines</a>.</div>
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This week the makers of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3243051/No-sex-robots-Buyers-hit-new-emotional-robot-Pepper-sign-contract-saying-won-t-used-sex-porno-films.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Japanese robot Pepper</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>issued a warning, saying using it for “sexual purposes” breaks the rental agreement after people hacked its software to give it “virtual breasts”.</div>
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Meanwhile real-life technological advances like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.hansonrobotics.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">David Hanson’s human robots</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<a href="http://www.geminoid.jp/en/index.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hiroshi Ishiguro’s</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>version have been making robots look more lifelike by the year. Several versions of robotic sex dolls already exist, include RealDoll made by Californian company Abyss, whose owner David Mills once told<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/sexbots-realdoll-sex-toys" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vanity Fair</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>he loves women but “doesn’t really like to be around people.”</div>
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But along with advances in artificial intelligence, ethical debate is raging around the use of robots whether in the military, medicine or at home, with many questioning what the rapid advances are doing to our relationships with others and ourselves.</div>
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Mr Levy is “absolutely convinced” sex with robots is a positive thing for the “millions and millions” of people around the world who don’t have satisfactory relationships. He thinks they could be the cure for everything from loneliness to paedophilia by helping to “wean” paedophiles off having sex with the children they’re attracted to.</div>
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“For whatever reason there are huge numbers of people who just don’t have a relationship with someone they can love and someone who can love them,” he said. “For people like that, I think that sex robots will be a real boon. It will get rid of a problem they’ve got, fill a big void in their lives and make them much happier.”</div>
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It’s a view that has been described as a “terrifying nightmare” by robotics ethicist Dr Kathleen Richardson. The senior research fellow at De Montfort University recently launched a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://campaignagainstsexrobots.wordpress.com/about/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0373b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Campaign Against Sex Robots</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with fellow researcher Dr Erik Billing and wants to highlight the kind of inequalities sex robots can perpetuate in real life.</div>
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“We’re not for a ban of sex robots, what we’re giving people is information about are the arguments for sex robots justified, and we’re asking them to examine their own conscience and whether they want to contribute to this development,” she told news.com.au</div>
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“Everyone thinks because it’s a robot prostitute then real women and children in the industry won’t be harmed. But that’s not happened because if you don’t address the core idea that it’s not OK to reduce some human beings to things then all you do is add a new layer of complexity and complication and distortion to an already distorted relationship.”</div>
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While the emerging nature of the technology means long-term effects have not been documented, Dr Richardson fears widespread use of robots for sex will destroy human capacity for empathy and entrench notions of sex and gender already prevalent in the sex industry.</div>
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“Sex can never not be relational. You need another person. If it’s not relational you’re really masturbating,” she said.</div>
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These complexities are the kind of moral, ethical and legal quandaries Professor Adrian Cheok expects to air at the conference.</div>
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The Australian-born digital expert specialises in human-computer interfaces and thinks robots will be integrated into our lives in the short-term as friends, sex objects and carers before the relationships develop and could even include different levels of compliance for the types of relationships people want to have.</div>
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“We really don’t know how human society will react. The worst case scenario is that people begin to have a robot partner rather than a human partner,” he said, adding that this could happen to a “small percentage of the population” similar to the way people have died after being gripped by the reality of video games.</div>
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“There will be some people … that prefer robots over humans but I think that won’t be the majority. I think most people will prefer to have real human relationship.”</div>
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Playboy 'to drop' naked women images</h1>
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Its US owners say the internet has made nudity outdated, and pornographic magazines are no longer so commercially viable,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the New York Times reports</a>.</div>
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Playboy's circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in the 1970s to the current 800,000, official figures show.</div>
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However, the magazine will still feature women in provocative poses - though not fully nude.</div>
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'Battle won'</h2>
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The decision was apparently taken last month at a meeting attended by Playboy founder and current editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner.</div>
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Magazine executives admitted that Playboy - which was founded in 1953 - had been overtaken by the changes it pioneered, according to the New York Times.</div>
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"That battle has been fought and won," Playboy chief executive Scott Flanders is quoted as saying by the newspaper.</div>
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"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passe at this juncture."</div>
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Gone, too, are the days when interviews with figures of the stature of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Jimmy Carter made Playboy so culturally and politically significant, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in New York.</div>
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Playboy's website has already banished nudity, partly to give it access to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. And its popularity has soared, with web traffic quadrupling.</div>
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A brand long synonymous with salaciousness is cleaning up its act, and all with the blessing - apparently - of the 89-year-old Mr Hefner, our correspondent adds.</div>
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60 years of Playboy</h2>
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<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playboy's logo showing a rabbit head wearing a bow tie is one of the most recognisable in the world. The company makes most of its money from licensing it around the world to sell products including toiletries, drinks and jewellery, including a necklace<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://whatcarriebradshawwore.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/season-two-carrie-in-playboy-bunny.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">worn by the character Carrie Bradshaw</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the TV series Sex and the City. About 40% of merchandising income is generated in China, where the magazine itself is not available.</li>
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<ul class="story-body__unordered-list" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Among the magazine's most famous interviews was a 1976<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/carter.htm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">conversation with Jimmy Carter</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in which the then presidential candidate admitted he had desired women other than his wife, confessing he had "looked on a lot of women with lust" and "committed adultery in my heart many times". Other notable interviewees included jazz musician Miles Davis in 1962; writer Vladimir Nabokov in 1964; and John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1981.</li>
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<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Library of Congress in Washington produces a Braille version of Playboy, one of 30 general-interest magazines that are translated for the blind and visually-impaired. In 1985, Congress voted to stop producing a Braille Playboy over morality concerns and to save money. But a group of blind Playboy readers sued for their right to read the magazine and a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/12/that-time-congress-fought-tooth-and-nail-over-printing-playboy-in-braille/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">judge ruled that the ban violated</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>their First Amendment rights under the US constitution. The Braille version<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/playboybraile00nlsu#page/n0/mode/2up" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">can be viewed here</a>.</li>
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<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playboy has gained a reputation for riffing off business stories, beginning with a "Women of Wall Street" series in 1989 featuring nine stock market workers - shortly afterwards, seven of the nine were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958236,00.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">revealed to have left their jobs</a>. Playboy continued with "Women of Enron" and "Women of WorldCom" shoots after those companies collapsed. It revisited the "Women of Wall Street" theme as the global financial crisis hit in 2008. The magazine<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/02/us-playboy-idUSTRE49115O20081002" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">advertised for models</a>, requiring them to have worked for a financial institution and expressing a preference for those with senior management experience.</li>
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<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not everybody has been pleased to appear in Playboy. In 2006, actress Jessica Alba refused to pose for a photo shoot so the magazine instead took an image from a film poster and put it on the front cover. Alba sued, arguing that appearing on the front cover suggested there would be nude photographs of her inside and this had caused "immeasurable harm" to her reputation. Hugh Hefner<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/no-nude-albas-apology/2006/04/05/1143916557175.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sent a personal apology</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and donated money to her favourite charities.</li>
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<br />Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-62063947425613817972015-03-21T19:36:00.002-07:002015-03-21T19:36:32.822-07:00Sugar: The Bitter Truth<h1 class="yt watch-title-container" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; display: table-cell; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Watch "The Skinny on Obesity" with Dr. Lustig: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity">http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">More UCTV videos about sugar: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.uctv.tv/sugar" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.uctv.tv/sugar">http://www.uctv.tv/sugar</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Dr. Lustig's book (comes out Dec 27, 2012), "Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease":</span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed/dp/159463100X" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed/dp/159463100X">http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Chance-Beat...</a>Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-44365310627017121722015-01-06T17:10:00.001-08:002015-01-06T17:10:03.325-08:00Spectrum One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonino Lamborghini Mobile presents their newest development in the techno-luxury segment - <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spectrum One</em></strong>on-ear headphones<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</strong></div>
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They are an incarnation of sophisticated Italian style, luxury and technology combined. With Spectrum One, dynamic design meets a brand new cutting edge music experience creating an iconic synthesis of styles.</div>
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Available in elegant silver and emotional red, the device provides the highest quality sound with deep bass, natural middle and crystal clear high frequencies. Its ear pads are made of soft leather and filled with memory foam to ensure the most comfortable wearing experience possible in complete isolation from external noise. You can also adjust the headband to achieve the perfect fit.</div>
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The <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spectrum One</em></strong> launch will be held during the popular <a href="http://www.robotfestival.it/2014/eng/index.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ca0088; text-decoration: none;">Robot Festival</a>, which takes place in Bologna, Italy, from 1 to 5 October 2014. Participants will also be given the exclusive opportunity to be the first in the world to purchase the new headphones with a secret pre-order code.</div>
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We are pleased to exclusively provide you this opportunity too. Please visit the <a href="http://www.lamborghini.it/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ca0088; text-decoration: none;">www.lamborghini.it</a> e-boutique and use the unlock code ‘TLSPECTRUM’ to order your very own iconic pair.</div>
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Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010, can now walk using a frame.<br />
The treatment, a world first, was carried out by surgeons in Poland in collaboration with scientists in London. <br />
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Details of the research are published in the journal <a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct/pre-prints/content-CT-1239_Tabakow_et_al">Cell Transplantation</a>.</div>
BBC One's Panorama programme had unique access to the project and spent a year charting the patient's rehabilitation. <br />
Darek Fidyka, 40, from Poland, was paralysed after being stabbed repeatedly in the back in the 2010 attack.<br />
He said walking again - with the support of a frame - was "an
incredible feeling", adding: "When you can't feel almost half your
body, you are helpless, but when it starts coming back it's like you
were born again." <br />
Prof Geoff Raisman, chair of neural regeneration at
University College London's Institute of Neurology, led the UK research
team.<br />
He said what had been achieved was "more impressive than man walking on the moon".<br />
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The treatment used olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) - specialist cells that form part of the sense of smell. <br />
OECs act as pathway cells that enable nerve fibres in the olfactory system to be continually renewed.<br />
In the first of two operations, surgeons removed one of the patient's olfactory bulbs and grew the cells in culture.<br />
Two weeks later they transplanted the OECs into the spinal
cord, which had been cut through in the knife attack apart from a thin
strip of scar tissue on the right. They had just a drop of material to
work with - about 500,000 cells. <br />
About 100 micro-injections of OECs were made above and below the injury. <br />
Four thin strips of nerve tissue were taken from the
patient's ankle and placed across an 8mm (0.3in) gap on the left side of
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The scientists believe the OECs provided a pathway to enable
fibres above and below the injury to reconnect, using the nerve grafts
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1) One of the patient's two olfactory bulbs was removed and the olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) were grown in culture<br />
2) 100 micro injections of OECs were made above and below the damaged area of the spinal cord<br />
3) Four strips of nerve tissue were placed across an 8mm gap
in the spinal cord. The scientists believe the OECs acted as a pathway
to stimulate the spinal cord cells to regenerate, using the nerve grafts
as a bridge to cross the severed cord<br />
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Before the treatment, Mr Fidyka had been paralysed for nearly
two years and had shown no sign of recovery despite many months of
intensive physiotherapy. <br />
This programme of exercise - five hours per day, five days a
week - has continued after the transplant at the Akson
Neuro-Rehabilitation Center in Wroclaw. <br />
Mr Fidyka first noticed that the treatment had been
successful after about three months, when his left thigh began putting
on muscle.<br />
Six months after surgery, Mr Fidyka was able to take his
first tentative steps along parallel bars, using leg braces and the
support of a physiotherapist.<br />
Two years after the treatment, he can now walk outside the rehabilitation centre using a frame. <br />
He has also recovered some bladder and bowel sensation and sexual function.<br />
Dr Pawel Tabakow, consultant neurosurgeon at Wroclaw
University Hospital, who led the Polish research team, said: "It's
amazing to see how regeneration of the spinal cord, something that was
thought impossible for many years, is becoming a reality." <br />
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Mr Fidyka still tires quickly when walking, but said: "I think it's realistic that one day I will become independent. <br />
"What I have learned is that you must never give up but keep fighting, because some door will open in life."<br />
The groundbreaking research was supported by the Nicholls
Spinal Injury Foundation (NSIF) and the UK Stem Cell Foundation (UKSCF)<br />
UKSCF was set up in 2007 to speed up progress of promising stem cell research - the charity has to date contributed £2.5m<br />
NSIF was set up by chef David Nicholls after his son Daniel was paralysed from the arms down in a swimming accident in 2003. <br />
To date the charity has given £1m to fund the research in London and a further £240,000 for the work in Poland.<br />
<span class="cross-head">The breakthrough</span>
A key difference with Mr Fidyka was that the scientists were
able use the patient's olfactory bulb, which is the richest source of
olfactory ensheathing cells.<br />
This meant there was no danger of rejection, so no need for immunosuppressive drugs used in conventional transplants.<br />
Most of the repair of Mr Fidyka's spinal cord was done on the left side, where there was an 8mm gap. <br />
He has since regained muscle mass and movement mostly on that side. <br />
Scientists believe this is evidence that the recovery is due
to regeneration, as signals from the brain controlling muscles in the
left leg travel down the left side of the spinal cord.<br />
MRI scans suggest that the gap in the cord has closed up following the treatment.<br />
None of those involved in the research want to profit from it. <br />
Prof Geoff Raisman said: "It would be my proudest boast if I
could say that no patient had had to pay one penny for any of the
information we have found."<br />
NSIF said if there were any patents arising, it would acquire them so as to make the technique freely available. <br />
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<span class="cross-head">The sense of smell and spinal repair</span>
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The complex neural circuitry responsible for our sense of smell
is the only part of the nervous system that regenerates throughout
adult life.<br />
It is this ability that scientists have tried to exploit in stimulating repair in the spinal cord.<br />
Every time we breathe, molecules carrying different odours in the air come into contact with nerve cells in the nose. <br />
These transmit messages to our olfactory bulbs - at the very top of the nasal cavity, sitting at the base of the brain. <br />
The nerve cells are being continually damaged and must be replaced.<br />
This process of regeneration is made possible by olfactory
ensheathing cells (OECs), which provide a pathway for the fibres to grow
back.<br />
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Mr Nicholls said: "When Dan had his accident I made him a
promise that, one day, he would walk again. I set up the charity to
raise funds purely for research into repairing the spinal cord. The
results with Darek show we are making significant progress towards that
goal."<br />
Prof Wagih El Masri said: "Although the clinical neurological
recovery is to date modest, this intervention has resulted in findings
of compelling scientific significance."<br />
The consultant spinal injuries surgeon, who has treated
thousands of patients in the UK, added: "I have waited 40 years for
something like this."<br />
All those involved in the research are keen not to raise
false hopes in patients and stress that the success will need to be
repeated to show definitively whether it can stimulate spinal cord
regeneration.<br />
The scientists hope to treat another 10 patients, in Poland
and Britain over the coming years, although that will depend on the
research receiving funding.<br />
Dr Tabakow said: "Our team in Poland would be prepared to
consider patients from anywhere in the world who are suitable for this
therapy. They are likely to have had a knife wound injury where the
spinal cord has been cleanly severed.<br />
Sir Richard Sykes, chair of the UK Stem Cell Foundation,
said: "The first patient is an inspirational and important step, which
brings years of laboratory research towards the clinical testbed."<br />
"To fully develop future treatments that benefit the 3
million paralysed globally will need continued investment for wide scale
clinical trials," <br />
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<span class="cross-head">The researchers</span>
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Prof Raisman has spent more than 40 years studying how to repair the spinal cord. <br />
In animal studies he showed that OECs injected into the rat spinal cord could reverse paralysis. <br />
In 2005, Prof Raisman was approached by a Polish neurosurgeon who had begun researching how to apply the technique in humans.<br />
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<span style="width: 464px;">Dr Tabakow</span>
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Dr Tabakow carried out an initial trial involving three
paralysed patients who each had a small amount of OECs injected in their
damaged spinal cords. <br />
While none showed any significant improvement, the main purpose of the study was achieved, showing that the treatment was safe.http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29645760<br />
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<strong><em>Panorama's To Walk Again is on Tuesday 21 October at 22:35 BST on BBC One.</em></strong></div>
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<br />Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-22529141782271002112014-05-24T21:42:00.001-07:002014-05-24T21:42:04.638-07:00She is why I started to watch football!<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="width: 630px;"><span>Fernanda Colombo Uliana</span></span>Early Doors has always been suspicious of football referees. Deciding to become one of the men in black has always seemed a peculiarly cruel bargain with the devil: sure, you get to be involved in football at a level that could be far higher than your own skill, and we can kind of understand getting a kick out of blowing the whistle and laying down the law.<br />
But are those minor thrills really worth becoming the sporting equivalent of a traffic warden? Is the uniform and the whistle or flag adequate compensation for the constant barrage of abuse from fans and players, aggression that often borders on physical assault, and guaranteed public humiliation every time you make a mistake? It's not as if there's money in it: unless you get to the very highest level, the money on offer equates to little more than petrol expenses.<br />
For a man in early middle age it all might be worth it, of course. But if you were a young, beautiful woman with the world at your feet, would you still give up your weekends to be a match official?<br />
You would if you were 25-year-old Fernanda Colombo Uliana, an up-and-coming match official from Brazil who caused a minor earthquake on the internet when she ran the line at the Brazilian Cup match between Sao Paolo and CRB this week.<br />
Fernanda has just been granted FIFA official status by the refereeing committee of the Brazilian FA (aka the CBF), hence her appearance in such a high profile match.<br />
And rather than regretting the fact that she will now have to have abuse hurled at her from far larger crowds, she is delighted that her career has moved on to the next level - both for herself, and for women in general.<br />
"It's one more step towards winning people over," she told<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://diariocatarinense.clicrbs.com.br/sc/esportes/noticia/2014/05/bandeirinha-fernanda-colombo-uliana-agora-e-aspirante-fifa-4492888.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">local paper Diario Catarinense</a>.<br />
Fernanda still has a day job, working as a personal trainer specialising in hydro-fitness at a gym in Florianopolis, but it's clear she has eyes on a full-time career in football.<br />
"It's the result of all the dedication I've shown. Who wouldn't want to receive recognition in their chosen career, after all? For me it's a huge victory."</div>
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When she is not refereeing, she is a model.</div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-61820536468916318802014-05-18T19:26:00.001-07:002014-05-18T19:26:29.435-07:00The dog ripped into the boy's leg, but was promptly chased away by a cat<div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138721" nodeindex="9" sizcache="11887">
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the footage entitled <em nodeindex="1">My
cat saved my son</em>, which appears to have been shot by a CCTV camera, a young
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<span style="font-size: small;">Within seconds, the boy’s cat hurtles towards the dog and
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bakersfield police said the attacking dog, identified as an
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LOS ANGELES: Beverly Hills is demanding that the Sultan of Brunei sell a
hotel in the celebrity-rich US city, after he introduced a penal code
incorporating Islamic sharia law, officials said Wednesday. <br />
Stars including Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres and business tycoon Richard Branson
have also called for a boycott of the chain, which owns the Beverly Hills Hotel.
But the head of the Dorchester Collection chain said that would be wrong-headed,
and only harm hotel staff. <br />
"The actions you take have to be seriously considered because they will
effect the livelihoods of these people," Christopher Cowdray told Beverly Hills
city lawmakers at a council meeting Tuesday night. <br />
Brunei's all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announced last week that he
would push ahead with implementing sharia, despite criticism both at home and
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An initial phase officially came into effect Thursday, with a second phase
including more stringent penalties, including the severing of limbs for theft
and robbery, to begin later in the year. <br />
Late next year, punishments such as death by stoning for offenses including
sodomy and adultery will be introduced. <br />
The Beverly Hills City Council passed a resolution Tuesday "condemning the
government of Brunei for a series of laws that impose extremely harsh penalties,
including death by stoning for homosexuality and adultery." <br />
"This resolution is calling for the (Brunei) government to change their laws
or to divest themselves of the Beverly Hills Hotel to separate the fact that our
iconic hotel is under their ownership," added Mayor Lili Bosse. <br />
Sultan Hassanal owns the historic Beverly Hills Hotel as well as the Bel-Air
Hotel in Los Angeles through his company Dorchester Collection, which also has
branches in London, Paris, Milan and Rome. <br />
The city council said they would send the resolution to the State Department
asking Washington to "take appropriate action to condemn the Brunei government's
policies." <br />
The United States has "relayed our concerns privately to the government of
Brunei," State Department spokesman Jen Psaki said Tuesday, but it will not
follow a growing boycott of the Sultan's luxury hotel chain. <br />
Beverly Hills' mayor called the new laws "shocking, inhumane." <br />
"They must be met with a strong statement of support for human rights of the
people of Brunei," she said. <br />
The Dorchester Collection is reportedly owned by the Brunei Investment
Agency, a sovereign wealth fund under the oil-rich sultanate's Ministry of
Finance. <br />
The upmarket chain also includes the Bel Air Hotel, which is a few miles from
the Beverly Hills Hotel although administratively in Los Angeles, rather than
Beverly Hills. <br />
It also includes the Dorchester Hotel in London, Le Meurice and Hotel Plaza
Athenee in Paris, Le Richemond in Geneva and the Hotel Eden in Rome. <br />
The sultan's support for sharia law has sparked rare domestic criticism of
the fabulously wealthy ruler on the Muslim-majority country's active social
media, and international condemnation including from the UN's human rights
office. <br />
On Monday, former US talk show host Leno joined a growing list of celebrities
vowing to boycott the luxury hotel chain. <br />
Virgin group founder Richard Branson tweeted at the weekend that Virgin
employees would not stay at the hotel chain "until the Sultan abides by basic
human rights," the British billionaire wrote. <br />
Others who have called for a boycott include talk show host DeGeneres,
British comedian Stephen Fry and TV star Sharon Osbourne. - AFP<br />
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-13710321660410997622014-01-23T18:05:00.001-08:002014-01-23T18:05:24.721-08:00US Economy....Brilliant !<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 18pt;">US Economy....Brilliant !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 20pt;">I like his last line, “I‘ve been doing my part …” </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_faber" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #a11f12;">Marc Faber</span></b></a><b><span style="color: navy;">,</span></b><span style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the investment guru, concluded his monthly bulletin with the following comments!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;">:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;">"The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China . If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">computer</span>, it will go to India . If we purchase fruits and vegetables it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala . If we purchase a good car, it will go to Germany and Japan . If we purchase useless crap, it will go to Taiwan . In short, none of it will help the American economy.</span><br /><span style="color: navy;"></span><br /><span style="color: navy;">The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced in the US .</span><br /><span style="color: navy;"></span><br /><span style="color: navy;">I've been doing my part....."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Lavender Face & Body Cream</b><br />(adapted from <i>Earthly Bodies,
Heavenly Hair</i> by Dina Falconi) <br /><br />3/4 cup/6 oz. extra virgin olive oil
or almond oil<br />1/4 cup/2 oz. coconut oil<br />2 tablespoons/1 oz. unrefined shea
butter <br />3/4 oz. beeswax <br />1 cup + 2 tablespoons/9 oz. purified or distilled
water<br />30 to 60 drops lavender essential oil<br /><br />equipment:<br />1 quart
glass pyrex measuring cup<br />electronic scale <br />shallow saucepan
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Measurements for water, liquid and solid oils and butters are by volume;
measurement for beeswax is by weight. In other words, use volume containers such
as measuring cups and spoons for measuring the water, liquid and solid oils and
butters, and use an electronic scale to measure the beeswax. You can also
increase the amount of beeswax to 1 ounce; the cream will be slightly
thicker.<br /><br />Also, this recipe, when made with olive oil as the base,
produces a very rich cream, great for very dry skin. When made with almond oil
as the base, the final cream is a little lighter and more suitable for dry to
normal skin. If you're unsure, try making a half-batch of this recipe so you can
test what you like before making the full version).</i><br /><br /><br />Put olive oil
or almond oil, coconut oil, shea butter and beeswax in the glass pyrex measuring
cup. Fill the saucepan half-way with water. Place pyrex container in the water
bath in the saucepan, turn heat to low, and stir until the coconut oil, shea
butter, and beeswax are completely melted. Transfer mixture to a 1 quart mason
jar. Let mixture come to body temperature, about 98ºF. While oils are cooling,
heat water to body temperature, about 98ºF. Pour water into mason jar containing
melted beeswax and oils. Add lavender essential oil. Place immersion blender
into the jar until blade or whisk touches the bottom of the jar. Turn blender
on; once the mixture begins to emulsify, move blender around the jar to
incorporate any streaks of unblended oil or water. Blend until mixture is a
creamy emulsion, as you would when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GbPF_rLpd9o">making
homemade mayonnaise</a>. Transfer to clean jar with tight-fitting lid. Let the
cream sit for a few hours before using it. Store the cream away from direct heat
and sun. The cream should keep for 3 to 6 months.<br /><br /><br />makes around 2 cups
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<a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/whether/" style="color: #2357c3;">Whether</a> you have <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/experienced/" style="color: #2357c3;">experienced</a> a <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/break/" style="color: #2357c3;">break</a> <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/up/" style="color: #2357c3;">up</a></div>
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with <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/someone/" style="color: #2357c3;">someone</a> you <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/cared/" style="color: #2357c3;">cared</a> for <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/deeply/" style="color: #2357c3;">deeply</a>,</div>
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whether <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/death/" style="color: #2357c3;">death</a> has <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/taken/" style="color: #2357c3;">taken</a> a <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/loved/" style="color: #2357c3;">loved</a> <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/one/" style="color: #2357c3;">one</a>,</div>
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whether you have <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/had/" style="color: #2357c3;">had</a> a <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/feud/" style="color: #2357c3;">feud</a> with a <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/friend/" style="color: #2357c3;">friend</a> or <a href="http://www.dreamthisday.com/quotes-sayings/family/" style="color: #2357c3;">family</a> member,</div>
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whether you have lost a job.</div>
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Move on and let go.</div>
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Life can be joyful and rewarding again.</div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-53308392684976587242013-11-21T17:15:00.001-08:002013-11-21T17:15:16.509-08:00Understanding the sick mind of Yazid Sufaat<div class="contentHeadline" id="Content0Left_Content0Left1_contentHeadline">
Understanding the sick mind of Yazid Sufaat</div>
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<strong>Disbeliever:</strong> I feel sorry for you, Yazid Sufaat. If the 9/11
attackers are hailed as 'marketers of Islam', then the perception is that Islam
is a 'terrorist religion'.<br /><br />Perhaps my knowledge of comparative studies in
religions is shallow, but from the various readings I've made, there is no
religion in the world that teaches its disciples to kill innocent
lives.<br /><br />Even Islam forbids the taking away of one's life; what more of
others'. The problem that exists right now is that many Muslims are
misinterpreting the Quran.<br /><br />A good example is the term 'jihad', which has
been misinterpreted in so many ways, thus 9/11, the Bali bombings and other acts
of terrorism are deemed to be 'jihad'.<br /><br />One thing is very clear - God (in
whichever religion and form that the Almighty appears) has never asked its
followers to take innocent lives and that He is a God of love and
compassion.<br /><br />I believe too that Islam is a great religion but some of its
followers (including Yazid) have given it a negative image to the
world.<br /><br /><strong>Chritopher Loi:</strong> This man is not in any right
frame of mind to be walking our streets. He breathes hatred and believes killing
is the best way to resolve issues.<br /><br />I thought a psychiatrist was supposed
to check if he was okay before his release from ISA (Internal Security
Act).<br /><br />Too many rapists and robbers spent time in jail and only to return
to their old selves after their release. I hope he is not going to be one of
them.<br /><br /><strong>Gusnargh: </strong>This man is deranged. He sees
conspiracies at every turn and justifies his actions because he sees it somehow
as "defending his own beliefs". I think <em>Malaysiakini </em>has done a good
job interviewing him.<br /><br />If nothing else, I feel that it has turned a lot of
normal-thinking Malaysians against this sort of ideology.<br /><br />I hope this
isn't taken as a justification for the ISA, however. Detention without trial
needs to be abolished if this country is to progress and men like Yazid should
be charged in a court of law, judged according to the laws of the country and
put away for whatever crimes he has committed.<br />
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<br /><br />Yazid, please be reminded,
faith is supposed to be redemptive, not coercive. I don't think you understand
that - since you don't believe in democracy.<br /><br /><strong>Kairos:</strong> So
according to Yazid's twisted ideology, it is okay to kill innocent people to
promote and market your faith.<br /><br />He argued that the 9/11 attackers killed
3,000 people is allowable in Islam because it demonstrates their love and
worship of their god.<br /><br />What kind of a god are they portraying to
non-Muslims? A god of hatred and murder and slaughtering of men and women just
because they hate Americans and their capitalist system?<br /><br />Please, keep
this belief system to yourself. I don't want it.<br /><br /><strong>Mat
Malaysia:</strong> Why is this modern day 'Don Quixote' not still behind bars?
Who let him out? He is obviously an unrepentant menace to
society.<br /><br /><strong>Kakarook:</strong> So Allah asks you to kill innocent
people all over the world - the innocent people in the train going to work, the
kids going to school, the pregnant woman going to hospital?<br /><br />Let me tell
you that what you are believe in is not true Islam. I have lots of Muslim
friends and they are really a peace-loving people.<br /><br />What you believe in is
killing. And I can conclude you believe in Satan
instead.<br /><br /><strong>Retard:</strong> Wow, attributing the increase of Islam
converts to all these killings is a real leap of faith, isn't it? If only
statistics were that simple.<br />
<br /><br /><strong>Dont Just Talk: </strong>Talk all you
want, former Selangor PAS chief Hasan Ali. After all, the 13th GE is just around
the corner and you will be left with no party to stand as their
candidate.<br /><br />PAS has expelled a loudmouth like you. Umno will not touch you
with a 10-foot pole because you are not a winnable candidate. Perhaps you should
stand under a Perkasa ticket and in the process, lose your deposit.<br /><br />But
at least, Hasan Ali, as the second court jester in Malaysia, you make rational
Malaysians laugh at your antics.<br /><br /><strong>Ferdtan:</strong> I thought
Hasan Ali puts three imperatives before himself - royalty, race and
religion.<br /><br />By snubbing the Selangor sultan in not attending not one but
two functions graced by His Majesty, he had failed in his self-proclaimed
mission.<br /><br />He is all talk (which a career motivator is good at), but no
action.<br />
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http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/192798</div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-18917611714968290962013-10-05T19:37:00.001-07:002013-10-05T19:37:28.939-07:00Characteristic of real MEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-72436741025068583682013-08-31T19:34:00.001-07:002013-08-31T19:34:29.020-07:00Proud to be Chinese <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Proud to be Chinese</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b>Proud to be born a
Chinese. Each and every race has their own Pride and so long as they do not
infringe into others' right, I don't see any problem of them taking their own
PRIDE, wonder why the Malaysian politicians are so taboo about
this?</b><br /><b>Why do Chinese people work so hard to succeed in life? Here
is the plain truth.<br /> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: #000099;">#1.</span><span style="color: #330000;"> There are over </span><span style="color: #000099;">1 billion</span><span style="color: #330000;"> of us on this earth. We are like photostat copies of each other.
You get rid of one,</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 5 magically appears (like ballot
boxes). Yes, it is scary, especially for us.</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> <b>We acknowledge that we are replaceable, thus we are not
particularly 'special'</b></span><b>.</b> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>If you think
you are smart, there are a few thousand more people smarter than you. If you
think you are strong, there are a few thousand people stronger than
you.<br /> </b></span><b><span style="color: #000099;">#2.</span><span style="color: #330000;"> We
have been crawling all over this earth for far more centuries than most
civilizations. </span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Our DNA is designed for
survival.</b></span> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>We are like cockroaches. Put us
anywhere on earth and we will make a colony and thrive. We survive on anything
around us and make the best of it. </b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Some keep
migrating but others will stay and multiply.</b></span><b><u><br /></u><span style="color: #000099;">#3.</span> NOBODY cares if we succeed as individuals or not.
But</b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>our families take pride in knowing we have
succeeded.</b></span> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>Yes, some will
fail.</b></span> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>We take nothing for
granted</b></span>. <span style="color: #330000;"><b>We don't expect privileges to fall on
our laps. No one owes us anything.</b></span><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#4.</b></span><b><span style="color: #330000;"> We know we have nothing
to lose if we try to succeed. Thus,</span></b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>we have no
fear trying</b></span><b><u>.</u></b> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>That is why Chinese
are addicted to gambling</b></span>. <span style="color: red;"><b>We thrive on taking
risks. All or nothing.</b></span><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#5.</b></span><b><span style="color: #330000;"> From young we are taught
to count every cent. What we take for granted like money management, I have
found out recently, is not something other cultures practice at home with their
children. It surprised me. But truth is not all societies or cultures teach
their young this set of skills because it is rude to them. Yes, most of us can
count because we are forced to and the logic of money is pounded into us from
the beginning of time (when mama tells us how much she has spent on our milk and
diapers)<br /> </span><span style="color: #000099;">#6.</span><span style="color: #330000;"> We
acknowledge life cycles. We accept that wealth in a family stays for three
generations (urban myth?). Thus,</span> <span style="color: red;">every 4th
generation</span></b></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">will have to work from
scratch.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b> <span style="color: #330000;">I.e. first generation earns the money from scratch, second
generation spends the money on education, third generation gets spoiled and
wastes all the inheritance. Then we are back to square one. Some families hang
on to their wealth a little longer than most.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#7.</b></span><b><span style="color: #330000;"> It is our culture to push
our next generation to do better than the last. Be smarter. Be stronger. Be
faster. Be more righteous. Be more pious. Be more innovative. Be more creative.
Be richer. Be everything that you can be in this lifetime. Be
KIASU.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#8.</b></span> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Our society judges us by our achievements</b>...</span> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>and we have no choice but to do something worthwhile because
Chinese New Year comes around every year and Chinese relatives have no qualms
about asking you straight in your face - how much are you making? When was your
last promotion? How big is your office? What car do you drive? Where do you
stay? You have boyfriend? You have girlfriend? When are you getting married?
When are you having children? When is the next child? When you getting a boy?
Got maid yet? Does your company send you overseas? etc etc etc. It NEVER ENDS...
so,</b></span> <span style="color: red;"><b>we can't stop chasing the illusive train -
we are damned to a materialistic society</b></span>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b>If you are not Chinese, consider yourself
lucky!</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b>#9.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: #330000;"> We have been taught from
young - if you have two hands, two feet, two eyes, and a mouth, what are you
doing with it? People with no hands can do better than you (and the OKU artists
do put us to shame)<br /> </span><span style="color: #000099;">#10.</span><span style="color: #330000;"> Ironically, the Chinese also believe in giving back to save their
wretched materialistic souls. Balance is needed. The more their children succeed
in life, the more our parents will give back to society (not for profit) as
gratitude for the good fortune bestowed on their children. Yes. That is true.
And that is why our society progresses forward in all
conditions.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Nobody pities us.</span></span></span></b></span><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">We accept that.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">No
one owes us</span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <b>anything.</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"> We know
that.</span></b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">There are too many
of</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">us for charity to reach all of us. We
acknowledge that.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">But
that does not stop us</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">from making a better life. This
lifetime.</span></span></span></b></span><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red;">Opportunity</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">is as we make of
it.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #330000;">So, pardon us if we feel obliged to make a better place for
ourselves in this country we call home. It is in our DNA to progress forward for
a more comfortable life.<br /><br />But if history were to be our teacher, look
around this globe.</span><span style="color: red;">Every country has a
Chinatown</span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">(seriously) but how many government/countries
are 'taken' over by the Chinese people.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Don't be afraid of us overwhelming your majority, we
are not looking to conquer. If we have moved away from China and Chinese
governed countries, we are NOT looking for another country to administer. Our
representatives are only there to look after our collective welfare. They are
duty bound. We prefer to blend in and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We enjoy
the company of like minded people of all races. After all, we are only passing
through a small period in the history of time... so, use our skills and we can
all progress forward together.<br /></b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b>Chan-Lui Lee, Ph.D.<br />Honorary Life Member
& Past President, AFS<br />Melbourne,
Australia</b></span></span></span></span>Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-80267108173964535452013-08-10T20:33:00.004-07:002013-08-10T20:33:43.382-07:00FUCK THE WORLD... I am a Panda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-64063739117251887982013-08-01T20:14:00.001-07:002013-08-01T20:14:24.590-07:00Royal Princess, Royal Scandal - the sad life of Princess Margaret <h2 class="date-header">
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It'll be six years next month that HRH Princess Margaret passed away at the age
of 71. Apparently her ex-husband, Lord Snowdon has decided to share intimate
details of his marriage to the late Princess in a new
biography.<br /><br />According to Hello Magazine: "News of the book, which is set
to hit UK stores in the summer, may come as a surprise to many royal
watchers.<br /><br />"There has always been an understanding that no biography would
be published during his lifetime," says royal author Tim Heald - who wrote a
biography of the Queen's late sister. "He has never spoken a word in public
about Margaret," he continues, "He has remained very loyal to her and to her
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"However, the royal snapper, who married the beautiful, blue-eyed royal at
Westminster Abbey in 1960, has given his "full agreement" to the new biography
by well-known journalist Anne de Courcy. "I am now happy for people to know
about my life and I want to put the record straight on some things," says the
77-year-old, whose famously turbulent union ended in divorce in 1978. Snowdon:
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Before Princess Diana became the most written about and hunted royal in
modern history, and pictures of Fergie getting her toes sucked were splashed
around the world, Princess Margaret captured the imagination and the paparazzi's
interest from the 1950's right up to her divorce from Lord Snowden in 1978. She
was noted as one of the most glamorous, well-dressed women in the world. In the
post war gloom of Britain, Princess Margaret could be seen out every night in
glamorous night clubs with her society friends, cigarette in hand. A rather far
cry from the rather forlorn figure in her last years who had a reputation for
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Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret Rose was born at Glamis Castle in
Scotland on the night <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyAYzg6cP0oSi40IOj0hPFc-wc4pwubMiJf-WaMydmPbCfaI4OCxzTQEDyXQl44IB8AJaYpM_BzZAecT_jQBIFnCe3gKVaFzncxOfhem4x4PHktjzU4htC5Wi8h7NFHFUsnMnjZLUIdhk/s1600-h/margaretDM_468x398.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153513634399733730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyAYzg6cP0oSi40IOj0hPFc-wc4pwubMiJf-WaMydmPbCfaI4OCxzTQEDyXQl44IB8AJaYpM_BzZAecT_jQBIFnCe3gKVaFzncxOfhem4x4PHktjzU4htC5Wi8h7NFHFUsnMnjZLUIdhk/s320/margaretDM_468x398.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>of a tremendous storm on August 21st 1930. In a
sense it was an omen of what her life would become. At the time of her birth,
her father, the Duke of York, was second in line to throne after his brother the
future Duke of Windsor. Margaret was brought up with her older sister Elizabeth
in a townhouse on Piccadilly. If things had been different, Margaret would have
passed into history as a very minor member of the Royal Family, probably living
her life out in the country as a member of the aristocracy, with their dogs, and
hunting.<br /><br />Instead, Margaret found herself thrust on the world stage when
her Uncle David abdicated the throne in December of 1936. All of a sudden, her
father was King and her sister was the heir apparent. They moved from their cozy
little townhouse to the great behemoth that is Buckingham Palace. From
childhood, Margaret was indulged. Although Elizabeth was the future Queen of
England, Margaret was clearly her father’s favorite. She was naughty, with a
wicked sense of humor and the ability to mimic anyone. When she was caught, she
managed to diffuse the situation by making everyone laugh until they forgot why
she was being punished. Margaret was also more affectionate and effusive than
her older sister.<br /><br />Although they fought like cats and dogs at times, the
two sisters were almost like twins, until their father’s coronation when
Elizabeth had a train on her gown but Margaret did not. From then on Margaret
was aware of her status as the ‘spare.’ When her sister was being given lessons
in history twice a week from the Provost at Eton, Margaret wanted lessons too.
No one seems to have known what to do with Margaret. In the old days of
Princesses, she would have been packed off as soon as possible to some foreign
court to become the consort of a reigning Prince. But the First World War had
taken care of most of the monarchies of Europe, and the ones that were left were
holding on by a string.<br /><br />Royal sons could go into the Navy or the Army, or
be packed of to be Governor General of one of the colonies like Australia or New
Zealand. There was no thought to the possibility of Margaret attending
University the way Prince Charles and Prince Edward did, or even attending Art
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ever talents she possessed were never developed beyond that of an
amateur.<br /><br />By the time she was 18, Princess Margaret was sexy, beautiful,
and self-assured with a drop dead gorgeous figure that was turned out to
perfection in the waspwaisted fashions of the post-War era. While Princess Diana
had cultivated the image of ‘Shy Di,’ awkward and unsure of her role as the
Princess of Wales, Margaret was the personification of the world’s idea of a
Princess.<br /><br />The press in the post war world was remarkably different from
the diffidence shown the royal family previously. The culture of the paparazzi
was in its infancy, and Princess Margaret was their first and most famous
subject. When she wore a two piece bathing suit while on a royal tour of Italy,
photographs appeared around the world. Nowadays when tons of photos appeared in
the press of Princess Diana cavorting in a bikini while pregnant, nobody batted
an eye but back then things were different. No royal had ever been photographed
wearing a bathing suit before.<br /><br />Princess Elizabeth had married Prince
Philip in November of 1947, and by the next November she’d had her first child.
She was a settled matron, living the life as a naval officer’s wife. Margaret
took up her role as the royal with a vengeance. She had no job and not many
friends her own age, apart from a few selected children who had been brought
into the royal nursery when she and her sister were growing up. With no real
role, Margaret threw herself into becoming the life of every party that was
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Her name was regularly in the gossip columns as she partied with the
so-called Princess Margaret Set - Old Etonian Billy Wallace, Dominic Elliot (son
of the Earl of Minto), the Earl of Dalkeith, Mark Bonham Carter, the Marquess of
Blandford and many now-forgotten Guardsmen. And she loved to sing at the piano
in nightclubs, surrounded by laughing friends.<br />She still had her duties to
fulfill, which she apparently did well. Margaret’s generation took the idea of
‘duty’ seriously, even though what she was often called on to do wasn’t exciting
or glamorous. Opening hospitals, petrol stations, christening ships, visiting
schools were all a part of the daily round of royal duties that Margaret was
expected to fulfill. She had more fun in her role as patron of the Royal Ballet.
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Margaret’s world changed abruptly when her father, George VI died in
February of 1952 at the age of 56. He’d not been well, worn down by the war
years and the burden of being King. Margaret, being the quintessential Daddy’s
girl, was devastated. She told a biographer that “there was an awful sense of
being in a black hole. I remember being tunnel-visioned and didn’t really notice
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While everyone was catering to her sister in her new role as Queen
Elizabeth II, Margaret was pushed aside, with no thought by anyone of what she
might be going through having lost her father. From living at Buckingham Palace,
she was now relegated to Clarence House, the Queen Mother’s new home. She was
now marginalized for the new royal family consisting of the Queen, Prince Philip
and Charles and Anne. Her role was now to be on the sidelines. </div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBZIm9PIEmUt8ilMjQwTg_Qb_Fw5sZnu7OWdTUPn-CPSzvVGyVvleRqg6OtYPhYqsNWZJvjNPiMyrOartn2Lialk935uA2hYFlQG3IdtanIuv95js-oTiSRjxzheGiCXaDOx65TCvU_A/s1600-h/margaret3L0207_468x359.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153518848490031170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBZIm9PIEmUt8ilMjQwTg_Qb_Fw5sZnu7OWdTUPn-CPSzvVGyVvleRqg6OtYPhYqsNWZJvjNPiMyrOartn2Lialk935uA2hYFlQG3IdtanIuv95js-oTiSRjxzheGiCXaDOx65TCvU_A/s320/margaret3L0207_468x359.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>But Margaret wouldn’t stay there. The first and
most famous incident in Princess Margaret’s life was her love affair with Group
Captain Peter Townsend. Townsend had been her father’s equerry for years; he was
a war hero, sixteen years her senior and married, although he was soon to be
divorced. In her grief over her father’s death, Margaret turned more and more to
Townsend for consolation. He too had suffered a loss when the King
died.<br /></div>
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The relationship had apparently started long before the King’s death and
would probably have stayed under the radar, if Princess Margaret hadn’t been
caught out brushing a piece of fluff off Townsend’s lapel during the coronation.
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Princess Margaret desperately wanted to marry Townsend, but there were
several obstacles, the most pressing being that he was divorced. Despite the
fact that he was the injured part, divorce in aristocratic and royal circles was
still a big taboo in the fifties. As the Queen was the Defender of the Faith and
the Head of the Church of England, having her sister marry a divorced man was
unthinkable.<br /><br />When Prince Michael of Kent married the former Marie
Christine Reibnitz in 1978, he still had to renounce his right to the throne
because she was not only divorced but Catholic. 40 years after Princess Margaret
gave up the man she loved, Princess Anne became the first divorced royal to
remarry and that wedding had to take place in Scotland as Mark Philips is still
alive.<br /><br />Margaret was told, erroneously it turns out, that not only would
she have to renounce her place in the succession, but that she would be stripped
of her royal title, her civil list allowance and forced to live abroad in exile
for the rest of her life like her Uncle. In 2004, it was revealed that Margaret
and the Queen were deliberately given misinformation by the government. While
Margaret would undoubtedly have had to renounce her place in the succession, she
could have kept her royal title and the money. The reason for the subterfuge was
that even though the abdication was almost twenty years prior, the wounds were
still open. As the Queen had just ascended the throne, it wouldn’t do for her
younger sister to be seen marrying a divorcé, no matter how
well-connected.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR4l1qVtFKd56st7wtwtSWq31EsjOiICKEFMHlqJK4gXtrt7FoqaahYkwt0fLzfiFuMLV1WXy20QVOXUVtmqKMlqIwQh1CV67PkvX8vcEVuh-zLXELzaN57oFDdlf4YXII8-YMLKJxyuY/s1600-h/margaretG_468x372.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153515545660180498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR4l1qVtFKd56st7wtwtSWq31EsjOiICKEFMHlqJK4gXtrt7FoqaahYkwt0fLzfiFuMLV1WXy20QVOXUVtmqKMlqIwQh1CV67PkvX8vcEVuh-zLXELzaN57oFDdlf4YXII8-YMLKJxyuY/s320/margaretG_468x372.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>After a two year separation, Townsend had been
posted abroad to Belgium as an air attaché and only sporadic meetings, Princess
Margaret agreed to give up any thought of marrying him. Despite their love for
each other, Margaret had no concept of what it would be like to be anything but
a member of the Royal family. The idea of living in exile, on his salary, was
too much to be borne. Margaret simply wasn’t the type to have to do her own
washing up, and cooking. It was one thing to play at it, knowing that you could
also call the servants if something went wrong, another to have that be your way
of life.<br /><br />Margaret plunged back into the world of café society, partying
harder than ever. As the years went by, more of her social circle married,
leaving her in danger of becoming an old maid. She was also smoking and drinking
a great deal. Her reputation also began to suffer as she began to appear aloof
and difficult in public while performing her royal duties.<br /><br />The public at
large rejoiced, when the Palace announced her engagement at the age of 29, to
the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. The princess had found happiness after
all. But the truth was that the announcement came shortly after Margaret learned
that Peter Townsend had married a Belgian woman, Marie-Luce Jamagne. Princess
Margaret was distraught, apparently the two of them had made a promise that
neither of them would marry. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNpzokdBI_RyXtrKlErjGkU3jJ5w7GuhecVBBJUg-Om2THier-nl2nVFLjNV2xjtLnKB4ChDElagRaWJD5Z29CgixeYuiT4utIE4O4DdXSs7-82IiwNOeDmHCn9Va1-kv4KdsbD22UIY/s1600-h/snowdon-margaret-1a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153514935774824450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNpzokdBI_RyXtrKlErjGkU3jJ5w7GuhecVBBJUg-Om2THier-nl2nVFLjNV2xjtLnKB4ChDElagRaWJD5Z29CgixeYuiT4utIE4O4DdXSs7-82IiwNOeDmHCn9Va1-kv4KdsbD22UIY/s320/snowdon-margaret-1a.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br /><br />Whatever the reasons, Princess Margaret
became a royal bride when she married Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminister
Abbey on May 6, 1960. At first it appeared that the newly married couple had a
great deal in common, both sharing a love of the arts and a strong streak of
irreverence. But the problem however was that while Princess Margaret may have
been cheeky, she never forgot that she was the daughter and granddaughter of a
King, and the sister of the Queen of England.<br /><br />That wasn’t the only
problem. Her staff treated him like an interloper, not like the husband of the
Princess. Even the courtiers surrounding the Royal Family considered him not one
of their “kind” despite the fact that his father was a wealthy QC and his mother
came from a well known artistic family, her brother was the noted theatrical set
designer Oliver Messel, and she herself had remarried the Earl of Rosse. Because
he wasn’t born with a title, he was regarded with suspicion, treated like
Princess Margaret was marrying down. Another problem was what to do with him.
Previous husbands of royal Princesses had been princes or Dukes in their own
right. For a proud man like Armstrong-Jones it was must have come as a shock
that he was expected to walk several paces behind his wife.<br /><br />The marriage
floundered as the Swinging Sixties took hold of Britain. They were moments of
joy in the birth of their two children, Viscount Linley in 1961 and his sister
Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones in 1964, but also periodic bouts of infidelity on
both sides, massive fights, and rampant drunkenness. According to biographer
Sarah Bradford, Snowdon once left a note for Princess Margaret that read, "You
look like a Jewish manicurist and I hate you". Armstrong-Jones began to spend
more time abroad on working assignments, while Princess Margaret retreated to
the Caribbean, most often to Mustique, where she had her own villa on land given
to her by her good friend Lord Glenconner.<br /><br />In 1973, Princess Margaret was
introduced to Roddy Llewellyn, who at 26 was 17 years <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0KGOu8WgaqntzEcf6S4YVh0V49XWjTla_Es8PZPZ2BtuxLxWbrbfL8iH397ZSXGUVs0L-LWfcpnye6ATVb8J-3d-7L4ZGQqUQNhJSV3uFUfVmJcPoV97tBgvqwgcaj-s6xLqs7e26c6M/s1600-h/039margaretDM_468x311.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153519677418719330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0KGOu8WgaqntzEcf6S4YVh0V49XWjTla_Es8PZPZ2BtuxLxWbrbfL8iH397ZSXGUVs0L-LWfcpnye6ATVb8J-3d-7L4ZGQqUQNhJSV3uFUfVmJcPoV97tBgvqwgcaj-s6xLqs7e26c6M/s320/039margaretDM_468x311.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>younger. They frequently spent time together on
Mustique, where they became quite close. Her marriage to Snowdon came to an end
when pictures of her and Roddy were splashed in the tabloids. A formal
separation wasn’t announced until 1976, and the couple were divorced in 1978.
Snowdon remarried immediately to Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, the television producer he
was having an affair with. Her relationship with Roddy ended soon after when he
informed that he was getting married.<br /><br />In her later years, she was plagued
by constant ill-health. In 1984, she’d an operation on her lungs, and in 1998,
she suffered a mild stroke. Later that year, the Princess severely scalded her
feet in a bathroom accident. The accident severely restricted her mobility,
forcing her to use a wheelchair on occasion. Although she eventually quit
smoking, the damage to her health was already done. In 2000, and 2001 she
suffered another series of strokes.<br /><br />Princess Margaret passed away on
February 9, 2002 at the age of 71, after suffering a massive stroke. Ironically
her funeral was held on the 50th anniversary of her father’s funeral. Unlike
most royals, Princess Margaret requested that she be cremated; her ashes placed
in the tomb of her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, who only survived
a few months after the death of her daughter.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhismcHGVKtRKWwnqEFTpW0Ak1cG4b5BSl3RPz0LxiNNaCp-HI-_YB0DmPE7_dquRMh5X1kuX8qAgrTxMUmJCX6GWZkXh5av85fpSC3O1BxCQ-ujdfxy-LfVUWFzkdYWNV6GXc7svtdAEA/s1600-h/_39658199_margaret203.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153519514209962066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhismcHGVKtRKWwnqEFTpW0Ak1cG4b5BSl3RPz0LxiNNaCp-HI-_YB0DmPE7_dquRMh5X1kuX8qAgrTxMUmJCX6GWZkXh5av85fpSC3O1BxCQ-ujdfxy-LfVUWFzkdYWNV6GXc7svtdAEA/s320/_39658199_margaret203.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br />Her good friend Gore Vidal wrote of her, "She
was far too intelligent for her station in life." He recalled a conversation he
had with the Princess, in which she discussed her public notoriety, saying, "It
was inevitable: when there are two sisters and one is the Queen, who must be the
source of honor and all that is good, while the other must be the focus of the
most creative malice, the evil sister.” </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></strong>Nobuo Fujita, a Japanese pilot who flew bombing runs over Oregon in 1942, apparently the only time that an enemy aircraft has ever bombed the American mainland, died on Tuesday at a hospital near Tokyo. He was 85.</div>
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The cause was lung cancer, family members said.</div>
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Mr. Fujita, whose incendiary bombs set off forest fires in Oregon's coastal range, played the key role in a quixotic plan by Japanese military commanders to put pressure on America's home turf in World War II. The idea was that the United States Navy would then be obliged to retreat from the Pacific to protect the West Coast.</div>
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A quiet, humble man who in his later years was deeply ashamed of his air raids on the United States, Mr. Fujita eventually forged a remarkable bond of friendship with the people of Brookings, the small logging town whose surrounding forests he had bombed. Last week, as he lay dying, the town council of Brookings hailed Mr. Fujita an ''ambassador of good will'' and proclaimed him an ''honorary citizen'' of the town.</div>
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On his first postwar visit to Brookings in 1962, Mr. Fujita carried with him a 400-year-old samurai sword that had been handed down in his family from generation to generation. He presented the sword, which he had carried with him throughout the war, to Brookings as a symbol of his regret, and it now hangs in the local library.</div>
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Mr. Fujita's daughter, Yoriko Asakura, said today that there was a bit more to the story. She recalled that her father had been very anxious before that visit, fretting about whether Oregonians would be angry at him for the bombing, and so he had decided to carry the sword so that if necessary he could appease their fury by committing ritual suicide, disemboweling himself with the sword in the traditional Japanese method known as seppuku.</div>
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''He thought perhaps people would still be angry and would throw eggs at him,'' Mrs. Asakura recalled, adding that ''if that happened, as a Japanese, he wanted to take responsibility for what he had done'' by committing seppuku.</div>
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Mr. Fujita's grandson, Fumihiro Asakura, said his grandfather had been deeply moved that the people of Brookings treated him hospitably, showering him with affection and respect that he felt he did not deserve. From this remarkable mutual magnanimity, Mr. Fujita began the metamorphosis from an enemy bomber of Brookings to its honorary citizen.</div>
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Brookings is a remote town of 5,400 on the southern Oregon coast, focused on logging and farming, but it now has an excellent selection of Japan books in its local library.</div>
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''He gave $1,000 to the library to purchase books about Japan for children, so that there wouldn't be another war between the United States and Japan,'' Nancy Brendlinger, the Mayor of Brookings, said by telephone. ''He was always very humble and always promoting the idea of peace between the United States and Japan.''</div>
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Churches and businesses in Brookings contributed $3,000 to pay for Mr. Fujita's trip to Oregon in 1962, and when he could afford to, he responded by paying for several local people to visit Japan. He also made three more visits to Brookings over the years, planting trees to mark the spot where he dropped the bombs and taking part in a 1994 ceremony to dedicate a state historical marker near the site.</div>
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In the war, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, of course, and even bombed some islands off Alaska. But the air raids on Oregon were the only attacks by Japanese airplanes on what were states at that time.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKirAvSum2U&feature=">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKirAvSum2U&feature=</a>Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-8613154647871539822013-05-30T20:18:00.002-07:002013-05-30T20:18:59.924-07:0014yr Old Rape Victim Beaten to Death by Islamic Court<span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">http://www.fortliberty.org/14yr-old-rape-victim-beaten-to-death-by-islamic-court.html</span><br />
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Hena Begum was a fourteen year old girl growing up in the Shariatpur region of Bangladesh until her forty year old cousin decided to rape her.<br />
After she was raped, the rapist and his family then beat her until she was unconscious.<br />
Next, the local Sharia (Islamic) courts ruled that yound Hena should receive 101 lashes for the crime of adultery — <em>for the crime of being a child raped by an adult</em>.<br />
The Muslim clerics took the young girl, who still could not stand on her own, to a public square and proceeded to deliver the 101 lashes. After receiving 80 lashes, young Hena collapsed. Her family was allowed to take her to a hospital where she died from her wounds.<br />
The child’s father, Dorbesh Khan, was also ordered to pay a fine equal to approximately $700 USD — quite a considerable sum in a nation which is suffering under the poverty which almost inevitably results from Islamic rule.<br />
The rapist, Mahbub Khan, had been previously convicted of rape <em>and sentenced to marry his rape victim</em>. The rape victim from that encounter was one of the family members who helped beat young Hena unconscious before her “trial.” Mahbub has since disappeared in order to avoid punishment for this more recent rape.<br />
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What sort of people would beat a fourteen year old girl to death in a public square — and call it justice? This is not the sort of religious tolerance that I as a moral human being am willing to accept.</div>
Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1311615460031875655.post-194078037152211952013-05-29T18:57:00.002-07:002013-05-29T18:57:29.085-07:00Chechnya: daily life<div class="gmail_quote">
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After two Chechen brothers were named in connection with the Boston
Marathon bombings, Reuters photographer Maxim Shemetov took this
collection of images titled "Inside Modern Chechnya" showing daily life
in the semi-autonomous Russian region known for a centuries-old
tradition of defying Moscow’s rule. Shemetov focused on the area in and
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An aerial view shows the center of the Chechen capital of Grozny on April 29. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo2" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, center, watches as men load up a cannon
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A police car drives along a street in the center of Grozny on April 22. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo4" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Muslim men arrive for Friday prayers at the central mosque in the
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Anzor and Salakhutdin, students at the Russian Islamic University, pray
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Chechen women chat in a cafe in the center of Grozny on April 23. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo7" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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A car drives past horses, standing at the edge of a road, outside the
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Cars drive along the road outside Chiri-Yurt, the village where the
Tsarnaev family has it's roots, in Chechnya, Russia on April 29. (Maxim
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The Heart of Chechnya mosque is seen in the Chechen capital on April 27. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo10" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Boys play soccer on the outskirts of Grozny on April 27. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo11" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Muslim men wait for Friday prayers in the Heart of Chechnya Mosque in Grozny on April 26. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo12" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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An employee of a memorial complex devoted to former Chechen leader
Akhmad Kadyrov signs documents in the Chechen capital on April 26.
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Students attend a lesson at the Russian Islamic University in the
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Students attend a lesson in Sharia law at the Russian Islamic University on April 23. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo15" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Terek Grozny fans support their team during a soccer match against Amkar
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Participants in a local mixfight competition wrestle in the ring, with a
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A young Chechen man looks out of a car in front of a building that bears
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A boy walks along the street in Chiri-Yurt, the village where the
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Guests dance at a wedding in the Chechen capital on April 24. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo21" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Women watch dancing at a wedding party in Grozny on April 24(Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo22" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Special forces officers stand guard during a government-organized event
marking Chechen language day in the center of the Chechen capital of
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Members of a youth club supporting former Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov
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A Muslim man prays in the Heart of Chechnya Mosque in Grozny on April 26. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo27" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a><div>
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Girls play on swings in a playground in the Chechen capital of Grozny on April 29. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/chechnya_daily_life.html#photo28" style="color: white;" target="_blank">#</a></div>
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