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Bhastrika (pronounced bah-STREE-kah),[1] a kind of pranayama, is a breathing technique where breathing is forcible and through the nose, with equal time for inhalation and exhalation.[2] Bhastrika Pranayama is aimed at keeping the inhalation cycle equal to exhalation, yet making breath deeper and longer. Deep breath in... |
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1. ^ Budilovsky, Joan; Adamson, Eve (2000). The complete idiot's guide to yoga (2 ed.). Penguin. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-02-863970-3. Retrieved 11 April 2011. |
2. ^ Yoga Glossary, in the website of YOGA SHALA BERLIN. |
3. ^ Anandmurti Gurumaa talks about Bhastrika and Kapalabhati Pranayama |
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Mr CAMPBELL (11:08 AM) —The National Firearms Program Implementation Bill 1998 is just another example of legislation this parliament enters into without any real concern for its end result. It was not entered into for any reason other than to promote the image of the Prime Minister (Mr Howard) as a strong leader. |
It is true that there was an incentive when a madman, Mr Bryant, allegedly killed all those people in Tasmania. I must say in passing that I cannot understand why the governments—the federal government and the state government of Tasmania—are opposing a royal commission into the events of Port Arthur. I think there are... |
What happened when this sad event occurred was that the Prime Minister's advisers in Sydney said, `Prime Minister, this is your chance to be seen as a strong leader—and to hell with the consequences.' It has been very divisive across Australia, as the National Party is about to find out in the Queensland election. |
If you look at the statistics since 1915 when records were first kept, the incidence of gun related violence in this country has been continually dropping; it is graphing downwards. Sadly, in the United States, it is going the other way at about two and a half times the rate of Australia. But, if you take out of conten... |
In Western Australia—I do not know the figures for other states but I am sure they are comparable—there has been an almost doubling of armed violence since this legislation came in. Do the government consider that this was a success? I am sure they do not but then they do not care because that was never the intention o... |
We are told what a great success the scheme was and that $500 million was raised with the Medicare levy. There is no doubt that far more lives would have been saved if that money had been put into the health system than is going to occur through this scheme. What has happened? People handed in guns that became illegal ... |
Why is it that, for all the time that governments of either persuasion have had the power under the Customs Act to prohibit the entry of high-powered military rifles—they have always had that power—they have never taken any action? The sporting shooters do not require those guns. They have made that clear; they have sa... |
I was talking to a gun dealer in Sydney who said, `Look, I didn't agree with that but everyone else is doing it, so business is business.' He told me that most of his customers are Vietnamese. If you check the records, very few AK47 guns and AK47 look-alike guns have been handed in by the Vietnamese community in Sydney... |
You had the stupidity of the Prime Minister refusing to allow 12 gauge semiautomatic shotguns, self-loading shotguns, which were choked to allow only two shots, to be used in competition. It is an absolute absurdity. The Prime Minister said in the House that it was his advice that the mechanism could be reversed. You c... |
This legislation extends the buyback provisions to the islands and territories surrounding Australia. The facts are these: home invasion is a fast growing crime. I think it is awful when you cannot feel secure in your own home. In France, home invasion is not heard of; in France, you are allowed to have a gun for defen... |
Now let us look at another absurdity. The government banned the sale of self-loading .22 calibre rifles. Most murders and most deaths were caused by a single shot. One of the largest causes of death was suicide in the rural sector. Banning the guns is not going to stop the suicides; fixing the economy is going to do mu... |
The truth is this. I have used a self-loading .22 to shoot rabbits commercially. If you are shooting rabbits commercially, it is probably the only calibre you can use and the only type of gun that will make your operation successful. I have also used a repeating rifle, a bolt action 243, to shoot kangaroos, and that gu... |
But we are a dealing with a Prime Minister and a bureaucracy that do not understand. I will warrant that three-quarters of the bureaucrats and all of the attorneys-general did not know the difference between an automatic rifle and a self-loading rifle. They called them all automatics. The difference of course is that a... |
We had this action taken as a feel-good action, as I said. It is interesting that, while the idea was very popular in Sydney, its popularity diminished as you got further from Sydney. I believe that, had our state premiers had the nerve to demand a constitutional referendum, this legislation would not have passed. It w... |
One of the important reasons why we need to introduce into Australia the concept of a citizen initiated referendum is so the people can have a say and so that they are not continually subjected to decisions made by a government which they have no opportunity to oppose because both parties have the same policy. Bipartis... |
If you look at the situation in Australia, there was a great clamour from the Labor Party to do away with the appeals to Privy Council. What happened? When there were appeals to Privy Council, our High Court was arguably the best appellate court in the world and I think it had a great record. But within a very short ti... |
What I say is that citizen initiated referenda have the ability to reapply the intellectual vigour that was necessary to bring the High Court under control. It will be effective not only against politicians but against the judges and the bureaucrats. It is something we must have. I believe it will not often be used and... |
This legislation is indicative of a lot of stuff that comes into this parliament. It does no good, it is probably counterproductive and it costs. We have seen this cost. The government is admitting to this cost. The cost is significant. Had that money been put into new roads, it would have saved more lives. Had it been... |
When the present Prime Minister acceded to his position, I had faith in him. This was the first act that weakened that faith. Since then, I have seen successive acts from the Prime Minister which make me believe he is no longer worthy of support. It is about time this parliament got back to really representing the will... |
I know that I am wasting my time. This legislation is going to go through, but there will be a reckoning and I believe that reckoning will come in Queensland very shortly, where the people have already said, `We have had enough of this draconian government.' Believe me, if Mr Beattie is elected to government, it will n... |
The untold story of the Mapuche hunger strike |
Posted by Ruth Collins - 15 September 2010 |
The other crisis currently under way in Chile. |
In a year that has been calamitous, to say the least, for Chile, having survived an earthquake that registered 8.8 on the Richter scale and enduring the ongoing saga of the men trapped for over 40 days in the San José mine, Chileans were probably looking forward to something more light-hearted with the celebrations for... |
Some might regard the voluntary actions of the strikers, now in the 64th day of their protest, as selfish or foolish compared with the plight of the miners. Yet the protest is not just related to the initial reason for their imprisonment -- their involvement in a dispute over ancestral land in the southern Chilean regi... |
President Sebastián Piñera's coalition government (Alianza por Chile) has had the misfortune of inheriting not only the legacy of both the Concertación's and Augusto Pinochet's troublesome relationship with the Mapuche population, but also the counterterrorism law enacted by Pinochet in 1984, which still allows Mapuche... |
Despite inheriting this history of land and political disputes, the current government hasn't exactly warmed itself to the Mapuche, either. As the citizen media website Global Voices reported earlier this year, although the government was faced with the ominous task of coming into office just two weeks after the earthq... |
The hunger strike was originally orchestrated in an attempt to draw international attention to their plight, and has sparked off a stream of solidarity protests across the world this summer. In Chile, however, it has been largely downplayed both by media outlets and by the authorities. That goes far to explain why such... |
The authorities have been repeatedly criticised by human rights groups in recent years for permitting police brutality and for failing to eradicate the anti-terrorist legislation. The journalist David Dudenhoefer estimates that some thousand Mapuche have been arrested over the past decade, with many going on hunger str... |
Despite continued pleas from around the world to protect the interests of the Mapuche, including statements by high-profile figures as José Saramago, there has been little improvement in recent years. There was a flicker of hope during President Michelle Bachelet's tenure in 2008 when Chile became a signatory of the In... |
So, it was to everyone's great surprise last Thursday when four left-wing congressmen (members of the opposition, incidentally) joined the hunger strike in an act of solidarity. That same evening, President Piñera introduced emergency measures to revise the legislation. Yet whether more effective and long-term reforms ... |
Certainly, as has happened time and again in Chile and many other Latin American countries during protests by indigenous communities, Piñera's haste to amend the legislation is being used as a bargaining tool to pacify the protesters. Many of the Mapuche are now in a critical state of health, some having lost up to 18 ... |
With the threat of blood on its hands, Piñera's government has the opportunity to break with the tradition of reducing the Mapuche problem to a question of ancestral land. Otherwise, as Patricio Navia, a columnist for La Tercera, suggests, it could become a true "headache" for the party and threaten the stability of mo... |
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ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO look far in the news to witness the intense emotions released by academic elections relating to board of trustee matters--such as at Dartmouth. Just imagine throwing in uncertainty and doubt regarding confidentiality, fairness, and security concerns. A higher ed institution could wind up having far... |
Obviously, confidentiality and security are paramount in every election, public or private. When conducting a college or university voting project, it is crucial to authenticate voters' identification. Equally important is ensuring the voter's identity and actual vote selection are separated in a manner that prevents h... |
No pets or dead people or other abuses can be tolerated in the voting process. |
Neither the election host nor a third party must be able to determine how a voter votes. Without adequate security measures, such as firewalls, an election's integrity can be compromised by a hacker who alters votes. It's also imperative that one qualified voter equals one vote. No pets or dead people or other abuses c... |
IHEs, whose overriding mission is to teach, are, with few exceptions, in the dark ages with their own boards' nomination, election, and voting processes. Institutions that should be a model for democratic principles, in fact, often have no voting process at all, let alone voter security and safeguards. |
Indeed, in a recent independent survey of 150 larger and more prestigious U.S. academic institutions, less than 15 percent had voter security safeguards in place. The majority did not have formal democratic nominations, contested elections, or term limits in place for their boards. Many boards simply nominate trustees,... |
I understand the challenges institutions face: a shortage of qualified, motivated talent to serve as trustees, limited financial resources and staffing, and IT-related issues. But a healthy, vibrant academic environment with active alumni participation must have open nomination processes, elections, term limits, and so... |
A wide range of elections taking place within academia would benefit from the voter confidentiality and ballot security measures now common in other public and private sectors. Whether the process is online or by paper in a vote-by-mail election, individuals managing the trustee election process must have several admin... |
--Give each eligible voter a unique identifier. This helps ensure that only eligible voters can participate and helps administrators to verify that all eligible voters were contacted about the voting process and provided information about the candidates. |
--Set up a system to track receipt of completed ballots. The system should not allow individuals tabulating the election results to associate a completed ballot with an identifiable individual, however. |
--Make sure the election process has a verifiable trail. Whether in paper or electronic form, it enables election officials to complete a recount of completed ballots in the event an election is challenged. |
Many IHEs have their own internal processes and technologies for conducting elections. Some systems meet the criteria described above; most do not. In either case, election process legitimacy can be significantly enhanced if a qualified third-party election services provider, consultant, or nonprofit organization is pa... |
Perhaps it is high time for IHEs to lead the charge on democratic process and voter security as our world evolves from paper to online balloting. For important elections, it is imperative to handle all security aspects both efficiently and effectively. |
Gregg McGilvray is CIO at Election Services Corporation,, which provides a suite of election management solutions related to database management, polling site and remote electronic voting, advanced security, accurate tabulation, and demographic reporting. |
An Iowa man raising cattle and hogs told the Food Nation Radio Network he was forced to quit farming when GMO corn made his animals sterile. |
In an interview with Michael Serio, Iowa farmer Jerry Rosman said he lost his family farm due the corn he was feeding his livestock. |
Rosman said he used hybrids in the past and started to use GMO corn in feed in 1997 without any trouble, but things changed in 2000 when he switched to a different company’s genetics with a new genetically modified trait. |
Starting in 2000, most of Rosman’s animal were unable to reproduce with a low sperm count in males and females showing false pregnancies. The pigs that were reproducing had smaller litters. By adjusting the type of corn used, Rosman concluded the corn with the genetically modified trait he started using in 2000 was cau... |
A 2006 publication from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) reports at least 65 million metric tons of GM corn grains are used in livestock diets annually and extensive testing and a long approval process accompany every GM crop introduction. |
The resource explains safety concerns on the use of GM crops as feed ingredients involve three questions: |
• Are GM crops safe as feeds for livestock? |
• Is animal performance affected by GM crops? |
• Could transgenic materials be transferred to and accumulate in milk, meat, and eggs? |
“Feeding trials have been conducted to examine the safety and efficacy of GM feeds for farm livestocks. Based on these studies, there is no evidence of significantly altered nutritional composition, deleterious effects, or the occurrence of transgenic DNA or protein in animal products derived from animals fed with GM f... |
Additionally, a study by University of Nebraska researchers found no difference between cattle grazing genetically enhanced corn hybrids and their non-genetically enhanced parent hybrid. |
For more information regarding genetically modified corn, read John Maday's article: Scientists call for retraction of GM corn paper. |
"It was an illegal activity and we're going to pursue it and try and find out who did it and prosecute," general manager Jeff Luhnow said. |
Luhnow said some of the information was accurate and some was not, but he wouldn't discuss what portions fell into which category. He said the Astros have since upgraded the security on their system. |
"I don't know if anybody can say for sure that any system is 100 percent secure, but we're working on it," Luhnow said. "We've done a security review and we're going to continue to do more. Obviously information is important in our industry as it is in any industry, and we want to do everything we can to protect the in... |
"Some of it is not accurate and there's information out there that affects other teams and individual players that's not accurate," he said. "And just in general when you have a conversation with another team it's a conversation between two individuals or two clubs. It's not meant to be shared with the world. So I feel... |
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