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As I sat there amid the congregational singing on his wedding day my heart was finally full. I felt that last drop of joy spill in that caused my heart to overflow. My eyes began to water and the tears began to fall. What a homecoming! What a gift! I had been gone too long - chased away by grief and sadness, by the kno... |
When things change it can be shocking. It can be paralyzing. But the courageous ones gather themselves up. |
And when I left I saw that thing that filled my heart with joy the most - he had his spark back. That twinkle in his eye. |
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dodgen |
August 16, 2008 |
The Stress Response |
Yesterday I learned that there are over 1400 physiological processes that occur in response to stress. That is quite an amazing fact I think. Those 1400 physiological processes effect nearly every aspect of our bodies: eyes, hands, lungs, urination, heart, brain, GI tract, cognition, etc. |
We often allow ourselves to do things, to think things, and to fear various things and we truly have no idea how those "things" affect us. Not all stress is bad, this is eustress. Not all stress is good, this is distress. |
Stress in truth is the bodies responsed to discomfort. Fortunately, our bodies compensate to most types of discomfort. However people who live in a chronic state of compenstated comfort (or people who are chronicly stressed) are living in a state of allostatis. Unfortunately, our society is trending toward allostasis a... |
Chronic stress can cause serious physiological consequences of : |
• Mental dysfunction (Depression, Panic anxiety, Obsessive-compulsive behavior, Poor memory, Anorexia nervosa/ malnutrition) |
• Active alcoholism |
• Aggrevated PMS |
• Asthma |
• Inflammatory bowel disease |
• Common cold/mononucleosis |
• Opportunistic infections (e.g., herpes - this is the shingles type) |
• Dermatological manifestations (or acne) |
• Burnout (Feeling overwhelmed, fatigue, Angry outbursts, Forgetfulness or disorganization, Guilt or self sacrifice, Disillusionment, Passivity, Distancing (that is pushing others away), Letting your self go, Substance abuse, Physical illness, etc.) |
It's funny how those little things that keep us up at night, that we carry around in our hearts and minds throughout the day, that nag us as we drive to and fro, those little things that stare us in the face when we take the time to look - it's funny how those little things can have such a powerful effect on our bodies... |
Claude Ramsay-A Life for Mississippi workers |
By Steve Riley |
Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 19, 21 |
When Claude Ramsay retired late last year, the longtime Mississippi labor chief started shopping for a shotgun. After twenty-six turbulent years of fighting racism and anti-union sentiment in a state steeped in conservative traditions, Ramsay said he was ready for the serenity of the piney woods and the open water. |
"I'm getting ready to do some fishing and hunting," Ramsay told an interviewer in September. |
Ramsay's hunting season was short-lived, however. He died in his sleep at his home in west Jackson January 18, barely a month after stepping down as director of Mississippi's AFL-CIO. While Ramsay, who was sixty-nine, had talked a good game about relaxing in retirement, few who knew him believe he would have strayed fa... |
"He was always pulling for the underdog," said Wayne Dowdy of McComb, Mississippi's Fourth District congressman, whose shocking 1981 election was made possible by Ramsay's endorsement. "He was going to stay right in the middle of politics. He gave me every assurance he would be active. That was Claude's way. He wasn't ... |
Sitting on the sidelines would have been safer during the turbulent 1960s. While Mississippi boiled with racial turmoil, Ramsay took perhaps the two most risky positions for a white Mississippian still living in his home state: he tried to build a base of organized labor and supported-no, campaigned for-equal rights fo... |
"He was really in double jeopardy," said Norman Hill, a former civil-rights worker and now president of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute. "He showed tremendous courage." |
Herb Mabry, head of the Georgia AFL-CIO, summed up Ramsay's positions succinctly. "He had guts when it took guts to have guts," Mabry said. Ramsay also had something to back up his guts - a double barreled shotgun he carried on the front seat of his car during his travels across Mississippi. That gun was stolen after t... |
"I didn't come back from World War II to run from some SOB with a sheet over his head." |
As Ramsay told that story, he chuckled with a degree of self-satisfaction. His always raspy voice had grown gruffer, his prominent nose looked larger and redder than in years past. A bout with throat cancer had forever extinguished what had been an ever-present cigar. But as he approached retirement, Ramsay appeared co... |
It was never easy for labor and Claude Ramsay. In 1959, when he was elected to his first term as president of the state organization, Mississippi labor unions counted 35,000 members. Ramsay's work boosted membership to 50,000 in 1960; it peaked in 1980 at slightly above 100,000. Membership since then slipped to about 8... |
Even as the labor ranks swelled during the 1970s, Ramsay's influence on state government was never overpowering. Though he influenced a sizeable chunk of votes, his bouts in the Legislature often ended in disappointment. Mississippi's workers' compensation laws remain among the nation's weakest, and Ramsay's ultimate g... |
But Ramsay is given credit for effective voter-registration drives in the 60s, which syndicated columnist and veteran political observer Bill Minor said "helped blacks more than they will ever know." And his coalition of labor and blacks also was a positive factor in |
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the landmark education reform legislation in 1982. |
Ramsay backed his share of political losers, going it alone in 1972 for George McGovern, a most unpopular politician in the Deep South. He also campaigned hard in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson, a national winner who was swamped by Barry Goldwater in Mississippi. |
Ramsay often said his political "high-water mark" came with Dowdy's election in 1981. In a special election to replace the resigning Jon Hinson, Dowdy stunned Republican Liles Williams in the GOP-dominated Fourth District. Dowdy had emerged from a crowded Democratic field after he endorsed extension of the Voting Right... |
That victory was heady stuff for the Ocean Springs, Mississippi, native, who got his first involvement in union organizing in 1939 when he went to work for International Paper Company in Moss Point, Mississippi. That job had come about after Ramsay's fiery personality had helped ease him out of higher education. He bri... |
"I got into a cuss fight with the guy who was in charge," Ramsay recalled. |
He then left school and went to work at the paper company, where he helped organize one of the state's first industrial unions. He served in Europe in World War II and later returned to his Moss Point job as a shop steward. In 1950, he was elected president of his union local and in 1959 he was asked to direct the AFL-... |
It was in the Army that Ramsay met a soldier who would strengthen his already growing resistance to racial hatred. He said a black French Moroccan joined his unit and "became a favorite of everybody in the company. And all of them were Southern boys. I was never taught to hate black people. But it set me to thinking." |
Those thoughts started to crystallize in the early 1960s, when Ramsay faced some tough choices. Ramsay said he worked and spoke out for civil rights because racial tensions were chasing away industry and because he thought segregation was wrong. |
A speech in 1962 to the Metal Trades Council in his native Jackson County thrust him into the civil-rights spotlight. In the speech, Ramsay spoke out against racism, saying violence could prompt the federal government to take contracts away from Ingalls Shipbuilding, a major defense contractor. And he came to the defen... |
Harkey won a Pulitzer Prize for his civil rights editorials and later wrote a book, The Smell of Burning Crosses. He credited Ramsay with turning the tide in Jackson County. "It was a helluva gutsy thing to do," Harkey said. "Without him, God knows what would have happened." |
At the time of his retirement, Ramsay took the title president emeritus and turned over his authority to Thomas Knight, who had served under Ramsay as secretary-treasurer since 1960, and Neal Fowler, took Knight's old job. Fowler said Ramsay wanted to stay involved. |
"Just the other day he and I were sitting and talking about plans," Fowler said. "I think it really struck him that day. He realized he was going to retire. I can remember seeing tears in his eyes. It's a shame that he didn't get to enjoy his retirement." |
Others said Ramsay just wasn't the type to sit around. "The kind of life he lived made up for not getting a long retirement," said Robert Walker of Vicksburg, a Warren County supervisor and former field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. "He didn't work for that." |
Steve Riley is a staff writer for the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger. |
Basically, he took the bobcat to a rest stop. |
Shortly after arriving at the Welcome Center the bobcat welcomed back consciousness and was obviously not very pleased. Everyone was to concerned with their own safety to approach the bobcat to remove it. Eventually the Vermont Fish and Game Department arrived. |
Let's just say you don't want to mess with Vermont Fish and Game. |
They incapacitated the beast with a Taser. Then they sedated it. Then they removed it. Unfortunately its injuries were so severe the animal had to be euthanized. And you think you've had a bad day. |
With every bizarre story there is always a lesson to be learned. |
Don't pick up injured animals. Don't approach them or try to help them. Call animal control or the police. You wouldn't want to cause some poor bobcat to get tased would you? |
For more see this source article. |
Life Goes On... |
13/05/2015 11:22 BST | Updated 12/05/2016 10:59 BST |
As I listened to David Miliband dissect his brother's failures on the news in a eulogy written to offend the faithful, I found myself squawking, 'he's not dead David, he's only in Ibiza!' But politically dead Ed is; the headstone he commissioned foretold it. Every time I see that headstone I picture David slipping the ... |
The nurse was delighted, 'doesn't that look great?' she exclaimed as she wiped the crust off the stitches, 'what a fantastic job. See how that plaster is keeping the nail in place?' It looked pretty grim to me but I tried not to whine and thought about the positives. An obvious one being the incredible treatment I have... |
Politicizing Poutine |
By Ian Alexander Cuthbertson |
Locating (or rather fabricating) a shared national culture is important in Canada, which celebrates its sesquicentennial this year. Canada’s pre-Confederation colonial history in which French settlers, who eventually claimed a unique identity as Canadiens, were later colonized by English settlers in successive waves af... |
These linguistic and cultural differences have long fueled nationalist and sovereignist movements in Québec and in 1980 and 1995 Québec held referenda to separate from Canada and become a sovereign nation. Although federalists narrowly defeated the separatists, the Canadian government officially recognized Québec’s dis... |
But it would be a mistake to view Canada as a country divided neatly in two. The plight of indigenous or First Nations peoples in Canada continues despite recent commitments to renew a ‘nation-to-nation’ relationship, leading some to refer to indigenous communities as Canada’s third solitude. Moreover, Québec is not th... |
Canada has long struggled to assert its own unique national identity and to find shared cultural markers. In 1971 Canada introduced an official policy of multiculturalism, which has led some critics to claim that Canada has no distinct culture of its own. In an interview with the New York Times last year, Prime Ministe... |
The problem is that poutine, like many other notable markers of ‘Canadian’ identity (ice hockey, toques, the Canadian national anthem) originated in Québec. The dish was invented either by Fernand Lachance in Warwick in 1957 or else in Drummondville by Jean-Paul Roy in 1964 and although its precise origins are obscure,... |
The dish that has been touted as quintessentially Canadian was practically unknown outside of Québec until the mid 1980s. The first brief mention of poutine in The Globe and Mail, then Canada’s largest daily newspaper, occurs in 1982 where it is described as a “plate of mystery.” Two years later, poutine is described a... |
So is poutine Canadian or Québécois? As is the case when considering any strategic act of identification, this question misses the point entirely. For those interested in constructing a shared Canadian identity in the face of multiculturalism and in the wake of its colonial history (as well as for those hoping to sell ... |
La Banquise, a well-known poutinerie in Montréal, provides a history of the (in)famous dish in both French and English on its website. Both versions describe poutine as ‘our national dish.’ But whereas a Québécois reading the description in French will likely interpret the word ‘nationale’ to refer to Québec, Canadians... |
One Reply to “Politicizing Poutine” |
1. This is facinating. As a very Canada-friendly American, and historian, I think Canada DOES have an ever-evolving “national identity,” though it’s vague, as national identities necessarily are. Poutine has become a latter-day Canadian national dish, just as a slice of pizza has become a latter-day essential America... |
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Rated X-Rated X |
Final rating, I’d be happy paying… |
$14.99-Regularly Priced CD |
$9.99-Download from iTunes or Amazon |
$5.00-but it as a used CD |
$1.00-streaming it on Spotify |
$0-Not worth the drive space |
King Kobra-II |
Boy does King Kobra have an interesting history. Formed by legendary drummer Carmine Appice and four peroxided L.A. unknowns, their debut Ready To Strike was tremendous with hits “Hunger” and “Ready To Strike”. Then came the second album Thrill Of A Lifetime. Granted it did have bad-ass album art and a big hit in “Iron... |
Times being what the were, Carmine got the original band back together and reportedly offered Marci the position of singer again. She turned it down so they got Paul Shortino, ex-Rough Cutt and Quiet Riot to man the mic. They put out King Kobra last year and it was pretty good. Shortino’s blues based vocals suited the ... |
On their newest release II, odd since this is their 5 studio album but whatever, King Kobra maintains the back to basics approach. It starts off with “Hell On Wheels” a great fist pumper that really sets the tone. What is surprising about this track is that it is over 6-minutes long but does not get old. A lot of this ... |
Same can be said of the ballad “Take Me Back”. It is not something we haven’t heard before but its sincerity is off the charts and really propels the track. There’s also a couple of real nice poppier tracks in “The Crunch” and “We Go Round” to lighten the mood a bit. |
You have to give King Kobra a lot of credit. They could have done the easy thing and put out albums of re-recorded material or a “covers” album but they buckled down and have made a good album in King Kobra and a great album with II. Very rare that a band is able to remake themselves and release a career defining album... |
Final rating, I’d be happy paying… |
$14.99-Regularly Priced CD |
$9.99-Download from iTunes or Amazon |
$5.00-wait for Amazon to have it on sale |
$0-Not worth the drive space |
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