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Dec. 19th, 2008

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KNIGHTON, Wales / News Wales / December 18, 2008:

As many as 25,000 older people in Wales could be suffering abuse, a seminar at Cardiff University Law school has heard.

Ana Palazón, Director of Help the Aged in Wales, said: We estimate that as many as 25,000 older people in Wales could be suffering elder abuse, but the very nature of this problem where people can often be too afraid to report that they are being abused - makes it difficult to know for certain how widespread the problem actually is.

Robert Taylor, Age Concern Cymru Chief Executive, said: Many of us will find it difficult to get our heads around the idea that elder abuse is a fact of life for many older people in modern Wales, but elder abuse does happen, and it happens every day on our doorsteps in communities right across Wales. We cannot allow this to continue.

ve organised this seminar to inform our work in this area and so that together we can influence the development of adult protection policies for Wales and consign elder abuse to the pages of history.

The seminar brought together an all-Wales panel of experts to test expert opinion on whether new legislation is the answer.

Organised by Help the Aged in Wales and Age Concern Cymru, the seminar, also attended by Ruth Marks, the Commissioner for Older People in Wales, involved workshops and presentations on issues such as the effectiveness of current legislation in protecting older people.

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New charity appoints Dr Bernadette Fuge as chair

CARDIFF / Daily Post / December 18, 2008

By Martin Williams, Daily Post

THE new charity for elderly people in Wales has appointed Holywell doctor Bernadette Fuge as its chairwoman.

The Transition Board for developing a new organisation from Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales made the announcement yesterday.

Dr Fuge graduated from the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff in 1969 before becoming a GP principal and partner in a general practice in the capital between 1978 and 1990.

She then moved to the Welsh Office between 1990 and 1999, and until 2005 worked for the Welsh Assembly as Medical Director NHS Wales.

Commenting on her appointment, she said: I am delighted to have been chosen for this important and challenging role.

I want to build on the success that Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales have achieved as separate charities over many years, and help create a powerful and influential new charity which will improve the lives of older people in Wales.

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Put in Purpose Here: A Conference Attending Todd Arnold

Interview by Jordan Barnhart, for Iambaphor.com

I recently had the opportunity to meet with up-and-coming poet Todd Arnold at his secluded, one room cabin in Payette, Idaho. Sitting amongst an assortment of pelts, half eaten cans of beans and empty bottles of Jack Daniels, we discussed his new work, Tyrants of Beauty. Arnold, a self-described narcissist and philanderer, offered insight into his writing methods, the creative process and the trials of publication. Along the way, Arnold revealed, at times hilarious and disturbing, personal anecdotes about life, philosophy and finding a good pair of slacks. All in all, it was a most interesting and thought provoking interaction.

JB: Todd, thank you for meeting with me today and for the hospitality. Your cabin is lovely.
TA: Thank you for coming. Its rare for me to have visitors. Usually, its just me and the rugged surroundings. Although, I have befriended the local wildlife; namely, a large grizzly bear who likes to eat mashed wheat germ.

JB: Im curious, how did you ever find this place? I wouldnt imagine it was listed in conventional property listings.
TA: I was looking for someplace quiet and secluded to clear my head. A little oasis I could go to in order to write unfettered by the usual day-to-day clamor. A friend of mine bought the place many years ago, and he has since been arrested by the Guatemalan government for the destruction of a large pepper farm, so Im only looking after it until his extradition back to the States or until I fill the closet with stolen bird cages, whichever comes first.

JB: Oh, I see. Well, lets get to the real reason Im here, Tyrants of Beauty. This is your first book of poetry if Im not mistaken, that has to be exciting for you.
TA: You know, it really is. There are not many other feelings that can compare to seeing ones innermost thoughts in print. Its both exhilarating and terrifying. The writing process was long and arduous. At times, I was pretty certain none of this would see the light of day. But, the chaos descends into order every once in a while and allows a person to get on with things. However, sometimes the chaos descends into the depths of insanity, and youre suddenly wishing you were vacationing in Cleveland or Newark with an insurance salesman, or some other mythical beast like a monster with the head of a halibut and the body of a halibut, but not the same halibut.

JB: Did poetry come naturally for you or was it something you had to work at to perfect?
TA: Writing in general comes naturally to me. The craft of poetry has been much more difficult. I have always been able to turn a phrase or spit out one-liners and long passages of interesting thought. The distillation process of verse is a much more time-consuming and maddening task. In the end its always very satisfying, however, especially when youve spent the last nine months intoxicated on moonshine made from fermented llama bladders and cobra venom, and youre convinced your name is Talman Scruthers, a wealthy Swiss banker married to a casino maven in Monaco. But then you realize youve never been to Switzerland, you have no shoes, and a port authority officer is questioning you about a cargo ship full of Chinese immigrants. Writing leads a man to strange places.

JB: How do you approach your poetry? I guess what I mean is, do you have a specific method? Yates would drink a glass of pig blood before starting to work, Poe was said to have filled his underwear with peanut butter before sitting down to pen a new poem, what does Todd Arnold do?
TA: For me, its a daily routine. I go through the same creative process almost every day when Im working on a specific project. I usually get up at 5am to exercise and eat a breakfast of ostrich egg-yolks spread on marble rye with a glass of honey and exactly seven orange wedges. Then, Ill make threatening phone calls to my publisher, editor and their families; sometimes Ill call a prominent politician and pretend to be a peanut who needs marital advice. Pretty standard stuff, really. By noon, Ill take off my clothes and submerge my entire body in a tub full of nacho cheese and grass clippings. Ill stay in there for about an hour and sing old Vegas showtunes to myself off-key. At that point I shower and put on a large robe and sit down to write until about 6pm. After that, I might go for a short walk outside or go to the Post Office and mail some hair to a friend. The rest of the evening I spend time with various females of differing ages, creeds and colors. We usually experiment with mind-expanding substances and test the limits of the human body in ways frowned upon by the majority of ethical human beings. Once, I was prosecuted in a federal court for crashing a small commuter plane into a Pittsburgh Steelers cheerleader because she said it was her fondest bedroom desire. How could I have said no?

JB: Your poems in this book, though they deal with a similar overarching theme, are quite varied. Some might say awkwardly so. What do you say to these critics?
TA: One must be generous to literary critics. They are very unhappy people who lack the ability to create anything worthwhile artistically, even though they would love nothing more than to produce such a thing if they actually had talent and good ideas. So when I hear about an unfavorable review I laugh it off and allow my compatriots in the Turkish Liberation Army to explain things clearly and concisely. Youd be surprised what can be accomplished through kebab-waving madmen with mustaches. Or maybe you wouldnt. Im not sure what sort of lunatic you might be. For all I know, you spend your free time dissecting kittens and your life goal is to spend an afternoon in a swimming pool filled with expired egg-nog and half-digested carpet fibers.

JB: Let me quote a recent review of by Isaac Goldman from poetry1st.com, s quite possible Arnold is completely out of his mind. Id be willing to bet that he is either (a) a megalomaniac (b) schizophrenic or (c) a,b and d, an asshole. Fairly strong words. Have you seen this article? What do you think about it and Goldman?
TA: I have seen this article. I was speaking to some undergraduates at New York University last month and ran into Mr. Goldman. He was in the audience and we spoke afterwards, having a pleasant conversation. I was able to clarify some points he was confused about and we shared some kind words. It shocked me to hear that his cab crashed when a mummy fell into the windshield from a Manhattan office building later that night. I wish both him and his wife, who was accidentally pickled and jarred, speedy recoveries.

JB:In an interview you did for verseandrhyme.com you said, when asked about your personal life, s none of your damn business! As far as your other question, yes, I find few flaws in my work and life. is a strong word and Im hesitant to use it to describe anything. is probably more subtle a word and more accurate. Were you trying to convey that youre a perfectionist?
TA: No, I was demonstrating the purity of my thoughts and therefore showing the absolute perfection of the human being in harmony with his slacks. I believe the only way to happiness is through a pair of well-starched slacks. Without good slacks, life is a harrowing journey through a hellish labyrinth of erotic misadventure and cat embalming. Anyone who disagrees is probably a fascist; a fascist and an owner of unlicensed parrot mines, which I find to be vulgar, vile and highly profitable.

JB: What is it that interests you most about the whole male/female interaction?
TA: Im fascinated by the conflict, touched by the desire for resolution, and elevated by the divine ability of loves mischievous and capricious efforts to unite people in the strangest of ways. I also have a morbid curiosity in watching people self-destruct by disavowing all knowledge of logical and rational thinking as they tumble downward into holes of depraved self-flagellation in order to both remain in current relationships and search out new partners.. An example of that would be the day to day lifestyles of 99.8% of Americans, but whos keeping count? I prefer to remain optimistic and not dwell on the numbers. Plus, I once was arrested for selling mimes to the president of Paraguay for twice the price of South African blood diamonds just to impress a young little minx I was courting, so what do I know?

JB: Some say its best to find that one person that youre meant to be with, the proverbial soul mate as it were, whereas others argue its best to have no attachments whatsoever. The great comedian Steve Martin seemed to be somewhere in the middle when he said, s best to get to know someone and maybe even love them before you use and degrade them. Where do you stand on the spectrum?
TA: I agree with Steve in many ways. Also, the prolific auteur Woody Allen hit it very close to the mark when he said, In order to love someone, its necessary to be very close to them, preferably in the same room, crouching behind the drapes. Either that, or my philosophy on this subject could be best described by the Greek philosopher Parmenides, Our desire for meaningful companionship is the vital energy which causes us to produce great outcomes in terrible situations, the inspiring force behind the most brilliant works of art, and the only thing that has ever led me to believe God has a sense of humor and a dog named Trimbles who has rabies and likes to ruin my life. Also, if it werent for love, I would never have accosted those school children by rubbing blue cheese salad dressing on my thighs and screaming, s well that ends well! as I ran away with their jackets, which I put on fire hydrants for political reasons. I was having a hard time after my wife left me to pursue a career in a doorstop assembly line. It was only later that I discovered she was having a torrid affair with a wildly successful kite salesman named Hermaphro Coksmyth, who recently died of overexposure to dryer lint.

JB: Lets shift gears. Last month we asked some of our readers to send in questions they would like you to answer. We chose a couple at random and I have them here. We didnt filter or edit any of them and these are the first time weve seen them. So, here we go. What does Todd Arnold like to do for a good time?
TA: I love to travel. I enjoy experiencing different cultures and then ridiculing them until attacked and beaten by angry mobs. As a writer its important to understand all facets of human nature. Also, I receive great pleasure from playing practical jokes on friends. A long time ago on her birthday I gave a friend of mine a cake, but inside the cake was a live octopus stuffed with dynamite. When she cut the cake it exploded and the octopus beak was propelled like a champagne cork straight into her eye. Although she still wears an eye-patch to this day, we often laugh about it and she holds no grudges, as is evident by her gift to me this past year for my birthday a hollowed out coconut stuffed with monkey teeth and gun powder, with a long protruding fuse that was lit!

JB: If you could have dinner with any world leader from any time in history who would it be and what would you talk about?
TA: There are so many wonderful leaders from historyMussolini, Genghis Khan, CaligulaI could go on and on. But I think I would have to say Napoleon. I heard he made the best crepe in France and squandered his entire fortune on diamond-plated underpants, of which he needed a new pair everyday. Id discuss world domination, nefarious puppy laundering, blonde eighteen year old twin girls, and what he really did on Elba. I know of rumors how he wrote a play entitled, Le Vigilante, in which he played the part of a French nurse who smuggled narcoleptic mailmen across the river Seine during Napoleonic Revolution. The play starts out with Bonaparte in a nurses outfit, covered in pastries and helping French soldiers learn how to bake a soufflé with literally no ingredients. The play has its merits, but supposedly ends with Napoleon naked and shouting obscenities at a burlap sack filled with dead pigeons.

JB: Todd, do you know about the things? Im not exactly sure what that means. Do you want to take a crack at that or should we move on?
TA: No, its okay, Ill field this one. I do know about the things. The things are complex and difficult to understand, like other things can be. What you must understand is that to thrive on knowing a thing or things, one must be a thing when attempting to be nothing, or risk losing anything associated with the properties of something; just as nothingness can lead to oneness when a thing is introduced into anything, oneness can lead to twoness the moment a thing starts to be, or ceases to be nothing, or most accurately is a thing while being and not becoming nothing, during a period of what I term, or the property of being a thing while nothing exerts control over the things being anything, something, or when everything feels strange and youve just had a dream about astronauts playing violins at a bar-mitzvah for a reduced rate. I hope youre following

JB: Todd, thank you so much for your time today. We at Iambaphor.com appreciate your work and your honesty. Im sure well be hearing much more from you in the coming years and we look forward to seeing your artistic voice mature. Now, how do I get home because I got here in a jeep I wasnt driving and I was blind folded?
TA: Hmm.

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Weight Deprivation Tips - By what mode To Get Invented Body: In what way to Gain Weight

How to start your aerobic training program:
Consider first setting your goals for sometime in the future; make sure they are realistic. Start easy, be kind to yourself. Many of us start out joining a gym and telling ourselves that now we will train every day! Six out of ten people going to gyms drop out in the first month. That?s a staggering 60% of the people. The numbers are just as high for those that buy exercise equipment and don?t use it. So you need several ingredients, not necessarily in order of importance, but because you want to be successful in your training.
1.Desire or motivation that is from who you are, not to get something.
2.Energy: This means you need to start thinking about eating better. No matter where you are with nutrition you can always improve (see nutrition for details). You need nutrients as well. Vitamins, power foods, high technology nutrition is available; you just need to make the effort. Without good fuel it?s hard to get the energy to train.
3.Set your goals within yourself and make them realistic. Remember, there is no cause and effect so you can?t cause health; you can only live it.
4.Make the time, create a loose schedule with alternatives, if need be.
5.Stick to it. Remember, consistency is more important than intensity.
6.Understand the basics of bio-mechanics, even for walking (posture, the muscles, the stretching, the meditation and imagery) to get the most from your efforts.
7.If you are in a family or a relationship, you need support and encouragement, not grief for leaving them alone so often. Get them to start with you (that?s really tough sometimes). It?s always easier if your partner is doing a similar program with you.
8.If you smoke, start making an effort to cut down, if that?s really what you want to do. If not, it will not make a huge difference so much as your attitude towards it will. Use coltsfoot, an herb you can buy in health food stores and smoke it. It will cleanse your lungs, and help you to get off tobacco. You will find the desire will slowly fade away as you get healthier. We don?t need to harp about it. JUST DO IT! QUIT.
9.If you eat more than a plate at a sitting, just start eating less, and limit snacks to fruit.
10.Maybe it?s some of the food you eat. Cut down on fats, sugar, liquor, canned food, and packaged food full of hidden fats and sugars. I?m sure you already know the stuff that doesn?t really help your body.
11.Eat more of the good stuff: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole foods, grains, etc.
12.Drink more water, read more books, and have more fun in your life. Why not?
Of course there is more, but this would be a great start. Remember that when you work holistically you have a better chance at success. You will be working on several levels of health at the same time.
A few days you make it, then you miss one, and eventually another. I know, and I?m a professional trainer, it happens to me. Life is always changing, that?s the beauty of it. That does not mean we give up; just go with the flow. Set some realistic goals, and know that you will miss some days. Make it up again, and don?t beat yourself up about it.
The majority of people drop out of their health programs primarily because it is very hard to get motivated. There are a few myths about motivation for working out -- that knowledge will do it, or maybe we feel guilty because we are overweight -- but the key is if you don?t have the energy none of that will matter. It?s really about metabolism. Once you get older if you don?t exercise, your own body will start to think you don?t need the hormones and energy. Basically, it starts to shut down. When you do exercise, it?s hard and your body feels like it?s really stressed. It?s not very pleasant, in fact, it hurts many times when you start to train.
To really increase the energy level and have your body and brain work with you, you need to take the nutrients to get your body working again. The food you eat needs to be better quality with more servings of natural fruits and vegetables. If you are eating junky food there is no way your body will be able to have more energy.
You need to consider antioxidants, vitamins, and some form of growth hormone like DHEA or Deer antler extract which is natural (IGF1 which is a pre-curser to HGH). Take care with Human Growth Hormon always consult your doctor. I personally don't recomend HGH, because if you take it your body stops producing it, there are alternatives. You can?t take very much of this as it turns to testosterone and so you need to consult a doctor for medical advice. (see my web page for more information about this along with other nutrients). Most doctors don?t recommend very high doses of either of these nutrients, so get professional advice. A small amount can do wonders for the human body. These nutrients increase metabolism, build muscle, and help the body to become anabolic (for building and repair of tissue). This is important: to not be catabolic (destructive down cycle) any longer. If you can use these health products, they are the best.
The research necessary to take the vitamin and nutrient business to its highest level is being done with these products. Your success in a fitness program is dependent on your nutrition program.
The minimum goal for an aerobic activity is five times a week for over thirty minutes each session, and even up to sixty minutes if you are only going to walk. Five times a week, not three times as we have heard. That doesn?t mean it has to be all running or all walking. You can play tennis, golf, and walk briskly, or take a nice walk with the family. Families that train together, stay together. Play ball with the kids, for this to be effective and considered an aerobic activity, you need to do it over a half hour and get your heart rate up about 60 to 70% of your max. By then you start to burn some fat. As you increase this ability to burn some fat your brain says ?Hey! This person is active. Let?s improve the metabolism.?
As you exercise you also decrease your appetite so you eat less. This is when your body will start to create more hormones, endorphins, and pain-reducing substances called antefolins, which will help you to feel better. Remember, you have to get over the hump before you feel good from exercise. Then weight is not a big problem and you will slowly and naturally level off to your natural weight. This all helps to reduce your stress as well as helping you to feel more successful and some enhanced self- esteem. Balancing your body this way also helps reduce the risk of heart disease as well as diabetes. It helps you create more of HDL, which is the good cholesterol, and reduces the LDL VLDL, the bad cholesterol.
A moderate exercise program always helps you sleep better. It enhances the digestion and the lymphatic systems (the cleanser of the body tissues). All this helps your body to work at the ultimate level. Remember, this is going to take time. Diets or any fast way will not last. We know now that when you diet or change anything too drastically your body goes into shock. Then the next time you eat, it holds on to it. You gain all the weight back, your body just needs to know you are not a couch patato.
So it?s best to not focus on the weight. When your body is operating at its optimal level, you will be at your correct weight eventually. It all depends on your body type, anyway. You could still be heavy and be incredibly fit and healthy. Isn?t that the purpose of all this?
A sample schedule for the beginner fitness enthusiast: Note you can replace walk for run- if you have been a runner, if not don't start running unless you are prepared to find all your sore, and injured places coming to the surface.
Day One.
Take an easy twenty-minute walk at a nice brisk pace. (Walk ten minutes from your starting point and turn around.) Find a nice place to walk, away from lots of cars. If your neighborhood is good place well, great. If not, take the extra time to drive to a park, beach, pasture or the country. No sense huffing and puffing more carbon monoxide. (Living in Los Angeles is like smoking ten cigarettes every hour. Cherniscki). You need to be able to keep up a conversation. If you are in oxygen debt you won?t burn calories as well so take it easy at first. Upon returning, spend about ten or fifteen minutes stretching.
Consistency is more important than intensity. If you don?t do it regularly the brain thinks ?well, this body doesn?t need much energy so we can store all these extra calories in the thighs or butt.? But if you start with some regular activity, just everyday stuff can contribute the message to the brain saying ?hey we need more energy.? The brain begins to think this body is active and needs to increase the metabolism. Every two hours do something for at least ten minutes is another technique. Then your brain will take you to a higher metabolic level. As you increase your exercise program you will have more byproducts called free radicals. This is more reason for us to work with nutrition as well, because you need to increase the antioxidants to keep the body healthy from the free radicals.
Day Two
Just stretch for ten to fifteen minutes. If you are near water, maybe swim for ten to fifteen minutes. Or do a more easy walk if you are sore.
Day Three
Walk briskly for twenty-five minutes. Stretch for fifteen, or if you have it down, it could only take ten minutes to get a good stretch.
Day Four
Swim and stretch for at least twenty minutes and ten, respectively.
Day Five
You might miss one. . .Or walk maybe longer and easy or hard depending on how you feel.
Day Six
Walk a good deal faster for thirty minutes. If you feel tight walking, stop after you break into a light sweat and stretch for a few minutes. Regarding the legs and gluteus muscles. Then continue, finishing up with a good ten minute stretch.
Day Seven
If you didn?t miss one day, take an easy walk, swim or stretch, maybe do something with family or friends. If you got sore at all during the week, then rest and just stretch or swim. Note: I like to add crunchies to all my workouts, strengthen the abdominals is a good way to trim the belly.
Continue this program until you can walk thirty minutes without losing your breath at all. This can take two weeks for most people and up to four weeks for others. If it takes you longer, stay with twenty-five minutes for two months, and then move into the next level. If within two weeks your body serves you well, you can proceed with the next level.
We will have an easy day and then a hard day for the rest of the training. If you miss an easy day, don?t worry about it.
Continue on the following day with a brisk walk for thirty minutes. Now we will start to burn some fat. From now on, you workouts should last about forty-five minutes. So give yourself an hour to work it into your daily routine, if you don't feel like training don't know that you can do something easy.
As you get stronger, your easy days become more like your hard days when you first started. Walking can increase to five times per week within the first few months, depending on your body. You have to listen to it and pay attention. If you can get the advice from a certified personal trainer, please do. It never hurts to have more information. At this level it?s not as critical as it will be when we start the strengthening program using weights, running or strengthening exercises.
Six to Eight Weeks
Most bodies will start to enjoy working out from here on out. After six or eight weeks, start your strength-training program. Once again, listen to your body. If you don?t feel quite ready at six weeks, take eight. What?s the rush? You have your whole life ahead of you. At this point is when I recommend the use of a certified personal trainer.
You can go in either of two directions with this addition to your program, with various levels of intensity depending on your body and your abilities.
If you are able and willing to run for your particular goals, you may now start to run. Start with easy jogging for twenty minutes every other day, and weight training every other day. Running at this time should be at least three days a week, the same for weight training. There is some evidence, however, that we could get by with two days of weight training (solid whole body sessions) and still do okay. Include one day of rest. The day you rest could be a very easy workout, either stretching, swimming or family fun.
For weight training we need to start just as easy. Many of us think that weight training will build large muscles. We see all these big bodybuilders, and although some of us admire the dedication it takes to build that kind of body, it is not necessarily true that weight training builds large muscles. It all depends on how you train, how much you train, and your age as well as the system of training. We know that by stressing any muscle naturally (exercises) or unnaturally (weights) we work with the law of irritation and adaptability to produce the result we want.
Basically, this means the body will adapt to irritation. Adapting can mean for size of muscle as well as for the functioning of the muscle. Adapting also can mean the heart and lungs adapting to more stress and improving the functioning of this system (aerobic conditioning). The irritation could be considered the stress exerted on the body (heart and lungs) by running or walking more and increasing time and duration. Then we consider strength in the muscles by more and more progressive exertion (making the body work progressively harder). This can be achieved by doing more and more pushups or other exercises. Using weight training for increasing strength, as well as burning more calories, we would have to build by lifting more times and more weight.
There is another way to use weight training to develop strength as well as endurance. This system works on the premise that using progressively more weight builds size and strength. Starting with more weight and then progressively reducing the weight with longer repetitions, we build endurance in the muscle instead of bulk. This is a good way to shape the body without building mass.
It?s widely known now that for older women weight or resistance training is beneficial to stave off osteoporosis.
Please note: This section is not to take the place of medical advice. I recommend that you speak to your doctor before undertaking any kind of exercise program, especially weight training. See a professional; it will be a good investment in your body.
see web pages http://www.molinamassage.com or http://www.betterbacksystems.com
Othon Molina Ph.d. c LMT has been involved in the health field as a manual therapist and personal trainer for over thirty five years. He has studied with some of the top doctors and healers of our times. His specialty is treating sports injuries, back problems, and teaching others how to improve their health or athletic competition using nutrition and fitness technologies.
One of his specialties is Kinesiology. He has been a runner all his life, and competed in many triathlons, 5k's, 10k's and marathons. Competing at an elite level gave him the experience to help train others. Recently he coached and worked with the female champion of the German team of triathletes.
Some of his clients include: Bob Hope, Jane Seymor, Essam Kashoggy, Jim Nabors, Tony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, Carol Burnett, San Francisco Ballet, Allvin Alley Dance troupe, some of the top Olympic and international elite athletes, team doc and new trainer for the German professional triathletes. He also trains massage teams worldwide, as well as health professionals in Hawaii.

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Dec. 18th, 2008

on course « dead body on the line

Manifesto - National Committee for the Rights of the Internally Displaced
(First issued in 1992 and reconfirmed in the meeting convened at the Galilee Society, Shafa Amr, 19-11-1999)
As we enter the third millennium, the Palestinian refugee issue created by Zionist conspiracies and occupation institutions has remained unresolved. Fifty-one years after 1948 Nakba, Palestinians still live in exile and displaced in their homeland. Since the establishment of the Israeli state, achieved with the support of international Zionism and imperialist forces, consecutive Israeli governments have rejected our internationally legitimized right of return. These governments have continued to destroy our villages and desecrate our holy sites, and have transformed us from a people with land into a people without land. By means of ethnic legislation, they have confiscated our land, robbed our properties, changed the historical sites of our homeland, and built on the remains of our villages. Our people has struggled, during these long years, against Zionist policies and sacrificed for our legitimate right of return.
The 1991 Madrid Conference excluded reference to UN resolution 194, which emphasizes our right of return, and neglected the existence of the Palestinian Arab minority in the homeland. In response, internally displaced embarked on an initiative, in 1992, to gather and unify our struggle for the right of return to our villages and towns of origin.
A first popular meeting of the internally displaced at Qasr al-Salam/Tamra on 11-3-1995 resulted in the establishment of the National Committee for the Rights of the Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel mandated “to follow up, and lead the struggle for return”. On 16-3-1995, the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee adopted our cause and re-affirmed our right of return to our destroyed villages.
Since the 1993 Oslo Accords and the follow-up agreements, the terms of peace have been defined and spread by Israeli governments and their allies, terms which reject the implementation of collective Arab-Palestinians rights, especially the right of return. We internally displaced stand at the threshold to the third millennium, deeply concerned of a so-called final status solution which will cancel our rights. Aware of what might be cooked behind the scenes, and knowing that Baraks will not bring a just peace, we wish to re-affirm the following:
* We the some 250,000 internally displaced, part of the Palestinian Arab minority, citizens of this state, did not fall from the sky. We are not immigrants, but natives in our land. The Israeli government is not allowed - on ethical, moral, legal, and political grounds - to keep us displaced in our homeland, far from our towns and villages of origin. International law and principles protect our natural right of return.
* We warn the Israeli government not to neglect our issue and demand that our file be opened. We demand the cancellation of the Absentees Property Law which defines us as Present Absentees, as well as the cancellation of all other laws providing for ethnic discrimination, and to return the displaced to their homes.
* The National Committee demands to maintain the holy sites in all destroyed villages and to protect our historic sites.
* We call upon all political institutions, national parties, and our people to stand on our side.
As part of the entire Arab-Palestinian people, we wish to declare:
* The refugee issue is the heart of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
* The Palestinian refugees right to return to their homeland and homes is a sacred right whose implementation must be based on UN Resolution 194.
* We warn of the consequences of conspiracies against Palestinian refugee rights, whether conducted openly or behind closed doors. We state with a loud voice that there will be no just solution without a solution of issue of the refugees and the internally displaced.

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Dec. 17th, 2008

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The widespread problem of children failing to take their medication for a range of life-threatening illnesses is to be tackled as part of a new university research project.
The first phase of the study will be to look at methods previously tried to address the problem and to talk to three groups of school-age children — five to seven year olds, 10 to 12-year-olds and 15 to 17-year-olds — and their parents about their experiences of the healthcare system and medication. They will also interview a range of healthcare professionals including GPs, hospital paediatricians, community paediatricians and pharmacists, nurses and GP practice managers and secretaries about the issues they face in communicating their services to young people. Lastly, they will consult with other stakeholder groups including patient groups such as Asthma UK and Epilepsy Action and healthcare-related organisations such as the Royal College of Practice Nurses.
During the second phase they will design a new strategy that can be embedded within the whole range of healthcare services for children — this may include encouraging children and parents to write down their concerns or questions as a driver for their consultation with their GP and giving health practitioners a range of extra resources targeted specifically at supporting younger patients.
Dr Monica Lakhanpaul, Community Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer in Child Health at The University of Leicester, said: “We are fully aware that children may not take medicines sometimes prescribed to them by health professionals.
“Reasons for this vary — children and families may not receive information that facilitates their understanding of why they are taking their medicine and therefore not understand its importance; they may not understand how to take the medicine or the health professionals may not prescribe the type of medication that children could take easily, eg tablets instead of liquids.
“We wish to find out why — and why not — children take their medicine and use this information to develop a tool allowing health professionals to work together with children and parents and carers to improve the medicine they are prescribed. 
 
“A very important element of the study is to gain views from a number of different perspectives i.e from parents/carers, health professionals and children themselves.”
Lecturers at The University of Leicester are key collaborators in the study. Dr Hitesh Pandya is able to provide experience of working with families who are seen in the hospital and Dr Lakhanpaul, a Community Paediatrician, works with children who are managed out of hospital and who, in most cases, will not have a nurse or doctor giving their medication but need to take responsibility within the home or school environment.
 
Dr Lakhanpaul added: “Another advantage at Leicester is that we can provide access to a multi-ethnic community who are often under-represented in research studies. It is important to have perspectives from individuals from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. We hope to achieve this by involving families from Leicestershire.

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Alrededor de la medianoche, durante una noche del mes de octubre, bajo el reinado caballeresco de Eduardo III, dos marineros pertenecientes a la tripulación del Free-and-Easy, goleta de comercio que hacía el servicio entre l'Ecluse (Bélgica) y el Támesis, y que a la sazón estaba al ancla en este río, fueron muy maravillados al encontrarse sentados en la sala de una taberna de la parroquia de San Andrés, en Londres, taberna en cuya enseña lucía el nombre del Alegre Lobo de Mar.

La sala, aunque mal construida, ennegrecida por el humo, baja de techo, y semejante por otra parte a todos los chamizos de aquella época, era sin embargo, en opinión de grotescos grupos de bebedores diseminados aquí y allá, lo suficientemente bien apropiada para el cometido al cual estaba destinada.De entre aquellos grupos, nuestros dos marineros formaban, creo, el más interesante e incluso el más notable. Aquel que parecía ser el de más edad, y al que su compañero llamaba con el característico nombre de Legs, era también y con mucho el más alto de los dos. Podía muy bien tener seis pies y medio y la inclinación habitual de sus hombros parecía la consecuencia obligada de una estatura tan prodigiosa. Su exceso en altura era sin embargo compensado por unas deficiencias en otros aspectos. Era excesivamente flaco y hubiera podido, tal como afirmaban sus camaradas, cuando estaba borracho, sustituir a la driza de la cabeza del mástil, y, cuando estaba sobrio, al cuchillo del foque. Pero evidentemente estas bromas y otras análogas no habían nunca producido efecto alguno sobre los músculos tensos del lobo de mar. Con sus pómulos salientes, su gran nariz de halcón, su mentón huidizo, su mandíbula inferior deprimida y sus enormes ojos protuberantes, la expresión de su fisonomía, aunque teñida de una especie de indiferencia obstinada hacia todas las cosas, no era sin embargo menos solemne y seria y se situaba más allá de toda imitación y de toda descripción.

El marinero más joven era, en toda su apariencia, extranjero, y, al revés y a la recíproca de su compañero. Un par de piernas arqueadas y gordezuelas soportaban su persona pesada y abombada, y sus brazos singularmente cortos y gruesos, terminados por unos puños más que ordinarios, pendían y se balanceaban a sus costados como los alerones de una tortuga de mar. Unos ojos pequeños, de un color impreciso, centelleaban, profundamente hundidos, en su cabeza. Su nariz estaba metida dentro de la masa de carne que rodeaba su cara redonda, llena y empurpurada, y su grueso labio superior se reposaba complacientemente sobre el inferior, todavía más grueso, con aire de satisfacción personal aumentado por la costumbre que tenía el propietario de dichos labios de ir lamiéndoselos de rato en rato. Contemplaba evidentemente a su compañero de a bordo con un sentimiento mitad de admiración, mitad de burla, y, a veces, cuando lo contemplaba de cara, tenía el aspecto de un sol empurpurado contemplado, antes de ponerse, en la cima de las rocas de Ben-Nevis.

Mientras, las peregrinaciones de la digna pareja por las distintas tabernas de la vecindad durante las primeras horas de la noche habían sido variadas y habían estado llenas de acontecimientos. Pero los fondos, incluso los más vastos, no son eternos y era ya con los bolsillos vacíos que nuestros dos amigos se habían aventurado dentro de la taberna en cuestión.

En el momento preciso en que comienza esta historia, Legs y su compañero Hugh Tarpaulin estaban sentados, cada cual con los codos apoyados en la amplia mesa de roble, en mitad de la sala, con las mejillas entre las manos. Al amparo de un gran botellón de humming-stuff no pagado, miraban de reojo las palabras siniestras: No hay tizaque no sin asombro ni indignación por parte de ambos aparecían escritas sobre la puerta con caracteres de tiza esa imprudente tiza que osaba declararse ausente. Y no es que la facultad de descifrar los caracteres escritos facultad considerada entre la gente llana de aquellos tiempos como un poco menos cabalística que el arte de trazarlos hubiese podido, en estricta justicia, ser imputada a los dos discípulos del mar. Pero había, por decir la verdad, un cierto retorcimiento en el aire de las letras y en el conjunto mismo de ellas no sé qué indescriptible aspecto que presagiaba, en la opinión de los dos marinos, una condenada sacudida y un tiempo muy feo, y que les decidieron de golpe, siguiendo el lenguaje metafórico de Legs, a cuidar de las bombas de achique, a ceñir todo el trapo y a huir delante del viento. En consecuencia, habiendo consumido lo que en la botella quedaba de cerveza, sólidamente agarrados a sus cortos justillos, finalmente tomaron impulso y se lanzaron hacía la calle. Tarpaulin, es verdad, entró dos veces en la chimenea, al tomarla por la puerta, pero al fin su fuga se efectuó felizmente y, una media hora después de la medianoche, nuestros dos héroes habían equilibrado su paso y caminaban formando eses bien precisas a lo largo de una callejuela oscura en dirección a la escalera de San Andrés, ardientemente perseguidos por la tabernera del Alegre Lobo de Mar.
Muchos años antes de que transcurriera esta historia, lo mismo que muchos años después de que hubiera transcurrido, toda Inglaterra, pero más particularmente la metrópoli, vibraba periódicamente al grito siniestro de La Peste!. La City estaba en gran parte despoblada y, en aquellos horribles barrios vecinos al Támesis, entre aquellas callejuelas y negros pasajes, estrechos e inmundos, que el Demonio de la Peste había elegido, se suponía entonces, como lugar de su natalicio, no se podía sino encontrar, pavoneándose, más que al Espanto, al Terror y a la Superstición.

Por orden del Rey, aquellos barrios estaban condenados, prohibida a toda persona, bajo pena de muerte, penetrar en sus espantosas soledades. Sin embargo, ni el decreto del monarca ni las enormes barreras alzadas a la entrada de las calles, ni tampoco la perspectiva de aquella repugnante muerte, que, casi seguro, engullía al miserable al que ningún peligro podía apartar de la aventura, no impedía que las habitaciones desamuebladas y deshabitadas fueran despojadas por la mano de una rapiña nocturna, del hierro, del cobre, de los plomos, en fin de todo artículo que pudiera convertirse en objeto de un lucro cualquiera.

Se pudo particularmente constatar, a cada invierno, a la apertura anual de las barreras, que las cerraduras, los cerrojos y las cavas secretas no habían protegido más que mediocremente aquellas amplias provisiones de vinos y licores que, vistos los riesgos, varios de los comerciantes que tenían tienda en la vecindad, se habían resignado, durante el período de exilio, a confiar a garantía tan insuficiente.

Pero, entre el pueblo aterrorizado, muy pocas gentes atribuían aquellos hechos a la acción de manos humanas. Los Espíritus y los Goblins de la peste, los Demonios de la fiebre, tales eran para las clases populares los verdaderos autores de la desgracia. Y se contaban sin cesar unos cuentos para helar la sangre en las venas que, a la larga, toda aquella masa de edificios condenados fue rodeada del terror como por un sudario. Y hasta el mismo ladrón, a menudo espantado por el horror supersticioso que sus propias depreciaciones había creado, dejaba el amplio circuito del barrio maldito, lo abandonaba a las tinieblas, al silencio, a la peste y a la muerte.

Fue a través de una de esas temibles barreras de las que he hablado, y las cuales indicaban que la región situada más allá estaba condenada, por donde Legs y el digno Hugh Tarpaulin, que desembocaron frente a ella saliendo de una calleja, donde su carrera quedó repentinamente interrumpida. No era cuestión de volver sobre sus pasos y tampoco había tiempo que perder, pues aquellos que les daban caza les iban pisando los talones. Para dos marineros de pura sangre, trepar por el basto andamiaje no era más que un juego y, exasperados por la doble excitación de la carrera y de los licores, saltaron resueltamente al otro lado y, luego, reemprendieron su ebria carrera con gritos y aullidos, se perdieron pronto en aquellas profundidades complicadas y malsanas.

Si no hubiesen estado borrachos hasta el punto de haber perdido su sentido moral, sus pasos vacilantes habrían sido paralizados por los horrores de su situación. El aire era frío y brumoso. Entre el césped alto y vigoroso que les subía basta los tobillos, los adoquines sueltos yacían en un espantoso desorden. Casas enteras derruidas taponaban las calles. Las miasmas más fétidas y deletéreas reinaban por todas partes y, gracias a aquella pálida luz que, incluso a medianoche, emana siempre de una atmósfera vaporosa y pestilencial, se habría podido distinguir, yaciendo en las aceras y en las calles, pudriéndose en las habitaciones sin ventanas, la carroña de diversos ladrones nocturnos detenida por la mano de la peste en la perpetración de su fechoría.

Pero no sería el poder de las imágenes, de las sensaciones y los obstáculos de cualquier naturaleza, las que detendrían la carrera de aquellos dos hombres que, naturalmente bravos, y sobre todo aquella noche, llenos hasta los bordes de coraje y de humming-stuff, se habrían intrépidamente arrojado, todo lo derecho que su estado les hubiera permitido, en las mismas fauces de la Muerte. Adelante, adelante iba siempre el siniestro Legs, resonaban los ecos de ese desierto solemne de gritos semejantes al terrible aullido de guerra de los indios; y con él, siempre a su lado, trotaba el barrigudo Tarpaulin, agarrado al justillo de su camarada, más ágil, y sobrepasando incluso a este último en sus valerosos esfuerzos vocales mediante mugidos de bajo extraídos de las profundidades de sus pulmones estentóreos.

Evidentemente habían alcanzado la plaza fuerte de la peste. A cada paso o a cada caída, su carrera se hacía más horrible y más infecta, los caminos más estrechos y más embrollados. Grandes piedras y vigas caían de cuando en cuando de los tejados descalabrados y daban testimonio, mediante sus caídas pesadas y funestas, de la prodigiosa altura de las casas circundantes. Y, cuando les era menester hacer un esfuerzo enérgico para abrirse paso entre los frecuentes montones de escombros, no era raro que sus manos cayeran sobre un esqueleto o se metieran entre un amasijo de carnes descompuestas.

De golpe, los dos marineros tropezaron contra un amplio edificio de siniestra apariencia. Un grito más agudo que de costumbre surgió del gaznate del exasperado Legs y fue respondido desde el interior por una explosión rápida, sucesiva, de gritos salvajes, demoníacos, casi unos estallidos de risa. Sin asustarse de aquellos sonidos que, por su naturaleza, en semejante lugar, en un momento así, hubieran solidificado la sangre en pechos menos irreparablemente incendiados, nuestros dos borrachos se lanzaron con la cabeza gacha contra la puerta, la derribaron, y se abatieron en mitad del suelo con una oleada de imprecaciones.

La sala en la cual cayeron resultó ser el almacén de un empresario de pompas fúnebres. Pero una trampilla, abierta en un rincón del suelo, cerca de la puerta, daba a una letanía de cavas cuyas profundidades, como lo proclamó un tintineo de botellas que se rompían, estaban bien surtidas de su habitual contenido. En medio de la sala, había una mesa puesta y en medio de la mesa, por lo que parecía, un gigantesco bol lleno de punch, con botellas de vinos y licores compitiendo con potes, jarras y frascos de toda forma y de toda especie, todo desparramado en profusión sobre la mesa. Y alrededor de ella, sobre caballetes fúnebres, se sentaba una sociedad de seis personas. Voy a intentar describirlas una a una.

Frente a la puerta de entrada, y un poco más arriba que sus compañeros, estaba sentado un personaje el cual parecía presidir la fiesta. Era un ser descarnado, de gran talla, y Legs se quedó estupefacto al encontrarse frente a alguien más flaco que él. Su cara era tan amarilla como el azafrán, pero ninguno de sus rasgos, a excepción de uno solo, no era lo suficientemente notable como para merecer una descripción particular.
Ese rasgo único consistía en una frente tan anormalmente y tan feamente alta que se hubiese dicho era un bonete o una corona de carne superpuesta a su cabeza natural. Su boca rechinante estaba plegada por una expresión de espectral afabilidad, y sus ojos, como los ojos de cualquier persona sentada a la mesa, brillaban con ese singular barniz que procura los humos de la embriaguez. Este caballero estaba vestido de pies a cabeza con un manto de terciopelo de seda negra, ricamente bordado, que flotaba negligentemente al rededor de su talle a la manera de una capa española. Su cabeza estaba abundantemente erizada de esas plumas con las que adornan los carruajes funerarios y que él balanceaba de un lado al otro con un aire de consumada afectación; en su mano derecha sostenía un gran fémur humano, con el cual acababa de golpear, por lo que parecía, a uno de los miembros de la asamblea para pedirle una canción.

Frente a él, con la espalda vuelta hacia la puerta, había una dama cuya extraordinaria fisonomía no le cedía en nada. Aunque tan alta como el personaje que acabamos de describir, la dama no tenía derecho alguno a quejarse de una delgadez anormal ya que, evidentemente, estaba en el último período de la hidropesía y por su aspecto se parecía mucho a la enorme barrica de cerveza de Octubre que se alzaba, desfondada por arriba, justo a su lado, en un rincón de la cámara. Su cara era singularmente redonda, roja y llena, y, la misma particularidad, o más bien la ausencia de particularidad que ya he mencionado en el caso del presidente, marcaba su fisonomía, es decir, que un solo rasgo de su cara merecía una caracterización especial. El hecho es que el clarividente Tarpaulin vio en seguida que la misma observación podía aplicarse a todas las personas allí reunidas; cada cual parecía haber acaparado para él solo un pedazo de fisonomía. En la dama en cuestión, ese pedazo era la boca. Una boca que comenzaba en la oreja derecha y que corría hasta la oreja izquierda dibujando un abismo terrorífico de forma que sus muy cortos colgantes de oreja se hundían a cada instante en la sima. Sin embargo, la dama se veía que desplegaba todos sus esfuerzos para conservar la boca cerrada y darse un aire de dignidad. Su atuendo consistía en un sudario recién almidonado y planchado, con un cuellecito plisado en muselina de batista.

A su derecha estaba sentada una dama joven y minúscula a la cual la obesa parecía patrocinar. Esta delicada y pequeña criatura dejaba ver en el temblor de sus dedos corroídos, en el tono lívido de sus labios y en la ligera mancha héctica que sombreaba su tez, por otra parte ya plúmbea, manifestaba los síntomas evidentes de una tisis desenfrenada. Un aire de alta distinción, sin embargo, se extendía por toda su persona; llevaba de manera graciosa y del todo desenvuelta una amplia y hermosa mortaja del más fino lino de las Indias. Sus cabellos caían en bucles sobre su cuello. Una dulce sonrisa lucía en su boca. Pero su nariz, extremadamente larga, delgada, sinuosa, flexible y purulenta, colgaba demasiado más abajo que su labio inferior. Y esta trompa, pese a la forma delicada con la que ella la desplazaba de vez en cuando, moviéndola de derecha a izquierda con su lengua, daba a su fisonomía una expresión un tanto equívoca.

Al otro lado, a la izquierda de la dama hidrópica, estaba sentado un hombre viejo y bajito, hinchado, asmático y gotoso. Sus mejillas reposaban sobre sus hombros como dos enormes botas de vino de Oporto. Con sus brazos cruzados y una de sus piernas envuelta en vendajes y reposando sobre la mesa, parecía mirarse a sí mismo como si tuviera derecho a alguna consideración. Extraía evidentemente mucho orgullo de cada pulgada de su envoltura personal, pero experimentaba un placer más especial todavía al atraer las miradas por su color tan vistoso. Cierto es que sobre todo ese vestido no debía haberle costado mucho dinero y que era de una naturaleza tal que le caía bien, pues no era sino una de esas fundas de seda curiosamente bordadas que en Inglaterra, y en otros lugares también, cuelgan en lugares bien visibles por encima de las casas de las grandes familias ausentes.

A su lado, a la derecha del presidente, se sentaba un caballero con grandes medias blancas y un calzón de algodón. Todo su ser se sacudía de una forma risible por culpa de un tic nervioso que Tarpaulin denominaba las angustias de la embriaguez. Sus mandíbulas, recién afeitadas, estaban estrechamente apretadas con un vendaje de muselina y sus brazos, ligados de la misma forma por las muñecas, no le permitían servirse libremente de los licores que había en la mesa, una precaución necesaria, en opinión de Legs, dado el carácter embrutecido de su cara de biberón. Sin embargo, un par de orejas prodigiosas, que sin duda era imposible disimular, surgían en el espacio y, de vez en cuando, se las veía como sacudidas por un espasmo al son de cada tapón que se hacía saltar de las botellas.

El sexto y último, sentado frente al biberón, tenía un aire singularmente tieso y, estando afectado de parálisis, hablando seriamente, debería sentirse muy poco a gusto dentro de su incómoda vestimenta. Estaba ataviado (atavío quizás único en su género) con un hermoso ataúd de caoba completamente nuevo. La parte alta se abría como una tapa y caía sobre su cabeza como un capuchón; dándole a toda la cara una fisonomía de indescriptible interés. Unas bocamangas aparecían practicadas a ambos costados, tanto por comodidad como por elegancia. Pero este atavío sin embargo impedía al desdichado cualquier movimiento y le obligaba a mantenerse quieto en su sitio, lo mismo que a sus compañeros, y, como quiera que estaba apoyado contra su catafalco e inclinado según un ángulo de cuarenta y cinco grados, sus dos grandes ojos a flor de cabeza giraban y asaeteaban hacia el techo sus terribles globos blancuzcos, como en un absoluto asombro de su propia enormidad.

Delante de cada convidado estaba puesto medio cráneo, del cual se servía a guisa de copa. Por encima de sus cabezas pendía un esqueleto humano, por medio de una cuerda atada a una de sus piernas y fijada a una argolla del techo. La otra pierna, que no estaba sujeta, surgía del cuerpo en ángulo recto, haciendo danzar y piruetear a toda la carcasa temblorosa cada vez que un soplo de viento se abría paso en la sala. El cráneo de la espantosa cosa colgante contenía una cantidad de carbón encendido que arrojaba sobre toda la escena un resplandor vacilante pero vivo, iluminando los féretros y todo el material del empresario de pompas fúnebres que aparecía apilado a gran altura en la habitación, contra las ventanas, impidiendo que ningún rayo de luz pudiese escapar a la calle.

A la vista de esta extraordinaria asamblea y su decorado todavía más extraordinario, nuestros dos marinos no se condujeron con todo el decoro que hubiera cabido esperar de ambos. Legs, apoyándose contra el muro cerca del que se encontraba, dejó caer su mandíbula inferior aún más bajo de lo que acostumbraba y desplegó sus grandes ojos sobre el panorama que a ellos se ofrecía; mientras, Hugh Tarpaulin, se agachaba un poco para poner su nariz al nivel de la mesa y, poniéndose las manos sobre las rodillas, estalló en una risa inmoderada e intempestiva, es decir, en un largo, ruidoso y ensordecedor rugido.

Mientras, sin ultrajarse ante una conducta tan prodigiosamente grosera, el gran presidente sonrió muy graciosamente a nuestros intrusos les hizo con su cabeza de plumas negras una seña llena de dignidad y, levantándose, tomó a cada uno de ellos por el brazo y los condujo hacia un asiento que las otras personas de la compañía acababan de prepararles. Legs no ofreció la menor resistencia y se sentó donde le indicaban mientras que el galante Hugh, apartando el caballete de un lado de la mesa, fue a instalarse al lado de la damisela tísica, con gran alegría, y sirviéndose un cráneo de vino tinto se lo tragó en honor de una más íntima relación. Pero, ante esta presunción, el rígido gentleman del ataúd pareció singularmente exasperado, y la cosa hubiese podido dar lugar a las más serias consecuencias si el presidente no hubiese, en aquel momento, picado sobre la mesa con su cetro para atraer la atención de todos los asistentes al discurso siguiente:

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Quieto ahí! le interrumpió Legs con aire de gran seriedad, quieto ahí un poco, te digo, y dinos primero quién eres y qué hacéis aquí, vestidos como feos demonios y zampándoos el retuercetripas de nuestro honesto camarada Will Wimble el enterrador y todas sus provisiones que tenía guardadas para el invierno.

Ante esta imperdonable muestra de mala educación, toda la extraña sociedad se incorporó a medias sobre sus pies y profirió un montón de gritos diabólicos, parecidos a aquellos primeros que habían atraído la atención de los dos marineros. El presidente, no obstante, fue el primero en recuperar su sangre fría y, finalmente, volviéndose hacia Legs, con gran dignidad, reemprendió su discurso:

Será con perfecta aquiescencia que satisfaremos una curiosidad razonable por parte de unos huéspedes tan ilustres, pese a que ellos no hayan sido invitados. Sabed pues que yo soy el monarca de este imperio y que reino aquí sin menoscabo alguno con este título: el Rey Peste I.

Esta sala que ustedes suponen muy injuriosamente ser la tienda de Will Wimble, el empresario de pompas fúnebres, un hombre al que no conocemos, y cuya apelación plebeya no había oído jamás, antes de esta noche, despellejado nuestras reales orejas, esta sala, digo, es la Sala del Trono de nuestro Palacio, consagrada a los consejos de nuestro reino y a otros destinos de un orden sacro y superior.

La noble dama sentada frente a Nos es la Reina Peste, nuestra Serénísima Esposa. Los otros personajes ilustres que ustedes contemplan son nuestra familia y llevan la marca del origen real en sus nombres respectivos: Su Gracia el Archiduque Pest-Ífero, Su Gracia el Duque Pest-Ilencial, Su Gracia el Duque Tem-Pestuoso y Su Alteza Serenísima la Archiduquesa Ana-Peste.

En lo que respecta a vuestra pregunta, relativa a los asuntos que nos traíamos aquí en consejo, nos sería ocioso responder que tales asuntos conciernen a nuestro interés real y privado y, así pues concerniéndonos a nosotros mismos, no tienen en absoluto importancia si no es para nosotros. Pero, en consideración al trato que ustedes podrían reivindicar en su calidad de huéspedes y de extranjeros, no desdeñaremos decirles que estamos aquí esta noche preparados por profundas búsquedas y cuidadosas investigaciones para examinar, analizar y determinar perentoriamente el espíritu indefinible, las incomprensibles cualidades y la naturaleza de estos inestimables tesoros de la boca, vinos, cervezas y licores de esta excelente metrópoli, para, al hacerlo así, no solamente alcanzar nuestro objeto sino también para aumentar la verdadera prosperidad de este soberano que no es de este mundo, que reina sobre todos nosotros, cuyos dominios no tienen limites, y cuyo nombre es: la Muerte!Cuyo nombre es Davy Jones! exclamó Tarpaulin sirviendo a la dama sentada a su lado un cráneo lleno de licor y sirviéndose otro para él.

Profano granuja! dijo el presidente volviendo su atención hacia el digno Hugh , profano y execrable guasón! Nos, hemos dicho que en razón de esos derechos que en absoluto nos sentimos inclinados a violar, incluso en tu sucia persona, Nos condescendemos a responder a tus groseras e intempestivas preguntas. Sin embargo, creemos que, vista vuestra profana intrusión en nuestro consejo, es nuestro deber condenaros, a ti y a tu compañero, a cada uno un galón de black-strap que beberéis a la prosperidad de nuestro reino, de un solo trago, y de rodillas, tras lo cual seréis libres, el uno y el otro, de seguir vuestro camino o de quedaros con nosotros y compartir los privilegios de nuestra mesa, según vuestro gusto personal y respectivo.

Tal cosa sería de la más absoluta imposibilidad replicó Legs, a quien los grandes aires y la dignidad del rey Peste I habían sin duda inspirado algunos sentimientos de respeto, y que se había levantado y apoyado contra la mesa mientras el monarca hablaba, pues, si le plugo a Su Majestad, no veo cómo sería posible meter en mi cala ni la cuarta parte de ese licor del cual acaba de hablar Su Majestad. No voy a hablarle de todas las mercancías que desde esta mañana hemos cargado a nuestro bordo a modo de lastre, ni le mencionaré tampoco los diversos ales y licores que hemos embarcado esta noche en distintos puertos, pero si precisaré que, por el momento, tengo un fuerte cargamento de humming-stuff, tomado y debidamente pagado en la enseña del Alegre lobo de mar. Vuestra Majestad querrá pues ser lo bastante graciosa para tomar con buena voluntad este hecho, porque yo no quiero de forma alguna beber ni una gota más, y menos aún de una gota de esa sucia agua de sentina que responde al nombre de blackstrap.

Amarra eso! interrumpió Tarpaulin, tan asombrado por lo largo del speech de su camarada como por la naturaleza de su negativa. Amarra eso, marinero de agua dulce! Muy pronto habrás soltado el mango, Legs, te lo digo yo! Mi quilla todavía es ligera, mientras que la tuya, lo confieso, me parece un poco escorada. Y, en cuanto a tu parte de carga, pues muy bien, antes que quitarle un solo grano, yo ya encontraré lugar para ella a mi bordo, pero...

Ese arreglo le interrumpió el presidente está en completo desacuerdo con los términos de la sentencia o condena, ya que su naturaleza es médica y por lo tanto inconmutable y sin apelación. Las condiciones que os hemos expuesto serán cumplidas al pie de la letra y sin un minuto de vacilación, pues de lo contrario Nos decretaremos que seáis atados juntos por el cuello y los talones, y debidamente ahogados como rebeldes en la barrica de cerveza de Octubre que veis allí.

Qué sentencia! Menuda sentencia! Equitativa, juiciosa sentencia! Un glorioso decreto! Una muy digna, muy irreprochable y muy santa condena! exclamaron a la vez todos los miembros de la familia Peste. El rey hizo plegar su frente en innumerables arrugas; el hombrecito gotoso resopló como un fuelle; la dama de la mortaja de lino hizo ondular su nariz a derecha e izquierda, el caballero del calzón convulsionó sus orejas; la dama del sudario abrió las fauces como un pez en la agonía; y el hombre del ataúd de caoba pareció todavía más tieso y rodó los ojos hacia el techo.

Jo, jo! tronó Tarpaulin ahogándose de risa y sin miramientos ante la agitación general. Jo, jo, jo! Jo, jo! Yo decía, cuando el señor Rey Peste nos condenaba, que en cuanto a la cuestión de dos o tres galones más o menos de black-strap que esa bagatela no era nada para un buen y sólido barco como yo, incluso aunque estuviera bien cargado. Pero cuando se trata de beber a la salud del Diablo (al que Dios absuelva!) y ponerme de rodillas delante de la villana Majestad que tenemos ahí, lo que yo sé, tan bien como sé que soy un pecador, es que no soy Tim Hurlygurly el follador! En cuanto al por qué no lo sea, es algo que sobrepasa los medios de mi inteligencia...

No le fue posible acabar tranquilamente su discurso, pues, al nombre de Tim Hurlygurly todos los convidados saltaron de sus asientos.

(El ale es un tipo de cerveza inglesa, negra y amarga.)

Traición! gritó Su Majestad el Rey Peste I.

Traición! gritó el pequeño hombre de la gota.

Traición! croó la Archiduquesa Ana Peste.

Traición! marmoteó el gentleman de las mandíbulas atadas.

Traición! gruñó el hombre del ataúd.

Traición! Traición a Su Majestad! gritó la mujer de la enorme bocaza mientras cogía por la parte posterior de sus calzones al infortunado Tarpaulin, que en ese momento precisamente se estaba llenado de licor un cráneo, y lo levantaba vivamente en el aire y lo metía sin más ceremonia dentro del enorme barril desfondado y lleno de su cerveza favorita. Agitándose de aquí para allá durante unos segundos, como una manzana en un bote de ponche, desapareció finalmente en el torbellino de espuma que sus esfuerzos habían naturalmente levantado en el líquido ya de por sí altamente espumoso.

Pero el gran marinero no vio con resignación el chasco de su camarada. Precipitando al Rey Peste a través de la trampa abierta, el valiente Legs la cerró violentamente a continuación con un juramento, y corrió al centro de la sala. Allí, agarrando el esqueleto colgado encima de la mesa, tiró de él con tanta energía que consiguió arrancarlo al tiempo que se apagaban los últimos rayos de luz, y lo arrojó contra el hombrecillo gotoso rompiéndole el cerebro. Precipitándose luego con todas sus fuerzas contra el fatal tonel lleno de cerveza de Octubre y de Hugh Tarpaulin, lo volcó en un instante y lo hizo rodar. Surgió de él un diluvio de licor tan furioso, tan impetuoso, tan invasor, que la sala fue inundada de un muro al otro mientras la mesa se derrumbaba con todo su contenido, los caballetes caían, el lebrillo de punch se precipitaba contra la chimenea y las damas se convulsionaban en sendos ataques de nervios. Pilas de artículos fúnebres se debatían de un lado a otro. Los frascos, las jarras, las gruesas botellas vestidas de junquillo se confundían en un espantoso revoltillo mientras las garrafas con su faldón de mimbre chocaban desesperadamente contra los bocoyes acorazados de cuerda. El hombre de las angustias quedó ahogado al momento, el gentleman paralítico navegaba hacia mar adentro en su ataúd, y el victorioso Legs, cogiendo por el talle a la gorda dama del sudario, se precipitó con ella a la calle, y puso rumbo bien derecho en dirección al Free-and-Easy, ciñendo bien el viento y remolcando al temible Tarpaulin, quien, habiendo estornudado tres o cuatro veces, jadeaba y resoplaba tras él en compañía de la Archiduquesa Ana Peste.

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Cookies Cupcakes and Photography: Malignant Models (The Bearing Post)

For the past two years I've been putting together obscure/unknown/lost archival film clips showing the many vanished San Franciscos. This year I'm collaborating with the Long Now Foundation to present the third (and, I think, the best) iteration of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, as one of their Seminars on Long-Term Thinking. I've been busy throughout 2008 collecting and transferring new clips. We'll join two women hitchhikers and a dog as they cross a spanking new Bay Bridge in 1938; tour the wonderful Kodachrome world of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition; witness the V-J Day riots and looting on Market Street; see a bit of the newly-restored "A Trip Down Market Street," a 1905 film many San Franciscans think they've seen but really haven't, as most other copies are in terrible condition; take a cable car ride to nowhere in a drab early-morning 1960s SF; and much much more. Unlike most other film screenings, this one relies on audience members for a soundtrack. We'll encourage everyone to shout out names and places they recognize and to talk back to the screen -- interactivity the way it used to be. I'm also going to talk very briefly about what it means to look back at the past and how every historical image will figure in the coming battle over the control of 3D models of the world. BBers anywhere near SF, come join us for a holiday celebration, and bring your friends, ancestors and offspring.

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Power plants, Nevada nuke detonations in the desert, and a spiderweb of powerlines follow, drawing us in to the awareness of human presence, and showing just how broken our own design of human experience has become. People do eventually appear in the movie, but they’re not so much thinking beings. They’re blurry, busy, insect-like clusters; humming and buzzing through life in a timelapse haze. The "Microchips" chapter juxtaposes images of tiny computer chips (remember when those images were new to us?) with satellite photos of big cities (and these too, before Google Maps?). The microchips and the aerial city layouts are reflections of each other, and we are shown as captives of a chaotic, conflicted realm we have constructed for ourselves.
The film ends as it began, a long arc that reveals itself to be a circle. We return to the same melancholy prophecy with which the film began: a life out of balance is a life destined to disintegrate. The film, its score, and its message, were intended to be timeless — and they are.
An audio note: That Glass soundtrack was re-recorded and re-released in 1998, fifteen years after the film came out.

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As a society, we share a complicated history with alcohol. During the later part of the 19th century, politicians, womens groups, and churches banded together to convince lawmakers to outlaw alcohol. In 1919, the U.S. Congress passed the 18th Amendment, making the sale and distribution of alcohol illegal. Alcohol consumption declined but did not prevent illegal use and distribution. In 1933, Prohibition ended and as a result, millions of Americans have made alcohol an important part of their social activity. In the 1960s, researcher E.M. Jellinek reported that excessive and abusive use of alcohol was a disease. Within 10 years, a public effort was launched in the United States to educate people that alcoholism was an illness.
In 1980, the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 3rd refined the definition of alcoholism by differentiating between alcohol abuse and dependence. However, people continue to use the term when they discuss all forms of problem drinking, when in fact alcoholism and abuse have specific clinical definitions. Alcoholism, also known as alcohol dependence, is a chronic, progressive, and potentially a fatal disease. The symptoms are: drinking excessive amounts frequently, inability to control drinking despite medical, psychological, or social complications, increased tolerance for alcohol, and serious withdrawal symptoms when the person stop drinking.
On the other hand, alcohol abuse is a chronic disease in which the individual refuses to give up drinking even though it causes the person to neglect important family and work obligations. However, abuse, left untreated, can become dependence. The symptoms are: drinking when it is dangerous (drinking and driving), frequent excessive drinking, interpersonal difficulties with family, friends, and coworkers caused by alcohol, and legal problems related to alcohol use.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that in 1998, alcoholism cost society $184.6 billion in lost productivity, medical care, legal services, and cost from traffic accidents. However, these statistics does not address the cost, to society, or the problem of alcohol dependence among the elderly the hidden population.
It seems that alcohol abuse among older adults is something few wish to talk about, and a problem for which even fewer seek treatment on their own. Too often, family members are ashamed of the problem and choose not to confront it head on. Health care providers tend not to ask older patients about alcohol use if it wasnt a problem in their lives in earlier years. This may explain why so many of the alcohol-related admissions to treatment among older adults are for first-time treatment.
Recent studies indicated that between 1.1 and 2.3 million elderly citizens use alcohol to alleviate grief and loneliness. What has been called the invisible population is now being discovered and measured. Most individuals tend to restrict their alcohol intake as they advance in age, mainly because of poor health or reduced social activities. However, society has begun to recognize that the incidence of alcoholism among older individuals is on the rise. Despite the numerous studies being done on this subject it is difficult to find reliable statistics on todays elderly alcoholics. However, some research suggested that as much as 10% to 15% of health problems in this population may be connected to alcohol and substance abuse.
One fact is clear: alcohol-related problems among the elderly are much greater than perceived even a decade ago. It is also clear that the common individuals response remains devoted to treating their symptoms briefly and directly, rather than getting to the core of the drinking behavior and treating the alcoholism. The general practitioner is without doubt the person with the most opportunity to identify alcoholism in an elderly patient, whose social and family isolation is relatively common. However, the practitioner is often confronted with denial of the problem, by the patient and especially by the family. One reason may be because the effects of alcoholism may mimic those of aging. Making diagnosis of alcoholism difficult because many symptoms, including aches and pains, insomnia, loss of sex drive, depression, anxiety, loss of memory and other mental problems are often confused with normal signs of aging or the side effects of medications.
Another concern is that, too often, when families or professionals try to get help for their love one, identification of a drinking problem may be difficult. For example, many of the criteria necessary to make the proper diagnosis of alcoholism are more appropriate for younger abusers. These traditional criteria may not be appropriate for elderly individuals who may be more isolated or solitary, is less likely to drive and most likely to be retired. In fact, some researchers suggests that the diagnosis of alcoholism, for the elderly, be focused on biomedical, psychological or social consequences.
Although the prevalence of alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse decreases with age, alcoholism in elderly people remains a significant public health problem. It is an increasingly important concern because the elderly is the fastest growing population today, and is expected to continue this trend well into the next decade. There are two forms of alcoholism that can be distinguished in the elderly: alcoholism beginning before the age of 65 years and continuing, and alcoholism beginning after the age of 65 years. As stated before, alcoholism in the elderly is often difficult to diagnose, especially since health problems due to alcohol may be attributed to old age. Also, in the case of alcoholism, elderly patients, taking multiple medications, present an increased risk of medication/alcohol interactions, especially with tranquillisers and sedatives.
At the beginning of this article I suggested that Americans have a complicated relationship with alcohol. Well, to a certain extent, the same can be said about societys relationship with its elderly citizens. In America we often dont value our elderly individuals, we sends a double message, some may call it a love hate relationship with our elder population. As a result, some people tend to ignore or shun older people with drinking problems. For example, to ease our own internal conflicts, we say things like after all they are not hurting anyone. Let them enjoy the time they have leftWho cares? Often, therapist may be reluctant to work with older alcoholics due to unconscious counter-transference issues. For example, the elderly client triggers the therapists own fears about aging. Older clients are often accused of being rigid and unwilling or unable to change. In which case therapists may feel that they are wasting their time working with these individuals. However, researchers who study the science of aging understand that these myths, assumptions and stereotypes are unproven and often harmful to the elderly individuals who can benefit from proper treatment or intervention.
Ones later years does not have to be a time of loneliness, depression, or a life of alcoholism. Many individuals find happiness and even adventure in their advanced years. Those who age successfully tend to have a strong sense of life achievement, high self-esteem and positive attitude. Older individuals who achieve a sense of ego integrity are able to view their past history with a sense of satisfaction. While older individuals who look back with regret and believe that it is too late to make significant changes may experience a sense of despair and depression.
Those who age successfully is able to adjust to the loss of a spouse and other significant relationships, adjust to retirement and reduced income, accept and deal appropriately with declining health and get involved establishing a satisfactory living arrangements.
Unfortunately, not everyone ages successfully. Some individuals cannot accept the physical changes that come with advanced age. Others cant handle the loss of a spouse or friends, or they find it difficult adjusting to retirement. And, too often, many of these individuals turn to alcohol.
Many of these individuals never had a drinking problem prior to this time in their lives. This is called late onset alcoholism. The bad news is that this type of alcoholism may go unrecognized. The good news is that individuals with late onset alcoholism have a much greater chance of recovery. This is due primarily because these individuals have a history of handling problem successfully.
On the other hand, early onset alcoholics are those individual drinkers who have been drinking excessively for many years. As a result, they may have more difficulty in recovery because of health complications from years of excessive alcohol abuse.
Finally, elderly alcoholics have a wide range of treatment options. After detoxification, when necessary, the elderly client can receive further treatment from inpatient programs, day treatment, outpatient therapy, or community-based groups. Completion rates appear to be modestly better for elderly-specific alcohol treatment programs compared with mixed-age programs. Some seniors find that Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings offer them strength and support to overcome drinking problems. While other seniors feel these groups are stigmatizing and find it more comfortable to seek support from their age-peers at senior citizen programs. What is important to know is that the most effective programs treat the whole person, making sure that their health, housing, financial, and social needs are met. This is an important concern because late-onset alcoholism is often associated with stress, isolation, loss, and loneliness. Therefore, effective substance abuse treatment for the elderly should address these underlying issues.
Dr William Smith is a psychotherapist and personal consulttant with over 30 years experience working with individuals and groups. Dr. Smith specializes in working with: Adult Children of Alcoholics, Survivors of Incest and other Childhood Sexual Trauma, Rape Survivors, Depression, Anxiety, Self-Esteem, and Relationship problems, Smoking Cessation. For a FREE initial consultation Dr. Smith can be reached at: psyassociates@insightconsultant.com or visit my website at http://www.insightconsultant.

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Dec. 14th, 2008

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We fishermen pay lots of money for readymade fishing baits! The fact is that if they were so wonderful, companies would not have to keep on offering new baits all the time! Just the same number of fish or more, can be caught as a result of making your own unique baits and this will save you bags of money too!
In fact when you have made your homemade baits despite any mistakes you might make, well over 80 percent of your recipes will catch fish and equal results on readymades with ease. The fact they will be fresh and new is a giant factor in this too. New baits will arouse far less care and suspicion for most fish as they have never even been hooked on your new bait before. One of the great things about homemade baits is that they can keep you well ahead of the fish and fellow anglers who always follow the crowd using readymades, giving you even better consistent catches and more big fish!
Of course it takes the usual fishing skills and application in order to catch any fish especially those bigger ones which are far less easily caught, but your unique bait is a distinct factor in producing for you consistent big fish catches. One of the most incredible highs is to land new personal best fish on bait you have made from your own recipe and knowing you are the one angler who is ever going to exploit your secret bait. You never have to compete with hundreds of other fishermen on the same bait as you!
The funny thing is, most carp anglers never stop to think and see that by using readymade baits they could be cutting their chances by well over half. This is because at any point in time you will be fishing against an unknown number of other anglers who may all be using the bait you are. Your readymade bait has no more chance of catching fish than the next guys. But if you know how to adapt them or make your own, you are putting your baits catching potential in a different league to Mr Average! With a different bait your chances can really skyrocket and it pays you back enormously many times over repeatedly for making minor effort with your bait!
Homemade baits often succeed far longer than many readymade baits purely because you are the only one using that particular bait! Baits for carp are often termed attractor baits or food baits depending on their nutritional value to the fish biologically speaking. High flavour levels and high concentrations if used are sometimes an indicator of a bait being more of an instant attractor type of bait much more than a food or nutritionally stimulating oriented bait.
I could not believe how easy and simple it was for me to make baits that hooked big fish straight away literally while still hot, even using the most basic of ingredients. Homemade baits can be just amazingly instant and fill you will so much confidence. I do not even bother to make baits that have a round or barrel shape or an even skin at all and I most often do not even boil them to make them resilient boilies either. This is because your greatest edge with bait is their difference. Therefore if you bait feels different, has a different shape, colour, texture, buoyancy, density, firmness or softness or permeability or solubility for example, then it is far more likely to out-fish readymades with ease! That is why making homemade baits is so easy.
Many fisherman overlook the advantages of not making their baits oval in shape. Remember carp remember, so using angular baits or non oval baits is a definite advantage. Just with a handful of eggs and a pound of semolina and soya flour you can make limitless different baits utilising any of thousands of additives and flavors, sweeteners and appetite stimulators and so on, or just one! Such a bait will form a protective skin if you drops pieces of such baits in water or scald them with steam. Why bother boiling your baits when bait which is merely dried in warm air are frequently more effective than boilies?
Making baits is very easy. You merely need a large container to mix your ingredients in and a knife or spoon to mix the materials to form a practical bait dough. First just get a handful of eggs and a teaspoonful of cake flavor and mix together well, then add your dry powders, etc a bit a time until a firm dough is reached.
You can use your dough as paste bait immediately or if you are making bait for later use, then form some into individual baits and air dry them or steam or boil them, dry them overnight on suitable paper or towels and bag and store them in polythene bags. Freezing seals in bait freshness which is very important. If you remember to write which ingredients and levels each bait was made with, then you will never forget how to make them again! Normally it takes 6 large hen eggs to produce about 2 pounds of finished bait dough to use, or produce paste or air dried baits, steamed or boiled baits etc. Some baits will break down faster or slower than other mixtures depending on the number of eggs you use; the more soluble the ingredients and the more of these used, the faster your bait will dissolve in water.
Having the knowledge to be able to consistently make homemade baits for a mere 3 pounds or 6 dollars per kilogram, instead of 12 pounds or 24 dollars is stunning. Just think of the saving on 10 kilograms costing 120 pounds or 220 dollars! (90 pounds or 180 dollars is a giant saving and is literally homemade made money!)
If having a different bait can produce such a difference in results you may as well have the goal of being as innovative as possible with yours as you create new versions for those big fish you dream of catching. The spooky thing about new baits on a water is that they very often produce the biggest most sought after fish within a short space of fishing time because they are fresh and new. Now this is as great a motive as anyone needs to take up bait making and is the icing on the cake. You can use simple forms of bait mentioned here, but you will discover that with successful baits comes the excitement of making more creative ones, and bait making can be extremely exciting, even an integral addictive part of your fishing, as you thirst for more information!
By Tim Richardson.

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Asheville Arctic Carolina: Womans Carcass Place (12/08/08) Boreal of

This is so entertaining, it is like a play... and I need some popcorn with extra butter. Do you want to see justice? Just take the Sheriff out of the picture and put any one of us in his position right now, and he himself would throw the book at us. We would die in jail. Such a good guy, such a nice man is what I am hearing. Tell that to the 2 little girls he pinned down, or make it even more personal and lets just say for a minute that it was your 2 girls, and you couldnt do anything about it without getting cut off from your community. It was 20 years ago, they say. Well... some little girl has been waiting for 20 years to get closure on this situation, and the time has obviously arrived. Are not these the same people who enforce reaping what you sow. Okay, so be a man and reap it. You did back then, and this is what happens. Partiality is a word that comes to mind. Whether on the side of the community backing him, or on the side of the Asheville Citizen Times newspaper leaning toward sympathy, and not balance. Where are the girls talking about what he did to their lives? Just like AshVegas implied recently, you are kissing way too much butt to be a reliable, trustworthy news source. Ashevillians are not slow and we do not just go with the flow. We will call you out! He even got props saying that he is not running for re-election if he is cleared. Oh, so if they let you ride free, you will not run for Sheriff, thanks, lol. I guess the first jury breach did not work so now we are desperate. Read this story... and you may want to play the violin while reading it. I dont care, play the song. I refuse to danceAsheville Citizen Times story... MILL SPRING Polk County Sheriff Chris Abril addressed about 50 supporters this afternoon, telling them controversy surrounding his upcoming rape trial had taken too much time away from his job and away from his family. Those factors motivated him to submit his resignation Thursday, Abril said. The resignation takes effect Sunday.The ongoing negative and controversial social climate surrounding my service as sheriff have had a profound impact on my family, the employees at the Polk County Sheriffs Office, and our community, Abril stated in the letter given to county Board of Commissioners Chairman Tommy Melton and county attorney Tom Hix. Abrils attorney, Stephen Lindsay of Asheville, urged supporters to write letters to the judge who will oversee the sheriffs trial and attend if they can. In the gathering this afternoon, Abril, 45, offered handshakes and exchanged hugs at the Mill Spring Fire Department.He is a fine upstanding man. I cant find words to describe what kind of person he is, supporter Barbara Dempsey said. This is a sad day for Polk County,Abril said he would assist the next sheriff in making a smooth transition. Authorities charged Abril in 2006, with five counts of first-degree statutory rape and one count of first-degree sexual offense shortly before he was elected sheriff. The charges stem from allegations involving a 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl and the crimes are alleged to have happened 20 years ago.The trial had started in August in Polk County, but a judge ordered a change of venue after prosecutors said Abril had contact with two potential jurors. Lindsay said the sheriff would not seek election again if he were cleared of the charges. End of their story

I kind of feel bad for the Judge because people like this expect the people "on their side" to have their back even when they do wrong. Thank you to Judges that refuse to be swayed.

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Dec. 13th, 2008

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Cathedral-sized abstract washes of sound became the basic building blocks of shoegaze and the trick has more recently become de rigor among bands like Sigur Ros and M83, with much of this groundwork lying within the early discography of the Cocteau Twins.  The band created swirling atmospherics in which it was often hard to tell that the guitars were even really guitars and then they placed Liz Frazier’s ethereal, linguistic-mulching vocal acrobatics over the top.  At peak form, the band was absolutely devastating. 
 
I love all of the band’s records (especially “Head Over Heels”, “Heaven or Las Vegas”, and “Treasure”), but it’s “The Pink Opaque” which was my introduction (found in a cut-out bin of all places), and it remains my favorite.  The album was a compendium of tracks, taken from EPs, singles, and compilations, that had never been released in the United States, and they are staggeringly strong from top to bottom.  I once made a house full of people, at Nick and Jezy’s famed Club 805, listen to the album in the dark, and it was a magically hypnotic experience.  Or everyone was just graciously putting up with me for 40 minutes.  That probably happens a lot.
 
Opening track, “The Spangle Maker”, creates a beautiful state of ambient tension before a crashing release three and a half minutes which rivals anything that has followed this blueprint.  Closing piece, “Musette and Drums” creates a dizzying wall of sound as magnificent as anything on “Loveless”, and beat Kevin Shields to the punch by over half a decade.  What comes between those bookends is pretty amazing as well, with “Hitherto” being a particularly captivating example.
 
To the best of my knowledge, this album is no longer in print, but you can still track down copies.  Just don’t steal mine or I’ll kill you with a Gaelic banshee wail.

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If youre like the majority of people that are trying to lose weight, tone up and get fit, youve probably read countless weight loss books and tried all the fad diets. As you probably know by now those fad diets dont work, do they? And if y
If you’re like the majority of people that are trying to lose weight, tone up and get fit, you’ve probably read countless weight loss books and tried all the fad diets. As you probably know by now those fad diets don’t work, do they? And if you are one of the lucky ones to lose some weight while on the diet, how long do you manage to keep it off? As long as you stay on the diet right? As soon as you come off the diet you’ll put it all back on, and then some.
And then there’s the fat loss supplement industry, how many miracle pills have you popped? How many weight loss shakes have you already drank? When you fail on these as most people do you feel it’s your fault, right? In reality it’s not your fault. The weight loss industry is making a fortune at your expense by feeding you rubbish and misleading you, they know how much you want to change the way you look and feel.
The truth is the majority of people just don’t know how to eat properly. We all know we should eat 5-9 servings of fruit and vegetables everyday but how many people do? 95% of Australians are undernourished and you are probably one of them.
When you think of someone being undernourished you immediately see images of people starving in Africa, but in reality if your overweight you’re actually undernourished. Because you keep putting the wrong foods into your body, you’re body keeps sending you signal’s that you’re still hungry. If you ate foods that are high in nutritional content your body will stop craving the vital nutrients it needs, and you’ll be closer to your perfect weight!
This report is normally worth $29.99 because the information contained inside is truly powerful if applied correctly and consistently. As a gift I’m giving it to you for free. It’s the accumulation of years of Personal Training experience, reading all the latest information the fitness industry has to offer, testing out and applying what really does work!
Now, you may be asking yourself why I am giving away all of these fat loss secrets for free. It’s because I’m a firm believer of you reap what you sow and hopefully this will go towards helping you reach some of your fitness and weight loss goals.
Below I have listed some guidelines that will help kick start your weight loss regimen and put you on the road to living a healthier life. Obviously these are just are a few of the many things that you can do to help you lose weight, but if you apply and make these changes to your daily lifestyle, you can be free from the hype and propaganda and on your way to a new you.
Fitness tip # 1 – Eat low GI foods. Eat foods that are low on the GI index. Put Simply, The Glycemic Impact Index (GI) of a food tells you whether the carbohydrate in the food is fast or slow releasing. Eating foods that have a high GI rating causes your insulin levels to rise, it’s a known scientific fact that your body has trouble burning fat when your insulin levels are elevated. Foods that are low GI will give you longer lasting energy whereas high GI foods will give you a short burst of energy, leaving you feeling hungry shortly afterwards. Avoid simple sugars which are found in sweets, soft drinks, cakes, bread, bagels, white pasta/rice and juices. Limit alcohol consumption. Instead get the majority of your carbohydrates from fruits, vegetables, beans and brown rice.
Fitness tip # 2 – Healthy Fats. Not all fats are bad for you, the right kind of fats are essential for optimal health and help reduce the risk cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and a host of other illnesses. Foods that are high in saturated fat, which are found in animal based foods and Trans fats which are in processed foods should be kept to minimum. Totally eliminate fatty meats from your diet (bacon, sausages etc). If you do eat meat, make sure it’s a lean cut. Make sure you eat plenty of seeds, nuts, avocado’s and fish and be sure to take an omega 3 supplement.
Fitness tip # 3 - Drink plenty of water. Two thirds of the human body consists of water, which makes it our most vital nutrient. Water is necessary for the transportation of essential vitamins and minerals as well as carbohydrates. If your water intake is low you lose the ability to transport nutrients through your body and substances such as urea, uric acid, ammonia and other nasty matter begin to accumulate, leaving you feeling lethargic. If you don’t drink enough water your body will actually store more water because it’s not sure how long it will have to wait for you to drink again. So by drinking more water it’s actually possible to lose 1-2 kg of bodyweight of stored fluid. Drinking a glass of water before your meal can also help control your appetite and stop you from overeating.
Fitness tip # 4 - Eat 5-6 meals times a day. Eating at regular intervals will keep your metabolism burning strong throughout the day. You’re also less likely to binge eat, will have stable energy levels and will burn more calories through increased meal consumption (digestion burns calories). If you have trouble eating 5-6 meals a day, try adding a meal replacement to your diet, make sure its ‘whole food based’ so it has genuine nutritional value.
Fitness tip # 5 - Eat more fiber. A diet that is high in fiber will aid in fat loss whether you’re eating less calories or not. Fiber assists weight loss by releasing sugar into the bloodstream slowly. High levels of sugar in the bloodstream cause an insulin spike which will slow fat burning. Good sources of fiber are found in whole grains, lentils, beans, nuts, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables. Avoid refined and overcooked foods.
Fitness tip # 6 - Calorie deficit. Through proper diet and regular exercise create a calorie deficit. This simply means burning more calories than you’re consuming. Keep a journal and get a calorie counter, you can record your diet for free at www.fitday.com. How are you supposed to know how many calories you’re putting into your body if you’re not keeping track of what you’re eating and drinking? By creating a calorie deficit you’ll be using energy from your energy stores (body fat). The trick is not to create a calorie deficit that’s too high or your body will think its starving and will begin too slow your metabolism down, your focus should be on losing fat, not necessarily weight. A too high calorie deficit can also cause a reduction in lean muscle mass making it harder for you to lose weight.
Fitness tip # 7 – Weight training. Muscle is the only tissue that is metabolically expensive. Therefore increasing muscle mass will elevate your metabolism at rest, you’ll burn more calories sitting behind your desk and whilst you’re asleep, you will also burn a considerable more amount of energy whilst you’re exercising through greater energy demand from the increase in lean muscle. Perform exercises that will give you the biggest return, compound exercises such as deadlifts, squats, pushing and pulling exercises and use a variety of combination lifts and circuits. Use drop sets and superset’s and keep the rest period in between exercises to a minimum.
Fitness tip # 8 - Consume more protein. Eating protein will keep you fuller for longer, meaning you’ll consume less overall calories in a day. Eating protein also makes your digestive system work twice as hard as eating carbohydrates and fat, so by eating more protein you’ll be burning more calories through digestion (this is known as the thermic effect). One of the biggest mistakes people make when dieting is that they lose muscle as well as fat, which will in turn slow down their metabolism. By eating plenty of protein and following a suitable weights program this will ensure you maintain your muscle tissue. If you have trouble consuming adequate amounts of protein, try supplementing with a ‘whole food based’ protein drink.
Fitness tip # 9 - Interval Training. Interval training is the #1 cardiovascular exercise for weight loss. It includes high intensity exercise (for10-60 seconds) broken up with periods of low intensity exercise. The good thing with interval training is that you burn more calories in a shorter amount of time. So there’s no need to spend hrs pounding away on a treadmill, you can be done in 20-25 mins and thats including your warm up and cool down! This form of training will keep your metabolism elevated for up to 24 hrs after you’ve finished training, through E.P.O.C (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption), so you’ll be burning calories even while you’re sleeping.
Fitness tip # 10 - Include a cheat day once a week! Keep your body guessing and have a cheat day once a week. This will stop your body from hitting a plateau and stop your metabolism from slowing down. A cheat day is a good time to eat the foods you’ve been craving throughout the week. No-one can eat perfectly 100% of the time without cracking, so hold off any foods that aren’t in your nutrition plan until this day. Having a cheat day will allow you to be good for the other 6 day’s of the week, (just don’t go too mad)!
Fitness tip # 11 - Eat whole foods. Whole foods have formed the basis of the human diet for millions of years. In the last hundred or so years we have been subjected to countless foods that are totally foreign to us. Much of what we call food today (McDonalds, potato chips, sugar coated cereals, French fries) are highly processed and have no nutritional value, these foods will be stored as fat by your body. You are what you eat, if you eat wholesome foods that are full of nutrients, your body has all the raw materials it needs to keep you nourished and maintain a weight that is ideal for you. Whole foods are foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and whole grains all of which are full of vitality. It is also a good idea to take a ‘whole food based’ supplement everyday. Check out Juice Plus+
Fitness tip # 12 - Write your goals down. On a piece of paper write down your goals, set yourself a timeframe and look at it everyday. Make sure their realistic enough for you to achieve but tough enough to make you work hard for them. Every time you reach your goals, set new goals and timeframes, this will help you stay motivated and maintain your results. Having goals gives you a path to follow and something to strive for.
Fitness tip # 13 – Be around like-minded people. Be around people that are going to give you the support you need. Research shows that people who have the support from friends and family stuck to their goals and those without support failed time and again. If you’re around overweight people that are not dieting what do you thinks going to happen? That may seem a bit tough but how many millionaires do you see hanging around with people who are penniless. Surround yourself with what you want to become!
Fitness tip # 14 – Be prepared. The majority of us are so busy with everyday life that we don’t have time to cook nutritious rich foods everyday. Preparing your meals a week in advance is the key to good food choice. Take time out to write a weekly shopping list, shop, and cook up a stack of nutrient dense food on the Sunday night or whenever you have the most time, put them in the freezer so that you don’t get caught short later in the week.
Fitness tip # 15 – Eat slower, smaller portions. Research shows that if you eat slowly you’ll eat less. There is a signal that goes off in the brain after about 20 minutes of eating that tells you you’re full. Be sure to chew your food completely and take breaks in between bites. Reduce the size of your portions, even if your eating quality food, too much of a good thing can make you put on weight, remember weight loss tip # 6, you need to create a calorie deficit. Eating more than you need will cause you to store fat.
Fitness tip # 16 – Positive mindset. You are what you think you are, visualize yourself walking round looking and feeling exactly how you would like to and then take the necessary action. Every time you look in the mirror visualize what you want to look like and ask yourself what you’re going to do today to become that person. Things may not always go your way, losing weight can be tough, if you think it’s too hard you’ve already lost the battle, stay positive and focused and you’ll succeed.
Reading this report will mean nothing to you if you don’t take action and begin to implement some changes into your everyday life, without taking action you’ll be stuck in a vicious circle of fad diets and magic pills only to find yourself back where you started, frustrated and confused. It’s up to you to make things happen and to take control of your own health, don’t you think you’re worth it.

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So its November 12th today. 13 days away from my 22nd birthday. Its funny how much shorter every year gets....so why spend every year being unhappy with the way we look? Thats why this has to be done.


So the bad news? Today a special thanksgiving dinner was offered at work. So...I opted for it..turkey..stuffing..mashed potatoes...gravy...a roll..banana bread..green beans..anda piece of pie. In not particularly large portions..but still. This scale update was from this morning so we wont see how badly it effected my loss until I get on the scale tomorrow morning (all of my updates are from first thing in the morning). I opted out of dinner and the only thing else I ate today was yogurt for breakfast and I tried some coworkers pickled asparagus. Chances are I will have two other faulty days in the future..my families thanksgiving and maybe my birthday.



When I party on the weekends those may be setbacks as well..I do like to drink and theres a lot of useless calories in alcohol. I probably wont give this up just because its my chance to enjoy life during the week and I dont think the set back will be enough to hinder my losses. The scale will tell all though..when I drink I'll be sure to let you all know...and MAYBE let you in on some of the crazy stories I end up having!!! :P


My human resources department at work should have gotten my fitness center access request today. That means soon I should be able to work out in the corporate fitness facility. For the most part, my current losses have only resulted from dieting, I really dont have the proper gear to workout in the cold until I get paid again, but agian it wont make a difference soon because I'll be in the fitness center after work everyday. Scale update!!!:

Current Weight: 255.6
Weight to Goal: 55.6 pounds
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