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No woman can be too rich or too thin

July 16th, 2010   by Connor

This saying often attributed to the late Duchess (ii-fl %. A) of Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times. Being thin is deemed as such a virtue.

The problem with such a view is that some people actually attempt to live by it. I myself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes. Consequently, I have been on a diet for the better—or worse—part of my life. Being rich wouldn't be bad either but that won't happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly in some distant land leaving me millions of dollars.

Where did we go off the track? When did eating butter become a sin and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing if not repellent? All religions have certain days when people refrain from eating and excessive eating is one of Christianity's seven deadly sins. However until quite recently most people had a problem getting enough to eat. In some religious groups wealth was symbol of probable salvation and high morals and fatness a sign of wealth and well-being.

Today the opposite is true. We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue. The result is that being fat—or even only somewhat overweight—is bad because it implies a lack of moral strength.

Our obsession(i&3£)with thinness is also fuelled by health concerns. It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before and that in many cases being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease. These diseases however may have as much to do with our way of life and our high-fat diets as with excess weight. And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more of a dietary problem—too much fat and a lack of fiber—than a weight problem.

The real concern then is not that we weight too much but that we neither exercise enough nor eat well. Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and lung health. A balance diet without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid many diseases. We should surely stop paying so much attention to weight. Simply being thin is not enough. It is actually hazardous if those who get or already are thin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to their overall life-style. Thinness can be pure vainglory(^^S).

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Children are in need of adoption because some birth parents are unable or unavailable to provide adequately for the needs of their child

July 15th, 2010   by Connor

There are numerous reasons for making an adoption plan. Birth parents may feel they cannot take on the responsibility of an unplanned child because they are too young or because they are financially or emotionally unable to provide proper care. They do not feel ready or able to be good parents.

In other cases children are in need of adoption because courts have decided that their birth parents are unable to function adequately. Many of these children are victims of abuse or neglect. Regardless of how children come to need adoption, they are put with adoptive parents through private or public social service agencies. Other adoptions may be arranged independently, as when birth parentsand adoptive parents come to know each other outside of an agency and then complete the adoption according to the laws and regulations of their states of residence.1

In the early 1970s there was a dramatic increase in the number of families seeking to adopt, a condition which persists today. For this reason, the number o those who wish to adopt regularly exceeds the number of infants available. Reaons for this dramatic increase are varied. A major factor has been the choice o many people to delay the start of a family until later in life. Many of these people, in turn, have found themselves to be less fertile at that time, and so they have decided that their desire to have children might best- be fulfilled through adoption.2

In every state, however, there are children who are legally free to De adopted but are desperately waiting for parents. The children in :his group are usually older and often have special needs. They may •equire additional care from a parent because of their physical, emotional, or mental disabilities (which may have been caused by a-3use, neglect, or medical or genetic factors).3 Because of their spe¬cial needs, these children are challenging to rear. In fact, adoption sxperts believe that people who adopt these children need special raining and preparation in order to successfully rear the child and to ntegrate the child into the family and eventually into society.4

In cases of international adoption, Americans have adopted or-Jhaned children from placets like Korea, India, and Latin America. U-lited States immigration laws allow such children to reside in the Unit-sd States through a special visa under which the children are classi-ied as immediate relatives of the adopting family.5 The laws, regula-ions, and attitudes toward international adoption vary a great deal rom one country to another. Because of this, people wishing to a-lopt should use experienced agencies or organizations in order to a-lopt a child from another country successfully.

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Man's puzzlement and preoccupation with time both derive ultimately from his unique relationship to it

July 14th, 2010   by Connor

All animals exist in time and are changed by it; only man can manipulate it.

Like Proust, the French author whose experiences became his literary capital, man can recapture the past.1 He can also summon up things to come, displaying imagination and foresight along with memory. It can be argued, indeed, that memory and foresightedness are the essence of intelligence; that man' s ability to manipulate time, to employ both past and future as guides to present action, is what makes him human.2

To be sure, many animals can react to time after a fashion. A rat can learn to press a lever that will, after a delay of some 25 seconds, reward it with a bit of food. But if the delay stretches beyond 30 seconds, the animal is stumped. It can no longer associate reward to "far" in the future with present lever-pressing.

Monkeys, more intelligent than rats, are better able to deal with time. If one of them is allowed to see food being hidden under one of two cups, it can pick out the right cup even after 90 seconds have passed. But after that time interval, the monkey's hunt for the food is no better than chance predicts.

With the apes, man's nearest cousins, "time sense" takes a big step forward. Even under laboratory conditions, quite different from those they encounter in the wild, apes sometimes show remarkable ability to manipulate the present to obtain a future goal. A chimpanzee (MS®), for example, can learn to stack four boxes, one atop the other, as a platform from which it can reach a hanging banana. Chimpanzees, indeed, carry their ability to cope with the future to the threshold of human capacity: they can make tools. And it is by the making of tools — physical tools as crude as a stone chopper, mental tools as subtle as a mathematical equation — that man characteristically prepares for future contingencies.3

Chimpanzees in the wild have been seen to strip a twig of its leaves to make a probe for extracting termites( QJK) from their hole. Significantly, however, the ape does not make this tool before setting out on a termite hunt, but only when it actually sees the insects or their nest.4 Here, as with the banana and the crates, the ape can deal only with a future that is immediate and visible — and thus halfway into the present.

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What is sports violence?

July 13th, 2010   by Connor

The distinction between unacceptable ousness and a game's normal rough-and-tumble (?MrS) is impose to make, so the argument runs. This position may appeal to-our ination for legalism, but the truth is most of us know quite well 3n an act of needless savagery has been committed, and sports little different from countless other activities of life.1 The distinction is apparent as that between a deliberately aimed blow and the armng of the losing his balance. When a player balls his hand into a , when he drives his helmet into an unsuspecting opponent in rt, when he crosses the boundary between playing hard and pla-

3 to hurt—he can only intend an Fct of violence.

Admittedly, rough acts in sports are difficult to police. But here,

, we find reflected the conditions of everyday life. Ambiguities in

law, confusion at the scene, and the reluctance of witnesses

jd almost any routine assault case. Such uncertainties, however,

e not prevented society from arresting people who strike their fel-

citizens on the street.

Perhaps our troubles stem not from the games we play but rather i how we play them. The 1979 meeting between hockey (ftil^c) s from the Soviet Union and the National Hockey League provided irect test of two approaches to sport—the emphasis on skill, ;e, and finesse (ft 15) by the Russians and the stress on brutality

and violence by the NHL. In a startling upset, the Russians embar-rassed their rough-playing opponents and exploded a long-standing myth • that success in certain sports requires excessive violence.2

Violence apologists cite two additional arguments. First, they say, sports always have been rough; today things are no different. But arguments in American's Old West were settled on Main Street with six guns, and early cave dwellers chose their women with a club. Civilizing influences ended those practices; yet we are told sports violence should be tolerated. The second contention is that athletes accept risk as part of the game, and, in the case of profes-sionals, are paid handsomely to do so.3 But can anyone seriously ar¬gue that being an athlete should require the acceptance of unneces¬sary physical abuse? And, exaggerated as it may seem, the pay of professional athletes presumably reflects their abilities, not a payment against combat injuries.4

"Clearly we are in deep trouble," says perplexed former football player AL DeRogatis. "But how and why has it gotten so bad?"

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Adolescent Delinquency

July 9th, 2010   by Connor

It being not only possible but even easy to predict which ten-year-old boys are at greatest risk of growing up to be persistent offenders, what are we doing with the information? Just about the last thing that we should do is to wait until their troubles have escalated in adolescence and then attack them with the provisions of the new Criminal Justice Bill.

If this bill becomes law, magistrates will have the power to impose residential care orders. More young people will be drawn into institutional life when all the evidence shows that this worsens rather than improves their prospects. The introduction of short sharp shocks in detention centres will simply give more young people a taste of something else they don't need; the whole regime of detention centres is one of toughening delinquents, and if you want to train someone to be anti-establish-ment, "I can't think of a better way to do it," says the writer of this report.

The Cambridge Institute of Criminology comes up with five key factors that are likely to make for delinquency: a low-income family, a large family, parents deemed by social workers to be bad at raising children, parents who themselves have a criminal record, and low intelligence in the child. Not surprisingly, the factors tend to overlap. Of the 63 boys in the sample who had at least three of them when they were ten, half became juvenile delinquents compared with only a fifth of the sample as a whole.

Three more factors make the prediction more accurate: being judged troublesome by teachers at the age of ten, having a father with at least two criminal convictions and having another member of the family with a criminal record. Of the 35 men who had at least two of these factors in their background, 18 became persistent delinquents and 8 more were in trouble with the law.

Among those key factors, far and away the most important was having a parent with a criminal record even if that had been acquired in the distant past, even though very few parents did other than condemn delinquent behaviour in their children.

The role of the schools emerges as extremely important. The most reliable prediction of all on the futures of boys came from teachers' ratings of how troublesome they were at the age of ten. If the information is there in the classroom there must be a response that brings more attention to those troublesome children: a search for things to give them credit for other than academic achievement, a refusal to allow them to go on playing truant, and a fostering of ambition and opportunity which should start early in their school careers.

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Settlement of Texas

July 8th, 2010   by Connor

The first area outside the United States to which settlers moved in substantial numbers was the province now called Texas. By 1830 eastern Texas had been occupied by nearly 20,000 whites and 1,000 black slaves from the United States.

Many westerners had been disappointed when the U.S. government , in the Florida purchase treaty of 1819, accepted the Sabine River as the southwestern boundary of the United States. By doing so, the United States surrendered whatever vague claim it had to Texas as part of the Louisiana Purchase. After winning independence from Spain in 1822, Mexico twice rejected American offers to buy this sparsely settled province; but during the 1820s she welcomed law-abiding American immigrants.

The first and most successful promoter of American settlement in Mexico was Stephen F. Austin, who obtained a huge land grant from the Mexican government and established a flourishing colony on the banks of the Brazos River. Most of the immigrants were yeoman farmers and small slaveholders from the southern United States who were attracted by the rich lands suitable for cotton growing and available for a few cents an acre .

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The Law of the Heart

July 7th, 2010   by Connor

AT LONG LAST I have come to a rather simple point as to what I believe. I believe in what I choose to call "The Law of the Heart. " In the medical world this phrase, The Law of the Heart, means the great discovery by Professor Ernest Henry Starlingm of the precise method by which the heart accelerates and retards itself through the heart muscle; also the manner in which it accomplishes the vital two-way exchange of fluids between the bloodstream and the body tissues.

In my view of life there is also supremely needful a vital two-way exchange of heart qualities between human beings. Without it the human spirit and relationship to other spirits is lifeless and dangerous. Dependence on head qualities is mechanical and empty, just as we have discovered that babies do not thrive, even with technically expert nursing care, without mother love.

The Law of the Heart, in my belief, then, means that I can achieve greatest physical and mental health, and have the most constructive relations with life and people, if my matured emotional self dominates my motives and actions. When, after due consultation with my head, the true heart speaks, it is the finest and most mellowed judgment that I, human creature, am capable of. Man is indivisible, I believe; he is a whole; mind, spirit, body — but with only one real, fully representative voice — the voice of the heart.

There is, in my belief, very suggestive symbolism in the means by which the Law of the Heart operates. We know that man needs to give others weaker, less fortunate, a transfusion of his blood as proof of fellowship. We know that hearts and arteries which are hard and unresponsive can bring the retribution of sudden death. We know that hearts which beat in unison with the problems, pains, miseries and needs of others know celestial music which can never be known to those who do not. We know that hearts capable of quickened pulse at the sight of beauty and nobility, courage and sacrifice, love and tenderness, a child or a sunset, achieve intensities of living — a song in their hearts — unknown to others. We know that those who choke off the heart's native impulses will likely bring on a coronary thrombosis of obstructed emotion which can cripple.

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Success Is Counted Sweetest

July 6th, 2010   by Connor

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er1 succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host2 Who took the flag today Can tell the definition, So clearly, of victory.

As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear.

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The Cobbler and the Banker

July 5th, 2010   by Connor

gobbler passed his time in singing from morning till night; it was wonderful to see, wonderful to hear him; he was more contented in making shoes, than was any of the seven sages. His neighbor, on the contrary, who was rolling in wealth, sung but little, and slept less. He was a banker; when by chance he fell into a doze at day-break, the cobbler awoke him with his song. The banker complained sadly that Providence had not made sleep a saleable commodity, like edibles or drinkables. Having at length sent for the songster, he said to him, "How much a year do you earn, Master Gregory?" "How much a year, sir?" said the merry cobbler laughing, "I never reckon in that way, living as I do from one day to another; somehow I man¬age to reach the end of the year, each day brings its meal." "Well then! How much a day do you earn, my friend?" "Sometimes more, sometimes less; but the worst of it is, and, without that our earnings would tolerable, a-number ef'-days <j$eur in the

I make use of them in time of need."cobbler fancied he beheld all the wealth which the earth had pro-in the past century for the use of mankind. Returning home, he his money and his happiness at the same time. No more singing; he jis voice, the moment he acquired that which is the source of so much leep quitted his dwelling; and cares, suspicions, and false alarms place. All day, his eye wandered in the direction of the treasure; at night, if some stray cat made a noise, the cat was robbing him. At i the poor man ran to the house of his rich neighbor; "Give me back," said he, "sleep and my voice, and take your hundred crowns."

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