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8 Habits That Make Millennials Stressed, Anxious And Unproductive

8 Habits That Make Millennials Stressed, Anxious And Unproductive
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According to the American Psychological Association (APA), millennials experience more stress and are less able to manage it than any other generation. More than half of us admit to having lain awake at night during the past month from stress.

Not surprisingly, millennials are also more anxious than older Americans. The APA reports that 12% of millennials have a diagnosed anxiety disorder—almost twice the percentage of Boomers. On a non-clinical scale, a BDA Morneau Shepell white paper discovered that 30% of working millennials have general anxiety, while a 2014 American College Health Association (ACHA) assessment found that anxiety regularly afflicts 61% of college students.

Anxiety not only harms our wellbeing but also sabotages our productivity. The ACHA assessment found that the top two tolls on students’ academic performance were stress and anxiety. Two-thirds of millennials interviewed by BDA  attribute declining work performance to anxiety.

Sources of millennial anxiety may include a tough job market and student debt as well as psychological causes I’ve covered previously such as ambition addiction, career crises and choice-overload. But even our day-to-day behaviors can incite anxiety. Here are eight common habits that instigate stress and compromise our potential:

1. Bad sleep habits

Perhaps the most prevalent contributor to anxiety is poor sleep. A study by the University of California at Berkeley found that lack of sleep “may play a key role in ramping up the brain regions that contribute to excessive worrying.” Common causes of insufficient sleep include going to bed at different times, not making sleep a priority and spending time on phones or laptops right before bed.

Calm Clinic, an online magazine dedicated to anxiety management, suggests forming a long, boring nighttime routine free from technology, keeping a journal by your bed to write down thoughts that keep you awake, and exercising during the day to wear out your body.

2. Skipping sustenance

Eating consistently regulates not only our metabolism and insulin levels but also our mental stability.

“Waiting too long to eat or missing out on breakfast may lead to unsteady blood sugar levels, which can cause anxiety-like sensations, including shakiness, dizziness, confusion, and difficulty speaking,” writes Body and Health. Dehydration has a similar effect. Because food and water are biological needs, anxiety naturally follows hunger and thirst.

Eat meals regularly. Keep granola bars or nuts at your desk or in your purse. Bring a water bottle to work and sip it throughout the day. Have a glass of water right when you wake up and before you go to sleep.

3. Drinking coffee

Drinking coffee makes us more alert and, in many cases, helps us perform better on short-term tasks. But it can also make people jittery, irritable and nervous, especially if they’re already predisposed to anxiety. Sensitivity to caffeine is, in fact, heightened in people with panic disorder and social phobia, and caffeine can provoke panic attacks in some individuals. Caffeine is also diuretic, which can cause dehydration—an anxiety trigger established above.

Try weaning off coffee by switching to just one cup a day, decaf or black tea. If you feel calmer and more in control after a couple weeks without it, commit to quitting and pull out all the stops.

4. Sitting

America’s surge of anxiety symptoms parallels our increasingly sedentary lifestyles. But, until a recent review by BMC Public Health, it was unclear whether the two were actually linked. After lengthy analysis, researchers found that the risk of anxiety risk increases as sedentary behavior increases—and, specifically, sitting time spikes one’s likelihood of experiencing anxiety.

If you work at a desk all day, you’re not doomed. Get up and walk around every ninety minutes. Offset your sitting time with regular exercise, which halves your risk of anxiety and depression.

5. Your phone

A 2014 study by Baylor University found that American students spend an average of nine hours a day on their phone. Of course, technology vastly improves our lives in innumerable ways. But too much of it makes us anxious. Screen-based entertainment increases central nervous system arousal, which can amplify anxiety. Social media is similarly associated with low moods and depression.

Next time you’re waiting or have nothing to do, leave your phone in your pocket or purse. Relinquish it as a means of alleviating boredom and instead use it consciously as needed for its useful functions.

6. Not “clocking out”

According to data from FORBES’ @Work State of Mind Project, millennials become anxious and irritated when work intrudes on our personal lives. But our bad work-life balance is our own choosing. BDA’s assessment explains, “Millennials do not believe that productivity should be measured by the number of hours worked at the office, but by the output of the work performed. They view work as a ‘thing’ and not a ‘place.’” Even after we leave the office, we’re still at work.

We can still be ambitious, work long hours and impress our bosses without sacrificing psychological health and personal boundaries. So clock out: In your calendar, schedule a defined, consistent time at night to stop working. When time’s up, mark that task complete and go take care of yourself.

7. Netflix  and hanging out

You may think snuggling up on the couch and watching a movie will help you unwind, but research disproves this trend.

In one study, participants felt more depressed and anxious after watching just two hours of TV than those who didn’t. Another study found that those with anxiety and depression spend significantly more time on the computer and watching television. While resting reduces anxiety short-term, research reveals that its effect is short lived, particularly compared with exercise.

Do anything but watch TV when you’re done with work. Go on a walk, grab drinks, knit, work, draw, write, sit in your room and look at the wall, call your mom, actually cook dinner, build something, play badminton.

8. Hanging out with anxious people

You might feel like you’ve found someone you can vent to who understands you, but studies show that ruminating on anxiety often makes it worse. Furthermore, participating in “intergroup anxiety” increases one’s anxious behaviors.

Seek out people who level your mood. After you hang out with someone, ask yourself if you feel stable and well—or if you’re hyped up and on edge. It’s easy to spend less time with certain people once you’ve decided they’re bad for your health.

If the annoyance, pain and performance impairment of day-to-day anxiety isn’t enough to quit these bad habits, perhaps this is: According to Harvard Medical School, anxiety is implicated in heart disease, migraines, chronic respiratory disorders and gastrointestinal conditions.

Despite our youth, chronic anxiety is not sustainable.  By swapping out these daily practices, we can improve our moods and our lives one habit a time.

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How Should Ethanol Producers Respond to External Conditions?

Published in the January/February issue 2011 of Ethanol Producer Magazine. Written by Pete Dominici, Managing Director, Energy Restructuring Practice.

With external factors looking unfavorable, producers should look to internal variables.

Ethanol producers in the U.S. are currently feeling the strain of low margins and uncertain tax incentives. The futures pricing for corn, natural gas and ethanol does not provide an outlook for any immediate relief of this strain. In fact, current forecasts of input costs and ethanol sales prices continue to show costs of corn and natural gas exceeding 90 percent of the projected sale price of ethanol. Given such market conditions, to continue to operate and generate profits, ethanol producers must look internally—to their controllable production costs and to their capital structure.

The demand for ethanol in the marketplace is currently subsidized by the U.S. government through the federal tax credit made available to the ethanol producers’ primary customers—the blenders.

The blender’s objective is to earn a profit by mixing or blending lower net-price per gallon ethanol with higher net-price per gallon unleaded gasoline, and then selling the blended fuel to customers at the higher-per gallon unleaded gasoline price. The federal tax credit, which declined from 51 cents per gallon of ethanol purchased by the blender in January 2005 to 45 cents in January 2009, has historically increased a blender’s profit when the blender’s net blended cost of a gallon of E10 gasoline is below the blender’s net purchase price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline.

Further adding to the complexity of the ethanol producer’s business model is an artificial demand side of the market. The U.S. EPA had imposed a ceiling that only allowed ethanol to be blended at a rate of 10 percent ethanol to 90 percent unleaded gasoline in every E10 gallon sold (known as the blend limit), with an annual aggregate ethanol usage ceiling imposed at 10 percent of total U.S. annual unleaded gasoline consumption each year (known as the blending ceiling). This artificially imposed demand ceiling had remained constant at 10 percent, both on the E10 blend limit and on the annual aggregate blending ceiling, since 1978. The combination of the blend limit and the blend ceiling is known in the ethanol industry as the blending wall.

The proposals discussed on including ethanol tax credits in the bill extending the Bush-era tax incentives, which was passed and signed just before Christmas, ranged from eliminating tax incentives for ethanol, to extending them at current levels for one year, to extending them for multiple years at a reduced rate of 36 cents per gallon of ethanol blended.

Over the years, ethanol producers have lobbied to have the mandated 10 percent blending limit raised to 15 percent, and recently the blending limit was raised to 15 percent in some cases. It was not mandated, however. Currently, the decision to blend beyond the current mandate of 10 percent rests with the blenders. Blenders will only blend at the higher level if an appropriate blending profit is available to them.

The recent increase to E15 is also impacted by market conditions. Gasoline that contains 15 percent ethanol can only be used in cars and light trucks sold since 2007.  Therefore, even if the blending profit motive exists for blenders to blend, demand will be limited to the percentage of gasoline that is utilized by post-2006 light cars and trucks. The additional complexity in the delivery system for fuel products will also be a limiting factor. As a result, increased demand at the ethanol producer level is uncertain.

Assuming the tax credit remains at 45 cents per gallon of ethanol, raising the blending limit to 15 percent would result in an additional tax credit of 2.3 cents per gallon (45 cents per gallon of ethanol multiplied by the additional 5 percent), assuming the 15 percent blending ratio is used. In contrast, reducing the tax credit to 36 cents per gallon of ethanol reduces the blenders profit by 0.9 cents per gallon (9 cents per gallon of ethanol multiplied by the 10 percent ratio).

External Factor Outlook

Moving forward, ethanol producers will need to analyze the impact of the four variables affecting their business, in conjunction with tax credit changes, blending limit changes, and the price of corn and natural gas. Of the four variables impacting a producer’s profit, three are external—the primary direct costs of corn and natural gas, ethanol prices, and coproduct sales. One is internal—production efficiencies, including conversion rates, natural gas usage, and enzyme and chemical consumption.

The outlook through June does not look good for ethanol producers. The primary external costs to produce a gallon of ethanol (cost of corn per gallon and cost of natural gas per gallon) are projected to be greater than 100 percent of the projected ethanol sales price per gallon over the same time period. Figure 1 displays the relationship between these factors for 2010 and the forecast through June. Historically, ethanol producers do not fare well financially when their primary cost components (corn and natural gas) are greater than 90 percent of ethanol’s sale price.

Figure 1

Figure 2 extends the forecast period from December 2010 to December 2013. The long-term outlook is also weak as the cost of corn and natural gas per gallon of ethanol produced is greater than 90 percent of the projected sales price over that same period.

Figure 2

External factors do not support strong projections for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for ethanol producers.  While commodity markets do change, the corn, natural gas and ethanol prices have not resulted in combinations that facilitate strong cash flow performance for ethanol producers since the first quarter of 2008. As a result, assuming external market conditions will improve for ethanol producers is not a viable forecast. Producers cannot look to the external market to correct their financial performance issues. Internal factors related to production efficiencies, overhead costs, and capital structure will need to be the primary focus.

Internal Factors

An analysis of performance data for seven Midwestern ethanol plants shows production and overhead costs can range by as much as 16 cents per gallon, depending on labor and other production costs. With the ethanol producer’s margins so tight because of market conditions, the management of these internal costs is critical. Labor costs for these plants range between 3.3 cents and 6.6 cents per gallon. Other operating costs range between 1.4 cents and 8.1 cents per gallon.

In addition to these production-related costs, interest expense and debt amortization requirements are key to the ability to survive this period. Producers will also need to be focusing on reducing capital structure-related cash outlays.

Looking near-term, ethanol producers will have limited ability to reduce input costs or increase ethanol prices. In addition, tax credit changes may erode profitability and, from a long-term perspective, relying on the tax code to provide profitable operations is an added risk.

Ethanol producers must engage in strict review of expenses and tough negotiations with equity partners and lenders. In many cases, the ethanol producer would benefit from a third-party review of operations and capital costs. This review would provide an independent analysis of staffing and production costs, and an independent assessment of the capital structure and costs. At this juncture, the dollars spent in this type of assessment may be the most valuable monies an ethanol producer can spend, if the probability of long-term survival is to be increased.

This is not the time to blame outside conditions for performance problems. Everyone knows those issues exist. This is the time for ethanol producers to differentiate themselves as industry leaders by thoroughly assessing their production costs and capital structure.

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If you are a shop-a-holic, then you'll find shopping in China has a lot to offer, if you go searching for it. You may need to ask the right questions to find the kind of venue or experience you are looking for. Be prepared to barter. Learn some Chinese or take someone Chinese along with you.

Tip: every place that you go to - ask for a business card. That way, the next time you want to go there, you can simply show the business card to the taxi driver. It makes life much easier and you gain a lot of personal independence. In China you can easily buy wallet size business card holders. I kept all my business cards in this, in my handbag, and was able to go anywhere I wanted to go without asking for help or someone to translate for me.

Shopping in China - Downtown
In China, everywhere is downtown. It is not like the west, where we separate the single-family dwellings from the business and shopping areas. In China, on the ground level, is store after store after store of small privately owned shops. Every neighbourhood has it is own market.

In most cities in China, and in Hong Kong, products are usually found grouped together in districts. So if you wanted furniture, you would go to the furniture district. If you needed office supplies you would go to the office supply district. If you needed fabric, you would go to the fabric district.

Department Store Shopping in China
There is usually a specific downtown area where you will find at least one main department store and a market. In the department stores, you pay the price shown on the ticket. There is no bartering. Department stores are very generalized, carrying everything from shoes to appliances. They will have a lot of products – but maybe available in only one style or one color. When you make a purchase – it is generally not returnable. There is seldom a guarantee. There are no fitting rooms to try on clothes. Women go shopping with a tape measure and generally just know their size when they see it.

Bartering in the Market and Small Shops
Generally, you can barter down about 30% off the price quoted – however, if you are a foreigner – they may double the price quoted and try to make some money off you. So, for the first little while, when shopping in China, it is best to take someone Chinese with you, or know the going prices before you decide to barter. It is considered in bad taste to barter a good deal and then walk away without purchasing it. However, some of the best bartering happens when you decide that the price is just too high and you don’t want it that badly, you turn and walk away, and then the store owner comes running after you and concedes to the price you originally wanted. Best to learn a little Chinese - especially numbers, currency, and how to say "too expensive" (tai gui le)

Shopping in China for Fakes and Knock-offs
There is a lot of fake stuff for sale in China, so the Chinese tend to trust a department store just a little more than a local retailer – for purchases of value – like a cell phones, name brand watches, TVs or computers. However, even department stores can be selling fakes. I thought I was being safe by paying about $100 Canadian for a brand name watch in a big Chinese department store. However, about a year later, the casing for the watch was totally tarnished. I had better luck with $5.00 watches that could be bought on any street corner. My husband bought a very expensive cell phone from a large retailer, only to find out it was fake and that the battery only lasted one day at a time. Shopping in China has it's high moments when you find a bargain and low moments when you realize you've been cheated.

Downtown Shanghai has an export market that is full of knock-offs at fantastic prices. You can buy high end knock-offs and low-end look-a-likes. The high end knock-offs you pay much more for – but the quality is good and it is quite difficult to tell if it is real or not. I purchased Channel leather wallets and Tommy Bahama’s shirts at ridiculous prices and they were very good quality products.

Shopping in China's Shopping Centers and Walking Streets
In the large coastal cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and many others, you will find high-end malls with brand name retail stores. Hong Kong is full of these high-end glitzy malls. Most larger cities also have a walking street of shops – which is always a favourite place to spend several hours looking for a bargain.

Shopping in China - Export Markets
In Shanghai,Guangzhou and Shenzhen, there are several export markets, where you can find things produced for export, but not generally found in the Chinese shops. Here, things can be bought at wholesale prices. Fabric markets can be huge – some several acres in size – servicing the garment industry. It is not usually open to the general public and purchases made in the market are usually made by the bolt. However, if you go there and act like a foreign buyer, you can tell them you are making samples and need only a few yards. They will usually allow you to buy. My husband owned a garment factory – so I had a business card from his factory printed up for myself. When I showed my business card, they were always helpful. You can design your own business cards for just a few dollars in China – and voila – suddenly you are a fashion designer shopping in the world’s largest selection of fabrics! Then you take your fabric to a tailor to have it made into whatever you choose. The tailor needs only a picture – they require no pattern to work from. They simply take your measurements and can give you what you want.

Shopping in China - Food Markets
For most of inland China – most of the grocery shopping is done at the local market as opposed to the supermarket. The local market is dirty, wet and full of stalls selling everything from fresh local vegetables, homemade tofu, and eggs, to live poultry and dogs ready for slaughter. There are also lots of dried medicinal type foods available.

You won’t find a nice sliced pork chop or a roast here. You might buy a whole chicken, and the stall owner will take his cleaver and chop it up into a hundred pieced for you so it is ready for you to cook in your wok – with head and feet in a bag on the side. Beef comes ready cooked as a small roast that sliced and added to noodles or stir-fry dishes.

The Chinese like fresh food, so they shop daily for their immediate needs.

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Canada is not a mainstream country for Forex broker regulation, and it is certainly not the ideal choice for Canadian traders due to a slew of recent regulation changes. In the recent past, Canadian traders were not required to trade the Forex market or any other OTC derivatives with IIROC regulated brokers; however, a change in regulations have stopped several brokers from offering their services to Canadian citizens. Overseas brokers may offer Forex trading products by conforming to IIROC guidelines on Forex trading, which severely limits the freedom required to trade the Forex markets. Forex brokers in Canada are regulated by different regulatory agencies that are located in the various provinces of Canada. Canada is perhaps the most complicated countries in the world regarding Forex broker regulation that require brokers to adhere to different regulatory guidelines and different authorities to be able to operate in the country with a valid financial license. The increasing complexity of setting up a brokerage in Canada is one of the main reasons why a majority of companies choose to set up their brokerages in different countries and cater their products to suit Canadian regulatory requirements. The availability of different regulatory organizations and its constant internal tussle has resulted in a confusing regulatory environment, which has prevented Forex traders from enjoying a stable environment. Therefore, even though traders are restricted from signing up with overseas brokers, traders do exploit a loophole that enables them to sign up with international Forex brokers and trade the Forex market without any restrictions. The IIROC is a relatively newer regulatory organization that was formed on June 1, 2008, and was established after a merger between the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and the Market Regulation Services Inc. IIROC is responsible for supervising and regulating investment dealers, along with regulating the Canadian debt and equity markets. IIROC also monitors Forex brokers and firms that indulge in OTC products and its derivatives.

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iiroc logoThe IIROC was a relatively great regulatory organization up until their recent regulation changes. Canadian authorities have tried to follow in the footsteps of the CFTC and NFA by imposing several trading conditions on Forex trading. Although the US authorities were responsible for lowering the leverage in Forex trading, IIROC took it down to another level by reducing the amount of leverage drastically. Forex traders were very apprehensive about the changes, which forced several Forex brokers in Canada to revise their trading conditions to suit the new IIROC guidelines. IIROC is also one of the very few regulatory agencies that stipulate a significant amount of compensation to its investors in the event of a broker ending up declaring bankruptcy. The Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF) compensates every trader with up to $1 million dollars if a broker is rendered insolvent. The immense protection provided by the IIROC for trading capital up to $1 million is a huge advantage for large traders who have invested heavily in the Forex markets. The severe changes in trading environment resulted in several brokers winding up their businesses in Canada, as it became too difficult to justify the costs of trading. Several brokers also experienced decreased response from Canadian traders, as more restrictions meant that traders were more interested in signing up with international Forex brokers that did not follow the guidelines imposed by the IIROC.

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It is against the IIROC rules for a trader to choose a broker not regulated by the IIROC, but the existing rules in Canada related to the confusion regarding its different regulatory agencies do help traders to choose an overseas Forex broker without any immediate repercussions. As long as Canada continues to have multiple regulatory organizations monitored by the different territories, Canadian traders may trade with any broker in the world; however, traders are expected to analyze the legal ramifications before investing with a global broker. Canadian traders should consult with their legal advisors and other financial experts to determine the legality of trading with overseas brokers, and whether they are expected to trade the Forex markets only through IIROC regulated brokers. There are no existing Canadian laws that prevent traders from sending and receiving money from international brokers. Nevertheless, all market participants are required to satisfy all anti-money laundering policies while sending and receiving money, which is a prerequisite with most regulated brokers from around the world. Eventually, the trader is expected to do his homework and understand all aspects of Forex trading before making the decision to choose IIROC Forex brokers or an overseas Forex broker.

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Are There Any Benefits Of Trading With IIROC Forex Brokers?

IIROC regulated brokers do provide an extra sense of security while trading the Forex markets with a huge amount of capital. The CIPF program that offers protection for up to $1 million as the protected trading capital is certainly one of the best guarantees provided by any regulatory organization in the world. Even the FCA of UK limits the amount of compensation to just around $50,000, which makes it hugely attractive for traders to count on their brokers to honor their agreement with their clients. IIROC imposes several restrictions on trading, which further requires Forex brokers in Canada to adhere to several conditions to be able to receive an IIROC license. Brokers might find it hard to conform to these regulations in a profitable manner, but the trader gets to enjoy several trading benefits that enable them to be assured of an excellent trading environment that is free from any financial frauds or malpractices. The option of trading with any broker of choice is another privilege enjoyed by Canadian investors; however, some rules prevent traders from investing in non-regulated brokers. Canada is also considering the proposal of bringing together its different regulatory organizations under a single roof for a streamlined and a more efficient regulatory framework, which can change the present Forex trading environment significantly. Until then, the Canadian retail Forex trading market remains open for international brokers through several different means.


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Schindler's Letters Reveal Fears

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) -- Oskar Schindler wrote in letters that were found in a friend's suitcase that he feared a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany after World War II, a newspaper reported Sunday, the 25th anniversary of his death.

But a list, also found in the case, was probably not the original list of Jews Schindler named to work in his factory, an expert said Sunday at Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem.

The newspaper, Stuttgarter Zeitung, reported that the list was the original, in which Schindler named 1,200 people at the Plaszow concentration camp for employment at his factory in Krakow, southern Poland. He gave that list to the Nazi SS.

However Mordechai Paldiel, director of the memorial's department that researches and honors Gentiles who saved Jews in the Holocaust, said the list was "not really a discovery," based on what he had seen from the newspaper's photographs.

Paldiel said the list in the paper looked like a carbon copy typed at the same time the one at the memorial was typed. But he said he still wanted to see it to be sure.

A second list, the one that appears in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List," was created a month before the war ended. Schindler made that list with fictitious jobs for each worker to convince the SS that they were vital to the war effort, saving them from near-certain death in concentration camps. Yad Vashem has a copy of that list.

The newspaper obtained the so-called original list and the other documents from a Stuttgart couple, relatives of close friends of Schindler, who found the suitcase containing the papers.

Stuttgarter Zeitung said it planned to give the suitcase to Yad Vashem.

Paldiel said some of the documents could explain more about how Schindler was able to save the Jews in his factory.

In the suitcase were also letters sent to and from Schindler in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.

Schindler was involved with the de-Nazification effort after the war, and was threatened for having turned in former Nazis. In a 1948 letter, Schindler warned of a new anti-Semitism developing in Germany, the paper reported.

"This anti-Semitism is today more strongly felt than in the time before the war," he wrote.

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Cold Spring, NY. Leopold Kohr, the author of the great classic, The Breakdown of  Nations, once said that his approach to the world–in favor of smaller nations, smaller institutions, smaller associations–was due to his having been born in a small village, Obendorf, just outside of Salzburg,  Austria. When your childhood is spent within limits, he used to say, where you get to know a good number of people well and also a lot of people no closer than to say “hello” to, you have some approximate experience of how humans lived for many eons before anyone ever thought of cities.

There is much murkiness here, but the general anthropological opinion is that the original African Homo sapiens settlements consisted of bands of between 25 and 50 people, within tribes that might have been between 500 and 1,000, and this is how we lived for at least 250,000 years.  It is, as they now say, encoded in our genes.  “the social organization based on the hunter-gatherer ways of life,” as the eminent microbiologist Rene Dubos has said, “lasted so long–several hundred thousand years–that it has certainly left an indelible stamp on human behavior…. The genetic determinants of behavior, and especially of social relationships, have thus evolved in small groups during several thousand generations.”

And so it is that I was born in a village in upstate New York and spent most of my first twenty years there, and that has made an imprint on me–on my philosophy, social attitudes, certainly on my politics–that has lasted powerfully for the rest of my life–even though I spent thirty years of it in its antitheses, Manhattan.  I don’t know what the population of Cayuga Heights–overlooking Cayuga Lake, as you might expect–was in the 1940s, but I seem to remember it as being something just over a thousand.

The local elementary school was small and the classes no bigger than twenty, if  memory serves.  I can remember when it was proposed that the school shrink from eight grades to six, with students to be bussed down to a junior high school grades seven to nine, and I can remember facing what I thought was a large crowd in the school basement when I was one of two students allowed to speak up against the change.  I lost then, and not for the last time in a worthy cause, but something in my genes flatly resisted the idea of leaving a human-scale school for the vagaries of education down in the city of Ithaca.  All right, not a big city–I guess about 20,000 then–but it seemed bug enough to me.

Not only was the community small but it had something it called the Community Corners as its economic hub, and that was no more than a grocery store, dry cleaners, book store, and maybe a small variety store.  I worked in the grocery in the summers for three years, and my impression is that the Corners functioned less as an economic  hub–it couldn’t have been doing that much business, and larger, fancier stores were available a few miles away in downtown Ithaca–than a social one. People would gather and talk  in knots, in the parking lots, on the sidewalk, at the meat counter in the back, and so many people used to come through the checkout line at my cash register on Sundays with only one or two items that I used to wonder whether they had come out of necessity or just to see other people after church.

The fact that my end of Cayuga Heights blended in with some farms as it went northward, not all of them working but still with open fields where birds sang and fireflies danced in droves, also had some effect on me growing up.  I used to skate and play hockey on the pond at one place where the old farmer never even seemed to venture outside in the winter, and I would ride my bike down dirt roads that seemed to lead nowhere past farmhouses and barns that varied from spanking neat to decrepit.  Somehow I had the sense that I was connected to people who knew the land, knew how to grow things (besides a Victory Garden like my father had), had some solidity and longevity in place (unlike my family, new to the village).

So I want to argue that in some sense it was inevitable that when I began to formulate a politics, it had to be in opposition to the big, the oppressive, the autocratic, the expansive, the all-embracing, in favor of the communitarian, the local, the democratic, the human scale.  I guess it was as a first taste of this that I led a demonstration of some 3,000 students at Cornell University in 1958 against an authoritarian university that declared it was acting in loco parentis (when one of the reasons people liked college is that they escaped their parents), decided to forbid “petting and intercourse” by undergraduates, and diminished student self-government.  And not long after that I was led to Murray Bookchin and his arguments for anarcho-communalism, which were in some ways (though I didn’t think of it at the time) a kind of working-out on a grander scale the experience I had had subliminally as a kind growing up in Cayuga Heights.

After that, a career writing about decentralism, participatory democracy, human scale, small-is-beautiful, the corruption of centralized American government, the evils of discovery and conquest, the tyranny of the Industrial Revolution, and now most recently secession and self-determination may be no more than something based on “the genetic determinants of behavior” growing up village.

  1. Oddly enough, I support decentralism, human scale, and small is beautiful because of New York City. My experience reading Jane Jacobs convinced me that places work best when they are built at a human scale. And I don’t think this view conflicts with my love of the city – it is possible to build the city at a human scale. We simply haven’t been doing it.

  2. Hey Kirk, my Upstate landsman, nice piece. I’d love to read you on Murray Bookchin. I’ve found him nigh unreadable, though I am perhaps prejudiced by Edward Abbey’s loathing of Bookchin, whom he called a “fat old cow” who deserved to be “whupped with a snow shovel.” (Bookchin started it by calling Abbey an “eco-fascist.”) Burlington friends have described Bookchin more charitably–as a curmudgeonly character, very much part of the scene. I hope you post something on Murray B sometime.

  3. Bookchin , if he called ole Ed an “eco-fascist” really should be flogged mit snow shovel because Abbey might have been an eco-curmudgeon or an eco-anarch or an eco-bard or even an eco-godamnyouanyway but he was always too busy trying to spike the gas tanks of the Fascists to join their sordid league.

    Imprecision in imprecation is impudently improper. He should chew his cud a tad more before speaking next time.

  4. You are probably aware of this already Bill, but the Bookchin/Abbey split was part of the broader Deep Ecology v. Social Ecology debate that continues to divide much of the environmentalist “movement” today. Abbey, like his friend David Foreman, was an ideological Deep Ecologist. Bookchin saw that world view as inherently anti-human and a perversion of ideas he had been a major advocate of for years (Social Ecology). The end result of this was Bookchin’s dismissal of much of the anarchist movement as “lifestylists.” In turn the primitivist/green anarchist/deep ecology crowd marched themselves out of the historical anarchist mileau entirely and declared themselves to be “Post-Left” – a transcendent state that has proven to be more interesting in theory than in practice.

    There is an interesting book chronicling the Foreman/Bookchin debates that will explain the details, but this is largely a case of philosophical abstractions stamping out similarities. Bookchin’s swipes at Abbey were just one manifestation of this.

  5. Community Corners is still there. Nowadays, where the roads intersect, it could truthfully be renamed “Confusion Corners.”.” The Corners has become as congested as the old “octopus!” 😉 🙂

  6. What is not generally recognized is that New York City was actually a collection of villages, thousands of them all jammed together, each with its own identity and, usually, ethnicity. Most New Yorkers knew very little about the “tourist” New York, and when they visited that place, they were tourists themselves, no more knowledgeable then the guy next to them from Iowa. The Statue of Liberty was as exotic to them as to the outlander, and the theater district was a foreign country.

    I say this because the discussion of place should not, in my opinion, be about “urban vs. rural,” or city vs. town. Rather, it should be about the proper relationship between town and country, about the proper construction of towns, of whatever size. Bill Kaufman is, I believe, from the Buffalo area (Hey Bill, ever visited Medaille College?) and Kirkpatrick from Vermont, all fine places. But I grew up in New York and Los Angeles, and I know well that one of these was a “place” and the other was not. I lament the decline of New York, which is equivalent to the decline of its “villages,” and I know that every city is not Los Angeles. I think that great cities really can be great. “Small is Beautiful,” to be sure, but as E. F. Schumacher pointed out, it is possible to achieve smallness in the midst of the gargantuan, it is possible to find the human scale even in the metropolis.

    At one time, Los Angeles was the future and New York the past, but now LA has no future, and the question is whether NY can build on its past. I believe that we need the village, but we all need the great cities, and we need them to be great.

  7. The problem with Vermont as I see it is that the native population has been supplanted by urban refugees and their progressive worldview. An example of this would be my great-grandmother, a native-born Republican who took pride in her Vermont roots and was a typical taciturn Yankee. When Vermont passed civil unions in 2000 we were watching television together and she turned to me and asked “what is a civil union?” When I explained she shook her head in disappointment.

    The point is that what Vermont represents now is an artificial creation of a progressive elite who left the urban centers of New York and Boston or who came in the 1960s and 1970s to practice their New Leftist and countercultural ideas. As is evidenced by my great-grandmother’s reaction to civil unions there is a disconnect between the communitarian worldview of native Vermonters and the cosmopolitan worldview of those “flatlanders” who came later.

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Alcohol has highest connection to violence – By Gary Fields USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Eighty percent of people behind bars were involved with alcohol or other drugs at the times of the crimes, a report says. And, alcohol plays a role in a greater number of violent crimes than crack or powder cocaine, according to the report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York.

The three-year study released Thursday found that 1.4 million of the 1.7 million people serving time in the nation’s jails and prisons committed crimes while they were high, stole property to buy drugs, have a history of drug or alcohol abuse or are in jail for violating drug or alcohol laws.

The 281-page report concludes that criminal activity because of drugs and alcohol is the overwhelming reason the nation’s prison population has risen nearly 239% since 1980, when 501,886 people were behind bars.
“People think prisons are full of James Cagney types and psycopaths, but they are actually full of alcoholics and drug addicts, and we can deal with that through treatment,” says Joseph Califano Jr., president of the center and former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

But few of the hundreds of thousands of people who could be turned into respectable taxpayers and parents are ever treated, Califano says. Instead, they are released back into the community as criminals.
“We’re not protecting the public safety because we aren’t treating the problem, and we’re supporting the illegal drug market because we are just sending customers back.”

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Taxpayers spent $38 billion in ’96 to build and maintain the nation’s 4,700 prisons.
– By 2000, one out of 20 U.S. residents will spend time in jail. That includes one out of 11 men and one out of four black men.
– By 2000, taxpayers will pay $100 million a day to incarcerate criminals.
– Repeat offense rates are directly linked to drug use. Forty-one percent of first time offenders in state prisons used drugs regularly, while 81 % of the people with five or more convictions were habitual drug users.
One of the study’s key findings is the prevalence of alcohol in violent crimes. Twentyone percent of the people serving time for violent crimes – including murder, rape, spousal and child abuse and assault – were under the influence of alcohol at the time the crime was committed. Only 3% of the violent offenders were under the influence of crack or powder cocaine.
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It’s easy to look at crack addicts as deviants and perverts prone to violence,” he says. “It’s much harder to see people at a cocktail party that way because that requires us to look at ourselves.”

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As a preventive health-care specialist, Dr. Borio encourages patients to make nutrition a priority. But, keeping abreast of nutritional research can be a daunting challenge. Although Tv, newspapers and magazines inundate us with nutritional information these days, it’s often hard to make sense of all the “sound bites,” especially when the messages are contradictory or change over time. And going to the source – medical journals – can be equally as confusing for lay people, if not more so.
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You may have heard that drinking in moderation (one to two drinks a day) promotes wellness. Moderate drinking is sited as a key factor explaining the “French Paradox” (the curious fact that the high-fat French diet does not promote the rates of heart disease triggered by lower-fat diets). But, just how does moderate alcohol consumption prevent disease? Scientists at the University of Buffalo have unraveled some clues to this ongoing mystery. It seems that drinkers have reduced odds of developing a disorder called syndrome X. This syndrome which is linked with heart disease, cancer and diabetes – is characterized by abnormal levels of cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar.

Research also shows that alcoholic beverages – especially red wine are brimming with disease-fighting antioxidant chemicals. These compounds destroy the free-radical molecules associated with cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders.

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Moderate alcohol consumption can slash an individual’s risk of death from heart disease, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Investigators followed 21,537 male physicians for 12 years. At the onset of the trial, all subjects were free of heart problems. After controlling for various risk factors of heart disease, researchers found that men who drank two to four drinks a week were 40% less likely to experience sudden cardiac death, compared with men who rarely or never drank alcohol. Men who drank five to six drinks a week had a 21 % reduced risk. In contrast, heavy drinkers who consumed more than five drinks a day exhibited an increased risk of heart maladies (Circulation 1999;100:944).

Another study enrolled men living in the Czech Republic. Subjects who consumed half to one liter of beer a day enjoyed a significantly lower rate of heart attack, compared with nondrinkers. However, the protective effect of the alcohol was lost in men who drank more often (British Medical Journal 2000;320: 1378-9).

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Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption (one to seven drinks per week) staves off stroke. One analysis followed 13,329 women for 16 years. Participants who reported drinking wine on a monthly, weekly or daily basis enjoyed a 16%, 34% and 32% lowered stroke risk, respectively. This correlation remained even after researchers controlled for various factors such as age, gender and smoking. Investigators failed to demonstrate a similar protective effect for beer or spirits. In fact, weekly beer intake boosted a person’s risk of stroke by 9% (Stroke, 1998;29:2467).


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Medicine: humanly impossible?

My wife is studying Physiotherapy and spends her life scouring publication databases on-line. If she proposes a regime of treatment to a lecturer they ask: “How do you know? Where is your evidence?” Excellent, I say as an inveterate sceptic.

Both Shahid Shah and Dale Hunscher have posted on Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Shahid has posted slides from a presentation, and Steve Beller makes some particulary interesting comments at the end of Dale’s entry.

I’m not sure that I would entirely agree with Dale’s comment: “It's about getting all relevant facts in front of the clinician at the point of care and then trusting her to use her own judgment as to how the facts apply to the situation at hand.”

I more inclined to agree with a quote I saw in a presentation on Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: “Medicine is a humanly impossible task.” The estimated rate of medical adverse events in the US and in the UK would seem to support that view.

Integrating EBM and healthcare IT is an exciting prospect. This article: Assessment of the potential impact of a reminder system on the reduction of diagnostic errors: a quasi-experimental study concludes in support of the use of ISABEL to support clinical decision making.

However, as usual, technology will be a small part of the challenge. Experience so far indicates that disciplinary boundaries, differences in the interpretation of evidence and general reluctance (or inability) to change practice owing to the pressure of business-as-usual are likely to be more potent factors.

To make progress healthcare must adopt change and continuous improvement as givens and move away from a static, authority-driven approach.

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Picture of clinician using microscope.Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more about the pathogenic viruses.

The FluChip successfully distinguished among 72 influenza strains - including the H5N1 avian influenza strain - in less than 12 hours. Bichip can be used at lower levels of biosafety, which may increase the number of labs that can determine critical details of a virus's origin.

FluChip is constructed by a robotic arm dropping thousands of spots of DNA and RNA onto a microscope slide in a known sequence. The spots are exposed to sample material and scientises can then compare gene sequences to identify the virus.

It seems to me that this technology could be the basis for remote diagnosis, maybe using the silicon biotechnology I talked about in this FHIT post.

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Christina Scherr MEd, ATC | Westview High School

Jamie Adams MEd, ATC, NASM-CES | Cuyamaca College

Robbie Bowers ATC | Rancho Bernardo High School

Tony Ontiveros MA, ATC | UC Riverside

Katherine Susskind MAT, ATC, CKTP | UC Santa Barbara

Lisa Varnum MA, ATC | UC Davis

Jill Wosmek MA, ATC | USA Women’s Volleyball

Patricia Cardenas MS, ATC | Mission San Jose High School

Lorita Granger ATC | UCLA

Gina Biviano MEd, ATC, CES | UC San Francisco

Reid Takano BS, ATC  |  Moanalua High School

Holli Jackson MS, ATC, LMT  | Edison High School

Celine Estrada ATC | San Jose State University

Liana Finer ATC | Kailua High School

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Vintage EHX Clone Theory overhaul

The EHX Clone Theory chorus and vibrato pedal is one of those pedals which we rarely see but those who use it will swear by it. The setup of the pedal is very similar to a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress and can share some of the same mods. This one specifically was converted to true bypass, had an LED installed to indicate when the pedal is active, had an upgraded input buffer, and a boost at the output to increase the overall volume from the pedal.

One other change that we made (and the reason for this blog post) was to mention that this pedal can be converted from the 110V AC plug to a 24V DC power jack as used by the Deluxe Electric Mistress. This is a great option for those of us with pedal power supplies which do not have an auxiliary power output. As always I advise upgrading the aging electrolytic power filter caps to ensure the pedal will continue to function properly.

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Armed with a brand-new logo, a regional ambassador, an updated website and more, ASICS RELAY 2019 is all set to be a thrilling event when it launches in Southeast Asia from June onwards this year.

Running across four cities, ASICS RELAY 2019 kicks off in Jakarta, Indonesia (29 June), followed by Bangkok, Thailand (3 August) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (7 September) before concluding the series in Singapore (12 October).

ASICS RELAY 2019 @ Sepang International Circuit

This year, the Malaysian edition will see Sepang International Circuit being selected as the venue of choice, promising a different race experience to all running enthusiast.

KPOP fans will be thrilled to know that this year, South Korean singer, Park Sang-Hyun aka Thunder has been appointed as the regional ambassador and will be participating one of the four ASICS RELAY races.

Running alongside Thunder will also be the ASICS dream team represented by one ambassador from each – Olivia Jensen for Indonesia, Toey Pongsakorn for Thailand, Jasmine Suraya for Malaysia, and Zong Zi Jie for Singapore.

They will compete in all four of the ASICS RELAY series happening in Southeast Asia as a team, with each member representing their very own cities.

Across all four cities, ASICS Relay 2019 features two race distances – 42km Full Marathon and 21km Half Marathon.

In teams of four, each participating team can choose from three relay categories – Male, Female, and Mixed team where each team member is required to complete 10.5 kilometers for Full Marathon, and 5.25 kilometers for Half Marathon to meet the total distance.

Beyond the race, participants can also look forward to exciting activities and preview from local partners and sponsors at the race village. Participants will also receive an attractive finisher’s medal, personalized race bib, and an exclusive ASICS race tee.

It’s time to start those group training sessions and work on your best form as a team leading up to the race day, because seeing the looks on your teammates’ exhausted but jubilant faces as you speed toward the finish line, and sweaty hugs exchanged between each other when you cross the finish line is truly an immersive experience like no other.

Join us at ASICS RELAY in Kuala Lumpur! Follow us on Facebook and stay tuned to for updates!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Dream Come True, Lady Gaga Cast in 'A Star is Born' Remake, GagaInSpace News And Gossip.

Woman Gaga is set to star in a revamp of A star is Born. The Hollywood great around a rising vocalist and her relationship with a more established man has as of now been made three times, with a fourth, with beyonce in the number one spot, has been being developed following at 2013. Presently Beyonce has dropped out and the task appears to at long last be pushing ahead with Gaga playing inverse Bradley Cooper. GAga has some enormous shoes to fill, as past performing artists in the part incorporate Judy Garland and barbara streisand.

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GPU Presents Position Paper to Constitutional Review Commission

The Gambia Press Union (GPU) on Monday December 31, 2018, submitted to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) a position paper seeking constitutional guarantees for media and freedom of expression rights.
The GPU delegation, led by the Union president, Sheriff Bojang Jr., was received at the CRC offices by the chairman of the Commission, Justice Cherno Sulayman Jallow and his commissioners and staff, including the Executive Secretary, Mr Omar Jobe.
The GPU position paper is a 32-page document that that makes a strong case for constitutional guarantees of media and freedom of expression rights.
The paper addresses eleven thematic areas, including freedom of expression, freedom of information, internet freedoms, media freedoms, state-owned media, media regulation and licensing.
In presenting the paper, the GPU Secretary General, Mr Saikou Jammeh, commended the CRC for opening up for professional bodies like the GPU to constructively engage with the constitutional building process.
He said: “This paper that we are presenting has gone through rigorous consultations by government, media and civil society stakeholders before it was reviewed and adopted by the general membership of the GPU. It is also supported and endorsed by at least nine civil society organisations.
“I can therefore safely say that the positions stated in this submission reflect the views and aspirations of Gambians and non-Gambians from diverse professional background with a common desire to create in The Gambia an environment where freedom of expression will be the bedrock upon which our society will be built.”
In receiving the paper, the CRC chair Justice Jallow, lauded the efforts of the GPU in the promotion and protection of the rights and welfare of journalists.
He said: “This voluminous submission shows the level of seriousness that you attached to this process. Your opinion matters to us. We assure you every document submitted to us will be very seriously considered.
“The media in any country is a key institution in strengthening democracy. When people are able to access information, they are able to stand up for what is right. Access to information is important and we must not stop there. We have to move further to ensure that these rights are protected. We all do not like it when key information we need to know is hidden from us.”
Justice Jallow, who served as the keynote speaker for the recent launch of the Media Council of The Gambia by the GPU, added that he favours self-regulation as opposed to government regulation of the media.
“Anything imposed is not a good idea,” he said. “We as a country are grateful that we have a very resilient media that is ready to serve the people to the fullest.”
He added further: “We want to ensure that we have a media friendly constitution that recognises the value of the media in strengthening the newly found democracy in the country.”
The Gambia is undergoing political reforms after 22 years of dictatorship. Part of this process is a requirement to come up with a new constitution that reflects the aspirations. The government has since set up a Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) through Constitutional Review Commission Act, passed on 13 December 2017 by the National Assembly and assent to by the president on 13 January 2018. The CRC was inaugurated on the 5th of June 2018 the CRC, tasked with the drafting of a new constitution, has since been at work. Among them is a GPU designated Commissioner. The Commission has since been engaged in public consultations, at home and abroad, and has published an Issues Document that invites people to send in submissions.