...In the documentary “In Defense of Food” Michael Pollan discusses the eating habits or Americans and how those need to change in order for us to create a healthier society. One of the issues the Pollan has with food is that he believes it to be and ethical issue. In my opinion food is only an ethical issue to a certain extent. Some members of society find it to be an ethical issue when animals we later eat are put into poor conditions. Another way that I find it becomes an ethical issue is when the government gets involved in the food industry. Sometimes they make choices for us that are not for the health of the nation, but that will create a profit for the government. One example of this is subsidies on soy, therefore increasing the usage of soy in many products. Although it is cheap it is not always the healthiest option. Another way the government has influenced the food crisis is the way in which they speak about food. There was a bill passed that suggested that citizens eat less red meat. The red meat industry did not like this and fought until the bill later spoke only of reducing the intake of nutrients in red meat. This made it more complicated for the consumer and did not make the food crisis better for the average citizen. I believe that the government should have some say in the way our food is grown and processed, but only to protect us. If they...
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...In Defense Of Food II * Some researches believe that metabolic syndrome may be at the roof of many of the diseases of civilization after adoption of a western lifestyle * The test subjects were changed their diet to self-gathered food (shellfish, crocodile, kangaroo, etc.) vs. flour, sugar, rice, carbonated drinks and cheap fatty meat. * Al subjects lost weight and began to regain health (blood pressure, weight) * Westerns diseases are to include obesity, hypertension, diabetes among others * Effects of western diet can be quickly reversed according to O’Dea * O’Dea did not follow nutrisionism, she did not base her results on calories taken, refined carbohydrates or low fat diet, rather she focused on the larger dietary patterns. * According to studies the main features of the western diet are: Lots of processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of everything except fruits, vegetables and whole grains. * Author suggest that we take what we know about the western diet, step back and review what we do know about the diet and its effects on our health * It is argued that western diseases arrived shortly after the arrival of western food * Western diseases are by now such an accepted part of modern life that we fail to see this was not always the case and that it is a byproduct of our eating habits. * Price linked tooth decay and modern dental problems to the western diet. * Price studied other cultures that had not...
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...treatise on American cuisine, than the title even begins to suggest. In chapters 15-17, Pollan skillfully brings us along as he explores the good, bad, risk, and reward of our choice to eat as a Hunter-gatherer. He delves into relationships of this choice that are normally unimagined by the vast majority. He paints the emotion mental turmoil of this decision with illuminating facts and masterful language in a way that exposes somewhat humorous paradox’s that keep us hungering for more of this insightful and exhilarating book. In these chapters Pollan explores the dilemmas facing us through his own experiences in choosing to eat as a Hunter-gatherer. Using poignant language that unfolds naturally he depicts the risks of gathering or hunting foods from various perspectives. His flowing logic in making his choice is laced generously with support from sources such as Walden, Thoreau, Leopold, Shepard, and others, thus giving credence to the entire process. This thorough, well supported reasoning frequently gives rise to subtle ironies making the American dilemma of eating somewhat laughable and the book all the more fascinating. Pollan keeps the reader mentally engaged and yearning to learn what absurdity the next round of reason might expose regarding our eating dilemma. In his treatment of mushroom hunting you can see his mother warning him that some mushrooms are poisonous as a little boy. Later, that experience affected him when he picked chanterelle and he discarded the mushroom...
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...Professor S. Hafezi POL300 1• _F__According to Wriston, communication/information revolution has expanded the ability of governments to control events within their territory. 2• _T__Slaughter argues that the nation-state is dying because of supranational organizations and communication/information revolution. 3• _T__Wriston maintains that the Information Age has validated the Orwell’s vision of Big brother watching the citizen. 4• _F__Wriston believes that the information revolution has outmoded old oligarchies. 5• _F__According to Wriston, nations can now easily block the flow of information across national borders. 6• _T__The U.S. reliance on information technology, according to Wriston, has made the country vulnerable to attack. 7_T__Slaughter asserts that the information revolution has produced global governance. 8• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism has created a more effective and potentially more accountable world order. 9• _T__Slaughter cites partnership between a supranational tribunal and national courts as the most advanced form of judicial cooperation. 10• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism provides a powerful alternative to both a new medievalism and a liberal internationalism. 11• _F__According to Slaughter, all the agents of the modern regulatory state are now regularly cooperate with their foreign counterparts. 12• _F__Slaughter maintains that comity of nations has traditionally signified peaceful...
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... and made a drum like sound when you hit the ball with it. The first paddle was also around 19 inches long, which is unheard of nowadays. As we neared the start of the 20th century, the paddles then started to become made of wood covered in sandpaper, followed by a “cork-faced” racket, which players liked because they thought it, improved their overall performance. As we neared the middle of the 20th century, the changes in the racket increased significantly due to a first time impact from Japanese technology. They tried adapting the racket so it would help a player either on the offensive or defensive side. For example, it says that they made a racket that was wide and had a “pimpled rubber” surface that was preferred by players on defense. Next, they developed a sponge type racket. When the sponge racket was implemented with rubber and was 1mm, it was said that it was more difficult to create spin on the ball. I found it interesting that they finally stuck with this type of material and instead went to a 2mm “pimple rubber racket” while they also tried ways to increase the spin and the way to defend the spin. And from then on, the table tennis paddle has stayed the same for the most part. The only changes could be customizations, where people had grips put on to the handle. According to the ITTF Handbook’s rules on the racket, it can be any size or shape, it just has to have a...
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...Moves * White * Pink * Blue * Plus one white * Plus one pink * Double pink * Black * Grey * Inside ball * Front dummy * 7 loop round to other side black (tell Dave) Application of the Moves * Receiving kick off: Shark (scoop, biggie, +1, biggie, eagle) * Mid-scrum: White-hit of base of scrum; 7 loop r2l black… Side scrum: * Front dummy… Rugby league laws: http://www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/official_laws/5_mode_of_play Attack phase play: 1) Take 2) Take (When these guys are taking you are arranging the forth-coming play – e.g. ‘You 2 come closer run a white for me 3 & 4) White/double pink/ plus one white/plus one pink - For white; run 5m flat but 10m wide and run at the opposing defender one outside you (i.e. 10 runs towards 12 outside shoulder). - For double pink; execute the miss pink and use footwork to run at the defender and offload skills comes into hand to pop the ball to the team mate coming through for double pink. - For plus one; select and direct one taker to get flat but 8m wide of me. *If on blind side use hanz, footwork or drag the defence towards the line and pass the inside ball. Try to create the space! “All you’re doing in a game is two things: one is directing your team mates into position and telling them what to do; the second is rushing up on defence”. Remember go hard for the first 10 minutes and then conserve energy for the last 15. Last 15 minutes = 3 possible...
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...| The Omnivore Review | A review on Michael Pollans “The Omnivore dilemma” | | Cody Windsor Harrington | DeVry University | The Omnivore Review As agriculture technology continues to advance in the new world most of us have lost our pre historic skills of basic survival when it comes to hunting and gathering. America’s agriculture logistics are so well developed that most Americans relay on this system to stay alive. A small portion of people out there still remain intact with their pre historic agriculture skills. That is what Author Michael Pollan writes about In Part 3, Chapters 15, 16, and 17 of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Michael Pollan talks about looking for different foods, the ethics of hunting animals and harvesting the meat as well as giving a brief look into what brought about the paradox of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Chapters 15, 16, and 17 bring up a lot of good points about foraging and hunting. Pollan provides in depth detail and research on the topics. The difficult part is staying focused on the story the author is illustrating. Pollan tends to bounce around on different topics and drags out details making it difficult to keep the reader entertained. Chapter 15 of Omnivore's Dilemma discusses how Pollan is preparing to make a meal from all of the foraging groups. Fruits, vegetables, fungi, and meat were the components that made up this meal. His goal was to find and gather enough from each group to make his first meal from nature. Pollan discusses...
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...basement, it convinced youngsters that the atomic shells could drop at any time and gave them bad dreams. The government’s theory during this juncture was that atomic could be used as part of a “conventional” battle between America and Mother Russia. If that occurred, America would need to continue the manufacturing of war products. Large cities would surely be targets, and in the occasion of evacuation, cities would be gridlocked. Citizens of American were advised to formulate plans for potential nuclear occurrence, to recognize what to do and where to go if the air raid sirens ever went off. With Americans, terrified of nuclear fallout, many still searched for methods to formulate for persistence. Civil defense brochures gave directives on have a supply of non-perishable foods, drinking water, and lighting in basements. In the suburbs, several people built underground nuclear fallout shelters in their backyards —where they could take and wait out the nastiest consequences of nuclear...
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...this). No part of the added, copyrighted parts (except brief passages that a reviewer may quote in a review) may be reproduced in any form unless the reproduced material includes the following two sentences: "Copyright © 1986 by Cresson H. Kearny. The copyrighted material may be reproduced without obtaining permission from anyone, provided: (1) all copyrighted material is reproduced full-scale (except for microfiche reproductions), and (2) the part of this copyright notice within quotation marks is printed along with the copyrighted material." First printing May 1987 Second printing November 1988 Third printing September 1990 ISBN 0-942487-01-X Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 87-60790 CRESSON H. KEARNY Civil Defense Consultant, Retired A LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM CRESSON KEARNY, INVENTOR OF THE KFM Dear Reader, At the time I developed the Kearny Fallout Meter with help from U.S. Department of Energy scientists and engineers, we did not address the issue of nuclear terrorism. We were so concerned back then in the 1970's with the danger of all-out nuclear war that we neglected to instruct users of the KFM of its advantages in a terrorist...
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...need of food, clothing, shelter, medical care and other basic necessities of life. * RELIEF - An act of helping or alleviating the condition of persons who are suffering from the effects of disaster/calamity and are at the time completely helpless. * REHABILITATION - The restoration of a person's economic dependency to an independent or stable way of living either physically, economically, socially or emotionally. * DISASTER OPERATIONS - Any concerted effort by two or more agencies, governmental and/or otherwise, to provide emergency assistance in relief to persons who are victims of a disaster/calamity and in the restoration of essential public utilities and facilities. * NATIONAL DISASTER COORDINATING COUNCIL (NDCC) - The highest governmental body responsible for advising the President on the status of disaster preparedness program and disaster relief and rehabilitation efforts at the national level. * REGIONAL, PROVINCIAL, MUNICIPAL AND BARANGAY DISASTER COORDINATING COUNCILS - The organizations responsible for the conduct of disaster preparedness program, disaster relief and rehabilitation efforts at their respective levels. * LOCAL DISASTER COORDINATING COUNCIL - It is a group of people at the provincial, city, municipal or arranges government level, duly organized for the purpose of preparing the people under its jurisdiction, to mitigate the effects of disasters and to control the disaster operations of its tasked units. * CIVIL DEFENSE OPERATIONS...
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........ 1 22 August 2014 ii ProQuest Document 1 of 1 A Matter Over MIND Author: Gibeaut, John ProQuest document link Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court may help to answer the question after it hears Clark's challenge to Arizona's strippeddown insanity defense, which Clark says denied him a fair trial by not taking full account of his mental illness. In a double-edged due process attack on Arizona's system, Clark wants the justices to relax restrictions the state places on the insanity defense, which accounts for mental illness with a "guilty except insane" verdict. [...] in a more contentious aspect of the case, Clark also says the trial judge unfairly refused to consider evidence of his mental illness to rebut the criminal intent required for his first-degree murder conviction. "From all this, the court must conclude that, while the defendant was affected by his mental illness, it did not... distort his perception of reality so severely that he did not know his actions were wrong," Coker wrote in a special verdict detailing his reasons for convicting Hark and rejecting his insanity defense. Links: Check Document Availability Full text: Headnote The Supreme Court Is Poised to Review the Insanity Defense, an Issue That Has Confounded Courts, Psychiatrists and Lawyers THE 911 CALLS BEGAN COMING JUST BEFORE 5 A.M. on June 21, 2000, from a residential neighborhood in Flagstaff, Ariz. The callers complained of a...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) is a custom scenario for Warcraft III, based on the "Aenon of Strife" map for StarCraft. The objective of the scenario is to destroy the opponents' "Ancient". The two teams' ancients are heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters called "creeps". With successive versions, features, heroes, items, abilities, and graphics are added to updated and bugs are fixed. 0n the DOTA’s, All-stars, forum, users can be post ideas, for new heroes or items, some of which are added to the map. Ice frog recently added anew hero based off submission for a “Model to hero” context or his site. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The foregoing study is about the influence of playing computer games to the students above 16 yrs. old, specifically the researchers tried to find out the answers to the following problems: 1. Is there a positive effect in playing DOTA? 2. How does DOTA affect the performance of a student? 3. Are they aware of what it can do to them? SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Nowadays, DOTA game is one of the most popular games here in our country. Millions of youth and children really want to play their favorite games at the computer shops. Because of the large number of youth who patronize the mentioned computer games, the researchers conducted a study on...
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...Professor S. Hafezi POL300 Take-Home Test 1 (T & F) August 13, 2010 STUDENT NAME_______________________________________ Type T or F in the space after each number. 1• _F__According to Wriston, communication/information revolution has expanded the ability of governments to control events within their territory. 2• _T__Slaughter argues that the nation-state is dying because of supranational organizations and communication/information revolution. 3• _T__Wriston maintains that the Information Age has validated the Orwell’s vision of Big brother watching the citizen. 4• _F__Wriston believes that the information revolution has outmoded old oligarchies. 5• _F__According to Wriston, nations can now easily block the flow of information across national borders. 6• _T__The U.S. reliance on information technology, according to Wriston, has made the country vulnerable to attack. 7_T__Slaughter asserts that the information revolution has produced global governance. 8• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism has created a more effective and potentially more accountable world order. 9• _T__Slaughter cites partnership between a supranational tribunal and national courts as the most advanced form of judicial cooperation. 10• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism provides a powerful alternative to both a new medievalism and a liberal internationalism. 11• _F__According to Slaughter, all the agents of the modern regulatory state are now...
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...A Historical Perspective of Government Training in Emergency Management This paper, examination, report, or the section thereof for which I have indicated responsibility, is my own work. Any assistance I received in its preparation is acknowledged within the report or examination, in accordance with academic practice. For any data, ideas, words, diagrams, pictures, or other information from any source, quoted or not, I have cited the sources fully and completely in footnotes and bibliographical entries, as required. Furthermore, I certify that the material was prepared by me specifically for this class and has not been submitted, in whole or significant part, to any other class in this university or elsewhere, or used for any purpose other than satisfying the requirements of this class, except that I am allowed to submit this material to a professional publication, peer reviewed journal, or professional conference. In adding my name following the word 'Signature', I intend that this certification will have the same authority and authenticity as a document executed with my hand-written signature. A Historical Perspective of Government Training in Emergency Management In the field of disaster response when the public demands assistance from emergency providing organizations that maintains various forms of aid and delivers relief, preparation is the critical component that drives the effectiveness of subsequent outcomes. An important aspect of preparation that has a tremendous...
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...Smoking Definition Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a social situation or to relieve stress. A smoking habit is a physical addiction to tobacco products. Many health experts now regard habitual smoking as a psychological addiction, too, and one with serious health consequences. Smoking risks Smoking is recognized as the leading preventable cause of death, causing or contributing to the deaths of approximately 430,700 Americans each year. Anyone with a smoking habit has an increased chance of lung, cervical, and other types of cancer; respiratory diseases such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis; and cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke, and atherosclerosis (narrowing and hardening of the arteries). The risk of stroke is especially high in women who take birth control pills. Smoking can damage fertility, making it harder to conceive, and it can interfere with the growth of the fetus during pregnancy. It accounts for an estimated 14% of premature births and 10% of infant deaths. There is some evidence that smoking may cause impotence in some men. Because smoking affects so many of the body's systems, smokers often have vitamin deficiencies and suffer oxidative damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are molecules that steal electrons from other molecules, turning the other molecules into free...
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