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Drug Abuse and Addiction Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention Facts - 0 views

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abuse addiction causes prevention

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  • to help youth and the general public to understand the risks of drug abuse and for teachers, parents, and health care professionals to keep sending the message that drug addiction can be prevented if a person never abuses drugs.
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Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy? | Washington Times Communities - 0 views

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  • Their overarching claim is that as populations grow, human innovation will increase; thus creating a higher quality of life.
  • innovation increases under pressure,
  • These increases in human numbers and overall rates of resource and energy consumption are not, however, sustainable. 
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JSTOR: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, No. 11 (Mar. 13-19, 2004), pp. 1157-1163 - 0 views

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    *highlights are saved in pdf version*
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Optimism and overpopulation. | POPLINE.org - 0 views

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overpopulation problems foreign aid

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      This article shows how the world's population became so big: -dictatators -economic surplus -agriculture surplus -foreign aid It proves that we are all responsible for this issue and therefore must all be apart of the solution
  • Turkey land redistribution gave impetus to the growth of large families.
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      could this be a simple but noneffective solution to overpopulation?
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Pre and post monsoon monitoring of ground water quality in region near Kupwad MIDC, San... - 0 views

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ground water quality monitoring

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  • Degradation of water resources in rural and urban area due to industrialization, urbanization, overpopulation
  • resources are being deteriorated
  • As water is one of the basic amenity for human being, waterborne diseases have adverse impact on human health
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      diseases can come about from overpopulation
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  • samples are out of the highest desirable limit or exceeded the permissible limit
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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

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  • global food prices.
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      hits people close to home
  • These companies don't simply exist in a world whose hungers they fulfill – they help create the boundaries of that worl
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      is he switching the problem of his essay from global warming towards just blaming oil companies
  • Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free. Nobody else gets that break – if you own a restaurant, you have to pay someone to cart away your trash, since piling it in the street would breed rats. But the fossil-fuel industry is different, and for sound historical reasons: Until a quarter-century ago, almost no one knew that CO2 was dangerous. But now that we understand that carbon is heating the planet and acidifying the oceans, its price becomes the central issue.
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  • Once, in recent corporate history, anger forced an industry to make basic changes. That was the campaign in the 1980s demanding divestment from companies doing business in South Africa. It rose first on college campuses and then spread to municipal and state governments; 155 campuses eventually divested, and by the end of the decade, more than 80 cities, 25 states and 19 counties had taken some form of binding economic action against companies connected to the apartheid regime. "The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu put it, "but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure," especially from "the divestment movement of the 1980s."
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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

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environment climate change warming

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  • If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet
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      consequence---cost$$$$$$
  • Germany is one of the only big countries that has actually tried hard to change its energy mix; on one sunny Saturday in late May, that northern-latitude nation generated nearly half its power from solar panels within its borders. That's a small miracle – and it demonstrates that we have the technology to solve our problems.
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      possible solution to the problem? are there any bad results/is this good enough if implemented everywhere?
  • Green groups, for instance, have spent a lot of time trying to change individual lifestyles: the iconic twisty light bulb has been installed by the millions, but so have a new generation of energy-sucking flatscreen TVs.
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  • it's as if the gay-rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.
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      brings it personal for some of the audience to relate to
  • A more efficient method, of course, would be to work through the political system, and environmentalists have tried that, too, with the same limited success.
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      the leaders have the power to change everything...relates to the other reading
  • According to the Carbon Tracker report, if Exxon burns its current reserves, it would use up more than seven percent of the available atmospheric space between us and the risk of two degrees. BP is just behind, followed by the Russian firm Gazprom, then Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell, each of which would fill between three and four percent.
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Onondaga Nation - People of the Hills - 1 views

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  • strong leaders must change the way business is done. They must find a way to put the common good above profits.
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      Is this asking too much of modern society? In the US we have a capitalistic nation, if we care too much of the little people won't that worsen the economy for the rest of society? Or is the good of the society as a whole less important than the good of those who are suffering?
  • respect and thanksgiving for nature.
  • Outsourcing the work to the rest of the world and then leaving people here without jobs.
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  • biggest environmental issues
  • outsourced your pollution
  • but at the expense of the American public.
  • And I said my job would be to associate them with the reality out there. They're insulated -- heavily insulated -- they don't deal with reality.
  • And they, if you notice, I haven't seen any of their annual reports that put in the cost of the natural resources that they use
  • People are extracting
  • I said, how can you as CEOs of corporations do what you're doing, in terms of extraction, without looking at the consequences?
  • finite
  • finite
  • running out
  • running out. Finite
  • And that's the problem.
  • He says, well, as you know, if somebody is living in those terms, they're not going to progress. They're just going to be happy just the way they are. There'll be no progress. And he says, as you know, the bottom line of our civilization is greed.
  • selfishness
  • teach them to be selfish, so they can progress
  • finite
  • The responsibility of leadership is to look that far ahead
  • directly due to the idea of capitalism
  • to give thanks, be thankful for what you have, and to share. And the third one would be respect.
  • hat's was people power did that. Germany didn't want it, East Germany didn't want it, nobody wanted it. People wanted it, and nothing could stop them. Once they get in a move in that direction they become a force. It's very difficult -- it's not a manageable force -- and that's why leadership is so vital and important.
  • leadership and the control factor for human beings, in particular, is moral. If you don't have moral law you don't have any law. If there's no moral law, you don't have any.
  • there's no mercy
  • There's only law
  • You're going to suffer the consequence, and that's right where we're headed right now. Six-point-six billion people and more coming every minute as we sit here. That's a compound
  • And it takes some understanding to rise to the occasion. You've got to comprehend what's going on.
  • When the Peacemaker talked to us about the foundation of the confederacy, he said the first principle is peace. And you know the Indian word for peace; it also means health. The same word.
  • It starts with the people; the earth, everything that grows on the earth, bushes, trees, what lives in the trees, what lives on the earth; water, what lives in the water; and food, what grows, where it grows. And the leaders, the animal leaders, who lead the animal. We acknowledge thanksgiving for them.
  • You're supposed to develop them and then share with those that don't have them. That's how everything has equity. So you come back to that.
  • And what can we do about it?
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Just being - 0 views

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mindfulness being

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  • For me, the most fruitful means for self-knowledge have been music and meditation.
  • I believe that neither discipline should be limited by having to have an end result.
  • Mindfulness means paying attention, on purpose, to one's own thoughts, feelings, and judgments17—“observing the observer, observing the observed.”18 Buddhist meditation is the practice of mindfulness and requires only the belief that knowing oneself can foster compassion.1
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Gratefulness - 0 views

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      Music to me is a gift. Therefore being mindful allows me to accept music as a gift and appreciate everything that it has to offer.
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Practising Day-to-Day, Informal Mindfulness - For Dummies - 0 views

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mindfulness music listening

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  • simply listen
  • gently guide your mindful attention back to the sounds of the music. Be aware of both the sounds and the silence between the sounds. Notice how all sounds arise and fall back into the ever-present silence.
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Dr Ian Ellis-Jones ... Living Mindfully Now: LISTENING TO MUSIC MINDFULLY - 0 views

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living listening music mindfulness

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  • It’s about the presence of the choiceless awareness of, and bare attention to, the action of, among other things, one’s body and mind ... for never forget that Mindfulness is a whole-body-and-mind awareness of the present moment
  • ultivation of awareness, bringing one's attention to the moment over and over. So, music therapy and Mindfulness involve no passive listening to music but a state of awareness.
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difficulties of being mindful while listening to music - 0 views

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mindfulness listening music difficulties

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  • Even before actually listening to music, I have found that the act of choosing the music I want to hear to varies considerably depending upon the degree to which I’ve been present in the moment.
  • judgment tests
  • put me more at ease and I started to perceive the music in a much more dimensional way.
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  • t is as if the simple act of being present in the moment can make everything seem just right.
  • completely different a song I have already heard many times has sounded depending on my mental space.
  • proceed to not really allow the sound in—but to just register each portion of it as familiar.
  • present and in the moment, I have heard some very familiar songs almost as if they were new to me, and I have also found that I can hear many different things I never was aware of before in them. It actually has seemed to create new feelings or impressions for me when I have really listened to older music in the present moment.
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Mindfulness Exercises For Everyday Life - 0 views

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  • and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note
  • Mindfulness Exercise #3: Listening to Music Listening to music has many benefits — so many, in fact, that music is being used therapeutically in a new branch of complimentary medicine known as music therapy. That’s part of why listening to music makes a great mindfulness exercise. You can play soothing new-age music, classical music, or another type of slow-tempo music to feel calming effects, and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note, the feelings that the music brings up within you, and other sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If other thoughts creep into your head, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the current moment and the music you are hearing.
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  • nd vibration of each note, the feelings that the music brings up within you, and other sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If other thoughts creep into your head, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the current moment and the music you are hearing
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The Journey: The Pianist: Music, Mindfulness and Compassion - 0 views

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music mindfulness journey

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  • The soldier was connected with the man behind the piano, and they were both sharing the present moment,
  • It allows for a gap in thinking, in which thoughts are observed, but are not labeled.  It creates a space where time doesn’t matter and only what is happening in the present moment; within the body is all there is.
  • Listen to the music of life.
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    This mother relates the movie The Pianist, and its mindfulness of music and how music captures us, to how we need to just "be".
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Mindfulness and music | Memorising Music - 0 views

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mindfulness music

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  • “a moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness“
  • We are essentially absent in our own lives, failing to notice the experiences as they occur. Put simply, mindfulness is a way of paying attention.
  • Musicians spend unusually large amounts of time alone practising, in a state of what pianist-composer Rolf Hind calls “solitary absorption”.
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  • Neuroimaging studies indicate that MBSR is associated with increased grey matter in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotional regulation, and self-referential processing
  • People have also reported that mindfulness meditation heightens “their listening experience by increasing their ability to focus on the music without distraction”
  • Constant micro-judgements about how to play each note, or how to shape each phrase, are crucial during practice but destabilise our ability to actually make music during a performance.
  • benefit of mindfulness in music,
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    benefits of practicing mindfulness before practicing or playing in a concert
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