MAUREEN AND URSULA AND OTHER INSPIRING WOMEN

Inspiring women through history
LOOK at a a selection of inspiring women through the ages who have made a uniquely feminine impact on the world…
source: http://www.handbag.com/celebrity/events/movies/inspiring-women-through-history-67004

Dorothy Parker
American critic, satirical poet and short-story writer, Dorothy Parker was famous for her flashingly malicious wit and acidic one-liners, as well as her membership in the Algonquin Hotel's celebrated Round Table (a kind of American Bloomsbury Group in the Twenties and Thirties). Some classic Parkerisms: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue." "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."

Virginia Woolf
Author, essayist and feminist, Virginia Woolf was at the centre of literary and artistic circle, The Bloomsbury Group, in the 1920s. She also explored women's experience in order to find an alternative to a male-dominated society. A Room Of One's Own (1929) deals with the obstacles that hinder women writers, while Three Guineas (1938) spoke of the need for women to make a claim for their own history and literature. Troubled with mental illness, Woolf finally committed suicide in 1941, but left behind a rich legacy of work.

BoudiccaForget Xena, this was the original kick-ass Warrior Princess! Celtic tribal leader Boudicca fought the Romans in Britain in 61AD, after they attacked her people, seized her lands, and raped her daughters. During Queen Victoria's reign, Boudicca was seen as the embodiment of 'Britannia', and her bronze statue, near the Houses of Parliament, is a fitting monument to a truly amazing figure in British history.

Rosa ParksDubbed the 'Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement,' Rosa Parks is famous for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1950s' America. Her arrest for breaking segregation laws started a boycott of the city bus line that lasted 381 days. This eventually led to the 1956 Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation illegal on public buses. She died in October 2005, aged 92.

Eleanor Roosevelt
America's most influential First Lady blazed paths for women and led the battle for social justice everywhere. Eleanor shattered the mould of the First Lady and reshaped it around her own skills and commitment to social reform. She gave a voice to people who did not have access to power. She was the first American woman to speak in front of a national convention, to write a newspaper column, to earn money as a lecturer, to be a radio commentator and to hold regular press conferences.

Florence NightingaleBright, tough, driven and brilliant, Florence Nightingale is best known as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation, but did you know she also invented the Pie chart?! For most of her life, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system and helped the profession of nursing to gain the respect it deserved. But during the Crimean War, where she nursed soldiers in Turkey, her statistical illustrations of the needless amounts of deaths due to poor sanitation were groundbreaking. Talk about multi-tasking!

Anne FrankOne of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during the second world war, Anne and her family went into hiding in 1942 in a house in Amsterdam. After more than two years the group was betrayed and deported. Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, only a few weeks before it was liberated. Anne's diary, kept while she was in hiding, graphically describes her isolation and fear of discovery. It has been produced now in 55 languages and remains a fascinating and brave portrayal of a unique young woman's experience.

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PESTICIDES AND THE FOOD CHAIN

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How do pesticides become accumulated along the food chain?

When pesticides are sprayed into stagnent pools of water, either by accident or on purpose, small larvae eat the pesticide. Then it gradually travels up the food chain by predators eating their prey. This was the reason why DDT was banned, when it reached the bald eagles through the food chain, it affected their eggs by making them soft. Thus, the eggs were smashed when they were attempted to be incubbated by their parents.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_pesticides_become_accumulated_along_the_food_chain#ixzz1B9c0sxcg

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Do you think this is true? False?
Do you think about pesticides when buying food?
Are you into organic food?
Do you want to give your opinion about this?
Then, please, write a comment.

The digital story of the nativity

Check The digital story of the Nativity that our TAR Lucía sent to me, in line with the documentaries:

What the bleep do we know?

What did you know?

Times to rest, enjoy, and go on thinking and learning...any other chance? :)

Merry Christmas, Happy Hollidays, and whatever your believes are, enjoy as much as you can

BABIES

Release Date: April 16, 2010
Genre: Documentary
Director: Thomas Balmes
Writer: Thomas Balmes
Studio: Focus Features

Plot:
Everybody loves... BABIES. This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, BABIES joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.

We propose an interesting discussion: how much do we have from culture? how much do we have from our own individuality? how much do we owe to our parents? The eternal debate is now, thanks to this documentary, again open and live, but it can be traced back, in fact, to Aristotle, who defended that Man is a social being...and continued with Hobbes' (XVIIth c.) and his revival of Plauto's (III B.C.) Homo Homini Lupus est (Man is a wolf for man)...opposed to Seneca's Homo sacra res homini (Man is sacred for man...)

Check this trailer and the one of ENTRELOBOS, and tell us what you think!

Woody Allen talks about Psychoanalysis

Check this interview of Dick to Woody, about Woody's own experience with psychoanalysis. Do you find it funny?
Woody is a master of irony and of black humour, which he mixes with ridiculous, pathetic, hilarious situations which usually go through breaking social prejudices. Personally, I really admire how smart he is, and how brilliantly he portrays pure reality and laughs at it, while at the same time he denounces the miseries of human beings in a realistic and funny way...
Of course, it is a matter of taste! Being aware that he has both admirers and distractors, I would like someone to give us an opinion on different matters:
Woody Allen, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapies, Western religions and believes, prejudices of our times and societies, etc etc etc.
Shall I start?: I believe that anything that helps you to maintain a healthy state of mind and to keep (as much as possible) a clean soul is good, and this "anything" can ben called religion, philosophy of life, psychotherapy, art, culture, and so on. Likewise, any system that goes against the dignity of people, either political, religious, cultural, traditional, is bad.
So...

Richard Heinberg: The Oil Peak

The problem of energies is growing

Richard Heinberg is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues, including the problems with Oil. He is the author of nine books, including The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse, and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines.

Take a look at this interview and to the next part of this same interview, and then, tell me,
are we like yeasts? Shall we end up destroying ourselves, exactly as these micro-organisms do?

Is this related to intelligence? Are we on time to act smartly enough? Let's hope so!!!