Children's bedrooms from around the World

These Are Photos Of Children's Bedrooms. But They Represent Something Much, Much More.

Millions of people from around the world are currently experiencing very different childhoods. Some are living in abject poverty, lacking basic food and sanitation, while others are more fortunate by being born in a country where those things are guaranteed and usually taken for granted.

When photographer James Mollison was asked to come up with an idea for engaging with children’s rights, he found himself thinking of his bedroom: how significant it was during his childhood, and how it reflected what he had and who he was.

And with that, he made it his mission to create Where Children Sleep – a collection of stories about children from around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedrooms.

Bilal, 6, Wadi Abu Hindi, The West Bank


Indira, 7, Kathmandu, Nepal


Ahkohxet, 8, Amazonia, Brazil


Dong, 9, Yunnan, China


Anonymous, 9, Ivory Coast


Alex, 9, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Bikram, 9, Melamchi, Nepal


Tzvika, 9, Beitar Illit, The West Bank


Douha, 10, Hebron, The West Bank


Joey, 11, Kentucky, USA


Lamine, 12, Bounkiling village, Senegal


Rhiannon, 14, Darvel, Scotland


Risa, 15, Kyoto, Japan


Netu, 11, Kathmandu, Nepal




Inside the book, each pair of photographs is accompanied by an extended caption that tells the story of each child.

“It occurred to me that a way to address some of the complex situations and social issues affecting children would be to look at the bedrooms of children in all kinds of different circumstances”, James Mollison says on his website.

“From the start, I didn’t want it just to be about ‘needy children’ in the developing world, but rather something more inclusive, about children from all types of situations.”

We think he did an incredible job of doing just that. If the phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ was ever true, then the pictures above say more than anyone ever can.
 
 Found first at: http://pulptastic.com/james-mollison-where-children-sleep/

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Natural Diabetes Help

Do you have or know someone that does have diabetes?
This is from my friend Rod, who sent this to his friends with diabetes to try and one of them was so kind to let him know the results.

No medical claims made here just reporting!

 
For Diabetes Sufferers - Cut the ends off of a few okra, put the okra in a cup with water overnight, the next day remove the okra and drink the water...

Diabetes will go away and so will your shots...Everything created by God.

Tested on humans,the results, according to tests were miraculous! One volunteer said that their blood glucose decreased from 300 to 150. Another, fell from 195 to 94-and even said that the okra water played the role of insulin,very well done"

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NOW for the results that Bela achieved:
Bela clipped 1 1/2 inches off 7 stems of Okra and placed them into a cup and filled the cup with water and put them into the refrigerator for 24 hours ...
He then tested his blood sugar in both his right and his left arm and achieved the different readings below ...

Please note the following:

* He had not eaten prior to testing his blood sugar so that he would get a true reading ... and abstained from eating for the total time of the testing as well ...
* After testing his blood sugar ... he simply removed the Okra from the cup and drank the water as directed above ...
* He abstained from eating for the remainder of the test and tested his blood sugar every hour and a half from his first reading giving the results below:

Blood Sugar

R 312.   L 277.   1:30 PM
R  255.  L 224.    3:00 PM
R  152   L160.     4:30 PM
R 139.   L 150.    6:00 PM

As you can see his blood sugar started over 300 in his right arm and ended up @ 139 four
and a half hours later by simply drinking one glass of water that the Okra tips were soaked
in!! 

I have spoken to Bela since he achieved the above results that first day and he is simply
amazed at the results and stated that he could never achieve that amount of reduction in 
blood sugar using insulin and at the time is totally OFF the insulin and just using the Okra
water ... and his blood sugar levels are stable around the 100 to 130 level!!

He also stated that he is now testing it by taking it twice daily with once in the morning and once
in the evening and will keep me posted on those results as well ...

Friends ... I can't even begin to express how thrilled I am that this NATURAL and simple process
is working so well for Bela. Have an awesome day Everyone and good health to you 
& yours!!

** Please note that NO MEDICAL CLAIMS ARE BEING MADE
HERE ... just sharing honest and true results!!  :)

Blessings!!

Rod

Short Quiz on Communism

COMMUNISM IS CREEPING IN ONE STEP AT A TIME, EXACTLY AS PLANNED.

Six trivia questions to see how much history you know. Be honest, it's kinda fun and revealing. If you don't know the answer make your best guess. Answer all the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.

 

Who said it?

 

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

    A. Karl Marx

    B. Adolph Hitler
    C. Joseph Stalin
    D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...... And to replace it with shared responsibility,,,,,for shared prosperity."
    A. Lenin
    B. Mussolini
    C. Idi Amin
    D. None of the Above

 

3) "(We) .....can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
    A. Nikita Khrushev
    B. Josef Goebbels
    C. Boris Yeltsin
    D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground."
    A. Mao Tse Dung
    B. Hugo Chavez
    C. Kim Jong Il
    D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
    A. Karl Marx
    B. Lenin
    C. Molotov
    D. None of the above

 

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
    A. Pinochet
    B. Milosevic
    C. Saddam Hussein
    D. None of the above

Scroll down for answers

 

 

Answers

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004

(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007

(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

 

Wanna know something scary? She may be the next socialist president if you don't forward this to everyone that you know.

 

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning signs aren't like the movies: wivb.com

The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine; what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not 10 feet away, their 9-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!”

How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew know what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the No. 2 cause of accidental death in children, ages 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents)—of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In some of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.* Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

1. “Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

• Head low in the water, mouth at water level
• Head tilted back with mouth open
• Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
• Eyes closed
• Hair over forehead or eyes
• Not using legs—vertical
• Hyperventilating or gasping
• Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
• Trying to roll over on the back
• Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

This article is reprinted from Mario Vittone’s blog. Join him on Facebook.

Correction, June 5, 2013: This article originally cited a CDC statistic in referring to the number of child drownings in which a nearby adult watches the child with no idea a drowning is occurring. According to the CDC's Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, no CDC studies have measured the number of such occurrences. The reference has been removed. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Bradlee Dean: The Father Of ADHD Calls Himself A Liar

“ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.”

These were the words of Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),” in his last interview before his death.

Leon Eisenberg made a luxurious living off of his “fictitious disease,” thanks to pharmaceutical sales. Coincidentally, he received the “Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He has been a leader in child psychiatry for more than 40 years through his work in pharmacological trials, research, teaching, and social policy and for his theories of autism and social medicine,” according to Psychiatric News.

Yes, it was even admitted that they are his THEORIES. The medical industry is using the guise of helping children to depersonalize and disconnect our children from a healthy, normal upbringing. Parents are placing their children on these drugs and subjecting them to what the world has to offer, when in fact all these children are looking for is their parents in hopes of being the blessing that God intended them to be.

In the United States, 1 out of 10 boys among 10-year-olds takes medication for ADHD on a daily basis … with increasing tendency. And with the help of Teen Screen surveys in public schools, they are attempting to set up the student for the fall.

American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and others reveal the facts in their study “Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry.” They found that “Of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56 percent) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders’ and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ had financial ties to drug companies.”

And they are reaping major benefits off of this “fictitious disease.” For example, the assistant director of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School received “$1 million in earnings from drug companies between 2000 and 2007.”
Marc-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin, a long-time researcher of pharmaceutical promotion, performed a study which shows that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent 24.4 percent of the sales dollar on promotion, versus 13.4 percent for research and development in 2004. That is almost twice as much money on pushing their drugs on the people than research to make sure it is safe!

This raises the following question: Are they safe?
Read the antidepressant black-box warning for yourselves, and you will be alarmed by the side effects listed on the inserts:

• Confusion
• Depersonalization
• Hostility
• Hallucinations
• Manic reactions
• Suicidal ideation
• Loss of consciousness
• Delusions
• Feeling drunk
• Alcohol abuse
• Homicidal ideation

Why would any parent subject their children to drugs with such dangerous side effects? Dr. Edward C. Hamlyn, a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, in 1998 stated, “ADHD is fraud intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction.”

The “attention deficit” lies in the responsibility of the parents, not the child. Scripture tells us that the parent is to “train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6),” not the other way around.

To take it a step further, the video below explores what is being overlooked – namely, the alarming studies linking antidepressants to mass murder:


Who is Bradlee Dean?

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/the-father-of-adhd-calls-himself-a-liar/#ixzz2UmWpEck6

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The Story Behind Dove’s Mega Viral “Real Beauty Sketches” Campaign

By: Jessica Grose - Anselmo Ramos, creative lead on Dove’s "Real Beauty Sketches" hit discusses the making of a viral sensation. Dove’s “ the [i]New York Times[/i], ABC News, this very site, and in the Huffington Post, where a positive piece about the campaign has been shared almost 40,000 times on Facebook. It has inspired a parody of the original, and now even the blogger backlash to the ad--which complains that it focuses too much on a narrow definition of beauty--has itself gone viral. It’s a real mark of Internet success when even your backlash gets press.

If you haven’t seen it already here or elsewhere, the ad depicts an FBI forensic artist named Gil Zamora sketching women (that he can’t see) by the way they describe themselves. He says things like, "Tell me about your chin," to which these women depressingly reply, “It kind of protrudes a little bit, especially when I smile,” or "My mom told me I had a big jaw." Then strangers sit down and describe these same women to Zamora. The resulting sketches—the ones based on strangers’ descriptions—are ultimately more attractive and look more like their subjects than the ones based on self-description. The idea is that women are too critical of themselves. The tagline: “YOU are more beautiful than you think!”

Anselmo Ramos, a vice president and creative director at Ogilvy Brazil, is one of the key creatives behind this ad--as well as other ingenious creations, like the ad featuring a karaoke mic doubling as a breathalyzer as a way to combat drunk driving. He spoke to us about the inspiration behind the real beauty sketches and how these videos were made. “Everything is a conversation really,” Ramos says of his creative philosophy. “Consumers are ready to engage with brands. We just need to entertain them.”

The Origin of the Idea

We got a simple and ambitious brief from our clients: Make women feel better about themselves. Back in 2007, when Dove won the Cannes Grand Prix with “Evolution,” the “Real Beauty” concept was a completely different point of view from the entire beauty industry. Now that the Campaign for Real Beauty has been established, our job was to talk straight to women in a more intimate, personal way. According to statistics, only 4% of women feel good about themselves across the globe. We decided to do something that would move the other 96%. From the very beginning, we tried to look for an idea that could actually prove they are wrong about their self-image. An experiment. We had several ideas, but “Real Beauty Sketches” really stood out. There’s a lot of merit to the clients, because they didn’t approve a script; they approved a social experiment.

Was There A Back-up Plan?

We always say that if you know exactly what you’re doing, then probably you’re not doing something really new. We like to come up with ideas that a) haven’t been done before, and b) we have no idea how the heck we’ll do it. With “Real Beauty Sketches,” we thought that women would probably describe themselves in a more negative way than strangers. But it was just a guess really, based on common sense and women’s nature. It could go totally wrong. When we told the idea to the clients, we said: “Listen, this is the idea. We don’t know if it’s going to work, but we think it will. The only way to find out is by doing it.” So there’s a lot of merit to the clients, because they didn’t approve a script; they approved a social experiment.

Finding the Best Artist Around

We did an extensive research to find the best sketch artist out there. When we found Gil Zamora, and he told us about his drawing technique by asking questions, and we saw his style and personality, we knew we’d found the right guy. He got really excited about the project and he was crucial for the campaign. There’s something really powerful when you bring together two elements from completely different worlds: an FBI-trained sketch artist and women’s self-esteem.

Casting the Women

The participants where selected through a normal casting session. We looked for women from different ages and ethnicities. And women that could represent well Dove’s concept of “Real Beauty.” The strangers were also selected through casting. The goal was to find nice, easygoing, outspoken people, who could quickly befriend someone and would be able to describe that person later.

Directing the Shoot

The shoot took three days in a loft in San Francisco. Gil would draw a woman describing herself in a day and then draw the stranger describing the same women on a different day. Gil would never really know who exactly he was drawing. The project was shot by John X Carey from Paranoid US. He was the perfect director for the project. He shot it in a beautiful documentary-style way, capturing all the right emotions on camera.

Why It Went Viral

I think it went viral because it moves you, because it makes you think, because it’s based on a true insight. Most ads today don’t evoke any clear emotion, they just communicate a particular product or service benefit. We wanted to do something really emotional. Most women cry when they watch it. But not only women; men, too, because they think about their mothers, sisters, and daughters. I myself cried several times. We knew we had something good in our hands, but yes, we are a little surprised by how fast it went viral. We love it when something we do gets talked about beyond advertising trade publications, by magazines like Fast Company. We also love it when people make the concept their own, by making spoofs and parodies. The “Men: You’re Less Beautiful Than You Think” spoof is really funny.

Responding to Critics Who Say Their Definition of Beauty is Too Narrow

I think the project is pretty diverse. We had Caucasian, African-American, Asian women participating. Like always, we’ve used the best bits, the best moments in terms of editing and to make our point. If 99% of people like it, I think it’s fine. There will always be someone that will say something, no matter what you do. What really matters is that people are spreading quickly the message of "Women: You’re More Beautiful Than You Think." And I think it’s an important and necessary message to put out there. We feel really good about it. Because right now, some woman, somewhere, is watching this film and feeling better about herself.

Jessica Grose

Jessica Grose is a regular contributor to Co.Create. Her debut novel, Sad Desk Salad, is out now from William Morrow/HarperCollins. Continued

To read more: http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682823/the-story-behind-doves-mega-viral-real-beauty-sketches-campaign?partner=newsletter

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RUN FROM http://www.Spirit.com or http://www.Spiritair.com

The Public needs to know a few things before booking a cheap airline ticket through Spirit Airlines( http://www.Spirit.com or http://www.spiritair.com ). What they don't tell you until you are ready to check in is that there is a bag charge even for carry on bags.

Example: One week ago I flew Delta and my laptop bag was considered my personal bag and I was allowed one carry-on in addtion. So I had my suitcase and rolling laptop bag that both went for free as carry-ons. Not with Spirit! Not only do they charge you $45 for a checked bag going underneath, but they charge you $50 for a carry-on. You are allowed one personal item.... maybe!

So I was told my rolling laptop bag is too big to be a personal item. So we had 2 suitcases, a bag of food items we were taking for someone else and my computer bag. They charged us $190 because all of our bags were too big for personal items. AFTER charging us, they decided that the computer bag is a personal item after all but... "So sorry the bag charge is NON-Refundable"!

We opted to drive to Dallas, spend a night at the motel because we were leaving early all because the tickets were so much cheaper only to find out that we have to pay $190 extra for bags. We could have flown out of Ft Smith AR for about the same amount of money taking into consideration of the motel and parking and the exorbitant bags fees that we are paying in addition to our cheap Spirit tickets that are now not so cheap.

I said to my wife, this is the last time I will fly Spirit and the lady ahead of me turned around and said I agree. People were not happy because they were not told that carry-ons were not free when they booked their tickets so there was ticket counter drama and a long slow wait to get boarding passes and to check in our bags. Spirit just lost several customers and I will discourage everyone from flying on them until they change their policies.

Then we get to the gate and they are repairing the plane and our flight is expected to leave 3+ hours later than scheduled... UGH

SPIRIT AIRLINES, YOU SHOULD REMEMBER AN UNHAPPY CUSTOMER IS NOT GOOD AND A BUNCH OF UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS IS REALLY NOT GOOD.

 The general public shoukld be aware that Spirit tickets are NOT cheaper at all once they are finished gigging you for all of the bag fees.

Phil Petre
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