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A brilliant site for anyone who wants to know about human anatomy
And what all the bits and pieces are called.
What a fantastic tool for medical students and the curious – Winkingskull – a non profit organisation I was told
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●Click on image to see it really v big
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interested in looking at stunning, state-of-the-art illustrations of human anatomy, www.winkingskull.com is the interactive study aid that is for you!
WinkingSkull.com is designed to let you study anatomy and test yourself on must-know concepts. You can gauge your proficiency against a handy timer and see your test results instantly.
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LINK – to Winkingskull – see how you’re neck & back muscles mesh together
LINK – If you’re in pain – The Alexander Technique [AT] sorted out mine – learning how to use my body correctly – letting go of tension in my neck and shoulders
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● UPDATE: 10th July ‘08
Winkingskull have changed their set up
to see the diagrams you need the following:
1. You have to register with Winkingskull
2. There is a link to download software from Microsoft to view the diagrams
I have been and still am struggling to get to see the diagrams with no success so far! I found out today that the reason is I use the browser Opera which it wont recognise
And
I’m using windows 2000, which is not compatible with the Microsoft software!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
How about that!
Microsoft is forcing everyone to upgrade their operating system
more sales = more profit for share holders.
Bloody marvellous!
I have just downloaded the browser FIREFOX and am hoping that I can access the software through it.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
update: firefox and windows 2000 does NOT work! boo hoo [13.7.08]
Good news is that for anyone else with a later operating system, it will work!
I’m not prepared to go through the pain of reinstalling windows and all that goes with it – having to reinstall all my software and drivers and router/internet connection etc etc – aaaaaaaaaaagh
I’ll stick to what I’ve got till i can’t use software i need to use, for now – but it’s inevitable – it will have to be done – it’s a whole day at Cidac, my fabulous computer people and weeks of tweaking!
I have used the later operating system and it’s rubbish!
LINK – to Winkingskull – see how you’re neck & back muscles mesh together
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Tags: ANATOMY, BACK, DRAWINGS, education, HEALTH, learning, MEN, MUSCLES, NECK, QUESTIONS, QUIZ, STUDY, WOMEN
What Is Human Rights Day?
A day to be reminded of what our human rights are and the struggle it takes to get them and KEEP them.
Do YOU know what they are?
LINK – South African Human Rights Commission - our human rights [pdf file]
http://www.sahrc.org.za/sahrc_cms/downloads/Human%20Rights%20Day.pdf
Viva! SAHRC Viva!
Don’t touch my sister! Don’t touch my brother!
Magnificent slogan used in the May anti xenophobia demonstration in Cape Town
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Tags: CELEBRATION, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOUTH AFRICA, VISION
I heard Reed Brody being interviewed on BBC World radio last week – what an amazing man. I feel such gratitude to him for the work he is doing to stop these pathetic, insane, little men [are there any women?] despots from getting away with their atrocities.
Brody says:
“If you kill one person, you go to jail. If you kill 40 people, they put you in an insane asylum. But if you kill 40, 000 people, you get a comfortable exile with a bank account in another country and that’s what we want to change here,”
Reed Brody, Human Rights Watch …….
LINK Video – Reed Brody talking on camera
……..In The Dictator Hunter, we follow Brody over the course of two suspenseful years as he travels through Africa, Europe and the United States. He conducts diplomacy like the chess games he plays with his son. But in his work, the chess pieces are politicians, journalists and judges that Brody positions against his opponent. The Dictator Hunter shows what it takes for one man to break the cycle of impunity…”
LINK – Reed Brody organisation – read on
Photo: Reed Brody – by Patricia Williams
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Along the same theme with Brody’s work – here’s a wonderful book I read years ago by Ariel Dorfman – Heading South, Looking North. Brilliantly written autobiography – he is a major human rights activist, academic, novelist, playwright and essayist.”
– I recall him saying that the tyranny of a dictatorship has to be confronted and stopped by having a plan of action in place to stop it in it’s tracks.
It is a global issue not one of nations and internal politics ie. not to interfere – we MUST interfere as it is people like us that are being brutalised.
TYRANNY IS UNACCEPTABLE ANYWHERE.
Our track record of the past catastrophes of genocide and ethnic cleansing is abysmal.
We have failed to stop atrocities, such as the genocide in Ruanda and Sudan . We have no effective response in place to stop it. It is a global issue which concerns us all and therefore where ever it happens we have to have a plan of action that kicks in to deal with it immediately.
I wonder if hell will freeze over first?
Other info on Ariel Dorfman
“Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942 Buenos Aires) is a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and human rights activist.”
….Dorfman’s work often deals with the horrors of tyranny and in later works, the trials of exile…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Dorfman
“…..But, says Dorfman, modernization has come at a price. Like other survivors of the dictatorship, he deplored the government’s long silence on the crimes of the dictatorship following the restoration of democracy and warned leaders of the perils of a “collective forgetting.””
http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/091005/dorfman2.html
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (1999) ISBN 0-14-028253-X
Resume:
http://www.geocities.com/chadofborg/dorfman.html
“Dorfman’s views on political oppression, the missing and Latin America caused him many trials and tribulations, but in the end they helped him become a significant, acclaimed writer of the 20th century.”
http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/a/sam50/dorfman.htm
http://www.wowessays.com/dbase/aa4/dli295.shtml
http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=59&num=7381
Civil Rights/Human Rights By Ariel Dorfman, [An Essay] May 8, 2004, 14:29
“…..Are there times when we have to accept torture? — Every regime that commits this crime does so in the name of salvation…”
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:19068
“Telling The Truth Through Lies
Ariel Dorfman talks about the role of art in times of war and what it will take to create a viable peace movement.”
[genocide, ethnic cleansing]
see comment – for the above URL LINKS
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Tags: ACTIVIST, BBC, DICTATORS, DOCUMENTARY, GENOCIDE, HUMAN RIGHTS, MOVING, REED BRODY, SPEAK OUT, STOP BRUTALITY, SUPPORT
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Tags: BBC, CONTAMINATED WATER, DISASTER, HURICANS, INVENTION, MICHAEL PRICHARD, SCIENCE, SUNAMI, TECHNOLOGY, WATER
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Tags: CLOTHES, COTTON, GREEN, HEMP, HISTORY, PESTICIDES, SCIENCE, SLAVERY, TOXIC
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Tags: CAPE TOWN, CARBON FOOT PRINT, CYCLING, DAWN, EXERCISE, FUND RAISER, SPORT, SUNRISE, WORLD RECORD
The Cape Town 2010 Stadium – architect’s model [posted March 2008]
Source: Courtesy – cybercapetown.com
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This is what IT looks like now – December 2009
Click on image to see it large
I can’t use the word “stadium” and “Cape Town” together!! FIFA rules! Nor 2010 nor twenty ten – bollocks init?! Big business! grrrr! Its a monopoly and locals aren’t going to make money from the event – SA administration will in taxes
Photographer: ?
Its an amazing photo – Am waiting for confirmation of who the photographer is & the source/URL
Cape Town Weather
Snow effect is WordPress’s festive season effect we can switch on – also it will be our winter in JUNE 2010 – remember to bring warm things!
We consider cold to be 16c.!
It never snows in Cape Town – it can be hot if the wind is coming from the north and if it changes directions – coming off the sea from the south pole – it’s very nippy
- Always carry something warm and cool with you at all times!
The wind can change direction a few times a day
The top of our mountains get snow now and again – we get really excited about it – drive for miles to play in it before it melts with in hrs!
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LINK – TWITTER Micro blog [max.140 word posts] on SA 2010 World Cup with stream of latest posts of their ‘tweets’ they are following with footi related info links [148 words with spaces!] [=173 words]
LINK – flyby animated breathtaking video on youtube of completed building
LINK - webcam of CTN stadium construction site
[Thanks to framing challenged webcammer]
Photographed by Odette Herbert
Click on image to see it enlarged – taken June ‘09 [3rd year building]
LINK – Images of Cape Town airport, CTN station – with dramatic music! [oooow] What our 8 billion rands [2.8? billion pounds stirling] are being spent on [plus roads infrastructure plus?] Will they complete those city centre flyovers that have hung there for 30 years or so?!
UPDATE – 15 November 2009
LINK – what the stadium is looking like now
UPDATE – 20 FEb 2009
LINK – BUY YOUR TICKETS – application and requires the brain of a rocket scientist to understand the charts!
I’d like to buy a ticket for one of the Cape Town games but have no idea how to go about it as the charts are all greek to me!
Got to be there – I’ve witnessed the stadium being built for the event! and the tickets for locals are going for 20 US dollars – which i didn’t see on the FIFA ticket charts
BBC World service radio, has been giving out all the infomation about the tickets going on sale to day.
UPDATE – 18 FEb 2009
Tickets for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will go on sale at 1100 GMT on Friday, Fifa has announced.
Individuals may apply for up to four tickets per match to a maximum of seven matches.
The first phase of sales runs from 20 February to 15 April and will see successful applicants chosen in a random ballot….
The physical tickets will be issued in April next year through specially created automatic teller machines situated around the venues in South Africa…..
Three further ticket sale phases will follow from 4 May to 16 November, 5 December to 22 January; with the final phase running from 9 February to 7 April 2010….
LINK – BBC NEWS – World Cup tickets to go on sale – By Ben Wyatt – BBC Sport
LINK – FIFA
UPDATE – 31st January 2009
The stadium is very very big! 65,000 seater The roof will be put in place and raised from the 5th to the 8th of February – you will be able to see it happening on the webcam link below. It’s a structure similar to a spoked bicycle wheel which is raised into place rather like a horizontal London wheel Apparently it’s a first of it’s kind – new technology never done before
LINK – Cape Town Stadium – Visitors centre website. It site is no more! They ought to have left site there it was packed with great info and fabulous images. Even thoug
They do construction site walk abouts! – not while the roof is being done 5 – 8 Feb – call first to make sure they are on again.
And a viewing platform And they have an excellent presentation where the principle people involved are gruelled by a panel Will you get it done in time?
Why spend all that money? [it doesn't say how much though] 800 million pounds stirling according to the UK Gaurdian newspaper.
How will you stop the roof being blown off by the notorious south easter wind? etc
You see who the project manager is, the architect and other clever people also being grewlled by the panel
The centre has been put together with great ingenuity – the seating in the screening room is made from the last remaining section of the old stadium – with the original seats.
The presentation was most uplifting! Fabulous fly by animation of the stadium with table mountain as the back drop There is also a one man theatrical presentation of the history of the area – starting with the Khoi San up to today
LINK – Webcam of stadium building site
Hard Hat sculpture… The architect…. Visitors entrance wall paper
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Tags: 2010, 2010 cape town stadium, AFRICA, ARCHITECTURE, CAPE TOWN, FIFA, foot ball, FOOTBALL, PHOTOS, STADIUM, ticket sales, twitter, UPDATE, world cup
LINK click on the video camera icon to get other views – some are of hotels as it is an accommodation site – take a look at the bottom of the page for other links you might find interesting
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●CAPE TOWN WEATHER WEBCAM IMAGES
Click on foto for latest update of Cape Town [on north side of Table Mountain, on the west coast, facing robin island -out of view] The 2010 World Cup stadium on far right – the big v big blob! [3 billion rands]
LINK to see what the stadium will look like when finished
LINK full page webcam of Table Mountain
LINK 10 webcam choises
love it! – what a brilliant idea
there is one that shows you what the Q’s are like at the cable car – very few people hanging about now! [10 am] there’s one on the cable car - it seems to be stationary as it only shows a close up of a wall – there are also webcams showing – the N1 motor way @ century city – for traffic volume – Fishhoek – south facing from Clovellie & Knysna lagoon
you get a full screen image if you click on them
have just refreshed the page – it’s raining on the cable car window
and it’s brightening up with sun coming through the clouds from the Milerton webcam [take an umbrella just incase]
i wonder if there is a webcam on the other side [south side] of the hill?
often its raining there and it’s sunny in cape town
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Tags: CABLE CAR, CAPE TOWN, TABLE MOUNTAIN, TRAFFIC, WEATHER, WEB CAM
Life may be more akin to a series of meets than a single marathon.
You can lose a race here or there, as long as you win in one contest,
in one area. All the struggles you endured will become a prized
investment in your own person.
DAISAKU IKEDA
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here’s a site that looks interesting but haven’t had time to check them out
eg. who funds them?
it might be one of the secret services websites – information gathering tools!
who owns it? who funds it?
CI A K GB [what is the new one called?] M I 5 [UK?] what is your countries secret service called?
[when you type it put gaps in it so that their search engines don't pick it up?] always ur on the side of caution or am i paranoid?!
can’t remember how i found this site – it looks OK
“AVAAZ.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want…….Technology and the internet have allowed citizens to connect and mobilize like never before. The rise of a new model of internet-driven, people-powered politics is changing countries from Australia to the Philippines to the United States. Avaaz takes this model global, connecting people across borders to bring people powered politics to international decision-making.………Avaaz.org is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. The aim of Avaaz.org is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decisions. Avaaz.org members act for a more just and peaceful world and a globalisation with a human face.”
Read more »
POST time:168 beats [internet TIME system = 1000 beats = 24 hrs]
and
post entry date is not the 9th march!
where i’m sitting on the planet it’s the 10th
no idea how to correct this!
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The champions of human rights inevitably face persecution from the entrenched authorities and the powers that be. This is a constant of history; it is inescapable. All victories for human rights have been won as the fruit of such struggles. Therefore, it is necessary to always view things from a long-range perspective. By so doing, one becomes able to perceive the essence of the matter and to see the broad path to victory that lies ahead.
●Daily Quotes by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
LINK – Daily Quotes
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“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 1.8 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world.”
FUR IS DEAD
LINK
LIST of LINKS to broadly-focused national and international ANIMAL GROUPS
SEE THIS POST – FAB PICS OF BISON and LINK to more images
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Filed under: ACTIVISM, ANIMAL RIGHTS, BLOGGING, JUSTICE, LINKS, POISON, POLLUTION, QUESTIONS, SCIENCE, TOXIC, VISION | Leave a Comment
Tags: ACTION, ANIMAL RIGHTS, CRUELTY, FUR, HUMANS DARK SIDE, JUSTICE, LINK LISTS
Place Your Link(s) Here So We Can Sign Your Petition
get active – use your mouse!
buy land in the green forest in brazil – to protect it!
http://www.coolearth.org/
On Line Petitions are valid
Email ones are not valid
email petitions count for nothing
they just gum up our servers because of exponential growth in email numbers
WE The People Can CHANGE THINGS If There Are Enough Of Us DEMANDING CHANGE!! in a non violent way of course!
our leaders have to listen and take action!
THEY WILL ‘COSE THEY WANT YOUR & MY VOTE!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr………………….breath…..breath!
BECAUSE I’M A GIRL
“I pledge to do what I can, when I can, where I can, to fight for equality and create a fair world where all girls can live without fear and fulfil their dreams.”
62 million girls aren’t in school
100 million girls are missing
LINK petition
VILE CLUBBING TO DEATH OF BABY SEALS
pamela anderson involved in – animal rights – stopping baby seals from being clubbed to death so that their fur isn’t damaged.
just received this from a friend in japan
LINK petition
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Tags: ACTION, ACTIVIST, ANIMALS RIGHTS, CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, PAMELA ANDERSON, PETITION
NOT financial contributions!
SEE EARLIER POST @ LINK
what things would you like to see posted?
questions & answers?
Internet Addiciton symptoms?
The Food Shortage Disaster Caused By Demand For Bio Fuel
Alternative Monetary Systems?
Weather Report Links? [done]
Cape Town Weather Report 5 day forecast – not brilliantly accurate!
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