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Water Transportation Made Easier - The Q Drum

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:21:17 GMT

clipped by: infopunk

The Q Drum eases the task of fetching water for peoples in developing nations. Climate change has required a countless number of people all around the world to travel greater distances to retrieve water for everyday use. The Q Drum allows a child to pull the full capacity of 50 liters of water over flat terrain with comparative ease.

Typical methods of water transport include a sundry of containers that must be carried, carted, driven, or hauled by animal or bicycle to and from the water source. This can often mean unhygienic conditions with inappropriate containers and exposure to pathogens, requires high energy output, and is labor intensive and time consuming.

The effort required to move the Q Drum allows children to be active helpers in a very important domestic duty, which could free adults from this job, which is typically the responsibility of women.

The drums are stackable, up to 40 high when filled, meaning storage space can be maximized and large scale transport possible.

Tags: water

Annual Halloween Events in Los Angeles

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:55:24 GMT

clipped by: Jenhahaha
clipper's remarks: These are some (non-theme park) activities in LA, California that are child-friendly.

Clip Source: travelingmamas.com

It’s October! Can you feel the anticipation in the air? A family with young children knows that Halloween is at least as major a holiday as is Christmas and New Years Eve. I don’t know about you, but in our house, serious discussions about What to Go As This Year start right after Labor Day. Obviously, an important holiday such as this candy-free-for-all one, gets its own activities and events to help build up to the big day. Here are a few recommended fun, weird, and exciting Halloween activities for children (non-theme park edition) in Los Angeles. My kids will probably enjoy each one.

Sure, the big theme parks like Disneyland have a wrap on famous child-friendly Halloween activities, but these are some smaller, more manageable options right here in Los Angeles. Anyone planning to be in this part of Southern California in October would give their little kids the gift of a really good time at any of these recommended Halloween to-do’s.

Tags: halloween, los angeles, california, activities, events, family, child friendly

Social welfare programs do not keep a country from prosperity

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:03:26 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks:

The Nordic states have also worked to keep social expenditures compatible with an open, competitive, market-based economic system. Tax rates on capital are relatively low. Labor market policies pay low-skilled and otherwise difficult-to-employ individuals to work in the service sector, in key quality-of-life areas such as child care, health, and support for the elderly and disabled.

The results for the households at the bottom of the income distribution are astoundingly good, especially in contrast to...American social policy. The U.S. spends less than almost all rich countries on social services for the poor and disabled, and it gets what it pays for: the highest poverty rate among the rich countries and an exploding prison population. Actually, by shunning public spending on health, the U.S. gets much less than it pays for, because its dependence on private health care has led to a ramshackle system that yields mediocre results at very high costs.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

America's supply-siders claim that the best way to achieve well-being for America's poor is by spurring rapid economic growth and that the higher taxes needed to fund high levels of social insurance would cripple prosperity.

On average, the Nordic countries outperform the Anglo-Saxon ones on most measures of economic performance. Poverty rates are much lower there, and national income per working-age population is on average higher. Unemployment rates are roughly the same in both groups, just slightly higher in the Nordic countries. The budget situation is stronger in the Nordic group, with larger surpluses as a share of GDP.

The Nordic countries maintain their dynamism despite high taxation in several ways. Most important, they spend lavishly on research and development and higher education. All of them, but especially Sweden and Finland, have taken to the sweeping revolution in information and communications technology and leveraged it to gain global competitiveness.

Tags: community, politics, altruism, generosity, welfare, economics

The meaning of "white privilege" in 2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:05:43 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Tim Wise's take on what it means to be white today, in the context of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Clip Source: www.redroom.com

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist. 

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

Tags: commentary, opinion, race, presidential_campaign_2008, mccain, obama, palin, via:facebook

Abortion instruments that are being used today

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:48:45 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado
clipper's remarks: "The most gruesome medical instruments ever made were designed for abortion."

Clip Source: www.abortioninstruments.com

What is MVA? MVA is used to abort a child from 3 weeks to 12 weeks of age. This handheld syringe works by creating its own vacuum/suction. MVAs are used and reused millions of times a year around the world. The major problem with the MVA is that it has a very weak vacuum. This means that the child is ripped apart slowly.

One side of the loop is sharp for cutting the child apart. The other side scrapes the uterus to remove the placenta.

This abortion instrument's uses include injecting saltwater into the uterus. The baby swallows and breathes the poison. The cause of the death is congestion, hemorrhage and shock. The mother goes into premature labor about a day later and delivers a dead child. The other use is to inject the chemicals (digoxin, potassium chloride, etc.) into the heart of the baby. In both uses, these harsh chemicals soften the child's corpse, making it easier to rip apart and remove.

This abortion tool is used to crush, grasp, and pull the child's body apart.

Tags: abortion, pro-life

The Company Store

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:42:56 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: Deregulation. "I owe my soul to the company store" is a reference to the truck system and to debt bondage. Under this system workers were not paid cash; rather they were paid with unexchangeable credit vouchers for goods at the company store (usually referred to as scrip). This made it impossible for workers to store up cash savings. Workers also usually lived in company-owned dormitories or apartment buildings, the rent for which was automatically deducted from their pay.

Clip Source: www.historyplace.com

As early as the 1830s, many U.S. states had enacted laws restricting or prohibiting the employment of young children in industrial settings. However, in rural communities where child labor on the farm was common, employment of children in mills and factories did not arouse much concern. Another problem for children was the popular opinion that gainful employment of children of the "lower orders" actually benefited poor families and the community at large

Entire families were hired, the men for heavy labor and the women and children for lighter work. Work days typically ran from dawn to sunset, with longer hours in winter, resulting in a 68-72 hour workweek. Many families also lived in company owned houses in company owned villages and were often paid with overpriced goods from the company store. Thus they lived a life entirely dominated by their employers

By the late 1800s, states and territories had passed over 1,600 laws regulating work conditions and limiting or forbidding child labor

Clip Source: www.historyplace.com

Educating children from the dump

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:07:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) -- Walking down a street in Cambodia's capital city, Phymean Noun finished her lunch and tossed her chicken bones into the trash. Seconds later, she watched in horror as several children fought to reclaim her discarded food.

she quit her job and started an organization to give underprivileged children an education. Noun spent $30,000 of her own money to get her first school off the ground.

opened a school at Phnom Penh's largest municipal trash dump, where children are a large source of labor

Today, Noun provides 240 kids from the trash dump a free education, food, health services and an opportunity to be a child in a safe environment. Watch Noun and some of the children who attend her school »

"I have seen a lot of kids killed by the garbage trucks," she recalls. Children as young as 7 scavenge hours at a time for recyclable materials. They make cents a day selling cans, metals and plastic bags.

Tags: mercy, poverty

Bureaucrats Try to Quash Blues Prodigy's Talents

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:49:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, the law prohibits it, and the Legislature enacted the laws to protect the health, safety and welfare of all children.

"T-Man" Latz has a reason to sing the blues

http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20080812/Blues.Kid/

Clip Source: www.moonbattery.com

We don't quite have enough government to have reached the socialist ideal, whereby society resembles a well-manicured lawn, with no blade of grass allowed to grow any higher than the others. An example is 8-year-old guitar prodigy Tallan "T-Man" Latz, who seems to have gotten on older players' nerves by outperforming them.

But we do have enough government so that virtually all human activity violates one regulation or another, permitting those who excel to be brought down to size. Jealous musicians have apparently ratted out T-Man for violating child labor laws, so that he's not allowed to play the blues in clubs anymore.

Intones bureaucretin Jennifer Ortiz of Wisconsin's Equal Rights Division:

Don't forget, as the government boot stamps down on your face: it's for your own health, safety, and welfare.

On a tip from V the K.

Tags: tallan "t-man" latz, guitar prodigy, violating child labor laws, bureaucretin jennifer ortiz, wisconsin's equal rights division

The Art of Engineering

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:56:28 GMT

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Clip Source: mitworld.mit.edu

Thank goodness some inventors specialize in ways to make our lives a little easier, especially around the house. Borrowing a page from Buckminster Fuller, one of his heroes, James Dyson ‘sees what needs to be done and just does it.’

In a show-and-tell format, Dyson offers a compendium of his labor-saving, ingenious designs, with side bars on business and engineering details. While Dyson has come up with washing machines, wheelbarrows and boats, the lion’s share of his presentation concerns his Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner, which tidily eliminates several nasty aspects of ordinary vacuum cleaners: loss of suction, bag-changing and the emission of dirty air. “As a child, I remembered the screaming noise, smelling stale dust and picking things up in my hands the vacuum wouldn’t suck up.”

Welcome To The Real World

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:12:01 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."
-John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

ndividually we find that we are powerless against corporate media or Big Oil or Washington. Our choices are limited. Our effectiveness diminished. This is not by accident. Unions, social gatherings, clubs that all flourished before the 1960s have all been destroyed by those who find you & me to be a threat.

Today people will tell you that protest are ineffective. And they are. But real change does not come from the ballot box. Great social change like the eight hour work day, child labor laws, a woman's right to vote, civil rights, etc., etc. all came about through blood & sweat & great effort.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations; all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. --Arthur Scargill

Gram Vikash sahayak Sanstha-"GVSS"

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:32:32 GMT

clipped by: Ashwini
clipper's remarks: GVSS,voluntary welfare organization dedicated to the cause of rural people functioning relentlessly to bring a positive change in the life of people

Clip Source: gvss.dev4india.org

Gram Vikash sahayak Sanstha - ”GVSS " - was started in the year 1997. It is a grass-root level voluntary welfare organization dedicated to the cause of rural people who still live a medieval life in the midst of 21st century. Since its formation, GVSS has been functioning relentlessly to bring a positive change in the life of people by implementing various social, economic, educational and environmental changes in the society.

Many programs dealing with sanitation, sports and games, health, culture, bio- gas and chullha, anti-child labor, vocational training program, relief and rehabilitation, reconstruction etc are undertaken under dynamic leadership of an executive body and one hundred strong and dedicated social voluntary workers.

Tags: gvss, ngo, puri, orissa, india, dev4india, rural, social, education, health

This Day in History - July 7th

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:56:01 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.peacebuttons.info

July

July 7, 1863

The first military draft was instituted in the U.S. to provide troops for the Union army in the American Civil War. Once called, a draftee had the opportunity to either pay a commutation fee of $300 to be exempt from a particular battle, or to hire a replacement that would exempt him from the entire war.

1903

Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones led the "March of the Mill Children" over 100 miles from Philadelphia to Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55-hour work week. It is during this march, on about the 24th, she delivered her famed "The Wail of the Children" speech. Roosevelt refused to see them.

1957

scientists held their first peace conference in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bertrand Russell

Albert Einstein

Fifty years later

“Revitalizing Nuclear Disarmament” strategy workshop.

1977

States conducted its first test of the neutron bomb

1979

Black Hills

Tags: usa, history

What did Lindsay do on her birthday?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:40:53 GMT

clipped by: allen1234
clipper's remarks: Lindsay Lohan the Hollywood problem child checking in and out of rehab and plagued by rumors about a godforsaken half-sister has still made time to celebrate her birthday with class.

Clip Source: celeb9.com

Tags: half-sister, hollywood problem child, labor pains

Good Society - Save the planet and buy a pair of jeans

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:55:52 GMT

clipped by: mylajean
clipper's remarks: Each pair of Good Society jeans is designed in Japan and constructed from 100% organic cotton woven

Clip Source: dappermen.blogspot.com

Good Society Denim comes to us from Sling and Stones co-founder Aiden Dinh, who created the line to push the boundaries of ecologically sound business practices. Each pair of Good Society jeans is designed in Japan and constructed from 100% organic cotton woven on vintage shuttle looms and hand sewn by skilled workers in India in accordance with Fair Trade regulations. Everything from its hangtags to dyes are eco-friendly and made based on fair labor practices. Dinh allocates 10 percent of profits for charities: helping orphans in India, former child sex slaves in Cambodia and providing clean water facilities for underprivileged communities around the world.

Forced Child Labor and Poverty

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:17:51 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: therealnews.com

June 22, 2008

Childhood denied

Millions of children forced to work to earn meager income, or nothing at all

Drawing a global spotlight on child labour, the UN marked the annual World Day against Child Labor last Thursday. Poverty pushes children into the workforce prematurely. Some are trafficked and forceably put to work, while others, particularly in rural economies, work to support meager family incomes. Just a day earlier, police and activists in New Delhi, India, rescued 62 trafficked children from sweatshops. Most of the children had come from farming families in Bihar, India's poorest eastern state. Officials said the children were rescued under the Bonded Labour Abolition Act 1976, and will be sent back to their families under supervision to ensure they are not sent back out again. The net of India’s child labor laws catches some though, but leaves others behind. Factory workers outsource work to many children in urban areas work through home-based units