Appeasement...yep, that will do it
Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand, OIC Advises Appeasement
PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants beheaded a Buddhist man, shot dead his nephew and set both bodies on fire in Thailand’s rebellious far south, police and soldiers said on Monday.
The 30-year man and his 14-year-old nephew were killed in a Muslim village in Pattani, one of the three southern most provinces hit by three years of separatist violence in which more than 2,100 people have been killed.
The head was found 5 km away at a government school where three bombs were planted at the entrance, police Lieutenant Colonel Yuthakan Plienpoe told Reuters.
“They wanted to trap us with these bombs,” Yuthakan said by telephone. Mobile phone service was switched off in the area to prevent the bombs being set off by phone signals.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) advises more appeasement: World Muslim body backs Thai policy on south.
Because it’s been working so well for the last three years.
BANGKOK, April 30 (Reuters) - The head of the world’s largest body of Islamic nations urged Thailand on Monday to stick to its soft approach to resolving a bloody insurgency in the Muslim-majority far south.
“We are encouraged by the new government’s policy toward the Muslim population,” Ekmeleddin Insanoglu, secretary general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), told reporters.
“We support the measures taken by the government and we hope to cooperate for a better future,” he said after talks with Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram on unrest in which more than 2,100 people have been killed since January 2004.
(from LFG)
Monday, 30 April 2007
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Debate and DVD for DLNU students
Due to the May holiday here in China we will not have Tuesday and Thursday class.
Next Debate: 8 th May; DLNU B401, 6:30pm
Topic- Bodypiercing:a STUD or a DUD
DVD : 10th May
The last part of THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Next Debate: 8 th May; DLNU B401, 6:30pm
Topic- Bodypiercing:a STUD or a DUD
DVD : 10th May
The last part of THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Debate
Due to the holiday there will be no classes during the 1st week in May for the DLNU students.
The next debate will be 8th May 2007.
TOPIC --- Bodypiercing: a STUD or a DUD ?
Here's some info to help with your preparation
The Earlobe Droop: Aging of Pierced Ears and What You Can Do
I remember begging my mother on my tenth birthday to pierce my ears - a wish I wasn`t allowed to have fulfilled until I was twelve. After piercing became a little more mainstream - with people piercing even their baby`s ears - I later decided to have two more sets done. We`re always hearing about what we`ll look like later on with things like piercing, and these warnings, most times are true. Later on in life, some as early as their forties, many women will experience significantly droopy earlobes, and along with every thing else we`re trying desperately to keep from drooping, this is the last thing we need. We`ll tell you how you can enjoy sporting ear jewelry without looking like a Basset Hound later.
An Ounce Of Prevention...
You know the rest... Is better than an ounce of cure. There actually is a cure for droopy ears caused from piercing, but we`ll talk about prevention first for those of us who still have time to heed the warning. The only completely preventative measure to avoid drooping earlobes is to not pierce. Although they aren`t as common as they used to be, clip-on earrings are still made. Most women don`t like them because it`s embarrassing when they fall off, they are generally uncomfortable, and they have to be changed daily, they are an option to consider. The only other preventative measure is to not wear heavy ear jewelry.
Piercing of the ears became all the rage in the 1980`s, about the same time that big hair and big jewelry did. Unfortunately, women that followed the fad of wearing loud statements in their ears are paying for it later in the life of their ears with droopiness and the inability to wear earrings at all because the earlobes are so worn. If your somewhere in the middle-life or your ear piercing, it`s not too late. If you`ve recently pierced, we`ll give the same advice - stick to studs. No, we don`t mean burly, macho men - they won`t do a bit of good for your ears - by studs we mean one-piece earrings, no more than a quarter-inch in width.
When the Damage Is Done
If your particularly sensitive about your droopy earlobes or would really like to be able to wear ear jewelry again, but can`t - there`s always surgical correction. This type of surgery will completely close the earlobe and will require that it be pierced again upon healing. This can be pricey since it is considered cosmetic and most often times will not be covered by health insurance companies, so make sure ear jewelry is really something you miss.
If ear surgery just doesn`t appeal you, there are some new versions of ear jewelry with special posts for older earlobes. These posts supply a wider surface to flatten the back of the ear against the post and prevent pulling from the front of the ear. Although this method of correction has it`s downfalls - posts are rather large and can often be seen from the side view - it`s cheaper than surgery while allowing you to still enjoy wearing ear jewelry.
Related Articles:
Oral Piercings , Piercings - How to Have Them done Safe and How to Remove Them
How piercing lost its cool factor
No, I was fine. In disbelief, he reached for the X-rays and pointed at fuzzy white-and-black spots. The doctor pulled out a model of a mouth, and peeled away its rubber gums to reveal teeth roots and bones. My gum loss, he said, was the least of my problems. An infection was spreading across my jaw line, eating away at my bone and teeth.
I was going to need surgery and fast. He would remove my gums, clean out the infection and give me several injections of fetal pig teeth protein. Hopefully, he said while pointing to the bone loss on the X-ray, he could rid my mouth from disease and encourage new growth.
Hopefully?! He wasn't certain he could get rid of the infection? He hoped this pig stuff would make my bones grow?! He wanted $1,400 and he wasn't positive this would work. Visions of developing a snout and curly tail danced in my head.
I would need at least seven days to recover. I protested. I couldn't take that type of time off school. I booked my appointment for late April. It was only two months away, I reassured myself. How bad could it get?
It was just before St. Patrick's Day when the severe pain took over. My mouth was in anguish. Sharp, fiery pangs shot up my jaw line. I was in constant pain.
I developed a routine. Tylenol 3's at night and Advil Extra-Strength all day let me get through my classes for just over a week. But it was getting worse.
My doctor saw the mess that was quickly taking over my mouth. The infection was spreading, eating at my jaw; I needed surgery now.
The procedure was fuzzy. I was drugged and frozen, but I'm certain I felt every scrape against my jaw bone. I left with a mouth full of thick black stitches, throbbing gums and a bag of drugs.
The next week was an OxyContin-induced haze. Frozen bags of spinach defrosted on my cheeks. Mountains of pills were ingested each day, applesauce became an entrée and sleeping for 16 hours of 24 was the norm.
I won't know if the pig protein worked for some time. But the infection that was tearing away at my bones is gone.
I'm no longer in pain and the stitches are gone, although I still can't use my front teeth, or enjoy a sandwich.
My situation wasn't unique. Dr. Wayne Karp, a Toronto-area periodontist, says that tongue rings can result in gum and tooth damage. Most often, "it's gum recession, but it depends on where the stud is, how your tongue hits your gums and how big the piercing is," he says.
Gum grafts, where a periodontist removes part of a mouth's roof and transplants the gum to the affected area, are much more common. My situation, "doesn't happen frequently, but as you know, it does happen," Karp says.
It turns out that being trendy, can be destructive.
More than 500 bacteria call your mouth home and with more openings for these germs to explore, serious bacterial infections can destroy the supporting bones that hold your teeth in place.
"Contact with the jewellery can cause teeth to crack or chip and your gums to recede," says Ontario Dental Association spokesperson Dr. Janet Tamo. "Once you start peeling away at your gums, it (the piercing) starts hitting at the bones and teeth. Losing a tooth is a lot easier than you think."
I look at women on the subway with fried hair from all the perms, crimping and teasing that was popular in the 1980s, and wonder if there are always negative consequences to trends.
Then I eye my meaningless heart/daisy tattoo. Anyone know a good removal specialist?
Cristina Howorun is a Ryerson
journalism student.
CareFair.com - Oral Piercings
Jim Borowski | by www.carefair.com. All rights reserved.
15.03 | 22:18
If you`re thinking of piercing something around your mouth, you may want to read up a bit. A professional piercer may give you enough instruction for your piercing`s immediate aftercare, but a dentist or physician can tell you the less appealing information. Oral piercing is usually done around the lips, cheeks and tongue.
Generally, people take them out after only a couple of years. While it`s in place, however, the chances of health problems increase greatly. Because the mouth is a passageway for materials to come in and out of the body, it becomes a hotspot for contamination.
With the tongue in particular, if infectious material from the inside of your mouth gets into the fresh hole, it can travel through the bloodstream and cause heart inflammation, blood poisoning or toxic shock syndrome. The tongue is a muscle, unlike the cheeks and lips, and a piercer also has to be very careful not to puncture any important nerves or veins. These conditions make the tongue one of the most dangerous areas for jewelry, and tongue piercing is regulated or banned in some areas.
Common problems following piercing around the mouth include drooling, speech problems, and movement loss. Jewelry can be mistakenly bitten, fracturing or chipping tooth enamel; and frequent rubbing against gum tissue can cause the gums to wear away from the teeth, sometimes exposing roots or bone. Unfortunately, mishaps with oral jewelry are often permanent and require surgery.
And the longer you wear your piercing, the greater your chances will be of having oral damage. If you want an oral piercing, have it done by a reputable, qualified professional. If s/he refuses to pierce a certain area, seriously consider the reasons why before you try to find somebody else to do it.
If your piercer is passing up an opportunity to make money, they probably have a good reason to be concerned. Ask your dentist for an opinion too. The piercing should be reasonably placed, as determined by a professional, and jewelry should be a comfortable size and shape.
Make sure you get a set of instructions for aftercare, and follow them. This means no kissing and no alcohol until it`s healed, among other things. Although the procedure should be done with surgical grade stainless steel, watch for severe inflammation; you might be allergic to the metal in your jewelry.
For the tongue, a shorter length of barbell is preferable to a longer length. The first barbell will be extra long to give room for your tongue to swell a little, so you will need to buy a shorter one after about a week and a half. Avoid playing with your jewelry to minimize contact with tissues and te even tapping it against your enamel can create tiny fractures.
Just like anything else inside the mouth, jewelry will collect plaque and debris. It is necessary to clean it regularly and replace it if your saliva wears out the material. You should periodically take your jewelry out and clean it by hand.
Lastly, if your piercing starts to give you big problems, don`t hesitate to take it out. Keeping a piece of jewelry in is never worth the health of your mouth. A hole can be re-pierced with less pain than a tooth can be replaced.
Although if it doesn`t seem worth the maintenance, you may be better off without the stud in the first place.
All rights for the published information belongs to www.carefair.com
The next debate will be 8th May 2007.
TOPIC --- Bodypiercing: a STUD or a DUD ?
Here's some info to help with your preparation
The Earlobe Droop: Aging of Pierced Ears and What You Can Do
I remember begging my mother on my tenth birthday to pierce my ears - a wish I wasn`t allowed to have fulfilled until I was twelve. After piercing became a little more mainstream - with people piercing even their baby`s ears - I later decided to have two more sets done. We`re always hearing about what we`ll look like later on with things like piercing, and these warnings, most times are true. Later on in life, some as early as their forties, many women will experience significantly droopy earlobes, and along with every thing else we`re trying desperately to keep from drooping, this is the last thing we need. We`ll tell you how you can enjoy sporting ear jewelry without looking like a Basset Hound later.
An Ounce Of Prevention...
You know the rest... Is better than an ounce of cure. There actually is a cure for droopy ears caused from piercing, but we`ll talk about prevention first for those of us who still have time to heed the warning. The only completely preventative measure to avoid drooping earlobes is to not pierce. Although they aren`t as common as they used to be, clip-on earrings are still made. Most women don`t like them because it`s embarrassing when they fall off, they are generally uncomfortable, and they have to be changed daily, they are an option to consider. The only other preventative measure is to not wear heavy ear jewelry.
Piercing of the ears became all the rage in the 1980`s, about the same time that big hair and big jewelry did. Unfortunately, women that followed the fad of wearing loud statements in their ears are paying for it later in the life of their ears with droopiness and the inability to wear earrings at all because the earlobes are so worn. If your somewhere in the middle-life or your ear piercing, it`s not too late. If you`ve recently pierced, we`ll give the same advice - stick to studs. No, we don`t mean burly, macho men - they won`t do a bit of good for your ears - by studs we mean one-piece earrings, no more than a quarter-inch in width.
When the Damage Is Done
If your particularly sensitive about your droopy earlobes or would really like to be able to wear ear jewelry again, but can`t - there`s always surgical correction. This type of surgery will completely close the earlobe and will require that it be pierced again upon healing. This can be pricey since it is considered cosmetic and most often times will not be covered by health insurance companies, so make sure ear jewelry is really something you miss.
If ear surgery just doesn`t appeal you, there are some new versions of ear jewelry with special posts for older earlobes. These posts supply a wider surface to flatten the back of the ear against the post and prevent pulling from the front of the ear. Although this method of correction has it`s downfalls - posts are rather large and can often be seen from the side view - it`s cheaper than surgery while allowing you to still enjoy wearing ear jewelry.
Related Articles:
Oral Piercings , Piercings - How to Have Them done Safe and How to Remove Them
How piercing lost its cool factor
No, I was fine. In disbelief, he reached for the X-rays and pointed at fuzzy white-and-black spots. The doctor pulled out a model of a mouth, and peeled away its rubber gums to reveal teeth roots and bones. My gum loss, he said, was the least of my problems. An infection was spreading across my jaw line, eating away at my bone and teeth.
I was going to need surgery and fast. He would remove my gums, clean out the infection and give me several injections of fetal pig teeth protein. Hopefully, he said while pointing to the bone loss on the X-ray, he could rid my mouth from disease and encourage new growth.
Hopefully?! He wasn't certain he could get rid of the infection? He hoped this pig stuff would make my bones grow?! He wanted $1,400 and he wasn't positive this would work. Visions of developing a snout and curly tail danced in my head.
I would need at least seven days to recover. I protested. I couldn't take that type of time off school. I booked my appointment for late April. It was only two months away, I reassured myself. How bad could it get?
It was just before St. Patrick's Day when the severe pain took over. My mouth was in anguish. Sharp, fiery pangs shot up my jaw line. I was in constant pain.
I developed a routine. Tylenol 3's at night and Advil Extra-Strength all day let me get through my classes for just over a week. But it was getting worse.
My doctor saw the mess that was quickly taking over my mouth. The infection was spreading, eating at my jaw; I needed surgery now.
The procedure was fuzzy. I was drugged and frozen, but I'm certain I felt every scrape against my jaw bone. I left with a mouth full of thick black stitches, throbbing gums and a bag of drugs.
The next week was an OxyContin-induced haze. Frozen bags of spinach defrosted on my cheeks. Mountains of pills were ingested each day, applesauce became an entrée and sleeping for 16 hours of 24 was the norm.
I won't know if the pig protein worked for some time. But the infection that was tearing away at my bones is gone.
I'm no longer in pain and the stitches are gone, although I still can't use my front teeth, or enjoy a sandwich.
My situation wasn't unique. Dr. Wayne Karp, a Toronto-area periodontist, says that tongue rings can result in gum and tooth damage. Most often, "it's gum recession, but it depends on where the stud is, how your tongue hits your gums and how big the piercing is," he says.
Gum grafts, where a periodontist removes part of a mouth's roof and transplants the gum to the affected area, are much more common. My situation, "doesn't happen frequently, but as you know, it does happen," Karp says.
It turns out that being trendy, can be destructive.
More than 500 bacteria call your mouth home and with more openings for these germs to explore, serious bacterial infections can destroy the supporting bones that hold your teeth in place.
"Contact with the jewellery can cause teeth to crack or chip and your gums to recede," says Ontario Dental Association spokesperson Dr. Janet Tamo. "Once you start peeling away at your gums, it (the piercing) starts hitting at the bones and teeth. Losing a tooth is a lot easier than you think."
I look at women on the subway with fried hair from all the perms, crimping and teasing that was popular in the 1980s, and wonder if there are always negative consequences to trends.
Then I eye my meaningless heart/daisy tattoo. Anyone know a good removal specialist?
Cristina Howorun is a Ryerson
journalism student.
CareFair.com - Oral Piercings
Jim Borowski | by www.carefair.com. All rights reserved.
15.03 | 22:18
If you`re thinking of piercing something around your mouth, you may want to read up a bit. A professional piercer may give you enough instruction for your piercing`s immediate aftercare, but a dentist or physician can tell you the less appealing information. Oral piercing is usually done around the lips, cheeks and tongue.
Generally, people take them out after only a couple of years. While it`s in place, however, the chances of health problems increase greatly. Because the mouth is a passageway for materials to come in and out of the body, it becomes a hotspot for contamination.
With the tongue in particular, if infectious material from the inside of your mouth gets into the fresh hole, it can travel through the bloodstream and cause heart inflammation, blood poisoning or toxic shock syndrome. The tongue is a muscle, unlike the cheeks and lips, and a piercer also has to be very careful not to puncture any important nerves or veins. These conditions make the tongue one of the most dangerous areas for jewelry, and tongue piercing is regulated or banned in some areas.
Common problems following piercing around the mouth include drooling, speech problems, and movement loss. Jewelry can be mistakenly bitten, fracturing or chipping tooth enamel; and frequent rubbing against gum tissue can cause the gums to wear away from the teeth, sometimes exposing roots or bone. Unfortunately, mishaps with oral jewelry are often permanent and require surgery.
And the longer you wear your piercing, the greater your chances will be of having oral damage. If you want an oral piercing, have it done by a reputable, qualified professional. If s/he refuses to pierce a certain area, seriously consider the reasons why before you try to find somebody else to do it.
If your piercer is passing up an opportunity to make money, they probably have a good reason to be concerned. Ask your dentist for an opinion too. The piercing should be reasonably placed, as determined by a professional, and jewelry should be a comfortable size and shape.
Make sure you get a set of instructions for aftercare, and follow them. This means no kissing and no alcohol until it`s healed, among other things. Although the procedure should be done with surgical grade stainless steel, watch for severe inflammation; you might be allergic to the metal in your jewelry.
For the tongue, a shorter length of barbell is preferable to a longer length. The first barbell will be extra long to give room for your tongue to swell a little, so you will need to buy a shorter one after about a week and a half. Avoid playing with your jewelry to minimize contact with tissues and te even tapping it against your enamel can create tiny fractures.
Just like anything else inside the mouth, jewelry will collect plaque and debris. It is necessary to clean it regularly and replace it if your saliva wears out the material. You should periodically take your jewelry out and clean it by hand.
Lastly, if your piercing starts to give you big problems, don`t hesitate to take it out. Keeping a piece of jewelry in is never worth the health of your mouth. A hole can be re-pierced with less pain than a tooth can be replaced.
Although if it doesn`t seem worth the maintenance, you may be better off without the stud in the first place.
All rights for the published information belongs to www.carefair.com
Friday, 20 April 2007
info on this week's debate
from the TORONTO STAR (Newspaper)
Are cars better than bikes?
There are a lot of good reasons to ride a bicycle and every one should be able to choose their own personal reason - ride for recreation, ride for health, ride because you can't afford car insurance and gas. However, conservation and developing a more sustained, personal energy supply are very significant issues.
Cars are a Significant Source of Pollution:
Motor vehicles emissions represent 31% of total carbon dioxide, 81% of carbon monoxide and 49% of nitrogen oxides released in the U.S. (The Clean Air Council). A short, four-mile round trip by bicycle keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of the air we breathe (WorldWatch Institute).
Half of all Americans believe that cars, SUVs, pickups, and vans are the primary cause of air pollution in their communities and 65% are concerned about the level of traffic congestion on the roads in their communities. They’re right -- Americans spend on average 75 minutes a day in their car (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, October 2000 Omnibus Household Survey).
Americans Want to Bike More and Drive Less:
Americans want to have the opportunity to bike to work instead of driving, with 40% of those surveyed saying they would commute by bike if safe facilities were available (survey by Rodale, publisher of Bicycle Magazine).
More than one-third (38%) of all Americans feel that the availability of bikeways, walking paths, and sidewalks for getting to work, shopping, and recreation is very important in choosing where to live (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, October 2000 Omnibus Household Survey).
20% of Americans used a bicycle for transportation in the 30 days measured in the Census Bureau Household Survey. Bicycling is the second most preferred form of transportation after the automobile, ahead of public transportation, with 22.3% of those who bicycled did so more than ten of the 30 days (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, October 2000 Omnibus Household Survey).
Cycling Can Make a Significant Difference:
25% of all trips are made within a mile of the home, 40% of all trips are within two miles of the home, and 50% of the working population commutes five miles or less to work (Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey), distances easily and quickly commutable by bicycle, yet more than 82% of trips five miles or less are made by personal motor vehicle.
60% of the pollution created by automobile emissions happens in the first few minutes of operation, before pollution control devices can work effectively. Since "cold starts" create high levels of emissions, shorter car trips are more polluting on a per-mile basis than longer trips.
In the past year, more bicycles than cars have been sold in the US. That hasn't happened since the 1973 oil crisis! "Bicycle sales are near an all-time high with 19 million sold last year [worth five to six billion dollars] -- close to the 20 million sold during the oil embargo in the early 1970s," said Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong, an association based in Boulder, Colorado. "Some 87 million people [in the US] have climbed on a bike in the past 12 months," he adds. ::Bicycle sales boom in US amid rising gas prices,
Last year, in Australia, bicycles outsold cars by 30%. And have outsold cars for the past 5 years. But the majority of sales have been for recreational use, not for commuting or day-to-day transport. Since 1997 bicycle sales have increase about 90%. All according to BikeOz News.
In a working paper entitled “The Environmental Paradox of Bicycling”, Karl Ulrich at the University of Pennslyvania reports that shifting people from their cars to bicycles offers almost no benefit to the environment.
Bicycles do have large first-order environmental benefits over cars as a means of transportation. Ulrich’s analysis considers the case in which a formerly sedentary person begins bicycling 10 km per day, 5 days per week. In this scenario, about one ton of CO2 is spared every year in the form of reduced fuel consumption.
This reduction in fuel use is partially offset by the increased food consumption of a cyclist. Although typically we think of food as carbon neutral — because the plants at the bottom of our food chain regrow after we harvest them — this view overlooks the fact that most of us don’t feed ourselves by hunting and gathering. The energy required to grow, harvest, process, package, and transport food to your nearest Whole Foods significantly outweighs the actual caloric content of your meal, by a factor of almost six. In other words, only about 15% of the energy we consume when we eat is actually in our food. The rest is contained in the fossil fuels used to bring our food to us.
But increased food consumption is a relatively minor effect when compared to the overall gas savings of cycling over driving. The real culprit in Ulrich’s analysis is the increased lifespan of people who ride bikes. Regular exercise helps you live longer, which points to an unsettling fact. One of the single best things you can do for the planet is to limit your time here.
Car Boom can puts countries on the road to a smoggy future.
Cars consume 50 times more oxygen than cyclists per unit distance covered, producing carbon dioxide at a similar ratio. They also have a greater cooling problem, since they explode their fuel combined with air at 2000-2250 [degrees] C,[2] which is over one third of the surface temperature of the sun (6000 [degrees] C).[3] Cyclists operate at only 37 [degrees] C, and from the standpoint of physics are not heat engines but constant temperature energy converters more analogous to fuel cells.[4] But we, too, have to keep cool, and our main system of heat dispersal takes up no extra space and is functionally--if not always socially--most elegant. In short, we evaporate. A London surgeon visiting a patient at Claridge's was delicately reminded of this by the splendidly uniformed man on the hotel door, who said as he took his bicycle: "I'll just walk her up and down a bit until she stops sweating, sir" (J H Lees Ferguson, personal communication).
Certainly large groups of cyclists are blocking motor vehicle traffic. BAD!!
The WTO Gives Bicycles a Push
One of the myths about cars use is that auto dependency is simply an expression of the free market: in fact, automobile use is highly subsidized. As Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute points out, in order to move to sustainable transportation, market reforms are necessary to redress these subsidies.
A good example of this concerns bicycles: even though bicyclists pay their taxes to support road repairs just like car drivers do, they are generally considered second-class users on most north american city streets. And as affordable as they already are when compared to cars, bicycles have simply not been able to compete with cars in the public eye. This is spite of being the most energy-efficient form of transportation ever devised, and the leading "sustainable wonder of the world."
There are signs that this economic imbalance may be changing. Bicycles are now being recognized for their advantages by one the highest economic authorities on Earth: The World Trade Organization is opening discussions on classifying bicyles as an "environmental good" free from tariffs.
One guys says:
We own a car, and we drive it. They’re absolutely the quickest way to get most places. Even though there’s plenty of public transportation here in the Bay Area, there are still plenty of trips that are quicker by car. There are days when I’m tired or in a rush and would *love* to be driving to work rather than doing the walk-BART-walk thing, or biking. I could cut my daily commute from 30-40 minutes each way down to 15-20 minutes (but then I wouldn’t get to enjoy my podcasts, and would lose my only remaining lifeline to excercise).
In Africa, Burundi:
There is not a lot of traffic on the streets, and there are no traffic lights. There is accordingly little air pollution, which is a great relief. However, roads are in poor repair.
If you cycle to Beijing –you need lots of time and food! Cars are just convienent, fast, safe and mobility is much higher than bikes.
Cars are more efficient, cheaper, smaller and more environment friendly. Hybrid-cars are even better.
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Debate topic for DLNU students (26 April 2007)
Are cars better than bikes?
There are 2 teams; more teams can join. If you want to join send me your name and e-mail address and say if you want to debate PRO or CON.
e-mail address: abzee@email.com
DVD for next week: The sound of music
There are 2 teams; more teams can join. If you want to join send me your name and e-mail address and say if you want to debate PRO or CON.
e-mail address: abzee@email.com
DVD for next week: The sound of music
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