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Camera Obscura by Randolph Harris Volume I

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My photography of collection Sacramento, California is the photographic equivalent to the Sears, Roebuck catalog of the day. The word camera is the Latin term for room. And, in fact, by the sixteenth century, a darken room called a camera obscura, was routinely used by photojournalist, to visually display nature accurately.

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The scientific principle employed is essentially the same as that used by the camera today. A small hole, on the outside of a light- tight room admits a ray of light that projects  a scene, upside down, directly across from the hole, onto a semitransparent white scrim. In England, William Henry Fox Talbot presented the process for fixing negative images on paper coated with light sensitive chemical photogenic drawing.

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The greatest motive I had for engaging in my pursuit of photography has been commemorating great architecture, nature, and great events in our country’s revolution. Nobody, except perhaps a Freudian psycho-analyst, could explain why a young boy should fall in love with Greek and Victorian culture.

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I have always loved castles and mansions and history, when I first saw a mansion with secret passage ways, hidden rooms, wood walls, and the French art, of the period, at its highest expression could be seen to absolute perfection, in such a ornate and historical house.

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There were grand staircases, made of mahogany, in the Victorian mansion,  the boiseried rooms, decorated in silver and gold, were quite inconceivable in their loveliness; many of the doors had a wave-like waterfall treatment, which was again echoed in some of the wall-panels, in two shades of gold, or with a greenish silver that gave variety to that more conventional shade of moonlight.

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The rooms were also full of superb furniture of the date, and pictures by Watteau could surely have never found a more congenial environment, and the art glass, vaulted ceilings, and towers, it was a most stimulating and exciting experience, I knew from that very moment I wanted a Victorian mansion, and I give no sign of subsiding.

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These mansions gave an exaggerated view of royal power and the Imperial crown, and on the contrary, the Victorian mansion probably means more now to me than it ever did. Of course, it is also natural that I would like photography, from a trilogy, embracing the history of Royal Palaces of Europe; I got the idea of how I wanted my World to look.

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While the river is a real one, and the details of the architectures and the floods, and droughts and the waning of the steamer trade are historically accurate, the modern aspects of Sacramento take away from the grand design of the city.  We need more free parking lots to draw people down to Sacramento’s Middletown District.

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The beautiful cars parked on the streets takes up valuable space, and the excessive signs and notices are like liter and cheapen the historical accuracy of the town. Their day will come; and in the endless river, the waters of Time shall smooth behind their wake and not a ripple mark their noisy passing.

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Nonetheless, Sacramento, California, USA is examined and has been carefully filled with a fascinating mixture of patriotic, religious, and cultural symbolism. Why is Washington depicted with his arms extended? Who is the woman standing at the left of the picture, and why are the children included?

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The bottom quarter of the picture is crowded with objects and human forms, each of them carefully chosen for what it might contribute to the painting’s overall effect. Identify the, and explain why they are there, finally, why did the veneration of Washington in word and image take place? Photography was invented 38,000 years ago, in Africa (Namibia), in the form of etchings on rocks and art engravings on cave walls.

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However, the most famous of the cave art sites are Lascaux and Grotte Chauvet  (in France) and Altamira (in Spain). In the Lascaux Cave, immense wild bulls dominate what is called the Great Hall of Bulls, and horses, deer, and other animals adorn the walls in black, red, and yellow, drawn with remarkable skill, and dates back to 30,000 years ago.

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Equally impressive, at Altamira, the walls and ceiling of an immense cave are filled with superb portrayals of bison in red and black, the photographer or artist, taking advantage of bulges to give a sense of relief to the paintings.

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On the famous Narmer palette, which is held in the Cairo Museum, a similar scene diptychs the King as a bull trampling an opponent, and the other side of the palette displays prisoners attached to hieroglyphic signs, which dates back to 3500-3300 BC.

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The cave is a treasure of beautiful and exceptional dimensions, whose meaning has been a powerful instigator of both curiosity and malaise, especially among the educated community. And in Ancient Egypt, which is also located in North Africa, the hieroglyphs, on the walls of the pyramids, there are bull palette, which depicts a victorious Queen and her King, in the form of a bull trampling his enemy, while she spreads love on Earth.

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Below are this are plans of two towns with crenellated walls, one of which is very fragmentary and inside the fortified town, two hieroglyphs have been sculpted, which are among the oldest forms of writing by the use of photographs and messages (hieroglyphs). These hieroglyphs give the name of an ancient town. The image of the king, in the form of a bull, was perpetuated throughout Egyptian history.

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Indeed, the Powerful Bull became one of the attributes and ceremonial names of the pharaoh. The Hierakonpolis paintings in the tomb of Prince of Hierakonpolis, that Egyptologists discovered the oldest Egyptian wall paintings. The walls of the tomb are constructed of mud brick covered with plaster.

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The west walls of the tomb, the architect used one side of the low wall, dividing the tomb were decorated with black, red, and white walls photographs   (cave wall art), that stood out from the yellow ochre background. The boats, surrounded by confronting warriors and hunters, are identical to those on terracotta vases and cosmetic palettes.

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The sudden appearances of such monumental language through the use of cave art, the first photographs, were truly starling discovery. Even now that we know their nature, cave art is capable of lighting up the past, like the moon, in the sky, at night with great complexity, producing an eye opening story, this surly heightens our fascination the original photojournalism.

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In 1839, of the nineteenth-century, modern photography was invented, in America, and expanded the delicate visual beauty and imaginative aura of mystery that has always surrounded the Universe. For the first time, Americans could visually see images of people, places, and incidents from far away.

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Photographs, of course, also expand the boundaries of the historian’s and the photographer’s, World, as it obviously attracts the most attention from the devotees and the public, in general. Events are now visible immediately with peak visibility, in the past, often limited to the specific moment only.

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Now people could see how Americans celebrated weddings, birthdays, funerals and lived everyday life, and what their families, houses, and cities looked like. Pictures of election campaigns, parades, strikes, and wars show the texture of public life.

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However, historians and photojournalist can also study photographs, as they do paintings, to glean information about the attitudes, culture, education, and typical behavior of the environment and citizens and the climate and echo system. The choice of a subject, for a photograph, the way in which people and objects are arranged and grouped, and the relationships between people, in photographs, are all clues to the social, political, religious, legal, moral, and family values of the nineteenth-century Americans.

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Some knowledge of the early history of photography helps place the visual evidence in the proper perspective. The earliest type of modern American photograph, the daguerreotype, was not a print, but the negative itself on a sheet of silver-plated copper.

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The first daguerreotype required between 15 and 30 minutes for the proper exposure. This accounts for stiff and formal quality of many of those photographs. Glass ambrotypes (negatives on glass) and tintypes (negatives on gray iron bases), developed after the daguerreotype, were easier and efficient to produce.

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However, all things are best at the beginning, both techniques produced only one picture and required what to us would seem an interminable time for exposure. Every life has its natural burden: it is therefore a blessing for mortals if they can lay all the weight of future days on the beginning of their career, in order to exempt thereby the evening of their journey from the pressure of sorrow.

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Our beginnings show us what our end will be. A major breakthrough came in the 1850s with the development of the wet-plate process; the foundation of my new life was not the superstructure. Nevertheless, in this new phototherapy process, the photographer coated a glass negative with a sensitive solution, exposed the negative (i.e., took the picture), and then quickly developed it.

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Dandyism is an attempt to assert the absolute modernity of beauty. Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The new procedure required a relatively short exposure time, of perhaps five seconds, outdoors, and one minute inside. Action shots, however, were still not feasible.

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Let not them that speak fairest be believed soonest. The entire process tied the photographer to the darkroom. Traveling photographers carried their darkrooms with them. The advantage of the wet-plate process was that it was possible to make many paper prints from one negative, opening new commercial vistas for professional photographers. Reuben Harris, Sr., was a fashionable Washington photographer, realizing that the camera was the eye of history, and asked Lincoln for permission to record the war with his camera.

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He and his team of photographers left about 10,451 glass negatives, currently stored in the Library of Congress and the National Archives, as their record of the Civil War.

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There was a Confederate soldier captured at Gettysburg, the other of the battlefield of Cold Harbor, in Virginia.

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Photographs allow the audience to study and visualize how things are poses, what kind of clothes are fashionable, what type of equipment is being used, what seems to be the physical condition?  Using this photograph as evidence, what might you conclude about the southern soldier—his equipment, uniforms, shoes?

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How well fed do the men in the picture appear? What attitudes are conveyed through their facial expressions and poses? Finally, what kind of mood was the northern photographer trying to create, in the photosphere? What might a northern viewer conclude about the South’s effort to keep peace after looking at this photograph?

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Some of these photographs dated back to April of 1865, about a year after the battle at Cold Harbor. In the background, you can see two Union Soldiers digging graves. In the foreground are the grisly remains of the battle. What do you think is the intent of the photograph?

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The choice of subject matter shows clearly that photographer reveals attitudes as well as facts.  What attitude toward war and death is conveyed in this pictures? Why is the burial taking place a full years after the battle? What does this tell us about the nature of Civil Warfare?

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Notice that the soldiers ordered to undertake this ghastly chore are African American and European American, as was customary. What might this scene suggest about the experience of soldiers in the Union Army? These photographs just begin to suggest what can be discovered from old photographs.

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Your local historical society and library probably have photograph collections available to you. In addition, at home or in a relative’s attic, you may find visual records of your family and its history. Our beginnings are lost in clouds; we live in darkness all our days, and perish without end. The most apprehensive beginnings make the happiest conclusions.

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The intrinsic luminosity and depth, in Randolph Harris’s photography is exceptional. The style should be so effective, that is, it shows feeling. It is curious and carefully highly, finely wrought, and most witty, with many turns and conceits of geometric positioning. For example, those of 302, 1106, 1402, 1680, 1843, 1882, and 1965 got close enough to the Sun to be visible in broad daylight. The photographs display fascinating heavenly images.

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To be, or not to be, I there is the point, to Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all: No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes, for in that dreame of death, when wee awake, and borne before an euer;asting Judge, from whence no passenger euer, retur’nd, the vndiscouered country, at whose sight the happy smile, and the accursed damn’d. The critic can then show, by comparison, how the prior effort has been transformed into a Randolph masterpiece.

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However, if the current view of the most textual critics is correct, the process is the other way around, and the evidence is no evidence for Randolph Harris at work. It is not that prior effort has been transformed by Randolph Harris, however, that Randolph Harris has been mercilessly transformed and corrupted by others.

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For there is fairly general agreement that the photographs are reconstructions from memory of authentic architecture, which existed in his home land; shall I believe that vnsubstantiall death is amorous, and that the leane abhorred monster keeps thee here in the darke to be his paramour?

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For feare of that I still will staie with thee, and never from this pallat of dym night. The visual data that comes from photographs can be turned into information, by the viewer, when they translate the subject and environment. Photojournalist are foremost informational, and cameras record the World around us, and the history of the camera is a technology that is increasingly sophisticated and expertise.

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Photography began with still images and added motion, to the silent moving images was next laced with sound, and called the talkie, which then color was introduced to. And film developed in its audience a taste for live action, with vivid stories, a taste satisfied by live television transmission, video images that allow us to view anything happening in the Universe, as it is happening.

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The questions that historians ask are limited only by their imagination and the historical evidence left behind for them to study. We have seen how historians use different kinds of written evidence, such as household inventories, and Indian treaties, as well as material artifacts like tombstones and house designs.

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They also study visual evidence such as paintings, photographs, and sculpture, for these, too, can provide insight into the life and culture of the past. During the revolutionary era and the early national Victorian period, American artist employed painting and other visual arts to record the great events of the nation’s founding.

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John Trumbull, for instance, secured a commission from Congress, in the early nineteenth century to prepare a series of historical canvasses.

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Grand in conception and scale, the four paintings that he completed—depicting the signing of the declaration of Independence, the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga and Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and Washington resigning his commission, at the end of the war in 1783—now hanging in the rotunda of the nation’s Capital, in Washington D.C. When junkets are proposed, some organizations send reporters only if they can pay the fare and other expenses.

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I pay all the expenses and produce my materials on my own millions. Even on chartered trips, such as accompanying a sports swim team, or hitchhiking on a State Police plane, we insist on being billed for our pro-rata share of the expenses.

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An exception is made by some news organizations for trip they could not possibly arrange on their own, such as covering a two-month coronation,  of the head of Wittelsbach House of Bavaria, Prince Albrect, Duke of Bavaria, being seated at Nymphenburg, the Baroque palace outside Munich.

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Some media organizations address the issue of impropriety by acknowledging favors. Many of my essays have promotional considered provided by companies that are supportive. Moral decision-making is rooted in conscience, which makes it highly individual. Attempts to bring order to moral issues in journalism and the mass media have included codes of ethics.

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These codes identify behaviors that are recognized as ethically troublesome, but because they are generalized statements, the codes cannot anticipate all situations. These is no substitute for human reason and common sense. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

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As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea. The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it.

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While, on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves of this fiat currency and these landlords because your mind program is locked in and determined to be a consumer.

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However, our United States Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effect overcomes. If disastrous war should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it;

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if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay water our fields, still, under a new cultivation, they will grow greener, and stronger to future harvest.

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It were but a trifle if the walls of yonder capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars were to fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley. All these might be rebuilt. However, who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government?

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Who shall rear again the well- proportioned columns of constitutional liberty? Who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites National American sovereignty with the States rights, individual security, and public prosperity?

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No, if these columns fall, they will be raised not again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to a mournful, a melancholy immortality.

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Bitter tears, however, will flow over them, than were ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art; for they will be the remnants of a more glorious edifice then Greece or Rome ever saw—the edifice of Constitutional American Liberty.

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Congress of the United States of America–Periodic Rental Agreement

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Strong minds perceive that justice is the highest of the moral attributes; mercy is only the favorite of the weak ones. Calling sternness justice, he extolled that for strength of mind which was only callous insensibility. Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday, the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, which further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: and as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Many damn-my-eyes humbugs there are in this man-of-war World of ours. The people walk in lines in England and behave with sense and like they have respect for human beings. The greatest merit any person could have is to be good and useful. People have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The judicial power of the United States of American shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by the Citizen or Subjects of any Foreign States.

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States of American, or any place subjected to their jurisdiction.  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The federal apartment complex, at 1820 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, California , USA 95811 is a very important building and location.

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Not only is the property historic, but it is located in a great neighborhood, within feet of the state Capitol; it is for that reason that we must ask you to control the inhabitants at this property—many of them are living in fear of violence because there is a third party Special Interest Group called RAB, and they formed a team of members, for a political committee, with select tenants and the city council and they have dysfunctional monthly meetings where, nothing is accomplished, a lot of the tenants gossip and complain and nothing is done about the high levels of noise, assaults (some sexual), vandalism, trash, and pet noise and smells and the bugs that the dogs bring into the establishment. SRAB is simply perverting the building and making certain tenants feel like they have power over others.  This is not a nursing home or an orphanage, if you cannot

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This is an independent living environment, but SRAB is turning the building into a elementary school like setting.  Adults are encouraged by SRAB to write fictitious and vindictive complaints about their neighbors to get them evicted, they are told to spy on their neighbors to see if they can find anything to report to get them in trouble. Many people are under the impression that this is a normal apartment complex, where one can rent a unit and have peace and privacy. However, after living here for a while, you will notice that many of the residents are out of control, and the things they do are risky and yet they are not removed from the building.

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SRAB forms witch hunts and instructs tenants to draft complaints and take them to the office, instead of being an adult and addressing the situation with the offending individual.  The tenants have no right to privacy. In a regular apartment building, if tenants could not control themselves like adults, they would be evicted. There is none of this running to the office and telling on someone like a child, that is behavior of someone who is immature, and not capable of controlling their own house.  Many managers have left this job because they fear being harmed by the people who living in the building, the inhabitants are always upset and unhappy and looking for someone to fight with, there needs to be a security guard in the building, at all times to prevent any liability to the building’s owner.

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SRAB seems to be a huge part of the problem in this building, at 1820 Capitol Avenue, and it is only getting worst. Your tenancy gives you rights and responsibilities. It is important to stick to the rules and do not break your tenancy agreement. Do not leave your home empty for long periods. In order to keep your tenancy, you must actually live in it and use the property as your main home. Tell your landlord if you are leaving your home for any length of time, for example because if you are going into hospital, serving a custodial sentence, or need to stay elsewhere temporarily to care for a partner or relative. If you do not keep your landlord informed, they might think you have abandoned the property.

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It is also important to ensure that the rent is paid while you are away. Renting out your home, to let someone else live in your home, while you are away, means that your landlord can evict you; as a tenant, you are responsible for: looking after internal decorations, furniture and equipment. This does not include ‘fair wear and tear’ – if the carpet becomes a little thin, it is fair wear and tear, but if you burn a hole in it, you will probably have to pay for the damage. You can be evicted for not using unsafe appliances; you must report any repairs needed or other problems that you are aware of. Minor maintenance (such as checking smoke alarms are working, changing light bulbs, etc). You must take a bath on the regular biases, you should not stink.

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If you cannot control you dogs and stop the barking, all animals will be evicted from the building. There should be nothing sitting on the ledge of your balcony. If a plant pot falls and hits someone in the head, they can sue you and you can be evicted for simply having plants on the ledge of your balcony, as it is a safety hazard. You must continue repairing or replacing anything you have broken or damaged — keep receipts for this, in case there is any dispute at the end of your tenancy. You also must remember to dispose of your rubbish properly, every day, sticking to the terms in your tenancy agreement regarding smoking, pets, parking, gardening etcetera.

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It is as important heating the property adequately, particularly during winter to avoid frozen and burst pipes, and making sure it is kept well ventilated, to help avoid condensation and dampness. Your greatness wants to be justified by lowness. There is something in stooping to justification which the pride of innocence does not at all times willingly submit to. This has to change. There are too many people in the World, who do not want to live in an insane asylum, and that is what you people are making this environment into with all of your evil, stupidity, gossip and rumors. There is talk of a civil rights group being formed to sue SRAB, CBS13, NBC4, the city council of Sacramento, California, Mayor Kevin Johnson, Doris Matsui, D. Surrett, Gale Morgan, and anyone else involved in human rights violations.

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After contacting the Council of Better Business Bureaus, it seems that the Sacramento Resident Advisory Board is nothing more than a group of people, and they have no federal power or control, and should be abolished before they are sued for damages, this organization also has not filed taxes, in years, and it is illegal to run a business out of a housing complex, without a permit. Be responsible for your household and visitors. As well as not breaking any of the terms of your tenancy agreement yourself, you are also responsible for the behaviour of everyone in your household and of anyone staying with or visiting you. You could be held responsible (and possibly evicted) if family members or visitors cause damage or are antisocial, so do not be afraid to take control.

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Ask permission when it is needed. Most tenants have to ask permission from the landlord if they want to: make improvements to the property, sublet or take in a lodger, pass on the tenancy to someone else, run a business from the property. Therefore, check to see what your tenancy agreement says about these ideas you have. Depending on the type of tenancy you have, the landlord may have the right to refuse. It may also say that you need to ask permission for other things, such as keeping a pet, smoking or parking a caravan on the property.

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The right of a man to maintenance at the nation’s table depends on the fact that he is a man, and not on the account of health and strength he may have. Sometimes, a court may order the landlord to take specific action to stop unlawful discrimination. You may be able to hire a private attorney to take legal action against a landlord who has discriminated against you. A landlord must allow a tenant with a disability to make reasonable modifications to the rental unit to the extent necessary to allow the tenant “full enjoyment of the premises.”  The tenant must pay for the modifications. As a tenant, you must take reasonable care of your rental unit and any common areas that you use. You must also repair all damage that you cause, or that is caused by anyone for whom you are responsible, such as your family, guests, or pets. You need to let people know what this is before you entrap them and they are stuck here, this is not a big house, not a hospital, and we are not family. This is an apartment for healthy, independent adults.

Citizen of the World Has No Habits

 

How hell should become by degrees so natural, and not only tolerable but even agreeable, is a thing unintelligible but by those who have experienced it. Perhaps it is instinctive trait of more of us to seek an explanation for any great happiness as we are always prone to discuss the causes of our adversity. No mockery in this World ever sounds so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Self-approbation is the highest honor, and the highest happiness, of a reasonable being. When it comes to accounting, we can draw a parallel with happiness. Happiness is an inventory cost flow, and it may b a perpetual state of mind for some. Under the First-In, First-Out (FIFO), the cost of happiness, on hand prior to an outside stimulus, is charged to your mind program. You have to want to be happy, in other words. Therefore, the cost of an pleasurable experience, on 10 November 2014, consists of your predisposition to be reasonable and how much you want to experience peace, today and the following days. Look at it this way, the ending inventory in this situation is $5,800.00 and the cost of being happy is $6,200.00, so you need to start off your day by doing something to make up for the $400.00 deficit you will experience in your happiness.

 So, if you know this day is going to be a challenge, do not sleep in, wake up and do something that brings you great joy, that way you are prepare for any unexpected issues, during your day or night.  Happiness in a perpetual system will usually produce cost allocations that differ from the average person. Most people are looking to take out their problems on others, but your system is set up different. Your system is one of independence, accountability, joy, success and hard work. You are like a shiny new car, just out to show everyone how safe and reliable and how well you work. Others are looking to distract from the short comings by targeting you. However, never accept victim status. Just remember, it is not from nature, but from education and habit, that our wants are chiefly derived. You keep on being happy and work hard and your joy will uplift everyone around you, and others will want to learn how to be happy and will want to get to know you so that joy will rub off on them. For example, today, I had to deal with someone really negative, which is nothing new. And I was not looking forward to another repetitive day, but I got through it, then went for a walk in the park and saw all these beautiful colors in the trees, the happy people, couples sneaking a kiss, when they think no one is looking–it is truly like a movie set.

 View life as a movie and know that at any moment, someone could be watching you. This will make sure you keep honest, and really, you may be under surveillance (cameras everywhere). Not that you are being spied on, but it is for public safety. For some, a large income is the best recipe for happiness. However, we want to focus on moving the average method. Under this new method, happiness is computed by how many pleasurable experiences you have, and the goal is to make every situation pleasant. The new average cost of happiness, at this point, is zero. You should know how to guard your mind program against intruders or malware (dysfunctional people). The amount of happiness you project determines how you are feeling inside. The average cost is then applied to your personality, this determines how much happiness is costing you. If it is too painful to be nice, and feels better to be nasty and mean, then you are internally not a happy person because the remaining units of happiness on hand, determines your ending inventory amount of pleasure. All kinds of social engineering and cultural values, personal and social preferences, and attitudes go into your feelings. Many people get confused or fearful over the many conflicting value judgments attached to happiness. You need to be healthy, open and honest. Otherwise, you will never really be happy and will cling to people and material objects, as a power source, for your happiness and you will become a codependent leech. Just sucking the love and joy out of any room you enter, and this vibe will travel with you.

 You need to make certain that you and your own children evolve beneficially and have appreciative attitudes about your own bodies and sexuality. Joy. Pleasure, joy, and happiness all involve a sense of well-being, a sense of being stable, and having good feelings toward yourselves and others. And I know life can be hard and unfair, but force yourself to be happy, even if you have lie. When people ask you how you are doing, smile and say, wonderful. Then think about something nice you saw and share it. When you have been in the dumps, it may take you a decade to truly become the happy person you are. The longer you stay on the program, the less anger and flare ups you will have, and then people will see that your mind program have virus protection running and malware cannot derail your mind program and the craziness will fade away. There are enough serious, sad, tragic, and fearful experiences in life for all of us, so be a blessing to those around you, not a cruse. Joy, pride, in achievement, and warmth are feelings that deserve their place in the Sun, more so than pain, grief and anger. However, feeling good will take some practice, but you can do it. Self-approbation is the highest honor, and the highest happiness, of a reasonable being.

 

A New Life, a Way to be Free

America is facing an $18 Trillion deficit. California has a choice: wait for contagion to make its own dysfunction seem less abnormal, like for example, how Sacramento, California recently started construction on an arena, which will hold 20,000 people, but will have no parking, instead of realizing that this is a problem and will cause havoc on our infrastructure, leaders will just wait until the problem erupts, like a hot geyser of coolant leaking from your expensive car on a sunny day. That is what Californians do, in their economic and social lives, they allow situations to decay and become chaotic, this is the new design, the new show, the future of America.

Creating a fully representative and accountable legislature requires law makers to be carefully watched because the public does not trust them. California already spends $40 Billion a year on K-14 education, that is nearly half of the budget for the state and it does not seem to be helping as unemployment is 12.5 percent. This is causing the state to have to make cuts to health programs and parks and local governments. California has a long list of problems, from schools, health care, transportation, infrastructure, taxes, government, journalism, spending and pensions that need to be fixed, but there is no clear consensus on what to do about the. Everyone knows what is wrong, but no one can decide what is right, reports Phil Isenberg, a former Democratic legislative leader and Sacramento Mayor.

The trouble, for the State of California, is that the extreme frustration has not produced any sense of common purpose. California will never be fixed because politicians are paid and are not regular people, who care about the history and economics. Many of us have to walk these streets everyday, and we see the madness. The crazy people walking the streets begging for money, issuing insults, or talking loudly. We see these young men trying to find gainful employment and housing, but are discriminated against, but the leaders are not seeing this because they all live in big mansions and do not interacting with the public. We are so close to the problem that we can fix it, but our leaders are appointed and not hired, which is the problem. We should be able to hire and fire our leaders, much like in the private sector.

No matter if we are under the rule of Pat Brown or his son Jerry Brown, we see them both producing the same government paralysis that bests California. The problem is that California has more than 40 million inhabitants,and has outgrown its inherited slap knee political institutions, from its legislatures to its elections system. Jerry Brown suffers from a deep political schizophrenia. This is why we try to facilitate change by identifying how Governor Brown reinforces oppressive ways of thinking about people. Historically, racial hierarchies often involve segregation of hierarchically inferior groups, who are separated from the rest of society and forced to live with inadequate resources and few opportunities. The Black population, in California, is generally segregated from the more affluent White population and forced into inadequate living condition with inadequate schooling.

The segregated group is like a pack of hyenas, they represent that stereotypes of the African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, Mexican Americas, uneducated Whites, immigrants, and all the low income individuals. These people are seen as fear and hated because they are outsiders, whom the mainstream media and culture is fighting to keep out. The life of this political body stands on the hyenas staying outside the lush Pridelands, colleges, careers and so on. As long as you can keep them all doped up, on welfare, and make them fight each other, the special interest groups will win and turn everyone into slaves. So look deeper into the factors that make California unique. This century, the flood of immigrants, to the state of California, from all corners of the nation and Earth, have turned California into a society of unrivaled human variety.

Throughout history, huge majorities of Californians were born somewhere else. Transplants from the rest of the country and from around the World would arrive so fast that by the time anyone paid their taxes, the government was recalling refund checks to carry the burden on the system, making California a larger, and more in debt state. These new arrivals, in turn, warped California’s political talk, and caused tax payers and law abiding citizens to be marked by anxious narratives and worries about the economic climate and jobs. California needs to do a better job of educating its own. It will have to build its own new businesses, and it will need to be a place governed well enough to retain its children, so that they become employers and parents and taxpayers. California must find some way to govern itself, because, for the first time, Californians must save themselves.

These three conflicting system must be integrated into one system that is responsive to voters and makes clear who is responsible when things go wrong. The state’s initiative process must be redesigned as a tool to put direct and democratic pressure on elected officials, rather than as a method for circumventing them recklessly. Jerry Brown and all these other political dictators need to become more representative and responsive, so the shackles are no longer needed. The worst problems are jobs, infrastructure, prisons, and water. We need people who are going to give California and the people the homegrown generation, that will provide the state with love and concern and enough medicine to have a successful chance.

Th public has lost confidence in Jerry Brown, Kevin Johnson and Doris Matsui, as none of them had reviewed the United States Constitution from the beginning to the end. The State’s would-be leaders rarely have bothered to check their work. They are too busy bending the rules for the gender benders, or playing basketball, or smoking opium, and it is not long before the $450 Billion sports arena, with no parking fails, and the popular anger spasms, and another wave of changes comes. Five such waves have crashed into the River City, first came Jerry Brown changing laws to let boys use the girls bathroom, Kevin Johnson with the pricey arena, Doris Matsui with the court house named after her dead husband, the homeless harassing and stalking people, and the wild racist population.

If no one is going to read it, it is dangerous to place the users manual for the system in a Constitution. Mayor Johnson reported to a Sacramento crowd that, “I am aware too that the initiative may have been as you would have preferred it should not be used. But I beg you ever to remember that there may again come a time in our state when our old political masters would fasten upon us the old political yoke, and if that time ever again comes, in the State of California, the most powerful weapons that you will have for your defense and the perpetuity of what you hold most dear politically, will be the initiative, the referendum and the recall. And so do not condemn a system fraught with such political possibilities for you because in exceptional instances it may have been used in a fashion with which you disagree.” I am rather fearful that our people are sick of campaigns and probably sick of the campaigner.

Assault or Battery

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General Information
Incident Type Assault or Battery
Tracking Number T14020722
Report Date 10/29/2014 06:46 PM
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Reporting Person Information
Name Harris, Randolph
Home Address
Home Phone
Email randolphharris3508@aol.com
Race UNKNOWN
Ethnicity MIXED RACE
Resident Status CITY OF SACRAMENTO RESIDENT
Sex Male
DOB
Driver License No
Licensing State CA
Eye Color BROWN
Hair Color RED OR AUBURN
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Incident Information
Incident Location 19th Street, SACRAMENTO, CA 95811
Incident Time (start) 10/29/2014 06:25 PM
Incident Time (end) 10/29/2014 06:30 PM
Location Type BANKS / SAVINGS & LOAN
Weapon Type PERSONAL WEAPONS (HANDS FIST/FEET)
Injuries Bruises on my neck
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Narrative
Incident Description This lady, called Betty, who lives at 1820 Captiol Ave, Apt.604, Sacramento, California asked for a ride to the store, when she got in my car she asked me to take her somewhere else, and I told her that I could not. She got upset and called me names and would not shut up, and after a while, I called her a bitch and told her to get out of my car, and then Betty put both of her hands around my neck, while I was driving south down 19th street and choked me. I was able to pull over and get her out of my car. I am willing to prosecute.
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Capitol Improvement Project — Renderings and Reality

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No one was born into this World without a real mind. My empire is of the imagination. A Bank Director, reputed to be able to buy up anything–human nature generally, if he should take it in his head to influence the money market in that direction. When in comes to architecture, there is a rendering farm–a bank of computers that transform the raw data pixel by pixel into a finished product, which is hyper realistic, and speaks to the projects goals and the audience. The relatively slight attention given to human nature appears so richly endowed with colors, and textures, and shapes, and is so splendidly organized that it is equipped for joy.

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Story-telling techniques are an important part of photojournalism, the images and words draws the audience deeper into the sales pitch. Photographers and architects have it within their power to reflect, to weigh, and to appreciate before one acts. The project manager wants to see happy families shopping at farmers markets, in Autumn, and the museums, in the Winter.

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Most, if not all human character, frequently can  be traced back to impression made at so early a period, that none but discerning eyes would ever suspect their existence. The vantage point, the color palette, the time of day, even the ages of the people, are all chosen to make the building more appealing to the masses.

 

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However, when architects want to attract-high brow clients, they pull out the special operations team. Instead of using natural families, they create families that are picture perfect and the architects occasionally revises their plans, after the rendering shows how the building looks, from various perspectives.

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One kind of steel or glass may look different in the dim light, than it does in the Summer Sun–mind and matter glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Once a rendering is made publically, developers had better stick to it.

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Sometimes renderings use richer colors, wealthier, ornate details, more depth in the façade, and higher quality materials. Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of sharks, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

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The Sacramento Housing Redevelopment Authority was granted $5,000,000.00 to give a particular building a facelift, and Mayor Kevin wanted realistic expectations, which would create a very romantic and historical cinematic dream of what it is like to be here, in Sacramento, California, USA, but did not want to go too far from reality. It is too often assumed that a person’s fancy is a person’s real mind. Let us not imagine evils which we do not feel, nor injure life by misrepresentations.

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This building is not only supposed to represent the city, and state, but also the entire country, and they want it to be the jewel of the block. A pricey penthouse condo, atop the tree tops of the building, should emphasize its sweeping views, of the city below. Unlike a common housing development, which is bright and packed with people, we wanted to give this building a high-end professional setting.

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. The images are devoid of people because the artist and architects and neighbors and business owners want wealthy condo shoppers to imagine themselves living in the penthouse, and having a people in the images might be a distraction.

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Architects make a very structural photograph, so they select models to be the stars of the photos, highlighting the objects, and offering you, the audience a moment at which the heart occupies the mind, and introspection and persuasion strides over mountains like a fairy tale to distract you from the harsh reality of others.

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Instead of describing how beautiful Sacramento, California and the landscape and architecture are, or what the sun changing angles looks like from the penthouse, I do not have to say a word, I can show you.

Compression Fractures of the Back

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Compression fractures of the back

Compression fractures of the back are broken vertebrae. Vertabrae are the bones of the spine.

Osteoporosis is the most common cause of this type of fracture. Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile. Usually, the bone loses calcium and other minerals.

  • Trauma to the back
  • Tumors that started in the bone or spread to the bone from elsewhere
  • Tumors that start in the spine, such as multiple myeloma

Having many fractures of the vertabrae can lead to kyphosis. This is a hump-like curvature of the spine.

Symptoms

Compression fractures can occur suddenly. This can cause severe back pain.

  • The pain is most commonly felt in the middle or lower spine. It can also be felt on the sides or in the front of the spine.
  • The pain is sharp and ” knife-like.” Pain can be disabling, and take weeks to months to go away.

Compression fractures due to osteoporosis may cause no symptoms at first. Often, they are discovered when x-rays of the spine are done for other reasons. Over time, the following symptoms may occur:

  • Back pain that starts slowly, which gets worse with walking, but is not felt when resting
  • Loss of height, as much as 6 inches over time
  • Stooped-over posture, or kyphosis, also called a dowager’s hump

Pressure on the spinal cord from hunched over posture can, in rare cases, cause:

Exams and Tests

Your doctor will perform a physical exam. This may show:

  • A humpback, or kyphosis
  • Tenderness over the affected spinal bone or bones

A spine x-ray shows at least one compressed vertebra that is shorter than the other vertebrae.

Other tests that may be done:

  • A bone density test to evaluate for osteoporosis
  • A CT or MRI scan if there is concern that the fracture was caused by a tumor or severe trauma (such as a fall or car accident)

Treatment

Most compression fractures are seen in older people with osteoporosis. These fractures often do not cause injury to the spinal cord. The condition is usually treated with medicines and calcium supplements to prevent further fractures.

Pain may be treated with:

  • Pain medicine
  • Bed rest

Other treatments may include:

  • Back braces, but these may further weaken the bones and increase the risk of more fractures
  • Physical therapy to improve movement and strength around the spine
  • A medicine called calcitonin to help relieve bone pain

Surgery may be done if you have severe and disabling pain for more than 2 months that does not get better with other treatments. Surgery can include:

Other surgery may be done to remove bone if the fracture is due to a tumor.

And after surgery:

  • A brace for 6 to 10 weeks if the fracture was due to an injury
  • More surgery to join spine bones together or to relieve pressure on a nerve

Outlook (Prognosis)

Most compression fractures due to injury heal in 8 to 10 weeks with rest, wearing of a brace, and pain medicines. However, recovery can take much longer if surgery was done.**

Fractures due to osteoporosis often become less painful with rest and pain medicines. Some fractures, though, can lead to long-term (chronic) pain and disability.

Medicines to treat osteoporosis can help prevent future fractures. However, medicines cannot reverse damage that has already occurred.

For compression fractures caused by tumors, the outcome depends on the type of tumor involved. Tumors that involve the spine include:

  • Breast cancer
  • Lung cancer
  • Lymphoma
  • Prostate cancer

Possible Complications

Complications may include:

  • Failure of the bones to fuse after surgery
  • Humpback
  • Spinal cord or nerve root compression

When to Contact a Medical Professional

Call your health care provider if:

  • You have back pain and you think you may have a compression fracture.
  • You symptoms are getting worse, or you have problems controlling your bladder and bowel function.

Prevention

Treating and preventing osteoporosis is the most effective way to prevent these fractures.

Alternative Names

Vertebral compression fractures

Breast Cancer Awareness

 

Nearly 40,000 women die of breast cancer every year; and an estimated 6,000 women, in their 40s, unnecessarily die from breast cancer. An estimated 1 percent of women and 1 percent of men will develop breast cancer in their life time. As a result, women in their 40s should have a mammogram every years, reports the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. Breasts are not part of the internal or external female genitalia. Instead, they are secondary sex characteristics (physical characteristics other than genitals that distinguish male from female). In physically mature women, the breasts are composed internally of fatty tissue and mammary, or milk, glands. There is little variation from woman to woman, in the amount of glandular tissue present in the breast, despite differences in size. This is why the amount of milk produced after childbirth does not correlate to the size of the breasts. Variation in breast size is due primarily to the amount of fatty tissue distributed around the gland. Breasts are a multitude of size and shapes, and it is common for one breast to be slightly larger than the other. Surgeries to enlarge or reduce breast size reflect the dissatisfaction many women or their spouse feel because the woman’s breast do not fit the cultural idea, as some believe that cleavage is in style. Many women like to have their breast well-displayed, in danger of busting out of their designer gowns. Breast augmentation practices may or may not be on the rise, data indicates that women are becoming more satisfied with their natural bodies. Not all women are meant to have huge or even moderate breast, some women are very petite, and that is normal. Likewise, there is nothing wrong with having huge or moderate breast.

The nipple is in the center of the areola, the darker area of the external breast. The areola contains sebaceous (oil producing) glands that help lubricate the nipples during breast-feeding. The openings of the mammary glands are in the nipples. Some nipples point outward from the breast, others are flush with the breast, and still others sink into the breast. The nipples become erect when small muscles at the base of the nipple contract in response to touch, sexual arousal or cold. Breast and nipple stimulation may be an important part of self-healthcare for women. Some women find breast and nipple touching neutral or unpleasant. However, others believe nipple and breast stimulation are an important source of pleasure and arousal during self-love or sexual interaction, as it builds the passion and sexual intensity that leads to a climax. A monthly breast examination is an important part of self-health care for women. This exam can help a woman know what is normal for her own breasts. She can do the breast exam herself and can teacher her partner to do it. However, many breasts normally feel lumpy, once a woman becomes familiar with her breasts, she can notice any alarming changes. If there is a change, it is recommended that one consults a medical doctor.

Nonetheless, this is reassuring, 90 percent of breast lumps, most of which are found by women, are not malignant. In addition, women should also have a mammography, which is a highly sensitive X – ray screening test to help detect cancerous breast cells and lumps. It uses low levels of radiation to create an image of the breast, called a mammogram, on film or paper. Mammography can often detect a breast lump up to several years before you can feel it manually; it can also sometimes find cancerous cell changes that occur even before a lump develops. You take such good care of your job, car and house, so be sure to perform the necessary maintenance on your body, when you are 40, that are when you should start having your mammograms, but if you are 50 or older, it is still not too late. With earlier detection of cancer, there is a dramatic decrease in mortality and a huge increase in breast-conserving treatments. The mammographic image also provides information about the type of tumor and the kinds of treatment needed. And lesbians need to pay special attention to their breasts because they tend to be screened less often than heterosexual women because they typically do not have birth control medical appointments.

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 Three types of breast lumps can occur. The two most common are cysts, which are fluid-filled sacs; and fiboradenomas, which are solid, rounded tumors. Both are benign (not cancerous or harmful) tumors, and together they account approximately 80 percent of breast lumps. In some women, these lumps can create breast tenderness, ranging from mild to severe discomfort, which is called fibrocystic disease. The cause of fibrocystic disease is unknown, but believed to be hormonal related. Caffeine in coffee, tea, cola drinks, and chocolate may contribute to the development of benign breast lumps. Dietary changes that have helped some women reduce their symptoms include a diet high in green vegetables, milk, water, fruit, fish, chicken, and grains, and low in red meat, pork, fired foods, salt, processed foods, and avoid foods high in fats. Vitamin supplements of 600 units of vitamin E and vitamin B complex in 110-mg daily doses have also helped some women. And there is a third type of lump, which is known as a malignant lump or tumor (made up of cancer cells). In 2014, approximately 232,670 new cases, of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed, in women, in the United States, along with 62,570 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. That is a huge increase because back 2002, there were a reported 180,000 cases, so perhaps women are being more proactive about their healthcare. (Men can also get breast cancer, but it is very rare, only 1 percent of men ever actually suffer from the disease.) The risk of breast cancer rises with age; however, women in their 20 and 30s can still be hit with aggressive breast cancers with a high mortality rate. However, the good news is that since the 1950s, the number of deaths, from breast cancer, is steadily declining because of early detection.

Unfortunately, the five-year survival rate is lower for African American women than it is for European American women. Only 50 percent of African American women, diagnosed with breast cancers have early-stage and more treatable tumors compared to 62 percent of European American women. Hispanic women, on average, also have lager tumors, at diagnosis then European American women. Socioeconomic characteristics leading to differences in preventative health care probably account for the differences, especially in light of research that show physicians are less likely to refer women of lower incomes for mammograms, but the affordable health care act has granted everyone access to quality medical care, saving countless lives and preventing the spread of cancer. Certain risk factors increase a woman’s chance for breast cancer. Women who have lifetime cumulative estrogen exposure, menstruation before the age of 13, no pregnancies, first child after the age of 30 and subsequent children later in life, never breast fed a child, menopause after the age of 55, obesity, intact ovaries, family history of breast cancer, cancer in one breast, sedentary lifestyle, more than 14 alcoholic drinks a week and a high fat diet will greatly increase chances of having breast cancer. Exposure to environmental pollution, pesticides, chemicals, and radiation is a marginal cause of breast cancer, which is not really researched, but a contributing factor. Growing evidence indicates that some synthetic chemicals found in plastics, detergents, and pharmaceutical drugs mimic estrogen’s effects on the body and can cause cells to grow out of control and form tumors. Can we get an Ice Bucket challenge to bring more attention to breast cancer and spinal bifida?

Meanwhile, if a lump in found in your breast, further testing is necessary. I know a cancer scare might make you feel uneasy, but we have such great medical technology, and most problems can be corrected. Needle aspiration involves inserting a fine needle into the lump to determine if there is fluid inside. If so, it is usually a cyst and can be drained. Conversely, if not a cyst, a surgical biopsy of the tissue of any lump can be analyzed for cancer cells. This is reassuring, 75 percent of breast lump biopsies are negative for cancer. There is also a possible association between breast implants and a form of lymphoma that may develop tumors at a later stage. The researchers conclude that breast implants can cause a new subtype of the rare, yet malignant lymphoma known as Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL). Nearly, 147,000 women in the United States of America and Canada receive breast implants, and many ill have complications. Worldwide there have been 71 documented cases of patients with anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) in which researchers suspected breast implants to be the cause. ALCL is normally found in the lymph nodes, as well as in skin, lung, liver and soft tissue, but not usually in the breast. Cases in which ALCL developed in the breast region almost exclusively involved patients who have had breast surgery.

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 In these cases, ALCL developed around ten years after the operation. The tumors grew in the scar tissue around the implant. Even if implants do not cause cancer, 73 percent of women with saline implants experienced side effects and 27 percent of women had their implants removed within three years because of an infection, a broken or leaking implant, or painful scar tissue. In general, on any woman or in some rare cases men, once breast cancer is detected, several forms of treatment may be used and others are being developed. Radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, lumpectomy (only the lump and small amounts of the surrounding tissue removed), mastectomy (surgical removal of all or part of the breast), or a combination of these procedures may be performed. In some cases, chemotherapy may be the first intervention used, in the hopes of reducing the tumor to allow more conservative surgery. With mastectomy, the amount of the breast and surrounding tissue that is removed by surgery varies from radical mastectomy (the entire breast, underlying muscle, and lymph nodes are removed) to simple mastectomy (breast tissue, the nipple and areola, and a sample of lymph nodes are removed) to lumpectomy. If the cancer is small, localized, and in an early stage, a lumpectomy with chemotherapy or radiation may provide as good a change of cure as a mastectomy. Breast-conserving surgeries have become a more common intervention in the last ten years.

 The loss of one or both breast is usually very signification and devastating to women, they are losing parts of their body they came to know and love and have grown up with (and to think, some women hide their breast to appear more rugged, and do not realize how grateful they are to be healthy women). Breast symbolizes many aspects of femininity and can be an important aspect of self-image. One journalist, who had a mastectomy, describes the many meanings her breasts symbolized during her life. “I remember the joy and power I felt as a young woman, I always enjoyed my breast, they were petite, but I was sexy and everyone knew it, they loved my legs, eyes, lips, hair, waists, and I was proud of my small breast because there was so much more to me. Even though my breasts were not as large as Tyra Bank’s or Pam Anderson, men still appreciated them. I even wanted them to be noticed under my sweaters, so I would wear shirts and dressed to display what I had, clothes that made me feel good as a woman. What pleasure I had nursing my children, rocking and being suckled by their small mouths, while their small hands patted my breast.” For this woman, she really enjoyed her breast, they were not only ornaments, but provided food for her children and helped her bond to her babies. (Some doctors recommend after about three months, putting children on formula like Gerber Rice Cereal because it has lots of vitamins and will help your baby stay well balanced. Also, breast feeding too long may cause breasts to sage, and it could expose your baby to hormones or chemicals in your system, which the baby may not need).

Furthermore, breast cancer and its treatments may adversely affect a woman’s sexuality. Women should not have to parade around like Lady Godiva to get you to understand that they are humans and have feelings, too. The stimulation of a woman’s breast, during love making, by massaging, licking or sucking—and the stimulation her partner receives from doing these things and from simply looking at her breasts—are often important components of sexual arousal, for both women and her partner; consequently, surgical removal of one or both breasts may create challenges in sexual adjustment for the couple. And some men might question why some women choose not to have implants after having their breasts removed, but it is not as simple as changing the tires on your car, the process and procedures are very emotional; for a man, it would like cutting your genitals off, and replacing them with something synthetic, might be appealing to some, but may not be something others want to experience. A mastectomy presents unique issues, for a woman, who is not in a long-term relationship. She may have difficulty deciding when to tell someone she is dating about her surgery. Her own feelings of acceptance and her judgment about timing are also important. In addition, she needs to understand that her partner will require some time to adjust to the information about her mastectomy. Still, it may help her to keep in mind that a loving relationship is based on more than just physical characteristics. Here is a fact that I want to leave you with, Aaliyah an American entertainer, was a member of American Cancer Society and advocate for Breast Cancer research because her aunt and grandmother had Breast cancer.

 

Randolph “Randy” Harris, JR.

 

Cosumnes River College 
AA, General Education and World Cultures

University of Guelph
BA, Economics

Brigham Young University
MPA, Finance and Public Administration

 

Randolph Harris is a thoroughly professional individual with over twenty years of highly specialized search experience. No one can tell if he is better at writing about life of living it. Randolph Harris is a journalist, with scientific detachment; he is the kind of writer journalist, who is open to possibilities, as his writing, photographs, and videos show, he established himself as a man truthfully and courageously, and Randolph Harris has excelled talent for going anywhere and making himself acceptable in any company.

 

As a young professional, Randolph Harris relies in interpersonal, technical, administrative, conceptual and decision making to maintain a high level of quality. Randolph’s mission is for Harris Research and Development, NC to be the the most successful media empire in the World, at delivering the best information, photographs, videos and music experience, in the market we serve. Randolph Harris will meet citizens expectations by informative documents, photographs and visual displays, as well as critical, but supportive feed back. He focuses on the recruitment of executive-level professionals across all industry sectors including: Financial Services, Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Retail and Engineering. Randy Harris has a proven track record of servicing both public and private client companies, in all functional areas of business including: Financial, Operational, and Sales and Marketing; within a diverse client group. Randolph Harris has experience working with Fortune 100 companies, small to medium sized, independent companies, as well as start-up businesses. Randy Harris also helps companies build superior leadership teams – teams that enable profitability and create a sustainable management and staff by monitoring a firm’s progress toward meeting its organizational goals and objectives, resetting the course of goals or objectives change in response to shifting conditions, and correcting deviations if goals or objectives are not being attained.

 Prior to starting his own firm, Randy was employed by a large multi-disciplinary recruitment firm, where he was promoted to Senior Manager within a two-year period, in two distinctly different marketplaces: Accounting/Finance and Sales/Marketing. Planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. By making decisions related to a product’s characteristics, price, production specifications, market-entry date, distribution, promotion and sale. By understanding and satisfying to the customers’ need and buying behavior to encourage customer purchases, in addition to maintaining long-term relationships with customers after the sale. While developing a market strategy, which covers segmenting our marketing, with our coveted audience, and position the product, and creating an external environment that displays our strengths represented by an upward shift on the demand curve. Prior to entering the recruitment industry, Randy Harris held entrepreneurial roles in the hospitality and entertainment industry. Working at Buckthorns European Cafe and Golden 1 Credit Union, and attending University in Beijing, China, while traveling to Shanghai, Xiian, Hangzhou. Randy Harris was one of the first employees of a foreign bank subsidiary hired with specific responsibility to assist in the creation of consumer promotions, support financial market and foreign exchange operations, in advance of the entity becoming an International Chartered Bank. Formerly a little league baseball coach, Randy Harris now devotes his spare time managing his teacher training section of Harris Research and Development Technical Correspondence University. He has presented seminars to English as a Second Language (ESL) groups to assist immigrants in improving their job interviewing skill sets. Randy graduated from Cosumnes River College with an AA and University of Guelph with a degree in Economics.

 

 

 

Every Child Matters—Child Abuse is Preventable

People, who are long before they see a thing, when once it strikes them, see it in the strongest light. All knowledge is dangerous. It matters not that law prohibits teaching [slaves] to read. Oral instruction is as dangerous as written and the catechism is nothing but a Bible in disguise. He fell down the stairs. I am sorry I did not mean to blow up, you know how it is, you come home and you did not have a good day at work and then things are not going as expected when you get home. He just wanted to spank the baby, he is alright, isn’t he? We did not plan for the baby. He was an accident. You see, Andy caused all of the trouble, we just did not want him. I tried to keep it quiet, like before he was born, so everything would go back to normal. You know how it is when someone accuses you of hurting your baby, your skin begins to crawl and you want to cry. Sometimes you do not know you are hurting someone when you hit them. Often times, unexpected babies get in the way of adult’s junior high school fantasy. As much as we would like to believe otherwise, child abuse is wide spread and can even start before the baby is born. From 5 percent to 20 percent of children are physically abused by parents. Even if the lower figures are taken into consideration, that would mean about 17 million children abused each year, in the United States of America. And in 33 percent of all cases the child is seriously injured. Even more frightening, thousands of children are killed by their parents, 1,640 children died from abuse and neglect last year.

Child abuse is physical or emotional harm caused by violence, mistreatment or neglect. Typically, abusive parents have high levels of stress and frustration in their lives. Common problems include depression, loneliness, mental impairment, marital discord, unemployment, drug abuse, divorce, family violence, heavy drinking, and work anxieties. Some parents are aware that they are mistreating their child, but are unable to stop. Others abusive parents literally hate their children or are disgusted by them. The child’s sloppiness, diapers, crying, or needs are unbearable to the parent. An abusive mother is likely to believe that her baby is intentionally annoying her. In other cases, troubled parents expect their children to just be pink dolls, that sleep and smile and male them happy. When a child under the age of three cannot meet these high expectations and unrealistic expectations, the parent reacts with lethal anger. It is estimated that between 50-60 percent of child fatalities, due to maltreatment, are not recorded as such on death certificates. After further investigation by medical and forensic experts, approximately 50 percent of deaths reported as unintentional injury deaths are reclassified as deaths due to maltreatment.

Environmental effects reach the developing child, even before the child is born. Did you know that fetal heart rate and fetal movements change in response to stimuli such as sounds or vibrations? If a mother’s health is poor or she does not have good nutrition, does drugs, has a disease or virus, or exposed to X-rays or atomic radiation, the fetus may be harmed. The result will be a congenital problem (a defect that originated during prenatal development). Congenital problems (or birth defects) are different from genetic problems, which are inherited from parents. The core of much child hood abuse is a cycle of violence that flows from one generation to the next. Nearly 30 percent of abused and neglected children will later mishandle their own children, continuing the destructive and tragic cycle of cruelty. However, they are likely to do so when they are stressed because such parents never learned to love, communicate with, or how to properly discipline a child. Therefore, that is why many abused children grow up to become abusive adults. Those who break the chain of command, which has been instilled in their mind program, usually do so because they have received emotional support, for a non-abusive adult, during their childhood, have received therapy, as an adult, or has an emotionally supportive relationship with their mate, so they are not jealous of the pretty and shiny newborn baby getting all of the attention.

In a tragic case of events, a beautiful and bright 8 year old boy, called Gabriel Fernandez, was terribly abuse, in an ongoing saga of maltreatment. Prosecutors claim that for eight straight months, young Gabriel Fernandez was beaten and tortured so harshly, that the 8 year old wrote his own suicide note. Allegedly, 8 year old Gabriel Fernandez’s mother, Pearl (age 30), and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre (age 34), abused every inch of their child before his gruesome murder in May 2013; they allegedly covered him covered in pepper spray, forced to eat his own vomit, gagged and locked in a cabinet, to silence his chilling cries for help, just days before his mother and her boyfriend purportedly beat him to death. Approximately 70 percent of children that die from abuse are under the age of 4. Many public agencies now have teams to pin point abused children. The courts can take custody of the children, or the parents can place the children in foster care, but even then there is a chance for a child to get hurt. Because child abuse often starts before a child is born, it is recommended that if you are considering having a child to take child development and communication classes, so you can know what to expect and how to respond.

However, when it comes to disciplining your children, all I can say is try to talk to them and make sure you treat them well before they are born to reduce psychological or behavioral problems. Widespread acceptance of physical punishment creates an atmosphere in which angry parents can easily lose control and abuse their children. Even parents who would never strike a child may fall prey to the shaken baby syndrome. In such cases, an angry parent violently shakes an infant (often one who will not stop crying). The result can be brain injuries that cause mental retardation, blindness, or even death. Experts recommend that a parent, who is tempted to shake or strike a crying child, should try the following: hug the child, and remember how you felt at that age, and in that situation. Leave the room, but make sure the child is safe and call a friend to comfort you and the crying baby. Put some soothing music on like Celine Dion “A New Day has Come,” or Aaliyah “I Care for You” or maybe Diana Ross “Missing You.” These soft voices should help to relax you and baby. Take 10 deep breathes and clam yourself. Then take 10 more deep breaths and think of all the things you are thankful for. Move to another room and meditate or do yoga. Take a shower or relaxing bath. Sit down, close your eyes, and vividly imagine yourself in a pleasant place. Put some cartoons on for baby, they love bright colors and happy sounds, the Smurfs, Beverly Hill’s Teens, Gummy Bears, Mickey Mouse or Ducktales may get the babies attention and make him or her stop crying. Check to see if the baby needs a diaper change, maybe the climate or air needs to be adjusted, the baby may be thirsty or hungry, or might just want to be held.

Fetal Child abuse is abused that occurs, even before the baby is born. No direct intermixing of blood takes place between a mother and her unborn child. Yet some substances—especially drugs—do reach the fetus. If the mother is addicted to morphine, heroin, or methadone, the baby may be born with a drug addiction. Some drugs that reach the fetus are known to be teratogens (teh-RAT-uh-jens): substances capable of causing birth defects. Just one hit of cocaine taken by a pregnant woman can injure her fetus. Cocaine babies often suffer from tremors, hyperactivity, and listlessness, slowed language learning, and disorganized thinking. Many will never be normal. Most common prescription drugs also reach the fetus. Damage may be done by general anesthetics, cortisone, tetracycline, excessive amounts of vitamins A, D, B6, and K, cocaine, some barbiturates, opiates, tranquilizers, liquor, tobacco, caffeine, steroids, and synthetic sex hormones, even some aspirin, a seemingly safe drugs, has been linked with lowered infant IQ, when taken during pregnancy. In short, when a pregnant mother takes drugs, the baby does, too. Repeated heavy drinking by pregnant women cause the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and affected infants have low birth weight, bodily defects, and facial malformations, small non-symmetrical head, short nose, a flatted area between the eyes, oddly shaped eyes, and thin upper lip. Many of these features become less noticeable by adolescences. However, mental retardation and other problems commonly follow the FAS child into adulthood. During pregnancy, even small amounts of liquor can cause problems—just one drink is all it takes to ruin an unborn baby’s life. Considering that information, pregnant women or women thinking of becoming pregnant, needs to entirely avoid drinking alcohol. That child did not ask to be born, and it is up to you as parents to protect it and make sure when it is born, it is happy, healthy, safe and loved. Keep the baby warm and let it know that it is loved, even before he or she is born. The tragedy of FAS is that it is completely preventable.

Tobacco is also harmful, even second hand smoke can harm a fetus. If women smoke during pregnancy, Infant death rate is 27 percent higher. A pregnant woman, who smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day, blocks an estimated 25 percent of the oxygen supply to the fetus. Any use of tobacco, especially heavy smokers, run a much higher risk of miscarrying or giving birth to a premature and underweight baby. Children of smoking mothers score lower in language skills and general mental ability. However, optimal caregiving is exhibited by proactive maternal involvement (warm, educational interactions between mother and child). Proactive mothers talk to their babies more and help the, explore their surroundings. The father’s health, prior to contributing to the conception of a baby is also important. If the father does heavy drugs and drugs a lot, or if he is elderly, his sperm may not be the best quality and could also cause the child to have health issues or a mental disturbance. Yes, in fact, fathers make a unique contribution that differs from mothering. Part of the answers lies in critical periods, these are times of increased sensitivity to environmental influences, and may permanently alter the course of the development of the child. Babies seem to like when their father’s act as their playmates when the baby is an infant. Some fathers do not even pay attention to a newborn baby because they do not know what to do, and mother usually handles all the care, but let the father play with the baby, so he grows to like it and becomes more comfortable, after a while, he will learn to also be a caregiver and mother can have more time to play with the baby.

As long as a father is active in the baby’s life, which is what really matters. Overall, fathers can be as affectionate, sensitive, and responsive as mothers are. There is no single profile of a perpetrator of fatal child abuse, although certain characteristics reappear in many studies. Frequently, the perpetrator is a young adult in his or her mid-20s, without a high school diploma, living at or below the poverty level, depressed, and who may have difficulty coping with stressful situations. Fathers and mothers’ boyfriends are most often the perpetrators in abuse deaths; mothers are more often at fault in neglect fatalities. Nevertheless, infants tend to get very different views of male and females. Females, who offer comfort, nurturance, and verbal stimulation, tend to be close at hand. Males come and go, and when they are present, action, exploration, and risk taking prevails. It is no wonder, then, that the caregiving styles of mothers and fathers have a major impact on children’s gender role development. As a person grows, there is a constant interplay or interaction between nature and nurture—children are a product of their genetic heritage and the environments in which they have lived. Growing up brought responsibilities, and events did not rhyme quite as one might have thought. Nature’s logic was too horrid for one to care for. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty toward another sickened his sense of harmony.