In overcoming overeating, you should remember which the eating just isn’t about physical hunger, but is around often unwilling to cope with negative emotions. A lot of people “stuff” feelings by participating in self-destructive behavior, which assists hide them temporarily. mb6-872 A good way this is done, is as simple as eating if he or she get upset about something. Reacting by doing this, isn’t just damaging the, additionally, it can wreak chaos on a person’s spirit. This is usually a shortlist of tips that can help somebody accept and deal with their emotions in the healthier way.

Learn to recognize negative emotions, and try and meet them head-on since they occur. Since feelings are often stuck inside a person’s sub consciousness, it’s rather a challenge to take the crooks to the counter. It truly is easier for any person to look at that “jealous feeling”, and cover it up with food, or by other means. However, if a person makes all the choice to acknowledge it is occurring, it might not show up inside a destructive way, later.

Focus on everything you were considering once the emotion appeared. Why not a friend walked by using a beautiful new hairstyle, so you felt angry or resentful. 70-177 Attempt to understand why this upset you. Perhaps it presented insecurity because doing so reminded you of the method that you are not able to pay the same, as a result of financial reasons.

Keep a diary of such situations, and ways in which they cook you really feel. When something happens that creates you’re feeling bad, grab a pen as well as a notebook, expense what went down, and just how it affected you. Repeating this might help the thing is that the problem within a more rational way, therefore making it easier to deal with.

Consider different ways of reacting when faced with something which allows you to uncomfortable. By way of example, if someone else hurts your feelings or making you angry, attempt to try to keep from grabbing a handful of chips, or perhaps a bit of pie. hp0-d11 Instead, elect to manage the negative emotion in a healthy way, like having a walk, or going for a bike ride.

Or, you might plan to create a situation, and stay creative from it. If you love to create, write a short story, or even a poem, with what happened. Then, take everything you wrote, and start an internet site committed to coping with feelings artistically.

Try and affect the way you view the planet. Instead of hiding from hurtful people, or situations, accept that some things just are “what they’re”. Realize you will find items you can never capable to change, make a decision to improve the way you look at them personally, understanding that you did not cause them.

In overcoming overeating, try and remember a few things. 70-663 They have not even attempt to do with physical hunger, but is a technique used to “blunt” just how certain things affect you. When something negative happens, take into account the emotion it brings about, accept it is occurring, then find a way to alter how we react by choosing healthy affordable through it.

      Anna Lappe takes sides with Catherine Badgley an evolutionary biology professor at the University of Michigan. Anna Lappe agrees with Professor Badgely’s ideas to start large scale organic farming projects. When Professor Badgely took some of her students on a field trip to explore organic farming she found the results to be amazing. Anna Lappe states an example of Professors Badgley’s findings, “Standing on the acre-and-a-half farm, Badgley asked the farmer, Rob MacKercher, how much food he produces annually. “Twenty-seven tons,” he said. Badgley did the quick math: That’s enough to provide 150 families one pound of produce every single day of the year” (2012). Professor Badgley feels large scale projects would easily endure to feed the entire global population. Anna lappe agrees with Professor Catherine Badgely and gives valuable insight for the environment and the people in the world today stating, “Badgley’s research, along with much more evidence, helps us see that what’s best for the planet and for people” (2012)

      Anna Lappe cross examines Professor Catherine Badgely’s by introducing her educating nemesis Robert Paarlberg who has his own views against using organic farming to feed the world. Robert Paarlberg argues, “Organic agriculture is an “elite preoccupation,” a “trendy cause” for “purist circles.”(2012). Paarlberg feels that many pro organic educators such as Catherine Badgley have principles that fail to see some of the benefits if industrialized farming around the world. Lappe states, “Paarlberg suggests that we could eliminate starvation across the continent of Africa were it not that “efforts to deliver such essentials have been undercut by deeply misguided … advocacy against agricultural modernization.”

     Anna Lappe agrees that Paarlberg has a compelling argument to help end world hunger using industrial farming techniques, but also feels this is just as possible by using organic farming techniques. Lappe states, “the argument for industrial agriculture and biotechnology is built on a misleading depiction of what organic agriculture is, bolstered with shaky statistics, and constructed by ignoring the on-the-ground lessons of success stories across the globe” (2012).

     I find myself in agreeing with increased food production and distribution worldwide but feel using less hormones, chemicals, and pesticides, to achieve these goals is using common sense. The choice between buying organic and inorganic products seems to be a good coice we often take for granted in America. Organic is good, and fewer chemicals on all food products is also good. Organic products tend to be a little more expensive, but if the entire produce market was completely organic maybe lower cost could be achieved in the future. Less pesticides, fertilizers, and chemicals, would be great either way. Total elimination of all these negative chemicals would be great if it is possible in the future.

    In the meantime Paarlberg’s argument to use technology to enhance food production and distribution makes some sense considering there are consistent food shortages now in many parts of the world. The simple choices we have here in America are not even available to many countries because of poor distribution. At the same time I agree with Badgely and Anna Lappe that if feeding the world could be accomplished by using organic methods and future sustainability practices it should be done.

Don’t Panic, Go Organic,Lappe Anna the Foreign Policy Group, A Division of The Washington Post Company, Washington DC, United States, 2012

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Set in the near future, the Hunger Games spins a tale of a world torn asunder by war, leaving the nation of Panem, located in what used to be North America. Panem is split into twelve districts, all ruled by one harsh Capitol. The Capitol rules with an iron fist and shows no mercy, to make sure that no rebellions sprout up. To remind the citizens of the districts just how helpless they are, the Capitol hosts an annual Hunger Games, in which one boy and one girl are taken from each district, and all twenty four of them are pitted against each other in an arena, to see who comes out last. 

The Hunger Games gives this story from the point of view of Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl who volunteers herself to go into the Hunger Games when her little sister is selected. Katniss learns the cruelties of the Capitol in the Hunger Games arena, and an unbounding hatred for them is released inside of her. The trilogy is her story, and how she leads the rebellion that brings down the Capitol. 

The Hunger Games is the perfect mix of everything: adventure, romance, tragedy, science-fiction; it easily appeals to everyone because the series is so diverse in what it offers. Just like the fantastic(or not-so-fantastic) predecessors, Harry Potter and Twilight, the Hunger Games is a series that can be read and understood by all age groups. It is the next big thing, and is already well on its way.

Corporations first of all only exist if they provide a product or service in demand by individuals, and provide it at a competitive price.  A corporation has no power to require individuals to purchase its products or services; the corporation must serve the consumers.  Corporations must innovate and provide better quality or lower prices or some combination just to serve the needs and desires of individuals.  What individuals ask for, companies in a free society provide. Governments on the other hand can operate by command and control and require individuals to pay for services that they may not want or do not feel are of high quality.  Governments can also protect certain corporations from competition, undermining the need of the corporation to serve consumers.  In these instances, the corporation need only serve its government partner to preserve its power to command consumers to purchase its products.  Many utility companies and local cable operators operate this way.  These are not true corporations, but government-corporate partnerships, and the arguments that corporations already “give back” likely do not apply to these command-and-control government-corporate partnerships.  

Corporations also educate.  They educate their employees in how free individuals come together to cooperate to produce a good or service.  This work — this employment — is educational in that it teaches individuals how to be part of a team, how to build a product or service together, and how to manage scarce resources to respond to the wants and needs of consumers.  These cooperative exercises that constitute the work in any corporation large or small also educates some employees enough that they take their skills and start their own company.  This is a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurship that not only benefits individuals with education, but also by creating competition for employees, thus ultimately raising employee pay.  These benefit are not widely recognized by those clamoring for corporations to “give back”.

Finally, corporations are places of personal fulfillment.  Individuals have choices.  They do not have to work for a company, and if they choose to do so, they can work at a large, medium, or small business or start their own business. They can also choose not to work at all and bear the consequences of that decision.  Many employees find their job to satisfy both their physical and some or all of their spiritual needs.  Employment with a corporation will satisfy some of the employees physical needs and thus make that person less of a burden on society.  Therefore, for corporations that employs thousands of employees — Walmart, for example — is taking a burden from society at large and contributing to society by allowing those individuals to be self-reliant.  A corporation is naturally involved in an anti-poverty program. In addition, a corporation by providing employment rather than a handout may also be satisfying a spiritual need of its employees.  The employee feels that his or work has value, that he or she is not a burden to others, and that he or she is engaged in a productive enterprise.  

Accordingly, it is imperative not to diminish the importance of corporations, large and small, in society, and to understand the many benefits corporations already contribute to society that are not reflected in the debate about “giving back.” Corporations already “give back”.  The only question is whether society is doing enough to allow corporations to thrive so the corporations can continue to contribute in these meaningful ways.  What can society do to “give back” to corporations to make sure they grow and multiply?

            Like many other minorities at the time, the hunger for societal acceptance was also a major part of Richard’s life. Whether it be acceptance from the other children of the schools in which he entered or fair(er) treatment in respect to his race, Richard was always fighting to better his position. Like his other hungers, this obstacle was something Richard could do little about. Society around him was not welcoming to an African-American boy looking for acceptance; in fact, it was quite hostile. By moving north, Wright’s hope of bettering his situation was met by both hospitality and hostility. While this decision seemed correct based off of his knowledge of the north, Richard soon discovered that his hunger for equality was not an easily (if possible) overcome obstacle.

            Throughout his life, Wright’s goals almost always consisted of satisfying one or more of his hungers. However, his life was also filled with tragedy and injustice; as a result, his desires were never quite fulfilled.

What is happening in othe parts of the world is also of grave concern, sounding alarms of economic melt-downs that are giving way to discontentment, revolutions and mayhem.  It seems the time has finally arrived when political establishments would become meaningless, while sound economic institutions are gradually weakening and the bonds that essentially unite the nations are fraying, as a result of debilitating effects of global calamities. 

Instead of trust and goodwill, suspicion, scams and honesty are becoming dominant, in spite of our technological advances, in this age of computers, cell phones, etc, while consumers seem to be uncertain about the merit and veracity of offers on the Internet that might be doubtful and harmful. The age of technology should be regarded as a “miracle;’ yet, we hear rumbles of violent upheavals around the world, wails of hunger and famine in Africa, confusion in Europe, bickering in the halls of Congress, as well as religious and racial animosities.

What is intended herein is not pessimism but hope that, in the not too-distant-future, the days of ”golden opportunities” will once again begin looming on the economic horizon — one that will benefit those within and outside of the United States where hunger and famine continue to persist and the yearning for peace and togetherness is dangerously lacking.

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Georgia has recently joined 14 other states that are committed to ending childhood hunger with the”No Kid Hungry Campaign.” It will use broad public-private partnerships designed to have food handy where children live and play. The program is supposed to end childhood hunger in Georgia. We will see. Walmart and ConAgra Foods Foundation are supporting the cause.

Through this partnership, coalitions and organizations kids will be connected to child nutrition programs. Other efforts includes nutrition programs to teach families how to make healthy food choices and to make the most out of limited incomes. It’s the responsibility of everyone to reach out to families in need and direct them to the proper food programs.

By Shawn May Scott

I have not written a commentary in a little while only because I have had nothing of interest that has rieled me enough to say something. Wow that’s amazing that I have had almost nothing to say. Anyways I found something that p—ed me off so badly that I cannot help myself but write about it.

I was watching Dr. Oz the other day and was amazed at the topic. Hunger in the good ol’e U.S of A. Can you imagine that in this day and age we have families starving in our middle class neighborhoods because they cannot afford to feed their children? Really? I mean REALLY? What is our problem? I am not American, I am Canadian and have looked at some stats for my country and have found that the problem is no better here than it is there. Why are we not helping our own people to eat???

We are a very charitable nation and we often send millions upon millions of dollars to other countries to help feed their population. But what do we do here? We have food banks and we have emergency funding to help through the rough spots but the rough spots are not just a short period of time right now. We are still deep in recession and I personally know several families that are struggling just to keep their homes, feeding themselves and their children is a completely different matter.

Have you read the news or watched your television lately? Have you heard what is happening in Attawapiskap? The miss management of funds to the tune of something like ninety million dollars is one on the table for investigation, that they have been in co-management for tens years or so. I mean can we not have better fund management from the federal level to make sure that the money is spent on the necessities of life including appropriate shelter and wholesome food? See what I mean, full circle right back to hunger in one of the world’s richest nations. There is no excuse for this type of misery going on in any developed country.

So what kind of damage is being done to our children? According to Dr. Oz little by little the children are wasting away. They become tired and listless, their skin begins to sag, their eyes hollow out and dark circles appear underneath. These are just the first stages of starvation. After a prolonged period of time the weakness affects bodily systems such as the immune system and the children become vulnerable to any host of wonderful diseases that can make them very ill and possibly cause permanent damage to the child. Any fat the body retains as the muscle shrinks away and the fibers become under nourished will surround or fill in the internal organs including the heart putting strain on the functions. The saddest part is the brain is affected and learning becomes very difficult if not almost impossible, as there is nothing in the system of the child to create mylenin and synapses cannot take place efficiently.

Okay, so we are working on world hunger, I get that. But remember when your grandmother or grandfather said to you that charity begins at home? I do and if we are so smart of a country that we can be one of the richest how come it is that we can give away a lot of our taxpayer dollars to other countries and not be able to manage to feed our own children? What kind of taxpayer are we going to have in the next generation? Well because we starved them there won’t be anyone capable of working to pay taxes and that will leave the charity up to other countries. Can you imagine the Sudan bailing out the U.S. or Canada and feeding our hungry because we did not manage our crisis? I am sure I will be long dead before that happens, but my children may not be. I am still in shock over the amount of people that go hungry everyday, especialy our children. This all reminds me of Dickens, too bad it is not a story or a bad dream, too bad it is our reality.

The Republic of Biafra was a secessionist state that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970. The inhabitants were mostly Igbo. Conflicts with other Nigerian ethnicities led to the Igbo-dominant Eastern region seceding from Nigeria to create the independent state of Biafra.  The creation of the new country was the main cause for the Nigerian-Biafran War. The state was formally recognized by Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Zambia. Other nations which did not give official recognition but which did provide support and assistance to Biafra included Israel, France, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa and the Vatican City. After two-and-a-half years of war, during which a million civilians had died in fighting and from famine, Biafran forces agreed to a ceasefire with the Nigerian Federal Military Government, and Biafra was reabsorbed into Nigeria.

In 1960 Nigeria had become independent of the United Kingdom.  As with many other new African states, the borders of the country did not reflect earlier ethnic boundaries. Thus the northern desert region of the country contained semi-autonomous feudal Muslim states, while the southern population was predominantly Christian and Animist. In January 1966, a group of primarily eastern Igbo led a military coup during which 30 political leaders including Nigeria’s Prime Minister were killed. In July 1966 northern officers staged a counter-coup. Muslim officers named a Christian from the small Anga tribe, 33-year-old General Yakubu “Jack” Dan-Yumma Gowon, as the head of the Federal Military Government The two coups deepened ethnic tensions. In September 1966, approximately 30,000 Igbo were killed in the north, and some Northerners were killed in backlashes in eastern cities.

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles, recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of “The Republic of Biafra”.
In January 1967, the military leaders agreed on a loose confederation of regions.  But on 26 May the Eastern region voted to secede from Nigeria. On 30 May, 34-year old General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Eastern Region’s military governor, announced the Republic of Biafra, citing the Easterners killed in the post-coup violence. The discovery of vast oil reserves in the Niger River delta, a sprawling network of rivers and swamps at the southernmost tip of the country, tempted the Federal Government to re-annex the region. The Eastern region was very ill equipped for war, out-manned, and out-gunned by the military of the remainder of Nigeria. The UK, USSR and US, provided militarily support to the Nigerian government. British interests have bee clearly revealed in declassified files. “Our direct interests are trade and investment, including an important stake by Shell/BP in the eastern Region”.
In September 1968, the federal army planned the “final offensive.” Initially the offensive was neutralized by Biafran troops. In the latter stages, the Nigerian government troops broke through the fiercely defended Biafran lines. On 30 June 1969, the Nigerian government banned all Red Cross aid to Biafra and restricted food supplies. Later in October 1969, Ojukwu appealed in vain to the UN to mediate a cease-fire. But the federal government called for Biafra’s unconditional surrender. By the end of 1969 the Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian army, led by 31-year-old Colonel General Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle, of the Bachama tribe, alias ‘The Black Scorpion’, cut Biafra in half. Ojukwu fled to Ivory Coast, leaving his 42-year-old chief of staff, Philip Effiong, in charge. Effiong called for a cease-fire 12 January. It is still not known how many died as a direct result of the war and the blockade, but it is believed to be at least one million and as high as three million. More than one million people had died from starvation. I always wondered, who counted them. In today’s Nigerian school and history books, you are hard pressed to find anything about that episode.  
 
So imagine, two hot headed, thirty-some Colonels decided about the fate of millions. That was most common in emerging independent African countries in those days. Any bloke could take a crack at it. Look at Colonel Muamar al-Gaddafi. They liked to be called Colonel, rather than General. You explain me why.
Biafra covered near 30,000 sq mi of land; borders were shared with Nigeria to the north, Cameroon to the east. The coast was on the Gulf of Guinea in the south. Two rivers flow from Biafra into the Gulf of Guinea: the Cross River and the Niger River. Igbo was the predominant language spoken along with other, including Efik and Ibibio.

There was even a Bank of Biafra. Due to the ongoing war, the bank was relocated several times. A new currency of bank notes included 5 shillings and 1 Pound.  

At the beginning of the war Biafra had 3,000 troops, but at the end of the war the troops totaled 30,000. There was no official support for the Biafran army by another nation throughout the war, although arms were clandestinely acquired. A number of European soldiers of fortune served the Biafran cause. German born Rolf Steiner was a Lt. Colonel assigned to the 4th Commando Brigade. He later served with the Anyanya rebels in southern Sudan. Welshman Taffy Williams received his military training in South Africa. Noted for his bravery under fire he served two tours of duty with the Biafran Army, rising to the rank of Major and was the last white mercenary to leave the country as Federal Troops closed in. He met author Frederick Forsyth there as a war correspondent, and served as the inspiration for the character of Carlo Shannon in Forsyth’s The Dogs of War (novel). The Biafrans managed to set up a small yet effective air force. The new pilots had trained with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Although completely unrelated, so did I. The first planes included two WWII B-25 Mitchells, one B-26 Invader, a converted DC-3 and one Dove. By the spring of 1969, Biafra had built five MFI-9Bs in Gabon, calling them “Biafra Babies”. 
The international humanitarian organization “Doctors Without Borders” came out of the suffering in Biafra. During the crisis, French medical volunteers, in addition to Biafran health workers and hospitals, were subjected to attacks by the Nigerian army and witnessed civilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces. French doctor Bernard Kouchner, with the help of other French doctors, put Biafra in the media spotlight and called for an international response. Vaccine supply shortages during the Biafra smallpox campaign led to the development of a vaccination technique, which led to interruption of smallpox transmission in West Africa.

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Violence between Igbo Christians and Hausa or Fulani Muslims has been continued since the end of the civil war in 1970. Government sanctioned killings were taking place in the southeastern city of Onitsha. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra advocates a separate country for the Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria. MASSOB’s leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, was arrested in 2005 and is being detained, together with oil militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, on treason charges. There is a sizable contingency of Biafrans in diaspora.
Today, Chief Emeka Ojukwu enjoys the role of elder statesman, living in comfort in the former Biafran capital, Enugu. Forgiven by the Nigerian authorities in the early 1980s, he admits to no remorse for the events of the civil war.  For the men who fought for the Biafran cause, defeat has been followed by years of humiliation. The wounded veterans line up in their wheelchairs alongside the main roads in Enugu, begging for money from passers-by. They believe they are being punished for fighting on the losing side. He wants food, he wants to educate his children and he wants shelter. He wants to be treated like any other Nigerian. When the civil war ended, the government promised the Ibo people that there would be no victors and no vanquished.  Chief Ojukwu believes the Ibos have been largely excluded from power ever since and this could cause instability in the future. “None of the problems that led to the war have been solved yet,” he says. There is plenty of resentment but little talk of secession among the Ibo today.  Following Nigeria’s recent return to democracy, many of the country’s diverse peoples, not just the Ibos, are demanding greater autonomy. Nigeria is a young country. The vast majority of its population is under 30 years old. Only a small proportion of them have direct memories of the war. But the causes of the Biafran conflict – ethnic rivalry and mistrust – are as relevant today as ever .

Niger Delta Militants Warn Boko Haram, Threaten Oil Installations

9 January 2012 – A militant group in the Niger Delta has warned that it will be forced to retaliate the killing of Christians and other Southerners by the extremist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, if the federal government failed to tackle the security challenges in parts of the country. This was just before it threatened to attack major oil installations and military bases if nothing urgent was done to check the ugly situation. The group, Movement for the Liberation of the People of the Niger Delta (MLPND), specifically flayed the killing of Christians, especially those from the southern part of Nigeria, by the sect and described it as one provocation too many. Leader of the group, Mr. Dan Anderson, who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, said it would resume the attacks by the end of January to protest the brutal killing of Christians and Southerners by the Boko Haram in some states of the North. “The bloody activities of these people are becoming very unbearable. What is their demand? What do they actually want?” The militant leader whose group was at the forefront of the famous Kaiama Declaration said, “We are on ground. What we will do this month end will be drastic. We started this struggle and it has been found out that the system is not working. We fought for the betterment of all Niger Delta people such as free healthcare, standard education, steady electricity, good road and others but none of these things have been provided. We will shake this system because we want the federal government to give us our fare share of the national cake,” He said that, contrary to theirs,the actions of the sect were provocative. The Muslims have their biggest mosque on Gambia Street in Port Harcourt where they shut down the major road during Juma’t services without interference.

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Nowadays it is as if the world is so much concerned about safety that sometimes most governments take much of the finance in defense, and by doing so a blank space if left between the essential human needs and security needs. Is it wise to value the consequences of insecurity and let people die of hunger and starvation? That leaves most of us in guessing, which is which and what ifs that has no good roots for argument.

We have a choice to live, remember that in reality no one has a right to live, it just happen that we are alive and we choose what to do with our life. Does your government provide you with all human wants to satisfaction? I guess not, what most of our government do is protection, then what? Just like being given a house with no food and water. That is a terrible situation facing most of us.

Yes!  We should appreciate the government for this, but if we look into most of the country’s constitutions, we will definitely find out that the government should protect, serve, and feed the people. That is why we vote for our leaders and it is their obligation to see we are happy with their governance.

In reality, the government receives a lot of money through various income generating ministries and government managed companies, but most of the money ends up in bulky pockets of a few individuals. Some may argue they stay in corruption free state, but have you ever wondered why life get tighter just before electioneering period, some months before general election? I leave that for you.