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Paul Rodriguez narrates this one hour doc on salt in the water supplies of various parts of California, and how what we do here in the Bay Area affects and is affected by water use elsewhere, statewide water policy, and other things. I had a chance to see it tonight at work. It's well worth seeing.
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Back in 2003, laid up with a foot injury and newly introduced to the wonder that is a five-disc DVD player, I went on a spree of watching as much as I could of LOTR actors, to get my own sense of what they'd brought to make the LOTR characters come to life.
One I knew from before LOTR is Elijah, because Radio Flyer is one of my all-time favorite movies, for all its faults. I've met the director, Richard Donner, and it was filmed not far from where I live now, and Lij and Joseph Mazzello give very good performances.
Anyway.
This post isn't about Radio Flyer (though that IS for sale over at EnjoyIt! , my Amazon resellers shop.
No, this is about a copy of Chain of Fools that I bought during my I don't mind if it's not a Region 1 DVD, let me get a multi-region player and watch it anyway period. The notes on the back cover are in Swedish, and the subtitles are in- well, let the cover tell you: Språk: audio: Engelska
Textningar: Svenska, Engelska, Danska, Finska, Norska, HollaUandska, Poldsk, Tjedckiska, Ungerska, Turkiska
It's a Region 2 DVD. If I were able to sell it on Amazon USA I'd ask $3.00 US for it, and the shipping. Since I can't sell it there but want it to have a good home, I'm offering it here for 2 Eur. paid to my Paypal account, and you pay the shipping.
If I can't sell it here, I'll just bring it with me to Europe in summer and set it free at a flea-market or second hand store. But I thought i'd try you guys, first. Or, hey- I can bring it with me and ship it From Europe to you In Europe, too. but that won't be til June.
To those who've supported my movie sale by either buying yourselves, or passing on the word, Thank you Thank you! it's working!
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EnjoyIt, Where I am selling DVDs for now, but will, at some point, also have used books, some housewares, a few vintage odds and ends, and maybe even vintage beads.
Tell your friends. Buy movies from me. (I have some rare-ish ones, and a few Region 2, also). Help me get back to Europe! and to stay afloat here at home. I've accumulated a lot of nice things over the years, but I don't need them now, and if they can make someone else happy AND bring a little fresh energy into my life, then all to the better.
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A Satisfied Mind.
( lyrics )
Mediafire share folder
of versions, and a zip of the versions there.
ETA
more versions, and zip2
am looking for other versions, as many as you can bring me.
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Free Obama ringtone
"Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."
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Newswise — Researchers at the Drexel University School of Public Health led by Dr. Dennis Andrulis authored a comprehensive report comparing the two presidential nominees’ health care reform plans in the context of eliminating the nation’s longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. The report was released by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
The report, Health Care Proposals of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Presidential Nominees: Implications for Improving Access, Affordability and Quality for America’s Minorities, was issued by the Joint Center’s Health Policy Institute in partnership with the Center for Health Equality at Drexel University’s School of Public Health and Health Management Associates, a leading health care research and consulting firm. The report was funded by W.K. Kellogg Foundation in support of the Joint Center Health Policy Institute’s National Health Policy Training Alliance.( Read more... )
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
—Dennis Kucinich (from Perceval Press)
I'm not so inexperienced as to think that it's enough to say "Everyone, keep yourself healthy!" Or so negative as to think that it's someone's fault if I get sick, or so naive as to think that doctors should know everything or so cynical as to think all doctors (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing agencies) are only in it for the money.
But seriously.
I'm very interested- personally as well as professionally- in how health care reaches people, and what people expect "health care" to be. How do I, a registered nurse, make available my knowledge, skills, and experience, if I'm not going to do it within the confines of a hospital system, the state/federal public health system, or an agency? Can I charge for it? Barter for goods or services? What risk do I assume? What risk does someone I work with assume?
On the larger scale, do we, as health care "consumers", have any obligation to stay as healthy as possible, to reduce the pressure on those who provide us with basic health care? When private industry takes over the municipal water supply or the garbage pick-up, how does a citizen ensure his or her neighborhood, town, city is safe and sanitary?
What is possible, at the overarching level of the State? How feasible is employer-based insurance? Insurance in general? What are the obligations of the individual-in terms of caring for oneself, for one's family, community, the organizations that provide care?
One of the things that came up at dinner tonight was that Kaiser Permanente has figured out that, with only 2 percent of medical students planning to go into primary care, it needs to take care of the primary care MDs it already has, since it "needs to make them last", as my friend put it. She is 63, had, 10 years ago, her own practice, which she had to give up when spiraling costs and sinking reimbursements made it impossible to continue and still pay off her medical school debt as well as care for her family.
You know what I'd like? If you would give me your experiences- good or bad, honest, I'm interested in all sides- with health care, lack of health care, health care access, health insurance (employer or government based, US or in another country)- how it's changed for you over time, or depending on your age, or status (student, military, married or not, employed or not, healthy or not, pre-existing condition or evolving condition). It feels to me like there's something in this- an article, or series of articles, at least, for one of the nursing magazines- and, in some paradise of enough time and energy and focus and luck, a book or two or three (perhaps one for nurses, one for the public, and those children's books I so want to write about being healthy, having a healthy community). But I can't write anything with only my own experience- so if you would be willing to share yours, or even point me in the direction of things you know or have experienced, but anonymously- I would appreciate it tremendously.
Of course, I would keep any confidences. That's my obligation as an RN- but more, it's my obligation to you as a person, one person to another.
And on that note... /ramble.
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Not a bad day, as days go. Enough sleep, always a blessing.
Got the printer moved over by the BigMac and the rest of the semester's readings printed out. Still working on the Real Women Have Curves paper, but it's coming, it's coming. Might just post it up here for concrit/nose-holding before I go home from work in the morning, if it's at all in that kind of shape.
Blind fury doesn't begin to say how visceral my response is to the world economic crisis. There's a scene in Three Kings (I should look for it on youTube, it might be there) that encapsulates the relationship of the middle-class America I grew up in, the attitudes of which I attribute a large part of our current ills to (sorry, Churchill old pal). One of the American GIs who is after stealing some Iraqui gold from a bunker in Kuwait has been captured, and is being 'interrogated' (since that seems to be my country's new word for 'torture', thank you Dick & Condy for redefining the language, I'm sure it needed that).
His interrogator- an Iraq-born, US-educated engineer, asks him, our car-salesman National Guard GI, as he's sitting tied in a chair, "Do you love oil? Do you? Do. You. Love. Oil. Then here, I will give you some-" here shoving a CD case into the GI's mouth, effectively wedging it open "-have all the oil you want!" pouring a quart of motor oil into his throat.
When I was a little girl in Santa Monica, one of my most vivid memories is of a "Gas War". Four stations, one on each corner- Shell, probably, and Standard Oil, and most likely Phillips 76 and maybe an Atlantic Richfield- I don't remember when each merged into the next and how the names changed along the way- and a gallon of gas, that weekend, got as low as 13 cents.
13 cents. And there were incentives- glassware, or dishes, or cooking pots. Not made in the USA, those incentives- made in Japan, most likely, at that point, I'm guessing.
And I remember my father trying to explain to two little girls why it wasn't less expensive to go to the station with the cheapest gas, because you had to know where the gas came from, and how that company did its business with the country the gas came from, and all that was part of the real cost of the gas even if it wasn't part of the posted sale price.
And you know, I grew up feeling like I was stupid because- since this was a thing fathers explained to their daughters, so surely other people knew it before me, understood it better than I did, as I was only just being taught it now- I couldn't figure out why people- governments, consumers, economists- kept going on as though gas was always going to be 13cents on that corner, and there'd never be any hidden costs, and you could practically furnish your house on what they were bribing you with from gallon, to gallon, to gallon.
Of course now I know it's more complicated, always has been. I make my decisions based on so many factors, and usually come down on the side of judicious use- save gas and money here, so that I can afford to pay an airline to fly me to Germany there- but somewhere I think that if I'd just understood, then, that most people- MOST people, including executives, economists, business owners, government officials, elected representatives, gas station owners, the neighbors- most people didn't understand where the gas came from, and how much it cost, really- if I'd understood that, then, and been able to help with explaining it, then...
And then I wake up. Because it's not all my fault- one little girl couldn't have changed all that- it was all already going on, wasn't it?
"Lord, actually," says Cutler Beckett to Governor Swann. "Just good business."
I am so sorely disappointed.
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making progress on the paper for Latina/Chicana film studies. thank goodness. of course, a good deal of it will have to be scrapped and rewritten as a film review and not a nursing research paper (maniacal laugh) but at least it's being written!
i could live without this constant low-grade sinus headache. ah. sonoma county, allergy capital of the world. (or so we style ourselves.) *makes note to get more sinus rinse at market*
am i the only person who has, in their fat bottom, the equivalent of at least ten car-tanks of petrol stored? one of the great freedoms of not being in uni will be having time to walk to the market and shop. *nods*
nothing else atm- am at work, plugging away at paper, and mulling over larger issues such as why it's so hard to define what nurses do and have it be reimbursed well. (not me, but in general, in the world.)
as you were. enjoy your saturday.
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I seem to have muddled up my days somehow.
Or perhaps not. A seemingly unavoidable side effect of night shift is losing track of where, exactly, in the day/week/month we are.
So I start these posts when I get up, or when I get home, or before I fall asleep or just after I get things settled at work, and then don't finish them, and when I go to click 'post to slashfairy' it's another day.
Only, it's not. Because I haven't been to work or sleep or home or to uni or shopping or had breakfast or whatever it is that signifies that any given day is finished, ready to be turned over so the next day can begin.
Anyway.
I have some deep thoughts about the financial situation in the world, and some about the political situation, and the war situation and the health situation- but no words for them, at the moment.
Except Einstein's- You cannot simultaneously prepare for both war and peace- and my good friend Anne's- Save your money.
I used to wonder, in a Fredric Brown-ish sort of way, when the credit card companies said 'Buy now, Pay later!', when, exactly, Later might be, and who, if anyone, was going to pay then.
Seems we may be finding out?
be well, and blessings on your heads.
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So the deadline for the HHS resolution about changing access to birth control/abortion by changing the rules re: requiring providers to prescribe/dispense comes up on September 25th. That means there are only a few more days to contact your Congress or Senate people, or contact Health and Human Services yourself, and make your point of view known.
I don't really care for having the government- any government, be it local, state, or federal- in my business. I'd much rather practices affecting the common health be made by the commonwealth- by the educated, practiced judgment of my fellow citizens and peers.
But this decision relates to collected, pooled tax money that is used to pay for and support our collective, pooled health- and it's being proposed without the kind of large-scale, in-depth, educated national conversation that I feel is crucial to maintaining a healthy nation.
Maybe it's true. Maybe abstinence is the best method of birth control, taking into account physical, emotional, and spiritual health of all concerned. Then in that case, isn't the conversation about why everyone- everyone- should be practicing abstinence if they're not up for supporting and raising (well) the child of any act of intercourse that leads to conception?
I can never quite get my thoughts to go in a straight enough line to have this all make sense in a post- but I do feel it's a hugely important subject, one that gets a lot of inflammatory energy thrown at it but not much deep, reasoned, compassionate thought.
Which, now, I'm going to go and try to give it more of, while I do my coursework for Native American Studies (in which I finally nail down the shameful role of some Quakers in the destruction of Native American family life through boarding schools, and find my shame is not deep enough, yet, to help me formulate some action that can, in some way, help me try to put things right at this late hour).
Blessings on your heads.
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amazing. month's half gone. how does that happen?
Anyway.
Film analysis paper due in two weeks. I will be doing mine on Real Women Have Curves, because I enjoyed it AND I think it will do me good to look at it again, not from the point of view of having been 'the fat girl' or 'the rebellious one' or whatever, but trying to get out of my white privilege corner and see what I can be taught by, learn from, this movie, these characters, this life.
Also, I am finding it interesting to be one of the people on the edge in this odd financial world. I don't know if it's really clear, but Your Money or Your Life notwithstanding, when I finish uni at the end of this term (god willing, saints providing, rain don't fall, creek don't rise, etc. etc. etc.) I will have about $46,000 in student loans due. Just exactly how I'm going to pay all that off, being as how I'm already 57 years old and not exactly earning at the top of my profession (that 10% cut I came home to in July? Still in effect. *sigh* and not exactly clear how/if/when the California budget situation will affect that). What I do know is, I'm getting healthier each week, night shift notwithstanding, and more intelligent about my money and my life energy and my fulfillment curve, and so the uproar about financial markets and disaster relief and war and all the rest of it, while it brings me cause for unhappiness and sorrow and compassion, does not make me crazy-with-worry like it would have before I started working with YMOYL.
Am going to try growing watercress. I like it, it's supposed to be fairly simple, something I can grow inside even, maybe, and it'll be a fun project.
So that's today's post- I'm glad I've put all this time and effort into finishing uni, old as I am, and by god, I propose to enjoy the heck out of life for the rest of my years, watching movies and traveling and growing vegetables here and there in whatever yard I've got access to, and just being alive.
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this is harder than it looks.
it would be so easy if there weren't so much i want to talk about, and if my brain would stay awake long enough to actually help me make coherent posts.
1) ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tammy212 has better posts than I about the Health and Human Services "conscience rule". Deadline for HHS to decide is 10 days away now; Planned Parenthood Petition is here.
2) I love it when one sentence in a book opens the world tenfold for me. From The Wild Swan (my find from San Francisco last week) these sentences- just a bit of background information setting up Andersen's first round of travels as an adult: The Germany of independent states through which Andersen passed on his first visit was to be transformed within his lifetime. The Holy Roman Empire with its three hundred and ninety-six principalities, ecclesiastical states and free towns had been completely reorganized by Napoleon in 1806. After his defeat it was found impossible to restore the old order[...]
Which both reinforces that even in the known and incomplete history of the North American continent (about which, between Native American studies and Chicano/Latino Cinema, I am being given new points of view) there are orders and orders which came and went before Europe came; some of which is recorded, still, in the oral histories of the people still surviving and some, did we have eyes to see, in the geography and ecology of the continent itself.
3) I bought Miss Sarajevo. For a lot of reasons- because I have a good friend who is becoming a director of documentaries. Because people I admire and respect are involved in bringing his bookFools Rush In to the screen.
A lot of things about this film have made deep impressions on me, but the one that I'll mention here is the sight of the Bosnian National Library burning after being bombed, and Bill saying that '...with it burned basically all the history of Bosnia because Bosnia is a country with a lot of history written by monks and and clerics and whatnot and it pretty much is gone and that's a problem today because now you have a country with no real written history which can lead problems because it allows people to make up their own history and that is a problem in Bosnia today.' (quoted from the DVD.)
4) There are all kinds of ways history rewrites itself. Sometimes it's because one person pulls together threads and odds and ends of impressions and sees the pattern formerly woven that has been hidden from view by misdirection, by forgetting, by not-wanting-to-know.
My uncle, my father's oldest brother, was a bomber pilot in World War 2. I met him once. Over the years, in scraps of information from my father, I learned my uncle been shot down and captured at some point, came home very ill, and died young of cirrhosis caused both by starvation while he was a prisoner of war and partly by his drinking after he got home.
What I've put together since is this: he bombed Heroya, Hamburg, Paris, in 1943. He was shot down in France. He was held in one of the concentration camps, I don't know which one. I've walked in places that are changed forever because, before I was born, my father's older brother was dropping bombs on them.
I don't know what to do with that, really, or what it means, except that just as these two classes this term are giving me opportunities to re-view and re-learn, more globally, the smattering of history I've had in the past, so too this more personal connection to place, people, and history gives me opportunity to appreciate, to not take so much for granted, everything I have in my life.
Including my right to consider my body my own: not pre-or-post-pregnant, not a tool of the state or church or a man, but mine. I remember before Roe vs. Wade, before Planned Parenthood; I remember the thalidomide scandal and the deep shame that a man in our Friends Meeting, a physician who had prescribed thalidomide to mothers, felt as the facts came out, as he confronted what it meant to have been an unknowing part of that, and as he worked out how he, as a doctor, had to change his relationship to 'who owns the woman's body'.
This was in the 1950's. It was shocking and progressive and unusual that he spoke so, but I didn't know that- I thought it was part of some larger national conversation about how to be healthier, more intelligent, more compassionate, less insane.
And so here endeth PETDM # 14- with my (rambling, incoherent) plea to look again at what is being done in your name. I understand about conscience, I do- I could not give lethal injection. I have argued with surgeons about keeping some patients alive and allowing others to die. I recognize that there is indeed something precious and sacred about new life, and I'm not in a position to absolutely, categorically state when that life begins.
But taking away from the woman carrying the baby the right to determine her own health- that bothers me. Not developing the national conversation about the obligation of men to prevent unwanted pregnancy, to support the health and safety of communities, of mothers, of daughters- that bothers me.
So please. Go. Read. Take a stand, and stand behind it. You never know when, with the swipe of a pen or the pressing of a button, your life and all the lives you know are changed, irrevocably, and all you have left is how you've lived up until this moment.
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Register here for November Vote
I may sometimes find Michael Moore abrasive, but his activism is energizing.
I'm more progressive than not. More optimistic than not. But damn, even if you plan to vote McCain/Palin, work to get out the WHOLE vote where you live, willya? everyone. People who agree with you, people who don't.
Work the polls. Yeah, I know it most likely only pays a fraction of what you earn in your workday but come on- it's part of your right to a representative government to make getting that representation ("Hiring your representatives") happen. [California polls information.]
Anyway.
Don't let CNN and NPR be your only sources of news. Get the facts. Dig. Read the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Go to your State's website and learn about election processes in your state. Get involved.
(and for my non-US friends, please, urge your US friends to get involved. Please, please please do not be among the good people who let bad shit happen. "Fight, fight, against the dying of the light...")
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Ok. I have been studying Marshall Rosenberg's theory and practice of Nonviolent Communication for a number of years now, and YAY! for YouTube: he's on it. I cannot recommend this enough- I hope the vids are enough to whet your appetites for being treated kindly, with respect and dignity, and the expectation that what you want most from life is to be alive every minute.
Nonviolent Communication
part 1 9 mins 35 sec.
part 2 5 mins 47 sec. (particularly helpful about depression)
part 3 4 mins 25 sec.
Nonviolent Communication and Corporations
part 1 28 mins 32 sec.
part 2 28 mins 58 sec.
part 3 26 mins 32 sec.
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