Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 8th, 2011
Good morning!
I am so excited to post today’s topic, and give recognition to three wonderful women…
Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and human rights activist Tawakkul Karman have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Prize Committee lauded their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights to fully participate in peace-building work. The three recipients were announced today in a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
From the Nobel Peace Prize official website:
“It is the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s hope that the prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman will help to bring an end to the suppression of women that still occurs in many countries, and to realise the great potential for democracy and peace that women can represent.”
Karman, a 32-year-old mother who heads the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains, has been a leading figure in the protests against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. “She is known among Yemenis as ‘the iron woman’ and the ‘mother of the revolution,’” the Associated Press writes. “A conservative woman fighting for change in a conservative Muslim and tribal society, Tawakkul Karman has been the face of the mass uprising against the authoritarian regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.”
“I am very very happy about this prize,” Karman told the news service from a protest tent in Sanaa. “This prize is not for Tawakkul, it is for the whole Yemeni people, for the martyrs, for the cause of standing up to (Saleh) and his gangs. Every tyrant and dictator is upset by this prize because it confronts injustice.”
“With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now,” she told The Guardian.
Johnson Sirleaf, 72, is a Harvard-trained economist who became Africa’s first democratically elected female president in 2005.
Sirleaf was seen as a reformer and peacemaker when she took office in Liberia, a country ravaged by civil wars that is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace.
Sirleaf is running for re-election this month and opponents i have accused her of buying votes and using government funds to campaign. Sirleaf denies the charges.
The committee cited Johnson Sirleaf’s efforts to secure peace in her country, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women.
“We are dancing,” Bushuben Keita, a spokesman for Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s United Party told The New York Times. “This is the thing that we have been saying, progress has been made in Libera. We’ve come through 14 years of war and we have come to sustained peace. We’ve already started dancing.”
Gbowee, head of the Women Peace And Security Network, was honored by the Committee for for mobilizing women “across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women’s participation in elections.” Gbowee brought together Christian and Muslim women against the power of Liberia’s warlords.
“I know Leymah to be a warrior daring to enter where others would not dare,” Gbowee’s assistant, Bertha Amanor, said to the AP. “So fair and straight, and a very nice person.”
The prize is awarded by a five-person committee chosen by the Norwegian parliament, lead this year by Thorbjoern Jagland. Speculation had swirled over who would receive the prize, with Jagland telling the Associated Press that the prize would be given to something “obvious” that he considered “the most positive development” in the world right now.
According the official Nobel Prize website, today’s presentation marks the 92nd time the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded since 1901.
When Alfred Nobel died in 1895, part of his last will and testament requested the distribution of his fortune as prizes for “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Last year’s winner, Liu Xiaobo, received the award for his struggle for human rights in China. President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize the previous year for his efforts in international diplomacy.
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Readers: Three Wonderful Women of the World! How delightful that the Nobel Peace Prize winners of 2011 are all women! I am not surprised, just simply thrilled. Can you imagine? We have three women that are so amazing that just one couldn’t be chosen as the winner, so this prestigious award was divided between the three of them!
It just goes to show you that women are doing wonderful things for this world…and for the lives of women now and in our future. They deserve the great recognition that they are receiving. And I take great pleasure in honoring them as Wonderful Women of the World.
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October 8th, 2011 at 9:54 am
TO HEAL YOUR HEART, WORK OUT HARDER
Several close friends have suffered heart attacks in recent years, so I’m no stranger to post–heart attack care.
Extended bed rest is a thing of the past, and today we know it’s by far in your best interest to get up and move around again as soon as possible.
Yet, I was still taken aback by a new study suggesting that intense exercise may be the best way to recover, as an increasing number of physicians say that a stepped up workout regimen is just what your heart needs.
LATEST RESEARCH
In a randomized, controlled trial at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 107 heart attack patients began to work out just two to 12 weeks after a myocardial infarction.
Investigators, including postdoctoral fellow Trine Moholdt, PhD, physiotherapist, randomly assigned the participants to a 12-week program on one of two different exercise regimens –
twice weekly conventional cardiac rehabilitation or more intense interval training on the treadmill. Dr. Moholdt explained the two approaches to me…
Conventional cardiac rehab. The conventional rehab group performed aerobic workouts for about 60 minutes per session at moderate intensity under the guidance of a physical therapist. Their heart rates rose to 70% to 80% of the maximum.
Aerobic interval training. A second group started with a 10-minute warm-up followed by 28 minutes on the treadmill jogging or walking uphill.
Workouts included four-minute high-intensity intervals at 85% to 95% of maximum heart rate (to the point where participants couldn’t say more than a few words while carrying on a conversation,
but not to the point where they had chest or leg pain), interspersed with three-minute recoveries and capped off with a final cool down.
Both groups were also encouraged to do an additional workout of the same type and intensity at home.
GREATER INTENSITY = GREATER OXYGEN UPTAKE
At the end of the 12-week period, Dr. Moholdt and her team found that more intense aerobic interval training was better at raising participants’ peak oxygen uptake — the capacity of the body to transport and use oxygen during exercise, which is a key indicator of cardiorespiratory endurance and physical fitness.
Specifically, they discovered that …
In people who exercised at moderate intensity, VO2peak (peak oxygen uptake) increased from 32.2 at baseline to 34.7 mL/kg per minute, demonstrating that any exercise is better than none.
But in the high-intensity interval group, VO2peak rose more significantly — from 31.6 mL/kg per minute to 36.2.
Over time, once the workout program was completed and the patients were no longer exercising at the same levels, VO2peak declined in both groups — but less so in the high-intensity group, which appeared to retain some health benefits.
Thirty months after completing the program, VO2peak dropped to baseline in the aerobic interval trainees, but significantly below baseline in the conventional cardiac rehab group.
At 30 months, only 4% of the high-intensity group reported being physically inactive, in comparison with 20% of the conventional group.
Although the reason for this is unclear, it could be that those who had performed at high intensity under medical supervision were more confident about continuing to work out vigorously on their own.
(This might also account for their higher VO2peak at 30 months.)
Dr. Moholdt and her colleagues presented these results at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology in Stockholm, Sweden in 2010.
SAFETY FIRST
Of course, not all physicians yet agree about the merits of high-intensity exercise post-heart attack, and Dr. Moholdt acknowledges that further research is necessary –
noting, however, that in her experience, it is well-tolerated and emphasizing that strict measures need to be put in place to ensure patient safety.
In her program, doctors first check all patients’ heart function with electrocardiograms during maximum-effort exercise, and patients wear heart rate monitors throughout aerobic sessions.
Trained staff members are on hand to operate emergency equipment as needed in exercise labs — which are located within hospitals.
If you have suffered a heart attack, Dr. Moholdt warns that the single most dangerous thing you can do afterward is remain sedentary.
Consult your cardiologist, and together you can design the exercise program that is safest and most effective for you.
Source(s):
Trine Tegdan Moholdt, PhD, physiotherapist, postdoctoral fellow, K.G. Jebsen Center of Exercise in Medicine, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, and Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Michelle, it is wonderful to wake to your blog recognition of the accomplishments of women. I live in Japan. Here women are not so appreciated.
I would like to post some accomplishments of women here to your blog because you have a big following here in the Japanese islands.
Is it okay? If I follow Anna of Guam’s example?
Akemi
October 8th, 2011 at 11:52 am
Hello Tsarme:
I have seen your post on MM Blog yesterday and feel it would be OK to communicate and welcome you. I have heard about your home world and the interaction between Animal, Plant and Sea Life, which is so very different than earth‘s. It truly fascinates me.
I will not mention the name of your world, I just want to say hello and wish you success with your job.
HOWIE
October 8th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Howie:
Thanks for keeping my world a no mention. What would you like to know about my world?
Tsarme
October 8th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Tsarme:
Carr has already briefed me about your species and capabilities, as well as the others which share your world. I simply waited for you to comment on the blog so that I could welcome you.
You are now a member of the TAO. I envy that.
HOWIE
October 8th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Howie:
I am with the TAO on a “loan.” I am not committed as the rest of them seem to me. Actually, I know next to nothing about the TAO.
I find earthlings more interesting because they have vehicles that move them around their planet at great speeds. I am amazed as they are about the things out their in space.
You humans have the ability to travel to other planets in your solar system a skill we have yet to master.
Tsarme
October 8th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Great article Michelle. I was sent this one this morning.
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Give women equal opportunity and credit
Women are the foundation of society. They came and bonded together during the 1940s in factories and today in our communities. Most recognizing, younger and progressive women come together, meet other people from different nations, meet in board rooms, meet women through experiences in supermarkets and comfortably in living rooms — whether it was taking their children to play in rivers, or walking them to school, and inbetween house duties at the water cooler in cotton fields. Today they share aspirations and dreams and concerns.
Time and again, the discussions are brought back the children and families. One thing for sure is there are far more aspects of life women experience that bring us together than that which divides us as a community and as a nation. By reviewing women’s differences with ours, we discover dignity and stability within ourselves and our families. … The lives of women and girls matter to the socio-economic and political progress in every community, state, country and nation.
National conferences held for women’s rights — in China, Indonesia, the United States, India and Europe — have marked the truth that women have been successful in their own communities. The women nurses, teachers, engineers, lawyers, policymakers, business owners … are the link between the development of every person’s full God-given potential.
It was not long after the women’s suffrage struggle that governments began to focus on domestic violence. Health care in democratic countries and here in the United States are addressing health issues for women and young girls.
If women are given equal opportunity and credit, families will flourish. If women are given the same benefits in the work force, their growing children will flourish. And if women can be free from domestic violence, our communities will flourish. And when families and communities flourish, nations will flourish.
We have to collectively commit ourselves to the truth that every man, women and child has a stake in the discussion of freeing women from domestic violence, the denial of universal health care (and giving them) higher-paying jobs and accessible education. Women comprise half of the world’s population but still, their work isn’t properly credited by economists, historians, culture and government leaders.
Older women, most of them widows, raised their families and now find that their skills and life experiences are not valued in the workplace. Women who are working all night so that they can be at home during the day with their kids, and women everywhere who simply who don’t have time to do everything they are called upon to do each day, is the human rights disappointment for me.
The question is, do most, if not any of us, speak up for women unfortunate enough to have a voice in meetings, schools, church or even government? Do we, as a community, commit ourselves to defending women from domestic violence and the denial that they are subjugated to human trafficking in 80 percent of the world’s countries?
Women and minorities across the world (and) here at home on Guam are on the right side of history. We all look forward to an endearing 2012.
Derick Baza Hills, a former speaker of the Guam Youth Congress, is a resident of Agat.
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To me cults like the Mormons stifle women. I was a practicing Catholic until your blog made me realize that by supporting that all male bastion of female, and sexual repression I was perpetuating the same situation for the next generation of women.
Now I go to church but I put nothing in the collection except a note that says, “God doesn’t stop women from being priest, the men in the priest outfits do.”
Anna
October 8th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Tsarme:
Like earth, your planet is the only inhabited planet in your double-solar system. But unlike earth, the Animal Kingdom has not begun to master the use of technology that would give you mastery over the ruling class on your planet.
You mention that earthlings are interesting because they have vehicles that move them around their planet at great speeds and we do have the ability to travel to other planets in our solar system, which is a skill your kind have not yet mastered.
As you know, the Marine life have had control over the key resources of the planet for hundreds of years. The Vegetative life has been waging war with the Marine life for dominance of the planet’s resources for hundreds of years
An anomaly may occur by your education in the use of mechanical locomotive devices. It could change the dominant species on your planet.
You can not unlearn the knowledge about vehicles which can travel fast. You will bring this knowledge back to your planet when you return.
What changes will then occur?
HOWIE
October 9th, 2011 at 2:41 am
Miss Guam World Pageant airs Monday night
Posted: Oct 08, 2011 9:52 PM PDT
Updated: Oct 08, 2011 9:52 PM PDT
by Sabrina Salas Matanane
Guam – Make sure to tune in to KUAM-TV Monday night for our broadcast of the 2011 Miss Guam World Pageant. After a 15-year break the pageant is back and KUAM was there to capture the beauty and elegance of it all. At the center of the Miss World Pageant is its dedication to community service and you’ll see this dedication during the pageant.
KUAM’s broadcast of the Miss Guam World Pageant is Monday night at 7pm on KUAM-TV8 and streaming live on our Ustream channel.
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