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by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Oct 19, 2011 at 7:30 am ET

With Friday’s XFC 14 event quickly approaching, the promotion has announced a few late changes to the lineup.

Welterweight Nicolae Cury (5-2) replaces Charles Blanchard and now faces Elijah Harshbarger (6-3), and featherweight John Mahlow (12-12) steps in for Lawson McClure to face Bruce Connors (8-3).

Both fights air Friday on HDNet as part of the seven-bout main card of “XFC 14: Resurrection.”

Featuring a headliner of former WEC champion Jamie Varner (17-5-1) vs. fellow lightweight Nate Jolly (10-3), XFC 14 takes place Oct. 21 at UCF Arena in Orlando, Fla., on the campus of the University of Central Florida.

A 31-year-old American Top Team product, Cury is 3-1 in his past four fights. The lone loss came in a local feature bout with Luis Santos at May’s Bellator 45 event. Four of Cury’s five career wins have come via first-round submission. He now meets Harshbarger, who is just 1-2 in his past three fights. However, the losses have come to proven contenders Pete Sell and Ben Saunders.

Meanwhile, Mahlow looks to snap a two-fight losing streak that has seen him fall short to big-show vets Junior Assuncao and Rafaello Oliveira. A five-time XFC vet, “The Mulatto Mauler” also has clashed with notables Luis Palomino, Ryan Roberts, Anthony Lapsley, Jeff Curran, Mac Danzig, Alberto Crane and Antonio McKee, among others. He now faces Connors, who has suffered back-to-back knockout losses to Bogdan Cristea and Micah Miller.

With the official changes, the latest XFC 14 lineup now includes:

MAIN CARD (HDNet)

• Nate Jolly vs. Jamie Varner
• Scott Barrett vs. Carmelo Marrero
• Marianna Kheyfets vs. Molly Helsel
• Josh Clark vs. Reggie Pena
• Nicolae Cury vs. Elijah Harshbargar
• Mike Bernhard vs. Mikey Gomez
• Bruce Connors vs. John Mahlow

For more on XFC 14, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Nicolae Cury)

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Battle against substance abuse drives volunteer

PLUMSTED — A lifetime of community service was officially recognized by the Plumsted Township Committee on Oct. 5 as lifelong resident Jim Hendrickson was presented with a joint resolution from the state Legislature commending his work with drug and alcohol recovery.

Mayor Ron Dancer, who serves in the state Assembly, said, “The Legislature paused in its deliberations and recognized Jim’s efforts. This is now a permanent record in the New Jersey Legislature, where we had 120 legislators unanimously adopt and approve it.”

Hendrickson was honored as the 2011 Ocean County Volunteer of the Year at the Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Summit held on Sept. 9 in Princeton.

“We all know what Jim has been doing around here for 25 years,” Dancer said.

Hendrickson, 66, said he made it his life’s work to help people who are struggling with substance abuse after life took him down that same road.

“There was a time when Warren Burns was the police chief and was the only officer in town. I was probably 12 or 14 years old when he told me to get out of town and don’t come back,” Hendrickson said.

He said that as he got older, his struggles with alcohol began. He was not able to kick the habit until he was 27.

“I got sober in 1972 and I’ve been in recovery for 38 years,” said Hendrickson, who started the first addiction support group in Plumsted almost 30 years ago.

There are now six support groups that see between 300 and 400 people a month.

Since 1989, when the Plumsted Municipal Drug and Alcohol Alliance began to take shape, Hendrickson has worked with the township to raise awareness about the efforts of substance abuse recovery.

“I think Plumsted is one of the most supportive communities around, as far as volunteers in the community go,” Hendrickson said. “The Township Committee has been dedicated and their encouragement is what keeps us going.”

After sustaining a work-related injury, Hendrickson began studying alcohol and drug issues so he could become a certified counselor. He earned his counselor’s license in 1996.

Since then the list of organizations Hendrickson has given his time to has grown to include the Friends of Addiction Recovery of New Jersey, the Plumsted Municipal Alcohol and Drug Alliance and the Juvenile Justice Commission.

Work with the police department, the municipal court and various civil groups round out his efforts.

“I’m just a community activist. When I got this award, I had no idea it was coming,” Hendrickson said. “I was totally surprised and I feel really humbled by it. This was never the intention. I was just doing what I was doing because it was helping the community.”

The British have only one national religion, Nigel Lawson famously observed, and it is the NHS. The former Chancellor was bang on the money back in the 80s, and today most of us still worship the great monolith. For all that, one sniffs a rise in heretical questioning, and even agnosticism. No sooner have the angels of geriatric nursing been stripped of their wings than the local priests, our general practitioners, come under attack.

Complaints about GPs summarily removing patients from their lists have risen in the last year, and ombudsman Ann Abraham is rightly displeased that a growing number of family doctors now operate a zero tolerance policy better suited to one of those publicity-crazed sheriffs beloved of rural Alabama voters.

The rules which dictate that GPs observe a careful process before sacking a patient are increasingly ignored, we are told. Indeed, some doctors are now as queenily intolerant of perceived disobedience from those they are paid to look after as cabin crew who demand an emergency landing to remove a passenger for looking at them funny after a two-hour wait for the complimentary peanuts. As always with the NHS, its vastness makes it very hard to gauge the scale of a problem from the statistics alone, and the figures here are tiny. But invariably we judge its state of health not from waiting list times or cancer survival rates, but from personal experience and anecdotal evidence… anecdotes like that of the terminally ill woman peremptorily struck off, along with the daughter who changed a battery in a nausea-alleviating device without waiting for the district nurse.

Every trade has its fools and nutters, and you cannot judge a profession by the pathological idiocy of the odd individual. And yet there is that osmotic sense that GPs are ever more vulnerable to the inflammatory disease known in Harley Street (forgive the technicality; there are excellent medical dictionaries online) as uptheirownarseitis; that too many have forgotten, if they ever knew it, that theirs is a service industry.

I trust no physician will take umbrage if we describe the GP as a glorified plumber with shorter hours, much better pay and a less cumbersome toolbox. No offence is intended, because to this urban Jew the simplest precepts of plumbing are as awe-inspiring as those of car mechanics or deckchair assemblage. The challenges facing the GP are, in fact, less opaque. All correctly hypochondriacal Jews regard themselves as doctors who never bothered with the petit bourgeois requirement of formal training, and I am a consultant diagnostician of the first water.

Writing as such, I have enormous sympathy for the humble GP. He or she is obliged to spend most of a draining 45-hour week dealing with athlete’s foot, housemaid’s knee and minor infections of the upper respiratory tract. They are also at peril not only of the alcoholism and drug addiction that plague the business, but of repetitive strain injury from scrawling “Amoxicillin” on a prescription pad to nudge the cold-sufferer out after five minutes, albeit the drugs won’t foreshorten the sniffling by so much as five seconds.

Also writing as such, I have even more sympathy for any GP who has to deal with the likes of me. I wouldn’t wish myself – armed to the teeth with internet-published research papers and results of double-blind clinical trials – on Dr Shipman, Dr Mengele or even Dr Fox (and his faithful sidekick Nurse Werritty). Yet that sympathy is tempered by the suspicion that the startling improvement in GPs’ pay and conditions under New Labour is alienating them – or more of them; one hears as often of brilliant and empathetic GPs as of cocky, clueless ones – from those who effectively pay their salaries.

A century ago, in his coruscating foreword to The Doctor’s Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw regretted the typical physician’s poverty. Today, the British GP is much the most lavishly rewarded in the Western world, with £100,000 a year not even the average. Many make twice that, and some thrice, despite no longer being obliged to work outside office hours, so that the nocturnally stricken are left to the untender mercies of often inadequate locums.

In return for such reimbursement, we ask no more than a fairly prompt appointment with a competent doctor, and that the receptionist not be styled after a Chinatown waiter trained to insult punters to ensure the table is freed up as quickly as possible. Much too often, anecdote insists, even these modest expectations are unmet. Over-indulgent treatment by government has a knack of divorcing public servants (even if most GPs are technically self-employed) from the public they allegedly serve, as students of modern policing may agree.

The reputations of every once-cherished British institution have bombed in recent decades and, like the BBC, the NHS has been latterly weakened by the perceptions of bloated budgets and insular arrogance. The Beeb has reacted well to the criticisms, and the British Medical Association would do well not to dismiss Ms Abraham with high-handed disdain. I wouldn’t describe the health service as the opiate of the masses (you try asking your GP for liquid diamorphine), but it is a religion and, like all religions, relies on the sustenance of faith. Peremptorily excommunicating the dying is a shocking betrayal of that faith, and should be no more tolerated than priestly interference with choirboys.

More from Matthew Norman

BACODA & San Jacinto College South bring the Second Annual Healing Field®: A Memorial to campus during National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week to remember those lost to alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes on Texas roadways in 2010

In conjunction with National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, the Bay Area Council On Drugs & Alcohol (BACODA) and San Jacinto College South hosts the Second Annual Healing Field® for lives lost under the age of 21 due to alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents on Texas roadways in 2010.

Last year, 210 adolescents and young adults lost their lives due to drunken driving.

Ellie Meyer, coordinator for student life at San Jac South says the field is a reminder to students about the dangers of drinking and driving.

“We will continue to do it every year until the number of flags we need to place is zero,” Meyer said.

“Nearly 14 percent of those who died last year were under 21 years old,” Tonya Mathis, events coordinator for BACODA said.

“By showing the flags during National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, we give the students a strong visualization lives lost, and it really seems to resonate with them,” Mathis said.

Eric Gonzalez, a student at San Jac South saw the flags last year. His grandmother passed away in February 2004 after being struck by a drunken driver. Gonzalez said the flags really held a lot of meaning for him.

“These flags are living proof that someone had so much potential,” Gonzalez said. “Don’t cause so much heartache for whoever cares about you; don’t drink and drive.”

To help those who are greatly impacted by the Healing Field®, this Wednesday, October 19th, BACODA will provide free outreach services to both students and employees of San Jac South.

San Jac South will also sponsor the Save-A-Life Tour, featuring a multi-million dollar drinking and driving simulator that gives participants a realistic, sober perspective on the effects of driving whileintoxicated, according to SaveALifeTour.com. The College’s counseling staff will also conduct alcohol screenings throughout the week.

The Under 21 Healing Field® is a preview to BACODA’s statewide Healing Field® in November. On November 14, 2011 1,551 American flags will stand at Walter Hall Park, 807 Highway 3 N., in League City as a temporary memorial to honor those who lost their lives in 2010.

Mathis said the event offers a degree of closure to many who walk through the field of flags.

“This is an opportunity for people to mourn and remember those they lost too soon,” Mathis said. “The Field is open all week during park hours, and I would like to encourage everyone to show their support by attending the ceremony.”

The Healing Field® is open to everyone who has ever been impacted by a drunken driving accident or fatality, and anyone who wants to learn more about preventative efforts, Mathis said.

In addition to the ceremony, BACODA will host Honoring Our Veterans and a Recovery Day program on November 11 and 15 respectively.Also, after the ceremony on November 14, there will be scheduled tours throughout the day. Details on these events may be found at www.BACODA.org.

BACODA and its partners, including TABC, Texas Department of State Health Services, Houston-Galveston Area Council and Unite Way of Galveston County, among others, are committed to creating change andbringing continual awareness to the dangers of drinking and driving.

“By joining forces with community organizations and leadership, such as BACODA, we can make a difference,” said Alan Steen, administrator of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). “I applaud their leadership and initiative in tackling this problem.”

“We want this event to raise awareness of the enormity of the problem,” said Karen Van Horne, CEO of BACODA. “Awareness builds strength in a community – a strength that can bring about social change.”

If you or someone you know is interested in participating in the Healing Field® Ceremony, planting a flag, or volunteering please call Tonya Mathis at 1-800-510-3111 or email her at Tonya.Mathis@bacoda.com.

Shamanism is the national religion in many regions of the Earth, including Yakutia. The ancient belief has survived the Soviet persecution of religion. During those atheist years the Yakut shamans were hiding their abilities. The remaining oyuuns, as they were called by the local population, and Udege (female shamans) soon found a loophole. With a talent for medicine, they found work as medical staff and veterinarians. Hiding under the guise of the Soviet medicine, Yakut shamans secretly conducted their magical rituals.



”When conventional medicine cannot help a person, people go to a shaman,” told Andrei Martynov, chairman of the organization of the Yakut-Russian Society “Knowledge”, a former vice-president of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to Pravda.ru. “Our grandmothers say that when Peter the Great was seriously ill he sought help from the Yakut shamans. They say that the emperor did not have enough time to get to Yakutia, so he died.”


A famous doctor of the republic Alexandra Chirkova lives and works in Yakutia. She is a prominent surgeon and physician accustomed to working with the latest developments of European medicine. At the same time, Alexander extensively uses techniques of shamanic medicine. In her words, modern science emerged from ancient methods of healing. The shamans in Yakutia were skilled psychologists who have used visual diagnosis.

Shamans are respected and protected by local people and local authorities. Some hereditary oyuunams can be reached only going through the tundra across Yakutia.

Not everyone would risk going to Tataysky ulus. To get there one has to travel half an hour on the river Lena, and then seven hours by car. This is far even for Yakutia. Vehicles often break down and roll over.

Locals say that this is the work of the great dead shamans who lived at one time on this land. Their souls are the guardians of the roads to the houses of oyuuns, protecting them from unauthorized eyes. If someone manages to get to oyuun, it means that this person arrived with an open heart and sincere intentions, including a strong desire to heal.

Yakut shamans treated people with tambourines. When oyuuns treat the sick, they speaks to the spirit of the disease. The medical ritual drum has to sound calm and measured, otherwise the patient will get nervous. There is another explanation of the healing power of the drums. The vibration of the drum improves the cardiovascular system, which is good for the health of other body organs. Depending on whether you want to speed up or slow down the patient’s heart, the shaman accelerates or slows down the tambourine.

Shaman ritual instrument must be “alive” that is, repeatedly used, to talk with the spirits. If there is no “live drum”, shamans sometimes use khomus, or Jew’s harp. Khomus affects the power centers of the nervous system and relieves stress.

Almost all Russian shamans call the decline of spirituality the main cause of disease in humans. “People no longer believe, and therefore get sick often. Disease is the offspring of evil spirits. People think bad thoughts that attract illness and then suffer”, told Buryat shaman Tyurgen Kam to the news agency “Taiga. Info.” 

In modern Yakutia and beyond people know the name of Vladimir Kondakov. He is considered a “white shaman.” Kondakov was a physician by training, a medical doctor. Kondakov’s Shamanism was in treating people.

Being the supreme oyuun of Yakutia for many years, he believed that man and nature have always been united. Nature is the “world tree”, or Aal Kuduk Maas, which consists of three worlds. People were sent to the median world by spirits, the inhabitants of the upper world.

Accustomed to a carefree life, people got lazy and were “exiled” to the middle world. For the people not to forget ancestral relationship with the spirits, they gave the “mother heart” or Iye-Kut. In addition to Iye-Kut, people have Buor Kut, or “earthy soul.” The third Kut connects people with the cosmos. Together the three form a flap sur. The Russian researcher Nikolai Alekseev defines shamanism as sur bioenergy, coming from a person and representing their will and mind.

If any of the three parts get deformed, then the entire body suffers. People get sick. Shaman rite helps people to restore harmony. 

The Yakut shaman Michael Chashkin sees the cause of diseases of the modern humans as follows: “Now there is a lot of alcoholism, high blood pressure. Disease depends on the composition of blood. It deteriorated due to climate change, different food, clothes, drinking and smoking. People departed from nature”. 

Vladimir Kondakov once told reporters: “Do you think the world is based on the good? No, it is based on a balance of the good and the evil. Now, the evil prevails, and it’s not that God is evil or weak. Evil is in humans. I conduct rites to maintain the nature.” Yakuts believe that the drum of oyuun keeps a balance between the worlds, and this is the guarantee of balance and health.



Arthur Priymak

Pravda.Ru

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