Month: October 2009

 

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Announcement

The Norwegian Nobel Committee

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”

Oslo, October 9, 2009

I tripped and fell in my studio 7 weeks ago.  Since then the only time I have not been in pain is when  I sleep between being woken up from shoulder pain when I roll over in my sleep.  Most of the time My pain level is about a 2 or 3 (0 being pain free and 10 being how I felt when I fell) but it’s not so much the level of pain as it is it’s unrelenting nature. It’s enough to distract me 24 hours a day. it’s always there. And it’s not just the shoulder, my tendinitis is flaring big time, the stress is giving me headaches.  Also I think either the pain or the Advil is diminishing the effectiveness of my anti depressants. Either way I am constantly fatigued and I need a break.  From the stress, the pain and the depression.