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Beyond blockbuster shootouts and sappy romances, there are now a conspicuous number of films that deal with God, the church, and the meaning of life. Is this symptomatic of our society, or part of an ongoing tradition?
Religion is currently a hot topic for filmmakers around the world. The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) last month confirmed it: Several films in its program addressed religious themes. And if you take a look at the movie theater schedules right now, you'll find a wide selection of movies dealing with the church or faith.
The French contribution to the Berlinale, "The Nun," is based on a text by Dennis Diderot and tells of the struggles of a young nun in an isolated convent. The film "Camille Claudel 1915" takes place in a very similar setting: the convent that served as the final home of sculptor Camille Claudel.
The Polish film "In the Name of," by director Malgorzata Szumowska, portrays the inner battle of a young priest who finds himself sexually attracted to men. And a new film by Austrian director Ulrich Seidl has just opened in cinemas, whose title clearly reveals its focus: "Paradise: Faith."
Is the film world now looking to religion in this era of spiritual disorientation? While the current abundance of religious films may be conspicuous, there has scarcely been a time since the invention of the motion picture when the spiritual realm has not been examined on the silver screen.
Even the Lumière brothers, who opened the world's first cinema in 1895, made a film about Jesus. And Hollywood quickly turned to Biblical stories, which reached their zenith in the 1950s with films like "The Robe" (1953) and "Ben Hur" (1959).
Many facets, many opinions
"Cinema has always dealt with socially significant topics, and one of the most relevant is of course religion," says Horst-Peter Kroll, editor-in-chief of the Catholic magazine Film-Dienst. "There have always been directors who have taken up the topic in story form and made quite successful films."
Religion has many facets, as Peter Hasenberg points out. He's responsible for dealing with film and media issues on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference. "There have been attempts to represent exemplary figures from the faith, films about problems believers have in their lives, and comedic treatments of faith-related topics. The spectrum is huge," he says.
And when it comes to opinions about religion, the spectrum is just as broad. However, the most controversial films are not the ones with a clear religious message.
"The most interesting films with religious content come from people who are grappling with faith from a critical point of view: Ingmar Bergman or Luis Bunuel, for example," says Hasenberg.
Plenty of questions, fewer answers
Conversely, Hasenberg continues, "The Church has always dealt with film, and actually there is no other social group that does this so extensively."
Religious viewers don't just concentrate on Christian topics, though. "In terms of religion, cinema has long freed itself from western Christian culture, and deals with religious elements from a variety of different traditions," writes Karsten Visarius, director of Film Cultural Center of the German Protestant Church, in the magazine epd Film.
Simply inserting a few priests or Buddhist monks doesn't automatically make for a religious film. Hasenberg points out that many works make only very subtle references to issues like the search for meaning or spiritual transcendence.
"There are films that have a strong link to religiosity: these are films about salvation, guilt and forgiveness, about the meaning of life and dealing with death - questions about the afterlife," Hasenberg comments. He adds that other films are much less explicit, dealing more with a spiritual search than with finding answers within a particular denomination.
Search for the meaning of life
That's the case with a number of recent fantasy films, such as "Matrix" and "Lord of the Rings." Even end-of-the-world dramas fall into this category. "Apocalyptic scenarios make the clearest references to religious heritage in contemporary cinema, whether in American blockbusters or in art films," writes Visarius.
Religion in the cinema has a lot to do with searching for the meaning of life, offering orientation and posing questions of humanity, says Horst-Peter Kroll. "That often has a spiritual dimension. It can be seen in all the Greek myths. Mythology always has something to do with religion."
The films now playing in the cinemas, then, are further links in an ongoing chain of works that have been asking life's biggest questions since the advent of the motion picture. At the same time, they also constitute a way for filmmakers to examine the central issues of their time, such as war, globalization, racism, or environmental destruction.
In the German capital, a showcase of documentary films at this year's Berlinale illustrates the medium's potential to reclaim the past and envision the future, says DW's Helen Whittle. (15.02.2013)
Quadriplegic Philippe Pozzo di Borgo - known from the biographical film "The Intouchables" - says people need to take better care of each other. He may rely on a caregiver, but does everything he can to help others. (14.03.2013)


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I'd like to tell Pottstown to please wake up. Daniel Boone is stopping their kindergarten completely. However, Pottstown pays for four-year-olds half day and we have all day kindergarten. Who pays? We the taxpayers. We need help.
Thank you to The Hill School for the best show on Sunday afternoon. The orchestra, music, actors, singing, everything was just great. 'Anything Goes' - it was a wonderful wonderful show. Thank you again.
JANICE HULL Someone in Sound Off is curious about Obama wasting our tax dollars. Sound Off would not allow me to list the long lengthy waste but this weekend Obama took Air Force One and his staff to Florida to play golf with Tiger Woods plus his motorcade to his motel. His wife goes to Colorado to ski on another taxpayer plane plus her staff. Millions of tax dollars. Curious, shall I go on?
Recently I've seen Spring Hill Services going around fixing up houses and they do a real nice job. I don't work for them but I know about them and I've seen the houses they've done. They do complete gut jobs, renovations and they are beautiful. So I want to thank them for at least investing in Pottstown and making them nice and not doing the usual half you-know-what kind of job to houses.
It is ironic that the people who have unsuccessfully attempted to tie mass murderers to the Tea Party now have a mass murderer of their own, a Hillary supporting cop killer in California by the name of Christopher Dorner.
In regards to the Rosedale Diner, the owner of the diner in 1942 was Jimmy Austin and co-ower was Jimmy Gibbons. My mother worked there and her name was Mary. Later on in the '50s Jimmy Gibbons opened the Star Restaurant on South Hanover Street.
My son got mail from an organization to physically help wounded, handicapped and sick veterans. Enclosed was a card with a picture of a bald eagle and American flag on it and it said, 'Where liberty dwells there is my country,' by Benjamin Franklin. But where is the liberty? Since President Obama is in the office we have none. Everyday we lose more liberty till we're not going to have any left. God help this country.
On Armand Hammer Boulevard there's a bridge going over the railroad tracks on the side of A.D. Moyer and there's a water pipe or something on the top of it. It looks like it's wrapped in asbestos and it's blowing in the wind.
I just want to give a great big thank you to Dr. Schaaf and Dr. Liss and all the staff at Physicians Care Surgical Hospital, 454 Enterprise Drive, Royersford. They are all wonderful caring people who go out of their way to help you. I would recommend you to anyone who needs surgery. Thanks again.
VIRGIL Beware everyone on Welfare. The government is looking for ways to cut the budget. Japan was also looking for ways to cut their budget. They found that the people on Welfare were making more money than the people who were making minimum wage. They cut the Welfare payments, then saved money. They actually saved over a billion dollars.
Why is it when the clowns in D.C. start talking about reforming the tax laws the first thing they start talking about is reduction of the home mortgage credit or elimination of the charitable donation credit? Why don't they look at their buddies at Facebook or G.E. and find out why they pay zero tax but yet get a tax return after making millions of dollars. Maybe it's because they give the most to their campaigns.
Just for the record, Chris Christie had the flags lowered to half staff for Whitney Houston in the state of New Jersey. The president didn't have the flags lowered for Michael Jackson. The 103-year-old woman who had to sit in the wheelchair for eight hours spoke English. She was an American just like our president. You watch too much Fox News.
I just moved into my first home. My neighbor has five dogs. When she goes to work, her five dogs just bark all day long. What a disaster.
The games politicians play. In The Mercury on Monday, 'Most Pa. voters want state out of liquor sales.' Also what you don't see is most Pennsylvania voters want property tax reform. Nothing's going to happen there folks. Liquor licenses will go but property taxes will stay.
I totally agree with shame, shame. We had the same bill but our insurance paid most of it. Pray our economy turns around so the poor in our country will get a break and won't have to worry about eating or paying bills. God bless you all.

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Monitoring cockpit systems not easy for pilots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline pilots often have trouble consistently monitoring automated cockpit safety systems, a problem that has shown up repeatedly in accidents and may have been a factor in the recent crash landing of a South Korean airliner in San Francisco, industry and government experts said Wednesday.
The human brain is not wired to continually pay attention to instruments that rarely fail or show discrepancies, a panel of experts told an annual safety conference of the Air Line Pilots Association, the world's largest pilots union. As a result, teaching pilots how to effectively monitor instruments is now as important as teaching them basic "stick-and-rudder" flying skills, they said.
"The human brain just isn't very well designed to monitor for an event that very rarely happens," Key Dismukes, a top NASA human factors scientist, said. While people "do very well" at actively controlling a plane, "we're not well designed to monitor for a little alphanumeric (a combination of alphabet letters and numbers) on the panel even if that alphanumeric tells us something important," he said.
The "sheer volume of monitoring required even on the most routine flights and the diversity" of systems that must be monitored has increased, he said.
Concern about the problem is great enough that government, union and industry safety officials formed a working group last fall to come up with a blueprint for teaching pilots techniques for how to overcome the brain's natural tendency to sometimes see but disregard important information. For example, if pilots see airspeed indicators showing appropriate speeds landing after landing, their brains may filter out an unexpected low or high speed, they said.
"The human brain filters out information it considers unchanging," said Helena Reidemar, an airline pilot and the pilots union's director of human factors.
Asiana Flight 214 crashed short of a runway at San Francisco International Airport on July 6 after a nearly 11-hour flight from Seoul, South Korea. Of the 307 people on board, three have died and dozens of others were injured. One of the issues that have emerged in the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the accident is whether the pilots, who were supposed to be watching airspeed indicators, were aware the plane was traveling at speeds so dangerously slow that it was at risk of losing lift and stalling.
Dismukes cautioned that it's too soon to reach conclusions about whether the three Asiana pilots who were in the Boeing 777′s highly-automated cockpit were closely monitoring the plane's airspeed, "but what was going on there in terms of monitoring systems obviously is going to be a crucial issue."
Robert Sumwalt, an NTSB board member, said: "The question is, did the pilots recognize they were slow? And if not, why not?"
The board's investigation hasn't turned up any mechanical or computer problems with the plane, NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said at briefing last week.
The board has repeatedly investigated accidents in which pilots' failure to closely monitor key system was a contributing factor to the crash, Sumwalt said.
In 2007, after an investigation of a business jet accident in Pueblo, Colorado, the board recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration require that pilot training programs be modified to contain segments that teach and emphasize monitoring skills and how to manage multiple tasks, Sumwalt said. Since then, the board has twice repeated the recommendation in response to other accidents, he said.
The FAA, however, has not required airlines change their training programs, Sumwalt said. Instead, the agency advised airlines to revise their procedures to "promote effective monitoring" if pilots are found to be inconsistent in their monitoring techniques, he said.
The board does nott believe the advice goes far enough, and has categorized FAA's response as "unsatisfactory," Sumwalt said.
Follow Joan Lowy on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/AP_Joan_Lowy


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The next season should begin in the Spring 2012.
That's right, Spring 2012 !
Assuming of course that the show isn't cancelled in the meantime.
I'm putting this in a prominent place because nothing on the Sister Wives website ( the fundamental fitness one, the Brown family website STILL has a 'Coming Soon' notice up), Twitter or Facebook fan pages says when the season starts. Why are they keeping their fans in the dark?
You know, with all the hype about social media and how important it is, am I the only one who finds it amusing that the Browns are still muddling around not really using Twitter and Facebook to round up some more folks to partake of that expensive MLM food supplements they are trying to sell?
Take a look at the Dargers. They have their ONE public Twitter account, which they basically use to direct their fans to their up and running website. They not only hawk their book, but provide weekly commentaries on their lives as polygamists, with plenty of cheesy, outrageously HUGE photos of the wives -usually hugging a kid or two, or a sister wife or husband or all four of the adults group hugging each other in matching outfits.
And then you have the Browns.
The Brown YouTube channel's plug was pulled months ago. The Fundamental Fitness website very simply points you to either the wives (and now Kody's) Twitter accounts, or the 'Like' fanpage on Facebook. Oh yeah, and to their trainer/business partner's Facebook page. It contains no other content.
I still don't understand the need to have 2 different 'official' fanpages run by the same group of family friends on Facebook. It's almost like how I would imagine Fundamentalist Mormon heaven to be setup. In lower heaven (the Like fanpage) you have all the riffraff who don't quite 'qualify' for the upper heaven - the 'friend' fanpage.
I recently went to the Like page. There were twelve (12) comments between 1/21/12 and and 12 noon 1/30/12.
- 2 comments wanted to know when the next season starts - so far unanswered
- 8 comments say how much they LOVE the show and family
- 1 comment asked a question about marriage vows - it also goes unanswered
- 1 comment called Kody a douchebag
Then there's the Friend fanpage. This is the one where you actually have to be 'vetted' as a Friend before you can see the content. Now this information is from Antoinette
On 1/28/12 Robyn commented that her four "kiddos" have been sick with the flu, and she can't wait til everyone is better. And on 1/26/12, Janelle wrote that Maddie has her learner's permit. These are the exact same comments made on their Twitter accounts.
The number of Friends are steadily dropping each week. As of 1/30/12, it's at 1426. There seems to be some lady with named Carol who has taken over as the official greeter now. That's fine, the Admins are too busy approving that backlog of 1000 friend requests and hunting for that mole! They need the help!
Commenters with questions are more likely to be answered by an admin on the Friend page than the Like page, and Janelle answered a question on 1/26/12. It's funny to see how many questions still go unanswered, but the admins ALWAYS have the time to write a response to a comment made by a Sister Wife. Must be in their admin volunteer contract (You WILL respond immediately and positively to a Sister Wife's comment, no matter how banal.)
Thanks Antoinette! Now you better get back undercover before those malicious (but very busy) admins accidently step on you!
OK, what's our Mother of the Year 2011 Robyn been up to?
Yeah, Antoinette told us. So, what's been happening with
C'mon, Robyn! You know you were named a TOP RECRUITER - VOLUME and TOP RECRUITER - SIGNUPS, so while you were retweeting I hope you didn't get hurt patting yourself on the back!
And while Robyn works on recruiting, Meri and Janelle went shopping!
Ummm....Thanks for that FYI, Janelle...
So what's been up with Kody?
Uh... Meri? Can you tell us what Kody is trying to say? Help us out, please!
And how's the family business coming along?
What kind of outfit is this? Didn't I read somewhere this was a multi-billion dollar company but they cram THIRTY (30) bodies into somebody's home? Actually, they could have gotten a lot more people crammed in if they didn't have such humongous chairs. No folding card table chairs for these folks. I guess no one is rich enough to have a mansion yet. Or maybe the rich know better than to get involved with this organization?
Well, that's all for now. When does Spring start?. And remember...
I scour the internet, so you don't have to !


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Crochet CandyCane
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3 SC in each chain across. It will start to twist and be very uneven.
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3 SC in each chain across. It will start to twist and be very uneven.
Straighten each individual section out so the twist is turning one way. Once that is accomplished, join the two sections together, twisting them together to form the candycane. Once they are evenly twisted, secure each end with yarn so they won't come apart. Sew in all the tails. Run a pipe cleaner through the center of the candycane. Twist the yarn section in the direction to tighten the yarn on the pipecleaner. This will grab the fibers of the pipecleaner tighten it up nice and neat. You can hotglue or dab craft glue to the pipecleaner and yarn so it will stay in place and not come apart. Shape project in to a candycane. I have found that fishing line or clear craft line will work very well for an invisible hanger.


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After the assassination of JFK, the FBI asked Lillian Bradshaw, library director for the city of Dallas, for records of Lee Harvey Oswald's transactions at the library. The search took months, according to a current display at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, because circulation records, stored on microfiche, weren't indexed.
Eventually, library officials determined that Oswald had checked out a book that was overdue at the time of his death: The Shark and the Sardines, by Juan José Arévalo.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Ancestry's Public Member Trees: An Addictive New Game
But not me. I don't dare. Knowing how little time I have for research, blogging, and other pursuits as it is, I avoid these addictive pastimes. Because I would get addicted.
Until now. You see, I thought I'd give Ancestry's Public Member Trees (PMTs) a whirl. You know, just to see what all the fuss over "shaky leaves" is about.
Little did I suspect. I was just going to input a few names, places, and dates and see what happened; if I liked what I saw, then I might gradually – very gradually – add information.
I started two family trees, one each for my mother and father. The shaky leaves started to appear. Nothing exciting at first, just interesting. These were my closest relatives, the people who had been added to my genealogy program first, and I knew most of them well (parents and grandparents, a couple of aunts and uncles), so at first I hadn't always bothered to put a source (shame!). To rectify this, I checked out the hints and added sources – SSDI, census, maybe a World War I Draft Registration Card or two. All the sources were familiar to me; I had already transcribed them, even if I hadn't bothered to cite them for each and every close relative.
As I progressed to aunts, uncles, and their spouses, I had already put source citations, and I started to note that I had more than Ancestry did. "Humph!" I thought. "I've got more than you do." "You" being Ancestry. After going through the sources, I decided to see which PMTs were listed in the hints and what they had. For my father's close family, there was only one such tree, and the second cousin in question had received the information from me.
Three trees came up for my mother's immediate family: one first cousin once removed, one first cousin twice removed, and a large group tree for my mother's home county in Texas. I had much more information and many more sources. "Heh!" I muttered. "I'm ahead here, too."
For a total of about a dozen relatives, Ancestry's accuracy was pretty decent on the source hints – out of about 20 hints, only one census link was for the wrong Moore. (This made me think: I often examine the links to the PMTs to the right of the images of the censuses and other documents and I've seen incorrect or conflicting connections to a few – are these wrong connections made by the owners of the trees or have they simply accepted incorrect hints from Ancestry?)
For the PMT hints, however, I was not about to hit "Connect"; as I understand it, this is how you add the highlighted information to your own family tree and not how you get in touch with the owner of the tree. If I find anything, I will type it in myself. (A confession: in this process I have found one or two incorrectly entered dates in my genealogy program, such as a 25 Jan 1909 for a 26 Jan 1909; at least I think I made a typo….) But I don't want to incorporate information without truly looking at it and thinking about it, and I don't want to have to go back to correct sloppy capitalization and punctuation (which seem to be all over the place in these trees).
And the fact that anybody can just hit "Connect" and endlessly duplicate mistakes – whether minor or major – bothers me. As I saw the same information appearing in exactly the same form in tree after tree, it occurred to me that you cannot tell who originally contributed the information or who copied from whom (although that information is provided for photos that are downloaded and added to other PMTs). So how do I know whom I should contact? And once I put "new" information up, later, after it has been copied and recopied umpteen times, how is another researcher to know to get in touch with me and not just someone who clicked on "Connect"?
This could have put a damper on any further additions to my trees, but I had learned something else: it is interesting and it is fun to see what comes up; what does Ancestry have and what do other tree owners have? And this brought another question to mind: how far can someone go in building a tree by simply following hints (after a bit of initial data input, of course) and without doing much if any research on their own?
And what new things are added after I have reviewed the old hints? Already I could see that I had more ammunition in the bag: I started fumbling around, trying to use the clunky forms to add some non-Ancestry sources and I was also aware of a number of censuses that had not been included in the hints. What would happen if I added those?
At this point I realized that it was too late to stop. This was like a game, and I was addicted to it. Ancestry was "The System" – and it was fun to try to beat The System – even while using it to support my own research. Owners of the other PMTs were other (human) players. I could see and use their research, but they could see and use mine, too.
So when and how would I add new information and where would it lead? For my mother's family in particular, I have quite a bit of information that neither Ancestry nor the PMTs have. I felt like a chess player considering her next move: should I go ahead and add the name of my mother's paternal grandfather or should I just cite and link to the two censuses (1880 and 1900) that show her father living with his father? (OK, having just written this I realize that it sets off major geek alarms.) And will this – through my great-grandfather's distinctive first name – then lead Ancestry to my great-grandfather's family back in South Carolina? I suspect it will. (And it was no easy thing for me to find this family originally!)
It's not that I resent sharing the information; if I did, I wouldn't have put so much of it in Featured Family Friday and Surname Saturday posts. But at least from there people have to cut and paste and then enter the information in their programs.
But there is no question of whether I will make my Next Big Move, simply one of how and when I will make it.
Because I am the Tree Trampler, the Destroyer of the System. Show me what you've got, Ancestry – I laugh at the few puny censuses you throw at me, 'cause I've got that many up my sleeve, and a Will-Bomb and a Land Deed-Grenade in reserve.
So how come I have this sneaky feeling that Ancestry has outmaneuvered me by luring me in, taking all the stuff I throw at it and … making that stuff its own content?
Maybe I'll keep that Will-Bomb in reserve.
Questions that I have:
1. Is there any way to use the forms for additional sources on Ancestry's PMTs to generate decent source citations?
2. Is it OK to upload an image to my PMT that I originally downloaded from a site such as FamilySearch Record Search?
3. My PMT shows up to the right of census images linked to citations, but not in the Search PMTs function. Is there a certain minimum number of individuals the tree has to contain before it will show up there? (I seem to remember seeing the figure "50" somewhere – Apple's Tree or Genea-Musings? – but can't seem to find it now.)
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Commenting here mostly so I can follow the rest of the comments I hope you will get, since I am interested in the answers!ReplyDelete
Now and then when I use Ancestry's search I might check out what is on other people's trees for the person I am researching. I'm almost always appalled at the errors and repetitions of errors, much like you see on World Connect or any online genealogies. I've never been tempted to put my hard work on one of those forums. I admit that I have found good leads but it seems I rarely find a source listed by someone that I didn't already have. And most of the time there are no sources listed. Yuk.ReplyDelete
Last year I got VERY addicted to Farmville for about 3 months. My advice is to stay away. Stay FAR away!! LOL!
- AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 10:13 PM
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Good post! I play my own game with Ancestry; my goal is to always have the most sources by my tree compared to any others that show up through Member Connect. I don't add outside sources anymore, though. I keep all my information online at my own website and it became too much work trying to keep my Ancestry tree synced with my personal website. I just want to have the most Ancestry sources for any of my people.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you said that about what happens when you click "Connect." I've never clicked it, but always thought it would put me in touch with the tree owner. I definitely don't want to add names willy-nilly to my tree.
Amanda - I guess we are still waiting for some answers to our questions!ReplyDelete
Lisa - I'm putting my trees on in the hope of making contacts, but for the reasons you have stated, I'm a little leery about putting original research up there. I don't mind putting it here or on Footnote pages, though.
Tonia - I probably won't put a whole lot of outside resources up, but I will put a few; I'm hoping it will make the lure a little sweeter. My main efforts are definitely focused outside of the Ancestry trees, but right now I like the idea of having a little bit of "real estate" in a lot of locations.
- AnonymousJune 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM
Greta, I agree 100% with the frustration of people passing on mistakes simply by clicking the "connect" button! And if you see a fact on 10 different trees with a conflicting fact on 1 tree, does that mean that 9 people clicked "connect" on incorrect information and 1 person actually did research? It's too easy to see a fact on multiple trees and assume that it must be true!ReplyDelete
My solution to putting original research sources on Ancestry is to put them into a Private tree as opposed to a Public tree. I consider it to be a bit of a backup system for my records and researchers can contact me if it seems we have an ancestor in common and I can decide whether to connect with them or not. I've personally experienced working with new genealogists who begin the week with a few ancestors, but have 3000 ancestors after a couple of days! How much actual research do you think went into THAT tree?
"Shy" - I'm thinking of adopting the private tree as a partial solution. Most of the original research that I don't want to see "glommed" is in my material grandfather's line, so I may just make a separate private tree for that.ReplyDelete
I know I'm in the minority - I love my Ancestry trees! Some of my trees are public and some private. I am working towards making them all public.ReplyDelete
You are correct that people can click on connect and mindlessly duplicate mistakes however you can use the connect feature without adding or changing anything you have! I do this all the time. Where a tree I connect to has different information a little conflict flag come up and I have to choose whether or not to accept their information. If the other tree has information I do not have I do have to uncheck the box to automatically add it and I do wish they would change that part of the system.
I add documents found elsewhere such as Family Search, Seeking Michigan or the LAC all the time. I love that these images can be placed right next to each fact so I can see at a glance what I have. As long as I am saving images found at Ancestry anyway, I also upload them so that family members have access to them.
Did you know that you can create links back to your blog posts about individuals in your tree? I wish it was in a more prominent spot. Look for it bottom right on each individual's page. I link to my blog, Find-A-Grave memorials and occasionally to blog posts or biographies written by cousins. Perhaps for you this would be preferred to adding your information directly to your tree.
For sources you can use the notes field to write the source exactly as you want it. I have no idea how it would print out.
I don't know about needing a certain number of people in your tree to have it show up in a search. I know the "shaky leaves" will take you to trees with less than 50 people. Perhaps it takes time for an indexing update?
Apple, Thank you so much for answering my questions! This is exactly what I needed to know (and Amanda was also interested in the answers to these questions). I am finding that PMTs definitely have their uses. I decided to keep one line private for now, but may change it to public later. Meanwhile, everything else is public. The fact that I can link to blog posts is excellent, and I didn't know about this. That plus the ability to link other, non-Ancestry documents makes it a very useful "storage area." On the minimum # needed to show up on searches, I'll keep checking that and report what I find out (or, as you have indicated, it may simply be that they have to get indexed). Thanks for your very helpful answers!ReplyDelete
Great thing about blogs, It's a year later and I'm searching around the internet to see more experienced genealogist view on ancestry's PMT. Thanks for the insight. I'm new to genealogy research and was intreaged by a relative's claims after getting on ancestry. I found it hard to believe anyone could get so far back in family history within weeks of getting started. I purchased family tree maker because I wanted my data stored locally where I control it, not available to anyone else and not on some server I don't own. I got started with basic information on people I know and have meet in person. Well I got online and discovered she had did nothing but copy PMT information. While I've been able to utilize some PMT that actually are sourced pretty decently to help me find things, I've also discovered errors where, even good researchers made an assumption that lead them to an incorrect conclusion. I then saw where this was copied over and over until it might be believed to be fact. I don't really have any interest in correcting, just not the confrontational type. However you make a very good point, while ancestry has brought awareness from people such as myself and provides a resource that is readily available for historical documents that it does have. Could it have also hurt research by making so easy to create and copy errors, now making those errors more generally acceptable as fact.ReplyDelete
History without evidence is nothing more than fiction.
Tracy, you have definitely zeroed in on the worst part of PMTs and other public collections of trees such as RootsWeb WorldConnect - the perpetuation of errors to the point that people might accept the information as a "known fact." At this point my overall benefit from PMTs has been - they have pointed me to a few new documents, a couple of which actually helped fill a few pieces in my research; and I have found some pictures and what is probably some good information on individuals who were actually close relatives of the people who put the trees up (there has not been not a large quantity of this information, however). The return as far as people contacting me has been quite disappointing; I have been the one doing the contacting in most cases. This does seem to indicate that most people who put up these trees just copy information, especially for ancestors who are further back.ReplyDelete


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Free Enterprise: Courting the World
By MICHAEL REKSULAK
The U.S. is in for a fight — yet another one for preeminence.
According to last year's "Economic Report of the President", the U.S. "established a Task Force on Travel and Competitiveness … with a goal of making the United States the world's top travel and tourism destination."
Of course, any government directed attempt to make a national industry more competitive globally should be viewed with suspicion in a free enterprise system. However, if such an effort leads to less restrictive regulations — for instance those related to visa policies for tourists — that could be effective.
I am attending an academic conference in Berlin, and the buzz around town is about "The World's Leading Travel Trade Show."
One can't but help noticing the thousands of participants (recognizable by their distinct ID badges) from around the world who have, well, traveled to Berlin. An intercultural town at any time, Berlin has taken on the flair of a global meeting place for these past few days.
The competition facing the U.S. in attempting to "benefit from the rapid expansion of outbound tourism from … emerging markets" (Economic Report) is daunting. The 47th International Tourism Bourse (ITB) Berlin lists "10,086 exhibitors from 188 countries" and estimates travel worldwide has cracked the one billon per year mark (http://bit.ly/YGsfCv).
All of the exhibitors want to either protect or increase their share of this market.
"Brand USA" (http://bit.ly/tMmVVB), a public-private entity promoting the United States, is present to show the U.S. from its most visitor friendly side (Coastal South Carolina, by the way, has its own exhibition). However, given the delicate balance between security and openness, the U.S. has to overcome some biases by prospective visitors who are worried about being inconvenienced at the border.
One major trade group, the "World Travel & Tourism Council," published an economic impact report stating that travel related growth was "10% in South Korea, 7% in China and South Africa and 6% in Indonesia" while Europe had less than 1 percent growth and the U.S. less than 2 percent.
According to the same report, worldwide more than 260 million jobs are related to the travel industry (one in every 11).
At a time when historic stock market rallies are overshadowed by concerns that this run-up reflects an overvaluation compared to price-earnings ratios (see here: http://bit.ly/MVnSuo), any optimistic outlook for a major industry is welcome.
The question, then, is how the U.S. can capture a larger share of it.
There is a two-fold strategy at play.
On the one hand, our nation wants to increase travel imports (people visiting the U.S.).
On the other hand, given the large internal tourism market in the U.S., one could attempt to decrease travel exports by convincing some would-be world travelers to choose national vacation destinations. Both activities need to be successful in order to stave off worldwide competition.
Obviously, the United States still fuels the dreams and aspirations of millions of people around the world. Many want to come and live here; others just want to get a taste of the American dream by visiting.
However, as any observer of the ITB Berlin can tell, the rest of the world is becoming more competitive in this area. The battle for hearts and minds (and travelers' wallets) is on all over the globe.
Dr. Michael Reksulak teaches economics and public finance in Georgia Southern University's College of Business Administration. He may be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.
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Kinston suffered its only Eastern Plains 2A Conference loss on the road at North Pitt last season.
On Friday night, the Vikings made sure history didn�t repeat itself.
BETHEL� Kinston suffered its only Eastern Plains 2A Conference loss on the road at North Pitt last season.
On Friday night, the Vikings made sure history didn�t repeat itself.
�We came up here last year and got humbled,� Kinston coach Perry Tyndall said. �We discussed that in practice this week, how important it is to be prepared and focused no matter what the situation.�
The Vikings were definitely prepared and focused this time against the Panthers, racing to a big lead and never looking back en route to an 81-54 victory that clinched an undefeated conference regular season.
It was the second time in the past six years that Kinston (20-2, 12-0) rolled through league play without a loss. They also accomplished the feat during the 2007-08 season as a member of the Eastern Carolina 3A Conference.
�It�s a testament to the team�s hard work that they were able to win every game in the league,� Tyndall said. �This is a very good conference with some tough places to play on the road.�
Count North Pitt among those tough places. The Panthers (11-11, 7-5) shredded Kinston by 11 points last season, the Vikings� last loss on their way to the state 2A championship.
�North Pitt has always given us trouble here,� Tyndall said. �They�re well-coached, they play hard, and they take pride in defending their home court.�
With a big boost from senior point guard Josh Dawson, Kinston shattered the hosts� pride very early.
Dawson opened the game with a long 3-pointer, scored on a runner in the paint, and fed Denzel Keyes for a layup as Kinston quickly built an 11-2 advantage.
He finished the first quarter with nine points and three assists and Kinston led 22-7. The lead never dropped below 11 again.
�Josh helped us get off to a great start,� Tyndall said. �He remembered what happened last year and wasn�t about to let it happen again.
Dawson scored 13 of his 16 total points in the first half. His production, along with Brandon Ingram�s 10 second quarter points, were especially important as leading scorer Keyes got into early foul trouble and tallied just two first-half points.
Ingram finished with a team-high 23 points, while Keyes reasserted himself after intermission to finish with 13.
Although the outcome was never in doubt, Tyndall was especially impressed by the way his team responded to North Pitt�s biggest sign of life, an 8-0 run late in the third quarter.
�We were safely in front, but they made a nice run and got their crowd back into it,� Tyndall said. �It would have been easy to just go through the motions, but instead we buckled down defensively and answered.�
The brief spurt closed the gap to 17, 55-38. Kinston settled down and led by as many as 29 in the final period.
It was not a perfect effort, however.
�We allowed them to score in the paint way too much,� Tyndall said. �It�s unacceptable to give up that many easy points when you�re doing so many other things well.�
The Kinston girls fell behind 2-0 on a layup by the Panthers� Quondramec Moore at the 6:42 mark of the opening period.
Kinston led 9-2 when North Pitt scored again with 1:19 to go in the quarter.
The Panthers� next points came on a free throw by Dorian Sharp with 1:01 remaining in the third quarter.
Yes, the third quarter.
North Pitt managed a grand total of three points over a stretch that spanned 22 minutes, 42 seconds.
The score after Sharp converted her free throw? 41-5.
It was that bad, and the dominating victory allowed Kinston (19-4, 12-0) to also finish conference play unbeaten and for the second straight season.
�We had a great regular season, but now we have bigger goals we want to reach,� Kinston coach Hubert Quinerly said. �But to come on the road and beat the second place team like this was a great way to get us ready for the postseason.�
Brittany Drumgoole scored 14 points, grabbed nine rebounds, dished out eight assists, and collected three steals to lead the Vikings, who didn�t play their best but were still plenty good on this night.
Anshonee Addison added 13 points for Kinston, while freshman transfer student Jada Faison, playing her first game for the Vikings, impressed with five points and eight rebounds.
Kinston also forced 34 Panthers turnovers.
However, like the boys, there are still areas of improvement Quinerly says his team needs to address before the playoffs.
�We started way too slowly,� said Quinerly, whose team was held scoreless the first 5:11 of the game. �We can�t do that in the state playoffs. Good teams don�t wait for you to get going.�
Both Kinston squads have earned first round byes in next week�s conference tournament and will open play at home Wednesday. The girls will play at 6 p.m. with the boys to follow.
Kinston 22 20 15 24�81
North Pitt 7 17 14 16�54
VIKINGS (20-2, 12-0) � Brandon Ingram 23, Josh Dawson 16, Denzel Keyes 13, Andrew Lopez 12, Joyner 8, Dunn 4, Taylor 3, Hart 2, Ham, Jones, Williams, Canady.
PANTHERS (11-11, 7-5) � Demarcus Best 12, Barnes 9, Battle 9, K. Harris 7, Crandell 6, Overton 4, Council 4, Dudley 3, Gardner, T. Harris.
Kinston 11 12 18 8�49
VIKINGS (19-4, 12-0) � Brittany Drumgoole 14, Anshonee Addison 13, Harper 8, J. Faison 5, Williams 4, Lofton 3, Rivers 2, Vermillion, Thi, B. Faison, Washington, Clark, Tice.
PANTHERS (12-10, 7-5) � Kayla Cox 10, Sharp 3, Taylor 2, Moore 2, Hidgins, Searcy, Brown, White, Pender.


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DALLAS (AP) Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Saturday for criticizing the officiating after Dallas' loss to Golden State.
With the Mavs trailing 98-97 on Thursday, Brandan Wright had the ball knocked away while going up for a shot, and no foul was called. The Warriors went on to win 100-97 at home.
Carlisle was particularly frustrated because the NBA had acknowledged the referees made a mistake in the final seconds of a loss at Portland two days earlier. O.J. Mayo was called for a charge with 1.5 seconds left in a tie game, and the league conceded the next day it should have been a blocking foul, which would have given the Mavericks two free throws to try to take the lead. Instead, LaMarcus Aldridge hit a buzzer-beater to win it.
``The game came down to the call that wasn't made. Brandan Wright got hit on the arm,'' Carlisle said Thursday. ``And it's obvious. And it's two (games) in a row. ... And I'm very concerned about what's happening at the end of games with the officials. I can only be honest.''
On Saturday, Carlisle sent a text message to reporters saying he spoke to the league office and agreed with the fine. He said the comments were ``not appropriate.''


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|Photo: Slow-Cooker Moroccan Turkey Stew Recipe
Recipe courtesy Food Network Magazine
Total Time: 6 hr 20 min
Prep: 20 min
Cook: 6 hr
Yield: 4 (with leftovers for Moroccan Burritos)
Level: Easy
1 teaspoon ground allspice
Kosher salt
4 skinless, bone-in turkey thighs (about 4 pounds)
1/2 medium butternut squash, cut into 2-inch chunks
2 15 .5-ounce cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 28 -ounce can whole peeled tomatoes with juices, broken up
1 cup dried apricots
1/2 cup golden raisins
8 medium carrots, cut into 11/2-inch pieces
3 medium red onions, halved and cut into wedges
2 whole dried red chiles
1/2 lemon
2 cups fresh cilantro, including leaves and some stems
1 cup fresh parsley
1 clove garlic, smashed
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Combine the allspice and 3 teaspoons salt in a small bowl. Season the turkey thighs with half the salt mixture in a 5-quart slow cooker.
Toss the squash, chickpeas, tomatoes, apricots, raisins, carrots, onions and chiles with the remaining spiced salt. Pour the vegetables over the turkey (the cooker will be full; arrange the mixture so the lid fits). Cover and cook on high for 6 hours or on low for 7 to 8 hours.
Spoon the vegetables and broth into bowls. Remove and discard the turkey bones and place the meat on top of the vegetables.
Juice the lemon; pulse with the cilantro, parsley, garlic, cumin and 1 teaspoon salt in a food processor. Add the oil and process until smooth. Serve the stew in bowls; drizzle with the cilantro sauce.
Leftovers from this dish can be used to make Moroccan Burritos.
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Phone-hack saga: Prosecutors mull charges for 11 suspects
Four hacks, one cop and six citizens on CPS dartboard so far...
Four journalists and one cop have been pinpointed by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service over alleged offences relating to phone hacking, it emerged today.
The CPS confirmed to The Register that 11 suspects could face prosecution over misdeeds that led to the scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch's media empire and damaged the reputation of the Metropolitan police force.
It said prosecutors were mulling over the following information:
One file for charging advice relating to one journalist and one police officer with relation to alleged offences of misconduct in public office and the Data Protection Act.
One file for charging advice relating to one journalist and six other members of the public with relation to alleged offences of perverting the course of justice.
One file for charging advice relating to one journalist with relation to alleged offences of witness intimidation and harassment.
One file for charging advice relating to one journalist with relation to alleged offences under RIPA.
A total of 43 people have been arrested to date by Scotland Yard cops working on three investigations into alleged voicemail interception, corrupt payments to police officers and computer hacking.
No charges have yet been brought against any of those people questioned by the Met. Those arrested and later bailed in the three inquiries – Operation Weeting, Op Elveden and Op Tuleta – have included ex-News International boss and one-time Murdoch darling Rebekah Brooks.
The CPS told El Reg that it was "not prepared to discuss the identities of those involved or the alleged offences in any greater detail at this stage as a number of related investigations are ongoing".
It added: "We are unable to give any timescale for charging decisions, except to say that these cases are being considered very carefully and thoroughly, and the decisions will be made as soon as is practicable." ®


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Increasing competition among cable, satellite, and broadband suppliers, combined with slower growth in consumer uptake because the industries have reached maturity, is leading to aggressive marketing efforts to wrestle market share from other companies.
If the leading companies followed classic marketing strategies, they would be offering consumers better arrays of networks and services, better customer service, and/or better prices in efforts to attract more customers.
Instead, many of the largest competitors have been engaging in acts that harm customers and consumers by using illegal and deceptive marketing practices and strategies designed to unwittingly wring greater revenue from their customers. Although the companies apparently think there are benefits in behaving badly, their marketing practices are increasingly getting them into trouble.
Aggressive telemarketing—which has always offended consumers—has landed a number of leading firms in hot water. Comcast and Direct TV have just admitted charges and are paying fines to the Federal Trade Commission for violating telemarketing rules by ignoring the federal do-not-call list. The FTC has also filed a suit against Dish Networks for similar violations.
Companies tend to advertise heavily when competition is high and ads for cable, satellite, and broadband services have helped the revenues of thousands of television stations, newspapers, and magazines across the U.S. Unfortunately, the veracity of advertising claims in cable, satellite, and broadband services has been widely questioned by consumer groups, governments, and other competitors. In recent months Bright House Networks filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission about the practices of AT&T, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureau chastised Cablevision for advertising claims after complaints from Verizon, and Verizon itself has been sued for misleading claims by NJ Division of Consumer Affairs.
The industry also sought to market different levels of broadband Internet services to customers and planned to charge different rates for users—a strategy that would allow them to advertise a low price even when many customers would have to pay a higher price based on usage. Plans by Time Warner, Comcast, Frontier Communications and other firms to offer tiered service plans have now been dropped after complaints by customers and legislators.
Cable and satellite firms have traditionally been mavericks and rogues in the media industries and many Internet service firms followed their example. Even though the industries have matured and the number of players has been significantly reduced through mergers and acquisitions, the wild and woolly world they created is still evident in their marketing practices.
We can only hope they will learn to become good corporate citizens—or at least firms concerned about their own reputations.
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A woman rests under paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 'The White Horse 'Gazelle'' (left) and Jean Renoir's ''Sewing'' (right) in the Albertina art gallery in Vienna on September 10, 2009 during the opening of the exhibition 'Impressionnism, Painting Light'. The show, comprising 170 works, unfolds the mesmerizing world of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)


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Huxley: The Dystopia still alive and kicking
Remember Huxley: The Dystopia? You'd be forgiven if you didn't, or thought it was either vaporware or canceled. We thought the later ourselves.
Ijji headlines
Free-to-play game site ijji.com registers 9 million players
Free-to-play gaming site ijji.com has announced that 9 million registered players have signed up for the service. Run by NHN USA, CEO Philip Yun told IndustryGamers that the flux of users has a lot to do with the economy, as "people don't have the disposable income to spend", and are drawn in by the free-to-play […]
Huxley: The Dystopia no longer cross-platform, goes free-to-play
Huxley: The Dystopia will no longer contain cross-platform play between PC and Xbox 360, and is also going with a free-to-play microtransaction business model. "At this point, yes, [Huxley is] microtransaction supported," ijji's Boo Won Kim told Joystiq. As far as no longer being cross-platform, it was confirmed to be true "at this point." More […]
Closed beta sign ups start for Huxley: The Dystopia
NHN and Webzen are accepting closed beta sign-ups for the PC version of Huxley: The Dystopia. The MMO has been in open beta in Korea since 2008, uses Unreal Engine 3, and combines FPS and RPG elements. But you knew that already. A release window for PC or Xbox 360 has yet to be announced. […]


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Organic farming and marketing groups and other web resources of particular interest to organic farmers.
1997 National Organic Directory -- Print is not dead! This is the hard-copy yellow pages for the organic industry, filled with information you won't find anywhere else. Lists growers, buyers, wholesellers, state and national laws, great articles on organic issues, and more. Published by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers. Site provides table of contents, ordering info and sample article.
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association -- Biodynamics explained, directories of regional and associated BD groups, training and apprenticeship programs and more.
CAFFEINE -- Organic Farming -- Growing list of links from Canada's Agrifood Directory.
Canadian Organic Growers -- Background, contacts, and excellent publications list including the very useful Organic Field Crop Handbook.
California Certified Organic Farmers -- Features complete online version of certification standards, an organic FAQ, membership directory and more.
CNN's Certified Organic Stories -- CNN Plus's organic foods hub. Links to CNN stories about organic food and farmers complete with search engine to other related stories. Interesting news, but see how many mistakes you can spot in their Organic Explainer.
Federal Organic Foods Production Act 1990 -- An easy-to-read (if that's possible) version from Cornell Law School.
Information Network For Organic Produce -- International site seeking to link buyers and sellers. Limited listings at this point. (8/26/97).
International Organic Links --Great collection of links to groups from around the world.
Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance -- Includes information about Organic Growers of Michigan including certification standards and procedures.
Midwest Organic Alliance -- Mission to stimulate demand and increase supply of certified organic products in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Interesting information targeted mostly at marketers and retailers.
National Organic Standards Board -- Summary of Recommendations -- This is summary of what the NOSB recommended to the Secretary of Agriculture, provided as a service by Bob Anderson at Cascadian Farms.
Northeast Organic Farming Association -- Vermont -- Background and contact information.
Ontario Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) -- Chapter contacts and information.
Organic Certification in Nebraska -- Brief Extension NebFact guide from '96. Provides basic information about organic production and certification in the state.
Organic Cotton Exhibit -- Artsy, fun and graphically pleasing site makes the case for organic cotton. Enjoy the tour, then follow up by surfing their links for more information.
Organic Indiana -- Hoosier guide to farms, communities and organizations. Contacts, announcements, and links including Indiana Organic Peer Review Panel.
Organic Production Topics (Florida) -- Part of the University of Florida's Agricultural Information Retrieval System (FAIRS). Caution: Many of the links in this "organic" site lead to non-organic Extension publications. You'll have to work hard to glean the organic info here.
Organic Trading and Information Center -- A site for consumers and producers of organic foods and natural products. Appears a little funky, but be sure to check out the site's active message board for marketing leads. Includes somewhat dated ('95) directory of organic certifiers. Also has the original legislative language of the 1990 Organic Foods Protection Act.
Transition to Organic Farming -- Excellent, well-organized resource from Manitoba Agriculture. Features farmer profiles, management options, certification and marketing information, Canadian organic standards, long list of print resources.
WWW Certified Organic Food -- Site's purpose is to forge open communication between Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) members. OCIA news and contact info, complete online version of OCIA Standards, How To Become Certified (including a list of certification agencies), links to farmers and more.
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The Motorola Xoom, the first Android tablet to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb which has been launched in the US since weeks, has finally shown some signs of coming to India.
Infibeam, a popular online store in India, has made the Motorola Xoom available in India for pre-order. It is priced at Rs 35,000 or $775, based on current exchange rates. It's a bit surprising that the tablet will be available in India at a lower price than in the US where it is priced at $800. According to Infibeam, the Motorola Xoom will be released in India on 10 May 2011, and will start shipping in 3-4 days after the launch.
The Motorola Xoom is a very good Android tablet, and presently the only decent competitor to the Apple iPad 2. It has received good reviews but is priced a bit high, compared to the Apple iPad 2, which starts at $499, the same as the iPad. It is rumored that a Wi-Fi only version of the Xoom is in the works, and will cost substantially lower, closer to the $500 mark.
The Motorola Xoom has a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. It is powered by a 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 1 GB RAM and comes with a 5 MP camera. It also has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G connectivity and comes with 32 GB internal storage.
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Latest Mental Health News
FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- We've all seen them: the surfers who race to the beach when a hurricane hits, the guy who decides to ride out the storm in his overmatched boat, the tornado chasers who fearlessly steer their cars alongside a scary-looking funnel cloud.
Monday's devastating tornado in Moore, Okla., was the most recent reminder that Mother Nature isn't something to gamble with -- that even when the best safety precautions are taken, people can still get hurt and die.
Yet, even now, when weather experts have the technology to predict potentially dangerous natural disasters far enough in advance for people to take shelter, some still sprint into the melee while the rest of us hunker down in safety.
Storm chasers, thrill-seekers and their ilk don't fit a single personality profile, mental health experts say. Although genetics probably play a role, learned behavior and maturity are factors, too.
"They may be one of two types: people who have what we call impulsivity or those who are sensation seekers," said Rick Hoyle, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and associate director for the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
An impulsive person tends not to think about the outcome of their actions. "They're more in the moment," Hoyle said. "They think, 'I see this novel, amazing thing in front of me and I have to run toward it. I have to experience it.' "
Sensation seekers, on the other hand, are more likely to understand the risk, but it's worth the high they get, said Hoyle, who has conducted research on sensation-seeking behavior.
"Exposure to a novelty -- what we call stimuli high in sensation value, like an incoming tornado -- tends to activate the reward centers in the brains of people who are high in sensation-seeking behaviors," he said. "In other words, they get the same high from these events that you and I would get from eating something that really tastes good or being with someone we really want to be with."
High sensation-seekers are significantly more likely to use drugs and alcohol too, he added.
"The combination of the two -- impulsivity and sensation-seeking -- in one person is particularly likely to lead them into harm's way," Hoyle said.
Telling risk-takers that the weather they're about to challenge is dangerous usually won't convince them to come back inside, Hoyle added. "The more you portray it as risky and edgy, the more appealing it might be," he said. "It's an information processing bias."
Some sensation-seekers may take greater and greater risks over time, said psychiatrist Dr. Emanuel Maidenberg, director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's called habituation. In order to achieve the same level of satisfaction they need more and more stimuli," he said. "Their need for excitement and arousal may increase gradually over time and they may need to seek thrills of a bigger kind."
A person might also brave a fierce storm because it brings attention, said Scott Huettel, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke who has collaborated with Hoyle on research.
"Adolescents have stronger responses to rewards, particularly if an action has a social reward," Huettel said. "They may not see their behavior as risky because it has a potential reward -- maybe it will improve their social status or it's going to help them get the girl."
And don't assume your typical risk-taker is the extreme athlete or the guy with the tattoos and piercings. There's a lot of evidence now suggesting that more than one personality type is attracted to impulsive, thrill-seeking behaviors, Huettel said.
"The person who decides on a whim to jump off a sea cliff is not the same as the guy who chooses a risky career like firefighting," Huettel said. "And people who tend to take high-risk actions recreationally aren't necessarily as likely to do that with their investments, for example."
Although fearlessness in the face of nature's wrath likely has a genetic component, there are social forces at play too, said Dr. Scott Bea, a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic.
"What is interesting is that one of the most well-studied and researched storms was Hurricane Katrina," Bea said. "Stanford and Princeton researchers looked at groups of residents who rode the storm out, residents who left, emergency workers who came in to help."
Bea said people who weather big storms instead of escaping to safety may not be in the sensation-seeking category at all. Perhaps they have a lack of financial and social support, or they just don't want to leave their communities.
"They embody the American working class -- independent individuals," he said. "People who don't want to leave their homes, who want to stay close to neighbors and friends because they have a sense of obligation, like a ship's captain."
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SOURCES: Rick Hoyle, Ph.D., professor of psychology and neuroscience, and associate director for the Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Emanuel Maidenberg, Ph.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry, and director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinic, UCLA; Scott Huettel, Ph.D., professor of psychology and neuroscience, Duke University; Scott Bea, Psy.D., clinical psychologist, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio


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Psychol. Soc. no.41 Durban ene. 2011
What is critical community psychology?
Kerry Frizelle
School of Psychology University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban
Duncan, N, Bowman, B, Naidoo, A, Pillay, J & Roos, V (eds) (2007) Community psychology: Analysis, context and action. Cape Town: UCT Press. ISBN 978-1-919-71397-7. Pages xv + 463.
As a critical psychologist I aim to introduce students registered for my community psychology module to a critical approach to community psychology. I aim to demonstrate that there is an alternative to mainstream psychology and that, more specifically, there is an alternative to mainstream community psychology. In 2005 Nelson and Prilleltensky edited a text entitled Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being. This text provides an excellent outline to a critical approach to community psychology. It proved, however, to be too long and detailed to cover in a module that is a term long and because it is internationally published is an expensive option to prescribe in the South African context. I have, therefore, largely relied on locally published community psychology texts when teaching my module. While these books may not be specifically focused on a critical approach, many of the texts are critically orientated.
A recent locally published text is Community psychology: Analysis, context and action. Painter, Terre Blanche and Henderson (2006: 228) argue that much of the rhetoric of community psychology can be seen as no more than "an attempt to further the interest of a conservative psychology under radical pretences". They go on to critique the fact that rather than presenting alternative approaches to psychology the sub-discipline of community psychology is too often used to deliver "mainstream clinical services⦠at 'reduced prices' to a different, poorer clientele" (Painter, Terre Blanche and Henderson, 2006: 228) and in this way (re)produce and maintain a mainstream, apolitical approach. They further argue that the term "community" itself has been used problematically: "whereas white, middle-class clients are envisioned and addressed as individuals, poor, mostly black clients are collectively addressed as 'the community'" (Painter, Terre Blanche and Henderson, 2006:228). Most of the texts on community psychology that have been published locally in South Africa have, thankfully, not been guilty of simply repackaging a mainstream and conservative psychology in the discourse of community psychology. One of the earliest local texts published, Community psychology: Theory, method and practice, South African and other perspectives (Seedat, Duncan & Lazarus, 2001), provides a critique of mainstream psychology in post-apartheid South Africa and even includes a chapter on a Marxist approach to community psychology. The examples of the South African communities discussed within the text, however, remain mainly disadvantaged black communities.
The text under review, Community psychology: Analysis, context and action, is a largely critically orientated text. Section 1: Analysis aims to contextualize community psychology as a discipline. A particularly critical chapter in this section is Chapter 4: A history of 'community' and community psychology in South Africa by Jeffery Yen. In this chapter Yen examines the historical uses of the term community in the discipline of psychology and within the context of apartheid. In this way the term community is seen as a political and historical construct that has implications for the way in which community psychology is conceptualized and practiced. For example, Yen points out how the term "community" has historically been used interchangeably with terms such as "race" and "ethnic groups" (re)producing ideas of communities that are inherently different to each other, rather than socially constructed. Yen highlights that although community psychology emerged alongside broader democratic movements that were aimed at "dismantling oppressive political structures of exclusion and deprivation" (p 59) not all forms of community psychology shared this particular political aim. Yen points out that while community psychology was becoming popular there were people who warned that the separate development of community psychology "allowed mainstream psychology to continue practicing in the same way, and for the same people", while community psychology became for "poor, black South African's" (p 59).
Another critically oriented chapter in Section 1 is Chapter 6: The mental health model: Preventing 'illness' or social inequality by Rashid Ahmed and Shahnaaz Suffla. The key assumptions of the mental health model of community psychology are discussed alongside the central concept of prevention. The authors then take a critical turn and critically evaluate the mental health model highlighting how even a bio-psychosocial approach in mental health prevention essentially retains a disease metaphor. So while a community approach to mental health broadens its lens to include wider contextual influences on mental health, "the narrower and inappropriate metaphor of illness has not been fundamentally challenged" (p 92). Ahmed and Suffla further critique the conceptualization of risk and prevention before moving towards discussing expanding the boundaries of the mental health model and working from a critical framework. This chapter is well organized and develops a critique in a structured, engaging and critical way.
Chapters 7 and 8 (Section 1) introduce two critical community psychology frameworks. Chapter 7 presents an ecological approach to community psychology and highlights the different levels of influence and intervention within the context of community psychology. The author, Maretha Visser, concludes by highlighting that although wider levels of influence are acknowledged by the ecological model, "it is criticized for not being sufficiently transformative at the macro-level" (p 114). Chapter 8 introduces a critical orientation to community psychology. While an important and exciting chapter, especially in relation to the preceding chapters which provide the motivation for such a turn in community psychology, this chapter fails to adequately grapple with what a critical approach to community psychology actually involves or "looks like". A small section of the chapter focuses on a comparison between critical and mainstream psychology. I would suggest that the text would have benefitted from a chapter that dealt more comprehensively with the difference between mainstream psychology and a critical community psychology. It is almost as though the reader's knowledge of what is mainstream is assumed by the authors of this chapter. I suggest that as an introduction to a critical approach the chapter remains too abstract.
Section 2: Context of Community psychology: Analysis, context and action provides chapters on interesting aspects of community psychology. One example is Chapter 9: Intergenerational rites of passage. This chapter discusses the importance of ritualized acts that enable a sense of belonging among specific members of a community. Clinton Van der Walt and Brett Bowman highlight the importance of community psychologists understanding these rites of passage as "socialization devices" that are "capable of reworking and/or entrenching unequal social relations" (p 146). This chapter deals with cultural practices as socially and historically constructed (as opposed to inherent processes) and therefore open to be used for "socially productive change" (p 146) by critical community psychologists. Section 2 includes other topics, which highlight that psychological life is socially embedded (Painter, Terre Blanche & Henderson, 2006). Such chapters cover the topics of poverty, power and violence, and HIV/AIDS. An exciting chapter is Chapter 10: Contextual issues: 'Race" and childhood health in South Africa, which deals critically with the topic of "race". Through out the chapter the term race is placed in inverted commas to highlight its socially constructed nature. The authors argue that that using "race" as the key predictor of child health runs the risk of "re-racialising and stereotyping communities". The authors, therefore, argue for the "disaggregation" (p 174) of "race", which involves looking at various contextual factors that drive disparities in the health care of children in South Africa rather than focusing primarily on "race". The text also includes chapters that challenge the taken for granted assumption that communities are limited to previously disadvantaged black communities. These chapters deal with homelessness, the elderly, and former combatants in South Africa.
Section 3 of Community psychology: Analysis, context and action deals with community change and includes a number of chapters on topics that are contextually relevant and critical. They also serve to challenge the assumption that community psychology involves simply offering mainstream psychological services to poorer communities. These chapters deal with healing practices in communities, community learning and community-based coping. The section also offers important chapters on ethics and research within the discipline of community psychology. I would, however, suggest that many of the chapters in Section 3 of the text belong in a text of its own. These chapters deal with learning in community psychology, teaching community psychology and training psychology students and interns. While these chapters are important and relevant I am not sure that they belong in a text of this nature and suggest that there is a need for a text that focuses on the teaching and learning of community psychology in a more focused and direct way.
While I would suggest that there could have been more collaboration between the authors of the different chapters to improve on the overall flow and direction of the text I think that Community psychology: Analysis, context and action is a critically oriented community psychology text with some creative and innovative chapters.
Nelson, G & Prilleltensky, I (eds) (2005) Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [ Links ]
Painter, D, Terre Blanche, M & Henderson, J (2006) Critical psychology in South Africa: Histories, themes and prospects'. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 5, 212-235. [ Links ]
Seedat, M, Duncan, Lazarus, S (eds) (2001) Community psychology: Theory, method and practice. Cape Town: Oxford University Press. [ Links ]


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Under the mobile content search system, users would be able to search for a particular ringtone—for example, Eric Bangeman might want Sanjaya Malakar's rendition of "Bathwater" as his ringtone. Google would then return a list of links that would let them purchase the ringtone directly from those providers and get the ringtone immediately. The same would apply for games, backgrounds, applications, and anything else mobile customers use on their phones. According to the Wall Street Journal's sources, the service has supposedly experienced some setbacks, and no launch date has been set yet as the search giant moves forward with its plans.
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soccer player. Whenever she would get a cold, it went into asthma. Her lungs
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The remedy that was given was Natrum sulphuricum 6C, T.I.D.
This remedy is one of the main remedies for pediatric asthma that is worse from
cold, damp weather, indicating the presence of the sycotic miasm, which
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Calvin Johnson may be on the cover of Madden NFL 13, but Tebowmania has made its way into the game.
Madden NFL Creative Director Michael Young confirmed on Twitter last Friday that Tebowing will be included in Madden NFL 13.
The gesture (seen to the right) was popularized by former Denver Broncos and now New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow. No word whether the Ickey Shuffle will be in the game yet.
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