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Tau'ri Bedrock
Tau'Ri Bedrock by Luca Deltodesco is an unusual and original platformer. In Bedrock you play a... slime? blob? that has been tasked to roll a boulder through levels upon levels of verdant terrain in order to return it to its parent rock. It's a lot like a simplified version of Loco Roco melded with the indie title Gish.Read More
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I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with the other previous two commenters here - nice enough concept, but the game fails as both a puzzler and a platformer.
As a puzzle game, there's not a single point at which it's less than blatantly obvious what you're supposed to do, which is almost invariably either "Push the rock over the little lip which you can't jump, while you take the thin tunnel" or "Push the rock into the water and let it sink while you take the thin tunnel." There's absolutely no thinking involved.
As a platformer, pretty much the only challenges presented are of the form "hey, let's see if you can stay on top of / under this amorphous rock as it makes random erratic movements to try to shake you off!" - trying to keep a sluggish round blob on top of a smooth cicular rock as it changes direction arbitrarily is an excercise is frustration.
Just by the way - is the IRC server down or something?
If you hold the down arrow, you sink slightly in water, which helps when pushing the rock.
The game takes a long time before it feels like it becomes a game. "Logic" is the first level with a real timing challenge. Then "Juice" and "Night" have a couple "stay on a moving platform" challenges.
It's kind of annoying to wait for the moving platforms. Motion in the game feels very slow, which makes try-fail-repeat cycles more annoying than they usually are.
There seem to be interesting possibilities in the framework, but what I've played through so far hasn't held my interest. There doesn't seem to be a lot to do in the levels up to "Night", other than learning how to control the springy motion.
I'm with you, cami. \o/
I thought this game was unique and delightful.
Was beginning to wonder with all the negative comments posted, but then again, the JIG community is one tough nut to crack. ;)
And about the IRC server issue mentioned earlier, we're now located on xelium.net, so if you continue to use irc.jayisgames.com as the server you point your client to, you'll find our new home automatically.
It's all your fault, jay, for spoiling us with such stellar games day after day. I didn't think it was too difficult, per se, just not interesting/engaging/rewarding enough to be worth the effort... the seventh or eighth time I fell off one of those moving rocks I just couldn't be bothered to try it again.
Good game overall. The 'try to stay on the platform' parts were frustrating. On the very last level (with the large platform that goes riiiight then leeeeft) you can fall off the left edge of the map. And that's a curious ending to the game...
'The mother apologizes for not being here, but she is busy pounding her son'. Uhm?
To echo Valarauka, the game really didn't grab me either. It's not that it is incredibly frustrating--I've played games that were far more frustrating--it's just that the game itself does not pull me in enough for me to stick through the minor frustration. In other words, the reward I get for pushing on is not enough to justify the effort.
I liked the look and feel of the game, and I even liked the music. It just got old fairly quickly.
Hey, did anybody ever play a game called Gish? It's a flash game that you have to buy to play the full version, but it features a robust demo. The blob premise and the controls are pretty much the same in both this game and Gish.
Unlike this game, the blob can actually stick to things, allowing you to grab and toss objects, plus crawl along the walls and ceilings.
Argh! Just before I entered the next level (I was on rhythm), I had to shove the rock down a hole. The rock fell faster than I did and landed on me. Something went wrong with the physics, because the rock sort of stuck into me and then got catapulted out, while I fell into the next level--sans rock. So I had to restart the whole [email protected]#[email protected]#$ level!
Indeed Jay, the JIG community is tough... as leather!
<wrist slapped>
I too liked the game (obviously) but I can see when you're comparing it to similar games that accomplish the concept more completely, this may feel a bit like someone has sucked the cream right out of your Twinkie.
Just goes to show that there are room for all types of tastes here.
(... maybe I should go play Loco Roco...)
i enjoyed the game albeit the frustration was a little to much for me sometimes.. i wanted some powerups,...
so... just for fun, i found a way to escape juice: during the moving air platforms part, use the water elevator on the right, and if you time it correctly, you can go out of the right side (hold up the entire time).. once you fall off the cliff, your screen stays blue, and if you hold the up key, your ball will oscillate between large and small and some weird shapes :P
Wow, some of you people do not think about what you type on your keyboard. This is a first attempt by an amateur programmer looking for constructive criticism... and you're flaming the game for not being as good as a professional PSP game?
This is a very well-done physics engine. I would love to see it fleshed out with a bigger variety of gameplay and graphics. Also, please don't make the passwords case sensitive.
I'm with jay and dancemonkey. I loved the game, music was entertaining, sound effects good, and the physics worked extremely well. The only criticism i have is i would like to see more challenge to it. The "stay on the moving rock" parts did get slightly repetitive, and seemed like the only truly difficult part. Maybe make some more challenging sections to it.
Overall, entertaining game. 7.5/10
I found it a nice proof of concept. However, the review did not make that clear, so I expected something more polished than was actually the case.
A lot of it is rather slow, and the first few levels are all the same. I actually stopped playing out of tedium and boredem.
Also the plot didn't make sense. From the story at the start, I expected to have to shift the rock upwards, back towards its mother. Instead we plunge further and further downwards. I wondered how many miles down we were. Then I wondered why trees and grass were growing so deep down.
Constructive suggestions:
- more variety in graphics and locations.
- identify slow locations, keep the same difficulty, but speed up blob / rock movement a bit.
- rejig the story so the mother is a ball of lava at the centre of the earth, and the son has wandered into a volcano pipe by mistake and been ejected to the surface. You have to go up onto the surface then herd the rock down through a series of forests, caves, sewage pipes, lost buried cities, mushroom caves, dinosaur caves, magma tubes, hollow seas, atlantis, all the way down to the centre of the earth.
- an indicator of your depth would give an idea of progress.
I hope that's helpful.
PS Hello Wired readers!
i thought it was a cool game. the blob thing reminded me of the thing in the dofi-blog sand games. i thought it was cool when the blob "swallowed" the rock a few times. one time it even kept me from dropping the rock over a cliff. i found the rock always came out once i went fast enough.
i think if the levels were shorter it would be less frustrating to have to start over. wit a bit more variation, (i like Tomato's ideas) i think this could be an awesome game. a lava element that could carry the rock, but the blob couldn't touch would be a cool addition. i didn't think the music was annoying either.
Tomato, I think your idea for incorporating different worlds is really cool! That's the kind of thing that separates ordinary games from really interesting ones. It's hard to say what makes that different from other, lamer ideas though...
Also, to increase the puzzle factor, the field of view of the game should be increased so that you can see more of the level at once. That would allow the incorporation of more complex interactions with the environment. Items, switches, keys, path splitting, etc, wouldn't hurt either. I would say it should go in the direction of a platformer rather than a puzzler. I did like the physics even though it was a little slow-moving. Good job for a first try! (I wouldn't give it more than 5/10 though.) Hope this guy keeps working if he enjoyed making this one.
Yes, Darren, I also got the rock stuck inside the blob! It was... amusing. I did manage to squeeze the rock out of me by being squished against the underside of a larger rock, shown in my screenshot, but when my rock popped out of me, it killed me, and I was taken back to the start of the level.
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A local mainstay is no more. The Post reports that Heller's Bakery, a community stape since 1928, has closed. The bakery, with its iconic mural and cool old metal and neon sign, has served up coffee, pastries, cakes and such for a long time. I often liked to stop by for a donut after going to the Mt. Pleasant Farmers Market.
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"I like them and, in many ways, they're fine tenants," she said of [owners] the Duni brothers. "But I didn't want to be struggling for the rent. A bakery is a very hard business to run. I'm not sure there's room for that kind of place anymore."
A new tenant may want to change the mural, Lujan said, "and I wouldn't balk, although I don't know if the neighborhood would balk."Despite the lack of sentimentality, it's an interesting point. Le Caprice Bakery at 14th and Meridian is popular and wonderful, but I think most of their business is coffee, sandwiches and pastries to go, rather than bigger things like cakes, which Heller's seems to do a lot. And I've heard mixed things about the cakes and other baked goods from friends and on Yelp. (In fact, I have a few friends who hate Heller's, but I've never fully understood why.)
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Some of my favorite Bird photos
King of Vultures
The Lappet Faced Vulture is considered the king of the African Vultures. Waiting for us at the end of the day close to camp, in the gathering dark
Kori Bustard Song
A male Kori Bustard sending out his booming mating call on the plains of Serengeti, taken March 2018
Mating Season on the Serengeti
A Kori Bustard in all his finery, looking for love.
Kori Bustard bearing gifts
This guy caught a bug and walked over to his partner and fed it to her!
Crowned Crane
A crowned crane posing for us in the early light
Sunrise touched Crowned Crane
With the sunrise just over the horizon this beautiful crane hung around long enough to give us many golden hued photo opportunities
Golden Crowned Crane
Love the rim light on this photo of the crowned crane, with early sunlight catch both his crown and the tufts of grass
Yellow Weaver
At our breakfast picnic in Ngorongoro, these lovely birds were very bold at adept at stealing our food
Black Shouldered Kite
Captured this little kite while having breakfast in Ngorongoro Crater
Helmeted Guinea Fowl
Caught the beauty of this strange fowl in the Ngorongoro Crater
Fiscal Shrike
A tiny predator
Catching a ride on the back of a Cape Buffalo - Ngorongoro Crater
African Hoopoe in the twilight
Caught this elusive bird in the twilight sitting in the shade preening and generally being very relaxed
Lilac Breasted Roller
A roller sitting warming in the sunshine
Superb Starling at dusk
Caught in the last of the light at camp at Ngorongoro Crater Rim
Superb Starlings in a tree
The light was almost gone for the day, and these starlings were flitting around a tree outside our tent. Reminds me of Christmas for some reason
Grosbeak Weaver
Gibbs Farm is a haven for birds and flowers. There is a special garden for these weaver birds.
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Clean up on the plains during migration. There at least 3 types of vultures here plus the Maribou stork
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The kick knifed through the thick fog and split the uprights at Memorial Stadium, giving the Colts a 10-7 victory in sudden-death overtime.
In a flash, fans swarmed the field. Down came the goal posts. Up went Toni Linhart, on someone's shoulders.
Linhart's 31-yard field goal defeated the rival Miami Dolphins late in 1975 and all but clinched Baltimore's first of three straight AFC East titles.
It was the kick of a lifetime for Linhart, who died Sunday morning of cancer, at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 70.
One of only six Austrian-born NFL players, Anton Hans Jorg Linhart signed with the Colts in 1974 after one season with the New Orleans Saints and an 11-year soccer career in Europe. Then 32, he played nearly six years here and, for a time, gave the team a stability long missing in its kicking game. Linhart led the NFL in scoring (109 points) in 1976, when he made the first of two straight Pro Bowl appearances.
He didn't flaunt his success, players said.
"Toni was never flamboyant about his abilities," said Marty Domres, onetime Colts quarterback and the holder on Linhart's field goals and extra points. "He was low-key and understated about everything. I doubt that a lot of people even think of him when it comes to Colts' lore."
Linhart impressed teammates with his athleticism at a time when kickers weren't known as fitness buffs.
"He was great in soccer, tennis and skiing," said Bruce Laird, then the Colts' safety. "He was the first kicker I ever knew who was an athlete first."
At training camp at Goucher College, Domres said, Linhart set up his own drills to test his mettle.
"He developed exercises for himself using medicine balls and elastic bands," Domres said. "Toni was very methodical and organized — and way ahead of his time — in seeing his craft as a professional."
It was a strategy he'd long embraced, he once told The Sun:
"I learned when I was [trying out for the Austrian Olympic ski team], when it was me and the mountain and 50 other skiers, that they might be better than I. But if I was prepared, completely, I could win."
An avid runner, Linhart — an engineer by trade — created an exhaustive obstacle course through the woods on Goucher's campus and suggested that other Colts join in. Coach Ted Marchibroda agreed.
"We still haven't forgiven Toni for that," Laird said.
Linhart's fitness was legend. In 1978, in a publicized tuneup to the Preakness, Pimlico Race Course staged a two-legged match race between the Colts kicker and a jockey named Charley Cooke. Linhart surged to an early lead in the 1-3/16-mile event and won by 30 yards. His time: 6 minutes, 40 seconds.
"Toni was a strong competitor," said David Lee, his roommate and the Colts' punter. "Some mornings, at Goucher, he would play tennis before going to practice. If he was sick or injured, you never knew it. He just worked harder.
"He was also an encouraging guy. If I [shanked] a punt, he'd walk over and say, 'You'll get the next one.'
"He was tough, but also compassionate — and you don't see those two qualities in the same person too often."
By 1979, Linhart's accuracy waned and the crowds let him know it. He appeared nonplussed.
"I've never been bothered by the fans' reaction," he said. "I played World Cup soccer before over 120,000 people. I just give total concentration to my job."
In Baltimore's third game, a 13-10 loss to the Cleveland Browns, he missed three short field-goal tries. Team owner Bob Irsay approached Linhart in the locker room afterward and promised him a $10,000 raise "for trying."
Three days later, the Colts released Linhart.
"I thought that I was going to get another chance," he said. "Well, my second chance was kicking some in practice Wednesday."
His final Colts numbers: 70 field goals in 116 attempts (60.3 percent), and 184 of 194 extra points (94.8 percent).
Linhart finished the season with the New York Jets, then retired. He settled in Baltimore, ran a distribution business for many years and participated in community service, including the St. Vincent's Child Abuse Center and the Ed Block Courage Awards Foundation.
He dealt with his cancer "like a stoic Austrian," Laird said.
"He was resolute, never conceding the fact that things wouldn't work out," Domres said. "In April, he was still going to the gym twice a day to work out. He never talked about his illness as a diminishing end game.
"He was always a world-class athlete looking forward to the next competition."
Linhart is survived by his wife, Renate, and son, Bernd.
Funeral services information was incomplete Sunday. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to NativeVision at the Johns Hopkins University Center for American Indian Health, 621 N. Washington St., Baltimore, MD 21205. Visitation will be Wednesday, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Ruck Funeral Home, 1050 York Road, in Towson. A Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at The Church of The Immaculate Conception, 200 Ware Ave., in Towson.


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As a lawyer turned author and producer, Lee has successfully blended her family with her professional life. She and husband filmmaker Spike Lee co-authored two children's books "Please Baby Please" and "Please Puppy Please," which are highly sought after in children's literature.
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Karyn Parsons is best known as the character "Hilary Banks" on the long-running television show, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air." Today she is a wife and mother of two. Parsons is also the Founder and President of the Sweet Blackberry foundation after being inspired by the true tale of a determined slave and the remarkable lengths he travelled to find his freedom. While growing up, Parsons' mother, a librarian in the Black Resource Center of a library in South Central Los Angeles, would share stories of African-American accomplishment with her daughter. A mother and activist, Karyn created Sweet Blackberry to use the power of stories to inspire youth. Follow her on Twitter @Karyn_Parsons.
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It appears this doesn't work for "character submissions", and journals (which don't need a preview anyways)
Regardless of that, thanks for the effort! Now I can see tags, without having to view the image! C:
Ohh, very nice <3
But hey, glad it's working out for ya! It can be tricky to tell sometimes, with just thumbnails alone...
Firefox addon version of the extension completed!
Previews are now available to those that wish to use "the other browser".
The app has recently been submitted for preliminary review, so it requires a clickthrough warning for the next few days until that finishes. But, it's the same stuff that's in the chrome version so it should go through ok.
You mean SoFurry right? Because I've never seen FA do that :v
Anyway.. as far as programming it, I doubt it'd be too hard, however it'd necessitate basically loading the whole image and that may not be ideal for someone with slow internet like DSL (such as me lol) cuz then you'd have to wait longer for your previews.
It'd be nice if it was an optional feature you could tick on/off.
I'll see about adding an "options" page to the extension, I know it's not too hard on chrome but I'm not super familiar with how firefox addons work. And there I could also add some other stuff like whether you want large submissions to be fullsize or small by default, and enable more specific enhancements.
First of all, nice work! Thanks for taking the time and effort!
I personally would REALLY love th medium thumbnail on hover, I think it's much more useful than the tags - this however doesn't mean you couldn't have both the thumbnail and tags. I would strip the image description preview in favor of the thumbnail.
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Yeah, if it's possible (and not too taxing on the site) a midsized image preview on hover would dramatically improve the site's usability for me. Chrome has had something similar via HoverZoom for a while, but unfortunately the equivalent Firefox extension has never picked up this site on its support list. Best of luck.
Sorry for the double post, but it appears that the Firefox version has been removed. I figure you're probably busy with the holidays, but when you get a chance, please re-upload it so we can give it a try. Thanks!
I guess they finally got around to reviewing it and there was an issue, so I've patched that up and uploaded a new version. Sorry for any inconvenience!
This "patch" version (V1.4) doesn't have any of the new features, just rewriting a bit of code so it follows the rules better. Chrome version is unchanged.


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Gov. Jerry Brown has moved to eliminate more than 700 state reports deemed unnecessary.
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But then I found a recent report on what California is doing with its waste tires -- that is tires that would be thrown away.
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"According to the California Integrated Waste Management Board (Board), California generated 40.8 million waste tires in the year 2005. Of these tires, 30.6 million were diverted from landfills through recycling, reusing, retreading, and as tire-derived fuel.
"For the approximate 10.2 million tires that did not have an established secondary use, the expansion of the existing markets for waste tire usage such as Rubber Hot Mix Asphalt (RHMA)1, playground mats or other surfacing, civil engineering applications, and tire-derived fuels will assist in addressing potential tire stock pile issues and their associated environmental impacts."
And that's just the first paragraph. Who wouldn't keep reading? What's sexier than Hot Mix Asphalt?
Seriously, this sort of ballyhooed cut by Brown is fine. But it doesn't save much money.
Given the governor's unwillingness to tackle the hard job of fixing the utterly broken budget process, announcements like these could be seen as a way of doing symbolic reforms to distract from the fact that bigger changes aren't being made. Such little moves like this may have political value as Brown seeks voter approval for temporary tax increases this fall.
But it's better than nothing. Or more accurately, nothing is better than some of these reports.
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Behavioral Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
By Frederick Penzel, Ph.D.
A particular disorder which is believed by many to be a member of the OC family, has been receiving a lot of media attention lately. This disorder is known as Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), also called by some Dysmorphophobia, a term originated in the last century by Morselli. We call it BDD when an individual appears to be strongly obsessed with what they believe to be a defect in their appearance. They tend to believe that some part or area of their body is misshapen, asymmetrical, wrongly sized, or ugly. Typical BDD complaints can include preoccupations with the face (such as scars, spots, veins, discoloration, acne, or the shape or size of the nose, lips, mouth, eyes, etc.), the hair (fears of receding hairlines), or the size and shape of any other body part (such as the hips, abdomen, buttocks, legs, hands, etc.). In some cases more than one body part may be involved, or. the preoccupation can shift from one part to another over time. BDD should not be confused with the more common type of dissatisfaction that many people experience with themselves. Ordinarily, many individuals wish they were taller, that their nose was shaped differently, that their breasts were bigger or smaller, or that their thighs weren't so large. Often others will agree with them, and even suggest that. they do something abut it. In BDD, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to see things the way the sufferer does. BDD sufferers seem to be totally preoccupied with the imagined defect which can be something very specific, or very vague. Often, it may be a defect no one else can see, or it can be something so minor or microscopic that we would judge the person to be grossly exaggerating it. Frequently, the belief in the defect can be so strong it seems to border upon being a delusion.
Individuals with BDD tend to spend much time obsessing about their defect, questioning others, checking it directly or with mirrors, or having others check them. Frequent visits to physicians, surgeons and dentists for treatment or correction of the defect are not uncommon. Sufferers will often gather evidence to prove their ugliness. None of these professionals can help, even though they may be sympathetic and do their best. I know personally of several cases where plastic surgery was performed and BDD symptoms returned as soon as the surgery healed. One woman was completely preoccupied with the shape of her nose, had surgery to her specifications, and after six months returned to the same preoccupation when the swelling disappeared. As mentioned before, the degree of belief in the existence of the defect can be extremely high, almost total at times, and frequently higher than we generally see in OCD, although it can vary from person to person. In most of the cases I have seen, there is also a great deal of anxiety over the idea of having the 'deformity'. Many sufferers seem genuinely tortured. One patient found it so upsetting that it took several sessions and a lot of gradual preparation before we could even mention it in therapy. Individuals with BDD may be depressed because they can not convince others of the problem and not being able to change it no matter what they try. I have sometimes seen other typical CC symptoms along with BDD, many of which frequently include various types of perfectionism and double-checking. Social isolation is also common.
The two major modes of treatment which I normally recommend for BDD are the same as those for OCD medication and behavioral therapy. The fact that medication can help seems to point to a biological basis for BDD. As in OCD, success with medication varies from person to person and the same drugs that seem to help with OCD Anafranil, Prozac, and others, seem to help completely. For instance, it can reduce the thoughts of deformity, but not always completely eliminate them. Also, a lot of the checking and questioning habits can remain, even when thoughts are reduced.
Exposure and response prevention is the primary behavioral intervention. Despite their strong belief in the deformity, there is usually enough doubt that these beliefs can frequently be challenged in therapy. Talk therapy alone will not do the job though. In behavioral therapy, our aims are twofold. First, we aim to reduce anxiety about thoughts of deformity via repeated exposure to the thoughts. By doing this, we can bring about habituation to the thoughts as the person gradually exposes him or herself to the thoughts. Individuals purposefully experience the anxiety until it dissipates. Eventually the thoughts do not produce anxiety and interest in them decreases. This exposure can be done in a variety of ways, including using audio tapes containing the fearful thoughts, having the person wear clothes that remind them of the deformity, having them go into situations where the thoughts can occur, looking at pictures of 'perfect' body parts, reading articles that will bring on the thoughts, etc. Sufferers will frequently ask, "1 already think of it a lot and my anxiety isn't any less; how can this help me?" The answer is that they have not exposed themselves to it on purpose, or for very long, nor have they done it systematically and regularly. Also, when they have experienced the thoughts, they typically don't stay with the anxiety for long. Usually, they try to avoid it by checking themselves, asking others for reassurance, or escaping the situation; somehow this prevents habituation from ever occurring.
Our second aim is to prevent the behaviors just mentioned, that sufferers use to reassure themselves and terminate the anxiety. Homework for the response prevention part of the treatment can typically include such things as not inspecting body parts by eye or in mirrors, refraining from questioning others or seeking reassurance, wearing previously avoided clothes that remind the person of the deformity or accentuate what they imagine it is, not consulting physicians or surgeons, not running away from or avoiding situations where they imagine they are being scrutinized by others, etc.
A good example of a treatment situation was the case of a man who believed he had numerous spots, or marks on his face. Others could not see them. He did convince a reluctant dermatologist to try different therapies on him, including several laser treatments. This treatment never produced satisfactory resultsthe spots never seemed to go away. He finally sought therapy. His behavioral treatment involved listening to tapes telling him how ugly the marks made him, how because they would never go away, and that he would be deformed for life. Additionally, he was instructed to cease visiting the dermatologist, to stop spending hours stating at his face in the mirror and to not question friends or relatives about his appearance. He felt quite anxious and nervous at the start of treatment, but the above instructions, combined with antidepressant therapy, resulted in recovery over a three-month period.
Generally, by combining this type of treatment with an OCD drug approach suited to the individual, symptoms and anxiety can be greatly reduced, if not eliminated. Please note here that I am speaking from my own clinical experience; much more research needs to be carried out in the use of these treatments for BDD to judge their effectiveness. I can say though, that these are the only two approaches I have ever seen work for this disorder. When other OCD symptoms are present as well, they will also benefit from medication and behavioral therapy, sometimes responding even more so than the BDD symptoms.
Can everyone with BDD benefit from such treatment? Honestly, the answer is no. Some individuals with BDD have such an unshakable belief in their deformity that they either refuse to engage in the treatment at all, or else will do it, but only halfheartedly, as they believe that everyone else is wrong and they are right. What percentage of those with BDD falls into this category is not known. I would advise those with the disorder to give treatment a chance; sometimes those whose beliefs seem very strong can still be successful by first starting with medication which can weaken and reduce the thoughts, and then make them more receptive to the idea of therapy. Family counseling for those close to BDD sufferers can also be of great help. This is a very puzzling problem for those who are a part of a sufferer's everyday life and who are uninformed as to what is happening. With help, family members can learn to be supportive of efforts to seek treatment, and to not pressure, punish, or ridicule as a way of dealing with the sufferer.
The number of therapists who can treat BDD probably remains small at this time, but there are those familiar with OCD who should be able to adapt their methods. Just be sure they are qualified and if you don't immediately find one, keep looking. Persistence is the key to beating OCD and OC related problems.
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about BDD, take a look at his self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com
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- Behavioral Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- The Boy Who Didn't Know Who He Was (Teen Obsessions About Homosexuality)
- Acceptance and OCD
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- Call Me Irresponsible (OCD and hyperresponsibility)
- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
- Contamination and OCD ("Stronger than Dirt")
- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for an OCD Specialist
- Getting the Right Treatment (Finding proper CBT treatment for OCD and BFRBs)
- Here's Looking At You, Kid: People With OCD Who Notice Things Too Much
- How Clean is Clean? (Compulsive cleaning and ordering)
- How Do I Know I'm Not Gay? (Homosexuality obsessions)
- How I Treat Violent Obsessions
- How Much Is Too Much? (Taking a more humane approach to behavioral therapy)
- How to Manage Your Parents When You Have OCD (a guide for teens)
- In Search of the Elusive Behavior Therapist
- Inositol and OCD
- Intensive vs. Self-Directed OCD Treatment
- Langley Collyer: The Mystery Hoarder of Harlem
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- Loves Me? Loves Me Not? (Relationship obsessions)
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- Obsessive Love (When People Become "Obsessed" with Other People)
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- Samuel Johnson: A Patron Saint of OCD
- Saving the World (Compulsive Hoarding)
- Teens With Morbid Obsessions
- Ten Things You Need to Know to Overcome OCD
- A Touching Story (Touching and movement compulsions)
- Treating Morbid Obsessions
- Very Superstitious (Magical and superstitious obsessions)
- What Do You Say After You Say You're Sorry (Coming to terms after you recover from OCD)
- What The Heck Is "Obsessive Slowness?"
- When Epidemics Collide: OCD and AIDS
- Your Number is Up! ("Magical" numbers and OCD)
- Advice for Significant Others (Dealing with a TTM sufferer)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania
- Coming to Terms With Your Child's Hair Pulling
- Childhood Trichotillomania (Dealing with the reluctant child's pulling)
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for Your Treatment
- Inositol and Trichotillomania
- A Stimulus Regulation Model of Trichotillomania (Why people pull)
- Trichotillomania (General information)
- Unconditional Self Acceptance and Trichotillomania
- What Cognitive Therapy Can Do for TTM
- Skin-Picking and Nail-Biting - Related Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders: More Than "A Bad Case of Nerves"
- Common Questions, Myths and Misconceptions About Psychiatric Medicine
- Medications that Treat OCD and OC Spectrum Disorders
- OCD and Managed Care
- PANDAS: The OCD - Strep Connection
- Depression: from Children through Adults
- How Do I Know I'm Not Really Gay - Part 2
- How To Defeat OCD By Surrendering
- Living With Your Loved One's OCD: Some Advice For Significant Others
- NAC and Trichotillomania
- Stimulation Substitutes for Trichotillomania
- To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession: Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
- 25 Tips For Succeeding In Your OCD Therapy
- My Parents Don't Believe I Have OCD
- Both Ends Against The Middle: When OCD Tries To Disrupt Its Own Treatment
- Driven To Distraction: Hit and Run OCD


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I remember GS used to complain to me about Yank toilets, and how when you flushed them, often they would have such a violent flushing mechanism that you'd end up with water on the seat. I never understood why they didn't design them so that they didn't explode everywhere. Surely this is something that toilet designers think about? I can't imagine there's an active demand from customers along the lines of 'No, unless it just goes KABOOM I can't be certain that it will never block'.
Anyways, I had reason recently to reflect on the hubris of this in the context of Chesterton's Fence. As Megan McArdle described it:
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.(Her article is about the so-called tax loophole for hedge fund managers that Democrats wanted to close, and is well worth reading, but that's another story).
Anyway, I wish I could tell you that I had reflected unprompted on possible reasons that toilets might be so violent and figured it out, but this is not the case.
Instead, I had observed a semi-exploding toilet on the fifth floor of a building one day. For some reason I had cause later in the day to be on the eighth floor of the same building, and the toilet was considerably more quiet. Same building, same toilet, different effect.
And suddenly it was obvious - water pressure! I imagine that it probably is quite an engineering challenge to have exactly the same water pressure at every floor of an eight-storey building, particularly if the pipe system is somewhat old. In order to get acceptable pressure everywhere, the simplest setup is just to have pressure that's slightly too high on the lower floors and slightly too low on the higher floors. Hence the fifth floor toilet explodes a bit, and the eighth is less powerful.
I made a mental note to check this - when there's a toilet with a violent flushing mechanism, I'm going to take note of what floor I'm on, and how many floors the building has. We'll see how well this hypothesis holds up.
But in the mean time, until you understand why toilets explode, you may want to hold off on demanding that they be fixed.


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Sometimes you need a bit of shock treatment (no pun intended) to push you in the right direction. My last post may have sounded a little negative and, perhaps, defeatist but writing my thoughts down and considering it more has motivated me to start talking with the professors in Chinese. Since Thursday I've been attempting as much as possible to speak Mandarin with them and although it's messy and there's a lot of English in there when I don't know the Chinese, it's a big step and after a year and a bit here, it's about time.
Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up over the final months of my stay in Beijing and look forward to seeing what possible opportunities this presents. The main moment of enlightenment was seeing just what doors can be opened by showing willing and an interest in the culture and language (witnessing the melee around my German friend). This may seem obvious from the outside but when you're sitting in the midst of the system, struggling with the confusion around you it's easy to give in and withdraw to your own isolated world.
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When she was five, Alannah Shevenell's doctors discovered the cause of her fever, weight loss, and distended belly—a sizable tumor spreading throughout her body. After two failed surgeries and rounds of chemo, her doctors had just one option left; a risky surgery to replace six of her cancerous organs.
Shevenell's surgery, which replaced her stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas and a portion of her esophagus in October, has proven a success. Not only has Shevenell returned home to Portland, Maine, the surgery marks both the largest number of simultaneous transplants performed in the New England area and the first time ever that an esophagus has been replaced, worldwide.
Shevenell suffered from a rare form of sarcoma. As her tumor spread, filled with fluid and it pressed against her organs, making eating difficult. She spent more than a year on waiting lists for donor organs and had only a 50-percent chance of making it through the operation.
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Jennifer Lopez has always been a fashion risk-taker, but this time, we're actually worried about her physical well being! We spotted Jennifer on her way to cast dancers in N.Y.C. in a not only an adorable vest and a drool-worthy crocodile purse, but also pants that totally cover her feet! We know that Jennifer can balance in stiletto heels on ice, but can she really walk in those slacks without tripping and falling? We don't think we could manage that feat at all, but we want to know if you could! Tell us: Would you wear pants as long as Jennifer? Do you think she should shorten hers?


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- Wilf Campus: 500 West 185th Street, Manhattan
- Beren Campus: 245 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan
- Brookdale Center: 55 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
- Resnick Campus: 1300 Morris Park Avenue and 1165 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx
Each campus provides residence, dining, athletic and extracurricular facilities. Students can avail themselves to our four-campus library system, which includes a broad range of collections and services and takes full advantage of the resources and tools provided by modern technology.
YU Manhattan
Washington Heights, near Manhattan's northern tip, is a lively and historic neighborhood that has had a vibrant Jewish community since the 1930s. The Heights (as it's also known) is home to Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus.
Named in honor of the Wilf Family of New Jersey, this hub of Jewish education boasts Yeshiva College; Syms School of Business (men's division); Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies; Katz School of Science and Health Wurzweiler School of Social Work; Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration; Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary; Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music; and Yeshiva University High School for Boys/Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy.
Our Manhattan locations also include the Israel Henry Beren Campus of Stern College for Women and Sy Syms School of Business (women's division), situated in midtown Manhattan and close to the Empire State Building and other New York City landmarks. Stanton Hall, the main Stern College building, is located at 245 Lexington Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets). The Brookdale Center houses Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Greenwich Village, one of the most historic neighborhoods in the city.
YU Bronx
The Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Bronx is home to Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1300 Morris Park Avenue) and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology (1165 Morris Park Avenue). Nearby attractions include the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden.
YU Israel
In addition to studying in New York, many of our undergraduate students choose to spend their first year studying in Israel. The S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program is a formal arrangement between YU and more than 45 yeshivot and seminaries in Israel. The program is headquartered at the dedicated Student Center at YU's Israel Campus in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem. Students in the program are considered YU undergraduate students and are eligible for all applicable state and federal financial aid programs.


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"Ellen Vora, MD practices a unique and enlightened brand of psychiatry. Patients appreciate her warmth, patience and understanding of the complexity of the human experience."
"Dr. Vora is truly an incredible doctor! She understands the value and importance of treating her patients from a holistic approach, and it has absolutely changed my life! Her intellect, compassion, and patience are just a few of many traits she practices with each and every one of her patients. She is the best of the best, and I can't imagine having any other doctor besides Dr. Vora!"
"Our bodies and minds are telling us that something serious is wrong. We are fatigued, wired, sad, foggy, and generally struggling through each day. While psychiatry promises to rescue us, the data suggests that its tools are limited and risky. Dr. Vora lights the path to a new approach to root cause healing that will restore hope in your own vitality."
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You'll have unlimited access to hours of video content, all from the comfort of your own home. Lifetime access to the program allows you to establish an expert level of understanding, at your own pace.
You'll take what you've learned in the lectures and put it into practice. With effective tactics and recommendations from your instructor, you'll deepen your knowledge, lead a healthier lifestyle, and feel like a better version of yourself.
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Weekly Civic Hack Night
Interested in helping San Francisco? Excellent!
Whether or not you know how to code, you can help!
Join our weekly hack (hacking = building) night focused on open government and civic tech in San Francisco.
• Contribute to the betterment of San Francisco
• Build your own portfolio of work or work on someone else's cool project
• Meet new (and different!) people
Check out our website: CodeForSanFrancisco.org
Visit our GitHub (where we keep our code): github.com/sfbrigade
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Join the discussion online in our Google Group or on our IRC Freenode channel (#sfbrigade or #codeforamerica)
Code for San Francisco is a chapter of the Code for America Brigade program.


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Index of Wills & Marriage Licenses for Dublin Diocese up to 1800
- 440 pages
- illustrated (b/w)
- Price: €16.50 · The following prices include Post and Packing: £16.30 to UK; $25 to USA; CAD$25; AUD$24; NZ$32
An index (on a single CD) of around 40,000 people from the records of the Diocesan court of Dublin Diocese, which served counties Dublin , Wicklow and parts of Kildare and Meath for the period up to 1800. At this period many of the legal functions which are now the duty of a civil Probate court were performed by the Church of Ireland. This included proving of wills, and regulation of marriages for all religious denominations. The index contains names of almost 40,000 people , and the year of the court judgement of each. An address is given for some 8,000 of the people listed, and trade, status or other personal information is provided for approximately 4,000.
The pages of the original publication are reproduced in PDF and it is recommended that you use ... Full Screen Mode. ...... I found it easy to move into this mode. There is no doubt that the functions work well, taking you back and forth to the main index, and helping you zoom in and out when you want to read small print. Dublin research can be challenging, so it is always good news when a helpful resource such as this one become widely available at a reasonable cost.


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Houston Food Bank ranked No. 1 for distribution, size
The Houston Food Bank is now the largest food bank in the nation, according to a new ranking.
Feeding America, the nation's largest coalition of food banks, ranked Houston ahead of St. Paul, Minn., Phoenix and New York City based on 2012 food poundage reports from the 200 organizations within their network. Dallas ranked 10th.
Working with partner programs to cover southeast Texas' 18 counties, the Houston Food Bank distributed 76 million pounds last year, providing meals to about 137,000 people each week. Most were food goods, but some were household items like toilet paper.
Spokesperson Betsy Ballard admitted the ranking seems shocking at first but said it highlights a simple problem facing many programs nationwide: space.
"We were able to put an enormous new facility into play," Ballard said, referencing the former Sysco distribution center they acquired in late 2011 after a capital campaign raised $56 million.
She said the 308,000-square-foot building also puts Houston at the top of Feeding America's list of facilities by square footage.
More InformationA huge helping hand for hungry
Food banks ranked by tons of food distributed in 2012:
1. Houston
2. St. Paul, Minn.
3. Phoenix
4. New York City
5. Portland, Ore.
6. Chicago
7. Los Angeles
8. Hillside, N.J.
9. San Jose, Calif.
10. Dallas
Source: Feeding America
"Because we are able to work from a facility of that size, we can work more efficiently to get more food into the community," Ballard said. "We were terribly landlocked before, a position that a lot of other food banks are still in."
The space increased quality, too, not just volume. According to the news release, the food bank's increased cooler space almost doubled the amount of fresh produce it provides, which now makes up about 2 million of the 6.7 million pounds of food and household goods distributed monthly.
Programs putting prisoners and probationers to work, as well as a 50,000-square-foot volunteer sorting and packing area, also contribute to improved productivity.
"We can achieve this level of success only with the help of our donors, hunger relief partners and tens of thousands of volunteers that give their time," President and CEO Brian Greene said in the release. "All that the Houston Food Bank has accomplished in the past and will accomplish in the future can be attributed to the generosity and dedication of individuals, businesses and foundations, working together on behalf of those in need."
The organization says it is on track to increase its distribution to 80 million pounds this year.


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"The condition of truth to allow suffering to speak" -Dr. Cornel West
"This title track off of my new album is an observation on the culture of murder and death and our society. It's also a critique of our hypocrisy as it relates to the taking of innocent lives. Power to the peaceful…"


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I love how the New Year gives me the chance to reevaluate my life and reexamine my priorities. I think the biggest priority I want to concentrate on this upcoming year is nourishing my family and myself. Nourishing in the practical sense of providing healthy food, as well as the sense of fostering and developing – which I want to do in many aspects to my life. I want this new year to find us more nourished in the following categories:
Nourish our bodies
I have decided to really hone in on nutrient-dense foods, foods that contain high amounts of vitamin A and D, calcium and phosphorus. These are the types of food that Dr. Weston Price found consistently in healthy native people groups as he traveled the world in the 1900s in search of a healthy diet. While we eat a "healthy diet," sometimes our diets fall short of the robust diet of the past that was so very nutrient-dense. I am planning out a menu that does a better job of including a wider range of nutrient-dense foods.
Nourish our sleep
I am also hoping to work out a better sleep schedule for my toddler who is experiencing an awkward in-between stage, where with a nap she ends up staying up way too late, and without one, she is so overtired she doesn't sleep well. Wish me luck with that! Sleep is so important for a healthy body.
Nourish our minds
I personally love reading books on a wide range of topics. I feel that books challenge me to see the perspective of others, help me think, make me relax, and keep my mind well nourished! I will be creating a book list (that can grow as the year goes on), so that I concentrate on the books that I really want to read. Sometimes my reading choices are haphazard (like what I find that the library on a whim), so thinking through my book choices will be good.
I will also be making a read-out-loud book list for me to do with my girls, especially my oldest, who is 6. My 2-year-old is still in that stage of mostly enjoying the same books from our rather extensive library of kids' books at home, so I always have books handy for her.
Nourish our relationships
Starting with our family, I want to continue working on the family bonds that have started since our marriage and since the birth of our girls (really before their birth). It does take work and intentionality and a lot of love to keep those bonds strong. So this new year finds me considering how to continue to develop those bonds.
Outside our family, I am looking to personally continue to get to know more people and develop current relationships as well. Friends are important, but sometimes my schedule doesn't show that.
Nourish our skills and talents
Especially as a mother, I find myself in a unique position to foster the growth of another human being. I take that task seriously. My oldest daughter loves and adores working with her hands, so I am taking the time to make a lot of crafts with her, to get her books that help her learn how to draw; I am also teaching her to sew the basics, and am looking for ways to encourage other skills she needs for the life ahead of her, Lord willing.
But I also am looking at myself, how I can be a better teacher to my children, a better writer, and a better cook. All things I need to consider.
Nourish our peace and joy
But most of all, I want the above to happen in a (at least mostly) joyful and peaceful manner. Taking the time to do things personally and together as a family that we enjoy (reading aloud, watching a movie, going to the zoo) helps promote joy. Taking the time to be thankful for all of our blessings and relax helps us find peace. I am attempting to take a relaxing bath once a week for just 20 minutes. When I make the time for those 20 minutes, I am so much more relaxed and peaceful for the busy days ahead. Those small happy things can make a world of difference.
Nourish our faith
Most important to my personal heart peace is my faith in the God of the Bible. Making plans to read and think about the promises there keep me steadfast through the storms of life. But faith can be deprived of good food, and shrink and shrivel, so it is important to me to keep nourishing it with the good food of thought, prayers and reading. This is also something that we do as a family.
I am looking forward to 2013! I'd love to hear what your goals and plans are!
Related post on MNN: How to keep your New Year's resolutions


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