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Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
"Islam is a creed of an ignorant people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is fixated in time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice and death. Yet, Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era, but itself is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own home in order. The numerous Islamic sects are at each other's throats; sub-sects and schools despise one another as much as they hate non-Muslims. Hatred, not love, drives Islam." [
"There are still those who foolishly claim that Muhammad was a messenger from God and the Quran is a divinely revealed book. My suggestion is that they use their intellect and read the Quran fully for themselves without the assumption that the book is the literal word of God and that Muhammad was their messenger. Without this assumption as their starting point, they will find better than 90% of the book is about violence, threats of hell, exclusion of people, and the like. What kind of God would dictate things like what you find in the Quran? It took Muhammad 20 years to reveal this hodge-podge book that reads more like expressions of a delusional individual with multiple personality disorder."
Amil Imani at amilimani.com
'Islam is not for me'. The Muhammadan cult is not for anyone who can think, rationalize, and engage in human activities such as ethical conduct, compassion, tolerance and accept individual responsiblity, free-will and natural law rights. Islam is not for anyone who desires to live as a free person. Imani is a former Moslem – an apostate – and if found would no doubt be killed by the lovers of peace and harmony. The following is from his web-site and re-published with approval [bold is mind].
"My breach with Islam started as far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although I was born and raised in a Muslim family.
For one thing, I had a very difficult time following a so-called religion whose founder and followers had butchered my ancestors, raped and sold our women, burned our libraries, and destroyed our magnificent culture. Islam was forced down the throats of Iranians with the sword of Allah. In my heart, I never considered myself a Muslim. However, I didn't reveal this until later in life for fear of retribution by radical Muslims.
Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the faith. For an unrepentant male apostate, death is the proscribed punishment and life imprisonment for the female apostate.
"Kill whoever changes his religion." __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57
Islam considers an apostate as a person who unilaterally breaks the covenant he has made with the faith. An apostate is condemned as guilty of turning his back on Allah's immutable eternal religion.
I came to the realization that the root cause of my peoples' degradation and suffering was Islam. It was a creed imposed on an enlightened, tolerant and free people at the point of the sword by savages hailing from the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century with promises of booty and women in this world and glorious eternal sensual rewards in the promised paradise of Allah in the next. With each passing day, I rejoice more and more in my good fortune; in my ability to avoid the yoke of Islamic slavery and its blinders that imprisons a billion and half people by walls of superstition, hatred of others, and a celebration of death.
Things Islamic not only did not resonate with me, they often clashed head on with what I valued and loved. What appealed to me and even enchanted me were more often than not, taboo in Islam or anathema to the creed. I loved life, beauty in all its forms, poetry, ancient Iranian culture and traditions. I loved laughter, celebrations of joy such as birthdays; our yearly festivities of Nowruz, my favorite, lasts for thirteen days. Nowruz, this ancient festival, has been celebrated for thousands of years by my people; it ushers in the spring, welcomes renewal of life, and expresses optimism for the year ahead to bless us with good health, abundant food, family, and friends in the land of a civilized and free people.
I have always believed one cannot possibly be a Persian and hold to the lofty tenets of the ancient Iranian Zoroastrian triad of good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and remain a Muslim. In the same fashion, one cannot cherish American values, the Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution and be a true Muslim. They are comprehensively incompatible with Sharia Law.
Iranian Muslims are victims of the Islamic virus that has destroyed in them their traditional respect for diversity. It is the Iranian ancient fundamental belief in the validity and value of diversity that is enshrined in the Cyrus the Great Cylinder, the unconditional respect for the complete rights of all the people of the world (an anathema to the Islamists' credo) that has held the nation together over the millennia. Although Islam was imposed on Iran some 1,400 years ago, Iranians deeply value their own ancient non-Arab identity and have never fully surrendered to the Arab culture.
Currently, a large number of Iranians are completely fed up with Islam and they want to leave this dogma of hate and violence. In fact, many already have, but they simply aren't able to come forward and announce it, for obvious reasons.
Such duplicity exists within the Iranian culture. Originally, Iranians were forced to accept Islam to save their lives from Arab invaders, but deep within the heart of every single Iranian alive today, exists a burning resentment of the Arab-Islamic invasion of their homeland and culture. It is ironic that many Iranians may actually confess to being Muslims; yet, an overwhelming number of Iranians have never read the Quran or understand its language. The events in history have toughened present day Iranians. They have become great pretenders. But the totality of 1400 years of Islamic barbarity and savagery must end. We no longer need to pretend that we are practicing Muslims; when in fact, we are not.
Realistically speaking, there is perhaps 10-15 percent of the population that continues to support the clerical system in varying degrees. Many in this group are government employees, Mullahs, and hired thugs such as the Basiji. Also, the regime has some backers among the poor, the less educated, and the deeply religious. Yet, the alienation from the regime and Islam spans the entire spectrum of the Iranian society with the intelligentsia and the university students leading the determined opposition to end Islamic rule.
Masses of Iranians are irreparably alienated from a corrupt and oppressive Islamic rule. The rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is crumbling. The previously solid edifice, or at least the appurtenance of it, is finally showing many cracks that continue to grow. There are just too many fault lines to list here.
My fellow secularist Iranians and I have indeed done, and continue to do, what we can to help our compatriots in Iran, who are on the front line fighting Islam and the Islamic Regime.
The 2009 protests were just as much against the Islamic Republic as they were about Shi'a Islam. In fact, much of it was against Islam itself. People have experienced what a primitive and defective system of belief Islam is and aim to abandon it for good. Many will still hang on to it to some extent for some time. Yet, a great many would simply leave Islam and even actively oppose it.
There are still those who foolishly claim that Muhammad was a messenger from God and the Quran is a divinely revealed book. My suggestion is that they use their intellect and read the Quran fully for themselves without the assumption that the book is the literal word of God and that Muhammad was their messenger. Without this assumption as their starting point, they will find better than 90% of the book is about violence, threats of hell, exclusion of people, and the like. What kind of God would dictate things like what you find in the Quran? It took Muhammad 20 years to reveal this hodge-podge book that reads more like expressions of a delusional individual with multiple personality disorder.
I bemoan the plight of my native land and the people who have suffered and continue to suffer under Islam. Without Islam there wouldn't be any Muslims to hoist the banner of hate and violence against non-Muslims. A few claim that Islam has done some good in the past. Well, that's debatable. There are those who are equally convinced that Islam has inflicted a great deal of suffering on others from its inception to the present. What we all must agree on is that Islam and its sharia laws, at the very least, do not fit in today's world.
Islam is a creed of an ignorant people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is fixated in time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice and death. Yet, Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era, but itself is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own home in order. The numerous Islamic sects are at each other's throats; sub-sects and schools despise one another as much as they hate non-Muslims. Hatred, not love, drives Islam.
I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam with all its derivatives and those who support and promote it. Muslims are patients and Islam is a disease. You want to help the patients to rid themselves of the affliction. You want to eradicate a horrifically communicable disease. Although many prefer to tackle the militant version of Islam "Islamism," for all intents and purposes, there is no sharp demarcation between, Islamists, Jihadists and Islamism. One and all are progeny of Islam itself. Any differences among the three are of degree and not kind. When one addresses Islamism and jihadism, their source is also addressed.
Regrettably, Islam cannot be reformed. Keep in mind that Islam claims it is the perfect eternal faith for mankind. Splits have occurred and will continue to occur in Islam. Yet, reformation has not happened in nearly 1400 years and is not going to happen. Islam is carved in granite, just the way it is. No change. Allah's book is sealed.
In the monumental task of dealing with Islam and its variations, every individual, group and government must combine their resources and energies to prevail. We must urge all people to resist Islam's encroachment and not be deceived by its sanitized version presented in non-Islamic lands. The destiny of civilized life hangs in the balance. Shirking of this responsibility would be an unpardonable act of every enlightened human being and organization that values human liberty and dignity."
It is a vain enterprise to try and find any Arab-Muslim condemnation of the fascist theocracy in Iran. Still vainer finding any Muslim individual, group or PR lobby institution, demanding a change to Iran's election process and freedom and reforms for its citizens. But publish a cartoon about Mohammed and whoa! Riots, demonstrations, threats and invocations of divine wrath are the natural and logical outcome of such a blasphemy. Human rights ? Dead in Tehran ? Yawn. Muslims could care less.
One of the great hoary myths is that all, most, or `the great majority`of Muslims are peaceful, unsupportive of Islamic fascism and quite willing to accommodate themselves to Western ways and mores. It is in this context that the recent Iranian elections are being reported. According to Western news outlets few in Iran want the Ahmadinejad gang and his Mullah friends in power. This is another lie. Fascisms never survive without widespread support – and international allies. My guess is that a large plurality of Iranians do support theocratic fascism.


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We are fast approaching the holidays, when travel is the busiest and careful planning is necessary to nab the best airfare or book that New Year's beach cottage before it slips away. One thing that is probably not on your travel to-do list is estate planning, but it should be so you can travel with peace of mind.
Here are some tips to pack away your worries before you board that flight:
Complete your estate plan. If you've been putting it off, now is the time to complete your estate plan. If money is a consideration, then start with those the most important items: a will, power of attorney and advance health care directives.
Update an existing estate plan. Has something changed in your life since you last updated your estate plan? A birth, a death, a marriage, a divorce? Each of these triggers your need to update your estate plan.
Establish guardianship for minor children. If you have ever gotten a nagging fear about what would happen to your children if something were to happen to you, then use that fear to follow through on naming a guardian for raising your minor children. If you have young kids, there is never an excuse for you to neglect this important step.
Review beneficiaries. Beneficiaries of your retirement accounts, life insurance and other assets must be kept current or your assets will not pass to them upon your death. If you have minor children, you will need to set up a trust and name the trust as beneficiary so your assets can pass without court intervention.
Review/update incapacity documents. Two very important health care documents – a durable power of attorney for health care and a HIPAA Authorization – will determine who can make medical decisions for you and who has access to your medical records in case of incapacity. Be sure you have these documents before you travel and that the person/people named are still valid.
Review/update insurance. Does your life insurance coverage still meet your family's needs? If not, it is time to update your insurance policy before you hit the road.
In addition, you need to be sure you have an organized file of all your accounts and estate planning documents and you need to tell your family where they can locate the file if and when it becomes necessary.
The time to create a plan that spells out how you will pass on your values, beliefs and your money to your children is now. You can begin by contacting a Personal Family Lawyer® today to schedule a time for us to sit down and talk.

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Crime, incarceration and prison occupancy rates are dropping in the United States, and that's great news for everyone—except private prison operators. For the companies that manage for-profit correctional facilities, less crime means fewer contracts and a shrinking market, according to Cody Mason, author of a new report by the Sentencing Project, a U.S-based sentencing law reform non-profit group.
Now, those companies are doing what any other company in their position would do—they're "looking past the U.S." and successfully hunting down markets (read prisons and detention systems) around the globe, where prison populations are growing. Countries like Australia, the U.K. and New Zealand are holding "a larger proportion of prisoners in private facilities, with a high of 19 percent in Australia," the report found.
(MORE: How California Picks Thousands of Inmates to Take Out of Prison)
Why hand prisoners to the private sector though? The U.S. — one of the first countries to privatize correctional facilities — turned to private prison operators at time when prisons were overflowing in the 1980s and cheap, quick facilities were needed to house the overflow of inmates and detainees. But critics say the system is far from satisfactory.
Private prison companies have faced "persistent criticism for providing low-quality services" and "failing to save taxpayer money," Mason's report states. And while direct causality is hard to establish, the Sentencing Project suspects that private prison operators are "negatively affecting criminal justice policy," through their contributions to politicians who support "harsh immigration detention laws." Conditions for inmates can also be poor, leading many to believe that the profit incentive is incompatible with maintaining decent and tolerable standards. "Not many costs can be cut from a prison to begin with," Mason points out.
(PHOTOS: Fighting Crime in Mexico City)
The potential downsides of prison privatization don't appear to deter a country like Australia. It's total prison population of 29,383 prisoners (or 130 per 100,000) hardly compares to the Unites States' 2,239,751 prisoners (716 per 100,000), according to the International Centre for Prison Studies. However, the onetime penal colony of the British Empire has seen a consistent increase in the number of prisoners over the last two decades and a 106% prison occupancy rate, creating an opportunity for private prison companies to thrive. The number of privately held prisoners increased by 95% between 1998 and 2011. Australia's immigration detention system, which held 8,797 individuals as of April 2013 and came recently under much public scrutiny, is operated entirely by private companies.
Private operators are making increased profits from such emerging markets. The U.S's second-largest private prison company, GEO Group, saw 14% of its revenue come from international contracts last year. The world's largest security provider, UK-based G4S, also saw strong revenue growth in markets outside the U.S. in 2012.
Mason believes that this kind of expansion means that the problems of running private prisons are simply being exported. "The problems are going to exist no matter what country you're in," he says. "You can have a private prison in the U.S. and open one on the other side of the world and it doesn't change the business model."
Tough times or not, billions will continue to be spent putting millions behind bars.
MORE: How to Reduce Crime — Treat it Like an Infectious Disease


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Addiction causes changes in the brain and it's these brain changes that so often doom us to failure, despite our best intentions, when we try to overcome addiction on our own. Thankfully, addiction treatment works and with it we can learn how to stay clean and sober for the long run. Read on to learn about addiction treatment and find out more about the stages of treatment, different types of addiction treatment programs, medications used in the treatment of addiction and about what common elements are shared by all effective addiction treatment programs.
When you've tried and failed to stop using or drinking on your own, it's time to start thinking about getting addiction treatment.
Why Do We Need Addiction Treatment?
It can be hard to explain to someone who has never experienced an addiction, but once we get addicted, it's very tough to quit using. We feel intense cravings and we fight temptation constantly. Unfortunately, addiction creates structural changes in the brain (why it's called a brain disease) that reduce our ability to concentrate, maintain focus and fight temptation.
Not surprisingly, this combination of constant cravings with an impaired ability to resist temptation is rarely a recipe for lasting abstinence!
Although the brain will heal in time, the first period of abstinence or reduced substance use is a difficult period and this period can last for months or even years. To make it out of this first period - most people need some help.
Addiction treatment teaches you how to break free from compulsive and harmful substance use.
Addiction treatment can teach us:
- How to avoid temptation
- How to deal with cravings
- How to restructure our thinking, behaviors and environment to reduce the risks of relapse
- How to develop better relationships with family and friends, which can protect against relapse
- How to take better care of our physical and mental well being
- How to deal with stress or past trauma, so that it doesn't provoke relapse
In some, ideal cases, behavioral interventions are combined with medications which reduce cravings or withdrawal symptoms.
Addiction Treatment Works!
Addiction treatment works about as well as treatment for other chronic medical conditions, like diabetes or hypertension.
Addiction treatment works best when people get appropriate care and when they stick with it to completion. Addiction treatment does not always induce a full lifetime of sobriety, it is better at producing periods of remission, which can be quite lengthy.
Relapse is a normal part of the addiction experience, and many if not most people will relapse at some point in life. A relapse does not mean that previous treatments were failures, simply that treatment is once again necessary!
The Principles of Effective Addiction Treatment
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has compiled a list of some the most important concepts of addiction treatment, such as:
- No one form of addiction treatment works for everyone
- Addiction is a complicated disease that causes changes in the brain, but addiction treatment works
- Addiction treatment works best when it endeavors to treat the person as a whole, rather than focuses simply on a single pattern of behavior, such as drug use
- Addiction treatment takes time – there are no quick fixes
- Treatment should be individualized, with treatment plans changing as necessary to meet the evolving needs of the individual
- People do not need to want treatment for it to work. Involuntary treatment is effective
- Because slips and relapses are common during recovery, drug testing is an important part of a continuing treatment program
- Counseling and other behavioral interventions are effective elements in an addiction treatment program. Certain medications may be helpful for some people, but medication should always be used in conjunction with counseling
How Long Does Addiction Treatment Take?
The duration of an addiction treatment program very much depends on the needs and desires of the individual – there are no set time limits for the entire process. However, it is important to remember that addiction treatment is not a quick fix treatment and that addiction is a serious brain disease.
The 3 Stages of Treatment
According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) there are three main phases to the addiction treatment process:1
- Detoxification/Stabilization
- Rehabilitation
- Continuing Care
Stage 1, Detox
The first stage is the shortest of the three, lasting just until a person has stabilized enough from the effects of drug or alcohol withdrawal (or intoxication) to be able to participate effectively in the rehabilitation phase of treatment. Some people will not require any detox and may proceed immediately into the rehab phase. Typical detox durations can range from a couple of days to about 10 days.
Stage 2, Rehabilitation
During the residential phase of treatment, recovering addicts and alcoholics are taught or encouraged to:
- Keep making health and well being gains already begun through the detoxification stage
- Maintain abstinence (or maintain a reduction in use)
- Make positive changes in ways of thinking or functioning, to reduce a likelihood of a return to use
- Make behavioral or environmental changes to reduce the likelihood of a return to use
The duration of the rehabilitative phase can vary greatly, for example:
- Drug rehab - 30-90 days
- Outpatient addiction treatment program - 3-6 months
- Therapeutic community a year or longer
- Methadone maintenance program – can be indefinite
NIDA recommends that people spend at least 90 days in the rehabilitation phase, or at least a year, in the case of methadone.2
Phase 3, Continuing Care
People who have met the treatment goals of the rehabilitation phase will move into the third and final phase, the continuing care phase. During this phase, which should last for up to a year, the gains of the rehabilitation phase are maintained through a continuing but low intensity involvement in outpatient counseling or through other contact with professional addiction treatment staff. Many people choose to find community support during this final stage, such as involvement in a 12 steps group. Involvement in community support organizations can extend beyond the end of continuing care.
Different Types of Addiction Treatment Services
No one form of addiction treatment is best for all people – treatment works best when it's matched to the needs and wants of the individual.
Here is a brief overview of some of the more commonly available types of addiction treatment programs:
- Private Counseling – Some people find working individually with a community based counselor or psychologist helpful in overcoming moderate substance abuse
- Support Groups - Community based support groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), can be found in most American communities. Research shows that people who maintain a participation in community addiction treatment after a period of primary care are more likely than those who don't to maintain a successful recovery.
- Outpatient Addiction Treatment Programs – Outpatient addiction treatment programs typically offer a structured mix of therapeutic elements (group counseling, relapse prevention education, 12 steps work, addiction education etc.) offered during evening and weekend sessions.
- Intensive Outpatient Programs – More intensive versions of a typical outpatient addiction treatment program, at the most intensive level, these programs can be whole day programs for weeks or months in duration.
- Residential Detoxification – Specialty medical clinics (sometimes inside larger hospitals) offer nursing care and medication to those requiring stabilization during the initial withdrawal period. People dependent on alcohol, benzodiazepines and opiates will often need a brief period of detoxification prior to entry into a residential or outpatient rehabilitation program.
- Residential Addiction Treatment Programs (Drug Rehabs) – Residential addiction treatment programs offer lengths of stay that typically range from 28 days to 3 months in duration. The addiction treatment offered can vary greatly, but would be similar in nature to that offered in a day treatment program.
- Hospital Based Inpatient Addiction Treatment – Hospital inpatient care is the most intensive level of addiction treatment, typically for people who need stabilization from a co-occurring mental health disorder. Once stabilized, people in inpatient treatment programs will typically 'step-down' to residential care.
- Therapeutic Communities – These long duration residential programs are best suited for people with long and severe histories of addiction, often people who have tried and failed at alternate addiction treatment programs in the past. Therapeutic communities consider a re-socialization necessary for complete recovery (like a child needs to learn how to live in the world – so to does a long using addict need to re-learn how to live without the use of drugs or alcohol) and so the community works, plays and lives together for treatment durations that can last for as long as 2 years.
Sober Living Houses - Also called halfway houses, sober living houses are supportive living environments for people who are new to recovery. People entering into a sober living home will typically have first completed a period of primary care addiction treatment. These home environments offer low cost, safe and sober living to people trying to remain abstinence during the tough initial months of post rehabilitation recovery.
Addiction Treatment Statistics2
- In 2008, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 23.1 million people required substance abuse treatment (people who were classified as either substance dependent or substance abusers). Of these people, only 2.3 million received treatment. (SAMHSA)
- Every dollar spent on addiction treatment yields a $4 - $7 savings in eventual social costs (reduced crime, increased productivity, decreased social assistance, etc). Experts estimate that if lifetime healthcare costs are factored in, every dollar spent on addiction treatment saves $12 in eventual expenses.
Components of Addiction Treatment Programs
While no two addiction treatment programs will offer an identical array of services, some of the more typical addiction treatment services are listed and briefly explained below:
- Detoxification Services – Some people will require medical assistance for a safe and comfortable detox and stabilization period, particularly people dependent on alcohol, benzodiazepines and opiates.
- Group Counseling – One of the most commonly offered modes of addiction treatment; group counseling helps those in recovery understand the commonality of the addiction experience. Group sessions can vary greatly, but can cover life skills or education based topics, or be more supportive in nature.
- Individual Counseling – Some addiction treatment programs will offer individual counseling as an adjunct to other modalities. An individual counselor can be useful in helping you understand and overcome the life factors that contribute to your use and compulsions to use.
- Motivational Interviewing (MI) – Working with a counselor to crystallize your reasons for wanting to quit or reduce drug or alcohol use. MI is a proven effective way to overcome feelings of ambivalence about the treatment process and a future without drug or alcohol use.
- Contingency Management – Drug addiction can harm the brain, and in early recovery while the brain heals, it can be tough for some people to feel internal rewards (a sense of satisfaction for meeting a goal, for example). Unfortunately, when meeting goals fails to make us feel good, we can lose motivation to work towards these goals. Contingency management is a technique that helps recovering drug users (particularly stimulant users) stay motivated during early recovery by providing external rewards that compensate for a lack of internal reward feelings. Under a program of contingency management, for example, a person who passes a drug test for cocaine might earn an external reward, such as a gift certificate to the movies or to a local restaurant. Contingency management is an evidence based proven technique.
- Relapse Prevention Classes – Most addiction treatment programs will offer at least some form of relapse prevention training. Relapse prevention involves seeking to minimize your exposure to threats to sobriety and preparing for moments of temptation. Relapse prevention classes can also help people learn how to manage small slips so that they don't turn into full blown relapses. Relapse is an unfortunate part of the disease of addiction that can be minimized through careful preparation.
- Addiction Education – Most addiction treatment programs provide at least some minimal education about the nature of addiction. Understanding what you're up against and why you feel and act the way you do can be comforting and beneficial.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – The way we think and feel influences what we do. Through CBT, we learn to recognize how negative thoughts and behaviors that can lead to unwanted outcomes and we learn how we can correct negative thinking to produce desired outcomes. CBT is one of the most proven techniques of effective addiction treatment.
- Family Counseling – Family counseling can be very useful during the early stages of addiction recovery. Whole family involvement in the addiction treatment process helps family members learn how to support and encourage the recovery process and it also helps family members from every generation recover and heal from the negative influence of substance abuse on the family.
- The 12 Steps – 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and other support groups are frequently used as philosophical framework for treatment programs. If you are introduced to the 12 steps in a recovery program you may be more likely to take support from a continued involvement in the community.
- EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a technique used to help people overcome the legacy of past traumas and traumatic memories. It can work very quickly, and so can be offered in short duration addiction treatment programs (like drug rehabs)
Holistic/Alternative Methods of Addiction Treatment
Alternative treatments can play an important complementary role in any addiction treatment program. What's most important, is finding treatment interventions that feel right for you!
Some of many alternative methods of addiction treatment include:
- Animal Assisted Therapy – Therapist assisted interactions with horses or dogs.
- Acupuncture - Acupuncture is one the most widely offered alternative therapies. Acupuncture advocates say that the ancient Chinese technique can ease withdrawal symptoms and reduce drug and alcohol cravings. Acupuncture as addiction treatment is widely offered in the criminal justice system.
- Sweat Lodge Therapy – Addiction recovery is a holistic process that includes a spiritual element. Native American sweat lodge ceremonies tap into this spiritual side and offer those in recovery a powerful, rebirthing experience.
- Yoga
– Studies have shown that yoga can work as well as counseling when offered
in an addiction treatment program. Yoga enhances mindfulness, physical
well being and a mind-body connection.3
- Meditation – Meditation can increase mindfulness (which can guard against relapse) and it can also promote lasting feelings of peace. Since the way we handle life stresses impacts on our ability to resist temptation, learning effective ways to manage our moods is of real benefit.
Medications Used in Addiction Treatment
Although medications cannot cure addiction, they can, in some cases, increase the odds of successful recovery by reducing drug cravings or reducing the severity of withdrawal symptoms.
Certain medications can help those new to recovery a great deal, particularly when these medications are combined with professional therapies for addiction.
A great deal of research continues for medications and vaccines that scientists believe will eventually help people to overcome addiction for good. At present, there are no such 'curative' medications, only drugs that can reduce withdrawal symptoms and drug cravings (the FDA has approved medications only for the treatment of alcoholism and opiate dependence).
Medication |
Used to Treat |
Eases Withdrawal |
Reduces Cravings/Relapse |
Disulfiram (Antabuse) |
Alcoholism |
No |
People taking disulfiram will become very ill if they drink alcohol. This serves as an incentive to maintain abstinence. |
Naltrexone (Revia or Vivitrol) |
Alcoholism, Opiate Addiction |
No |
Naltrexone reduces the cravings for opiates and alcohol and it also reduces the pleasure experienced if alcohol or opiates are abused. |
Acamprosate (Campral) |
Alcoholism |
Eases withdrawal symptoms |
Acamprosate has been shown to reduce cravings, also, enduring withdrawal symptoms can lead to relapse, and so Acamprosate does reduce relapse. |
Benzodiazepines |
Alcoholism |
A medication often used to control the severe withdrawal symptoms during the initial detox phase. |
Because of a strong risk for dependence (addiction) benzodiazepines are not recommended for prolonged use. |
Methadone |
Opiate Addiction |
People taking an appropriate dose of methadone will feel no withdrawal symptoms |
People taking an appropriate dose of methadone will feel little drug craving. |
Buprenorphine (Suboxone or Subutex) |
Opiate Addiction |
People taking an appropriate dose of buprenorphine will feel no withdrawal symptoms |
People taking an appropriate dose of Buprenorphine will feel no withdrawal symptoms |
The 12 Steps (AA, NA, etc.)
12 steps groups like alcoholics anonymous and others can provide very beneficial community support to those in early recovery. Studies show that people who maintain a significant involvement in a 12 steps program for the first year of recovery are less likely to relapse.
Much of modern addiction treatment is built on the disease model of addiction, an ideal presented originally by the group Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been in operation since the 1930s.
Today, addiction professionals recognize the real worth of an ongoing participation in a 12 steps community group as an adjunct to professional addiction treatment. Because of this value, and because the 12 steps provide a good framework for recovery, the 12 steps are often introduced and studied in addiction treatment programs.
The Original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
These original 12 steps have been modified for use in countless self-help organizations, such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), and many others.
Harm Reduction
Although abstinence is the ideal, in some cases the best that can be achieved is a minimization of harm. Harm reduction programs strive to reduce the harms of addiction at the individual and community levels.
At the public health level, some people tackle the problem of substance abuse and addiction in the community from a harm reduction framework, rather than an abstinence philosophy.
A harm reduction counselor might not insist that you quit drugs or drinking entirely (although she would certainly support that idea if it was desired) but would certainly encourage you to minimize the harms of your risky behaviors, to yourself, to your family and to your community.
For example, needle exchange programs and safe injection clinics work from a harm reduction philosophy.
From a harm reduction philosophy, treatment that does not induce complete abstinence is not a failure, so long as treatment reduces use or the negative consequences of use.4
Addiction Treatment in the Criminal Justice System
Drug courts and other alternative to incarceration programs have made the criminal justice system the single largest referent into the addiction treatment network. In all, 37% of people getting addiction treatment today are referrals from the criminal justice system.
Criminal justice system referents are more likely than those from any other source to complete a period of treatment (treatment completion rate is one of the greatest predictors of recovery success).
The success of criminal justice system clients in addiction treatment programs clearly reinforces the concept that entry into a treatment program does not need to be voluntary to be worthwhile.5
- References
- 1. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, 4th Edition, 2008, Page 96
- 2. NIDA Info facts
- 3. Altern Ther Health Med. 1997 Jul;3(4):57-66. Comparing Hatha yoga with dynamic group psychotherapy for enhancing methadone maintenance treatment: a randomized clinical trial.
- 4. Harm Reduction BC Ministry of Health Services
- 5. SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Report
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De Nyew Testament is now available in Gullah! It is published by the American Bible Society. The following is a sample from John 13:34-35... An now A da gii oona a nyew chaage. Oona fa lob one noda. Same fashion A done lob oona, same fashion oona fa lob one noda. Ef oona da lob one noda, ebrybody gwine know dat oona me ciple dem. |
This Gullah translation of the New Testament of the Bible was in production for 26 years and finally, after all the translating, editing, checking, typesetting and printing, it has now been released to the public. There was a launching of the Gullah New Testament at the Heritage Days Festival on St. Helena Island, SC, November 12, 2005. Copies of the Gullah New Testament are now available at the Penn Center and the JAARS Center and through bookstores in the lowcountry, and through www.bibles.com or www.amazon.com. For telephone orders, call 1-800-32-BIBLE (1-800-322-4253). left: sample page from the Gullah Nyew Testament "Fa de fus time, God taak to me de way I taak." |
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Hard-line Israelis reject the idea of reasonable compromises for peace, arguing that any significant concessions to Palestinian sovereignty would threaten Israel's security or the Zionist cause, but Lawrence Davidson notes that demographic trends, including a growing Jewish exodus from Israel, could have far worse consequences.
By Lawrence Davidson
June 15, 2011
If the historical goal of the state of Israel is to provide the world's Jews a secure national home, a place of refuge in a world of real or potential anti-Semitism, it seems to have failed.
It has failed not because this writer says so, but because an increasing number of its own Jewish citizens say so.
There have been studies originating both in Israel and abroad that show "as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving … if in the next few years the current political and social trends continue." This finding is in addition to the fact that yerida, or emigration out of Israel, has long been running at higher numbers than aliyah, or immigration into the country.
The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics states that as of 2005, 650,000 Israelis have left the country for over one year and not returned. The great majority of these were Jews. In addition, polls show that at least 60 percent and as high as 80 percent of remaining Israeli Jews "sympathize with those who leave the country."
Among those who stay, there is the conviction that the safe thing is to have a second passport issued by the United States or a European country.
As the Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy puts it, "if our forefathers dreamt of an Israeli passport, there are those among us who are now dreaming of a foreign passport."
At present, the United States has issued over half a million passports to Israelis and a quarter million additional applications are pending. Germany runs second with 100,000 passports given to Israeli Jews and 7,000 new ones issued yearly.
Why the scramble for foreign passports? Well, according to Levy, "the excuses are strange and diverse, but at the base of them all are unease and anxiety, both personal and national. The foreign passport has become an insurance policy against a rainy day. It turns out there are more and more Israelis who are thinking that day may eventually come."
There are two prevailing explanations for this phenomenon. The first is that it reflects the conviction that the safe haven that Zionism was suppose to create is not safe at all.
This is the position taken by the University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, who said:
"The danger for the Jewish state is that, given the choice between convincing Middle Easterners that Israel can be a good neighbor and leaving the neighborhood, more and more Israelis are attracted to the latter. … The logically extreme expression of escape is, of course, emigration."
Lustick is supported by Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University who suggests that "the Zionist ideal is losing hold within Israel itself" because the Israeli government "endlessly delays the [peace] process."
The second explanation is that suggested by the editors of the Jerusalem Post who cite interviews with "hundreds of Israeli expats in North America." Their conclusion is that when Israelis go abroad and stay, it is due to economic, and not political or security reasons.
Actually, the explanation offered by the Jerusalem Post is suspect. If the desire to emigrate is motivated mainly by economics, the demand for second passports would not be necessary.
Israelis travel freely in the United States and the economic interconnections between the two countries make it relatively easy for Israeli Jews to get "green cards" to stay and work. This is probably true in some other parts of the West as well, as long as you are not tagged as a war criminal.
However, when you combine the growth in emigration with the desire for foreign passports you get a different sort of message. Planning to possibly emigrate on a foreign passport implies that there are a number of Israelis who foresee the demise of the state.
In other words, they foresee a day when the Israeli passport will be worthless. Given the fact that emigration is something of an ideological sin for Zionists, it is no surprise that some of the emigrants tell pollsters their motivation is economic. It sounds better.
But in the end it hardly matters, leaving for whatever reason is the equivalent of voting with your feet.
Not Without Its Costs
This trend is no doubt encouraging to the Palestinians and their supporters, but it is not without its costs.
If we assume no change and project this development into the future, say 20 years or so, what will Jewish Israel look like?
First, the ratio of Jews to Israeli Arabs within the Green Line will certainly shrink. That is, the Arab population, which already has a higher birth rate than the Jewish one, will grow all the more rapidly, making up an increasing percentage of the population. Factor in the Occupied Territories and there will be more Palestinians than Jews.
One can, of course, say that this is as it should be. The notion that Palestine must have a Jewish majority has always been a perverse one. Nonetheless, as a consequence of the changing demographics, it is almost certain that Palestinian-Jewish Israeli relations, which have never been good, will get rapidly and proportionately worse.
Why so? The second point answers this question.
Second, of the Jews who remain in Israel, an increasing percentage will be ideological fanatics. Take a look at the religiously motivated, armed and aggressive settlers on the West Bank and then imagine them, along with those in black hats and pa'ot (unshaven sideburns), as making up 60 or 70 percent of the Jewish population.
That is a "Masada" majority who will be willing to "defend" their way of life in all of Palestine not due to patriotic propaganda, but out of real racial conviction and religious zeal.
Third, the other remaining Jews, the ones not necessarily fanatical, will be mostly docile. These are the ones who cannot get the foreign passports, who have no relatives abroad to vouch for them, and not enough resources to bankroll a new start even if they could find another place to go.
They will follow what orders they are given by their increasingly fanatical government for the sake of their jobs, their pensions, to put bread on the table, because their peers are doing so, etc.
Fourth, ideological fanatics confronting their worst nightmare, in this case the "demographic holocaust," are not going to be devotees of democracy and human rights. Israel's government will become more and more dictatorial.
We can already see this in today's Israel where the Knesset, presently controlled by ideological parties, is in the process of passing anti-democratic laws. This is may be just the beginning.
In a population shorn of its middle class, there will be no real political opposition and the right-wing parties will become ever more aggressive against what they regard as anti-Zionist elements within the Jewish population.
Organizations such as B'tselem, Gush Shalom, Rabbis for Human Rights, the Committee Against Home Demolitions, and the like will be shut down. Supporters of these groups will become silent or go into exile, as will the small number of Israeli academics who now stand against government policy.
If they do not, they will likely end up in jail.
This, of course, is just conjecture. However, it is reasonable conjecture. And so we really ought to think about this.
In today's Israel you can still tell the difference between those Jewish Israelis who want a just and humane settlement with the Palestinians and those who do not. If things keep going as they are now there will come a time when it will be much harder to make that distinction.
In other words, when the everyday man or woman just looking for economic or physical safety, just looking for a better place to raise the kids, packs up and leaves, the "neutral zone" of everyday life vanishes with them.
Society becomes a place where, as George W. Bush once put it, you're with us or against us. And, if to be with us means to be a racist, a supporter of the God-chosen people and an active enemy of the inferior and doomed Amalekites, then that is how everyone still in residence will behave.
When and if that time comes, how are we on the outside, and especially those of us who are Jews, going to react to an Israel where those who seek a just peace are either silenced, imprisoned or exiled?
What do you do with a society where everyone must support injustice or be themselves condemned as traitors or criminals? Under these circumstances how do you tell the difference between the innocent and the guilty?
This is not a potential scenario unique to Israel's situation. It has been played out before. The difference is that before the Jews were among the victims and not victimizers.
This is what happens when any group gives itself over to a doctrine, be it racial, religious or political, which destroys all notions of common humanity. That is what the prevailing ideology of Israel has done.
And, if history remains consistent, as Zionism "purifies" itself, gets rid of all those who would question it or compromise it, it must take its remaining adherents into the realm of unadorned horror. We should all be afraid of this. Very afraid.
Lawrence Davidson is a history professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Foreign Policy Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest; America's Palestine: Popular and Offical Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood; and Islamic Fundamentalism.


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Mariah Carey has quit "American Idol" |
The 43-year-old singer has confirmed she will leave the show after just one season in order to undertake a world tour following the success of her latest single 'Beautiful'.
Mariah retweeted a message from her PR representatives which read: "W/ global success of "#Beautiful" (#1 in 30+ countries so far) @MariahCarey confirms world tour & says goodbye 2 Idol http://mariahcarey.com (sic)."
Along with the tour, Mariah has a number of other projects this year.
Her representative told People magazine: "The rest of this year is jam-packed with Mariah putting the finishing touches on her much anticipated forthcoming album, headlining the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular and appearing in Lee Daniels's 'The Butler', opening in August."
Mariah is the second judge to confirm their departure from the 'American Idol' panel after Randy Jackson, who was the only original judge remaining on the show recently revealed he made the decision not to return next season because he wants to focus on his other interests.
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Don't you just adore governor Brownback? He's such an extreme believer in his own little right-wing religious fundamentalist reality. Even though it's Christianist, it's not very charitable. Or rather, the charity goes to the haves and is removed from the have-nots. I wonder what Jesus would say about that, hmh?
A few years ago Brownback cut taxes in Kansas something fierce. Indeed, certain kinds of firms don't pay any tax on their profits! That's giving the owners of those firms government handouts, in my divine and correct opinion.
But other types of handouts Brownback doesn't like. His most recent move consists of making absolutely sure that welfare recipients don't spend that grudgingly-offered money on strippers or tattoos but on useful things such as baby diapers:
The measure bars spending relief funds on movies, at swimming pools, or on "cruise ships," as well as at any "jewelry store, tattoo parlor, massage parlor, body piercing parlor ... psychic or fortune telling business, bail bond company, video arcade ... or any retail establishment which provides adult-oriented entertainment in which performers disrobe or perform in an unclothed state."
It also places a $25 daily limit on ATM withdrawals using the debit cards issued to recipients under the state/federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, which is what's left of America's welfare program. That renders the cards useless for major spending, such as paying the rent, but it does mean that users will pile up ATM fees at $1 per withdrawal, plus bank fees.
Note that there is no evidence Kansas welfare recipients are desperately trying to use their welfare checks in the manner described here. I'd be pretty surprised if such misuse is at all common, given that most recipients are single mothers with young children.
The point of this bill, Brownback tells us, is to get people to go to work! I haven't checked if Kansas funds daycare for single mothers on welfare so that they can go to work in one of the minimum wage jobs many of them would end up with. But whatever. At least they can't get tattoos and massages while taking cruises.
Emily Badger in Washington Post writes about all this with great lucidity. She points out that the treatment of one group of handout recipients differs from the treatment of all other groups of handout recipients: They are held to higher moral and ethical standards:
The second issue with these laws is a moral one: We rarely make similar demands of other recipients of government aid. We don't drug-test farmers who receive agriculture subsidies (lest they think about plowing while high!). We don't require Pell Grant recipients to prove that they're pursuing a degree that will get them a real job one day (sorry, no poetry!). We don't require wealthy families who cash in on the home mortgage interest deduction to prove that they don't use their homes as brothels (because surely someone out there does this). The strings that we attach to government aid are attached uniquely for the poor.
And that is because we don't view other forms of government transfers as undeserved handouts.
It's not necessarily bad to limit what welfare payments can be used for. But when you combine this particular move with Brownback's earlier handouts to much wealthier groups of taxpayers you wonder what type of Jesus his reality has. If this man is supposedly following in his footsteps.


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- Term options and variable kilometrage
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- Flexible lease-end options
- More disposable income
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Walk Away Lease
The "walk away" (or Closed-End) Lease allows you to make a set number of monthly payments for any term ranging from 24 to 45 months, with a limit to the amount of kilometers that can be driven during the lease term. You also remain responsible for excess wear and tear to the vehicle.
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In the "unlimited kilometer" (or Open-End) Lease, commercial customers can also make a set number of monthly payments for any term ranging from 24 to 60 months, but without kilometer restrictions. However, at the end of an Open-End Lease you become responsible for the value of the vehicle. This option is not available in all provinces.
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Two pairs of protected burrowing owls were released this past weekend to Mayo Clinic to help them live in a temporary habitat before transitioning back to the wild.
A physician with Mayo Clinic, researchers with Arizona State University, and local rescue group Wild at Heart Raptors, helped build a temporary, artificial burrow habitat to help the captured owls recover.
According to Wild at Heart, the group of volunteers has helped build over 6,000 artificial burrow habitats and provided homes for over 2,500 burrowing owls.
ABC15 has learned that the two pairs of burrowing owls lost their home because of a new development going up in Buckeye.
The groups worked together to build the artificial burrows with the hope that they'll want to stay.
"We really hope that our new neighbors will provide an opportunity for staff and for patients to step out of the mind's default mode of worry, anxiety, and business, and into the present moment," said Dr. Catherine Chong.
Chong is a researcher who studies headaches for Mayo Clinic, but she's stepping outside of her expertise to help save these animals.
Mayo Clinic has walking trails at its Phoenix location that patients, doctors, and employees are able to use and the plan is to provide a view of nature if the owls decide to stay.
If the owls decide to make their artificial burrow their home, Mayo Clinic hopes to provide some type of signs or live camera feed to share with staff and patients.
Wild at Heart has a section on its website about the protected animals that become victims of new construction in the southwestern part of the U.S.
They say the species is the only known owl that lives underground, making it especially affected by land development and construction. They are not able to dig their own burrows, but create homes in existing underground spaces, like in burrows and dens from other animals.
"The Burrowing Owl is endangered in Canada, threatened in Mexico, and a species of special concern in Florida and much of the Western US," the website says. "As Arizona continues to grow, one of the greatest challenges is to minimize the impact of growth on displaced wildlife, and the use of artificial burrows is now helping to counter this threat."
Wild at Heart tracks sightings of burrowing owls, which you can find here.
Nicole Grigg at KNXV first reported this story.


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Repeats and jumps
Simple repeats
You can create a simple repeat by placing a start and an end repeat barline at the beginning and end of a passage. These barlines are applied from the Barlines palette, and, as of version 2.1, also from the Repeats & Jumps palette.
Note: If the start of a repeat coincides with the beginning of a piece or section, the start repeat barline can be omitted if desired. Similarly, an end repeat barline can be omitted at the end of a score or section.
1st and 2nd endings
First create a simple repeat (as shown above), then apply the first and second time endings—see Voltas.
To hear repeats during playback, make sure the "Play Repeats" button on the toolbar is selected. Likewise, you can turn off repeats during playback by deselecting the button.
To set the number of times that a repeat section plays back:
- Make sure the start and end repeat barlines are in place (e.g. Simple repeats above).
- Right-click on the last measure before the end repeat barline and select Measure properties.
- Adjust "Play count" ("Repeat count" prior to version 2.1) as required.
Repeat symbols and text
Text and symbols related to repeats are located in the "Repeats & Jumps" palette (in the Basic and Advanced workspaces). This palette contains:
- Symbols for measure repeat, Segno, Coda, and, as of version 2.1, repeat barlines
- D.S., D.C., To Coda, and Fine text
To add a repeat symbol to the score use either of the following:
- Drag and drop a repeat symbol from the palette onto (not above!) the desired measure (so the measure changes color).
- Select a measure, then double-click the desired repeat symbol in the palette.
Jumps are symbols in the score which tell the musician, and playback, to skip to a named marker (see below). Jumps include the various kinds of D.C. (Da Capo) and D.S. (Dal Segno) text.
If you click on a jump, some text boxes and a checkbox are displayed in the Jump section of the Inspector. These have the following effects on playback:
- Jump to: Playback jumps to the marker whose "Label" is the same as the "Jump to" tag.
- Play until: Playback continues until it reaches a marker whose "Label" is the same as the "Play until" tag.
- Continue: Playback jumps to the next marker whose "Label" is the same as the "Continue" tag.
- Play repeats: (As of version 2.2) Ticking this box tells MuseScore to play repeats after D.C. (Da Capo) or D.S. (Dal Segno) jumps. If this option is not ticked then simple Repeats are not taken after jumps and playback works as if it were the last repeat. Note: Ticking this option makes no difference to playback in versions prior to 2.2.
Note: The tags start and end, referring to the beginning and end of a score or section, are implicit and don't need to be added by the user.
Markers are the places referred to by the jumps. A list of markers (in addition to the implicit "start" and "end") follows:
- : Segno (tag: segno)
- : Segno Variation (tag: varsegno)
- : Coda (tag: codab)
- : Coda Variation (tag: varcoda)
- Fine: (tag: fine)
- To Coda: (tag: coda)
If you click on a marker, the following properties appears in the Marker section of the Inspector:
- Marker type: This can be changed from the dropdown list, if required.
- Label: This is the (identifier) tag associated with the marker. See also, Jumps (above).
Examples of jumps
- Da Capo (D.C.): At the "D.C." sign, playback jumps to the start (i.e. to the implicit start tag) and plays the entire score or section again (i.e. up to the implicit end tag).
- Da Capo (D.C.) al Fine: At the "D.C. al Fine" sign, playback jumps to the start (i.e. to the implicit start tag) and plays the score up to the Fine (i.e. the fine tag).
- Dal Segno (D.S.) al Fine: At the "D.S. al Fine" sign, playback jumps to the Segno symbol (i.e. the segno tag) and then plays up to the Fine (i.e. the fine tag)
- Dal Segno (D.S.) al Coda: At the "D.S. al Coda" sign, playback jumps to the Segno symbol (i.e. the segno tag) and then plays up to the To Coda (i.e. the coda tag). Playback then continues at the Coda symbol (i.e. the codab tag).
Note: The properties (i.e. the tag names) of jumps and markers can be set via the Inspector. You need to modify them if using multiple jumps and markers.
See also
External links
- MuseScore in Minutes: Repeats and Endings, part 2 (video tutorial)
- How to separate a coda from the rest of the score (MuseScore HowTo)


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On tonight's 2 Broke Girls season 2, episode 23 "And the Tip Slip," Caroline's father asks her to go on a talk show to defend him when a former employee threatens to defame him in a tell-all book.
2 Broke Girls is a comedy about two young women waitressing at a greasy spoon diner who strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful business – if only they can raise the cash. Sassy, streetwise Max Black works two jobs just to get by, one of which is waiting tables during the night shift at the retro-hip Williamsburg Diner. Sophisticated Caroline Channing is an uptown trust fund princess who's having a run of bad luck that forces her to reluctantly give waitressing a shot.
At first, Max sees Caroline as yet another in a long line of inept servers she must cover for, but she's surprised to find that Caroline has as much substance as she does style. When Caroline discovers Max's knack for baking amazing cupcakes, she sees a lucrative future for them, but first they need to raise the start-up money. While they save their tips, they'll stay at the restaurant, working with Oleg, an overly flirtatious Russian cook; Earl, a 75-year-old kool-kat cashier; and Han Lee, the new, eager-to-please owner of the diner. Working together, these two broke girls living in one expensive city might just find the perfect recipe for their big break.
2 Broke Girls season 2, episode 23 "And the Tip Slip" airs Monday, May 6, (9:00 – 9:30 PM, ET/PT) on CBS. Spoiler video below:


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Ticks bearing Lyme disease have been found in the Province of Ontario. Sadly they are moving northward form the U.S. So far none have been found in York Region (where I live) or in neighbouring Durham Region where the above photo was taken. But researchers are on the look out!
Working in a grid-like pattern, the above researcher is dragging a white, one-metre-square cloth (maybe corduroy, but I forgot to look) behind her to harvest ticks. Any ticks she and her partner found were taken back to a laboratory for further inspection.
Meanwhile kids with families (and photographers with cameras) were wandering along the paths and...
animal lovers were hand feeding (it's hard to see here)...
hungry chipmunks. FYI: They were also feeding chickadees, blue jays, nuthatches, squirrels and any other critters willing to take handouts.
More photos from Our World can be seen by clicking HERE.
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Cardiac Rehabilitation: MedlinePlus
All About Heart Rate (Pulse)
What should you know about your heart rate?
Even if you're not an athlete, knowledge about your heart rate can help you monitor your fitness level — and it might even help you spot developing health problems.
Your heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats per minute. Normal heart rate varies from person to person. Knowing yours can be an important heart-health gauge.
"As you age, changes in the rate and regularity of your pulse can change and may signify a heart condition or other condition that needs to be addressed," said Richard Stein, M.D., professor of medicine and cardiology at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City and a volunteer for the American Heart Association.
Where is it and what's normal?The best places to find your pulse are the:
- wrists
- inside of your elbow
- side of your neck
- top of the foot
Your resting heart rate is the heart pumping the lowest amount of blood you need because you're not exercising. If you're sitting or lying and you're calm, relaxed and aren't ill, your heart rate is normally between 60 and 100, Stein said.
But a heart rate lower than 60 doesn't usually signal a medical problem. It could be the result of taking a drug such as a beta blocker. A lower heart rate is also common for people who get a lot of physical activity or are very athletic, Stein said. Active people often have lower heart rates because their heart muscle is in better condition and doesn't need to work as hard to maintain a steady beat.
"Moderate physical activity doesn't usually change the resting pulse much," Stein said. "If you're very fit, it could change to 40. A less active person might have a heart rate between 60 and 100," he added. That's because the heart muscle has to work harder to maintain bodily functions, making it higher.
How Other Factors Affect Heart Rate
- Air temperature: When temperatures (and the humidity) soar, the heart pumps a little more blood, so your pulse rate may increase, but usually no more than five to 10 beats a minute.
- Body position: Resting, sitting or standing, your pulse is usually the same. Sometimes as you stand for the first 15 to 20 seconds, your pulse may go up a little bit, but after a couple of minutes it should settle down. Emotions: If you're stressed, anxious or "extraordinarily happy or sad" your emotions can raise your pulse.
- Body size: Body size usually doesn't usually change pulse. If you're very obese, you might see a higher resting pulse than normal, but usually not more than 100.
- Medication use: Meds that block your adrenaline (beta blockers) tend to slow your pulse, while too much too much thyroid medication or too high of a dosage will raise it.
When To Call Your DoctorYour doctor may ask you to monitor and log your heart rate if you're on a beta blocker to decrease your heart rate (and lower blood pressure) or to control a another common abnormal rhythm (arrhythmia). Keeping tabs on your heart rate can help your doctor determine whether to change the dosage or switch to a different medication.
"If your pulse is very low or if you have frequent episodes of unexplained fast heart rates, especially if they cause you to feel weak or dizzy or faint, tell your doctor, who can decide if it's an emergency," Stein said. "Your pulse is one tool to help get a picture of your health."
Learn more:
- Blood Pressure Vs. Heart Rate
- Target Heart Rate
- Arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms)


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A washable smartphone means one less stress for owners.
TIRED of those unsightly smudges and other dirt on your bacteria-laden smartphone?
A Japanese firm says it has the solution with what it describes the world's first smartphone that can be washed with soap and water.
Waterproof smartphones have been on the market for a while. But telecom company KDDI says its new "Digno rafre" phone — to be launched in Japan next week — is the only one that can withstand a soapy bath.
"Our development team washed the smartphone more than 700 times to test its durability," a company spokesman told AFP.
An online commercial aimed at proving its credentials features a child dropping the phone onto a plate of food topped with ketchup.
His mother assures her shocked family that those red globs are nothing to worry about as she soaps up the phone under a running tap.
The $AU239 gadget is mainly aimed at parents who want to keep their smartphones clean for their small children, a KDDI spokesman said.
But he also cautioned that only certain types of foamy soap could be used on the device, which will only be sold in Japan for now.
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