text:
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." --Neil Armstrong
Written by Frank White
on Thursday, 21 January 2016.
Posted in Other Issues
We cannot predict, with any certainty, the impact on human thought, of seeing the Earth from Mars, but we can make some educated guesses.
To begin with, we have, in a way, already seen the Earth from the Martian surface, through the eyes of the Curiosity Rover. On January 31, 2014, our robot explorer took a photo of the Earth and the moon just after sunset. Without enhancement, you really can't see the moon, but the Earth from Mars looks a lot like Mars from the Earth. It resembles a bright star that doesn't blink the way that stars do.
In the context of the Overview Effect, it is worth noting that all the distinguishing features of our home planet, such as oceans, continents, and ice caps, disappear when seen from that great a distance. This is relevant because seeing the Earth from orbit or the moon still provides the viewer with those features. However, what is more striking is coming to understand that these features are parts of a whole system, the Earth itself.
That is the essence of the Overview Effect.
At some point, however, the Mars mission astronauts will move out beyond the moon and begin to see the Earth shrink in size until, closer to Mars, it looks like that unblinking star. At this singular moment, if not sooner, they will experience an enhancement of the Overview Effect that I have called "the Copernican Perspective."
The Copernican Perspective is a realization that the Earth is not only a whole, but is also a part, in this case of the solar system. While the Earth is relatively large as seen from orbit, and still quite an impressive sight when viewed from the moon, it will be rather easy to miss, or even ignore, when seen from Mars.
Early Earthlings on the red planet may respond to this situation with homesickness. When we travel on the surface of the Earth, we often long for the familiar sights and sounds of our home country, which we can no longer see or hear.
They may also react with a form of denial. After all, anyone who has volunteered to leave their home planet and establish a new civilization on an alien world must have settled accounts with themselves and their families, making the case that the adventure would be worth the sacrifices it entails.
As they settle in and begin to create a new civilization, another sentiment may begin to develop: frustration.
(To Be Continued)
Continue Reading
Leave Comment
Written by Alex Howerton
on Saturday, 08 February 2014.
Posted in Overview Effect
In Chapter 3, "An Overview of the Spaceflight Experience," White discusses metaphor as a method used by the astronauts to attempt to explain their spaceflight experiences. Launching from the ideas of Julian Jaynes in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, White concludes that "one result of space exploration is that language will grow as spaceflight is described more frequently."
White is spot on here. Metaphor is powerful. It is a way for the human mind to strive to express something that cannot be grasped directly, either by the speaker or the listener. In essence, it creates reality by indicating a relationship that was hitherto unrecognized, or even existent. Spaceflight, for example, is a raw experience, but what does it mean? Like all life experiences, it does not have one meaning for all time, but changes in context over time and with different astronauts. White makes the point that "memory of it [the spaceflight experience] acts as a time-release capsule, emitting feelings, insights, thoughts, and ideas over the years after it has occurred."
White then goes on to describe the active legend-building that orbited the early astronauts. "Societies need heroes who are specially selected to undergo hardship and danger on the frontiers of civilization. Space is today's frontier, and the astronauts and cosmonauts have become today's heroes, people who have extraordinary experiences unknown to others in the society, doing something that requires uncommon bravery."
Deeds are the germ of legend, and legend is the fount of myth. And metaphor is the language of myth. We moderns hear ancient myths, and instantly think "how preposterous," or "how quaint." We have even morphed the word "myth" to be synonymous, in some contexts, with "lie". We constantly feel the need to debunk or bust myths, as if they are some insidious plague of which we must rid ourselves. But that is because we are losing our sense of metaphor, and what it is trying to do in helping shape our reality, and give it meaning.
While we are eschewing myth in one sphere, we are actively building it in another. The early astronauts were indeed our heroes, the strong-willed warriors with "The Right Stuff" who would battle the Cold War by proxy. Even the very name "astronaut" is an evocative metaphor – "sailor of the stars."
But the context of myth changes over time, and the metaphor which once served so well has now fallen into disrepute. Those noble heroes of that bygone era, the "Space Age," are now one more relic of the Military Industrial Complex. We don't need fighter pilots in space anymore – the nature of conflict has changed, and the anticipated space war is probably not going to happen any time soon. We have even gone so far in our popular culture as to parody that "right stuff" mythos in movies like Armageddon and Space Cowboys. Many view the early space program as a dead end, and now say things like "Why go to space until we solve all our problems here on Earth first? The space program is just an elitist escapist fantasy that can do nothing to help the planet."
But that is the result of our modern myth-busting proclivities. Just because the cultural terrain has shifted does not diminish the accomplishments or worth of those early space explorers, those heroes. The valuable and worthy activity now is to actively engage with our space explorers, to interact with them to reach for new, fresh metaphors that transform our understanding of space from something to conquer to viewing it more as an extension of our environment, which is precisely what it is. The role of the space explorers has transformed from conquering heroes to dedicated, focused achievers of missions, precisely the same shift in dynamics we have seen in many frontier contexts. This in no way diminishes the stature of the early space pioneers, but rather places them in the mythic context of blazing the trail and making it possible for more of us to go, when the opportunities present themselves.
White then goes on to ask whether spaceflight is a spiritual experience. "Spiritual" is now one of those loaded words in our culture, along with "religion" and God" that mean something different to just about everybody who uses them, and are subject to our myth-busting propensities. But space exploration definitely does have an effect on humans that take us beyond our normal context. The renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell discussed the transformative power of metaphor to reach for deeper insights in his book The Flight of the Wild Gander. He tells us that the philosopher Immanuel Kant "offers a four-term analogy ("a" is to "b" as "c" is to "x"), which points not to an incomplete resemblance of two things but to a complete resemblance of two relationships between quite dissimilar things…. Mythological, theological, metaphysical analogies, in other words, do not point indirectly to an only partially understood knowable term, but directly to a relationship between to terms, the one empirical, the other metaphysical; the latter being, absolutely and forever and from every conceivable human standpoint, unknowable."
Space is that inconceivable unknowable metaphysical condition, that astronauts have experienced directly, albeit from their limited human perspectives, and are continually reaching to find the right metaphors, the right Kantian relationship, to express to the rest of us, to give us a sense, as White points out, of what is was like. That metaphysical reality can never be fully apprehended or understood by even those who experienced it. The astronauts need us as much as we need them, so we can mutually push our communal language to find new metaphors, new ways to understand and communicate that ultimately ineffable experience.
That experience definitely has a spiritual quality to it, in that it compels all of us, the astronauts and the ground observers, to reach beyond ordinarily-experienced reality to a metaphysical sense of participating in something greater than ourselves. As White points out, for some astronauts, that translated into achieving the goals of the mission to the best of their ability, with no attention paid to what is commonly considered "spiritual." Yet the challenge of the experience called to the fore that response from those individuals which would otherwise not have come to fruition. Space calls out the best in us, and it is our constant challenge to grapple with the shortcomings of our language to strive to create new metaphors which can lead us to a greater sense of context, meaning and myth, as we struggle to understand our place in the universe.
Written by Alex Howerton
on Wednesday, 10 October 2012.
In the first chapters of The Overview Effect, Frank White challenges us earthbound fish to jump out of our habitual perspective. That is the analogy he uses, along the lines of classic explanation of 4 dimensions to us by imagining a 2-dimensional creature encountering a 3-dimensional world. A fish flopping onto land, if he could survive it, would have a hard time comprehending what he was experiencing, and even harder time communicating that experience to other fishes once he reentered the water.
White does not push the analogy further, but I will. At the very least, the other fish might call the transformative fish crazy. No one likes their worldview challenged. At worst, they might crucify him or martyr him in some other way. Throughout history, humans have proven that they are more likely to solve their cognitive dissonance by denying or repudiating new factual evidence than doing the hard, often painful work of modifying their worldview to accommodate a new reality. Exhibits: Socrates. Jesus. Hypatia of Alexandria. Giordano Bruno. Galileo. Darwin. Climate change scientists. I think you get my point.
But over time, that which was once highly controversial becomes accepted. No one seriously disputes anymore, for example, that the Earth revolves around the Sun, or that the solar system is located in an obscure arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Nothing of the physical layout of the universe has changed. But a very fundamental change has happened in the universe – our perception of it. Even more important than that is our ability to communicate that change with each other, to share the experience of change. As White says, "A shared context is critical for real communication to take place, because without it, what is meaningful to one person may be nonsense to another."
We fish are currently struggling to maintain our worldviews in the face of an onslaught of new information and stimuli. The normal human reaction is to dig in and double down. "I'm right, and so by definition everybody else who disagrees is wrong." We have seen the results of what that type of thinking leads to (Americans are no less culpable in this regard).
What is needed to break the logjam is the new physical perspective that the Overview Effect offers. Such a jarring "fish out of water" experience may be too much for some to handle, and we have to be prepared for that. But for most of us, I suspect, it would be a positively transformative experience, one that would take many years, if not a lifetime, to assimilate and express in new cultural forms.
Even the way we experience transformation may be transformed. It is common to hear statements like, "When I contemplate the immensity of the stars, the galaxies, the universe, I realize how insignificant I am." If that is true, why then do you not feel correspondingly omnipotent when contemplating cells, molecules, atoms, and quarks? Often such contemplation leads to a similar feeling of insignificance. Why? Because those scales are out of our control, outside of our carefully constructed worldview. But consider this – who is doing the contemplating? How is it that a mass of biomatter can come to perceive scales from quasars to quarks, and have some measure of control over it, at least locally? That is amazing all by itself. We are a legitimate part of the universe, and belong in it, and we have to understand things on a human scale.
One of the beauties of the Overview Effect is that it can broaden that "human scale" to encompass so much more, so we are not shocked into insignificance or incapacity when faced with realities far beyond our current comprehension. We fishes can help each other to comprehend this majestic, magnificent universe we find ourselves in, and strive to become more than fishes, without ever losing our essential "fishness."
White says, "Our 'worldview' as a conceptual framework depends quite literally on our view of the world from a physical place in the universe." We will always be human. We will always be constrained by the physical limitations that that implies. But that does not mean that what we think are our limitations now are the actual limitations. We will never discover those limits unless we push the boundaries, then communicate with each other, rationally, artistically or otherwise, the new parameters of what it means to be human. That is the gift that the Overview Effect can give all of us.
Continue Reading
View Comments (1)
Written by Alex Howerton
on Monday, 17 September 2012.
Posted in Overview Effect
Adapted from the book Free Space — Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space, Loompanics, 1995
Space exploration and development is exciting! It is easy to become absorbed in the details, the discoveries, the adventure, and forget why we began sucha quest in the first place. If we are ever to reach space as a civilization, it is imperative to understand the minutiae, the nuts and bolts of how it is done. It is, however, no less important to examine why we want to go, what we intend to accomplish, what our hopes and dreams are upon achieving our goals.
I embarked on my quest toward a a spacefaring civilization to fulfill a personal vision. I have, from my earliest memories, loved the idea of space. I have always marveled at science fiction, and in eighth-grade science class, where I was racking up a solid C average, I achieved A pluses for the two weeks we concentrated on space.
As I grew into adulthood, other interests absorbed me, and space studies slid to the back burner. Then, in 1983, I participated in a seminar entitled "2013: the World 30 Years from Now." The task on the first day of the seminar was to envision the state of the world in that future time. On the second day, we had to figure out how to bring it about.
With a fellow attendee I was assigned to go into a darkened room, close my eyes, and relate my vision of the future. Upon shutting my eyes, a fully-articulated vision leapt into my imagination. I saw a re-greened Earth, dedicated to agriculture and environmental parks. There were perhaps six large cities on the whole planet, mainly distribution and collection centers for the solar system's economy. The cities were built downward, into the Earth, with no eye-jarring artificial structures to assail the senses. Ground transportation was achieved by means of magnetic strips between destinations. Vehicles were encoded with their destinations, much like bar-coding, then glided along the steps at tremendous speeds. Since every vehicle was locked onto the strips and traveling at uniform speed, there were no accidents. Power was provided by clean-burning hydrogen fusion and solar power satellites.
My mind then flew to the Moon. It was one massive industrial park. Every conceivable industry was represented and allowed to prosper in a free and open market. The goods and services produced there were shipped all over the solar system. The Moon's far side was reserved for pure science and astronomy.
I saw great ships plying the pathways of the solar system, visiting the colonies of Mars and beyond, bringing back valuable resources from the nether regions, enriching everyone. Beautiful pleasure yachts powered by solar sail gracefully wandered about the spatial sea. Huge free-floating space resorts supplied every kind of diversion, from flying under one's own power, to all kinds of space sports, to discreetly-appointed zero-g love nests.
The outer worlds of Europa, Titan, and others were being explored for organic matter and even life, while tiny robots of nano-technological origin set about terraforming the worlds where no life previously existed, yet which would be useful to humanity.
A great power generator was in full operation around stately Jupiter, producing energy from Io's interaction with the great planet's magnetosphere. Automated probes with the most advanced hydrogen-scoop and antimatter engines were forging their way to the nearest stellar neighbors to initiate a first reconnaissance. The whole neighborhood of the Sun was bustling and thriving with human activity.
I had not heard of the Overview Effect when I experienced that vision — indeed, Frank had not yet written the book. But in retrospect, I did have a proto "Overview Effect" moment at that seminar. That is why, once I finally read the book, the idea resonated so deeply within me.
The Overview Effect is the unifying principle which gives a sense of unity and purpose to our current seemingly chaotic cultural state. Just as in Chaos Theory, order seems to break down at an increasing rate, until a strange attractor enters the picture, and a new dynamic equilibrium is achieved. The idea of the Overview Effect is just such a strange attractor.
The current news about SpaceX's successful resupply mission to the International Space Station and the announcement by Planetary Resources of the intention to mine an asteroid may seem to most people to have come out of the blue, but these ideas have been percolating for many years, even decades, and are now emerging, just when they apparently seem to be needed the most.
We are witnessing and participating in the birth of cosmic consciousness, not just as an abstract idea, but as a practical program of action, an alternative to the standard methods of global problem-solving. This is the true power of the Overview Effect, and I am proud that my vision of three decades ago has now found a home with the Overview Institute.
Written by Mike Simmons
on Friday, 06 July 2012.
Posted in Overview Effect
Astronomers Without Borders, an organization I founded in 2007, is based on a simple truth – when we look up at the sky, no matter where we are, we know others are doing the same thing from other countries around the world. At similar latitudes the sky is identical regardless of where you are. And we all share the same wonder of the starry night sky, the planets and the entire Universe beyond. That wonder is part of the traditions of every culture, passed down through time. It will certainly be a part of our future as well.
But there's more to it than the beauty of the Milky Way's thousands of stars seen from a dark location. When we look up we're looking outward, into our cosmic neighborhood. With a telescope we see even further into the cosmic hinterlands. For adventurers who long to see what lies on the other side of every hill, the Universe offers unlimited mysteries.
The Universe – all that you see when you look up at the stars – is where we live. The Earth is one small part of it. If you've ever wanted to travel in space, just drive to a dark location, look up and take a look around. You're there, orbiting around our galaxy along with the rest of the inhabitants of Spaceship Earth.
The World at Night is a great demonstration of how we all share that magnificent view of the night sky. The team of expert landscape astrophotographers assembled by project founder Babak Tafreshi has imaged the night sky from locations worldwide, showing a blanket of stars above historic, cultural and natural landmarks with stunning results. Whether it's a church, mosque, or synagogue in the earthly foreground, the sky above is the same. We can change details of the orb we live on but the rest of the Universe hovers beyond our reach, untouched, practically unchanging.
This is the idea behind Astronomers Without Borders and the source of our slogan, One People, One Sky. The earthly view of the heavens is also strikingly similar to what some astronauts experience from their perch in orbit. Frank White coined the term, "The Overview Effect," in his book of the same name to describe the sensation astronauts often experience seeing the Earth hanging in space among the stars and other planets, without any apparent borders between us. I've told Frank I consider our view of the night sky to be the overview effect for the rest of us – those of us who will never travel out of Earth's atmosphere – and he agrees. When we connect with someone in a distant land, far beyond our horizon, and they're seeing the same sky we do (offset by time as the Earth rotates), the sensation of One People, One Sky is reinforced. The overview effect may not be as easy to visualize as from space – or as fun as being weightless – but it's there just the same.
Astronaut Nicole Stott, who has spent more than 100 days in space as a NASA astronaut, has a similar view from a space travelers perspective. In a recent blog post on Fragile Oasis titled "The Overview Effect: I Think It Works Both Ways", Nicole said, "As I have watched over these past months, with my feet firmly planted on the ground, as my friends passed above me on this shiny point of light crossing the night sky, it occurred to me that this idea of an Overview Effect might just work both ways – not only for those looking in amazement, appreciation and awe at our planet; but also for those looking up to the sky at the wonders orbiting us there. It seems that both perspectives remind us of the fragile nature of where we live – Earth with its thin blue atmosphere and ISS with its thin silver hull – both protecting their humans from the harsh vacuum of space; both reminding us that wherever humanity chooses to 'reside', we are obligated to take care of that place – our home." Her solitary view engendered thoughts of our common heritage on Earth and the need to protect it together – "I" became "we."
I started Astronomers Without Borders after visiting countries like Iran and Iraq, and meeting people who are far more like us than they are different. They have the same needs, wishes and problems as anyone else. I've given many presentations on astronomy in those countries to astronomy clubs in the US, and the focus inevitably turns to the difficulties others have in pursuing our common activities. Equipment we take for granted is difficult or impossible to acquire in many countries. Dark skies are out of reach without transportation. The result is sympathy for the situation of our colleagues and a desire to help. There's nothing political about it – it's nature, our common heritage. And it's there for everyone, an unlimited resource. Why shouldn't we all share in it equally? The political and other issues that seem so important most of the time just become irrelevant, at least for that moment. This is purely people to people interaction of the most basic sort.
Astronomers Without Borders now has participants in most of the world's countries, with global programs that bring people together as never before. All based on our living on one planet, looking up at the same sky. An American amateur astronomer with the latest computerized gear and a student in a poor country may have different activities during the night but in the end they're there for the same reason. And they say remarkably similar things about the wonders of the night sky. After all, we're all looking out from the same place – Earth – and traveling together through the stars.


text:
October 29, 2017
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
Name *
Email *
Notify me of new posts by email.
Get both love and self-deprecation into your inbox so you don't miss a post!
Email Address
Terms of Use - Privacy Policy
WordPress Di Blog Theme

subset: commoncrawl


text:
While researching an upcoming interview, we learned of a farm-to-table concept moving into the neighborhood this summer. Scott Brandon, known most recently for his work at Crow Bar + Kitchen, plans to launch his next venture in Old Town Orange.
Originally located at a historic space, Brandon's newer digs are just off the Circle and will utilize reclaimed lumber and vintage furnishings when he opens
It'll be LinX, an artisan sausage and Belgian frites shoppe. Drinks will include craft Belgium, German and domestic beers. Hand-crafted bread and condiments made in-house round out his understated intention of doing a limited number of items well (instead of a slew of mediocre ones). Seating will include an outdoor patio lined with citrus trees and a communal table.
Interested parties can mosey over to Three Seventy Common in Laguna Beach on Monday, April 16, as Scott will guest chef at their inaugural Uncommon Monday monthly dinners. A five-course dinner for $55 will be served, with courses including brandade croquettas and apple strudel ice cream sandwich sliders. As long as he doesn't start frosting his tips and pull up in a vintage convertible, he's got our attention.


text:
Freud Museum London
Listed house in Hampstead where Sigmund Freud and his family lived after fleeing the Nazis in 1938. The Museum was founded in 1986. It has featured in numerous films and TV broadcasts and hosts regular exhibitions and events. It is available for hire for filming and evening functions.
Venue Type:
Wed 12.00-20.30
Thurs-Sun 12.00-17.00
Adults: £8.00
Senior Citizens: £6
Concs: £4.00 (with valid student ID card, children aged 12-16, unemployed persons, disabled persons)
Under 12s: Free
- Museums Association
Additional info
Our library, study and research facilities are open by appointment only.
Sigmund Freud's large collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Oriental antiquities and his library. His study with the psychoanalytic couch preserve his working environment. A reference library, archive and picture library document the history of psychoanalysis.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Personalities, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- Freud's couch; Dali portrait of Freud; Brouillet print of Charcot; Abu Simbel print; photographs of Yvette Guilbert, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Lou Andreas-Salome, Charcot, Freud family.
Psychoanalysis After Freud
- 11 January — 29 March 2018 *on now
Psychoanalysis was initiated by Freud, then transformed by a series of powerful creative figures who both extended and deepened its range, opening new intellectual horizons as they applied its methods to new problems and new fields. We will focus on four leading innovators, carefully examining their criticisms of Freud and the manner in which they modified his theories and therapeutic practice. In this way, the course will give an overview of the development of psychoanalysis across its first century and into the beginning of its second. While intended to be accessible to beginners, it will also stimulate those who already have some knowledge of the field.
(The course is self-contained – as is 'Introducing Freud at the Freud Museum' which precedes it in the autumn term. The two courses can be taken in either order, or as 'stand alone' modules, but complete beginners wanting a thorough introduction to psychoanalysis should take 'Introducing Freud' first, then follow on with the present course.)
Week 1: Jung (1): Introduction to the course: The nature and status of psychoanalysis. The conflict between Freud and Jung over the foundations of psychoanalysis. Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' versus Jung's 'Symbols of Transformation'.
Week 2: Jung (2): Freud's relation to Schopenhauer and Jung's relation to Nietzsche, and how this leads to Jung's theory of 'individuation' and the self, versus Freud's conception of the ego and the 'personal' unconscious. Jung's 'Personality Types' and the requirement of the 'training analysis' for all analysts.
Week 3: Jung (3): Jung's view of development across the life-cycle: his interpretation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The function of religion, and of art, according to Jung and Freud. Relationships and sexuality in the Jungian perspective.
Week 4: Klein (1): Klein's approach to the psychoanalysis of children versus the approach of Anna Freud. The beginnings of the Kleinian revolution in psychoanalysis: the world of the infant within the child. The challenge to the Freudian conception of the Oedipus complex.
Week 5: Klein (2): Klein's interpretation of Freud's 'Eros' and 'Thanatos', and her view of how these conflicting forces play themselves out in the inner world of the very young child. The 'Paranoid-Schizoid position' and the 'Depressive position'. Klein's 'Envy and Gratitude'. Klein and Bion.
Week 6: Klein (3): Klein's view of sexuality and gender, and her critique of Freud's view of the difference between the sexes. 'Penis envy' and 'Womb envy': a 'mother centred' psychoanalysis, as opposed to the 'father centred' psychoanalysis of Freud. Karen Horney's critique of Freud. The Kleinian view of art and of society.
Week 7: Winnicott (1): Winnicott's critique of Klein: the crucial importance of the early environment in the development of the infant. 'Primary maternal preoccupation', 'Holding', 'Handling' and 'Personalization' in early development. The 'true self', the 'false self', and 'going on being'.
Week 8: Winnicott (2): Winnicott's concept of the 'Transitional Object': transitional phenomena and the 'intermediate area of experience'. Winncott's understanding of art, culture and religion. Play and the nature of psychotherapy. Winnicott, Bion and Beckett.
Week 9: Winnicott (3): A Winnicottian view of the difference between the sexes. Gender and science; science versus art; the two cultures and their relation to sexuality. The nature of psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy, and their relation to science and to art.
Week 10: Lacan (1): The Lacanian revolution: the function of speech and language in psychoanalysis, and the fateful significance of the 'mirror stage'. How the unconscious is 'structured like a language'.
Week 11: Lacan (2): Lacan's three 'orders': the imaginary, symbolic and real. The primacy of the symbolic: psychoanalysis as the study of our relationship to language. The Lacanian understanding of neurosis and psychosis.
Week 12: Lacan (3): 'The meaning of the phallus': Lacan's view of sexuality and gender. A return to a 'father centred' psychoanalysis? Irigaray's critique of Freud and Lacan. Jacqueline Rose on Lacan and Klein. Lacan on Love.
Full price: £190
Friends of the Museum: £160
Students/concessions: £130
PROJECTIONS: Neurosis on Film
- 19 February — 26 March 2018 *on now
Six-week evening course
Scottish physician William Cullen first employed the term 'neurosis' in 1769 to summarise "general diseases of the sense or motion" where there appeared to be no observable organic cause. Sigmund Freud redefined and popularised the neurosis diagnosis in the 20th century, developing it as a central construct in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
PROJECTIONS is psychoanalysis for film interpretation.
PROJECTIONS empowers film spectators to express subjective associations they consider to be meaningful. Expertise in psychoanalytic theory is not necessary - the only prerequisite is the desire to enter and inhabit the imaginary world of film, which is itself a psychoanalytic act. MARY WILD, a Freudian cinephile from Montreal, is the creator of PROJECTIONS.
Advance viewing is optional, select scenes and montages will be shown during weekly sessions (see filmography below).
Week 1 – HYSTERIA: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Opening Night (1977), Belle De Jour (1967)
Week 2 – OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS: Brokeback Mountain (2005), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Week 3 – MELANCHOLIA: Les Amours Imaginaires (2010), Knight Of Cups (2015), A Single Man (2009)
Week 4 – LINGUISTIC BLOCK: Deconstructing Harry (1997), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Adaptation (2002)
Week 5 – EXISTENTIAL ANGST: Seconds (1966), Into the Wild (2007), The Zero Theorem (2013)
Week 6 – ETERNAL RETURN: Vertigo (1958), Interstellar (2014), The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Full Price: £100
Friend of the Museum: £75
Student/unwaged: £75
Anna Freud Tour for International Women's Day
- 7 March 2018 2-2:30pm
To help commemorate International Women's Day on the 8th March, this tour will introduce you to the many and subtle ways in which aspects of Anna's personality and relationships are reflected throughout the House. Share a closer look at some of the displays, explore examples of her achievements and reflect on the continuing relevance of her pioneering work.
Free event with admission.
Admission Charges
Adults: £8.00
Senior Citizens: £6.00
Concessions: £4.00 (students with valid ID cards, children aged 12-16, UK unemployed persons - with proof, disabled persons)
Children under 12: Free
Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory & Site-Responsive Art
- 8 March 2018 6:30-9pm
Art historian and theorist Joanne Morra will give a reading from her book Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-responsive Art (IB Tauris, 2018). She will be joined by cultural theorist and artist Mieke Bal, and artists Susan Hiller and Michelle Williams Gamaker who will speak about their respective exhibitions at the Freud Museum London.
The talks and discussion will be followed by a drinks reception marking the launch of the publication.
This event has been generously supported by Research at Central Saint Martins, Central Saint Martins' Art Programme (University of the Arts London), and IB Tauris.
About the book:
Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Berggasse 19, Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the great psychoanalyst's objects and artefacts. Now museums, both of these spaces resonate powerfully.
Since 1989, the Freud Museum London has held over 90 exhibitions by a distinctive range of artists including Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker, Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Susan Hiller, and Sarah Lucas. The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna houses a small but impressive contemporary art collection, with work by John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Jenny Holzer, Franz West and Ilya Kabakov. In this remarkable book, Joanne Morra offers a nuanced analysis of these historical museums and their unique relationships to contemporary art.
Taking us on a journey through the 'site-responsive' artworks, exhibitions and curatorial practices that intervene in the objects, spaces and memories of these museums, Joanne Morra offers a fresh experience of the history and practice of psychoanalysis, of museums and contemporary art.
Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art is available from the Freud Museum Shop >
Full Price: £10
Friends of the Museum: £8
Students/unwaged: £8
Freud & the Ancient World
- 17 March 2018 10am-5pm
Everyone has heard of the Oedipus complex. Freud's ideas have left a profound impression on the modern cultural imagination. But where did Freud's Oedipus come from? And how did he come up with the phallic mother? How did Freud invent a new way of reading literature and art? And what intellectual history made Freud's psychoanalysis of religion and civilisation possible?
Just as Freud exhorted us to search out the origins of our desires and identities - to become a modern Oedipus - so this series of public lectures excavates the origins of Freud's ideas. We will learn that there would have been no psychoanalysis without Freud's obsession with the ancient world.
First session: examines the importance of ancient ideas about desire and pleasure for Freud's understanding of gender and sexuality.
Second session: will consider the significance of ancient texts for Freud's discussions of literature and art.
Third session: will look at how Freud's discussions of Judaism, Christianity and modern civilisation emerged out of his interest in ancient religion. When Freud formulated the contours of the modern individual in modern society, he could not help but look back to antiquity to understand who we are.
Dr Daniel Orrells is Reader in Ancient Literature and Its Reception at King's College London, where he is Head of the Department of Classics. His research examines the presence of classical antiquity in modern cultural, literary and intellectual history. His most recent book 'Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy' offers a fresh, new narrative about the importance of the ancient world for the development of sexology and psychoanalysis
Dr Daniel Orrells' book 'Sex: Antiquity and it Legacy' is available from the Museum shop.
9.30am - open
10am - first session
12pm - lunch break
12.45pm - second session
2.45pm - tea break
3pm - third session
5pm - finish
Tea and coffee will be provided during both breaks. Please note: there is no cafe on site, however, you are welcome to bring your own lunch, which can be consumed in the classroom, or the Museum garden if the weather is fine.
more info:
Full Price £70
Friend of the Museum £55
Students/senior citizen/unwaged £50
Student Friend of the Museum £45
Monster Love: Facing Fauna Phobia
- 24 March 2018 1-3pm
This workshop invites participants to bring out and tackle irrational other-than-human animal fears through crafting. The aim is to reduce biophobia, and encourage in its place biophilia and nature connection (Kellert & Wilson, 1993). The process has its roots in exposure therapy with the core protocol that one should 'go towards that which you are afraid of' (Wilson, 2012).
In spending time reflecting on the features of one's fear, and drawing, cutting and sewing a cuddly version of it, there is keen potential to shift from a negative to a positive belief system. The resultant artefact prolongs the exposure experience, serving in intention to reduce the twin phobia components – fear and disgust (Richard & Lauterbach, 2006), before becoming a memento, a souvenir that commemorates one's taming of a personal monster.
Monster Love forms part of a practice-based research programme undertaken by Sarah Johnson, a Design PhD student at Kingston School of Art. Participants will be requested to undertake a brief 'connection to nature' task pre- and post-workshop, and complete a short debriefing questionnaire/interview.
Research design will be given full ethics clearance by Kingston University ahead of the workshop. Sarah's research is funded by the London Doctoral Design Centre and can be found here.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Free with admission - it is necessary to reserve places on Eventbrite in advance
Adults: £8
Seniors: £6
Students: £4
Children under 12: Free
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
- 19 April — 5 July 2018
Freud was famously ambivalent about philosophy: on the one hand, pouring scorn on academic philosophers who dismissed the notion of the unconscious mind on the pretext that it involved a logical contradiction – while on the other, stating proudly in his autobiography that after a long detour through medicine and psychotherapy he had finally returned to the philosophical preoccupations of his youth. The course will examine the ways in which psychoanalysis and philosophy inform each other, and intersect with each other - sometimes in mutual support and sometimes in sharp conflict. We begin with the great philosophers of the past who influenced and inspired Freud and later psychoanalysts, then, in the second half of the course, turn to contemporary philosophers who have reflected on psychoanalysis, either critically, or with the aim of clarifying the nature of its contribution to the understanding of the human condition.
Tutor: Keith Barrett BA PhD - having received his PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, Dr Barrett specialises in both philosophy and psychoanalysis and has taught at several leading institutions, including Imperial College and Birkbeck College.
Week 1: Introduction. Freud's study of philosophy as an undergraduate. The deep philosophical background to the emergence of psychoanalysis: the Enlightenment vision vs Romanticism.
Week 2: Schopenhauer. The formative influence on Freud's thinking of the philosophy of Schopenhauer. 'The World as Will and Representation'.
Week 3: Nietzsche. Anticipations of psychoanalysis in the philosophy of Nietzsche. Freud and Jung and their different relationships to Nietzsche. Psychoanalysing philosophy.
Week 4: Plato. 'Eros' in Plato and Freud. Freud's view of homosexuality and Plato's philosophy. Plato's 'Symposium'. Freud between Plato and Nietzsche.
Week 5: Spinoza. Sometimes referred to as 'the philosopher of psychoanalysis', we will examine Spinoza's understanding of the mind/body relationship, and his views on freedom and happiness. Spinoza's 'Ethics'
Week 6: Popper and Grunbaum. The 20th century debate over the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Grunbaum's 'The Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis'
Week 7: Ricoeur and Habermas. The debate over the interpretation of psychoanalysis as hermeneutics. Ricoeur's 'Freud and Philosophy'
Week 8: Levinas and Buber. Psychoanalysis and the philosophy of the ethical relation to the other. Levinas' 'Totality and Infinity' and Buber's 'I and Thou'
Week 9: Marcuse and Girard. Philosophical responses to Freud's analysis of society. Marcuse's 'Eros and Civilisation' and Girard's 'Violence and the Sacred'. Freud and violence.
Week 10: Foucault. Foucault's earlier view of psychoanalysis in 'Madness and Civilisation', and his later view in 'History of Sexuality, vol 1'.
Week 11: Lacan. Lacan's appropriation of philosophy for the ends of psychoanalysis. Hegel, Heidegger and Freud, according to Lacan.
Week 12: Derrida. Derrida's relation to psychoanalysis. Derrida vs Lacan. Derrida in the Freud archives: 'Archive Fever'
Gomez, L. 'The Freud Wars: an introduction to the philosophy of psychoanalysis' (Routledge 2005)
Ricoeur, P. 'On Psychoanalysis' (Polity 2012)
Orange, D.M. 'Thinking for clinicians: philosophical resources for contemporary psychoanalysis and the humanistic psychotherapies' (Routledge 2010)
Braddock, L. 'The academic face of psychoanalysis: papers in philosophy, the & Lacewing, M. (Eds) the humanities and the British clinical tradition' (Routledge 2007)
Cavell, M. 'Becoming a subject: reflections in philosophy and psychoanalysis' (Oxford UP 2006)
Tauber, A. 'Freud, the reluctant philosopher' (Princeton U.P. 2010)
Seung, T.K. 'Nietzsche's epic of the soul: Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (Lexington Books 2005)
Chapelle, D. Nietzsche and psychoanalysis' (SUNY Press 1993)
Della Rocca, M. 'Spinoza' (Routledge 2008)
Janaway, C. 'Schopenhauer' (Oxford U.P. 1994)
Beck, M.C. 'The quest for wisdom in Plato and Carl Jung: a comparative study of the healers of the soul' (Edwin Mellen Press 2008)
Grunbaum, A. 'The Foundations of psychoanalysis: A philosophical Critique' (U of California P 1984)
Habermas, J. 'Knowledge and Human Interests' (Heineman 1972)
Mills, J. (Ed) 'Rereading Freud: psychoanalysis through philosophy' (SUNY Press 2004)
Frie, R. 'Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis: a study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan and Habermas' (Rowman & Littlefield 1997)
Full price: £190
Friends of the Museum: £160
Students/concessions: £130
Advance booking essential
The Psychoanalytic Organization and the Lacanian School
- 25 April 2018 7-8:30pm
This talk will consider the history of psychoanalytic organizations and the Lacanian school as an organization, beginning with a review of Lacan's trajectory in attempting to develop a new psychoanalytic organization consistent with the discourse of the analyst. Lacan was interested in alternative organizations in which hierarchical authority is balanced against a circular structure composed of communal, libertarian, and solidaristic forms of symbolic exchange.
The examination of Lacan's innovations with respect to the psychoanalytic organization will be considered within the context of his contributions to psychoanalysis and how they address the current predicaments of the psychoanalytic field. Along the way we will show how Lacan's work on the psychoanalytic organization is indebted to Bion's work groups.
We will continue with a critical appraisal of what worked and what didn't work in Lacan's organization that resulted in Lacan's dissolution of his school. Finally, we will consider the conditions under which after Lacan, a Lacanian school has been established in the US within the context of the current state of the larger international Lacanian movement. In fact, Lacan's efforts never actually deviated from the three functions that Eitingon (1922-1925) originally assigned to a psychoanalytic clinic: therapeutic, formative, and research.
Raul Moncayo, Ph.D.
Supervising analyst of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of the San Francisco, Bay Area in California. Private practice of psychoanalysis, control analysis, and consultation. Dr. Moncayo teaches a year-long Seminar at the Lacan School, has been adjunct faculty in several local universities over the years, still supervises doctoral dissertations, and has also been a visiting professor at North American, European, and South American universities. Dr. Moncayo is the author of five books, and this year's presentation at the Freud Museum will draw from a chapter (co-authored with Dany Nobus) from a new book to be released by Palgrave Mcmillan in 2018.
Dany Nobus, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst, Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and Chair of the Freud Museum London. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2000), Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology (with Malcolm Quinn) (Routledge, 2005), and The Law of Desire: On Lacan's "Kant with Sade" (Palgrave, 2017). He has also contributed numerous papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis to academic and professional journals.
Full price: £11
Friend of the Museum: £9
Student/unwaged: £9
Advance booking required
Freud Museum London
20 Maresfield Gardens
Greater London
020 7435 2002
020 7431 5452
- About
- | Collections
- | Events
- | Map


text:
Jed Alpert appears in the following:
The Mobile Marketing Revolution
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Jed Alpert, founder and CEO of Mobile Commons, talks about his new book: The Mobile Marketing Revolution : How Your Brand Can Have a One-To-One Conversation with Everyone.
→ Texting Project: Text LIVE to 30644 – that's LIVE to 30644 to answer a few questions about marriage, living together, and life in your 20s. That's the subject of our conversation at 11:40. Standard message rates apply, of course.


text:
How to say MILK in French mɪlk
Would you like to know how to translate MILK to French? This page provides all possible translations of the word MILK in the French language.
- laitFrench
Discuss this MILK French translation with the community:
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
"MILK." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2018. Web. 20 Feb. 2018. </translate/MILK/FR>.


text: Devyansh Tapuriah Phone Number Mobile Contact House Address Email Archive 02 Dec 2015 Devyansh Tapuriah Wiki,Biography Height Weight Age Parents Details By Editorial Staff Bollywood Stars 0 Comment Devyansh Tapuriah is an indian child actor who majorly worked in indian television industry. Currently he is portraying the role of "Ved Sooraj Rathi" in show Diya Aur Baati Hum. Profile Occupation : Child Actor Age : 8 to 10 years Birthplace : India Height : 4 ft Parents : Unknown Nationality : Indian Read More


text:
After a long hiatus, it appears Santigold is making up for lost time. With new music to listen to from her forthcoming album, Master of My Make-Believe, we also now have the cover art thanks to T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
For the picture, Santigold hired photographer Jason Schmidt to shoot her three ways: 1) as attendants wearing custom bodysuits designed by Alexander Wang; 2) as a distinguished army officer in a painting by the artist Kehinde Wiley; and 3) as a dominating mafia Don in the center.
Take a behind the scenes look at the making of Schmidt's powerful piece, shot at The Explorers Club in NYC.


text:
Police in Lunenburg concluded that the teammates of a 13-year-old biracial football player on the high school's freshmen and JV football teams were not responsible for the racist graffiti found on the home of 13-year-old Isaac Phillips' parents on Nov. 15. State and local officials executed a search warrant of the home of the player on Tuesday but declined to comment on the search warrant. No arrests were made, but the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports that police left the home with "a brown bag folded over halfway down."
On Monday, Lunenburg Police Chief James P. Marino said in a news release that investigators haven't found any "conclusive" evidence linking the football team to the incident.
Now the Boston Globe claims that with the football team cleared, this might have all been a hoax.
The search took place a day after police said they had concluded that the football team was not involved in the graffiti and said they were investigating other suspects. That has spawned speculation in the town of nearly 10,000 people that the message left on the home's foundation last month was a hoax.
The team forfeited the remainder of its season after the racial slurs were found on the foundation of Anthony Phillips', father of the 13-year-old football player, home on Chase Road. Phillips' father is black and his mother is white.
The Boston Globe reports that Phillips' parents were walking around the property while police searched their home, but neither would comment on the investigation.
"You all can camp out here all night. I have no comment," Anthony Phillips told the Globe.


text: Oh man, how prescient our timing of the Twinkie Challenge has panned out. With the company under bankruptcy, a word of wars has emerged over the demise of Hostess and of course, the esteemed brand. It was the union's fault for not budging on wages. It was the executives' fault for taking huge pay raises. Heck it was Obama's fault--good thing this meltdown happened before the election. Well, as we enter the second week of our Twinkie Challenge, the little sponge cakes with mystery creme filling are doing just fine. Let's see if they last until the Twinkie brand is reborn.


text: Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar, and was co-written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. The title refers to a French dish, "ratatouille", which is served at the end of the film, and is also a play on words about the species of the main character. The film stars the voices of Patt...... more on Wikipedia


text:
Disclosure: The Eggland's Best information, coupons, gift card, and additional gift pack have been provided by Eggland's Best.
Are you a passionate foodie, who also has mad photography skills? Eggland's Best is searching for you! Eggland's Best wants you to put your brilliant culinary creations and eye for taking beautiful photography to work in the 2017 Eggland's Best Foodtography Contest! One grand prize winner will be rewarded $5,000 and a year's supply of Eggland's Best eggs! Here is more information about the contest…
How to Enter the 2017 Eggland's Best Foodtography Contest
Show us how you celebrate the only egg that provides better taste, better nutrition and better quality for the past 25 years! Visit www.egglandsbest.com/foodtography from February 16th to April 12th, 2017 and submit two mouthwatering foodie photos of your dish that includes at least two whole Eggland's Best eggs into one of four categories mentioned below. You may submit up to two photos in each of the four categories: Brunch, Appetizer, Main course, and Dessert
- Grand Prize Winner: $5,000 and a year's supply of Eggland's Best eggs
- (4) Finalist Winners: $1,000 and a year's supply of Eggland's Best eggs
- (20) Semi-finalist Winners: A year's supply of Eggland's Best eggs
You can visit the Eggland's Best website to find more information and official rules about the 2017 Eggland's Best Foodtography Contest: http://www.egglandsbest.com/foodtography
About Eggland's Best Eggs
Compared to ordinary eggs, Eggland's Best eggs contain five times more vitamin D, 25 percent less saturated fat, more than double the Omega-3s, ten times more vitamin E, and three times more vitamin B12. Eggland's Best's superior nutrition is due to its proprietary all-vegetarian hen feed that contains healthy grains, canola oil and a wholesome supplement of rice bran, alfalfa, sea kelp and Vitamin E. In addition, independent testing has revealed that Eggland's Best eggs have stronger shells than ordinary eggs, which leads to less breakage and helps them stay fresher longer than ordinary eggs.
Spicy Orecchiette Carbonara with Broccoli and Tomatoes
Nothing is more satisfying than a plate of Carbonara. It is the ultimate comfort food! Here is a different spin on the dish, using of course two whole Eggland's Eggs. Hopefully, it will give you some inspiration about how you can revamp a recipe into your own for a deliciously simple contest entry!
Courtesy of Eggland's Best, one lucky reader is going to receive a gift pack including a $25 Visa gift card and (1) one Eggland's Best coupon, valid for a free carton of EB eggs.
To enter the giveaway, please follow the instructions provided on the Rafflecopter form. Please remember to support this site by following on social networks such as Facebook! Only entries using the Rafflecopter form will be eligible for prize. Thank you!
Open To US Residents Only- age 18 + Ends March 19, at 11:59 pm (eastern time)! Enter Daily!
- Eggland's Best Website
- Eggland's Best Health & Nutrition Information
- Eggland's Best Facebook
- Eggland's Best Twitter
- Eggland's Best Pinterest
- Eggland's Best Instagram
Hashtags: #EgglandsBest, #EBeggs


text:
To encourage new entrants to the sport of table tennis, the St Lucia National Table Tennis Association (SLNTTA) moved into high gear this year with an introductory table tennis coaching programme in primary and secondary schools. Four trained coaches; Michael John, Wayne Ben, Stephen Joseph and Chris Wells, all players of the sport who have followed training programmes endorsed by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), delivered the coaching programme to schools.
Chris Wells, St Lucia's number two ranked national player went further to achieve certification as an ITTF certified coach. Chris Wells indicates that he was inspired to become a coach by Teddy Matthews' selfless efforts over the years in giving national service to the development of the sport. Teddy Matthews is the President of the St Lucia National Table Tennis Association, the national coach and a former National, OECS, French Antilles and Caribbean Champion.
Close to 20 schools received introductory training under the programme. Primary School participants included Anse La Raye Infant and Combined, Dame Pearlette Louisy, Camille Henry, Cannon Laurie Anglican, Ave Maria Girls and RC Boys. Secondary schools included Anse Ger Secondary, Clendon Mason, Vieux-Fort Campus A and B, Gros-Islet Secondary, Sir Ira Simmons, Entrepot, Vide Boutielle, St Joseph's Convent and St Mary College.
Special attention was paid to the Dunattor School and the programme culminated with an exciting competition among the young players.
The SLNTTA is pleased with the outcome of the coaching programmme and hopes to extend it to every corner of St Lucia. President of the SLNTTA Teddy
Matthews indicates that "the strategic direction of the SLNTTA is to develop outstanding athletes to compete in the regional and global arena in all divisions through the development of a competitive environment at home. This would include training children from a young age, improving access to training facilities, developing a local cadre of coaches, umpires and tournament administrators and re-introducing annual tournaments for all age groups within the school system."
The SLNTTA will host both the OECS and Caribbean Table Tennis Championships next month in St Lucia.


text:
Services on Demand
Related links
- Cited by Google
- Similars in SciELO
- Similars in Google
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
Print version ISSN 0365-0596
An. Bras. Dermatol. vol.87 no.1 Rio de Janeiro Jan./Feb. 2012
Case for diagnosis*
Caso para diagnóstico
Ana Carolina Figueiredo Pereira CherobinI; Felipe Osta de OliveiraI; Isabela Guimarães Ribeiro BaetaI; Everton Carlos Siviero do ValeII
IPhysician and Resident of the Department of Dermatology, Hospital das Clinicas, Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG), Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil
IIMaster's Degree in Dermatology; Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Medical Residency Preceptor of the Department of Dermatology, Hospital das Clinicas, Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG), Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil
Dyschromicum erythema perstans, or ashy dermatosis, is a rare chronic acquired skin disease characterized by gray hyperpigmented patches with erythematous borders. Its etiology is unknown and there is no specific treatment for the condition. We report a case of ashy dermatosis in a 41-year-old patient with extensive lesions on the trunk and limbs.
Keywords: Drug eruptions; Hyperpigmentation; Lichenoid eruptions; Melanins
Erythema dyschromicum perstans ou dermatose cinzenta é enfermidade cutânea adquirida, rara, de evolução crônica, caracterizada por máculas acinzentadas, com bordas eritematosas. A etiologia ainda é desconhecida, não havendo tratamento definido para a afecção. Apresenta-se um caso desta dermatose em paciente de 41 anos, com lesões disseminadas no tronco e membros.
Palavras-chave: Erupção por droga; Erupções liquenóides; Hiperpigmentação; Melaninas
Male patient, 41- years-old, born and living in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), noticed nine months previously asymptomatic skin lesions on his face, trunk and limbs. Schizophrenia was a comorbid condition for which the patient has been treated with haloperidol 10mg/day for 15 years. No similar cases reported in patient's family. The dermatological examination revealed extensive and confluent grayish macules with erythematous raised borders affecting the face, neck, trunk and proximal parts of the limbs (Figures 1-3). Laboratory tests were normal. Histopathologic examination showed irregular atrophy of the epidermis and irregular foci of hydropic degeneration of the basal layer, as well as lymphohistiocytic perivascular inflammatory infiltrate and pigment incontinence (Figure 4).
Erythema perstans dyschromicum or ashy dermatosis is a rare chronic, benign disorder belonging to the group of acquired idiopathic hypermelanoses.13 Initially described by Ramirez in 1957 (in El Salvador), the condition tends to be more prevalent in Central and South America,1,2,4 primarily affecting young adults (under 20), with a slight preference for females and darker-skinned individuals. 1-3
The etiology remains elusive, but associations with endocrinopathies, nematode infestations, pesticide exposure, HIV infection, allergy to cobalt and radiological contrast material have been reported. 2,5 The presence of HLA-DR4 *0407 allelic subtype is a risk factor in Mexican mestizos. 3 It is believed that the immune system is involved due to the presence of interleukins and inflammatory mediators in the lesions. 6
The clinical picture is characterized by hyperchromic macules, blue-grayish, oval or polycyclic, with erythematous elevated borders with a diameter measuring from 3 mm to several centimeters. The lesions are asymptomatic, with centrifugal growth. The disorder tends to affect mainly the trunk and upper extremities, sparing the mucous membranes, palms, soles and scalp. 2
Histopathologic findings are nonspecific and include vacuolization of the basal layer, necrosis of basal keratinocytes, colloid bodies, exocytosis of lymphocytes, pigmentary incontinence and perivascular lymphocytic inflammatory infiltrate. 6
The differential diagnosis includes lichen planus pigmentosus, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, figurate erythemas, fixed drug eruption, Addison's disease and hemochromatosis. Among these, lichen planus pigmentosus is the most clinically and histologically similar to ashy dermatosis, which has resulted in it being thought to be a variant of lichen planus. At present, however, they are considered separate entities by most authors. 7
Evolution of the disorder is chronic and benign and spontaneous remission is rare in adults. In children clinical improvement can tend to occur within two to three years. 8,9 Many treatments have been proposed but there is no standard therapy and the results are in any case inconsistent. Reports exist of improvement with dapsone and clofazimine, as well as with other regimens such as systemic and topical corticosteroids, antibiotics, griseofulvin, isoniazid, antimalarials, keratolytic agents, phototherapy and psychotherapy. 1,8,10
1. López-Bárcenas A, Contreras-Ruíz J, Carrillo-Correa M, Hojyo-Tomoka MT, Arenas R, Dominguez-Soto L, et al. Dermatosis cenicienta (eritema discrómico perstans). Med Cutan Iber Lat Am. 2005;33:97-102. [ Links ]
2. Torrelo A, Zaballos P, Colmenero I, Mediero IG, Prada I, Zambrano A. Erythema dyschromicum perstans in children: a report of 14 cases. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2005;19:422-6. [ Links ]
3. Correa MC, Memije EV, Vargas-Alarcón G, Guzmán RA, Rosetti F, Acuña-Alonzo V, et al. HLA-DR association with the genetic susceptibility to develop ashy dermatosis in Mexican Mestizo patients. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2007;56:17-20. [ Links ]
4. Ramírez CO. Los cenicientos: Problema Clinica. Memoria del Primer Congresso Centroamericano de Dermatologica,. 1957;122-130. [ Links ]
5. Schwartz RA. Erythema dyschromicum perstans: the continuing enigma of Cinderella or ashy dermatosis. Int J Dermatol. 2004;43:230-2. [ Links ]
6. Vasquez-Ochoa LA, Isaza-Guzmán DM, Orozco-Mora B, Restrepo-Molina R, Trujillo-Perez J, Tapia FJ. Immunopathologic study of erythema dyschromicum perstans (ashy dermatosis). Int J Dermatol. 2006;45:937-41. [ Links ]
7. Metin A, Çalka Ö, Ugras S. Lichen planopilaris coexisting with erythema dyschromicum perstans. Br J Dermatol. 2001;145:522-3. [ Links ]
8. Silverberg NB, Herz J, Wagner A, Paller AS. Erythema dyschromicum perstans in prepubertal children. Pediatr Dermatol. 2003;20:398-403. [ Links ]
9. Sardana K, Rajpal M, Garg V, Mishra D. Periorbital hyperpigmentation mimicking fixed drug eruption: a rare presentation of erythema dyschromicum perstans in a paediatric patient. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2006;20:1381-3. [ Links ]
10. Bahadir S, Çobanoglu Ü, Çimsit G, Yayli S, Alpay K. Erythema dyschromicum perstans: response to dapsone therapy. Int J Dermatol. 2004;43:220-2. [ Links ]
Mailing address:
Ana Carolina Figueiredo Pereira Cherobin
Alameda Álvaro Celso, 55 - Santa Efigênia
CEP: 30150-260 Belo Horizonte - MG, Brazil
E-mail: email@example.com
Received on 18.03.2011.
Approved by the Advisory Board and accepted for publication on 25.04.2011.
Conflict of interest: None
Financial funding: None
* Study conducted at the Hospital das Clinicas, Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG), Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil.


text:
10 Tips For Writing A Winning Author's Bio
10 Ways to make your author's bio sing
There are literally hundreds of blogs and sites out there instructing aspiring authors on how to craft a well-received author's bio, so the information here may not be new to you. Coming from a place of unemployment, where I spend a margin of my "spare time" (if there really is such a thing with an infant/toddler crawling/running around), writing cover letters and resumes hoping to land a job, I know firsthand how difficult it can be to talk about one's self. In the US, confidence is at a premium these days, however, I didn't grow up that way. An introvert by nature, boasting about myself not only makes me uncomfortable, my mother discouraged it throughout my youth, giving me a significant handicap compared to the next up and coming generation. I come from a long line of self-depreciating humorists, and I enjoy that type of deflection, as harmful as it can be to one's self-esteem. However, I realize how important is it to be proud of one's achievements. They may not be as grand as what other's have wracked up, but they're yours and worth closer examination.
So here we go, the top 10 things I've learned about writing an author's bio:
1. Leave the demographics until the end. Don't begin with where you live, how many cats/dogs/fish/kids/hamsters you own, or your hobbies. Start out with the writing stuff (that's what you're promoting, not your love of animals), and leave the numbers until the end.
2. Do it in the third person. This was something I wondered about, having just read an amazing short story followed by the author's bio, which was in the first person. Now you know, so phrase your bio as if someone else is talking about you. Someone who thinks you're amazing.
3. Highlight your writing accomplishments. Awards for writing and previous publications are the icing on your bio layer cake and can be just what you need to stand apart from other authors.
What if you have no writing credits? Dorothy Thompson writes in her article, Writing An Author Bio That Will Knock The Editor's Socks Off!, since you are sending your writing to a publisher, you are a freelancer, and since you write, you are a writer. Now you can say, "So and so is a freelance poet/novelist/writer." However you end up saying it, make it sound professional.
4. Take ideas from established writers. Read online bios, book jackets, and interviews for ideas on how to plan your bio, especially from writers in your genre. Pick out active words that jump off the page and put them to use in your bio. Look at how they wrote about past achievements and publications. Can you apply this technique to your bio? The good news is, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, so borrow a little to make your bio glow.
Example bios:
Stephen King
Doug Dorst
Betsy Tobin
John Green
5. "Alright Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." What's worse than writing about yourself? Having your photo taken. Find a professional or semi-professional photographer, or friend with a knack for the art, and take a lot of pictures. I mean lots and lots of pictures. As someone who used to photograph weddings, the more photos you take, the better your odds are of capturing at least one perfect image. Find that image you like, and use the hell out of it. For some tips on how to stage your photo, check out Heather Hummel's article.
6. Join professional writing groups. This is particularly important for writers with no publication credits to their names. As an active member of a writing or critique group tells editors you are serious about honing your craft. For a genre writer, join a group relating to your writing style.
Writers Associations: Local And National Organizations For Writers
For Writers: Writing Groups
10 Best Organizations for Writers
Writing Groups, Associations & Organizations – Canada
7. Link to your website. This is a great way to let people know what you're up to, and get updates on new material publishing soon. If you don't have a website, join a site like GoodReads or Facebook, and create an author's page and put your bio there. This is also a fun way to interact with fans and let people know what you've been up to.
8. What to do with your degree(s). If you have earned an AA, BA, BS, MA, MS, Ph.D., or some other degree, only mention it if it pertains to the topic you're writing on. For example, if you're promoting your new children's book, and have an MBA, make sure your story is related to business if you mention your degree. If your book isn't about the littles account, save your MBA for later titles pertaining to finance. However, if you're an elementary school teacher, mentioning that in your bio for your new children's book is completely relevant.
9. Keep it updated. Your bio, much like the rest of the world, will change over time, so keep your biography up-to-date as your career progresses. Have you won more awards? Published more poems, essays, or short stories? Make sure that as your writing credits accumulate, your bio reflects your accomplishments.
10. What to avoid. We've talked about what you need to include in your bio, but it's always nice to reiterate this by listing what you should absolutely stay away from.
- Do not list your complete bibliography. If you mention previous publication credits, keep it down to 5 titles.
- College and high school publication don't count unless attached to a prize of some sort.
- Personal statements. This type of thing will end up being your dedication.
- Your home address. This may seem obvious, but I would feel remiss if I didn't mention it. There are crazy people out there, and some of them know how to use the internet, so listing your current city and state is enough. If it's a large city, then maybe giving your neighborhood would be fine, but even that is hinky.
- Your creative process. Save this for interviews.
I hope these tips have been of use to you. If you still don't know where to begin, check out Anne R. Allen's quick and dirty bio template. It will give you a great jumping off point. I'm off to write my own bio. Cheers, and happy writing!
Originally published on Jul 4, 2014, for DuelingLibrarians.net


text:
Supplier of all kinds passenger boats & luxury yachts to individual and corporate clients around the world. Seeking buyers and agents in African countries. Contact Us for free quote...
Based in Dubai, Smart Own FZE is an international boats & yachts dealer that provides "factory direct" passenger boats & luxury yachts to individual and corporate clients around the world. Smart Own supplied passenger boats are popular worldwide for their reliability, competitive price and versatility. The company offers an outstanding fleet of commercial ferries ranging for the highly popular GC Touring 36 (23 seats capacity) to the Sea Bus 85 (140 seats capacity).
The company has a long and illustrious history and has been dealing with governmentyachts dubai and semi-government organisations, corporate entities, beach resorts and private owners to whom it provides consultancy and advice for all their marine requirements. We do not seek quick deals at Smart Own FZE, says Toufic Hobeika, partner of Smart own. Our clients have established long term business relationship with us thanks to our advanced knowledge of the African market, our customer dedication and corporate integrity, he says. We offer boats that are simple, uncomplicated, robust, easy to navigate and with a maximised seating capacity. Because we know that is what Africa needs.
"All passenger boats supplied by Smart Own are customised to the client's requirements who can choose from a wide range of setups and options. We understand buyers of commercial boats require full customisation to accommodate their business needs," says Toufic Hobeika.
The company has gained a sizeable share of the African marine market by offering quality commercial and touristic boats with factory direct prices from Gulf Craft, the leading manufacturer of fiberglass boats in the UAE.
Hence the company offers a wide choice of adaptations like:
- Engine configurations (inboard/outboard, diesel or petrol, two stroke or four stroke
- Multiple seating layouts (back to back, bus, lounge, restaurant, rounded)
- Open air or closed decks
- Dozens of gel coating and company custom logos
- A wide range of essential, comfort or luxury equipment to choose from.
African customers have been extremely happy dealing with Smart own. Thanks a million, said Jaji Olusegun of Sea Coach Express in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I am very glad and pleased the way Smart Own has handled things for me so far, he confirmed.
Therefore, it is no coincidence that Smart Own has sold Gulf Craft passenger boats yachts in all five continents, including Africa. Indeed, very few shipyards build vessels of such manoeuverability and versatility. The Gulf Craft Touring line can be made as a passenger, search & rescue, patrol, marine ambulance, water bus, restaurant ship or scuba diving boat.
Whether you own an established marine transportation company or you are planning to start your first water taxi in Africa, you must speak to Smart Own FZE – the 'Smart' choice for your marine business.


text:
Dara Torres became the first American to swim in five Olympics and the oldest female swimmer ever at the Games when she took part in the Beijing Games at age 41 back in 2008. Her 12 Olympic medals are tied with Jenny Thompson for the most ever by a U.S. female swimmer.
She won't get the chance to add to those numbers after falling just short of making the U.S. team on the last night of the trials in Omaha on Monday night and announcing her retirement soon after.
"This is really over," the 45-year-old Torres said, smiling. "That's it, I'm going to enjoy some time with my daughter, have a nice summer and cheer on the U.S. team from afar."
After bringing home three silver medals from Beijing, Torres underwent radical knee surgery for one last chance at Olympic glory. That dream ended Monday night when she finished fourth in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 24.82, which was actually an improvement over the trial-winning time of 24.90 in 2000.


text:
Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives, working in an undercover capacity, conducted a four-day investigation, beginning Thursday, January 10, 2013, through Sunday, January 13, 2013, targeting online e-commerce sites related to men and women who were advertising to commit prostitution and solicit for prostitution.
At the conclusion of the investigation, 78 suspects were arrested. Their charges ranged from Solicitation of Prostitution in which the suspects either posted online ads, or answered online ads; to Possession of Illegal Drugs, Aiding and Abetting, Escape, Traffic Offenses, Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, Violation of Probation, and Failure to Register as a Sexual Offender.
"Our message is clear - Prostitution is illegal and those who commit or who derive proceeds from this crime in Polk County can expect to go to jail.
The negative social costs of prostitution hurt families, children and communities. During this investigation we discovered three young children who were left in the care of men they likely didn't know while their mother traveled to the undercover location to derive proceeds from prostitution. Subsequently, these young children were 'dropped off' with a neighbor. Their mother had no idea where they were when we found them. The potential dangers these children faced is unthinkable.
Many of those we arrested have past offenses, a number of which included felony arrest histories with one suspect having 38 total arrests in the central Florida area.
One suspect was a wanted Sexual Predator with a warrant for Failure to Register, another wanted for Grand Theft. And many were charged with drug possession.
Some of those arrested had reputable jobs, such as working in Information Technology with the City of Lakeland; there was a retired American Airline Pilot, and a Microbiologist employed by a food testing lab in Georgia. Others arrested included a medical technician, laborers, restaurant servers, Dalavone Keobandith who claimed to be an award winning Porn Star, and Claude Riley III, a transsexual suspect who said he works for MAC Cosmetics.
There were 21 suspects who told detectives they were unemployed and 14 suspects who told deputies they were receiving government assistance.
And there was Jeremiah Hintz who wanted to go into law enforcement. Hintz was attending South Florida Community College and due to graduate Wednesday, January 16, 2013, from the Basic Law Enforcement Academy.
Anyone who breaks the law in Polk County will be arrested, regardless of what occupation they have or want to have. Whether it is on the street, or online, it is illegal and we will continue to investigate and arrest those involved in prostitution. If you conduct activity like this in Polk County, you will be arrested." – Sheriff Grady Judd
Of the 78 suspects arrested:
18 admitted they were married –one male and female suspect were married to each other
31 have criminal arrest histories – 9 of whom are registered felons – and one of whom has 86 previous charges in the Tampa Bay area. Felons from this investigation have a combined total of 339 past charges; of those, 42 prior violent crime charges, including Armed Robbery, Robbery, Aggravated Assault (with and without a deadly weapon), Aggravated Battery, Battery Domestic Violence, Stalking, Rape, Kidnapping, Child Abuse
22 were charged with possession of drugs
26 told detectives they were unemployed
50 admitted to being employed – Job types included: information technology, microbiologist, health technician, city employees, laborers, mechanics, a retired airline pilot, a porn star, food servers, and a Law Enforcement Academy trainee due to graduate Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
14 told detectives they were receiving government aid; one suspect denied receiving aid, however had food stamps in her possession