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Fingerscrossed Socks - Black
Fingerscrossed socks perfectly blend design and performance, using PROLEN®YARN to offer comfort, support and durability.
Cycling socks are often about making a statement. For SS19, styles are all about bold typography in proven colours. The Fingerscrossed Design collection socks all ofter superior compression. Due to this, expect the socks to be a bit tight on their first wear, they will soon adapt to the foot.
LIGHT - 50 % lighter than cotton
DURABLE - abrasion resistance is 2.5 times higher than wool or cotton
THERMOREGULATING - the best thermoregulation of all types of fibres
The branded Fingerscrossed rivet on the left sock is nickel free.
Washing instruction
Wash at 30° degrees, do not iron, do not tumble dry
93 % Prolen
7 % Elastane
*Please be aware that due the current situation with the Coronavirus, some orders are taking longer than normal to be delivered to you after they have been despatched, in particular, this is effecting standard UK, European and ROW deliveries, we appreciate your patience and understanding*
Update: 1 August 2020
CANADA DELAYS: All mail being sent from the UK to Canada is facing severe delays because of the on-going impact of COVID-19 and record volumes of traffic being received in Canada. We are processing the mail as normal in the UK, but delays are taking place once the mail reaches the Canadian border. As a result, we are unable to advise on likely delivery times.
Please note, shipping prices quotes below are for a standard order weighing less than 2kg. Orders above this will be priced accordingly.
- Express 24hr Tracked + Signed @ £8.00 Delivered within 1-2 business days via courier
- Economy Delivery @ £4.50 Delivered within 3-5 business days via Royal Mail.
Please be aware that Next Day Delivery is NOT guaranteed to the following postcodes and areas – Most of the Scottish Highlands, remote areas,also including Nearly all AB, IV, KW, LA, PA, PH Postcodes, BT, CA18 - CA27, HS1 - HS9, IM, TR21 - TR25, ZE
- European Economy @ £5.00 Delivered within 5-10 business days available on orders under £25.00
- European Tracked Orders @ £10.00 Delivered within 3-5 business days
- All Non-European Economy Orders @ £6.50 Delivered within 7-10 business days available on orders under £25.00
- All Non-European Tracked Orders @ £12.50 Delivered within 3-7 business days
Please note that there are no import/export duties applicable on goods shipped within the European Union. All goods shipped to European Union countries already have the relevant VAT included automatically on our website.
Shipments sent outside the European Union are sold exclusive of VAT and may be subject to import duties and taxes, which may be levied once a shipment reaches your country. Any additional charges for customs clearance are payable by you, the customer. We have no control over these charges and are unable to reimburse any costs incurred regardless of the circumstances. For details of Customs charges please consult your own Customs authorities for the latest rates.
Orders placed after midday (Monday to Friday) will ship the next business day.
Please note we do not despatch orders on the weekend
All orders are sent via a courier of our choice, and we may change the couriers we use without notice, although the level of service will always be equivalent. Standard Shipments will be sent via Royal Mail and Express Orders will usually be sent via Royal Mail Tracked 24 or UK Mail. International orders will be sent via Royal Mail or DHL Express.
Some parcels may incur an additional courier fee. This maybe due to the size, weight or value of the order. If your order does incur additional courier fees we will contact you prior to dispatch to arrange to take the additional payment and enquire as to how you wish to proceed with your order
Orders placed after midday on Friday will be shipped on the following Monday. Please Note, All first orders that are going to a separate delivery address, may take longer to process. We advise that all first orders should go to your Billing or Business address!
If you are away from the delivery address our courier will put a card through your door allowing you to re-book a delivery with the courier or allow you to pick up the order from the depot or sorting office. The courier has the right to attempt a delivery to a near by neighbour, rather than redelivering the next day.
Rouleur reserves the right to charge the full shipping fee applicable to resend if the item is returned to us because the customer could not take delivery for any reason.
Courier returned items will be added back into our stock and your account credited with the order total, minus the fee the courier charges us to deliver the item back to us. You will have to replace the order to have the item re-shipped. If you require a refund on items returned by the courier this will be done minus the couriers fee.
If a customer inputs any incorrect address details on their order, which causes the parcel to be delivered incorrectly. We will not hold any responsibility for this parcel.ie, the customer will have to try and retrieve the parcel themselves at their cost.
Delivery errors must be reported within 1 day of date of delivery. All orders, are checked and double checked before leaving our warehouse. If you are a UK customer and you have not received your order within 7 days of dispatch date, then you must notify us within these 7 days. If you notify us after these 7 days then we will not be responsible for its location, and we may not be able to claim for the parcel if it lost/stolen.
If you have received your parcel in poor condition/damaged or have items missing, you must keep all outer packaging so that the courier can collect the box for their investigation. Any damaged boxes must be signed for as 'damaged' at delivery. Where possible sign with the word 'damaged + your name' in the signature box. You may be asked to send us photos of the damaged packaging and / or product. Photographic evidence helps us ensure the issue is dealt with quickly and efficiently.
Standard Product Returns
If you change your mind about an off the shelf, non-customised item, we offer a very simple no quibble returns policy. Please check the guidelines below and then simply post the item back to us with RETURNS and your order number clearly labelled on the outside of the packaging, e.g. 'RETURNS #100000111'
Please post all returns to our distribution office;
Rouleur Returns
C/O Green Snow Limited
Unit 15-17
Mortimers Industrial Estate
Please just make sure;
- You contact us within 14 days of receiving your order.
- They are returned to us within 30 days of receiving your request to return.
- They are returned to us in perfect condition.
- The packaging must be intact as we would love to sell the item again
Please make sure the item is not visibly worn, damaged, marked in anyway with pen or grease, washed, smells of smoke, aftershave, perfume, deodorant or washing powder, or is any condition that we deem renders the item unsaleable. The customer is responsible for the item returning to us, please make sure you take adequate steps to ensure the security of the contents during transit back, we cannot be held responsible for exchange or refund if reasonable steps are not taken. All items must be returned with all relevant swing tags, labelling, branding and any accompanying marketing material specific to the item. Occasionally we may offer free items with your purchase. If you are returning your item for a refund any free item(s) must also be returned at the same time.
The items must be in their original condition and will be inspected once we have received them. The extent to which a you can handle the goods is the same as it would be if you were assessing them in a shop.
We recommend using My Hermes for returns as they offer a very low cost trackable service with most items costing under £3.00 and even cheaper if you use one of their 3000 drop off shops across the UK. We are sorry but no postage costs will be refunded unless an item is faulty.
Refunds and Store Credit
When you return an item you have 2 options:
REFUND to original payment method i.e, card, paypal account etc (please be aware this can take up to 5 days depending on your bank)
EXCHANGES We do offer exchanges. We will only exchange the same item originally bought for an alterative size. We can only exchange an item if its in stock at point of process return.
Faulty orders
If you believe your order to be faulty you may be entitled to a replacement or full refund providing that:
- You contact us within 7 days of receiving your order.
- If requested, they are returned to us (initially at your cost) within 30 days of receiving your request to return the faulty item. We recommend using My Hermes Tracked.
- Return postage costs will then be reimbursed to the equivalent My Hermes charges, however orders over £100 we would also recommend a tracked service.
If we can confirm that there was a fault present when we originally despatched the order you will be entitled to whichever we see fit, either a replacement or full refund, including postage charges via your original payment method.
Cancelling orders
If you change your mind once you have placed an order and have not yet received your goods you may be able to cancel your order. We need written confirmation of cancellation from you, so you'll need to contact us quoting your order number ASAP.
If you have already received your order, you will need to return all the items in the order.
International returns
All international customers are responsible for the costs in sending items back to us.
Please note, it is important that you label the parcel as a 'return to original sender' as this will ensure there are no custom duties to pay, if this is not marked properly the parcel will be returned to you to be resent correctly.
We do not offer exchanges to international customers. If you wish to change an item, you will have to return the item(s) back to us for a refund and place a new order.


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Jack White Named Ambassador of Record Store Day 2013
Jack White has been named the official ambassador of Record Store Day 2013, this year's edition of an annual event held in celebration of independent record stores across the country. To mark his appointment as "Record Store Day Ambassador," White appears in a video short that features the rocker giving a tour of the United Record Pressing vinyl plant in his adopted hometown of Nashville. He also issued a statement regrading his appointment and why RSD is important to him.
White rambles on about all things music during the comedic clip -- joking at one point about a wide-ranging conspiracy that somehow ties together the music industry, the masons, asteroids and the NBA draft -- before showing an earnest side that's more in line with his ambassador role.
"Please, make your way out to your mom and pop record store, show them your support, show them that you love music," concludes White. "I'll be there."
Record Store Day 2013 is scheduled for April 20, and like previous RSD events, it will feature a wide selection of rarities, collectors' items and one-off releases from a slew of different artists. A double 7-inch set compiling some early Husker Du material is one of the first Record Store Day 2013 releases that has been announced, and plenty of more are expected to come down the pipeline shortly.
Last year we put together at RSD guide highlighting some of the best material that was unearthed for the big day, and expect a Diffuser.fm guide to Record Store Day 2013 to come out this year. Stay tuned!

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This wiki page documents the requirements for supporting NoSQL (or non-relational) databases with Django.
The Django-nonrel branch of Django already provide support for NoSQL and it requires only minimal changes to Django's ORM. However, for the more interesting features like
select_related() Django's ORM needs to be refactored and simplified in several areas. Many of the sections in this page are described from the point of view of Django-nonrel since a lot of experience required for official NoSQL support has been integrated in the Django-nonrel project.
For the record, Django-nonrel has quite a few backends, already:
- App Engine: djangoappengine
- MongoDB: django-mongodb-engine
- ElasticSearch: django-elasticsearch
- Cassandra: django_cassandra_backend
- SimpleDB: django-simpledb
- Redis: django-redis-engine
Also take a look at the feature comparison matrix for an overview of what is supported and what is missing. Database-specific features are sometimes provided by an automatically added manager. For example, MongoDB adds a manager which adds map-reduce and other MongoDB-specific features.
Representing result rows
SQLCompiler.results_iter() currently returns results as simple lists which represent rows. This adds unnecessary complexity to NoSQL backends, especially since they have to map their results (which are dicts) to a specifically ordered list and then Django takes that list and converts it back to a dict which gets passed to the model constructor. The row format is especially inconvenient when combined with
select_related() because then NoSQL backends have to collect all fields in the correct order and also take deferred fields into account.
Instead of returning lists
results_iter() should return more structured data. For example, each result could be wrapped as a dict like this
yield { 'result': {'id': 8, 'some_string_column': 'value', 'some_bool_column': True, ...}, 'related_selection': { 'fk': {'id': 10, ...}, 'fk__user': {...}, ... }, 'annotations': ..., 'extra_select': ..., }
This is not implemented in Django-nonrel.
Django implements this in a way that requires JOINs, so this doesn't work on non-relational DBs. Still, this feature should be supported by NoSQL backends. Django needs to provide an easier format for NoSQL backends and the result value should also be simplified, as described above in "Representing result rows".
Django-nonrel merely provides a
connection.feature.supports_select_related flag which tells
QuerySet that the backend won't return additional data for the related data in the result rows (otherwise
select_related() causes bad results full of
None values). All NoSQL backends set this flag to
In some DB systems the primary key is a string. Currently,
AutoField assumes that it's always an Integer. There are two ways to support string-based primary keys. Either we can add a
StringAutoField and require developers to explicitly use that. The disadvantage of this solution is that it becomes impossible to reuse existing Django models and NoSQL models become less portable even across NoSQL databases. The better alternative is to change
AutoField to support both integers and strings. Since some existing code assumes that an exception is raised when assigning a string to an
AutoField we could try to detect the installed backends and keep the old behavior (but additionally show a deprecation warning) when only SQL backends are in use. When using a NoSQL backend the new behavior would be activated and
AutoField would accept both integers and strings without raising an exception.
Portable code should never assume that the "pk" field is a number. If an entity uses a string pk the application should continue to work. This is currently a problem in Django's auth app (see #14881).
This is already implemented in Django-nonrel, but it's missing the deprecation warning and backwards-compatible mode when only using SQL backends.
INSERT vs UPDATE
Model.save_base() runs a check whether the pk already exists in the database. This check is necessary for SQL, but it's unnecessary and inefficient on many NoSQL DBs and it also conflicts with App Engine's optimistic transactions. Thus, Django should not distinguish between insert and update operations on DBs that don't require it.
This comes with a minor problem: Without that check model instances have to track whether they were instantiated from the DB and thus exist in the DB or not. Otherwise the
add parameter won't work correctly and the
post_save signal won't report correctly whether this is a new entity or not.
This is already implemented in Django-nonrel.
Query.count() is problematic since a scalable
count() method doesn't exist at least on App Engine. It would be nice to be able to pass an upper limit like
count(100), so if there are more than 100 results it will still return just 100.
This also affects the results count in the admin interface.
Django-nonrel's App Engine backend currently just limits the maximum count to 1000. Other backends don't have a
count() limit.
NoSQL DBs use
ListField in a lot of places. They are basically a replacement for
ManyToManyField. BTW, some SQL DBs have a special array type which could also be supported via
This is already implemented in Django-nonrel.
Another useful type is
SetField which stores a set instead of a list. On DBs that don't support sets this field can be emulated by storing a list, instead. This is the approach taken by Django-nonrel's App Engine backend.
This is already implemented in Django-nonrel.
MongoDB and other databases use
ListField in combination with
DictField to completely replace
ManyToManyField in a lot of cases. Django currently doesn't provide an API for querying the data within a
DictField (especially if it's embedded in a
ListField). Ideally, the query API would just use the
foo__bar JOIN syntax.
The field is already implemented in Django-nonrel, but lookups aren't supported, yet.
This is a field which stores model instances like a "sub-table within a field". Internally, it's just a
DictField which converts model instances to/from dicts. In addition to the
DictField issues this field also has to call the embedded fields' conversion functions, which again requires special support if the JOIN syntax should be supported.
The field is already implemented in Django-nonrel, but lookups aren't supported, yet.
Many databases provide support for a raw binary data type. Many App Engine developers depend on this field to store file-like data because App Engine doesn't provide write access to the file system (there is a new Blobstore API, but that doesn't yet allow direct write access).
This is already implemented in Django-nonrel.
Currently, ImageField depends on PIL. It might be necessary to provide a backend API for sandboxed platforms (like App Engine) that don't provide PIL support.
This is not implemented in Django-nonrel.
Due to lack of JOIN support on NoSQL DBs, Django fails to serialize any app's entities that have a
ManyToManyField (e.g.
django.contrib.auth). Instead of actually fetching the whole entities Django could fetch only the keys which are stored in the
ForeignKey columns. That way, JOINs aren't required, anymore.
This is already implemented in Django-nonrel.
Batch operations
For optimization purposes it's very important to allow batch-saving and batch-deleting a list of model instances (which, in the case of batch-deletion, is not exactly the same as
QuerySet.delete() which first has to fetch the entities from the DB in order to delete them).
This is not implemented in Django-nonrel, but Vladimir Mihailenco has implemented a patch which could be integrated.
Not all backends support transactions, at all (e.g., SimpleDB). Some (e.g., App Engine) only support optimistic transactions similar to
SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (which isn't exactly the same as @commit_on_success because it really locks items for read/write access).
Django-nonrel currently doesn't provide any support for optimistic transactions.
On some DBs it's inefficient to request entities using a large offset (
queryset[5000:...]). E.g., App Engine's datastore doesn't actually support offsets. When you use an offset the datastore always starts from offset 0 and throws away all results you didn't request (which means you can't ever query e.g. for the 10000th result). Instead of integer offsets App Engine and SimpleDB provide some kind of "bookmark" which marks the query's current position in the result set. You can pass a bookmark to a query to move the cursor to a certain position in the result set and then query efficiently from there.
This also affects the pagination in the admin interface. Efficient "pagination" would only provide forward/backward navigation without any page numbering. This would also be a candidate for paginating via AJAX (e.g. like in Twitter).
Django-nonrel doesn't yet support bookmarks, but the App Engine backend provides a private API for them.
Multi-table inheritance
Multi-table inheritance requires JOIN support, so this feature can't be fully supported. For convenience it would be nice to allow subclassing a non-abstract model, but only copying its fields as if it were abstract.
Minor issues
The default ordering on permissions requires JOINs. This makes them unusable on NoSQL DBs.
The permission creation code uses an
__in lookup with too many values. App Engine can only handle 30 values (except for the primary key which can handle 500). This could be worked around, but the limitation was added for efficiency reasons (
__in lookups are converted into a set of queries that are executed in parallel and then de-duplicated). Thus, it's not really a solution to just run multiple of those queries. Instead, the permission creation code should just fetch all permissions at once. Maybe in a later App Engine release this limitation will be removed when App Engine's new query mechanism goes live (which supports
OR queries and gets rid of several other limitations).


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Thermal oil
Thermal oil is a highly suitable – and safe – alternative to steam in many processes, particularly where the dangers of high pressure are to be avoided. Grundfos' range of feeding pumps for thermal oil applications handles temperatures up to 240°C.
|Energy consumption is important to your customer.
|Grundfos' high-efficient E-solutions significantly reduce energy consumption by automatically adjusting pump performance to the actual need. Naturally, the E-solutions meet international efficiency standards.
|Stock management can be difficult due to the global differences in voltages and frequencies.
|Grundfos' E-solutions feature dual frequency and a wide voltage range, allowing you to use the same solution all over the world. Naturally, the E-solutions carry the necessary approvals.
|The very high temperature of hot liquids can be damaging to the pump and even destroy the shaft seal.
|Grundfos offers specially designed shaft seals that handle liquid temperatures up to 240°C, including thermal oil without external cooling.
|When temperature control is part of the process, the pump material is potentially stressed because of the continuous thermal expansion and contraction.
|By applying one of Grundfos' speed-controlled pumps the temperature is held constant.
Important notes
Depending on the type of oil used in the application, different rubber materials are available:
- FKM: Viton
- FXM: Fluoraz
- FFKM: Kalrez
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The Stage Deli was a New York City delicatessen famous for both its Celebrity clients and its menu, which often references celebrities.
First opened in 1937 by Russian immigrant Max Asnas, the deli features sandwiches named after Broadway shows, and holds events, such as the annual Matzoh Bowl.
In celebration of episode 4000, Sonia Manzano and Super Grover made an appearance on February 27, 2002 to introduce a sandwich named after Super Grover, which is made with turkey and brisket topped with lettuce, tomato, onion and horseradish sauce, and served on a sesame hero.
The famed deli served its last celebrity named sandwich on November 29, 2012.
- Marv Albert - Corned Beef and Swiss Cheese
- Mel Brooks - Pastrami, Turkey and Swiss Cheese
- Sid Caesar - The Timeless Recipe Served Stage Style
- Katie Couric - Turkey, Ham and Swiss Cheese
- Clint Eastwood - Turkey, Tongue and Corned Beef
- Gloria Estefan - Tuna, Bacon, American Cheese, Lettuce and Tomato
- Harvey Fierstein - Corned Beef, Chopped Liver and Onion
- James Gandolfini - Roast Beef, Chopped Liver and Onion
- Joel Grey - Grilled Sliced Chicken Breast Atop Traditional Greens
- Hugh Jackman - White Meat Turkey, Served With Gravy and French Fries
- Robert Klein - Sliced Beef Brisket Topped With Cole Slaw and Melted Mozzarella
- Linda Lavin - Choice of Tuna Salad, Chicken Salad, Shrimp Salad, Chopped Liver, Egg Salad or Gefilte Fish Served on a Bed of Lettuce and Tomatoes, Potato Salad and Coleslaw
- Howie Mandel - Chicken Salad, Hard Boiled Egg, Lettuce and Tomato
- Conan O'Brien - Brisket, Corned Beef and Swiss Cheese
- Dolly Parton - Twin Rolls of Pastrami and Corned Beef
- Tim Robbins - Corned Beef, Turkey, Pastrami, Roast Beef and Swiss Cheese
- Al Roker - Salami, Tongue and Pastrami
- Adam Sandler - Nova Scotia Salmon, Sturgeon, Lettuce, Tomato and Onion
- Richard Simmons - Cottage Cheese, Fresh Fruit Salad and Strawberry Jello
- Stephen Sondheim - Chicken Salad, Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato
- Ben Stiller - Roast Beef, Served With Gravy and French Fries


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Safety & Health
Safety and Health Initiative
Injuries, accidents and lost days not only threaten productivity and increase costs but can also have a significant effect on employee morale. Fortunately for Oklahoma employers, Oklahoma's Career and Technology Education system can help. CareerTech's system of technology centers across the state provide a wide variety of safety and health training – customized to your company's needs – all at a reasonable cost.
The technology centers are part of a proven system that helps meet company safety training needs - from culture and strategic plan development to implementation.
CareerTech has the ability to help reduce accidents, lost days, workers' compensation costs and improve company production and profitability.
Implementing a safety program is a cost-effective decision for your company. Lower injury rates lead to higher profit margins. According to the National Safety Council, companies that implement strategic safety plans can expect to see injury and illness rates reduced by 20 percent or more. Oklahoma technology centers can custom-tailor a safety plan that fits your company's needs and schedule.
It is well known that a safe work environment boosts employee morale, which in turn, increases productivity, efficiency and profit margins. When employees have a safe work environment, companies realize fewer staff absences and less staff turnover. Your local technology center provides customized safety training in many areas that can help make this a reality, including:
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Eye Safety
- Back Injury Prevention
- Hazardous Communication
- Lockout - Tagout
- Forklift Operator Certification
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Hand, Wrist, and Finger Safety
- Fall Protection
- Overhead Indoor Crane Safety
- Slip, Trips, and Falls
- Welding Safety
- Hearing Safety
- Confined Space Entry
- Work Place Ergonomics
- Understanding MSDS
- Emergency Preparedness
- Respirator Safety
The positive business benefits of safety extend beyond financials. A positive safety culture can help protect a company's reputation. Lost time results in poor service quality and can lead to customer dissatisfaction and loss of future business. Oklahoma's uniquely positioned technology centers defend a company's hard-earned reputation by helping improve safety records through low cost, high quality, customized safety training.
Partnering with your local technology center can open up a world of possibilities that can help your company grow, expand and become more profitable. Discover how CareerTech can provide quality, customized training in many areas including Safety and Health, Existing Industry and Training for Industry.


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Yogurt, Oil and Tenants' Rights Dominate Berkeley Council Meeting
Frozen yogurt, British Petroleum, and political prisoners were a few of the lively subjects discussed at Tuesday's regular City Council meeting.
The Council ceremonially declared September 28th, 2010 Floyd Salas Day. The jolly, wizened Salas, an acclaimed Hispanic author, was present along with a crowd of family members who cheered enthusiastically as he accepted the honor. Also recognized was Indigenous People's Day, declared for October 9th, 2010. Everybody was encouraged to attend the Pow-Wow celebration on that date at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park. Biotech partners also took the opportunity to thank Youth Works and the City of Berkeley for grant money used to place teenagers in biotechnical internships.
The Council made a unanimous decision to send a letter on behalf of the City of Berkeley urging President Barack Obama to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. Peltier is a political prisoner from the American Indian Movement who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents at Oglala, South Dakota, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms in 1977. Supporters insist that his trial was unfair, with nearly all of the evidence having been manipulated, invented, or suppressed by the FBI. Three speakers thanked the Council for supporting Peltier, who has now been in prison for 35 years.
Perhaps the longest discussion that took place on Tuesday night was the appeal by the owners of Papa Mango, a frozen yogurt shop near Telegraph, against the Zoning Adjustment Board's decision to allow a Pinkberry frozen yogurt shop at 2400 Telegraph. Christine Limpin and her husband appeared at the Council meeting to argue on behalf of the eight existing locally and independently-owned frozen yogurt restaurants, claiming that the ZAB made its decision without hearing the position of the existing shops.
The addition of Pinkberry, designated a "quick-serve" restaurant because customers are given their yogurt to sit down and eat at the store, would make 44 quick-serve restaurants in the area, exceeding the quota. Given that fact, and for fear that the number of frozen yogurt shops in the area might be getting out of control and posing a detriment to the livelihood of the smaller businesses, Limpin and seven other frozen yogurt businesses petitioned to have a second hearing. Limpin also claimed that she and her husband were not notified properly about the original ZAB hearing.
Councilmembers Maio and Worthington moved to support the appellants and have a second hearing. "What their petition asks is have a hearing and consider the facts," said Worthington. "Given that I am not an expert on yogurt and I do not know if this particular yogurt is dramatically different from all the other kinds of yogurt, I think [it's] the least we can do for these eight small businesses who are struggling in Berkeley—they are already here, and they are struggling." Eventually, however, seemingly in the interest of filling a business location that has been unoccupied for three years in a bad economy, a substitute motion was passed upholding the ZAB decision and turning down the appellants.
Item number 19 on the agenda, regarding a Stuart Street resident and landlord who had turned a five-unit residence into four units, turned into a lengthy, often confused debate about Measure Y. Measure Y, passed in 1998, spells out protections from eviction for tenants meeting certain criteria, one of which is that they live in a building containing five or more units. Since this transformation from five to four units had been made without a permit prior to any attempts to qualify for one, and since the transformation would remove Measure Y eviction protections from future tenants, it was decided to remand the ZAB's previously sympathetic ruling back to the Board.
If ZAB decided to deny the permit, some councilmembers feared, the tenants of the building could be evicted. So, with advice from the City Attorney, it was agreed that the city has discretion to enforce eviction protection in this situation to prevent any evictions from taking place.
The final item taken up by the council was a recommendation authored by Councilmember Jesse Arreguin that the council urge the University of California to terminate its contract with British Petroleum. "When this agreement was entered into," the agenda item said, "we didn't know that B.P. would be responsible for the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and the impacts of that oil spill will continue to affect the gulf coast for many years to come."
This item brought up seven public speakers, one dressed in Blue and Gold with a furry bear hat, trailing a black paper bag from her shoe, wearing a number of "B.P." logos. All of the speakers came to support Arreguin's item, and all were disappointed.
Perhaps because the research facility operating under funding from B.P. "creates $50 million in money being spent,"as Councilmember Wozniak pointed out, the item died without a motion. "I think the university's a very powerful interest in the city, and they're strongly, strongly against this," Arreguin commented. "So I think their opposition to this strongly influenced the councilmembers decision to not support this."


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Wednesday Wild Card
It's been the kind of regular old life that gets away from you. All the details in the doing. So here's a few of my doings and runaway thoughts and wandering hearts consternations.
Last week I had the awesome honor of being with a group of women that have been a taproot in my life for two years. It was a fast and furious weekend as I was speaking at the Anglican Church event in Alexandria, VA. What a BEAUTIFUL PLACE. And how many photos do I have from the event? Not one. Not one of the gathering of women at their annual event. Not one of the beautiful neighborhoods. Not one of the country club where I spoke that was decorated for Christmas and the Holidays from top to bottom and beyond. Not one with my friends and most important of all - not one with the beautiful faces of the women there and with them as they were buying books! All my new friends! Where is my self-promotional selfie mode? I just don't have it. One of these days as Shellie Rushing Tomlinson and I joked on book tour we will have that brilliant kid from the genius bar somewhere that does a great job covering those things. You'll have to believe me when I say - the women were beautiful. I looked out on that crowd while speaking and thought what beautiful faces of all ages from all places. Next time I promise myself I'll do better. (I have promised myself this at the last five speaking engagements I've had.)
This semester I have had the great honor of teaching students from A Novel Idea program for their Pen and Paper Writing Clubs. I've grown attached to EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. How can young people be so smart now? Why wasn't this program a part of my growing up years? It would have changed my life back then to be so involved and encouraged as a writer. This has been one of the highlights of my 2017! How many photos do I have with these students? None. Just one shot from visiting them this Summer at A Novel Idea. I'm looking for that one.
Capturing the Christmas Tree for Mom
We come from a big, live tree family. I was determined to get Mom a real, big live tree. One big enough to hold her thirty years of ornaments. I haggled and bagged the tree in subzero weather - ok - it felt like subzero - the wind was blowing. I drove home twenty miles an hour the long, slow way up River Road with it on top of the car. It was eight feet tall. The only problem is my ceilings are NOT eight feet tall. Somehow I was imagining our old ceilings at home in Panama City. We basically lived in - the Den which was an add-on with higher ceilings than the rest of the house and a big fireplace. I miss those ceilings. I miss that fireplace. Not an inch more than Mom though. Which is why I was trying to get the big tree. That is now smaller. It looked so perfect out in that big, wide open field. Now, if I can only find all those ornaments it will finally be finished. We will leave it up until it is a real fire hazard and has to go. (I have not taken any photos for social media of the work in progress. I am promising myself that soon and very soon I'll do this)
Oh, then this happened. Tom Hanks dropped by Parnassus Books in Nashville on the day I wasn't happily in the store helping customers purchase great gifts for the giving season. REALLY. He went shopping and signed a few copies of his new collection of short stories, Uncommon Type. I actually have cried, teared up, had a moment, about this because HE is one of my favorite famous people. He writes stories. He collects old typewriters. He's still married to his wife. He made a movie about baseball. What's not to love? I DO HAVE THIS PHOTO of me missing Tom Hanks. Who is not in the picture? ME, me, me.
In light of this and keeping it in perfect perspective - I've been reading the Facebook posts almost daily of my friend author Kaya McLaren who is battling and winning the war on Cancer. She writes honest, funny, heartbreaking, raw posts like long letters. She is so much braver than I am. I wrote her and told her this. That I have a diagnostic mamogram next week and I hate that. Kevin the rescue dog starts his official heartworm treatment the same day now that he has finished meds and is strong enough for treatment after his near death scare. We are going to the doctor the same day and then I am attending a Christmas party with my sister and then my son has tickets for me to see Star Wars with him later that night and I think this is a good way to reward myself for doing something I hate doing but must do. There are only two things I hate more than the mamagram. One involves a doctor. One involves a dentist.
I wrote my friend Kaya and told her how stupid it was for me to cry about missing Tom Hanks because her posts about losing her hair and fighting for her life put everything in perspective for me. She wrote back that she loved me. And that missing Tom Hanks is still missing Tom Hanks.
The reason I am able to love Kaya so much is because I know her. I know her because of this little thing called The Pulpwood Queens and their annual celebration known as GIRLFRIEND GETAWAY WEEKEND. There is nothing in the world like this experience. It happens again January 2018. I will be there. If it is not too late to get a package I encourage to try to do so although it may be sold out. It always is. I have made more lifetime friends - both writers and readers - at this event than any other event or happening in my life. The founder, Kathy Murphy is also a writer, a world changer, a ball of fire and energy and is officially this year known as The Comeback Kid. She went back to college when life tried to take her down and out of the game. Tomorrow she earns her degree in Art and the work she has been creating and posting on Facebook the last two years BLOWS MY MIND.
As a quick side-note - you can check out the teaching page on this site for more info on the writing class I've been teaching, The Mastermind Path: Following Your Muse and Finding Your Audience. What a sweet surprise to work with these writing creatives as they explore their voice, write their words, and walk the path of their writing journey. We've had great conversations with other writers including Bren McClain, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Michael Moore, and Joy Jordan-Lake and it's not over. We have a few weeks left in the course and a new one will begin in February.
That's my Wednesday Wild Card! Which didn't go out on time. And is now posted on Thursday. I have no pictures to prove it was actually written on Wednesday.
Sometimes you miss out on meeting famous people but the most important thing is to not miss out on loving the wonderful people in your everyday life.
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Johnson & Johnson, Barnes & Noble, Dolce & Gabbana: the ampersand today is used primarily in business names, but that small character was once the 27th part of the alphabet. Where did it come from though? The origin of its name is almost as bizarreas the name itself.
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The shape of the character (&) predates the word ampersand by more than 1,500 years. In the first century, Roman scribes wrote in cursive, so when they wrote the Latin word et which means "and" they linked the e and t. Over time the combined letters came to signify the word "and" in English as well. Certain versions of the ampersand, like that in the font Caslon, clearly reveal the origin of the shape.
The word "ampersand" came many years later when "&" was actually part of the English alphabet. In the early 1800s, school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the &. It would have been confusing to say "X, Y, Z, and." Rather, the students said, "and per se and." "Per se" means "by itself," so the students were essentially saying, "X, Y, Z, and by itself and." Over time, "and per se and" was slurred together into the word we use today:ampersand. When a word comes about from a mistaken pronunciation, it's called a mondegreen.
(The ampersand is also used in an unusual configuration where it appears as "&c" and means etc. The ampersand does double work as the e and t.)
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Kentucky Derby: Doug O'Neill doesn't deserve bad reputation
When he went to Churchill Downs last year, trainer Doug O'Neill said, "I felt like the luckiest guy in the world to be part of the Kentucky Derby." But after he saddled I'll Have Another to win America's famous race, he could scarcely have imagined what the success would be like.
The front page of the New York Times detailed his history of medication infractions, and much of the media cited the reputation that had earned him the sobriquet "Drug" O'Neill. The Humane Society denounced him. The president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association said his record was inexcusable. Penny Chenery, who owned Secretariat, said the owner of I'll Have Another should be embarrassed to employ such a trainer.
Unfazed, O'Neill is back at Churchill Downs this week with another prime Derby contender, Goldencents, winner of the Santa Anita Derby. Both the trainer and the sport may expect another onslaught of negative publicity because of his presence. Mine may be a lonely voice saying that O'Neill has been maligned.
He rose to prominence in California a decade ago, at a time when "milkshakes" -- a baking-soda solution used to enhance horses' performance -- were being used illicitly at many tracks. O'Neill claimed the previously undistinguished Lava Man for $50,000 and turned the gelding into one of the country's top stakes horses, winning more than $5 million in purses. It was the kind of miraculous turnaround that makes the racing community believe that a trainer is cheating.
The industry finally adopted a test for milkshaking -- it measures the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in a horse's system -- and while Lava Man never exceeded the legal limit, other O'Neill horses did so on four occasions. O'Neill said, "I am adamant that we don't milkshake, and we haven't milkshaked," but he carried a shady reputation into last year's Triple Crown.
In the spring of 2012, the New York Times was running a series of articles about abuses in horse racing, particularly the high fatality rates at many U.S. tracks and the connection between drugs and those deaths. When O'Neill stepped into the limelight, the Times had a face to put on these issues. Citing his record of record of drug violations and the distressing breakdown rate of his horses, the Times wrote: "O'Neill's Derby victory places him -- and his troubled record -- center stage at a time when thoroughbred racing is facing perhaps its greatest ethical reckoning."
When O'Neill was making headlines last spring, I analyzed the records of his horses over the previous five years, and my findings contradicted his reputation. The hallmark of most cheaters is an outlandish win percentage -- sometimes as high as 40 percent -- after they have acquired horses from other trainers. O'Neill's win rate with his new acquisitions was a modest 18 percent. When they did win, his horses almost never displayed the sudden, implausible improvement that suggests a trainer is using illegal drugs.
Nor were there suspicious-looking performances in the cases when O'Neill was punished for medication violations or CO2 above the limit. The trainer received a 45-day suspension after Argenta showed a CO2 overage in a 2010 race, a penalty that was cited in virtually every article about O'Neill's nefarious record. But Argenta was a hopeless case who went off at 20-to-1 and finished next-to-last, and it seems inconceivable that the trainer would have been using a milkshake to help her win.
O'Neill acknowledged that his critics were right about the high injury record of his horses. "We had a period when we had a rash of injuries and I had to look in the mirror," he said. " I was running horses too often; I was a little sloppy there. I'm learning to run horses less frequently and being more diligent about that."
He was stung by some of the other criticism, particularly the fallout after he scratched I'll Have Another from the Belmont Stakes because of a tendon injury. The Times suggested that O'Neill had campaigned an infirm animal throughout the Triple Crown series and kept him going with the use of "powerful painkillers." He felt this depiction was a reckless distortion of the facts.
But for the most part, the trainer kept his focus on his work, retained his good humor and didn't shy away from the media. (He agreed to be the subject of a report on "60 Minutes Sports," which will air on Showtime at 9 p.m. Wednesday.) O'Neill said he has been buoyed by the continued support of his owners: "They know we love our horses and take great care of them. The people who were with me [before the controversy] are still with me."
Paul Reddam, I'll Have Another's owner, marveled at his trainer's demeanor. "He went to work with a smile every day," Reddam said. "I was amazed with the resilience he showed."
All of the attention to O'Neill's alleged misdeeds obscured the excellence of his work with I'll Have Another. It's tough for even the best trainers to bring a horse through a series of demanding prep races and then get them to reach peak condition on the first Saturday in May, but O'Neill did so. I'll Have Another's Derby was the best performance of his career to that point, and his Preakness was even better.
The ability that O'Neill displayed in 2012 reinforces Goldencents' status as a principal Derby contender. The modestly bred colt has looked like a top prospect since he won his debut at Del Mar by seven lengths. But when he got involved in a suicidal speed duel and faded to finish fourth in the San Felipe Stakes in March, O"Neill admitted, "We thought the horse might have distance limitations."
O'Neill made some changes to Goldencents' training regimen and gave him one more chance in the Santa Anita Derby. After vying for the lead, the colt pulled away in the stretch and won the fastest of all the major Kentucky Derby prep races. If he can duplicate that performance Saturday, he will put O'Neill's name on a short list of trainers who have won America's greatest race back to back, and perhaps earn him some overdue credit for his skill as a horseman.


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Wisconsin Demographics of Poor Children
For 2016, the federal poverty threshold is $24,339 for a family of four with two children. Children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold are referred to as poor. But research suggests that, on average, families need an income of about twice the federal poverty threshold to meet their basic needs. The United States measures poverty by an outdated standard developed in the 1960s.
In Wisconsin, there are 671,654 families with 1,269,746 children.
Poor Children: 17% (214,641) of children live in poor families (National: 19%)
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- Families and children are defined as low-income if the family income is less than twice the federal poverty threshold (see Poor).
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- Families and children are defined as poor if family income is below the federal poverty threshold. The federal poverty threshold for a family of four with two children was $24,339 in 2016, $24,036 in 2015, and $24,008 in 2014.
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Unsung heroes. Every organization and community has them. When Mother Nature strikes and the power goes out, it's the electric utility line crews that play this role.
Nearly two weeks before making landfall on the New Jersey shore on Oct. 29, Superstorm Sandy thrust power companies along the Eastern Seaboard into preparation mode: Check equipment inventories, put line crews on alert, boost call center staffing plans, and use mutual assistance agreements to line up reinforcements from other utilities away from the storm's projected path, should they be needed.
Duke Energy's six-state service territory largely escaped Sandy's wrath, enabling the company to dispatch nearly 3,000 employees and contractors to assist with power restoration efforts in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. This represented the largest deployment of Duke Energy line workers outside the company's footprint in its history.
Our Charlotte, N.C.-based corporate communications team knew that we had a story to tell on behalf of our field crews, but the question remained: How was the best way to tell it?
Our typical storm response PR plan goes like this: Invite local media to our line crew staging grounds prior to deployment; issue news releases as developments unfold; share updates and multimedia with employees via the company's portal or intranet; and post power restoration figures, facts and timelines via our social media properties.
Depending on the severity of the storm and duration of its aftermath, we also embed one or more of our corporate communicators with field crews to funnel real-time information and images to the media.
We leveraged the same strategies this time around — but with a twist. Instead of relying on traditional media to repackage our material and localize the Sandy story, we opted to tell the story ourselves via content created by social media-savvy corporate communications staffer Lee Freedman, and shared it via blogs and Twitter.
Securing internal approval of the concept proved to be surprisingly easy for a company of our size. Executives instantly recognized the potential upside of the plan.
Mere hours after we conceived the idea, 30-year-old Freedman was on a plane to Cincinnati to join a New York-bound field crew that specializes in underground power line repairs. This complex work, always fraught with peril, posed an even greater challenge given that the storm surge had flooded many of power company Con Edison's "vaults," or equipment chambers, in Lower Manhattan.
During the road trip to New York, Freedman explained his mission to the somewhat skeptical field crew of 21 that were assigned to him. "They had heard of Twitter and some are on Facebook, but a lot of the line crew members don't use these tools on a regular basis," explained Freedman. "One crew member pulled me aside and asked me, 'What's a blog?' It was a sincere question and helped me gauge how much work I had ahead of me in getting their buy-in."
Freedman signaled his crew's arrival by posting photos on Twitter from darkened Lower Manhattan. Soon he was sharing a steady stream of updates and images as his crew shuttled between staging areas, work sites and their makeshift accommodations, which included one night on cots aboard a docked dinner cruise boat.
Initially, crew supervisor Doug Akins was worried that Freedman's presence might be a distraction or stumbling block for his team.
"But Lee's mindset and objective from the beginning was to understand what we were doing and how we were doing it, and then communicate that back to employees and the public," he said. "Lee did that without being a nuisance or getting in the way of our work."
The response to Freedman's Twitter stream also served to buoy the spirits of the weary Duke field crews working in New York.
"During downtime, I would go truck to truck and hold up my iPhone to line workers in the utility trucks so they could see the tweets of support and encouragement we had received in response to my blogs and tweets," he recalled. "Once they saw social media in action, it actually picked up their spirits because they realized people were cheering them on from afar."
Back in Charlotte, our corporate communications team began publicizing Freedman's Twitter account (@LeeFreedman) and blog posts via a news release, internal communication channels and the company's social media properties.
During the course of two weeks, Freedman posted more than 100 Twitter updates (picking up just as many new followers), published eight blog posts, and completed numerous interviews with regional and national media, resulting in highly favorable coverage.
One on-site interview that Freedman conducted with an Associated Press reporter resulted in a story that framed the visiting Duke crew's travails in an exceptionally positive light. Dozens of media outlets across the country, including The Wall Street Journal, picked up the article. Twitter users also retweeted it extensively.
"WBTV used every bit of information Lee provided, mostly through Twitter," said Laura Houston, a producer with Charlotte's CBS television affiliate. "He shared where crews were working for the day, the long hours they'd been working and even the thanks that victims of the storm were giving them. He also did a live phone interview on my show not long after he arrived in the Northeast."
Charlotte Business Journal reporter John Downey also pulled from Freedman's dispatches. "Aside from just giving the story a place and voice, Lee's updates helped give our readers an idea of what the crews faced and what the people of New York and New Jersey faced," he said.
For Freedman, social media provided Duke's stakeholders with a window into what is usually grueling, thankless work.
"Using Twitter to show and tell our story was invaluable," he said. "I was able to tweet our work locations so the media could find us. I also sent out photos of our work environments underneath streets, sidewalks and buildings — areas where journalists just couldn't access."
Internally, we packaged his tweets, photos and blogs on a portal page, updated it several times daily and publicized it through a number of employee communication channels.
We also leveraged a new virtual discussion forum called Speak Up to encourage employees to convey their appreciation and support to colleagues who were on assignment in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. Dozens of employees responded within the first few days, with hundreds more recommending or Liking their peers' posts.
Channeling updates from the front lines of the Sandy power restoration effort to the company's 29,000 employees led to a number of positive outcomes.
With more than 34,000 page views, our internal coverage localized the catastrophe and helped connect our workforce in a personal and meaningful way to the regions hit hardest.
In addition, coverage of the company's response to Sandy served to unite our fractured workforce, which had recently endured a protracted merger-planning process that spanned 18 months and culminated in an eleventh-hour CEO switch.
One consequence of success is that it begets higher expectations. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. We learned a great deal from the personal and direct storytelling approach that we embraced in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
As a result, the next time that a storm of consequence bears down on Duke Energy's own service territory, we'll be ready.


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Their aim is for their audience to experience the worlds of these poems in a theatrical context: intense, funny and real.
Forty poets are featured including Langston Hughes, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Anne Sexton, Nikki Giovanni, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Thom Gunn, Gil Scott-Heron, e.e. cummings, Anne Waldman, Billy Collins, Gary Soto, David Meltzer, and many others.ll
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Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Unquiet Mind.
About Jon Ronson's Talk
Is there a definitive line that divides "crazy" from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. His talk includes live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.
About Jon Ronson
Ronson is a writer and documentary filmmaker who dips into every flavor of madness, extremism and obsession. In his latest book, The Psychopath Test, he explores the unnerving world of psychopaths — a group that includes both incarcerated killers and, one of his subjects insists, plenty of CEOs. In his books, films and articles, Ronson explores madness and obsession of all kinds, from the U.S. military's experiments in psychic warfare to the obscene and hate-filled yet Christian rap of the Insane Clown Posse. He wrote a column for The Guardian and hosted an essay program on Radio 4, and contributes to This American Life.
JON RONSON: You're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR with Guy Raz.
I think you can do that.
RONSON: Yeah, I think — I was extrapolating with my arms.
RAZ: Can I ask you a question?
RONSON: Mm-hmm.
RAZ: I guess I should introduce you, or do you want to introduce yourself?
RONSON: Ok, my name is Jon Ronson and I am an author, nonfiction author.
RAZ: Have you ever lost it completely, like — not like angry, but like lost control over what's happening in your head?
RONSON: Oh, yes. Frequently. Like, you know, about once a week. I suffer from anxiety, so quite often, you know, when intrusive thoughts will mash up into another intrusive thought and they all kind of spiral. I mean, that's sort of par the course with me.
RAZ: Like you can't concentrate on anything else, you're totally distracted by that one thing in your head?
RONSON: Yeah, well actually the very worst occasion it ever happened — it was actually in Washington DC where you are now. I was in a hotel room, and I had this deal with my wife — this is when my baby was very young — I had a deal with my wife that she would always phone me like at 8:30 p.m. British time to tell me that everything was okay and Joe was asleep. One time she didn't phone, and I was in a hotel room in Washington DC, and I called her and I couldn't get her, and I panicked and I became convinced that, you know, they were dead, and it was just so irrational and I started phoning the police and the fire brigade and my brother and the neighbors. Anyway, it turned out that she'd had a power cut and was at a friend's house and had forgot to call me. And when I checked out of the hotel the next morning, the phone bill came, and it was for $900 for one night.
RAZ: Do you know something?
RONSON: Uh-huh?
RAZ: I've done the same thing.
RONSON: Exactly the same?
RAZ: Yeah, almost exactly the same thing.
RONSON: Yeah, I mean, actually I say in one of my books, "The Psychopath Test," that I've panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. It's just ...
RAZ: ... So the book Jon just mentioned, "The Psychopath Test," is why we asked him to be part of today's program. We're talking about the place between madness and sanity. Anyway, Jon Ronson spent a year exploring what a psychopath is, and it became a kind of journey into his own mind. He's talked a lot about this over the past few years, including onstage at TED. We're going to hear your TED talk in a second, is there anything we should know before we hear it?
RONSON: Yes, this was part of a TED conference called Full Spectrum, and the idea was that people would try to come up with new ways of giving talks, so it wouldn't just be, you know, you talking in front of PowerPoint. So Chris Anderson when he asked me to do it, said he wanted to put together with an audio man, called Julian Treasure, to do live audio on stage while I talked, responding to the things I was saying. So you will hear audio in the background, and it was actually happening live onstage right behind me.
RAZ: Okay, let's hear it, and I might have some questions for you along the way.
RONSON: This story starts, I was at a friend's house and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual, which is the manual of mental disorders, it lists every known mental disorder. And it used to be, back in the 50's, a very slim pamphlet, and then it got bigger and bigger and bigger and now it's 886 pages long and it lists currently 374 mental disorders. So I was leafing through it wondering if I had any mental disorders, and it turns out I've got 12. I've got generalized anxiety disorder, which is a given. I've got nightmare disorder, which is categorized if you have recurrent dreams of being pursued or declared to failure. And all my dreams involve people chasing me down the street going, you're a failure!
RONSON: I've got parent-child relational problems, which I blame my parents for.
RONSON: I'm kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm kidding. And I've got malingering, and I think it's actually quite rare to have both malingering and generalized anxiety disorder because malingering tends to make me feel very anxious. Anyway, I was looking through this book, wondering if I was much crazier than I thought I was, or maybe it's not a good idea to diagnose yourself with a mental disorder if you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the psychiatry profession has a kind of strange desire to label what's essentially normal human behavior as a mental disorder. I didn't know which of these things was true, but I thought it was kind of interesting and I thought maybe I should meet a critic of psychiatry to get their view, which is how I ended up having lunch with the Scientologists.
RONSON: It was a man called Brian who runs a crack team of Scientologists who were determined to destroy psychiatry wherever it lies, they're called the CCHR. And I said to him, can I — can you prove to me that psychiatry is a pseudoscience that can't be trusted? And he said, yes we can prove it to you. And I said how? And he said, I can introduce you to Tony. And I said who's Tony? And he said, Tony's in Broadmoor.
Now, Broadmoor is Broadmoor Hospital, it used to be known as the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane, it's where they send the serial killers and the people that can't help themselves. And I said to Brian, well what did Tony do? And he said, hardly anything. He beat someone up with something, and he decided to fake madness to get out of a prison sentence, but he faked it too well and now he's stuck in Broadmoor and nobody will believe he's sane.
Do you want us to try to get you in to Broadmoor to meet Tony? So I said, yes please. So I got the train to Broadmoor, I began to yawn uncontrollably around Kempton Park. Which is apparently what dogs also do when anxious, they yawn uncontrollably. We got to Broadmoor, I got taken through gate after gate after gate, into the Wellness Center, which is where you get to meet the patients. It looks like a giant Hampton Inn, it's all peach and pine and calming colors, and the only bold colors are the reds of the panic buttons. And the patients started drifting in and they were quite overweight, wearing sweatpants, and quite docile looking, and Brian the Scientologist whispered to me, they're medicated. Which to a scientologist is like the worst evil in the world, but I think it is probably a good idea.
And then Brian said, here's Tony. And a man was walking in, and he wasn't overweight, he was in very good physical shape, and he wasn't wearing sweatpants, he was wearing a pin stripe suit, and he had his arm outstretched like someone out of "The Apprentice." He looked like a man who wanted to wear an outfit that would convince me that he was very sane. And he sat down and I said, so is it true that you faked you're in here? And he said yep, yep absolutely, I beat someone up when I was 17 and I was in prison awaiting trial, and my cellmate said to me, you know what you have to do? Fake madness. Tell' em you're mad, you'll get sent to some cushy hospital, nurses will bring you pizzas, you'll have your own PlayStation, so I said well how did you do it? And he said, well I asked to see the prison psychiatrist and I had just seen a film called "Crash," in which people get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls. So I said to the psychiatrist, I get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls. And I said, what else? And he said, oh yeah I told the psychiatrist that I wanted to watch women as they died because it would make make me feel more normal. And I said where'd you get that from? He said, oh from a biography of Ted Bundy that they had in the prison library, I think.
Anyway, he faked madness too well, he said, and they didn't send him to some cushy hospital, they sent him to Broadmoor. And the minute he got there, he said he took one look at the place, asked to see the psychiatrist, said there's been a terrible misunderstanding. I'm not mentally ill. I said, how long have you been here for? He said, well if I'd just done my time in prison for the original crime, I'd've got five years. I've been in Broadmoor for 12 years.
RAZ: Hold on one sec. How could he explain this in such a calm way? I mean, he was taking this in stride, like this is, well, you know, I just — I guess I'm stuck here.
RONSON: Well, no, I mean, he never was happy to be stuck there, you know. He saw me as a possible way out of Broadmoor, so he was actually very friendly and cheerful about faking to make me an ally in some way.
RAZ: He was just supposed to be there for five years he was there for 12 years. I mean, that would drive him crazy.
RONSON: Oh, my God. And also, the way Broadmoor's set up, if you engage with the therapy, it means they can detain you indefinitely. I mean that's the kind of sort of weird catch-22 that they have at Broadmoor. So one way that Tony thought, you know, that he could get out was to completely disengage in every single way with everybody there. So, he refused to make small talk, he refused to, you know, sort of war of noncooperation, he thought that would be his way out. But of course, you know, that made him seem crazy too, so there was no winning. It turns out that you called his clinician, who told you that actually a — like a telltale sign of being a psychopath is faking madness.
RONSON: Exactly, so Broadmoor accepted after a while, that yes he had faked madness to escape a prison sentence because his hallucinations had seemed quite clichéd, they vanished the minute he got to Broadmoor. But they assessed him and they determined that what he actually is, is a psychopath.
RONSON: And in fact faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath, it's on the checklist, cunning and manipulative. So faking your brain going wrong is evidence that your brain has gone wrong. And I spoke to other experts and they said the pinstripe suit, classic psychopath, speaks to items one and two on the checklist. Glibness and professional charm, a grandiose sense of self worth. And I said, well, I said, well, what, he didn't want to hang out with the other patients? Classic psychopath, speaks to grandiosity, and also lack of empathy.
So, all things that seemed most normal about Tony was evidence, according to this clinician, that he was mad in this new way, he was a psychopath. And this clinician said to me, if you want to know more about psychopaths you can go on a psychopath spotting course written by Robert Hare who invented the psychopath checklist, so I did. I went to the psychopath spotting course and I am now a certified, and I have to say extremely adept, psychopath spotter. So here's the statistics — one in 100 regular people is a psychopath. So there's 1,500 people in this room, 15 of you are psychopaths. Although, that figure rises to 4% of CEOs and business leaders, so I think there's a very good chance there's about 30 or 40 psychopaths in this room, there could be carnage by the end of the night.
RONSON: When I got back to London, Tony phoned me. He said, why haven't you been returning my calls? I said, well they said that you're a psychopath. And he said, I'm not a psychopath. He said, you know what, one of the items on the checklist is a lack of remorse, but another item on the checklist is cunning-manipulative. So when you say you feel remorse for your crime, they say typical of the psychopath to cunningly say he feels remorse but he doesn't. It's like witchcraft, they turn everything upside down.
He said I've got a tribunal coming up, will you come to it? So I said, okay. So I went to his tribunal, and after 14 years in Broadmoor, they let him go. They decided that he shouldn't be held indefinitely because he scores high on a checklist that might mean that he would — has a greater than average chance of recidivism. So they let him go. And outside in the corridor, he said to me, you know what John, everyone's a bit psychopathic. He said, you are, I am, obviously I am, I said, what are you going to do now? He said, I'm going to go to Belgium because there's a woman there that I fancy, but she's married, so I'm going to have to get her split up from her husband.
RONSON: Anyway, that was two years ago and that's when my book ended and for the last 20 months everything was fine. Nothing bad happened. He was living with a girl outside of London, he was according to Brian the Scientologist making up for lost time.
And which I know sounds ominous, but isn't necessarily ominous, unfortunately after 20 months he did go back to jail for a month, he got into a fracus in a bar he called it, and took him to jail for a month, which I know is bad but at least a month implies that it's — whatever the fracus was wasn't too bad. And then he found me.
And you know what, I think it's right that Tony is out, because you shouldn't define people by their maddest edges. And what Tony is, is he's a semi-psychopath. He's a gray area in a world that doesn't like gray areas. But the gray areas are where you find the complexity, it's where you find the humanity, and it's where you find the truth. And Tony said to me, Jon, can I buy you a drink in a bar? I just want to thank you for everything you've done for me. And I didn't go. What would you have done? Thank you.
RAZ: Do you regret it — not going?
RONSON: No, I don't. Because for all the ambiguities of this story and I, you know, remain pleased that Tony managed to get out of Broadmoor, he is a psychopath and I've got a family. You've got to be careful. I mean that's just the terrible truth of it. And again for all of the ambiguity of the story, and for all the criticisms that you can have of the culture of labeling, the culture of checklists, the, you know, the ever burgeoning nature of the DSM. Conditions exist. Psychopathy exists, whatever you want to call it, it exists. And I think it's really important actually that — you know, I've always wanted this my book, and my TED talk to stay very firmly in the middle ground, to see the truth and the problems on both sides of the argument.
RAZ: Cause it seems like writing this book was almost like a journey of self-discovery, you know, and I mean, I don't mean that in like, you know, in like an Oprah way, but in like a — like you started to see psychopathic things in yourself.
RONSON: Absolutely, I saw that to get on in journalism, I need to adopt certain psychopathic character traits. I need to be manipulative in my introductory e-mails, I need to not care about how people come over. And so it certainly became a book about return to work out my own sense of personal morality. It's also very much a book about how I became drunk with my psychopath spotting abilities, and misused the psychopath checklist, and how confirmation bias, which is the way that people will only see things that confirm that pre-existing beliefs, is a huge problem. And I think the book is a kind of a cautionary tale about — don't succumb to confirmation bias.
RAZ: It's almost like there's two ends of the spectrum. And as — and you said this, most of us are in that gray area between madness and sanity.
RONSON: Yes. Yes. Very real conditions, I mean obviously everybody knows, you know, these conditions really exist, a lot of people really do have something. But there seems to be an increasing move towards conformity and so the boundary of what it's — of what is normal is getting narrower and narrower and narrower to the extent that more than 50% of Americans soon will be diagnosable with a mental disorder. So being not normal is the new normal.
RAZ: Where are you in the spectrum, are you closer to madness or sanity?
RONSON: A little crazy.
RAZ: Me too. Should we get a drink?
RAZ: Writer Jon Ronson. His book is called "The Psychopath Test." Thanks for listening to the show this week, if you missed any of it or you want to hear more, or want to find out more about who was on it, you can visit TED.NPR.org. You can also find many more TED Talks at TED.com, and you can download this program through iTunes or through the NPR smart phone app. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It's Mary Elizabeth Winstead instead who's been cast as Mary Todd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It's been a tough year for Winstead, who was poised for global super-stardom before "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" was inexplicably ignored last summer by audiences and "The Thing" got pushed at least six months for reshoots.
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"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," being directed by Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted"), stars Walker as Lincoln, Dominic Cooper as his mentor Henry Sturges and Anthony Mackie. Tim Burton, who bought the rights to the book by Seth Graham Smith's after seeing the trailer, is producing.
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Officials said they received a tip that Robert McKissic Jr. was involved in illegal drug activity and served a search warrant at the 1000 block of Abell Circle.
During a search of the home officers found what appeared to be a pipe bomb, gun powder and other bomb-making materials.
Cocaine and drug paraphernalia used to make crack cocaine was located, along with a still used to make the illegal alcoholic beverage moonshine, according to authorities.
Investigators said they also found about 10 gallons of suspected moonshine in the home.
The Alcohol Beverages and Tobacco division of the Florida Department of Business will investigate the still and apparent moonshine, and file any charges necessary.
McKissic was also charged with possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
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