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Xiomara Laugart is Cuban. This alone makes her a competitor in the music industry. She was born with a fusion of rhythms in her veins. Moreover, Xiomara Laugart is a "Guantanamera," also the name of a quintessential Cuban folk song. Guantanamo is the easternmost province in Cuba, where even the palm trees sing and dance.
At the age of 15 she began her career. Soon thereafter, her voice was considered a true prodigy that allowed her to perform the most diverse genres. She performed several different expressions of traditional and contemporary Cuban music.
During the 1980s, she entered the "Adolfo Guzman" Contest for Cuban music where she was granted the highest award. From that day on, she became one of the most brilliant representatives of Cuban song. She received invitation after invitation to perform all over the world. She took the world by storm, taking home many international awards (1980, Sochi Russia; Sopot Festival 1985, Poland; Dresden Festival 1986, Germany, and others). Xiomara had been performing at the largest of venues in Cuba for years, performing with the biggest talents around. Yet she longed for a deeper sense of artistic expression, which she found difficult to develop in the oppresive climate in Cuba. Her dream was to go to the United States and fill the creative void in her soul with her music, the best music she could make.
After having recorded self-titled albums in Cuba, she moved to Rome and later to New York. Soon, Xiomara was invited to be the guest singer on two jazz albums, "Deep Rumba " by Kip Hanrahan and "Latin Lullaby" by Ellipsis Art, and on Jacky Terrason's new album "What it is" released in April of 1999 by Blue Note Records. She also was featured in the first single from the recent album by Fun Loving Criminals released worldwide in 2001. Laugart's monthly showcases at New York City's famed underground Zinc Bar have been called legendary.
She has flooded the stage with her power voice in the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Russia, Finland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Colombia, and others.
Obviously, we are not in presence of a common manufactured phenomenon. This singer has a peculiar mastery to reveal, not only her vocal virtues, and flexibility, but a special sound, fluently "liquid" and garrulous. Her range is such that the jazz influences seem to be a natural extension of her repertoire. She takes on each style of music and embraces it with her own stamp and authentic flare.
Xiomara is both the essence of the Cuba of old, with its rhythmic folk songs, fused with a blend of today's directness and clarity of voice, which is eventually matched with her deep laugh. It is that distinctive laugh that will soon captivate American audiences from all walks of life with her swing style in all of her Cuban splendor.
Xiomara is currently a vocalist in Yerba Buena, whose first album "President Alien" was nominated for a Grammy. The songs from this first album have been used in Pepsi commercials, and in movies, such as Havana Nights. Yerba Buena is celebrating the recent release of their second album "Island Life," which is a brilliant mix of rhythms to which Xiomara adds her African and Caribbean legacy.
Critics say: "Xiomara's melodious voice resounds in high register and she shows a vivid, exceptional sense of rhythm.
"Xiomara's seductive style left its indelible mark on Cuba for a decade, leaving behind scores of fans in her wake." Xiomara, 'la negra' (the black girl) as this young singer is affectionately called by her legion of followers, "manages to sing every style from her homeland with ease, from bolero to salsa to danzon to guaracha to funky dance tunes. She had a unique blend of rawness, and her voice possesses a liquid quality rarely found in singers today."
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Welcome to my Camarillo State Hospital Historical website. This site is devoted to the history of Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which is located in Camarillo, CA, just north of Los Angeles. The documentation of institutional history is important to protect people in institutions today. I also believe there are serious and important lessons to learn from the study of the "unwanted" in America's past. I began my study of CA institutional history by studying MacLaren Hall, a child protection institution run by Los Angeles County, which was open from the 1940's-2003. Children like me were removed from the custody of dangerous parents/guardians and taken to Mac Hall at all hours of day and night to protect them. I went there at age 8, in 1969, when my parents were failing me as a child. I did a lot of my Master's Degree in History focusing on the history of MacLaren Hall. But Mac Hall's history led me to another CA historical monolith that abused children as well - Camarillo State Mental Hospital. MacLaren Hall was rampant with human rights violations and child abuse, and so was Camarillo State Mental Hospital. Both their children's wards and their adult wards were bastions of abuse. I came to see the similarities between both MacLaren Hall and Camarillo State Hospital and then expanded them out to include many things which are common in all institutions where we have tried to lock away certain people. Authorities from Camarillo State Hospital would raid MacLaren Hall at night and take children from the one institution to the next, experimenting on children like animals. It disturbs me to know what goes on in these institutions due to what I saw as a child. When I began to explore the abandoned Camarillo Mental Hospital in 2010, I had never seen anywhere that reminded me so much of MacLaren Hall. I took a picture of one of the isolation rooms and sent it to some MacLaren Hall survivors I know. One responded, "Ah, yes, it is painted "Pussy Pink" as the janitor at MacLaren Hall used to call it." That one comment sums a lot of this up, really. We were preyed upon inside MacLaren Hall by guards and other inmates, which is exactly what happened at Camarillo Hospital too. This site explores the hidden history of Camarillo State Mental Hospital. I am glad I got into the buildings in their old states before they began refurbishing them into a university campus. I got pictures of many of the original areas at Camarillo Hospital before they were torn down. I offer this website as a place to reflect on the inhumanity of institutions, especially THIS institution.
Camarillo State Hospital was touted as the largest psychiatric hospital this side of the Mississippi when it opened in the mid-1930's. "From a mere 410 patients in 1936, the population grew to 1,082 in 1937; 2,501 in 1940, 4,123 in 1945, 4,960 in 1950, 6,748 on April 8, 1953, 6,865 on June 30, 1955, and in excess of 7,000 patients in 1957." (http://www.library.csuci.edu/history/documents/brochures/CSH%20History%20Flyer%201993.pdf)
At Camarillo, ground-breaking cures for insanity were claimed to have been discovered, while Camarillo was simultaneously being accused repeatedly and constantly of patient abuses and negligent deaths. Most of their more celebrated treatments such as lobotomies, electroshock treatments, hydrotherapy shock treatments, isolation in restraints, etc. were later found to be inhumane and have since been banished. Electroshock therapy ended in the 1970's at Camarillo, and it finally closed as a hospital, amidst grand jury investigations, in 1997.
This is a photo of a woman's ward at Camarillo State Hospital on January 28, 1949. The women's faces are whited out for patient confidentiality issues. As you can see, there are beds lined up against each wall, and then women also lined up in chairs down the middle, due to not enough beds. This room is similar to ones we have photographed at Camarillo now that it is abandoned. We recognize the end walls always having that weird opening, in this pic, it is just to the left of the woman attendant. Below are two photos of similar rooms at the abandoned Camarillo site.
This is a photo of an old ward room at Camarillo, as it looks now in 2010. This unit was built in 1937. Note identical markings on this photo to the one above. The same ceiling, the door, the vent above, and the opening below in the middle of the end walls, and the windows with bars, and shape of room, all the same as the photo above. This is Ward 28 in the South Quad. (Photo: K. Anderberg, Jan. 21, 2010)
This photo is from an L.A.Times dated Aug. 26, 1955. The caption reads "Barren Dormitory: Child seated in girls' ward at Camarillo, one of sparsely furnished rooms which houses 30 girls. Girls' ward consists of 2 small dormitories, sitting room, music room, playroom and kitchen."
The abandoned buildings at Camarillo State Hospital reflect the severity of the institution. Layers of grates, bars, and locks are on everything...we took this photo in the South Quad on Feb. 21, 2010.
The first buildings on site at the Camarillo Hospital were what later became known as "The House of Style," and also the Unit 11 building, both built in 1934. In 1935, the Bell Tower building was built, and in 1936 the kitchen and dining area was added to the South Quad, and in 1937, the rest of the South Quad buildings, all of those pictured on this page (but for the one picture of a grate from the North Quad), as a matter of fact, were built. The south portion of the North Quad was built next, in 1940, and then the northeast side of the North Quad was built in 1941. In 1950, a small part of the southwest side of the North Quad was built, then in 1951, the Receiving and Treatments building was added to the eastern end of the campus, and the northwest side of the North Quad was finished. Therefore, the buildings that are the oldest are in the South Quad, then the south end of the North Quad, then the North end of the North Quad and the RT Building.
South Quad...Much of the old Camarillo State Hospital grounds were set up with these small isolated courtyards, such as you see in this photo. The gate in this photo is open, but during Camarillo's time as a hospital, it was locked with a heavy metal gate. (Photo: K. Anderberg, Jan. 21, 2010)
Perhaps the most important movie in institutional history is "Titicut Follies" from 1967. It was banned from 1968 - 1991
due to the State of MASS objecting to people seeing it. It is a documentary inside a mental institution that is quite disturbing. Warning: Graphic imagery.
Olivia DeHavilland was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Virginia Cunningham in the 1940's movie "The Snake Pit." In this photo, she is receiving hydro-shock treatments in the movie.
The 1948 movie, "The Snake Pit," was filmed on the grounds of Camarillo, and due to its disturbingly realistic portrayal of what goes on in mental institutions, 26 states changed their mental health laws after the movie became popular.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snake_Pit) Some of the more marked changes to come from the changes the movie inspired were people no longer being locked up indefinitely without some opportunity for reviews of their cases, and nonconsentual psychiatric treatment came under much greater scrutiny, as did the treatments. In a 1986 L.A.Times article entitled, "Mental Hospital Sheds Image of Grim "Snake Pit"," James Quinn writes, "In the 1950s, Camarillo State Hospital, like most mental institutions of the day, was a massive warehouse for the mentally ill, its drab wards bulging with more than 7,000 patients, most of them committed for years or for life. Crowding was so severe that many patients were forced to sleep on mattresses in hallways and to wait in line to use bathrooms or exercise areas, veteran employees said. Little effort was spent on treatment. Then as now, the huge hospital had the deceptive appearance of a college campus. The Mediterranean-style facility, with more than 40 buildings, sprawls over manicured grounds and is surrounded by lush farm fields four miles south of the Ventura Freeway. The facility has never been completely fenced." The article goes on to speak of conditions in the 1980's: "The large hospitals were once dubbed "snake pits"- a term borrowed from the 1948 film "The Snake Pit," which painted a bleak picture of life in the nation's mental hospitals. Now, instead of being confined for years or for life, patients at Camarillo are hospitalized for an average of only three weeks, then discharged or transferred to local mental health centers or board-and-care facilities. As a result, the hospltal's count of mentally ill patients has dwindled to 644, less than a tenth of its peak volume, said a hospital spokesman." (James Quinn, L.A.Times, "Mental Hospital Sheds Image of Grim "Snake Pit"" (March 9, 1986), p. V_A4).
Camarillo State's HydroTherapy/HydroShock Treatment Equipment/Room, Ward 26, South Quad (Photo: K. Anderberg, August 8, 2010)
Unit 29, South Quad (Photo: K. Anderberg, Jan. 21, 2010)
In the 1970's, Camarillo routinely overdrugged incoming patients with something they simply referred to as a "Number 1," which was mixed shots of Thorazine, Stelazine and Hyosine, or Serentil, Stelazine and Hyosine, according to a Nov. 17, 1976 L.A.Times article by Ellen Hume. This tranquilizer cocktail was discontinued in March 1976, due solely to people dying from it and grand jury inquisitions as to the circumstances of suspicious patient deaths at Camarillo. (Ellen Hume, L.A. Times, "Mental Hospital Shift on Drug Policy Told," (Nov. 17, 1976), p. OC1). In a 1976 Times article entitled, "Deaths Investigated at State Mental Hospital," Michael Seiler wrote, "The Ventura County district attorney is investigating more than 100 deaths at Camarillo State Hospital over the last three years and charges of murder or manslaughter may be filed by the end of the year, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said Monday. Asst. Dist. Atty. Michael Bradbury said his office is "looking hard" at 79 of the deaths, including cases of drug overdoses, strangulation and possible gross negligence by hospital staff. "lt's our present intention to take the case to the grand jury," Bradbury said. The probe was opened early this year after the district attorney's office had determined that some deaths at the state mental hospital had occured under "unusual circumstances," Bradbury said. It is the second investigation of Camarillo to come to light in 1976. Earlier, a state Health Department task force looked into allegations of inadequate care, unsanitary conditions, heavy drugging of patients and general mismanagement in childrcn's units of the hospital, and then ordered corrections. No changes have been filed in connection with the state probe. The Ventura County Probe includes examinations of the deaths of both children and adults, Bradbury said." (Michael Seiler, L.A. Times, "Deaths Investigated at State Mental Hospital," (Oct. 12, 1976), p. 1).
Unit 28, solitary/isolation units at Camarillo State Mental Hospital. This ward was built in 1937 and housed psychiatric patients. There were many incidents of patients dying in restraints, heavily drugged, left alone in these isolation rooms. Barely large enough for beds, many of these rooms still have curtains in them, and this photo shows how close together the rooms were. Back when this unit was overcrowded, we are sure noise came out of these rooms, even when the doors were locked, thus you would *hear* your neighbors, even if you did not see them. (Photo: K. Anderberg, Jan. 21, 2010)
In another sad testament to Camarillo's incompetence and danger to its patients, a Nov. 16, 1976 L.A. Times article writes that Thomas Riddle, 37, had committed himself to Camarillo's drug and alcohol treatment center for detoxification, yet two hours after he was admitted in Nov. 1976 as a patient, he was "found dead, shackled at the hands and feet in an isolation room at Camarillo's acute psychotic ward." The autopsy said he died from "asphyxia due to compression of the neck and multiple drug overdose." Apparently the patient was full of vodka, methadone, valium, and barbituates when he was admitted but the staff did not check for other drugs in the system before they gave him a "Number 1" cocktail of heavy tranquilizers including Serentil, Stelazine, and Hycocine to "subdue the patient." The article says "Riddle was subdued by five hospital employees, locked into leather cuffs, and tied down to a wheelchair. He was wheeled to the acute psychiatric ward." The staff "psychiatric technician" on duty that night, Mr. Borel, told the grand jury that "he did not feel there was enough staff on the ward to subdue the patient without the heavy tranquilizers." The psychiatric technicians on duty that night all testify that no one choked the patient or went near his neck, yet the autopsy shows someone constricted his airflow at his neck. (Ellen Hume, L.A.Times, "Tranquilizers Linked to Death of Patient" (Nov. 16, 1976), p. B3) In an L.A.Times article published one day after the one just cited, more information emerged. "only one witness, psychiatric technician Ronald Willis, failed to deny having seen a "bar strangle hold" or choke hold at the hospital. Such holds allegedly are used in some mental facilities to subdue patients." When Willis was asked if he had ever used the hold on a patient, or seen others use it on patients at Camarillo, he twice pleaded the 5th Amendment, saying it could incriminate him. (Ellen Hume, L.A. Times, "Mental Hospital Shift on Drug Policy Told," (Nov. 17, 1976), p. OC1).
Strange ornate metal grates are in Unit 30 in the South Quad, inside the door, looking up to the second floor. It seems this grate is bolted to the wall, and perhaps was there to prevent patients from leaping or falling over the banister onto the stairs. (Photo: K. Anderberg 21/Feb/2010)
On Nov. 13, 1976, in the L.A.Times, Ellen Hume wrote, "more horror stories about staff shortages, the mixing of dangerous drugs and possible incompetence of some employees at Camarillo State Hospital emerged Friday in the 4th day of public hearings before the Ventury County grand jury." One of the cases cited in this article was the death by starvation of Steven Miller, 33, who died at Camarillo in Sept. 1974. The man in charge of the ward the night Miller died said to reporters that the ones to blame for Miller's death were "your senators, your Dept. of Mental Health, and your governor." He also said there is "just too much paperwork." In another case from the same Nov. '76 article, a "30 year old retarded patient" died on June 8, 1975 by "choking on her own vomit, after the nursing staff tried for 24 hours to get a staff doctor to look at her. The nurses said the patient had gained 15 pounds in 4 days due to drinking water, and eventually the patient died before the doctor showed up to help. This 1976 grand jury was investigating 13 suspicious deaths at Camarillo since 1973, over a 3 year span. Also cited in this article, in 1974, "20 year old Michael Rogers, also a mentally retarded patient, died. The testimony from Camarillo staff said that the patient had two "superficial lacerations" on his face, and when the staff went to stitch them up, the patient panicked and "five male employees struggled to hold him down," and he then went into cardiac arrest and died. The autopsy said his cause of death was he choked on his vomit, and the staff on charge that night says if they had it to do over, they would have put him in restraints, not tried to hold him down with people. After studying the patient's chart, it was found that the night Rogers died he was given an alarming cocktail of drugs from Dr. Moore, on duty that night. Dr. Moore gave Rogers Thorazine, Hyosine, Repoise, antihistamines, antiepileptic drugs and other tranquilizers, and the Physicians Desk Reference of 1974 warns about mixing some of those drugs together. Dr. Moore testified to the grand jury that Hyosine had been banned at Camarillo three months prior and that it may have been found to be linked to deaths. (Ellen Hume, L.A. Times, "Problems with Staff, Drugs Cited at Camarillo Hearing," (Nov. 13, 1976), p. B1).
Unit 24: Abandoned, barred rooms at Camarillo State Mental Hospital. This ward was built in 1937 and used for "psychiatric treatments." (Photo: K. Anderberg, Jan. 22, 2010)
In an L.A. Times article (Los Angeles Times, "Insulin Rocks the Foundations of Reason and Yet Seems to Restore Sanity in Many Cases," Mar. 24, 1940, p. 16) from 1940, a frightening graphic is displayed, showing first a large hand with an insulin vial in it, and a syringe next to the hand, then below this image is a photo of a blindfolded patient with a nurse holding a flask with tubes coming out of it and doctor over him in a bed, and the doctor is injecting him with a syringe. The caption to this picture says, "The insulin is injected. In a short while a sort of mental earthquake will shake the patient's brain. Attendant Clement handles hypo and Nurse Lewis the flask." Further down the page, more alarming images appear, showing a man with an IV in his arm, and the caption, " Nurse Lewis administers termination treatment, a solution of glucose (sugar) and salt." The next frame shows someone writing on a pad of paper and the caption says, "the charts are checked constantly so that no mishap will occur. The shocks are severe." Then the final photo shows a blindfolded patient in a bed with a tube going into his nose and the caption reads, "to reduce the patient's nightmarish convulsions sedatives are administered by Nurse Leah Lewis."
This article says Dr. Jacob P. Frostig, one of the world's greatest authorities on insulin shock treatment, came to Camarillo in Sept. 1939, after studying insulin treatment with its creator, at the Psychiatric Hospital in Warsaw, Poland. Insulin treatments consisted of a series of shots of insulin which lowered the blood sugar, producing a coma, during which time the doctors said the patients were "shocked" back to mental health. The Times reported in 1940 that Camarillo had an insulin ward which held about 40 beds, separating men from women with a screen in the center. Patients were given a light breakfast at 6:30 AM, and then began injections of 10-500 units of insulin. The Times reports, "The first effects of the drug are drowsiness and excessive perspiration. In the second hour, the consciousness grows cloudy and the body becomes restless. In the 3rd hour, the patient sinks into a deep stupor, often crying out, twisting and writhing. Gags are affixed to prevent him from biting his tongue or lips. The coma deepens and the spasms continue in the 4th hour. Saliva pours from mouth and nostrils. In the 5th and final hour, a rubber tube is inserted into the nose while the patient is still unconscious and fixed in place with adhesive tape. Then the termination treatment is administered and the stomach is flooded through the tube with a solution of glucose (sugar) and salt. The glucose counteracts the effect of the insulin and the patient awakens quickly. The salt is administered to replace losses to the body by perspiration." These treatments would continue on for 5 days, and on the 6th day, the patient was watched closely, then on the 7th day the patient "rested." This would go on for several weeks at a time. The minimum was 15 shocks per patient, and the maximum amount of shocks administered per patient was 50, according to Camarillo doctors. Doctors found after 50 shocks, there needed to be lapses of 3 months in between treatments for the 2nd or 3rd cycle of treatment to work. The insulin ward is described by the Times as having white cabinets on rollers with "EMERGENCY" in big red letters on them. Inside the cabinets were reportedly syringes of glucose, sedatives and adrenaline for emergencies.
In his first 6 months at Camarillo, Dr. Frostig finished treatments on 29 patients, with 23 discharged as cured, 4 being reported as partially recovered, and one who showed some improvement and another who "failed to benefit" and was "pronounced hopeless." In Mar. 1940, Dr. Frostig was treating 36 more patients at Camarillo, hopeful for similarly high rates of recovery. The insulin therapy was said to need 2 years in some cases, but if a patient did not respond within 2 years, he was deemed "hopeless." The Times asks the question, "Does insulin therapy cure insanity permanently?" Dr. Frostig answers "it does, and recurrences rarely happen in cases where the cure is thorough and complete."
The Times reported in 1940 that most of the 200,000 mental asylum patients in the U.S. fall into two categories; schizophrenia and manic depression. The Times reported that of the 21,884 patients in CA State mental hospitals, 52% were schizophrenics, 10% were manic depressives and the rest were alcoholics and syphilitics. Dr. Frostig said schizophrenics change personalities and become more "seclusive." He said the schizophrenic becomes a hermit and experiences a gradual degradation of all mental capacities. Frostig said that manic depressives are emotionally unbalanced, and suffer from long periods of either elation or sadness. Frostig claimed that insulin treatment could cure both, as long as the conditions had not had enough time to get a "head start." Dr. Frostig also reportedly used Metrazol, a "powerful stimulant producing violent shock and convulsions" on patients but he said he felt insulin was safer. In Spring of 1940, Frostig left to Stockton State Hospital to set up the second insulin therapy unit in the state. Frostig proclaimed he would devote his life to insulin therapy and the treatment of the mentally ill.
Unit 26: Room at Camarillo State Mental Hospital. This ward was built in 1937 and used for "psychiatric treatments." I took this photo on January 22, 2010. The dark lines on the walls are the shadows from the bars on the windows. There is a light on the wall at the height of a bed, and these lights are in many of the rooms on this ward. This room is only as wide as the left side of the door in the photo.(Photo: K. Anderberg)
A clip from an N'Sync video filmed at Camarillo. Note the light on the right wall is same type as the one on wall in photo above...those wall lights are in many of the rooms still.
N'Sync filmed a video for their song, "I Drive myself Crazy," at Camarillo after it closed. The video has some good shots of the inside of the institution.
Looking in the Los Angeles Times archives, we can see that a wide swath of society ended up in Camarillo State between the year it opened in 1936 until 1997, when it finally closed: teenagers, women who rebelled, men who drank and did drugs, the criminally insane, the questionably insane, sometimes even just people who did not speak English ended up there, as reported by Nadine Scolla, in her book about being a nurse at Camarillo entitled Keeper of the Keys...It is also clear from these archives that brutality and deaths haunted Camarillo throughout its years. An L.A.Times article from Nov. 11, 1976, has the headline, "Hospital Laxity May Have Caused Deaths." The article says in Sept. 1974, A. Cross, 35, "died of smoke inhalation in a small "seclusion room" after apparently setting fire to his sheets with matches." The psychiatric technician on duty that night, Francis Hartwell, said that he and one other nurse were the only ones supervising 45 patients that evening, and according to the hospital rules there should have been at least 4, he said. Additionally Hartwell said he was pulling his second 8 hour shift in a row that evening. Hartwell testified in front of a Grand Jury that "staffing is not proper so you can't assure a safe (shift) out there." The night that Cross died, testified Hartwell, he was "kind of disoriented and disturbed," and "roaming the halls," and then he testified that "the patient accepted medication to calm him down and agreed to sleep in a private seclusion room." Hartwell said he "believed" he had taken the matches and cigarettes away from the patient before placing him in the seclusion room, but the fire inspectors found two cigarette butts and burned matches on Cross' floor after the fire. (Ellen Hume, L.A. Times, "Hospital Laxity May Have Caused Deaths," (Nov. 11, 1976), p. B3).
This is a view of what used to be the farm lands of the Camarillo State Mental Hospital as it looks today in 2010. This is taken from the road leading onto the grounds, which are to the left. (Photo: K. Anderberg, Feb. 22, 2010)
A metal door with lock, above, separates the west courtyard of the North Quad from the Ventura Street building yard, seen in the photo below. The top photo is the north side of the door, in a locked courtyard, and the photo below is the south side of that same door, in another locked courtyard. One of the weird things about Camarillo is all the outside gates and doors are heavily locked. (Photos: K. Anderberg, Jan.21 and Feb. 21, 2010)
South Quad, Camarillo State Mental Hospital. This ward was built in 1937 and used for "psychiatric treatments." (Photo: K. Anderberg, Jan. 22, 2010)


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Ouch. The Cubs suffered a painful loss yesterday, after having achieved an early lead of 4-0. In case you were wondering, this 7 run loss is not their worst defeat of the season, it just feels that way because the Nationals are just as bad as most of the Cubs teams that we grew up watching. Point of fact - the Cubs lost 9-0 against the Reds back on May 7th, they lost 10-3 vs. the White Sox on June 27th, they suffered a 9-2 beating against the Diamondbacks on July 22nd, and the Cardinals beat them 12-3 just this month on August 9th. What is true is that 13 runs is the most surrendered by this pitching staff all year long, although they were outscored 21-7 over a span of two days on the 26th and 27th of June.
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After Cotts exited the game, Lou apparently decided that it wasn't possible to win it, so he turned to the Gas Can who gave up 2 hits and another run in his one inning of work. Then, Gaudin must have drawn the short straw, because although he clearly didn't have his best - or any - stuff, Lou forced him to pitch 2 innings of brutalizing, demoralizing baseball. The Nationals scored 6 more, adding insult to insult, and for a day the worst team in baseball beat the hell out of the best team.
Luckily, the Cubs have 2 days to extract bloody revenge. Ryan Dempster, 14-5 with a 2.92 ERA, will be taking on the 5-9 Odalis Perez. Rich Harden, 8-2 with a 2.04 ERA (1.50 since joining the Cubs) will be squaring off with the 2-9 Jason Bergmann. There's no such thing as a guaranteed victory in baseball, but I think we'd all agree that the Cubs have to be the favorites this weekend.
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If there is any justice in the world, the Cubs will sweep this series with extreme malice aforethought.
You may recall a couple of weeks back, when Kurt penned some posts about the Overwork of Carlos Marmol, during the stretch of time Carlos Was Getting His Groove Back. This also happened to be a time when Wood was soaking his blister in pickle juice, or Moises Alou's peepee, or whatever foreign substance finally served to toughen his skin. I felt I understood Uncle Lou's motivation at the time to get Carlos some ninth-inning reps, for future reference.
Marmol is back to being the Marmolator, but now I find myself coming over to Kurt's camp. Sure, I like seeing his filthy-ass stuff as much as the next guy, but I know that you can't run the stud out there every day. The human arm DOES have a tendency to fall clean off the bone when it is asked to perform the unnatural act of throwing corrosive sliders day after day. It can unhinge itself at the elbow by shearing its ligaments, or at the shoulder by tearing its labrum.
Point is, if all goes as planned, we should have three eighth-inning leads to hold this weekend, as well as three ninth-inning leads to close. Let's see somebody else besides Marmol and Wood out there slamming the door?
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While Merck's (NYSE: MRK) Singulair will still retain exclusivity in Japan until 2016, other new products could help to replace lost revenue from Singulair, including the insomnia drug Suvorexant, the neuromuscular reversal agent Bridion, the drug titled V503 that is used in the prevention of HPV associated cancers, the cholesterol drug Tredaptive, and Vintafolide, a late stage oncology drug. I will discuss each specifically to see what they could contribute to Merck's bottom line and if they can fill the void created by the Singulair exclusivity.
Suvorexant, the company's investigational insomnia drug candidate, was recently accepted for standard review by the FDA, and if the drug is approved, it will be the first in a new class of medications that are referred to as orexin receptor antagonists that will be used with patients who have difficulty either falling asleep or staying asleep. Merck is also continuing to seek approval for this medication in other countries as well as the U.S. Provided that the drug gains marketing approval, it would enter the United States market sector that was valued in 2010 at approximately $2.7 billion.
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Here, too, the P/E ratio may be somewhat high at a tad under 19. Pfizer offers its investors a yearly dividend of $0.88 per share, which equates to an annual dividend yield of 3.7%, and despite some of the firm's hurdles, the company's shares are still expected to rise by over 15% over the next year.
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) has been making strides with its GLP-1 agonists, a diabetes medication that offers less risk to patients than other similar newly emerging classes of medications. One reason for potential forward momentum is the company's recent FDA acceptance of its drug application for fluticasone furoate, an investigational drug that is used by patients in managing COPD.
With an annual $2.32 per share dividend - equating to a yearly dividend yield of 5.5% - GlaxoSmithKline shares could definitely be a nice compliment to income seeking investors' portfolios. In addition, the company's share price is expected to rise over the next 12 months by nearly 18%.
Yet one more of the key players in big pharma is Eli Lilly. Over the past year, Lilly has seen its sales grow by roughly 5%, which has in turn increased the company's profit margin into the double digits. And, should the company receive FDA acceptance for Sola, a drug designed to slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease in patients, Lilly could see a huge spike in revenue - possibly as high as $7,000 per U.S. patient per year and as much as $5,000 annually per patient in Europe. This could present a real value opportunity for investors. Lilly currently provides investors with a 4.3% dividend yield, with shares expected to grow by approximately 10% over the next year.
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Merck already has many of the positive qualities that investors look for - including a higher than average dividend yield, a low beta of 0.39, an earnings growth estimate of over 3.5%, and an extremely strong brand name. Even with the loss of its Singular patent, Merck still reported better than expected earnings for the third quarter of 2012.
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Remembering other Friday nights
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Well, last night was a lonely night for me. I remember the days when Friday night football was the highlight of my week...high school football that is. When I was a teenager, then when I was a young married girl and Eddie loved high school sports too, we still went to the high school games, like Robert E. Lee High in San Antonio, who we followed all the way to state one year, going to San Angelo for the Final Game, which Lee lost..that was a sad trip back home!!
Then in later years we always played bridge on Friday nights, first with Patty and Charles Flocke our best friends, and also with good friends in our church, St. Marks Methodist in San Antonio.
It was always the day, Fridays, that we always went out to eat too. The only day of the week we went out to eat. If it was payday ...
When Eddie would come home from work, especially when we moved to Hurst, we would head to a local restaurant to eat...C.A.'s Restaurant on Pipeline Rd was a favorite, or Chow Soon across the street from them. When we were in Hurst last weekend, we drove down that street and all the good old restaurants are gone. It made me nostalgic going down that street. Or maybe we would go to Wyatt's Cafeteria in the Bellaire shopping center near the Bellaire Theater. I think that was the name of it...I know it was a cafeteria...
Not many place to eat then, so it was easy to pick one that was our favorite.
Then in late 70's and until August 1982, we would play bridge with Mike and Julie on Friday nights, either at their house in Roanoke or our house. Mike loved to play bridge almost as much as Eddie. Julie and her daddy always played against me and Mike. I think they beat us quite often! Duh! Eddie always beat everyone at card games. Especially bridge and gin rummy!!
Then in the 90's on Friday nights we were going to a Community Group meeting at somebody's house or an all night prayer meeting at the church, led by Wanda and R.D.'s group, they were our best friends then, and we were always together, at our house or their house. Praying together, or praying for someone, we never knew when someone would show up at our house or their house asking for prayer. We sometimes would spend half the night praying ...lots of people were saved, delivered, or healed on Friday nights. I looked forward to Friday nights back then.
So, now I have all these memories and I am so glad. I focus on the good times and not the bad times...and there were many of those too...but I always look for a silver lining in the darkness. I focus on that.
So now it is Saturday morning and the darkness is over and I look forward to a wonderful sunny day and wonder what the Lord has for me today.
Rocia is here with Julie and I am going to Curl Up and Dye to get a perm, and then afterward maybe I will just start driving ... and wind up some place fun, awesome, and exciting ... you never know ... just follow Holy Spirit ... and He will lead me to some place interesting ... I just know it!!
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The Asian Urban Information Center of Kobe (AUICK) is an international cooperation organization, based in Kobe, Japan. It
was established in 1989 with the support of the
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Kobe City Government
, with the purpose of building extensive information and human networks among medium-sized cities in Asia, to assist in the resolution of population and urbanization-related issues. AUICK projects focus on training city officials, providing technical support and disseminating web-based and published information. AUICK also works with the
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AUICK UNFPA Seminar in Kobe, Japan Paramedical Training in Surabaya, Indonesia
Recent Events
Technical Support Project
Kobe, Japan and Danang, Vietnam
(July, 2014)
In partnership with the Nishi-Shimin Hospital and Kobe Nursing College, AUICK periodically dispatches teams of nurses from Kobe City to Danang in Vietnam, to establish a training system for midwives at a new 600-bed maternal and child health care hospital.
Under the three-year Technical Support Project, supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Vietnamese nurses also visit their counterparts in Kobe for Training-of-Trainers (ToT) courses. The fifth of these courses was held for six senior nurses from 8 to 17 July.
Previously, an AUICK Technical Support Project sent teams of firefighters to Surabaya, Indonesia, to help improve emergency rescue service coordination and response.
2014 AUICK / WHO Kobe Centre Urban HEART Workshop
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Kobe, Japan (January, 2014)
AUICK and the WHO Centre for Health Development (Kobe) held the 2014 Urban HEART Workshop on Safe Water and Sanitation, from 27 to 31 January.
The workshop was arranged for officials in charge of water and sanitation services of six cities in Asia to learn strategies for increasing service provision to poorer populations.
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2013 AUICK / WHO Kobe Centre Urban HEART Workshop
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Kobe, Japan (March, 2013)
AUICK and the WHO World Health Organization (WHO) Centre for Health Development (Kobe) jointly held the 2013 Urban HEART Workshop on the theme of Maternal and Child Health Care and Natural Disasters from 11-15 March.
At the Meeting, senior health department officials of the AUICK Associate Cities (AACs) learned on strategies and programs to improve health conditions for mothers and children, as well as the provision of services in times of natural disaster.
WHO Kobe Centre officials trained participants on the Urban HEART strategy to utilize data for the formulation of plans to address inequities in service provision.
At the culmination of the meeting, participants made Action Plans based on lessens learned at the Workshop, as projects to implement in their cities. These included training care workers and birth attendants, upgrading maternity facilities and providing reproductive health education to youths.
Cities represented at the Workshop were Chittagong (Bangladesh), Weihai (China), Chennai (India), Surabaya (Indonesia), Kuantan (Malaysia), Olongapo (Philippines) and Danang (Vietnam).
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AUICK with UNFPA held the 2012 Good Practice Exchange Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand on 29-30 May, 2012.
The Meeting was arranged to promote Action Plans implemented in AUICK Associate Cities (AACs) for improved awareness, education and care for adolescents and sufferers of HIV/AIDS.*
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According to a self-examination, Google is about as bad at SEO as any multi-billion company. In fact, you might argue that Google's SEO efforts are worse than most. After all, pretty much everyone knows that a well structured Title tag format is key to good rankings, right?
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OK, let's stop it right here. I grew up in England, so maybe things are different in the US, but 10/100 only merits a "Needs Improvement"?? If I achieved a 10% on anything in school, it would warrant a smacked bottom and no dessert! Needs Improvement is a little understated, don't you think?
OK, back to the report. It's worth taking a look, not just because its fun to snicker at where Google failed, but it includes a lot of practical SEO advice.
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Since we're officially at the half-way point of the year, I figured I should catch everyone up on the state of things with Oasis.
As we haven't really moved the needle on traffic, and no plans have emerged to continue the site in some new direction with increased traffic, the site will shut down on November 30. As for why that specific date, Oasis launched on December 1, 1995, so that will put it at exactly 19 years.
As for what happens between now and then, here is what I am looking into:
Since this site has had HIV scares and HIV+ members in the past, I did want to bring people's attention to this drug I hadn't heard of before. Truvada is a pill you take daily which gives you some protection against getting infected with HIV.
It is still controversial, not because of its effectiveness or minimal side effects, but because it has the untrue stigma of encouraging risky behavior. But on a site with a younger readership, we've all seen by now that risky behavior happens anyway, so it would be better to be prepared for it, whether that is a broken condom or a lack of a condom not preventing the sexual activity.
It is being stigmatized in a way that no one would think to do to someone taking birth control every day.
If you are younger and sexually active, you should know there are new measures to keep you even more healthy that are likely covered by your (or your parents's) insurance.
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to-morrow shall not come for years, time is death and hollow kings
yellow is the sky at night, green is she by day
sallow is the moon she lights, lost and worn away
Sleep O dear and distant child, dream of gods and Minotaur
yesterday is far away, i have dreamt of hell and gore
singing are the whales at night, howling at the sun
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I've met a number of boys (and a few girls too), gotten to know them quickly, and if it's cool with them, gone far real quick. I hope you know what I mean by that?
This might be just my perspective… but I strongly recommend to all Oasies™ this recently-published memoir by Jon Croteau: My Thinning Years: Starving the Gay Within. It is currently available (Amazon, I know) --- despite conflicting publication dates!
I don't know if I've written about this before, but I get to spend the last period of every school day looking at Hanet and just being in his general vicinity, which is really nice because he's definitely the prettiest guy in the school, if not the entire cosmic life. He's just right next to his girlfriend and I can't talk to him during the class, but I've been desensitized to both of those things for a while, so it's actually great. But because of this I have noticed that he's basically the girl in the relationship; he's that much more feminine than his girlfriend.
Mom and I started a new chapter in our lives, this time on the Atlantic coast of Florida. We've been near here before, so it's not entirely a new place, and for a change that's nice.
We're living in a high rise condo this time, and on Tuesday I met a boy my age named Josh, our Mom's actually work at the same hospital. He's cute, kind of girlish, and a bit overweight, which I like. The first time he had me over I found out he's Jewish, unless they have a Menorah on display as a artwork. I doubt that.


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Someone's made a list, oh my! What do you think of it? Where have you seen products get this wrong?
There are some things wrong with the principles in the design for the "Principles of User Interface Design" page:
a bigger line height would help with that
Conserve attention at all costs
it's catch attention back, give a sense of advancement, by providing a less monotone list, especially when the list is so big
Smart organization reduces cognitive load
the list could use a topic categorization, a quick ToC at the top; 20 elements in a big wall of text, with every list item being a big paragraph, where you scroll and scroll ... and scroll, seems like going 100 miles at a 100 mph on a 200 miles straight highway
Progressive disclosure
see above: categorization
Help people inline
Other than that, a good list. I wish they would be more in tune with the principles presenting them.
I wouldn't agree with 18. Great design is invisibleGreat design should feel right, should fit, which is a far cry from invisible.
I like17. Existing problems are most valuablebeside the ones listed by you Mallory, and by me.
1, 16, 20 are a bit... forced.
But I agree that a good design is one the users don't notice or remark on. Designers will tell each other "oh wow that interface is soooo good!" but other than software reviewers (who think about the design too... how easy was it to use?) people don't tell their friends and enemies about a design... unless it sucks in some way.
Re #1:
Seems to contradict itself. To me, "art" is what inspires, evokes, mystifies (!) and blah blah. I don't personally feel that's the job of an interface, but rather the software the interface is... interfacing you with. I don't want the road to be art, just the journey. Maybe.
Great list, I completely agree with it. All designers/developers are designing something that is being used by people and should ultimately understand how their website is experienced and the underlying psychology in order create a nice website. A lot of the time a find people get obsessed with adding features rather that considering use. I think this should be plastered all over the reviews and critiques forum.
Hmm if it was painfully obvious than I believe it would contradict #18. I think this was aiming to say something a little more subtle. I think this rule is more about the intuitive-ness of an interface before you take any action to use it. Take google for example, the first thing you see on google is a search bar, which tells you you should search, everyone knows how to use google whether its their first time or not. Or an iphone, you turn it on and am immediately faced with a bunch of app icons, there's no question of what to to you simple touch the app you'd like to run.
We'll ask ourselves: what is intuitive? Often for designers, it means "familiarity". That is, users are assumed to have experience somewhere else and if THIS looks like THAT, then users can start making assumptions about what things are, and can have expectations of what will happen when they do things. But what's closer to real intuition is, is it easy to learn? I think this can beat familiarity, and the original Google interface (from years back) did that. You could type something in. The search buttons were obvious (though the gambling button was confusing, but it was optional so nobody cared). And you can't really do it wrong. It's a patient interface, doesn't break the back button, users can try all sorts of things just to see what happens. Undoing (and re-doing) is as easy as doing.
We'll ask ourselves: what's simplicity? Often for designers, it means "clean" or "less clutter". This can be a good thing. If a page or a site or an application does one thing and does it well, it should focus on this one thing and people will usually know what it's for.But hiding things in order to make things "cleaner" or "simpler" is something people do sometimes, in a way that prevents users from discovering useful functions, help, explanation or quicker ways of doing the things they're already doing. So long as this stuff is discoverable (yet still out of the way if it's not expected to be used a lot) it's generally okay.
I read recently of an example of a program which took many clicks or stages through a menu to turn on and off a feature. The builders assumed few people would use the feature, and if they did, they would want it on all the time: meaning, setup would be a one-time thing, so letting it sink deep into the interface was ok to them. Instead, the deep menu prevented people from using the feature, which actually had many more and wider application than the builders had assumed. People thought sometimes that the feature wasn't even available, and you can imagine people may have gone to the competition who had this feature a bit more prominent or easier to get to. Simplifying the interface by reducing available options per level wasn't the best way of designing that one there.
This stuff's hard, and interesting as heck!
I would be careful holding one as more important than the other - I would say learning is just establishing new familiarities and without familiarities it wouldn't be easy to learn, they're both important to creating something intuitive.
I don't disagree with you. Some pages are certainly over simplified, some more complicated than necessary but I would say these a created of the considering the wrong thing. In most cases where I've seen an oversimplified website involves people considering how the page looks rather than how it is used. Same as an overcomplicated website involves people saying yes to everything and losing focus. A good website is as simple as it can possibly be without losing functionality and I think the only this can be a achieved is by considering the user experience.
I usually know what I'm doing but I certainly get uncomfortable going a few levels deep into a menu system especially if there's only a back button, however maybe if I had access to the entire menu system no matter how deep I went then I'd feel much less restricted.
Definitely. Whilst it's hard at the same time it is almost common sense, its the stuff thats common amongst all of us. You just need to forget what you know as the designer and put yourself in the users shoes.
Here's a somewhat related talk I watched the other day:
Yeah. I was paging through Jenifer Tidwell's Designing Interfaces (O'Reilly) and she pointed out what was rather nice about the trend of "fat footers": if you don't think it's a good idea to have a very deep dropdown menu at the top of your page, you could offer a site-mappy fat footer which just shows everything (or lots of all the stuff not in the top menu) out in the open... since it's a footer we don't have to care too much about space taken up. Lots of people miss footers anyway, but it can be there for those who want it.
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