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The last movie to ever be rented at a Blockbuster video location is actually quite fitting. It really does signify the end of an era. On November 9th at 11:00 p.m. in Hawaii, the final rental to ever pass through the doors of Blockbuster Video was…This is the End.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. The very last film to ever be rented at the longtime video rental franchise was the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg film starring the likes of Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, and Rogen himself.
Blockbuster sent out this tweet to commemorate the event.
The last BLOCKBUSTER rental 11/9 Hawaii 11PM @ThisIsTheEnd #BlockbusterMemories @Sethrogen @JamesFrancoTV @JonahHill http://t.co/RsXABlqfzL
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While I am sad to see the chain disappear without a trace, this is something that was written on the wall for quite some time.
As we previously reported, on Wednesday, November 6th DISH Network, the company who acquired the rights to Blockbuster in 2011 after the struggling video chain filed for Chapter 11, would be closing all remaining Blockbuster locations, as well as their video-by-mail service.
In its better days, Blockbuster operated more than 9,000 locations. By the end of 2011, they were down to a mere 2,400. As the final Blockbuster closed its doors, the chain was down to a meager 300 locations.
In the press release issued by DISH Network, Joseph P. Clayton, DISH President and CEO spoke on the necessity of the decision.
"This is not an easy decision, yet consumer demand is clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment,"
Again, I am so sad to see them go. I can remember Blockbuster Video all the way back to when I was just 5 years old. I'll never forget the old school video game competitions that they would hold locally every year.
However, I must say, as far as final rentals go, it is always good to go out with a laugh, even if it is a rather ironic one.
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It is Too Early to Invest in Tesla Motors
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The auto industry is due for a true disruption. Not a feeble attempt at holding on to the past with just enough change to create the perception that progress is made….hello Prius or Volt.
What I am talking about is a line up of cars that truly revolutionize the car industry. Cars with sex appeal. Cars that do not use fossil fuels and do not produce emissions, cars that accelerate and can hand with the BMWs, the Cadillacs, and the Audis. Cars that are classy and more than just an eco conscious image statement (sorry Prius owners).
Introducing Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) Model S.
The Model S is the first 21st century car coming onto the market. I love my cars. I am also relatively environmentally conscious, but you will never see me spending a dime on a Volt or a Prius or any of the other horrendous "inventions" that their manufacturers dare to call cars. If I am going to spend thousands of dollars on a car, I better enjoy myself every time I step into it. The Model S may do that for me. For the first time I am seriously considering getting an electric car as my next purchase.
Tesla has achieved the most difficult and critical task in business to be successful with a new product in an existing industry. It is changing the way consumers see electric cars. Early adopters are jumping in, evidenced by the ramp up to produce and deliver 20,000 units in 2013. So far in 2012 they have secured over 13,000 reservations, with almost 3,000 new reservations in Q3 2012, a healthy increase of almost 30% from Q2 2012.
Having said that, I am not convinced that, despite all the impressive progress made by Tesla, it is clear skies and sunshine going forward. I have big concerns:
If Tesla proves they have a rule-breaking product, incumbent auto manufacturers with much deeper pockets, will react fiercely. Tesla's partnership with Toyota (NYSE: TM), the "green " leader in the auto industry, may offer some protection, but will it be enough?
Market Prioritization
I would have selected the European Union, or a subset of the EU, as my launch pad. I think that would give him a bigger chance to establish a beachhead in the auto industry, build scale, and enter the most competitive auto market in much stronger shape. Adoption of Model S will be faster in Europe due to more friendly government regulations and a more environmentally conscious consumer. A US first model is a high-risk approach.
You may think that an initial focus on North Western Europe is too small of a market? That part of the world includes auto crazy Great Britain and Germany whose combined population adds up to over 140 million people. The combined population of the US East Coast and California is about 150 million.
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When I drive my Model S, I really do not want to worry about finding a charging station. Fancy getting stuck in the middle of New Mexico in August? I do not want to have the limitations of my car determine the route I take to get from A to B.
For Tesla to fulfill its potential, despite having the convenience of charging your car at home, it is critical that it will make charging a Model S is as easy as filling up my gas tank. That is a huge undertaking. Mass adoption of any 100% electric car, even if it as good and sexy and powerful as the Model S, will not happen unless charging the car will be as convenient and filling it up. You are not going to spend $50,000 or $60,000 on a Model S to just drive around town, are you?
A practical solution would be that every gas station also has Tesla's (or similar) super charging stations. Either that is incentivized through government or Tesla goes in business with the likes of Shell, BP, and Exxon. The latter option is quite unlikely, as the oil companies will not want to cannibalize their own core business: oil.
Despite a promising third quarter by Tesla and an upbeat outlook by management for the future, I believe Tesla will hit a wall in 2013 after the pool of early adopters has dried up. If at that point Tesla proves they can come out of that hole, it becomes an investable business.
….then again, people said Elon Musk was insane when he said he would be the first private endeavor to launch into space
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August 2008 - Joe Kremer, assistant vice president for major gifts, has been appointed executive director of the UCM Foundation, following the death of Larry Cowan. Former vice president Paul Page also is returning as the university launches a national search for a new vice president for advancment.
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Ward's picks the 10 best engines of 2014
Direct injection, diesel and turbocharging are the latest buzzwords in engine technology.
For 20 years, Ward's Auto has been assessing which engines rule the roost at the start of each new year.
To qualify, the engine in question has to be in a vehicle you can buy in the first quarter of the year -- and that vehicle can't cost more than $60,000. It's no surprise that the idea of downsizing has taken center stage for the 2014 edition of Ward's 10 Best Engines. The ever omnipresent need to meet more stringent emissions and gas mileage standards worldwide has caused all but a select few manufacturers to turn to the trend. And as you, our savvy reader, are probably already aware, turbocharging is the most logical way to downsize -- especially when paired with direct injection.
Modern turbochargers have a very minimal effect on vehicle refinement, while offering in most cases more torque across the rev range than their naturally aspirated, bigger breathing forbears. Due to the smaller size of most turbocharged engines, they also consume less fuel.
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But as logical as turbocharging is in gasoline engines, it makes even more sense when you boost modern diesel engines, which offer ridiculous fuel economy, gobs of torque and a very clean footprint on the environment. And we haven't touched on the ability of a stout iron diesel engine block to keep going and going and going. But enough from us – let's have a look at Ward's engine choices for the 2014 model year.
1. The 3.0-liter, supercharged engine found in the Audi S4 and S5. We couldn't agree more. Audi made it on the list last year with this engine, and there's plenty of reason for a repeat. The direct-injected 90-degree V6 cranks out 333 horsepower and 325 lb-ft of torque, and thanks to a roots-type supercharger, it seems to do so over an absurdly broad rpm range. In the S5, it still manages an Environmental Protection Agency-estimated 17 city mpg/26 highway mpg while sending you rocketing down the road. The intercooler setup couldn't be more innovative, and the always-there oomph renders the car's V8 predecessor completely irrelevant.
2. The 3.0-liter turbodiesel in the BMW 535d. Recently reengineered, this BMW engine is impossibly quiet and offers peak torque at just 1500 rpm, "virtually eliminating turbo lag," as Ward's editors note. Matched to an 8-speed automatic transmission, the inline-6 in the 535d even outperforms many of the 4-cylinder diesels the magazine considered. And while it's awesome in the 535d, it should be your only choice when buying an X5, offering some 413 lb-ft of torque.
3. The 3.0-liter turbodiesel in the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel. Sourced from FIAT-owned VM Motori and also mated to an 8-speed automatic, the Ram's torquey diesel has no trouble motivating a 3-ton pickup truck while managing up to 24 mpg combined during Ward's test drives. It's not bad when you consider that the acceleration matches that of the V8 Ram 1500, which only gets 17 mpg combined.
4. FIAT strikes again, this time with an 83-kilowatt electric motor in the 500e. This is another choice we'll agree with-- while we're not completely on board the electric bandwagon, there's no question in our minds that if you're going to buy an electric car in California, this should be it. Like any electric car, full torque (147 lb-ft) is available at -- wait for it -- zero rpm, and Ward's editors were often able to exceed the car's published range of 85 miles.
5. We've got to agree again here, because Ford's tiny 1.0-liter EcoBoost inline-3 engine is awesome. As tiny as it is physically, the little engine manages to boost out 120 horsepower, thanks to the miracle of direct injection and modern turbocharging. It also won the International Engine of the Year award in June. In the little Fiesta, that means an EPA-rated 45 mpg on the highway. The Fiesta goes a long way to proving that diesel-sipping cars haven't pushed their gasoline-powered competitors out of the market. As a side note, we had the opportunity to drive a tuned version of this engine, which was stuffed inside a Caterham roadster, and to make a long story short, nothing ever felt so right.
6. The Chevrolet Cruze Clean Diesel is the only competitor to the long-standing Volkswagen Jetta TDI, and the 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine is great. You'll get 45 mpg on the highway here, too, and the stats are nothing to balk at, either: 151 horsepower and 264 lb-ft of torque -- the latter available in full at just 2600 rpm.
7. Chevrolet isn't on the list for just efficiency. Try the 6.2-liter pushrod (yes, pushrod) V8 of the new Corvette Stingray. Ripping out 460 horsepower, the engine still manages to pull off 28 mpg on the highway (that's in automatic trim). That's a heck of a feat when you consider that some variant of this very engine has been in production since 1955!
8. Just as you wouldn't expect a pushrod engine to make a best-of list in 2014, neither would you expect a single-overhead cam engine without direct injection -- or, gasp, a turbocharger! But as it has for many years before, Ward's praised the 3.5-liter V6 of the 2014 Honda Accord, noting an impressive 34 mpg in highway driving and the decidedly counterculture approach to delivering those figures. The Accord V6 makes 278 horsepower and 252 lb-ft of torque.
9. The 2.7-liter H6 offered in the Porsche Cayman makes the list, too. Ward's editors say that it feels "a lot more powerful than its rated 275 hp and 213 lb-ft of torque." Despite the power perceived by Ward's editors, the Cayman returned 23 mpg during testing.
10. Volkswagen makes this year's 10-best list with the 1.8-liter turbocharged inline-4 offered in the Jetta, with editors saying that the new engine was "quiet, efficient and a riot to drive in sport mode, happily popping off the line even with a 6-speed automatic transmission. Several editors logged close to 30 mpg in mixed driving, and the EPA says 36 mpg is possible on the highway."
So there you have it, folks: the 10 best engines of 2014 as reported by the good people at Ward's Auto. Manufacturers will receive their awards Jan. 15 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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Diesel is a lot cleaner and less smelly than it was ten years ago. But diesel repairs are through the roof. The replacement parts are double a gas engine counterpart and shops that know what they are doing are few and between.
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A quick and easy home meal that could also be the centerpiece of a company dinner. This is a delicious dish. I keep the thighs whole and double the spices, adding crushed red pepper and more cilantro at the end. I don't normally have maderia or marsala, so I use sweet vermouth instead. Also nice with toasted slivered almonds on top. Served with couscous cooked in chicken stock and steamed red kale.
Moroccan Chicken Thighs
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Break open your spice cabinet for this Moroccan recipe that turns chicken thighs into inspired ethnic cuisine in minutes. Serve over couscous and top with cilantro.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 3/4 cup)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 275
- Calories from fat: 29%
- Fat: 8.9g
- Saturated fat: 1.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.8g
- Protein: 23.1g
- Carbohydrate: 22.7g
- Fiber: 2.1g
- Cholesterol: 94mg
- Iron: 2mg
- Sodium: 324mg
- Calcium: 44mg
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into bite-size pieces
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 cup quartered dried Calimyrna figs (about 2 ounces)
- 1/4 cup chopped green olives
- 1 tablespoon bottled minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons sweet Marsala or Madeira
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- Cilantro sprigs (optional)
- Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 5 minutes or until browned, stirring frequently. Stir in the chopped cilantro and remaining ingredients except cilantro sprigs; reduce heat to medium, and cook for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Garnish with cilantro sprigs, if desired.
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Harford County residents are being asked to support two worthy fundraisers to benefit two families of sick children.
The fundraisers are to benefit the family of a 9-year-old boy, who's been battling cancer, and the other to benefit the family whose 4 1/2-year-old son died a few weeks ago.
Saturday's Checkmate Cancer chess tournament will not only serve as a fundraiser for the Saacks family, but also will celebrate Thomas Saacks being in remission from liver cancer. It begins at 9 a.m. Saturday. Visit http://www.checkmatecancer.com, or the "Checkmate Cancer" community on Facebook for more information.
Sunday's Walk for Bear at Jerusalem Mill in Joppa will benefit the family of Jacob "Bear" Brzozowski, who died April 16 from a swelling in his brain. It's still unclear what caused it. The walk and tribute is from 10 a.m. to noon. Visit http://www.bearlegacy.net for more information.
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Thomas' mother, Sara Saacks, of Havre de Grace, said her family learned May 9 that Thomas, who is in third grade Meadowvale Elementary School, is in remission.
He was diagnosed with cancer after a rhabdoid tumor was found on his liver on Dec. 5, 2012, seven days before his 9th birthday. Thomas – who has been a member of Meadowvale's chess club for several years – endured surgery to remove the entire tumor, along with his gallbladder and part of his liver, his mother said.
The surgery was followed by six 21-day cycles of chemotherapy. All treatment was through Johns Hopkins' Pediatric Oncology division in Baltimore.
Saacks the experience was "very stressful."
"[It was] very stressful and just very hard on him," she said of her son. "The treatments were hard on him . . . but we are celebrating now that it's gone."
Saacks said Thomas joined the chess club while looking for an after-school activity, and blossomed into a player under the tutelage of Joe Schatz, a Meadowvale parent, who also lives in Havre de Grace, and heads up the club at the elementary school and at Havre de Grace Middle School.
Schatz is among the members of the Havre de Grace community organizing Saturday's Checkmate Cancer tournament, which will be held in Saint Patrick Hall at 650 Pennington Ave. in Havre de Grace.
He worked with the Church of Saint Patrick – which operates the hall, and where the Saacks are parishioners – the Emmorton Rec Council, many local businesses and more to put the event on to raise funds to help the Saacks family defray medical costs.
Many businesses have donated gifts to be given out as prizes.
Schatz said the Meadowvale club typically holds a tournament at the end of the year.
"We thought, 'Why not make that tournament bigger and have it as just a benefit for Thomas and his family?'" he said.
Schatz said 45 players have pre-registered and the tournament is set up to accommodate 100 to 120 players. Pre-registration is closed, but interested players can register between 8 and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
For $10, players can take part in four rounds in a "Swiss System"-style tournament.
Saacks said Thomas has returned to school and will be playing in Saturday's tournament, along with his father, Nick. She and Thomas' 6-year-old sister, Rachel, will be spectators.
She said her son was able to continue to play chess while in treatment, by using the SocialChess app for the iPad.


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28th July 2014 + NewBee Wins TI4! - ValveTime News Round-UpWith The International 2014 now all wrapped up, many of Valve's other products have been attempting to steal the vacant spotlight, including the return of the Steam Controller and Steam Music, and the Fourth Annual Saxxy Awards!
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Steam Music Desktop Interface Released + New Steam Controller RevealedA new Steam update released earlier today has finally introduced the promised Steam Music desktop interface, allowing users to access their favourite albums and songs using Steam without having to access Big Picture. Originally released into a Steam Client Beta in early February 2014, Steam Music allows users to interact with their music collection without having to alt-tab to an external program or having to exit a game.
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Kratos emerges from the portal of time, not at his chosen destination, but in a new and different world and time.
He was on a snowy mountain peak, overlooking miles upon miles of snow capped ridges, and rocky tundra. Kratos walked cautiously to the edge of the cliff he was standing on. He looked down, only to see miles and miles of white and craggy spurs. He frowned, displeased and frustrated.
Kratos still had his Icarus wings, he could soar from ledge to ledge, but the whipping wind would be an impossible adversary for him. He opted to use the blades of Athena, to scale the mountain side and find solid ground below.
Just where was he though? If this was not Greece or Mount Olympus, than where was he?
"Gaia?! Athena?! Answer me!" Kratos bellowed, staring angrily at the sky.
He didn't truly expect an answer, for wherever he was, it was out of the gods reach and time.
"You, stay where you are!" shouted an unfamiliar voice.
Kratos turned to see a strangely clothed man, followed by two others of the same dress and garb making their way to his location. They wore what looked to be fur and leather tunics, with light armor and helms. They were armed with curved swords, like falcata's, and had worn shields.
"Who are you, and what do you want?!" Kratos shouted at them, his voice echoing off the cliffs and peaks.
"Just stay where you are, and you won't get hurt stranger! We are unde order by Lord Bohan to capture and question anyone who is not of allegiance to his rule!" the strange man replied as he moved closer to Kratos.
Kratos took a few steps back, not liking the mans tone or explanation.
"Do you not know who I am?! I am Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta, the God of War!"
The group of men looked at each other in confusion, unsure of how to approach this odd man who looked as white as the snow around them. He had strange red 'tattoos' on him, as well as being dressed in only a tattered loin cloth and sandals.
"Come on now than, just surrender and you won't be harmed!" said the leader of the group, a tall thin man who was missing most of his teeth.
"Surrender?! Surrender?!" Kratos thundered at them, "The God of War never surrenders! Not to Zeus, not to Athena, not even to Hades himself! "
The group of men stopped their advance, not sure of what to make of this aggressive character.
The leader took a few steps closer,
"You will surrender cur, or we will take you by force! Now surrender or-"
In a flash of steel and fury, the tall leader of the pack was silenced as his upper torso was cut cleanly from his right hip, all the way to his left shoulder. He sputtered, spat up a mouthful of blood, and toppled over.
The others gawked and gasped, unsure of what to do next. To attack this madman, or flee. They chose the latter over the former of the two options.
"And now you flee for your lives?! Like cowardly wolves afraid of the hunt?!" Kratos screamed at the retreating men.
He would not have that, he would not be threatened by them, and them have his enemy run! With inhuman speed, Kratos let lose with his blades again, the long chain guiding the hellish weapons to their targets of soft flesh and warm blood.
The cliffs rang with their screams, the white snow stained red with blood and gore. One of the fleeing men, his right arm amputated from the shoulder down, pleaded for his life.
"No, please sir! Spare me! I'm helpless here, I can't hurt you anymore than those dead soldiers over there! Please!"
Kratos advanced forward, his cold eyes narrowed, his jaw taught and drawn in bitter victory. His blades in his hands, dripping with blood. He drew closer to the man, who desperately tried to crawl away, leaving a trail of blood in his wake.
"No, no! I'm only a footsoldier! I'm nothing but a patsy for our Lord!" the man continued to plead, his back now to a cliff.
Kratos now stood over him, his eyes looking down at the helpless wretch.
Kratos silenced him with a quick cross slash of his blades, severing the mans head and sending it bouncing down the steep cliff. His blood poured out and rained down to the valley below.
"Lord Bohan? Who is this man that they speak of?" Kratos said to himself as he sheathed his blades.
He looked around his surroundings again, a vast canvas of white and slate gray. He needed to find somewhere to rest, a place to gather information and possibly find a way back to his domain. He noticed some thin, hardly visible smoke trails not too far from him. He could smell the wood burning, a village possibly? It was a good distance below his position, but Kratos knew it was either that or nothing.
Without another thought, Kratos unsheated his blades once again, and made his way down the cliffs and mountain side to his destination.


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Some people are worth more than others. While job title and experience correlate to ability/worth, they are only one factor. A star programmer at Buffer will be in higher demand elsewhere even if he has less experience than a more senior programmer. You probably want to pay him more to avoid someone else from giving him a better offer. By paying only by the factors listed, you are undervaluing your best employees which makes it more likely they will jump ship.


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Fox 2000 has set Downton Abbey helmer Brian Percival to direct The Book Thief, the Michael Petroni-scripted adaptation of the Marcus Zusak novel that has been on the Children's Chapter Paperback New York Times bestseller list for 228 weeks. Twilight Saga's Karen Rosenfelt is producing, and a summer production start is being eyed. The WWII story involves Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich who survives by stealing books. Aided by her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with neighbors during bombing raids. One of those who benefits from the books is the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. The helmer's repped by Gotham Group and Independent Talent in the UK.
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by Cameron West, Ph.D.; New York City, Hyperion, 1999, 319 pages, $23.95 • by Bob Olson with Melissa Olson; Worcester, Massachusetts, Chandler House Press, 1999, 140 pages, $15 • by Lauren Slater; New York City, Random House, 1998, 203 pages, $21 • by Margaret Bullitt-Jonas; New York City, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 253 pages, $23 • by Marianne Apostolides; New York City, W. W. Norton, 1998, 171 pages, $22
The five books reviewed here offer first-hand experiences of psychiatric disorders and of the authors' evolution from largely victims of their symptoms to mostly master over them. The accounts cover dissociative identity disorder, bipolar affective disorder, major depressive disorder, and eating disorders. Several of the books will prove more useful for clinicians to use as adjuncts to therapy then to simply read for their own edification.
Written by Cameron West, First Person Plural is an outgrowth of the author's doctoral dissertation in psychology on the experiential aspects of dissociative identity disorder, more commonly referred to as multiple personality disorder. This autobiography, like some of the others reviewed here, is aimed both at professionals and at persons who suffer from the disorder. West says in his epilogue that "having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and gives them a sense that they aren't alone, that there is hope, then I will have achieved one of my goals."
West's story, starting with a description of his life with multiple medical disorders and moving through his discovery that he has multiple personalities and his account of his successful treatment, is a heartwarming, although somewhat perplexing, tale. In reading West's description of the sequential emergences of his personalities, their interactions, and the integration of these personalities, I kept wondering how someone can write a book about his alters if he has only vague consciousness and cannot remember experiences during most of the period he writes about.
Stylistically, the book has many problems. West seems unable to resist intermittent eruptions into glib statements. For example, "We had serious trouble right here in River City. And that ends with why and that rhymes with die and that stands for dead." For those not familiar with the lyrics from The Music Man, this statement has little meaning. The use of metaphors is equally burdened by the need for specialized knowledge to comprehend them. For example, "Battling the infection was like trying to hold back tsunami with a parasol." For virtually everyone in the book, West includes a description of what he or she was wearing, and most times the reader is left confused by the relevancy of these descriptions.
The author struggles admirably to describe the experiential nature of multiple personality disorder, but fails when he tries to make symbolic representations of his experience. For example, "I'm aware that the voices belong to others who live in the lazy Susan of my mind."
West describes various treatments he underwent. He talks about his relationships with several psychotherapists, and one gets a good sense of how a therapist and a patient are a team in pursuit of the patient's goals. First Person Plural also provides a good description of what life is like on a contemporary psychiatric inpatient unit.
The "healed" West describes himself as follows: "I've got 24 alter personalities. I call them my guys even though some of them are females, and we all live together in this body. We try to communicate with each other, try to get along and be concerned about each other's problems, but sometimes it takes so much energy that somebody who may be in real pain gets left out to fend for himself. And if we let that happen … if we don't tend right to it and stick together, we eventually end up having serious problems."
First Person Plural is more useful for patients who have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder than for professionals. The book portrays an individual who struggles mightily and a spouse who does the same. And in these portrayals, patients and families may find hope. Similar to the theme of Win the Battle, reviewed below, the message here is that a psychiatric disorder—in this case dissociative identity disorder—can go, through proper treatment and hard work by the patient, from a debilitating force to identifiable pathology to a building block in a constructive life.
With the help of his wife, Melissa, Bob Olson in Win the Battle has mainly written a testimonial talk presented in the form of a book. The first part of the book is the testimonial, while part 2 fills out the book with a series of shorter speeches and some other bits of advice. Win the Battle is about the author's five-year debilitation by bipolar affective disorder, his intense work with three psychiatrists through both psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions, and his remission now lasting five years. The book is aimed entirely at individuals with bipolar affective disorder, with the exception of one short chapter directed to physicians, therapists, and nurses.
Olson's message resonates with that of Cameron West's in First Person Plural: work hard in treatment, don't give up no matter what, and you will find successful treatment. Olson's model for this treatment is a three-step process: belief, action, and persistence. Belief is simply believing that an individual can and will find successful treatment. Action is the pursuit of finding it, and persistence means never giving up because "you are sure to find the right treatment for you."
As with any proselytization, the reader encounters repetition after repetition after repetition of the message. Win the Battle is certainly a book delivered from a pulpit.
Each chapter starts with a quotation. The one that best captures the essence of the book comes from Thomas Edison: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
By Olson's own description, this book is a "treasure map for achieving … winning your battle with depression (unipolar disorder) or manic-depression (bipolar disorder)." The book is written by an individual who says of himself, "I am your proof that depression and manic-depression are treatable."
Olson makes very cogent points about working with physicians, following through with treatments, learning about one's disorder, and learning how to cope with it. An interesting interaction that Olson experienced with his treaters is that "they respected me for trying, and their respect influenced me to try more."
Is Win the Battle helpful for patients? That's not entirely clear. For patients who are ambivalent about treatment or who have not been in treatment long and feel overwhelmed by their disorder, the book may in fact be inspirational. For individuals who have long-standing struggles with affective disorder and whose outcomes to date have been poor or marginal, this book may be something they can use to castigate themselves, to feel more demoralized by their failures, and perhaps even to worsen their affective states. Both of these possibilities are hypotheses. Take a quick look at Win the Battle and see whether you would consider it useful for your patients.
Lauren Slater's second foray into describing her psychiatric history and its treatment, in Prozac Diary, is more successful than her first effort, Welcome to My Country (1). Prozac Diary is the musings of a woman with a long psychiatric history; she has had five psychiatric admissions, the first when she was 14 years old. The central theme of Prozac Diary is Slater's treatment as an outpatient at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Fluoxetine was prescribed for her, and she had a stunningly good response to it.
Slater describes her quest to learn how to live as a woman in her thirties who has experienced depression since she was six or seven years old; who had psychiatric hospitalizations in 1977, 1979, 1983, 1984, and 1985; and who knows very little about life without significant psychiatric symptoms. The Prozac pill becomes like magic in her hands. As Slater describes it, "There it lay, cream and green. Tiny black letters were stamped downside—DISTA—which sounds to me like an astronomy term, the name of a planet in another galaxy."
She articulates a myriad of questions such as "Doctors assure the public that psychotropic drugs don't get a patient high; rather, supposedly, they return the patient to a normal state of functioning. But what happens when such a patient, say, myself, for instance, has rarely if ever experienced a normal state of functioning?" Or, "What happens if 'regular life' to such a person has always meant cutting one's arms, or gagging?" She says that "if this is the case, then the 'normal state' that Prozac ushers in is an experience in the surreal, Dali's dripping clock, a disorientation so deep and sweet you spin." In essence, Slater asks, "When you're sick, there are plenty of places (insurance willing) where you can go to get healed, but when you are healed, are there any places you can go to learn not to be sick?"
The author's description of the struggle to find herself, with Prozac in her bloodstream, is poignant and powerful. For example, "Now I am a woman with an apple in my hand. I am a woman who stepped from the opera into silence, a quiet and calm difficult to decode. In making such a move, I am having to learn many new skills, but most of all, it occurs to me, I'm having to learn to leave her [her former self]. This is maybe the hardest part of the pill, the hardest part of health. It is the deepest departure I have ever known."
Slater's autobiography has somewhat of a chronology, but the major trip it takes the reader on is the exploration of an individual's feelings about a medication. Because those feelings are not a diatribe against psychotropic medication delivered by an angry "psychiatric survivor," as has most often been the case in first-person accounts by patients, the expressions are of great value. While reams of material on the psychopharmacology of fluoxetine are available, there is very little on the existentialism of taking Prozac. Read this book—it's a very quick read—and learn what an individual experiences in responding to an antidepressant after years of active symptoms.
Written by Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Holy Hunger is the story of a 48-year-old woman who grew up on the campus of Harvard University, starving for parental love and attention and self-medicating with food. She writes, "I'm here to get the goods. I don't have to use a weapon or threaten anyone. I don't have to hold anyone up: I have the money for my drug of choice, which is food. But I'm as hard-core as the guy on the street corner who stops passersby to demand money for his fix."
The book follows Bullitt-Jonas' life, touching on points along the way. At age 11 she was in a boarding school in Switzerland, where she was sucking peanut butter off her fingers, wishing "this food would fill the hole in my heart." During tenth grade at a boarding school in Maryland, her bingeing began after years of knowing what she could and could not say in her family. "Every family has its mother tongue; it's a way of shaping the boundary between what can be spoken and what can never be named."
Then she finally realizes how all these things fit together and accepts the dynamics. "I am a compulsive overeater. I grew up with a father who was alcoholic, a mother who was emotionally reclusive. These are facts, yet the recognition of these facts was hard-won, indeed. It came at a price. It took years of inner work before I could perceive the truth, years before anyone could break through my denial about my addiction to food, my father's drinking, my mother's depression."
Along the way the reader is exposed to many of the details of Ms. Bullitt-Jonas' life. We see her go through years of outpatient, insight-oriented psychotherapy and her attempts at treatment through Overeaters Anonymous and Adult Children of Alcoholics. Unfortunately, the author's story is considerably weakened by her tendency to clichés and melodrama.
Bullitt-Jonas seems intent on having everything work out. She measures her success as being neither disappointed nor angry at anyone in her life. She says, "What kind of story heals? A story that is both loving and true, but that nothing essential is left out, neither the pain nor the joy. Loving, because everyone in the story—narrator protagonist and characters alike—is seen with compassionate eyes." The reader is left with an autobiography written by a woman who becomes an Episcopal priest and leads spiritual retreats throughout North America. In the end, Bullit-Jonas' Holy Hunger is heavy on the holy and light on the hunger, leaving this reader not fully satisfied.
As its subtitle indicates, Inner Hunger, by Marianne Apostolides, describes a young woman's struggle through anorexia and bulimia. The author, who grew up in Garden City, New York, a New York City suburb, was president of the student council in high school and a graduate of Princeton University. She describes ten years of anorexia and bulimia. The book is a combination of her own story interspersed with educational chapters on anorexia and bulimia, focusing exclusively on females with these disorders.
Apostolides, whose weight ranged from 80 pounds to 160 pounds, describes anorexia as a means of asserting herself. "Since I didn't feel capable of asserting myself in a positive way, I subconsciously 'asserted' myself by becoming an emaciated, unhealthy, fragile girl. I got sick as a means of making people recognize that I had value."
Apostolides does a good job of describing the shifts between anorexic and bulimic phases. She poignantly details how one phase would invariably and repeatedly drive her to the other. This pattern indicated to Apostolides and to everyone she came in contact with that she was out of control—or, even worse, "My body became a billboard announcing to everyone that I was a pathetic, deviant failure."
Inner Hunger has some useful messages and some dangerous ones. In the first instance, Apostolides describes binges of sex as if somehow they would become substitutes for binges of food. Her failure to reject substance abuse—in fact, her endorsement of experimentation—is worrisome. Her mischaracterization of psychiatrists as not physicians certainly doesn't help the field: "Most people get an antidepressant prescription from a psychiatrist in consultation with their primary therapist, rather than from a doctor in consultation with their primary therapist."
Overall, Inner Hunger can be a valuable resource for young women struggling with problems of self-worth and eating disorders. However, it contains enough misinformation that it should be read in conjunction with an informed parent or therapist and be used as the basis for discussion.
Dr. Geller is professor of psychiatry and director of public-sector psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine in Worcester.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Almost there.
The players on the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks can now focus fully on football after they completed their Super Bowl media availability requirements Thursday. Yes, even the not-so-chatty Marshawn Lynch.
Last up: the coaches. Denver's John Fox and Seattle's Pete Carroll were scheduled to hold their final news conferences Friday morning, the last time everyone will hear from the teams until after the Lombardi Trophy is awarded.
"I think it's been what it was expected to be," Seahawks running back Robert Turbin said. "A lot of media, a lot of questions, a lot of cameras, a lot of questions that have nothing to do with the game. You know what I'm saying? It doesn't surprise me at all."
The Broncos moved their practice indoors Thursday after working earlier in the week on the turf field outside the Jets' training facility in Florham Park, N.J.
"We just came indoors because it was softer," Fox said. "So, really, it was more for the players' legs more than anything. The field got a little hard (Wednesday)."
Meanwhile, the Seahawks again worked in the Giants' indoor practice facility in East Rutherford, N.J. Lynch was a full participant after getting Wednesday off, and the team is as healthy as it has been all season.
"Everybody is fine," Carroll said. "No issues at all."
Here's a quick look at a few of the other Super Bowl story lines from Thursday:
HOLDING PATTERN: NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith said that testing for human growth hormone is still being delayed by a disagreement with the NFL over whether the commissioner or a neutral arbitrator will handle certain types of appeals.
The league and the players' union originally paved the way to check for that drug in August 2011. But the union wants someone other than Commissioner Roger Goodell to rule on cases that involve violations of the law or demonstrated use of a performance-enhancing substance without a positive test.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said another outstanding issue is whether a second offense will draw a suspension of eight or 10 games.
HEADS UP: The NFL announced that the number of concussions in the game dropped 13 percent from 2012 to 2013.
Using information collected from team doctors during preseason and regular-season practices and games, the NFL also said there was a 23 percent decrease over the past two seasons in the number of concussions caused by helmet-to-helmet contact.
"Our perspective is that rules changes, culture change, the enforcement of the rules and the elimination, over time, of dangerous techniques is leading to a decrease in concussions," said Jeff Miller, the NFL's senior VP of health and safety policy. "Now all of that said, we're talking about a small sample size of only a couple of years.
"This is an ongoing and important culture-change event, and so we're going to continue to analyze it and I think that there's room for continued growth."
QUACK, QUACK: Richard Sherman and Peyton Manning share a similar scouting report on the Denver quarterback's arm.
Sherman recently wrote in his regular column for MMQB.com that Manning is the NFL's smartest quarterback, but also criticized his arm. "His passes will be accurate and on time," the Seahawks cornerback said, "but he throws ducks." Asked about the "ducks" comment on Wednesday, Sherman reiterated that he still felt that way.
Manning took no offense to the comment and offered a clever quip Thursday.
"I believe it to be true," he said. "I do throw 'ducks.' I've thrown a lot of yards and touchdown 'ducks.' I am actually quite proud of it."