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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.
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Teens and drugs: Drug use statistics and treatment that works
August 28th, 2012
Here are some drug use statistics:
- Over 80% of teens engage in some form of deviant behavior (1).
- Over 50% of high-school seniors admit to having used drugs (2).
- Only 10%-15% of the population develop drug addiction problems related to their drug use (1).
The question is:
If the majority of teens experiment with drug use, and so few eventually develop drug addiction problems, should we be focusing on something other than stopping kids from trying drugs? Read the rest of this entry »
Treating alcohol withdrawal with benzodiazepines – Safe if mindful
February 27th, 2012
Contributing co-author: Andrew Chen
Alcohol withdrawal can be extremely unpleasant (see here for an overview). Symptoms vary from person to person, but most people will experience some negative symptoms of alcohol withdrawal if they try to stop drinking after long term use.
Mild to moderate symptoms include headache, nausea, vomiting, insomnia, rapid heart rate, abnormal movements, anxiety, depression, and fatigue. Severe symptoms of alcohol withdrawal include hallucinations, fever, and convulsions (known as DT's or delirium tremens). Most people undergoing alcohol detox do not require hospitalization, but in severe cases, hospitalization may be necessary (1). Since their introduction in the 1960s, benzodiazepines have been the drug of choice for treating severe cases of alcohol withdrawal.
Benzodiazepines, or benzos for short, are a class of psychoactive drugs that work to slow down the central nervous system by activating GABA receptors. This provides a variety of useful tranquilizing effects. Aside from relieving symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, benzodiazepines are also commonly prescribed to treat insomnia, muscle spasms, involuntary movement disorders, anxiety disorders, and convulsive disorders.
The most common regimen for treating alcohol withdrawal includes 3 days of long-acting benzodiazepines on a fixed schedule with additional medication available "as needed." (2)
The two most commonly prescribed benzos are chlordiazepoxide and diazepam. Chlordiazepoxide (Librium) is preferred for its superior anticonvulsant capabilities while diazepam (Valium) is preferred for its safety against overdose with alcohol. Short-acting benzos like oxazepam and lorazepam are less frequently used for treating alcohol withdrawal (1).
Compared to other drugs, benzos are the safest and most effective method for treating difficult alcohol withdrawal. However, benzodiazepines do come with their own potential for dependence and abuse. Ironically, symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal are quite similar to those of alcohol withdrawal. Tapering off dosage is the best way to prevent serious withdrawal symptoms. To avoid such complications, benzodiazepines are only recommended for short-term treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
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Benzos can be very useful for helping long terms alcoholics deal with the difficult withdrawal symptoms that can accompany the detox period. Just be mindful so as not to find yourself right back where you started.
1. Williams, D., McBride, A. (1998) The drug treatment of alcohol withdrawal symptoms: A systematic review. Alcohol & Alcoholism. 33(2), 103-115
2. Saitz, R., Friedmn, L. S., Mayo-Smith, M.F. (1996) Alcohol withdrawal: a nationwide survey of inpatient treatment practices. 10(9), 479-87
Heavy alcohol users Vs. Addicts – Stress response
January 4th, 2012
I can't even count how many times I've talked about the difference between alcohol or drug users and alcoholics or addicts (see here, here, and here for some examples and keep reading). The quick summary: Many people use drugs and many abuse them at times, a small percentage meet criteria for addiction at some point in their life and an even smaller percentage is the type of addict we've been taught to think of – chronically relapsing and seemingly incapable of quitting no matter how crappy their life gets.
One of the main reasons we study drug and alcohol abuse is because of the huge health impact of this stuff – we spend billions and billions of dollars every year on health-care that is directly or indirectly related to the abuse of nicotine, alcohol, and pretty much every other drug on earth (marijuana can certainly help some conditions but heavy use of marijuana can bring its own consequences). One of the major players in these health problems is the effect of alcohol and drug use on stress in the body. Stress increases death rates in several ways including: Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and more.
Well, a recent study in Amsterdam looked at alcohol (yes, you read that right, the Dutch care about more than weed) consumption, alcohol addiction (alcoholism) diagnosis, and effects on the body's stress system, also known as the HPA (Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal) Axis. If nothing else, the study helped confirm that an alcoholism diagnosis is not necessarily the same as an indication of heavy drinking and that excessive drinking is no bueno, regardless of whether it meets addiction criteria or not.
Alcohol drinking, alcoholism, and stress regulation
I'm not going to go into this in detail (look here and here for more) but just as our brains and bodies have systems for decision making, they also have complex stress management systems. The latter rely heavily on hormones, including Cortisol, to keep our bodies in the right states whether those be fight, flight, or reading a book before sleep (see figure on left for over-simplified cortisol levels throughout the day in a normal person). We're supposed to have the most cortisol right upon waking with constant reductions throughout the day until we fall asleep, and back again. Individuals with mental health disorders like anxiety and depression have substantially different cortisol level patterns throughout the day and are less effective at regulating cortisol (in case you needed another reason why our biology affects our states of being and behavior).
The dutch study tested cortisol levels at 7 different times throughout the day after giving their subjects a 4 hour battery of tests. They also assessed their cardiac functioning by assessing different measures related to heart beat regulation that allows for adapting across challenging situations by affecting the sympathetic nervous system (excitatory processes) and parasympathetic nervous system (inhibitory processes).
They looked at these measures as a way of assessing the relative functioning of the HPA Axes' of different groups. Specifically, they looked at:
- Non-drinkers
- Moderate drinkers (less than 3 drinks per day)
- Heavy drinkers (more than 3 drinks per day)
- Non alcoholics
- Remitted alcoholics (met criteria for alcoholism previously but not in past 12 months)
- Current alcoholics.
One of the most interesting findings, as far as I'm concerned, was that among remitted alcoholics the average amount of drinking was around 1.3 drinks per day with a lot of variability, a little higher than that of moderate drinkers (0.8 drinks per day) but lower than that of heavy drinkers (4.0 drinks per day). I see this as a little more proof that people who met criteria for alcoholism at one point don't necessarily abstain forever and don't necessarily continue to have drinking problems (per Moderation Management, spontaneous remission, or some other means of stopping their alcoholic drinking).*
You can blame improper diagnostic criteria, a continuum of addiction severity, or anything else as far as I'm concerned but as I pointed out in my first paragraph, we've talked about this topic repeatedly and I see no end coming soon. The bottom line is that meeting criteria for alcoholism at one point in life tells me something, but far from everything, about a person's drinking habits or drinking problems later in life.
But back to stress. As you might have already guessed, since it is heavy drinking that causes serious dysregulation of the body's stress response, what the researchers found was that meeting criteria for alcoholism now, or in the past, didn't have any major effect over their participants' HPA functioning. Instead, all that mattered was how heavy their drinking was now. Heavy drinkers had higher waking cortisol levels, higher night-time cortisol, and increased sympathetic (excitatory) control. In short – heavy drinkers were less able to regulate their stress and excitation response, likely leading to increased stress on their bodies.
As a side note, this study also found that if anything, moderate drinking conferred health benefits when it came to stress over not-drinking at all – far from the first study to note this but another set of reinforcing evidence that drinking alcohol is not in itself bad for you while over-drinking is.
So – Drinking a lot of alcohol causes disruptions to your body's stress regulation system that will likely increase the likelihood of heart problems, depression, anxiety, and more. Those disruptions are there whether you meet criteria for alcoholism or not.
Obviously, there are many alcoholics who drink a lot of alcohol, but there are also people who meet (now or in the past) criteria for alcoholism who are binge drinkers and therefore don't drink daily and have lower "drink numbers." As we mentioned before, addiction is not about quantity, in fact, the criteria for addiction barely mentions quantity – when it states that addicts consume "more than intended" or that tolerance creates a state where an person needs greater quantity to reach the same effect of the drug. Drinking or using a lot of drugs or alcohol does not an addict make.
*Note: Given the variability in the remitted-alcoholics groups their is little doubt that some of them had stopped drinking while others drank to excess. Additionally, it should be pointed out that alcohol abuse was not assessed in this sample, so it could still be a problem for at least some of those now-drinking past-alcoholics.
Lynn Boschloo, Nicole Vogelzangs, Carmilla M.M. Licht, Sophie A. Vreeburg, Johannes H. Smit, Wim van den Brink, Dick J. Veltman, Eco J.C. de Geus, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx (2011). Heavy alcohol use, rather than alcohol dependence, is associated with dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the autonomic nervous system. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 116, 170–176.
Heather M. Burke, Mary C. Davis, Christian Otte, David C. Mohr, (2005). Depression and cortisol responses to psychological stress: A meta-analysis, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages 846-856.
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Are violent drunks giving the rest of us a bad name? Alcohol consumption and violence
December 8th, 2011
We all know that drinking alcohol changes the way people think and can make them act strangely right? We also know that alcohol is involved in more than 50% of violent crimes and about 75% of partner violence. The question is, why the connection?
A recent paper I published suggests that drugs and alcohol can not themselves be thought to cause violence. Still, the relationship exists, so what gives?
(Before you go any further, if you're unclear about the difference between causation and association, I suggest you read this article)
Your brain and alcohol abuse
The thought altering effects of consuming alcohol, and most drugs, can be said to affect something called executive functioning (EF). What exactly makes up this type of functioning is a source of some debate, but let's just say that it refers to attention, strategic planning, reasoning, thought flexibility, and the ability to process information in working memory (an important type of memory used in learning).
You can probably already tell that this type of brain function is extremely important and that different people possess different levels of it. I can also tell you that alcohol consumption has been shown to reduce overall executive functioning. If you drink alcohol, or have ever seen someone drink, this probably doesn't come as a huge surprise.
The thing is that alcohol consumption messes up everyone's EF, though obviously, the more you drink, the more affected you become. Still, given the fact that more than 50% of Americans report at least one binge drinking episode a year and less than 7% are involved in violent crime, something else must be at play, right?
Aggressive personality and irritability
As I mentioned earlier, I published a paper showing that aggressive personality, which I measured using 5 different tests, contributes far more to violent behavior than drug use alone. Still, a recent study found that irritability alone could account for some aggressive behavior. Still, the more interesting finding had to do with alcohol-related EF problems and irritability together. The experiment was pretty interesting, so let's go over it for a bit.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky took more than 300 students and gave them a whole bunch of tests assessing their EF and their overall level of irritability. Afterward, half of the students were given alcohol to drink (about 3-4 drinks per person) and the other half was given a similar number of drinks that contained no alcohol but were sprayed before being handed to smell the same. The students were then asked to play a game that pitted them against another person. The secret was that there was no game and no other person, the winner and loser in each round was pre-determined. Every time the student "won" they got to give the other player a shock, but every time they lost, they themselves got shocked. As the game went on, the shocks the participants got increased in intensity. The researchers wanted to see how the students would react and how large the shocks they would give back would be.
The results showed that the more mistakes people made in their initial EF testing (and therefore the less overall EF capability they showed) the more aggressive they were. This makes sense, as people who are less able to plan, think ahead, and control their behavior would be more likely to engage in things that would hurt them, or misjudge events and think react inappropriately. Irritability was also shown to affect aggression, but this time only for men and intoxicated women.
The effect of alcohol abuse on aggression and violence
When the whole thing was put together the researchers found that for drunk men only, reduced EF and increased irritability worked together to generate even more aggression that was shown for all the other participants. For the simplest example think back to anyone you know who is pretty quick to react anyway and is a little too easily pissed-off. Chances are they become a pretty mean drunk who likes to get in fights.
Obviously this makes sense if you know someone like that, but in terms of helping us make decisions about who should be considered dangerous and who shouldn't, especially when consuming alcohol, this research helps further explain why we see such a strong connection between alcohol abuse and violence or aggression.
The way I see it there's a relatively small number of people (mostly men) who is normally pretty aggressive, irritable, and lacking in judgment and self-control, who often get violent when they drink alcohol. For them, many alcohol drinking episodes end badly, and since they're the most visible of the aggressive drinkers, their behavior produces an association between alcohol consumption per se and violence. For the rest of us, alcohol consumption rarely leads to violence, but violence rarely occurs without drinking alcohol either, so we hardly ever enter the equation at all. That's why the pattern holds.
Godlaski, A. J., Giancola, P. R. (2009). Executive function, Irritability, and Alcohol-Related Aggression. Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 23, 391-404.
Jaffe, A. et al., (2009). Drug Use, Personality and Partner Violence: A Model of Separate, Additive, Contributions in an Active Drug User Sample. The Open Addiction Journal, 2.
|Posted in: Alcohol, Education
Tags: aggression, aggressive, aggressive personality, Alcohol, alcohol abuse, alcohol consumption, alcoholic, alcoholism, drinking, drug use, fight, irritability, irritablity, mean drunk, partner violence, violence
Influential factors in college drinking
October 19th, 2011
Co-authored by: Jamie Felzer
What influences college students' decisions about whether to drink and how much?
- Do friends peer pressure them?
- Do they do it because they are bored?
- Do they drink to relieve depression or anxiety?
Researchers recently tried to answer these questions by surveying college students…
65% of the participants reported having at least one drink in the past three months. It was astonishing that the typical number of drinks in a week was 10.5 and on a weekend was 7.3 average drinks. These numbers included drinkers and nondrinkers and was the average (meaning around half the people had more drinks as those had less). This indicates that college drinking is far more extreme than drinking happening outside of the college setting.
3 main influential factors for someone's decisions in college drinking and to what extent:
- If their close friends were drinking,
- How drunk they thought they were, and
- Their drinking intentions.
Interestingly enough, the more students thought others on their campus approved of drinking, the less they tended to drink. We recently reported similar misconceptions about students, their peers and marijuana use. Typically, if people intend to get drunk they use less protective factors (see here for a previous post about these) such as pacing or eating or keeping track of what they were drinking. Friends' drinking was the best predictor of drinking habits in all cases.
You can tell a lot about a person by watching their friends, so watch who you surround yourself with. Those who think favorably of drinking tend to think they can drink more before reaching intoxication and also tend to hang out with others who do the same. However, these people are the ones that need the most intervention yet are the most difficult to change.
Those who socialize with a wide variety of people typically are lighter drinkers and tend to respond better to treatment immediately as well as have fewer problems further down the line. The heavier drinkers benefit more from motivational interventions focusing on their attitudes toward drinking.
Regardless of stereotypes, ethnicity, weight and gender did have an effect on any of these findings. It was peoples' closest friends that were the most significant factor in influencing all aspects of college drinking.
Examining the Unique Influence of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Drinking Perceptions on Alcohol Consumption among College Students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Volume 70, 2, March 2009
|Posted in: Alcohol, Education, For addicts, For others
Tags: anxiety, binge, college, college drinking, depression, drinking, friend, peer, peer pressure, protective factors, social, treatment
Addiction stories: How I recovered from my addiction to crystal meth
October 15th, 2011
By the time I was done with my addiction to crystal meth, I had racked up 4 arrests, 9 felonies, a $750,000 bail, a year in jail, and an eight year suspended sentence to go along with my 5 year probation period. Though I think education is important to keep getting the message out about addiction and drug abuse, there is no doubt that addiction stories do a great job of getting the message across, so here goes.
My crystal meth addiction story
The kid my parents knew was going nowhere, and fast. That's why I was surprised when they came to my rescue after 3 years of barely speaking to them. My lawyer recommended that I check into a rehab facility immediately; treating my drug abuse problem was our only line of legal defense.
I had long known that I had an addiction problem when I first checked myself into rehab. Still, my reason for going in was my legal trouble. Within 3 months, I was using crystal meth again, but the difference was that this time, I felt bad about it. I had changed in those first three months. The daily discussions in the addiction treatment facility, my growing relationship with my parents, and a few sober months (more sobriety than I had in years) were doing their job. I relapsed as soon as I went back to work in my studio, which was a big trigger for me, but using wasn't any fun this time.
I ended up being kicked out of that facility for providing a meth-positive urine test. My parents were irate. I felt ashamed though I began using daily immediately. My real lesson came when I dragged myself from my friend's couch to an AA meeting one night. I walked by a homeless man who was clearly high when the realization hit me:
I was one step away from becoming like this man.
You see, when I was in the throes of my crystal meth addiction, I had money because I was selling drugs. I had a great car, a motorcycle, an apartment and my own recording studio. After my arrest though, all of that had been taken away. I just made matters worse by getting myself thrown out of what was serving as my home, leaving myself to sleep on a friend's couch for the foreseeable future.
Something had to change.
I woke up the next morning, smoked some meth, and drove straight to an outpatient drug program offered by my health insurance. I missed the check-in time for that day, but I was told to come back the next morning, which I did. I talked to a counselor, explained my situation, and was given a list of sober-living homes to check out.
As I did this, I kept going to the program's outpatient meetings, high on crystal meth, but ready to make a change. I was going to do anything I could so as not to end up homeless, or a lifetime prisoner. I had no idea how to stop doing the one thing that had been constant in my life since the age of 15, but I was determined to find out.
When I showed up at the sober-living facility that was to be the place where I got sober, I was so high I couldn't face the intake staff. I wore sunglasses indoors at 6 PM. My bags were searched, I was shown to my room, and the rest of my life began.
I wasn't happy to be sober, but I was happier doing what these people told me than I was fighting the cops, the legal system, and the drugs. I had quite a few missteps, but I took my punishments without a word, knowing they were nothing compared to the suffering I'd experience if I left that place.
Overall, I have one message to those struggling with getting clean:
If you want to get past the hump of knowing you have a problem but not knowing what to do about it, the choice has to be made clear. This can't be a game of subtle changes. No one wants to stop using if the alternative doesn't seem a whole lot better. For most of us, that means hitting a bottom so low that I can't be ignored. You get to make the choice of what the bottom will be for you.
You don't have to almost die, but you might; losing a job could be enough, but if you miss that sign, the next could be the streets; losing your spouse will sometimes do it, but if not, losing your shared custody will hurt even more.
At each one of these steps, you get to make a choice – Do I want things to get worse or not?
Ask yourself that question while looking at the price you've paid up to now. If you're willing to go even lower for that next hit, I say go for it. If you think you want to stop but can't seem to really grasp just how far you've gone, get a friend you trust, a non-using friend, and have them tell you how they see the path your life has taken.
It's going to take a fight to get out, but if I beat my addiction, you can beat yours.
By now, I've received my Ph.D. from UCLA, one of the top universities in the world. I study addiction research, and publish this addiction blog along with a Psychology Today column and a number of academic journals. I also have my mind set on changing the way our society deals with drug abuse and addiction. Given everything I've accomplished by now, the choice should have seemed clear before my arrest – but it wasn't. I hope that by sharing addiction stories, including mine, we can start that process.
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Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, addiction stories, arrest, bail, choice, cocaine, crystal, crystal meth, crystal meth addiction, drug abuse, drug use, felony, homeless, ice, jail, marijuana, meth, meth addict, my addiction, outpatient, parole, prison, probation, problem, recovery, rehabs, sober, sober-living, Speed, stealing, substance abuse
More money more problems? Rich teens and drugs
September 7th, 2011
Teens raised in affluent homes display the highest rates of depression, anxiety, and drug abuse according to a recent article in Monitor on Psychology, the APA's monthly magazine.
One of our recent posts dealt with some of the issues unique to teens and drugs. In addition to the issues we'd already mentioned, the article named a number of reasons for the high prevalence of mental-health issues among affluent teens. Among them were an increasingly narcissistic society, overbearing parents, and an common attitude of perfectionism.
Each of these reasons are likely contributors to the prevalence of mental health and drug abuse issues among upper-middle-class (and above) teens. Still, as far as I'm concerned, the main take home message of the article is this:
Money truly doesn't buy happiness – Rich teens and drug use.
While drug abuse research often focuses on the lower socioeconomic strata these recent findings indicate that being financially stable offers little in the way of protection from some of the most common psychological difficulties.
Thankfully, the researchers cited in the article gave some simple advice to parents:
- Give children clear responsibilities to help around the house.
- Take part in community service (to unite the family and reduce narcissism).
- Reduce TV watching (especially of reality TV shows that glorify celebrity and excess).
- Monitor internet use.
- Stop obsessing about perfect grades and focus instead on the joy of learning for its own sake.
I couldn't agree more with these recommendations. Having taught a number of classes myself, I have witnessed the ridiculous inflation in students' expectations of top grades. I think it's time we turned attention back to the family and reintroduce some of the basic skills that many addicts find themselves learning much too late… Often in recovery.
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Tags: abuse, affluent, anxiety, celebrity, challenge, class, depression, grades, internet, middle, money, monitor, narcissis, perfectionism, responsibilities, rich, skill, substance, teens and drugs, television, tv, upper


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Several times with long-lived browser sessions I've noticed "Ghost Windows" in about:compartments at nytimes.com domains. Currently I've got:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/movies/the-dictator-with-sacha-baron-cohen.html [4]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/world/asia/14iht-green.4590765.html [4]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/world/asia/china-princelings-using-family-ties-to-g [clipped, maybe 4 too?]
I do not have many addons installed. Currently the only enabled addons are about:telemetry, about:ccdump, DOM Inspector, Font Information, and PDF Viewer.
I installed about:ccdump and had it identify "zombie documents". It identified two documents for each of the above URLs (6 total). Then I did "Show Roots" on each of those.
For both http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/world/asia/china-princelings-using-family-ties-to-gain-riches.html?_r=1 documents, it returned the same root: a single <p> element in one of those documents with refcount 5, known edges 3.
For both http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/world/asia/14iht-green.4590765.html documents, it return the same root: the same <p> element.
For both http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/movies/the-dictator-with-sacha-baron-cohen.html documents, it returned the same root: a <p> element in one of those documents.
That <p> element also has refcount 5, known edges 3. It is a child of a div with class "articleBody", i.e., one of the regular paragraphs of the article. (It happens to be the one start "There is nothing especially outrageous here.")
The other <p> element is the one starting "Chinese officials and their relatives rarely discuss such a delicate issue publicly."
In my current browser session, every time I double-click on a word in the article, the Web page pops up its little "?" icon you can click on for a definition. If I click on that icon, close the resulting popup window, and then close the article tab, I have a new ghost window for that article.
In a debug build with a test profile, this does not happen :-(.
I would identify one of the nodes being held alive by unknown edges, set a breakpoint on nsFoo::Release with this == that node, and then close the tab and identify the stacks that don't match up with what the CC sees.
(In reply to Kyle Huey [:khuey] (firstname.lastname@example.com) from comment #3)
> I would identify one of the nodes being held alive by unknown edges, set a
> breakpoint on nsFoo::Release with this == that node, and then close the tab
> and identify the stacks that don't match up with what the CC sees.
Tried that. In fact, tried exiting Firefox entirely. The breakpoint was not hit. Maybe I did something wrong. Or maybe it was because I was using an opt build --- although it did have symbols and it wasn't PGO.
Fortunately I seem to be able to reproduce the problem quickly when I start up again in my default profile (with session store restored).
This may actually involve DOM Inspector. I've been using DOM Inspector to bypass the NYTimes article limit by manually removing the overlay element.
Here's what I think are steps to reproduce.
1) Install DOM Inspector (2.0.11 here).
2) Visit articles at nytimes.com until you can no longer view articles for free.
3) Visit one more article to get the paywall overlay.
4) Open DOM inspector, click the left-most toolbar button, click on the paywall overlay image to select that element in DOM Inspector.
5) Follow the DOM hierarchy up to the outermost DIV element containing the overlay image, and remove that DIV from the DOM (e.g. pressing Del or using "Cut" from the DOMI context menu).
6) Double-click on a word in the article text of the NYTimes page.
7) Click on the ? icon to get a definition of the word in a popup window.
8) Close the popup window.
9) Close the DOM Inspector window.
10) Close the NYTimes page tab.
11) Open about:compartments.
You should have a ghost window for the NYTimes page.
I'll try to minimize these STR a bit.
I think you can skip the ? icon and the popup window bit. I've reproduced the bug in a new profile just by opening tons on NYTimes articles until I get the paywall overlay, then removing it using the DOM inspector as described above, then closing the NYTimes tabs.
Interestingly, it's not just the window where I removed the paywall overlay that is shown as a ghost window.
I tried doing comment #3 again and again I never hit the breakpoint. Maybe the addresses exposed by about:ccdump don't match the 'this' pointer in nsGenericElement::Release, or maybe Visual Studio is screwing things up in some other way.
*** Bug 727974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> Here's what I think are steps to reproduce.
On a clean profile (no add-ons), I saw a ghost window just after visiting a few sites on nytimes then opening about:compartments. No double-clicking on words, no paywall interspersed. (This was on a debug build, and I haven't been able to reproduce it.)
It will probably help to set memory.ghost_window_timeout_seconds to 1. At its default value of 60, you won't get any ghost windows until they've been detached for 60s; that may be affecting your STR.
(Alternatively, you can leave the timeout the same and simply look for a nytimes compartment in the list.)
> It will probably help to set memory.ghost_window_timeout_seconds to 1. At its default value of 60,
> you won't get any ghost windows until they've been detached for 60s; that may be affecting your STR.
Actually, you don't need to do this. When you open about:compartments, it gc/cc's a bunch of times, then marks anything which survives as a ghost.
I opened nytimes.com, then loaded a bunch of pages from there into different tabs, then closed the tabs. I had to go through several rounds of opening pages into other tabs and closing the tabs, because I had trouble getting ghost windows. Then, with just the home page open in a tab, I noticed that under User Compartments there was a page from a tab that I'd already closed, but it wasn't showing up in Ghost Windows. So I closed the main nytimes.com tab and presto, the offending compartment started showing up in Ghost Windows. Maybe that's expected, but it seemed weird.
> So I closed the main nytimes.com tab and presto,
> the offending compartment started showing up in Ghost Windows. Maybe that's
> expected, but it seemed weird.
Yes, that's by design. I'm writing a blog post about it now, but until then, see
Instead of comment #3 (breakpoint in nsGenericElement::Release), I tried setting a data breakpoint on the mRefCnt member of the offending element. This is a LOT faster, but this breakpoint was never hit during shutdown either :-(. I conclude that the 2 unknown references to the element are in fact permanently leaked. As supporting evidence, my debug build complains that zillions of nytimes-related URLs are leaked, and the --DOMWINDOW count ends at 5.
I think I've found it!
nsFrameSelection contains mDelayedMouseEvent. mDelayedMouseEvent contains "target", "currentTarget" and "originalTarget". All three are nsCOMPtrs, none are traced by cycle collection. In my memory dump, "target" and "originalTarget" are the unknown references to the leaking <p> element.
(this revelation brought to you by WinDbg and its "search memory" command)
The callers of GetDelayedCaretData() only use me->IsShift() and me->clickCount. So we don't even need to store an actual event there.
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> nsFrameSelection::nsFrameSelection()
>- : mDelayedMouseEvent(false, 0, nsnull, nsMouseEvent::eReal)
> {
> PRInt32 i;
> for (i = 0;i<nsISelectionController::NUM_SELECTIONTYPES;i++){
> mDomSelections[i] = new nsTypedSelection(this);
> mDomSelections[i]->SetType(GetSelectionTypeFromIndex(i));
> }
> mBatching = 0;
> mChangesDuringBatching = false;
You should initialize the new member variables somewhere in the ctor.
I think we should take the patch to Aurora too.
Leaks are bad.
This should be safe for Aurora, maybe even for Beta.
Should we file a separate bug on hooking nsMouseEvent up to the CC?
No. ns*Event structs shouldn't be CCable. They aren't refcounted either.
This was just a bizarre and wrong way to use an ns*Event struct.
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This is a bad bug, and a very simple fix.
It would be great to get this fixed for FF13, but since it's an old bug it would be OK to miss FF13.
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[Triage Comment]
Thanks Robert - I'd rather we didn't take this on FF13 for our final beta, since it doesn't feel like the issue chemspill-worthy (although it does look low risk). Approving for Aurora 14, however.
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At the Counter-Terrorism Conference of the East-West Institute in Brussels (19-21 February, 2008), reports Reuters, the debate repeatedly turned to arguments over whether the term "Jihad" and "Jihadists" should be applied to activities and members of al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist organizations.
Although the two terms have become synonymous with "holy wars" and "holy warriors" against the West, and al-Qaeda has used it in the same sense, for most Muslims "it originally means a spiritual struggle and they don't want it hijacked anymore."
Sheikh Mohammed Mohammed Ali, an Iraqi scholar, told the conference that "Jihad is the struggle against all evil things in your soul… There is no Jihadi terrorism in Islam."
Emphasizing that Jihad can be a struggle "for elimination of poverty," "for education" or "for something very, very positive in life," the former chairman of Pakistan's joint chiefs of staff General Ehsan Ul Haq asserted that calling the terrorists Jihadists is either reflective of a "lack of understanding of Islam" or unfortunately "an intended misuse." He added: "It might have been somewhat excusable in the trauma post-9/11 but I don't think it is any more."
The foundations of Islam are the Quran, the words of Allah, and the Sunnah, the actions and deeds of the Prophet. Historically, Jihad, which stands for '"fighting in the cause of Allah", first entered into the Islamic doctrine after Prophet Muhammad emigrated to Medina in June 622 CE, following his largely failed 13-year-long mission to propagate Islam among the people of his home town of Mecca.
It should be noted that although there was strong opposition to Prophet Muhammad's new religion in Mecca, which sought to eradicate the existing idolatrous religion and culture, there is no record of violence, at least of serious nature, against him or those free citizens, who freely converted to his creed.
But soon after relocating to Medina, the first verses of Jihad were revealed, in which the Islamic God demanded that the Muslims fight against the idolaters (of Mecca) in His cause to drive the Meccans out from where Muslims were (allegedly) driven out [Quran 2:190-1]. Allah demanded that Muslims must fight and slay the idolaters and kick them out until "until there is no more Tumult or oppression" and the "religion should be only for Allah" [Quran 192-4]. "Tumults or oppression" referred to idolatrous or polytheistic beliefs, which Allah dislikes and disapproves.
The Islamic deity also later revealed verses of Jihad regarding the Jews and Christians, in which he demanded that Muslims must unconditionally fight them until they were defeated and humiliated (to dhimmi status), and willingly paid Jiziyah taxes [Quran 9:29].
With these commands of God, Prophet Muhammad embarked on a ceaseless armed violence against the idolaters, Jews and Christians of Arabia. The first successful Jihad expedition of Islam under the Prophet's command was the attack on a Meccan trade caravan at Nakhla in December 623 CE, in which one of the attendants of the caravan was killed, one made captive, and another was able to escape, while the caravan was plundered as sacred booty.
Within seven months of his relocation to Medina, according to the records of the Prophet's original biographers, his mission became a monotonous tale of uninstigated armed expeditions against the infidels of Arabia, whereby he exterminated idolatry completely, the rich and influential community of Jews of Medina expelled or slaughtered en masse and other non-Muslims were either converted to Islam or subjugated to dhimmitude. The Prophet had ordered about 100 armed Jihad expeditions, with himself commanding some 27 of them. According to Prophet's biographers Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari, expelling the remnant Jews and Christians from Arabia were among his last death bed wishes. This command was put to action by his immediate successors.
Taking Jihad forward from the examples of Prophet's life, the history of Islam has been a monotonous tale of ceaseless wars against the infidels, the idolaters, Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims of the Middle East, Africa, India and Europe — which the medieval Islamic historians have proudly and gleefully called Jihad against the infidels. The last declaration of Jihad by a Muslim state was that of the reigning Ottoman Sultan against the Armenians in the 1910s, which led to the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians.
Although historically, from the days of Prophet Muhammad, Jihad has been applied to armed campaigns for extending the territories or domination of Islam, there has been an increasingly intensified effort since 9/11 to term Jihad as an "inner spiritual struggle" against vice and worldly desires. Others have called it a struggle for establishing human rights and women rights, fighting poverty, and anything that is considered good and noble in modern civilized thought.
One is, however, left to wonder what was the "inner spiritual struggle" of Prophet Muhammad, who was the only ideal Muslim and perfect human being. During the last 10 years of his life in Medina, he spent more time away from home, with his armed followers, scouring the lands of Arabian Peninsula, raiding and attacking infidel caravans, communities, and territories, in which he plundered booty, enslaved the men, women, and children, and expelled or slaughtered them en masse. Of the enslaved, he ransomed the adult men, sometimes sold the women and children captives, and the rest, he kept as slaves. The prettier of the young women were kept as sex slaves.
What was his "inner spiritual struggle" of his soul against worldly vice when his harem was full of women (wives) and sex slaves?
How could the Prophet promote human and women's rights, when he attacked infidels, slaughtered them, expelled them en masse from their homes and properties, and enslave the women and children?
Does his plundering the innocent infidels of their caravans, livestock, and properties, and distributing the captured booty among his plundering disciples lead to poverty eradication?
Where were the schools, universities, and research centres, which he established to promote education?
Raphael Perl, head of the Action against Terrorism Unit at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, emphasizing urgency on devising the correct terminology for violent Islamist groups and their activities, told Reuters that "use of the wrong terms (such as Jihad) can be a major factor contributing to the radicalisation process."
Indeed, this urgency of dissociating Jihad from violent activities of Muslims has already been put into practice by the U.K. government, when it recently stopped using terms like Jihad, Islamic terrorism, Islamic extremism or Islamic violence. Instead, it utmost ridiculously decided to call the violent activities of pious Muslim extremists as "anti-Islamic activities."
There is nothing wrong in correcting a misconceived, misused or misunderstood terminology. However, while ascertaining the true meaning of Jihad, the concerned authority must thoroughly investigate the genesis, theology, and history of Islam.
Being a Muslim turned atheist, I do not believe there is anything holy. Yet, in popular belief, the term 'holy' applies to something 'noble'. The term 'holy war' can be conceived of, for example, as fighting on behalf of the weak and the oppressed.
In light of the theological doctrines and history of Islam, Jihad definitely does not stand for such a 'noble' struggle or mission. Yes, there is a definite need for changing the meaning of 'Jihad' from 'holy war' to its appropriate meaning. Let the pundits decide what the most accurate meaning of Jihad should be.
Imam al-Ghazzali (d. 1111), the greatest Sufi master, Islamic intellectual, and revivalist of Islam, who is considered the second-greatest Muslim after Prophet Muhammad, wrote of Jihad:
One must go on Jihad at least once a year… One may use a catapult against them when they are in a fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire on them and/or drown them… One may cut down their trees… One must destroy their useful book [Bible, Torah etc.]. Jihadists may take as booty whatever they decide…
Prophet Muhammad directed or personally commanded some 100 Jihad expeditions in the last nine years of his life — that is, one Jihad expedition a month. Al-Ghazzali reduced it to one a year.
The government and security officials in Europe, desperately seeking to dissociate Jihad from the violent activities of Muslim fanatics, have started calling them "violent extremism" or "international terrorism." One is left to wonder whether the true meaning of Jihad comes close to these terms.Powered by Sidelines


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Dear Global Giving Donors,
We are still encountering major difficulties in transporting our plantains crop to the market. That has cost us a lot to loose many bunches of plantains in this harvest season. We are still struggling to harvest some of the plantains and sell and using the proceeds to give as stipends to our volunteers to clear the farm and replant more suckers.
While we can do this without your generous support, we still are soliciting for your support to enable us get a 4x4 vehicle to beef up our effort for this sustainable project. Thanks very much for your continuous introduction and recommendation of our project to others for donation. So as to enable us finally achieve our global goal.
Pictures are attached to show you the progress we have made.
Amah Susan Tamba
Project Supervisor
APWCR General Commissioner/CEO Mr. George Abang Tawoh who was offered a place and awarded full scholarship to attend the first ever London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Progamme for African Leadership (PFAL) that took place from the 17th March through the 4th April 2012 at LSE.
The programme which was very enriching that brought in brave proffessors from this great university,a wide range of experience African young Leaders covering the public and private sectors, civil society and the media, increased the leadership skills of APWCR CEO in a global perspective and more focus in the African Continent.
As any aspiring leader who will never want to misused any given opportunity, APWCR CEO uses this programme to shoot three birds; held many meetings with some advisory board members of APWCR in UK, Sarah Williams and Jacob Hipps and more importantly the successfully meeting we held in a coffee snack around Tavistock Square by 10:50am with this two distinquish staff of Global Giving Zdravka M. Sen and Jenni Tomlin about some of the difficulties APWCR has in fund raising for our project Grow plantains and support human rights in Cameroon and the handicappness APWCR has in internet accessibility.
The meeting ended by 11.00am same 5th April 2012 were Jenni and Zdravka assisted me with the backs that I was carrying after checking out in the LSE accomondation in Passfield Hall to Auston Station to Highbury Centre were I had to be there, three more days to enable me catch my return flight to Cameroon on the 8th April which I did and am now pulling on well with my work in APWCR in Limbe - Cameroon.
On our plantains project, APWCR volunteers are still suffering in transporting harvested plantains on their heads and backs. We are still appealing for our donors to donate to this our project to enable us purchase a 4x4 vehicle as you can see in the photos attached on how we are still struggling even at this twenty first century in carrying heavy load like plantains on our heads and backs, this continuous strainous activity has scared most of our female volunteers.
What can we do other than really on your contribution to enable us overcome this difficulties in purchasing this vehicle.
Distinguish Donors,
After receiving the powerful delegation from GlobalGiving USA in the person of Meg Dallet and Lurel Chor in APWCR office and in her project site titled "APWCR GLOBAL GIVING PLANTAINS FARM" in the outskirts of Bimbia in the month of June 2011, there has been some drastic changes in the area of pursuing some of the objectives of APWCR.
Immediately after their departure to other partners organizations in Cameroon via USA, APWCR volunteers continued the clearing of the plantain farm through the period of July and August. The first two weeks of September were used to start the hanging of robes on the upper parts of the plantains with newly bunches to avoid them to fall. Currently about 15 plantains have giving new bunches thanks for your sacrificial continuous support to our project.
Another fear we are having now is on how soon, our volunteers will continue transporting the plantains crop to the market on their heads and backs, we desperately need a 4x4 vehicle to enable us overcome this and increase productivity. We are also appealing to any of our donor who may be having a used 4x4 vehicle in any part of the world and desire to donate it to the services of APWCR, should without any hesitation endeavor to contact us, it may be for necessary arrangements for shipment to Douala - Cameroon the nearest port to Limbe APWCR project site.
With other assistant from devoted members, APWCR website www.apwcri.org which has been down now for some months because of financial difficulties is under serious construction and within two weeks time it will be online, thanks to these generous contribution.
18 selected observers of APWCR will join other 209 observers in different human rights organization making a total of 227 observers in the umbrella of the Cameroon Network of Human Rights Organizations (CNHRO) based in Yaounde that has been accredidated by the Ministry of Territoral and Decentralization MINTD to observe the October 9th Presidential Elections in Cameroon. Our observation will be published latter.
Once more thanks very much for recommending our project to your family members, friends and associates members and other organisations.
My name is Meg Dallett, and I'm an In the Field intern with GlobalGiving in Cameroon this summer. I'm traveling around the country visiting all the GlobalGiving-partnered NGOs, and I'm writing this postcard to pass on some of what I've seen to the donors who have given to this organization. ... Like so many other children, George Abang Tawoh grew up in an abusive home. As a young boy he saw his grandfather sell his aunt (also a child) into marriage to repay a debt, an injustice that always stayed with him. When he got his hands on a copy of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in secondary school, he realized that his experience wasn't the way life was supposed to be, and threw himself into readings and seminars on human rights theory and conflict management. Still in secondary school, he founded a nonprofit organization: the Association for the Protection of Women and Children's Rights (APWCR) in Limbe, Cameroon. Now, APWCR responds to rights abuses of all kinds, using negotiation and reconciliation techniques to work within the system rather than antagonizing communities. APWCR works closely with local chiefs and women's rights groups to identify problems and design solutions, and solicit feedback from other women on how they could improve their program. Their work is almost entirely self-funded through a nearby plantain plantation, where the staff raises and sells plantains to a women's market group (and gives extras to a local orphanage). That's why GlobalGiving donations mean so much to them—a sign at their plantation reads "APWCR PARTNERED GLOBALGIVING PLANTAINS FARM." Unfortunately, George and his team can't afford internet access frequently enough to do much online fundraising. But he's not discouraged—as he put it, "I have a vision, and I don't know how long it will take me to reach there, but I know I will reach it." George and four of his volunteers took us on a long hike to the plantation, which involved (1) a road, (2) a grassy field, (3) a muddy forest, (4) a rocky beach, and (5) an ascent up an extremely steep plantain-covered hillside where George and Richard notched footholds for us with machetes. They even let us harvest some of the plantains with them! It was an exhilarating experience, not least because of Cameroon's stunningly beautiful landscape. The trek also made us aware of just why APWCR is fundraising for a vehicle—that hike was hard enough without having to do it every day or carry huge bunches of plantains for 7 km. Even without much funding, APWCR is making a huge difference in so many lives. They told us about one woman who was cheated out of the land she should have inherited from her father for years because of her gender; when she asked APWCR to get involved, they got her land back within two months. Imagine what they'll do as the organization grows!
Dear Donors,
We are happy to inform all our donors and the general public that after planting 1200 plantain suckers and latter doing the felling down of some big trees that where disturbing sun light on the plants and carried some policing activities in Cameroon; APWCR volunteers have been waiting for about 10 weeks for the felt trees branches to decay and give way for the plantains to sprung up, which are growing well now.
Thanks for your generous contribution to enable us reach this level of successfully having 1200 plantains suckers, though our target is to plant about 9500 plantains suckers as we desperately need a 4X4 vehicle to enable us transport the plantains and help us track child trafficking in the bordering towns and villages in Cameroon. We are still appealing for you contribution to enable us achieve our goal. Your 01 - 10,000.00 Dollars that you donate to this project, we assure you will course a great impact in promoting the human rights activities of APWCR and sustaining our organization.
We are currently clearing grass from the plantains and working to redesign the website of APWCR and collaborating with the Cameroon Police Boss to launch the first ever report of the Police station Visitor's Week that our organization organized in October 2010 as you can read the global report on the link attached.
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