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Garbage Can Potatoes
We love potatoes! Yes, yes, I know, waaaay too many carbs. I try to replace them with mashed parsnips or celery root but my captain won't hear of it. Must be his northern European roots. So this year we are trying to grow our own. In a holey garbage can! Basically you are supposed to fill the can about half way with some nice organic soil, add seed potatoes, some more soil and then keep it watered. Every time new shoots come up, add some more compost around the stem but not the leaves. When the flowers start to fade... Read More
The boat before The Big Boat
Our current boat is 26 feet long and sits on a trailer in our driveway. This is our (second) practice boat. The one we can afford to make more mistakes on. We bought it with the name of Webfoot which suits us just fine. It is a sail-/motor-boat, which means it doesn't do either one of those functions very well. It has a 50 horse power outboard which doesn't quite get it up on a plane and two sails which propel it forward but not with any astounding speeds. The advantage is that we can trailer it all over the... Read More
The search for the perfect cookie
Since we've sworn off nearly everything deemed unhealthy (sugar, flour, you name it), the other captain has really been missing his cookies. I've been doing a lot of experimentation and have finally found a recipe that seems to satisfy his cravings. These are also great dipped into some melted cocoa. I found this pure, organic, sugar-free cocoa powder. Coconut Macaroons 1-1/4 cups unsweetened shredded coconut Dash of teaspoon cinnamon 2 egg whites, beaten 1 teaspoon raw honey or 5- 10 drops of stevia Beat egg whites very stiff, fold in honey and continue beating. Fold in shredded coconuts. Drop from... Read More
Florida Charter – Day 16
We departed Sanibell Island with the rising sun and sailed to Cayo Costa State Park for our last night aboard. What a beautiful place. We finally got to see a manatee! We celebrated our last night with the best margaritas this side of the border! The recipe is below and can be found on GalleySwap – our recipe sharing community. The next morning we pulled anchor early to get back to the Burnt Store Marina and return the boat. Grapefruity Margaritas 1 fresh squeezed grapefruit 2-3 fresh squeezed oranges 1-2 fresh squeezed limes 2/3 cup Grand Marnier 1 cup Good... Read More
Florida Charter – Day 12
We had a great day of very leisurely sailing. The water was an incredible blue-green as we were close to shore all day. We contacted Yachting Vacations and they said they will have someone out tomorrow morning to replace the alternator. We arrived back at Marco River Marina near sunset. This gave me a chance to try out the Key Lime Pie recipe from our cruising guide. It tasted amazing! I have made it with regular limes since and it works just fine. Add a dollop of whipped cream for a special treat. Easy Key Lime Pie One 9″ graham... Read More
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I am beyond disappointed in the consistency, communication is nonexistent with administration. There is a lack of professionalism with a few staff as they look on their cell phones instead interacting and stimulating the patience with games or activities. There is a great employee turnover, and lack of activities and interaction to motivate and give the patients stimulation. Basic needs are met but because of short staffing, there is not a good patient to care taker ratio. Too many patients are being ignored because of the patients who need more hands on assistance. While it's a nice looking facility, it's quality of care is falling short.
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August 02, 2017
May 22, 2017
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
My husband is a resident in the memory unit. The facility is new and is beautifully laid out and decorated. The meals are very good with adequate proportions. Most of the employees are very friendly and helpful. However, the management is much less than we expected. There has been billing errors every month my husband there. There staff is over worked and there is a high turn over. Meetings with management is not communicated or implemented on the floor. The resident's bathrooms are not checked or cleaned often enough not thoroughly enough. My husband was out of medication for a week which resulted in behavior problems. There are not enough employees to properly over see the residents and when some employees do not show up for work, others are required to work 16 hour. We are very disappointed.Provider Response
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We also thank you for your time today to discuss your concerns, which we are looking into. The situation you have described is not up to our commitment of quality service and care that The Piper is known and recognized for, and that our team strives to provide every single day.
March 21, 2017
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
While the place is clean and looks good (it should since it is fairly new) the care of patients is on and off. Mom had soiled herself and had been left unattended long enough for it to go up her back and dry. This place is expensive. The level of care should equal that. The Administration is less than attentive to the paperwork process. It took a family member showing up and refusing to leave until a phone call was made to get the insurance claim process finished. This was four months after mom's passing, multiple phone calls, and several unanswered messages. Four months of waiting for a 5 minute phone call.
January 26, 2017
I visited this facility
The Piper felt like a home and a community. It smelled fine. The private rooms were definitely adequate. The meals were set up very nicely, and there was a small, personal kitchen for each floor. They had a chef and some aides. It was set up almost like a home, and they made sure that patients were involved in as much as possible.
December 05, 2016
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
I love The Piper; it's awesome. They are very friendly and very helpful. All the residents are new in their house, so they are getting to know each other which is very good. The grounds are beautiful, and the place is new. The rooms are beautiful and spacious, and Mom brought her own furniture. I had a meal there, and everything I had was good. Each house has 20 apartments connected to it, and each on has its own dining room, but there is a central kitchen where all the food is cooked. The house lady takes care of special orders or anything that they want that's not what the chef prepared that day.
November 21, 2016
I visited this facility
I really liked The Piper. It was really homey. It felt comfortable. If I were to go, that's where I would want to be. I loved the people that were in there. They were all friendly. They had a 24-hour kitchen; if anybody got hungry anytime, there was somebody there to cook for them. It was a very nice place.
July 26, 2016
I am a friend or relative of resident
My father has been a resident since The Piper opened.. He is able to care for himself except help with a shower. We have been greatly satisfied with his care. Plus, The Piper is only 6 minutes from my home which is another plus. I rest easy knowing he is at The Piper. Also, when I have a question from anyone, I normally get an answer fairly quickly. I highly recommend The Piper
March 26, 2015
I visited this facility
Our family is excited to move our Mother into the new Piper facility! We read up on the household model they created and believe that concept will foster more social interaction for her. Another concept that has been lost on other assisted living facilities is "patient-centered care". The staff will get to know our Mother's personal schedule, likes/dislikes and family members and not treat her care as just another thing on a list of things to do. We were able to tour the facility in Manhattan that converted to this model and found the staff and residents all interacting well and many stories were shared on their outings. Awaiting anxiously for the June move-in!
March 21, 2015
I have attended seminars at The Piper Welcome Center. These meetings were very informative in regards to Elder Law, Dementia concerns, how to handle falls. The staff and speakers were very informed on the subject discussed. I'm hoping at some time to transfer my mother into The Piper community as I feel comfortable with the staff and secure knowing they will do their very best to provide for her as I would.
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Features of The Piper
- Minimum Rate: $4050/month
- Minimum Memory Cost: $5400/month
Room and housing options
- 1-bedroom apartments
- Studio Apartments
- Pets: Small Pets Allowed
- State Licenses: N105018
About The Piper
Residents of The Piper are the architects of their own daily lives. This might mean sleeping in, enjoying a late breakfast or taking a leisurely stroll. A quick trip to the Legends is always an option for anyone wanting to do a little shopping or take in a movie. Friends routinely gather in the den to chat or play cards over a cup of coffee or tea. Each day is different, and residents set their own agenda.
Because just 20 residents live in each household at The Piper, and each has its own full kitchen with a homemaker preparing meals, residents are free to eat what they wish, whenever they prefer. Nourishing meals are prepared fresh. Household kitchens feature fresh bread made from scratch, and homemade goodies and hot coffee are always available. Like every aspect of The Piper, good food brings people together.
Because just 20 residents live in each household at The Piper, and each has its own full kitchen with a homemaker preparing meals, residents are free to eat what they wish, whenever they prefer. Nourishing meals are prepared fresh. Household kitchens feature fresh bread made from scratch, and homemade goodies and hot coffee are always available. Like every aspect of The Piper, good food brings people together.
What Makes Us Special
Six independent households, each beautifully furnished and filled with the works of local artists, create the essence of home — an open family room, kitchen, formal dining room, den and sunroom. Within this setting, residents have their own private apartments. This atmosphere engenders a feeling of life at home among friends and family.
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text: RPG portraits Part two Details Category: Uncategorised Published: Tuesday, 30 May 2017 02:10 Written by Kevin C Mason Hits: 173 I'm not with them This was the second of the RPG portraits. This time It was with RPGGameBreakers .. The expression he has on his face Triggered the whole painting. "I'm not with them .... Where is my Party? Oh they are off shopping for Mana potions. The toughest part was the bar in the background. I may want to return to this one after a few days of clearing my head. @jackmonkeygames @RicMTheGM pic.twitter.com/SQ7eCnPDJn— GameBreakers (@RPGGameBreakers) May 27, 2017 Kevin C Mason More About Me Prev Next


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Toward an Intersectional Approach to "Personality Theory Disorder" (Essays from graduate school)
Last fall, at the beginning of a large online, undergraduate course in abnormal psychology, I was warned that after reading the textbook I should not attempt to diagnose mental disorders in friends, family, myself, or anyone else.
I immediately thought about a friend who had recently lamented to me that a dating relationship of hers had ended because she had discovered that the man was narcissistic, and maybe mildly autistic, too. She was not as certain on the latter part, because, she assured me, it might take more medical assessment to know that. I was transfixed by her use of the word "more." Was her perusal and interpretation of MedWeb articles, I wondered, sufficient medical assessment for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder? I realize now that as I stared at her with wide eyes I was beginning to formulate a question—reaching well beyond the personal opinion I surely also had of her at the time—a question that already had a deep yearning in me: I wanted to know what institutional and cultural trends in personality theory had led us as a society to treat the self so casually that a supposedly significantly disruptive pattern in personality function could be correctly perceived, labeled, and pathologized as readily as a common cold.
Let me pause a moment.
What exactly is "wrong" with his/my personality anyway?
And take a breath. A deep breath.
My great discomfort in moments like this one with my friend in which I am told in all seriousness--and much clearly stated fear and pity—that so-and-so has blank personality disorder or is mentally unstable, psychotic, or completely nuts, is symptomatic of a personal trigger--MY trigger. I hate the idea of being "that crazy girl" so much that one of the first things I often tell people about myself when we get close is that I might be the sanest person they've met—and then I do my damnedest to prove it. Internalized sexism much? In that trigger is also a projection and a judgment. Parts of me actually want to both distance myself from and better understand people who toss terms like narcissist and borderline into friendly conversation, because some part of me also thinks there's something important in understanding how and why we aren't better at talking about personality. I might call this something like "personality THEORY disorder."
Personality theory disorder is something we're all going through, as a society, on our own and together. It's the natural outcome of being violently assaulted by large-scale social and economic forces that don't care for the people being most affected. Because of this assault, we're desperate for a theory of mental illness that helps people, but that same desperation is disorienting and distracting us from understanding how to help well. We want to put people first, but we keep putting applications first, thinking that we have to, that we don't have the means to actually put people first. But we think that we don't have the means, because we've internalized powerful messages that say caring about whole, integrated people requires limitless resources and there just isn't enough time, love, money, food, counseling, you name it available for everyone. This is just a simple acknowledgment of a history—our history—of plunder and brutality, a history with long arms that keeps sending these messages out, actively and passively. Generations of trauma and disenfranchisement contribute to the ongoing stealing of power from our best intentions to help ourselves, let alone each other. You can see the great loss in this personal and interpersonal ransacking of hope in the huge fights among scientists, researchers, and theorists about impossible problems—an academic stance of powerlessness and a truly disordered approach to personality.
But we can change that; we can put people first again.
At the time of my friend's lament, it seemed clear to me that she might have an easier time grappling with a failed love connection if there was a sure reason outside herself that the other person was simply too "damaged" or "dysfunctional" to be in a good relationship. There may actually be some utility to this line of thinking. Framing the other person as clinically maladaptive provides an escape from owning our own vulnerability or working on own shortcomings first—and that may be a necessary defense for her. Moreover, calling this sort of escapism out in others, as well as in myself, has certainly contributed to the work I've done in community and on myself over the past half decade to create access points to more personal power, and to more skillfully sharing power.
But what do clinicians do on the ground to accurately and compassionately understand, evaluate, and treat for better mental health outcomes in a way that puts the person first?
To be sure, as I work with more people in clinical settings on their relationships, on love and intimacy, on connection and partnership, and on community and cooperation, I will need a more coordinated, strategic approach, based in science and ethics, in order to answer that question, as well as to be with people, non-reactively, seeing clearly the context of popular beliefs about mental illness that may arise, uniquely, in each client's narratives and dynamics as well. I will likely also need to keep revisiting my own judgments and gaps in understanding as to how and why lay diagnoses occur in the ways they do, including understanding the larger historical context of how personality has been understood, codified, and policed in our country as ill versus healthy. In other words, I will need to confront my own personality theory disordering, and I will need to pay attention to opportunities for healing and liberation.
And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
In 1980, at the same time that David Byrne asked the world to consider the existential nature of standard American success, Reagan defeated Carter, Lennon was shot dead in New York City, and a Norwegian polio survivor gave birth to a girl in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and named her Anna. Fifteen years later, threading her career through the independent living movement across the American South, my mother hired me one summer to enter data for her from a massive well-being survey into a database at the Missouri Institute on Mental Health. Has car, has food, feels happy, feels sad—I ticked off a long list of self-reported indicators that seemed both profound and meaningless on the computer screen, and I wondered how in the world this information could be used. How could this litany of survey questions make up the whole picture of a person's well-being?
From my vantage today, this memory is not surprising. From 1980 to 1995—my whole life at that point—not much had changed in the official method of the American Psychiatric Association for assessing mental health. But before 1980 things looked much different.
For more than sixty years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health (DSM) has been a main site of power in articulating and enacting theories of "personality illness" across our institutions and woven through our culture in the United States. How the DSM defines disordered and medically significant personality deviation is still being heatedly argued about today and provides an important anchor for understanding how personality has become typed and treated as ill, even beyond the overtly therapeutic setting. The history of the DSM is also an incredible storyteller and reflection of the narrative of our shared personality theory disordering.
The first (1952) and second (1968) editions of the DSM, "reflected Sigmund Freud's idea of psychodynamics: that mental illness is the product of conflict between internal drives" (Adam, 2013). According to Mayes and Horwitz, "these manuals conceived of symptoms as reflections of broad underlying dynamic conditions or as reactions to difficult life problems" (2005). But in the 1970s, for much good reason, Freud was being heavily criticized and challenged by multiple other schools of thought in psychology, including the humanists, the cognitive behaviorists, and even the human potential movement. With scathing critique form the new feminists and Freudian classical psychoanalysis in the doghouse (Robinson, 1993), the third (1980) and fourth (1994) editions of the DSM flipped the "dynamic" approach on its head, opting for a theory of discrete, categorical buckets designed to meet a supposed need for easily diagnosable, uniquely treatable, and statistically viable mental ills. The DSM-III's categorical approach, which was billed as a clear and straightforward classification system, handily "imported another role model from central Europe: psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin" (Adam, 2013). Kraepelin was famous for saying that conditions had "unique sets of symptoms and presumably unique causes" (Adam, 2013). With Kraepelin, asserts Nature writer David Adam, the DSM-III erected "solid walls between conditions," listing out symptoms, which writers like Ronald Levy coached a generation of clinicians to interpret and apply (2013; Levy, 1982).
"In a very short period of time," write Mayes and Horwitz, "mental illnesses were transformed from broad, etiologically defined entities that were continuous with normality to symptom-based, categorical diseases" (emphasis added) (2005). Concurrently, "a descriptive approach" to the language was purposefully applied to provide "a medical nomenclature for clinicians and researchers" (psychiatry.org), making it easier for clinicians to diagnose and prescribe treatments, as well as for statisticians to collect data on diagnoses. Unfortunately, this shift toward increased diagnosis was "neither a product of growing scientific knowledge nor of increasing medicalization" (2005)—though it certainly led to increased medicalization.
It wasn't just pressure to reject Freud either. Larger social and economic forces leading up to the 1980s contributed to this rapid and sweeping change in how personality theory and mental illness were forced into a new standardization. According to Mayes and Horwitz (2005),
"This standardization was the product of many factors, including: (1) professional politics within the mental health community, (2) increased government involvement in mental health research and policymaking, (3) mounting pressure on psychiatrists from health insurers to demonstrate the effectiveness of their practices, and (4) the necessity of pharmaceutical companies to market their products to treat specific diseases."
Certainly public scandals like the Rosenhan experiment, published in 1975, in which "patients" who claimed to have a mental illness but did not were successfully admitted to an institution and kept there against their will contributed some pressure to the field of psychiatry to avoid improper diagnoses (Rosenhan, 1975). But shifting views of the legitimacy of psychiatry in the United States were more likely fundamentally affected by human rights challenges to mental "health" institutions that forcibly indentured populations, kept sick and healthy people locked up in unsanitary living conditions, and committed multiple forms of torture, some under the dubious banner of "science" (Deegan, 2011; Souder v. Brennan; ACLU, 2010). At the same time, as government and communities scrambled to treat people in the face of large-scale desinstitutionalization, the 1970s saw a surge in the influence of the health insurance industry, privatized care, and big pharma all of whom—watching their bottom lines—were making it increasingly important to neatly label and put patients into exact boxes or categories of mental health in order to medicalize and monetize the fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology (Lyons, 1984). By the time the Regan administration pulled the plug on funding state mental health care, clinicians had to follow along in order to get patients any kind of treatment at all (Torrey, 2013). By 1994, the DSM-IV "simply added and subtracted a few categories" to this picture.
The 1980s and 90s were terrible years for people with acute mental health problems. But it was also the proving ground for a new movement—bringing the DSM back from the grips of the categorical approach.
Fired up, ready to go!
The categorical approach clearly had some big problems. As David Adam writes, "even as walls between conditions were being cemented in the profession's manual, they were breaking down in the clinic" (2013). People found that they needed a better way to understand how multiple diagnoses or intersecting diagnoses should be treated. Adam also notes that a persistent problem has been that "biologists have been unable to find any genetic or neuroscientific evidence to support the breakdown of complex mental disorders into separate categories" (2013). Professionals in the field were coming to understand with greater clarity that a different answer, a new proposal, was needed. The establishment considered what the reform movement came up with—a "dimensional" approach—to be dangerously radical.
But as gender studies, race studies, disability studies programs, and other interdisciplinary focuses flourished across institutions of higher learning, the idea of a spectrum of identity became increasingly popular in academic settings. And the idea that mental health might also exist on a spectrum, along with new science about the brain and human biology, became an exciting new area of research. This new approach to the DSM, combining a goal of accurate diagnosis with a throwback to the Freudian view of "dynamic" personality, was lauded for its unique inclusion of 21st-century research technologies, as well as leaving open questions that remain about what is know-able about a "spectrum of personality" (Adam, 2013).
Enter the DSM-5.
In 2009, Obama supporters were fired up and ready for the president to go to work on real progressive change—with great hope comes great reality checks? The Great Recession was in full swing and I had just moved to the Bay Area from Louisiana. And in 2009, Lisa Cosgrove, Ph.D., and Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., noted that,
"the fact that 70% of the [DSM-5] task force members have reported direct industry ties—an increase of almost 14% over the percentage of DSM-IV task force members who had industry ties—shows that disclosure policies alone, especially those that rely on an honor system, are not enough and that more specific safeguards are needed."
Since the DSM-5 was published in 2013 it has received sweeping criticisms. Some say that it is not much different than the DSM-IV, that it didn't do enough to change the categorical approach. But others, like Allen Frances who led the development of the DSM-IV felt dubious to say the least about the ambitions of the DSM-5, attacking the new edition in a Mother Jones interview as liable to cause new epidemics of over-diagnosing and over-prescribing (Mechanic, 2013). Today, the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) is apparently so discouraged with the whole DSM system that they have replaced it with something called Research Domain Criteria, an initiative aimed at being a biologically-valid framework for understanding mental illness:
RDoC research starts with basic mechanisms and studies dysfunctions in these systems as a way to understand homogeneous symptom sets that cut across multiple disorders, rather than starting with clinical symptoms and working backwards. (National Institute of Mental Health)
The NIMH has not given up on the dimensional approach, but it is clear that they believe more research is needed.
But maybe we're still missing something big in the DSM-5 debacle, maybe "madness" doesn't exist on a single-person spectrum either. As the Association of Humanistic Psychology asserts, it may be that "nourishing environments can make an important contribution to the development of healthy personalities" (2014). It may be that a nourishing clinical setting can make a contribution to how we grapple with our own and each other's mental health and well-being. If that's true, maybe what we need, along with brain science, advances in biological knowledge, and money pouring through pharma, insurance companies, and privatized care, is to develop a whole-person, whole-society spectrum approach to mental health, and to teach it widely to clinicians, as well as beyond the formal clinical setting. If we are paying attention, we might notice that there is a movement in our country right now that is already putting people first.
Complicate the narrative.
No matter the causes of the adoption of the categorical approach in the 1980s, it was misguided and inadequate, and it wreaked havoc on our ability as a people to care for each other. But a dimensional approach to diagnosing personality disorder, if it remains in the hands of "scientists," may not do any better at helping our society treat people clinically, or at helping us treat each other better interpersonally—and that is a gamble we can't make.
In 2015, this too remains true: "no one has yet agreed on how best to define and diagnose mental illnesses" (Adam, 2013). But it seems clear and vital that we need to stop putting people in boxes—literally, our country needs to stop using prisons to throw people with mental illness away, and as a society we need to stop using any number of institutions to foster madness, both in a physiological and an emotional sense. We also need to think hard and take action so that we don't let people succumb to "the hands of the drug companies" (Mechanic, 2014) or structural racism and other forms of oppression.
When Freud says that "we are confronted with the conclusion that there is indeed something congenital at the basis of perversions, but it is something which is congenital in all persons, which as a predisposition may fluctuate in intensity and is brought into prominence by influences of life" (1920, p.34), I hear in his insight an understanding of how we might pervert theory itself in our influence-able development as a relatively young society. We can ask specifically how we are raising our young people—what kind of nurturing do they receive? In 2015, young people still face industrialized schooling, a military industrial complex, a prison industrial complex, poverty, racism, gender oppression, and more—these are all things that no doubt contribute to a disordering of personality at a young age. But they are also things that might disorder a theory of personality, making it not that surprising that the DSM has been such a hot mess for so long. One might even joke that the DSM, with Freud in mind, has some daddy issues—and tragically not be so far off.
In Jung (1970) we find the seeds not just of the individual dynamic personality, but of the spectrum of collective experience:
"The dynamism of instinct is lodged as it were in the infra-red part of the spectrum, whereas the instinctual image lies in the ultra-violet part. . . . The realization and assimilation of instinct never take place at the red end, i.e., by absorption into the instinctual sphere, but only through integration of the image which signifies and at the same time evokes the instinct, although in a form quite different from the one we meet on the biological level."
What is the collective will of our society today? What are we creating? And what do we need to heal, together? Putting people in boxes and categories, making judgments based on some essential characteristic, using each other, making profit off the backs of some, slavery, hierarchy—these are all deep societal wounds that we are still waking up from. The categorical approach to the DSM may have been one cycle of unfolding consciousness in response to these woundings—but it was also a product of that same trauma. You can see this in its aim to regulate human experience and human bodies as much as it attempted and failed to regulate the actual care of humans by responding to human rights violations or by growing compassion, empathy, and equity in our society. The DSM-5, perhaps another botched attempt to change this, is another sign that personality theory and systems for understanding mental health in our country yearn for and need a lot of healing right now—healing and liberation.
Intersectionality, a word that hasn't made it into the dictionaries yet, is a feminist concept that sees the study of intersecting identities as critical to social well-being. Intersectionality assumes that selves exist on a spectrum, that our various identities are dynamic and multi-storied. But it also tasks us with grappling with additional vectors—including each other, how we are viewed and affected by our social rank and our cultural backgrounds. In other words, maybe dimensionality doesn't exist along a single spectrum—maybe the dimensionality of mental health is already a spectrum, one that includes race, gender, ability, etc. Every time you assess a person or a mental health concern on a spectrum, the act of connecting those dots already creates another spectrum of meaning. Another way to say this is that my being Jewish and a woman is uniquely meaningful to my sense of self and to my mental health. My "womanhood" exists on a spectrum and my "Jewishness" exists on a spectrum, and at the same time my social identities exist on yet another uber spectrum. And me being a Jewish woman married to a black man further complicates my narrative. And that's exactly as it should be.
In 2014 when a white officer, David Ried, shot and killed Aura Rain Rosser, the media, in a too-familiar shock, took a breath to acknowledge "the deadly intersection of mental illness, race, class, and gender" (McCoy, 2015). But in January of 2013 when Ried was let off without any charges, #BlackLivesMatter did not shy away from the case or from making it a central party of their ongoing rallying cry (Adamopoulos, 2015). They did not say, no, we cannot stand up for this life—it is too insane, too black, too poor, and too female to matter. Instead, they took to the streets, only adding fuel to their cause.
The power of the #BlackLivesMatter movement is palpable, and that's because they're doing one thing absolutely right—they're putting people first. With every protest step, they're saying that what matters right now is the preciousness of life, and in the common refrain, "we're sick and tired of being sick and tired" (and dying) because we're black, they are literally saying life is what matters. And they're saying, as one recent Twitter post that was retweeted over a thousands times states, "3 black women started #BlackLivesMatter. 1 is Nigerian-American, 2 are queer. Complicate the narrative… Because all #BlackLivesMatter."
As a clinician I will always have access to many tools: the DSM—all five versions, a sea of other publications and research in psychology and psychiatry, new technologies and new scientific discoveries, experts and veterans in the field, and even the insights and shortcomings of our global parents in the healing arts. I also have all of human experience, including art and social change activism, to bring to bear on my whole self as I work to have a healthy and empowered theory of personality. And I absolutely need all of me to do this work.
When my friend told me that her ex was narcissistic, I did not shut her down. I did not pathologize her experience by prescribing her a course of therapy that I wasn't sure she needed, and I did not shame her for being exactly where she was in that moment in her own theory of personality. I took all of me and I gave it to her in that moment by getting really curious, listening to her, loving her, and making damn sure that I never lost track of her as a person first.
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Fatalistic Attraction: Re-thinking Hollywood's Influence on Borderline Pedagogy (essays from graduate school)
Fatal Attraction has been recognized as THE silver screen portrayal of borderline personality disorder (BPD). As one Psychology Today blogger notes about the movie, "Viewers watched Alex Forrest and began to link the behavior and inner life of this troubled figure with BPD in a process that continues to cement in the mainstream mindset to this day" (Clyman, 2012). The film's impact on popular beliefs about BPD now extends beyond regular entertainment consumption and into clinical psychology practice, both indirectly through clinicians' background cultural knowledge and directly by gaining acceptance and applause as a useful tool for teaching about BPD in the field. It is this pedagogical use of the film that this essay attempts to take a critical look at, considering the risks involved in using a Hollywood dramatization to teach about BPD.
This essay begins what should be a much larger discussion on cinema pedagogy in clinical disciplines, outlining preliminary interpretations only and taking a brief, but closer look at our culturally-situated viewer biases especially toward sex/gender. The conclusion of the author is that using Fatal Attraction to teach clinicians about BPD may be highly problematic. In what seems to be a dramatically (pun intended) fatalistic lesson on BPD—mad women are bad women—what is being sold to a generation of developing clinicians is a missed opportunity to widen our empathy for BPD clients, the very thing we need to do in order to recognize, diagnose, and treat this disorder effectively.
Considering the short history of BPD as a mental health diagnosis (first introduced in 1980 in the DSM-III), it makes sense, in 2014, for clinicians to first ask to what degree viewer interpretation of this 1987 film drives the film's available BPD analysis, as opposed to the film or psychological knowledge driving the analysis. As it turns out, the film's "analysis" of BPD is almost non-existent, with little to no psychological content offered. Fatal Attraction's fairly simple plot relies heavily on exaggerated affect and the dramatization of unknowable psychological undercurrents to move the story along. For much of the movie, the audience must guess at the emotional and rational states of the characters. Even when concrete information is presented (Dan finds out that Alex's father did in fact die when Alex was young; Beth tells Alex to leave her family alone), interpreting how the characters, namely Alex, process the information is mostly a guessing game for the viewer. (What motivates Alex to lie about her father's death? How does Alex feel after Dan tells Beth about the affair?) This interpretation-rich environment leaves ample room for bias that may already exists in the audience to contribute to how we make sense of the inner world of the film and its characters. As viewers of this drama, we bring all of our self-interest and conditioning to bear on our critique of Alex, and in turn, on our understanding of BPD via the Alex character.
Importantly, the considerable room the film leaves for audience bias matters as an initial indicator of just how much the viewer may be making up meaning about the characters based on prejudgment. Even the most basic elements of the storyline must be conveyed carefully so as not to distort the facts: Dan, a (happy? successful?) lawyer is married to Beth, a (stylish? attractive?) mother of one. Dan has an extra-marital affair with Alex, an (enchanting? unpredictable?) editor. When Dan (finally? angrily?) breaks things off with Alex, she displays a number of behaviors (ranging from annoying to frightening?), including—we must actually infer—killing Dan's daughter's bunny rabbit. The movie ends with Alex attacking Beth in her bathroom. Ultimately, Dan and Beth kill Alex. Any of the above parenthetical details might be considered important and good writing for advertising copy for the film in order to elicit interest from a known, culturally-situated audience so that we the consumers will be inclined to pay to watch it—"know your audience" as the adage goes. These same details if included but left unconsidered, could contribute to clouding the clinician's ability to accurately recognize, diagnose, and understand BPD or to hold the empathy needed to treat a client with BPD. Indeed, with a little further digging, it becomes clear that the weight of our viewer bias is really quite heavy.
A specific area of potential viewer/therapist bias that deserves deep and broad ongoing critical attention is sex and gender. The critical step of considering sex and gender in Fatal Attraction, a Hollywood-ized depiction of mental illness, must be the responsibility of any professional using the film to speak accurately or usefully about BPD. To take this step, we must look closely at how the sexist and gendered filters available to viewers of the film—all of us—may be present in us when considering Alex as a case study for BPD and also how these filters may distort how we learn about BPD and how we approach BPD clinically, both for diagnosis and for treatment.
Despite the larger problem of viewer bias, in 2011, Francine Goldberg published the second edition of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case Study of the Movie Fatal Attraction, which aims to map Alex's character and behaviors in the film to "clues" and "evidence" for a teachable case of BPD. Goldberg's lesson plan, now easily accessible on the Internet, has been lauded by the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) as, "a unique teaching method that allows EA professionals and other clinicians to acquire clinical skills and earn PDHs and CEUs" (p. 1). The EAPA cites some evidence for the effectiveness of Goldberg's work as a teaching tool, but offers no critical framework of Goldberg's analysis. While it may be true, as the EAPA reports, that after seeing the movie and discussing it, "EA professionals had acquired a more sophisticated understanding of psychopathology and were more likely to refer individuals with psychiatric symptoms to a psychiatrist or a specialized counselor" (p. 2), at what cost do these gains come? Perhaps it is simply easier to keep graduating students, handing out certifications, and not looking too closely at this question—yet looking closely is certainly what clinicians must do.
In making her case for a BPD diagnosis in the Alex character, Goldberg (2011) asserts early on that, "People with BPD cannot tolerate being alone" (p. 12). Elaborating on this point, Goldberg cites Synopsis of psychiatry, behavioral sciences, clinical psychiatry: "To assuage loneliness, if only for brief periods, they accept a stranger as a friend or are promiscuous" (Kaplan & Sadock, 1991, p. 534). Goldberg's mapping of Alex's character to the DSM-IV's criterion #4 for a BPD diagnosis, impulsivity, subsequently hinges largely on a prejudgment of Alex's sexual behavior as "promiscuous." Goldberg (2011) notes the following: in scene two, Alex shows, "interest in a man who is (a) married and (b) has not really expressed an interest in her which may be indicative of criterion #4, impulsivity" (p. 9); in scene three, "seducing a man that she barely knows and who is not available for a relationship with her may be indicative of criterion #4, impulsivity" (p. 11); and in scene eight, "the news that Alex is pregnant is additional evidence to support criterion #4. Not only did she have sex with an unavailable man that she does not know, the sex was unsafe" (p. 25). In all three instances, Goldberg's conclusion that Alex is "promiscuous" is the central (and really only) argument for Alex meeting the DSM-IV's criterion #4 of BPD, impulsivity. Consider Goldberg's assessment again in sum: Alex, the potential BPD client, is interested in a married man, who does not overtly share back about his interest in her, seduces him anyway, even while she also barely knows him, but does know that he is already "taken," and chooses unsafe, condom-less sex on top of it all. As Janet Wirth-Cauchon noted back in 2001, "No mention is made of Dan's 'impulsivity' in doing the same with a woman that he barely knows" (p. 170). But beyond this one-sided view of the sex shared by Dan and Alex that Goldberg continues to espouse in 2011, notions such as female seduction, adultery, sexual ownership, and sex as a weapon (tricking a man into pregnancy) are deeply entrenched sexist attitudes that exist in contemporary cultures, including our own, and that have been relied on to control female sexuality and female choice. Surely, these attitudes in ourselves must be considered before applying them to criteria for diagnosing BPD in any client.
Indeed, it is unclear after uncovering the sexist trope of "promiscuity" so readily available to us, whether Alex having sex with Dan is impulsive behavior for Alex at all. Though that is exactly the inquiry that a clinician would need to make with a client before diagnosing BPD. We do know that in the seduction scene Alex offers that she is trying to make up her mind about sleeping with Dan, which could be a "clue" (using Goldberg's system) that Alex is in fact strategic about choosing her sexual partners—the opposite of impulsive. Interestingly, Goldberg (2011) also notes that for a diagnosis of BPD, "the symptoms must be pervasive, not just in response to one relationship or one event" (p. 11). But from the film we know of no other lovers who Alex has "promiscuously" (read: "impulsively") slept with.
It is also worth noting that the DSM-IV criteria for BPD, used by Goldberg, refer to sex only once; criterion #4 states, "impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)" (APA, 2000, p. 710). (The DSM-5 criteria for BPD do not mention sex at all.) The sexist trope of "promiscuity" that Goldberg relies on to demonstrate DSM-IV criterion #4 in Alex's behavior, therefore, assumes that non-monogamous, casual sex is not only impulsive behavior, but is also unhealthy and maladaptive. Not only, then, must we ask if Alex's sexual behavior is impulsive for Alex, but we must also consider what the potential her sexual behavior in fact creates for self-damage, or if this is also Goldberg's prejudgment. To what degree the sexual tryst shared by Alex and Dan was an act of self-damage by Alex may also be an important question for the plot of the film. But let us not get those two inquiries confused!
Let's look at Alex's own words for a moment: "Because I won't allow you to treat me like some slut you can just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage? I'm gonna be the mother of your child. I want a little respect." Is it worth at least considering that in a world where women are often left with impossible choices to make, they may face their non-rational circumstances with non-rational attempts to reclaim their power? Dan, having participated in the condom-less sex, offers no emotional support or legitimacy to Alex's position upon learning about the pregnancy. Of course, by this point in the movie we wouldn't expect him to do so. The movie has made a hard turn toward following Dan as the primary sympathetic character—it is Dan who we sweat with whenever the phone rings; it is Dan who we rush to the hospital with when Beth gets in a car accident; it is Dan who we beg with for help from the police. And Dan does not want Alex in his life, so neither do we. Though the movie stays close with Dan, is it at all possible for the clinician—for any of us—to imagine that Alex's attacking behavior is not so much self-damaging, an element of BPD, as Goldberg argues, and rather a non-rational attempt by Alex to wrangle some power from her spiraling situation? And if we cannot consider this, why not?
Goldberg seems knowingly convinced that at every step in the entanglement and the unraveling of the affair that Alex is actually compelled to make choices that create situations that are harder on her. This is not relegated to her sexual behavior alone. Per Goldberg (2011), Alex displays, "undermining of self," "recurrent self-injury," "constant state of crisis," and "self-mutilating behavior" (p. 4–6). All of this self-damaging behavior adds up to an overall inability to self-regulate. In fact, it is important for Goldberg's case for a BPD diagnosis that we view Alex's tendencies to self-damage as a strong indicator of a larger pattern of being emotionally out of control, aka hysterical. For Goldberg, in fact, the main evidence for a diagnosis of BPD is Alex's "emotion dysregulation" (2011, p. 22), which Goldberg suggests may have its origins in Alex's father's death when she was very young. There is no further mining of the origin of Alex's BPD, however, either by Goldberg or in the film. Instead, the film's focus (and Goldberg's) is on the reel-time execution of Alex's "madness" in and after her affair with Dan. As Wirth-Cauchon (2001) notes: "The maneuver is the age-old one of dismissing righteous female wrath as hysteria, and by ignoring it, transforming it into actual hysteria" (p. 172).
Perhaps further illuminating is the fact that, when trial screened, Fatal Attraction had a different ending.[1] The film's first audiences were also left to grapple with Alex's death, but in the original version she dies by her own hands, slashing her throat with a kitchen knife like the one she used previously to attack Dan. Dan is then arrested for Alex's murder. The discomfited, even angry response from these first viewers, who having to deal with Alex's suicide and Dan's apparent punishment for his part in Alex's downfall, however, may have prompted the producers to change the final scenes. Whatever the causes of the changes, the new ending ensures that at the final curtain the complex, nuanced experiences of BPD do not live and breathe in Hollywood's captivating melodrama. In the end, the vast majority of Fatal Attraction's viewers were given a more familiar, culturally relatable ending of sane, male good guy versus mad, female bad guy. As Wirth-Cauchon (2001) argues, this is "particularly disturbing" in that "a fictive and misogynist cultural image of a woman is presented as reality, and as an accurate picture of a woman with borderline personality disorder" (p. 171).
It is truly unfortunate that by using Fatal Attraction to teach about BPD, what we get is a dangerously static story about BPD, a story given to us first by the filmmakers as an option for understanding the character of Alex, and then endorsed and solidified by Goldberg (and others) as useful tool in working with BPD. Goldberg, ironically, is acutely aware that "clinicians often find themselves…judging rather than sympathizing" (2011, p. 39). But Goldberg does not extend this interpretive lens to herself by considering the potential for the sexist and gendered nature of the "clues" and "evidence" she gleans from the film. Nor does Goldberg turn a critical eye on the overly sympathetic position of Dan in the final version of the movie. After all, the movie does not ask us after confronting Alex's madness to love her anyway; instead, we get to love Dan and Beth who—and maybe because of this—kill Alex. The mad person is stamped out, and Dan and Beth and their representation as peaceful and good members of "normal" society maintain a monopoly on the audience's empathy.
Even though Goldberg warns her readers that clinicians must be careful to work with BPD clients to be empathetic and non-judgmental, perhaps the most alarming aspect of Goldberg's case study is a failing to widen the reader's capacity for empathy by failing to address sexism and gender-typing in the film. Goldberg gets it right when she keenly notes, "empathy is an essential ingredient in delivering mental health treatment successfully" (2011, p. 38). But if we continue to see people with BPD as villains, can we also see them as ill and deserving our empathy? At present, the best treatment known for BPD, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), is built on the clinician's capacity to empathize with the client. To be empathetic one must be able to "be with" someone else's experience in a loving way. Fatal Attraction does not offer this experience to the viewer with Alex; if anything it offers us empathy with Dan. By missing out on critiquing sex/gender and other potential biases in Fatal Attraction, it is almost as if Goldberg is admitting defeat to what is possible for how deeply we can go with empathy for the BPD client—Hollywood does it good enough. For clinicians that is a catastrophic lesson.
If Fatal Attraction continues to be used to teach about BPD, it seems necessary at the very least to include additional attention to and information about the lenses of sexism, gender typing, and accurate, non-judgmental empathy for the client at every step of the analysis. In order to be an effective therapist for a person who may be diagnosed with BPD, like any mental health diagnosis, uncovering potential bias in the diagnosing clinician and in the proposed treatment plan is mandatory. Likely the most important bias that we must overcome for folks with BPD is our own capacity for empathy, which may come about for varied reasons, not least of which may include sexism and gender stereotypes. Even Glen Close, who has apologized for her portrayal of mental illness as directly linked to violent crimes, might do well to extend that apology to include the misguided, potentially disastrous notion that mental illness may be somehow fundamentally un-empathetic.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_NQK7rJrY
Works Cited
American Psychiatric Association (APA). (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, text revision. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association.
Clyman, J. (2012). Young Adult: The new borderline personality disorder in cinema. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reel-therapy/201203/young-adult-the-new-borderline-personality-disorder-in-cinema
Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Counselor creates unique multimedia method for acquiring clinical skills. Retrieved on December 7, 2014, from http://www.eapa.info/ChaptBranch/webdocs/Beneficial1108.pdf
Goldberg, F. R. (2011). Borderline personality disorder: A case study of the movie Fatal Attraction. Retrieved from http://img-srv.dtcbuilder.com/engine/Builder/images/2/9/0/8/6/0/file/7.pdf
The Guardian. (2013). Glen Close says sorry for her portrayal of mental illness in Fatal Attraction. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/film/shortcuts/2013/jun/05/glenn-close-apologises-mental-illness-fatal-attraction
Kaplan, H. I., & Sadock, B. J. (1991). Synopsis of psychiatry, behavioral sciences, clinical psychiatry, sixth edition. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.
Wirth-Cauchon, J. (2001). Women and borderline personality disorder: Symptoms and stories. Rutgers University Press: Piscataway, NJ.
Empathy matters. Sometimes I get the chance to write about why I think that's so.


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06/09/2017 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Central Time
We'd like to invite you to connect with other GLM users in St. Louis, MO and the surrounding area for a Foundant Meet Up!
Meet Ups are put on by GLM users, for GLM users, as a place to connect and share what's working – or what you'd like to improve upon – in your grant giving efforts.
Foundant users are always welcome to bring a guest (or guests) who may be interested in learning more about GLM.
A special thanks goes out to Betsy Kellerman from the Whitaker Foundation for organizing and leading this event.
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Bubble Blog
The day has gone by, it's time to fill in the logbooks and have a chat in front of a ice cold beer!
And it's also time to share our experiences, talk about the day, ask questions and give answers...
In this section of the website you will find the updated reports of our latest dives, what we encounter and what we noted.
The point of view of our guests, together with some of their photos will be hosted here, so come back here often because this page is updated frequently!
MTV WILDBOYZ TOUR by Camilla Pallett
We have another diving experience to share with you all….
On the 22nd. of Feb. we had a request on taking the Wildboyz team for a few dives to shoot for the ongoing MTV Wildboyz series later this year.
The team was on a 2 week tour around Indonesia to shoot for the series and a few of the team members are divers… We took out Jeff (Producer), Mark (U/W camera), Trip (on top camera) and SteveO (wildboy!) and a camera assistant, Chris, to Nusa Penida for diving and fun.
The plan was to do Blue Corner but the currents where too strong for filming so we did South Penida Rock and Jackpoint. The first dive was to get into the 'motion' and we had a nice and easy dive for all. SteveO tried to get his hand into an Morey Eels mouth but the Morey would have nothing of it! They decided to try the same thing again on the second dive…
So we went to Jackpoint and dived in again. We found a bigger Morey eel here and SteveO tried to put his hand in there again. They didn't notice the Scorpion fish sitting next to it and we were all trying to let them know he was a bit too close…Marc (the camera man) saw it and moved SteveO away, phuiii, you don't want that thing to sting you!
So they ended up with two good shootings and as we all know they want to do some really crazy things so it was now SteveO's turn to come up with something. The problem here is that I can't disclose what he did, you all have to watch the series (this shooting should be shown on MTV in June!) to see what crazy ideas he has!
We went back to our beach in Sanur with the team and all was satisfied with the outcome. SteveO had to do the 'Yard of Ale' (see picture) and did a grand job of it!
The left for more adventures and shooting around Bali, first to the Elephant park to play with elephants (!) and on east to Komodo for the dragons (!!) and then to Kalimantan…
Look out for the MTV Wildboyz series from June, it will all be there!
More Mola Mola!! By Camilla Pallett
White Tip Shark
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My best dive ever!!! By Henk Botma


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Prince Aemond Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen and was the the brother of King Aegon II Targaryen. He was also known as Aemond One-Eye and Aemond the Kinslayer. He was a dragonrider whose dragon was Vhagar.
Appearance Edit
Aemond lost his eye as a boy, apparently put out by one of the Strong Bastards. He was known to put a sapphire in place of the missing eye. He wore night-black armor chased with gold.
History Edit
Aemond was nineteen when his father, King Viserys I Targaryen died. He rode the dragon Vhagar during the Dance of the Dragons, siding with his brother, King Aegon II Targaryen. His bedmate was Alys Rivers.
At the war's outset, Aemond flew to Storm's End to win the loyalty of Lord Borros Baratheon by wedding one of his daughters. There he encountered Lucerys Velaryon, on a similar errand for the blacks, and his dragon, Arrax. As Lucerys flew away from the castle, Aemond took the opportunity to overtake and kill his nephew. He became known as a kinslayer for his action.
Aemond's next dragonfight was at the side of King Aegon at the Battle of Rook's Rest, where the brothers slew Rhaenys Targaryen. Aegon, however, was severely wounded, and Aemond ruled in his stead as Prince Regent and Protector of the Realm for a year while Aegon recovered. He took up the iron and ruby crown of Aegon the Conqueror, and was said to have stated that it looked better on himself than it ever did on Aegon.
Pringe Regent Aemond and the Hand, Ser Criston Cole, gathered an army to march on Prince Daemon at Harrenhal. As they were on the march, King's Landing fell without them to defend it, as Daemon's spies had learned of their intent. Following the greens' defeat in the Battle by the Lakeshore, Aemond and Vhagar burned black-aligned settlements throughout the Riverlands. This left Ser Criston without a dragon at the Battle at the stony ridge.
Prince Daemon Targaryen challenged Aemond, waiting for thirteen days at Harrenhal with Caraxes until Aemond stopped burning the Riverlands to come face him. Aemond arrived with a pregnant Alys. The Dance over Harrenhal ended in the deaths of both riders and both dragons over the Gods Eye. Aemond's body, still chained to the saddle, went underwater along with Vhagar and was only recovered after the war. Dark Sister was through his eye.


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LightPole: Oceans Apart
LightPole had its corporate headquarters in San Francisco and development center in China. How did ClickTime help bridge the 6,000 mile gap and keep LightPole competitive?
- Keep critical timesheet data synced with offices abroad in real-time
- Run accurate live reports with up-to-date data
- ClickTime's Web Timesheet application removed the need for internal network setup, machine maintenance and distribution headaches
- The easy-to-use timesheet interface allows employees abroad to track time as it occurs and workflow has greatly improved
About the Client
LightPole (lightpole.net) was founded in January 2007 to make it easy for content owners to participate in the mobile economy by helping them distribute location-specific information to mobile devices. LightPole leads the charge into the location-based technology frontier by using familiar tools that help bring the web to mobile devise in a way that is as easy as blogging and offers a truly individualized, dynamic and location-relevant experience. For content owners with a desire to participate in the mobile economy, but discouraged by the technical limitations and economic barriers facing such a transition, LightPole's location-aware content network provides the tools necessary to easily and cost-effectively reach their customers no matter where they are or what they're doing.
The Challenge
With its corporate headquarters in San Francisco and development center in China, Lightpole found it difficult to sync development time and processes. Lightpole's developers were an ocean and 15 hours apart, so Lightpole needed a solution that could keep the main offices consistently up-to-date with the development processes in China.
"When someone is away from the office, the question becomes the same for someone a block away and someone 12,000 miles away—can you get their time, can you get it accurately, and can you get it on time so that you can do your reporting and payroll," says Marcus V. Colombano, Chief Marketing Officer.
The Solution
Colombano, who had previously used ClickTime at a different company, introduced it to LightPole. "Personally I've been using ClickTime for nine years now. It is extremely easy to use and I really appreciate the level of detail in the reports that it can generate," says Colombano.
"Using an online timesheet frees us from the worries of having to actively manage something. The other tools either require syncing or accessing the internal network, and ClickTime's software as a service (SaaS) model is different. As opposed to in-house software, which we'd have to install and maintain on each machine and grant access to the central database, ClickTime's SaaS model helps keep the system distributed and allows people to record their time no matter where they are."
The Results
Today, LightPole's employees in China easily track their time as it occurs and the company's workflow has greatly improved. "Employees in China appreciate that ClickTime is there. They appreciate that it can be used on a mobile device and that it can be used easily to keep track of their time and of the tasks," says Colombano.
When asked how employees in the United States like ClickTime, Colombano comments, "Remember that with a system like this, people don't necessarily worry about being able to record their time. What they do, however, is complain when they can't—and nobody has complained. So the number one thing is that there has never been a complaint and that it is really easy to use."
Colombano has two favorite features of ClickTime: "First thing is the mobile interface—the iPhone interface is really nice, and being able to keep track of time that way is really helpful. And the second thing is from an organizational point of view—the ability to submit timesheet for approval is really useful."
ClickTime helps LightPole save both time and money, "It saves me about three hours per month per payroll. It saves other people's time as well—it saves about an hour per employee per month and that easily translates into big bucks," says Colombano.


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Got in last night, too tired to string together so much as a coherent sentence.
I have plenty of pictures to sort through, and figure out what's fit for the blog and what's not. We managed to get to the beach a couple times, which was great. My son has discovered body surfing, so watch out next year.
The trip home was relatively uneventful, which is just fine by me. Around Grants, we stopped to grab a bite and we met a Vietnam Vet who had all sorts of cool stickers on his truck (including one that said something along the lines of "I took Bush's place in Vietnam" and a sticker advertising the City Lights bookstore and publishing company). I gathered his truck met with some unpleasant reaction out in Roswell, but as he said, it's like a different state around there.
This morning, when we went to pick up the dogs, we noticed just how green the surrounding landscape has become. I checked the Mesonet data for my community, and found that we got something like 2.5 inches of rain in the last week, moving our total for the year at just a hair above seven inches. That's still a bit below average, but it helps. Hopefully we'll see a bit more rain this weekend. Looks like Cimarron county, to the west of us, is still suffering.


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Post Graduate Programme : Institute of Health Management Research
Admission Open to 2006-2008 Batch: Post Graduate Programme in Hospital and Health Management
The postgraduate programme is a two year full time programme offering specialisation in the following streams: Health Management, Hospital Management, Pharmaceutical Management: (eqv. to MBA degree)
Eligibility: Graduates in any discipline with an aggregate of 50% marks are eligible. Candidates must have taken anyone of the Management Aptitude Tests (September 4 and December 4, 2005, February 5 and May 7, 2006 conducted by AIMA, New Delhi). The final selections will be made through GD and interview to be held at the Institute. Mid-career professionals, medical graduates (with a minimum of 2 years work experience in the health care sector after graduation) are exempted from MAT and are eligible for direct admission through GD and interview. All candidates have to fill in the IHMR application form available at the Institute on payment of Rs.500/- in cash or through DD in favour of IIHMR payable at Jaipur.
Applications may be sent to: The Dean, Academic and Student Affairs
Institute of Health Management Research
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It is that time of the year again, the beginning of a new one, and time to look back at how the Santa Monica real estate market fared in 2011.
Since Santa Monica is made up of diverse neighborhoods I have split the report into single family by price and condos.
What is Market Absorption?
Market absorption trends show the rate that properties are selling compared with inventory which enables us to see if it is a sellers' or buyers' market.
6 months worth of inventory is a balanced market. Under 6 months is a sellers' market, and anything over 6 months is a buyers' market.
So how is the Santa Monica real estate market doing?
Surprisingly, the under $2M Santa Monica single family home market showing a bigger drop than the higher end homes, although both are showing a larger decrease over 2011. The median price is down at the lower end, but the sales vs list price is slightly up, indicating that homes priced well are selling close to asking. Also, with inventory at around 2 months, Santa Monica home sellers should consider this a good time to put their homes on the market.
The higher end market is a buyers' market
Santa Monica condos are also showing a decrease across the board, number of sales, median price, and sales to list price, but the inventory is low, so if you are thinking of selling a Santa Monica condo now would be a good time.
Previous Santa Monica Housing Market Reports
Santa Monica Market Report September 2011
Real Estate in Santa Monica Half Yearly Market Report
Santa Monica Real Estate First Quarter 2011 Market Report
$5,450,000 : 311 23RD Street, Santa Monica4 beds, 4 baths
$4,600,000 : 100 LARKIN Place, Santa Monica4 beds, 5 baths
$1,759,000 : 816 WILSON Place, Santa Monica3 beds, 2 baths
$3,295,000 : 330 22ND Street, Santa Monica4 beds, 2 baths
$12,495,000 : 617 GEORGINA Avenue, Santa Monica5 beds, 10 baths
$1,695,000 : 3035 PAULA Drive, Santa Monica3 beds, 2 baths
$4,975,000 : 438 9TH Street, Santa Monica5 beds, 4 baths
$3,495,000 : 2601 24TH Street, Santa Monica5 beds, 6 baths
$2,290,000 : 1247 25th Street, Santa Monica5 beds, 5 baths
$3,275,000 : 303 16TH Street, Santa Monica4 beds, 3 baths
$3,595,000 : 2622 25TH Street, Santa Monica4 beds, 4 baths
$4,500,000 : 2120 MARINE Street, Santa Monica5 beds, 6 baths
$3,895,000 : 934 25TH Street, Santa Monica5 beds, 6 baths
$3,168,000 : 702 11TH Street, Santa Monica3 beds, 2 baths
$2,595,000 : 2728 WASHINGTON Avenue, Santa Monica3 beds, 2 baths
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In recent years, sales of printed books, newspapers, and magazines have dropped as readers turn to electronic and web-based versions. But local author W. Matthew Hart, 68, has hit a vein of success with the digital publication of more than a dozen murder-mysteries. He sells them through Amazon.
It's a tough, new world out there for writers and publishers.
In recent years, sales of printed books, newspapers, and magazines have dropped as readers turn to electronic and web-based versions. But local author W. Matthew Hart, 68, has hit a vein of success with the digital publication of more than a dozen murder-mysteries. He sells them through Amazon.
"It's amazing, after a decade of writing and not being published. I've done so well this year," said Hart, a South Chatham native who now lives in Harwich.
"The old book publishing standards (and publishers) are going the way of the horse and buggy," he said.
His sales numbers are impressive. Of his 15 books listed on Amazon, he has more than 2,000 sales so far, including 588 in the month of March. His downloadable books cost between $1 and $5. His printed ones range from $5 to $14.
"The mistake I made years ago was thinking that my work would get published just because a company was interested," he said, explaining that one publisher said they liked his work but never took action.
"The fact is that they just sat on it. They said they wouldn't act without a contract and one never emerged so I took them all back," he said.
From a young age, Hart was fascinated with ocean voyages, mysteries, and thrillers. He especially liked stories that relied on problem solving with technology. The fact that he was drawn to the water was no surprise because for generations his relatives have been ship captains traveling the world.
His grandfather, Walter Matthew Hart, was a sea captain of several large commercial boats, including the S.S. Deepwater, which was attacked in 1942 by a German submarine off New Jersey. The boat sank but he survived.
Hart graduated from Chatham high school with a hope for exciting adventures. He became a U.S. Marine and specialized in electronics. In his seventh year he was injured in a helicopter accident but stayed in the reserves for another 11 years.
Coming out of the armed forces, Hart continued his focus on technology. He worked for a series of large corporations including Motorola, Westinghouse, EDS, and IBM.
"I would always grab a few paperbacks when I did company travel and would read them so quickly. That got me wondering about my own stories," he said.
Hart began writing a series of murder mysteries more than a decade ago. Many of his works center around a character named Alan Hast. A major in the U.S. Marine Corps, Hast carries out special operations to prevent murder, theft, and other crimes. Whether he is trying to thwart a Caribbean drug and money smuggling cartel or prevent the detonation of a liquid natural gas boat by terrorists, Hast has a knack for dealing with the bad guys.
"I try and take historical events and locations that are true and add a fictional story," said Hart, who prefers to write in the early mornings. "I might have multiple plot lines going at once, and prefer to weave these together in the book to an exciting conclusion," he said.
Hart has been very happy with the digital publishing services of Amazon. He uses its software to upload his content and inserts his own pictures. Most of his titles can either be downloaded electronically or a printed copy can be made in a few days time. His only costs are a small fee for marketing. His royalty payment is 35 percent of the sale price.
"I think I've had a lot of repeat buyers who go through several Kindle downloads and then move on to a paper copy," he said.
Hart said that he even stepped outside his typical genre and recently wrote a children's book called, "The Adventures of Captain Santa Claus."
"People know what he does for one special night but what does he do for the rest of the year? He's got a magic boat and each story contains an important lesson. I was even able to put the names of my eight grandchildren into the first story," he said with a laugh.
With his success this year has also come a challenge: Someone, likely living in India, stole his "A Case of Mistaken Identity" manuscript and titled a new book as his own and then claimed Hart had stolen his work.
"I had to remove my book and go through a long process with Amazon. They took two months to pull the fake one but it's been settled now," he said.
Hart is writing two new books this spring, including one about an assassin going after Alan Hast.
"He wakes up with a load of pressure on his face and it's someone trying to smother him with a pillow," he said.
Hart has actually held back what he calls his five best novels for a publishing contract he'd like to secure one day. For now, he's happy with the advent of technology that's allowed him to form a following on his own.
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Common misspellings for squash
succh, sasquach, squelsh, sarash, sqeamish, sequay, squess, squach, squease, scrash, quish, squinch, squeemish, squlch, squars, squese, seqarch, sluggush, squaer, sqash, suach, squae, eqach, spash, squair, squshy, sasquash, squemish, squichy, srcach, schoarship, sqaush, sqauk, squar, sqwash, distiquish, squisy, squise, squealch, slugish, squashs, squwish, suuch, sqaushed, sluggsh, suishi, squairs, squoze, squimish, squesse, squarish, squshed, sqeemish, quishe, squiash, skermash, sugarbush, sqish, squosh, squashe, squah, smush, sqemish, distguish, skrach, soutash, squage, squishly, sqitch.
Definitions of squash
An American animal allied to the weasel.
The sudden fall of a heavy, soft, or bursting body.
A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Something soft and easily crushed; a mashed object or mass; the sudden fall of a soft body; a plant of various kinds belonging to the cucumber family; also, its fruit.
A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
To best or press into pulp or a flat mass.
The fleshy edible fruit of a trailing plant; also, the palnt.
The American name for a species of weasel. " The smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats is fragrance itself, when compared to that of the squash and the skunk."- Goldsmith.
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; " crush an aluminum can"; " squeeze a lemon"
A soft or mashed object.
Anything soft and easily crushed; a sudden fall of a heavy soft body.
Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
A species of gourd.
To beat or press into pulp: to crush flat.
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
A plant of the genus Cucurbita, C. Melopepo, and its fruit, cultivated in America as an article of food. " Squash is an Indian kind of pumpion that grows apace."- Boyle.
any of numerous annual tendril- bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long- handled rackets
A plant, and its fruit, of the gourd kind; an Amer. animal allied to the weasel- properly musquash.
Colloquially, to fall in a soft mass.
Colloquially, to crush, especially into a flat mass or pulp.
edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
To bear or press into pulp; to crush into a flat mass.
Something soft and easily crushed; something unripe or soft; a sudden fall of a heavy soft body; a shock of soft bodies.
Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
A sudden fall or shock of soft bodies: anything soft and easily crushed, anything soft or unripe.
Antonyms for squash
instigate, aid, invoke, stir, nourish, beget, help, abet, back, bring, forward, assist, induce, create, further, promote, encourage, nurture, generate, catalyze, cultivate, foster, provoke, make, engender, effectuate, support, whip, foment, draw on, bring on, incubate, prop up, incite, bring about, advance.
Quotes of squash
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.– Mario Batali
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash– Josh Billings
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.– Camille Claudel
Squash that's not exercise, it's flagellation.– Noel Coward
Everything is changing in squash Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.– Jahangir Khan
Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.– Jahangir Khan
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.– Jahangir Khan
Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.– Jahangir Khan
Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.– Joe Krauss
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.– Emo Philips
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash– Jason Statham
Dive on them and squash them if you must.– Jeremy Taylor
Usage examples for squash
" They are also used as a fall and winter squash rejecting the shell and that portion of the inside which contains the seeds. "– Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
" The squash racquets seemed to be of a most pervading character; the thunder of rushing feet, blent with the long, progressive shriek of an express train, would at intervals approach almost to the swing door, but I remained unmolested. "– Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. OEnone Somerville Martin Ross
" I am a mammoth squash "– Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown
" Squash will answer very well. "– Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf by Jane H. Newell
" If our method of securing the salmon was unsportsmanlike, we excused ourselves for the methods used, just as Major Powell justified his appropriation of the Indians' squash "– Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. Kolb
" Autumn was over the land; nothing seemed more sizable, more simple, more accessible, than the winter squash "– Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
" Why not build a squash court? "– The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
" As they passed by, squash vines and bean- plants grew from the corn- hills. "– Good Stories For Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott
" See " The White Squash note 1, p. "– Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cook Cole
" When the party left, the women who favored us came out with baskets filled with fresh vegetables, pumpkins, sweet potatoes and squash "– Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake-Alverson
" I've got everything ready; they'll have to believe me and squash his sentence. "– The Freelands by John Galsworthy
" " No reason why he should squash us up in the fly," Kelson returned. "– The Hunt Ball Mystery by Magnay, William
" But when the voice again called and begged them to open the squash they carefully opened it, and there inside was a nice baby boy. "– Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cook Cole
" How much of each kind of squash is required to serve 6 persons? "– School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. Greer
" I'm just not letting it overshadow the fact that you're forming teams, which means that something more than you can handle alone is headed this way, and if it's bigger than you, it'll be able to squash a convertee in a heartbeat. "– An Encounter in Atlanta by Ed Howdershelt
" It may be a chance to squash them altogether." "– Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
" Her father, standing by a squash necked lavender jug in the " serenity," did not entirely grasp Mr. Brotherton's point. "– In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
" Mother, said Jennie, impressively, turning away from her squash to get a view of her mother's face, I ought to have a new dress for this party. "– Divers Women by Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston
" Let engines rip, and the little, squash headed fellows with them! "– The Freelands by John Galsworthy
" Have a lemon- squash Morton? "– Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips Oppenheim


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Model Blac Chyna announced via her Instagram account on Friday that she is expecting her second child and the first with her beau Rob Kardashian. The news has come just a few weeks after the couple announced their engagement Via Instagram.
Later on, Rob shared an emoji of her girlfriend on Instagram which garnered thousands of likes in no time. We can see in this emoji that Chyna is rubbing her massive baby bump.
At the time of the news of their engagement, they had preferred to remain mum. Now it will be interesting to see how they will react this time. On the other hand, Blac Chyna's mother Tokyo Toni aka Shalana Hunter had praised the couple claiming they are her two favorite people in the world.
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"They both have shown strength diversity and triumph. These kids are fabulous and both are great role models to young, old or children." Tokyo said. "I have so much respect for this couple and all attached," she added.
The favorite pal of Chyna, Amber Rose is the first person to congratulate the couple. She said "Congratulations to my family. Please don't let nothing or no one tear you guys apart! I never seen my sis so happy and I couldn't be happier for her! Sometimes we find love in the strangest places."
"God bless you 2! Now let's get this wedding together so y'all can start making some babies #truelove #putaringonitsoyouknowitsreal," Amber added.
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His sisters are not happy with this relation because previously they had a lot of bad blood with Chyna and her mother Hunter.
It is obvious Chyna is the ex-girlfriend of rapper Tyga who is currently dating Kylie Jenner.
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With no knowledge of who the lyrics belong to, N.O.R.E. gives his unfiltered opinion on other rappers' bars.
A previously unwritten rule has now been set in stone: when you're DJing for 50 Cent at the club, don't play any Diddy.
Over the weekend, Fif was performing at a club, and when the DJ decided to play his hit "I Get Money" remix featuring the Bad Boy headman, he decided to take things into his own hands… or foot.
Jay Z, who's also on the track, isn't beefing with 50 anymore, but it seems 50 is still beefing with Diddy (just head to his Instagram for a few comical reasons why). Apparently that's the reason Fif decided to step on the DJ's mixer, which caused him to wrap up the song.
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With no knowledge of who the lyrics belong to, N.O.R.E. gives his unfiltered opinion on other rappers' bars.