text: Oct 23, 2017 CWI#61 - 📊 Practical With Analytics & AI 📊 Being sceptic about AI is fine. Getting insights on the practical stuff and what you can do with it T CWI#61 - 📊 Practical With Analytics & AI 📊 By Dries Bultynck • Issue #61 • View online Being sceptic about AI is fine. Getting insights on the practical stuff and what you can do with it TODAY to help solve marketing and growth related issues, is ACE! And that's what I've learned last week. On top of that, some insights I've got by attending MeasureCamp in Brussels last saturday. Interesting week. Hope the topics below translate to you in any form of value. If not, let me know and how I can fix that for you. The Search World lost a Comforting Wizard But first… allow me to start with some sad news earlier this week. Eric Ward might not ring a bell? Eric was to many the best link builder out there. Earlier this week, he left behind his family and kids at the age of 58. I've been fortuned to briefly work with Eric on a client back in the days with bSeen (SEA/SEO company from Marnik D'hoore & Stefan Audenaert, a few years back). I was amazed by his level of professionalism and extremely easy to communicate with. Easy going. Gentle & supporting. Transparent. I think comforting might be the best word to describe the feeling. A very rare combination in this world. Good bye Eric.Thank you for the inspiration. MeasureCamp: Practical Analytics Summary My first measurecamp and definitely not my last one. Nice to meet and see people again within the twitter/analytics space. Over 40% of the attendees were from abroad! Didn't expect that. wow. Russia, Denmark, UK, Australia, USA, France, Germany, Romania, … The board got filled rapidly for this unconference. So lots to choose from. Missed out on a few interesting topics apparently. I skipped the technical talks as I don't want to get distracted from building my own GTM Framework(s). More on that within a few months, I hope. It really made me happy to hear Peter O'neill talk about the misconception and bullshit (thanks to Adam Greco - ex Salesforce.com, Demystified Analytics) attribution really is. We simply can not do it properly due to the lack of data and what kind of efforts translate into the uplift of shift of attribution (channel + marketing or other efforts). A very hard puzzle too solve that has no value for your customer! If you're interested, feel free to scroll through the tweets to get a grip of what was cooking during that day. I think the slides will come online later this week. I'll share them on my twitter & linkedin. Here's already a first one by Yves-Marie Lemaître from Ensighten. Key take aways from the talks (which can help you): Help the CEO and support him with data to answer questions Make presentations as simple as possible. Your boss doesn't have the time to go into the details. Give hem the numbers and suggest the next question to solve or to ask. If you don't get questions, suggest a list of questions to work on Attribution is almost impossible to solve and will definitely upset people when you try (ego, accountability, etc.) If you can't translate a metric or analysis related to a customer action, your a bad analist Don't upset people, listen to them and help them to solve their problem There is more gain into cost-cutting than selling more. That's fine too. And it should be a part of your solution When you're sitting more than 8h behind your desk, you're not talking to people Build-in at least 1h per week to have an open office hour and talk to people Allocate one day per week to do the number crunching and focus on the doing! … #measurecamp hashtag on Twitter See Tweets about #measurecamp on Twitter. See what people are saying and join the conversation. twitter.com Visualization is a skill you need to practice Graphs & visualization. Highly underrated. At MeasureCamp, another analist talked about pie charts being hated in the industry but he didn't knew why. Well… Pie charts are one of the worst items to show data that has any form of relation. It shows no relation between the data and has a discomforting level to understand (ex: 4 categories at 25%, 25%, 24% and 26% for instance) within one blink of an eye (rule of thumb for exploratory viz). Always avoid pie charts. Use bar charts instead! Grafiekjes, dat blijft toch moeilijk | Michel Vuijlsteke's weblog Ziet, hoe fantastisch de loonsverhogingen! Tiens, is dat allemaal wel in verhouding? Als we dat allemaal op 100% zetten, hoe ziet het er dan uit? Ho, maar… blog.zog.org About AI ... It was mentioned in the course and mentioned by Steven Van Belleghem in his last video. But here's the main thing. All headlines are about the biggest and unachievable (yet) sorts if AI by average companies. General AI. The far-out most advanced type of AI you can get within the next 10 years or so. So… we skipped that part as it needs computing power (and the knowledge) only a few on the planet have access to, at this moment. Pls… check the article. You'll understand. AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch We introduce AlphaGo Zero, the latest evolution of AlphaGo, the first computer program to defeat a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. deepmind.com So… in the course we focused on types of vertical AI. The kind of techniques you can use and apply to marketing and growth related questions, TODAY!Here's the major break down to use towards your manager or client:There are three steps: Descriptive Analytics (what happened): Suggest and do an exploratory analysis first that answers at least one specific question. Report on the numbers and suggest the needed actions in order to go and do step 2. Mainly: get & clean-up the data. The shitty part about this, is that it's 60 or 70% of the time for this three step process. So that sucks. Preparing a small sample with a 1000 records would be a nice start to build the case. Predictive Analytics (what will happen):Once you have the go from management, it's up to you. Dive into the prediction part using a few different algorithms and get more insights. Testing the best algorithm on a sample and then applying it to the main database adds extra value to the data. It's an extra person in the room ;) On the what will happen part, take that with a grain of salt. Predictive modeling can also be to what part of cluster of what parameter is influencing the output the most. Correlation, not causation. Prescriptive Analytics (what should happen):In this part, you'd usually estimate the outcome. This is the actual predicting part of what should normally happen although you're not sure. Example: CLTV should be 18 months, but could be that for some reason I'm leaving as a client due to a bad delivery of my order. You'll never know, you only can guess the future. So… depending on the type of business your in, meaning, B2B or B2C, different algorithms will be used. B2B is the most easy part as the most variables are fixed. Variables such as CAC, Pricing of your product and thus Churn & CLTV. For B2C, that's a whole different ball game. There are so many variables in B2C, especially e-com, which happens to be the most communicated AI related business opportunities. But… there the hardest to solve too. No one talks about that, don't they? :)Shit is fucked up out there. B2C data is more complex, more personal and more single customer and product type driven than B2B. Every product, every category, every price, every size, every colour, every channel, every client, etc. is different. And, than on top of that, you have the behavioural data of Google Analytics. If you need any help figuring out what to do with B2C, hit me up by hitting the reply button. That's it. I think I can help you to get to those first steps & come-up with a first case and improvement. Any how… getting into this thing is extremely high on my agenda, no matter what and I'm going to use it everywhere I can, whenever I can. Passed the radar this week Google (GOOG) built earbuds that translate 40 languages in real time like the Hitchhiker's Guide's "Babel fish" — Quartz Google is the first major tech company to build the Babel fish. The search company, which is now making a slew of its own hardware products, announced the Google Pixel Buds at a San Francisco event today (Oct. 4). The earbuds connect wirelessly with Google's latest smartphones, but more importantly, they're able to access Google… qz.com Minimum Viable Conversion Optimization: If You Only Have One Day a Month, Do This! Fast track the road to success: 11 experts share their minimum viable conversion optimization tips. If you only have one day a month for optimizing, do this getuplift.co Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have ever seen Facebook Explore Feed is rolling out globally this week. Most people around the world can see it in their bookmarks and they can discover new content here. medium.com Facebook news feed change is death to small businesses Everyone using Facebook pages for their business knew that Facebook's organic reach for pages was decreasing over the years. And starting from today most of them might have realized that their reach is going go down dramatically in future. medium.com Waarom heeft niemand het over datastrategie? Het moet nu al een jaar of drie zijn dat iedereen het erover eens is: data is het nieuwe goud. Bedrijven die erin slagen de juiste data te verzamelen en de verzamelde data op een goeie manier te integreren zijn de bedrijven die winnen. www.dull.be Wat is de betekenis van data zonder creativiteit? De rationele kant van de business heeft de afgelopen tien jaar de meeste aandacht gekregen. Niet vreemd, want ondernemingen zijn in de ban van de digitale transformatie en hebben een focus op technologie en data. Tegelijkertijd werd het kortetermijnresultaat belangrijk. www.marketingfacts.nl Spotify's Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music This Monday — just like every Monday— over 100 million Spotify users found a fresh new playlist waiting for them. It's a custom mixtape of 30 songs they've never listened to before but will probably love. It's called Discover Weekly, and it's pretty much magic. hackernoon.com As tech companies get richer, is it 'game over' for startups? | Technology | The Guardian Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power www.theguardian.com See you next week. d Did you enjoy this issue? 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text: Founding Fathers - Howard Bremer - News and Articles Date 1978 COGR Meeting June 1 and 2, 1978 1979 COGR February Meeting 1979 1979 COGR June Meeting 1979 1979 COGR October Meeting 1979 1979 The Future of University Research and Technology Licensing, Licensing Executives Society, 1979 1980 COGR June Meeting 1980 1980 The Bureau of National Affairs, News & Comment, 1980 1981 IPO Criticizes Proposed Patent Policy Regs, IPO News, October 1981 1984 SUPA Newsletter, Volume 9 No. 1, Spring 1984 9/26/1963 The Government's Role and the Future of Discovery, 9-26-1963 10/11/1963 Wall Street Journal, 10-11-1963 10/21/1963 C&EN, 10-21-1963 7/9/1965 PMA Newsletter, 7-9-1965 9/25/1975 News and Comment,AIA Seeks Legislation allowing R and D Contractors to Retain Patent Rights, 9-25-1975 11/1975 Article, The defensive publication program of the U.S. Patent Office, by Lawrence Gilbert, Chemtech, 11-1975 1/1/1976 The Frankenstein Patent, Rolling Stone, 1-1-1976 2/15/1976 The Genetic Engineers Still Await Guidlines by Tabitha M. Powledge, 2-15-1976 4/15/1976 Genetic Engineering will Fight Disease by David Perlman, 4-15-1976 5/17/1976 Yet Another Call for More Spending on R and D, C and EN, 5-17-1976 11/1976 News from the Society, Vol. 1, No. 1, 11-1976 12/1976 Resume of U.S. Technology Policies by Betsy Ancker-Johnson, 12-1976 2/24/1977 Commerce Suspends Acclerated Process of Patents on DNA Research Inventions, United States Department of Commerce News, 2-24-1977 4/6/1977 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, H.R. 6249, 4-6-1977 4/14/1977 News and Comment, 4-14-1977 4/21/1977 News and Comment, 4-21-1977 4/21/1977 News and Comment, Uniform Government Patent Policy Bill Gives Contractors Defeasible Title to Inventions, 4-21-1977 12/1977 News from the Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, 12-1977 12/22/1977 Higher Education Daily, 12-22-1977 2/1978 COGR Meeting, February 2 and 3,1978 2/20/1978 The Need for a Policy to Build Exports, Business Week, 2-20-1978 3/2/1978 Two Trade Associations Voice Support for License Approach in Govenment Patent Policy, News and Comment, 3-2-1978 3/17/1978 Article, Patent Policy Changes Stir Concern, Science, Vol. 199, 3-17-1978 4/7/1978 Patent Rule Postponed, Federal Research Report, Vol. 14, No. 14, 4-7-1978 6/15/1978 President Carter Announces Creation of Commitee to Study Industrial Innovation, 6-15-1978 6/30/1978 Patent Policy Versus Innovation, Science, 6-30-1978 7/3/1978 Article, Vanishing Innovation, Business Week, 7-3-1978 7/6/1978 Lederberg suggests national foundation to exploit fruits of university research by David Dickson, 7-6-1978 8/4/1978 News from U.S. Senator Bob Dole, 8-4-1978 8/4/1978 News from U.S. Senator Bob Dole, Dole Charges HEW is Suppressing Lifesaving Medical Technology, 8-4-1978 9/1978 Article, Dole Blasts HEW for Stonewalling Patent Applications, BioScience, 9-1978 9/3/1978 Article, A day for Enterprise, Michael Novak, 9-3-1978 9/4/1978 Article, Small Firms Stinted on Research, Thw Washington Post, 9-4-1978 9/13/1978 News from Birch Bayh, 9-13-1978 9/13/1978 News from U.S. Senator Bob Dole, Remarks of Senator Bob Dole, 9-13-1978 9/13/1978 Something's Happened to Yankee Ingenuity, Conressional Record, 9-13-1978 9/14/1978 News from Birch Bayh, 9-14-1978 10/2/1978 Article, The Innovation Recession, Time, 10-2-1978 11/2/1978 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, Introductory Remarks and Text of S. 3627, 11-2-1978 1/1979 Managing Computer Related Intellectual Property at Institutes of Higher Education, by Donald F. Costello, 1-1979 1/2/1979 IRS rulings reportedly may force some scientific journals to stop, by Lawrence Altman, Minneapolis Tribue, 1-2-1979 1/7/1979 Worker who gave tip on drug patent backlog is fired, by Barbara Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 1-7-1979 1/8/1979 The Can-Do Spirit by John W. Hanley, My Turn, 1-8-1979 1/9/1979 News from U.S. Senator Bob Dole, 1-9-1979 2/5/1979 Article, Stevenson Hints He Might Seek the Presidency, Washington Post, 2-5-1979 3/1/1979 Article, Unit, U.S. Senate Has Number for Innovation, 3-1-1979 3/15/1979 Article, Public Money and Private Gain, 3-15-1979 3/15/1979 Public Money and Private Gain by Arlen J. Large, 3-15-1979 4/8/1979 Article, The Washington Post, Patent Bill Seeks Shift to Bolster Innovation, 4-8-1979 5/1979 Controversial Bill on Patent Policy Gains Support of Accounting Office by Anne C. Roark, 5-1979 5/10/1979 PTCJ, No. 428-430, 5-10-1979 6/7/1979 News and Comment, Hearings Scheduled for Later this Month on National Technology Innovation Act, 6-7-1979 7/3/1979 Article, Vanishing Innovation, a hostile climate for new ideas and products is threatening, Business Week, 7-3-1979 7/25/1979 Higher Education, Business Support Patent Policy Chance, Higher Education Daily, 7-25-1979 8/2/1979 Parker v. Bergy, BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 8-2-1979 8/3/1979 Article, Patent Bill Returns Bright Idea to Inventor, Vol. 205, 8-3-1979 10/1979 COGR October 1979 Meeting 10/18/1979 Patent, Trademark and Copyright Briefs, News and Comment, 10-18-1979 10/18/1979 PTCJ, 10-18-1979 10/25/1979 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, Remarks, Analysis and Text of S. 1860, 10-25-1979 11/1/1979 The Bureau of National Affairs, News & Comment, 11-1-1979 11/7/1979 News from Birch Bayh, 11-7-1979 1/1980 Patenting Life Article, 1-1980 1/13/1980 Article, Improving the Moustraps at the U.S. Patent Office by Richard Lyons, The New York Times, 1-13-1980 2/14/1980 Senate Votes Down Bid to Broaden Scope of Patent Policy Bill, S. 414, The Bureau of National Affairs, 2-14-1980 2/21/1980 News and Comment, 2-21-1980 3/27/1980 News and Comment, 3-27-1980 4/2/1980 News Release, Congressman Bob Kastenmeier, 4-2-1980 4/21/1980 Article, Medical costs and the Drug Industry, Wall Street Journal, 4-21-1980 5/1/1980 Regulatory Review and Innovation in the Chemical Industry Outline by Rudolph J. Anderson, 5-1-1980 5/1/1980 Senate Passes Patent Policy Bill, S. 414, BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, 5-1-1980 5/13/1980 Article, University wants invention protection, supports bill clarifying patent rules, Daily Trojan, 5-13-1980 6/3/1980 Special Washington Report from Birch Bayh, 6-3-1980 6/5/1980 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, Industrial Innovation Bill Passed by Senate, 6-5-1980 9/11/1980 News and Comment, 9-11-1980 10/9/1980 News and Comment, Major Industrial Innovation Bill, S. 1250, 10-9-1980 10/23/1980 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 10-23-1980 3/5/1981 News and Comment, No. 519, 3-5-1981 5/11/1981 Justice Dept. Announces New Policy Giving Agencies More Discretion, 5-11-1981 5/20/1981 Article, Patently Fair, the Washington Post, 5-20-1981 6/5/1981 Article, Reopening the FOIA Debate, The Washington Post, 6-5-1981 10/1/1981 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Jounal, Introductory Remarks and Text of S. 1657, 10-1-1981 10/1/1981 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 10-1-1981 10/1/1981 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, New Bills Would Give Greater Patent Rights to Big Business, 10-1-1981 10/8/1981 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, H.R. 4564, 10-8-1981 10/19/1981 Coherent Federal Patent Policy Taking Shape, C and EN 10-19-1981 10/19/1981 Coherent Federal Patent Policy Taking Shape, C and EN, 10-19-1981 10/22/1981 PTO Issues Guidelines on Computer-Related Inventions, News and Comment, 10-22-1981 2/1982 COGR Meeting Report, 2-1982 3/1982 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 3-4-1982 3/4/1982 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, Text of H.R. 5602, 3-4-1982 4/12/1982 Who, and where, do I sue by Beth Brophy, 4-12-1982 5/27/1982 News and Comment, Patent Term Restoration Act, 5-27-1982 8/19/1982 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 8-19-1982 3/1983 Future Developments in Federal Patent Policy by James E. Denny, 3-1983 7/21/1983 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 7-21-1983 3/16/1984 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, Text of S. 2926, 3-16-1984 9/14/1984 IPO Alert by Herbert C. Wamsley, 9-14-1984 7/17/1985 Interim Final Rule on Government Patent Policy, BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 7-17-1985 3/13/1986 BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, 3-13-1986 11/22/1989 The Impediments to Technology Transfer from the Higher Education Sector, 11-22-1989 12/2010 Senator Gaylord Nelson, For Immediate Release, 12-9 12/2010 Senator Gaylord Nelson, For Immediate Release, 12-13 News Release, Congressman Bob Kastenmeier Article 6, Inventions and Patents Article, HEW Accused of delay on new drug, by John O. 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Do certain personality disorders favor men and others favor women? The answer may depend on where you look. Because more women than men seek treatment for mental disorders, there are usually more women among the patients in mental health centers. Conversely, because more men than women are veterans, you would expect more male patients at Veterans Administration hospitals.
Nevertheless, certain personality disorders do seem weighted toward a particular gender. For some researchers (Kaplan, 1983; Pantony & Caplan, 1991), these discrepancies in diagnostic frequency, particularly in the larger number of females diagnosed borderline, dependent, and histrionic, are inherently sexist. However, although the DSM-IV agrees that these three are more frequently diagnosed in women, it also states that the paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, narcissistic, and obsessive-compulsive are more frequently diagnosed in men. If there is a bias, then, it would appear to go against the males.
One problem that creates bias is that certain diagnostic criteria seem to refer to both normalcy and pathology. Most people would argue that the histrionic criterion "consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self," for example, is exceptionally ambiguous in a society where a pleasing physical appearance is an expected part of the female gender role. Accordingly, where subjects have several traits of the histrionic personality, it is possible that clinicians might simply assume that this ambiguous criterion is met. Widiger (1998) argues that the more unstructured the interview situation, the more likely it is that clinicians will rely on sex stereotypic bias when diagnosing.
Even where diagnostic criteria are not ambiguous, it may nevertheless prove difficult to apply them equally across the sexes. The criteria for the dependent personality, for example, seems to emphasize as pathological female types of dependency, but fails to include masculine types of dependency. For example, Walker (1994, p. 36) argues that "men who rely on others to maintain their homes and take care of their children are . . . expressing personality-disordered dependency." Were this criterion added, many more men would certainly be diagnosed dependent.
Future DSMs must profit from these considerations if diagnostic criteria are to be devised that can replace implicit sex-stereotypic conceptions to be valid for both genders.
or emotionality of individuals and in the intensity of their activity cycles. Although A. H. Buss and Plomin (1984, p. 84) refer to it as consisting of "inherited personality traits present in early childhood," we might argue that temperament is the sum total of inherited biological influences on personality that show continuity across the life span. A case can certainly be made that temperament is more important than other domains of personality and more pervasive in its influence. Because our physical matrix exists before other domains of personality emerge, biologically built-in behavioral tendencies preempt and exclude other possible pathways of development that might take hold. Thus, although an irritable, demanding infant may mature into a diplomat famous for calmly understanding the issues on all sides, the odds are stacked against it. Similarly, a child whose personal tempo is slower than average is unlikely to develop a histrionic style, and an unusually agreeable infant is unlikely to develop an antisocial personality. Thus, biology does not determine our adult personality, but it does constrain development, channeling it down certain pathways rather than others, in interaction with social and family factors.
The doctrine of bodily humors posited by the early Greeks some 25 centuries ago was one of the first systems used to explain differences in personality. In the fourth century B.C., Hippocrates concluded that all disease stems from an excess of, or imbalance among, four bodily humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm. These humors were the embodiment of earth, water, fire, and air, the declared basic elements of the universe according to the philosopher Empedocles. Hippocrates identified four basic corresponding temperaments: choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic. Centuries later, Galen would associate each temperament with a particular personality trait; the choleric temperament was associated with irascibility, the sanguine temperament with optimism, the melancholic temperament with sadness, and the phlegmatic temperament with apathy. Although the doctrine of humors has been abandoned, giving way to the study of neurochemistry as its contemporary analogue, the old view still persists in contemporary expressions such as being sanguine or good-humored.
Constitution refers to the total plan or philosophy on which something is constructed. The foremost early exponent of this approach was Ernst Kretschmer (1926), who developed a classification system based on three main body types—thin, muscular, and obese—each of which was associated with certain personality traits and psychopathologies. According to Kretschmer, the obese were disposed toward the development of manic-depressive illness, and the thin toward the development of schizophrenia. Kretschmer also believed that his types were associated with the expression of normal traits. Thin types were believed to be introverted, timid, and lacking in personal warmth, a less extreme version of the negative symptoms exhibited by withdrawn schizophrenics. Obese persons were conceived as gregarious, friendly, and interpersonally dependent, a less extreme version of the moody and socially excitable manic-depressive.
Kretschmer's work was continued by Sheldon (1942), who saw similarities between the three body types and the three basic layers of tissue that compose the embryo: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. The endoderm develops into the soft parts of the body, the mesoderm eventually forms the muscles and skeleton, and the ectoderm forms the nervous system. Each embryonic layer corresponds to a particular body type and is associated with the expression of certain normal-range personality characteristics. Accordingly, endomorphs, who tend toward obesity, were believed to be lovers of comfort and to be socially warm and goodwilled. Mesomorphs, who usually resemble athletes, were believed to be competitive, energetic, assertive, and bold. Ectomorphs, who tend toward thinness, were believed to be introversive and restrained but also mentally intense and restless. Although interesting, the idea of body types is no longer influential in personality theory. Rather than study the total organization of the body, researchers have begun to examine the role of individual anatomical structures in detail, many of which lie in the human brain.
Research psychiatrist Cloninger (1986, 1987b) proposed an elegant theory based on hypothesized relationships of three genetic-neurobiologic trait dispositions, each of which is associated with a particular neurotransmitter system. Specifically, novelty seeking is associated with low basal activity in the dopaminergic system, harm avoidance with high activity in the serotonergic system, and reward dependence with low basal noradrenergic system activity. Novelty seeking is hypothesized to dispose the individual toward exhilaration or excitement in response to novel stimuli, which leads to the pursuit of potential rewards as well as an active avoidance of both monotony and punishment. Harm avoidance reflects a disposition to respond strongly to aversive stimuli, leading the individual to inhibit behaviors to avoid punishment, novelty, and frustrations. Reward dependence is seen as a tendency to respond to signals of reward, verbal signals of social approval, for example, and to resist extinction of behaviors previously associated with rewards or relief from punishment. These three dimensions form the axes of a cube whose corners represent various personality constructs (see Figure 1.5). Thus, antisocial personalities, who are often seen as fearless and sensation seeking, are seen as low in harm avoidance and high in novelty seeking, whereas the imperturbable schizoid is seen as low across all dimensions of the model. The personality disorders generated by Cloninger's model correspond only loosely to those in the DSM-IV. A number of personality disorders do not appear in the model at all.
A different approach, proposed by Siever and Davis (1991), is termed a psychobio-logical model. It consists of four dimensions—cognitive/perceptual organization, impul-sivity/aggression, affective instability, and anxiety/inhibition—each of which has both Axis I and Axis II manifestations. Thus, cognitive/perceptual organization appears on Axis I in the form of schizophrenia and on Axis II especially as the schizotypal personality disorder but also the paranoid and the schizoid. All exhibit a disorganization of thought, dealt with by social isolation, social detachment, and guardedness. Impulsiv-ity/aggression appears on Axis I in the form of impulse disorders and on Axis II particularly as the borderline and antisocial personalities. Borderlines are prone to sudden outbursts of anger and suicide attempts, and antisocials are unable to inhibit impulsive urges to violate social standards, for example, stealing and lying. Affective instability, a tendency toward rapid shifts of emotion, is manifested in the affective disorders on Axis I and in the borderline, and possibly histrionic, on Axis II. Anxiety/inhibition, associated with social avoidance, compulsivity, and sensitivity to the possibility of danger and punishment, is manifested in the anxiety disorders on Axis I and particularly in the avoidant personality on Axis II, but also in the compulsive and dependent.
Genetics is a distal influence on personality. Researchers explore the influence of genes on behavior by searching for the presence of similar psychopathologies in siblings and relatives of an afflicted subject, by studying patterns of transmission across generations of the extended family, and by comparing the correlation of scores obtained on personality tests between sets of fraternal twins and identical twins reared together and apart. Other esoteric methodologies are also available, including structural equation modeling (Derlega, Winstead, & Jones, 1991) and Multiple Abstract Variance Analysis (Cattell, 1982). A comparison of correlations for identical twins reared together and apart shows that both are approximately equal, running at about 0.50 across a variety of personality
FIGURE 1.5 Cloninger's Neurobiological Model of Personality Disorders.
FIGURE 1.5 Cloninger's Neurobiological Model of Personality Disorders.
traits (Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, & Tellegen, 1990). Even measures of religious interests, attitudes, and values have been shown to be highly influenced by genetic factors (Waller, Kojetin, Bouchard, Lykken, & Tellegen, 1990).
Studies of the heritability of the personality disorders have been less definite. Trait researchers can avail themselves of large samples of normal subjects, but the sample sizes generated by personality disorders are comparatively small and highly pathological in comparison to normal samples, which can distort correlational statistics. Moreover, because personality disorders exist as overlapping composites of personality traits, genetic-environmental interactions are much more complex than for single traits alone. In a review of the evidence, Thapar and McGuffin (1993) argue that the evidence for heritability is most strong for antisocial and schizotypal personality disorders. In another review, Nigg and Goldsmith (1994) suggest that the paranoid and schizoid personality disorders may be linked genetically with schizophrenia. Another popular genetic hypothesis is that the wild emotional swings of the borderline personality are evidence of its association with the affective disorders, which include depression and manic-depression.
Livesley, Jang, Jackson, and Vernon (1993) sought to examine the heritability of 18 dimensions associated with personality disorder pathology, as assessed by the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (Livesley, Jackson, & Schroeder, 1992). They found that the dimensions of anxiousness, callousness, cognitive distortion, compulsiv-ity, identity problems, oppositionality, rejection, restricted expression, social avoidance, stimulus seeking, and suspiciousness all have heritabilities of between 40% and 60%. Because these are all facets of one or more personality disorders, their study provides indirect support that at least certain problematic traits are indeed heritable to a degree. For example, callousness is often thought of in association with the antisocial, sadistic, and narcissistic personalities, and stimulus seeking is associated with the histrionic and antisocial personalities. Cognitive distortion is associated with the schizotypal; suspicious-ness is obviously associated with the paranoid. Social avoidance is associated with the avoidant personality; oppositionality is likely associated with the negativistic personality. Other associations could also be drawn.
Of the several classical perspectives on personality, the psychoanalytic is perhaps the most conceptually rich and yet the most widely misunderstood. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in 1856. As the oldest child of an adoring mother whose belief in her son's destiny never flagged, Freud knew he would be famous. Naturally attracted to science and influenced by Darwin, he settled on a medical career and spent a period of time involved in pure research. Eventually, practical necessity intervened, and Freud began a more applied course, specializing in neurology and psychiatry. In 1885, he traveled to France and witnessed Jean Charcot cure a case of hysterical paralysis using hypnosis. Because the psychiatric treatments of the times were highly ineffective, Freud was impressed and began to experiment with the technique on his own, eventually developing the foundational ideas of psychoanalysis (Gay, 1988).
By the early 1890s, Freud and his friend Josef Breuer, a respected physician and original scientist in his own right, had begun to explore the use of hypnosis together. Breuer had already discovered that when subjects with hysterical symptoms talked about their problems during a hypnotic state, they often experienced a feeling of catharsis, or emotional release. Eventually, the two formed the theory that hysterical symptoms resulted from early sexual molestation, leaving memories so distressing that they were intentionally forgotten and could only be fully remembered under hypnosis. Later, Freud discovered that when these memories were completely recalled to consciousness in an emotional release, the symptoms disappeared. This became Freud's first theory of neuroses, the idea that behind every neurotic conflict lies a forgotten childhood trauma. Such memories are said to be repressed. Motivated to forget what it knows, the mind defends against the painful experiences by actively excluding them from conscious awareness. The past cannot be rewritten, but its impact can be contained. In fact, massive repression is one of the major coping strategies used by the histrionic personality, the contemporary parallel to the turn-of-the-century hysterical syndromes through which the basic principles of psychoanalysis were discovered.
Freud elaborated his insights into what is known as the topographic model, the idea that the mind has an organization or architecture that overflows consciousness and can be described in terms of different levels or compartments. At the foundation lies the unconscious, a mysterious realm consisting of everything that we cannot become aware of by simple reflection alone. According to classical psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious is the only part of the mind that exists at birth. Just above the unconscious lies the preconscious, which consists of everything that can be summoned to consciousness on command, for example, your phone number. And finally, there is the part of the mind that forms our waking lives, which we call conscious awareness. According to Freud, the desire to bring satisfaction to our unconscious instincts continues to be the main motivator in human behavior throughout the life span. By declaring the unconscious and its drives to be the origin and center of psychological existence, Freud effected a Copernican revolution against the Enlightenment rationalism that dominated the times. Behavior was not fundamentally rational; it was irrational. Just as the earth is not the center of the universe, conscious awareness is but a backwater that conceals the main currents of mental life. For this reason, the idea of making the unconscious conscious, the goal Freud and Breuer had in mind with hypnosis, is a major goal of many contemporary psychotherapies.
Despite his original enthusiasm for hypnosis, in time, Freud developed additional techniques that allowed him to map the contents of the unconscious, such as free association. In doing so, he discovered an additional organizing principle, the structural model of id, ego, and superego. The id consists of the basic survival instincts and the two dominant drives of personality: sex and aggression. At birth, infant behavior is motivated by the desire for immediate instinctual gratification, which Freud referred to as the pleasure principle: I want what I want, and I want it now! In a way, the id is like a dictator that knows only how to repeatedly assert its own desires, something that makes the world a very frustrating place.
To relieve this frustration and ensure greater adaptability in the organism, a second part of the personality, the ego, develops to mediate between the demands of the id and the constraints of external reality. Whereas the id is fundamentally irrational, the ego is fundamentally rational and planful, operating on the reality principle. To be effective, the ego must perform sophisticated intellectual activities such as risk-benefit and means-ends analysis, projecting the consequences of various courses of action into the future, judging the range of possible outcomes and their respective cost and reward, all the while modifying plans and embracing alternatives as necessary.
Not every course of action that the ego might imagine is acceptable, however. Eventually, a third part of the personality emerges that internalizes the social values of caretakers, the superego. The process by which the superego forms is called introjection, which literally means "a putting inside." The superego consists of two parts, the conscience and the ego ideal: what you shouldn't do and what you should do and should become. The conscience is concerned with the morality principle, the right and wrong of behavior. In contrast, the ego ideal pulls each of us toward the realization of our unique human potentials. Breaking moral codes results in feelings of guilt; satisfying the ego ideal results in feelings of pride and self-respect.
For Freud, personality is seen as a war of attrition fought by three generals. As the executive branch of the personality, the ego must balance and mediate between constraints on all sides. On the one hand, the id, upwelling from below, is always percolating, yearning for gratification. On the other hand, the prohibitions of the superego prevent its desires from being directly satisfied. For this reason, the psychoanalytic perspective is often regarded as intrinsically pessimistic: Human beings are said to exist in a state of perpetual conflict between the needs and constraints of various parts of the personality. We can endure, but we cannot escape.
Many of the personality disorders are in exactly this situation. Avoidant personalities, for example, deeply desire close connectedness to others, but also feel a sense of shame about themselves so profound that very few such relationships are possible. Instead, avoidants retreat into a shell where they can at least be alone with their humiliating defects and deficiencies. Compulsive and negativistic personalities wrestle with issues related to the obedience versus defiance of authority. Compulsives express this conflict passively by overconforming to internalized superego demands; on the surface, they appear normal and in control, but beneath, they are taut, anxious, and ever circumspect of their own conduct. In contrast, the negativistic personality, formerly called the passive-aggressive, expresses conflict actively by vacillating between loyalty and insubordinate sabotage. Knowing the outcomes that others seek, they work subtly within the system to bring the plans of others to ruin or at least cause them great frustration. Only a subset of the antisocial personality, the psychopath, escapes conflict. Given their stunted superego development, psychopaths have no need to evaluate their actions according to some standard of right or wrong; instead, their ego is free to select any pathway to gratification that seems realistically possible, even if it includes de-ceitfulness, misconduct, or irreparable damage to the lives of others. Accordingly, they pause only when self-conscious of the raw punishment society might inflict on them because of their transgressions.
Because the ego is constantly trying to satisfy the impulsive demands of the id while honoring the constraints of reality and the moral constraints of the superego, awareness is always vulnerable to feelings of anxiety. On the one hand, id instincts are like barbarians at the gate, always threatening to break through ego controls and saturate behavior with raw animal forces. Awareness of this possibility produces what Freud referred to as neurotic anxiety. On the other hand, the superego demands perfection, threatening to flood awareness with guilt whenever the satisfaction of id demands is not sufficiently disguised, which Freud referred to as moral anxiety. One is a sinner; the other, a saint. Finally, threats from the external world can produce reality anxiety. If you hear on the radio that the stock market has just crashed, your concern about your investments is realistic. Whatever the source, anxiety is a signal to ego that some form of corrective action must be taken to reinforce its controls.
But how does the ego protect itself from being overwhelmed? In time, Freud and his disciples discovered the defense mechanisms. Through his studies of hysteria, Freud had already been led to the existence of the unconscious and the discovery that guilt can be transformed into a symptom. He found, for example, that uncontrollable aggressive urges might lead to a hysterical paralysis in the hand that might be used to strike someone. Although the goal is always the same—to protect the sanctity of awareness by reducing the level of perceived anxiety or threat—different defense mechanisms work in
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The opening list of candidates has been announced for the Hobey Baker Award, given annually to the player chosen as the best in NCAA men's hockey.
This year, 15 former BCHL players are on the list of 81 names. After a round of fan voting and consideration by the selection committee, it will be narrowed to a top ten followed by a Hobey Hat Trick of the three finalists. From that, the ultimate winner will be named on April 12 at the NCAA Frozen Four in Buffalo, N.Y.
Players are chosen for Hobey Baker consideration based on criteria including strength and character on and off the ice, contribution to team integrity, outstanding hockey skill, scholastic achievement and sportsmanship.
Fans are encouraged to vote once per day online at HobeyBaker.com/vote
The following BCHL graduates are currently in the running:
|BCHL team
|Adam Brubacher
|RIT/Atlantic Hockey
|Prince George Spruce Kings, Powell River Kings
|Blake Christensen
|AIC/Atlantic Hockey
|Wenatchee Wild
|Scott Conway
|Providence/Hockey East
|Penticton Vees
|Diego Cuglietta
|Lake Superior State/WCHA
|Merritt Centennials
|Cam Donaldson
|Cornell/ECAC Hockey
|Powell River Kings
|Dante Fabbro
|Boston University/Hockey East
|Penticton Vees
|Taro Hirose
|Michigan State/Big 10
|Salmon Arm Silverbacks
|Yanni Kaldis
|Cornell/ECAC Hockey
|Nanaimo Clippers
|Jake Lucchini
|Michigan Tech/WCHA
|Trail Smoke Eaters
|Jarid Lukosevicius
|Powell River Kings
|Corey Mackin
|Ferris State/WCHA
|Coquitlam Express
|Cole Maier
|Union College/ECAC Hockey
|Nanaimo Clippers
|Chase Priskie
|Quinnipiac/ECAC Hockey
|Salmon Arm Silverbacks
|Mat Robson
|Minnesota/Big 10
|Penticton Vees
|Brett Supinski
|Union College/ECAC Hockey
|Coquitlam Express
In all, nine BCHL teams are represented. From among the nominees, Dante Fabbro is a Nashville Predators first-round draft pick, Chase Priskie was selected by the Washington Capitals after his freshman season at Quinnipiac, Taro Hirose is currently leading the NCAA in scoring, Corey Mackin was the 2015 BCHL scoring champ and Jarid Lukosevicius won the 2017 NCAA title with Denver scoring a hat trick in the final.
Other nominees in the running include Colorado Avalanche first-round pick Cale Makar of the University of Massachusetts, Vancouver Canucks first-round draft pick Quinn Hughes of the University of Michigan, New York Rangers first-round pick K'Andre Miller of the University of Wisconsin and Ian Mitchell of the University of Denver who was a member of Team Canada at the recent World Junior Championship.


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Early markers for Parkinson disease
Rapid eye movement behaviour disorder (RBD)
A person with RBD (rapid eye movement behaviour) disorder tends to make loud noises and jerky movements while in deep sleep, especially when having a nightmare. The movements can be of varying intensity and the sufferer can hurt himself or the person next to him.
"The patient usually dreams of being attacked or chased by strangers or wild animals, arguing with somebody or falling down," said Prof Tolosa. "The dreams occur every one to two hours, can last for several minutes and usually happen between 12 and 30 years before PD is diagnosed."
Loss of smell
Another significant early symptom of PD according to Prof Tolosa is the loss of smell. He shared that patients interviewed remember losing their sense of smell, on average, five years before they were diagnosed with PD. Such early symptoms can serve as warnings of further brain changes down the road, he said.
Ref: https://sg.yahoo.com/news/parkinson-sleep-determine-ll-102127782.html
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New treatment for slipped discs that has instant pain relief
A new treatment called Discogel, where an alcohol-filled blob of gel is placed in the damaged disc in the spine.
The idea is that water escaping from a damaged disc is a major source of pain as it aggravates nerves and causes inflammation. But alcohol absorbs water easily, taking pressure off nerves and soothing the pain.
One of the big attractions of the treatment is it did not involve major surgery, so one could be back at work within days rather than weeks.
The Discogel treatment is only available privately and costs around £5,000.
Ref: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6901139/Alcohol-filled-blob-gel-injected-spine-helped-man-recover-slipped-disc.html
4 year-old-boy loses 18 teeth because of this common bad habit parents practice
A Thai dentist's post has gone viral on Facebook after sharing how he had to extract 18 out of 20 teeth from a young boy.
The Phuket-based dentist shared pictures on his Facebook page on the boy's severe tooth decay, warning parents that they should not leave the child's bottle in their mouths after they have fallen asleep, also known as Nursing Bottle Syndrome (NBS).
According to the doctor's post, the boy would often drift off to sleep with a bottle teat in his mouth, from drinking milk.
In his Facebook post which has since garnered over 33,000 views at the time of writing, the dentist urges parents to make their children brush their teeth regularly (or clean with a wet cloth) and to not let them sleep with pacifiers or teats in their mouth, as that increases the risk of tooth decay.
Read more on how to protect your baby from NBS @ https://sg.style.yahoo.com/4-old-boy-loses-18-101437907.html
The REAL dangers of not vaccinating our children
The resurgence of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases all over the world has been alarming. In many parts of the world, parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children for religious or personal reasons. Anti-vaxxers are underestimating the dangers of not vaccinating their children, and wrongly believe that vaccines are unsafe.
In fact, vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate, despite the availability of vaccines – has been identified by the World Health Organization as one of the top ten global health threats of 2019.
Read all the recommended vaccines under the National Childhood Immunization schedule in Singapore @ https://sg.style.yahoo.com/real-dangers-not-vaccinating-children-041144408.html
Squid beaks, plastic debris among contents found in Jurong Island sperm whale's belly
|Plastic items in the female sperm whale stomach. Source: cna
Jubi Lee, the 10.6m female sperm whale that was found off the coast of Jurong Island in 2015, lived on a diet of squid, a study has shown.
Researchers from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum found more than 1,800 beaks from at least 25 cephalopod species, mainly squids, in the whale's belly. There were also remains of fish, a mud lobster, and several "peculiar" bioluminescent animals known as pyrosomes, as well as plastic drinking cups, food wrappers and a plastic bag.
Even though the plastic found in its stomach was not "large or copious enough to have resulted in death", the discovery adds another account of plastic debris found in whales across oceans since the 1970s, the study said.
The ingestion of plastic debris has been known to result in the death of sperm whales due to gastric blockage or rupture.
Read more @ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/squid-plastic-debris-found-in-jubi-lee-sperm-whale-jurong-island-11437348
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New Year, New Leaves of Grace!
One of my Christmas presents made me grin broadly. It's a Bible. Not my usual Bible in another translation. It is called "The One Year Chronological Bible (NLT)," given to me by JC.
The Bible as we know it has many books that happen simultaneously or at different times. But the books are not arranged according to chronology. JC's gift is arranged in the order of events as they happened—from the creation of the world to all the succeeding years.
What's even nicer about my new Bible is that it is divided into 365 days! It takes only from 20 to 30 minutes to read these one-day passages. If I read these passages every single day, at year's end I shall have read the whole Bible from cover to cover!
Together with this Bible is my son's beautifully-written, four-page letter. JC's wonderful writing style is so different from mine. Let me quote from it and summarize it my own way so I could share it with you.
Dear Mom,
Sometime in the (hopefully) distant future . . .
You black out and take your last breath. When you open your eyes you are in heaven. There, a huge, thundering voice calls your name, "Grace. Well done, My good and faithful servant, enter thou into My glory. . ."
"Jesus!" you shout with joy and awe.
"Yes, Grace, you are dead. Well, then again, not anymore. You are alive. I am the resurrection and the life if you recall," pulling the words from your head.
He gestures to a woman who has been longingly looking from afar.
On earth you would have held back your tears. You manage a soft, "Mama?"
Grandma, whom you've been missing a lot since her death, and you hug very tightly. Grandma later introduces you to her friends who are also writers like you are. Some of them are Nahum, Micah, and Habakkuk.
They greet you happily, exclaiming, "Grace, we have read all your books. And we like them a lot! How do you like our books?"
Oh, my! you squirm because, I don't know them nor have I read their books!
You have not read their books?! grandma whispers, appalled. These people were inspired by God to each write a book in the Bible!
Four more writers of the Bible approach. And they are not Matthew, Mark, Luke and John! You turn redder than a ripe tomato and hide your face with shame, realizing, How could I know them?! I only read my favorite parts of the Bible!
So Mom, reading the Bible cover-to-cover isn't such a bad idea after all. Let's face it, you're closer to the grave, er, Heaven, than you are to the womb.
Avoid those potentially, eternally embarrassing scenarios by reading the whole Bible once and for all this 2009!!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
At the beginning of JC's letter, when I was reading the part about my mother, my eyes moistened. Then they moistened some more when I got to the part about meeting the writers of the Bible—I literally roared and rolled with laughter.
This, then, is my new-year resolution: read the Bible (new leaves of grace sent through JC) from beginning to end, in chronological order, one day at a time—for 365 days.
Happy New Year!
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the letter is very inspiring...
- Grace D. Chong said...
Thank you. I try to learn from my children...
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Learning The "Secrets" of Homes
Tips to Get the Right Roofing Company.
When a house does not have a roof, it cannot be complete at all. This is because; a roof plays a major role in a house. Actually, your roof is one of the greatest assets as it protects a lot of assets and sticks inside. It is important that you know the exact method that should offer you a method that will offer you the best services in the right manner. There is need to ensure that you have an easy way that will help you come up with the right strategies in the best way, it is important that you get the right one to keep you were working. You will be able to be safe, and this will ensure that you can find the right manner. Many people who are normally in the rainy parts will often be cornered, and this may be considered the best one of them. You need to ensure that you can choose a design that will ensure that even the heavy rainfall will not destroy your roofing at all.
When you have an awesome roof, your home will take another shape, and this is very important for your business. People will judge the quality of your house depending on the kind of materials you use to build it. It is important that you know that the kind of materials that you have will determine the kind of facilities that will offer you the best and this will mean having the best in a great way. There is need to ensure that you have a strategy that will offer you the best services, take time so that you will have an easy way that will keep you were working the right manner. During the day, the roof plays a major role in ensuring that your house is cool. Sometimes the sun is so hot making it impossible for you to stay outside.
There are normally materials that will be very poor, and when the materials are exposed they will wear, and this will not offer you the best services. This is because; repairing a roof is quite expensive. Again, you may have to suffer before the roof is repaired. As a result, take some time to look for a person who can do the job well.
One thing that you need to consider while searching for a person to install the roof is the ability of the person to meet your taste and preference, as far as installing the roof is concerned. You can use different patterns to install the roof. Again, unlike an expert from far, whom you will need to pay for his or her accommodation and transport, you will not require to incur such costs with a local expert.
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Repairing Fascia And Soffits
Carpenters originally created fascia and soffits to solve the problems of exposed rafters and open eaves. Fascia are nailed to the cut ends of rafters and prevent water from being drawn back along the overhang and inside the walls. They also provide an even surface to which you can attach gutters. Soffits close off the underside of the rafters, preventing birds and other critters from nesting under eaves or getting into the attic. Properly vented, soffits allow air into the attic, helping to solve moisture problems and increases shingle life, thus extending the life of the roof. Maintenance is essential to the soundness of your fascia and soffits. Solve problems before they affect the structure of your house. Repaint peeling surfaces and replace missing or rotted pieces as soon as you notice them.
MATERIALS: Galvanized nails or screws, fascia material, soffit materials, silicone caulk, primer, paint or stain, 2x2 nailing strip
TOOLS: Pry bar, hammer, ladder, nail set, jigsaw, caulking gun, drill and driver, circular saw, paintbrush
FASCIA AND SOFFITS WORK TOGETHER TO CLOSE OFF THE AREA BENEATH THE ROOF EAVES. The fascia covers the rafter ends while providing a surface for attaching gutters. Soffits prevent birds from nesting under your eaves and often have vents to bring fresh air into your attic space.
WORK SAFELY OUTSIDE - Always use a GFCI-protected cord if working with power tools outside to minimize the potential for a shock.
Installing Fascia Covers And Soffits
VINYL OR ALUMINUM FASCIA COVERS HELP REDUCE MAINTENANCE ON WOODEN FASCIA. They are not, however, a substitute for repairs. Fix any rot or other damage before installing covers. Then nail the covers directly to the existing fascia. If you have or want soffits, get fascia with a channel designed to hold them.
THE QUICKEST WAY TO INSTALL SOFFITS IS TO INSTALL FASCIA COVERS WITH CHANNELS DESIGNED TO HOLD THEM. Hang matching channels on the house. Cut soffits to fit, angle them up into the opening, and drop them in place. Make sure you've repaired areas covered by the new soffits before you hang them.
Replacing a section of fascia
1 REMOVE GUTTERS OR TRIM, EXPOSING THE ENTIRE DAMAGED SECTION OF FASCIA. Be extremely careful when handling gutters and long moldings. If they hit nearby power lines, the shock can kill you. Long pieces also can make you lose your balance. Plan to be near the middle of the piece when you finally pry it loose.
2 PRY THE FASCIA LOOSE WITH A FLAT PRY BAR, THEN REMOVE IT. Fascia usually is nailed at every rafter end, except when it is attached directly to another fascia at the edge of the roof.
3 MARK OFF THE DAMAGED AREA OF FASCIA BY DRAWING CUT LINES THAT WILL FALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RAFTERS. Set the saw to cut at a 45-degree angle and cut out the damaged area of the soffit.
4 NAIL OR SCREW THE ORIGINAL PIECE OR PIECES OF FASCIA IN THEIR ORIGINAL POSITIONS, leaving a gap where you cut out the damage. Measure the gap, then subtract 1/8 inch to allow for expansion. Cut the new board to this size with the saw still set at 45 degrees. Prime the back and ends of the board.
5 POSITION THE REPLACEMENT BOARD WITH AN EXPANSION GAP OF ABOUT 1/16 INCH AT EACH END. Nail it in place, driving the nail at an angle through the miters.
6 REPLACE THE FASCIA MOLDINGS, THEN SET THE NAILHEADS AND FILL THE NAIL HOLES WITH CAULK. Prime and paint or stain to match the existing fascia. Reinstall the gutters after the paint or stain dries.
Repairing plywood soffits
1 REMOVE ANY MOLDING HOLDING THE SOFFIT IN PLACE. In order to remove the soffit, it sometimes helps to cut out the damaged area. Find the rafters on either side of the damaged area and draw a line along the rafter edge closest to the damage. Drill entry holes for a jigsaw and then cut along the lines.
2 PUT A PRY BAR INTO THE CUT YOU JUST MADE AND PRY TO REMOVE THE DAMAGE. Move slowly and pry gently so that you maintain your balance. When you've removed the damage, get a helper on a second ladder. Pull on the soffit with your hands to remove it as your helper supports the far end.
3 REMOVE ANY OF THE DAMAGED SOFFIT THAT REMAINS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CUTOUT. In all, you'll need to remove enough soffit to reveal the seam between the damaged section and its neighbors. Damage is likely to be any place where water has been running through a plywood edge.
4 MEASURE THE SIZE OF THE HOLE CAUSED BY REMOVING THE DAMAGED SECTION OF SOFFIT. Cut a piece of exterior plywood to fit the opening. [Most home centers will cut a section of plywood for a small fee.) If the damaged section had vents, cut matching ones in the replacement panel. Prime the entire panel and let it dry.
5 PUT THE REPLACEMENT PANEL OVER THE OPENING AND SCREW IT TO THE RAFTERS with 1/ 1/4 inch galvanized deck screws. Reinstall any molding that helped hold the panel in place.
6 FILL NAIL HOLES, SCREW HOLES, AND JOINTS WITH PAINTABLE SILICONE CAULK. Paint the replacement panel to match the rest of the soffit, then reinstall any vent covers that you removed.
Repairing length-run tongue-and-groove soffits
1 REMOVE ANY MOLDING OVER THE BOARDS, THEN LOCATE THE RAFTER ON EACH SIDE OF THE DAMAGE by looking for nails in the fascia. Drill entry holes for a jigsaw, positioning them to avoid the rafter. Put the jigsaw blade in one of the holes and cut away the damage.
2 PUT YOUR FINGER IN ONE OF THE HOLES AND PULL DOWN ANY PIECES THAT WILL COME LOOSE. Remove the rest of the scrap. Cut and install 2x2 nailing strips at each edge of the opening in the soffit, screwing them to the rafters.
3 CUT REPLACEMENT TONGUE-AND-GROOVE BOARDS USING BOARDS THE SAME THICKNESS AS THE ORIGINALS. Begin installing the new boards next to the siding, nailing them to the nailing strips.
4 TRIM THE UPPER LIP FROM THE LAST BOARD, THEN POSITION IT IN THE OPENING. Nail it in place, fill the nail holes, and paint the replacement board to match the soffit. Replace the soffit vents, if necessary. Prime and paint.
Repairing width-run soffits
1 PUT A METAL CUTTING BLADE IN A JIGSAW, AND CUT ALONG THE FASCIA WITH THE SAW to free the damaged section (width-run soffits are usually inserted into grooves in the fascia and may be nailed through the groove). Remove support moldings and pry out the damaged soffit boards.
2 CUT REPLACEMENT BOARDS TO LENGTH AND PRIME BOTH SIDES AND ENDS. Insert the strips into the groove in the fascia. When you get to the last board, cut off the upper lip so that you can install it. Reattach the support molding, caulk the nail holes, and paint the boards to match the existing soffits.


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Wow, we have made it through 5 weeks of language learning! Fantastic! However, many of you/your children are also losing motivation. Don't worry! This is normal and part of the process. Next week we are going to solve this with some unexpected solutions!
We hope you enjoyed this week's language learning post about how to keep language(s) alive even when no one around us speaks them! If not, read it right now. It will tell you (1) what you need to replace and (2) tips on what to replace it with: www.multilingualliving.com/maintain-your-languages-even-when-you-dont-live-in-a-country-where-they-are-spoken/ Stay tuned for another language learning post on Monday.
Admit it, you use your bilingualism in devilish ways, don't you? Suze admits to being pretty devilish this week in her post "Bilingualism Brings out the Devil": www.multilingualliving.com/bilingual-multilingual-brings-out-the-devil/ You will love it!
Without further ado… Here is today's Check-In Activity and our fifth giveaway for a fabulous CD:
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Congratulations to Celia who won the Week 4 giveaway! Thank you everyone for entering each week! You will definitely enjoy this week's giveaway question!
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This is a fantastic route which links Edinburgh, Glasgow and Portavadie on the Cowal peninsula.
Route 75 travels between Edinburgh and Glasgow on disused railways and riverside and canal towpaths. Most of this section has easy gradients, making it suitable for families and novices.
If you begin in Edinburgh we recommend spending some time in this fascinating city before you leave. From the medieval turrets and spires of the Old Town to the elegant Georgian New Town it combines a rich cultural heritage with stunning new developments. There are plenty of interesting museums and galleries to keep you occupied including the National Museum of Scotland and the Writers Museum.
Leaving Edinburgh the route passes through Livingston and then follows a railway path from Bathgate to Airdrie. The route passes Coatbridge and after Uddingston it follows the River Clyde into the centre of Glasgow. Once a prosperous shipbuilding city Glasgow is now famed for its great museums, thriving music scene, and fantastic Victorian and art nouveau architecture. It's home to the Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and the National Theatre of Scotland.
From Glasgow to Johnstone Route 75 shares a stretch of National Route 7 (Lochs and Glens South section) leaving Glasgow to the southwest through Pollock Park and Paisley. From Johnstone National Route 75 again exists in its own right, heading for Port Glasgow and Greenock.
Arriving in Gourock you have the option to take the ferry across the Firth of Clyde to Dunoon on the Cowal Penninsula. At Dunoon, Route 75 travels on road across the Cowal peninsula to the Portavadie ferry terminal. From here take another ferry service to link up with Route 78, The Caledonia Way.
Along Route 75 you'll have the opportunity to admire Scotland's gorgeous landscapes. You pass two nature reserves: Bogburn Flood Lagoons Nature Reserve and Blawthorn Moss National Nature Reserve. You'll travel along tranquil canalside trails, disused railway paths and through two of Scotland's most important cities. Both are a delight to visit.
In contrast, your end destination of Portavadie is a small village on the shores of Loch Fyne. Portavadie is a great place for people who love to be outdoors in nature. It's a fantastic base for activities such as walking, kayaking, sailing and cycling. The nearby country roads and forest tracks are fantastic for cycling and mountain biking. If you're lucky you may spot deer, buzzards, otters, golden eagles or red squirrels while you're out around Portavadie.
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We have taken all responsible steps to ensure that these routes are safe and achievable by people with a reasonable level of fitness. However, all outdoor activities involve a degree of risk. To the extent permitted by law, Sustrans accepts no responsibility for any accidents or injury resulting from following these routes. Walking and cycling routes change over time. Weather conditions may also affect path surfaces. Please use your own judgement when using the routes based upon the weather and the ability, experience and confidence levels of those in your group.


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Are Empaths prone to loneliness?
I recently read a blog post, by Mark Sisson, regarding loneliness and how it has become near epidemic levels.
The article discussed how loneliness is perceived as a weakness and is something we don't openly talk about in society, which is certainly true.
Loneliness can also occur when people feel like they don't fit into life, as so many Empaths do. Feeling 'different' often leads to a sense of isolation.
To admit to being lonely is often seen as too shameful. It's as though anyone admitting to loneliness is admitting to failure in life.
People may also not want to admit to being lonely because of the worry of what others think. The fear that being lonely might show one to be unpopular, with a lack of friends, might hold some back from discussing it. Which is ridiculous when you think about it. Someone can have many friends and family members, yet still feel lonely.
They say that loneliness is worse for the health than smoking; which makes sense. Anything that detrimentally weakens the emotional health is damaging to the physical.
The fact that loneliness has become an epidemic, and is now so famous, should not come as a surprise. People are so self-absorbed these days. Because everyone is kept super-busy with work commitments, family life, social media or just trying to figure out existence, they don't always have time for others.
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A 9-year-old miniature mare was found and rescued on Monday after becoming stranded on a roof, but sadly, the search for her young colt continues.
The horses went missing in the torrential down pour after Japan's devastating floods forced the staff at Life Town Mabi, a long-term health-care facility for the elderly in the Mabicho district of Kakehashi, to evacuate on Friday and release the animals before floodwaters swept through the area.
The Japan Times reported that a rescue team from Peace Winds Japan, a non-profit organization that helps in disaster-relief activities in the affected area, found the horse, named Leaf, while on its way to an evacuation shelter.
Before the team could rescue Leaf from the roof of a private home close to Life Town, she reportedly lost her footing and fell to the ground on her torso.
Fortunately, she sustained only minor injuries to her leg.
Leaf, who was originally secured from a farm in Osaka, is now recuperating at Mabi Farm, which was also severely damaged by the floods and rain.
While it may never be known how this brave little horse ended up on the roof, it is believed that she may have used the rising waters to climb to safety.
Encouraged by Leaf's rescue, local residents are posting pictures of her one-year-old colt, Earth, on social media, requesting that anyone who may have seen the animal to share information and to help reunite him with his mother.
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One of Bloom's 2019 objectives is to engage more men in the gender debate. The Bridge panel event on 1 May was the first in a number of initiatives designed to achieve that, The Exchange by Bloom is the second initiative in this programme.
The Exchange is a new type of cross-mentoring pilot inviting 20 industry-leading men to be matched with 20 Bloom women to break down the barriers contributing to the gender divide in our industry.
We aim to open up a refreshingly honest dialogue between the sexes that could help break down the stereotypes that limit the way we interact and forge a new way to look at gender in the workplace, making it more equal for all. Senior Bloom women will mentor senior men on how best to retain female talent within their company and ensure a more fair, equal workplace. The men will mentor Bloom women on how to overcome the barriers to leadership in their own career.
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Jafari: 'Tough response' awaits abductors of Iranian forces
October 17, 2018 - 20:50
TEHRAN – Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday vowed a "tough response" against the terrorists who abducted a number of Iranian border guards near the Pakistani border on Monday night.
Speaking at a ceremony in province of Semnan, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said the abductors, knowing they could not achieve their goal as long as the forces were conscious, kidnapped them after making them unconscious, Tasnim reported.
Jafari added the goal of Iran's enemies, especially the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia, is to bring chaos in Iran, but Iranian forces foil most of their plans.


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The Chinese company who is the world's third-largest smartphone maker dealt with a blow when Best Buy stops taking orders from Huawei. It is getting hard for Huawei to sell smartphones in the US without Best Buy.
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