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How to Recognize and Overcome Growth Plateaus in Your Business
Friday June 26, 2015
Many business owners find they can get by on pure willpower and adrenaline when they're first starting out. But a few months or even a year or two in, that momentum slows and growth sometimes becomes a real struggle.
Most of the time, this means you've hit a growth plateau. You may worry that you need more employees, a new location, or a new loan. Often, though, you can bust through a growth plateau by making one small investment: technology.
The cloud is a major breakthrough that makes enterprise-grade software incredibly accessible. I've dedicated my life to developing tools that put this incredible power in the hands of small business owners, accessible from any internet-enabled device.
As a lifelong business owner myself, I make sure my solution checks all the important boxes: ease of use, measurable results, and good value.
I've seen hundreds of companies overcome growth plateaus by unlocking the power of technology to get more organized, more efficient, and more strategic. You can do it too!
Here are 5 signs that you've hit a growth plateau, along with some ideas for how to overcome it.
1. You Spend All Your Time Doing Busy Work
In late 2014, James Schrack, CEO of Stuff'n Mallows, hit a growth plateau. He and his team had a great product (chocolate chip stuffed marshmallows), some online sales and resellers, and dreams of growth.
The problem? They were spending hours each day in line at the post office. They were manually integrating their online and offline sales. They were managing their contacts in spreadsheets.
In short, they were too busy to grow.
To overcome their growth plateau, they invested in a toolkit that cut down busy work. They began tracking all their sales through one dashboard, which saved hours each week and cut down on accounting errors. That same dashboard took care of their shipping problems, increased online sales, and even solved their customer relationship management problems.
Their monthly sales quickly started doubling, month after month. They simply had more time to focus on creative ways to expand their business.
If you spend hours each week doing repetitive tasks, the only way to overcome your growth plateau is to organize and automate those time-drains.
Tip: Save time by learning one toolkit rather than a bunch of different tools that all work differently.
2. You Solve Problems One at a Time
As your business grows, you eventually reach a limit to the complexity you can handle on your own. At this point, most business owners look for a tool to quickly solve one specific pain point.
They continue on as before with the new tool, but quickly get stuck again. They invest in another new tool and continue until they reach yet another plateau.
This stop-and-start growth pattern seriously limits your growth.
It leads to a reactive relationship with your business. It's a rolling-with-the-punches attitude, an attitude of "overcoming" and of "struggle." We like this attitude in America. It makes us feel busy and offers satisfying problem-solving challenges.
But a proactive attitude has so much more potential for growth. When was the last time you were "ahead?" What would you do with your time if you were ahead every day?
Tip: Choose a tool that checks multiple boxes at once—big boxes!
3. The Tools You Have Don't Talk to Each Other
Solving one problem at a time has another serious consequence. The tools you end up with have very specific functions and usually aren't designed to share data with each other.
You probably already have a number of these in your business. The way to find them is to look for times when you need to update multiple systems to reflect one new piece of information.
For example, if a customer makes a sale, do you have to make an entry in Quickbooks, note it in your customer database, subtract from your inventory, alert the rest of your team, and write up an invoice?
There's no reason for you to spend your time manually being the go-between for your different software solutions. An all-in-one dashboard allows you to make one entry, and sit back as all your different systems automatically update.
Tip: Look for an all-in-one solution that integrates at least the big four: sales, marketing, customer relationships, and project management.
4. Your Customer Service and Sales Are Struggling
Are you using spreadsheets and setting your own alerts to follow up with contacts? Something as simple as investing in a small business CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool could be what it takes to get you over your growth plateau.
A good CRM will give you tools to automate and organize your sales process. If you want to keep growing, but you aren't ready to hire a sales team, this can be a great way to do more with less time. And when it's time to hire, you'll have an easy way to track your teams' sales and their interactions with prospects.
Tip: It's better to grow into a system than to outgrow one. Choose the system that's right for the business you want to be in a few months, and it will inspire you and enable you to achieve that goal.
5. Your Website Isn't Converting New Business
There are a lot of factors that could hold your website back. Take an honest look at your website and answer these questions:
- Can people find my business through search engines?
- Is my website full of helpful, frequently updated, high-quality content?
- Does my website have a modern, mobile-adaptive, easy to navigate design?
- Do I have ways to gather contact information from visitors, even if they don't buy?
- Could I make it easier for people to convert?
Any one of these on its own could be the key to breaking through your growth plateau. If your website is struggling in multiple areas, it's time to take action.
In most cases, there are a few simple fixes that make it much easier to keep your website a current, credible converting machine:
- A platform that lets you edit your own content without coding
- Using widgets instead of plugins to gather leads, make sales, and more
- Committing to blogging and creating good web content
Tip: Your website is the hub of your business. Make sure that all your other tools are fully integrated with it, to support it, gather information, and automate follow-up.
Growth plateaus can be very frustrating and tricky to overcome. Regaining your stride takes time, resources, and energy, which you can free up by getting smart about your small business software.
Don't see your problem? Let me know in the comments!


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Expert Blog: Analysing the GRA consultation: reflections by the analysis team
Professor Daniel King, Professor Carrie Paechter and Dr Maranda Ridgway reflect on their work as analyst team for the Gender Recognition Act consultation
The Gender Recognition Act consultation was one of the largest consultations that the UK government has conducted, with, as has been well documented, over 100,000 responses. In this blog post we do not want to examine the debates about GRA reform itself, but rather to focus on our role as analysts of the GRA consultation, explaining our methodology and approach, and the reasons behind them.
It is important to be clear about the boundaries of our role as the analyst team for the consultation. We were appointed to conduct this work when the consultation was already under way. We were not involved in the design, the running of the consultation, the questions asked, or the decisions about the variety of formats through which people could participate in the consultation. We also did not write the executive summary, or the overviews of each question. Our role was to undertake the quantitative analysis of the data and the thematic analysis of the written responses to the consultation. We completed our analysis within the timeframe agreed with the Government Equality Office.
The team that undertook this research was based at Nottingham Trent University, and combined experienced researchers from Nottingham Business School, the School of Social Sciences and the School of Science and Technology's Computer Science department. Whilst only three people are named on the report, there was a much larger group of researchers involved in the work. The team included specialists in quantitative analysis, qualitative and interpretivist research, advanced Natural Language Processing and expertise in gender and trans (including non-binary) identities. One of the great things about working in an institution like Nottingham Trent University is that we were able to bring together a wide and diverse range of expertise to help understand, interpret and shape the analysis from a variety of perspectives.
The details of our methodology are contained within the report itself, so we do not want to repeat them here. However, it is worth reflecting a little more on how we approached the submissions that we received. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge the amount of care, attention and often depth of feeling that went into the submissions that we read, from people and organisations taking a range of positions. There were some long submissions - some over 5000 words - in response to one individual question, and it was apparent that a large percentage of those who completed the consultation spent a long time writing their answers. We were struck by many of the accounts that people provided detailing their personal experiences or those of loved ones. It is sometimes easy to lose sight, in the arguments that surround GRA reform, that at the centre of this are real people living real and often difficult lives. Due to the need to be brief in order to write a succinct report and the confidentiality required for ethical reasons, the specific stories that were contained within many individual submissions cannot be published. However, reading them, as we have been able to as a team, paints a nuanced and complex picture of the lived experience of people working through these issues in their own lives and the lives of their loved ones.
Finally, we would like to reflect a little on the campaign responses. It is of course apparent to anyone who has followed this consultation that there has been considerable interest from a variety of organisations and campaigns, from all sides, who sought to encourage people to respond to the consultation. Throughout the analysis we were sensitive to such issues. We spent a long time with the data and employed a number of advanced analytical techniques to investigate the influence of potential campaigns on the consultation responses. However, we have seen little evidence that supports the view that the results were "skewed" by an "avalanche" of responses from trans rights groups. Furthermore, we are not sure where the reported figure of 70% in favour of self-identification has come from. This question was not directly asked in the consultation and this figure does not arise from our analysis.
There are three key points here. First, we treated all responses as genuine, regardless of their source, whether from someone who had seen a campaign tweet from Stonewall and submitted an individual set of answers to the questions, or from someone whose submission came via the One Click form provided by Fair Play for Women, which had a pre-populated set of answers.
Second, we investigated the potential influence of these campaigns on the responses and weighted them accordingly. As we detail in the report, we were able to identity 17 separate campaigns: using text recognition software, we examined how they may have influenced individual responses. We specifically identified campaign-derived responses, campaign-informed responses and campaign-inspired responses. Our research indicates that the vast majority of the written responses were not directly derived from campaigns, but were from individuals and written in their own words.
Third, throughout we were mindful of the central aim of the consultation. As the report states: "the primary purpose of [the consultation] was to gather evidence on how best to modernise and simplify the GRA, and make the process less intrusive and bureaucratic for trans and non-binary people" (page 13). This consultation was not a referendum on the GRA itself, nor intended to open up wider debates about trans people, but focused on a narrow and technical set of issues around the way in which the GRA is administered. We have reflected, where appropriate, these wider issues, but concentrated our analysis on the questions that were asked in the consultation.
By Professor Daniel King, Professor of Organisation Studies, Nottingham Business School , Professor Carrie Paechter, Director, Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families, and Dr Maranda Ridgway, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Business School
Read the press release: A report on the UK government's consultation on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 has been authored by a team of researchers at NTU
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Source Music has officially unveiled former IZ*ONE's Kim Chae-won as the latest member of its upcoming girl group LE SSERAFIM.
- READ MORE: OH MY GIRL on their beautiful new album 'Real Love', seventh anniversary and 'Queendom' advice
At midnight KST today (April 7), HYBE subsidiary Source Music uploaded a brand-new introduction video featuring Kim Chae-won. She is the latest member announced as part of the line-up of the highly anticipated girl group LE SSERAFIM, following Hong Eun-chae and Kim Ga-ram and Miyawaki Sakura, who was also a member of IZ*ONE.
In the new visual, set to an old-school rock 'n' roll song, Kim poses and dances for the camera on various different sets, including a plain white studio, an empty gas station, as well as a ballroom.
Source Music had also shared new images of the idol via the group's social media accounts, similar to those of the previous two members uploaded in the past two days.
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Kim's signing with the agency and upcoming debut was first announced last month. The music label is set to continue unveiling the remaining two members of the new girl group over the coming nights, in the lead-up to their debut.
Aside from the two former IZ*ONE singers, a former Pledis Entertainment trainee and Produce 48 contestant Heo Yun-jin was reported by several South Korean media outlets to also be part of LE SSERAFIM's line-up, however this has yet to be confirmed.
Source Music has also recently publicly denied allegations that Kim Ga-ram was a school bully. Less than a day after the label introduced Kim as a member of the group, a number of netizens claimed that the 16-year-old singer had been involved in bullying incidents during her school days.
HYBE, which owns Source Music, the agency in charge of LE SSERAFIM, has since denied all allegations and taken legal action in a statement posted today (April 6). The label claims that the allegations have been "cunningly edited" in order to "maliciously slander" Kim.


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First sold devices for each OS
First sold devices for each system or OS in the Netherlands
The first phone that was not dependent on a cable was made in 1938. This is not taken into production by the war. After the war, the project "Mobile phone" (OLN) National Public Net, picked up again. The first was delivered in 1948.
Until a little after 1980, several manufacturers have created different devices. My oldest device is a Van der Heem made in 1952.
In 1980, became the first Auto Telephone network (ATF) operational. Of this type are only two different models sold in the Netherlands. The Castor and Pollux.
These devices yielded such poor quality that, probably after the second car telephone system (ATF2) became operational all these devices are quickly replaced. There are to my knowledge, only one copy each preserved at the "Muscom". This is the National Museum for Communication.
In 1983 the second car telephone (ATF2) (also called NMT2) became operational. The Carvox series was introduced by PTT. The first was the Carvox 2451. From this model, I have only the handset. I have the successor Carvox 2452. After a little while produced Nokia the first portable device and sold by PTT the Carvox 2453. Manufacturer Nokia sold this under the name mobira. This model is in my collection.
In 1989, the third car telephone (ATF3) (also called NMT2) became operational. The higher frequency is capeble to have more channels. The mesh size is smaller. The advantage was that the devices could be smaller but more transmitters are needed. The first handheld came on the device market. The advertisement indicated that this was the first device that you could carry in your pocket. However, this is a very optimistic description.
In 1993, the GSM network operational. The official first device, the Pocket Line 8000.
In America in 1992 was the first Smartphone produced is the IBM Simon. This was never sold in the Netherlands. The first Smartphone in the Netherlands sold is the Nokia Communicator 9000 in 1996. This device has the operation system (OS) Symbian.
The first device with the OS Palm in the Netherlands was the Handspring Treo. There are two different types, with a keyboard and with an on screen keyboard. I have both models.
The first Windows Mobile device in the Netherlands was the Qtek 1010. This device also sold with the first version of TomTom. I also have this model in my collection
The first Blackberry in the Netherlands was the Blackberry 6220. I also have this one in my collection.
The first iPhone is never been sold in the Netherlands. The first one officialy sold was the iPhone 3G. Before iPhone, Apple and Motorola has a partnership and sold the Motorola Rokr. The Motorola Rokr could use iTunes for music.
In 1982 Apple designed a telephone for the regular network with a touch screen. However its never being sold.
The first device that runs with Android and sold in Holland was the HTC G1. Android became a great succes becouse there is a lot of apps develept for all the factory's that made Android phones.
In comparison to years before 2009 many new operating systems has been developed and sold, mostly based on Linux. Aliyun, Bada, Brew, GridOS, LiMo 4, MeeGo, Nucleus, Tizen, WebOSS and SHR. SHR is never been sold but must be downloaded en flashed by user. All those OS are very new therefor I don't have devices of this types. I'am very curious how users think of these devices. Experian's can be mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com


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"Welcome to a fantasy world, where a colorful dimension will take you on board." This is what it comes to your mind when you see for the first time PÜR My Little Pony eyeshadow palette.
As a makeup artist, I am crazy about colorful eyeshadows, so as soon as I laid my eyes on it, I needed to have it. However, when I saw the reviews I wasn't sure, since it doesn't look pigmented as I expected.
Fortunately, Beauty Bay (https://www.beautybay.com) had some discounts last week and this palette was included. So instead of £25.00, I just paid £15.00 😊
Let me show you the swatches first and then I will tell you what I think about it.
When I swatched the palette it did look pigmented, but would it be the same on the eyes? I was speechless to see on my eyes it looked even better. Verdict: this palette is very pigmented. Though, there is something that bothers me, it doesn't bring as many eyeshadows as Morphe 35B or BH Cosmetics Take me Back to Brazil, which I wrote a review a while ago (https://inmakeup.blog/2018/02/24/morphe-35b-vs-bh-cosmetics-take-me-back-to-brazil-palette/).
Is the normal price £25.00 worth it? I don't think so. With the discount I got from Beauty Bay, then yes, £15.00 it's a good price. For £25.00, you can get bigger eyeshadow palettes than PÜR My Little Pony.
Despite that, what I really like about this palette, is the fact that it's a good size to travel and you can do a bronze daytime eye makeup or you can be bold and adventure yourself in a bright pink evening makeup. You choose!
One of my favourite eyeshadows in this palette, twilight sparkle, can also be used as a highlighter, which is ideal, if you don't want to carry a lot of makeup on your holidays.
Twilight sparkle, applejack, rainbow dash and storm king are beautiful glitter eyeshadows that probably justify the cost of £25.
Looking at the shimmer eyehadows, the emerald green Loyalty is by far my favourite.
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- It has a good balance in terms of quantity between cold and warm eyeshadow colors.
And cons:
- Expensive, considering it's a small palette with only 16 colors;
- It needed one transition eyeshadow lighter than generosity;
- Magic, the purple matte eyeshadow is difficult to blend.
Thanks to everyone that has supported me so far in this blogging journey, full of challenges. Thanks as well for your feedback. Wish you an amazing week ❤


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Online Registration for Limited Liability Partnership
Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) has turned into the best type of association among business visionaries as it consolidates the advantages of both organization firm and friends into a solitary kind of association.
Monday March 04, 2019,
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Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) has turned into the best type of association among business visionaries as it consolidates the advantages of both organization firm and friends into a solitary kind of association. It is represented by the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 and the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Rules, 2009. The essential reason behind the presentation of Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is to give a type of business element that is easy to keep up while providing a constrained obligation to the proprietors. Since, its presentation in 2010, LLP's has been generally welcomed with more than 1 lakh enlistments so far until September 2014.
LLP Registration in India
The primary element that makes an LLP Registration remarkable from an association is the idea of "Limited Liability," where one accomplice isn't in charge of the wrongdoing and carelessness concerning another accomplice, similar to an investor in an organization structure. Be that as it may, in contrast to investors, the accomplices of an LLP have the directly to include and deal with the business.
LLPs convey more essentialness than association as LLPs, similar to enterprises, have a different lawful element from that of its accomplices. That put in necessary words implies that an LLP Registration is at risk to the full degree of its advantages yet the obligation of the accomplices is restricted to their concurred commitment in the LLP.
What are the Features of LLP?
The base number of accomplices to join an LLP is 2. There is no furthest farthest point on the most significant number of accomplices of LLP. Among the accomplices, there ought to be least two assigned accomplices who will be people, and somewhere around one of them ought to be an inhabitant in India. The rights and obligations of assigned accomplices are represented by the LLP assertion. They are specifically in charge of the consistency of the considerable number of arrangements of LLP Act 2008 and arrangements determined in LLP understanding.
- It has a different legitimate element simply like organizations
- Less consistency and controls
- The obligation of each accomplice is restricted to the commitment made by an accomplice
- The expense of shaping an LLP is low
- No necessity of least capital commitment
How to Apply for Registration an LLP?
Step 1: Obtain DSC (Digital Signature Certificate)
Before starting the procedure of enrolment, you should apply for the advanced mark of the assigned accomplices of the proposed LLP Registration. This is because every one of the reports for LLP is recorded on the web and are required to be carefully marked.
The expense of acquiring DSC shifts relying on the guaranteeing organization. Likewise, you ought to acquire either class 2 or class 3 classification of DSC or you can click here and let a Corpbiz master get DIN for you. On the off chance that you go for Limited Liability Partnership organization enrolment with Corpbiz, up to 2 DINs are shrouded in the arrangement, and there is no compelling reason to apply for DIN independently.
Step 2: Apply for DIN
The DIN application must be made in Form DIR-3. So you have to connect the checked duplicate of records (generally Aadhaar and PAN) to the structure. The structure will be marked by a Company Secretary in all day work of the organization or by the Managing Director/Director/CEO/CFO of the current organization in which the candidate will be designated as an executive.
Step 3: Name Approval
Limited Liability Partnership-Reserve Unique Name (LLP-RUN) is petitioned for the reservation of name of proposed LLP which will be prepared by the Central Registration Center under Non-STP. Before citing the name in the structure, it is prescribed that you utilize the free name seek office on MCA gateway. The framework will give the rundown of intently taking after names of existing organizations/LLPs dependent on the pursuit criteria topped off.
Step 4: Incorporation of LLP
The structure utilized for the fuse is FiLLiP (Form for consolidation of Limited Liability Partnership) which will be documented with the Registrar who has purview over the state in which the enrolled office of the LLP is arranged. The structure will be an incorporated structure.
Charges according to Annexure 'A' will be paid.
- This structure additionally accommodates applying for apportioning of DPIN, if a person who is to be delegated as an assigned accomplice does not have a DPIN or DIN.
- The application for allocation will be permitted to be made by two people as it were.
- The application for reservation might be made through FiLLiP as well.
- On the off chance that the name that is connected for is affirmed, at that point, this endorsed and saved name will be filled as the proposed name of the LLP
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LLP understanding must be documented in structure 3 online on MCA Portal. Structure 3 for LLP understanding must be documented inside 30 days of the date of joining.
The LLP Agreement must be imprinted on Stamp Paper. The estimation of Stamp Paper is diverse for each state.
Important Credentials to carry for LLP Registration
Documents of Partners
Documents of LLP
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Detective Barr was reportedly shocked by Marvin's meticulous planning of his crimes and of his kinky night with a woman named Sarah.
Following a yearlong investigation into the life of convicted murderer George Marvin, police revealed that the most shocking part of the investigation was the revelation of countless "very hot" texts between the killer and various assumed sexual partners.
"I've been on the force for over 20 years, and let me tell you, I have very rarely come across a criminal whose texts get me going like this," said Robert Barr, chief detective on the Marvin case. "We confiscated George's phone expecting only to find evidence implicating him at the crime scene. Who could have predicted the raw sexuality of a man once presumed innocent?"
Among the thousands of text and image files recovered from Marvin's phone were several "eyebrow-raising" photos of curvaceous, unclothed women, many "overwhelming" dialogues describing sexual acts between Marvin and said women, and a number of pictures depicting Marvin's penis such that officers were "equally impressed as they were horrified."
"Honestly, many of our officers struggled to maintain their composure as they were processing evidence— we often had to take quick bathroom breaks," said police officer Amy Allen. "There just aren't many deranged lunatics who know how to work angles to their advantage like Mr. Marvin."
"Say what you want about Marvin, but the man is very methodical in everything he does," added junior officer Nick Lane. "I mean, the attention to detail—for example, he sent one woman this fantasy in which he bends her over his kitchen counter and I almost felt like I was there."
"Honestly," added Lane, "his material blows the Downriver Killer's way out of the water."
When asked for comment from his prison cell, Marvin said he was launching a complaint alleging unnecessary violation of his privacy, as well as attempting to arrange his "totally booked" conjugal visit schedule.


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In this classic interview from our archive, originally published in 2008, Andrea Miller speaks to psychatrist Robert Jay Lifton about understanding the worst elements of human nature.
Genocide, totalitarianism, atrocity—psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton studies the worst in human nature to help us bring out the best. Among his seminal works are The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide; Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima; Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China; and, most recently, Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World. His reflections on the darkest deeds of modern life — and the values that can help us prevent them — make him an essential moral and political voice in a world frightened about its future.
Andrea Miller: Has studying the worst manifestations of evil in modern times made you feel hopeless about the future?
Robert Jay Lifton: No, I'm not a hopeless person. In confronting these issues, I'm expressing the possibility of alternatives. I feel we have the potential for evil behavior but also the potential for something better. I never expect quick results, but I feel that a scholar like myself has an obligation to be an activist. So I do these studies as an act of hope.
How do you cope emotionally with immersing yourself in atrocities?
My way of dealing with it is to not be overly single-minded about it. I say, with some whimsy, to my students and friends, "Don't read this stuff after nine o'clock," but I mean it with some seriousness. I need to pace myself like an athlete so that I have some sense of my limits. Another part is having a lot of love around and a life quite removed from the research. That doesn't mean that it doesn't remain with me and have its costs, but those are some of my ways of coping.
After studying Nazi doctors, you said that socializing people to do evil is relatively easy. But I feel I'd never do what those Nazi doctors, for example, did. Am I wrong?
You may be right. Socialization to killing is a grave danger, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to resist. It means that resistance takes an exceptional moral imagination, and here and there I've encountered that. In the case of the Nazis, much of the dirty work was done by people who weren't fanatical ideologues. They were people who were brought into and adapted to an environment in which some kind of wrong was the norm. The ability to resist often had to do with understanding in advance what the Nazis were about, and therefore anticipating what an adaptation to them would entail.
During World War II you believed that the United States stood for progressive policies and decency in the world. Do you feel that now?
I grew up believing in my country and in the integrity and compassion of its leaders. That is no longer the case. it's quite the reverse in terms of our leaders now. A democratic society can't be absolute protection against extreme ideologies that can appear within it, and that's what's happening in our society. Having said that, I still love my country and recognize the opportunities I've been given to have an unusual career that could only occur here. I also have great hope for our resilience and for calling upon what Lincoln called "our better angels"—in this case, our more humane institutions to right our moral compass and turn things around. That's what I try to work for.
In your book Superpower Syndrome, you explore how the beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by "apocalypticism." Can you tell me about that?
The apocalyptic impulse has to do with destroying much of the world in order to purify and recreate it in some sort of perfect form. Often we think of our opponents, like Bin Laden and others, as manifesting apocalypticism, but we've got our share of it at home. Some of the Christian radical right press for Armageddon—an end of the world so that the world can be recreated and Jesus can return. That sounds wild, but it's not absent from the centers of power. There is also a secular apocalypticism on the part of people in high places who aren't necessarily religious but who feel the need for American hegemony in the world and for the destruction of all that interferes with the reconstruction of the world in a perfect American form.
You say this idea of purifcation and renewal is the foundation of all totalitarianism.
Yes, all totalitarian societies are societies that call upon an apocalyptic idea that involves destroying all that is impure. Of course, they define what constitutes impurity in their own ways—communists might define it one way, fascists another way, and religiousus fanatics still another. But they all have in common the idea of recreating the world in some form of self-defined perfection.
You once said that survivors of atrocities go one of two ways. They either shut down and become incapacitated or they confront their experiences and derive insight from them. What is the insight survivors can potentially gain?
Usually, it has to do with suffering and evil. If survivors have the strength, they can draw upon their knowledge and find meaning in the destructive force. Then they can engage in a survivor mission toward helping the world avoid that kind of event again. A good example is Hiroshima survivors who have found a survivor mission by traveling around the world to warn people about what nuclear weapons can do. There have also been parallel examples of Vietnam veterans back in the 1970s who were able to reveal the truth about their war and take a stand against it.
But what makes one survivor go one way and another survivor go the other?
There is no single reason. Partly it has to do with the environment that one returns to—how much it can nurture some quest for humane meaning or how much it may do the opposite and be itself involved with violence. It also has to do with one's previous experiences—what one grew up knowing about war and peace and about threat and suffering. They might have had certain moral or religious principles to which they return. That's why collective forms of knowledge or collective principles of morality—both religious and secular—have such enormous importance. They attract people toward expressing what is most humane in them individually.
I understand that your sense of ethics began in a secular form and has remained secular, but that it also has a spiritual component. Can you tell me about that?
I've worked closely with various anti-war and anti-nuclear Catholics, including the Berrigan brothers, and I've worked similarly with anti-war and anti-nuclear Protestants and Jews, many of them religious leaders. I find in common with them a passion to oppose destructive behavior and prevent suffering. That passion has a spiritual component that stays with me. it becomes inseparable from my activities and my writings, but it has never been part of a religious belief system. Some of my friends feel that as a Jew I'm expressing certain Jewish principles, but I am a secular Jew and so if I am expressing Jewish principles, they are something that is in me rather than part of an idea structure.
How has your research taught you to live your own life?
You'd probably have to ask my family! But I'd like to believe that the experiences I've had with my research have deepened my dialogue with people in general and with young people in particular. I recognize the vulnerability and extraordinary power of the young.


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Commissioner Stuart's Message
As we all focus on different facets of our holiday preparation, I wanted to tell you about a wonderful new tool that may be able to help you find local restaurants, shops, and services that will help simplify your season.
The new app, DistrX, is free for consumers and is available for iPhone and Android. It will allow you to browse commercial districts here in Orlando, and when you are traveling, to find out about upcoming events and current merchant offers. You can set alerts on the app to send a notification when you enter a Main Street district. It also allows you to personalize your interests and receive notifications when things you like are happening. As many have studies have shown, when you spend $100 at a national chain, $43 stays in the local economy; when you spend $100 at a local business, $73 stays right here. Check out distrx.com for more information about the application and the program itself.
I love Orlando year-round, but I really love our Great City around the holidays. There is a certain spirit of giving and unity that permeates the air. It is a wonderful time to enjoy great events as well.
Lake Eola will be bustling with activity, including Friday night holiday movies throughout the month of December. With classics like Elf and A Christmas Story, these movies are sure to get you in to a festive spirit. Enjoy a great festival and parade at the Winter Spark in Baldwin Park on December 10th from 4-9 p.m. Also, enjoy a special free performance of The Nutcracker by the Russian Ballet at the Walt Disney World Amphitheater at Lake Eola on Saturday, December 17th at 7:30 p.m. For more information on all of the great holiday happenings, visit cityoforlando.net.
While most of us are enjoying this friendly atmosphere, there are some who might see the holidays as an opportunity to take advantage of our trust. Everyone is especially busy during the holidays, but please continue to be prepared and be aware of your surroundings. Like me, how many times have you come out of a store after a successful holiday shopping trip, only to set your bags down to search your pocket or purse for your keys? Or you come out of the mall and forget exactly where you parked? Or had to do some last-minute shopping during the late evening hours and parked in a not-well-lit area? Or left your shopping bags clearly visible on the front or back seat of your car while you ran one last errand? Or for the moms and dads out there, have you ever left your car door open with your bags or purse on the seat while you fold up the stroller or strap your children into their car seats?
Every year, OPD sees a slight uptick in crimes of opportunity, residential break-ins, vehicle break-ins and robberies near shopping areas during the holiday season. Our Orlando Police Department works hard to combat this with specific holiday tactical squads, but we need your partnership to help prevent these crimes by taking common sense precautions AND by SAYING SOMETHING if you SEE SOMETHING. The scenarios I outlined are good examples of ones we can easily avoid with a little preparation before we go in search of the holy grail of gifts for our loved ones.
Many of us also tend to carry more cash on our person during this time of year and utilize more ATMs. Try to carry with you only the amount of cash you need, and if you must use an ATM, try to use one that is inside or in a very well-lighted area. Please never throw your ATM receipt away at the ATM location in order to avoid identity theft.
At home, you may want to reconsider putting a tree with gifts underneath on display through your front window. And when putting your trash curbside after the holidays, break down any boxes from high-end items so as not to advertise what type of property is in your home. And if you do purchase or receive any big-ticket items, such as a computer, iPad, or big screen t.v., be sure to record all serial numbers and put them in a safe place. If you are going out of town, ask a neighbor to pick up your mail and/or newspaper. Put a few indoor and outdoor lights on an automatic timer so that the house looks occupied.
Lastly, keep the OPD non-emergency number (321-235-5300) stored in your cell phone and please call, call, call!
As we are poised to ring in the New Year, let me express my personal thanks for your support of our District 3 staff, our city professionals, our local neighborhood and homeowner groups. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and best wishes to you and your family for a prosperous 2017!
Commissioner Robert Stuart


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The extracurricular (post-graduation) internship is aimed at facilitating your career choices during the transition between university and work, through training in direct contact with the world of work.
This type of internship is governed by regional regulations, depending on where it is held or the company's registered office.
You can do your extracurricular internship (either training or guidance) within the first 12 months from the date you graduated.
N.B.Some regional disciplines (including that of Regione Liguria) extend this possibility even after you have obtained your master's or doctoral degree.
The host entity must:
- obligatorily award you a participation allowance
- release to you, at the end of the internship, a certificate of the activities performed and the skills you have acquired
N.B.For internships activated in favor of university graduates, it is necessary to make, within 24 hours before the beginning of the internship, a communication telematics UNILAV.
To activate an extracurricular internship it is necessary to refer to the provisions of the individual regions:.
If you want to activate an internship in other regions contact the referent for internships of your course to receive the correct documentation.
To activate or continue an internship during the Covid-19 emergency.
In addition to the ordinary procedures, you and the host institution/company need to express your consent using the following documents:
Once completed and signed you must send the two documents to the Internship Office of your Course.
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ACT WorkKeys
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California Career Zone
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Contains resources for students, counselors, parents, teachers, in short, anyone interested in developing the career self-management skills necessary in today's world of work.
CTE Online
A place for professionals to support and promote available career technical education curriculum and resources.
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The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.
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A site with tools, stories and resources supporting and encouraging people to find their passion and inspiration in life in order to create fulfilling careers and life choices.
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Our Founder, Mark Walker, on the inception of fieldmargin
In 2008 a unique set of circumstances left me managing an arable farm in Herfordshire. After 20 years in the London tech start up sector I was looking forward to a new career. I enjoyed the challenge but found parts of the job really frustrating. The sheer volume of information was overwhelming and I found it impossible to commit all facts and figures to memory. In my previous career I had become used to accessing and sharing information on my mobile. Without this information to hand I found myself faced with the choice of trekking to the farm office to look up the information I required or of deciding what to do in the absence of accurate information. Inevitably I found myself sat in front of my computer far more frequently than I would otherwise of liked.
Communication between my Agronomist, Spray Operator and Contractor was achieved through a combination of email, phone calls and paper notes. Often these interactions were not recorded and record keeping consisted of laboriously piecing together all of these communications to see what actually took place. Not the easiest of tasks when recommendations are often changed and updated based on changing weather and crop conditions. Fieldmargin was built to tackle these communication issues and allow Agronomists, Contractors and Spray Operators to access, update and share information. Everyone now works on the same information. A change made by anyone is immediately seen by all other parties.
Our Beta has now been successfully tested on farm for the last 2 years. We have had some great feedback and are now looking to secure funding to increase the size of our team and take our product to market. Our next steps are to build a talented, motivated team who can provide the sort of product that will be embraced by the whole farming community. We need to ensure that farmer or agronomist can carry all of their cropping information in their pocket – note taking, mapping and crop management must all be available on a device smaller that the size of your hand. Oh – and our customers also want this information available offline. The technical challenges are substantial and require an exceptional skillset but hey, that's what makes this product so exciting.


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Film Review: Melanie Martinez's 'K-12' Is A Twisted Pop Musical
Since the arrival of Beyoncé in 2013, a visual album (i.e. one with videos for each song) has become the gold standard in the music industry. It's not only a time-consuming and costly endeavor, it also front-loads an era. Instead of drip-feeding content over the course of a year, fans get everything at once. Meaning that your audience has to be big enough to make it worthwhile. Melanie Martinez joined the visual album club with Cry Baby (every song eventually got a video), but she takes it one step further on K-12. Rather than putting together a mere collection of video clips, Melanie has written and directed a feature film.
What's the difference? Well, a lot. K-12 (pronounced "K through 12") is a 96-minute movie musical with dialogue, special effects and an overarching narrative. The film, which was shot in Budapest, Hungry over the course of a month, is a sequel of sorts to Cry Baby. The titular character, a twisted toddler with serious issues, is now of school age. After a cute re-introduction to Cry Baby, the film begins with our heroine being sent to a sinister, pastel-hued boarding school called K-12. In a baby pink school bus, of course.
The bus trip turns out to be a literal hell ride complete with school bullies, mean girls and a lecherous driver. Just when you think you're settling in for a candy-colored PSA, things get very, very weird. Cry Baby and her bad ass BFF Angelita have magical powers, which they use to plunge the bus into the ocean and to soar through the clouds. With the scene set, Melanie delivers the first song — an earworm called "Wheels On The Bus." The fact that she recorded the music with the film in mind is staggering and clearly apparent in its seamless integration into the plot.
It doesn't take long for Cry Baby to become a force for good at K-12, helping fellow students escape creepy teachers and a drug-pushing principal. While the film takes its visual cues from the likes of Tim Burton and Wes Anderson, the content is multi-layered, gritty and distinctly Melanie. She touches on topics as diverse as eating disorders (the "Orange Juice" segment is masterful), gender roles, abuse and body positivity. The latter subject is dealt with powerfully in the "Strawberry Shortcake" segment, which literally finds Melanie stripped bare.
While some musical numbers are peppered with choreography and familiar music video tropes, others break the mold. "Nurse's Office" gives us choreography on a gurney, while "Show & Tell" delivers puppetry. K-12 is at its most impactful, however, when tacking the overarching theme of being your authentic self. This is a film where the oddballs become heroes and the bullies learn their lesson. No characters are ostracized because Melanie is insightful enough to know that there's a hero and villain in all of us.
One of the most exciting things about K-12 is the way it widens Cry Baby's universe. While Melanie's debut was inward looking, this time around she's soaking up the world around her. And observing the struggles of her contemporaries and coming to terms with her own shortcomings. The fact that she also seems to be an alien hybrid gives the multi-hyphenate endless fodder for the next installment. It can't be overstated what an epic achievement this is. Melanie has created a cohesive, funny, empowering film from scratch — and also delivered 13 bops.
Of the songs, standouts include "Wheels On The Buss," "High School Sweethearts" and "Lunchbox Friends." K-12 (the film) is available as part of Melanie's K-12 (deluxe album), which drops on September 6. I would suggest watching the film before listening to the album to get the full experience. After all, that's the way Melanie intended this era to be consumed.
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Every dog has its day, and prairie dogs are no exception. A federal court just ruled in favor of protecting the threatened Utah prairie dog. (Christian Science Monitor)
What are prairie dogs? Use our short resource to get acquainted.
Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit.
Discussion Ideas
- The Christian Science Monitor article says a recent court ruling protecting Utah prairie dogs was "met with frustration by landowners who struggle to coexist with a pest sheltered by law." Why are prairie dogs considered a pest?
- Prairie dogs' huge network of tunnels and burrows—prairie-dog towns—"have been the scourge of those who work the land since pioneer times." Critics point to the threats prairie dogs pose to local economies, health, and well-being.
- economic pest. Prairie dogs can eat up to two pounds of grass and forbs per week. Prairie dog towns can, therefore, threaten crops and compete with cattle, sheep, and other livestock for food.
- injury pest. The burrows and tunnels of prairie dog towns can threaten the health of livestock and people. The delicate ankles of livestock and soccer players are at risk.
- public health pest. Thousands of prairie-dog holes can contribute to chemically treated water flooding into aquifers before the toxins leach out. (Water may be treated for agriculture or as part of a region's sewage treatment system.)
- community quality-of-life pest. Lawns and cemeteries can also be disrupted by the burrows of prairie dog towns.
- Prairie dogs' huge network of tunnels and burrows—prairie-dog towns—"have been the scourge of those who work the land since pioneer times." Critics point to the threats prairie dogs pose to local economies, health, and well-being.
- According to our short introduction to the species, prairie dogs are animals of "least concern"—they're not endangered. (Check out the categories and criteria for endangered species here.) So why are they protected under the Endangered Species Act?
- There are actually five species of prairie dog in North America. The Utah prairie dog is a threatened species, meaning it may soon become endangered. (The threatened status actually represents a recovery, as the species was originally listed as endangered in 1973.)
- Utah prairie dogs have a small species range and a relatively small population. They numbered 95,000 in the 1920s, but by the 1960s, populations had crashed due to habitat loss, disease, drought, and population control methods such as hunting and poisoning.
- Why is the court ruling considered a significant victory for the prairie dog and the Endangered Species Act?
- The court ruled that the federal government had authority to regulate the population of intrastate species on nonfederal land. That's a key description in the judgment.
- Intrastate species are those whose species range are entirely in one state.
- Nonfederal land includes land not belonging to the federal government (such as national parks). Nonfederal land may include private property and county- and state-managed land.
- This means that the federal government can regulate the population of the Utah prairie dog. "Despite the argument that this particular species of prairie dog lives exclusively in Utah, the three-judge panel found that the buck stops with the federal government [specifically, the Fish and Wildlife Service and Endangered Species Act], not the state."
- For the last three years, protection of the Utah prairie dog was managed by the state. "The state maintained many protections, but expanded the area wildlife officials could remove prairie dogs, and the circumstances under which residents could kill the unwanted underground residents."
- The court ruled that the federal government had authority to regulate the population of intrastate species on nonfederal land. That's a key description in the judgment.
- What happens next?
- The plaintiffs, who wanted the state to maintain management of Utah prairie dog populations, will appeal. The group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners, is not anti-prairie dog and acknowledges the species' significance. "Let [Utah prairie dog habitat] be on the prairie, let it be on land away from the developments," said Brett Taylor, the group's vice president.
- Conservationists acknowledge a legal victory not only for the prairie dog, but other intrastate species on nonfederal land. Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the AP that the decision could help protect as many as 1,600 endangered species around the country.
- Let your class be the next court of appeals. Should the federal government be the authority for regulating the populations of intrastate species on nonfederal land? Think about:
- states' rights
- conservation of endangered species
- landowners' rights
- influence of one species on an ecosystem
- influence of one species on the built environment
Christian Science Monitor: Prairie dogs win major victory in court
National Park Service: Utah Prairie Dog
Nat Geo: What are prairie dogs?
Nat Geo: What is a burrow?
(extra credit!) Tenth Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals: People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners v. USFWS


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Researchers at Georgia Tech Seek Better Understanding of Brain Injuries
According to Health Canal, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are seeking a better understanding of the brain's inner workings and the changes brought about by injury. Through this research, they are not only attaining knowledge of the brain's many complex mechanisms, but also are coming up with better treatments for brain injuries and disorders, afflictions that greatly interest the Atlanta traumatic brain injury attorneys at The Law Offices of Wayne Grant, P.C.
One team is researching the effects of electrical and light stimulation on the brain and its possible usage to reduce or eliminate seizures associated with epilepsy. Two million people in the United States are afflicted with the disorder. Seizures occur when nerve cells in the brain fire abnormally and excessively. The stimulation techniques, if valid, could help patients on whom drug therapies do not work. Experiments will be conducted on an animal model that is experiencing temporal lobe epilepsy.
Another team is basing their research on a phenomenon called adaptation. Adaptation, in relation to neurological science, describes the ability the brain has in quickly switching from the detection of an object to the identification of said object. This ability can be traced to the neurons located at the beginning of the brain's sensory information pathways and their interactions with one another. The team hopes to gain insight into brain injuries by studying the synchronization of neurons in the brain and how any alterations can result in harmful effects.
The Georgian researchers are also working on probing devices for neurons in tissue samples and living animals, brain information processing models, and studies of brain activity during cognitive tasks.
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Both ends of the county are gearing up to celebrate community and promote crime and drug prevention awareness with National Night Out events in Pembroke and Richmond Hill.
Festivities will be from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday – on Railroad Street in downtown Pembroke and in J.F. Gregory Park in Richmond Hill.
The event in Pembroke, hosted by the Pembroke Police Department, will include free hot dogs and drinks, safety displays, local entertainment, informational booths, a unity walk and moonwalk, snow cones and popcorn, free balloons, free school supplies and much more.
The event in Richmond Hill, hosted by the Richmond Hill Police Department, will include live entertainment, including the band Liquid Ginger, Cesar Arocha of the athletes ministry Team Impact and more. There will also be free rides and games, free hot dogs and drinks, a hot dog eating contest, martial arts demonstrations, classic car show, and more.
National Night Out is a crime/drug prevention event designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; generate support for and participation in local anticrime programs; strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
For more information about NNO in Pembroke, call 653-4414. For more information about NNO in Richmond Hill, call 756-5645.


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Family victimization is a national crisis for women and children. These victims may be immobilized and rendered helpless, with an attendant loss of self-respect, but often they suffer much more serious consequences. Family victims are characteristically "trapped, cornered, or overpowered, physically or psychologically, and they cannot function" (Boss, 2002, p. 161). The impacts of being battered include high rates of medical problems, head and neck injuries, broken bones, contusions, abrasions, lacerations, miscarriages, depression, and suicide attempts. (Hamberger & Phelan, 2004; Roberts, 2006). Victim's symptoms can include persistent acute and chronic reexperiencing of the traumatic events of victimization, persistent symptoms of physical and emotional arousal, and avoiding stimuli associated with the trauma through a numbing of general responsiveness – often facilitated through the abuse of alcohol and other substances. All of these can seriously impair the individual's functioning. Females suffering from battered woman syndrome often meet the same DSM-IV (2000) diagnostic criteria for post traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) as do veterans returning from foreign wars.
Many victims of domestic violence are dually diagnosed with PTSD and substance dependence (SD): "The literature is clear that there is a strong link between victimization or traumatization in women and substance abuse and dependence disorders." (Covington, Burke, Keaton, & Norcott, 2008, p. 388). Both PTSD and SD are associated with increased rates of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts. (Harned, Najavits, & Weiss, 2006).
Moreover, the response consequences to victims of domestic violence predict and often accompany involvement in the criminal justice system. A significant body of research shows that women who are jailed reported elevated rates of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, particularly abuse as children. (Green, Miranda, Daroowalla, & Siddique, 2005). The criminal justice system is philosophically predisposed to addressing issues characteristic of male criminal offenders. It is not adequate to serving these women who find themselves incarcerated – often for drug possession of related offenses. Substance abuse itself leads to a number of risky behaviors beyond criminality, including the transmission of AIDS and other sex related diseases. Since a majority of these incarcerated women are mothers, this has profound social implications. Investigation suggests that children benefit from treatment programs that target mothers who are abused. (McFarlane, Groff, O'Brien, & Watson, 2005).
A substantial segment of the population of victims of intimate partner violence ends up with dual diagnoses that traditional crisis intervention models may fail to address. It is imperative that therapists and paraprofessionals practicing crisis intervention for women that are victims of intimate partner violence include treatments that are sensitized to the dual diagnoses of PTSD and SD. Treatment options for such women are limited, in jails and in shelters. Several models for such treatment are beginning to show empirical support, and merit further study.
Assessing Woman Battering
An empirical examination of family violence is relevant to formulating social policies and crime legislation. Yet because there is disagreement over what constitutes a family system, the data can be difficult to track. For example, for purposes of the information supplied by law enforcement agencies to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program under the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 1995, family violence was defined as a crime against a person or property where the relationship of the victim to the offender is identified as within these relationships: spouse, common-law spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandparent, grandchild, in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother or stepsister, or other family member. Boyfriends, girlfriends, ex-spouses, ex-boyfriends, and ex-girlfriends were excluded. Even with this limitation, the FBI concluded that in 1995, of the 214,464 reported victims of violent offenses within the United States 57,985, or about twenty-seven percent, were related to one or more of their offenders. These offenses included murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation, and unspecified other offenses. In terms of demographics, these victims of "family violence" varied from overall crimes of violence. The victims are slightly older (83 percent above the age of eighteen) and overwhelmingly female (73 percent). In 46 percent of the cases the victims were marital or common-law spouses of the perpetrator. Yet these figures are not reflective of real world intimate partner violence.
In 2002 the U.S. Department of Justice issued its Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report (Rennison & Welchans, 2000) on intimate partner violence, examining the period from 1976 to 1998. These authors defined "intimate relationships" as involving current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends including individuals of the same gender. The statistics were concerned with violent acts including murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Several conclusions were drawn: (1) 85% of victimizations by intimate partners in 1998 were against women; (2) intimate partner violence made up twenty-two percent of violent crime against women between 1993 and 1998, as compared to three percent of the violence against men for the same period; (3) women experienced intimate partner violence in lower rates in 1998 than in 1993, falling from 9.8 to 7.5 per 1,000 women; and (4) intimate partners committed fewer murders in each of the three years 1996, 1997, and 1997 than in any other year since 1976.
As observed by Roberts (2006, p. 521) using survey information provided by Tjaden and Thoennes (2000), "[f]amily violence is a prevalent, dangerous, and often life-threatening social and public health problem. It is an indiscriminating crime that knows few boundaries, as recent annual estimates indicate that over 8.7 million women are battered by husbands, boyfriends, and other intimate partners." This translates to a woman being battered, in the United States alone, by someone she knows on average once every nine seconds.
The literature assumes that governmental statistics and estimates are unreliable because of privacy issues that result in an under-reporting of the true numbers, or victim's fears of retaliation, "as well as lost police records due to computer crashes." (Roberts, 2006, p. 521). Many women never make police reports and may stay in battering relationships for extended periods. All of this is the so-called "dark figure" of domestic violence. This is likely the case when we speak to statistics relating to family and intimate partner violence.
Domestic Violence and PTSD
In 2001 Jones, Hughes and Untersaller undertook a review of the academic literature concerning PTSD syndrome for women as a result of the domestic violence these women had encountered. Their broad conclusions (p. 100) include the following:
· The symptoms shown by battered women are consistent with the major indicators of PTSD as currently defined by the DSM-IV. Findings across varied samples including shelters, hospitals, and community agencies is that 31% to 84% of victimized women exhibit PTSD symptoms
· The domestic violence shelter population is at higher risk for PTSD than those similarly victimized women who are not in shelters, with estimates ranging from 40% to 84% of the shelter population.
· Having multiple victimizations over time (childhood abuse, especially sexual abuse, and adult sexual abuse) increases the likelihood of PTSD and other psychiatric disorders.
· The extent, severity, and type of abuse is connected with the intensity of PTSD. The more life threatening the abuse, the more traumatic the effects. Women need not experience severe violence to suffer PTSD symptoms, but experiencing severe violence exacerbates symptoms. Psychological abuse may be as damaging as physical abuse.
· Depression and dysthymia in particular tend to accompany PTSD victims of domestic violence.
· Suicide is a risk for domestic violence victims of display PTSD symptoms.
· In a high percentage of victimized women, substance abuse was reported. Women who reported being victims of child abuse and adult victimization had significantly more lifetime drug and alcohol dependence than women not reporting abuse.
· Younger, unemployed women with a relatively large number of children, low income, and poor levels of social support are more at risk for experiencing PTSD symptoms.
Treatments exist for persons in the acute aftermath of trauma; however, traditional treatment responses to PTSD have been criticized by some as being contraindicated for battered women, especially women in shelters. (Johnson & Zletnick, 2009). The first-line treatments for trauma victims suffering PTSD are primarily exposure-based. Since battered women in shelters have multiple safety concerns that can lead to increased anxiety (e.g., homelessness, children, risks of re-victimization), such anxiety if overwhelming can impede the efficacy of these techniques in this population of PTSD sufferers.
Johnson and Zletnick (2009) have proposed one treatment model using cognitive-behavioral theories. They have developed "HOPE" for treating PTSD in battered women in shelters, an acronym for Helping to Overcome PTSD through Empowerment. HOPE was designed for battered women with ongoing safety concerns; however, Johnson and Zletnick (2009, p. 237) warn that "HOPE is unsuitable for women with significant pathology (i.e., suicidality, a bipolar or psychotic disorder, and/or active substance dependence) who need more intensive and specialized treatment." Hence, there is no HOPE for dual diagnosis victims. This is unfortunate since the literature strongly supports conclusions of a nexus between drug and alcohol abuse and the stress of domestic violence. (Eby, 2004).
Effects and Characteristics of Comorbid PTSD and Substance Abuse
There is a long established correlation between women with PTSD and SD with self-harm and suicidal behavior. Harned et al. (2006) postulate that "individuals with comorbid PTSD and SD may be at high risk for self-harm and suicidal behavior. Indeed, two studies have found that women with this dual diagnosis report a higher number of lifetime suicide attempts than women with either PTSD or SD alone" (p. 392). Their findings were that twenty-one percent of the women in their sample with comorbid PTSD and SD had engaged in self-harm behavior in the past three months, a rate comparable to life-time prevalence rates of self-harm reported in studies of women with substance use disorders. The rate of suicide attempts in the prior three months was lower than previous studies of PTSD-SD patients, but these prior studies assessed life-time rather than recent suicide attempts. Their results also suggested that PTSD and SD were each perceived as contributing to self-harm and suicidal behavior. Almost 62 percent of the women who had made a suicide attempt and/or harmed themselves in the prior three months reported using alcohol or drugs immediately before or during the episode. "These findings are consistent with research indicating that self-harm and suicide attempts often regulate overwhelming internal experiences, such as unwanted emotions, flashbacks, and unpleasant thoughts" (p. 394).
Women who had not engaged in self-harming behaviors were more likely to report that concerns about children, a belief in their ability to cope, and a wish to survive helped them to stay safe (p. 395). Those results were consistent with the research indicating that similar reasons for living best differentiate suicidal and nonsuicidal groups.
Dual diagnosis of PTSD and SD dramatically increases the likelihood that women will become incarcerated within the criminal justice system. This has profound sociological implications since 70% of jailed women are mothers, and the consequences to these children are extremely negative. As Green et al. (2005, p. 341) note, according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics released in 2003, there has been a dramatic growth in the increase of the female population in the nation's jails, mostly attributed to increases in illicit drug use among women and an increase in drug related convictions and mandatory sentencing. Women prisoners have been shown to have had a very high exposure to a variety of trauma experiences, most notably interpersonal violence including childhood physical and sexual abuse with some studies suggesting that this exposure may be as high as between 77% and 90%. (Battle, Zlotnick, Najavits, Gutierrez, & Winson, 2003, as cited by Green et al., 2005).
Potential Treatment Limitations of Domestic Violence Shelters
Battered woman syndrome is a culturally recognized type of PTSD that crisis counselors need to address and to consider in light of its common symptoms which one author (Kanel, 2007, p. 225) has summarized as follows:
1. PTSD Symptoms. The traumatic effects of victimization by violence, particularly
from intimate partners, causes various symptoms to develop as identified by the DSM IV.
2. Learned Helplessness. The failure of the social system to help the victim may
train her to defend by learning to survive rather than by escaping he battering.
3. Self-Destructive Coping Responses to Violence. Because the victim may believe that her only choice is to stay, or in order to adapt to the experience itself, she often uses drugs and alcohol to escape or she may attempt suicide.
Often, the only safe place for these women to turn is one of the 2,000 community-based shelter programs throughout the United States that provide emergency shelter. The experience of battered women in shelters can be quite different from community women in that the women who enter shelters are often coming directly following an acute battering incident, have high levels of on-going safety concerns, and remain at high risk for returning to the abusive relationship. Although research suggests that "a prime time to intervene is when a woman is a resident of a battered woman's shelter, considering that many battered women seek help from the shelters and have instituted changes in their lives" (Johnson & Zletnick, 2009, p. 235), traditional PTSD treatment involving exposure modalities appear to not be appropriate – and cognitive-behavioral based therapies that might work for PTSD alone are not indicated for a substantial element of the shelter population exhibiting dual diagnoses including SD.
Many shelters are not prepared to deal with substance abuse or PTSD issues, especially when substance abuse problems persist. Many shelters have strict guidelines concerning compliance with case plans and shelter rules (e.g., no drug use or alcohol), and women who are not compliant with the rules may be asked to leave prematurely. This is especially true in today's economics, where shelter facilities are being forced to cut staff and services and are unable to expand them.
New Paradigms for Treating Dual Diagnosis Battered Women
Covington and Bloom (2006) argue for "gender responsiveness" in the treatment of women trauma victims. They argue that in order for treatment of females victims of domestic violence to be effective, treatment must reflect "an understanding of the realities of women's and girl's lives and [be] responsive to their strengths and challenges." Because traditional therapy usually reflects the dominant male culture, one result is that programs called "gender neutral" are really male based. Covington et al. (2008) conclude that since the lives of many women in substance abuse treatment and mental health treatment include trauma it is essential that materials used be "trauma-informed."
A paradigm that was developed by Dr. Stephanie Covington to begin addressing these concerns is the Women's Integrated Treatment (WIT), under which two gender responsive curricula have been designed which attempt to integrate trauma and substance abuse treatment. These curricula are termed Beyond Trauma (BT) and Helping Women Recover (HWR).
HWR is a manualized curriculum designed for use in a variety of settings that are intended to include outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment programs, domestic violence shelters, mental health clinics, jails and prisons, and community correction facilities. "HWR is founded on research, theory, and clinical practice and is grounded in the theories of addiction, trauma, and women's psychological development" (p. 390). BT is similarly manualized, but the materials are intended to be trauma-specific. "The connection between trauma and substance abuse is recognized and integrated throughout the curriculum." (Covington et al., 2008, p. 391).
Both of these programs rely upon implementation by trained staff utilizing user friendly materials which are self-instructive. Instructor's manuals are provided for running groups, and the staff themselves are first trained in how to conduct the program. Sessions include an overview of the materials to be covered, a teaching component, an interactive component that includes supportive exercises, and a closing used to focus questions for women to think about for the next session. Video instruction for facilitators and clients is included. HWR and BT is usually provided sequentially.
Noting that gender-responsive, trauma-informed services for women have only been developed in the last ten years, in their study of 200 women using both HWR and BT, Covington et al. (2008) preliminarily concluded that their findings show significant improvement among the women involved with WIT as compared to traditional treatments. "Research has demonstrated that the greatest risks to addiction recovery are present in women with histories of victimization and/or trauma. As a result, interventions must approach such individuals with a dual purpose" (p. 197). Randomized women who engaged in the WIT program utilizing both HWR and BT made notable positive gains in areas of symptoms associated with trauma and depression and stayed in treatment while maintaining sobriety. They observe there are several other programs that have been shown to be effective, including Seeking Safety.
According to Najavits (2009) Seeking Safety is a present focused coping skills model designed to address trauma and substance abuse at the same time. Navjavits claims that "[a]t this point, it is the only model for trauma and substance abuse that meets criteria as an effective treatment" (p. 292). She observes that Beyond Trauma awaits a published outcome study. She also questions Covington's conclusions that there is need for specificity with regard to women, based upon a lack of research. The treatment offers 25 topics and covers four content areas – cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and case management. Typically the number of sessions is 25 over some three months. As with WIT, these include written course work which is facilitated by trained paraprofessionals. As with WIT, it holds considerable promise.
The treatment of women who have suffered interpersonal violence and substance abuse is a major public policy matter, especially because of implications for the collateral impacts upon children. Traditional PTSD exposure based therapies may not be best suited to domestic violence victims generally, and particularly for those with dual diagnoses of PTSD and SD. Many domestic violence shelters are not trained to deal with substance abuse issues or have available a meaningful program of treatment for such persons or sufficient funding resources, and so refuse to treat women who are practicing addicts. Research suggests that before women can be effectively treated for PTSD, they must first be stabilized from their substance abuse; and vice versa. In a large percentage of the intimate partner abuse population there is an established comorbidity of PTSD and SD. This is likewise true of many women within the criminal justice system. Ignoring these issues risks the tail wagging the dog, and potential failure in the successful treatment of a large percentage of these victims.
Whether or not gender responsiveness is critical to effective treatment of PTSD, this huge population of victims has it unique attributes and problems. Shelters are the front line defense, and sometimes the last line defense, for many of them. Further inquiry is necessary to determine whether a refusal to recognize and treat these comorbid tendencies is a failure in the developing struggle to stop the cycle of victimization for women. However, without recognition of the importance of treating dual diagnosis victims of domestic violence on the part of governmental and community agencies, there will continue to be a dearth of financial resources available for this expansion of appropriate and needed treatment.
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In 1832, the Belgian mathematician and sociologist Adolphe Quetelet coined the phrase "the dark figure of crime." By this he meant the true crime rate as opposed to the number of governmentally recorded crimes. The dark figure, he suggested, would inevitably be much higher than the official figure – people who commit crimes take pains to ensure that their endeavors do not come to the attention of the government. All of our reasoning about crime, Quetelet suggested – about its scope, nature, and impact – would be defective were we to rely upon official statistics.
This also appears to be true of men. (Najavits, Schmitz, Gotthardt, & Weiss, 2005).
At least one study has questioned whether the literature establishes that women are really worse off remaining in certain abusive relationships, at least in the short-term, given that "many victims encounter tremendous difficulties in securing employment, finding housing, and accomplishing other tasks related to establishing a life apart from their mates." (Bell, Goodman, & Dutton, 2007, p.414).
Overcoming Addiction as a Coping Response to PTSD for Victims of Domestic Violence
Family victimization is a national crisis for women and children. Victim's symptoms can include persistent acute and chronic re-experiencing of the traumatic events of victimization, persistent symptoms of physical and emotional arousal, and avoiding stimuli associated with the trauma through a numbing of general responsiveness – often facilitated through the abuse of alcohol and other substances. All of these can seriously impair the individual's functioning.
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T.W. Arnold attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1974 earning a Commendation of Excellence for his academic performance studying behavioral psychology. In 1976 he transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara, graduating with Honors in his studies of American and World History in 1979. He attended the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1979 and was an editorial staff member of its Environmental LawJournal. He received his Juris Doctorate in June, 1982. He is also currently a Master's Student at Loma Linda University in southern California studying Family Systems and Family Life Education.
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According to a new report from 'The New York Times', Samsung Galaxy S IV is likely to have an eye scrolling feature, thereby enabling users to scroll through webpages without even touching the screen of the phone.
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