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She talked about Social Thinking
I did a Q& A with him on this very important topic and thought it you would find it useful too .
What is social thinking?
Keep me posted as to where one can find that type of intervention, or training for parents to do this. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your comment !
If you click on the Social Learning Tree in the post .. its the link to her website
She has an amazing website and some of her materials can be purchased on amazon. We bought The Social Detective for our son thru amazon and then donated it to her kindergarten class. It is perfect for him and kids like him. I highly recommend the book and the whole program.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recco Alysia - must get itDelete
LOVE, love, love her! Her approaches are amazing for kids on the spectrum.ReplyDelete
Totally agree Aimee .. everyone who has experienced her approach seems to love herDelete
K, this is such an interesting post. A few things stood out for me! :)
"traced back to undeveloped social thinking as a young child"
This is the area in which I am working with Nick!
" where he can be trained to look at and understand social cues and nuances"
I am not training Nick! :) Through experiencing the developmental stages that he has missed out on, he is learning *naturally* to reference facial expressions and body language for information. This is an important part of development. I am focusing on the roots of the tree before the trunk and the leaves. I am building the foundation for Nick's future development!
"He has to be taught to see what the other person is seeing and then based on that develop the ability to figure out what the person is thinking.
Understanding another person's perspective is so hard for our kids. There is so much to learn before our kids can get to this stage.
K, obviously this is my own experience and perhaps my comment is not right for this site, however, I think it is beneficial for us parents to talk and share ideas! What do you think? xx
Di you made such great points - I think a lot of of the relational models of development like RDI , floortime and sonrise take into account the roots of the tree and you are doing such an awesome job with Nick !
"There is so much to learn before our kids can get to this stage."
Very very true - r is definitely in the very early stage of being able to develop this skill
one thing we are working on as we are still in very early stages with R is "what is Papa looking at ?"
And we are making it very easy for him
Example DH will keep a pencil right in front of his eye
So its easy for R to answer "papa is looking at a pencil"
Similarly his therapists are doing this in their reading comprehension - asking what each character is feeling
Thanks for a great post. I a big believer in the RDI program. And at the College Internship Program in Long Beach where I am the Program Director, social thinking is a huge part of our curriculum. Michelle Garcia Winner was one of our professional advisors as well.ReplyDelete
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B&W, 1994, 65m.
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One of the pioneering works of erotic fiction, Venus in Furs became a familiar title in popular culture after the Velvet Underground immortalized it with a tribute song on their classic Velvet Underground and Nico album, which in turn spawned a number of late '60s European films. The best among these was Jess Franco's 1969 adaptation, which retained the female protagonist's name and the S&M theme, but little else. Incidentally, the original memoir by Leopold von Sacher Masoch spawned the original term "masochism," and his real life wife eventually retaliated with an alternate erotic memoir of her own.
It certainly took long enough, but a couple of Dutch filmmakers decided to actually make a film called Venus in Furs that faithfully follows the events of the book. Shot in a slow, static, visually arresting style (in gorgeous black and white, no less), the film begins with the dejected Severin (Andre Arend Van Noord) resting in an empty town square reflecting on his relationship with Wanda (Anne Van Der Ven), who asked him to sign a contract vowing his status as her lover. Severin's day to day existence working on a train allows him to freely fantasize about his lover, who in some ways reminds him of his domineering fur coated aunt, who forced him to act as her servant when he was twelve. Naturally Severin got a sexual kick out of this relationship and willingly undergoes the same treatment from Wanda, with whom he descends into increasingly dangerous mind games.
Considering all it has going for it -- a solid literary source, a nifty visual style, heaps of sex, and a lush soundtrack peppered with Mahler, Grieg, and Tchaikovsky -- it's difficult to pinpoint exactly this film feels so restrained and subdued. Part of it may be the two leads, who look more like wasted junkies than world weary European connoisseurs of sexual experimentation. The bizarre English dubbing over the original dialogue (presumably Dutch) doesn't help, though thankfully verbal exchanges are kept to a minimum. (For those interested in the plot, however, the DVD offers subtitles in English, Dutch, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and French!) Many scenes feel like nods to other arty films, ranging from Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect (note the opening scene and Severin's office wall papered with sketches) and Just Jaeckin's Story of O, which clearly inspired the finale. As an experiment, this is perhaps worth watching for some individual powerful images (such as a recurring low angle tracking shot of Wanda's high heeled shoes ascending a flight of stairs). The full frame image quality and the fairly well separated stereo sound are both fine, without any noticeable compression problems.


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This is a little later than I'd hoped, but on the bright side, it's a bit longer too. LOL. I'm still on track to post once a week to ten days but real life does have a way of taking over. I'll leave you with this installment and get back to my WIP while I have a quiet house and time to get some work done! Look for part 6 (NSFW) next week…
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Better Than Engagement- Chapter 5
Have you ever noticed how minor aggravations seem to take on a life of their own at the most inconvenient times? My intuition warned me to be on guard. I had a volatile Latin lover who was already stressed out from work and news of my parent's impending visit. Running into the sexy intern who made no secret she had a crush on me and wasn't above making bold overtures was the last thing Aaron would want to deal with tonight. Hell, it was the last thing I wanted to deal with either. It wasn't like I planned it. Shit happened. Unfortunately I knew logic wouldn't fly if my boyfriend walked in on me engaged in a chummy conversation with a pretty brunette with stars in her eyes.
I glanced at Curt who pasted on a friendly "about to meet a stranger" look then stage-whispered, "And three, two, one…"
"Hi Matt! I thought that was you!" Jana gushed, squeezing my arm enthusiastically.
"Hi Jana. Funny to run into you here. Um…hey, this is my friend, Curt. Jana is one of our interns. She's been extremely helpful with the contract we're working on."
Curt's half eye roll said it all and then some. Lame. "Nice to meet you."
I stood and shoved my phone in my suit pocket while they muddled through cordial introductions. "We're heading out now. You're welcome to take our table if you want. It's packed in here."
"Actually I've been sitting on the other end of the bar with my friends—" She pointed to a group of women gathering their belongings and moving toward the main dining area. "One of them made a reservation but I'm not sure if I'll stay. Do you have plans tonight?"
"Uh…yeah, actually I do."
The ensuing stilted pause was awkward as hell. I wanted out.
Curt rustled his keys as he inclined his head toward the door. "I have to go. I'll talk to you later, Matt. Tell Aaron hi and don't forget about basketball this weekend."
He bumped my shoulder as he sidled past us and headed for the exit, leaving me with a perky intern. Great.
Jana bit her bottom lip and batted her lashes shyly. I had to give it to her. She had flirtation down to a science. She was obvious about what she wanted but there was a sudden fragility about her that made it difficult to be abrupt or unkind. Not that I would be. I still had to work with her.
I stepped aside when a couple swooped in to take our table then gestured vaguely toward the reception desk in the adjoining area. "I'm having dinner here tonight. I should get going."
"I'll come with you. I mean…to join my friends."
She flashed a winning smile then followed closely as I made my way through the tightly packed bar to the entrance. At some point she latched on to me, slipping her arm through the crook of my elbow like she needed me to pull her to safety. I gently extricated myself from her grip then craned my neck to see if my date had arrived.
"Bye Jana. See you tomorrow. Enjoy your dinner."
"Wait! Can I ask you something?"
"Are you with someone? Colleen mentioned that you were but…"
"I am."
"Is it serious? I don't mean to come on strong—" She chuckled when I widened my eyes comically before continuing, "—but I like you. You're a brilliant lawyer and honestly, you're one of the nicest guys I've ever met. You always stop what you're doing to help interns and newbies and I guess I was wondering if… you know."
"I'm flattered, Jana, but yeah, I'm in a serious relationship. The practically married kind of serious."
"But not quite!" She held up a finger and made a funny face that went a long way toward defusing the clumsy air between us.
"Yeah, well I'm hoping to change that soon."
"Oh wow! Congratulations!" Her enthusiasm seemed sincere. I smiled then glanced away just as she threw her arms around me.
And because timing was everything, that was when Aaron walked in.
He stopped in his tracks and gave me a lopsided grin, clearly amused at my predicament. I'd take amusement over jealousy any day, I thought as I pushed Jana away and turned to face my man. Damn, he looked amazing. He wore an electric blue suit coat with dark, slim-fitted trousers. If I had to guess, I'd bet he'd come from a photo shoot where the makeup artist decided to use him as a guinea pig. His hazel eyes were heavy lined and there was a pale tint to his lip gloss.
I was aware of Jana's excited chatter next to me but I couldn't really hear her. I was reminded of the first night I met Aaron. He'd taken my breath away. I was in awe of him and freaked out by my reaction. My pulse skipped, my palms were slick and my mouth was like the Sahara. I hadn't known then what was going on with me. Now, I knew I was in love.
"Hi. I'm late," he said with a cocky smile that grew with each passing second. He knew what he did to me and he fucking loved it.
"You're perfect." I pulled Aaron forward and kissed his cheek. Then I put my arm over his shoulder and turned to the bewildered woman beside me. "Jana, this is my boyfriend, Aaron."
To say she was shocked was a bit of an understatement. She looked blown away and maybe even a little ill. She stared at us long enough that I wondered if she was waiting for a punch line or a "just kidding". When she sensed it wasn't coming, she cleared her throat and finally took Aaron's outstretched hand.
"Oh! Oh…oh right. Um…it's nice to meet you."
"You too. Do you work at the firm?" he asked politely.
"Y-yes. I'm an intern who's interning." She grimaced as she caught herself and then gestured to somewhere in the restaurant. "Uh, I should go find my friends. I'll see you tomorrow, Matt. Nice to meet you."
Cool. That was done. I rubbed Aaron's shoulder then stepped toward the hostess desk when she called my name. "Come on, babe. I'm starving."
We were seated at a small table for two in the middle of the restaurant next to a glass and steel banister. There was no neighboring table on one side, but we had a bird's eye view of the entire space. The hostess set two menus and a wine list next to a tiny vase of wildflowers and the single votive on the white linen tablecloth and assured us our waiter would be with us soon. I opened the leather bound wine list and perused the first page before glancing at my uncharacteristically quiet date.
"They have that Bordeaux you like. Do you want wine or would you rather have a cocktail first?"
"So… that's Jana," he singsonged, ignoring my question. He set his elbows on the table and tucked his hands under his chin.
"Yep. I'll order a bottle of the—"
"She's staring at me."
"What? Where?"
"She's sitting two tables away." He huffed humorlessly. "This is going to be interesting."
"It's not going to be anything. Relax and tell me about your day. You look hot, by the way."
"Thanks. Check this out." Aaron grinned then leaned in farther and closed his eyes so I could see the aquamarine glitter on his eyelids.
When I oohed appreciatively, he fluttered his eyelashes and giggled like a kid. I laughed then picked up my water glass to keep myself from touching him just as the waiter stopped at our table to take our drink order. He left us with a promise of fresh bread and the speedy delivery of our wine.
"So you played dress up today," I commented when we were alone again.
"I did. Clothes, hair, makeup. It was a blast and pretty much the only thing that kept the day from being a complete disaster."
"What happened?"
"You name it. The designer was late. He insisted on using his own models, but they didn't fit the pieces he brought with him. He fought with the photographer about lighting, the stylist about the models' hair and get this… when his tirade went to full scale diva heights, he questioned my fashion sense. He actually called me gauche."
"And you let him live?"
Aaron threw his head back and laughed. "It may have been a rash decision, but yes. All things considered, I think I handled the situation well. When I suggested we regroup in the morning to give everyone a few more hours to prepare, he didn't argue. Thank God. The second he left, I made all the necessary calls to be sure I have the personnel I need to get his team in and out before noon tomorrow. I just hope Marsha doesn't fire my ass before I can prove how fabulous I really am."
I scoffed. "Why would she fire you? You're the best assistant art director in DC!"
Aaron gave me a sappy smile and sighed. "That's why I love you, Matty."
"What did I say?"
"Sometimes it isn't what you say. It's how you look at me when you say it."
Before I could respond, the waiter returned with our wine and launched immediately into an impressive list of specials. I didn't hear a word he said. I was engrossed with my date. Aaron was an enigma. He was a whirling dervish who peppered nonstop chatter with animated hand movements and a mischievous glint in his eye. Then he'd stop everything to make a point that left me speechless and ten paces behind him, fumbling to catch up. I felt sorry for anyone who made the mistake of underestimating him.
When the waiter stepped away, I lifted my wine glass and tapped it against his. "How do I look at you?"
"Like I'm the only one here. Like you can't see anyone but me."
"I can't."
"Me either." He reached across the table and set his hand over mine, then he sat back and huffed theatrically. "I just wish I didn't have the intern in my peripheral view. She's killing the romantic vibe."
"Don't look at her."
"I'm trying but she's staring again. I'm feeling self conscious," he groused playfully.
"You?" I rolled my eyes. "Oh please."
"You're right. Let's talk about your parents visiting instead. Whatever you do, don't tell your mother you have an attractive admirer after you. She'll insist on meeting her and before I know what hit me, I'll come home to find Bride magazines with the corners folded on every wedding dress and Jana's initials circled with hearts on every one."
I scoffed. "And you'd tell her not to bother with magazines because you're designing your own gown."
Aaron snickered appreciatively. "Touché. You do realize if we ever get married, we can't tell your mother. She'll freak the fuck out."
"First of all, it's 'when', not 'if' and secondly, that's her problem… not ours."
"Ooh! I love it when you get macho territorial and protective, Matty. It turns me on," he purred, sliding his leg along mine under the table.
"Cut it out. I don't want to sit here for an hour with a hard on."
"My bad. I'm not sure I could get hard with my hostile audience. Your friend still looks puzzled, poor thing. Why do I get the feeling she had no idea you're with a man? I can't decide if her surprise was comical or insulting."
I sighed with exasperation and leaned in. "C'mon Aar. Give me a break. I didn't invite her here and I didn't suggest my parents make an impromptu visit to DC either. I may not wear rainbow ties to work and talk incessantly about my hot boyfriend—"
"You don't?"
"But I never hide who I am or who I'm with."
"I know," he said apologetically.
"Hey, I wish it was easier too. I wish my mom was more like yours. Honestly, I would have thought your family would give me a harder time than mine, but they're so…accepting."
Aaron cocked his head thoughtfully. "Of course they are. You're the best thing that ever happened to me."
I opened my mouth and closed it quickly but I couldn't find my voice right away. When I did, it sounded thick with emotion. "That's my line."
"Hmm. The difference with my family and yours is expectation. My family expected me to bring home someone like me and trust me… they weren't looking forward to it. One of me is difficult enough. Two? No way. But instead of another fabulous freak, they got you. You're… normal. They love normal. Everyone does! That's why we're not easy for your mom to accept. She likes me fine, but I'm not what she expected. She wanted someone traditional for you. In her mind, traditional is safe. She wants you to have what she has and she doesn't see how you can be happy with anything less."
Now I really was speechless. He was right. I hated it but everything he said was true. I watched football with his dad and brother and made no attempt to hide the fact I knew nothing about fashion or anything they might consider unmanly. I might have been unexpected but they could relate to me on some level. I was easy.
"We have so much good will and acceptance in our lives," he continued. "I have to remind myself to let the BS go. It's not important. Your mom may never like me and if it's not Jana, who by the way is still gawking at me like I'm an alien…it's going to be someone else who thinks if my handsome lawyer is really bi, he can probably be swayed back to the straight side of the street."
Aaron's self-deprecating smile took the sting out of his bald-faced version of the facts, but I didn't want to concede that life was unfair and sometimes even good people made life needlessly difficult for the ones they loved the most. I wanted him to forget everyone but us.
I rubbed my nose nervously and shifted in my chair. "She's still staring?"
"Yeah, but—"
"Change seats with me."
"Now?" he asked, knitting his brow irritably.
When he started grumbling in Spanish, I stood abruptly and motioned for him to get up. "Come on. Let's trade."
Anything could happen now. He might refuse and if he did agree, he might stomp on my foot or even elbow me in the gut when he got up. His piercing gaze cautioned me to think twice. I waited patiently while he dabbed the corner of his mouth then slowly backed his chair up and stood. Just as someone dropped a glass a couple tables away. A brief quiet fell and a few heads turned in our direction, as though startled by the jarring sound of breaking glassware. I took advantage of the disruption and pounced.
I pulled Aaron against me and cover his mouth in a searing kiss. I threw everything I had into the connection. I might not be able to fight every injustice but I would always fight for what was mine.
The place exploded with cheers and enthusiastic clapping. Our table's central location gave the entire restaurant a front row seat to the show. I didn't care. No one and nothing mattered but him. I pulled back slightly and rested my forehead on his before pointing at my vacant chair. He gave me a dreamy-eye nod but obeyed.
"I can't believe you did that," he whispered.
"Why not? I love you. I don't care who knows. In fact, I want them to know. Should I start wearing rainbow ties to work?" I asked in a faux serious tone.
Aaron shook his head. "No. Be you. That's all I need."
To be continued…


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I'm going to start with lower-level monsters and work my way up, and my first case study will be the monster that players beginning with the Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition starter set are likely to encounter first: goblins.
Here's what we know about goblins from the Monster Manual: First, from the flavor text, they live in dark, dismal settings; congregate in large numbers; and employ alarms and traps. They're low-Strength and high-Dexterity, with a very good Stealth modifier. Their Intelligence and Wisdom are in the average range. They possess darkvision and the Nimble Escape feature, which allows them to Disengage or Hide as a bonus action—very important to their action economy.
Because of their darkvision, goblins will frequently attack under cover of darkness, when their targets may be effectively blinded (attack rolls against a blinded creature have advantage, while the blinded creature's attack rolls have disadvantage). They'll also attack from hiding as much as possible, making use of their high Stealth modifier, and doing so in dim light decreases the likelihood that they'll be discovered, since
the many player characters will have disadvantage on Perception checks that rely on sight. (Important note for dungeon masters and players: Darkvision does not nullify the penalty to sight-based Perception checks in dim light. It only lets a creature see in darkness as if it were dim light, without being effectively blinded.) (The description of darkvision on pages 183–85 of the Players' Handbook is incomplete: it implies that darkvision improves vision only in darkness. It improves vision in dim light as well, allowing a character with that feature to see without penalty.)
A picture of goblin combat is starting to coalesce, and at the center of it is a strategy of ambush.
A typical combat round for the goblins will go: Attack (action), move, Hide (bonus action). Because they're attacking from hiding, they attack with advantage. Regardless of whether they hit or miss, the attack gives their position away, so they change it immediately, because they can. (The sequence is important. Whenever possible, a goblin must end its turn hidden; otherwise, it's vulnerable. Move/Hide/Attack would achieve the same offensive result but leave the goblin exposed to retaliation between turns.) Being a Small creature, a goblin has a good chance of Hiding successfully behind the trunk of a mature tree; even if it fails, it will still enjoy three-quarters cover (+5 AC). But since you can't hide while someone is looking at you, goblins have to use their movement to scramble out of the PCs' field of view, meaning they have to be close enough for their own 30-foot movement speed to describe a significant arc. At the same time, they don't want to be so close that a PC could close the gap between them and attack. So the optimal distance from the targets of their ambush is about 40 feet, no closer—and they don't want to move farther from the PCs than 80 feet, their shortbows' maximum range for normal shooting.
As long as they can stay out of the PCs' reach, they'll use this tactic over and over. Suppose, however, that a PC does manage to close with one of them. In that case, the goblin will Disengage (bonus action) first. Then, depending on how great a threat the PC poses, it will either Dash (action) out of reach—forcing the PC to use a Dash action as well if he or she wants to catch up—or, if it thinks it may be able to finish the PC off, move its full distance to a place of cover, then Hide (action) again, preparing to Attack with advantage on its next turn.
Incidentally, the goblins are not trying to stay together as a group. They're not looking out for their buddies. Goblins don't do that sort of thing. They are, however, trying to goad the PCs into splitting up.
Goblins are squishy: they have only 7 hp, which means one good hit will seriously wound them. It will also mean their genius sniping strategy has failed. Therefore, a goblin reduced to just 1 or 2 hp will flee the scene, end of story. But a moderately wounded goblin (3 or 4 hp) is thirsty and will try to regain the upper hand. It will stalk the PC who wounded it, first retreating to a safe distance, then Hiding and moving with Stealth until it can get back to around 40 feet from its quarry, at which point it will return to its Attack/move/Hide sniping tactic. A captured goblin will always surrender immediately and grovel for mercy, counting on its ability to escape as soon as its captor's attention wanders.
What if the PCs have the good sense to take cover themselves? Goblins aren't geniuses, but they aren't stupid, either. They won't waste arrows on a target that's behind three-quarters cover, because that would completely negate the advantage they gain from shooting from concealment. Instead, a goblin will stealthily reposition itself alongside or behind its target before shooting and giving its own position away.
A goblin that finishes off its target won't immediately go hunting after other targets. If another is already in view, it will attack that one. But if not, the greedy goblin will first rifle the body of its victim for anything valuable. A clever and stealthy PC who's counter-stalking the goblins can exploit this weakness.
So far, the entire discussion has been about ranged attacks. Goblins carry scimitars, too. But they don't use these out in the open, because there's no advantage to it whatsoever. The only time a goblin will engage in melee combat is when it has some other overwhelming advantage, such as a combination of (a) numbers, (b) darkness and (c) the ability to flank, which in D&D 5E means attacking from two opposite sides of a target creature. (Front-and-side isn't enough to gain advantage in D&D 5E. See "Optional Rule: Flanking," Dungeon Master's Guide, p. 251.) A goblin's +4 attack modifier isn't quite good enough to give it 2-to-1 odds of hitting an armored enemy by itself, but when advantage is brought into play, a hit is almost guaranteed. If three goblins surround a PC in the dark, the chances are very good that they'll land three hits and not have to worry about retaliation. That being said, if those three hits don't finish the PC off, the goblins will realize that they've bitten off more than they can chew, and on their next turn, they'll Disengage (bonus action), go scampering off into the darkness (move) and Hide (action) someplace where they may later be able to land a surprise hit on a wounded foe.
Also, goblins can tell the difference between a creature that's lost in the dark and one that also has darkvision. They won't attack the latter close up if they can avoid it; instead, they'll prefer to shoot with their shortbows. But in the narrow passages of a cave, establishing a good line of sight may not always be possible, and melee may be the only way to attack. If this happens, they'll use their knowledge of the cave to tease the party into overextending itself: a lead goblin may Attack with its scimitar (action), Disengage (bonus action), then retreat down the passageway (move) until it comes out into a more open cavern where it and several other goblins can all jump the first PC who emerges. Meanwhile, while the PCs are being drawn forward, other goblins may be shooting or stabbing at them opportunistically from any side passages that exist along the way.
There is one other circumstance when goblins may engage in melee fighting: when commanded to do so by hobgoblins or bugbears, which goblins fear and defer to. They'll do it, but they won't like it. They know they're not good at it. They'd rather be sniping. If pressed into an infantry unit, they'll fight without coordination and desert at the first opportunity. However, that doesn't mean they won't keep attacking if they think there's something to be gained by doing it their way.
Finally, there's the matter of alarms and traps. Goblins recognize the value of stealth and surprise, and they're not about to let anyone get the same advantage against them. By and large, they're not great inventors, so most of their alarms and traps will be crude: metal junk that makes a racket when it falls, falling rocks, pits (with or without punji sticks), simple snares. But every once in a while, a lucky goblin may get its hands on a hunter's trap that both restrains its victim and does damage to it. These are prized possessions, and the goblins use them to protect their most important locations.
This has been a lengthy article, so here's a summary:
- Goblins prefer to attack from ambush, often under cover of darkness.
- They position themselves about 40 feet from their targets, and their default order of combat is Attack (action), outflank (move), Hide (bonus action). Whenever possible, a goblin will end its turn hidden.
- Goblins won't attack a target behind three-quarters cover. They'll try to outflank it instead.
- If a PC closes with a goblin, it will Disengage (bonus action), then Dash (action) and retreat to a distance of at least 40 feet if the PC poses a serious threat, or move 30 feet to a place of cover and Hide (action) again if it thinks it can finish the PC off.
- A goblin that defeats a foe and doesn't have another one in sight will spend its next turn searching the foe's body for food and valuables.
- A goblin reduced to 1 or 2 hp will flee. A goblin reduced to 3 or 4 hp will stalk the PC who wounded it. A captured goblin will surrender and grovel for mercy, then escape when it gets the chance.
- Goblins don't engage in melee fighting except in the dark, in numbers and in close quarters—or if commanded to by a hobgoblin or bugbear boss. They'll Attack (action), Disengage (bonus action) and retreat (move) to entice their enemies into overextending themselves.
- Goblins avoid being surprised by setting up simple alarms and traps.
Next: How kobolds are different from goblins.


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In recent evangelical publications, there has been a good amount of attention paid to the merits of literature, reading, and the imagination. A good thing! But in these discussions, contemporary literature (defined here as anything written since 1980) is often overlooked. When contemporary authors are mentioned, the choices are usually limited to Wendell Berry, Marilynne Robinson, and Annie Dillard—all worthy and important suggestions. But does the contemporary period have nothing more to offer? Do the "common grace" gifts contained in literature only apply to the classics?
I was a bit surprised by what I found when I first took a graduate class in contemporary literature. Works by authors like Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Martin Amis were full of both biblical allusions and also complex philosophical and religious questions. They engaged these questions while also rendering some of the defining traumas of our age: coping with the perceived death of God, the institutionalized racism of the Holocaust and the Jim Crow era, the threat of misogyny even in the modern age.
Do the 'common grace' gifts contained in literature only apply to the classics?
Perhaps many of these contemporary works are overlooked because in their raw honesty, they sometimes use profanity and speak openly about sexuality. And this is an understandable objection. I would argue that, in spite of this, many of these works are deeply moral and even have a Christian ethos. As with any work of art, we must look at the context and the overall narrative, asking what the author is trying to say to us. Is it true? Can it cause us to see ourselves and our culture more clearly? Perhaps even convict us? Does it help us learn to better love our neighbors?
The eight works of contemporary fiction listed below have each challenged me spiritually, forcing me to grapple with my own (sometimes false) perceptions of God and others. They ask many of the "right" questions, revealing the complexities of faith, relationships, doubt—even if they often don't provide answers. Many of them deal with the ways humans cope with trauma inflicted by those who ignore the imago Dei, and others expose the sins of Western culture and consumerism, including in the church. I commend each of them to you.
1. Life After God (1994) by Douglas Coupland
"My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone."
Douglas Coupland, famed author of 1991's Generation X (which coined the term for popular usage), frequently laments the "secular" aspects of his suburban Vancouver upbringing. And this lament, coupled with a desire for "transcendence and epiphany," is at the heart of his collection of short stories, Life After God. Each story focuses on broken characters, who are unable to love and connect, as they desperately respond in sometimes self-destructive ways to the "religious impulse" inside. The last story of the collection is full of rich, biblical resonances, as its narrator, Scout, recognizes that his spiritual "sickness" is beyond human repair. This book reminds readers that all human beings have a desire for God, even when they lack theological language for naming that desire.
2. Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
"Anything dead coming back to life hurts."
According to its dedication, Morrison's Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning novel is written as a memorial for the "60 million and more" Africans who died during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Beloved is not a straightforward fictional history, but a disorienting ghost story that uses its unconventional form to enable the reader to "participate" in the non-linear nature of trauma. Morrison built the novel around a historical newspaper fragment about escaped slave Margaret Garner, using Garner's story to imagine the lives of some of the many traumatized voices silenced by history. The ghost-story aspect brilliantly demonstrates how the novel's characters are haunted by the memories of their dehumanization. To regain a sense of their humanity they must re-narrate their painful memories to move forward—a rebirth that only comes through a great deal of pain.
3. What Is the What (2006) by Dave Eggers
"I will tell these stories. . . because to do anything else would be something less than human."
Dave Eggers is most known for his deeply ironic and deeply sincere A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which made him a literary hipster poster boy of sorts. Yet his 2006 fictional "autobiography" of Valentino Achak Deng contains no trendy irony; only the harrowing, moving story of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. Deng and Eggers worked together to try to assemble the fragmented pieces of Deng's childhood memories, tracing both his escape from the Sudanese civil war and also the many prejudices and difficult he faced as a refugee in America. The novel is also focused on the power of storytelling and how telling one's story, as well as listening to their stories of others, helps us see the image of God in one another.
4. How to Be Good (2001) by Nick Hornby
"When I look at my sins . . . I can see the appeal of born-again Christianity. I suspect that it's not the Christianity that is so alluring; it's the rebirth."
On one of my first trips to London, I remember seeing what seemed to be every other person on the tube reading High Fidelity, Nick Hornby's British bestseller. Reading Hornby is easy and fun; his books are those rare bestselling plane reads that actually ask meaningful questions. Not unlike John Irving, Hornby has a Dickensian flare for creating warm, colorful characters with a sense of both humor and pathos. How to Be Good is about a doctor who has an affair and must grapple with how she, a "good" person who saves lives every day, could also do something so bad. Is she "bad" or is she "good"? Like filmmaker Woody Allen, Hornby often asks whether we can call something "good" or "bad" without an objective standard of morality. Where do these standards come from in a secular contemporary age? Is God the only answer?
5. White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other."
DeLillo's dark, clever satire of academia and popular culture brilliantly examines the ways the "white noise" that fills our daily lives—television ads, the buzz of a crowded mall, the radio weather report—teaches us how to live. These commodified spaces help us create empty "religious" rituals based on the things we own or want to own, be it an education or a new pair of jeans. The novel's protagonist, Jack Gladney, is a professor of Hitler studies at "The College on the Hill," an ironic vocation by a man who is paralyzed by a fear of death. In an attempt to save himself and his family during an "airborne toxic event," Gladney is forced to consider the relationship between technological progress and physical and spiritual death. DeLillo constantly reminds us that the bright, endless lure of owning "things" cannot protect us from death. At the same time, he seriously considers why faith is a real need in this "artificial" age.
6. Blankets (2003) by Craig Thompson
"Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school."
Craig Thompson's autobiographical graphic novel is a sad, beautifully illustrated story of his loss of faith. Growing up in an often abusive fundamentalist home and church, his desire to create art was mocked and belittled, and this is a large part of what led him away from faith. His story is a troubled reflection of the ways the role of the artist in the church has often been misunderstood, at best, or viewed suspiciously, at worst. Christian readers will be challenged to rethink the ways artists can speak prophetically to the church. The book also reminds us that insular Christian "culture" can easily depart from the actual teachings of Christ, resulting in abuse rather than love.
7. Maus I & II (1980–1991) by Art Spiegelman
"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."
When I first read Maus I, I felt uncomfortable about a graphic novel about the Holocaust in which Jews are depicted as mice and Nazis as cats. But Art Spiegelman's Maus I and Maus II are deeply reverent, honest, and important contributions to the canon of Holocaust literature. Spiegelman is the child of two Holocaust survivors, victims of the unspeakable evils of the death camps. Maus is the story of his father Vladek's suffering, framed by his own story of recording his father's memories and constructing them into this book. The novel is about secondary trauma, the ways a child of a trauma survivor absorbs the trauma he did not experienced firsthand. As his father "bleeds history," Art is left stained in ways he must process through the writing of both of their stories.
8) The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas
"Your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be the roses that grow in the concrete."
Thomas's first young adult novel, now a 2018 film, is the story of a teenager, Starr Carter. She's a bright girl with a loving family who attends a predominantly white private school, far from the neighborhood she calls home. As Starr must negotiate both "white" and "black" spaces, she loses part of herself as she continually adapts. Early in the novel, Starr's childhood friend is shot and killed by a police officer, and the rest of the story traces her coming of age in the Black Lives Matter era. Starr ultimately finds her previously muffled voice as she bonds more closely with her family and fights for justice in both of her parallel worlds. Regardless of political leanings or preconceived notions of Black Lives Matter, this book is an important read that will grow the reader's capacity for empathy for individuals experiencing the effect of racial trauma.
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The Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Borderline personality and bipolar disorder are very different, but because some of the symptoms of the two disorders are similar, they can be very difficult to tell apart. This is true even for many psychologists and medical doctors, and so the disorders are often misdiagnosed by those lacking the appropriate training and experience.
Below, you can listen to Dr. Parker Wilson's public talk, offered in Denver, CO, on the topic of: What Is Happiness - A Buddhist Psychological Perspective (31 minutes):
There is a much better way of coping with borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder. The staff at the Awakened Mind Institute has over 15,000 hours of experience in the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder. The symptoms of borderline personality disorder are primarily treated with dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness based cognitive therapy, and medication.
Using these methods, Dr. Wilson and his team have a clinical effectiveness rate of nearly 70% when treating BPD (this rate is nearly double most national averages). Bipolar disorder is treated with cognitive behavior therapy, mindfulness based cognitive therapy, and medication. Using these methods, Dr. Wilson has a clinical effectiveness of 85% when treating bipolar disorder.
Common similarities of these two disorders are: a fluctuating and extreme mood, impulsivity and recklessness (usually around drugs, alcohol and sex), self harming behavior (cutting, etc), periodic suicidality, "all or nothing" thinking and languaging, and profound instability in relationship. Obsessive-compulsive behaviors are also common in both disorders as an internal way adolescents use to cope with the most debilitating symptoms of the disorders.
Bipolar disorder is unique in that the disturbances it causes in relationships are based in mood, and often disappear when the mood shifts. When depressed, the teen usually functions from an anxious depression, and thus isolation, withdrawal, and hopelessness emerge. Light to moderate suicidality can occur in the depressed phase, sometimes accompanied by periodic cutting.
- When the teen is manic, however, then relationships become over-used, exaggerated, enmeshed, and highly impulsive.
- The teen is also able to see their mood swings as problematic.
- In essence, usually the teen is aware that something is wrong with their psychology. Because they are aware of the problem on some level, they usually co-operate with medication and therapy, and thus clinical treatment is far more effective and the disease itself does not claim nearly as many lives.
Borderline is characterized by pervasive perceptual and thought distortions about relationship. It is this delutional quality of borderline that makes it such a difficult illness to treat. The patient believes in the reality of the way they see, feel, and understand themselves in relationship.
In essence, borderline personality disorder is a disease that tells you that you do not have a disease. Because the borderline teen is not aware that something is actually wrong with their perceptions of relationship (from their perspective, it is the world that is mis-calibrated), treatment often feels intrusive, unnecessary, and humiliating to them.
- The patient typically becomes highly resistant and uncooperative with therapy.
- They also become uncooperative with their medication treatment regime. This is the primary reason that effectiveness rates are so low for the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
While treatment with medication is similar to that of bipolar disorder (SSRI's and mood stabilizers), it is this pervasive perceptual and thought distortion about relationship (in particular among all the symptoms of borderline personality disorder) that often calls for the use of an anti-psychotic medication for the treatment of borderline personality disorder. In the most severe cases, coping with borderline personality disorder is only possible when the patient uses an anti-psychotic medication.
Now, What Is The Actual Distortion About Relationship?
- A borderline teen will see a romantic relationship as the source of their happiness and well being. Like the earth draws life from the sun, a borderline teen will experience a romantic relationship as being the source of life itself. High school romances are, of course, short-lived and intense by nature, thus when that romantic relationship ends, the borderline teen feels deprived, angry, and destroyed. The teen becomes very angry, and majorly depressed.
- In a state of deep narcissistic pain and self-pity, they begin to hate their former loved one for "causing" such pain, and a profound suicidality now sometimes emerges here as well. To cope, the teen will typically engage in serious cutting, along with the consumption of drugs and alcohol to numb out the emotions.
- The teen also begins to "take hostages" around their near obsessive suicidality by passive-aggressively hinting at their impending death to friends, parents, teachers, and therapists. This leaves friends and family feeling deeply manipulated, confused, afraid, and emotionally and physically exhausted.
- Eventually, for the friends and family, it begins to feel that the borderline teen is truly an "emotional black hole" that consumes entire relationship systems. Also during this majorly depressed phase, a teen can become truly unstable, becoming very aggressive and even violent towards friends and loved ones. Then, usually as a result of a friend or family giving into the borderline teen, she can rapidly shift back to a place of warmth, connection, and seeming health. This is the classic "love you / hate you" dynamic of the borderline personality.
If left untreated, these two disorders place a teen at high risk for all of the following: dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, having more than fifty sexual partners, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual violation and abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, becoming the victim of a violent crime, incarceration and hospitalization, chronic unemployment, suicide, and pre-mature death.
It Doesn't Have To End This Way For You Or Your Loved One. Both Of These Disorders Are Treatable, And In The Expert Hands Of Dr. Parker Wilson, There Is Reason For Hope
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Pinoy Boyband Superstar returns with Top 8 Live Show performances tonight, Saturday, December 3, 2016.
Tonight, the remaining Top 8 aspirants of Pinoy Boyband Superstar will perform for your votes.
In this round, the singers will face the Sudden Death challenge — two singers will battle in a sing-off. At the end of the performances, the strongest, safe and weakest singer will be revealed.
The weakest singers will perform on Sunday. The singer with highest number of votes will be saved and the lowest will be sent home.
Top 8 finalists includes Joao, Niel, Russell, Tristan, James, Ford, Mark and Tony. Allen Cecilion is eliminated from the show last week.
Keep locked on this page! Recap, results and performance videos will be added here once available online.
Tristan Ramirez vs Joao Constancia 'What Do You Mean'
Russell Reyes vs James Ryan Cesena 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'
Niel Murillo vs Ford Valencia 'So Sick'
Tony Labrusca vs Mark Oblea 'You'll Be Safe Here'
- Joao Constancia
- Russell Reyes
- Niel Murillo
- Oblea
- Tristan Ramirez
- James Ryan Cesena
- Ford Valencia
- Tony Labrusca
What can you say about the results tonight? Share your thoughts below!


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p576 "Residues of DDT and other organochlorines have been found in waterways in a recent survey in the Horsham district in the Wimmera (Bell, EPA, unpublished data). This study was initiated following reports of fish and yabby kills in the Horsham area in previous spraying seasons. Insecticide use is intensive in the area, particularly on legume crops (mainly field peas) to control budworm (Heliothis spp.) and pea weevil. Some 195,000 ha of legumes (139,000 ha of field peas) were grown in the Mallee and Wimmera in the 1989-90 season (ABS 1991).
The use of organochlorine insecticides is now prohibited and synthetic pyrethroids are largely the chemical of choice. Much spraying is done by aerial operations. Synthetic pyrethroids are very toxic to aquatic organisms but detection is difficult because these chemicals are non-persistent and break down rapidly in water and after ingestion.
Ten sites, including four dams (one private, three located at Government facilities), two irrigation channels, three sites on the Wimmera River and one wetland site, were selected to monitor the effects of pesticide spraying both before and during the 1988 field pea cropping season. Water and sediment samples were collected and monitored for organochlorine, organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides. Results of the survey were inconclusive as to the effects of current agricultural management on pesticide levels, because too little data were obtained and wet weather conditions meant that pesticide spraying was less intensive than usual. However, the results did show that organochlorines at levels greater than the thresholds for harmful effects on aquatic ecosystems still persisted on occasion, in both water and sediment. Synthetic pyrethroid residues were detected in one site where yabby kills had occurred, but it was not possible to detect synthetic pyrethroid residues in dead yabbies."
1991 State of the Environment Report. Agriculture and Victoria's Environment. Office of the Commissioner for the Environment.


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- Kevin Jones really doesn't have his touch. Everything is rimming out for him. The Mountaineers have to get this kid rolling as they get into the season.
- Because I typed that, he came back and hit a big three from the top of the key. VMI answers with their own. Mountaineer lead is seven.
- The longer the Keydets hang around, the less and less I like this game. The Mountaineers need someone to step up and get hot. Jones would be nice, but right now, that's Casey Mitchell's job.
- Joe Mazzulla is starting to push the basketball, but he's forcing it. Not much is coming of it.
- Glasgow hits a three, and the Mountaineers lead is only four. Not panic time yet, but getting close.
- Mitchell fakes a three and throws the lob to Jones. He needed to bring itdown, but the 'Eers got the bucket. Nice play.
- Keydets seem to just be jacking up threes now. Can't blame them though.
- Another good look on a slip move to Jones. Mountaineers back up ten, seem stabilized.
- Jones now has eighteen, and has reached 50% from the field. Good signs both.
- JFlow! What a block! Back to back blocks on back to back trips.
- West Virginia is doing a great job crashing the boards and forcing the Keydets into one and dones on the offensive end. At the last official's timout, the Mountaineers still lead by ten. Time to close this one out.
- Flowers with a flagrant elbow, which is apparently the focus of the referees this season. Makes sense, but Flowers' elbow looked pretty tame.
- That's two technical fouls this game on the Mountaineers. Both seemingly for mental mistakes.
- Mountaineer lead now at fifteen, with two minute left and the ball. This game is pretty much over.
- Kevin Jones with a big dunk. Mountaineers with 82, their final points of the night. VMI finishes with 66.
All in all a good win. One that needed to happen like this. It could've been prettier, but the message was sent to Truck Bryant, Danny Jennings and Dalton Pepper (who didn't get into the game until after walk-ons) that more effort is needed. I love seeing Noreen pick up quality minutes and his hustle has to be liked. The offense sputtered and stalled most of the night, but that has to be attributed primarily to playing an entire half without a point guard. This is a good early season win: get the victory, play decisively, but give Huggins plenty of ammunition to scream at the troops all week long.
I'll be back with more thoughts tomorrow. The Mountaineers play Wednesday at home versus American.


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What Are Furcations?
Branching Tooth Roots Can Be Periodontal Nightmares
Dear Doctor,
My periodontist says I have "furcation involvements," which are difficult to treat. What does this mean?
|An illustration showing gum disease causing bone loss in the furcation of a lower molar.
Dear Sylvia,
Most people haven't heard of furcations when it comes to teeth or dentistry, but may be familiar with the word "bifurcate" — to fork or separate — and that's exactly how it applies to teeth. A furcation is the place where the roots of teeth fork or separate, taking different paths from one another.
Furcation Involvement
A furcation involvement, also called a furcation invasion, is defined as an area of bone loss at this branching point of a tooth root. The bone loss results from periodontal (gum) disease.
The periodontal structures ("peri" – around; "odont" – tooth) comprise the unique way in which teeth are attached to the bone that supports and surrounds them in health, and get detached, unfortunately, in disease.
Almost all forms of periodontal diseases are caused by the accumulations of bacterial biofilm (plaque). Therefore, the essential treatment is to keep the teeth free of these harmful bacteria and their related products, calculus and tartar, which accumulate on the root surfaces. Herein lies the problem: It is one thing for an individual to remove superficial bacterial biofim above the gum line by brushing and flossing — the patient's main responsibility in maintaining periodontal health. It is quite another to clean hard-to-reach areas where the periodontal tissues have become detached from the tooth beneath the gum line — the clinician's responsibility. It is especially difficult to clean furcation areas. It's like trying to clean out a cave through a narrow entrance and, only from the outside looking in.
Assessing The Problem
The first step is to identify the presence and extent of furcation involvements, and their specific anatomy (or shape). Specially curved probes are used to seek out, and by gentle probing, examine the contours of furcations exposed by bone loss. The clinician has to probe vertically beneath detached gum (like rappelling down the outside of a cave) and then feel for a furcation invasion by exploring horizontally to see how far bone loss has extended (like entering into the cave to explore its inner size and shape).
A typical classification of furcation invasions is:
- Class I — Early. The furcation can be felt as a groove, but there is not yet bone loss.
- Class II — Moderate. The furcation can be probed two or more millimeters horizontally, so there is definitely bone loss.
- Class III — Advanced or "Through and Through." Bone loss extends from one side of the affected root all the way through to the other.
Radiographs (x-ray pictures), along with tactile exploration (perception by touch) and a good deal of experience are required to detect and confirm a furcation invasion.
The Treatment Challenge
You should be getting an inkling of why furcation involvements pose such a treatment challenge. Access is compromised because furcation involvement usually is sub-gingival ("sub" – under; "gingival" – gum). Therefore treatment is indeed challenging. Furcations may be very difficult to clean and maintain.
Specially shaped scalers or curettes are the instruments used to clean root surfaces affected by periodontal disease. Ultrasonic scalers, which use high-frequency vibrations and streaming water to loosen and flush debris and biofilm, play a critical role in treatment. Topically or locally applied antimicrobials and antibiotics have also proven helpful as part of a routine maintenance regime in trying to disinfect and stabilize the furcations, but their effectiveness may be limited.
Periodontal therapy may also include surgical treatment for furcation invasions with two basic goals: to regrow periodontal tissues, including bone, in the furcation areas; and/or to make the areas more accessible for cleaning — both by you, the patient, and your dental hygienist.
The more involved the furcation, the more difficult it is to regenerate and maintain healthy tissue.
As always, the more involved the furcation (i.e., the more bone lost), the more difficult it is to regenerate and maintain healthy tissue. The decision to perform surgery to improve periodontal prognosis (outlook) for furcations will depend upon the knowledge, understanding and experience of the periodontal surgeon — and a discussion with you, the patient.
Dental Hygienists To The Rescue!
The long-term outlook, or prognosis, for teeth with furcation invasions is improved by careful treatment and frequent maintenance, especially in the hands of an experienced hygienist working with a periodontist, or a dentist trained in the management of advanced periodontal disease. Caring for furcation invasions requires particular understanding of root anatomy, tactile sense, and experience. It usually falls to the dental hygienist to maintain these difficult and challenging areas on a routine basis, and to keep affected teeth healthy for as long as they will last.


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The June edition of Carnival of Evolution is now live on Pharyngula: Carnival of Evolution #48: The Icelandic Saga!
There are nearly 50 posts written by some amazing science bloggers. I seriously wonder when CoE is going to reach that tipping point where close to all evolutionary biologists know about it, and looks forward to some more or less light reading about diverse topics in evolution every month.
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|Ross Ulbricht
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Sholom Rubashkin, whose 27-year sentence President Donald Trump commuted on Wednesday, is a corrupt criminal who deserves punishment for his misdeeds. The Rubashkin case was nevertheless a criminal justice scandal, and Donald Trump was absolutely right to commute his draconian and constitutionally defective sentence. The only shame here is that Trump will almost certainly decline to grant clemency to other prisoners whose cases are just as egregious.The same appears to be the case with Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
Rubashkin's crimes are well-documented. As the chief executive of a large kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, Rubashkin allegedly hired hundreds of undocumented immigrants, including some minors. He also swindled his lenders out of millions. In 2008, federal agents conducted a massive raid on his slaughterhouse. Prosecutors charged him with violating child labor and immigration laws but eventually dropped those counts and focused exclusively on his financial deceit. A jury ultimately convicted Rubashkin of money laundering and bank fraud. Prosecutors recommended a sentence of 25 years, a stringent punishment for a nonviolent, first-time offender.
But U.S. District Judge Linda R. Reade decided that the government's proposed sentence was insufficiently harsh. She sentenced Rubashkin to 27 years behind bars, more time than the chief executives of Tyco and Enron faced. This fact alone is extremely troubling. Reade, it seemed, decided to factor in Rubashkin's alleged immigration and child labor crimes even though he was not convicted of any immigration offenses. In fact, a jury acquitted Rubashkin of child labor charges in a separate state trial. Reade, who routinely hands out ruthlessly long prison terms, appeared to be punishing Rubashkin for crimes not proved at trial, a clear violation of his constitutional rights.
He was convicted of
running a black market Bitcoin-using exchange. The judge in the case sentenced him to two life sentences.
The extremely harsh sentence suggests that he was also sentenced for alleged attempts to hire hit men to go after government cooperating Silk Road employees, though he was never put on trial for those allegations.
It also turns out that some government investigators were dirty. Drug Enforcement agent, Carl Mark Force IV, and Secret Service / NSA agent, Shaun Bridges, both were Silk Road investigators. Both used pseudonyms to pilfer bitcoins from the site and attempted to extort money from Ulbricht. In addition, they both had high-level admin access to the site, with the ability to access accounts, manipulate data and change passwords.
Ulbricht's defense team has now revealed that on November 18, 2013, someone logged into accounts on the Silk Road forum associated with "Dread Pirate Roberts" (DPR) while Ulbricht was already in custody following his arrest on October 1. This fact was documented in a discovery letter by his legal team.
None of this information was allowed in at trial and some was not even revealed to the defense team before trial.
Libertarians would certainly object on principle that Ulbricht should have even been charged for running the black market/free market exchange.
But I believe the young and naive Ulbricht, he was 29 when arrested, bought into the anonymity hype of some libertarians that Bitcoin could protect your privacy and that running a drug exchange was somehow a noble libertarian effort.
But by its very nature Bitcoin is an extremely trackable exchange instrument. (See: "It Took Me Two Clicks To Trace Ross Ulbricht To Silk Road")
And as Murray Rothbard put it, when discussing libertarian/agorist theory and the underground promoted by Samuel Konkin (my bold):
If the black market should develop, then the successful entrepreneurs are not going to be agoric theoreticians...but successful entrepreneurs period. What do they need with Konkin and his group? I suggest, nothing at all. There is a hint in the NLM that libertarians would a priori make better entrepreneurs than anyone else because they are more trustworthy and more rational, but this piece of nonsense was exploded by hard experience a long time ago. Neither do the budding black marketeers need Mr. Konkin and his colleagues to cheer them on and free them of guilt. Again, experience has shown that they do fine on their own, and that urging them on to black market activities is like exhorting ducks to swim...In other words, if you want to advance liberty, it makes little sense to be operating a black market website just as it makes little sense to be selling drugs from a street corner to advance liberty. If the government snares you, you are going to pay dearly---and that is not going to help your liberty.
As much as I love the market, I refuse to believe that when I engage in a regular market transaction (e.g., buying a sandwich) or a black market activity (e.g., driving at 60 miles per hour) I advance one iota nearer the libertarian revolution. The black market is not going to be the path to liberty, and libertarian theoreticians and activists have no function in that market...
Historically, classical liberal political parties have accomplished far more for human liberty than any black markets.
Ulbricht understood some about libertarianism and some about Bitcoin and some about government but not enough.
Ulbricht made a very big mistake but the sentence was unjustified even if one buys into the punish drug sellers theme. It is the Rubashkin case on steroids.
What happened to Ulbricht should be a lesson to all. shall I say, adventurous libertarians. Don't do stupid stuff when challenging the state.
Officials recently transferred Ulbricht to a maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado. The prison, of course, houses some of the most violent offenders. This news surfaced after a court denied his recent appeal. He is appealing his sentence to the Supreme Court.
I'm sure that Trump has been a disappointment to most "Libertarians for Trump," some have told me so. But it would seem that there would be little downside in Trump commuting Ulbricht's sentence. If he can commute Rubashkin's sentence, why not Ulbricht's?
There is no reason for Trump to listen to me. I didn't support him, but "Libertarians for Trump" is a different story. They should make some noise about getting Ulbricht out of prison, then maybe at least one good thing will come out of the Trump presidency.


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Panglor Balef is an unfairly disgraced space pilot, struggling to support himself and his empathic pet ou-ralot with ground-based work, when he is coerced into accepting a mission of murder. He's to pilot an old freighter to a near-collision with another freighter from a large, successful company--Balef's hated former employer. The point is to force the ship to make a bad entry into "foreshortened" space--the technological trick that allows faster-than-light travel--so that it will be lost in limbo and never reach its destination.
Panglor hates his former employer, but he's not a killer, and he's not stupid. He takes off intending to find some way to evade the trap if at all possible. His life doesn't get easier when he discovers he has a stowaway, Alo, an impossibly annoying young woman he encountered briefly on the space station. The frightening encounter at the interception point lands all of them--Panglor, his stowaway, and the target ship, Deerfield, in disaster. They successfully entered foreshortening, but they exit at an abandoned system--abandoned because of the bizarre events and numerous ship losses that happened there. They're trapped in an area of madly shifting reality.
This the prequel to the Star Rigger universe, and Panglor has discovered what is known in the books set later in the sequence as "the flux." It's always a question whether to read a series in internal order or publication order. I think this is a case where publication order is the right choice. Panglor will make more sense if the reader knows where this is going. Carver has a clear and direct story-telling style, and his characters are solid and convincing. There are real villains, but most people try to do the right thing. Alo is a smart, tough, resourceful character, and she more than pulls her weight on this bizarre trip (which has some resemblance, at times, to descriptions of LSD trips). Since the publication date is 1980, along with the relatively small total number that we see, it's probably not fair to ask why we don't see any other female spacers.
All in all, this is a solid, enjoyable read, especially if you're already familiar with the Star Rigger universe.
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Three members of the new female-majority Seattle City Council join host Brian Callanan for the January episode of City Inside/Out: Council Edition. What are the priorities out the gate for Councilmembers Lorena González, Lisa Herbold, and Debora Juarez? As some predict, will a Council with four newly elected members be more progressive in the way it votes? What are the impacts of reducing buffer zones for pot shops? What effect will the city's new tax on gun sales and ammunition have on gun safety?


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So I forwarded this blog link to some of my friends and now everyone is confused as to where I am. Just to clarify, Q moved to UAE in early May. I am still in Toronto, and will likely take my one-way flight in early July. My apology for the poor communication!
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