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Warning: This slideshow contains graphic images. Eighty years ago today, on Jan. 16, 1934, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker orchestrated one of the most daring prison breaks in Texas history. Barrow helped five prisoners escape from the Eastham State Prison (now the Eastham Unit) in Lovelady, Texas, by providing the escapees with pistols and a cover of machine-gun fire. One prison officer was killed during the escape, which marked the beginning of the end for the Barrow gang, as the prison break intestified the manhunt for Bonnie and Clyde. The duo's robbery and murder spree ended with a posse's ambush in Bienville Parish, La., on May 23, 1934.
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Annie Bell Smith, 90, of Zane Perkins Drive, passed away Saturday, July 13, 2013, at the Hinkle Hospice House.
The funeral will be at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at New Zion Baptist Church with family visitation a half hour before the service. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Public viewing will be from 1-8 p.m. Monday at Roberts Funeral Service.
She was born in Davidson County on Sept. 21, 1922, to Jessie James Smith and Melissa Smith. She was a lifelong member of New Zion Baptist Church and a member of the senior choir. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband David Smith; two brothers, Jessie Smith and Sonny Smith; and three sisters, Dora Banks, Mary Banks and Marie L. Smith.
She leaves to cherish her memory a son, Gene Baron Smith of the home; daughter Sharon Ann (Johnny) Ellis; three grandchildren, Lamont (Jamie) Smith of Monroe, Garrett (Tara) Smith of Winterville and Johnathan Ellis of Salisbury; three great-grandchildren; and a host of other family and friends.
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Annie Bell Smith, 90, of Zane Perkins Drive, passed away Saturday, July 13, 2013, at the Hinkle Hospice House.


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Check out the trailer and poster for Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, and Eric Bana's upcoming film Deadfall!
Here's the film's synopsis: Siblings Addison (Bana) and Liza (Wilde) are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. When a car accident leaves their wheel man and a state trooper dead, they split up and make a run for the Canadian border in the worst of circumstances – a near whiteout blizzard. While Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem in his wake, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay (Hunnam), en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, June (Sissy Spacek) and retired sheriff Chet (Kris Kristofferson). It's there the siblings are reunited in a terse and thrilling showdown that pushes the bonds of family to the limit.
The film, also starring Kate Mara, premiered earlier this year at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and will get a limited release on December 7.
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NEW ORLEANS — Competing for best robot, 28 teams of elementary students from across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama battled their LEGO-brand bots in a series of contests on Saturday at the National World War II Museum.
It was the first time the museum held the event, which organizers said filled to capacity before the registration period ended.
"If they had something like this when I was in school I'd be all over it," Brad O'Rourke said while watching his son, a sixth-grader from Woodlawn Middle School in Baton Rouge.
Since February, the teams of fourth- to eighth-grade students have been designing, building, and programming their robots while studying the WWII-themed obstacle courses on which they would compete.
Every robot had to be made with the same LEGO MINDSTORMS platform, which includes multiple motors and a programmable "brick." Available sensory devices, which can detect everything from infrared to walls to color, were allowed to be incorporated into the design.
The autonomous robots were required to complete tasks in three-minute heats that involved moving objects from one location to another, without the use of remote controls. Robots used different strategies to transport tiny replica tires, tanks and other objects, by either picking them up or pushing them. The items included tin cans, plastic vegetables and Slinkies.
Beyond the fundamentals, there were not many rules for building the robots, head referee Jesse Hobson said. He also noted his skill in keeping the parents happy, calm, and assured that everything is fair.
Organizers said about 225 students participated. They said the competition could be expanded next year, based on the level of interest. The title of Grand Champion went to the "Warrior Robots" from St. Theresa of Avila School in Gonzales .
The event was largely run by high school volunteers.
Brandy Wilson, who graduated on Thursday from Slidell High School, said she was encouraged by a friend to join the robotics club. She said she "went in there and got the hands-on experience and fell in love."
Asked if she feels the field is more geared toward boys, Wilson replied:"Absolutely not. We do so much stuff boys can do but we can do it better. We pay more attention to detail."
The team at her school was about half boys and half girls, and included about 45 students, she said.
Wilson said she plans on becoming a mechanical or electrical engineer and wants to work in the field of harvesting energy from wind and lightning — a decision made after joining the club.
In addition to technical skills, the clubs and competitions teach problem solving, critical thinking, teamwork, and mathematics, Annie Tete, the museum's Science, Technology, Engineering and Math coordinator, said. There's also the benefit of working on a long-term project in a real-world setting that reinforces skills, she said.
Kenneth Hoffman, the director of education for the museum, said the competition provides lessons in creativity, computer-programming, and committing to a goal. While the museum has had significant educational outreach in the realm of social studies, Hoffman said they've launched a STEM initiative during the past year.
"We are not trying to teach students 70-year-old science," he said. "We use that time period of great innovation and invention as a jumping off point for teaching 21st century skills. A program like this does that perfectly."
Hoffman said he was impressed with the level of programming the kids showed at the inaugural competition.
"We are all going to be working for these children in a few years," Hoffman said.
"We all know the U.S. is lacking in qualified engineers and people with technical skills," Tete said. "When you can get the fourth- through eighth-graders interested it carries on. After eighth grade, it's harder to initiate engagement in high school."
Hobson said he became involved in his school's robotic club because he saw a weakness in schools regarding that divide between being a jock and a nerd — between being "cool" and being "dorky." Hobson said it's his goal to blend and blur the two.
"I've got a cheerleader who quit to join the robotics team. And one who plays football," he said.
Hobson said it's also important to give the "academic-types" more opportunities to be competitive.
Linda Denson, a seventh-grader at Benjamin Franklin Elementary Math and Science School, described the small, compact and maneuverable concept behind their robot named "Ally." "We like to keep it simple," she said.
Of why she likes being on the robotic club, Denson said "It's really fun. I like challenging — and it's really challenging."


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I heard some of you got your families
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Past the age of old.
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The rooms behind your minds
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Before opening up the new Treme cookbook, I couldn't pick out a mirliton if it was thrown in my face. But the squash, originally native to the region, appears so frequently in Treme, I now consider myself a relative expert. I had, as it turns out, known the squash by its other name, chayote, and it appears on Latin American menus just as frequently as the traditional Louisiana ones. This particular mirliton recipe takes advantage of the squash's shape by hollowing them out and stuffing them full of creole staples. The stuffing is jam-packed with shrimp, mirliton innards, spicy creole seasoning, butter, and the Louisiana trinity of onion, celery, and green bell pepper.
Why I picked this recipe: Working with a new ingredient is always an exciting prospect.
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What didn't: Take care when hollowing out the boiled mirlitons, and leave a generous border around the edges of the shells. The skin is super soft and can tear a hole. My stuffed mirlitons also didn't need as much time in the oven as advertised. Check to see how they're coming along after 30 minutes.
Suggested tweaks: When shopping for miritons, look for firm, bright green squash without blemishes. They are often labeled chayote squash and can be found in Hispanic grocery stores. Because the mirlitons are pretty bland on their own, I seasoned them with extra salt before stuffing and didn't regret it. If you're good at estimating half an egg, this recipe can easily be cut in half.
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These Sweetwater High School athletes will compete Friday and Saturday in the Region I-3A track meet being held at Texas Tech University. Standing from left are Claire Williams (girls shot put), Kaleb Hoover (boys 800 relay), Nick Nemir (boys 100 dash, 300 hurdles and 800 relay), Sam Nemir (boys 800 relay), Ryan Linebaugh (boys 800 relay) and Destiny Osteen (girls shot put). Kneeling is Kyle Lambert (boys 800 relay alternate).


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5/27/2004 12:06am, #1
I've started training at a McDojo! (West Wind Bok Fu / West Wind Kung Fu / Karate)
A few weeks ago, I discovered West Wind Karate (also known as West Wind Bok Fu, also known as West Wind Kung Fu), a school that offers "the most expensive training in the world". I suspect I cannot afford the most expensive training in the world, but fortunately, I could afford their free introductory lessons. This is my story.
Disclaimer: To anyone who thinks that I was just stringing West Wind Karate / West Wind Bok Fu / West Wind Kung Fu along and wasting their time, I argue that there should be nothing wrong with checking out a school before making your decision. I visited 2 BJJ schools and a TKD school before I even started martial arts. In college, I visited two jiu jitsu schools before picking one, and in Maryland over winter break, I trained at Yamasaki one year, then tried Evolve and trained there the next. When I arrived in Berkeley, I trained with the Berkeley judo club, then took a free lesson at a local MMA school, where I then began training. Since switching to the MMA school, I've taken a free lesson at Ralph Gracie's (decided it wasn't worth the money and commute) and a free lesson at another BJJ academy (which I enjoyed and now also train at). During my introductory lessons at West-Wind karate / West Wind bok fu / West Wind kung fu, I will be respectful, practice all my forms, and will give them an honest chance to prove that they don't teach utter crap. And if they're worth the money, of course I'll enroll. Anyway, on with the story:
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On the urging of members here, I gave West-Wind Bok-Fu a call. There are four schools in the Bay area. On the website each lists the same telephone number, which connected me to their "C.O.R.E." office. (C.O.R.E. stands for center of records and enrollment, I assume it's where they talk you into a long term contract.) I told them I was interested in their Berkeley school (open 9am to 9pm), and they scheduled me for a same-day tour. ("We've had a cancellation can you make it at 4:00?")
Walking into the school, my first reaction was to laugh. There were about four students there, two practicing kata on their own, while the other two were standing stiffly in front of an instructor. This wouldn't be quite so humorous on its own, except that the instructor was wearing a full three-piece suit. The gym itself was pretty good-sized, with plenty of mat space and a rock garden by the door that was almost the size of the whole mat at my tiny gym.
I was quickly greeted by a pale white lady in a kimono who introduced herself as Ms. S__, the head instructor. (Actually, I think she used some asian title, but I can't keep them straight.) She told me about the history of the West-Wind schools (in the area for 30 years). This particular school (right by UC Berkeley) focuses more on adult classes, though children are also accepted if they were disciplined enough. Ms. S explained that the school stresses discipline very strongly, and I saw a couple students bow very low as they asked permission to enter or leave the school. Because they cared so much about attracting respectful students, their school was very exclusive and a decision must be made about whether each student is worthy before they are allowed to begin instruction.
Ms. S explained how the schools hierarchy must be respected, etc, etc. She also asked if I'd had any previous martial arts instruction, so I told her truthfully that I'd been training for about a year and a half, and had experience in TKD, BJJ, and karate (though I didn't elaborate on the proportions).
Ms. S walked me around the dojo, whose walls are lined with various exotic asian weapons, all of which the students must master before their black belt test. The school teaches a variety of styles, but they want their students to develop a solid base in shotokan karate first. As they become more advanced, they are introduced to tiger style kung fu. Then she rattled off a bunch of other martial arts that I can't remember.
Part of the reason I am having trouble remembering was that I was being distracted by the two students in front of the instructor in the three piece suit. He had finished instructing them and now they were practicing their new techniques on their own. One was holding a crane stance straight out of karate kid and doing a little hop kick every so often. After every few of these he would kneel down and think for a while. The other appeared to be meditating, but every few minutes he would stand up and thrust his hands out in front of him with an enormous KIA! (Think Asia in the kamehameha video EXACT same thing.) I can only assume that he was throwing chi balls. I'm just glad I was out of range.
There are group classes in the evening, but the school is focused on one-on-one lessons. Every student is required to take at least one private lesson a week. (How do they get enough instructors to teach private lessons to 200+ students each week? I think we all know the answer to that.) I asked how long it takes to get a black belt, Ms. S said that it varied based on the individual (because of the private instruction) but the fastest they'd had was 3.5 years.
Ms. S stopped in front of a pressure point diagram to mention that they did some grappling, but it wasn't really so focused on "just holding someone down". They were more focused on ending the fight instantly. Because they taught such deadly techniques, she said, I must understand how important it was that they could only accept students if the students were worthy. I nodded my head. But, she said, I looked like a pretty good candidate so far. Sometimes students are hindered by their previous martial arts instruction, but she could tell that I was willing to empty my cup and learn their ideas. I nodded again.
After the tour, we went into the office, where she explained that the first step in the application process was a few private lessons with an instructor. She scheduled me for a lesson in two days with Mr. X, the guy in the three piece suit. Evidently I was very lucky to get this opportunity, as he was their most sought-after instructor. He had been training for 14 years and occasionally did amateur boxing (one point in his favor, I guess).
She asked if I had any questions, so I asked about price. She said that the instructors here don't deal with billing at all, which is taken care of at C.O.R.E., where I will be sent later if I am deemed worthy to join the school. Instruction is very expensive, but no one is made to pay more than they can afford. For example, there is an Oakland Raider in their Alameda school who paid $40,000 for his whole family, but they certainly wouldn't charge me that. There are also "scholarships" available, but they are very hard to get. (I do hope I am lucky enough to land one. Anyone want to bet on it?) C.O.R.E.'s job is to figure out what the appropriate billing for me is, but the instructors play no part in that, so as not to taint the student-instructor relationship.
We also had a little discussion about how often I was planning to train. The discussion went like this: I had mentioned earlier that I attended Berkeley, so she asked if I was very busy now. I was. She asked if I was working, because that also takes a lot of time. I just do the usual grad student research stuff. So are my parents helping me out now? No, they aren't.
So that was about it for my introductory tour. On my way out, I heard a woman behind me say "Salutation." I thought she was saying hi to me, but then I noticed the 12-year old in front of her launching into some sort of arm-windmilling, head-spinning, weird, wild, and wonderful body gyration, so I assume she was talking to him.
I'm really looking forward to my first lesson.
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5/27/2004 12:23am, #3
Can you get it video taped and produce highlights?
This looks like a very promising school, I hope you have fun training at this respectable acedemy.Surfing Facebook at work? Spread the good word by adding us on Facebook today! https://www.facebook.com/Bullshido
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5/27/2004 12:26am, #5
Well, let's hope you're worthy of their instruction...You say what about my rice?
5/27/2004 12:28am, #6
Hey, is that you in your avatar TaeBo_Master? That's really cool!
You look very fit and atheltic, you must have done a lot of that TaeBo hahahaha!
This shows women REALLY do come to the internet.
bunyip - I truely respect your willingness to have an open cup. Many people have their cup tainted and not well washed by other so-called effective styles. These styles focus mainly on non-honourable sport fighting matches that are done for entertainment. I think today's honourable martial artist should focus on personal enlightment, spiritual beliefs and non-violence. The art of martial art has not been emphasize enough and we, as the leaders of martial arts today must change this.
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5/27/2004 12:57am, #8
That sounds like some kind of evil organization out of a 60s or 70s movie.
I also like how they teach both Shotokan and Tiger Kung Fu. It makes me think of the newest Mortal Kombat game where everyone switches between 3 rigid styles in the middle of a fight.Lone Wolf McQuade Final Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrDe_mYUXg
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are waiting on MRI results to spell the fate of running back Rashad Jennings, who injured his knee in Sunday's overtime loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
Coach Mike Mularkey told The Florida Times-Union on Monday that he doesn't expect Jennings to play against the Houston Texans. It all but assures a heavy dose of Maurice Jones-Drew is on tap.
The Jaguars hoped to split carries between Jennings and Jones-Drew on the heels of MJD's extended summer holdout, but those plans are fizzling away. Jones-Drew saw plenty of action in the loss to Minnesota with 19 carries for 77 yards and another 18 yards on three catches.
Mularkey also believes right tackle Cameron Bradfield could miss Sunday's game with an ankle injury, leaving the Jaguars scrambling along the offensive line. The newspaper reported Eben Britton could be shifted from left guard into Bradfield's spot unless they go with Guy Whimper.
Jones-Drew was going to find his way back into this starting lineup one way or another. The best news for any running back on this team is the improvement of quarterback Blaine Gabbert. For the first time in a while, this offense might be more than MJD staring down eight in the box.
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Candidates in Republican primary elections frequently employ a "cookie-cutter" campaign pitch focused almost exclusively on three issues: taxes, guns and unborn babies.
On brochures and in stump speeches, they implicitly assert that it's sufficient to claim only that they oppose tax increases, support the Second Amendment and oppose abortion.
Unfortunately, many Republicans have been elected under this issue-triumvirate whose subsequent records proved friendly to corporate welfare, regulation, expansions of government, renewable energy subsidies and mandates, preserving the education and government-union status quos, etc.
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- A bill to expand the number of people on Michigan's Medicaid medical welfare rolls, which among other things will deliver $3 billion federal tax dollars annually to politically powerful state hospital cartels. This is part of a federal program that greatly expands the government's role in individual health insurance decisions.
- A bill to close the underfunded traditional defined-benefit school employee pension system to new hires, instead providing generous 401(k)-type contributions.
- A bill to subsidize construction of a new arena for the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, owned by billionaire developer Mike Ilitch.
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- A measure that allows the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (Michigan's version of the federal Fannie Mae mortgage backer) to carry an increased debt burden of $4.2 billion after Nov. 1, 2014.
- A bill making Michigan a right-to-work state.
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- Will you accept campaign contributions from government employee unions, given that you may be voting on measures affecting their members' future contracts and benefits?
- Will you support repealing an existing mandate that forces school districts and local governments to engage in collective bargaining with government employee unions, and instead make this optional?
- Will you vote "yes" on legislation that imposes strict financial penalties on school districts that fail to comply with recent collective bargaining reforms (prohibited subjects of bargaining, violating right-to-work, prohibition on withholding dues for the union, etc.)
- Will you vote "yes" on measures that increase school choice for parents, even if these shift resources from conventional public school districts to charter public schools and other innovative alternatives (like online cyber-schools)?
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Pushing a cart filled with drums and guitars through the halls of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Karen Popkin may not be a medical doctor — but she does play a key role in the center's patients' treatment and recovery.
The 46-year-old is a licensed creative arts therapist and the lead music therapist and manager of the Gabrielle's Angel Music Therapy Program at the hospital, funded by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research. She spends her days playing music for cancer patients and engaging them in musical activity to help them cope with the demands of their diagnoses and treatment. We spoke to the Kips Bay resident about music's healing power:
What has been your favorite experience working with a patient?
I was working with one young woman who had a lengthy and complicated course. She had always wanted to play the piano but had never had time to learn. I brought the (xylophone-like) wing to her because it has tones. And as soon as I set it down in front of her, she just began randomly playing until she found a pattern that she enjoyed. She looked up at me, and she smiled, and she said, "When I play this, my pain is gone."
What's your typical day like?
On average, I see five or six individual patients a day, and I also provide two group programs throughout the week. In an individual session, I'm sitting at the bedside with someone, and there's often an emphasis on symptom management — using music therapy to promote relaxation and reduce the perception of pain: the physical symptoms, such as nausea.
In a group session, I work with both patients and family members to build a sense of community and promote opportunities for communication through playing and listening to music.
What's the hardest part of the job?
The profession is still not widely known by many people. If I've been referred to see someone and they've never heard of music therapy before, it's a great opportunity to educate, but it can be a little bit of a challenge with folks who think it's too alien or too different-feeling from what they're expecting.
Which of your instruments are most popular?
Almost everyone likes the ocean drum, and the wings (similar to a xylophone). Drumming and doing rhythm work can be a great way to connect and also to have a sense of release.
What do you like best about the job?
Just getting to know so many wonderful individuals…through the experience of making music. I'm privileged to be let into their lives.


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I have come to The Gambia for 6 months Out Of Programme
Experience. The mental health services in The Gambia have not
hosted a psychiatric trainee on such a programme before, and I
spent my first few weeks working out with the staff here what my
role would be. So having arrived all fired up to get on with
things, it was a little bit of a slow start – but I should not have
worried as 6 weeks later I'm very involved in such interesting
The Gambia is a small country on the West Coast of Africa, with
a population of about 1.7 million people. I am based in the Western
Region, where the capital city Banjul is and about half the
population live here. The Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in
Banjul, is a 650 bedded tertiary centre, and Tanka Tanka
Psychiatric Hospital is about half an hour outside the city, it
runs at a capacity of about 50 and is Gambia's only psychiatric
inpatient facility. There are 2 Cuban psychiatrists working in the
country, on secondment from their own country, otherwise there are
no psychiatrists, and although the service is well staffed by
competent nurses and assistants, there is only one trained
psychiatric nurse.
I have been splitting my time between the Outpatient clinics at
RVTH, which run every day and are always busy, and Tanka Tanka. In
the first week of clinics I learned that you cannot predict who
will walk in the door and what they'll be presenting with. It's a
self referral system, and the range of psychiatric problems is
vast; all ages, all problems. Several people per day are
transferred from the clinic to the inpatient unit, most often with
substance abuse disorders and psychosis, although unusually for The
Gambia we've had a run of psychotic depression in older women in
the past week. The nurses who run the clinic are very experienced
though without any formal psychiatric nursing training. They are
experienced in making diagnoses and treating, and know the system
and are incredibly supportive, which I'm hugely thankful for as a
CT2 and very used to having seniors around to ask advice! It's safe
to say I'm learning fast.
On first sight the psychiatric hospital looked unusual to me, as
patients are not confined to certain areas as they are at home in
wards. It is a large enclosed open air plot laid out with separate
buildings for male and female dormitories, offices, and other
facilities such as kitchen and dining areas. The patients choose to
spend a lot of their time outside, sitting in the shade or walking
around the grounds. Over the ensuing days, I learned there is value
in allowing people to have freedom within a large space: when
patients are distressed and agitated they tend to manage themselves
differently, and use the space well. Another difference is that the
patients are not split into different wards depending on their age
or presentations, they are all together, so keeping an open mind
and being aware of risks is particularly important.
Having spent 3 weeks settling in, I joined the CMHT on their 3
monthly trek to the South Bank rural regions, visiting local health
centres and doing a clinic in each place. We visited 8 towns, and
stayed with the staff in their quarters each night. It was an
amazing trip, and probably the most challenging experience of my
medical career so far! I have to mention the heat, and the dust,
and the endless tinned sardines. The work itself was incredibly
interesting – in those rural areas people do not have access to
mental health care, and they do not have a 'Western' style
understanding of what problems represent mental illness. Therefore
many of the patients attending had long histories of untreated
mental illness, and all the complications in their lives that this
entails. The CMHT make huge efforts to arrange for the clinics to
be announced on local radio and sometimes in the local mosques
beforehand, inviting people to attend the clinic or bring in
relatives they are concerned about. The attendance is variable,
depending on how many people have been reached by the news and
whether they're able to get there.
At our first stop, Kudang, we were preparing for our clinic and
the team were unsure how many people would attend, having had only
a few on a previous visit. Next door was the public health clinic,
and already at 9am a crowd of people was waiting for the clinic to
open. The lead nurse of our team suggested we give an impromptu
talk to the crowd, with the aim of educating them about mental
health, what to look out for in mental illness, and encouraging
them to bring in any of their relatives. There were men, women and
children listening to our talk; I spoke about how a person might
behave with mental illness of different types, and this was in turn
translated into the local language. The locals listened intently,
and I was wondering how we were being received as their faces gave
little away except for clearly concentrating on what we were saying
and studying us (me in particular as I rather stood out in the
rural Gambian village environment!). As we were winding it down,
people started stepping forward out of the crowd, one woman said
she was experiencing seizures, another man said he wanted to come
to see us as he feels unwell and hears voices, and a third elderly
gentleman told us that he has 2 younger people in his family who he
is concerned about who he will go home and bring directly back to
us. With these spontaneous visitors, and others, the clinic was
pretty busy that day.
The elderly gentleman, the head of a large local family, brought
back his 25 year old son who presented with a 3 year history of
psychotic symptoms, which the family had been managing at home, at
times of agitation having to confine him to his room, his 24 year
old daughter who was having frequent seizures, and then personally
revealed that the last few years have taken their toll on him and
talked about his difficulty sleeping, loss of appetite and constant
rumination on his own death. I had had misgivings about giving the
talk in the morning but obviously it had been helpful, for these
people at least as we were able to start involving them with treatment.
Throughout the 8 days people brought their relatives from far and
wide to our clinics, some even came from across the border in
Senegal, as one town was about 4 km on the Gambian side and they
listened to the local radio. The majority of cases were epilepsy
and psychotic disorders. I saw a large number of people with
untreated psychosis, and was amazed at how their families and
communities absorb their challenging behaviour and sustain them,
even through florid periods. The interesting cases we saw and
treated on the trek are too many to talk about here. I want to
mention however, a 20 year old woman who was the daughter of one of
the nurses working in one of the health centres, and her mother had
asked her to attend. She described an 8 month history of paranoia
and depressed mood, she was quite suspicious and took quite a
paranoid stance throughout the interview. She was losing weight,
sleep, and referred to vague nihilistic ideas she had about
something in her body. She was tearful. There was a marked rash
across her cheeks, sparing the chin and forehead. She said the rash
started at the same time as the depressed mood, and admitted to
suffering with aching joints. In that rural environment I was
rather stuck how as to proceed, so as well as starting some
treatment, we took her contact details, and advised her to come
into Banjul, as a visiting dermatologist from Dakar is here to do
some teaching at the medical school for a few weeks, and I can
arrange the relevant tests. I must admit to having never seen
untreated SLE with psychiatric complications outside a textbook
before, and we are yet to find out whether this is the case here.
She's agreed to come next week, but her mother called today to say
she's refusing her medication before the telephone line cut out.
Another hazard of working in less wealthy countries. Fingers
crossed we'll see her in Banjul soon, otherwise we'll have to wait
until the next trek in 3 months time. Her case demonstrates the
constraints of the service here.
Most people's first point of call for illness in The Gambia is a
traditional healer, especially in rural areas. We were invited to a
well known traditional healer's practice specializing in mental
health, to collaborate with him in his patients' treatment.
He explained the treatments he uses which include locally
sourced herbs and particular recitations from the Quran. We saw
similar presentations you would expect to see in a psychiatric
hospital, however people had travelled to see him from a wide area
including Mali and Senegal as well as The Gambia due to his well
recognized family tradition of healing. The collaborative treatment
effort is quite in its infancy, and the CMHT will be developing the
relationship, and will follow up on the next Trek in June.
My training programme in London can seem a long way away
sometimes, and it's important to strike a balance between learning
and doing as much as is helpful, and knowing my limits. Email
support from my supervisor at home, Dr Peter Hughes, is invaluable.
So far however, this is a truly enlightening and enjoyable
experience, and I would recommend it. I'll be spending some more
time in Tanka Tanka next, and will be preparing for some teaching
of the medical students at RVTH.
The Gambia has a lot more to offer outside the city – and the
people are friendly and energetic, keen to share their beautiful
country with you. Some new Gambian friends took me out with a bird
watcher at the weekend. European tourists flock here to twitch the
local birds, and as a complete novice I had a go.
We went to Lamin Lodge on the creeks around the River Gambia,
and went out on the mangrove waters in a tiny canoe. To my relief
our guide told me that they don't get crocodiles in those creeks
any more, and they rowed us silently through the mangroves creeping
up on beautiful bird species – they were very excited to have found
a pair of white backed night herons which I'm told are quite rare,
and blue cheeked bee eaters. Oysters grow on the roots of the
mangroves which the village women row out and collect with
machetes, and the men take tourists out bird watching by day and
fish the waters by night catching small fish for the village market
and barracuda which they trade with the large hotels; one barracuda
for 50kg bag of rice. Young men spend 18 months doing this service
after finishing school, proving themselves as having a good work
ethic and being community minded to the village elders who then
consider them for favourable jobs. The revenue goes back into the
village, to maintain the schools and any building required.
After the creek we visited the village, and I found myself in
the middle of a naming ceremony for a baby girl – seemed like the
whole village was out, dressed in colourful and sequined dresses
and kaftans. Of course all the children surrounded me, shouting
"Toubab" meaning white person, and wanting to shake my hand.
As a born-and-bred Londoner, it can be a challenge to lose any
anonymity and there's no room for shyness! But you just have to
take it as it's meant; a friendly greeting of a very obvious
stranger! In Britain we tend not to mention people's skin colours
for fear of causing offense, but here it could never be the
elephant in the room and is spoken about immediately. I was taken
into the parents' bedroom to meet the week-old baby, who was fast
asleep and being passed around for everyone to admire. And
everyone's favourite game here is try and teach me to speak
Mandinka or Wolof, which is showing very slow progress, but it's
certainly a source of amusement for them!
I have recently spent much of my time working in the inpatient
setting, which is a separate 60-place psychiatric hospital about
half an hour outside Banjul, down a 1km dirt track from the
highway. It's a bustling and vibrant place, with large grounds for
the patients to use including a vegetable garden that they work on
themselves as part of their occupational therapy. It's always full
or over capacity, and the turnover of admissions is quite high –
every day is different and challenging, caring for a very diverse
patient group in limited circumstances.
The in-patient service has been restricted for
the last month by inconsistent supplies of medication. Any
one preparation of a drug may run out: usually there is at least
one antipsychotic for use, but the patients will experience the
medication being changed from one drug to another. The
antipsychotics used here are oral haloperidol and chlorpromazine,
and fluphenazine depot. The only antidepressant available is
amitriptyline, and for sedation there is IM haloperidol, IM
diazepam, but no oral benzodiazepines at all. There is also
carbamazepine. This week the hospital finally ran out of all
antipsychotics. The families of some patients are able to take
prescriptions to local pharmacies and bring back the medication for
them, but for most this is not financially possible. We're told by
central pharmacy this situation will be resolved in the next few
days, but for now the hospital can only take emergency admissions
(which is most of them!), and we have tried to discharge as many
people as is safe, with prescriptions for those who can afford to
buy their treatment in local pharmacies to carry on treatment at
home. I have found the decisions about whether to discharge people
for this reason difficult, but I've had to ask myself what the
point of admitting people is if we cannot treat? So the decision
has been based on risk assessment for each person and how well the
family could manage and support them at home.
There are so many challenges here to what I
have come to expect, based on how we work at home. The
inconsistency of antipsychotics, of necessity at the very
least, leads to skewed prescribing practice, as we are
always aware of the low supplies, and prescribing rationale is
based on practical issues. Depots are used very often as the supply
is usually more reliable, as they only need to be available once
per month for each patient, and they are always available at one
time in a month. This way the patient has the most reliable
treatment without missing doses and the best chance of achieving a
steady state of medication. People seem to be less averse to
injections here than at home; I think they expect injections from
doctors and that is part of the road to recovery. Side effects are
obviously a constant battle and source of distress, but thankfully
during my time here so far the supply of trihexyphenidyl has
not faltered!
The matron of Tanka Tanka Hospital is keen to
share our practice from the UK; so we're working together to
develop some staff training, starting with the management of
agitated and challenging patients. There is a seclusion room in the
unit which was closed last year after it became clear it was not
being used safely.
This makes the management of some patients very difficult, and
appropriate means of rapid tranquilisation is not always available.
The staff do an impressive job of keeping the calm and managing the
risk with these limited facilities, but the outcome is not always
favourable, and the potential for assaults and distressing
situations is often borne out. Having limited means to manage
patients' distress can make me feel very impotent. It makes me
wonder about how much we tend to use our other skills to calm
patients and make them feel safe, and how much we rely on
medication. The training is designed to empower the staff, who are
not all trained nurses or mental health nurses. It also improves
risk management, safety for patients and staff, and reduces
incidents. The matron and I are planning to go through
de-escalation techniques, physical techniques, rapid
tranquilisation and safe use of seclusion. We are designing a
protocol for secluding patients, and paperwork for record keeping
and monitoring.
A study at Tanka Tanka last year showed that as many as 50% of
people admitted abscond from the unit, and the largest group are
those admitted with psychosis associated with substance abuse. I
have found that those who abscond are often brought back by family
members the next day, or come back again in some weeks, but many
are not seen again for some time. The extended families are very
involved in the care of their relatives here, compared to what I
have experienced at home. I don't think I have often seen families
bringing back patients who have absconded at home, perhaps this is
because our services take responsibility for us, and here without
social or outreach services, families naturally take up the burden
themselves and are much more assertive.
In high risk situations the police can be involved, but there is
no obligation for them to bring back absconders, unless of course
there is a public disturbance. This leads me on to mental health
legislation; there is a Mental Health Act 1917, amended 1967. There
is provision to detain patients for a renewable 6 month period. The
police may use an "emergency certificate" which is similar to a
Section 136 to most intents and purposes, although rather more
simply described. The CMHT in The Gambia run busy open access
outpatient clinics in Banjul every day, but are not able to provide
home visits or outreach services. There just isn't the funding for
a vehicle, the fuel, or indeed enough staff. I have found that
working without being able to rely on an outreach service is very
different, and indeed more is expected from the families here to
fill this gap. Working in this way with people who strive to offer
the patients full care in such constrained conditions, has given me
a keen awareness of the sophistication and development of our
mental health system in the UK. Things we take for granted, like
having another professional to refer to who will step in and offer
follow up care, would indeed be a luxury here, although very much
To clear things in my own mind, I find I have to look closely at
the symptoms of schizophrenia as ICD 10 describes them, but the
individual's interpretation and understanding of what is wrong with
them is quite distinct. It's expressed as a recognition there is
something wrong and out of their control, and it's a problem in
their mind that they want to resolve. I've found that people can
work with psychiatry on this, and collaborate in their treatment.
Indeed it doesn't always hinder their relationship with medical
treatment, although it does delay them in seeking it, having
invariably already sought help from a Maribu first.
The message to patients is that the two approaches can work
together to avoid losing their engagement in a medical approach
which after all, they have not grown up with. A young woman was
brought to Tanka Tanka by the police last month having been charged
with infanticide of her 4 day old baby. Rather tragically, she had
defaulted treatment for schizophrenia some 3 years ago. Her family
have been supporting her at home in the way they believed was best
for her, intending to help her care for her baby at home but with
no intervention from services. During her illness, she offended a
neighbour by interfering with their good luck charms by cutting
them off her body. The family may have believed a spell was cast
upon her as revenge for doing this, explaining her state of ill
health and their reason for not seeking medical treatment. After
arrest the police were convinced of her unstable mental state at
the station and brought her to hospital. We negotiated an agreement
with them that she should stay in hospital rather than on remand.
They advised me that her mental illness would be taken into account
if provided with a medical report, as no one was in doubt of her
condition. She has somewhat improved with treatment from a
fluctuating catatonic state and is now able to communicate and
speak about all that has happened, which she finds unbearable but
seems to be coping. There is no relevant forensic mental health law
to help here, and plans for the patient's future care will be a
challenge considering a lack of outreach community services. The
staff will of course do their best but in constrained
I went with the CMHT to visit a traditional
healer, specialising in mental health, who is about an hour and a
half's drive outside Banjul, near the South Gambia-Senegal border.
He has a large compound in a rural village with rooms for
inpatients and consulting rooms for outpatients. The treatment is
by way of the Quran, using recitations of certain verses, and
herbal remedies.
He told me about the beliefs of the causes of
mental illness, which are based in the work of djinns and spells
invoked against people by other Maribus.He said he believed there
are psychoses which do not respond to his treatment and took me to
meet such patients.One young man had been there for 7 months, his
mother staying with him in the healer's compound.
He was floridly psychotic and threatening, and
being kept there with no improvement in mental state despite the
healer's best efforts.He had absconded from the hospital twice
before his mother took him there in desperation.The healer is
allowing us to work with him, including supply him with appropriate
medication, in fact he asked the CMHT to help.Of course the first
instinct is to wade in with medical interventions, but the services
here are well aware that without providing a safe alternative, that
would be a naive and potentially dangerous interference.
I have been made aware of lessons learned with these issues in
other countries in Africa, and that a thoughtful approach is
needed. Work is being done in The Gambia to find funding to develop
Tanka Tanka into a more secure inpatient environment, to prevent
absconsion and provide a seclusion facility, and in all to work
towards a more comprehensive service. I have found I have needed to
put so much of my assumptions aside, and look at things in a
pragmatic way, locate my thinking in this environment and culture
rather than superimposing my experience of psychiatry in a
developed country onto the complex needs of this one.
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As Stevie Smith once wrote, while impersonating God, "I will forgive you everything,/But what you have done to my Dogs/I will not forgive." About Dan Rhodes's novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home, many readers will only need to know this much: The dog dies, gratuitously and in sordid detail.
Less bloody, but just as egregious: Twice in Rhodes's novel, characters feed the dog chocolate. I suspect that Rhodes does not know that chocolate poisons dogs, because he presents the episodes as if they were benign. Or perhaps he does know, and the feedings are meant, like the butchery of the novel's title dog, to suggest that doom and mutilation await every attempt at love in this rotten world. It can be hard to distinguish cheap cynicism from ignorance.
And it is hard to say which is less welcome in a gay novel about a dog. Or in any novel, for that matter. But in the particular subgenre of gay novels about dogs, the bar has been set high, thanks to J.R. Ackerley's We Think the World of You (1960). Like that book, Rhodes's novel features an older gay man who lusts after a young straight and is loved by a dog instead. Ackerley's protagonist reserved most of the details of his human sexuality but gave away those of his dog-love so prodigally that he nearly incriminated himself. Rhodes's hero–an Englishman named Carthusians Cockroft who lives in Italy off the royalties of songs that he wrote for television in the 1970s–reverses these tendencies. He whines endlessly about his ex-boyfriends and his humiliations at their hands, but he is able to share only the most obvious facts about his dog. It wags its tail, it cocks its head. I found myself wondering if the author had ever owned one. On a related point, I confess that I have no idea whether Rhodes himself is gay or straight. In his author's note and in the one interview with him that I have read, he appears to be neuter. But if he isn't gay, then he is in an awkward illocutionary position, because he is selling homosexual degradation retail, for the chuckles. Consider this sample:
Cockroft knew that there had been times when he had lost his dignity completely…. He knew for certain that he had lost it in 1976 when, during a particularly difficult time in his life, the police had caught him spraying I SUCK COCKS on a footbridge over a dual carriageway. When the incident wasn't reported in the newspapers he didn't know whether to feel disappointed or relieved.
Ba-dum-bum. Nothing could make the joke funny, but one hopes for the sake of the author's soul that it is, at least metonymically, at his own expense.
If it is, then there might be a kind of news in the novel. It might be possible to read the book as a bulletin from a certain corner of the gay male romantic world. Not that this would be much fun.


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With the arrival of spring and the new life we see in nature, also comes Good Friday and Easter. It's such an important reminder to not forget what Jesus did for us and to give thanks for the new life we have in Him.
Jesus is alive! The evidence is clearly seen by His hand of mercy and His loving care in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
During the Easter season, as we reflect on what Jesus did as he took the sin of all mankind on Himself and died on the cross, we're humbled and awed by his unconditional love for us. We have so much to be thankful for as we think about His sacrificial death on our behalf and then His joyful resurrection. Easter is such a happy day as we celebrate our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Traditions are an important part of the Easter celebration. Whether it's memories of when you were growing up or new ones that you've established in your family, it's a good thing to carry on traditions. I'd like to share some of my treasured childhood memories with you:
As a little girl, when we woke up on Easter morning, we found an Easter basket filled with delicious candy eggs and chocolate bunnies by our bedsides. We hopped out of bed with anticipation for the day and quickly ate breakfast. Then, we put on our brand new Easter outfits.
Mother loved dressing us up, so my brothers wore suits and ties, and my sisters and I got matching hats, gloves and little purses to go with our frilly dresses. Yes, we actually wore Easter bonnets!
(Here's an interesting fact…The custom of new clothes for Easter actually began when the early Christians were baptized the day before Easter. After they were baptized, they put on new clothes to show their new life in Christ.)
Before we could head off to church, we had our family picture taken in our new Easter clothes. Mother loved taking pictures. Now that I'm grown up, I'm glad that we have all those old pictures, but at the time, we didn't always enjoy it. Mother was a firm believer that, for the best lighting, we had to face the bright sun. She would position us so that the sun was behind the photographer and it was shining directly in our eyes. So, a lot of our pictures show us squinting or looking down because the bright sunshine made our eyes water! (That's me in the yellow sweater!)
After church, we went to Nano and Papa's house. They were my grandparents on my father's side and we often went to their house after church on Sunday. Easter was especially fun because my aunts, uncles, and cousins would come over too, and we had a big Easter egg hunt after lunch.
(Another interesting fact: The tradition of colored Easter eggs started in the Christian Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe. The eggs were dyed red to symbolize the blood of Christ, and the hard shell represents the stone covering His tomb. Cracking the shell open represents the celebration of His resurrection.)
My prayer is that you'll experience the wonder of Easter with renewed hope and joy, and that if you haven't already done so, you'll embrace God's forgiveness of our sins and His free gift of salvation. Remember, Christianity is not about religion. It's about a relationship with Jesus Christ. We have been reconciled with God through Jesus' sacrificial death for us on the cross as payment for our sins.
The awe-inspiring miracle of Easter is that Jesus died and rose again. By His sacrifice He brings hope for all people throughout eternity.
Happy Easter!
'Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.'
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Senate Bill 1 (Murray, Chapter 132, Statutes of 2006 - PDF file) was the culmination of the Governor Schwarzenegger's Million Solar Roofs Initiative, expanding upon the California Solar Initiative and the New Solar Homes Partnership programs. The statute requires the California Energy Commission to establish eligibility criteria, conditions for incentives and rating standards for projects applying for ratepayer funded incentives for solar energy photovoltaic systems.
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