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What's most amusing to me is that most likely the 777 was never in any real danger of crashing and that near-death-experience was a whole plan of scared-shitless passengers who clung to their faith 🙂
I really get annoyed by believers who go "How can Atheist be so certain" – followed by half an hour of "This is god" and "That is god" and my wife being perfect and having a child is a sign of god – god here, god there, all that was left was a piece of toast with the picture of Christ on it. The lovely God of the Gaps. I can't explain it – so it must be god. Until it's explained. Then THAT is no longer god, of course, but everything else we don't know yet.
If only Atheists AND deiists would just shut up and leave everyone else alone. Nobody knows so just stop filling in the blanks.
Sheesh, nevermind, I just found it. Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong
What an amazing episode, sorry I waited a while to listen to it. I was never a big fan of Mohr but now I'm going to be checking out a lot more of his stuff.
Does anyone know the two books he mentioned?
One was Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart…
the other one was something by an archbishop examining contradictions in the Bible…??
Holly crap that was awesome! I was crying during the Harry Carray stand-off.
I was really moved by jay mohr's story about the plane and the flip book of his life – it really affected me in a big way.
then I listened to the Pete Holmes episode and it seemed like he was a little unsure as to what to do on Pete's (upcoming at that time) podcast. Doubt crept in – maybe jay listened to other episodes and decided to manufacture a 'moving' story of his own to fit in with the show / eclipse past guests. Why would I think something like that?… Jay just comes off as so calculating, career-wise. And in his podcast he often tried to manipulate Pete into doing material, after Pete made it abundantly ear he wasn't going to do it (good thing he didn't, shows like that are boring as batshit – you're a class act Pete Holmes).
The way Jay told the dog story honestly didn't seem as though he was that regretful. Sure, maybe he is, but it came across as a flippant throw away comment.
Then followed up with the comment about human's being the most noble animals because they connect with god, that's even more bullshitty. I'd argue the opposite, that animals are far more noble than humans because they don't allow religion and belief to influence their actions (and fuel their egos).
Speaking of egos, Jay's is massive, and doesn't deserve to be.
This episode left me feeling angry and disturbed. Eurgh.
This was an awesome episode.
It's encouraging to see people like this are really out there.
Who aren't afraid to listen to what other belief systems are all about.
And, aren't just going to listen to them so they can criticize them later.
We're all human beings and if nothing else we should at least never forget that… And if for no other reason than that, we all deserve some level of respect.
It's very encouraging to find people with intellect's of this caliber.
Please keep up the great work Holmes.
The opening sentiment from Jay Mohr regarding presence got me thinking about between-song banter from 'Youth of Today' I heard at a Punk Rock show. Can't get it out of my head now 🙂
Everyone always looks to the past for the "good ol' days" and its always 5/10 years ago. Even back then people were saying it was better 5/10 years ago. Well I say "Right NOW is the good ol' days!"
Well, If we're gonna pull out our dicks, I was pretty close to a minor in Psych when I quit, and I took quite a bit of biology as well. But my point was that if it's all bullshit, something we agree on, then one can't dismiss people with taunts of "psych 101" and "uninformed and slapdash". You can't stand on a mountain of bullshit and then say 'your bullshit is not the right bullshit."
And I disagree that it's scientific, even baby scientific. We have neurobiology in the realm of science, where they can perform experiments to test their data. Psychology and psychiatry are more about theories of mind, motivations, individual experiences, and the talking cure. That's not to say it's useless if it's not scientific. It is useful, and people definitely benefit from talking out their problems with someone who listens, but I think it can be just as helpful if that person is a good friend or a priest or a tribal elder and regardless of which psychological model is in vogue. Maybe down the road the science of neurobiology will come up with a scientific model for psychology but right now they're mostly separated.
So, what I mean by a "series of philosophies" is that unlike science, where new theories are accepted after they are proven to be better than old theories, psychology adopts new "theories" based on no experiment, except thought experiment. They replace each other based on fads, not evidence. Again, not scientific does not mean invalid. Science isn't a religion. It's a method. Tibetan Buddhists have considered themselves to be studying the brain by doing nothing but thought experiments and meditation, and I don't disagree with them.
@ john g
"I started my college career studying psychology, but I had to quit because it was just too obvious"
terrific irony here in this oblivious demonstration of hindsight bias, a topic covered in the purportedly "too obvious" psych 101.
i'm a biologist that minored in psychology (which i only mention to provide some idea of where i'm coming from, not as proof i am right about everything), and compared to other sciences, psychology does appear to be mostly bullshit. but it's a baby science; it's very young. there's a lot of work to be done, but that in no way suggests its knowledge base is entirely self-evident. i have no idea what you mean by referring to psychology as a "series of philosophies", unless the last time you studied psychology was maybe the 60's when they were still taking freud seriously. your assessment of psychology appears slapdash and uninformed, and is perhaps a judgment better withheld given your admittedly limited study of the subject.
The dog thing sort of makes you wonder what the *other two things* he wouldn't admit on the podcast were!
Autism for dummies…
There is no way Pete is "on the spectrum" as a phrase so many people like to throw around now. Pete absolutely connects with people one on one, we listen to it happen 2x a week. If you go back to old episodes you can even hear how he used to bulldoze people and just get his bits in, and at that point you would have an argument. Pete feels deeply for his guests and connects with their stories. He also does this to groups of people as a professional comedian, where he is connecting and reading their feelings & reactions.
If you want to play Psych 101 on Pete, listen to his podcast with Alison Becker (115) where he talks about how his father cried at a particular song, and he thinks that's where he somehow learned it's ok to cry at movies or songs, but not just express those feelings in everyday life.
Obviously since we are privy to his confessions as he is connecting with people, we know he has some issues he is working through concerning his mother and father, but he is certainly not autistic in any way. The mere fact that he didn't react more violently to the dog story is because he was connected with Jay and could understand that this was one of his biggest regrets of his life and he felt awful about it.
I'd also like to point out that being driven to abuse a dog in order to receive some kind of affection because your mother is not there for you is a truly heartbreaking/horrible thought. Pete did a better job than most people commenting by actually connecting and feeling what Jay was expressing. The autistic thing to do would be to stop the story to declare that beating dogs with sticks isn't ok because you would not understand the emotional context of the story.
I agree with you on most of this. I agree that people use "on the spectrum" too much these days when anyone does anything they consider weird. Most people don't understand Autism at all. Then the official definitions keep getting changed. For example, asperger syndrome is being eliminated and now all people "on the spectrum" are considered to be Autistic, but because of the lay connotations with that word and the extreme misunderstandings surrounding it that you mention, I still prefer to use aspergers as an identifier. And it was aspergers I was referring to when I said "on the spectrum".
A common misconception is that people with aspergers, or "aspies", as you say, "can't relate to people." Actually, they can. They relate to people very much. It's just not automatic like it is for others. That's why they can often cry at movies and songs, because it gives them time to adjust and relate to the emotional experience. People with aspergers have trouble reading social cues, but they're not sociopaths who can't relate to people. If you read what I wrote, I wasn't saying that Pete can't relate to people, but that he can't connect with them. I think he relates very well, but he does it in a way that aspies do, which is to tie every single thing back to an experience within himself, not reach out and embody the other to view their experience of things.
And I'm not sure Pete is on the spectrum at all, which is why I made the follow up comment about him maybe just being the product of an alcoholic parent. That's why they created Al-Anon, because the children of alcoholics tend to have emotional issues. Which is exactly what Jay Mohr's story was about when hitting the dog. It was obvious, so of course I understood it. His mother was an alcoholic so he beat a dog until he made it love him. It couldn't be more obvious. I still get angry about the dog getting hurt. It doesn't mean I don't understand. I also said in an earlier comment that even as an atheist I liked his airplane story. The important thing was what he experienced and how it affected him, not whether it was really god or not.
But that doesn't make Jay Mohr not an asshole. He's been around a long time, and if you've only ever heard him speak on this one podcast, you might think he's a good guy, but that dude has problems. maybe he's been working on them, and he's getting better now, but after the shit I've heard about him over the last few decades, it will take a little more for me to just accept that. I mean, even in his moving story about wanting to be a better person, and seeing the flipbook of happiness, he's still a guy who thinks that god is talking to him on an airplane and giving him a mission. That's still an incredible ego, even with the bit where he claims he thinks it's ridiculous that he's on a mission from God, he still tells the story, because he wants to believe it.
But Ego is not necessarily bad. I think it's kind of a requirement if you're going to make it in the brutal industry that is show business. Truly low self esteem would never survive an industry that makes you feel like nothing, and then if you're incredibly lucky, it briefly makes you feel like everything. I've found that performers are very attracted to the ideas of Buddhism, because they have such amazing egos, they really get a positive effect from learning to quiet it down once in awhile. They need it to survive in their career, but it can be a pain to be that self-focused all the time.
Lastly, I would like to take issue with your use of the tired condescending phrase "psychology 101". This is used by people to disdain any "common person" from delving into the "incredibly complex" ideas of psychologists. I started my college career studying psychology, but I had to quit because it was just too obvious. Anyone who's good at understanding and reading people can do it. Some psychological conditions have biological antecedents that make them more scientific and verifiable, but those are then biology, not psychology. It's not magic or hard science. It's a series of philosophies. What makes it work for people is faith in the person delivering it, which is why priests have been doing it forever.
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Perfect episode!!!! I just wish you could've gotten him to stay longer!
I understand the point of the dog story for sure. I think, for some reason, I'm just very very 'rubbed the wrong way' by people/children that harm dogs. Whenever I hear about a kid hurting a dog, I always assume they are going to turn in to a serial killer. Seems like this may be a 'me' problem.
OK, maybe I was being cynical by questioning Jay's message and the "font type" thing. Didn't mean to pick apart his story, I'm just trying my best to understand his faith/beliefs. I haven't experienced anything like this, I just know if I had, I'd be questioning myself as to what happened.
Re: Jay's story about the dog… It wasn't a story of pride, it sounded like it brought him shame over the years. @nora stopped the podcast after he mentioned that? Did you hear the part where he made it clear that it was a memory of something he was not proud of?
Sorry for being negative on such a positive podcast, I hate trolls and negative vibes.
Good episode, keep em coming!
Tonya just made it real weird….
But seriously the whole fucking point of the dog thing was it was a top 3 worst experience of his LIFE!! I'm pretty sure if you are judging you should take some personal inventory, there's probably a horrible dark spot from your under 8 years your brain won't even allow you to uncover.
Come on weirdo's we're supposed to be better than that!
@John G., wow you put a lot of thought into that. Pretty impressive.
I liked this episode. I don't agree with what Jay did to the dog, but we all have "dog stories" that humiliate us. It's obvious both Jay and Pete have spent a lot of time thinking/researching higher powers, and it's fun to listen to their back and forth.
Also, I'm never sure if that is actually Pete responding in the thread.
P.S. Love ya, Pete! And get Duncan Trussell on again! Or go back on his show! You two are awesome togther!
With the amount of love and joy I get from this show it saddens me to see all the judgemental comments from the listeners. So many do not understand the message and point that Jay made with the dog story. There is a lot of love in that man and a confidence that apparently scares and angers many of the listeners. Perhaps because they lack those qualities? I can't say I'm perfect as I am working on them as well, but I can assure you that if you flip the dial to love you are going to get a lot more out of life.
And for those picking apart his near death experience by claiming it was self induced or fake because of the font thing… you are missing the deeper meaning.
Bit, not skit. Sorry about that.
@Teague Dwyer
HA! I thought of exactly the same thing. I love that bit.
"Are you making fun of me?"
"no, I thought….I'm a bee."
Great episode. The part about the dog fetish reminded me of Paul F. Tompkins's "Sexy Bee" skit.
Free comment thread? This is some good, deep stuff. I think it goes without saying (or I thought it did) that I think what jay did was horrible but a powerful part of a ultimately touching and inspiring story (the fill the flip book of your life with love, not hitting dogs message). And as far as dogs go, I absolutely love them. Yes, I'm more or a cat person, but how could I refer to myself as a golden retriever puppy so much if I didn't think they were great? (Self love joke here) 🙂
Pete is a very sensitive guy, but I have the impression based on some of his previous comments that he's not a 'dog person.' If he was, I feel like he might have had something to say about Jay hitting his dog. Quite sad.
You're right. I've picked up on that too. Pete is one of those people that can't extend love to a dog. Maybe it's because, unlike a human, it can't laugh at his jokes and constantly praise him. Have you noticed how Pete is always saying he can't cry, or that he didn't cry in a lot of emotional situations, but he's cried many many times at movies and things like that. Pete never seems to connect with people. Everything he talks about relates back to his internal experience of it. It sounds like maybe he's on the Autism spectrum somewhere. Sometimes they don't connect with humans OR animals.
He's also had obsessions with things like God the judgemental father, Marc Maron as angry comedy dad, There Will Be Blood ( "I've abandoned my child" ), and others. In that episode of You Made It Movies, Paul merely asked a question about his dad, and Pete couldn't talk about it. He's clearly got an issue with his father being distant and needing some kind of judgemental, domineering father figure to be constantly judging him. It's why he'll always be a success, because show business is the ultimate angry God, always asking for more and nothing is ever good enough.
I love Pete, because he's so open and willing to divulge so much about his inner workings that I as a stranger can think this much about it. Maybe he's just the child of an alcoholic, and it's not Aspergers at all. But he's definitely never held a puppy and loved that puppy with all his heart.
Interesting story Jay told. I had trouble following the story when he talked about the font type of the message from god. What is the holiest mind font anyways? Maybe that bit wasn't from an external entity? If so, at least underline or bold the text.
Jay's story about the dog was touching. That must eat inside him every day.
I respect Jay as a comedian, but he still comes off as an arrogant dick. He tried to give Pete a lesson at one point, maybe didn't realize Pete's depth of knowledge in Christianity. He has a problem with atheists because they think they know how it all ends, yet he can't fathom that some people don't believe that Jesus existed? Seems rather hypocritical.
I guess it's easy to think a god loves you when you're a millionaire.
I love your Pacino. I listened to your episode of How Did This Get Made 3 times, because it was so fun to have you and the guys doing Pacinos together. Do it more!
I have to say that as a very rigid atheist, one of those ones who's absolutely sure there is no God whatsoever, I've got no problem with Mohr here. I can explain everything that happened to him without using God, and I don't think that's "explaining it away" as he kept saying. It only adds. It takes nothing away.
But he seemed pretty open minded about the whole thing, and there's no reason an atheist has to "take away" his interpretation of a deeply spiritual near-death experience. Facing death is profound for everyone. His story is powerful because of his experience of it, his experience of something being profoundly meaningful. There is no reason an atheist should try and tell him he's wrong about that.
Hitting a dog with a stick, though. For that I may have to hit him with a big stick a few times.
I can't believe Jay Mohr farted on that dog. I'm boycotting this fucker.
i feel like they did this EXACT same podcast on jay's damn near word for word.. even some of the bits are the same the "i read your book -which one haha" and the impressions and touchstones and like all of it. still good.. but it's like too close.
Thank you, Jay…every morning on the yellow line i commute from DC to VA. Leaving L'enfant Plaza, the train heads into minutes of darkness before it breaks above ground to cross the Potomac. Often you can see planes taking off and landing from DCA and its a lovely, if not short, view of water and sky before heading back underground. I usually spend these brief moments searching for my sunglasses, squinting, when I've forgotten them or lamenting cloudy skies. Now, instead, for those brief moments, I will picture the flip book of my life more determined to fill the rest of my day with exponential joy…and Ice cream because eff lactose intolerance, life is short.
@Nora Yes, hitting the dog was despicable, which was the exact point of the story.
During Jay's airplane story I actually got choked up. Great episode.
Everyone should listen to the first six episodes of Jay's podcast from 2011
Jay comes off like a weiner sometimes, but beautiful, heartfelt things come out of his mouth sometimes and might be the perfect things for certain types of people who need to hear them. Maybe other people who come off as weiners?
Great Podcast. Definitely had a lot of laugh out load moments. And a great message. Thanks!
I so upset after jay mohr told his story about hitting a dog, I stopped the podcast. I don't care if he was five, that is despicable behavior.
Pete's Morgan Freeman is awesome!
Jay's Colin Quinn is spot on. Now I'm going to his podcast to hear him and Pete do more impressions, haha
I wish I had a dad like you, Jay.
If this is Jay Mohr, give me Jay Less! Love ya Pete.
First thing I checked…the running time. Looks like Jay Mohr won the "how long we go" fight. Love ya guys!
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November 9-10, 2011
Boca Raton - Florida Atlantic University
Board of Governors - Regular Meeting
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- Call to Order and Chair's Report: - Chair Ava Parker
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- Election of Officers, Chair and Vice Chair, Board of Governors, 2012-13:
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The Hamilton County judge deplored the attack as she also ordered a complete mental health diagnostic program for the youth, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported (http://cin.ci/1mh3IyN ).
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• Remember it's not personal; it's business. Walk the client through the "breakup" process, detailing what your agency will provide so they know what to expect.
• Provide the departing client with a full complement of tools. At your final meeting, give them your agency's wrap-up reports, pending pitches, copies of all releases and materials you've sent on their behalf, and a roundup of any "dangling" stories that are committed but haven't yet run.
• Maintain the relationship after the split. Continue to stay in touch with updates and feedback regarding relevant information about the client's area of the business. Invite staff from the company to events or out for a drink or coffee.
• Give away everything in your arsenal. Take the professional high road—but you don't have to give away the whole enchilada including media lists, the full blueprint of what your next steps would have been, and the cell phone numbers for your key press contacts. Be fair, but don't overextend.
• Cut them off. Remember, the way they'll come back is if you leave things open and comfortably professional. Business breakups are not the time for drama. Play it easy.
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Aspiring singers, get ready to audition April 8 in Chicago for another TV singing competition.
ABC is getting into the singing competition business with "Rising Star," the first contest in which the audience has the final say in real-time voting.
Says ABC: "The show follows a group of aspiring singers as they perform live. During the performances, viewers vote in real time via an App to determine if the singer will advance in the competition. If the voting reaches a certain threshold, the performer moves on. In addition, the performer can see how the voting is going throughout the performance, so the feedback is immediate and dramatic."


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500 permits available to adult residents; all youth permits valid statewide
PRATT — While Kansas spring turkey permits are available to all hunters in most of the state, only 500 permits (residents only) will be issued for Unit 4, a western portion of the state bordered by highways I-70 on the north, U.S. 183 on the east, and U.S. 54 on the south. Fifty percent of these permits are reserved for applicants who qualify as landowner/tenants in that unit. However, under regulations passed by the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission two years ago, resident youth (age 15 and younger) turkey permits are valid statewide, including Unit 4.
Applications for Unit 4 permits must be received online or by phone at 620-672-0728 no later than Feb. 18. There are no paper applications or mail-in forms. All draw applications must be submitted through the online application process or by phone.
Spring turkey permit and game tags fees are as follow:
- Unit 4 Resident General permit — $27.50;
- Unit 4 Resident Landowner/Tenant Permit — $17.50;
- Unit 4 Preference Point — $6.50;
- Resident General permit — $22.50;
- Resident Combo permit/game tag (available through March 31) — $27.50;
- Resident Youth permit — $12.50;
- Resident Youth Combo permit/game tag (available through March 31) — $17.50;
- Resident game tag — $12.50;
- Landowner/Tenant permit — $12.50;
- Landowner/Tenant Combo permit/game tag — $17.50 (available through March 31);
- Nonresident General permit — $32.50;
- Nonresident Combo permit/game tag (available through March 31) — $47.50; and
- Nonresident game tag — $22.50.
A Spring Turkey Atlas showing all public hunting lands and spring Walk-In Hunting Access (WIHA) lands will be available at KDWP offices and the KDWP website in late March. For more details on Kansas spring turkey hunting, go to the KDWP website, www.kdwp.state.ks.us, and click "Hunting/Turkey Information."


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Migration issues
From PKP Wiki
To help integrate the new features of OMP into our other applications, we'll describe in this document how we've modified OMP to make it easier in the future to backport.
Every change should be accompanied by the following information:
- Link to the original BugZilla entry
- Link to an exemplary migration example patch (within BugZilla)
- A rough estimate of the number of instances that have to be migrated across all apps
- A rough estimate of the time required to migrate one instance
- 1 Introduction of Routers (Florian)
- 2 Replacing HandlerValidators with AuthorizationPolicies (Florian)
- 3 Layout overhaul (Bruno, Brent, Juan, Matt)
- 4 Listbuilders (Florian, Matt, Michael)
- 5 Form Builder Vocabulary (Tyler)
- 6 Introduction of User Groups (Juan, Florian)
- 7 Process-based (rather than role-based) workflow pages (Florian, Juan)
- 8 Introduction of a dashboard for users (Juan, Matt, Florian)
- 9 Converting edit assignments to stage assignments (Matt)
- 10 Introduction of a new review concept (Matt, Juan, Alec)
- 11 File management (Matt, Florian)
- 12 JavaScript Framework (Florian)
- 13 DAO clean-up (Florian)
- 14 CSS / phpless (Alec)
Introduction of Routers (Florian)
- The request class contained methods like getRequestedPage() and getRequestedOperation() which were specific to page request and not compatible with AJAX or more generally sub-component requests.
- We therefore introduced a distinction between the request containing URL and request parameters and routers that pass control to a handler operation based on the request information.
- A dispatcher is now responsible to choose an appropriate router for the request and let it route the request to a handler endpoint.
- We also want to reduce the number of static function calls which have been very frequent in connection with the Request class (advantages: enable inheritance, compatibility problems, design advantages). We now pass a request object along the execution chain, passing by the dispatcher and the router into the handler operation. All handler operations now receive the request as a second argument to their method call.
- The original BugZilla entry is http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4934
- A sample migration patches can be found here:
- There are currently 400 files which have non-migrated instances of 'Request::'.
- The migration of one file should take between 5 minutes and 15 minutes per instance, depending on the number of occurrences.
- This means that the overall migration effort should be roughly 60 hours.
Replacing HandlerValidators with AuthorizationPolicies (Florian)
- For a rationale why we replaced handler validators with authorization policies see our [Authorization Framework] design document.
- The original BugZilla entry is http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5540. The migration itself has been posted as http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5868 which also contains a set of sample migration patches.
- All instances of HandlerValidators have already been replaced there are however still a large number of validate() methods that contain custom authorization code which must be converted into AuthorizationPolicies.
- There are currently about 70 instances of the validate() method.
- There are still compatibility classes for the deprecated HandlerValidator classes which must be removed.
- The migration of one method takes about 10 to 15 minutes, if a new policy must be written first (which will occur quite rarely once the first few files have been migrated) then we have to count another 15 minutes per policy. Removing the legacy handler validators takes not more than 10 minutes.
- The overall migration effort therefore should be roughly 15-20 hours.
Layout overhaul (Bruno, Brent, Juan, Matt)
Changes for OMP: [1]
- Various locale keys have been added for navigation text (see the changes in the github commit)
- Added 'Select Role' and 'Select Press' block plugins
- Added omp/styles/omp.css file which contains references to all CSS files used. This file is the only CSS file needed to be referenced in omp/templates/common/header.tpl. The existing CSS files have been modified (see the changes on github)
- All javascript is being called in /templates/common/header.tpl. This means that the jQuery plugin is no longer in use. In the future we will be using Google's CDN to call jQuery and jQueryUI, and eventually other libraries.
- New container divs have been added to header.tpl, and leftSidebar/rightSidebar code has been removed. (see the changes on github for exactly what to change)
- A new breadcrumb file has been added in omp/templates/common/breadcrumbs.tpl--This should be able to be copied directly over (or eventually abstracted into pkp-lib)
- /omp/templates/common/footer.tpl was added to include closing tags for new divs added to header.tpl. When all of the application's UIs are in sync, this can be abstracted to pkp-lib.
Changes for PKP-lib: [2]
- Various CSS and Javascript libraries have been added to allow for new UI features, as well as new images
- original bug reports: tbd.
- sample migration patches: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.
Listbuilders (Florian, Matt, Michael)
For form elements that involve simple manipulation of lists (like masthead user lists in all apps), the MVC structure of modifying this data can be compacted into a listbuilder handler located in controllers/listbuilder/. There are three source data types of listbuilders that can be used, here are some examples:
- Free-text entry (for adding new data to the system)--See /controllers/listbuilder/AuthorRolesListbuilderHandler.inc.php
- Drop-down list selection (for adding already-existing data to a new group or classification)--See /controllers/listbuilder/InternalReviewRolesListbuilderHandler.inc.php
- Autosuggest selection (Like drop-down list selection, but typically for larger data sets such as users)--See /controllers/listbuilder/MastheadMembershipListbuilderHandler.inc.php
- original bug reports: tbd.
- sample migration patches: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.
Form Builder Vocabulary (Tyler)
- original bug reports: tbd.
- sample migration patches: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.
Introduction of User Groups (Juan, Florian)
- change in the data model
- introduction of "acting as user group" in the session
- original bug reports:
- sample patch: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.
Process-based (rather than role-based) workflow pages (Florian, Juan)
- description: Rather than using role based URLs for the editorial workflow we now have a /workflow handler that introduces a process based view on editorial workflow. This logic needs to be ported to OJS/OCS for consistency.
- original bug report(s): tbd
- sample patch: tbd
- migration effort: tbd
Introduction of a dashboard for users (Juan, Matt, Florian)
- description: We'll introduce a common entry point for users. Among other things this contains a submission list which will be common to all roles and change depending on the "acting-as" user group.
- original bug report(s): http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5807, http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5802
- sample patch: This is a large change with an individual change set per application. Therefore a sample patch cannot be provided.
- migration effort: tbd.
Converting edit assignments to stage assignments (Matt)
- description: OMP uses stage assignments (through the Signoff table) to enable users to access submissions. Each user can access pages and components that are registered against a particular stage, and which they have been given access to (via automatic assignment or by the editor assigning them from the stage assignment grid, which lives at the top of the submission details page):
- All uses of the edit assignments classes need be replaced.
- The g/setEditAssignments functions in each role submission class (authorSubmission, editorSubmission) needs to be removed (TBD if shortcut functions to the stage assignments should be in there)
- The getAssociatedUserIds() function needs to be reimplemented to work with user groups and stage assignments
- original bug report(s): http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5557
- sample patch: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.
Introduction of a new review concept (Matt, Juan, Alec)
- description: OMP works with a "review round" concept (see ReviewRound class) that's not used in OJS/OCS. Conceptually the review of OMP and OJS/OCS are not so different to justify such a difference in the long run, though. Also the review rounds need clean-up in both OMP and the other apps.
- original bug report(s): tbd., 6406 (clean-up only)
- sample patch: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.
File management (Matt, Florian)
- description: The file data model and file handling has been re-designed for OMP:
- The file data model has been cleaned up (somewhat) in OMP although the file data model can probably still be considerably simplified (see #6410 for some issues).
- The OMP file implementation has an additional notion of "file genre" that doesn't exist in OJS/OCS. We have to decide whether we use this in OxS or factor it out as OMP-specific before migrating to OJS/OCS.
- The OMP review files assignment work differently from the other apps.
- OMP uses file stages and file ids differently than the other apps. Most notably, OMP allows more than one file per file stage/role and submission while OxS use the notion of separate supplementary files instead which do not exist in OMP because all files are treated the same.
- OMP assigns review files differently than the other apps.
- File management is now completely done in grids.
We have to identify all places where files are being managed in the other applications and introduce the file handling grids and data model there.
- original bug report(s): 5620, 6125, 6127, 6128, 6410
- sample patch: this change is too complex to provide a patch that can be cross-applied
- migration effort: the effort depends on the number of places where files are being used. This is much higher in OCS/OJS than in OHS. I guess the effort is somewhere between three days and two weeks for each of OJS/OCS because the whole file class hierarchy needs to be replaced and file handling grids to be written and inserted. A lot of file handling code should be re-usable from OMP, though as the rewrite has been made with migration in mind.
JavaScript Framework (Florian)
- description: Procedural JavaScript, especially JS in template files needs to be factored into wizard controllers or JS helper objects according to the rules of the JS framework for better maintainability and re-use.
- original bug report(s): 6294
- sample patch: see the commits in #6294. Also take a look at existing handlers and the JS framework documentation on the Wiki, the initial reference implementation was the OMP file upload form.
- migration effort: small pieces of JS in a template should not take longer than 2 hours per instance to clean up (including tests), if existing code can be re-used then one migration can take less than five minutes. Very roughly estimated we've got about 300 migratable pieces of script in OJS much of which is duplicate code (so no new handlers required for all of them of course). I guess that we need to write max. 50 handler hierarchies or so which can then be re-used across apps. This will be considerably less once we migrate the UI which also introduces a lot of standardization on the UI side and will reduce the handlers overall to variations of max. 30 basic UI widgets with controllers attached.
DAO clean-up (Florian)
- description: We do not have a consistent or clean design for DAOs that map OO inheritance hierarchies to database entities. Clean design options have been specified in the Wiki and a reference implementation (submission files) exists in OMP.
- original bug report(s): 6127, 6185
- sample patch: see the change sets linked in the linked bug report
- migration effort: I so far identified the following class hierarchies as candidates for a re-factoring:
- submissions: this would be a huge re-factoring and we should probably go about it in small feasible steps, it would be great to have a target design developed and available, though, to direct our changes even when on a small scale
- submission files (including configuration files and galleys): see the re-factoring in OMP, this needs to be ported to other apps. I guess: 2-3 weeks full time for OJS and OCS, 2 days for OHS
CSS / phpless (Alec)
- description: We divide CSS into smaller files that contain well defined CSS for specific components. This system needs to be ported over to OxS.
- original bug report(s): tbd.
- sample patch: tbd.
- migration effort: tbd.


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When symptoms are reported, they usually involve fatigue and shortness of breath. Other symptoms may include: frequent respiratory infections, difficulty breathing (dyspnea), shortness of breath with activity and the sensation of feeling heart beat (palpitations). Because most people have no symptoms, most ASDs are discovered incidentally during medical examinations. There is no known way to prevent the defect, but some of the complications can be prevented with early detection.
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Shorter hospital stay
Less pain and scarring
Less risk of infection
Less blood loss and fewer transfusions
Faster recovery
Quicker return to normal activities
As with any surgery, these benefits cannot be guaranteed, as surgery is patient- and procedure-specific.


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Funny bone
Mark is a huge fan of comedy, specifically Kevin Hart. "He's the definition of funny," says Mark.
That's so raven
When it comes to a celebrity crush, Mark says he has his eyes on Raven Symone.
The rules
Ladies who date Mark, save something for later as he appreciates a woman who doesn't let him get to second base on the first date.
If Mark could have any super-power, he says he would have the strength of Superman but combine it with the mind of Batman.
Kitchen heat
On his list of turn-ons, Mark's absolute must is a woman who can cook, preferably one of his favorite dishes like baked mac 'n' cheese.
Healthy appetite
Maybe Mark likes a woman who can cook so much because of his one guilty pleasure: "Food," he says.
Cuddle buddy
In his apartment, Mark still has the same teddy bear he's owned since childhood.
Mark gets to choose from these three girls. Who do you think he should date?
Artesia, 29
Programming manager
She is: more than a pretty face. "I'm a normal girl, but with a ton of quirks," Artesia says.
She wants: confidence. "That's all a man needs to convince me that he's attractive," she says.
Favorite NYC locale: Brooklyn Bridge Park
Ideal date: Live events — from concerts to sporting contests.
Turn-ons: Quality conversation
Turn-offs: People who take themselves too seriously.
Cash only: Artesia says she never has hard currency on her, so "my date should always carry some, just in case."
Herina, 27
She is: a typical Cancer. "I think with the right side of my brain and love love," says Herina.
She wants: a fit man. "Arms, abs, chest, I like manly men who workout," she says.
Bookshelf: Herina is currently reading "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb
Turn-offs: Arrogance and snoring
Best make-out music: 1990s R&B
Biggest flaw: "I can be moody and emotional,"
says Herina.
Preferred pet: Dogs
Lex, 30
Media consultant
She is: forever young. "My mom is still turning heads, so I have good genes," Lex says.
She wants: well-mannered men. "Please and thank you go a long way," she says.
Favorite time
of day: Bedtime
Celebrity crush: Vince Carter
Favorite cuisine: Thai
Guilty pleasure: Reality TV


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The Treatment Action Campaign and Friends of TAC (FOTAC) UK strongly endorse the following statement released yesterday by Sonke Gender Justice Network condemning recent offensive, sexist comments made by ANC Youth League President Julius Malema:
Cape Town/Johannesburg, 28 January 2009: The Sonke Gender Justice Network is deeply disturbed by the sexist comments made last week by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and by the failure of the ANC to sanction him.
Last week, at a meeting with 150 Cape Peninsula University of Technology students on January 22, Malema suggested that the woman who accused ANC president Jacob Zuma of rape had a "nice time" with him and said, "when a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, request breakfast and ask for taxi money."
On 19 December 2009 TAC wrote to Sakhiwo Belot, MEC for Health for the Free State Province, asking for clarity on a range of issues relating to the Free State's critical, life threatening shortages of antiretroviral drugs. After having failed to receive a response from MEC Belot's offices, TAC sent a follow-up letter on 21 January 2009, the deadline for response for which was yesterday, 26 January 2009. We are still awaiting a reply.
The political troubles in Zimbabwe have taken a toll on the population's health. A severe cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe and the surrounding region including South Africa, Angola, and Mozambique continues to claims more lives. The situation is critical.
Many people are struggling to get clean water and enough food. The cholera epidemic seems to be gathering new momentum. Figures released by the WHO show a massive increase from a "cumulative total of 48 623 cases and 2 755 deaths, with an overall fatality rate of 5.7 per cent".
According to the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in a report released last week the cholera outbreak is fuelled by the collapse of Zimbabwe's health, water, and sanitation systems. The report points out that the decline in the nation's health care system is "exacerbating the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic." The increased efforts to treat cholera and other infectious diseases present an "acute" threat to inpatients AIDS care in Zimbabwe says Dr David Sanders who was part of the PHR team.
On December 22 2008, nine men were arrested in Senegal and charged with "committing acts against nature" and "establishing an illegal organization". On January 6 2009 they were convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison.
It is believed that the charges were laid against these individuals because they are men who have sex with men and active in HIV prevention and treatment organizations in the country.
Photo: President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. Source Wikipedia.
Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei, two prominent HIV physicians have been imprisoned in Iran since June 2008. Please sign the Physicians for Human Rights petition calling for their release. Also, please contact the Iranian mission to the UN and urge the Iranian government to release them.
Update on 20 January: It appears Kamiar and Arash Alaei have been imprisoned again. See this report in the New York Times:
In late November TAC reported on a national shortage of male latex condoms which threatened to undermine HIV prevention programmes over the holiday season. The condom shortage arose from delays in the national tendering process. TAC has been closely monitoring the situation over the course of the past few weeks. We are pleased to report that we have recently received confirmation from senior National Department of Health (NDoH) officials that the condom shortage has now been alleviated through the urgent importation of several million male latex condoms.
Daily we hear about the horrific conditions in Zimbabwe. In the past three weeks, the complete collapse of public health system and sanitation infrastructure has developed into a major cholera epidemic, which has not only extended to the entire country but also into South Africa. Authorities have closed the country's two main hospitals in Harare, including maternity wards. Essential medicines are not available to treat diseases that the government's gross negligence has exacerbated. Antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS patients and TB treatment has been severely disrupted. Recently, the Medical School of the University of Zimbabwe was closed indefinitely as it has become impossible to continue to teach medical students in non-functioning health institutions. In the same week, Zimbabwean health workers organised a mass protest in Harare over the failure of the government to address both the health system collapse and the cholera outbreak. The country's notorious riot police brutally and violently broke up the peaceful demonstration that was calling for a regional and international crisis response.
At a press conference last month, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) called for price deductions on the two Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.
HPV is a common sexually transmitted infection, and some strains of the disease cause cervical cancer. In South Africa, cervical cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer. Approximately 7,000 women develop cervical cancer each year, and approximately one in 26 women in South Africans will develop cervical cancer in her lifetime.
But cervical cancer is a largely preventable disease. If women are given access to the HPV vaccine in the public health sector, they can be protected from the disease that causes cervical cancer. Unfortunately, the vaccines manufactured by Glaxo and MSD are far too expensive for South African women to afford, and arguably too costly for the government to purchase for public roll-out.
TAC therefore launched a campaign to reduce the prices of the drug, and our campaign has met with its first success. On Wednesday 3 December, we learnt that GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of the HPV vaccine Cervarix, has agreed to reduce the price of the vaccine by 36%, to R450 per dose. Three doses of the vaccine are required to protect women from the two strains of HPV which the vaccine targets.
The national theme for World Aids Day on 1 December is "Leadership and Unity". South Africa is finally united in stopping HIV, AIDS and TB, and in fighting for the best treatment and care for all.
TAC calls for all people living in South Africa to get involved in World AIDS Day. At midday on 1 December, there will be a 15 minute work stoppage to show our national commitment to stopping HIV and TB infections and deaths from AIDS. The Minister of Health will address the nation, followed by the Deputy President.
The 15 minute stoppage should be used by people across South Africa, in schools, churches, workplaces and communities, to observe World AIDS Day, and to act together to raise awareness about HIV/TB.
TAC calls for everyone to get involved: now is the time to approach others to plan actions on the day or to join in the many activities which are being planned.
Male latex condoms are the most efficient technology there is to reduce the transmission of HIV among sexually active South Africans. For the past two weeks the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has experienced difficultly in accessing an adequate supply of condoms. TAC distributes over 1 million condoms a month in the Western Cape alone. Our HIV prevention efforts are currently being undermined by a shortage of condoms which we have now confirmed to be a nation-wide problem.


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Representing Fraction Multiplication
Lesson 8 of 19
Objective: SWBAT: • Multiply fractions using visual models.
Big Idea: Riley has only completed one-third of her part of the mural. How can you find 1/3 of 1/2? Students extend their understanding of multiplication to fractions and area models.
Do Now
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to remember the work that they did creating equivalent expressions and area models. They will be using area models to model fraction multiplication.
Students participate in a Think Pair Share. I call on students to share out their thinking. I put a couple students' work under the document camera to show how they approached the problem. Some students may have written a version of 3 x 4 + 3 x 5. Other students may have written a version of 3 (4 + 5). Another possibility is that students first added 4 + 5 and then multiplied 9 x 3 to get 27 square units.
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Mural Madness
- I use the data from the ticket to go from the Fractions Pretest to Create Homogeneous Groups Students will work in groups of 2-3.
- Each student will need a Mural Madness Resource Page. I have extra copies ready for students who want to start over.
I have students move to their groups. I ask students to share out what they know about murals and what they think the benefit is for creating them. I have a volunteer read the information on the page. I review expectations and I tell students that their first job is to talk together to make sure they understand the task. Group members participate in a Group Members Consult. Once all group members understand the task, a group member raises his/her hand. I come to the group and ask a student of my choosing to explain the task. If this group member successfully describes the task, I give them the Group Work Rubric and copies of the Mural Madness Resource Page. If the student cannot adequately explain the task, I tell them to continue to talk and make sure everyone is familiar with the task and I tell them I will come back.
As students work I walk around and monitor student progress and behavior. Students are engaging in MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them and MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically.
I encourage students to draw their ideas on their own paper to help them communicate with their group members. I ask groups, "How many parts can we break the whole mural into so that we can easily show each person's portion?" I want students to recognize that they can create fractions with the common denominator of 6 to show each student's portion.
Some students may try counting the parts out of 324, since the grid is 18 units by 18 units. If I see this, I ask them to flip over their resource page and make a quick sketch of Riley's portion. Then I ask them to quickly sketch a separate diagram for Morgan and Reggie's portions. I ask, "How can we show all of these portions on one drawing?"
If groups successfully complete the task, I have them play "Score the Difference". Students need copies of the directions, worksheet, and dice.
With about 8 minutes remaining, we come together as a class. I have one person from each group come to the document camera and explain their group's strategy. I emphasize that students must use precise language to describe their thinking (MP6: Attend to precision). I give students the opportunity to give feedback, make connections, or ask questions about each other's work. I want students to see the various models and how they helped students answer the questions.
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I pass out colored pencils to students. Each student needs two colored pencils. We work on problems 1 and 2 together. I want students to connect finding a portion of a portion to finding the area of a portion that has dimensions that are less than 1 unit.
If students struggle with problem 1, I may ask:
- What represents the whole in the diagram?
- What does the lightly shaded portion represent?
- What does the darkly shaded portion represent?
- Look back at the Mural Madness problem, whose work does this diagram represent? How do you know?
- What is the multiplication problem that is represented?
- What is the product? Can you simplify your answer?
For the different parts of problem 2, I create word problems that match the situation. I ask students which square would help us model the problem. We create the model and talk about what the product is telling us. I ask questions about how the product relates to each of the factors and whether or not that makes sense.
Then I ask groups to talk about how our models in problem 2 could help them with the mural problem. For the rest of the time, students work with their groups on the mural problem.
If students successfully complete their work, they can play "Score the Difference".
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Closure and Ticket to Go
For Closure I show students the closure diagram and I ask them what problem this represents. Students participate in Think Pair Share. I call on students to share and support their ideas. I ask students, "What is the product?" Some students may say two-twelfths, while other students may say one-sixth. I ask students, "Which answer is correct?" I want students to recognize that the answers are equivalent, and therefore both are correct. I encourage students to simplify their answers when they can.
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The former The Darkness star is a committed vegan who refuses to eat all animal and dairy products, and he is adamant his diet has affected his sweat glands and he no longer perspires.
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How To Write Like a Victorian
What can the first how-to book for fiction still tell us?
In the fall of 1895, thousands of Brits were wracked by a painful and embarrassing affliction: rejection slips. Britain, it seems, was a nation of cracked Kiplings and ham-handed Hardys. "The number of persons who are now engaged in writing fiction," the Glasgow Herald estimated, "[is] somewhere between fifteen and twenty thousand."
For them, the publication that year of Jude the Obscure and The Time Machine meant far less than the appearance of a whole new kind of book: How To Write Fiction. Published under the pen name "An Old Hand," How To's anonymous author was a "well known novelist"—a man who, the Herald assured readers, might open "a new prospect for those would-be novelists who are annually rejected in their thousands." The introduction to the book promised to give readers the clarity of long experience—not some youth whose "work will appear like a picture in a stereopticon that is out of focus."
The guide's creator certainly had a talent for fiction: Despite his claim that "all young persons are more or less unbalanced," author Sherwin Cody was just 26 years old. His only previous volume was a self-published poetry chapbook. With Cody's aptly fictive How To Write Fiction, the raffish business of creative-writing instruction was born.
If it hadn't been Cody, though, someone else would have written it: The whole discipline had been gestating for a decade, beginning with novelist Walter Besant musing in 1884 over the notion of "Professors of Fiction"—something then as fantastical as a steam-powered robot. It was a vision that at least one critic found "Appalling. As if there were not enough novels already. ... [Now] we are to have our young maidens trained to the business, and let loose upon the world, in batches, every year to pursue their devastating calling, as if they were dentists or pharmaceutical chemists."
Others, though—especially the maidens blocked from those dental and chemist careers—were delighted. Writing novels offered women advancement, if not quite critical regard, a complaint that still haunts the profession. The London women's magazine Atalanta launched a regular "School of Fiction" column, and its advice from 1893 on pitching remains as useful and unheeded as ever: Keep your pitch short, nail down a tangible story first, and for god's sake read the magazine before you submit to it. Ladies were then invited to try such spry writing exercises as an imagined 500-word dialogue "on the Equality of the Sexes, between Miss Minerva Lexicon, M.A., an apostle of Progress, and Miss Lavinia Straightlace, of the Old-Fashioned School."
How To Write Fiction, though, was the genre's first avowed how-to guide. Like so many aspirational books, it had its origins in America: it had already appeared in cruder form in Chicago, and priced at an eye-watering $10. That took nerve—and as an orphan who rose from a Michigan log cabin to the editorial offices of Chicago and London, nerve was what Sherwin Cody had. Perhaps that's why How To Write Fiction retains a certain shrewd cunning even today. There are lines to remind you that it's 1895: Guy de Maupassant is lauded for his "scientific method" of fiction, and Cody opines that "men most often take a good theme which they then treat badly, and women a poor theme which they treat well." Writers were ill-advised to write about anything disturbingly peculiar ("the special and queer in human nature ought to be eliminated") or peculiarly disturbing ("legitimate art does not admit controversial theology or science"). Yet much of Cody's advice remains startlingly recognizable: It's Writer's Digest with a handlebar mustache.
Along with Realism's credo that no artifice should be visible to the audience ("the public is like a child: it wants to be moved emotionally or unconsciously"), and the suggestion to observe an old man in the street and imagine his life story ("all the elements of his broken youth are clearly visible under the hapless veneer of time"), all the classics of writing advice are here. After warning that there are no small ideas, only small writers—but many small writers with small ideas—Cody tells would-be Victorian writers to show and don't tell ("To say your heroine was proud and defiant is not half so effective as saying she tossed her head and stamped her foot"), to kill their darlings ("sacrifice absolutely everything of that sort"), and write what they know. Oh—and don't quit your day job: "No man ought to make the writing of fiction his sole business."
Cody's call for carefully detailed characters and settings remains timeless. New writers adopt an inadvertent shorthand, forgetting that the reader cannot see what is in their head. It's a plight How To Write Fiction compares to emptying out a quart bottle of molasses and finding that it only yields a pint. The rest is still stuck inside the container: "The young writer imagines he has a good story, but when he has a written it out the story is not half so good as he fancied, and he wonders what is the matter. The truth is, half of it still remains in his mind."
If Cody's advice from 1895 is familiar, it's probably because writers have changed much less than writing itself. Aspiring authors are still told to beware of their pet lines—their darlings—and most still don't listen. Ruthlessness with one's own copy remains the mark of a professional, because you have to stab yourself in the back. And the stricture to "write what you know"? It's still the universally misunderstood abridgement of Write what you know—so go out and know something. The writer who doesn't will only have one or two books in them. Writers in for the long haul don't have a great story—they have a dozen—and because they believe in their own ability to create more, they'll toss them aside whenever they're not wanted or needed.
It's here that How To Write Fiction is most haunting. Memoirs now bear authors the same peril that coming-of-age novels once did: namely, a self-centeredness that leaves them with nothing else to write. Cody leans on a fence to observe these one-trick ponies: "There are a great many writers who start out in the magazines with a few brilliant and interesting short stories. There are a few printed on the strength of their first reputation, which are not so good ... and the reader hears their names no more until one or two of their first stories are reprinted in some collection, and he wonders what has become of the authors."
There is pathos in that line—for those authors probably wondered at the same question themselves—and still do.
More than a century of me-too books have followed How To Write Fiction; by 1901, one already includes a chapter asking "Is The Subject-Matter of Novels Exhausted?" But what of the man who began it all? Though Cody went on to hawk correspondence courses, when the "well known novelist" published his first actual novel in 1896—the Horatio Algeresque tale In the Heart of the Hills—creative writing's first guru met with a twist worthy of fiction itself.
His novel tanked—and he never wrote one again.
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The Penn ADHD Treatment & Research Program was founded in 1999 with a commitment to excellence in both research and clinical service. We specialize in assessing and treating older adolescents and adults (generally age 18 and older) who have difficulties related to ADHD.
The program offers diagnostic assessment, consultation and recommendations, specialized treatment, and access to clinical research protocols, whenever they are available.
Anthony L. Rostain, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and J. Russell Ramsay, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry are the co-founders and Co-Directors of the Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program. Both Drs. Rostain and Ramsay lecture to professional and lay audiences around the world on the topic of ADHD and have written extensively on the subject.
Drs. Rostain and Ramsay have developed a program for treating adults with ADHD that combines personalized Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and medication management. This combined treatment has been shown not only to reduce the core symptoms of ADHD but more importantly, to address and manage the day-to-day impairments of ADHD. Patients usually benefit through an improved quality of life while experiencing fewer difficulties with other psychiatric disorders that often accompany ADHD, such as depression and anxiety.
Drs. Rostain and Ramsay have published their approach in the book, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach (2015, Routledge), with the revised, updated, and expanded second edition of it having been published in September 2014. This book describes the treatment approaches used in the program and provides valuable guidance for clinicians in treating patients in an effective and time-efficient manner. The book is a useful resource for patients who would like a better understanding of ADHD and its treatment. The book also outlines the components of the diagnostic assessment conducted at the program.
As a companion to the second edition of their professional treatment guidebook, Drs. Ramsay and Rostain have written a coping guidebook designed specifically for adults with ADHD, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out (2015, Routledge). This coping resource focuses not only on the strategies for managing the effects of ADHD but also on specific tactics for following through on the use of these strategies and overcoming various barriers.
Dr. Ramsay also wrote the book, Nonmedication Treatments for Adult ADHD: Evaluating Impact on Daily Functioning and Well-Being (2010, American Psychological Association), which provides a thorough review of the types of adjunctive treatments that are available for adult ADHD as well as the research behind them. This book is a useful resource for understanding the different treatment options that are currently available.
The Adult ADHD Treatment & Research Program offers psychosocial and psychiatric treatment of adult ADHD. Within the psychosocial treatment domain, individual CBT for adult ADHD is a specialty of the program. Drs. Ramsay and Rostain were among the first clinician-researchers to adapt CBT for adult ADHD and continue to be involved in honing and refining the model. This treatment model provides an evidence-supported model for treatment that can be modified to the unique needs of each individual.
Within the psychosocial treatment domain, the program now offers a group coaching program focused on the foundational coping strategies for managing adult ADHD drawn from a variety of evidence-supported approaches (see the Group Program section of this site).
Here are some links to articles and interviews that involve members of the Penn Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program.
Dr. Rostain was interviewed for an article in Live Science on omega-3 supplements and ADHD.
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- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/attentiontalkradio/2011/05/05/a-review-of-non-medication-treatments-for-adults-with-adhd
Dr. Ramsay quoted on the role of cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of adult ADHD:
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- http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/features/adult-adhd-therapy-finding-right-therapist
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Dr. Ramsay quoted on adult ADHD:
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I am constantly struck by the similarities between feeding children and reading to them. There are some obvious ones: both activities involve nurturing; both require engagement and cooperation; in both situations there is the potential for power-struggles, frustration, and messes that need to be cleaned up. (OK, maybe a book doesn't make as much of a mess as, say, oatmeal; but you get the point.)
Another less obvious similarity has to do with neurotransmitters; to be precise, with dopamine. Dopamine is an elegant little molecule that certain nerve cells make, then squirt at other nerve cells across microscopic gaps called synapses. The receiving nerve cells take up the dopamine and become excited (that's the technical term), and proceed to pass on their excitement to still other neurons, creating networks and circuits within the brain. And somehow – and this is still a nearly complete mystery – all this activity creates…happiness!
Scientists long ago discovered certain parts of the brain that, when excited, release dopamine and create the feeling of happiness. They discovered that they could excite these areas using tiny electrical pulses. Of course, many millennia earlier, our ancestors learned to excite the same neurons using sex (still a pretty reliable strategy), certain psychoactive plants (such as cocoa) and various foods, especially sugary ones. With the advent of refined sugar, our ability to stimulate dopamine reached a new high. For evidence of the remarkably rewarding effect of refined sugar, you need only look at any supermarket shelf, or at any chart showing the mushrooming cloud of obesity which is shadowing our country.
So where does the reading aloud come in? Many of us have had the experience, at once exhilarating and debilitating, of reading to a young child who just can't get enough. "Just one more book!" my daughter used to plead, in tones reminiscent of a junkie trying to score her next fix. Which in a way she was: the pleasure certain children feel at hearing stories, whether read or told, almost certainly arises in the same dopamine neurons that light up in response to heroin or cocaine. Dopamine is dopamine, whether the trigger is chocolate, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Parents rarely believe this, but it really is OK to start a meal with dessert. The surest way to get a child to hate broccoli or green beans is to force him to choke the stuff down before he can get to dessert. From the child's point of view, if you're willing to offer such big bribe to get him to swallow a few bites of vegetables, they must taste really foul! A small piece of cake or a couple of cookies isn't likely to fill a child up, and if she's still hungry after that, well, there are some nice green beans that might do the trick.
By the same token, when approaching literacy, it's best to start the dopamine flowing early. Pleasure before business! As a conscientious parent, your first task, educationally speaking, is to get your child well and truly addicted to books. Begin with snuggling up, pretty pictures, freedom to flip pages or stare or point, entertaining words (not necessarily the ones printed on the page), excitement, discovery, shared enjoyment…dessert!
Robert Needlman, M.D., is co-founder of Reach Out and Read and President of the Greater Cleveland Reach Out and Read Coalition. He is the author of Dr. Spock's Baby Basics and co-author of the ninth edition of Baby and Child Care, Dr. Benjamin Spock's classic parenting manual. He has also been a columnist for Parent and Child Magazine, and has written for parents online at DrSpock.com and as a Yahoo health expert. His published academic work includes studies on pediatric literacy promotion, the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure, iron deficiency, maternal depression, and resident training. A graduate of Yale College (English Literature) and the Yale School of Medicine, Needlman practices and teaches Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland and is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.