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"They've Stumbled Contact. A One Liner is Keeping Bitch FromThu Apr 6, 2017 09:482604:2d80:4019:83b8:5cc4:56c6:4c25:2cdc"They've Stumbled Contact. A One Liner is Keeping Bitch From Saving Us."
The moment that Labor acts and STRIKES THEM OUT, the end of their violent breeding strategy. The end to war. The end to genocide of the simple children of God on earth. The last of weap Judah brand in God's village on earth.
Bitch looked at a video of a nuclear missile attack upon Henderson, Nevada. A couple of nuclear warheads in a controlled burn off over the city on April 4, just a couple of days ago.
Here's a link to look at the 23.11 video:
UFOs Visit Las Vegas And Henderson
Steven Barone
Nevada test site:
During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from the 100 atmospheric tests could be seen for almost 100 mi (160 km). The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects, and the distant mushroom clouds, which could be seen from the downtown hotels, became tourist attractions. St. George, Utah, received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site.
Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George and southern Utah.
Marked increases in cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers, were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980. The vast majority828 of the 928 total nuclear testswere underground.
When underground explosions ended in 1992, the Department of Energy estimated that more than 300 megacuries (11 EBq) of radioactivity remained in the environment at that time, making the site one of the most radioactively contaminated locations in the United States. In the most seriously affected zones, the concentration of radioactivity in groundwater reaches millions of picocuries per liter.
(The federal standard for drinking water is 20 picocuries per liter (0.74 Bq/l).) Although radioactivity levels in the water continue to decline over time, the longer-lived isotopes like plutonium or uranium could pose risks to workers or future settlers on the NNSS for tens of thousands of years
The Nevada Test Site was established as a 680-square-mile (1,800 km2) area by President Harry Truman on December 18, 1950, within the Nellis Air Force Gunnery and Bombing Range. (wiki)
Did we note the "MARKING" that our kind extraterrestrial family did for us the other day at Nellis Airforce base?
Here's a link to a video showing UFOs traveling to Nellis Airforce base March 24th, just a couple of weeks ago.
Nellis is a joint operations base. The Army, Navy, Airforce and the Marines. It includes the Nevada security site that tests atomic bombs.
Are we understanding when our extraterrestrial family MARKS a location for us it is important to investigate and find out what Judah is doing there?
Have we not been informed enough to know that there is a big hit on America scheduled for April? Are we not aware that we are now in the month of April?
If we allow them to get their big hit on America completed are we understanding that there will be little chance of shutting down their nuclear artillery at Hitachi-GE?
Not as fast of a kill as blast, yet are we understanding that a third of the human race has already been perped out of existence from the boursed nuclear war fighting guy weap Judah?
"Willingham set to MOX you," Judee say.
Bitch just pulled that reverse speech from international news.
Listed in phones book are 15,323 results for Willingham. So who is the one that is set to MOX us?
Will Labor not do us all a favor and get this nuclear menace of weap Judah off of us?
"Pat, Satan has allowed us to defeat ya's," Judee said telepathically to Bitch at 6.39 PM
Will American Labor not help us to join with our good God and give us a chance to survive this last weap of Judah on the children of God?
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"Fool challenged. 5.32 PM
They arrest the American fortune. 6.41 PM
A one liner is keeping Bitch from saving us. 6.47 PM
Jew failed was necessary. 7.37 AM
Rocket sold us. 7.39 PM
He is falsing them out again. 7.41 PM
Whoring stretch you out. 12.43 AM
Their permit hikes us. 12.46 AM
Because we failed to get a STRIKE ashes he'll leave us. 12.49 AM
Municipals warred out your ciphers. 12.50 AM
Imaginary fortunes based on bribery. 12.56 AM
Sad we find you ition. 12.57 AM
Sheenality. 12.59 AM
Your core state has been hustled by puritics. 1.01 AM
Your police erection late thee fantastic. 1.04 AM
Error seized us. 1.05 AM
Man relates their show. 1.06 AM
They fought until your passing. 1.13 AM
They've thrown you obviously.
You evanche stray. 1.15 AM
Beer closing cute shop. 1.19 AM
They've stumbled contact. 1.21 AM
Hurts well.
Their rackets fouled. 1.27 AM
Sidney's a complete savage. 1.28 AM
Jewish rack-a-ment. 1.30 AM
He's an older man that knows what they're doing. 2.36 AM
Our error is away.
It's finished. 5.20 AM
Clear off breeze hit. 5.45 AM
They spoof us fool rate. 5.47 AM
A package of thrills. 5.48 AM
Get them out, get them off. 5.51 AM
Debt death roll well. 6.14 AM
Patrick's bored out Judah's day. 6.23 AM
That would be nice. 6.28 AM
They're bankrupt, they bankrupt you." 7.08
Might we consider that it was actually Judah that bored out Judah's day rather than Patrick?
Might we consider that Patrick merely reported that Judah bored his day out by repeatedly attacking us with nuclear missiles?
"You don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy hits. We shot your mental. Your financial life failed to save you. Jew breeze time fall you out. You rate misery dungeons. White children don't have the receipts so we use them to beat you up," Judee say.
Is that not about as straight forward of an explanation of the white fist that Judah has serving him?
Will we not do God's will, put the existence stipend in with something in it for everyone so the white guy has some receipts to be able to get tuition to go and learn how to earn some money rather than having to serve Judah sport?
Is Labor seeing that doing the will of our good God and taking the concession to issue our money away from him will finally end the intentional wrongs that weap Judah has done to God's children throughout his day on earth?
"It is just as one must stop a mad dog; if you do not strike him he will strike you." Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Will Labor not STRIKE THEM OUT and end the strike of the mad dog Judah upon the children of God on earth?
"They've poisoned my village I want them off," God Almighty our precious sweet Father said.
The centuries of continuous assaults on the ordinary people of Europe. Is that not why many of our ancestors left Europe to be free of the barbarity of Judah and his royals sports?
Is that not why many of our ancestors came to the land of the free, America?
The Hapsburg's that tied Jacob Hutter (1500-1536) to the stake and burned him to death because he would not fight other white men.
Centuries later in the land of the free, his followers, the Hofer brothers tortured in Alcatraz to die out of life as young men. And why were they tortured? Was it any other than they would not kill other white men?
Will white not remember who we are, men of peace, and end slaying any men for Judah sport?
Will American Labor not get hold of the receipts so that Judah cannot get any white children to beat up any of God's children ever again?
Will American Labor not put itself on the right side and use our Labor to feed, house and clothe all of God's children and never to harm them again?
"I believe in seeing Hapsburg rule so I had to fall," Judee say.
Will Labor not awake to the joyous fact that God has established Labor to hold in Trust the Organizing Principle of Society for all of His children on earth?
Does Labor not see that our good God Almighty has ended Judah force?
The "Jurassic" force that Judah recognizes himself as. Will Labor not let them off to pass away and join the dinosaur?
They're out of here Labor, any doubt about it? And yet because we have failed to act and take a state concession away from them, the concession to issue our money, are we perceiving they continue to present the gravest threat to our continued existence on the surface of planet earth?
The advanced extraterrestrial civilization that created us. They have sent fleets of space ships in to save us from being perished out in a nuclear war, both blast and waste.
Has Judah convinced Labor that Bitch is so bad that Labor is blinded to Judah true sin?
The meek, the mild, or might it merely be the frightened that has allowed Judah to hold us?
Boom booming the world every day on our purse. Must American Labor not end Judah pushing our faces into the mud?
Bitch angry, upset and mad because no help to STOP THE WAR and his stupid broke through and he insulted you's.
If only he had better understood that whites are fisting the world because of all of the violence that Judah has done to the mild man of the north.
Right less people bombing and shooting our world out. Must we not end shooting ourselves in the head for the sport of the Judah style? Must we not put our precious sacred rights in?
It's a giant perish now, MEGADEATH coming in. A HUGE catch for weap Judah as he finishes his time in our world.
Going no further with us, he shot himself out. Can Labor not be convinced to end funding the death of this beautiful nation of ours?
Can Labor not take the concession to issue our money into your safe hands to spare us from any more harm?
"Our martials are shooting us. 8.28 AM
Dog died. 9.40 AM
Get em out!" 9.56 AM
The many executions of people in prisons around America. Instead of relying on the Governor to have some mercy, a show of decency, might it not be better to rely on Labor making the call of whether Labor wants to fund them or not?
The cut off of funds to persuade cities to end their policy of sanctuary. Are we seeing they are using the purse of Labor to force their positions all of the time?
Does American Labor not understand the truth that God our Father loves us all?
Father loves us all equally. That we are funding the mass deaths and destruction of nation after nation that have never ever done us wrong. As God loves all of His children equally, might we not have to prepare ourselves for a great fall if we do not end funding the slaughter and genocide of God's children on earth?
Do the white Americans not perceive that we are now truly perishing out of life form with our kids? Was 2,000 years of warning, not enough time to prepare ourselves for the end times?
They've already perped us genocide many times and in many ways. Is there not some way to convince Labor to try and keep us alive this time?
Worldwide there is room for 700 million people to begin lives living inside. 18 million weap Judah have already gone into their mountain hotels.
And what about the remaining 7 billion of us on the surface? What are we to breathe when all that is available is radioactive dust?
Our oxygen is produced primarily from our oceans. The largest ocean on planet earth being shot to death now for over 6 years. Will Labor not help us and close them out right?
"My molest blast has now shown you my roots correctly. I just sport you the bat way, that's why you are going to pull me out. I'm going to set you out to prevent your affairs from moving on.
We had such fun rolling you off, treacher you. For our premium, we're going away. I'm a Jew minuscule, my supreme day is up. Spirit you oil checks. Jews testy with a frigate, now we're out. I want you to know we're quite jealous and that's why you're getting me out.
Once I get over you it's just a nice pension. Basically, I'm a lunatic who is for your die. I put my fault genital right onto you. We possess you with a certificate for right abuse.
Bitch is a compulsive getting me out for my goofy house. My usual is corrupt, stopped with a grand jury. My industrial truth I bought to put you down. They're giving my pistol life sewerage. We heard a UFO.
I shot you as my usual offend. I discourage you right income. If it wasn't for H----- I'd of moved you right in. Bitch found us all completely waste. Shy guy died us. Basically, I'm off for all Jew vitamin," Judee say.
They're gone from here Labor. They will never again function in any management role in God's village on the surface of planet earth. With them go their royals and their church leaders that helped them carry their capers on.
"Juveniles; in a cage. 10.18 AM
They were rich, turkey's more fit. 10.27 AM
I want you to die them right." 11.05 AM
Will Labor not do the will of our good God and die weap Judah right, in Godly ways? Will Labor not hire the labor to put them into a humane institutional setting?
Will we not pray that Labor looks at what it is failing to do here, take the concession to issue our money into your own hands and act to STRIKE THEM OUT to fix it now?
Must Labor not listen to our good God Almighty, put the existence stipend in with something in it for everyone, STOP THE WAR and let us get ourselves onto the right track once again?
Will Labor not then bourse our grand juries up so that we can hear just what it is that Judah did in his time with us?
There are no prosecutions in God's plan. Merely information gathering so that we can straighten it out. Will Labor not bring Father's beautiful plan in for us?
Might we not want to think about that if we fail to govern ourselves then we face going out as fish failed?
Are we seeing here Labor the wondrous situation that Father has put up in place for us where the ordinary people have the say on how our money's spent?
More money for drone attacks thousands of miles from our shores or money for road repairs here?
More money for prisons and execution chambers or might Labor choose instead to provide money for childhood nutrition?
More money for nuclear bomber forces or money available for tuition subsidies so that our children can go to schools to learn how to earn?
When Labor has the concession to issue our money in its hands, do we see it will be Labor that will make the call on all of those?
Have we not heard it's never a bad time to make a right decision? Will Labor not make the right decision to take our purse off of these cats?
Might Labor keep in mind that there is nothing punitive in God's world?
Like a bacillus gone wild, that escaped from the Nile. His Manhattan report from pharaohs research that explained how best to keep us down and out. Plenty of booze.
Known now for his great pestilence, our good God Almighty letting Judah let himself off right. We need your help Labor. It is time for the ordinary people to run the machinery of government in God's village on earth.
You will be the force here Labor once you have the authority to issue our money in your hands.
To find the answers the Committee of the Whole needs to make decisions about, might we not appreciate that with the authority to issue our money in your hands, Labor will be able to hire the specialists to inform the Committee of what is going on economically to help you make your decisions?
Elder from Mercury said that the issue of money is "basic." Will Labor not get hold of the basic function of governance, the issuance of our money, and act to save our lives now?
Will we not keep praying that Labor will step forward and STRIKE THEM OUT? In 5 hours Labor will be in the driver's seat. Will Labor not help us close this God less, merciless, brutal tyranny up?
Will Labor not act with instinctual wisdom and help us to survive this full blown nuclear war we are in here?
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A Girl's Day in the Charm of Boston
Boston has a special place in my heart — it's home to my beloved Red Sox, and it's one of the first cities I can remember going to as a kid. Boston and New York taught me to love the wild rush that is life, and made me want to move to a city someday. Trying to picture it? If you slowed New York down, spread it out a bit, gave it some historic old architecture, and put Red Sox hats on everyones heads, you would be looking at something very similar to Boston.
Some people love Boston for it's history, others love it for it's food. Some love it for the Sox (enter Jimmy Fallon on Fever Pitch.) I love Boston for it's juxtaposition of old and new — it's respect for history and preservation of the past, and it's forward gaze at the future. It's innovative and bustling, but it's also cobbled, worn, ornate, and a little hand-me-down-esque. It's been lived in for a while, and it's okay with that — I'm okay with that.
My long-time home skillet Tori and I adventured on a girl's day out in Boston to catch up and simultaneously photograph literally everything. (By everything I mean everything.) We got there early in the morning and stayed until the afternoon to beat the traffic out to Connecticut. Here's a plan based on our itinerary to include in your own Boston adventure:
First, Arrive bright and early to watch the city wake up — this is always one of the most underrated times of day. People are so characteristically themselves when they're rushing to grab their coffee, find a parking space, and get ready for the day. It's so different from watching a city at night, when everything has been set up and everyone is going out looking their best. Mornings are unfiltered and real.
Then Grab Coffee at The Thinking Cup. Thinking Cup serves Stumptown Coffee, which is rich and smooth, and one of my favorite roasters. I love my drip coffee when it's done right, and theirs is superb. Tori had a mocha, which was reportedly awesome. Thinking Cup also serves food — and gluten free sandwiches and baked goods. We saved our appetites for lunch (ok, all lies — I ate a protein bar cuz I'm poor) but everything looked fantastic.
Drink your coffee in the green Boston Common, and people watch from the gazebo. Or, if you haven't done it yet, walk the Freedom Trail — a 2.5 mile route through Boston's key areas of historical significance. You can follow a guided tour if you want, but it's perfectly fine to walk the trail following your own map for free.
Wander through the cobbled downtown — slowly making your way to the waterfront. Venture through the side streets to find some of the lesser-known spots, such as Commonwealth Books, or the ever aesthetic Brattle Bookshop.
If you're feeling up from a little more walking, head over to historic Beacon Hill, where you can step back in time in the old architecture and peruse antique shops for hidden treasures. (Please don't end up in a Boston tourist trap shop buying a Paul Revere costume.)
Finally make your way to Faneuil Hall, where you can grab a bite in Quincy Market. Just be prepared for the higher prices if you stop at a sit-down restaurant over here.
Wanna see some adorable seals? Yes, you absolutely do. Make your way right up to the edge of the waterfront to the New England Aquarium, where you can see the seals even from outside. Spend a little time there on the harbor — watch the boats from the pier, and let the sea breeze ruin your hair (it's a right of passage.)
If you want to do some name-brand shopping, you can make your way back to Newbury Street in Back Bay. Here, you can also gaze at the vast ornate ceiling of Boston Public Library — a historic architectural masterpiece. If you need an afternoon coffee (I always do or there are problems of global significance) try CuppaCoffee, and take yours to go drink in Boston Public Garden.
Or, you can do that ^.
When dinner time hits, you might need to splurge on some New England seafood. You could be touristy and go to Legal Seafood, but I would recommend something a little less trendy, such as The Merchant. Another place I've always wanted to try is Flour which serves gluten free sandwiches (yay!)
If you wanna do things right, stick around in the city for a Boston Red Sox game in the green Fenway Park to end your awesome day (highlight of my childhood was a game at Fenway).
Whatever you decide to do, don't you dare wear a NY Yankees hat, or you'll be kicked out. (Can't say I didn't warn ya.)
Have any other ideas for a great day in Boston? Let me know in the comments!
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Expert Faculty Commissioning Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
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Successive UK governments have been talking about 'recovery' from 'addiction' since the build up to the 2010 general election. This resulted in a target for recovery – a 'recovery rate' – that is defined as the number of people successfully completing treatment and not returning to treatment in the next 6 months.
The 'successful completions' target followed on from the two previous targets of access to treatment (measured by reductions in waiting times) and retention in treatment (measured by how many stayed in treatment for a minimum of 90 days). The first two targets could claim an evidence base. Being in treatment is a good thing as it has a protective effect and the longer you stay in treatment the better. The 'successful completions' target doesn't have an evidence base and was the result of political pressure to get people out of treatment and into 'recovery'. This pressure was particularly focused on services providing Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) to people who came into treatment dependent ('addicted') to heroin. There are problems with using successful completions of treatment as a proxy measure of recovery. We are asked to accept that leaving treatment means entering recovery and that not returning to treatment in six months means that the person has stayed in recovery. But, how would we know what has happened to people leaving treatment?
This is where the need for a peer led recovery community in every local authority becomes crucial. People with a Substance Use Disorder (SUD) – the preferred term for 'addiction', 'alcoholism', 'substance misuse' or 'dependence' – experience this in isolation. One of the key features of living with a SUD is being alone. Conversely, one of the key features of successful recovery from a SUD is community and active engagement with positive social networks. If we could ensure that everyone leaving treatment is connected to a recovery community then we could claim that the 'successful completions' target is linked to an evidence base.
There are some good examples of places where this is working well (eg Lancashire, Birmingham, Manchester, Calderdale, Cumbria) and the commissioners recognise the importance of establishing and supporting a recovery community in their local authority area. This is even more important as budgets shrink and contracts are let with as much as 50% less financial resource.
One of the ways of ensuring this is for commissioners to write the requirement into specifications when tendering services and issuing invitations to tender. Bidding organisations could then be asked to evidence how they have achieved this in other areas where they are already operating. Or, they could be asked to detail exactly how they would operate to ensure that they build a recovery community in the area over the time of the contract being let. One of the key markers for this would be the number of new independent and peer led mutual aid groups that are established over the time of the contract.
There are many service provider organisations that talk about recovery and recovery communities but on inspection these tend to be groups of their own service users and not independent peer led organisations such as Lancashire User Forum and Red Rose Recovery, The Well in Cumbria and The Basement Recovery Projects in Calderdale and Kirklees. There are also some 'patients' in treatment that only want a medical and clinical OST service on a maintenance basis. Offering access to the recovery community and exposing these patients to peers who were once like them is as much as might be possible until they feel motivated to change. There is no point in trying to push people out of treatment if they are settled on OST especially when they are in employment, have a home and family and friends. There are more than enough people in treatment who do want to leave and join a recovery community.
The key to this lies in some kind of 'patient segmentation'. In any population of people in treatment, there will be a group who are not interested in recovery because they are settled on OST. There will be another group who are definitely ready for recovery and a group who are not sure. The quickest wins will come from concentrating on the group who are keen and ready to move. They can be directed onto a discrete community detoxification pathway that utilises specific detoxification medications such as the Lofexedine and Buprenorphine combination as described in Detox In A Box (https://drinkanddrugsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DDN-0716-web.pdf page 22). Where services are combined drugs and alcohol then the other place to start is with people whose primary problem relates to alcohol. They, almost by definition, will be looking to pursue abstinence based recovery for simple health reasons. One place to bring these two groups (the opioid detoxification people and the alcohol abstainers) together would be in ACT Peer Recovery mutual aid meetings. ACT Peer Recovery is a form of mutual aid that focuses purely on behaviour change and offers an easy way into mutual aid and recovery communities. Once people have experienced positive behaviour change they tend to want more and see the importance of changing other behaviours that have been stalling their progress in recovery. ACT Peer Recovery works perfectly alongside the 12 step mutual aid fellowships of AA, NA and CA.
Once we have established a thriving local recovery community we should be able to monitor the progress of those who have successfully completed treatment. Experience in those areas where this is happening illustrates the importance of the early identification of relapse. If someone relapses and stops attending their mutual aid meetings or disconnects from the recovery community we will know and be able to reach out and assertively support the person back into treatment and recovery. Commissioned treatment providers working in complete partnership with thriving local recovery communities are the yin and yang of a complete treatment and recovery system. This is the way to deal with reductions in funding and to provide the necessary evidence that is required to legitimate successful completions of treatment as a recovery rate.
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This piece was primarily stimulated by conference presentation by Dr Colin Drummond that you can find on Lifeline's FEAD website.
If Colin thought that psychiatrists were demonized by commissioners and the NTA, he really needs to look and see what the recovery lobby have got to say about them. Anyway, somebody raised the question of why psychiatry should be responsible for drug treatment in the first place.
To answer that question, you have to look back at the demise of the old British System. Prior to the 1960's, heroin addicts in the UK were invariably drawn from one of two groups. They were either 'therapeutic addicts', people who had gotten dependent on opioids as a result of having been prescribed them for pain relief. Or they were medics — people who had access through their jobs. These people were largely indistinguishable from the rest of the community and so the old British System — prescribing them sufficient heroin to meet their needs — worked well.
This began to change at the start of the 1960's when the media and the Home Office both began to notice an upswing in a 'new' type of heroin user. Unlike the previous groups, these tended to be young, criminally deviant with attitudes that challenged the system. Rather than keeping to themselves and just using their scripts, these people seemed to be socializing with and 'infecting' other young people. Consequently, the prevalence of heroin use (and addiction) was growing exponentially.
So in 1961, the government convened a committee of the Great and the Good to look at the issue and decide whether anything needed to change. But doctors guarded their independence with great vigour, and argued that the current system was working well.
Rather than settling down though, the problem just kept on growing. The papers were starting to report some of the excesses associated with the old British system. You had the likes of Dr Petro, setting up his clinic in the cafe at Piccadilly Underground, selling heroin scripts at £3 a time to get the cash to go gambling. Or Dr. Frankau, who seemed to keep a staff of servants drawn from her patients.
When the Brain Committee was reconvened in 1964, they decided that the dramatic growth in overprescribing was really a function of this small handful of overprescribing doctors. It's certainly true that that's where the drugs were coming from in London. The demand for amphetamines on the mod scene was fuelling pharmacy break-ins in other parts of the UK, but there certainly wasn't any significant quantity of imported illicit heroin until we started seeing small quantities of imported Chinese heroin on Gerard Street in the early 70's.
The Brain Committee then, decided to put an end to the old free-for-all, in which any GP could prescribe any drug they liked, in any quantity, to any heroin addict that was their patient. It recommended the establishment of a number of specialist treatment centres — which came to be called Drug Dependency Units or DDU's — that would be responsible for the treatment of heroin addiction. If a doctor wanted to prescribe to addicts, they had to have a Home Office special licence that would allow them to prescribe heroin and cocaine. (In the mid-70's, Diconal was also added to this list — a measure that saved a lot of limbs, as well as a lot of lives.)
And who was to staff these Drug Dependency Units? Well, addiction was viewed primarily as a psychological problem, so didn't it make sense to staff the units with psychiatrists? And thus begun the long term relationship between psychiatry and treatment for drug dependency that lasted for for nearly 50 years in the UK, but that Colin Drummond feels today is under attack.
And Professor Drummond isn't wrong. When I entered drug treatment in 1975, I'd see a Consultant Psychiatrist twice a week. Some were awful, but the majority of them were humane, intelligent people who did their best for their patients.
Although the guidelines say a patient should be seen at least quarterly, in many services it's not unusual to be seen every six months — perhaps even every year. And you might be seen by an unskilled, unqualified 'Recovery Coach' who's volunteering after being six months drug free.
We used to pretend drug treatment was a 'Cinderella service', but for most of the last fifteen years, it's actually been a 'Sleeping Beauty' service, and as the princess lay sleeping on her bed, the world was passing her by.
Today, we're in a new world, and as Professor Drummond astutely points out, it's unlikely that the pendulum will ever swing back to where it used to be.
Peter McDermott
Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics by Jacqueline P. Wiseman was first published in 1970 and won the C. Wright Mills award for best book in the area of social problems. It gave us the view of the alcoholics who passed though all the places those skid row alcoholics pass through and the view of those working in these places. I have been thinking about this book a lot recently because it always made me think of a pin ball machine. You get shot out of the chute at birth and you bounce around the bumpers doing well and getting the prize – a free game – or you get a couple of bad bumps, get a miserable score and slide back down the chute – game over. Once I had exhausted the pin ball metaphor I tended to think of it like a form of Jacob's ladder that went both ways – up towards heaven and down towards hell. Several years ago I was stood talking to a friend who was then a drinking alcoholic in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester. As we were talking another guy came up who "looked like he'd fell off a flitting" (as my Mother would have put it). "Excuse me lads, how do I get to Val's Hotel?" (Which at the time had a reputation as occupying one of the lower rungs on the descent of Jacob's ladder?). Quick as a flash my mate replied "Carry on drinking and don't pay your rent!" We are now working out how recovery housing works in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. As part of this process we might do well to start by thinking how the down ward escalator works. Each of our 152 local authority areas in England will have its own Stations of the Lost. These are the places that people pass through on their way down into the hell of active addiction, social isolation and premature death. Besides the police stations, prisons, hospitals and treatment centres there are hostels and bed and breakfast hotels. Once we have mapped out the rungs of the ladder on the way down we can begin to map the way out and upwards. We can offer Stations of the Found. These are the places where you find people in recovery climbing away from addiction, social isolation and premature death and towards the sunlight of the spirit of recovery. The lower rungs might be a sofa or a spare room in the house of someone else in recovery. The higher rungs are total freedom in your own home with a job, friends and family. So, what do the stations of the lost look like in your town and are they matched by stations of the found?
Why it is that we've got the way we deal with human mental health so wrong
In discussing human mental health, I'm talking about a pretty broad church. I'm talking about all aspects of human mental health which I'm becoming increasingly convinced are intrinsically linked but we seem to be intent on making them separate. Starting in childhood, we allow the medical profession to diagnose our children with ADHD, ADD and, with increasing alacrity, things like bipolar and psychoses. Not stopping there they seem almost obsessionally committed to medicalising almost every aspect of the human condition including things like development, coping mechanisms and learning and we let them. Out of necessity they create more and more specialisms, associated experts and the pills and potions they are going to need to give people, in the main, just to prove the diagnosis put on them. A la, "He must be schizophrenic because he has responded to resperidone!" It's pretty much the same across the whole thing, sometimes admittedly it may involve talking therapies but they are all too often delivered in a prescribed and manualised way as something done to people. Whole systems have evolved, all working in this way by treating people as if they are sick, disabled or have some kind disease. The problem being that when we are treated in this way, unless very careful measures are put in place to prevent it, we learn to become helpless and the system is a very good teacher.
Question: What Is Learned Helplessness?
Learned helplessness occurs when an animal is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape. Eventually, the animal will stop trying to avoid the stimulus and behave as if it is utterly helpless to change the situation. Even when opportunities to escape are presented, this learned helplessness will prevent any action.
While the concept is strongly tied to animal psychology and behaviour, it can also apply to many situations involving human beings.
When people feel that they have no control over their situation, they may also begin to behave in a helpless manner. This inaction can lead people to overlook opportunities for relief or change.
The Discovery of Learned Helplessness: The concept of learned helplessness was discovered accidentally by psychologists Martin Seigleman and Steven F. Maier. They had initially observed helpless behaviour in dogs that were classically conditioned to expect an electrical shock after hearing a tone. Later, the dogs were placed in a shuttlebox that contained two chambers separated by a low barrier. The floor was electrified on one side, and not on the other. The dogs previously subjected to the classical conditioning made no attempts to escape, even though avoiding the shock simply involved jumping over a low barrier.
In order to investigate this phenomenon, the researchers then devised another experiment. In group one, the dogs were strapped into harnesses for a period of time and then released. The dogs in the second group were placed in the same harnesses, but were subjected to electrical shocks that could be avoided by pressing a panel with their noses.
The third group received the same shocks as those in group two, except that those in this group were not able to control the duration of the shock. For those dogs in the third group, the shocks seemed to be completely random and outside of their control.
Later, the dogs were placed in a shuttlebox. Dogs from the first and second group quickly learned that jumping the barrier eliminated the shock. Those from the third group, however, made no attempts to get away from the shocks. Due to their previous experience, they had developed a cognitive expectation that nothing they did would prevent or eliminate the shocks. (Seligman & Maier, 1967).
Learned Helpless in People: The impact of learned helplessness has been demonstrated in a number of different animal species, but its effects can also be seen in people. Consider one often-used example: A child who performs poorly on math tests and assignments will quickly begin to feel that nothing he does will have any effect on his math performance. When later faced with any type of math-related task, he may experience a sense of helplessness.
Learned helplessness has also been associated with several different psychological disorders. Depression, anxiety, phobias, shyness and loneliness can all be exacerbated by learned helplessness. For example, a woman who feels shy in social situations may eventually begin to feel that there is nothing she can do to overcome her symptoms. This sense that her symptoms are out of her direct control may lead her to stop trying to engage herself in social situations, thus making her shyness even more pronounced.
As I've mentioned before, things like shyness, loneliness, depression, anxiety, phobias and addictions are becoming increasingly looked at as biomedical conditions. A quick look in the DSM VI (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders) and you will find all of these, nicely psych speak labelled as things like social phobia, substance induced anxiety disorder, etc. no one seems to bat an eye lid because, hey, it's the doctor's call and doc knows best. And after all we've got a robust evidence base to support our decision making and inform the treatment package we decide to prescribe. If and when it doesn't work, yes we've even got a label for that, it's "atypical, non-responsive, sub symptomatic or, the best one of all, borderline." Then when they ultimately reach the point of not having a clue they've got the whole rich spectrum of personality disorders to milk.
This whole thing serves to disable, disempower, disenfranchise and cannot help but give a sense that the person's so called "symptoms" are out of their direct control and will almost inevitably stop them trying to engage with the social situations that are probably going to help them recover. It actually brain washes people into the belief that they are sick and, in many ways helpless or even cannot possibly be trusted to manage their own life. As they engage with the system, it takes more and more away from them. Assessments are very medically oriented, designed to find out what's wrong so that the system can then tell you what they need to do to you to put it right. Congratulations and welcome to victimship, and boy have we got some drama triangles for you to involve yourself with! For a start we'll make sure you're paired up with someone with a pathological need to rescue you, then we'll punish any indication of self efficacy or responsibility taking.
The underlying problem here is that we have developed a serious intolerance of the uncertainty of mental health. We desperately want certainty and the best way of deluding ourselves that we are achieving this is to medicalise it. If we bung it into a conceptual box, slap a label on it, the uncertain moves towards a position of certitude then all we need do is design something to wrap round it to keep it so. It gives us the illusion that we are in control, so what if by doing so we are actually teaching people to be helpless passive receivers of what we do to them? When something goes wrong, which it does with remarkable frequency, we create yet another set of drama triangles blaming "the patient" for not taking the treatment or the latest overworked rescuer for not having a risk assessment in place. No one ever looks at the system, the culture it creates, the lives being ruined and the further away it takes us from where we should be. It has to be right, doesn't it?
Peter Sheath will be presenting these ideas alongside Peter McDermott and Mark Gilman on Tuesday 1st Sep 9.30-5.15 The 7th UKRF Community Gathering, Manchester http://www.ukrf.org.uk/index.php/community-gatherings/2015
The grandiose title that came out of a snarky comment on a Facebook post by Alistair Sinclair, chair of the UK Recovery Federation. We'd just seen the recent election results, and while Alistair was being his usual positive and upbeat self – continually reinforcing Gramsci's wonderful phrase, "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will", for me, it felt like yet another major defeat.
After five years of defeat. Which really comes on top of a lifetime of political defeats.
A child of the sixties, I often tell people that my own addiction was a response to the failure of the whole new left project of the 1960's. In 1968, it looked as though a whole new world was not only possible, but was inevitable. The world was filled with new ideas – civil rights, gay rights, a transformation of the old left to something more joyous, more playful. As Emma Goldman said after visiting Russia, "I don't want to be a part of any revolution where you can't dance."
But by the start of the seventies, the creative parts of our culture had been co-opted and was being sold back to us. Labour Home Secretary James Callaghan had completely rejected the Wooton Report, and was implementing the Misuse of Drugs Act – laws aimed at increasing penalties for possession and use. The period that had finally seen an end to post-War austerity, as characterised by Harold Macmillan's 'You've never had it so good' was coming to an end, and as I left school, Britain had a million people on the dole for the first time ever. Council rents had just doubled as a result of the Housing Finances Act The politics of neo-liberalism and austerity had begone. In the absence of any positive political project that I could engage with, my own response was a retreat into nihilism and heavy drug use.
For the last forty years, that process has continued unabated. We've seen the demolition of the old working class communities – through slum clearance, through mass immigration, through gentrification. And the demolition of the old working class industries – shipbuilding, steel, mining, manufacturing – one thing after another went in search of cheap labour and ended up mostly in Asia.
And we've seen the end of the left wing political project. The fall of the Berlin wall brought it home to all of us just how bankrupt the socialist enterprise was when it came to delivering on people's aspirations. Nobody was migrating into socialist countries. The flow was all towards capitalism – the very thing that ultimately, would come to destroy us? Or at the very least, would tear large rents in our communities and divide us into the rich and the poor, the 'workshy scrounger' and the hard working striver.
And there, in the middle of all this, was British drug policy. (Which invariably means British treatment policy.)
The end of the 60s saw the end of the prescribing free-for-all, in which any GP could prescribe heroin and cocaine for their patient for the treatment of addiction. 1968 saw the opening of the first Drug Dependency Clinics, and it wasn't long before they began to realize that the whole business of prescribing heroin and cocaine wasn't actually working that well. They began to look to the USA, and in particular, to Dole and Nyswander's work on Methadone maintenance. That looked promising? Perhaps we should try that?
Nevertheless, throughout the 70's and much of the 80's, people were very uncomfortable with methadone. You heard all the same arguments you still hear today – it's replacing one drug with another. Treatment should be about abstinence. It gets in your bones and turns you green, etc. etc. Patients were regularly underdosed, and all too often the treatment had little impact because of this.
All this was to change though, in the second half of the 1980's when HIV/AIDS appeared on the scene and it became clear that drug injecting was a major vector for transmission.
Harm Reduction transformed drug treatment – and not just in the UK, but internationally, as well. Today, it's mainstream drug treatment in most of the world, but there's been a groundswell of popular opposition to Harm Reduction of late.
Some of this opposition is politically based. If the political agenda from the 80's onwards favoured disease control and crime control, the political agenda for today is all about austerity and self reliance. As drug consumption patterns change, and the 'new heroin users' of the 1980's have become the 'old heroin users' of today, harm reduction has successfully quarantined this group. They were successfully encouraged to remove themselves from a shrinking labour market, and now, twenty, thirty, forty years on, we're demanding that they re-insert themselves into a market that even the 'respectable' working class are struggling to find a meaningful role in.
This discussion was prompted by the outcome of the last general election, when it struck me that, generally speaking, the rhetoric of recovery was very much in line with the rhetoric of the Conservatives. The rhetoric was very much about personal responsibility, standing on your own two feet, voluntarism, rather than relying on the state, and building community to take care of each other, rather than expecting the state to do those things.
Until recently, I was running a volunteer programme for mentors in the drug treatment system, and I was struck by the extent to which most of my volunteers genuinely saw themselves as sick, and felt the state had an obligation to take care of them – not at the jobseekers rate of benefit, but at the much higher rate associated with Disability Living Allowance. It was almost as if Opiate Substitution Therapy had convinced these people that they had some genuinely debilitating psychological illness. Yet if I'd offered any one of them a job that interested them with a reasonable salary, every single one of them would have miraculously found themselves fit for work again. If the rhetoric of recovery was a profoundly Conservative one, then the people I knew in OST were indelibly wedded to the idea of a welfare state that takes care of everyone, from Cradle to Grave, regardless of the contribution they make to our society.
And I'm not criticising these people. In their shoes, I'd probably do the same thing myself.
I had some volunteers who had, in a burst of recovery-based enthusiasm – given up these sickness benefits, only to find themselves desperately trying to re-enrol some time after, because managing on jobseekers was such a struggle. And in practice, large sections of the local 'recovery community' continue to live on disability benefits and spend their days watching Jeremy Kyle, browsing the internet on their mobile phones, and going to one of the many daily 12 step meetings that can be found in the area. They might not be using drugs any more, but their friends are primarily addicts of ex-addicts, they still live on benefits, there is little in the way of measurable improvement in their lives that I can detect.
And that's exactly what you'd expect. The greatest predictor of whether someone will get work in recovery, is whether they'd had work prior to developing a drug problem. And by and large, our drug treatment population is made up of people who have little or no experience of the world of work. High levels of unemployment have characterised most of the large impoverished areas of Liverpool since the late 1970's. Drugs offered people an economically productive role in a thriving black economy that was otherwise denied to them by mainstream society.
So we're now telling people, 'You've been on a script for far too long. You've got to get out of treatment and into recovery', well, first we have to be able to offer people a vision of a better life – and one that's actually accessible to them. For the last ten years, that better life tended to involve the prospect of a career in the drug treatment field – but as the field starts contracting, and levels of accountability and professionalism increase, that's an area that will be open to ever smaller numbers.
And it was never something that would benefit the bulk of people in treatment anyway. So the key question becomes, where do those people find meaning in a society where work has become scarce? Where do they find community when the old geographically-based communities have been decimated by successive waves of slum clearance and gentrification, rendering feral sink estates one of the few affordable housing choices for the poor?
And to what extent is recovery genuinely even possible without these vital supports of some sort of meaningful activity and a sense of belonging?
And where does the drug treatment system fit into all this? While they've demonstrated that they can provide an effective legal opioid rationing system, have they yet demonstrated that they can deliver that thing called 'recovery' If so, how do we define it and what does it look like?
For me, the biggest problem with the British treatment system is in this conflation of the legal opioid rationing system with drug treatment. If the only way that somebody could legally get a drink was to enter alcohol treatment, I expect you'd have similar skews there as well.
I believe that we need to separate the two functions. If all somebody wants is a clean, legal supply of opiates, let them have access to that, through a low threshold system.
And there'll always be a need for people wanting a medically supervised detox, where it's just too risky or too hard for someone to attempt without support and supervision.
But the real work involved in recovery — those processes of reintegration, reeducation, rehabilitation – those things invariably take place outside and away from treatment, back in the community with family and friends.
So to what extent do these local communities exist? And what do we need to do to facilitate their growth? Is a new community spirit focused around recovery possible? Or can it only work if the notion of recovery is limited to an abstinence-focused idea of recovery?
There are encouraging signs out there though, and much of that hope comes from the USA.
Take the city of Detroit. I don't think there's anywhere in the UK that is as socially and economically bankrupt as Detroit was, just a few short years ago. But that city has embarked upon a renaiisance that has grown directly out of the local community, and it's music and dance/drug subculture.
Similarly, you could point to Faces and Voices of Recovery, or the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery — national advocacy organisations that don't discriminate against people in opiate substitution therapy, but rather fight against the stigma against this valuable and long proven medication.
Who would have thought that the USA, for so long a regressive backwater when it came to drug policy, would actually end up teaching the UK what a progressive drug treatment should look like?
Over the last few years, the UK Recovery Federation has worked phenomenally hard in an attempt to build exactly this kind of community of recovering people and nobody can take anything away from their success in this respect. But they've really just laid the groundwork. The real work must take place in local communities and online, with people who aren't full time organisers or paid workers, but who are committed to creating the kind of community that's essential if we're to stand any sort of chance of surviving.
Ultimately, what the future of treatment, of recovery, of recovering communities — what that looks like — ultimately, that future is up to you.
Peter McDermott
Successful Sid
The English system of providing treatment to people with substance misuse problems is going through a period of challenge and change. The current system was built on the basis of fear. In the mid 1980s significant numbers of working class young men began to smoke heroin.
Those who developed a taste for this new 'brown' heroin quickly graduated from smoking to injecting the drug. Most of them were unemployed and some resorted to acquisitive crimes, including domestic burglary, to finance their new habits. These new heroin users created fear and this fear attracted public funding.
The Conservative government of the day began to invest in services and interventions that would reduce the harm that the behaviour of these new heroin users caused to society. The New Heroin Users were provided with Needle and Syringe Programmes (NSPs) so that they wouldn't spread HIV and AIDs to the wider population. They were enrolled into Opioid Substitution Treatments (OST) such as Methadone Maintenance to reduce heroin driven acquisitive crime. Methadone and other opiates were prescribed in doses high enough to produce a blockade against use on top and overdose.
This was successful.
NSP and OST reduced crime, reduced HIV transmission and prevented overdose deaths. The success of this system saw investment reach a high of £1 billion and then the bubble burst and disinvestment began. The bubble burst when, in an age of economic austerity and public service reform, critics of this medical model began to point out its obvious flaws.
There is nothing in the pharmacology of methadone that means you can't get out of bed and go to work. The person on MMT should be as economically active as his or her neighbour on insulin or blood pressure medications. But in the UK they aren't.
In the USA a majority of people on OST and MMT are in employment. In France and Italy it is thought at least half of the people on OST and MMT are in employment. In the UK it looks like only a small percentage of people on OST and MMT are in employment. This is probably because of the culture within which OST and MMT emerged in the UK. The culture of OST and MMT in the UK is one of welfare dependency, social exclusion and marginalisation. The US had 'Methadone, Wine and Welfare', we have 'Methadone, booze, benzos, benefits and daytime TV'
The performance of the current system is measured against three processes; access to treatment, retention in treatment and completion of treatment. There is no measure of real world, common sense outcomes such as new Jobs, new Friends, new Homes and better lives. Local authorities now hold the treatment purse strings and they are interested in economically active citizens and public service reforms that address inter-generational complex dependencies. Asset Based approaches and Asset Based Community Development point the way to real world, common sense outcomes and away from deficit based systems of procedure and process.
Let me tell you a story about Successful Sid. He was born in 1972 and on his 30th birthday he entered treatment for heroin dependency. Within 3 days of asking for help he was on a methadone maintenance treatment programme. Sid stayed on MMT for the next 12 years. In January 2015, Sid was successfully discharged from treatment as his treatment was complete. Sid hasn't returned to treatment so the six months are up and he is a successful completion and we can be sure he will not represent because he is dead.
Sid went to his grave at the age of 43 as a direct result of his addictions – white cider saw him off in the end. Sid did have a job once – as a paper boy, but he never worked as an adult and relied on welfare payments to support him and his partner and their 3 children. Sid is survived by his partner (still on MMT) and his 3 children who are now young adults and are themselves reliant on welfare benefits to raise Sid's grandchildren. The current treatment system see's Sid as a success – he got into treatment quickly (access ), he stayed 12 years (retention ) he successfully completed treatment and did not return within 6 months (successful completion ).
If Sid is a success, what does failure look like? Those who defend the current system and the status quo might say that failure looks like death from overdose.
Fair point, but Sid didn't die from a heroin overdose.
They might also say that failure looks like increased acquisitive crime committed by people who can't get onto OST and MMT or who leave the same prematurely.
Fair point, but Sid didn't commit much crime before he died because you can easily drink yourself to death on benefit payments alone – as long as you don't eat much and can stomach white cider and supermarket own brand vodka.
They might also say that we in England have a majority of our treatment population in treatment and we should be proud of this when compared to somewhere like the USA where only a minority of their treatment population are in treatment.
Fair point, but Sid died from a problem (alcohol dependency) that he developed whilst he was in treatment. He came in with a heroin problem and left with an alcohol problem that killed him.
But, Sid is a success story:
"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." – Thomas Sowell
There's a short piece by Mark Gilman and Ray Jenkins in the current Drink and Drug News on how and why the North West of England became the epicentre of the UK's new Recovery movement.
His work on projects like Smack in the Eye and his early writings identified Mark Gilman as one of the early pioneers of Harm Reduction, so his embrace of Recovery and the 12 step fellowships was seen as something of a betrayal of those early principles by some. For Mark, it has always been about getting the best possible outcomes for the communities he serves.
You can read the article here in Drink and Drug News


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For the citizens of one state, it just got a bit easier to make one more type of payment. That's because child support payments in that state can now be made via mobile phone. A parent who may have forgotten to make a payment on time can now simply send it via the mobile app. While this technology has not yet reached Florida, one could hope that it could eventually be available in every state.
The new program came about when the state's Department of Health and Welfare recently teamed up with the administrator of the state government's web portal. The goal is to make it much easier to make child support payments on time. International online accessibility requirements have reportedly been met, and the app is said to be compatible with a screen reader.
Fifty eight percent of those living in Idaho, where the program is in effect, are said to use cell phones as their only internet access. As such, it only made sense for child support payment methods to go mobile. Users can access the web page and pay the payments right from their cell phone. In sparsely populated areas, this could actually be a much faster way to pay.
While mobile child support payments are not yet available in every state, they could make it much easier for a parent to stay up-to-date on child support. Anyone in Florida with issues concerning child support orders has the right to contact a family law attorney who can help guide the client in how to proceed. With more and more ways to make these payments becoming available each day, it will be easier both for those sending and for those receiving child support payments.
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... for preparation of our Fair, our regular Board meeting for August has been moved to TUESDAY AUGUST 14 and we will have an extra meeting just for FAIR on TUESDAY AUGUST 28
Our 2017 West Niagara Fair is now over for 2017 (September 7th - 10th) - We hope you had a great time and Thank you for coming!
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The West Niagara Fair takes place the weekend after Labour Day each year.
This is an exciting year for WNAS as it marks our 5th Annual Fair and its third year at the new West Niagara Agricultural Centre on the corner of Mud and Grimsby Mountain Rds in Grassie. With the completion of the new community centre, complete with a gourmet kitchen, the society is proud of their hard work, but there is still much to do and will be ever striving to add to the grounds and buildings to make the event one of the greatest in the area.
With the new year there is a great roster of events, vendors and entertainment going on this September 7th - 10th, 2017!
To check out our great line-up events click on the Entertainment tab! - Here you will find Information for things such as our Derbys, Antique Tractor, Lawn Tractor and ATV pulls, the Kid's pedal tractor pull, Kid's Power Derby, Ontario Mini Rods, Baby Show, Pet Show, Community Centre Stage Roster, Square Dancing Tractors, Quilt Draw and more!
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Lastly the fair owes a big thank you to you, our community for being there to support us! Your dollars spent in coming to fair, go 100% to the maintenance, and building of the fairgrounds and of course -the fair and other community events on the grounds, supporting All things Agriculture in our Community!
We hope this year you have a great time at the Fair!
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Fair Office hours extended at Fair time! * starting August 29
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In the Last City, civilization's final outpost, a battle rages between humanity and darkness…
Kya wants nothing more than to find the demons who killed her parents. But when she learns that she is an elemental, one of five young women with exceptional abilities destined to save the earth, she realizes that there is more at stake then just her personal vendetta, and that there are things, and people, worth fighting for.
Weylyn's race is dying. He is one of the last of the Earth's original creatures, the shape-shifters known as werewolves. For generations his family has searched for a cure without success. But then Weylyn has a dream about a girl who will save his kind. Cast out from his pack, Weylyn vows to protect her, this elemental. Now he must defy his friends and his family in order to save not only his race but his heart as well.
In the year 2216 the Earth has suffered a cataclysmic event known as the Failure. For decades humanity has endured a forever-twilight that is slowly killing all life on the planet. Birthrates have dropped and disease and starvation are slowly killing those left. In humanity's place have risen demons, creatures of the darkness. These beings now rule; keeping the human population enslaved.
Flung into a bitter war between the Vastus, the human resistance and the demons, Kya must accept Weylyn's help to learn to control her deadly abilities. But to ultimately fulfill her destiny she must face who she is and decide what lengths she's willing go to get her revenge.
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When I was done speaking, I walked back to my seat in one of the front pews. The conference broke for lunch a few minutes later and as I stuffed my spiral notebook into my backpack, the morning session's first speaker came over and shook my hand. It was an honor to meet the director of a religiously-based international relief organization; it was even more an honor, to speak right after he had that morning.
As I shook his hand, I thanked him for his work and was about to say more when he posed a gentle challenge. "I listened with interest to your presentation," he said, "especially the part about charity and justice. And I wondered: isn't the work that we're doing also justice work, even though it's not legislative advocacy?"
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The office of the New Patriotic Party flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that state protocol did not invite the former attorney general for this year's State of the Nation address.
According to the press secretary of Akufo-Addo, Eugene Arhin, neither parliament nor state protocol extended an invitation to them.
President John Mahama on Thursday delivered his last state of the nation address in parliament.
It has been the practice over the years for all diplomats and dignitaries in the country to be invited for the ceremony which is held in parliament. All presidential candidates of political parties in the country have, since time immemorial, received invitation to the address.
Speaking to Kasapa FM Friday, Arhin said although Akufo-Addo and his vice presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia were willing to attend the ceremony, they did not want to gatecrash.
"Often during ceremonies like this, we would receive an invite from parliament or state protocol but in this instance, neither did we hear from the state protocol nor parliament and so there was nothing we could do. Akufo-Addo as a patriotic citizen was willing and ready to attend the event," he said.
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On August 30, 2000, editorial cartoonist Milt Priggee (b. 1953) publishes his last cartoon at Spokane's oldest newspaper, the Spokesman-Review. His work delights the city's liberals but irritates the majority conservatives. Priggee, who has drawn for the paper full-time since 1987, is given the option of continuing on a per-cartoon basis for the Spokesman-Review or moving on. Feeling blindsided by the ultimatum, he auctions his original cartoons, sells his home, takes a one-year Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan, and later moves to Whidbey Island. Priggee will prove to be the last editorial cartoonist to enjoy full-time work in Eastern Washington.
Getting Sacked
The elimination of Priggee's staff position in Spokane was part of a national trend. Newspapers were downsizing. Editorial cartoonists were being eliminated and forced to move into freelance work. Two years before Priggee lost his Spokane job, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) lost his job as the cartoonist for the Village Voice. Feiffer continued to find piecemeal work with the New York Times and other newspapers. The only staff cartoonist to survive Priggee in Washington was David Horsey (b. 1951), who won two Pulitzer Prizes drawing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before going to work for the Los Angeles Times in 2011.
Staff jobs can shelter or indemnify editorial cartoonists. The cartoonist receives steady checks instead of sporadic piecework, and publishers share the liability if there is a lawsuit. In an interview in 1980, seven years before he took the Spokesman-Review position, Priggee cited the many devilish complications of self-employment and confessed, "I never intended to freelance ... I dislike the disorder, uncertainty, and the constant running around. It's hard to plan for a future this way" ("Guest Cartoonist").
Raising Hackles
A steady employer proved hard for him to find. Disputes beset Priggee's career, as they have other editorial cartoonists. In 1985, he became a defendant in a prominent libel lawsuit. Working for the Journal-Herald in Dayton, Ohio, he inked a political cartoon that angered two brothers who were judges on the Ohio Supreme Court. The $12 million suit, naming the newspaper along with him, was defeated both in the original cause of action and on appeal.
The Journal-Herald folded in 1986, the same year Priggee told a reporter for a national law journal, "I don't print a cartoon, I just draw it and submit it. If my editors want to stand behind it, then they print it" (Blodgett). He there acknowledged the sometimes-tricky alliance between cartoonist, community, and publisher. By then, he had moved on to the Spokesman-Review, where he continued to court controversy but also earned praise. Five years before his staff position was cut, he had garnered all four honors for Editorial Cartooning from the regional Society of Professional Journalists. Priggee championed a free press as a key to democracy and described his work as "iconoclastic with a left lean" (Astor).
Some 100 of his cartoons were "killed" at the Spokesman-Review. One of those compared Ronald Reagan's Irangate scandal to Nixon's Watergate fall from grace. Priggee qualified this seemingly large volume of axed cartoons by pointing out that almost 3,000 of his pieces ran during his 13-year tenure at the paper.
Despite the thousands of his cartoons the Spokesman-Review found suitable, he believed his editors caused him to censor himself: "But after awhile, you get ten, twenty killed on a certain subject and you read the writing on the wall. You say, 'Hey! That's my blood! That's parts of my brain there! I'm not going to bother to draw a cartoon on that'" (Delzer). Another of his rejected cartoons cast a shadow over the claim of President George H. W. Bush (b. 1924) to be the "environmental president." Submitted for publication on September 19, 1989, the day the president was to visit Spokane and plant an elm tree, the cartoon depicts a sapling with a sign reading "planted by George Bush, the 'Environmental' President" -- it's planted upside down, with its root ball in the air and its top buried in the dirt. Priggee criticized the paper's decision not to run the cartoon as "a great example of censorship based not on taste or libel but on personal political beliefs. So much for a free American press" ("Why It Was Killed").
After he was involuntarily moved into freelance work, Priggee continued to raise hackles. In 2015, a cartoon that ran in the Florida Times Union prompted an angry reaction by police in Jacksonville. A TV station reported that the cartoon "compares the arrest of Dylann Roof, who shot nine black church members in a Charleston, South Carolina, sanctuary, to the shooting of a black man who was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction" (Minor). In one frame, police deliver fast food to Roof after his arrest, allegedly to get him to talk. In a second frame, a grinning cop with a smoking pistol tells a second grinning cop, "Mr. Blackie tried to get away -- so I had to shoot him." Steve Amos, Fraternal Order of Police spokesman, objected strongly in a news interview and asked for a retraction. Amos said that cartoons like Priggee's put peace officers at risk.
At the time it occurred, Priggee labeled his downsizing "a heartbreaker" (Delzer). But he may not have found it completely surprising. In 2007, a columnist criticizing U.S. newspaper editors who "kill" controversial cartoons wrote "Cartoonist Milt Priggee remembers what an editor told him soon after he joined the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.: 'If you want to survive at this paper, you've got to stay under management's radar. Don't do anything good. Don't do anything bad'" (Wallis).


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A WOMAN was knocked unconscious at the weekend after a group of youths pushed over the portable toilet she was using.
The 27-year-old was rescued by passers-by after the incident in Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, on Saturday evening.
She was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary for a check-up, but was later discharged.
Police are investigating the incident, which took place at around 10.45pm.
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Of all the technologies that have emerged for communications in the last couple of decades, e-mail is among the most revolutionary. It has completely changed the way we communicate, making it so much easier than any other method that has been available in the past 20 years.
At one time, typewriters were a critical element for communicating via U.S. Mail. It was such a slow and cumbersome process. I still remember struggling to align the paper, and making a correction was very, very difficult.
However, despite all the improvements and efficiencies e-mail brought, there are a number of issues of which users should be aware. By far, the most important of these is that once you hit send, it is nearly impossible to recover or amend the message.
In light of this, proofreading is absolutely critical. And more than just checking for grammatical errors, you should be verifying that you have said exactly what you mean and are aware of how your message might be interpreted.
Additionally, e-mail and emotion are a dangerous combination. If you are having strong feelings of any kind — positive or negative — it is best to wait until your emotions settle before hitting send. The fallout from an inappropriate e-mail can be devastating.
I have seen managers send out an angry e-mail to a staff member who messed up, only to realize later that they acted before they had all the facts. The damage from this kind of e-mail can never be repaired.
Another shortcoming of e-mail is that it is a flat form of communication. Consisting of nothing more than words, it is impossible to communicate emotion via e-mail. People often forget this fact and send e-mail messages that really should be delivered in person.
Sending an e-mail to congratulate a team member on some accomplishment, for example, may fall short of the mark since you can not really express your feelings of joy. You would really want to deliver a message like this in a face-to-face meeting or in front of his or her entire team.
Most people, including me, get way too many e-mails, and one thing that absolutely drives me crazy is receiving a message that covers three or four different items. Sending a message like this significantly impairs the receiver's ability to respond quickly.
When I receive e-mails that cover more than one topic, it automatically drops down on my priority list because I have to save the message until I have more time to respond. For this reason, it is so important to cover only one point in each message. You will find that people will respond much more quickly to one-topic e-mails.
Another of my e-mail pet peeves is long narratives. Most decision makers want just the facts. E-mail is not a good place to practice Elegant Writing 101. I want an e-mail that is no longer than one paragraph so I can quickly respond with a short answer. Most people are so limited on time that brevity must be the rule and not the exception with this medium.
The subject line is another critical element. In order to get your message read, the subject line must be both precise and accurate. One entrepreneur wrote "important" in the subject line of every single e-mail she sent. Eventually, her staff began ignoring her messages. The more precise your subject line, the more successful the communication will be.
Lastly, e-mail should not be used to communicate anything that is really important or personal. If you want to tell a staff member about a problem you are having with their work, e-mail is just not appropriate.
For instance, if I have an employee that has not been meeting their sales goals, sending them an e-mail about improving their numbers is going to do more to irritate them than accomplish anything of value. It really is best to address an issue like this in a face-to-face meeting that allows you to discuss how you can work with them to improve their sales.
Overall, e-mail is a very effective communication tool, but it should not be your default. It is just not always going to be the appropriate choice. Now go out and make sure that you are using e-mails effectively in your organization.
Jerry Osteryoung, director of outreach of the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at Florida State University, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Pee Wee Herman is back! Sources tell me Paul Reubens is rounding up his old crew and casting for new some friends in his first feature film in a long time. Netflix will be making and showing the film, another incursion by Ted Sarandos and co. into the world of movie theaters.
`Pee Wee`s Big Holiday` is produced by Judd Apatow, along with Paul Reubens. Executive Producers are Josh Church and Richard Vane. The movie is written by Reubens and Paul Rust, and directed by John Lee.
It`s been 30 years since `Pee Wee`s Big Adventure.` The sequel came out in 1988. Reubens has worked on and off for years, memorably on Murphy Brown. The time seems right to bring it all back, and a Netflix feature could lead to a series."
With the political drama series " House of Cards" and the comedy-drama series "Orange is the New Black" available only on streaming service Netflix, only a Philistine would fail to subscribe to the nation`s most popular streaming service.
A gentleman and a scholar would never consider, not even for a second, spending a night at a lady`s house who doesn`t subscribe to Netflix. If your female companion refuses to engage in any sensual activity more intimate than a kiss, at least the night won`t be a total loss if she`s hooked up to Netflix.
Now that Paul Reubens will be appearing in a Netflix movie, pilgrim you`d better get with the program and subscribe to Netflix.
How can you go wrong with a movie starring Pee-wee Herman, and produced by Bill Cosby-hating director Judd Apatow?
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It's unlikely he would have deployed with the division inasmuch as this would have given the army only eleven days to induct, train and process him (he turned eighteen 25 November 1943). Considering age and other factors, he probably wasn't inducted until Spring or Summer 1944 and probably hadn't been with his unit long prior to his death. And, again, there's nothing yet to indicate he was, in fact, a combat casualty. His deceased file should answer most of these questions.


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Paper is a bane and bounty in my life. I love it in the forms of a new journal, a 12 x 12 scrapbook page waiting to tell a story, a note written by someone dear to my heart, a3 year old's finger painting framed and browning with age. Ahhhhh—paper! Filled with memories or full of possibility, I love it.
Then there's paper. Bills, scraps of information once noteworthy, directions, magazine articles I thought were important, recipes promising healthy and do-able meals and treats . . . so many pieces of paper that may or may not be worth keeping.
When "insane" and "crazy busy" are my life's major adjectives, paper takes over. It's everywhere. Nobody knows the color of my desk at work. The wood's grain on my coffee table is a mystery. Magazines occupy most flat spaces. I drown in paper.
The last few days have been an exercise in drownproofing my work and living spaces. At the office, the sorting and tossing was a physical necessity; I needed to move the contents of my office to another part of the building. At home, drownproofing became an emotional necessity.
When drowning in paper, I don't do much more than what's necessary to keep going. Thinking is difficult when I survey my surroundings. The bits of emotional energy I've regained quickly dissipate when confronted with waves of paper.
As I walked down the stairs this morning, I was struck by the order that returned to a large part of my house yesterday. My living room is an oasis not the aftermath of a paper tsunami. It lent me some hope for my new office.
As I unpacked each box this afternoon, I filed—both laterally and circularly. I gave books a home on the bookshelf. I made steps to drownproof my office. There are still those pieces of paper that stymie me, but they are becoming a silent minority.
I'm learning new strategies. I don't want to drown. I need the emotional space the lack of clutter lends. I think . . . I hope . . . I'm off to a good start.
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Bandarawela is the second largest town in the Badulla District which is 30 km (19 mi) away from Badulla. Bandarawela is 200 km (120 mi) away from Colombo and about 125 km (78 mi) away from Kandy, the two capital cities of Sri Lanka. Thanks to its higher altitude, compared to surrounding locations, Bandarawela has milder weather conditions throughout the year making it a popular tourist destination for locals. Bandarawela is within hours reach of surrounding towns and cities by both road and rail. The town is influenced by its colonial history and rests among dense, lush forestation occupying a niche among visitors as a base for eco-tourism.
The ancient Dhowa Buddhist rock temple is one of the well-known heritage sites in this region. Other historic areas of interest include the Roman Catholic St. Anthony's Church and a local Methodist church.
The ancient Dhowa Rock Temple was founded by King Walagamba in the first century B.C.E. (1 B.C.E.) and is located beside Badulla-Bandarawela highway, 6 km (3.7 mi) from Bandarawela. The temple contains a 12 m (39 ft)-high Buddha image sculpted from rock and paintings depicting Jataka stories belonging to the Kandyan era.
Locals depend primarily upon agriculture to make a living. Most people are directly involved in vegetable cultivation and some are working as laborers in tea estates. There are a large number of tea plantations managed by both private and government run businesses that produce good quality tea for the world market.
Many types of vegetables are grown in this area throughout the year, such as leek, carrot, beet root, cauliflower and cabbage. About one tenth of the population works for the government, private establishments or their own businesses. The majority of the people in this area fall in the low and middle income groups.
Tourism is another source of income in Bandarawela which boasts many holiday resorts, cottages and hotels.
The best views of Bandarawela can be seen from Porawagala. Rawana Ella Falls (40 m (130 ft) in height) and Diyaluma Falls (191 m (627 ft) in height) are the most beautiful waterfalls in this region. Rawana Ella is situated on the Ella near the Wellawaya main road and Diyaluma is situated near the village of Koslanda. Adisham Bungalow, Bandarawela Hotel and Lipton's Seats are other historic places in the Bandarawela area. Poonagala, Ampittiakande and Leangawela are three visually stunning tea estates in the area. From Bandarawela to Poonagala it's nearly 21 km.


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With Costco coming to Northern Colorado, I thought I would share some thoughts on why you would or wouldn't want to get a Costco membership.
Costco is a good place to buy quality products, in larger quantities, at good prices, but that doesn't mean your grocery budget will shrink.
Why Costco might not be a good fit:
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If you still don't know if Costco is a good fit for you, I suggest giving it a try. They have a satisfaction guarantee on your membership: if you try Costco but are unhappy with your membership, they will refund your membership fee. If you try products at Costco but are unhappy with them, you can easily return them (some electronics have a limited return window.)


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VH1 has just announced it has given the greenlight to Naked Dating, a one-hour weekly series that will "explore the art of romance free of pre-conceived notions, stereotypes -- and clothes."
Naked Dating was created by the independently owned production company called Lighthearted Entertainment. This is the company behind other unscripted series such as Next, 72 Hours, Extreme Makeover, Are You the One, and The Moment of Truth. The new series is set to explore the art of romance without a script, stereotypes, preconceived notions or clothes.


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Sure, there are lots of creamy soups, cookies, casseroles and Netflix marathons, but at the same time, there are tons of seasonal superfoods high in the right nutrients to help you lose weight. Here are three top winter foods for weight loss. They are …
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