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Wifi was spotty at the Web 2.0 conference, but I enjoyed meeting people and listening to talks in the Web2open part of town. My coworkers Luke and Kirsten and I gave an off the cuff demo and talk about wikis, blikis, and various ways of looking at wiki content. I came away thinking further about measures of wiki health, tightness, outward or inward-lookingness, and the idea of a wiki having periods of growth or pruning.
I caught part of Rashmi Sinha's talk, "Massively Multiplayer Object Sharing" and am hoping to hear more on the same themes of designing for large systems. It's such a pleasure, because I have been thinking and talking for a while now in an amateur way about having many different metrics and algorithms to rank and measure value - in order to counter some of the flaws of complete democracy. I just talk about it, while people like Rashmi and Mary Hodder actually put these ideas into practice!
The only other talk I caught was part of the "Invincibelle" demo. While it is a lovely idea and I'm all for it, I was somewhat turned off by the line "After all, women love shopping..." Yeah okay, er... Did I really just hear that! But I'll put that aside. Invincibelle has some great interviews with interesting women working in tech. It is a great idea but I have some (I hope constructive) critiques to offer. The site needs good navigation and stronger linking between people. Why not make this an actual social network site? So far, it's just a custom-built blog with good interviews, a forum, and an rss feed of some job postings. Another thing that could be improved - how about adding some links to the women featured and their web presence? They have companies, blogs, contact info, presumably - but I can't find that in the interviews. Why not make a nice sidebar with feeds from all the featured women's blogs? Then their voices would be heard even further! Scalability is another concern. I would love for this site to grow. But when it grows what will it look like... where is a coherent directory of the people of this network - for example I would like to be able to click on profession titles and read about all the chemists or physicists or programmers and perhaps also by country, as I imagine people from particular countries might like to find each other. Maybe those features will get added and the site will move a little further into the "2.0" philosophy. I could say the same (a critique, with suggestions, and with love) for sites like el Salón de Belleza which has similarly inspiring portraits and profiles and interviews with amazing women (thought not focused on tech.)
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far far away, across the Expo hall, someone from this company was asking the audience for its demo, "should we search in our social software for swimsuit issue models, or victoria's secret?" Apparently a segment of the audience indicated its preference for lingerie soft porn over bathing suit soft porn. Some women walked out. Maybe some men did too - I hope so. The subtext is not subtle to me. Who did the speakers think they were talking to?
In the context of all the years of discussion about "how to get more women at tech conferences", this was an amazingly ignorant thing to do in a professional talk. I like many of the comments from my fellow geek and techy women in the comments here, for example, the calmly and neatly expressed simple statement by Nicole:
As an engineer and woman who uses the internet daily for work and personal I am still blown away by these ridiculous portrayals of women as objects in tech ad campaigns.
Some more on this, a quick roundup:
Ah! Here's the women of Web 2.0!
Men (and a few women) of Web 2.0. This is so odd; it's a photo of the crowd for a keynote, and the crowd is overwhelmingly male.
Meanwhile, Christine Herron posts about the gender ratio at the conference. This year, women made up 18% of the conference attendees.
I was on the Web2open side of the conference all of Tuesday, there were a ton of women, I didn't feel outnumbered or out of place, and quite a lot of the speakers and presenters were women; in fact, more than half. I have a few thoughts on why this should be so. One is that women might be more likely than men to not be able to afford to go to the main conference if the fee was not paid for by their company. On that note -- info I can't source at the moment but that I've often read -- women in companies don't push to be sent to conferences while men do, because of self-judgements of level of expertise (Eszter Hargittai has some good research data on self-perceptions of competence and expertise in tech, though). Another crucial element that helped the gender ratio at Web2open; Tara Hunt actively recruited - repeatedly - women in online forums, in public and private, to participate, and pointed out the other women who were coming. That level of active outreach is very important and is part of why SXSWi had such success in increasing participation by women in the industry.
And back to the annoying lingerie model issue: I'd like to point out that O'Reilly's screenshots were interesting and demonstrate the cleverness and interest of the product in the exact way that the demo didn't. Doing a beavis and butthead style sniggering soft core porno "women as consumable objects" search only revealed what will end up being the ugly side of identity aggregation and search sites; using the web creepily to stalk & harass women. When this happens it won't be the fault of the software or of the internet, it'll be a mirror that exposes what goes on at all levels of society.
One more post, from SFWoW:
unbelievable that MCPs are still willing to show their stripes in SF these days; but there is no accounting for cluelessness among the supposed-Digerati.
Yeah there is some anger out there. And as anyone with half a brain should know by now, it is unsafe professionally for women in the field to indicate (even very calmly) that they are annoyed (even very mildly) by sexism.
I think some of the anger comes from our (speaking for women in tech) high expectations. We want to believe y'all utopian-thinking techie web 2.0 dudes are somewhat enlightened and we want to believe you see us as human beings. It is disappointing when those wishes and beliefs are proved wrong - over and over. I look forward to hearing more men say "actually that's not funny" to each other. I don't want to become the enforcer. The point is not for guys to watch what they say in front of women like me. That will only result in even less real communication. The point is to accept the criticism, to wipe the big green embarrassing booger of sexism or racism from your nose and say "oops sorry about that" and then move on from there. (YES please click on that link and read it - and then look at the defensive reactions every time women speak up and point out misogyny - for example what do men do but deny, claim they meant well, accuse women of being "too sensitive", and then find women to defend them and testify how non-sexist they are. The point is not that you "Are" the point is how you BEHAVED just now, which in this case, was dumb and sexist.)
How many times do we have to say it? Talk about our work and contributions, not about our looks. Link up to and highlight women's thoughts and writings, respond to the substance, rather than just going "har har har, beavis, of course we want women at our conferences (so we can hit on them)."
I would like to close by mentioning, for any geeky women reading this, systers and the Anita Borg Institute once again. They rock, there is no nonsense about nail polish or whatever, it is just a very practical network and resource for women in tech.
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Whatever story world is created and whatever plot surmised, you go on the journey with the characters and these characters are, at best, thin. The main source of tension that drives the story is between Emma Swan and Regina Mills (the Mayor and the Evil Queen). A little boy named Henry, who is the Mayors adopted son, has brought Emma to the town. Somehow Henry knows the truth and is trying to save everyone. He believes Emma can help because she is the long lost daughter of Snow White who was sent to the real world just as the Evil Queen was imposing her curse on the fairytale land. Emma is bitter and jaded at being abandoned, but has somehow found a heart for her own son, Henry, who she abandoned when she was a teenager. The Mayor is bitter and jaded because Emma is trying to thwart her curse. It's like watching socially awkward junior high kids confront one another on the playground.
Whatever complexity and tension these relationships are supposed to create never comes to fruition. The Mayor is always telling Emma to stay away, which she never does. Emma goes back forth from believing Henry that there is a curse that must be broken. And somehow the fairytale world, always told as a back-story, is supposed to relate to what those characters are now facing in the real world, but it's just boring and uneventful and, really, thinly connected at best. I was in denial each week because I really wanted to like it, but I kept asking myself why should I care about anything that's happening here? It's like they keep trying to prove to me that I should care about these characters but they never give me anything more than just the simple premise. It almost feels like they are still trying to figure out who the characters are. Shouldn't they have done that before production? In any case, there is no mystery here. Each week they show me the same thing. It works fine for Law and Order, but Once Upon a Time is not supposed to be a series of independent episodes. We never feel the depth and tension of the metanarrative. There's no mystery or suspense that really matters because the characters are thin.
There are bright spots. Every now and then some major move towards creating a really cool long-term story arch is introduced, which typically always had to do with the bad guys – the evil queen, Rumpelstiltskin, and other evil witches from other stories (we've met the evil witch from Sleeping Beauty, I believe), and the mirror. The bad guys are the best part of the show, and Rumpelstiltskin, in particular, is by far the best part about this show. Still, they wait too long to develop the depth and complexity of these characters. For example, you forget for weeks that the mirror on the wall is one of the characters! Or what about the back-story between the evil queen and the witch from sleeping beauty? Give me something?!
Unless I hear about some major changes, I won't keep watching. I'd be surprised if it's picked up for a second season. And if it is, I bet they cancel it half way through.
I hope to say a little more about this in another post, particular how story relates to Christianity in terms of how we talk about God as well as what it means to be found in God's story. I also hope to write a little bit about a new show I am watching – Downton Abbey – and how beautifully they have set up a complex plot with deep characters.

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against RACISM and INTOLERANCE
Council of Europe Anti-Racism Commission
to prepare report on Italy
Strasbourg, 30.11.2010
A delegation of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) visited Italy from 21 to 26 November 2010 as the first step in the preparation of a monitoring report. During its visit, ECRI's delegation gathered information on the implementation of the recommendations it made to the authorities in its previous report of 2006 and discussed new issues that had emerged since.
The delegation held meetings in Rome, Venice, Padua and Naples with representatives of all relevant ministries, public officials, human rights NGOs and minority groups.
Following this visit, ECRI will adopt a report in which it will make a fresh set of recommendations on measures to be taken by the authorities to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance in the country. Among these, three will be revisited two years after the publication of the report as part of an interim follow-up procedure.
In its 2006 report, ECRI expressed concern about the use of racist and xenophobic discourse in politics, targeting in particular non-EU citizens, Roma, Sinti and Muslims. It also found that immigration legislation had made the situation of many non-EU citizens more precarious, and its implementation had resulted in the exposure of some to a higher risk of human rights violations.
In the same report, ECRI expressed concern over the marginalisation and practical segregation from the rest of Italian society experienced by Roma and Sinti, as well as the prejudice and discrimination across a wide range of areas that they faced. It also noted the lack of political support for protection of individuals against incitement to racial violence and discrimination. According to ECRI, this had increased the vulnerability to racism and racial discrimination of the members of several groups coming within its mandate.
ECRI is a human rights body of the Council of Europe, composed of independent experts, which monitors problems of racism and intolerance, prepares reports and issues recommendations to member states.
For more information on ECRI: www.coe.int/ecri
Link to 2006 ECRI report on Italy
Press contact: Stefano Valenti, Tel: +33 (0)3 90 21 43 28, firstname.lastname@example.com
Council of Europe Directorate of Communication
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 25 60
Fax:+33 (0)3 88 41 39 11


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|Vibram FiveFingers Spyridon LS
The transition to minimalist or barefoot running takes time, a long time. I've been at it for a year, and even now I still us cushioned shoes in amongst my minimalist shoes, to mix it up a bit, and to be able to continue running without the hard workout that minimalist shoes give.
That hard workout has also meant that I've needed more rest, something that I'm finally embracing. Only in the last few months have I been happy to not run, even when I'm desperate to, the rest really is worth it. Hitting the trails fresh after an extra day off feels so much better than hitting the trails tired and hurting; something that I've done for years.
Interestingly, when I slip my XT Wings back on for a run, they really do feel odd, with their "massive" cushioned heels. But it's easier to run farther in them, the cushioning really does help with that... maybe I'll try some cushioned zero drop shoes in the future.
But I'm very much "into" the raw connection that minimalist shoes give, once you're used to it, and can get the miles in that keep you content, I see no reason to run in anything else.


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Sunday, August 07, 2011
TF3 Weekend Box Office Report
added $3.0 million (for $344.1M) while international sales added another $17.5 million (for $693.5M). This puts DOTM's worldwide total at $1038 million. Assuming international sales continue at a decent pace, Dark could pass Toy Story 3 ($1063.2M) and Pirates 3 ($1066.2M) for 5th place on the all-time list in about two weeks.
9 comments:
- Anonymous8/07/2011 11:45 PM
yeaaaaahh!! Hope it will pass to the 5th place!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/08/2011 3:00 AM
i think it will. like, in my country DOTM has just run since 3 days ago in theatres, and will run for about 3-4weeks. it's really late, but better than nothing; i'm really glad. so i hope that DOTM will pass toy story & pirates.ReplyDelete
- PSofosNextGen8/08/2011 11:17 AM
Transformers trilogy earns it's 3rd place at the Box Office both in "All time top Domestic trilogies topping Star Wars 4-6" as well as "All time top Worldwide trilogies topping Star Wars 1-3" Transformers ...is the modern Star-Wars as James Cameron said :) That is something good to remember from Michael Bay's Transformers , especially good for the fans and we all hope that the next trilogy will break even more records and come with more of one yearly crowns with better stories , marketing and ... not so much blow outs :) A Historical Remarkable Achievement !!!ReplyDelete
you mean pirates 2 not pirates 3. get your facts straight!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/09/2011 1:22 AM
Oh god! What will I do until Novemeber? That's like 3 months away! Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/09/2011 1:22 AM
I mean November. Heh. Typing faster than I can read it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/09/2011 2:34 AM
So when are we gonna hear something concrete about transformers 4? I hope soon....ReplyDelete
- PSofosNextGen8/10/2011 6:49 AM
Potter has not larger audience than transformers especially in US and now HP rocketed and top TF3 with an amount of ghostly fans ? Give me a break guys . Some people from the top did not let Michael Bay to win for a second time but guess this people : Hasbro will lose a very large amount of money if this shame continues to the next trilogy !!! I speaking only domestic . Worldwide TF3 pleased us all but even here Potters numbers are absoluitely fake ! Potter passed LOTR3 in 3 days weekend ? Give me another break ! Even a blind can see this is a worldwide setup ! This is not only my opinion but as well as many many others support that opinion !!!!!!! Why Michael Bay did not destroy HP8 after so many efforts ? the best 3D , the best action , the best CGi , the best music , all epic and now lost from Potter that is inferior ? pointless indeed ! I hope the future winner will be the next TFS movies !!!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/11/2011 2:10 AM
PSofosNextGen 8/10/2011 6:49 AMReplyDelete
HP most definitely has a more attractive worldwide audience, with the exception of Japan/Sth Korea so I'm not surprised by foreign totals. However, HP is only beating TF by a measly million in domestic markets, with 30% of its gross compared to TF's 33% domestic.
and relax, Hasbro will make ridiculously more money than HP in terms of merchandise sales, so don't worry about them going broke..


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MOSCOW - The Jewish community of Russia is worried over a rumor campaign by nationalist parties claiming that Dmitri Medvedev, President Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor, is Jewish.The concern here is that such "accusations" will arouse centuries-old anti-Semitism in the former czarist state. Russia is, after all, the birthplace of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Russian Jewish leaders declined to comment on the rumors officially, fearing to lend them credibility. Off the record, however, one said: "I pray it isn't true, because it would only make trouble, for him and for us."
Medvedev, who recently told a Russian weekly that he was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church at age 23, has not commented on these rumors. But Russian Internet sites are full of reports about his alleged Jewish roots.
The rumors are based in part on the fact that his maternal grandfather's first name was Veniamin - similar to the Hebrew Binyamin (Benjamin) - while his family name, Shaposhnikov, is sometimes a Jewish name. But beyond that, accusing an electoral rival of being Jewish is a tactic that nationalist parties have employed in the past, both in Russia and in other former communist countries.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Putin files: Anti-Semitism never dies in Russia
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg at 8:43 AM
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I've been neglecting the blog a bit this year, partly because I'm trying to become a psychotherapist. Most of my time is absorbed in taking classes and writing papers. The last time I did an advanced degree, I eventually tried to revise my seminar papers for publication, and placed quite a few of them in academic journals over the years; I hope to do the same for some of these, too. Some of the material is about my own conflicts or limitations, which is writing I'm reluctant to disclose, lest it alienate anybody whom I might otherwise perhaps be able to help. But other recent papers seem to me appropriate, thoughtful enough, and maybe even interesting, so I am thinking of posting some. This is the first one I'll try here; please comment if you feel like it.
(Speculative) Mental Health Treatment Report
"…while the patient lives it through as something real and actual…"
--Freud, "Recollection, Repetition, and Working Through"
This MHTR assesses the protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Quotations from the play are cited with Roman numerals indicating act and scene, respectively (thus "II, iv" means Act Two, Scene Four). Temporality is a vexing issue here, since the character is killed in the drama's ending, and since he experiences many marked changes of state as the action transpires. An MHTR is based on interviews; it's an extrapolation from the patient's own reporting, supplemented by the clinician's observations and a handful of gross situational facts such as divorce, job loss, arrest, toxicology results, and so on. By contrast, our knowledge of Prince Hamlet is based on a text whose generic conventions include the theater's "fourth wall," an illusory barrier between the spectators (or the reader) and the delimited world internal to the text. For the purposes of this assignment, then, I am assuming a different play, identical to Shakespeare's except that toward the end of Act Five, when Hamlet and Horatio are through talking with the Gravedigger but have not yet arrived at Elsinore for the duel with Laertes, the Prince excuses himself from Horatio's company and enters a windowless shack by the side of the road, whose green weathervane wails on its hinges in the wind. Having heard this sound before in my dreams, I hear the creaking, squeaking swinging noise again now, as I wake to find myself apparently dwelling in this same shack, and practicing psychotherapy in it: beside my chair is a long couch, onto which a man of about 28 has just sat down, wringing his hands and rather fiercely staring at me.
Multiaxial Diagnosis Form
Diagnostic code DSM-IV-TR name
Axis I:
296.89 Bipolar II Disorder, With Rapid Cycling (Provisional Diagnosis)
296.64 Bipolar I Disorder, Most Recent Episode Mixed,
Severe With Psychotic Features (R/O)
Axis II: Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation
Diagnostic code DSM-IV-TR name
_________________ No diagnosis on Axis II
Axis III: General Medical Conditions
ICD-9-CM code ICD-9-CM name
_________________ No diagnosis on Axis III
Axis IV: Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
Problems with primary support group
The patient's father died less than six months ago. Two months later, the patient's widowed mother married the brother of her late husband. The patient is experiencing the grief of father-loss (which Freud called "the most important event, the most poignant loss, of a man's life"), intensified by several factors involving his primary support group: an unusually strong identification with his late father (they share the same name), together with unresolved guilt over what seem like robust but unconscious Oedipal feelings of rivalry with his father, now dead; hatred of his uncle; and feelings of isolation and betrayal deriving from his mother's "o'er hasty marriage" (her words) to this same uncle. Instead of joining Hamlet in his mourning, she apparently has thrown herself into a new life with her late husband's younger brother, the new King. The patient was deeply hurt by the "wicked speed" with which she remarried: "But two months dead!" (I, ii). The patient's firm belief that his uncle/stepfather murdered his father has made it impossible for him to adjust to his new family configuration ("A little more than kin, and less than kind." I, ii).
Problems related to the social environment
Though the patient has one close friend (Horatio), most people at court perceive their career prospects and social lives as strongly dependent on a quick and thorough switch of allegiance, away from the dead man and onto his successor, regardless of any disparity in their relative merits as kings or human beings. But the patient, as the dead man's loving son and heir apparent, finds himself incapable of any such adjustment. Perhaps this speaks for his integrity and self-knowledge; it also isolates and makes him vulnerable.
Educational problems
Already a very learned man, Hamlet hopes to continue his studies. But his uncle, who has recently become the focus of intense feelings of rage, helplessness, and resentment, has prevented this: "For your intent / In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire…" (I, ii). Lately he derides both his reading ("words, words, words…" II, ii) and his writing ("I have not art to reckon my groans" II, ii).
Occupational problems
The patient is a prince, raised to expect that he would succeed his royal father to the throne of Denmark. In recent months, however, his uncle has been crowned in his stead. Somewhat naïve about other vocations, the patient cannot seem to imagine himself as anything but the Prince he was, or the King he had expected to become. Though briefly exiled to England, he returned to Denmark in an effort to carry out what he regards as the will of his father's spirit. Like Shakespeare's Coriolanus, he may say "There is a world elsewhere," but unfinished business calls him back home.
Housing problems
The patient reports disgust with his uncle on a broad range of issues which include the latter's alcoholism, often manifest in boisterous late-night drinking binges held in the large residence they share (I, iv). Though the castle of Elsinore is capacious, Hamlet does live under the same roof as the King and Queen, which may be exacerbating his horror at the thought of their sexual relationship. He became visibly distraught as he vividly speculated on the subject with somewhat eroticized disgust: "Nay, but to live / In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, / Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love / Over the nasty sty…" (III, iv).
Economic problems
Problems with access to health care services
Although the patient has inherited considerable wealth and social position ("to the manor born"), the healthcare available to him is severely constrained by his temporal position in the continuum of history. Wilfred Bion once cited the moment in Shakespeare's Macbeth when the Scottish King learns that the Doctor cannot help his mad Queen, and responds in disappointment: "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" Bion supplied a fitting answer: "Well, not at the moment, but in four hundred years, come along again and we'll see what we can do."[i]
Problems related to interaction with the legal system/crime
Rather like a corporate whistleblower or a political dissident (Alford, 2001), Hamlet is caught between the law of the organization to which he belongs, and a higher ethical imperative which that law has apparently compromised. The patient reports overhearing his uncle remarking on this very matter: "In the corrupted currents of this world / Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, / And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself / Buys out the law…" (III, iii). Hamlet has no "problems related to interaction with the legal system" because Elizabethan law (see III, i; IV, iii; V, i) was still a fluid thing, not really a "system," nor has he the benefit of legal recourse against his royal uncle, for the same reason that a successful revenge would likely go unpunished: at the top of any society, successful violence tends to remain above the law. In the words of Shakespeare's contemporary, John Harrington: "Treason doth never prosper… for if it prosper, none dare call it treason." A person of the 21st Century could not be in Hamlet's situation, which presupposes a hereditary monarchy in Northern Europe; but anyone who felt Hamlet's rage for a new stepfather and believed that the Ghost of his father was demanding that he murder him would, of course, be a danger to himself and to others, a homicide risk and a likely candidate for 51/50 involuntary hospitalization.[ii]
Other psychosocial and environmental problems
The patient's girlfriend was enlisted by her father to spy on the patient. He found out about this, took it quite personally, and abruptly ended their relationship, directing a tirade of verbal abuse at her and at himself (III, i).
Axis V: Global Assessment of Functioning Scale Score: 20 Time Frame: recent weeks, since the Coronation of King Claudius. The GAFS is difficult to apply here, for reasons explained above and below. In general, the patient maintains meaningful relationships and shows keen intellect, but he also shows signs of being a danger to himself and to others.
The patient reports several depressive symptoms, including anhedonia: "I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises" (II, ii); suicidal ideation: "O that this too too solid flesh would melt… Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" (I, ii), "To be, or not to be" (I, iii); as well as anxiety-related insomnia: "Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting / That would not let me sleep." (V, ii). He also reports a highly disturbing command hallucination: "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (I, v).
The patient explains that he has recently had experiences whose ethos he associates with madness—"an antic disposition"—and that although he initiated most of these as deliberate performances of a feigned madness, as each episode progressed, it became impossible for him to distinguish with full confidence between this mere malingering and a real insanity that deeply frightened him. Factitious disorder (300) is ruled out, since there is an environmental reason "to put an antic disposition on" (I, v), namely to frustrate his uncle's efforts to control his response to the crisis at court.
His girlfriend reports an instance of Hamlet's crazy behavior: "Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, / No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, / Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle; / Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, / And with a look so piteous in purport / As if he had been loosed out of hell / To speak of horrors…" (II, i). This was malingering. Yet perhaps its form expresses elements of the patient's experience, as if his outer clothing were expressive (albeit inadequately) of his inner spirit, just as it is seen to be in the earlier "inky cloak" scene (I, ii). There, the element of the clothes that matched the spirit was their mourning blackness; here, it is their disarray. Like the acting of the Player who weeps for Hecuba (II, ii), but unlike the lies of a killer (one who might say something like "The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, / Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it / Than is my deed to my most painted word." III, i), Hamlet's antic disposition is a dissembling in the service of the truth.
The patient is unsure of his precise age but presents as about 28, a Danish male of royal background who currently has no employment, gainful or otherwise. He did not seem unkempt, as he had in Ophelia's description above ("his doublet all unbraced…"), but seemed reinvested in his appearance, with buttons and laces all done up correctly, and, perhaps importantly, a white shirt among black garments instead of all black. He began the interview seeking advice about his girlfriend's recent symptoms of acute mental distress. When we turned to the patient's own experience, he was extremely guarded at first. Unsatisfied with the confidentiality clauses in the intake forms he had signed, he made me swear by his sword, "Never to speak of this that you have heard." (I, v). That done, the patient disclosed his suspicions that his father may have been killed by the younger brother who survives him—the patient's uncle, who now enjoys his mother's bed as well as the throne. These suspicions were, in the patient's view, confirmed ("O, my prophetic soul!") by a recent encounter with a speaking apparition that claimed to be his father's spirit, and which proceeded to elaborate a vivid account of exactly how the uncle murdered the father (I, v). The patient commands an impressive interpersonal sensitivity. He noted my silent skepticism about the Ghost and responded: "There are more things in heaven and earth… Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (I, v). For good or ill, our "philosophy," broadly construed, is the only tool we have in hand, and it militates very strongly for the proposition that there is no Ghost outside the patient's mind. In a separate interview, the patient's mother reports an episode in which Hamlet, in her own presence, claimed to hear and see this same Ghost, while she had no such experience (III, iv). Yet this is complicated by the reports of others in the patient's circle: Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio (I, i; I, iv; I, v), each reported seeing the same apparition, watching it together, first without Hamlet and then with him. Shared Psychotic Disorder (297.3) is ruled out, since four people saw the Ghost simultaneously, three of whom show no other mental disturbance.
The patient has recently become obsessed with the hypothesis that his uncle murdered his father. He is overwhelmed by the feeling that he is personally obligated to avenge that murder by murdering his uncle in turn. As a mandated reporter I reached for a telephone, intending to alert the police, but the voice on the other end was Dogberry, the clownish constable from Much Ado About Nothing, who seemed to gape and sputter at the sheer enormity of the situation as I described it. He let me know, in his idiom full of fake verbal sophistication and earnest virtue, that his scope of competence and scope of licensure ("office" was his word for it) could by no means extend to the restraint of a Prince, much less the arrest of a King, and he hung up on me.
Under Axis V "educational problems" were discussed. Despite his love of learning, the patient reports a new contempt for his studies, which seem trivial compared with the crisis of his father's murder and its consequences—especially the patient's obsessive but ambivalent yearning for revenge: "Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, / All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past / That youth and observation copied there…" (I, v). Yet this image of erasing false knowledge from his mental notebook is followed immediately by a counter-image of writing down something new, in a painful moment of what Bion might call "learning from experience": "My tables! Meet it is I set it down / That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." This is just one recent iteration of an ever-repeated discovery, that human beings are capable of amazing levels of evil which they seek to cover with equally amazing levels of deceit. Treatment should honor the painful learning in that lesson, while pointing up its incompleteness: secret betrayals, false shows of love, and deeply personal loss are not the whole story of human life, and need not be the whole story of Hamlet's life, if he can learn more.
The patient is a strange man with a high degree of achieved individuality. Since he often remarks on the perceived emptiness and consequent interchangeability of the people around him (especially courtiers, e.g., Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osrick), treatment will have to include respect for individuation and idiosyncrasy. Prince Hamlet also finds himself at or near the uttermost pinnacle of the society to which he belongs—a rare state of affairs which would frustrate any effort to pathologize his grandiosity as mania or even hypomania (this complicates the distinction between Bipolar I and Bipolar II in Hamlet's case, as does his command hallucination, which speaks for Bipolar I, whereas the rest of the patient's functioning seems much less mentally disturbed than the hallucination would suggest). In rank he is a prince; in nature and achievement he's what Shakespeare elsewhere (Henry the Fifth, II, ii) called "the full-fraught man." Envisioning a good therapy outcome for him is challenging, because he has come to associate change with loss, and grief with integrity. His uncle and his mother have already made bad-faith efforts to rush his mourning (I, ii), so he will need plenty of time to grieve for his father.
The main obstacle to the patient's happiness seems to be his hateful feelings for his uncle. Yet these feelings are rooted in very real deeds. It would be crazy-making for a therapist to go after Hamlet's symptoms—the anhedonia, suicidal ideation, and the intermittent psychotic breaks including visual-auditory homicidal command hallucinations—without respecting the concrete facts to whose vexing presence they represent a partly effective, partly self-destructive response.
This uncle represents to the patient his own defeat, and his father's murder—but also, the victory of a worldview so deeply cynical as to cast the value of existence into doubt. In our interview, Hamlet quoted the Chorus from Sophocles' Oedipus the Tyrant as they comment on a successful regicide: "if such acts are respected, why should I join in the dance and worship"?
One possible outcome is that the patient will accept the duel proposed to him recently by Laertes, and then allow the violence of the duel to break out of its conventional confines and kill King Claudius. But this uncontained violence might well destroy the patient, his mother, Laertes—in short, all concerned (as in fact happens in V, ii, the final scene of the play). In such a case, treatment goals are alternative futures in which violence is successfully contained, sublimated, or diverted onto objects deemed appropriate for its absorption. If Hamlet can gain the throne without killing his uncle, he can lawfully dispose of him. Treatment might direct the patient's attention to the practical means at his disposal, in ways conducive to reality-testing. As Jones (1910/1949) has shown, Laertes turns the Danish people against Claudius quite easily, and "Where Laertes succeeded, it is not likely that Hamlet, the darling of the people, would have failed." Yet this has not occurred to him, so far.
Professional ethics precludes any recommendation to proceed with the revenge-command of the Ghost, yet the patient is implacably haunted by this same command. Treatment avenues that depend solely upon renunciation of ambition are therefore not likely to succeed, since their exemplars—e.g., Gilgamesh, Buddha, Pope Celestine V—were not, like Hamlet, haunted by guilt over unperformed vengeance. Instead it may be best either to help the patient to reassess his options for a putsch on the rabble-rousing model of Laertes (rather than on the assassination model of Claudius); or to marshal a legal proceeding, perhaps backed by foreign assistance from Fortinbras of Norway (who also has reason to want Claudius exposed and deposed). Whatever road the patient chooses through his practical problems, treatment goals should include a fortifying of the patient's self-love, again through reality-testing, this time focused on the love tendered to him by Ophelia, by Horatio, and by the people.
As for his mother, it makes plenty of sense for the patient to be angry about the speed of her remarriage as well as her choice of second husband. Hamlet wrote the lines he gave to the Player-Queen: "Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, / If, once a widow, ever I be wife." But this ideal of postmortem monogamy is a recipe for despair, and there are well precedented alternatives available to the family. The work of mourning for his father will have to include a mourning for the marriage that was ended by his death; a new emotional life for Hamlet is linked with his eventual allowance of a new erotic life for his mother. It will also be essential to attenuate or reframe the patient's identification with his late father, a difficult prospect which time may help bring about.
Aspects of the patient's typical mental functioning suggest intermittent hypomania, including non-pathological flight of ideas and insomnia. But his killing of Polonius—which I knew about from the text, not any disclosure by the patient—proves that he is a real danger to Claudius at the least, and perhaps even to others besides him. The deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (like that of Polonius, arguably) seem more like casualties of that distasteful "craft of intelligence" which defines so much of life at Court, than a personal act of violence. Hamlet did them no direct violence, and they were about the business of having him executed when he surreptitiously made unofficial but legitimate use of his late father's signet ring to switch their instructions. The risk of suicide seems low, especially now that the lessons of the graveyard have been learned: that life ends soon enough anyhow, and that the vanity of human wishes frees us to live more playfully than we might otherwise dare.
Hamlet's royal station is a source of both meaning and danger, opportunity and onus. He cannot, as some Americans have been known to do, reinvent himself as some other kind of man, lighting out for the territory to spin a new identity out of nothing. What he has inherited is too big for that. Yet there may be a way of making it smaller; in fact (as I've written elsewhere), this shrinkage may be what Hamlet has achieved in his recent observations: of the actor who weeps "for nothing," of Fortinbras who fights "even for an eggshell," and of the graveyard, where Emperors and peasants are alike turned into mulch. A personal dilemma that had seemed to great to master is gradually reduced to "the fall of a sparrow" by comparison to the cosmos at large. That is easily said, but Hamlet seems to be doing it: "learning from experience," as they cannot whose lives are already scripted.
Alford, C.F. (2001) Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power. Ithaca: Cornell U.P.
Hecht, J. "Tragedy, Hamlet, and Luther," Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-
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Weber, M. (1904-05/1992). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. trans. Parsons. London: Routledge.
[ii] As a highly specialized rhetorical genre, the MHTR serves the well-being of the patient (since it represents an earnest effort to come to grips with the nature of his or her pain and predicament, the better to formulate a course of treatment) and the convenience of a surrounding world of highly regulated professionals. Whatever its merits and limitations, the MHTR (and the DSM which it aims to apply) epitomize the "rationalization" process whose eventual result Max Weber described as an "iron cage" for the human spirit. Yet this cage of modernity is simply "where" we live, and adaptation to it is a never-ending project. I suppose the patient's experience of his or her life gets connected to the clinician, who is connected to the DSM-IV (TR), which connects him or her to the profession and to the legal system, and so on. To use a metaphor from the body, most of these links are the connective tissue of rationalized procedure; some are perhaps more nutritive, striving to supply personal human interaction as an artery supplies oxygen or a vein takes away carbon dioxide.


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it was an awful mess here before, i had my books in totes and cardboard boxes- the boxes were up on shelves, but with so much flooding the boxes lost their stiffness and loosened. Though very few of my books actually got wet, the slow collapse of the boxes left things in a mess.
He's also applied DryLoc to the walls to see if we can keep the dampness down when we do have those soaking rains that have been happening much more frequently than i can remember.
He is under the impression that painting up to the granite foundation isn't a good idea. I don't have a clue myself.
All those black totes contain books. My books. I think the green ones have assorted aquarium odds and ends...
But he's got it all organized and most of the walls painted. He's doing more painting right now...i think.
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This site is intended to present a chronicle of the events and actions taken against members of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Group at IPICYT. This is a chronicle based on the accounts of people involved who wish to remain completely anonymous given the environment of repression and intimidation that they went through, as described here. These events have affected the lives of many scientists and students and should not be forgotten lest they be repeated.
Letter from students to Harry Kroto in June 2008
Dear Professor Kroto
We hope that you are fine, and we sincerely thank you for your time. We come to you with an embarrassing issue that is happening in the mexican scientific community. As you may know, professors Mauricio and Humberto Terrones have been working very hard to build an international-level research group and graduate school in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Under their leadership, this group has grown to be one of the most important Nanoscience and Nanotechnology research groups in Latinamerica.
However, in the last couple of weeks several unjustified administrative changes have threatened the future of the group's research projects. The new administration is taking control of the characterization equipment and laboratories, which were acquired with federal funding through professors Mauricio and Humberto Terrones' research grants. This is not the first time that available resources are made unaccessible to our group because of administrative policies, two electronic microscopes were kept in boxes for four years. Furthermore, they are trying to take over the graduate school, while asking Mauricio to start a new graduate program.
Under normal circumstances, we would not be afraid of having our work compromised by these internal policies, but the harsh environment that this situation has created, has resulted in threatenings and repression against students, academic staff and faculty members by the new administration. We come to you as an effort to express our concern to the international scientific community. We believe these situations should not exist in an academic institution, whose main reason to exist is the progress of the scientific knowledge and the development of new scientists.
We thank you again for your time, and we hope our next communication would be in better circumstances.
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BIRMINGHAM, England--Tacoma's Mark Wieczorek (left/photo by Paul Merca) finished seventh in the 800 meters at the Sainsbury's Grand Prix, stop number seven on the IAAF Diamond League tour on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon.
With training partner and rabbit du jour Matt Scherer setting the pace for the field, Wieczorek ran 1:48.74, as Ethiopia's Mohammed Aman took the win in a time of 1:45.18, making it Aman's third win this season on the IAAF Diamond League circuit this season.
The meet's highlight was the appearance of national hero Mo Farah, who trains in Beaverton as part of the Nike Oregon Project, as Farah showed his readiness to defend his world title in the 5000 with a 52.36 last 400 and a 27.26 last 200 to win the 5000 in 13:14.24 over Ethiopia's Yenew Alamirew (13.14.71) and Hagos Gebrhiwet (13:17.11).
The IAAF Diamond League tour moves to Lausanne, Switzerland for the Athletissima meeting on July 4th.
NOTES: University of California grad Deborah Maier is now the newest member of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts middle distance squad that Wieczorek and Scherer are members of.
Maier joins Washington alum Katie Mackey, SPU grad Jessica Tebo, along with Stanford alum Lindsay Allen and Tacoma's Brie Felnagle in the group led by Danny Mackey.
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Immediately following the service we all proceeded inside for our almost monthly pot luck dinner. We had fried chicken , salads , beans , vegetables and let us not forget the desserts !
It was a very nice dinner and we all were able to enjoy food and fellowship together .
Our church family .
As dinner started to wrap up , some members were all ready leaving . I think everyone was able to get some leftovers to take home . A day of no cooking for some of us . That's sweet .
As I was tying up some loose ends I became aware of piano music being played . It was coming from the sanctuary . I didn't pay much attention at the time , however I did notice how nice it sounded.
About this time some others were also hearing the music . My first thought was that it was our pianist , but I didn't remember seeing her there today . Pastor played his guitar as our accompaniment music outside .
What also went through my mind was that I didn't know of anyone else in our church who could play the piano like that . As I was leaving the hall with my leftovers I had to walk down the long hallway that leads to the sanctuary . By this time I had heard someone asking if anyone knew who was the young man that was playing the piano in the sanctuary . As I walked through the sanctuary to take my food out to my car I had noticed two of our ladies watching this young man play .
I brought my food out to the car and came back inside with my camera turned on to record . We found out that his name was Derrick Smith and he lives here in town . He said that he saw all of the cars in the parking lot as he drove by and decided to stop . When he came inside he saw our piano and just started playing . He doesn't read music . He just plays .
I do believe that God sent him to our church today .
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Hasan Isakkut: Music from Turkey
The Kanun
On November 12th, the Elmira College Encore Program featured another one of many acts from around the world, the Hasan Isakkut Ensemble. However, this group just happened to be from Adana, Turkey (which is located near one of the cities that we will be visiting). They are currently based out of New York City. Their performance was unique, and they were able to engage many audience members, some who even began to dance or clap. The quartet composed of a guitar, percussion, bass, and an unusual instrument distinctive of the Turkish culture, the Kanun. The pieces were based strongly on Turkish folk songs, but still, Hasan and the group arranged each selection and incorporated many improvisations to match their style. These songs, which are based heavily on quartertones, Turkish modes, a triplet structure, revealed a piece of Turkey's history as well. It was a pleasure to see so many students on the trip attend an event that will soon be a part of their everyday culture.
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I started this site to blog about hair, and before I knew it my hair had taken the background and my journey through battling with eating and body image began. I wish I could say I'm a crusader for some new cause but I'm not. I feel that females of all colors and ages have to recognize what we're doing to generations by our actions and reactions for food and body movement. After years of dieting I am now an Intuitive Eater and its saved my life.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Another day another meeting another picture
I've been very mindful about my eating. Allowing myself what I want and getting rid of the rest by throwing it away. What made me want to just gorge? I think its me. When I get tired I want to eat, when my body is in pain, I want to eat, if I fight with Shary about dishes, I want to eat.
Then after OA meeting tonight I went online to see my pictures from the race. OMG ok I thought I doing so much better! I looked huge! My thighs, calves, everything it was such a let down. So add to my list of what makes me trigger to eat I now add pictures of myself. So far that leaves:
1) Restrictions
2) Sleepy
3) Eating in front of tv
4) Trying to hard to be perfect
5) Frustrations at work
6) Not journaling
7) Pictures of me
8) Weighing myself
9) After therapy
So far that's about it right? My next step for OA is my inventory. This I think will be a little more difficult. Inventoring all of your flaws for all to see...hmmm but I live for my meetings I do twice a week and they are amazing (different locations but still the same soul and love). Without them and God helping me I know I would be a lot worst off. Write ya later
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Hi just came across your blog. I have a history of food issues as well...
Good luck on your journey.
- March 25, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Bombchelle said...
Hey sis...I think this day was a turning point for you. You're like a totally different person now with motivation that I want to model myself after.
- May 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM
I know I'm responding to this post so very late... We are our own worst critics. When it comes to "lifestyle changes" you have to take it one day at a time.
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JANUARY 9, 2013 — The New Year's Eve grounding of the drilling vessel Kulluk is just the latest in a string of problems faced by Shell in its Arctic drilling problem. Today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that what he called "an expedited, high-level assessment" will "pay special attention to challenges that Shell encountered in connection with certification of its containment vessel, the Arctic Challenger; the deployment of its containment dome; and operational issues associated with its two drilling rigs, the Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk."
The review is expected to be completed in 60 days and will be led by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy Beaudreau, who has been selected to serve as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management. The review will look at Shell's safety management systems, its oversight of contracted services, and its ability to meet the strict standards in place for Arctic development. The Coast Guard will provide technical assistance for the review.
"Developing America's domestic energy sources is essential for reducing our dependence on foreign oil and creating jobs here at home and the Administration is fully committed to exploring for potential energy resources in frontier areas such as the Arctic," said Secretary Salazar. "Exploration allows us to better comprehend the true scope of our resources in the Arctic and to more fully understand the nature of the risks and benefits of development in this region, but we also recognize that the unique challenges posed by the Arctic environment demand an even higher level of scrutiny."
During limited preparatory drilling operations last season, Shell constructed top-hole sections for one well each in the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement conducted unprecedented oversight and had inspectors present onboard each Shell rig around the clock throughout those operations.
"The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement demands operators make safety at all levels at all times their number one priority, and we expect the highest level of performance from operators in the Arctic," said BSEE Director James A. Watson. "As we oversee historic domestic drilling, BSEE will continue its unprecedented oversight of drilling activities in the Arctic and we will continue to hold anyone operating in public waters to the highest safety and environmental standards."
The U.S. Coast Guard has also announced it has initiated a comprehensive marine casualty investigation of the Kulluk grounding. BSEE and the National Transportation Safety Board will provide technical assistance for the Coast Guard's investigation.
Rear Adm. Thomas P. Ostebo, the Coast Guard 17th District commander, ordered a formal marine casualty investigation on Friday into the circumstances and contributing factors involved in the grounding of the drilling unit Kulluk on the southeast shore of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska on Dec. 31, 2012. A formal marine casualty investigation is convened when a vessel casualty has considerable regional significance, may indicate vessel class problems, or is the best means to assess technical issues that may have contributed to the incident.
The formal marine casualty investigation will be led by a Coast Guard investigating officer, with participation and support by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as technical advisers.
In accordance with statute, the formal investigation will probe every aspect of the incident, to include but not limited to the causes of the incident, whether there is evidence that any failure of material was involved or contributed to the incident or whether there is evidence of misconduct, inattention, negligence of willful violation of the law.
Additionally the investigation will evaluate factors associated with the Kulluk and its support vessels, and will determine as closely as possible:
- The cause of the accident looking at the full scope of all towing vessels, towing equipment, procedures and personnel involved;
- Whether there is evidence that any failure of material (either physical or design) was involved or contributed to the casualties, so that proper recommendations for the prevention of the recurrence of similar casualties may be made;
- Whether there is evidence that any act of misconduct, inattention to duty, negligence, or willful violation of the law on the part of any person holding a Coast Guard credential contributed to the casualties, so that appropriate proceedings against the credential of such person may be recommended;
- Whether there is evidence any person caused or contributed to the cause of the casualties including the planning and subsequent review of the Kulluk's tow plan.
The Coast Guard marine casualty investigation likely will take several months to complete due to the extent and depth of its inquiry. It says that the findings of the investigation will position the Coast Guard to take appropriate remedial action to address the factors that contributed to the casualty.


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Le Campéole Plage des Tonnelles is an extensive site (25 hectares) located on land belonging to the French forestry commission and close to the popular resort of Saint Jean-de-Monts. The site has direct access to a superb sandy beach and is divided by a road. It also has a good sized heated swimming pool. The 230 touring pitches, most with electricity (6A) and of a reasonable size. A few are on uneven ground. A range of chalets, fully equipped bungalow tents and mobile homes are available for rent including some models specially adapted for disabled visitors. The site has a small bar and snack bar (July/Aug) just along the road.
There is also a small supermarket and a large bar and restaurant close by. The site can become quite lively in high season with a daily children's club and a wide range of daytime activities and evening entertainment, including concerts and discos in a large marquee. However, touring pitches are well scattered on this vast site, so it should be possible to ask to be located well away from these events if desired. A number of cycle tracks pass through the woods close to the site (cycle hire available). Saint Jean is a well equipped resort with dozens of restaurants, cafés and other attractions.
Four sanitary blocks serve each section of the site. Two have been attractively refurbished to a very high standard with modern preset showers, washbasins in cubicles, and excellent facilities for babies, children and disabled visitors. Laundry. Motorcaravan services. Direct beach access. Bar, snack bar and takeaway (July/Aug). Heated swimming pool and paddling pool (1/6-13/9, supervised July/Aug). Bicycle hire. Archery (July/Aug). Multisports court. Minigolf. Trampoline. Bouncy castle. Snack bar adjacent (July/Aug). Play area. Activities and entertainment programme (July/Aug). WiFi (charged) in reception. Only gas or electric barbecues permitted.
- Accommodation to Rent
- Bicycle Hire on Site
- Bar Nearby
- Bar on Site
- Boat Launch Nearby
- Seaside Beach Onsite
- Childrens Play Area
- Golf Nearby
- Book Online
- Facilities for disabled visitors
- Riding Nearby
- Outdoor Pool Heated
- Outdoor Pool on Site
- Walking
- Shop Nearby
- Outdoor
- Takeaway Food
- Pets allowed
- Wifi Chargeable
- Wifi Partial Site
- Spa/Wellbeing
St Jean-de-Monts is 55 km. northwest of La Roche-sur-Yon. The site is 6 km. north of St Jean-de-Monts on the D38 towards Notre Dame-de-Monts. Turn west at the roundabout at Les Tonnelles where site is signed and is on right in 300 m.
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Pagotel Chalet
2 bedrooms, sleeps 5: 1 double, 3 singles, bunk bed, pillows and blankets provided
|shower, WC
|fitted kitchen with hobs, microwave
|table & chairs
|accepted (with supplement)
|Low Season (from) €315 per week
|High Season (from) €798 per week
|29 April - 18 September
Mobile Home Family +
2 bedrooms, sleeps 6: 1 double, 2 singles, sofa bed, pillows and blankets provided
|shower, WC, separate WC
|fitted kitchen with hobs, microwave, coffee maker, fridge
|table & chairs
|accepted (with supplement)
|Low Season (from) €350 per week
|High Season (from) €875 per week
|29 April - 18 September
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If you're looking for a way to show off your Instagram photos in the real world, there's more than a few options.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
Interrogation at 212° F.
George Bush says that "The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example." Porter Goss says "The United States does not engage in or condone torture." Yet Janis Karpinski, the officer who was in charge of Abu Ghraib, claims that one full year after the prisoner-abuse scandals became public, she still receives e-mails from soldiers who tell her "you need to know that it's still happening." And when Steve Crawshaw of Human Rights Watch, quoted in the Nat Hentoff column below, says "You can't wash your hands and say we didn't torture, but we will use what comes out of torture," the Bush administration has a straightforward reply -- Yes, we can:
Actually, there is much that U.S. interrogators can learn from their counterparts in Uzbekistan on how to break down prisoners. One of the CIA's jet planes used to render purported terrorists to other countries—where information is extracted by any means necessary—made 10 trips to Uzbekistan. In a segment of CBS's 60 Minutes on these CIA torture missions (March 5), former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray told of the range of advanced techniques used by Uzbek interrogators:
"drowning and suffocation, rape was used . . . and also immersion of limbs in boiling liquid."
Two nights later on ABC's World News Tonight, Craig Murray told of photos he received of an Uzbek interrogation that ended with the prisoner actually being boiled to death!
Murray, appalled, had protested to the British Foreign Office in a confidential memorandum leaked to and printed in the Financial Times on October 11 of last year:
"Uzbek officials are torturing prisoners to extract information [about reported terrorist operations], which is supplied to the U.S. and passed through its Central Intelligence Agency to the U.K., says Mr. Murray." (Emphasis added.)
Prime Minister Tony Blair quickly reacted to this undiplomatic whistle-blowing. Craig Murray was removed as ambassador to Uzbekistan . . . .
As for our ally Uzbekistan, run by the merciless dictator Islam Karimov, Philip Stephens, a forthright columnist for the Financial Times, noted on October 19:
"Uzbekistan provides a vital base for U.S. operations in neighbouring Afghanistan. U.S. financial aid [to Uzbekistan] provides a bulwark against Russian influence." And—dig this—an October 16 Financial Times editorial points out that because the Bush administration supports the barbaric government of President Karimov, the U.S. "has given [Karimov] the confidence to sell a long-running campaign against internal dissidents as part of the campaign against Al Qaeda." (Emphasis added.)
In 2003, Fatima Mukhadirova sent photographs of her son—who was tortured to death in an Uzbek prison—to the British embassy. As reported in Muslim Uzbekistan (February 12, 2004): "His teeth were smashed, his fingers were stripped of nails, and his body had been cut, bruised and scalded." His mother was put on trial "for attempted encroachment on the constitutional order" to convince her to shut up about what was done to her son. (She was subsequently convicted and sentenced to six years in prison.)


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The Coast2Coast Rx card... gives residents access to discounted healthcare options, and the funds generated are put back into the community to serve those in need - San Joaquin County Supervisor Carlos Villapudua
Ponte Vedra, FL (PRWEB) August 28, 2012
The administrators of the Coast2Coast Rx discount prescription card and San Joaquin County are celebrating two important milestones for the county: the 2nd anniversary of the program and the fact that residents have saved $1,711,891 since adopting the card in August 2010.
Understanding the importance of providing healthcare options to constituents, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved the partnership with Coast2Coast Rx so that residents have the opportunity to better manage their health by having access to prescriptions that they might not otherwise be able to afford. A notable benefit of the card is that it also serves the community by generating revenue for public programs—$1.25 for each prescription filled.
"The Coast2Coast Rx card allows us to serve the county on many levels—it gives residents access to discounted healthcare options, and the funds generated are put back into the community to serve those in need," said San Joaquin County Supervisor Carlos Villapudua.
The card can be a significant cost-saver for those without health insurance—and it can be equally as effective for those with insurance who have high deductibles or require a prescription not covered under their current plan. Consumers enjoy savings of 10, 20 and even up to 75 percent on more than 60,000 brand name and generic prescription drugs. In some instances the card can be used to offset the Medicare Part D "donut hole." The free card is available to everyone with no enrollment and no restrictions on age or health status. Additional benefits include discounts on vision, dental and hearing services, diabetes supplies and veterinary services and pet prescriptions.
The United Way of San Joaquin Obispo County has joined forces with the county and Coast2Coast Rx to provide cards to the people it serves. "Improving the lives of people in our community is our mission; so it was an easy decision to partner with the county and with Coast2Coast Rx, knowing that our consumers will have access to discounted prescriptions and vision, dental and hearing services, and diabetes supplies that many need," said Andy Prokop, president & CEO of the United Way of San Joaquin County.
Local social service agencies, faith-based and nonprofit organizations and business associations are encouraged to provide the Coast2Coast Rx card to their consumers as a money-saving resource.
"In addition to the valuable support of the County Board of Supervisors, we are forging relationships with community leaders and trusted organizations like the United Way so that we can reach those citizens who need the card the most," said Chief Marketing Officer Marty Dettelbach of Financial Marketing Concepts, Inc., the company that provides the discount prescription card. "We find that once consumers use the card, they discover how easy it is to use and enjoy the benefits associated with it."
For immediate savings on prescription costs, San Joaquin residents can download and print free cards at http://www.coast2coastrx.com/sanjoaquin/. Take part in the community discussion and stay up-to-date on healthcare news by adding Coast2Coast Rx to your social network on Facebook and Twitter.
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The mission of the Coast2Coast Rx Card is to provide a universe of prescription savings options while improving health outcomes. The Coast2Coast Rx Card has provided millions of dollars in savings on prescription drugs for its program members. A product of Financial Marketing Concepts, Inc., a Florida corporation ("FMC"), that is a leader in the supplemental benefits field, the Coast2Coast Rx Card was developed as a result of the belief that the cost of products and services has risen so drastically that a need has arisen among many families to supplement these costs with benefit programs and prescription cards. For more information please visit http://www.coast2coastrx.com/.


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There is a big difference between successful and unsuccessful people. Especially when it comes to their daily habits. Successful people follow specific routines. Yet, they don't usually tell people about them. However, we are going to list some for you! Below you will find 5 secret habits of successful people. 1. They don't sleep much. Successful people sacrifice sleep on …Read More »
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The alteration from coins to paper money makes no difference. The notes will be offered and accepted in payment, just the same as gold, and should be treated by the public with the same confidence. Wages paid in paper will have exactly the same purchasing power as if paid in gold, and workers need have no hesitation in accepting them. Postal orders are also legal tender. The Government scheme is introduced for the benefit of the public whose duty it is to support the scheme and reserve the gold.
The new £1 notes are printed on small slips of paper 2½ in. by 5in. They bear the following wording printed in Old English type:--
These notes are a legal tender for a payment of any amount issued by the Lords Commisioners of His Majesty's Treasury under authority of Act of Parliament.On the left-hand side they bear the King's portrait amid ornamentation encircled by the inscription "Georgius V., D.G. Britt. Omn Rex, F.D., Ind. Imp." The notes are printed on white paper, watermarked with the royal cipher.
ONE POUND(Sd.) JOHN BRADBURY,Secretary to the Treasury.
We are informed that the Yorkshire Penny Bank have paid all the holiday and wage money in coin, and the public have willingly taken the new £1 notes issued by the Government. The supply of notes sent down from the head office in London has been exhausted, and all payments were being made yesterday afternoon in cash. Business is absolutely normal, and a most gratifying feature is that the deposits yesterday were almost equal to the withdrawals. There is no reason for the public to have the slightest fear.
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A historian and political analyst who cowrote a book about battlefield intelligence with Michael Flynn said Flynn was reluctant to join the Trump administration, but that the president "insisted" he serve as national security adviser, reports say.
President Donald Trump's pressure on Flynn came even as Trump's transition team was warned that the retired lieutenant general was under investigation, The Daily Beast reported.
"He did not want to be national security adviser," Michael Ledeen, who co-authored the book "The Field of Flight" last year with Flynn, told The Daily Beast. "He didn't want to be in the government. He wanted to go back to private life. But Trump insisted on it."
"He likes him, he trusted him, he was comfortable with him," Leeden said.
According to the New York Times, Flynn told Trump's transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign. And despite the warning, Trump picked Flynn for the national security post.
Ledeen told ABC News that Flynn is "a very talented man" who made major contributions to military intelligence.
"He revolutionized U.S. military battlefield intelligence and was attempting to do the same thing at [the Defense Intelligence Agency] when he was fired for telling the truth under oath," Ledeen told ABC News.
Source: newsmax – Author: Trump Pressured Flynn to Be National Security Adviser
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Action on voting rights in 2016 looks very similar to last year. On the whole, states are passing less restrictive election laws, and even better, more and more states are reforming their election process to help voters.
National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) 2015 is over, but we'll be smiling about the results for a long time to come! Here's what excited us most about National Voter Registration Day.
They are the true volunteers in the never-ending battle to get people to register and vote in local, state and national elections.
From the moment I stepped onto the bus headed to the People's Climate March chartered by the Sierra Club, I knew this was going to be an extraordinary day.


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- Societies of production : Dimension Films
- Tagline : Family Is Forever
- Movie Genre : Horror,
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- Original title : Halloween II
- Release Date of film : 2009-08-28
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- Languages spoken : English
- Vote Count : 21
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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De DWAAS namens het Vaticaan! Obama zingt en danst bij nationale kerstboomReplyDelete
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Sister, 'Obama' is a DEVIL on behalf of the Satanic Vatican!
This entity will pay a HIGH price for his evil CRIMES and Hillary Clinton too!
The USA is being governed by EVIL GANGSTERS on behalf of SATAN and HIS Roman Catholic CULT, and the EU too!
JESUS is coming in order to DESTROY this EVIL BABYLONIAN system and to free the remnant of HIS chosen people and the believers in JESUS Christ.
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I was talking about the internet in general, and especially concerning the USA, because 'your' country is being governed by SATANIC MORONS who serve the SATANIC VATICAN, and they also use these kind of tactics you were pointing out, concerning crowd control and tactics of agitation. and MIND CONTROL.
May JESUS come soon and save you (and me) from your country...I'm sick and tired of the USA, the country I used to love...when I was IGNORANT.
I was a boy of nine years old and I was allowed to stay up in order to watch the first 'man on the moon'.
It was all a BIG HOAX of NASA and the SATANIC (Vatican controlled) US-government.
They LIED to a boy of 9, in 1969.
A boy living in the Netherlands, the country that once had founded New Amsterdam, which became 'New York', after the British STOLE it from the Dutch, on behalf of the VATICAN.
Learn more about the WARS between Holland and England, though both countries were PROTESTANT, but Britain was (secretly) governed by the Vatican, and the rulers of England betrayed their own population, just like today, and this is also the case in 'my' country, because it became part of NAZI-Europe, which is the EU.
I'm sick and tired of 'my' government too and our 'monarchy' is FAKE and it serves the Vatican.
Anglo-Dutch Wars
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Hey guys, it's been a while.
I can't really go through everythig that happened to explained why i wasn't there in the last couple of months. Lets just say karma wasn't on my side and I had a couple problem to deal with. But i'm finally starting to see the lighter side of the ocean. You know when your drowning and you dont know if you're swimming towards certain death or towards the surface. Well I think i'm finally seing the surface now and i'm swimming as fast as I can to reach it.
Well enough of that, let's talk about the real reason why i'm writing today. It's my birthdaY! Well, it was, yesterday to be fair. And you know what i'm 24 I don't know what i'm doing with my life and... IT'S OK! I see all these people online with kids and houses, being married and happy at 22-23-24... and i'm here playing video games trying to work as much as I can to make some money and it's fine. I remember when i was 16 I thought I would have my career by now, that I would have a boyfriend and would be thinking about kids and getting married. And ohhhhh god was I wrong. I'm still so young and so naïve. I don't know how to adult yet, seriously why is it so hard to be an adult i wanna go out and have fun. Right now i decided it was time for me to stop chasing after boys, stop stalking tinder or whatever. I don't need anyone to make me happy, i need my friend and thats it. This year is the year where I take care of myself. I started dancing again which is awesome it makes me so happy after 5 years of doing jackshit i'm finally moving again. I purchased new strings for my guitar so I can make music again which is another passion I had give up on with an ex. Also i'm starting some groupe therapy for my borderline desorder i'm finally gonna work on that part of me too. And most of all I don't care about what others think of me anymore. I don't want kids for now, I don't want a boyfriend for now, i don't need this. I'm 24 and I live my 18th years again. I wanna be free, i wanna have fun and mostly I wanna be myself.
Moral of the story : don't ever let anyone tell you you're too old to be yourself and you should start thinking about getting married and finding someone or something. Don't let anyone tell you what to do with your life. If you dont want kids thats fine, if you wanna live forever young thats also fine... just do you boos!
I love you all so much and i'll see you soon
I even got the time to draw a mini collection just before my relapse, hope you guys like it