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activeREinvestor: Four Pillars of Investing, . . . keeps coming up as a must read for people getting started with investment.As I was curious I checked out Amazon. There is a quote from the first chapter that I wanted to raise here. Both because it is 'common wisdom' that it is correct and because it is 'professional wisdom' that it is false in some cases."The difficulty is in knowing, with certainty, the cases."The book says The one thing that stands out above all else is the relationship between return and risk. Assets with higher returns invariably carry with them stomach-churning risk, while safe assets almost always have lower returns."How can you argue with the statement. Yet when people do study the market there are ample ways to show that risk and returns are mispriced."For awhile."The simplest one was when a student studied the premium on junk bonds and discovered that the risk premium was in excess of what was needed to compensate for the actual defaults. The student went on to re-invent junk bond investing and helped to improve the efficiency of capital allocated to businesses."And eventually Mike Milliken went to jail, too."Warren Buffet has discussed the same situation when he talks about re-insurance. Insurance is many times mis-priced. Re-insurance being more off the mark and therefore a prudent place for Buffet to invest given what he believes to be a superior understanding of how to price the risks. His company is the largest re-insurance company in the world by some measures."Big re-insurance is a relatively small world with not that many players. "A third example is how people (professionals and amateurs) mis-price long-tailed events when option prices and futures are traded. Humans by their nature are less able to deal with statically off the chart events then they are dealing with the norm."Long-tail events, however, are different than "off the chart" events - "They over compensate or under estimate. Explained as a good thing for survival but not the best skill when dealing with six sigma events on a bell curve."I am a bit rusty with my statistics, but as I recall:+/- 1 SD is roughly 68%+/- 2 SD is roughly 95%, so single sided tail is down to 2.5%+/- 3 SD is roughly 99.7%, so single tail is down to .15%, +/- 4 SD is roughly 99.9% (?), so single sided tail is down to .05%+/- 5 SD is ?+/- 6 SD is ?So a six-sigma event is a way, way unlikely event."The reaction to the recent natural disaster is an example as is the response every time there is a plane crash. Other forms of death and destruction happen around us and we do not really react. Yet when an event that is hard to believe happens we are mobilized into action or avoidance. If you were to measure the impact of one event vs another the responses are many time out of proportion to the 'impact'. Call it an emotional response. Not an efficient market response."Yes. Plus the assumptions of EMT are never really met in real life, anyway."I worked for a number of investment banks and I know for a fact that the markets are not efficient or accurate in how they price everything."I doubt that anyone truly disputes that statement.Regards, JAFO(The book is on my reading list, but not yet read by me)
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DA LAT, VIETNAM — About 10 pounds of highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb, was removed Saturday from a research reactor in Vietnam, part of a joint U.S.-Russian program to keep such material out of the hands of international terrorists.
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Mali: Adapting to climate change
Fatoumata Almoudidjé is recognized as the most determined person in the fight against the climate change in her village Douekiré, Mali. This is her story:
Alarming effects of climate change
In this village, at the gate of the Sahara desert, 40 kilometers from Timbuktu, the effects of the climate change are very alarming. The agriculture in the area has become precarious and it is no longer giving sufficient output to ensure the food security of the population.
However, with the support of Diakonia's partner organization AMSS, the population and the decision makers have mobilized themselves in order to stop the man-made degradation of their environment.
AMSS, which is one of Diakonia's partner organizations in Mali, have for a long time worked together with the local population to combat and control the effects of climate change. The organization also strive to change policies regarding climate and environment on a local level.
A role model with ambitions for the future
Fatoumata, from a lower cast and a mother of seven children, is one of the pioneers, today serving as a role model for others. In addition to the family's small-scaled farming activities, she is a community leader of other women in Douékiré and above all the creator of a very successful nursery in Douékiré. However, her ambitions for the future go far beyond what she has already achieved.
Lack of water leads to food insecurity
Everything has not always been easy for Fatoumata. Her family, as well as many other families in Douékiré and the surrounding areas, lost their principal means of production as the land where they used to cultivate their food has been deteriorated during the last 10-15 years.
This is because many formerly flooded lakes have dried up due to climate change and man-made draining of the lakes to manage recurring droughts. Trees and other fragile natural resources are under threat of extermination. As a consequence, the agriculture in the area is no longer able to ensure the food security of the population.
Sustainable management and conflict prevention
In collaboration with Diakonia, AMSS started a project for sustainable management of natural resources and conflict prevention in Douékiré and four other neighboring municipalities in the province of Goudam. The strategy of the project was to support primarily the women to develop sustainable methods to use natural resources and get access to land. AMSS used the existing women's organizations to raise the consciousness of the women about their role in the environmental degradation and to mobilize them to take up the fight against it.
A business that involves many women
Through her participation in the sessions of "Communication for Behavior Change" held by AMSS, Fatoumata learnt and reflected upon the role and place of women in the preservation and management of natural resources.
Convinced that she could take action to change the situation in Douékiré, this woman from one of the lower casts in the society decided to ask the local political and traditional authorities for a parcel where she could start a nursery of trees. Fatoumata's request was approved and she soon started managing her own nursery at the banks of the river in Douékiré.
Now the main supplier of tree plants
Eventually Fatoumata has become the main supplier of tree plants such as eucalyptus in the municipality of Douékiré and its surroundings. Today, her production capacity is more than twenty thousand saplings per year. She manages to sell plants at a turnover of 16,000 SEK per year, equivalent to almost three times the minimum wage in Mali. She recognizes today that she is doing well in her business.
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Fatoumata, who earlier did not have any resources at all, is today able to ensure family expenses such as food, education, health as well as the costs that have to be paid for the marriages of her four daughters.
As a result of her important contribution to the expenditures of the household, Fatoumata feels more valued in her family. Her new financial independence has given to her a stronger position in the decision making not only in her own household but also within the community. Fatoumata occupies an increasingly important social place in Douékiré. Very committed to the emancipation of the woman, she is a leader of the women's association of the village. She also trains other women in the production of seedlings and the establishment of nurseries in other villages in the municipality.


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A glimpse into NZ's future at planning conference launch
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A glimpse into NZ's future at planning conference launch
Insights into a world first for planning are to be delivered on Wednesday at the award winning Auckland Art Gallery, with proceedings set to be a precursor for the New Zealand Planning Institute's (NZPI) 2015 Conference.
The Auckland based 2015 conference will challenge planners to reflect on the lessons from the past and consider how they can use technology to help shape the future of the profession and the communities they work with. The 2015 conference is open to a wide audience in a bid to engage all communities interested in planning for our future.
The launch has a line up of speakers reflecting the conference theme "Back to the Future" and includes Mayor Len Brown, 'AK2: The Coming of Age of a New Auckland' author James Hurman, Adrienne Young Cooper, involved in some of NZ most controversial planning projects including as deputy chair of Housing New Zealand and Waterfront Auckland and chair of Hobsonville Land Company, and Kiwi innovation expert Roger Dennis, who founded Christchurch's Sensing City project.
Mr Dennis will provide insights into the future of planning when he discusses the Sensing City project, which he describes as New Zealand's largest ever infrastructure project with the potential to directly impact planning futures.
"As the heart of Christchurch is rebuilt we are integrating a network of digital sensors into every piece of physical infrastructure. The sensors will be able to measure anything in real time – traffic flow, water and air pollution, resource use – and we will be able to understand how a city works using real time data," he says.
NZPI CEO Susan Houston says presentations from Mr Dennis and the other speakers at this week's launch event will be a taste of things to come at the national conference in April 2015.
"Planning is at a new threshold and Back to the Future in Auckland in 2015 will bring together the brightest of minds from across the spectrum in an international forum," she says.
Ms Houston says the 2015 conference will focus on the legacies and lessons learned from past generations, while seeking a better understanding of the opportunities offered by technology into the future.
"It is fitting that in 2015, when we commemorate the struggles that helped shape our nation, the national planning conference will offer a timely opportunity to reflect on planning conversations occurring around New Zealand and the globe and what the future offers," she says.
The conference will take place in Auckland from 14-17 April 2015 and is expected to attract more than 800 national and international delegates.
NZPI is inviting members and non-members alike to get involved in the conference by attending the launch. Industry leaders, representatives of iwi, business managers, technical specialists, planners, peers from allied professions, those working in local government, environmental advocates, scientists, researchers, academics and tertiary students are all invited to attend Back to the Future 2015.
NZPI is also calling for papers for its 2015 conference. For more information please visit www.planning.org.nz.
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The NZPI is the voice of planning in New Zealand. It is the professional organisation representing this country's planners, resource managers, urban designers, and environmental practitioners. Planners have a critical role in shaping New Zealand's future by helping to develop solutions to key issues, such as population growth, infrastructure needs, pressure on natural resources and environments, demographic change and transport. For more information visit www.planning.org.nz.


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Mariah Carey gave a one-off concert to thousands of adoring fans in Central Park this morning as she kicked off the 'Good Morning America' summer concert series
Mariah Carey sang a medley of her best loved songs on 'Good Morning America' today (24.05.13) and nearly suffered a wardrobe malfunction.
The '#Beautiful' singer launched the US breakfast TV show's annual summer concert series with a set featuring her biggest hits in New York's Central Park and was joined on stage by R&B star Miguel to perform her latest track.
Mariah dusted off old favourites including 1996's 'Always Be My Baby', while her most recent chart-topping smash hit 'We Belong Together' - which was number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 2005 - was a hit with the crowd, who braved the chilly temperature to see their idol.
To close the one-off gig, Mariah introduced a surprise guest - '#Beautiful' collaborator Miguel - to perform the song with her.
However, the performance - which aired on live TV - was nearly derailed by an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction when the back of Mariah's dress came apart while giving an interview.
She quipped to 'Good Morning America' co-host Lara Spencer: "Oh shoot, the back of my dress just popped! It popped, darling. What should we call this? The Central Park saga?"
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LONG BEACH – Millikan High's baseball team had plenty of momentum and lots of high hopes going into its CIF-SS Division I first-round playoff game against Edison.
But one rough inning quickly brought all that hard-earned late-season momentum to a screeching halt Friday afternoon and sophomore pitcher Kaz Akamatsu did the rest in Edison's 4-1 victory at Millikan High.
Staked to a 3-0 lead after Edison combined five singles into a three-run rally in the second inning, Akamatsu pitched a four-hitter for his first complete game of the season. He struck out just two, but didn't walk a batter and the one run he did give up was unearned.
Edison, the third-place team from the Sunset League, improved to 20-9 after its second playoff victory. The Chargers had to win a wild-card game against Tesoro and next face Harvard-Westlake, which beat JW North of Riverside, 5-0, behind Jack Flaherty's no-hitter, on Tuesday.
Millikan, which had won 10 of its previous 11 games to end Moore League play tied for first with Long Beach Wilson, finished 18-11-1.
"It's disappointing only because we thought we had a team that could have gone further," senior shortstop Johnny Weeks said. "They're a solid team, well-coached. Their pitcher did a nice job of moving the ball around."
The Chargers jumped on starter Jacob Alcorn in the second inning after first baseman Adam Moses led off with a walk. Singles by designated hitter Peter Quenneville and right fielder Michael Mahony loaded the bases and shortstop Jake Scott followed with a sharp two-run single to center. A sacrifice fly to center by catcher Kevin Ando scored Mahony for a three-run lead.
An infield throwing error set up the Rams' only run in the bottom of the second. Third baseman Spencer Steer went to second on a wild throw and scored on right fielder Griffin Keller's followup single to center.
The Chargers quickly pushed the lead back to three runs on Moses' leadoff walk and Mahony's triple in the third inning. After that, the Rams managed just three more hits and two of those runners were quickly taken out by double plays.
Although the Rams made good contact on several well-hit balls, Akamatsu retired the last 10 batters he faced.
"The early lead did make it a little easier," Akamatsu said. "I just pounded the strike zone. I'm always confident my teammates will do a good job in the field."
While the Chargers stayed sharp with a wild-card playoff win, Millikan had a nine-day layoff before its playoff opener. But Coach Scott Glasser didn't think that was an excuse.
"We didn't play sloppy," he said. "We were excited to start the playoffs and we didn't play bad. … It's nobody's fault. There are a lot of teams capable of winning it all in Division I."
"I was very impressed with Edison at the plate. They put the ball in play. They used the whole field."
The Rams were always within one good rally of getting back in the game because freshman Diego Alarcon relieved Alcorn with no outs and a man on in the fourth inning and cooled off the Chargers, who finished with 11 hits. He didn't give up another run over four innings and gave up just three hits thanks in part to a couple of outstanding plays by Weeks on a diving catch and Keller in right field.
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All the rage these days is around Google and their "+" network, which many are laughing off and just as many others are hailing as the next big thing. Microsoft obviously has a great ride going with Facebook but there is something still missing from the equation perhaps, something related to Bing, searching, sharing information and more.
The website Fusible learned that Microsoft has purchased the domain http://www.socl.com/ and today a teaser page had gone up with a new service called 'Tulalip'--the very image you see above. What is clear is that Microsoft is definitely working on something social related as that image touts the message "With Tulalip you can Find what you need and Share what you know easier than ever" with logins for Twitter and Facebook (good news for those who don't want a new account). The design is clearly Metro-inspired, looking very much like the Live Tiles in Windows Phone.
Of course, the page is no longer up and instead we have a message from Microsoft Research stating:
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While that could be plausible, we think this is something closer to launch than just an internal design project. The "Terms of Service" and "Privacy Statement" suggest that this wasn't just meant for internal purposes. The big question of course is what exactly does it do? For that, we'll have to wait. Of course if it is an official project, will we see integration with "Mango" come fall?
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At the SLAV conference on Friday May 16 at the State Library of Victoria, the new SLAV website was launched. While we were all quite attached to the endearing owl that flashed on the screen of the old SLAV website, we had recognised that it was time to update the technology. The website needed an increase in functionality so that it was platform neutral and more easily accessible. To reach the stage of being able to launch the website, there have been many months of meetings to discuss the needs of SLAV, plan for the redevelopment, formulate a brief, put the brief out to tender, appoint a developer, work through the design and subsequent issues, and populate the site.
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The front page features a banner with the 2014 theme, a feed from the Bright Ideas blog, information coming from the Calendar about upcoming events, the SLAV twitter feed, and links to the SLAV ning School Libraries Achieving Results, Twitter and Bright Ideas. The tabs across the top of the site are About Us, Membership, Branches, Calendar, Professional Learning, Publications, and Contact.
The About Us tab has a dropdown menu to pages with information about SLAV, including its advocacy role, SLAV's affiliations, the annual awards, the branches, committees, mission statement and special projects. The Membership link includes information about what it means to be a member of SLAV, membership fees, and a link to a membership form.
The Branches link includes the name and school of each of the SLAV branch conveners. There is space here for information about your branch. For example, the Geelong branch has a link to their branch ning, and the Metro Western branch has a link to the branch blog that is used as a noticeboard. If you would like to include a link to your branch information, send an email with the details to
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Thanksgiving came early for me this year with this dope edit filmed by Justin Koebele and Austin Mazur. So, throw it back to 2013 and peep as Frank Quadros, Dan Iffil, Justin Koebele, Austin Mazur, and Grant Germain give you that rawness that makes you feel it.


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While it might have seemed a retrograde step for Indian to abandon its advanced 8-Valve V-twin racers in 1916, the truth was while they were space-age technology in 1911, the design was ahead of the times. A comprehensive understanding of metallurgy and oiling inside motors developed more slowly than ideas for making bikes faster, and Indian's Charles Gustafson reckoned in 1915 that a good sidevalve racer could be made faster than the fragile 8-Valves. His observation was spurred by a big loss for the Indian team that year at the 300-mile board track race in Venice, California, to rival Harley-Davidson. Gustafson was correct, as his new sidevalve design of 1916, the 990cc/60-cubic-inch Powerplus, was immediately faster than its predecessors that used the traditional F-head design which Indian had used since 1901.
The Powerplus motor transformed Indians into faster and more reliable roadsters, as proved by 'Cannonball' Baker's 'Three Flags' endurance run on a prototype Powerplus in August 1915, riding from Vancouver to Tijuana in a record 3 days, 9 hours, and 15 minutes. That was an astounding time for a 1,650-mile trip on mostly dirt roads, and proved conclusively that the Powerplus was a tough machine.
In 1919, Indian introduced its new Daytona racer, with a new 'keystone' frame with the engine as a stressed member and dropped down for a lower overall chassis height. The Daytona looked fierce and proved a formidable opponent, especially with a big-valve version, which used all roller bearings inside. The Daytona is immediately recognizable by its curved seat tube. This 1920 Indian Daytona big-valve racer was expertly built up using the engine, carburetor, magneto, fork, and hubs from an original racer. Correct replica parts to complete the Daytona include the frame, seat, tank, pedal crank, and controls, all of which combine to make one of the most historic and beautiful American racing machines in history.


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According to a Variety news story in September 1952, this film was released in 1950 illegally in a sound version in which a narrator read the original titles. The perpetrator, Howard G. Underwood of Pine Grove, KY, removed the original Universal credits and substituted credits which read, "Howard G. Underwood presents Uncle Tom's Cabin. Produced by Howard G. Underwood, Copyrighted 1950." Universal sued for damages, an injunction against exhibition, seizure of prints and destruction of prints and negatives. In September 1952, a U.S. Marshal in Lexington, KY seized and impounded three prints of the film from Underwood's garage, in accordance with a court order.
Variety noted, "Strange aspect of the case is that the film has been showning in hundreds of theatres and drive-ins and has been doing tremendous biz, often outgrossing many present-day pictures." According to an audio transcription at NYSA, the 1950 version opened with the following statement: "Please do not form an opinion of this great motion picture from the opening scenes. Remain here in this theatre during its complete showing. We assure you you will be rewarded by its greatness."
In 1958, Universal rereleased this version of Uncle Tom's Cabin with a musical score composed by Erno Rapee and an introductory sequence starring Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln. According to the Variety review of the released film, Massey is seen visiting Litchfield, CT, Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthplace, where he speaks about "the 100-year-old propaganda novel and prepares the audience to accept the 'overemphatic' screen acting of the silent era." Massey also provided a voice-over narration throughout the film.
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Mental health: United we stand, divided we fall
Developing better approaches to treating and preventing mental illness is one of the greatest challenges we face. But by sharing ideas and working together we can make progress, says Professor Sir Michael Owen, Director of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University.
Mental health is never far from the headlines these days, and this is as it should be. One in four of us will suffer from some form of mental ill health in any given year. Mental illness affects people across the lifespan from children to the elderly, and the burden imposed on individuals and society is immense.
It is widely acknowledged that we need more investment in care provision, and research into the causes and prevention of mental ill health and into the development of new treatment approaches.
We need new thinking about care and treatment, causes and prevention. We also need to hear from a wide constituency, including those with direct or indirect personal experience of mental illness (virtually all of us), healthcare professionals and academics.
I am an academic psychiatrist and have spent my professional life caring for patients with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and researching the causes of psychiatric disorders and dementia. Also, like most of you, I have encountered mental illness and dementia in my personal life.
Many of you will know that mental illness can be a controversial area. Stories in the media often give the impression that there are widely held fundamental disagreements about whether mental illnesses are disorders of the brain or mind, caused by nature or nurture, and whether they should be treated by drugs or psychological approaches. These polarisations may make good copy but I sincerely hope that we can move away from them.
First, they are profoundly misleading. They assume, implausibly, that mind and brain are separate independent entities rather than different aspects of the same thing. They also fly in the face of a large body of evidence indicating the importance of genes and altered brain states in contributing to disorders of mental health, and equally compelling lines of evidence that psychological and social adversity impact on mental health.
There is also strong evidence that drugs, psychological therapies and social interventions can be effective and often work better in combination than when given separately. Most mental health workers, researchers, and those with personal experience of mental illness recognise that mental health disorders reflect a complex interplay of social, psychological and biological factors, and that the relative balance of these varies from person to person.
Providing treatment consists of working out for each individual the optimal combination of social care, psychological therapy and drugs as well as management of any concurrent physical illness, and is delivered by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists and doctors (both psychiatrists and GPs).
The second reason I hope we can move away from these polarisations is that not only do they misrepresent the evidence and the views of the majority, but they also misleadingly suggest that there is widespread disagreement among mental health workers about how mental illness should be treated and researched.
Surely, if we wish to bring much-needed resources and innovation into mental health, we need to present a coherent and unified case for greater investment and a positive image of the many exciting possibilities for progress whether in genomics, neuroscience, social sciences, psychological treatments, early intervention, public health measures and so on.
While understanding mental illness and developing better approaches to treatment and prevention represents one of the greatest challenges we face, there are grounds for optimism. Many voices are calling for change; the need to integrate social, psychological and biological approaches to both treatment and research is widely acknowledged; and new research approaches are making this increasingly possible. What we need to do now is share ideas and work together to make this happen.
Mike Owen
Mike speaks in his own capacity and his views do not necessarily reflect those of the MRC.
This article has been re-purposed from an article published originally on Cardiff University's blog.
Polarisation in the debate about mental illness http://criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/polarisation-in-debate-about-mental.html?m=1March 13, 2017
For clarity, I've copied the post from my website
I have mentioned Mike Owen in a previous post. In a recent blog, he argues for less polarisation in the debate about the nature of mental illness. I couldn't agree more.
However, Mike does need to represent his opponents correctly if there is going to be a rapprochement. He says, "They assume, implausibly, that mind and brain are separate entities rather than different aspects of the same thing". This isn't true. The argument being made is not Cartesian. As Steven Rose says, "That brains enable minds is uncontroversial. That they 'are' the mind is a reductionism too far" (see Lancet article).
Similarly, Mike also says "They also fly in the face of a large body of evidence indicating the importance of genes and altered brain states in contributing to disorders of mental health". Again, not true. The critiques are evidenced-based. Genes, of course, set the boundaries of the possible but environments define the actual. More caution is needed in interpreting so-called altered brain states.
It is important that Mike understands what people are saying who are critical of his view. As Steven Rose says, people like Mike should not "dismiss without a backward glance not only millennia of philosophical debate but also a huge current literature on mind/brain relationships". There is a "conceptual innocence" about his position, although he is, of course, trying to dismiss any criticism. Despite what he may think, modern psychiatry has not solved the mind-brain problem.March 17, 2017
Professor Richard Bentall #
It's impossible to disagree with Professor Owen's general position that, when attempting to understand and treat mental illness, the often made distinction between biological and social/psychological approaches is a false dichotomy. However, an implication of rejecting this dichotomy is that biological and psychological approaches should be equally valued, and that attempts to integrate the two should be pursued using methods that enable the relationship between biological and psychological variables to be studied. Far from supporting this kind of research, the MRC has acted to prevent it. In fact, only about 3.7% of the MRC budget is spent on mental health (which is the cause of about 20% of the illness burden in the UK), and studies that have included psychological and social variables have been given a very low priority.
It is not hard to understand why this has happened. The MRC's decision-making body for mental health, the Neurosciences and Mental Health Board, is dominated by neuroscientists, and has very few members who are mental health clinicians or researchers with expertise in psychosocial approaches. This means that, when a decision is made to fund a project, and Board members with conflicts of interest leave the room, there is very often no one who is not a neuroscientist left. Neuroscientists make the decisions so, overwhelmingly, neuroscientific research gets funded and psychosocial research does not. The conseequence is that funded studies are often those least likely to have a direct benefit for patients or society.
The British Psychological Society has long been campaigning for the Board to have a wider membership, with greater representation from psychology, but these entreaties have been strongly resisted by MRC staff. Hence, it is the MRC that has been promoting the false dichotomy between biological and psychosocial approaches and mental health research in the UK will be poorer until the Council takes a more inclusive view.March 13, 2017
As the editor of the British Psychological Society's recent consensus report on psychosis (www.understandingpsychosis.net) I agree with Professor Owen that of course our biology cannot be divorced from our psychology, nor from the effects of our material and social environment. However I disagree with him on two issues in particular.
Firstly, mental health *is* a contested area and I think it is important to be honest about that, not only in research but in clinical practice where too often service users are offered one view as if it were proven and universal. The recommendation in our report was simple – and on the ground perhaps only an extension of what Professor Owen was suggesting – but a radical departure from most current practice:
'Mental health is a contested area. The experiences that are sometimes called mental illness, schizophrenia or psychosis are very real. They can cause extreme distress and offering help and support is a vital public service. We know something about the kinds of things that can contribute to these experiences or cause them to be distressing. However, the causes of a particular individual's difficulties are always complex. Our knowledge of what might have contributed, and what might help, is always tentative. Professionals need to respect and work with people's own ideas about what has contributed to their problems. Some people find it helpful to think of their problems as an illness but others do not. Professionals should not promote any one view, or suggest that any one form of help such as medication or psychological therapy is useful for everyone. Instead we need to support people in whatever way they personally find most helpful, and to acknowledge that some people will receive support partly or wholly from outside the mental health system.' (www.understandingpsychosis.net, page 103).
Secondly, given the current overwhelming and increasing dominance of a biological approach, both in services and with respect to research funding, a better starting point for this much-needed conversation might be an acknowledgement that in many cases – in the words of former President of the American Psychiatric Association Steven Sharfstein – 'we have allowed the biopsychosocial model to become the bio-bio-bio model'.
Anne Cooke
Canterbury Christ Church University
Cooke, A. (2014). Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Why some people hear voices, believe things other people don't, or appear out of touch with reality, and what can help. A report by the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology. Leicester: British Psychological Society. Available from http://www.understandingpsychosis.net
Sharfstein, S. (2005). Big pharma and American psychiatry: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Psychiatric News 40 (16): 3–4. http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/pn.40.16.00400003March 14, 2017
cobweb #
Mike, as he was referred to, was included in a piece about mental health on R Wales. Wales has been notorious for it's use of ECT -government, it was given 10 times to a lady who suffered from post partum psychosis – she thought it had helped. What would have helped more was if there had been a mother and baby unit – there is not one in the whole of Wales. It would have helped if the psychiatric hospital she was referred to had not been one of the most horrific experiences of her and her partner's life. Mike Owen did mention this but spoke in weasel terms so as not t o offend the Welsh So he came over as a nice enough man but it was shame the producers did not find one woman to speak on behalf of women – all the researchers were men. Why?March 14, 2017
I'm not really sure what this article is all about. The author seems highly defensive and has devoted most of his column to defending his profession and it's ideologies, only to then tell us that the vast majority of people are on his side anyway! That gives me the impression that he is less certain than he suggests…
Working together is another strange request. Working together with who? The dissatisfied patients, the dissenting professionals or his fellow psychiatrists…or are some of them in opposition to psychiatry's principles now too?
As for the numbers of people with mental ill health that he cites…let's face it, one look at the categories and tick boxes of the DSM and he's spot on! It covers every aspect of the human condition these days so yes, we probably all do know someone with a "mental illness". It's not normal to be normal anymore and psychiatry have seen to that!March 14, 2017
Bob #
Agreed!March 14, 2017
Kirsty Lilley #
I'm left wondering how many people with lived experience have an opportunity to take part in discussions about what research the funding is directed towards? Is this perhaps another example of individuals who live with the effects of distress and trauma being 'done too', 'decided for' and part of a system in which the power is unequally distributed.March 14, 2017
Nicky Haywad #
While there is much that I could say about this article, I am going to concentrate on the audacious cynicism of the pitch for yet more funding and support being mounted here by a man whose team at Cardiff University has just been granted the sum of £2,407,100 of taxpayers' money by the Medical Research Council: to carry out 'molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia'. This is on top of a previous £4,000,000 awarded to the same team. It has to be recognised as a considerable haul at a point in the history of psychiatry at which global pharma giants AstraZeneca and GSK have closed down their neuroscience laboratories worldwide in the last decade: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/27/prozac-next-psychiatric-wonder-drug-research-medicine-mental-illness.
I am writing in my capacity as a lifelong stakeholder of the mental health industry. Three of my four original family members were diagnosed with 'brain disorders' – namely 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar' – which (it is widely acknowledged in medical, clinical and academic circles nowadays) in fact do not exist as discrete categories of any validity (the lists of criteria which determine what qualifies a person to attract such labels are "not based on research in the way the body works. In the end it comes down to the vote by a committee": 'A Straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis'. Dr Lucy Johnstone ). We suffered the consequences – my brother killed himself at age 19, having been written off for life by the 'mental health services'; my mother has spent the last half century on a cocktail of mind-altering pharmaceuticals and had her brains fried with electric shock 'therapy', the cumulative effect of which has condemned her to a mere existence here on this earth and I, myself, spent the last 20 years on 'medication' since I was intercepted by the medical 'system' when traumatized by my daughter's near death during childbirth. Since learning of the 'alternative truth' foundation that mental health diagnoses and 'treatment' are built on, I am the only one of the three who was able to discontinue the drugs exposing the whole charade (with its claims of inherited tendencies) for what it is: an unscrupulous marketing campaign, effectively involving kicking the most vulnerable in society when they're down while laughing all the way to the bank.
Owen is not alone in utilizing popular 'mental health' myths to further his own professional interests. The vast majority of professionals involved in the industry do the same. I sometimes work at a local university and am appalled to observe that – although no one takes any issue with the fact that the validity of the concepts 'abnormal-' and 'normal psychology' are finally being openly disputed (https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/Psychology-Mental-Health-and-Distress/?K=9780230549555) – teaching there is still predicated on standard, traditional diagnostic categories.
The following passage from the article clearly illustrates the nature of the calculated and sophisticated confidence trick being played on an unsuspecting public (what is deliberately not said here is as significant as what has been written):
"Many of you will know that mental illness can be a controversial area. Stories in the media often give the impression that there are widely held fundamental disagreements about whether mental illnesses are disorders of the brain or mind, caused by nature or nurture, and whether they should be treated by drugs or psychological approaches."
… and the rest, surely?! If you listen to professionals debate such issues, you can very often detect a clear jostling between biologically-focussed and psychological disciplines – which goes nowhere – while the rest of us continue to have our brains zapped, and/or pickled in chemical solutions, meantime. Professor Sir Michael Owen knows he is bandying around archaic and debunked concepts here, and sidelining the real issues openly being debated in the public domain, and yet he evidently feels no qualms about doing so.
"Providing treatment", he claims, "consists of working out for each individual the optimal combination of social care, psychological therapy and drugs as well as management of any concurrent physical illness, and is delivered by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists and doctors (both psychiatrists and GPs)". This sounds seamlessly professional – impressive, worthy and convincing, doesn't it? However, if you went out and asked a cross-section of the people who have fallen into the hands of what I call the 'non-system' – and their families – whether this is how they'd describe the kind of service they received, I can guarantee you'd hear a very different story about what actually, more often than not, occurs 'on the ground'. This disparity equals the difference between rhetoric and reality.
The psychiatrist gets to the point in the article's penultimate paragraph:
"Surely, if we wish to bring much-needed resources and innovation into mental health, we need to present a coherent and unified case for greater investment and a positive image of the many exciting possibilities for progress whether in genomics, neuroscience, social sciences, psychological treatments, early intervention, public health measures and so on",
and in his final statement:
"Many voices are calling for change; the need to integrate social, psychological and biological approaches to both treatment and research is widely acknowledged; and new research approaches are making this increasingly possible. What we need to do now is share ideas and work together to make this happen",
it seems to me as though he must be feeling the pressure … appealing even to traditional adversaries and critics to all band together, to present a united facade, and apparently even offering them a potential share of the dwindling millions that are currently still available!
The National Survivor User Network (NSUN) paints a very different picture of the issues that individuals themselves who are beset by emotional distress/the experience of altered states are facing, should your paper's readers care to educate themselves a bit more comprehensively. This piece I myself wrote just over a year ago – together with brain injuries specialist psychologist Stephen Weatherhead – for example, brings a number of different considerations not touched upon in the Owen article into sharp relief: http://www.nsun.org.uk/news/blogs/its-not-all-about-the-money/March 14, 2017
Richard Hassall #
Pauline Dove comments that it isn't clear what Professor Owen's article is all about, and I had a similar feeling reading it. I also had the feeling that I've heard all this before. Whilst he made welcome comments about recognising psychological factors in mental "illness", he basically seemed to be going round the same circuit that many have covered previously.
In particular, he frequently talks about "mental illness" as though this term is uncontentious. I dislike it because of the implications it carries. What is "mental illness" an illness of? The mind? He acknowledges that mind and brain are not separate entities, but if this is so, what can be meant by "mental illness"? The mind is not some kind of mysterious and distinct substance somehow inhabiting the body. Nor is it an organ of the body like the heart or liver, both of which can be the site of diseases. There are also genuine diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimers. So what kind of diseases are "mental illnesses", or is it better to stop thinking of them as diseases at all? It won't do to reply that an illness is not the same thing as a disease, because there is a huge amount of overlap in how we use these two terms, and any proposed distinction between "illness" and "disease" would be arbitrary. (Some people have tried to argue that a coherent distinction can be made here.) Owen might reply that HE doesn't think of mental "illness" as a disease of any kind, but it doesn't follow that other people will interpret these terms in the same way as him. Moreover, the continued use of the term "mental illness" invites the assumption that there are distinct entities corresponding to different "illnesses" which can be discriminated and categorised in diagnostic manuals in much the same way as we do with diseases generally.
The continued use of "mental illness" language therefore reinforces the view of human mental distress as an illness or disease of some kind, with the obvious location being in the brain. But in most cases, evidence for this is lacking. So I suggest that continuing adherence to the language of "mental illness" is likely to impede our understanding of the psychological processes leading to severe mental distress and breakdown, as it continues to focus attention on ideas about putative disease entities. This is not to deny that biological processes may well influence how mental distress can build up and be experienced in any individual. But episodes of psychological distress are not the kind of things that can be broken down into distinct illnesses in any way comparable with disease entities.March 16, 2017
s #
I'm writing as a service user. In my experience, it's hard to get access to psychological services unless you can afford to pay for them privately and/or have private health insurance.
Mental health care is classist. There's this idea that the poor are somehow less deserving of help..that they're lacking in willpower..that it's all their own fault anyway. I don't think that attitude is helpful.
There are socially deprived communities with intergenerational social issues like drug addiction, poor parenting. They are more likely to go to their GP more often and have more health issues than someone from an affluent background.
I think the biomedical model has allowed successive governments to underfund mental health care-to say that mental illness is just a chemical imbalance & not due to any social circumstances like austerity, poverty, zero hour working hours, housing shortages, abuse etc.
I have felt fobbed off when prescribed an anti-depressant because I think "how long will I have to take this for?"
I know a woman who's on anti-depressants for 10 years. That strikes me as excessive-that yes, the anti-depressant would initially restore her social functioning but over time, her mental wellbeing just became stagnant..that her symptoms were just being treated or stabilised as opposed to also offering psychosocial services like a choice of evidence-based therapies.
I also wonder whether mood stabilisers and anti-psychotic medications are overprescribed to patients deemed "difficult" and/or "angry". I think it's important for mental health professionals to listen to patients in emotional distress-to try to understand their inner world and not just focus on symptoms.
I personally found it hard to even identify myself as depressed because I don't think of myself as merely a constellation of symptoms. I see myself as an individual..that I'm unique and that my depression is going to be different in some way to another patient's so I think having more emphasis on patient-centred care is a good idea.
I understand your concerns-that you feel that in fighting isn't going to help patients with mental health difficulties. I can sympathise with that argument however my counter-argument is that mental health services are so weighted in favour of biomedical model that it's not really balanced. Pharmaceutical companies have such influence so I think it's time for other voices to be heard.March 18, 2017
Dr Sue Holttum, Canterbury Christ Church University #
Dear Professor Owen, I think you have just confirmed with your last posting that – rather different from your claim of taking an integrated bio-psycho-social view – you divide mental distress into two different kinds – one that is essentially biological and one that is not. There is now a great deal of research showing how childhood abuse and adversity affects our biology, causing the sort of experiences that get labelled as 'schizophrenia'. An abusive relationship will also affect someone's biology, in terms of stress responses, for which there is also a great deal of evidence. I suggest that whether or not we should talk about people in either of these situations as having 'symptoms', or whether a pill is the answer, is a different question. My own view is that this is not a particularly helpful approach for either. Recognition of what has happened to the person may be helpful as a starting point, but great sensitivity is usually required, and time, and kindness – perhaps all rather old-fashioned concepts these days.March 19, 2017


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Vol. 31, No. 2 (April 2011)
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1. List of Journals
AFRICAN AFFAIRS, April 2011 (Vol. 110, No. 439)
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, March 2011 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
THE AMERICAN INTEREST, Summer (May/June) 2011 (Vol. 6, No. 5)
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, April 2011 (Vol. 27, No. 2)
ARAB MEDIA & SOCIETY, Winter 2011 (Vol. 12)
ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY, Winter 2011 (Vol. 33, No. 1)
LES CAHIERS DE L'ORIENT, Winter 2011 (No. 101)
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 44, No. 5)
CONFLUENCES, Autumn 2010 (No. 75)
CULTURAL DYNAMICS, March 2011 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES, April 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 2)
CURRENT SOCIOLOGY, May 2011 (Vol. 59, No.3)
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, April 2011 (Vol. 35, No. 2)
DISCOURSE & SOCIETY, May 2011 (Vol. 22, No. 3)
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY, April 2011 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, December 2010 (Vol. 51, No. 3)
FRENCH CULTURAL STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 22, No. 2)
GLOBAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, April 2011 (Vol. 7, No. 1)
HISTORY AND THEORY, May 2011 (Vol. 50, No. 2)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR ARAB STUDIES, February 2011 (Vol. 2, No. 1)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 43, No. 2)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS, April 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 2)
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, March 2011 (Vol. 55, No. 1)
ISRAEL AFFAIRS, April 2011 (Vol. 17, No. 2)
THE ISRAEL JOURNAL OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, (Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011)
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, 28 February 2011 (Vol. 21, No. 23)
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, 14 March 2011 (Vol. 21, No. 24)
THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, March 2011 (Vol. 52, No. 1)
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, April 2011 (Vol. 46, No. 2
THE JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES, (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2011)
JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES, Winter 2011 (Vol. 40, No. 2, Issue 158)
JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH, March 2011 (Vol. 48, No. 2)
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, March 2011 (Vol. 17, No. 1)
MAGHREB-MACHREK, Autumn 2010 (No. 205)
MEDIA, CULTURE & SOCIETY, March 2011 (Vol. 33, No. 2)
MERIP, Winter 2010 (Issue 257, Vol. 40, No. 4)
MIDDLE EAST POLICY, March 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 1)
MODERN ASIAN STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 45, No. 3)
THE MUSLIM WORLD, January 2011 (Vol. 101, No. 1)
THE MUSLIM WORLD, April 2011 (Vol. 101, No. 2)
MUSLIM WORLD JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS, (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2011)
ORIENT, (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2011)
PEACE & CHANGE, April 2011 (Vol. 36, No. 2)
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, April 2011 (Vol. 32, No. 2)
PSYCHOLOGY & DEVELOPING SOCIETIES, March 2011 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
RACE & CLASS, April 2011 (Vol. 52, No. 4)
WAR IN HISTORY, April 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 2)
2. Articles from Journals
AFRICAN AFFAIRS, April 2011 (Vol. 110, No. 439)
Jon Abbink, "Religion in Public Spaces: Emerging Muslim-Christian Polemics in Ethiopia" [253-274]
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, March 2011 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
Taoufik Rajhi and Hatem Salah, "Concurrence et compétitivité bancaire en Algérie: économétrie de panels sur la période 2000-2007" [16-29]
Tianshu Zhao and Victor Murinde, "Bank Deregulation and Performance in Nigeria" [30-43]
Francis Mwega, "The Competitiveness and Efficiency of the Financial Services Sector in Africa: A Case Study of Kenya" [44-59]
Sunil S. Poshakwale and Binsheng Qian, "Competitiveness and Efficiency of the Banking Sector and Economic Growth in Egypt" [99-120]
THE AMERICAN INTEREST, Summer (May/June) 2011 (Vol. 6, No. 5)
Francis Fukuyama, "Political Order in Egypt" [6-13]
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "The Berber Awakening" [29-35]
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, April 2011 (Vol. 27, No. 2)
Alexander Koensler and Cristina Papa, "Political Tourism in the Israeli-Palestinian Space" [13‑17]
Mohaamed Abouelleil Rashed and Islam El Azzazi, "The Egyptian Revolution: A Participant's Account from Tahrir Square, January and February 2011" [22-27]
Muhhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal, "Margins and Marginality: Pakistani State and Societies" [28-29]
ARAB MEDIA & SOCIETY, Winter 2011 (Vol. 12)
Sahar Khamis, "New Media and Social Change in Rural Egypt" [*]
Heba Elsayed, "The Unlikely Young Cosmopolitans of Cairo" [*]
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Michael Humphrey, "The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Emergency Law, Trauma and Justice" [4-22]
Jacqueline Ismael, Shereen Ismael and Chris Langille, "Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Women in the Muslim World" [23-43]
Ibrahim Makkawi, "Success Against the Odds: Palestinian Female Students Outperform their Male Counterparts in Academic Achievement" [44-61]
LES CAHIERS DE L'ORIENT, Winter 2011 (No. 101)
Jean-Christophe Romer, "La Russie dans le Caucase" [11-22]
Boris Eisenbaum, "La politique américaine dans le Caucase" [23-34]
Vladimer Papava, "Arménie, Azerbaïdjan, Géorgie, 20 ans de transition économique" [35-47]
Boris Eisenbaum, "Le point sur Nabucco" [47-58]
Colette Juilliard Baudan, "L'Institut du Monde Arabe: Entre imaginaire et réalité" [117-126]
Colette Juilliard Beaudan, "Eugène Fromentin: du Sahel au Sahara" [127-153]
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 44, No. 5)
Murat Somer, "Does It Take Democrats to Democratize? Lessons from Islamic and Secular Elite Values in Turkey" [511-545]
CONFLUENCES, Autumn 2010 (No. 75)
<<Special Issue: Egypt: l'éclipse>>
Pierre Blanc, "Egypte: une géopolitique de la fragilité" [13-32]
Anne Goujon and Huda Alkitkat, "Population et capital humain en Egypte à l'horizon 2050" [33-48]
Marc Lavergne, "Egypte, le développement au défi du néo-libéralisme économique" [49-64]
Tahani Abdelhakim, "Condition de la femme: comment va la société égyptienne?" [65-76]
Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, "Le processus de réforme du droit de la famille et ses limites" [77-90]
Eva Saenz-Diez, "La place des coptes dans l'enseignement en Egypte" [91-106]
Olivier Sanmartin, "La péninsule du Sinaï: 'espace projet', territoire sous tensions" [107-120]
Pierre-Arnaud Barthel, "Relire le Grand Caire au miroir de la densité" [121-136]
Sarah Ben Néfissa, "Verrouillage autoritaire et mutation générale des rapports entre l"Etat et la société en Egypte" [137-150]
Bárbara Azaola Piazza, "Le régime de Moubarak: les espaces et les acteurs de l'opposition" [151-166]
Tewfik Aclimandos, "L'islam politique égyptien" [167-180]
Barah Mikaïl, "Les Etats-Unis et l'Egypte ou la loi du pragmatisme" [191-196]
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Sami Hermez, "Activism as 'Part-Time': Searching for Commitment and Solidarity in Lebanon" [41-55]
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES, April 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 2)
Noah Hysler Rubin, "Geography, Colonialism and Town Planning: Patrick Geddes' Plan for Mandatory Jerusalem" [231-248]
CURRENT SOCIOLOGY, May 2011 (Vol. 59, No.3)
Sari Hanafi, "University Systems in the Arab East: Publish Globally and Perish Locally vs Publish Locally and Perish Globally" [291-309]
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, April 2011 (Vol. 35, No. 2)
Maurice Jr. Labelle, "'The Only Thorn': Early Saudi-American Relations and the Question of Palestine, 1945-1949" [257-281]
DISCOURSE & SOCIETY, May 2011 (Vol. 22, No. 3)
Amir H.Y. Salama, "Ideological Collocation and the Recontexualization of Wahhabi-Saudi Islam Post-9/11: A Synergy of Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis" [315-342]
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY, April 2011 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
Andrew F. March, "Law as a Vanishing Mediator in the Theological Ethics of Tariq Ramadan" [177-201]
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, December 2010 (Vol. 51, No. 3)
Said Amir Arjomand, "Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies" [363-399]
David Laitin, "Rational Islamophobia in Europe" [429-447]
FRENCH CULTURAL STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 22, No. 2)
Phil Powrie, "Algeria and Women in Two 1960s Film Adaptations of the Carmen Narrative" [127-136]
Olivier Bourderionnet, "A 'Picture-Perfect' Banlieue Artist: Abd Al Malik or the Perils of a Conciliatory Rap Discourse" [151-161]
GLOBAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, April 2011 (Vol. 7, No. 1)
Mette Mortensen, "When Citizen Photojournalism Sets the News Agenda: Neda Agha Soltan as a Web 2.0 Icon of Post-Election Unrest in Iran" [4-16]
HISTORY AND THEORY, May 2011 (Vol. 50, No. 2)
Natalie Zemon Davis, "Decentering History: Local Stories and Cultural Crossings in a Global World" [188-202]
David Abbulafia, "Mediterranean History as Global History" [220-228]
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR ARAB STUDIES, February 2011 (Vol. 2, No. 1)
Fernando Carvajal, "Yemen's Decipherable Enigmas: Why the Failed State Scenario is Beyond the Near Horizon" [*]
Laura Chakravarty, "The North African Educator-Heroine on Film: Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's Rachida" [*]
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 43, No. 2)
Michael Provence, "Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East" [205-225]
Jonathan Wyrtzen, "Colonial State-Building and the Negotiation of Arab and Berber Identity in Protectorate Morocco" [227-249]
James McDougall, "Dream of Exile, Promise of Home: Language, Education, and Arabism in Algeria" [251-270]
Peter Wien, "The Long and Intricate Funeral of Yasin al-Hashimi: Pan-Arabism, Civil Religion, and Popular Nationalism in Damascus, 1937" [271-292]
Orit Bashkin, "Hybrid Nationalisms: Wa'an and Qawm Visions in Iraq under 'Abd al-Karim Qasim, 1958-61" [293-312]
Nathan J. Citino, "Between Global and Regional Narratives" [313-316]
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Rethinking the Middle East and North Africa in the Cold War" [317-319]
Jeffrey James Byrne, "The Middle Eastern Cold War: Unique Dynamics in a Questionable Regional Framework" [320-322]
Guy Laron, "Surveying the Revolutionary Arc" [323-325]
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS, April 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 2)
Lawrence Pintak and Budi Setiyono, "The Mission of Indonesian Journalism: Balancing Democracy, Development, and Islamic Values" [185-209]
Yehudith Auerbach and Hila Lowenstein, "The Role of National Narratives in Reconciliation: The Case of Mohammad al-Dura" [210-233]
Mohammed el-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis, "Political Blogging and (Re) Envisioning the Virtual Public Sphere: Muslim-Christian Discourses in Two Egyptian Blogs" [234-253]
Kristina Lindholm and Eva-Karin Olsson, "Crisis Communication as a Multilevel Game: The Muhammad Cartoons from a Crisis Diplomacy Perspective" [254-271]
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, March 2011 (Vol. 55, No. 1)
Ron E. Hassner, "Blasphemy and Violence" [23-45]
Andrew A. Latham, "Theorizing the Crusades: Identity, Institutions, and Religious War in Medieval Latin Christendom" [223-243]
ISRAEL AFFAIRS, April 2011 (Vol. 17, No. 2)
Yossi Goldstein, "Israel's Prime Ministers and the Arabs: Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin" [177-193]
Ronen Yitzak, "Transjordan's Attack on the Etzion Bloc During the 1948 War" [194-207]
Efraim Karsh, "How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There?" [224-246]
Hussein Sirriyeh, "Is There A Palestinian Civil War? The Concept and the Impact" [247-258]
Nahshon Perez, "Discrimination vs. Permissible Preferential Treatment Regarding University of Haifa Dormitories: Or When Cicero met Adalah in the Cafeteria" [278-295]
THE ISRAEL JOURNAL OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, (Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011)
Yoel Guzansky, "Tacit Allies: Israel and the Arab Gulf States" [9-18]
Natalia Simanovsky, "The Fayyad Plan and Its Implications for Israel" [19-32]
Julie Feinberg, "The G8, The Middle East, and Israel" [33-40]
Joel Fishman, "Palestinian Incitement: The Real 'Deal Breaker'" [41-58]
Amichai Magen, "Hybrid War and the 'Gulliverization' of Israel" [59-72]
Gerald M. Steinberg, "NGOs, the UN, and the Politics of Human Rights in the Arab-Israeli Conflict" [73-88]
Viviane Teitelbaum, "The European Veil Debate" [89-100]
Alexander J. Groth, "Henry Kissinger and the Limits of Realpolitik" [111-114]
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, 28 February 2011 (Vol. 21, No. 23)
Steven Sotloff, "Egypt Totters Towards Chaos" [8-9]
Leslie Susser, "There Goes the Neighborhood" [10-13]
Hani Hazaimeh, "Jordanians March for Reform, Gently" [14-16]
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, 14 March 2011 (Vol. 21, No. 24)
Steven Sotloff, "Egypt Eyes Life After the Pharaoh" [26-29]
Daniel Rubenstein, "How to Sell a Peace Accord" [30-31]
Shlomo Yotvat, "Inventing the Middle East" [40-41]
THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, March 2011 (Vol. 52, No. 1)
Øystein H. Rolandsen, "A False Start: Between War and Peace in the Southern Sudan, 1956-62" [105-123]
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, April 2011 (Vol. 46, No. 2)
Ilker Aytürk, "The Racist Critics of Atatürk and Kemalism, from the 1930s to the 1960s" [336‑363]
THE JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES, (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2011)
Rachel Linn, "'Change Within Continuity': The Equity and Reconciliation Commission and Political Reform in Morocco" [1-17]
Amir Kia and Norman Gardner, "Analysing the Fiscal Process under a Stochastic Environment: Evidence from Egypt" [19-30]
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, "Histories of Displacement: Intersections between Ethnicity, Gender and Class" [31-48]
Ahmad M. Megreya and Ramadan A. Ahmad, "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Identity Statuses in Middle Eastern Countries" [49-57]
Andrea L. Stanton, "The Changing Face of El Moudjahid During the Algerian War of Independence" [59-76]
Shai Srougo, "The Informal Sector in a Colonial Regime: The Jewish Economy of the Lower Classes in Casablanca Between the Two World Wars" [77-97]
Halima Belhandouz, "Teaching Science in Algeria: Pedagogical Shortfalls and Conflicts of Meaning" [99-116]
Umar Ryad, "New Episodes in Moroccan Nationalism Under Colonial Role: Reconsideration of Shak b Arsl n's Centrality in Light of Unpublished Materials" [117-142]
John Dewhurst, Jamal Kerwat and Hassan Molana, "Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix for Libya" [143-160]
JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES, Winter 2011 (Vol. 40, No. 2, Issue 158)
Rja Khalidi and Sobhi Samour, "Neoliberalism as Liberation: The Statehood Program and the Remaking of the Palestinian National Movement" [6-25]
William Mathew, "War-Time Contingency and the Balfour Declaration of 1917: An Improbable Regression" [26-42]
Dan Freeman-Maloy, "Mahal and the Dispossession of the Palestinians" [43-61]
Ghada Karmi, "The One-State Solution: An Alternative Vision for Israeli-Palestinian Peace" [62-76]
Yosefa Loshitzky, "The Post-Holocaust Jew in the Age of 'The War on Terror': Steven Spielberg's Munich" [77-87]
JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH, March 2011 (Vol. 48, No. 2)
Rafi Nets-Zehngut, "Origins of the Palestinian Refugee Problem: Changes in the Historical Memory of Israelis/Jews 1949-2004" [235-248]
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, March 2011 (Vol. 17, No. 1)
Julia Elyachar, "The Political Economy of Movement and Gesture in Cairo" [82-99]
Marloes Janson, "Living Islam Through Death: Demarcating Muslim Identity in a Rural Serahuli Community in the Gambia" [100-115]
MAGHREB-MACHREK, Autumn 2010 (No. 205)
Pierre Berthelot, "Vers une polarization durable de la vie politique libanaise?" [9-32]
Hiam Mouannés, "L'accord de Doha du 21 mai 2008. Accord de droit international" [33-44]
Daniel Meier and Fouad Ilias, "La nouvelle dynamique libanaise. Un cheminement périlleux vers une refonte de l'entente nationale" [45-64]
Martin Bunton, "L'enquête de cadastre britannique des terres agricoles égyptiennes (1897-1907)" [65-86]
Yoav Alon, "Glubb Pacha (1930-1946) et le colonialisme britannique en Transjordanie" [87‑108]
Peter Hinchcliffe, "L'opération de Suez de 1956 'Le Dernier [Anglais] debout'" [109-122]
Uzi Rabi, "La présence britannique dans le Golfe: de la genèse au retrait de 1971" [123-141]
MEDIA, CULTURE & SOCIETY, March 2011 (Vol. 33, No. 2)
Saadia Izzeldin Malik, "Inside the Lives of Three Sudanese Women Performers: Negotiating Gender, the Media and Culture" [275-288]
MERIP, Winter 2010 (Issue 257, Vol. 40, No. 4)
Jacob Mundy, "Western Sahara's 48 Hours of Rage" [2-5]
Joost Hiltermann, "Deep Traumas, Fresh Ambitions: Legacies of the Iran-Iraq War" [6-16]
Nida Alahmad and Arang Keshavarzian, "A War on Multiple Fronts" [17-21]
Kevan Harris, "The Imam's Blue Boxes" [22-28]
Sinan Antoon, "Bending History" [29-31]
Pete Moore, "Guilty Bystanders" [32-37]
MIDDLE EAST POLICY, March 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 1)
Bruce Riedel, Frank Anderson, Philip Wilcox and Brian Katulis, "Symposium: Israel-Palestinian Peace: What is the U.S. National Security Interest? How Can It Be Achieved?" [1‑26]
Herbert C. Kelman, "A One-Country/Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" [27-41]
Irene Gendzier, "U.S. Policy in Israel/Palestine, 1948: The Forgotten History" [42-53]
Andrew Flibbert, "The Gaza War: Instrumental Civilian Suffering?" [54-77]
Dennis Jett, "U.S. Security Assistance in the Middle East: Helping Friends or Creating Enemies?" [78-88]
Jennifer Lambert, "Political Reform in Qatar: Participation, Legitimacy and Security" [89-101]
Lucas Winter, "Conflict in Yemen: Simple People, Complicated Circumstances" [102-120]
Myriam Benraad, "Iraq's Tribal 'Sahwa': Its Rise and Fall" [121-131]
Augustus Richard Norton, "Al-Najaf: Its Resurgence as a Religious and University Center" [132-145]
MODERN ASIAN STUDIES, May 2011 (Vol. 45, No. 3)
Humeira Iqtidar and David Gilmartin, " Secularism and the State in Pakistan: Introduction" [491-499]
Kamran Asdar Ali, "Communists in a Muslim Land: Cultural Debates in Pakistan's Early Years" [501-534]
Humeira Iqtidar, "Secularism Beyond the State: The 'State' and the 'Market' in Islamist Imagination" [535-564]
Matthew J. Nelson, "Embracing the Ummah: Student Politics Beyond State Power in Pakistan" [565-596]
Sadaf Aziz, "Making a Sovereign State: Javed Ghamidi and 'Enlightened Moderation'" [597-629]
Asiya Alam, "Polygyny, Family and Sharafat: Discourses Amongst North Indian Muslims, Circa 1870-1918" [631-638]
C. M. Naim, "Syed Ahmad and His Two Books Called 'Asar-al-Sanadid'" [669-708]
Teena Purohit, "Identity Politics Revisited: Secular and 'Dissonant' Islam in Colonial South Asia" [709-733]
David Lewis, "Exchanges of Professionals Between the Public and Non-Governmental Sectors: Life-Work Histories from Bangladesh" [735-757]
THE MUSLIM WORLD, January 2011 (Vol. 101, No. 1)
Carl W. Ernst, "The Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions" [1-19]
John Jandoora, "Qur'anics : Perspectives on Derivation of the Name-Form" [20-32]
Mohamad Abdun Nasir and Asnawi, "The Majelis Ulama's fatwa on Abortion in Contemporary Indonesia" [33-52]
Aasim I. Padela, Hasan Shanawani and Ahsan Arozullah, "Medical Experts & Islamic Scholars Deliberating over Brain Death: Gaps in the Applied Islamic Bioethics Discourse" [53‑72]
Nancy Roberts, "Trinity vs. Monotheism: A False Dichotomy?" [73-93]
Liyakat Takim, "The Ten Commandments and the Tablets in Shi'a and Sunni Tafs ir Literature: A Comparative Perspective" [94-109]
THE MUSLIM WORLD, April 2011 (Vol. 101, No. 2)
Yahya Michot, "Ibn Taymiyya's 'New Mardin Fatwa', Is Genetically Modified Islam (GMI) Carcinogenic?" [130-181]
Samy Dorlian, "The Sa'da War in Yemen: Between Politics and Sectarianism" [182-201]
Marine Poirier, "Performing Political Domination in Yemen, Narratives and Practices of Power in the General People's Congress" [202-227]
Claire Beaugrand, "Statelessness & Administrative Violence: Biduns' Survival Strategies in Kuwait" [228-250]
François Burgat and Bjørn Olav Utvik, "Violence and Power: Iranian Lessons" [251-268]
Pascal Menoret, "Development, Planning and Urban Unrest in Saudi Arabia" [269-285]
Romain Caillet, "A French Jihad in Crisis: 'Role Exit' and Repression" [286-306]
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, "The Militarization of Islamism: Al-Qa'ida and Its Transnational Challenge" [307-323]
Laurent Bonnefoy, "Violence in Contemporary Yemen: State, Society and Salafis" [324-346]
Alix Philippon, "Sunnis Against Sunnis, The Politicization of Doctrinal Fractures in Pakistan" [347-368]
MUSLIM WORLD JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS, (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2011)
Doron Shultziner and Mary Ann Tétreault, "Paradoxes of Democratic Progress in Kuwait: The Case of the Kuwaiti Women's Rights Movement" [*]
Amin Reza Koohestani, "Towards Substantive Equality in Iranian Constitutional Discourse" [*]
Murad H. Elsaidi, "Human Rights and Islamic Law: A Legal Analysis Challenging the Husband's Authority to Punish 'Rebellious' Wives" [*]
Jackleen M. Salem, "Citzenship in Question: Chicago Muslims Before and After 9/11" [*]
ORIENT, (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2011)
<<Special Issue: Iraq>>
Robert Springborg, "Democratic Beacon in Iraq: A Dim Light Indeed" [6-11]
Reidar Visser, "Policing a Messy Federation: The Role of the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court, 2005-2010" [12-18]
Jalil Roshandel, "Jihadi Factions in Iraq" [19-24]
Shak Hanish, "The Kirkuk Problem in Iraq: Is There a Solution?" [25-31]
Layla Al-Zubaidi, "The Struggle over Women's Rights and the Personal Status Law: A Test Case for Democracy in Iraq" [39-51]
Magnus T. Bernhardsson, "From Christian Mission to 'Mission Impossible': The United States in Iraq" [52-59]
PEACE & CHANGE, April 2011 (Vol. 36, No. 2)
Julian Brooks, "A 'Tranquilizing' Influence? British 'Proto-Peacekeeping' in Ottoman Macedonia 1904-1905" [172-190]
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, April 2011 (Vol. 32, No. 2)
Nick Hopkins, "Dual Identities and Their Recognition: Minority Group Members' Perspectives" [251-270]
Rafi Nets-Zehngut, "Palestinian Autobiographical Memory Regarding the 1948 Palestinian Exodus" [271-295]
PSYCHOLOGY & DEVELOPING SOCIETIES, March 2011 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
Sumaya Laher and Sumayyah Khan, "Exploring the Influence of Islam on the Perceptions of Mental Illness of Volunteers in a Johannesburg Community-based Organisation" [63-84]
RACE & CLASS, April 2011 (Vol. 52, No. 4)
Liz Fekete, "Accelerated Removals: The Human Cost of EU Deportation Policies" [98-107]
WAR IN HISTORY, April 2011 (Vol. 18, No. 2)
Mustafa Aksakal, ""Holy War Made in Germany?" Ottoman Origins of the 1914 Jihad" [184‑199]


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Monday, October 3, 2011
If I Die by Rachel Vincent
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This is the second awesome review I have read for this book today. Your review has definitely piqued my interest in this series!ReplyDelete
I loved this books the best too! I started our loving the series, but #2 and #3 were a little meh for me, but #4 got my interest strong again and this one was just AMAZING! I agree with not respecting Nash. He honestly is just a douche. How he treats the people he cares about is all wrong. He treats Tod like crap and Kaylee... The whole situation with Sabine is ridiculous!ReplyDelete
Great review!! :) Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday!
Liza @ Book Crook Liza
You know what, I've been so scared to read this as a Team Nash fan, but I actually think I'm switching teams now. The more I think of books three and four, the less I like Nash. And the more I like Tod...so really glad you enjoyed this, because I'm actually really eager to read it now. Great review!ReplyDelete
I really have to catch up with this series. I need to read the last book and obviously this one too. <3 Todd!ReplyDelete
Awesome review--makes me want to read the books I haven't in this series more!
Just read If I Die, I used to be a Nash fan. But after this book two words changed my mind TOD HUDSON!!! Now that is a guy who will treat Kaylee right! And not be a complete like Nash. I agree with you about Sabine, she's annoying like no other, and so damn needy. It's her turn for big girl pants.ReplyDelete
Mollie: Definitely check this series out!ReplyDelete
Liza: Agreed. Nash turned out to be a total douche. I miss the old Nash. But Team Tod forever! And Sabine . . . argh. I hate her.
Liz: You will be Team Tod by the end of this book.
Rachel: Thank you. Be sure to check out this book.
cherrycakes2004: I used to be Team Nash. But now . . . Nash who? I'm forever Team Tod. He is definitely a guy who actually CARES for Kaylee. But yeah, Sabine is just - stupid.
Well crap. I have a lot of catching up to do in a short amount of time, because I'm not particularly fond of the reaper paying me a visit.... wait. Is this sexy, swoony Tod a reaper? Cause I may feel the same as you then :PReplyDelete
I'm ashamed that I have yet to read a single Rachel Vincent book!! What is wrong with me? If I Die sounds so good! Cannot wait to start on thios series with the promise the books get better and better. Awesome review!
Brodie he IS a sexy reaper. At least to me. haha. BRODIE HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE READ A RACHEL VINCENT BOOK! SHOCKING!ReplyDelete
Oh, Brodie, trust me....once you read this series, you'll be praying that Tod pays you a visit ;) Hahaha!ReplyDelete
So true Rachel! We all want a visit from hottie Tod!ReplyDelete


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At the beginning of Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary about the chaotic final days of what the Vietnamese call the American War, an American man tears up, struggling to maintain his composure. "It was a terrible, terrible, terrible moral dilemma," he says, choking on his words.
"Terrible" is a perfect word to describe the conflict: close to 4 million violent war deaths, about 2 million of them civilians—most of them in South Vietnam—millions more wounded, 11 million made refugees. But the former US Army officer, Stuart Herrington, wasn't talking about anything of that sort. The dilemma in question had to do with whether a US-allied South Vietnamese army colonel should decide to abandon his post, his army and his country and flee with his family to the United States—surely a gut-wrenching personal choice, but microscopic in a war that saw suffering on an almost unimaginable scale.
So goes the rest of this much-hailed documentary that focuses on harried, haphazard, sometimes even mildly heroic efforts by Americans to slip South Vietnamese friends out of the country on planes, ships and finally helicopters as North Vietnamese forces push ever closer to the South's capital, Saigon. The film keeps a tight focus on this particular aspect of the end of that grim war, while rehashing tired canards and distorting history in ways large and small. In so doing, it offers a classic American yarn about the good intentions of well-meaning Americans whose chief desire, in a land that their country had helped to decimate, is to save Vietnamese lives under difficult conditions—and the terrible intentions of barbaric communist hordes bent on a bloodbath. (Never, mind you, are viewers made aware of a single reason Vietnamese might have a gripe about successive US-backed South Vietnamese regimes that imprisoned, abused, tortured and killed their own people.)
For example, Last Days in Vietnam contends that once the US military pulled its last ground troops out of South Vietnam, after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, North Vietnam simply bided its time, waiting until Watergate paralyzed Washington before setting upon the South, which is portrayed as a sitting duck. There's even a map with a spreading, blood-red stain to indicate communist advances, akin to the creeping communism commonly depicted in Cold War–era graphics. There's no indication that in fact both sides began violating the accords almost immediately, fighting tooth and nail for territory, and that neither ever showed any real interest in a political settlement.
At such a late date, this warped history serves only the interests of the cynical US architects of those accords and the failed policies that followed, chief among them Henry Kissinger, President Gerald Ford's secretary of state and national security adviser at the time of Saigon's collapse. Kissinger anchors a cast of talking heads that also includes former CIA analyst Frank Snepp; Richard Armitage, a Special Forces adviser who went on to serve in George W. Bush's State Department; and lesser-known functionaries like Herrington, as well as a tiny set of South Vietnamese, half of them former military men.


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Make-up artist Attracta Courtney worked the Paul Costelloe show and said she used Clinique products to bring a touch of St Tropez to the catwalk, with a 'punch' of colour on lips using a coral coloured lipstick with a slick of matching gloss on top -Clinique's Colour Surge Butter Shine Lipstick in Ambrosia and Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss in Mango.
"My inspiration was really taken from the importance of colour, not all over the face, but either on the eye or the lip," says Attracta. "The little splash of colour brings a real vibrancy to the skin."
Attracta started with 'semi-matte' skin, but with a 'super-matte' T-zone because she wanted to add a touch of shimmer to eyes to balance the colour being used on lips.
So she dusted powder down the forehead and around the nose to stop shimmer or shine collecting anywhere but around the eye area, smudging Clinique Quick Eyes Cream Shadow in Cocoa Shimmer and Truffle over lids.
"I really wanted to keep the look modern and fresh around the eyes by leaving the brows natural, so it didn't look to 'old lady' and super polished," Attracta adds.
Similarly, she avoided false eyelashes which can make the face too 'done', but says that using Clinique High Impact Curling Mascara, which is "very, very black" makes models look like they're wearing falsies anyway.
And if you get right into the root of lashes, you give eyes extra definition without having to use liner, Attracta points out.


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