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One in five Canadian adults experience a mental health or addiction problem. Keeping Your Patients Safe: A Guide to Primary Care Management of Mental Health and Addictions-related Risks and Functional Impairments Tool is designed to assist primary care providers in identifying, assessing and managing risks in a patient with diagnosed, undiagnosed or changing mental health conditions.
Primary care providers (PCPs) can face a high degree of uncertainty when it comes to identifying and acting upon risks associated with signs, symptoms or behaviours that are suggestive of a mental health condition. Keeping Your Patients Safe: A Guide to Primary Care Management of Mental Health and Addictions-related Risks and Functional Impairments tool aims to support and guide PCPs in appropriately assessing and managing a patient with risks or functional impairments, even in the absence of a diagnosis.
The tool gives primary care providers the ability to assess the type and severity of risk(s) through four main components:
- Investigate and identify key signs, symptoms & behaviours associated with risks or functional impairments
- Gauge the type, severity and time-sensitive nature of identified risk(s)
- Initiate appropriate referral to emergency department for further psychiatric assessment
- Initiate interventions, such as mandatory and permissive reporting, non-pharmacological interventions, or lifestyle modifications
Additional resources
To supplement the tool, we have developed additional resources for clarity and assistance. Click below to download each resource.
Project Overview
Development Process
Keeping Your Patients Safe: A Guide to Primary Care Management of Mental Health and Addictions-related Risks and Functional Impairments Tool was developed using CEP's integrated knowledge translation approach. The Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) ensures that primary care providers are engaged throughout the tool development process through the application of user-centered design methodology. Clinical leadership of the tool was provided by Dr. Jose Silveira, Dr. Patricia Rockman and Dr. Leah Skory, along with a clinical working group. Clinical experts were also engaged to provide feedback on key processes and components relevant to assessing and managing risks associated with mental health conditions.
The Keeping Your Patients Safe: A Guide to Primary Care Management of Mental Health and Addictions-related Risks and Functional Impairments Tool is one of several resources developed as part of the 2014 to 2017 Knowledge Translation in Primary Care Initiative. This multi-year initiative was a collaboration between the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP), Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP), and Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontario (NPAO). Funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, this initiative supported primary care providers with the development of a series of clinical tools and health information resources. Learn more about the Knowledge Translation in Primary Care Initiative.
As part of this initiative, the CEP conducted a Primary Care Needs Assessment to determine topics of interest to primary care providers. In this survey, providers identified the need for more effective resources to help identify and manage risks associated with mental health conditions.
Meet the Team
Clinical Leads
Jose Silveira, MD, FRCPC, Dip, ABAM
Dr. Jose Silveira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto; Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto as well as Medical Director of Mental Health and Addiction Programs. He works closely with primary care physicians and has been on the steering committee of Ontario College of Family Physicians Collaborative Mental Health Network since 2000. He has been providing indirect consultation and support to them across the province of Ontario throughout this time as well. In addition, Dr. Silveira has served as a psychiatrist providing shared care with numerous Community Health Centres and Family Health Teams throughout his career.
Patricia Rockman, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Dr. Patricia Rockman is Director of Education and Clinical Services at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto and is also Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto with a cross appointment to Psychiatry at UHN. She has a focused practice in Mental Health, and was co-chair and founder of the Ontario College of Family Physicians Collaborative Mental Health Network. Dr. Rockman has also functioned as an educator, public speaker and resident supervisor for the last ten years.
Leah Skory, MD, CCFP
Dr. Leah Skory works as a family physician at the Barrie Community Health Centre, where she provides comprehensive primary care to all ages. She has practiced family medicine since 1997 and has worked in both private and group settings. She is a trained McMaster Problem Based Learning Facilitator, and is currently co-chair for the Ontario College of Family Physicians upcoming Mentoring Network annual conference.
In addition to clinical leads, a clinical working group comprised of a family physician, primary care nurse practitioners and a social worker oversaw the development of this tool. Members include:
- Gwen Morgan, Social Worker
- Joanna Dickinson, MSc, PHCNP, CPMHN
- Jennifer Wyman, MD, CCFP, DABAM
Thank you to all providers who participated in the development of this clinical tool.
Supporting Material
Supporting Materials
External Resources
Below are some additional resources and sources of information. These supporting materials are hosted by external organizations and we cannot guarantee the accuracy and accessibility of their links. The CEP will make every effort to keep these links up to date.
- Mandatory and Permissive Reporting
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) have documented all instances of mandatory reporting (e.g., child abuse or neglect; impaired driving ability; safety related to pilots or air traffic controllers, railway workers and maritime workers; and occupational health and safety) and permissive reporting (e.g., disclosure to prevent harm, and health provider incapacity or incompetence) requirements.
The Ontario College of Family Physicians also houses a useful CPSO guide on mandatory and permissive reporting for general practitioners:
- Identifying Potential Workplace Hazard
If a health provider is concerned that a patient could pose a potential hazard to him-or herself or to others in the workplace, the health provider is advised to contact the Ontario Ministry of Labour to file a concern, which can be done anonymously should the health provider so choose.
The number to contact the Ministry of Labour is: 1-877-202-0008, option #3, which will in turn forward the information to their investigation unit. It is important that the provider knows the employer and employment location of the patient to file a concern.
- Partner, Child & Elder Abuse & Neglect
For an overview of the professional responsibilities of health care providers regarding the prevention of child abuse and neglect, please review the following link:
Legally, healthcare providers are obligated to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to the Children's Aid Society. To access the closest location to you, please visit the following link:
The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly provides useful guidance on dealing with suspected or confirmed elder abuse or neglect.
The Ministry of the Attorney General provides an extensive list of options and resources for individuals who are being abused by their partners.
- Reporting to Ministry of Transportation
According to the Highway Traffic Act (s. 203 and 204), physicians must report to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles any patient aged 16 years or older who may be suffering from a medical condition that could impair his or her driving ability.
The Canadian Medical Association offers a guide to determine medical fitness to operate motor vehicles, which can be found here:
- Form 1 – Application by Physician for Psychiatric Assessment
How to complete the Form 1 accurately
- Form 2 – Order for Examination under Section 16
If you cannot examine the patient and police arrest under the Mental Health Act is not appropriate, a Justice of the Peace can complete Form 2, which is then given to police. Make clear that voluntary efforts have not worked.
- Mental Health Act Forms
- Collaborative Mental Health Network
The Collaborative Mental Health Network provides mentoring support and education to enhance the capacity of family physicians in providing comprehensive, quality care to patients with complex conditions involving mental illness or addictions.
- Perlman CM, Neufeld E, Martin L, Goy M, & Hirdes JP (2011). Suicide Risk Assessment Inventory: A Resource Guide for Canadian Health care Organizations. Toronto, ON: Ontario Hospital Association and Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
- Allan CL, Behrman S, Ebmeier KP. Primary care management of patients who self-harm. Practitioner. 2012;256(1751):19-22, 2-3.
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Self-harm: longer-term management. London (UK): National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE); 2011 Nov. 41 p. (Clinical guideline; no. 133).
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for suicide risk in adolescents, adults, and older adults in primary care: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med. 2014 May 20;160(10):719-26.
- DiGregorio RV, Green-Hernandez C, Holzemer SP. Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective. 2015. Springer Publishing Company LLC.
- Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. Child Abuse and Neglect: Risk and Protective Factors. [Internet]. 2016. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childmaltreatment/riskprotectivefactors.html
- Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. Suicide: Risk and Protective Factors. [Internet]. 2015. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/riskprotectivefactors.html
- Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. Sexual Violence: Risk and Protective Factors [Internet]. 2016. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/riskprotectivefactors.html
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Depression in adults: the treatment and management of depression in adults (Update-NICE clinical guideline 90). London, UK: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE); 2009.
- Andrews G, Cuijpers P, Craske MG, McEvoy P, Titov N. Computer therapy for the anxiety and depressive disorders is effective, acceptable and practical health care: a meta-analysis. PloS ONE. 2010;5:e13196.
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The CAMH Suicide Prevention and Assessment Handbook. [Internet]. 2011. Available from: https://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/health_information/a_z_mental_health_and_addiction_information/suicide/Documents/sp_handbook_final_feb_2011.pdf
- Durbin S, Ker K, Rawal S, Chan J, Ho A, Au Billie, Lofchy J. Psychiatry–Toronto Notes. 2009.
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MORRISTOWN -- The spotlight was on Catherine "Cassie" Enright today, when the well-known Morris County matrimonial lawyer was sworn in as the newest judge in Superior Court in Morristown.
She was lavished with praise by colleagues before a packed house of more than 100 well-wishers, and she said all of the attention made her a bit uncomfortable.
While it might seem that the focal point in any courtroom - by default - would be the judge, Enright and the audience was reminded by Superior Court Judge Theodore Bozonelis that the real heart of a court and legal system is not the judge, but rather the law.
"Now, that you have put on your robes, I hope you remember that what the public wants in a judge is responsibility, and not power; dedication, and not privilege; humility, and not self-importance," Bozonelis said. "It should never be about the judge, it should always be about the law."
Enright of Mendham was one of several new judges appointed last month by Gov. Jon Corzine to fill vacancies of retiring judges. She is assigned to the Family Division of Superior Court, where she will preside in matrimonial court.
In a swearing-in ceremony that was by turns poignant and humorous, Enright thanked her family and supporters, particularly her former law partner, Sheldon Simon, and Judge Donald Collester, for whom Enright began her legal career as his law clerk 24 years ago.
Collester, now an appellate judge whose retirement in October will cap his 33-year career, administered the oath of office. He and Simon said Enright is steeped in matrimonial law and well-suited for her new position.
"She distinguished herself, in my view, in the most difficult area of law," Collester said. "It takes patience, it takes understanding and wisdom. Those are the characteristics Cassie has shown over the years."
Enright thanked her family, friends and former co-workers, as well as her new colleagues who have already warmly embraced her.
"What I didn't anticipate was the enormous support I got from other judges in recent weeks," Enright told the crowd.
Married with two children, Enright earned her bachelor's degree from Seton Hall University in 1981 and her law degree from Villanova in 1984. She was Collester's clerk in 1984-85, and in 1985 joined the Simon & Enright law firm in Morris Plains.
From 1992-98, she was co-chair of the Court Procedures Committee of the Morris County Domestic Violence Task Force, and since 1998 has been chairman of the task force.
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The simple, yet elegant chapel at the FCJ Christian Life Centre in Calgary was adorned with festive balloons as FCJ sisters, staff and invited friends gathered on September 18, 2005 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the FCJ Centre.
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Conclusion: I have attempted to make explicit a number of observations that I believe are implicit in research on life in hospitals. I have suggested that a research agenda animated by what we might think of as "humanistic" concerns -- in particular, with the felt experience of the hospitalized patient -- may have become irrelevant. Not only are such concerns seemingly less consequential for health outcomes, but also the potential audience for research driven by such concerns (physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators) meets that research with studied and systematic indifference. I have suggested as well that there is an important place for a new type of patient-centered hospital ethnography. Rather than making the patient's felt experience a central focus, this new ethnography reintroduces the patient as a central participant in medical decisions. Moreover, this new focus provides an entree to the process by which attempts at reforms and redirection of the hospital are translated into actual practice.
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At the New York City premiere of her new film "Friends with Benefits" Monday, actress Mila Kunis gushed that she's "excited" for the Marine Corps. Ball in November.
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Looking stunning in a red gown, she explained that while she is excited, she hasn't quite gone dress shopping yet.
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By Sohaib Sheikh
I recently read about a prominent Pakistani brand that was super proud of the fact that it had tons of fans on its Facebook page. It even touted this across various media. This got me thinking: are we, as marketers in Pakistan ,really utilising social media to its fullest extent? While having loads of 'Likes' on Facebook is great for one's ego, the true impact of social media is measured in engagement. When I talk about engagement, I mean actually conversing with your audiences. Bear in mind, I'm not denigrating the importance of social media here – or the importance of connecting with wide audiences (i.e. having lots of fans or 'Likes'). As with all marketers, I too am an avid enthusiast of the efficacy of social media when used right.
And there's the rub. See, the wonderful thing about social media is that unlike many (in fact, most) other marketing media, it allows for a two-way communication, dialogues. The best brand social media campaigns are those which start a conversation with the brand's target audiences. And this, ladies and gents, is not about how many people follow you on Twitter, but about how many of those followers you, as a brand, are actually actively engaging with, how many you're actually talking to.
So let's take a step back and examine the landscape for a moment. There currently exists a rich and diverse ecology of social media sites, which vary in terms of their scope and functionality. Some sites are for the general masses, like Friendster, Hi5, and – of course – Facebook. Other sites, like LinkedIn, are more focused professional networks; in fact, Facebook started out as a niche private network for Harvard University students. Media sharing sites, such as MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr, concentrate on shared videos and photos. And after a slow start in the late 1990s, weblogs (blogs) have become very popular, because they are easy to create and to maintain. Their authors range from everyday people to professional writers and celebrities. Today, the resulting 'blogosphere' of more than 100 million blogs and their interconnections has become an important source of public opinion.
With this rise in social media, it appears that corporate communication has been democratised. The power has been taken from those in marketing and public relations by the individuals and communities that create, share, and consume blogs, tweets, Facebook entries, movies, pictures, and so forth. Communication about brands happens, with or without permission of the brands in question. It is now up to brands to decide if they want to get serious about social media and participate in this communication, or continue to ignore it. As someone once said to me, "The question is not whether or not your brand is being talked about online, it's if you want to join the conversation."
But where many brands, like the one I mentioned in the beginning, are missing a trick is the ability of social media to connect us to wide networks of like-minded people; people who share our values, our worldviews; people who share our Causes (I'm sure most of you reading this article have at some point or another even used the Causes app on Facebook to promote some issue that you feel strongly about). We at Wateen recently used our Facebook page to help drive the 'Wateen Scouts' campaign. The idea was simple: to bring together Pakistan's youth on a common platform, and to enable them to help bring about the changes they want to see in the country. We used our Facebook page to not only help recruit and support the offline campaign, but to also share the eventual ideas and outcomes with others who shared the young finalists' outlooks.
And this, folks, is where the true power of social media lies. Digital is merely a medium – a medium that can used (or abused) any which way. But when used intelligently, when used with a social conscience, it is also a tool that can bring together people from disparate, varied backgrounds to a single, common shared belief. I recently heard someone say that one person's efforts are but a drop in the ocean, but when a million drops come together, they become the ocean.
So next time you hear some brand manager bragging about his or her X thousand 'Likes' on Facebook, ask them how many of those 'Likes' are actually engaging with thier brand, communicating with the brand, conducting a dialogue and conversation with the brand. And more importantly, what steps for concrete social change has the brand taken with those many thousand 'Likes'. If they're on the right track, the answer will be clear enough.
Sohaib Sheikh is the head of marketing for Wateen Telecom


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Howells said his brief absence was prompted by some minor discomfort from a gall bladder problem he plans to have corrected "sometime after work's done on the city budget. I'll get the city business done, then take care of this."
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That is the third lesson I learned from going large.
Being on a deadline doesn't mean giving up on the idea of a balanced life. Sure, there are times in our business when we have to buckle down and put in the hours, but I think it's important to not let that become the new normal. It's easy to come off a large project, dive right in to another project and forget to take a breath and find those resets.
While I was working on this project, I came to a point where I realized that my life and my routines were being turned upside down. Here's how I regained my balance and my sanity:
Find a trigger.
When I hit the halfway point of my project, I started looking at which parts of my normal routine were missing and how that was affecting me. I knew it was important to pick at least one thing that I could start doing again, and I knew that one thing would serve as a trigger to the other normal parts of my routine. For me, it was yoga class.
For you, it could be going for a run or resuming a weekly coffee date with a friend. Whatever it is, find your trigger and the rest of your routines will start to resurface from there.
Realize this: Most things we worry about never happen.
Once you start to reclaim your routines, know that the temptation to give up the quest to restore your life's balance will be greater than before. As an example, I was headed in to my first yoga class in weeks when my large project client called with a panic.
Apparently, the sky was going to fall if I didn't send over a file. So, as I sat in the gym parking lot, I had a decision to make: Leave and go deal with the file or tell the client I was busy and would get back to them later. Thankfully, I chose the latter and you know what happened?
Nothing. The client survived and nobody lost a limb.
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I missed the most interesting story in the New York Times today until I read the hard copy of the paper this afternoon. Yale Professor Harold Bloom is the most distinguished professor of literature at the university since the university's heyday at the vanguard of the New Criticism in the 1950's. He is an awesome critical force and an inspirational figure in his efforts to keep the great tradition alive for another generation of students.
Today the Times reports that Professor Bloom has bypassed Yale and decided to donate his vast library and art collection to St. Michael's College of Colchester, Vermont. The Times correctly places this decision in the context of Bloom's disgust with the state of literary studies at Yale and elsewhere: "Harold Bloom has always railed against what he calls 'the school of resentment,' Marxist, feminist, Afrocentric and deconstructionist scholars who, he says, deny the aesthetic and spiritual values inherent in great literature. So when it came time for Mr. Bloom, 72, to choose a place to donate his immense personal library and his archives, he bypassed several larger prominent universities that in his opinion house those very practitioners of resentment in favor of a small, relatively unknown Catholic college in Colchester, Vt."
Bloom himself explained his decision to the Times reporter slightly more indirectly: "Dear child, with rare exceptions the universities and colleges in the English-speaking world that have sustained some sense of literature as a matter of powerful cognition and extraordinary aesthetic beauty tend to be the Roman Catholic institutions."
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OPENER: Nov. 9 vs. Holy Cross.
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STRENGTH: Potential. The Monarchs have had beaucoup turnover in the past two seasons and will field different, and different kinds of, lineups, with an emphasis on young. Junior Donte Hill is productive and appears to be a leader. Senior transfer DeShawn Painter is an ACC-caliber talent. Nick Wright and Richard Ross have been in the spotlight. Roles will evolve.
WEAKNESS: Inexperience. Seven new players and two sophomores will translate to some dyspeptic and disjointed moments for a program used to continuity and competing for the conference title. Mistakes and inconsistency are inevitable, but there's enough talent and energy to compensate. As usual, perimeter scoring and jump shooting will be key.
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Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" is a wildly imaginative portrayal of the Dutch Resistance in 1944 and 1945 and of an improbable but intense love affair between a Jewish spy (Carice van Houten) and a German Gestapo chief (Sebastian Koch). The movie scrambles our responses and covers so much ground, with such zest, that its two and a half hours race past like a firestorm.
The biggest production in Dutch film history, it's an epic with a great cast. But it also has the ribald, unfettered style that marked Verhoeven's earlier Dutch films -- including "Turkish Delight," named in a 1999 poll as the best Dutch movie of the 20th Century -- before he went to Hollywood and specialized in sci-fi and fancy trash ("RoboCop" and "Showgirls"). I like some of Verhoeven's American movies, but the Dutch pictures are better and, in "Black Book," he's reunited with his most frequent, congenial scriptwriter, Gerard Soeteman, with a bigger budget, richer technology and a deeper cast than they had back in the days of "Turkish Delight." The result is so good that it suggests Verhoeven should keep splitting his time between Hollywood and Holland.
"Black Book" recounts the adventures, recalled years later in flashback in a kibbutz, of a (fictitious) popular Jewish singer, Rachel Stein (van Houten), who fought and spied in the underground and had a love affair, under the alias Ellis de Vries, with the handsome, morally troubled Gestapo commander Ludwig Muentze (Koch).
It's as if "Casablanca's" romance were between Ingrid Bergman and Conrad Veidt. That narrative daring kicks up almost immediately in the flashback: Rachel loses her safe house in a German air raid and makes her way to another "safe harbor," only to see her family slaughtered.
Hooking up with the Resistance again, she joins leaders Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman) and Gerben Kuipers (Derek de Lint). Because of her obvious charms, she's sent into the Gestapo lion's den to dazzle Muentze and other Nazis, including depraved sadist Gunther Franken (Waldemar Kobus) and unbending fascist General Kautner (Christian Berkel). And the dizzying sequence of battles and betrayals continues.
Movies about the World War II resistance movements tend to be heroic-adventurous, like the John Frankenheimer-Burt Lancaster "The Train," or grim and tragic, like Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows." Verhoeven pitches himself somewhere in between. Throughout, "Black Book" mixes the sophistication of a solidly researched historical drama with loony genre thriller excesses. But it's also shot through with an intriguing moral relativism. In the movie -- which takes it title from the little black book in which all the Resistance secrets may be revealed -- there are sympathetic people, liars and monsters on both sides.
Back in the 1970s, before his Hollywood exodus, Verhoeven had developed a top-notch local Dutch company of actors and technicians, including Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbe and cinematographer Jan de Bont. Some of them are back here (including scenarist Soeteman). But, even though he's working with largely new people, Verhoeven seems even more assured now than the brash young swashbuckler who made 1977's "Soldier of Orange."
That assurance sparks up his cast. Sebastian Koch, the spied-on writer in "The Lives of Others," is a terrific romantic leading man, but he's also alive to the ambiguities of Muentze's character. Halina Reijn is a lusty hooker sidekick, de Lint a poignant old radical, and Kobus makes one of the most despicable villains imaginable. (His Franken is hair-raising from first sight, treading arrogantly through corpses after the riverboat massacre of the group that includes Rachel's parents.)
Van Houten is a major star in her country right now, a sort of Dutch Cate Blanchett, and one wonders when American films will start tapping her talents, as they did Verhoeven's. But when they do, one hopes she'll keep returning to her homeland. "Black Book" shows how good a top European filmmaker with heavy Hollywood credentials can be, back on his turf. The more "Black Books" Verhoeven has in him, the better.
MPAA rating: R (for violence, sex, nudity and profanity).
'Black Book' *** 1/2
Directed by Paul Verhoeven; screenplay by Gerard Soeteman, Verhoeven; photographed by Karl Walter Lindenlaub; edited by Job ter Burg, James Herbert; music by Anne Dudley; production design by Wilbert van Dorp; produced by San Fu Maltha, Jos van der Linden, Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker. In Dutch, German, English and Hebrew, with English subtitles. A Sony Classics release; opens Friday at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, Landmark's Renaissance in Highland Park and the CineArts 6 in Evanston. Running time: 2:25.
Rachel/Ellis ...
... Carice van Houten
Ludwig Muentze ...
... Sebastian Koch
Hans Akkermans ...
... Thom Hoffman
Ronnie ... Halina Reijn
Gunther Franken ...
... Waldemar Kobus
Gerben Kuipers ...
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The world is in tumult, but here in the heart of Empire the level of creative political energy runs flat along the bottom of the graph. As Iraq disintegrates amid frightful slaughter, US generals propose to bring to life the mad plan they ascribed to Saddam Hussein, to dig a defensive ditch round Baghdad, one of the larger cities on the planet. In Afghanistan the Taliban are once again on the rise. Amid these vivid implosions of the "war on terror," the US antiwar movement is near dead.
Here in the homeland, the mightiest names of the auto-industrial age have their backs to the wall. Tens of thousands of men and women face grim times as Ford and GM shutter plant after plant. Yet the pulse of organized labor amid this devastation is feeble. From the environmental movement there is an even fainter heartbeat, even as an actual conspiracy–official concealment of the toxic toll on New Yorkers from the 9/11 attack–finally comes to light. There's no convincing energy plan beyond posturing about ANWR; no protest at the giveaways of public lands.
Less than two months from the midterm elections, the Democrats cower from confrontation with a widely hated President. When Bush tries to annul America's always frail commitment to the Geneva Conventions on torture, Joe Biden complacently announces that the Democrats are happy to sit this one out and let Republican Senators McCain, Warner and Graham mount a counterattack. This is the way to rally millions of antiwar voters in November? Bush's present bounce in the polls shows the bankruptcy of Democratic strategy, as supervised by Rahm Emanuel.
Outrage burns in many an American breast, but there's scant outlet for it in the political arena. A friend of mine took his family to the annual Puyallup Fair near Tacoma, Washington. There was a CNN booth, in which a mini "Democracy Wall," an 8-by-4-foot sheet of butcher paper, was available for people to scrawl their sentiments in felt-tip. Fast as the CNN staffers changed the paper, scores more hastened forward to scribble their views, almost all of them harsh in language toward both CNN and the President. Families photographed each other in postures vulgarly disrespectful to the life-size cutout of Wolf Blitzer. When an older man–he turned out to be the retired commander of a nuclear submarine–rebuked the crowd and called for loyalty to Bush, the mood turned ugly, and for reasons of his personal safety he was advised to leave. "And yet," said my friend, the anthropologist David Price, "try getting these people to an antiwar rally."
It's as dismal a political landscape as I can remember in thirty years. Yet some discover a silver lining. They find it in the 9/11 conspiracy cult, which I discussed here a couple of weeks ago. A politically sophisticated leftist in Washington, DC, wrote to thank me for my attack, but added, "To me the most interesting thing (in the US) is how many people are willing to believe that Bush either masterminded it [the 9/11 attacks] or knew in advance and let it happen. If that number or anything close to that is true, that's a huge base of people that are more than deeply cynical about their elected officials. That would be the real news story that the media is missing, and it's a big one."


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The Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge 2009 - Unique and Universal
By combining an accessible stage format with a convivial race culture and exposure to local traditions, the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge 2009 affirms its universal appeal by, once again, drawing widespread interest from teams around the globe.
From overall course design, rules and regulations to logistical support and cultural context, all aspects of The Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge 2009 are carefully fine-tuned to bring out the best in every competing team. The stage-race format allows athletes to give 100% during the day's racing while benefiting from the restorative qualities of an evening bivouac.
Optional routes, included in the longer, more challenging stages, allow teams to maximise their physical effort by racing at their own rhythm, incurring a time penalty rather than dropping out altogether through exhaustion. If a team wanders off-course enough to require direct intervention from the organization, penalties are incurred but provision has been made to avoid exclusion from the race altogether. Winning is for one; participating is for all.
Although teams are free to bring their own equipment, the organisation provides top quality MTBs, and state of the art sea-kayaks to every team. All the logistics involved in transporting teams and gear between stages and serving hot meals in the transitional bivouacs is also covered by the organisation, eliminating the need for support crews.
Last year, this innovative and unique set of credentials attracted an exceptional field comprising 36 teams from no fewer than 19 different nations, establishing The Challenge as the world's most cosmopolitan adventure race ever - a record well within sight this year as pros, seasoned amateurs and neophytes already flock to register for the 2009 event. Many "early adopters" are completely new to the race with the likes of Arctic Explorers (GB), Dolphin Team Xtreme (NL) and Kinesium (FRA) joining ranks with returnees Salomon Crested Butte (USA) and Speleo Salomon (POL) to name just few.
A common refrain among newcomers is echoed by Dave Savvas, captain of expat Australians Southern Cross: "The format is unique and this really inspired us to get a team together for this year. The combination of events, especially the desert trek, is exciting and will definitely test us as a team. The environment is also unique and, whilst we are living in the UAE, there is no better way to really get a true appreciation of the environment…"
There are few arenas in the AR world that inspire both rookies and established champions – the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge is one of them.
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There's a time for walking and there's a time for running. A time for casual sneakiness and a time for a gunshot in your enemy's face and throwing their limp, warm body in a trash can and casually walking away with their suit on. Soon, there will be a time when you'll sit down and play the newest IO Interactive game, Hitman Blood Money, and you can do it all.
We recently spoke over the phone with IO Interactive's Game Director, Rasmus H¿jengaard, about the nearly finished title.
IGN: What were your major goals when you approached Hitman: Blood Money and what did you want to achieve? When you sat down and reflected on the last game, what did you think you could do better or different, and how could did you feel you could improve the series?
Rasmus H¿jengaard: Actually, it's a two-stage rocket for us. The game design for Blood Money was created before Contracts. We made Contracts on a modified engine that we already had, and then when that happened, when we had finished it, we realized we had to be even more ambitious with the design because time had passed, so expectations were even higher. That meant that, apart all the things we wanted to add before Contracts, we wanted to add more features and we decided to reinvent everything. That meant from a tech standpoint, meaning the script engine, AI, and all that. So, the whole thing, all of Blood Money, was created from scratch. We felt that we wanted Blood Money to have the same impact as Hitman 2. We wanted it to feel just as new as when that game hit. So, to publish that on the same platforms we had to change more than just features and graphics, we had to change the way the game feels and plays. That was the initial plan.
IGN: Let's explore those ideas a little. When you say you wanted to make a big change in the way that Hitman 2 was over Hitman 1, what do you mean exactly?
Rasmus: First of all, we wanted things like picking up the controller for the first time and walking around with the character to feel entirely new. That had to feel different. Things like, when you interact with characters, between missions, after missions -- there had to be features that made you feel it was new. So, following the title of the game, we introduced money to the series. It was already in Hitman 1, but it wasn't balanced and you could basically buy anything you wanted. So, it really became a redundant feature. So, we wanted money to become relevant and necessary and to function throughout the game. So, the killing thing and the cleaning up idea become aspects revolving around money. You also have to find something interesting to spend it on. So we enabled you to modify various aspects of Hitman to suit your style of play. In this case, you'll be making even more money on replay missions to buy things that suit you more.
Also, we wanted to have the way you play the game affect forthcoming missions. So, if you play very violently, you'll have a different scenario at the start of the next level than if you played stealthily. Of course, we had to make the game react to those players who only play it violently, so we had to introduce a way to get notoriety, so that you can pay your way out of trouble. So, all of a sudden all of this money has all these different functions, and the way it's been balanced out now actually makes it possible, and it makes sense, for you to play the game more than once, because the experience you're going to get is going to differ a lot depending on how you take on the game.
Damn that was a long sentence.
IGN: (Laughter). Do you think people who play Hitman play it more than once?
Rasmus: We know from the forums that they do. With Hitman 2, the game design wasn't polished enough, so it didn't really work well enough to play it through multiple times. Now, it really works. So if people really liked Hitman 2, they're going to go absolutely nuts with Blood Money. It really feels a lot different. It feels like you have a lot of control. You can get out of tricky situations, whereas in previous games, if you screwed up somewhere, it was really difficult to save it. And if you wanted to really complete the mission fully, you had to back your way out if something went wrong. In this one, if the s*&^% hits the fan, then you are able to run away, you can take someone's outfit, you can hide his body, you can get out of a tight jam, and when everything has calmed down, it works. It's not that difficult once you understand the mechanics a little better.
IGN: There are a couple of things I like and dislike about the series. In Contracts, you had the dark, meat market warehouse level, and that was a really memorable, gruesome mission. It was really likeable in a sick way. So when I look back and I distinctly remember that level, I wonder if Blood Money will feature that same dark, gritty feeling that Contracts was clearly going after.
Rasmus: I'm really glad you're asking this question, because one of the most important goals for this game was to make memorable locations. It's achieved in different ways. We tried very hard in Blood Money to find post-card romantic locations, which makes the stuff you do and see feel even more grotesque. So if you have, for example, a quiet suburb, where the only things you see are people mowing their lawn and grilling steaks, and people are going about their daily lives, and you put a garbage man into the grinder of his garbage truck, it's just going to be so much more powerful than if the location already brings that kind of expectation with it.
I really think we make it a lot more powerful in this game also because a lot of the locations are ones people can really easily relate to. It's a lot more powerful to watch someone get executed in the middle of a street during the news, than it is to watch Terminator 2 kill 25 cops. You're going to understand the locations much better. Also, we have created situations that are always going to challenge the morale of the player. We don't suggest that they do these things, but, you know, we have broadened the spectrum of things you can do. I said earlier that everyone who plays this at least once or twice will say to themselves, "OK, am I going to do this, or am I not going to do this?" That's a pretty powerful aspect in the game, I think.


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He begins to get frustrated, but tries to shake it off. He can't.
In fact, he has noticed his focus hasn't been as sharp as in previous school years, which has led to lower grades. But he tells himself he'll try harder. But he can't.
Some teachers begin to recognize the change, telling him he isn't trying hard enough, while others call him "lazy."
It becomes his persona - the "stupid" kid - until two decades later when he learns he's been struggling through life with an undiagnosed medical disorder called Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Lengthy struggle
At 39 years old, John Sheehan looks back on his life before getting diagnosed with ADHD four years earlier.
"One of the most difficult things is going through life feeling stupid," John tells The Compass Jan. 26. "When you're interested in something and it catches your attention, you tend to hyper focus on it. The danger there is you can hyper focus on it too much, which can be a detriment to everything else around you."
John's hyper focus has been the New York Yankees. The team and its history are his passion.
"(In the past) I really didn't know any family history, but I could tell you who played third base for the yanks in 1998," he explains.
John's version of ADHD is classified as "inattentive," or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), because he does not experience the hyperactivity associated with some versions of it.
His lack of focus often led to distraction watching television, repetitively flicking through channels. While he was flicking through the channels, he would also be using a laptop and have a DVD playing.
"It has to be very frustrating for anyone who had to sit down next to me," he says.
Getting diagnosed
According to kidshealth.org, childhood ADHD has become a more apparent disorder in recent years, affecting between eight and 10 per cent of school-age children. It is often presented by an overactive child with social, academic and focus issues.
But adulthood ADHD is more rare, according to the Mayo Clinic website. It reads those with adulthood ADHD have had it since childhood, just likely undiagnosed.
John did not present with many of the standard symptoms in childhood, which prevented even his parents from recognizing the signs.
"My parents always tell me they wish they could have done more," John explains.
When John was 35, he was in a deep state of depression, and could no longer function without help.
"Because of those feelings of insecurity and feelings of stupidity, there's a real danger of depression," he says. "And then, when you finally get diagnosed, you're not only getting treated for your ADD, but also for the depression the years of not being diagnosed have brought on.
"I think, for me, I just hit rock bottom."
The undiagnosed disorder was key to a downward spiral that John was experiencing emotionally and mentally, which led him to seek help.
"I went to my family doctor," he says. "He saw me as pretty much an emotional wreck at the time. He's the one who suggested it could be ADD.
"When you tell people that (diagnosis), they kind of shrug it off. It's only now that adult ADD and ADHD are becoming acknowledged by a lot more people."
His psychiatrist explained to him he likely had the disorder since 13 or 14 years old.
Classifying himself as "lucky," John says he has never been influenced by drugs or alcohol, which he says has been proven to be a significant problem to those with ADHD, often causing dependency.
After living with the burden of depression and being undiagnosed, John says after several attempts at different medication, he is now a lot more balanced mentally and emotionally, and can focus on being a volunteer firefighter and on his career.
Professional struggles
As a professional comedian and actor, John admits it was difficult for him to learn lines on his own, and just as difficult to write anything beyond sketch comedy and standup.
When he was diagnosed, he was afraid what the medication would do, professionally.
"I was afraid of turning into a zombie," John explains. "I was terrified that it would stifle me creatively and that I'd lose some of the mania that makes me a comic, and gets the creative thought process going. Being eased on the medication, the exact opposite happened.
"The analogy is of a road - the ADD mind has potholes, the medication fills the potholes."
The medication assisted him in focusing on his comedy, and he was motivated to go beyond his normal comedy writing. He wrote his first sitcom pilot episode while on medication.
"I have never written anything like that before," John explains. "In a day, I wrote a pilot, and it is now in the early stages with a production company in Toronto."
Although John has struggled with ADD for much of his life, he is happy at how far he has come and wouldn't change anything he has experienced.
"Once you understand ADD and ADHD, you start to disagree with it being called a disorder," John concludes.


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Rain is one of Korea's most popular pop stars. Rain is popular with his muscular figure and sizzling dance moves. Besides his successful music career, Rain has achieved decent results in acting as well.
Rain Profile
Name: Jung Ji-hoon, Rain
Korean name: 정지훈
Nickname: Bi (means rain in Korean; 비)
DOB: June 25, 1982
Birth place: Seoul, Korea
Height: 184cm
Blood type: O
Profession: Singer and actor
(Also known as Ji-hoon Jung, Pi, Jung Ji-hun, Jeong Ji-hun)
Rain Biography
Rain started his entertainment career in teenage with boyband Fanclub, but the group didn't achieve good results and was disbanded.
Rain didn't want to give up on his music career, and went for lots of auditions before being accepted as a trainee with JYP Entertainment. Rain worked as a backup dancer while learning the skills to become a pop star under the guidance of his singer-boss Park Jin-young.
Rain made his solo debut in 2002 with album "Bad Guy" by using his stage name 'Rain". The album was a hit and Rain was rising in fame. It was also in 2002 that he made his acting debut in TV drama "Orange".
Rain released his 2nd album, "How to Avoid the Sun" in 2003, which was a great hit as well.
Rain's international breakthrough came in 2004 with popular drama "Full House", co-starring famous Korean actress Song Hye-kyo. The drama achieved great ratings not just in Korea, but across Asia as well… making Rain an Asia superstar
Following his international fame, Rain held a concert tour in 2005 in Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and ended in New York in early 2006. His exposure in USA has gained notice from Times magazine, which named him as one of the "100 Most Influential People Who Shape Our World" for 2006.
Rain made his movie debut in 2006 with "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK" (co-starring Im Soo-jung) Rain's performance was well received by critics, but the movie was a box office disappointment.
Rain started his 2nd world tour later in 2006. The tour started well in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and Australia etc. before facing problems in Shanghai; the Shanghai concert has to be postponed indefinitely due to unpredicted circumstances.
Rain's real trouble however, was in USA and Canada. 5 concerts were planned initially but all of the concerts have to been cancelled for various issues. The worst case happened in Los Angeles where the concert was cancelled just hours before its schedule. Rain and his agencies are currently facing lawsuit from Hawaii's local promoter over various accusations for cancelling the tour.
Rain is currently filming his Hollywood debut movie, "Speedracer" using the name Ji Hoon Jung. He is not the main character but is playing as supporting role instead.
Rain Related Websites
Official Website (Korean) ll Rain Forum


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Is is okay to let others stumble?Submitted by theshovel
the "doing away" of things should be compelled by love and with the power of His life in us..He shows us why some things we do arent the best for us..we obey because we understand His perception as far as the "specific activities" go kevinkim
"Compelled by love and with the power of His life in us" hints at the miraculous reality of our union in Christ , however, you continue on with something other than that. Don't overlook the fact that Israel was also given insights into God's perception of what was best for them so that they might obey. Consider that our union with God in Christ is so real that the compelling of love is not just some kind of emotional stimulus, often used for motivational purposes, but that it surpasses any concepts of good, better and best.
Having been made alive has brought us into a unique reality that cannot be understood by all the wisdom of the world (including the Christian versions of that wisdom). The law would have us striving for "God's best" - only to be continually frustrated by our inability to reach it - while life allows us to truly live as those who have been raised from the dead and joined to God. Let that ridiculous reality of his life blow away the concepts that try to emulate it!
but i gotta question..how about the stumbling of others.. how does that ties into what you say as "other peoples perceptions"..
wholeheartedly following Jesus is a must..but as He does His work in us..we will always be faced with people telling us not to do this and that because by their experience "this and that" hindered their relationship with Him..
dont smoke..dont drink..dont cuss..no rock..dont etc etc. the way we as humans actually do these things is by either choking our will, which leads to failure, or letting God take over our hearts.
so than..is it ok to "stumble others"..continue in what others believe are sinful or fleshly or etc..based on the fact that God keeps making an "instinstence from another place"..that place being within..therefore we go ahead and stop considering others with our behavior to avoid being sin concsious and religious? kevinkim
Interestingly, I began to start on this very thing yesterday in the continuation of my response - the matter of "conscience" - though I didn't get very far at all. So, I'll touch on a few thoughts right now.
First, let's clear the air regarding most of the "stumbling" baloney we hear about (aka "I don't like what you're doing and I'm offended"), as what I refer to is commonly thrown around in an effort to do nothing more than control another.
When Jesus was asked if he knew he "offended" the Pharisees he basically told the disciples: Don't concern yourselves with them because they're going to stumble no matter what, because they can't see where they're going. (Matthew 15:13-14) I don't care if I "offend" someone who insists on being offended by me, for such offense is inevitable. Now, while I may in fact irritate, frustrate, and become the target for such a person's judgment I really can't cause him to stumble, he is doing that all by himself.
The whole matter of not being the cause of stumbling - as discussed by both Jesus and Paul - has nothing to do with having too much grace and freedom but only with its facade. After all, to encourage a brother to sin against his own conscience has nothing to do with true life and freedom, but only with its form.
Though I couldn't care less about those who scrutinize me and compare me according to their own fleshly judgments I am concerned with this. For this is not about someone who is looking for reasons to judge another, but one who is hanging on the edge of his own judgments against himself ... and is desperately asking if it's okay to sin against his own conscience.
You see, this is not about my conscience, or the conscience of those who judge him, it is about HIS conscience. He needs to know that in having been set free that he is truly free to honor God without having to prove to me or to anyone else that he is free ... for his validation does not come from me or from any one else, it comes from God himself! For me to encourage him to do what he believes to be wrong would be nothing short of turning grace into a law for him. A grace-law is no better than a law-law. I wonder why we don't recognize this as being not grace but law in action? It is, after all, the law that stimulates sin. What is it that we don't get about this?
Don't forget that Paul's comments about conscience were found in the middle of his letter to the Corinthians ... you know, the letter where he earlier wrote: "But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself." This was a group of believers caught up in fleshly judgments (which is based upon appearance). His concern was not for pretense, but for the heart of these brothers, and he made that perfectly clear.
I also encourage you to listen to the heart ... and not to the facade. This isn't rocket science, this is life.
so than..is it ok to "stumble others"..continue in what others believe are sinful or fleshly or etc..based on the fact that God keeps making an "instinstence from another place"..that place being within..therefore we go ahead and stop considering others with our behavior to avoid being sin concsious and religious? kevinkim
Just so you know, when I read this to my wife she said it was an excellent question! And indeed, she is correct, as it embodies the confusion and tension between form and life; it highlights the vast distinction between the IDEA of Christ and the REALITY of Christ. The one is law, condemnation and death; the other, grace, freedom and life!
What if it turns out that many believers have simply worn themselves out in an attempt to appease those who judge according to appearance - aka legal wisdom? Maybe that's why so many have settled on grace as a premise, that is, an idea, rather than as life itself. As life, we are continually drawn into true relationship, while at the same time we grow to despise the pretense of it. To consider one another according to life is what the Spirit of God teaches us, but to consider one another according to the rules of condemnation is not real "consideration".
What you describe is grace that has been turned into an opportunity for the flesh - in other words, law. That's right, law taught us how to manuever our way around rules and principles in the attempt to find loopholes so that we've spent a lifetime asking, "Is it okay to do this, or to not do that?" When those same principles by which we sought validation get established into grace then that grace becomes nothing more than the law it supposedly escaped.
Anyhow, it is now past my bedtime (yes, I go to bed this early) so I'll sign off here. You'll probably see more of this in my continued responses to the earlier letter.