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I found a great young singer/songwriter, Kara Ali.
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I asked her to introduce herself to you:
"My name is Kara Ali and I am a singer, songwriter and musician originally from New Jersey. My music has been described as a fusion of R&B, Acoustic Soul and Rock, and I'm so happy to be finding my voice here in New York.
I owe so much of my ability to make music to my amazingly supportive family and friends, and to both the great times together and the solitude that they have allowed me to experience throughout my life, as I continue to tell stories through song and connect with others in the best way that I know. Music is really everything to me and it is my sincerest hope that I can be a part of causing people to feel. I look forward to meeting and connecting with you."
Lister to Kara; HERE
Kara, will be at Caffe Vivaldi on Friday, May 10th!!
follow Kara; HERE
I spoke to Kara today and I can't wait to see her, at Caffe Vivaldi, on May 10th.
I have met so many young performers at Vivaldi, shot several scenes from my movie there, so a big thanks to Ishrat Ansari the proprietor.
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A few days ago I went on a quick trip to Meare Heath and missed an otter by about 5 seconds. I couldn't complain too much as I'd just seen a black-winged stilt that was on a one-day stopover before heading elsewhere – but I was still miffed.
This afternoon, after I'd completed my Easter ministerial duties, Jen and I were keen to plan an afternoon that would work both for my mother, and Andrew & Rachael and their kids. That's how we ended up back at Meare Heath – the kids could wheel their way up and down the track, while I went with Jen and mum to the hide. (Ulterior motives? Surely not!)
We'd just got to the hide when one of the guys there pointed out an otter in the lagoon. I'd had a good sighting of one some months ago, but had not photographed it – so I realised this was my opportunity!
We were able to watch it continuously for about five minutes as it meandered across the shallow waters, hunting for prey. Eventually it caught a huge eel that looked as long as the otter itself.
Never having photographed an otter before, this was a wonderful encounter!

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Twilight is a retelling - not a template - of the old old tale of Tristan and Iseult from the 12th century. The revealed and concealed meaning is of a passion love to be consummated in death. All of western romances based on this template avoid expressing the truth of this now mythological story, that death is the desired outcome so that Oneness will be forever. In no other civilization has sexual passion been coupled with death. Asia couples sex with eroticism and sensuality within a variety of rituals, but death is not the desired outcome of passion love although the circumstances may lead to it. It is not wished for. But in western civilization it is to die for a love that is so passionate separation is inconceivable. Millions of women have wished to experience such a love and many of those who have, never wish to be cured of it. So deep has this myth permeated western civilization that even the pill and the PC feminists have not been able to efface it. It captured the imaginations of women of the leisure class in the middle ages who read romance novels and poetry and listened to the troubadours. And then continued on into our modern romances.
And this lies at the root of the present hysteria around Twilight, the movies, Edward and Robert Pattinson. About the only thing any commentator has come up with is that it is a phenomenon. No it is not. It is an Event, and Irruption into the world of many women and young teens. It has reopened a Foucauldian cut in sexuality that has been obscured and virtually invisible since the pill became widely available. The past fifty years of contraception control has had consequences undreamed of by the women who flew to the pharmacy to get it. Unfortunately the women screaming about it have been right wing political activists and their followers, and they embrace Twilight in all innocence and are very pleased their sons and daughters are in love with the books and the films.
Seduction has virtually disappeared but Twilight has breathed new life into this practice, this ritual of sexual play with desire. The pill put an end to it but Stephenie Meyer has brought it back. How did she do it? Her secret is very simple. She has followed Jean Baudrillard's demand. If you are going to write about seduction, then you must write even more seductively than what you are writing about. Twilight particularly the first book, a great amount of New Moon and some of Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, does exactly that.
Desire is coupled with lack. Always. Lacan has developed this carefully and repeatedly. When the desire of the couple is consummated then lack disappears. When lack disappears then desire does also. This is why sex does not happen in the myth. Since consummation is not to take place there must be obstacles, external and internal to keep desire at a fever pitch. Because it is the all consuming desire that the two wish to prolong forever and they will do anything to ensure that those feelings continue. It is the feelings that they are in love with. The intense and irreplaceable feelings.
So we have the underlying motif of death for the final and everlasting union. This is rarely made explicit. Romeo and Juliet ending in death is an accident as is Tristan's death. It takes tremendous courage for that fact to be faced. Wagner's music in the opera Tristan and Isolde is unmistakable in the desire of death. And Toni Morrison's Sula is equally brave. But all the hundreds of thousands of romances based on this template avoid saying it, and most often go for the triangle as obstacle and the happy ending. Emily Bronte, that courageous young girl, does not mince words:
'And we must past by Gimmerton Kirk,' cries Catherine to Heathcliff, in her last interview with him, 'to go that journey! We've braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come. But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I'll keep you. I'll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you are with me. (Cecil- Victorian Novelists, p. 178)(Wuthering Heights)
And Catherine means what she says and takes him to death 400 pages later.
And now Baudrillard through Nietzsche:
14. Fatal Strategies
(a) page 104: Seduction begins with Christianity – it is a "diabolical curse that comes to fracture the divine order – or else it is Christ himself, according to Nietzsche, Christ come to seduce people to his own person, come to pervert them with psychology and love?" Refers, it appears, to Genealogy I:8. Compare Will to Power§ 172.


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No it works fine for html documents. But I have to change it for every extension !!! Is there a way that class PutableDirectory sets the flag putable to true ? If I try to upload a file e.g. abc.abc and there is no extension abc defined the server responds with: Failed to create resource abc.abc. The indexer wasn't able to deduce a resource for it. Maybe it's useful to define a general default resource without binding it to an extension. A nice application for PutableDirectory: Everyone can browse to his homepage, modify it and put it back to the server. For that purpose I defined the GenericAuthFilter only for method PUT on directory PEOPLE. Wolfgang > > After checking everything I tried again to upload a file to a Jigsaw Puta > bleDirectory, but it still didn't work. > > Because Anselm said, this should work I started my debugger. > > > > .. a couple of days later ... > > > > I think I have the solution of the problem: > > > > 1) PutableDirectory uses createResource in its lookup method if there is > no such resource > > > > 2) createResource calls createDefaultResource from class DirectoryResourc > e and this one calls the indexer (indexer.createResource) to create a new > resource. > > > > 3) Now the indexer creates a new file resource (createFileResource) and u > ses the default attributes from FileResource (AttributeRegistery.getClass > Attributes(cls)). > > > > 4) But the default value for attribute putable in FileResource is false > > > > 5) ... > > > > 6) At last method put in FileResource checks that putable flag and becaus > e it's false calls super.put(request), which is the put method from HTTPR > esource. And this put generates the message: Method PUT not implemented. > > > > public Reply put(Request request) > > throws HTTPException > > { > > Reply error = request.makeReply(HTTP.NOT_IMPLEMENTED) ; > > error.setContent("Method PUT not implemented.") ; > > throw new HTTPException (error) ; > > } > > > > > > > > How can I fix this problem or is something different wrong? > >You are right (and your steps are exactly the right overview of what's >happening). Sorry for the confusion (it's very difficult for me to >make sure that everything is set properly, I often forget things that >seems obvious to me, but which are not in fact, sorry again). > >What you want to do is to update the /Admin/Extensions/html extension, >and make all html files editable by default (eg turn putable flag to >true for the html extension). Once this is done, all html FileResource >created *after that point*, will inherit the putable flag value (eg >true), and in particular the resources created through PUT. Of course, >once you have done this, make sure you have an authentication filter >on the root resource of your server, that allows the PUT method only >to the appropriate persons... > >Let me know how it goes, >Anselm. -- Wolfgang Platzer Technische Universitaet Graz - University of Technology Graz Institut für Angewandte Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikationstechnologien Klosterwiesgasse 32/I, A-8010 Graz, Tel: ++43 316 873-5523 Fax: ++43 316 873-5520Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 02:47:18 UTC
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SO as you can see, i have a thing for stripes and you will also see them in tomorrow's outfit post (spoiler alert!) Anyways, i just fell in love again with this timeless print and love the fact that it can also be incorporated into crop-tops or shorts for summer because this print just slims your figure which is just ideal after a big Summer BBQ!
It can be worn formal or just casual, nevertheless, it fits every situation or event and in my opinion looks great with jeans (hint: high-waisted shorts or dungarees)! If you are the more romantic and classy type then a dress will do it justice as well!


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Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC (2001)
Read by: Dylan Baker
From goodreads: John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. Perhaps the most American of American classics.
My first question, upon picking up the book, was 'What's up with the title?' I saw the movie a few years ago, and it did not clear the fog on this question for me. Now, having read the book, I get it. It is probably one of the best titles ever, once you get it.
John Steinbeck captured the effects of the Depression and the Dust Bowl by following one family, the Joads. Isn't that an awesome last name? Does anyone know a Joad? It was a new name for me. They lived and worked in Oklahoma as tenant farmers. The story starts with son Tom Joad having been released from prison (he was in for man-slaughter that occurred during a drunken fight). He hitches a ride to his parents' place to find them gone and the ex-preacher Jim Cayce wandering nearby. They have a good chat and Jim knows Tom's family is at his Uncle John's and that they plan to go out West to find work.
And out West they do head. Packing up three generations (with a 4th on the way) and as much household items, food, and water as they can into 1 vehicle. Tom and his brother Al are the only two that know how to drive the vehicle. At the last minute, Grandpa decides he doesn't want to go and has to be drugged and placed on the top of the load. He never really recovers himself, and once he is gone, Grandma loses it mentally and eventually succumbs too. One by one, the Joad family is widdled down for various reasons.
When they finally do make it to California, it isn't all that they expected. The work is hard, and even harder to get. The family, and all other migrant farmers, are treated like trash and aren't given protection by local law enforcement. Through it all, Ma Joad keeps the family decent people - sharing what they have when they have it and treating all others like human beings. She and her son Tom are the quiet heroes of this story.
Dylan Baker really made this audiobook come alive. I could hear Grandpa's toothless lip smacking, Grandma's religious screeching, Ma Joad's rushed version of Rose of Sharon's name, son Tom's slow, firm consideration of a situation, Al's lusty fascination with the ladies, and so on. He truly made each character an individual while also having Pa Tom Joad and son Tom Joad sound related.
++++: I had a personal connection to this book (paternal grandparents were migrant farmers), Steinbeck kept taking me to that 'it's hopeless' place to pull me back out with some act of kindness, the children's fascination with flush toilets, Rose of Sharon rallied at the end and lost her silliness, Ma Joad becomes the acknowledged family leader at the end of the book, the realistic portrayal of sex.
--: This audio version had sudden, jarring harmonica music in-between scenes. More than once I almost dropped a glass or slammed on the breaks. If you are already in a depressed state, Steinbeck might not be the read for you right now.
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"It is probably one of the best titles ever, once you get it." - In my view, Steinbeck's "big-picture" chapters are the ones that make The Grapes of Wrath an outstanding book (and not merely a very good one). I have a particular affinity for the chapter that names the book (one I've reread countless times and never cease to be amazed by) because once you get it, you get it. You get the whole book. While I personally prefer East of Eden (despite recognizing that it is probably the technical "worse" book of the two), The Grapes of Wrath is simply brilliant... though like you say, perhaps not best read when depressed.ReplyDelete
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Finally completed the last of my main hurdles before the end of the year with my oral exams being finished today. Now I'll have plenty of time for blogging and other aspects of general internet fun. Of course it's time to start looking for a job, considering options for moving onto a PhD and importantly deciding if I want to go overseas for a bit. Although I would have liked to walk in the graduation ceremony in december I missed out due to being busy with other things (so forgot to submit the form, doh!). Oh well, the ceremony in may sounds more attractive anyway because all of my other friends who are still studying will be around to see me graduate.
Overall I've found my time at Otago University to be extremely enjoyable. I've learnt a lot in the four years I've spent there, and developed considerably as both a person and as a scientist. Additionally I've met a lot of great people along the way and made excellent friends. Sometimes things have become a little disconnected as I started originally trying to do multiple degrees (biochemistry and microbiology at first), which just unfortunately made for too much of a workload that certainly didn't help the old stress meter.


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Yesterday saw the launch of the 1875 Valuation Rolls on ScotlandsPeople. These will assist you in locating your ancestors between the 1871 and 1881 census years. As an introduction, viewing the index pages will be free until the end of the year (December 31). To view the record itself will cost 2 credits.
Here's the link: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=554&2080
A blog to assist those researching in the Scottish records to gain ideas of where to look or how best to search in order to further their ancestral journey
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
1875 Valuation Rolls Released on ScotlandsPeople
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Release Year: 2016
Rating: 7/10
When Trent Reznor announced last year that we would indeed get new Nine Inch Nails music, I was ecstatic. Throughout the year, Reznor shot down any rumors of new NIN material. After months of speculation, he finally gave us new music. It's not a new album, but it's a taste of what's to come. But rather than being a release that displays his best work, it's more like something to shut up NIN fans and let Reznor work in peace.
Though trying not to make comparisons, the opening track "Branches/Bones" sounds like a leftover from Hesitation Marks. It's brief, but the upbeat rock oriented music is similar to material from Reznor's previous album. It kicks off the EP with a rush of energy thanks to the non-stop guitar riff that plows through the song. The music is loud and jarring sounding like it's being played through blown out speakers. The track is decent at best, but it's not that notable. At least it's decent at kicking off the EP.
All the songs are solid, but very few of them stay with you afterward. "She's Gone Away" and "The Idea of You" are good, but don't grab you by the throat and pummel you like other NIN tracks. The only song that stands out is the eerie "Dear World." Whether it's the synth groove or the creepy opening vocals with Reznor singing "Yes, everyone seems to be asleep" this was the only song I actually remembered from the EP. The song has dark undertones as if something horrible is about to happen. Reznor's monotone manner and the cold, robotic music makes it seem like something from an 80s dystopian film. There's also a hypnotic air to it. The way Reznor speaks quietly seems like he's trying to put you under a spell. It's one of the coolest and unnerving tracks on the EP.
One thing the EP excels at is creating this dark, claustrophobic feeling. Songs like "She's Gone Away" and "The Idea of You" have gritty music that puts you on edge. The former has a slow droning drumbeat as if ushering in some unforeseeable doom. And the way Reznor's wails after the chorus gives it a haunting atmosphere. Everything in the song sounds so foreboding. The latter song has quiet vocals as if Reznor's on the verge of breaking. Then chaos unleashes during the chorus when everything clashes together for a destructive mood.
The closing track "Burning Bright (Field on Fire)" continues the musical trend of impending doom. With the booming, fuzzy music it sounds like the end of days is coming. Just like with the rest of the EP, the music is the high point of the song. It instantly draws you in. The singing and the lyrics are where things get weird. The chorus of "break through the surface and" is fine on its own, but for the verses, Reznor does this weird spoken word style. Instead of being smooth, it sounds like a random rant. His flow goes against the music making it disjointed and off-putting. Near the end, the music and singing clash together creating a jarring wall of noise. It's another solid song but doesn't really hit that sweet spot for NIN fans.
Reznor's always been a master of electronic music and it's no different on this release. Each track has gripping music and is a mix of cool grooves with cold, metallic sounding electronic soundscapes. It's the highlight of the EP. The same can't be said for the lyrics which are forgettable. In his time, Reznor has crafted some of the most anguished filled, aching, and heartbreaking songs. Little of that is on display here. The lyrics seem meaningless and difficult to pinpoint what he's trying to get across. Lines like "Still can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut/Yeah, parts of me are slowing down, time is speeding up/Spiders crawling everywhere, infected Japanese" ("Branches/Bones") come off as forced. As if he's trying too hard to be poignant and unnerving. They're not as engaging or thoughtful as they are on past NIN releases. Hell, even the lyrics on Hesitation Marks are better. This makes it seem like Reznor rushed out this release to stop fans from asking about new NIN music.
The EP is solid, but does it really jump out at you? No. The songs don't punch you in the gut like we expect from NIN. If anything, they're fairly decent rock songs with some electronic elements. The EP isn't terrible, but it's far from Reznor's best. There are bits and pieces of past NIN releases in the song, like elements of The Fragile, but few of them leave an impression. You'll find yourself struggling to remember most of the songs after listening to it a few times. Very little about it is notable and there's little to say about it. The strongest point is the music, but the lyrics fail to be engaging. For fans longing for a NIN release, this isn't going to satisfy them for long. Still, it does make me excited for what NIN has in store for us. Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long for more new music.


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Lets break from the norm what do ya say.
My past couple of blogs were of the other MMO idea i have written down. I then read a few posts that lead me to change up what i would post in my blog as the epic fantasy genre has been done to death. I completely agree with this sentiment. So as this blog continues i will change from my fantasy to my Survival Horror.
The world is pretty simple to get the ideal. The game world would be a complete scale replica of our planet. Start in what ever city you wish. The ideal is to start with one are of our planet say NYC for example. Then as the game progresses add different areas for players to travel to. Eventually the entire planet earth would be to scale in the game world. This would lead to several years of expansion potential. The setting of the game would would be direct starting after a "zombie" event.
The main combat would be FPS style without cross hair style aiming system. You would actually have to aim down the weapon sites. ( think Killing Floor). This adds a more realistic style of game play i think. There is no magic in my zombie apocalypse. Projectile weapons along with some basic melee weapons will be included. Knives , axes along with anything else in the modern world you can think of that would be in common use.
Loot will be reasonable and accurate. For example if you see a police zombie wearing a bullet proof vest and a m4 ( ar 15 for the civis ) then when you kill that police you can loot exactly what he is wearing.
The only race available will be Human for obvious reasons.
Crafting will be quite different than most games. Most of the survivors will not be very knowledgeable in different aspects of creating all the items necessary to survive in the new world. So players will have to study books in order to learn different things needed to help others survive the new reality.
questing is not handled in the way most modern gamers are accustomed to. There will be no bit !! above the heads of different NPCs to tell you you need to go get 10 pieces of sheet metal NO. Everything will be handled on a community basis. There will be message boards for players to post what ever they want. There will be some few NPC quests but they will have to be sought out and found via exploration.
Skills/ Leveling
There will be a skill / level system. You will get better at things as you do them. You will raise skills such as rifle marksmanship as you use a rifle. The higher the skill the different perks you get such as a steadier shot. Now you will also level. levels are handled a little differently. you will only level once you have rested in a tavern/ inn, and once you have gained 5 level points.
This is the basis for my survival horror game. I will go over each section and more in detail in later blogs. Together we will design the perfect FPSSHMMORPG ( First Person Shooter Survival Horror Massive Multi player Online Role Playing Game)


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Saturday, August 15, 2009
"...then sacrifice it to Baal on an altar of Mountain Mist."
Now, before I begin this evening's rant, let me just say that I once again appear to possess less than the optimum amount of iron in my blood, and I am so tired I can barely see where I spilled my cocktail. Being anemic not only makes me physically sluggish, but it clogs up the gears of my brain as well, causing me to stare into the middle distance for minutes at a time when asked a question such as, "Where's the baby?" or "Why is the bath still running?" So, I'm not particularly quick-witted lately.
But at the time I started looking at this pattern, I was unaware that I was not running on a full tank of hemoglobin, because the fatigue had not yet set in, but it may be safe to say that I was already suffering from what is known as "muddy thinking" or "dementia."
Sandy was kind enough to link to some pictures of the quilts she had made (please see her comment in this post) as well as to the pattern, which had been created by Quiltmaker magazine and is still available free from their website. Sandy's pictures really illustrated how versatile the pattern is, and I was keen to try it, until I downloaded the pattern and saw this:
Now you may be thinking, "Oh, how lovely." But my Adobe Reader is apparently set on "stun" and when it opens the pattern pdf, it gives you this page at a magnification of 164%, which reveals that the resolution of the picture is about 3 dpi, and it looks like someone barfed up a bunch of Legos.
Now, I thought that a pattern like this would be pretty straightforward. Cut your focus fabric in squares of this size, make your other blocks this size, sew according to diagram, done. Instead, they give you this chart:
First of all, they tell you your yardage for each fabric based upon the picture, which, to my eyes, looks so jumbled that I don't know what the fuck they're referring to when they say "gold multi-print" or "cream/red multi-print." Then, they can't just give you the yardage for each fabric and THEN tell you how to cut them. No, they have to smoosh it all into one handy dandy chart so that losers like me can stare at it for a while before yelling at no one in particular, "Yeah, but what am I actually supposed to DO?" Honestly, I had to write it out on a separate piece of paper before it made a lick of sense to me.
But at least it wasn't one of those patterns that I keep finding in some of the quilting books that my mother brought me the last time she and my dad visited. I have managed to come across books like these still in print at the bookstore (bought one, too) and while I can see that they still have value for the designs and inspiration, it still makes me wonder that no one has thought to update them for the next printing. These are the books where there is no such thing as a rotary cutter. Where it is assumed that you are going to cut out all those little individual pieces by hand. WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS. And, invariably, they have a handy photograph of someone doing just that, using a pair of shears that could also be used to trim hedges, it's so big. It makes me wonder if I could find a book that was old enough, if the instructions would begin, "First, hunt and kill a bison..."
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- Di said...
I am *so* with you on this. I read that pattern and said, WTF? Promptly filed it away. Now, I'm not the brightest bunny in the hutch when it comes to reading patterns so if the pattern doesn't make sense to me on the 12th reading, it's gone.
And, is that what this brain fog is? Iron defiency? I thought it was just menodumb.
- August 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Diana said...
I agree with you about the instructions as I find myself doing the same thing. Why can't an "easy" pattern be EASY!??
- August 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- Diane said...
I was just diagnosed as being anemic after well over a month of deep mind fog, insomnia, terrible fatigue, aching and cramping muscles, the whole bit. Thank god the iron tabs are starting to take affect and I can think again.
All I could do was laugh when you described trying to figure out that chart. That's been me for awhile now and it's so good to be looking BACK at it instead of being in the middle of it!
- August 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- Traci said...
They could have definitely used fabric that had more contrast. Unfortunately I have no excuse, I'm not anemic. My fog is natural!
- August 19, 2009 at 3:35 PM
- SandyQuilts said...
Oh No. LOL
I just returned from our beach vacation to find this posting.
Sorry they use to have a much easier to follow pattern on their site. Unfortunately, they did revise their site and I could not find the simply pattern. I rarely follow a pattern I have to admit. I figure out the size I want the finished quilt to be and then divide for blocks.
If I can be of help please let me know.
- August 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- SandyQuilts said...
I forgot to mention that I agree high contrast makes the quilt really work.
- August 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- ~Mi§ty~ said...
hey all..there is a way easier pattern of this ..in a childs quilt ..uses red yellow and blue.. way easier to understand..will see if i can find it for ya ...thats the one i used and i love this quilt its fun to do
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Early Treatment for Schizophrenia - Expert Interview
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Following is a short excerpt of a very good interview with a leading expert in early diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis, Dr. Jean Addington of the University of Toronto. For the full Interview - we recommend you log-on to Medscape, and register (its free) - you'll find it under the "Psychiatry & Mental Health" part of their web site.
Psychosocial Interventions in Early Psychosis: An Expert Interview With Jean M. Addington, PhD
In schizophrenia, as in many other medical conditions, the best outcomes are achieved through early and broad-based intervention. Not only the patient, but the entire family, should ideally be involved in the therapeutic process, and intervention should include not just medication, but case management, group therapy, and cognitive behavior therapy. One such model program is the Early Psychosis Treatment and Prevention Program, a joint initiative by the Calgary Health Region and the Canadian Mental Health Association of Calgary. On behalf of Medscape, Randall White, MD, FRCPC, interviewed one of the program's coordinators, Jean M. Addington, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Director, Prime Clinic Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.
Medscape: What is the time cutoff for early intervention in schizophrenia?
Dr. Addington: It's actually the first time people present for help, so different programs have different criteria. Usually, it's that the patients haven't received adequate treatment before. They might have gone to a general practitioner and got an antipsychotic and had that for a few weeks. They may have been sick for quite a long time, for several months, before seeking treatment. So when they first come in for treatment, they may have had the symptoms in varying degrees for quite a bit of time. Then there are other people who come to seek help as soon as they get sick.
In the Calgary [Alberta, Canada] program, from which I have most of my data, on average it was 53 weeks before people came looking for help.
Medscape: Can you briefly state what we know about the advantages of providing intervention as early as possible?
Dr. Addington: First of all, and this is something that's really unproven, there is a suggestion that the psychosis might at some level be toxic to the brain. Jeffrey Lieberman has written a lot about this. It makes sense that the longer an illness goes untreated, the poorer the recovery may be. There are some studies showing that the longer people are untreated, the longer it takes them to recover and the poorer that recovery is when it happens.
Second, the implications of a long duration of untreated psychosis can be devastating for people. It has a major impact on their relationships; their education and work opportunities; and especially, if young people are getting sick between 18 and 25 years
Medscape: The Calgary model for early psychosis intervention entails medication, case management, family intervention, group therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). What is the importance of the family interventions, and what do they entail?
Dr. Addington: These patients tend to be young and the majority are living at home; we really want to get them as well as possible as soon as possible. The family has a major role in helping them, and it's really important to engage the family in a no-fault atmosphere from day 1. Families are very keen to be involved, and they have been struggling with the young person through the development of the illness. They really need help with understanding this illness.
The second issue is that the family environment is important to recovery. The more stressful the environment, the more likely it is to exacerbate symptoms and impede recovery. You want people living in as stress-free a family environment as possible.
Medscape: By "stressful environment," are you referring to one with high expressed emotion, in which intrusive familial interactions tend to increase symptoms in people with schizophrenia?
The studies that looked at expressed emotion tended to look at reducing the relapse rate. What we're trying to do in our family work is not just create a less stressful environment for the patient's well-being; we're also interested in helping the families feel better. These families are really distraught over what may be happening to their kids, who may not go on to meet the goals they once had in mind for them.
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The 'ahas' encounter
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This happened almost a week ago but it's worth telling.
I know that they exist everywhere in this small community on top of the mountain. But never in my dreams did I think of seeing one up close, slithering barely three meters away from where I sat while listening to a friend's guitar rendition of an Air Supply hit.
The moment he, in a very calm manner, said: 'Thet, 'wag kang tatakbo, may ahas" I disapparated and found myself inside the guesthouse dining hall, behind the screen door, with the loudest heartbeat I had in years. I was scared shit.
I left my friend to deal with the creepy crawling creature by himself. I kind of selfishly neglected the thought that he might be afraid of snakes too. But low and behold, his reaction was swift, almost like a warrior, armed with a wooden pole, targeting at the helpless creature's head for a sudden death. It took him less than 10 minutes to completely get rid of the snake. He didn't stop until it was dead.
Later on, he would admit how grossed out and scared he was after almost 10 minutes of tring to crush its brains out. "Yak, napi-feel kong nadudurog yung laman nya!" he would quip later when we were relieving the ahas encounter.
Just yesterday, one of the manangs in the guest house said they saw two relatively big snakes (one black and the other one brown) slithering near the gutter at the pathway leading to the Annex (where I am currently staying, OhmyLawwd!!!) Call me paranoid I don't care but I am the biggest schmuck-face you would ever see while trying to get past that pathway – half-running, half-crying while trying to go home to my room.


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The design test - is the article designed for young children?: Riding hats
Riding helmets are generally of a standard shape and construction for both children and adults and sizes up to 6¾ (jockey skulls up to size 1) may be zero-rated irrespective of how they are held out for sale. However, although children's riding hats may be less sophisticated in terms of design and appearance than adults' in the same size, they can still be zero-rated over size 6¾ provided they are specifically fitted, adapted or appropriate only for young children. All helmets held out for sale for adults are standard-rated.


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I've got really interested in history since living in Bideford; its history is heavily tied up with Art and
I'll be looking out for visual similarities and differences between the two communities and environments. I'm hoping to find traces of
Also, in support of Sadie's research, I'm photographing pottery. I started examining this craft when I was commissioned to photograph the 'kiln in the park' firing just before Christmas 2009. I'm now keen to make a good documentary record of potters who are still making slipware and using the sgraffito effect with red clay and white slip carrying on the tradition of
'Bideford Pottery', a family business of Harry Juniper, his son Nick and daughter Sue is the only pottery in town making pots instantly recognisable as


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Spice up anyone's holiday this year by giving them the gift they really want: hot sauce. Whether you're in need of a solid hostess gift or something to slip under the tree, hot sauce is the perfect present for anyone who wants extra spice in their life. Still skeptical? Here are three good reasons why hot sauce is a great gift.
It's Gourmet
Sure, it might seem like a no-frills gift to some, but hot sauce is very gourmet and ideal for any true spice enthusiast and connoisseur. And the best part is, you can find hot sauces in a variety of flavors and spices that fit any super foodie's interest and tastes.
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Gift giving isn't always the easiest, so give them something unique like hot sauce. Guaranteed they aren't getting the same gift from anyone else, and it looks like you really did your research because you're giving something they actually want!
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While you can give a bottle of hot sauce with a ribbon on it and call it a day, there are many other ways to go about giving this as a gift. You can choose to opt your friend or family member into a monthly hot sauce club or give them an elaborate basket full of different bottles and condiments to match.
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Surely the talk of the Denver art and anthropology scenes (yes, there are both) this summer will be the Tutankhamun: The Golden King & the Great Pharaohs exhibit opening at the Denver Art Museum on July 1.
The 100-piece show features priceless artifacts from 2,000 years of Egyptian history, including a 10-foot sculpture of Tutankhamun and a gold death mask from the tomb of Psusennes I. Pieces from the royal tombs of Khefren (of the Great Pyramid) and Hatshepsut (a queen who became a pharaoh) will also be on display.
To give you an idea of what sort of media and crowd crush to expect in the coming months: Early-bird tickets are available for DAM members now. (The general public can get advance tickets starting May 14.) It's really a coup for the DAM, due to the extreme fragility and value of these objects, many of which have never been seen in the U.S. before. For more, visit denverartmuseum.org and kingtut.org.


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The Morality of Drone Warfare
The increasing use of drones to carry out lethal strikes, by the United States, has prompted a debate on the ethics of such warfare.
Bradley Strawser, an assistant professor at Monterey's Naval Postgraduate School, is a participant in those debates — and an outspoken proponent of the moral advantages drones have over conventional means of war-making. "It's all upside," he tells the Guardian. "There's no downside."
"The cost-savings, the ethical gain by better protecting the war fighter, increased capability: add all that together." As a relative dove, however — "Whatever a neocon is, I'm the opposite — he does pause to wonder whether his arguments might be "misused."
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Hi everyone ! I have naturally jet black hair. and I've started to use indian powders(cassia/amla/brahmi/maka) for more than one year for their thickening properties(it helps me to get from low density to medium density greatly !!)
I want a more crazy style, try purple, red, blue hair colors. changing every two weeks or monthly.. so semipermanent washable colors are what I'm looking for.
But they only work on light hair so I have to bleach my hair prior.
I am not afraid of chemical treatment. It's just that I've realised that if I bleach my hair and continue to use indian powders as my bi-monthly treatments, they might color my hair darkbrown(thing i've never noticed as my natural hair is black). and I have to admit that I don't want to giving up indian powders as i'm sure if I stopped using them, my density will decrease step by step..
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February 1, 2012
Keelung Train Station
Past, Present and Future
The Keelung to Taipei rail line was the first one in Taiwan and China. During the Japanese colonial period the system was expanded and typical stations added. Some of these Baroque style buildings are well preserved, as you can still see in Hsinchu and Taichung. Surviving the heavy war time bombardments, the Keelung station was replaced by the current 'modern' structure in the mid-1970's when so much of the city's heritage was demolished in the name of progress.
Now it is the turn of this building to disappear, and to redevelop the waterfront real estate. The front of the station just got a facelift, but at the platforms work is in progress to build huge foundations. The new station arrangement (under the three towers) will connect with the bus station, one that is now way too small and primitive, as well as a new cruise terminal. Great, but I'm afraid all this progress will limit most of the current wide harbor view - next time you visit on a cruise we'll be a mini Manhattan ?
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- MKL said...
Interesting post! I had no idea that they were trying to redevelop this area. I wish they'd rebuild the original station and add a modern part. Yeah, wishful thinking :)
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The Potato Cave is located near the First Lookout on Sylamore road (Hwy 9S). It is relatively shallow. Descending through the opening at the bottom of the rock-face, a person can only travel about 150 feet or so into the cave before the way is blocked by rubble.The shots of looking out through the opening in this post is not the actual entrance to the "cavern". It is a shelter perched above the main entrance. The actual entrance is about 15 feet below this opening.
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The link between and technology and health and the way that technology impacts health, is an ongoing debate with deep divides.
On the one side there are those who see technological innovation as a boon to modern physical and mental health; on the other side are those who claim that technology is the cause of many modern illnesses and ailments.
A recent technological innovation tends to support the pro- technology standpoint. This refers to the development of a device that can sense and monitor changes or fluctuations of mood and feeling in the individual. The technology used here is very similar to that used in lie detector tests. The device measures and interprets heart rate and electrical changes in the skin. What is innovative here is that any radical changes or fluctuations can be sent via SMS to friends or medical personnel – so it acts as a sort of immediate distress call when the person cannot respond or phone by himself. This has many applications; for example, in autistic children who often can't show or project their feelings or those suffering from panic attacks. ( see full article on this device in the Washington post.)


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At the moment I'm currently reading "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" By Peter Drucker. In the chapter on incongruity I was struck by the following:
"The reaction of the typical producer or supplier is then to complain that customers are 'irrational' or 'unwilling to pay for quality.' Whenever such a complaint is heard, there is reason to assume that the values an expectations the producer or supplier holds to be real are incongruous with the actual values and expectation of customers and clients. Then there is reason to look for an opportunity for innovation that is highly specific, and carries a good chance of success'.
It seems to me that so many SMB resellers are constantly bemoaning how 'irrational' and 'unwilling to pay for quality' customers these days are. Their use of the these exact phrases is what struck me about this passage in the book. It simply boils down to the fact that what SMB resellers believe the reality to be is not in fact the case.
As IT and computers become more and more main stream the so called 'special knowledge' of resellers is rapidly eroding. Given that more people entering the work force are au fait with technology and the simple fact that everyone can use Google drastically erodes any 'special knowledge' resellers believe they have. Resellers complaints about 'irrational' customers indicates an incongruity and as Drucker says an opportunity for innovation. However, that opportunity doesn't remain forever.
Going forward, a SMB reseller is not going to be able to provide innovation simply by reselling equipment and programs. Larger hardware businesses like Dell, HP, IBM and the like have the resources to provide innovation on a grand scale while at the same time driving prices down. Likewise, large software businesses such as Microsoft and Google are similarly moving closer to the customer to provide more consistent and cheaper offerings. All of these moves are proving more successful everyday. Why? Simply because they are providing 'value' for the customer, if they weren't they wouldn't sell.
So as an SMB reseller where does the opportunity lie? Not a simple question given the ever shrinking market opportunity. As Drucker says the solution is a 'to look for an opportunity for innovation that is highly specific'. For too long SMB resellers have been 'jack-of-all-trades', well I believe this now no longer possible simply give the breadth of products that are now installed. A reseller has to carefully examine what a customer perceives as value. For this they will happily pay. Importantly, it's value as perceived by THE CUSTOMER not THE RESELLER! It is in this view of the world that many resellers fall down. Why? Simple, most customers don't care at all about technology they simply want to do their job. Most resellers have gotten into IT because they love to fiddle with technology, sadly, that is not what most customers want to do these days.
For an SMB reseller it is now probably time to look at adapting in way that focuses on being more specific rather than simply adding more products to the range of offerings. Perhaps, it's time to think about getting smaller and more focused than getting bigger? Do what you do well better, don't waste time trying to improve stuff with which you struggle. Next, start listening to what the customer wants, not what you want to sell them. Solve their pain and provide them value. The other key to success in my books? Improve your networking. Get involved with other members of the reseller community, find out what they do, read their blogs, look at their web sites, have a regular coffee with them, learn their business and become their best salesman. If you do that for them I'm pretty certain that they'll do the same for you and more!
Use the power of leverage to multiple your size beyond what you ever dreamed. It is by far the greatest innovation resource available to an SMB reseller and in reality it is cheap. If you follow this, I think, as Drucker says, you'll have 'a good chance of success.'


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Kamalini goes head to head with a young brigade
Savari, made by media baron Ramoji Rao of Ee Naadu group is the remake of the Telugu film Gamyam by Krish.
The Kannada version is directed by Jacob Varghese who won a National Award for his short films. Well known music director Manikanth Kadri is the music director. R Welraj is the cinematographer and Sreekara Prasad the editor.
Like in the original and the Tamil remake, Savari has Kamalini Mukherjee [her first Kannada film] in the lead role and well-known model and Mr India winner, Raghu Mukherjee as the hero.
Sreenagara Kitty takes on the role played by Allari Naresh in the Telugu original. Suman Ranganath, Sadhu Kokila, Milind Gunanji, Prakash Urs and Dinesh Mangalore comprise the rest of the cast.
Jacab Varghese says that he has made some changes in the film. "The dialogue portions are completely changed. I have only retained the original concept and some important developments in the story. I have followed a different narrative pattern," added the director.
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There's a new world's fastest BMW motorcycle, a specially prepared BMW S1000RR ridden by Andy Sills of Hunter Sills Racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah. Sills rode the bike during its debut to an incredible average speed of 224.190mph, breaking the world record during the SCTA Speedweek last month at Bonneville.
The record-breaking S1000RR was built in the U.S. by San Diego BMW Motorcycles with the help of Shane Kinderis, owner of Alpine Performance in Australia and the crew chief for the Australian Superbike team Next Gen Motosports. The modifications were done while staying within the SCTA 1000 cc requirements.
"This was our first opportunity to test the Alpine Performance tuned motor and new Catalyst fairing design for the S1000RR, and were delighted by the results," stated Gary Orr, owner of San Diego BMW Motorcycles. "We worked with both companies while road racing the S1000RR and we knew we could work together to make the S1000RR fast....really fast...."


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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Strawberry and Cream Biscuits
Since I've moved into this new apartment, I've done shamefully little cooking. I was fortunate enough to have a sous chef around this weekend, so I planned at least two recipes to try out. Of course, it only ended up being one with the amazing amount of eating out that was done, but this recipe was totally worth it.
I started the hunt for the next recipe last week on Wednesday. Very fortuitous. We have a farmers market, only open on Wednesday, that's on my street. In addition, it called for farm fresh, almost overripe strawberries. I knew I could get some from the market, but Deb pointed out that they are too firm to "melt" properly. I had exactly 25 minutes before the market closed and only one stand had strawberries, but they were precious, ripe, and so sweet. In a nutshell, worth it.
Now, I've made biscuits before. I'm from Georgia. I've had most of them not end up being worth it. Too dry, not buttery enough, burnt. But these! These are intensely buttery and rich, sweet as pie from the strawberries, but not too sweet, moist, delicious. In a nutshell, worth it.
If you're left with almost dead strawberries and don't want to throw them out or drink another smoothie, whip these up. You probably have most of the ingredients on hand. You will not be sorry.
For easy to follow directions, head to Smitten Kitchen.
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Schneider Power Inc. has planned a dedication and phase-two ground breaking on Sept. 15 of its wind farm project on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. The Providence Bay Wind Farm is near Providence Bay and Spring Bay and currently has two 800 kW Enercon wind turbines. The developer plans to install three 2.3 MW wind turbines in the second phase. Total generating capacity of the project will be up to 10 MW.
The wind farm will house a public information center with learning materials on renewable energy, wind farm operations and energy conservation.


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It was my 20th on Friday so I decided to make my own cake. I chose to do a two layer cake sandwiched together with vanilla frosting and covered the cake in fondant to try and make it look like a parcel. I also bought some blue food dye to dye some fondant in the hopes of doing polkadots and a bow.
I had to make the cake on Wednesday due to other commitments and baked two 8 inch plain sponge cakes and allowed them to cool before sandwiching together with the vanilla frosting. I then rolled out some fondant. I used Dr. Oetker's Ready to Roll fondant as there was no way that I was going to attempt to make fondant, let alone at 9 at night. (Side note : ready made fondant was really difficult to find in my local area, my brother ended up finding a couple of boxes at Morrisons, thank goodness!)
I covered the counter in icing sugar and rolled out the fondant until I thought it would cover all sides of the cake. I then put the fondant over my frosted cake. Uh, well I would've if the fondant hadn't stuck to the counter and ripped everywhere. Do over! I covered the counter in MORE icing sugar and tried again. Success! I smoothed the fondant over the cake and then cut off the extra bits which I would use to dye blue.
I've heard food paste is better to use to dye fondant with so I ordered a bottle from the website called Cakes, Cookies and Crafts The food paste I used was called Sugarflair which is suitable for vegetarians. They suggest using a tiny amount on a cocktail stick and then knead into the fondant. I did this a couple of times adding some more paste until I was happy with the colour. I then rolled out the fondant and cut out circle shapes using an egg cup. I then 'glued' the blue circles onto the white fondant using some more frosting.
By this time it had gone about half past 10 at night and I was beat. I decided it looked pretty good as it is and bypassed the bow. Maybe next year! Here it is!
Sorry for the lack of photos in this post, I didn't have my camera to hand when I was making it. My brother's requested a Chocolate Orange cake for his upcoming birthday so I'll make sure to take some more photos of that.


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The final steel beam has been installed for the Estes Valley Community Center, adorned with the signatures of local residents.
The beam signing event, which took place last week, had more than 100 participants sign the beam. Signers used fun colors to do everything from simple signatures to creative pieces of artwork.
The 39-foot beam weighed 2,652 pounds and was hung on the southeast side of the building at the top of the wall between the upper level and the new addition to the aquatic center. EVRPD staff members, board members and members from the Town of Estes Park joined in the momentous occasion.


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She's Gone
Joye Emmens
Heart Rock Press (2015)
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (08/15)
"She's Gone" by Joye Emmens is the story of Jolie and her spiritual, intellectual and emotional quest of growing up. In 1969, fifteen year old Jolie decides to go against her parent's wishes for her future and runs away with her secret twenty-four year old boyfriend named Will. Will is a handsome, charismatic activist. Jolie was first drawn to him over their shared interest in environmental activism. Will is attracted to Jolie because of her innocence and beauty. Unfortunately for Jolie, he starts treating her like she is something that he possesses. Because of their age difference, they must stay in hiding. Will plans on working behind the scenes to make a difference in society, however, Jolie soon sees his interests heading more in the direction of radical political activism.
The couple begins living in an isolated commune in northern California. It is very different from the southern California coast, which Jolie is used to. The commune has no electricity or running water, and they live in a dilapidated old miner's cabin. Jolie notes that the women in this commune tend to do the majority of the chores, and she is a bit embarrassed to find that Will finds himself above these menial duties, so she tries to work harder to make up for him. When it is time to move on, they head further up north and end up in a much nicer communal type living situation. Jolie still finds it uncomfortable to be faced with adult issues that she hadn't anticipated, like the men in these places who believe in free love.
In time, the couple finds themselves hopping on a bus to hide out in a city on the east coast. The harsh realities of city-living hits Jolie hard. She also discovers that she is the one that has to be the breadwinner because Will wants to focus on his activism. Realizing that Will has no interest and is disdainful towards Jolie's interests is very painful for her. He is the only one that knows the truth about her age, so it is not easy for her to be open with other people. Her interest in the environment continues and she also discovers a passion for the women's movement. Using yoga, meditation and studying Buddhism helps calm Jolie's mind through the hardships that she faces. She also desperately misses her family. Jolie is growing up quickly and shouldering responsibilities way beyond what someone her age should have to handle. In time she realizes that it is up to her to determine what she needs to do for her future.
I truly loved reading, "She's Gone." I actually sat down just to read a few pages before I went somewhere. Several hours later, I found myself still reading and unable to stop until I finished. Jolie's story really reached out to me. I could relate to her feelings of not fitting in and know what it was like to be flattered that an older man was interested in her. Fortunately for me, I didn't make the same choices that she did! I loved that she fought to hang on to her individual identity, even though her older boyfriend was trying to turn her into a beautiful puppet he could manipulate. In spite of the hard times, she also pursued her own interests and continued to want to make a difference. Her immersion into Buddhism really helped her to emotionally deal with the crazy things that were going on around her.
I highly recommend "She's Gone" by Joye Emmens for young adults and people who just enjoy immersing themselves in a really good story. Children of the 1960's will also enjoy going back into this time period.


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Dr. Thomas Sewall
Dr. Thomas Sewall was born on April 16, 1786 in Hallowell, Maine, the son of Thomas Sewall and Priscilla Coney Sewall and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1812.
Thomas Sewall was a temperance activist whose major contribution to the temperance movement was his eight graphic drawings of what he called "alcohol diseased stomachs." Colored lithographs of these were made and widely distributed to promote abstinence, the temperance movement, and alcoholic beverage prohibition. One temperance leader sent a copy of Dr. Sewall's lithographs, to every household in the state of New York and also sent 150,000 copies to poorhouses, prisons, hospitals and schools
Dr. Thomas Sewall believed that alcohol was responsible for most human illnesses, including dyspepsia, jaundice, emaciation, corpulence, rheumatism, gout, palpation, lethargy, apoplexy, melancholy, madness, and premature old age.
As a young physician in Massachusetts, Dr. Sewall was arrested, charged, and found guilty in 1819 of multiple counts of the crime of grave robbing. Two of the eight corpses were those of his own former patients. The story of the crimes is found in "A most daring and sacrilegious robbery" The extraordinary story of body snatching at Chebacco Parish in Ipswich, Massachusetts by Christopher Benedetto. New England Ancestors, 2005 (Spring), 6 (2), p. 31.
Forced to leave the state because of his conviction, Prof. Sewall moved to the nation's capital to re-establish his career. In 1821 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy in the National Medical College, and retained a chair in it until his death. In 1825 he was a founding faculty member of the medical department at Columbian College (which later became George Washington University), where he became professor of anatomy.
Incredibly, the theme of Dr. Sewall's commencement address to the graduating medical students at Columbian College in 1827 was the importance of good moral conduct. It contained no mention of the importance of not body snatching or robbing graves.
Dr. Thomas Sewall died of tuberculosis on April 10, 1845 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 58.
Like most other temperance advocates at the time, Dr. Sewall called for voluntary abstention from drinking distilled spirits but not from beer and wine. This reflected the myth that distilled spirits were more alcoholic than the other beverages. However, standard drinks of beer, wine and distilled spirits all contain an equivalent amount of alcohol -- 0.6 ounces per drink.
A standard alcoholic drink is:
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- A 5-ounce glass of dinner wine
- A shot (one and one-half ounces) of 80 proof liquor or spirits such as vodka, tequila, or rum either straight or in a mixed drink.
Standard drinks all all the same to a breathalyzer.
With the passage of time temperance groups increasingly pressed for abstention from all alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, and then pushed for the mandatory prohibition of alcohol rather than for voluntary abstinence.
The resulting National Prohibition (1920-1933) proved to be a disastrous failure that created numerous social problems and was overwhelmingly repudiated by 74% of American voters.
Surprisingly, many people and organizations today support neo-prohibition ideas and strongly defend the many vestiges of Prohibition that still continue to exist.
References and Resources on Dr. Thomas Sewall:
- Benedetto, Christopher. "A most daring and sacrilegious robbery." The extraordinary story of body snatching at Chebacco Parish in Ipswich, Massachusetts. New England Ancestors, 2005 (Spring), 6(2), 31. The story of Dr. Thomas Sewall's crimes in connection with grave robbing.
- Croggon, James. In old Washington (Dr. Thomas Sewall). The Evening Star, July 1, 1909, pt. 2, p. 1. http://www.bytesofhistory.com/DCHistory/Collections/Croggon/Croggon_19100702.html.
- Death Of Thomas Sewall - (American Anatomist). National Intelligencer, April 12, 1845, p. 1.
- Dr. Thomas Sewall. Sewall Genealogy. http://www.sewellgenealogy.com/p425.htm
- Dr. Thomas Sewall and the Medical Department of Columbian College. In Dunglison, Robley. The American Medical Intelligencer, Volume 3, p. 211.
- Commencement address of Dr. Thomas Sewall, 1827. http://encyclopedia.gwu.edu/gwencyclopedia/index.php?title=Commencements:_Address_of_Thomas_Sewall%2C_1827
- Kayser, Elmer L. A Medical Center: The Institutional Development of Medical Education in George Washington University. Washington, DC: George Washington University Press, 1973. Details Dr. Thomas Sewall's important role in developing medical education at Columbian College, which later became George Washington University.
- Letter of the Emperor of China to Dr. Thomas Sewall, on the merits of Phrenology. Combe, George. Notes on the United States of America During a Phrenology Visit. Vol. II. Philadelphia, PA: Corey & Hart, 1841. Appendix, pp. 377-378.
- Sewall, Thomas. Testimony of Dr. Thomas Sewall. In Dorchester, Daniel. Latest Drink Sophistries versus Total Abstinence. W. Wood, printer, 1883.
- Sewall, Thomas. An address delivered before the Washington City Temperance Society, November 15, 1830. Washington, DC: Washington City Temperance Society, 1830.
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harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
President George W. Bush, August 5, 2004
Free Speech Isn't So Free
Special to TLE
When I publicly endorsed Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik last weekthe first time I've ever endorsed any candidateI expected to get some feedback from readers. What I didn't anticipate was the overwhelming tone of those e-mails: gratitude. One writer even thanked me for "having the courage" to say what I thought. While I'm grateful for the notes and the kind words, I was particularly struck by the idea that it should require much courage at all to simply say publicly what I believe to be the truth.
In the First Amendment to the Constitution, it is quite specifically stated (in part) that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ... or the right of the people to peacably assemble." The Bill of Rights were demanded by the people at the time the Constitution was ratified by the states as an additional level of protection against government infringements of such unalienable rights. At the time the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights was written, both the Founders and the people in general were particularly concerned with religious matters and political speech. Many early American colonists had suffered under religious intolerance courtesy of the government "back home," and the Founders themselves risked grave danger speaking out against that government. They fully intended to learn well the lessons history taught and to ensure that their posterity should never suffer a similar fate.
The First Amendment has historically one of the more popular amendments (the First, for example, isn't spoken of in derogatory terms as is the Second on a regular basis, nor has it been suggested it is outdated as is the case with the Second, Third, and all too often the Tenth). Perhaps that's why so many are so sure that the First remains largely intact. It might also explain why the general public seems to believe its rights under the First are all but untouchable.
Yet in those rare instances where there is a First Amendment debate, far too many people are willing to see parts and pieces of the protections chipped away "for the children," or "for our own good," or even so as to supposedly better ensure the equality technically enshrined in all of the Constitution. After all, it's not really going to have much effect on what they would personally say or do, is it? This overall lack of attention and the acceptance of curtailments for politically correct or expedient reasons are the factors that, despite apparent public opinion to the contrary, find the First Amendment today in grave danger indeed.
Consider for a moment the notion of protest against the government. We seem to think that we're free to criticize and compliment, or debate and discuss as we see fit. Yet preparations for the Democratic Convention in Boston involved the establishment of a "protest zone" where demonstrators would be placed largely out of sight and behind fences, razor wire, and black netting. Some protesters sued the city, likening the "zone" to a "concentration camp." A federal judge toured the facility to get a firsthand look for himself; later, despite statements from the judge saying he found the setting even worse than a concentration camp, the suit was decided in favor of the city. The judge said in his ruling that "precautions such as those at the demonstration zone were necessary" because "protests have become increasingly violent and terrorism has grown into a new threat since Sept. 11, 2001." So citizens aren't alone in rationalizing away such abridgements. A federal judge has also swallowed the "for your own good" reasoning, at least as concerns convention attendees as opposed to the suffering and largely stifled demonstrators.
Another uncommon but often striking method of protest against the government or a government action involves the burning of an American flag. The Supreme Court ruled some years ago that flag burning was protected political speech and that, per the First Amendment, Congress couldn't abridge that freedom no matter how deplorable some might find the action. Since the measure wasn't Constitutional under the Constitution as it currently exists, a movement was started to amend the Constitution to prohibit that particular form of political speech. That movement died down for a brief while, but it's now back in the Senate with a vengeance. Such is particularly poignant when we consider that flag burning isn't illegal anywhere else in the world except in places notorious for tyrannical governments such as China.
Two hundred years ago, political speech consisted of such things as standing on a street corner and speaking out, or printing and posting handbills or newspapers. Today, while speeches are still common and printed materials abound, political speech has also broadened into forums such as radio, television, and the Internet, and the amount of money spent on such political speech is mind-boggling. As a result of such massive expenditures and the very real dangers of corruption involved, Congress passed a campaign finance reform measure that theoretically would make candidate and issue campaigns more honest. Instead, under the guise of reform, it enacted extreme abridgements of political speech.
President Bush signed the campaign finance reform bill into law in 2002 (despite ongoing protests from free speech advocates and campaign promises he wouldn't do so); the Supreme Court upheld the law in 2003, something a First Amendment Center analysis on the matter called "a drubbing" of the First Amendment. In the end, fears for the implications of the law have come to pass, and now those who actually lobbied in favor of the measure are suffering curtailments to their free speech along with those who knew all along the law was nothing but trouble where political discussion was concerned. The ACLU continues to oppose the law and is working toward modification or repeal; the National Rifle Association has worked on ways to do a legal "end run" around the provisions of the law. Despite these ongoing efforts to make changes, at the moment all of us must deal with the fact that the orgnizations and/or candidates we support are bound by a law that abrogates their former First Amendment right to say whatever was on their minds whenever it occurred to them to do so (the law tightens its restrictions even further during those time periods within 60 days of an election, and that's coming up in just about a month).
These relatively recent events are merely the latest in a series of rules, regulations, laws, and decisions that mitigate the First Amendment. For example, the notion of criminalizing hateful words has been around for several years now (although new hate speech laws are being discussed and passed all the time). The First Amendment doesn't say anything about "freedom of speech except where someone might be offended by what is said," and I have been unable to find anything else in any other segment of the Constitution that says American citizens have a right to not be offended. Yet the majority of Americans are completely acquiescentor even supportive!when such laws are proposed and passed.
Many colleges and universities across the country used to be famousand justifiably sofor the public debates that occurred on campus. Protesters railed against involvement in the Viet Nam War; women rallied in favor of legalized abortion; the civil rights movement gained additional attention and adherents from students across the country. Whatever your position on any of these issues, the point wasn't whether you agreed or disagreed, but rather that the issues got a good deal of public attention.
It's always been my opinion that the more information we have on the various sides of any debate, the more intelligently we can choose and defend our own side. But even if that weren't the case, surely the First Amendment guarantees your right to your own opinion as well as the right to voice it accordingly! Yet the vast majority of college campuses today have established what are euphemistically known as "free speech zones." These zones are the only places on campus where students can freely hand out literature or give impromptu speeches expressing their position on one topic or another. If they try to do so elsewhere, university administrators fear another student's sensibilities might be offended, or that the education process might be disrupted. Such attempts have resulted in repercussions ranging from censorship to censure, and from admonishment to arrest. Frankly, the reality is that the education process can only be enhanced by alternative viewpoints on politics, policy, or the issue-of-the-day. Unfortunately, the fear of offense is outweighing any other argument no matter how weighty.
And simply because you or I may not be college students or planning to attend protests in Washington, Boston, or New York doesn't mean that our stated opinions are protected by law or safe from repercussions from employers or government authorities. Most people are well aware of the FBI's computer software to monitor the Internet (called "Carnivore," the name has since been changed and its role in investigations downplayed, but both the software and the program that runs it remain intact). They've also heard of the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program (TIA was "killed" by Congress after vociferous complaints about privacy violations were received; only recently has it been made public that TIA still exists albeit under some other name and as a "black" budget item). And who could forget the National Security Agency's "Echelon" software, which probes the 'net as well as other electronic communications, zeroing in on certain key words that will target conversations or e-mails for investigation? (To the best of my current knowledge, Echelon remains in place and working.)
Just recently, I learned that there's now a company that will, for a price, search the Internet for whatever phrases or words an agency might like investigated, including "awareness of online discussion by hostile groups associated with planned demonstrations..." Being an equal-opportunity discriminator, the company will also search on behalf of corporations which fear "the Internet poses threats to corporations that can take many forms." After all, "activists use the Internet to plan rallies and boycotts," don't they?
Make no mistake: Despite the First Amendment, our free speech rights are not only not protected any more but are actively under attack from virtually all corners. There's also no disputing the fact that, under some law or ordinance somewhere, virtually all of us who do express opinions critical of the governmentor of pretty much anything else now that I think on itare at the very least suspects to be investigated, if not outright criminals. Saddest of all, there are more than a few citizens who are inclined to agree that some of the rest of us ought to just shut up.
If we want to make the government better and more respectful of libertyand who among us doesn't?we're each going to have to get better at recognizing and respecting the rights that others have. At the same time, it's crucial that we all accept that we do not have the right not to be offended, nor are we entitled to have everybody agree with us all the time, even on those issues we feel most strongly about. As we work toward a more literal understanding and respect for the First Amendment ourselves, we must also engage in the effort to get our politicians to begin the same process. If we don't, the First Amendment will be in tatters before we're able to stand up and say so; and after it is, I suspect we won't be permitted to bring up the subject at all, at least not in public.
I still don't consider myself particularly courageous for expressing my opinions in a public forum. I do know, however, that I'm taking risks that, only a few years ago, wouldn't have been risky at all. I also know that, given today's political climate and the paranoia amongst authorities toward any who love liberty, there's a possiblity I'll someday see some repercussion for something I've said. Still, it seems to me that, when the coward's way out involves silence in the face of such obvious wrongs, courage isn't really courageous. It's quite literally the only acceptable course of action for any who still value freedom.
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Mary, Mary
Christopher Hitchens
- Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers
Gollancz, 576 pp, £18.99, March 1993, ISBN 0 575 04236 2
Who can forget the moment in Chapter Six of Greenmantle when Richard Hannay penetrates the inner apartments of Colonel Ulric von Stumm and, with a thrill of horror, realises that there is something distinctly rum about the chief of Prussian Intelligence:
Everywhere on little tables and in cabinets was a profusion of knick-knacks, and there was some beautiful embroidery framed on screens. At first sight you would have said that it was a woman's room.
But it wasn't. I soon saw the difference. There had never been a woman's hand in that place. It was the room of a man who had a passion for frippery, who had a perverted taste for soft delicate things. It was the complement to his bluff brutality. I began to see the queer other side to my host, that evil side which gossip had spoken of as not unknown in the German army. [Emphasis mine.]
On page 222 of Anthony Summers's vastly enjoyable and revealing book, we find J. Edgar Hoover's lovely home in Rock Creek Park being done up at taxpayers' expense, complete with 'hand-crafted fruit bowl' and 'a heated toilet seat, invented in the FBI laboratory. When he decided it was either a quarter of an inch too high or too low, it had to be redone.' One girlish employee recalled: 'he really liked pretty flowers. That was a good thing to give him. I personally or my group made sure that we gave him azaleas. That was his favourite.'
Most of the above comes from an official audit into directorial corruption – conducted many years too late, as such audits always are. And then we have the freelance testimony of Susan Rosenstiel, wife of the mobbed-up 'businessman' and swinger Lewis Rosenstiel, one of Hoover's many and sweaty connections to the high life of organised crime. At a session with Roy Cohn in the Plaza Hotel in 1958, the Director of the FBI was allegedly
wearing a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces, and lace stockings and high heels, and a black curly wig. He had make-up on, and false eyelashes. It was a very short skirt, and he was sitting there in the living room of the suite with his legs crossed. Roy introduced him to me as 'Mary' and he replied, 'Good evening,' like the first time I'd met him.
Mrs Rosenstiel, who has what I'd call an unusually good memory for apparel, possessed that keen sense of self-preservation that the more emotional 'Dick' Hannay lacked. 'I certainly didn't address him the way I had at other times, as Mr Hoover.' I should just about think not.
A year later, Mrs Rosenstiel, still a martyr to her hubby's specialised tastes, was commanded to another Plaza soirée (I understand that the Plaza has brushed up its act since being taken over by Donald Trump), and this time Roy Cohn again produced 'Mary', but in a more daring outfit. 'He had a red dress on, and a black feather boa around his neck. He was dressed like an old flapper.' This was too much for Mrs Rosenstiel, who fell out with her husband over the business and only saw Hoover once more, when he visited her country estate in the company of Cardinal Spellman. On this occasion the old flapper was attired as for the office, clearly knowing when he was licked. You couldn't hope to out-dress old Frankie-Frank Spellman, one of the great bitch drag queens of this or any other age.
Nobody should grudge the frumpish Hoover a fling or two, or indeed a flounce, though probably with his figure and complexion the stockings were a mistake. (Didn't he have one kind friend who could have whispered something tactful?) As John Updike has put it in a very thoughtful fashion commentary on the whole unfortunate business:
Ike, for instance, dear Ike with his infallible instincts, would never have let himself be caught in lace stockings, even though he did have the legs for them. I remember, within a month of St Laurent's 1958 collection for Dior, Ike coming out in a stunning cobalt-blue wool trapeze, with white open-backed heels and a false chignon. That very day, if memory serves, he had sent five thousand marines to Lebanon, and not a hair out of place.
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Peter Schaenk 8/27/08 The War of Perception
August 27, 2008
August 27, 2008
4 Responses to "Peter Schaenk 8/27/08 The War of Perception"
Why does Peter have to lie about Alex Jones? To suggest that Alex Jones exists to discredit the 9-11 truth movement is a pretty big accusation to be throwing around. Maybe Jones is an unstable personality but to think that this is an act is quite a lot to swallow.
Here we go again…
What did I lie about? You are a liar my friend and a homosexual.
Now get out of that one.
I said Alex Jones discredits the 911 truth movement by his psychotic antics. That is why he gets air time on the mainstream media. Because he serves a purpose. To discredit the alternative media, not because he lends credibility to it.
He does this on his own. There is no planning on his part, he is a "useful idiot" to the NWO.
They use him because he is easily manipulated. As an egomaniac he wants to be the center of attention and the mainstream media gives airtime to people like Jones that act like carnival clowns when the cameras start rolling.
If you can't see this, your deaf, dumb and blind in addition to the above mentioned names I used at the beginning of the post.
Next time try and start your conversation in a civil manner and you will be treated with respect.
Jones may be slow to name the Jew and the Zionist cause. Nonetheless he sheds light on the NWO and breaks peoples' cemented perceptions on how the political and cultural reality is today. From here minds are more receptive to more anti-Establishment ideas such as those that the Voice of Reason proposes. Jones' message is not perfect but its a start to breaking the slavish closemindedness to the controlled media and its Establishment agenda that most people have.
Listen to my debate with Mike from ConCentral.