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Immortal Milk was picked for the June 2010 Indie Next List
and chapters appeared in Best Food Writing 2009 and 2011
and chapters appeared in Best Food Writing 2009 and 2011
"Travel writing, food writing, and intellectual obsession, such is the intriguing blend of elements to be savored in Eric LeMay's one-of-a-kind Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese. The author journeys through France, Italy, and all over the US, tasting, sniffing, and endlessly cogitating the allure of a food that achieves its greatest flavors at points along the path where 'milk goes from its most lively and life-giving to its inevitable end as rot.' Ooh-la-lait!"
— Passport Magazine
"[T]oo fun and smart to put down .... The author is a consummate storyteller, offering readers a detailed account of every situation matched with pithy commentary. Part rhapsody, part comic rant, each chapter .... is a literary joy ride that is both informative and insightful, engaging readers through a unique appreciation for 'the sparks that fly between the enthusiast's love and the expert's knowledge' of cheese."
— Culture: The Word on Cheese
"Turn off the Food Channel, come out of your dark cave, cut off a chunk of Jura Erguel, settle into that comfy chair, pour yourself a glass of wine—get cozy!—and open a copy of Immortal Milk. For cheese has not only gone viral, but microbial, and you're a better person for it."
— Rob Kaufelt, author ofThe Murray's Cheese Handbook
"There is an enthusiasm to Eric LeMay's writing that is difficult to describe. His prose feels devoted. His thesis being more of a passionate disquisition than mere documentary. As it comes from a place that is bordering on the obsessive. That is unabashedly, shamelessly, in love with cheese."
— Umapagan Ampikaipakan, New Straits Times
"Love cheese? Crave good writing? Then you'll savor these pages .... the most delectable morsels are what can be described only as LeMay's odes to cheeses, which soar beyond the flavors .... A book for serious epicures."
— The Virginian-Pilot
"LeMay chronicles this whole romp with expertly crafted observations and self deprecating humor. Geeks will appreciate his detours into such issues as the meaning of 'cheesy' (as in campy), or how you can compare the experience of eating cheese to reading a novel by Danielle Steele. And while he insists that he and Chuck are just cheese 'enthusiasts' its clear that by the end of the book, they have transported themselves by sheer force of will into experts. Follow along and you'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll learn a lot about cheese."
— Tami Parr, the Pacific Northwest Cheese Project
"[A] delightful, screwball take on the world (read: cheese) that combines lucid fun-with-language and uniquely specific observation .... Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese celebrates exactly that: milk elevated to Royalty Everlasting. LeMay's memoir is outstandingly cheesy ... as only a great cheese that ripens beautifully can be."
— Paulette Licitra, Alimentum: The Literature of Food
"When I found my mailbox stuffed with ... Immortal Milk, a book devoted to cheese and the adventures of a fellow cheese enthusiast, I gave a little squeak of joy .... This is just the kind of book one could happily leap into, preferably with a nice wedge of Cowgirl Creamery Red Hawk and a glass of Alsatian riesling at your elbow."
— Dana Velden, The Kitchen


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COLUMBUS, Ga. - The calling card of the No. 21 Georgia College & State University soccer team (12-1-4, 5-1-2 PBC) has been its defense, and despite facing No. 4 Columbus State University (16-3-1, 7-0-1 PBC) the output remained the same, as the Bobcats picked up their 12th shutout of the season in a 0-0 tie.
Sophomore goalkeeper Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.) out-did her counterpart, Monica Sanchez, saving eight shots to Sanchez' three. The shutout was Plunkett's seventh of the year, a Bobcat single-season record.
The tie wraps up a regular season that has been a record-breaking one for head coach Juan Pablo Favero and the Bobcats. The team picked up their first national ranking in the NSCAA Poll, earned their highest spots in program history in both region polls (third in the NSCAA and fifth in the NCAA, respectively), picked up the most Peach Belt Conference (PBC) wins (5), the best finish in the PBC standings (third), and the most shutouts in a season (12).
The Bobcats will be the third seed in the PBC Playoffs, the winner receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Georgia College opens up the first round of the conference tournament at home, Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m., hosting No. 6-seed Lander University (6-8-1, 2-5-1 PBC). The Bobcats beat the Bearcats 1-0 at home in October, this season's only meeting.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.

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Some Good Lectures on Progressive Chess
One game I enjoy playing from time to time, especially with young students, is progressive chess. It's one of the more "normal" variants, and while there are some different versions the way I've learned it is this:
1. White starts by making one move, Black responds with two, White with three, etc.
2. A player doesn't have to give check, but once he does his turn is over.
3. When a player is in check, the first move he must make is one that gets him out of check. If he can't, he's mated.
4. All moves must be legal in the same way they would be in standard chess. (One can't, for instance, walk through a check on the way to a safe square.)
There are various benefits to this game, especially for younger/newer players. One is that it helps familiarize them with various standard checkmate patterns (especially after they've been mated with them several times) - including of course the most useful one of all for the beginner, the Scholar's Mate. Second, it forces them to pretty quickly get used to thinking not just about their own threats, but about the opponent's as well. Third, it's an excellent way to practice calculation skills (albeit a non-traditional sort of calculation). Fourth, it forces one to exercise their imagination and look for "impossible" moves - moves one couldn't normally play in standard chess. (The payoff is that one gets used to looking for "impossible" moves, which turn out to be possible and strong in standard chess more often than most players suspect.)
So I think the game is worth trying out, and it's especially worth trying out on one's own for a while. If you've never played it before, please bookmark the location of this post and come back to it after you've played progressive chess a few dozen times or more. Don't read on until then, or unless you're already a very experienced progressive chess player. Okay? Don't worry, I'll wait.
[Several weeks or even months elapse as pleasant intermission music plays in the background...]
Great, welcome back! Now that you've acquired some experience at the game and have figured out quite a bit about what works and what doesn't work, you might want to have a look at an interesting and thorough series of lectures on the game by Doug Hyatt. One caveat: by the end you might know too much about the game - it seems very nearly solved, as he discusses it - so you might want to watch one lecture at a time, only moving on to the next one after you've made whatever progress you could on your own based on the previous video.


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NBA player Jason Collins received plenty of support from the professional sports community after coming out as gay in a Sports Illustrated cover story this week.
For many athletes, that support came via Twitter. Former Green Bay Packers safety LeRoy Butler was one of those athletes, tweeting a message of congratulations to Collins.
It was a gesture of goodwill that led to some trouble. We'll let Butler explain ...
Wow, I was schedule to speak at a church in WI, and a member said that the pastor wants to cancel my event, I said ok why?- LeRoy Butler (@leap36) April 30, 2013
Then I was told, because I said congrats to Jason Collins on twitter, I said really? we have a contract, he said check the moral cause,- LeRoy Butler (@leap36) April 30, 2013
FYI the fee was 8500$,then I was told if i removed the tweet, and apologize and ask god forgiveness, I can have the event, I said no,- LeRoy Butler (@leap36) April 30, 2013
Butler elaborated on the situation Wednesday in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"This is what bothers me the most," Butler said. "They said, 'If you ask for forgiveness and remove the tweet and you say something to the effect that you don't congratulate (Collins) then we'll let you do the engagement and get the speaker's fee,' and I said, 'I'm not doing that.'
"Every gay and lesbian person will say, 'You know, LeRoy doesn't speak up for the weak or the silenced. He doesn't stand for anything as a man and he did it for money.' Why would you ask me to reduce my integrity like that?"
Butler later tweeted he received an apology from the church but said it was "mainly thanking me for not releasing the church name."
That sounds about right.
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"Ashley [Ward] has ice water in her veins," said head coach Joan Bonvicini. "We have kids who are smart, work hard, and don't care who gets the credit. I'm just so proud to be their coach. To be able to win the [regular season title] outright is not only great for the program but great for the university."
The Redhawks held Idaho to just five points in the opening seven minutes, jumping out to a 12-5 lead behind back-to-back-to-back layups by Brenda Adhiambo (Mombasa, Kenya), Sylvia Shephard (Alta Loma, Calif.), and Kacie Sowell (Ventura, Calif.). Shephard followed with two more layups during the run.
Stacey Barr put the Vandals back within four, 12-8, at 12:46 on a three point play, but SU extended the margin back to seven, 15-8, on three straight points by Daidra Brown (Seattle, Wash.).
Idaho came within one, 19-18, at 10:19, following a jumper by Alyssa Charlston but the Redhawks went on a 10-3 run to lead, 29-21, with eight minutes remaining in the half. Maggie McCarthy (Burlingame, Calif.) and Ashley Ward (Irvine, Calif.) hit three-pointers to highlight the run.
The Redhawks would lead by eight one more time just thirty seconds later, but with just two Idaho buckets over the next four straight minutes for either team, the Vandals would trail by just two, 31-29, at halftime.
Seattle U opened the second half with a 13-1 run in the first six minutes to lead the Vandals by 14, 44-30, at 14:02. Sowell, Adhiambo, and Shephard made offensive contributions during the run.
A purely defensive contest for the next three and a half minutes straight, with the exception of one Idaho free throw, Krissy Karr hit the Vandals' first field goal of the second half at 10:48.
With Seattle U shooting from the field nearly at a standstill, Idaho would go on a 15-3 run over the next five minutes to trail by just two, 47-45. Stacey Barr added six points for Idaho during the run.
Brown put the Redhawks up by four with a jumper, but Barr added a three to close the margin to one, 49-48, with just under five minutes remaining.
The Vandals would take just their second lead of the game, 51-49, following a pair of free throws by Ali Forde at 4:28. Neither team scoring over the next two and a half minutes, Ward tied the game with her own pair of shots from the line.
Adhiambo drove in a layup to give the Redhawks the two point lead, 53-51, at 1:26, but Barr sank two more free throws with 26 seconds remaining to tie the game one final time.
In similar fashion to last weekend's win over UTSA, a timeout was taken to draw up the final play, and, with two seconds remaining, Ward hit the game-winning jumper to give Seattle U the win, 55-53.
Adhiambo and Shephard led Seattle U with 13 points apiece, also adding five and seven rebounds, respectively. Sowell recorded her 14th double-double of the season, contributing 10 points and 15 rebounds for the Redhawks.
Barr led the Vandals and all players with 17 points, and was one of three to add a team-high six rebounds.
As a team, the Redhawks outrebounded the Vandals, 48-34, and led in all three shooting categories. SU shot 23-for-61 (37.7 percent) from the field to Idaho's 35.1 percent (20-for-57). They also shot 30.0 percent from behind the three-point line and 54.5 percent from the line.
The Redhawks head to Las Vegas for the WAC Tournament next week, with the tournament starting on Tuesday, Mar. 12. SU will have a first round bye and will play the winner of No. 8 New Mexico State vs. No. 9 UT Arlington on Wednesday, Mar. 13 at 6 p.m. For all the latest updates, information, and highlights, stay tuned to www.GoSeattleU.com, as well as Seattle U Athletics on Facebook, @su_athletics on Twitter, and @su_wbb on Instagram.


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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been conducting spot checks of its classes.
CHAPEL HILL � The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been conducting spot checks of its classes.
The reviews this week come after the school has been rocked by reports that some programs had classes where little instruction occurred, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported.
A review led by former Gov. Jim Martin released in December found that more than 200 African and Afro-American Studies classes had little or no instruction dating back to the 1990s. The allegations included classes with no attendance, poorly supervised independent studies and improper grade changes. Athletes made up 45 percent of the enrollment in those classes.
The reviews by school administrators come before the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools� Commission on Colleges visits the campus this spring. The regional accrediting agency could decide in June whether to sanction the university for the academic fraud scandal.
The president of the accrediting agency, Belle Wheelan, sent a letter to Chancellor Holden Thopr in January saying the school had not provided enough evidence that it had corrected the problems with academic integrity.
Some of the faculty is not impressed with the idea of spot checks on classes.
�It was more than irritating,� said Lew Margolis, a professor of public health.
Deans have been asked to gather information on course requirements.
Bruce Carney, executive vice chancellor and provost, wrote to the deans of the various colleges earlier this month on steps they needed to take to verify the soundness of the courses offered.
�We need a report from you on the progress of checks of lecture and other courses that were intended to meet on a regular basis with an instructor,� Carney wrote. �What method was used? How many classes were surveyed? What were the results? If a class was not under way at the expected time, we need a detailed explanation.�
Education professor George Noblit had two of his classes visited. The students thought the checks were funny, he said.
�They clearly saw this as being connected to the scandal,� he said. �So the nice thing about our associate dean introducing herself and explaining it, it became kind of a teachable moment about the politics of higher ed.�


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Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News for coverage of the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
Reporter May Ying Welsh and field producer Hassan Mahfood of Al Jazeera English for "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark."
Jane Mayer of The New Yorker for "The Secret Sharer," an exposé that called to the ominous story of National Security Agency employee Thomas Drake.
C.J. Chivers of The New York Times for coverage of the conflicts in Libya and Afghanistan.
Reporter Jeffrey Gettleman and photographer Tyler Hicks of The New York Times for coverage of Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Chris Hawley and Eileen Sullivan of the Associated Press for a story about intelligence operations in the New York Police Department.
The staff of The Wall Street Journal for a yearlong series that exposed new ways of insider trading.
A.M. Sheehan and Matt Hongoltz-Hetling of the Advertiser Democrat (Norway, Maine) for their report on abysmal conditions in subsidized housing.
Ben Elgin, Alan Katz and Vernon Silver of Bloomberg News for coverage that revealed the extent to which Western companies have sold surveillance technologies to repressive regimes.
Lance Williams, Christina Jewett and Stephen K. Doig of California Watch, a nonprofit investigative reporting group, for an illuminating report on Medicare billing by a California hospital chain.
Brian Ross and Anna Schecter of ABC News 20/20 for "Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed."
Thomas Farragher, Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman, Matt Carroll and Darren Durlach of The Boston Globe for coverage of the extraordinary acquittal rate in drunk driving cases in Massachusetts.
Ira Glass of This American Life, a nonprofit investigative reporting group, for "Very Tough Love," a report on the alarming rate of punitive punishments being ordered by a county drug court judge in Georgia.
Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy.
Anthony Shadid, New York Times correspondent based in the Middle East. Shadid died Thursday, February 16, 2012, on assignment in Syria while covering the uprising against that country's president.
Winners of the George Polk Awards are picked by a committee of jurors made up of LIU faculty members and alumni. They select the winners from entries submitted by journalists and news organizations and nominations made by a panel of reporters and editors. The group includes past Polk Award recipients. For more information, visit the George Polk Awards Web site at www.liu.edu/polk.
On Wednesday, April 4, the annual George Polk Seminar, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts at LIU Brooklyn, located at the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. A 5:30 p.m. reception will precede a panel discussion, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. The seminar, entitled "Getting the Unforgettable Story," will feature four 2011 George Polk Award winners: Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, winner of the Magazine Reporting award; May Ying Welsh of Al Jazeera English, winner of the Television Documentary award; C.J. Chivers of The New York Times, winner of the Military Reporting award; and Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., winner of the Sports Reporting Award. George Polk Awards Curator John Darnton will moderate the event.
On Thursday, April 5, LIU will host the George Polk Awards Luncheon at noon at The Roosevelt Hotel, located in Manhattan at 45 East 45th Street (at the corner of Madison Avenue). A poster exhibit displaying work by the Polk Award winners will commence at 11 a.m. A limited number of tickets are available. For reservations to attend the George Polk Seminar and for tickets to the George Polk Awards Luncheon, please contact LIU's Office of Special Events at (516) 299-3298 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
George Polk AwardsRanked among America's most coveted journalism honors, the George Polk Awards have been administered by Long Island University since 1949.They memorialize CBS correspondent George W. Polk, who was slain covering the civil war in Greece in 1948. A committee of jurors made up of University faculty members and alumni select the winners from entries submitted by journalists and news organizations as well as nominations made by a panel of journalists and editors, including a number of former winners.
About LIU In its ninth decade of providing access to the American dream through excellence in higher education, LIU is a multicampus, diverse, doctoral institution of higher learning. One of the largest and most comprehensive private universities in the country, the University offers more than 575 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs and certificates, and educates over 23,000* students in degree-credit and continuing education programs in Brooklyn, Brookville (LIU Post), Brentwood, Riverhead, and Rockland and Westchester (LIU Hudson). Other academic units include LIU Pharmacy (the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences), which prepares students for successful careers in the fields of pharmacy and health care; LIU Global, which provides a wide range of study abroad options at overseas centers in China, Costa Rica and India, and through programs in Australia, Ecuador, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey; and LIU Online, which harnesses the latest technology to offer online and blended programs.
LIU's more than 630 full-time faculty members provide outstanding instruction, which is supplemented by internships and cooperative education opportunities. The accomplishments of nearly 185,000 living alumni are a testament to the success of its mission – providing the highest level of education to people from all walks of life. The institution also provides enrichment for students and the community through the world-class arts programming at LIU Tilles Center, NCAA Division I and II athletic teams and the nationally renowned George Polk Awards in journalism.
*This number includes high school students enrolled in one or more degree-credit courses.
LIU Brooklyn is distinguished by...dynamic curricula reflecting the great urban community it serves. Distinctive programs encompass the arts and media, the natural sciences, business, social policy, urban education, the health professions and pharmacy, and include the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, the Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics, the D.P.T. in Physical Therapy and the Pharm.D. in Pharmacy. A vibrant urban oasis in downtown Brooklyn, this diverse and thriving campus offers academic excellence, personalized attention, small class size and flexible course schedules. In 2006, a $45-million Wellness, Recreation and Athletic Center was opened to serve the Campus and the surrounding community. In 2007, the Cyber Café was launched, providing a high-tech hot spot for students and faculty members to meet and eat.
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Kentucky Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Central Park - Old Louisville 1340 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40208
Kentucky Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Join us in Louisville's Central Park from May 30-August 5, 2018 for the 58th season of the free Kentucky Shakespeare Festival.
This year we're featuring 7 different productions – a comedy, history, and tragedy in our main stage series plus productions from Louisville Ballet, Cincinnati Shakespeare, Louisville Improvisors, and our Globe Players student troupe. Food trucks open at 6:30pm, bar opens at 7:00pm, pre-show at 7:15pm, and show starts at 8:00pm. Perfect for the whole family – including adults, children, and pets.
As always, performances are free and no tickets are required for entry.
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Battlefield Smurf
Who's In It: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel Moore, CCH Pounder
The Basics: Disabled ex-Marine Sam Worthington is sent on a mission to the planet Pandora to help convince its indigenous population of blue-skinned warriors that allowing Earth to mine a rare mineral will be good for them too. (It will also save the Earth and/or make Earth people a lot of money. It kind of flew by as exposition and is only touched on again when Giovanni Ribisi is on screen as the evil environment-raping corporate guy with dollar signs for eyes.) Worthington becomes an avatar--a human mind in the blue body one of Pandora's people--to try and make this hostile takeover seem friendly. Then everybody starts dying via giant, flame-throwing, robot battlesuits.
What's The Deal: James "King of The World" Cameron has a good reason for being the reportedly arrogant S.O.B. that he is: HE MAKES MOVIES THAT ARE AWESOME. Because it's such a monstrously dangerous thing, the big-budget mass appeal must-make-a-billionty-dollars-at-the-box-office-or-we-all-commit-suicide-from-the-shame-of-our-failure film. So many things can go wrong and then you wind up with Will Smith and giant mechanical spiders in Wild Wild West. But Cameron seemingly micromanages the hell out of everything until it's exactly the amount of shiny he wants it to be and, consequently, delivers hugely entertaining (and surprisingly moving) spectacles. Like this one.
How Shiny: If you mocked the early trailer and Twitter-scoffed at the blue people, you're going to be thrilled by the finished product. Cameron is the first director to use motion/performance capture technology properly. No dead eyes, no jerky movements, nothing. You forget you're watching a computer generated character. Meanwhile the other animation, invented surroundings and special effects are seamlessly integrated into the live action. In 20years it may look as fake as Bedknobs and Broomsticks, but for right now it's as perfect looking as you could ever imagine. It's a world you've never seen on screen before and it envelops you.
Easily Forgiven Glitches: The heavy we're-all-part-of-nature message is a little "Colors of the Wind" for my taste, no matter how fundamentally true it may be. Something about Sigourney Weaver intoning spiritual environmental messages sends me running for more Skittles, but otherwise there's not a lot to goof on here. Okay, except for Sam Worthington's on-the-clock dialect learning curve. One day, maybe six movies in the future, he will sound as American as he wants to sound. For now, though, Kylie Minogue can do a more convincing yank accent.
Who Needs Linda Hamilton When You've Got: The always under-appreciated Michelle Rodriguez. I don't think she's ever acting. I think she cultivates a non-stop badass presence and gets people to pay her for it, just walking through life actually connecting the barrels of guns to the skulls of tough guys and cracking lines like, "Uh-huh. You know what this is" before leaving him in a bloody heap and stealing his girlfriend. At least that's what I hope she does.
Cameron is the king. the red carpet was made for this guy.
Where does he get such an awesome idea,
I had a dream I could change the world but you gotta wake up right!
Jake sully takes charge! and ateary..... hot..
Now the caving movie?? where,s my ticket, lets go...!
Fascinating concept .Must be seen cannot be described , rated: 10/10
I saw this epic last night at the Empire Leicester Sq in London, which is a superb venue in which to view this film. Huge screen, excellent sound and an extraordinary Dolby, 3 dimensional image. The whole effect is mind blowing.
This is a 'Must see' movie, innovative, and extraordinary. I think it will be regarded by most cinema goers as another milestone in the history of the art. The level of realism achieved is remarkable, and although the film is relatively long in real time, it retains it's excitement and holds the audience's attention to the end.
Performances are good, but this is not the sort of film that dwells on big star value for the actors, although Sigo
Fascinating concept .Must be seen cannot be described , rated: 10/10
I saw this epic last night at the Empire Leicester Sq in London, which is a superb venue in which to view this film. Huge screen, excellent sound and an extraordinary Dolby, 3 dimensional image. The whole effect is mind blowing.
This is a 'Must see' movie, innovative, and extraordinary. I think it will be regarded by most cinema goers as another milestone in the history of the art.
As Writer/Director, James Cameron deserves high praise for this creation and in my opinion it will break box office records. I thoroughly enjoyed this film.
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Stress Reduction Equals Life ExtensionMarch 2007
By Nicholas Perricone, MD
As the mind-body connection has become accepted in mainstream medicine, an entirely new branch of medicine has emerged, known as psychoneuroimmunology. In true holistic fashion, this exciting new area of research brings together knowledge from multiple fields of study in endocrinology, immunology, psychology, neurology, and other fields.
Psychoneuroimmunology integrates the systems of the body and allows us to recognize that cellular rejuvenation can take part on all levels of the mind and body. Perhaps most important, we can learn to control negative emotions and thought processes that upset the delicate balance of health and well-being.
Reprinted with permission from Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health, and Longevity: The Miracle of Cellular Rejuvenation (Ballantine Books, 2006).
Setting Stress in Motion
To understand how the mind directly impacts the body, we need to have a little background. Organs that produce hormones are called endocrine glands. (While the brain and kidneys also produce hormones, they are not considered endocrine organs, since this is a minor part of their function.) In Greek, hormone means "to set in motion"; hormones are made by endocrine glands to control or set in motion another part of the body.
The endocrine system works hand in hand with the nervous system. In fact, the endocrine and nervous systems are so closely linked that they are more accurately viewed as a single neuroendocrine system, which performs several critical tasks:
The neuroendocrine system is designed to help ensure each individual's safety from external or internal threats, and the hormones most responsible for this task are called "stress hormones."
The Stress Hormones
I have written extensively about the hormones insulin and cortisol, also known as the death hormones. Both of these hormones are necessary for good health, but when their levels are elevated, they cause serious damage, including diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Stress hormones are important—they can give us the extra burst of energy needed to get out of the way of an oncoming automobile or other impending deadly threat. However, in today's world, they are called into play too often, placing the neuroendocrine system under particular strain. The physical ramifications of negative emotions are alarming and far reaching. And while caregivers appear to be at particular risk, none of us is immune to stress and its effects. Cell phones, email, and other technological gadgets ensure that we almost never have a minute's peace to unwind and lower our stress levels.
At elevated levels, insulin and cortisol are inflammatory agents. Many of us suffer an excess of both of these hormones, the first from too many sugars and other carbohydrates in our diets, the second from too much stress and caffeine. Fortunately, we can modify our behavior to eliminate their negative effects. Giving up sugars and starchy foods will help keep our insulin levels normal. Eliminating coffee will help control our cortisol. A study conducted at Duke University found that the effects of morning coffee consumption can exaggerate the body's stress responses and increase stress hormone levels all day long and into the evening. This is a high price to pay for that morning jolt to our systems.
Stress can affect us even at the very beginning of our lives. According to the Wall Street Journal, recent studies show that women who experience high levels of stress or anxiety during pregnancy increase their risk for delivering prematurely or delivering infants with low birth weights or other health problems, including respiratory and developmental complications. In addition, maternal stress during pregnancy is believed to affect the formation of the important hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. A major part of the neuroendocrine system, the HPA axis controls reactions to stress and plays an important role in the regulation of body processes, including digestion, immunity, and energy use.
There is also increasing evidence that suggests that the detrimental effects of glucocorticoid (GC) hypersecretion (overproduction of steroids), which occurs when the HPA axis is activated, results in a number of diseases, including obesity, Alzheimer's, AIDS, dementia, and depression. Fortunately, there are some targeted nutritional supplements, described later in this article, that can help keep the all-important HPA axis in balance.
How Cells Get Old Before Their Time
We all know that dealing with heavy stress can make us feel older than we really are. But a recent study at the University of California at San Francisco suggests that it isn't just a feeling—stress actually accelerates the rate at which cells age. It's an established fact that stress precipitates premature aging, but until recently, the exact mechanism of how this occurs has been unclear.
According to this study, stress affects telomeres, strips of DNA at the end of chromosomes, which appear to protect and stabilize the chromosome ends. (A chromosome is a threadlike structure of DNA and associated proteins that is found in the nucleus of a cell.) Chromosomes carry genetic information in the form of genes. These key pieces of DNA are also involved in regulating cell division. Each time the cell divides, the telomere shortens, until eventually there is nothing left, making cell division less reliable and increasing the risk of age-related disorders.
Scientists took blood samples of 58 premenopausal women to carry out DNA analysis of telomeres. They also measured levels of an enzyme called telomerase, which helps build and maintain telomeres in immune cells.
Nineteen of the women in the study had healthy children and the rest had children with chronic illnesses. Being a caregiver is a highly stressful situation, and it was not surprising when the researchers discovered that women who had reported higher levels of psychological stress—those who were caring for sick children—had shorter telomeres. In fact, the difference was equivalent to more than a decade of additional aging when compared with the women who had lower stress levels.
The high-stress group also had lower levels of telomerase in their immune cells. According to Elissa Epel, PhD, leader of the research team, this finding implied that the immune cells would not function as well and could die sooner. It was also found that the high-stress women had greater levels of oxidative stress—cumulative damage caused by free radicals. Laboratory studies have confirmed that oxidative stress speeds up the shortening of the telomeres.
The researchers further stated that it was not clear exactly how stress affected telomeres, but they suggest that changes in stress hormone levels could have an effect.
Stress Has Teeth
It isn't just mothers of children with chronic illness who experience high levels of stress-related health problems. A fascinating study published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine found that caregiver spouses of patients with Alzheimer's disease develop gingivitis, an inflammatory gum disease, at twice the rate of their noncaregiver counterparts. Since there was little difference in oral hygiene between the two groups in the study, the researchers believe the difference might have been related to stress. (The authors of the study also note that the relationship between chronic stress and severe gum disease was first noticed in soldiers in the trenches during World War I, hence the rather graphic term trench mouth.) Gum disease is serious enough in and of itself. It can lead to serious bone destruction and tooth loss. But as we will find out, it may also precipitate serious life-threatening diseases.
Lead investigator Peter Vitaliano, PhD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, stated: "On a practical level, [the study's results] speak to relationships between chronic stress and oral health in the general population and suggest that these are independent of oral care. They show that caregivers are at risk for oral health problems and not just physical health problems."
The investigators not only evaluated the subjects' gum disease but also measured the key components of metabolic syndrome:
The caregiver spouses scored higher on all three of these measures, placing them at great risk for type II diabetes.


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On Minutes
There are two theories about the locker room problems, which aren't mutually exclusive: the guys hating each other, and unhappiness with playing time.
I'm guessing no one on the team is happy with their minutes (or lack of) except DWill and maybe Memo. Harp, Collins and Ronnie P definitely aren't. You can't tell me Sap isn't. Brewer, CJ, KK, AK and Knight…all the guys. But none of them have complained about it publicly (this season; and yes, I'm thinking about that one time a few years ago when Collins yelled at Jerry for subbing him out). With the exception of Boozer, who has publicly complained not only about starting, but also getting minutes in the 4th quarter, all of the guys have stayed true to the team concept and spouted the party line about doing what's best for the team.*
A few examples:
Back at the beginning of the season when he first started coming off the bench, he said that he doesn't care if he starts or subs, and that playing as the 6th man had its advantages because he could assess the feel of the game and bring in what was needed off the bench. (sorry, this was so long ago I'm too lazy to find the reference).
When he first came back from surgery, his minutes were of course monitored. But when Boozer came back a few games after that, AK's minutes plummeted down to 20 MPG for no reason other than there suddenly not being enough minutes to go around:
There is no pain in Kirilenko's ankle and no restrictions on his minutes, but he has averaged only 21.3 in the last 12 games.
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan acknowledged the difficulty at finding Kirilenko playing time with Carlos Boozer back in the lineup, Paul Millsap demanding minutes off the bench and Ronnie Brewer making the case to play in the fourth quarter. (source)
I can't imagine that AK was happy about his reduced minutes, but he never complained about it outwardly:
"It's all right," said Kirilenko…"I don't have a problem with this. I feel pretty good with that time." (source)
Brev Brev also feels he should be playing more, but isn't complaining either. After the Wizards game on March 17th, he said, ""It feels good to get out and play. It's been a little while [since he got significant minutes]. I kind of had to change my focus this year and understand that the minutes would be a little bit sparse." (source)
In the NO game, Harp played 8 straight minutes and was clearly gassed when he was subbed out. In his post-game interview, he simply said, "It's tough to try to stay in shape when you don't get that many minutes." That's all. There was no "I should get more minutes" or "I should be out there in the 4th."
It can't be denied that the Jazz's slide into the Land of Fail coincided with the restoration of Boozer's minutes. His first game back was the 5th game of the 12-game win streak.** Since the streak ended, he's played at least 30-40 minutes in 14 of 16 games, during which the Jazz have gone 6-10. Only 2 of the 6 were good, solid wins (Hou and NO); the remaining 4 were record-breakingly sloppy, bang-my-head-against-the-wall, third quarter or full game collapsing messes. Not only that, the Jazz have lost their way and have completely surrendered their home dominance.
How damaging is Carlos Boozer's presence to this team? There is no longer a team in SLC—just a bunch of selfish individuals being forced to work together. And honestly, Carlos is an anti-leader and a bad example to the younger players. Apart from the fact that he gets playing time even when he's hurting the team and giving up more points than he's scoring, you just know some of the young guys are looking at Boozer and thinking, "If he, the team leader, could get a hugeass contract without playing any defense, so can I." Or, "If the team leader is complaining about his minutes, why shouldn't I?" Or, "If the team leader isn't going dive after loose balls, neither will I."
I don't even know how to wrap this up. "Living and Dying by the Jazz"…I don't remember what it feels like to live by the Jazz anymore. I feel as resigned as Jerry looks. I wish it were as easy for me to quit the Jazz as it was for the players to quit on each other and their fans.
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*Though Boozer's publicist/fan club president David Locke would have us believe that all professional athletes would say what Boozer did about starting. Dan Sheldon responded, "When you show that resistance (to putting your team ahead of you) publicly, you can only imagine what's going on behind the scenes."
The conversation continued like this:
S: How uncomfortable was that moment when Boler's just floating this idea out there, he wasn't attacking Boozer at all, and Boozer snaps back the way he did?
L: What do you think he should have said?
S: He should have said, "You know what? I believe I'm a starter in this league, but I've been struggling, we've all been struggling, we need answers, I'll do whatever it takes right now."
[Dead air as Locke struggles to find some way to defend Boozer]
L: And who do you think in this league would have said that?
[Me, yelling at my computer: AK!!! Every other player on the Jazz!!!]
S: Who do I think would have said that? I think most players would say that.
L: I don't.
S: You don't think most players would say that?
L: Unh-unh.
S: And considering the situation the Jazz are in [Locke interrupts with another, more emphatic "unh unh"] right now?
L: No. Particularly after…particularly after, that was after a win.
S: I mean, you look at the most important player on the floor, generally speaking, for the Spurs…he's a guy that comes off the bench.
L: Yeah, he's different though.
S: How so?
L: Uhhhhhhhh…Manu's just a different bird. That's why he's the only guy in the league who does it.
[Me, yelling at the computer: AK!!!! AK!!!!!]
S: I'll agree to disagree with you.
L: (raises voice) I'm not disagreeing with your idea that maybe that's what should be said, but I'm just trying to make sure, that I think anybody would have said it.
S: I can understand it being said behind the scenes but how many times do you really hear a player come out and say, "I'm a starter in this league, period"? I don't hear that that often.
L: [instinct- or money-driven need to defend Boozer kicks into even higher gear; starts sounding like a petulant child] Well, I also don't think there's many guys ever been in the All-Star Game averaging 20 and 10 that have been talked about as not starting.
S: Well, when was the last time you saw a guy slip the way he's slipped right now?
L: [eager to change the subject now and starts talking about Vin Baker]
For frak's sake Locke, give kissing Boozer's private parts a rest.
**For the 5th to the 8th games, he played less than 22 minutes. He then played around 34 minutes in the next two, and then sat out the one after that. On the 12th and final game, he played 28 minutes.
Patrick517 permalinkApril 14, 2009 3:40 am
I wonder if management is preventing Sloan from starting Millsap over Boozer. Surely he can tell who the more productive player is.
April 17, 2009 10:35 pm
Good post. I would quibble with the derogatory commentary but really it was fine. I like that you posted the whole conversation with Sheldon.
Two thoughts
1) AK's move to the bench was in order to try to get him more touches and more involvement since he wasn't get enough and wanted more. Wasn't AK complaining quite loudly two years ago.
2) What other player that has been to an all-star game and put up 20/10 ever been sent to the bench – The best I could come up with was Vin Baker which is an important comparison because he had fallen into the nadir by that point. Is Boozer heading down the same road?


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Colorado Avalanche Information Center reports large slide outside of Frisco
A large avalanche, reported to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center Feb. 13, released on Mount Victoria near Frisco. The report does not make clear the time or cause of the slide, which occurred on the J Chute, a long, mostly treeless area visible from town.
The CAIC report estimated that the slide started at 10,900 feet and came to a stop around 9,800 feet, covering portions of the popular Mount Royal Trail. The slide created a large debris field at a trail intersection about a quarter mile from the Mount Royal trailhead. The Summit Daily News confirmed the approximate length of the slide and estimated the debris field to be a few hundred feet long and close to 100 feet wide with a number of small trees and branches in it. The slide was reported within a few days of fatal avalanches near Keystone and Leadville.
"Based on what the report is indicating, it's certainly big enough to kill someone," CAIC deptuty director Brian Lazar said of the Frisco slide. "It seems like a natural. It's possible someone triggered it and went away."
Summit County resident Mark Koob, who reported the slide to CAIC, later said he believed it was likely a naturally caused slide. Koob told the Daily he came across the debris field in the afternoon on Thursday, Feb. 13, and did not see any other tracks in the area. He said the slide looked fresh at the time and had not been there when he was in the area two days earlier. Koob also reported high winds that afternoon and the night prior to discovering the slide.
The avalanche occurred along a popular backcountry ski line accessible from Frisco and near the historic Masontown mining site, which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1926. While the slope does not typically have such large slides, it is a clear avalanche path.
"That has been a producer in the past," CAIC forecaster John Snook said of the location. "This year it doesn't surprise me that it ran larger."
The slide is part of a growing trend this season, Lazar said. "It's not out of character for what we're seeing this year. A lot of these paths that haven't run in quite some time are running this year."
The combination of 75 and 100 inches of snow in the span of a few weeks in February and high winds loading slopes has made the potential for avalanches especially high in recent weeks.
"Unusual weather brings unusual avalanches," Snook said. "A lot of these slides are as big as they've been in 20 years."
Ten people have died in avalanche-related accidents in the western United States since Feb. 8. While Colorado averages six avalanche fatalities a season, there have already been six to date. Typically, March and April are the snowiest months and produce more slides.
"The danger isn't going away anytime soon," Snook said.
While CAIC forecasters are reporting that the snowpack in the area has stabilized somewhat in the last week, they warn that an already dangerous season is expected to continue with more snow in the forecast. Even with the lowered risk, a large, deep persistent slab slide remains a possibility.
Should a slope release, it could create a potentially large and lethal avalanche, Snook said. Forecasters refer to such avalanches as low probability, high consequence, slides.
Warm temperatures in the last few days likely will have resulted in a weak frozen layer in the snowpack that additional snowfall could have trouble bonding with, making slides likely.
"If we get more snow, it could make the snowpack pretty touchy," Snook said, looking toward the weekend forecast. "With more weather coming, we need people to stay wary."
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3rd December 2005, 07:54 PM
I just had Abbey out with me while I was shoveling, and she came slinking up to the door with a shrew or mouse hanging out of her mouth!!! It was dead, I have no idea where she found it, and I was totally disgusted! I don't know if she thought she was just going to bring it in the house or what, but she pressed herself up against the door and I had to ask her three times to drop it! ICK!!!!!!!!!


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The actual aims and results of psychiatric and pharmaceutical-promoted forced "mental health" testing and the resulting "necessary treatments" may become more apparent when you examine the statements of the leaders, founders, and theorists of psychiatry and psychology.
Psychiatry's Views on Conservatives
"In August 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million taxpayer-funded study. It stated, essentially, thattraditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives, in particular, suffer from 'mental rigidity,' 'dogmatism,' and 'uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness."
Any questions on who they want to drug into being silent and obedient? Don't think they have a different opinion of liberals or anyone who is outspoken or wants to improve society. Read on for more!
Psychiatry's Views on Education
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well – by creating the international child of the future"
"We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers, and others with a vested interest in controlling us. 'Thou shalt become as gods, knowing good and evil,' good and evil with which to keep children under control, with which to impose local and familial and national loyalties and with which to blind children to their glorious intellectual heritage… The results, the inevitable results, are frustration, inferiority, neurosis and inability to enjoy living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in."
Teaching school children to read was a "perversion" and high literacy rate bred "the sustaining force behind individualism."
The school curriculum should "…be designed to bend the student to the realities of society, especially by way of vocational education… the curriculum should be designed to promote mental health as an instrument for social progress and a means of altering culture…"
"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapablethroughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective ... It is for the future scientist to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
"…through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government – one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men; one that will postulate the need for scientific control and operation of economic activities in the interests of all people."
"Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know – it means teaching them tobehave as they do not behave."
"This is the idea where we drop subject matter and we drop Carnegie Unites (grading from A-F) and we just let students find their way, keeping them in school until they manifest the politically correct attitudes. You see, one of the effects of self-esteem (Values Clarification) programs is that you are no longer obliged to tell the truth if you don't feel like it. You don't have to tell the truth because if the truth you have to tell is about your own failure then your self-esteem will go down and that is unthinkable."
"Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?"
"Men are built, not born…. Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood…. I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless…"
"Of course, Behaviorism 'works.' So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public".
"Despite rapid progress in the right direction, the program of the average elementary school has been primarily devoted to teaching the fundamental subjects, the three R's, and closely related disciplines… Artificial exercises, like drills on phonetics, multiplication tables, and formal writing movements, are used to a wasteful degree. Subjects such as arithmetic, language, and history include content that is intrinsically of little value. Nearly every subject is enlarged unwisely to satisfy the academic ideal of thoroughness… Elimination of the unessential by scientific study, then, is one step in improving the curriculum."
"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine."
"Psychology, and child-study stand first in order among the required subjects of technical nature… The course of child-study is supplementary to the prescribed courses in systematic and applied psychology."
"...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. …a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings."
"The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection."
Psychiatry's Views on Religion
"Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis."
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
"The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such..."
"Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up."
"In short, the nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia."
"…Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments."
"No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started… It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind."
"This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience."
"I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion"
"The soul or consciousness, which played the leading part in the past, now is of very little importance; in any case both are deprived of their main functions and glory to such an extent that only the names remain. Behaviorism sang their funeral dirge while materialism – the smiling heir – arranges a suitable funeral for them."
"…humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith." "Traditional moral codes… fail to meet the pressing needs of today and tomorrow…" "Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful… The total personality is a function of the biological organism transacting in a social and cultural context. There is no credible evidence that life survives the death of the body."
"All neurotics seek the religious"
"It should be recognized that an acceptance of the mental health viewpoint… carries an obligation to examine critically some of the teaching of the churches in the light of present-day insight into what seems to be essential to wholesome personality development and into what is now known to be detrimental to the growing personality of the child."
"Pastoral psychology understands itself as a help for the communities in view of 'group dynamic' proceedings –e.g., the processes of rivalization, or the search for scapegoats, harmonization or shifting guilt, which… can determine life in a community so strongly that the succession of Jesus Christ is no longer paid heed"
"What is the relationship between wholeness and holiness?… What does personal responsibility mean in the light of the findings or psychoanalysis? Do the words right and wrong, have any further usefulness in the light of our new knowledge of compulsive behavior patterns? I believe it's one of the tragedies of Christianity that it has got itself all mixed up with morality…"
"The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility…. Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces; they are processes in flesh and blood… (the clergyman) will find that whether he wants it or not, he is also a front-line mental health worker or he will be so regarded by the specialists in mental health. It is on the pastoral role and the tasks of shepherding that the psychological disciples have the greatest impact in theological work."
"In recent years pastoral counselors have separated from their parishes and emerged as a psychotherapy profession…. This professionalization process includes a shift away from parish-based counseling to counseling centers or medical settings, declining interest in religious practices and convictions, increased interest in psychological practices and theories, the charging of fees, and increased institutional and professional barriers to those individuals perceived as poor counseling clients or unable to pay…. There is also… growing deviation from a religious orientation to a pseudopsychiatric orientation."
"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine."
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas..."
"The danger is that these psychologies may, to one degree or another, replace Christianity without most people even noticing that any substitution has taken place."
Psychiatry's Views on Creating a Slave Society
"We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood."
Teaching school children to read was a "perversion" and high literacy rate bred "the sustaining force behind individualism."
"It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel."
"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. . . Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. . . . We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electronic stimulation of the brain."
"The reduction of intelligence is an important factor in the curative process… The fact is that some of the very best cures that one gets are in those individuals whom one reduces almost to amentia (feeble-mindedness)…"
"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapablethroughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective ... It is for the future scientist to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order."
"Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found – providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not."
". . . yet almost everyone attributes human behavior to intentions, purposes, aims and goals. . . . as if they had wills, impulses, feelings, purposes, and other fragmentary attributes of an indwelling agent. We shall not solve the problems of alcoholism and juvenile delinquency by increasing a sense of responsibility. It is the environment which is 'responsible' for the objectionable behavior, and it is the environment, not some attribute of the individual, which must be changed. "If all else fails, punishable behavior may be made less likely by changing physiological conditions. Hormones may be used to change sexual behavior, surgery (as in lobotomy) to control violence, tranquilizers to control aggression, and appetite depressants to control overeating."
"Of course, Behaviorism 'works.' So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public."
"The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion."
"The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and moralityonly in his capacity as a member of the State."
Psychiatry's Views on America
"America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless."
Psychiatry's Views on World Government
"Principles of mental health cannot be successfully furthered in any society unless there is progressive acceptance of the concept of world citizenship. World citizenship can be widely extended among all peoples through applications of the principles of mental health."
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas...
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order."
Freud on Marxism
"The strength of Marxism obviously does not lie in its view of history or in the prophecies about the future which it bases upon that view, but in its clear insight into the determining influence which is exerted by the economic conditions of man upon his intellectual, ethical and artistic reactions."
Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment
"...legal systems have been established in a majority of states for involuntary and compulsory hospitalization and treatment of neurosis. These state laws have been based on a prototype bill published originally by the Federal Security Agency of the Public Health Service, now a part of the Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Entitled a Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill, it is, in fact, a skeleton bill designed for adoption uniformly by federal, state, and territorial governments to radically alter commitment procedures... if you won't consent to voluntary treatment, a police officer can arrest you. You can be subjected to 3 to 5 days of treatment of the psychiatrist's choosing before you even get a hearing to protect your rights in most states. Treatment can include electric shock treatments, chemotherapy, hypnosis or conceivably a frontal lobotomy... Basically, all that is necessary to revoke all the constitutional rights of any citizen is to accuse him of being mentally-ill."
"In all my research on violence for a book published several years ago, I had not seen one credible study — meaning that the small amount of research done in this area is not worth a damn - showing that society has more to fear from patients labeled "mentally ill" than other people in the community. For example, there has never been any appropriate follow-up of patients that has determined whether the absence of treatment leads to violence. The very foundation of forced treatment is ideology and fear-mongering and not science."
Psychiatry Promoting Euthanasia, Eugenics, Racism
"Should it turn out that in spite of in the new-born is a weakly and ill-bred child, then a gentle death will be provided for him by the medical board, which decides over the citizenship papers of the society, let's say through a small dose of morphine… (The parents) will not give themselves over to rebellious feelings for long but will try it fresh and happily a second time, if they are permitted to do so and have a certificate granting them the right to the procedure."
"It was only through the political work of Hitler that the meaning of racial hygiene has become publicly manifest in Germany, and it is only due to him that our thirty-year-old dream to put racial hygiene into practice has become a reality."
"The most effective race preserving measure is that which gives the greatest support to the natural defenses....We may and we must rely on the healthy instincts of the best of our people...for the extermination of elements of the population loaded with dregs. Otherwise, these deleterious mutations will permeate the body of the people like the cells of a cancer."
Psychiatry's Views on Morality and Families
"If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility"
"The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith… are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely."
"...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely."
"Old conventions, customs and values… to be challenged… The aim should be to control not only nature, but human nature." He recommended two slogans for "spreading world-wide the gospel of mental hygiene": "To learn to think internationally" and "The necessity to disarm the mind."
"Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation."
"The family is now one of the major obstacles to improved mental health, and hence should be weakened, if possible, so as to free individuals and especially children from the coercion of family life."
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well – by creating the international child of the future"
"We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers, and others with a vested interest in controlling us. 'Thou shalt become as gods, knowing good and evil,' good and evil with which to keep children under control, with which to impose local and familial and national loyalties and with which to blind children to their glorious intellectual heritage… The results, the inevitable results, are frustration, inferiority, neurosis and inability to enjoy living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in."
"Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run – and the research confirms this again and again – it's going to run from the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual experience."
"Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence…. If we are toinfiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity… Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'"
"Society's excessively moralistic and punitive reactions toward pedophiles go far beyond what I consider to be the gravity of the crime."
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others."
Quotes About the Psychiatric and Psychological Industries
"The danger is that these psychologies may, to one degree or another, replace Christianity without most people even noticing that any substitution has taken place."
"So we must shun the false guides of men and their false religions, babbling psychologists, wordy psychiatrists and polluted politicians, all of which have built up such tremendous reputations as colossal failures. Look at the messes they have made, know them by their rotten fruits, reject them for their fruits."
"The second reason for our critical times is modern man's rejection of God's Word the Bible. Enemies such as Wellhausen and his prejudiced school of higher critics, Darwin and his evolutionists, Freud and his theories, Marx and his atheistic revolutionists-all these have played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many; especially since so many of the clergy have adopted such worldly wisdom... According to Freud, one of psychiatry's chief authorities, religion is a great illusion that man will get rid of someday. Psychiatry stresses, "Know thyself," as if an enlightened self-love is sufficient for successful living. More than ignoring God, (psycho)analysts often contradict God by advising those with guilty consciences that fornication, adultery and sodomy are not wrong in themselves. The charge rightly has been made that such counsel tends to exterminate the conscience".
"Recent research has shown, that the vast majority of people who are violent do not suffer from mental illnesses."
"The mental health establishment has snowed the American people: it launches the most unimaginable brutal psychological and physical assault on human beings in distress, calls this 'medical treatment', and then blames the outcome on 'mental illness'.
"So part of what we're seeing is nothing more than the creation of a larger market for drugs. If you think about it, as long as we draw as big a circle as possible, and expand the boundaries of mental illness, psychiatry can have more clients and sell more drugs. So there's a built-in economic incentive to define mental illness in as broad terms as possible, and to find ordinary, distressing emotions or behaviors that some people may not like and label them as mental illness."
"Most of the almost innumerable books, pamphlets, and other publications issued by the sponsors of the mental health program are purposely and craftily disingenuous, disguising its real and ultimate purpose: ...the ultimate reduction of every individual in this world, except the favored few who conceive of themselves as possessed of an incomparable genius in their ability to direct the affairs of others, into... a common servile obeisance to his master, the State...."
The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative cross-examination of the individual's underlying moral values by psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not confined to separate courses or programs...they are not isolated idiosyncracies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous books and other educational materials in programs packaged by organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the techniques to teachers. Some packages even include instructions on how to deal with parents and others who object. Stripping away psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries to be discussed in group sessions, and through role-playing assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing programs in China under Mao.
"A growing proportion of many school budgets is devoted to counseling and other psychological services. The curriculum is becoming more therapeutic: children are taking courses in self-esteem, conflict resolution, and aggression management. Parental advisory groups are conscientiously debating alternative approaches to traditional school discipline, ranging from teacher training in mediation to the introduction of metal detectors and security guards in the schools. Schools are increasingly becoming emergency rooms of the emotions, devoted...to repairing hearts. What we are seeing....is the psychologization of American education."
In the old days during electroshock "we used to break arms… leg(s) and elbows."
"Psychology is the science of intellect, characters, and behavior of animals, including man."
"...every person who comes into this office who has had an experience with another therapist has some kind of horror story to tell, about some major failing on the therapist's part, including, quite often, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, things that cross the boundary of mere bad technique and come pretty damn close to the criminal."
"The changes one sees when electroshock is administered are completely consistent with any acute brain injury, such as a blow to the head from a hammer. In essence, what happens is that the individual is dazed, confused, and disoriented, and therefore cannot remember or appreciate current problems."
"Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it."
"The field of mental health is highly subjective, capricious, and dominated by whims, mythologies, and public relations. In many ways it is a pop culture with endless fads but with no real substance."
"If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity. If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity ... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists'."
"[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door."
"What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession."
"...Now it is time to ask the original question; who truly profits from the Psychiatric Interventions? I can provide a list, in order of who profits the most. #1. Pharmaceutical companies make billions on psychotropic medicines. #2. The Hospital probably makes between $500 and $1000 a day on the patient. #3. The Psychiatrist makes from $100 to $300 per visit. ..."
"Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics..."
"It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy -- the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man -- which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing."
"A psychiatrist is a man who has studied medicine, which he does not practice, but practices psychology, which he has not studied."
"Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil."
"The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).
"Contrary to the popular public conception, this happenstance is NOT a form of health care, but the result of a fraudulent system being granted police powers by the State. By calling the harmless 'insane', (who statistics prove to be no more violence-prone than the average citizen, unless hopelessly deranged by damaging psychiatric 'treatment'), dangerous and justifying their own existence by the 'need' to deal with that inflated 'danger', the mad-doctors themselves pose the greatest threat to liberty, property and democracy in our times."
"Mental illness is often used as an ad homonym to discredit the individual. This has been a common use of psychiatric diagnosis in psychiatry in Russia. " ... there are two main groups [of schizophrenia patients] ... 1) people admitted to the mental hospital long before they had been political dissenters ... 2. others who ... have put forward complex social and economic theories as alternatives to orthodox Marxism..."
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.."
"In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults".
"Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it".
"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
"We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead."
"They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."
"...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology.... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician's paradise."
"Nothing has harmed the quality of individual life in modern society more than the misbegotten belief that human suffering is driven by biological and genetic causes and can be rectified by taking drugs or undergoing electroshock therapy. ... If I wanted to ruin someone's life, I would convince the person that that biological psychiatry is right - that relationships mean nothing, that choice is impossible, and that the mechanics of a broken brain reign over our emotions and conduct. If I wanted to impair an individual's capacity to create empathetic, loving relationships, I would prescribe psychiatric drugs, all of which blunt our highest psychological and spiritual functions."
"A Trojan horse full of dangerous psycho-fantasies has been professionally prepared for us by Christian psychiatrists and psychologists... At the base, such therapies stand upon dogma, not scientific observations, and the dogma is the odious one of Freud and his followers who were some of the century's most anti-Christ teachers. No amount of well-intentioned refinement of deadly doctrines will make them clean for Christians."
"Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them."
"Psychotherapy may be known in the future as the greatest hoax of the twentieth century."
"Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness."
"...there is no evidence that the benefits of psychotherapy are greater than those of placebo treatment"
"These misguided myth-makers have encouraged us to believe that the infinite mysteries of the mind are as amenable to their professed expertise as plumbing or an automobile engine. This is rubbish. In fact these talk therapists, practitioners of cosmetic psychiatry, have no relevant training or skills in the art of living life. It is remarkable that they have fooled us for so long. ... Cowed by their status as men of science, deferring to their academic titles, bewitched by the initials after their names, we, the gullible, lap up their pretentious nonsense as if it were the gospel truth. We must learn to recognize them for what they are - possessors of no special knowledge of the human psyche, who have, nonetheless, chosen to earn their living from the dissemination of the myth that they do indeed know how the mind works".
"In the 14-year period between 1950 and 1964, more American deaths occurred in state and county mental institutions than in all of the nation's armed conflicts beginning with the Revolutionary War and ending with the Persian Gulf War. Between 1965 and 1990, the total number of mental-hospital inpatient deaths exceeded the number of battle deaths in the same wars by 70 percent. Inpatient deaths topped out at 1,103,000 during this 25-year period, compared with 650,563 recorded deaths in battles."
"The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal."
"Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on."
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The Jerboa Has Landed! October 27th, 2009
Right! I've returned from my trips to Lebanon and Bangalore, India with a sizeable wad of pictures.
I still have to sort through them all, but hopefully I will have lots and lots of great pictures to share with you in the coming weeks – including pictures of: abandoned hundred-plus-year-old Lebanese houses; ruins of age-old temples; the last day of the harvest and vintaging at a vineyard; a traditional Indian wedding (which totally blew my mind – probably the single most colorful and extraordinary wedding celebrations I have yet had the privilege to attend); and my other (non-wedding-related) impressions of the very beautiful, chaotic and noisy Bangalore.
With luck, I will have something substantial to share in the coming day or two. Meanwhile, I will leave you with a shot of the very first snake I have yet seen in Lebanon. In the wee hours one night I found this beautiful and colourful specimen lying in the middle of the road by my family house in Baabdat.
It was quite dead and being munched upon by a cute tar-black kitty, which unfortunately made a break for it as I approached. Oddly enough, try as I might, I couldn't roll the snake over to take a better look at (and maybe picture of) it… Whatever I did, it invariably flopped back onto its back… It wasn't too long, about 50cm in length, give or take, and 2cm or so at its widest point.
And no, no clue what type of snake it is.
While you're waiting for the coming posts, check out the first instalment of the awesome bullet-time-esque results of a very cool experiment undertaken by the one and only Trey Ratcliff.
Tags: abandoned, baabdat, bangalore, bullet time, harvest, india, lebanon, old house, ruin, ruins, snake, temple, trey ratcliff, vineyard, wedding, wine
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One Response to "The Jerboa Has Landed!"
Wassim Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
It WAS alive… just sunning itself upside down and enjoying a flirtatious nibble with the neighborhood cat 🙂
Can't wait to see what you made of India!


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