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Still, if this does go forward, it will signal incredibly short-sighted thinking on the parts of everyone who participates. The initial reaction would be significantly less traffic to any site that agrees to participate, considering that Google still drives a ton of traffic to most major sites. Simply giving that up for a chunk of cash is a very risky proposition. Second, in factionalizing the web, it harms everyone. No one wants to have to think about which sites are included in which search engine, and if the battle begins in earnest, then you have a situation where you end up in an inevitable stalemate, with certain sites in Google's search engine, but not in Microsoft's, and others in just Microsoft's but not Google's -- and no one wins. Third, the cost of this program to a company like Microsoft to make it meaningful is huge. It's much bigger than the numbers that were being tossed out before. Finally, all this would really do is open up new opportunities for one of three things (or a combination) to happen (1) a new meta search engine shows up that aggregates both Microsoft and Google results (2) technology hacks that will allow you to combine the two results in one or (3) Google realizes that it has copyright law fair use on its site and keeps indexing sites anyways. I'm not sure Google would take that last step, but if things go nuclear, it might make the most sense.
But the key thing is that none of this does anything to help users. And that's the problem. It's not adding even the tiniest sliver of additional benefit to users. And these days, that's a strategic error. If your business is focused on making life more difficult for a competitor, rather than adding more value to users, you're doing the wrong thing. Microsoft and News Corp. should be trying to provide more value to users, and instead, they seem to be plotting ways to make consumers' lives more annoying and more difficult. They may think that's smart, but in the long term, such strategies always backfire.


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When did American troops become "warfighters" -- members of "Generation Kill" -- instead of citizen-soldiers? And when did we become so proud of declaring our military to be "the world's best"? These are neither frivolous nor rhetorical questions. Open up any national defense publication today and you can't miss the ads from defense contractors, all eagerly touting the ways they "serve" America's "warfighters." Listen to the politicians, and you'll hear the obligatory incantation about our military being "the world's best."
All this is, by now, so often repeated -- so eagerly accepted -- that few of us seem to recall how against the American grain it really is. If anything -- and I saw this in studying German military history -- it's far more in keeping with the bellicose traditions and bumptious rhetoric of Imperial Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II than of an American republic that began its march to independence with patriotic Minutemen in revolt against King George.
So consider this a modest proposal from a retired citizen-airman: A small but meaningful act against the creeping militarism of the Bush years would be to collectively repudiate our "world's best warfighter" rhetoric and re-embrace instead a tradition of reluctant but resolute citizen-soldiers.
Becoming Warfighters
I first noticed the term "warfighter" in 2002. Like many a field-grade staff officer, I spent a lot of time crafting PowerPoint briefings, trying to sell senior officers and the Pentagon on my particular unit's importance to the President's new Global War on Terrorism. The more briefings I saw, the more often I came across references to "serving the warfighter." It was, I suppose, an obvious selling point, once we were at war in Afghanistan and gearing up for "regime-change" in Iraq. And I was probably typical in that I, too, grabbed the term for my briefings. After all, who wants to be left behind when it comes to supporting the troops "at the pointy end of the spear" (to borrow another military trope)?
But I wasn't comfortable with the term then, and today it tastes bitter in my mouth. Until recent times, the American military was justly proud of being a force of citizen-soldiers. It didn't matter whether you were talking about those famed Revolutionary War Minutemen, courageous Civil War volunteers, or the "Greatest Generation" conscripts of World War II. After all, Americans had a long tradition of being distrustful of the very idea of a large, permanent army, as well as of giving potentially disruptive authority to generals.
Our tradition of citizen-soldiery was (and could still be) one of the great strengths of this country. Let me give you two examples of such citizen-soldiers, well known within military circles because they wrote especially powerful memoirs. Eugene B. Sledge served in the U.S. Marines during World War II, surviving two unimaginably brutal campaigns on the islands of Peleliu and Okinawa. His memoir With the Old Breed is arguably the best account of ground warfare in the Pacific. After three years of selfless, heroic service to his country, Sledge gladly returned to civilian life, eventually becoming a professor of biology. His conclusion -- that "war is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste" -- is one seconded by many a combat veteran.
Richard (Dick) Winters is better known because his exploits were captured in the HBO series Band of Brothers. He rose from platoon commander to battalion commander, serving in the elite 101st Airborne Division during World War II. A hero beloved by his men, Winters wanted nothing more than to quit the military and return to the civilian world. After the war, he lived a quiet life as a businessman in Pennsylvania, rarely mentioning his service and refusing to use his retired military rank for personal gratification. In Beyond Band of Brothers, he recounts both his service and his ideas on leadership. It's a book to put in the hands of any young American who wishes to understand the noble ideas of service and sacrifice.
Sledge and Winters were regular guys who answered their country's call. What comes across in their memoirs, as well as in the many letters I've read from World War II soldiers, was the desire of the average dogface to win the war, return home, hang up the uniform, and never again fire a shot in anger. These men were war-enders, not warfighters. Indeed, they would've been sickened by the very idea of being "warfighters."
The term "warfighter" -- a combination, I suppose, of "warrior" and "war fighting" -- suggests a person who lives for war, who spoils for a fight. Certainly, the United States has fought its share of ruthless wars. But traditionally our soldiers have thought of themselves as civilians first, soldiers second. Equally as important, the American people thought of their troops that way.
Why are we now, with so little debate, casting aside an ethos that served us well for two centuries for one that straightforwardly embraces war and killing? Possibly because we've invented a distinctly American product: sanitized militarism. I bumped into it last week at a most unlikely place.
Visiting Gettysburg
Last week, I finally made it to Gettysburg, site of the great three-day battle between Union and Confederate forces in July 1863 that ended with the defeat of General Robert E. Lee's army. Walking the battlefield was a sobering experience. I found myself on Little Round Top at 5:00 PM, just about the time of day that Union generals rushed men to reinforce the hill against a determined Confederate assault at the close of the battle's second day. Earlier, I was at the Angle, just when, almost a century and a half ago, Pickett's Charge failed to pierce the Union center, sealing Lee's fate on the third day.
As these events played through my mind, I marveled that I had the battlefield largely to myself. Not that I was alone, mind you. Tour buses circled; cars, trucks, and SUVs whizzed about, but many, perhaps most, Americans who visit Gettysburg get surprisingly little tactile or sensory experience of its difficult topography. Yes, a few kids (and fewer adults) joined me in clambering about the huge, claustrophobically placed boulders of Devil's Den, and I did spy a couple of guided tour groups on foot. But at the site of a bloodcurdling, distinctly septic nineteenth century battle, most visitors were clearly having a distinctly bloodless, even antiseptic, twenty-first century experience.
That day, I learned a lot about Gettysburg the battle -- and maybe a little about us as well. As surely as my fellow tourists were staying in their cars and buses, we, as a people, are distancing ourselves from the realities of war. As we seal ourselves away from war's horrors, we're correspondingly finding it easier to speak of "warfighters" and to boast of having the world's best military.
As we catch a glimpse, from the comfort of our living rooms, of a suicide bombing in Iraq or an American outpost attacked, then abandoned, in Afghanistan, are we not like those tourists in buses at Gettysburg, listening to sanitized recordings telling us what to see and think about the (expurgated) reality in front of us? And who dares challenge the "expert" commentary? Who dares turn off the canned talking heads and stare into the face of war?
But if we are to end our militaristic, yet curiously sanitized, "warfighter" moment, if we are ever to return to our citizen-soldier ethos and heritage, this is just what we must do.
After all, it's later than you think. Our military now relies not only on a volunteer (if, at times, "stop-lossed") Army, but increasingly on tens of thousands of hired guns, consultants, interrogators, interpreters, and other paramilitary camp followers. Private, for-profit "security contractors" -- companies like Blackwater and Triple Canopy -- give a disturbing new meaning to our "warfighter" terminology and the rhetoric that marches in step with it. As even casual students of history will recall, a clear sign of the Roman Empire's decline was its shift from citizen-soldiers motivated by duty to mercenaries motivated by profit.
Replacing "warfighters" with true citizen-soldiers in the mold of Sledge and Winters would hardly be a solve-all solution at this late date, but it might be a step in the right direction -- however unlikely it is to happen. For when we look at our troops, if we don't see ourselves, then we see aliens or, worse yet, superiors ("warfighters") in need of "support." And that's a clear sign of trouble for the republic.
Want to Be in the "World's Best Military"? Ask German Veterans
It may come as a shock to some, but the American army wasn't the best in the field in World War I, or World War II either. And thank heavens for that.
The distinction falls to the Kaiser Wilhelm's army in 1914, and to Hitler's Wehrmacht in 1941. Even toward the end of World War II, the American army was still often outmaneuvered and outclassed by its German foe. Because victory has a way of papering over faults and altering memories, few but professional historians today recall the many shortcomings of our military in both world wars.
But that's precisely the point: The American military made mistakes because it was often ill-trained, rushed into combat too quickly, and handled by officers lacking in experience. Put simply, in both World Wars it lacked the tactical virtuosity of its German counterpart.
But here's the question to ponder: At what price virtuosity? In World War I and World War II, the Germans were the best soldiers because they had trained and fought the most, because their societies were geared, mentally and in most other ways, for war, because they celebrated and valued feats of arms above all other contributions one could make to society and culture.
Being "the best soldiers" meant that senior German leaders -- whether the Kaiser, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, that Teutonic titan of World War I, or Hitler -- always expected them to prevail. The mentality was: "We're number one. How can we possibly lose unless we quit -- or those [fill in your civilian quislings of choice] stab us in the back?"
If this mentality sounds increasingly familiar, it's because it's the one we ourselves have internalized in these last years. German warfighters and their leaders knew no limitations until it was too late for them to recover from ceaseless combat, imperial overstretch, and economic collapse.
Today, the U.S. military, and by extension American culture, is caught in a similar bind. After all, if we truly believe ours to be "the world's best military" (and, judging by how often the claim is repeated in the echo chamber of our media, we evidently do), how can we possibly be losing in Iraq or Afghanistan? And, if the "impossible" somehow happens, how can our military be to blame? If our "warfighters" are indeed "the best," someone else must have betrayed them -- appeasing politicians, lily-livered liberals, duplicitous and weak-willed allies like the increasingly recalcitrant Iraqis, you name it.
Today, our military is arguably the world's best. Certainly, it's the world's most powerful in its advanced armaments and its ability to destroy. But what does it say about our leaders that they are so taken with this form of power? And why exactly is it so good to be the "best" at this? Just ask a German military veteran -- among the few who survived, that is -- in a warrior-state that went berserk in a febrile quest for "full spectrum dominance."
Fighting to End Wars
Words matter. Let's start by banishing the word "warfighter," and, while we're at it, let's toss out that "world's best" boast as well. Boasting about military prowess is more Spartan than Athenian, more Second and Third Reich Germany than republican and democratic America.
Indeed, imagine, for a moment, a world in which the U.S. is no longer "number one" in military might (and, at the same time, no longer fighting endless wars in the Middle East and Central Asia). Would we then be weak and vulnerable? Or would we become stronger precisely because we stopped boasting about our ability as "warfighters" to dominate far from our shores and instead redirected our resources to developing alternative energy, bolstering our education system, reviving American industry, and focusing on other "soft power" alternatives to weapons and warriors? In other words, alternatives we can actually boast about with the pride of accomplishment.
Think about it: Must our military forever remain "second to none" for you to feel safe? Our national traditions suggest otherwise. In fact, if we no longer had the world's strongest military, perhaps we would be more reluctant to tap its strength -- and more hesitant to send our citizen-soldiers into harm's way. And while we're at it, perhaps we'd also learn to boast about a new kind of "warfighter" -- not one who fights our wars, but one who fights against them.
William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He now teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, and is the author of Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism, among other works (Potomac Press, 2005). He may be reached at email@example.com.
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What happened to spring?
What happened to spring?
We were teased with warm weather, followed by an untimely series of frosty mornings. Consider it Mother Nature's way of balancing the thermal budget.
Of course, last year was the benchmark of warm spring weather, with temperatures averaging 6.5 degrees above normal, and flowers blooming several weeks ahead of schedule.
Temperatures in March 2012 were more than 12 degrees higher than March 2013. But we paid for that warmth, too, with five frosty mornings to close out April 2012 after a late-season snowfall in the mountains on April 22-23.
There is a balance in the atmosphere, as cold and warm air masses shift with the fluctuating upper-air currents.
Excess cold air is drawn away from one region, giving way to warmer conditions in advance of a large storm, followed by a surge of cold weather on its western flank.
However, when spring finally popped with those first couple of days in the low 80s on April 9-10, we understandably thought it was time to finally put the flowers out and tend to the vegetable garden.
Reality hit with a twist in the jet stream. It is back to wearing jackets and hoping the thermometer edges above 50 for the fourth day in a row.
Mornings have been frosty, as low as 28 degrees Monday and 33 degrees Tuesday in the Stroudsburgs. This is all part of a larger pattern.
Yet another spring snowstorm just delivered up to 20 inches of snow in parts of the northern Rockies. Heavy snow blanketed Minneapolis and much of the northern Midwest for the third time this month.
Areas of the Corn Belt that suffered through historic drought are now awash in rising waters where rivers have climbed 12 feet or more above flood stage.
There are quirks to this spring's extreme turnarounds.
A blocking high pressure area south of Greenland contributed to an unrelenting chill from mid-March through the opening days of April — recall 21 degrees on April 2, with snowflakes here.
The wall of warmth (upper-level ridge) over the North Atlantic effectively diverted the polar jet stream far to the south over the eastern U.S. for weeks on end.
Meanwhile, vestiges of this anomalous pattern, and an unusual degree of arctic air, lingering over northern Canada, favor periodic blasts of cold weather deep in April.
The current late-winter system chugging across the Upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes promises to tease us again, with a quick warm-up to 70 degrees followed by frost Friday and Saturday mornings.
Do not be surprised if we see frost in May this season. This is why tender vegetation is never safe to plant until Mother's Day, and even that could be too early.
We had five frosty mornings in a row with high-elevation snowflakes May 18-23, 2002.
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myatheistlife, I have read much of what you have written, not all by any means. I experience you as making sense, sometimes not at first. You clearly make your thinking known about the labels of non-believers. I assume you accept the label "atheist" and am not sure why. If you were to make a category where people who explore as you, how would you label it? OhOh, labels again. But say I wanted to find others who thought as you, what key words would you use?
I think it's simple, actually. Even among those claiming to be free thinkers there are many sheep. Many won't like what comes next. Those that convert to non-belief after reading a book or hearing a debate/talk/lecture are not likely to be like me. Those who found non-belief (atheism or anti-theism) like me have done it on their own. There was no blinders removed from their eyes, they instead fought a long tough fight to get them off. Look for people that seem to think in ways that new atheism is trying to reveal as 'new' but they have been thinking that way all along. Perhaps look for someone who feels "wow, there suddenly are people who think like me elsewhere in the world". I'm not trying to say I'm special in any way. I simply think that all the new atheist community stuff is not the enlightenment it is oft touted to be. I see some of the new atheist crowing like a small child yelling with joy because they can ride their new bike... the one with training wheels on it.It's great that they can ride! There is still a lot of work ahead of them. A LOT of work. Sticking your fingers in your boot straps every morning is not easy. Non-belief does not offer any kind fluffy father figures to take care of you and put you to bed at night. Some days you just do it in hope that tomorrow is better. Hope, not faith. Maybe tomorrow will be easier, maybe something will make me laugh.. so you keep going. I have been likened to nihilists, libertarians, and anything else that can't be applied to people in the middle of the road. In the end, I am me. I subscribe to a particular school of thought... mine. Oh sure, I know that I've picked up stuff here and there from philosophers and great thinkers and even science fiction writers, but my creed is to be me... the best me I can figure out how to be. (JFK quote) not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Telling me that I can't do something is like betting that I'll do it better than you imagined. Sure, I fail often enough. Like I said, life is hard. It ain't easy being an ape. Most labels are ascribed from the viewpoint that the existence of gods is arguably true, or might be. I don't hang out on that side of the fence very much. I peek over at the other field regularly, but the grass is just fine under my feet. I've been told that my attitudes verge on monastic or 'Vulcan' (Mr Spock) at times. I don't know what key words would work for such. I'm me, not a joiner, and not a leader. Society seen from a short distance and with the wisdom of science in hand, looks much like a bunch of apes trying to pretend they are more than they are. Like a chimp in a suit with a cheap cigar. All show and no real compassion, no real depth. Whenever I express such thoughts I'm told I'm arrogant. I don't think so but I could also be more eloquent. I spent a lot of time on my own in life... travelling for work mostly. I often went to zoos to see the animals. You should watch the apes/monkeys for a while. It will surprise you just how like us they are. Try taking a 5-6 minute film of ants at work... next time the traffic gets you down pull that out and watch it a couple of times.
I don't know what key words to give you. I don't know anyone like me either.
One question for theists, why do you feel it is necessary to lie to get your point across?
The title of the inquiry is, "Six Questions to Ask an Atheist," except there aren't six questions, there are 14 questions mixed in with nine prejudicial position statements. In the political world, this would be known as a "push poll."
The author of the inquiry doesn't deserve answers, he deserves condemnation for his dishonesty.
On a side note, there are very cogent answers to all 14 of the questions; perhaps under a different series of posts?
I recognize one question to an atheist as of primary importance over and above all other questions. The question is that of the existence of a single eternal, all powerful, all knowing, creator of the universe, specifically God. As Bertrand Russell asked, where did God come from? Any suggested mechanism would imply an infinite regress. Or else one must accept that such a being has always existed. It is simpler to propose that something came from nothing or that something has always existed, and and operates by natural law. That's my inner Occam's Razor talking.
Everyone of the questions is nothing but hogwash. The religious have to have some spiritual meaning to everything. To them, if they can't understand something, then it must be the work of the supernatural. A totally asinine philosophy.
In a nutshell. There is no bridge over the abyss that separates the rational and the irrational. But, you realize we're debating each other to justify the website's existence.
I believe there is a lot we don't know...many unexplained events that we would love to explain because we know there is an explanation for everything...an explanation is an attempt to construct the elements of the event in best terms possible...ambiguous explanations are weak and don't give an "ah ha" moment. Tantamount to intrastellar travel to discover round, saucerlike craft on Planet X and saying "ah ha", by Jove, they do (or did) exist, we may someday discover where Santa Claus really lives. By the way, the word "nephilim" actually meant, "those who came down from above".
1 To live your life without a god or gods is not a life lived in vain...looking in the mirror all day for answers is.
2 If we live without a god or gods, sustaining food is still necessary, clean air is necessary, clean water is necessary, warmth is still necessary, personal safety is still necessary, love is still necessary, honor, respect, appreciation, all of which makes life possible and meaningful.
3 The godly Jewish leaders ordered the death of Jesus...godly sacrifices were performed by the millions.
4 Pain is inevitable but whether you suffer or not is your choice.
5 Judge not, hypocrite
6 We do not make sense, we are sensual. We sense. We have senses. God doesn't make sense...he made males with foreskins and then orders them to be cut off? Does that make sense? Oops, you should be so lucky.
OK, my rant against dishonest questioning aside. Here are my answers and counter questions to theists (everyone feel free to copy and paste anything you want (and ignore anything that doesn't work) without attribution).
1. Why is there something rather than nothing?
The question contains a hidden assumption that "nothing" is a more natural state than "something." Empirically, wherever we look, we encounter something. Therefore the evidence dictates that "something" is the most natural state of events.
Counter question: Given the vast evidence of what we observe, why would anyone assume "nothing" to be the most natural state?
2. Why is there conscious, intelligent life on this planet?
Because it evolved via evolution by natural selection.
Counter question: Given the overwhelming evidence for biological characteristics developing through evolution by natural selection, what other empirical evidence should be entertained for an alternate hypothesis?
3. Is there any meaning to this life? My life has the meaning that I give it, I wouldn't suppose to give meaning to any other person's life.
Counter question: By what line of reasoning would any person determine that they had the right to dictate to another person what the meaning of their life should be?
4. Does human history lead anywhere? Yes, human history leads to the present human condition.
Counter question: How could it lead anywhere else?
5. How do you come to understand good and evil, right and wrong without a transcendent signifier? I understand those words to mean those things, by degree, that tend to enhance or thwart human happiness and thriving. Note, the very fact that I use the word "human" implies that they cannot be "transcendent."
Counter question: If good and evil are transcendent, can anyone give an evidence based argument to the Euthyphro dilemma? Bonus question: If theology provides an answer to the transcendent question, why do professional theologians vehemently disagree about the issues of the death penalty, abortion, homosexuality, war, killing in self-defense, etc?
6. If you are content within atheism, what circumstances would serve to make you open to other answers? Empirical demonstration of conscious will without a material brain.
Counter question: Given that a conscious will without a material brain has never been demonstrated anywhere at any time, why should anyone ever entertain it as even a remote explanation for anything that we observe?
7. so why don't we see more atheists like Jean Paul Sartre, or Friedrich Nietzsche, or Michel Foucault? They were called the existentialist, there were more, Camus comes to mind. You don't see more today, because their questions have been answered to the satisfaction of most atheists; We make our own meaning and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact there is something absolutely right with that (see the answer to number 3 above).
8. What set of actions are consistent with particular belief commitments? The commonality between the Inquisition, the Crusades, Communist purges and Islamic Jihads obviously cannot be a theist/atheist divide as the evidence shows they can happen under either belief. However, what can be seen in common is an unquestioning commitment to a specified dogma. This is common characteristic of religion, but missing from philosophical naturalism.
Counter question: If you believe in divine revelation and you had a revelation that god told you to kill all of the children in a primary school class, but what reasoning would you do or not do the act?
9. Where is the hope of redemption, or meaning for those who suffer? There is no hope of redemption or meaning. That is why it is absolutely imperative to try to alleviate it now. We have no excuse to expect an afterlife to make it right!
Counter question: If you believe in a redemptive afterlife, doesn't doing something to alleviate suffering now rob the sufferer of a greater joy then?
10. Who is to say that lying, or cheating or adultery or child molestation are wrong –really wrong? Humanity is who to say. I don't want to be murdered or robbed so I accept a societal set rules that also entails that I don't murder or rob (not to mention a well evolved set of mirror neurons that just make those things seem icky).
Counter question: If you believe in divine revelation, how do we decide who's revelation is correct? Even within a single religion, different sects interpret what is literal and what is figurative differently? How is that different than a secular morality?
11. Why do I feel unfulfilled or empty? I can't answer that for you. I don't feel unfulfilled or empty.
Counter question: Why do you think you feel unfulfilled or empty?
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HIV Prevention Among Substance Abusing SMI
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00447720
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 15, 2007
Last Update Posted : December 3, 2015
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This study seeks to examine the effectiveness of translating two proven interventions, RESPECT, and the NIDA Community Based Outreach Model, into one program of education, PATH, to be delivered by case managers to their seriously mentally ill, substance abusing clients.
The objective is to teach case managers to assess the specific risk profiles of their clients, and then create a plan of intervention aimed at reducing high risk sexual and substance abusing behaviors.
|Condition or disease
|Mentally Ill Persons Substance Abuse HIV Infections
|Behavioral: PATH
|Phase 3
Persons with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk for HIV/AIDS. The relative risk of HIV/AIDS is at least five times greater in SMI as the general Medicaid population in Philadelphia and over seven times for those also treated for substance abuse. We will implement a prevention program for persons with SMI who also abuse substances over five years at a local Community Mental Health Center. Preventing AIDS Through Health (PATH) is a translation of two HIV prevention programs proven effective in the general population and among substance users. Both are highly structured, manualized interventions. PATH uses mental health case managers to draw on features of both interventions depending on individual consumer risk profiles. These case managers have special expertise in providing services to this population and we believe that this expertise, prior relationships with these persons, and an ability to regularly reinforce the intervention will result in significantly reduced risk. There are two sets of research participants - the persons with SMI as well as the case managers themselves. Informed consent will be obtained from both sets of participants.
It is estimated that approximately 300 individuals with mental illnesses will participate; with 150 assigned to the control group and 150 assigned to the treatment group. There will be approximately 32 participating case managers whose caseloads will be randomized to treatment.
Blood testing will identify those who are HIV positive at baseline. Breathalyzer and urine testing will supplement clinical interviews and other measures to identify substance abuse co-morbidity. Using a longitudinal experimental and control group design, we will randomly assign case managers to deliver the intervention to consenting participants in their caseloads who meet inclusion criteria. Independent interviews will be conducted with case managers before the intervention, and again at 3,6,and 12-months post intervention and focus on changes in risk behaviors, fidelity of translation of the intervention, cost and outcomes. Breathalyzer and urine tests at 12-months will supplement self-reports of use of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, benzodiazepines, and opiates.
This is minimal risk research. The potential exists for great benefits to the mental health system at large. Potential risks are quite reasonable given the safeguards proposed and the valuable information to be yielded on the development of responsive interventions and practices to improve care for urban SMI who are at risk for HIV infection. The potential risks for participants in the study are not expected to be greater than those obtained during the performance of routine psychological or physical examinations or tests. All instruments used in primary data collection are those that are frequently used in similar research with similar populations and have not been associated with any adverse events. The questions that will be asked of the research participant pose no more risk than those they would respond to in the course of treatment. That is, the questions are similar to those that mental health professionals ask in the course of treatment.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|238 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Translation of CDC and NIDA Programs to Prevent HIV/AIDS Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness
|Study Start Date :
|June 2004
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2008
Experimental: PATH counseling
These participants received the PATH intervention
Behavioral: PATH
We have chosen to translate two proven prevention programs for delivery to the SMI populations by their case managers. These interventions are the Brief Counseling intervention from the Project Respect program and the Community-Based Outreach Program (CBOM). Together we will translate them into ongoing case management for SMI persons who also abuse substances in the Preventing AIDS through Health Project (PATH). Consistent with other findings regarding HIV infections among the SMI, in our preliminary studies we found that these individuals are at much higher risk within the population of persons being served in Philadelphia.
Active Comparator: Treatment as Usual
These individuals receive treatment as they normally would receive in the community
Behavioral: PATH
We have chosen to translate two proven prevention programs for delivery to the SMI populations by their case managers. These interventions are the Brief Counseling intervention from the Project Respect program and the Community-Based Outreach Program (CBOM). Together we will translate them into ongoing case management for SMI persons who also abuse substances in the Preventing AIDS through Health Project (PATH). Consistent with other findings regarding HIV infections among the SMI, in our preliminary studies we found that these individuals are at much higher risk within the population of persons being served in Philadelphia.
- Outcome measures used for calculating effectiveness will be reduction in sexual and substance-use-related risk behaviors. Other outcomes include improved condom use as well as increase in knowledge of HIV. [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- Condom skills [ Time Frame: baseline, 6,12 ]Behavioral skills
- Behavioral risk self report [ Time Frame: baseline, 6, 12, and 24 months ]
- HIV risk reduction [ Time Frame: baseline, 6, 12 months ]Self-report
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Recipient of case management at Hall Mercer Community Health Center
- Use of substance or history of using substances
- Sexual activity or interest in a sexual relationship sometime in the future
Exclusion Criteria:
- May not be HIV+
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00447720
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Hall Mercer Community Mental Health Clinic
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael Blank, PhD
|Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research
|Responsible Party:
|Michael Blank, Principal Investigator, University of Pennsylvania
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00447720 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
5R01DA015627-03 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|March 15, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 3, 2015
|Last Verified:
|December 2015
Keywords provided by Michael Blank, University of Pennsylvania:
HIV prevention skills
Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI)
Substance abuse
HIV seronegativity
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Substance-Related Disorders
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders


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Blazers beat Triton at Culver championship
CULVER — Heading into Saturday's Culver Sectional championship match, Triton head coach Samantha Keel knew Marquette's Zoya Ganz would be hard to handle.
The plan was to make the Blazers beat them with everyone else, but the sophomore outside hitter simply wouldn't be denied, pounding out kill after kill, and the Lady Trojans fell in three games, 25-14, 25-20, 25-14.
"We were here on Thursday night, and my varsity assistant — which is my brother Colton — and I, we made the realization watching them play Culver that she was going to kill the ball, no matter what," said Keel. "The girl is a whale of an athlete, she really is. Her coach should be very proud of her. We just knew that she was going to kill the ball, and if we could take out everybody else, that's why you play with six people. She was on top of the ball, and we couldn't stop her, so I give her credit."
After trading points early in the first set, Marquette separated itself midway through the first game with a 7-2 run, ultimately holding off Triton 25-14. The Trojans started out down 4-1 in the second game before rallying to retie the game as late as 11-11, but after leading briefly at 10-9, were never able to retake the lead in a competitive 25-20 defeat. The Blazers rode that momentum to a 7-1 lead in the third game, and with its back against the wall, Triton was never really in the third game as the team closed out the season, 25-14.
"We are very used to playing down," said Keel. "Like in game two we were down 4-1 and came back and were ahead by two at one point, but I think for a long time, that's how they got used to playing and it's hard to change things that quick. That's just been our year this year — to start out four or five down and have to fight out of that hole."
Triton closed out the year following a strong turnaround midway through the season in Keel's first year at the helm. Saturday's match represented the Trojans' first sectional championship appearance since 2009, when the team also lost to Marquette in three games.
"I'm just proud of my girls. About midway through we'd had a really rough spot. I think a lot of teams have a rough spot about midway through, and they could've just looked at me and said 'We're done; we tap out,' and they all hung in there with me," said Keel. "I'm extremely sad that I will not be going to practice on Monday. Not for the sake of playing, but just because I'm going to miss my girls."
Triton bids goodbye to a small but talented senior class in Shana Anderson — who finished the match with five kills and seven digs — Breanna Lemler — who notched five kills, two aces and a block — and Marissa Ross — who tallied 10 assists with a pair of aces and six digs versus Marquette.
"I cannot stress enough how much things have changed for my seniors from last year to this year, or even through their entire high school careers. I asked them to play a very different style of volleyball, and they have all responded very well," Keel said. "Sometimes you revert back to your old ways just because you've been doing it for so long, but they have all made great improvements and have gone above and beyond anything I could ever ask. I'm very proud of my seniors, and I will greatly miss them. I'm sad I didn't have more time with them."
Triton stats
Kills: Shana Anderson 5, Breanna Lemler 5
Aces: Marissa Ross 2, Lemler 2
Assists: Ross 10
Digs: Emilee Koontz 11, Holly Stogsdill 9
Blocks: Lemler 1
(25-19, 25-8, 25-12)
In his third year as coach for the Argos Lady Dragons volleyball, Jim Daugherty has seen improvement.
And Saturday morning, it looked like his team was going to put a scare into Marshall County rival Triton.
The Dragons were tied at 13-13 with Triton in the first game and as close as 20-17 later in that first game.
But Argos lost steam and fell in three games 25-19, 25-8, 25-12.
"I see the talent on this team," said Daugherty. "It's a matter of them believing in themselves."
Without a senior on the team, Daugherty said his juniors have done a good job of leading.
And that was evident in the first game as the Dragons charged out of the gate.
Effective serving by junior Briana Overmyer kept things close early.
The Dragons also took advantage of some early unforced errors by Triton.
"We hadn't lost a game all year to Argos," said Triton coach Samantha Keel. "And that's nothing against them. So when we were tied 13-13 in that first game, I think it was a wake-up call."
"You know that when you play Argos you have to play hard and fast," said Keel. "And we didn't do that early."
Keel pointed to a mid-season lull as the turning point of the Trojans' season.
"We had Triton's wrestling coach, Coach Thompson come in and talk to us," said Keel. "He said you may have teams with more talent than you. But no team is going to out-prepare or outwork you."
Keel said that resonated with her team and put them in a position for a sectional title.
After a timeout by Keel, the Trojans went on a 6-1 run to build a lead to 19-14 in the first game.
At that point, Argos took a timeout and clawed back to 20-17.
But it seemed all match, Triton was the beneficiary of winning long points.
"I think that comes down to mental toughness," said Daugherty. "Our kids can do it. I've seen it in practice. It's just a matter of getting them to believe when it comes to a match."
Triton took all momentum away in the first game when freshmen Marissa Howard capped off a hotly-contest point to move the Trojans' lead to 24-19.
Triton won the first game on the next point and took that confidence into the second game.
After jumping out to a 6-2 lead in the second game, Triton put its foot on the gas. At one point in the second game, the Trojans went on a 13-2 run.
Holly Stogsdill's ace pushed Triton's lead to 21-8 and the Dragons never scored again in the second game.
The third game was also all Triton's as they cruised to a 25-12 win.
The closest Argos got in the third game was early on at a 6-5 deficit.
"This team works hard. We bust it at practice," said Daugherty.
And with everyone returning for next year, Daugherty hopes to see that pay off in his fourth season.
(25-19, 25-8, 25-12)
Triton stats
Kills: Shana Anderson 10, Breanna Lemler 7, Emilee Koontz 6
Aces: Koontz 5, Krystal Sellers 3
Assists: Marissa Ross 22
Digs: Holly Stogsdill 7, Anderson 5, Sellers 5
Blocks: Lemler 3, Ross 2
Argos stats unavailable
Managing Editor Daniel Riordan contributed to this report.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - International Language School, Opole Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in International Language School, Opole Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message alex1Joined: 27 May 2004Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: International Language School, Opole Has anyone had any experience of this school (ILS)? Also, any takers for Opole experiences? Couldn't find anything in the job journals, but both sound fine to me. Back to top SelyerJoined: 04 Feb 2003Posts: 62Location: Poland Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject: Life in Opole Hiya. I'm currently living and working in Opole (though not with ILS). It's a nice little town and I quite enjoy it. PM me if you have any specific questions about Opole that I might be able to answer for you. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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The Uneasy Balance Between Wikipedia And Truth
from the it-ain't-always-there dept
However, Simpson Garfinkel has an interesting article pointing out that there is one element of Wikipedia's relationship to "truth" that should be examined. That is, the site very highly values verifiability over truth. In other words, it will always side with a citation over personal knowledge -- even if that citation is incorrect. This leads to some odd situations, when you think about it. After all, people will point out that Wikipedia's advantage over something like Britannica is that mistakes stay for much longer in Britannica. But, that might only be true if the Wikipedia entry isn't based on a false citation.
If the Wikipedia entry is based on a false citation, and there's no other citation that contradicts it, then it's likely that Wikipedia's entry will remain wrong, but citable. So, the easy editing of Wikipedia is a bit meaningless if the source of the false fact is not also editable (or if there's no citation that shows the original citation is wrong). I've seen this myself lately with the short entry about me. While I do take quite seriously the typical admonition not to edit your own entry, I have checked it at times. What amuses me, is that it tends to have my birthday wrong (flipping the month and the date, such that my real birthday -- December 8, or 12/08 -- is flipped to August 12, or 08/12). I've been watching a couple of people (one of whom I'm pretty sure I know) argue back and forth about the date, with the person who keeps flipping it back to the wrong date claiming at one point that he is me. He's not. Of course, I don't take this as evidence of Wikipedia's failure, but more a reminder of what the site is and what it's not. It's a useful starting point for investigation, which is quite often reliable and sufficient, but I wouldn't recommend betting your life on it. Or even your birthday.


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The Golden Age of California Cabernet Sauvignon
California cabernet sauvignon has never been more popular than it is in the first decade of the twenty-first century. But has it ever been better than it is today? The answer to that question depends on one's criteria for evaluating today's top cabernets and comparing them with the wines of yesteryear. Certainly California's cabernets have never been more delicious upon release than they are today, but to many wine lovers this forward appeal comes with a price tag: a shorter cellar lifespan. For most cabernet enthusiasts, the more "fruit-forward" style of today's best wines is a blessing, as the vast majority of these cabernets do not demand extended bottle aging prior to the wines showing at their best. Simply fire up the grill, and while the meat is marinating, head down to the cellar and reach for a bottle of the first good-looking cabernet that catches your eye. This is in notable contrast to most major wine-producing regions in Europe, where top red wines will often need at least a decade of cellaring prior to beginning to soften and drink well. For many in the wine trade, this attribute has been seen as one of California's great advantages during its meteoric rise from country cousin to lord of the manor – ever since California cabernets first burst onto the international wine scene during the great wine challenge in Paris in 1976.
As many wine lovers may already know, in 1976 an English wine merchant living in Paris named Steven Spurrier organized a competitive tasting of the best California wineries of the day and their counterpart "blue chips" from Bordeaux and Burgundy. The wines were all served blind (meaning that the wines were not revealed until after all had been evaluated) to a star-studded lineup of French wine judges. California wines won, as the top red wine was a cabernet sauvignon from Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and the top white wine was a chardonnay from Château Montelena. Explanations were sought, winemakers' reputations were sullied, and the tasting's methodology was called into question, but all for naught, as the reality was that the California wines had simply carried the day. Both winning wines on that day were from the 1973 vintage in California, which was soon to be followed by an even finer vintage in 1974. The reputation of California wines changed virtually overnight. What followed was a tremendous expansion of the state's acreage under vine, and the number of new wineries simply skyrocketed. Throughout the decade of the 1970s, vintage after vintage in California produced stellar wines, and many winemakers of that era began to dream of an international wine landscape where California would take its place at the very pinnacle of wine-producing regions. And that has indeed come to pass.
However, despite the state's glowing success throughout the vintages of the 1970s, many California vintners began to change how they made wines in the early 1980s. The rich and dramatic wines of the earlier epoch were replaced by a style that winemakers called "food wines," which they explained were "sculpted" during the vinification process to produce more elegant and refined examples.
Hence vintages from 1982 through the end of the decade produced a dramatically different style of cabernet – wines that were not particularly full-bodied or tannic, and which were designed to offer early drinking appeal. Critical praise for this new style was even more lavish than it had been for the old-style cabernets of the '60s and '70s, and seemingly everything was in place for further success. But after cellaring for a few years, many of the "food wine" cabernets began to fall apart and age poorly, and momentum built for a return to the cabernets of yesteryear. "Sculpted" cabernets lost favor, and most winemakers moved to make richer and more dramatic wines that they felt harkened back to the more heroic style of the '70s, while still taking advantage of all the modern scientific tools that today's winemakers have at their fingertips. The results were wines that were much riper, creamier, oakier, and higher in alcohol than the 1980s' "sculpted" cabernets, and again wine critics loved them. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on whether today's style of cabernets will age any better than the "food wine" cabernets of the 1980s. The early results are not encouraging for those that wish to cellar their California wines.
But there remains the wine made in the vintages of the 1970s (and earlier) upon which California's reputation was built. Many of the cabernets from this era are still glorious wines that have been seemingly untouched by the march of time. They continue to drink brilliantly and offer great enjoyment in the glass at ages thirty and more, while similar wines half their age are already over the hill. Many of the wineries that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s are still familiar names today, but their stars have lost a bit of luster as wine publications have fixated on the newest star winemakers or consultants in California. Wineries such as the aforementioned Château Montelena and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, as well as other well-known names such as Beaulieu Vineyards (BV), Robert Mondavi, Caymus, Joseph Phelps, Mayacamas, Mount Eden, Ridge, Joseph Heitz, Conn Creek, Freemark Abbey, Sterling (vintages '74-'76), and Inglenook have left behind a legacy of great California wine from earlier decades that is yet to be surpassed in the state's winemaking history.
While many of the cabernets from the 1950s and 1960s are now beginning to slide gently into decline (though many pleasant surprises can still be found), the wines from the vintages of 1970 through 1980 continue to drink magnificently well. A great many are readily found either at auction or from merchants who specialize in older California wines. Look for wines from 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, and 1980 from any of the wineries mentioned above. Truly great cabernets that I have tasted in the last year from this era include a 1968 and 1970 BV Reserve, 1970 and 1974 Mayacamas, 1976 Sterling Reserve, 1975 Joseph Phelps "Eisele," 1965 Inglenook, 1970 and 1974 Heitz "Martha's Vineyard," 1976 Caymus "Special Select," 1974 Robert Mondavi (both the "regular" cabernet and the Reserve), and a 1974 Mount Eden.
All of these wines continue to drink beautifully, with ripe and pure fruit, melting tannins, and the added complexity that only time can bring to cabernet. And many of these old treasures sell for less than the newest releases from today's most sought-after producers! My advice is to track down a few of these old gems as the grilling season gets underway. Let them rest comfortably for a few months in your cellar before drinking, as older wines always need to recover after they are moved. Over the course of the summer, drink your younger cabernets when you fire up the grill, and as the autumn starts to threaten, go down in the cellar and open a cabernet from the 1970s to go along with that dry-aged porterhouse. There has never been a better match than a perfectly grilled steak and a cabernet sauvignon from California's golden age.


text: Fat Tail and the Bail Out "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain Risk management is the difference between success and ruin in the financial markets. As Nassim Taleb so succinctly stated, "risk is what can really hurt you." It is arguably the single most important consideration for any participant, from the single independent trader to the juggernaut of a Goldman Sachs in the financial markets. But what is risk? There are many discussions of what constitutes risk in the financial markets but not surprisingly, there is no one definition. Typically, discussions of risk revolve around the concepts of Value at Risk (VAR), beta, delta, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the Black-Scholes options pricing model (BSM). All these ways of quantifying risk are based on inarguably faulty assumptions. The recent credit crisis and mortgage meltdown is another example of how Wall Street's methods of modeling market behavior and accounting for risk, are fundamentally flawed. Do you know what a Gaussian Bell Curve is? Most MBA types who go on to work at and eventually run investment banks do. There are really only two things you need to know about a Gaussian Bell Curve. A Gaussian Bell Curve assumes events occur in a normal distribution. What this means is that in a Gaussian Bell Curve, if events or occurrences were plotted, they would occur in the largest numbers at or towards the very center of the bell curve. All these events, plotted on a chart would take the shape of a bell curve, hence the name. Events which occur less frequently would occur towards the edges of the curve. The further the event was from the center of the bell curve, the more improbable it is to occur. This is called a normal distribution. The second thing one should know about the Gaussian Bell Curve is that it does not predict market events very well at all. In fact, knowing what it is, you may disregard it completely. Analysts at investment banks make models of reality with predictive capability. It is true. How one may ask, can you make a model of realty that is able to predict market movements and price, without having God-like prescience? Do not be skeptical, it is not that difficult and it happens all the time-you can be an analyst at an investment bank. It is called modeling. J. P. Morgan invented Risk Metrics in 1994 as a set of financial models that were to be used by investors to measure portfolio risk. Risk Metrics like financial modeling in general, attempts to take a certain set of variables or causes and isolate them as being the very variables that account for change in financial markets. This is a bit simplistic but nonetheless true. Financial models seek to replicate financial reality much like economic models and models of human behavior that have become extremely popular in the social sciences writ large. Humans do not like indeterminacy. We do not like to make decisions or look back in hindsight and think we made decisions by tossing a coin. On the contrary, we like to find reasons for why we made decisions and why events occurred. We tend to think we can. We have at times an irrational belief in the rational. But as Pascal once stated, nothing is more rational than the abdication of reason itself. The ability of social scientists or investment bankers to explain events through the actions of rational human actors appeals to our psyche. It is appealing to think we can. Models of the financial markets like models of the human behavior in the social sciences have serious limitations. To start, they have to simplify reality. One of the ways that modeling simplifies and in a sense, falsifies reality is by making assumptions about human beings, which are not true. For example, modeling tends to assume that humans, whether in a marketplace or in a poker game are rational and that they act at all times in accordance with their best interests. This is not borne out by reality. Any cursory historical account of human behavior belies that humans act rationally. Human beings are emotional actors as much as they are rational actors. The supremacy of emotions to the human story is only matched by our social scientists willful neglect of them. However, given a choice, time and again, we often act on our emotions and against our rational interests. Our strongest emotions keep us awake at night, they cause us physical pain, they have helped our race to achieve beyond all expectation when at other times they have left us paralyzed. We think wishfully when we rationally should not. The markets are replete with examples of irrational exuberance, traders who act out of hope, fear and greed as much as they act out of a consistent rational interest in maximizing their profits. Markets historically at tops and bottoms have betrayed the irrational mob mentally of the masses of its participants. If humans were truly rational, we simply would not have addictive behaviors like gambling, drug addiction, drinking or any self-destructive behavior. We may not even have much ill-health, skin cancer, road-rage, or obesity because knowing we should take care of ourselves, we would-this is rational. We may never purchase luxury items or clothes. We may not care so much about how our neighbors live because we would not feel envy, jealousy, sympathy or pity. The pursuit of leisure and charitable activities may well be quite different. So many of Tocqueville's observations about American life would not hold water. But in reality, half of our brains are devoted to pure emotion. And this half has expressed itself as the stuff of life. We cannot seem to choose our emotions one at a time either. If we were, we would want to be able to love with being vulnerable to grief, to experience the wings of hope without putting ourselves in danger of experiencing disappointment or the failure of our hoped-for event. As a race, we have spent most of our time acting on our emotions and being in their grip as is borne out in our history, our mythologies, culture, our wars and literature. It is in every sense human to be irrational or at least to experience emotion. To argue that humans are rational actors is at a minimum to simplify things, but really it is not a valid assumption. Modeling also suffers from faulty assumptions about the ability of human participants to gather, assimilate and react to information. Most models are sensitive to information. Information causes the rational actor in a model to act a certain way, presumably in a way that will maximize that actor's interests. In the real world, information is not perfect. There is misinformation. Rumors, false tips, erroneous analyst reports are example of misinformation. Some information that is available to a rational actor is false information. Even if we assumed that all the information available to market participants was correct and no false or misinformation was available, market participants would process and assimilate the information differently and at different rates. One example of misinformation and information assimilated at different times is the discovery of a report in 2008 on the internet that United Airlines was facing bankruptcy. This report was over a year old but it caused the price of the stock to drop by over 40% in a single day, before it was discovered that the report was old. In the real world, individually and collectively, we have different intellectual and ideological frameworks, we also have different levels of intelligence, among other factors that allow us to reach very different conclusions when faced with the same information. My neighbor may react to rising gasoline prices years faster than I would by immediately cutting down on his driving or purchasing a hybrid vehicle. Market participants react to identical information at various rates. One person may react quickly to too little information and another may wait much longer accumulating much more information. Sometimes waiting to act while accumulating and digesting information is not a good thing like waiting to liquidate a losing position before your losses wipe you out when acting sooner would have allowed you to cut your loss without going broke. Another problem with financial models is that they do not account for insider information. One of the inherent conflicts in investment banks has been the Chinese wall that is supposed to separate the investment banking and sales functions of the investment house from the research and analysis side. Some have argued that this Chinese wall did not always exist. There is an inherent conflict between the need to sell the investment banking services of a bank to the same customer who is being covered by the bank's analysts. If the analysts were too harsh in their coverage, then the ability of the bank to sell its investment banking services may suffer. What about the potentially insider information that the analysts obtained in covering a company and the danger that this information would travel across the room to the trading floor of the investment bank? Another conflict of interest certainly, but it is also an example of a market participant having insider information or simply information that other market participants do not have, before they have it. Another fallacy with financial modeling is that models are required to isolate a fixed amount of causal variables. In other words, a financial model that was designed to predict the risk of an investment portfolio would be comprised of say twenty factors or variables, each of which or a certain number of which would affect a change in measure of risk to the investment portfolio. What if in reality, it was one hundred or ten thousand different variables or things that would change the riskiness of the portfolio? The financial models of investment bank analysts assign likelihood to the possibility of certain events occurring. Financial models assume a normal distribution (a bell curve) of asset returns or risk. The belief that most market events occur in a normal distribution is the single key assumption made by many financial models, including the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the Black-Scholes option pricing model (BSM) and VAR. Using a normal distribution, events that diverge from the mean or center of the bell curve, by five or more standard deviations, known as a five-sigma event, are very rare and ten-sigma events are nearly impossible. However, the 1987 market crash represents a change of 22 standard deviations. The odds of such a 22 standard deviation event occurring are so low as to deemed impossible. In the real financial markets, events considered nearly impossible by financial models assuming normal distributions of events, not only are possible, they are occurring frequently. There have been multiple fluctuations greater than five standard deviations in our most recent past. Events that according to a Gaussian Bell Curve are supposed to occur only once every one hundred thousand years, if at all, are occurring in certain cases, several times in a decade. Plotting out these events, like our current credit crisis, the market crashes of 1987 and 2000, Long-Term Capital Management, the collapse of Bear Stearns, the Savings and Loan Crisis, the crash of 1929, the collapse of Northern Rock, the Russian Debt crisis, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 1990 Japanese asset bubble crisis, the 1973 oil crisis and 1978 energy crisis, etc. would lead to an unseemly looking bell curve-really it would hardly resemble a bell curve at all. These impossibly unlikely events if plotted on chart would give an ordinarily symmetrical tidy looking Gaussian Bell Curve a very fat tail. Hence improbable or impossible crisis like our present credit crisis are called fat tails. A fat tail is an occurrence that is considered to be well outside the range of what is considered normal or possible. Think of a fat tail happening in your own life as described by the writer Chevelle in Models and Agents as the occurrence of the following, "It's 10am, your rottweiler has just chewed your Italian leather boots, your wife has burnt your pancakes and your mistress is on the phone proclaiming that 'it's over because, really, you're pretty lousy in bed.' Oh yeah, and while you're at it, your broker is leaving you a message that the stock market is crashing and you've lost a third of your savings. A bad hair day? No, my friend. You're likely living in a fat tail!… It all began with what we call a probability distribution. Think of each day of your life as a dot under a bell-shaped curve: Most of the dots are concentrated around the middle, in the bulge of the bell: Days of medium pain and medium pleasure; boots are shiny, pancakes edible and mistress satisfied (at least that's what you think!)." Dramatic market events or fat tails do occur in a greater frequency than is possible assuming normal distributions suggesting distributions are not normal. Since the 1998 Russian debt crisis, the global financial markets have experienced at least 10 fat tails, none of which were supposed to occur more than once every few billion years. Our models of the financial markets cannot anticipate the occurrence of fat tails and according to our present models, they are statistically so unlikely to occur as to be deemed essentially impossible. Where does this leave us? Why are we using them at all? It may arguably be simple arrogance to believe a mathematical model can predict future history. Or as John Maynard Keynes wrote in his concluding paragraph on General Theory, "Too large a proportion of mathematical economics are a mere concoction, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols." Alternatively, the answer may be that the financial services industry is full of at least two generations of analysts, investment bankers and statisticians, who have been indoctrinated through college and their MBA programs to believe in the bell curve and normal distributions. Do we disregard the occurrence of catastrophic market events like the many we have experienced over the past twenty years alone, or should we critically examine the way we model risk and financial behavior? Perhaps the latter.* R. Tamara de Silva *copyrighted


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