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By Liza Perrat
It's no secret. Like many authors, I dislike the marketing side of writing. However, we all know that in today's competitive marketplace, there's no shying away from this aspect of the book business.
"Find your niche," the marketing gurus say. "You can't pursue them all, so choose what suits you."
"Like Twitter?" I say.
Despite regularly dipping my toes in the vast Twitter Sea, I'm not convinced of its efficacy. "Buy my book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "Read my 5-star reviews novel!" certainly turns me off quicker than mouldy fish. I am not about to do the same.
"Facebook then?"
"So, bang on and on about my novels, alienating my FB friends and family?"
And the thought of having a FB author page seems like just one more thing to keep up with, to take away my writing time.
Don't even mention any other of the myriad of marketing and networking platforms available today. I simply don't have the inclination.
So, what other marketing and networking choices are there?
Well, there is the Bookclub. Just over a year ago, rather than discovering this myself, the 'Bookclub Niche' found me.
When I published my first novel in May 2012, I'd wanted to explore the possibility of speaking at bookclubs, but as I live in a rural French village, there were, for obvious reasons, no English-language bookclubs close by. Then, right before my annual pilgrimage home to Australia last Christmas, a friend who had read Spirit of Lost Angels (first in the L'Auberge des Anges trilogy) contacted me.
"All the girls in my reading group have read your book. Would you like to come to our Bookclub Christmas party and talk about it?"
"Oh yes, that would be nice," I said, thinking, You bet I would!
Knowing only one member of this group, I was a bit nervous when I showed up and saw them all clutching copies of Spirit of Lost Angels. My fingers shook a little as I passed out copies of my carefully-prepared Question/Answer sheet, and I realised this was a serious group of demanding and unforgiving readers. But after several bottles of bubbly and some tasty food, the mood certainly lightened up and everyone, including me, was soon chattering away.
They asked questions about the writing and research process and gave me some excellent feedback on points they did and did not like about the book. I filed it all away for my next novel, when I was considering the story from the reader's point of view.
And you know what, it was Great Fun!
An old school-friend from a different bookclub (Bulli bookclub) had also contacted me around the same time. Still serious readers, this group was entirely different, and, after a short time speaking about Spirit of Lost Angels, we spent the evening drinking Margaritas and eating pizza.
So, different groups of people, different dynamics, but again … Great Fun.
Word travels fast in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, and this year the Keiraville bookclub asked me to come and speak about Spirit of Lost Angels.
An excellent lunch of fine food and wine provided the backdrop for an in-depth discussion about where story ideas come from, how I organise my writing and research schedule (what schedule?), and how long it takes to write a book. I answered their questions eagerly and we spent hours talking about novels in general – our likes and dislikes – which, as an avid reader, I found most inspiring. I signed their copies of Spirit of Lost Angels, and passed around our Triskele Books bookmarks. I also spoke about the other Triskele books, and handed out my colleagues' bookmarks in a sly bit of team-promotion.
The other evening, the Bulli girls again invited me to join them for more Margaritas and pizza at Ryan's Pub, to talk about my second novel in L'Auberge des Anges trilogy, Wolfsangel.
Of particular interest was the true World War 2 crime that inspired Wolfsangel.
"What's next?" they asked.
I told them a little about Midwife Héloïse – Blood Rose Angel, the final book in L'Auberge des Anges historical trilogy.
So, if this type of marketing/networking appeals to you, you might be wondering how one finds willing bookclubs.
The most obvious place to start is with friends. An internet search will probably show up local bookclubs. Or just ask around your local area. So many people enjoy reading groups these days, and will jump at the chance to have an author speak at one of their meetings. Perhaps offer a free copy of your book to a group member, and a speaking event, if they would consider it for their club. No obligation of course!
Take along your promo material: bookmarks, postcards, whatever you have. I'm trying to convince my Triskele colleagues to get pens or mugs or something made up, to hand out at events like this. People love goodie bags.
Prepare copies of a Q/A sheet or a study guide to hand around. This post by my Triskele colleague, JJ Marsh will help you to make a study guide. Some groups will welcome this, others won't be bothered. As I said … different groups, different dynamics.
If the event is successful, send a collective email thanking the people for inviting you, and offer to attend a future session for your next book. If possible, and appropriate, keep contact with the group afterwards.
"So, do you still hate marketing and networking?"
I enjoy meeting new people and eager readers. I get to rave on about my books without my audience yawning or playing on their mobile phone. I spread the word about my novels, and those of my colleagues, to willing listeners. I'm gaining a readership, person by person, and isn't that what they say about marketing: it's no sprint, but a marathon?
So, nope, I love it!


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Hamilton Students Encourage Writing, Imagination at Tradewinds
Seven Hamilton students are winding up their semester volunteering at Tradewinds Education Center of Upstate Cerebral Palsy, which serves students with behavioral and developmental disabilities.
Anna Paikert '13 began helping at Tradewinds last summer as part of her Emerson project; she designed a literacy program in which Tradewinds students participated in interactive reading activities and created their own books by the end of the summer. In the fall, she worked with two other volunteers-- Genevieve Nierman '13 and Wynn Van Dusen '13 -- and they created a quilting project for the Tradewinds students.
This semester, Paikert recruited more volunteers and they worked on a play with the students. "We worked with four classes at Tradewinds' Utica campus and helped the students develop their imaginations," said Paikert.
"The students created characters, helped write the play, and performed it on May 3. According to Paikert "they did a wonderful job with the help of supportive and passionate volunteers." Other Hamilton volunteers were Ana Hernandez '16, Emma Bowman '15, Hannah Achorn '16 and Abigail Quirk '16.
The Tradewinds group is an official organization affiliated with Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach and Charity (HAVOC).

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Intel's chips are finally going to start showing up in phones next year and Ultrabooks are due soon, but it looks like the world's top chip maker's making a push in software, too. Intel just bought Isreal-based mapping software company Telmap for $US300-$US350 million.
The impetus behind the deal is to create a "true alternative" to Google Maps and Nokia's Ovi. But more to the point, it's a huge and telling step for Intel, which has increasingly been expanding its purview outside of pure chip-making. Intel's AppUp blog notes that Telmap will help supply AppUp developers with a standard set of location-based APIs and software to make location services easier to add to their apps.
Telmap's services include mapping and navigation, location-based advertising and social integration. Also included are ultra-local services like realtime traffic updates and event guides.
Intel expects the deal to close before the end of the year.


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Goswick, a championship golf course in every sense of the word, is situated six miles south of the beautiful and historic town of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, on the east side of the A1 and an hour from Newcastle and Edinburgh. This Northumberland golf course measures a mean 6,803 yards from the medal tees, is rarely affected by the weather and is playable all year round from dedicated tees to full greens.
All this set in the most stunning coastal scenery in Northumberland – a designated area of outstanding natural beauty. Your visit to this superb gem of a Northumberland Golf Course will be fondly remembered.
The opening hole runs eastwards to the sea. The copse is one of the few groups of trees on the course and lies at the elbow of a left to right dog-leg.
Become a member of Goswick Golf Club and receive a whole host of benefits. We have various different types of memberships to suit all needs!
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text: Germany took another step towards next year's World Cup thanks to their Borussia Dortmund connection in a 4-1 win over Kazakhstan.Germany took another step towards next year's World Cup thanks to their Borussia Dortmund connection in a 4-1 win over Kazakhstan. Marco Reus was on target twice with Mario Gotze and Ilkay Gundogan also scoring for Joachim Low's men. Greuther Furth's Heinrich Schmidtgal scored a consolation for the visitors, who caused Germany an unexpectedly high number of problems in the second half, leaving Low with plenty to ponder despite the victory. Like in Astana on Friday, Germany initially struggled to break down the Kazakhstan defence, but two quick-fire goals then opened the floodgates. It took Germany 21 minutes to open their account away from home with the second goal arriving a minute later. In the very same minutes in Nuremberg, they hit the woodwork through Gundogan and Gotze before, a minute later, Reus opened the scoring. The Dortmund midfielder cut in from the left and sent a 20-yard shot low into the bottom left-hand corner. Four minutes later, a marauding run from Philipp Lahm, who skipped his way past three challenges on his way to the goal line, culminated in the Bayern Munich full-back pulling the ball across to Gotze, who diverted the ball into an unguarded goal. Another four minutes were required for Germany to make it three and equal Friday's scoreline with Gundogan, who had also hit the crossbar, making it third time lucky in his former home stadium. Mesut Ozil was the provider for the Dortmund midfielder's first goal for Germany, which he tucked home from just six yards. Germany's attacking moves cut through the Kazakhstan defence like a knife through butter, yet they were unable to add a fourth before the break. It seemed goalkeeper Manuel Neuer wanted to get involved in an attacking sense too when he picked up the ball from Per Mertesacker, but a bad touch took the ball too far away from him on the edge of his own penalty area and Schmidtgal pounced to grab a consolation for the visitors in the first minute of the second half. One of the biggest criticisms Low had of his side on Friday was that they took their foot off the accelerator too soon, but that was not the case at the Frankenstadion. Only the woodwork prevented them from increasing their lead as it denied them for a fourth and fifth time with Real Madrid duo Ozil and Sami Khedira hitting either post as the ball appeared not to want to go in. Thomas Muller's header was touched onto the crossbar by the Kazakhstan goalkeeper as the framework rattled once again in the 75th minute. At the other end, the post then came to Germany's rescue with Valeriy Korobkin's volley coming close to making things interesting. Germany's defence continued to cause concern with Schmidtgal's shot cleared off the goal line as Kazakhstan continued to probe. Reus then settled the home fans' nerves with a fourth goal in the last minute after being put through by Gundogan, Germany's biggest winner in Nuremberg.


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In Spanish, El Camino means the way. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe wants to know if $14,555 for a Choo-Choo El Camino makes you say no way.
Well, the great pumpkin finally showed up yesterday, much to the joy of Linus and 39% of you. The other 61% thought it was okay until you got to the tumorous sound system and then things started going south. Today's car has a little south going on as well, but its in the form of the aftermarket trim package that makes this one rare 'mino.
Hailing from Brainerd Minnesota comes this 1986 Chevy El Camino SS Choo-Choo with an asking price of $14,550. It has 36K on the clock and the claim that the bed has seen less use than Octomom's IUD.
Now, you know what a Chevy is. You know that SS stands for Super Sport, which has been applied to some of the hairiest-scrotum'd cars Chevrolet could churn out. And you're no strangers to the venerated El Camino. But, you may not know what a Choo-Choo is. Well, that's okay, because we're here to help. Choo-choo is a pair of really expensive shoes. What? Jimmy who? Oh, okay. Choo-choo is what Fergie calls her lady parts. No? Damn. Alright, a Choo-Choo is. . . well, just watch this informative video, and the mystery will be all cleared up"
See? The Choo-Choo El Camino is a special edition made especially for the developmentally disabled. No, wait- that's not it. Actually, the Chattanooga-based Choo-Choo Customs, Inc. El Camino SS model was an after-market paint and tape package made available through the Chevrolet dealer network. They're typically identified by the paint scheme and the tiny steam engine badge applied to the nose and dashboard.
Most of the Choo-Choo Customs El Camino SS's were not factory Super Sports, and the seller of this car doesn't state if it carries the RPO code Z15 that would identify it as a factory SS. If it's not, than it was turned into first an SS, and then into a Choo-Choo at Choo-Choo Customs, Inc's., factory down in the kudzu state. Production figures for 1986 show 995 Choo-Choo SS's built, and, out of that, 144 with the three-tone paint job sported on this car.
Under that non-functional hood scoop resides an L69 305-cid Chevy V8 good for 180-bhp and backed up by a floor-shifted 3-speed auto. Lake pipes, chrome bed rails and Monte Carlo SS alloys round out the exterior aesthetic, while inside you get bucket seats and that great wrap-around rear window so reminiscent of a Dino 246's.
So, it's rare, it's a 'Mino, and it's in really nice shape. But is that enough to make you choo-choo-choose to pay $14,550 for it? Or, for that price, has this Choo-Choo gone off the tracks?
You decide!
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I've spent the last year working on a sequential version of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and I expect to spend at least another year on it. Hopefully, a publisher will be found for it (they all love the Snark but is Ms Carroll truly relevant to today's YAs? Why doesn't she answer her phone? Who's her agent anyway?)
In the meantime, maybe it's best to let my Snark venture out on its own with little baby steps, enough to whet the appetite of any lurking boojums. Plus, it's an exhibitionist and loves to be talked about. I still have no cover idea but I've finished the author's preface. I decided to focus on Carroll's portmanteaux. His revolutionary concept of the role that luggage can play in verbal communication must have baffled train porters and pedants alike.
Here is Figure 1:
Fig. 1 – A visual explication of the portmanteau concept. Shown here is Mr. Lewis Carroll, a poet and the author of this preface and a portmanteau of Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mathematics don at Christ Church College, Oxford.
And for the truly perplexed, Figure 2:
Fig. 2 – A visual explication of the portmanteau concept. Shown here is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics don at Christ Church College, Oxford and a portmanteau of Mr. Lewis Carroll, a poet and the author of this preface.
Hooray for the Victorian concept of what's suitable for children! More to come ...
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sold scottish wemyss tankard. red roses. Read more
1864 Builder Tuam Cathedral Ireland Architecture Deane Bought from an antique auction lot. The Builder is a magazine focusing on architecture, started in 1843 and has since continued publication till 2010. Its name was changed to æBuildingÆ in 1966. Size of each page is 13 x 8.5 inches ( 330 x 221 mm) and volume this page came from is Volume 22 . All prints are genuine articles and not modern copies. Note these pages are been sold mainly for the pictures and the accompanying text may not be all there but if you want the missing page we will send it by email.
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The say it's the little things that take up the most room in your heart, well they're taking up ALL of the room in this collection.
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Big change is needed when it comes to caring for our planet! That can be overwhelming, but you can start small with making more sustainable everyday choices.
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3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Product Photography for Your Madeit Store
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The denim upgrade Shop jeans
Since the turn of the 19th century this firm, named after the city in Minnesota where it was founded, has specialised in high-quality, rugged boots that are built to last. Recently the boots have found favour with style aficionados for their practicality and vintage workwear look. Heritage footwear brand Based in Red Wing in the US The quality is legendary


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Date/TimeWednesday, March 18
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
LocationHarvest Stand Ministries
100 Pine St. Ste. 100
Zeeland, MI 49464
Languages SpokenEnglish
About this Event
Must live in 49464 zip code and meet income guidelines to be eligible for food.
Bring photo ID and current utility bill.
Harvest Stand Ministries
Harvest Stand offers food and clothing to those in need in the Zeeland area.
Monday 9:00-3:00
Wednesday 1:00-6:00
Thursday 9:00-12:00
Please bring a current photo ID and a utility bill with your name and address on it.


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Head of Archaeology, Tyne and Wear Museums
Spend a weekend on an archaeological excavation near Hadrian's Wall to discover how the Romans lived in northern England.
Join an archaeological excavation near Hadrian's Wall to discover how the Romans lived in northern England.
Earthwatch archaeologist Paul Bidwell is known for discovering the great Roman baths in the English city of Exeter and for his many excavations on Hadrian's Wall.
Dr. Bidwell's team is still examining the buildings of the vicus with the hope of uncovering evidence of what happened to them. They also encountered an unexpected infilled ditch which could have been part of a late defense of the fort—only a full excavation of this feature can reveal its true purpose.
The highlight of the 2009 field season was the excitement of opening up a brand new area of exploration within the Earthwatch project site near Hadrian's Wall in northern England. Scientists were able to quickly confirm that archaeological remains relating to a civilian settlement, or vicus, were present there. The southernmost building was covered by black ash containing burnt daub, which strongly suggests it had been destroyed by fire, possibly as a means of demolition. Future Earthwatchers will continue to excavate in this area, some of which is still covered by modern housing.
Identifying and recording a Roman coin.
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What I've got:
1: A vector-layer with administrative areas of my country
2: A raster-layer with the slope of the terrain of the same country (it is derived from SRTM elevation data with QGIS)
What I want:
A new vector-layer with the 'flat' land of all administrative areas.
How do I achieve this in QGIS?
A) How to extract the area below a certain slope (in the raster-layer)? - The option for rule-based display is not available (maybe this is just there for vector-layers).
B) How to 'intersect' the flat-land-raster-layer(-mask) with my admin-vector-layer?
A) Actually the "Clip to MinMax" with an appropriate set Min- and Max-value (e.g. Min: 10, Max: 100 - or inverse Min: 0, Max: 10.1) does the job. Now I want to use this as a 'clipping-mask' for my vector-layer, but how?


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Last Thursday, September 27, 2012 many local Surrey residents were thrilled to find 'Caps striker Kenny Miller at their local Amber Jack's Taphouse. Kenny, however, wasn't there just by coincidence; he was there to join some fans in learning the fun new game called Budweiser Pool Ball.
Budweiser pool ball is a genius combination of pool and soccer, played on a 7-meter astroturf pool field. Mini soccer balls are used as pool balls, and instead of using a pool cue to strike the balls into the pockets, the competitors step onto the table/field and use their feet, . Budweiser staff encouraged players, like in soccer, to also try using other body parts, of course instilling the rule of no hand balls.
After a successful night of stiff competition and many laughs, Kenny can now call himself a trained expert at both soccer and "foot pool" as he called it.
We would like to extend a thank you to Amber Jack's Taphouse for hosting the event, and Budweiser for teaching us this exciting new game. Keep an eye out for when you can see your 'Caps players next in your own community.


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The original story in the Portland Business Journal's Healthcare Inc. Northwest Publication is available here.
Social determinants are often as key to a person's health as their medical care. Which is why Portland State University is hosting a sort of "speed dating" event Friday for health advocates.
Researchers will present their work in five-minute blasts, almost like mini-TED Talks. There's time for 20 minutes of discussion about the ideas as well. The Friday presentations will revolve around the interplay between social circumstances and health outcomes.
"There's no doubt all these social factors end up having a huge effect on people's health and health care, but it's less clear what we can do about it," said Christina Nicolaidis, director of PSU's Social Determinants of Health Initiative, which supports and conducts community-engaged, interdisciplinary research, education and action to promote health equity.
"We've been trying to bring together people with similar interests but who are going about it in different ways," Nicolaidis said. "We're trying to create and support connections. There's the potential for further collaborations and awareness of different ideas that haven't been thought about."
Nicolaidis said there will be a range of different disciplines represented, including faculty from local universities, community organizations, government agencies and local health systems.
Presentation topics include African Americans in health care, disability-related disparities in health, intergenerational living, access to hygiene resources and "Corn, Tortillas and Social Justice."


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Cézanne and Beyond
Edited by Joseph J. Rishel and Katherine Sachs2009
600 pages; 50 b/w + 470 color illustrations; 9 3/4" x 13"
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87633-208-5 With contributions by Roberta Bernstein, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-François Chevrier, John Elderfield, John Golding, Christopher Green, Jennie Hirsh, Joop M. Joosten, Anabelle Kienle, Albert Kostenevich, Carolyn Lanchner, Mark D. Mitchell, Joseph J. Rishel, Katherine Sachs, Richard Shiff, Robert Storr, and Michael R. Taylor A stunning look at Cézanne's relationship to modernism ranging from Picasso and Matisse to Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly. The famous proclamation that Cézanne "is the father of us all" has been attributed to both Matisse and Picasso, and his influence has extended to a great diversity of artists thereafter. In this monumental book, a team of distinguished scholars offers the most comprehensive view to date on Cézanne's vital role in shaping European and American art throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. More than forty paintings and ten works on paper by Cézanne—many of his best-known and most admired—are juxtaposed throughout the catalogue with approximately 120 works by a diverse range of modern and contemporary artists who found in Cézanne a central inspiration. They include Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Charles Demuth, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Marsden Hartley, Fernand Léger, Brice Marden, Piet Mondrian, Giorgio Morandi, Liubov Popova, and Jeff Wall, as well as Picasso, Matisse, Johns, and Kelly. The essays offer insights into the "conversation" between Cézanne and each of these other artists, who stand on a par with his greatness. Among its many features, this book contains a conceptual overview by Richard Shiff and an illustrated chronology. Joseph J. Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 and Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Katherine Sachs is an Adjunct Curator in the Department of European Painting before 1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
AwardsGold Medal in the National Category for Fine Art 2010, Independent Publisher Book Award
Honorable Mention for Exhibition Catalogues 2009, AAM (American Association of Museums) Museum Publications Design Competition


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Rivet City is a city located inside a decaying, beached aircraft carrier in Washington, D.C., in 2277. It is the largest, most developed and scientifically-advanced settlement in the Capital Wasteland. Its inhabitants live in individual rooms and enjoy relative safety and security inside the aircraft carrier. A number of guards rotate 24 hours a day to protect the ship from raiders, super mutants, mirelurks and any other threats to the city and its inhabitants. Rivet City includes a shopping area, as well as an American history museum, science lab, church, clinic, bar and even a hotel.
Rivet City is located inside an aircraft carrier which was docked at the Washington Naval Yard during the Great War, and was stranded when the water level in the Anacostia and Potomac rivers dropped.
The carrier was inhabited by raiders in the upper decks and mirelurks in the lower decks until remnants of the Naval Research Institute decided to move in because of its strategic importance and its working hydroponics bay, which was used to set up a research lab. The prosperity of the science lab and the relatively safe location of the ship attracted many wastelanders who also settled inside. Super mutants attempted to invade the ship, forcing Seagrave Holmes and other settlers to reinforce and repair part of the carrier to make it defensible and safer. The rest of Rivet City grew up around the lab.
The settlement itself was founded in April 25, 2239, when Horace Pinkerton, Annette Holmes and Brad Danvers decided to form a council to act as a governing body to look after Rivet City and the needs of its people. Many years later, a scientist by the name of Madison Li arrived at Rivet City in 2258 to begin Project Purity, and co-opted Pinkerton's staff. Pinkerton became jealous of Li, left Rivet City and began living in the bow of the ship, which by this point had separated from the rest of the hull. By 2277, Rivet City is the sole supplier of radiation-free food in the Capital Wasteland, trading it for essential raw materials with other communities.
Rivet City lies in the most southeastern part of the map, near Anacostia. It is easiest to reach by following the eastern side of the Potomac River, crossing near the tepid sewers or at the Citadel or by swimming across from Arlington Library. It is also a short walk from the Jefferson Memorial.
On the steel structure across from the aircraft carrier itself (near Carlos the beggar), there is an intercom box that must be used to extend the bridge. After a brief conversation with Harkness, the chief of security, he will grant entry to Rivet City.
Northwest of Rivet City is a super mutant camp. There may be super mutants and sometimes a captive that can be rescued. As a notable item there is a Lying, Congressional Style skill book by some sleeping mats near several boxes of ammunition.
South of Rivet City, there is a shipwrecked boat surrounded by radioactive waste. The boat contains ammo boxes and a locked first aid box.
To access Rivet City, climb to the top of the tower near the Rivet City map marker (frequently, there will be a trader waiting at the base of the tower). There is an intercom near Carlos. When activated, a bridge will extend from the ship.
Rivet City contains a large and thriving marketplace, as well as other institutions, such as:
- A poorly-stocked, yet well-guarded armory.
- The Capitol Preservation Society with a museum of pre-War historical artifacts and knowledge.
- The Muddy Rudder bar.
- The Rivet City science lab.
- Saint Monica's Church.
- The Weatherly Hotel.
- The marketplace
Rivet City is thoroughly signposted, unlike the Citadel.
On the upper deck the Lone Wanderer can rent a hotel room for 120 caps from Vera Weatherly or her robot. After purchasing the hotel room, the player character can access it for free thereafter. This room comes with a bed, which grants the Well Rested bonus effect of +10% experience. If the player character didn't rent the room, they can pick the (Very Hard) lock without losing Karma. Even though the bed inside is called "My Bed," the player character can't use it until they've rented the room.
When the player character gets to the upper deck of the carrier, they can get a look at the aircraft that still remain. These are the same fighter jets that are used in the Operation: Anchorage add-on and were apparently the standard jet aircraft for the U.S military in 2077. The exterior doors in the bridge tower lead to catwalks on the outside of the tower, most of which have either an ammunition box or a first aid box.
The broken bow of the ship was separated from the main carrier hull and half-flooded. The lower levels are inhabited by mirelurks or mirelurk hunters (depending on player character level), while the upper levels contain Pinkerton's laboratory and home. Pinkerton has set up numerous traps throughout the bow, such as rigged shotguns, frag mines, a gas leak and a rigged terminal placed conveniently near the heavy door to Pinkerton's lab.
- Abraham Washington
- Angela Staley
- Anna Holt
- Armitage
- Bannon
- Belle Bonny
- Brock
- Butch DeLoria ¹
- C.J. Young
- Carlos
- Cherry ³
- Christie Young
- Cindy Cantelli
- Diego
- Dr. Madison Li
- Dr. Preston
- Dr. Zimmer
- Father Clifford
- Flak
- Garza
- Gary Staley
- Harkness
- Henry Young
- James Hargrave
- Janice Kaplinski
- Lana Danvers
- Mister Lopez
- Mei Wong
- Mister Buckingham
- Paulie Cantelli
- Horace Pinkerton *
- Private Jones
- Seagrave Holmes
- Shrapnel
- Sister
- Tammy Hargrave
- Ted Strayer
- Trinnie
- Victoria Watts
- Vera Weatherly
- Bryan Wilks ²
- Officer Lepelletier
- ¹ After successfully opening Vault 101 to the outside world.
- ² After successful completion of Those! if he was brought to Vera.
- ³ After successfully completing the unmarked quest Cherry's Freedom.
- * After completion of the Replicated Man quest, Pinkerton will no longer be essential.
- Note: all traders' stores are re-stocked on Mondays and Thursdays.
Notable lootEdit
- The Bobblehead - Intelligence is standing on a table in the science lab.
- A copy of Rock-It Launcher schematics in the bridge tower armory (Very Hard lock).
- Bottlecap mine on a workbench to the right of the Potomac Attire.
- Three bottles of Buffout can be found on the shelves of A Quick Fix in the Rivet City market.
- Six boxes of Sugar Bombs can be found throughout Rivet City: One on the tables next to Gary's Galley in the market, two boxes in Staley's room in the midship deck and three more boxes in Belle Bonnie's room in the Muddy Rudder bar.
- Seagrave's incriminating letter - A holotape, in Seagrave Holmes' quarters on the midship deck, behind the footlocker at the foot of his cot.
- A3-21's plasma rifle - Reward for The Replicated Man for siding with Harkness.
- Schematics - deathclaw gauntlet - Reward for the unmarked quest Council Seat by siding with Bannon.
- Doctor Li's outfit - Worn by Dr. Madison Li.
- Project Purity journals - Tapes 1, 3, and 5 are located in Rivet City in Doctor Li's personal quarters, which can be found on the Upper Deck directly across from a door to the Science Lab. They are on a table next to her terminal.
Related questsEdit
- Rivet City has no holding facilities for criminals and zero tolerance for crime.
- Staying in the marketplace after hours can cause the guards to become hostile.
- Many citizens and security guards will comment about a citizen dying from drinking river water and then comment that the city's water isn't any better, raising alarm over the quality of the water.
- One can overhear some non-player characters talking about a child falling off of the bridge.
- If Raven Rock is destroyed as a part of The American Dream quest, the people in Rivet City will talk about the disappearance of the Enclave Radio station, saying that maybe it was caused by an "Explosion from the horizon."
- There is a baseball diamond set up on the flight deck that James Hargrave and CJ Young use.
- If one is caught killing or enslaving anyone from Rivet City, upon re-entering, a number of characters will have a unique dialogue regarding their actions.
- In dialogue, Horace Pinkerton mentions that, at one point, there were plans to repair the ship and make it seaworthy again. However, he notes this and other plans have fallen by the wayside since Dr. Li took control of the council.
- It is one of the locations shown in the Bradley-Hercules targeting data, but cannot be fired upon.
- According to some of its residents, Rivet City is prone to causing red lung. Red lung is a fictional disease that is caused by the inhalation of rust particles, which over time can build up in the lungs and become fatal.
- If one inserts the modified FEV Virus into Project Purity, Rivet City appears in the ending with what looks like half the ship's population lying dead, but if one goes back to Rivet City later, everyone will still be there.
- There is almost always a group of Regulators and Talon Company mercs that spawn near Rivet City at the nearby Anacostia Crossing.
- Pre-War fighter jets have fallen off the bow of the non-city area of the aircraft carrier. Some can still be seen on the flight deck if the player character chooses to visit the front of the ship.
- If Allistair Tenpenny is killed by a shot in the head during You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head, the residents and guards will converse about how he was shot in the head.
Rivet City appears only in Fallout 3 and is mentioned in Point Lookout.[1] It appears as a marked location on a map of the Capital Wasteland at HELIOS One in Fallout: New Vegas. In Fallout 4, Danse mentions that he grew up in the Capital Wasteland and owned a junk stand in Rivet City. In Fallout Shelter, it is mentioned in the description for military grade duct tape and occasionally a question in the weekly quest Game Show Gauntlet.
Behind the scenesEdit
- The Craig Mullins concept art published on May 15, 2007 shows a city with ruined skyscrapers and an aircraft carrier which has run ashore and is connected to one of them by a rudimentary bridge.[2] The aircraft carrier appears to be the USS Oriskany although the image is mirrored, thus placing the island on the wrong side of the ship.[3]
- During development, there was a quest in which the Enclave would attack Rivet City, and the player character would be tasked with escorting the inhabitants to the Citadel. However, it was vetoed out of the game by Todd Howard, who found it was too big a mission.[4]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 After reaching the end of the Rivet City bridge, and jumping down to the platform below it, there is a place where you can fall through the boat. When jumping off on the right side (or left, but go to the right side) there will be an open "room" with a first aid box and two ammunition boxes. Should you go to the corner past the leftmost ammunition box, you fall through the boat and land in the water. Fast travel to a different location or reload an older save to fix this problem. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Dogmeat or his puppies will glitch and land on a cat walk that is inaccessible if you tell it to find anything on the outside of the aircraft carrier. [verified]
- Xbox 360 Jumping on the bridge before it stops moving will cause it to clang loudly and move in jumps. [verified]
- Xbox 360 Sometimes the entire boat- including people- will become non collide-able, making it impossible to enter the city. To fix this simply save, back out to the main menu, and load the save. [verified]
- Xbox 360 Rarely, when you fast-travel to Rivet City, a friendly Enclave soldier will spawn next to you but will automatically disappear when you enter the city. If you try to speak to them, they will either greet you or threaten you verbally. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 If Broken Steel is installed, the player may experience crashes near Rivet City after completion of the main quest. [verified]
- Playstation 3 After completing the main game, walking or fast traveling to Rivet City or the surrounding area will freeze the game. [verified]
- PC Going to Rivet City market or other areas may cause instant crashing. It can be due Gary Staley trying to interact with Angela Staley, if she is missing (enslaved, disabled via commands). The solution is to disable Gary Staley through commands or respawn and re-enable Angela Staley if possible. This may occur for other NPCs.


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Sailing in separate boats, Santangelo (left) and White contributed to the Central Series win (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –The Harvard sailing team notched two victories, while also finishing fourth in the top coed regatta of the opening weekend of the 2010 fall season and seventh at the season's first women's regatta.
Twenty teams competed in the first intersectional regatta of the fall, the Harry Anderson Trophy at Yale. In the A division, senior Alan Palmer skippered all 12 races with Quincy Bock and Alma Lafler. The trio paced the Crimson with a total 77 points, including three wins and two runner-up showings, good for fourth place. The B-division group of John Stokes, Tedd Himler and Meghan Wareham logged four top-four finishes and 108 points, which landed them in seventh place within the division. A total team score of 185 placed Harvard in fourth overall. Brown won the regatta with a team score of 112, followed by Roger Williams three points behind.
At the Central Series One regatta, hosted by Tufts, Harvard came home victorious in dominant fashion, beating the host Jumbos and the rest of the nine-school field by 101 points. Juniors Brendan Kopp and William White tallied a great score of 31 points with 11 wins in 18 races in the A division. The Crimson was represented by skipper Colin Santangelo and crew Julia VanderVink in the B division. They totaled two wins and 137 points.
Harvard's other victory came at home in the Harvard Invitational, which featured 12 teams. The Crimson's B-division pair of sophomore Sam Millham and freshman Alice Kenney sailed to a phenomenal score of 15, with five first-place finishes in eight races, to put Harvard in a prime position to win the regatta. The A-division team of sophomores Ryan Byrne and Nicholas Gordon also posted a great score of 23 to help Harvard beat second-place Brown by 22 points.
The Crimson women finished seventh out of 14 teams at the Toni Deutsch Trophy, hosted by MIT. Juniors Emily Lambert and Alexandra Jumper, skipper and crew respectively, sailed together for all 16 races and a fourth-place score in the A division. They had three wins and six top-three finishes.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Santa Donkey - Tree Skirt finished!
Over the weekend I finished off my tree skirt! Am really happy with the way it turned out and its going to be so much better than the usual wadded up sheet that usually doubles as a skirt each year.
The only challenge is that every time I put it down on the ground to photograph it, the cats come over to 'help'. So just pretend there aren't kitties lying on it/under it and you'll get the idea. I'm beginning to wonder how these curious little creatures are going to do when the tree actually arrives. I'm beginning to fear for the safety of my ornaments...
In other holiday crafting news, I'm working on some fun holiday garland from Tufted Tweets and I'll post pics of that as soon as I get them done. Hoping to possibly get them finished this week. Maybe I'll even make 2 and do a giveaway!!
What fun holiday sewing projects are you working on?
20 comments:
- ~Michelle~ said...
hmmm... not sure what's cuter...the tree skirt of the kitties!
- November 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- AllieKatMom said...
OMG, Those kitties are adorable!!!
- November 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM
- Sara said...
I like the one with the little kitty poking his head a little out #2nd pic that is! Maybe next year I will get around to making one! Yours sure came out lovely!
- November 15, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Angie said...
That tree skirt (and the kitty) is adorable!!
- November 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- {Leila}Where the Orchids Grow said...
cutenes!! I'm affraid it's going to be the old sheet again this year. Maybe next year I'll go all posh and make my tree a skirt too :-)
- November 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- KarrieLyne said...
Tree skirt? Where? My eyes keep landing on those adorable kittens! ;)
Isn't it funny how they take over our projects?
Adorable! Tree skirt and the kittens. :D
- November 15, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- Sewing Geek said...
Oh man, now I want a CAT. Love the tree skirt!
- November 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM
What is it with cats and Christmas tree skirts? My cats are always ecstatic when I pull out the tree skirt! Maybe I should make them their own little quilts this year for Christmas!
- November 15, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Lee said...
Thanks for the smiles - cute pictures - lovely kitties
- November 15, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Sarah Craig said...
Your tree skirt is adorable, as are the kitties. Hang bells in the bottom branches of your tree, and then you'll know when the cats are attacking!
- November 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- Leslie said...
your tree skirt looks amazing...i wish i had seen this before i began the one i am working on for a friend...it would have been so much simpler.
- November 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- Regan said...
ooooh come on now...its adorable and the kitty--so funny...
I actually made something with my santa donkey fabric too!!
- November 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- PoetWhale said...
Quick glimpse at top photo as I began reading...my eye made the cat part of the tree skirt. I began wondering how you sewed it in to make the cat so real...before I read it is a real cat! Beautiful tree skirt. Thank you for lovely blog
- November 16, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- diana said...
No no no no! You just can't put two increddibly cute things in one picture :)). It's like one of those optical illusions that makes you dizzy. I am looking at the cute kitty, then the lovely quilt, then the kitty again, then the quilt..I'm getting really dizzy in here and I just can't stop looking at so much cuteness :))) And I'm not even sure this is a word :))) Ah, and then look at the cutest sofas ever on the side bar! So not fair :D
- November 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM
- Becky said...
Laurie, the tree skirt is amazing and adorable. The Kittehs are precious!
- November 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM
- peaknits said...
I love the skirt and the kitty peeking out! Every year at Christmas, as soon as my quilted skirt comes out, my cat parks himself for 3 weeks under the tree.
- November 16, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Sally said...
Your tree skirt turned out great! I'll have to put something like this on my agenda for next year since I have too many other things to get done prior to Christmas this year. The kitties make the photos more sweet. My cats are always trying to horn in on my photo shoots :-)
- November 16, 2010 at 8:17 PM
- Katie said...
I love your tree skirt! I just finished mine recently & my cats do the same thing!
- November 17, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Lisa said...
I'm working on a large scale advent calendar for my niece. It will hang on the back of a door and feature some of your great christmas fabrics.
- November 18, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Amanda Jean said...
those are darn cute photos! i love the tree skirt.
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The Proposed Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis in the DSM-5
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Kelley Winters, Ph.D.
GID Reform Advocates
Last month, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a second round of proposed diagnostic criteria for the 5th Edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). These include two diagnostic categories that impact the trans communities, Gender Dysphoria (formerly Gender Identity Disorder, or GID) and Transvestic Disorder (Formerly Transvestic Fetishism). For decades, the GID diagnosis has drawn protest from trans and transsexual communities, their allies and supportive medical and mental health professionals for its depiction of gender diversity, gender transition and medical transition care as mental illness and sexual deviance. The current diagnostic criteria for GID in the DSM-IV-TR cast difference from stereotypes of birth-assigned gender roles as pathological and are biased to favor harmful gender-reparative psychotherapies that enforce birth-role conformity. However, many community advocates and supportive medical professionals agree that some kind of diagnostic coding is necessary to facilitate access to medical and/or surgical transition care for those trans and transsexual people who need it. There is a need to replace the GID category with diagnostic nomenclature that is consistent with transition care, for those who need it, rather than contradicting transition care. There is a need for diagnostic nomenclature that does not harm those it is intended to help.
I urge trans community members, friends, care providers and allies to call upon the APA to clarify in the DSM-5 that nonconformity to birth-assigned roles and being victims of societal prejudice are not, in themselves, mental pathology. The current period for public comment to the APA ends June 15.
The APA Proposal Falls Short
The Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Workgroup of the DSM-5 Task Force has partially responded to concerns about the GID diagnosis. For example, the derogatory title of Gender Identity Disorder (intended to imply, "disordered" gender identity) has been replaced with Gender Dysphoria, from a Greek root for distress. DSM-5 authors have expressed an willingness to focus on distress with incongruent physical characteristics and assigned gender roles, rather than on diagnosing difference (Ophelian 2010).
Moreover, the workgroup has articulated a historic shift in diagnostic focus away from the stereotype of "disordered" gender identity:
We have proposed a change in conceptualization of the defining features by emphasizing the phenomenon of "gender incongruence" in contrast to cross-gender identification per se (APA 2011A)
However, the workgroup has not reflected these principles in the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria. They retain much of the flawed language from the DSM-IV, casting difference from birth-assigned roles and a desire for medical transition treatment, in themselves, as symptomatic of mental disorder. Worse yet, post-transition people who are happy with their bodies and affirmed roles remain entrapped by the diagnostic criteria and specifiers, permanently labeled as mentally and sexually disordered. The proposed diagnostic criteria and categorical placement in the DSM continue to contradict transition and describe transition itself as pathological.
Social Stigma.
The proposed Gender Dysphoria diagnosis describe identities and expressions that differ from assigned birth sex as mental illness and sexual deviance. Behaviors and emotions considered ordinary or even exemplary for other (cisgender) people are mis-characterized as madness for gender variant people and especially children. For example,
in boys, a strong preference for cross-dressing or simulating female attire; in girls, a strong preference for wearing only typical masculine clothing and a strong resistance to the wearing of typical feminine clothing (APA 2011B)
In fact, five of the proposed subcriteria for children are strictly based on gender role nonconformity, with no relevance to the definition of mental disorder. As a consequence of similar criteria in the current DSM-IV-TR, children are punished and shamed for nonconformity to assigned birth roles.
Additionally, the Gender Dysphoria diagnosis is categorized with sexual disorders in the DSM. Although the work group noted that, "gender diagnoses will be separated from the sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias," (APA 2011B). this decision falls short of addressing concerns about harmful stigma raised by clinicians, community advocates, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (2010A). Transwomen (those who identify as women and were birth-assigned male) are often maligned as crazy and sexually suspect "men" by the stigma of mental illness and sexual deviance that is perpetuated by these criteria and placement with sexual disorders, and vice versa for transmen. Gender variant and especially transsexual people lose jobs, homes, families, access to public facilities, and even custody and visitation of children as consequences of these false stereotypes.
Medical Transition Care Access.
The proposed Gender Dysphoria criteria continue to pose barriers for access to medically necessary hormonal and surgical transition treatment for those who need them. They contradict social and medical transition and mis-characterize transition itself as symptomatic of mental disorder. For example, four of six adult subcriteria describe a "strong desire" for social or medical transition as symptomatic of mental disorder (APA 2011A), without describing underlying distress or deprivation of life function that might underlie a desire for corrective treatment. This would be akin to classifying a desire for cancer treatment as pathological, rather than the cancer itself.
Transitioned individuals who are highly functional and happy with their lives are forever diagnosable as mentally disordered, according to the proposed criteria. For example, a post-transition person who wants to continue living in her or his affirmed role, wants to be treated like others of her/his affirmed gender, has typical feelings of those in her/his affirmed gender, and is distressed or unemployed because of societal prejudice will forever meet criteria A (subcriteria 4, 5 and 6) and B and remain diagnosable as mentally ill, regardless of how successfully her or his gender dysphoria has been ameliorated.
A new Post-transition specifier has been added to the proposed Gender Dysphoria criteria, which describes all individuals who have transitioned their gender roles full-time and have received hormonal and/or surgical transition care (APA 2011A). While this specifier is intended to aid continued access to hormonal care for post-transition people whose medical records do not yet reflect their affirmed gender, it is so broadly worded that it once again blocks exit from the diagnosis for everyone who has completed a social and medical transition. As written, this specifier contradicts transition treatment and describes social and medical transition in themselves as perpetually symptomatic of mental illness.
Like a roach motel, the proposed criteria and specifiers leave no way for a well adjusted transitioned person to exit diagnosis. As a consequence of diagnostic criteria that contradict proven treatments, the medical necessity of hormonal and surgical transition treatment is commonly denied by care providers, insurers and government agencies. In the US, access to surgical transition care is most often limited to the most financially privileged.
Punitive Gender-Reparative Therapies.
The American Psychiatric Association has often repeated that the DSM is a diagnostic manual and not a treatment guide (APA 2008). In truth, however, treatment and diagnostic nomenclature are inevitably intertwined. The efficacy of all medical and psychological treatments are judged by how well they ameliorate symptoms defined by diagnostic criteria (Winters 2008). Therefore, the wording of diagnostic criteria can have an enormous impact on treatments chosen by clinicians.
The proposed diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria, like those of their GID predecessors, clench post-transition individuals who are happy and well adjusted with their bodies and affirmed roles even more tightly than they apply to pre-transition individuals suffering distress. Exit from diagnosis only exists for those transpeople who have beenshamed back into the closets of their birth-assigned roles. Thus, the current GID and proposed GD criteria implicitly promote punitive gender-reparative "treatments" intended to enforce conformity to assigned birth sex and suppress gender variant identities and expressions.
Criterion, B, which clarifies that distress or impairment should meet a clinical threshold for diagnosis, was recently reinstated by the APA in response to clinician concerns that distress should be emphasized over difference. However, the proposed language fails to exclude consequences of societal prejudice as a basis for diagnosis of mental disorder. As written, criterion B may be misinterpreted to imply that youth and adults who are victims of prejudice and exclusion are impaired and therefore mentally ill, simply because they are victims. Dr. Kenneth Zucker, co-author of the current GID diagnosis and Chairman of the DSM-5 Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Workgroup, has used this interpretation of victimhood-as-pathology to promote gender-reparative psychotherapies for gender variant youth:
the standard of impairment in children with GID has been their poor same-sex peer relations, with attendant social ostracism.(Zucker 1999)
Zucker's approach to gender-reparative "treatment" of a youth he diagnosed with GID was described in a chilling National Public Radio Interview in 2008:
Bradley would no longer be allowed to spend time with girls. He would no longer be allowed to play with girlish toys or pretend that he was a female character. Zucker said that all of these activities were dangerous to a kid with gender identity disorder. (Speigel 2008)
Why Not Remove All Gender Diagnosis?
Since the 1990s, some community advocates have called for the elimination of all gender-related diagnostic nomenclature in the DSM, in response to issues of stigma of mental disorder and sexual deviance. (Wilchins 1996; Park 2011) However, there is broad recognition among many community advocates and supportive medical professionals that some kind of diagnostic coding is necessary to facilitate access to medical and/or surgical transition care for those trans and transsexual people who need it. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has stated that,
The use of a formal diagnosis is often important in offering relief, providing health insurance coverage, and guiding research to provide more effective future treatments (WPATH 2001)
Others have suggested that physical, medical, diagnostic nomenclature in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is more appropriate than diagnosis of mental disorder (NGLTF 1996; Lev 2004; Allison 2009). However, such consensus within pediatric and endocrine medical specialties will not happen before publication of the DSM-5 in 2013. Because major revisions of the DSM are very infrequent, the DSM-5 will likely impact the lives, civil liberties and medical care of gender variant people through the 2020s. There is a fleeting opportunity to advocate reform, or harm reduction, of the GID category and removal of the defamatory Transvestic Fetishism category in the DSM-5 now. The objective of GID reform is to advance forward progress on both issues of social stigma and better access to medical transition care, for those who need it, and not one at the expense of the other, or to the benefit part of the transcommunity by harming another.
A New Distress-based Diagnostic Paradigm.
An international group of mental health and medical clinicians, researchers and scholars, Professionals Concerned With Gender Diagnoses in the DSM, has proposed alternative diagnostic nomenclature based on distress rather than nonconformity (Lev, et al., 2010; Winters and Ehrbar 2010; Ehrbar, Winters and Gorton 2009). These include anatomic dysphoria (painful distress with current physical sex characteristics) as well as social role dysphoria (distress with ascribed or enforced social gender roles that are incongruent with one's inner experienced gender identity) For children and adolescents, these alternative criteria include distress with anticipated physical sex characteristics that would result if the youth were forced to endure pubertal development associated with natal sex. For those who require a post-transition diagnostic coding for continued access to hormonal therapy, the criteria include sex hormone status. Based on prior work by psychologist Anne Vitale (2010), this distress may also be described as deprivation of physical characteristics or social gender expression that are congruent with inner experienced gender identity. The resulting four-cornered definition of gender dysphoria, encompassing direct distress and deprivation distress around anatomic sex and ascribed/assigned gender, provides a cogent definition of the problem to be treated with medical transition care. It addresses prior false-positive and false-negative diagnostic concerns and does not contradict the treatment.
These alternative criteria acknowledge that experienced gender identity may include elements of masculinity, femininity, both or neither and are not limited to binary Western stereotypes. They also define clinically significant distress and impairment to include barriers to functioning in one's experienced congruent gender role and exclude victimization by social prejudice and discrimination.
Suggested Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-5
I would like to suggest that the APA adopt new diagnostic criteria for the Gender Dysphoria categories for children and adults/adolescents that are based on the following summary of work from the Concerned Professionals group–
A. A distressing sense of incongruence between persistent experienced or expressed gender and current physical sex characteristics or ascribed gender role in adults, adolescents (who have reached the earlier of age 13 or Tanner Stage II of pubertal development), or assigned gender role in children, manifested by at least one of the following indicators for a duration of at least 3 months. Incongruence, for this purpose, does not mean gender expression that is nonconforming to social stereotypes of assigned gender role or natal sex.
1. A distress or discomfort with living in the present gender or being perceived by others as the present gender, which is distinct from the experiences of discrimination or the societal expectations associated with that gender.
2. A distress or discomfort caused by deprivation of gender expression congruent with persistent experienced gender (or, for children, insistence that one has a gender that differs from the present gender). Experienced gender may include alternative gender identities beyond binary stereotypes.
3. A distress or discomfort with one's current primary or secondary sex characteristics, including sex hormone status, that are incongruent with persistent experienced gender, or with anticipated pubertal development associated with natal sex.
4. A distress or discomfort caused by deprivation of primary or secondary sex characteristics, including sex hormone status, that are congruent with persistent experienced gender (including post-pubertal characteristics congruent with experienced gender, in the case of children and pre-adolescents).
B. Distress or discomfort is clinically significant or represents impairment in major life functions in a role congruent with experienced gender identity. Distress or impairment due to external prejudice or discrimination is not a basis for diagnosis.
Regardless of the wording chosen for the DSM-5, these alternative criteria for Gender Dysphoria may be used in clinical practice today to inform treatment by clarifying the problem that is being treated. These alternative criteria may serve to facilitate clearer communication between primary care, medical specialty and mental health providers, and they can enable patients and families of transitioning youth to make more informed decisions on treatment options.
What You Can Do Now
- Ask the APA to reject diagnostic criteria and categorical placement for the Gender Dysphoria diagnosis that contradict transition or depict transition as symptomatic of mental disorder. Ask them to clarify that nonconformity to birth-assigned roles and being victims of societal prejudice are not, in themselves, mental pathology. Go to the APA DSM-5 web site (APA 2011), click on "register now," create a user account and enter your statement in the box. The deadline for this second period of public comment is June 15.
- Ask your local, national and international GLBTQ nonprofit organizations to issue public statements to clarify that nonconformity to birth-assigned roles and being victims of societal prejudice are not, in themselves, mental pathology.
- Ask mental health and medical professionals who work with the transcommunity to voice their concerns to the APA.
- Spread the word to your network of friends and allies.
For more information, see GID Reform Advocates (Winters, 2010)
APA: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Dysphoria (in Adolescents or Adults)
A. A marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least 6 months duration, as manifested by 2 or more of the following indicators: [2, 3, 4]
1. a marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (or, in young adolescents, the anticipated secondary sex characteristics) [13, 16]
2. a strong desire to be rid of one's primary and/or secondary sex characteristics because of a marked incongruence with one's experienced/expressed gender (or, in young adolescents, a desire to prevent the development of the anticipated secondary sex characteristics) [17]
3. a strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender
4. a strong desire to be of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender)
5. a strong desire to be treated as the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender)
6. a strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender)
B. The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, or with a significantly increased risk of suffering, such as distress or disability
With a disorder of sex development [14]
Without a disorder of sex development
See also: [15, 16, 19]
Post-transition, i.e., the individual has transitioned to full-time living in the desired gender (with or without legalization of gender change) and has undergone (or is undergoing) at least one cross-sex medical procedure or treatment regimen, namely, regular cross-sex hormone treatment or gender reassignment surgery confirming the desired gender (e.g., penectomy, vaginoplasty in a natal male, mastectomy, phalloplasty in a natal female).
Note: Three changes have been made since the initial website launch in February 2010: the name of the diagnosis, the addition of the B criterion, and the addition of a specifier. Definitions and criterion under A remain unchanged.
APA: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Dysphoria in Children
A. A marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least 6 months duration, as manifested by at least 6* of the following indicators (including A1): [2, 3, 4]
1. a strong desire to be of the other gender or an insistence that he or she is the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender) [5]
2. in boys, a strong preference for cross-dressing or simulating female attire; in girls, a strong
preference for wearing only typical masculine clothing and a strong resistance to the wearing of typical feminine clothing [6]
3. a strong preference for cross-gender roles in make-believe or fantasy play [7]
4. a strong preference for the toys, games, or activities typical of the other gender [8]
5. a strong preference for playmates of the other gender [9]
6. in boys, a strong rejection of typically masculine toys, games, and activities and a strong avoidance of rough-and-tumble play; in girls, a strong rejection of typically feminine toys, games, and activities [10]
7. a strong dislike of one's sexual anatomy [11]
- a strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics that match one's experienced gender [12]
B. The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, or with a significantly increased risk of suffering, such as distress or disability.
With a disorder of sex development [14]
Without a disorder of sex development]
See also [13, 15, 19]
Note: Two changes have been made since the initial website launch in February 2010: the name of the diagnosis and the addition of the B criterion. Definitions and criteria under A remain unchanged.
Allison, R. (2009) "Aligning Bodies with Minds: The Case for Medical and Surgical Treatment of Gender Dysphoria," Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association San Francisco, May 18, http://www.gidreform.org/blog2009May27.html
American Psychiatric Association (2011) "DSM-5 Development; Proposed Revisions, 302.3 Transvestic Fetishism," http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=189#
American Psychiatric Association (2011A) "DSM-5 Development; Proposed Revisions, P 01 Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents or Adults," http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=482
American Psychiatric Association (2011B) "DSM-5 Development; Proposed Revisions, P 00 Gender Dysphoria in Children," http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=192
American Psychiatric Association (2008), "APA STATEMENT ON GID AND THE DSM-V," http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Research/DSMIV/DSMV/ APAStatements/APAStatementonGIDandTheDSMV.aspx , May 23
Ehrbar, R., Winters, K., Gorton, N. (2009) "Revision Suggestions for Gender Related Diagnoses in the DSM and ICD," The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 2009 XXI Biennial Symposium, Oslo, Norway, http://www.gidreform.org/wpath2009/
Gigs, L. and Carroll, R. (2010) "Should Transvestic Fetishism Be Classified in DSM 5? Recommendations from the WPATH Consensus Process for Revision of the Diagnosis of Transvestic Fetishism," International Journal of Transgenderism, 12:189-197.
Lev, A.I. (2004). Transgender emergence: Therapeutic guidelines for working with gender-variant people and their families. NY: Routledge, p. 180.
Lev, A.I., Winters, K., Alie, L., Ansara, Y., Deutsch, M., Dickey, L., Ehrbar, R., Ehrensaft, D., Green, J., Meier, S., Richmond, K., Samons, S., Susset, F., (2010). "Response to Proposed DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria. Professionals Concerned With Gender Diagnoses in the DSM." Retrieved December 4, 2010 from: http://professionals.gidreform.org
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (1996), "Statement on Gender Identify Disorder and transgender people by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)," http://www.gendertalk.com/articles/archive/ngltf1.htm
TransYouth Family Allies (2010) "Comments on the Proposed Revision to 302.6 Gender Identity Disorder in Children, Submitted to the American Psychiatric Association," April 20, http://www.imatyfa.org/whatsnew/2010/10apr-commentsondsm-v.html
Vitale, A. (2010) The Gendered Self: Further Commentary on the Transsexual Phenomenon, Lulu, http://http://www.avitale.com/
Winters, K. (2008). Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: Essays from the struggle for Dignity, GID Reform Advocates, http://www.gendermadness.com
Winters, K. (2010) "Ten Reasons Why the Transvestic Disorder Diagnosis in the DSM-5 Has Got to Go," GID Reform Advocates, Oct. 15, http://www.gidreform.org/blog2010Oct15.html
Winters, K. and Ehrbar, R. (2010) "Beyond Conundrum: Strategies for Diagnostic Harm Reduction," Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 14:2, 130-139, April
Ophelian, A (2010) Diagnosing Difference, documentary film, http://www.diagnosingdifference.com/
Park. P. (2011) "Transgender Health, Pathology & Human Rights," Harvard University School of Public Health, April, http://www.paulinepark.com/index.php/2011/04/transgender-health-human-rights-harvard-4-20-11/
Speigel, A. (2008) "Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender Preferences," National Public Radio, All Things Considered,"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90247842
Wilchins, R. (1996). "TG Activisits Protest APA, Call for End to Gender Identity Disorder," Transgender Forum, May, http://www.tgforum.com/
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (2001)"Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders," Sixth Version,http://wpath.org/Documents2/socv6.pdf
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (2010). "Statement Urging the De-psychopathologisation of Gender Variance," May 26, http://wpath.org/publications_public_policy.cfm
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (2010A). "WPATH Reaction to DSM-V Criteria for Gender Incongruence," May 25 ,http://www.wpath.org/documents/WPATH%20Reaction%20to%20the%20proposed%20DSM%20-%20Final.pd
Zucker, K. (1999) "Commentary on Richardson's (1996) 'Setting Limits on Gender Health,'" Harvard Rev Psychiatry, vol 7, p. 41.
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