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Battle Creek, a new show from X-Files & Breaking Bad alum Vince Gilligan was awesome in its Sunday Night, 10 PM debut on CBS. It's somewhat like True Detective if it had an occasional tryst in Brooklyn Nine Nine's Evidence Room. A smart dramedy in much the same flavor as Rescue Me but with more Odd Couple mixed in as opposed to the naughty bits. Dean Winters, formerly of Rescue Me and well known as the Mayhem from that insurance commercial, is brilliant as Russ Agnew, the veteran grizzled detective paired with an extremely dapper, somewhat anal retentive Josh Duhamel as Milt Chamberlain, an FBI outcast forced to run an office in the title town, Battle Creek, Michigan. Clearly, the writers gave a lot of thought to the characters' names as well as the smart script in the opener. I predict hitsville for this show, despite it's position on a Sunday. The great thing is that it doesn't have much competition at the 10 O'clock slot.
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Psychiatry Journal
Volume 2013, Article ID 654847, 5 pages
The Relationship between the UPPS-P Impulsivity Dimensions and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Characteristics in Male and Female High-School Students
1Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, P.O. Box 3720, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
2Psychology Department, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, WI, USA
Received 16 December 2012; Accepted 9 January 2013
Academic Editor: Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
Copyright © 2013 Laurence Claes and Jennifer Muehlenkamp. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The present study investigated the association between nonsuicidal self-injury characteristics, functions, and the UPPS-P impulsivity-related traits in high-school students using self-report questionnaires. More than 17% of the 613 students engaged in at least one type of NSSI behavior. Compared to male students, female students engaged more often in cutting and less in head banging. All NSSI behaviors were significantly related to Negative and Positive Urgency, that is, the tendency to act impulsive in the presence of negative/positive affect. Interactions between different UPPS-P impulsivity dimensions did not increase the percentage of explained variance in the different NSSI behaviors. Furthermore, severe cutting was negatively related to Lack of Premeditation. Different NSSI functions showed differential relationships with the five UPPS-P impulsivity dimensions.
1. Introduction
Non-suicidal self-injury refers to socially unaccepted behavior involving deliberate and direct injury to one's own body surface without suicidal intent [1]. Most individuals who self-injure begin to do so during early to middle adolescence [2], with an average age of onset ranging between 12 and 16 years of age [3]. In a large survey of NSSI among American college students, Whitlock and colleagues [4] reported that 15.3% of the students had engaged in NSSI at least once (6.8% in the previous 12 months). No significant gender differences were found for 12-month prevalence of NSSI. However, females engaged in more cutting than males [4], whereas males engaged in more self-battery than females [4]. Most adolescents engage in NSSI for automatic (self) reinforcement (e.g., to stop bad feelings, to punish oneself), although a sizable minority endorse social reinforcement functions as well (e.g., to make others angry) [1, 5]. Despite the consistent endorsement of these functions by those with an NSSI history, very few studies have examined how features such as impulsive personality trait(s) may influence the functions NSSI serves within an individual.
It is often assumed that individuals who self-injure are more impulsive than those who do not self-injure. In support of this notion, there is evidence that adolescents who engage in NSSI are more likely to engage in other impulsive/risky behaviors [6–8], show more Cluster B personality disorder criteria [7, 9, 10], and show higher scores on impulsivity-related traits [6, 7]. On the contrary, other studies found mixed results regarding the link between NSSI and impulsivity. For example, Hawton et al. [11] found that impulsivity distinguished female, and not male, self-injurious adolescents from healthy controls. Other researchers [12–14] found significant differences between adolescents with/out NSSI by means of self-reported impulsivity, but failed to detect between-group differences based on performance-based tasks of impulsivity. One potential reason for the mixed findings is the various conceptualizations and ways to assess impulsivity. Since impulsivity appears to consist of multiple dimensions, using the UPPS model which posits four distinct pathways to impulsive behavior [15] may help clarify the heterogeneous results found for NSSI. In the UPPS model, Negative Urgency measures an individual's tendency to act impulsively when experiencing negative affect. Lack of Perseverance assesses an individual's tendency to give up in the face of boredom, fatigue, or frustration. Lack of Premeditation assesses an individual's tendency to act without consideration of the potential consequences of the behavior. Sensation Seeking refers to an individual's tendency to pursue activities that are exciting and novel. Recent work by Cyders and Smith [16, 17] has identified an additional dimension, Positive Urgency, which assesses an individual's tendency to act impulsively under conditions of heightened positive affect. As far as we know, only two studies have used the UPPS (without the Positive Urgency dimension) to investigate impulsivity in individuals with/without NSSI. Glenn and Klonsky [12] compared college students with/without NSSI on the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale. Self-injurious students were best distinguished by Negative Urgency, and to a lesser degree by Lack of Premeditation and Sensation Seeking. Lack of Perseverance predicted more recent and frequent NSSI. Lynam et al. [15] assessed the incremental validity of the four UPPS impulsivity traits, above and beyond borderline personality disorder, in predicting NSSI in a sample of drug abusers. Significant positive associations were found between NSSI and Negative Urgency , Lack of Premeditation , and Lack of Perseverance . The interaction of Negative Urgency × Lack of Premeditation was able to predict NSSI above and beyond the BPD diagnosis, such that the relation between Negative Urgency and NSSI was stronger among those low on Premeditation.
The aims of the present study are threefold. Firstly, we assess the prevalence of six different NSSI behavior methods as well as gender differences in their prevalence. Secondly, while the existing literature is helping to elucidate the complex relationship between impulsivity traits and NSSI, the research is limited to the original four-dimensional model. Existing research has yet to include the fifth impulsivity-related trait, Positive Urgency, which was a second aim for the present study. We correlated the five impulsivity-related traits (UPPS-P) with the presence/absence of six different NSSI behaviors among male/female college students. Thirdly, we attempt to expand existing research by examining the relationship between the five impulsivity-related traits and the functions of NSSI, which has not been previously explored.
2. Method
2.1. Participants
Our original sample consisted of 651 high-school students (10th till 12th grade) from the Flemish speaking part of Belgium. Only those students who provided information about their age and gender and completed the SIQ-TR and the UPPS-P were included in the study, resulting in a sample of 613 high-school students (60.4% females, 39.6% males). The mean age of the sample was 16.38 years (, years). Approximately 106 students (17.3%) were endorsed having engaged in at least one NSSI behavior during life-time, a rate consistent with previous research in college samples [4], and high-school samples [18].
2.2. Procedure
Five high schools, located in different areas of the Flemish speaking part of Belgium, participated in the study. School directors were approached by the researchers, informed of the study purpose, and all directors approached agreed to participate. School directors distributed a passive informed consent letter to parents via the students one week before the study.
All students (consent rate of 100%) who were present the day the study was occurring completed questionnaires during regular school hours. Students were provided with an envelope holding assent documents, questionnaires, and a letter with phone numbers and e-mail addresses of professional help centers. After completing the forms, they returned their questionnaires to the researcher in a sealed envelope, who remained in the classrooms while the students completed the questionnaires. The study was approved by the ethical board of the department of psychology affiliated with the first author. Participants were not compensated for participating in the study.
2.3. Instruments
Using the Self-Injury Questionnaire-Treatment Related (SIQ-TR) [19], students responded to 6 yes/no items inquiring whether they had ever deliberately injured themselves by means of head banging, scratching, superficial cutting, severe cutting, hitting, and burning oneself. If they had performed at least one act of NSSI, they were to specify the functions which were served by their NSSI on a scale ranging from 1 (not at all applicable) to 5 (very much applicable) (see Table 2 for item descriptions). The SIQ-TR has been used in previous studies [20] and demonstrates strong reliability and validity for use with youth [19].
The UPPS-P Impulsivity Scale [17] is a 59-item inventory designed to measure five distinct features of impulsive behavior: Negative Urgency, Lack of Perseverance, Lack of Premeditation, Sensation Seeking, and Positive Urgency. The first 4 dimensions were assessed by the original version of the UPPS [21, 22] and the fifth dimension was added based on work of Cyders and colleagues [16, 17]. Each item of the UPPS is rated on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly agree) to 4 (strongly disagree). The Cronbach's alphas of the five scales in the present study are as follows: Negative Urgency , Lack of Perseverance , Lack of Premeditation , Sensation Seeking , and Positive Urgency .
2.4. Analyses
To assess the association between gender and the presence/absence of the six different NSSI methods, we used the chi-square test statistic. The associations between the UPPS-P impulsivity dimensions and the presence/absence of the different NSSI methods were assessed with Spearman's rank correlation coefficients. To investigate the association between the functions of NSSI, we performed a factor analysis on the NSSI functions (to reduce the numbers of items) and correlated the UPPS-P dimensions with the NSSI function scale scores.
3. Results
Approximately 106 students (17.3%) reported engaging in at least one NSSI behavior during their life-time. Almost 69% used only one method of NSSI, whereas 19.8% used two, 8.5% used three, and 2.8% four or more different methods of NSSI. Superficial cutting (49.1%) was the most prevalent method, followed by scratching (28.3%), severe cutting (25.2%), head banging (24.5%), hitting (15.1%), and burning (3.8%) oneself. Overall, we did not find a significant relationship between gender and the presence/absence of NSSI (, ns); 18.1% of the female students engaged in NSSI compared to 16% of the males. However, females (5.7%) reported significantly more severe cutting compared to males (2.5%) , whereas males (6.6%) reported significantly more head-banging than females (2.7%) .
The Spearman's rank correlations between the five UPPS-P dimensions and the presence/absence of 6 different NSSI methods are given in Table 1. The presence/absence of all the different NSSI methods and both Negative and Positive Urgency (i.e., reactivity to both negative and positive emotions) was significantly and positively related. Additionally, severe cutting showed a positive significant correlation with Lack of Premeditation (i.e., act without thinking).
The relationship between NSSI functions and the UPPS-P impulsivity dimensions was also investigated. To reduce the number of functions, an exploratory factor analysis with oblique rotation was conducted with the 12 NSSI functions. Based on the number of eigenvalues ≥1, and items with a factor loading >.40, a five-factor solution was chosen which explained 72.30% of the variance: F1 (avoid/approach destruction; ), F2 (show being strong, ), F3 (avoid tasks/events, ), F4 (emotion regulation, ), and F5 (escape from others, reality, and intrusions, ) (see Table 2). Scale scores were calculated by summing the items on each factor. The emotion regulation function was endorsed at a greater rate than the other functions. Pearson correlations were calculated between the NSSI function scale scales and the UPPS-P dimensions (see Table 2). F1 (avoid/approach destruction) was significantly positively related with Sensation Seeking, F4 (emotion regulation) with Negative Urgency, and F5 (escape from others, reality, and intrusions) with Positive/Negative Urgency, whereas F2 (show being strong) and F3 (avoid tasks/events) were positively related with Lack of Perseverance.
4. Discussion
In the present study, we investigated the association between different NSSI behaviors and the UPPS-P impulsivity traits in high-school students. Overall, 17.3% of the 613 students engaged in at least one type of NSSI, and females were more likely to engage in severe cutting compared to males, who were more likely to engage in head-banging. The descriptive features are consistent with existing reports of NSSI and gender-specific features [4]. Also consistent with existing research were the current findings that the presence/absence of NSSI was positively correlated with the traditional UPPS dimensions of Negative Urgency and Lack of Premeditation [12, 13, 15]. However, the current study expanded upon prior research by including the dimension of Positive Urgency and examining the unique relationship between UPPS-P dimensions with specific NSSI behavioral methods.
The correlations showed that each of the different NSSI methods was significantly related to both Negative and Positive Urgency (i.e., the tendency to act impulsively when experiencing negative/positive affect). This finding suggests that both negative and positive affects may trigger NSSI. There are a couple of potential explanations for this unique finding. First, some studies have found that the valence (positive/negative) of the emotion is not predictive of NSSI, but the intensity or variability of the emotions is significantly predictive of NSSI [20, 23, 24]. It may also be that the experience of positive emotions could be experienced as cognitive dissonance (e.g., I do not deserve to be happy), which may then trigger NSSI. This explanation is consistent with self-punishment models of NSSI [23]. It will be important for future studies to examine this idea as well as to continue to include positive affect when studying emotional correlates of NSSI [25]. The current finding that Positive/Negative Urgency positively correlated with the different NSSI behaviors affirms the affect-regulation functions of NSSI in general [23, 24]. For clinical practice, it seems advisable to help self-injurious students to find less harmful behaviors to deal with both, negative and positive affects.
Some additional interesting findings from the current study include the unique associations between select NSSI behaviors and the UPPS-P dimensions. For example, severe cutting was also significantly related to Lack of Premeditation (i.e., the tendency to act without consideration of the potential consequences of the behavior), but superficial cutting was not. It may be that individuals who do engage in some considerations of the potential consequences of cutting oneself are better able to regulate the severity of their cutting, and thus, may prevent some students form cutting too deep. Therefore, it may be useful for therapists that help individuals to actively consider the range of consequences of the NSSI (certainly in the presence of negative affect) to prevent more severe injuries or prevent NSSI altogether by means of self-regulation strategies.
Additional findings from the current study include the unique associations between different NSSI functions and the UPPS-P dimensions. Students engaging in NSSI to regulate their emotions (F4) or to escape from others/reality/intrusions (F5) were characterized by impulsive actions when experiencing negative affect. This association may reflect high levels of emotional reactivity generally and possibly also in response to negative experiences. Thus, NSSI becomes a way to deal with negative affect and unwanted intrusions, which is consistent with prior studies [10]. Interestingly, the escape function of NSSI (F5) also related to positive urgency, and this could suggest a need to create or induce a more positive emotion quickly through the use of NSSI. Some research has indicated that NSSI is used to create a more positive emotional state (e.g., relief, calm) [20, 23, 24] as well as is associated with an inability to tolerate negative emotions [23, 24]. Additionally, students who engage in NSSI to approach/avoid destruction (F1) are characterized by a Sensation Seeking nature, that is the tendency to pursue actions that implicate a kind of "thrill," which is consistent with some research indicating that particularly for males, NSSI is used to generate stimulation or experience "a rush" [4]. Finally, students who engage in NSSI to show that they are strong (F2) or to escape from school-work-related activities (F3) are characterized by Lack of Perseverance or the tendency to give up in the face of frustration. Maybe these students use their NSSI to compensate for potential feeling of failure or to have a way out of school-work-related activities because they experience them to be too difficult. Additional research should examine this unique finding. For therapists, it may be useful to consider the functions of NSSI in the view of the students' personality profile and find alternative behaviors which are in line with the students' self-reported NSSI functions and personality.
There are some limitations to the current study to consider. First, the study is based on self-report measures of both NSSI and personality; thus, shared method variance can partially explain the correlations between the variables. Second, the sample consisted of high-school students and needs further replication among patients with NSSI. Finally, the study is cross-sectional in nature, so future studies need to address the relationship between UPPS-P impulsivity traits and NSSI behaviors and functions in a longitudinal design to better understand the function of impulsivity in the onset and continuation of NSSI. Finally, based on the results of the present study, it is important not only to include measures of negative affectivity (e.g., anxiety, depression) while investigating NSSI, but also to pay attention to positive emotions when investigating NSSI and related functions.
The authors like to thank Mieke Beylemans, Dorien Hardy, Roberte Nivelle, and Bojana Verhoeven for their help with the data collection.
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the traffic and motorway closure, one mystery man took
his ironing out to do on the closed stretch of the M1.
After thousands of drivers got steamed up by the great M1 traffic hold-up it was only fitting that one wag would see the funny side.
The extreme ironer slipped into his dressing gown and on to the middle lane before it was partially re-opened after four days of disruption.
He pressed a white shirt at around 9am on Monday morning and was snapped by a surprised cameraman who was covering closure of the M1.
The Highways Agency finally announced it had managed to reopen two lanes on the southbound side just after 4pm.
But drivers have still been warned to allow extra time when using the stretch between junctions one and four.
The full three lanes of each carriage-way may not reopen until the middle to the end of the week because parts of a bridge structure remain unsafe, which could cause Easter traffic misery. The closure was caused by a fire in a scrapyard on Friday morning and the government is to hold a review into industrial activity near motorways.
Still, at least this man's creases will be straight….


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David Lynch hasn't released a new feature since "Inland Empire" in 2006, but the director has been creating visual art and exhibiting surreal creations in gallery shows.
Lynch held solo exhibitions in Los Angeles in 2009 and 2011, and will be opening yet another show this month at Kayne Griffin Corcoran.
The exhibition, which is being curated by Brett Littman, executive director of the Drawing Center in New York, will focus on how Lynch uses "naming" in film, photography, drawings and other works dating from 1968 to the present.
Kayne Griffin Corcoran said the show will run from Nov. 23 to Jan. 4, and will feature a group of new paintings, drawings and watercolors by Lynch.
The filmmaker, whose credits include "Blue Velvet," "Mulholland Dr." and the "Twin Peaks" television series, has previously exhibited his art at William Griffin Gallery in Santa Monica. In 2009, he showed original artwork for the album "Dark Night of the Soul," featuring music by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, at L.A.'s Michael Kohn Gallery.
Next year, Lynch's work will be the subject of a retrospective show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where the director studied in his youth. The show will feature approximately 75 paintings and drawings created by Lynch since 1965. The exhibition will also include "Six Men Getting Sick" (1967), his first short film.
The exhibition in Philadelphia is scheduled to run Sept. 5, 2014, to Jan. 15, 2015.


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One of Central Oregon's long-lost historical treasures is making its way back to Bend, piece by piece.
Last week, Nate Pedersen, the president of the Deschutes County Historical Society, retrieved approximately 600 pounds of agates, thundereggs, obsidian and petrified wood, the remains of the once marvelous chimney of one of Bend's most famous early residents, Kate Rockwell, better known to the world as Klondike Kate.
"This is a triumphant return of something that was thought to be lost forever," said Pedersen, who eventually hopes to bring back even more of Rockwell's rocks.
Rockwell, who was born in Kansas in 1876 but grew up in Eastern Washington, made her name — and a small fortune — in Canada's Yukon Territory during the Klondike gold rush. She eventually settled in Bend, where she had the chimney and fireplace at her home on 231 Franklin Ave., custom built with precious stones she had collected in the High Desert.
One of Oregon's first rockhounds, Rockwell also had a fountain constructed near the Bend Fire Department with her semi-precious stones and a grotto at the original St. Charles Hospital. Rockwell died in 1957, and her stone structures slowly began to disappear from Bend's landscape. In 1985, her home was demolished, and the chimney and fireplace were thought to be lost to history.
Until a fateful Craigslist ad, anyway.
In October 2013, Chuck Rollins, a passionate rockhound and historian in Latourell Falls, near Corbett — he's the president of both the Columbia Gorge Rockhounds and the Crown Point Historical Society — received a call from a fellow rock collector who had been looking for petrified wood on the Internet. In his search, he saw a Craigslist posting for rocks from Klondike Kate's chimney — $2,000 OBO — from a man in Bend.
"We thought they'd be great for us, the rocks of one of Oregon's first rockhounds," Rollins said. "Kate loved being a celebrity and loved to promote things. We're trying to promote history. This is one more thing for her."
Rollins jumped at the chance find and eventually hauled up 6,000 pounds of rock from Central Oregon to the Corbett area, where the Columbia Gorge Rockhounds were already planning to construct a rockhound memorial wall in dedication to Oregon's unofficial state hobby.
"My understanding is that it's all from the chimney," said Rollins, who has given multiple lectures on Rockwell over the years. The wall he and the Columbia Gorge Rockhounds are preparing to build figures to be 20 feet long and 5 feet tall, with half the structure made up of Rockwell's chimney remains.
"Kate loved sunsets, so her end of the wall will be facing west with a really nice view," Rollins added. "Half the wall will be Kate's rocks and the other half will be from all around Oregon. We're still gathering the rock now, but we're about 80 percent there."
Pedersen became aware of the rocks in January while preparing for a Klondike Kate history pub lecture and got in touch with Rollins soon after he heard of their whereabouts. On Wednesday, he met Rollins in the Columbia Gorge and loaded his Subaru with as many rocks as he could take without sinking his car.
"When I showed up, I said, 'Are you kidding me? This is awesome!'" recalled Pedersen, who hopes to work with a local mason to build a replica of either the grotto or the fountain with Rockwell's chimney stones. "These were legitimate good-looking rocks."
Rockwell's rock sculptures are just one chapter in a fascinating life. Arriving in the Yukon city of Dawson in 1900, she made as much as $750 a night dancing at the Palace Grande Theatre, according to Pedersen, who wrote Rockwell's entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia.
There she met a young Greek American waiter, Alexander Pantages, with whom she fell in love and helped bankroll his career as a theater manager. The unmarried couple moved to Washington, but in 1904 Pantages secretly wed a teenage violinist who had played in Rockwell's shows. Jilted and in need of money after supporting Pantages — he went on to found a chain of 80 movie theaters across the country, several of which have survived into the 21st century — Rockwell sued her former partner for breach of contract, eventually settling out of court for $5,000, but not before publicly airing their love affair in the Seattle courts and newspapers.
After her court battle with Pantages, Rockwell took her act on the road and toured the country, eventually settling on a 320-acre spread near Brothers around 1912.
"She'd seen a travelogue — those early style films — showing different parts of the world and saw one promoting Central Oregon in Seattle," Pedersen said. "She thought it looked awesome and famously bought a horse and a six-shooter and took off from Seattle on her own."
Rockwell remained on her homestead until 1917 and eventually found her way to Bend. (Between her time in Brothers and Bend, she had a brief marriage to a Prineville cowboy, Floyd Warner, who was 22 years her junior. The couple married around 1914, but according to U.S. Census records from 1920, Rockwell was head of her own home in Prineville with no Floyd Warner mentioned.)
While Rockwell thrived in Bend, earning the nickname "Aunt Kate" for her motherly nature toward local firefighters — she was known to follow fire engines with hot coffee and snacks — and charitable cases of all kinds, the rural High Desert always held a special place in her heart. Her ashes, as per her wishes, were spread near her old homestead, the place where she first started her rockhounding.
"She was her own woman. She lived her life on her own terms and had a kind heart," Rollins said, explaining his interest in Rockwell. "Sometimes when you grab onto history, you become a part of it. Kate had started to fade away, but with Nate and your community's efforts, they're bringing her back. Nothing is more powerful than to see history come to life."
"We can't ever re-create her house or the chimney," Pedersen added. "But hopefully with these stones, we can build some kind of memorial that honors the many significant contributions Kate made to early Bend."
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The Daily
09-08-03: Fall Festival
visitors harvest ice cream treats
By MARGIE WUEBKER
The colorful sign says it all — "Old Fashioned Homemade
Ice Cream The Way Grandma Made."
residents Luke and Dorothy Lugibihl spent the weekend at the
Mercer County Fairgrounds making and serving the cold confection
to Fall Harvest Festival visitors.
They work as a team. She prepares the recipe in a makeshift
kitchen set up in the back of a refitted delivery truck and
serves up the finished product to appreciative customers. He
takes charge of the 1928 John Deere hit and miss engine that
powers the big White Mountain ice cream freezer.
"I can kick out a batch in 15 minutes or so," he
says looping his thumbs around bright green John Deere suspenders.
"This setup is a lot quicker than the old hand-crank method."
A belt from the noisy engine turns the 5-gallon canister encased
in a wooden bucket filled with 20-plus pounds of ice cubes and
several cups of table salt. He explains the latter agent speeds
the freezing process.
The engine's distinctive sound gradually changes to a
"bogged down" hum just before the belt slips from
the flywheel. The action signals the completion of another batch
better than any fancy timer.
The Lugibihls have been making and serving homemade ice cream
for 18 years. They never planned to acquire the tasty sideline,
but a visit to the Mennonite Relief Quilt Sale in Northeastern
Ohio opened the door of opportunity.
They watched with interest as people formed a line waiting for
an Amish gentleman to finish his next batch of ice cream. He
pulled out the center beater and scooped the sweet contents
right from the canister. The ice cream ran out long before the
scores of eager customers.
"We killed a lot of time that weekend helping him,"
Luke Lugibihl says with a smile. "He was an interesting
gentleman in his late 70s."
They returned to the quilt show in Kidron the next three years
for the express purpose of helping the Amish farmer. When they
told him of their desire to do something similar on the other
side of the state, he quickly shared the tried-and-true recipe.
The recipe, which is still made from scratch, has changed a
bit over the years in accordance with health department regulations
regarding the use of raw eggs and unpasteurized milk. The change
to processed milk and dried egg powder has little effect on
the flavor, they say. The Lugabihls quickly point out their
ice cream contains no additives with multi-syllable names.
"People followed that Amish fellow wherever he went because
of the delicious ice cream," Lugibihl says. "Now
folks in these parts follow me from one festival to another.
"Nothing can compare to the homemade kind. Let store-bought
ice cream melt and you wind up with foam. Ours goes right back
to the mix from which it started — that is if you can
allow something so good to stand around."
From May through the third weekend of October, the couple take
their show on the road. The schedule allows for planting and
harvesting of crops back home on the farm. This marks their
second visit to Mercer County. They were here earlier in the
summer for a firemen's convention.
"I remember our first years," Luke Lugibihl says
with a chuckle. "Kids weren't too sure about trying
a dip. They thought of ice cream as something mom brought home
from the store in a colorful carton."
The couple offer no fancy cartons. Once their ice cream is finished,
they pack it into tall plastic containers with tight-fitting
lids bound for a well-used chest freezer. Dorothy Lugibihl scoops
out generous portions for customers who range in age from toddlers
to grandmas and grandpas.
"Vanilla is the most popular flavor," she says.
"We sell about twice as much vanilla as we do chocolate.
A lot of folks buy two dips — one vanilla and the other
chocolate so they can try both. It's not unusual to see
the same faces twice in the course of an afternoon or evening."
The Lugabihls also make other varieties like strawberry and
peppermint. He laughs, pointing out they have made all kinds
at one time or another.
They recently completed a weeklong stint at the Van Wert County
Fair and filled a large order for an ice cream social in Holgate
before heading to Celina on Friday. They also have an upcoming
engagement in New Knoxville, preparing ice cream for an appreciation
party hosted by a grain elevator.
"I've got this 5-gallon unit and a double unit that
turns out 10 gallons at a time," he says. "Both
are in operation this weekend as my son is working a fly-in
over yonder in Van Wert County."
Luke Lugibihl claims he was raised on homemade ice cream. His
grandmother made the mix using eggs fresh from the hen house
and rich cream skimmed from milk cans in the milking parlor.
The women never waited for special occasions to prepare the
treat, but family members were expected to turn the crank.
"Folks nowadays claim they are too busy for such things
even with new-fangled electric freezers," he says beginning
another batch. "Dorothy and I give them the opportunity
to enjoy ice cream the way grandma used to make."
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This program was created to give your faculty and staff essential information about bloodborne pathogens that can be used quickly and in a variety of situations. Kelly Davis keeps the content moving with 14 "Fast Facts" about bloodborne pathogens including:
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This libary provides support for many of the Amazon Web Services.
1.1 Which services?
The services supported are those most likely to be used both
In an application.
Via an AWS interface.
Not supported are services like EC2 that are mainly about managing the "infrastructure" for your application, such as creating servers on which to run. The assumption is that you can use Amazon's command line tools or web app console to do that. (If your application is about managing infrastructure, sorry.)
Also not supported is the ElastiCache service. Its application use interface is the usual memcached protocol. Amazon provides another interface for managing the infrastructure of ElastiCache, not for using it.
Likewise RDS: Although Amazon lets you programatically create and manage database servers, your application uses them in the usual way, for example via Racket's db library.
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The single most error-prone and time-consuming thing about working with AWS is calculating an authentication signature. If you don't do it exactly right, the request will be rejected and the specific reason why is often not apparent. Furthermore, the method can vary subtly among some services. You can burn many hours on this, or you can use this library.
In addition there is help for the tedium of marshalling values into and out of the HTTP requests and responses.
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CAUTION: Pinworm eggs are very infectious. Wear gloves when collecting sample and wash hands immediately after collection.
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1. Pinworm collection kits are sealed in a plastic bag. Each kit consists of 3 SWUBE¨ paddles, 3 blank labels, and an instruction sheet for proper collection of the sample. The SWUBE¨ paddles are individually wrapped. Do not use if the package is not intact.
2. Specimens should be collected on three consecutive days to rule out infection.
3. The specimen is best obtained a few hours after the patient has retired, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and midnight, or in the morning, immediately upon rising and before bathing or bowel movement.
4. Unwrap the SWUBE¨ paddle from its package prior to use. Hold the paddle by the cap and remove it from the tube. Set aside the tube.
5. To collect the specimen use the "sticky side" of the paddle, which is labeled on the far end of the paddle near the cap. If you are not sure which side is the "sticky side," feel the end of the paddle with the finger tip to feel the stickiness.
6. In obtaining the sample, spread the buttocks and press the tacky surface of the paddle firmly against several areas (the right and left) of the peri-anal region. Do not press into the anus.
7. Return the paddle in the original tube for transport to the laboratory.
8. Identify the tube by writing the patient's name, medical record number, and the collection date on the blank label provided.
9. Place the tube in a sealed plastic bag and store at room temperature.
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AROUND 100 children across Leeds put pen to paper to produce spine-chilling tales for the Yorkshire Evening Post's Halloween story competition.
We were so impressed with the quality of the entries that we are publishing a selection of them before announcing the winner.
Here are a selection of just some of the terrible tales - read them if you dare!
We asked youngsters to write their spooky story starting with the sentences:
Cousins Shaun and Lucy were enjoying a half term holiday walk in the woods. It was a clear late October day when they set off, but suddenly a mist descended...
Adnaan Ahmed, Year 7, Cooperative Academy of Leeds
A mist that they have never experienced before. Cousins Shaun and Lucy shook. They shook like ice cubes in a cup rattling.
The mist was surrounding them and suddenly spooky faces started to appear. Frightened, they ran. They ran as fast as they could. Lucy ran like a car; Shaun ran like a bullet.
"Oooh," the spooky faces spoke as they chased Lucy and Shaun. The cousins were crying but the ghosts didn't show any mercy. They chased the cousins until they fulfilled their motive which no one knew.
Then, all of a sudden the ghosts appeared in front of them which caused the two innocent humans to fall flat on the floor.
The ghosts came closer. Even closer. The cousins cried loud. Then, even louder but the ghosts didn't stop coming further...
Ben Aves, Guiseley School
It was all going well until this happened, but neither of them knew what was coming. Unexpectedly a mysterious figure appeared.
Little did they know who this mysterious figure was. It didn't look like a man or a woman, it hardly looked like a person at all, Shaun looked at Lucy then Lucy looked back at Shaun and they both said, "RUN!"
They sprinted as fast as they could to whatever thing they could hide behind but there was nothing, until Lucy shouted, "There!"
They quickly dashed to a small gully in the middle of the hill but the figure was moving towards them.
In fact so close to them that that they could hear it breathing, but on the bright side it was slowly going away.
The kids were laid in the gully frozen as if they had just seen a ghost (even though they might have seen something as scary) they were completely flabbergasted.
Two of the longest minutes of their lives passed and the beast seemed to have gone, so when they had the chance they ran (bear in mind their house was in the gloomy wood).
But they didn't care as long as they were inside. But as soon as they got in the house, the light went off and they were completely in the darkness...
Emily Roome, Brighouse High School
Nothing stopped them from walking in the woods, further away from home. Getting more and more deep into the woods, the light got as dark as the night sky. Shaun and Lucy got a bit frightened in the gloomy woods.
"Why don't we start heading home," said Lucy, alarmed.
"No way!" said Shaun. Carrying on through the dangerous woods they went. Lucy walking like a nervous penguin and Shaun was walking like everything was fine.
The grim-looking woods were petrifying, the branches on the trees were swaying like someone was touching them like they were fragile.
Through the trees, all Lucy and Shaun could see was the full moon shining brightly like the sun shining through a window.
"This is very dangerous Shaun can we please go home?"
"Fine!" shouted Shaun. Stomping back through the woods there was mud lots and lots of it. When suddenly, there was a ditch that neither of them saw.
"Help, help!" screamed Lucy.
"What's wrong?" shouted Shaun, as he turned around and saw Lucy stuck in mud all the way up to her chest. Slowly she started to sink; the mud was getting closer and closer to her chin.
"Somebody, anybody help, my cousin is stuck!"
"Help I am sinking!" Shaun turned around and Lucy had disappeared.
"Boo," laughed Lucy.
"I thought you were gone!" said Shaun.
Imanii Whyte, Year 6, Blenheim Primary School
The mist was as pale green as a zombie's skin, withering around the two children, as they shivered with fear. It all gathered back to the centre of the trees, and suddenly, appearing from the ground, was a maiden, with green skin, fiery red hair and eyes of neon yellow.
"I am Agony, queen of the Underworld, and you two creatures are trespassing. The penalty is to work for me until 100 years have passed," she cackled as the earth tumbled into chaos.
The ground below them vanished as they fell into cells made of dried and stretched pumpkin seeds. All around them were huge creatures, with bright orange stripes. One came over to Shawn and Lucy, picked them up and hung them from a rope.
This rope was hanging over a huge pot. As the rope lowered, the thick broth touched the tip of their toes. They were doomed.


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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Sushi Date Night
Hello, hello! Today I'm sharing an outfit I wore for our sushi date night a couple weekends ago. I am so incredibly happy that Justin almost loves sushi as much as I do ; ) Because, uhhh, I think I would cry if he didn't. I love being able to enjoy the deliciousness of sushi with him! It's bonding, you know. The little restaurant Justin found had so many different selections, and for the quantity/quality of the sushi, the price was so cheap. It is always exciting to find new places to eat! Man, I love food ;)
Anyways, on to my outfit. I've noticed this summer that peasant blouses are all over! It's no wonder, though, because I think they are so cute (I wore one earlier this year in THIS post). The pretty peasant blouse I'm wearing today is from Our World Boutique. I really love the contrast of the white blouse with my maroon skirt! It's comfortable, but looks a little more dressed up for a date night (as opposed to baggy tops and leggings... What I wear everyday. ha ha)
Labels: boho, dressy, lace, style, summer style
8 comments:
- Cherish Kirsten said...
Love the outfit. Gorgeous skirt.
- September 2, 2014 at 8:24 AM
- Becky M said...
I am loving that necklace! How fun!
- September 2, 2014 at 8:56 AM
- MyStyledExpressions said...
I have to try sushi someday!
Cute cute skirt! That top is quite feminine.. :)
- September 2, 2014 at 10:03 AM
- Nikki Williams said...
cute outfit! and sushi is the best!
- September 2, 2014 at 2:19 PM
- Natalie said...
lil' sushi sayumi
- September 2, 2014 at 5:54 PM
- Courtney B said...
That skirt is the perfect length! LOVE!
Also, I really love food, like really. But I can't do sushi!! I know, I'm crazy!
- September 3, 2014 at 6:26 AM
- Caitlyn Carroll said...
This outfit is so cute! I love maroon and white together. And you are definitely not alone in loving food. I get so excited when I find a new restaurant that's delicious and has good prices! Ah, the little things in life. haha
- September 3, 2014 at 7:16 AM
- Ashley @ Words About Waverly said...
So excited to have teamed up with you for this, newest follower!!! :)
- September 3, 2014 at 9:26 AM


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Social media has so many moving parts that it is easy to allow overwhelm to set in and paralysis to take over. A great way to combat these emotions is to break down the big picture and create goals that provide a reason for your daily activity and will result in a solid endgame with what you are attempting to accomplish.
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A = Attainable: I love reaching for the stars and encourage folks to think big. But when setting goals, be realistic with your expectations. If the goal is too big or too high and you cannot achieve it, disappointment ensues and usually discourages future goal setting.
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|2011-09-13, 11:07
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Join Date: May 2011
Okay, I have a simple question,
I noticed that in one of the releases I got, the ordered chapter ED is off by one frame, i.e. one frame too late.
I simply want to change that, what do I need to do?
Can I just extract the chapters xml with mkvextract and change the value? Will the fansub be affected?
|2011-09-13, 15:44
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: California
1) Note down the length of the ED (for example 00:01:30.048 to fix CGi Bake15 ED)
2) Open mkvmerge GUI (mmg.exe)
3) Chapter Editor -> Load (select the main mkv for the episode which gets cut off)
4) Find and select the chapter(s) for the ED and change the 'End:' time to what you notated in step 1
5) Chapter Editor -> Save to Matroska file (selecting the same mkv you loaded the chapters from)
|2012-07-17, 06:54
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Recently converted to Linux and I can't get any mkv with ordered chapters to play reliably with the suggested SMplayer + mplayer2 setup. The timeline loads correctly, but when it attempts to switch to the external segments playback will stall in most cases (except when it feels like cooperating, which is rarely). I can still seek into the external segments or play them from the chapters menu, so I don't know what the problem is. Anyone encountered this before?
VLC Player can handle the ordered chapters correctly, but I really rather not use that if I can.
Edit: Found it. Switching the audio output option in SMplayer from "pulse" to "alsa" or "sdl" fixes it (the others give me no sound but still transition correctly). Don't know if this has any downsides yet and I only tested it with AAC (LC) 2 channel audio. VLC however works correctly even with its pulse module selected, so either they use different versions or its a mplayer2 bug.
Edit2: "alsa" seems to cause hanging when quickly pausing/unpausing or flipping frame by frame, so switched to "sdl".
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|2013-07-21, 08:23
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Italy
Age: 28
Might I ask a slightly off topic question?
I remember quite a few years ago many TV animes were released with ordered chapters, which ofc allowed them to use much less space per episode. I've seen that now, BDrips aside (and that's only Coalgirls), nobody is using them anymore.
Does anyone know why? Considering that often OP/ED take 100MB easily in a 24 minutes episode, why do the fansubbers still put OP and ED in each and every episode?
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A little girl channels her exuberance and excessive pogo-stick jumping into a worthy fundraising venture.
Jenny is a born jumper. She vaults over fire hydrants, bounds over hedges and leaps over fences, but she isn't very careful about when her jumping might not be appropriate. Her teacher scolds, "Jumping is for frogs," when Jenny knocks over the caterpillar bins in the science room, and she is banished from the cafeteria after she upsets the entire hot-lunch cart. Much worse is the incessant teasing she attracts from her classmates, who croak, "Ribbit, ribbit," whenever they see her. "When did my Jumping Jenny become Slumping Jenny?" asks Grandma when she sees a forlorn-looking Jenny sitting on the stoop. Discouraged but still thinking positively, Jenny begins to develop an idea that will put her jumping talent to good use as part of her class "mitzvah project." Friends and family pledge to Jenny's jumpathon, to be held at the school's African village fair that's been to raise money for a Ugandan school. Acrylic-on-canvas cartoon-style paintings depict a Jewish day school, with boys wearing yarmulkes and Hebrew text on the board.
Bari's story of one girl's approach to the Jewish principle of "tikkun olam" (literally, "repair the world") will resonate as readers watch Jenny achieve her exhausting, triumphant success. (author's note) (Picture book. 5-8)


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Skrivánci na niti (1969)
Directed by Jirí MenzelGenres - Drama | Run Time - 96 min. | Countries - Czechoslovakia |
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It is little wonder that this film was withheld from release by the communist government of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to its release in 1990 at the Berlin Film Festival. What's amazing is that it was made at all and that, having been made, it survived to be shown. The story concerns the irrepressible goodness of people imprisoned by the government in labor camps, as they struggle against all odds to retain their humanity. The story focuses on two small groups of prisoners: one of men, the other of women. They have been imprisoned for such apparently minor crimes as attempting to find out what has happened to missing loved ones. The two groups manage to interact and some romance even springs up between them. From time to time, prisoners are spirited away in a mysterious black car, never to be seen again. Reviewers were lavish in their praise of this film, which is funny, bitter, satirical, allegorical, and rich with imagery that is particularly meaningful to those who endured similar privations through living under repressive regimes.
government, labor-camp, love, survivor
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Television presenter Anthea Turner has revealed how the stress of the breakdown of her marriage affected her looks.
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