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She began singing the song "Dem Jeans," by Chingy, "Daum girl how'd you get all that in dem jeans dem jeans how'd you get all that ..." Amused, I joined in, "Is you talkin' to me?" She replied, "Yeah you ... Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up ..."
I sucked in, pulled up the zipper and buttoned, then exhaled. I was oozing out of my favorite pair of jeans and wanted to cry.
My sudden weight gain was probably due to all the late-night Jack-in-the-Box runs and Haagen-Dazs cravings. Oh yeah, and how could I forget about my new job, where there's at least one birthday a week? I also have a toaster on my desk.
Maybe my metabolism is finally slowing down. My point is, you can't be the same size all your life. If you're hanging out of a size 3 because you're really a size 5, wear the size 5. I don't care if you're wearing stretch denim. Denim can only stretch so much. And as my wise friend Kristen once said, "The world's not gonna end if you buy a bigger size."
It seems muscle guys are also insecure about buying a bigger size. After "pumping up" their chests and egos at the gym, they purposely squeeze into a shirt one size too small. Confident that they appear larger than they really are, muscle guys' only concern is falling victim to the tag check: safe if the tag reads extra large (though most likely a brand that runs small), caught in the act if the tag reads large.
Some fashion trends are short-lived. It doesn't matter if you're Gwen Stefani or David Beckham. Just because something was trendy doesn't mean it's still trendy. Skorts (skirt-shorts), for example, are out. Frankie B ultralow-rider jeans might be flattering when standing, but they reveal more than anyone would care to see with a slight bend of the waist. Ugg boots in Hawaii are self-explanatory. And Von Dutch is SO three years ago.
At the end of the day, or night, it doesn't matter what you wear, it's how you carry yourself. I met this guy last weekend who wore a Camel Pak to the club. Yes, the handy device hikers wear to keep themselves hydrated. Believe it or not, girls were all over him.


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BEWorld source code
|History and licenses
|Related links
|Browse the code
|Questions and comments
|Notes for developers
|History and licenses
|Related links
|Browse the code
|Questions and comments
|Notes for developers
1. Overview.
BEWorld is a simple Linux game and a starting point for coders who are interested in developing similar games; Tcl coders, in particular, as this version is written in pure Tcl plus the Brick Engine.
The game consists of a self-contained Tcl script. Sound effects, music, and sprites are all embedded in the script. There's no need to install any external bits and pieces except for a Brick Tcl 5.4 interpreter and the packages that it uses (primarily SDL, Tcl, and XOrg).
Note: The Brick Tcl 5.4 interpreter is included in BEWorld's source bundle and installation instructions are provided on this page.
This is a fork of an older (apparently unnamed) demo program by the lead developer for the Brick Engine. The flavor is similar to that of a real-time Nethack; there are several connected rectangular worlds and the goal is to travel through the various worlds and make it to the end. However, the current version is more limited than Nethack. It should be thought of as a proof of concept.
That said, the game features sprite code that's relatively easy to work with, both random and invariant levels, a map generator that should work in other games, support for embedded music and sound effects, the start of an object-oriented component framework, and other features that may be useful.
The version of BEWorld provided here is intended for developers. Regular users are welcome to give it a try, but note that installation requires a "build" procedure. For more information, see the following sections.
3. History and licenses.
Steve H., the creator of the Brick Engine, wrote an apparently unnamed Brick Engine demo in the 2000s. It used an old version of the Brick API (one that predated Brick 5.2).
BEWorld started out as a port of the demo to the Brick 5.2 API. Subsequently, the code was restructured and new features were added (with Steve's advice and assistance). Eventually, it was ported to the Brick 5.4 API. Brick 5.4 is now required, though older APIs are partially supported.
Brick Engine 5.4 and the associated Tcl bindings are released under the MIT/X license.
BEWorld 110923 is released under a Creative Commons license; specifically, Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0. This includes the music, but note for attribution purposes that the code and the music were created by different people. For more information, see the source code.
Additionally, note that some of the Tcl algorithms are based on public posts by various Tcl developers. Credits are included in the source code.
4. Related links.
Here's some links related to BEWorld and Brick Engine. Note: These links were valid as of September 2011 but they may have broken since then.
BEWorld Freshmeat page:
Brick Engine home page:
Brick Engine Fossil repository (library):
Brick Engine Fossil repository (bindings):
Brick Engine TCL API Reference:
Note for engineers: BEWorld 110923 uses the Brick API 5.4 as it stood circa September 23, 2011. The API described on the page linked above may be older or newer. For more information about API issues, see the BEWorld source bundle (which you can get at the following link).
BEWorld source bundle:
The BEWorld source bundle is based on Fossil checkouts of Brick Engine library and bindings source trees. If you'd like a copy of the script that was used to do the checkouts, it's at the following link:
The preceding script checks out exactly the library and bindings revisions that were used to make the BEWorld source bundle. If you'd like an alternate script that checks out current source trees (as opposed to specific revisions), use this link instead:
5. Browse the code.
If you'd like to browse the current BEWorld source code, click here.
Note: Most of the binary data that's embedded in the source code has been removed to make the code easier to browse. To obtain a complete version, download the BEWorld source bundle.
6. Questions and comments.
Questions and comments may be sent to: email@example.com
If you're interested in other tools and components, the developer's home page is located at:
7. Requirements.
BEWorld itself doesn't need to be built; as noted previously, it's a self-contained Tcl script. However, if you'd like to play the game, you'll need to build the Brick Engine 5.4 library and the associated brick-tcl interpreter. If you're interested, proceed as described in this section and the next one.
Start with a Linux distro that includes cmake, gcc, and development packages for XOrg, SDL, Tcl, jpeg, and libpng.
Note: "development packages" means packages that provide header files and libraries. The exact names of these packages will vary from distro to distro.
SDL should include the core SDL library (release 1.2.10), SDL graphics (2.0.22), SDL image support (1.2.10), and the SDL mixer (1.2.11). Other releases may (or may not) work.
For Tcl, any of the 8.5.X releases should work. 8.4.X isn't supported.
For gcc, release 4.4.3 is recommended, but 3.4.6 and 4.2.4 may work. gcc 4.5.X and 4.6.X are terra incognita; if they work, or don't, send email describing what happens.
OpenGL isn't required. BEWorld should work fine whether or not you have OpenGL libraries or related features such as DRI, DRM, accelerated graphics, or direct rendering.
8. Installation.
The following instructions are intended for Linux developers. These instructions assume that people are familiar with Linux "build" procedures in general.
(a) Optional: Log-in as root.
If you're logged in as root, the game will install to a directory tree named /opt/beworld and anybody will be able to play it. If you're logged in as an ordinary user, the private (or semi-private) directory tree $HOME/beworld will be used instead.
(c) Verify that the development packages discussed previously are installed.
(d) Go to /var/tmp and unpack the BEWorld source bundle there. Other directories may be used as well (for example, $HOME/tmp).
(e) Step (d) should create a subdirectory named beworld-bundle-110923. Go into that subdirectory.
(f) Execute this command: sh ./buildme.sh
The preceding command should build Brick Engine and brick-tcl. Additionally, it should install a copy of BEWorld. If copies of Brick Engine and brick-tcl are already installed in system trees such as /usr or /usr/local, those copies won't be overwritten or affected.
If the buildme.sh command is successful, it'll tell you the location of a script named beworld. To play the game, just run the script. There's no need to set PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc.
(g) At this point, you can delete the subdirectory mentioned in step (e). It's no longer needed.
Note: If you play the game, you should hear music as well as sound effects. If sound normally works for you, and either feature is missing, feel free to report this to the email address given previously.
To uninstall the game, just delete the directory tree /opt/beworld or $HOME/beworld.
9. Notes for developers.
BEWorld developer documentation is located in the source code. Here's a few notes for developers who may be interested.
9.1. This isn't an object-oriented program in the standard sense, but it does use objects and classes in a manner of speaking.
An object class is something for which two routines new_NAME and run_NAME exist (NAME being the name of the class). new_NAME creates an instance of the class. run_NAME is called subsequently (and repeatedly) for each instance to initiate and/or direct actions by the instance.
An object-class parameter is any program parameter that's tied to a particular object class. Most object-class parameters may be set either as global defaults or on a per-world basis.
As an example, most mobile objects honor object-class parameters named divmin and divmax. These two parameters set minimum and maximum "speed divisors", respectively.
Smaller speed divisors result in faster sprites. Larger speed divisors reduce sprite speed. Values of about 3 to 5 produce average speeds. Presently, the minimum value supported is 1. This value produces the maximum speed.
9.2. The playing field consists of a set of Nethack-style rectangular worlds (one world at a time).
Worlds are connected by "forward" and "reverse" portals. These are similar to Nethack's "down" and "up" stairs, respectively, and games derived from BEWorld may use them in the same way. However, this interpretation is an oversimplification; "forward" and/or "reverse" portals may lead to either "higher" or "lower" levels, or to different worlds located on the same level.
Each "forward" portal is associated with a destination world name and a "reverse" portal located in the specified world.
Each "reverse" portal is associated with a destination world name and a "forward" portal located in the specified world.
When a world is created (by make_world), a sprite is added for each "forward" portal that it contains. No "reverse" portals are created, initially.
When the player enters a "forward" portal, the associated destination world is created (unless it already exists) and he/she is transported to the world in question. The transport process adds a "reverse" portal to the destination world that is connected to the "forward" portal used, unless this was done previously (as part of an earlier transport).
When the player arrives at a destination portal, the portal is locked until he/she steps off of it. This prevents infinite transport loops.
9.3. BEWorld embeds all of its data (music, sound effects, scroll text, etc.). Much of the data is compressed. Two types of compression are supported. One type is lossless; this is used for the game music (which is an embedded MOD file) and for other data that must be preserved exactly, such as scroll text. Another type is lossy; this is used for sound effects.
The lossless compression algorithm is based on LZ77. The lossy compression algorithm is based on a data format named bxdiv that I designed with simplicity in mind. For details and instructions, see the source code.
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As the daylight turns to starlight and the season turns to change,
I get the same old answers but the question still remains,
We shared a brief but magic song,
By the first leaves of autumn, you were gone.
So the leaves (and the reeds) have started to turn, and the estate is gradually turning from the green and pleasantly colourful place it is in the summer into the drab and misty place it becomes in the early hours of the day through the winter. I took to the saddle early one misty morning, and rode upstream of the river to the ridgeline near the next village, hopping a couple of hedges in the process. I'm glad I took the off-road route, as the mist enveloped me and the mount as we dropped into the dips alongside the river before climbing the ridge. I'm only sorry I didn't take my trusty Nikon, as the photos would have been fantastic. There was also a purpose to this – seeing which of the hedges needed 'topping out' in readiness for the opening meet of the local hunt. I think the mount enjoyed his early ride, which may bode well for me borrowing him more often to ride to hounds in the season!
Aside from that morning off, work on the estate has continued! I had the Environment Agency Biodiversity (formerly Conservation) Team along one morning to carry out an otter survey. I was almost one hundred percent certain that we do not have any resident (or transient) otters on either of the two river channels, and after their survey, they concur. However, it is unlikely to mean the EA will reconsider my most recent Flood Defence Consent application which was recently refused with a very brief (but very confusing) rejection. It did however; show up a large increase in the activity of the local Mink population. I shall set a few more traps on the river banks and perhaps 'plot up' with the .17 HMR for a few hours on a couple of evenings before it gets uncomfortably cold. On the other hand I could track down the local Mink Hounds!
I shall be undertaking further tree works in the next two weeks, with two more of the ageing wild cherry trees in the weir pool paddock to be felled by myself, and a couple of tree climbers from my tame local tree company are going to reduce the size of the weeping willow overhanging the footpath, both to allow some light onto the footpath and also encourage the privet hedge bordering it to thicken. With the exception of the willow, which will be burnt, I should have another 10 – 12 cubic metre bags of firewood from the wild cherry trees to process. These cherries have never been managed, are rotting at the stumps and snapping out at the top. I would rather drop and fell them in a controlled manner than have to clear up the mess after a night of high winds! The mini-digger and log splitter (plus myself with a chainsaw) make quite an effective processing line, but it is back breaking! Currently I am stacking the cubic metre bags of logs three high in the barn to season, so feel free to contact me if you need firewood!
My earlier mention of the reeds turning has reminded me – whilst the Sparganium erectum is starting to turn and die, the Schoenoplectus lacustris and Phragmities australis is still just about hanging on. The former (usually called Bur-reed) is the staple reed throughout most of the river on the estate, although interestingly it is well spread on one channel (downstream of the weir), and absent on the channel above before the weir splits the flow. It needs to be cut and removed as it dies off – generally because otherwise it all dislodges at once in high flows and block the road bridge at the downstream limit of our land. The latter two species (Club Rush and Common Reed) aren't too much of a problem, but Common Reed has started spreading up the graded banks, and out competing some of the native river-side flowers I sowed, so it may be sprayed with Glyphosate early next year to reduce it.
On the river banks, I have cut a chequer board pattern on the banks to the water's edge with the tractor mounted flail, meaning there is 50m of vegetation topped to about 6 inches high, then 50m of vegetation left as is, to die off naturally over the winter, repeated down the lower channel. This should result in the ground covering vegetation on the topped areas coming back much quicker next year as the higher level plants quickly out competed them in the short time after I had completed the bank works. In leaving some areas to die off naturally, I have left cover for rods and wildlife alike through the autumn and winter. The river looks to promise some cracking winter sport for pike and chub, so we shall see how that fishes.
Due to change in circumstances (shortly I am to become an uncle), I have also spent time installing all the temporary electric fencing on wooden posts throughout the lower paddocks to see us through the winter grazing, and am waiting on the fencing contractor to come and install the 'horse rail' along the field-side of the track along the lower river channel. The little 45hp compact tractor and post rammer have been worked hard, but my bracing and welding skills on the post rammer seem to have worked, as it is has rammed in all the posts (thus far) with no further issues since I welded the bending lift arm. Two horses will be residing on the estate earlier than planned due to the owner being pregnant with my nephew! The fields have been topped for the last time (hopefully) in the last of the sunny days, so they should provide some good winter grazing, even with the expected flooding of the lower paddocks.
The temporary paddocks also needed water and electric running to them, so I have been on the mini-digger, trenching away to run blue water pipe and armoured cable to the old Nissen hut and existing stables. Due to the gravel substrate, a pipe ripper on the back of the tractor jams regularly, meaning it is quicker to dig trenches with the mini-digger. Our new stable complex, horse walker and barn look set to be a 2016 build due to planning permission issues and the local council planning department changing tunes like wind chimes in a force 8 gale.
I finally got around to installing one (out of three) of the Little Owl nest boxes that were made on the estate by my father a few months ago. The only one installed to date resides in one of the semi-mature trees in the formal garden on the estate. At some point I probably should install the others before they end up housing something undesirable! The usual / regular jobs during the nicer weather, such as verge flailing, hedge cutting, paddock topping and track mowing should hopefully have been done for the last time by the time I write this. If by chance I have to cut them all one last time because the weather holds out, then so be it, but I shan't worry if time does not allow it. With luck, I shall have an opportunity to dig the remaining tree stumps and miscellaneous bits of concrete out and then leave the weir pool paddock to it's own devices over the winter.
Jobs coming up will mainly be finishing off the last few bits of fencing, hanging a few gates, processing the timber from forestry and tree works into firewood and tucking away the hay and straw properly to ensure we have a usable supply through winter for the horses in the temporary stables. If anyone would like any logs in the Berkshire area, please drop me an email to email@example.com.
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Author: Sarah Dessen (a favorite of mine)
Genre: YA
Summary (from Goodreads, of course): It's been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents' divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.
A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother. Then she meets Eli, an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town. Together they embark on parallel quests: for Auden, to experience the carefree teenage life she's been denied; for Eli, to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend.
In her signature pitch-perfect style, Sarah Dessen explores the hearts of two lonely people learning to connect.
Review: I hesitated to read this book. Yes, Sarah Dessen is one of my favorite authors but I hadn't connected with the last one I had read as much as all of the others. I was afraid that I had out grown her work, so I just didn't try. Boy am I glad I gave in! I loved this book from the beginning. Sarah brings her characters to life within the first few pages. She has a way of letting you get to know them, seemingly intimately, within the first chapters. I also experience the feeling of growing as I read her books and this one did not disappoint. She is an amazing writer, and after ten books, she still knows how girls feel at a certain age and has a wonderful grasp on the family dynamic.
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History - Beginnings
|The beginnings of Quakerism in Devon and Cornwall
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Most of what follows is based on 'The Beginnings of Quakerism in Devon and Cornwall', 1985, by Hubert Fox; shelfmark 097.23 FOX in Friends' House Library. That history is based on six earlier books, one being "A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers......", by Joseph Besse, Luke Hinde, London 1753. Some additional information is provided from 'Our Quaker Heritage' by Kenneth Southall, which includes text about the history of Marazion and Come-to-Good meetings, as well as pictures of the meeting houses.
The diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a close contemporary of George Fox (1624-1691), who perhaps expressed the general public's opinion of Quakers in the early days when he described them as: "a near fanatic sect of dangerous principles, who show no respect to any man, magistrate or other, and seem a melancholy, proud sort of people, and exceedingly ignorant".
The convincement of the young by the young has always been one of the most effective ways of spreading ideas.Thomas Salthouse, the steward at Swarthmore Hall, was 22 when George Fox first went there.He gave up his post to travel as one of the 'valiant sixty', the Quaker ministers or 'publishers of truth' who set out from the North to spread the word.Another was Miles Halhead, a young farmer from Kendal.From London, Salthouse and Halhead travelled west. They reached Plymouth in May 1655, but were thrown into Bridewell Prison in Exeter as vagrants.Halshead eventually returned to Kendal, but Thomas Salthouse later became known amongst Friends as 'the apostle of the West'.
In the summer of 1655 George Fox came, accompanied by Edward Pyott of Bristol, who had been a captain in the Parliamentary Army.They described Totnes as a 'dark town'. Next they went to Kingsbridge, where they asked to see the sober people of the town, and were directed to Nicholas Tripe and his wife, who were convinced by them.Then to Plymouth, where they had a meeting at Robert Cary's house, and Elizabeth Trelawney, daughter of a baronet, was convinced.The Trelawney family (celebrated in the unofficial anthem of Cornwall "A good sword and a trusty hand! A merry heart and true!........") were friends of the Grenvilles, and did not at all approve of Elizabeth becoming a Quaker.
At Marazion, known then as Market Jew, Fox and Pyott were joined by William Salt from London. Fox describes their encounter with the authorities at Marazion in his Journal:
'....... having taken up our lodging at an inn, we sent out over-night for inquire for such as feared the Lord.Next morning the mayor and aldermen gathered together with the high-sheriff of the county; and they sent first the constables to bid us come before them.We asked them for their warrant, and they saying they had none, we told them we should not go along with them without......
So they went away and came again; and when we asked them for their warrant, one of them plucked his mace from under his cloak; we asked whether this was their custom to molest and trouble strangers in their inns and lodgings.
After some time I said to Edward Pyot, "Go thy ways, Edward, and see what ails the mayor and his company", and Edward Pyot went to the mayor and aldermen, and had much discourse with them; but the Lord's power gave him dominion over them all. When he had returned, several of the officers came to us, and we laid before them the incivility and unworthiness of their carriage towards us, who were the servants of the Lord God, thus to stop and trouble us in our lodgings, and what an unchristian act it was'.
At St Ives on 18 January 1656 they were arrested by Magistrate Major Ceely, and taken in stages to Redruth, then Falmouth, and finally to Launceston Castle, where they were held until the assizes in March. It started thus:
'When we came to St Ives, Edward Pyot's horse having cast a shoe, we stayed to have it set; and while he was getting his horse shod I walked down to the seaside.When I returned I found the town in an uproar; and they were haling Edward Pyot and William Salt before Major Ceely.I followed them into the justice's house, though they did not lay hands on me.When we came in the house was full of rude people; whereupon I asked whether there were not an officer among them to keep the people civil.Major C said he was a magistrate. I told him he should shew forth gravity and sobriety then, and use his authority to keep the people civil; for I never saw any people ruder; the Indians were more like Christians than they.
After a while they brought forth the paper aforesaid, and asked whether I would own it. I said "Yes".Then he tendered the Oath of Abjuration* to us; whereupon I put my hand in my pocket and drew forth the answer to it, which had been given to the Protector.After I had given him that, he examined us severally one by one.He had with him a silly, young priest, who asked us many frivolous questions; and amongst the rest he asked to cut my hair, which was then pretty long; but I was not to cut it though many times many were offended at it.I told them I had no pride in it, and I did not put it on.At length the justice put us under a guard of soldiers, who were hard and wild, like the justice himself; nevertheless we warned the people of the day of the Lord, and declared the truth to them. The next day he sent us, guarded by a party of horse with swords and pistols, to Redruth'.
* An oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender.
At the assizes they refused to remove their hats. Judge Glyn, who was then Chief Justice of England, eventually fined them 20 marks each for not removing their hats, but they refused to pay the fines.For this, Fox was held in the 'Doomsdale', where mud urine and excrement reached the top of his shoes.Of this he wrote, when he refused to pay the gaoler to look after him and his horse, that the gaoler:
'... grew very devilish and wicked, and carried us and put us into Doomsdale, a nasty stinking place where they said few people came out alive; where they used to put witches and murderers before their execution; where the prisoners excrements had not been carried out for scores of years, as it was said....... A great while he kept us of this manner before he would let us cleanse it, or suffer us to have any victuals but what we got through the grate'.
Later on from Launceston Gaol, George Fox wrote a stirring exhortation to Friends in the ministry, ending with these gentle words:
"Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them.Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them ye may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you".
He had so many visitors that the magistrates set up watches on the roads into Launceston (stop and search!).Hugh Peters, a Cornishman, was sent to report on Fox when Cromwell heard of his imprisonment, and on 13 July Colonel Bennett, the Governor of the prison (himself an Anabaptist) set the Quakers free without the fine having been paid.They went to Humphrey Lower's house, and had a fine meeting there: many being convinced. Then they went to Loveday Hambley (or Hamley), a widow at Tregangeeves (or Tregongeeves) near St Austell, who was convinced – her home became a centre of Quakerism known as 'the Swarthmore of the west'. She was persecuted in 1657 by William Upcott, the priest of St Austell, and also in 1663 for non-payment of tithes.She allowed Quakers to meet in her barn, and in 1706 the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe gave the adjoining land to Thomas Lower of London, Doctor of Physick, who in 1717 gave the same land to Friends as a burial ground. Buried there are the Williamses from Falmouth, the Foxes from Wadebridge, Daniel Elliott and others.
After his release from Launceston George Fox visited in Exeter prison the Quakers who had been arrested on their way to see him at Launceston Castle.One was Henry Pollexfen of West Alvington in South Devon, who had been a magistrate for 40 years.Later in the year Fox was back in Exeter from the Midlands, and held a general meeting at the Seven Stars, the inn by the bridge, with Friends from Cornwall and Devon including the Lowers, John Ellis from Land's End, Henry Pollexfen, Friends from Plymouth, Elizabeth Trelawney and many others.But the persecutions continued, made worse because the Quakers didn't join in the general rejoicing at the sea victories over various Spanish ships.Some meetings were broken up with violence – for example at Penryn and Liskeard in 1659.In the same year George Fox came again, to Plymouth and then Land's End, where Nicholas José of Sennan – a fisherman – was convinced, only to be imprisoned the following year.
On 25 May 1660 King Charles II came back to England, and Oliver Cromwell's body was removed from Westminster Abbey and hung at Tyburn, the head being cut off.Fox was arrested again, but on 21 November presented the new King with the Quaker Peace Testimony – "We........ do utterly denyall outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons.......".By law at that time Quakers were to be punished if five or more assembled, if they were absent from public worship, didn't pay the tithe or refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to the King.Many were in the Bridewell in Exeter, but their wives continued to meet.At Cullompton two sons of Richard and Mary Old died in infancy and the Olds were persecuted by neighbours because the boys had not been baptized: so the second son was buried in Grindle, a field in Collaton Raleigh which was the first property owned by the Quakers of Devon.In August 1662 Thomas Lower and Thomas Salthouse and another Friend were arrested at the house of Thomas Mounce at Liskeard, though later set free.
In 1663 George Fox returned to the West Country.At Topsham he met Margaret Fell and her daughters Sarah and Mary, then went to Totnes where he likely visited Edward and Joanne Edmunds, and then Henry Pollexfen at Kingsbridge, where a large meeting was held.Henry went with Fox to Plymouth, and to Justice Porter in Cornwall, and to Thomas Mount where they held another large meeting at Halbathic, near Liskeard.There was yet another large meeting at Humphrey Lower's, then a general meeting for the whole county at Loveday Hambley's farm.Fox rode on to Land's End and returned, holding meetings wherever he went. He was probably the founder of the meeting at Land's End. He came into Devon over Horsebridge near Tavistock, and rode through Tiverton to Cullompton and Wellington.In his Journal he wrote that the officers who broke up meetings had to hire carts and lift Friends to take them to the Justices, and when the townspeople refused to pay the bill for the carts the officers had to pay it themselves!William Waldron, Squire of Bradfield, was a moderate Justice, so when a cartload of Quakers was brought to him he went into hiding.
While Fox was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle in 1664/5 the plague was at its height and the country was at war with Holland.Many Friends in London were in Newgate Gaol and other prisons – some were banished to Barbados and Jamaica.Captain Fudge had 37 men and 18 women on his ship the Black Spread Eagle: at Plymouth Thomas Lower, Arthur Cotton, John Light and others took provisions to them, but 27 died.Fox was released on 1 September 1665, a year before the Great Fire of London.He was 42, but incarceration and ill treatment had weakened him.He had decided that monthly and quarterly meetings should be established wherever there were Quakers, and travelled the country to set up the organization.In April 1668 he reached Devon and travelled with Friends of Minehead to Barnstaple and Appledore.(the Mayor of Barnstaple had persecuted the Quakers).Then his party rode to Humphrey Lower's, to Truro and so on to Land's End, visiting Friends all the way to Tregangeeves, where at Loveday Hambley's farm they held a general meeting for the county, and decided the monthly meetings "in the Lord's power".After a meeting in Plymouth Fox went to the house of Widow Phillips (daughter of Nicholas Tripe) at West Alvington "where we had some men Friends from all the meetings together and there the monthly meetings were settled........"This was the last visit of Fox to Devon and Cornwall.
In 1668 Thomas Salthouse married Anne Upcott of St Austell (daughter of the priest William Upcott), who had been put in the stocks by her father and brothers for mending a garment on a Sunday.They married at Tregangeeves in a large meeting.In the summer Margaret Fell was released from prison, perhaps thanks partly to the efforts of her daughter Mary, who went to see the King on her behalf when she was only fifteen.On 26 August Mary married Thomas Lower, and they at first lived a few miles west of Tregangeeves – then later at Penance, on the road to Grampound.All Margaret's six daughters married Quakers, including Isabel, wife of William Yeamans of Bristol.Margaret stayed with Isabel, where George Fox found her.He proposed to her, and with the agreement of her daughters and son-in-law, they were married in the meeting house at Broadmead, Bristol, on 27 October 1669.
From March 1670 Margaret was in prison again, only to learn on her release that her husband had decided to visit America.It was in 1670 that William Meade (future husband of Sarah, the only unmarried daughter of Margaret Fell) and William Penn, son of the Admiral, were charged under the Conventicle Act*, but acquitted by the jury at the Old Bailey before the Lord Mayor of London.Public opinion was starting to tire of religious persecution.Still, Widow Phillips was informed on for holding a meeting on 11 September 1670 at her house at West Alvington, which was attended by up to 60 people.John Biere, a JP, issued warrants "in pursuance of an Act of Parliament instituted........ for the providing......... more speedy remedies against the growing and dangerous practices of seditious sectaries".The doors were broken down and her household goods divided amongst the officers.In 1676 she was arrested again, with others, for the non-payment of tithes.Of other West Country families, Nicholas Tripe's daughter Anstice married Geroge Croker (or Crocker), of a family with an estate at Lineham near Plymouth which had been established in Devon before the Norman Conquest.George was imprisoned three times.Her sister Sarah married William Hingston of another Devon family. (In 1683 he was one of 72 Quakers imprisoned at Exeter - his son Henry published a pamphlet in 1703 protesting at the activities of wreckers).
* The First Conventicle Act (May 1664) penalised anyone who attended a Dissenters congregation or preached at one. Anyone who allowed his building to be used by Dissenters was also penalised.
Quakers in the villages between Truro and Falmouth were meeting by the 1670s in the house of William Stevens.The meeting, which drew Friends from throughout the parishes of Kea and Feock, came to be known as Kea Meeting.
From 1679 onwards in Marazion, Meetings for Worship were held in the house of John Taylor. In 1687 the same John Taylor gave a plot of land for a meeting house and burial ground and it is on this site that the present meeting house was built. The deeds bear the date 5.ix.1688 and the first meeting in the new building appears to have been held on the following day. It is the oldest public building in Marazion.
In 1681 Benjamin Growden died and was buried at Tregangeeves, where Thomas Salthouse said a few words to the mourners. For this, all were taken to court.As a minister Thomas visited many meetings in Cornwall and Devon; his wife Anne kept a draper's shop in St Austell and her goods were taken when fines were levied.In the late summer of 1682 Loveday Hambley took to her bed.Richard Tregennow, a farmer who helped Friends in trouble, and had spent four years in prison in the sixties, was with her and she died on 14 October, loved by her neighbours and all who knew her.Many hundreds followed her coffin, and the esteem in which she was held was recorded in the register of Cornwall Monthly Meeting.In 1683, 115 Quakers were imprisoned at Bristol while their children kept the meetings going, and in Exeter 72 were imprisoned including George Croker and William Hingston.There were 22 in Launceston prison, including the three young Tregennow daughters of Trenant in Duloe.
In those days Quakers had to marry Quakers, but later, some married the descendents of their oppressors.At first Quaker tradesmen suffered loss of business because they would not bow or flatter, but later it was realised that they would not cheat, so they prospered.Spiceland (or Spison) at Culmstock, though now in West Somerset Monthly Meeting, was the first purpose-built Quaker meeting house in Devon, and one of the first in England.It was completed in 1682, the year when William Penn took possession of Pennsylvania and made his treaty with the American Indians.There is no record of violence against the meeting, but many of its members had been imprisoned, including Robert Were of nearby Southdown Farm.Worshippers came long distances on horseback, the women riding pillion.They formed a self-contained, self-governing community which provided for its poorer members "that none should be chargeable to their parishes".Six hundred are in the burial ground – most, as is the Quaker custom, in unmarked graves.
On 5 November 1688 William of Orange landed in Torbay.On 13 February 1689 he was proclaimed joint sovereign of England with his wife Mary, eldest daughter of King James II, and in the same year the Toleration Act was passed, giving dissenters liberty to hold religious meetings "provided the doors were not locked, barred or bolted".Quakers were allowed to affirm instead of swearing on the bible.In 1691 John Banks of Pardshaw, whose paralysis (of the arm) had been cured by George Fox 14 years earlier at Swarthmore, came to Spiceland.He wrote that there were near a thousand people there when he attended.In the same year George Fox died in London, aged 67, which is perhaps a suitable point at which to bring this history to an end.
Some more information about Quakers in Devon and Cornwall may be found in the following sources in the library at Friends House, Euston Road, London:CORNWALL"Cornish Quakerism".QuakerianaVol 1 (1894) p.57"Early Friends in Cornwall".Cornish Post16v1925NEWS 097.13FOX, Hubert"The beginnings of Quakerism in Devon & Cornwall". 1985.097.13GRIFFITH, PM"Early Quakers in Cornwall 1656-1750".097.137 LEES, R.J.J."Early Cornish Quakerism 1655-1800.""These are they".The FriendNS Vol 48 (1908)DEVONDYMOND, Robert"Early records of the Society of Friends in Devonshire (1873)097.134 DYMVol 532/19Box 23 Y2 (inc index)
FLEWIN, W.G."Out of the Past"WayfarerNS Vol 3 (1924) pp6-7, 27, 29.


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Lucha Corpi, September
Chicana detective Gloria Damasco has a "dark gift," an extrasensory prescience that underscores her investigations and compels her to solve numerous cases. This time, the recurring vision haunting her dreams contains two pairs of dark eyes watching her in the night, a phantom horse and rider, and the voice of a woman pleading for help. But most disquieting of all is Gloria's sensation of being trapped underwater, unable to free herself, unable to breathe.
When Gloria is asked to help the owners of the Oro Blanco winery in California's Shenandoah Valley, she finds herself on the road to the legendary Gold Country. And she can't help but wonder if the ever-more persistent visions might foreshadow this new case that involves the theft of a family heirloom, a pair of antique diamond and emerald earrings rumored to have belonged to Mexico's Empress Carlota.
Soon Gloria learns that there's more to the case than stolen jewelry. Mysterious accidents, threatening anonymous notes, the disappearance of a woman believed to be a saint, and a ghost horse thought to have belonged to notorious bandit Joaquín Murrieta are some of the pieces Gloria struggles to fit together. A woman's gruesome murder and the discovery of a group of young women from Mexico being held against their will in an abandoned house send Gloria on a fateful journey to a Witches' Sabbath to find the final pieces of the puzzle before someone else is killed.
Corpi weaves the rich cultural history of California's Gold Country with a suspenseful mystery in this latest installment in the Gloria Damasco Mystery series.
In addition to poetry and mystery novels, Lucha Corpi also writes for children. In 1997, she published her first bilingual picture book, Where Fireflies Dance / Ahí, donde bailan las luciérnagas (Children's Book Press), and The Triple Banana Split Boy / Diente dulce (Arte Público Press, 2009).
Corpi holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC-Berkley and an M.A. in World and Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. A tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for 30 years, she retired in 2005.
Meet Me Under the Ceiba
Silvio Sirias, September
"I'm not afraid of that old man," Adela once told her niece. But everyone in the small town of La Curva, Nicaragua, knew that the wealthy land owner, Don Roque Ramírez, wanted Adela Rugama dead. And on Christmas Day, Adela disappeared. It was two months before her murdered body was found.
An American professor of Nicaraguan descent spending the summer in his parents' homeland learns of Adela's murder and vows to unravel the threads of the mystery. He begins the painstaking process of interviewing the townspeople, and it quickly becomes apparent that Adela—a hard-working campesina who never learned to read and write—and Don Roque had one thing in common: the beautiful Ixelia Cruz. The love of Adela's life, Ixelia was one of Don Roque's many possessions until Adela lured her away.
The interviews with Adela's family, neighbors, and former lovers shed light on the circumstances of her death and reveal the lively community left reeling by her brutal murder, including: her older sister Mariela and her four children, who spent Christmas morning with their beloved aunt, excitedly unwrapping the gifts she brought them that fateful day; her neighbor and friend, Lizbeth Hodgson, the beautiful mulata who rejected Adela's passionate advances early in their relationship; Padre Uriel, who did not welcome Adela to mass because she loved women (though he has no qualms about his lengthy affair with a married woman); her former lover Gloria, the town's midwife, who is forever destined to beg her charges to name their newborn daughters Adela.
Through stories and gossip that expose jealousies, scandals, and misfortunes, Sirias lovingly portrays the community of La Curva, Nicaragua, in all its evil and goodness. The winner of the Chicano / Latino Literary Prize, this spellbinding novel captures the essence of a world rarely seen in American literature.Silvio Sirias is the author of Bernardo and the Virgin (Northwestern University Press, 2007). He has also written and edited several books on Latino/a literature, including Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion (Greenwood Press, 2001) and Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya (University Press of Mississippi, 1998). He received his doctorate in Spanish from the University of Arizona and worked as a professor of Spanish and U.S. Latino/a literature for several years before returning to live in Nicaragua in 1999. He currently lives in Panama.
Cut & Run: The Misadventures of Alex Perez
Alberto Arcia, September
Alex Perez is an aspiring writer living with his girlfriend Ramona, who feeds him, washes and irons his clothes, and gives him nice and useful gifts. All that is expected of him in return is to satisfy her unquenchable sexual urges. Her mother Charlene is paying Ramona's bills until she graduates from college, and she thinks Alex is a free loader. He's horrified when Charlene gives him an ultimatum: "You either marry her or I won't put out another dime."
Quick thinker that he is, Alex negotiates a dowry: Charlene's Mercedes Benz convertible and an all-expense-paid road trip to Panama so he can marry Ramona in the presence of his beloved mother. Soon the deal is sealed and Alex finds himself headed down the Pan American Highway with his fiancée and—much to his dismay—his future mother-in-law.
Armed with maps and an assortment of emergency rations, Alex is determined to postpone their arrival in Panama and his impending nuptials. The unlikely trio has just crossed the border when two Mexican street urchins, Junior (Jaime Buffet, Jr.) and his brother Raul, join the group. And before they know it, Alex's delaying tactics lead the motley crew into a series of dodgy and often perilous situations frequently involving pistol-waving bandits and corrupt government officials. But it's their efforts to free Charlene's lover—a defrocked Guatemalan priest—from jail that leads to an even more twisted turn of events!
Their travels through Mexico, Belize and Guatemala introduce them to a slew of colorful characters, including a drunken boat captain and his blind first mate, and a Guatemalan police officer, who owns several whorehouses. Featuring a roguish protagonist with a distinct, humorous voice, Cut & Run: The Misadventures of Alex Perez is a satirical take on the clash of cultures between north and south of the U.S. border.
Alberto Arcia, a native of Panama, lives in Plantersville, Texas. Cut & Run: The Misadventures of Alex Perez is his first novel.
Rudy's Memory Walk
Gloria Velásquez, October
Rudy can't believe it when his dad says he will have to watch his abuela while his parents go out. He shouldn't have to babysit his own grandmother! And he had plans to go out with his girlfriend, Juanita. His brother Manuel isn't happy either, and won't even consider watching Abuela alone.
Nothing has been going right since Abuela moved in. Manuel had to give up his own room and move into Rudy's, and both boys are unhappy about losing their privacy. Abuela's forgetfulness and weird behavior has everyone worried, and Rudy's mom in particular spends lots of time crying.
When Abuela disappears one day, they can't ignore the problem anymore. A trip to the doctor confirms what they feared: Abuela has Alzheimer's. What are they going to do? They can't lock her up, but they can't be with her every minute of the day either.
As Rudy juggles everything going on in his senior year at Roosevelt High School, including his relationship with Juanita and his friends' attempts to convince him to enroll in college, his feelings of guilt grow. He can't help but wish he had his room to himself and that life would go back to the way it was before Abuela moved in.
Rudy's Memory Walk is the eighth novel in Gloria Velásquez's popular Roosevelt High School series, which features a multiracial group of teen aged students who must individually confront social and cultural issues (such as violence, sexuality, and prejudice) that young adults face today.
Gloria Velásquez is an internationally acclaimed author who holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Latin American and Chicano Literatures. Velásquez is the author of two collections of poetry, I Used to Be a Superwoman (Arte Público Press, 1994) and Xicana on the Run (Chusma House Publications, 2005). She is a professor in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Velásquez has also toured throughout the United States performing songs and poetry from her Superwoman Chicana CD.
René Has Two Last Names / René tiene dos apellidos
René Colato Laínez, illustrated by Fabiola Graullera Ramírez, October
"On the first day at my new school, my teacher, Miss Soria, gave me a sticker that said René Colato. The sticker was missing my second last name. Maybe Miss Soria's pen ran out of ink. I took my pencil and added it. Now it looked right: René Colato Laínez."
Young René is from El Salvador, and he doesn't understand why his name has to be different in the United States. When he writes Colato, he sees his paternal grandparents, René and Amelia. When he writes Laínez, he sees his maternal grandparents, Angela and Julio. Without his second last name, René feels incomplete, "like a hamburger without the meat or a pizza without cheese or a hot dog without a wiener."
His new classmates giggle when René tells them his name. "That's a long dinosaur name," one says. "Your name is longer than an anaconda," another laughs. But René doesn't want to lose the part of him that comes from his mother's family. So when the students are given a project to create a family tree, René is determined to explain the importance of using both of his last names. On the day of his presentation, René explains that he is as hard working as Abuelo René, who is a farmer, and as creative as his Abuela Amelia, who is a potter. He can tell stories like his Abuelo Julio and enjoys music like his Abuela Angela.
This charming bilingual picture book for children ages 4-8 combines the winning team of author René Colato Laínez and illustrator Fabiola Graullera Ramírez, and follows their award-winning collaboration, I Am René, the Boy / Soy René, el niño. With whimsical illustrations and entertaining text, this sequel is sure to please fans and gain many new ones while explaining an important Hispanic cultural tradition.
René Colato Laínez came to the United States from El Salvador as a teen, and he writes about his experiences in children's books such as Waiting for Papá / Esperando a Papá (Piñata Books, 2004) and I Am René, the Boy / Soy René, el niño (Piñata Books, 2005), which received Special Recognition in the 2006 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People. His book, Playing Lotería / El juego de la lotería (Luna Rising, 2005), was a finalist in the 2007-2008 Tejas Star Book Award, was named to Críticas magazine's "Best Children's Books" of 2005 and received the 2008 New Mexico Book Award for Best Children's Book. René is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults and a bilingual elementary teacher at Fernangeles Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Fabiola Graullera Ramírez, a native of Mexico City, graduated from UNAM's National School of Fine Arts with a degree in Graphic Communication. Her work has been part of collective exhibits in Mexico and Spain. She has illustrated many picture books, including I Am René, the Boy / Soy René, el niño (Piñata Books, 2005).
Baseball on Mars/ Béisbol en Marte
Rafael Rivera, Jr and Tim Hoppey, Illustrations by Christina Rodriguez, Spanish Translation by Gabriela Baeza Ventura, October
Roberto's dad speaks in Spanish when he gets upset, and boy, is he unhappy today! His lucky chair—the one he sits in to watch his beloved New York Yankees play—is missing. And he needs it for the afternoon game against the Red Sox!
Roberto is excited, too. He's about to take off to Mars on his home-made rocket ship, and his dad's lucky chair makes a perfect pilot's seat. When his father finds that the missing chair has become part of the rocket ship in the backyard, he grudgingly tells Roberto he can use it—for now. But it needs to be returned before game time.
Roberto's dad is skeptical about the rocket ship. "You might have a problem getting off the ground," he says. "You're forgetting one little thing—you don't have an engine!" Soon, he finds himself invited along as co-pilot. And during the exciting flight to Mars, Roberto helps his father rediscover his imagination as they experience an amazing blastoff, wayward asteroids, and even weightlessness.
When they finally land, Roberto surprises his father with two baseball gloves and a ball. "Today's baseball game is on Mars," he tells his dad. After spending the day playing catch, father and son realize that they speak the same language on the Red Planet. And his dad doesn't even mind that he missed the Yankees' game!
Children ages 4-8 will want to embark on their own mission to Mars after reading this story that combines vibrant illustrations with a touching story about a father and son's afternoon adventure.
Rafael Rivera, Jr. was born and raised in the Bronx, the setting for this story. He is a New York City firefighter stationed in Spanish Harlem. He has two young daughters with whom he hopes to build rocket ships. He is a lifelong New York Yankees fan, but does not have a lucky chair to sit in.
Tim Hoppey is a New York City firefighter stationed in Spanish Harlem. He is the author of a bilingual picture book, Tito, the Firefighter / Tito, el bombero (Raven Tree Press, 2005). He lives on Long Island with his wife and three children.
Christina Rodriguez received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and presently works as a freelance illustrator and designer. She has illustrated many children's books, including Mayté and the Bogeyman / Mayté y el Cuco (Piñata Books, 2006), Un día con mis tías / A Day with My Aunts (Piñata Books, 2006), and Storm Codes (Windward Publishing, 2007)._____________________________________
Thanks to RudyG for filling in the past couple of weeks.
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A few weeks ago the Psychiatric Times posted an article called "How to Fix the Broken Mental Health System: Call For Suggestions." I posted a link to one of my previous blogposts in the comments but decided to write a separate post here. My reasons are several fold. First off, any call for suggestions to me is really an invitation to generate web traffic to a particular site. It is a standard tactic of bloggers. For proof of that just Google the title and you will see hundreds of references in the last 2 years. Second, I can do a better job and have done a better job here. It gives me an opportunity to collect links under common themes. Finally, it creates an opportunity to provide answers in one spot. I may be wrong, but I think that the Psychiatric Times piece will be quickly forgotten. Since hardly anyone reads this blog, that will probably also happen, but at least my thoughts are out there and include statements that you won't see posted by anybody else. Here are my point by point suggestions:
1. Managed care and all that it involves including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (PBMs) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) must go. It should be evident to anyone that these organizations have not contributed to cost effectiveness, innovation, quality or efficiency. Instead they are largely responsible for an additional hidden tax on all Americans. I am referring to the typical high deductible health insurance plans that results in thousands of dollars in copays and premiums before any health care has been received and the $250,000 in out of pocket costs that any 65 year old couple can expect to pay in additional health care costs. Contrary to their advertising, managed care organizations disempower patients and their physicians and are the largest obstacle to care in this country. Their disproportionate effect on psychiatric and substance use disorder services has been well documented.
2. Centers of excellence rather than collaborative care is the primary goal. All of the managed care forces and their political backers in the first point above are making the argument that we cannot possibly produce enough psychiatrists to meet the need in this country. They maintain that argument despite the fact that the US currently has about 1/4 the number of psychiatrists per capita as Switzerland, significantly fewer than 18 of 32 OECD countries, and is only 1 of 3 countries where the number of psychiatrists is decreasing. Instead of developing a rational triage system, their solution has been to say that anyone can provide psychiatric services or that a psychiatrist reading screening checklists like the PHQ-9 is some kind of psychiatric care. This is both an absurd characterization of psychiatry and a non-solution to the problem. Psychiatric specialists need to be available to treat the most difficult to treat disorders. They don't need to see everyone taking an antidepressant or everyone with insomnia. They need to see people with difficult to diagnose problems and treatment resistant mood, anxiety, psychotic, neurocognitive, substance use, and psychotic disorders. They need to see this population both for diagnostic clarification and treatment. Centers of excellence need to be developed around these disorders and the associated treatment delivery. There are current models that develop statewide systems of care around centers of excellence that seek to provide the highest quality of care to residents in that state.
3. The administration of systems at the local level needs to be done from a clinical and not a financial point of view. The split systems of care (administrative versus clinical) is one of many sources of poor quality care. It has resulted in some situations as absurd as administrators believing that they can design systems of mental health care without input from clinicians. This is especially problematic in treating patients who have problems with aggression. Psychiatric training needs to include specific instruction on how to clinically administer these systems of care.
4. The psychiatric infrastructure needs to be rebuilt. That includes both community and state hospitals. Very clear criteria need to be established for admission to these facilities since state hospitals in recent times have been the only housing option for people with severe problems. The concept of "treatability" has been inappropriately applied by federal regulators. I worked for years as a Medicare reviewer and reviewed many state hospital records where I was asked whether or not the patient had achieved maximum benefit from hospitalization. That would allow the administrative authority that I was working for at the time to deny any payment to the hospital from that point on. The reality is that the patient was still severely disabled and could not live on their own, with their relatives, or in whatever residential facilities existed in the state. Whether there was continued payment or not, there was no place to send the patient due to the presence of a chronic severe disorder. That is still the problem today. Rationing has resulted in a severely constricted infrastructure that does not match the needs of the patient population. A state hospital system cannot exist in a vacuum. There needs to be an established system of residential facilities apart from those hospitals that can accept people who may never acquire the skills to live in a group home setting or independently.
5. An emphasis on independent living and competitive or supported employment needs to be the priority of any mental health system. The community psychiatry movement introduced an important bias - that people with severe mental illnesses should always live independently rather than in an institution if possible. That is a very important concept but it is time to move beyond that basic bias to a more comprehensive approach. That includes not only the vocational rehabilitation aspects but a renewed emphasis on the cognitive and functional capacity aspects of severe mental illnesses. We now have large detailed studies of cognitive deficits in groups of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and substance use disorders. That knowledge has not been used to implement any innovative approaches to residential living or vocational rehabilitation. Treatment rather than rehabilitative approaches to these deficits need continued emphasis and research. The comprehensive treatment of any person with schizophrenia or a mood disorder should include an assessment of cognitive problems beyond the usual approach of treating symptoms.
6. Increased availability of psychotherapy and case management services. Medicalization has become a popular buzzword by journalists and critics of psychiatry. If you ask any psychiatrist about the likely causes of increased prescribing and attempts to treat all problems with medications the likely response will be that there are no other resources left to treat the problems. Many managed care systems have eliminated psychotherapists from their clinics or restricted access to available services. Family and marital therapy is often not available at all. Many counties have severely restricted the availability of placements for children with severe problems. There are clear population based approaches that have not been implemented on a wide scale basis including computerized psychotherapy, brief cognitive behavioral therapies, mindfulness based therapies, basic behavioral approaches, and non-psychotherapy approaches like exercise. These therapies can not only be applied to a wide variety of problems but also can be part of a rational triage system to reduce the prescription of medications and assure that psychiatrists are seeing only the most severe disorders. This system would also be an asset to primary care physicians and provide them with viable options other than prescribing medications.
7. Reform of the civil commitment process is necessary. Civil commitment for involuntary treatment of mental illness and substance use problems is highly subjective and varies considerably from county to county within the same state. That variance is largely due to variability in resources form county to county and interpretations of the statutes that generally are in line with the level of resources. Civil commitment and associated legal functions such as conservatorship or guardianship can be life saving and life changing interventions. A better infrastructure will give legal authorities more confidence that a viable intervention can be accomplished that will reverse the reasons why the person has entered the legal system. But beyond that it has to be clear that managed care definitions of "dangerousness" and interpretations of "imminent dangerousness" are basically rationalizations to do nothing. There also needs to be an avenue for preventing the incarceration of mentally ill and substance using patients for minor offenses and diverting them to treatment programs in the community. Another area where legal interventions are critically needed is guardianship and conservatorship decisions for mentally ill patients in need of acute medical care. Civil commitment, conservatorship, guardianship, and substitute decision makers all need to be rapid parallel processes done through the same probate court rather than different courts and different jurisdictions. It is more likely that experienced judges and referees will be able to make better decisions.
8. Better public health interventions for violence and aggression are needed. There has been no progress in this area due to the political stalemate on gun control or gun access. That never addresses the state of mind prior to the violent incident. The necessary public health interventions need to come at that level and there needs to be centers where aggressive behavior can be addressed and treated before there are adverse outcomes. Beyond that immediate need there is also very little dissemination of the information that is already known about childhood adversity and adult mental health outcomes. There is so much critical information out there about the adverse impact of certain social experiences in childhood that are not public knowledge and that should be widely available.
9. Pharmacovigilance and pharmacosurveillance services need to be developed in the same way that access to controlled substances prescriptions have been developed in many states. We have been hearing about "Big Data". Managed care systems have vast amounts of data that they consider to be proprietary that is analyzed from a business rather than clinical perspective. Any clinician prescribing medications should get a monthly report on their prescribing patterns relative to all physicians and fellow specialists and subspecialists. Statistical models of conservative prescribing and polypharmacy need to be developed. Prescribing patterns associated with the highest complication rates need to be identified. Feedback needs to occur at the level of the individual physician and the reports need an adequate amount of detail. Literature based on data mining large PBM data bases is not useful to individual physicians. With current pharmacy databases there is no reason why this system can not be developed nationwide.
10. Better neuroscience training for psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees. We are past the point where a focus on pharmacology can inform a psychiatrist about how a prescription might affect brain functioning. A detailed knowledge of signaling systems including many systems outside of the nervous system and how they affect plasticity is a requirement for the future. A detailed knowledge of these systems is necessary to understand brain functioning and normal and abnormal conscious states. There needs to be an emphasis on teaching neuroscience in psychiatric departments and correlating neuroscience with currently observed clinical phenomenon at a practical and theoretical level.
11. Medical detoxification from substances needs to be widely available. A lot of people forget that substance use disorders are in the DSM and there is a psychiatric subspecialty in Addiction. Even though we have more addiction specialists than ever, the quality of acute detoxification is worse than ever largely because it is another rationed service. People with significant withdrawal states are often sent home with a bottle of benzodiazepines or sent to a "social" detox setting with no medical supervision. There are specific goals for detoxification from addictive drugs including the prevention of withdrawal seizures, the prevention of delirious states, the prevention of psychotic states, and the prevention of suicide during acute withdrawal. It is a common expectation of the current system to expect a patient or their family to be managing withdrawal at home. The secondary expectation of detox is to assist the patient with transitioning to a safe setting where they can stop using the drug they were just detoxified from. My estimate from talking with primary care physicians is that only about 20% of the emergency departments and primary care physicians in any locale can refer people to functional detox units. The non-medical powers that be in the health care system decided long ago that detox was an "outpatient procedure." In most cases the translates to sending a person home and hoping they will make it to an outpatient appointment or an AA meeting.
12. The gross mismanagement of physicians has been a pathway to physician burnout, mass dissatisfaction, and a dumbed down assembly line approach to the practice of medicine and psychiatry. Physicians don't need to be told how many people to see in a day, what to document, or how to treat people. The current collaborative care approach can be seen as being due (in part) to a mind numbing productivity approach that was invented by the federal government and the business world in the first place. When I was trained as a physician, our teams knew what the resources were, knew what our tasks for the day were, and we could make a local resource allocation on that basis. It was an extremely efficient way to practice medicine. At some point, administrators developed "productivity" standards where physicians were expected to apply a totally subjective billing and coding scheme to a patient interaction and do that repetitively all day long. There were rarely two interactions that were alike, but for the past 20 years physicians have pretended that they were and that this productivity concept had some real meaning. Administrators could simply increase "productivity standards" to make it seem like more and more work was being done. In some clinics this process reached an absurd level – 40 or 50 patients a day. People with complex problems were being seen for minutes and physicians were going along with it because their salary depended on it. Productivity is another managed care concept that needs to go.
That is my top twelve list for fixing the broken mental health system. They are obvious problems supported by my clinical experience. They are consistent with the frequent problems I have had advocating for the resources I needed to treat patients with severe mental illness. The government and business partnerships in health care have been obstacles to care. As long as these partners continue to ration health care and siphon off large profits while rationing care and resources to the patients who are paying for them nothing will change. This pattern has been most noticeable in psychiatric services. Contrary to a lot of rhetoric, the problem with the mental health system is not the pharmaceutical companies behaving like other businesses. It is not the DSM. It can't be organized psychiatry because organized psychiatry is politically weak and ineffective. It is not physician conflicts of interest because they are plentiful and the more important ones on the business side are never discussed.
This so-called system was brought to you by the government and the health care companies that lobby all politicians. The idea that a system of medical care run by business people and politicians who know nothing about medicine or psychiatry is somehow a good idea, is an ongoing American pipe dream.
It is time for the country to snap out of it.
George Dawson, MD, DFAPA
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Supplementary 2: I will be adding in links to previous posts at some point but ran out of time tonight.
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Forest View Treneglos, Launceston £270,000
Situated in a glorious rural location is this 4 bedroom semi-detached house set in pleasant gardens with sweeping countryside views at the rear. The property features 2 reception rooms in the form of a generous living room which takes full advantage of the views and has patio doors at the side alongside an additional family room which could be utilised as a home office if required. The property also features a spacious and family orientated kitchen and dining room with a utility room just off. There are 4 bedroom on the first floor alongside the family bathroom and a separate WC. Externally there is a generous lawned garden at the front which wraps around the side of the house and offers seclusion and privacy. At the rear there is a patio which takes full advantage of the views over the surrounding fields and countryside where there is a wooden shed. The property is double glazed with oil fired central heating. EPC to be confirmed. The property is situated in the small hamlet of Treneglos in North Cornwall which is approximately 8 miles from the market town of Launceston. The nearest village of Tresmeer has a local convenient shop and there is a primary school at Warbstow which is approximately 3 miles from the hamlet. The property's position also offers great access to the North Cornish coast and various lush sandy beaches alongside numerous footpaths and stunning scenery.
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5' 0'' x 2' 9'' (1.52m x 0.84m)
The property features a generous garden laid to lawn at the front and side with a tree lined border. At the rear there is a patio and wooden shed and wonderful countryside views. The vendor has informed us that the official boundary of the property follows the line of the entrance gateway across the garden where there is an additional area that has been used for many years. Beyond the gateway there is also an area that has been utilised for parking although is not within the boundary.
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Gee, I wonder why.Hello Julia,
I know this is dated, but I just recently read an article of yours titled:
A Principle Who Said "Not Everyone Believes The Holocaust Happened" Has Lost His Job
I have a simple question for you:
What would you say to someone who said:
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The principal probably only had limited knowledge, perhaps from parents who objected to the Holocaust indoctrination of their kids in school.
When his job came under fire he caved in.
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As Dennis Basso reaches the 30th Anniversary of his label. He's in none other than a celebratory mood, as he designs his Pre-Fall collection. Inspired by London in the 1960s, the collection takes a Vintage feel, but most definately with a Celebratory, modern twist. "Pre-fall can be uptown or it can be downtown," the designer told WWD. "It's all about the woman taking the pieces and making them her own."
Getting to that point, a paisley printed top paired under a fur houndstooth Shaw, gives off a "Ready to Party" vibe. While an LBD goes Edgy underneath a black crocodile skin jacket with a bedazzled collar, and thigh-high Equestrian boots underneath. And a Sparkled evening gown gets transformed into daywear, when worn underneath a fur top with black thigh-high Equestrian boots, and finished off with a Chocolate Crocodile skin handbag and black gloves. I'm just left extremely in love with the collection as a whole.
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iPhone app downloads are heating up around the world, not just America.
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Super interesting stuff! America, Asia and Europe seem to be the biggest iPhone app users. I wonder what how many of these apps are health related?
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Workout Routines For men
So you are looking for inspiration in the gym? Tired of picking up heavy things with no direction? Fear not, we have some ideas for you that will get your training off the ground. Remember that when you are aiming to improve your body, you need to have focused goals, and the right routine to help you. If you are just going into the gym and doing what you fancy when you get there, you will not make any progress, and you will quit very quickly.
Let's take a look at one very important concept before we talk about specific routines. That concept is called Progressive overload. The definition of this is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training.
These two fancy sounding words are the most important rule that you must add to your training. Whatever type of training that you opt for, you must always use progressive overload. How do you do that? Quite simply, you keep improving. The weights get heavier, the reps get faster, the jumps get higher etc etc. You must always make sure that you are putting your body under more stress than before, and the programs we can suggest to you will help you to do just that. Let's take a look at four different options that you could choose for your workout routine.
The classic style of weightlifting that most people think of then they think of a gym. Although you may not want to compete in a bodybuilding competition any time soon, this style of training can be a great way to focus your mind in the gym. Why are some reasons you could choose bodybuilding, and which routines are good?
Loads of Info
Since the golden era of Arnold, bodybuilding officially has mainstream popularity. People might not watch the competitions on television, but bodybuilding is something that everyone on earth knows about, and many people dabble with.
The result of this is that there are millions of articles, hundreds of machines and centuries worth of YouTube tutorials on how to correctly body build. Granted, there is a lot of nonsense out there, but there is also some genuinely brilliant science that has been created in the name of bodybuilding. This means that you will never be short on ideas, on reading material, and with a community of like minded people striving for the same goal.
It Makes You Sexy
Bodybuilding is all about aesthetics. Nobody cares how useful your perfectly sculpted pecs are, they look good, and that is all that matters. If you are looking to improve your physique, if you are tired of being out of shape at the beach, and with a bulge when you sit in a chair, this is the quickest way out.
For example Bodybuilding creates the illusion of a narrow waist with wider shoulders, it sculpts the body in ways that make it much more aesthetically pleasing. So a reason to try bodybuilding? You will be a much sexier version of yourself!
Routines To Try
We are not going to spell out a routine here, but here is some guidance. Beginner: Try a full body workout for the first six to eight months. Something like this or this.
Intermediate: You have loads of options. Maybe 5/3/1 Boring but Big, Gironda's 8×8, or perhaps Arnold's Agonist-Antagonist training. At this stage you will be advanced enough to understand your body. Pick a routine and follow it to the letter and you will make progress. Trust the great trainers that are out there.
The uglier, fatter, stronger and way cooler brother of Bodybuilding. Powerlifting is a simple yet brutal sport. It consists of three movements. Bench, Deadlift, and Squat. Your aim? Move as much weight as you can. Simple, yet brutal. This type of training is perfect for someone looking to develop their strength. As a by product, as long as you get your diet in check, this will also give you a great physique. However, aesthetics are not the primary purpose of this training. Let's look at some benefits and routines.
You Become Inhumanely Strong
Since you are using big compound movements all the time, and you are using loads of weight, you will be strong, very very strong. It will translate to your daily life too. Need to lift something heavy? Carry all the shopping bags at once? This will make your back, legs, abs, grip all way stronger. And which man out there doesn't want to be strong?
Simple Goals
Unlike bodybuilding whereby your aesthetics are judged on a subjective basis, Powerlifting is much simpler. The difference is a bit like English Literature and Mathematics. In Literature, although the explanations you give about what Macbeth was thinking might be very sexy and interesting, they are subjective. Whereas in Mathematics, you get it right, or you get it wrong. In powerlifting, you either lift the weight or it crushes you, there is no subjectivity. This simple logic is very attractive to some people out there.
Beginners: Stronglifts 5×5. The quintessential strength program. Also, google Mark Rippetoe starting strength. He is one of the most informed coaches out there, and will get you started nicely.
Intermediates: Jim Wendler's 5/3/1, or the legendary Westside Barbell program. Have a go, be consistent and crush your goals.
And what of a shredding workout routine for men? Well, your best bet is to head over and read out lean body diet. It's an eight week program that'll shed any excess fat – read about it here.
You have probably heard the tired comparison between long distance runners and sprinters. One looks like a prisoner of war escapee, the other like a muscled chiseled beast. It is for this and many other reasons that sprinting can be a great option for people who want to get into shape. Let's look at some reasons.
Useful, And Awesome
Running fast has been a useful skill since the dawn of man, and although you may not be chasing down your dinner anytime soon, running is still a good skill to have. The way that your body responds to sprint training is similar to weight training, your hormones, heart, bones, muscles all respond favorably to sprint training. There is a lighthearted bodybuilding.com article on it here. So it makes you look great and does wonders for your metabolism and loads of other internal things. What's not to like? How about some routines, let's take a look.
Beginner: Just start with a simple HIIT routine like this. Do it several times per week, then start supplementing your sprinting with some weight lifting.
Intermediate: Check out this great routine for sprinting. It involves all the aspects of weight training that you can add to your program too. Remember, to maximize your sprinting times, strengthening your body comes inside the gym too, not just on the track.
Hope that this has given you a little bit of inspiration for your training. Get informed about which type of training suits you and your lifestyle best. Get training!


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Bongani Ngwetiya has been appointed sommelier and food & beverage manager for Granita restaurant at Kievits Kroon Country Estate. He brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge of the wine industry.
Born in KwaZulu Natal, Bongani moved to the Cape after he matriculated and got his first job at Spier as a cleaner – humble beginings which in no way suggested what was to come. His job at Spier no doubt changed the course of his life.
It was there that he first discovered an interest in wine and began reading wine magazines. With the support of the wine centre manager, he enrolled in a Certificate Wine Course at the Cape Wine Academy in Stellenbosch. When he passed with flying colours, he was re-employed as a trainee wine merchant at Spier.
On completion of the Diploma Wine Course, he was offered the unsurpassable opportunity to work in the US by Rafiki Wine Company and spent a year in Minnesota gaining valuable experience in the industry.
On his return to South Africa in 1999 he joined Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl as commis sommelier. A year later he joined the Devon Valley Hotel in Stellenbosch, which also owns SylvanVale Vineyards, as a wine ambassador, working in the hotel's tasting room. During the three years of his employment there, the hotel achieved its first Diamond Award in the Diners Club Wine List Awards.
Bongani then spent a number of years working at top 5-star hotels in Cape Town and Gauteng, including the Arabella Sheraton and the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town, Sun City Palace, Radisson Blu Hotel in Sandton, and, most recently, the Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg where he was assistant food & beverage manager.
Bongani says his passion for and knowledge about wine is encouraged and stimulated at Kievits Kroon, which has an award-winning wine list, its own wine label, and is known as the Winelands in Gauteng.
"I love the winelands look and feel about the estate," he says. "And the wine list is fantastic." Spoken by someone who clearly knows his stuff, perhaps the next time you find yourself in Pretoria or Joburg, you should stop by Granita restaurant at Kievits Kroon Country Estate.