This book argues that the needs of medical insurance and the pharmaceutical industry are diverting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association from its true intention of describing natural kinds of mental disorder. Despite the helpful summaries at various points, it is a little difficult to discern this argument amongst the detail of the book. Moreover, the conclusions at each stage seem to be reached rather idiosyncratically, often with apparently inadequate exploration of the underlying assumptions. Nor did I find sufficient discussion of what I consider to be some of the major issues about the validity of DSM.
It is not surprising that DSM is used for insurance purposes. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) was introduced to record causes of death. It was in the 6th edition that a chapter for mental disorders was added, thus extending the remit of the classification to morbidity as well as mortality. The assumption that mental disorders can be classified is bound to lead to the use of the labels for giving a number to an insurance claim.
The problem is that people rarely fit a simple numbering system. Insurance codes are manipulated to obtain payment for treatment. There is also a more fundamental issue here about psychiatric diagnosis. Reducing people's mental health problems to a single word diagnosis may not encapsulate adequate understanding of the reasons for their symptoms and behavior. Nor, in particular, did I find any discussion in the book of the value of using operational criteria for defining mental disorders. The change from DSM-II to DSM-III introduced these sets of rules to be followed to make diagnoses of the different syndromes. Previously the disorders were defined by typical descriptions of the different presentations. Such an approach was regarded as too vague leading to unreliable application of psychiatric diagnosis. But maybe it led to a more valid description of psychiatric syndromes.
There is also little doubt that treatment can affect the use of psychiatric diagnosis. Evidence exists that the wish to use lithium for the treatment of manic-depressive illness contributed to the shift away from overdiagnosing schizophrenia. Over recent years, the concept of bipolar disorder, which has replaced manic-depressive illness, encourages the use of so-called mood stabilizers in treatment. The use of psychiatric diagnosis is arbitrary to some extent and not an exact science.
Let me give an example of where I got lost in the argument of the book. Cooper seems to insist on defining dysfunction as evolutionary dysfunction. True, DSM-IIIR and subsequent versions added "a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom" to its list of associations with mental disorder. But this is just one option. Primarily, mental disorder is considered a "manifestation of behavioural, psychological, or biological dysfunction in the individual". To my mind, for functional mental illness the abnormality is a psychological dysfunction. The problem is gaining sufficient agreement about what counts as a failure of mental functioning.
Cooper also considers DSM-IV right to suggest that there is no clear-cut distinction between bodily and mental disorders. She justifiably realizes that DSM-IV cannot support this argument by suggesting it is thereby avoiding reductionism. Maybe I have too eccentric a view of the concept of mental disorder. I do not see any necessary reason why the physical processes that underlie mental disorder should be any different from those that affect our normal and everyday mental activity and behavior. I think it is important to talk about whether symptoms have a psychological or physical origin, unlike Cooper apparently. Objectifying people cannot be helpful in treatment and this is the danger of an overemphasis on psychiatric diagnosis. I do not think DSM is as potentially important as Cooper makes out.
She genuinely believes that DSM could "cut nature at the joints". If this is the case we surely would have defined some natural categories by now. She tentatively suggests that schizophrenia and depression may be in such a class. However, there are those who believe in the unitary hypothesis of psychosis, thus not defining schizophrenia as separate. Similarly, people presenting with depressive symptoms commonly overlap with other affective disorders. I am not saying there is nothing to be gained by attempting to classify. However, we do need to acknowledge its limitations. Diagnosis is rarely more than an attempt to put into words how one person's presentation overlaps with another. There may well be similarities. But to place too much emphasis on reifying these similarities into natural kinds is, to my mind, almost certainly doomed to failure.
Cooper does attempt to refute arguments, such as those of Hacking and McGinn, that mental disorders cannot be natural kinds. To be honest, I am not sure if I fully follow her at this stage - there are no helpful summaries here. Nor do I think it fair to use Huntington's disease as her example of a plausible natural kind of mental disorder. In many ways it is really a physical disorder in which the abnormality of triplet repeat on chromosome four has now been clearly demonstrated. I suspect Cooper is arguing that if we go on long enough we will eventually establish the biological basis of certain functional mental illnesses. This has always been the belief of mainstream psychiatry, but it still has not been realized. Maybe it never will.
I may be being unfair in my reading of this book. Read it yourself to find out. However, don't say I haven't warned you about the work you will have to put into understanding what Cooper is trying to say.
First, I'd like to thank Duncan Double for reviewing my book. He's quite right in saying that Classifying Madness is heavy on details. Classifying Madness is an academic book in the philosophy of psychiatry. It is aimed at philosophers of science and medicine, and at mental health professionals with some knowledge of the philosophy of science, and it won't be of much interest to anyone else. Double is also quite right in pointing out that the aims of Classifying Madness are limited and that there are many interesting questions about the DSM that I don't consider.
In the book I address two fundamental questions: The first half of the book considers whether it is possible to construct a classification of mental disorders that is "natural", in the sense that it "carves nature at the joints". I propose an account of disease according to which whether a condition is a disease is not merely a matter of biological fact, but also involves value-judgements. I claim that it is plausible, however, that at least some types of mental disorder are natural kinds. If I am right, mental diseases should be thought of in a way analogous to the way in which we think about weeds. Weeds are unwanted plants, thus whether a daisy is a weed is at least in part a value-judgement, but types of plant that are generally considered to be weeds - daisies, buttercups, stinging nettles - are natural kinds. Similarly, I suggest, the claim that schizophrenia is a disease is in part a value-judgement, but it may well be the case that types of schizophrenia and depression are natural kinds.
On the account of natural kinds that I propose, for a mental disorder to be a natural kind entails only that cases of that disorder are fundamentally and objectively similar. Double is right to suspect that I think that the groundings of such similarities will in many cases, but not always, turn out to be biological. As I think that some mental disorders will turn out to be natural kinds, I think that the DSM project of using empirical research to try to find natural kinds of disorder makes sense.
The second half of the book considers epistemic problems. Even if types of mental disease are natural kinds there may be reasons why a classification system that reflects their natural structure will be hard to achieve. I argue that classification is theory-laden and thus that the DSM can only be as good as current psychiatric theory. In addition I show that the DSM has been substantially affected by the needs of medical insurance and by the marketing practices of pharmaceutical companies. As a consequence, I conclude that the categories of the DSM are unlikely to reflect the true structure of the domain of mental disorders in the foreseeable future.
Rachel Cooper, Ph.D., Lecturer in Philosophy, The Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Furness College, Lancaster University, UK.


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That's what I recall as well: one "Hobbit" and one sort of "in between" film that would surely have been horrible fan fiction (moreso than "The Hobbit" ended up being, I mean).
Aren't the current legalities quite restrictive? To the best of my knowledge, based on what people have said here, the film rights holders are not allowed to adapt even things in the Appendices which are not also mentioned in the main body of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings in some fashion.
I feel that leaves them with two choices:
1. Make the films again (unlikely for the time being)
2. Make stuff up (more likely)
That being said, I think the faceless grey-suited men at Warner Bros. would also have to decide a few other things, like whether Peter Jackson's name would bring in more net profit than hiring someone new who would be cheaper. I sometimes feel that there's an assumption that more Warner Bros./New Line/Zaentz/whatever "Middle-earth" films would involve Jackson as director, but I don't think that's necessarily the case.
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Originally Posted by Nerwen
Refresh my memory- wasn't that basically the original plan? Before it was realised that the sheer epic vastness, or vast epicness, that is "The Hobbit" could not possibly be contained in anything less than a trilogy, wasn't it going to be one "Hobbit" film + an unspecified "bridging" movie?
Now that you mention it, yes it was.
Hmm...I made that comment as a little bit of a joke, however, if Jackson runs out of money there may yet be more films in the franchise.
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Hmmn... do you think this subject should have its own thread?
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Not unless the prospect actually materializes.
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Originally Posted by Zigûr
I would have thought that the Appendices were fair game, since they ARE part of "The Lord Of The Rings". I am unaware of any copyright law that says that only certain parts of a book are adaptable. However, we don't want to give Peter Jackson any more encouragement. What is certainly off-limits is the other works, like The Silmarillion, HoME etc.
I like to think that a TV adaptation of "The Lord Of The Rings" would be a possibility in the future. Three 10 episode seasons - at approximately one hour per episode - that would mean 30 hours. That should give enough to cover the story, as written by Tolkien, and include all the elements in the books. Including Mr Bombadil!
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Originally Posted by PrinceOfTheHalflings
I would have thought that the Appendices were fair game, since they ARE part of "The Lord Of The Rings". I am unaware of any copyright law that says that only certain parts of a book are adaptable.
It's just what I've heard - that they can't adapt things from the Appendices that aren't referenced in the main body of the text. Someone here said that, although I can't remember who.
This is news to me. Was it something that came up recently?
No, it would have been a few years ago now, when the Hobbit films were coming out.
Now I feel like I'm going crazy
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I think it was more something like this:
If something is:
1. Mentioned in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth etc., AND
2. Mentioned in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, BUT
3. NOT Mentioned in the main body of the text of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit,
they can't use it.
I was oversimplifying before.
So this would mean, for instance, they couldn't make a film about Morgoth stealing the jewels and hiding them in Angband, with Fëanor waging a war to reclaim them, because while this is mentioned in the Appendices, it's not in the main body of the text and is primarily in The Silmarillion, if that makes sense.
On the other hand I could be completely wrong and these stipulations might not exist at all.
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Well, there were those who argued that the mention of First and Second Age events in the Appendices somehow meant that the "Lord of the Rings" film rights extended to *all* related material, even if unpublished at the time. (One poster, in fact, was very insistant that Christopher Tolkien had morally and legally wronged Zaentz by publishing "The Silmarillion", and was anticipating a court case!)
What I can't recall is anyone proving the rights didn't even include the stuff in "The Appendices" in the first place. I'd love to be wrong, though...
Here's a question: after the tepidly received Hobbit trilogy, would a Jackson made Appendices based movie even be at all successful?
You mean this time people might check that everything claimed to be "in the Appendices" is actually there?
"When did Tolkien say that Radagast rode a rabbit sled?"
"...um, I think it was somewhere near the back..."
I think I saw something recently in which someone else had arrived at the same idea as me that the Kin-Strife was something "in the Appendices" that was ripe for adaptation.
I think if it was done in the manner of the "Hobbit" films, though, it would probably turn out that Castamir was secretly working directly for Sauron himself (perhaps meeting him in an audience chamber the way Darth Vader talks to the Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back) and Orcs would be sent to "reinforce" the Gondor usurpation armies.
Legolas would, of course, assist the Northmen. In the Battle of the Crossings of Erui (the title of the fifth film would be "The Battle of the Crossings of the Erui"), Legolas would kill Castamir on top of a collapsing tower, while Eldacar, who hasn't had a line since the third film, is forced to fight the evil, resurrected zombie version of his son Ornendil, who has been brought back through "certain necromantic magicks".
At the very end Thranduil (who is also there, mostly to second-guess Eldacar's decisions) would tell Legolas to "Seek out a young wizard I know."
No, I mean would people turn up at the theater and plunk down money for another Jackson Middle-earth flick?
Is the emphasis there on Jackson? That is, you think you think they'd accept "Aragorn and Legolas: the Early Years" or whatever from another director? Or just that audiences are tired of Middle-earth now generally?
Ah, this is taking me back to all the speculation years ago about the bridging film that never was. By the way, I misspoke by saying that was the original plan. The original original plan was to make one movie. Then it was two... then three. We were gradually acclimatised, you might say.
Both are good questions, I think.
I think if they made another film and Jackson wasn't directing they'd have a more difficult marketing challenge ahead of themselves.
I think a film that didn't feature the brand recognition of Jackson's name or the brand recognition of the titles of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit (which were still somewhat famous in their own right) would face much more of a struggle.
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Hmm.... ratings from me:
1. Born Of Hope (Kate Maddison)
2. The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
3. The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi)
4. The Two Towers (Jackson)
5. Hunt For Gollum (Chris Bouchard)
6. The Return of the King (Jackson)
7. An Unexpected Journey (Jackson)
8. The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass)
9. The Return of the King (Rankin-Bass)
10. The Desolation of Smaug (Jackson)
11. The Battle of Five Armies (Jackson)
I ordered them by my preference of viewing. I added the fan films because they have some heart behind them if not the budget, and are a preferrable watch to me despite some shortcomings in them. Of the forst three LotR P.J. Boyens & Co movies, they have to be the EE, and even then, I can usually only stomach Fellowship, with a fast forward through the Arwen part. I admire the Bakshi attempt, and love the orcs in it. The faux-Viking Boromir and the Robin Hood Strider was a bit much. but I could accept the Disney Princess Galadriel. And at least it had Glorfindel in it. That said, except for the 1st one on occasion, I don't usually go out of my way to watch any of them.
In the context of not wanting to watch them ever again, I wouldn't necessarily call it an overstatement. There's any number of great films I'll watch yearly - I cringe even when I am randomly clicking by a LotR film with my TV remote.
I agree. I will give one of the Jackson movies until the first commercial break should I find it on free-to-air TV, if only to remind myself how crap the screenplays are.
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Originally Posted by Snowdog
I admire the Bakshi attempt, and love the orcs in it. The faux-Viking Boromir and the Robin Hood Strider was a bit much. but I could accept the Disney Princess Galadriel. And at least it had Glorfindel in it.
And Arwen does not speak! If only Liv Tyler....
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It *sort* of had Glorfindel in it. But Aragorn insisted on calling him Legolas, and *he* insisted on going on the Quest with them!
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He appears to treat the 'I,' 'you' and 'we' in as lapidary a fashion as the carefully layered words of his observations of scenery, weather and situations. Treating the pronouns in this way means they have to be given the stability and respect accorded to things.
where, in the stillness, dew forms.
stirring an emptiness which is of a piece with the depleted horizon.
The yellow breakdown truck pulls off and halts outside an Agip petrol station bar. Pushing the stiffly sprung door, the driver throws back his blue anorak hood and shakes off the worst of the rain. Behind him come the two of us, bedraggled from the storm, wet through, with limp hair and blank faces, eyes blinking in the neon as if startled out of a troubled night's sleep.
That's right, he had found two foreigners alone on the autostrada towards Como at about half past four in the morning. They were soaked to the skin, and there was definitely something wrong because they were saying 'polizia' over and over.
These vivid opening scenes also bear witness to what Fisher called Robinson's mastery of the absorbed metaphor, the device that may lie grammatically hidden whilst absorbing the qualities of a mood into itself. The narrator talks with his sister in the closing pages of the novel some ten years after the traumatic event which had opened the story and feels that Our talking over everything and everyone began to go round in circles, and our conspiracy of two turned in upon itself.
And so, some forty-one years after a traumatic experience of sexual violation in a car during a wet night in Northern Italy, a violation committed by a man armed with a pistol, Peter Robinson's inner narrative surfaces in this deeply moving novel. The long-reaching effects of the incident ensured that the narrator's 'one summer of half-innocent youthful confidence had gone for ever' and as he confesses to us 'There are things you can't come back from, however much you may wish you could, or even pretend you have'.
My girlfriend and I were hitch hiking north from Rome after having almost all our money and most of our documents stolen in the capital. We had made it all the way from the outskirts of the city to somewhere north of Milan in the direction of Como, when we ran out of luck, were picked up by someone with a gun who demanded a sort of in-kind sexual payment (as I imagine he might have seen it) for the lift. So, to avoid being killed, she underwent that 'unutterable humbling' while I waited in the back of the car with a gun pointing at my head. We exchanged a few words in English, to the effect that he might kill us anyway, and what would we do? He didn't understand them, but quickly shut us up; and then when it was over, very surprisingly, he let us go.
As the second paragraph of the novel opens with the narrator and his girl friend arriving at the Agip petrol station bar the girl retreats into a corner 'as far as possible from the counter and the customers'. She remains there 'face still wet with tears or the rain, shivering beside the chrome stands where dolls in plastic bags and soft toys for souvenirs are dangling on display'. In the Perryman interview Robinson recalled the sense of a contrast between those inert commercial objects 'that are treated fondly and used as things to remember with, and an animate person being treated like a thing'. It is an aspect of the power of Robinson's writing in this novel that he is a poet who sees himself in some relation to the Poundian line of Modernism which he calls a commitment to the world as recalcitrant and 'other' than the perceiver. This is perhaps what Roy Fisher had in mind when he referred to Peter Robinson's lapidary style: an awareness of the external reality of our surroundings.
'Driven into a landscape without choices' ('There Again') there will be no return to a former world and the poet, the novelist, can only embark upon what the editors of that Salt collection of essays were to term an 'active working through of public-private experiences' which 'call up quiet and necessary reserves of feeling in the reader' in order to 'sustain fidelity to a culture of common understanding'.
still on the gravel, advancing towards me, as a darker stain.
who fills the air with an indelible stain, there'd be no possibilities.
They thicken into leaf, his flanking trees. Look, now, it's as plain as plain.
a return is not only registered by 'Mute welcomes' but that 'Home is the view I appropriate'.
History begins only at the point where things go wrong; history is born only with trouble, with perplexity, with regret. So that hard on the heels of the word Why comes the sly and wistful word If. If it had not been for…If only…Were it not…Those useless Ifs of history.
As Peter Robinson knows full well: we live with the Past. However, his Collected Poems, like his novel, is a testament to life not loss and to art's haunting visibility.
Ian Brinton now writes full time, after forty years of school-teaching. Recent publications include an edition of Selected Poems and Prose of John Riley (Shearsman), translations from the French of Philippe Jaccottet (Oystercatcher Press), For the Future, a festschrift for J.H. Prynne (Shearsman), An Andrew Crozier Reader (Carcanet) and Contemporary Poetry and Poets since 1990 (C.U.P.). He co-edits Tears in the Fence and SNOW and is on the committee setting up the new archive of Contemporary Poetry at the Unive He is the Web Manager for The English Association's War Poets Website.


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Obama $$: Study to Clear Gay Men of HIV/AIDS Cause
Although studies have shown conclusive evidence that nearly all sexual transmission of HIV is caused by infected men performing anal sex on uninfected men and women, the Obama administration has committed $15 million to concoct other excuses for HIV transmission.
For background, read Previous Federal Government Reports: Majority of New HIV Cases from Homosexual Behavior and also read HIV Infections Rampant Among Homosexuals According to Old CDC Studies as well as Anal Sex is Main Cause of HIV Pandemic, Study Shows
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-- From "Government hiring 'independent' study of HIV" by Steve Peacock, World Net Daily 6/16/13
The administration seems perplexed about why homosexuals – whom it defines as "men who have sex with men"– along with racial and ethnic minorities, transgender persons and youths 13-29 continue to represent the "overwhelming majority" of the 50,000 new HIV cases reported annually in the U.S.
So now the Obama administration, through the CDC, is working to amass a list of researchers who could investigate and publish, independently of the government, conclusions about "this health disparity in the HIV epidemic," according to a sources-sought notice that WND discovered via routine database research.
Social issues such as "racism, discrimination, stigma, poverty, incarceration, and healthcare inequity" continue to serve as "anchors" of the epidemic, CDC claims in the recent procurement.
From "Qualitative Inquiry Methods to Understand Issues in HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in the US" posted by Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 5/9/13
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD, Viral Hepatitis, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), intends to solicit and award an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract for a ceiling amount of $15.0M, in accordance with FAR Part 15 - Contracting by Negotiation, for Qualitative Inquiry Methods to Understand Issues in HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in the United States support services.
The purpose of the IDIQ contract will be . . . for HIV epidemiologic research and surveillance of the behaviors and determinants of HIV transmission and disease progression, and for prevention research and the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based HIV prevention programs serving persons affected by or at risk for HIV infection.
The contract anticipated period of performance will be 8/31/2013 through 8/30/2018.
To read the entire federal government posting above, CLICK HERE.
. . . Thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, many advances have been made in HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Great strides have been made in the development of faster and more efficient HIV testing and screening technologies, and in medical treatments that allow HIV-positive persons to live long and productive lives. Yet despite these efforts, approximately 50,000 Americans are infected with HIV each year, and the overwhelming majority of these new infections remain among minority and vulnerable communities, such as racial and ethnic minorities, men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender persons, and youth (aged 13-29). This health disparity in the HIV epidemic is anchored in long-standing social issues, such as racism, discrimination, stigma, poverty, incarceration, and healthcare inequity.
In July, 2010, President Barack Obama unveiled the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) for the United States . . . It is increasingly important to understand the issues, behaviors, barriers and facilitators experienced by those at greatest risk for HIV to better focus prevention programs and successfully reduce the number of persons infected with HIV, especially in vulnerable communities, and increase access to HIV treatment and care for all HIV-positive persons.
. . . the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) is responsible for providing national leadership and support for HIV epidemiologic research and surveillance of the behaviors and determinants of HIV transmission and disease progression, and for prevention research and the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based HIV prevention programs serving persons affected by or at risk for HIV infection.
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Lakers News: Frank Vogel Says Alex Caruso Is 'On Track' To Play Against Hornets
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LeBron James: Lakers Were 'Super-Duper Lucky' To Get Talen Horton-Tucker In Second Round
The Los Angeles Lakers continued their strong start post-All-Star break, racking up their third consecutive win against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night.
Despite another slow start in the first half, the Lakers eventually picked things up and blew the game open in the fourth quarter. LeBron James recorded his fifth triple-double (25 points, 12 rebounds, 12 assists) of the 2020-21 season, while Montrezl Harrell had a strong 25-point performance off the bench.
Los Angeles has been able to win despite being short-handed as they are without three of their rotation players. Anthony Davis was recently re-evaluated and is set to miss at least two more weeks as he rehabs a calf strain, while there is no clear timetable for Marc Gasol as he goes through the NBA's health and safety protocols.
The Lakers have also missed Alex Caruso the past couple games after he was diagnosed with a mild concussion.
Prior to their game against the Timberwolves, Caruso was seen running sprints on the court and head coach Frank Vogel provided an update on his playing status for Thursday against the Charlotte Hornets. "Still on track," Vogel said.
"I'm not sure of the exact details, but each day you have to increase your activity level and then monitor symptoms, is sort of how the return-to-play protocols works with concussions. So his on-the-court work, which is part of that return-to-play protocol still has him on track. He still has to pass certain tests to be cleared."
This is good news as Caruso has been an integral rotation player for Vogel because of his defense and knack for making winning plays. The guard provides all the intangibles a coach could ask for, and his high energy and effort often times jumpstarts the Lakers when they need a jolt.
With Caruso out of the lineup, Talen Horton-Tucker has stepped up and flashed once again why he is an intriguing piece for the Lakers going forward. After recording an 18-point, 10-assist double-double against the Golden State Warriors, Horton-Tucker scored 16 points to go along with seven rebounds and four assists in the win against the Timberwolves.
Vogel on Horton-Tucker's importance to Lakers
Horton-Tucker has been up and down during the 2020-21 season, but his recent stretch has been encouraging. Vogel noted how the 20-year-old has made an impact on the team. "He's vital," Vogel said. "His growth, you've seen it starting last year, but even from the beginning of this year up until this point.
"Last night, in particular, having 10 assists with the decisions he was making once he gets to the paint, it's very important to have another dynamic basket-attacker and ball-handler to go along with Caruso and Dennis Schroder out there to support LeBron. He's a very important player for us."
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EDMOND — About 99 percent of the earthquakes occurring in Oklahoma the past few years are located within nine miles of a certain type of injection well, a state agency reported Tuesday.
During recent days, weeks and months, parts of Edmond and Logan County have been shaken by earthquakes strong enough to damage the Logan County jail and several homes. Quakes have been felt in the Arcadia Lake and Jones area.
Tuesday, the Oklahoma Geological Survey released a position statement dated Feb. 17.
It begins noting the significant increase in seismic activity in the state since 2009. Most of the quakes are not strong enough to be felt, but those that are draw interest from citizens.
"This statement communicates what, in the opinion of the OGS, the data currently tells us and outlines our plans for monitoring future activity and conducting research to better understand Oklahoma seismicity," the authors wrote.
Since 2009, earthquake activity in Oklahoma has been about 40 times higher than in the previous 30 years, the authors stated. While more than 90 percent of these earthquakes are too small to be felt, they are recorded by the OGS network.
Based on reported "felt" quakes before creation of the OGS network, this recent level of activity is significantly greater than the past 100 years. Even a 100-year time frame is not statistically representative in geological terms, the authors stated.
Most of the historical and more recent earthquakes are located on or near the Nemaha Ridge, the Ouachita-Arbuckle-Wichita Mountain front and other major geological structures, the authors stated.
Implied fault movements for the majority of the earthquakes appear to be consistent with natural stresses in Oklahoma, the authors stated.
— A direct link of the Jones earthquake swarm to the oil and gas activity cannot be established at this time.
Research into the cause of the earthquakes will continue on several fronts, the authors stated. Future studies could include activity in the vicinity of Prague, Jones, Arcadia Lake, in Love County and other appropriate studies.
The Oklahoma Geological Survey is increasing its resources in the area of earthquake seismology, providing additional capability to not only improve the agency's monitoring and reporting of earthquakes, its primary duty, but also to better understand key concepts within the context of Oklahoma seismicity and to communicate them to the public.


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Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan and diagnosis himself with "Wanderlust". The only cure is travelling the world.
Kevin Rushby is Guardian Travel's 'Explorer'. He tests whether the words 'group tour' and 'adventure' are mutually exclusive. So he prooved that theory in Kyrgyzstan by swimming in a mountain lake, riding a stallion and escaping his travel buddies whenever he got the chance.


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Editor's Note: Spotlight is an occasional feature on board certified counselors with a story to share. Feel free to send your ideas for Spotlight candidates to newsletter@nbcc.org.
When Laura Shannonhouse, PhD, NCC, LPC, stepped into the Eisenhower Executive Building in December of last year, she had no idea of the significance of the invitation to the White House Mental Health Summit. This same humility has proven to be an asset in her career and to the organizations she's collaborated with.
Before Shannonhouse was asked to provide consultation to federal mental health administrators and put her grant project findings in front of Congress, she began her journey into counseling in an unlikely place—the University of Florida Gator Band program.
As an undergraduate student, Shannonhouse was offered a job as an administrative assistant to the Gator Band program, handling logistics and coordination of travel, finances, and collaboration with sponsors, donors, and the athletic department. She was also able to travel, conduct, and play (clarinet) in national and international performances.
A significant trip to Shannonhouse during this period was a disaster response in Lockerbie, Scotland. Syracuse University and the University of Florida collaborated on a memorial service commemorating the 1988 air bombing disaster in which a terrorist bomb killed 243 passengers and crew, including 35 students returning from their study abroad through Syracuse University.
"At the memorial, I remember thinking there was something therapeutic happening with that music, with those impacted—but also in the growth and education that came from the disaster and the meaning that was made through that community and the Remembrance Scholars program."
That sense of shared community cohesion was healing, and a curiosity to understand the why behind it drew her to counseling and disaster response. Despite her successes as an administrator, Shannonhouse was still skeptical of her own ability. "When I graduated college, I didn't think I was smart enough to go to grad school," she says. "But through that job with Gator Band, I started to believe in myself. If I can track all this money and find solutions to these challenges, conduct this band, play this performance tour, maybe I'm smart enough for grad school."
In 2006, Shannonhouse was accepted to the University of Florida master's program, where she completed her MEd and EdS degrees in mental health counseling. She found opportunities through mentors like Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji, who guided Shannonhouse on her first clinical experience in post-Katrina New Orleans and other disaster response immersion experiences in South Africa and Botswana, and through Dr. Kitty Fallon, who invited Shannonhouse to assist in teaching a master's counseling course.
When Shannonhouse's practicum placement fell through at the University of Florida counseling center, she applied to the Alachua County Crisis Center, where she worked through multiple positions—serving as a crisis phone line counselor, supervising and training phone counselors, being deployed into the community on care teams, providing individual and group counseling, and serving as coordinator on overnight shifts deploying the care teams. Her interest in counseling and disaster response was further solidified through her personal background experience with end-of-life issues, as her father was a hospital chaplain and Director of Pastoral Care for a hospital system. These experiences would later shape Shannonhouse's career and scholarly agenda in crisis and disaster research.
Shannonhouse then went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in counseling and counselor education in 2013. She considers herself fortunate to be mentored by counseling leaders such as Drs. Jane Myers, Tom Sweeney, José Villalba, L. DiAnne Borders, Craig Cashwell, as well as anthropologists Drs. Art Murphy and Sarah Wagoner.
While working on her degree, Shannonhouse was invited by Drs. Murphy and Wagoner to study community-scale grief on the ABC Daycare Fire disaster in Hermosillo, Mexico, in which 49 infants and toddlers were killed and 93 others were injured. She also worked with Burmese, Bhutanese, and Vietnamese refugee communities through an official partnership that Dr. Myers helped create between the counseling program and the local Church World Service. This initiative, one that she thought would be a one-off project with Chi Sigma Iota, became a successful multi-year project because of doctoral students like Drs. Cheryl Fulton and Lucy Lewis, whom she describes as insightful and hardworking.
Although her dissertation research was in multicultural counseling competence, during her first academic position at the University of Maine in 2013, there was a problem with suicide in area schools, and her dean asked if her experience in crisis intervention could help. Simultaneously, there was a disproportionate number of students dying by suicide at the university when compared with the national average (4 times higher). She started attending superintendent meetings and developed a second scholarly agenda with colleague Dr. Dennis Lin to combat youth (K–16) suicide.
With Shannonhouse's quickly prepared data and recommendations, her university's Dean of Students agreed to provide her approximately $30,000 to implement a 14-hour evidence-based suicide intervention training, ASIST. She notes that at the time she had little experience or expectations in grant writing: "There is some naivety that actually worked to my advantage. I just went in assuming that they had to make this happen as it was a big problem, and we had done our homework." And they did.
Today, she tells a slightly different story on her grant-writing process. Shannonhouse is no stranger to rejection. "There is such a strategy to writing grants. You can present the most well-written, the most thoughtful grant, and still not make it when it's that competitive. I think it's about fortitude. It's about not giving up. It's about continuing to try and not getting discouraged." She feels blessed to have been funded now in both lines of research—suicide intervention training and outcome research, and research on religious/spiritual coping during disaster, in which culture-centered approaches are imperative.
Shannonhouse just earned tenure and is an associate professor in the Counseling and Psychological Services Department at Georgia State University, a leader in research institutions and diversity, where she directs an advanced methods research lab, H.O.P.E. (Helping Others Provide Empathy). She says that mentorship of students is one of the best parts of the job. She gets to work with Virginia Tech colleague Dr. Matthew Fullen and doctoral student Mary Chase Mize on two federal grants to address the problem of suicide in older adults.
In an ASIST training in 2017, Shannonhouse was asked about the possibility of training home delivery meal providers, as they are sometimes the only social connection that a homebound older adult has. Older adults are the most at-risk age cohort, and suicide attempts are more lethal with older adult populations. Shannonhouse found this idea innovative, especially as it came from the aging network. She developed research with Mrs. Mize, Dr. Fullen, and UT Knoxville colleague Dr. Casey Barrio Minton. The four were funded by DHHS, allowing Shannonhouse to train 160 new suicide interventionists who provide home-delivered meals to older adults. Over the course of a few short months prior to COVID-19 service interruption, those trained performed 51 suicide interventions with older adults at risk.
Drs. Shannonhouse, Fullen, Barrio Minton, and Mrs. Mize's newest DHHS grant is a partially nested, randomized controlled trial that will enable 3,840 calls to be made to at-risk older adults during COVID-19. This innovation, BE WITH (Belongingness and Empathy With Intentional Targeted Helping), tests a series of training conditions to evaluate and ideally establish higher tiers of evidence of effectiveness needed to put a suicide intervention training on the National Council on Aging's evidence-based registry, as none currently exists. This would unlock Title III federal dollars for Area Agencies on Aging across the country to use funds to promote life with older adults. Their hope is to equip home delivery meal volunteers to BE WITH older adults over time, fostering a sense of belonging, buffering perceived burdensomeness, and tailoring personalized intervention when needed.
The H.O.P.E. lab is currently working on research tasks related to these two federal grants, as well as a Templeton Foundation grant focusing on how disaster survivors find meaning after suffering. These research grants currently fund 10 master's and three doctoral students. Shannonhouse says, "they are the best lab in the world, and they all report looking forward to one day being future older adults."
As her team and department conduct research, Shannonhouse is able to incorporate those finding into her lectures and have her students reflect on what they mean in a clinical setting. "Those are the special moments that are so fun as a faculty member to make your teaching more synergistic, more alive, more in real time, more cutting edge."
Shannonhouse is ever grateful to mentors who have shaped her career, showing interest when she doubted herself, particularly Drs. Dennis Gilbride, Casey Barrio Minton, and Catharina Chang. Shannonhouse said she tries her best to "pay forward the same attention to my students in lab and personally reach out to ones that I think have something special in them—gifts they don't yet see in themselves—so that they have these opportunities to see and recognize their abilities. We help our students to understand how they are an essential part to a bigger story of preventing suicide and promoting life. It's important they know what they are contributing."
She reports that her lab students love working with the 700 homebound, racially diverse older adults in the project. "They have tremendous wisdom, spirituality, resiliency, and beauty." Because of that work, the lab has some of the only pre-disaster data on suicide predictors that encapsulate suicidal desire and capability in the population that is most in danger from the pandemic.
Shannonhouse is frequently contacted by local media for comments and reactions to a disaster event or crisis that just took place, so she stays informed and prepared. She knows the importance of feeding high-quality and evidence-based content to officials who ask.
Shannonhouse was able to put her years of research and education into action at the 2019 White House Mental Health Summit, in which roughly 180 federal administrators and representatives from mental health organizations met to discuss efforts to deliver mental health treatment to people experiencing homelessness, violence, and substance use. Shannonhouse attended as the only grantee representative of the Administration for Community Living (ACL), under DHHS.
Shannonhouse was stunned to find out she was also the only counselor present. "I didn't realize what exactly I was invited to, so I felt a heaviness and responsibility all of a sudden not just to represent the administration that funded my research, but also to represent the profession well."
At a forum designed for networking, Shannonhouse took advantage of the opportunity to meet with and talk to administrators who make decisions about national health care. People were eager to talk to Shannonhouse about her research and recommendations for serving the most vulnerable. "I was really grateful to hear about the increased funding for serious mental illness, the desire to equip lay providers with evidence-based skills, and the desire to partner with faith-based communities," she says. "Some of the things that are actually so core to my heart were actually values of the leaders present."
For Shannonhouse, although professional advocacy is part of the mission of counselors, she sees the need for applied research that works on the real-world problems of those we serve. She paraphrases Dr. Thomas J. Sweeney: "Advocacy is two pronged: client and counselor advocacy." She says, "When someone sees a counselor doing good work—rigorous research to better a social problem—they lean on this person for guidance, and they affiliate who we are with what we do!"
Shannonhouse believes that clinicians can and should do research, too, attempting more partnerships with academics. "We need outcome research to demonstrate what we do works! Let's get on that! Clinicians out there that work with clients struggling with ongoing suicidal ideation and multiple suicide attempts, let's partner related to outcome research of Suicide to Hope (S2H), a framework for master clinicians that augments any therapeutic modality (e.g., DBT, CBT) in enhancing growth through adversity. Growth and recovery have long been around in the areas of substance abuse and grief and loss but are new to the field of suicidology."
Shannonhouse knows that if "you are doing high-quality work, people will reach out to you, and if you respond and deliver, they will reach out again. We have the opportunity as counselors to have the influence on addressing real problems and helping administrators make better decisions with their funding."


Comes apart and goes together with ease...it's all about practice.
Well, that's what the lifetime warranty is for. I hope you get it back quickly. Mine is just getting broken in.
Range trip today. 10 mph wind from the left. Winchester copper plated hollow points @ 10 yards... Good birthday present!
Yes, back in the 90's I got such a good deal on magazines I had to buy a .45 ACP GLOCK M-30 compact.
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Looks like Florida's motto is making it north..."Don't &%#* with old people"
I just send the dog outside. If he comes back wet, I know it's raining.
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Before the "Blue Tooth" was the "Brown Nose"
Welcome back aboard from the "GunShine"state of Florida. State of over 1 MILLION 971 THOUSAND Concealed Carry Licenses and counting!


1 of 3 Heat oil in a large, lidded nonstick 8-quart pot over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, for 6 minutes, until nicely browned.
2 of 3 Stir in garam masala and cook for 30 seconds. Add tomatoes with their juice, and potatoes; simmer, covered, on medium heat 7 minutes. Stir in cauliflower, raisins, salt and chickpeas; simmer, covered, 12 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until potatoes and cauliflower are tender.
3 of 3 Gradually stir in spinach until wilted. Serve over rice and top with nuts. Squeeze lemon over each serving, if desired.
Per Serving: 2 g sat. fat, 16 g fiber, 704 mg sodium, 11 g Fat, total, 81 g carb., 0 mg chol., 16 g pro., 476 kcal cal.


Heckler & Koch has add threaded barrel "Tactical" models to its VP series of pistols. Except for their threaded barrels, as well as variations in weights and lengths, the Tactical models are otherwise identical to standard VP pistols.
The threaded barrels are manufactured at HK's Oberndorf factory in southwest Germany using Heckler & Koch cold-hammer forging process. HK cold-hammer forged barrels—made from proprietary cannon grade steel—are well known for their long service life. Similar HK barrels on P30 models have fired more than 90,000 rounds in endurance tests.
The polygonal bore profile, with no traditional lands-and-grooves rifling, contributes to longer service life as well as a slight increase in muzzle velocity. Threaded barrels on the VP Tactical models do not use an O-ring assisted lockup as found on other HK Tactical handgun models.
In development for more than four years, the VP series debuted in 2014 and is Heckler & Koch's latest handgun and the first striker-fired HK since the renowned P7 series pistols were introduced in the 1980s.
For more information, visit HK-USA.


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INKED John Wick has a rating of 5.0 stars based on 12 reviews.
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in a storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentleman. John Wick is one of those men you do NOT want to anger.


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From IAR Winter Edition
Peter Murray reflects on the cool Nordic aesthetic of Patricia Burns whose work is on view in January at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin.
Reassuringly familiar and yet also distanced and remote, the paintings of Patricia Burns remain in the mind long after the actual images have been viewed. The images she depicts are generally straightforward, but also deceptively simple. A road, shrouded in mist, bends into the distance, the faint outline of telegraph poles marking its curving route. In a suburban housing estate, trees and houses are silhouetted against a pale sky. While these are deceptively normal images, an unsettling mood pervades Burns' work. These surroundings are familiar, but they are also alien. Points of reference that might reassure, such as cars, people or animals, are rarely included. In the estates, the streets are deserted, while the houses themselves seem on the point of being enveloped by fog. Burns rarely depicts trees in full leaf, more often they are stark outlines, with bare branches reaching upwards, silhouetted against layers of mist.
Nonetheless Burns has an ability to draw, from this apparently simple subject matter, works of art of visual strength and complexity. Her approach is painterly, and she employs a limited colour range, but the tonal values are finely nuanced. There is an emphasis on pale greys, whites, light blues and olive greens, colours that combine together to achieve a wintry, half-light effect. Paint is used more to sketch than to meticulously render, while the principal subject matter, it becomes apparent, is not the structures or trees themselves, but the shimmering envelope of light with which they are surrounded. This veiled but intense sunshine penetrates layers of mist, suffusing houses, fences and street lights with a cold, penetrating light. These are paintings on the cusp of becoming. One moment they are landscapes, the next almost pure abstractions. Thin washes of gauze-like white paint transmute into clouds or floating mist for a few moments, then suddenly become paint again. In their own way, these are joyous works of art, conveying with great skill a sense of what it is like to witness sunlight breaking through early morning mist on a winter's day.
Having studied at both the Dublin Institute of Technology, from where she graduated in 1986, and the Crawford College of Art in Cork, over the past decade Burns has commuted between these two cities. Her paintings reflect this bi-location, and perhaps some of the emotional intensity in her work is informed by a life that has involved continually arriving, and continually departing. This quality of transience reflects also a political sensibility, in which contemporary society has become a world where people are increasingly on the move. In Ireland's modern housing estates, neighbours often do not know one another. While they share the same communal spaces, they often lead entirely separate lives.
In 2008 Burns showed her Northside paintings at the Vangard Gallery and two years later she began work on a series of paintings of 'The Glen', an area of Cork's north inner city where a wooded valley has managed to survive amidst the urban encroachment of roads, housing and factories. The resulting Hinterland – The Glen Paintings were shown at Triskel Christchurch, Cork and Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford in 2011-12 and an accompanying publication produced by Gandon Editions. In this, the poet Thomas McCarthy responded in his essay on the Hinterlands paintings to their essentially poetic character. He noted that they relate, in ways not readily apparent, to a deep-rooted human need for places of refuge and haven. Yet it would be wrong to consider Burns' art as sentimental, or nostalgic. In their visual impact her canvases resonate with a cold, clear, haunting intensity, more characteristic of Scandinavian art, music and cinema than of the warm Mediterranean. Her paintings bears comparison with those of Elizabeth Magill and Oliver Comerford, two artists whose work also evokes worlds in a state of becoming, motile yet full of the familiar elements of the everyday. In winter 2014 her first solo exhibition with Taylor Galleries was, appropriately, entitled 'November Paintings', and her second solo show with the gallery is scheduled for 2016.
Patricia Burns 'Winter Group Show' Taylor Galleries, Dublin
17 December 2015 –30 January 2016.
All images ©The Artist.
Peter Murray is Director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.


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Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. Bishop's Castle was the smallest borough in England until 1967, when it lost that distinction, but none of its quaintness. Situated off the A488 from Shrewsbury to Knighton, it clings to a steep little hillside, 500 ft up - yet overtopped by the hills which surround it. Its Town Hall, one of the smallest in England, stands at the top of the High Street, forcing the road to bend to pass it, with a clock-tower above and an old stone lock-up in its basement. Included in the town's insignia are two fine silver maces, hallmarked 1697.
Administratively linked with Clun, 5 miles to the South, Bishop's Castle is in the centre of sheep country. There are several fine Tudor houses: the Old Hall, believed to be the birthplace of Edmund Plowden, the builder of Plowden Hall, the Old Porch House; and the aptly named House on Crutches. There are also several Georgian houses. Of the original castle, now only part of a wall remains.
The little town had an unusual origin. An Anglo-Saxon landowner, Egwin Shakehead, was cured of his palsy at the shrine of St Ethelbert in Hereford and in gratitude bequeathed his manor of Lydbury North to the Bishops of Hereford. They built a castle on the land and in the 13th century the little settlement which had sprung up around it became a separate parish, with its own church. Of that first church, very little remains for it was fired and ruined during the Civil War when Bishop's Castle was loyal to the King.
The oldest inn in the town is probably The Three Tuns whose history has been traced back to 1642, but may well go beyond that.
Nearby towns: Church Stretton, Clun, Craven Arms, Minsterley, Newtown, Welshpool
Nearby villages: Acton, Brockton, Bromlow, Bryn, Chirbury, Clun, Clunbury, Clungunford, Clunton, Eaton, Edgton, Halford, Hopesay, Horderley, Hyssington, Linley, Little Stretton, Lydbury North, Lydham, Mainstone, Marshbrook, Meadowtown, More, Newington, Picklescott, Plowden, Ratlinghope, Shelve, Sibdon Carwood, Snead, Stokesay, Wentnor, Wistanstow
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Plyometrics is a rather new and somewhat foreign concept that is becoming more popular in athletic training programs in the hopes of providing optimal gains in power, which is difficult to obtain by other means of exercise. With its increasing acceptance in the athletic environment, it is also being incorporated into rehabilitation programs as a means of providing strength and proprioceptive feedback.
Little is currently known about the principles that govern the use of plyometrics and the efficacy that has been demonstrated with this training method. The purpose of this independent study is to analyze the basic concepts underlying plyometrics and to examine its role in both the athletic and rehabilitative environments. With the information provided in this Independent Study, it is hoped that those who take advantage of plyometrics can better understand the biomechanics involved that lead to its demonstrated success.
Fetsch, Sara C., "Plyometrics: A Look at the Biomechanical Basis of Its Use in the Realm of Sports Performance Enhancement and Physical Rehabilitation" (1999). Physical Therapy Scholarly Projects. 138.


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The Guardian view on moon landings: a new race for space | Editorial
Friday, 19 Jul 2019
# Donald Trump
# Elon Musk
# Europe
# Jeff Bezos
# Nasa
# Neil Armstrong
# Russia
# Space
# The moon
The Apollo 11 mission inspired the world. What has happened in the ensuing half-century?
When Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon 50 years ago, it was down to a giant leap of political and scientific imagination. His footprints on the powdery lunar surface changed the way we saw ourselves, confirming that humanity could escape its earthly coils. The mission unleashed a dream of what we as a species might do. Yet only a dozen people have walked on the moon, all between the summer of 1969 and the end of 1972.
Did we lose our primordial urge to explore? Almost certainly not – though Buzz Aldrin this week decried "50 years of non-progress", probes have travelled to Pluto and beyond. But times have changed. The cold war rivalry that catalysed the space race vanished. The Soviet Union was first with a satellite, dog and astronaut in space. Today Washington and Moscow play the great game in the Middle East, not the heavens, although both are now contemplating a return to the moon: Donald Trump wants to make America great again by putting astronauts there by 2024, though some think China may get there first; Russia talks of landing cosmonauts by 2030.
Then there's the money. By 1966 the United States was spending 4.4% of the national budget on Nasa. Now the US cash for space barely touches 0.5% of GDP. More striking is that space is increasingly a playground for rich men. There is a risk that, thanks to Elon Musk and Richard Branson, manned space flight degenerates into conspicuous consumption for the super-rich. The world's wealthiest man, Jeff Bezos, also dreams of going to the moon, this time to stay and turn it into an industrial park. This is not as silly as it sounds: helium-3, which could be a plentiful source of energy, could be mined there. Sceptics might say that before Mr Bezos carves up the moon he should sort out the business model of the corporation that pays for his plans, but the next giant leaps may well come from entrepreneurs, not states.
If Armstrong's stroll produced the greatest broadcast in television history, then another astronaut produced the most significant image. The picture of the Earth rising above the moon's horizon was pivotal for environmentalism, since it induced the sense that our home planet was something to be cared for rather than plundered. Underlying the idea of living on another planet is that we might need to if we continue making a mess of the one we have.
However, the treaty that governs who can do what is even older than Armstrong's steps on the moon. Private firms and smaller nations have joined the race for the stars. Luxembourg is positioning itself to be the centre of the space business. This will need careful handling.
Space isn't what it used to be. But one image of what happened on the way to the moon in 1969 needs challenging. In celebrating the lunar landing, let's remember that it wasn't only buzz-cut white men who had the right stuff: behind the scenes were female mathematicians, several of them African-American, tasked with plotting the route to the moon. Without them, Mr Armstrong would never have got there.
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
The Guardian view on moon landings: a new race for space
The Guardian view on exploring Saturn: an inspiring distraction | Editorial
Editorial: The great success of the Cassini mission deserves our appreciation, but Nasa's work on Earth's climate matters more
11, Sep, 2017 @6:44 PM
The space race is back on – and is China in the lead? | Mary Dejevsky
With its Chang'e 4 landing, China has eclipsed US and Russian achievements. Expect them to take fresh interest in the moon, says Mary Dejevsky, a former foreign correspondent
03, Jan, 2019 @11:51 AM
The space race is back on – but who will win?
Alliances are shifting as states led by China and Russia compete with the US and tech entrepreneurs
Moon landing in 1969 was one small step for scrapbooking kids | Brief letters
Brief letters: Neil Armstrong | KLM | Boris Johnson | Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump | Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Ed Sheeran
In space, no one will hear Bezos and Musk's workers call for basic rights | Robert Reich
The bosses of Tesla and Amazon want to take humans to Mars and beyond – but won't show basic humanity on Earth
The Guardian view on spaceflight: the outward urge
Editorial: Missions like Nasa's flyby of Ultima Thule, and China's to place a lander on the far side of the moon, are more than a triumph of technology
The Guardian view on Venezuela: its people deserve better | Editorial
Editorial: Nicolás Maduro has failed his country. Now the US response has raised the stakes
Enjoy the blood moon while you can. Donald Trump has plans for it | Philip Ball
While letting other space science wither, the US president is keen to open up a new American frontier on the moon, says science writer Philip Ball
Philip Ball
27, Jul, 2018 @10:55 AM
The Guardian view on Trump and arms: can the doomsday clock be stopped? | Editorial
Editorial: The threat of an arms race is real and growing. The news of recent days has highlighted the dangers
The Guardian view on James Mattis's resignation: a bad day for America | Editorial
Editorial: The US defence secretary was a voice of reason in the White House, which is left to pursue a self-defeating policy that benefits the nation's foes while abandoning its friends


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R. Seth Friedman then published the magazine for five years in San Francisco, with the help of Christopher Becker and Jerod Pore, until Issue #64 in 1998. Circulation grew to 16,000 during that time.<ref> Van Vleet, Michael (1998-10-07), [http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-10-07/news/farewell-factsheet-5/1/ "Farewell, Factsheet 5?"], ''SF Weekly''</ref>
R. Seth Friedman then published the magazine for five years in San Francisco, with the help of Christopher Becker and Jerod Pore, until Issue #64 in 1998. Circulation grew to 16,000 during that time.<ref>Van Vleet, Michael (1998-10-07), [http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-10-07/news/farewell-factsheet-5/1/ "Farewell, Factsheet 5?"], ''SF Weekly''</ref>
Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five Collection of over 10,000 zines and [[mail art]] is now held at the [[New York State Library]] and Archives in [[Albany, New York]], where it occupies 300 cubic feet.<ref>[http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/friends/nysln497.htm#Zine A Zine Lover's Dream]</ref>
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240 zines that R. Seth Friedman donated are in the collection of the San Francisco Public Library.<ref>[http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/main/bookarts/zines/zinehist.htm Little Maga/Zine Collection History, San Francisco Public Library]</ref>
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The best 'birch beer' that I can remember drinking is made by Foxon Park Beverages in East Haven Connecticut. It is still availble, as are all their other flavors and can be purchased easily on line!
Kids at sleepaway camp would occasionally mention "birch beer," but I didn't know what it was, just figured it was some regional kid's drink.
It never came to the Bronx.
When I was a kid, my sister and I would go to the local "Royal Castle" for a bag of sliders and a gallon jug of birch beer. Those were the days.
Birch Beer seemed to be a particularly New England thing to me. I used to go away to Connecticut during the summer from NYC and drank it there though the picture has ome from Pennsylvania. I remember it being less sweet and lighter than Root Beer.


(Reuters) - Several anti-doping agencies, including those of the United States and Canada, want a complete ban on Russia competing at the Rio Olympics if next week's key report into allegations of state-backed doping at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics is damning, they said on Saturday.
Russia's track and field athletes are already banned from competing at next month's Olympics by the world governing International Association of Athletics' Federations (IAAF) over widespread doping in the sport.
"We write on behalf of a community of clean athletes and anti-doping organizations with faith that the IOC can lead the way forward by upholding the principles of Olympics," said the draft letter signed by Tygart and Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports (CCES) CEO Paul Melia.
"Therefore, consistent with the Principles, Charter and Code we request that the IOC Executive Board take the action to suspend the Russian Olympic and Paralympic Committee from participating in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
"A global group that includes various athletes committees and anti-doping organizations, including those of the United States, Germany, Japan and New Zealand, are preparing for the McLaren report," Melia told Reuters.
The draft letter has also been circulated to the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Athlete Committee members by Canada's Beckie Scott, who chairs the committee, asking whether they agree to support it.
"The letter outlines a basis for suspension of the Russian NOC (National Olympic Committee) from Rio, in light of the evidence and information that will come as a result of this report, and aligns very much with the position we have taken so far in this (long) process," Scott wrote in an email dated July 16.
"My concern is that there seems to have been an attempt to agree an outcome before any evidence has been presented," IOC Executive Board member Patrick Hickey said.


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HERCULES (FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ)
Hercules (2014) is a riveting adventure blockbuster directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock), Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt and more.Composer Fernando Velázquez delivered a fantastic score. The recording sessions took place at Air Studios and Abbey Road Studios in London, with Fernando conducting the tremendous London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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2. Cotys Brings Out Arius
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4. The Statue Falls
5. Comrades Stand Together
6. Alternative Ending
7. End Titles
8. Choir Theme
Hercules (2014) is a riveting adventure blockbuster directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock), Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt and more. It is based on the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars.
The film was a pleasant surprise to critics. The chief film critic for Variety wrote: "it's a grandly staged, solidly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure movie that does something no other Hercules movie has quite done before: it cuts the mythical son of Zeus down to human size (or as human as you can get while still being played by Dwayne Johnson)" and further added that "[Hercules's] strongest asset is surely Johnson, who continues to foster one of the most affable, guileless screen personas in movies today."
The music epic, driving, classic and cool. All of these adjectives were used to describe the music desired by the creative team making Hercules. Composer Fernando Velázquez rose to the occasion and delivered a fantastic score. The recording sessions took place at Air Studios and Abbey Road Studios in London, with Fernando conducting the tremendous London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Official website: www.mightyhercules.com
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD (DANIEL PEMBERTON, SAM LEE)
DEEP IMPACT (JAMES HORNER)
SUICIDE SQUAD (STEVEN PRICE)
L'ISTRUTTORIA E'CHIUSA DIMENTICHI
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ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. (JAMES NEWTON HOWARD)
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Knesset approves passive euthanasia law
From: YNetNews.com
After years of preparation involving doctors and rabbis, Israel has added a new law to its statute that states that the life of a terminally ill person who is in great pain and does not wish to continue to live will not be extended artificially.
Some 22 Knesset Members voted in favor of the government sponsored Passive Euthanasia Law, to which private proposals were added by a number of Knesset Members. Only three voted against the law.
The law will come into effect in a year's time, and the Ministry of Health and hospitals will begin preparations for its application.
Health Minister Danny Naveh described the passing of the law as a historic moment, saying: "This is one of the most important laws passed by the Knesset. It represents major moral value for the terminally ill and their families."
Knesset Member Reshef Chayne (Shinui), who added his own proposal to the law, said during the meeting: "Every person should be able to give written instructions, while being fully aware, in which they can say that if they are in a permanent vegetative state, and dependent on resuscitation, they can be disconnected from life support machines. In a situation of terminal illness, there is redemption in this option, which has been previously denied. Worse, a prolonging of life at times causes suffering to the patient."
He added: "If it was up to me, the same should be true of those in non-terminally ill situations, like a vegetative state."
Knesset Member Moshe Gafni (Degel HaTorah) said, "This is a supremely important law in the sphere of morals." However, he decided to object to the law, "because not all of the rulings of Jewish law have been upheld."
The law will apply to people with incurable diseases who have up to six months to live, or a person who has suffered a number of bodily system crashes, and who doctors believe has up to two weeks to live.
'Current law not enough'
The law says that if a patient is unable to express an opinion, a decision will be taken based on instructions he or she gave to doctors beforehand. If there are no such instructions, a declaration will have to be made by a close relative or custodian.
According to the law, a child or teenager younger than 17 may be represented by his or her parents. In the case of disagreement between the parents, or between parents and medical staff, an institutional committee will make the decision.
The law is also based on halacha, or Jewish law, which was used to approach the problematic issue of discontinuing life support machines.
Yitzhak Hoshen, who handled many requests by terminally ill patients to be disconnected from life support machines, told Ynet that the law was important, but not sufficient. "This law only deals with a terminally ill patient who has days to live. It doesn't deal with other situations, like when patients with incurable diseases have many years to live, such as those who are in vegetative states," he said.


They are firm believers of the old adage "early bird catches the worm" and they are keeping to it.
The national silat team have been undergoing training for a while now and they have not rested much during the fasting month of Ramadhan.
The team still trains two sessions a day (2-5pm and 9-11pm) and they know that it is the only way to stay in top shape.
They are one of the teams that have been shortlisted for the 26th Southeast Asian Games (SEA) in Indonesia later this year in November and they are trying to ensure they get themselves tickets on that plane there.
"It is important that we do not stop training completely because we need to prepare ourselves on both the physical and technical sides," said Suhartono, the national silat coach, in an interview with The Brunei Times recently when met at the Indoor Stadium of the Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex in Berakas.
Having prepared early, it paid off as the sport delivered the country's only gold medal in the 25th edition of the Games in Laos back in 2009 through Hj Md Khairul Bahrin Hj Duraman in the men's tunggal event.
In addition, the national side have been given a boost with the Philippines national team providing sparring options staying in the Sultanate last month as they are also preparing for the SEA Games.
"We have been training together and this has been a very good programme. We needed sparring partners during training especially for those who are already the best in the country," said Suhartono.
On the other hand, the last outing by the national squad saw them return with one silver and two bronze medals at the 3rd Southeast Asian Pencak Silat Championships in Kuala Lumpur in June.
Sending only a squad of only four athletes, Eddy Ratno Hj Abu Bakar won the bronze in the men's tunggal while the bronzes came from Md Amali Hj Malik and Farina Afidah Pehin Dato Paduka Hj Abdul Jalil in the men's Class B and the women's Class F events respectively.
According to the national coach, they only sent a small contingent as the rest had remained to train with the Filipino athletes.
"Those that needed more experience went out to compete. They were also looking to get some achievements and prove that they can do it," explained the Indonesian.
The team will take their talents to Indonesia from Sept 12 onwards for a month-long training. The programme will involve travelling about to Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya and Jogjakarta to compete.
"There are very strong athletes there. We'll be staying at the tournament venue (for SEA Games) to train and then go around different provinces in search for sparring partners," said Suhartono.
"We're still undergoing the selection process and going to Indonesia is an important period for us because it will either make or break them," said the 54-year-old.


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Rasmus Rathe (født 21. juni 1986) er en dansk fodboldspiller der spiller for Danmarksserieklubben Tjørring IF.

Rathe har spillet for 4 forskellige klubber men har aldrig optrådt i Superligaen. Tættest var han i sæsonen 2005/06 hvor han flere gange var i FC Midtjyllands spillertrup, men kom aldrig på banen. Ellers har den stået på reserveholdskampe resten af karrieren indtil skiftet til Holstebro.

Han kom til Holstebro Boldklub i april 2008 da klubben kæmpede for at undgå nedrykning fra 2. division Vest.

Referencer

Fodboldspillere fra Danmark
Fodboldspillere fra Snejbjerg S. G. & I.
Fodboldspillere fra FC Midtjylland
Fodboldspillere fra Viborg FF
Fodboldspillere fra Herfølge Boldklub
Fodboldspillere fra Holstebro Boldklub
Fodboldspillere fra Herning Fremad
Fodboldspillere fra Tjørring IF
Personer fra Herning


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How we can provide Arts in Corrections opportunities
Author: Chris Ulutupu, Arts in Corrections Advisor, Arts Access Aotearoa
Created: Wed 27 Apr 2022, 09:55 am
Over the past year, most arts programmes and activities in prisons have been put on hold or greatly reduced because of necessary COVID-19 restrictions. Arts in Corrections Network members, however, are continuing to look for ways to build their programmes and provide opportunities for prisoners to participate in the arts.
The Department of Corrections has also been working to continue providing arts opportunities for prisoners across Aotearoa. This includes its Volunteer Co-ordinators, who have been finding new ways of working to provide arts activities. Initiatives like Brain Bites and Te Kāhui creative writing programme are also helping to service this gap.
When I was doing my artist residency in Dunedin earlier this year, I talked to Rue-Jade Morgan, Ruth Ratcliffe and Annah Mac who facilitate arts programmes in Otago Corrections Facility. They all face similar access issues and find distance learning difficult compared to face-to-face classes.
This is also reflected in feedback I've had from many Arts in Corrections Network members. Even though there are still opportunities for prisoners to participate in the arts, is there anything else we could do to enable more men and women in prison to have increased access to arts programmes?
Granmother's saying highlights preparation and sustainability
"E le mafai ona faasoa atu fua o le nuu, pe afai e leai ni manu felelei." Fruit cannot be enjoyed by the village, if there are no birds in the sky.
When I think about what is needed during these times, I think of this saying from my grandmother – something she would say to highlight the importance of preparation and sustainability.
My grandmother understood the symbiotic relationship between birds and the role they play in the eco system. Her saying specifically references the manumea, the toothbilled pigeon – an endangered bird, similar to the dodo and native to Samoa.
In the village of Si'umu, my grandmother would look for manumea in the area and if they were plentiful so were the fruits and flowers that year. If there were few birds, there were few fruits to enjoy.
As a metaphor, I see the fruits as opportunities for growth while the manumea is the Arts in Corrections Network. For development and growth, we need opportunities for prisoners, especially when art programmes in prisons start to open up again.
We can develop and create new opportunities but we also need to know what's already available. Below are four ideas.
The Department's national office at Mayfair House in Wellington
This is a dedicated space for exhibiting prisoner artwork, facilitated by Sharon Hall, who also works at The Learning Connexion. If you know of a prison artist or a former prisoner who has a range of works ready to be exhibited, this could be an opportunity to have their work on display. At the moment, there's an exhibition of weaving by the men in Whanganui Prison who attend Juanita Davis' workshop. Please go and check it out.
The Learning Connexion's new gallery space
There's a new gallery space at The Learning Connexion in Taita, part of which will be dedicated to prisoners who are studying through its distance learning programme. If you have prisoners who are currently enrolled in this programme, please feel free to enquire about this exciting new exhibition space.
Koestler Arts and building community engagement
Koestler Arts in the UK is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. Entries for this year's awards have closed but in any case, entry to these amazing Koestler Awards is available only to people in the UK.
I'd love to see Aotearoa with its own Koestler Awards but in lieu of this, I urge Arts in Corrections Network members to talk to their local arts organisations and galleries about the possibility of a prison arts exhibition.
If you need help connecting with these spaces, please feel free to contact me (E: aic@artsaccess.org.nz) for advice.
Arts Access Aotearoa's Arts in Corrections fellowship
You can read about the 2022 fellowships on Arts Access Aotearoa's website, including one for a former prisoner or someone engaged in the justice system. Applicant will need to have undertaken an Arts in Corrections approved programme.
We will be calling for applications from Friday 1 July and applicants will have one month to submit their proposals.
For more information about opportunities in this blog, please email me: aic@artsaccess.org.nz
Reflecting on the Arts in Corrections sector
Connecting, collaborating and celebrating in 2022
Saying "no" in theatre
Collaboration: what the arts sector does best
Delivering arts programmes in prisons
Accessible Arts
All New Zealand
Arts Culture Venues
Professional Development Arts
Stories About Organisations


Today I just have a question. I have been sewing a lot. Which means I have a LOT of fabric scraps.
What do you do with them all? Of course the ones that are at least 1/4 of a yard I put back on the shelf but all the other little bits. Tell me what you do.
Cut them into lumberyard sizes and make scrap quilts.
Lol. Lumberyard sizes. But I knew exactly what you meant!
The Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild will be selling donated fabric at its May meeting. You could send a note to info@gaaqg.com for more information. All proceeds from the sale will go to SAFEHouse, The Domestic Violence Project of Washtenaw County.
Skinny ones become garden ties. If I can get a 4×4 square out of it, sachets or quilts. If not, natural fibers get composted, and everything else is stuffing.
The Great British Sewing Bee just did a great episode on re-using all the scraps that sewists accumulate while making other projects. It was all about matching colours and patterns to sew together to make a new set of fabric. Hope that makes sense!
I wish I could watch that show! It sounds so fabulous!


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