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Get closer to the action and enhance student interaction with the compact PJ X4240N projection system. Use it to project large screen presentations in high-definition from close distances to maximize impact and classroom space — while minimizing instructor distractions. The short-throw projection system significantly reduces glare and shadows, so instructors can conduct interactive presentations with more clarity and more student participation. Presenters can take advantage of its exceptional image quality, advanced connectivity, intuitive controls and flexibility. Mount the projector, place it on a table's edge as a standalone system, or add it to your total print and visual communications fleet to reduce costs and improve efficiencies for your institution.
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- Energize presentations and show videos with vibrant colors and highdefinition clarity without glare or excessive noise.
- The PJ X4240N features Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology —as well as a 3000 lumens brightness rating, 5000:1 contrast ratio and up to 1280 x 800 WXGA native resolution — for optimal performance in nearly any lighting conditions.
- Operating noise is limited to 38 decibels or less. Plus, the system features 10-watt speakers to ensure the audience hears you and your presentation — not noise from the projector.
- Leveraging innovative, ultra-high definition lens technology, the PJ X4240N mounts easily to a ceiling or wall and allows instructors to stand closer to and point out elements on the presentation surface without blocking the projection or creating shadows.
- The projection system displays crisp, clear images up to 140 inches tall from close distances. It can even produce high-quality images up to 60 inches diagonally when placed within two feet from the wall. In addition, fixed mount installation eliminates daily setup and breakdown tasks, reduces cabling, discourages theft and helps extend projector life.
- With the Presentation Timer feature, instructors can rehearse their presentation to ensure classes stay on schedule or use the timer as a countdown when testing.
- With automatic balancing, every image can be displayed in-focus with vivid colors in nearly any setting.
- Auto Brightness control simplifies set up and helps to maximize lamp life by sensing the amount of light in a room and adjusting the brightness to deliver the best image quality.
- The control panel is located on the top of the system for easy access, and a remote control provides easy access to advanced functions via the projected menu screens.
- For larger classrooms, instructors can coordinate one presentation that can be viewed in up to four classrooms on four different projectors using the multi-screen mode. Easily identify available networked projectors using QuickProjection.
- A simple one-time installation using the Network Utility (included on the CD-ROM) provides fast access to all networked projectors.
- With the optional eBeam® technology from Luidia®, presenters can transform an ordinary whiteboard or wall surface into an interactive display.
- A special stylus captures instructors' handwriting strokes and many systems include the ability to display pre-stored teaching templates and maps.
- When using the Wall Color Mode feature, the PJ X4240N adjusts the colors of the projected image to optimize image quality when presenting on color surfaces or chalkboards, enhancing portability.
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- Carry presentations with you on USB-compliant devices or memory cards. Use the HDMI port to play movies from DVD and Blue-ray players — even those shot in 3D format.
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- The PJ X4240N supports PJLink and @Remote service, so administrators can remotely power the unit on or off, configure settings with ease from any location and generate status and error reporting to ensure optimal efficiency and enhance projector life.
|Projector Part Number
|- 430738
|Replacement Lamp Part Number
|- 308991
|3D Glasses Type 1
|- 512511
|Projection System
|- Single Chip Digital Light Processing (DLP)
|- XGA – 1024 x 768 dpi (786,432 Picture Elements)
|White Light Output (brightness)
|- 3,000 Lumens¹
|Color Reproduction
|- 1,073,000,000 Colors
|Contrast Ratio
|- 5000:1
|Screen Size / Projection Distance
|- 50" – 120" / 23.2" – 58.6"
|Lamp Type
|- High Pressure Mercury (250W)
|Lamp Life
|- Standard Mode: 3,500 hours; Eco Mode: 5,000 hours
|Video Compatible Signal
|- NTSC, PAL, SECAM, HDMI, PAL-M, PAL-60, NTSC 4.43, 60 Hz (Mono), 50 Hz (Mono)
|USB Memory Compatible File Format
|Projection Modes
|- Front (Standard), Rear, Rear Ceiling, Front Ceiling
|Auto Brightness Control
|- Yes
|Eco Mode
|- Yes
|Auto Keystone Correction
|- Yes
|3D Ready
|- Blu-ray 3D Projection
|Interactive Ready
|- Yes
|Other Primary Features
|- AV Mute (Blank), Freeze, Re-size (Magnify), Digital Zoom (80% - 100% Reduction), Password Protection, Wall Color Mode, Key Lock, Security Bar, Kensington Lock, User Logo, Eco Mode, Carbon Meter, Closed Captioning, Presentation Timer, Multi-screen Projection (1 PC to 4 Projectors), Digital Camera, PJLink, PC Free Presentation (JPEG/MPEG2 via USB), @Remote
|Supported Languages
|- Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
|Built-in Speaker
|- 10W Mono
|- 11.69" x 9.25" x 3.93" (297 x 235 x 100 mm)
|Operating Environment
|- Temperature: 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C); Humidity: 30% to 70% (no condensation)
|- 100 V – 240 V, 50/60 Hz
|- 0.55"
|Aspect Ratio
|- 4:3
|- 15 – 100 kHz
|- 23 – 85 Hz³
|Lens Focal Length
|- 23.2" – 58.6" (0.59 – 1.49 m)
|Zoom Ratio
|Zoom / Focus
|- Not Supported/Manual
|RGB Input
|- Mini D-sub 15 pin x 2
|RGB Output
|- Mini D-sub 15 pin x 1 (input and change over)
|Audio Input
|- RCA 1 pin x 1
|Audio Output
|- 3.5 mm diameter stereo mini jack x 1
|- USB 2.0 Type A x 1 (JPEG/MPEG)
|Wired LAN
|- 10/100/1000Base-TX Ethernet x 1 (RJ45)
|Wireless LAN
|- HDMI™ Terminal x 1
|Network Utility
|- Windows XP SP3 (Home/Professional)*, Windows Vista SP2 (Ultimate/Business/HomePremium/HomeBasic) 32bit/64bit, Windows 7 (Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional/Home Premium) 32bit/64bit, Windows 8 (Pro) 32bit/ 64bit; Mac OS X (10.6 – 10.8)
|JPEG Conversion Tool
|- Windows XP SP3 (Home/Professional)*, Windows Vista SP2 (Ultimate/Business/HomePremium/HomeBasic) 32bit/64bit, Windows 7 (Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional/Home Premium) 32bit/64bit, Windows 8 (Pro) 32bit/64bit
|Projector Management Utility
|- Windows XP SP3 (Home/Professional)*, Windows Vista (Ultimate/Business/HomePremium/HomeBasic) 32bit/64bit, Windows 7 (Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional/HomePremium) 32bit/64bit, Windows Server 2008/2008R2 32bit/64bit, Windows 8 (Pro) 32bit/64bit
|While Operating
|- Less than 316W / Eco Mode: 204W
|Standby Network ON
|- Less than 0.30W**
|¹ Overall mean values for product at time of shipping are indicated in accordance with the JIS X6911-2003 data projector specification format.
² When using the USB terminal for computer-free presentations, there is no guarantee images will display. They may not display because of the file.
³ Preset to this range of supported signals. Signals not present by display even if they are within this range.
* Not supported on 64-bit version.
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LiberalismMedia and CultureSocialism
What kind of liberalism are we talking about?
Cronyism and CorporatismPoverty
There are two kinds of inequality. One develops as societies innovate and become more productive. The other kind results from government corruption and intervention.
A rising price of gold and silver in US dollars, euros, Chinese renminbi, Japanese yen, etc. means this: the higher the price of this precious metal, the lower the exchange value of official currencies.
Global EconomyProtectionism and Free Trade
GDP is not a useful measure of the material prosperity of a nation, and the way GDP is measured tends to hide the benefits of free trade.
Financial MarketsMonetary Policy
Our current position on debt seems to be akin to saying the only way to keep from drowning is pouring more water over the victim.
China's "new infrastructure" will likely be but one more example of the false promise of technology as an antidote to the irrationality of state-controlled economies.
Mises knew: "Mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people…forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed."
Monetary PolicyMoney and Banks
The EU has now become essentially a makeshift, lawless regime designed to prop up bankrupt states. So much so, in fact, that even the German supreme court has become alarmed.

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Today's self-care looked like reading this book:
at the bluffs (one of my fave Portland spots, and my first time there this season) to sweet friends while having a feast of delicious snacks and watching the sunset. After a long day of running errands, packing, and dealing with a sick chicken it was just what I needed. Looking forward to more bluffs hangouts this summer and more good food and more friend family time.
Rest in peace, Maurice Sendak. Thank you for sparking my imagination all of these years.


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Paperback - Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother's recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare.
Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students, who are crowded into a tiny space, working on the floor among roosters and centipedes.
When Clare's new friends take her on an outing to see the country, the trip goes horribly wrong, and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Only an orphan named Memory, who knows about love and loss, can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon.
Told from an American girl's perspective, this story about how death teaches us to live and how love endures through our memories will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.
Age Range: 10 - 14


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By now, everyone attuned to the literary news is no doubt aware of Horace Engdahl's comments that "Europe still is the center of the literary world" when it comes to the awarding of the Nobel Prize, that "The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," and that American writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture."
On the one hand, it seems likely that Engdahl's remarks were motivated by a non-literary (and entirely justified) dissatisfaction with American political and military actions over the last eight years, a dissatisfaction widely shared across all of Europe these days. Engdahl assumes, wrongly, that American writers, American "culture" more generally, are somehow complicit with these actions or at least haven't done enough to express their solidarity with European critics of American hubris as embodied by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. To this extent, one might grant Engdahl some forebearance, since his attitude probably reflects a momentary unhappiness with the United States that will surely abate with the passing of the Bush administration.
But on the other hand, Engdahl's comments do reflect some underlying assumptions about both American literature and the role of literature more generally that certainly warrant scrutiny. For one thing, while I suppose it is possible for writers to become "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture" (especially if we take "mass culture" to be something other than "culture" itself, a separate realm driven by the same mindless forces that drive the American government), most depictions of "mass culture" in American ficion tend to be critical of that culture, if not outright satirical. Insofar as Engdahl has read much contemporary American fiction, it would seem he hasn't read it very well. Especially among those writers who might be seriously considered for the Nobel Prize--Roth or Pynchon or Barth--"mass culture" is an object of concern and ridicule, not something these writers seek to reinforce. That Engdahl would think otherwise does call his qualifications for the job of awarding a literary prize--the most esteemed literary prize of them all--into question.
One would have to presume that Europe remains "the center of the literary world" because its writers do not have such an unseemly obsession with their own nations' culture, but of course this hardly seems credible. However, since Engdahl provides no additional englightenment about what it actually means to be the world's literary center an alternative presumption would seem to be that Europe is central because, well, the Nobel committee most often awards the prize to European writers. I admit both a professional and personal bias toward American fiction in my own reading habits, but to the extent Engdahl is claiming the greatest contemporary writers are to be found on the continent of Europe, I must further admit I find the notion thoroughly unsupportable. There are certainly some very fine writers in Great Britain, but most of them are undoubtedly obscure to someone like Horace Engdahl (writers such as Tom McCarthy and Rosalind Belben), and among them are decidedly not the "name" writers Engdahl probably does have in mind--Martin Amis or Ian McEwan. There are also excellent writers in France and the German-speaking countries, and I have recently found myself particularly taken by several Eastern European writers whose work I had not previously read, but again the notion that any of these writers are "greater" than Roth, Pynchon, Coover, or Stephen Dixon seems to me palpably absurd. And that such now deceased postwar American writers as John Hawkes or Stanley Elkin or Gilbert Sorrentino were never even remotely considered for the Nobel Prize only highlights the essential cluelessness of those at the "center" of the European literary world.
The comments that have received the most attention in the print media and on literary blogs are Engdahl's suggestions that American writers are "too insular" and "don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature." Most people have interpreted this to be a criticism of American writers for not reading enough translated work, or for focusing on domestic "issues," but I find the claims as worded to be virtually incoherent. Either Engdahl is asserting that not enough American writers are contributing to some ongoing "dialogue" about literature separate from their own writing, or the allegation is that they don't conceive of their writing as a contribution to "the big dialogue of literature." As far as I'm concerned, both notions are equally preposterous. The first requires that we think of world literature as some kind of super seminar in which writers are the invited panelists and collegiality the expected behavior. It seems to subsitute "dialogue" among writers for literary criticism.
Most likely, of course, Engdahl means something like the second. American writers are too "insular" in that they don't offer their work as part of a cross-cultural discourse that Engdahl is defining as "literature." They are too "isolated" to see the value of this discourse. But literature isn't a "dialogue" monitored by self-appointed arbiters who decide what part of the conversation deserves a prize for its insight. It isn't an attempt to "say" anything, except circuitously or by accident. I'm tempted to construe Engdahl's scolding of American writers for their insularity as just another expression of impatience with the "merely literary," with writing that isn't morally or politically useful, but I doubt he really meant to go quite that far. He is simply reiterating a commonly-held, if implicit rather than thought-out, view that literature is more about dialogue and discussion and nicely articulated platitudes. less about art and aesthetic consummation, which indeed often occurs in isolation and, in literature, as a "dialogue" only between the author and his/her text.
One reason that poets are so infrequently awarded the Nobel Prize has to be that it is much harder to value poetry primarily for its relevance to "the big dialogue." Poetry more clearly foregrounds the aesthetic amibitions of literature, and even those who read novels for the "something said" are often willing to concede that this model is overly reductive as applied to poetry (when such readers even admit to reading poetry--many simply confess they don't "get" it). But since the Nobel Prize seems to be decided according to the criterion that a writer "say" things (that, and the implicit requirement that the prestige of the prize be spread around a little--every once in a while a Chinese or Arabic writer--to enlarge the "dialogue"), poetry, or, God forbid, experimental writing, is neverthless going to be left at the door. Such exclusion of writing that in its necessary inwardness doesn't meet the blandly humanitarian standards of the Nobel committee is just one of the reasons why this literary prize, the biggest, is also the most idiotic.


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BOSTON (AP) — Historic butterfly communities in Massachusetts are dwindling and being rapidly replaced by their southern relatives, according to a Harvard study released Sunday.
The study outlines the growth and decline of butterfly species in Massachusetts during the past two decades. During this time, the study found that warm-climate-adapted butterfly species have grown by an estimated 1,000 percent, while cold-climate-adapted species, which have long been native to the Bay State, have declined — some by up to 90 percent.
The study was conducted by Harvard Forest, an environmental research department of Harvard University, to examine the effect of climate change on butterfly communities in the state. It relies on data collected during the past two decades by the Massachusetts Butterfly Club, an amateur naturalist group that tracks butterfly populations.
Seventeen of the 21 northern butterfly species in Massachusetts, including the Atlantis Fritillary and the Acadian Hairstreak, were found to be in population decline, according to the study. These cold-climate species also were more prevalent in high-altitude regions of the state, like the Berkshire mountains and the Worcester Plateau, where scientists believe cooler microclimates exist.
Meanwhile, the study found that 12 southern butterfly species, which were rare or unseen in the state during the 1980s and 1990s, have increased tremendously, specifically in the warmest areas of the state: the Pioneer Valley and southeastern Massachusetts. The species include the Zaboulan Skipper and Giant Swallowtail.
The study does not track butterfly populations outside the state, so it does not account for whether cold-climate species have moved north.
Researchers say the butterflies most impacted by the decline are those that wait out the winter as eggs or small larvae and are more sensitive to a lack of snow cover or drought. Another reason for the growth and decline of these populations, they say, can be attributed to the fact that some of the southern species are protected by Massachusetts — because of their rare, threatened or endangered status in the state — while northern species do not.
But, Greg Breed, the study's lead author, said that the habitat protection may not be enough to combat the perceived impact climate change is having on the species.
"For most butterfly species, climate change seems to be a stronger change-agent than habitat loss," he said in a statement.
Elizabeth Crone, a Harvard Forest senior ecologist who worked on the report, said while she was not surprised by the results of the study, she didn't expect data collected by a group of citizen scientists to have such clear-cut results.
Crone said she decided to lead the study based both on professional and personal curiosity. The ecologist, who moved to Massachusetts in December 2010, said she ran across the Massachusetts Butterfly Club's data while trying to learn more about the state's butterfly community.
She said long-term monitoring data, like that the club kept on butterfly populations in the state, is not common in the scientific community because of budget and time constraints.
"There's been a lot of awareness about climate change effects qualitatively, but not quantitatively," Crone said. "It's amazing what this group of citizen scientists had done."


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The "psychopharmaceutical complex"[1]— modern psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry, and an accommodative regulatory apparatus–sustains itself through a public belief in its medical scientific expertise and legitimacy realized through marketing and public relations. Now a combination of more direct government involvement in medicine via the Affordable Care Act, the 2013 release of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) new and expanded Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Volume V (DSM), alongside more comprehensive systems of federal health surveillance and biometric identification technologies suggest how psychiatry's behavioral norms and protocols will be more and more integrated into everyday life. Overall, the psychopharmaceutical complex appears poised to abandon a paradigm based on persuasion and belief and move toward a model encompassing coercion and decree to enforce its normalcy ideal.
"Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man."—Erich Fromm[2]
Since the 1950s psychotropic drugs comprise the psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex's lucrative masterstroke of public relations and marketing. Heretofore the prevalence and use of such substances have been constructed in the public mind through a conditioned cultural obeisance toward professional expertise and its amplification in advertising and related promotional discourse. Twenty percent of Americans now take at least one drug to treat one or more psychiatric disorders. Usage among women and children under ten doubled between 2001 and 2010.[3] According to the Centers for Disease Control the "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors" (SSRIs) class of antidepressants marketed under the now common brand names Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, and Paxil, are among the most heavily prescribed drug types, with 11% of Americans over the age of 12 now on such treatment.
Pharmaceuticals are widely prescribed by psychiatrists and general practitioners alike as treatment of conditions delineated in the DSM, through which the psychiatric profession exerts worldwide authority in defining what mental illness is in a sweeping array of behavioral designations applicable to thousands of subjectively interpreted behavioral abnormalities. The APA recommends antidepressant medication for a large proportion of alleged maladies, such as what it terms "moderate to severe depressive symptomatology."[4] Yet as historian David Healy notes, the current DSM IV has "conveniently made it impossible to define dependence on SSRI's antipsychotics, or benzodiazepines as a disorder."[5]
Between 1988-1994 and 2005-2008 antidepressant use in the US increased by close to 400%.[6] If usage were to expand further along this trajectory by the early 2020s two in five people will be taking antidepressants alone. Antidepressant sales peaked at $15 billion in 2003, yet expiration of drug patents, the pharmaceutical industry's inability to produce new "blockbusters" to take their place, and increasing reports that such drugs are useless and often dangerous may reduce sales to as little as $6 billion by 2016.[7]
The four-fold expansion of antidepressant consumption demonstrates how "depression" and the introduction of SSRIs have no doubt been a tremendous boon for pharmaceutical companies. Yet how depression and antidepressants have become such a taken-for-granted element of the public mind is a far less interrogated social phenomenon. Pharmaceutical companies wield tremendous power over discourse and belief through a carefully crafted advertising and public relations agenda that exceeds the often useless and dangerous products they sell.[8] Such effects have capitalized on the cultural inclination toward deference to expert opinion—in this case toward psychiatry.
Constructing the Profession and Its Object
In 2006 investigative journalist Jon Rappoport conducted a series of interviews with Ellis Medavoy, an alias provided to a high-level public relations expert who played a major role in orchestrating and manipulating public perceptions of major health crises, including HIV/AIDS. Among the PR man's revealing observations is how psychiatric expertise is largely the result of propaganda technique. "Problem equals mental disorder equals diagnosis equals drugs," Medavoy explains.
The PR job is to dress that up and give it scientific sounding context and you throw in all sorts of stuff about "the research"—and you have an industry. But in the larger frame, you have a priesthood of the mind. An official priesthood. Licensed. And you sell that, too, using other words. You REALLY sell that. "No one else knows anything about the mind. Only the psychiatrists have the knowledge." You sell "needs professional help" and "is going in for treatment" and "new breakthroughs" and all that crap. You sell it six ways from Sunday.[9]
The intricacies of building a public creed around the twofold deity of pharmaceuticals and psychiatry involves several processes specific to advertising and public relations. For example, linguistic specialists fashion brand names to "tap different synapses in their customers' brains: those linking the raw sounds of vowels and consonants known as phonemes to specific meanings and even emotions."[10] In this way the name for the archetypal SSRI Prozac was designed to have a specific resonance in consumers' minds. "Prozac: Pro is a rather pedestrian beginning, but the sounds p, z, and k all score high for the qualities active/daring." The name of Prozac's close relation Zoloft involves the same method of linguistic engineering. "Zoloft: Zo means life in Greek and loft elevates the concept." Like Prozac, the SSRI Paxil includes the sounds z and k, along with "crackling, buzzing sounds [that] may subliminally suggest activity to back up the sequence ac, which suggests the word action."[11]
Japan is the world's third largest market for pharmaceuticals and provides an illustrative example of the pharmaceutical industry's capacity to manipulate and seduce a society into the wide-scale use of specific psychoactive substances. Beginning in 1998 the country loosened its regulatory requirements for drug sales and advertising. By 2001 US-style direct-to-consumer drug advertising proliferated and US-based companies controlled close to 50% of Japan's $364.2 billion of pharmaceutical sales. The increased popularity and availability of branded drug products within a non-Western cultural milieu set the stage for marketing strategies involving the brisk construction of public perception to overcome cultural barriers and generate demand.
In the 1980s when Japanese pharmaceutical corporation Meiji Seika was in the process of having a drug to treat "obsessive-compulsive disorder" approved by Japanese regulators, company officials realized that Japan had no standard diagnostic test for OSD. The company therefore proceeded to write its own definition, using US descriptors as a template. In the late 1990s Meiji Seika took this practice to an entirely new level when it obtained the go-ahead from regulators to market its own SSRI, Luvox.[12] After receiving approval the company faced an uphill battle of having the drug accepted in a country where, according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organization in the early 1990s, the most common prescription for a "mood disorder" was a mild tranquilizer.[13] In light of this, Meiji and several other interested corporate partners proceeded in "effecting nothing less than a sweeping cultural change," as one observer explained.
One crucial step: altering the language people use to discuss depression. The Japanese word for clinical depression, utsu-byo, had unpleasant associations with severe psychiatric illness. So Meiji and its partners began using the phrase kokoro no kaze, which loosely translated means "the soul catching a cold." The message was clear: If you take pills to alleviate a stuffy nose in the wintertime, why not do the same for depression? The marketing director for Meiji and its affiliates says he would regularly make use of the kokoro no kaze line when explaining to Japanese reporters why the taboo surrounding the disease should be lifted.[14]
America was far ahead of Japan in its recognition of pharmaceuticals to address mental illness. The notion that depression was a potential epidemic requiring "treatment" was placed in the public mind several years before the immensely popular SSRI Prozac was introduced in 1988. The idea nevertheless requires continual reinforcement. So too does the questionable concept of "screenings" to assess potentially injurious "moods" or behaviors, a practice currently underway at some US healthcare facilities using DSM V classifications.
The Architecture of Psychiatric and Police State Surveillance
"Science does not possess the technology to measure biochemical imbalances in the living brain" physician and author Peter R. Breggin observes. "The biochemical imbalances speculation is actually a drug company marketing campaign to sell drugs."[15] In this way, mental health "screenings" lack the objective scientific gauging and assessment of physical indications to determine the existence of a disorder. Rather, the opinion is based on the subject's response to a series of questions.
Over the past several years marketing methods have been implemented in earnest on American college campuses to condition a generation toward accepting the routine nature of mental health screenings. In the early 2000s Wyeth, maker of the antidepressant Effexor, sponsored "mental-health educational campaigns" on 10 college campuses. The 90-minute program, titled "Depression in College, Real World, Real Life, Real Issues," took place in campus theaters and was hosted by MTV star and Effexor user Cara Kahn. The program's associated depression "screenings," now a commonplace feature of the public health regimen, were given upbeat sounding pitches, such as, "Stressed? Come find out how much," and "Come test your mood." Industry representatives observed how such solicitations meet with higher interest among potential participants than would a more prosaic-sounding, "depression screening."[16]
If the allure of psychotropic nostrums is wearing thin, as some industry and market trends suggest creating a need, by whatever means, for psychopharma's corresponding therapies and products is essential. The anticipated dearth in antidepressant sales alongside Western governments' broad acceptance of psychiatry's superficial articulation of aberrant human behavior and its remediation may go a long way in explaining recent widely publicized studies alleging a growing epidemic of mental illness and government programs decreeing obligatory mental health screenings of youth and attendant pharmaceutical treatment.
What exactly constitutes a mental disorder requiring treatment? Again, the DSM V's forthcoming expanded assortment of peculiarities provides some indication of what future screenings may look for. An individual divulging her enjoyment of an occasional cigarette will be classified as suffering from "tobacco use disorder." A social drinker may be designated with "alcohol use disorder." Someone regularly imbibing too many cups of coffee or iced teas may undergo "caffeine intoxication," or, worse, "caffeine-induced anxiety disorder." Spending too much time browsing the web, visiting online gambling sites, porn sites, or shopping too frequently may be respectively judged as "internet addiction," "gambling disorder," "hypersexual disorder," and "compulsive shopping disorder," and accordingly prescribed treatment regimens.[17]
Further, the expansion of psychiatry under federal auspices increases the potential for its Soviet-style abuse to silence political dissidents, as the recent case of former US Marine Brandon Raub illustrates.[18] Taking an insistent stance that weather modification exists or discussing World Trade Center Building 7's inexplicable September 11 collapse may be grounds for a diagnosis of "paranoid delusional disorder." Activist overtures calling attention to the precarious rationales of the "war on terror," the Federal Reserve, or an overreaching police state could be easily classified as having unresolved "oppositional defiant disorder."
With such a broad array of maladies which are themselves subject to the psychiatric practitioner's interpretation, nearly everyone is susceptible to the psychopharmaceutical combine's scrutiny, especially as it expands its purview to younger age groups. "The [ACA] is designed to help increase incentives to physicians and other health and mental health professionals to look after people across the entire continuum of care," psychologist John M. Grohol points out, editor of the popular website PsychCentral. "Research suggests that this sort of integrated, coordinated care is ultimately beneficial to the patient. It can help catch health issues before they become more serious concerns."[19]
The growing mental illness epidemic—or the psychiatric profession's contention of such—has severe consequences not only in terms of personal anguish, but also for entire economic regions. Mental health experts assert that close to forty percent of Europeans are mentally ill, a problem estimated to cost the European economy alone several hundred billion euros annually. A 2011 study concludes 165 million EU residents are afflicted with some form of mental illness. "The immense treatment gap … for mental disorders has to be closed," the paper's lead author asserts. "Because mental disorders frequently start early in life, they have a strong malignant impact on later life … Only early targeted treatment in the young will effectively prevent the risk of increasingly largely proportions of severely ill … patients in the future."[20]
In the US, where the ACA stresses "the importance of integrating and coordinating the delivery of physical and mental health services and provides incentives to providers to integrate care"[21] an individual who may even have private insurance and visits the hospital for a physical sickness or injury will be increasingly subject to surveillance and evaluation in accordance with standards established by the DSM.
The Centers for Disease Control's 2011 Mental Illness Surveillance Report stresses that 25% of Americans are mentally ill and one in two will develop a mental illness sometime in their lifetimes. Thus a program of "public health surveillance" comprised of "public health officials, academicians, health-care providers, and advocacy groups" will constitute "multiple surveillance systems" to "reduc[e] the incidence, prevalence, severity, and economic impact of mental illnesses … assess associations between mental illness and other chronic medical conditions (e.g., obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and alcohol and substance abuse); identify populations at high risk for mental illness and target interventions, treatment, and prevention measures; and provide outcome measures for evaluating mental illness interventions."[22] The project uses the DSM to identify and diagnose such illnesses.
"The public health importance of increasing treatment rates for depression is reflected in Healthy People 2020," the CDC notes elsewhere, a ten year plan of the Department of Health and Human Services "which includes national objectives to increase treatment for depression in adults and treatment for mental health problems in children." To aid the program the US government has established a Preventative Services Task Force that now recommends "mental health screenings" for children ages 12 thru 18. Like the Mental Illness Surveillance program, the Task Force uses the DSM as a template for its diagnoses.[23]
Given that the US federal government and insurance industry now have a combined investment in mitigating risk attached to the DSM's classificatory scheme over myriad personal behaviors, individuals and the broader society must collectively ask, "Where does such surveillance end?" At present the individual may still exert some degree of control over what medical information s/he wishes to disclose to the medical surveillance apparatus. However, the increasing deployment of biometric technology and the rapid move toward an electronic "cashless" base of financial transactions all but ensures the end of this modest sphere of privacy and the complete realization of a far-reaching panoptic grid by which to locate and identify private idiosyncracies and thereby produce candidates for "interventions" and treatment.
An imperative for calling out and resisting the psychopharmaceutical complex's ever-expanding grip on society is to understand and recognize its intertwined history with advertising and public relations of largely constructing public perceptions and what now constitutes a widely accepted set of beliefs toward mental wellness and disease. The fact that this enterprise will now be more closely allied with a national healthcare armature and a central component of the government-controlled medical stratagem suggests the coming fulfillment of a full-fledged pharmacological technocracy where through continued mass persuasion and government edict phony medicine and drugs will fill the vacuum of misspent and unfulfilled existence.
1. This term was initially used by Peter R. Breggin in Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex, Springer Publishing Company, 2007.
2. Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, New York: Rinehart and Company, 1955, 64.
3. Shari Roan, "One in Five US Adults Takes Medication for Medical Disorder," Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/16/news/la-heb-mental-health-20111116
4. Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics, "Antidepressant Use in Persons Aged 12 and Over,2005-2008," October 2011, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm
5. David Healy, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 66-67, 330. DSM IV was published in 1994 and revised in 2000.
6. CDC/NCHS, "Antidepressant Use."
7. "Antidepressants Give Drugmakers the Blues," Reuters, March 23, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/us-depression-drugs-idUSBRE82M0MK20120323
8. Ben Goldcare, "The Drugs Don't Work: A Modern Medical Scandal," UK Guardian, September 21, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre
9. Jon Rappoport, "An Interview with Ellis Medavoy (alias) About Power," October 8, 2006. In Jon Rappoport, The Matrix Revealed Vol. 1 (CD), 2012, http://nomorefakenews.com/
10. Sharon Begley, "What Goes Into A Brandname? A Letter at a Time," Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2002, D1. This section is adapted from an argument developed in James F. Tracy, "Between Discourse and Being: The Commodification of Pharmaceuticals in Late Capitalism," The Communication Review 7, 2004: 15-34.
11. Begley, "What Goes Into A Brandname?"
12. Peter Landers, "Waiting for Prozac: Drugs Firms Push Japan to Change View of Depression," Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2002, A1.
13. Healy, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, 66-67.
14. Landers, "Waiting for Prozac."
15. Peter R. Breggin, The Antidepressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox, Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001, 135.
16. Paul Glader, "From the Make of Effexor: Campus Forums on Depression," Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2002, B1.
17. See Christopher Lane, "Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction," Slate.com, July 24, 2009, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/07/bitterness_compulsive_shopping_and_internet_addiction.html; Reuters/Luke MacGregor, "Digital Age Overload: 'Internet Addiction' to be Classified as Mental Illness, Russia Today, October 1, 2012, http://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/
18. Michael Kelley, "Marine Veteran Brandon Raub Sentenced to Up to 30 Days in Psych Ward for Facebook Posts," Business Insider, August 20, 2012, http://www.businessinsider.com/former-marine-brandon-raub-is-being-held-in-a-psychiatric-ward-over-facebook-posts-about-911-2012-8
19. John M. Grohol, "What the Affordable Care Act Means to Mental Health," PsychCentral, June 29, 2012, http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/06/29/what-the-affordable-care-act-means-to-mental-health/
20. Kate Kelland, "Nearly 40 Percent of Europeans Suffer Mental Illness," Reuters, September 4, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/us-europe-mental-illness-idUSTRE7832JJ20110904
21. Michael Friedman and Kimberly Williams, "Supreme Court Decision Benefits People with Mental Illness," HuffPost Health Living, June 29, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-friedman-lmsw/aca-mental-health_b_1636839.html
22. William C. Reeves, MD, "Mental Illness Surveillance Among Adults in the United States," 2011, Centers for Disease Control Public Health Surveillance Program Office, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6003a1.htm
23. CDC/NCHS, "Antidepressant Use."
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It's a warning sign that things maybe weren't as strong as we thought. . . . It's really hard to make an inference from one number. – Michael Hanson, economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
WASHINGTON — The weakest month of hiring in three years ended 2013 on a sluggish note and raised questions about whether the U.S. job market can sustain its recent strong gains.
Employers added a scant 74,000 jobs in December after averaging 214,000 in the previous four months. Economists cautioned that cold weather likely played a role in the sharp slowdown. Many analysts said they would need to see more data before they could tell whether the job market had lost momentum.
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate fell from 7 percent in November to 6.7 percent, its lowest level since October 2008. But the drop occurred mostly because many Americans stopped looking for jobs. Once people without jobs stop looking for one, the government no longer counts them as unemployed.
The proportion of people either working or looking for work fell to 62.8 percent, matching a nearly 36-year low. Last month's expiration of extended unemployment benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed could accelerate that trend if many of them stop looking for work. Beneficiaries had been required to look for work to receive unemployment checks.
The stock market fell in early trading. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 26 points in mid-afternoon trading. And the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.88 percent from 2.97 late Thursday — a drop that is normally a sign of a slowing economy.
It's unclear whether the sharp hiring slowdown might lead the Federal Reserve to rethink its plan to slow its stimulus efforts. The Fed decided last month to pare its monthly bond purchases, which have been designed to lower interest rates to spur borrowing and spending.
"I don't think the Fed is going to be panicked by this," said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.
Naroff suggested that the 6.7 percent unemployment rate — a drop of more than a full percentage point since 2013 began — will eventually lead many employers to raise wages.
"It doesn't change what they're thinking," Naroff said of the Fed.
Many economists said it would be premature to conclude from Friday's report that the economy is weakening.
"We stop short of making larger observations based on this number," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at brokerage firm BTIG. "The economy, based on any number of other indicators, has been picking up steam of late which makes today's number..curious."
Unusually cold weather might have slowed hiring in December. Construction companies, which are heavily dependent on weather conditions, cut 16,000 jobs, the biggest drop in 20 months.
Michael Hanson, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, estimated that the cold weather lowered hiring by about 75,000 jobs.
It would still be a weak report even if those jobs were added back in, Hanson said. But he cautioned against reading too much into a single month's jobs report.
"It's a warning sign that things maybe weren't as strong as we thought," Hanson said. But "it's really hard to make an inference from one number."
Other economists were also skeptical. Mark Vitner of Wells Fargo noted that several industries reported unusually steep job losses. Accounting and bookkeeping services, for example, lost 24,700 jobs, the most in nearly 11 years.
And performing arts and spectator sports cut 11,600, the most in 2½ years. The movie industry shed 13,700 jobs.
Economists said those unusually large losses are likely a statistical quirk that's unlikely to be repeated.
Health care cut 6,000 positions, that industry's first monthly cut in 10 years. It could raise questions about the carrying out of President Barack Obama's health care reform.
Vitner noted that health care layoffs had been announced over the fall and that these figures appear to be "genuine."
Transportation and warehousing cut some jobs, suggesting that shippers hired fewer workers for the holidays. Governments cut 13,000 positions.
Despite December's sharp slowdown, monthly job gains averaged 182,000 last year, nearly matching the average monthly gains for the previous two years.
One bright spot was manufacturing. Factories added 9,000 positions, the fifth straight gain. Still, that's down from 31,000 in November. Retailers added 55,000 jobs.
Recent data have painted a picture of an economy on the steady rise. Exports hit a record level in November, lowering the U.S. trade deficit. Businesses have ordered more manufactured goods. Auto sales reached a six-year high in 2013.
Analysts now estimate that the economy expanded at a healthy annual rate of 3 percent to 3.5 percent in the October-December quarter. That's up from earlier forecasts of a 2 percent rate or less. It would follow a strong 4.1 percent growth rate reported for the July-September quarter.
AP Economics Writer Josh Boak contributed to this report.
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This coming weekend (March 30-April 1) I'm going to be at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle! ĀYou'll find me with Blank Label Comics at booth 210! ĀCome see me there! ĀI'll have books and posters and doodling abilities at the ready. I'm leaving for the airport veeeeeeeeeerry early this morning, so everyone be on your best behavior until Tuesday when I return. ĀComics, of course, will continue to update during my absence.


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Singapore is a multi-cultural city and its cuisine has Chinese, Malay, Indian, Nyonya and Western influences so I was able to eat lots of different things hehe. So we shall let the photos speak for themselves:
|Hainanese Chicken Rice: I've had chicken rice three times in Singapore, and in my opinion "Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice" had the best. Juicy and flavourful chicken + perfectly done rice - good enough to eat by itself or coupled with the chili, ginger or soya sauce.
|Char Kway Teow: Stir-fried noodles with black sauce, bean sprouts, chives and preserved sausages. It's done over a strong fire so some bits were charred, but in a good way that it makes the noodles more tasty.
|Laksa: noodles, fishcake, prawns, egg, bean curd and sprouts cooked in a spicy coconut milk soup. Slurp slurp.
|Flor Patisserie: A shop opened by the Japanese Chef Yamashita. We had the Strawberry Souffle Cheesecake and the Berry Berries. Both were light and refreshing!
So that's about it with regards to food I had in Singapore! Check out my Flickr Photostream for other pictures I took!


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Slagter, from Team Blanco, moved to within five seconds of Thomas in the general classification after he led home Australian Matthew Goss (Orica-GreenEDGE) and world champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing) in the sprint to the line. Thomas came in fourth, just missing out on bonus seconds for taking a spot in the top three.
"It's really amazing that I can beat them," Slagter said of finishing ahead of Goss, Gilbert, and Thomas in his first professional win. "The only thing I knew was that I was (feeling) good and tried to get the best result. David Tanner my teammate pulled the sprint the perfect way and I just had to go."
The thrilling end to the race was a fitting climax to a fascinating day, which started in Unley, in inner-city Adelaide, and finished 139 kilometers (86.4 miles) later in the picturesque town of Stirling, nestled in the Adelaide Hills.
On the hottest day of the tour so far, with temperatures reaching as high as 100 degrees, Australian duo Simon Clarke (Orica-GreenEDGE) and Will Clarke (Team Argos-Shimano) made the first move when they broke clear after 10 kilometers and steadily rode away from the peloton.
The two Clarkes (not related) were riding well together and took a lead of almost three and half minutes during the stage, which included six 21.4-kilometre (13.3-mile) laps in the countryside around Stirling.
But at the 90-kilometre mark, the peloton began a series of attacks to close the gap. A leading group of eight then opened a 30-second gap, though the peloton, controlled largely by Thomas's Team Sky, regained contact with five kilometers left in the race.
Portuguese rider Tiago Machado then tried his luck and went 300 meters clear, but couldn't sustain the pace and was brought back with 1.5 kilometers to go, setting up a sprint finish.
Tanner brought Slagter forward and when the Dutchman decided to go for home, none of the others were able to go with him. Thomas said his teammates had done everything asked of them.
"The boys were strong and we were always in control, but we definitely got tested today," he said.
"It was down to me to try and get on the podium and get some bonus seconds—it didn't quite happen but we've still got the [ochre leader's] jersey and that's the main thing."
The Welshman was confident in retaining the lead in Friday's 126.5-kilometre (78.5-mile) fourth stage from Modbury to Tanunda in the Barossa Valley, and said the race would probably come down to Saturday's penultimate stage, which includes two climbs up the infamous Old Willunga Hill.
"Tomorrow should be a bunch sprint I would have thought, so it will all come down to Willunga and the big test up there," Thomas said.
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1. Tom Jelte Slagter (NED/BLA) 3hr 36min 46 sec,
2. Matthew Goss (AUS/OGE) s.t.,
3. Philippe Gilbert (BEL/BMC) s.t.,
4. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) s.t.,
5. Giovanni Visconti (ITA/MOV) s.t.,
6. Javier Moreno (ESP/MOV) s.t.,
7. Simone Ponzi (ITA/AST) s.t.
8. Daniele Pietropolli (ITA/LAM) s.t.,
9. Ivan Santaromita (ITA/BMC) s.t.,
10. Gorka Izagirre (ESP/EUS) s.t.
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40. Simon Gerrans (AUS/OGE) 42,
124. Andy Schleck (LUX/RLT) 16min 47sec
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9. Jack Bauer (NZL/GRS) s.t.,
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About half of my posters are at home; the other half are at school. These are some of the former.
The first photo is a White Stripes poster I picked up at Amoeba Records in LA for a 2003 concert in Arizona. I love the mix of Egyptian styles with the White Stripes aesthetic. Also sorta looks like plastic, which for some reason I like.
The second is a Smashing Pumpkins poster from their 2007 residency at the Fillmore, which was originally supposed to run for eight nights (July 15 - Aug 1) but was extended three extra nights. I was lucky enough to score tickets to the very last night with three friends, and we road-tripped up from LA to SF just to go. Even though the Pumpkins aren't the band they used to be, this was the best concert I've ever seen---two complete sets (one acoustic, one electric) with about 30 songs or so total, including some gems I thought I'd never hear live (like "Starla" and an amazingly re-arranged "Shame"). As with all Fillmore concerts, I got this poster after the show.
The Subways are an amazing band out of Britain. I think I stole this poster from the Troubador in LA when they played there a second time a couple years ago (which was unbelievable). This is from their "All or Nothing" album tour in 2008).
The last poster is also from Amoeba in LA, a promotional poster for the Vines' first album, "Highly Evolved" (2002, but I think I got this poster on the same night I got the White Stripes poster). The poster is a bit lazy (just the album cover plus text), but I love the band and the album artwork, so why not?


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Allen leads Bills' sweep at Meadowlands with win over Giants
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The best young quarterback playing in New York these days might be the guy in the not so highfalutin city: Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills.
Forget Sam Darnold of the Jets and Eli Manning and his heir apparent Daniel Jones of the Giants. Allen has the Bills off to their first 2-0 start in five years and just their third in 11 years by posting wins over the Jets and Giants.
The somewhat-maligned Allen ran for a touchdown, threw for another, and the Bills finished their claim on the bragging rights of New York with a 28-14 victory over the Giants on Sunday.
Allen was put under the spotlight earlier this week when Giants coach Pat Shurmur seemed to slight him, saying he felt the Wyoming product had the potential to be an NFL starter coming out of the 2018 draft. Some felt it insulted the No. 7 overall pick.
Shurmur and Allen talked briefly before the game and both felt the incident was much ado about nothing.
"Everybody has their opinion and I know he didn't mean anything like that," said Allen, who finished 19 of 30 for 253 yards and no interceptions. "All I want to do is focus on what the Bills are doing."
The Bills are playing well. Their defense was good after allowing Saquon Barkley to run 27 yards for a touchdown on the opening drive, and the offense gained 388 total yards without turning over the ball. Allen had four turnovers in Week 1.
Allen also is leading the way with his ability to run and pass. He scored Buffalo's first touchdown on a 6-yard run and tossed a shovel pass to Isaiah McKenzie for a 14-yard score in a 21-point first half.
"He doesn't need any extra motivation," veteran receiver Cole Beasley said of Allen and the Shurmur comment. "He's motivated every week. He's had naysayers from the beginning. It's nothing new for him. I don't even know if he noticed it."
The Bills were in command after scoring on three straight touchdown drives of 75, 70 and 98 yards.
Devin Singletary scored on a 14-yard run and Frank Gore iced the game with a 1-yard plunge into the end zone with 5:53 to play.
The Giants, who were undefeated in the preseason, are off to their sixth 0-2 start since 2013 and they were booed by the fans leaving the field at halftime. They went 2-0 in 2016 in making the playoffs for the only time since 2011.
"We have great fans and they deserve to see wins," Shurmur said. "At this point, at least through today, we haven't won. We have to do what we can to win and help them feel better about things."
Barkley ran for 107 yards and scored to give New York an early lead. Eli Manning threw a 4-yard, fourth-quarter TD pass to TJ Jones to get New York within a touchdown, but the Bills responded with the Gore TD.
Manning finished 26 of 45 for 250 yards and two interceptions. He was booed by the mostly empty stadium after the second one with 3:34 to go.
"Obviously, it's not how you want to start," said Manning, who may have to start looking over his shoulder to see if Shurmur is warming up Daniel Jones. "We just have to keep fighting and find ways to play better football. That's as simple as it comes down to. I know we can play better. I know we can do better than what we are. We have to find a way to come together as a team and win as a team."
For the second straight week, New York rolled down the field on its opening possession. It went 75 yards on five running plays, the last by Barkley.
Allen is Buffalo's first quarterback to pass for 200 or more yards in seven straight games since Hall of Famer Jim Kelly in 1992. He is the first Bill to run for a touchdown in three straight games since LeSean McCoy in 2016. His 192 yards in the first half were the most in his career, topping 179 against Miami last season.
Giants WR Cody Latimer left early in the fourth quarter with a concussion. New York's top receiver Sterling Shepard missed the game with a concussion. ... Singletary seemed to tweak a hamstring in the fourth quarter for the Bills. Coach Sean McDermott had no comment on injuries.
Trailing 21-7 late in the first half, Jones had a 60-yard punt return to put Giants at the Bills 33. After a 12-yard pass to Latimer, Buffalo first-round draft pick Ed Oliver tipped Manning's pass and Trent Murphy grabbed the popup. New York was 3 for 12 on third down. In the first two weeks of the season they are 5 of 23, or 21.7%.
The Bills' 98-yard touchdown drive was the team's longest since a 98-yard drive in 2009 at Jacksonville.
Bills: Play their home opener against the Cincinnati Bengals next Sunday.
Giants: Travel to Tampa to play the Buccaneers next Sunday.
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BISHOP OF MUNSTER, CARDINALClemens August von Galen was born on 16 March 1878 in Dinklage Castle, Oldenburg, Germany, the 11th of 13 children born to Count Ferdinand Heribert and Elisabeth von Spee.
His father belonged to the noble family of Westphalia, who since 1660 governed the village of Dinklage. For over two centuries his ancestors carried out the inherited office of camerlengo of the Diocese of Münster.
Clemens August grew up in Dinklage Castle and in other family seats. Due to the struggle between Church and State, he and his brothers were sent to a school run by the Jesuits in Feldkirch, Austria.
He remained there until 1894, when he transferred to the Antonianum in Vechta. After graduation, he studied philosophy and theology in Frebur, Innsbruck and Münster, and was ordained a priest on 28 May 1904 for the Diocese of Munster by Bishop Hermann Dingelstadt