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MOVIE REVIEW- 'Something New': Is Mr. White Mr. Right?
You can't exactly say Bridget Jones's Diary meets Crash in Something New, but for a romantic comedy, it gets pretty heavily into racial issues.
Sanaa Lathan stars as Kenya McQueen, a workaholic sistah whose search for Mr. Right leads her to Mr. White. Brian Kelly (Simon Baker) could hardly be more perfect, but Kenya doesn't "do" white men (or dogs or spiders or sushi...).
"I just happen to prefer black men," she tells him. "It's not a prejudice, it's a preference."
"So it's your preference to be prejudiced," he replies, instead of leaving. Girl, this one's a keeper. He's also a damned good landscape architect, and Kenya's got this jungly backyard behind the house she just bought, a power walk away from the accounting firm where she's on the rise.
Kenya's prejudice isn't entirely groundless. At work she faces the "Black Tax– You have to work twice as hard just to prove yourself equal." In an ideal world, she and Brian would be an ideal couple, but is this world ready for that kind of idealism?
Kenya's parents (Alfre Woodard, Earl Billings) encourage her to find a good African American man and settle down; her brother (Donald Faison)– who never seems to date the same woman twice, so he's not much of a role model– is even more emphatic about the need to stick to one's own kind. Her fellow singletons (Wendy Raquel Robinson, Golden Brooks, Taraji P. Henson) encourage her to stop worrying and enjoy it while it lasts. Robinson's boyfriend (Mike Epps) has a viewpoint too...
Okay, so Kenya has a few too many sounding boards (and I didn't mention the Jewish co-worker who fixed her up with Brian in the first place), but writer Kriss Turner and first-feature director Sanaa Hamri do a good job of keeping their Greek chorus from drowning out the principals.
They also keep the mood reasonably light most of the time, considering the potential for soapy melodrama. Baker manages to make Brian seem human, despite being perfect. He's totally at ease in a multicultural world, even able to laugh at Sommore's jokes that reinforce Kenya's attitudes; and he knows how to subtly (but not chauvinistically) take charge of Kenya when she needs it. This white man literally brings color into her beige world.
The girls talk early on about the "IBM– Ideal Black Man" they're looking for and how they need to lower their standards– "Let go and let flow"– if they're going to have any fun.
Because it's a movie where perfect men grow on trees, Kenya also meets Brian's polar opposite, Mark Harper (Blair Underwood), who is black, career-driven, and, in fact, just like her.
Something New balances reality and fantasy in just the right proportions so that this Valentine's Day hearts will come in all colors.


text: It obviously harkens back to the days of Bill Clinton's election bid stance on whether he used illicit drugs "... but I didn't inhale!" and we tried to keep it acceptable to all ages by including a picture of an inhaler (yes, it's an Atrovent inhaler belonging to my son....). So enjoy! Share it with friends and feel free to contribute your ideas to make another person's day a bit brighter! Oh, yeah, you can find it at: http://www.cafepress.com/medtees/1076980. A portion of proceeds are contributed to the American Lung Association.

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Disney's Christopher Robin
The young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and loveable stuffed animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our world and help Christopher Robin remember the loving and playful boy who is still inside.
Runtime1 hr. 44 min.
CastEwan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss
Director Marc Forster
Genre Animation
ReleaseAugust, 3rd 2018


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As the national debate over comprehensive immigration reform plays out, the question looms: just how secure is the U.S. border with Mexico? NBC's Mark Potter reports.
By Mark Potter, Correspondent, NBC News
TUCSON, ARIZ. – On a helicopter inspection tour above the rugged mountains and vast desert in southern Arizona, Commander Jeffrey Self of U.S. Customs and Border Protection reflected on how much security has improved along the U.S.-Mexican border during his long career.
"After the vehicle barriers were built, and with the checkpoints going up, we're experiencing zero [undocumented immigrant] drive-throughs in an area where we were having 30, 40, 50 in a 24-hour period," he said, pointing to miles of vehicle barriers placed in the desert along the frontier.
During an aerial tour of the Arizona border, Commander Jeffrey Self, U.S. Border Patrol, told NBC's Mark Potter as border security has increased, the apprehensions of immigrants crossing the border illegally has dropped dramatically.
U.S. Border Patrol has greatly reduced the number of cars and trucks loaded with people and drugs driving across the desert from Mexico into the United States. That, Self explained, has freed agents to focus their attention on immigrant and drug smugglers who walk across the border. In the meantime, he added, authorities have also greatly reduced the number of hiking trails used by smugglers.
"In Arizona we have been very successful in increasing border security," Self said. "Over the course of many years now we've been resourced with tactical infrastructure, technology and personnel and they've been employed in a fashion that's gotten us greater results."
While conceding there are still many areas where drug and immigrant smugglers cross illegally into the U.S. -- often on private ranch land -- Self argued the threat has decreased dramatically and will continue to do so.
Mark Potter/NBC News
The U.S. border vehicle barrier used by authorities to stop trucks and cars from crossing the Mexican border in southern Arizona.
As the national debate over comprehensive immigration reform plays out, the question looms: just how secure is the U.S. border with Mexico? The answer appears to be mixed, with definite improvements nationwide and a downward trend in illegal immigration in most places – especially in the cities. But there are some areas, in rural Arizona and Texas, where residents insist the border is neither secure nor safe.
Gary Thrasher, a veterinarian and rancher in southern Arizona near Bisbee, says the rural border area where he works is actually less safe now than it was years ago, because of an increase in the number of armed drug and immigrant smugglers.
When the federal government increased security in the border cities, he said, it had the negative effect of forcing the smugglers to move to the large rural areas.
"The border statistically is securer than ever. That means nothing," he said. "That's like saying we fixed this whole bucket, except for this hole down here. You know it's still not going to hold water."
U.S. officials: look to the numbers
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano frequently travels to the Southwest border and has made appearances before Congress where she has touted the recent improvements in border security and argued for passage of a comprehensive immigration bill.
"Fewer people are trying to emigrate illegally into this country than in four decades," she testified before a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year. "What I know is that apprehensions are low, because attempts are low. Drug seizures, contraband seizures, all the numbers that need to be up are up."
Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, says immigration reform must "be dealt with this year."
In the year 2000, agents along the length of the Southwest border reported detaining 1,643,679 immigrants for allegedly entering the country without proper documentation. Twelve years later, in 2012, that number had plummeted to 356,873, a decrease of 78 percent.
"San Diego and the Mexican border used to be the most lawless, violent places across the face of the earth with thousands of cross-border migrants on a given day," said retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the former head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. "We put in triple fencing and adequate Border Patrol and Coast Guard and it stopped."
Ranchers: rural border areas not secure
Critics of the administration's position on border security, however, say that while the overall apprehension numbers are down, they don't fully reflect the reality in areas where smugglers and immigrants still routinely make the illegal crossing into the United States from Mexico.
NBC News
An NBC hidden camera captures footage of border-crossers hiking across private U.S. ranch land in southern Arizona during late March.
On a small ranch near the border in southwestern Arizona, a mother of several children spoke under the condition of anonymity. She fears what she described as an increase in drug and immigrant smugglers crossing her land by day and night.
"You're still having to pack a gun everywhere with you and make sure your kids can't go outside to play unless you are watching them." she said. "The border is not secure. The Border Patrol doesn't have a very strong presence out here."
Hidden cameras placed by NBC News on private land show smugglers carrying loads of marijuana in broad daylight.
Texas police: a rise in immigrant smuggling
In the small town of San Juan, Texas, a few miles north of the Mexican border, Police Chief Juan Gonzalez toured some of the human stash houses his officers recently uncovered. They had been used to hide immigrants from all over the world who were smuggled across the border into the United States.
Gonzalez says his department has never dealt with as many undocumented immigrants as it encounters now.
"In the past three years we've seen an increase. And it's not a steady increase, it's a massive increase," he said. "Too many people are getting through. We've got too many holes in the border and we don't have enough manpower to make sure we secure the border."
About 75 miles north of the border, in Falfurrias, Texas, Benny Martinez, the chief deputy of the Brooks County Sheriff's Office, says his area is also deeply affected by a recent rise in illegal immigration.
"The trending is going up," he said. "It hasn't gone down at all, not here."
Captain Juan Gonzales, Chief of the San Juan Texas police department, says he doesn't have the resources or staff to deal with the number of undocumented immigrants who cross the border.
Last year, officials and ranchers there found the bodies of 129 immigrants who died in the harsh terrain, presumably after crossing the border illegally. Dozens are still unidentified and are buried in a local cemetery. Some of the metal markers on the graves read, "Unknown Female" and "Unknown Remains." One says, simply, "Bones."
Martinez does not believe the U.S.-Mexican border is at all secure in South Texas, given the rise in illegal immigration in Brooks County.
"It's steady and I don't think it's going to go down, it's not going to happen anytime soon," he said.
PHOTOS: Border patrol faces surge in rural Texas border crossings
Ranchers like Linda Vickers, who lives just north of a Border Patrol highway checkpoint near Falfurrias, said she regularly sees, and often photographs, illegal immigrants cutting across her land as they try to evade the agents.
"I'm seeing groups of 10, groups of 20 and I'm seeing them more often," she said.
When asked about Obama administration claims that the border is more secure now, Vickers said that while it appears to be true elsewhere in the country, it's not the case where she lives.
"In the state of Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, the border is not secure and I don't think you'll find a person, a real person, to say it's secure," she said.
Despite a dramatic drop in illegal immigration nationwide, South Texas, along the Rio Grande, is now seeing a rise in immigrants crossing the Mexican border, as many flee the poverty and violence in Central America. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
Border patrol: South Texas a problem area
In South Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley sector, immigrant apprehensions rose 65 percent from the years 2011 to 2012 -- from 59,243 to 97,762, according to U.S. Border Patrol -- bucking the national trend of falling immigration numbers.
This year, statistics reveal the Rio Grande Valley apprehension numbers have climbed even further, rising 55 percent compared to this time in 2012.
Federal agents believe it reflects a recent increase in people fleeing the poverty, drug gangs and violence in Central America.
Privately, some agents say that, despite their great success in making more apprehensions, thousands of immigrants crossing the border illegally in South Texas still slip past them.
A majority of people involved in the security debate agree that most of the U.S. cities along the border are now much safer than they used to be and have much lower crime rates, thanks to high fences, increased monitoring technology and thousands of Border Patrol and other federal agents deployed there.
But McCaffrey says U.S. officials need to do more for the rural areas.
"You have to give the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection the dollars and the technology to protect the American frontier," he said. "We've got to do it. We owe it to the American people."
This story was originally published on Thu May 2, 2013 11:29 AM EDT


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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is an American handbook for mental health professionals that lists different categories of mental disorder and the criteria for diagnosing them, according to the publishing organization the American Psychiatric Association. It is used worldwide by clinicians and researchers as well as insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers. It has attracted controversy and criticism as well as praise.
There are five revisions of the DSM since it was first published in 1952. The last major revision was the DSM-IV published in 1994, although a "text revision" was produced in 2000. The DSM-V is currently in consultation, planning and preparation, due for publication in approximately 2012.[1] The mental disorders section of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is another commonly-used guide, and the two classifications use the same diagnostic codes.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was first published in 1952, by the American Psychiatric Association. It was developed from an earlier classification system adopted in 1918 to meet the need of the federal Bureau of the Census for uniform statistics from psychiatric hospitals; from categorization systems in use by the United States military; and from a survey of the views of 10% of APA members.[2] The manual was 130 pages long and contained 106 categories of mental disorder. The DSM-II was published in 1968, listed 182 disorders, and was 134 pages long. These manuals reflected the predominant psychodynamic psychiatry.[3] Symptoms were not specified in detail for specific disorders, but were seen as reflections of broad underlying conflicts or maladaptive reactions to life problems, rooted in a distinction between neurosis and psychosis (roughly, anxiety/depression broadly in touch with reality, or hallucinations/delusions appearing disconnected from reality). Sociological and biological knowledge was also incorporated, in a model that did not emphasize a clear boundary between normality and abnormality.[4]
In 1974, the decision to create a new revision of the DSM was taken, and Robert Spitzer was selected as chairman of the task force. The initial impetus was to make the DSM nomenclature consistent with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), published by the World Health Organization. The revision took on a far wider mandate under the influence and control of Spitzer and his chosen committee members.[5] One goal was to improve the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis. The practices of mental health professionals, especially in different countries, was not uniform. The establishment of specific criteria was also an attempt to facilitate mental health research. The multiaxial system attempts to yield a more complete picture of the patient, rather than just a simple diagnosis. The criteria and classification system of the DSM-III was based on a process of consultation and committee meetings. An attempt was made to base categorization on description rather than assumptions of etiology, and the psychodynamic view was abandoned, perhaps in favor of a biomedical model, with a clear distinction between normal and abnormal.
The criteria adopted for many of the mental disorders were expanded from the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and Feighner Criteria which had been developed for psychiatry research in the 1970s. Other criteria were established by consensus in committee meetings, as determined by Spitzer. The approach is generally seen as "neo-Kraepelinian", after the work of the psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. Spitzer argued that "mental disorders are a subset of medical disorders" but the task force decided on the DSM statement: "Each of the mental disorders is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome." The first draft of the DSM-III was prepared within a year. Many new categories of disorder were introduced. Field trials sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) were conducted between 1977 and 1979 to test the reliability of the new diagnoses. A controversy emerged regarding deletion of the concept of neurosis, a mainstream of psychoanalytic theory and therapy but seen as vague and unscientific by the DSM task force. Faced with enormous political opposition, such that the DSM-III was in serious danger of not being approved by the APA Board of Trustees unless "neurosis" was included in some capacity, a political compromise reinserted the term in parentheses after the word "disorder" in some cases. In 1980, the DSM-III was published, at 494 pages long and listing 265 diagnostic categories. The DSM-III rapidly came into widespread international use by multiple stakeholders and has been termed a revolution or transformation in psychiatry.[3][4]
In 1987 the DSM-III-R was published as a revision of DSM-III, under the direction of Spitzer. Categories were renamed, reorganized, and significant changes in criteria were made. Six new categories were deleted while others were added. Controversial diagnoses such as pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder and Masochistic Personality Disorder were considered and discarded. Altogether, DSM-III-R contained 292 diagnoses and was 567 pages long.
In 1994, DSM-IV was published, listing 297 disorders in 886 pages. The task force was chaired by Allen Frances. A steering committee of 27 people was introduced, including four psychologists. The steering committee created 13 work groups of 5–16 members. Each work group had approximately 20 advisers. The work groups conducted a three step process. First, each group conducted an extensive literature review of their diagnoses. Then they requested data from researchers, conducting analyses to determine which criteria required change, with instructions to be conservative. Finally, they conducted multicenter field trials relating diagnoses to clinical practice.[6][7] A major change from previous versions was the inclusion of a clinical significance criterion to almost half of all the categories, which required that symptoms cause "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning".
A "Text Revision" of the DSM-IV, known as the DSM-IV-TR, was published in 2000. The diagnostic categories and the vast majority of the specific criteria for diagnosis were unchanged.[8] The text sections giving extra information on each diagnosis were updated, as were some of the diagnostic codes in order to maintain consistency with the ICD.
Referencing the DSM in APA Format
First time referenced: ". . . according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM-IV-TR], the standard reference text for psychiatric diagnoses (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)."
Thereafter: ". . . as given by the DSM-IV-TR (2000)."
In References:
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (Revised 4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
DSM and politics
Following controversy and protests from gay activists at APA annual conferences from 1970 to 1973, the seventh printing of the DSM-II, in 1974, no longer listed homosexuality as a category of disorder. After talks led by the psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, who had been involved in the DSM-II development committee, a vote by the APA trustees in 1973, confirmed by the wider APA membership in 1974, had replaced the diagnosis with a milder category of "sexual orientation disturbance". This was replaced with the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality in the DSM-III in 1980, but this was removed in 1987 with the release of the DSM-III-R.[3][9][10] A category of "sexual disorder not otherwise specified" continues in the DSM-IV, which may include "persistent and marked distress about one's sexual orientation".
The current DSM
The DSM-IV is a categorical classification system. The categories are prototypes, and a patient with a close approximation to the prototype is said to have that disorder. DSM-IV states that "there is no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries..." but isolated, low-grade and noncriterion (unlisted for a given disorder) symptoms are not given importance.[11] Qualifiers are sometimes used, for example mild, moderate or severe forms of a disorder. For nearly half the disorders, symptoms must be sufficient to cause "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning", although DSM-IV-TR removed the distress criterion from tic disorders and several of the paraphilias. Each category of disorder has a numeric code taken from the ICD coding system, used for health service (including insurance) administrative purposes.
Multi-axial system
The DSM-IV organizes each psychiatric diagnosis into five levels (axes) relating to different aspects of disorder or disability:
- Axis I: clinical disorders, including major mental disorders, as well as developmental and learning disorders
- Axis II: underlying pervasive or personality conditions, as well as mental retardation
- Axis III: Acute medical conditions and Physical disorders.
- Axis IV: psychosocial and environmental factors contributing to the disorder
- Axis V: Global Assessment of Functioning or Children's Global Assessment Scale for children under the age of 18. (on a scale from 100 to 0)
Common Axis I disorders include depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and schizophrenia.
Common Axis II disorders include borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and mild mental retardation.
The DSM-IV-TR states that, because it is produced for mental health specialists, its use by people without clinical training can lead to inappropriate application of its contents. Appropriate use of the diagnostic criteria is said to require extensive clinical training, and its contents "cannot simply be applied in a cookbook fashion".[12] The APA notes that diagnostic labels are primarily for use as a "convenient shorthand" among professionals. The DSM advises that laypersons should consult the DSM only to obtain information, not to make diagnoses, and that people who may have a mental disorder should be referred to psychiatric counseling or treatment. Further, people sharing the same diagnosis/label may not have the same etiology (cause) or require the same treatment; the DSM contains no information regarding treatment or cause for this reason. The range of the DSM represents an extensive scope of psychiatric and psychological issues, and it is not exclusive to what one may consider "illnesses".
DSM-IV sourcebooks
The DSM-IV doesn't specifically cite its sources, but there are four volumes of "sourcebooks" intended to be APA's documentation of the guideline development process and supporting evidence, including literature reviews, data analyses and field trials.[13][14][15][16] The Sourcebooks have been said to provide important insights into the character and quality of the decisions that led to the production of DSM-IV, and hence the scientific credibility of contemporary psychiatric classification.[17][18]
DSM-V planning
The DSM-V is tentatively scheduled for publication in 2011.[19] In 1999, a DSM–V Research Planning Conference, sponsored jointly by APA and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), was held to set the research priorities. Research Planning Work Groups produced "white papers" on the research needed to inform and shape the DSM-IV,[20] and the resulting work and recommendations were reported in an APA monograph[21] and peer-reviewed literature.[22] There were six workgroups, each focusing on a broad topic: Nomenclature, Neuroscience and Genetics, Developmental Issues and Diagnosis, Personality and Relational Disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability, and Cross-Cultural Issues. Three additional white papers were also due by 2004 concerning gender issues, diagnostic issues in the geriatric population, and mental disorders in infants and young children.[23] The white papers have been followed by a series of conferences to produce recommendations relating to specific disorders and issues, with attendance limited to 25 invited researchers.[24]
On July 23rd 2007, the APA announced the task force that will oversee the development of DSM-V. The DSM-V Task Force consists of 27 members, including a chair and vice chair, who collectively represent research scientists from psychiatry and other disciplines, clinical care providers, and consumer and family advocates. Scientists working on the revision of the DSM have experience in research, clinical care, biology, genetics, statistics, epidemiology, public health and consumer advocacy. They have interests ranging from cross-cultural medicine and genetics to geriatric issues, ethics and addiction. The APA Board of Trustees required that all task force nominees disclose any competing interests or potentially conflicting relationships with entities that have an interest in psychiatric diagnoses and treatments as a precondition to appointment to the task force. The APA made all task force members'disclosures available during the announcement of the task force. Several individuals were ruled ineligible for task force appointments due to their competing interests. Revision of the DSM will continue over the next five years. Future announcements will include naming the workgroups on specific categories of disorders and their research-based recommendations on updating various disorders and definitions.
There have been a number of persistent critical debates concerning the DSM.
- There has been continuing scientific debate concerning the construct validity and practical reliability of the diagnostic categories and criteria in the DSM, even though they have been increasingly standardized to improve inter-rater agreement in controlled research.[25][26][27] It has been argued that the DSM's claims to being empirically founded are overstated in general.[17]
- Despite caveats in the introduction to the DSM, it has long been argued that its system of classification makes unjustified categorical distinctions between disorders, and between normal and abnormal. Although the DSM-IV may move away from this categorical approach in some limited areas, some argue that a fully dimensional, spectrum or complaint-oriented approach would better reflect the evidence.[28][29][30][31]
- It has been argued that purely symptom-based diagnostic criteria fail to adequately take into account the context in which a person is living, and whether there is real internal disorder of an individual or simply a response to an ongoing situation.[32][33] It is claimed that the use of distress and disability as additional criteria for many disorders has not solved this false-positives problem, because the level of impairment is often not correlated with symptom counts and can stem from various individual and social factors.[34]
- The political context of the DSM is a topic of controversy, including its use by drug and insurance companies. The potential for conflict of interest has been raised because roughly 50% of the authors who previously selected and defined the DSM psychiatric disorders have had or have financial relationships with pharmaceutical industries and drug companies.[35] Some argue that the expansion of disorders in the DSM has been influenced by profit motives and represents an increasing medicalization of human nature,[36] while others argue that mental health problems are still under-recognized and under-treated.
- Some people diagnosed with "Gender Identity Disorder" and some people with pedophilia criticize the DSM. They cite the APA's decision to remove homosexuality from the DSM as evidence that the APA incorrectly refers to many diverse states of being or orientations as mental illnesses.[37]
See also
- Classification of mental disorders
- Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders
- DSM-IV Codes
- GAF Scale
- Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
- Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID)
- ↑ DSM-5 Timeline
- ↑ Grob, GN. (1991) Origins of DSM-I: a study in appearance and reality Am J Psychiatry. Apr;148(4):421–31.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mayes, R. & Horwitz, AV. (2005) DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness. J Hist Behav Sci 41(3):249–67.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wilson, M. (1993) DSM-III and the transformation of American psychiatry: a history. Am J Psychiatry. 1993 Mar;150(3):399–410.
- ↑ Speigel, A. (2005) The Dictionary of Disorder: How one man revolutionized psychiatry The New Yorker, issue of 2005-01-03.
- ↑ Allen Frances, Avram H. Mack, Ruth Ross, and Michael B. First (2000) The DSM-IV Classification and Psychopharmacology.
- ↑ Schaffer, David (1996) A Participant's Observations: Preparing DSM-IV Can J Psychiatry 1996;41:325–329.
- ↑ APA Summary of Practice-Relevant Changes to the DSM-IV-TR.
- ↑ "The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues", by R.L. Spitzer, Am J Psychiatry 1981; 138:210-215
- ↑ Spiegel, Alix. (18 January 2002.) "81 Words". In Ira Glass (producer), This American Life. Chicago: Chicago Public Radio.
- ↑ Maser, JD. & Patterson, T. (2002) Spectrum and nosology: implications for DSM-V Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Dec, 25(4)p855-885
- ↑ http://www.psych.org/research/dor/dsm/dsm_faqs/faq81301.cfm
- ↑ DSM-IV Sourcebook Volume 1
- ↑ DSM-IV Sourcebook Volume 2
- ↑ DSM-IV Sourcebook Volume 3
- ↑ DSM-IV Sourcebook Volume 4
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Poland, JS. (2001) Review of Volume 1 of DSM-IV sourcebook
- ↑ Poland, JS. (2001) Review of vol 2 of DSM-IV sourcebook
- ↑ DSM-V Prelude Project website
- ↑ First, M. (2002) A Research Agenda for DSM-V: Summary of the DSM-V Preplanning White Papers Published in May 2002
- ↑ Kupfer, First & Regier (2002) A Research Agenda for DSM-V
- ↑ Regier, DS., Narrow, WE., First, MB., Marshall, T. (2002) The APA classification of mental disorders: future perspectives. Psychopathology. Mar-Jun;35(2-3):166-70.
- ↑ DSM-5 Research Planning
- ↑ APA DSM-V Research Planning Activities
- ↑ Kendell R, Jablensky A. (2003) Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses. Am J Psychiatry. Jan;160(1):4-12. PMID 12505793
- ↑ Baca-Garcia E, Perez-Rodriguez MM, Basurte-Villamor I, Fernandez del Moral AL, Jimenez-Arriero MA, Gonzalez de Rivera JL, Saiz-Ruiz J, Oquendo MA. (2007) Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice. Br J Psychiatry. Mar;190:210-6. PMID 17329740
- ↑ Pincus et al. (1998) "Clinical Significance" and DSM-IV Arch Gen Psychiatry.1998; 55: 1145
- ↑ Spitzer, Robert L, M.D., Williams, Janet B.W, D.S.W., First, Michael B, M.D., Gibbon, Miriam, M.S.W., Biometric Research
- ↑ Maser, JD & Akiskal, HS. et al. (2002) Spectrum concepts in major mental disorders Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 25, Special issue 4
- ↑ Krueger, RF., Watson, D., Barlow, DH. et al. (2005) Toward a Dimensionally Based Taxonomy of Psychopathology Journal of Abnormal Psychology Vol 114, Issue 4
- ↑ Bentall, R. (2006) Madness explained : Why we must reject the Kraepelinian paradigm and replace it with a 'complaint-orientated' approach to understanding mental illness Medical hypotheses, vol. 66(2), pp. 220-233
- ↑ Chodoff, P. (2005) Psychiatric Diagnosis: A 60-Year Perspective Psychiatric News June 3, 2005 Volume 40 Number 11, p17
- ↑ Jerome C. Wakefield, PhD, DSW; Mark F. Schmitz, PhD; Michael B. First, MD; Allan V. Horwitz, PhD (2007) Extending the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression to Other Losses: Evidence From the National Comorbidity Survey Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64:433-440.
- ↑ Spitzer RL, Wakefield JC. (1999) DSM-IV diagnostic criterion for clinical significance: does it help solve the false positives problem? Am J Psychiatry. 1999 Dec;156(12):1856-64. PMID 10588397
- ↑ Cosgrove, Lisa, Krimsky, Sheldon,Vijayaraghavan, Manisha, Schneider, Lisa,Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry
- ↑ Kirk, A.S. (2005) Are we all going mad, or are the experts crazy? August 14 edition of the Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "GID Reform Advocates" transgender.org
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Thirty-four years have come and gone since Energy secretary James Schlesinger described the American approach to oil supply problems.
We have only two modes—complacency and panic
Nothing has changed. As popular revolt spread from Egypt into Libya, panic smoothly replaced complacency in the markets and the overwrought minds of the American people. Apparently, since Egypt blew up first, and Libya, which is west of Egypt, blew up next, it has been deemed logical to conclude that Algeria, which is west of Libya, will be the next domino to fall. The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard did not want to be left out of the fear fest, as his Oil could hit $220 a barrel on Libya and Algeria fears, warns Nomura attests.
Nomura's commodity team said oil prices risk vaulting to uncharted highs over coming weeks if chaos hits Algeria as well, reducing global spare capacity to the wafer-thin margins seen just before the first Gulf War…
"We could see $220 a barrel should both Libya and Algeria halt oil production. We could be underestimating this as speculative activiites were largely not present in 1990-1991," said Michael Lo, the bank's oil strategist…
Nomura said a shut-down in both Libya and Algeria would cut global supply by 2.9m b/d and reduce OPEC spare capacity to 2.1m b/d, comparable with levels at the onset of the Gulf War and worse than during the 2008 spike, when prices hit $147…
Nomura's report, which does not examine the catastrophic scenario of a full-blown Gulf crisis, said past oil shocks have shown a three-stage pattern, with a final blow-off in prices in the final phase. The current crisis is at stage one.
From Forbes' Don't Fret Lost Libyan Oil But Worry Plenty About Algeria
After years of complacency about the oil supply, fear now makes it possible to imagine all sorts of scenarios, no matter how improbable, that will bring down the world economy. Perhaps it might have been better to worry about this stuff a bit earlier. The year 1977 comes to mind, when Jimmy Carter was president and Schlesinger served in his cabinet.
Here in America, with oil hovering around $105 a barrel, panic has led to the usual absurdities. Just as in 2008, Lisa Murkowski wants us to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). Once again, pandering politicians want to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Yahoo reprinted this news release from Reuters.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House Chief of Staff William Daley said on Sunday the Obama administration was considering tapping into the U.S. strategic oil reserve as a way to help ease soaring oil prices.
Speaking on NBC television's "Meet the Press," Daley said: "We are looking at the options. The issue of the reserves is one we are considering. It is something that only is done — and has been done — in very rare occasions. There's a bunch of factors that have to be looked at. And it is just not the price."
"All matters have to be on the table when you see the difficulty coming out of this economic crisis we're in and the fragility," Daley added.
Congress has pressured the Obama administration to look to the emergency oil supply to ease consumers' fears over rising gasoline prices, which are threatening again to top $4 per gallon at U.S. gas stations…
This Yahoo story was open to comment by the General Public, and at last count 4,862 comments had been made. On Sunday, knowing that our domestic oil supply is always a subject of great interest when the oil price skyrockets, I posted Where Is U.S. Oil Production Going? Although I could not cover the entire subject in a blog post, I did provide enough information to give my readers a good idea of what to expect over the next 5 or 10 years (in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Bakken Shale, etc.). My post received two comments—the first one from Unbound pointed to the Yahoo story, and noted the following:
What is of interest, at least for me, was the reader comments at the end of the [Yahoo] article — IMO these reader responses are representative, or better yet, a commentary on the pervasive lack of understanding of the energy/oil situation.
Saying those comments on Yahoo showed "a pervasive lack of understanding" of the oil situation is putting it mildly. Most of the comments I looked at were incoherent, or full of political vitriol, but "Drill, Baby, Drill" was a common theme. These comments were sometimes accompanied by the claim that the U.S. has more oil than Saudi Arabia, which is a reference to the oil shale of Colorado and Utah.
Possible impact of increased access to oil resources in the Lower 48
Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS, excludes Alaska). Source: EIA
I can assure you that if we were to open up every square foot of the United States (and its continental shelf) to drilling, we might see some new oil in 2019-20. How much? I don't know precisely, but not enough to save us (graph above). See my ANWR Is Not The Answer and As Good As It Gets. I wrote these stories in 2008. Few listened to me then, and few listen to me now. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink think. Of course, you must first get the horse's attention.
The ignorance on display in the Yahoo comments is breathtaking. As the oil price rises, and the panic spreads, the confused shouting of America's bewildered and fearful multitudes drowns out any rational discussion of where we stand. James Schlesinger (left) gave us another memorable quote recently which bears repeating here:
The battle is over, the peakists have won.


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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's finance minister said on Wednesday that his country had been given more time by its international lenders to implement austerity cuts, an assertion played down by leading European Union officials.
European paymaster Germany said the EU would only decide on the matter after receiving a report on Greece's progress from the 'troika' of lenders - the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund - while ECB President Mario Draghi said no final decision had been made.
But Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said the delay had already been agreed and that a package of austerity measures would be put to parliament next week - even though junior coalition partners have refused to back some of the proposals.
After months of wrangling on the 13.5-billion-euro package of spending cuts and reforms, he said the near-bankrupt country had won additional concessions from its lenders and had largely wrapped up talks on the plan.
The EU and IMF lenders, however, said some issues were still outstanding, despite progress in recent days.
A deal on the package is crucial for Greece's efforts to unlock more aid under its latest bailout, with the country just three weeks away from running out of cash.
"Today, we obtained the extension," Stournaras told parliament, referring to being given an additional two years to hit bailout targets, something Athens has been lobbying for.
"All the scenarios that we are working on with the (international lenders) are based on the assumption of an extension," he said.
An earlier Reuters report cited a draft agreement between Greece and the troika that specified Athens will have until 2016 rather than until 2014 to hit its budget deficit targets.
Speaking in Berlin, Draghi said: "The review is not yet finished. I understand progress has been made, but some parts need to be defined."
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stressed the need for Greece to fulfill its bailout terms.
But he added: "If the troika should come to the conclusion that there are objective things that the Greeks cannot change on their own and if it makes suggestions for how to solve this, then we will consult on that in the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament) and decide on them accordingly.
Even if Greece strikes a deal with lenders abroad, it faces a difficult battle at home.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's allies - the PASOK Socialists and the small Democratic Left party - have yet to back the austerity package, with the smaller party refusing to budge on its stance despite the latest concessions from lenders.
Both parties have refused to support demands by foreign lenders to cut wages and reduce severance payments, but have maintained that they do not want to jeopardize the government or Greece's place in the euro zone.
Stournaras urged the parties to change their stance, citing new concessions the government had eked out overnight.
"This morning, after an all-night effort, the troika backed down on two main issues - severance payments and the notice period required before a layoff," Stournaras told parliament.
"To a great extent, the negotiations have been completed. But even now, we are trying for improvements."
But that failed to impress Democratic Left.
"As things stand, my position remains unchanged," party chief Fotis Kouvelis told Reuters.
The package will be put to parliament next week in two separate bills on austerity cuts and labor reforms, he said. The separation is designed to ensure that the austerity cuts will pass even if Democratic Left votes against the labor reforms, Greek officials said.
The party commands only 16 deputies in the 300-seat parliament, meaning the bills could still pass without its support.
But if it did vote against, the already fragile coalition's stability could be undermined, and questions could be raised about the government's commitment to reform.
Stournaras openly raised the issue of inflicting losses on Greece's official sector lenders by saying it was trying cut its debt mountain by asking for lower interest rates and an extension of maturities on its bailout loans.
Greece's debt was already cut by 106 billion euros earlier this year under a deal that imposed losses on private-sector bondholders. But with its economy mired in its deepest postwar recession, and tax and privatization receipts sluggish, there is a growing sense that Greece will need additional debt relief.
Additional reporting by Harry Papachristou, Renee Maltezou and Karolina Tagaris; Writing by Deepa Babington; Editing by Kevin Liffey


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It's more or less official: a brief interview with Kazu on FLIGHT's move from Image Comics to Ballantine.
Woops, I think he actually meant every 6 months (unless there was a change and I'm out of the loop over here). But there will be a longer gap between volumes 2 and 3, as mentioned elsewhere...Mothos wrote:he comments below it are amusing. It's turned into a giant debate on what 'bi-annual' means. Whether it's twice a year or once every two years. Everyone seems to have different dictionaries!
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For the week ending 2 December 2006 / 11 Kislev 5767
A Seudat Mitzvah Anyway
Hundreds of guests in a hall in Herzliya anxiously waited for the brit mila to begin. Imagine their shock when the mohel emerged from his final pre-circumcision examination and announced that the baby was slightly jaundiced and the brit had to be postponed because it presented a danger to life.
What would now happen with the hundreds of portions prepared for this seudat mitzvah?
To the good fortune of all concerned the rabbi of the city, Rabbi Yacobowitz, was present. He invited everyone to sit down and partake of the meal that he ruled was a seudat mitzvah despite the fact that the brit mila did not take place.
His reasoning was that the postponement of the brit mila was a demonstration of our commitment to the halachic ruling that consideration of danger to life is placed above performance of this mitzvah. This alone was something to be celebrated with a seudat mitzvah.


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The New York Times recently reported that Lance Armstrong was mulling a new and bold public relations maneuver: Admitting that he'd cheated at cycling for his entire career, a fact which most sane people had assumed to be true, but which would make him look particularly sociopathic due to vigor and unshakable conviction with which he'd denied doping previously. (The most recent revelation, that Armstrong tried to bribe his way out of being investigated, is a relatively tame one on the spectrum on Lance Armstrong anecdotes.) A little later, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) notified the world that Oprah, sympathetic interviewer to the stars, would be conducting a long interview with Lance Armstrong in the near future. Now, USA Today reports that Lance Armstrong will—hang on to your hats—admit to doping during the 90-minute special on Thursday:
Lance Armstrong plans to make an admission about doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey scheduled to tape Monday at his home in Austin, Texas, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
Armstrong's planned admission carries with it the risk of being sued or held liable by those who believe he defrauded them by lying about his performance and use of drugs. He also could face criminal prosecution, though that seems unlikely. For example, Armstrong testified under oath in 2005 that he never used such drugs, but he is not likely to face criminal charges for perjury the testimony is beyond the statute of limitations.
That would have been interesting and a little tense, had news of the admission not broken five days before the special is going to air. Be sure to see our Friday morning post featuring all the relevant clips, and feel free to spend your Thursday evening not watching Lance Armstrong admit to doping.
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WHAT'S FOR DINNER? HOMEMADE CORN DOGS - gluten free version too
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2 T cornmeal
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1/4 t paprika
1/8 t cayenne
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Heat the oil over medium-high heat
approx 6 C vegetable oil (2 inches high in the pan)
Dip and coat your dog in Bisquick mixture. Place 2 dipped dogs in the hot oil. Only 2 at a time or the temp of the oil will drop. Cook turning with metal slotted spoon for 2 minutes or until golden brown.
Drain on paper towel and insert sticks if desired.
Meanwhile, sautee 8 oz sliced mushrooms, 3 T minced red onion & 2-4 cloves minced garlic with 1/4 C butter & 2 T olive oil over medium heat. Do NOT salt mushrooms before they're browned or they won't ever brown. When the mushrooms are browned, deglaze the pan with 1/2 C white wine. Cook a minute or two until it's reduced. Add 2 bags spinach (or 1 large bag like from Costco). Stir occasionally until spinach is wilted. Add 4 oz cream cheese & 1/4 C Parmesan. Stir until melted. Season with salt & pepper.
Remove chicken from oven. Turn chicken over & divide and top with spinach mixture. Sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese on top of each breast. Place pan back in oven and cook for 12-14 minutes longer.


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As I explained last week, my theme for this round is a form of poetry that combines a feeling or emotion with similes and metaphors. It's something I taught my 4th grade students years ago, something they picked up on very easily and with great creativity. Hope you enjoy this week's B word.
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Nuijten et al (2015) created statcheck, a free R package that you can set to work on a pdf or html file, or a folder of files, to check the reported t-tests, F-tests, correlations, and some others tests. Like your spellchecker, you will want to run statcheck when working as an editor, reviewer, author, supervisor, or teacher on any empirical article that contains t-tests, F-tests, correlations, or chi-square tests.
Here's how it works. First, you need to install open source software that will allow R to convert PDF files to text. The steps are a bit long and tricky, but I made a step-by-step summary which should help you to get this to work.
Then, to check a single article, run the following R code (changing the path to the PDF you want to check):
# install and load statcheck
That's all.
You will get output (click on the screenshot below for a bigger version) where you can see a column for the reported p-values, the re-computed p-values, a summary of each test, and then a column called Error which will say FALSE if there is no error, and TRUE if there is an error. I analyzed a recent paper my PhD student Chao Zhang wrote, and I was happy to see the way we worked on this article (Chao doing the analyses, me double-checking them) prevented us from making errors. I also looked at earlier papers, and I regrettably did make a few rounding errors and copy-paste errors in my publications. Even though nothing changed the conclusions (indicated by the column 'DecisionError'), usin Statcheck would have easily prevented these errors. Statcheck can make some errors, so be sure to check where each tests is identified correctly, especially when it flags something as an error.
Some Errors We Make
Nuijten and colleagues applied Statcheck to a huge amount of articles, and report how often people make errors when reporting statistical tests in a new paper. When reading the paper, I immediately saw how useful Statcheck was. But I also felt some annoyance that there was no clear analysis of the things we did wrong. I felt someone told me I was doing things wrong, without telling me what it was I did wrong. But then a wise man said I should not blame the authors for not writing the paper I would have written. Which is especially true given that Nuijten et al have shared all their data, and their beautiful and reproducible analysis script.
So I took a look at what we did wrong (R script), and below I will give a recommendation on how to fix a large majority of the problems.
Of the 258105 tests, there were 24961 errors, of which 3581 were decision errors (changing the conclusion of p > 0.05 to p < 0.05 or vice versa), but they are all caused mainly by the same types of errors. First, people make copy-paste errors. Second, people reported p = 0.000 1279 times, when they should have reported p < 0.001. Three errors are worth looking into in some more detail.
Incorrect use of < instead of =
By far the largest number of errors is the use of < instead of =. For example, F(1, 68) = 4.88, p < .03 is incorrect, because the p-value is actually 0.0305, which is not < 0.03. It happens thousands and thousands of times. Indeed, if we look at the difference between the reported and re-computed p-values for all the errors, we see the difference in p-values is mostly tiny (smaller than 0.01). This is the main reason. When you read the byline 'One in eight articles contain data-reporting mistakes that affect their conclusions' you might not think the solution is simply to replace '<' by '='. I believe it largely is (but this deserves a closer look).
Use of one-sided tests
Using one-sided tests, without saying so (or at least without Statcheck recognizing the words 'one-sided', 'one-tailed', or 'directional' in the text) is another source of errors. The frequency of one-tailed tests (as I assume, without pre-registration of the analysis plan) is rather high. One-tailed tests are fine, and perhaps even more in line with your prediction than a two-tailed test, but I'd feel more comfortable if people pre-register one-sided predictions if they have them, and report them if they are performed. Statcheck is great for finding non-disclosed one-tailed tests.
Incorrect Rounding and Reporting
963 times, people round a p-value between 0.05 and 0.06 to p < 0.05. The latter is clearly wrong (but remember people make the same rounding error far removed from the magical p = 0.05 threshold as well, so this is just the incorrect use of < instead of = as noted above). 241 times, researchers report a p >= 0.055 to p < 0.05, and 128 times, people round a p-value between 0.055 and 0.06 to p = 0.05 (really using the = sign). This is just pathetic. When you hear '1.4% of p-values are grossly inconsistent', this is the kind of behavior you think about. It makes up approximately 10% of the 3581 decision errors, and even though it is just 0.14% of all reported p-values, I think it is depressingly high. Statcheck can help reduce these errors.
Altogether, the 3581 decision errors are made up mostly by incorrect rounding, the use of one-sided tests without explicitly stating this through the words 'one-tailed', 'one-sided' or 'directional', the use of < instead of =, and the approximately 350 (give or take a hundred) false positives (note there might also be false negatives, which would increase the number of errors).
These errors are visible in the plot below. In the left of the graph, we see differences of -1, where Statcheck often computes a p-value of 1 because it misunderstands the test. The large bar in the center is mainly due to the use of < instead of =, and the slightly larger slope on the left of this large bar is due to the use of one-sided tests, and incorrect rounding.
My main goal in looking at the data in detail was to be able to provide practical recommendations to prevent the specific errors we make (even though Nuijten et al suggest co-authors double-check their analyses and share all data). The recommendation is surprisingly straightforward, and nicely with the theme of this blog on how 20% of the effort will fix 80% of the problems:
Report exact p-values, rounded to three decimals (e.g., p = 0.016), or use p < 0.001. Mention the use of one-tailed tests. Double-check all numbers (for example by using Statcheck!).
I'd like to thanks Michele Nuijten for her help in correcting some of my assumptions and analyses, and for feedback on an earlier draft of this blog post.


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Best Buy went one step further and listed the tablet's full specification, once again confirming the looks, Android 4.3, 7-inch screen with IPS technology, 300 cd/m² brightness, 178° viewing angles and 1920 x 1200 resolution, giving us even more sharpness than a Retina iPad. Best Buy also revealed that the CPU inside is the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 8064, with a 2MB L2 cache and a clock of 1.5GHz. The graphics inside of the chip is the aged Adreno 320 that will do just fine, but it is not the best mobile GPU around.
The tablet has 2GB DDR3LP memory as well as 16 or 32GB storage, 5-megapixel rear facing and 1.2-megapixel front facing camera, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11n wireless. The new Nexus 7 weighs 11.2 Oz (317.5 grams) and has measures 0.3 inches (7.6 mm) at the waist. It stands 7.9 inches (20 cm) tall and it's
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The model name NEXUS7-ASUS-2B16 confirms that Asus is still the maker behind this tablet but Asus brand is gone from the back side. It is simply called Nexus, and the logo is printed in large, friendly letters, but it's vertical now, not horizontal like on the old Nexus.
Before we finished this article Best Buy removed the 32GB model but just in case we took a screenshot of 16GB model listed.
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Phil Jackson's comments about the NBA's "witch hunt" and "vendetta" against Kobe Bryant proved to be costly to the Lakers. We just got the e-mail Thursday afternoon from the NBA that Jackson was fined $50,000 for his comments and the Lakers were fined another $50,000 as an organization for them.
Jackson was fined $25,000 earlier this season for disparaging the referee crew that worked a loss in Utah. That brings the total of fines Jackson has incurred to $150,000 in two seasons. He was fined $25,000 last season for violating the NBA's anti-tampering rules by making comments about Toronto's Chris Bosh.


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One of the victims of Germany's crossbow serial killer was a sex slave master who lorded over the women in his life.
The five deaths — three of them murdered with a crossbow — has stunned the nation.
It's believed that Farina Caspari, 30, was responsible for the slaughter.
The lesbian crossbow killer first murdered Torsten Weiss, 53, and his girlfriend Kerstin Enders, 33, in a small Bavarian hotel.
She then killed herself, shooting a bolt into her neck.
The trio were medieval reenactment enthusiasts.
Weiss ran a bizarre, medieval-themed fetish shop and according to The Times of London, was the women's slave master.
On Monday, cops discovered two more dead women at Caspari's apartment in Wittingen. One was her partner, a teacher known as Gertrude C. and the couple's roommate, Carina U., 19.
German tabloid Bild reported that the killer and her girlfriend once lived with Weiss and his girlfriend at a local farm.
The tattooed and pierced slave master "harshly" ordered his harem around.
Weiss and Enders were killed with bolts through their hearts as they held hands on a bed at the inn.
In a final macabre touch, he was hit with two more bolts to his chest and two to the head. Enders also had a bolt through her forehead.
Detectives suspect the tragedy may have been a murder-on-demand scenario as the two inn victims had drawn up wills, found beside their lifeless bodies.
"There were no signs of a struggle or self-defence. It appears we are dealing with a killing on demand or group suicide," Walter Feiler, chief prosecutor in Passau, told the Passauer Neue Presse.
Alexander Krüger, 44, who rented the property to Weiss, told Bild all five lived on the property.
"His tone with them was strange. They were almost submissive; I had the impression that they are hardly allowed to talk to me," said Kruger.
"Their reaction, the body language was submissive, holding their heads down. If I did not know better, I'd say they were really scared of him."


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Education Trust Executive Director Kati Haycock featured in public presentation on improving achievement in schoolsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU - Kati Haycock, executive director of Education Trust in Washington, D.C., offers a public presentation on "Improving Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools on the Performance Frontier," on Monday, Feb. 26, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the UH Manoa School of Architecture Auditorium.
"A lot of people think that the underachievement of some groups of young Americans, particularlys those growing up poor or members of various racial and ethinic minority groups, is mostly caused by the children themselves, or by their families," says Haycock.
In this presentation, she will show the many ways in which schools contribute to the problem instead of helping to solve it, and she will also describe a series of schools that defy all the odds. These schools serve very poor children yet produce fabulous results. Haycock will present the data and the lessons learned from these schools.
Following her presentation, Brooke Haycock, the Education Trust's artist-in-residence, will perform a one-woman show called "Buzz" that will take the audience into three high performing, high poverty high schools, sharing the voices of students, teachers and principals, and highlighting how these schools enable students who nobody believes can "fly" to the highest heights.
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Back at the 'Labs we start off every morning with breakfast at 8:45, then at 9:05 someone rings the cowbell. The cowbell lets everyone know, "Hey we're doing stand-up, come if you want, carry on if you need to be doing something else."
The whole company is on their feet, one big 40 person circle. We don't do the Scrummy standup here. We first intro any new employees, guests, interviewees, etc. Then on to things people need help on that they're having a hard time solving within their team. Then lastly the "interestings", stuff like "I made a thing in our tool set that'll make doing stuff easier", or "Don't park your bike on Market Street tomorrow."
The format is all about being relevant to [most] people who are attending. This is very different from a status meeting – problems get attention and knowledge gets disseminated. I love this stand-up.
Unfortunately, Pivots sometimes go off-site, where there isn't stand-up Nirvana. In one case, the client was large enough that a handful of us Pivots were at the same place, distributed across several teams. As Pivots do, we created a hybrid of the status stand-up and our company stand-up. Every morning, we'd form a circle, and every morning the circle would be absent of client developers. I didn't think much of it until I started to realize that stuff we talked about and addressed proactively in our stand-up was biting our client's developers and they were getting placed in situations where they could only react.
As had been done before my arrival, I invited the client developers to join our stand up in the morning. To make the time easy to remember, and to help propagate the awareness of the event each morning, I obtained a cow bell for our use. Just like being at our HQ, I rang that bell when we gathered for stand-up. For three weeks, no one came.
No one really even acknowledged the sound of the bell. We joked that it only added to our cult-like appearance of standing in a circle. Then one day, I was running late, and missed breakfast, and as it was time for stand-up another Pivot told me he had just over-heard some people talking about the bell… JOY!!!!… using the word "obnoxious"… SADNESS, and he implied that it would be wise to have the ringing stop.
While it may be true that the bell has laid silent, and that it may have been foolhardy to assume what works in one place will work in another, I am not so certain it was a failure. As I said before, the purpose of the bell was to raise awareness, and to call it "obnoxious" is to certainly be aware. If it were just me, I might have continued to ring on. I think the better idea would be to make the stand-up itself be the thing that draws attention, "Where is everyone?", "Oh they're all at stand-up, didn't you know?"
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November 1, 2012 I Written By Marianya
My life can be summed up in the following two quotes: 1) "I am married to engineering and am its faithful wife by day, but at night my wanderlust takes hold and the arts becomes my jealous paramour." and... 2) "Engineering is my safety net. Writing is my passion. Acting is my escape when the other two become too much." So where does dancing fit in? Pretty much anywhere at this point... =)
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text: 2010 ATA Trade Show Numbers Up Numbers boosted by order-writing retailers 2010 ATA Trade Show Numbers Up From Archery Trade AssociationCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The 2010 ATA Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio, drew nearly 12 percent more attendees than a year ago, while nearly every exhibitor enjoyed increased order-writing. Both the increased traffic and business helped inspire optimism for the new year."The mood on the floor was the most upbeat I recall in the 10 years I've been with the ATA," said Jay McAninch, ATA CEO/president. "More specifically, I was pleased to see that buying was brisk among retailers and buyers at our show and business was also strong at the two buying group shows featured at our event. All told, many exhibitors cited increases that — in some cases — amounted to double the business from the 2009 show, a very good show in its own right. Given the economy and the uncertainty about 2010, the ATA Trade Show had a solid, memorable return to Columbus."The archery and bowhunting industry's largest and most inclusive show was held Jan. 13-15 — Wednesday through Friday — in the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The Trade Show floor featured 478 exhibitors, 25 more than in 2009. This total included 90 first-time exhibitors, as well as 24 start-up companies in the ATA's new Innovation Zone. The exhibitors combined to rent 154,320 square feet of booth space, nearly 1,400 more square feet than 2009. International attendance continued its upward trend as the Show saw a 51 percent increase in the number of international retail and distributor companies attending. The same was evident on the exhibiting side as international manufacturers interest in the U.S. market and the ATA Trade Show was up as well. The stronger presence of exhibitor support staff attending the show could be viewed as an indication that the economy is stabilizing and the archery and bowhunting industry is cautiously optimistic about 2010. Exhibitors brought more staff members to the 2010 Show, a reversal from 2009 when many cut back on staffing to save travel expenses in the face of a weak economy. The ATA verified nearly 3,300 exhibitor staff members at the Show, about 650 more than attended in 2009. Exhibitors also rented a record 40 shooting lanes for the Show.Doug Springer, president of Copper John Corp., said retailers visiting his booth wrote more orders for multiple models of sights and releases than they did at previous shows. "They were definitely writing deeper this year," he said. "We more than doubled our sales from last year."Ben Summers, director of operations for T.R.U. Ball Releases and Excel Sights, estimated that Show sales for his company were 10 percent higher than in 2009. 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Superman and Batman spent almost the entire issue about three seconds away from just making out in the Fortress of Solitude. Seriously, if you've ever wondered where the people who write slash fiction get the idea that it's something they should be doing, it all starts right here.
Kenneth Goff (1915-1972) was a "reformed communist," Baptist minister and a prolific "anti-Red" pamphleteer during the mid-20th century. The following are some of his greatest literary hits as selected from the CONELRAD book shelf.
When Mimi Ash arrived at her mountain chalet here for a weekend ski trip, she discovered that someone had broken into the home and changed the locks.When she finally got into the house, it was empty. All of her possessions were gone: furniture, her son's ski medals, winter clothes and family photos. Also missing was a wooden box, its top inscribed with the words "Together Forever," that contained the ashes of her late husband, Robert.
The culprit, Ms. Ash soon learned, was not a burglar but her bank. According to a federal lawsuit filed in October by Ms. Ash, Bank of America had wrongfully foreclosed on her house and thrown out her belongings, without alerting Ms. Ash beforehand.
✰ Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks."The geeks who man the NSA don't look much like Julian Assange, because they have college degrees, shorter haircuts, better health insurance and far fewer stamps in their passports. But the sources of their power are pretty much identical to his. They use computers and they get their mitts on info that doesn't much wanna be free."
✰ UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression Joint Statement On WikileaksPublic authorities and their staff bear sole responsibility for protecting the confidentiality of legitimately classified information under their control. Other individuals, including journalists, media workers and civil society representatives, who receive and disseminate classified information because they believe it is in the public interest, should not be subject to liability unless they committed fraud or another crime to obtain the information. In addition, government "whistleblowers" releasing information on violations of the law, on wrongdoing by public bodies, on a serious threat to health, safety or the environment, or on a breach of human rights or humanitarian law should be protected against legal, administrative or employment-related sanctions if they act in good faith.
a complete and unexpurgated republishing of all 146 issues (including supplements and related ephemera) of The Realist (historic underground magazine)
1500 copies of high quality reproduction Bibles (shown at left) were distributed to delegates at the 2008 DNC, with other copies later distributed via xerox at the RNC.
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.
Other democracies – Britain and Israel, to name two – are well acquainted with such domestic security measures. But for the United States, the sum of these new activities represents a new level of governmental scrutiny.
A career burglar from Pennsylvania is accused of writing a prison letter in which he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and eat his flesh.
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The researchers decided to investigate the phenomenon and launched a weather balloon with equipment capable of registering the wind speed, the temperature and the air moisture. But the weather balloon soared upwards and immediately disappeared.In a little while, the researchers brought the weather balloon back to the ground with the help of a rope attached to it earlier. They were extremely surprised to see that a chronometer set in the weather balloon displayed the date of January 27, 1965, the same day 30 years ago. The experiment was repeated several times after the researchers found out the equipment was in good repair. But each time the watch was back it displayed the past time. The phenomenon was called "the time gate" and was reported to the White House.
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I'm planning a 8 day trip starting July 15th and have some questions. I little bit of information first to answer some questions ahead of time. It will be me, my 18yo daughter, and 16yo son. All are experienced backpackers. We are also coming from Tucson, AZ so temps won't be an issue but I've included a couple short days in the beginning to help with altitude. We will be arriving early in the morning 5:00am to start our trip. I also have a permit starting July 15th from May Lake>Snow Creek.
My biggest issue I'm trying to figure out is the vehicle drop off. We are finishing our trip at Tunnelview trailhead and I spoke with the rangers at Yosemite and they said I can leave a car at Tunnelview but I'm trying to figure out how to get from Tunnelview to our starting trailhead which is May Lake>Snow creek. Are there any shuttles that run within a couple miles of Tunnelview that I can catch back to the lodge or could we catch the backpackers bus as it is leaving the valley for Tuolumne Meadows?
Now onto the tentative itinerary:
Day 1 - May Lake> Snow Creek Trailhead south to the top of Snow Creek Falls and camp near top of the falls.
Day 2 - Take trail back up to the east junction that takes you past the Snow Creek Cabin then south to Mount Watkins. Plan on checking out the northeast buttress and then camping on Mount Watkins.
(These first two days are short, 5 miles each day, to allow some time to adjust to the altitude.)
Day 3 - East past Olmsted point then south to Sunrise Lakes. I'm looking at the maps and imagery and I'm wondering about being able to avoid the swamp of Tenaya Lake by hugging the high ground east of Olmsted/ Southwest of Tenaya Lake. Camp Sunrise Lakes.
Day 4 - Clouds Rest
Day 5 - Clouds rest south then east along the trail that runs just north of Lost Valley to Echo Valley then west down Lost Valley camp near the footbridges near Bunnell Cascade.
Day 6 - West through LYV, Panorama Trail, then south along Illilouette until legal to camp.
Day 7 - Back up Illilouette to Pohono Trail and down Pohono camping at Bridalveil Creek footbridge area. (Only legal camping area along Pohono Trail.
Day 8 - Finish Pohono to Tunnelview.
This is our conservative or short route. If things go really well the 1st two days then we are looking at changing the middle portion. The change would involve hiking past Sunrise Lakes to Clouds Rest. The following day we would head to Cathedral Lake. Then the next morning either head for Rafferty Creek or go cross country to Echo Lake then down Echo Creek, through Echo Valley to camping again near Bunnell Cascade and finish as described above.


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@Kenneth -thanks that is a link to the first one from 2009 which is worth watching if you can stomach it. The one tonight was a revisit to them. It should be available soon on many video sites.
The westboro baptists do the work of a million religious skeptics for them. They turn more people away from religious zealotry than any number of books, movies, lectures, BillBoard ad campaigns, etc.
The silence of the religious liberal and moderate is also telling. They should be the ones at the forefront of nipping these guys in the bud.
There is 'some' protest from that side...but not enough.
they are falling apart... yes! just a matter of time, once they fall all religion will follow.. will take a lot of time but it will soon follow.. Hope Jupiter's Cock dangles above us with pride to shower us with greatness as it does..
someone plz get that reference or i'll feel like an idiot...


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Evil Lives Here is a TV series starring David Wenzel, Hillary Hamilton, and Frank Di Napoli. A TV series where individuals share their perspectives of loved ones who performed horrific acts of crime
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Country: USA