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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 n.5 Cape Town May. 2009
Impact of common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence on secondary school completion
Landon MyerI, *; Dan J SteinII; Pamela B JacksonIII; Allen A HermanIV; Soraya SeedatV; David R WilliamsVI
IMB ChB, PhD, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town
IIFRCPC, PhD, DPhil, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
IIIPhD, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., USA
IVMD, PhD, National School of Public Health, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), Pretoria
VMB ChB, FCPsych (SA), PhD, MRC Stress and Anxiety Disorders Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, W Cape
VIMPH, PhD, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
There are few data from South Africa and other low- and middle-income countries on how mental disorders in childhood and adolescence may influence different aspects of socio-economic position, including educational attainment. We examined the association between early-onset disorders and subsequent educational achievement in a nationally representative sample of 4 351 South African adults. After adjusting for participant demographic characteristics and traumatic life events, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and substance-related disorders were each associated with increased odds of failing to complete secondary education (odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals 2.3, 1.0 - 5.1; 1.7, 1.2 - 2.5, and 1.7, 1.2 - 2.5, respectively). These data point to the role that early-life mental disorders may play in educational achievement and subsequent socio-economic position over the life course.
There is growing interest in the burden of mental disorders in South Africa and other low- and middle-income countries. One recent national survey estimated that 30% of South African adults had experienced an anxiety, a depressive or a substance-related disorder in their lifetime.1 Given the high prevalence of mental disorder among adults in South Africa, it is not surprising that the mental health of young people has become a significant public health concern.2
A critical issue is the influence that the onset of mental disorders during childhood and adolescence may have on development, and in particular on educational attainment. Literature from Europe and North America demonstrates that the onset of mental disorders during childhood and adolescence contributes significantly to lower educational achievement.3 Low educational attainment reduces economic opportunities, and this in turn contributes to the common cross-sectional association between mental disorders and lower socio-economic status.4
Despite the potential importance of early-onset mental disorders on subsequent educational attainment, few population-based studies have investigated this issue in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined this association in a nationally representative sample of South African adults.
The details of the South African Stress and Health (SASH) study, including sampling and interview methods, have been described.1 In a sample of adults aged 18 and older, lifetime psychiatric diagnoses were measured using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) Version 3.0. This widely used interview guide provides psychiatric diagnoses according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition, and has excellent reliability within and between raters. In SASH the CIDI focused on common mental disorders (including depression, anxiety and substance-related disorders) and included the age of onset of disorders. Educational attainment was measured by asking participants about the highest level of education they had completed; we categorised this into whether or not participants had finished secondary school, based on completion of Grade 12 (Standard 10).
We examined the association between early-onset mental disorders and subsequent educational attainment using discrete-time survival analysis. Common mental disorders were examined in separate models as time-varying predictors using data on age at onset. The associations between mental disorders and failure to complete secondary education are presented as crude and adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Because traumatic childhood events may confound the association between early-onset mental disorders and educational attainment, we adjusted for the presence of childhood traumas (whether the respondent was physically abused by a caregiver, raped or sexually assaulted, or experienced a life-threatening illness or injury). All analyses account for the complex survey design using person-level weights that incorporated sample selection, non-response and post-stratification factors.
Of the total sample of the 4 351 participants, 54% were female and 76% were black; 3 370 initiated some secondary education and were eligible for this analysis; and 51% of this sub-sample did not complete secondary schooling. Overall, 12.8% of participants were diagnosed with a common mental disorder before the age of 18 (8.8%, 3.7% and 2.2% with any anxiety, depressive or substance-related disorder, respectively); the mean age of onset for participants with a disorder before 18 years of age was 12.3 years (12.0 years, 13.0 years and 14.6 years for individuals with early-onset anxiety, depressive or substance-related disorder, respectively).
There were strong crude associations between early onset of several disorders and failure to complete secondary education. Individuals with any mental disorder, any substance-related disorder and/or major depressive disorder were more likely to fail to complete secondary education compared with those without the disorders (ORs and 95% CI 1.2, 1.0 - 1.4; 1.6, 1.1 - 2.5; and 1.6, 1.1 - 2.3, respectively). Table I shows the associations between early onset of different mental disorders and failure to complete secondary education, adjusted for participants' age, sex, race and childhood trauma. Among individual conditions, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder were both associated with significantly increased odds of failing to complete secondary education (ORs and 95% CI 2.3, 1.0 - 5.1 and 1.7, 1.2 - 2.5, respectively). In addition, early onset of any substance-related disorder was associated with an increased odds of failing to complete secondary education (OR 1.7; 95% CI 1.1 - 2.5), and this association was driven principally by alcohol abuse and drug dependence.
This analysis of the SASH survey demonstrates the high prevalence of mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, and presents the first population-based evidence from South Africa that prior mental disorders are associated with lower educational achievement. The prevalence of mental disorders in this sample, and the observed association between early-onset mental disorders and reduced educational achievement, are similar to findings from Europe, North America and Australia.5
These data are subject to limitations. This cross-sectional study of adults relied on recall to assess the age of onset of mental disorders and educational attainment. Since both of these may be subject to substantial reporting errors, this association requires investigation in prospective studies of young people. In addition, a key disorder with childhood onset and negative impact on education attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder was not assessed.
Given the high prevalence of mental disorders among young people in South Africa and many other countries, interventions to assist in the identification and management of affected youth are needed.2,6 At a population level, these data have important implications for the way we approach public mental health. For example, policy makers should consider how mental health in early life serves as a precursor to subsequent mental health problems in adulthood rather than viewing child and adolescent mental health as an isolated issue. In turn, educational and mental health services may begin to screen younger populations rather than waiting for individuals to present symptoms later in life.
Acknowledgements. The South African Stress and Health study was carried out in conjunction with the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. We thank the WMH staff for assistance with instrumentation, fieldwork, and data analysis. These activities were supported by the US National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH070884), the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, the US Public Health Service (R13-MH066849, R01-MH069864 and R01 DA016558), the Fogarty International Center (FIRCA R01-TW006481), the Pan American Health Organization, Eli Lilly and Company, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The South African Stress and Health study was funded by grant R01-MH059575 from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Drug Abuse with supplemental funding from the South African Department of Health and the University of Michigan. Dan Stein and Soraya Seedat are also supported by the Medical Research Council of South Africa. A complete list of WMH publications can be found at http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/
1. Stein DJ, Seedat S, Herman A, et al. Lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders in South Africa. Br J Psychiatry 2008; 192(2): 112-117. [ Links ]
2. Patel V, Flisher AJ, Nikapota A, Malhotra S. Promoting child and adolescent mental health in low and middle income countries. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2008; 49(3): 313-334. [ Links ]
3. Vander Stoep A, Weiss NS, Kuo ES, Cheney D, Cohen P. What proportion of failure to complete secondary school in the US population is attributable to adolescent psychiatric disorder? J Behav Health Serv Res 2003; 30: 119-124. [ Links ]
4. Myer L, Stein DJ, Grimsrud A, Seedat S, Williams DR. Social determinants of psychological distress in a nationally-representative sample of South African adults. Soc Sci Med 2008; 66(8): 1828-1840. [ Links ]
5. Huurree T, Aro H, Rahkonen O, Komulainen E. Health, lifestyle, family and school factors in adolescence: predicting adults' educational level. Educ Res 2006; 48: 41-53. [ Links ]
6. Townsend L, Flisher AJ, King G. A systematic review of the relationship between high school dropout and substance use. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 2007; 10(4): 295-317. [ Links ]
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I'm only 84. I know, how tragic! Can't do heroics yet, can't run around a city at max level being idle, oh the woe of it all. However, I did learn Necrotic Strike at 83. And I'll admit that when I read about the ability all those months ago, I cried "another PvP ability! Wah!" Only two days after learning the skill, I am in love with it.
There are a lot of casters in every instance. Bosses cast spells. Healers cast spell. Necrotic Strike, in my non-heroic dungeon experience, works on these mobs. I haven't had any immunes that I can remember. For a typical example of what the spell does, it turns a 2.0s cast into a 2.6s cast. That's a big difference.
Aside: This post is speculative, however. If NS doesn't work on raid bosses or boss encounter adds, well, sorry. Then it's mostly a wash in non-trash PvE. Sucks, but I won't be entirely surprised (Dark Simulacrum will likely be fairly unhelpful in raiding).
If you're ever assigned to interrupt something in a raid setting, you should almost always be waiting until the last possible second to cast your interrupt. Why? Well, mobs don't melee or do anything else evil while they're casting. So your healers get a reprieve, and people don't take damage, etc. And NS makes that both easier and more effective. An extra half second can be the difference between not interrupting and interrupting or simply force the boss into another few milliseconds of cast time.
Fitting Necrotic Strike into your rotation
Since it costs only one Unholy Rune, it's pretty easy for most specs. Unholy replaces an SS with an NS. Blood can easily use a Death Rune (they get a lot of them from Death Striking) to NS. Frost is a little more complicated because we typically want to use Unholy Runes strictly for PS, Obliterate, and (in AoE situations) DnD. So that doesn't leave a lot left over.
Typically what I have been doing is either using Blood Tap, replacing Obliterates with HB/NS, or using Death Runes from Blood Strikes. If you end up with one Death Rune, the other one can be used for Pillar of Frost or something else that usually disrupts the rotation.
All of these options involves stretching our limited GCD space. So be warned: excessive NSing will often lead to an overabundance of resources: RP, runes building up, etc. Make sure you're not NSing more than absolutely necessary. Remember that as long as a mob starts a cast while NS is active, the whole cast will be affected.
Where to use Necrotic Strike?
- Regular instances. Mob names typically give you a hint as to whether they are spellcasters or not. Or just check if they have mana bars. If they do, it's a safe bet NSing them will be helpful.
- Soloing. It's not useless when soloing. When you have to kill caster mobs, you usually have to kill more than one of them, so at least you know when you have to NS. However, often when you engage a caster mob it immediately starts casting, making NSing less than efficient. Interrupting or just straight out killing mobs while soloing is likely more effective.
- Raiding. I'll likely have more updates on this once I start raiding/just link to what EJ posters put up regarding using this in raids. If you've started raiding and have some advice, please let me know!


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Shortly after Phil Robertson's GQ interview was published online on Wednesday, Dec. 18, a GLAAD spokesperson issued a statement regarding the "Duck Dynasty" star's controversial comments about gay men.
"It seems like, to me, a vagina--as a man--would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me," the 67-year-old A&E reality star said in the feature, which appears in the magazine's January 2014 issue. "I'm just thinking: There's more there! She's got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I'm saying? But hey, sin: It's not logical, my man. It's just not logical."
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The Mathematical Programming System (MPS) file is a relic of the IBM MPS/360 system of the 1960s, which is an extension of the SHARE format which preceded it.
The SHARE format for linear programming (LP) problems assigned a 6 character name to each row and column and was limited to 12 characters of BCD data for each data element. The MPS format extended the row/column names to 8 characters (because 8 characters made up a double word on the 360 architecture) but otherwise was little different. They were both also column-oriented – that is the non-zero coefficients were grouped together in the matrix by column rather than by row. This was a consequence of the origin of commercial mathematical programming systems; heavily influenced by the formulation practices of the petrochemical industry, whose practitioners thought of LP columns as "activities" with coefficients representing inputs and outputs. We are obviously talking about ancient history here.
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Barbara Kingsolver '77 is Finalist for Orion Book Award
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Bestselling novelist Barbara Kingsolver, a 1977 graduate of DePauw University, is a finalist for the 2013 Orion Book Award for her latest work, Flight Behavior. Given annually to "a book that addresses the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought provoking, and engaging manner," the Orion Book Award recognizes books published in North America during the previous calendar year.
The winner will be announced next month.
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Kingsolver is also among the finalists for the $45,000 Women's Prize, the UK's top book award.
A biological sciences major at DePauw and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2000, Barbara Kingsolver has also been awarded the Library of Virginia's Literary Award for fiction. Her other books include The Bean Trees; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Small Wonder; A Year of Food Life; Prodigal Summer; and The Poisonwood Bible, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won South Africa's National Book Award.Back


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Scientists can tie light into knots. And those knots can stabilize nuclear fusion. Because every day, physics gets crazier.
Over the last few thousand years, light has moved from a mystical expression of divine power, to a comprehensible phenomenon, to another piece of lab equipment. 'Optical tweezers' or 'optical traps' are often used in laboratories to do delicate work. But how do you tie a knot in a beam of light? First, you have to bend it.
Optical tweezers let scientists use light to manipulate matter by focusing a low-intensity laser beam on an object. If the object moves, it diverts the course of the laser beam, the way moving a hand in front of a garden hose pushes the water one way or another. Anyone who has put a hand in front of a hose knows that when they divert the water one way, their hand feels a push in the opposite direction. The object feels the same push whenever it moves out of position. If the object moves to the left, the light is diverted to the left, and the object gets a push to the right - and moves back into position.
But light doesn't have to be focused to a point. It can be focused to a line, or a curve. Although it's not an intuitive phenomenon, most people have seen curves of intense light crawling across the bottom of a swimming pool, or behind a lit-up piece of cut glass. These patterns are two-dimensional, running along a flat surface, but if they are projected as a hologram, they can be three dimensional. A three-dimensional band of light can curve up, over, and back in on itself, creating an optical knot. This can channel material along its curve, and trap it.
There are a few possible applications for this technology, but one of the most exciting of them is in nuclear fusion. Fusion works by heating atoms until they slam into each other hard enough to stick together. The resulting combo-atom loses a little mass as energy. That energy can be used to produce electric power. Fusion requires high temperatures, and one way those temperatures can be reached is the application of electromagnetic current. The problem is, the plasma created in the fusion materials by these temperatures tends to make the current hard to control. It heats the material unpredictably, damaging the plasma container and sometimes even cooling the plasma down. If the electromagnetic current could be tied up in a knot, looping back in on itself over and over, it would be contained. It would boost energy production while making the production safer.
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So the concept of "taking the rest of the month off" in the 2011 April Organization Checklist was an April Fool's joke, but it had a TWIST. Did you find it?
Here's the link to the REAL DearMYRTLE's April 2011 Organization Checklist.
This month Ol' Myrt pushes you to use WorldCat, and to organize your email box.
Good luck, and hopefully you are well on your way to winning the Kindle. Remember you may enter as many times as you wish.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA is pressing ahead with a program to fly its astronauts on commercial spaceships despite budget uncertainties that threaten to undermine a heated competition for its business.
Since 2010, when the U.S. space agency begin partnering with private companies interested in developing space taxis, and May 2014, when the current phase of the so-called Commercial Crew initiative ends, NASA expects to have spent about $1.5 billion on the program.
The Obama administration is requesting $821 million for the program for the 2014 fiscal year that begins on October 1. Congress previously halved the administration's requests to $406 million in 2012 and $498 million in 2013.
The bulk of the funds now goes to two firms, Boeing Co and privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, both of which are developing seven-person capsules. NASA also is backing a winged spaceship called Dream Chaser being developed by privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp.
"The biggest risk to the program is prematurely eliminating competition," Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASA Headquarters, told an advisory committee meeting on Tuesday.
"The goal of the Commercial Crew program is safe, reliable and cost-effective human space transportation to low-Earth orbit. Competition gives you a good price, but the partners know that safety and reliability are important criteria for NASA so they are battling to be the safest, to be the most reliable and to be the most cost-effective," he said.
"There are still some uncertainties about each one of these systems, so if we were to go all-in on one right now, I would be very nervous about that," McAlister added.
Unlike traditional cost-plus-award fees contracts, NASA's space taxi developers are paid fixed amounts and only after they achieve pre-determined technical milestones. Companies also are required to share development costs.
The initiative is intended to give NASA a U.S. alternative for flying astronauts to the International Space Station, a $100 billion research complex that orbits about 250 miles above Earth, by 2017.
With the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, the U.S. space agency is dependent on Russia to transport station crews, a service that currently costs more than $62 million per seat.
NASA created similar partnerships with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp for station cargo transportation, another service previously provided by the government-owned and operated space shuttles.
So far, SpaceX has flown three times to the station. Orbital Sciences is slated for its debut test flight in September.
For NASA's $800 investment, the United States now has "two low-cost launch vehicles, two autonomous spacecraft capable of delivering cargo and two privately developed launch facilities. This will give us a very robust U.S. domestic cargo transportation capability," McAlister said.
SpaceX also has successfully sold its Falcon 9 rockets commercially, with about 50 missions on its manifest including 10 more station cargo resupply flights for NASA.
Companies vying to develop human space transports for NASA are slated learn more about the program's next phase during meetings on Thursday and Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


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With the sad announcement that Borders is closing half of its 600+ brick and mortar stores, it seems Mr. Myrt and folks like him just won't be the same. He practically lives in the history and military sections of any given bookstore. We love to leaf though a book, reading the fly piece and checking out the index when making the decision to add a book to our collection. With US Civil War books, we're particularly careful in our approach.
Just this past week, we were browsing the history titles and discovered a gem -- The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 including "all the coverage of every campaign and battle, 104,960 eyewitness accounts and articles in this volume and a companion DVD-ROM " edited by Harold Holzer and Craig l. Symonds, forward by President Bill Clinton. The New York Times had reporters on the ground following troops, asking questions, and sending back reports. The reports that made it to print are included in this volume. Though the book came out last year, we somehow missed it -- probably due to our travels to courthouses doing genealogy research.
The study of history is essential as genealogy researchers strive to place each ancestor's life in historical context. The search capabilities of the DVD-ROM make this collection easy to navigate, but the chronology of the articles is not lost since the DVD-ROM is also browsable. Text from an article can be copied/pasted to notes about an ancestor who served in a battle you are researching. You may also wish to find the original article on one of the online newspaper websites to add as an image to that ancestor's profile. But I digress.
Amazon.com tries its best to provide a "look inside" this very same book, but the online experience isn't quite the same. With the Amazon interface, I can look at the book's cover (not the fly pieces), table of contents, first pages and the index, as shown below. "Surprise me" provides a random peek at a page. Using the "search inside this book" option for the word "Bentonville" took me to the chronological list of battles, and then to the index.
Interestingly, Amazon.com offers the The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 for $23, not the $40 cover price minus our 10% Borders discount we paid at the mall near our home. (I order so much from Amazon.com, I have the "prime" shipping, which amounts to essentially free shipping after the first few purchases each year.)
Is the average book buyer willing to continue to pay high prices for the joy of holding a book in hand before making a purchase? In today's economy, I am beginning to doubt it.
Newspapers were once our main stay source of information, but are experiencing declines in subscriptions. Magazines are moving to e-pub for display on iPhones and iPads and other electronic readers. Our 18th century ancestors sent letters to each other, picking them up from the post office the next time they went to town. Now days, we send millions of emails for instant communication. (As I compose, this I discovered via Facebook that a friend just survived a tornado, though her fence and gazebo did not. Her posting via cell phone was sent within minutes of the tragic event.)
When the wild and crazy inventors dreamed up radio and then television, our 20th century ancestors sat in living rooms across the country, glued to every word of a presidential address during the wars that plagued that century. Later, during the Persian Gulf War General Schwarzkopf had to remind reporters he wasn't going to give out certain information, as it would tip his hand to the enemy and put our guys in harm's way.
So where will this technology take Mr. Myrt in the future? He and I are not planning to forgo real books any time soon, though I might get him a Kindle for his birthday next month.
Happy family tree climbing!
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Nokomis residents will soon be in supermarket limbo when the Publix store at 1091 N. Tamiami Trail, closes on March 30 for renovations.
Publix will open a brand new grocery store in the Nokomis area at Laurel and Pinebrook roads, but the opening date is expected to be sometime in late summer or early fall, confirmed Shannon Patten, Publix spokeswoman. All Publix employees from the 1091 Tamiami Trail store will transfer to surrounding Publix locations while the store is closed, she said.
The plan is to tear down the Tamiami Trail location and build a brand new 45,000-square-foot store from the ground up.
"Nokomis customers deserve a beautiful new Publix and we look forward to having that store open by the end of the year," Patten said. "Once the new store is open, our associates will be able to transfer back to their original store, so our customers will see many familiar faces when they shop there."
The next nearest open Publix location are three miles away in the Venice Commons plaza at 1445 E Venice Ave., or in the Venice Shopping Center at 535 South Tamiami Trail, both in Venice.
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Halloween is a holiday that my family didn't acknowledge or celebrate when I was growing up, but with my love of all things holiday-ish (except for St Patrick's Day – I really couldn't care less about that one), Halloween is something that I really love getting into now, with the pumpkin carving, the ghoulish, but not too scary, decorations and treats, and all the kids in cute costumes.
My idea of Halloween is more Martha Stewart-ish – a more charming, autumn-inspired Halloween than a creepy gory one – but I think Jamie's just waiting for when we have a house and he can do things like plant fake skeleton bones in the yard alongside my pretty pumpkin flower planters.
The scary movies playing on TV throughout all of October, though… I could totally do without those, but Jamie loves them. Since he's agreed to go to The Nutcracker at the Denver ballet this December, he says a fair trade is for me to see Paranormal Activity 4 with him. Sigh. The things I have to do to see a ballet.
For a while I've been mulling over an idea for a cake for Halloween – a melted witch cake, with ganache poured over an upside down sugar cone placed on top of a cake, to look like a witch melted all over the cake leaving nothing but her hat. On impulse, I also bought a package of gum paste with no idea how to use it, but thinking I might be able to create a few little pieces like a broom, a bucket and her shoes, to place on top of the cake and add to the illusion of her melting and leaving these things behind.
The cake, for starters, was phenomenal. I baked my favorite homemade chocolate cake recipe and frosted it with a creamy, fluffy peanut butter buttercream, that despite its richness, tasted surprisingly light. I could have happily eaten that chocolate peanut butter cake with no need for ganache on top, but the ganache was the foundation of my whole melted witch idea.
For the ganache, I used a dark, bittersweet chocolate to avoid it being too sweet, although for the look I was going for – all drippy down the sides – I should have thinned it out with more cream. So my melted witch ended up oozing over the sides instead of dripping, but that's okay. :)
The gum paste was surprisingly easy to work with, and only requires a few tools: a smooth silicone mat, cornstarch, shortening and food coloring. Work with small pieces of paste so that it doesn't dry out, and to keep the gum paste from sticking to your hands and everything else, dust the silicone mat lightly with cornstarch, then lightly grease your hands with shortening, so that you can knead and shape the paste. I didn't wear gloves to knead in the food coloring and it washed off my hands just fine. After kneading in food coloring – a tiny drop at a time until the color was right – I just rolled and shaped it with my hands to make the broom, bucket and legs/shoes you see. It was a lot like playing with Play Dough! And while this stuff is technically edible, it doesn't taste good, so these pieces were really just to look at.
The funny thing was, while I'd been wanting to make this cake for months, I could not have a whole cake sitting on the counter, so after Jamie and I shared the piece I cut for the photos, I cut the cake in half and wrapped it up to take to work. Our coworkers were grateful!
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Chocolate Cake:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon espresso powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons meringue powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4-5 tablespoons milk
- 3/4 - 1 cup heavy cream
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1 small sugar ice cream cone
- candy or edible garnishes (I molded the witch's broom, legs, shoes and bucket out of gum paste)
Make the Cake:
Preheat the oven to 350. Prepare three 8-inch round pans by spraying the bottoms only with non-stick spray. Line the bottom with a circle of parchment paper, then spray the parchment with non-stick spray. Set aside.
In the bowl of your electric mixer, mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, espresso powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt on low speed with the paddle attachment, to combine. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Mix on low speed for 30 seconds to combine, then beat for three minutes on medium speed. Scrape the bowl down and gently stir in the boiling water – the batter will be very thin.
Divide batter between the pans. Bake for 22-25 minutes, until the center of each cake springs back when gently touched and a toothpick comes out clean. Set the pans on wire racks and cover loosely with a clean kitchen towel. Cool completely in the pans.
Make the Buttercream:
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the butter and peanut butter on medium low speed until smooth and combined.
In a separate bowl, combine the powdered sugar with the meringue powder. With the mixer on low, add by spoonfuls, mixing to combine. Add the vanilla and milk; increase speed to medium high and whip for 4-5 minutes, scraping the bowl down once or twice, whipping until very light and fluffy. Set aside.
Frost the Cake:
Level the tops of the cakes and peel the parchment paper off the bottom. Place one layer of cake on a 10-inch cake board (or directly on a serving pedestal). Spread a ¼ inch layer of peanut butter buttercream on the cake. Top with the second layer of cake, more buttercream, and the 3rd layer of cake. Frost the cake all over with a thin crumb coat of buttercream, and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Finish frosting the cake with the buttercream, swirling the sides as desired (the top of the cake will not show).
Make the Ganache:
Place the chopped bittersweet chocolate in a bowl and set aside.
In a saucepan, heat the cream gently over medium low heat, just until the edges begin to bubble. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate; let stand for 3 minutes, then stir with a spatula until smooth. If the ganache is too thin, let stand at room temperature for 5-10 minutes to thicken.
Final Assembly:
Place the sugar cone upside down, centered on top of the cake, gently pressed into the frosting. I first placed a wooden skewer down the center, with the cone on top of the skewer, just to be sure that the cone wouldn't topple over.
Pour the warm ganache over the cone and the top of the cake, letting it drip down the sides of the cake. Let the ganache set for a few minutes at room temperature before garnishing with candy or other edible garnishes. Refrigerate for 30 minutes to finish setting the ganache, then store, covered, at room temperature before serving.
If you have any leftover ganache, you can refrigerate it until firm, then roll it into balls and coat in cocoa powder or melted chocolate for truffles.
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I posted a report yesterday about the pitchers I saw during the two games I saw between the B-Mets and Trenton Thunder. This report is about the hitters I saw. One hitter, Matt Den Dekker, was subsequently promoted to Triple-A Buffalo right after the series with Trenton. It's funny, but the same thing happened with Jordany Valdespin, who was promoted immediately after I saw him play last year in Trenton.
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I asked one of the B-Mets players on Sunday when Den Dekker was getting the promotion, and the kid smiled, likely knowing it was soon. Looking at the Buffalo roster that night it was apparent Den Dekker was better than a couple of the Bison outfielders. And the success Kirk Nieuwenhuis has had in the majors was probably another factor to push the other left-handed hitting center fielder.
The B-Mets show a deep lineup, with one player, Josh Rodriguez, having 14 plate appearances (PAs) in 2011 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. There is power from the top through the seven spot, and a nice mix of right-handed and left handed hitters.
Once again Havens will not have a full season of baseball, having missed most of April with another injury, this time a bad back/oblique. However, he is healthy for now, and back with Binghamton. Being the top pick in 2008, many Mets fans had hoped Havens would already be in the majors by now or at least knocking on the door.
Havens showed his quick bat once again, and his swing is similar Yankees Triple-A second baseman Corban Joseph. He homered and singled on Saturday night, but also struck out five times in 10 PAs. His inability to make consistent contact is recognition of pitch location, specifically the upper and lower levels of the strike zone. Once Havens gets more reps his recognition will improve and so will his contact rates and offensive output.
In the field, Havens showed more range than he had last year, grabbing two ground balls clearly destined for center field.
However, another injury or two and it might be too late for Havens to have a decent career. He needs to stay on the field and get his reps. He's not as good a hitter as Jason Kipnis of Cleveland, but has potential to be Kipnis lite.
As mentioned above, Den Dekker was promoted to Buffalo after the series with Trenton. Den Dekker has improved his power this season, banging out eight home runs, 21 doubles and four triples. His bat is much quicker than last year, with an improved swing path, much more direct to the ball.
In my notes from last season, I had written Den Dekker swung at lots of bad pitches, mostly breaking pitches in the dirt. However, these last two games showed to be a more patient (but still aggressive) hitter. He recognized pitches out of the zone, but was aggressive early in the count to attack hittable pitches. If you have read any of my prior pieces, you know I love aggressive hitters early in the count.
Den Dekker will be a doubles machine at the higher levels, with his above average speed as much as his gap power and ability to hit line drives down the RF line. His fourth inning double saw him get behind 0-2 to Brett Marshall but banged a hanging slider into the RF corner. He was also aggressive on other first pitches throughout the series.
Funny, but even though Den Dekker is a pretty good outfielder, more to his great speed rather than his initial routes*, during night games I have twice seen him muff long drives to centerfield in Trenton – once last season and once this past Saturday night.
*Some people think that route running is very important. It is important, but not for really fast guys. I have seen outfielders such as Brett Gardner, Austin Jackson and Den Dekker change their routes during fly balls, but turn on that "extra gear" to outrun the ball. Curtis Granderson is pretty good in center field, but always seems to change his routes. Routes are more important to slower outfielders who can't outrun the ball. It is one of the more difficult skills to master in baseball.
If Den Dekker continues to hit in Buffalo and Jason Bay continues to struggle in the majors, don't be surprised if Den Dekker gets a call in August.
Marte has skills to hit, with quick and strong hands, with good lower body movement to drive the ball. However, based upon the way he carried himself, it appears that Marte lacks drive. I only saw three PAs since Marte appeared to hurt his hand during a swing and was removed in Saturday night's game. (UPDATE: Actually, Marte hurt his hand on a ground ball which popped up and hit his hand. A ball which almost took his face off.)
Anyway, his power numbers are improving each season, and will continue as he ages and gets naturally stronger. Some people feel they need to write a kid off if he doesn't produce huge power numbers at the lower levels, but Marte was 17/18 to begin in Low-A Savannah (19 his second season) and not many kids translate raw power to games at that level. In addition, Marte is not listed on any top Mets prospect list, which might build into his favor and he has to work to get noticed again.
Marte might be one of those guys whose power readily improves as he matures – both physically and mentally. Give him time, let him play and he likely will surprise people.
Lagares is a guy who does lots of things decent, but nothing great. He started to hit last season in time split between High-A and Double-A, but is aggressive in that he doesn't walk much or strikeout. But even with this aggressiveness, there is simply no power production, and his swing seems to bear out that it will not get there, either.
Lagares shows good range in the outfield, with a strong throwing arm, but without any significant offensive tools, his defense might get him to the majors, but it won't be as a full-time starter.
Finally back on the field after basically two seasons off from a busted ankle, Adams showed why the Yankees have been patient with the RHH hitter.
Adams showed tremendous plate discipline, the ability to recognize pitches early out of the hand, and the intelligence to read the pitcher based upon what was thrown to prior hitters. Over the two games, Adams consistently took very tough sliders off the outside part of the plate, not even twitching towards the pitch. Once, after a particularly tough slider from Greg Peavey, I blurted out "Wow, tough pitch!"
Adams also took tough change ups and fastballs just off the plate Friday night from left-handed Darin Gorski, waiting patiently for his pitch when ahead in the count.
It was when he got his pitch did Adams pounce. Despite going 1-7, a double, walk, K, and sac fly, Adams hit the ball hard three other times. He has quick hands, nice lower body rotation and remained balanced throughout his swing. He hit the ball hard to left and right field, ahead and behind the count, hammering a two-strike pitch from Peavey on the outside corner to RF for a sac fly.
He hasn't hit for power yet this season, but with more reps the power will come back.
Adams also is a better fielder than I thought. He gets to ground balls well, has good hands and turns a quick double play, not flinching when a runner was charging towards second base. This was important since his injury was a lower body one, and second baseman sometimes get their legs taken out from them.
Adams has potential to help the Yankees (or another major league team) within two years, or be trade bait for an outfielder. With Cano in New York and Corban Joseph moving ahead of him, it's not like the Yankees have much room at the second base area. However, Adams has played some third base in the past, and it is likely he could begin taking some reps there later in the season.
I was surprised when Zoilo Almonte performed well in spring training and began to become talked about in the blogosphere about possibly being the next Yankee starting outfielder. Even Joe Girardi heaped praise on Z.A.
Why was I surprised? I just don't think Almonte is major league caliber. I saw him last summer after his promotion to Trenton and saw a guy who constantly got beat on hard stuff inside, then waved (and missed) at the better breaking balls he finally began to see. Looking at his career numbers, I noticed Almonte (like many hitters before him – Brett Gardner was one), who struggled at a new level when promoted but when they started the next year at that same level begins to produce.
But Almonte is the same hitter as he was last season, and has not yet produced at Double-A.
He was late on inside fastballs, and while he didn't wave at many breaking balls out of the zone, there were a couple of instances where he was overmatched, like the first pitch slider from Adrian Rosario in the 10th inning on Sunday.
Almonte has some tools, but is prone to get on hot streaks and then cool off. Zoilo is not going to replace Swisher in RF anytime soon, and likely will not help the Yankees in any significant way down the road. I like Melky Mesa much more than either of the Almonte's.
There once was a time I thought Melky Mesa could strike out 200 times in a full season at Double-A. In fact, if both stayed healthy, I predicted he and Bradley Suttle would combine for 350 Ks in Trenton. But both were hurt part of the year in 2011. And Suttle has basically retired.
I saw last year that Mesa began to lay off many out of the zone off speed pitches at Trenton. He was also becoming more selective on pitches in the zone, too. However, he did continue to strike out at alarming rates, usually around 30%. That is not good for a guy who can really run, and should pattern his game more around his legs.
Mesa was even more selective this past weekend. A big at bat was his working a two-out walk in the bottom of the 10th inning, eventually scoring the winning run in Sunday's game. He regularly took pitches just off the plate, both fastballs and breaking pitches, and used his hand speed to hammer a few pitches in his zone. Mesa has no trouble catching up to good fastballs, and with his bat speed and slight loft in his swing, he does put good backspin on the ball and hit some major league quality deep fly balls.
Many of those will eventually go out of the park. He does have seven home runs already this season, playing half his games in the challenging Waterfront Park.
Mesa has tremendous speed, a great throwing arm and covers lots of ground in CF. With the lack of quality outfielders at their higher levels, it is time to give Mesa an opportunity to test his newfound plate discipline at the Triple-A level.
I saw Johnson last year and he was a mess. Bounced his hands up and down, huge hitch and went from A to C on his swing with a big layover at B. After all this movement, he couldn't hit anything inside with any velocity. He went for 34% Ks in 2008 and progressed each year to a high of 41% last season.
It was amazing then when I saw Johnson in April of this year, and his hands started down near his back hip, raised up slightly on ball travel, then Johnson would flick his hands out (a la Rod Carew) on his swing. This new style produced much better contact rates, lots of base hits, quite a few home runs and mucho less strikeouts. Thunder hitting coach Tom Slater helped Johnson with his new approach, something which begun in the offseason.
All good things for Johnson and his team.
However, to my surprise Johnson was back to his old (and less productive) ways this past weekend. He was in the midst of a huge slump (3 for 30, 17 Ks) entering the B-Mets series. I do not know if Johnson reverted back to his old way after his slump began or whether the new/old method of hitting precipitated the slump.
Whatever the reason, Johnson is back to missing fastballs, striking out lots and making very little contact. Johnson whiffed three times Sunday afternoon, getting pummeled by belt high fastballs over the middle of the plate by Greg Peavey. He did hit two balls hard, but the pitchers mistakenly threw him off speed pitches over the outer two-thirds allowing Johnson to quicken his bat.
His bat path is once again A to B to C, which translates to many more Ks down the road.
Johnson will hit his home runs because he has immense power in hitting mistakes, but he might want to revert bakc to the shorter swing path if he wants to move up and succeed in the organization.


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Lond Daer Enedh (also spelt Ened) was a great harbour in Eriador founded by the Númenóreans.
Lond Daer, under the name Vinyalondë, or "New Haven", was founded by Númenor's crown prince Aldarion on the estuary of the river Gwathló between S.A. 750 and 800.[1] It was the first permanent settlement of the Númenóreans in Middle-earth.[2] From here Aldarion's Guild of Venturers began harvesting the local timber for the ship-building industry of Númenor. It was one of their primary shipyards, fed with their reckless cutting of trees.[3]
Within a few centuries, the deforestation of the outlying regions Enedwaith and Minhiriath became cataclysmic, angering the local native population (ancestors of the Dunlendings), and they began to fight back with increasing ferocity, destroying the haven several times, and frequently burning the great wood-stores in "hit-and-run" attacks.[4]
By the time of the War of the Elves and Sauron in the middle of the Second Age, this 'New Haven' had become very well established, and its name had shifted over the intervening one thousand years to Lond Daer, the "Great Haven". As such, it was one of the two beachheads of the Númenórean forces in Eriador that were used to support the Elves around S.A. 1700.[5]
Lond Daer's shipyards were starved of timber following the war, as the forces of Sauron had burnt almost all of what remained in Enedwaith and Minhiriath. Once its shipbuilding yards were no longer practicable, Lond Daer declined in importance, and the Númenórean hunger for ever more wealth shifted focus to the establishment of newer havens to the south, Pelargir and Umbar. Following this, Lond Daer was once again renamed, being now one of several major ports in Middle-earth, and was known as Lond Daer Enedh, or "Great Middle Haven". Despite this, Númenor still maintained traffic on the Gwathló as far as the city of Tharbad.[4]
After the Downfall of Númenor, Elendil founded the realm of Arnor in the lands north of Lond Daer, but the haven was now redundant, and fell into ruin. Instead, control over the region was maintained from Tharbad. The ancient ruins of Lond Daer were still visible as late as the end of the Third Age, however, and still featured on maps from that time.[6]
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- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife", Notes, Chronology
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "X. Of Dwarves and Men", "Notes", #69
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix D: The Port of Lond Daer"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age" [map]


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Interesting Bits from the OCLC Update Breakfast
I think it is a statistical anomaly that many of the meetings I attended during ALA Midwinter were somehow related to OCLC. That statistical anomaly has certainly played out in postings here on DLTJ of my impressions of Midwinter meetings. Continuing with this thread of OCLC events, I attended the OCLC Update Breakfast Sunday morning for a membership-dues-paid croissant and orange juice, and to listen to Jay Jordon's biannual update on the past, present and future of OCLC. What follows are highlights that I found interesting in the course of his remarks, but certainly not a comprehensive report of what was said. Video of Jay's remarks where recorded and are to be posted at some point on the OCLC website (roughly six to eight weeks from now, if my memory of past events can be any guide).
WorldCat Growth since 1998
When Jay started in 1998 there were 39 million records in WorldCat. At the start of this year, there were 170 million records representing 1.5 billion holding statements. When I heard counts of the number of records in WorldCat, I've wondered if they were inclusive of all of the non-monograph activities happening in WorldCat, and as it happens it is not. The slides showed that there are an additional 325 million electronic database records representing licensed digital content (including 4.5 million records of JSTOR items that were recently added).
New "Search Engines"
Jay set the stage for his remarks by talking about what is happening with information searching beyond the library community. "Google is king," he remarks "but there are new launches" of systems that produce fewer but more highly relevant results. Microsoft's Bing and Wolfram|Alpha are probably well known, but he also mentioned "hakia" -- known for indexing just selected content on the web and presenting search results "galleries" in a tabbed form -- and "yebol" -- a knowledge-based semantic engine. He brought it home to the cooperative's community, though, with the description of the planning stages of "Reference Extract" -- a grant-funded effort of Syracuse Univ, the Univ of Washington, and OCLC to create a search engine based on the citations and recommendations of reference librarians.
OCLC Services in the Cloud
Jay then reflected on how the current exploration of "cloud computing" elsewhere has threads -- for our community -- all the way back to Fred Kilgour's vision for library services. Portions of the WorldCat web-scale management services, where one relocates aspects of the technology supporting back-room library operations into a service provided by OCLC, continued development. A number of institutions -- the CPC Regional Libraries in North Carolina, the Idaho Commission for Libraries, the Orbis Cascade Alliance and Linfield College Libraries, and Pepperdine University -- are now testing the circulation component of this suite of back-room services. Jay also remarked on the deployment of an application for iPhones and Droid smartphones that enables a user to scan the UPC barcode on the back of any book and be directed to holdings information at a home library or at a library closest to the user's location. WorldCat Navigator -- OCLC's product to enhance ILL with integration into the local circulation system -- is being rolled out through the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to 500 public libraries; members of the Boston Library Consortium are in the process of implementing WorldCat Local and WorldCat Navigator. QuestionPoint, OCLC's remote reference service, can also now be imbedded into Facebook, MySpace and a Text-a-Librarian widget.
OCLC is also looking to help with collection management as a cloud-available tool. Working with the New York University Libraries, OCLC is bringing analytics to bear on collection management and space allocation decisions by helping with data about the location of items in the campus library, in the library's "ReCAP" remote storage, and what is available digitally in HathiTrust. And speaking of HathiTrust, the public interface to 7.5 million volumes digitized largely through the Google Book Search partnership, OCLC is working with project participants to aid the metadata description of items in HathiTrust, to ensure that items in HathiTrust have records in WorldCat, and to add WorldCat Local as an interface to the HathiTrust collection.
Recent problems for Cataloging Partners
I have to give OCLC credit for owing up to issues with the membership. At most recent OCLC update meetings, it was the uproar about the proposed-the-withdrawn OCLC Record Use Policy. At this update there was mention of problems in cataloging system disruptions (October) and problems with generating labels (December). Remediation for these problems has received dedicated effort to resolve. The systems are fixed and the backlogs that resulted from the problems are now being worked through.
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